1990-September Shipmate

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Shipmate ISSN 0488-6720 (USPS 494-440)

September, 1990

Volume 53, No. 7

Executive Director W. S. BUSIK '43 Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)

FEATURES Executive Secretary BARRIE ISLEV-PETERSEN

Treasurer, Director Alumni Services DANIEL M. TRUAX, '59 Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)

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

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Campaign Comer Education of a Big-Time College Sports Junkie

by Lt. Rob Newell USN Nominating Committee Precept The ROYAL VIKING STAR Bermuda Race Cruise

by RAdm. Robert W. McNitt USN (Ret.) Homecoming—Schedule of Events The Jade Experience

by Cdr. Edward L. Adams USNR (Ret.) Motor Launch to Superliner—The Making of a Shiphandler

by Capt. William H. McCaughey USN (Ret.) Beware the Eclipse

by Capt. Selwyn H. Graham, Jr USNR (Ret.) Through the Eye

by Capt. Robert W. Slater USN (Ret.) Sailing Team's 50th Anniversary

by Capt. Benjamin P. Filed, Jr USN (Ret.)

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Contributors' Biographies An Ocean Away Mail Boat All Hands Officers and Trustees Gift List and Order Form Navy Academics

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A Few Inches From the Yard Lucky Bag of Books Navy Sports Class News Chapter News Last Call Classified Services

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Contributors' Biographies

COMMANDER EDWARD L. ADAMS USNR (RET.) Larry (Peanut) Adams '35 resigned in February 1935. He worked briefly in insurance, movies and an auto plant until becoming assistant manager of BritishAmerican Tobacco Co. (Panama) Ltd. He was commissioned in June 1940 as a Lt. (j.g.) USNR and in January went on active duty at the 15th ND. He went to PhibTraLant in November 1943 for Beachmaster training at USNATB, Fort Pierce as CO Ninth Beach Battalion. He was training officer at USNATB, Oceanside until ordered to AWC (Sr Crse) at Quantico. He was Flag Secretary to ComPhibGru Two until released from active duty in the Fall of 1945. He was recalled in March 1951 as OinC Naval Beach Group School. In May 1953 he became XO OGLETHORPE (AKA-100). He was released from active duty in January 1954. He retired from the Postal Service in 1977 and is now a columnist for the Fort Pierce News-Tribune.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. MC CAUGHEY USN (Ret.) Bill McCaughey '43 served as a PT Boat Skipper in the South Pacific following graduation. He volunteered for submarines in 1944 and later served as CO of USS MANTA (SS-299) and USS TRUTTA (SS-421). As a submariner he also

qualified as a Deep Sea Diver and commanded USS PETREL (ASR-14). A NWC graduate, he later served on ComASWForPac Staff and the Joint Staff. While ashore, he commanded SubTraFac, SFRAN and ADCOM, Great Lakes NTC. His surface ship tours were as CO of USS CABILDO (LSD-16) and CO USS CACAPON (AO-16). He holds a Masters Degree from Rooseveh University, a Master Mariners License (Unlimited) and a 1st Class Pilot's License. Following retirement in 1971, he served as Master of the civilian salvage ship GEAR before becoming a professional pilot. Currently, he works as a Port Pilot for the Port of L.A. and lives in Los Alamitos, Calif.

CAPTAIN ROBERT W. SLATER USN (RET) Bob Slater '48 served in destroyers and minesweepers prior to attending the Naval Construction and Engineering course at MIT. Subsequently, as an EDO, he served at the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards; as Chief Engineer of INTREPID (CVA-11); as a ship design project officer in NavShips and as Senior Engineer in the ISURV Board. He was on ComWestSeaFron and ComServLant staffs and was Seventh Fleet Maintenance Officer Since retiring in 1978, he has been employed as a mechanical engineer in Charleston, South Carolina, where he is a registered professional engineer and a whiz at computer golf.

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JAMES G. STAVRIDIS '76

A Distinguished Graduate of the Class of 1976, Jim's initial sea tour was as ASW Officer in USS HEWETT (DD-966). He was selected for the Carrier Readiness Improvement Program and served as Propulsion and Electrical Officer in USS FORRESTAL (CV-59). Duty in the Strategic Concepts Group (OP-603) in the Pentagon followed. He attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he earned his MA and PhD. He then served three years as the commissioning Operations Officer in USS VALLEY FORGE (CG-50). After duty as a strategic planner on the CNO's Executive Panel (P-OOK), he reported as Executive Officer in USS ANTIETAM (CG-54). He has won the Aleigh Burke Award, the City of Newport Award and the Newport Navy League Award and several writing prizes, as well as co-authoring the new ninth edition of The Division Officer's Guide.

THOMAS F. BATES Tom Bates has been the Sports Information Duector for the Naval Academy Athletic Association since August 1973, coming here after a six-year tenure at Gaimon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. His Naval Academy football brochures have been cited seven times for their editorial excellence by the College Sports Information Directors of America. He is a 1960 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and his eldest son, Daniel, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1987.

CAPTAIN SELWYN H. GRAHAM JR. USNR (RET.) Selwyn Graham '39, from Burlington, Massachusetts, spent one year at Bowdoin College and entered USNA in 1935. After corrunissioning he served in a battleship, destroyers and a cruiser He resigned in 1947 and was recalled in 1950 as a Reserve officer Assignments followed to ServRon3, Uth NavDist, to ONI and State Dept. as ALUSNA, Colombo, CO CHIPOLA (AO-63), and to MSTSPac. He retired from the Ready Reserve in 1963. In 1966 he joined MSCPac as Director of Training and Safety. During 12 years there he developed plans for manning ex-Service Force ships by civilian personnel, and training officers and crewmembers to service Fleet ships. His original plans continue in DANIEL J. BARCHI use in a highly successful program. His retirement home is Sebastopol, Daniel J. Barchi '91 is our voice from Bancroft Hall.

California.

Dan is a Navy Junior who had lived many places, most recently Fairfax, Virginia. He is an English maCAPTAIN BENJAMIN R FIELD, JR. USN (RET) jor and in the 16th Company. He aspires to be a SurBenny Field '31, went to PERRY (DD-340) and spent many hours with the sailing face Warfare Officer He is active as President of the crews. While in PILLSBURY his sailing crews were Asiatic Fleet Champions in Surface Action Group and a member of the Men's 1936 and 37. In 1938, he was in Seamo at the Academy and saw the MidshipGlee Club. He is the son of the late Cdr. Richard Barman's Boat Club evolve into the sailing team in 1939. He commanded two dechi USN '66 and the stepson of Peter Odell '62. stroyers during the war before returning to sail and teach seamanship. In 1952, his third tour brought him command of REINA MERCEDES and he sailed ROYONO.

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An Ocean Away Commander Jim Stavridis USN Workmg Out At Sea In the late afternoon, the routine work begins to wind down on a ship. The tools are put away, the inspections are wrapped up, and the final clean-up is conducted in most of the work centers around the ship. Naturally, the work of the ship goes on as it always does, around the clock—watches are still stood, the combat exercises continue, flight operations are still required, "tet after the routine work of the day is done, the crew takes a moment to pause and refiesh, generally before the evening meal is served.

In the sailing ships of the 19th Century, the off-watch section would take a moment to smoke a pipe, put needle and thread to cloth and repair a uniform, whittle, talk or simply look to the sea. Such a pause was reflective and refteshing to the crew members on those sailing beauties. Today's sailor, however, is far more likely to reach for his or her workout clothes and head to the stationary bicycles or topside to run a few laps!

The fitness concerns of Navy men and women have heightened over the past 15 years dramatically. Much, of course, has to do with the general high priority placed on physical fitness among the public at large. In particular, studies demonstrating the high potential for cardiovascular problems among a sedentary population experiencing periods of high stress have spurred many sailors to start working out.

Naturally, the facilities to work out vary widely from ship to ship. Aircraft carriers, helicopter carriers, battleships, large amphibious ships, and other larger warships aU have spaces dedicated to working out. Such a mini "gym" will typically have Nautilus and universal weight sets, free weights (barbells, dumbbells, etc.), stationary bicycles and stair climbers, alpine climbers, sit up and pull up bars, and rowing machines. There may be a group of sailors who have volunteered to man the space while it is open, ensuring safe use of all the installed equipment.

Such large ships also have extensive space for running, either on the flight deck, hangar deck, or around the topside areas. While such areas are often consumed with flight operations, which can stretch virtually around the clock for days on end, there is generally ample opportunity for the crew to run fairly good distances. While shin splints and sore joints can be a problem, due to the harsh nature of running on steel decks, this can be alleviated by proper pacing and spacing the workouts in an intelligent maimer.

The individual desiring a workout on a smaller ship, like a cruiser, destroyer, or fiig-

ate, has a far greater challenge ahead. Because of space and weight constraints, many of the ships in these classes do not have dedicated weight rooms. Fortimately, most of the ships generally do manage to find a small comer somewhere aboard, perhaps a fan room or a comer of the small helo hangar, to set up some equipment and a few weights.

A "typical" set up might include a small universal gym with perhaps four stations, three or four stationary bicycles, a couple of rowing machines, some mats for sit-ups and push-ups, and a few free weights. The pitching and rolling of these smaller ships makes working out with weights problematic, particularly free weights, but the stationary bicycles and rowing machines are generally useable through Sea State 4-5.

Up topside on the smaller ships, running is popular but often challenging. The first problem is the lack of a suitable path upon which to run. Some of the cruisers and destroyers do have running "paths" that encircle the upper deck. On the SPRUANCE, KIDD, and TICONDEROGA classes, for example, there is a natural "track" that proceedsfromthe forecastle, down the port side, around the back of the after missile deck, up the starboard side and around the gun mount on the forecastle again. This "path" is roughly one seventh of a mile, and a dedicated runner can "grind out" some serious distance, particularly on a slow cruise to the Indian Ocean.

The real challenge, however, is not generally finding a path to ran. On some of the smaller AoAM-class destroyers, crewmembers have ran marathons around the small missile deck, at roughly 25 laps to a mile! The most difficult aspect of small ship running is contending with the pitch and roll of the ship. Up through Sea State 3, a good runner can do very well, generaUy speaking. As the seas increase, however, it can be quite demanding to maintain the timing required to ensure the ranner doesn't sprain an ankle or damage a knee. It is entirely possible for an untimely wave to move the ship quite literally undemeath the runner. Extra care must be taken, and with sufficient common sense, injuries are rare.

Another increasingly popular workout technique on board these days is jumping rope.

Jumping rope provides excellent cardiovascular fitness, increases endurance, and improves coordination. It is athletically challenging both from a simple endurance perspective and in terms of coordination. Other topside workouts include push-ups, sit-ups, and lifting weights, which are brought on deck from the individual's work centers.

Most of the commands are encouraging

working out while imderway. It is an excellent way to release tension, and many studies demonstrate conclusively that increased productivity and alertness result from regularly working out. The time invested is quite small, generally 30-40 minutes three to four times a week. Additionally, working out while underway permits the crew to remain in fairly good shape for the Navy's semi-annual Physical Fitness Test, consisting of a mile and a half run, push-ups and sit-ups.

In order to encourage regular workouts, many ships are buying equipment through welfare and recreation funds, setting up regular workout periods when the topside "tracks" are cleared for running, and running competitions on board. Some of these are fairly elaborate "Indian Ocean Olympics" with timed-runs, push-up/sit-up/rope jumping competition, weight-lifting contests, and so forth. The crew gets a big lift out of such sporting events and there is an added bonus of enhanced physical fitness.

All in all, the use of limited leisure time at sea has gradually come to include a segment of time devoted to working out, and the improvement in crew efficiency and morale is tangible.

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Campaign Comer Many Alumni pass through Annapolis during the Summer months to visit the Academy.

This Summer has proved to be no exception.

This year, however. Alumni and their famihes have been able to see firsthand the centerpiece of our Capital Campaign, the magnificent new Brigade Center. While not yet fully operational (currently 95% complete), the Center is in the final constraction and outfitting phase. As described in the July-August Shipmate, the Center has been used by the Brigade for several fimctions and has proved to be as versatile and effective a facility as anticipated. If any Alumnus wishes to tour the Center, please contact Capt. Chip Seymour, Campaign Director, at 301-268-2558. The Center will, of course, be open during Homecoming Weekend for Alumni, family and friends.

As important as any musical or theatrical event or distinguished lecture to be held in the Center, the theme of the Center will be an inspiration to present and future Midshipmen and visitors. The theme is to honor those whose service in the defense of freedom has resulted in the incredible changes now taking place throughout the world. No doubt due in large measure to the Naval Academy's unique mission and nature of its Alumni and their families, this theme has been captured in the form of memorials throughout the Center and in the areas adjacent to the Center While several music rooms, landings and seating sections are still available to honor individuals, the Honor Chair program discussed in the past few issues of Shipmate is proving to be a very popular way in which to recognize a loved one. If you are interested in the Honor Chair program, please contact Capt. Seymour at Alumni House.

With respect to the status of the Campaign, to date $14.6 million in cash/pledges has been received toward the $16.9 million needed to complete the Brigade Center and $3.6 million has been pledged toward the other facets of the Campaign (academic endowments, extracurricular support, faculty development and professional development endowment). Cash flow continues to be our greatest challenge.

While pledges in support of the Campaign continue to be made, most pledges are made for a three-year period. With bills for the Brigade Center being paid now, the challenge is obvious. We are continuing to work with Alumni, corporations and foundations to gain additional support for this important Campaign. Many

corporations, such as Rockwell Intemational, shown in the accompanying photograph presenting the Alumni Association with a check (Rockwell's second gift to the Campaign), have assisted us tremendously in this effort.

Everyone who has supported the outstanding young men and women of the Brigade through this Campaign can feel justifiably proud of what has been accomplished for the Academy and our country's future leaders. For anyone

who has not yet contributed to the Campaign and wishes to do so, feel free to send a tax deductible contribution (checks should be made payable to USNA Alumni Association) or pledge to the Campaign Office, Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. 21402. We can certainly use your support which will help make the difference between a program fimded at an adequate level and one of excellence for the Brigade of Midshipmen.

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Education of a Big-Time College Sports Junkie Lieutenant Rob Newell USN

While a smdent at Auburn University, I spent many a happy Saturday afternoon enjoying the excitement of big-time college sports.

During football season, my fraternity brothers and I would watch the beloved Tigers play against some of the top teams in the country.

Florida State, Nebraska, Texas, and Georgia aR visited War Eagle country. We went wild as a running backfromBessemer, Alabama, named Vincent 'Bo' Jackson broke off one long run after another.

As Fall turned to Winter, our attention moved to basketball, and we were spoiled again with the talents of Chuck Person and Charles Barkley It seemed to defy the laws of gravity that someone as large as Charles could jump so high. Rival SEC schools used to liken him to POiky Pig on a trampoline. Springtime meant baseball games, and watching Bo again, this time patrolling centerfield for the baseball team. One of my favorite Bo stories from my days at Auburn was the time I watched him hit a towering home run to the opposite field, breaking a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the ninth against a Mississippi State team led by their first baseman. Will Clark.

I used to really feel sorry for my high school friends back in Virginia who had chosen smaller schools. I just couldn't imagine anymore going to a college that didn't have a football stadium that seated 70,000 plus, a basketball team that didn't play the University of Kentucky, and a basebsdl team that didn't have potential major leaguers on it. How could college be any fun without those things?

In 1985 I sadly graduated, received a commission as an officer in the Navy, and left this college sports heaven. I spent the next four years bobbing aroimd the oceans of the world, undergoing terrible withdrawal pains from the lack of opportunity to watch college sports. I had gone from seeing in person some of the best teams, and players in the country, to begging the ships radiomen to patch a communications circuit that might pick-up the Armed Forces Radio network's college game of the week.

I can remember one of my happiest moments at sea being not firing the ship's 76mm gun, or tracking a submarine, but picking-up the Aubum/LSU game one evening on my trustee Walkman when the ship was operating just off the coast of Florida. Sitting on theflightdeck, a gentle warm breeze blowing, 1 listened to the entire second-half on an unknown AM station, convinced that there was some sort of divine intervention involved in helping me receive the radio waves. Auburn lost 13-7, and some of the sailors thought it was a little weird to see an officer yelling in the dark by himself, but what

the hell! For 30 minutes I had felt like I was back in the stands!

Then I received orders transferring me to shore duty as an instructor at the Naval Academy. My dad, a Class of 1955 Academy graduate, and knowing my addiction to college sports, bought me season tickets to the football games. But I just couldn't get excited about Navy Sports. Sure, it was Division 1, but the football team was playing a schedule that included two Division I-AA schools, Delaware and James Madison! When I was at Auburn, we didn't even play teams like that for homecoming! And the Navy basketball team was in something called the Colonial Athletic Conference, definitely not the equivalent of the SEC. When Navy's football season kicked off that Fall though, there I was, sitting in Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, watching the overmatched Midshipmen tangle with Brigham Young. Navy gave the Cougars all they could handle for the first-half, but got wom down in the second and lost 31-10. Strangely enough, I had really enjoyed the game. True, Uiere wasn't 75,000 screaming fans, neither team was exactly a college football powerhouse, and the talent level was a notch below what I had seen at Auburn, but there was something special about it. Special enough that I went to every home football game (including the one against James Madison) and last Winter, I was courtside for the majority of the basketball games.

There is a feeling of purity that seems to shine through when I watch the Midshipmen take to the field or court. It is a feeling I never got watching games at Auburn, or I get watching many of the big name schools on television today. Perhaps it comes from the players cleancut all-American appearances. A lot of it though I think has come from my realization that I'm watching true student athletes. As much as I loved watching Bo break the long one, and Charles thunder down the court for monster dunks, I never looked at them as students. The same is true with the majority of the college athletes I watch on television today. I tend to look at them more as celebrities, at college simply to develop their games for careers in the NFL, NBA, or major leagues.

But at Navy it's different. I discovered it's gratifying to watch athletes whose main purpose for being in school is to receive their education. Thefive-yearobligation to serve as officers in the Navy or Marine Corps wipes out the possibility of careers in the pro's for 99.9% of Navy's athletes. The .1 being the Roger Staubachs and David Robinsons of the Brigade who seem to come along only once every 20 years.

Pete Hermman, Navy's head basketball

coach, told me that his players enter the Academy with the attitude that they are here to receive a quality education first, have a guaranteed future when they graduate second, and play basketball at the Division I level third-in that order. It is this attitude that makes athletes at Navy unique and special. It is also the reason I have appreciated and enjoyed the efforts of Navy teams more than I ever thought I would.

When I learned that Navy's athletes, just like all Midshipmen, are required to complete successfiilly four semesters of calculus, two semesters of both physics and chemistry, and two semesters of electrical engineering courses, in addition to the work required for their major, I became a football and basketball season ticket holder myself.

Talking with Navy Athletic Director Jack Lengyl was also educational. He explained to me that, "Athletics are just as important here as they are at Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Oklahoma, but for different reasons." When he noticed my more then slightly raised eyebrows he continued, "At those institutions, sports are strictly extra-curricular activities. Here they are actually part of the mission.

"We are committed to character development, and the total-person concept. Athletics to us, whether it be intercollegiate, club, or intramural sports, are important because they help us achieve those two things. Wefirmlybelieve that to develop a professional officer, sports are necessary because they teach leadership, quick decision making, and the importance of teamwork.

"There are 33 varsity sports here, a very broad based program, so we can give as many Midshipmen as possible the opportunity to learn these things in a pressurized situation like game competition."

And I thought the whole purpose of college sports was to bring national attention to your university, and generate "big bucks" from all those post-season bowl and NCAA tournament appearances.

I still enjoy watching the "big boys" of college athletics go at it on Saturday afternoons.

And I love hearing Dick Vitale yell, "Unbeeliivable Baaaa-by!" during ESPN's weeknight telecasts of big-time college hoops. But the purity of college sports at the Naval Academy has taught me that the attitude I developed while a student at Auburn wasn't exactly right. You can enjoy sports at a smaller, less than big-time school, because of the specialness and appreciation you feel watching true student athletes in a program conmiitted to developing character in its participants. Now if only I could get some of the players I watched at Auburn, here in Navy's athletic program, . . . then I would truly be in college sports heaven.

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Quinquennial Reunion Coordinators Homecoming 26-28 October 1990* '30 (60th) RAdm. William O. Snead, Jr, USN (Ret.) 1445 Woodacre Drive McLean, Va. 22101-2534 (703) 534-5076

'35 (55th) Capt. George Hutchinson, USN (Ret.) 2103 Harbor Drive Annapolis, Md. 21401 (301) 757-7474 Held 25-29 April 1990 in Coronado '40 (50th) RAdm. Norbert Frankenberger, USN (Ret.) 209 Norwood Road Annapolis, Md. 21401-1203 (301) 267-6408 Held 5-7 June 1990 in Annapolis '46 (45th) Capt. James W. Foust, USN (Ret.) 1914 Sleepy Hollow Lane Annapolis, Md. 21401-1050 (301) 266-5247 Held 8-10 June 1990 in Coronado

'50 (40th) Capt. Philip J. Ryan, USN (Ret.) 874 Holly Drive South, RFD 10 Annapohs, Md. 21401 (301) 757-3254 '55 (35th) Capt. William A. Kennington, USN (Ret.) 1311 St. Paul's Way Crownsville, Md. 21032 (301) 849-3766 '60 (30th) Capt. Robert V Gamba, USN 6 Bristol Drive Annapohs, Md. 21401 (301) 268-8303 '65 (25th) LCdr. Peter D. Gness, USNR 3966 Woods Edge Drive Davidsonville, Md. 21035-2603 (301) 261-7032 '70 (20th) Cdr. Royal Connell, USN 3 Wood Drive, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402 (301) 268-7156

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'75 (15th) Mr. Larry G. Kloth 506 Oakshade Court Millersville, Md. 21108 (301) 987-3154 '80 (10th) LCdr. Tim Kobosko, USNR 403 Severnside Drive Sevema Park, Md. 21146-2202 (301) 987-1614 '85 (5th) Lt. Charles W. Sharkey, USN 545 E. Braddock Road, #307 Alexandria, Va. 22314 (703) 548-2338

Nominating Committee Precept TO: Cdr. D. Michael Young, USNR (Ret.) '66 FROM: VAdm. Robert B. Baldwin, USN (Ret.) '45 SUBJECT: Nominating Committee, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, 1990-91 Precept 1. In accordance with Paragraph 1 Article VI of the By-laws of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, a Committee consisting of yourself as Chairman and the following members is appointed: Cdr. D. Michael Young, USNR (Ret.) '66 Vice President 3241 Hunts Point Road Western Area Bellevue, WA 98004 (H) (206) 451-8205 (W) (206) 455-3940 Mr. Jay G. McKie '47 Vice President 6335 Oriole Drive Central Area Dallas, TX 75209 (H) (214) 351-6956 (W) (214) 931-2944 Trustee-at-Large RAdm. James Abbot, Jr, USN (Ret.) '39 4250 Wilkinson Way Mobile, AL 36608-2610 (H) (205) 342-7980 (W) (205) 476-2699 RAdm. Kleber Masterson, Jr, USN (Ret.) '54 Local Trustee Greater Wash..

101 Pommander Walk Wash., DC Alexandria, VA 22314 (H) (703) 548-4464 (W) (703) 679-7777 Capt. Raymond E. 'Ted" Hill, USN (Ret.) '40 President, 3707 N. Roberts Lane Class of 1940 Arlington, VA 22207-5339 (H) (703) 524-0661 Cdr. David E. Church, USN (Ret.) '67 President, 203 Autumn Leaf Place Class of 1967 Annapolis, MD 21401 (H) (301) 266-8081 (W) (301) 266-8456 LCdr. Donald G. Bringle, USN '76 President, RO. Box 3892 Class of 1976 Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 (H) (619) 759-0729 2. The Nominating Committee, in accordance with the By-laws, shall submit to the Board of Trustees not later than 10 December 1990, a slate of candidates for the election to take place in the Spring of 1991 the following officers whose terms will be for three years: President Vice President Central Area Four Trustees-at-Large The Executive Director will handle the actual transmission of the report of the Nominating Committee to the Board of Trustees and the publication of the Slate in the earUest possible issue of Shipmate, as required by the By-laws.

NOTE: Past experience has shown that the Nominating Committee should exchange nominee information via a form similar to enclosure (2) with accompanying letters, such that the Chairman may call a meeting of the Committee at the time of the Fall meeting of the Board of Trustees in order to finaUze the Slate. This Fall, the Board will meet 25 October 1990.

3. A resolution of 29 May 1959, passed by the Board of Trustees, reads as follows: "The President, in appointing the Nominating Committee, shall point out the requirements for the ensuing year with a view to obtaining equitable distribution of the Trustees among the various categories—classes, geographical areas, active duty,retiredofficers, civilians, etc."

4. In accordance with this resolution, I wish to point out to the Nominating Committee that the membership of the Association is divided as follows: 47% Active Duty officers 28% Retired officers 25% No ciurent active service coimection

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The Board currently consists of 12 Trustees-at-Large of whom 2 are on active duty, 7 retired from the service, 1 in the Reserve and 2 have no current service connection. Of these, 9 are in die Eastern Area, 3 in the Western Area, and 0 in the Central Area. The outgoing Trustees-at-Large consist of 0 active duty, 1 in the Reserve, 2 in the retired community and 1 with no current service connection.

5. The membership of the entire Board, consisting of 31 members (5 Officers, 1 Past President, 1 Superintendent's Representative, 12 Trustees-at-Large and 12 Local Chapter Trustees), contains the following year group breakdown: 1 in the twenties year group 2 in the thirties year group 7 in the forties year group 10 in thefiftiesyear group 9 in the sixties year group 1 in the seventies year group 1 in the eighties year group Local Trustees whose term will expire in the Spring meeting are imknown since their election is entirely a matter of local elections. Please note, however, that local Trustees have in the past been elected from earlier classes, but we are noting a trend to younger classes. Currently there are 1 in the twenties, 3 in the forties, 5 in thefiftiesand 3 in the sixties. Also, please note that on the current Board the terms of foiu Trustees-at-Large will expire at the Spring meeting 1991 There classes are: Trustees-at-Large—'53, '58, '59, '80 6. In submitting its Slate of Nominees for the Board of Trustees, the Nominating Committee is encouraged to offer a reasonable opportimity for increased representation on the Board from the younger classes. To this end a sufficient number of outstanding candidates from the younger classes should be considered, keeping in mind that a proper balance of nationally distinguished Aliunni is important.

7. I further point out that it is particularly necessary to nominate only those who are members of the National Naval Academy Alumni Association and who are willing to serve. It is a most important consideration to determine if one's prospective duties, jobs or profession during the tenure in office will permit him to devote areasonableamount of service to the organization, including reasonable expectancy of attendance at the Spring and Fall meetings of the Board of Trustees held at the Naval Academy in Rickover Hall. Breakfast and lunch will be served at Alunmi House the day of the meeting. There will also be a reception at Alumni House the preceding evening. For your information, the two Board meetings that should be attended by the newly elected officers and trustees will be held on 23 May 1991 (Spring) and 24 October 1991 (Fall).

8. While the number of nominees is at the discretion of the Nominating Committee, you are informed it has been the consensus of the Board of Trustees, confirmed again at the Spring 1976 meeting, that no more than two candidates for each vacancy should be nominated by the Nominating Committee. It has been customary to limit the nominees for the President and Vice President to one for each position. You will note that the By-laws provide for nomination by petition. The ballot also provides for the write-in votes.

9. At die Spring 1976 meeting, the Trustees discussed the nominating process and the time involved in arriving at a Slate under the accepted guidelines of the past. The Nominating Committee kept an accurate account of time taken by each member and any other data which would help analyze the evolution. It is felt that die procedure followed since the analysis, which is reflected in this precept, places no undue burden on the Nominating Committee and permits a timely Slate to be produced. Last year it was early enough to be produced in the November issue of Shipmate.

ROBERT B. BALDWIN Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.), President

Shipmate, September 1990

The Royal Viking Star Bermuda Race Cruise Rear Admiral Robert W. McNitt USN (Ret.)

When Richard Von Doenhoff and his wife Jan sailed into a perfect sunset one evening several years ago during a Royal Viking cruise, an idea was bom that resulted in one of the most delightful Aliunni cruises to date. Richard and Jan wondered whether a block of passenger res-

Midshipman Bermuda Race crews aboard ROYAL VIKINO STAR, 21 June 1990.

ervations on the ROYAL VIKING STAR'S popular

cruise to Bermuda could be reserved during the week of the bieimial Newport to Bermuda race for parents of Midshipmen crewing the Naval Academy boats in the race, coaches' families, and Alimmi.

Richard, who is Vice Commodore of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron, reached agreement with Bill Busik for a jointly sponsored event which almost immediately sold out. One himdred forty fortunate and excited Navy passengers were among the total of 700 on board as ROYAL VIKING STAR backed out of her slip in New York on 16 June 1990.

The timing couldn't have been better. The ocean racers had left the starting line in Newport at noon on the preceding day, and we would be in Bermuda when they arrived. In the meantime, we could enjoy a two-day sea voyage and experience the justly famed Royal Viking hospitality.

After lifeboat drill as we passed the Statue of Liberty the Navy group gathered in the Bergen Lounge for a welcome aboard party. Naval Academy Classes from 1919 (Virginia Kinkaid) to 1976 (Gregory Bennett) were represented.

Three or more were there from the following Classes: From '31: Harris and Aima Child, Ray Hunter, John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick.

From '38: Hem-y and Sam Bowes, Dick and lona Cooper, Bob and Pat McNitt.

From '42: Bob Connor, John and Ann Marie Maddex, Jack and Aurora Schmutz.

From '44: Bill and Elizabeth Gibson, Marie Lemlein, Lloyd and Diane Yeich whose marriage during our stay in Bermuda was happily celebrated by all of us.

From '45, always present, always alive: Cliff and Rita Bermann, Jim and Betty Boak, Don and Joan Logic.

From '47: George and Jean Kirk, Robert and Dorothea O'Shea, J. Wyth and Barbara Walker.

From '53: Dean Strong and four Classmates who were sailing with families independent of the Alumni group (Davy Jones, Bob Raffaele, Hart Sebring and Chris Zirps).

One couple aboard especially reflected the sense of Navy family that we all felt on this trip.

Professor James C. Abbott has just completed Shipmate, September 1990

Front row, L to R: Cdr Dan Rugg '70, USNA Sailing Master and coach; Lt Gail Haberlin '84, coach; Bill Sherar, '52, coach; RAdm Bob McNitt '38, Chairman USNA Fales Committee; Cdr Chip Barber, Director NA Sailing; Richard Von Doenhoff, V. Commodore, NA Sailing Squadron; Jim Coleman, coach; Ward Blodgett, coach.

his 49th year of teaching mathematics to Midshipmen. To many graduates, though, he is remembered even more fondly as the racing coach of the Naval Academy's famous cutter HIGHLAND LIGHT. Forty of these Alumni surprised Jim and his wife Bunny by sending them tickets for this cruise, and five of them came along with their families to keep them company.

An entertaining seminar on the Bermuda Race was presented in the ship's theatre by four of the Navy group who had done a total of 30 of these always difficult and sometimes dangerous races. They were Bates McKee, former President of the Navy Sailing Association Foundation; Charlie 111, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy and past Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsors the Bermuda Race; Richard Von Doenhoff; and Bob McNitt. Jim Abbott recalled the most vivid memories of his races for the audience. A videotape of the '88 race was shown on everyone's cabin TV several times during the cruise.

Capt. Jacob Lothe brought his big ship into St. George harbor on Monday morning with maybe 100 feet of clearance as he worked his

way through Town Cut at the entrance. Next morning we left St. George just as the 81' sloop BOOMERANG crossed the finish line off St. David's Light near the harbor entrance. She was the first of 149 yachts which started the race to complete the 635-mile course. This was a difficult race with winds up to 30 knots, dead ahead for most of the racers. Five boats withdrew with damage including a broken mast, a broken rudder and a parted backstay, and one boat had a man overboard with a successful recovery.

Entering scenic Hamilton Harbor an hour later, we moored to Berth #1 in downtown Hamilton just a block from the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club where the winning boats and about 50 of the others were Med-moored as they arrived. It was hard to choose between the excitement of welcoming racing friends as they tied up, the great golf courses, the gorgeous beaches, and entertainment in town and on board.

The highlight of the trip for many was a sumptuous brunch hosted by ROYAL VIKING

STAR on board for the Midshipmen and coaches of the six Navy boats in the race, the Com11

modores of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club, and the St. George's Dinghy and Sports Club, and Race Committee and govermnent officials. Capt. Joe Phelan, CO Naval Air Station, Bermuda presented a commemorative plaque to Capt. Lothe for ROYAL VIKING STAR'S participation in this event.

It was a happy occasion for the Navy crews all of whom had done well in this race. INSURGENTE with Ens. Andy Biu-den '90 skipper, and Steve Podlich and Jim Scharf coaches, finished 26th on corrected time in the Racing Division of 111 boats, and placed 7th among the 26 boats in Class C. CINNABAR, with Ens. Allen Minick '90 skipper and Cdr. Dan Rugg '70 and Lt. Gail Haberlin '84 coaches took 31st place on corrected time in the Racing Division of 111 boats and won 5th place among 23 boats in Class C. This is an excellent showing in competition against the best boats and strongest crews in world class ocean racing.

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INSURGENTE'S skipper. Ens. Andy Biu-den, won the Destroyers Atlantic Trophy, awarded to the Service boat with the best corrected time, and the Stephen W. Gerber Cup for the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron boat with the best corrected time. Ens. Bill Russ, INSURGENTE'S navigator was awarded the Dan A. Kimball Trophy. QNNABAR'S skipper, Ens. Allen Minick won the Adams Trophy, awarded to the Service boat finishing with the second best corrected time.

The trip home will be remembered for the State Dinner which was the second formal dining occasion of the cruise; a second seminar on the Bermuda Race results with the same panelists; and continuous entertainment. We had to choose between trap shooting, lessons in the golf cage, various contests, two movies a day, two swimming pools, casino gambling, and dancing late into the night.

Going to sea has never been so much fun.

Watch for a possible repeat trip in 1992.

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HERFFJONES

Homecoming Schedule of Events 2 7 - 2 9 October 1989 This schedule subject to change. Please check registration packets for updated schedule.

Friday, 27 October 0730-1800 0800-1900 0900 1000-2400 1200 1200 1210 1215

1300-1515 1300-1600

1300-1515 1530 1545 1600 1630 1700 1730 1800 1800 1800 1900 1900-2200 2130-0030

Saturday, 28 October

Registration at Alunmi House.

Midshipmen Store open to Alumni. Alumni Association name tags must be wom.

Alumni Open Golf Tournament, USNA Golf Course, North Severn.

Taproom open at Alumni House; sandwiches and drinks available.

Roman CathoUc Mass in St. Andrew's Chapel.

Protestant Communion Service in Mitscher Hall Chapel.

Brigade noon formation.

Luncheon in King Hall for Alumni who are parents or legal guardians of Midshipmen. NOTE: Midshipmen must purchase tickets in advance at the Accounting Branch, Midshipmen Food Service Division.

General visiting to Academic Departments, except those posted "No General Visiting."

Yard Patrol Craft tours of Naval Academy waterfront. Half hour toiu", departing on the hour and half hour from Triton Light. (No children under 12.)

Planetarium Show in Luce Hall.

Aluinni vs. Varsity Baseball team (Bishop Stadium).

Dress Parade on Worden Field.

Alumni Squash Match, Halsey Field House. Interested Alumni should contact the Naval Academy Athletic Association Office.

Aluinni vs. Varsity Lacrosse team (Seventh Wing Field).

Brigade evening meal.

150# Football vs. Cornell (Astro Turf).

Pep Rally, Tecumseh Court.

Reserved tickets for Alumni reception/dinner transferred from Alumni House to Dahlgren Hall for pickup at 1900.

Roman Catholic Mass in Mitscher Hall.

Jewish Service in Mitscher Hall Chapel.

Alumni reception in Dahlgren Hall (open bar) and dinner in King Hall (2030). Reservations required.

Dance, Dahlgren Hall. Informal, no reservations required (cash bar).

0730-1400 0730-1200 0730 0830-0930 0900-1000 0900 1000-2400 1030 UOO 1200 1330

1700 1900

Registration at Alumni House.

Midshipmen Store open to Alumni. Alumni Association name tags must be wom.

Alumni "Jog/Run-In." Meet in front of Halsey Field House. Two or four mile course in the yard. Certificates to all participants.

Visits to Company Wardrooms by sponsoring Classes.

Class meetings, if scheduled.

Alumni vs. USNA Rugby Club (Hospital Point).

Taproom at Alumni House Open; sandwiches and drinks available.

Brigade noon formation.

Roman Catholic Mass in St. Andrew's Chapel.

Brigade enters Stadium for march-on.

Navy vs. James Madison University Football. (Please request football tickets directly from Athletic Association窶年OT the Alumni Association.)

Class reunions and parties as scheduled.

Army vs. Navy Soccer (Dewey Field)

Sunday, 29 October 0830 0900 1000-1600 1000-1700 1100 UOO 1230 1400-1700

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Protestant Holy Communion in St. Andrew's Chapel.

Roman Catholic Mass in Main Chapel.

Midshipmen Store open to Alumni. Alunmi Association name tags must be wom.

Taproom open at Alumni House; coffee, Sunday newspapers and drinks available.

Protestant Divine Service in Main Chapel.

Roman Catholic Mass in Mitscher Hall.

Noon formation.

Sailing on Naval Academy Knockabouts. Call Robert Crown Sailing Center, ext. 3746. Crew of 2, both must have " B " Skipper qualification. Crew of 3 to 6, only 1 " B " Skipper qualification required.

Catholic Mass in Main Chapel.

PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION Parking in Amiapolis is always a problem. Therefore, arrangements have been made for FREE shuttle bus service from Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Buses will originate at the Stadium with stops at Alumni House, the Visitors' Center and the Midshipmen's Store and retracing the route. Service will be continuous from 0700 Friday until 0100 Samrday and from 0700 to 1300 on Saturday.

Stadium parking fees are: $3 on Friday; $4 on Saturday. No ovemight parking is permitted.

For further information, please call (301) 363-4354.

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Active Duty Obligation Shipmate: During the 1989 legislative session. Congress increased the active duty obligation of Service Academy graduates from five to six yean. Recently, Congressman Tom McMillen (D-Md.) introduced a bill to return the obligation tofiveyears. Here is my rationale as to why the McMillen bill should be enacted.

The principal reason used by the Congress for increasing the obligation to six years is to encourage more Academy officers to remain for a full career and to obtain more "retirni on investment" for cost of Service Academy education. History has clearly shown there is absolutely no correlation between length of obligation and number of officers who make service a career. The Military actually produced a higher percentage of career officers per Academy Class during pre-World War II years when there was no active duty obligation. The country is receiving an adequate return on its investment now with the five-year obligation. Currently Service Academy graduates in all services are volimtarily exceeding the retention requirements necessary to maintain the desired pyramidal rank structiu-e of the officer corps.

The increase in active duty obligation will reduce the number and quality of young persons applying to Academies, because top-notch yoimgsters at age 17 or 18 are simply not sure what career they wish to devote their lives to and they are not willing to obligatge their lives to onefield,military or non-military, for a long period. They want to keep their options open.

Many fine young people will enter the Service Academies out of a spirit of patriotism and are proud to serve on active duty for foiu' or even five years with the expectation that they may make the service a career. But obligations in excess of that amount will drive them away from Service Academies to civilian colleges, who eagerly desire these quality youth and require no obligation after graduation. Many businesses are offering highly qualified young people free college educations today with work pay back coimnitments considerably below the Service Academy six-year obligation. The adverse impact of the increased active duty obligation will become more pronounced as the 18-year-old age population in oiu- country continues to decline until 1994.

Our challenge in the military is to attract the best youth we can to the Service Academies and then through good leadership and career satisfaction inspire them to stay in the service, rather than require them to stay in.

The increased obligation has an even greater impact on minority and women applications.

Minorities and women are well aware that the 14

services were once white, male bastions and although they are patriotic and wish to serve the country, they are skeptical about the military career. A long obligation deters them from applying to the Academy out of a concern that they would be irrevocably committed to something they may not like for a long period.

Qualified minorities and women are highly sought after by all the colleges in the country.

With a six-year obligation the Service Academies will not be competitive in minority recruiting. The military urgently needs to increase the number of minority officers. For example, today the U.S. Military has 20 percent blacks in the enlisted force and only seven percent blacks in the officer corps (three percent in the Navy). Service Academies with their own preparatory schools to assist those minorities who require additional academic preparation, are the best way to increase minority officer representation.

The different active duty obligation of Service Academies and ROTC programs, six versus foiU' years, will create problems. First, high quality yoimg people who would otherwise apply for the Service Academies will now seek entry into the ROTC. Secondly, having officers from the services' two prime conunissioning sources, with different obligations, serving side-by-side in their various assignments, causes difficult morale and career management problems. Next, a longer obligation for Service Academy graduates than ROTC graduates conveys to ROTC officers that the military wants Academy graduates more than them, causing them to become demoralized and possibly decide against making the service a career. A viable officer corps requires that the services attract career officers from all the commissioning sources. We must carefully avoid the perception that one soiu'ce is favored over the others.

In summary, the six-year obligation provides no advantages. The Service Academies had little or no active duty obhgations for over 100 years and their graduates served the country well. The Presidents of the three Service Academy Alumni Associations recently wrote letters to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Service Committees pointing out the adverse impact of the increased active duty obligation and recommending that the obligation be retimied to no greater than five years. It is sincerely hoped that this action will be taken by the Congress.

William P. Lawrence '51

Coping with the press Shipmate: In light of the negative press our Alma Mater has recently received concerning possible senual harassment, hazing infractions, and the overall effectiveness of the Midshipman development program, I find it highly disturbing that the main issue, as I see it, has not surfaced. Plebe indoctrination and the Midshipman professional development programs teach Midshipmen a significant lesson that has proven to be quite important. That lesson imdoubtedly is the ability to cope with mental, moral, and physical adversity. This subject is introduced very early in a Midshipman's ciffriculiun as a harbinger of what lies ahead for the Naval and Marine Corps officer. The Naval service is an extremely stressful profession.

Therefore it is prudent that the Naval Academy places extra emphasis in this area. Moreover, the subject of coping is gender-less and leans no more heavily on one ethnic group than another, despite what the press cares to portray.

AU facets of the Midshipman development program will prepare Midshipmen for the inevitable challenges they will face as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps. Not all of these challenges will be pleasant. Once in the Heet, you will no longer be concerned with the menu for noon meal, but with real dilemmas such as navigating a ship through a hurricane, intercepting a hostile air contact, or assaulting an imfriendly shoreline. Herein lies the benefits of our training—the ability to cope with the real-life problems. This ability is what separates the great leaders from the mediocre, and begins to manifest itself from the veryfirstday a Midshipman reports to the Academy.

The ability to contend with and react to rapidly changing tactical situations comes from continued familiarity with the subject. Coping with adversity is no different. As with any subject, the more exposure you have to the material, the better you get at handling it. Our ciurent system of Midshipman development affords all Classes an early opportunity to become acquainted with a subject that holds little forgiveness for lack of on-the-job training. As any officer of the deck, aviator or platoon commander will attest, being prepared for all contingencies is half the battle. The present development system provides Midshipmen this advantage under conditions that offer a larger degree of forgiveness.

Some individuals cope with adversity better than others. That is no revelation to society nor to the military. The uniqueness of the military is that we risk the lives of many on decisions made in terribly stressful situations, imder Shipmate, September 1990

some of the most demanding physical conditions of any profession. An officer gets no credit for doing things almost right. It is all or nothing. As with any war-fighting community, the better you can cope with these conditions, the better you can process large quantities of information and ultimately make sound military decisons. If you are unable to do so, you are destined for mediocrity—hardly a goal the Academy should pursue. If you are unable to cope with the adversity as a Plebe, chances are good you will be imable to cope as an ensign or second lieutenant. The system in place, designed to establish quality officers, works.

Those in charge of administering the same system go to great lengths to see it is delivered fairly to all Midshipmen regardless of sex or origin. Those who step out of bounds trying to administer the system are subject to the wrath of that same system.

Not siuprisingly, the media lost sight of the real issue and focused in the wrong area. The Midshipman development system is not a male versus female issue, nor is it an ethnic issue.

The wherewithal to cope with mental, moral and physical adversity is a human issue. Some possess the capability while others do not.

Congressional inquiries and inspector general investigations will reveal nothing to the contrary.

Oin- track record of producing superior Naval and Marine Corps officers is unparalleled.

Looking back through history we can see the qualities of our greatest Naval leaders rooted in a system designed to produce level-headed, well experienced decision makers. The Academy's strong foimdation will enable it to weather this storm as it has weathered other controversies. Overall, the congressional inquiries, inspector general investigations and media attention will make our great institution even stronger For in the long haul. The Plebe indoctrination program and the Midshipman development system yields countless more positive attributes than the negative ones the press thrives on.

Corky Vazquez '81

A Distaff View Shipmate: There is only one person who truly knows everything that happened associated with the so-called "sexual harassment" case currently under investigation at the Naval Academy: Miss Gwen Dreyer. No Navy, House or Senate subcommittee investigation will ever mm up every detail. The first news of this case left many questions unanswered when it appeared in the Baltimore Sun. Was she a Plebe or upperclassman? The article said that it was Aimy week, but did not mention other events that took place around the same time and involving the same people. Now as the news stories unfold (Washington Post of 18 May and Honolulu Star Bulletin of 21 May) weare told that Miss Dreyer was a Youngster and had indeed been involved in a snowballfightearlier in the evening.

Understanding that the Brigade changes very much from year to year, I can only speak Shipmate, September 1990

from my experience as a member of the Class of 1987. The Naval Academy has gone through a very traumatic change, the addition of women to the Brigade in the last 15 years. In general.

Navy has not been as willing to accept women as USAFA, but definite advances have been made. (Since I am not as familiar with USMA, I cannot address their acceptance of women.) I had the honor of meeting a woman graduate of the Class of 1980, and she told me stories that I found impossible to believe. The women in that Class endured true sexual harassment and discrimination. By the time that I arrived in July 1983, the Academy administration has made many specific rules toward the treatment of women in the Brigade. The sheer volume of these regulations served to do nothing but further alienate the women of the Brigade. Anytime the administration gave special treatment, or even gave this appearance, to a woman in the Brigade, it fuelled the "anti-women" causes fire.

