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THE F-14/PH0ENIX TEAM. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GET THE ENEMY BEFORE HE GETS YOU.

THE PAYOFF IS PERFORMANCE.

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The missiles—with their supersonic speed, 25-g turn capability, terminal radar homing guidance and ECM resistance—allow one F-14 to defeat a half-dozen of the enemy's best. At distances of over

JA 100 miles, and from ^ n sea level to over ^ I 100,000 feet. ^ The Phoenix has an unprecedented 84% kill rate against simulated supersonic bombers, fighters and cruise missiles.

Which means an all-Tomcat fighter force will give U.S. carriers the greatest air defense capability in existence.

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Thousands of paratroopers had landed on French soil and were battling for control of vital roads and bridges. American troops had begun amphibious landings on Utah and Omaha Beaches.

Looking on in dismay Rear Admiral Carleton Bryant, commander of the gunfire support ships, saw that the soldiers advancing on Omaha Beach were in a desperate situation. German machine guns along the seawall cut into the unprotected Americans at will.

Quickly Bryant radioed his command, "Get on them, men! Get on them!

They are raising hell with the men on the beach, and we can't have any more of that!"

The response was galvanic. Destroyers almost beached themselves moving in to blast away at the enemy-held cliffs, while the big ships in deeper waters tore into assigned and aerial-spotted targets.

Firing on targets they could see or onto bluffs where Americans were aiming, the destroyers erupted hell on the enemy The 5-inch guns of the destroyers took their toll. By noon, the beleaguered soldiers began to advance beyond German defense barriers on top of the cliff. The sailors looked on in great satisfaction. As well they should. The Navy had indeed played a major part in turning the tide of the Omaha invasion.

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

November, 1981

Volume 44, Number 9 FEATURES New Mitscher Hall Chapel

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Looking Back

by RAdm. Jackson S. Champlin USN (Ret.)

Executive Secretary BARRIE ISLEV-PETERSEN

Europe's Romantic Waterways Tour

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A Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps Treasurer and Director of Alumni J A M E S D. O L I V E R . '43 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

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Forward Strategy

by LCols. Donald L. Price and Thomas J. Solak USMC Birth of the Amphibian

by LCdr. Equen B. Meader USNR (Ret.)

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Balaclave, 1942

by Cdr. Victor T. Boatwright USNR (Ret.)

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Captain John Twiggs Myers

by Robert V. Aquilina 37 DEPARTMENTS Contributors' Biographies 4 Sea Breezes 5 The Mail Boat 6 All Hands 15 Officers and Trustees 32 Lucky Bag of Books 41 Capitol Hill 43

A Few Inches From The Yard Navy Sports 49 Gift List and Order Form 53 Class News 54 Chapter News 96 Last Call 99 Classified Services 102

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Contributors' Biographies

LIEUTENANT COLONEL DONALD L. PRICE USMC Don Price had enlisted service before graduating from Northern Arizona University in the Platoon Leaders program and being commissioned in 1961. In 1966 he went to Vietnam as a militia advisor in the Mekong Delta, then volunteered for a second tour as rifle company CO. He then attended the Amphibious Warfare School and served on the staff of CinC US European Command in Germany. After earning a M.A. in Psychology in 1971, he returned to Vietnam as advisor to an infantry battalion, then came to USNA as an English prof Subsequently he attended Command and Staff and National War Colleges, commanded the 3rd Batt., 4th Marines, and is presently in the Joint Strategic Planning Branch of HQ USMC. LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS J. SOLAK USMC Tom Solak '60 served as an infantry platoon commander and company exec with the 1st Marine Brigade in Hawaii, then as CO Military Police Co. at FMFLant in Norfolk. After Amphibious Warfare School at Quantico, he went to Vietnam as company CO in the 3rd Anti-tank Battalion, later Ops and Exec of the 3rd (Combined Action Group. He then earned a M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Naval Postgraduate School, served with the Marine Aviation Detachment at Point Mugu, at Subic Bay, and as a USNA instructor in Electrical Engineering. Subsequently he served as Regimental Exec, Battalion Landing Team Commander, MAB Exec and ACS (G-1) of the 2nd Marine Division before present assignment to HQ USMC. COMMANDER VICTOR T. BOATWRIGHT USNR (RET.) "Boats" resigned on graduation in 1939 to work for the Seaboard Railway in Norfolk, was commissioned Ensign USNR in 1941 and ordered to active duty. In August 1942 he joined the Advance Group of PhibLant's staff in Scotland and was on Admiral Bennett's staff during the Oran portion of Operation Torch. He then became the first Port Director at Mers-el-Kebir and later served on Admiral Hall's staff at Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, Okinawa and in the occupation of Japan. Retired physically in 1947, he returned to Seaboard until 1956, when he joined Electric Boat for the next 21 years.

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER EQUEN B. MEADER USNR (RET.) "Yank" Meader '32 is Chairman of the Board of the Sibley Corporation, a mortgage banking firm in Rochester NY which he helped establish 25 years ago. He came from Peekskill Military Academy to USNA but resigned after three years and, after obtaining his commission by examination, graduated Magna Cum Laude in History from Princeton. His thesis was "British Naval Power in the North Sea 1914-18." He served in the amphibious forces during World War II, on the staff of ComAdGrAmForLant for the African invasion (Operation Torch) and later on the staff of ComPhibTraPac.

ROBERT V. AQUILINA Robert V. Aquilina is a Reference and Research Historian at the Marine Corps Historical Center in Washington. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, and History Honors from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1974, where he subsequently earned a Masters Degree in History. Mr. Aquilina joined the staff of the History and Museums Division of Headquarters USMC in May, 1981, after working for a year in the Records Declassification Division of the National Archives and Records Service.

PAUL R. SCHRATZ '39, Ph.D. Following a distinguished career in submarines and in policy planning in Washington, Paul retired as Captain USN to become Director of International Studies at the University of Missouri. Later he served on the White HouseCongressional Commission on Foreign Policy, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University. He has been a faculty member on the Naval, Air and National War Colleges, and 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.

JOHN F. SLINKMAN John was the first Editor of Navy Times, serving from 1951 through 1974 and earning the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award on retirement. Subsequently he edited The Officer, published by the Reserve Officers Association, for several years and continues to contribute editorial and special articles to both publications. He has long been a respected member of the Washington Naval and Maritime Correspondents Circle.

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

RICHARD J. LANGFORD Rich Langford '82 is the first set llth Company Adjutant. He is majoring in English and plans for a career as a Navy or Marine aviator after graduation in May. Rich is from Staten Island, New York.

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Paul Schratz

Character Building The allegation is often made that the military isn't producing "characters" any more. Operational commanders can't escape overcontrol from Washington; the field commander's initiative is suppressed to force him into the mold of the organization man.

It wasn't always so. One of the nonconformists frequently in the headlines back in the thirties was a fire-eating Army general, Ben Lear. Veteran of the War with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection and two World Wars, Lear rose to Commander, Second Army, then Commander, Ground Forces and Deputy to General Eisenhower in 1943-45, retiring on 1 January 1946 at the tender age of 67.

As a brigadier in a training command in the deep south on the edge of World War II, he was concerned about the pitiful state of Army readiness in equipment as well as soldiers. Always keen to the value of a news headline, he staged a training exercise arming his troops with sticks instead of rifles, then invited full press and photo coverage. About that time General Patton also made fame in an armored exercise by buying gasoline out of his own pocket to refuel his tanks and thus execute a masterful flanking operation, totally wiping out the opposition.

Lear had built a reputation on a gift for making each day more interesting than the previous. Typical was his reaction when a technical sergeant in his command received a routine set of orders from the Army's Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, retuming him to his command at Fort Bliss.

This made Lear's day. The following left his headquarters by return mail.

6 October 1937 To: Commanding Officer Letterman General Hospital San Francisco, California

1. A copy of your Special Orders No. 210 has been received and noted with great interest and not a little perturbation. A perusal of the transport sailings on file in this office fails to show any transport sailings scheduled from San Francisco to Fort Bliss. In the absence of this information this headquarters assumes that the trip will be made up the Gulf of California and then either via the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers or the Gila and Rio Grande Rivers. (See Incl. 1, Map of suggested trip). Either route, it appears, would provide a most interesting adventure for both the crew and passengers. Of course, the difficulties of portage between tfie headwaters of the rivers and over Boulder and Elephant Butte Dams would provide situations to titillate the imagination of the engineers.

2. If possible, request the transport be routed by Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where a shipment of pine slabs is waiting transportation to Fort Bliss for use in constructing a riding pen for the 7th Cavalry. If this can be arranged the saving on motor transportation for this item alone should almost be enough to make up for the transport movement.

3. This headquarters wishes to cooperate fully in every possible way. In this respect these questions come to mind with reference to the trip: a. The possibility of an international incident if the southern half of the Rio Grande is used.

1 October 1937 b. The possibility of arousing the natives of the states of Arizona, Utah, Special Orders #210 Colorado, and New Mexico respectively . . . Under the provisions of Para 5, AR and progressively, in the event the latter 40-600, TSgt Peter Nelson, Ordnance, route is chosen. . . . is relieved from treatment . . . and c. The necessity for salutes. will proceed to Fort McDowell, Califord. The practicability of conducting nia, reporting to the Commanding Offiproblems for Coast Artillery Corps Recer, Overseas Discharge and Replaceserves in the four states mentioned, and ment Depot, for transportation on the e. Whether or not the trip, by either first available transport (emphasis added) route, should be publicized or kept to Fort Bliss, Texas, in compliance with . . . Orders, HQ, Hawaiian Detachment, secret.

4. There also arises the matter of redated 17 May 1937. pair to our local transport dock which /s/ John D. Foley has fallen into decay because of long diAdjutant

suse. Also, might it be a good plan to furnish portage from the Rio Grande to Fort Bliss? Due to the nature of the streams which must be navigated to reach Fort Bliss, it is assumed that the transport is smallish, possibly a flat bottomed affair like a mud scow.

5. Further information is requested as to the ultimate destination of the transport. Does it go on to Omaha, Nebraska, possibly, or does it return to San Francisco? If the latter were the case, and if it could reach Fort Bliss by October 15, a great saving to the Government could be effected because there will be many persons desiring accommodations for the return trip. Also, Lt. Col. Harry R. MacKellar, MC is in receipt of orders to Vancouver Barracks, and is suggested as surgeon for the return trip. Col. MacKellar is eminently qualified for this detail, having personally conducted many schooners over innumerable bars.

6. The exact date of arrival of the transport to this station would be appreciated. The personnel of this command and the townspeople are in a fiesta mood and plan a big reception. If sufficient time intervenes it may be possible to arrange for the Quartermaster General to attend the ceremonies. This would be a very appropriate gesture on his part, especially since there has been nothing bigger than a prairie schooner through here in lo, these many years.

7. This headquarters and the Ordnance Department appreciate deeply this unusually noble expenditure of effort to get Sgt. Nelson to us, and openly marvel at the ingenuity of the Medical Department in planning such a vastly radical departure from the humdrum routine of ordinary travel. Should further innovations in the transport service be simmering in your executive offices, it is requested that we be notified promptly upon their adoption. ^^^ g^„ Lear Brigadier General, U.S. Army Commanding Perhaps it was the "character" of the dynamic leadership built around the Lears, Pattons, Kreugers and their colleagues in both the Army and Navy that guaranteed victory when war came. But the real wonder is that the complex American people, running away from war preparations in every form, its puny Army training with sticks in 1939, once concluded on page 25

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The Mail Boat Why Do Russians Defect?

The Herndon Monument Record

Shipmate: Lieutenant Wilson's article in the March Shipmate on the Russians is a most perceptive and enlightening work, at least if my own knowledge of the Russian language and people have any validity.

Unlike Wilson, I learned my Russian from a mad Russian princess, a member of the Tolstoy family, in Chicago many years ago. (By the way, "mad" in Russian is a delightful word, s-uma-shedshay a, literally, "from the mind walked out"). From my own study, I would suggest a pair of cautions with respect to Lieutenant Wilson's conclusions.

First, not everyone in the U.S.S.R. is dying to defect. My own Russian friends, admittedly elite young students when they were guests in my home, invited me into their homes on my subsequent second trip to the U.S.S.R. I have been a guest in six different Russian homes, a claim even our diplomatic personnel can rarely make. I think it significant that each of my hosts, fully aware of the best that the U.S. has to offer, showed me their homes and their country with pride—a very real pride without any trace of apology. My friends at least love their country as much as we love ours.

A second point refers to the Wilson comments on the character which can be derived from language. Of particular significance is the word a people uses for its homeland. For example, the French use La Patrie, grammatically feminine but masculine in concept. The Germans use an even more stridently masculine word, Vaterland. Listen to it: strong to the point of harshness, disciplined.

Contrast these with the Russian equivalent, Rodina. It is a round, warm, feminine word, best translated as "Motherland," or that which gives birth, and it fully expresses the way Russians feel about their country.

The point, the caution, to be made is this: You don't mess around with anybody's mother! Both Little Corporal Napoleon and later Herr Shickelgruber, the house painter from Austria, learned this the hard way, at huge costs in life and treasure. It is my great hope that we don't emulate their stupidity.

Laurence Dawson, LCdr. (SC) USNR (Ret.)

Shipmate: Once again, I feel obliged to correct your assertion (July-August '81 Shipmate) that the "all time" record for the Herndon Monument climb is 58 minutes, set by '79. In fact, the real all time record is 3 minutes flat, set by '65.

Ed Linz '65 We're both wrong, Ed. Your threeminute record held up for only seven years. It was broken by Larry Fanning of '72 with one minute, 30 seconds in 1969, which is still the record. You still hold second place overall.

Since the first recorded time in 1957 there have been eight climbs in under one hour, and the longest was last year's two hours, 43 minutes by '83.

A Sense of Honor Shipmate: I am writing to rebut the negative review of Jim Webb's book, A Sense of Honor, written by L. J. Baird '35 in the September Shipmate.

Baird missed the whole point of Jim's book by focusing on the language. I found the book to be a true portrayal of life in the Academy as I remember it but, much more importantly, the story laid out for the reader the very reason for the existence of the Naval Academy.

After having read the book, I for one was very proud to have graduated from an institution that develops the character shown by the book's officers and midshipmen.

I would suggest that if a young man or woman cannot read past the Words in a novel to understand its true message, perhaps he or she is not the type of young adult Baird should be recruiting.

Tom Cavenaugh '69 Another Ring Shipmate: Captain Lane's story "The Ring" in the July-August issue brought to mind a recent ring incident of my own. I was catching an Eastern flight at Logan Airport in Boston without a reservation, my schedule having been changed in mid-afternoon, but I did have a blank ticket.

I showed it to the attractive young woman at Gate 6 and asked if there was space on the departing flight. She did not answer the question, but instead smiled and asked, "Say, mister, are you a ring

knocker?" I jumped a foot but acknowledged that I had once fitted that category—"probably a few years before your time." She smiled, held up her left hand with a miniature on it and, with a broad grin, said, "Mine is '73." Then she hustled me onto the waiting flight.

Chances are that if I had bought an 18or even a 14-carat ring in 1937, by now she would never have noticed. I'm glad the one I got at June Week in 1937 was 10-carat, for it is still identifiable.

Bruce P. Hayden '38 A Famous Marine Character Shipmate: The July-August letter from H. W. Blakeslee '25 led me to the Register of Alumni and the conclusion that "Louis E. Fagan, Mid'n USN" was my late friend, the famous "Louie" Fagan, one-time major USMC and a non-grad of 1911. I don't know the circumstances of his separation from the Academy, but Louie Fagan later served many years in the Marine Corps and was famous on several counts. Some referred to him as "the fashion plate of the Corps," but he was also handy with his pen as well as his sword and fists—a carryover from his boxing days as a midshipman.

The late General De Witt Peck '15 once told me that when he first reported to the Norfolk Navy Yard as a fresh caught shavetail, it was startling when Lt. L. E. Fagan entered the quarters. As was his custom, Fagan was very nattily clad in striped trousers, wearing fawncolored gloves with turned-up cuffs, and leading a bulldog on a chain.

The legend was that the redoubtable Fagan customarily "made the scene" in nearby Portsmouth, thus attired. During his stroll he inevitably passed some of the local street loungers, who gave him the bird. Thereupon Louie would pause, face his tormentors and say, "Sir, you are not a gentleman. If you persist in that rudeness, I shall chastise you."

When that produced another and louder "raspberry," Louie would proceed to secure the dog to a post or tree, remove his gloves and face the challenging group. Usually the hardiest would step forward, promptly to receive a thorough pasting from Louie. The town toughs soon got the word not to bother him.

John E. Curry '23

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Legally Guilty, Locally Innocent Shipmate: Admiral Carney's story "Legally Innocent" in May reminded me of a somewhat different trial about 1927, when our small gunboat of the Special Service Squadron had to have a landing force on both coasts of Nicaragua at the same time.

A Marine major commanded the southern part of the East Coast but he had so few officers that he could not convene a summary court martial for a Marine who was charged with taking and keeping the watch and money of a native jailed in the Marine brig for about two weeks. The Major asked the SOPA—Capt. W.H. Allen of USS DEN-

VER—to provide three officers for the court. Having been designated a "Legal Expert" before WWI, I was detailed as Senior Member with a lieutenant and a jaygee as members. The Marines provided the recorder—and the Major attended as a "friend of the court."

The first witness was the native who had lost his watch and money. He promptly identified the accused as the one who had put him in the brig on the first of March. The next question was, "The accused is charged with certain irregularities on or about that date. Tell the court, please, all you know about those irregularities." The victim-witness replied (in Spanish), "There were none."

Thinking the witness had misunderstood, the recorder repeated the question—and the witness gave the same answer.

Then the Marine Major—a friend of the court—asked to say a few words he hoped would get justice done. Experience in his area convinced him that what the witness said was true—it was quite normal for one placed in jail there to lose whatever he had on his person, and the witness did not consider that irregular.

The trial continued with questions as to how the witness had been treated, had any of his things been misplaced, etc. Finally, the accused was found guilty and, as I recall, given a BCD with some loss of pay.

Ion Pursell '18 Don't Rain on My Parade Shipmate: When two or more Marines meet, you have the makings of a parade.

General Smedley Butler, Base Commander at Quantico in 1922, decided to make that adage come alive. It fell upon the 5th and 6th Regiments, esteemed for superlative valor by WW I awards from the French Government, to do the honors.

Invitations were sent far and wide and acceptances for the gala were quickly received. General Butler's father had served in the Congress and many of his colleagues pledged attendance. To this end, a lavishly appointed grandstand was constructed to seat the esteemed guests Shipmate, November 1981

in comfort—and to add pomp and circumstance to the extravagant proceedings.

Driven by the General's diligence, key staff officers worked feverishly around the clock for a number of days; naught but enthusiasm was displayed. At last, all was ready and so reported to Butler.

My own duties were minor. As Acting Commander of the 66th Company, 5th Regiment, mine was the company first in line following the General with his equine troop and the Marine Band. The General, suitably astride his white horse, led his troop of Horse Marines, splendidly accoutered with whatever Horse Marines are accoutered with on parade.

Then followed the band of 60 pieces.

To the martial strains of the Marine Corps Hymn, the parade started at the far end of the field and, at first, all went well. Suddenly matters became enlivened when, without warning, a pack of 15 to 20 dogs of indescribable lineage appeared, led by a small black female, and scampered joyously across the field to fall in line between my company and the base drums of the band. Appearing to enjoy each beat of the drums, the little black seemingly marched in proper cadence.

When 1 awoke to the impropriety of the occasion, I ordered my noncoms to disperse them—but to no avail. The happily barking, yapping and howling dogs followed their instincts while the little black beast, revelling in her moment of glory, led her pack of suitors on her merry way.

General Butler, quite unaware of these happenings because of the continual strains of martial music, rode on unconcernedly until the parade came to a halt before the reviewing stand. On learning of the incident, and somewhat shaken by the smiles and laughter of his guests, he gazed skyward, murmured a brief word of gratitude, and was then heard to say, "At least it didn't rain on my parade."

Howard Markell '20 Marines Are Human, Too Shipmate: World War II in the Solomons had plenty of headaches for all of us lucky enough to be there, but it wasn't all headaches. One of the more pleasant aspects that I remember was a U.S. Marine Corps enterprise on Baniki Island, one of the Russells.

When the Marines stormed ashore on Baniki in February of 1943, they found a whole herd of cattle apparently left over from pre-war plantation days. The Japs hadn't known what to do with the animals. The Marines did! Instead of trying to feed the cows and keep all that beef on the hoof, they set up a slaughterhouse and a galley, and requisitioned a million buns. They didn't hoard all the merchandise just for themselves. Airmen, sea-

men, G.I.s, and Allies all up and down the Solomons heard about this singular military venture and flew into Baniki daily, to carry off to their buddies whole big packing cases full of hamburgers.

They were all on the house; absolutely no charge and no limit on quantity—as long as the doggies lasted. We in VB-138 got our share, courtesy of the U.S. Marines.

Those Leathernecks knew that young Americans away from home needed food for the spirit, too. Good old American hamburgers, for free, right there on that remote jungle island did more for our morale in the combat zone than anything else I can remember about that far off corner of the war—except victory.

Murray Hanson '33 The Boarding Call Recently I viewed a National Geographic Special TV program, "The Lonely Dorymen," a documentary on Atlantic cod fishing by the Portuguese.

This brought to mind a cruise I made to those waters some 40 years ago.

In September of 1940 the light cruiser USS ST. LOUIS was assigned the task of escorting a Presidential Mission, the Greenslade Board, which was charged with the selection of Naval bases for United States use in Newfoundland, Bermuda, certain Caribbean islands and British Guiana, in exchange for 50 World War I destroyers. Trips to most of these British possessions were made in company with HMS CARADOC. An amusing incident occurred during our day in Newfoundland.

Our first port of call was St. Johns.

Anchored in the harbor was a Portuguese naval supply vessel. Such a ship is stationed annually in the northwest Atlantic waters during the six summer months of the cod fishing season. The vessel provides logistic support to the fishing fleet by acting as a radio station, floating hospital and supply ship. As the Portuguese was a naval vessel of a friendly power. Captain Charies H. Morrison USN '09, Commanding Officer of the ST. Louis, ordered a courtesy call.

Second Lt. George V. Hanna USMC was selected to perform this task. Attired in dress blues, white cap and gloves and with sword at side, Hanna set forth in the Captain's gig. Upon arrival on the Portuguese quarterdeck he tried to explain to the watch officer the purpose of his visit and requested to see the Captain. He was beckoned to wait by the very nervous and upset watch officer. A few minutes later the Captain artived and escorted Hanna to his cabin. Still no conversation as only Portuguese and English was spoken and neither could understand the other. Hanna was offered a chair and he sat down at the Captain's table placing his cap, with white gloves

inside, to his right. He noticed that the Captain was extremely excited and nervous. Then a seaman arrived with two glasses and a bottle of sherry. He placed a glass in front of each and offered the bottle to the Captain. The Captain took the bottle and started to pour, but alas, his hand shook so much that he missed the glass and poured sherry into Hanna's cap. This of course increased the skipper's agitation. He spoke to the seaman, who, over Hanna's protestations, picked up the cap and gloves and departed.

About five minutes later the cap and gloves returned rather wet and not too clean but at least not sticky. By this time a Portuguese naval officer arrived who spoke some English. Hanna then found out that it was his arrival that had caused the apprehension. Although the United States was not at war, the Portuguese were afraid that their ship was going to be either interned or captured by the Americans. Hanna assured them that he was aboard only to pay the compliments of the U.S. Government and the Captain of his ship and to invite the Captain aboard the ST. LOUIS for a retum visit. With a sigh of relief the bottle was finished and Hanna left with wet hat on head and more than one sherry under his belt.

Robert L. Denig Jr. '32 Information Wanted Shipmate: I am writing a book about the sinking and salvage of the submarine USS S-4, rammed and sunk by the Coast Guard destroyer PAULDING in 1927. I would like very much to hear from anyone who knew any of the S-4's officers, or who was in any way connected with that disaster.

My address is 55 Perry Street, New York NY 10014.

John J. Lynch '49 The Destroyer Air Force Shipmate: President Roosevelt had ordered that a division of destroyers be fitted with catapults and planes to enhance ASW and scouting capabilities, which was done. As ComDesRon 25, my flagship was equipped with a catapult and a single float plane in place of an after torpedo tube mount.

I commanded the destroyer screen for the carrier raids on Marcus, Wake and the Gilberts. For this mission another catapult equipped destroyer came under my command, bringing the Destroyer Air Force up to two planes.

These raids were the first time that carriers had operated in formation while launching planes. The Task Force consisted of two C V L S and one CV, operating in a " V " formation with the CVLs on either bow of the CV. Until then, carriers operated singly when launching

planes, turning to launching courses of their own choosing with all other ships keeping clear.

I earned eight battle stars during the war but my worst moment came when the Task Force Commander in the first raid carried out the first launching. There was absolutely no wind, but each skipper decided on a different launching course.

The CVL on the left decided that the best course was to the right and the one on the right decided that the best course was to the left. In number one position in the screen, I looked back at the formation and could see no daylight between the carriers. Covering my eyes, I asked myself, "My God, what am I going to do?" Then I opened my eyes and, to delighted surprise, saw daylight between them. That was the last time that carrier skippers were allowed to choose their own launching courses while in formation.

The daily assignment of cruiser planes for the daily ASW patrol came out, and the Destroyer Air Force was not included. I sent a message to the Task Force Commander to the effect that the Destroyer Air Force felt insulted by not being included in the ASW patrol. He replied that he was sorry and asked which patrol we would like. Of course, I chose the easiest one, from 1000 to 1300. The next day's list included the Destroyer Air Force, and we were off on our first wartime mission.

The destroyer air facilities were not very well engineered. The equipment was gathered mostly from scrap heaps and the crane for retrieval was not in the stern, requiring the plane to be picked up from alongside. Naturally, the weight of the plane caused the ship to careen.

And, in hoisting the plane, there was only about six inches clearance between the ship's side and the plane's wing tip.

On recovering the plane, the brake on the hoisting windlass in my flagship failed while swinging the plane back on board, dropping the plane into the water where it—still on the cable—capsized.

We recovered the aviators and had a little target practice sinking the plane's floats. I informed the Task Force Commander that fifty percent of the Destroyer Air Force was expended but requested continued participation in the patrols.

The next day we launched the remaining half of the DAF but, during recovery, the wing tip hit the side of the ship and that plane was scratched. I then reported that the entire Destroyer Air Force had been expended.

After the operation, both ships were returned to the Mare Island Yard, where the catapults were removed. That was the end of the Destroyer Air Force.

E. M. Thompson '21

The Apple Pie Admiral Shipmate: Towards the end of World War I Admiral Henry T. Mayo USN made an inspection tour of U.S. Naval Air Stations along the coast of France.

Insisting on eating in the enlisted messes, at the first he was served and enjoyed a most delicious apple pie for dessert. He moved along to the next station; same routine of inspection, dining with the enlisted, and another delicious apple pie. The Admiral sent for the cook to congratulate him on his culinary art.

On again the next day to repeat the same routine, with another apple pie. Again he commended the cook, but observed that he looked quite familiar. "Haven't we met somewhere before?" "Yes, sir."

"Where was that?" "Yesterday at NAS " When the first apple pie had produced such a favorable impression and inspection report, the C O . s had simply transferred the cook along ahead of the Admiral to make a new pie each day. From then on. Admiral Mayo was known as "The Apple Pie Admiral."

Robert E. Bassler, Capt. CEC (Ret.) A Nicety in the Jungle Shipmate: In 1922 we were pig hunting on the trail from Olongapo to Dinalupajan at the base of Bataan Peninsula. Our guide was a diminutive but superbly proportioned Negrito with a name that sounded like something regurgitated, abbreviated for convenience to "Pedro."

The total language barrier was bridged by hopefully intelligible two-way gestures, reinforced by helpful and imaginative non-semantic vocal innovations.

At one point, Pedro became excited, dashed off the trail, shinneyed up a tree, and triumphantly returned to offer us a big honeycomb—very unappetizing what with its cargo of dead bees.

An aborigine, yes. The product of a totally primitive culture, yes. But Pedro sensed our revulsion and its cause, and his forest-bred resourcefulness found an answer to our squeamishness.

He whipped off his G-string and began to strain the honey through it!

R. B. Carney '16

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New Mitscher Hall Chapel A Gift from the VSNA Alumni

Association

On 30 August, Vice Admiral Bill Mack, President of the Alumni Association, presented a renovated Mitscher Hall Chapel to Vice Admiral Edward C. Waller, Superintendent of the Naval Academy.

The interfaith chapel, which will be used for Jewish services, daily Catholic Mass and occasional Protestant services, was designed primarily to give the Academy's Jewish midshipmen a larger, more dignified, permanent place for worship. Conversion from a Jewish Chapel to a Christian Chapel is accomplished by a combination of curved walls and drapes.

The need for the new facility was brought to the attention of the Alumni Association by Captain Chuck Greenwood, '50, senior chaplain at the Academy. Although the need was apparent, also apparent was the fact that even if government funds could be obtained for the renovation, it would be many years before they would be forthcoming.

With the approval of the then Superintendent, Vice Admiral Bill Lawrence, the Alumni Association commenced efforts to plan, design, contract, and fund the renovation. Planning sessions included Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic clergy in order to ensure that the new facility would meet the needs of all.

The extensive renovation began with the gutting of the existing space. New walls, ceiling, lighting, pews, altar, lecterns, a sound system, a dressing room, and a room for the Oneg Shabbat were installed. The chapel is fully carpeted in pale blue, with matching upholstered pews. The renovation, accomplished at a cost of $100,000 is being financed by use of private funds. Support has been received to date from alumni and friends of the Naval Academy of all faiths.

The Superintendent expresses thanks of the Naval Academy to the Alumni Association

A portion of the old Chapel, with portable Ark

RAdm. Neil Stevenson, Deputy Chief of Chaplains, speaks at the dedication

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Looking Back Rear Admiral Jackson S. Champlin USN (Ret.)

Thursday, November 7th, 1940. Hitler had overrun Westem Europe and most of the Balkans. London announced the RAF had smashed the giant Kmpp works the night-before, and that they had just upped the number of combat aircraft on order from the U.S. to a total of 26,000. Two German warships of the GRAF SPEE type were decimating British shipping in the North Atlantic. The British Navy was hurriedly refitting the 50 old four-pipe destroyers we had "lendleased" to them. Violent fighting was reported on the Italo-Greek front. In the Orient the Japs were on the march.

At home, we were frantically rearming, with a gigantic naval building program underway. Election victors Roosevelt and Wallace triumphantly motored from Union Station up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Chrysler stock was quoted that day at 86'/4. Things were white hot at Navy in anticipation of the meeting with Notre Dame two days later in Baltimore (N.D. eked out a 13-7 victory). We already had BatDiv 3 in the Atlantic and things looked pretty grim in the Pacific. And on that day, at about 1000 Pacific Coast Time, the third longest suspension bridge in the world, only four months old, collapsed and plunged into the cold waters of Puget Sound.

COLORADO, plagued with such insulation troubles in her main drive motors that she could make only 14 knots, had slipped into Bremerton Navy Yard a few days before. Upon arrival, the Captain (not noted for magnanimity) said to me, "Why don't you take four days, fly down to San Francisco, and get your family? There's nothing much scheduled for the Gunnery Department, and I think we've got real trouble in those main drive motors." I was off within the hour.

It was like an impossible dream, a far different way of life, coming up from San Francisco through that beautiful Northwest country in our new 1940 LaSalle.

On the evening of November 6th we put up at a small "Motel" in Tacoma. Next morning the map indicated that we could save hours by taking the new bridge across the Tacoma Narrows instead of going to Seattle and taking the ferry to Bremerton. By 8:30 we were on the road, heading for the bridge on a beautifully clear day. A brisk breeze was blowing. . . .

For more than 50 years it had been a Northwest dream to bridge Puget Sound Shipmate. November 1981

and open up the beautiful and sparsely settled Olympic Peninsula. There was only one feasible point—the famed and fabled Narrows at Tacoma, where the surging water boils through a deep passage a little short of a mile wide. Then in the depression year of 1938 things moved.

The National Recovery Administration (NRA) agreed to put up $2,880,000 and the Reconstmction Finance Corporation (RFC) $3,530,000. Those were the days when paper money was as good as gold to everyone except U.S. citizens.

As a banker's safety measure for its loan, the RFC required that a bridge design engineer of intemational renown and proven competence be hired and placed in charge. Leon Moisseiff was hired to the satisfaction of all parties. A Russian emigre, 68 years old, he was the designer of the Manhattan, the George Washington, the Triborough, and many other famous bridges. The graceful and beautiful bridge, with its spectacular 2,800 foot single span was opened on July 1st, 1940.

For a short time, joy and pride were unrestrained. And then disconcerting tales started circulating. When the whistling winds of the Narrows were just right, people on the bridge got seasick.

Sometimes an approaching car would drop clear out of sight in the undulations of the roadway. The span would not only swing like a hammock, but also twist like a corkscrew with long ripples running wavelike along the length of its roadway.

The intensity of motions was periodic, growing to a violent crescendo and then subsiding, only to resume. The experts decided the bridge was safe and strong.

Moisseiff and Univeristy of Washington engineers worked on experiments to correct the sway. A $20,000 scale model was built at the University. At 0945 on the morning of Thursday, 7 November, Professor Frederick Burt Farquharson arrived at the bridge as usual to take motion pictures of the action. Behind him came 25 year old college student Winfield Brown, who paid the 10(J pedestrian fee and started across for the thrill.

Leonard Coatsworth, a reporter for the Tacoma News-Tribune, started to drive across. Time Magazine of 18 November 1940 reports: Horrid wails and groans came from the taut steel overhead. Lampposts jerked back and forth, broke loose, leaped over the side. Reporter Coatsworth's car smashed into the curb. The reporter got out, was

pitched forward on his face. . . . Concrete popped like popcom; large chunks broke loose, whistled through the air . . . Student Brown looked down at the water, 190 feet below. "I thought I was a goner" (he said) . . .

A man and woman in a logging truck clawed their way to safety, as did the three others. Professor Farquharson tried to rescue Coatsworth's dog but the frightened and seasick animal bit him and remained in the car.

In blissful ignorance of all this, Betty and I, with small son and dog, rolled on up to the bridge approach plaza at 30 miles per hour. One hundred yards from the bridge roadway I was suddenly aware of a shrieking siren and the roar of a motorcycle coming up fast behind me.

I pulled over and got out to remonstrate with the officer. He pointed toward the bridge. For the first time, I looked at it and was astounded to see it was writhing Hke a snake. Betty got out and we watched, stupified at the sight. We had not exchanged more than five words when all hell broke loose. The vertical steel suspending cables started snapping with reports like distant antiaircraft gunfire. Time again: The great main cable, freed of its weight, tightened like a bowstring, whipping the vertical cables into the air like fish lines. . . . the central span rose higher in a last release of tension, snapped, and plunged into the water 190 feet below.

Betty, the Officer and I stood and looked unbelievingly, for a long time.

Once or twice perhaps, in a lifetime, one experiences the hard-to-believe-withones-own-eyes. We slowly got back in the LaSalle and broke out the map. Now it was on to Seattle and the Bremerton Ferry. The inscrutable hand had just missed us.

Next day the papers announced the bridge was fully covered by insurance and it would be immediately rebuilt. But it was soon back to Pearl for the COLORADO and more immediate and pressing interests. A long time later I learned the bridge was not insured; the authorities only thought it was. The agent had never registered the policy with the home office and had been pocketing the premiums. He committed suicide. What happened to the bondholders. I cannot say.

A new and stable bridge has long spanned the Narrows, but when we venture up that way, we always take the ferry. ^ 11

Europe's Romantic Waterways Tour At about 8 p.m. on 21 August, guided by the sure hands of Ginny and Bill Busik, 61 USNA affiliated persons ranging from Commodore Pete Needham '22 to those from the early 1960s, gathered with an almost equal number from U. of Michigan, a goodly group from Northwestern, and a smattering of others at JFK Airport in New York to board a Swissair jumbo jet for a 12-day trip to Switzerland, Germany and France. Swissair put on a good flight to Zurich, where we were met by buses and, after identifying our luggage, were taken on a sightseeing trip through Zurich and on to Luceme. There we were met by Philip Ryan and Lucus Pasma, our tour guides from Alumni Holidays for the European trip. They were excellent and some of us had had the pleasure of being with either or both on previous tours. Incidentally, all the local guides used by Alumni Holidays were top rated also, though some a little better than others.

In Luceme we stayed at the Palace Hotel, a renovated Victorian structure, but quite elegant in its way. There, after a rest, all hands gathered for a welcome aboard cocktail party followed by a gourmet dinner where the wine flowed freely. And so to bed!

A morning briefing in which the plans for the whole trip were discussed was followed by an afternoon trip up 7000-ft.

Mt. Pilatus, which is just outside Lucerne. The mountain was socked in but the trip made by two sets of cable cars one way and a very steeply inclined cog railway the other, was worth the price of admission—as were the cows, which must be crossed with mountain goats the way they cling to almost vertical pastures. When we were on the cableway we could hear the cow bells chiming.

An outstanding event called a "Swiss Night Out" awaited us upon our return by motor boat from Mt. Pilatus. Leaving the hotel about 7:30 we went to a country inn along the lake shore where about 150 of our 180 enjoyed Swiss wine, Swiss food and Swiss entertainment, with the guests taking part in the latter.

Even the old crocks got crocked enough to join in the festivities and dancing. We returned to the hotel tired but happy.

On Monday, 24 August, your writer did not take the all-day excursion to the Bernise Alps and Interlaken but we understand that it was very good and very beautiful. We stayed in Lucerne to see the town, the old bridge, the cathedral and the famed rock carving the "Lion of Lucerne," which memorializes the Swiss guards who were massacred by the mob at the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 as they attempted to defend Louis XVI. On Tuesday, after some sightseeing and shopping, we loaded in buses with good guides for our trip to Strassburg to board our Rhine cruiser, the M. S. FRANCE. On the way through pretty and interesting country we had a rest stop at Basel which, although Swiss, is where Switzerland, France and Germany come together at the head of navigation on the Rhine. We proceeded up the French side of the river, where, after a very quick tour through the city of Strassburg, we embarked and were greeted aboard with a welcome drink and a buffet supper.

Sometime during the wee hours of Wednesday morning the FRANCE got underway, arriving after breakfast at Speyer, Germany. Here a large group left the ship for an excursion to the university city of Heidelberg. The country in that part of the Rhine Valley is mostly industrialized, Heidelberg being sort of a

gem left by itself in a sea of modernity.

We looked everywhere for the "Student Prince" but he only appears when they give Romberg's operetta each year.

Heidelberg is an interesting city with a long history as a center of learning. The university, which is scattered over the old town in red sandstone buildings, dates from the 14th century. The vast castle, also of red sandstone, dominates the entire scene and has been built, destroyed, rebuilt, and added to over a long period of time. The courtyard is surrounded by a quadrangle of elaborately carved stmctures, and in the basement of one side is the world's largest wine vat, 20 feet in diameter, 31 feet long and holding 49,000 gallons. It was put there in 1750 to store wine paid as taxes to the local prince.

We rejoined the ship at Gemsheim somewhat farther down the Rhine and proceeded to Rudesheim, passing by Mainz and Wiesbaden en route. There are no bridges across the Rhine from just below Mainz all the way to Koblenz and the castle and wine country really begins at Rudesheim. There our party went ashore to take a trip through the town and up the steep banks of the river to see the vineyards. Our mode of transportation was two gayly decorated trains of cars pulled by tractors made to look like locomotives. Overlooking the town and high above the vineyards there is an enormous Bmnnhilde-like statue called "Germania," symbolizing the unification of Germany in 1870.

The lack of bridges on this part of the Rhine is offset by the immense river traffic. Dutch barges, German barges, French barges and Swiss ones too, not in tows as on many other rivers, but all self-propelled, for the bends in the Rhine

The Lion of Luceme

Bridge and Mount Pilatus at Lucerne

Home on the Rhine

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are sharp and tows would be dangerous.

All along the river banks are pretty towns with houses of story-book design, all with window boxes of gay flowers.

Each town had its large church, most very old. and the steep banks of the river are a mass of vineyards. Castles are everywhere, perched on the highest and steepest pinnacles. Swans, ducks and other waterfowl, including seagulls, were very much in evidence, usually near the shores, but still spread fairly generally over the surface. The rail lines on both sides mostly follow the course of the river, and there were lots of trains.

the Roman emperors and their entourages. Many ruins remain. After a good lunch we were whisked to Paris in a special 90-mile-an-hour train. On our way we passed through Chateau-Thierry, where our Marines stopped the Germans in July 1918.

Ahhough we tied up each night at an attractive town, for the next three days we cmised the rivers passing more towns, castles. Die Lorelei, and endless vineyards, turning the corner at Koblenz to proceed up the Moselle. Here the banks were even steeper but covered as before with grape vines. How they planted, cultivated and picked the grapes on 80-degree slopes is hard to understand, but it gets done. Along the Moselle we went through several locks each raising the ship about 25 feet. The traffic on the Moselle is not as heavy as on the Rhine but there is still plenty of it.

While underway one day a wine expert gave us a lecture on the subject of German wines. Very interesting! The Romans introduced wine 2,000 years ago and it has been going strong ever since.

These wines are light, only 11% alcohol and are almost all white. Moselle wine is put up in green bottles and Rhine wine in brown ones. Modem techniques have made it so that the wines are about the same every year, but because of rainfall and temperatures, some years are still better.

On Friday, 28 August, there was a special evening wine party ashore in Bemkastel. The local band met our party, paraded them through the streets to a place where wine flowed and there was lots of music and dancing by entertainers and by our people. Fun! Arriving at the old Roman town of Trier the next morning, we were given an excellent, but too short, tour of that historic place, which in the early Christian era was a favorite vacation spot for

Paris is Paris and Paris is great! There is much to see and much to do and we were given an unscheduled extra on our night of arrival when a bomb was exploded in the lobby of our hotel, the Intercontinental. None of our group was injured but most who were in the hotel heard it and 18 other persons were injured by flying glass. The perpetrators of the crime were not apprehended while we were in Paris but suspicion seemed to fall on some Mideast terror groups. The lobby was a mess and the great glass doors around an interior court were pitched about and broken. Part of the ceiling was knocked out. Exciting to say the least!

The next day, a lovely Sunday, was full of sightseeing: the Louvre, Notre Dame and old Paris in the moming, and Montmartre, Sacre Coeur, the Opera, Champs Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, etc., etc., in the aftemoon. That evening we enjoyed the highlight of the Paris stay, a Bateau Mouche dinner and cmise on the Seine. Dinner was gorgeous, with lob-

Lovely old Heidelberg

Vineyards and town along the Moselle

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The Pynes "25 with Alumni Flag

ster, steak, salad and dessert, and wine—white and red came in unrelenting quantities. A clarinetist and an accordionist played continuous music of the kind our party seemed to want and the lights of Paris slipped by as we went up and then down the river. Une soiree magnifique!

A full day trip to the chateau country was scheduled for Monday and about half the group took it. They visited Chartres with its great cathedral and, entering the Loire Valley, saw the great chateau of Chambord, another at Blois, and those at Chenonceaux and at Cheverny. A good luncheon and a fine dinner were included. For those who did not go "chateauing" it was a day of shopping, more sightseeing on foot and trying the restaurants and an evening of Paris at night. All good clean fun.

The last full day was more of the same with an optional excursion to Versailles in the aftemoon. A farewell wine and cheese party topped off the day.

So, on Wednesday, 2 September, we were just about ready to come home, which we did by Air France, arriving on time at JFK and then scattering to our places of origin.

All in all it was a great trip, well handled by the Alumni Association and by Alumni Holidays, on whose tour and local guides we cannot heap enough praise.

Schuyler Pyne '25

L'Arc de Triomphe and the Champs ElysSes

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U S N A C h a n g e of C o m m a n d On 22 August, V A d m . Edward C. Waller '49 relieved VAdm. William P. Lawrence '51 as Superintendent of the U . S . Naval Academy, as reported in the September Shipmate. However, details of that ceremony, not then available, deserve further coverage.

The ceremony was attended by the entire Brigade of Midshipmen and some 2000 invited guests, and ended with a parade by the Fourth Class reviewed by the t w o admirals and Mrs. Lawrence.

Another feature was presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Lawrence by the C N O after laudatory remarks by SecNav Lehman. The cheers of the Brigade left no doubt of their affection for Admiral Bill and Mrs. Lawrence.

In stating his goals, the new Superintendent said: 1 want the brigade to know that I consider my main job as their superintendent to be the training—morally, mentally, and physically—of the future leaders of our Navy. My focus will be on the quality of each graduating class and I will be looking for the following characteristics in those future leaders.

First and foremost with me is integrity. A leader must be able to look a situation squarely in the eye—see reality for what it is—and tell it like he sees it. Quality in fighting effectiveness can never be achieved by half truths or by hiding one's head in the sand, even though some above you in the organization are perceived to be more comfortable that way.

Secondly, our graduates must be trained to understand fully that they are accountable for every responsibility assigned and for every action in which they are involved.

There is entirely too much legalism in our society today for its good health. This litigative phenomenon tends to blur one's responsibility for one's own actions and tends to reduce accountability to a meaningless word. If it cannot be proved in a court of law, then one is not accountable. 1 do not believe that any one here wants the future Navy to be led in peace or in war by individuals who have lost understanding of the true meaning of accountability.

Next in line is the ability to lead by example. By the time they graduate, members of this institution should have developed, as clearly visible characteristics, those personal qualities which will insure that they are looked up to and respected as leaders.

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Graduates should also recognize the vital importance of their leadership roles and be strongly motivated to lead by example.

These qualities are essential for our future Navy leadership. One of the key purposes of this institution as differentiated from other superb academic institutions, is the time, the energy, and the sensitive care taken in the development of these characteristics.

1 am also extremely interested in seeing that our graduates have developed an academic breadth, interest, and ease in learning which makes further professional development a matter to be taken as normal.

This should be true in technical areas, from which flow improved tactics, as well as history, biography, political science and philosophy from which flow strategic thinking.

A mind-set conducive to continued learning is what is important as well as an inquiring mind which always wants to know more.

Another of my objectives will be to influence our graduates to place country above self. There will be many times in the fleet that you will be frustrated, worked too hard for your own liking, be away from home too often to completely suit your family.

But the challenge to your whole being and the thrill of accomplishment will be most meaningful to those who understand that what they have done is for country and not for self. This satisfaction is food for life.

Looking back over the past 32 years, it is clearly apparent to me that the quality of leadership in one's first unit, ship or squadron, is a major determining factor in one's career decision at the five year point. I hope to insure that the quality of leadership encountered at this institution sends graduates out with a positive base from which to start.

Finally, no matter how well these goals are met, the quality of the brigade is greatly determined by that of the individual midshipman. The quality of the brigade, its achievements, and its collective deportment can bring great credit to the Naval Academy and to the Navy. And this is by far the most direct and effective way of insuring that the best of America's youth aspire to attend this institution.

Oldest Graduate P a s s e s O n VAdm. Walter Stratton Anderson U S N (Ret.) ' 0 3 , w h o had celebrated his 100th birthday on 4 October, died on 24 October. VAdm. William P. Mack U S N (Ret.) '37, President of the U S N A Alumni Association, earler had sent this letter to the A c a d e m y ' s oldest living graduate:

Admiral and Mrs. Lawrence take the review with Admiral Waller

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sion that brought John Paul Jones' body home from France. He served in the Vera Cruz campaign of 1914 and as Exec of USS ARIZONA during Worid War I. Later he commanded USS MARYLAND, and was aboard her at Peari Harbor on 7 December 1941. For his services during Worid War II he was awarded the Legion of Merit.

Admiral Anderson's successor as oldest living graduate is Capt. Eari R. Shipp USN (Ret.) '05, of San Francisco, bom on 7 February 1883.

USS ST. LOUIS Painting Presentation

Adm. Walter S. Anderson '03

"On behalf of the USNA Alumni Association and alumni throughout the world, may I express our sincere congratulations on the occasion of your 100th birthday.

"Of all the anniversaries and milestones we have marked this year, this one gives us the greatest pleasure.

"I'm sure you will recall what your classmates put beside your picture in the 1903 Lucky Bag—'He nothing common did nor mean.'

"The book also tells us that your nickname was 'Andy,' you were a four-striper, a man with 'conscience always,' captain of the baseball team, instmctor in English and on the June Ball Committee, and that you broke your collar-button playing football with Hoch and Davis. Finally, your classmates noted that (he) 'doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn't swear, makes out a laundry list'—which may help to explain your unusual longevity.

"May you continue to have a fair wind and a following sea."

There are few men alive today who can boast that they knew both Presidents Roosevelt. Graduating sixth in his class, Anderson was handed his diploma by President Theodore Roosevelt. In a Shipmate interview two years ago, the admiral recalled the "highlight" of his long career as Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence pre-World War II, reporting "almost daily" to President Franklin.

"It got so that Mr. Roosevelt even called me by my first name. I dare say I didn't do the same when addressing him."

Born in Carlinville, Illinois, Admiral Anderson defied his father's wish for him to become a lawyer and headed for Annapolis to become one of the 300 "cadets," as they were then called. His first sea duty was aboard USS GALVESTON. one of the cmisers in the funeral proces16

On Sunday, 6 December 1981, the USS ST. LOUIS (CL-49) Association will present to the Naval Academy an original painting, "Coming Out of Hell," by the noted artist George W. Samson. It shows the ST. LOUIS steaming out of Pearl Harbor on that "day of infamy" forty years ago, the only major ship present to get underway and reach the open sea during the Japanese attack. She went on to earn eleven battle stars, three unit citations and the name "Lucky LOU" in Worid War II. There will be a full program for crew members attending the presentation; a brunch at the Annapolis Fleet Reserve Club, the presentation at 1400 in the Naval Academy Museum, and an open house following at the Fleet Reserve Club.

All alumni veterans of the ST. LOUIS are urged to attend. For further details contact Al Seton, 220 Otis Avenue, Staten Island NY 10306—Phone (212) 3514556.

Brigade of Midshipmen Command The first semester command of the Brigade of Midshipmen has been assumed by Brigade Commander Andy Palowitch, of Bethel Park PA, and Deputy Commander Dobie McArthur, of Coleman TX, via the Marine Corps and NAPS. Palowitch has qualified as a scuba diver, earned gold jump wings as a military parachutist, and almost completed the requirements for a private pilot's license.

Last Summer he made a foreign exchange cruise to New Zealand, where he participated in rescue operations as a j.o. in a frigate, had a ten-day flying tour of the country with the New Zealand Air Force, went with the Navy diving team on underwater operations, and took time off for sightseeing, mountain climbing and skiing. Previously, he had been an exchange student at the Royal Naval College in England. A mechanical engineering major, Palowitch plans to enter the nuclear power program after graduation.

The new Brigade commanders

McArthur, as an enlisted Marine, attended the Defense Language Institute and became proficient in Arabic. Last Summer he used that proficiency when he was assigned to a special team supervising the sale of ships to Saudi Arabia.

At NAPS he was the Battalion Commander. A political science major, he has as a special project for this year the content analysis of an Arabic newspaper, and he is one of the 1982 Rhodes Scholarship candidates. McArthur plans for a career in the Marine Corps.

Service Academy Research Program The Service Academy Research Program, which is for both midshipmen and faculty, provides the opportunity for midshipmen to apply their classroom knowledge to current problems and for faculty to bring their expertise to bear on basic and applied research projects.

Last Summer Mid'n. 1/c Michael Maurer, a physics major, spent five weeks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory under this program. He was assigned to the Applied Photochemistry Division in support of the development of a Laser Isotope Separation Process using infrared and ultraviolet lasers for uranium enrichment. His direct participation was in an analysis of the engineering problems associated with development of the Pulsed Argon Chloride Ultraviolet Laser—a great experience.

Blue Pencil Awards The National Association of Government Communicators has given first place in its 19th Annual Blue Pencil Awards to U.S. Naval Academy Parents Open House. Class of 1984 in the category of Serials Other Than Magazines or Newspapers. The award was made to Mr. Edward Wilson, NA Publications Shipmate, November 1981

Officer. The text of this booklet was prepared by Cdr. Dan Davidson, instructor of Communications in the English Department.

In another category, Mr. Wilson was awarded second prize for last year's Naval Academy Catalog.

From '82 to '56 The Naval Academy Class of 1982 extends its warm thanks to the Class of 1956 for making this year's homecoming a special one. We hope your 25th Anniversary was the best yet.

It was a joy to host such a great class. We'll be cheering along side you again in Philadelphia.

Navy in the Air Force Russell D. Hale "66 became Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management on 5 August, responsible for plans, policies and programs related to Air Force programming, budgeting, economic analysis, accounting, auditing and data automation programs. After graduation he entered the Air Force as a systems engineer at Wright Patterson AFB. In 1969 he eamed a M.S. in Operations Research and was appointed an operational research analyst in the HQ Air Force Data Center. In 1972-73 he was a special assistant to AsstSecDef (Comptroller). He then joined IBM and, since 1975, has served as a staff" member of the House Armed Services Committee.

BEAT ARMY!!!

1982 Class OfficersTommy Garrison (Hi Dad) John Weidman Walt Nobles Gus Anderson

Navy to Retire Seven Ships in FY '82 LGen. George D. Miller USAF

who will study at the University of Hamburg in Germany.

Three Army and three Air Force officers also received Olmsted Scholarships, which are awarded annually to service officers who have completed three or four years of active duty after commissioning.

Parents Club Recognizes Tom Teshara

Russel Hale sworn in by AF General Counsel. Mrs. Hale watching

LGen. George D. MUler UASF '53 is the new Vice C-in-C Strategic Air Command as of 1 September. Commissioned in the Air Force, he eamed wings in 1954. flew from bases in the U.S. and U.K., eamed a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and graduated from the National War College. Later services include command of a special operations squadron in Thailand, of a strategic reconnaissance wing at home, of air divisions at home and in Thailand, Asst DCS(Ops) at SAC and Asst DCS Air Force (Plans and Operations).

During a recent dinner sponsored by the Northern California Parents Club to honor parents of the Class of 1985, there was a great surprise for Tom Teshara, West (Toast Regional Director of Candidate Guidance and the Blue and Gold Program. The dinner was attended by a total of 250 members, who attentively listened to guest speakers Ens. Dennis Murphy '81 and Midshipmen Bill Larson '83, Nicole Frost and Jim Wasko '84.

At an appropriate moment in the evening activities. Rear Admiral "Bear" Arnold USN (Ret.) announced a surprise award to Tom and presented him with a special plaque in appreciation of his eight outstanding years as a Blue and Gold officer. The award was indeed well deserved.

"Bear" Amold with plaque. Tom Teshara at podium with surprise

Olmsted Scholars Two USNA alumni have received Olmsted Scholarships for two years of study at a foreign university of their choice. Lt. Glenn D. Elliott USN '77 will study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and Lt. James M. Carr III USN "78 at the University of Grenoble in France, beginning in the Fall of 1982.

A third naval officer to win an Olmsted was Lt. Kari O. Shipp USN, Shipmate. November 1981

Plans have been announced to retire seven ships in FY '82. The seven, with an average age of over 36 years, include two from the active fleet, four from the Naval Reserve Force (originally planned for deactivation last year but deferred until FY '82), and one from the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force. They are USS DIXIE ( A D - 1 4 ) , USS SPERRY (AS-12), USS ROBERT A. OWENS ( D D - 8 2 7 ) , USS STEINAKER ( D D - 8 6 3 ) , USS VOGELGESANG ( D D - 8 6 2 ) , USS MCKEAN ( D D - 7 8 4 ) , and USS FURMAN ( T - A K - 2 8 0 ) .

At the end of FY '81 the Navy had a total of 551 ships, including the active fleet, NRF and NFAF. The comparable figure for the end of FY '82 is 575 ships.

With the retirement of USS DIXIE, USS VULCAN ( A R - 5 ) becomes the oldest

ship in active service and will wear the Navy Jack of the Revolutionary War—stripes, a rattlesnake, and the motto "Don't tread on me."

Reunion Notices USS BRYANT (DD-665)—Reunion will be held on 16-18 April 1982. For details, contact Everette P. Owens, 1241 Cape Charles Ave., Atlantic Beach FL 32233.

Phone (904) 249-5578 or 246-7431 (office).

Bombing Squadron VB-102/VPB-102— The "Liberators" of WW II in the Pacific will convene at New Orleans LA on 24-27 June 1982. For details contact Christian Capdevielle, Rt. 5, Box 119, Covington LA 70433.

USS CHANDELEUR (AV-10)—Annual re-

union will be held at Bellmawr NJ on 5-7 August 1982. For details contact Mrs. Kenneth E. Boyd, Rt. 4, Box 145, Culpeper VA 22701. Phone (703) 854-5076.

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10 November 1981 A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE tlARINE CORPS For 206 years no challenge has been too great for our proud Corps. Our forebears stood ready to pick up the gauntlet during peace or war, at home or abroad, ashore or afloat. Each challenge has been met v.'ith determination, discipline, courage and esprit, qualities which have become the hallmark of our Corps. This legacy provides the standard for all v/ho now claim the title Marine.

As soldiers of the sea v/e reflect the maritime heritage of our nation, a heritage seldom more evident than it is today. Events of the recent past illustrate that when again confrontation comes, our national response may well be from the sea. Around the globe.

Marines are on watch, ready to answer the call.

We should take this opportunity to pause and reflect on our past, to remember the sacrifices of earlier Marinesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this we owe to them. Let us then reaffirm our commitment to those values and virtues which distinguish us as Marines. The people of our nation expect it; the strength and security of our nation demand it; and the future of our beloved Marine Corps depends on it.

Happy birthday and best wishes to all Marines, their families and their friends, on this the 2 06th anniversary of the founding of our Corps.

R. H. BARROW General, U.S. Marine Corps

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CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS

MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY 1981 At frequent intervals throughout the history of this great country of ours, world events have demonstrated this nation's requirement for a strong, ready, and responsive military force.

Perhaps this has never been more evident than in the recent past.

For 206 years sailors and marines have joined together to be that responsive force, in modern times operating as forward deployed units at the outer boundaries of our nation's interests and ready to meet whatever challenge a foe might deliver. Today that requirement is better understood and more appreciated by our fellow Americans than it has been in decades.

The men and women of the United States Navy join me in expressing our sincerest best wishes to each member of the United States Marine Corps on the occasion of your 206th birthday. We are proud to be on the same team.

T. B.xlHAYWARD Admi^l, U.S. Navy

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Corps Team of the

When we asked General Barrow, Commandant of the Marine Corps, to write the lead article for this issue, he answered that what he wanted to say to the USNA alumni had been completely covered by Secretary of the Navy Lehman in his speech at the launching of the LSD-41, and suggested that we reprint the speech. Here it is: Since assuming my duties as Secretary of the Navy—and Secretary of the Marine Corps—few events have been more pleasurable than to preside today at the keel laying of the LSD-41, the lead ship of a new amphibious class.

Beginning a new class is always an important milestone in the history of the Navy, but the LSD-41 represents much more: —It is the first amphibious ship to be started since the keel was laid for the LHA-5. almost five years ago.

—It is the first amphibious ship to be funded in ten years.

—It is designed to carry the air cushion landing craft, or LCAC. which adds a revolutionary dimension to amphibious warfare. As such, it represents a commitment to new technology.

—The keel laying of the LSD-41 also signifies the reversal of one of the most senseless conditions in the Navy today.

The fact is that the U.S. Marines—that splendidly-trained, superbly-disciplined team, and the most ready fighting force found in the world today—are fully prepared to go wherever necessary in the world . . . yet are unable fully to utilize that splendid readiness because we lack sufficient sealift to get them there.

Let me state my position unequivocally: the amphibious forces will be at the very forefront of the Navy in the decade ahead. The strategic requirements of the decade cry out for amphibious capability—forces with the flexibility and combat power ernbodied in Shipmate. November 1981

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the Marine Air Ground Task Forces—forces capable of safeguarding our vital interests by deterrence, but if deterrence fails, by performing on the battlefield as Marines have always performed. In this regard, the Department of the Navy in the first months of the Reagan Administration established a firm policy to develop sufficient amphibious lift to transport simultaneously the assault echelon of a Marine Amphibious Force and a Marine Amphibious Brigade. Thus we shall have the capability to undertake major amphibious operations to secure our maritime security simultaneously in two separate areas of the world.

Finally, and most importantly, this new class represents a large step in the revitalization of our key national asset, the U.S. Navy, and a quantum improvement in our ability to safeguard U.S. interests overseas, through the ability to project power from sea to shore when needed.

This ship class has been a long, hard time coming. Many of you here today are veterans of the Washington skirmishing necessary to bring this ship into being. Your vision and your persistence have triumphed. 1 congratulate you on that persistence.

And I do not speak of triumph in a narrow, bureaucratic sense. I speak of triumph in a national sense, as our country strives to regain its sense of purpose and confidence and builds to restore the unquestioned maritime superiority so vital to our existence.

Clearly, an immense change has taken place in the United States in the past year. We have come to realize that, as leaders of the free world, we have been possessed of a dangerous uncertainty for some time over the utility of committing military force for national purpose. We had forgotten the lessons of two terrible world wars; that strength, not weakness.

halts aggressors; that strength is the only real deterrent, weakness an open invitation. Today it is obvious that America has now recalled these important lessons. We are revitalizing.

We are renewing our traditional American character. And we are again becoming strong and filled with resolve.

The clear mandate of the last presidential election was a call for renewed national strength, prestige and self-confidence. This resurgence of demand for national strength will inevitably require the U.S. Marine Corps to shoulder a major burden in any commitment of military force for national purpose, as has always been the case in the past. A Marine Corps of Americans who represent the best in soldierly virtue. A Corps which has held high the concepts of duty and honor, and the qualities of strength and self-confidence, even in the lean years of the recent past.

A Corps which, in the face of social and other pressures, changed what needed to be changed, but staunchly maintained a tradition of disciplined excellence and a world-recognized expertise in amphibious warfare—a form of warfare which may be more important to our Nation's future in the years ahead than it has been in the past.

It is not enough, however, to build ships and recruit men. We must begin with the formulation of the strategy itself. It is a difficult matter, in that we have long focused largely on the technical aspects of our naval problems.

Too often, naval strategy was merely a function of the momentum of force structure and modernization. The strongest arguments for new ships were that old ships were old and due to retire.

The misuse of systems analysis and computerized war games within the Defense Department had forced a mechanistic fixation on programs and a knee jerk response to military force problems. That fixation brought forth a generation of military leaders conditioned to think mechanistically, to manage "programs" but disdain military intuition and judgement. On the national level, strategy often focused on areas of immediate concern, despite an increasing array of geopolitical shifts, which should have been accommodated by adjustments in the planned use of naval forces. It is not necessary to match Soviet force levels on a man-for-man or ship-for-ship basis. Instead, what was and is needed, is a maritime strategy which concentrates superior power at the point of confrontation, and does so with precisely tailored forces.

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The world of the eighties is not only a world becoming more interdependent. It is also a world of increased turbulence.

Our strategy must include the protection of sources of raw materials and their conveyance to us and our allies, including the protection of our source of vital fossil products and strategic materials.

The Middle East and Southwest Asia will probably dominate the world stage in the 1980s, as did Europe in the 1940s, Northeast Asia in the 1950s, and Southeast Asia in the 1960s. If we have learned from history, the correct question today should be how best to protect our vital interests in the region, without placing half a million or more ground troops in the area for an indeterminate period of time.

Builder's model of the new LSD-41 class An important prerequisite in formulating a maritime strategy, is to pay more attention to those military leaders who possess the foresight to recognize the requirements ahead, and the seasoned judgement to grasp its strategic implications. Such leaders clearly foresaw the requirements of amphibious warfare in the decade preceeding the Second World War. Fully a decade before that war. Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Holland Smith studied and practiced the strategy of crossing the Central Pacific. There were Marine and Navy officers who ignored the experts' suggestions in the late 1940's that amphibious warfare was anachronistic.