Understanding that rumbles, or as the StarBulletin called it a rugby-scrum craziness, are prohibited, they do still happen. The wide variety of stresses placed upon the Midshipmen while at the Academy need some som^ce of venting. Rumbles are only one such vent. They should only be controlled to ensure that no one is injured as a result. In my personal opinion, the fact that Miss Dreyer's companymates chose to "take her out" as part of the rumble is not sexual harassment nor discrimination, but quite the contrary. I view this as a simple case of sexual equality. Miss Dreyer may not have been a willing participant of the rumble, but she certainly was willing to participate in the snowball fight that proceeded it. By Miss Dreyer's own action, laughing and smiling, during the rumble she conveyed the message to her companymates that she did not mind being involved in the rumble. K she had given any indication of how upset she says that she really was, it probably would have ended the rumble much sooner. After one of the men involved found out she was upset by the rumble, he apologized for his actions. This is where she should have dropped her objections to the incident. If she did not participate in the snowballfightearlier, or possibly other Army-Navy week antics, it seems the chance of her companymates choosing to involve her in the rumble would have been quite minimal. By voluntarily involving herself in the Army-Navy week activities, many of which are also prohibited by the Academy administration. Miss Dreyer was involved, by her companymates, in the 8 December rumble.

The punishment handed down to Midn. John Hindinger and John Rosson was, by Midshipman standards very strong for a rumble (one month's restriction and enough demerits to earn them a C or D in conduct). If the rumble had involved a male Midshipman, probably no one would have been put on report, or "fried."

At worst, a conduct report would have resulted in maybe a one-week restriction. The Academy's punishment of the two young men is still another example of the administration's attempts to "protect" the women at the Academy.

If the Academy administration. Congress, and the public really want the female Midshipmen to be truly equal, they MUST stop overreacting to every incident that involves a woman and start treating everyone, regardless of sex, race or religion, EXACTLY the same.

Letitia A. Wold '87

Military rank Shipmate: At the Anacostia Naval Research Laboratory during the last half of the '30s, it was customary for the senior scientists and the officers to have lunch together, a friendly and profitably association. But the scientists frequently teased the officers about the subject of military rank. The scientists described rank as an abitrary differentation of no consequence— that is, until stopped by RADAR. When a practical RADAR had been developed, three leading scientists of the program were sent to Norfolk to install it in NEW YORK for sea testing. A few days later NRL received a message signed by all three scientists, the sense of which was, "Please send officer to take charge of the party Each of us thinks he is the boss!" The teasing ceased.

George W. Bauernschmidt '22

An Olde Time Adventure Shipmate: While at the War College, I was given the additional duty of being Chairman of the social activities committee. The principal task was to plan and run the four or five formal dances we had each year. They were very colorful affairs, with everyone dressed to the nines.

The officers and their ladies from the Foreign Officers Course added their own special flash of color.

The first event came close to what used to be Navy Day, so we went all out. We had a brow set up thru the entrance to the 0-Club lobby, conned an OCS student into being the OOD, and a Bos'n Mate to do the piping. From a costume store in nearby Providence we rented turn of the century uniforms for our two star performers. For the non-Navy types and their ladies, it was a smash.

My partner-in-crime, Don Booth, the Club Manager, fed both a hearty roast beef dinner after their "watch" was over The OOD, while changing back into his regular clothes, was examining the old uniform, and found a label on an inner pocket: C. V. Gridley. Connie Hartigan, '38, War College Secretary, got right on it with the records people in the Navy Dept, and, sure enough, the uniform was just about the right size for the Skipper of the good ship OLYMPIA, at the battle of Manila Bay We defaulted, twice over, to the costume store (he was happy) and shipped the uniform to the History Section in the Navy Dept.

David H. Green '42

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Deputy Commandant Gets NAACP Award The Deputy Conunandant of Midshipmen, Navy Capt. Anthony J. Watson, USN '70, received the Roy Wilkins Meritorious Service Award at the NAACP Convention's Armed Services and Veteran's Affairs Diimer on 11 July in Los Angeles.

Capt. Watson, 41, was recognized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for distinguished leadership in the promotion of American civil rights.

As a Midshipman and as a naval officer, he has made history. As a Midshipman, he was the first Black Regimental Commander, responsible for the professional development of half of the Academy's student body. Now, as an officer, he's making history as the Academy's first Black Deputy Commandant. In this position, he assists the commandant in commanding the 4,500-member Brigade and directing their military and professional training.

"I knew Tony Watson as a student," said Professor Samuel R Massie, the first Black faculty member. "From the begiiming, he showed leadership potential and the ability to overcome obstacles. Coming to the Academy from a Chicago tenement, he was an example of someone who, through determination and hard work, succeeded against all odds. He was friendly, dependable, reliable and well-liked by both his peers and his company officers."

When Tony Watson entered the Academy in 1966, he had never been away from the area in Chicago where he was raised. "Back in Chicago, they told me that I wouldn't be able to make it here, because I didn't have 'cultiu'e,' " Watson said.

"I'll never forget how scared I felt that first day, because at that time, I thought they were probably right. When I reported to Mitscher Hall, which was a library then, the guys on my left and right had been football team captains and had earned academic honors, too. I had played football, but basically I was just an average Joe." His fears, however, were unfounded. As a Midshipman, he was elected president of his Class for hisfirsttwo years at the Academy. He also held a number of leadership positions and, for his efforts, he received the Carl Vinson Leadership Award for being the top leader in his Class and the RAdm. Draper Kauffinan Sword for being the Midshipman most likely to become Superintendent. His awards also included the Young American Award which is presented to the five most outstanding teen-

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agers in the United States by the Explorer Scouts of America.

Academically, he consistently made the dean's list in his aerospace engineering major.

Athletically, he was an intramural boxing champion for all four years.

Capt. Watson's accomplishments are the result of hard work. "Because I was uncertain of my ability to make it here, I went that extra mile and gave it my best," he said.

Since graduating and entering the Navy's nuclear power program, he has served aboard six submarines. He also served on the staff of Submarine Squadron One in Hawaii and on the faculty of the Navy Submarine School, Groton.

Before becoming the Deputy Commandant, Cdr. Watson conunanded USS JACKSONVILLE, a 688-class, fast attack submarine. While imder his command, the submarine and its crew received numerous awards, and it was nominated for the coveted Golden Anchor Award for overall quality of life, based in part on the improvement of the crew's retention rate from 39 percent to 84 percent in only two years.

Returning to the Academy was like a homecoming. "I never wanted to leave the Academy," he said, "and now, I'm glad to be back in a leadership position where I can contribute to the professional training of the Midshipmen and repay the Academy for all it has done for me.

"During the past 20 years, I've practiced what the Naval Academy taught me, and now I want to pass on what I've learned to the Midshipmen. Both as a Midshipman and as a Naval

Officer, I've seen a special kind of loyalty, commitment and dedication, and I want to inspire those same traits in today's Midshipmen," he said.

One of his favorite quotes is from a Midshipman Jarvis who served aboard USS CONSTELLATION in the 1800s. When a shipmate shouted at Jarvis that the mast he was working on was about to fall, Jarvis yelled back, "If the mast goes, we go with it. Our post is here."

His career is characterized by distinguished service. In 1976, the Navy League selected him as "The Most Outstanding Officer of the Year in the Pacific Area"; in 1977, he was the recipient of the David Lloyd Award for Leadership for being the top leader in his submarine advanced tactics course; and in 1988, the Council of Deans of Engineering of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities selected him as the "Black Engineer of the Year, Government."

In May 1990, he received an American Heritage and Freedom Award which is presented to "individuals and organizations who would make nobel contributions for the progress, welfare and prestige of American citizens of the Black race."

His awards also include a Navy Achievement Medal, three Navy Commendation Medals and three Meritorious Service Medals.

'53 Pavilion Available for Tailgating The Class of '53 Pavilion at the north end of the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium is available for use by all Classes subject to the guidelines of USNAINST 1710.4.

The Pavilion can be routinely used for social functions in conjunction with regularly scheduled athletic events at the Stadium. It has heads, a service area and has about 4,700 square feet of covered area. Its maximimi capacity is 600.

While '53 has priority on all its quinqueimial reunions and the right to use it on one football weekend of its choice during the season, other Classes can request to use the Pavilion on a first-come,first-servedbasis. On Homecoming Weekends, the order of preference generally follows the scheme of quinquennial Reunions with the senior Classes, e.g. 50th, 40th outranking the junior ones, e.g. 20th reunion.

Homecoming arrangements may be made by early contact with the Division of U.S. & International Studies (301) 267-2309 or AUTOVON 281-2309. Reservations for all other athletic events can be made through the Assistant Secretary NAAA at (301) 267-2429 or AUTOVON Shipmate, September 1990

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Currently, the charge for use by a Class is $1,000 to cover maintenance, utilities and cleaning costs.

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The Jade Experience Commander Edward L. Adams USNR (Ret.)

On 31 January 1941, as a Lt (jg) I-VS USNR, I reported to the District Intelligence Officer for the Fifteenth Naval District, Capt. Roscoe F. Dillen USN 04, for active duty in that office.

Headquartered in Balboa, Canal Zone, the Commandant 15ND and also Commander Panama Sea Frontier, was RAdm. F B. Sadler USN 03.

In those pre-war days my duties were varied but soon became closely connected to the Coastal Intelligence Section. When war began, this section became almost entirely involved with anti-submarine intelligence.

Shortly after 7 December 1941 German U-boats intensified their activity off our East Coast. Their operations were almost unopposed as they worked their way south. By Spring they were off Florida's east coast where on 6 May citizens of the little town of Fort Pierce felt the war first hand when the 4,300ton oiler HALSEY was seen torpedoed off shore and the town's hospital treated survivors.

One of the main defenses against U-boats off Florida at that time were the converted yachts from the U.S. Navy Section Base at Port Everglades. These YPs ranged in size from 30-footers with two depth charges and one .30 caliber machine gun to a 110-footer with a little more firepower. The YPs made a valiant but vain effort to stem the encroachment of the U-boats and their well trained crews. Soon the U-boat activity in the Gulf of Mexico accelerated, thus involving the Panama Sea Frontier.

As the subs were far from their home bases, there was speculation as to how they were refueled and provisioned. We assumed they were re-supplied from subsfittedfor this purpose but reports began to come in from nearby countries that the U-boats were being aided by Nazi sympathizers along the Central and South American coasts. For example, a report might say "Sub seen surrounded by small craft transferring fruits and vegetables to sub." Some of these reports were far-fetched but none could be ignored and all had to be checked.

In late-May, Commander Panama Sea Frontier ordered a full investigation of these reports.

USS JADE (PY-17) under the command of Lt. J. F Way USN 27 was assigned the north coast Shipmate, September 1990

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of Colombia to investigate with particular emphasis on the Guajira Peninsula area. Capt. Dillen selected me to go along as intelligence officer and briefed Lt. Way and me on the plan.

I reported aboard JADE in Cristobal on a Sunday afternoon. Capt. Way introduced me to his officers, and we spent a while looking over his ship. I liked JADE. It was a spacious ship of 171 feet in length. It had been one of those luxury yachts but the onlyfinefumishings left now were the teakwood decks, gold plated plumbing fixtures in the captain's or owner's stateroom and silver plated fixtures in the other staterooms. The yacht had once belonged to silent screen actor, Douglas Fairbanks. Now stripped of its fancy fumishings it was ready for action. Just what sort of action might be questionable as it had no sonar or other detection devices and was armed with a 3-inch gun, four .30 caliber machine guns and some depth charges. Our mission, though, to investigate and engage the enemy was not anticipated.

On the following morning we were en route to Cartagena, Colombia. The weather was nice, the sea calm and everything so delightful that you couldn't imagine any shenanigans going on with U-boats. In a few hours we were in the picturesque old port.

In Cartagena, we were met by Colombian naval officials who were most courteous and seemed pleased that we were there. It was at this time that three Colombian naval officers reported aboard JADE. They would act as interpreters and see that things went smoothly be-

tween us and the natives. Their English was not much better than my Spanish but, mixing our two languages, we managed to get along fairly well. They were well cut, genial young men and we were happy to have them aboard.

We spent about two days in Cartagena consulting with United States diplomatic officials and looking around the old city. Among the Americans we talked with was Lt. W C. Hughes USN 31 who was a Naval Observer in Colombia. Most of the information given us was a rehash of that reported to Coml5ND. To keep alive the aura of intelligence, a-la spy novels and movies, a couple of us mingled with some unsavory characters in waterfront saloons. This netted us a few hours of practice in speaking Spanish along with experience in buying drinks for some waterfront specimens.

After our pleasant stay in Cartagena we headed east to Barranquilla where we spent two days in this bustling city near the mouth of the Magdelena River. From here, there would be one more stop before arriving in the bleak area of the Guajira Peninsula.

This stop was the town of Santa Marta. This was a sleepy little town with not much noticeable activity. There was only one American here, the American Vice-Consul, who was not very busy as a consul and so took a keen interest in helping us. At a later date this viceconsul would provide us with a startling report.

Our cruise, so far, had been a pleasant, easy going one in every respect, but this was not to last as we would find out later in the desolate, thinly populated Guajira area.

From Santa Marta eastward there were scant signs of civilization except for tiny settlements, some of which were inhabited by native Indians. These natives were glad to see us and to bum a cigarette or two. It was uninviting territory but at last we arrived at Bahia Honda and anchored in its beautiful bay. It was deep, the water clean and plentiful fish were anxious to be caught. We thought this a great place for U-boats to hide and take on supplies. We anticipated finding hard evidence of such activity.

Once ashore our estimate of the situation changed and some of us wondered if the reports we had received were the mischief of German 21

agents and fed to us for possible entrapment or deception. From our anchorage we had been unable to see the pitiable little settlement we foimd on the high ground surrounding the bay.

The natives were friendly enough but were lacking in even the fimdamental elements needed for survival. Thefirstthing they wanted to know was if we could give them some drinking water. They were entirely dependent on rain water caught in cistems, and, as there had been no rain for some time, they were in desperate need of water. Our first order of business, then, was to transport a barrel of fresh water from JADE.

There were about 40 to 50 people in the settlement, and we were amazed and glad to see how their spirits improved when given the clean, fresh water, an item most of us take for granted. They were pleased to see we had the Colombian officers with us and after the gift of water and some cigarettes they were anxious to help us. We could get no clues as to U-boats being in Bahia Honda but they mentioned another area some ten or twelve miles to the west that we should explore. They knew nothing for sure and might have suggested this just to show their desire to help or to keep up our hopes of finding something of interest.

To reach this spot they said it would be necessary to travel overland. For this we would need horses. The landing party would consist of Lt. Way, the ship's doctor, LCdr. Phillips MC USNR, the three Colombian officers, another ship's officer, three enlisted men and myself. We needed ten horses and where they came from I don't know but the next morning the horses were there.

After an early breakfast we assembled our gear and went ashore to look over the mounts provided us. What a pitiful bunch of animals.

Skinny horses, heads hanging down as if they were exhausted before starting. They were unable to find ten horses so three mules made up the difference. My horse had a lame foot and limped. I asked a native if it would hurt the horse to ride him all day and the native replied that the horse had always been lame and it didn't matter.

With a native as guide, we conunenced our trip west over the barren, desolate land. In the early morning it was not bad but as the sun rose higher we began to feel the heat penetrate our tropical helmets. Steep inclines made the going difficult and the scrawny animals faltered at times but somehow kept going. We soon realized that this sort of thing was not for sailors but more fitting for members of the Foreign Legion. The combination of heat and no shade made inroads in our water supply.

In spite of our slow progress, we finally reached the area the natives suggested we explore. There was nothing there. There was a large, sunken area that if filled with water would have made a sizable bay but now was 22

bone dry. We concluded that this area was unsuitable for clandestine supply operations for submarines. It's hard to remember the details after so many years but this so-called bay is probably the one shown on maps of the Guajira as Bahia de Portete.

Our disappointment over finding nothing here was overshadowed by the dread of the long and thirsty journey back to Bahia Honda for, in our anticipation of finding the evidence we wanted, failed to notice the state of our drinking water. I don't remember if water was spilled or that we consumed too much that morning. Anyway our water supply was very low. My canteen was empty but I did manage to save about five oimces in a coke bottle.

It was the time of day when the sun was at its hottest peak, and it was tough going as we urged our feeble and thirsty mounts through the torrid, desolate wildemess of the peninsula.

Looking southward we could see snow capped peaks on a mountain range and this sight made us more thirsty. At one point Lt. Way passed out and fell from his horse. It was a scary moment for all of us as we wondered to ourselves who would be next to fall. We gathered around Way and tried to make shade for him while fanning him with our tropical helmets. After about 15 minutes Dr. Phillips was able to revive him and we continued our joumey.

All we could think about that hot afternoon was the cold water aboard JADE and what fools we were to think that sailors could travel in a territory where hardened Arab nomads would not want to go. What a relief to arrive back to beautiful Bahia Honda and slake our thirst aboard JADE. Our exhausted mounts, though, had to satisfy their thirst with the stagnant water in the cistems. What a pity they couldn't have clean, cold water too.

The next morning we departed Bahia Honda.

Before heading for Panama we stopped briefly at Santa Marta. As soon as we came in sight of the dock at Santa Marta we saw the American Vice-Consul, I mentioned earlier, hurrying to greet us. He was very excited and we wondered why he seemed overjoyed to see us. We knew why when he shouted "Gee, I'm glad to see you. Berlin radio reported last night that JADE had been torpedoed and no survivors."

Needless to say this statement had a profound effect on our yacht's crew as nearly all of us had never had combat experience. We pondered what a torpedo could do to our little ship or even a sub's deck gun for that matter. That night en route to Panama there were a lot of people, including me, sleeping topside, figuring that in case of attack there might be more chance of survival. Along the way we passed flotsam and jetsom from ships torpedoed earlier. We looked for survivors but found none.

We were to leam later that U-boats had been very successful in this area with little opposition. The U-boats were to continue to have

good hunting in the months ahead and their actions were often very bold. Some examples: a U-boat shelled the oil refineries at Aruba, a freighter was sunk while loading cargo at dock on Port Limon, Costa Rica, and USS ERIE was torpedoed near Curacao.

We were also to leam later that the intelligence team investigating U-boat supply reports in the eastern Central American coast found some of these reports were based on facts. This team met strong opposition at times.

One of its members, an army lieutenant, was murdered, presumably by enemy agents.

Because of radio silence we had been out of touch with Com 15ND headquarters in Balboa.

When we arrived home safely our people seemed pleased to see us and didn't fuss with us for our failed efforts in finding evidence of U-boat supply activity in the area we covered.

Finding no evidence didn't mean there was no funny stuff going on in Colombia. The Germans had lots of good coimections in many South American countries and Nazi agents were very skillful in all of their operations.

These agents probably fed us the Guajira reports just to keep us busy.

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Motor Launch to Superliner Making of a Shiphandler Captain William H. McCaughey USN (Ret.)

Love of the sea and ships came to me at an early age. Being the son of a professional Navy man, I decided at the tender age of six or seven that I wanted to follow in my Dad's footsteps, go to Naval Academy and be a Naval Officer. In pursuit of this goal, I never deviated an inch.

My first real fascination with the sea, ships and boathandling didn't really blossom, however, until I was in my early teens. At that time, my father was serving as a destroyer captain in the old Asiatic Fleet. During this period, my happiest days were those spent on Dad's old "four piper," the destroyer SMFTH THOMPSON (DD-212), while she lay at anchor at the Fleet's Summer base at Chefoo, North China, or in Manila harbor in the Philippines during the Winter. Many are the days I would get up early to catch the first trip of Dad's gig or the ship's motor launch at the Fleet landing in Chefoo or at the old Army and Navy Club landing in Manila.

Once on my Dad's ship I would make it a point to catch every boat trip during the day.

On these boat runs, I would cajole or pester the coxswains incessantly to permit me to steer and make the various shore side landings. Although the boat crews may sometimes have looked on me as a pest or the "old man's brat," they would generally let me handle the boats while at the same time giving me some sound, expert pointers. Evenmally, I got pretty good at handling the ship's boats and my overwhelming enthusiasm for the pastime seemed to amuse the boat crews whom I treasured as friends.

From these wonderful, impressionable days onward, I would never get enough boathandling, although such opportunities were few and far between—until Ifinallyattained my career goal of being admitted to the Naval Academy. At the Academy, we were given a little "do it yourself shiphandling in conducting "bumper drills" with the YP boats—but not nearly enough for me.

Graduation orders in 1942 to PT boats gave me my first grand and glorious opportunity to engage intensively in my favorite sport. We had a great deal of practical "hands on" ship handling instruction at the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center at Newport Shipmate, September 1990

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(Melville), Rhode Island as a part of the required course of training for future PT boat skippers.

Upon graduation from the Torpedo Boat School, I received orders to report as Executive Officer of a PT boat in the training squadron at Melville, Rhode Island. Assuming that I would spend quite some time in this billet, I was truly surprised, elated and lucky when, after only ten days as Exec, my skipper suddenly received orders to a combat squadron, and I was directed to take over the boat temporarily in his place.

Apparently I must have pleased or satisfied the squadron commander in the way I handled the boat, as he decided to let me stay on as permanent skipper. This happy event mde me, as far as I know, thefirstmember of my Class to command a warship. In any event, I'm certain that the elation and pride that I felt about this, my first command, was just as intense as that felt by the skipper of a NEW jERSEY-class battleship. Better I thought to be a big pea in a little pot than a little pea in a big pot!

During my first few months as a PT boat skipper in the training squadron, I had the interesting experience of participating in the shiphandling training of our future President, John F Kennedy, as well as Paul Fay, a future Navy Secretary, and Byron White, a future Justice of the Supreme Court. Motor Torpedo Boats seemed to attract many famous young sport world personalities and Ivy League types from prominent families, or who later became prominent in their own right.

Handling a PT boat in the training squadron.

and later in a combat squadron, was A-1 training for a guy like me who wanted to hone his abilities as a boat handler. The boats— weighing only 50 tons with three Packard engines, each of 12 cylinders and 1500 HP, three propellers and two rudders, plus a steering wheel fitted with a fast spinning, one hand operated "necker's handle"—could be made to do most anything, including walking sideways!

Shiphandling of larger vessels came my way a few years later when I was given command of a 251-foot ASR (submarine rescue and salvage vessel)—the largest tug-type craft in the Navy.

This tour of sea duty provided me with terrific training in the intracacies of handling a sizable single-screw ship where propeller torque effect is most pronounced. ASR command was followed by two submarine commands, an LSD (landing ship dock) command, and a AO (fleet oiler) command—all of which checked me out very well in the handling of twin-screw ships of various sizes.

Having started off in smaller ships (PT, ASR and SS) where no pilots and tugs are required or needed gave me the confidence and determination to always want to do all of my own ship handling—no matter what ship I commanded. As larger ships, such a LSDs and AOs normally called for the services of a pilot and tug(s), I was forever engaged in trying to inform, diplomatically, the pilots who came aboard that I would berth or unberth my own ship. Usually, after many dire wamings by the pilot of the possible consequences of docking of large vessels without the assistance of tugs and pilot—I would go ahead and happily do the shiphandling entirely by myself. Over a period of time, I finally was able to win the Navy pilots over from an attitude of mild irritation, to grudging respect and finally to friendship by successfully doing my own shiphandling under their critical observance.

One of the Long Beach Naval Base civilian pilots, whom I especially liked and respected, suggested that, since I loved shiphandling so much, I might want to become a Navy civilian pilot following my retirement from the Navy.

This suggestion really startled and fascinated me, as I had always thought that piloting was 23

only open to ex-Merchant Marine skippers with long years of experience and distinct nepotistic connections. My pilot friend further stimulated my interest by stating that, in view of my many seagoing commands, the Commandant of the Coast Guard might approve of my taking the regular examination for an Unlimited Master Mariner's License—thus bypassing the normal path of first serving as a 3rd, 2nd and 1st Mate.

Needless to say, I didn't have to be prodded into following up on this vital bit of retirement job intelligence. Almost immediately, I drafted a request to the Coast Guard Commandant accompanied by a transcript of my seagoing command experience andfiredit off to Washington.

To my great delight, I received a prompt reply authorizing me to take the examination for an original Master Mariner's License (Unlimited, any tonnage, any ocean).

cone. The imaginary line connecting the marker buoy and stem buoy forms the axis of the moor which is usually oriented in line with the prevailing weather. The tanker itself is slowly maneuvered into the moor on a heading at right angles to the axis. One bower anchor is dropped on one side of the axis and the other bower anchor is dropped on the other side of the axis. The ship is then brought to a stop and with a little minor maneuvering and help from the weather, the centerline of the ship is rotated 90 degrees pretty much in line with the axis of the moor. At this point, a small motor tender starts running mooring lines out to the five mooring buoys. When all the lines are secured to the buoys, the ship's cargo loading manifold, is, by adjusting the mooring lines, prositioned adjacent to the end of a subsurface pipeline leading from the tank farm ashore.

Following three years of intensive spare time study while on shore duty at the Pentagon, I took the very comprehensive Marter's exam in the Baltimore Coast Guard offices. The exam was quite grueling and took approximately ten days to complete—but I passed and was, to my great pride and satisfaction, awarded my Merchant Marine Master's License.

A few months before my normal 30-year retirement from the Navy, I received, through a friend, a very tempting job offer to command a large ocean-going marine salvage vessel operated by the Murphy Pacific Marine Salvage Company. As accepting this job would enable me to avoid losing a large portion of my Navy retired pay under the Dual Compensation Act, I decided to put my desire to be a Navy civilian pilot "on the back burner" for a while! The result of this decision converted my into a Merchant Marine skipper of the ocean salvage ship GEAR based in San Pedro, California. I held this job for almost five years until the company decided to lay the ship up after the close of the Viet Nam War. My years on this specialized vessel offered me the opportunity to glean a wealth of additional and varied shiphandling experience pecufiar to heavy, open sea marine salvage work.

On leaving GEAR, I was fortunate enough to get a job as a mooring master pilot with Brandenburger Marine—a company handling contracts for the mooring of tankers of all sizes in off-shore, oil transfer morrings along the California coastline.

The mooring of tankers in off-shore moorings is primarily a "seat of the pants" shiphandling operation requiring a good seaman's eye.

Briefly described—you maneuver a big, unwieldy, single-screw tanker, without the assistance of tugs, into a cone-shaped cluster of five large mooring buoys and one marker buoy.

The marker buoy marks the seaward extremity and apex of the cone. The cluster of five mooring buoys—two beam buoys, two quarter buoys, and one stem buoy form the curve of the

In conjunction with my work for Brandenburger Marine, I was also able to qualify as a lightening master pilot—a job involving the atsea transfer of oil from a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) to a smaller supertanker. The VLCCs, because of their immense size and deep draft, cannot unload in port and hence have to be unloaded at sea by smaller tankers able to get alongside an oil terminal dock in port.

As a Ughtening pilot, my job consisted of conning the smaller tanker into a closely controlled, underway marrying of the two ships, with the side swiping, shock of contact being cushioned by an array of four huge (12-foot in diameter) Yokohama fenders towed alongside the larger tanker. Once contact was made, a forward spring line was passed while the smaller tanker was steamed against it to hold the two shipsfirmlytogether while adequate additional lines were run. When the vessels were tightly married, the smaller tanker was stopped and the larger tanker towed it alongside at four knots while the oil cargo was transferred. It normally takes four trips of the smaller tanker to various shore terminals to unload the VLCC, which steams in the same general area until completely unloaded.

After two years with Brandenburger Marine, I was fortunate enough to be able to compete for an opening as a Port of Los Angeles port pilot—the job of port pilot being the ultimate goal of a professional shiphandler. As Los Angeles pilots are city civil service employees, I was able to compete for the position even at the advanced age of 57. Fortunately for me, I made the grade and was hired. I could not have hoped to land such a "plum" job in most other major port areas, where independent, private pilot associations or companies usually handle all forms of piloting work. Tliey are generally nepotistic and/or very discriminating in hiring their new pilots from among younger, experienced Merchant Marine masters or tug boat skippers.

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As a result of my past shiphandling experience, it did not take me long to feel quite comfortable in my new job as port pilot. The work rapidly became extremely stimulating and enjoyable as a result of the welcome chaUenges posed by a myriad variety of ship types and sizes—not to mention the additional pleasure of meeting and working with seagoing people of all maritime nations. I might add at this point that I like my job so much that I frequently think of it in terms of being paid very well for playing all day in a big watery play pen!

In my early days of shiphandling as a junior officer in submarines, I was frequently very frustrated by serving with a skipper who seemed to believe that there was only one way to handle a ship and that was his way. If your timing or order did not conform exactly with his game plan, he would immediately belay or countermand your order and substimte his own. This would be reasonable if his boat was in real danger, but when this was definitely not the case, such action on his part just knocked me completely off-key, and imdermined my confidence. Formnately for me, during most of my seagoing career in the Navy, I was the skipper and could pretty much rim my own show, for better or for worse.

As a ship captain, and remembering my own frustrations as a junior officer in shiphandling simations, I made a special effort to let my young officers do their own thing and correct their own mistakes as long as there was no obvious danger or extremis situation developing.

After their berthing or imberthing job was completed, I would ask them to tell me what they thought they didrightor wrong and/or how they thought they could have done better I foimd that letting the JOs have a real crack at shiphandling did much to improve wardroom morale.

In order to be a good shiphandler, I feel it is essential to really like or love the art of handling ships. Conversely, I don't see how anyone can be a good shiphandler if he is afraid of his ship or doesn't thoroughly enjoy handling it in a wide variety of challenging situations. As for my own outlook, I can truthfully say that there are few things I can think of that give me more pleasure, pride or feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment than putting a big ship safely and smartly alongside a berth in the face of difficult circumstances.

As I said, one interesting fringe benefit of being a port pilot is the numerous opportunities to observe and converse with seagoing f)eople of many nations. Of all the ships I have handled, I especially enjoy handling Japanese vessels because of the consistent smartness and professionalism demonstrated by their masters and crewmen. Japanese ships are almost all large, modem and beautifully equipped. Their seamen, with rare exceptions, seem to do everything right in the getting over, prompt hanShipmate, September 1990

dling and securing of mooring lines. This is very important for the pilot, as the sloppy, improper handling of lines can turn an otherwise good berthing into a sloppy mess—particularly in offberth wind situations or during onetug jobs where it is especially important to get a stem line on the dock and secured expeditiously. Some ship captains seem to have little or no control over their line handlers who, when acting on their own, will not infrequently foul things up by holding lines you want to have slacked, slacking lines you want to hold, heaving on lines you just want to keep free of slack and/or allowing loose coils of lines to float in the water near the propeller, making it near impossible to use safely the screw at critical times during the proper positioning of the ship.

Landsmen may wonder if language barriers ever hamper a pilot in the performance of his duties. The answer is "no," as English is the intemational language of the Sea and sea-going people worldwide speak and understand a standard phraseology common to all. Sea-going persons throughout the maritime world also have a common appreciation of competent shiphandling and will frequently express this appreciation of a good job by means of a hearty "well done" along with a gift of some sort— usually a bottle of spirits, a carton of cigarettes or a shipping company souvenir.

Large marchant vessels are not built to make a shiphandler's job easy. They are designed and constructed primarily to load, carry from point "A" to point "B," and unload the largest possible payload in the quickest, most cost-efficient manner possible. This fact is the reason most modem, oceangoing vessels are large, diesel powered and driven by a single, large propeller The fact that they are awkward and unwieldy to handle around harbors and docks is not considered a controlling factor, since the cost of hiring a pilot and tugs is incidental when compared to fuel and overhead costs on the one hand and the overall value of the cargo and its expeditious handling on the other.

Rapid and efficient berthing and unberthing of large oceangoing merchant vessels normally requires the use of from one to three tugboats—depending upon the length and loading draft. Utilizing a combination of ship's power and mg power, the port pilot can put any size ship safely alongside a dock in even the tightest situations. A high degree of coordination between ship and tug movements is attained by the pilot through use of his VHF "Walkie Talkie" radio, supplemented by oral orders to the ship's helmsman and engine order telegraph operator. Any significant breakdown in good communications between all parties can be disastrous in terms of damage to dock and ship.

To guard against mistakes and misunderstandings, all orders are repeated back by the recipient and the tug boat captains acknowledge VHF orders by blowing their whistles. On most Shipmate, September 1990

ships, and most particularly those with large, wide bridges, the captain will monitor and assist in good communications by passing the pilot's orders with his own "Walkie Talkie" to his wheelhouse personnel. Although the ship's captain still has overall responsibility, he, in almost all cases, is perfectly content to stand and observe and, as stated, ensure an efficient flow of orders.

Shiphandling involving merchant vessels is mostly a matter of using common sense in conjunction with the pilot's accumulated experience in handling all kinds and sizes of ships.

The principles are all the same, but nearly all ships have their own little handling idiosyncracies. Some steer much easier than others, some answer "bells" much faster or slower than others, some are affected by wind much more than others, and some torque much more violently than others. On the really big tankers and container ships of around 900 to 1000 feet in length, depth perception and a feel for subtended distances ahead are important factors in the overall shiphandling problem and must always be kept in mind—particularly in restricted sea room areas of a harbor Once aboard, however, it doesn't take the pilot long to size up a ship's handling characteristics and get the "feel" of the ship.

A ship's torque characteristics are of particular concern in safe shiphandling, and no more so than in the case of large, heavy, deeply laden, single-screw ships—especially super tankers and bulk carriers. The effects of uncontrolled torque can be disastrous if such a vessel is proceeding in a narrow channel with too much speed, and is suddenly compelled to stop by some unforeseen obstruction. Backing full magnifies torque tremendously and causes the ship to sheer sharply to starboard. If the pilot is lucky enough to have his tug(s) made up alongside, he can usually counter the torque, but not always! Without tugs alongside the ship would be up the well known "creek." The same dangerous situation can develop if a ship is approaching a dock for a starboard-side landing with too much speed. Here again, backing with the excessive speed can cause the bow to torque into the dock. In like manner, when making a one tug port-side landing too close and too fast with a small aproach angle, the pilot may not be able to check the stem's torque toward the dock. This could result in the ship's stem slamming into the dock with resultant damage to ship and berth. By proceeding at a prudent speed to fit each situation, the ship can be backed, slowed or stopped before real danger develops—with available tug(s) being used as necessary to keep the ship under firm control.

The name of the game with torque is to let it work for the pilot instead of giving him gray hair. Handlers of twin-screw ships are fortunate for torque effect can be used as desired or eliminated altogether by even backing of both screws.

A primary consideration when placing tugs preliminary to berthing an ocean going vessel is to have a tug made up to the port bow as early as possible. A tug in this position can keep a ship out of trouble both en route to and while approaching a berth by neutralizing undesired torque when, or if, the pilot is obliged to back.

A twin-screw tug made up to the bow is most desireable since it is able to quickly adjust to any desired angle relative to the ship's centerline and hold that position with relative ease.

In cases where a ship is provided with a single screw tug for a starboard-side landing, the pilot must have him secure a stem line as well as a head line and forward spring line so that the tug can maintain the desired angle to the ship's hull even when backing for relatively long periods of time. If the tug did not have a stern line secured to the ship, his backing torque would quickly swing his stern around to such an extent that all "lifting" effect would rapidly be lost. A single-screw tug placed on the starboard bow for a port-side landing will quickly torque up against the side of the ship if he is backed very long. This situation is not as critical as a starboard-side landing as the ship's own torque effect, when backing, will obviate the necessity for prolonged backing "lift" from the starboard bow tug. The possible undesirable effects of torque and too little lifting power can be minimized if the pilot approaches the berth wide and stops the ship completely 30 or 40 feet off the face of the berth. Such a tactic, although not very dashing, will give plenty of room to absorb any serious errors and prevent possible damage to the dock or ship. In this situation, all the pilot has to do when the ship is dead in the water is have the tug slowly push the bow toward the dock, or lift it with very short periods of backing.

If the pilot is provided with two tugs, the second tug can also help neutralize undesired torque if the stern of the ship is configured so as to allow the tug to make up on the centerline of the stern transom. It is particularly comforting for the pilot to have a tug in this position when making a port-side landing with the other tug on the starboard bow. A tug can also be spotted on the ship's quarters. When in this position however, the tug cannot provide much "lifting" assistance unless the ship is dead in the water or nearly so. Two-tug dockings are relatively easy even if your approach to a berth is not particularly good as long as you stop the ship well off the dock. In such cases, it is just a matter of having your tugs slowly push the ship laterally and evenly up against the dock.

When approaching a berth for a port-side landing with only one tug made up on the starboard bow, it is best to approach the dock at slow speed and at a sizable approach angle so that the ship will be near dead in the water by the time the angle has been consumed by the torque effect of backing. If the stem should still 25

swing dangerously close to the dock face, the pilot can quickly counter the torque induced swing by putting the mdder "hard" toward the dock and give the ship a short kick ahead.

When making a starboard-side landing alongside a berth, the pilot can use the ship's backing torque to "kill" or check a mdderinduced swing of the stem toward the dock.

Having the port bow mg come ahead at right angles to the ship will also slow or stop the stem's swing toward the dock. Conversely, having the port mg back will accelerate the swing of the stem toward the dock and also tend to slow the ship's headway, ff necessary, the pilot can again check the swing of the stem one way or the other by a brief "belt" with the propeller with the rudder hard over.

Frequently a pilot is faced with the problem of backing a large, single-screw ship to a berth a considerable distance up a narrow channel.

This type of transit can be safely and easily made in spite of obvious steering-while-backing problems posed by the troublesome torque effect. This evolution is handled by the pilot placing a mg on either bow, depending on which side of the vessel will be placed alongside the dock, secured with three tug lines (a head line, a spring line and a stem line) in such a manner that the mg is positioned at an angle of roughly 45 degrees to the ship's centerline, looking forward. In this position, the tug can be ordered to either push or pull on the ship's bow to counteract undersired torque and, in effect, steer the stem of the ship in the desired direction while backing. If the ship is backed slow enough, the mg can vary his angle to the ship's centerline by slacking the mg's stemline for more positive control.

Another important thing every pilot must always keep in mind is the position and status of his mgs while maneuvering, in order that these important helpers will not be subjected to avoidable danger. There are some tie-up simations for tugs that involve great danger to them if the pilot is careless or forgets where they are and how they are secured to the ship. It is quite possible to capsize and sink a mg, wipe him off yoiu- side, or severely injure or kill mg crewmen. Sudden unexpected and unannoimced bursts of speed when tugs are securing or casting off can part tug lines or place a mg "in irons" with obvious danger to mg crewmen.

Any pilot would be well advised never to get a reputation for insensitivity or lack of safety consideration toward the mg boats, for their full cooperation, or lack thereof, can make or break any pilot.

If a pilot should be in the predicament where no mgboats are available—say, during a mgboat strike—and he still must dock an incoming ship, he can use what is known as the "Poor Man's Tugboat"—the ship's anchor! In this situation, while the ship is slowly closing the dock, the pilot can direct that one shot of an26

chor and chain be dropped. Since there is not enough chain in the water for the anchor to "dig in," the ship can be slowly steamed ahead against the deadweight of anchor and chain, which will "sled" along the bottom and tend to stabilize the ship's box and heading. Even if the anchor should "dig in," the chain can be payed out as necessary to allow forward movement.

In either case, the anchor and chain not only stabilize the bow, but serve to brake the ship as well when the engines are stopped, thus eliminating the undesirable torque effect caused by backing. When close to the dock, a series of short "kicks ahead" with appropriate use of the mdder to refine the heading will enable the ship to be maneuvered easily alongside where the mooring fines can be passed.

Several other shiphandling simations must always be kept in mind when maneuvering large, deeply laden ships in narrow channels.

Ships secured to docks must always be passed at greatly reduced speed to avoid lifting or sucking them off the dock by the sudden rash of water into the void caused by the passing vessel. This happening can be disastrous if the other ship's mooring lines snap while they are handling cargo. Further, pilots must be alert to quickly compensate for leeway caused by crosswinds while proceeding in narrow channels. Excessive leeway can force a ship sideways, so close to the shore or docks that the pilot is suddenly unable to diverge and finds himself "in irons."

Some pilot jobs are much more enjoyable than others. I especially enjoy putting large vessels into tight berths because of the challenge involved and the sense of satisfaction one gets from successfully completing a tough job.

Another task that is very pleasant is the handling of large cruise ships. Some cruise ships, especially those equipped with twin screws and a bow thraster, are handled by their skippers.

These ships are very responsive and easy to handle and their captains enjoy "showing off' for the admiring passengers—most of whom are very easily impressed. Most cmise ships use at least some mg assistance, especially those with steam plants and those without bow thrusters. Even when a cruise ship has twin propellers and a bow thruster, some skippers are a Uttle nervious and still do not want to do their own berthing and unberthing work; they seem perfectiy happy to let the pilot handle the job. Still other captains are influenced by their owners and underwriters who prefer pilots to handle their ships because of insurance considerations and other risk factors.

In the case of risk factors caused by shiphandling in "pea soup" fogs, the pilots will dock and undock vessels if two conditions are met.

First of all, the captian must request that it be done and accept the risks involved; secondly, the performance of the ship's radar must be excellent. Most ship masters prefer to wait at an-

chor until the fog dissipates, but some, particularly cruise ship skippers on a tight schedule, are game to "give it a go!"

My all-time favorite cruise ship job is handling QUEEN ELIZABETH II—the world's second largest passenger vessel. The sheer size of the ship gives one a real high in terms of a feeling of professional satisfaction when you have put her smoothly and safely alongside her berth. The pilot always does all of the shiphandling on this famous ship.

At this point, let me drop a few words of wisdom for aspiring pilots! Although you might occasionally have the urge to be a dashing, "one bell landing" hotshot or show-off— suppress the inclination! In most cases, you are dealing with huge weights which can, with even relatively fight contact with docks or other ships, do a huge amount of expensive damage.

A pilot always must remember that, although the ship's master is at all times responsible for the safety of his ship, he can be held Uable for negUgence and/or incompetence and could lose hisficenseand/or be fined by the Coast Guard.

A smooth, unhurried, well controlled flow of ship's motion toward a berth is always better than the daring, dashing approach—particularly when handling big, heavy container ships and supertankers almost a fifth of a mile long.

As they might say in Korea—"Things may be fine on the bridge, but your bow may be in deep tdmche" (i.e. deep trouble). It is a good idea not to give the captain a heart attack or soil his underwear.

In the happy event that the ship you are handling is your own, you can show off to your heart's content. As for this pilot, my fondest "ship jockey" fantasy has been to make a one bell, mgless berthing of a 1000-ft)ot, fiilly loaded supertanker alongside a dock.

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Beware the Eclipse Captain Selwyn H. Graham, Jr. USNR (Ret.)

Sometime during 1955 or 1956, and I can not now place the time of occurrence more precisely, there was a total eclipse of the sun which was most visible in the country of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and in southem India. I was ALUSNA Colombo at the time it occurred, and there were notable happenings in the area aroimd and about which still offer vivid memories.

My awareness of its advent came with a request to arrange for the privilege of landing a USAF plane a few days ahead of the acmal phenomenon. It carried members of a scientific expedition hoping to gather photographic and other information for complete study and analysis. After their arrival these people were stationed at several well spaced vantage points to assure the best possible chances of visibility. I could not be included in any of their groups sent into the countryside, but was able at least to get a spectacular view from my home and to observe local action resulting from the eclipse.

Let me digress for a moment to provide information about the locale. The vast majority of the country's population at that time was educated sparsely. School attendance was required for all youngsters, and reading was possible for all but a very small percentage; but secondary schooling was spotty at best. The written language is indigenous in character, and is, I beUeve, basically Sanskrit with Hindi influence.

Ancestral origins of the population were Sinhalese, (probably over 90%), Tamils from southem India, and a small number of Muslims, Maldivians, and Malaysians. Not many had viewed the world outside Ceylon. Astrological signs affected their lives to a great extent, and much of their planning and outlook was built around auspicious portents. And an event as great as the full eclipse of the sun, occurring very seldom in a lifetime, was regarded as both a physical and mental danger. Caution must prevail, and preparations must be made to minimize or offset its harmful effects.

Thus the tone was set for what was about to happen, and to surprise greatiy those people who lived there temporarily as guests of the country. Word was spread by printed means, by Shipmate, September 1990

village elders and by tribal consultation that there were certain ways that the potentially harmful results of the coming eclipse could be countered. Some of the advice amounted to nothing more than staying at home out of reach of danger during the critical hours leading up to and away from the eclipse, naturally with praying and wailing to prevent the incursion of evil.

Unfortimately, other advice included taking potions or eating substance that would normally create problems within the human body.

For a few days prior to the eclipse, and throughout the country, greedy boutique owners and other entrepreneurs advertised widely concoctions they had developed, and asserted without quaUfication that one must have these to survive. Others offered packages of various roots and herbs as the substance best suited to divert the evil spirits, and still others offered physical treatment to do the job. Existing medical facilities were alerted to be ready to assist all who would be in difficulty.

There were at the time probably fewer than half a dozen facilities that could be called hospitals in the entire country, and these few claimed on their staffs practically all those who could be termed modem doctors by virtue of education and practice. The major part of the country had "ayurvedic" practitioners who were undoubtedly well-versed in first aid and who otherwise provided to villagers locally made medicines and tonics which had developed in years past and handed down through generations. There were infirmaries which could provide beds, reasonable sanitation, and a resting place for those who needed rest and consolation. This was the existing situation when, beginning two or three days prior to the eclipse, men, women and children in increasing thousands were brought in, all suffering from the effects of whatever they had swallowed.

People, mostly inert, were brought in bouncing along in bullock carts, wheelbarrows, or in any wheeled vehicle available. Naturally there were not enough beds to accommodate the thousands afflicted, and the overflow late-comers were put on mats on the floors of

rooms, hallways and open verandas. Some were even simply left on the flat beds of the carts in which they had been conveyed, until emetics and stomach pumps could be spared to assist them in recovery. It was determined that many had swallowed kerosene or other petroleum products mixed with herbs recommended by the gurus of the villages. Some had mixed raw herbal products with water, and unfortunately some had absorbed matters which were close to being totally poisonous. Insofar as I could determine, no tally was made of the numbers who actually succumbed to the effects of the havoc they had visited upon themselves, but there was an estimate of a few hundred. All this to ward off the influence of a total eclipse of the sun.

There was one very startling phenomenon which could be observed by all who watched birds and other small animals. The eclipse occurred at about 0900 when creamres were feeding heavily after a night of rest. By thetimehalf of the sun was occulted (the moon was probably in perihelion at the time), there were squawks and shrieks from startled fauna; and just before the sun became hidden entirely there was swift movement from all to get back to nests or roosting places or dens. Ravens were particularly vocal at having their timetables knocked askew by this unknown factor, and there was a sudden and undoubtedly sullen silence when the eclipse became total. The dark period did not last long, however, and rapid movement back to feeding grounds came along with the sun's rays.

It was an eerie experience for all of us who were fortunate enough to see it. Not having been privy to papers prepared by members of the scientific expedition I can only guess that many would have included information about the effects on human and animal population. It was quite a show.

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Through the Eye Captain Robert W. Slater USN (Ret.)

was following. Westerly at first, then swinging west-northwest, it was aimed dead at us . . . but about three days away, it made a big turn to the north and, eventually, brushed Bermuda. This greatly encouraged me—not that I had anything against Bermuda—but all my experience indicated that once the storms started curving to the north before striking the US inainland, they would probably continue to do so.

So, following Gabrielle, along came Hugo, on much the same track. It creamed the Virgin Islands the weekend of 16-17 September on a west-northwest track, and then tumed northwest, straight for Savannah. I was not too concemed at this stage, first, because Hugo had been greatly weakened by its encounter with land and, second, because Gabrielle having turned north, I thought Hugo would too. By Wednesday aftemoon, 20 September, I thought I saw sure signs of a northward tum, and predicted a landfall about at the South CarolinaNorth Carolina state line . . . maybe as far north as Wilmington. Nevertheless—even though we were going (on the basis of my prediction) to be on the "good" side of the storm, I decided to take Thiffsday off and move all the ftimiture and furnishings on the lowest level up to the next one, about five feet higher.

Probably the decisive factor in that decision was a phone call Tuesday night from my older son—a real weather buff—saying that Hugo was going to pass within 20 miles of us, and he was coming down. I should say that he is more knowledgeable about the weather, especially the violent aspects of it, than anyone I have ever known.

It is his major hobby . . . he goes to In the ten years since, I have paid great attention to the hurricane pattems around Oklahoma during tornado season, to track the Charleston. The danger period, in my opinion, storms there! So we have asked him—indeed, centers around the first two weeks of Septem- directed—that he never visit during hurricane ber. Earlier than that, the storms seem to track season. Nevertheless, ignoring parental direcmore westerly, and go into the Gulf. Later than tion, he was on his way, and that was enough that, they tend to curve to the north, and miss to make me question my analysis . . . but, frankly, it still looked good. us to the east.

We had not had a hurricane since, although Since there is no sense passing up volunteer there were a few that looked to be coming our (?) labor, we pressed son into service Thursday way But last year I did not like at all the track moving furniture. We had a shed in the back the storm which came to be named Gabrielle yard, for lawnmowers, garden tools, etc; wife

One of the things all career Navy people seem to have in common is a far-above-thenorm understanding of the weather, and especially of the processes of violent storms. This comes, of coiurse, from remembered experiences of riding out those storms at sea (or plotting courses to avoid them), and the inevitable living on the East Coast of the US or the typhoon-prone areas of WestPac. When I retired from the Navy in 1978 we decided, after some research, to settle in Charleston, South Carolina, knowing full well that Charleston gets an occasional hurricane.

And we got one—David, in September of 1979, less than a year after we moved there.

David was a problem only because I had become a marsh afficionado—our property backs right up on a marsh, across a tidal creek, and having the marsh for a neighbor is very nice. The corresponding problem is that the lowest deck of my house is only four feet above mean high water. David was a modest hurricane, but it came ashore south of Charleston, which meant that the winds at CPA would be out of the southeast, more or less, which happens to coincide with the orientation of the entrance to Charleston harbor, so that the winds would be blowing the water in rather than out.

As a result, we got about a foot of water on the lowest level of my tri-level. It was not nice clean water . . . no, it coated everything it touched with black slimy mud. But it was only a foot deep, and we had moved everything movable up to the next level, so that while it was a considerable nuisance, it was not a genuine catastrophe.

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and I had planned to tie that down, since I anticipated maximum winds of 50-60 knots. No; there is no reasoning with these 40-year-old kids who are convinced they know better. He demolished the shed, lest it become a missile.

Between us we did secure the house as best we could, heavily taping the big bow window, stowing and tieing down everything that had to be left outdoors, and putting plywood in front of the big sliding glass doors on the south side, under the screened porch.

Midmoming Thursday, state troopers drove up and down the street with bullhoms: "By order of the governor of South Carolina, you are ordered to evacuate this area." My inclination was to go, since we had done all that we could reasonably do, the only problem being that we have an old, blind, cocker spaniel, and the word on the radio and television was that while people were welcome at shelters and motels, pets were not. We would not have liked leaving old Jack.

Wife wanted to stay, because she thought the house would fare much better with someone in it than otherwise. (It tumed out she was right about that.) Son wanted to stay, because he had come to see the storm, and did not want to be deprived of it; however, he did think his parents should leave. Being, naturally, in command I made a command decision: we would wait until mid-to-late afternoon and get afinalreading on the storm; then THE DECISION would be made. At that time, midmorning, Hugo had settled back on the old Savannah track. If it continued to follow that—and we are only talking about 12 hours or so now—the storm would come in on the "wrong" side . . . that is, we would get the storm surge from the southeast winds . . . but the CPA would be 80 miles or so; the winds would probably not top 45 knots, and the surge would be maybe 3 feet or so (my estimate for my location, which is exposed, but not spectacularly so).

Throughout late moriung and early afternoon I continued to monitor weather broadcasts (not hard—it was absolutely all you could get); the wind, while gentle, was steadily out of the northeast. Conclusion: the Weather Bureau was Shipmate, September 1990

saying Savannah, but the winds were saying Charleston.

By midaftemoon, when THE DECISION was to be made, it had already been preempted: the traffic on 1-26—the only viable escape route from Charleston under these conditions—was so heavy that the speed of advance, according to the media, was four miles per hour! There is no way we could live with that . . . we would be caught in the open, halfway to Columbia. So we were going to have to stay and tough it out. We knew of two other families in the neighborhood who were planning already to stay . . . a muster the next morning confirmed that was the total count.

At dusk, the weather was amazingly good; cloudy, but not yet raining; winds, still steadily out of the northeast, but only about 10 knots.

We had a leism-ely diimer, and prepared for a long night.

It started to rain about 2(XX), but not hard, and the winds were still fight. We had plenty of candles, and plenty offlashUghtstoo, although the power was still on and unblinking. I was still monitoring the wind direction, and it was an absolutely steady northeast. I remember saying that I would rather take the eye than the storm surge and, in retrospect, I would stick by that. But I would just as soon pass up either As the evening passed, nothing much changed, although the steady, and rapid, strengthening of the storm was reported. It had left the Virgin Islands/Puerto Rico area at about 105 miles per hour . . . as it approached the southeast coast of the US it went quickly from 105 to 115, then 125, tiien 130 and finally 135 mph. It was still raining, Ughtly; the wind continued out of the northeast, but light; the barometer stayed pretty steady; every hour, the news put the eye about 22 miles closer to Savannah (and Charleston).

The rain did intensify moderately, but the first interesting thing that happened was that we lost power at 2227. It went on and off, briefly, a few times before that, but at 2227 it was terminal. As I mentioned earlier, we were ready with candles, flashlights and battery-powered radios, so it was no real problem. More to the point, the winds were now up to maybe 40 mph—still no big deal—and it was raining harder. We continued to track the storm, since there was not much else to do, and even the Weather Bureau now decided it was headed for Charleston.

After 2300 the noise level rose rapidly. It became so loud that we, sitting in the kitchen on the south side of the house, could hardly hear the radio because of the wind beating on the north side of the house. We have an aneroid barometer; it read about 29.70 at 2300 or so— low, but not startling, especially under the circumstances. But shortly after that it began to drop rapidly; I check it against the weather radio (reporting conditions at Charleston), which Shipmate, September 1990

they repeated every few minutes. It was dropping at the rate of 0.10 to 0.12 every two or three minutes, which IS startling.

Although we continued to worry about that big eight-foot by seven-foot bow window, facing north, it held together Of course, we had it taped so heavily that it was opaque; also, it is not one large pane; it is 16 smaller ones, which is a much stronger arrangement. After 2330 we found we had two new problems: the front door and the north-facing windows in the bedrooms upstairs. We have a double (about seven feet by seven feet) front door, with a deadbolt across the two and two vertical detents, one top and one bottom. The door faces north, and began bulging inwards, threatening to break the deadbolt and the detents. If that ever let go, we would have the full fury of the storm inside.

Also, water (this is rain water, not flood water) was being blown in under the door (ordinarily, a tight-fitting door) by the gallon. From about 2330 until the eye passed over at just about midnight, son and I were leaning with all our weight on that door, holding it closed, while wife was mopping up the incoming water. This activity did not do anything to help our datataking efforts. At about the same time, daughter found that water was pouring in around the windows upstairs. We had the windows closed, of course, and the storm windows closed as well. The water was not coming in through the windows, but rather it was coming in around where the windows were set into the brick walls. So she was busy with towels, and small throw rugs, trying to staunch that influx. It was a busy time.

Suddenly—and it was very suddenly—the noise level dropped dramatically and the force on the door went to zero or thereabouts. Although, by my best estimate, I have been through nine hurricanes (Atlantic) and nine typhoons (Pacific), this was myfirsttime through the eye. I had always heard that the winds went to zero, but that was not true with Hugo—I would estimate that they were perhaps 20 mph.

It would no doubt have been interesting to walk around outside and see if the sky was really clear, as folklore has it, but we had much too much to do in the half-hour, or whatever, respite before the storm resumed. I did take time to note my barometer reading: 27.86.

(The official Weather Bureau reading was 27.85; close enough for government work). Incidentally, that pressure is so low that the partial vacuum in the eye would raise the water level within the eye by more than two feet, whenever the eye was passing over water (or marsh).

Hugo's eye was about 15 miles across, and still moving northwest at about 20 mph. We were somewhat (maybe a couple of miles) west of dead-center; it took just about half an hour for it to pass over us. We were down in the den, on our lowest level, checking for damage, when

I heard those 135 mph winds approaching again. (The storm is structured as an essentially-stable pillar of very low pressure air (the eye), surrounded by a very-rapidly-spinning wall. The eye, and the surrounding wall, are all moving together in some direction, like a finger with a ring around it, with the ring being twisted continuously around the finger—in this case, the overall direction of movement was northwest at about 20 mph. After the ring passed over us the first time at about midnight, the second passage continued to approach—I suppose you could say we were getting the finger in the meantime. But it was remarkably quiet; it must be close to a mile south/southwest of the house to John's Island, the nearest land other than the marsh, and that was too far away to hear the sounds of the oncoming wind. And, of course, there is nothing to make any noise in the marsh. It is about fifty yards from the house to the large trees at the far end of my backyard, right at the creek. At just about (X)25 the noise level suddenly jumped abut 50 decibels when the approaching ring hit those trees. That gave us about five seconds waming (150 feet at, more-or-less, 29 feet per second). That was too little time to do anything, of course, so we were still standing right by the glass sliding doors when the back-side winds of Hugo hit full force. In my opinion, those were worse than the winds we encountered earlier, but that may be because the first time around the winds started from zero and built to a crescendo; the second time, they went from zero to the maximum instantly, and then slowly diminished thereafter.

Those doors, in spite of being protected almost completely by plywood, bulged inward what appeared to be a couple of inches. I thought they were at imminent failure, and I could not see anything but fatal injuries coining out of that, so we executed the classic military maneuver—we got the hell out of there! Back in the kitchen, I was shining my light out the window, looking at the screened porch when, with a loud "SQUAWK"—loud enough to be heard over the wind—the roof of that porch took off to the east, leaving the walls to collapse.

Now the problem was with the south-side windows—they leaked around, just like those on the north side had earlier. So there was lots of mopping going on. But there was one big difference: now the winds were diminishing, albeit slowly; the worst was over and we had made it. However, one interesting feature of this portion of the storm was that we could hear, from time to time, what sounded like a 747 taking off in the back yard, moving from west to east. We believe those to have been tomados zipping by, probably out in the marsh. The Weather Bureau said that there would probably be a fair quantity of tornados associated with a storm of Hugo's magnitude, and there were several sightings of funnel clouds. We could 29

see nothing; it was BLACK out there. I don't think I have ever seen it quite so black.

In spite of aU the time I spent in the Navy, I was never in a genuine battle simation, nor a catastrophic collision nor grounding. But I think it must be just about the same way . . . our world shrank down the point where it encompassed our watch station or battie station, just the four of us, each of us doing what we could. I don't think, from the time the storm started up in eamest until it was finally over, that I gave a thought to what was going on in the "outside world."

In any event, about 0400 it was evident that Hugo had come and gone. The other tiiree lay down on couches, or chairs, or the floor, in the Uving room; I said I was going to bed, and I did. It is a measure of the exhaustion we were experiencing that I never reaUzed that the roof had largely been blown off the bedroom. It rained in on me steadily; when I awoke, about 0700,1 had been sleeping in a lake. That is not a wonderful way to start the day.

Outside, die scene at first glance was catastrophic. This had been a neighborhood of tall pines and large, majestic, five oaks. The pines had been topped—those that still stood— about twenty to sixty feet up. The oaks, which had stood up to David a decade earUer and hardly lost a leaf, were broken. The street was completely impassable, big pines being down across the street in several places. The thing it reminded me of was a videotape shown me by my younger son a few months ago. They live in Raleigh and, around Thanksgiving last year, a very bad tomado, which killed eight or nine people, passed a few hundred yards from his home. He taped it the next morning, and his neighborhood looked just like this.

But still, in this neighborhood of about 100 homes, not one was destroyed. A fair number of houses had roofs blown off, like mine—but I do not mean completely blown off . . . in every case, the basic structure was there, with only the shingles and tar paper missing. Another common problem was roof damage due to trees falling on the house. Some windows were blown in; some houses had siding missing. I came to realize that our damage was minimal compared to some other areas, notably Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island, and Folly Beach near Charleston. The Raleigh tomado demoUshed some homes and a shopping center. Hugo flattened the Isle of Palms, and other coastal communities. Some other areas a little farther away were hit even harder. The basic difference is that the tomado had a path of destruction maybe a quarter-mile wide, at most; Hugo took a 100-mile wide swath.

The coastal areas north of Charleston were worst-hit. They got winds just about as bad as we did, and they got thetidalsurge as well. The one problem we missed entirely wastidalflooding, even though Hugo arrived at about three30

quarters tide and, as I mentioned, would raise the water level by two feet or so just on the basis of atmospheric pressure. The winds, until the eye passed over, were northeast, trying to get to north. After the eye, they were straight out of the southwest. In both cases, they tended to blow the water out of the harbor, rather than in.

That made all the difference. I could tell from the post-storm debris how close the water came to us: marsh debris, and thousands of pine cones, had grounded about a dozen feet (that's a horizontal measurement—vertically, maybe an inch or two) from the sfiding glass doors.

This water incursion no doubt happened during the eye passage, ff the storm had passed only twenty-five miles or so south of us, it would have been almost unimaginably worse . . . then we would have had thefifteenfeet or so of storm surge that McCleUanville got. Maybe the housps would have stood up to that too, but I'm not too sure.

A very noticeable casualty of the storm is our bird population. We had a great many

mockingbirds, blue jays, cardinals and grackels; also, lots of brown peUcans and egrets fishing in the creek, plus redwing blackbirds and even an occasional rail from the manh.

Now, I estimate die population is down at least 90%. Maybe they left, but I suspect that they were killed, although I haven't found many bird bodies. There are a few mockingbirds and blue jays, and a couple of cardinals around, and I did see two egrets the other day. I have not seen a pelican nor a redwing blackbird nor an owl since the storm, and, of course, the rails were always rare.

There are a few squirrels still around, and we did videotape a very confused raccoon up in the remains of one of our oaks, the morning after.

But we haven't seen him since.

So would we stay, and stick it out again?

Well, Hugo has been branded a once-in-twohundred-years storm. If that is right, I'll be 262 when the next one comes along. At 262, my memory may not be too good and, if it's bad enough, I'll try it again.

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Sailing Team's 50th Anniversary Captain Benjamin P. Field, Jr. USN (Ret.)

There were a number of articles in the Florida newspapers in June regarding OST WIND, the boat HiUer had built, being sunk to add to the fishing reef off Miami Beach.

She was built in Bremen in 1939, when Hider ordered a series of racing yachts built as a result of Germany's poor showing in die 1936 Olympics.

The account goes on to say she fell into the hands of the United States Navy after World War n. The hands she fell into were tiiose of Adm. Richard Connolly, who arranged her transfer to the Naval Academy along with a smaller yacht, NORDERNEY. Adm. Connolly had long been interested in fiirthering sailing at the Naval Academy.

The "Renaissance of Sailing" at the Academy started with Vadim Makaroff's gift of his yacht VAMARIE, largely through the prompting of Alf Loomis. It was furthered by the organization of the Midshipmen's Boat Club, which evolved under the exceptionally fortuitous situation where the Superintendent Russell Wilson, the Commanding officers of the Naval Station, REINA MERCEDES, Shafroth, followed

by Howard Benson, and Richard Connolly, executive officer of the Seamanship and Navigation, were all sailing enthusiasts.

The catalyst was Richard Connolly. He had noted a trend in the Boat Club to "clubbines" and it seemed to be developing into a fraternity rather than a sport team. So his first objective was to have the Club developed into a recognized athletic team.

This was accomplished in 1939, fifty years ago, when the SaiUng Team received their first athletic awards, "N's." Charlie Adair was the first officer representative for the Sailing Team.

Three years later, he distinguished himself by saiUng to freedom in Australia from Manila.

Thefirstcaptain of the SaiUng Team was named Lemos.

Connolly's second objective was to' get the team into longer craft, and replace the ten-foot Dyer dinghies with 14-foot Uffa Fox dinghies, which were equipped with jibs and spinnakers.

He moved further in this direction by obtaining $40,000 to purchase four 32-foot wateriine Shipmate, September 1990

sail her with a group of friends but she was too heavy and slow for the Chesapeake. She was finally declared surplus. Dick then undertook to sail NORDERNEY but met with little success.

The young officer who bought EAST WIND

was nearly killed by the handle of the main halyard winch. Thereafter, she became the target of vandals in a shipyard in Jacksonville, Florida, and was sunk off Miami Beach on 4 June 1989, also a fiftieth anniversary. It then tumed out she was sunk in the wrong place.

Adm. Connolly's efforts continued even in retirement. While President of Long Island University in Brooklyn, he persuaded Walter Rothschild to donate his yacht AVANTI in 1952 but she was wrecked in a hurricane.

Adm. Shafroth, an ex-commander of REINA MERCEDES, sailed VAMARIE in the 1938 Bermuda Race, where the yachting fraternities looked askance at her. As a result, Adm. Holloway set up an Advisory Committee consisting of notable yachtsmen, headed up by Commodore De Coursey Fales. The New York Yacht Club also sponsored and set up an ocean race from Newport to Annapolis on altemate years with the Bermuda Race. yawls, which were a modified version of a stock Adm. Shafroth also found a handsome sailmodel in Yachting. ing yacht serving in the Caribbean during the He had hoped to obtain four and that the con- war and had her sent to the Naval Academy, but tract would go to a well known builder. But he for want of $40,000 she was returned to her was disappointed in only obtaining three and owners. they were built by Luders. They were designed Sailing also had a friend in Washington, to be at the very bottom of Class "B" under the Sammy Seabring, who often arranged wind"Cruising Rule." They were INTREPID, ALERT falls of funds to die Small Craft Facility and RESOLUTE. They tumed out to be very will At the outset, the yawls were always sailed built and were successfully sailed by officers by Midshipmen under supervision of an officer. with Midshipmen crews. They were given a Then it was decided to let the Midshipman sail place in the Seamanship drills and the "Day- them unsupervised. As luck would have it, the Man" in charge of that drill was Frank Siat- very first time a Midshipman crew exercised kowski. The Daymen were Fleet Reservists this right, they tore the mainsail as they set it, who headed up all the Seamanship drills. Frank when a batten caught under die permanent back continued his interest in sailing and sailed the stay Nonetheless, the policy was continued and ROYONO to afirsttofinishin the Bermuda Race the yachts are now being sailed by Midshipmen in 1952. By 1952 there were 12 Luder yawls in ocean races and none have been lost due to with a couple now sailing in Class "A." lack of use as were ARGO and ROBERT CENTER. Meanwhile, EAST WIND, accompanied by Thanks to Adm. Connolly.

NORDERNEY, arrived at Annapolis in 1946.

Dick Latham, the sailing coach, undertook to 31

Navy Academics Dean Robert H. Shapiro

Henceforth we in the Academic Dean and Provost's office will have the opportunity to share with Shipmate's audience some information about the academic side of the Academy.

We want to inform the Alumni about faculty, academic programs and projects, and other items on a regular basis. Thus, we also solicit inquiries about specific issues. In order that we may be responsive please direct your questions, ideas, suggestions, comments in care of Shipmate.

You should know something about me. My naval background is as a Corpsman with the Seventh Marines in Korea in 1953, as weU as less exciting assignments during my four-year enfistment. The past year was my first at the Academy as the fifth Academic Dean and the first Provost. My academic field is chemistry, and I stiU enjoy classroom teaching.

Since many military folks ask me about the tide "Provost," as it has a different connotation in the service, a brief definition is in order. My dictionary has the word sandwiched between "provolone" and "prow," but it really doesn't mean a big cheese on the foc'sle. Nor does its miUtary definition of "top cop" apply although I have always coveted diat duty. Basically it means chief academic officer in a university setting.

The Academy has had a civiUan Academic Dean since 1963, when Bemard Drought was brought in from Marquette University, where he was Dean of Engineering. He reUeved the last mifitary officer to hold die office of Secretary to the Academic Board and Academic Adviser to the Superintendent, then-Capt. Robert McNitt '38. (RAdm. Bob McNitt fives in retirement in Annapolis and still serves the Academy weU.) Under Dean Drought the academic majors program was brought tofiruition,although the plan for its implementation began earlier. Unfortunately, Dean Drought died in office in 1970; he was replaced by his associate dean Ed Cook, who served until a permanent replacement could be found. In 1971 Bruce Davidson became the third Academic Dean and remained in office for 14 years until his retirement. Karl Lamb became the fourth in the line in 1985, served for four years, and joined the full-time faculty last year. In addition to Admiral McNitt, die three former deans live in the Annapohs area and continue to assist the Academy in many ways.

The academic structure of the Academy now resembles diat of an undergraduate university.

It is composed of five divisions which are equivalent to colleges in civilian universities.

The "deans" (Division Directors) of these colleges are four Navy captains and a Marine colonel. The five divisions are: Engineering and 32

Weapons, English and History, Madiematics and Science, U.S. & Intemational Studies, and Professional Development. The last combines military training with academic smdy through its departments of Leadership and Law professional program, and Seamanship and Navigation. Each division is composed of academic departments headed by a mifitary or civiUan chairman. The Academy has 15 academic departments offering 18 majors.

During the tenures of the civilian Academic Deans, the academic programs at the Academy have evolved through seeking better ways to prepare Midshipmen for both the naval service and life in general. The programs were designed so that Academy graduates in the Fleet or Fleet Marine Force would be every bit as educated as those who graduated from the best universities in the nation, while continuing to benefit from a tradition in excellence in miUtary training and physical fimess. The majors program is definitely achieving its goal and has become a permanent fixture in the curriculum.

As in the past, the curriculum includes a common Plebe Year of courses. Mids select their major at the end of the Plebe Year.

The "core" of the curriculum has been the mainstay academic program, and it remains in the primary position today. It is composed of all those courses that every Midshipman must take to qualify as junior officers. The technical foundation that every Naval Academy graduate must have is developed in the core; the mindbroadening humanities and social sciences courses put that technical knowledge into per-

spective. The core has periodically undergone minor modifications, and its individual coiu-ses have been constantiy upgraded, but its purpose has never faltered. We are proud that because of the core. Midshipmen from any major can be prepared to succeed in any of the warfare specialties or in the Marine Corps.

This past year has seen some modifications in the core designed to improve its cohesiveness and to put a greater emphasis on writing and ediics. The faculty curriculum committee which authored those modifications last year will be bolstered by additional faculty members this year to consider further improvements to enhance Midshipmen's overall education at the Academy. As die Academy admits smdents with great potential, we must constandy evolve in order to stimulate them to reach their potential. The smdent who wants to leam does leam, and we are committed to enhancing our young people's desire through positive motivation and incentives.

If the buildings andfieldsat the Naval Academy are its heart, the people are its blood. The Brigade officers, the staff, the administrators, and the Faculty all contribute to accompUshing our mission. I will concentrate on the Faculty, who contribute to the expertise and continuity in academic programs. When Cdr. Buchanan began the Naval School at Annapofis in 1845, he brought with him three naval officers, three civiUan teachers, and a passed-Midshipman to assist him in educating and training yoimg men to become naval officers. The composition of the Faculty has remained relatively constant—

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half military, half civilian—through diese 145 years, although its size has increased from seven to more than six hundred. Every faculty member teaching an academic discipline has an advanced degree and experience that assists him or her in achieving our principal duty, teaching Midshipmen.

Faculty members love teaching at the Academy. Many faculty members have been here since the '40's and are still highly active. These professors are now teaching in their sixth decade at die Naval Academy! Perhaps some of you "old timers" will remember such "old timers" as John Kelley (Chemistry, AcDean's office), Glenn Leydorf (Electrical Engineering), Ted Benac (Math), Jim Abbott (Math), Ebon Betz (Madi), and Jack Yarbro (Language Studies); they are all still here and doing quite well, thank you. A number of others are in their fifth decade at the Academy. We will featiu-e some of these "fixtures," as well as other faculty members and their projects, in subsequent issues.

I will conclude with a small focus or an academic project that brought positive notoriety to the Academy. Earlier this Spring six Mids from three upper-division engineering courses demonstrated the results of their common-course project in a competitive event. Their project was an all-terrain vehicle appropriately named GOAT (goes over all terrain) and the event was the 1990 Mini-Baja-East competition. The objective of this project, as well as many others, is

to give students the opportunity to practice what they have learned in the classrooms and labs through the design and manufacture of a real-world device. GOAT won third place (of 31 entries) in the general design category, and a very respectable 18th place in an enduro run.

Because of this success on their first try, the four remaining Mids will work on improving the project this year. Last year a similar success was achieved with the human-powered underwater vehicle, SQUID. In subsequent issues we will feature other academic projects such as the NAFAC, Debate, Masqueraders, Trident Scholars projects, etc.

I look forward to comments and suggestions.

SQUID with Richard Miller '89

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A Few Inches From The Yard Mid'n. Daniel J. Barchi '91

As I sit writing this, I'm less than 24 hours away from the end of my third Plebe Summer. I'm pretty hot, tired, and sweaty after three weeks of training Plebes, but the amazing thing is that I don't want it to end.

My own Plebe Summer began only a littie over three years ago (though it seems like ten). When I look back upon it now, it doesn't seem like it was that tough, though it must have been. I think that old addage about your mind blocking out bad things is working here. The memories I do have are brief and hazy: shooting pistols on the range, falling asleep during the oath of office ceremony, failing a room inspection, marching in parades, and sitting on my desk after taps staring out the window at Triton Light and the Chesapeake Bay. I know there were a lot of tough times in there, but they didn't stop my Classmates and I from making it through.

One thing I remember clearly from my Plebe Summer is that everyone in my squad had the greatest respect for our squad leader. Midshipman 1/C Sween (now a LTjg). He was a pretty intense individual, and he transferred his own intensity right onto our faces at a close range (i.e. he was pretty tough). Even though Mr. Sween was demanding, the trait that made him a good leader was his concern for each member of his squad. There was one week-long period where I couldn't do a thing right, and he had the courage to sit me down and talk to me instead of continuing to yell. I straightened out after a littie while, and decided that my goal at the Academy was to become a Plebe Summer squad leader.

Two years later, I got my chance. These days Plebe Summer is staffed completely by upperclassmen. I know that in the past (that's you older Alumni) Plebes were run around in the Summer by Ensigns and Second Classmen. These days, however, all Plebes and upperclassmen on Plebe Summer detail form the 4/C Regiment headed by a five-striper regimental commander. All billets are filled by First Classmen except for squad leaders, who are Second Classmen. I had to give up my Summer Leave to do it, but I was lucky enough to be one of those Second Classmen on Plebe Detail. Being a squad leader during Plebe Summer is the most challenging positions the Naval Academy offers. I was responsible for everything my 13 Plebes did between reveille at 0530 until taps at 2200, and to make sure everything went correctly, I was up half an hour before them and went to bed at least two hours after them. I realized only then that leading Plebes through Plebe Summer is much more challenging tiian acmally goingtiiroughPlebe Summer yourself.

For this reason, Plebe Summer detail is divided into two three-week sets. The nature of leading men and women 15 hours a day and the need for upperclassmen to accomplish other Summer training necessitates switching upperclassmen halfway through the three weeks of the Summer. Since I did first set last Summer, I met my Plebes on Induction Day when they were civilians and left them three weeks later, after they were making progress towards becoming squared-away Midshipmen.

The leadership experience of being a squad leader was invaluable to me. Almost every day I saw my efforts pay off in my Plebes' improved performance. As the weeks passed, I became very protective of my squad and didn't want to hand them over to second set detail. I was most conscious of my responsibility for my Plebes one morning when one of them collapsed and had to be rushed to Bancroft Medical. She had become so dehydrated that her temperature shot up and they had to give her two liters of IV before her body was rehydrated. As I was rushing down to medical to see how she was, I kept asking myself if 34

there was sometiiing that I could have done or seen that would have prevented this from happening. She recovered from the incident, but the experience gave me a better sense of how a leader must care for his men.

At tiie end of my three weeks last Summer, I thought that I would never do Plebe Summer again. Boy was I wrong! When my company officer told me that he needed me to do Plebe Summer detail again tiiis Summer, I asked to be a platoon or company commander. Instead he sent me to a striper board and five weeks later I found out that I had been appointed Plebe Summer Regimental Commander. In three Plebe Summers, I had gone from being in charge of myself, to being in charge of 13 Plebes from the Class of '93, to being in charge of the 1,250 Plebes of the Class of '94 and the 200 upperclassmen who were there to train them.

Doing detail as head striper gave me an opportunity to see Plebe Summer from yet another angle. Instead of being on the front lines of Plebe training, I stood back and made sure everything ran smoothly. At first, though, I thought it wouldn't. In April, the Commandant decided that this year upperclassmen on Plebe Detail would be "scrambled."

That means that a Plebe Summer platoon commander from 1st Company wouldn't be training 1st Company Plebes, but rather some other randomly selected company's Plebes. This also meant that the three squad leaders who worked for that platoon commander would be from random companies. The reason for "scrambling" was to allow upperclassmen to meet and work with more of their Classmates and to mix leadership styles from different companies. The initial reaction from upperclassmen doing detail was outrage. By the end of first set detail, however, the decision proved to be a good one. Every upperclassmen on detail met at least a few of his or her Classmates and I heard not one complaint about having to work with people from different companies.

Plebe Summer this year was as tough as ever, but some changes we implemented made it slightiy different. As Regimental Commander, I was responsible for ensuring that the Superintendent's general order 90-1 which prohibits upperclassmen from touching Plebes was implemented. Each upperclassman on Plebe Detail undergoes three days of training prior to working with Plebes. During these three days of PSEP (Plebe Summer Education Program), we discussed how 90-1 would change our training techniques. I personally believed that not being able to remove IP's from a Plebe's uniform, straighten his or her cap, or even pat them on the back for a job "well done" would hurt Plebe training. When the Plebes arrived, however, most of us realized that there was never really any reason to touch them in the first place. General Order 90-1, furthermore, is merely die reaffirmation of Naval Academy policy which has been in effect for years. The system hasn't really changed, we're just holding ourselves to our own rules.

Another part of PSEP which was new this year was a series of lectures given by two Senior Chiefs from Recruit Training Center, Orlando. They run the company commander's courses there and they came to USNA to share some of their ideas about how to train freshly caught civilians. The First and Second Classmen on Plebe Detail used many of the ideas die two Senior Chiefs presented us. The greatest change to PSER however, was inclusion of two hours of briefs about die Navy's Command Managed Equal Opportunity (CMEO) program.

This is a Navy-wide program which highlights the duty each service member has towards respecting the values of their shipmates.

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running PEP (the Physical Excellence Program). I think '94 is the 23rd Class he has led through his grueling morning workouts. I was up on a side platform helping Coach Lenz lead the first five mornings of PEP and, even though he's more than forty years older than myself, I'm sure that he could have kept going long after I was wiped out.

It's almost time for me to turn command of the 4/C Regiment over to a Classmates for the rest of the Summer. Even though I'm have leave next, I'm sorry be going. I feel the same sense of responsibility towards the entire Class of '94 that I felt to my 13 Plebes last Summer: I don't want to tum them over to anyone else. 1 know, however, that second set will do a great job and, by the time you read this, '94 will have been fully integrated into the Brigade.

Plebe Summer is still the unique experience it was for all Alumni. If you're concerned that die experience is too tough on Plebes and takes away their rights, you'll be happy to learn that the training upperclassmen receive is more than adequate to preserve the respect that Plebes deserve as part of our "Navy team." If you're worried that Plebes these days have life too easy, rest assured that Plebe Sununer will continue to be challenging as long as young men and women have a hard time working under pressure while making the transition from the life of a civilian to that of a Midshipman in the United States Navy.

When the Plebes actually arrived on 3 July, some of what they would be doing during the Summer had changed from the previous year. The Class of 1994 will have an opportunity to qualify on both the pistol and rifle ranges instead of just the pistol range. They won't go on an Annapolis Tour during the Summer (during my Plebe Summer our tour of Annapolis was modified to include a tour of Burger King), and they'll have several hoiurs of useful specialized training which hasn't been a part of previous Plebe Summers including: CPR, first aid, and Navy Rights and Responsibilities.

As Regimental Commander, I had the unique opportunity to practice "leadership by walking around." Whenever I wasn't in a meeting or taking care of paperwork, I simply walked around the Regiment (2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8tii wings) and saw what was going on. Whenever I went out I saw upperclassmen working hard to train their Plebes who were in mm putting forth 100% effort. I saw squads and platoons doing pushups, sit-ups, rack-making contests, imiform races, and rate sessions. It was a hot three weeks, but the Midshipman officers from '91 and '92 kept '94 motivated and on the right track towards becoming professional Midshipmen.

For those of you who are wondering. Coach Heinz Lenz is still here

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Lucky Bag of Books Admiral Arleigh Burke

by E. B. Potter, Random House, New York 1990, $24.95 His life spans this century; his naval service encompasses the Second World War and the Korean conflict; his consecutive tours of duty as CNO is matched by no other naval officer.

Descended from Swedish forbears, he grew up on a farm near Baseline, Colorado; to go to high school he rode horseback to Boulder and after three years gained an appointment to the Academy. Despite financial handicaps he went by train to Columbia, Missouri, and enrolled in a "cram" school for Annapolis and West Point.

Arleigh Burke entered the Naval Academy the ensuing June of 1919 and served his country on active duty until July 1961. Academy professor and noted biographer, E. B. Potter, has given us a definitive biography of Admiral Burke. Potter's research and interviews reflect careful smdy and good judgment; the book presents a vivid portrait of an able and dedicated officer whose boundless energy and iron endurance have become legendary.

Burke's progress from ensign to four-star admiral demonstrated a stalwart devotion to his profession as he engrossed himself in the art of gunnery, leadership, and ship-handling. As with many "seagoin' types" Arleigh loved destroyers and spent as much time in them as he could. The time was well spent. Most of us know of his spectacular success in the Solomon Island Campaign where "Uncle Bill" Halsey gave him the nom de guerre of "31-KnotBurke".

However, not many of us were familiar with his career as chief of staff to Adm. Marc Mitscher in the fast carriers. Burke did not want the job and Mitscher did not want him on the staff. The account of the way these two smbbom officers slowly gained mutual admiration as they fought the Japs and overcame their deep-seated resistance to one another is exceptionally well told. At war's-end Mitscher wanted Burke to take flight training at Pensacola and become a naval aviator. Arleigh

Burke wisely declined.

The story of Burke's post-war service and of his selection, at age 54, to become CNO over the heads of 92 admirals is better known than his exploits in the aircraft carriers, but the author makes it no less interesting, though perforce less exciting. Potter shows Burke's continued devotion to duty and his search for perfection. Burke is shown as an innovator in "OP-23" fighting the Army Air Force effort to subjugate Naval aviation and as a brilliant planner of operations for the Inchon Landings where his elucidation of the problems and succinctness of the deployment were crucial to the success. As Chief of Naval Operations he conceptualized ballistic missiles for submarines which developed into the Polaris program.

Although your reviewer knew all the top admirals. King, Nimitz, Halsey, Kincaid, Towers, Hoover, Mitscher, he believes that Admiral Burke is the ablestflag-officerof this century. Burke's mastery of the weapons, the ships, the new technology, and the bureaucracy, along with his capacity (without kow-towing) to work with the elected officials and the political appointees were unsurpassed by any other member of the Naval Service.

From "Ned" Potter's splendid book we get an unforgettable portrait of Arleigh Burke: A sailor for all weather against any and all enemies.

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lete who needs just 575 yards to become the school's all-time career leader in total offense.

Mcintosh had come to the Naval Academy after earning high school All-America honors as a passer. Thus he was thwarted in the wishbone offense the past two years. He did have a soUd Spring. Ellis at 6-2 and 202 not only is a fine physical specimen but enjoyed some brilUant moments in the Blue-Gold Game.

For Navy's new football coach George Chaump, the crucial period for this year's Midshipmen football team will be from 13 August to 23 August when classes begin.

"We have to accomplish a great deal during that period, getting down some of the material we installed in the Spring," he noted. "I was most impressed with the attitude and enthusiasm of die players in the Spring and now we have to translate that into winning on the field."

Chaump believes his charges were able to grasp the newly-installed system both on offense and defense quite well during the Spring.

"We felt it was important to get the players in the right mindset during the Spring and see how we as coaches operate. I believe we accompUshed this," he indicated.

Chaump's multiple pro-set offense, which features a balance between passing and running, will be led by First Class quarterbacks Alton Grizzard and Gary Mcintosh with strong support from receivers Jerry Dawson and B. J. Mason, running backs Rodney Purifoy and Kwame Moultrie and the improved offensive line anchored on First Class tackle Greg Hlatky.

On defense, where Chaimip has said he "beUeves we have more good athletes than I thought," the leaders are expected to be middle guard Andy Kirkland, a First Classman who has been selected as a preseason All-America and is on several preseason All-East teams; Alton Grizzaid Running Back: The big question mark is linebacker and co-captain Bill Bowling; outside linebacker Tony Domino; and secondary how well Purifoy, a Second Classman tailback, performers such as Scott Carson and Chris and Ivan Bullard, a Youngster tailback, can help this Fall after missing the Spring while Cordero.

Two factors have tempered Chaump's posi- coming back from surgery. Purifoy as a starting tive thoughtsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the absence in the Spring of halfback in 1989 rushed for 620 yards, just six several key performers who were out while re- yards behind team leader Grizzard. He had to covering from injuries and the loss during the undergo offseason shoulder surgery and is exSummer of three defensive linemen. The latter pected to be ready when preseason camp opens development will cut sharply into the depth in on 13 August. Bullard is 6-2 and 225 and had worked his way to the second team in preseason that area.

Altogether there are 31 returning lettermen camp a year ago but suffered a knee injury that from last year's squad which was 3-8 but ended required reconstruction of the knee. Other tailon a high note with the 19-17 win over Army. back candidates include First Classman letterReturning starters include seven on offense and man Jason Pace, Second Classman Ken Brown and Youngsters Viime Smith and Mike Kozub. six on defense.

The fullback slot will be filled by Youngster The evaluation of the team by area shows: Quarterback: This is again probably the Kwame Moultrie (5-11, 220) who was a starter deepest area on the team with the presence of for seven games a year ago. First Classman DoGrizzard and Mcintosh and Youngster Brian minic Flis is also a capable performer at fullEllis. Grizzard has six school records, in- back, with Youngsters Bob Aames and Don cluding the lowest pass interception percentage Mollick two more contenders.

Receivers: The receiving corps was closely in a seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two interceptions in 147 attempts last year, while completing 67 passes for 1,109 watched in the Spring with the implementation yards and four touchdowns. He is a superb ath- of the new offense and it looks as if it has 38

passed the test. First Classman Jerry Dawson and Second Classman B. J. Mason are both outstanding receivers. Dawson had 17 catches for 263 yards and a pair of touchdowns a year ago while starting eight games. Mason was a quarterback when he came to the Academy two years ago but played halfback last year. He has superb quickness. Youngster Rob Holmberg displayed his quickness and athletic ability in the Spring and Classmate Che' Bolden also showed he has good speed. First Classman Dave Berghult is set as the starter at tight end for the second straight year. He made 12 catches a year ago. His understudies are Second Classman Dave Anderson and Youngsters Tony Gilless and Gerald Raines.

Offensive Line: Although this area has five lettermen on hand, it was the absence of two of them in the Spring that was notable. Second Classmen Carl Voss (6-5, 270) and Michael Davis (6-3, 289), the biggest of the offensive linemen, did not participate in the drills, Voss because of a back injury and Davis coming off shoulder surgery. Voss is still questionable for this Fall while Davis will likely be a regular at tackle or guard. First Classman Greg Hlatky (6-5, 254) has been a starter the past two seasons at tackle and Davis will vie with Second Classman David Britt (6-4, 264) at the other tackle position. Second Classman Dan Ehmaway (6-2, 245) lettered at tackle last year and could step in at guard. Another Second Classman who figures to help at guard is David Lillefloren (6-0, 240). Fnst Classman Bob Friedman, a two-year letterman, is the top player at center with Second Classman Brett Mietus and Youngster Steve Palmer behind him.

Outside Linebackers: This area was hard hit by graduation but Chaump and his staff made some shifts to shore up the positions.

First Classman Tony Domino was a starter a year ago and Youngsters Duncan Ingraham and Mark Ellis have been moved there. Ingraham lettered on the special teams last year and was a backup defensive back while Ellis started seven games at inside linebacker. First Classmen David Olson and Jay Harrell are expected to help here too.

Defensive Line: Chaump will breathe easier if two starters from a year ago, middle guard Andy Kirkland (6-0, 232) and tackle Chris Janke (6-3, 251), are full-go this Fall. Kirkland has been a regular the past two seasons but has been hampered by a back injury. Janke was the starter for the first six games in 1989 but had a foot injury that necessitated a second surgery this past Spring. First Classman Dave Christel (6-3, 242), a tackle, took the Vice Admiral Shipmate, September 1990

Mack Award as the most improved player in Spring practice and Youngsters Bob Kuberski (6-4, 252) and Robert Goodson (6-0, 227) will play at tackle and middle guard respectively.

Inside Linebackers: Navy heads into the 1990 season with probably its best group of inside backers in recent years. First Classman Bill Bowling (6-1, 225) had 92 tackles a year ago and can be a physical performer. Youngster Chris Beck (6-1, 200) and Second Classman Beau Laskey (6-3, 228), a starter at times over the past two years, were neck-and-neck at the other position. Second Class letterman Byron Odgen and Youngster Brad Brown will bolster the area.

Secondary: This area will be a strongpoint on the defense once again. There are six returning lettermen and three of those have been starters at various times. Second Classman Chris Cordero was a regular at shortside comer in 1989 while Scott Carson, a First Classman, held down the strong safety slot. First Classman Bart LaRocca has won tiu-ee letters at free safety, starting on occasion. Another letterman is Second Classman Bill Yancey, who will line up at wide comer. Two Youngsters who won letters a year ago, Darrell Graham and George Chatlos, are very much in contention with Graham possibly being a starter at comer because of his speed. Backups include First Classman Rob McGregor, Second Classman Lonny Stare and Youngster Anthony Cofied.

Specialists: Frank Schenk was the kicker who booted the field goal in the win over Army last year and is a very consistent performer although slowed by a leg injury in the Spring.

Second Classman Jefferson Triplett has handled the majority of the pimting chores the past two seasons and is set again this year although more consistency is expected from him. First Classman Joshua Skule will handle the long snapping duties for the fourth straight year.

Summary: There appears to be a fine blend of experienced players and newcomers.

Chaiunp sees the team heading in the right direction but "we must sustain our intensity in the preseason. I think we can do that."

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As of 1 August, Navy was scheduled for three television appearances this Fall.

The Army-Navy game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium on 8 Dec. will be carried by CBS-TV with a tentative starting time of 1400.

The Navy-Boston College game in Annapolis on 29 Sept. and the Navy-Notre Dame game at the Meadowlands on 3 Nov. are both being carried on the Great Independent Football Network of Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions. Starting time is 1205 for each of those games.

New Army-Navy Contract in Philadelphia Army and Navy athletic officials have entered into a new contract for the Amiy-Navy to be played in Philadelphia through the year 2002.

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Members of the Executive Conraiittee include Lengyel and Vanderbush, Tom Muldoon, president of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau; Dave Brenner, chairman of the Philadelphia Sports Congress; City Representative and Director of Conmierce Gerri H. Walker; and Philadelphia Recreation Commissioner Delores Andy.

The City of Philadelphia passed an ordinance in December authorizing the City Representative and Director of Commerce and the Recreation Commissioner to enter into an agreement on the game.

The current contract was to expire in 1992 but the new contract which runs from 1990 through 2002 guarantees the two Academies Tom Moorer '33

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$1.8 million in revenue each year for the game.