Those men knew there would be an "Inchon" in the 1950s. Others, on sighting the helicopter in the fifties, knew it would add a revolutionary dimension to amphibious warfare in the sixties, and they were correct. These were great and daring thinkers, not unlike those who today recognize the value of VSTOL, the LCAC, the LAV, and the LSD-41 class,—and have the military judgement to grasp the strategic implications of the 1980s and beyond.

Our task in the decade ahead is clearly to deter Soviet aggression, a formidable goal in the wake of unprecedented Soviet military expansion. Our response cannot be in numbers alone. It must be in the ability to concentrate warfighting capability at the point—or points—of confrontation. The large number of Soviet options is such that land-based defenses overseas will never be sufficient for our needs, given even the most optimistic budgetary and procurement environments, and assuming that the necessary basing arrangements were politically achieveable. Nor is it prudent 22

to assume that a Soviet military confrontation, if it comes, will occur where we are best able to counter it. If history teaches us anything, the reverse will probably be the case. The Soviets must be made to understand—and be shown—that we intend to confront them militarily wherever our interests require.

If we succeed in doing that, we may never have to use our capability. It is the deterrent value of strong naval forces which we seek, not confrontation.

What I propose strategically is not new. Mahan called armed naval capability seaforce. He postulated that a maritime nation should aim at acquiring a superiority in seaforce that enables it to project its seapower to the most distant quarters of the earth. It is from that imperative that Mahan derived the concept of "Command of the Seas" so relevant today.

The perceived capability to concentrate the Nation's naval resources and to project power ashore stabilizes the global environment, according to Mahan, into a condition favorable to that nation possessing command of the seas.

Recently, for the first time ever, Soviet naval expansion has threatened to overtake our sea superiority. Obviously, Admiral Gorshkov has carefully read the lessons of Mahan.

Critical to the Soviets' perception, is the naval capability to provide presence.

This unique naval mission is particularly relevant to a strategy which seeks to influence and deter. Naval presence does not require regional basing, a political irritant in many parts of the worid.

Naval presence is also a sine qua non in the perception of our allies and the Third World, and has much to do with the way they regard superpower balance.

The kind of ground force presence which we have in Europe and Korea will not work in Southwest Asia—or in the Caribbean or Africa for that matter. The U.S. simply does not have sizeable forces in place, nor supplies prepositioned. Neither does it possess the host-nation support agreements, nor the binding alliances that we have in Europe and elsewhere.

These combined problems of access and distance compel the U.S. to rely principaUy on seapower, supplemented by amphibious assault. Its "over the horizon" presence would not be a political liability, nor provide a raison d'etre for increasing instability.

Amphibious forces can move ashore without the degree of permanence—and thus risk—associated with other ground forces.

The comparative attractiveness of seabased forces for the kinds of tasks required by the situation in Southwest Asia, and elsewhere, has long been recognized. The distinguished British strategist B. H. Liddell Hart, observed in I960: An amphibious force of modern type, operating from the sea and equipped with helicopters, is free from dependence on airfields, beaches, ports, and land-bases with all their logistical and political complications. The use of . . . any landbased force is a more irrevocable step, since its commitment is more definite and its withdrawal more difficult. A selfcontained and sea-based amphibious force, of which the U.S. Marine Corps is the prototype, is the best kind of fire extinguisher, because of its flexibility, reliability, logistic simplicity and relative economy.

Naval presence in Southwest Asia will clearly transmit the desired message, militarily as well as diplomatically. The multi-faceted projection capabilities which a balanced naval force of air.

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surface, subsurface, and amphibious elements brings to any situation may find application in the entire range from diplomatic signalling and crisis containment to on-scene military action.

In the event of a Soviet attack on our vital interests in Southwest Asia, defeat of Soviet naval forces at sea will be absolutely crucial. Lacking secure sea lines of communication, no other military effort—afloat or ashore—can be sustained. The sea is the Soviets' greatest vulnerability—a place where geography greatly disfavors them. As a consequence, it is here that our superiority must be strongly maintained, enhanced, and exploited. Naval forces will also make a major contribution to the U.S. Air Force's responsibility for air superiority ashore, which must certainly be attained before there can be a successful employment of ground forces in Southwest Asia. The geostrategic realities are such that naval air and surface forces would probably have to provide both security of the seas and the air, working together as never before. Amphibious forces would then be the likely spearhead to secure a lodgement area, followed by the introduction of other forces, as necessary.

Geographic reality, the growing threat, and our balanced Navy-Marine Corps capability combine together, then, to mandate a strong and effective maritime strategy as the key U.S. national security requirement of the next decade.

The effectiveness of such a strategy is unmatched, in that the capability is exercised only at the point of confrontation, whether it be in Southwest Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, or elsewhere. The unexceeded flexibility and mobility of naval forces enable them rapidly to provide a powerful instrument of U.S. foreign policy in the most distant quarters of the earth.

Continued equipment modernization will be critical in developing this vital instrument to its maximum utility.

Several promising programs, all designed to provide substantially increased tactical mobility for the Marines, are uniquely associated with the LSD-41. A new medium helicopter will eventually replace the over-aged tactical assault transport helicopters. Increased numbers

No one can ever say that the Marines

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VSTOL Capability, the AV-8B Advanced Harrier

Fighter Coverage, the Marines' FA-18A Hornet

of heavy lift helicopters will satisfy the need for more battlefield and ship-toshore lift. Four of the new landing craft air cushion vehicles will be carried in the well deck of each LSD-41. These revolutionary craft will enable rapid shipto-shore operations from standoff positions, and expose about three quarters of the world's httorals to amphibious operations.

The partnership of the Navy and the Marines in meeting the amphibious challenges always includes, and must rely heavily upon, the experience and know-how of American industry. It is only through the dedicated efforts of the designers, managers, and workers at this shipyard and others around the country that our plans for a strategy of unquestioned maritime superiority and a thoroughly revitalized amphibious capability can be turned into reality.

We are all in this together, the Navy

and Marine Corps team, as we move forward through this dangerous decade.

We are now moving quickly in the right direction, but we still face a time of testing and high risk, the legacy of our past mistakes. Let the historians say in the decades to come, that we did not fail that test.

The survival of America could well depend on the capability resident in the Marine Air/Ground Task Forces and the Navy team that takes them to the distant quarters of the earth where America's interests he. The U.S. Marines know well the sacrifices which may be entailed in the commitment of military force for national purpose. And they stand ready to make those sacrifices. All the Corps asks for is sufficient sea lift to do their job; and our Marine Corps is going to get it. ^

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Forward Strategy Role of the Marine Corps in the Rapid Deployment

Force

Lieutenant Colonels Donald L. Price and Thomas J. Solak USMC

The U.S. is an island nation with global interdependent relationships. It depends on free access via the sea for its political and economic security. The objective of U.S. defense to maintain this access is to deter war by maintaining a force structure that is prepared to wage war and ultimately defeat the most formidable threat. Our nation's strategic interests require the maintenance of forward deployed Marine forces on a fulltime basis. The reason, both explicitly and implicitly, derives from the U.S. role in the free world as the leader and premier maritime power.

Following WWII, the U.S. accepted the challenge of world leadership, involving the maintenance of peace while providing reconstruction assistance to allies and former enemies alike. It included overseas garrisons of forces to support these efforts. Today the challenge is even greater. Competition for familiar but diminishing resources which have traditionally fueled the world's industrial base has created new potential flashpoints. Southwest Asia is a case in point.

Interruption of the supply of oil from this region would have global impact and disastrous effects on the economies of a number of our friends in the Atlantic and Pacific. Accordingly, our strategy in this area must adjust to the realities of the time. We must assess the means at our disposal and take into account the great distances to be traversed.

The Indian Ocean is vast and, surely, dictates a maritime strategy. Indeed, not since the Pacific campaigns of WWII have naval forces been so crucial to achievement of our vital interests. The Navy/Marine Corps team traditionally has fulfilled the nation's requirements.

Naval forces are present today in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, which signals U.S. resolve and reassures our allies of our commitment. The Navy/Marine Corps team exercises with our allies in the Caribbean, South America, Northern and Southern Europe, Korea, the Shipmate, November 1981

Philippines, Thailand, Australia and on the African littoral. It is in close associations such as these that we have laid the groundwork for mutual understanding and defense alliances.

The goal remains deterrence. If deterrence fails, however, we must possess the capacity, in combination with our allies, to fight and win at the point of conflict. The Navy needs more ships to insure that the fleet can meet the national defense requirements. That fleet must contain a balance which includes amphibious ships to support force projection requirements, specifically, the Marine Corps forcible entry function. Our forward basing posture must continue to be reviewed with an eye toward minimizing lift shortfalls and optimizing closure times. In short, we must maintain our readiness, enhance our warfighting capability, and possess the strategic mobility necessary to fulfill current obligations and address new concerns.

Marine Corps Roles Within the last two years the Marine Corps has assumed an expanded role in national defense, based in large part on the unique requirements of amphibious warfare. Part of this expansion includes participation in the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (RDJTF). Although assignment of Marine forces to the RDJTF is new, the role those forces play is not.

Readiness and rapid deployment of a combat-capable unit by sea and air to a troubled scene has been, and continues to be, one of the Corps' hallmarks. The amphibious assault capability attained, in concert with the Navy, is especially significant since it is this nation's only credible means of forcible entry. Additionally, the Navy/Marine Corps team can structure to fight anywhere, in any type of combat environment, at a time of its choosing.

The Marine Corps' role as this nation's force in readiness is as important today, if not more so, as it was 29

years ago during the 1952 hearings on the amendment of the National Security Act of 1947. Testimony at those hearings highlighted the need for a small, highly mobile, efficient, combat-ready striking force which could be deployed rapidly as this nation's "first strike" capability.

The three active Marine Divisions and Wings mandated by the 1952 amendments and organized into Marine AirGround Task Forces are the basis for our current force structure. Today's national security requirements demand greater reliance on flexible, ready, rapidly employable forces and, therewith, an increased recognition of the value of naval projection forces including the United States Marine Corps.

Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) structures are force packages of divisions, aircraft wings, and support groups. They provide the qualities, and possess the capabilities, desired for rapid deployment forces that may be required for limited contingencies. Our MAGTFs are trained and equipped to carry out a wide variety of functional requirements.

Their inherent uniqueness not only allows force packaging to meet the potential threat but also means they can be forward deployed from bases and shipping in a variety of air and sealift modes.

With command and control of organic air and ground combat power under the MAGTF commander, they can be employed as a uniservice force in an expeditionary environment, or become part of a large joint task force should the situation dictate.

The effectiveness of our MAGTFs is not easily duplicated. Marines are schooled and trained in combined arms operations, and the MAGTF combat power is totally integrated, structurally and functionally, to maximize effectiveness. Although MAGTF force packages will vary in size, the Marine Amphibious Units, Brigades and Forces positioned in various regions of the world all contain

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command, ground combat, aviation combat, and combat service support elements. Marine Corps doctrine is sound, and maximum combat effectiveness is achieved through employment of Marine forces as a combined arms force. The MAGTF structure is, however, operationally flexible, and our air and ground elements have, on occasion, operated independently until the situation permitted otherwise.

In recognition of the functional requirements and the capabilities of the Marine Corps, the three Marine Amphibious Forces have been identified as rapid deployment forces, and a portion of these forces identified for use by the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force in Southwest Asia. The flexibility and strike force character of the Marine Corps is exemplified in the capabilities they offer to the RDJTF. The Marine Corps' role in, and in support of, the RDJTF Southwest Asia commitment includes forward deployment in the region, forcible entry, airlifted response in conjunction with maritime prepositioning, and a force commitment of approximately 50,000 Marines employing the full spectrum of ground and air combat capabilities. A Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) is forward deployed with the Naval Task Force in the Indian Ocean, available for immediate employment. Should requirements exist to increase the MAU to a Marine Amphibious Brigade (MAB), other forward deployed units in the Mediterranean and Western Pacific can be moved to the Indian Ocean in a matter of days. These units are the forward element of a Ma26

rine Amphibious Force (MAF) that provides the RDJTF with a forcible entry capability and a significant portion of its combat power. The MAF includes the 7th MAB, which represents a new response capability expanding on the flexibility of the Marine Corps structure. The 7th MAB located in Califomia, provides the RDJTF with the capability to rapidly deploy a MAGTF via a combination of airlift and prepositioned sealift. This form of response, airlift and maritime prepositioned ships, requires a permissive environment at the destination air and sea ports; however, it reduces deployment time and airlift mobility requirements.

Prepositioning Marine Corps focus is not only on Southwest Asia. The ability to respond to other high threat areas is retained and, in fact, being improved. In this regard, the Marine Corps developed programs for maritime and land prepositioning.

All Marine Corps prepositioning programsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;land or maritime prepositioningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; are considered strategic mobility initiatives. These programs will help us get to an objective area faster and hasten the introduction of follow-on forces, but they are not a substitute for the traditional amphibious assault capability.

The Navy and Marine Corps are continuing with the development of the Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) concept. This concept enhances the Marine Corps' status as a force-in-readiness by enabling the MAGTF to be flown overseas by strategic airlift and linked-up with combat supplies and heavy equip-

ment prepositioned on multi-purpose cargo ships, in or near a contingency area.

In March of 1980, the President directed the attainment of maritime prepositioning for possible contingency use by July 1980. The outcome is known as the Near Term Prepositioning Ships (NTPS) Program. A minor reordering of Navy/ Marine Corps priorities resulted in the formation of a seven ship NTPS flotilla and companion 7th MAB. As a tactically and logistically viable force, 7th MAB is ready to enter combat using the NTPS. The NTPS Program is scheduled to remain in effect until the last of the three Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) program moves on line in the mid-1980s.

The MPS relationship to the RDJTF clearly adds a new dimension to the capability of the Navy/Marine Corps team, while the traditional, essential amphibious forcible entry capability remains viable. The MPS will provide readily available packages of combined arms for use over a broad range of options.

Another Marine Corps strategic mobility enhancement initiative deals with land prepositioning. The program objective is to reduce strategic lift requirements for early introduction of an airlifted MAGTF by prepositioning selected items of equipment and supplies in Norway to support a MAB. Items planned for prepositioning will be added to the current inventory, not drawn from Prepositioned War Reserve Materiel Stocks or Other War Reserve Materiel Stocks, thus preventing any loss of operational flexibility and readiness.

Combat Capability Improvements Realizing that battlefield opponents will possess a high degree of mobility and accurate firepower, the Marine Corps has placed heavy emphasis on upgrading itself in these areas while maintaining its high degree of readiness status. Time-tested and proven systems are being improved, while new systems are being developed. Together with equipment upgrades, new concepts in force structure and techniques are continuously studied and coordinated with the other services. The next ten years will find the Marine Corps revising its force structure to ensure viability on the everchanging battlefield. Special importance will be placed on ground combat enhancements, but improved capabilities in aviation and logistics support are also in the works.

While infantry, artillery and tactical mobility improvements will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, they will Shipmate, November 1981

be significant nonetheless. The infantry battalion will be smaller by about ten percent, but firepower intensiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least 18 percent greater than today. Improved small arms, anti-armor, and mortar weapons will support the most important person on the battlefieldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the rifleman.

Planned weapon changes affect nearly every aspect of infantry support from an improved M-16 rifle to the addition of the M-198. 155mm howitzer. With an improved TOW, a new 40mm machine gun, and additional Dragon anti-tank weapons, the anti-armor/anti-tank killing power will be significant. Restructuring to incorporate the new and improved weapons affects nearly all segments of the ground and combat elements.

Tactical mobiHty is receiving an equal share of attention. The Light Armored Vehicles (LAV) and the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, which replaces eight different types of motor transport, will enhance our maneuverability and supportability.

The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) will provide several important enhancements to the amphibious assault.

Air cushion movement makes available many beaches previously denied to surface craft because of tides, gradients, width or trafficability. Furthermore, the LCAC enhances the principles of surprise, mass and maneuver of the assault forces. Loaded on the new LSD-41 and launched from over-the-horizon at 40 knots, the LCAC, in conjunction with the hehcopter, establishes the amphibious mobile assault concept consisting of helicopter-borne infantry, towed artillery and anti-tank units, and LCAC-borne Ught armored assault, tank and self-propelled artillery units applying the principles previously noted.

Turning to aviation, equipment changes are emphasized in the next decade. Procurement of the AV-8B Harrier, F/A-18 Hornet, and CH-53E Super Stallion lead the way. The AV-8B proceeds toward an all-VSTOL fight-attack force, while the F/A-18 will provide the dual fighter/attack capability presently enjoyed with the effective, but aging. F-4.

The CH-53 E has over twice the effective payload of the older model. A replacement assault transport helicopter for the CH-46 is also under study.

The Marine Corps is the only service with both ground and air-delivered nuclear capabilities; e.g.. artillery-fired atomic projectiles and atomic demolition munitions, and the A-4 Skyhawk and A-6 Intruder aircraft. In the 1980s, the Harrier and Hornet will also be nuclear-capable. The Marine Corps is improving Shipmate, November 1981

The new Landing Air Cushion Vehicle

both ground and air nuclear capabilities in order that MAGTFs will continue to possess the requisite flexibility for employment as nuclear deterrent forces. To reinforce the ground anti-tank weapons.

Marine Corps aviation will obtain the Hellfire, Maverick and Gator weapons systems.

The role of air defense on the modem battlefield is extremely critical to the success of future operations. Continued emphasis will be placed on improving Marine air defense capabilities to deal with the ever-increasing hostile air threat. Enhancement of mobile air defense will be achieved with the new Stinger surface-to-air missile and an increased number of HAWK batteries.

In the area of combat service support, the immediate need is to man some 28 cadre units and, in the long term, to implement a Field Logistic System (FLS)

by FY90. The FLS is a comprehensive program encompassing replacement of the tactical vehicle fleet and heavy earthmovers, upgrade of the water, medical and material handling equipment, and modernization of shelters. The focus of the program is integration with the Navy's amphibious logistic system and the merchant container ships systems.

USMC Ready Now and in the Future The island character of our nation and the maritime aspects of its security have never been more evident. The threats to our national security have changed and win continue to do so. The Marine Corps is ready to meet todays challenges and will meet the greater chaflenges of the future. Our security demands nothing less. ^

(continued) involved were able so totally to dominate the totalitarian war machines. Who could have dreamed that the U.S., with a billion dollar defense budget in 1939, within six years would spend $300 billion to place 12 million men under arms, produce 300,000 airplanes, 71,000 ships totalling 53 million tons, 86,000 tanks, 102,000 armored cars. 2.5 million trucks and a handful of atomic bombs? To the leadership fell the task of the superb organization of men and materials massed at the right place, the right time and in the right quantities. Together the leadership and industrial base worked miracles, by all odds the dominant factor in victory. One can only ask. will there be time and people to do it again?

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Birth of the Amphibian Navy-Marine

Operations

in the Mexican Gulf,

1846-48

Lieutenant C o m m a n d e r Equen B. Meader USNR (Ret.)

Five days before war was declared with Mexico on 13 May 1846, Commodore David Conner's squadron of five ships reached Brazos Santiago, on the Texas Coast about seven miles north of the Rio Grande. On this inlet General Zachary Taylor had established his army's supply base at Point Isabel, protected by Fort Polk. As it was in danger of attack, Conner sent Captain Francis Gregory and 500 sailors and Marines to strengthen the garrison. First Lieutenant William Lang and his Marines held the exposed center of the fort until the danger passed, when the Mexicans went south of the river a week later.

Following General Taylor's overland campaign, on 9 March 1847, Conner and General Scott landed thousands of men on the coast near Vera Cruz, using what were probably the first craft designed for amphibious operations. Always before, ships' boats had been the improvised landing vehicles—but these craft were designed especially for the job. Nathan Brooks, in his 1849 Complete History of the Mexican War (the full title takes 43 words), writes: The immense surfboats, sixty-five in number, each capable of holding 100 men, were hauled to the gangways of the various ships and, by four o'clock, freighted with 4,500 men, were seen drawn up abreast of each other in a single line extending for nearly a mile.

However, Dr. K. Jack Bauer's book, Surfboats and Horse Marines, based on extensive Mexican War research, gives this more accurate description of the surfboats: . . . among the items Scott requested are the flatboats, or surfboats, for carrying his assault troops. Designed by Lieutenant George Totten USN and built near Philadelphia for the Quartermaster General of the Army, they were the first specially built American amphibious craft and were admirably suited to their purpose . . . doubleended, broad-beamed, and flat-bottomed, with frames built of well-seasoned white oak and thwarts of pine. They were built in three sizes so they could be stacked for transport: the largest was 40 feet long (for) 45 or more men. the medium size was 37'28

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9" long (for) 40 or more men, while the smallest was 35'-9" long (for under) 40 men.

Each one carried a crew of six oarsmen, one coxwain and a skipper.

At a specified price of $795 each, 47 "sets" were ordered, a total of 141 boats, for delivery within one month for shipment to the Gulf. The Secretary of War's summary of Scott's requirements, in December 1846, fists five of the 41 transports to carry surfboats. At an average of 40 men per boat, some 5,600 men could be landed at one time; to land Scott's 12,000 men, the Navy would have to complete two round trips within the day. If only half the number of boats was available (Lt. Raphael Semmes USN, Conner's Flag Lieutenant, wrote in his memoirs that 67 were on hand and 30 scattered by a storm), then the number of landings would have to be doubled. Scott, in a letter of 9 February, exactly one month before the assault, wrote: Sixty-odd surfboats out of one hundred forty are already up. 1 will make the descent near Vera Cruz if not another should arrive.

And that is apparently what he did, that

approximate figure being confirmed by Passed Midshipman (later Admiral) William Temple, USNA 1846, in his Memoir of the Landing.

During the day a total of neariy 12,000 troops landed under General William Worth, including the Marines of the Home Squadron under Captain Alvin Edson. Casualties amounted to 15 killed and 50 wounded—a remarkably low number, none of whom were lost while landing. To land neariy 12,000 men without confusion or a single accident of any kind calls for praise of the highest order.

Perhaps a beachmaster in the landing zone helped materially—this commander had the very appropriate name of Sands.

The City of Vera Cruz was protected by and supported the off-shore Castle of San Juan de Ulloa, an enormous fortress garrisoned by over 3,000 men and considered to be "the Gibraltar of America." Earlier naval reconnaissance had determined that it could not be taken by bombardment from the sea, but that it could be reached by shore batteries.

Since Scott's siege train was delayed and his 24-pounders too light to reduce the fort. Commodore Matthew Perry, who had just relieved Conner in command, landed a naval battery of six guns and 200 men for that purpose. Three were 32-pounders firing solid shot, the other three were big 8" Paixhan "shell" guns.

All were manhandled through three miles of sand and water and installed at the center of the line, only 700 yards from their target. The emplacement had been prepared by an engineer captain on Scott's staff named Robert E. Lee. The naval battery fired 1,000 shells and 800 round shot, reducing the coral walls of the Castle to rubble, while losing five killed, including Midshipman Shubrick, and six wounded. The Castle and Vera Cruz both surrendered on 27 March and Scott now had his secure base on the Coast for an advance to Mexico City.

As an aside, David Glasgow Farragut and David Dixon Porter were both on inShipmate, November 1981

active duty at that time and the better part of a year went by before their active duty requests were heeded. This was unfortunate, for Farragut had been present some years before when the French had bombarded the Castle. In his meticulous way he had taken soundings close to the fort and measured the impact of the French shot on the fortifications. The report he wrote considered an assault feasible, with himself leading the attack by escallade, the use of scaling ladders.

Farragut's report, like many others, was never heard of again. Equally interesting was the fact that Porter knew San Juan intimately, having lived in the fort as a boy when his father was C-in-C of the Mexican Navy. The experience of both officers was simply ignored by the Navy Department, though both did serve later in the blockading squadron.

The Navy's principal task was to keep the seas open for the movement of troops and supplies, including the blockade of Mexican Gulf ports. Since the Home Squadron included only two frigates in a total of fourteen ships, it was stretched to the limit for blockade duty, but it was not challenged by the Mexican Navy and the threat of privateers never developed. Blockade was further complicated in that the ports lay several miles upriver from the Gulf, protected by sandbars that the heavier ships could not cross. Fortunately, when war was declared, five fight draft vessels were building for the Mexican Navy in a New York shipyard; they were immediately taken over and rushed to completion. These were the 118-foot steamers SPITFIRE and VIXEN, and the 59-foot schooners BONITA, REEFER and PETREL. Designed for

shallow water operation, they proved invaluable and saw more combat than any other ships of the Home Squadron.

The Vera Cmz landings were the largest and most important of the amphibious operations along Mexico's coast and have therefore been covered first. Let us now consider the other ports and operations in their proper sequence. Matamoros, on the Rio Grande, had been occupied on the outbreak of war as an American supply base; Carmen and Campeche, in Yucatan, were supposedly neutralized by a revolutionary government controlling that province. In July 1846 Conner instituted a blockade as far south as Alvarado, later extended to Frontera, the port of Tabasco, by Perry.

Aside from the sandbars, the blockaders faced two major problems.

One was the "Northers," sudden, fierce gales that blew up from October to April and forced the ships to mn for Shipmate, November 1981

The Naval Battery in action at Vera Cruz

shelter or safety at sea. In one of these.

On 8 December 1846, Lieutenant Semmes, then commanding the brig SoMERS. observed a falling glass and took shelter in the lee of one of the islands below Vera Cruz. Sighting a blockade runner, he gave chase but, despite reduced canvas, the sudden gale capsized his ship with the loss of half her crew.

Incidentally, without a ship, Semmes joined General Worth's staff as a volunteer aide-de-camp and later became one of Scott's negotiators for the terms of surrender of Mexico City. Thus the future captain of CSS ALABAMA served a good deal of the war with the U.S. Army.

The second great problem was yellow fever, el vomito, particularly prevalent on the southern coast from April through October. For instance, one outbreak during July 1847 killed a number and incapacitated many, including Commodore Perry. With only one doctor on duty for seven vessels, it is small wonder that the squadron was crippled for the rest of the Summer. The only known remedy was to send the ships north to cooler weather, a drastic solution with so few available.

Tampico, the second largest Gulfport, was the logical first step to Vera Craz.

As early as 11 July 1845, SecNav Bancroft wrote Conner that "should Mexico declare war, you will at once . . . take possession of Tampico." The city, understood to be weakly defended, lay five miles upriver, protected by forts and a very shallow bar at the mouth. On 14 June 1846 Commander Saunders of USS ST. MARYS attempted a night attack and cutting-out operation, but the enemy was unfortunately alerted and the boats had to be withdrawn. At dawn he shelled the forts with his 8" Paixhans, but the sandbar kept him out of hitting range and the attack was abandoned.

On 26 October SecNav Mason relayed to Conner General Taylor's orders for a land approach and stressed the importance of a coordinated naval attack.

However, other copies of these orders were captured by General Santa Ana, who immediately ordered Tampico evacuated. By chance, we had a " s p y " within the city, Mrs. Anna Chase, English wife of the former American Consul. She got a letter to Conner, who had the shallow draft SPITFIRE and delayed not. On 14 November he arrived off the bar and divided his force into two divisions, leading one himself with Perry commanding the other. The force of some 300 men arrived upriver by noon, where they found the unflappable Anna Chase had already raised the American flag. Conner sent Perry to inform the Army that Tampico had been taken and request Taylor to garrison it immediately. Two days later Commander Josiah TattnaU took 12 sailors and 20 Marines in boats to Panuco, 25 miles farther upriver, where he captured or destroyed the guns and ammunition taken from the forts. Thus ended a bloodless operation that provided an indispensable supply base and staging area for Scott's troops in his descent on Vera Craz four months later.

In August and again in October 1846, Conner had attacked the port of Alvarado but been forced to withdraw his ships on both occasions. He thereupon organized a landing force, consisting of a detachment of sailors and Marines from each of his ships who would be ready for landings on short notice. While Conner could only outfit some 600 men and was then without landing guns, his new organization proved invaluable in future operations.

Shortly after the taking of Vera Cruz, Perry returned to Alvarado. He found 29

On the way to Tuxpan, one fort captured

that the river mouth battery had been strengthened, but the wind and tide were favorable and Perry got seven vessels over the bar and up to the city. General John Quitman had marched his brigade from Vera Craz to take the practically abandoned town from the rear, but Lieutenant Charles Hunter in SCOURGE had preceded everyone. On 31 March 1847, he took the surrender, hoisted our flag and fired a 21-gun salute. Passed Midshipman Temple and 15 men were left to hold the town until reheved that afternoon by Marines from Perry's gunboats.

Then Hunter was court-martialled for his pains; the premature capture of Alvarado panicked the Mexicans, who bumed their ships and drove off the horses and cattle that Quitman had been sent to seize.

Tuxpan is six miles inland, about 160 miles north of Vera Craz. Properly fortified and adequately garrisoned, it was one of the most important towns that had to be taken by amphibious landings.

There, on 14 August 1846, USS TRUXTUN struck the offshore reef and, after valiant efforts to remain combatant, had to surrender. Guns and other gear were removed by the Mexicans before the ship could be burned a week later by USS PRINCETON. After Vera Craz, Perry determined to reduce Tuxpan and to recapture TRUXTUNS guns, which had been incorporated into the Mexican defenses. Over 1,500 officers and men were drawn from the squadron's ships to operate ashore behind the fortifications. Six vessels, three of which were gunboats, and 30 "barges" (probably the surfboats first scattered by a "norther") got over the bar and proceeded upriver. Landings had to be made to subdue three separate fortifications, but the town was taken on 18 April 1847. Then there was a running

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fight beyond Tuxpan in which two of our men were killed.

Perry had no intention of holding the town with naval personnel; after recovering the guns and demolishing the fortifications he withdrew the battalion of sailors and Marines on 22 April. Later, in October, he recommended that Tuxpan and Alvarado be garrisoned by the Army, with the Navy responsible for Carmen, Tabasco and Coatzacoalcos.

On 17 May 1847, Perry took the surrender of Carmen and its island, having landed sailors and Marines there the day before. Carmen lay just within the western boundary of the rebellious province of Yucatan Province, which had caused the Cabinet to advise against its seizure at the beginning of the war. However, although the rebels had proclaimed neutraUty, Conner and Perry had kept a close watch on the port and found that it was quite apparently trading with the enemy.

Coatzacoalcos, next below Alvarado, was rumored in May to be the place to which Santa Ana was fleeing after his April defeat by Scott at Cerro Gordo, to board a Mexican ship for escape to Cuba. Perry accordingly spread his forces in this area but the rumor proved unfounded; Santa Ana gave us the slip and lived to fight another day. At the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos, Perty's expedition to survey the river halted on 13 May to raise our flag over the rained fort, which had been abandoned by the Mexicans. Perry completed the demolition. Fortunately, no garrison was needed; the town's proximity to deep water enabled it to be guarded by ships rather than Marines.

At this time President Polk ordered SecNav to transfer six companies of Marines to General Scott for land service.

just after Perry had requested Marine reinforcements to handle guerilla warfare at Tampico and Alvarado. Perry claimed that if his Marines were ordered away, the garrisons in the captured ports would have to be withdrawn. Then, in July, the vomito hit the squadron, being especially heavy among the coal passers. In August STROMBOLI had to leave the blockade of Coatzacoalcos with only six men healthy, and the situation did not change until the weather cooled in late September.

Tabasco and the ports of Yucatan had been specifically excluded from blockade

by Cabinet instractions to Commodore Conner of 29 August 1845, well before war had been declared. Nevertheless, in September of 1846, Conner included Tabasco in the blockade. In view of the earlier failure at Alvarado, Perry suggested an attack on Tabascoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some 60 miles upriver from its port of Frontera.

On 22 October 1846, with six ships and a landing force of about 250 men. Perry crossed the shallow bar on which the Mexicans had reUed and entered the Tabasco River. The only fort, with four cannon and about 300 men, was at Devil's Bend, two miles downstream from Tabasco. On 25 October, working against adverse tides, the ships sent off a landing party to spike the guns. On arriving before the town, surrender was refused until the Mexican flag was shot down. Several prize ships were taken, one of which grounded. Lieutenant Charles Morris, sent to free her, was killed, plus one seaman and two others drowned. The prizes were valuable and saw American service, except for some lost in a storm the following month.

After Perry withdrew the landing force, Santa Ana's army re-estabUshed supply routes through the town. By June of 1847 the Mexicans had built three new fortifications and water obstructions along the river and installed a 900-man garrison. Therefore, Perry, with ten assorted ships and almost the entire naval brigade of 1,200 men as a landing force, returned to Frontera. The small steamers took in tow 40 ships' boats and seven surfboats, each carrying a field gun.

Aboard the ships the Marines readied their equipment while others piled bags of sand and coal around SCOURGE's steam drum, perhaps a first in American armor belts. Brought under fire from the river bank, Bauer says: The Marines fired away without going once to the right side of the quarterdeck, and shaved off one of the Commodore's whiskers and knocked a cigar out of another officer's mouth.

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After a night in the Devil's Bend, and before tackling the obstructions. Perry landed the naval brigade on the north bank of the river to march overland and take the forts in the rear. Just below Seven Palms, on a steep bank, the surfboats landed under cover of grape and musketry from three ships. Commodore Perty was the first man ashore, with his broad command pennant. By noon all the men were on this 20-foot high bank, having hauled up their seven six-pounders in less than ten minutes. With three more guns landed, the entjre column was on the march in less than half an hour.

Engineers corduroyed the road for the artillery, and the Marines were led by Captain Alvin Edson, the Senior Marine Officer. By marching around the first fortifications—slow progress through the chaparral and intense heat—Perry's brigade came upon Fort Acachapan, the principal Mexican defense. The guns were brought up and Perry, with his accustomed bravery, placed himself in front of the line and ordered a charge.

Seeing the Marines and sailors sweeping down upon them, the Mexican garrison fled. The march was resumed after demolishing the fort, with the guns towed by hand, but men began to drop from the heat. Commander Franklin Buchanan wrote: Many of the officers carried canteens with liquor and, the moment they saw a poor fellow faU, they would give him a drop of comfort, which had an astonishing effect upon him.

While the naval brigade was working its way overland, the vessels in the river had blasted away the obstructions and were taking under progressive fire the remaining fortifications. Fort Iturbide was passed and fired upon from behind.

Lieutenant David D. Porter led 60 men ashore and drove out the garrison. The ships were first to reach Tabasco and, on 16 June 1847, the town surrendered unconditionally, our flag being raised on a mast put through the roof of the Governor's Palace. Casualties amounted to only five men wounded.

Tabasco was garrisoned by Marines under Lieutenant WiUiam Slack, who was reinforced after a Mexican night attack with 50 seamen and 44 more Marines. But, only five weeks later, under renewed attacks and with one-third of the garrison down with yellow fever.

Perry complied with his surgeon's recommendation and withdrew his forces to Frontera.

With all the Gulf ports under control.

Perry reorganized his squadron and sent north for health reasons such ships as Shipmate, November 1981

Crossing the bar at Frontera

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point the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is roughly 130 miles wide, with plenty of water running north and south. The Pacific Squadron was alerted to support Perry's proposal—and what an operation that would have been!—but Scott was well on his way to the capture of Mexico City, peace talks were in the air, and a second major expedition was ruled out.

In early February of 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, although not ratified by the Mexican Congress until 25 May, and the east coast war came to an end.

In mid-Febraary Scott was relieved and Perry, having been away from his family for five years between Mexico and the African Station, requested relief.

While waiting for orders, he made his last cruise to Coatzacoalcos and the southern ports. At Campeche the Governor asked for help in quelling an uprising of the Yucatan indians, but it was not until he returned to Vera Cruz that Perry received authority from Washington to provide muskets and powder—which he promptly sent. Vera Cruz was returned to Mexico on II June and, on the 15th, with a difficult job well done. Perry sailed for New York in USS CUMBERLAND.

Perry's landing against Tabasco

could be spared. By this time Scott was demanding transfer of Perry's Marines under the presidential directive, which meant ^nw to any further amphibious operations by Perry and withdrawal of garrisons from the ports he had occupied. Perry met with General Franklin Pierce (later President), to whose command the Marines were to be assigned.

Pierce agreed that the number of garrison troops was insignificant and that they would serve better where they were, but the rest of the Home Squadron Marines disembarked and marched off with Pierce to Mexico City—and the Halls of Montezuma.

By the Fall of 1847, cooler weather had ended the threat of yellow fever and there had been marked improvement in numbers of ships available and in their support. Even more Marines had arrived to replace those transferred. In October Perry proposed a joint Army-Navy assault from the headwaters of the Coatzacoalcos River straight south across Mexico to cut the country in two. At that

It is interesting to note that senior officers of the Army and Navy in Mexico received their training in the War of 1812, about 35 years before. They were, on the average, older and more cautious than the officers they trained in Mexico for the Civil War that followed in 13 years. That list is long: Farragut, Porter, DuPont, Buchanan, Semmes, Grant, Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, and even Jefferson Davis. Our ships were there on the dull and seemingly endless tasks of blockade and convoy, and our surfboats got the boys onto the beaches when landings were in order. The bluejacket looms large in all reports of amphibious operations, and by his side, as always, was the ever ready Marine.

These lithograph prints are all from contemporary paintings by the late RAdm. Henry Walke USN. Courtesy of the USNA Museum

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USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OFFICERS President VADM. WILLIAM P. MACK USN (Ret.) "37. Annapolis MD

Vice President (Eastern Area)— ADM JAMES L . HOLLOWAY U S N (Ret.) '43. Annapolis MD

Vice President (Central Area)— LGEN. THOMAS P. STAFFORD USAF (Ret.) '52, Norman OK

Vice President (Western Area)— RADM. ROBERT B . ERLY USN (Ret.) "37. Coronado CA

E-xecutive Director— CAPT. W . S . BUSIK USN (Ret.) "43. Annapolis MD

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TRUSTEES Past President— ADM. ROY L . JOHNSON USN (Ret.) '29, Virginia Beach VA Superintendent's

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Balaclava, 1942 The Assault

on the Port of Oran

Commander Victor T. Boatwright USNR (Ret.)

Into the valley of death Rode the sLx hundred Alfred. Lord

Tennyson

On 8 November 1942. British and American troops landed in French North Africa. Americans landed Americans in Morocco, the British landed Americans near Oran, in Algeria, and the British landed a combined Anglo-American force, under American command, near Algiers. Operation Torch, as the landings were code-named, was a major amphibious operation in all respects except for vigor of the opposition. It was successful in meeting its objectives, both immediate and long-range, and was the first step in the AlUed destruction of the Afrika Corps, the clearing of Tunisia and Libya, and the long road that led to defeat of the Axis powers in the West.

But Torch was not an unquaHfied success. The Allies, hoping the French would not oppose the landings, had devoted considerable diplomatic effort to that end. including the well-publicized "CandleUght in Algiers' clandestine mission of General Mark Clark and Capt.

Jerauld Wright and an H-Hour broadcast

by President Roosevelt exhorting the French to lay down their arms and join the liberating armies. The French Army and, in particular, the French Navy chose to resist. U-boats were also active and torpedoed several transports, particularly off Fedhala, Morocco. But Americans, psychologicafly conditioned to fight Germans and Japanese, found themselves, in one of their first large-scale actions of the war, fighting the French, their traditional allies. It was the first time shots had been fired in anger between the two countries since the frigate actions in the undeclared Naval War of 1798-1801.

One of the more spectacular conflicts in Operation Torch was the bloody assault on the port of Oran, a gallant, dogged blunder that cost the lives of over half of the 600 men involved.

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Flawed in concept, chaotic in execution, it was a disaster in every respect except the bravery of those involved.

Oran, in 1942 as now the second city in Algeria, was one of the major objectives of the Torch landings. It lies near the center of the Bay of Oran, one of the shallow scallops that form the westem Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

Three miles to the west is the superb naval anchorage of Mers-El-Kebir, protected by a long concrete mole. It was here that Sir James Somerville, Commanding Force " H " , destroyed part of the French fleet in the bombardment of 3 July 1940. The city of Oran hes on a bluff overlooking the bay; in 1942 it was a modern city, with well laid out streets, large buildings, and good rail connections to Morocco and the east. The port lies at the base of the bluff. Protected by a concrete mole extending about 3,000 yards east from Fort Lamoune, it was partially closed at the east end by a breakwater. A boom was laid across the entrance. Three moles project north from the shore within the port, and one from the west end, forming a series of basins.

The port was the North African terminus of a convoy route to unoccupied France and it was frequently filled with ships loading or unloading. Smaller French naval vessels, including destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines, also used the port of Oran rather than Mers-El-Kebir.

There was a French naval barracks within the port. In November 1942, the Captain of the Port was Capt. Paul Branellec. In overall command of the French Navy in the area was VAdm. Andre Rioult.

The Allied planners were very much afraid that the French would sabotage the port of Oran before the main landing forces, the 26th and 18th Regimental Combat Teams of the First U.S. Infantry Division, to be put ashore to the west and east of Oran, could secure the city.

Consequently, a commando-type raid was planned, in some respects similar to the Zeebragge raid of World War I but with two cracial exceptions. Commando raids are ordinarily designed as hit-andran operations to inflict a maximum of damage and destraction, after which the commandos depart. In this operation, the

HMS HARTLAND and WALNEY ramming the boom at Oran Courtesy US Naval Institute

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Oran harbor after the occupation

Cunningham on the planned operation, the force was far too weak to capture fully manned, resisting batteries; if there were no resistance, the assault troops were hardly necessary. Furthermore, the armament of the cutters was light: two five-inch guns and two six-pounders, plus fifty-caliber machine gunsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the five guns could not be manned at the same time as the close-range weapons.

But Admiral Bennett's protests fell on deaf ears.

HMS WALNEY and HMS HARTLAND, The night of November 7-8 was clear the former U.S. Coast Guard Cutters SEand dark; the sea was calm. HARTLAND BAGO and PONTCHARTRAIN, in which and WALNEY, wearing outsize American were embarked 400 assault troops from flags in addition to the White Ensign to the First U.S. Armored Division, under maintain the pretense that this was a the command of LCol. George C. Marcompletely American operation, apshall. Aboard HARTLAND also was a smaU U.S. Navy force, consisting of five proached the harbor entrance on a westerly course, then made a complete circle officers, 22 enlisted men and six Mawhile broadcasting over a loudhailer, rines, under LCdr. G. Deane Dickey "Nous sommes vos allies, nous USN '23, which was to assume control sommes Americains." Whether the of the port when it was secure. The obFrench defenders were alerted by this, jectives of the assault force were to capby reports of the landings earlier at Arture the French batteries at Fort Lazeu and Les Andalouses or, as seems moune and above Mole Ravin Blanc, to capture the wharves, and to prevent sab- most probable, by reports from a small otage of the ships in the harbor. The two French convoy which got entangled with the transports west of Oran, they recutters were accompanied by two ANsponded. The Ravin Blanc battery and ZAC-manned Fairmile " B " motor the Gambetta battery to the east opened launches, ML-480 and ML-483. The asfire. MLs 480 and 483 made smoke; MLsault troops were embarked in Gibraltar.

483 collided with WALNEY in the confuThe plan was for the little task group sion, but no harm was done. WALNEY to lie off the harbor entrance, announce completed her circle, increased speed to its presence and, at 0300 (two hours after 15 knots, and at 0315 broke through the H-Hour for the main landings), attack, if outer boom. Almost immediately she the port had not been opened or surrenalso cleared an inner barrier, a line of dered by that time. As RAdm. Andrew coal barges.

C. Bennett USN '12,. who was schedIn the Avant Port, WALNEY slipped uled to become Flag Officer in Command three "canoes," or manned assault Oran after the British-led operation sucboats. She came under heavy, though inceeded, said in remonstrating to General accurate, fire from nearby jetties but was Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew

object was to prevent destraction, and the troops were to stay.

In command of the assaufi forces was Capt. F. T. Peters, RN, DSO, DSC, a rather flamboyant officer who earlier in the war had been in S.O.E., the branch of the British Services responsible for carrying out "special operations." (Incidentally, Guy Burgess and H.A.R. "Kim" Philby had worked for him in S.O.E.) His task group consisted of

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not seriously damaged. She then proceeded up the harbor, encountering a destroyer of the SiMOUN-class (probably ToRNADE), which she attempted, unsuccessfully, to ram. Unfortunately our intelligence does not seem to have taken into account the possible presence of French warships in the port. In the event, there were several: the contre-torpilleur EPERVIER, which carried five 5.5" guns; three older destroyers, TORNADE, TYPHON and TRAMONTANE, each with four 5.1" guns; three submarines, AcTEON, FRESNEL, and ARGONAUTE; five smaller, decommissioned submarines; and one or two minesweepers. Almost all of them played active roles in the battle.

WALNEY did not reply to the closerange fire she was receiving, in order to avoid giving away her position. She continued up the harbor to Quai Centrale, at its head, where she attempted to board EPERVIER. TRAMONTANE, underway out, fired two broadsides into her; EPERVIER, two submarines and the battery at Fort Lamoune engaged with close-range weapons and a twelve-pounder. WALNEY

was hit in the engine room, boiler room, wardroom flat. Captain's cabin and the steering-engine room. Of seventeen officers and men on the bridge, only Capt.

Peters survived. The senior officer surviving below was the Executive Officer, Lt. Wallace Mosely RN, whose battle station was in the Captain's after cabin.

The attempt to board EPERVIER failed because WALNEY had lost all power. By about 0430 all her guns had been silenced and she was on fire forward and amidships. As Lt. Mosely said in his report, the carnage among the troops in the messdecks was indescribable.

Mosely gave the order to abandon ship.

At 0445 WALNEY blew up and sank.

Meanwhile HARTLAND, following

closely in their circle, missed the harbor entrance boom and struck the breakwater. She was picked up by a searchlight as she backed off, and came under heavy fire from the batteries close by. Her gun crews were wiped out, but she, too, proceeded up the harbor towards her objective, the inside berth of Mole Ravin Blanc. As she rounded the end of the mole, at about 0345, she came under heavy fire from TYPHON, moored there, and from two submarines. Drifting helplessly, she was mercilessly pounded, and was soon ablaze. She was abandoned at 0410, and finally sank at 1025.

The two motor launches did not attempt to enter the port.

Over half the crew and embarked troops on HARTLAND were killed, includWALNEY

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ing two Marines and three seamen from the U.S. port party. Three-quarters of those on WALNEY were casualties. Survivors were taken aboard French ships in the port and then imprisoned in the Naval Barracks, the Civil Prison in Oran, or the barracks of the Second Zouave Regiment. They were released when the French capitulated and the Americans entered Oran on 10 November. Capt. Peters was killed a day or so later, on a flight back to the U.K.; he was awarded the V.C. posthumously for his part in the action.

Capt. Peters was indeed brave, as were the soldiers and sailors, American and British, who conducted the assault.

A number of them were also decorated, LCdr. Dickey receiving the DSO from Great Britain. Nevertheless, the assault has to be considered a failure. The two cutters were sunk, all the men were killed or captured, no French ships or batteries were taken. French casualties were fairly heavy also (134 killed, 136 wounded, plus the crews of the two submarines lost), but most of these were incurred the next day, when EPERVIER, TORNADE, TRAMONTANE, TYPHON and

the three submarines sortied and were engaged by the British cruisers JAMAICA and AURORA. EPERVIER, TORNADE and TRAMONTANE were driven ashore east of Oran and TYPHON scuttled herself across

the harbor entrance. Two submarines were sunk by the British forces; only FRESNEL made it to Toulon.

In the meantime, the French port commander carried out the sabotage of the port that had been feared. Thirteen merchant ships, seven patrol vessels or minesweepers, five submarines and three floating drydocks lay on the bottom of the harbor, along with HARTLAND and WALNEY. It took two months for the American salvage teams to clear the port for use. Fortunately, Mers-El-Kebir was available as an alternate. The planned D4-3 Convoy was berthed there on schedule, and the port was used successfully in place of Oran to unload troops, armor and supplies.

As a footnote, French officers and men told several of their captives that the attack on Oran had been expected, although it was supposed to have come 24 hours earlier. The basis for this belief was apparently loose talk at Gibraltar, where the assault force had been embarked.

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Captain John Twiggs Myers Defense

of the American

Legation

in Peking,

1900

Robert V. Aquilina

Following the close of the Chinese-Japenese War in 1898, the Emperor of China, Kuang Hsu, attempted to institute a modest reform program in order to "Westernize" his country upon the successful model of Japan. This reform program was bitterly opposed by a reactionary clique within the Chinese Govemment, with the support of the Dowager Empress. Tzu Hsi. In league with disaffected elements of the Chinese Army opposed to the reform program, Tzu Hsi obtained the arrest of the Emperor in September 1898, and seized the reins of govemment for herself. By this time reaction against the deposed Emperor's program had begun to spread throughout China, and the govemment, now controlled by Tzu Hsi, connived to deflect the mounting hostility of the Chinese populace towards social reforms, into a passionate hatred for all things "foreign."

Apprehensive for the safety of their legations, foreign powers in China began to establish guards for their respective diplomatic missions in Peking and Tientsin. In November 1898, eighteen United States Marines from the cruisers BALTIMORE, BOSTON, and RALEIGH, un-

der the command of First Lieutenant Robert McM. Dutton, were dispatched to the U.S. Legation in Peking, where they established a Marine Guard. Later in the same month, a thirty-man Marine Guard detachment under the command of Lieutenant John Gibson, USN, was estabhshed at the American consulate at Tientsin. By March 1899, however, conditions in China had improved to such an extent that the Marine Guards were nc longer beheved necessary, and they were consequently withdrawn from Peking and Tientsin on 15 March.

In historical hindsight, it is clear that the Westem powers, including the United States, failed to comprehend the depth of hostility felt by the Chinese people towards what they perceived to be foreign interference in their customs.

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traditions, and religion. A secret Chinese athletic society called the / Ho Ch'uan (literally translated, the "Fists of Righteous Harmony," or as they were known to westemers, the "Boxers") grew in influence throughout China during the later months of 1899, preaching a doctrine of violence and elimination of all foreign elements in China. A particular target of Boxer wrath was the presence in Shantung province of foreign missionaries and their Chinese Christian converts. When in late May and early June of 1900, two English missionaries and the Chinese converts of several Christian villages were murdered, the foreign diplomatic community in Peking belatedly began to recognize the gravity of the situation.

When the government of the Dowager Empress refused Westem demands to augment the strength of their legation guards in Peking, the stage was set in China for armed foreign intervention.

The United States Minister in Peking, Mr. Edwin H. Conger, had already telegraphed Washington for help on 18 May. His call for assistance was answered on the moming of 29 May, when 48 Marines and five bluejackets under the command of Marine Captain John Twiggs Myers landed from the USS NEWARK at Taku Bar, some forty miles downstream from Tientsin. The small force of Leathernecks and sailors then commandeered a Chinese steam tug to tow them in junks for the trip upstream to Tientsin.

Their arrival at the city on the evening of the 29th was greeted with enthusiasm by an entourage of the resident foreign community, which included a future President of the United States, Herbert Hoover.

During its brief sojoum in Tientsin, the Marine force was augmented by an increasing stream of Japanese, German, British, Austrian, French, and Italian troops. This hybrid fighting force composed of twenty-one officers and 429 enlisted men left Tientsin by train for Peking at 4:30 on the afternoon of 31 May,

arriving that same evening at the Peking railway station. The Marines travelled in heavy marching order only, but did not neglect their ammunition, for a total of 27,720 rounds of ammunition (including some 8,000 rounds for a high-wheeled Colt machinegun) accompanied them on their ride to Peking. Marching his column of weary Leathernecks into the American Legation quarters. Captain Myers noted the presence along the roadway of a "dense mass of Chinese," whose silent, staring faces "seemed more ominous than an open demonstration of hostility."

The presence in Peking of foreign troops appears initially to have exerted a pacific, if not intimidating, effect upon the inflamed Boxer mind. The relative calm was shattered on 6 June, when the Boxers cut the rail line out of Peking, burning several stations, and effectively cutting off the ancient Chinese city, along with its beleaguered foreign residents, from the outside world. The clanging of bells and pounding of drums echoed once more throughout Peking streets, as Boxer demonstrations commenced anew. Foreigners in the city were openly taunted and insulted by Boxer mobs, which increasingly included soldiers from the Imperial Chinese Army. The time had come to erect defensive barricades in anticipation of an outright Boxer assault upon the foreign legations.

The U.S. Marine captain who had been entrasted with the safety of his country's diplomatic community in Peking was a twenty-nine year old graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (Class of 1892), where he had been appointed from Georgia in September, 1887. Having served tours of duty both ashore and at sea. Captain John Twiggs Myers commanded a Marine unit that had shared in the capture of a large rifled gun from PhiHppine rebels in September. 1899. He now faced in Peking the most critical decisions of his young career. "The situa37

tion of the United States Legation for defense," he later would write, "was not a promising one." The foreign community in Peking, including some three hundred women and children, occupied an area roughly three-quarters of a mile square. The southern boundary of the Foreign Quarter was the immense Tartar Wall, 60 feet high and 40 feet wide. The American Legation lay just inside the Wall, facing west toward Chien Men Gate. To their rear was the German Legation, and to the Americans' north lay Legation Street. A meeting of all the foreign commanders was held on 7 June to make plans for a common defense of the Foreign Quarter. By unanimous consent, it was agreed immediately to send all non-combatants to the British Legation, located in the northwest corner of the foreign district, and to hold the Tartar Wall for as long as possible. The decision to shelter all non-combatants in the British Quarter was soundly based upon the relatively spacious size of the nation's legation grounds. The mihtary commander's decision to hold the Tartar Wall at all costs was strategically basic to a successful defense of the entire Foreign Quarter of Peking. They realized that access to the immense edifice directly controlled aU the legations; the ability of Captain Myers and his Marines to hold the Tartar Wall became, in the words of the British minister, "the peg which holds the whole thing together."

By 13 June, Boxers in full ceremonial regalia were demonstrating openly in the streets of Peking, calling for the death of all foreigners in the city. That same evening, several of the foreign missions and churches directly outside the Foreign Quarter were set ablaze by Boxer mobs.

During the ensuing days. Captain Myers' Marines assisted in the rescue of hundreds of Chinese Christians trapped in the burning sections of Peking. Captain Myers reported that these missions "were uniformly successful in rescuing large numbers of the persecuted Chinese Christians, and suffered no casualties, although inflicting heavy punishment on the Boxers and their attendant train of pillagers."

While the beset foreign community in Peking prepared defensive measures, an international rescue force began to organize in Tientsin under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, RN. This eight-nation, 2,500 man command included several squads of Marines, and departed Tientsin on 10 June to the relief of Peking. Repairing the railroad destroyed earlier by the Boxers as they went along, the relief column came 38

Chien Men Gate after the siege

Capt. John T. Myers, 1900

within 25 miles of the besieged capital when it was defeated by a combined Boxer and Imperial force on 18 June, and obliged to fall back towards Tientsin.

News of the international relief force converging upon Taku persuaded the government of Tzu Hsi that a state of war existed between the Western powers and the Imperial Chinese Government.

The ministers in Peking were given twenty-four hours notice to vacate the city with their staff and dependents, and were assured Imperial protection. When the skeptical German Minister Baron von Ketteler set out on the morning of 20 June to discuss the matter at greater length with Chinese officials, he was shot dead by an Imperial soldier. At 6 P.M. that evening, the Foreign Quarter was fired upon from all sides. The siege of Peking had begun.

Sir Claude McDonald, a former Highland Major, was quickly selected by common consent of the guard commanders to act as commander-in-chief of the foreign community in Peking. As Captain Myers noted at the time, the role of an overall military commander allowed the easy "movement of troops from one point to another as they might be needed."

On 22 June and again on the 24th,

Boxer and Imperial troops attempted to burn out the British Legation by setting fires to outbuildings surrounding the British compound. On both occasions they were driven back with heavy casualties, though the famous Hanlin Yuan Academy was destroyed. Realizing that the key to a successful assault upon the Foreign Quarter entailed possession of the Tartar Wall, Chinese troops attempted repeatedly during the ensuing two weeks to dislodge the Marines and Germans from their positions on the forty-foot stracture.

During the unsuccessful Boxer attacks of 22 and 24 June upon the British Compound, Captain Myers had supervised the constraction by his men of a barricade across the Tartar Wall facing west towards the Chien Men Gate. Access to the Tartar Wall from the American and German positions was facilitated by ramps on the ipside of both legations' lines. The Chinese acted promptly to make their presence known, however, as shells from Imperial cannon mounted on the towers of both the Chien Men and Hata Men Towers daily raked the German and American emplacements. Moreover, an estimated 2,000 Chinese soldiers entrenched behind six barricades on the Tartar Wall faced Captain Myers and his embattled Marines.

On the afternoon of 27 June, an alert sentry noticed a force of over 200 Boxer and Imperial troops breach their barricades and silently approach the American position on the WaU. Approaching without firing, the Chinese, reported Captain Myers, "evidently hoped to catch us napping in the heat of the afternoon." The Marines held their fire until the combined Imperial and Boxer force came within 200 yards of the American fortification. At a signal from Myers, they rose on the banquette of their barricade and squeezed the triggers of their Lee-Enfield rifles. The surprised Chinese quickly broke and scattered to the safety of their own barricades, leaving almost 50 of their number lying dead on the Tartar Wall.

No longer desiring to test the mettle of a determined force of Leathernecks by attacking in broad daylight, the Chinese turned to the use of artillery in the hopes of battering down the American and German positions. On 1 July, shellfire from 3-inch Chinese field pieces forced the evacuation of the German troops from their location facing the Hata Men Gate.

The American rear was now left exposed, and Myers wisely withdrew his men to the temporary shelter of an entrenchment alongside of the American Shipmate, November 1981

Legation. The resolute Marine Captain had no intention of abandoning his position, however, and soon after led his detachment, now strengthened by British reinforcements, in a successful counterattack that regained the Marine's former emplacement. An exhausted Myers was now ordered by McDonald to get some badly needed rest, and accordingly was relieved by his second-in-command.

Captain Newt Hall (USNA 1895).

Resuming command on the evening of 2 July, Myers immediately noticed the advancement during his absence of the Chinese barricades on the Wall until little more than 50 yards now separated the Chinese and American positions. More ominous was the erection by the Chinese of a fifteen-foot stone tower, which when completed would directly overlook the American barricade. The position of the Marines was now clearly untenable, as their flank soon would be exposed to an enfilading fire from Chinese rifles.

Immediately appraised of the situation

by Captain Myers, the American Minister and McDonald conferred with the Russian Minister and secured reinforcements to enable the Marines to dislodge the Chinese. There could be no denying the gravity of the situation which faced the twenty-nine year old Officer of Marines. If the Chinese were to be denied access to the Foreign Quarter, the Tartar Wall could not be abandoned. After reading the note from Conger and McDonald which authorized him to organize the details of an assault upon the Chinese position, Myers hastily scribbled a terse response, "We will do our best."

The reinforcements arrived in a driving rainstorm at the American barricade between 2:00 and 3:00 A.M. After explaining the seriousness of the mission, Myers outlined his plan of operation to the assembled force of 30 U.S. Marines, 26 Royal British Marines, and 15 Russian sailors. At the signal " G o " , he would lead his own men and the Royal Marines over the American barricade to the left and along a protective wall into the rear of the Chinese position. The Russians would scale the barricade to the right and dislodge the Chinese from an area beside a ramp leading up to the Wall.

Hearing the movement of troops, the Chinese fired excitedly into the darkness while Myers led his group to the rear of the Chinese barricade. Though suffering a wound in the calf from a Boxer spear, Myers' plan of attack succeeded perfectly. Taken completely by surprise, the Imperial soldiers were rapidly picked off from behind. In little more than half-anhour, 36 of their number lay dead and Shipmate, November 1981

the immediate threat to the Foreign Quarter had passed. The assault party suffered five casualties: 2 U.S. Marines killed, one wounded (Myers); one Royal Marine and one Russian sailor were wounded.

Captain Myers' leg wound soon became badly infected, and his exhausted state of health led to an attack of typhoid fever, but his successful surprise assault on the night of 2 July proved to be the turning point in the siege of Peking. The daring action so demoralized the Chinese that until the arrival of Allied reinforcements from Tientsin, the fighting in Peking soon became a sniper's war. The Chinese attempted a probing action on 15 July, but were thrown back in disarray, largely through the efforts of a tough Marine private from Long Island by the name of Dan Daly. An armistice as signed on the following day between officials of the Chinese Government and the foreign ministers in Peking.

Word of the approaching international relief force, which had captured Tientsin on 14 July, undoubtedly was playing upon the minds of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and her ministers in Government. Their apprehensions proved quite correct when, on 13 August, an 18,600man international relief force appeared before the outskirts of Peking. The following day, the Imperial City fell to successive assaults of American, Russian, British, French and Japanese forces. The 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, earned distinction by providing covering fire for the 5th Artillery as it shelled the Chien Men Gate. By the evening of the 14th, organized Chinese resistance in the area surrounding the Foreign Quarter had ceased, Hzu Tsi had fled the city disguised as a peasant, and the siege of Peking was lifted. Of the Legation Quarter's total of slightly less than 500 defenders, 65 were dead, and 135 wounded. The 56 U.S. Marines and sailors had suffered a total of 17 casualties.

The Marines would remain in Peking until 28 September 1900, when they were ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to proceed to Cavite, to resume the unfinished task of suppressing the Muslim Moros of the Southern Philippines. Ironically, five years would pass before Leathernecks again would set foot on Chinese soil. The Guard that was estabhshed at the U.S. Legation in Peking was a company composed from the 9th Infantry, which remained on duty there until replaced permanently on 12 September 1905 by a detachment of Marines from the Philippines commanded by Captain Harry Lee.

The career of Captain John Twiggs Myers did not end with the successful Marine defense of the Legation in Peking. Recovering from his wound, Myers was advanced four numbers in grade, and brevetted Major on 28 March 1901 for his gallant leadership during the siege of Peking. He subsequently served tours of duty at home and abroad, including Fleet Marine Officer of the Asiatic and Pacific Fleets, and command of the Marine Corps Barracks at Quantico. Myers attained the permanent rank of Brigadier General in July 1929, and culminated his career one year later by his appointment as Assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

BGen. John T. Myers, 1930 An enduring accolade to John T. Myers' leadership during the siege of Peking remains in the form of a bronze statue in London's Mall, which depicts the Marine Captain leading the assault party of American and Royal Marines on the night of 2 July 1900. It is indeed a fitting tribute to a young Marine officer who fulfilled his duty against impossible odds in the best tradition of the Corps.

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Lucky Bag of Books The Ship That Would Not Die

by RAdm. F. Julian Becton, USN (Ret.) '31 with Joseph Morschauser 111, Prentiss-Hall 1980. Illustrated, 288 pages, $11.95.

One of the most gripping, true-life stories of World War II heroism is in this superbly-written book about one of the most gallant ships to ever fly the U.S. Colors—USS LAFFEY ( D D - 7 2 4 ) . HOW a single destroyer could take on and survive 22 kamikaze attacks, the greatest number ever delivered against a single ship, was little short of miraculous and will undoubtedly go down in naval annals as one of the most stalwart destroyer actions of all time. Commander Becton's inspiring words, "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire," merit immortalization along with John Paul Jones' "I have not yet begun to fight" and Lawrence's "Don't give up the ship."

Two ships have home the name LAFFEY. The first, DD-459. met her end on 13 November 1942 off Savo Island in the Solomons after a life span of less than nine months. Through sheer fate or coincidence, then LCdr. Becton witnessed her heroic demise from a few thousand yards away while serving as Executive Officer of the destroyer AARON WARD.

Destiny must have had a hand in assigning Commander Becton to command the new LAFFEY. for he made a silent vow to do all in his power to insure that she would not meet the same fate as the first; but, if her time came, he would make certain that she would acquit herself as creditably as her predecessor. In carrying out that pledge, he describes the thorough pre-com and shakedown training employed to weld all hands into a smooth fighting machine, as well as the steps taken to rectify some serious design deficiencies in this new 2,200-ton destroyer, one of the first of the SUMNER-class.