There are three windows in the contract which permit the two schools to move the game three times to another city but not for consecutive years.

The Army-Navy game has been played in Philadelphia every year since 1932 except for the trip to the Rose Bowl in 1983 and last year when it was played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The 1990 game will be the 68th game in Philadelphia and will be the eighth at Veterans Stadium.

Navy currently leads the Army-Navy game series by a 42-41-7 margin.

Adm. Thomas Hinman Moorer, USN '33 highly decorated former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the 1990 recipient of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame's Gold Medal.

The award, the highest honor the National Football Foundation can bestow, will be presented to Adm. Moorer at the annual Hall of Fame Dinner in New York City on 4 December.

This award is given to a former college football player who has distinguished himself by his personal qualities, professional life and significant contributions to his country.

Adm. Moorer, a three-year member of Navy's football team, is the third Naval Academy graduate to receive this prestigious honorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;RAdm. Thomas J. Hamilton USN (Ret.) '27 was the 1970 Gold Medal honoree and former Naval Academy Superintendent, VAdm. William R Lawrence, USN (Ret.) '51 was the 1979 winner.

A native of Mount Willing, Alabama, Adm. Moorer entered the Naval Academy in 1929 and was a tackle on the football team. He received his commission in 1933. He attained the rank of rear admiral in 1958, vice admiral in 1962 and admiral in 1964.

During World War II, Adm. Moorer was shot down north of Darwin, Australia but was rescued. He received the Purple Heart for wounds and the Silver Star Medal for "extremely gallant and intrepid conduct" as pilot of a patrol plane during and following an attack by enemy Japanese aircraft.

Later during the European theater of operations, Adm. Moorer was awarded the Legion of Merit for meritorious conduct as Force Gunnery and Tactical Officer on the Staff of Commander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet.

He later served as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, Director of Long Range Objective Group and as Commander of the Seventh Fleet.

In 1964, he became Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet and a year latter assumed command of NATO's Allied Command, Atlantic, the U.S. Unified Atlantic Conmiand and the U.S. Adantic Fleet.

In 1967, Adm. Moorer received a Gold Star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal "for exceptional meritorious service as Commander in Chief, Atlantic, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Commander in 39

Chief Western Atlantic Area and Supreme Allied Commander Adantic."

In 1967, he was named Chief of Naval Operations by President Lyndon B. Johnson and reappointed to that post by President Richard M. Nixon, winning another Gold Star.

He became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1970 and was reappointed to that position for another two years by President Nixon in 1972. He was awarded, that same year, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal for "extraordinary meritorious and distinguished service to the Government of the United States in a position of unique responsibility as Chairman, carrying the heavy responsibilities of the country's senior military officer with great distinction during a crucial period in the nation's history."

Adm. Moorer retired from active duty in 1974 and has served as Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Naval Aviation Museum. He is an enshrinee in the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the Naval Aviation Hall of Honor, the Military Hall of Fame and the Business Hall of Fame.

He is a senior advisor of the Center for Strategic and Intemational Studies in Washington, D.C. has served on the boards of several U.S. businesses.

In addition to the Distinguished Service Medal with four Gold Stars, his awards include the Silver Star Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Pin-ple Heart Medal, the Ribbon for the Presidential Unit Citation to Patrol Squadron 22, the American Defense Service Medal with star. World War n Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal with bronze star, Vietnam Service Medal and the Philippine Defense Ribbon. He has also been decorated by 13 foreign governments.

Adm. Moorer and his wife currently reside in McLean, Virginia.

Spectator Suites, Major Club Areas Proposed for Stadium The Naval Academy Athletic Association plans to market private spectator suites and two major club areas at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Jack Lengyel indicated that the Admiralty Suites and the Annapolis Bay Club could be ready for the 1991 football season, if commitments of 80 percent of the spectator suites and club areas are received from interested Navy fans. The private suites and club areas are being made available immediately to the public on a priority basis based on donation commitments made to the Naval Academy Athletic Association. The donations will provide the rights to purchase tickets to athletic events, including football and lacrosse games, at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in these new seating areas. No public funds will be used for this project which is expected to cost around $9 million.

"These new facilities will provide a superb oppormnity to enjoy the excitement and pageantry of Navy football and lacrosse in a setting consistent with the Naval Academy's reputation for excellence and leadership," Lengyel stated.

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The Admiralty Suites will be located above the northeast side of the Stadium and will seat 12 persons each. The 48 Suites which are being made available will provide heating and air conditioning, operable windows overlooking the field, closed circuit and conventional TV, catered food and beverage service, and private restrooms. Reserved parking and private elevator service are among the many features being offered.

The 640-seat Annapolis Bay Club will be located above the regular seating on the southwest side of the Stadium. Table top dining and fully carpeted club facilities will be provided in air conditioned and heated comfort. Private parking and elevator service, private restrooms and closed circuit TV will also be among the benefits of the Annapolis Bay Club.

Mr. Lengyel stated, "This unique program of new amenities at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will help support the Naval Academy's intercollegiate athletic program as well as provide our Alumni, fans and business associates an opportunity to enjoy Navy football and lacrosse to the fullest."

Mr. Lengyel also indicated the Naval Academy Athletic Association is being assisted in the Admiralty Suites and Annapolis Bay Club project by University Partners, Ltd., an organization which specializes in the development of these types of programs for colleges and universities.

Further information on the Admiralty Suite and Annapolis Bay Club programs can be received by calling 1-800-441-6289.

Quarterback Club to Restart The weekly Navy Quarterback Club Luncheons will be held this Fall starting 10 Sept. at the Loew's Annapolis Hotel in downtown Annapolis.

The club is open to all who share an interest in Navy football and will afford attendees a chance to ask questions of Coach George Chaump and Midshipmen football players.

Cost of the luncheon is expected to be between $5.95 and $6.95.

The Quarterback Club will consist of three membership categoriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1. Limcheon Members who attend the weekly sessions and pay for their lunch; 2. Sponsor Members who pay a $25 membership fee and pay for their lunch but will receive a membership card, a 44-inch "NAVY HOME PORT" windsock to display and an invitation to a preseason cocktail party at Hubbard Hall; and 3. Corporate Members who pay a $50 membership fee and receive everything hsted for Sponsor members plus a line in each home football game program and an announcement at home football games.

Further information on the Navy Quarterback Club can be obtained by calling Director of Promotions Tom Harp at AC 301 267-3110.

Honors For Jack Lengyel Navy's Director of Athletics Jack Lengyel has been selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.

Lengyel, starting his third year at the Naval

Academy, also has been named first vice president of the Division I-A Athletic Dnectors, which represents all of the 106 major college football playing schools. He has been named for induction into the 1990 Summit County Sports Hall of Fame in Ohio.

Tentative Fall Schedules Men's Cross Country: 15 Sept., LaSalle, home; 22 Sept., at Fordham; 29 Sept., Lehigh, Columbia and Colgate at Bethlehem, Penna.; 6 Oct., Syracuse, Georgetown and James Madison, home; 20 Oct., Army, home; 26 Oct., Heptagonal Championships at New York City; 3 Nov., Colonial Athletic Association Championships at Williamsburg; 10 Nov., NCAA Regionals at New Caanan, Conn.; 19 Nov., NCAA Championships at Knoxville.

Women's Cross Country: 8 Sept., at Kutztown University; 15 Sept., LaSalle, home; 22 Sept., Duke, Appalachian State and Liberty, home; 29 Sept., at Rutgers Invitational; 6 Oct., Paul Short Invitational at Bethlehem; 20 Oct., Army, home; 26 Oct., Heptagonal Championships at New York City; 3 Nov., ECAC Championships, TBA; 17 Nov., NCAA Division n Championships, TBA. Lightweight Football: 28 Sept., at Princeton; 5 Oct., Pennsylvania, home; 29 Oct., Princeton, home; 27 Oct., at Cornell; 2 Nov., Army, home.

Soccer: 30 Aug., Boca Raton, home; 4 Sept., at William & Mary; 8-9 Sept., Hartford and Vermont at Hartford Toumament; 12 Sept., at U. of Maryland-Baltimore Co.; 15 Sept., at James Madison; 19 Sept., at Howard University; 22 Sept., at North Carolina-Wilmington; 23 Sept., at East Carolina; 29-30 Sept., University of South Florida Classic at Tampa; 5 Oct., Richmond, home; 7 Oct., West Virginia, home; 10 Oct., George Mason University, home; 12 Oct., West Chester, home; 17 Oct., American U., home; 20 Oct., at Liberty University; 22 Oct., College of Charleston, home; 26 Oct., at Army; 1-4 Nov., Colonial Athletic Association Toumament at Richmond.

Women's Volleyball: 7-8 Sept., Trident Invitational at Navy; 14-15 Sept., UNC Invitational at Greensboro, N.C.; 19 Sept., Loyola, home; 21-22 Sept., at Towson State Invitational; 5-6 Oct., at Clarion University Invitational; 10 Oct., UMBC, home; 12-13 Oct., at Slippery Rock Invitational; 19-20 Oct., Fourtii Annual Navy Classic, home; 26 Oct., Army, home; 2 3 Nov., Forrestal Classic at Navy; 9-10 Nov., U. of New Haven Classic at West Haven; 16-17 Nov., ECAC Championships, TBA; 1-2 Dec, NCAA Regionals, TBA; 8-9 Dec, NCAA Championships, TBA. Water Polo: 7 Sept., at Southem Cal; 8-9 Sept., U. of Califomia-San Diego; 14-16 Sept., Eastem Invitational at Navy; 19 Sept., California-Irvine, home; 20 Sept., CaliforniaBerkeley, home; 22-23 Sept., National Invitational at Navy; 5 Oct., at Army; 6-7 Oct., Mid-Atiantic Toumament at New York City; 12-14 Oct., Eastern Invitational at Providence; 19-21 Oct., Mid-Atiantic Conference at Villanova; 26-28 Oct., Washington & Lee Classic at Lexington, Va.; 2-4 Nov., Mid-Atiantic Shipmate, September 1990

Conference Championships at Princeton; 1012 Nov., Eastem Championships at Navy; 2426 Nov., NCAA Championships at Long Beach.

Sailing: 18-26 Aug., CORK at Kingston, R.I.; 18-26 Aug., USBA Nationals at San Francisco; 25-26 Aug., Fall Regatta at Annapolis; 1-2 Sept., Anderson Trophy at Yale; 1-2 Sept., Laser Opener at Navy; 1-2 Sept., Labor Day Regatta at Norfolk; 6-9 Sept., Hinman Trophy at Navy; 8-9 Sept., Pine Trophy at Coast Guard Academy; 8-9 Sept., Riley Cup at Norfolk; 15-16 Sept., Nevins Tl-ophy at Kings Point; 15-16 Sept., Yawl Invitational at Navy; 15-16 Sept., Hood Trophy at Tbfts; 2223 Sept., Women's Invitational at Hobart College; 22-23 Sept., Sloop Eliminations at Navy;

22-23 Sept., Windsurf Invitational at Navy; 29-30 Sept., Danmark Trophy at Coast Guard Academy; 29-30 Sept., Cary Price at Michigan; 29-30 Sept., T S. Stern at Charleston; 29-30 Sept., Area C Mono Eliminations at Navy; 29-30 Sept., Watergate at Georgetown University; 6-7 Oct., Women's Intersectional at Navy; 6-7 Oct., Hap Moore Altemate at Coast Guard Academy; 13-14 Oct., Fall Invitational at Navy; 13-14 Oct., Women's Intersectional at Yale; 13-14 Oct., St. Mary's Invite at St. Mary's, Md.; 13-14 Oct., Windsurf Invite at Navy; 20-21 Oct., McMillan Cup at Navy; 20-21 Oct., Hoyt Trophy at Brown University; 20-21 Oct., MAISA Singlehanded at Kings Point; 20-21 Oct., MAISA Women's at Kings Point; 20-21 Oct., Area C Dinghy Elimina-

tions at Georgetown University; 27-28 Oct., Victorian Coffee Urn at Radcliffe; 27-28 Oct., MAISA Sloop Championships at Navy; 27-28 Oct., MAISA Windsurf at Navy; 27-28 Oct., Dinghy Invitational at New York Maritime; 3-4 Nov., War Memorial at Kings Point; 3-4 Nov., ICRYA Singlehanded at Kalamazoo; 10-11 Nov., Atlantic Coast Dinghy at Kings Point; 10-11 Nov., Atiantic Coast Women's at Yale University; 10-11 Nov., Tom Curtis Frostbite at Georgetown University; 16-18 Nov., ICYRA Sloop Championships at Navy; 17-18 Nov., Fall Regatta at Charleston; 17-18 Nov., Vanderstar Challenge at Navy; 24-25 Nov., Timme Angsten at Chicago; 28-31 Nov., Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla.; 27-30 Nov., Sugar Bowl at TUlane University.

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THE VIRTUOSO ORGAN. James Dale, organist, performs a stunning program of transcriptions for organ as well as works originally written for the organ.

ANNAPOLIS SOUNDS. American Colonial music of the 18th century is highlighted and contrasted with European music of the same period by the Naval Academy Glee Club, the Annapolis Brass Quintet and the Aeolian Woodwind Quintet.

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HANDEL: MESSIAH. This live concert recording of the annual performances of the Messiah at the Naval Academy captures the spirit of the occasion.

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Sec'y, Capt. C. R. Swanson USN (Ret.) Fairhaven, Apt. B-213, 7200 Third Ave. SykesviUe, Md. 21784 Class Correspondent, Mrs. W. P. Hepburn 11 B-1 President Point Dr., Annapolis, Md. 21403

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Sec'y, RAdm. J. R. Dudley USN (Ret.) 306 Edwards Ferry Rd. N.E. Leesburg, Va. 22075; (703) 777-3887 Sec'y, San Diego area: RAdm. Logan McKee USN (Ret.) 738 Glorietta Blvd., Coronado, Calif. 92118 September birthday greetings to: J. A. (Jack) Upshur (91); K. H. (Kent) Ftower (91); and M. C. Barrett (90). Keep those canes or walkers handy!

We are most happy to be able to report a revision in our Roll Call. By the efforts of our Classmate, Capt.

Guy Chadwick of Connecticut, we now know that Carleton Shugg is again at his home in Mystic, Connecticut, after a spell in a hospital. We do not know why he was in the hospital. He, who has been a widower three times, now has an attendant nurse at his home. 'Carle' stood number two in our Class after our late Morgan Watt, and served in the Navy Construction Corps.

A card from our Classmate R. C. (Bob) Greenwald gives his new address. He and Florence have moved to Apartment 11 B, 650 North Lake Howard Drive, Winter Haven, Fla. 33881 where the tele42

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phone number is (813) 294-1533.

Word came from John L. Welbom, son of our late Classmate Max Welborn that his mother, Gertrude Welbom, died on 23 March 1990, and that her ashes were inumed on 16 May at Max's gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. We extend our sympathy to John who lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Pres., RAdm. George Bauernschmidt SC USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Harvey T. Walsh USN (Ret.) 6251 Old Dominion Dr., #253, McLean, Va. 22101 I have some good news to report, thefirstbeing the 90th Birthday Party for our John Cady given by his sons, Capt. John R Cady, Jr., '50, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Dr. Blake Cady of Boston. It was held on M.S. VISTA JUBILEE where buffet luncheon was served while we cruised to Newport and return to its home port of Warren. Shortly after departure John pointed out his old home facing on Narragansett Bay on the outskirts of Warren where he was bom and raised. At that time it had eight bedrooms and one bath but John assured us that he got his share of baths. I reminded John that "Only the Mighty Make Ninety"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;as I was assured two years ago. Both John and his wife, Betty, appeared to have the problems, if any, of the next decade in hand.

My only close association with John was when we were neighbors in "Arlandia" in '45-'46 and our sons had their individual paper routes. This required some assistance on snow days when their respective mothers drove and assisted in deliveries. I mentioned those days to my sons and his but in neither case did the boys seem particularly impressed by that part of their early education.

Bets Forsyth, widow of our Jess Forsyth, sent me some interesting information on the Allen Knight Maritime Museum in Monterey. Early Stone, '19, aided by our Squire Pullen and many others, built up that collection to a national museum status. A particular item is the old (1880) Fresnel light from the Point Sur lighthouse. The lens was installed in 1889 after being shipped around the Horn on a sailing vessel. It was recently reassembled, 50 components weighing over two tons, in the Allen Knight Museum and is on extended loan to the museum. When originally installed the source of light came from a whale oil lantem which was changed to kerosene and then to 1,000-watt quartzline bulbs.

After two issues of no bad news, 1 have two deaths to report. Dave Allen of Ponte Vedra, Florida, on 26 June and Mac McWhinnie of Denver on 1 July. Dave Allen resigned upon graduation and worked for Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., a subsidiary of Anaconda Copper Co., for over 23 years including time out for active duty in WW II. His active duty was spent in the Office of the Assistant SecNav, the Office of Naval Materials and as Executive Officer of the USS ADMIRAL BENSON. Our last records indicate that his wife of 65 years, Isabelle White Allen, is still living

and, if so, we extend our sincerest sympathies to her. (see Last Call).

Mac McWhinnie served six years on CALIFORNIA and MARYLAND before resigning on 30 June 1928.

He was with the Chase Brass and Copper Co., a subsidiary of Kennecott Copper Co., from 1930 to 1965.

He lived in Oakland until 1950 when he established a branch in Denver and became District Manager until retirement in 1965.

His WW II service was from 10/16/40 to 1/16/46 during which period he rose from Lt(jg) to Capt. He had an action filled 15 months in the Solomons campaign when he commanded WATERS (DD-105), later designated APD-8. He was awarded a Silver Star Medal, a Legion of Merit Medal (Combat) and a Bronze Star Medal (Combat).

Our sincerest sympathies are extended to his survivors, two brothers, Ralph E. and C. H. McWhinnie, Jr.; a sister, Mary Hutchinson; a great niece, Angelique Davis; and a nephew, Robert C. McWhinnie.

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Pres., Adm. Arleigh A. Burke USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. John R. Johannesen USN (Ret.) 6251 Old Dominion Dr., #103, McLean, Va. 22101 During these hot humid days of early July, Karl Hensel has been busily engaged in the difficult task of packing up his household effects preparatory to moving from his home in Fort Myers, Florida, where he has been living since 1956. On or about 17 July upon arrival of the movers with his effects he will take residency in Vinson Hall, the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard Foundation retirement home located in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. His new addressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6251 Old Dominion Drive Apt. 274, McLean, Va. 22101. Thus Karl joins the Class of '23 aggregation who are residents of Vinson Hall; hsted in order of length of occupancy, they are: Maurine and Bob Cofer, Jo Johannesen, Linda Soucek, and Mildred Dennison.

The Class News column in the July-August Shipmate reported the sad news of the death of four Classmates (Connelley, Smellow, Huntington and Stock); also, a family member of each of two other Classmates, (McLellan's wife, Ednah, and the Carsons' daughter, Mary Alice Buckmaster). All occurred within a period of two months (12 April-11 June).

Supplementary comments follow below.

Comments concerning Mike Connelley's passing were included in the Class News colunm of JulyAug. Shipmate and his obituary in the Last Call section of that issue.

Morris Smellow died suddenly after a lingering infirmity while living with his wife, Min, in a retirement care home in Media, Pennsylvania, where they moved after many years residence in Annapolis after retiring from the Navy in 1954. While living in Annapohs he was very active in Class of '23 affairs. He served as Class Secretary for several years in the early 70's, and among other creditable services to the Class was the planning and staging of our 45th, 50th and 55th Reunions as Chairman of the committee for Shipmate, September 1990

those events. Memorial services were held in the All Faith Chapel at the Naval Academy followed by inurnment in the Columbarium at the Naval Academy Cemetery on 15 May. Bob Huntington's obituary will appear in Last Call of the next issue of Shipmate. His death on 27 May at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, was reported by telephone to Pierre Bernard who is a friend of the family. Pierre asked her (the caller) and she agreed to send a clipping of an obituary in the Palm Beach newspaper. Upon receipt he forwarded it to me with the following note: "An amazing coincidenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bob died at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 27. It was the precise time and day that his granddaughter, Tracy Huntington Hager, was at the Naval Academy Sailing Center to present the Huntington Trophy in honor of her father, Robert D. Huntington Jr." P S. To put the foregoing quote in context, it is noted that Bob's son is included on the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation's list of Honor Scholarships established by individuals as follows: "The Robert D. Huntington Jr. Honor Scholarship, created by the late Robert D. Huntington Jr., USNA 1948, in memory of Robert Pahner Huntington, USNA 1862, Robert Palmer Huntington, Jr., LCdr. USNR, and in honor of Robert Dinsmore Huntington, USNA 1923."

Bill Stock's death on 11 June at Kaiser Medical Center, Walnut Creek, CaUfomia, was due to a stroke after a long illness. Memorial services were held at nearby Danville Presbyterian Church; among those present were members of the "San Francisco Bay Fragment" of the Class of which he was a founding member. Further details will appear in his obituary in Last Call section of a subsequent issue of Shipmate.

The sudden death on 10 May of Ednah McLellan, Mac McLellan's wife of 65 years, was reported in a letter from his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Peter McLellan who stated that Mac is taking the shock better than expected, considering the fact that he was the more frail of the two. Memorial services were held in the Bay View Manor Retirement Residence Chapel in Seattie; at her request her ashes will be scattered over Puget Sound. In her active life she served as a Gray Lady of the American Red Cross in San Francisco before, diuing, and after World War n and continued after moving to Seattie in 1947. In Seattle she also served in guilds of the Ryther Child Center and Childrens Orthopedic Hospital. Her last major activity was as a sttident interviewer for the Seattle Chapter of People-to-People.

The report of the death of Mary Alice (Carson) Buckmaster on 13 May recalls the following item in the Class column of Shipmate, March 1987: "Mary Buckmaser, Carsons' daughter and grandmother of their eight great-grandchildren, owned a business entitied "Mary B's Cat House" which specializes in the breeding and sale of pedigreed 'Norwegion Forest' and 'Maine Coon' cats. She has a nationwide clientele and cites shipments as distant as Seattle and even one to Germany." Ironically, she did not live to be present in Fort Worth, Texas, to accept the award mentioned in a note from Kit Carson which states: "On 25 August 1990, in Fort Worth, DROGO, a Maine Coon from Mary B's Cattery, will be recognized as the tenth best kitten of all breeds, nationally.

Jewel Carson has been invited to accept the award."

Congratulations to our 10th and 11th nonagenarians viz., Harry Downs of Seattle as of 10 August, and Joe Briggs of Virginia Beach on 6 September. Upon request each kindly provided photos for the purposes of this news column. Incidentally, on 30 August, Lucille and Harry Downs celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary; the photo was taken on their 50th in 1980.

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Pres., VAdm. Ralph E. Wilson USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. J. M. Kennaday USN (Ret.) RO. Box 53, Castine, Maine 04421 W Coast, RAdm. S. E. Burroughs USN (Ret.) "Project Every Member" is off to a good start through the efforts of Raoul Waller and the secretary. Good replies came in from Ken Borgen in time for the July-August column and the following for this onefromFritz Furth, Denny Sharp, Art Wood and a particularly cheery and newsy one from Bud Fisher. With two including Jimmy Lazell heard from by Raoul and half a dozen that haven't yet answered their postcards and only about 51 of the Class still alive we should have the name of every member in this issue of Shipmate. John Caples, who made 'em laugh when he sat down at the piano brought us down to 51 on 10 June, was the oldest of us "Okies" and could be considered the most successful after Bert Kalisch, first even if he didn't graduate and we all know why. Now the secretary and Frank Falge are the only "Okies" left. But it will be some time before we'll have to submit comments direct to Shipmate though we may indeed be slaves to fate, chance, kings and drunken drivers.

Yes, Felix Howland joined us all. He's recovering from a cataract operation and has cancelled trips for the present but kindly hails the see's good work. John Duke, '41, who had asked the secretary for the address of Captain Clay Harrold, whom the sec had written was the best of the USS ELLIS'S ensigns, wrote thanking the sec for it. Duke had got in touch with Clay, and had sent him the '24 column in which he was mentioned. Now this may seem roundabout but it shows "by the service called away we're scattered far and wide, but still when two or three shall meet and old tales be retold, from low to highest in the fleet shall praise the blue and gold." But now here's Red Ruhsenberger again about his TCC. John Caples wasn't the oldest of them but neither was George Montgomery. Charles McDonald, bom in '99, was and is the only one with a chance of

living in three cenmries, so this has been pointed out to Red, with other remarks about Monty The secretary has received from the Alumni Office notice of the passing of Francis A. Murray. No details will be in this column as his obituary will surely be in the next Shipmate, but now the Class is down to less than fifty But he's another name that's never been in the see's column. The address of Captain Clay Harrold furnished by John Duke (see above) produced a very welcome letter from Clay to the secretary who remembers him well from USS ELLIS days. Clay isn't a Classmate nor a USNA grad but he's a good friend who became a regular Navy captain during WWII and who himself wrote of Jim Boyd, another of USS ELLIS'S good Reserve ensigns. We could never have won 'WWII without the service of the many Reservists, commissioned and enlisted who swelled the ranks of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps at that time. The secretary wrote an article once for the Naval Instittite Proceedingstitled"Naval Policy for the Individual." It pointed out that enough regular officers, especially Naval Academy grads are feh, at least, to have rather superior feelings about Reservists and "Mustangs," this really isn't so, but a few can make it seem so. The secretary has served as an enlisted man when a Naval Academy candidate aboard USS OKLAHOMA, and later as a junior officer, with, under and over many Reservists and "Mustangs" and found them all kindly, able and efficient. He can say that he's received unsolicited tributes from Reservists who have worked for him testifying to his attitude toward and understanding of Reservists with whom he's served. In any case, that should be the policy of all officers. Regular and Retired, Reserve or otherwise. Perhaps it's rather late for us of '24 but those of younger Classes may read this, think about it and act accordingly. Another note from Red Ruhsenberger saying he's had a good note from Wayne Garnet who gave him a fine resume of his activities following his retirement and reminding Red of their China Station days.

Yes, we'll all go up to Shanghai and the champagne corks will bang high, and we'll all go up to Shanghai in the Fall.

Fourth of July 1990. "And of the independence of the United States the two hundred and fourteenth."

Wow! Wonder how many of our Class had the same experience as the sec. He never got a commission as commander, just a letter stating he'd been appointed one. And less than a year later he became a captain!

A bloddy war and a sickly season. Bloody enough but not very sickly. We had so many hospitals and doctors that the sec himself found he was neglected and one of his men was worse off. "A couple of aspirin."

A kind reply from Mike Bradley whom the sec had mistakenly written as being a Classmate not heard from whereas Bob Sutliff had told of the Bradleys moving to Vinson. But notice from the Alumni Office of the passing of John Shannon. He was the Vice President of Ran American Airways. How many of us knew that? Where is John D. Hayes?, Rear Admiral (Ret.)? Maybe Dyna Short, also of Texas, has some idea. He's been written so now we have the names of a good many Classmates in this column but no word from Doc Cooke, Clint Folger, Demarest and some others. It's hoped they haven't left us like John Shannon. Though Don Walker used to complain goodnattiredly, about John beating him at golf, it's sure Don will miss him. A reply from Walker Holler, another name never in this column before.

He's a grad who went into the Army, but then, like the sec, into education at Duke University. It was a good, friendly chatty reply.

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Pres., RAdm. Walter C. Ford USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Joseph H. Nevins, Jr. USN (Ret.) 3204 River Crescent Dr., Annapohs, Md. 21401 An additional note from Evelyn, Fred Barnhart's widow, enclosed an obituary (See "Last Call") from their local newspaper. Fred's job required some traveling to London, Paris, Canada and various corporate properties in the United States. He resigned from the Navy on 1 February 1928. He was a Life Member of the Alumni Association. It is regretted that through the years, from time to time, Fred didn't give us more information concerning his activities.

"Red Eye" Coleman invites attention to the Spring/Summer 1990 issue of Pull Together, the Newsletter of the Naval Historical Foundation, in which is published the article on "The 1925 Australian Cruise of the American Fleet" by Dr. William Braisted. Dr. Braisted is professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of many writings on American Naval history and the history of Japan. He had the Secretary of the Navy's Research Chair in Naval History in 1988-89.

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Pres., RAdm. Kenneth Craig USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. J. W. Callahan USN (Ret.) 1138 Glorietta Blvd., Coronado, Calif. 92118 (619) 435-5990 A letter from Jim Russell: P. D. Stroop was on the phone with me today and among other things asked me to tell you of our May trips this year.

There were three.

Thefirsttrip, 9-13 May, was to Pensacola, where six individuals were enshrined in the Hall of Honor at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. Three were deceased; Mustin; Frank Erickson (USCG), pioneer in helicopters; and Igor Sikorsky. Three were alive and present; George Spangenberg, perfonnance engineer in Naval Air Systems Command; Alan Shepaid, first American in space; and your humble servant, Jim Russell. We stayed on for a day's seminar on carrier aviation, and a banquet at the Mustin Beach Officers' Club of the Naval Air Station.

The second trip, 17-21 May, was to Honolulu and the annual convention of the Early and Pioneer Naval Aviators known also as the Golden Eagles.

Gerry and I stayed at a newlyrefurbishedhotel on the inshore boundary of Fort deRussey.-Signature Wakiki. Hale Koa, the R&R hotel on deRussey, was booked solid months in advance, but several functions were held there. LGen. Robert P Keller, USMC (retired) was elected "Pilot" of the Golden Eagles. The usual sightseeing was done. ARIZONA Memorial was closed for remodelling, but we cruised around it, then had a picnic supper at the submarine memorial. Gerry and I were able to do a little visiting on our own,-Charlotte King Ebert, daughter of the WWII governor of Hawaii, Samuel Wilder King, USNA Class of 1910, and her husband Bob; also, Jimmie Kakuihewa Bums Adler and her husband Dave. I was adopted into the Bums family in 1928.

Our third trip, 24 May-3 June, was a tourist cruise to Alaska with the Patrol Wing Four "Airdales" who fought in the Aleutians in WWII. We cruised in the MV ISLAND PRINCESS to Ketchikan,

Juneau, Skagway, and Glacier Bay in SE Alaska, then out into the Gulf of Alaska and into Prince William Sound to visit, first, College Fjord and its glaciers, all named for colleges. In Prince William Sound we went into Whittier, a WW-II Arany logistic supply port. The only access to Whittier by land is through a seven-mile-long railroad tunnel under a

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mountain range. Once a ship enters Whittier harijor it is committed to go alongside the marginal wharf, because the harbor is too deep in which to anchor. In the Winter visibility is restricted by heavy snow showers. We disembarked in Whittier. Once the train has traversed the seven-mile tunnel it comes out on the bank of l\im Again Ami and follows the Ami down to its confluence with Kinik Ami at the port of Anchorage. Anchorage is a poor port. It is shallow and nomial tide range is 29 feet, but winds can increase that to 42 feet. From the train going down the bank of Tum Again Arm we saw the tidal bore, a wall of water about four feet high which comes up the Ami as thefloodtide. We spent a day and two nights in Anchorage, then went up to the National Park given the native name for Mt. McKinley, Denali. Ovemight at the National we were awakened at 0430 for a departure on a scenic bus trip of six hours to look at the scenery and the wild animals. The bus was driven by a Park Ranger, who talked over a public address almost continuously as our mountain road took us by scenic spots and wildlife,-grizzly bear, moose, caribou, Dahl mountainsheep, wolves, marmots, etc. We retumed to Anchorage in time for dinner and one more refteshing ovemight in our hotel then off for SEA-Tac via Alaska Airlines and home.

Jim also advised R D. on the phone that Jerry and he would be entertaining the USNA Puget Sound Alimmi on 14 July and expect about 100 members.

Jim has indeed had a very distinguished career— the only 26er to make four star rank. Jim stood high-15- in oiu- Class and wound up with foiu- stars as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, with many important assignments in between.

P. D. Stroop reported to your corresponding secretary that he had another Angioplasies, which was an operation to clean out a major artery to his heart. This is the second time this artery has been cleared. He is back playing golf and enjoying it more.

Mable and Bob Cavenagh keep check on '26ers in Vinson Hall. Mabel saw Peggy Moses, Ruth Morrison, Ahce Barker and Paul Watson there. Nat Barker has lefr for a musing home. A final note that Paul Watson works in the Vinson Hall vegetable garden.

At the end of June Marge Lyman, widow of Charlie Lyman, was visited by her daughter and son-in-law, their eldest daughter Susan, and Marge's great-grandchild. Marge had a family reunion the next day of fifteen Lyman relatives, foiu generations of Marge's family, including Charlie Lyman's brother. Colonel Andy Lyman, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired. This was a gathering of relatives to meet Marge's first great-grandchild.

John Sylvester's son, Charles, phoned us stating that his father was in Georgetown Hospital, Washington, D . C , with pneumonia. The Class wishes John a rapid recovery.

Ford "Taylor has moved into an "Assisted Uving facility," near their home at Destin, Florida. Betty Taylor is able to visit him fiequentiy and says "he has good and bad days."

Martha and Joe Callahan have an ideal spot for Coronado's Foiuth of July celebration. In the afternoon the Navy puts on an exciting Parachute and Seal Team show across the street in Glorietta Bay. In the evening the fireworks display is from a barge in the bay. Each year we have gathered family and friends to our yard for supper and a first-hand show. We combine this party, adding a birthday, our oldest son's, Joe Callahan, Jr. '64, which is on the 6th of July. One of his friends said to us—this has become a tradition and indeed it has. One of Joe Jr's friends was here from as far away as Hong Kong. As the years shp by and the families grow, so does the party. When we began more than 25 years ago everyone was yoimg now even the grandchildren are growing up.

Joe's brother, Pat Callahan '38, his wife. Rose and their six children, with Joe and Martha and their three started this gathering—now grown to over 50

guests this year.

A heartwarming experience to have your home and garden full of family and friends.

Benny Hehnick died on 26 June at Clearwater, Florida. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on 3 July with services and fiill mihtary honors.

He is survived by his wife, Anne Hehnick.

Benny's first wife. Rose Catherine Eckert, died on 7 September 1979. They did not have any children.

Anne Hehnick's address is 1420 Gulf Blvd., Apartaient 506, South Beach 2, Sandy Key, Clearwater, Fla. 34640. Phone (813) 596-2171. The Class extends condolances to Anne Hehnick.

Mrs. Ruth Gallaher, widow of Shorty Davisson died 1 June at the home of her daughter, Mrs. EUzabeth Davis, in Minneapohs, Miimesota. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Resurrection in Minneapohs. She will be interred in Miami Beach, Florida, July 12th. A Memorial Service will be held in North Miami Beach, Florida, in the Church of the Resurrection on 14 July.

She is survived by her daugher, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Shorty Davisson died in 1974.

Mrs. Ehzabeth Davis' address is: 170-62nd Way NE, Minneapohs, Minn., 55432. Phone (612) 574-9594.

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Pies., RAdm. Thomas J. Hamilton USN (Ret.) Exec. VP, Adm. Charles D. Griffin USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Joshua W. Cooper USN (Ret.) 400 Madison St., Apt. #808 Alexandria, Va. 22314: (703) 549-8708 This will be a very skimpy column for the reason that very Uttie information has been received. This is not an unusual phenomenon—but it becomes more pronounced during that part of the Summer known as "dog days." So, we assume that everyone who has any place to go has gone, and that all is weU. Pete Ferrall writes from Seattie—He and Helen with daughter, Joan (Shaw), who joined them at New York, are home from a Royal Viking Sky Cruise, appropirately named. Connoisseur's Europe. Starting at Lisbon, they sailed north to Bordeaux, Antewerp, Amsterdam and finally, Copenhagen.

Pete's observations summed up the cruise with these observations: ' T h e tour of Lisbon was very worthwhile. Most of the passengers were from California. It was nice having Joan with us since she made all of the side trips—so Helen and I did not have to go. The only thing I recognized in Copenhagen was the 'httie Mermaid'. Prices are out of this world! We now have three great-grandchildren— thanks to Joan and Donald Shaw, (USMA '54).

Frank Gilday's daughter, Mrs. Joan Mulderig passed along the following additional information.

See July-August Shipmate.

"Frank married Genevieve Carberry in 1935—she died in 1958. He married Maehelen Lacy in October 1960. As previously stated, Frank was quite successful in the advertising business—serving as Executive Vice President of McCaim-Erikson Agency and President of Jack Tinker & Partiiers. He retired in 1970.

"He was a member of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre and Knights of Malta, in New York, and the Wykagyl County Club of New Rochelle. He was a parishioner of the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in New Rochelle.

"In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Joan Mulderig of Sufferin, New York, two granddaughters and a grandson."

Word has been received of the death of Christian Howard (Chris) Duborg. As of this writing, inforShipmate, September 1990

mation is not available as to the date and location.

When these essential details are known and confirmed by the Navy Department, an appropriate obimary will be carried in a later edition oi Shipmate.

It is understood that his wife, Pauline, predeceased him.

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Pres., Capt. Raymond O. Burzynski USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Albert O. Momm USN (Ret.) 909 Topmast Way Annapolis, Md. 21401 Fla. Corr., RAdm. R. N. Norgaard USN (Ret.) 121 Phelps Ave., Winter Park, Fla. 32789 W. Coast, RAdm. W. A. Cockell USN (Ret.) 3222 Browning St., San Diego, Calif. 92106 Northeast, Capt. R. O. Burzynski USN (Ret.) Box 145, New Castie, N.H. 03854 Ski Burzynski sends greetings from his home at New Castle, New Hampshire, where he has been since the end of May. He feels comfortably settled and well taken care of. Neighbors and friends have contributed daily support. His health is good—he's always hungry, and there is reasonable activity to make life interesting. He hopes to visit "Crabtown" for a day or two at Homecoming. He plans on staying ovemite on the day of the cocktail party and dinner in the Mess Hall, as well as the day of the game. He is currenUy too shaky to attend the game (as of midJuly). He remarks that he walks around without aids, but always grabs a rail when climbing up and down steps—(Who in the BLC doesn't have to do that?)

And he looks forward to a visit to the Alumni House.

By the way. Ski would like to collect any video tapes of BLC action—to show when there is a reunion, large or small. To keep an annual record. Ski had some time ago volunteered to keep a diaryscrapbook covering events of the past 12 months of the members of the Class. Ski's address is, again, 47 Cape Road, New Castle, N.H. 03854.

In raid-July your C/S, while visiting his daughter.

Sister Rose Christina, in northern New York State, had the oppormnity to attend the open rehearsal of the Boston Pops Orchestra, Seiji Orzawa conducting, at Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts. It was very interesting and illuminating for both those at die podium and in the informal audience—more so than the concert itself.

Which brings up Ed Dexter's story in his book: As Luck Would Have It. When Ed retired from the Navy in 1949, he joined Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians as Executive Assistant, mainly to handle public relations.

Ed tells the story: Fred Waring ran a very taut ship . . . no one disputed him. However, there were times when 1 disagreed. One such occasion was when the great songwriter, Irving Berlin, had called and asked Waring if he would introduce the score of his new Broadway musical show Miss Liberty. Waring assented and I set up the occasion when Berlin, his pianist with his small piano would be ready to play his music at an appointed time. All were there except Waring who had vanished. I was angry with him for his discourtesy and told him so "as an admiral" whom he respected. Then we set up another meeting and Waring was present but appeared indifferent while this remarkable man: Irving Berlin or 'Mr. Broadway' sang the lyrics in his croaky voice. Then Berlin eagerly asked Waring, "How did you like it, Fred?" The reply was a gradging "Okay." The Pennsylvanians did play the entire score shortly after the Miss Liberty was a box office hit.

Capt. Tom Reed '36 reports that he and his wife Nancy had a small Long Beach Naval Shipyard party for Ginny and Jimmy James at Ginger Cove in Annapolis. Others attending were Terril and Virginia

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Capt. Tom Reed, RAdm. Tom Owen, Capt. Terril Efird; seated: RAdm. Jimmy James.

Efird of Fresno, and Tom and Rosemary Owen of Bethesda. All had been at Long Beach in the late Fifties, when Jimmy was Shipyard Commander, and was promoted to rear admiral.

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Pres., RAdm. Chick Frankel USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Cal Laning USN (Ret.) 6404 Lakeview Dr., Falls Church, Va. 22041 Corr. Secretaries: Calif. RAdm. Chuck Triebel USN (Ret.) 17436 Bernardo Oaks Dr., San Diego, Calif. 92128 N. Calif., RAdm. Dick Balluiger USN (Ret.) 199 Thomdale Dr., # 4 9 , San Rafael, Calif. 94903 Horida, Dot Flatley, Box 81, Barstow, Fla. 33830 Retumed to life! A few columns ago we reported a rumor that Big Andy Anderson had passed away.

Too late to hold back the print, we received word from someone else (Vita Johnson in Hawaii) that she doubted the rumor, for she was sure she would have heard directly. After mulling the ethics of Class Sectys in the matter of responsibility for accuracy in media, we went to work to sight a "smoking gun." No answer from a phone call to Andy's last known address, on Long Island, where we knew he had been living in the beautiful house beside the water after Audrey died. (Now we sniffed the odor of gunsmoke.) Then the column was printed, and Andy did not speak up to deny the fatal rumor. (More smoke from a gun.) Finally, we phoned a friend who lived near Andy, or used to. Well he still did, and he advised us that Andy was indeed very much alive, but he never answers the phone or the door unless he wants something. That sounded like the old curmudgeon himself; so we now proclaim the Andy is alive, well, and cantankerous.

Note: If you have a Living Will and a Durable Power of Attorney, and you damn well should have after the Cruzen case hit the Supreme Court, then you should put into the latter to notify your Class Secty in case of demise.

Big Andy no longer operates his powerful radio amateur station, but Lamar Curry is still on the air down in Lexington, Virginia. From his eyrie on a big hill, he used to manage a big net of amateur radio stations who were always ready to step in when natural disasters wiped out area conununications. When his landlord got married and displaced him several years ago, he and Polly decamped for a while in a trailer until they found another commanding hilltop residence, and built another "antennae farm." He writes 1 do have a wireless contraption up on another high hilltop, and for a time, continued to be very active in the Ham traffic nets. But I've now given it up. Have an implanted heart pacemaker (my second one). Thefirstwas a lemon; had to be repaired twice andfinallyreplaced.The second one works ok. Also have both hip joints replaced, and beat out a near

fatal bout with pneumonia. All that affected my work with the radio nets. 1 miss it, but it's in good hands and lots of gung-ho youngsters to carry on.

I was sorry to miss the Sixtieth. Had plaimed to go and to see my grandson Chipman Neideigh, Midn 4/c, but got messed up on the reservations.

Polly and 1 make our main effort in church work where I head up our church's Prison Ministry. This is a local branch of Chuck Colson's nationwide Prison Fellowship. We try to look out for prisoner's families who usually had rough sledding. I also teach prisoners math in the G.E.D. program.

Lamar.

(Secty note: Now we hope to go back to Lexington for seconds of Polly's fried softshell crabs which were so delicious. Away from the seaside, we've enjoyed "mountain oysters" but we prefer Polly's mountain crabs.)

Now, how and where is the third member of our amateur radio operators. Johnny Knight? No word from him for years. Will it be necessary to publish his demise before hearing from him?

From George Beardley comes a note: Last Tuesday we got a call from Lisa Loomis to come sit on her terrace and visit with her and Judy Parish. We did and had a delightful 2^2 hours sipping drinks, nibbling cheese and crackers and catching up with family news, pictures etc. Judy was in San Diego for about seven days. The last day she went to Coronado for a day with a relative. She is leading an active life and sees Rags frequently in a nursing home. He likes to takeridesand is talkative during them. Judy does a lot of water color painting.

We were closely associated with the Parishes during our Post Graduate years. In the Summer of '37 Judy and Grace drove to Rehobeth Beach to rent a house for several weeks. They came home with a house rented for the whole Summer. Rags and 1 spent some time there studying for promotion exams in July and the girls then took their young daughters and the Parish maid to Rehobeth for the rest of the Summer. Rags moved in with me on Best Gate.

Every weekend we drove to Rehobeth with one of our live chickens in the rumble seat. People on the ferry wondered what was going on. Then, of course, we went on to have a year together at Cal Tech. So the visit with Judy and Lisa was a great joy.

George.

When the harvests are in around Portersville, California, we hear from Coimie (Gordon) Cone. Following her initiation of the conversion of a defunct TB sanitarium to quarters for Senior Citizens some years ago, Cotmie has participated in finding a solution for low cost meals for the elderly. Among other activities she helps with the Gleaners of Portersville.

As the name might suggest, these friends of the old glean the remnants of harvests of the fields and orchards around Portersville and package and deliver the pickings for the old. Sometiraes it's feast or famine, as when the grape pickers struck and the vines were left to the old. And then there's the day of the lemons. Connie sent on the Gleaners' request that everyone donate their emptied brown bags for packaging.

Homeless! After 30 years of meeting together every third Wednesday in the intimate private suite of the Army-Navy Country Club in Alexandria, the WB&A gang has lost its lease. With the permanent departure of Win Brown from the Washington area for Maine (br-r-r), the last '29 member of the A-N Club has dropped membership. It was once a month there for 30 years that we joked, hooted and ate around a diminishing table at the Country Club— with two coeds interspersed twice a year at Vinson Hall and at the Aimapolis Yacht Club. Before that, in the '50s, we dined at long boards of 30 or more in the Town Club. There we would greet the recent MayorCommissioner of Washington, one Bob McLaughlin with an irreverent "Heah come de Jedge!" When so many of us were on Washington duties, our monthly lunches sponsored by Robert Bruce McCoy cost the Govermnent 30 or more man-days of labor a month.