He takes us through the invasion of Normandy, night forays by German Eboats, and L A F F E Y S baptism of fire when strack by a 400-pound shell from coastal batteries at Cherbourg. Transferred to the Pacific, LAFFEY joined the fast carriers in their push to liberate the Philippines, and we experience the excitement of carrier operations and naval engagements, as well as the bloodshed wrought by fanatical kamikaze attacks during the assaults on Leyte, Mindoro, Lingayen, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

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The piece de resistance is L A F F E Y S courageous struggle for survival on radar picket station No. 1 some 30 miles north of Okinawa, which earned the Presidential Unit Citation. On her third day on station, 16 April 1945, her radar screen was suddenly saturated with bogies. Her moment of trath had arrived, and it was time for "Julie" Becton to fulfill his pledge. Of the 22 planes which attacked her, LAFFEY splashed ten singlehandedly with her guns and five more jointly with her CAP, which unfortunately did not arrive until after the 14th attack was over; took six direct suicide hits which caused fires and explosions; was grazed by two more which sheared off both yardarms; took three direct bomb hits (jamming her rudder at 26% left) plus three more damaging near-misses; was badly strafed by three or her attackers; and finally had her air-search antenna knocked off by a daring, hotly-pursuing Corsair. She suffered an appalling 32 dead and 71 wounded, nearly one-third of her personnel.

Towed to Okinawa for emergency repairs, LAFFEY subsequently made it back to the States under her own power, arriving 39 days after her ordeal. At Seattle she received a justly-deserved heroine's welcome and the adulation and unbelieving scrutiny of some 93,000 Americans who flocked aboard during the next several days to witness the terrible devastation wrought upon this valiant lady. In slightly over four months, however, she was ready to rejoin the Fleet, just four days after the war ended.

I happened to be aboard the destroyer BURNS in the same force with LAFFEY during the Lingayen Gulf operation when the escort carrier OMMANEY BAY was strack a fatal blow by a single kamikaze, which seemed to drop out of nowhere.

Incredible as it may seem, the resultant fires and explosions spread so rapidly that they forced abandonment of the ship within less than an hour. After recovery of all possible survivors. BURNS was ordered to torpedo OMMANEY BAY. N O doubt that this had been an unusually lucky suicide hit. Nevertheless, at the time, it was hard to accept the fact that a CVE had just been done in by a single kamikaze. Later on when we heard of L A F F E Y S survival of a half-dozen kamikaze hits, it made her feat seem even more amazing.

This is a gem of a book—factual, action-packed, at times spellbinding—about the rigors of life at sea aboard a destroyer in wartime. Yet it is not without its lighter moments. The authors have maintained a nice sense of balance between the humanistic and the strictly military aspects of the war. Relevant facets of Admiral Becton's career are tastefully introduced, including his courtship of a budding Broadway star, providing a poignant and enjoyable thread throughout. These, coupled with a liberal sprinkling of vignettes as well as numerous salty and amusing incidents, give the book a fascination which should hold the interest of laymen and professionals alike.

That the authors have researched their subject thoroughly is plainly evident.

Their inclusion of pertinent historical backgrounds, compositions of forces, strategic objectives sought, and highlevel rationales for actions taken by both the enemy and by our own forces make for interesting and informative reading.

The book contains a good supply of photos. However, it would profit from the inclusion of maps of the Solomons, Philippines, and the Normandy/English channel areas to facilitate following the action. For many readers who ranged the vast stretches of the Pacific during World War II, this book will rekindle memories of distant places with strange-sounding names, of staunch ships and dedicated men, and of fun times and desperate situations.

Destroyermen everywhere owe Admiral Becton, his shipmates, and LAFFEY a debt of gratitude for not only upholding their honor, but for bathing it in glory.

This inspiring book deserves a place in the wardrooms and libraries of all warships, and Commander Becton and his memorable words a hallowed place in the Naval Academy's Memorial Hall.

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Services Get Most Requests In Congressional Bills An almost clear picture of what's in store for the Navy, Marine Corps and other services'is now available, although the FY '82 Defense appropriation has not yet emerged and the House Appropriations Committee says it won't until well in the '82 fiscal year. Defense is now under Presidential orders to reduce planned spending, but only by $2 billion in FY '82, $5 billion in '83 and $6 billion in '84, which will not appreciably affect Defense plans. With no appropriation bill. Defense—and the rest of govemment, because no appropriations biUs have become law—will operate, as so often in the past, under continuing resolutions. The first of these, H.J.Res. 325, passed the House 16 September.

To place the Defense picture into focus: The new Administration asked substantial increases in Defense both for the rest of '81 and for '82. The '81 increases necessitated a supplemental Defense authorization which became Public Law 97-39 on 14 August. Beating that law was the supplemental appropriation itself (covering many other agencies as well as Defense) which was signed 5 June as Public Law 97-12. Then the '82 Defense authorization, S. 815, passed the Senate 14 May and the House on 16 July. This bill is still in inter-chamber conferences but House and Senate versions are much alike and agreements on all but a few differences already have been reached.

Therefore, what follows (in part this month, the rest in next month's column) is a randown of what's provided in the '81 supplemental authorization and appropriation and in the '82 authorization—unresolved differences in the latter being noted. a. Personnel Strengths Regular Navy had 532,500 aboard on 31 January and the supplementals raised the authorized '81 end strength to 540,456. The '82 budget asked a further increase to 554,700; the Senate voted 400 less than this, the House 200 more. Increase from 31 January "81 to 30 September '82 is thus about 22,200. The Senate aimed its slight decrease (and similar actions for Army and Air Force) at management slots and operational headquarters. The House voted its slight Shipmate, November 1981

own figures show need for a Selected increase to allow recall of Reservists where severe shortages exist. The budget Reserve of more than 100,000.

The law also puts Coast Guard Reincrease includes more training to create serve authorizations under the Armed an additional air wing. The '81 suppleServices Committees. Budget and Senate mental increase was for precommissionwould continue the 11,700 strength of the ing crews of battleship N E W JERSEY and past several years. "Nuts!" said the Trident submarines MICHIGAN and FLORHouse committee in effect, declaring a IDA, more recruiters, and for ships and need of 22,000. It voted 300 more and aviation generally. said that should be the first installment in Regular Marine Corps had 187,800 a gradual increase to 15,000. aboard 31 January 1981. The supplemenReviewing recommendations of the tals increased 30 September '81 authoReserve Forces Policy Board, which inrized end strength by 2,500, mostly to cluding resuming the draft, the Senate improve aviation unit manning, with a committee asked SecDef to report his few going into ground combat units. The views on the proposals. The House com'82 budget caUs for an end strength of mittee, alarmed at the depletion of the 192,100—a figure Senate and House verIndividual Ready Reserves, told SecDef sions of the '82 authorization both acto submit by 15 January 1982 a detailed cept—for an increase of 4,300 over the plan to remedy the situation within five January '81 strength.

Army's 773,900 total on 31 January '81 years.

Civilian personnel ceilings were will go to 786,300 on 30 September '82. boosted by both chambers in the '81 That's the combined supplemental and supplemental and raised further in their '82 budget requests; the House '82 auaction on the '82 authorization. Total thorization would add 68 more, the Senemployment at the end of FY '82 will be ate would cut 500 from headquarters. a little over a million, excluding the Air Force's 561,500 of last January 185,000 in non-appropriated fund activiwill go to 586,800 under the '81 suppleties. The Senate version of the '82 aumental and '82 budget request. Again thorization trims headquarters slightly, House would add a handful; Senate except for the Office of the Secretary of would trim by 4,400, partly out of headquarters but mostly to compel more civil- Defense where it slashed 1,000 positions, specifically declaring it wants fewer peoianization. The Senate therefore inple administering DOD schools. But it creased civilian authorizations in another adds back a few positions to allow civilsection of its bill. ianization of more Air Force jobs. The Both versions of the '82 authorization House increased the requested ceiling, approve the requested full-time activeits Armed Services Committee saying it duty personnel supporting the Reserve wasn't a real increase but just a more recomponents without change. A substanalistic view of the success the services tial increase, to 447, is provided the Mawould have in contracting-out jobs. rine Corps Reserve. The '81 supplemental had already increased the original 66 b. Personnel Provisions, Comments Marine support to 133, so the '82 authorization adds 314 more.

A number of provisions in both the '81 supplemental and the '82 authorizations Selected (drilling) Reserves were not affect service people. Here's a randown: affected by the '81 supplemental. For SOLI and VGLI—a Senate floor five of the seven components, both chambers accepted the '82 budget figamendment increases the maximum Serures. This would raise 31 January 1981 vicemen's Group Life Insurance and actual strength to a FY '82 average as Veteran's Group Life Insurance for both follows: Army Guard 370,900 to 392,800; active-duty and reserve personnel from Air Guard 95,500 to 98,600; Army Re$20,000 to $35,000. serve 211,600 to 235,300; Air Reserve Service benefits—another Senate floor 58,600 to 62,800; Marine Corps Reserve amendment tightens last year's ban 35,300 to 37,600. For the Naval Reserve, against providing many service benefits the 87,400 aboard last January would be to those who leave before two years exincreased slightly to an average of 87,600 cept for death or disability. The ban by the budget and the Senate, but the originally applied only to enlistees; it House wants 90,000 average, its Armed now will cover officer and warrant offiServices Committee declaring the Navy's cer appointments.

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Language proficiency—a House floor amendment to the '82 authorization tells DOD to explore whether Academy students should be required to study a foreign language and whether a bonus should be paid to servicemen stationed overseas who acquire proficiency in a foreign language.

Dependents overseas—the '82 authorization removes Congress's limit of 425,000 command-sponsored dependents overseas because both evacuation plans and the financial status of those abroad have improved.

Top grade ceilings—Defense asked cancellation of the directions in earlier authorization bills to reduce the numbers of flag and general officers and of GS-13s and above. Both chambers approved the civilian request but refused to stop the progress of the reduction of star-wearers from an early spring total of 1,119 to 1,073 by 1 October 1981. But the committees said they'd review the situation when the services came up with new justifications and a House subcommittee was doing that in mid-September.

Quality controls—both chambers rejected a request to lift the requirement that at least 65 percent of Army male recruits be high school graduates. They voted even more tightening: an absolute ban on enlisting any mental category IV non-high school grad in any service. No service is doing that now; Congress wants to be sure they do not.

Loan forgiveness—student loans of those enlisting in critical skills in the regular or reserve forces will continue to be forgiven in part for two more years.

Women—a House floor amendment requires the services to accept women with the equivalent of a high school diploma on the same basis as men who didn't actually graduate from high school. The House committee (as are some Army officials) is worried about too many women in the Army, but thinks the Air Force (which may be 14% female by September 1983) might profitably use even more.

Petty officer shortages—both committees are concerned about the shortage of Navy petty officers but pleased with improved Marine Corps recruiting, and approved increased Marine strength because of it. Senate Armed Services fears the Navy will be short 24,000 people by FY '85, and the petty officer shortage "could be even larger—about 35,000." It wonders if a 600-ship Navy can be manned. The House committee noted that " a substantial number" of Atlantic Fleet ships are either rated C-4 (incapable of performing their wartime mission) or C-3 (marginally capable). The Pacific Fleet situation is "somewhat less alarming, although still significant." Because of the problem, the House group said, ships in C-4 status are allowed to sail if captain, squadron commander and next

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senior commander all agree they are "safe to operate."

CHAMPUS—the House committee added a section allowing reasonable physicians' fees to be determined under new criteria, which the committee believes will result in the government's paying a bigger part of CHAMPUS bills and in more physicians participating in the program.

Aviation continuation bonuses—the '81 supplemental, after much inter-chamber debate, funded them after payment had been held up some weeks for lack of money.

Submarine pay—the law was amended by the supplemental to make it clear the incentive pay can go to personnel serving on operational, self-propelled submarines, including exploration and research vehicles, and to personnel not designated as submariners but who on a continual and regular basis perform operational submarine duty. This latter category would get the pay only when actually assigned to a submarine.

Accumulated leave—crews in the Indian Ocean can accumulate up to 90 days' accrued leave retroactive to 1 October 1979, The provision in the supplemental was back-dated to cover all deployments during the hostage crisis.

Personnel money—was increased by the supplemental to cover the October 1980 pay raises and inflation, and to increase per diem and mileage on change of station. Both chambers agreed to raise the maximum per diem from $35 to $50, but House Appropriations thought an increase in the 7-cent mileage to 10 cents was enough. The Senate approved the requested 16 cents. The final version made it 13 cents a mile. The House had denied the extra money needed to pay oversea cost-of-living allowances, but the final decision was that the present COLA system was reasonable and should not be changed in a supplemental appropriation bill.

Marine re-enlistment bonuses—$4 million supplemental money was asked; the House voted $14 million, the Senate $30.1 million. Marine re-enlistments are so improved that the highest figure was approved to make sure there is money to pay bonuses promptly.

Deployments; civilian technicians—the House Armed Services Committee, reviewing civilian force contributions in its report on the supplemental authorization, declared "no aircraft carrier deploys anywhere in the world . . . without approximately 40 civilians as a necessary complement of the crew." But the Appropriations Committees of both chambers worry about Navy dependence on technical representatives. Denying a $7 million requested increase for such services. House Appropriations said "the process of having civilian personnel aboard warships has gone about as far as

it should." Agreeing with the denial.

Senate Appropriations said the Navy should get the extra technicians if they are really needed, but the Navy should examine needs and amounts paid and should try to trim the nearly $80 million now spent for tech reps. "Contractors are hiring experienced personnel away from the Navy," the Senators said, "and helping create a shortage of trained technicians in uniform."

House Appropriations also thinks the tempo of Indian Ocean operations "is probably unnecessarily high. A few more port calls might be in order," it said.

What's planned for ships, missiles, aircraft, other weapons, etc., will be reported next month.

Pay Bills Take Final Form; Manpower Group Studies Benefits You will get a pay raise effective from 1 October 1981 and it will total about 14.3% overall, but whether it will be an across-the-board 14.3% or will involve larger increases for senior officers and enlisteds depended upon a late-September inter-chamber conference of senior House and Senate Armed Services Committeemen. The Senate voted varying raises, and many other provisions, when it passed S. 1181 on 11 September by an 81-0 vote. The House voted an acrossthe-board raise in basic pay and basic quarters and subsistence allowances when it passed the bill 15 September by a 396-1 vote with the text of its own H.R. 3380. (While the House version of S. 1181 is theoretically across-the-board, it allows 25% of the increase to be shifted to specific grades.)

Tip-offs to what the final version will be are (I) the Administration's support of the House approach and (2) the House's 170-232 rejection of substantially the Senate version when it was offered as an amendment by the House Appropriations Committee. Previously the Appropriations Committee had planned to propose a 9.1% across-theboard increase.

The Senate version provides increases ranging from 7% for E-1 s and Academy students and 9% for 0-ls to 23% for E-6s through E-9s. The other officer, warrant and enlisted grades would get increases between those two extremes.

Before it passed the bill, the Senate added a $3,000 bonus for officers volunteering to enter the surface nuclear power program and provided that the off crews of two-crew vessels (ballistic missile submarines, in effect) should continue to receive sea pay while in that status. The Senate considered but left for the House to add—which it did on the floor—special pay of $125 to $400. depending on grade and length of service, for controllers of AWACS aircraft. The Shipmate, November 1981

House also added on the floor a provision already in the Senate bill increasing the total of NROTC midshipmen by 2,000, to 8,000, and the total of AFROTC cadets by 3,000, to 9.500.

Special pays, re-enlistment bonuses and a variety of travel and change of station allowances are increased in both versions, as are some laws affecting draft registrants. The Senate version also has BAQ and BAS increases, in varying amounts depending on grade, and also amends provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Most civil servants are getting a 4.8% increase effective from 1 October and the President has asked an equal 4.8% for senior civil servants, government officials and others whose pay has been held to a ceiling because Congress has not voted itself a pay increase for four years.

Having divorced military and civilian pay increases this year, the Armed Services Committees and the new Military Manpower Task Force are expected to consider new systems for future pay increases. That Task Force, composed of top Defense and White House officials, received a staff-prepared agenda of 15 items at its first meeting. It may add others. One item, presented by the Office of Management and Budget, is a CHAMPUS dental care program. As Shipmate has reported, prospects for enactment in 1981 of a denticare program are dim.

Congressional leaders and the Department of Health and Human Services have blocked a move by Defense to end payments under CHAMPUS for residential care of service children with emotional problems. Defense felt the care involved little or no treatment and thus should not be financed by CHAMPUS.

Many Other Developments Result from 'Hill' Actions

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The Administration proposal to ban Reserve and National Guard members who work for the federal government from drawing both civilian and training pay was not adopted by Congress in the omnibus budget cutting law (Public Law 97-35) detailed in October Shipmate. Defense and the Federal Management Agency, however, have declared such people must be able to report for mobilization within 24 hours. Otherwise they, and similar key private industry employees, will have to give up one of the two jobs. Defense, at the same time, plans to ask Congress for new pay and grade incentives to obtain physicians for the Reserves. And it is working on a proposal

to allow states to create home guards to replace the National Guard on mobilization as was done in World War II. The Supreme Court also got into the Reserve act. By a 5-4 decision in Monroe vs Standard Oil it said employers do not have to adjust working schedules to accommodate Reserve military training.

District Court held that Roger D. Monroe was protected by the act, which requires employers to grant leave for training and which requires reinstatement of mobilized Reserves. The Court of Appeals, however, held for Standard Oil, as did the Supreme Court on appeal.

New, Old Jobs Filled President Reagan has nominated a four-star Navy admiral to the new job of Maritime Administrator created when MarAd was transferred from Commerce to the Transportation Department. He is Adm. Harold E. Shear, vice president of Norton Lilly Co. since he retired in 1980 as CinC South.

The President also has moved to fill a number of posts in the Navy Secretariat.

James F. Goodrich, chairman of the board of Bath Iron Works until he retired in 1978, has been nominated as Under Secretary of the Navy. John S. Herrington, who helped the White House fill top government posts, will be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve. Those personnel functions, in a return to the pre-1977 situation, are being taken from AsstSecNav George A. Sawyer, who also had Logistics. Mr. Sawyer, in recognition of the vital importance of shipbuilding, is now titled AsstSecNav for Shipbuilding and Logistics. Walter T. Skallerup, Jr., Worid War II Naval Reserve officer who has served in Defense and Atomic Energy posts, is new Navy General Counsel. Naval Reserve Capt. J. Ronald Denney '59, who left the Regular Navy in 1963, is new Deputy Principal AsstSecNav for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Finally, Army MGen. James A. Williams succeeds retiring Air Force LGen. Eugene F. Tighe as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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The Secretary of Defense has responded to arguments of Congressional friends of a strong defense that alternatives to present policies and weapons systems should be explored with creation of a special study group at the National Defense University. Directing the Joint Chiefs of Staff to form a group "of bright articulate thinkers not identified with any particular schools of thought, ideologies or hobby-horses," Secretary Caspar Weinberger said he and Deputy Secretary Frank Carlucci would meet once a month with the five officers in "free-wheeling, informal give-and-take sessions." Those selected, Mr. Weinberger added, "should have the reputation of challenging existing concepts, of being known as people who look at things differently and of being able to think creatively with maximum analytical rigor about broad policy and strategy issues."

GI Bill legislation is nearing votes in both chambers despite Administration requests for a year's delay. A House Armed Services subcommittee, to which was referred H.R. 1400, the GI Bill reported 19 May by the Veterans Committee, heard testimony in September from AsstSecDef (Manpower) Lawrence J. Korb and from Congressional Budget Office experts. The Senate Veterans Committee was scheduling a vote on a GI Bill for the latter part of the month.

Whether ex-spouses should share retired pay was to be explored by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel in hearings beginning 22 September. Authors of three bills—including one not objected to by Defense but opposed by the services —Defense Department and other witnesses were to appear. Defense's approval of H.R. 1711. by Rep. Kent Hance (D-Tex.) is opposed by the separate services, which would be forced by the bill to make payments in compliance with state court divisions of retired pay.

Rep. Patricia Schroeder's bill to divide pay automatically on a formula based on length of the marriage is solidly opposed.

Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) also has a pay-dividing bill. The House Armed Services Committee also may hold hearings later this year. The hearings are an outgrowth of the McCarty Supreme Court decision which forbabe courts to divide military retired pay. Since that ruling the Supreme Court has upheld a California court's division of a union pension.

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A Few Inches From The Yard Midshipman Rich Langford '82

After reading some of the columns in the "Class News" section of recent editions of Shipmate. I have concluded that many alumni are unaware of life at the Academy as we, the midshipmen, know it. I'd like to set the record straight on a few matters, for i; is the object of this column to give the alumni a midshipman's perspective of the USNA. As a side note. I would be glad to answer any questions concerning the Naval Academy today, and would also be happy to react to any criticism anyone may have conceming my views. My address is: Mid'n. Rich Langford, llCo USNA, Annapolis, MD 21412, or just write to me in care of Shipmate.

Let's now look at alumni confusion and ramor control. One alumnus writes: "The Academy is still producing dedicated, motivated, very talented young officers. There are some things missing—bracing up, squaring corners, 1st Class and 2nd Class Alley. Upper Class Ladders, a long Plebe Summer, Pep Rallies, June Week—but their value depends on your perspective." The first sentence I leave to others, but the second screams out to be corrected. While trae that many of the more physical aspects of Plebe Year have been done away with over the years, the result has not been the elimination of Plebe Indoctrination, but rather the increased need for imagination on the part of the upper classes. Bracing up still remains as the favorite form of insuring that a plebe wiU not forget the lesson he has just leamed, but the plebe that I catch using 1st or 2nd Class Alley will be a little bit more than just braced up. The Upper Class Ladders are favorite avenues of escape from the plebe hordes that scour the halls during Pep Rallies in search of upper classmen who would rather not attend the Pep Rally. Plebes still chop in the halls and square corners, and June Week, which has been redesignated "Commissioning Week" because it occurs at the end of May under the revised Academic Calender, is still the enormous social event it has always been.

Another alumnus, while discussing the subject of girl watching, states: "Today, if ya wanna watch girls, you just

leave your room door open. There's nothing quite like taking a shower with one to make you lose interest in watching them through binoculars, I always say." I wonder what school he was talking about. If, as many of the alumni seem to think, the Brigade were participating in a continuous orgy there wouldn't be a man amongst us who would have the energy to ran a six minute mile or take a Wires test, and there wouldn't be a woman who could survive six months. Either that or they're putting some kind of miraculous drags into our Ham Francisco. Of course there are romances which spring up every once in awhile—we are only humans—but they are usually handled very discreetly and maturely by the individuals involved. When they're not they become conduct problems and are dealt with as such.

The Naval Academy has changed in many ways in recent years. Whether these changes are for better or for worse is not so much up to time as it is up to us and what we do during that time to make the changes work, always keeping in mind that the Naval Academy exists to provide the Navy and Marine Corps with professional officers.

On a different note, this column will be appearing in the November issue of Shipmate and November is a month which ends in embarassment for the inmates of the Hudson River High School. There will be more conceming the antics which surround the Army-Navy game at a later time when I'll be able to describe the events to you as they happened, but for now I have a piece of trivia to share with you so that you may have something to think about on your way to Veteran's Stadium. I picked up this little tidbit from the llth Company trivia expert and invite you to check me on it. After this year's game the great Class of 1982 will become only the fourth class in the history of the Academy to witness four consecutive victories over the Woops while midshipmen.

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Navy Sports Thomas F. Bates, Sports Information Director. U. S. Naval Academy Athletic Association

Young and Eager Navy Team Passes Pair of Milestones with Two Wins A youthful, inexperienced, but eager Navy football team eamed victories in its first two starts of the 1981 season, surpassing an historic milestone with the two triumphs. In winning the opener against The Citadel. 17-7, the Midshipmen recorded the 500th victory since Navy began playing football in 1879. The Naval Academy is one of only 17 football-playing schools to have achieved this mark. With the 24-0 shutout of Eastem Kentucky in the second game of the fall. Coach George Welsh achieved his 50th win in nine seasons at the Academy, equalling the most wins ever by a Navy football coach. His coach in the mid-1950's, Eddie Erdelatz, was the first to notch 50 wins here.

Welsh is still wary about this team, noting after the recent win over Eastem Kentucky, a replacement on the schedule when Villanova dropped the sport, "we were lucky in some ways. We had a lot of breaks out there and we could easily have been down 13-0 at the half."

The Navy coach is particularly concemed over the Mids" lack of consistency on offense as they head into the meat of the schedule that includes Michigan, Yale, Air Force, Boston College, William & Mary, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Georgia Tech and Army.

Welsh has had to rebuild the offensive line, inserting a number of inexperienced performers there and shifting some people to new positions. It all adds up at times to little mistakes that stymie drives.

Additionally, the passing game has still not come around, partly because the quarterbacks are relatively new and there is an entire new set of receivers, with the exception of tight-end Greg Papajohn. Even he is in a new position from his wide-out slot of the past three years.

Although the defensive unit gave up 328 total yards in the first game, Welsh thought it improved in the second when it stifled Eastem Kentucky in the second half.

"There are a lot of little things we're not doing to be a good team," he pointed out. "But we're 2-0, so someone must be watching over u s . "

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In the opener. The Citadel proved stubborn, particularly in the first quarter when it held Navy to a scoreless tie. Finally, at the start of the second quarter, the Midshipmen took advantage of good field position on the Bulldog 37 to execute a drive by the second offensive unit under the direction of youngster quarterback Marco Pagnanelli. The big plays in this thrust were a Pagnanelli pass of nine yards to first class tight-end Mark Fitzgerald that led to a first down on the seven and five mns by Plebe tailback Napoleon McCallum that gained 17 yards. Pagnanelli himself dashed through the right side from the two for the score.

Two and a half minutes later the Bulldogs had the equalizer, benefitting from a 25-yard "Hail Mary" pass completion.

Halfback Dan Miller sprinted 17 yards for the TD. Pagnanelli then drove Navy 76 yards in 10 plays late in the second period to put the Midshipmen in front for good.

He himself scored his second touchdown of the day on a three yard run.

Navy's scoring was closed out when preseason All-America placekicker Steve Fehr, a first classman, booted a 31-yard field goal in the third period.

Pagnanelli was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference "Rookie of the Week" for his two touchdowns, 32 yards mshing on eight carries and four pass

completions in six tries for 32 yards.

First class tailback Eddie Meyers and youngster linebacker Andy Ponseigo also were All-East choices that week. Meyers ran for 134 yards on 32 carries and moved into third place in career mshing at the Naval Academy with 1,751 yards, behind Cleveland Cooper (2582 yards) and Joe Gattuso, Jr. (1890). In moving up two notches, Meyers passed Heisman Trophy winner Joe Bellino and Bob Jackson. Ponseigo had 17 tackles, one caused fumble and a key fumble recovery that stopped a Bulldog thmst.

Welsh alternated second class letterman Tom Tarquinio and Pagnanelli at the quarterback position throughout the game, with Tarquinio the starter on the basis of more experience.

He also was the starter the next week against Eastern Kentucky, which arrived in Annapolis with a pair of wins, a winning reputation built up in NCAA Division I-AA over the years, and enough quickness to cause some worry.

Thanks to some breaks, a sluggish Midshipmen team was able to nail down a 7-0 halftime lead. First of all, after fumbling the ball to the Colonels at the Navy 22, the Mids benefited from an EKU fumble on the six which linebacker Ken Fancher, a second classman, gobbled up.

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yard pass to first class split-end Chris Yelder, but he was separated from the ball by a hard tackle. However, Papajohn grabbed the ball in mid-air and raced the remaining 40 yards for a touchdown, the play covering 53 yards altogether.

Two more Eastem Kentucky threats ended with missed field goals of 37 yards and 25 yards respectively.

In the meantime, Meyers was hurt with 4:21 remaining in the first period, which further handicapped the Midshipmen's offense. However, his replacement, McCallum did end the day with 87 yards on 24 carries and had a nifty fouryard touchdown run in the third period which virtually put the game out of reach.

In fact, the Midshipmen played much better in the second half, with the defense holding Eastem Kentucky to just one first down in the third period. In the meantime. Navy tacked on 10 points, those coming from a 32-yard Fehr field goal and McCallum's four yard mn that capped a 43-yard drive. In that drive, Pagnanelli completed a 13-yard pass to Yelder and ran himself for 21 yards on one play.

Fancher was an ECAC All-East choice for his defensive showing that included 13 tackles (nine unassisted) and the key fiimble recovery.

While there is every reason to expect the Mids to improve as this season progresses, it is hoped that such a youthful group will not receive any real emotional setbacks. The offensive line has three firsties and two segundos on the interior, but one of the first classmen and both second classmen have not lettered. The current make-up of the wide receiver contingent includes three plebes and two more—McCallum and Rich Clouse—are the first and second performers behind Meyers at tailback.

Defensively, there is more experience, although both defensive tackles are short on playing time. Second classman Paul Soares lettered at tackle last year but his mnning mate is youngster Steve Peters.

There are also two new faces in the secondary.

Judging from the early assessment, there appears to be help from the plebe class but Welsh finds that group still adjusting to Academy life. He hopes they can make a bigger contribution in the latter stages of the season.

One Whose Perseverance Paid Off—Navy Defensive Back Rusty Smith A significant factor in Navy's football success in recent years has been the one or two first classmen who may not have played much in their first three years at the Naval Academy but still hung in Shipmate, November 1981

but was later caught upfield by the speedy Citadel receiver. The two have known each other for about 10 years and played together at Warner Robins High School.

Smith won the Jasper Dorsey Award for scholar-athletes from the Georgia Coaches Association as a senior at Warner Robins High.

He spent the last two seasons at Navy on and off the varsity depth chart, but did see momentary action in some eariy season games a year ago and played briefly against Houston in the Garden State Bowl.

Despite not winning a varsity letter, he harbored no thoughts about not playing this season. "I knew last spring the rover position was open," he noted. "I love the game and I had stayed around for three years. I wasn't going to give up now. Besides, playing football at a big school Hke this is a dream for everyone."

Smith was still worried about the hamstring pull he suffered last fall during spring drills this year and even had some trouble mnning in the summer. "I was concemed about how my speed tests would be when we came back. I did well enough and I haven't had a problem since."

"Thanks goodness for guys like him who have hung around and helped us out," says Navy coach George Welsh.

"He plays the pass well and he's just getting started this year. Rusty seems to be in good position all the time and he shows good judgment out there."

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Defensive back Rusty Smith

there and came on to make a contribution in their final year.

A prime example is this year's starter at rover in the secondary. Rusty Smith, a first classman from Warner Robins, Ga. Smith waited three years, with some of that time spent trying to rid himself of some nagging injuries, before getting a regular's role just this season.

In the opener against The Citadel, he had a timely pass interception plus six tackles and against Eastem Kentucky he knocked down a pass in the end zone and had three more tackles.

"I'm finally healthy for a while," noted Smith. "I am just hoping this will be a good year for me." If the first two games are indicative, he'll be pleased with the year's results.

Smith, a friendly redhead, had a reunion with a longtime friend when he made the interception against the Bulldogs. He took the pass away from Byron Walker

Navy's dinghy sailors opened with a second place behind host Merchant Marine among 14 teams competing for the Nevins Trophy in the first major intersectional regatta of the year.

In preparation for defense of the McMillan Cup, Navy rotated seven yawl crews in a challengers selection regatta and took first in all three races of opening day. In a second selection round.

Navy again won three of the six races for an overall first place. Finalists for the McMillan Cup will be Navy (defending), Maryland, Merchant Marine, New York Maritime, Princeton, Coast Guard, Harvard, Rhode Island, Maine Maritime and Brown.

The sloop sailors won the Area Eliminations and quahfied for the Middle Atlantic Championship, which leads to the national championship—first of the five events counting toward the Fowle Trophy and the national intercollegiate title that Navy has won five years in a row.

Navy also won its own CoEd Regatta, sailed in dinghies with all-male and allfemale crews. The winning margin was 24 points over second place Old Domin51

ion U. in a 14 team regatta.

In other races an all-female plebe team finished third in a freshman race for ten teams at New York Maritime, a mixed all-plebe team finished sixth in West Point's Great Chain Race for eight dinghy teams, and a standard Navy team finished sixth in the Coast Guard's DANMARK Trophy Regatta.

Other Navy Fall Sports Made Solid

Starts

Navy's cross country and women's volleyball teams both jumped off to fast starts, with the distance runners winning their first two meets and the volleyball team opening with a trio of triumphs.

The Midshipmen soccer team, sporting a new frortt-line in its rebuilding process, was hampered by a lack of consistent scoring and had an early 1-2-1 record.

Both of its losses were to nationallyranked teamsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Old Dominion and Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by identical 1-0 scores.

For the cross country squad, the two victories extended their win string to 10 over the past two years. Veterans Bill Kovach and Chris Paul, both first classmen, have been the eariy leaders. Kovach is the defending Heptagonals Games Association champion.

The volleyball team's start was the best in three years and was surprising since Coach Ens. Cindy Schendel is using three plebes in the starting lineup.

The initial wins were keyed offensively by first classman Kirsten Skeehan and plebes Cristy Sahler, Melanie Camp and Caroline Gaulkie up front, and first classman Linda Postenrieder and plebe Clair Grehofsky in setting. The defensive play was led by firstie Barbara Nester and second classman Cheryl Dolyniuk.

The soccer team after opening with a 2-1 triumph over St. John's then lost its two 1-0 games before having to settle for a 1-1 tie with Maryland in its latest outing.

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14 Sec'y, RAdm. Donald Royce, USN (Ret.) 65 Meadow Road Riverside CT 06878 203/637-2773 Percent Members: 73 Francis Kendall O'Brien, Captain USN, (Ret.), died 19 August 1981 in San Antonio, Texas. The closest survivor is his niece, Mrs. Wm. A. Harris ofl2l03 Wright Patterson, San Antonio, TX, 78233. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery on 26 August. Capt. J. L. McGuigan USN (Ret.) represented the Class of 1914.

First word of Frank's death was received from Cdr. Dudley Page, Class of 1920, who phoned from his home in Frederick, Maryland.

He later wrote: "I first met Frank O'Brien on the China station in '22 or '23. He was from an old Army family and was living with his grandfather who was govemor of the Old Soldiers Home in DC at the time he, Frank, decided to join the Navy. His grandfather was, I believe, a West Point graduate. Frank's father was also West Point, 1885, 3rd in the Class; he was killed on San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War. Frank had much duty of interest, exec of the destroyer CHAUNCEY when she was sunk off Gibraltar in World War I, much duty on the China Station (about three tours), at one time aide and intelligence officer on the staff of Commander Asiatic Fleet. In World War II he was sent to Gibraltar as aide to the Govemor General and for Naval Intelligence, sat in on many planning conferences when high-ups such as Winston Churchill and others were there 54

planning for the invasion of North Africa and of Italy, was at Anzio when the Allied Forces were barely able to hold a beachhead there.

When Frank retired he went to San Antonio to live with his sister, an Army widow, who was his closest kin. He for some years operated a business there selling old prints and doing very high class picture framing. Fluent in about five languages and with an almost photographic memory of places, events and people, he was an excellent salesman for his Texas customers as Frank could tell them all about the places they had been and things they hadn't learned.

Frank died in his sleep August 19th in the Momingside Manor Retirement Home where he had lived for many years. He had been seriously ill recently which required an operation, but with a heart condition and a great loss of weight, it was too much for his weakened condition. His wish was to be cremated and his ashes to be buried next to his father in Arlington."

(And later) "I'm sure Frank had many decorations but I could not say which ones. I always understood he did valiant work during the sinking of the CHAUNCEY. At the time of the Japanese earthquake in 1923 I was there about a week; many of the officers received decorations, but the ship I was on worked hard, delivering needed food and supplies, but received no mention at all. Frank could have been given some reward then but I never heard him say so.

He commanded a ship in the Pacific, but I don't remember which one. At Frank's funeral in Arlington were his niece Mrs. Harris, who brought the ashes, her two daughters, the husband of one, a much decorated colonel of engineers, a "14 Classmate, Capt. J. L. McGuigan USN (Ret.), and myself The flowers sent by the Class of "14 were beautiful and Harriet will thank you in time. Sincerely—Dudley Page.'"

Mrs. Harris wrote—"Thank you very much for the beautiful flowers. My daughters and 1 appreciate your kindness and thoughtfulness.

As to his Navy career, he had three tours in China, as aide to an admiral at Pearl Harbor in '21, as White House aide to President Coolidge, in Gibraltar about '42 to "44—then in the So. Pacific, and a previous tour in NY in the "30s, —he was on destroyers and I remember two ships, MARBLEHEAD and CHAUNCEY. My uncle

never married. His father was Michael James O'Brien, West Point 1885, died in Cuba in 1898.

Again, many thanks. Harriet S. Harris."

And so Fourteen is now reduced to 14 surviving, and they treasure many memories of the 140 who have gone to the Great Beyond.

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15 Chairman and Class Comm. and Sec'y, Adm. A. D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase MD 20015 Percent Members: 95 We regret to report the death of one of our Classmates, Ralph McKinley Nelson. A note from Glenn Easton, just received, enclosed a news chpping stating that Ralph died on 1 August 1981 in Daytona Beach, Florida. He and his wife had moved there in 1976 from Cleveland, where he had owned a business in his name. The couple had celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary this past May. He was one of the savviest men in the Class, having starred in each of the three years that he completed. He resigned First Class year shortly before graduation. His Lucky Bag write-up describes him accurately, stating that "as a practical 'savoir' there is none in the class higher"" and "he always had time to help those underclassmen as well as Classmates less fortunate than himself."

The service lost a good man with his departure.

At the time of his death he was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, the Daytona Beach Art League and the Daytona Beach Republican Club. He was also a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. He is survived by his widow, at 2711 N. Halifax Ave., Daytona Beach, FL 32018; a son, a daughter, three grandchildren, and a sister.

Submitted by Capt. Preston Marshall USN (Ret.)

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Sec"y-Treas., Capt. George P. Brewster, USN (Ret.), 611 W. 40th St. Baltimore MD 21211 West Coast Reporter, Capt. George F. Chapline USNR (Ret.) 1327 Inspiration Dr. La Jolla CA 92037 Percent Members: 86 A note from Nellie Gates states that he is tired of living alone and has moved into a retirement home in Lynchburg, Virginia. Nellie states that while this form of living is far different from the life he has enjoyed for some thirty-five years in his own comfortable home in Charlottesville, he is with cordial people and feels he will be content. We all hope so, Nellie, and may you have a long and happy life there.

Nellie"s address is: Capt. Nelson N. Gates USN (Ret.), Westminster-Canterbury, Apt. G 411, 501 V.E.S. Road, Lynchburg, VA 24503.

In a tender note from Lucia Cole she expressed her gratitude to the Class for the expressions of sympathy to her and the Cole family at the time of Max"s death in Danvers, Massachusetts. She especially appreciated the class wreath that was present for the services in the St. John"s Episcopal Church in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In her words—"It meant so Shipmate, November 1981

much to Max"s family and to me."" Thank you.

Lucia, for your kind thoughts. We only wish we could have been of more comfort to you at the time.

The letter from Lucia indicated that she has a new address which is: Mrs. Maxwell Cole, 27 Bass Rocks Road. Gloucester. MA 01930.

The Class of 1916 Memorial Scholarship of the Naval Academy Foundation was awarded this year to Francis X. Sheehan of College Park, Maryland. He attended the U. of Md. for a while before being selected for the scholarship earlier this year. While in high school he was a fine student, standing in the top 15% of his class. He was active in cross-country events as well as many other social and scholastic clubs of his school. In a letter this young midshipman thanked the Class for this chance to realize his long time ambition to attend the Naval Academy. We welcome this new plebe to the fold and wish him ""good sailing"" for the years ahead.

San Diego Area The .August lunch of the Classes of 1916-1718 was actively enjoyed Thursday, the 20th. in The Garden Room. Officers" Club. Marine Corps Recmit Depot. Don Curtis handled all arrangements, including the always delectable menu he selects: the tasty wine was ""on the Club."" We were most pleased to see "Parson" Richards with us again after a long absence: also "Phil" Warren present again after the circumstances which necessitated his absence for well over a year. Joe Loventhal was unable to be with us but gave his new address, stating all is very satisfactoryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;8333 Lake Gaby Avenue. San Diego. CA 92119. Ridgely Chapline of Washington (DC), who commented on the govemment situation there, was the guest of his brother. It was fine to see Jim Rodgers (USNA "53) again as guest of his father Bert.

A standing .Minute of Silence was observed for Julian Wheeler and our founder regular member "Hook" Jenkins. It was appreciated that Folsom Jenkins (USNA "53) could be with us this day: also he excellently expressed to this group, as well as to the Class of 1916. the Jenkins family's appreciation for the 1916 Ribbon Wreath and this group's flowers at the service for his father, as well as the sympathy and attention given his mother Esther, and the Jenkins family.

Present were: 1916 - Rodgers. Root. Chapline: 1917 - Warren. Richards. Kiland: 1918 Curtis. This was a most interesting gathering, lasting well beyond our regular two hours.

An extremely touching letter from Doanda Wheeler to 1916. conceming the Class wreath and representation at both the Menio Park. Califomia. service and the interment service at Arlington National Cemetery, was read at this August lunch. It was intended for the special July 2nd Reunion Lunch. Class of 1916. but mail confusion delayed its receipt until the day after that occasion. "Red" Keady's assistance, being a vicinity resident, was especially helpful to Doanda.

"Max" Cole's passing (not known to us until after the August 20th Lunch) brought a beautifully expressed letter from Lucia telling of how she and ""Max" always enjoyed our Group's Valentine Parties (honoring wives and widows) which they attended several years when West in Carmel from New Hampshire for the Winter.

She said it afforded them such a wonderful opportunity to see so many old friends not seen in the East.

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17 Acting Sec'y. Capt. Ward P. Davis USN (Ret.) 670 Americana Dr.. Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 82

18 Secy. Capt. Perrv R. Taylor, USNR (Ret.) 1211 South 25th S't., Arlington VA 22202 Percent Members: 89 The executive committee, Sullivan, Rogers, Taylor, has decided against having a class reunion in Washington and Annapolis in 1982. because we believed that few Classmates would be able or willing to come. Thirty-four graduates are still with us. The notification and handling of a complete reunion is more than we five residing in this area can do. But the seven Classmates in or near Florida or the 13 on the Coast could have a reunion in one or both of these areas; or reunions elsewhere might be arranged.

The secretary can fumish addresses for writing to Classmates in the locations selected.

In the past the expenses have been provided by those attending. It is suggested that any reunion held in 1982 be supported in the same way, except that the cost of dinners for widows will be paid as usual from class funds by the treasurer (Capt. E. C. Rogers, 3512 Albemarle St.. NW. DC 20008) upon notification of the number of widows attending. Those making the arrangements can better ascertain the addresses of widows and second generations to be invited.

The secretary would appreciate leaming of the names and addresses of widows attending.

One of our great ladies passed away recently: many of her devoted friends were much bereaved at her death. Rebecca (Cumbs) widow of our distinguished Classmate. Ross Whitemarsh (RAdm.. USN). departed us on 5 March '81. Most friends knew her as Betty and recall her delightful companionship and genuine fellowship. They were aware of her devotion to Ross and her custom of following him anywhere in the United States as duty called him.

With the start of WWII. Ross carried on as all good officers did. but Betty was not able to follow him because of his demanding work in the Westem Pacific. On 7 December 1941. she was at Pearl Harbor, but did not evacuate as many families did after the devastating attack on our defenses. She then served as a govem-

ment censor in Honolulu. And from then until 1946 she could not be with him to any extent.

But in 1946 during his shore duty on the Coast she was able to rejoin him for the three years prior to his retirement. After this her love of family and home always an inspiration to those who knew her became her modest aim.

She and Ross settled in her ancestral home, built in 1785 in Oaks. Pennsylvania, (near Valley Forge). This home, known as Neebor Lee. is a national historic site. After Ross's death in 1977. the influence of many friends pressed her to move elsewhere, but she preferred to maintain this treasure for the enjoyment of her children and grandchildren. But in the Spring of 1981 when visiting friends in Florida she became ill and passed away.

She is survived by two daughters. Shelden, wife of G. A. Herbert, USNA '48. and Frances, wife of L. H. Wells, a navy flier, and by five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial service took place in St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church, Oaks, which was given to that community by Betty's grandmother, Rebecca Wetherhill Cumbs. a member of the Society of Free Quakers. Betty was buried in the family plot near the church and close to Ross of whom she was intensely proud.

In 1977 he was buried in the same family plot in the church graveyard. It is of interest that he at age 23 was adrift for ten days in a lifeboat with 18 British seamen, all of whom had been riding in a ship torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic. Ross's command of the men and boat was recognized. After being picked up by a ship, he was awarded a Navy Cross for his accomplishment and a British Life Saving Medal for saving the men.

Birthdays Greetings are sent to Tommy Inglis. 11/19; Proc Thomton, 11/25; Earl Stone, 12/2.

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Sec'y. Capt. G. Laurence Schetky USN (Ret.) 5606 Glenwood Road, Bethesda MD 20817 Percent Members: 79 George Dyer has sent a picture, reproduced herewith, of the Class gathering at our sixtythird Reunion. May 9th. at Alumni House. The complete list of those present was given in the July-August issue of Shipmate.

George had been in Savannah, Georgia, on August 15th, to attend the National Convention of the Military Order of the World Wars, of which George is a past commander.

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Once again we have to begin our notes with the sad news of the loss of another Classmate.

Marshall R. Greer, vice admiral USN (Ret.), passed away on August 12th. He was buried on August 17th in Ariington National Cemetery.

The Class was represented by Bill Callaghan, Miles DuVal, Tom Wynkoop and Laurence Schetky. His complete obituary will appear in the "Last Call" section of Shipmate.

At the launching of CALLAGHAN

In our photo, Cong. Eari D. Hutto (D-FL), left, was the principal speaker for the commissioning of one of the Navy's most formidable new fighting ships, the guided missile destroyer USS CALLAGHAN (DDG-994), at IngaUs Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, recently. Others participating in the ceremony were, from left, VAdm. William M. Callaghan USN (Ret.) '19, brother of RAdm. Daniel J. Callaghan for whom the ship is named; Cdr. John T. Hood, commanding officer of the new ship; and RAdm. Robert B. McClinton, USN '48, Commander, Charieston (SC) Naval Base.

A fine letter comes from Cid Wildman, "to express a bit of philosophy." He had corresponded recently with Walter Whitehead, whom he had not seen since graduation, and Cid adds "I could not help but reflect on how few institutions engender such lasting friendships as the Naval Academy." I am sure all hands will agree with that fine sentiment.

20 Class Correspondent, Mrs. W. P. Hepburn 11-B-l President Point Drive Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 82 Benny Haven writes from the Menio Park area of California concerning 1920 there. "We seem well scattered and of quite different interests, so we seldom see each other. All I can say now is; 'no news is good news." We are both busy gardening and in tolerable health, with the aid of modern medical science and pills.""

We have notes from Gyp Beightler and Benny Decker. They have each had serious physical difficulties taken care of in the San Diego Naval Hospital, each praising the medical care and friendly service at the hospital. Benny says he is now looking forward to his 65th Anniversary.

The Annapolis Group (as is the Class in general) is steadily shrinking. We are now down to six Classmates and eight widows. We enjoy an occasional gathering with friends, mostly other Classes, and attending some of the games, or observing the boys and giris at Chapel—less 56

than the full Brigade, but still a considerable number of Midshipmen—and listening to the fine choir. The choir still marches in slow time to the front of the Chapel and retums in formation singing the closing hymn. A girl's choir from one of the area schools often sings in the antiphonal choir in the rear of the Chapel. The Chapel service is still impressive.

At Arlington Cemetery in July—Packy Swanson, Bill Goggins, Father Bieckhaus, Oats Holsinger. Carter Anderson, and WAP Martin.

The Class received a thoughtful note from Eleanor Bassett which reads as follows: "My family and 1 wish to express our appreciation for the beautiful floral basket sent to Melvin's services. Throughout the years our association with Classmates and the Naval Academy have meant so much to us. Thank you for the most thoughtful expression of sympathy.'"

MEMORIES—Remember When?

Scala's, where ten cents worth of apples were delivered to the Main Office in Bancroft Hall.

Carrying packages in town was forbidden. Also, Al Moore's, ice cream, candy, peanuts.

The way to get to Crownsville, or to Arnold, or to Saint Margaret's, or to Bay Ridge, was to walk. Carvel Hall was the finest hotel in town.

The W.B. & A. ran on tracks down Main Street and up King George to College Ave. To march to Chapel to the music of the band, or to march to a Church in town required dress jackets—no one was excused except the watch or special requests for a reason.

Marching to Bladen Street to board the special train for the Army-Navy Game in New York.

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Sec'y, RAdm. J. R. Dudley USN (Ret.) 161 Edwards Ferry Road Leesburg VA 22075 703/777-3877 Treas., Col. Sherwood B. Smith USA (Ret.) 5055 Garfield St. NW Washington DC 20016 202/686-6311 Sec'y., San Diego Area: RAdm. Logan McKee USN (Ret.) 738 Glorietta Blvd.

Coronado CA 92118 Treas., Col. Sherwood B. Smith AUS (Ret.) 5005 Garfield St. N.W. Washington DC 20016 Percent Members: 84 Our 60th observance of 'graduation' coincided with "Homecoming" 1981. Timing was debatable and our committee's decision sure not to please everyone. But for those who could and did attend, the housing problem was overshadowed by the joy of seeing again, not only our Classmates and the widows of Classmates, but guests and many friends from other classes. We hope our committee members took a lesson to apply to our 65th. Look for more news in the next issue.

We received a letter of appreciation from our Class of 1921 Honor Scholar, Paul F. McHale.

His home is Tumersville, New Jersey, and he is a plebe in the 23rd Company. The U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, Inc., sponsored 82 candidates for the Class of 1985.

Our Executive Committee met August 13, 1981, at Army-Navy Club, (DC) and accepted with regret Secretary Heber Brumbaugh's resignation. He and Nina relocated September 23 to a retirement residence at Cockeysville, Maryland. Jim Dudley was elected Secretary and Sherwood Smith was elected Treasurer. He gets the accounts after the 60th.

We sadly report the death of RAdm. Harold Alexander Houser on September 3, at a nursing home near Kensington, Maryland. A memorial service was scheduled for September 10 at the Naval Academy Chapel. The family suggests memorials be made to Naval Academy Athletic Association or to a charity of your choice.

Your Treasurer thanks the many who so promptly respond to the annual letter. He is grateful for the "dues," still $2, and more so for the little extra that ranges from $1 to $98.

Money, while necessary, is not his greatest pleasure. The friendly little notes that he often finds with the "dues" warm his heart and sweep away some cobwebs time puts on memories going back to 1917, some earlier. As of early September he has heard from 50 Classmates and 11 widows. Among those responding are: Eddie Graves, Clint Misson, Abie Cook, Ed Porteous, Wes Bobbitt, Bunny Wray, Bill Rees, George Stevens, Frank Eggers, Johnny Wilhs, Al Granum, Mick Carney, Arthur Ayrault, Spot Quinby, Don Giles, Sabe Sabin, Charlie Roland, Conrad Follansbee, Syd Dodds, and many others . Our bank balance is some $ 1,200 fatter than in May, but obligations for the reunion will shrink that.

Our next luncheon of the Washington-Annapolis group is November 24 at noon at the Bethesda Commissioned Officers" Mess.

We hope all who attended our 60th reunion arrived home safely and plan a happy Thanksgiving and a joyful Christmas. BEAT ARMY! LATE BLAST! Kudos to our George Van Deurs, '21 (not "31) in helping report Belvedere news for Class "29 notes in September Shipmate.

San Francisco Bay Area On 25 July, George van Deurs celebrated his 80th Birthday. He is the youngest Classmate in the Bay Area, and possibly the youngest living member of 1921.

Anna Thayer (we all remember Rufus Thayer) was hostess to a delightful small luncheon party on 26 August at the St. Francis Yacht Club.

Anna and Rufus were old-time members of the club and Anna has kept up her membership.

The buffet luncheon was exceedingly delicious; all enjoyed the clear view of the Bay and passage of ships through the Golden Gate. Anna especially used the occasion to celebrate the birthdays of Dave Davis and AB Carlisle, which occurred on consecutive days, 26 and 27 of August. Eleanor and Norman were privileged to attend. Also Anna"s long time friend, Virginia Doney, whose husband was Army Colonel Doney, drove down from St. Helena to enjoy the occasion. Virginia owns a large acreage of vineyards which produce a variety of wine grapes, most notably zinfandels. She does a great deal of the work herself. Virginia is the aunt of Carol Hallett, the attractive and talented minority leader of the California State Assembly in Sac-

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ramento, who has become a very influential Republican.

Red Grove. Class of 1920, and his wife Marian, on the 29th of August, threw open their gorgeous home in Atherton to their many Bay Area friends. Their perfectly appointed dinner party was to honor Red on this birthday. Three guests were also honored because of their birthdays occurring within a day or two, namely Dave Davis, AB Carlisle, and Barbara Kransfelder. Although they maintain a Texas home, Marion and Red have improved their Atherton property and beautifully fumished their home.

Because of the mild weather the party was held on a large outside patio from which a view of spacious gardens and pool could be enjoyed by the fifty guests. The catered dinner was of the best and beautifully handled. A guest tour of this unusual home was included in the festivities. The majority of those present were of the Class of "21; however, Anna Thayer"s escort was VAdm. Francis C. Denebrink USN (Ret.), Class of "17. Beny and Hugh Webster, '26; Barbara and Kranz Kranzfelder, "20; Francis Sylvester, widow of E. Wallace Sylvester, '20; Kura and Ashby Evans, "24; Alice Kramer, widow of Army General Kramer; Susie and Bill Bennett: Nancy and Jerry Solar, AB's daughter and son-in-law; Barbara and Dave Carlisle, AB's son and daughter-in-law; Joyce and Marvin Grove. Red"s son and daughter-in-law; Drury 0"Neill. Marian's daughter, who furnished and set up all the table decorations; Steve 0"Neill. Marian"s grandson; Paul Flehr, long time friend and patent attomey of Red"s; Darla and Bill Dobson. business associates and close friends. At the height of the party, unexpectedly, there appeared at the door a young woman with a mass of balloons in her arms, which she presented to Red to add to the festivities. The surprise was arranged by Whitey and Kathy Whiteford. '21. who five in Texas.

San Diego Area The San Diego Chapter of the Class of 1921 held its regular monthly luncheon at the Marine Corps Recmit Depot on Tuesday, 25 August.

Present were the following: Paul Abemethy, Jim Baker. Nick Carter. Abie Cook. Sydney Dodds, Tom Eshng, Hod Gorry. Bris McHugh, Logan McKee, Ivan Miller. Tim O'Brien, Stogi Roberts. Sabe Sabin. Don Smith. Leo Stafford, Ray Tarbuck and Bunny Wray.

Elsie and Nick Carter were the only members of the Class to attend June Week West at Monterey. They enjoyed the festivities.

Mary and Stogi Roberts plan on attending the 60th reunion.

Decision was reached to hold the next luncheon at the Naval Amphibious Base.

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: 78 It is late August in northem Vermont. From a chair in the garden I look across a beautiful valley of farms toward long ranks of green mountains. The sky is blue, the air clear and pure—so quiet—the only sounds come from a pair of chirping goldfinches on the fence and the faint mooing of cows on the dairy farm below.

As of now I have no class news. All mail is in Shipmate, November 1981

Washington. So let me tell about two romances that occurred some two thousand miles away.

The USS MoNONGAHELA, a barkentine-rigged Sloop of War built in Philadelphia in 1862, joined Admiral Farragut"s blockading squadron at Mobile Bay where she fought in the famous battle that ensued. After the Civil War in 1867 she was in the Virgin Islands when the great eruption of Mt. Pelee occurred. A huge tidal wave swept MoNONGAHELA a mile inland from her anchorage and into the town of Frederickstad on the Island of St. Croix. All hands were on deck as the ship rode the wave over docks and warehouses and toward the second floor balcony of a house where two frightened young ladies stood. On deck two young lieutenants were fearful that the ship would crash the balcony. As the story goes, one of the lieutenants called out, "Stand by young ladies, we"re coming alongside." Fortunately for all hands (including the Class of '22) the tidal wave receded just in time, the balcony remained intact, and the ship was deposited on an even keel on the beach near the shoreline.

The two lieutenants felt impelled to pay a call to apologize for the fright their ship had caused.

The two young ladies tumed out to be Miss Ruan and her visiting cousin Miss Krause.

"Both young ladies and their family were most hospitable, and the upshot of it was that we married the girls." The young officer who married Miss Krause was Lieutenant John HoweU (later Admiral Howell), and they became Frances Vest's grandparents.

Johnny Vest and Frances visited St. Croix a number of years ago. Who should be their helpful guide but our own Martha Schultz, a very qualified guide because St. Croix was her birthplace—her maiden name Martha (Treat) Merwin, of Danish ancestry, the sixth generation on her mother's side to be bom on St. Croix.

Martha's father, a native of Connecticut who went to St. Croix in 1885, operated several schooners to import general merchandise from New York in exchange for rum, sugar and molasses.

Johnny Schultz and Martha first met when Johnny, bom in nearby Antigua, moved to St. Croix at the age of five. They became playmates. Johnny first proposed to Martha at the age of six on the steps of the Moravian Church where his father was the pastor. The Schultz family moved back to the states, but Martha and Johnny kept in touch all through their teens.

Then Martha came north to school in New York and Johnny joined the Class of '22. Their childhood romance weathered those years of separation, and another St. Croix romance came to fmition in October 1922.

We hope you are interested in these stories.

There must be a host of others. Do send them in so that all may enjoy thinking about the many facets of the colorful background of the Class of '22.

In Washington. September 1st.

Arrangements for our 60th Reunion, October 15-17, l982, are beginning to jell. Periodic bulletins will reach everyone in ample time to make arrangements. Housing, bus transportation, luncheons, the class dinner, chapel, football game, tours and related activities are reserved on the Academy books.

For those who haven't visited Annapolis recently, "Crabtown"" is now called "a museum without walls."" Much of the old town has a real Colonial aspect due to a fine restoration program. Even Garfinckle's Christmas catalogue

will feature interior shots of William Paca's grand house, behind old Carvel Hall, now restored, with its original gardens just as they were in the 1760s.

We have some sad news: A letter from Harvey Walsh reports the recent loss of Henry Agnew, but we have no date at this writing; and Luke Halsell (Fulwar S.) passed away on August first in South Bend. An obituary for Luke will be found in "Last Call" in a future issue. More later about Henry.

Here is a bit more information that we have been able to find out about our deceased Classmate, RAdm. James G. Sampson USN (Ret.), whose obituary appeared in the September issue of Shipmate.

"Sammy" lived in Galena, Illinois, and he died on 28 April 1981 at St. Joseph's Unit Mercy Health Care Center in Dubuque, Iowa. As a midshipman at the Academy he was a distinguished marksman and he appeared at the Camp Perry National Rifle Matches together with three of his Classmates.

During World War II he commanded LST Flotilla 13 at Guadalcanal, participated in the landings at Pelelieu and Iwo Jima, and later commanded the USS ADIRONDACK (AGC

15).

His final active duty was as senior member of the Board of Inspection and Survey in San Diego.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and a former elder of the church, a former Galena city councilman, and a member of the Elks, Miners Masonic Lodge, the VFW, and the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Survivors include his widow Isabel, two sisters, Miriam Sampson of Galena and Mrs. Carol Jordan of LaGrange; one niece and one nephew.

Mrs. Sampson will continue to live at 901 Third Street, Galena IL 61036.

Services were held at the First Presbyterian Church on 1 May with the Rev. WiUiam Harnish, pastor, officiating, and burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. Casket bearers and honor guard were from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.

Our deepest sympathy is expressed to the family.

A note from Ralph Shepard in San Antonio indicates that he is in good health; keeping busy teaching arts and crafts and showing exhibits in middle and high schools of railroads, steamships, warships and sailing ships.

Newspaper clippings indicate that lectures of our famed nutritionist, Curtis Shears, continue to be well received in many parts of the country.

Curtis" theme, "We are what we eat," gets attention. His new center of operations in Bonita Springs, Florida, is also the location of the burgeoning General Nutrition Bonita Bay Project.

Our Class luncheon at the Army-Navy Club on September first suffered by the continued summer absence of several regulars, and only six were there: Frank Akers, Doughboy Kneeland, Don Johnston, Doc Pratt, Carl Espe, and Zeke Sanborn—all in fine fettle except that Doc has a slightly game right knee but coming along nicely under the ministrations of the same bone and joint man who tends the Redskins' knees.

And with that important item we close for now. And we'd better or you know who'll get fired.

Happy Thanksgiving! And BEAT ARMY!

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23 Sec'y RAdm. Elliot Strauss USN (Ret.) 2945 Gariield 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: 93 All Classmates are cordially invited to our Washington Chapter luncheons of the 1981-82 season. Our first luncheon was held on Wednesday, September 9. Subsequent luncheons will be held on the first Wednesday of each month.

We sit down at noon. Luncheons are held at the Officers' Club, U.S.N.H., Bethesda. Maryland.

A letter from Wink to Kari: "Thank you for your delightful card. What a grand dividend from my bulletin spiel it is.

"I'm sorry about your having to give up your pipe, but if the medico advised it, you are surely wise to heed him. Allof which reminds me of my last physical exam. There I was in the buff with the good doctor looking me over when, suddenly, he said "How many pipes do you smoke a day?" I replied, "Ten. twelve, fifteen —I don't count them. Why?" Medico: 'You smell like a tobacco factory!" I then said, 'I don't inhale. You aren't going to tell me to stop, are you?" He then said that as long as I did not inhale, he would not tell me to stop. Even so. there are many doctors who say that a pipe smoker can't help but do some inhaling and I must confess that Fm afraid they "re right. I have just had a chest X-ray and am waiting for Dr. Fisherkeller—really!—to tell me the result.

"Do keep up your midshipman cruise stories and any others that come to mind. I like them!'"

The following letter received from John Crommelin, one of our finest "fighter"" pilots: "Enclosed is the local report on launching of USS CROMMELIN. A few misspelled words but it also contains a vignette of history which 1 alone can vouch for as I gave the orders, verbal. to the pilots of Air Group Ten and they damned well carried them out beyond my wildest expectations. I was so stimulated by their performance that I couldn't sleep for 48 hours. 1 knew that after 15 November 1942 it would from that date on be a downhill pull to Tokyo.

"If I could get Frank Rigler, to help me we could write the real history of Worid War II in the Pacific, 'The Way It Was." "My very best to you, John."

Quoting from The Wetumpka Herald of 9 ]u\y 1981: "On the bright clear afternoon of July 2, 1981, at the Todd Shipyards in Seattle, Washington, the USS CROMMELIN, Guided Missile Frigate Number 37, slid majestically down the building ways and entered the cold waters of Puget Sound on the first leg of its long joumey to join the Fleet.

"CROMMELIN is named for the sons of John and Katharine Crommelin of Harrogate Springs.

All the sons are Alabamians, and all naval officers with combat records in the Pacific in World War II.'" The five gallant brothers are: LCdr. Richard Crommelin, ('38), lost flying cover for torpedo bombers in a combat mission over Hokaido on July 14, 1945; Cdr. Charles Crommehn, ("31),

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lost diving on the beaches at Okinawa; Lt. Quentin Crommelin, ('41). the youngest brother, antiaircraft officer on the aircraft carrier SARATOGA for the invasion of Guadalcanal; VAdm. Henry Crommelin, ("25). who commanded the last battleship division in commission as a rear admiral; and RAdm. John Crommelin, ('23). who was air officer and then executive officer of ENTERPRISE, considered by knowledgeable historians to have been the greatest fighting ship in all the annals of recorded naval history.