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The Washington Seven: Johansen, Mitchell, Benson, McElroy, Davison, Laning and Osbum photographer As we left the Service and moved away, the Washington Area retirees moved their gatherings to the Country Club and usually rallied 16 around the big board. From the begiiming there we enjoyed a superb wine mess treasurer, Johnny McElroy, who, for the price of Ustening to his jokes set us up with the best of cocktails at our private bar. Eddie, the Club steward, attended us often and exchanged reminiscences of Naval duties. We were a rather disrespectful bimch as the last of oiu admirals completed tours of active service. Some shipmates who came and went were Ajax Miller, Dom Mattie, Roy Jackson, Chick Frankel, Buz Denbo, Rosy Jungbans, Ed Stephan, Bill Kabler, Chuck Triebel, Johnny Davidson, Win Brown, and, until last month, Les Richardson. Kemp ToUey and Jack Galbraith came occasionally from long distances. Once in a while a Classmate came through town and dined with us, for instance Nick Frank. We remember dining with Nick and his brewmaster brother and learning from the latter that infiveyears the last of thefinesmall breweries which furnished daily fiesh beer-on-tap to the bars would be purchased by the big bottling chains. And lo! You can't get a good tap beer in America any more! Al Boyd always stopped by and played a game of tennis before the lunchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on Old Man's Teimis rules: you have to return the ball within reach of your opponent.

Yes, we are growing old.

Henceforth the WB&A Gang wiU sup catch-ascatcb-can at mihtary clubs and quick lunches around the Beltway. Several times a year the Seven of us remaining wiU join the Six locals of the Class of '30 for a talkfest and feast. Sic transit Twentynine!

Hardly had we attended the ceremonies for our own dear WB&A member, Les Richardson, when we received the disasttous news of the death of three of our shipmates in one week. Paul Foley at last succtunbed after a slow tragic decline under Alzheimer syndrome, constantiy attended by ComeUa. The WB&A gang attended his funeral in Arlington Cemetery. Almost at the same time we were advised Les RichaidsCHi

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of the death of our expert photographer Teepee Wilson in San Diego. We have had no better companion than Teepee at our gatherings, shooting candid shots of us, with Eleanor guarding. Services were held in California, but Teepee was buried in his home town Jacksonville, Illinois. Chuck Triebel was arranging an American Legion honor squad when he phoned Carl Armbrust in San Diego and was answered by his son "Dad is dead!" Characteristic of the supremely modest Carl, he wanted no annoimcement and his ashes were scattered at sea by his son. We have been unable to contact Ruby. Wefindthat Nancy Richardson continues her fiill-time job as a family counselor (Sect Note: at this moment of writing, our Micky is undergoing open heart surgery and is unable to edit this ms.)

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Pres., RAdm. W. G. Chappie USN (Ret.) Exec. Sec'y, RAdm. W. T. Nelson USN (Ret.) 1004 Priscilla Lane, Alexandria, Va. 22308 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Christian L. Engleman USN (Ret.) MR0.82R Skamania Mines Rd., Washougal, Wash. 98671 That was quite areportfrom RosaUe in the last issue of Shipmate, wasn't it? Nancy and I look forward to seeing RosaUe and all the rest of you at the Super Sixtieth Reunion in October. Now, some recent news gleaned from the mail and elsewhere.

Reports From South Florida: I read the account of your visit in Florida with great interest. Thank you for writing about Simon and your kind visit to my home. And now some kind fairy has donated a subscription to me to Shipmate magazine through June 1999. What can I say but thanks to the Qass of '30. It is a very gracious gift and a very much appreciated one. I'll drop a note to Mrs. Renfio toreportthat I am now receiving Shipmate. Elizabeth Legare.

A note from Mrs. Rudolph C. Bauer (Margaret ahas Peggy), PO Box 537, Fort Pierce, Fla. 34954, (407-464-5724) saying that she arrived home shortly after I passed through Fort Pierce in June. She expressed regret at having to miss our visit. Peggy had been on a trip to be with her daughter for several weeks. She was happy to hear from us and sends her many regards to '30.

There was a similar regret from Mrs. Donald D. Grant (Katrina ahas Ketty), 327 N. Beach Street, Ormond Beach, Fla. 32074, 904-677-3757. It was a disappointment that I did not get to see Ketty, the lovely wife of my old friend Don, but we wUl try again someday. Ketty, always thinking of others, wondered if we had Helen Sanchez's address. We didn't. Shipmate didn't, the Class has carried her as missing for quite a while, and now we know where she is! Mrs. Henry G. Sanchez, 650 North Adantic Avenue, Cocoa Beach, Fla. 32931, 407-777-5667 and Hi, Helen! We are glad to find you again and I shaU ask that you be sent our Shipmate magazine as a gift from the Class very soon. Here is a story about your husband, Mike, which occurred on a day when I might have been inclined to cut him to pieces if I had been able to put my hands on him! The Fleet was en route to Tokyo Bay for surrender ceremonies; and I was on board George "Potty" Chamber's destroyer divisionflagshipwhen Ireceivedradio orders to proceed immediately to AustraUa for a special mission.

In the first stage of carrying out my orders, I was transported by breaches buoy to an aircraft carrier in the task force. The seas were moderately heavy and when halfway between the destroyer and the carrier and about forty feet above the water, I was precipitously dropped mto the sea, "Kersplash!" As you

can imagine, I was mad as hell over such lousy seamanship. However, they rescued me and when they set me down on a half deck under the flight deck of the carrier, I beUeve it was INTREPID, there was the Executive Officer of the ship, your husband, standing there, binoculars in hand, laughing his head off!

Well, it took me some time to cool off and then, after getting dried off, Mike and I had a whale of a visit before he catapulted me off on the first leg of my trip to the South Pacific. We shall alwaysrememberMike and you making a trip to Spain back in the late fifties and asking Nancy and me if there might be something they could bring back to us. They reminded us that silver fox stoles were unreasonably reasonable there and also kid gloves were quite inexpensive. So, as I lecaU, we said it would be nice to have a fox stole and about six pairs of white kid gloves. You retumed with our order and, as I remember, the stole and gloves cost less than $40. We enjoyed these items for a number of years and now they are packed away with memories of yesteryear. Welcome back, Helen, and many thanks, Ketty, for being so alert! Sorry we missed both of you while we were in Florida.

"I just had to write and say how much I am enjoying Shipmate and was muchflatteredwith the very nice writeup. Would hke to hear from you, Rosahe Renfro and others some time. Hope those of '30 have a happy Summer. Martha Chafee."

Lovely letter from Dusty Famham's widow, Mireille, who asked that it be known that she now fives in Southem France at "Le Mediterranee," 19 Avenue De Delphes, Marseille 13006. Quite a party was given in Mireille's honor by the French American Cultural Exchange before she left Bradenton, Florida. She also reported she had received a beautifully framed picture of Dusty's last command from Chief Masterson. She was ever so grateftil for the many kindnesses from those who have done such nice deeds for her recently. The writeup on our visit with MireiUe in Florida, asreportedin the June issue in Shipmate, inspired a very long letter to Mireille from Albert "Jupiter" West who was among Dusty's wonderful fiiends. Al has also been in touch with his Academy roommate. Jack Moreno, who reports Alresignedat graduation and went into the oil business, pretty much all over Colombia, Argentina and Nigeria, as well as in Oklahoma, Montana, Louisiana and Texas. Al and Ruby West hve at 518 Morgan Creek Road, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. Nancy, who is alsofixjmNorth Carolina says Chapel Hill is a beautiful place. During ourrecentvisit to San Diego, we would have liked to spend more time with Jack, but he was busy with their 60th Reunion luncheon and looking after Betty and Nix Lidstone, Vivian Moore and her new husband Bill Spangler.

Reporting on the inevitable sorrowful segment of our Column: 'Vbu willrememberwereportedthe passing of Ehvia Konigsberg in last month's issue. We received a lovely long letter from Elesa McFadden, daughter of Ehvia and Al Konigsberg.

Mother's passing was quick from cancer vnth little pain with her being alert to the end. Father's (Al) illness was diagnosed as Alzheimer's disease in 1988 and now he is in a nursing home and his memory is most poor. He does not understand his loss of Elivia which is a blessing. Mother spoke often of her friends, especially this year. We spent a great deal of time going over photo albumsrememberingthose she loved. She was a very special womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I will miss her Also, I would like to express my thanks to the Class of '30 for the beautifiil spray of floweis which were sent for the intemment services at the Naval Academy. I was very touched by them. I brought theribbonback to show Daddy and his face really lighted up when he read Qass of 30 on it, even though he didn't fiilly understand what it was for It was such a joy and comfort to see Cici and Jim Howard at the service. Classmates may be interested to know that my husband, Grafton McFadden, is '51 and UTS '77. He knew Bob Craighill Shipmate, September 1990

who was two years ahead of him at the Seminary. I will always havefondmemories of those of Daddy's Classmates I have met. God bless you all!

Wally Fromhold reports that he read in the Retired Officer that his Academy roommate George W. Fbott had passed away last Fall. C. B . "Steve" Stevens made a similar report. Oiu records did not show such an event as happening and I traced down his widow Bobbi Foott, 261140th Avenue West, Seattie, Wash. 98199, 206-283-6822, and found that George had passed away as claimed. Bobbi has heard nothing from the Class and was most pleased when told she will be receiving Shipmate shortiy as a gift from the Class. Ovu condolences were expressed to Bobbi and she said she would love to hear from some of her and George's friends. Wally also asked for a copy of "Just-in-Case" and it was sent to him. Wally encourages us to keep up the news in a jovial, friendly, caring and family way! Hey,—who's expecting?

I received a thank-you note from Ed Camiick, 19231 Valle Vista Drive, Saratoga, Calif. 95070, for our sending him the "Just in Case" file. Ed is a nice guy and always says such nice things.

Bill Nelson has notified us that John E. MacGregor passed away on the first day of June 1990 from pneumonia. He had also suffered a series of strokes. Mac was buried in Arlington Cemetery with full mihtary honors at gravesite. Those present from the Class were: Lil and Bill Nelson, Pattie and Bill Snead, Madeline and Art Owens and Chief Masterson. Bob Craighill was also present and assisted with the services. We offer our condolences to Victoria and her family. Mac was a wonderful fellow and we will miss him. Bill also reported the passing of EUnor, the widow of Parke H. Brady, at her home in Afton, Virginia, on 11 June 1990. We extend our sympathies to the children and grandchildren of Parke and Elinor. Bill said this news came as a shock to everyone for no one knew she had been ill.

Regret to report that Bob Trower passed away 3 Jtme 1990 just two days before the sixtieth anniversary of his graduation from the Naval Academy.

Nancy and I attended Bob's funeral on a lovely sunny day high atop a knoll in the beautiful Fort Rosecrans Cemetery far out on Point Loma looking down on San Diego Bay. His friends, including numerous Classmates and their wives gathered for this sad occasion to pay their last respects to their fiiend and to say a few words of comfort to Path, his widow and loving wife for almost sixty years. A Navy chaplain gave the eulogy after which a Navy contingent delivered three volleys. It was indeed a memorable service, and I felt privileged to be present. Ed Oleata, '61, was among the many attending his services and had this to say about Bob: I talked to Bob on the phone about once a week over the last 25 years. He was one of the kindest, mildest mannered and even-tempered men I ever knew. He always had a smile on his face or in his voice and never complained about anything. Ehiring most of the quarter of a century that I knew him he was not in good health and wasn't the strongest person you will meet; but I never heard him complain about his health or doctor's treatment he was undergoing. He was a very well-read person and subscribed to all the financial publications and read them cover to cover He knew what was going on in the financial world. At the funeral much was said about his 27-year naval career It was impressive and he served his country faithfully during those years, and he was also a faithful husband and father for some sixty years.

Patti Trower may be reached at 4021 Randolph Street, San Diego, Calif. 92103, 619-296-2335.

I received a sad letter from W. T. Jenkins, 830 Montgomery Avenue # 2 0 5 , Bryn Mawr, Penna.

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Ann started to lose ground in the late Summer after we came back from an extended sojoum in Maine and at our daughter's home in Massachusetts.

In spite of expert medical treatments shefinallylost her batUe with lung cancer the day before her eightyfirst birthday Bob Craighill gave the eulogy while assisting the Academy Chaplain at the graveside services in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Thanks to the many friends who have given us words of encouragement in this time of sorrow and for the lovely Class floral display ananged for by Cici and Jim Howard who were also at the service.

In your April column you included a report from Spoof Spofford. His son, Barr, on duty at the Academy, attended the service. We needed no introduction for he is the image of Spoof and I immediately looked back to the time when Ann and I had close contact with Skip and Spoof, both professionally and socially in our active duty days. As always, Chris, our warmest regards to you and Nancy.

Jenks.

From Mrs. Kay Bamhill: I want to express my thanks to the members of the Class for making a donation to the Naval Academy Foundation in memory of my mother Alice Browne.

Had it not been for the Naval Academy, my father would not have had the opportunity for a college education. So it seems especially fitting for members of his family to be remembered in this way. Not only did my fatherreceivethis wonderful educational opportunity at the Naval Academy, but both my parents fomied life-long friendships through their contacts there—especially those with the Class of '30.

The closeness of these relationships, and the strength of them for more than 50 years, are truly to be looked on with both admiration and envy by others. I hope this tradition of life-long friendship continues with the Midshipmen of today. Thank you for remembering my mother in this way.

(From letter to Jim Howard from Mrs. Kay BamhiU, daughter of Oscar M. Browne, 74 Revere Court, Lafayette, Calif. 94549.)

Alice William Browne's father, Thomas S. Williams, served seven terms in the U. S. Congress of the United States and had been a Federal Judge in the U.S. Court of Claims—So says her obituary in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported by Julia, Mrs. Donald F. Krick, 4759 178th Street NE, Seattle, Wash. 98155, in a letter from Si Perkins.

Funeral Services for Frances Jordan Weller, widow of Donald M. Weller, were conducted in the Fort Myer Chapel by the Rev. Robert Craighill followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, 4 April 1990. Attending from the Class of '30 were Wally Green, former Commandant of the United States Marines Corps; Cici and Jim Howard; Lil and BOI Nelson; Patty and Bill Snead; Madeline and Art Owen; Evelyn Stevens, widow of James E. Stevens; and Chief Masterson.

The Welter's two children, Donald from Seattle and SidafromParis were there as were John P Condon, '34, and Mrs. Condon. Reported by Chief Masterson and Bill Nelson.

Bill Nelson also reported in his letter informing us of the services for Frances Weller, that he and Lil moved in April from their lovely home on Pricilla Lane in Alexandria to the same retirement home complex in which Chief Masterson lives. They will be neighbors! Lil and Bill Nelson's new address is 3440 South Jefferson Street, Apartment #1023, Falls Church, Va. 22041, Telephone Number 703-578-7610.

"Just a line to thank you for your write-up on funerals. It is complete and comes at a good time since I'm working on that subject now. Also working on Wills and Living Trusts. It all adds up to a big job, but, as you point out, it will be of the greatest help to our wives. It would be a terrible thing not to do! We continue to enjoy the Shipmate news and once more congratulations. Also, thank you for the nice remarks in the October issue of my father in Wings of Gold.

Marie and I hopie this finds you and Nancy in tip top shape. We are looking forward to the Super Sixtieth.

Many thanks. Bill Moffett."

And, lastly, another of our great men has been transferred to a higher post. As reported in the June issue of Shipmate, one of the highlights of our trip through Southem Florida was our very dehghtful visit with Maryly and Wally Ebert. We are thankful we took advantage of that opportanity so we could report our visit with Wally and have it published before he passed away on 20 June 1990. One of the several services held for him was at the Fust Presbyterian Church in Winter Haven, Florida. It was most impressive and was replete with the narrative of his very distinguished naval career as well as, after retirement from the Navy, his outstanding services to his community and his subsequent help to many who were less formnate than he. Your secretary refers you to our columns in the May and June issues of Shipmate for some recent details on Wally. So, on 2 July 1990, our good friend and Classmate, Walter Gale Ebert, was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Our Class was represented by Chief Masterson. The Class of 1930 extends its condolences to Maryly VanLeer Peck Ebert and their family for the loss of a fine man. We who knew him will miss him immensely.

Reports from Seattle area: While visiting my sister, Jean Lafon, in Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle, Nancy and I took the opportunity to have a reception for our Classmates, Classmate's widows and some of our firends in the Puget Sound area. Among those related to the Academy who attended were the followmg and we had a delightfiil time together: Bill Butler; Ruth and Tommy Cable; Mrs. Dick "Ann" Conn; Si Perkins; and Mrs. Edward "Rosalie" Renfro.

"Thank you for a great party and diimer after the reception at the Red Lion Inn. Along with their wives, it was great to see Tom Cable after 60 years and Si Perkins after 15 years. Regretfully we did not see Clyde Stevens and his wife Lucy. Nice rendition of 'Navy Blue and Gold'. Great party and hope you got back to Washougal safely and in good health Best regards to everyone in '30. Bill Butler."

I thank you for your invitation. At the time of your reception I will be in Richmond, New Hampshire, where a gathering of the Brokenshire Clan is taking place. My daughter, Dartha, and her husband, Doctor Tom Hopkins, are comingfromLa Spezia, Italy, where he is on the staff of NATO, while Sarah and I will beflyingfrom Frisco with my daughter Sarah to join them at Hillside Lodge, the Richmond home where the family have been gathering every year since 1909. Another branch of the family will be arriving from Florida, as they do every Summer. Also arriving are my two grandchildren, Fifer who graduated this year from Oberlin College and Seth who just completed his sophomore year at Middlebury College. So, I am truly sorry to miss your party and thank you, again. Long live the Class of '30. Sincerely, Doug Brokenshire.

Earlier, Doug had reported his recent return from Australia where he had spent a month getting sunbumed while visiting Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and points in between. He sent his best wishes to all the Class from his home at 20209 87th West, Edmonds, Wash. 98020. We regret to report his lovely wife Faith passed away last August. We extend our condolences, Doug, and thank you for letting us know.

"Spurred by the memories of Naval Academy days evoked by the fellowship and conversation at your reception, I have been browsing through our Lucky Bag again. Didn't reahze how active you had been in so many phases of Academy life. It was great to meet your guests, especially Bill Butler, Tom Cable and his wife and Eddie Renfro's widow, Rosalie. I used to see Bill fairly often when he lived out on the Hood Canal.

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they hved on Queen Ann Hill in Seattie. Received the die sixtietii anniversary of their graduation. With June Shipmate today. I was amazed at your account of some 50 persons in attendance it was a grand party your East Coast trip. You certainly covered a lot of with many toasts, group songs, good food, and supterritory and saw a lot of people. Very interesting. plementing the dessert for the grand occasion were When you get up this way again I hope you will let two sheet cakes baked and decorated by John Gragg me know in advance so that we can plan to get to- using the colors and insignia of die Class of '30. The cake was outstanding and John confided that it had gether again. Sincere regards. Si Perkins."

Clyde 'Steve' Stevens sent us a letter oftiianksfor been lovingly made from "scratch." The lucky perthe invitation and for the hst of the Seattie area Class- son at each table who found a penny under their cup mates and friends we sent him. He and Lucy hve only won the beautiful centerpiece which was a yellow a couple of miles from Dick Conn's widow, Ann. chrysanthemum plant around which was tied a Navy Steve was an usher in Dick and Ann's wedding. blue satin ribbon. Oiu aviator son, Eric, flew down from NAS, Fallon, and joined us providing the Small world when good communications exist!

"Never thought I would see Navy Folk again! Your luncheon with a white uniformed officer in attenlovely thoughtful reception at the Red Lion hm in dance. I was promised a recap of the meeting but Bellevue, Washington, was a great inspiration. I very have not received it yet so will cover who was there next issue. much enjoyed seeing you and Nancy again. Meeting A note from Roscoe Newman says, "It was nice Classmates, their wives and your other guests was truly a joy. A special occasion for which 1 thank you. having you, your lovely Nancy, and our Top Gun man Many memories revived. Hope you will accept my of the current generation with us at our Southwest invitation to limch next time in Seattie. Thanks to the Cahfomia sixtieth reunion limch on 8 June." I also Class for Shipmatel Sincerely, Ann Conn (Mrs. take pleasure inreportingthe election of new officers Richard J H Conn, 900 University Street #4-B, for this area and here they are: Jack Moreno, President; Jack Lewis, Vice-President; and Bill Sanders, Seattle, Washmgton 98101, 206-382-3142)."

Secretary and Treasurer." Congratulations to the new From Ruth and Tommy Cable, team and we wish them well! (The top gun referred to What a joy to see you both in Bellevue and to reis our son Eric who flies a supersonic fighter, wears new the life-long tiond. Every second was previous and we are thankful it was possible. We have heard the red star on his flight suit, and is a member of the of Bill Gubbins and his wife indirectly through Adversary Fighter Squadron based at Fallon. Eric Ruth's roommate and sorority sister from Ohio also participated in the Air Show in Portiand Oregon Wesleyan who met them at theretirementhome at Rose Festival celebration this year). Roscoe sent me a 2530 Mayapple Court, Northbrook, ni. 60062. Our recent roster of the SW group and I have corrected oldest son Tom Junior and his family will vacation my master hst to agree. Anyone wishing a copy of with us here in late July. They have been in Geneva, our Classmates and widows with addresses and teleSwitzerland, the last 14 years as European Manager phone numbers, just ask. Roscoe also reported Peggy for Union Carbide. Prior to that they were in Tokyo.

We have been going over there every other year and Sanders has sold her beautiful home on Glorietta they come over here on altemate years. With our Boulevard and has moved nearby to 707 Orange Aveother son David and his family already here we exnue #D1, Coronado, Calif. 92118, witii die same pect to have an excitingreunion.Once again our telephone number 619-435-1373. Another item, best to everyonefromRuth and Tommy.

Nix Lidstone did not make it to the party but sent Jane Deiuiis reports a change of address to 655 Tourmahne #314, San Diego, Calif. 92109, this in a letter to us, 619-272-9129, and that die state of her health makes I am happy toreportthat my good wife and helpit necessary for her to have continued care. Everyone mate, Betty, is in good health and is a very 'up-andsends best wishes to Jane. From Roscoe's letter I also at-em' influence on me for which I am thankful! understand that he and Rosalie Renfro are in comWhile in Georgia this FaU, I saw Grace and Sandy munications reminiscing about Snake Routines at Heyward who were on a trip in their motor home Eddie Renfro's quarters at NAS, Milton, a long time from theirretreatin Camden, South Carolina, to ago. I haven't the foggiest idea what that is all about! points south. Sandy never ceases to amaze me driving that big buggy cross country just like he was 20 "Dear Nancy and Chris. How very nice it was to years old. I'm worried as to whether I will recognize see you again. You both look great. It was quite a anyone at the Super Sixtieth and whether anyone will recognize me. Betty and I were glued to the TV gathering for a local sixty-year reunion. The Class is watching Navy beat the University of Washington, very close and they are interested in everybody's welwinning the Crewraceout here I We are enjoying re- fare. Have a wonderful trip around the world. How minding our civilian friends here about it. They lucky can you be? Take care and stay well! The very have crowed for a long time. As you know, I love to fish, Chris, so tell me how is the steelhead fishing best wishes. Else Bradman."

We had an invitation from Clare and John Gragg down your way?

Glad you asked. Nix. The seagoing rainbow trout to stop by their home in San Clemente on our drive (steelhead) run this year is spectacular. For some un- north from San Diego. Their spacious and beautiful known reason, they retumed after staying three years home is perched high atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It is filled with magnificent treasures at sea instead of the normal two years and they are which John had collected through the years during BIG! Yesterday, I took one out of the river pond just tours of duty and other trips to China and the Orient. below our Kanati Falls in front of our house which John made delicious waffles and he and Clare were weighed in at over 17 pounds! They usually run be- great hosts for a lovely brunch (Clare had not extween five and eight pounds. The game warden was pected to be there that day; however it was very rainy here a couple of days ago and we counted over 150 and her Repubhcan Auction that moming had been big ones right below our lookout platform. A beauti- cancelled). ful sight and they were lined up like cord wood pointWinding our way up the Califomia coast, we acing upstream. The ranger said the big run this year cepted the gracious invitation of Millie and Jack Edmay be the result, in part, from our recently clampwards to spend the night with them in their Glendale ing down on the Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese home. Their home is also filled with splendid treafishing vessels off our Oregon and Washington sures from China where Jack had several tours of coasts. You are welcome to come down and try your duty. Jack is an outstanding gardener and his towerluck anytime. Nix. Bring Betty, however! ing rose bushes are truly a sight to behold. There are Reports from Soufliem California area: On 8 June numerous otherfloweringplants, as well as lemon, 1990, die S. W Califomia Class of 30 Group, tiieir grapefruit and orange trees. He has an area in the wives, widows and friends, held a luncheon at the yard designated as the "infirmary" where ailing Officers' Club, MCRD, San Diego, commemorating

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plants are brought to recover. It seemed to me that even his "sick" plants looked great! Another one of his now-famous Middle Eastern dinners with a dozen condiments was prepared and, as usual, was exceptional. We enjoyed ourtimewith Millie and Jack very much. I might add that Jack and I are both computer enthusiasts and always have fun comparing notes on diis score. I called Jack after we retumed home to check on diem at the time of that forest fire which bore down on Glendale. Jackreportedhe was OK but he and Milhe had been ready to scram when the blazing infemo got to within a half mile of them! Whew, what a close call! Jack says he is ready to perform as die Leader for die May 1991 C/S 1930 column job.

Recentiy, in chatting witii Sparky Woodruff, our friend Jack Moreno's name came up and I was pleased to leam tiiat Jack does many wonderful things about which few of us know. Among such things, did you know that Jack has been the Treasurer of Christ Church in Coronado for the past 25 years?

Jack has strong ties to the church. He and Smie were married tiiere 57 years ago. Their daughter was married there. One of their grandsons was christened there. Jack takes care of the church accounting usmg two computers and complicated spread sheets. His computer experience should serve him well as he takes on the task of bemg die C/S for the 1930 column in the September 1991 issue oi Shipmate. There is an old saying, "When you want to get something done, speak to a person who is already busy!" Now, finaUy, in addition to all of the above, he has gallantiy accepted the responsibility of being the President of the Soudiwest group of die Class of 1930. What a guy!

Report on some assistance to your Corresponding Secretary 1991/1992. As I have mentioned several times earlier, this job of C/S takes a bit of doing to service all those reporting in while meeting strict deadlines imposed by Shipmate. With all the outside interests I still have, personal and business wise, I shouldn't keep up this pace if I expect to stay healthy.

However, I still have a strong desire to assist in keeping the Corresponding Secretary's program active and healthy. To help me in doing so I have asked a number of our Classmates to assist once every couple of years. I did so and have heard back from over 60 percent of them without one dissent! Thank you Sirs!

I asked 22 teams, each team headed up with a leader who is the first person listed on each team, to write the column for one specific issue oi Shipmate in the next two years. Except for an introduction by me at the start of the column which will include the hst of the team players, the team will be completely responsible for the column in die issue so assigned. If the team does nothing else, it is a wonderful opportunity for the team to communicate one with the other and with the Class. However, under rare circumstances if a team is unable to perform, then I shall add a few remarks so the column doesn't appear as a blank. In the case of some of our Classmates on a team who are no longer able to write, it would be a nice opportunity for his wife or a friend or the team to write a few lines for him or about him. Our Classmates would tike to hear from such persons. Just a good story on all listed as teammates would be an excellent start for the column if not sufficient for the whole column. In a two-year period we would hear something on all Classmates. In case a Leader falls by the way, the next listed viable person on die hst is requested to take over. Here is a listing of the teams chosen at random for the next two years: Jan/Feb '91â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Abe Lmcoln, 3328 St. Marys Road, Lafayette, Calif. 94549, 415-284-7706, assisted by Aubrey Bourgeois, Harry Canaday, Waddy Wadsworth, Bill Epperly and Al Douglass; Mar '91â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bill Doyle, 250 S. Sykes Creek Parkway #209B, Merritt Island, Fla. 32952, 407-272-5603, assisted by Sandy Heyward, Al Konigsberg, Alex

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Balfe, Joe Hindraan, Allen Roby, and Larry Blanchard; Apr '91—Sparky Woodruff, 3131 East Alameda #2006, Denver, Colo. 80209, 407272-5603, assisted by Bill Burgett, Bryan Swan, Burrel Allen, Dick Herms, Cecil Hahn and Charley Mauro; May '91—Jack Edwards, 2416 E. Chevy Chase Drive, Glendale, Calif. 91206, 818-244-0312, assisted by Benny Stevens, Chuck McCombs, Chuck Wesdiofen, BiU Drane, Carlton Adams and Fog Hayes; Jun '91—Chick Lawver, 25621 Cherry Hills Boulevard, Sun City, Calif. 92381, 714-652-1247, assisted by Red Earl, Bill Kirvan, Don Bartelt, Doug Brokenshire, Edgar Nelson and Ed Montgomery; Juf Aug '91—Hans Wagner, 17890 Plaza Valdivia, San Diego, Cahf. 92128, 619-487-6349, assisted by Bill Tisdale, John MacGregor, Mike Block, Eph Holmes and Ed Camiick; Sep '91—Jack Moreno, 1214 Fiftii Street, Coronado, Calif. 92118, 619-435-3732, assisted by Bill Snead, Ed Brumby, Emmet O'Beime, Eddie Sanders, Francis Wilson and Nick Carter; Oct '91—Bob Craighill, 6018 Chesterbrook Road, McClean, Va. 22101, 703-538-4116, assisted by Si Perkins, Fred Reeder, Frank Stich, Bill Post, Fred Lucas, Monk Atkins and George Over; Nov ' 9 1 — George Seay, 1212 Ben Franklm Drive #209, Sarasota, Fla. 34236, 813-388-5427, assisted by Bill Sheeley, Gif Scull, Jack Holt, Harold Heming, Harmon Briner and Harold Johnson; Dec '91—Lee Boyle, 9301 Golondrina Drive, La Mesa, Calif.

92041,619-463-3430, assisted by Hugh MacKay, Art Owen, Salty Westropp, Bill Moffett, Harry Stevenson and Herb Marable; Jan/Feb ' 9 2 — J i m Howard, assisted by Harry Smith, Harvey Burden, Mac McKean, Colonel House, Jim Kieman and John Earle; Mar '92—Bill Nelson, assisted by John Azer, John Huhne, Chris Engleman, Joe Andrada, Joe Dodson and Jun Davis; Apr '92—Bill Butler, assisted by Joe Ruddy, John McKnight, Bill Stewart, Jack HoweU and Jack Agnew; May '92—Roscoe Newman, assisted by Jack Lewis, Moon Chappie, John Sisson, John Gragg, Jack Lee and Kyran Curley; Jun '92—Chief Masterson, assisted by Leo May, Jack Jones, Mush Domin, Bill Lowrey, Mac Williams and Marvin Gluntz; Jul/Aug '92—Nix Lidstone, assisted by Wally Fromhold, Nick Blemker, Nadianiel Guyol, Ned Harrell, Paul Heerbrandt, and Brick Blackbum; Sep '92—Ray Conner, assisted by Si Perkins, Chick Hayward, Roy Wolverton, Dick Hunt, Bob Moore and Rip Briner; Oct '92—Spoof Spofford, assisted by Red Stroh, Ray Conner, Mac McClain, Rea Axline and Sammy Randall; Nov '92—Tommy Cable, assisted by Stan Alexander, Bumboat Haley, Tom Hughes, Walt Walter, Thadius VanMetre and Vic Riva; Dec ' 9 2 — Rebel Lowrance, assisted by Bill Sanders, Bill Gubbins, Wet Hines, BiU Hyde, Jenks Jenkins and Wally Greene.

"Relative to your 1991-1992 C/S suggested assignments—Wonderful! Count me in plus any help I can provide. We can be the best, especially with this kind of innovation and leadership—yours. Jim Howard." It is nice for you to say that, Jim but it was you who gave me the idea when I thought back about how you tightened your belt and took over from scratch when we lost Freddie. Leadership inspires the same!

Abe Lincoln is learning fast to say, "no"! Last year he apparently really retired and stopped accepting other responsibilities and intended to make it stick.

Since then, in quick succession, came jobs in Cub Scouting, Sea Scouting, the Presidency of the County Commission Officer's Club and Moderator at his Church. On top of all of this he just accepted the Class of 1930 Corresponding Secretary assignment for die 1991 January/February issue. Good talent just can't escape being taken advantage of! Abe and Dee are still looking forward to some day taking a few

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trips here and there during their "new leisure time."

They expect to visit their son James who is with the Weyerhauser Intemational Headquarters in Tacoma, Washington, this Summer. James expects to receive his Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington shortly. Our daughter Katherine enters the same school this Fall for graduate work. It will be nice to have her closer to home for a while.

Bill Doyle received my packet assigning temporary acting Corresponding Secretaries for 1991 and 1992 and reacted as follows: Your packet of Shipmate C/S instructions artived in good shape. It contained my assignment for the March 1991 issue. With the detailed instructions it should be no strain. I am of the same inclination you expressed. I'll jam the circuit with all the goodies which come my way or else make up some cockand-bull tales such as 'Dimes for Doyle' or tax free contributions to the 'Doyle Benevolent Associates'.

By the way, Richard Coulter Drum Hunt wrote directly to me and offered to sell me his all-expensepaid trip to Tahiti for $60,000,00. Last April Ella May and 1 made a trip stopping at Tallahassee, Baton Rouge, Houston and San Antonio. We visited son Tom and two of four granddaughters. We were supposed to have lunch with Spoof SpofTord but he came down with a mysterious ailment which tumed out to be an ulcerated tooth. Talked to him by phone several times. Joe Dodson braved the San Antonio Festival '90 crowds and parades which were a MexTex affair. Our hotel was a block from the Alamo so we didn't have to go far to see all of the sights. San Antonio is a nice buddy-buddy place except the Mex and the Tex do not seem to get along one with the other During the parades there were two shooting and two stabbings so we tiptoed through the tulips, so to speak. But we had a very enjoyable session with Joe and his new bride Mary Jane. They had been married only a couple of months and they made a most handsome and stately couple—both tall and slender From Jack Moreno: "Chris, thank you for your stunning letter setting up responsibilities and team leaders for the Shipmate column through the year 1991 with ray assignment being Leader for September 1992. Personally I would have preferred an assignment in the year 2000 for there wouldn't be many left to criticize our efforts! But you have a novel approach and I hope it will work."

Thanks Jack and I agree with Sparky, you write so well you will do a super job on your watch as Temporary C/S! Please try to get back to the Super Sixtieth.

We need your inputs. Congratulations on being elected as the new President of the Southwest Group!

From Cal Laning, C/S '29, saying nice things about 1930 C/S concepts. He also liked the presentation of our tour through Florida. Thanks Cal! Chick Lawver, who will be responsible for the June 1991 C/S 1930 column job writes a nice long letter to us: I am overwhelmed by the changes and changing world we are so fortunate to be witnessing. Personally, I am ever so thankfiil to still have the "buttons" to remember the downfall of the Tsars, Emperors, Kings, Kaisers, Princes and Shahs; the passing of the dictators and their 'isms'. We will indeed be fortunate if we get to see the present family of Nations reach a more open and free society. If indeed they do, it will have been due to the great accomplishments of the Communications Age; in which you have so significantly performed.

Relative to your claims of my expermess or as I say, my non-expertness, as a computer user, in the '60s while using various farm programs and observing the farming economy, I could foresee the computer becoming a new and very vital tool in our agriculture production. Never before has the fanner been able to have his unit cost of production available to him daily as his produce leaves his hands.

While 1 did not follow up any further in this application, it is becoming widely applied. Out of idle curiosity, 1 eventually acquired a minimum of computer

hardware (actually to help a fledgling high school teacher, my granddaughter, start her teaching career). When she liked the Apple, it was passed on to her and I replaced it with more of the same. That edition has now gone over to my daughter and our young subteen granddaughter and I am now playing with the Apple lie plus. Will try getting into contact with Jack Edwards and exchange info. Have no intention getting a modem and networking. Satisfied to keep it purely as a hobby for or if any house bound days are in my fumre. Kitty joins me in sending our best to everyone. Sincerely, Chick.

In his letter. Chick had several things to say about the 'last man club' and as to how the officials of our Class may function over the next 20 years or so. It was too profound to put in the colunm so I am taking the liberty of passing his expressions of wisdom on to Chief Masterson and our Class Committee in the Metro Washington area for their consideration. Hope you will be coming back to the Super 60th, Chick!

Some news from the Metro Washington, D . C , area: Good and humorous letter from "Old Reliable" Jim Howard.

(1) Thanks for your kind and generous words about me in the June issue of Shipmate. (2) About a year ago Roscoe Newman sent in an article about our Classmate Rigsbee being chased by a DO and mnning into a baseball backstop near the old stadium. Well, in 1936 when I was fitting out PHELPS in Boston, CLARK was at the next berth. Her Commanding Officer was Hewlett Thebaud ' 13, who was the Duty Officer the night of the Rigsbee collision.

Thebaud asked me who the culprit could have been he was chasing that night and I told him it was Rigsbee. He said to me that we fellows probably thought he was yelling for him to stop but what he was really hollering was to 'run like hell, run like hell'! (3) Still enjoying the column and Cici wants you to know she has completed her "Just-in-Case" folder and sends her thanks to you. (4) I guess '30 is the only Class which sends out to thefieldits Corresponding Secretary to gather the news. (5) We both send our best to you all, Jim. Bill Nelson spent five days in the hospital with pneuraonia and has been slow in recovery. From mine, Harry Smith's and others reporting in, whom had penuraonia this last year, it's tough on critters of our age when it comes to snapping back again. Be careful all of you!

Here is a report from Chief Masterson on meetings in Washington and Annapolis since our last issue: We had a joint '29 and '30 meeting at a luncheon in the Stag Room at the Army Navy Country Club while our wives met separately in the Mixed Grill Room. Attending were Mic and Cal Laning; Anna and Gus Johansen; Louise and Bing Mitchell; Johnny McElroy; John Davidson; Roy Benson; Madeline and Art Owen; Lil and BUI Nelson; Louise and Jack Jones; and Chief Masterson. No special agenda but more joint coed meetings next year. Our Spring Luncheon was held on TUesday, 5 June, the actual 60th anniversary date of our graduation. A great turnout. Forty-five of us and everyone seemed to have a good time. Attendees were: Peg and Carlton Adams; Ethel and Monk Adams; Farley Coates; Bob Craighill with guest Rutherford Craighill; Ginny and Otis Earle; Betty Ellis; Barbette Foster Andreadakis and daughter Zoe; Nancy and Eph Holmes; Cici and Jim Howard; Jenks Jenkins; Louise and Jack Jones; Julie Krick with guest Margaret Haley; Marion Lord; Chief Masterson; Marie and Bill Moffett; Dot and Bob Moore; Lil and Bill Nelson with guests Tom and Florence Khouran; Madeline and Art Owen with guests son Art Owen and Niece Irene Owen; Mary and BUI Post; Frances and Allen Roby; Kay Simmons; Ann Strackbein with brother Bob Griffen; Patty and BUI Snead; and Margaret Whelchel. Lots of talking and questions and Bill Snead gave us a rundown on the upcomingreunionat Homecoming. Read a nice letter from the Superintendent, Virgil Lusk Hill, Jr '61, congratulating us on the 60th aimiversary of our graduation. He noted that 402 graduated in our

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Qass and that 990 graduated in the Qass of 1990, fine young men and women equally qualified and dedicated to the challenges ahead of them.

Lastiy, Some MisceUaneous Items from the Class: Thanks for the list of nearby Qassmates and Widows. They will be handy. We try to limit our travelling by car to a 100-mileradiusnor more than three days away from our home in Spartanburg, South Carolina. For thisreasonI am keeping my fingers crossed as to attending the Super 60th. Have made the deposit on the reservation. As we all suspect, our 60th will be the last for a few of us. If we possibly can, we will be there tor a show-up if nothing else. We also would have a chance to visit Mary Small, the widow of Lem Small, '32, in Fredericksburg near the mouth of the Rapahannock and that is a plus. Lem and I were on TKENTON together in 1934. Also we think there will be a reunion of RAMFO in Baltimore near the same time so we could take advantage of the three on one tank of gas! Say 'Hi' to everyme and have fun!!!! Red—Charles E, 'Red'Eari.

I see in a letter from the United States Naval Academy Foundation, a rather substantial contribution to their scholarship program in the name of the Class of 1930 was made by James A. Woodruff, Jr. Many an Academy hopeful over the years of the futtire will be diankful to die Class of 1930 and to Sparky and Hazel for their generosity.

In the April issue of Shipmate we showed a photo about which we said, "The picture of the soundly sleepmg Midshipman is that of Clyde B. Stevens snapped on the USS ARKANSAS during his Second Class cruise in 1928. Here we see 'Benny' dreaming of LuciUe and a spectacular future in guiding the Navy's torpedo program." WeU, how confused can one get? As it turns out, the snoozing guy was James E. Stevens. We apologize to the girl Ted was really dreaming of, Evalyn Hert)ert of New York City, the young lady who was to become Ted's wife, who now Uves at 204 "lyson Drive, FaUs Church, Va. 22046.

We send our very best to you, Evalyn Stevens.

How did I find out about the above goof? From Oyde Stevens who explains it thus: I was quiteflatteredto see a picture in the April 1990 issue of Shipmate with my name under it. It was not I, and I am sure it was J. E. Stevens. All of this contusion started in 193S when I transferred from BARRACUDA to the S-21 in Pearl Harbor The S-21 had a total of four officers and two of them were Classmates named Stevens. Our skipper decided there was only room for one 'Steve' on board. A cold poker hand decided the issue with my winning die 'Steve' moniker Thereafter S. E. became known as 'Ted' Stevens. Besides, each of us had real beauties as wives, we each had daughters named Jane, and a couple of years later we each had younger daughters named Patricia. From then on confusion was the order of the day! While Ted had FLOUNDER during WWO, I had PLAICE; both named for the same fish. After the war Ted was ordered as Design Officer at the Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by a detail officer who thought he was issuing orders to me!

Also included in that April issue was a "Guess Who?" photograph with the identifying description of, "a member of the Armed Forces of the United States in West Point dress uniform with rifle taken in September, 1928, immediately following his passing in review m a dress parade at West Point. He graduated 5 June 1930, and stood among the top 20 in his class. His brother was in the Class of 1931. His most attractive wife's four letter nickname starts with the letter ' C and she was a Navy junior. The first to correctiy name him will be amply rewarded." Not one person guessed who it was. The wife's name is Cici and the gentieman in the West Point uniform was none other tiian Midshipman Jim Howard of the Naval Academy Class of 1930. Well, smce no one gave us the right answer, I guess we will have Jim and Cici make the aU-expense-paid trip to Bora Bora.

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Postcard from Spoof Spofford claiming equal family aggrandizement as achieved by Kitty and Chick Lawver—11 grandchildren and four great grandchildren including R. T. Spofford the Third!

OK Spoof it's in the record but I refer you to our column in the May issue in which it was reported Abe Lincoln had five children, 18 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren for a total of 32 offspring! As reported then it didn't look as if Abe and his progeny went to die movies very much! In Spoofs card he reported that BiU Lawrence, '51, was in San Antonio recentiy to talk to the Navy League. Lawrence identified his father-in-law as Mac Williams, identified by Spoof as one of the finest members of our Class.

Spoof also noted that the Bluebonnets of Texas were blooming in profusion and most beautiful. I remember them well and they are truly a lovely flower.

Received a cheerful letter from Sandy Heyward.

1408 Lyttieton Street, Camden, S.C. 29020: "Enclosed is a picttire of Nix Liilstone and me which you might be able to use. It was taken back in Febraary when Grace and I visited Nix and Betty and their daughter Judy and her husband Bob Fowler at AmeUa Island, Florida. The Fowlers have a beautifiil Condo overlooking the Atiantic which provided an ideal setting for a dehghtful visit with old buddies.

My son, retired Capt. Shannon Heyward, '57, and his wife Margaret Anne were there to balance the generations. Nix was fighting gout in his knee and wasn't able to do any walking. Otherwise, he was his chatty self. What a report on the Class you made in the April spread! I have never seen a better one and have enjoyed reading it aU over a second time. Congratulations again on your fine work. I'm looking forward to our October Super-Sixtieth. Here m Camden, I don't get to see Classmates often enough, so try to make our Class meetings to catch up. Not that I'm complaining about life here. Daughter Sandra and her husband Henry Boykin, their three daughters and their husbands and seven children all hve in Camden or very near by. Camden was my mother's home, so there are eight of us first cousins retired here in my generation. As you can see we don't get lonesome for family. Grace has her son over in Myrtie Beach and has three grandchildren, but no great grands, so she has adopted my seven as hers too. A nice life for two happy Octos. Grace joins me in sending best regards to you and your Nancy. Sincerely, Sandy.

There you have it for this issue. It is just a month away untU our Super Sixtieth during Homecoming at Annapohs. What a great meeting that should be.

Patty and Bill Snead have our thanks for performing the difficult task of organizing the meeting. Let us gather and have some fun. We may not have many more so I'm aU for taking advantage of this one, this year which is NOW. Did you ever think about how important "Now" is? We are aU living Now, yet you cannot measure Now for if you try, it is already in the past and the future has replaced it before you can do so. Alfred North Whitehead said, "The present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity." Be thankful that we can enjoy this column while you are reading it and early in October we can enjoy our Reunion for in doing so we are alive and living "Now" which spans the forever. As long as we are speaking of Now, permit me, in this vast expanse of eternity, to use an instant of this precious time to wish all of you well! Vaya con Dios mis Amigos!

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Pres., RAdm. Raymond P. Hunter USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Edward M. Day USN (Ret.) 6214 Winston Dr., Bediesda, Md. 20817 W. Coast, RAdm. Andrew J. Hill USN (Ret.) 1295 Bangor St., San Diego, Cahf. 92106 Some months ago, we reported that PhyUis Holtzworth had settied down m Sequim, Washington. Now she writes that she has not been too happy there—it is a much longer commute to Seattie than she had anticipated, and with the ferry hitch flie trip can get tedious. So now she is moving into a one bedroom apartment in the Magnoha section of Seattie, and her new address is: 3520 28th Avenue, W., Apartment 404, Seattle, Wash. 98199. PhyUis suffered an additional sadness in the loss of her favorite grandson, a young Air Force captain who was selected for major and was due to marry soon; he was lost when his plane went down in the Gulf of Mexico—in pieces.

Andy Hill writes that after 16 years theh golf group decided to "pack it in," so on 17 AprU the Ancient Mariners, as they styled tiiemselves, went on dieir final safari, at the Singing HUls Golf Club. They started gomg on safari twice a year at Ahsal Ranch near Solvang in 1974 with 14 golfers and two nongolfers . . . and ended up with seven golfers and four non-goUers.