Quoting again from The Wetumpka Herald: "In the very dark days of late Fall 1942, with five compartments on the starboard side flooded to the sea and her number one elevator jammed by a bomb hit. ENTERPRISE was the only aircraft carrier afloat in the South Pacific. However, Admiral Halsey sent her up to help the U.S. Marines who were in an almost desperate position defending Henderson Field.

"On a one-way trip to Guadalcanal, ENTERPRISE torpedo planes sank the first Japanese battleship, HiEi, on Friday the 13th, November, 1942. The next day ENTERPRISE got a signal from Halsey, very short and easily understood, 'GET THE TRANSPORTS!" Eleven enemy transports with a reinforced division of Japanese marines from Manchuria were coming down The Slot to prepare the coup-de-grdce for our Marines. ENTERPRISE dive-bombers and torpedo planes with some help from the battle-weary U.S. Marines sank eight of the transports and so damaged the other three they they had to mn aground on the beach to keep from sinking.

After three days of heavy air and surface fighting, the ENTERPRISE air group had sunk one battleship, one heavy cruiser, eleven transports, damaged two destroyers, and shot down 17 Zeros, and ENTERPRISE lost only five dive bombers and four air crews.

"This magnificent performance by Air Group Ten of ENTERPRISE was a major factor in stopping the last enemy offensive. After 15 November 1942 the Japanese basic strategy changed to the defensive.""

From our good correspondent. "Hous" Waring: "Last night, July 10, the Colorado Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni, dined at the Regency Inn, Denver, with 45 present. The attraction was Wally Schirra. USNA "46. who returned 20 minutes before the dinner from Cape Canaveral, where he had been briefed on the Shuttle.

"The fellows were delighted to learn that nine Naval Academy men had been in orbit. Five of them, including Wally, had a reunion at Annapolis not long ago. 1 asked Wally what the cutoff age is for astronauts. He said that had not been determined, as one capable man is 57. 1 also questioned him about micro-meteors which spacemen encounter. He said these have been too tiny to cause troubles to the craft, but the astronauts are prepared to plug holes and retain pressure on anything as big as a pencil. This has not yet happened.

"1 went to the banquet with Capt. and Mrs. Elbert Lee ("Fry"") Fryberger of Sun City, Arizona, Class of 1923. He was assigned to HELENA when it was damaged at Peari Harbor. The Frybergers are summering in Colorado Springs, a town full of ex-Naval Academy men, at least two from "23. Driving up to Denver was Cdr. Lee Fryberger, a son. Class of "54, who is president of the Colorado Alumni Chapter. Address: 7711 S. Logan Drive. Littleton. He is with Martin Marietta Aerospace here.

"Also in our Chapter are Admiral Chas. J. McWhinnie, "22. and Robert O. Mathews. heavyweight boxing champ at Annapolis. Class of "24.

"I have been made happy in recent months by letters from Bill Van Dusen, McFarland Wood, Bill Rassieur, Elliott Strauss, and Karl Hensel. I often wish distances were not so great in our country.

"I forgot to ask Fryberger if he recalled the Japanese warship that passed us in the Panama Canal in 1920. As we slowly moved through the locks in opposite directions the Japanese quickly assembled a band and played a squeaky 'Star Spangled Banner.' Do you recall that. Bill?

"Thanks for your newsletters, which are meaningful to us all."

24 Sec'y and Columnist. Mr. Robert A. Keyer, Box 7234. Richmond VA 23221 E. Coast Sec'y. RAdm. H. B. Miller USN (Ret.) W. Coast Secy, VAdm. C. E. Ekstrom USN (Ret.) Percent Members: 88 The Harmon Trophy. Annually we read of an announcement of the distinguished Harmon Trophy being awarded to some outstanding aviator who, during the past year, achieved some unusual accomplishment which contributed to the advance of aviation. It is recognized throughout the world's aviation fratemity as the Number One Award. Examples of past winners obviously are Lindbergh and Jimmy Doohttle.

Altitude and speed records were recognized in those early days as well as today"s moon-landing teams, and it would seem reasonable that the Shuttle Pilots would qualify. The nationality of the winners is unspecified and is not restricted to U.S. citizens.

Few of us are aware of the predominant influence the Class of '24 exerts on the Harmon Trophy. Clifford B. Harmon was one of the really old-timers who achieved prominence as a pilot in the first decade of flight. He also had a proclivity for finance and accumulated a fortune. As an executive he helped form various aeronautical associations with a view of promoting this fledgling profession. He also set up flight incentives in his own plane by being the first to fly across Long Island Sound. Later a Foundation was generously endowed by Harmon to provide an award to the aviator who contributed the most to aviation during the year.

The classes have since been increased to include male, female, HTA, LTA, and astronautics. The Foundation was placed under the auspices of the Westchester County Surrogate. RAdm. "Rosy" Rosendahl was an active member of the selection committee and when a vacancy occurred he brought Sam Singer in as a member.

Upon "Rosy's"" death. Sam proposed John Shannon as a replacement. So, our two Classmates, Sam and John, along with the third member. Ansel Talbert (well-known aviation writer of the defunct Herald Tribune) select the annual winners who are honored by a prestigious presentation by the President of the United States, at the White House. The Harmon Trophy was established by the brother of LCdr. Harmon, a naval aviator who died in an airplane crash at Norfolk as WWI ended.

Wally Petersen has a change of zip code 20816: his address is unchanged. Savy Crampton finally collared Doc de Wolf who wrote him 30 June.

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Doc reported, "Marian and myself are leaving Paris and will not be at Cap Ferrat for the Summer." They bought a new Mercedes 300D (diesel) and are spending the Summer on the coast of Normandy and later going to Holland. Germany and Switzerland. June found the de Wolfs sleeping under blankets and quilts in Paris.

Chink WinecofTs sister. Mrs. S. M. Kavellin.

433 North Palm Drive, Beveriy Hills CA 90210, writes: "My heartfelt thanks to his Classmates of '24 for the beautiful flowers and expressions of sorrow and affection. Those of the Class who visited the Winecoffs will remember their love of flowers and the joy Chink had in his garden.

With best wishes and warm regards to each of you. Aida Kavellin."

Stan (Denmead) Kolb finds he has three copies of the 1924 Lucky Bag and one of 1921 and one of 1922, which he would like to dispose of to some Classmate or any other Shipmate. Denmead will send these Lucky Bags with no charge on request. Address: 644 S. Salisbury Blvd..

Salisbury MD 21801. Woody Woodyard's report of his Las Vegas visit in mid-Summer: "Las Vegas was a brassy, flashy, trashy and a spectacular monument to man's foibles and follies.

The Lido de Paris show had more topless exhibits than chicken breasts in a poultry market.

A Helluva time to have one eye."" From Hans Baldwin (with part credit to Charles de Gaulle) "Old age is a shipwreck. The best we can do is to stay afloat." Hans also likes the following from Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: "It is the body that is old: the spirit is no older and not much wiser, and that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise.

They grow careful." Red Ruhsenberger was at Ethyl Wolowsky's side to try to help soon after Count Wolowsky answered "Last Call"" on 12 July. Ethyl had been gently prepared for the events for some years because of the valicmt fight Count made against his illness. Red adds: "Count was such a fine man and I was very fond of him. We were in the same Company for four years at the Academy and I know of no person who ever spoke an ill word about our extraordinary Classmate, the Count. We will miss him dreadfully, but we can also give thanks for the privilege of having known him.""

Fanny and Wally Petersen on 21 June 1981 celebrated their first wedding anniversary, a wonderful year for both of them.

A few issues earUer, we reported the Jack Engeman Art Show in Baltimore in January 1981 received the acclaim of critics throughout the Middle Atlantic States. It is doubtful that Aunt Alice, who gave Jack a box camera, had any thoughts about what she had initiated. But certainly she did not anticipate that her gift would result in her Nephew being acclaimed the dean of Maryland photographers.

The October "Last Call" reported our loss of W.V. (Bill) Davis on 25 July. All of the Class held their breath when Bill shoved off from Oakland to navigate Art Goebel in the Wollaroc to Hawaii. None of us were concemed, and he certainly was the last of us to command a battleship, USS ALABAMA. Our warm sympathy to the Family.

Class geographers note: Page Smith's home.

Grand Bay, Alabama, is close to the Mississippi Une S.W. of Mobile, but Dynamite Short's Lost Gap, Mississippi, is not on the map. Dyna says, "Lost Gap is S.W. of Meridian in the 'Mountains' (elevation 333 feet). If one travels through there on Route 20 he wUl see signs. It seems that area is or was so remote that the surveyors got lost there (hence the name). It is near AmnShipmate, November 1981

del, I believe. May make a trip there this Fall and if so I'll spot it for you, right down to yards from ground zero"'.

Dee and Page Smith on 28 June had their 54th wedding anniversary. Page says nothing exciting has happened to them this year. They have had golf week ends at The Breakers, Palm Beach; Belleview Biltmore, Clearwater; and Linville C.C., North Carolina. Much more fun than Cruising Europe!

Noble Abrahams has been in touch with Tommy (W.B.) Thompson's son William, Jr. who says "Tommy"" is a nickname rarely used in depths of Arkansas where Gladys and Tommy have lived at Pine Bluff for some years.

Gladys and Tommy. WiUiam Jr., reports, are in good health and their consuming avocation is duplicate bridge and they are nearing Life Masters" qualifications. Gladys and Tommy had two sons: Dick who played basketball and baseball for L.S. U., graduating in 1951 and is quite active in business and church affairs at Pine Bluff. William Jr. USNA 1950, retired from the Navy, and lives in New Mexico with his wife and five daughters.

Do you remember when a score of 35-28 might be that of a championship basketbaU game?

Remember Pete McKee, Swede Ekstrom, Matt Mattuci and Art Barnes on the wooden-block Armory court being fmstrated by being locked up by zone regulations? Art was from Brooklyn (Iowa) and naturally was expected to play basketball, which is the official game of the Hawkeyes. Following his first sea duty assignment Art became a submariner, which took him to the usual sub base locations. Unfortunately, he had to take a physical retirement in 1941, but even though he was reduced to wheel-chair mobility, he became an important cog in the maintenance department of the Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City. Art passed away in 1965. John Shannon and Min Miller carried his ashes to a Coast Guard helicopter at Floyd Bennett Field. They were strewn over his beloved sea near New London where much of his 17 years of submarine duty centered. MUdred Bames took up residence in Mystic, Connecticut, a beautiful spot which the Barneses early decided would be their permanent home. From here MUdred has done much worldwide traveUing. Of the three daughters, two live in Vermont, whUe the third is in Louisiana. Arthur, Jr., decided at the end of his youngster year at the Academy ("50) that Navy life was not his "dish of tea". Upon resigning, he began studies in petroleum engineering at the U of Oklahoma.

He since has been with Occidental Petroleum Company for years, covering areas such as South America, Nigeria and now TripoU. Interesting that the sons of both Red BaUinger and Art Barnes are shipmates aboard CALIFORNIA, should chose some phase of energy as their life-long careers. Mildred would love to see any '24 who may be passing through Mystic.

In July, Helen Bunker, beloved wife of "Fire Room" Bunker, departed this life while asleep.

We sorrow with Bunk in his great grief.

Joe Darlington has written the Columnist and is still residing in Costa Rica; Joe, like many others in the Class, has a great love for raising flowers. Midn. Philip A. Gonda was selected as the Roy Hartwig Class of 1924 Memorial Honor Scholar for this year. His parents reside in Lorton, Virginia. Philip had some attendance at William and Mary.

Bob Hatcher reports he was pleased and excited to receive an invitation to attend change of command of DWIGHT D . EISENHOWER at

St.

Thomas, Virgin Islands, when in July Capt.

J. H. Mauldin was relieved by Capt. E. W. Clexton, Jr. Heloise and Bob were guests at luncheon in July with Sue (Elizabeth) Bare, given by Nancy, daughter of Sue and Bob Bare and Nancy's husband. Col. John Kemp. Sue is well and happy and lives within walking distance of Nancy and her husband. Heloise and Bob Hatcher"s oldest daughter, Joe Drummond, has just been appointed a vice president of Wells Fargo Bank and their third daughter, Celine Alvey, is librarian at the National Gallery of Art. Bob also teUs us monthly "24 luncheons at Monterey have been going along as scheduled with frequent full attendance of six resident membersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gardner, Hopkins, Stout, Falge, Layton and Hatcher.

New England Clam Chowder Plans set last Spring by Northeast Corridor group for '24 luncheon. Delayed by Woodyard's West Coast Visit; Walker by business at St. Croix; Longfellow, Florida, famUy Ulness; Min Miller going to Germany to visit his son; dig deep for Ralph Baldwin who has avoided such gatherings for years; break out Sam Singer, who avoids traveling distances; Tracy had saUing date but could make it; Shannon available because of practising golf to take Don Walker's money; Hans Baldwin ready as usual; above eight gathered 20 August at Round Hill Country Club in Greenwich. Shannon and Walker were hosts. Noteworthy: only one at table with cane; two with hip replacements.

The following attended the August 26 Class luncheon of the Coronado-San Diego Group at North Island: Gloria and BiU Bailey, Kay and Evvie Burroughs, Easley Cameron, Vema and Chet CarroU (hosts), LeUa Dunn. Betty and Swede Ekstrom, Dot Harris from Pensacola, Grace Hoffman, Collins Landstreef, Fem and Eric Lankenau, Adelene Magly, Josephine Read, Hunter Robinson, Jessie Rutt, Evelyn and Dutch Schultz, and Helen Townsend.

25 Secy, 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: 86 In each November Shipmate we have tried to say a few words about the Marines and especially those Classmates who served in that Corps in peace and war, in the regulars or in the reserves. Now as the tenth of November 1981 is the 106th anniversary of that prestigious organization, we would like to once again salute the Marine members of our Class, living and dead, and wish the entire outfit a big Happy Birthday.

The Naval Academy Foundation has informed us that the Class of 1925 Memorial Honor Scholar for 1981 is James M. Wray, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Wray of Orinda, Califomia. James graduated from Miramonte High School of that city, which is about 10 miles east of Berkeley, standing 56 out of 379. He played football and baseball but did not receive letters in any sport. Under the Foundation program he attended UCLA and was able to qualify for entrance to USNA by improving his scores significantly. We welcome James as our scholar and wish him all success in his naval career.

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More good news about the sons of Classmates who are making their marks in the Navy. From the E. D. Newsletter for summer 1981 we learn that Capt. William M. Tmesdell, son of Ginny and our late Classmate Bill Truesdell, and of the Class of 1960 USNA, has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his services as SupShips, Boston, and is now assigned as assistant maintenance officer on the staff of Commander, Naval Logistics Command, Pacific.

Congratulations to Ginny and to young Bill and his family. And from the same publication, Robert W. Hoag III, Class of 1961, has been promoted to the rank of captain, U. S. Navy, and assigned to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Bob is the son of Harriet and our late Classmate Les Hoag. In a letter from Harriet, who lives in Phoenix, we have learned that Bob is very pleased about his new rank and job, as he may well be. Thus, Congrats to all the Hoags. In her letter, Harriet says that she, in spite of a very hot Summer, is doing very well.

Sounds pretty grim. Bob, but we're all in the same boat and are somehow bearing up.

Joining about 60 other N. A. Alumni people and an equal number of U. of Michigan folk, some Northwestern affiliates, and miscellaneous others, Jane and Schuyler Pyne and Avis Fenno made the Alumni trip in late August to Switzerland, the Rhine and Moselle Rivers, and to Paris—12 days in all. The details of the trip appear elsewhere in this issue of Shipmate, but it was a great trip with extra excitement in the form of a political bombing in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel in Paris on the evening of arrival there. Fortunately no one in the Alumni party was hurt, but there were 18 persons in the lobby area who were slightly injured by the flying glass. This was the Pynes' twentyeighth trip outside the continental U. S. since Schuyler retired from the Navy in June 1961.

Anybody Here Seen Kelley?

From some photographs loaned by Phil Compton's son Bob we picked a couple from Phil's collection which show a real contrast in life on first-class cruise that Summer. Take your pick of the one in which you would rather be.

Bruce Kelley has sent in a recent picture of Betty and himself which we are pleased to publish here. They live in Tacoma and report being well. Bruce says that since Frank Munroe passed away some months ago, he thinks he is the only '25er in that area. This is not quite correct as we do have Charlie Weeks and Lee Sugnet way up north, Lin Burkhead (from whom we never hear) in Bremerton, Bruno Hammond on Mercer Island, and T. C. White in Seattle.

As we have a little room in this month's issue, we think it is appropriate to publish Bob Dunlap's poem about old age to which we referred briefly in a recent issue. So here goes: OLD AGE IS HELL Your body gets stiff: you get cramps in your legs.

Corns on your toes as big as hen eggs.

Gas in your stomach—elimination poor: Take Ex-Lax at night - even then you're not sure.

You soak in the tub or your body will smell; Just like I say, OLD AGE IS HELL.

All of us who heard of the death of Betty, Butch Parker's wife, on 8 August have really been shocked. She died as a result of a heart attack in the hospital near their home in Lighthouse Point, Florida. Services were held on 11 August at the Presbyterian Church in Pompano Beach and were followed by cremation. Burial was in the Naval Academy Cemetery on 2 October. It is very difficult to realize that Betty, who was the very soul of vitality, friendship and kindness, is now gone. She and Butch did a wonderful job everywhere they happened to be, helping people and spreading happiness. To Butch we relay the most profound sympathy from the Class and from all their numerous friends and admirers.

A Lazy Day at Sea

Dick Elliott died on 2 September at the nursing home to which he had recently moved in Atlanta. He had been ill for many years but always seemed to be able to make a comeback somehow after various lengths of stay in hospitals.

He was buried in Arlington on 4 September, and a number of Classmates, wives and widows were in attendance. Dick served a fuU 30-year naval career with quite a bit of duty on foreign shores and in foreign waters. He saw lots of the world in peace and in wartime. He was one of the most popular Classmates; everyone knew and liked Dick. His wife Jean, who alternated with him in and out of hospitals over the last years of their lives, died a few years ago. She was equally popular. To their son and daughter and their grandchildren, our deepest sympathy.

Word has come via the Alumni Association that Ruth, Tony Beiser's widow, died recently in Clearwater, Florida, exact date and cause unknown. There are no descendents.

Also, Josephine, widow of Warren Johnson passed away in a hospital on Long Island on 20 August. No further details. Our sympathy to their daughter.

In late July and early August Anne Tonseth and Red Slaven, chaperoned by Anne"s brother, made a trip to Vermont and then to Hagerstown, Maryland, to visit various relatives. Red assures us that no class funds were used to pay expenses. And to keep track of our secretary, George O'Keefe, he has finally sold the old homestead out in Indiana so that Beulah and he can at last settle down in Virginia, although they seemed to have a pretty good time commuting back and forth with side trips to Canada.

Here is an interesting bit to chew on. The top man in our Class, Harry Hubbard, was the seventy-seven hundredth man to graduate from USNA, and in thumbing through the Register of Graduates, U. S. Military Academy, we find

A Working Day in Port

Your teeth start decaying: your eyesight is poor; Hair falling out all over the floor.

Sex life is short - a thing of the past.

Don't kid yourself friend, even that doesn't last.

Can't go to parties—can't dance anymore: Just putting it mildly, it's a hell of a bore.

Nothing to plan for, nothing to expect.

Just the mailman bringing your Social Security check.

Now be sure your affairs are in order And your will is made right.

Or on the way to the cemetery, there'll he a hell

of a fight.

So. if this year you're feeling fairly well.

Thank Godyou're alive. Even though OLD AGE IS HELL. 60

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that the seventy-seven hundredth man to graduate from that austere institution on the Hudson was in 1925 there as well. Thus it took 80 years for our school to turn out 7700 grads, while West Point took 123 years, with the Classes of 1925 being the matching ones.

26 Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg HI, USN (Ret.), "Secure,"" Box 178. Crystal River, FL 32629 Percent Members: 88 As the November deadline approaches near the end of August here at Capon Springs in the West Virginia Appalachian Mountains, it is still gorgeous, sunny, crisp weather as we prepare to move from our brick cottage on the mountaintop golf course, to the Chevy Chase Club on Washington"s Connecticut Avenue, for most of the month of September.

Frank Busey spent a couple of days with the Smedbergs at Capon Springs in mid-August, reporting on the progress being made toward completion of the Class History, which will probably be called something else, and bringing with him almost a hundred returned letters stamped "not deliverable as addressed" or "forwarding time expired." Some of those 1 have readdressed or mailed to known friends but we have had to give up on the followings widows: G. D. Baker, C. N. Day, J. G. Famsworth, J. J. Greytak, J. J. Landers. C. G. Long. O. T. Rippey, C. R. Rohweder, I. D. Shapiro, A. P. Smith. C. G. Summers. F. Mackle, Eddie Elliott, and B. P. Robeson, plus the following men: C. F. Olsen, R. B. Olney. and C. P. Elliott. Anyone knowing the mailing address of any of the above might do them a service by sending it to our Class Secretary. Capt. F. L. Busey, P. O. Box 906, LaPlata, MD 20646.

All the rest of you should have received from Frank Busey. Chairman of the Publishing Committee, a brief report which states that replies had been received from 277 of the 435 questionaires which were mailed in 1977. asking how many copies of the book each of you may want at $25 per copy. Those who have previously sent in the original estimated price of $15, should send in an additional $10; except for the widows of those who have left us since they mailed their $15. These will be no additional charge for those widows.

Reunion Golf Tournamentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;18 June 1981

Frank's committee in Washington is hard at work, proofreading, editing, condensing where necessary, and finalizing biographies. They are Katz, Lovette, Cavenagh, Bruton, and Moses; perhaps one or two others like Benny Helmick, also contributing.

Mort Fleming has just mailed an excellent picture of the men and lady golfers who played in the 55th Reunion tournament. Even though it is in color, perhaps it can be reproduced in Shipmate. In the front row starting with Max Leslie at the left, are Louise Craig, Bill Smedberg, Ruth Reich, P. D. Stroop, Claudia Smedberg, Hermann Reich, Helen Watson, Isabel Fleming, Carmen Mumma. Behind Carmen is Al Mumma, then Paul Watson, Esky Eskilson, Fielder Jones, Mort Fleming, Chet Kunz, John Sylvester, and Kenny Craig.

The Southern California Group had a class luncheon on 10 September with Phyllis and Sparky Scrymgeour hosting the attitude adjuslment in the Jack Towers Sea Cabin before the no-host lunch in the Sky Room at the North Island Officers" Club.

In an earlier Shipmate we reported the deaths of Bill Asserson and Robert R. De Wolfe on 22 and 20 July, but had no details. Clippings from Bill Floyd indicate there were no services for "Sock"" DeWolfe. after he died in a hospital, apparently in San Diego, and that he had lived in Rancho Bernardo since 1964. and had worked for Lockheed Missile and Space Project in Burbank.

Classmates present at "Skipper" Asserson"s services were Fleming, Floyd, Doc Jones, Linaweaver, Stroop and Sullivan. The clipping about Bill Asserson contained the interesting note that he had been born on board USS WABASH, then under the command of his grandfather, R. Adm. George W. Pigman, USN 1865.

In addition to Marusia he is survived by their two sons. William G. Ill and Peter, a sister, two brothers, three grandchildren and a great-grandson.

The Naval Academy Foundation has reported that the latest 1926 Honor Scholar, in the Class of 1985 at the Academy, is Christopher J. Hughes of Pelham, New York, who graduated from his high school in The Bronx, standing 34 out of 298 students. He lettered in football and track, was Student Council President, president of C. Y. O. and a member of the National Honor Society.

Midshipman Hughes has written to the CS expressing his thanks to the Class of 1926 for affording him "the opportunity to attend the greatest military academy in the entire world,"

VAdm. Stroop, Adm, Russell and RAdm. Fleming discuss the 55th Reunion and further states " that I will do my best to prove that your assistance will not go to waste by putting out 100% and doing my utmost to carry on as an officer in the greatest Navy in the world." The CS has written to express our hope that he will achieve that goal.

Ben Katz has written, on August 5th, that Rosemary and Jack Greenslade's son-in-law, Jim Belson, was sworn in as Judge on the D. C. Court of Appeals, on 21 July, after serving 13 years on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Rosemary could not be present for the ceremony because she had suffered an acute heart attack a few days before, but was reported as convalescing satisfactorily.

Benny Katz also wrote that the recent change in the estate tax exemption is a remarkable one, of interest to all of us; pointing out that all estates of under $600,000.00 will no longer have to pay any Federal Estate Tax, and that a surviving spouse also gets great relief on payment of tax.

And, incidentally, Bea Katz was selected in 1981 as one of the ten outstanding women of the year in Alexandria for her work, as executive director of the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia, which teaches adult American illiterates and foreign-born to read and write English.

Max Leslie went to Honolulu on a golf safari with about 60 other golfers, 13-19 July; playing 5 courses in six days. His foursome of John Riggs, Buck Brandley, '28, and Dean Black, "31 thought the Navy-Marine course at Pearl Harbor the best one they played.

27 Secy, RAdm. Brooke Schumm USN (Ret.) 680 Americana Dr., #25, Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 89 This is the last month that my name will appear on the masthead of the "27 Class Column in Shipmate. Regretfully, for reasons of health, 1 have found it necessary to resign as your Class Secretary. Don Griffin has asked Herb Eckberg to take over and I am sure he will do an excellent job in carrying on as your Scribe. Anyone in the Class who has news for the column should send it to Capt. Herbert F. Eckberg USN (Ret.), at 1927 Pendennis Drive. Annapolis MD. 21401.

Since material for the October Shipmate was submitted in early August before the San Diego letter had arrived, the two recent reports from the San Diego group are hereby combined. (We know how the mails are, Nadine, and we don't want to leave out any of the interesting news from your area.)

Both meetings were held in the Destroyer Room at the Admiral Kidd Club and were well

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attended—forty-four members, wives, widows and guests at the July meeting, and thirty-seven in August, which shows the great interest and tumout in the San Diego area.

The July luncheon was held on July 28. That same day memorial services for Harriot McKechnie were solemnized at Christ Episcopal Church in Coronado, attended by her many friends, members of 1927 Alumni, and all four of her children who had been with her at home during the last hours of her productive life, years of cheerful service and devotion to her family, her church and the Navy. Harriot died on July 25th. She had willed her body to the UCSD School of Medicine. She is survived by three daughters, Ann M. Pottenger of Arcadia, Marion M. Flynn of Key West, Florida, and Marjorie M. Hughes of Sierra Madre, a son Cdr. Arnold W. McKechnie Jr. '65 of San Diego, and twelve grandchUdren. The Class sends deepest sympathy to her famUy. Also gone beyond since the June meeting of the San Diego County USNA Alumni, Class of '27 are Mike Hunte and Kay McCoy, losses regretted by aU of us.

President Gill Richardson read a letter of appreciation from Emily Hunte for the flowers and sympathy from the group for Mike's services, and paid tribute to Harriot McKechnie, saying "It is a privUege to have known someone like Harriot." Since Kay passed away in El Paso, Texas, Czar McCoy will be retuming to California to live in La Jolla.

It was a happy surprise to see Jack Dalton recovered sufficiently to work in his garden again. Cece Cauiield looked stronger and healthier than he did last month.

A welcome guest was Mary Jane and Jimmy Hogg's daughter, Merrilee Lynch, who is visiting them from Madison, Wisconsin. Dick Levin's attractive guest was Isabelle Spencer, who fives in Oceanside.

Sally and Dutch Deutermann are enjoying a change of scene from Rancho Bernardo while they housesit for Clare and Walter Price, gone on vacation.

Clarence Coffin read Brooke Schumm's report of the 1981 Annual Business Meeting held in Annapolis in May, of interest to all Classmates.

At the August 25th meeting of the SD group, Mims McKinney and Georgia Zemmer received a warm welcome after being absent for many months. Dorian and Jimmie Cohn made their final appearance before returning until next summer to their home in Mesa, Arizona.

The group was much concerned to learn that Paul Ramsey is in critical condition at Coronado Hospital. Muriel Anders was in Grossmont Hospital having surgery to install two metal rods in her arm as a result of a bad break near the shoulder. She expects return of normal use of the arm, though recovery will take some time.

Robbie Robinson had just retumed home after four days in the hospital with pneumonia and is getting back his strength and appetite. (We hope all of the above will be enjoying good health soon. Sec'y.)

Patsy Richardson was at home busily packing for a cmise to Nova Scotia on the ROYAL VIKING SKY, on which she and GiU would be leaving the next day.

Emmie and Tom Hamilton were absent, but Emmie called Nadine to relay the happy news that their son, Tom Jr., was to be married to Kathleen Jaynes of Solana Beach, on September 6 in San Diego. Kathleen has two daughters, 13 and 15, and Emmie and Tom are delighted

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with the prospect of acquiring two new granddaughters.

Chapter President Gill Richardson opened the "business" meeting with the important announcement in regard to next Spring's 55th Reunion that Reunion Packages will go out to some 520 addressees. All hands are encouraged to reply promptly, as "money down" arrangements must be made for meals, entertainment, transportation, etc. There are 100 rooms being held at the Hotel del Coronado until approximately Washington's Birthday.

The latest from GiU's inexhaustible store of diversions was a contest, two bottles of wine for the winners: extracts from '27 Lucky Bag biographies—of members present—were read and the first to guess "who" (victims and their wives excluded) won. (Tom Hamilton has told me that Gill Richardson runs a lively show and will have our 55th full of good action. Sec'y) Betty and Heinie Armstrong recently toured Northern California and Oregon, visiting Betty's sister and husband in their new home at Keno, Oregon (near Kalama Falls). They were introduced to the local game craze— "Crazy Rummy"—and after a confusing two hours settled down to Fan Tan to regain their wits. Then off to circle Crater Lake on a beautiful day in which the water and sky were Maxfield Parrish blue. They sampled the Red Lion Motor Inns along the trip and pronounce them really great. Just south of Eureka, Califomia, they visited Femdale—beautiful and quaint.

Almost aU of the homes and businesses were of the Victorian Age—and all had been repainted.

It was as though one was in a new country. The grand finale wasthe tour through the giant Redwoods. Then home again to diet and catch up with the mail.

Cdr. and Mrs. (Beverly Auxier) Marshall Smith have taken up residence at 2251 Jackson St., San Francisco CA 94115. Beverly is the first Clan Member, says Heinie, to sweU their ranks for many a moon and rates a big WELCOME! The Class of 1927 again did a great job with the Annual USNA Fund, with 192 donors giving $18,083. (Last year 197 gave $10,564). Thanks to all of you who assisted in the drive.

Word has been received of the marriage of Tom Neblett to Anita Shawver at Patuxent, Maryland, on 3 September 1981. No further details are known.

Fran and Chick Eraser have a new address: Box 79, Chincoteague Road, Wallops Island VA 23337.

The Class extends deepest sympathy to Liney Rubins (widow of RAdm. Joseph R, Rubins) whose daughter to died in a tragic fire at her home in Carmel, Indiana, on 2 September 1981.

Born in Annapolis, Jo later attended Mary Washington College in Virginia. In addition to her mother, she is survived by her husband, William H. Orr, three sons and one daughter, and a brother, Thomas Rubins of Annapolis.

Her friends will be sorry to learn that Gene Shook, wife of Coring Shook, has been in Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis for surgery. We all wish her a speedy recovery.

We have just heard from Firpo Hines' son Jack that Firpo has suffered a stroke and is now in a nursing home in the Philadelphia area.

Here's an item from Gill Richardson regardmg our 55th: "As of September 1st, there had been 173 replies to the 55th Reunion Questionnaire; in that number were indications that 205 Classmates, wives and widows were planning to attend, 95 would not be able to come to Coronado and 73 of the 100 rooms reserved at the

Del Coronado Hotel would be used. A relatively high potential still remains for affirmative replies. We expect that at the time you read this you will have received your Reunion packages and will have reacted accordingly."

Bert and Bob Quackenbush had two interesting house guests this summer—Isobel Walker, widow of Jimmie '27, who came from Forest City, Pennsylvania, and Betty Lambrecht, widow of Johnny '25, from Winter Park, Florida.

Lonnie Pancoast writes from Pensacola that he had a slight heart attack this Summer. No heart damage, but had to give up golf for a month. (We hope that you are feeling fine now, Lonnie, and are back on the course, Sec'y.).

Lonnie also said that Jack Monroe sold his big house on the Bay for a goodly sum, and has moved into a condominium at 615 Bayshore Drive and seems to like his new quarters. Lonnie says that he is still planning on making the 55th.

I am sorry to report the death of our distinguished Classmate Charles L. Melson (VAdm. USN Ret.) on 14 September in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after a lingering illness.

Services were held for Chariie in the Naval Academy Chapel on 18 September, and he was then laid to rest beside his wife Gypsy in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Four Classmates—Herb Eckberg, Parker Fairlamb, John McClaughry, and Cari Steiner—served as honorary pallbearers, assisted by four midshipmen assigned by the Superintendent in recognition of Charlie's tour as Superintendent USNA 1958-60. The midshipmen were Midn.

2/c M. F. Silva, Midn. 2/c W. K. Weir, Midn.

2/c Ty C. Vaughan, and Midn. 4/c T. G. Gates.

The family asked Jimmy James '28 (RAdm. Ralph K. James USN Ret.) to deliver the eulogy at the Chapel services. Jimmy had been a close neighbor of the Melsons when they lived in Annapolis after CharUe's retirement, and the Jameses had seen Charlie and Gypsy in Florida about two years ago. Jimmy James spoke eloquently of Charlie's outstanding naval career and his loving devotion to his wife Gypsy. (Also, please see "Last Call.")

Charlie's daughter, Nancy Melson McHugh and her husband, Capt. R. J. McHugh CEC USN (USNA '56) invited those at the services to join them at the Officers' Club after the interment.

Hope to see you all at the 55th. Brooke

28 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Albert O. Momm, USN (Ret.) 121 Glen Oban Dr., Arnold MD 21012 Florida Corr., RAdm. R. N. Norgaard, USN (Ret.) 121 N. Phelps Ave., Winter Park FL 32789 West Coast Corr., RAdm. W. A. CockeU USN (Ret.) 3222 Browning St., San Diego CA 92106 N. Eastern Corr., Capt. R. O. Burzynski USN (Ret.) Box 145, New Castle NH 03854 Percent Members: 91 Our class president, Mac Leary, reports that the Class' 55th Reunion will be held at Annapolis on October 17-19 (Monday thru Wednesday), 1983. Headquarters for the event will be Shipmate, November 1981

The wedding of Duke Merson at St. Andrews Chapel USNA in August 1981. Chaplain C. L. Greenwood '50 officiated. Jerry Gerin '28 was best man. and Betty Ryan, an AF "shipmate" of Emily, an AF widow, was maid of honor

George and Helen MofTett and John Zabilsky attend the ceremony

'28ers Keith, James. Pope and Conovan at Coronado Shores

At the "28 Nutmegger Meeting: Ed Dexter. Caroline Burzynski. Betty Berry. Dotty Treanor. George and Georgina King. Blair and Al Momm the Annapolis Hilton Hotel, where 45 rooms have been reserved for those dates. Homecoming starts on Friday, October 21st, so anyone wishing to stay after the 20th will have to make his own special arrangements. Johnny Urquhart has kindly and considerately accepted the chairmanship for this event, so any communications in re the Reunion should be addressed to: Cdr. John G. Urquhart, 117 Hesketh St., Chevy Chase MD 20815.

Mac Leary also reports that the BLC had a very successful Alumni Fund Drive: 75 donors gave $4,787, whereas in 1980 46 donors gave $2,053.

In eariy September, thg BLC "Nutmeggers" gathered at New Castle, NH, for the 20th Anniversary of get-togethers in Conn., Mass., Maine, and N.Y., hosted this time by Caroline and Ski Burzynski. Other participants were Dotty (Mrs. Vince) Treanor, Georgina and George King, Ed Dexter with Betty Berry, and Blair and Al Momm. Luke White of Titusville, Florida, who suggested the date but couldn't make it for physical reasons, would have been the latest member!

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After talk-fests at the Burzynskis', all enjoyed a delightful dinner at the New England Center for Continued Education, sponsored by all six state institutions. Here we feasted in a distinctive dining room high in the woods of Dover, New Hampshire, returning afterwards to the Burzynskis' very comfortable home overiooking Piscataqua River into Portsmouth.

The next day, after sightseeing around Portsmouth, New Castle, and the venerable and ancient resort of Wentworth-by-the-Sea, we returned to the Burzynskis' home for a delicious lobster "pig"", with Caroline"s delicious fixin's and Ski cooking the lobsters. After Dotty Treanor regaled us with her specially humorous adventures in Costa Rica (which just have to appear in Shipmate some of these days!), we regretfully departed for points N., S., and W., the end of an exciting 2-day reunion. We did miss many of our "Nutmeggers"!

Jimmy James sends us a snapshot of four stalwarts of the BLC taken in Coronado Shores, California this past Winter. Standing, 1. to r., are Jimmy James and Taylor Keith; seated. Earl Pope and Tommy Donovan.

The Naval Academy Foundation, in its 198182 Newsletter, announced that Arthur M. Sterrett has been selected as the Class of 1928 Honor Scholar for this year. Arthur, from Edina, Minnesota, graduated from Urbandale H.S., Urbandale, Iowa, standing 89 of 284 students. He lettered in football, baseball, wrestling and lacrosse and was also active in church and drama organizations. He attended Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota, where he improved his board scores and qualified for entrance to the Naval Academy.

The Foundation also announces that Louis J. Cedrone has been selected as the W. L. Lyons Brown Memorial Honor Scholar for this year.

Louis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Cedrone of York, Pennsylvania. He graduated from York Catholic High School with a fine class standing of 39 out of 176 students, and won a JV letter in track, ran cross-country and was active in several school and church activities.

He attended Penn State University, York campus, where he did extremely well in a mechanical engineering course, attaining all As and Bs.

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Sec'y, RAdm. Cal Laning USN (Ret.) 6404 Lakeview Dr., Falls Church VA 22041 Corr. Secretaries: So. Cal., Cdr. BiU DarneU USN (Ret.) 2003-224 Bayview Hts. Dr. San Diego CA 92105 No. Cal., RAdm. Dick BaUinger 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: 86 Al Strahorn checked in at the Twenty-nine Corporate Office during a brief stop in Washington on business, in Septfember. The legal side of his business was covered by Jack Dalton. Al had little to report subsequent to his painful effort to find a house near San Diego to supplant his home in Carmel. He did not consider that the replacement of three worn parts in his anatomy with plastic renewals was newsworthy. AU he had to say was that they were still working well withifi the warranty period. Al also called GusJohansen,anold USS OKLAHOMA shipmate.

Jerry 0"Donneli

George Ashford After leaving the pooriy paid OKEY crew in 1930, Al spent many years overseas as an explosives man with Atlas, Hercules, or PLO, we can't remember which. He and Joann are planning a trip back to Taiwan soon. He reports that Jerry O'DonneU is once again leading the Monterey Symphony Orchestra, nearby.

Al asked if the SS WINDBAG really operated in water, and under sail? (Compliment to our realistic logs?) Under sail: yes, it is a kind of prairie schooner. Water: no. Plans this Winter are to sail West, to the Half Reunion, avoiding the prairie by putting it aboard a Mexican flatcar through the Sierra Madre mountains. TeePee Wilson pioneered this breakthrough. So far, Micky has tilted only one toll booth and canted the bridge phased array.

That Half Reunion, midway between our Golden and our Fifty-fifth in Annapolis, should be more of a winter vacation enjoyment than a hectic reunion. The three days in the San Diego Classmates' company and their guided entertainment should be only a portion of your sampling of the diversions in that area. You will probably be captured by the ambience (what does that mean?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;we didn't have it in our NA dictionary) of Rancho Bernardo, now the second main HQ of Twenty-niners. There is also the possibility that our Hawaiians may meet us there. If you haven"t received the plans and coupon from the SoCal gang by the time you read this, write Bill Darnell. Get your bargain air tickets over a month ahead, for 17-19 February!

Jimmy Farrin lost Marjorie in August through a sudden heart attack. A lovely lady, whom we remember as a solicitous and attentive hostess to "29ers who were overhauling their ships in the several Navy Yards operated by Jimmy. The funeral was held in the Academy Chapel after services in Florida, their residence. Pallbearers 63

were BUI Allen, PhU Osbom, Johnny W Davison, Win Brown, Roy Junghans and Cal Laning.

We observed at her graveside in the Academy Cemetery that next to the Farrin stone is the O'DonneU stone.

In last issue there was appended the bare news that George Ashford had died in Hawaii.

Bill DarneU supplies news: "The passing of George hit us pretty hard. He and Bunnie were visiting their children and grandchildren in Kailua when he was stricken on August 8th. It is my understanding that cremation took place out there; interment of ashes in Rosecrans National Cemetery was a family affair. A well-attended memorial service was held at North Island, August 21. It became a testimonial by the many friends George had outside the Class and by the eleven couples from '29, of whom there was a group of honorary pallbearers. Twentynine was represented by Armbmsts, Ballingers, Berkleys, Damells, Franks, McGregors, Petersons, Rodimons, Strong. Triebels and WUsons."

We have word from Dinty (Clarence) Moore, after he moved from Key Biscayne to Drexel HiUs, Pennsylvania. He is enjoying the proximity of children and families. You cannot reach him by telephone for he is (sic) completely deaf, but you can get him via his son Joe at 215/2595148. We are indebted to Dinty and to BiU Kabler for originating our first Muster Notes.

Unconfirmed rumors: Peggy and Ed Stephan have abandoned their Washington home and have bought a home in Rossmore Leisure World, north of Washington. This is where Mary Crist has lived for many years. Item. The GrifSths took a cmise through the Great Lakes in "an iron boat." (Good for another book?)

Yr secty has a few copies of the 50th Anniversary Muster Notes. You may have one for mailing cost of two bucks.

Carl Johnson sends congratulations to Johnny Davidson for his hole-in-one.

SoCal News: Because of the skipped month for manuscript submission in June, we missed description of the May Co-ed lunch, rather feast, given by the Berkleys in Rancho Bernardo. Imagine—twenty-eight guys and gals present! Item: Jim Heslep has found another AOL Twenty-niner in his Rotary Club in San Clemente: Ernest Clegg. Who was his roommate?

Book Section: We have finished reading James Webb's ('68) book, A Sense of Honor, on hazing and ethics at the Academy, staged in the late '60s. He relates hazing, then, against the concurrent background of heavy fighting in Vietnam by the Marines. Time of Hue. If accurate, there was an extreme of non-contact hazing extent then; perhaps particularly among the ten percent who were self-committed for the Marine Corps. Character, or stamina-building.

It seems non-credible now, but we remember the isolated sadistic physical hazing which some of us in "29 underwent. Do you remember that First Class meeting where we, the first of all the classes, condemned physical hazing and foreswore it? The summing up speech of Dean Dowling after we refused to sign a commitment to "TBT"? And we lost all of our midweek hberty in town for the rest of the year?

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30 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Herbert H. Marable, USN (Ret.) 100 Askewton Rd., Round Bay, Sevema Park MD 21146 Percent Members: 88 Recently received the following letter from Mrs. Guy Gugliotta, wife of Capt. G. F. Gugliotta, USN (Ret.), USNA Class of'38. "I have written and published several books and am currently in the process of compUing information, tapes, letters, photos, all materials, for a non-fiction volume in the USS S-39 starting several years before WW II through the sub's last patrol in 1942. The contacts that I have made so far do not know the whereabouts of the widow of the man who was skipper of the S-39 during the major part of the above years. He was James Wiggins Coe, Naval Academy Class of 1930, lost aboard the submarine Cisco in September of 1943. His wife's name was Rae, but all that I have been able to uncover so far is that she later married a doctor." Therefore she has asked that the following notice be put in our column requesting that— "Any class member 1930, or spouse, who knows the address of the former RAE COE, widow of JAMES WIGGINS COE, "RED" COE, or information that may lead to her address, please contact Mrs. Guy GugUotta, 25351 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills CA 94022."

An interesting item from Fred Bradman in San Diego—The following in the San Diego edition of the Los Angeles Times a few days ago and it appeared so unusual as to be worth passing on to all Classmates— "While most people would jump at the chance to spend even a single day in a ROLLSROYCE, Rea Axline of Rancho Santa Fe has tumed down an opportunity to have his own ROLLS for an entire year. AxUne was the reluctant winner of a year's lease on a 1981 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER SPIRIT, which was raffled off at last month's Las Patronas charity baU in La Jolla. 'I just had two relatively new cars, and I have only a two-car garage,' Axline explained. 'I have a lot to do to keep me busy, and I decided I wouldn't worry about it at this time.' On top of that, there were all those tax and insurance headaches to worry about, he said. In short, the car—if a ROLLS can be called a mere 'car'—just did not seem worth the hassle, Axline chuckled. Why did Axline buy a $100 raffle ticket on a ROLLS-ROYCE, if it was not to realize the fantasy of zipping down the highway driving one? 'Well, I hoped I wouldn't win,' he said. 'I just wanted to make a contribution to the charity.' Roy Carver of San Diego ROLLS-ROYCE, who donated the car for the raffle, is a bit stunned by thought of someone saying 'thanks but no thanks' to a chance to actually drive a Rolls. 'I've never seen anything like this before,' Carver said. Axline's decision, though, does not mean that there will be another drawing to select another winner. As far as Carver is concemed, Axline's loss is his gain. 'This is not a free-roaming car—to be passed around until someone wants it." All in all, the story seems to have a happy ending.

Carver is happy to be able to keep the car, Axline is glad to be rid of it and Los Patronas has the money. Next year, though, perhaps the group might try raffling off a PINTO to avoid all the fuss."

Fred also tells us that the son of Claire and Rebel Lowrance, Douglas Lowrance, his wife Mary Alice and daughter Susan are new residents of Rancho Bernardo. Doug was in the Class of '57. Further, Fred reports the loss of George Ashford, Class of '29, who had been a regular member of their gatherings for some time now. The group is poorer for his loss, but the richer for the gift of his friendship. Also, Fred is working diligently toward getting a new chairman for "and a half 50'" so that the next stages of planning can proceed. So far, apparently no one has volunteered It is with regret that we report the death of Capt. Harold Hugh Yokes, on 25 August 1981.

The famUy has requested that any memorial contribution be made to American Cancer Society.

Towser MUler please note—your recent note about your forthcoming retirement told a lot about your successor, Steve Moodia, but little about the exploits of Towser Miller. How about giving me some more but make it a little closer to home.

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Sec'y, Capt. Edward M. Day USN (Ret.) 6214 Winston Drive Bethesda MD 20817 West Coast Corr., RAdm. Andrew J. Hill USN (Ret.) 1295 Bangor Street, San Diego CA 92106 Percent Members: 88 John Crumpacker sends warmest thanks to Classmates for the painting of an Annapolis Harbor scene, and its accompanying plaque, presented to him by the Class in recognition of his services as Class Secretary for the last ten years.

Jack Parham and Dorothy Nielsen of Kentfield, Califomia, were married in early September with Jack's chUdren, grandchildren, and a few close friends in attendance. Many remember her best by her maiden name. Dorothy E. White. Dot and Jack kept steady company from mid-1926 until July 1931. At our 50th Reunion, Jack leamed from Bob Heilig that Dot was now a widow and he lost no time in resuming his interrupted courtship, which this time was carried to a successful conclusion. For the time being, they wiU live in Ariington, Virginia.

Classmates wish Jack and Dot long life and happiness.

Cesca and Dick Steere. accompanied by Dick's two brothers and their wives, had an interesting trip this Summer, to the viUage of Ockley in Surrey, England. It was from Ockley that the first Steere came to America in 1660.

The village is an ancient one, and its church dates back to the 13th century. The bells in the church were cast by the maker of our own Liberty Bell, and while they remained intact, the oak beams from which they were hung were rotting and rehanging was very expensive. So the villagers invited Americans to stay a week in their homes, with the understanding that what they paid for their lodging would go into the Bell Fund. When the bells were rehung a service of dedication was held in the church, and the bells rang out anew, with six people pealing them.

Complementing the village activities and hospitality were daily trips to places of interest in the beautiful countryside nearby, and to London, arranged by the villagers for the enjoyment of the visitors.

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On 25 April the Lacrosse Foundation hosted a "Fifty-Forever" luncheon honoring the golden anniversary of Lacrosse All-Americans.

Tommy Rogers attended with his son Woody, and during the ceremony following the luncheon Tommy was presented with a certificate which read: "The Lacrosse Foundation awards this Certificate to Captain Thomas W. Rogers. U.S. Navy, on the occasion of his 50th All-American Anniversary" In addition to the award ceremony at the luncheon Tommy was also recognized at the stadium just before the start of the game, along with the other 50 .All-Americans. Tommy enjoyed the close game (Hopkins finally won) but was sorry Navy wasn't playing.

Earl GaUaher reports excellent results from his recent cataract and intra-ocular lens implant surgery, performed at Walter Reed Medical Center. With good vision in both eyes, and no cataract haze he has no trouble reading or driving.

Kay Pottinger reports that he is recovering nicely from injuries sustained in an auto accident during his trip East for the 50th Reunion.

Betty is also on the mend, but has suffered permanent loss of vision in one eye.

Sadly, we must report that Harry Holden died in hospital in Providence. (RI) on 18 July: Rana Weiler died early this Summer in Florida, and Eleanor and Denby Coon died under very tragic circumstances in Marlow Heights. Maryland, on 7 .August.

Johnny Webster, oiu Class Treasurer, has this report for us: "While the Washington group has the responsibility for oversight of the class treasury, it is appropriate to report in general terms where we stand following the 50th Reunion and pubUcation of the 50th Anniversary Yearbook.

Through the surpluses remaining after each of the past three Reunions the treasury had built up so that as of the first of this year we had SI0.786. It was felt appropriate to draw down on these funds by liberal distribution of the Yearbook and by holding down charges for those attending the Reunion. The approach was "go first class, at coach rates, with a Senior Citizen discount." Both the Yearbook and the Reunion were highly successful in that respect.

The treasury advanced $5000 for the Yearbook production, and $1452 toward various unfiinded Reunion costs, such as the local bus transportation, class photograph, labor for setting up Dahlgren Hall for dinners, etc. This leaves a current balance of $4334. deemed ample for anticipated expenses."

Tom Green has worked up some statistics for us: â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Classmates claim 955 chUdren. 1436 grandchUdren. and 26 great-grandchildren (more of these on the way. of course).

John Craven has the most children (11); Joe OBrien was next with 10. Joe O'Brien has the most grandchildren (27). trailed by Lewis Hudson with 17. Jock Wilson has the most greatgrandchUdren (5); mnner-up is "D. G." Wright with 3.

It's not too early to start thinking about our Fifty-Fifth Reunion . . . a lot of lead time is needed for planning and arranging such events, particularly in the Annapolis area where there is strong competition for time and facilities.

Early next year we expect to send out a questionnaire to Classmates to develop ideas on the subject . . . so put your thinking cap on!

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32 Secy Capt. TerreU A. Nisewaner USN (Ret.) 7121 Helmsdale Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 85 A little note from Don Thomas lamented that "June Week West" in San Diego produced only three Classmates . . . the Burl Baileys, the Swede Eastwolds and the Don Thomases. The three of them also played in the golf toumament at Miramar Naval Air Station although Swede, still recuperating from minor surgery, couldn"t play the long shots. That is unfortunate, but then some of us couldn"t play the long shots then, now. or ever.

For a little summer vacation Anne and Don were to be off in a few days headed for Canada and a tour of the Canadian Rockies (Banff. Lake Louise, Jasper Park. Kamloops. Vancouver and Victoria). Thence, it well be on to Campbell River on Vancouver Island for a few days salmon fishing. He stated that unfortunately he would miss the August semi-monthly Class luncheon but that Burl Bailey would preside.

For those of you who might have noticed a stranger from Arkansas wandering about Virginia. Washington (DC), and Annapolis during the middle of August, you might have recognized George Rogers who was back for almost a week to attend the wedding of their granddaughter to a budding young naval officer out of the University of Califomia. George"s son is a major in the Marine Corps and his daughter was the charming bride. WhUe Ruthanne was helping the family make arrangements for the big affair. George and his son visited the old alma mater just to see the fantastic changes that have taken place since the Summer of 1932.

Get-together after launching of REID From Tommy Thomas comes a wonderful group picture showing many of the old gang as they now appear in the flesh. The occasion for the get-together was a recent ship launching at the San Pedro Todd"s Shipyard where USS REID IV took to the waters on 27 June 1981. In attendance officially were Jack Horner who got things off on right foot with the man upstairs; and Jean McComock whose husband, our irrepressible Sam. was skipper of the REID III when she was kamikazied and sunk at Surigao on 11 December 1944.

At a little get-together at the Thomases after the launching, the snap was taken showing Mac and Johnny Fahy. Helen and Jimmy Craig. Annemarie and Tommy Thomas. Jane and Jack Horner and the two Thomas girls who are the Class of "32 "junior brats."" The separate photo shows Jean McComock and son Duncan of Pasadena, a carbon copy of the old man.

Duncan McComock and Jean McComock In anticipation of the logical question that some of you might make, "Who the heU was Reid?", it seems that Samuel Chester Reid was the 31-year-old skipper of the privateer brig GENERAL ARMSTRONG at Fayal, Azores, in 1814

who engaged the British fleet enroute to New Orleans. "This necessitated several days delay in getting around to sinking the pesky Yank, with the ultimate result that the Battle of New Orleans got off without the British fleet support and ended in defeat. Samuel Reid is also noted as the guy who made the winning beneficial suggestion that the American flag keep thirteen stripes only and add on stars for the states.

The original REID ( D D - 3 6 9 ) was launched in

1936 with "Mick" Carney, later to become distinguished as Chief of Naval Operations, as first skipper. Jack Homer was first lieutenant. Sam McCornock was the most illustrious of the "missing members" of the REID Survivors Association, which tumed out in force for the launching and remains vitally active.

As a tribute to one of our departed members, your Secretary has just received notice that the Football " N " Club, Class of 1930. has presented a gift to All Saints Episcopal Church in memory of George E. Pierce. George was a staunch member of All Saints and at least once a month did his regular vestry duties. Our thanks are extended to the " N " Club for the recognition.

The Class of 1932 Honor Scholar for the entering class at the Naval Academy is David R. Woods, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Woods of Robbinsville, New Jersey. David graduatedfrom Hamilton High School in Trenton, standing 52 in a class of 625 students. He lettered in swimming three years and was captain his senior year plus lettering in soccer for two years.

He was a member of the National Honor Society and for one year attended Marine MUitary Academy where he excelled in athletics, did extremely well scholastically and was recommended for the academy with confidence and enthusiasm. Welcome aboard the Blue and Gold.

As many of you (or most of you) know by now. the drive to get the "biogs" for the "50Year After"" book is in full swing. The absolute final deadline for the submission of "biogs"" is I April 1982. but a tremendous amount of work must be accomphshed by the staff. After that, please don"t wait to get yours submitted. At the suggestion of Brooks Harral. we have re-activated the working groups, co-chairmen and ""agents"", organized for the last Alumni Fund Drive to get the ball reaUy rolling and the "biogs"" and "pictures" in promptly. We only hope that this "energizer" will get action.

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University where he won his B.A. and M.A. with high honors. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry in the Army Reserve through the ROTC, and shortly thereafter ordered to Fort Hood and trained for duty in Viet Nam where he distinguished himself in actual combat. At the time of his death, young Michael was due to start work at Florida State University while researching his dissertation in preparation for a final appearance before the Board from Ohio University and establishing his right to a Ph.D. The Class joins in the sorrow felt by Mary Evelyn and Wiggie over the loss of such an outstanding son.

That irrepressible Connecticut gang is at it again. Thanks to Rex Little, word arrived that their "regular" luncheon on 30 July brought out of the woods such stalwarts as Bill and Betty Outerson, Janet and Bill Kenna, Sylvia and Rex Don and Anne Thomas . . . traveling again Little and Dorothy and Sam Quaries. Bud Leeds Don Thomas reports from San Diego (he is was tied up and couldn't make this one, but all are looking forward to "tailgating" for the one of the co-chairmen) that the organization out there is in high gear, the situation is well in Navy-Yale game in New Haven.

One of the lost sheep has been found, or at hand, and all bases are covered. Reports will come in later from the other two co-chairmen, least that is the way it appears to this Secretary George Rogers out Arkansas way and Brooks when all letters since 1978 have been returned as "undeliverable."' It took a couple of months Harral up in New Jersey.

The August Class of '32 luncheon for the San but by a round about way we've finally heard Diego area was held this time at the Marine from Peris "Pete"" Bunce.

Corps Recruit Depot " O " Club with an excelPete reports that his charming wife, Carmin, lent turn-out of Jack Andrew, Dick Blair, Burl died on 25 December 1968 and since that time BaUey, Al Bowser, Al Cope, Tom Fleck, Jack he has been pretty much on the road. He has Kaufman. Bull Ovrom, Bill Short, Bob Walker, traveled the world mostly by sea either on Bud Willard and Don Thomas. AU national freighters or small passenger ships because he problem areas were quickly settled but the local is more relaxed and at peace with the world on problems took a bit longer. the sea. Pete states that he would go anywhere It is with profound regret that we report a and everywhere wherever he found space. For tragic death in the family of Gayle and Bob the past eleven years, Pete estimates that he has Walker. Their only child, the charming and vi- been traveling at least 70% of the time, but that vacious Judy, died very suddenly a few weeks he has been slowed up by physical troubles for ago of a blood clot in the brain. One daughter, the last year or so. Pete"s new address is: 351 (Bob and Gayle's granddaughter) and Judy's Coyote Lane SE, Albuquerque, NM 87123, tel. second husband survive. Your C/S lived just 505/298-2632. below the Walkers in Perry Circle in 1939-41 A great little letter from Bill Short brought our when Judy was just a toddler and is among the current address list up-to-date on Mrs. George many who are really shook at the loss of such N. Carroll ("Dorothy"). She now lives at 935 a charming personality.

Laguna Drive, Apt. 8, Carisbad CA 92008.

The Secretary of the Navy in a letter dated Marie and Bill reported having a great time at 4 December 1980 took pleasure in informing June Week West in Monterey, California, as Mrs. Gordon W. Underwood that the name guests of Charlotte and John Spangler along UNDERWOOD had been assigned to the OLIVER with Helen Stoner. It was a super splendid getHAZARD PERRY-class guided missile frigate together enfamille. The June Week West proFFG-36 in honor of her late husband, Capt. gram was well organized and great fun but the Gordon Waite Underwood, U.S. Navy, one of "32 Class turnout was a little disappointing. In the most successful and heroic submariners of addition to the Spangler, Shorts, and Helen World War II. Stoner there was Billie and Jack Roudebush, UNDERWOOD (FFG-36) is under construction Anne and Don Thomas, and Lorene and Dick by the Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Adams from San Francisco.

Maine. She is tentatively scheduled to be Every year Marie and Bill pay at least one launched early in 1982, with commissioning to visit to his cabin on Block Island and some of follow in the Spring of 1983. The Secretary of the East Coast crowd get to see them, but this the Navy stated; "All in the Navy will take great year they flew direct to New London via the pride in having the namesake of your gallant J. F. Kennedy airport and missed the cheering husband as a unit of the active fleet." Don't crowds awaiting them. Never missing the opthink that anyone is '32 would disagree with the portunity for a trip, Marie and Bill left 9 SepSecretary of the Navy on his choice of names tember for short trip to Oregon to see Marie's or that last statement. son Timmy. Then, on October 21st, they started A sorrowful letter from Wiggle Wigelius ina longer trip to Rio to see Marie's son who is formed the Class Secretary that their second the United States consul in that city. son, Michael Edward Wigelius, died suddenly It is with sincere regret that we must report in Tallahassee on 7 August 1981. He was the the loss of a member of the Virginia Beach segonly one of the Wigelius' sons who was admitted ment of the Class. Larry Smythe, after a valiant to our alma mater and that at the end of June two-year struggle against the inroads of cancer, 1963 when Wiggie had the distinct honor of died on 31 August 1981 at the Portsmouth Naval swearing in his own son in the Commandant's Hospital. He was buried locally on 2 September Office, Bancroft Hall. in a very nice ceremony with full military honMichael left the Academy eariy in his plebe ors. The Class of '32 in the Tidewater area were year and returned to his beloved Florida State well represented with Tommy Hopkins, Mike

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Smoke Park, 1929â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Whitey Toft, John Lunger, Red Eye Thompson, and Jimmy Smith O'Connor, Bernie Freund, Carl Hydeman and Was Asmuth. Only Kenny Letts, who is not well, failed to make the final services.

Larry had an exceptionally active career serving SARATOGA, two destroyers, executive officer of MISSISSIPPI, command of MANSFIELD during

WWII, and later establishing the DE precommissioning details in several cities.

He was Admiral Byrd's flagship captain in ARNEB in the Deep Freeze I expedition to Antarctica. He was also a former commander of the Amphibious Base in Norfolk and retired after serving as commander of the Naval Support Activity in Naples, Italy.

The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his widow Wanda and the two married daughters and their families. Larry was a hard worker and, basically, never retired. Up until the last few weeks he was going full blast in his position as a vice president of Charles F. Gates and Sons.

It is with deep regret that we report the loss of two additonal Classmates. Col. Edward L. Hutchinson USMC, a non-graduate, died on 16 February 1981 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Cdr. Edwin C. Woodward died on 6 June 1981 in Paul Smiths, New York. No details are known of either losses as we go to press and more info will be forthcoming with the next issue of Shipmate.

Modoc reports that he and Louise successfully completed a 9600-mile trip in their reliable VW camper through the United States and Canada. A six-day raft trip down the Idaho's Salmon River was splendid; lots of fun splashing down the rapids in big rubber rafts, sleeping in tents and even caves, lots of wilderness and very little civilization. Then it was on to Puget Sound through fine parks, a visit to the new submarine base at Bangor and finally to beautiful Victoria.

Next came Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper with more tourists but plenty of beauty. Finally it was home through beautiful Michigan and Wisconsin to find a muggy August in Annapolis.

September found an end to our summer hiatus and a renewal of the usual Washington-Annapolis luncheons. Twenty-one sterling members made the affair at the Channel Inn with the following in attendance: Chariie Odend'hal, Bo Lyons, Bill Stuart, Count Ruckner, Lloyd Mustin, Willeye Bull. Howard Prince, Ralph Johnson, Jim Collett, Jack Bandy, Francis Foley, Jack Seager, Al Parker, Corky Ward, Dimi Dimitrijevic, MT Young, Andy Nisewaner, Modoc Sunderland, Van Van Evera and our out-oftown guest, and a pleasant surprise. Win Bailey, visiting from Lakewood, California. Some of the items about the "50-Year Book" were discussed; essentially get in your "biogs" now complete with pictures. Deadline is I March

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1982. All arrangements for the "50th Reunion" are going along with finesse and tender care.

Howard Prince has it well in hand. A second letter will come out in 1982 giving all the final details and letting you make the necessary reservations.

33 Sec'y-Treas., Capt. Archie T. Wright, Jr. USN (Ret.) 4829 Ft. Sumner Dr. Washington. DC 20816 301/229-1963 Percent Members: 84 The W/A Group kicked off a new season of 2nd Tuesday luncheons at the Ft. Myer O'Club on 8 September with a goodly tumout of 20 C/Ms, including: Blouin, Bowen, Caldwell, Dawson, Erck, King, Loughlin, MacDonald, Mandarich. Martineau, Mayberry, McKibbin, O'Brien. Ogden, Oren, Pratt, Strean, Thompson, Travis, and Wright. Despite some initial confusion as to where the "bar" was located and how one reached the salt and pepper placed in the center of a square table seating 5 persons on a side (Chick King solved that one for us) everyone enjoyed the K.T.s, soup, salad, dessert and the renewal of associations, the absence of which makes our Washington Summers seem longer than even do the humid days of August. Smoke discussed a proposal he had received conceming changing the person in which the biographies would appear in the YB from "third"" to "first" and asked the group to consider the feasibility of changing the mles as prescribed by the Committee in our initial mailouts.

The unanimous vote was to let the mles stand as published and to make exceptions where clearly warrranted in individual bios. Then Gerry O'Brien brought us up to date on the activities of the Committee for the YB with a few good Irish stories. Some new bits: At the National Masters AAU Swimming Championships at Canton, Ohio, in August, Ray Thompson placed well in all four free-style events in which he participated, including a second in the 50meter event.

Smoke Strean reported on a letter he had received from Midn. Tammy Dunkel, '85, in the 26th Co., informing him of her selection as the Naval Academy Foundation's 1981 Class of 1933 Honor Scholar and expressing her gratitude for the tremendous opportunity this afforded her. She expects to major in oceanography and make her career in research in this field, and the Class is pleased to have a part in furthering such careers for the strengthening of our Navy and our Nation.

Smoke also received a letter from C/M Gretchen and Larney Blatchford a short time ago. They spend a good deal of their time at their mountain home in Franklin, North Carolina, where the Streans have visited with them often and the families have remained very close for many, many years. Larney writes: "I have a new hobby of wood tuming and spend altogether too much time in the shop. I was a golf nut for years, but for one reason or another my handicap has gone from a good four to eighteen in the space of three years and I have really lost interest in the game. The practice tee is still good exercise, but I must admit that I have lost most of my interest in fighting par. Wood tuming is fascinating since nothing turns out the way you had planned it. Mistakes are always made, but they can be covered up by a change in design Shipmate, November 1981

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Gretchen keeps busy in her garden and with her flowers while I, not being in any sense a gardener, still like what comes from it and appears on the table. We would love to spend all of our remaining time here in this beautiful part of the country, but when the weather gets too cold we take off for Florida for a few months. We were sorry that we could not make it to the Orlando Reunion, but at that point it just wasn't in the cards. Come back soon and, God willing, we will surely be at the Fiftieth!".

Evelyn and Henry Strozier spent two weeks in August at Dartmouth enjoying the intellectual stimulus offurther adult education courses, then stopped by for a visit and a swim with Janet and Smoke Strean in the latter's lovely home in Arlington, Virginia, enroute to Atlanta, Georgia, where Henry has been a resident since his retirement from the service in 1946. The Streans then headed for Capon Springs in the mountains of West Virginia for a pre-Labor Day vacation, where Janet enjoys swimming and Smoke works on his golf handicap.

Among the recent respondees and checks for the 50 YB we count Al Edwards, Sanibel, Florida, reporting all's well with him and Dorothy and bringing back memories of Bancroft Hall days when the Washington Star was flourishing and it was no sin to be a "conservative"; Al obviously hasn't changed his politics!

A letter with a check for 7 (one for each of their children) copies of the 50 YB came in from Gus Kiergan, Pensacola, Florida, reporting how much he and Jeanie had enjoyed the Round-Up and mentioned having visited with the WiU McNennys and Flossie Slater (Frank was having his beauty rest) while in the area, and that both families were well but didn't get to the RoundUp in Orlando. Some folks just don't like to travel—but this doesn't apply to Jeanie and Gus. Anyway, we hope we can get some good write-ups of what our stay-at-homes have been doing since the 30 YB for our 50th.

Quoting from a card from Lem Stevens at the end of August: "Drove to Jacksonville and bought a white uniform with all the fixin's at the request of my grandaughter, Denise Whitlow, who graduated from Navy Recruit Training in Orlando. First time I have worn uniform since retirement. The ceremonies were impressive (and Hot!) and I almost saluted my arm off. Will tour West Coast of California in September. Am looking forward to Homecoming where I wUl be staying with BiU Dawson—bless him! See you all then. Lem'" A welcome note from Bill Van Meter, Santa Fe, New Mexico, sending his check for a copy of the 50 YB because he couldn"t remember if he had sent one in before—He Had!—but we cheerfully entered his order for a second copy.

BUI is fine, enjoying the life on his Van Meter Ranch, and offers to be of whatever help to the Committee he can. We thank him for his kind words of encouragement.

Gordon Selby reports that he's having trouble remembering for sure whether he ordered his copy but just to be sure he's ordered two more.

And Gordon didn't mention the National Masters AAU Swimming Championships in Canton.

Maybe he stayed away so his friend Ray would look better?

From Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Peggy Kauffman tells of a hectic Summer, after a busy Spring, that was capped by her completion just before Labor Day of the task of editing her daughter-in-law's new novel—upon which everything had to wait. "I was in and out of 67

DC, Annapolis, and Norfolk much of the Summer, but never seemed to be able to plan ahead enough to see anyone. Next time I hope to be more organized! Please pass my best regards to C/Ms." With sadness we report the deaths of two Classmates. John E. (Jack) Walsh. Jr. died of cancer on 21 August 1981, at his home in Philadelphia, and RAdm. Joseph I. Manning USN (Ret.) died of a heart attack on 22 July 1981, at his home in Oceanside, Califomia. The Class extends deepest sympathy to Jack's widow, Teresa Ann, and their son Lawrence, and to Joe's widow. Catherine and their daughter Miriam Patricia. Please see "Last Call" for the obituaries of these two distinguished Classmates.

The S/D group held its monthly August luncheon at the Adm. Kidd O'Club with the following in attendance: Coye, Stuart. Clay Miller, Monroe, Wagstaff, Bird, Pelling, MacPherson, Gibbons, Rumble and Federicks. The annual '33 Beach Party was held on 15 August at the North Island Beach with the following present: Clay MUler, Fran and Ed Miller, Betty and Jack Coye, Bemice and Gary Coleman. Lee and Bob RiddeU, Mederies and Bob MacPherson, Marion and Al Ryan, Madeleine and Joe Williams, Maggie and Al Pelling. Helen and John Gamon, Dee and Pickles Heinz, Jean Hampton, Cariton Jones, Maudie and Eddie Fredericks and Barbara Kefauver visiting from the East. Lots of food and lots of fun with good weather and a full moon!

Some news bits from the gatherings: Dick Bird with Eddie Fredericks revisited his old ship, USS MISSOURI, in the Maritime Museum of San Diego recently. A nine-foot replica of this famous ship was recently acquired by the Museum and is now on display in the Navy area of the museum with a miniature version of the Japanese surrender ceremony on deck. Dick, as executive officer, was in effect Chief Master at Arms for the ceremony, very tactfully putting some very important personages in their places.

A photograph of Dick in action is being donated to the Museum. Eddie is a trustee of the Museum and curator of the Navy Exhibit Area.

Hank Rumble has made extensive donations to the Maritime Research Library of the Maritime Museum of San Diego. He is currently assisting the library staff on ship and boat plans.

Al PeUing is about to retire as manager of the Port of San Diego large drydock, where he has been since his retirement from the Navy in "64.

Eddie Fredericks, with former boss Fitzhugh Lee, '26, recently cruised San Diego Harbor in the ex-British steam yacht MEDEA, which is an active unit of the Maritime Museum fleet. Built in 1904 in Scotland, she is the last of the steam yachts. Members of the local San Diego media were guests on the trip. Skipper of the MEDEA was Capt. Cari Bowman. USCG (Ret.), '27, who was master of the Coast Guard Tall Ship EAGLE for several years. He is now president and director of the Maritime Museum and was Master of the STAR OF INDIA when she sailed at San Diego during the Bi-Centennial.

We have some more snaps of dear people from the Orlando Do for our '33 family album.

Try to remember what these guys looked like when you first met them in '29!

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34 Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR (Ret.), 129 Spa View Ave., AnnapoUs MD 21401 Percent Members: 89 Flyers and Holiday Inn reservation cards are being sent to Thirty-four's Southeast Area mailing list early in November '81. Anyone else on a southem trip next Spring who would like to attend will be more than welcome and should contact Ray McClung. 1149 Hillsboro Mile, Apt. 3ION, HUlsboro Beach FL 33062. for further info and reservation cards. Mike SeUars, 2509 Caribbean Court, Oriando FL 32805, will be handling arrangements in Orlando.

Schedide: Sat. 8 May After 1400 Arrive; Register; Pick up Info Package.

UntU 1800 Individual actions, pool, visits, etc.

1800-1900 Cocktails, Cash Bar, Grand Hall (probably) 1900-2000 Dinner; Speaker (T.B.A.); Photographs 2000- ? Dance; Get-togethers; etc.

Sun. 9 May 1130-1200 Cash Bar, Bloody Marys; etc.

1200-1300 Lunch 1300- ? Depart or visit area attractions.

Notes: 1. Basic costs, i.e. use of meeting rooms, dinner Saturday night. Brunch Sunday, special services, information package, photographs, combo, etc. are projected at $55.00 per couple.

2. Please send check for $55.00 payable to R. F. Sellars with form you will receive from Ray to Mike at: 2509 Caribbean Court, Oriando, FL 32805 no later than I April 1982. Eariier responses would be appreciated.

3. Mail Holiday Inn reservation card with at least one day advance pavment by 1 April 1982.

4. Casual attire except for jacket and tie for Saturday dinner.

5. Schedule and dates indicated above were based on responses to Ray McClung's memorandum sent in March 1981. The answers indicated an attendance of about 30 couples.

6. Golf and tennis are available at a nearby Country Club. If you wish to play Saturday AM or PM, bring your gear.

7. If you have any old nostalgic photos that can be used for a short slide presentation of our Academy days (particulariy unusual ones) send them to: Charlie Stephan at 500 So. Ocean Blvd. #704, Boca Raton FL 33432.

All photos will be returned after slides are made.

8. Some folks will be arriving Friday evening, so don't hesitate to come early for advance get-togethers.

Ray McClung also sends the following: "The June meeting of the local Alumni group found Stephans, Fahys. Magruders and McClungs representing '34 at the Lighthouse Point Yacht and Racquet Club. We had a very enjoyable time. The Stephans were just back from Hawaii where they attended a 'take command' ceremony for their son. Class of 1965 and were very proud. They and the Fahys then took a trip on the DELTA QUEEN and enjoyed that very much and were exposed to inland navigation.

"After Barbara's fall last March, she had a prosthetic hip joint installed and her shoulder bones put back together so they would heal.

This latter having progressed satisfactorily, the surgeon has now put in a total prosthetic right shoulder joint three weeks ago, and things are beginning to look up a bit in this comer of the world. We hope she'll be in good shape to enjoy the get together in Orlando next May. "Curt Payntor is just out of the hospital after having a cancerous left lung removed. Understand he is doing O.K. and is recuperating at Box 80, Hoosier Estates, Lebanon IN 46052.

He and Marmie are planning, as usual to head south to Stuart. Florida, during late October, and we are looking forward to seeing them then.

Their coming could be a good excuse to organizing a 1981 BEAT ARMY party. Open house for cocktails for Classmates coming to this area during the winter season!"

Gregory T. McKenney, Midn. 4/c, extends to the Class of 1934 his sincere appreciation for his selection as the Foundation's Class of 1934 Honor Scholar. He is indeed thankful, grateful, and proud to have this honor bestowed upon him.

The September report on June Week West had an inadvertent omission. Not only were Fran and Dick Bly among the attendees, but Fran was a prime worker in the committee that organized and was hostess for the '34 Class Dinner there on Friday night. Our apologies to her with the thanks of those who enjoyed the results of her work.

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., Ariington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 80 Lou Schmidt's widow. Ruth, made the headlines the hard way in Sarasota. Florida. On 16 July, she was the victim of a strong-arm robbery in which she suffered a broken right hip and right shoulder. She was walking in broad daylight in what Bob KaU called "one of our most exclusive shopping areas" when she was grabbed from behind, pushed violently to the ground, and her handbag taken. Six weeks later, she was able to write with difficulty that she is recuperating nicely. She also was glad to report that the thief was eventually caught trying to forge a blank check which he had found in her wallet, and that as of then he was in jail in another county on three charges of attempted murder.

Conrad Abhau's wife. Harriet, christened REID (FFG-30). launched at the Todd Shipyard, Los Angeles, on 27 June. This REID is the fourth warship named for her great-great-grandfather.

Sailing Master Samuel Chester Reid. a hero of the War of 1812 and designer of the national ensign adopted by Congress in 1818. The launching was attended by a large contingent of the survivors of the third REID (DD-369), sunk in action near Surigao Straits on 11 December 1944. Admiral Carney, the first C O . of the third REID. was one of the speakers at the ceremony.

Harriet was accompanied by Conrad and their two daughters. Elliot (maid of honor) and Marcy (who kept Conrad from feeling lonesome while Harriet and Elliot were doing their thing).

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Plebes with Swords?

Bob Black sent in this picture showing (1 to r): Al Nibbs, Frank Ritter, Eric Reed, George Whitaker and Jack McCormick. Bob couldn't recall the occasion for plebes to be sporting swords. Can anyone supply the answer?

Mention was made in the September Shipmate of Tony Parry's visit in June to see his son. Robert, in the Los Angeles area. A query to Tony produced the following on his Califomia progeny. Bob received his master's and doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, worked for a while at the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, and then received a good offer from Security Pacific Bank headquartered in Los Angeles. He is now senior vice president for economics for that bank and has a son and a daughter (Tony's grands).

Higgle Higginbotham reports from Edina, Minnesota, that he retired from Sperry Univac in February 1981 and plans to remain in Edina for the indefinite future. He comments that he doesn't know how he wound up so far from salt water and so near the North Pole, but finds it not all bad. "The Summers are delightful and the Winters are a challenge."" He paid his Class dues for the rest of this century, made a contribution to the Scholarship Fund, and sent in his biographic data sheet, which is just about as complete a response to our Annual Letter as can be made.

Marge Fee Hutchins. after receiving our Annual Letter, wrote an up-date on her activities since Jack Fee died in 1971. After three years employment by the QUEEN MARY in Long

Beach, she took a position at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 1978, she married Hutch (Chas. H. Hutchins) whom she had known since 1937. and moved to Naples, Florida, where they now live when not traveling in Hutch"s boat. (Address in last month"s column.) Marge made a contribution to the Class Scholarship Fund and for a memorial chair in Jack"s name.

In spite of the disconcerting travel situation caused by the air controllers, your Corr. Sec"y. and spouse went through with their plans to visit Califomia in August between Shipmate deadlines. In addition to making enjoyable but too brief stops with Mary Lou and Frank Wheeler in Los Altos Hills and with Dorothy and Steiny Steinmetz in Los Alamitos and traveling to San Diego/Coronado with the latter couple, three '35 area luncheons were attended. Much of the rest of this column relates to those seen, and information received, by your Corr. Sec'y during this memorable trip.

On the 13th, in a private room at the Fleet Adm. Nimitz Club on Treasure Island, he was the guest of the following Bay Area "35ers: Pete Boyle, Glenn Clegg. Spike Ewald. Dixie Farrell, Ross Freeman, Bill Germershausen, Hersh Goldberg, Frank Hess, Roy Klinker. Jack LofShipmate, November 1981

land, Alex MacMillan, Ralph Metcalf, Ozzie Osbom, Doug Rhymes, Bert Rodier, Bill Sullivan, and Frank Wheeler. Hersh Goldberg, who made the arrangements for this luncheon, announced that two records had been set: (1) the largest number thus far to attend a Bay Area "35 luncheon, and (2) everyone who had signed up did attend. Upon being invited to speak, an informal presentation was made on the status of the Class gift projects. Alumni membership.

Class dues and statistics, and the need for getting in biographic data sheets for a Class history.

This was followed by a question and answer period. Hersh then expressed the appreciation of the Bay Area "35ers for the time and effort expended by the Class Council which contributes to the unity of the Class. Similar expressions of gratitude were made individually by those present and gratefully acknowledged for the Class Council by your Corr. Sec'y.

On the 17th, the Los Angeles Area "35 monthly lunch was attended in Hollywood with the following: Cy Austin, Bill Jackson, Bob Prickett, Steiny Steinmetz, Red Thomas and Ken Veth. Similar exchanges were made and old friendships rejuvinated. Information on Class Council activities was passed along, as at the Bay Area.

Finally on 26 August, the weekly San Diego Area '35 luncheon was attended at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot O-Club. Area participants were: Warren Armstrong, George Towne Baker, Roy Barnes, Lou Bauer, Ralph Baum, Nick Doukas, Bill Guest, Charlie Harris, Bill Hazzard, Doyan Klein, Jack McCormick, Marc Peppard, Lew Schock, Skip Sellers, Steiny Steinmetz, Harvey Walseth and BUI Wideman.

No presentation was made, but during the attitude adjustment period individual discussions on the above mentioned subjects were held with many of those present. Harvey Walseth, who handles the making of reservations for these weekly luncheons, passed on the regrets he had received from Brooke Atkins, Steve Carpenter, Harry Lloyd, Perry Mclntire, Ed Pennebaker, and Mac Wordell, all having other commitments. Ed Pennebaker, who was seeing friends off at the airport, is back from Ireland, and he and his bride, Kay, have set up housekeeping at 4944 Cass St., Apt. 1209, San Diego CA 92109. Mac Wordell was involved in an all-day Board of Directors meeting of the San Diego Transit Corp. Harry Lloyd left that moming for the hospital for a check on his previous open heart surgery.

On the return trip north from San Diego, Dorothy and Steiny, and Margaret and Wy stopped for a very pleasant visit and lunch with Cathy and Marc Peppard. As mentioned in last month's column. Marc was married on 8 August to Catherine Sedgwick. The wedding, held at Old St. Michael's by-the-Sea, was followed by

a reception at the Inn at Rancho Santa Fe. Class representatives attending were: Mary and Warren Armstrong, Polly and Brooke Atkins, Betty and George Towne Baker, Peg and Lou Bauer, Ellie and Dusty Dornin, Margot and Nick Doukas, Bill Guest, Mary Jo and Chariie Harris, Jane and Doyen Klein, Teena and Lew Schock, Winnie and Chariie Turner, Billie and Harvey Walseth, and Ruth and Mac Wordell. Marc and Cathy initially are residing at her home at 1856 Haymarket Rd., Leucadia CA 92024, and are neighbors of the Dornins who were instrumental in their meeting. Ellie and Dusty dropped in for a brief visit and cocktails before lunch. Dusty has regained much of the weight he had previously lost and reports that the doctors don't understand why, but have told him to keep doing whatever he's doing. Cathy and Marc have both their homes on the market and expect to do some extensive traveling. She has been working as a travel agent.

Other items of news gathered during our California trip: Frank Wheeler is looking for 8 and 16mm movies taken by or of "35ers at the Naval Academy during the period of 1931-35. He desires to copy them and edit and combine them in a super-8mm reel for reproduction for any who would like to have one. Anyone who has such movie film should communicate directly with Frank at 27174 Elena Rd., Los Altos HiUs CA 94022. Frank helped renew contact with Allen HarreU"s widow, Dottie, who is now Mrs. Fritz Payne living at 19 Seville Drive, Rancho Mirage CA 92270. She has indicated her desire to receive news of the Class, and a copy of the Annual Letter has been sent to her.

Katie and Ralph Baum were visiting their daughter, Nikki Cummings, in England at the time of the recent royal wedding. Katie and Nikki witnessed same from outside St. Paul's Cathedral, while Ralph viewed it on the teUy. Helene and Perry Rutherford and Lib and Bub Ward were seen at the Steinmetzs. Perry mentioned the Rutherford School which he and his Dad used to operate for students preparing for the Naval Academy. Several became high ranking officers including Bud Zumwalt. Bub and Lib were recently returned from a multi-month motor trip to the East Coast. Classmates and wives seen along the way eastbound included Fran and Slade Cutter, Ginny and SUm Barham, Amy and Frank Walker, and Ruth and Bill RosseU. At the home of the latter they also saw Jane and Pat Finnigan and Dottie and Dick Jack. They visited their children and grandchildren along the East Coast, and Bub attended the monthly Class Council luncheon held at George PoweU's home in Bethesda on 5 August. On their westbound drive, they stopped to see Sib Ward in Little Rock, Arkansas, the first known contact by any Classmate with Sib since he moved there.

All factors considered, your Corr. Sec'y looks back on his trip as a great success, and he is very grateful to all those who helped make it so.

A total of 42 C/Ms were seen and news of 14 others was collected. The only regret was that several were missed.

Two address changes: Sally Southeriand made a local move to 3810 Atlantic Ave., #702, Virginia Beach VA 23451; Henry Tipton's address should be corrected to Route 3, Box 87, Leesburg VA 22075.

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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: 81 Practically no correspondence was received during the past month, and so the Class news is sparse for this issue. However, we'll share with you what little we have on hand.

The "Tailgating" season got underway with the Citadel/Navy Game on 12 September. The game got off to a slow start, but Navy won it 17-7 purely through perseverance and a lot of hot sweat on a very hot day. Present to cheer on the Navy Blue were: Hank Amold; the Dick Bradleys and guests; Butlers; Dowsetts; Ellises; Entlers; Laws; Meades; and Schlechs. The day was beautiful, but the sun very hot. and we wonder how many others got sunburned besides your Reporter. At any rate, the season is off to a good start and we were very much impressed by the new members of the Big Blue Team. We all wish them another successful year.

The September luncheon was held, as it always is, at Vinson Hall with an excellent meal, lots of sociabUity, and seventeen in attendance to enjoy the cameraderie. Present at the gettogether were: John Alfred; Dorothy and Paul Bjameson; Dick Bradley; Dorothy and "Mack" Butler; Ede and BiU ElUs; Anita and WUliard Hanger; Ross and Frank Law; "Lib"" and "Dixie" Nohrden; Margot and "Onion" Phillips; and Warren Woodville. No business was transacted, and everyone just enjoyed himself or herself getting together to chat about famiUes, friends, and vacations. Only news tidbit picked up was that WiUiard Hanger contemplates retirement on 1 January but wiU continue on with his law firm on a part-time basis. Anita and WUliard are renting their Washington apartment and will be moving down to their new home at 7 Black Tem Road, Hilton Head SC 29928; tel.

803/671-2723.

Seems like the only news we have to report at this time concems illnesses which have been brought to our attention either by notes or phone calls.

Jack Baumeister was hospitalized in the Arlington Hospital back in early September for observation and tests. As of this writing we understand he is coming along fine and looking forward to getting home.

Elena Gray also entered the Washington Health Center back in early September for observation, tests, and possible surgery. We are happy to report that surgery of a major extent was not required. According to Jim, "Elena has the smallest esophagus in history, but the doctors were able to clear the problem promptly, and she is now home recuperating. Her prognosis is good."

We are also happy to report that Ede's X-rays at the end of August showed that her fractured lumbar vertebrae had healed. She came out of her brace on 31 August and now is living it up again. She drove her car for the first time since 20 May on 14 September when she went to see her dentist.

A letter from Jack Blitch (3 Sept.) says he is very sorry but he won't be able to join us at Annapolis for the 45th East as he'd planned.

Following the Reunion in Coronado, he underwent a quadmple by-pass operation on 15 June.

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During the operation. Jack suffered a heart attack which fortunately was not severe, but when the doctors took him off the "heart-lung" machine, he suffered congestive heart failure which necessitated the implant of a balloon heart pump to get his heart started. Thus Jack had two major operations in less than thirty hours. Ultimately, he was transferred to Grossmont Hospital on 1 July from which he was released to home on 10 July. Unfortunately, by that time he was so weak from the stress and strain of the hospital that he was unable to walk without assistance.

However, as of his letter, he reported that he had managed to put back eight of the thirty pounds he'd lost and was now walking some outside—"400 feet," said Jack, "not far, but at least some progress." Jack says he is doing fine and his only regret is that he won't be able to join us in Annapolis as previously planned.

Our best wishes go to all those above for a speedy recovery and good health in the future.

John Alford reported that from his son on duty in the Middle East he had leamed that all those in '78 had made senior Lieutenant. Our congratulations to '78.

Guess no news from you all means good news, and so with this we will close until the next Shipmate. In the meantime, how about a letter to Frank Law or your Reporter, reporting what you did during the Summer? See you again in December, hopefully with plenty to write about.

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: 77 Those of you who occasionally manage to work your way through this column may have become aware of a fairly repetitious (and faintly irritating ?) theme that weaves its way into the narrative from time to time relative to the difficulty of obtaining '37 material for inclusion.

At the recognized risk of becoming a consummate bore (OK,OK, being a consummate bore) I feel I must make one more effort to convince you that, however dull and prosaic your daily routine may seem to you, there are others who would like to hear about it—if for no other reason than to help them feel better about their daUy routine. Also, there is a theory that even those who spend most of their lives moving about the famous watering holes of the world find their existence just as tiring as those who simply stay at home mowing the lawn and feeding the cat, and while 1 have yet to find a member of the Lawn-Mowing, Cat-Feeding Group who believes a word of it, there may be some to whom it brings a certain amount of solace. But philosophy aside, this is an unvarnished plea for a letter, post card, or telephone call to pass along a bit of dope so there will be something to write about.

As I start this column, I find the '37 IN Basket distressingly low with no recent word even from our Designated Correspondents who have apparently departed on round-the-world cmises, leaving no forwarding address. Brooding over the situation, forces one to reflect once again on the curious differences that exist between

the Naval Academy Classes. Apparently there are those loaded with members whose most trivial experiences are felt worthy of recording and sharing with the Corresponding Secretary. And then there is '37—.

Those of you who are recipients of the monthly Smithsonian magazine are probably unaware that the "John" referred to so favorably in the June issue in the "Around the MaU and Beyond" column is our own John Porter Merrell Johnston. The Museum of American History in this International Year of Disabled Persons has an exhibit in the Rehabilitation Corner, and John is one of the docents (don't tell me that you don't know what they are) who demonstrates for the public the Kurzweil Reading Machine which can read aloud 150 different styles of type. (I have no idea. You'll have to ask John the next time you see him.) Apparently it is a fantastic machine that "comes right out of the 21st century" according to the article, and John is the fellow who knows how to make it talk.

Frank Smart sent me a bit of WWII memorabilia in a note prompted by an article in the March, 1981 issue of Surface Warfare Magazine which recounted the September. 1943 action off Salemo when Frank and Ed Scofield's ship. SAVANNAH, was hit by a prototype guided missile, the Luftwaffe's FXX 1400 robot bomb. Surface Warfare Magazine stated. "SAVANNAH took a direct hit by the largest bomb both in total weight and size of charge that has ever exploded inside a U.S. Navy ship." Though Frank and Ed escaped unscathed, they lost over 200 shipmates. But SAVANNAH lived to fight another day. Frank was the ship's chaplain and Ed the supply officer. Subsequently Tony ZavadU joined SAVANNAH as navigator. Frank says she was a fine ship, and feels she clearly had a leg up on her sister ships since she too was commissioned in 1937.

This appears to have been a banner year for travel abroad for '37. In addition to the Bringles and Cunninghams who have recently retumed from England, the Wilsies spent three weeks there in May and June travelling and visiting their daughter. Phoebe and Pinky Baer are there now, following a carefully planned itinerary including much travel by train, provided their plan is not interrupted by a rail strike. But even for such a contingency. Pinky has altemate plans.

Peg and Paul Hartmann are poised for a takeoff for London within a week while the Herbie Hartmans recently retumed from a trip to China and were the guests of the Balls in Coronado for a brief visit enroute back to West Virginia. Ginny and Dick BaU, incidentally, are probably the newest grandparents in the Class, though particulars of this happy event are lacking. To continue with the travelogue, the most recent Alumni tour which covered Switzeriand. a Rhine River cruise, and was capped off by four days and nights in Paris, included the Brantleys, Dentons, and Stencils. The tour, which seems to have been enjoyed by all. was not without its exciting moments, most noteworthy of which was the explosion of a bomb, on the night of their arrival, in the lobby of the Paris hotel in which they were billeted. Fortunately there were no injuries to the tour group. Though the perpetrators of the act were never apprehended or identified, the mmor that the bomb had BEAT NAVY painted on the side in black and gold letters is totally without foundation and should be given no credence whatsoever. Prior to this occurrence, Larry, Jim, and Walt had won the plaudits of an admiring throng in a Ger-

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man night club by their quick mastery of an intricate local dance. Larry and Walt are reported to have performed flawlessly with professional dance partners while Jim electrified the crowd with what has been described as a virtuoso solo rendition. Unbiased Fourth Batt (the Cultural Battalion) observers of the social scene forty odd years ago tabbed Walt for future ballroom greatness after witnessing his elfin grace at plebe tea fights and his subsequent domination of the Dahlgren Hall stag line.

Mani Strong called from Virginia Beach to say that she had just retumed from a delightful two-week trip with her son Graham (who is studying computer science at Old Dominion) to Ireland and Scotland. She found Scotland particularly attractive, and. having seen it for the first time, wants to retum for a longer time, but enthusiastic reports from each retumee like Mani makes the pressure to make the trip almost irresistible. Mani's daughter. Cicely, is a linguist who has mastered several languages and is currently a student at Wm and Mary.

A nice letter from George Chipley in response to a postcard from me (how come some of the rest of you haven't replied ?) said that he had tried to call Jim Gustin who also lives in the vicinity of Milwaukee only to find that he was StiU vacationing in northem Wisconsin, but a mini-two-man reunion was planned for early September. George is in the last lap of his business career with retirement planned for the end of this year. He says Jim Gustin has already retired from teaching at the university as well as from the State Department, but he is still pursuing his life-time specialty of Turkish and mid-Eastem history and politics. George says he and JuUe plan to stay on in Wisconsin and continue their hospital volunteer and church work which takes much of their time. He does not anticipate that their future travels wUl take them beyond the Massachusetts/Virginia axis where three of their children Uve. CharUe Andres is another who sent me a nice reply to my postcard and brought me up to date on his activities. He has been teaching six art courses at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine, for the past fifteen years, during which time he became the Senior Master. At graduation this year (at which the speaker was Gen. Westy Westmoreland USMA '36) the Tmstees not only honored Chariie with the Distinguished Service Award, but also utilized the power conferred upon them by the original 1791 Charter (for only the second time in the history of the school) to award him an Honorary Bachelor of Arts Degree. In his remarks to the graduates, Charlie told them that he had started working toward a degree in 1932 at the Naval Academy andfinaUyachieved it at Berwick 49 years later.

Chariie stUl paints for fun and for profit.

A brief note from Duke Ferrara says that he.

Rivers Morrell, and Bush Bringle plan to join Tom HamUton for their annual National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Golf Tournament and banquet in early September. Bush was due back from a five-week stay in England in time to join the foursome. Incidentally, Bush had a lens implant in what he referred to as his blind eye and since the operation in late April has had his vision restored to a remarkable degree. With his new knees, and with his new eye, he must be a terror on the golf course again.

Other late breaking news from the West Coast included a phone call from Lois and Bob Erly during which I dutifully made cryptic notes on a scratch pad to remind me of the contents of the conversation when it came time to convert

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it into column material. That time is now and I can decipher my notes atdut as well as I could the Dead Sea Scrolls. 1 do recall that the Eriys were having a reception for their godchild, Nancy Dau McCoy, who is to marry 1st Lt. Harry Blair. USMC ('76). Also Bob said that he had sold his boat and is now in the market for something a bit larger. I have the numbers 36' and 40' jotted down somewhere near the word boat, so I think that is the size he is thinking of The reason he sold his boat is because he is retiring from active competitive racing and the reason he is doing that is the difficulty of recmiting a competent crew, which, I gather, is a group with strong backs and nimble hands, slavishly devoted to the Old Man and anxious to demonstrate compliance with his slightest wish. Surprisingly, Bob says, you just don't find many like that anymore, so he is prepared to hang it up and spend future hours on the water in more pleasurable pursuits.

Latest Reunion news is that there are now 93 couples and 9 singles who have indicated that they will attend. 32 are listed as possibles, so all in all it is shaping up as a great affair. There are enough from the East Coast that the Washington Group wiU look into the possibiUty of block rates for air travel if enough indicate sufficient interest to make such an endeavor worthwhile.

One final financial noteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;BUI Mack tells me that he has received $5100.00 in class donations this year which has us on target for our 50th anniversary gift to the Naval Academy. Lest we get too complacent, he tells me that he read in one of the Ivy League school bulletins that their Class of'37, only slightly larger than ours, raised more than ten times our amount this year.

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Sec'y, Capt. Snowden Arthur USN (Ret.) 10207 Dickens Ave.. Bethesda MD 20014 Percent Members: 79 Frank Whalens' son, Frank junior, is carrying on the Navy tradition; last June he assumed command of the USS THOMAS C . HART at Nor-

folk, Virginia.

Marian Brenner, widow of Jim, sent the following letter of appreciation: "So often we take friends for granted, but the past month I had the opportunity to realize just how much friendship means. My husband Jim died the end of July, and with one phone call to Marion Buaas, Classmates sent cards, phoned, and offered all kinds of assistance. Several Classmates attended Jim's services at Fort Rosecrans, and seeing them share the finality of Jim's life with us gave his children and me a great sense of comfort.""

Marian's address is PO Box 543. Pine Valley Califomia.

Speaking of addresses, Mary and Rab Irvine have moved from the West Coast to a new home at 1924 Harwood Road. Annapolis MD 21401.

Welcome back to Crabtown on the Bay! Jo and Carl Fleps opened the autumn social season for Washington '38ers with an absolutely splendiferous cocktail party at their attractive home in Chain Bridge Forest, Arlington. Arriving guests admired a blue clematis gracefully entwined around a lamp post. At the front entrace was a giant tub of huge pink geraniums.

(Jo says that Hank Jackson is her gardening consultant.) The tiredest guest at the party seemed to be Ray Berthrong who had spent three fms-

trating hours with his tractor and his new invention, a portable chicken coop. It tumed out to be less portable than he had designed it to be. Why would he want a portable coop anyway? Ray said it was to move the chickens from one patch of grass to another, but he didn't say why.

I noticed a tmly magnificent pair of calves standing next to the plate of roast turkey in the dining room. They turned out to belong to Jean Bagby who said that when she was younger, people used to ask her if she were a ballerina.

She is radiant and vivacious enough to be one now. Gigi and Phil Beshany brought along Ellen and Edwin Bell, a submariner in the Class of '39. Don Brown made his first social appearance in some months. The radiation treatments have robbed him of his once luxurious head of hair; but Don still looks distinguished; he somewhat resembles Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King.

Jean and Homer Conrad, who live in Winchester near the Berthrongs and Browns, said that the three couples no longer drive to Washington in one big car. They are driving smaller cars now and need two of them for six people.

Anne and Al Church have sold their home in Alexandria and moved into a condominium in Arlington. With all of the traveling they do, the empty house became too much of a problem.

Fran Hartigan told a cute story about a small nephew of hers who was visiting from Hong Kong with his parents. The family was on the beach at Strawbridge, Virginia, and the little boy was digging a hole in the sand. An elderly, somewhat pompous genteman strolled along and told the little boy, "If you dig hard enough, you'll get to China." The boy looked up and said, "I know. That's where I live." Crestfallen, the gentleman walked on.

Margaret and Frank Jones are soon going on a trip to Pern with the Questers. Questers are people who visit interesting places to look at flowering plants and birds. They walk and enjoy the exercise, but they never go shopping for souvenirs or for anything else. Shopping is not a scheduled activity.

While I was working on roast beef, I saw Jeanne Mann busy with the crab casserole. Of course she wasn"t the only one taking advantage of the bountiful array of food. Other gourmands and gourmets included Ray Alexander, the Dick Bowers, Dick and Dicky Church, Gigi and Hugh Elwood, Julie and John Ferriter, Connie and Hank Jackson, Betty Luby, Diantha and Joe McDowell, Emilou and Agee Melvin, Lee and Dick Mugg, Marie and Bill Spears, Walt and Jane Small (enroute to their home in Florida), Ethel and Fred Janney (Class of'39). BeUy and Jack Raymer brought their son-in-law, Jim Clark, who is a lawyer in Alaska. Betty and Jack were to leave the next day for Jackson, Wyoming, there to "rough it" with their son Tom. Jo Fleps said that they were planning another party later in September for more '38ers and assorted Marines.

This month's guest columnist is Randolph Carter Berkeley, who has an exciting story to tell of an adventure in England this past Summer: "ENGLAND, ANYONE?" was a headline in the Lake Barcroft Newsletter in May. The Berkeleys responded and Carter. Ruth and Janet (19) flew off to England on July 10th as LTC Gordon Steel USAF (Retired) and famUy flew to Virginia. (For six weeks each family lived in the other's home, drove their cars and again crossed the Atlantic without meeting.)

The Berkeleys landed at Gatwick south of London and proceeded through London and Ips-

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wich by train and taxi to the Steele home known as "Spring Farm" in Melton, a small viUage adjacent to Woodbridge on the River Deben.

This is in the Suffolk section of East Anglia.

"Spring Farm" is a nine-acre estate with a lovely English garden and a clear mnning stream. It is guarded by "Tiger Tom," "Tiny Dancer" and "Scairdy Cat," three friendly feline watchcats that welcomed the newcomers even before they began opening the cat food left by the Steeles for their care. Immediately, the Berkeleys were welcomed by the Steels' friends, leamed how to place the numbered brick by the door each morning to order milk, settled down to the restful life in this quaint English viUage and began to read the Times and watch BBC. Woodbridge is near the North Sea and the weather was always cool and very comfortable in contrast to Virginia in July and August. Motor trips were taken to Harwich, Ipswich, Norwich and beach areas such as Felixstowe, Southwold, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. All of these places are within an easy drive of Woodbridge Jmd like most places in England, are rich in historical sites. Woodbridge is a small, neatly kept vUlage with one short main street called the Thoroughfare. AU essential businesses are clustered along this very narrow one-way street which is open to double-decker London style busses, eighteen wheeler "lorries" and private vehicles. It is apparent that the Royal Air Force's future fighter pUots are receiving their basic training on the "Thoroughfare" and the narrow streets and roads nearby.

On July 26th the Berkeleys attended the annual Deben Yachtsmen"s Service at nearby Waldringham. This was an impressive ceremony at dusk with the Chaplain of the Fleet conducting the service from a pulpit in an open saUing craft. The river was covered with well over a hundred yachts of varying types and those on board joined in singing hymns which included our familiar "Etemal Father Strong to Save." The other "nautical" experience of the Berkeleys was punting on the River Cam at Cambridge—a fun trip in a beautiful setting. The great event of the Summer was of course the Royal Wedding. Ruth opted for BBC because of the great crowds, but Carter and Janet left Woodbridge at four in the moming and drove into London when the streets were virtually empty. They parked the car, took the "Tube" to Green Park and surfaced to become part of the crowd at Buckingham Palace. Thanks to a periscope, Janet was able to see the Prince of Wales and others as they passed in those beautiful carriages. Certainly history will record this unblemished spectacle as the greatest pageant ever staged in celebration of matrimony.

The following day Carter and Janet drove to—you guessed it—Berkeley Castle near the Sevem River in Gloucestershire. This imposing structure was built in the eleventh century and its beautiful state of preservation makes one feel as if he had opened a door to the Middle Ages.

Francis Drake was a frequent visitor there and he left behind a sea chest from the GOLDEN HIND. The castle provided one grim contrast to the festivities of the wedding just attended. A room in Berkeley Castle was the scene in 1327 of the bmtal murder of King Edward II, the first English Prince of Wales. He had been deposed

by Parliament and was murdered at the direction of his own Queen. Let us hasten to add, the Berkeleys didn't do it.

A final note on the advantages of swapping houses for a vacation. Perhaps the greatest ad-

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vantage is that you are immediately an accepted part of the community and you have the opportunity to see life there from the viewpoint of its citizens. The economic benefits of not having to pay a hotel bill in these times are obvious. Just daily living in England is higher in most respects than in the U.S. Perhaps a vision of our own future was the heavy traffic on the roads in spite of "petrol" at $3.40agallon.

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Sec'y, Capt. W. J. Ruhe, USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBeth Ave., McLean VA 22101 Percent Members: 74

Art Fischer makes presentation to Bob Clark and Eileen

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Bob Brent, Hank and Judy Reaves. Bob Clark, Roger Paine A note from Max Kerns:'' After some42 years, I got together with Selwyn "Selly" Graham in Florida last Winter. His wife Jean had died some time prior to '39 for '39.' On July 20th he married Margaret 'Peggy' Kellerhouse, a widow with four grown children—she says eight are enough!

(Four are Selly's.) We enjoyed cocktails at Peggy's Cape Cod house and saluted the newlyweds. She's sold her home here (in Brewster, Maine, where Max lives) and will operate out ofll05TuscawillaRd.,CasselberryFL32708.Jim and I have the best of two worlds: Summer here near Cape Cod Bay and Winters at Winter Haven, Florida. We're in both phone books—Classmates are welcome. Can New Farm Wharf in Brisbane have been 39 years ago?" (Max and I started the submarine war from there.)

Al Register writes to give his new address, 109 Justice Grice, Williamsburg VA 23185. "After retiring from teaching, Ellie and I decided on short notice to build in Williamsburg. Accordingly, we moved in on June 30th. Before leaving New Jersey, organized an Alumni Chapter. Two unusual items of interest in connection with our organizational meeting: (1)1 was the senior graduate present and (2) Paul Loustanau's son Jeff (late of nuclear subs) was a charter member.

Enroute Williamsburg we attended a reunion in Raleigh of the North Carolina State graduate school class that Jim Dick Miller, WaUy Moore and 1 attended. Wally and Helen couldn't make it due to other travel plans, but Jim and Mary Jane were there from Coronado. The welcome mat is out for anyone passing through Williamsburg."

Art Fischer, the new class rep in the San Diego area sends pictures of the 3 August party honoring Eileen and Bob Clark, our past honcho of this area. Fifty-two tumed out for a dinner at the Amphib Base, Coronado, and presented to Bob on behalf of the local, grateful Classmates

a handsome ship's clock/barometer set with an engraved plaque (see pictures) and, also, a framed letter of appreciation from the Alumni Association signed by BUI Busik. Bob looks fine—just slowed down a bit. His Yul Brynner "Coiffe" is definitely a conversation piece if not a hair piece." Those aboard for the occasion with wives included Barker. Bames. Bemis, Brent, Clark, Clarke. Dawson. Dolan, Fargo, Fischer, Glaes, Henderson, Jolly. Knox, Lank, Mathews, Mattson, Jim Dick Miller, Norton, Paine, Ramage, Reaves, Reilly, Thomas, Felix and Worley, Benny SteinkuUer and Mary Blair (Pye's widow) came single. "Bob's shoes," Art says, "wiU be difficult to fill, but this first arrangement came off swimmingly."

EH Roth, moving to Southbury, Connecticut, (incorrectly reported last month) told of his trip to England in the Spring when they photographed hybrid plants in Kew Gardens, London, stayed at a farm for a week on the Yorkshire moors, traveled across Northem England to the Cotswold, and finally arrived in Dartmoor, Dorset, where Eli had to test "the quaking bog" which figured in Sherlock Holmes', The Hound of the Baskervilles case. Eli reported "the bog was like jello or a water bed and I sank up to my hips before I'd believe that it was real." Later he dug for flint at Grime's Graves in Sussex. (Grimes is old Danish for the god Thor.) "These circular depressions which are vertical shafts down through the chalk, are prehistoric diggings over 4,000 years ago." On the base layer, Eli found an 8-pound chunk of flint and a chipping off a hatchet head. (The usual success of a competent archeologist.)

Had cocktails with Billie and Vic Boatwright at Frank Lynch's home in Stonington. After hearing about Billie's doings as Republican National Committee woman, we discussed the possible development of "Boats'" monograph Shipmate. November 1981

which he wrote on Operation Torch. Boats was naval plans officer on Overiord's staff for the landings at Omaha Beach—and you can't fault that kind of success.

The 18th GG & G (Gulick's Grog and Grill) long week-end party of fifty-nine "39ers is history. Sally Gulick writes: "The Ball is over and this Cinderella has tumed back into a pumpkin.

On Friday. August 21st while the gals visited the J. Paul Getty Museum, the golfers had at it with Weatherwax winning the low gross and Harris the low net. Pool side cocktails and a buffet supper at the Gulicks wound up that day. Saturday, "the usual Grog and Grill " startedat3:00 p.m. "I set up business on the side to update the GGG and G merit badges with hash mark.

(Note that another G has been added which stands for "guest hduse." Sally this year quartered •39ers in the UCLA Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house.)

She then notes: "Betty and Grant Rogers made their entrance as usual on foot, having hiked from Santa Barbara. They took six days to walk to Pacific Palisades." George Duncan on his retum from the GG & G said that Trant "was going to Africa in October with a National Geographic Expedition and rafting from Victoria FaUs down the Zambesi River. He wiU room with Sugar Ray Leonard, and Alex Haley is in the party." (Secy, note: I'm quoting George on this nonsense because I don't want to be responsible for such second-hand information. Haley is undoubtedly going along to make sure their raft won't gel snagged on "roots." This is tny attempt lo emidate Weitzenfeld's one-liners.) But back to SaUy's notes: "John Cease and Jamie Tranger provided us with the greatest music. I fuUy expected my neighbors Les Brown and Lawrence Welk to come sign them up. There was some tennis playing, swimming and good old communicating before and after dinner. I don"t like to admit we"re growing older, but I can't help but compare the last five parties with the first five when much booze and coffee was consumed into the wee hours of Sunday and recently it is much less booze and coffee with everyone leaving around 10:30." For the Sunday moming bmnch 31 showed up. Bill Ringness was again my Bloody Mary bartender and Bob my champagne pourer. I am 100% for the brunches to finalize the weekend activities and unwind." (Secy, note: when we get the pictures I'll note who attended, but right now I'm oversubscribed with '39 news.) George Duncan also brought back to Washington a West Coast proposal to hold the 45th reunion on the West Coast. How about it?

It sounds good to me. providing Grant locates us a few Olympic Games tickets—for us non-golfers.

Lou Roddis was in town on September 2 chairing a high power. Energy Advisory Committee which was convened to examine the Department of Energy"s Research and Development programs. His group will make recommendations to President Reagan as to which energy programs should be emphasized and which cut in further budget deliberations. Too busy to make the luncheon, he sent his regards to the Washington crowd.

Another letter from Gus Norwood apprises us that he has retired from the Bonneville Power Administration and is on his way East to Washington to be at the monthly "39 luncheon "and attend a Navy football game." He says he's going to "shift to writing a history of consumer-owner electric systems of the Northwest, to be completed in 1983. "

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Bob holding Alumni Association letter of appreciation

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Bill and Bette Dawson. Dotty Dolan Hank Lloyd, well aware of the many '39ers who knew his daughter Anne well, passes along this sad note. "'Anne died of sepiacemia, a rare blood poisoning. Monty had flown out and had been with her three days before she passed away." A clipping from a newspaper tells us additionaUy that "Memorial services for Dr. Anne Boardman who died July 26 at the University of British Columbia Hospital. Vancouver, BC, at the age of 33 were held on Friday.

Burial will be in the family plot. Evergreen Cemetery.. . . Prior to her death, she had edited a book on multiculturism, which will be published in the near future. In Vancouver she served on the faculty of the education department of Simon Eraser University, etc."

C.G. MendenhaU told only half history at our July luncheon, so Mendy had a follow-on letter.

"My consulting work has kept me going to Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston. One client has a gold mine in Colorado, and so have made a few trips up there. (Mendy is an industrial management expert.) They also have some interests in Columbia, South America, which they expect me to visit. I've also been to Rome and the Arab Emirates for them. Then there's my farming operations down on Galveston Bay at our old home place, where my mother lives. Last Winter I planted a grove of 3,000 slash pines and 1,000 Virginia pines, with 1,500 more ordered for delivery in January. I had my fish pond enlarged so we can grow more fish right at home. I have also been experimenting with some agricultural projects using natural materials to enhance the fertility of the soil, etc., etc., etc."(Does this make you tired just reading about Mendy's tireless pursuits?)

August brought with it an exodus from the Metropolitan Washington area to the balmy hUlside breezes of Betty Ann and Tom Taylor's mountaintop farm at Point o' Rock, near Leesburg, Virginia. On Sunday the 16th over half a hundred of the local Classmates and families gathered there for the lOth Annual Class Picnic.

Included in the gathering: Jonnie and Art Bemdtson, Betty and Jack Bowell, Maxine Pole with Dick Brown, Mary and Bill Carpenter, Elouise and John Chase, Marie and Tab Collins, Mary Anne and Phil Eckert, Jo and Art Esch, Emily and Horace Figuers, Jo and Oz Gray, Rev. Dick Heath, Ruth and John Henry, Ginnie and Ted Hill, Goody and Bill Keating, Charlotte and Gene Lamiman, Helen Longino, Mary and Lou Mayo, Marge and Ed Muhlenfeld, Sis and John Refo, Harv Seim, Margaret and Ray Schneider, Thelma and BiU Scott, Mary and Ed Sledge, Dee and Sully Sullivan (from Virginia Beach), Betty Ann and The Squire, Penny and Hugh Vickery, Bee and Bob Wann and the Winters with Jerry Lindsay—down from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. The weather was, as usual, marvelous. It has rained only once in ten years of reunions. The food—unsurpassed.

Betty Ann and Tom and all their guests—in fine fettle.

A few days after the picnic Tom was hospitalized at Bethesda, Maryland, for some fairly routine tests, CT scans, etc. The diagnosis indicated that Tom's cancer is in remission or gone. Minor surgery might be required to alleviate pressure build-up of the spinal column/ brain fluid. Betty Ann could use our prayers to see Tom through this continuing physical battle.

Some of our other locals have been in and out of the hospitals with minor health problems and/ or corrective surgery: Larry Lockett, Tad Lothrop and Betty Wolfe. All o.k. at this writing.

On 9 September the 2nd-Wednesday-of-theMonth Lunch Bunch joined forces with '42 at the Fort Myer O'Club in Ariington for discussion of mutual interest maUers over beef bourguignon. A total of 38 lunched together (22 from '40). Those present from NA'40: Barton, Bowell, Cochrane, Collins, Desmond, Dueber, Gray, Hanley, Healey, Hechler, HUl, Montgomery, Muhlenfeld, Rogers, Roseborough, Schneider, Scott, Seim, Sledge, Stanwick, Wolfe and Winters.

Prior to lunch members of the executive committee met to verify that this year's election mail-out is on schedule. You should have received and, hopefully, mailed back to the secretary your ballot by the time this issue of Shipmate arrives at your home. Now I think we forgot to put a line on that ballot for you to write down your wife's nickname. Drop me a line sometime and let me have that name, please.

It will help to complete the next '40 roster.

Planning for the 45th Reunion is already underway. Jack Bowell has accepted chairmanship of the 1985 Homecoming Committee, and will be happy to hear from potential VOLUNTEERS. Reservations are being firmed up for the Homecoming weekend in Annapolis for that year.

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Horace Figuers, Marie Collins, Emily Figuers. and Betty Ann Taylor

Elouise and John Chase

Harv Seim, Penny and Hugh Vickery, Margaret Schneider

Bill Scott. "Squire' Taylor, and his lady, Betty Ann

Dick Brown. Art Bemdtson and Tab Collins hoist a brew to sun and yardarm

Betty Carpenter, Dee Winters, Ed Sledge

Bob Wann, Ted Hill, and "The Squire"

Thelma Scott, Mary Sledge, Jonnie Bemdtson

At the Taylor Picnic In September the locals bid a fond farewell gram and could lead to a reduction in fees to for Dorothy and Gene Dueber who were headed our students. Furthermore, it would go a sigfor the Puget Sound area. Their new address: nificant way toward restoring the partnership PO Box 211, Manchester WA 98353. Their new between the federal government and the states, home is actually in Eastport, just outside of Port which was in effect at the time of the adoption Orchard, Washington. of the Merchant Marine Academy Act of 1958, when costs were shared more or less equally News From Here And There among the federal government, the states and News from the East Coast fairly heavy this the individual students. Today the federal share month. We should be particularly concemed is about 15% . . . 1 feel very strongly that we with the gist of Ted Rodgers' August 1981 newsmust never let up our pressure on the federal letter from Castine, Maine, and the Maine Margovernment to take a realistic look at the alteritime Academy where Ted has accomplished natives for maritime training in this country such an outstanding job for the state and for the . . . We have a highly visible and very expensive nation in training young people to man vital, federal maritime academy, various union run posts in our long-neglected merchant marine. training schools which manage to place the bulk Part of Ted's letter: " . . . Internally, the oper- of their costs on the operating companies ation of the training ship (MAINE) now reprethrough contracts which in turn allow the comsents about 20% of our operating budget, panies to recover their costs either through opamounting to about $1.2 million per year. Fed- erating subsidies from the federal govemment eral fuel support (underiining by sec.) would or tax write-offs . . . and, finally, the state acadrepresent a significant contribution to the proemies with the least costly per capita program.

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largely borne by the students themselves and the local state taxpayers . . . " I reckon a word to our local congressmen would help . . .

Heading south—in Richmond (VA) Nan and BiU Meyer signalled plans already firmed to attend the 41st Homecoming in Annapolis.

In Mathews (VA) Mary and Jake Plummer, now retired from teaching, find that there is stUl little time to rest on the oars: " . . . Gardening, landscaping, sailing and Coast Guard Auxiliary work pile up . . ." But, hospitable as always, they will always find time to greet passing Classmates. Jake enclosed an August 20th front page copy of the local Gazette-Journal. On it, proudly standing before a background of national and local flags flying over the rugged Mobjack Bay shoreline. Jake's sometime neighbor Johnny Refo. The article accompanying the news photo reported, in part: " . . . Captain John F. Refo, chairman of the Committee to Preserve New Point Lighthouse, dedicated the restored Mobjack Bay landmark . . . before tuming the 1805, 55-foot tall lighthouse back to Mathews County care, Refo asked that the Board of Supervisors consider making it a 'memorial to all Mathews and Gloucester men lost at sea. . . .' " From Charleston Heights (SC) a relaxed and happy Stormy Karl reports: " . . . Since I achieved my 'Senior Citizen" status in May of this year I considered this an ideal time to retire, but I'm afraid by next January I'll be getting itchy feet . . . can't believe Betty and I have lived in the same . . . house over eight years. . ." We know that feeling. Stormy. Try 26 years on your zither; that's when Dee and I moved into 418 Tyler Place. Landlocked feeling, isn't it?

And from Hampton, Georgia, and our practical and popular philosopher and proponent of "peace in perpetuity" for pooped (pdemocratic) politicians, Gary HaU: " . . . Dorthe and I went sailing in Greece in June which caused us to miss MMA (Castine Caper) this year. Also, I wasn't sure whether my article (on Castine and the Maine Military Academy in May '81 Shipmate) might cause people to throw things at me—us amateur authors can't be too careful.

There is not enough money in the kind of writing I do to warrant taking risks with people who throw things. If you liked the piece you could at least tell me. So far only Bob White has said he 'could stand it, if not forced to read it all in one sitting. . .' Which, if you examine the wording, isn't all that much of a compliment . . . My daughter is now an MD and that automatically makes her a Lt. (jg) but she stUl hasn't bought a uniform. She has a residencyintemship in Providence, Rhode Island, in internal medicine. She will sooner or later go on active duty and that is what we must keep alert for. . ."

Sara Lee and Pete Peters (just back from a trip to Minnesota) plan to depart Vedra Beach, Florida, for Annapolis and the Homecoming game in October.

Still in Florida—many thanks to JP Barron for the many beautiful photographs of Castine Caper '81. We'll get them into the next issue of Shipmate. Not only is JP an expert raconteur, aviator and sailboat sailor: he is also an ace photographer.

Heading back north and westward, Ed Mason has retired again and writes: " . . . Each time I retire, I engage in more activities than before.

I assume that everybody should have at least four or five pensions, and I am working in that direction. I am engaged in professional public Shipmate, November 1981

speaking and consulting and . . . am enjoying it very much. Naturally, 1 enjoy speaking, and I command fees ranging . . . to $1,000 plus all expenses . . . " Ed is now operating as Ed Mason Enterprises. Inc.; consultant in PR and security matters and active in the Center for Advancement of Basic Skills.

The Secretary's Corner News from the West Coast will have to wait until ne.xt month. We've mn out of space.

Keep the L. PAT GRAY DEFENSE FUND in mind. Funds are still needed at PO BOX 481, WATERFORD, CT 06385.

First duty ship assignments have started coming in. We now have the NA'40 rosters for RANGER. DETROIT. NEW MEXICO. NORTHA.MPTON. ASTORIA, ME.MPHIS. WASP, and NEW

YORK. If this Ust doesn't include YOUR first duty assignment in 1940—drop us a Une with a list. * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0! * * *

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Corr. Sec'y. Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 7111 P\le Rd.. Bethesda MD 20817 301/320-3887 Percent Members: 70 Now that the 40th Homecoming is a pleasant memory for which we owe so many thanks to the committee which organized the good times, you wiU have to wait until the winter issue for the products of our gifted photographers. In the meantime my apologies for the errant captions in three of the pictures in the September Shipmate but I rather suspect that Jack BeardaU, Ed Taber and Hensley WlUiams know which is which as do all the rest of us! By the way, how many of you know that the prominent son of our classmate. Whiskey Ed. bears the nickname Jigger?

In case you happened to miss it. dig up a copy of the September Naval Institute Proceedings and read Paul Backus' intensely interesting account of his personal experiences at Pearl Harbor. Paul's account is also included with 46 other first-person accounts of Pearl Harbor in a new Naval Institute book. Air Raid: Pearl Harbor!

42 Secy. R. S. Day, CLU P.O. Box 6042 Shiriington Station, Ariington VA 22206 Percent Members: 73 The year is fast winding down with the details of the great 40th reunion still an unknown quantity at this writing. Betty and BiU Kurtz are owed a large measure of thanks for this wind-up to Bill's years as class president. Words don't express our gratitude and his shoes will be difficult to fill.

The annual dinner-dance with the Classes of 1919-1944 will ring down the curtain on 1981 on 15 December at Ft. Myer. The choice of dates was not of our doing, but the event has become too important to so many to let a matter of days of the week interfere. We expect a large turnout and hopefully the weather will cooperate as it has so often in the past.

The heavy influx of mail for the 40th contained very few personal notes. Seems as though everyone was saving the best for the last! Isobel and Grif Scarborough may have been the exception, as Grif shared with me an article he had prepared for a newspaper covering their trip to China with Dr. Robert H. SchuUer. Since it filled eight pages. I'm afraid most of what was reported will not be disclosed herein, although it made a fascinating story.

Their junket took them from Los Angeles to Honolulu and then on to Hong Kong. This part of the trip was more or less of a homecoming for Grif, while the stopover in Honolulu gave both Isobel and Grif a chance to check on their old quarters at Hospital Point. The security at Narita Airport, outside of Tokyo, attests to the continuing stmggle the govemment is engaged in with its unfriendly neighbors. By contrast, the airport at Seoul—modem and elegant— conflicts only with the native Korean architecture.

Grif has nominated Hong Kong as his favorite city in all the world. This in spite of the rampant inflation where coop apartments on Victoria Peak are doubling in price every three to six months. This may explain why everyone seems to be working double-time and why there are still bargains to be found. The trip into China by the 120 hardy tourists didn't seem to faze the

Chinese too much. Life in Shanghai and Peking swirled on about them with the young people taking advantage of the opportunity to try out their English, more so in Shanghai than in Peking. This probably suggests the difference in the makeup of a commercial center and a govemment center. The Great Wall proved the highpoint of the trip and it appears to leave today's tourists as awestruck as it did the Mongols against whom it was built (and kept out).

Bangkok provided a chance to unwind and again challenge the shopkeepers' prices. It is still one of the fine places to go broke while saving money buying jewels. Finding themselves 13 time zones west of their Florida home, they decided to head home via India and Europe and its 11 time zones. Some trip!

During the week of 13 September, we bade farewell to two Classmates. Steve Riordan died of a heart attack at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, on 14 September; while Hank Wallace suffered a heart attack and died at the National Orthopedic Hospital in Arlington on the 19th.

Steve was buried at Arlington Cemetery on the 16th from the Ft. Myer Chapel. Hank's service was held in the Chapel on the 22nd with burial in his home town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Steve retired from the Navy in 1962 and after two years with a defense contractor in Nashua, New Hampshire, worked for NASA and the Navy Department until his second retirement last year. For the last several years, Steve had provided the invocation for our Class luncheons and appeared to be in good form on September 9th when we met jointly with the Class of '40. Hank retired in 1967 and worked with Harbridge House untU 1976, when he joined Advanced Technology, Inc., just a month after it was formed. At his death. Hank was deputy division general manager of the Marine & Industrial Systems Division—ADTECH's largest. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Margy Riordan and Emestine Garrett and their families.

Late word from Layton Allen tumed up a longtime missing Classmate, Robert B. Bnuis, who has joined us for the 40th. Bob lives at 13 Alta Vista-Drive, Princeton NJ 08540 and is associated with Intemational Hydronics Corporation, Rocky HiU, New Jersey.

Order Now for Christmas Delivery; Jackie and Victor Delano in Glacier Bay Last Summer, Jackie and I took a two-week cruise from San Francisco up through the Inside Passage to Alaska and retum. We took just about every side trip available at the Alaskan and Canadian ports of call and it was a spectacular experience. If you have not done it and have the opportunity, we can assure you that it is well worth the effort. The accompanying picture of the two of us was taken while cmising in Glacier Bay for a day.

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43 Sec'y, Capt. William T. Peach, III, (SC)USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St.. Kaliua. HI 96734 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Wes Burnett (SC) USN (Ret.) 253 Heamans Way. Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 67 Summer is not a good time for news. If anything is happening you wouldn't know it from the incoming mail. We were in New Hampshire for about a month and the lazy life of Melvin Village is not conducive to writing. Retuming to AnnapoUs, we attended the Navy-Citadel game. Citadel was surprisingly tough and Navy had just fallen in for practice when the game had to be played. Coach Welsh is trying out two new quarterbacks and the rest of the team played erratically but hard. Although we won. a very menacing Michigan is coming up in two weeks. The prospect is not encouraging.

The Class has a group of season ticket holders in the west stands, upper deck—Jim Oliver, Bob Adrian, Det Detweiler. Bill Doyel. George Grkovic, Hal Hoffman. John Gano. Bob Greenwood and Dee Wagner Earle. We all gather for a tailgate party at least an hour before game time near the outer fence on the west side of the stadium. Join us: three more home games. Elsewhere in the stands were Buck Walters. Whizzer White and Earle Buckwalter.

The Class Newsletter. BUMPER, is out. If you didn't get a copy write John Gano. 10521 Providence Way, Fairfax VA 22033 or Bob Adrian, 215 King George St.. Annapolis MD 21401 and get on the roster.

Jean Clare wrote a nice note identifying the Youngster on the right, third picture down, June issue. Class column, as Jerry Clare. She suggests that Frank Bader was next to him. Jerry passed away a couple of years ago. The Clares lived for a time in Detroit when Jerry worked for General Motors Allison Division. Jean now lives in Indianapolis.

Cliff Brown is retuming to work after suffering pangs of conscience resulting from a oneyear leave of absence. He and Harriet recently enjoyed a visit from Dee and Harry Clark, "friends to visit unexpectedly when in need of improved life style."

Other old friends revisited Kay CoUeran Hayne (he is Class of '44) traipsing around the hors d'oeuvres, full of chatter and reminicences.

Daughter Kathy was a very frequent (like every weekend) visitor in our quarters USNA in 1963, dating a wonderful young Midn., Gary Davis.

Fortunately for the honor of our household, they were married at graduation. Gary is now a captain, USN. Hard to believe! Jerry Colleran, incidentally, is with Mantech Corporation in Crystal City. I've talked with him by phone but he hasn't retumed the call. Publicity shy, I suppose.

We received notice of the death of BiU (Wilham Park) Baker August 10. 1981. Medical Center, San Diego. I'd appreciate any available background. I regret having to report the sad fact alone.

Bob Adrian says the response to his appeal for funds for the 3rd Co Wardroom has been superb, particularly from those who cannot make this year's Homecoming. He also says that evidence of a very strong turnout for the 40th is now coming in.