Andy says that his group's most recent luncheon was held at the Admiral Kidd Club on 17 April; those attending were: Noah Adair, Ed Bums, Ken Romberg, Vic Aldrich, Dean Black, Larry Cook, Emie EUsworth, Don Eraser, Dick Hay, Andy HiU, Ed Moring and Rivets Rivero. Lew LeweUen came down from Wyoming for the Summer, and Beimy Bass came down fiom Glendale. Fran and Emie EUsworth celebrated their fifty-seventh anniversary whUe on a cruise aboard the "love boat" ISLAND PRINCESS. Fran penned these verses about the "Ancient Mariners": Back in the year of seventy four The avid golfers met "Ancient Mariners" was the name.

We gave our special set.

Those joining in the action Numbered 16 all in all Wereallyhad a fun time.

After swinging at the ball Ken and Louise Romberg Were with us at the start, And often with the Hollisteis Would sometimes share a cart.

The Bums and Hills were with us And joined in the big game, And our name 'The Ancient Mariners' Brought to the group great fame.

Margaret and Larry Cook took part When the swinging golfers met The Adairs, the Blacks and Ellsworths Were members of the set.

Once a month religiously We met with clubs and balls Followed by a smashing time With food and drinks for all.

The "Mariners" soon decided On safaris twice a year We ventured to the golf resorts Some far and some quite near.

A few went to Honolulu, Though some don't hke to fly But an opportunity like that Could never be passed by At times others joined the group To share with us the fun Whelands, Lynch and Morings, And often, Williamson Fate takes over, as we know And to our great dismay.

We now don't have four foursomes.

But some of us still play.

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Ray Hunter is back from a cruise to Bermuda aboard ROYAL VIMNG STAR, timed to coincide with

the Newport-Bermuda race, a bi-annual affair in which the sailing squadron of the Naval Academy is taking an ever increasing interest. The squadron was able this year to muster six full crews for ocean racing; each yacht was manned by ten Midshipmen and two volunteer coaches. The yachts started off Newport andfinishedoff St. Georges Point, Bermuda; all of the six Academy boatsfinishedwell up in the fleet of some 150 boats.

ROYAL VIKING STAR sailed from New York after

collecting two busloads of devotees from Annapwlis and some 500 other followers for a one week cruise to Bermuda and retum. Our Class was represented by Ray Hunter, Eleanor and John Kirkpatrick, and by Anne and Red (Harris P.) Child. Classmates will remember that Benny Field was largely responsible for re-invigorating the sailing program at the Naval Acaderay when he was on duty there, and its success today is due in great measure to his foresight and drive.

Last month, Jessie Bell MacDonald wrote that she was on her way to Britain where she planned to visit Cambridge University to see the books on polar exploration purchased from a fund established to honor Ed. She met the Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and had tea with the staff, following a tour of the library. She and Ed had visited Cambridge many times when he was working on thefirstedition of his "Polar Operations" and using the resources of the Shipmate, September 1990

John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick, Ray Hunter Scott Polar Library. She tells us that before leaving for Britain she had an acknowledgement of the chair she gave to the new Brigade Activities Center in Edwin's honor, and that she hopes other Classmates will be similarly honored. It is not hard to think of Classmates who deserve such honor, and any suggestions on that point would be welcome.

Ed Winters wrote that Pedro (Frederick C.) Winters son. Rick, visited them recently and brought word that his mother, Dorothy Winters, had died on 10 June. Pedro resigned our 'Youngster Year, served in the 111th Infantry Division in World War II, and then joined the Naval Reserve. He died in July 1955 and is interred at Arlington National Cemetery Ed and Pedro were not related—just the same name, that's all.

John Kirkpatrick had a letter from Pat Hibschman, saying that Hibby had been quite ill and was still not up to par. He had surgery on 30 March; four days after retuming home he had to be rushed, by the para-raedics to the hospital with pneumonia. After ten days he rehmied home, but then developed bronchitis as well as pneumonia, so back he went to the hospital for six days. He is on oxygen, but able to

move around . . . and down to 131 pounds (Pat adds: "Wish I were!")

In talking to one of the doctors, Pat recalled that she had told Hibby that if he needed any extra care, she would retire frora her job and become his nurse.

The doctor said: "No, you will not!"; he told her that good intentions alone do not make a Florence Nightingale or Clara Barton.

Lou Bellis, who had been ill for several years and fought a brave battle against cancer, died peacefully in his sleep in the Vinson Hall infirmary on 15 July. In accordance with his desires, no memorial services will be held, and his remains are willed to science.

He had had a long series of surgical operations, both in Califomia and after moving to Vinson Hall in Virginia, but every time he appeared to recover against great odds . . . and it wiU be hard for the Washington-Annapolis group to believe that Lou won't waDc in the door at the Fort McNair Officers' Club to join the group ever again.

Fitz Fitzgerald also had been ill for some time, and he died on 6 July at the Naval Hospital, Beaufort, South Carolina. Memorial services were held in St. Andrew's Chapel of the Naval Academy on 16 July, 1990, followed by inurnment of his ashes in the Columbarium of the Naval Academy Cemetery, with family, friends and Classmates in attendance. Full military honors were rendered.

Classmates will remember Fitz as a scrappy boxer who won the intercollegiate title his first year on the varsity squad. In World War II, Fitz commanded the submarine GRENADIER; she was attacked by Japanese aircraft in the Indian Ocean and sunk, but Fitz managed to get his ship's company off before the ship sank. Unfortunately, all were taken prison by the Japanese and spent the rest of the War in prison camp.

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to secure better treatment for his men, earning their respect and him the subsequent award of the Navy Cross.

To Marge Bellis and Peggy Fitzgerald we express our deepest sympathy in the loss of their loved ones.

The doings of the San Francisco Bay Area group of our Classmates are always of interest . . . and always weU reported by Dick Peterson who heads the group. Dick has this to teU us of recent events involving the group: We had the Oass (plus some from '30) for luncheon on 17 May. Ginny (Peterson) and Al Wilson had to manage the event since I was in bed with a bad cold-finally had to get a doctor for antibiotics.

We had less than a fiill turn-out . . . more widows than Classmates. Ed and Helen Frances Steffanides were away on a cruise to Greece, and Louise and Jack Dorsett were not up to par; I think they were recovering from a recent anniversary celebration to which we were invited. It was a beautifiil event, with Louise conducting her 53-piece orchestra—Jack playing violin—a great concert.

Jack and Louise were dressed in white; Jack sang an Hawaiian song. There was a huge crowd and refreshments were served. I used to play violin in the orchestra, from the time there were only a few instruments, all amateurs. Now she has a numlier of professionals. It was quite a day!

The count for the luncheon was 18 women and 7 men. Present were: Maxine Matthews, Max and Junetta Firth, Phil and Carlyle Modiersill, Dot Parham, Ginny Peterson, Paul and Charlotte Schoeni, Eleancx' Smith, Helen and Nick Tripi, Jack White and his guest Olive Gaylord, Al and Irina Wilson, Heloise Phifer, Frances Veasey, Alice Uehling, Nell Blessman; and from '30 there were: Marge and John Azer, EleanOT Winant, Gertrude Stiohbehn, and Jean Kohlhas.

An update—Ran and Betty Pierce moved out of their Beilteley home some, 3 or 4 weeks ago, and their new address is: 1860 Tice Creek Drive, Walnut Creek, Cahf. 94595, Phone: (415) 933-3147.

Leilani Davis (Dick and Fanny Andrews' younger daughter) visited us last week. She and young Dick Andrews live in Park City, Utah.

Ginny and I have planned to go to June Week West in Monterey—had made reservations—but I contacted a number of Qassmates, including Andy HUI, and from their previous experience with these reunions I gathered that our age group has been overwhelmed by the crowds and noise; they knew of no one in our Class who was going. I had thought of getting together a table, but a canvass of our luncheon group got no takers. Result? I cancelled our reservations.

Our next luncheon will be at Moffett Field in September The Washington-Annapohs group of '31 held their Summer co-ed luncheon on 10 July at the Annapohs Yacht Club. The club's facUities were made avaUable to the group thanks to Georgette and Joe Thornton, who are club members. To provide additional time for getting together the starting time was advanced to 1000, and the closing time, extended to 1600. The luncheon was served at 1300 . . . a sumptuous repast with crab cakes and crab imperial. An open bar got the attitude adjustment period, just before lunch, off to a running start.

The event was exceptionaUy weU attended, and was most successful in attracting out of towners . . . it was a real treat to have them widi us; they were: Betty and Julie Becton from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Ruth and Sherry Betts from Whispering Pines, North Carolina, Vera and John Crumpacker from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Audrey and Bobbie Jones from Lehigh Acres, Florida, Elynor Brown from Fort Myers, Florida, Audrey Dempsey frora NorfoUc, Virginia, EUeen Taxis (& 2 guests) from Smart, Florida, "PK" WiU frora Cape, Elizabeth, Maine, Elbe Williamson from WiUiamsburg, Virginia, Les Wood from Virginia Beach, and Pauhne Young from Stamford, Con-

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necticut.

Regulars attending were: The Bouve's, Chews, Crowleys, Days, Metsgers, Motts, Sharps, Steeres, Thorntons, Torgersons, Websters, and Wiesemans, plus, smgles: Ray Hunter, Jack Mmer, PK WUl, Joe Gardiner, Jane O'Connor, Mary Richardson, Fran WUber, Roberta McCain, Vema WUliams, EsteUe Needham, Margaret Werts, and Dorotiiy McFarlane.

Lunch was foUowed by a group discussion of Class Reunions and what form, if any, they should take in view of the decision that a fiiU-scale one, along the lines of the 45th, 50th, and 55th, would not be held.

Various ideas were presented but they covered such a wide range diat fiirther consideration of aU of tiiem was warranted, and Ray Hunter promised diat a letter describing the various options would go out to Classmates in the near future . . . and, there the matter ended.

It was a great get-together . . . don't miss the next one!

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Membership: 89%

Pres., Capt. Donald I. Thomas USN (Ret.) 4032 Liggett Dr., San Diego, Cahf. 92106 Sec'y, Capt. T. A. Nisewaner USN (Ret.) 7121 Hehnsdale Rd., Bediesda, Md. 20817 "Here and There With '32" Although our faitiifiil student of the extension courses at the University of Hawau and great admirer of die charms of the Sandwich Islands, Paul Grouleff, has in the past threatened to never make another trip, he recentiy violated his vows of chastity, or whatever, and took off on yet another cmise. Neither wind, snow, sleet or haU could prevent Jeannette and Growler Grouleff from making another dash into exotic and unsarapled terrain.

On 27 March they flew to San Francisco where Jeannette stayed for a few days whUe Growler flew on to Baltimore for a reunion with his two daughters, Barbara and Paula, and his old Academy roommate Howard Prince and Mary Bmce.

Joming up at DuUes diey flew to Fort Lauderdale to board ROYAL VIKING SKY for a ten-day Caribbean/ Canal cruise. First stop was Georgetown on Grand Cayman, then a visit to the San Bias Islands before going on to Limon Bay and entering the canal. They scurried through three locks to Gatun Lake, anchored for a while absorbing the atmosphere and then retumed to Limon Bay. Growler was given the courtesy of being on the bridge during the passage and found that neither the locks nor the way they are operated had changed in 50 years.

However, Paul was shocked to find that none of the pUots were familiar with the highlights of a Navy canal passage of 50 years ago such as the Stranger's Club, BUgray's Tropic Bar or Mame KeUys. All the above had long since gone before the current pUots started working. What a shame!

Next on the agenda was a stop at Puerto Mion in Costa Rica where Paul and Jeannette took a trip on a smaU narrow guage railroad to TUrrialba. It rained all the way but they got to see a lot of the countryside, fields of coffee and a large banana plantation. At the end they had lunch at the posh Carioca Golf and Coimtry Club, did a lot of sightseeing and shopping even to buying two pounds of coffee for later home consumption.

Last stop was at Playa del Carmen off the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico where they visited the Mayan ruins of lUlum. Unfortunately the glory of the old mins had faded into history. It was, alas, a real tourist trap.

The ship docked at Fort Lauderdale on 12 April and they flew on to San Francisco. Paul took time off to fly down to see his daughter in Del Mar and then

back to jom Jeannette m San Francisco and a flight home. They found it great to be back to their normal relaxed lifestyle again. Travel is wonderfvd but coming home is even better.

A most dehghtful letter was recentiy received from Betty Scherini, daughter of our erstwhUe Classmate Otto Scherini. She told about her dad. Otto, participating in the Senior Games in Delray Beach.

Otto competed in the javelin, discus and shotput and aU this after "58 years of absence from track and field." He did so weU that he not only got a "sUver medal" in the javelin and discus but also got two sore knees and a sore arm. But, as she commented, "That's ray dad!" Thanks Betty OccasionaUy some unusual stories involving Classmates, some long gone, cross your Secretary's desk and in mid-May a truly odd one came this way.

During 1943 a survivor of die USS MEREDITH (bD-434), Ensign Hal A. Kauffinan, related to LCdr. Augustine J. "Ajax" Tucker die detaUs of die tragic loss of that fine destroyer in the Coral Sea. Ajax Tucker wrote up the story as an article "Coral Sea Episode" about the sinking of USS MEREDITH and sent it to the Navy Department to get it cleared for publishing. The Department, however, said, "No! It was too horrible and would hinder enhstments." It is odd now to think back to World War n and the forced draft as any story on an actual naval action having any effect on enlistments.

However, Ensign Hal Kauffman was given the manuscript and last October, 46 years later, took it to the Naval Institute and told them the above. It was the original manuscript by Ajax Tucker with his name as audior. They told Hal diat Cdr. A. J. Tucker had died, they had no record of his wife or family and presented now Capt. Hal A. Kauffman USN (Ret.) with a check for $75 as a "finder's fee."

He forwarded the check to your scribe for use by die Class of 1932. It has been duly forwarded to the Alumni Association to bite off another chunk of our indebtedness.

Ajax Tucker was a truly remarkable Classmate.

One of the many who resigned on graduation in June 1932 he went into marine engineering working on the tankers of die Atiantic Refining Company. But, although in 1940 "our Country's caU was almost mute," Ajax thought he heard a pleading and remmed to the service. He served in WASP ( C V - 7 ) for two years before die Japanese so rudely sank it and dien it was to SIGSBEE ( D D - 5 0 2 ) first as Engineer and eventuaUy as Exec.

FmaUy came duty at Orange, Texas, where at age 36 he met a delightful widow, Nancy Reid, with two sraaU boys and his forays as a bachelor were over forever. In subsequent years the two boys, WUham M. Reid and Edward B. Reid, were joined by four more family merabers, WUham J. Tlicker, Martin S. Tucker, Tia Frances Tucker and Augustine J. Tucker

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After the war Ajax had an eventful career with Humble Oil over a seven-year period before joining two new busmesses . . . an engineering company named "Tlicker, Jackson and Company" and a submarine contracting company named "Sea Exploration and Salvage, Inc." His brilUant engineering career came to an abrapt end on 9 June 1971, and Nancy died a few years later (exact date unknown). We have been unable to locate any members of die famUy who are now aU adults scattered in all probabUity all over die United States but we would welcome any possible leads. One of diese days his long lost article which has been gatiiermg dust for ahnost 50 years will appear in die Naval Instittite. We are tmly indebted to Capt. Hal Kauffman '43 for his act of generosity.

The last Washington-Annapohs Chapter luncheon of the Summer, no luncheons in July and August, was held at Fort Lesley J. McNair on 13 June widi a tidy Shipmate, September 1990

representation of 19. The McNair Officers' Club did ttieir usual superb job and although initially parking was a problem what witii botii die Industrial College and the National War College having their moming graduation exercises, we finally all got together.

Present from the Annapolis area were Mary Bruce and Howard Prmce, Jim Collett, Francis Foley and Nona Ward. From die local area we were greeted by Marion and Mel Young, our erstwhile Treasurer, Frances and Will I. Bidl, our steriing Master of Ceremonies, Helen and Bob Maulsby, Eddie and Andy Nisewaner, Bob Weeks, Mary Pierce, Margaret Van Evera and a truly dehghtful stranger in our midst, Alicia Robards. This marked Alicia's last appearance for the foreseeable fiiture inasmuch as she is selling her long time Bethesda home and moving to Alameda, Califomia, to be near her children and grandchildren. Next luncheon in September.

Thanks to a call from Capt. Robert Brevard Moore n '63 it is teamed that a very familiar name will be trodding the corridors of Bancroft Hall for die next four years. Robert B. Moore UI, grandson of our beloved Whitey Moore, entered the Academy on 3 July as a proud member of the Class of "94. Young Robert attended Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, preparing for the Academy and we wish him luck in his chosen career.

Capt. Robert B. Moore II, his father, retired from the Navy in 1988 and is now an officer in a small engineering firm, L.M.E. Inc., which is Annapohs based.

Dee and Paul Harrington retumed in late June from an unusual cmise, at least unusual in its termination. They embarked on the Hall and American cruise ship WESTERDAM (recently remodeled and lengthened) for a gorgeous 22-day trip New York to Vancouver but the ship lost its port engine between Los Angeles and San Francisco and they had to leave the ship in S.F. However, they were pleased to do so because it gave them two days in Frisco which they hked better than going on to Vancouver and then back to Seattle.

OveraU it was a fun trip with lots of things to do and places to visit plus grand food. However, both were cautious and Paul only gained two pounds and Dee none. Thankfully it wasn't one of those cruises where the ship broke down off Bora Bora or Fiji.

Always planning ahead Dee and Paul plan to be back in their fanuliar stamping grounds of Kailua, Hawau, from 26 December 1990 through 21 January 1991. Anyone else planning to be in the Sandwich Islands at that time, start planning on your get-togethers now.

Within a space of one week commencing in late May we lost two of our finest, Salem A. Van Every on 27 May and Paul E. Emrick on 3 June.

Our Salem was tmly poured from an original mold. Descended from a long line of native Charlotte, North Carolinians, he graduated from Central High School in that city in 1928 and became a member of '32 four weeks later. Van was the epitome of a southem gentleman—gracious, kind and a soft spoken willing booster of the Class. His duties in the Navy were essentially in aviation where he obtained his wings in 1935 after an initial stint in the old LEXINGTON.

After flight trainmg Salem became a hopeful ardent fighter pilot but was ordered to a VO Squadron on the OKLAHOMA and then, heeding his desires for their most modem fighter squadron (?), was ordered to VP-2 m Panama. Next came VP-51, the pride of the Neutrality Patrols. Determined to keep him out of fighters, he next served m VP-56 and as a Flag Lieutenant to Adm. A. B. Cook. Following came duty as Traming and Plans Officer, Corpus Christi, from which he had a hard time getting spmng. Eventually came orders as Plans and Operations Officer Seventh Fleet Staff and he got in a taste of WW II. Afterwards Shipmate, September 1990

came command of the NAS Daytona Beach, a year at the Naval War College, Ops Officer on PHIL SEA (CV-47), a tour in OP-50 and a year at die USAF Air War College.

This reminded Op-54 that Van was a fighter pilot and ordered him to CO of Air Transport Squadron ONE with plenty of flying but not in fighters. Next, after a year at the Special Weapons Facility, Salem had command of CORREGIDOR, duty in BuAer and finally command of the NAS Barber's Point, Hawau.

Van retired in 1960 and settled down to a good life in Charlotte and Naples, Florida, keeping in his hand at flying, playing golf and serving on the Board of Directors of Lance, Inc. Salem's first wife, Betty, died in 1976 and in 1977 he met and married the multi-talented and beautiful Nan Tomlinson. Salem's son Lance, Nan and her three sons survive him. Our sincere condolences to all of them at the loss of such an outstanding patriot.

Paul E. Emrick, one of our outstanding early aviators, had his initial tour on the old light cruiser CONCORD but managed to escape to Pensacola in 1934 and got his wings in January l936. Frora then on it was all aviation duty until retireraent in 1962.

Paul's first aviation duty was to VS-4S on HOUSTON and then to Torpedo Squadron TWO on LEX until 1939. He then becarae an instructor in Squadron VN-508 at the NAS, Pensacola, followed by sirailar duty at the NAS, Miami.

In August 1941 he joined Torpedo Squadron EIGHT assigned to HORNET and then in February 1942 was assigned command of Torpedo Squadron Nine and Air Group Nine on ESSEX. For his heroism and meritorious achievements in this Group's many raids he was awarded the Air Medal with a Gold Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross with Gold Star.

Later in the year he became Navigator of ESSEX. Later duties saw him as Exec of the NAS, Jacksonville, student at the Armed Forces Staff College, CO of Composite Squadron ELEVEN, Chief of Staff to Commander Naval Air Technical Training, Chief of Staff to Commander Fleet Air, Hawaii, CO of the carrier SUISUN and then CO of the NAS, Whidbey Island.

After retirement Paul was manager of three private water properties in the San Francisco area for a few years. His expertise in this area resulted in his transfer to the Sun City Water Company where he plaimed the provision of water and waste water treatment for a population that grew frora 5,000 to over 43,000 in a short space of time.

A second retireraent came in 1975 amid high hopes of leading a good life but medical problems for both Loraine and Paul greatly curbed their activities. Paul is survived by his widow Loraine, two stepchildren and one stepgrandchild. Our respect and admiration tinged with sorrow is extended to his remaining family.

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Pres., Capt. Raymond W. Thompson, Jr. USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., RAdm. Charles A. Blick SC USN (Ret.) 2725 31st St., NW Washington, D.C. 20008 (202) 745-1891 Marion and Lem Stevens are building a house on Camano Island (about 50 miles north of Seattle).

They have encountered numerous construction delays incident to the booming development of the island, items lacking are a proper septic tank system, a garage and a finished driveway. However the social pace is active with numerous dinner parties attended

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Eleanor and Henry Fox report the arrival of a second granddaughter and advise that they are "hanging in there." Bob Keating has owned a small plane for the last 30 years, a C-150. Bob flies it two or three times a week, and, as he says, it doesn't go very fast, far or high, but it's fun. Gail RouUard is planning a trip to Toronto and Montreal in the Fall. Dee Heinz reports that she is plaiming a trip to Australia and New Zealand in January 1991 on an Elderhostel program.

Graysie and Herb Schwab have just retumed from a lovely four-week trip to New England prompted by Graysie's 50th reunion at Colby College in Maine. As Herb says, "Green, no smog."

Charlie Blick and Kurt F. Muse Dottie Hills spent a week with Betty and Jack Ede Yerbury '46, the Chick Harmons '35, the Slade Coye in July. Laurette Gambling went to Idaho in AuCutters '35, and the Bruce McNaughtons '34. Ma- gust for her daughter's wedding.

Henry Rumble will be visiting Leningrad, rion and Lem are plaiming a trip to Switzerland this Moscow, the Volga River (a cruise) and Berlin in Fall.

Your Secretary attended the June luncheon of the September. Memsie Madden and her daughter, Military Order of the World Wars at the Army and Nancy, will be on the same trip.

Navy Club in Washington, D.C. The speaker was Kurt F Muse, Executive Director of the Panama Freedom Foundation. Prior to the December 1989 inMembership: 89% vasion of Panama, Muse had been a hostage prisoner of General Noriega for nine months, of which six Pres., Capt. Hugh Q. Murray USN (Ret.) months were in solitary confinement. During the ini- Con-. Sec'y, Capt. Roy C. Smith III USNR (Ret.) tial stage of the invasion. Muse was liberated by a 3730 Ramsgate Drive, Annapolis, Md. 21403 sraaU detachment of the Delta Force. Muse had been These first three items were left over when space a showcase prisoner of Noriega because he had become the focal person of the underground resistance ran out on last month's column.

Helen and John Harllee had a most enjoyable dincentering around the former raerabers of the Rotary Club of Panaraa City. Muse, in particular, had been ner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in March with Dottie on the run to avoid capture. After two years of clan- and Mike Mumma. Next day the Harllees sailed to destine activity, one of the Club members succumbed Portugal, Spain and Morocco with other friends in to a very large bounty offered by Noriega and Muse what they believe is the best cruise ship afloat, SS was betrayed and captured. Speaking without notes. SEABORNE SPIRIT. In Tangier, unlike our Youngster Muse described his imprisonment and rescue by the Craise visit, they saw the Malcolm Forbes Museum Delta Force, it sounded like a chapter out of Tom display of over 75,000 rainiamre soldiers arrayed in some of the world's most famous battle scenes. In Clancy's latest epic.

Funchal they did repeat Fust Class Cruise in the For Joe Enright, please let us know your new ad- wicker-basket-downhill-slide through a cobblestone dressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we saw much too little of you during your street. All told they had great fun. short stay on the East Coast. Incidentally, Horace R Andy Anderson writes that the Florida EverRounds '31 would like to hear from you. glades have been so dry and plagued by flies that Through the courtesy of Jack Bennett '41, we have swamp buggies and air boats have been forgotten. a photo of Elliott Loughlin taken at the SubVets con- But the Fort Lauderdale Lacrosse Club he founded in vention in Reno, Nevada, August 1989. Jack was 1974 has just won its eighth Florida Lacrosse League Elliott's "exec" in USS QUEENHSH during WW II. championship in eleven years. He says "uproarious" The AnnapoUs/Washington Group will be holding was the word for their victory dinner, well borne out their monthly luncheons at the Chevy Chase Club, by his description of the happy event. The loudest Chevy Chase, Maryland (a new location) starting part of the celebration was the Coast Guard setting Hiesday, 12 September. Luncheons are held on the off two huge dynamite charges to sink a derelict ship "Second TUesday," September through June. just offshore as part of a fishing reef development Lee Riddell is very much on the go. She attended program. The grin on Andy's face is frora watching the wedding other son, Cdr. Robert A. Riddell '59 in his team wipe up the Florida collegiate champions by Washington, D.C. While there she had lunch with an obscene score. (Obscene it but don't believe it.)

Jim Elliott at Vinson HaU and stayed with Don MacIn late-May Emily and Bruce McNaughton came intosh's widow, Betty. Following that she flew to East to visit family and stopped off for a couple of England and embarked on a three-week bus tour of days widi us. We had a ball recalling USNA days and England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Upon retumthe last two days of our honeymoon we spent with ing to San Diego she left for San Francisco to spend a them in Chicago in 1936. They recently sold off their week with her daughter. Ginger. Wow! independent insurance business and now have time to enjoy doing what they lUce. The Maestro had heart Elliott Loughlin and his XO bypass surgery a while back but now seems quite recovered and healthy. He has certainly not lost any of his sense of humor.

The 1991 Mississippi River cruise is shaping up very well indeed. As of 9 July Annapolis Travel had reservations for our initial allotment of 15 cabins with more expected before the 1 August deadline. So far we have the Harllees, Farwells, Sam Browns, Tibbetses, Roy Smiths, Kleppingers, Shepards, Gunns, Duboises, Leemans, Pinneys; Bob Bengston, Sylvia Lee, Lil Dickey, and Marian Smith. Some singles may be looking to share a cabin. If you haven't reserved but still want to go, the price is good through 31 December as long as cabins are available and An-

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Andy Anderson watching his team win 26-2 napolis Travel wiU do everything possible to get you aboard.

Jane and Johnny Condon hosted a WB&A co-ed lunch at their Belle Haven Country Club in Alexandria on 28 June with about 30 people present.

Memory being what it is these days I forgot to get the attendees hst from Johnny and he forgot to give it to me but we assure all hands that everyone present had a fine time. The weather was so perfect that some wished we had brought golf clubs, but maybe we can organize a mixed round another time.

Announcement was made that our football season ticket holders now have a block of 17 seats high in the lower section of the Navy side, about on the 40-yard fine. The Athletic Association wiU do its best for others buying individual garae tickets but they will be apart from that block. However, we have one tailgate space for five games this Fall (Homecoming excepted) at which all hands are welcome. It is #15 across frora the Stadiura entrance to the west of the water tower. With a new, pass-minded coach we expect exciting games and hope for a good tailgate crowd at each one.

A welcome note from Chico Parsons says that he's still in Savannah at a pleasant oldfive-acreestate on the Verdon River where peripatetic Classmates such as the Harllees, Dixons and MacLeods have stopped in and the latchstring is always out for others passing by. His Margaret is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's but on good days often recalls the fiin of Alumni Homecomings they had attended. Chico enclosed copy of a paper he had written in 1952 as a smdent at the Joint Services Staff College in England, too long to extract here but notable for his prediction that in 25 years the Soviet Union would be in the status it acttially reached in 1989.

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and he attended tiie SecNav Qurent Strategy Forum at tiie Naval War College. He didn't comment on die forum but did say that they enjoyed a visit with Brown Tkylor at die New York Yacht Club's Harbor Court there.

A most cheerful card from Beppo Kleppinger said that he has recovered so well diat he now gets around witii only a cane and was just about to send in his reservation for the Mississippi River cruise.

That's wonderful news, Beppo.

Sad news. Jim Neet died at his home in Waynesboro, Vugmia, on 16 June after a long bout with emphysema. Jim was one whose eyes forced a civilian career, 35 years with General Electric except for five m uniform during 'WW II. He served the entire war m one ship, USS SAN JUAN (CL-54), from pre-

commissioning ensign to chief engineer commander.

His last job was as OinC of a group rescuing POWs from camps in Japan and Korea. Among his credits at GE are development of an aircraft gas turbine weighmg only three lbs/HP, unheard of in the '30s, and die hquid sodium nuclear system for USS SEA WOLF. In housecleaning about a year ago Barbara sent me Jim's coUection of photos from our 1931 June Week and Youngster Criuse, some of which have appeared m diese pages witii otiiers to follow. Barbara is living at 504 Maple Avenue, Waynesboro, Va. 22980 (Phone 703 949-8579). A contribution has been made to the '34 BAC Fund in Jim's memory.

We have a correction to die WB&A Class Duectory. John Cawley Green's zip code should be changed to read 21012. Our apologies to John for any inconvenience.

Word comes from my cousin Joe Tlilly '42 in Carmel that June Week West went off very well, with a great assist from Fran and Dick BIy of die working committee. WeU done!

We must be slowing down, for only two Classmates jom the octogenarian ranks this month: Parks Adams on the 6th and Joe Carter on the 28th.

Happy birthdays to both the new old fiids.

For some highly questionable reason Ann and I arose early on 6 May and joined some IO,(X)0 people walking across the Chesapeake Bay bridge, an annual rite in Maryland but a first for us. Between the bridge approach ends that was a six-raUe jaunt on a lovely, sunny but cool, moming. Time of transit, 95 minutes, including a chat en route with the Modoc Sunderlands '32 at the halfway point. When finished we spent another hour walking around the Bay Fest at Sandy Point Park sampling noontime seafood and cold beer while viewing many exhibits on how to save the Bay frora death by poUution. The walk was less strenuous than expected and made for a most enjoyable day.

Our dicho is one to ponder when you think you have problems: En la tierra de los ciegos, el tuerzo es rey. (In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is kmg.)

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Pres., Capt. Jefferson D. Parker USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. L. M. Detweiler (SC) USN (Ret.) 6650 Van Winkle Dr., Falls Church, Va. 22044 Con-. Sec'y, Capt. W. H. Packard USN (Ret.) 5600 Yorktown Blvd., Arlmgton, Va. 22207 (703) 536-7120 Belated word has been received that Bill McLeod died on 23 November 1987 m Moss Point, Mississippi. He left the Academy in 1932 and, except for a correction of his address in 1977, had not commuiucated with the Class before or since. An effort is being made to obtain a copy of his newspaper obituary for the Class records and possible preparation of a Last Call item.

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Ready to tailgate The June Shipmate mentioned the mini-reunion of East Coast Florida '35ers on 11 March. A month later, i.e., II April, Pat and Johnny Becker entertained the "Treasure Coast" '35ers at one of the several country clubs surrounding their Palm City, Florida home. The attendees were (1 to r): Bill Ryan, Audrey Cushraan, Pat and Johnny. Shortly thereafter, Audrey retumed to her Maryland home preparatory to leaving on a brief trip to Europe, and the other three left two weeks later for our 55th Reunion in San Diego.

In checking the names appearing in the report of that Reunion, preparatory to submitting the '35 column for the July/August Shipmate, your Corr. Sec'y woke up to the fact that Bud Oliver of Knoxville, Tennessee had apparently remarried. A query to him brought forth the news that he and Pattie were married on 10 November 1988. She is a native of KnoxvUle and has four children and nine grandchildren.

We are happy to welcorae Pattie to the '35 family.

Walt Walters, on 20 February 1990 was honored by the Panama City, Rorida, Rotarians as a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of his civic and club contributions. The Rotary Club of Panama City, accordingly, donated $1,000 to the Foundation of Rotary Intemational, in Walter's name. Incidentally, Walt had a hip replacement operation in November 1989 and, as of Reunion time, was still walking carefully with a cane, "but doing better."

The Reunion continues to stimulate foUow-on letters frora attendees. Dusty Dornin's widow, Elbe, from Leucadia, Califomia advised she didn't see or talk with all those at the Reunion she would have liked, but she left early as she was recovering from a flu bug. She also reported her time normally is spent with her four children, either traveling with them, hosting them or visiting them. Changes in the children's locations since our 50 Year Rendezvous was pubUshed: Susan Johnson is now in the San Francisco area; Chris and her husband, Michael Boskin, are in Washington, D.C; and Esther Duckworth, known as Rusty, is in Visalia, Califomia. Bob Domin, his wife Shirley and two sons are in Laguna Beach.

Ruth and Chet Briggs, in Port Townsend, Washington, regretted missing the Reunion, but they are anticipating another grandchild at that time. Also, Chet, as Chahraan of Board of Tmstees, was heavily Bill Ryan, Audrey Cushman, Pat and Johimy Becker

involved in the corapletion of an addition to their church. Chet reports they are both in good health.

Another couple who regretted notraakingit to the Reunion was Traba and Virge McQuary in Flippin, Arkansas. On 20 April, Traba suffered "almost" congestive heart failure and on 30 April underwent open heart surgery for three by-pass grafts and an aorta valve replacement. She had a previous severe heart attack on 18 February whUe they were wintering in Texas, had an apparent successfiil angio-plasty procedure on the arteries to her heart, but it was not. As of 26 May, she was recuperating well, at home. Virge comments that he and "Traba are now a matched set, both having synthetic aortic heart valves and both valves are performing well.

AUie and Page Knight missed the 55th because, as indicated in the November '89 column, they seldom travel west of the Mississippi. Page is one of the founders and currently the president of the Potomac Chapter of The Retired Officers Assn. He also reported that he and AUie now havefivegrandchildren, "a great joy for a three-day visit, max."

Mary Anne and Ken Sanger, outside Grass Valley, Califomia (in beautiful country northeast of Sacramento) were visited by Ruth and Slade Cutter after the Reunion, and Slade reported the Sangers had good reasons for not getting to the Reunion: "two Doberman dogs, four huge raucous geese,fivegoats, 16 egg-laying hens (what, no rooster?), six ducks and six Peruvian small chicks." It can be understood and appreciated how confining and sometime frustrating, but almost always pleasurable, such an array of live stock can be.

Slade also reported on a diimer and evening at Winifred and John Middleton's m Bellevue, Washington. Dolly and Chick Harmer came down from Bellingham to participate in a most enjoyable session reminiscing the Reunion and other past events of mutual interest. Later in their land cruise of the country, the Cutters visited the museum in Ft. Benton, Montana, to see if Tom Sharp's '35 plaque was on display with the Sharp family memorabilia. It wasn't, but, according to the receptionist, was going to be placed in the display case by the curator that afternoon. The curator confirmed that, and Slade saw the plaque but commented that the museum didn't have a picture nor a biography of Tom. Efforts are underway to cortect that deficiency.

Fred (Beep) Kinsley, m Marblehead, Massachusetts, in response to a query, reported that his law office is still functioning, but he is getting ready to shut it down so that he and Jean will have more freedom to travel. He is still flying Piper Warriors and playing teimis.

Katie and Ralph Baum tripped to Southeast Asia in June, to cruise around Indonesia, getting back home to Coronado intimefor Ralph to attend the San Diego Class luncheon on 20 June. Also at that luncheon. Bub Ward announced that he and Lib were about to leave on a three-month swing around the country, mostly in the East, to see family and friends. Dorothy and Bill Hazzard were also leaving m their 1972 VW Camper for Colorado and then to British Columbia to see their son, Alan, and family.

The Bay area '35ers lunched on 24 May at the Palo Alto EUcs Club and had their final monthly luncheon for the Summer on 21 June at the Presidio Officers' Club in San Francisco. Those attending one or both events were: Dixie Farrell, Bill Germershausen, Hersh Goldberg, Bud Gruner, Frank Hess, Jack Lofland, Alex MacMillan, Ralph Metcalf, Ed Osbom, BUI Samuels, BiU Sullivan and Frank Wheeler. A coed luncheon is planned for mid-September at the Los Altos Golf and Country Club.

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Ruth and Mac Wordell, Horace Laird Peg Sellars, Ken and Jeanette West Baibara Meyer, Pattie and Bud OUver, Roy Barnes, Irene Ross, Bea Barnes Norm Meyer, Ruty Cutter That's it for now. See you again after our return because of an emergency household plumbing Winne on 23 March in San Diego. However, we did problem. faU to include a grandson as a survivor in addition to from our Southem Shores vacation. Am happy we Shortiy after diis Shipmate hits die street, die 1990 Enuly. For Classmates and friends we repeat Enuly's could end on a happy note for a change, and we assume that no news means aU are weU. Navy footbaU season wUl be underway. Herewith, a home address for those wishing to express their sympicture of George Hutchinson putting up the invita- pathy in persona] messages: 6215 Branting Street, tion for '35ers to assemble in the west side Stadium San Diego, Calif. 92122. Asrequested,the contents parking lot, alongside the Quonset hut, for pre-game of EmUy's note to Harry were forwarded to Shipmate Membership: 84% for inclusion in "Last Call." taUgating.

Herewith, a few more pictures from the 55th ReAs aresultof his crusade to emphasize the imporPres., Capt. A. H. Soucek USN (Ret.) union in San Diego. tance of the oceans and the need for increased oceanic education in our nation's school systems, Gil Sec'y-Treas., RAdm. D. G. Baer USN (Ret.) Slonim was therecipientof enthusiastic, concurring Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. John R. Wadleigh USN (Ret.) repliesfromthe Govemors of the states of South CarMembership: 85% olina, Maine, and New Jersey, the last one through 313 Swan's Wharf Row, Brick Market Place New Jersey's Educational RoUcy Advisor Thomas Newport, R.I. 02840 Pres., Capt. Frank G. Law USN (Ret.) Tuesday, 8 September 1992 wiU be tiie first day of Corcoran. AU share GU's concem for the environSec'y-Treas. Capt. O. M. Butler USN (Ret.) ment and express their strong support of his Oceanic our 55th Reunion with our Crabtown contingent raak625 Timber Branch Pkwy, Alexandria, Va. 22302 Educational Foundation for setting clear state and na- ing plans. Charlie Minter has written: Corr. Sec'y, Capt. William A. Ellis USN (Ret.) Tom Adams has made arrangements for rooms at tional goals for educational programs related to the 4101 Downing St., Annandale, Va. 22003 the Lowes Hotel on West Street on the edge of study of the oceans. AU coraraended GU for his leaddowntown Annapohs which will place our group Except for the Home games starting with its taU- ership in his educational aspirations. within easy walking distance of points of interest. gating, your Scribe turning 78, and having retumed Recentiy we have been engaged in an exchange of The Reunion will be liiesday thru Thursday with a from a wonderful week's vacation on the Outer Banks information and data on the Classes of 1936 graduBrigade Parade on Wednesday where special seatin late August, there is httie or no news for this Sep- atedfromthe Naval Academy and the MiUtary Acading for the Class can be arranged. There is a schedtember issue. So guess we'U just relax, hope that no emy. This exchange, originated by LtCol. Rhihp S. uled football game on Saturday for those who wish news is good news, meet our 16 July deadline, and Gage, Jr., USA (Ret.) our Class Scribe counterpart to stay over and take advantage of it. We plan to have give you what we have in hand as of 12 July. for over 30 years for the USMA '36 class column in a boat trip, hopefiilly in YPs, followed by a dinner Correction: In our last column we reported Jean the Point's Assembly, has brought forth some very inmuch as we did for the 50th. As we move ahead on and John Oseth as touring Europe m September as teresting comparative data about our Classes of 1936. these plans we would like suggestions prospective provided by John's note given to us at the June For example: USMA '36 graduated 276 and have exattendees might have and will welcome any ideas. luncheon. AcmaUy, they departed on 10 July and re- tant at this time 161 whereas our Class graduated 261 More information wUl be coming out later, and tumed in time to join us for the week at Southem of whom 138 are still hving. Army '36 lost only 16 please remeraber that the Naval Academy will be in Shores on die Outer Banks of North Carohna. No due to death in combat or as POWs, whereas our fuU operation with a host of activities taking place doubt but that they wUl have plenty to teU us about Class lost 32 m action during WWII and Korea (13 to that were not visible at the 50th, when most Midshiptheir trip for news in the next Shipmate. surface action, 8 to submarine losses, 10 to air com- men were away on leave or cruises. Also not visible Joan PhiUips' note (9 June) advised tiiat she had bat, and 1 to Marine Corps landing). To date, total at our 50th was the new Brigade Activities Center just retumed frora Greece and had notreceivedthe Class attrition (not including dieir non-grads) for overlooking Worden Field, which Charlie has indiJune Shipmate which carried die obituary on her USMA '36 is 115 while in die case of our Class 123 cated wiU be die locale of some of die 55th Reunion Dad, John Preston, in "Last Call." She asked if have answered the "Last CaU." activities. Private contributions from Alunmi and there was some way she could obtain two copies, one Phil's foUow-up letter asks several very interesting friends of the USNA have already significantiy for herself and one for her sister. A quick phone call questions which we wUl try to answer. It has been a helped this project and campaigns are still in progto the Editor arranged for two copies to be sent to very stimulating exchange and comparison of our ress. One instance of campaigns intertwining was reJoan, and her note of 3 July thanked us for same. She two Classes and has prompted your CS to do a lot centiy noted in tiiat funds sent to die Capital Camsaid she was very pleased with her Dad's obituary in more research than he has done in the past. Phil lives paign of the Alumni Association were meant for the "Last CaU" and die remarks m our '36 column which in Atianta, Georgia, where his best friend, the only Honor Chair fund in memory of a Classmate. To date included the poem written by John. We thank Joan other USMA '36er in town, is none other than the I have word diat chairs in the Brigade Activities Cenfor her note. brother-in-law of our own John Oseth. Those of you ter have been given in honor of Classmates Shields By the time you read this, we wiU have visited with who might be interested in contactmg Phil and asking Goodman, Billy Mason, and Duke Ferrara by Ginny and Harry Stark whUe they were East in late him other questions about USMA '36 may write di- members of the Class. There wiU be others, and I July on dieh annual visit with Ginny's sister Mildred rect to him as follows: LtCol. Philip S. Gage, Jr, look forward to hearing about those in 1937 who may AUen m Alexandria before going on to Rehobetii USA (Ret.), 2128 Belvedere Drive NW, Atianta, Ga. be so honored, as part of the Alumni Association Beach for fun and surf. Harry's note (16 June) con- 30318. Meanwhile we wiU keep you mformed on any Honor Chair drive to complete fully the new Center at the Naval Academy. firmed our remarks in die July/August Shipmate re- further exchanges with RhU. First word from a Nortiiem Califomia member garding the sudden death of our Classmate George

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since he reported on the October earthquake included this from Larry Bernard: Caroline and I did have an interesting trip recendy, visiting our 18-year-old grandson who is a Russian language student at the Defense Language Instimte in Monterey. Here he takes four years of college-level Russian in 47 weeks. We were amazed at the size of this establishment with separate large buildings for the study of dozens of different languages and extensive support facilities covering hundreds of acres. We stayed the night in Carmel, still a delightfiil village but falling prey to an overabundance of tourists.

Congratulations on a brilliant grandson, Bemards, and glad to hear that you are travelling again, Larry.

Look forward to more NOCAL news.

Statistics in our 50 -(- Years Directory took a cheerfiil tum recentiy when a note from Max Kem '39, brought the following word: Recently one of our golf foursome regulars dropped out, but on short notice we found a Cape Cod Men's Club buddy to join us. I soonrealizedwe had something in common. We both left USNA because of eyes, he in 1936,1 a couple of years later It was Stanley Paist in your Class who is alive and well, living at 124 Canoe Pond Drive, Brewster, Mass. 02631 near Cape Cod Bay. Thank you. Max, for the good news. Stan Paist has been carried as "D" in USNA Register and our own Class Directory for a long time. I have written to him and wUl hope to have more news later.

Walt Phaler is keeping his sloop busy on San Diego Bay and sent in the following with photographs recentiy: Last month Ann and Tex Lander, and Frank Shamer went sailing with me to watch the Danish America's (Tup team sail a "PR." match in San Diego Bay. It was a short course series and they were sailing 75' sleds, the nearest boats to the new America's Cup class. We had an excellent view of start andfinishand also were in the midst of pre-start maneuvers. At one dme, Peter Isler, the U.S. skipper, tried to wipe out the Danes on our stem.

You are where the action is, Walt. Back in this old Cup port we are still seeing J boat duels between E N DEAVOR and SHAMROCK, raemories of the 1930's!

With best wishes to a small birthday group this month here are their names and 1940 locations—Don Dean, John Shaffer, States Mead, and Charlie Andres (all in civUian jobs based on New York City), Henry Sipple (S-31), BiU Stevens (Staff Commander Scouting Force), Paul Hartraann (NAS Pensacola, flight instmction). Swampy Lajaunie (SARDO), John Simpson (Westinghouse Co.), Don Mehlop (S-38), Charlie Meigs (Instmction MIT), Bill Gregg ( N E W YORK), and your C/S (YORKTOWN). Keep Revvin all of us are three/quarter century clubraerabers now!

Helen Child has sent the following: To all the Class of 1937, thank you for the memorial gift to Lakewold Gardens in memory of Gerry.

This is a project close to our hearts and Gerry was an active supporter of preserving these Gardens for future enjoyment. They are in the estate of a very dear friend and have been listed as among the 10 most beautiful in this country. Next month my children and I will fly to Honolulu where a friend with the help of Admiral Bruce Smith (Class of '47) has arranged with the Navy to have Gerry's ashes scattered in the Pacific. Gerry's father's ashes were dropped off Point Loma and this seems appropriate.

It will be a sad mission, but fitting, we believe.

We wiU be thinking of you and your's in these days ahead, Helen. Many thanks for the most thoughtful note to us all.

50th wedding anniversaries, past and future, continue to bring in news. Bob McWilliams has written: "Eleanor and I were in Nags Head to celebrate our's witii Mat and Tom Nixon. They gave me perraission to tell you they were married New Year's Day, 1979".

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previous Saturday evening. In connection with this we have had a reunion of our direct family and all possible sisters (Nancy's) and their offspring plus some assorted cousins and close friends. On Sunday we had family brunch at the nearby hotel with 40 people including our two sons and five grandchildren. Brother-in-law Dave Bell, his children and grandchildren were on hand, also brother-in-law Jim Smith '39 with his children and grandchildren, and, of course, Nancy's sister, Martha. We had a wonderful and unforgettable time. 50 years manied is hard to believe. We have both been forttinate and blessed, and we thank our Lord for it.

Frank Shamer, Tex Lander, Anne Lander

Coronado 1990: Bob Northwood, Fill Gilkeson, Bunny Shupper WeU said, Nancy and Joe!—Mary and Walt Barry indicate a delayed celebration in July with a reunion of Barry and McDonald clans. Walt notes he hopes to have a good photo for us. We look forward to more word in next Shipmate, Walt.—Mary and Charlie Minter plan to celebrate their August anniversary on a USNAAA craise to Scandanavia. Walt Phaler has reported that he and Margie were married 23 January 1941 with Walt well into his fourth year aboard heavy craiser CHESTER in the Hawaiian Detachment of the Fleet.—Keep the anniversary news coming, readers, and congratulations to all the foregoing writers.

Don Baer has reported diat the Class luncheon on 14 June in Washington found Zeke Soucek in charge with Fog Blasdel, Jim Denton, Ed Finney, Bamey Flenniken, Schnitzel Schneider, Paul Hartraann, John Reese, Jack Slaughter, and Larry Brantley on hand. The loss of faithful member Buck Wilsie was noted with sadness by all. Buck (Capt. F E. Wilsie, USN (Ret.) died at home on 10 June and on 20 June was buried with simple military services at the Columbarium in Arlington National Cemetery. Flowers were sent for the Class via Don Baer and on hand with Buck's family and other friends were Zeke Soucek, Marcella and Wes Steesy, Ann and Fog Blasdel, Chuck Stein, Flomarie and Barney Flenniken, Fred Schneider, Jim Denton, Peg and Paul Hartraann, Jack Slaughter, lira Cruse, and Don Baer.

Buck is survived by his wife of alraost 50 years, Gladys of 15300 Beaverbrook Court (#3E), Silver Spring, Md., a daughter Joyce Gross, a son Robert Wilsie, and three grandchildren. To Gladys and her faraily we all send heartfelt sympathy on the loss of a steadfast member of 1937.

Via Walt Phaler, Mel Cooper, and Rivers Morrell has come word of the death of Clif Hocker (Lt. USN (Ret.), on 20 May in St. Petersburg, Florida, after a long illness. I hope for more information about Clif who retired in 1943 and leaves a widow, Carlanne of 18325 Gulf Blvd (#203), Reddington Beach, Fla. 33708, and two children. To Carlanne goes sympathy from all of us who knew Clif in those ten years he spent with us at USNA and in the Fleet.

Tiny Huelsenbeck took to the road again in June to attend a ship's reunion of the MCNULTY (DE-581) which he commissioned in 1944 as XO. He writes: We had 22 members of the crew in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where our 'YNC put together a great reunion. A bomb scare in our hotel thefirstnight gave me a chance to talk with Del Reeves, Nashville Grand Ole Opry star. Attending one of his shows I was surprised and delighted when he dedicated the entire show to me. But there must be a leveler. At the hotel when I asked the clerk if she wanted my AARP card for a discount rate, she said, 'Don't worry, I've ah-eady given you one.'

Tiny expects to have a letter in Naval History's Summer issue which leads into kudos to Tom Davies for his New York Times article of 28 April, written jointly with'former CIA Director Stan Thmer, USNA '47, entitled "Plutonium Terror on the High Seas".

The authors call on Japan to abandon its production and export of plutonium in the interest of all mankind in the years ahead, and make a series of telling arguraents to support their theme. Well done, also to Bill Mack for his work with the University of Maryland since his retirement as a member of the Graduate Council and its Board of Visitors to the Center for Study of Fumre Management. Bill was recipient of the University's President's Medal at the 1990 Commencement, and later in the week was featured speaker at the annual awards dinner for Aime Arundel High School seniors who have won scholarships towards college degrees. Finally, congratulations to Charlie Minter for recent election as Chairman of the Board, Annapolis National Bank.

Homecoming 1990 will be 26-27 October, and Larry Brantley has sent word that he is taking reservations for rooms at the Annapolis Ramada Inn. Let him know by letter (5228 Westpath Way, Fort Sumner, Md. 20816) or phone (301-229-2047) ASAP after reading this if you need accommodations for our 53rd gathering. With a "charge" to the Navy team as it faces Jaraes Madison on the 27th, and Beat Array again, KEEP REVVIN Classmates.

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Pres., RAdm. Robert W. McNitt USN (Ret.) Chairman, Washington Area, Capt, R. W. Carter SC USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Snowden Arthur USN (Ret.) 4600 Ashby St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 A naval officer on leave about 60 years ago was driving through a forsaken part of rural Georgia. He stopped at a run-down country store. The proprietor of diis Tobacco-Road establishment identified himself as a bilger from the Naval Academy class of 192x. In the nineteen thirties this story served as a cautionary fable about the possibly dire consequences of bilging out of the Naval Academy.

Through the good offices of Jack Wadleigh and Joe Dodson we have teamed a bit of the history of Midshipman Daniel W. Scott, who started in the Class of '37 but was tumed back into '38. In Joe Dodson's words, Dan couldn't kick Plebe Steam and so was tumed back into '38, He resigned and setded down on his horse farm (thoroughbreds) in Lexington, Kentucky, He has been boarding and breeding in earlier years, but now in recent years has his own stable of horses which he races at various tracks around the

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The Weymouths in Iceland 1966

Norm and Alison Fryer

country. He occasionally uses Pat Day as his jockey.

Dan is a native Kenmckian (as am I) and we went to prep schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kavanaugh School in Lamencebuig.

Of about eight taking entrance exams in 1933, only Dan and I passed for USNAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one other man passed fw USMA. Worst record Mrs. K ever had.

The photos this month include: AUson and Norm Fryer snapped in a gripping moment; Eli Vinock, Bob Huron, and KG Robinson dressed for the Presidential Fleet Review (by FDR) at San Francisco, 1938; The Weymoutii famUy in Iceland, 1966; Fred Schroeder (with cigar) and his aide in a sloop at Sevema Park, 1980; Vivian and Vem Soballe, whose four chUdren and ten grandchUdren gave them a party to celebrate 50 years of marriage that began on 15 June 1940, at the Chapel in die NorfoUc Navy Yard. K any other couples were married in June 1940 we'd be glad to run your pictures too.

Last Febmary Wick Alford wrote our Classmate Ralph C. Panter about his and Eli Vinock's project to write a book about men who were admitted to the Naval Academy from enUsted statos. He was shocked to receive this letter from Margaret Panter.

"Dear Wick, Your letter arrived Febraary 24th. I am SOTry to teU you Ralph passed away Febraary 13th. I am devastated. He was very iU since his bypass surgery six years ago this June. He loved the Naval Academy and stiU gets Shipmate. We were married 19 years ago this June 3rd. I'm sorry I can't write more at this time."

And aU of us are sorry to hear of Ralph's passing away.

Fifty Classmates, wives and widows in the Washington area gathered for the annual June picnic which this year was donated by Kay and Chet Owen to signify the longevity of Chet and other septuagenarians who have thus far withstood the ravages of time. It was a great party featuring Kay's peerless cooking and Bob Bidwell's Smithfield ham. Chet's three daughters were there with their spouses and several grandkids who had great fun playing with ice and water. The Grant Hestons attended only in spirit by sending a lovely floral centerpiece.

In another letter from Wfck Alford we leam of his "Gee whiz!" experience concerning Betsy and Harry Mason. Last October Wick talked briefly with diem when they passed through St. Simons Island, Georgia, on dieir way to the Bahamas. Six months later on 24 AprU Wick was working on his boat when he suddenly had an overpowering urge to tum his radio on and give SANDALS a caU. (SANDALS was the voice caU of Harry Mason's boat).

Wick's letter continues die story: Much to my surprise and wide-eyed amazement SANDALS answered right up. After nothing heard for over six months I could hardly believe my good luck in calling at therighttime. But the voice on the other end was a strange one and explained that they were abreast of Jekyll Is, In a tight navigational spot and would call later Harry did call in a littie while and after some discussion he agreed they would come in, anchor and come out to our house for dinner.

On the radio Harry said Leslie and Mac Nicholson, '41 were aboard but he did not tell me the bad

Zunanski, Ogle, GugUotta, and Henry. Dan Henry introduced George Sugarman who was his guest visiting frora die Bay Area. George is a retired Air Force type and dieir friendship began in 1946 m Puerto Rico when Dan passed through en route to a new duty station. Guy GugUotta was also visiting from the Bay Area and passed along greetings trom his group and some info on their meetings.

Some spirited discussions arose both about hazing at die Academy and the 55th Reunion. No one condoned die conduct of those involved m the recent incident leading to the resignation of the female Midshipman, but when the recipient of such conduct is not a Plel)e, is it hazing? The locale and the type reunion for die 55th get-together was far from unanimous. The boat ride on the Mississippi had some foUowing as did the Academy and San Francisco sites.

The poor attendance last month seems to have been the result of our members traveUing hither and yon!

Bill Finn elaborated on his 21-day visit to "Merry Old" and driving through Wales and Ireland. It was a memorable trip with the only hitch being a problem of age restrictions with some car rental agencies.

Tom Foster elaborated on his 2!4-month visit to Hawaii after an absence of 18 years and noting quite a few changes! Pat Callahan spent 44 days covering much of Europe primarily by EuroraU which he swears by. He saw Joe Josephson in Lubeck and Ike Brooks in Geneva. From his discourse their trip was a marveUous and interesting one. Dan Harrington told of his train trip along the West Coast and also of his upcoming tour of Central Europe with the finale at the Passion Play in Oberammergau. From the map of his trip it wiU be a winner. The meeting closed on a high note!

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Dressed for Presidential Review

Fred Schroeder and KG Robinson

Vivian and 'Veni Soballe news. I was left to conjecture that maybe Betsy had flown home with illness in the family or somethmg.

After they anchored the three of themrowedover to my boat in the dinghy but there were no gay boat hails. It was only after they landed that Harry put his aim on my shoulder and broke the sad news. I was stuimed and could not beUeve it for a long time.

Then I had to call Kay and tell her While it was a somber occasion, it was nice to have Harry and the Nicholsons out to our house.

Now, as to why I felt I had to call SANDALS on the radio at that particular time, I don't know. Was it extra-sensory perception, clairvoyance, a premonition, a hunch, thought transferrence or just happenstance? You make the call.

Betsy was truly a classy lady. We mourn her passing.

REPORT FROM SAN DIEGO On 6 June, the San Diego group met with a goodly turnout. Present were Harrington, Jensen, Ready, Lee Rogers, Foster, Worthington, Callahan, Fmn,

Birgitta and I wiU vacation in Southem France frora 18 July to 14 August. Since copy for the October Shipmate wiU be due before our retum in August, there may not be a '38 column m the October Shipmate. As a further compUcation, we're going to visit Russia from 14 September to 5 October, but intend to provide copy for the November and December columns.

Frank Zimanski reports that responses to his essay, 'THE USS CABOT DESTINED FOR IMMORTALITY" in the AprU issue of Shipmate were most gratifying. Among Classmates writing Frank were Ed Conrad and Ray Calhoun.

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Pres., Capt. George Duncan USN (Ret.) Box 123, St. Mary's, Md. 20686 Sec'y, Capt. W. J. Ruhe USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBetii Ave., McLean, Va. 22102 Just after the 4th of July I received three phone caUs from the West Coast teUing about Margaret and Larry Lovig losmg theh home in Santa Barbara to a forest fire. The flash woodland fire, fanned by a 50Shipmate, September 1990

knot wind, suddenly veered and swept over homes outside of Santa Barbara. This was shown countless times on die evening TV news. Larry reports diat the fire threat was so sudden tiiat they only had ten minutes for Margaret to get her jewehy out of the house and for Larry to get one car out of the garage before die house bumed to the ground. Larry couldn't find the keys to his second car so it was melted down with everydiing else. Sally Gulick later called to say diat the Lovigs had found an unfurnished house, nearby, and were gomg to need fumittire and that '39ers were rallying to help out.

Grant Rogers wrote on the 4th that he was "off to Idaho for the Project Futtire York raft trip—for die 12 messed-up street kids from York, Pennsylvania."

Grant also wrote about the death of Bob Lawrence on 18 June at Sun City, Arizona from emphysema due to smoking. His remains were cremated and his ashes "buried at sea." Bob, you might remeraber married J. R. Dinsmore's widow in 1970 after a divorce from his first wife, Winifred. After retirement from die Navy in 1960 he had a series of civUian jobs, developing the Polaris and Poseidon missile systems. An annual Pajaro Dimes attendee, we were able to keep close track of his domgs. George Scott sent a note about Bob's death and included a note from his widow, Ginny, saying, "No one here, nor I, have ever seen a floral arrangement like the one sent by the Class for Bob's Memorial Service. It was shaped like a ship with birds of paradise and exquisite roses.

Knowing you care gave me courage. Bob fought a long battie and it was devastating, but he kept a dignity that was heroic. My meraories are very special."

C. G. Mendenhall'sflyerfor his book Submarine Diary arrived last week. It is subtitied The Silent Stalking of Japan and is being pubUshed by Algonquin Press of Chapel HiU, North Carolina. The release of his book in October promises a look into Mendy's wartime experiences on two different submarines. The flyer says, "Never before has so thoroughgomg and authoritative a picture of daily life aboard a combat submarine been offered as in Submarine Diary." And then theflyerexpansively promises that the book "provides a vivid and detailed account of what it meant to serve aboard a wartime submarine in the undersea onslaught on Japan."

Emie Schwab sent along the eulogy for Mike Pema dehvered by his son, Michael, particularly because it gave an insight into Mike's life which we '39ers were unaware of. "I discovered from his college textbooks," Mike Jr. said, "that he was more interested in poetry than in fixing cars. His favorite poet was Lord Byron (he liked Byron for his strong rhythms). When I read him a poem from a leading poet of the Beat Generation, he thought for a minute and then said, 'warmed over Walt Whitman.'" Michael Jr. also noted that his favorite passage was frora Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, on privacy.

Quoting parts of this passage: "Is it not better then, to be alone. And love Earth only for its sake. . . . Is it not better thus our lives to wear. Than joining the crashing crowd, doomed to inflict or bear?" Then, Michael Jr. added, "As he was always telling his children and grandchildren, 'Keep away from crowds.'"

Al Barbee clipped an article from the Pensacola News Journal on the death of Bob Laycock and sent it on to me, (but too late for Bob's Last Call). Al added the note: "I hope to increase my attendance at reunions in the future. Miriam and I have been to only three reunions since graduation and two of these were in die past year. Please give my regards to all 39ers, and hope we'll be together again in a year or two."

Tom Weschler sent a picture of him and Doc Abbot with Tom Watson, taken aboard Watson's new Palawan IV which Doc and Tom Watson sailed up to Newport frora Bermuda for final delivery at Ted Hook's Little Harbor Marina. "Doc was in great form Shipmate, September 1990

Rogers and Dottie Laney and her prize-winning painting

Abbot, Tom Watson and Weschler

Ustick and Bemis assembling (?) the polythoopenator

a fairly good tumout for our June luncheon on a very warm day for San Diego. Among the regulars were Fischer, Bobczynski, Paine, Sharpe, Bemis, Hemingway, Jolly, Lank, Dawson, Jim Dick Miller, Walker, Clarke, Brent, and Norton. Also attending was Bud Cooper. Bud and Cathy are visiting their many children and friends on the West Coast. Bud is about the only guy 1 know who can still comfortably get into his Midshipraan's dress uniform and not need to suck in his stomach."

Herb Kriloff from Old Chatham, New York, (not Aussie-land, yet) sent in money to subscribe for one year to the Submarine Review—which I've been editing. He wrote: "A one shot deal to say thanks for several copies received, and to prove my 3rd Batt and 7th Company loyalty."

Alley Peterson's wife, Mitzi, sent me a note saying: "With great pride, 1 am sending you copies of two documents Pete received recently for his voluntary activities with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA). The first was a letter from President George Bush saying: "Dear Admiral Peterson: Barbara and 1 were delighted to leam that you are being honored upon your retireraent as President of the Association of the National Defense Executive Reserve, (ANDER). You have served and inspired others by your dedication and hard work. I am pleased to commend you for your efforts. With warm regards. Sincerely" and signed George Bush. The second was an Outstanding Public Service Award certificate to A. Alley Peterson, "for exceptional service in the public interest" (by forming ANDER, an organization composed of voluntary executives from across the country who volunteer their time, efforts and dollars to support the civil side of our Federal Government in times of national emergencies), signed by the Acting Dhector of the Federal Emergency Manageraent Agency, Jerry D. Jennings.

Mitzi added: "Frora ray perspective, what Pete has accoraplished and that for which he has been recognized is representative of die Class of '39— dedication to the welfare of our country, honor, integrity, and hard work. Having achieved a sizeable membership and confident the organization is well established, Pete decided to step down as President this year."

Don Quale reported on his 14-day Med cruise on the ROYAL VIKING SUN:

Jenkins, Thompson, Scott, Dimberg

Housemates at Pajaro Dunes and had had a stormy passage from Bermuda, but the boat looked well and he is anticipating more such deliveries. This is his 6th or 7th with Tom Watson.

Doc's son Steve was off that p.m. to Newport News to take comraand in June of the nuclear carrier THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Also, "I play bridge with Gene Henry every month or so. He is holding his own and doing very well."

Freddy Clarke reported frora San Diego: "We had

As you suggested during our conversation last Winter, herewith are some observations about the ports we made. This was a voyage we selected for the ports of call in the Med, an area that might be thought of as the cradle of civilization and the source of history for thousands of years B.C. To walk the street of the carefully restored Pompeii, one can imagine the chatter and clatter of daily life in this town that was snuffed out so abruptly in 79 A.D. The ruins of Carthage at the edge of the sea near Tbnis, built by the Phoenicians in the 9th Century B,C, and leveled by the Romans 650 years later, is a must to see.

(And that dear friends, is your history lesson for today) Then Don adds: "It is most difficult to single out a favorite port, but if threatened with twenty lashes, we would give Malta a slight edge." Also, "In ray next comraunication I'll tell about ray grandchildren. God forbid, says you." (Araen.)

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Pres., Capt. Ted Hill USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Cdr. Leigh Wmters USN (Ret.) 418 Tyler PI., Alexandria, Va. 22302 CASTINE, MAINE, REPORT—CCXAT While 27 NA'40 Families enjoyed the scenic highlights of 'Down East' Maine, reporter John A. Staples wrote in the 5 July 1990 The Ellsworth Ameri59

Castine—They were the young lions of World War n, the pride of Aimapohs serving on the front lines fixjm Pearl Harbor to the Atlantic. Today, the U.S. Naval Academy's Class of 1940—owner of the highest wartime casualty rate in Naval Academy history—has become one of America's most active and dedicated alumni groups. . . . This week the class is holding its 20th consecutive summer reunion in Castine. The gathering follows their official SOthreunionheld last month in Annapolis. . . .

Hmmm—"the young lions." Admit it, mates; that's the way we always thought about ourselves.

ANCC-Mike Michaelis wraps up the SOth And StiU do! Growrrah!

Here is a rough recap of the Famihes of Forty pres••jjpw * .*^« ent at Castine Caper 20 (CCXX): D'Arcy & Ned Bent (N. Car.) plus son Peter with Esther and Natalie iv J "Fangs" Bent, also daughter Melissa with husband ^^^^'•^^R^ ^, m Tony Metachik; Mary & BiU Bottenburg (Calif.) without any of dieir 11 chUdren & 17 grandchildren!; ^^LiHK''^*^'^(_ BUI Braybrook (Ariz.); Cissi & Chff Bundy (Calif.) plus son BiU with Patty & Victoria (6 mondis), also Andrea with Alexis & Daniel (granddaughters Chloe was on a fortnight's mission in Haiti); Eloise & John HiUP ^_ H^^^Hk , ^ j _ ^ _ ^ , ^ Chase (Virginia); Maijorie & John Clagett (Vermont) * with grandson John WUey; Tab Collins (Va.) plus daughter Carol with husband Keith Clapp; Phil "^^Ml^ ^s*"""""" Eckert (Md.); Jeanne & San Forter (Maine); Margaret & Fritz Freund (Conn.); Isabelle & VirgU Gex (Ohio); Chris & Mike Hanley (Va.); Betty & Jake Mary and Ed Sledge at CCXX Heiraark (Peim.) plus daughter Marta Staples with husband & children, Matthew, Christian & Mary Stewart ('Tooney Banooney"??); Yvonne & Bob Kalen (Alabama); Jane & BiU Laffey (Penn.); Blaine & Mary Libbey (Maine); Rose & Mike Michaelis (Va.); Betty & Foggy Newcomb (Calif); Charlotte & Rat Patterson '39 (Md.); Marguerite & Ted Rodgers (Maine); Florence & Bill Roseborough (Va.); Thelma & BiU Scott (Va.) plus daughter Mary & son BUI Jr. witii wife Stacy Scott; Mary & Ed Sledge (Va.) plus daughter Anne & grandson Matthew; Betty Ann Taylor plus Tom's sister Jane Klein with husband, Doyan; Penny & Hugh Vickery (Md.); Class President cheers up Convalesant during Secretary's Betty & "GG" WiUiaras (NorfoUc) and Dee & Early Week Winters.

John Lacouture, writes that of " . . . thefirst280 Among the many special events: the Sailing Regatta Oar Trophy passed frora Virgil Gex to Ted jet pUots in the U.S. Navy . . . were four pilots frora Rodgers; NA'40 Honorary Membership # 3 finally die Class of '40 . . . #169 was LCdr. Donald N. Neddo—flew a P-59B on 13 June 1947 . . . #172 caught up with Pat Patterson; and a very happy and was LCdr. Robert A. Weatherup—flew a P-59 on deserving Phil Eckert won the Duck Lottery.

25 June 1947 . . . #230 was LCdr. Karl H. The period 30 June-14 July 1991 has been reserved Stefan—flew a FH-1 on 11 January 1948 . . . #263 for Castine Caper XX/. was LCdr. Richard C. Mueller—flew a FH-1 on 22 WASHINGTON REPORT July 1948 . . . ". If there are others please let John Should you by chance have missed the articles by our brethren in the May and June issues of Shipmate know.

Another of our researching Classmates, John retum quietiy to the scene of your omission and tum to Page 71 m the May '90 issue for the veryfinesaga Rossie, would like information on the life and whereabouts of old friend and Classmate William of Bettie Roach '32, submariner, by George Kittredge; and to page 21 in the June '90 issue for a well- Rudolph Teague. He was frora Henderson, North researched 'wrap-up' of NA'40 by Cary Hall. This Carolma, and left USNA in the Spring of '37 after failing an eye exam. When last heard from he had was just a prelude, of course, to thatfinesummary in our 50-Years Book, "The Long Joumey of the Class survived the Okinawa sinkuig of USS BUSH and was en route home on leave in the Summer of '45. of Forty," co-authored by Hall and Bill Lanier.

Jack (no longer "Hatchet") Wright is still alive As noted in Mike Hanley's Archive Memo of 22 and well in Silver Spring, Maryland. His rare reJune 1990—President Bush has written to the Class, marks should bring more joy to at least duee of our accepting an NA'40 Honorary Membership; Calvin hard-working mates: "I hasten to applaud die proH. Cobb, Jr., '45, National President of the Navy digious effort of Bill Carpenter and his many coLeague of die United States, has congratulated the horts for their superb publication. The Class of Class on its 50th Reunion and for " . . . compihng Forty-After Fifty Years. BUI Lanier and Cary Hall the Archives of the Class of 1940 for presentation to did a magnificent job of integrating a mass of diverse the Naval Academy . . . ". detail into an exceptionally coherent and totally fasIn his painsaking research for the Class Archive cinating Class history—a veritable mosaic of our Phil Eckert notes that four navy ships have been most meaningful meraories. WELL DONE, to all named after our deceased Classmates: CLOUES concemed! . . . " (DE-265), DARBY (DE-218), MERRILL (DE-392) and George Kronmiller suggest diat those of us lackWEEDEN (DE-797). Marshall Darby was lost in ing a leifmotif'm the matter of justification for female OKLAHOMA on 7 December 1941; Ed Cloues, Midshipmen in the Naval Academy read the oneHoward Merrill and Carl Weeden m ARIZONA the same morning. Another researching Classmate,

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pager "The Last Word—Sensitivity Lessons for Warriors" in die 11 June 1990 issue of Insight, pg. 64.

Makes sense.

THE DISTAFF SIDE Billie Clatchey, Head of the Records & Membership Division at Alumni House, Annapohs, forwards a note frora Bobby (Mrs. CS.) Radford Jr. of Duxbury, Mass.—" . . . my appreciation to the Class of '40—a really nice thing for them to do . . . " (With ttie Alumni Assoc, die Class underwrites annual subscriptions to Shipmate for our 73 unrewed widows of record.) The Roster also liststtieaddresses of anodier seven who have remarried.

A note to tiie Class from Charlotte and Pat Patterson '39 in thanks for Pat's Honorary Membership, which finally caught up to them in Castine, Maine.

Since dien they have " . . . had a delicious duiner . . . " with Lu and Paid Desmond in the Desmonds' new retireraent quarters at 9002 Belvoir Woods Parkway, soudi of Alexandria in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

About a year ago Helen D'Arezzo forwarded an essay, "Navy Blue and Gold," concerning the reminiscences of a pre-teen lad on attending an Annapolis Homecoming Game with his Dad. After a year m the "incoming" basket it reads even better. Now, at last, with an apology to Helen and son-autiior Paul D'Arezzo, I have forwarded the manuscript to the Editor, Shipmate, with a recommendation that he consider printing it. It looks as though our next generation is carrying on the "Archive Tradition." Congratulations, Paul!

NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE A post-Reunion notefromPhoebe & Russ Merrill vacationing in the far, far North-East, Digby, Nova Scotia: " . . . StUl raving about the wonderful Reunion. Thank you ALL! . . . ".

After Reunion-50 Eleanor and Jim Coyle headed for the home of son, Capt. Michael Coyle '65, CO Mare Island Shipyard and NavSta (a job formerly held by N. Frankenberger). Mike, die oldest of Eleanor & Jim's seven children, was then playing "Father-of-the-Bride" for his oldest-of-ieven, daughter Bridget! ALL of Mike's brothers and sisters attended! Jim understates the results: "We had a great family reunion!" Amen. We had both noted that Savilla & Art Maltby (in wheelchair) appeared wherever the action was during Reunion-50. Jim wrote: " . . . Reunion 50 was a huge success. Art and Savilla are an outstanding couple. In spite of his handicap Art's spirit neverflags,and he is involved in many different activities with SaviUa always at his side . . . " From the kudzu-covered suburbs of Atianta, Georgia, Cary Hall notes: " . . . Croswell Croft has made four . . . or five . . , cruises in DELTA QUEEN, the Mississippi

steamboat, (He) has volunteered . . . to arrange a Class cruise . . . to bridge us over the gap until (Homecoming) 1995 . . . Croswell will need to establish what time of the year. Spring . . . or Fall, the probable attendance, and, of course, the cost.

He will be enlisting some of us for help . . . " Sounds like a great idea! More on diis later . . .

Between a Florida State Convention of The Military Order of The World Wars and Reunion-50 Art Maltby has had a fairly busy June; but not too busy to write: "I diank ALL YOU PEOPLE who might have had something to do with our reuiuon and archive project. I particularly thank Warren Schoen and George Kittredge for pushing me around . . . " THE SECRETARY'S CORNER Many thanks to all for thefinefollow-up letters and photos of Reunion-50. Keep diose cards and photos comuig, mates. We wiU try to print tiiem all (Do you read me, Wes?) And publictiianksto your president, Ted Hill, and

Shipmate, September 1990

to his charming Julianne for remembering Secretaries' Day, or Week, or whatever . . . * * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0! * * * *

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Pres., Capt. Kenneth M. Tebo USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano USN (Ret.) 7111 Pyte Rd., Bediesda, Md. 20817 (301) 320-3887 Last montii's report of tiie June co-ed lunch at the Annapolis Yacht Club omitted some news items. Bill Reynolds missed the party but his lovely bride, Sidonia, did not. Bill was undergoing some tests at Bethesda but got home, mending, a few days after die party. LU Marzetta brought her grandson, Dante, who entered the Academy on 3 July 1990. This Dante is the tiiird Dante Marzetta to attend the Academy, following in the footsteps of his father and his grandfather, our late Classmate. The total tumout was a great 65. Because of the 50th Reunion, there wUl be no co-ed Yacht Club lunch m June '91 but it will resume in June '92. Maybe Jack Rogers and Tom Wolfe can organize a winterized version! How about 7 Febmary 1991 at tiie Yacht Club?

June was an unusually exciting time at Wellesley CoUege for a variety of reasons. Here is Ed Taber's account: Our granddaughter, Christine Bicknell, graduated frxjm Wellesley College Jime 1st with honors.

She was selected as Class Speaker for commencement exercises and shared the podium with Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev on national TV. When the controversy over Mrs. Bush being chosen as commencement speaker hit the national TV and news media, Chris also became a celebrity.

Although she did not sign the petition objecting to Mrs. Bush as commencement speaker, she was in demand for interviews with numerous network TV programs and well-known news magazines—as well as local Boston stations and newspapers. It was quite an event and having Barbara Bushreferon national TV to "my new best friend Chris Bicknell" made the day for parents, grandparents and my son, Ed (Jigger) m.

Now with Chris as the icebreaker, I might accompUsh my next goal in life—a horseshoe match with the President—the Gorham champ versus Kennebunkport. I'll keep you advised.

The weather is warm, the horseshoe pits are in shape, the pool heated and ready so our 1812 Farm is open to any Classmates and friends traveling through Maine.

Ed closed by sayuig that his golf game is getting in shape and he is ready for a chaUenge on the links, too. A more recent communique frora Ed says that he is working hard on the big horseshoe match.

Remember the exciting trip that Helen and Joe Hoker took to Mexico last year? WeU, they did it again last January and got home in March. Here is Joe's account: We traveled in a caravan of 25 motor homes, travel trailers and a couple of huge vehicles about 48' long and we enjoyed our traveUng friends very much. We started in Laredo and went to Mexico City. Stayed four days in Pepe's campground, thoroughly enjoyed the tours, seeing the local Aztec ruins, the food and the evening festivities.

From there we went along the Guatemala border to Villahermosa, then to Cancun where we stayed four days and saw the Mayan ruins. All of the ruins are fascinating to see. It's hard to imagine that they were built by the several different tribes at various times, 2000 years before Christ. Mexico claims that there are at least 10,000 different areas ofrainsbut so far only about 800 have been partially restored, aimbing to the tops of the ruins was about the only real exercise that we had.

From Cancun we retumed to McAUen, Texas via Vera Cruz, Tampico, Campeche and Victoriz. It was a great area to spend two months with no snow and good weather Shipmate, September 1990

cense plates being wom by Classmates' cars but Milt Silverman has something of a different twist. His present street address in La Mesa and the address of his childhood home both end in "41" and his current ZIP code ends in "41"! That's pretty hard to beat, isn't it?

Through the latest Navy Mumal Aid Annual Report, we teamed of the death of our Classmate John B. Johnson in March 1989. To his widow, Nina, go our belated but most sincere condolences.

Now, are you ready for a lot of directory changes?

Here they are: Miles C. Allgood, Jr., PO Box 144, Mentone, Ala. 35984, phone 205/634-3640; Jake Beatty, phone 214/484-6021; Mary and Deke Carr, 2962 S.W Brighton Way, Palm City, Fla. 34990; Vernon Forde's wife's name is Edwina and the correct ZIP is 94589; Vera and Jim Henry, 7890 Cherry Tree Lane, New Port Richey, Fla. 33653; Lolly and Willie Hunt, 4221 Accomack Drive, Louisville, Ky. 40241; Mrs. James B. (Nina) Johnson, Jr., 179 NiuUci Chcte, Honolulu, Hawaii 96821-2319; Mrs. Paul H. (Mary) Medling, 1227 Harbor Drive, Dehay Beach, Fla. 33483, phone 407/278-2185; Dolores and Fritz MoUtor, 12751 Gateway Park Road, Apt. 327, Poway, Calif. 92064; Marion and David S. Moore, 6447 Overlook Drive, Alexandria, Va. 22312, phone 703/354-1403; Mereda and Wayne Newport, delete "Bettendorf' from the address now shown; Tommy and George Nolle, new area code is 508; Pat and Charlie Overton, 11180 Rivercrest Drive, Little Rock, Ark. 72212, phone 501/227-5609; Joe Reedy, PO Box 396, YameU, Ariz. 85362; Mrs. Richard J. (Anne) Reid, Jr., 2853 E. Meadow Wood Drive, Chesapeake, Va. 23321; Mrs. George A. (Janet) Steele, 23 Swift Road, South Dartmouth, Mass.

02748, 508/992-7184; Mary Anne and Claude Welch, phone 813/686-6693.

June and Cliff Lenz Joe closed by saying that he and Helen are going in theiififthmotor home to see what Alaska is like in the Summer time. Believe me, Joe, the mosquitos are huge but the country is beautiful.

Since you have been through a hot Summer, I thought a picture of two cool, Lenz-cats on a ski-trip at Big Sky, Montana, last Winter might be a useful reminder of what's ahead for us. Cliff says that he and June are shifting this year from downhill to crosscountry for bodily protection and preservation. Do you have any ship craise books for which you would like to find an appreciative home? The Navy Department Library in the Washington Navy Yard lost many of its craise books when a water pipe burst and utterly ruined many from their collection of cruise books. They would appreciate replacements. Dave Jackson came into possession of a USS SANTA FE cruise book that he has passed along and 1 dug up a USS SAN JUAN book which covered one of ray favorite ship's enthe active life—four years. The library was happy to get both books. The address is Navy Department Library, Building 44, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. 20374 (phone: 202/4334131).

Last June, Bob Hayler skippered and navigated the '44 Bermuda racer ETOILE from Berrauda back to Newport after ETOILE finished the race to Bermuda first in its division and second overall. Among, the crew of seven was Eriing Hustvedt and Bob's son, Robert. Bob Baughan is keeping busy in Pennsylvania. He is continuing on with his present appointment as interim pastor of a downtown Harrisburg church. Lakeside Lutheran Church. According to Bob, it's supposed to be a "half-time" assignment but it's a little difficult to keep track of time in a ministry which has as many bouncing balls as a NAVMAT project manager! There are a variety of "1941" h-

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Pres., RAdm. C. N. Payne, Jr. USN (Ret.) Sec'y, R. S. Day, CLU 2426 Chestaut St., Falls Church, Va. 22043 The Summer doldrums are upon us but affords me an oppormnity to share the balance of the mailbag which couldn't be squeezed into the last edition.

For the last few years, most of the mail has come directly to me at home rather than to the Class Post Office box in Arlington, Virginia. This has saved me some travel time, since my office has not been adjacent to that branch office for over a decade. Thus, after 37 years, we have closed the Arlington box and all correspondence should be addressed to me at 2426 Chestout Street, FaUs Church, Va. 22043.

The NAAA has made a determined effort this year to encourage Classes to take advantage of season ticket sales and group these seats in one section. For some years, a number of Classmates have been located in Section 3 on the west side of the field and under the upper stands. By agreements, we have begun to consolidate all of the season ticket holders in this section. As a convenience to out-of-towners, the Class has purchased four season tickets in this section and they wiU be available on afirst-come,first-served basis if you wUl let me know promptly when you plan to attend one of the games. As in years past, the Childers and Higgins will set up a tailgate rendezvous for the Class along the northwest fence and you are invited to bring your snacks and potables and join the group. Many years ago, we made Betts and John Higgins Honorary Class members. This year, we have belatedly named Tom Smith, Ginny Ehreke Smith's husband an Honorary Member. Ginny and Tora have been so ranch a part of our Class activities over the years that we had long considered Tom one of us, so this decision was long overdue and was unan61

Waterways of Belguin and Holland trip imously agreed to when this oversight was brought to our attention by Charley Payne.

Last Spring, Mary and Bill Arthur loaded their trusty motorhome, Winnie, and set out for a crosscountry junket from their San Diego home to the Venture Out campground at Cudjoe Keys, 22 mUes east of Key West. En route they visited Frithland Plantation at Bunkie, Louisiana, the baronial antibeUum mansion Bob Harwood caUs home. Loaded up on a memorable crawfish gumbo Bob prepared along with the Southem hospitality for which he is now famous. Next stop was Pensacola to look up one of Mary's uncles at the Naval Aviation Museum, who had won his Wings of Gold in 1919. Next stop was near Homestead to visit BUl's mother, who at 94 is stiU going strong.

The campground offered lots of pahn trees, great weather and fresh fish and is close to Buzz Betzel's spacious home at waters edge on the Gulf side of a nearby Key. That afforded fantastic sunsets, accompanying pleasant meals and lengthy buU sessions.

How many of us had second careers as interesting as Buzz what with his 13 trips duough die Straits of MageUan to Antarctica in a 154-foot vessel? They also looked up Lucy and Buck Adams in Key West where they are happily restoring a second charming 19th Century house. Nancy and Bill Morrow were in residence in a condo not more than a block away and they adjourned for a deUghtful luncheon at Mangrove Mamas. For the info of other campers, NAS Boca Chica operates two inexpensive campgrounds in the Key West area.

Enroute home, they found themselves inching along the Fort Myers beachfront road (Spring Break traffic) when their 42USNA license attracted the attention of three young men on the sidewalk. The lads ran up alongside and identified themselves as Midshipmen ftom the Class of '92. Oh, my! As the weather had moderated, diey swung northward to visit Vicksburg. There, a charming Southern lady served as their guide, aUowing as how "If it wasn't for those damn raortar boats of David Porter, we'd have ran Grant out of here." Next trip will be for the 50tii.

Mary and Hank Sweitzer joined the season ticket holders this year although Hank planned two cataract operations over the Summer to give him a better handle on Navy's new offense. As a prelude, they decided to give our globe a good going over during the late Spring and early Sununer. First, they spent 35 days visiting Australia and New Zealand. Did the whole bit. Melbourne and tiien across Australia to Perth on the Indian Pacific RaUway for two days and nights in a Pullman-type compartment with private shower designed by die Budd Company of Phila- Mary Arthur, Mary Edwards, Bob Harwood, Bill Arthur

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delphia. Hank had served on boats that headed for Fremantie four times during the war only to be diverted during the patrols to the more exotic outposts of Midway, Majuro, Saipan or Guam. FinaUy, m Perth, he understood why so many submariners eagerly swapped boats to get one based in Western AustraUa. Reversing tiieh travels, diey visited Ahce Springs m die geographical middle of Austraha, Caims on the northeast coast and the Great Barrier Reef. Ended up m Sydney, diat beautifiU cosmopoUtan city widi its renowned Opera House, bridge and harbor.

New Zealand was completely different, pastoral, more greenfieldsand snow covered mountains. Flew over Mt. Cook—12,349'—tiie highest mountain m die Southem Hemisphere, not counting die thickness of the ice m Antarctica. From the far Pacific, they hurried west to join die USNA Alumni Waterways tour of Belgium and HoUand, which was shared with alumni ftom M.I.T. and die University of Kansas.

Eight Navy types made the trip which took them via the Keukenhof Gardens in HoUand where over seven miUion tulips, daffodiUs, hyacinths and other Spring bulbs were in magnificent bloom.

Their fascination with water journeys culminated with a 12-day float/raft exclusion on the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry below the Glen Canyon Dam —which impounds Lake PoweU—188 mUes downstream tiirough the Grand Canyon. En route diey both celebrated dieir 72nd birthdays which may have precluded the traditional cake, candles and ice cream.

Darwin Mendoza, whom we knew Plebe Year as Darwin Kitch (he took his pre-adoption name in 1967),repUedto Charlie Payne's invitation to attend the 50th Reunion with a rundown on his life after his short stay at the Naval Academy. He was among the West Pointers Dutch Uralauf tracked down for us.

Darwin was intrigued by Dutch's perserverance, as he had been isolated from the miUtary since resigning from the Army as a Major in December 1953 and had never gone back to the Point. In contrast to his life there, he has only warmraemoriesof USNA and was glad CharUe contacted hira. The only other exMidshipman he knew at the Point was Brace Amold, who graduated in 1943 from a three year class. Darwin graduated in January 1943 with a commission in the Infantry and joined the paratroops. He ended up in the OSS making a jump behind the lines in eastem France to arm and train some FFI people. After the war, he went to the University of Pittsburgh and eamed an MS in Petroleum Engineering. This led to a transfer to the Quartermaster Corp and two winters at Fort ChurchiU, Canada, where he tested POL for Arctic use. During the Korean War, he was stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska, as Petroleum Supply Officer for the U.S. Army, Alaska. Upon resignation, he went into the msurance business. He and his wife, Muriel, Uve at 2009 Shehnan TraU, Fortii Wortii, Texas 76112.

Bob Connor is now an established Floridian with headquarters in Sarasota. As he fives next to the tennis courts, he plays daUy with one of two speeds: Dead Slow and STOP! After his four-plus years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of die Navy, Bob rode die Barber Lines, 980 ft. Super Ro-Ros (now in MSTS) m a Consultant/Liaison capacity This past April, he went to die other extreme and cutumnavigated soudiem Florida via Okeechobee in his smgle engine, 20-ft. Boston Whaler, appropriately named HARMS WAY. This was a seven-day, 700-niUe junket.

After a hairy passage from die Keys nortiiward, he arrived in Everglades City, finding ttie city almost deserted as ttiey were m die midst of a regular monttUy drag bust and about half of die 500 + population were intiiefederal jail awaiting sentencmg. He followed ttiat witii a dive trip to Honduras and a visit to Belize City which he describes asttieGuantanamo Shipmate, September 1990

of die Mosquito Coast. Expect to see him at ttie 50tti with a fiirther update on his adventtires.

Six Califomia Classmates and their spouses made it to June Week West at Monterey, 2 2 - 2 4 June. Amy and BiU Betzer, Anne and Gene Farrell, Barbara and Dick Sewall came from the San Diego area, while Carmine and Ed Gallagher joined from Long Beach.

Jeanne and Scroggie Wiley and the gracious '42 hosts, Ruth and Joe TUlly constittited the local contingent. Following the "Welcome Aboard" reception at the PG school, the TUUys entertained the Class at diimer in their beautiful Carmel home simated amidst five acres of pristine Monterey pines and other giant conifers. They swore they didn't arrange it, but just as the guests arrived a deer emerged from the woods, surveyed die visitors, tiien browsed nonchalantiy through their front yard, selectively savoring the choicest flower buds.

Scroggie related a fascinating account of his role in sparking renewed interest in the search for the wreckage of the Navy's airship, MACON, lost in the Pacific off Point Sur in the 1930s. He and some other members of the Association of Naval Aviators acquired clues as to its location some 1,500 ft. below the surface. They formed a non-profit MACON Recovery Group to promote the search. Last Summer, they influenced former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dave Packard, to finance a probe by the research vessel POINT LOBOS. Both E>r. Packard and Scroggie were on board when the ship located debris that could have come from MACON. Scroggie's interest in the enterprise was more ttian casual. His fattier, RAdm. Herbert V. WUey ('19), was commanding MACON at the time of her loss. She had just completed a Fleet exercise when a storm ripped off the upper taU fin and they were unable to maintain stabihty for level flight. Fortunately, three

John Logan Parsons, Jr., Joseph Vincent Peservich, Chester James Pool, Clifton Kirkland Pool, Charles Powell, Monrow Hobson Ridenour, Jr., James Warden Rinehart, Rufus Clarence Rogers, Stewart Clark Rothwell, Paul Aylward Russell, John Lambert Sammore, Richard Louis Schmidt, William Robert Scott, Charles Robert Shelton, III, Stanley Mordaunt Sherwen, and Barry Stewart.

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Pres., Capt. James D. Oliver, Jr. USN (Ret.) Corr., Sec'y, Owen F. Keeler, Jr. 202 Meadow Gate Dr., Annapolis, Md. 21401 Most of us remember Ben Songco with a warm feeling and I remember tiiat it was a sad day when we heard that Ben had been killed in die defense of his homeland, the Phihppines. Ben had been landed on Mmdoro in November, 1943, with a special group to organize and tram guerilla forces and to provide intelligence on enemy operations. This they did very successfully for over a year. The work that they did was credited with having a significant contribution to die success of the Leyte landings later. They were so effective that a Japanese force of 1500 was sent out with the purpose of eliminating them. On Deceraber 3,1944, while leading a small band on a special mission, Ben's group encountered a force of about 200 Japanese near Nanjan, Mindoro. One of the band who managed to escape described Ben's final battle to a Philippine writer with these words:

four-piper cruisers, CINCINNATI, RICHMOND and

CONCORD were stUl in the vicinity and Capt. Wiley brought her down gentiy beside CINCINNATI. The crew of 81 officers and men abandoned ship. Only two were not recovered. Asked why CINCINNATI, WUey noted that he had previously served in that ship and had high confidence in the abUity of his former shipmates to rescue his crew. By remarkable coincidence, on the last day of June Week West '90, the Navy deep submergence ship SEA CLIFF sailed from Monterey and positively located MACON, including two of the four, on board smaU fighter planes ("Sparrow Hawks").