PhU Erkenbrach's son David married Patricia Jean De Walle in Mishawaka, Indiana, on the 8th of August.

'43ers on board MS FRANCE—Phil and Lona Hunt.

Jacque and Dick White. Bill and Ginny Busik The Busiks, Hurts and Whites represented the Class on an Alumni Association cmise down the Rhine and Moselle rivers to Paris this Summer.

They and wives Ginny, Lora and Jacque. are pictured sampling the wines of the Valley and discussing old football victories; the first meeting of Phil and Bill since graduation. Phil works in New York, having retired from the Navy many years ago.

John Gano recently visited his first grandchild, Mathew, in Seattle. The child's father Mike and John's other son Scott and daughter Pam were all together for the grand occasion.

George Grkovic's son was recently married in Colorado.

Barn Rapp has been in Maine as usual, but left in August to visit with "No. I son" and family in Battle Creek. Michigan, before going to Denver to see "No. 2 son"" and new wife.

Nice to have so many sons you take to numbering them.

"Note To Editor" appeared in the American Revolution Magazine, author Perry HaU, describing Evacuation Day in New York City, November 23, 1783, as recalled by Captain John VanArsdale. "The dastardly British departed without ceremoniously lowering the colors and raising the victorious Stars and Stripes. In fact, they had secured the Union Jack, removed the halyards and greased the mast. Young VanArsdale, after attempting to climb the mast un-

successfully, obtained spikes and nailed them to the mast. He then was able to proceed to the top, tear down the British Flag and consequently the American Flag was raised."

The young Captain was a forbear of Perry.

I am writing to him to suggest he offer himself as a consult to the "No More Plebes Committee," Class of 1985. regarding "Techniques for Climbing the Herndon Monument."

Phil Hambsch got a position as special devices project engineer, ASW Section, NavAirSystCom, reporting mid-October. He's looking for housing transportation pools to Arlington, etc., and can be reached in care of Tom Casey, 2001 Jefferson Davis Hwy. 411, ArUngton VA, tel. 713/920-7622.

Jan and Jack Dudley were at the famous and inadequately described Greenwood party (belly dancers etc.) a few weeks ago. Nice conversation elicited the fact they have three residences occupied in rotation. If you can find them and your timing is right, you can enjoy the life of a privileged few at one of three locations—Olney, Maryland, Rehoboth. Delaware and Long Key. Florida. They may not be pleased to know that we have placed them on our list of "merile un detour."

Well, it is said by those in the know that a picture is worth a thousand words. Since I have about 4.000 more words to write. I shall simply present four pictures that have been lying loose for some time, presenting some of our distinguished men about town. In case you have trouble recognizing this group of citizenry—and kindly notice that they run from A to Z—they are presented in alphabetical order as Frank W. Ault. Robert D. Cousins. Charles W. Tumer, and A. P. ZecheUa. It must be stated that they all look healthy, wealthy, and wise, and furthermore, everyone of them is a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Charies Tumer

A. P. Zechella

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 pidrposes 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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George Prestwich sent in a photo which appeared in the Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette on 20 July showing George, as president of RCA Service Company, cutting the ribbon opening the third RCA Engineering Center in Northem Virginia. George said that the unusual thing about the new facility is that it houses systems engineering activity for Japanese ships—work done for Japan in cooperation with and under contract to the U.S. Navy. Accordingly, the ceremony was followed by champagne toasts in Japanese-fl la Prestwich—and presentation of tie clips shaped as Samurai swords.

44 Secy, 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 M D 21401 301 /268-6474 Percent Members: 64 '44 Memorial Project Believe it or not, we have reached the 90 percent mark in our contributions for the "44 Memorial. Nevertheless, keep your contributions coming in to the Alumni Association until we reach 100 percent of $60,000. .At that point, a letter w ill go out to all hands from our committee chairman. Rojo .Adamson. calling a halt to the campaign and setting the stage for the big dedication in 1983. The loyalty and responsiveness shown by all of you has been nothing short of magnificent. "44 is a leader! We were number one in both head count and total funds contributed to the USNA Alumni Association in the fiscal year ending 30 June 1981. Congratulations!

MaU Bag Ray Bock wrote in rather w himsically to Jack Godfrey. He said he noted Pem WaU's address in Shipmate and reminded us that he and Pem were appointed to the USNA by the same Congressman and ended up as roommates plebe summer. He further related that he was stiU harboring a persistent although inoffensive fungus on one foot picked up at Milne Bay in the Pacific in 1943. His plea is that surely there are others who must have brought a similar "'beastie"" out of SOPAC and managed to rid themselves of it—if so he would like to hear from them at 23777 MulhoUand Highway. Sp. 16.

Calabasas CA 91302.

Walt Honour reported that he has thrown in the sponge and retired from his job as head of JacksonviUe's Bio-Environmental Services Division. He is contemplating a tentative offer to become an adjunct professor at Jacksonville University. He related that he had seen Ginny and .Mark HiU in July. Mark, who heads legislative affairs on Capitol Hill for the Association of Naval Aviation, was down to update the ANA Bald Eagle Squadron in Jax on the successes of the .ANA in supporting CNO"s aviation programs in the Congress. Walt plays golf regularly with Whitey Grosskopf and Len Graves, both of whom plaj steadily in the low 70s. He says he and Elaine have plenty of room for friends at 5066 Ortega Forest Drive. JacksonvUle FL 32210.

Earl (Buddy) Yates surprised me with a long and descriptive letter and the photo of Rosalee and Bob Young with Lucy and Buddy on board Bob's Pearson 365 ketch. MORE PRO.MISES. in the Bahamas. Bob has formed the "44 Sail and Pillage Squadron ("44 S.APRON) made up of MORE PROMISES and

PUKA KAI (Hole in

the

Ocean), a Caribbean 35 sloop. Bob put "44 SAPRON through "Reftra" and "Shakedown" in the Bahamas from December "80 until June '81.

Buddy, having served as "44 SAPRON chief of staff, attests to Bob"s seamanship and dedication to the best mm—Barbados Mount Gay—which may have helped lead Buddy to a grounding and demotion to SAPRON Chief Salvage Officer.

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Youngs and Yateses Rosalee and Lucy were appointed by Bob as Chief and Assistant Shelling Officers respectively, which, I presume, means they were in charge of sea shell coUection and collation.

Buddy "s bottom line was that if anyone in "44 has a boat and would like to improve his proficiency. Bob invites them to join "44 SAPRON and gain a position of leadership and prestige through important sounding squadron titles which would enhance any epitaph, except maybe Jake Laboon's. Buddy says write to R. J. Young. Jr. at 183 Cherokee Way. Boulder CO 80303. tel: 303/494-4482 and apply for the winter cmise. He also says that Jean and Hank Cutler offer free showers to '44 saUors passing through Jax Beach, and Anne and Pinky Joslin and Pam and Jeff McVey live in the assembly area near West Palm Beach and wUl act as judges of the best ship's cook in '44 SAPRON. Incidentally. Buddy's address is 108 88th Street. Virginia Beach VA 23451.

Dick Bowe was good enough to send a note with a clipping from the Wall Street Journal of 14 August about CharUe Flowerree's actions as U.S. representative to the Geneva Disarmament Conference. In reply to the Soviet Delegate's accusation that the U.S. was threatening a qualitative leap in the arms race by producing the neutron bomb. Charlie stated that the Soviets have "far more massive and indiscriminate" weapons in their nuclear arsenal, and that those weapons are "thousands of times more powerful (and) suitable for hitting cities, not tanks."

Charlie went on to say that NATO has been marking time "while the Soviet military buildup" is continuing relentlessly. It is little wonder that the U.S. and its allies "feel compelled to redress the nuclear balance" when Soviet arms expenditures today are double what they were in 1960 whUe "the U.S. effort is at the moment very nearly what it was twenty years ago.""

Well said. Chariie!

Prestwich cuts up "1

CinCPAC and Ochenrider

Ochenrider and CinCPAC Fleet (Ret.) Gordon Ochenrider brought back from Hawaii the two photos of him with Don (Red Dog) Davis and Bob Long. Gordon attended Red Dog's retirement, which we reported last month.

News Clips Harold M. (Kubla) Cahn was featured in the Rotary International of July as Rotary Governor's Aide. A New Yorker, Hal later went to John Marshall High School in Richmond before graduating "with distinction" with "44 from the USNA. He served in the cruiser MONTPELIER, as assistant gunnery officer in WWII, eamed his master's degree in civil engineering at Renselaer Polytechnic, and served in the Civil Engineering Corps of the Navy until 1953. Hal is now president of Bancker Construction Corporation in New York, and he and his wife Ester live in Sands Point. Long Island. They have a daughter, Karen, and a grandson. Damon.

Jake Laboon was featured in a half-page article in The Catholic Review of 17 July. It highlighted Jake's Navy career as a submariner, as a Jesuit priest, and as a Navy chaplain. It also emphasized Jake's deep concem over the shortage of priests serving as Navy chaplains.

As most of you know by now. Jake is managing the retreat center. Manresa-On-Sevem. which he likes to think of as "USS Manresa."

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On 3 September he entertained about 38 Classmates and wives at cocktails and dinner in Manresa. It was a grand and fun affair, and Jake's father and brother were among his guests.

Yours tmly had the honor to attend and admire the grand work Jake is doing in restoring Manresa to a retreat of beauty and tranquility in conformance with its purpose and tradition.

Leon (Red) Smith and Sarah recently announced in the social columns the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, to G. Clifford Freeman II, son of Col. and Mrs. George C. Freeman of Virginia Beach.

Secretary's Comer Thanks for all the news you have been sending in. It would help with the publishing deadlines if you would send news directly to me.

Windy, if you want it published in the earliest issue. Jack Godfrey is our Annapolis correspondent for all information conceming activities in AnnapoUs, but yours truly writes this column. Enough said—Beat Army!—WVW.

45 Sec'y, Capt, Cari Gronemann, Jr. USN (Ret.) 4204 Shannon Hill Road Alexandria VA 22301 703/960-8762 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dutch Schuiz USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St. N., Ariington VA 22207 703/536-7156 Percent Members: 59 It's about that time of the year to start thinking about your Christmas gift list—and, of course, don't forget to add the Association of the Class of 1945 to your Christmas card Ust. So, while you are momentarily focused on Christmas gifts, how about exercising your Mk I Thought Processor and give us your ideas for a '45 After 45 gift to the Naval Academy. BiU Barnes, chairman of the Gift Steering Group, has received only 14 suggestions from members of the Class to date. He has issued an urgent caU for more ideas. And when you do get that hot flash, call Bill at 938-4059 or the members of his committee: BUI McCulloch, 370-6691; Warren Taylor, 548-2026; Charlie Mize, 5338896; Jack Barron, 920-6815 or Don Poe, 7547567. Yes, all are area code 703.

Did you enjoy this year's Homecoming?

You'U have to wait for the December and January editions of this column to get the detaUs of our 37th, but you don't have to wait to start planning for the next four annual events which are scheduled as follows: 1982, 22-24 Oct, Citadel; 1983, 21-23 Oct, Pittsburgh; 1984, 19-21 Oct, Princeton and 1985, 18-20 Oct, to be announced.

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Dirty Thirty with Spouses Some 37 years or so ago, a group of Classmates were sent to the Marine Corps Reserve Officer School at Quantico following graduation. Palmer Herndon Rixey (who else?) dubbed the group, "The Dirty Thirty," and wrote a ballad entitled, "The BaUad of the Dirty Thirty of the Rugged 58th." Well, on 1 August 1981, the Marines in the Washington area met at Marilou and Don Brooks' Alexandria home for a "Dirty Thirty" reunion—with swimming, drinks, water volleyball, drinks, dinner, drinks and swapping lies. By the end of the happy evening they had decided many vital national issues of the day. Appearing in the top foto, courtesy of Tut Vale, are the Brooks, Roeders, McCullochs, Vales, Cosgroves, Mizes, Marge Fallon, Al Snyder and Larry Wickham. A postcard with some news to me wUl bring you a copy of the "Ballad . . ."

Homer W. Thompson, Capt. USAFR, a nongraduate Classmate and member of the Alumni Association, writes from GPO Box 4089 San Juan PR 00936: "I have lived in Puerto Rico the past twenty-three years and will retire this year after thirty years with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. (accountants). I have been a partner since 1958 when I started the San Juan office Happiness for a Corresponding Secretary is when someone reads his column. And now joy abounds within me after reading Red Stout's letter telling me that, " Florence baked another loaf (of Stroh's Beer Bread) today and it sure goes well with her Navy Bean Soup . . ."' If you haven't tried the recipe, you don't know what you're missing! Here it is for the third time: Take three cups of self-rising flour, three tablespoons of sugar, one can of Stroh's Beer at room temperature, make into a mud pie and pour into a greased bread pan which you then bake at 325 for 50 or so minutes. A guarantee! If you try it, you'll thank me for being so persistent! . . .

Well, back to Red Stout's note from 7 Benton Ave., Port Allegany PA 16743. He and Florence are grandparents for the third time after a grandson was born to son Don and his wife Cathy in July of last year. Red had a successful throat operation in 1980 and he is making some progress with the esophageal speech technique.

Jim Oliver, treasurer and director of alumni services of the Alumni Association, calls our attention to the fact that there are two paid subscriptions to Shipmate which are undeliverable because of no valid address. The first, Jim HemphiU, a Life Member of the USNA Alumni Association, was last accounted for in our 20 Year After Book at 321 S. 9th St., Montrose CO 81401, and the second, Mrs. Robert J. Delaney,

is formeriy of Bellvue WA 98004. Can you help by plugging the local directory in your area?

But once in a while, a '45 Phantom is uncovered and that makes the often fmstrating efforts worth while. For example, a couple of months ago, Ed Roeder was sitting in a Southern Califomia bar swapping stories with a longtime Marine Corps buddy. As the talk became more lucid and nostalgic, came the question, "Do you know BiU Skinner?" Tums out that Bill Skinner is the next door neighbor of this friend and lives at 17191 Cuyamaca, Star Route, Box 1901, Julien CA 92036 (phone 714/765-0186). Bill is married and has several children, a retired maritime engineer who is recovering from a multiple bypass. How about some of you West Coast Marines checking to see that Bill Skinner has rejoined the Class of "45? If anyone gets to BiU, ask him about the Black N**** on page 281 of our '45 Lucky Bag. From Ben T. Dibble, via Al Olsen, comes the address of Phantom Dean Marquardt: 1031 S. Main St., KalispeU MT 59901. And sometimes, the Phantom search ends at the cemetery. BUI Carrier of Orange Park FL writes that Phantom Jack Pressler had passed away some time ago.

I have no further details at this writing.

A note from Catherine MacEwan, with enclosures, makes Mac a Life Member of the Association of the Class of '45. (Incumbent Treasurer Ozzie Dale claims that you too can be a "Lifer" by paying $18 plus your back dues . . .) Kay continues her note and invites transients to visit them at PO Box 1762, LakeviUe CT 06039 for a round of golf, tennis or lake sports . . . call them at 203/824-5372. When not at their summer and ski season address, the MacEwans reside at PO Box 919, Coronado CA 92118.

The Fall season of the second Tuesday luncheons at Ft. Myer got off to a good start on 8 September with 40 Classmates gathered for cheer and chow and a most fascinating iUustrated description of the activities of the maritime division of the National Tmst for Historic Preservation by Capt. Harry AUendorfer USN (Ret.), Class of "42, the director of maritime preservation.

Thanks to the hard work and generosity of many Alumni, the Annual Alumni Fund for fiscal year 1981, ending 30 June, again exceeded that received during any previous year. Mark Tuzo, director of development for the Alumni Association, notes in his August report that, '"Obviously, with your help, more and more Alumni are getting the word and are realizing that Uncle Sam has not. does not, will not be able to provide the total funds necessary to keep the Naval Academy great."" Under the leadership of PhU Erickson, National Alumni Fund Representative for '45, and the many co-chairmen he recruited, the Class of 1945 stood second in the number of donors (236) and seventh in the dollar amount ($11,411). Only the Class of '44 exceeded us in the number of donors (by eight). The annual report of the activities of the Alumni Association will be contained in the December issue of Shipmate. Let us not forget that a goodly portion of that $I1K was designated and is restricted for the '45 After 45 Gift.

The Job Market: VAdm. Joe Moorer USN (Ret.) has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Jacksonville University for the 8182 academic year. He will teach a graduate-level management course in the Master of Business Administration program and serve as a guest lecturer in the NROTC unit. An independent, coeducational institution offering 50 undergrad-

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uate majors and 14 graduate degree programs, JU is located at Jacksonville. Florida. Eleanor and Joe live at PO Box 880, Ponte Vedra Beach FL 32082 . . . RAdm. Don Poe USN (Ret.) has begun his third career as a full-time volunteer worker at the Prince William County Voluntary Action Center, an outfit which recruits and places volunteers in activities under the jurisdiction of Prince William County. "It sure beats my old work hours," he remarks . . . Walker G. Bennett has left the hospital administration business after many years and is now an executive director in one of Sperry Gyro"s AeroSpace Divisions . . . Don Carpenter is associated with Bath Iron Works and lives in Southport, Maine.

Consulting engineer Ben W. Young, Chairman of YHI Inc.. Dallas, has been elected chairman of the consultant membership group. Institutional and Municipal Parking Congress. A registered professional engineer in 27 states, Ben is one of the nation"s leading authorities on the planning and design of automobile parking stractures. (Boy, could we use him in downtown DC!) . . . Johnny Johnson is conducting investment seminars for the A. G. Edwards and Sons Inc. of Alexandria . . . VAdm. Lando Zech, Chief of Naval Personnel, dedicated the new NTC Orlando Golf Course Club House on 31 July and served as reviewing officer at the Recmit Graduation Review . . . Jim Hennegan has been with Electric Boat. Groton, for 17 years.

Bobbie and Jim"s son Charles is the Editor of the new slick SDiego magazine. Cabaret and Casino. Their daughter Charlotte runs the Thames River Greenery in the renovated downtown of New London CT . . . Sally Bucknell is now in the communications industry with the Markel Foundation of 50 Rockefeller Ave., New York City, after several years as the director of the Swinbume School on Pelham St. in Newport . . . Visitors to Newport"s Bellevue Avenue wiU find Tim Moore busy in his Newport Plant and Garden Shop . . . And for those who venture out to Indian Ave. in Middletown, Rhode Island. RI. Dick .Alexander can be found tending his acre of wine grapes. After six years, the "Chateau Alexander" wine is coming into its own . . . Pete Peterson's daughter Lynn has the lead in the "Fantastics" at the local Harlequin Dinner Theater.

The Halftime Show: WUHe Crenshaw is back to full duty after a gall bladder operation in July . . . Loretta Snead is looking for a gold-embroidered "45 Class Crest suitable for a blazer . . . USS

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launched on 17 October 1981 at Todd Shipyard in San Pedro. Hopefully, we"ll have more news of this event in the next issue . . . Alice and Breck Klnnear visited a daughter in London and a 91-year-old uncle in Munich the latter part of September . . . Mac McDonald of 10112 Parkwood Dr., Bethesda MD 20014 is home from the hospital and is taking it easy . . . Howie Blum has a new address: 1217 Copella St., Goat Island, Newport RI 02840 . . . 2nd Lt. Sharon Sheffield Raum USMC '80 is out of the Marine Corps and is expecting . . . Bumper sticker seen in NLon: "More Nukes, Less Kooks" . . . If you want to know how to obtain your deserved but not received Philippine Liberation and Philippine Presidential Unit Citation medals, write to Phil Erickson . . . Bert and Bill Cosgrove's son-in-law, Alfred Sparks, graduated from the Navy Medical Indoctrination program in Newport. Daughter, Anne, is in the third year of the USN medical program at the University of Maryland . . . John Hicks of Chariotte, North

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Carolina, had a visit with Les Buck of Brownsville, Texas. He reports, "Les is the same happy, outgoing fellow he has always been and seems to be thoroughly enjoying life." . . . Alf E. Bergesen, deputy Chief of Mission, Port au Prince, Department of State, Washington DC 20521, writes that Bobbie and he are grandparents for the first time with the birth on 28 July of Curtis Moore Bergesen, son of Chris and great-grandson of Capt. AOR Bergesen "20 . . . Did you know that the Naval Academy is ranked among the top 50 engineering schools in the country based on the achievements of the graduates reported in Who's Who in Engineering?

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Sec"y, Mr. C. W. KenneUy II 7911 Sleaford PL, Bethesda, MD 20014 Corr. Sec'y, "Daisy" Wilhoit 1103 Santa Rufina Ct. Solana Beach CA 92075 714/481-2093 Percent Members: 60 Tricia and I made a short trip by air to St. Louis the last week in August to attend another family wedding, and this gave us a long sought after opportunity to visit with Harriot and Parker Smith. After the lengthy writeup in the JulyAugust column you will all appreciate the picture which I took following lunch at the beautiful St. Louis Country Club on Sunday, 30 August.

Harriot and Parker Smith As a matter of fact, we were having so much fun that we delayed our return to San Diego a day in order to take advantage of their gracious hospitality. On Monday, Parker arranged a tour which enabled us to view the magnificent display of westem art in the offices of the Boatmen's National Bank, and then the four of us had lunch in one of the private dining rooms of the bank, overlooking the old courthouse where the famous Dred Scott decision was made and almost in the shadow of the famous landmark arch. Then, before we headed West again, Harriot gave us a two-hour, professionally conducted tour of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, which she has been doing regularly for the past eleven years.

Gene Branson wrote from 913 Bmnswick Place, Rockledge FL 32955, in response to my request for an update. "My Navy career was brief. I served until 1949 on a cmiser in the Atlantic, resigned, then was recalled during the Korean War. I served 12 years as an electronic engineer with Emerson Electric, Chance Vought and Ryan. The bulk of my career has been in federal service with NASA as an electrical system engineer until my retirement in 1979. I manned a headset for all of the Apollo 'Moon Lander' launches. At present I dabble in real estate and plan to build a smaller retire-

ment home. I'm in the design phase (trying to learn how to drive a nail). I also enjoy being secretary to the local Florida Space Coast USNA Alumni Chapter. The gang includes both old and young Alumni and is very active with about 50 members (including wives) at each meeting."

Ansel Braseth wrote from 72 Pheasant Run, North Hills, Roslyn NY 11576, to enclose a contribution to my communications fund and to encourage us to visit them the next time we are on the East Coast. Might just include that in the '82 schedule, "Ace"! " B o " Heininger, '47, sent me some correspondence he had received from Don Burns which reveals that Don"s current address is 2249 Sea View Ave., Honolulu HI 96822. Don further reveals that he has a deep tan, has been divorced twice, and is nearly always barefooted!

Jack Dale wrote to apologize for taking six months to answer my letter but says it caught him in the middle of a work load that entailed three consecutive months of 7-day, 16-hour work weeks, and I don't know why anyone who is working that hard should have to apologize.

Besides, Jack, some Classmates don't ever answer my letters! "We are in the middle of what we hope to be our final move, having just bought a condominium town house in Towson. The new address will be 38 Theo Lane, Towson MD 21204 . . . My business is still booming. I'm just putting together my books for the first full year as a corporation and am pleased to say it was a most profitable year, with next year shaping up as even better. We bought an office building here in Towson so have plenty of space for a change."

Jack has been elected president of the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers, taking office in May, and has also been named to Who's Who in Engineering. He continues, "The only Classmate I've seen lately is BiU Dunseath, who stopped in to visit Ethel while she was in the hospital for surgery recently. Bill's office is next door to the hospital. Unfortunately, my schedule has been so hectic in the past year my social life (including my golf game) has suffered."

BiU Searle thoughtfully sent me the "In Memoriam" article on Alberto Jimenez which appeared in the house organ of the United Nations.

It says that, prior to his passing on 17 May, Alberto had just returned from an official visit to Latin America where he attended and addressed the meeting of the Economic Commission for Latin America. "Alberto had a meaningful life. He was driven by commitment to the cause of the disadvantaged of his country, Pem, and of the world. His drive for these goals was unrelenting and his appetite for knowledge and ideas, insatiable. His integrity and quiet strength of character shaped his thoughts and actions.

He was humane and unpretentious. Kindness, humor and wisdom were his approach to life.

He saw the best in every man and an opportunity in every challenge." BUI says: "Alberto's passing was of global proportions. He had done a super job at the U.N. these past several years.

As a matter of fact, he had been tapped for a significant advancement, scheduled to take place about I September. He was to take over as assistant Secretary-General for Secretariat Services for Economic and Social Matters. Interestingly enough, in that new position he would have been my bossâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in that I continue to have a consultancy association with the U.N. in the matter of ports and harbor clearance. At the present this includes contingency 'thinking' relative to the Shatt al Arab; the waterway be-

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tween Iraq and Iran. It would have been delightful working with him. In fact, I may have been the last Classmate to have been with Alberto. He, the fellow he was to relieve, and I lunched in the delegate's dining room in early May. "Things go about as usual here - a freighter stranded in the high Arctic; a tanker breaking in two in the Persian Gulf; a burned out super tanker in Istanbul needing to be cleared; and the usual ration of other maritime disasters. This time of the year, what with the hurricanes coming along, we keep our bag packed and running shoes on."

By Osterweil also sent me a short note to make sure I was informed about Alberto's passing, and said, "My office is on Park between 51st and 52nd Street, so if any Classmate wants help while in the Big Apple, they ought to feel free to ring me up." Byron Osterweil Associates, Inc., "A small, elite firm of experienced consultants in communications and marketing," is at 345 Park Avenue, phone 212/935-1161.

John Collins phoned me from D.C. to tell me about Alberto's passing and said that he believed Zoyla and children had returned to Pem, although he was not positive. I wUl include her address in a future column.

Frank Kelley '46 Frank Kelley, 101 Pembroke Dr., Lake Forest IL 60045, sent in the picture "showing an all Navy guy (me) with, not only, USN 46 on his Ucense plate, but also as the N number on the aircraft. The aircraft, incidentally, is painted two shades of blue and gold." Frank is president and chairman of the Board of Compudyne Corp.

Homer Key wrote to keep me up-to-date on his status. He is playing the bachelor role again and has changed his address to Apt. S-313, 6801 E. Camelback Road, Scoftsdale AZ 85251. Says he missed June Week West this year but hopes to make it in '82.

John Linehan was in Norfolk in mid-August to attend the annual Atlantic Fisheries Technological Conference, made up mostly of U.S. and Canadian food technologists, fisheries chemists and engineers, etc. John says, "Most of the participants are government and university types, with a scattering of industry representatives . . . It gives the scientists and engineers a chance to learn what is being researched in fisheries of the Northwest Atlantic. A few Europeans and Japanese usually attend also."

I sent John a list of Classmates in Norfolk but haven't heard from him since the meeting. Helen and John live at 844 Lucy St., New Bedford MA 02745.

Had a long, newsy letter from Dawn Lyon describing the house they are ready to build in the mountains as soon as they sell Leaning Pine Ranch in Eagle Point, Oregon. Enclosed was an 80

interesting picture of Dawn milking a goat - honest! With all that pull she would make a good politician!! We are looking forward to another visit with them in December when we make our annual trek to Seattle to visit Barbi. WiU also try to visit all Classmates enroute and in the Seattle area. Advance warning!

The May 1 issue of The Madeira School Spectator ran an article on the passing of Dud Mills which revealed that the Class of '78 had dedicated their yearbook to Dud and that the Class of '81 has planted a dogwood tree in his memory. When I reflected on that act (for quite some time) the idea which kept coming to mind was "Shipmates stand together, don't give up the ship." Remember that song? If the ship is your memory, then our Classmates never leave us.

Think about that. In the '78 year book was the following quotation from Seneca: "He who has been able to say 'Neptune, you shall never sink the ship except on even keel,' has fulfilled the requirements of his art." Gem says that the weekend before Dud's passing they were in Virginia Beach and had dinner with Eileen and Joe SmaU on Friday and brunch on Sunday with Bettie and Bob McElroy at the home of Evlyn Latimer ('48A).

BiU PfefTerkorn writes from 343 Dewey Dr., AnnapoUs MD 21402: "We moved to our third house in Admiral Heights last August. Since retiring from active duty in the Navy, I have been engaged in fixing old houses in Annapolis.

I rent the houses once they are habitable. My wife and I also run a coin-operated laundry in Annapolis. I also run a home improvement business, installing insulation. This was an offshoot from fixing up houses. My eldest son died this past February and we have two daughters, Jean and Anne, both married. We also have a postNavy son aged almost 16."

Bill Spangler wrote in late June to say that after October their address will be 2404 Calle Galicia, Santa Barbara CA 93109. "After 9 years in London—3 on active duty and 6 managing the building of North Sea oil platforms for Bechtel—TJ and 1 are coming home. Six years in the same tour of duty is too much, and the grandchildren are growing up too fast. We will leave here in eariy September by ship (we CEC types never did get much sea duty), visit our oldest son in Rhode Island, then work our way down the East Coast to visit TJ's parents in Clearwater, Florida, and finally fly to Santa Barbara in late October. We have seen a number of Classmates who have been in London over the past year—Jacque and Don Iselin in June '80; Helen and Ted Saunders' daughter, Susan, in August '80; Bill Slesnick in April '81 and Genie and Buck Herzog in June '81. There have been a number of phone conversations from the airport, but I didn't try to keep track of all of them." Bill also enclosed a nice contribution to my communications fund.

Libby and Chuck WiUiams were in town on a whiriwind trip to the West Coast during September and managed to gather a group of friends and Classmates to a cocktail party at the Admiral Kidd Club. That included Jan and Bob Thompson and Madeline and Jack Langille who is in his first two weeks of retirement, having been relieved as Commander Naval Base San Diego on 29 August. Paul Hartley, whom many of you know as a contemporary of '46, took a picture which will appear in the next column.

Couldn't get it developed in time for this one.

"Daisy"

47 Sec'y, Cdr. H. G. Heininger, Jr. USN (Ret.) 4554 Lawnvale Dr., Gainesville VA 22065 Percent Members: 67 The '47 STEW I have said before that I often need an incentive to sit down at the typewriter and start this column. Well, today I got a double dose of incentive. First, I attended our September luncheon at Blackie's with 19 other Classmates. Most of our conversation dealt with the forthcoming 35th Reunion, but by the time you read this column the reunion will be history. Then tonight on the CBS "PM Magazine," Marion Institute was featured. I attended Marion in Alabama from June 1942 to June 1943 along with about 45 other Classmates. Without going through the class roster, I can rattle off some of them. They include Tommy Fortson, Eric Hooper, Cab Callaway, Willie Kash, Gene Shaw, Jim Griffin, Sam Ellis, Walt Meginnis, Norm Finch, Bo Eagle, Bill Hearne, Jim Watkins, Stan SchiUer, Tom Jackson, Frank Adams, John Pope, Jim Hatch, Ben Johnson, Walt Pate, Robert M. Adams, Marvin Becker, Bill Blevins and Al Le Breton. (If I left anyone out, it was not intentional. Perhaps it may encourage you to drop me a line.) Anyhow, it was great to see TV coverage of Marion some 39 years after we went there.

Bob Smith and Hank Ruppel Hank Ruppel sent me the adjacent photograph taken during a Westinghouse sponsored European Operating Plant Symposium in Madrid on 24 and 25 March. Bob Smith was a featured speaker, and Hank Ruppel was the general manager of the Westinghouse nuclear service division which sponsored the symposium. Both Bob and Hank had crossed paths over 20 years before when both were nuclear plant operators at the Arco, Idaho, Reactor Site. Bob now works for the Institute of Nuclear Power.

Last month Betty and 1 were were very pleasantly surprised when Harriet and Stan Smith phoned to see if it would be OK to stop by and see us. Did we ever recall old tales! Stan is a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and serves on the board of directors of the Murray Grey Cattle Association. He was a Wyoming delegate to the National Conference of State Legislators held recently in Atlanta, Georgia. On 3 August Harriet and Stan were invited to the White House for a three-hour briefing by President Reagan, Vice President Bush, and the cabinet members. The Smiths still reside on their ranch near Thermopolis, Wyoming, where they raise Murray Grey cattle and Shipmate, November 1981

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Today Jake Finneran handed me a note from Nora (Nonnie) Johnson, wife of Richard C. Johnson, saying that they would not be able to attend the 35th Reunion. Dick is presently in the La Jolla (Califomia) VA Hospital. He has been bed and wheel-chair bound for over a year.

Dick has had a long, hard battle with multiple sclerosis since he was retired from the Navy in Febmary 1957. It is difficult to visualize Dick in a wheel chair when we remember him so well mnning the hurdles on Navy's track team. Nora writes that greetings from his Classmates would give Dick a big lift. Their mailing address is 4640 Coralwood Circle, Carisbad CA 92008. And those of you who reside in the San Diego area can stop by and see Dick at the La Jolla VA Hospital.

Jake also handed me a note from Marylee Reeder informing us that Bill Reeder passed away on 9 August 1981. I wiU write her to try to get some more detaUs for a "Last CaU" entry.

Her address is 610 No. Rexford Dr., Beverly HiUs CA 90210.

. . . and the ribbon cutting of the Donald F. Adams Pavilion I regret to inform you that Donald F. Adams passed away on 15 August. His obituary is in the "Last CaU" section of this Shipmate. In the May 1980 column, Don shared the honor of Shipmate, November 1981

being the Classmate of the month with BiU Crowe. Don was honored in December 1979 by having a medical office building named after him. Just a few days prior to his death. Bob Barker sent me a copy of the July 1981 FoothiU Presbyterian Hospital News. The two photos show the unveiling of Don's portrait and the cutting of the Navy Blue ribbon with the Gold scissors last Spring. Don's Lucky Bag biography states, "From the day he entered the Naval Academy, Don has followed his firmly imbedded idea that he should contribute whatever he could to the various extra-curricular activities.

Youngster year he was elected to the position of company representative, where, due to his level-headness, he served admirably." He was an officer of the Naval Academy Christian Association, and he served on the public relations detail which helped promote Navy's nationwide athletic program. He was also a member of Navy's crew team. Don's extra-curricular involvement continued throughout the rest of his life. We extend our sympathies to Jo Ann and their four children, Michael, David, John, and Mary Ann. Memorial donations may be made to Foothill Presbyterian Hospital - Donald Francis Adams Memorial Fund or to the Auxiliary Scholarship Fund.

Don Donohugh's book. The Middle Years, has just been published by The Saunders Press and distributed to the trade by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 383 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10017. It is a physician's guide to your body, emotions, and life challenges. Don says, "It is only during our generation, during the Ufe of us who are in our forties, fifties, and sixties, that factors have coincided to make middle age potentially the best time of life." Middle-aged people have family relationships unmatched at any other stage of life, since often they must cope with both their own growing children and their aging parents, as well as each other. Don compassionately charts a path through this maze of relationships as they affect marriage, the family members, and the problems of divorce and widowhood. Similarly he shows the opportunities offered to mature men and women by both work and leisure. In a concluding chapter, he shares his personal search for meaning and values in our time, and presents some provocative suggestions for those undergoing a simUar search.

Donald L. Donohugh, M.D., a Fellow of The American College of Physicians, practised as an intemist until several years ago when upon reaching middle age, he decided to seU his medical practice. He now devotes his time to teaching (as associate clinical professor of medicine.

University of California at Irvine) and consulting. He fives at Corona Del Mar, Califomia, with his wife, Bea; together they have seven children. He is a Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve which frequently requests his services.

In case you are interested in getting Don's book and cannot find it, Don's address is 7 Jasmine Creek Dr., and the Zip is 92625.

Shirley and Dick Beane sent this photo taken about the first of August on their island in the St. Lawrence. Finally somebody accepted their open invitation to '47. The Bowdeys phoned and were told to honk the hom twice, and the boat would be on the way to pick them up. They arrived late aftemoon and after a "cool" swim and Happy Hour, they all enjoyed dinner and reminiscing during the evening. The Beanes will be at Homecoming, but will miss the Saturday activities. Their daughter Ruth married Dan Sigg, USNA '77, last year. Dan's sister is being married in Philadelphia that Saturday, and both

Dick Beane and Floyd Bowdey Ruth and Dan are in the wedding. Dick is manager of financial administration of a large north country furniture company. There are five stores with main office in Ogdensburg, about 35 minutes from Potsdam. Dick's office is about 40 miles from their island summer home, which means that he has been commuting the one hour's drive each day during the Summer. Shirley says that it has been a lovely summer and Dick has been in much better health than he was last year.

Stan Turner Adm. SUnsfleld Turner USN (Ret.) was elected to the board of directors of the Monsanto Company in April. In introducing him to the shareowners at the annual meeting, the chairman, John W. Hanley, said that Admiral Tumer "will bring to Monsanto's Board a disciplined but unregimented intelligence." Stan is still in the Washington area, and is busy, according to my sources, writing a book.

The first two winners of the Stockdale award have been named. They are Cdr. John J. Coonan, Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron 15 at NAS Cecil Field, Florida, and Cdr. Philip M. Quast, skipper of the Peari Harbor based guided missile destroyer BENJAMIN STODDERT. The Walter G. Moyle Honor Scholar selected by the Naval Academy Foundation is Peter H. Hanlon, son of Cdr. Kevin Hanlon, USN (Ret.), (USNA '48) and Mrs. Hanlon of Setauket, New York. Peter attended Hobart College on the scholarship created in Tad Moyle's name by Gerald A. Freed.

Jack Pavelle sent me a clipping about the death of the great-grandson of Tecumseh. Ocey Teycompsye Rast, 52, died in Las Vegas on 13 July. Speaking of deaths, we extend our sympathies to Novie and Frank Adams upon the deaths of both of their mothers and to Bunny Sisson upon the death of her father.

Chuck Doscher writes from the U. S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, that the welcome mat is al81

ways out for " '47, The Best on the Sevem".

Ankara is really a fine place, and Dawn and Chuck are enjoying it a great deal. They regret that they cannot make the 35th, but they will be back in the States on leave in December '82.

I'll never get used to this two month time gap.

Yesterday, (it is three days after I started the column) Betty and I attended Navy's opening football game, with a 17-7 victory over The Citadel. Now, I check my notes, and I am reminded to write "Beat Army!" There are nine other games to be played before Army. I often wonder what writing for a daily newspaper or weekly magazine would be like. Perhaps I may try that for a third career. Anyway, at the game yesterday, I learned that Floyd Bowdey is working for Andergo Oil Company in Washington, DC. Jack Sullivan updated me on what he and Mickey have been doing since the change of administrations. They sold their Alexandria home; Mickey is establishing an interior decorating business in Alexandria; and Jack is busy with his business, the Haug Die Casting, Inc. His address is P.O. Box 125, Oreland, PA 19075.

The SuUivans will have an apartment on the second floor of the Alexandria, VA shop after everything gets set up.

UntU next time, " '47, Best on the Sevem," Bo.

48 Sec'y, Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, VA 22302 Percent Members: 61 Summer is grinding down in a spurt of heat and humidity. Since last month I have received a couple of letters, so things are looking up.

Football season has started, and so have class luncheons.

The Axtells—son Ed, daughter Carol, Ed himself, and Mary Lee Mary Lee Axtell writes about Ed's retirement from 33 years of service with the Water and Power Resources. As project superintendent for the Folsom Office during 12 of those years, Ed was responsible for overseeing operations and maintenance of the Folsorri facilities, including the Folsom Dam, lake, and powerplant. Nimbus Dam, Lake Natoma, Nimbus powerplant, and Folsom south canal. He will continue in a consultant capacity with the organization. Prior to coming to work at the Folsom Office, Ed worked at Shasta Dam for 15 years. He and the family made the move to acreage in the Placerville area 12 years ago. The preceding info is from the Folsom Telegraph, "All the news by a damsite." Mary Lee continues, "The news story left out a number of members of our family. Our son Ed is married, and he and his wife Debbie have three beautiful children: Travis, 8, Amy, 5, and Katie, 3. He is in food services in the ski country. Park City, Utah. Our daughter 82

Carol teaches home economics in Salt Lake City, while husband, Pete Mclntyre, attends the P.S. We had an evening of reminiscing with Gloria and Gene Bowers last June while in Salt Lake City. Next week, Ruth Hodson (widow of Dick Hodson) will be here to spend a few days. Her home is in Phoenix, but she has been at Lake Tahoe for the Summer."

Continuing from the paper, "On Friday, January 9, a retirement dinner was held in Ed's honor at Whispering Pines. At that time he was presented a commendation from the Water and Power Resources Regional Office in Sacramento. He also was awarded special recogrution from the Folsom Chamber of Commerce, the Folsom Parks and Recreation Bureau, and the Folsom City Council for all his help in city projects." Finally, it appears Ed will pursue retirement fun including antiques, travel, and the Placerville planting of an orchard. Address: 3481 Suncrest Dr., Placerville CA 95677.

BiU Evans writes from Hanover, Maryland: "I have about finished up my research here and hope to return to my beloved Suomi (Finland) by the end of October after Homecoming; it is my intention to bring my number one Finn to Homecoming. If you can list in Shipmate solely 48-B, I can give you a resume of my 18 years in Australia, where I became known as 001 according to the Australian Viet Cong. Finland is the most beautiful land that I have ever seen and I did not want to leave it last year. Several classmates want to go back with me after seeing pictures of those Finnish sweeties who have a lovely shyness and mystique.'"

The opening luncheon of the season took place right on schedule, the second Tuesday of September, and it was held in of aU places, the E St. erstwhile O'Donnell's, where mm buns still reign supreme, and where prices have risen, but not all that much. Honoring the 48 ladies, Peggy Bartow accompanied Bill. We also had Graham, LyIe, Ghormley, Knock, Amold, Ahern, Jack Bell, O'Conner, Hathaway, Dick Adams, and Sumner Moore. A spirited, spirituous, and spiritful time was had by all. Excellent group—plan to come next time, 2nd Tuesday in November. I learned from Warren Graham that a recent trip thru Georgia has confirmed that Clay Hamilton is alive and well in Dalton (GA) where he continues to be heavily involved in the family business, the Crown Cotton Mill. Chuck Hathaway spent an enjoyable and profitable July at Woods Hole on a study for the Air Force, funded by the National Academy of Sciences.

The Washington Post recently carried an article written by one Roger Morris on the reentry of the French in Some numbers into the Napa Valley wine businesses. Speaking of the French influx, he reports: "Additionally, the DewavrinWolters have bought a vacation home in Napa, and, according to Mike Robbins ('48), the landbroker and owner of Spring Mountain (winery), they have purchased 184 acres in the Howell Mountain area for planting. Robbins ticks off other French interests: the Comte de Ladoucette of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fum6 fame has bought property near the Mondavi enclave; Jean-Claude Boisset, a Burgundian, has purchased a winery and 56 acres in the valley; and the Miller property in the Silverado Country Club environs has gone French. The advantage of Americanization for the French is evident.

Expansion in the classical areas of France is almost impossible, so Napa and Sonoma are places for those lefto\erfrancs. For Americans, it means more good wines, although not nec-

essarily better ones. And we will bask in the recognition that the influx gives us and perhaps even drop a few French phrases about real estate at the Oakville Grocery. And Robbins, with typical Napa humor, reminds us: 'After the recent French election, and the terrible state of the/ra«c, a hell of a lot more Frenchmen wUl be looking for property here.'

The football season opened at Annapolis with the big game with the Citadel on September 12, hopefully the first win of many. I'm sure many will remember that first game in '44, not long after joining the Regiment, our first public exposure in Blue Service Baker, stiff collars and all. I seem to recall it was hot in Thompson Stadium. I have no idea who the opponent was, but I doubt that we carried on. Anyhow, last Saturday tailgaters. Balls and Rardins, held forth in the parking lot, and I'm told that a goodly group of Classmates were seen. Unfortunately, your Scribe was in Charlottesville with Jane becoming acquainted with number one grandchild, John Bennett Milnor, who arrived August 27, thanks to our eldest, Ann Moore Milnor, and spouse Richie. Grandparenting is pretty boring and mundane until it happens to you! Incidentally, Edwina and BiU Lee's son Billy was seen at the game in his Citadel uniform behaving himself properly (no chip, there!).

49 Sec'y, Mr. T. P. Riegert 5901 Bing Ct., Alexandria VA 22310 Percent Members: 65 Local The September luncheon was enjoyed by an auspicious gathering which included John C. Barrow, and John Dixon (who retired 1 October), Barrow to become a gentleman farmer in Somerset (Orange County), Virginia; Dixon to become a pine tree farmer in Hamilton, Georgia, Route 2, Zip 31811). That was their last luncheon on active duty. Both Johns have been faithful attenders at our monthly luncheons. We wish them well in their retirement and look forward to "farm news" from time to time.

Pooley Wood announced that our '49 picnic at the Inces was called off due to an unfortunate accident. Jean Ince broke her leg while playing mountain goat in Maine. Another Wood announcement was that Bernie Hogan was in town on 4 September and bunked at the Grabowskys.

Lee Grabowsky, gracious as ever, invited some of Bernie's friends over to say hello—which included Wood, BiU Black, Goldman and Hammer. Bernie has started his own computer business in Dallas. Good luck, Bernie!

Other announcements were made at the luncheon. BUI Shanhouse informed us that he has recently moved to Potomac, Maryland, where he makes his living as a sculptor. He said that his masterpieces are currently in three major national shows. Before coming to the area.

Bill was vice president of the University of Iowa. He apparently could not stay away from academe long because he has recently been elected to the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Antioch University, and in case that doesn't keep him busy, he is raising two cats and five granddaughters!

"Ace" Boughton announced that he was working with Flo Barrow in the stage play Sound of Music. Flo of course was Maria, and Ace was lovable "Uncle Max." Flo and Ace belong to the Severna Park Theater Group. The play was presented October 2, 3 and 4 and we Shipmate, November 1981

have every reason to believe that it was a resounding success.

Jack Benoit announced that he has become a lovable grandfather. I couldn't get further details before press time. Maybe next issue? Incidentally, apologies to grandmother whose name appeared incorrectly under a photo in the September column. (Will the real owner speak up?)

Also attending the luncheon were: Karl Cook, Ralph Ghormley, Andy Nelson, Ted Hammer, John F. Barrow and John Walker.

During the Navy-East Kentucky game I heard that Randlett Lawrence married the former Marion Glickman at Arlington Hall Chapel on 18 September 1981. (The source is somewhat reliable).

Received a nice note from Fran which said that she and Ken Knoizler are happy to be in the Washington area (from Puerto Rico). They are Uving at 4057 No. 27th St., Ariington VA 22207; tel. 703/276-9480 home, and 202/697-7146 office.

General. "Rip" CoUins reported high elations on the far Yorktown Station on 9 August as Jo Ann and "Arch" Roos stood watch while their daughter, Linda was married to an oceanographer, no less. The ceremony was witnessed by '49ers Roy Goldman, Hamilton, Grabowsky and Karl Cook—who along with wife Rita took pictures (would like to see some for this column).

Rip also reported that Jack Benoit and Pooley Wood have been elected to the Naval Academy Foundation. Other '49 members on the Foundation include CharUe Haskell, CharUe Styles, Roy Goldman, Rip CoUins, and Ridge Espy.

The new Class '49 Memorial Honor Scholar is Midshipman 4/c Rudy Ing, 14th Company.

Rudy wrote that he was proud to be a midshipman and wiU make every effort to uphold the high standard set by the Class of '49 and the Naval Academy. He thanked each member of our Class and said he would be happy to show any member around who comes back for a visit.

(Ed WaUer—have you had your tour yet?) Rudy is from Califomia. His father is a retired Marine colonel. Rudy's interests are mountain climbing and sailing. I heard that his first set of grades were very good.

Last September I had a very enjoyable conversation with Val Schaeffer's parents and leamed that Val has been sailing his 68-foot yacht CAMELOT since 1968 and that he is currently sailing around the world. After retuming from Greece two years ago he chartered with the National Geographic to explore the Galapagos trench and then made a trip to Alaska last Summer. This Summer he made charter runs out of Honolulu until 16 June. (Mrs. Schaeffer said that Ed Waller was Val's guest for dinner.

She said that he was a superb cook.) He is now in Tahiti and would like to hear from Classmates. Address Val H. Schaeffer, Captain, Yacht CAMELOT. c/o Banque d'Indosuez, BP 120, Papeto, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

Richard Claytor has recently been elected president of Burns and Roe Pacific Inc. When he retired from the Navy in 1973, Richard joined Bums and Roe, Inc. of New Jersey as assistant to the president and is now their vice president.

He will hold both jobs. As director of the firm in Califomia (5959 Century Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90045; tel. 213/776-5513), he will serve their West Coast clients in engineering, design and constmction, power generation, defense and aerospace projects. Richard said that Pat O'Keefe also works for Burns and Roe, Inc. So long for now.

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50 Sec'y, Cdr. Roy W. Highberg USN (Ret.) 6911 Southridge Dr., McLean VA 22101 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. W, L. Jensen USN (Ret.) 499 SkyhiU Ct., Chula Vista CA 92010 Commercial: 714/421-6756 Percent Members: 63 From the shore of Gitche Gumee, To the shining Big-Sea-Water, To the Terrible Towel of Pittsburgh, the Baby Blue Hues of Houston and to the "Super Chargers" of San Diego, all thought across country seemed to turn to the football futures once the "Mums" of Fall started to bloom. Forgotten was the baseball strike and the split-season abortive attempt to revive interest in that National Pastime. 5000 was a good crowd at a San Diego Padre baseball game. In line with this, the conversation at the ClifTSkinners home in Bonita, California, during August (party co-hosted by the Dick Martins) was on the eventual national ranking of the Big Blue football team of Navy. Most thought that the schedule for the Midns was a reasonable one, but that to keep things in proper perspective it was still all important to "Beat Army."

Joe Howard and Hal Vincent insisted that they had written the verses to the song that we used to sing to the tune of "On Brave Old Army Mule" in 1946, namely, "We don't play Notre Dame, we don't play Georgia Tech—we just play Holy Cross—for that's the fearless Army way."

June and Stan Neanders' daughter June and Stan Neander were still talking of the beautiful wedding of their daughter to the Coast Guard lieutenant reported in the August issue and Stan observed that the Coast Guard would have to get in line and that the beard would have to go. With a certain amount of pride, Stan announced that he wore his 1946 issue white uniform to the wedding.

Frank Taylor reminded that he is a Merchant Marine Master and has spent time running super-tankers around—get tired of that and then mastered charter boats for wealthy clients in Mexican waters for a spell and is now involved in Boating and Auto Magazine publications.

Dick Prescott was there and observed that he had been with NTDS in San Diego since 1969.

John Malloy is with Data Design (Dave Boyd is his associate) in Rancho Bernardo. Charlie Clark commented that he had done so very well in the realty business in the Ramona area of Southem California that he was just a bit selfconscious about being in the right business at the right time. Dick Martin was still building on

what he called Disneyland South in Coronado.

According to Dick, "That house now has more add-ons than Walt Disney ever imagined for his Disneyland."" Hal Vincent observed that, "The worst day in San Diego is better than the best day in Norfolk." Could we get a few comments from Tidewater, please.

Frank Cassily is attending UCSD pursuing a rating in secondary education and plans to enter the secondary education field. Gene Wisenbaker, down off the mountain from his extended vacation after retirement, insisted that he had become so enamored with BiU Grimm's appliance repair business in Coronado—and so tired of paying Bill the repair bill—that he has gone into business with Bill and is now learning a new trade. He finds it fully fascinating, time consuming, and easy on the blood pressure. Marty Katcher was there and eager to point out that he had indeed attended the U.S. Naval Academy for two years as a member of the Class of 1950. He wanted to know why he had been dropped from the list of Southem Califomia '50 members—and all that could be said was, "That darn computer." Marty was recently honored as an outstanding alumnus of National University in San Diego. He said he would have had aU " A s " except one instmctor used outmoded information in his course. Marty is now executive vice president of Dalfi, Inc., a San Diegobased firm that performs inventory control and maintenance scheduling for Navy technical equipment that requires periodic calibration.

Frank Moxley called from Columbus, Georgia, to give the sad news that Bill Whittle died in early August after his long bout with MS. A subsequent long conversation with Betty revealed that Bill was extremely optimistic right up to the last day and together with Betty had high hopes that MS would be conquered in the forseeable future. Any donations to fight MS in BiU's name would be fully appreciated. Frank's address in Columbus GA 31907 is 2728 Morris Road.

Chuck Mull writes to announce that he is in the travel agency business, in Bmnswick, Maine, having retired in Bath, Maine, during June this year. Sally and Chuck, along with another local couple, bought the Stowe Travel Agency. They decided to remain in Maine after seeing how beautiful the area and the people were over the past five years. Chuck points out that Stowe is no fly-by-night outfit, having been founded in 1950. Chuck has been to an American Airlines travel agent course in Boston and a United Apollo computer course. All in the Class should feel free to call SaUy and Chuck at 9 Pleasant St., Bmnswick ME 04011 for travel planning.

Chuck remarks that he had seen several Classmates over the Summer—Helen and Ed Bixby were up in Bath from Andover, Massachusetts, where he works at Hanscom in civil service in the job he retired from several years ago. Sally and Ken Munroe have been in the interior design business in Aubum, Maine, for many years. Al Cameron has been teaching at Maine Maritime Academy for many years. Passing through for PatWingsLant change of command was Tom Bigley, as ComSecondFleet.

Those in the New England area had hoped to see many Classmates at the Navy-BC game on 17 October in Boston at which Skip Orem was in charge of the Northeastern version of a class reunion. Anyone up in the Maine vicinity is welcome to stay with the Mulls at 72 Federal St., Bmnswick. Chuck had overseen the guided missile frigate program at Bath Iron Works for

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the past five years. On retirement he received the Military Community CouncUs prestigious Joshua Chamberlain award for community service.

J. B. FarreU checks in from Ewa Beach in Hawau to say that he and Benita didn't get to the West Coast for the reunion of old time Siganella sailors, but that a segment of Seattle came out to Hawaii to see them saying that if they were no-shows, then they would have to see them before retuming to Italy. Benita had been in Tripler Hospital twice and they decided to stay close to home. J. B. didn't elaborate on the problems, but assured that all appeared well now. Classmates in Hawaii were stiU planning on a monthly luncheon but hadn't been able to get it started. J. B. offers that retireds are eligible to stay at the Hale Koa Military Hotel in Hawaii. For reservations one can write to the Hotel at 2055 Kalia Rd., Honolulu, HI 96815, or caU toll free 1-800-367-6027.

Dorothy Jensen would like to assure all other many friends in '50 that she is doing very well after lumpectomy surgery and five weeks of radiation treatment for breast cancer. Her attitude throughout it all has been superb, and from every test and indication it appears that the thing was localized. Dorothy happily announces that she wUI give all an update in another ten years.

Wayne

51 Sec'y, Cdr. Bruce I. Meader, USN (Ret.) 5609 South 5th St., Ariington VA 22204 Percent Members: 60 On August 21 a ceremony took place in the Midshipmen's Wardroom that has only been equaUed, in recent times, by the intemationally televised wedding of Lady Diana and Prince Charles. BiU Lawrence was given a farewell dinner that would warm the heart of the coldest cynic and bring pure joy to more normal folk.

Some 500 mess-jacketed, tuxedoed, eveninggowned friends assembled at the reflecting pool and later at dinner to bid good-bye to Bill and Diane as they departed for Hawaii and the Third Fleet.

A choral tribute, especially composed for the occasion, was performed with skill and obvious affection, and the plebe Drum and Bugle Corps was superb. The latter group produced music one does not expect of drums and bugles. A succession of tributes and presentations saw Bill and Diane surrounded by framed photos, plaques and other assorted memorabilia that will require separate quarters to display properly.

For the members of the Class of '51 who were present, the highlight of the evening was the presentation of a class ring by BiU's staff to replace the one liberated by his captors in Hanoi. Even the waters of the seven seas were provided.

The evening was a beautiful combination of sentiment and good humor. Bill's fellow exPOW, Dick Stratton, was the perfect MC as he began the program by saying, "We are gathered here tonight to honor the first ex-convict ever to become Superintendent of the Naval Academy."

The next issue of Shipmate will cover our 30th Reunion which at this writing is little more than a week away. At last count, nearly 400 people are expected, so if you weren't able to make it, enjoy it vicariously via this column in November.

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You have less than two months left in which to get your contribution in for Operation Access and be sure of being included on the donors plaque. Don't wait—do it now!

52 Sec'y, Cdr. Todd Blades USN (Ret.) PO Box 73 Dahlgren VA 22448 Percent Members: 57 In case any of you missed, or haven't got around to reading the October issue, I'm going to repeat some information about election of Class President. Ron Hattin wiU complete his three-year term in that office in May 1982. The Constitution and Bylaws of the Association of the Class of 1952, USNA (1974 revision), specify the election procedures. Nominations for President shall be through "selection by a nominating committee" or by a "written petition signed by 15 members of the Class." The nominating committee mentioned "shall consist of at least three (3) members and shall be appointed by the Executive Committee." Ballots listing those nominated by both of the above means, plus space for write-in candidates, will be mailed to every member of the Class 90 days before the annual business meeting, which is the official election day. Here is the timetable set up by the Executive Committee: Appoint nominating committee—16 November 1981 Nominees selected—18 December 1981 Mail-out of ballots—26 January 1982 Ballots to tellers by—6 May 1982 Election (Annual business mtg)—8 May 1982 The Alumni Association got a news item on a Classmate through a public information release from Oklahoma State University, a cosponsor of the National Technical Conference on Earth Shelter Performance and Evaluation held in Tulsa. Oklahoma, October 16-17. The symposium featured the work of experts in architecture and engineering of earth sheltered structures of the United States and other countries. Dr. Richard Thomas Quinn, of the University of Tennessee, delivered a paper detailing his evaluation of the energy performance of Harvard's Pusey Underground Library contrasted with that of adjacent above ground buildings.

Joe Portney sent a card letting us know where he was at 1423 GMT on 28 July 1981—over the North pole in a YP-3C, piloted by Lt. Steve Bames, '73. He was up there on an evaluation project sponsored by NADC, Warminster, Pennsylvania, (Cdr. John Calande, '63, project OIC) making the first ever polar transit using a ring laser gyro inertial navigation system. Joe logged the event with the following: To the Pole was our resolute goal.

As the longitude spun, on this polar run.

As latitude vanished to a speck, it was time to return to Keflavik.

The Litton LN-90 performed flawlessly, ushering in a new age, where laser gyro inertial will be the rage.

Aside from that there's no more news this month. Sometimes it's like that; so. as 1 suppose every class secretary before me has done. 1 cry "Help!" Otherwise, I'll start editorializing.

Those of you who know me well know that that's no problem for me; with little encouragement (or none), I'm ready, on a wide range of topics. In fact, that's largely my trade now. So,

to avoid being bored, rather than entertained with news of old buddies—communicate.

Speaking of editorializing, how many of you have read A Sense of Honor by James Webb, '68? When it was pubUshed eariier this year, it was received with something less than warmth by many Alumni, including some stationed at the Academy; but I found it worth reading. Not all will agree with Webb's views—but the book does paint vivid images that ring true, and, I guarantee, will dredge up some long-forgotten memories of 1948-49.

53 Sec'y, Mr. C. E. Mumford, GRI 1303 Towlston Rd.. Vienna VA 22180 703/759-3115 Percent Members: 62

54 Sec'y, Cdr. R. K. Sheehan USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y. Capt. M. J. Stoffel USN (Ret.) 6208 Jefferson Blvd.

Frederick, MD 21701 Bus.: 703/734-6233 Home: 301/371-4166 Percent Members: 59 Tidewater Times: First, Bob Briner sends: "On the occasion of my parent's 50th wedding anniversary, I was moved to send a note. Dad is Class of '30, and within our Class I believe only Ron Lief had a younger USNA graduate father (1931). Other '54 Classmates with Dads in '30 were Skid Masterson and Mel Peterson (it seems there was a 4th, but I can't remember).

"We celebrated the event at our house in Virginia Beach in June with my wife Esther and daughters Denise and Liz. Denise starts as a freshman at Mary Washington CoUege this September, and Liz will be a junior in high school.

Jack, my brother, also came up from Houston with his wife and son Vedder. who is a sophomore at Duke and on an SSN for NROTC Summer Cruise. Jack, like me. is active in real estate.

"I retired in February 1979 after really enjoying the Navy. As a captain on the Joint Chiefs of Staff much of the fun. enjoyment and satisfaction was no longer there, so I made my move and have not regretted it."

Then Mike McCaffree in a "precedent-setting" letter (his own words): "I have been in the LANTFLT amphibious forces homeported in Norfolk for the past five years. I commanded USS SHREVEPORT from 1976-1978, was COS for COMPHIPGRU TWO until mid-1980. and took command of PHIBRON TWO late last year.

Lynn and I live at NAB Little Creek with our younger daughter Debby. Our other daughter, Betsy, is married to Lt. Dave Antanitus, '74, a nuclear submariner assigned to COMSUBRON 14 Staff in Holy Loch.

"In the past year I have seen relatively few Classmates. On 30 June I attended a change of command ceremony at which Ralph Sesler was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his performance as SUPSHIPS. Portsmouth, and retired from active duty. Ralph had done a splendid job for the Fleet in both this job and previously as ACOS Engineering/Force Maintenance Officer for COMNAVSURFLANT, and he will be missed on the waterfront.

"I am now embarked in USS SAIPAN which Shipmate. November 1981

untU 20 June was commanded by Dick Murphy who took her to northem Norway, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean on the first forward deployments of a LANTFLT LHA. Dick has gone to Washington as Chief of Staff for COMNAVMILPERSCOM. Dave Glunt has had command of the HRMC Norfolk for the past two years and is becoming Deputy COMNAVBASE NORVA. BiU Hunter passed through Norfolk in June enroute to duty as for CTF 60 homeported in the Med. Bob Tolg, whom I saw briefly in Idaho Falls last Summer when our SOSMRC classes overlapped, is now COMSURFGRU MED/COMSERVFORSIXTHFLT homeported in Naples. I expect to see Bob (and possibly BiU Hunter) when I am deployed with the Med Amphibious Ready Group beginning this FaU. Another member of the Norfolk contingent whom I have seen is Fred Kinley. who commands the Fleet Combat Training Center. Dam Neck.

"Joe K. Anderson also lives in Norfolk where he is sales manager for an East Coast marine supplies firm. One of Joe's 14th Company roommates was Haven Webb, now a career Foreign Service officer, whom I had the pleasure of seeing with his wife Janet this past March in Tromso. Norway, during a port visit. Haven has been the U.S. Information Officer and only State Department Officer in Tromso. advertised as 'the world's largest township north of the Arctic Circle.' for the past three years and expects to be posted back to Washington this Summer. And that concludes the round-up of "54ers Eve encountered recently. I doubt LU find many more for the next six months, so I hope another dUatory correspondent in the Class will take pen in hand and drop you a Une."" In June. Linda and Jauncey Sweet attended the wedding of Jeane Hudgins to Albert Lamposo in New York City. Jeanne is the daughter of Tom Hudgins who is currently a pUot on the Panama Canal.

Hot Line: I received an interesting telephone caU from Bob Oakes in Detroit. He had caught my request for information on Classmates in the priesthood or ministry, and thought that we would be interested to know that his wife is being ordained. Fm not sure if this qualifies as an answer to my question, but it's certainly tops in its category. Bob is parts manager for General Motors and he is in frequent touch with Don Pease, transportation director for Shell Oil in Houston. He also informed me that Ken Bums is now CO of the 13th AF in the Philippines and that Bob Montross is in the Detroit area. Bob conluded with a hitherto little known (but interesting) fact: his 9th company had more first classmen than any other in '54—and no "star" men. The column needs more calls like this.

55 Corr. Secy. Mr. Clif Shumaker 8800 Old Courthouse Road Vienna VA 22180 Percent Members: 54

56 Sec'y. Capt. P. C. Peterson USN 13007 Clarion Road Fort Washington MD 20744 Percent Members: 55 At the time of writing the column this month, the nitty-gritty planning for Homecoming 25 still takes place, but as you read this only the memShipmate, November 1981

ories Unger on. For you people who missed it for various reasons, start planning now for 1986.

A recent letter from Bob Perry points out that he and Bunny have managed to celebrate the 25th (and 50th) all year long. Bob's letter follows: "I haven"t written to any one in so long I thought I'd warm up on you and Shipmate'.

Nothing much has happened to me since graduation so I kept waiting until I had some news.

I think 1981 has been a little exciting for Bunny and me and we thought we should gloat a little.

"I retired from USMC in '77 to go to Law school. I grabbed a job with Ford in the meantime and stayed with them until this past December when I left to be a law clerk with a patent firm here in Mt. Clemens. I graduated from school in January and took the Michigan state Bar exam in Febmary. (I really sweated that exam because I haven't ever passed a 'bar' before.)

yere and family. Hoot's job is still classified while Tom will be with the inspector general.

To equalize the loading Dean Sackett heads up to New London for a new job as Commander Sub Development Squadron 12. Bob Quinn has taken over as C O . WESTERN DIV. NAVFAC at Yuerba Buena in San Francisco Bay after in three years in Japan.

57 Sec'y, Mr. Frank Barnes 5223 Crinnel St., Fairfax VA 22030 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. F. N; Howe, Jr. USN 1 Walter Circle Fredericksburg VA 22401 Percent Members: 53

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Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Wayne E. Scott 11 Apple Seed Lane Gaithersburg MD 20878 301/258-0323 Percent Members: 54

Bob Perry(s) '56 and "81 at commissioning ceremony "Our son Bob graduated with '81 (18th Company) and we of course were at June Week. The bar results had not been released from Michigan yet so that pressure was still with us. Since Bunny and I beat aU you guys getting married 25 years ago (in the Chapel—we didn't compete with the pre-grad group) we decided to go 'one up' for our 25th too. We repeated the vows in the chapel on 23 May and settled down for Bob's graduation. In rapid succession there followed so many things we almost lost control. Bob's graduation was followed by my swearing him into the Corps; I received a caU from Michigan saying I had passed the Bar; Bob presented us with a second honeymoon trip to Bermuda; upon our retum from Bermuda I was swom in to practice before Michigan and the Federal courts! After four years of night school and the excitement of this past Spring with Bob's completion of USNA Bunny and I are ready to see what retirement and civilian life are all about.

"I've heard from Don Dudrow—he and Jim Townsend are planning to be at Homecoming.

I'm working on getting Frank Drayton to come out with us, so stand by! Well, after your nasty remark about my age, etc., I thought you could use some better news—I hope this qualifies."

Congratulations to the three of you and thanks for the info. Bob. I promise no further remarks conceming maturity. ,A recent article in Washingtonian magazine entitled "After Four Ignominious Years, Yacht SEQUOIA is Heading Home" informs us that one of the owners since President Carter sold it in 1977 is none other than Ocean Leaming Institute and its president, John Grant. OLI conducts research in marine biology and offers oceanographic field trips, but John had planned to build a marine museum with SEQUOIA as the first artifact. Reportedly the venture is not going according to plan and it may change owners again with a semi-annual retum to the Washington area.

Among the new arrivals in the D.C. area for tours are Laura and Hoot Foote and Tom Brue-

Homecoming is behind you now, but Army is yet ahead. You D C (as in Washington, dummy, not A. C.) folk stUl have a chance for a ride on the SECNAV train in the annual Class of '58 Car. Call John Gentile. The rest of you, come on out. Poj Walters is coordinating extra/ short tickets, so phone him if you need the help of the Blaze Gonzales No-Charge '58 Ticket Clearing Agency. His phones are: home-703/ 321-9586, and work (?)—202/697-6137 or -8654.

Blaze will deliver tickets to you overnight in any city in the continental U.S. or Mexico. El Salvador is extra. Come out and help us cheer: V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E. You'll love it, and she'll love you for it. (After all these years. . . at last!)

TIDAL WAVES—BiU Pendley from PATWG II to MILPERSCOM. John Lorusso from OPNAV to DNA, Wash. Jack Adams from SURFLANT to CO, USS SYLVANIA. Max Akers to COMSUBASE, Bangor, Washington. And a real delight, George AUender to CO, NAVSTA ADAK. Biiiiiii. (The men of Lovin' 16 you left behind are thinkin' of you, fella. Hurry back here, hear?)

INCIDENTS AT SEA—A^avy Times reported Don Tarquin was in town recently for submarine CO/XO selection board duty. He faUed to check in with the duty officer. How did you ever make Cap'n, boy? Any more of that and we'll execute "Tarquin missing, Tarquin sunk." Re-Port!

IN EXTREMIS—George Brenner would like to know where WiUie Greene disappeared to.

We would, too, George. Old Willie was a noshow vis-a-vis a write-up for the Voyage in '78.

SEA MOUNTS—None observed.

SINKINGS—It was recently disclosed that Jack Pierce is a fraud. He has been passing as a Classmate for these last couple of decades.

Find him in the Lucky Bag and win a large prize.

PRIZES—Speaking of prizes . . . a contest is now officially in effect, to wit: The Classmate who submits the most outrageous suggestion for the 25th Homecoming ribaldry will become the owner of one gallon of Chevis Regal (I may have misspelled that. I don't have a bottle to check the label.). "Outrageous" by its 2nd meaning, "exceeding aU bounds of decency or reasonableness, very offensive or shocking," and not its other meanings of "doing great injury or wrong," or "violent," is the order of the day.

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Send your entries to me, along with a data update. Or send them to the official Contest Official, John GentUe, at 1106 Shipman Lane, McLean VA 22101. The decision of the judges wiU be . . . what else? . . . outrageous. Honorable Mention winners will also be read aloud, by whomever can stiU see in 1983, at the postfootball game, dinner dance. Lots of time for this one. How 'bout another cheer: G-E-T0-U-T-R-A-G-E-O-U-S! NATURAL DISASTERS—At a recent meeting of your class Executive Committee, the Chairman (Paul Polski) introduced the Silver Anniversary Ten: Anniversary Manager Paul Polski Deputy Anniversary Manager . Jack Pierce Deputy Manager for Finances . Bob Slaven Deputy Manager for Lodging Gordy Gerson Deputy Manager for Tailgate Party and Cheerieaders John Gentile Deputy Manager for Dinner Dance Hy Lyon Deputy Manager for Bancroft Hall Dinner Bob Musgrove Deputy Manager for Large Banners Jim Corder Deputy Manager for Small Advertising and Misc Ralph Buck Deputy Manager for Directory and Information Jesse Hemandez The directory idea is to be just that, and save the Voyage-sized projects for each decade. That wiU keep Marty, our Color Girl, from divorcing our Class for at least another five years.

Also, John Gentile has made a request for cheer leaders, four of each sex (unless ERA wins), to perform at the game. Think about it.

Start now. It may take you the two years to get (back?) in shape. Let's hear from you, James VanAndrew "Marty" Marindale . . . can you do it? (Anybody who can play and win intramural water polo ought to be able to cheer, SP-L-A-S-H-E-M. Talk him into it, Beth.)

MAIL BUOY—none of those observed this month. Vacation's over now, guys and gals. It's time to throw overboard that bottle with the note in it.

RENDEZVOUS AT SEA—The D. C. monthly gathering produced an overflow (now wasn't that nautical?) crowd of 42 folk, as follows: M. Moran, Bradley, W/L/P Walters, Yost, Foley, Scott, Carty, Lanigan, Salmon (that's nautical, too), Musgrove, Lyon, Hanley, Mooney, Gibbons, E. Mansfield, Goldenstein, Coyne, Lisle, Fisher, Gentile, Meisel, Polski, Goodwin, Wilcox, W. Mitchell, Slaven, J. Sheehan, McNuUa, Garland, Seeberger, O'Donnell, Criswell, Midgarden, Gerson, R. Caldwell, J. Peters, PeUier, G. Myers, Nutting, Nazak, Hemandez, and Willingham. Wow. '58 is really a Class Class.

Several of those guys had rarely/never been seen, so each got a chance to say "Hello" to the group. Notes follow: George Myers, looks great, another 16th Co. Lover (there were 6 at that gathering), in town for only a few hours, promised to write to you via me (don't they all?), off to other parts of the world to see F-5s.

Super to see you, George. Sorry Lou Shane, Acey Frustace, and Dan Haney couldn't be there.—Odie O'DonneU, 7th Co., on active at Andrews AFB, manager for CI31s, program manager on CI2s, working with the reserves, celebrated his 21st wedding anniversary 28 August looked good for an old codger like we all (or at least most) are.—Pete Foley, 18th Co., in Stratford, Connecticut, with Avco Wycoming, is VP of Program Management, has 3 kids.— Mike Moran, retiring 30 September, moving into DC area . . . more on MM when we can get a

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fuU data dump.—Mike Salmon, been in DC five years: "I just don't come to these very often."

We're glad we witnessed the event, Mike.— Dennie Lanigan, been in DC for a bit, with General Research; likewise is rarely seen.—PhU CrisweU, 4th Co., with Analytic Sciences Corp., first time out, couldn't find the 14th St. bridge.

Always a kidder. (Was he?)—Keith Garland, Office of Naval Technology, always wanted to come over for lunch, but never could because Frank CaldweU always did and upstaged him.

Poj/Warren/Lefty/Colonel Walters added that Frank called the previous evening, and said Frank had said, "Tell Keith Gariand I've got more hair than he has."

Any navigators know the Lat/Long of the Jake lies?

BERMUDA TRIANGLE—I've run out of fuel, my eyes are crossing, every key looks like "X," yet all that comes out is " O . " That's nothing, so send help (that's an " S " - " 0 " - " S " , lubbers). I need facts, fiction, fantasy, and plenty of pictures of all. Remember, the wife you save may be your own, so let her see her name in print and her picture on Page One. Fifty-Eight is the Class Class, so let's see the lass and let her tell her own fantasies, if you won't.

59 Sec'y, Capt. John A. Butterfield USN CO., NSA Souda Bay FPO NY 09528 Percent Members: 48 Hello, '59ers! This is your roving reporter from Souda Bay, giving you the latest howgozit with '59. I have not mn into many '59ers in the past month, and those cards and letters have not been coming in, so I am out on the road today in hopes of finding a few '59ers and tidbits of news. Seriously, I am on a quick trip to Athens to meet our new Ambassador, Monteagle Steams, (whom some of you had the pleasure of knowing and listening to because he reports from the Ambassador-in-Residence position at the National Defense University). I shall attend the Country Team meeting and do some liaison with the Military Advisory Group Greece (one of my "hats" in the job as CO, Naval Support Activity, Souda Bay, requires this), and in the latter 1 work most often with Capt. Demo Kolaris, USNA '55, who heads up the Navy Section of the MAAG and is a good man, speaks fluent Greek, and knows Greece as well as anyone in the U.S. Navy, I am willing to bet.

Then I shall fly with the defense attache/Naval attache to Greece over to Naples, Italy, for a conference there having to do with maritime patrol. May squeeze a bit of shopping in at the big NX (hey, when you are out on a rock, that is a big deal, believe me!) and i/ivariably you see old friends and '59ers passing through that NSA complex in Naples. A quick stop at Sigonella and then I should be back at my island home in a couple of days.

I should love to sneak a short time aboard NIMITZ and just feel the fantastic mood aboard that ship. The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Tom Crow, had been aboard her just after the famous "missile shoot," when our F-14s gave us all a shot in the arm. MCPON Crow visited Souda Bay the day after his NIMITZ stop and he made us all feel even better as he related the electric atmosphere and the high morale aboard that ship. Our good friend and Classmate Bill Wheaton may have been aboard FORRESTAL during all the excitement. (Believe the CmDesGmStaff he is on was aboard; please give

us a SITREP, Bill!) The two carriers were out there during the big exercise, with Bill's boss I am quite sure RAdm. Scott McCauley (most recent Commandant at USNA).

One thing MCPON Crow and I discussed was good leadership, and this great Navy of ours seems truly blessed right now. I put MCPON Crow right up there with our CNO, SecNav, SecDef, of course our great President, and a super Vice President (and an ex-Navy man, and for those of us fond of Corpus Christi, one of the youngest recipients ever of those Wings of Gold after training down in South Texas). The leadership goes on; the Naval Academy had one of the all-time great winners in Admiral Lawrence! And another leader and winner is the Executive Director of our Alumni Association Bill Busik. . . . wish we all, especially 1959, would respond quickly when Capt. Busik asks for our help and support!

The Alumni Association was very kind to send a nice letter of congratulations for having a son or daughter (or in the case of J. J. King and big John Collins, they have both!) at the Naval Academy. A few of us just received a letter for offspring in the Class of '85. I think 'here is one addition which I know of, and that stems from some confusion due to the number of Richardsons in '59 and the fact they seem to have a pipeline into USNA. For those of you who have seen the letter, apologies to BUI Richardson's son Jim, and Dan Richardson's son Dan they both graduated from NAPS (and I am sure NAPS was confused a time or two with that situation also). Bill has a son John, Class of '82 as I remember, who rows crew and I believe is a Trident Scholar or is applying to be selected—he has got to be doing weU!!

1959 Capt. John A. Butterfield USN Quarters I, Church Road, NSRDC AnnapoUs MD 21402 Midn. Andrew A. Butterfield Cdr. Patrick M. Commons USN (Ret.) 2846 Admiral's Walk Orange Park FL 32073 Midn. David Michael Commons Col. Joseph F. Flynn USMC 1910 Lindamoor Drive AnnapoUs MD 21401 Midn. Joseph S. Flynn Mr. Richard M. Gardner 313 Morgantown Avenue Morgantown WV 26505 Midn. Eric WiUiam Gardner Maj. Richard A. Johnson USMC 6605 Wren Drive Springfield VA 22150 Midn. Richard Andrew Johnson Capt. John A. Langford USNR 22 Lawn Crest Danbury CT 06801 Midn. Glen Christopher Langford Capt. Frederick A. Olds USN 412 Cedar Lane Virginia Beach, VA 23452 Midn. Bradley Lohrbauer Olds Capt. Daniel C Richardson USN 4203 Main Street Alexandria VA 22309 Midn. Dan Richardson Capt. William E. Richardson USN Midn. Victor James Richardson (and he has brother John in "82 or '83) Priscilla and my youngest Molly (14 years old, going into 9th grade this Fall) are living in the Annapolis area while I am on Crete. Consequently, Pris was able to take in all of the Parents' Weekend activities. One of the extras the super "Supe" and his Mrs. did was have a luncheon for all Academy Alumni parents and their son or daughter in the Class of 1985. I know my son Andrew '85 (and coincidence, 2nd Company—my alma mater company for four years!) got a big kick out of that, as I am sure other '59ers did!

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Another piece of correspondence from the Alumni Association provided me with the latest "Class Participation in the Annual Fund." Sure we can take comfort in the fact we did better as a Class. "81 as compared to '80, as the number of donors went from 54 to 65, and the dollars from $1879 to $3227 . . . but come on you bunch of "Charlie Cheapos" . . . get with the spirit and kick in a few coins! We want USNA to remain an A # l program in all respects, and you must realize that Uncle Sam will never do enough . . . govemment funding will never provide all that is needed for the Naval Academy to remain the best. Please dig into your pockets and clean the dust off your checkbook and send a contribution to the Alumni Association. The Class of '59 should want to be a leader in donors and doUars . . . come on gang!!

Here is a nice note from Rod K. Johnston.

Attomey at Law, 829 N. Marshall Street in Milwaukee WI 53202—thanks. Rod! "While in Washington last month. I heard that you were posted to Europe and inasmuch as I will be in West Germany and Switzerland for a few days this Fall. I called the Alumni Association to find out what you were doing and where. I was pleasantly surprised when your daughter answered my call and advised me of your current address.

I haven't been to Souda Bay since July of "58 when the Lebanon Crisis sent us home on leave earlier than anticipated. Although my memory has waned over the years as to the Bay"s points of interest. I recall that the days as well as the nights were rather warm this time of year. Enclosed is a picture of my "wife." Ray Yenchko, who joined me in Souda Bay for the long trek back to Mother Bancroft some 23 years ago.

Continued success. John.'"

A nice letter from our "man in Annapolis"— the active duty '59er serving at USNA and best point of contact there—Ed Veazey: "A quick note to teU you of a couple of Classmates I recently ran across. Sally and Dick Russell returned recently from a saUing training cmise with the midshipmen. Before they headed back home to Florida, we had dinner together in AnnapoUs. If you see a Braniff plane flying and weaving with a periodic wave motion in the sky, you'U know the pUot is Dick, who hasn't been able to get rid of his sea legs! I went down to Charleston to see about a Westsail 32 which is going to be transferred to the Navy from Customs for use at USNA. Through another officer in our group. Larry Tuzo joined us for breakfast at Charleston AFB before we took off to retum to USNA. Larry is the XO at Charieston AFB. Martha Donovan brought a box of " "59 -I- 20" yearbooks by our quarters the other day. Perhaps we can sell them at a discount at the 25th!""

On the note of Donovans, Pris wrote that poor httle John Paul Donovan (the baby, the last— oops! . . . I could be wrong!, at least the youngest in the family) feU and I think it was his leg which was broken . . . poor httle guy! He is the cutest bugger and brought a lot of happiness to Porter Road past couple of years. USNA will surely miss Frank and all the Donovans, quite certain that by the time you read this they will have moved to the Norfolk area as Frank takes command of USS NASHVILLE . . . which I checked out for him when it was in Souda harbor. (P.S. John Paul was in body cast; bone high up in leg; was in the hospital for three days, and their move had to be put off a few months.)

And on that note, Lloyd Adams assures my wife he wiU dig through old files and send me slides of Souda Bay from days long ago—I am trying to compile a bit of history of the base which had been long neglected.

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Report from Dan Richardson's wife Leslie about Leslie"s brother, Dave Sullivan . . . all is well with the old redhead, our '59 Lucky Bag editor . . . who never was and never is at a loss for words . . . except he has forgotten to write a few to me!! Dave is selling insurance, doing very well, and is extremely happy . . . living and working in Tidewater Virginia area.

Priscilla said she saw young Doug Volgenau Parents" Weekend and he looks just like his Dad . . . and I think he is in same company his Dad was . . . now if you tell me he is a superstar wrestler like Volg . . . wow!

I recently received this note from good friend Gayle Rees, now Captain USNR, and a very active and a very good Blue and Gold Officer in the Naval Academy Information Program: "'Just a short note to say I hope you are fine and that you are enjoying your new job. About a year ago or a little less I ordered my 8th Company picture from one of our Classmates but I do not remember his name and/or address. So far I have not received the picture and the check has not been processed. Can you advise me who to contact conceming our class pictures taken at the 20th? Also, to whom do we make out our yearly dues and where do we send them? Maybe this would be a good short topic for entry in each Febmary's or March's letter of news in Shipmate. You probably have already done this and I just missed it. Thanks for whatever information you can provide me and thanks for the stamp (John Paul Jomes commemorative) you sent several months. I shall never forget your thoughtfulness."

Gayle, I do not have all my files over here with me, but I think it was John Sapp (301/9291742) in Rockville, Maryland, who was handling the pictures. If no luck there, please call Steve Snyder at 703/281-3546, our class treasurer, and he wiU surely know. And of course Steve will take yearly dues from you (now $5.00, but still one of the least inflation hit costs facing you). Snyder's home address is 2436 Carey Lane, Vienna, VA 22180. I shall take your advice and try to publish on a regular basis each year the dues, address, whys and wherefores.

Here are a few orders which I spotted in Navy Times: DZIEDZIC Jr Walter T lllONOSIC SUITLAND to OPNAV; EKSTROM John S 1110 NATDEFU to JSTF JCS; GRISE James E 1120 SUBRON 18 yo CO NROTCUPURDUE; GUAY Paul E 1110 USS PELELIU to STF COMPHIBGRU EASTPAC; LEISENRING Richard P 3100 NAS SDGO to STF NAVAIRPAC And some Proven Subspecialists: The Navy has released the names of 390 unrestricted line officers selected as plans and programs proven subspeciaUsts . . . four separate subspeciaUties: financial management (XX3I), applied mathematics (XX41), operations analysis (XX42), and quantitative economics (XX43). Here are the selectees: XX31—MILLIGAN, Rich; XX42— BAKER, Edward B., BOVEY, Robert L., KILAND, Ingoff, KRUMM, Theodore, PEASE, Charles, and SNYDER, Stephen.

That is about all for now, folks. By the time you read this many '59ers should have been back at Canoe U. for a good Homecoming, and I shall look forward to some mail teUing me all sorts of lies, stories and reminiscences about 1959. Rise and shine!

60 Sec'y, Raymond T. Burkley Burkley Associates P.O. Box 496, Cupertino CA 95014 Percent Members: 52 After bouncing our tickler file against the calendar, we find that the current Class officers have been in office for over five years which is in direct violation of Article III of our charter!

A slate of officers has been gathered and ballots are in the mail. All Class '60 members are encouraged to cast your ballot and spread the word to others to do the same. A 15 December 1981 deadline for ballot submission has been established with the new officers to take office effective 1 January 1982.

The mail bag was empty again this month, but that didn't slow us down too much. Got some good info from our Norfolk contingent via Al BisseU who is C O. at Navy Regional Data Automation Center (NARDAC). We know for a fact that Al's work on various fuel prediction programs has paid dividends with the routing of USS AMERICA (CV-66) to the I. O. recendy being a prime example. It appears that the Class '60 has a good handle on the CVN world on the East Coast with Ed Clexton commanding USS DWIGHT D . EISENHOWER ( C V N - 6 9 ) and George

O'Brien his X. O. Wich Parcells is X. O. NIMITZ ( C V N - 6 8 ) with Paul Ilg waiting in the wings to take over the C O. job soon. Dave Harden was last seen at AIRLANT staff. Bob Demaio, Henry Von Kolnitz and Frank Kay have been noticed around Norfolk/Virginia Beach in their civiUan attire. Frank is offering a quality course of instmction for those in the job market and is also PTA president. Commodore Gene Tucker is FITWING boss, and Keith Young and Mike Heath are SUBLANT staffers. Moe Moran has been seen around the Dam Neck beaches and Tom InderUed is at HRMC Little Creek. Tom Meinike is PCO of a Trident submarine and Al Paole is on the CINCLANTFLT Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board. We're sure that there are many more '60 Classmates in the Tidewater area who haven't been seen or heard from. I bet if Al would organize a Tidewater Chapter ArmyNavy game party we'd hear about many more.

Go Tidewater—Beat Army.

With football season in full swing, we thought it pmdent to track down our football team Capt.

Jim Dunn to see what he is up to. A captain USN, Jim is at Pt. Mugu, anxiously awaiting Butch Thompson, Lou Powell or Tom Meinike to bring their Trident subs out to his Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC). Just as in the 'old' days when he went both ways as center on offense and linebacker on defense, he is wearing two hats as Strategic Systems and Trident Project officer. Wife Ginger's anxious to get back into teaching now that daughters Amy (University of Califomia at San Diego), Jennifer (Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo) and Kari (high school jr.) are grown. Jim is not punchy from his Brigade Heavyweight Boxing Championship days, but has been somewhat staggered by college costs!! (Ed. note—suggest you get Kari an appointment to USNA quickly.) Good hearing from you, Jim. Bob Osmon beat the deadline with the adjacent picture at the promotion ceremony for Vance Fry and Bob Osmon at NAVSUP Hdqtrs.

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istration from George Washington, a Bachelor of Theology from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, and is now working on a Master of Arts in Psychology at the University of Houston. And, it must run in the family. Ray writes that besides himself, his wife and two of his four children are now in college. Ray writes that he has kept in touch with Luke Landin, also with IBM who now lives in Chamblee, Georgia.

Jim Hart writes that he was found twice, once by us and once by the Alumni Association for the fund drive. Jim retired last October and says that he is having fun getting settled in the civiUan community. He writes that his two troops, son Promotion Party Tim who just turned 16 and ready to challenge A. J. Foyte, and daughter Therese, 14 trying for Rogers although a strong supply supporter, is 35, are both doing well, as is wife Marilyn who now a civiUan with the Veterans Administrais still teaching. tion.) It's obvious that the Supply Corps '60 contingent is alive, well and prominent. Bob Finally, some people take being lost harder also reported that Don Weatherson, Joe Jaap, than others.

Bobby Wayne Cox, Mickey Reeves and John Dave Timm wrote to Roger Onorati: Carlson are pork chop captains of great renown "Consider my surprise when, upon opening in the Navy. your letter, I discovered myself to be missing!!

It was not until some time later that evening that Keep the correspondence flowing, revitalize those regional chapters and above all let's keep I found myself frantically searching through the that SUPER '60 spirit that was ever so evident second half of a Moulson's Gold six-pack. There at the 20th reunion.

I was! No longer missing. What a relief; howWhether the game is played night, day or ever, upon inspecting your list more carefuUy, moming the battle cry is still the same. BEAT I discovered that, rather than missing, I was a ARMY! 'doubtful' person. The gravity of the situation sent me reeling to the neighbourhood Safeway for a second six-pack, so I got an entire case.

Later that evening I retumed to the ranks of the missing."

The letter from Roger was for our fund drive Corr. Sec'y, Mr. James L. George and Dave Timm rose to the occasion. His letter 17801 HoUingsworth Dr., Derwood MD 20855 continued: Percent Members: 54 "My typing is almost as sharp as my math skills Well, for the first time in about two years we and that may be home out in my calculations will not be writing about the 20th reunion . . . of 'fair share.' Eight-hundred people, each givon to the 25th. Not yet. Anyway, there wiU be ing $25.00, would amass $20K. But, 207 persons a fuU report on the 20th, but due to scheduling have accounted for $11.5K . . .or about $58.00 of articles, that will not appear for about two @. That leaves $14.00 each as that needed from more months. However, for those of you who the other 600. Enclosed please find a check for missed the 20th, Joe Kiel will have another of $70.00. That will cover me and four other deadhis spectacular quarterly luncheons on 15 De- beats." cember at the Navy Yard O' Club. Any of your Dave now lives in Virginia Beach and we hope travelling though the area might keep that date that he stays unlost, undoubtful, or whatever. in mind.

Also, Dave, we like your math.

The official Alumni Association fund drive And, speaking of Virginia Beach, Bob Partlow ended on 30 June and the Class of 1961 did extremely well. We had 207 contributors for a just moved there from Washington and he wrote Roger that getting out of "DC is great" and that total of $11,537. Last year we had 85 donors "It's really great to get to sea again." We also giving $3,155. This amounts to a two-and-a-half have received word on a couple of more moves. increase in donors and about a three-and-half Jim Luper has been graduated from the Indusincrease in amount. We also did very well in trial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). Fred comparison to other Classes. In donors we were fourth, with the closest Class being that of '45. Wilmot graduated from the National War ColIn amount we were twelfth, with the closest on board BELLEAU WOOD Class being '51. Bob Hofford will give the final report on the class fund drive which ends at Homecoming and by that time, he hopes to have close to the goal of $20,000 for the Class Memorial Fund project.

One of the side benefits of the 20th Reunion was that many of our missing Classmates have checked in. In the past month, we got three.

Ray Sanders writes that he "was surprised to find my name among the missing and/or doubtful" Ust, so he checked in with President Onorati. Ray also forwarded a nice check to the Alumni/Memorial Fund drive. He is now with the IBM Corporation in Houston, Texas, and has served as manager as well as computer programmer in various programming projects, including the NASA Space Shuttle program. It looks like he has spent most of his time in school. Since leaving Annapolis, Ray has gotten a Master of Science in Govemmental Admin-

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lege (NWC). Both ICAF and NWC are at Fort McNair in Washington (DC).

Chuck St. Laurent sent a couple of change of command notices on Classmates. Bob Sherer was relieved as CO of USS PATTERSON (FF-

1061). Steve Duich has just taken command of DesRon 8, which makes him one of our first to get a squadron. The squadron will consist of OLIVER HAZARD PERRY-class FFGs and Steve was the first CO of PERRY. Incidentally, the captain that Steve relieved just made admiralâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;go get 'em, Steve. Also received word that Chuck St. Laurent's ship, USS JONAS INGRAM, won the

"Top Hammer" award for training and readiness during the Admiral's Cup competition.

Dave Stem reports that he was at a recent change of command where Bob KeUey assumed command of the submarine tender L. Y. SPEAR. It has been announced that Arland Kuester wiU be a CO of the second Trident submarine, MICHIGAN, and since Arly CampbeU already has the first, OHIO, that gives the Class '61 a clean sweep in the Trident program so far. What a Class!

The class corporate plan which has been approved by the Executive Committee points out that there is a requirement for operating funds to handle day to day expenses of the Class. We do not have a dues requirement and have relied completely on contributions to date. Your generosity would be greatly appreciated: make your checks payable to the Class of 1961 or Ben Gerson and send your contributions to Ben at: 4825 45th Street, N.W., Washington D C 20016.

Get It Done with '61!

62 Sec'y, Cdr. Howard Pinskey SC USNR-R P.O. Box 3380 Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 55 Greetings for the month of November. Our Homecoming party last month was a great success, as usual. More than 125 Classmates and family attended the tent peuty. It was a warmup to the September '82 gala. Watch Shipmate for details and info. And enjoy this Thanksgiving holiday season. Now for our Classmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Around the Fleet Wells Doty sent along the following letter and a photo from USS BELLEAU WOOD (LHA-3).

"Enclosed a recent picture of USNAers on board BELLEAU WOOD during her recently completed deployment to WestPac and the Indian

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Ocean. From left to right: Pieter Velzeboer '77, On 29 May 1981, Fred PerriU assumed comgunnery officer, HMM-165; George Flinn '71, mand of the Fleet Accounting and Disbursing operations officer, BLT 3/3; Gary Ebanks '73, Center, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Fred was relieved CO " C " Battery, BLT 3/3; Doug Bartlen '79, in his old assignment as ADP program manager " C " Battery, BLT 3/3; John Wissler '78, en- by our Classmate PhU Harrington. Fred's bio gineering platoon CDR, BLT 3/3; John LaPlante follows: '62, XO, BELLEAU WOOD; Wells Doty '62, ops Cdr. PerriU was bom in Chariotte, North Carofficer, BELLEAU WOOD; Jim Fairbank '77, CIC olina, and attended The Citadel, the military officer, BELLEAU WOOD; and Mike Robertson college of South Carolina, before receiving his '67 PHIBRON FIVE material officer. appointment to the Naval Academy. After at'Missing from the photo are Will Walls '66 tending the Navy Supply Corps School, he rePHIBRON Intel officer; Fred Cole '71. first lieu- ported to the USS BIDDLE (DDG-5) with subtenant BELLEAU WOOD; Ramon Guerrero '76, sequent tours as supply officer, USS NATOPS officer, HMM-165; Kim Sheldon '77, HERMITAGE ( L S D - 3 4 ) and assistant to the force asst. Intel officer, HMM-165; and Steve Martin supply officer. Commander Amphibious Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. After receiving an M. S. '77, avionics officer, HMM-165.

"The craise, the first deployment for BEL- degree from the Navy Postgraduate School in 1969, Perrill was assigned to the Naval Supply LEAU WOOD, was a good one, and it was fun getting back to WestPac for the first time in Depot, Yokosuka, Japan, and served there as eighteen years. And, as a FRAM sailor from director of accounting, director of systems planway back, these LHAs are a big change, but ning and director, freight terminal. In 1973 Cdr. Perrill attended the Naval War College, Newfun ships to be on.

"Sorry I'U miss the 20th reunion, but we wiU port, Rhode Island. After graduation, he rebe working up to go West again, and that wiU ported to the Office of the Assistant Comptroller prevent me from getting East."

On 21 September 1981, Capt. Tom Mercer assumed command of USS GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) in the port of Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Here goes '62 on to command of the deep drafts.

Cdr. Robert O. Beer, Jr.. has been graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). The ICAF is a component of the National Defense University located at Fort McNair in Washington (DC). It provides graduate level courses for select senior military officers and top level govemment executives.

During the 10-month course. Beer studied management of the resources that affect national security. WhUe concentrating on management considerations and techniques, his curriculum included seminars, lectures, field Fred Perrill studies and individual research projects covering economic, technical and mutual defense of the Navy and later to the Navy Accounting treaties and agreements. and Finance Center, where he served as the The information conceming the Woodka fam- project officer for the Integrated Disbursing and ily which was published in the September 1981 Accounting Project. Commander Perrill next issue of Shipmate was erroneous. The famUy served as the supply officer, USS CONCORD is being harassed and the Woodkas are contem- ( A F S - 5 ) . After completion of duty at sea, he plating taking legal action against the party con- then reported to the Navy Supply Systems cemed.

Command where he served as project manager (Editor's note: It is regretted that Shipmate pub- for two of the Navy's large scale financial syslished incorrect and inadvertent information tems design efforts. concerning the Woodka family. Please accept Cdr. Perrill is married to the former Kathryne our apologies.)

R. Sims of Rock HiU, South Carolina.

Order Now for Christmas Delivery of Alumni Merchandise

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In next month's issue look for photos of our '81 Homecoming party. The results of our election for class officers and directors and information conceming the big. Big, BIG September '82 celebration.

That's our news for this month. Enjoy the upcoming holiday season and give your Classmates a Christmas present of a card or a letter to Shipmate. It's a great gift.

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Sec'y, Mr. W. Douglas Davidson 3730 Cardiff Road Chevy Chase MD 20815 Percent Members: 52 Pete Carrothers has been named director of operations coordination for Frito-Lay Inc., with responsibilities for coordinating manufacturing operations for Frito-Lay's 40 manufacturing plants across the United States. Pete joined the company in 1973 and resides in Dallas, Texas.

Rich McKenna, formerly skipper of the frigate DowNES, has been selected as XO of USS NEW JERSEY. The initial crew is to report by October '81 and plans call for NEW JERSEY to be ready for commissioning in January '83.

Ken Ramsey sent in an updated biography from his new position as president of The Boise Company. Ken's company was formed in May '81 by several management personnel to purchase the assets and continue the operations of the housing division of Boise Cascade's.

Capt. Armstrong, Cdr. Chapman, Adm. Service, and Capt. Bremner Austin Chapman, fellow southerner and roommate for the Plebe detail after graduation, recently completed his 1,000th carrier arrested landing. Austin, C O . of Attack Squadron EIGHTY-THREE, is shown below aboard USS FORRESTAL being congratulated by the C O . of FORRESTAL, Commander Task Force SIXTY and Commander Air Wing SEVENTEEN. Austin and his family are currently living in Jacksonville.

A family affair - last December John LassweU relieved his brother and our Classmate, Jim Laswell, as XO of the amphibious transport dock ship USS DULUTH ( L P D - 6 ) .

Jim Oakes was recently written up in the Wall Street Letter, a much-followed publication about what's going on in the brokerage industry.

Jim was one of the leading institutional equity salesmen for Smith Bamey in San Francisco and was wooed away to join Wertheim in the same city. In his new position. Jim will be responsible for covering all institutional accounts west of Denver including Hawaii.

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David. Dave's current assignment in CIVLANT (for all you active duty types that acronym is one that I can translate and means civilian world) is with Treco in Jacksonville, Florida.

He is vice president and North Florida manager responsible for developing single family subdivisions.

A fun and newsy letter from companymate Joe Gardiner announced the creation of the Paris branch of the Class of '63 Alumni Association. (I previously asked to be invited to cover the story but for some reason Shipmate was not willing to send me!)

Joe, Ted Bowman with EDS Nuclear, George Tracy with a private consulting firm, and Roland Fontaine with an Army missile project, held the first official meeting in the U.S. Embassy Lounge (a.k.a. a Bar).

Joe, Beth and three daughters have been in Paris for a year where Joe is serving as the assistant Naval attache. While in Paris, Joe says he has run into Tom Brandt, with Eastern Airlines who took a wrong turn at Fort Lauderdale, Bob Van Nice with Hughes Aircraft in Brussels and Bmce Webb on R & R from Washington DC. Can't understand why I didn't get the assignment to cover that first chapter meeting.

If anyone ever wonders why we end our column "Quality '63," all they need do is read this month's article as an example of the kind of accomplishments our Classmates are achieving.

That's the end of our month's news and also the end of my reporting to you. Although the ballots are still being counted and recounted, we feel confident that Norm Shackleton will win the election for class secretary by a large margin.

I've very much enjoyed hearing from so many Classmates, passing it on to you, and hope that you have enjoyed the column.

Quality '63!

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: 56

65 Sec'y, Cdr. Dave Anderson USN OPNAVSUPPACT/(OP 961EI) Washington DC 20350 202/695-7452 Percent Members: 58 Our Classmates are making headlines again!

Following the front page photo-essay that ran for 5 days in the Washington Post in June tracing the careers of our top 50 graduates, one of that group (not mentioned in the article) grabbed some glory in August. Good of Hank Kleeman, now CO of VF-41 on board USS NIMITZ (CVN-

68), along with his wingmate, demonstrated the superiority of our fighter jocks and aircraft in downing two Libyan Fitter aircraft over the Gulf of Sidra on 19 August. Great to see Hank's mug in the papers, news magazines and on TV. Way to go Hank. Steve McDonald wrote in to nominate Hank as "65er of the year. I'll second it.

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Hank Kleeman Steve, in his card, also mentioned walking into Pat Cooper who is now CO of TRARON 9 in Meridian, Mississippi, and hearing from Jeff Lewis, still test piloting Sikorsky helos in Palm Beach, Florida.

Received a great letter from Dave Hunter, bringing us up-to-date on his activities. Upon completion of USMC Basic School at Quantico he tried to get TDY at Mary Washington College but Terry Anderson won the election and Dave was off to flight training. Terry caught up with him at Del Gallo"s in Corpus Christi and once in Da Nang, and is presently a pilot with Delta based in Atlanta.

After flight school, Dave spent the next few years flying F-4s in such garden spots as Beaufort (SC), El Toro, and Yuma. He spent his combat tour with VMFA-115 in Chu Lai, RVN, being rotated out to Iwakuni, Japan (one step ahead on the FAC designator) where Don Brown helped him explore the "best kept secret of the Marine Corps." Don was also in Chu Lai and they were together in VMFAT-101 in El Toro and in Yuma. Dave understands that Don went on to discover the "best kept secret of the RAF" in England also!

Eariy in 1971 Dave traded in his Navy Wings of Gold for Eastern's Wings of Man and jointed the growing number of our Classmates flying for Eastern Air Lines. Those that Dave sees in the terminals are as follows: BUI Burd-Miami, Joe Deitch-Boston, Jim DeNicola-New York, Wayne Hanson-Miami, Dick Harris-DC, Larry LeovicAtlanta, Steve McDonald-Atlanta, Skip OrrBoston, Johnny Owens-Atlanta, Pat PhilbinMiami, Jimmy Savard-New York, Jim SextonNew York, Pat Varriano-New York, and Skip Yachanin-Miami.

In addition to flying for Eastern, Bill Burd, Pat Philbin and Skip Yachanin have all gone to law school and are presently practicing law in the Miami area.

Somehow Dave also caught the "Legal Fever" and entered law school in 1978. This year he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Thesis, won the Dean's Award, the Sigma Delta Kappa legal fraternity's honor graduate, and was even the class valedictorian. Dave says he owes it all to Eastern Air Lines crew meals and that if only he had been eating them on the banks of the Severn he may have done better than a C in Skinny. Anyway, Dave passed the February 1981 Georgia Bar Exam and has opened an office for the general practice of law in the Atlanta area.

Dave also heard from Barry "Bags" Birch, Bob "Tree" Bush, and about Ron Wecht. Barry lives in Oxon HiU, Maryland, with his wife Mary Ann and their two lovely children, David and Diane. He's changed his designator to engineering duty and expects to spend the rest of his career in the Washington area working in the weapons field. Dave spent an evening with Bob Bush in the lounge of the Downtown Atlanta Hilton Inn reliving a few of their excapades through Europe many years ago. Bob is working

his way to the top in the insurance business and has recently been promoted and transferred to the New England area. Ron Wecht is alive and well and practicing law in the San Francisco area where he resides with his wife Sue. They are the proud new parents of a baby girl, Emily.

Ron had an interesting career in the Marine Corps, first as an infantry officer, then as a White House aide, and finally as an aviator. As expected, Ron is doing quite well as an attorney, and has been made a partner in a prestigious international aviation law firm.

Dave would love to hear from any and all of our Classmates in the Atlanta area, and as he has just joined the local Alumni Chapter, he encourages them to do the same. He would also like to extend an open invitation to those lucky few who may pass through Hot-Lanta. His address is 2053B Powers Ferry Rd., Marietta, GA 30067, and his home phone is 404/952-1488.

Back at the ranch . . . the Alumni Association was also nice to me this month. Found out that Steve Allman is alive and well, residing in San Diego and working for the San Diego Gas and Electric Co. He recently surfaced at a Navy League meeting there. A news release shows that Bill Fraher has been appointed director of corporate development for Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York. Bill joined the company in 1970 after a tour with the NUKE Navy and until his recent appointment he was general products manager for Coming's medical and scientific division. Another news release shows Dean Richman now personnel manager for the northern area of GTE of the Southwest and recently named commandant of the USMC League in Texas. Dean, from Syracuse, was in the Marine Corps from graduation until 1969 and joined GTE in 1975. He previously held personnel management positions with Braniff and EDS. Dean now makes his home Lewisville, Texas.

The August Washington area '65er luncheon featured appearances by Mike Malone, Larry McMurray, Denny Kruse, John Marymount and Will Banks. Mike, still with the Marine Corps, took a law degree a few years back and is Office of JAG litigation officer for the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review. Mike and his wife Susie make their home in Fairfax. Larry, after some weapons department tours on destroyers while active, now is employed as senior systems engineer for American Computer in Gaithersburg. Larry and Barbara have two sons and are living in Frederick. Denny is assigned to NAVSEA as executive assistant for the deputy commander for Ship Systems. Denny changed designator to EDO years back and with wife Jackie and one son, live in Springfield, Virginia. John, a bachelor, is working for NAVMILPERSCOM, and residing in Ariington. Will and Kathy are still in Hong Kong, where Will is president of the branch of Riggs Bank there. He was passing through DC enroute Dallas to put together some financing with Gordie Edwards, our notorious entrepeneur who has made his home in Brussels for many years.

Noted in the Navy Times orders that George Hurley completed his CO tour with HS-6 in San Diego and is enroute COMOPTEVFOR staff in Norfolk; that Howard Kirkpatrick is going to NAVCRUITTRA Command in Oriando after a few years here in OPNAV, and that Skip Moyer completed his CO tour with VP-16 in Jacksonville and is now assigned to the National Defense University in DC. Hope to see lots of you at the Homecoming Tailgate and follow-up functions on 24 October.

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66 East Coast Corres.: Cdr. Thomas I. Eubanks USN 7782 Turiock Road Springfield VA 22153 West Coast Corres.: Mr. Robert G, Johnson, Jr. P.O. Box 1011 La Jolla CA 92037 Percent Members: 52

67 Sec'y, LCdr. John C. Lawlor, Jr. USNR (TAR) 871 Five Forks Road Virginia Beach VA 23455 Percent Members: 52

68 Sec'y/Treas., LCdr. Al Thacker USN USN Deputy for Management U.S. Naval Academy AnnapoUs MD 21402 Percent Members: 52 Hello again from Monterey Eastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;docksider and IZOD capitol of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where '85 (makes you feel ancient, doesn't it!) is appalled because they don't have full stereo privileges yet. Times change, but scuba steak is still scuba steak.

This year's "right stuff' award goes to Dave Beard. His article in the July issue of Approach conceming his devastating accident a year ago, written as a plug for NATOPS and safety, represents so much more. Between the lines there is enough courage in the face of adversity and character under the seige of disabling tragedy to make us all proud of the human spirit and embarrassed by our own uncelebrated good fortune. Hats off to you, Dave; glad to have you up and about.

Enough dribble: on to the latest and greatest from some impromptu class correspondents.

Dave Lee (along with Nancy and their three boys) sent a note in from Key West where he wiU become CO of AQUILLA (PHM-4) in December once pre-commissioning rituals are complete. He also mentioned that Tom Berns

passenger, but had to get back to Houston or lose his place in line. PhU Gallery is waiting for his novel to be published while he instructs the OCS troops at Newport and Mark Splain has become some sort of jewelry dealer in the DC area. Wayne Nonoshita, now a full-fledged Baptist minister, has his own congregation in Buena Park, California. BiU Dixon is back in Houston after several years in Norway with Exxon Corp. Duane Ammerman is teaching high school in Hayward, California. Joe Sikes is flying with VP-1 out of Barbers Pt. Ed Sullivan is doing VP duty out of Brunswick, Maine.

Denny's brother-in-law, Gary Jensen, is the XO of TUNNY out of Peari Harbor while Bill Washer is out that way flying A-6s off CONSTELLATION. Rumor has also placed John Lyons as XO of TRUXTUN in the WESTPAC area. BUI Wilt and all his girls have retumed to the Pacific as a charter member of VQ-3. (Got any planes yet?)

Roger Hughes sent a short note from MACDONOUGH (DDG-39), in the Persian Gulf, where he is the OPS boss. He said that Terry Glover is XO of the TRUETT and Arnie Moore is enjoying CIVLANT in Charleston doing some govemment contracting (rumor).

That about wraps up the who's who section for this month. Keep up the good work. Non illegitimandum carborundum.

69 Sec'y, Mr. Steve Brixey 10161 Marshall Pond Rd. Burke VA 22015 Percent Members: 44

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Another month of overwhelming mail. By the time this article appears, the Class of '70 greater Baltimore, Washington, Annapolis syndicate wiU have had its first (quarteriy?) luncheon. It was scheduled for 23 September at "Pier 7" in Washington, and I'll report on it next month.

Contact me if you are interested in the next one.

We should also have won a few footbaU games.

Dennis Lunghofer and Al Katz have returned to their alma mother " B . " Dennis is a "professor of seamanship and navigation," Al is hiding over in engineering and weapons somewhere.

Until next month, goodbye; start those letters coming.

71 Sec'y, Maj. Charles E. Boyer HI USMC Football Office Ward Hall USNA, Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 45

72 Sec'y, LCdr. George Z. Berry USN 3334 S. Second St. Arlington VA 22204 (H) 703/979-3952 Percent Members: 46

is now CO of PEGASUS ( P H M - 1 ) .

Newlyweds Denny Young and wife Cheryl (are you sure you know what you are in for??) are operating out of Benicia, California, where he puUs flight attendant duty with United and she makes reservations for Delta (that makes no sense at aU!). Anyway, in a nice long newsgram Denny sent the following information on our gang, the first four of whom were groomsmen at the big wedding.

Dave Myers is an executive striking for a vicepresidency with Fluor Corp. in Costa Mesa, Califomia. Dick Evert is a F-14 jock attached to VF-124 in San Diego. Otto Orzech has become one of the foremost experts in the field of saturation diving and deep submergence programs as a member of the Scripps Institute in San Diego. Ed Riley is a practicing attomey in the Rochester (NY) area.

Denny said that our ace in space, Charlie Bolden, also made a brief stop to drop off a

70 Sec'y, LCdr. Ken Nelson USN Dept. of Sea. and Navig.

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LCdr. Brian Engler and Lt. (jg) Maxine Richard Engler SC USNR Brian Engler wrote to say that he was married 24 May 1981 to the former Lt. (jg) Maxine Richard SC USNR, in Moorpark, California. They met while Brian was on the Fleet Air Keflavik, Iceland, staff and Maxine was NAVSTA disbursing officer. Brian is currently in VP-46 at Moffett Field while Maxine is undertaking a supply corps petroleum intemship at NSC Oakland. Their address is 1331 159th Ave., Apt. 519, San Leandro CA 94578.

One other piece of news from Brian: John Auriemma was Flag Sec on the staff in Iceland and should be leaving soon (or gone) for VP-8.

The only other news this month is also nuptial in nature. Dave Horton was married 12 Septemer to the former LCdr. Candice Gibbon, a pediatrician stationed at USNA.

Notice the new address. I will be working in OPNAV at the Pentagon until December. Then I'll be at the Defense Intelligence School.

Nice letter from Bob Musselman. He's out in Richland, Washington, with Quadrex Corporation, a nuclear consulting firm. Bob extends an invitation for anyone traveling through Eastem Washington to look him up and he'll show you the desert. (Come on Bob, a desert in Washington?) or a salmon ladder over a dam on the Columbia River. His address is 2952 George Washington Way, Richland WA 99352.

Gary Hammond is a SWOS instmctor in the PCO/PXO department at Newport. After expressing his disbelief at me being assigned to USNA, he reported that Bob Perry recently finished Dept. Head School while beating up on the local lunch hour basketball players. P.D. Klein is working for DELEX at SWDG in Little Creek. Most of Gary's news was covered in last month's issue. Thanks for the lefter, Mung. His address is Code 421, SWOSCOLCOM, Newport RI 02840.

I talked to Tom Sizemore back in September.

He has been contacting llth company and sent an update. First, after duty on a DDG out of Peari, he attended West Virginia Univ. School of Medicine. After intemship in Oakland, and residency in San Diego, he is now an opthalmologist at the Naval Hospital in Charieston.

Tom and Marge have three children, Eric, Amy, and Monica. Tom can be reached at the Naval Regional Medical Center, Charieston SC 29408.

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Mike Clark is in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Greg Lamberth is out and in Arizona. Dave KratochvU—Camp Pendleton. Tom Rodjom is in AlUson, Pennsylvania. Dave Weiss last reported in New Haven. Lanny Benham recently reported to the Pentagon as an AAW/ASMD analyst in OPNAV-961.

Donna, Samantha, Kristofor and Jim Butler are in Pensacola where he is with HC-16 as a helo instmctor and SAR pilot. Chris Craig is mmored to be on a NATO staff in London.

Shelly, Ginger Marie and R.T. Doyle are in San Diego. After finishing dental school in Virginia, R.T. is now doing postgraduate work. Paul Eisenhuth is stUl in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with PA Power and Light. John Harrop should be in DC now. Steve Kemple works for Texas Instmments in Sherman, Texas. He's married and has two children. Gretchen, Anna Elizabeth, and Mike Maxiner should be in Monterey now.

Sherry and EUis Merschoff are in Maryland where EUis works with the NRC. Linda, Brandy, and Lew Murphy live in Miami Shores.

Lew is with the law firm of Steel, Herton, and Davis there. Onnie, Jacob, Nathan DonneUy, and Ed Nocon live in Bluffton. Indiana. Ed is a department supervisor with Coming Glass Company there. Becky, Paul, Abby, and Kurt Salscheider are also with Coming Glass in Bluffton. Ted Norris works in aircraft manufacture in Tucson, .Arizona. Diane, Jennifer, Tim and Tom Pastorino live in San Jose, Califomia, where he is employed by a container manufacturing corporation. Tuzy, Gigi, Ryan and Ed Snyder are in Charleston. He is OPS systems officer on the staff of COMDESRON 6. Patty and Tom Tetlow are still in Charleston. Linda and Dave Vaughn are in New York where he is test flying for Gmmman as a Navy Pilot. Steve Weise and famUy are in Hartsville, South Carohna. Steve works at the H.B. Robinson nuclear site. Colleen, Christy and Paul West are in Pennsylvania. Mike Stevenson lives in Columbia, Maryland. Thanks for all the news, Tom! If anyone wants addresses/phone numbers for any of the above, just get in touch with Tom or myself.

Dave Hogen is now at NAVELEX in DC as an EDO. Rick Ruble recently left EDO school at Mare Island and (this news is from Todd Bmner, another EDO type) is now someplace else . . . Thanks, Todd! Such accuracy.

Speaking of Todd, he and Al Joseph have been hard at work preparing a newsletter and working on Homecoming '82 arrangements. The newsletter should be out this month. The major decision confronting them right now is whether to arrange for a large block of rooms at one hotel out around the beltway or Baltimore (lowest cost) where the dinner-dance could be held or to get about four hotels to give partial blocks of rooms in Annapolis. Input is needed too about the dinner, tail-gate, favors, etc. If you can't wait for the letter, give Todd or me a call to express your desires, etc. BEAT .ARMY !

73 Sec'y, Mr. Dirk P. D. Mosis HI 709 W. Lang Alvin TX 77511 Percent Members: 46 Classmates—you're making it tough to write this. We are talking—"no letters"" once again.

Ten minutes and 20c! will get your name in print, and you wiU be read by about 800 people (approximately 300 Classmates, 225 wives, 175 par-

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ents, 75 people browsing through mags, 20 misceUaneous, and five proofers). So, do it. Thank you.

Larry Calhoim wrote from Georgia Tech asking for Rachel and Steve Mock's address. No other news I guess. But Larry took three minutes and 18(2 and was read by about 800.

Fleet Home Town News Center: Steve Nichols has reported for duty as a member on the staff of Commander-in-Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl. Steve Oswald has reported for duty with Fighter Attack Squadron 125, NAS Lemoore, Califomia. Steve and Steve didn't even have to spend the time or money.

And, since I spend the time and money anyway . . . Dirk Mosis is changing careers (again). After 20 months with Kurt Salmon Associates, management consultants, the last 14 months in Detroit, he is moving to Houston, Texas, to assume a position with Tramwell Crow Company, Investor Builders. Good luck, and thanks for the news.

Let us hear from you about Homecoming, Army, babies—anything! BEAT ARMY ! '73 !

74 Sec'y, Lt. Ken Pisel USN Leadership and Law Dept., USNA AnnapoUs MD 21402 Percent Members: 43 Greetings, '74! Here we go again with my second attempt at having Pulitzer tum in his grave. In light of the fact that it is stUl Aug/Sep as I write this, the Oct issue has not as yet had time to generate any mail. So the way it looks right now is that if October's column generated an immediate wave of response, I'll get that into Shipmate by November which wUl be the JanFeb issue. As you can see, I am forced to use altemate methods to gather info in the meantime.

Let's begin by making some additions to the Ust of '74 here at USNA. The newest arrival is Joe Aweduti who, as purchasing officer for the athletic department, is helping to coach the lacrosse team. There were three people that I simply missed last month (sorry guys): Frank Sweigart, Walt Donovan and Fred Hahndorf. Frank is the Flag Lt. for VAdm. Waller (the Sup). He, Sharon and Stephanie (3) will be departing soon to go to Asst Navigator duties in INDY. Walt (16th Co) and Kathy, who are expecting their first in March, arrived here about a year ago from EA6Bs at Whidbey Island. Fred and Pat have also been here about a year, having had their first addition in January (Christopher). He is hiding up on 3-1 as Midn. Financial Advisor.

These corrections bring our total head count up to twelve at USNA, unless of course I'm still wrong.

I've been busy calUng anyone I could find a phone number on, as well as tapping my "in yard" resources, and have come up with quite a bit. My initial impression is that a great portion of our Class is in fact alive, with many of them being civilian. Best of luck to those of you who have opted for the civiUan life, but let us not forget the common tie that binds us all together as one entity. Over the past few years we have lost track of each other with collective interest in our class structure sadly waning. We have the dubious distinction of having the lowest percentage of Alumni Association membership.

With our 10 year reunion approaching, we'U require a concerted effort toward organization

and involvement. But that's enough preaching for now.

Tim Supko was one of the first to get some info to me. His memory was good for the following: Wayne Dunahm and Loraine and BUI Parham are assigned to HS-1 in Jax where they are instmctors for the RAG. Eileen and Kim McCauley are down in Corpus where he is completing his transition from NFO to pilot and she's expecting. Barry Morton and Ben Meyers are both out of the Navy in Honolulu, but haven't given up the sea. They are copartners on a 42' sailboat they call home.

Gehrig Wiles tells me he saw Scott Kophamer and Bill Readdy on the NBC Magazine program in August. They are in Pax River, at test pUot school, but their claim to fame is unknown.

Gehrig also related the following: Bob Taylor was seen flying A-6s off MIDWAY last year. CivUian life has had the following additions: Roy Ainsworth left VP-48 in Spring '79. Chris Rowan and Bob Reed left the Marines, and Mark Petersen left the Navy last Summer and is now going to Stanford. Dave Fischer is a former nuke in the DC area, employed by one of the Beltway Bandits. Reaching into history, he remembers seeing Dan Driscoll, BiU Bennett and Doug Ballard at MCAS Kanehoe about three years ago, as well as George Jenkins at VP-17, Barber's Pt, with thoughts of civilian life.

Our class VP. BiU Bruen, asked me to pass on his congratulations on our participation in the recent fund drive. We more than doubled our monetary outlay and tripled the number of Classmates giving. BiU remains a bachelor up in Morristown, New Jersey, where he is working with the stock market. He tells me that Carolyn and Erie (Flash) Gordon remain alive and weU in Louisville, Kentucky, where he talks to computers for the local Ma Bell. Kathy and Satch Morgan are in Charleston, South Carohna, with Satch on a sub. Bill also advised that Tom Glover was a particularly valuable contributor in his organizational efforts for the fund drive. Tom is aide and flag lieutenant to CNATRA in Corpus Christi. I've added Tom to my hst of informers, so we should hear more from him in following months. For that matter, anyone who knows at least one Classmate (that includes yourself) is welcome to join my list of informers.

Walt Donovan told me that Lance Anderson is down in Pax River and thinks he would be a good source of information. If you haven't heard from me yet. Lance, you will. Walt also says that George Yakus. our venerable class president, was seen at Homecoming last year.

Earl Alexander is working in an intell billet in DC somewhere. Herschel Smith is in VF-171 as a RAG instructor and, depending on where VF171 now calls home, he's either at Va Beach or Key West. Ted Breggar was in the area during Commissioning Week this year. He's out and working in San Diego.

Bryan Davis gave me a call with an initial input on who's who in VT-6 (P'cola). Bryan remains a bachelor and is a Marine flying air hogs (T28s). Also flying the beast are John MerriU and Scott Stith. The 1T-34C contingent of VT-6 is manned by Tim Meyers, Tim Johnson and Bob Repp. He didn't say if he knew any wives' names, and I didn't think to ask. Sorry.

Sara and Rich Johnson recently added a new son. their second. Rich proved to be my most extensive source of gouge, relaying the following: Tom Rathbone is in VALDEZ out of Newport. Brian Fitzpatrick and Travis Brannon are both flying F-18s at Pax River, where Travis

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had the dubious distinction of having the first ejection from the F-18 (a tough way to get your name in print). Denny Bostich is also in Pax River, attached to Strike/Air. In Quantico we have John Bruno and John Brown, who's expecting a child on 25 December (presumably he is married or is at least a close friend with someone). Andrea and Mike CampbeU are in Norfolk where he is attached to a staff. Carl Nebbia and Tex TeLxeira are both civilians living in the local area, with Tex working for GE. John Boyd and BiU wade are both in the DC area where they are yet two more bandits of the beltway. Carol and John Higbee are in USS MARSHALL in Charleston. Rich also mentioned Wayne Dunham and states that Wayne was voted the MVP for the Jax lacrosse league. Jack Reader is XO in USS CoNSTtruTiON in Boston. Tom Lozier is in the supply corps and recently graduated from the Harvard Business School. And finally, that Pete Venuto is working for Coming in RaleighDurham, North Carolina.

The .Alumni Association also had some info waiting for me when I took this job. It consisted of a news release on James Thompson, a nongraduate, who is now with Nat'l Life Insurance of Vermont, in MontpeUer. The other info was a pUe of pictures with vaguely familiar faces, clad in Delta AirUnes uniforms. That group includes: Wiley Voorhies. Sam Kupresin. Rich Navarro. Ed Caylor, Bob Thome. Emie Werner. Jim Agnew. John Murdoch. Rich Bradley, Mike Mora. Jim Colli and John Price.

W. Voorhies

Sam Kupresin

Rick Navarro

Edward Cavlor

Robert Thome

Emest Wemer

James Agnew

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Mike Mora

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Dick Bradley

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Using some rather dated info. I found Mark Condra a month before he rotated from Cherry Point to Yuma. Arizona. He went from VMA533 to MAWTS-1 (weps & tactics school). I also managed to reach him two weeks prior to his

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wedding, so by the time this hits the street Nancy Condra is probably the newest member of the Class. Congratulations, Zug, and good luck, Nancy. He was able to pass on some Marine info. Jeb Stewart is an instmctor in VT-86 in P'cola. Jim Riemer is an instmctor at Beeville, Texas (do anything to stay down near the ranch, won't you, Jim). Ernie Boling is out of the Corps and is working for his father-in-law somewhere. My old roomie. Jack Hughes, is mmored to be out on the West Coast sitting in the back of RF-4s. Drop me a line. Jack, and tell me what the "big boys" are up to.

That about covers all of my contacts for this month, but I do have some random bits of info.

I saw an article in Money Magazine of August "81 which featured the financial/real-estate dealings of Jeanette and Steve Bartek. They are currently in Pax River where he is one of the local rotor heads. I also happened upon Terry Sargent as he wandered about the yard one evening in August. He had been out for a few years and had been working for Texas Instruments. He was out here in the East, staying with in-laws, investigating local opportunities. So perhaps by the time this hits the street we'll have another bandito d'beltway.

Let me close with a few words to our Class: Where the heU are you all!? Why have we, as a Class, been satisfied to watch our Unes of communication slowly deteriorate? Must we continually wait for someone else to write to Shipmate? Perhaps part of the problem is that only 43% of the Class belongs to the Alumni Association. With less than half of the Class even seeing this column, it makes its demise so much easierto ignore. Ifjust one person at every base, or one of those guys at Delta, or any corporation, or any large metropolitan area, took the effort to get in touch with all the Classmates he has access to and got just one non-member to join or drop me a Une, we would have the regenesis of a sound class organization. Already, back here at the farm, there are a number of us trying to get things back on the road. By the time you read this article. Homecoming '81 wUl be history, but hopefuUy we'll be able to get enough of our Class together to give some direction to those that are wilUng to take action.

The FaU of '84 is entirely too near to delay any longer. I shall have more to say about our budding class organization in coming months and shaU strive to avoid future tirades. *News flash* I just got my most extensive Ust of those deep selected for lieutenant commander. Frank Sweigart just gave me the listing he had compiled and, while I wUl still not guarantee absolute accuracy, it's the best I've seen so far. Those selected were: Jack Carpenter, Louis Crenshaw, Gary Kohler, Brent James, Mike Miller, J.J. Quinn, Elmer Standridge, Dave Stone, Bill Walsh and James Warren.

Congratulations to all of you!

A final note of apology to the many wives and children who were not mentioned in this column. I am currently forced to rely upon the sometimes limited memories of my male counterparts, who may remember seeing a Classmate, but rarely remember marital status, much less her name. You are aU cordially invited to write a letter severely chastising me. I'll do anything for mail.

So until December, take care and take the time to jot down a few notes, then go so far as to mail them. TiU next month, ciao. PS How's this, Mr. Davis? Two in a row. PS PS BEAT ARMY!!

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Sec'y, Lt. Steve Hubbard USN 719 Garfield Ave. Virginia Beach VA 23452 Percent Members: 46 Well, that's better . . . the mailbox has seen a bit more action this month, but not enough!

Let's keep those letters and cards coming! Just think . . . with the Army-Navy Game coming up there wiU be lots of get-togethers before, during and after, so drop me a line and let me know who you have seen!

On the orders front I've come across the following in Navy Times: Charlie Areizaga to USS HULL (DD-945); Steve Harmon to USS JOHN KING ( D D G - 3 ) ; John Reskusich to USS CAPODANNO ( F F - 1 0 9 3 ) ; Craig Solem to USS LEFT-

WICH (DD-984); and Clem Urban to SubTraFac San Diego.

Mark Milliken Soundings, the Navy Norfolk base newspaper, reported a story on a company-mate of mine, Mark MilUken. He was selected recently as East Coast "Hawkeye of the Year" for 1981.

The award goes to the officer who distinguishes himself as the outstanding junior naval officer in the VAW community. Mark is an NFO instmctor with RVAW-120. Bravo Zulu, Mark!

Steve HUl dropped a line with some great news . . . one of our lost sheep has retumed to the fold! Steve Dolat left the Navy last year and went to work for a defense contractor in Newport as their office manager. Deciding he really belongs in the Navy, he rejoined our ranks 24 August and has gone back into Nuke subs. Welcome back, Laurie and Steve Dolat! (And thanks for letting us know, Steve HiU.) Darby and Jack Monger sent some news, mostly of llth Companymates. Jack is out of the Navy now and working for MCC Powers in Southem Califomia. They said they would be living somewhere in Orange County. Their girls, Hayley and Halzie, are now aged 4 and 1 respectively.

Kathy and Frank Kearney experienced a big surprise in June. They were visiting back home in Bel Air, Maryland, (up from Jax) for Frank's high school reunion. Kathy was due to have their first baby in August, but went into labor the day before their scheduled retum to Jax, and delivered twin girls (surprise!) on 29 June.

KeUy Anne and Eileen Mary spent about a month in the hospital, and they all headed back to Jax the first of August.

Laurie and Mark Disney now have a second son, Ryan, bom in Febmary. Older brother Ben is about three years old. Diz left the Navy in

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June for a job with Semcor. an engineering firm in the DC area. They now live in Springfield, Virginia.

Marcia and Mark Lambright live in MitcheUvUle, Maryland. Mark has been working for a consulting firm for over a year now and really enjoys his work. Their children are Candice, who was four in March, and Bryan, bom last January.

Lori and Ron Frigo now live in Caloma, Michigan. He has been working for a nuclear power plant for over a year. Kay and Les Ryan are at Pax River where he flies E-2s. They were married in late 1979. Sharon and Steve Butler (now a civilian) are living in Maryland somewhere.

Pete Ortiz is flying with VMFA-115 off FORRESTAL, having just completed a Med cruise in September. He went USMC air to avoid going to sea . . . and already has more sea time than his 1110 roommate. His mother and Cathy traveled to Europe and port hopped for awhile.

Helen Claire and Lyn Whitmer, with sons Duane and Daryl, are at Test Pilot School at Pax River. Bindy and Craig Quigley, with daughters Erin and Courtney, are at the SWOS Department Head Course. Erin will be four in Febmary, and Courtney wUl reach her first in January. LesUe and PhU Ray are living in Chesapeake, Virginia, while he is the Crypto officer aboard USS BIDDLE (CG-34), currently in the

Med. Dennis Diantonio is deployed again (P-3s out of Jax), while Brian Diantonio is on recruiting duty in Arlington, Virginia, and living in Fairfax. Finally the Mongers are trying to find Tig Krekel. Any ideas? Write to the Mongers c/o Greer, 5481 Soledad Rd.. La Jolla CA 92037 or call 714/454-4532. Thanks for the great letter.

Darby!

One of our number has defected! Ray Enzenauer is now a captain, U.S. Army Reserve! Now in his second year of med school, he is in the Medical Service Corps, belonging to MASH #5033 as a week-end warrior. "Now I know how the Marines felt when they had to buy all new uniforms." Ray talked with Deke Ahle's brother NeU (USMA '75) who left the Army for veterinarian school. Ray's brother Bob (USMA '75) is currently Chief Resident at the Department of Pediatrics at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. Thanks, Ray . . . and Beat Army!

Nancy and Larry Warrenfeltz had a son, James Donald, bom 10 July in Virginia Beach.

Larry is at the Naval Eastem Oceanography Center in Norfolk. BiU Luebke is commissioning chief engineer on one of the new "AyatoUah" class DDGs. Carl June is at Bethesda, and Harry Selsor is a weather forecaster for the Med stationed in Rota. Bob Clark is teaching oceanography at USNA now, while Linda and Jim Hanna and sons are headed for Mayport out of the SWOS Department Head Course. Thanks for the news, Larry, and congratulations!

Ann and Scott Lindsey also reported a blessed event. Todd was bom 29 August at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Scott invites Classmates to drop by when possible: 15333 Blacksmith Terrace, Woodbridge VA 22191 or phone 703/670-7948.

His autovon number is 278-2077/2529. Congrats to the Lindseys, too!

While going through one of the crazier phases of my life I recently participated in the Navy Norfolk Decathlon. The news is that I ran into Doug Schlaefer (VF-102, NAS Oceana) who had won his preliminary competition at Oceana and wound up finishing second in the big one. After a hard fought battle for first, he dropped it to Tom Flanagan "71 from COMSUBLANT. It was great to see you Doug, and BZ for your Decathlon success.

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Before closing I want to mention to Fergie that Scott Kee gave me the rundown on your bam building working party. I understand you shanghaied some chiefs and other co-workers, and worked them by candlelight right up until you flew out to meet the MISSISSINEWA. Tsk, tsk . . . same old Fergie . . . a man after my own heart.

You all Beat Army now, y'hear?

76 Sec'y, Mr. Joe Buranosky 404 Gull Court North Palm Beach FL 33408 Percent Members: 58 I've received several letters the past few weeks; unfortunately, not all of the news has been good, Jim Pottle died on 25 July as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; our prayers are with him and his family. Jim had been assigned to USS STURGEON. I did receive a lot of good news though; we had several births and a couple of marriages in the Class. Terry Peranlch wrote from San Diego. Bob is a SWOS instructor at Coronado along with John Lovasz and Phil Poirier. Congratulations are in order for Bob and Terry whose first son, Michael Christopher, was bom on 5 August, and also for Phil Poirier and his wife who now have 3 sons! Bob and Terry saw Cal Felte during May. Cal is with VF-31 and wUl deploy aboard KENNEDY in January. Gene Gygax is with VF-31. Congratulations are in order for Gene who tied the knot in July. Jim Taplett is deployed aboard USS DAVID RAY, but is due to retum in November. Ed Riehl is an engineer for Exxon in Los Angeles.

I received a letter from Steve Nimitz who is now at the nuclear power training unit in Idaho Falls; he left USS TEXAS in May. Steve had some news to pass on about 3rd Company Classmates. Joe Sturm is mnning the commissary store in Newport, Rhode Island. Ron Wetmore is out of the Navy and working on the Space Shuttle project at Cape Canaveral for Martin Marietta Corporation. Bob Emmel is working for IBM in Manassas, Virginia. John Christman is stationed in Italy, and Dave Barclay is a Navy diver and is completing his qualifications for EOD. Steve asked me to send out an APB for Rob Blacky; no one has heard from him. Steve also extends a welcome to anyone passing through Idaho Falls.

Dave McDaniel wrote from Crystal City where he is working as a naval acquisition contracting officer at the Naval Sea Systems Command.

Congratulations go to Dave on two counts: he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal for service as the supply officer aboard USS

ond pair of wings—this time to be a pilot. I also talked to Blaine Pearsall; he and Deb are settled back at the Academy where Blaine is 30th Company officer. I received a note from Alex Cobble; he's doing well recmiting in San Diego. Lou Sposato wrote from Cleveland where he's hard at work in the recmiting business. Lou recently spoke to Craig Scott who is attending department head school in New London. Craig said that Mike Dailey is getting married in November—congratulations, Mike! Of course I can't fail to mention that Larry Muczynski was the pilot of one F-14 and Dave Venlet was the RIO of the other F-14 involved in shooting down the two Libyan aircraft that fired on them.

Just a few final notes from here at Quantico—Steve Barilich is still tearing up TBS as the combat engineering instmctor, and Tim Harris is a platoon commander in " F " company. Larry Piano is working mainside, and I've also heard that Phil Newman and George Rector are attending AWS. WUUam Brown is still XO of Development Center Company, but he'll be getting out on 1 November. As for myself, I'm leaving the Marine Corps in 3 weeks, getting married, and going to work for Michelin Tire Corporation in Anderson, South Carohna.

Everything is going well. I wish everyone continued success. Keep in touch.

77 Sec'y, Lt. Daniel F. Busch USN 14B Sellers Rd. Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 80

78 Corr. Sec'y. 1st Lt. Michael J. ConkUn USMC 120 Carohna Cir., JacksonviUe NC 28540 Percent Members: 94

Puerto Rico Beach Boys

FAIRFAX COUNTY, but more importantly, he was

married to the former Elizabeth Jean Chandler during June in Columbia, South Carolina.

I heard from Garry Wolfrum a few weeks ago.

Garry is the schedules officer for VP-56; he, wife Cathy, daughter Rebecca and son Timothy are living in Jacksonville. Congratulations to Garry and Cathy who are expecting their third child in February. Congratulations also go to Carol and Dale Meyer whose second son, Scott Andrew, was bom on 25 August. Carol sent the good news from Norfolk where they are currently living. Dale is an NTDS instructor at Dam Neck.

I had the good fortune to receive a call from Keith Champion. He and Karen are living in Pensacola, where Keith is working on his sec-

This month's Shipmate starts off with a letter from Harriet and Mike Gurny. Mike is stationed with VC-8 in Puerto Rico. Also pictured are Mike "Amma" Amicarella. John Newcomb and Shawn Tallant. Daryl Wood is also stationed in PR but obviously was not present at picture time. Mike says life is rough with all the beautiful areas for vacation. Sailing, snorkeling, scuba diving and swimming takes up most of their free time. Don't worry—Mike says he still finds time for an occasional COLD ONE. Mike and Nancy are the proud parents of Jamie. They also have added an English sheepdog, Hagger, to their family. Shawn and Joanne Tallant are the proud parents of Michael. ShawnfliesA-4s.

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John Newcomb is still planning on getting married to Kay Eubert in the near future. Daryl and Elsa Wood are the proud parents of Caria. Daryl works as the ordnance officer. Take care, Mike, and thanks for the info.

Art Athens wrote to say he is on his way to the Naval Postgraduate school. Misty and Art are the proud parents of Christina Ann, bora 5 August. Art is hoping to land an instructor billet at USNA after PG school.

Late Flash! Kathy and Don Beverlin are the proud parents of Jessica Cora, born 18 August 1981 in Yokosuka, Japan.

Congratulations to all who have had new additions, and welcome aboard to all the new members of our Class. If anyone has any ideas about what they would like to do for our reunion, let me know. It's not too early to get the ball rolling. My address will probably change as I go to sea in January. Until next month Linda, Shanna and 1 are doing fine, and BEAT ARMY!!!

79 Sec'y, Lt.Og) Peter A. Husta USN USS MT. BAKER (AE-34)

FPO Miami FL 34092 Percent Members: 87

80 Lt. and Mrs. John Paul Skogsberg John Skogsberg took the long walk down the aisle on 2 August 1980. John is pictured with his wife, the former Sally Boyer of Damascus. John and SaUy are now in Kingsville where John is a TA-4 instmctor along with Bob Fallon and Gary Simpson. Mike Galpin was the best man. and Jim Degree, Dan Cannan, John Sturges and Mike DeRusso were the swordbearers.

Doug Ray wrote from Bangor. Washington, where he is an instmctor for Combat Systems at the Trident training facility. Doug was stationed in SAM HOUSTON along with John Ehlers, Janet and Brad Wilson, and Renette and Dewain Forbis. Doug sent the foUowing info: Karen and Dave WiUiams are on their way back to USNA where Dave wUl be an instmctor in the weapons department. Debbie and Steve Petri are at MIT where Steve is working on his master's. Judy and Tom McLeod are in Hawaii. Tom is in PUFFER. Peggy and Steve Hopkins are in Hawaii where Steve is in TUNNY. EXTRA SPECIAL NOTE: Ken Harrisey wants all of his friends on the West Coast to know he is having fun flying 46s on the East Coast.

Pat and Dave Babcock Dave Babcock has finally settled down. He married the former Pat Sexton of Pensacola.

The wedding took place in Norfolk where Dave is flying H-2s with HSL-34. Dan Serfass was best man. Also in Norfolk flying H-2s are: Craig Diffie, Glen Ives, Dave Jenkins, Brian Hunter, and Matt Schellhom. If you look close enough I think you can see Brian Hunter in the background of Dave and Pat's picture.

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Sec'y, Ens. Woody Stanley USN 2208 Moccasin Trail BeloitWI 53511 Percent Members: 94

81 Sec'y Ens. Peter Sciabarra USN 2670 East 19th Street Brooklyn NY 11235 WeU here it is at deadline time again, and I am going to have to get by on a minimum amount of correspondence. The letters have not exactly been stuffing my mailbox this month.

The Summer is coming to a gmdging halt, and I cannot believe that this column written in the first week of September won't make it to print until the November issue.

I thought the flood of weddings had subsided for a while, but I was obviously wrong. In fact the only real news I received this month were some wedding announcements. Joining the ranks of the married were Anne Marie and Gary Scott, Nancy and Eugene Rex, Pamela and Mike Kronzer, Cynthia and Jimmy Rice, Robin and Pat Seidel, Sally and Greg Coons, Priscilla and Jeff Kaiser, Jennifer and Steve KiUion, Lois and Ryan SchuUz, Katrina and John Guida. Our sincerest congratulations go out to all of our newlyweds.

I received a letter from John Guida last week.

He seems to be having a good time and avoiding work while on TAD up in Bmnswick, Maine.

Also up in Brunswick with Guido are Giff Beaton, Tom Lansdale, Ed Gehrke, Tim Tocci, Joe Mucci, Don Seybold, and Shawn Bodkin. John also informed me that Rick Perez is attending SERE School in Bmnswick. It's good to hear that someone is in school.

Speaking of school, I knew that I couldn't stay away for long. I traveled to Annapolis last week end for Debbie and Dave CiccareUi's wedding. It was very strange to be back in AnnapoUs as a graduate, but I think I'm going to get to like it very quickly. I was really impressed by the number of our Classmates who made it to Cic's wedding. I saw Dave Kroupa, Mike Stankus, Ted Carter. Stu Bailey, John McCandUsh. Joe Quinn. John Butala. Joe Lynch, and Bob Filler.

Special mention must be made of John Mc-

Candlish, who has now flown back east from Los Angeles twice to attend weddings of Classmates. I'm sure that most of us have been amazed at the way in which Classmates have traveled huge distances to be present at weddings. I am sure that the presence of these friends have made many weddings so much more memorable.

Dennis Murphy gave me a call last week to fill me in on the West Coast crowd. Sounds like San Diego is the place to be; apparently there have been some wild parties going on. Some of the regular participants have been Dan Quattrini (of course), Ted Morse, Bob Schulze, Bud Womer, Pat O'Kane, Tom Carlson, Steve Richter, Mike Mahre, and Chuck French. Also spotted out West have been Eric Johnson and Jimmy Shannon, who made it to a party thrown

by Steve Kim. Also floating back from the West Coast is a story about an infamous SDB inspection held at SWOS in San Diego. Bud, you were supposed to leave those cut-off ties back at Annapolis for some youngster to use.

It was good to see some of the boys from the 14th Company at Donna and Pete Perri's wedding. John Geshay, Danny Harrington, and Barry Kenney all made it in for the wedding.

John Paul and his wife Mary-Ellen also came down from Newport. John and Mary-Ellen were bearers of good news, which I would like to pass on to all of our Classmates. They confirmed the mmor that Mary-Ellen is indeed pregnant.

Congratulations to both of you, and Good Luck!

Lastly, I cannot resist passing on my former roommate's hard-luck story. Sal Weaver was working at the Naval Weapons Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, for his TAD. However, at the end of July he was informed that the Navy needed his expertise for a field assignment.

Well, Sal ended up in Hawaii through October, while merrily collecting per diem. Sounds rough. Are there any of those good deals left?

Sal and Margie have announced their engagement, and the wedding date is set for 13 Febmary '82, somewhere in Maryland.

Well, that's about all the news there is to pass on for this month. I hope to see some of you at the Syracuse game (look me up in Section 104 Row 20). If any one is planning on attending the Army-Navy game, please drop me a note. So far I've heard from many of our Classmates who plan to be there to witness the continuing slaughter. Maybe we can get a party together to celebrate the victory. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and . . .

BEAT ARMY ! ! !

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Chapter News DEADLINE: For January-February—10 November; for March—4 January Many Alumni have expressed interest in joining local Chapters at regularly scheduled meetings m 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 Atlanta Monthly, dates and sites vary 404/231-2202 Boston 2nd Tues., noon Sites vary Charieston Naval Base Officers' Club Dates vary 803/572-2772 Chicago Varies, Sept.-May 312/642-9288 Connecticut Quarterly throughout state 203/449-3515 Houston Whitehall Hotel 1700 Smith Street 1 St Friday of month—noon HuntsviUe Monthly meetings at The Elegant Steak Room 205/881/4173 Indianapolis Heslar Naval Armory—quarterly

ANNAPOLIS LCol. Bob Spooner USMC Applied Science Dept.

U.S. Naval Academy AnnapoUs MD 21401 Over 100 Alumni, wives and friends attended the first luncheon of the new scholastic year at the Officers and Faculty Club of the Naval Academy on 9 September to hear Capt. Leon A. Edney USN '57 commandant of midshipmen, discuss his plans for the Brigade during 1981-82. Capt. Edney was introduced by Capt.

George Zeberiein SC USN '54, who further stated that the local Chapter had contributed $900.00 to the varsity golf team at the Academy this year, and then introduced the other officers for the coming year: Capt. John Wales, USN (Ret.) '51 vice president; LCol. Robert J. Spooner USMC '66, secretary; Lt. Fred Hahndorf SC USN '74, treasurer; LGen. H. W. Buse USMC (Ret.) '34, RAdm. R. S. Benson USN (Ret.) '29, RAdm. A. F. Richardson USN (Ret.) '31, Capt. R. L. Reasonover USN '54, Capt.

J. W. Blanchard USN (Ret.) '56, Cdr. P. E. Galanti USN '62, council members; and Capt.

S. E. Veazey USN '59, national trustee.

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Jacksonville 1st Thurs., Sept.-May 904/744-4830 Kittyhawk (Dayton, Ohio) Officers' Club, Wright-Patterson Monthly, dates vary Los Angeles Monthly, dates, sites vary 213/583-3468 LouisviUe 1st Fri., noon, Masterson's Restaurant

Puget Sound Sites vary 1st Wed., except July and Aug.—1830 Richmond 2nd Mon., Engineers Club Sacramento 1st Wed., 1200, Plaza, Holiday Inn San Diego 3rd Thurs, except June, August, December, Adm. Kidd Club San Francisco FAdm. Nimitz Club, Treasure Island 1st Wed., 1815 Santa Barbara Varies, Sept.-May 805/687-7278

Newport Officers' Club, Naval Base Last Tues., Sept.-June, 1830

Southeast Florida 11345 S. W. 108th Ct. Miami FL 33176 235-8087 and 238-3672 Dates and sites of meetings vary

New York Williams Club 24 E. 39th St., NYC

Tidewater Bimonthly Sept. thra May Various locations

Orlando NTC Officers' Club 2nd Fri., Sept.-June, noon

Texas Gulf Coast (See Houston) Upper Midwest Fort Snelling Officers' Club, 2nd Fri. of month, 1130 Washington Ft. Myer Officers' Club 3rd Wed., Sept.-May, noon Wisconsin University Club, Milwaukee 3rd Thurs., noon

Pensacola Monthly, dates and sites vary Peninsula Officers' Club, Moffett Field 1st Wed., noon Philadelphia Officers' Club, Naval Base 3rd Wed., noon Capt. Edney opened his discussion by stating that there were a thousand men befter qualified than he for his new post, but none of them were present; however, he welcomed counsel, advice and observation. He had spent the summer observing the Brigade in its training both at the Academy and at other sea and shore stations, and he was impressed by what he had seen. The First Class had done well in directing Plebe Summer, and it had been a good one. Now the First Class was to be called upon to lead the Brigade through the rest of the year—a test of leadership and a chance to practice this extremely important trait of military life. In addition, Capt. Edney outlined a number of other objectives that he would directly address during the year: 1) a reduction of abuses involving alcohol and other similar offenses. Although the number of such abuses are few, they must be dealt with fairiy and efficiently. 2) professionalism and greater distinction between first class and second and third class privileges. 3) improvement of Brigade spirit, especially at athletic events. 4) improvement of cleanliness in Bancroft Hall, a good deal of which has been recently renovated. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of space for the 4.600 members of the

Brigade at the present time, but double decker bunks will be used to accomodate the large number in the Brigade presently. 5) fostering of a positive attitude towards women midshipmen.

The women have done a good job and in general are working well. Alumni can help by taking a positive attitude. 6) close relations between company officers and midshipmen. 7) making certain that the service selection process meets the needs of the service, but on a voluntary basis. 8) zero toleration of unlawful use of drugs in any form by midshipmen.

Capt. Edney stated that good order and discipline were to be the order of the day, not as a game in Bancroft Hall but as a part of the life that must be led with pride and dignity by men and women in the service. Midshipmen must recognize that leadership is to be accepted willingly as part of the life they lead, and complying with regulations is a necessary adjunct to that life not only in the Academy but in the Fleet.

Capt. Zeberiein indicated that the next meeting would be on 14 October with a discussion on the modern fighting ship—the Battleship.

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Haraly "27, Ed Jackson '58, Biff Stiles '36, Frank Tatom "56, Bill Watts '38 and Nathan Porter.

The Huntsville Chapter of the USNAAA officers for 1981-1982 are: President—J.A. (Al) Capt. Walter Schirra USN (Ret.) '46, was the Morris '50, Vice President—Donald D. Blue speaker at a dinner held by the Colorado Chap)- '42, Secretary/Treasurer—Ed Jackson '58 ter at the Regency Hotel in Denver. July 10, Correspondence may be directed to Mr. Jack1981. Approximately 45 members and their son at: guests heard Capt. Schirra speak on "The U.S. P.O. Box 1242 SPACE SHUTTLE: First Flight. Projected. " Huntsville. AL 35807 President Lee Fryberger '54. presided and pre- (205) 582-4441 (Home) sented Capt. Schirra with a memento of the oc- (205) 882-2000 (Work) casion.

The Huntsville Chapter normally meets the The next ftinction of the Colorado Chapter second Thursday of each month at Noon for wiU be the fall pic'nic. Local members interested lunch at The Elegant Steak Room in Huntsville. in obtaining information on upcoming events We also have a dinner meeting twice a year and should contact Lee Fryberger at 795-6523; or a luncheon with area students from the AcadMaury Wemess at 779-9441. emy during their Christmas leave period.

Forthcoming events will be submitted as they occur.

LOS ANGELES

COLORADO

LCol. GUbert F. Rindahl USAF (Ret.) 2359 South Macon Street Denver CO 80232

FLORIDA SPACE COAST Mr. WUUam W. Welch 414 St. Lucia Ct. SateUite Beach FL 32937 The Florida Space Coast Chapter has monthly meetings except during the summer months. A joint .Army-Navy Bar-be-cue has been a June custom for several years. Alumni of the Naval Academy and West Point met June 6th at the Pauick AFB Yacht Club. Space Coast Chapter members and wives included: Jim BidweU. '39; Gene and Dottie Branson.

'46: Jim and Laurie Carrington. '53: Ray and TrishChamberlain. '47: Charles and Helen Earl.

"30; Chuck and Lurline Eisenbach. '36: Joe and Ginny Elmer. "47; Ray Harrell. "27: Jack and Marjorie Hart. "53: Russ and Sally Hart, "29; Jack and Betty Hinman. "40—(president); John and Brownie House. "25; Dave and PriscUla Loomis. "41: Jack and BiUie McCoUum. "40: Charles and Mary McGivem. "38: Tom and Gene Murphy. "39; Bob and Marilyn Streiter, "41: Emmett and Betty SulUvan. "27; Dick and Linda TiUman. "58: Ken and Kitty WaUace, "43; Muddy and Suze Waters. "32: Sam and Iris Watson. '43; and Bill Welch. "55—(vice president). Honorary members attending included PhyUis Smoot. Alice Vaughan. Lila Morgan, and Louise Gallery.

The places and times for the monthly meetings vary: however, guests are always welcome.

For information call 305/632-7698.

HUNTSVILLE Mr. J. AUen Morris 8018 Navios Dr. S.E. HuntsviUe AL 35802 The Naval Academy Alumni of Huntsville held their regular monthly meeting for September at The Elegant Steak Room. Plans for this year"s meetings were discussed. Several evening dinner meetings will be held in hopes of getting some alumni near the Huntsville area to attend. The annual Christmas holiday luncheon for Academy students is also planned in addition to regular monthly luncheons. Admiral Haraly gave his monthly report on happenings within the Navy from information and documents he receives.

Attendees were: Don Blue '42 (Huntsville Chapter Vice-President), Ed Donley "40, Harry

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Mr. Victor H. Prushan 291 Marcello Avenue Thousand Oaks CA 91320 Nineteen people attended the August Alumni Sailing Party organized by Hal Felix '39. Host was Bill McCaughey '43 aboard his 48-foot motor sailer out of Long Beach. After beer, soft drinks and light snacks were brought aboard.

Skipper McCaughey took the group for a motor tour of the shipyard alongside the yard's latest edition, the battleship NEW JERSEY, then through the Long Beach port area, under the Ford Bridge, into the Los Angeles port area including Todd Shipyards, then a short sail with Mike Clemens "43 at the wheel. Weather and winds were perfect. The festivities concluded (began?) with a happy hour at the Navy Marina on Terminal Island, then a chicken dinner with potato salad, cole slaw, rolls, pickles, beer, soft drinks, coffee and ripe watermelon to top it off.

Many thanks to the Long Beach Naval Station in extending so graciously the privilege of using the facilities. Attendees included Liz and Emie Schultz '52 and son Emie Junior. Blanche and Bill McCaughey '43. Catherine and Duff Slaymaker '43. Becky and Charlie Akers. '38. Hazel and Hal Felix '39. Barbara and Skip Appleton '40, Ginny and Mike Clemens '43. Bill Traynor '45, Dean Strong '53. Bob Cunningham and Frank Navratil '59.

We are pleased to announce the formation of a fourth luncheon group in the area. The Downtown Los Angeles Business Exchange Luncheon held its first meeting at the Stock Exchange Club on I September. Bob Rogers "54 told the group of plans to build a naval museum south of Albuquerque. New Mexico (in which actual compartments from various ships will be reconstmcted) and Pat Flynn "53 gave a short briefing on the Blue and Gold Program. Attendees: Arison "52. Batte "45. Cunningham "59. Gilliland "49, Dolan "60. Koch "57. Peterson "59. Roberts '59, Rogers '54. Suhr "49. Wagner '48 and Whistler '37. Much thanks are in order to Phil Suhr, Bob Rogers. Dick Pace and Pete Dolan for putting this together.

Meanwhile luncheons continue apace in North Orange County. South Orange County (Newport Beach), and the Westside. Visitors to the LA area are always welcome at any of these gatherings. Give us a call to find out if one is on for the time of your visit.

PHILADELPHIA Cdr. WUIiam H. Higgins USN (Ret.) 17 North Drive Road, #7 Vincetown NJ 08088 1130—3rd Wednesday O'Club, NavBase, Philadelphia There has not been much Philadelphia Chapter activity during the vacation months of July and August except for the regular luncheons, always attended by a few of the "old faithfuls."

We would like to see a few of the active duty Alumni, of whom there are so many on ships undergoing overhaul in the shipyard. And, as this news goes out in November, we should be in the midst of the big activities preceding and relating to the annual A-N game.

Two related events occurred in August that are well worthy of reporting: a) Capt. Carl Josephson USN '52, C of S to the former commandant and a chapter director, retired from active duty to take up residence in Charleston, South Carolina; and b) a change of command ceremony took place on 28 August when the former district commandant (and now commander. Naval Bases, Philadelphia, New York and Boston), RAdm. Carl Brettschneider USNR '51, retired and was relieved by RAdm. C A. E. Johnson Jr. USNR '53. Weather was perfect for the ceremony, conducted in front of the "old" Commandant's Headquarters Building. It was an inspiration for the large number of "retired" civilians and active duty to see so many officer and enlisted in today's Navy participating in the change of command with the Naval Academy Band, appropriate honors, dress uniforms, color guard, medals, gun salutes, etc. The area of responsibilities of the base commander is made up of a vast complex of approximately 330 diverse and one-of-a-kind naval activities throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, representing 36 percent of the population of the U.S.A. VAdm. James R. Sanderson USN, Deputy Commander in Chief, Atlantic and U.S. Atlantic Fleet, was guest speaker and played a major part in the ceremony. RAdm. and Mrs. Brettschneider are moving to Boston where we wish them "Happy Sailing," and a "Welcome Aboard" to RAdm. and Mrs. Johnson!

(Submitted by Jenks Jenkins '30.)

SACRAMENTO Capt. John C. BurriU (SC) USN (Ret.) 5840 Wymore Dr. Sacramento CA 95822 The regular monthly meeting was held at the Plaza Holiday Inn at 1200. All chapter officers were present: Pres. Barry Whittlesey '49, V-P Jack Everett '64, and Sec.-Treas. Doug Kinney '54.

A warm welcome was extended to new attendees Charles White '53 and his beautiful wife Betty, and Morris Lax '45.

Others at the meeting were Joe Drachnik '43, Harry Holton '38. Dennis Joyce '61, Mac McLeod '30, Tom Ross '57, MO Slater '42, and Dick Stockwell '46.

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One of our older(?) members made the local Senior Citizens News, photos and all, which were adequately reviewed and discussed. Either he fixes his hair, or Denny Joyce '61 is from a class eariier than he will admit.

Plans for the quarterly evening social and celebration of the Army-Navy game were discussed. President Whittlesey was directed to take charge and proceed.

An aesthetic offering was handed out to all present: a series of American-Haiku poems about "Officers USN." Comments, appreciative and irreverent, were traded about past "bull" classes. The group unanimously urged Shipmate to publish the memo and "Officers USN" poems.

(Submitted by Richard E. Stockwell '46.)

SAN DIEGO/CORONADO Capt. Frank N. Shamer, USN (Ret.) 7112 Lewison Drive San Diego, CA 92120 The San Diego/Coronado Chapter of the USNAAA met on 17 September, at the Admiral Kidd Club. The 92 members and guests present witnessed a clever presentation entitled "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" put on by the Autonetics Marine Systems Division of Rockwell Interaational. To accomplish the visual display, twelve carousel slide projectors under the control of a digital computer made timely contributions to the common screen while a magnetic tape provided comment and supporting sound. The total result was a beautifully intergrated presentation of historical moments in maritime history followed by emphasis on what modera high-load information techniques can contribute to modera naval warfare, information control and dissemination, and to the design of ships and of submarines. Mr. Floyd Fay, director of business development at Rockwell Interaational, supported the automated display by explanatory remarks stressing modera, high-load transmission techniques.

The senior class representative was Del Fahrney '20 and the junior class representative was Jerry Connolly '80. With eight attendees, '37 was the Class most heavily represented.

VAdm. James P. Stewart, Commander Coast Guard Pacific Area and 12th Coast Guard District, was guest speaker at the regular dinner meeting on 2 September at Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club on Treasure Island. Fifty-five Alumni guests were privileged to watch a public affairs video tape of a real sea-saga-drama—the grounding and eventual sinking of the ARGO MERCHANT in the Boston area in December of 1976. Since Admiral Stewart was at that time Commander of the 1st Coast Guard District in Boston, he was able to accompany the film with authoritative comments about a situation which had the potential for a major oil spill. Fortunately, there was no contamination and no measurable damage to fish life. According to Stewart, the incident, first of some 15 major accidents involving tankers, secured the attention from both executive and legislative branches of govemment, resulting in reinforcement of regulations conceming operation and inspection of vessels which come under Coast Guard jurisdiction. In Stewart's opinion, stupidity put the vessel aground, and he said that considering the fact that the situation involved #6 oil which has the consistency of asphalt, the incident could not have been handled any differently or any better, regardless of how much money or preparation were expended.

President Charlie Cole '53 announced that Bill Stock '23 was senior member present and Jim Rickoff '71 was junior. Classes of '38 and '65 tied for attendance honors. According to program chairman, Ed Cummings '48, the speaker for the 2 December meeting will be Mike Robbins '48, founder and owner of the Mountain Springs Winery in California's Napa Valley. As usual, reservations should be made by telephoning the Officers' Club on Treasure Island at 982-5721.

SOUTHEAST FLORIDA Cdr. Elmer C. PoweU USN (Ret.) 11345 SW 108th Ct. Miami FL 33176

In its gathering at West Palm Beach, the Southeast Florida Chapter had a good turnout of old friends from Fort Pierce to Miami. Turning out for feUowship and frolicking were: (with wives) George Bole '54, Andy Offutt '26, FreSAN FRANCISCO mont Eggers '25, Jay Land '42, Ken Knowles Capt. LoweU F. Jett USNR (Ret.) '27, Robert Gibbs '25, Irv Superfine '38, John 325 Fremont St. Wulff '31, Butch Parker '25, A. C Smith '34, San Francisco, CA 94105 John Dimon '27, Al Sinick '49, Yen Coney '19, 415/421-8355 WUUam Dolan '26, Al Trottier '49, John Foster '26, Ben Field '26, Hal Gehman '38, Pat ConFollowing a mid-summer board meeting.

President Charlie Cole '53 announced that dues nors '55, Frank GUI '31, John T. Kent '28, Arfor the coming year have been reduced to thur Graubart '25, By Loomis '25, Chet Smith '39, Dave Hull '29, Al Fay '28, Dick Poor '33, $10.00, and may be sent to the chapter secretary, Lowell F. Jett, Capt. USNR (Ret.) at 325 Peyton Magmder '34, Vince Gallagher '22, Flip Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, Crist '20, Stan Nichols '26, Walter Foss "25, the along with any biographical or business notes Parks, and Turk Powell "27, plus many guests and Billie Wev and Bright Wilson. that should be included in the records.

Charlie also announced that Robert Hayden, In a second roundup at the Lighthouse Point director of economic development for the San , Yacht and Tennis Club, much of the same group Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and a mem- from Miami were in attendance, with Turk Powber of the San Francisco Mayor's ship repair ell bringing six guests. Also on board (most with task force will be the speaker for the regular wives) were John Millett '36, Lou Kirn '32, October meeting, on Wednesday, the 7th, at Ralph Gerber '40, Flip Crist '20, Otto Scherini Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club on Treasure Island. '32, C G. Smith '20, Warren McKenney '32, Speaker for the November 4 meeting will be Ted G. Nanz '65, Lem Stevens '33, Stan NiRAdm. John Joseph Ekelund '49, superintend- chols '26, Dave HuU '25, Keith Hudson '33, ent of the Naval Postgraduate School in Mon- Byron Loomis '25, Edgar McClung '34, Julian Humiston '32, Charles Stephan '34, Frank GiU terey, Califoraia.

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'33, Ed Fahy '34, Sam Frock '47, Walter Coleman '32, John Barron '40, John Crumpacker "'31, and Mrs. C S. McKinney.

All were invited to the Navy Ball to be held on 31 October 1981 at the Dupont Plaza Hotel.

This is an annual affair held by the Naval Reserve and the Navy League, with many dignitaries attending.

The Chapter forwarded a contribution to the Naval Academy Alumni Association in the name of Cdr. George A. MulhoUand USNR '27, recently deceased.

TIDEWATER Capt. Donald R. Jex USN (Ret.) 977 Donation Drive Virginia Beach VA 23455 The Tidewater Chapter met on September 22 to kick off the 1981-82 year. The first order of business was the installation of the newly elected officers. Adm. Roy Johnson '29 administered the oath of office to the following: president, Frank Kay, Cdr. USN (Ret.) '60; 1st vicepresident. Bill Flanagan, RAdm. USN (Ret.) '44; 2nd vice-president. Bill Hardcastle, Capt.

USN (Ret.) '43; treasurer, Don J. Roulstone, Capt. USN (Ret.) '46; secretary. Doc Jex, Capt.

USN (Ret.) '47; chaplain, Gerald H. Sargent, Capt. CHC USN (Ret.) associate member; legal, Jerry Kerr USNR '66.

Adm. Roy Johnson charged the new slate of officers in the performance of their duties for the forthcoming year. The election followed a dinner attended by nearly one hundred members and wives. RAdm. Clinton W. Taylor, USN, addressed those in attendance.

RAdm. Clinton Taylor, COMTRALANT, delivered a very interesting talk on "Where the Navy is Today." He spoke of new discipline and the weeding out of unsatisfactory performers in the Navy. Seventy-six Alumni and wives attended and were indeed rewarded with timely Navy news.

Plans for the year include an Army-Navy game TV party, a 40th Remembrance of Pearl Harbor, a dinner meeting in January, the annual gala Spring Dinner Dance, and the Chapter's annual dinner to honor newly selected midshipmen from the Tidewater area. The Annual RAdm. Dempsey Golf Toumament will be held in June.

All Alumni temporarily in the area are invited to participate. Contact the Chapter Secretary for any further information.

The proposed schedule for the coming year is: Nov. 28—Army-Navy game social, Dec. 7—40th Remembrance of Pearl Harbor, Jan.—Date and speaker not as yet firm, MarchApril—Dinner-dance, May—Father-son dinner for candidates who have been accepted for the Class of 1986, June—Alumni Masters Golf Tournament.

Frank Kay '60, the newly elected president, wishes to extend a cordial invitation to all Alumni in the area, whether transient or relatively permanent, to call on him for any information or services that may be needed. His business phone is 583-4271 and home phone 4864020. We welcome all Alumni to our get-togethers. You may also call upon your correspondent for information.

Shipmate, November 1981

UPPER MIDWEST LCdr. Jim Conn, USNR 10670 Lancaster Lane Maple Grove MN 55369 612/425-7656 The kick-off meeting of the season for the Upper Midwest Chapter was called to order by newly elected president Bob Litke '48. Bob introduced the other officers for the year, vice president/program head—Paul Stiller '58, and secretary/treasurer—Jim Conn '67. Paul Stiller took a few minutes to go over the plans for the programs this year. They include events such as our very successful Midshipmen luncheon in January and of course the BEAT ARMY party to be hosted once again by our friends from the Hudson River Sports and Health Club, the result of our annual bet.

Our speaker for this meeting was one of our illustrious members. Ray Calhoun '38. Ray is the author of Typhoon; the Other Enemy, a new release by the Naval Institute Press. He commanded DEWEY in December 1944. During this tour the Third Fleet sailed into a typhoon east of the PhiUppines, suffering loss of three ships, many aircraft, and men, and tremendous damage. Ray described for us the circumstances on board DEWEY and within the fleet. In his brief talk he sketched a frightening picture for us.

The book sounds like must reading for anyone with any interest in the sea, ships. World War II, or military history in general.

The turnout for the first meeting was good.

We have once again decided to use the mailout format for meetings so anyone in the area who did not get a notice and would like to be on the mailing list should contact Jim Conn to give him an up-to-date address. Attendees at the September meeting included Al Harmon "24, Jim Meola "31, Grover Higginbotham '35, Ray Calhoun '38, Gene Krebsbach "41, Herb Weyrauch "41, Roger Edson "49, Bob Litke "48, Gene Wrobel '56, Paul Stiller '58, Bob Sauer '58, Jim Littlefield '60, Dennis Taff '60, Miller Detrick '63, Dennis Doherty '63, Robert Tanis '63, Jack Hastreiter '66 and his wife Didi, Jim Conn '67, Duane GUsan '68, Rod Garfield '70, and Lonnie Ontine '71. There were also several guests in attendance.

As usual, Al Harmon '24, blessed us with his buy/sell advice on stocks. Al soon will join Tom Buell and Ray Calhoun as published authors in our midst with a book entitled The Answers to Wall Street's Trade Secrets. It should be a great help to investors.

We are offering a new service to Alumni who are coming into the area in the form of a goodold-boy network for assistance in finding employment. If we can be of help to any Alumni in the area or coming into the area, let us know.

The Upper Midwest Chapter extends a welcome to any Alumni visiting in the area and any newcomers in the Minneapolis vicinity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Cdr. R. S. Day USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 2057 Falls Church VA 22042 The Washington Alumni Association kicked off Bob Townsend's ("34) year as president with a large turnout at Ft. Myer on 16 September.

VAdm. W. N. SmaU USN "48, VCNO, was the guest speaker and set the framework in place for our examination of the Navy"s future during the coming year. Because of scheduling conflicts, VAdm. W. P. Mack USN (Ret.) '37, Alumni Association President, was introduced before a Friday luncheon meeting on October 16th; while George Will, columnist and TV panelist, appeared at our Thursday luncheon on November 19th. Fortunately, this dismption in our plans has been straightened out and the meetings appear to be back on schedule for December through May—the third Wednesday.

With a Uttle luck, we hope to convince the Ft. Myer staff that we really expect to meet on the third Wednesday from September to May each year. The combination of excellent programs and the accessibiUty of the Ft. Myer Club have kept attendance levels at about 150 and provide a great base on which to grow. For the first time a directory has been published for the Association and we have a number of other projects in hand for the benefit of our members.

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

BARBOT, LEON JOSEPH '27 (CAPT USN RET), 9 September 1981, (Oceanside CA) BASKIN, ARTHUR CRAWFORD WALKER '27 (LCDR USN RET), 30 August 1981, Spartanburg SC BRYSON, WILLIAM CAMPBELL '27 (RADM USN RET), 13 September 1981, FayatteviUe AR CLARK, ALEXANDER HUGH JR '41 (CDR USN RET), 20 October 1979, MUwaukee WI DELL, THOMAS MEDAIRY JR '21 (CAPT USN RET), 28 September I98I, Philadelphia PA DIMmUJEVIC, WILLIAM JOSEPH '32 (CAPT USN RET), 23 September 1981, AnnapoUs MD FOSTER, EDWARD LEE '31 (CAPT USN RET), 10 September 1981, Camp Pendleton CA GARRETT, WALLACE HENRY JR '42 (CAPT USN RET), 19 September 1981, Ariington VA GRILL, ROBERT JAMES '56, 2 July 1981, (Newport Beach CA) HOUSER, HAROLD ALEXANDER '21 (RADM USN RET), 3 September 1981, Chevy Chase MD LESTER, GRAHAM WALLACE '18 (COL USA RET), 21 September 1981, Monterey CA LOWRY, GEORGE MAUS '11 (RADM USNR RET), 25 September 1981, (Carmel CA) Shipmate, November 1981

MELSON, CHARLES LEROY '27 (VADM USN RET), 14 August 1981, Ft. Lauderdale FL MITCHELL, PAUL NELSON '46, 7 July 1981, Carmichael CA NELSON, PAUL LAVmENCE '65 (CDR USN), 13 September 1981, at sea; helo crash USS FORRESTAL

NELSON, RALPH MCKINLEY '15, I August 1981, Daytona Beach FL REEDER, WILLIAM CAMPBELL '47, 9 August 1981, (Beveriy HiUs CA) RIORDAN, STEPHEN JOSEPH JR '42 (CDR USN RET), 14 September 1981, Bethesda MD SMITH, KENNETH M. '43 (ENS USN RET), 14 July 1981, Stockton CA SMITH, WINDSOR ROBERTS JR. '51, 31 March 1981, Midland TX SMYTHE, LAWRENCE WILLIAM '32 (CAPT USN RET), 31 August 1981, Portsmouth VA SOUTH, JERRY CURTIS '31 (RADM USN RET), 24 September 1981, Virginia Beach VA SPILLER, OLIVER LOVING '09 (BGEN USA RET), 29 September 1981, Santa Barbara CA STIVERS, JOSEPH WILEY '34 (LCDR USNR RET), 14 July 1981, St. Louis MO SYKES, JAMES BENNETT '19 (RADM USN RET), 9 October 1981, WUUs TX TAYLOR, JOHN HENRY '12, 2 June 1981, (Kansas City MO)

TRUNDY, DAVID RICHARD '78 (LT USMC), 18 September 1981, Cherry Point, NC; air crash WALKER, CALVIN ALEXANDER JR '29 (LCDR USN RET), 2 October 1981, Asheville NC WELKER, GEORGE WASHINGTON JR '23 (RADM USN RET), 20 August 1981, Winter Park FL WESSEL, KENNETH JAMES '72 (LCDR USN), 28 September 1981, at sea; helo crash USS INCHON

WHITTLE, WILLIAM BROOKS '50 (CDR USNRR), August 1981, Columbus GA WOLOWSKY, JOSEPH EDWARD '24 (CAPT SC USN RET), 12 July 1981, Clearwater FL WOODWARD, EDWIN CHARLES '32 (CDR USN RET), 6 June 1981, Harrietstown NY ( ) around place of death indicates hometown at time of death when specific location is unknown.

It is regretted that the picture of VAdm. William Virginius Davis Jr. '24 in the "Last CaU" section of the October Shipmate was misidentified, and the caption for William Stanton Hitchins '39 was omitted.

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MAXWELL COLE '16 Cdr. Maxwell Cole USN (Ret.) died on 2 August 1981 in Danvers, Massachusetts. Memorial services were held on 5 August in St. John's Episcopal Church with interment in Raymond HiU Cemetery, Carmel, New York.

Bora in Washington (DC), he was graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1916 and served at sea during World War I. He was transferred to the retired Ust in 1923, but recalled to active duty prior to Worid War II and served an additional five years. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal while on active duty.

In civilian life, he lived in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and was employed by the Philadelphia Electric Company until taking a second retirement in 1956, whereupon he moved to Kensington, New Hampshire. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Lucia, South Road, Kensington NH 03827; and two daughters. His first wife, Evelyn, died in 1971. The family has requested that memorial contributions be made to the Naval Academy Alumni Association, Annapolis MD 21402.

HAROLD ALEXANDER HOUSER '21 RAdm. Harold Alexander Houser USN (Ret.) died on 3 September 1981 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Memorial services were held at the Naval Academy Chapel on 10 September, followed by interment in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Georgia, he was graduated with the Class of 1921 and ordered to sea in MISSISSIPPI, later serving in NEW MEXICO before being assigned duty in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1928 he returned to the United States where he was assigned to the office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Navy, and whUe on this duty he took a bachelor of law degree from George Washington University. He retumed to sea in 1931 as aide and flag secretary on the staff of Commander Special Service Squadron, then received orders as executive officer of STURTEVANT, followed by a second tour with the Judge Advocate General.

In 1937 he joined OMAHA as gunnery officer followed by duty with JAG once again, then returned to sea in command of WHITNEY before taking command of ARGONNE. His next assignment was with ComServRon TEN in the Pacific, for which duty he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for achievement in operations against enemy Japanese forces.

Following the war he was govemor of American Samoa, commanding officer of the naval station there, and a U.S. delegate to the sixpower South Seas Conference to Australia which formed the territory's island govemment.

After a tour as commanding officer of the naval base. Key West, Florida, he returned to duty in Washington in the office of the Judge Advocate General, also serving as naval liaison officer to the Armed Services Committee of the Senate. He later was director of the office of legislative liaison for the Secretary of Defense, then had duty as president of the Board of Review, Discharges and Dismissals in the Department of the Navy. He was transferred to the retired list in 1955, and thereupon became legislative officer for the Retired Officers Association until 1964. He was a member of the ArmyNavy Club and the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Vera, 9600 Kensington Pkwy., Rock Creek HUls, Kensington 100

MD 20795; a daughter and two sons; three sisters; and nine grandchildren. The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the Naval Academy Athletic Association.

FULWAR SKIPWITH HALSELL '22 Cdr. Fulwar Skipwith Halsell USN (Ret.) died on I August 1981 in South Bend, Indiana.

After cremation, interment took place in the family plot of Graceland Cemetery, Elkhart.

A native of Mississippi, he enlisted in the Navy during Worid War 1 and later received his appointment to the Naval Academy from the Fleet. Upon graduation with the Class of 1922 he returned to sea, but his naval career was terminated some time later because of physical disability. After being transferred to the retired Ust in 1929 he became a sales engineer for the Menge Pump and Machinery Co. of New Orleans, but was recalled to active duty during World War II, terminating this period as executive officer of the receiving station in Long Beach, Califoraia. He then became a heating and ventilating contractor in Lomita, Califomia, but later moved to Edwardsburg, Michigan, where he was a breeder of shepherd dogs for handling livestock. He also founded the Elkhart County Humane Society's dog training classes and was the 4-H leader for the Cass County, Michigan, 4-H Dog Club. He was a member of the American Legion, the VFW, and the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow EUzabeth, P.O. Box 123, Edwardsburg MI 49112; a daughter; a sister; and two grandchildren.

ARCHIBALD EMIL UEHLINGER '22 RAdm. Archibald EmU Uehlinger USN (Ret.) died on 10 July 1981 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After cremation, interment took place in the Sunset Cemetery, Albuquerque. His wife Maran had died just three days eariier.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Montana, he was graduated with the Class of 1922 and joined CHAUMONT for passage to the Pacific Fleet Headquarters, later being ordered to the destroyers FARRAGUT and ZELLIN, then taking a course in ordnance engineering at the postgraduate school in Annapolis. His next sea duty was in OKLAHOMA in 1931, followed by a tour of duty at the Bureau of Ordnance. In 1936 he helped fit out the destroyer GUSHING, then served as her executive officer for a year before being assigned to MEDUSA, a repair ship of the Train, Base Force.

At the outbreak of World War II he was stationed in Washington at BuOrd, but was detailed to fitting out and commission of the battleship SOUTH DAKOTA, first as gunnery officer and then as executive officer. He was awarded the Silver Star Medal for service on board during action against the Japanese off Savo Island (Solomon Islands) in November 1942 when the commanding officer, the late (then) Capt.

Thomas L. Gatch USN '12, was wounded and Cdr. Uehlinger took command.

Later he directed the fitting out and then took command of the transport GEORGE O . SQUIER,

serving in the South Pacific before becoming ordnance planning officer at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, for which duty he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal. This was followed by assignment as officer in charge of the Bureau of Ordnance Instrumentation Group in the Crossroads Operation at Bikini Island.

After service as commanding officer of AMSTERDAM, he returned to the Bureau of Ordnance, receiving a second Navy Commendation

Archibald Emil Uehlinger Medal during this assignment, then became officer in charge of the naval unit at the White Sands Proving Ground at Las Graces, New Mexico, where Viking rockets were built and launched under a long range development project of the Naval Research Laboratory. He later served as commanding officer of the Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility at White Sands, from which assignment he was transferred to the retired list in 1952.

He later was manager of the Sandia Field Office of the Atomic Energy Commission, taking final retirement in 1958. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by a son, John, 501 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria VA 22304; and two grandchildren.

RICHARD ENGLISH ELLIOTT '25 Capt. Richard English Elliott USN (Ret.) died on 1 September 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia. Memorial services were held at the Ft. Myer Chapel on 4 September with interment in Ariington National Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1925 and ordered to sea in ARIZONA. Later shipboard duty was in WEST VIRGINIA and RICHMOND, then postgraduate school and staff duty before taking command of the destroyer PERRY. During World War II he was navigator of the cmiser DETROIT and was senior officer on board when the Japanese attacked the ship on 7 December 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, no damage was done, and the ship sailed to search for the Japanese fleet. After nearly two years service on board, (then) Cdr. EUiott was ordered to the European Theater where he spent twenty more months in England and France, taking part in the Invasion of Normandy. He later was district communication officer of the Twelfth Naval District, had command of ELDORADO, and then had command of the communication station in Annapolis. While on active duty, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, and he was transferred to the retired list in 1955.

After retirement he lived for a time in Georgia, then moved to the Washington area, but upon the death of his wife settled in RosweU, Georgia, to live with his son.

He is survived by his son, Richard E. Jr., Roswell GA 30075; a daughter; two sisters; and five grandchildren.

WILLIAM CHRISTIAN ASSERSON Jr. '26 Capt. William Christian Asserson Jr. died on 22 July 1981 in San Diego, Califomia. Cremation was planned after services at the Greenwood Memorial Chapel.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Indiana, he was the descendant of a long Une of naval officers, having been bora on Shipmate, November 1981

board the frigate WABASH in Boston Harbor when she was serving as a receiving ship under the command of his grandfather, RAdm. George W. Pigman USN, Class of 1865. His father was the late Capt. William C Asserson USN '97.

After graduation with the Class of 1926 he served on board several ships and as commanding officer in various stations, including duty with the Bureau of Aeronautics, command of the seaplane tender PINE ISLAND, the naval air station at Sangley Field, The Philippines, the air stations of the 12th Naval District, the naval air reserve training unit in Miami, and as professor of naval science at Tufts University.

Other duty stations that he had held included MISSISSIPPI and LITCHFIELD prior to being or-

dered to flight training, then service with the air detachment on board CALIFORNIA and assignment to a PBY squadron in Coco Solo, Panama, and a PBM squadron in Banana River, Florida.

He also had duty with the training command at Pensacola and was executive officer of PRINCE WILLIAM. He was transferred to the retired list in 1957.

In civilian life he was a real-estate representative for some time. He was a member of the Retired Officers Association, The Military Order of the World Wars, and the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Marusia, 10502 Anaheim Drive, La Mesa CA 92041; two sons; a sister and two brothers; and three grandchildren and a great-grandson.

LEON JOSEPH BARBOT '27 Capt. Leon Joseph Barbot USN (Ret.) died on 9 September 1981 and was buried with military ceremonies in Oceanside, Califoraia on 11 September 1981.

He was appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Califoraia and was graduated with the Class of 1927. His first duty station following graduation was the battleship TEXAS. Subsequent sea duty tours were in cmisers and destroyers, with shore duty at the Naval Postgraduate School, Annapolis, and Hydrographic School, Washington (DC). Worid War II intermpted duty at the University of Califomia, Berkeley and during most of WW II he served in cmisers in the Pacific. Later tours include duty at the Sasebo, Japan. Naval Station; as Commanding Officer, USS HECTOR; and at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard.

Captain Barbot retired in 1957 and settled in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. He hved there untU he moved to Oceanside in 1974.

He is survived by his widow Elaine, who continues to live in Oceanside, Califomia.

CHARLES LEROY MELSON '27 VAdm. Charies Leroy Melson USN (Ret.) died on 14 September 1981 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Memorial services were held at the Naval Academy Chapel on 18 September with interment in the Academy Cemetery. The eulogy at the service was given by RAdm. Ralph K. James USN (Ret.) '28.

Admiral Melson was Superintendent of the Naval Academy from June 1958 to I960. He was also a past president of the Naval War College, Newport. Bom in Richmond, Virginia, he attended the University of Richmond for one year before his appointment to the Naval Academy.

Following graduation from the Academy in 1927, he served on ships including TRENTON, PENGUIN, NAPA, MCCORMICK, DUPONT, PITTSBURGH, DICKERSON, NORTHAMPTON, PENNSYL-

VANIA, and PATTERSON. He served with the Of-

fice of the Chief of Naval Operations at the Shipmate, November 1981

Charles Leroy Melson outbreak of World War II. He assumed command of CHAMPLIN in September 1942 followed by command of Destroyer Division 32. Following the war, the admiral served with the U.S. Atlantic Reserve Fleet, was a student at the Naval War College, and commanded Destroyer Squadron 20. During the Korean Conflict, he commanded the battleship NEW JERSEY. He subsequently served as the chief of staff, Severn River Naval Command. His assignments as flag officer included deputy chief of staff of the Atlantic Fleet, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, commander of the Taiwan Defense Command, and president of the Naval War College.

While Superintendent of the Naval Academy, VAdm. Melson instituted many academic and facility changes which became the forerunners of the modern academy. He retired from service January 25, 1966, working with the Central Intelligence Agency for one year.

Among the Admiral's decorations were the Distinguished Service Cross, Legion of Merit with Combat V and two gold stars. Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal with Combat V, Joint Service Commendation Medal, and Navy Commendation Medal with four stars and Combat V. Admiral Melson is survived by his daughter Mrs. Nancy Lee McHugh of Philadelphia, and two stepsons, Arthur H. Cummings of Washington (DC), and John A. Cummings of Naples, Florida, and nine grandchildren. His wife, Vedah Melson, passed away last December.

ELIOT OLSEN '27 RAdm. Eliot Olsen USN (Ret.) died on 14 May 1981 at the Pease Air Force Base, Maine.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Massachusetts, he was a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy when he received his appointment. After graduation with the Class of 1927, he proceeded to sea in WEST VIRGINIA, for two years, whereupon he requested submarine training and served most of his thirty-year career in this branch. After instruction at New London he joined V-2, V-3 and V-4 before being ordered to postgraduate school in Annapolis. Further submarine service followed in S-39 and S-40, then duty at the Navy Yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before putting into commission and taking command of GRAYLING. The ship had the honor of being chosen for the Pacific Fleet change of command ceremony on 31 December 1941 when the late Adm. C W. Nimitz USN '05 hoisted his flag aboard GRAYLING as Commander Pacific Fleet and began the Navy's long fighting road back in the Pacific.

After duty with the Joint Tactical School in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, (then) Cdr. Olsen took command of the submarine BLACKFISH before being assigned duty as engineering officer for SubRon SIXTEEN in the Southwest

Pacificâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and later assuming command of Submarine Divisions 111 and 112. He later was commanding officer of the hospital ship SAMARITAN, then had command of the submarine base at Peari Harbor.

After study at the Naval War College, he was ordered to Turkey to direct training of submarine personnel, then had command of the naval base at Portsmouth before being transferred to the retired list in 1957. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V, and Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V while on active duty. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Alice, Box 7, York Harbor ME 03911; a son, Dwight Olsen of San Francisco; and three grandchildren.

HAROLD HUGH YOKES '30 Capt. Harold Hugh Yokes USNR (Ret.) died in Oriando, Florida, on 25 August 1981. The Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home was in charge of interment services.

Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1930. He resigned prior to graduation but subsequently served as a colonel with the U.S. Air Force. He later took a commission in the naval reserve and was transferred to the retired list in 1965. In 1970 he moved from the Washington area to Florida where he was a member of the Retired Officers Association, the Disabled American Veterans, and a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Thelma, and a daughter.

JERRY CURTIS SOUTH '31 RAdm. Jerry Curtis South USN (Ret.) died on 24 September 1981 at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Funeral services attended by family, friends, and Naval Academy Classmates were held in Eastern Shore Chapel Episcopal Church foUowed by interment in Eastern Shore Chapel Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Arkansas, he was graduated with the Class of 1931, and on commissioning was ordered to the battleship PENNSYLVANIA. His next duty was in the destroyer TREVER, following which he attended postgraduate school in Annapolis and then served in the hydrographic survery ship BOWDITCH. During World War II he commanded two destroyers, taking part in the landing at Casablanca and the Normandy Invasion, and earning two Bronze Stars with Combat V. Post-war duty included service on the Armed Forces Staff College faculty and duty as an instructor at the Turkish National War College, after which he served on the Staff of Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic. Subsequently he commanded USS ADIRONDACK and Destroyer Squadron Nineteen, and then became Chief of Staff, Commander Anti-Submarine Force Atlantic. His last active duty was in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as a member of the Ships' Characteristics Board. He was transferred to the retired list in 1958, and he was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He was the husband of the late Margaret Carroll McRoberts South. Survivors include a son, Jerry Curtis South Jr.. and a daughter, Mrs. Raymonde South Dowty of Beaufort, North Carolina; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Margaret McRoberts of Glenallen, Alaska, and Mrs. Carroll McRobert Gilges of Atlanta; and ten grandchildren.

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JOSEPH IGNATIUS MANNING '33 RAdm. Joseph Ignatius Manning USN (Ret.) died on 22 July 1981 in Oceanside, Califomia.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Massachusetts, he was graduated with the Class of 1933 and ordered to sea in the destroyer McDouGAL, followed by service in BOGGS, STEVENSON, ELLIOT, and HOBSON, re-

ceiving the Navy Cross as commanding officer of the latter when she was hit by kamikaze planes while on the radar picket line off Okinawa. He also had command of JOHN R. CRAIG, and had duty in CINCINNATI, on the staff of Cin-CUS, and in OMAHA. Ashore, he was assigned to the NROTC unU at Yale University and taught in the English, History and Govemment department at the Academy. He also received the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V and the Order of King George I of Greece while on active duty.

He is survived by his widow Catherine, Oceanside CA 92054; and a daughter.

JOSEPH WILEY STIVERS '43 LCdr. Joseph Wiley Stivers USNR (Ret.) died on 14 July 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Memorial services were held at the Gish-Bowles & Coder Funeral Home in Piedmaont, Missouri.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Missouri, he had attended the University of Missouri prior to reporting to the Academy. After graduation with the Class of 1934, he reported for sea duty, then resigned his commission in 1939 and was appointed postmaster of the town of Piedmont. He was recalled to active duty during World War II, serving for four years, part of the time as commanding officer of a patrol craft. Upon his retum to civilian life he operated the Stivers Motor Co. as a Ford dealer and the Stivers Oil Co. for the Phillips 66 Corporation. He was also president of the Piedmont Chamber of Commerce and the Clearwater Lake Association, and he was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Mary Beth, PO Box 155, Piedmont MO 63957; two sons and a stepson; and two sisters.

STEPHEN JOSEPH RIORDAN Jr. '42 Cdr. Stephen Joseph Riordan Jr. USN (Ret.) died on 14 September 1981 in Bethesda, MaryInterment took place in Arlington National Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Oregon, he was graduated with the Class of 1942 on 19 December 1941 and ordered to sea in NORTHAMPTON. When the ship was sunk off Guadalcanal, he was wounded, but retumed to sea after fitting out and commissioning OAKLAND as firecontrol officer. He later served in BON HOMME RICHARD, then took flight training and after having been designated naval aviator served in hurricane reconnaissance in VP23.

After duty in Washington with the Office of naval research he attended the Naval War College, then was on the staff of ComCarDiv FIVE. He later was commanding officer of AEWRONFIFTEEN, then attended George Washington University to earn a master's degree in business administration.

Other duty was with the Comptroller of the Navy, then a return to sea as navigator of TiCONDEROGA before his final assignment in Washington as resources officer, surface missile systems and transfer to the retired list in 1962. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal whUe on active duty.

In civilian life, Cdr. Riordan worked as a defense contractor in Nashua, New Hampshire, for two years, then returaed to Washington and joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, working on the Apollo space program. He later transferred to the Department of the Navy and remained there until his retirement in 1980.

He was a volunteer at the Air and Space Museum in Washington and a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow, the former Margaret Mary Byrae, 10944 Wickshire Drive, Rockville MD 20852; three sons; and three sisters.

DONALD FRANCIS ADAMS '47 Lt. Donald Francis Adams USNR (Ret.) died on 15 August 1981 in Glendora, Califoraia, at the Foothill Presbyterian Hospital which he helped establish. Memorial services were held on 19 August at the Glenkirk Presbyterian Church, Glendora.

Bora in Elmira, New York, he attended CorneU University for one year prior to entering the Naval Academy. After graduation on 5 June 1946 with the Class of 1947, he served as engineering officer in USS FURSE (DDR-882) and USS DiACHENKO (APD-123) untU June 1949, when he resigned his commission to pursue a

master's degree at Harvard School, UCLA. He was recalled to active duty in 1950 to serve as engineer in USS HARRY E . HUBBARD (DD-748),

receiving a special commendation for this tour during the Korean conflict, then returned to the Harvard School.

In 1953 he joined the Don Baxter Corp. of Glendale, rising through various posts to plant manager of the Baxter Pharmaseal division in 1964. He later became general manager of Missimers. Inc., in Glendale, then shifted to become general manager of the Sentinel Container Corp. He received an industrial relations certificate from UCLA in 1968 and became a professional engineer in the State of California in 1970. During this period he received two patents on inventions in the health field.

Recognition was given his contribution to community activities in 1979 when he was named Glendora Citizen of the year for involvement in youth, service club, and health-related groups. He was director/past president of the Glendora Rotary Club; treasurer/director. After Stroke ResociaUzation; past director, Glendora Chamber of Commerce; director. Foothill Presbyterian Hospital; and elder, Glendora Presbyterian Church. He was also a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association; Merchants and Manufacturers Association; Citizens Advisory Committee, Glendora Unified School District; Legislative Review Committee and Liaison Committee of the Hospital CouncU of Southera Califoraia/Los Angeles County Medical Association.

He is survived by his widow Jo Ann, 228 Catherine Park Drive. Glendora CA 91740; two sons and a daughter; two brothers and two sisters; and one granddaughter.

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