Gene Farrell reports that following the festivities, he and Anne drove to Carmichael, Califomia, to lunch with a seldora-seen but weU-remembered Classmate, Clint Lubmann, and his wife, Kay. Our Classmates of Fleet origin will recaU that he was the senior petty office whose infinite patience and equal persistence kept the ratey NAPC '38 swabbies in line at NorfoUc from October 1937 until their admission to die Academy on 7 July 1938. Gene reports that Clint looked great and could stiU fit into that RM 2/C uniform.

Don Wilson wrote from Henrietta, Texas, and enclosed an obituary notice from a New Orleans paper reporting the death of Harborough Lill on 21 May 1990 in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. He is survived by his widow, Barbara, and two brothers, Winston and Allen, both from New Orleans.

Since moving to north central Texas six years ago, Don has been involved in restoring the 1890 Clay County jail, one of the few in Texas with an indoor "hanging gallery." In mid-June, the Wilsons were in Bremerton for the N E W OLEANS reunion and expected to be joined by John Neff. Jack Burton had to miss the reunion as he was in San Diego for surgery on his cancerous prostate.

Herewith the second thud of our "lost" Classmates: Robert Alden Nickerson, James Anthony Noon, Daniel Joseph Noonan, George Garry Papke, Shipraate, September 1990

RAdm. Carlito Cunanan, AFP, Dedicates the '43 Plaque in Memory of Ruben Songco . . . Finding all avenues of possible escape closed, Capt, Songco and his men fought their way out. . . . And when their ammunitions were almost exhausted, Capt. Songco reloads his pistol with a last fiill clip, and decided to make his last stand by the side of his fallen men . . . seeing a Jap officer mshing toward him, hefiredcoolly, shouting at the same time, 'That is for my Fatheriand' and 'That is for my Alma Mater' aiming at a Jap corporal. Then he fired in rapid succession at the oncoming Japanese emptying his pistol and gallantly meeting his death . . .

Ben Songco's body was moved to his hometown, Guagua, Pampanga, Luzon, in 15 October 1960, and ceremonially interred in an impressive monument that had been erected there. hi the Fall of 1988, the Class of 1943 voted to place

a permanent plaque at the gravesite monument.

Frank Ault became the Class Director in charge of the project. His letter reports on the accomplishment of that mission: . . . I found that the USNA had an Alumni chapter in the Philippines, headed by RAdm. Carlito Y. Cunanan, AFP, '62 and the Flag Officer in Command, Philippine Navy. Working with RAdm. Cunanan and the Philippine Naval Attach^ in Washington, 'go ahead' was obtained and agreement was reached on plaque size and placement as well as the artangement of an appropriate presentation ceremony.

Jim Oliver took care of having the plaque designed and built through the USNA. On 9 Febraary I shipped it to Manila, . . . and the presentation was made on 26 February. Custer Woodside made a valiant try (via space-A air) [CS Note: More about Woody's efforts next month!] to get to the Philippines in time to be 1943'srepresentativeat the presentation, but missed.

RAdm. Cunanan was gracious enough to send Frank an album of pictiires from the ceremony, a few of which we have reproduced here. The Admiral made a touching and appropriate dedication speech at the presentation ceremony. To me, this part is particularly fitting: . . . Rather, such a man, even as he values his life and peace, also places a higher value on other things. This includes the welfare of our country, protecting our family, the persons' moral integrity, or the ideals to which the man is devoted.

These are the ideals, values, and virtues that are inculcated by the U.S. Naval Academy among those who are privileged and honored to have gone through its portals.

Capt. Ben Songco was such a man . . .

Hope Strong and Peggy want to thank all of the attenders at the Great Winter Park '43 Golf and Barbecue Outing for the nice painting of the Chapel which the group presented to them as thanks for such a great get-together. We're stUl in your debt, Hope and Peggy, that one will never be forgotten!

Patty and Ed Robie traded a couple of weeks of their Hawaiian time-share for a couple of weeks in Viennaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that's Austria, not Virginia. Geo and Wes Burnett went with them and I hear tell that raid-Europe had quite an experience. (I wonder if they ran across any of Ken Klofkorn's tracks!) Germany, Luxembourg and Burgundy (Isn't that the name of a wine?) all came in for some scrutiny from one or more of that party.

George Whisler reports that the Friday night, 22 June '43 Dinner Party at June Week West '90 on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula, was a most enjoyable evening. . . . a total of 42 people in attendance, Libby and Jack Logan from Annapolis received recognition as the couple traveling the greatest distance, with honorable mention going to D.C. Area types Ruth Ann and Hank Bress, Jacque and Dick White and Mouza and Bud Zumwalt as well as Burnie and Ray Angelo who had a particularly grueling trip from Diamond Bar, Califomia, via their new home in Boulder City, Nevada.

George, I don't know about the longest distance, but I don't think we have had a write-up of a '43 party in years that the Bresses and the Logans didn't crop up on the who-was-there list! Distance is obviously no objectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just be sure it's a good party! Jacque and Dick aren't far behind, either, if behind at all. Bud, you and Mouza have some catching up to do! I know you all added a lot to that West Coast fiesta! George's report continues: We were fortunate that George Cornelius was there to personally deliver his Epic o/ '43 with a specially composed added verse for June Week West '90. Then Bud Zumwalt was asked to make a few brief remarks, which he did quite eloquently, prefaced by an amusing story. He was followed by BiU Kirkland with another good joke after which he led us all in a rousing rendition of Navy Blue and Gold.

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And take off ttiey did. Hood Canal, back to Hawau, Soutti Texas, San Diego, Hood River, Florida, Soutti Texas agam, San Diego agam, Napa Valley, back to Hood River, Corpus, LouisvUle, Orlando and (puff, puff) maybe Hawaii and San Diego!

Finally, We plan to settle in Washington State, either across die Columbia Gorge near Hood River or up on the southem side of die Straits of Juan de Fuca . . . Port Ludlow, west of the Hood Canal . . .

Go for it. Jack and Joan, and stop by here sometune if you can get your landmg gear down!

JWW '43 Party—Jack Becker, Betty Emanski, Dale Cox, Peg Selmer, Bob Selmer, Pat Cox, Ed and Kitty Dankworth

JWW '43 Party—Burnie and Ray Angelo. Ethel and Ed Cummings render "Navy Blue and Gc^ld

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Pres., Capt. Henry S. Barbour USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Wynn V. Whidden USN (Ret.) 6156 Loch Raven Dr., McLean, Va. 22101 Conespondent: Capt. Jack E. Godfrey USN (Ret.) 40 Franklm St., Annapohs, Md. 21401

JWW '43 Party—Ruth Ann and Hank Bress, Jean Stirling, Walt Stevens, Jacque and Dick White

JWW "43 Party—Robbie and Barbara Robinson, Bill Kirkland, Ed Kerr, Mark Harnish, Barbara Kerr

JWW '43 party—Lona Weed, Mike Clemens, Don Weed, Ginny Clemens, Bill and Blanche McCaughey

llth Co. Roommates, Past and Present! George Whisler, Bud Zumwalt, Ray Angelo with Betty, Mouza and Burnie

At the Gala Alumni Dinner Dance on Saturday evening in the NPS Ballroom, we '43ersfilledthree large tables and had much fun dancing to afinelocal band, the 'Moonhghters', Who was there? Here we go: Ray and Burnie Angelo, Jack Becker, Hank and Ruth Ann Bress, Mike and Giimy Clemens, Bart Connolly, George and Sally Cornelius, Dale and Pat Cox, Ed and Ethel Cummings, Ed and Kitty Dankworth, Joe and Cay Diachnik, Betty Emanski, Mark Hamish, Bill and Peg Kirkland, Ed and Barbara Kerr, Jack and Libby Logan, Bill and Blanche McCaughey, Robbie and Baibara Robinson, Bob and Peg Sehner, Walt Stevens and Jean Stirling, Don and Lona Weed, George and Betty Whisler, Dick and Jacque White and Bud and Mouza Zumwalt, Seems to me the Cummings were also the cause of a few parties when they were here in Crabtown last Spring! Peggy and I were lucky enough to go to one, too!

Last month we were very happy to bring you die story of the many honors and recognitions that George Ringenberg had so deservedly and recentiy received. Now I have to bring you the sad news that George died of cancer on 23 June at his home in Falls Church. George was a frequent participant ra '43 activities around the area and he was a friend who will be sorely missed. To Millie and all of George's family go our deepest sympathy and best wishes.

Another sad note, I recently received a short telephone notice that Earl Tuhey had passed away RegretfiiUy, I have no details. Earl had retumed to his hometown of Muncie, Indiana, and joined the insurance industry. He is survived by his wife. Nan. We all

wish Nan and her famUy Godspeed and extend our deepest sympathy.

A year ago last October we reported to you that Tora Smith and his corapany. Security, Inc., had won Security Distributing & Marketing Magazine's "Dealer of the Year" award. I think we reraarked that Pat, who is Security, Inc.'s president, should keep Tom's nose to the grindstone! WeU she must have taken our advice! Jack Van Ness, in his continual keeping-track of the 4th Company, has reported that Tom and Pat have won again, this time for 1989! This really is a nice, successful family effort since the Smidis have help from three of their six children, Brian, and Andrea and Linda. Pat, by the way, is also president of the National Burglar and Fire Alarra Association. Congramlations again. Smiths, keep up the good work! And good luck on next year!

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Jack Barrett has indeed been seeing the country—my tongue is still hanging out just from rereadmg die letter he sent last April! Jack had a rough bout with cancer back in '85 to '87 and went through a long series of tests, operations and radiation. HappUy, the tumor is now in recession with a 50% chance of full recovery. He says.

Medicos attribute success to my complete attitude of acceptance, gratefulness of all that I have been given, and a strong desire to stick around to be part of what is going on in this fantastic country of ours and its effect on the world, plus kids, grandkids and friends. . . . So we decided to store everything and take off on a trip to really see the mainland United States and to really get to know our kids and grandkids. . . .

'44 Footlighter It has been a long time smce we have heard anydiing frora or about Buster Havenstem. What a nice surprise when soraeone sent us a clipping from Express Newspapers, June 12, 1990 of Montgomery County, Maryland, about him written by drama critic reporter, Monty Pimer. Buster played a smaU role in one of those snapping, crackling British comedies, "There Goes the Bride," presented by the Montgomery Playhouse in June. The caUber of his performance can best be appreciated by a direct quote from Pitoer's column: Occasionally, a performance in a play can rivet the attention of the audience by its sheer magnitude and distinctiveness, even as a small role. Bus Havenstein offers such an acting gem in this show by timing with precision each line and then looking as if he had said nothing important. He gets more laughs out of one word "adultery" than a less skillfiil performer could get out of a long comic monologue.

He never makes the mistake of overacting and pushing for laughs. He doesn't steal a scene by upstaging anyone or performing in any way unethically; he merely adds energy and spontaneity to the scene by saying and doing exacdy what his character should say and do.

What a fine accolade for a grand old man of the theater We are proud of you Bus! Mini-Reunion 'Toiu' Report Tom Rhees's most recent '44 Mini-Reunion tour included a visit to Vienna, a craise on the Danube, visits to Salzburg, Berchtesgaden, Munich, and a goodly number of old casties and monasteries. Those on the tour were Nancy and Hank Barbour, Mary Lou and BiU Beimett, Peter and Roy Cowdrey, Helen and Jack Godfrey, Barbara and Jun Holbrook, Betty and Charlie Miller, Carolyn McCauley, Carrie and Tom Rhees, Maurine Rienstra, and Jean Armstrong (a wife from '42). Half of die group went on to France, Switzerland, or Italy on their separate itineraries. The two photos show most of the group, including the Godfreys, Barbours, and Charlie MUler in one shot, and die Bennetts Helen Godfrey, Peter Cowdrey, Maurine Rienstra, Jean Armstrong, and Jim Holbrook in the other.

'44 Memorial Fund Report Rojo Adamson, chairman of our Memorial Fund Committee, gave us a statos report as of 19 June 1990. At tiiat time the Class had contributed a total of $121,068.44 toward our goal of $200,000 to finance "The 1944 Room" in the new Brigade Activities Center. That leaves only $78,931.56 to raise m fiscal years (July tiuough June) of '91, '92 and '93. The Committee expressed its appreciation to all participants for then continued generosity toward this wordiy project which will benefit generations of Midshipmen in the future and help perpetoate the great Shipmate, September 1990

spirit of '44.

Mail Bag "Snuffy" Jackson and his good wife Annadete travelled to die West Coast in May to visit some of dieir chUdren and mosey around a bit. They had the pleasure of a stopover with Lois and Blackie Blackbum m then new location at Carlsbad. They also paid a vish to Tma Boose (Bill's widow) in Irvine.

The photos show ttiem witti then hosts.

Lynn and Rojo Adamson had a mid-May rendezvous with Katty and Jack Christman at Myrtle Beach, for seven days of golfing in beautiful weather.

Jack, current president of the Palos Verdes Estates Country Club ui Palos Veres Estates, ostensibly came East to test the national handicapping system. According to Rojo, each day's match came down to the last hole for settiement. We believe you, Rojo, and agree that it ain't bad for two old fuds with young vivacious wives!

Rojo also reported having a note from Marie Lemlein (Al's widow) telling him that she was scheduled to take the USNA Alumni Association cruise to Bermuda in June. She promised pictures of her adventures and shipmates.

Tom Brown reported tiiat after attending the 50th reunion of his high school class at Columbus, Mississippi in June, he and Lillian drove on to New Orleans for a httie R&R. There they were strack with the sight of the old JAX Beer Brewery down by the river. Sadly, for JAX beer lovers, the brewery has been converted to a multi-story collection of boutiques. However, its grand exterior has been preserved in its splendor, including the big "JAX" sign in red.

Tom, having been inspired by caUing to mind a Cajun story often told by your secretary in which reference is made to drinking "four or three" JAX beers, sent me a fine snapshot of the brewery. A grand gestore, Tom. George Prestwich wanted to tell us that '90 has been their year for visiting Classmates—coast to coast. In AprU they were in San Diego for a VP-48 Seaplane PUots' Reunion. While there George played tennis several times with Del Ciunmins, who is still whacking his two-handed backhand like a pro.

George and Connie had a dehghtful evening at Mary and Ralph Frame's lovely home in Coronado where Connie was fascinated by Ralph's green thumb and the splendor of his automatically-watered compact garden. With the Cummins' and the Frames they enjoyed a delightful Chinese dinner at a nearby restaurant where they ran into George's "cousin the artist," Sue Tushingham McNary, who lives in Coronado and has her local gallery-shop in the Hotel Del Coronado.

From San Diego, George and Connieflewon to Denver for a visit with Al Cohen, with whom George worked on the '44 Lucky Bag so long ago (Al was business manager). After George once again asked Al just what he did in the constraction business, Al answered the question once and for all by showing them every major commercial building in Greater Denver. About half of all the buildings he showed them were built by the Al Cohen Construction Company. Enough aheady! They spent an evening at Chez Cohen with Al and his wife, Gerri, in their gorgeous home which they have veritably tamed into an art gaUery—every painting beautifully displayed under perfectly placed track-mounted lighting. Back on the East Coast, the Prestwiches attended the SOth reuiuon of the BuUis Prep Class of '40 and made the annual June '44 luncheon at the Annapolis Yacht Club on 12 June. From there they followed Mary and John Trautmann home to their 60-acre farm off Route 66 between The Plams and Warrenton. Connie was so impressed with Mary's taste in colors and decoration that George is now footing the bill for massive re-decoration of his own place.

Our many thanks to George for his thoughtflil and mterestmg letter with all the news of Classmates and Shipmate, September 1990

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Our faithful correspondent or: old Cape Cod, BJIS Burlin, also checked in with a long and interesting letter. Bill and Peg entertained Mary Ann and BUI Patterson for lunch on 21 June. The Pattersons were in Eastham on Cape Cod for the week of 18 June holding a family reunion with their children and grandchildren. Although the Patterson clan usually gathers in the Summer in the old home state of Minnesota, this year then son was doing some work for the Cape Cod National Seashore organization, so they held their Summer reunion in the cool Cape Cod envhons.

Bill and Bill were company-mates at the Academy, and Patterson and Tom Carlin, Buriin's shipmate on die submarine SKATE, are both from St. Paul. Therefore, there was lots of catching up to do between the two Bills. Their next get-together could well be out in Sun City, Arizona, where the Pattersons are now ensconced.

Walt Truxler and his wife, Mary Grace, were en route to die Grand Tetons with two of then granddaughters when they stopped for breakfast in Logan, Utah. Shortly thereafter a couple walked in and Walt noticed that the man was wearing a windbreaker with die Naval Academy crest. Lo and behold, he was not only a fellow Alumnus, but also a Classmate— Bruce Rushlow. Bruce and Biddie were visitmg their daughter and son-in-law, who teaches at Utah State in Logan. After an hour of sea stories and a fond farewell, Walt honked his car hom at the Rushlows nearttietown square, and shouted a stentorian "Beat Army!", probably much to the chagrin of the local constabulary. Atta boy, Walt!

Norm "Soupy" Campbell wrote Jack Godfrey that June Week West spawned a fine '44 mini-reunion. Though they were small in number, they had a ball in that great place, Monterrey. Shown in the photo are Norm and Bea Campbell of Long Beach, Jack and Gerry Herrick of Santa Fe, Art and Jeanette Thompson of Vista, and Don and Marianne Wykoff, of Walnut Creek.

In Memorium We sadly report the passing of Charles E. Bagwell at his home in Maine after an extended illness with cancer. Our sympathy is extended to his widow, Kay, and the entire family.

We also regret having to report the death of Norman R. K. Stanford at his home in Annapolis after a brief Ulness. We extend our sympathy to his widow, Nancy, and the family.

Secretary's Corner Although your scribe and spouse had signed up for that magnificent annual June Luncheon at the Annapolis Yacht Club on 12 June, we found it necessary to steal away once again for two weeks at our place in Ponte Vedra Beach. This time we did get together for dinner at the lovely horae of Jean and Hank Cutler in Atlantic Beach. Needless to say, the cuisine, hospitality, and fun were of thefirstorder. Get ready for the football season—here it comes . . . WVW.

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Pres., Capt. C. A. Gardner USN (Ret.) Sec'y Capt. Chuck Priest, Jr. USN (Ret.) 6635 Langdon Ct., McLean, Va. 22101 (703) 821-2139 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dutch Schuiz USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St. N., Arhngton, Va. 22207 (703) 536-7156 And the good news is that the Naval Institate has published a flyer announcing a September publication of Dick Van Orden's long-awaited book for young readers, U.S. Navy Ships and Coast Guard Cutters. You faithful readers (yes, you!) may remem65

her his popular book under dietitieThe Book of U.S. Navy ships, which was avaUable to Classmates and others several years ago, but went out of print. As the advanceflyerproclaims, "Aimed primarUy at readers between the ages of ten and sixteen, this attractively designed book updates a successful, though now out of print, chUdren's guide that won plaudits frora pubUc school teachers and Ubrarians . . . An important feature of this book is the answers it provides to questions typicaUy asked by young people about life aboard these ships." More about this book after it becomes avaUable.

The 1941 NorfoUc NAPS class of '45ers and die USNA Qass of 1945 lost a weU-Uked Navigation Instractor when Capt. Donald McClench USNR, 95, died on 25 June. Capt. McClench was the father-inlaw of Hub Davidson and had hved witii Bobbie and Hub for several years. Memorial Services were held at the Church of the Resurrection in Alexandria on 28 June attended by several merabers of the Class. A couple of years ago, the Captain had provided assistance to Ski Dzdkowski in identifying die '45 members of the '41 NAPS Class. Ski Dzikowski is currentiy involved in another project to docuraent the first duty stations of die Class of 1945 NAPS grads.

(If you see an abnormal amount of type hce in this edition, it is because I am typing by candlehght on my son's Galaxie Twelve SCM portable . . . the Ughts went out on one of those "Scattered Thunderstorms.")

From Newport Beach, Califomia, Stu Berkshire sadly reports: We are all in mourning out here because PhyUis and Joe Schroeder are selling their house and moving to AimapoUs. Sally and Wiley Conover threw a real nice party for them and we presented them with a plaque expressing our best wishes. Betty and I were there, as were Ruth and Walt Godshall, Jean and Don Hill, Joarm and Miles Larson, Marge and Frank Nepo, Tomiko and John Pearce, Ruth and Bill Siegiist and honorary Classmates, Cary and Art Varus '40 . . . enclosed picture shows the honorees.

In the event that you haven't yet paged through the Last Call section of this issue of Shipmate, you wiU be appalled to seefiveobitoaries of Classmates. One, not previously mentioned in diis column, was the death of Edward McNair Bain, 69, on 19 Juu'; peacefully at his home. We offer the heartfelt condolences of our Class to Harriet who called me on 22 Jtme after the Jul/Aug issue had gone to press . . . Ir> a note, Betty Faig expresses her gratitade for the memorial sent by the Class, "Theflowerswere beautiful and meant a great deal to us, especially when the organist played, 'Navy Blue and Gold' at the conclusion of John's Memorial Service."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Also, Martha King Smith writes, "I wish to express my heartfeh 66

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Academy Cemetery or the attractive new Academy Columbarium on Hospital Point. Of course, you and your survivors may have other plans. . . .

The Travel Bureau: The last message from the honeymooners, Peggy and Gene Masica, on their round-the-world SS SAGAFIORD craise appeared in the May issue of this column. After tearing himself away from the bare-breasted beach in BaU, Gene continues their saga: "We stopped ovemight in Bombay, unbelievably poor and dirty . . . motoring to Karachi . . . a day at sea and arrival at Muscat, Oman, a most pleasant surprise and one of the most enjoyable experiences of this craise." See foto of Gene and Peggy standing in front of the Sultan's Palace at Muscat. In the next installment of Sagafjord Memories, the honeymooners wiU visit Jordan, Suez Canal, Egypt and Israel. (Can you imagine asking your best friend to go around the world with you?) . . . George Hamilton of Lafayette, California, sent a foto of Bill Bryson, George and Ted Fick attending a parish treasurers workshop someplace in that state. George had other travel news: Mary Ann and Ted Fick did a three-week tour of Germany in May, foUowed by EUen and George Haimlton who ended up in Southem France . . . Toni and Bill Hayler headed for Newport in June via Interstate SixtySix . . . (power just carae on, and now I'ra going to have to stow these damn candles) . . . Genie Braun writes of a March trek to the South, looking for aretirementarea. Along the way they visited Maggie and John Mullen, Winnie and Stu Bowcock. Foto shows visit with June and Howie Blum, with Jim on the right. Genie and Jim's retireraent home search will continue . . . Carvel Blair sent die foto of Pali King with AD and Carvel during an early spring visit to Hawaii, "We told many a tale of die days when ten of us were XO's of Pearl-based submarines." . . . Among the 135 Alumni on board M/V ROYAL VIKING STAR greeting tiie Naval Acad-

Alumni cruise to Bermuda thanks to you and aU of Joe's Classmates for the beautiful flowers and touching inscription. Please thank the Class for me."

And for all you Classmates waiting around for PCS orders to that big white cruiser in the sky, leave a note for your funeral director to contact die USNA Security Officer's office m order to make arrangements for your TAD at the USNA Chapel enrouteeither he

emy SaiUng Squadron at die finish of ttie 1990 Newport to Bermuda Race were Joan and Don Logie, Rita and Cliff Bermann and Ehzabetti and Jim Boak. Cliffs foto shows then m that order on board tiie cruise ship . . . Poppy and Chuck Gardner retamed on 10 July from Chuck's 50tti Reunion of ttie Broken Bow, Nebraska High School. Broken Bow, pop. 4000, is 220 mUes from Omaha, the only port of entry, and 70 miles Norttieast of North Platte. Most of us are famUiar wiUi North Platte, having gone through it at least once on a troop train during WWn . . . Betty and Walt Rose attended die

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launching ceremonies of die new USS ALEXANDRIA (SSN-757) at the Electric Boat Company in New London, on 23 June (write me for a copy of the launch brochure) . . . And Bobbie and Alf Bergesen spent two weeks in mid-June attending a family wedding at the Winchester, England, College Chapel and ttien toured London and Bath. Some of you may remember meeting the father of tiie groom, Derek Schoenfeld, who was a Class luncheon guest of Alf. The Voice of the Mutant Turtle: An April order for a video tape of our 45th Reunion came from the John J. Daly Construction Company of Mountain View, Califomia. Jig Jig noted, "Still working hard on Seismic Retrofits, bringing buildings up to 1988 earthquake code." . . . In a letter frora Scotiand, it was learned tiiat Bob WUliams has been honored by the Sports Council of the County of Fyfe (St. Andrew's area) for his support of youth golf in Scotiand over the years. A new annual toumament for under 18-year-olds has been established with the winner each year to receive the "Bob WUliams Trophy." . . . Nick Burde, who recently visited peripatetic Corresponding Secretary, Daisy Wilhoit '46, in Townsend, Teimessee, had this to say: "Daisy played second trumpet in the NA-IO and I've maintained contact with him—For a guy who spent most of his life in the San Diego area, I wondered how he setded last year at 2500 feet elevation at the end of a one half mUe gravel road about 5.7 miles from the main street of Townsend. Well, Daisy left MarysviUe, Tennessee, for the Academy in 1942 and just feh it was time to 'head for the mountains,' a secluded spot, aU right." . . . Jack Knudsen bought a brand-new left knee on 3 June at the National Orthopaedics Hospital in Arlington. After spending eight days in the hospital, he is now at home again terrorizing Linda. . . . Our HoUywood correspondent, Dan Zinn, is back in the office after his recent gaU bladder operation . . . Correction Comer: Helen Lewis (Mrs. WiUiam C.) has a new permanent address, 22818 Planter's House Court, Katy, Texas 77449. She has been trying to get Shipmate sent to her current address . . . FLASH!! The 1990 Homecoming Class Dinner will, by popular acclaim, be again held at Betty and Bill Huckenpoehler's home in Annapohs after the game on Satarday, 27 October.

More detaUs to foUow in a letter from your President.

Hey, you know you're getting there when you tell your best friend that you're having an affair and she responds, "WeU, who's catering it?" Thanks to former President of die Association of the Class of 1945, Warren Taylor, for diat one.

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Pres., RAdm. Harvey E. Lyon USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Mr. C. W. Kennelly, H 7911 Steaford PI., Bethesda, Md. 20814 Corr. Sec'y, "Daisy" WUhoit PO. Box 156, Townsend, Tenn. 37882-0156 Washington, D.C. Area Class Luncheon. Monthly, third Firday. September thra May. Crystal City Marriott.

If you have been browsing through your 45th Anniversary Directory—and I hope you have—you must have realized what a debt of gratitade we owe to Ed Ellis and the other wonderftil San Diego volunteers whose combined efforts produced this jewel. They are listed in the Foreward to the Directory. Read those names again and keep them in your thoughts every time you pick up this wonderful work. It is a quantam leap to what I hope will become a complete history of the Class of '46. But, let rae assure you, a lot raore must be accomplished before we reach that goal. AU of you who have not completed the 45th AnShipmate, September 1990

Jane and Tom McCook niversary Dhectory Questionnaire please do so as soon as possible and return it to me—not to Jim Irvine as the form directs. If you are unable to locate that form, drop me a postcard or phone me and I will send you another form. I have accepted the responsibility for producing the next update, which will be produced on or before the SOth Anniversary. Also, I will need more assistance from you in order to locate the following Classmates (graduates) who reraain "lost": Donald Leigh Bums, Jr. (16); James John Cunat (4); Lonzo Robert Davis, Jr. (11); Robert Allan Davis (19); Thomas Johnson Dwyer (16); Arthur Leonard Erikson (10); Joseph John Gorski (13); Atticus Hagood Hatsell, Jr. (15); Edward Lange (17); Renn Metsker Lawrence (19); Maurice Lloyd Medcalfe (19); Russell Bruce Miller (2); Jack Bert Perkins (7); Douglas Fletcher Rodgers (6); Milton Spencer Sartain (10); Robert McLean Swanson (4); Stoddard Stone Waldron (5); Harry Clegg WaUcer (5); Jaraes Allan Wasner (7). Look for these names in your own local phone dhectory. When in doubt, check it out.

Many "lost" Classmates have aheady been "found" in this manner. Also, to help you keep track of the changes of address, I will resume publishing complete addresses so that you may keep your Directory current, at least as to the address.

1st Co. "Swede" Larson has been located (after years of search) at 90 Sycamore Ct., Palm Harbor,

Fla. 34683. One of the numerous letters I wrote to "Swede" via United Air Lines finally reached him and he responded to my plea that he attend the 45th: " . . . One of these days I might retire—but for now there is little opportanity to get away. Being sole proprietor of a service oriented business has its rewards, but freedom to vacation at will is not included. Too much at risk."

2nd Co. John Borbidge's brother Bob, who is retired Air Force living in Coronado, teamed of our Reunion at the Hotel del Coronado and visited the Hospitality Room with lots of pictures and raeraorabilia concerning John. One iraportant correction to your newly issued Directory—the Dorothy Ann listed incorrectly as John's wife is his sister. John, who took Dorothy Ann to the Ring Dance, was never married.

Assumptions often tam out to be wrong!

4th Co. Ted Batchelder has moved from Trumbull, Conn, to 37 Dodge HiU Rd., Henniker, N.H. 03242.

"This will presumably beraylast move to a soon to be completed new home. Classmates and other USNA graduates welcome. Present occupation—unpaid manual laborer on my own behalf."

6th Co. During the 45th, Joe Jackson handed me a photo of Joe and "Frenchy" Fontaine taken during a recent vish in Panama City, Florida.

7th Co. Hal Hamberg has moved from Arlington, Va. to 458 Schley Rd., Annapolis, Md. 21401 which, he says, he buih there in 1950.

9th Co. BUI Slesnick wrote in early May: "I am sorry that I shall not get to the big 45th, but I am still teaching fuU-tirae and the Reunion comes on the weekend of the Dartmouth graduation, at which I shall have duties as an honorary degree marshall. Perhaps I shall be retired by the 50th and can make that one (I can't imagine that I won't be retired by then, but I am still enjoying my teaching and think that I do it reasonably well)." On the evening of 25 May, Bill was in Baltimore to attend the biennial meeting of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, at the conclusion of which Bill received the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth. His previous Scouting awards include the Order of the Arrow Distinguished Service Award, Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Shofar Award from the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, and the 50-Year Veteran Award. Of all those who received the Silver Buffalo Award along with him, I consider Bill Slesnick to be, by far, the most important, with no apologies to William H. Webster, John Wooden, Marian Anderson, George Herbert Walker Bush and 17 others. Congratalations, Bin. 12th Co. Stu White has moved from Holmes Beach, Fla, and gives his new address as RO. Box 14700, Bradenton, Fla. 34209. Gib Gibbons verified a photo sent to me by Jake Jacobsen as Bob Mott (1st.

Co.), Whitmore, and Tom Freeman (17th Co.). Gib explained: "Whitmore was the senior member of the Marine contingent at NAPS—a veryfineperson who didn't get by the academic selection process for appointment." Don't you always wonder what happened to people like that? If you look closely you can identify Jake Jacobsen in die left background.

"Red" Graves has retired from the faculty of TriState University in Fort Wayne, which he joined following his retirement from the Navy in '69. He was an Assoc. Prof, of Computer Science and, upon retirement, was appointed by the University to the rank of Professor Emeritas "in recognition of his dedicated service to all his students." "Red" reports that Jane's father, Ray Swartz, was elected to the Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma in February. If you don't remember Ray Swartz, tum to page 472 of your Lucky Bag. 15th Co. George Ferch wrote in April to enclose a newsletter from Wycliffe Associates, "where I now work two days a week. It is most enjoyable as well as 67

rewarding to do some smaU thing to spread the Bible's good news. I recaU that one or more Qassmates are or have been Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Does your computer have that sort of information?"

Of course, I didn't have to go to the computer to give him the DaUas address of Ruth and Dick Gieser (5th Co.).

Among the most active Classmates (at least, among those who write to me) are Marian and John Blake. A few excerpts from then "Hobday Greetmgs—1989" reflect constant activity.

We added a few new events to our agenda this year. Marian conducted a number of panel discussions on the history of the YWCA in Mobile, called •Quiet Revolutionarys." She is also wwking with Mobile Opera, costumes of course. Then, Miss USA came to town. She w^s putting in 12-hoiff volunteer days, "Bring your sewing machine, please.'

A very exciting experience. John enjoyed the comp tickets, but pouted because he wasn't allowed back stage to help me dress those lovelies. In April, Mobile Ballet presented Coppelia. Oil up the old Singer and whip on a million yards ofribbon.JohnJohn painted new sets and gathered props. We flew to California in May (or Marian's 50tfi Nwth Hollywood High School Reunion. What fun . . . A cute teenager approached a group of us in the ladies room andremarked:"You are really the original Valley Girls."

And that only included the first half of the year!

Clif Duncan wrote in January to say that his schedule was so clogged that they probably weren't going to make it to the 45th. They didn't! CUf said: "I am StUl on active duty (in civvies) in the Pentagon.

Was confirmed by the Senate in November for ray third successive Assistant Secretary of Defense level position (Director of Operational Test and Evaluation). Previously I served as ASD (Research and Technology) and Director DARPA (1985-87), and Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1987-89). Sometimes I feel like a moving target— or, perhaps, a utiUty infielder." Retire, Clif, and donate your salary to Gorbachev. He needs the money!

At least, your contribution would be constitational.

16th Co. A note last Christmas frora Helen and Bill Henningsen said that BiU attended die reunion of his PG Class in Monterey in September. Their grandson, Kyle, has completed his Youngster Year at USNA "and is taking to it like a duck to water." He had his Summer Cruise in a ship homeported in San Diego so was able to visit Helen and BiU in their new Murrieta, Califomia, home whUe the rest of his famUy were there from Maryland.

Tom McCook wrote from Cape Coral, Florida, and enclosed a photo of Jane and Tom cruising in their ketch—they have a pontoon boat for partying.

The tuning of the 45th was just right for them. Their son, Tora (Lt. USN) is serving in USS CHANCELLORSViLLE in San Diego. Tom and Ann were expecting their first chUd in May so the grandparents arrived right on schedule.

17th Co. Fritz Radloff, writing from Greenbrae, California, to send numerous seed packets from aU over the world for Tricia's garden, added: "I'm not doing much gardening as my knee is not quite back to battery plus we are short of water, just short of rationing to the home owner So other than lettace, beets, etc., and not much of them, my plot is fallow. However, I am having and wUl have a good fhiit tree crop."

FoUowing Bob's retirement from Vitro Corp. in late Jan. '89, Nancy and Bob Tisdale spent the Winter in their home in West Palm Beach, Florida, but not before "Nancy and Kira had fun working for the Inaugural events capped by the Inaugural Gala."

They returaed to the Alexandria house in the Spring where Nancy resumed her work at the Mount Vemon Hospital and White House Greetmgs Office. Apparentiy, this wiU become theh "normal" schedule so Bob can look forward to maintaining two houses, at 68

thousand raUes apart. UGH! Mary and Carl Travis had to cancel ttieh 45th Reunion plans in late April. Carl wrote: "The sawbones decided that I needed an operation in late March and now ±ey teU me I won't be fit for duty untU late June." Did you suggest a second opinion, Carl?

That's aU for September. "Daisy"

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Pres., RAdm. Ralph Camahan USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Robert L. von Gerichten USN (Ret.) 8517 Lancashire Dr.. Springfield. Va. 22151-1307

Ed and Bemie Scoles. Shirley and Dick Beane

On 18 June. 86 Classmates, wives and guests assembled for a special luncheon at The Army and Navy Club, Washington. D.C. to honor BUI Crowe.

During the luncheon, our Class President. Ralph Camahan. presented a bronze bust of BUI Crowe to The Army And Navy Club which wiU provide a prominent place for its display pending the time that it can be properly displayed at the Naval Academy (see Ralph's letter of 12 June 1990 which was sent to aU Classmates). This bust was received on behalf of die Club by RAdm. John Jenkms, (JAG) USN (Ret.), a director of the club. FoUowing the presentation, BiU Crowe gave an outstanding and insightful talk about a recent trip that he and Shirley took to Russia.

His talk was very thought provoking about the current intemational sitaation. Attendees from out of town included Roy Atkinson (Carhsle, Pennsylvania), Janie and Gib Gibson (Wilmington, Delaware). Walt Johnson (Charlottesville. Virginia).

EUen and Lou Marckesano (Malvern. Pennsylvania), and Mary Anne and Jack Stephens (Littie Rock, Arkansas).

Speaking of Lou Marckesano, as of Febraary, he has retired again and is now busy catching up on aU the chores aroimd their home. I suppose this means we wUl no longer see hira on national television coramenting on the financial viabiUty of various airlines.

Margaret and 1 were fortunate this year to be able to attend June Week West '90 on 22-24 June at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. Having made the trip from AimapoUs to Monterey in 1951 as a stadent when the school was moved to Monterey, 1 had not been back since I left in 1953 to go on to Caltech.

Much has changed with the addition of new faciUties, but the old Del Monte Hotel building seems much the same in aU its resplendent glory. Even the wild peacocks StiU patrol the grounds with their raucous caUs diat would awaken me in the middle of the night while I was hving there in the BOQ. There were activities galore including. Monterey Aquariura tours, sailing on Monterey Bay. golf, tennis, squash and racquetball, 5K run and bridge.

The main events, however, were the Alumni Reception on Friday night, the Reception and Dinner Dance on Saturday night aU at the school. Brunch was avaUable after church on Sunday, but '47 Classmates were aU invited to branch at Betty and Bruce OUver's lovely home in Carmel Highlands overlooking the ocean. Classmates and wives who attended some or Bill Crowe and bust

Ely Kirk, Wythe WMker, Bob O'Shea aU of the events were Bobbie and Bob Barker (Rancho Palos Verdes. Califomia), Betsy and Rich Crane (Santa Ana. Califiamia). Janet and Bo Eagle (Lonoke. Arkansas), Carol and Jerry Gronfein (Granda HUI. Califomia), Jean and Wayne Harbarger (Carmichel. Cahfomia). Ellen and " S . T." Hays (Berlin, Maryland). Virginia and Johnny Johnston (Saratoga, CaUfomia), Shirley and Turner Joy (Penn VaUey. Califomia). Jun Kirkpatrick (Newport Beach, Califomia), Anne and Sam Linder (Monterey, Califomia). MUUe and OIlie Loper (DanviUe. Califomia). Betty and Bruce Oliver. Anne and Sam Pillar (Alameda, Califomia), Louise and Bill St. George (San Diego, California), and Liz and Don Wallace (Long Beach. Califomia). Of die 16 Classmates tiiere, four were in tiie old 20th Company Plebe and Youngster Year—Harbarger. Johnston.

Kirkpatrick and myself.

The weekend at die Postgraduate School was unusual in another respect. Janet and Bo Eagle's son Capt. James N. "Jim" Eagte U. USNR, "69, has been on the staff there for eight years and is now the Associate Dean. Jim was the first son of a '47 Classraate to graduate from the Naval Academy where he was a Trident and Burke Scholar. After Submarine School he served in HAMMERHEAD (SSN-663) foUowed by four years at Stanford where he received his doctorate in Operations Research. After nuclear power training, he served successively in BERGAL (SSN-667) and SHARK ( S S N - 5 8 7 ) before resigning in 1980.

On Monday night, 23 June. Margaret and I had dmner witti PhyUis Niedfeldt, "Red's" widow, at a wonderftil Uttle pub in Carmel. She is getting along well sends her warmest regards to their many friends throughout the country.

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and Bob Eastman in Palm Springs. Then it was back to the hot weather on the coast at Long Beach. They tried to contact Dick Gardiner, who was never home, and Bob Fredericks, but the telephone operator could not find Bob's number. They did contact Bob Barker who had just returned frora June Week West which he said was just great. Leaving Long Beach on 28 June they headed north to Vandenberg Air Force Base. On the way they drove through Santa Barbara where the fires were still raging. From Vandenberg they will continue to head north.

A letter frora Bob O'Shea reports: Bruce Oliver, Louise and Bill St. George, Betty Oliver, Ollie Loper

Three rugged mariners out of '47 endured the rigors of deep water sailing in this year's NewportBermuda race, Ely Kirk, Wythe Walker and I signed on aboard M S . ROYAL VIKING STAR for the

Jim and Maj-Britt Eagle '69, Bo and Janet Eagle The next day, we had lunch with Ditty and Bob Whitegiver at their country club, very near their beautiful home in Pebble Beach. It was a lovely scene with wild deer wandering along the fairways and greens. The Whitegivers are putting their home up for sale and are looking for a warmer climate, possibly in Southem Cahfomia. There is a hint for any of you golf nuts. Bob is keeping busy with golf, raising roses and repairing antique clocks.

Hope and Floyd Bowdey dropped me a line on 28 June to update rae on ttieh travels in their RV. They left the Washington area on 14 May and arrived in San Antonio, Texas three days later where they stayed at Kelly A h Force Base including Arraed Forces Day celebrations and an exhibition by the Thunderbirds.

They spent two weeks in Kerrville, Texas, but were never able to contact Jack Stevens who was never horae. Then it was on through Arizona and New Mexico in 113 degree teraperatares to San Diego where they parked in the driveway of a former shipmate. They attended some of the events of the Class '46 45th Reunion at the Del Coronado Hotel. After the reunion, they called Georgia and John Van Sickle and were invited for an aftemoon sail on San Diego Bay in their new boat followed by dinner and conversation. A few days later, they ran into Bill Nivison in the PX. He was hiding behind a few weeks growth of beard. He had just retamed from sailing Mai Jester's boat to Hawaii where they left it for future sailing adventares. Bill said that he and Pat March are corapleting their plans for the 47 NA crew to try it again during our 45th Reunion. From the great weather in San Diego the Bowdeys proceeded to the sweltering desert for a short visit with Mary

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USNA Alumni Association-sponsored Bermuda Race cruise. Within hours out of New York, the shortage of fresh water forced us to tap into the ship's reserves of Perrier Water and French wine.

Undaunted by these hardships, we whiled away our leisure hours'working on "Captain Kirk's" custom made jigsaw puzzles which Ely, accompanied by his lovely wife Jean, had brought along, Ely's puzzles were the hit of the ship. Three generations of Walkers made the voyage, Wythe and "Boots" sailed with daughter Barbara and her husband, Nolan Rushing, and granddaughter, Rhea, We had fun reminiscing about Randals Prep School days.

The cruise was a huge success, Dorthea and I plan a repeat performance in 1992 and hope other Classmates will come along.

The American Institute of Public Service has named Junmy Carter to this year's list of Jefferson Award winners in recognition of his role in fighting for world peace, free elections in Nicaragua and the needs of the homeless. Each of the winners were to be awarded a medallion and $5,000 at a dinner on 19 June, but Jimmy was not there. He was in Tijuana, Mexico, where he was sleeping in a dormitory and using his carpentry skills to build housing on behalf of the organization Habitat for Humanity.

It was announced on 6 June that Bob Marmet's law firm of Marmet and McCombs merged with Holland and Knight, Florida's largest law firm. Bob and Harold McCorabs, Jr. joined Holland and Knight as partaers, based in its Washington, D . C , office. In addition to its nine-member location in Washington, Holland and Knight has offices in eight Florida cities with a total of 275 lawyers in the full-service law firm.

A short note frora Elmer Kiehl noted that he and Dar, together with Karin and Stan Turner were entertained this Spring by Jean and Bus Cobean at their yacht club in Greenwich, Connecticut. A great time was had by all!

Received a nice letter from Shirley and Dick Beane from their island in the St. Lawrence River near Fineview, New York. They arrived there for the Summer from their home in North Fort Meyers, Florida, in mid May. Bernie and Ed Scoles were their guests over the Memorial Day weekend while touring New England and eastem Canada. Ed and Dick were roommates at the Academy. It was during that weekend that they received news of the death of their close friend, Marty Mooney, wife of Brad Mooney, '53.

They drove down to Washington in mid-week for the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. While in the area they saw and briefly visited with Shirley and Bill Crowe. The Beanes are now preparing for a two week trip to Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia where they will be joined by Jan and Hal Edwards. They'll tour together, doing the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island and ending up at a military Tattoo in Halifax on Canada Day After reading about Wirt Thayer's trip to Florida (June 1990 issue of Shipmate), Shirley reminded me that they have a very active group of '47ers in the Fort Myer area. The group consisting of Jan and Hal Edwards, Dawn and Chuck Doscher and the Beanes get together on a regular monthly basis during the six "snow bird" Winter

months. Usually in January, the Beanes and Edwards join Hope and Floyd Bowdey in their RVs down in the Everglades, and during the Winter of 1988-89 they had Jackie and Bruce Maxon with them for the whole season. She pointed out that should any '47 Classmates be in the Southwest Florida area, please give them a call so that the whole group could get together for a visit, no matter how brief.

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Membership: 64%

Sec'y, Cdr. Sumner Moore USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, Va. 22302 Poking through the USNA Register of Alumni the other day, 1 was interested to note that the Class of 1864, of which my great-grandfather was a member, was split into 64A, graduated in May '63, and 64B, graduated in September '63, The Classes of 1862 and 1863 were both ordered to active duty in May of 1861.

The USNA was moved to Newport because of the proximhy of the Mason-Dixon Line and the hot breath of the Confederates, and there were no graduates in 1862. The Class of 64A graduated 21, of whom ten made rear admiral. 64B graduated 29, with 11 RAdms. Forty-two percent of the Class made flag rank. Not bad odds. By contrast, 48B fielded 0.73% flags. No grapes implied, just the facts.

Moving on to the real world, Lou Boland was the recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Georgetown University in May. In part, the citation read: "Louis Boland 'knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions' and has dedicated himself to his church, his country, and his family. This humble gentleman is 'a beacon to all of us.' It is only fitting that this patriarch of the Boland Family, which holds nine degrees from Georgetown University, should himself be proclaimed an alumnus and a Son of Georgetown forever."

In a slightly more frivolous mode, from Minto, Australia, comes a note from Bashful Bill Evans, who wonders how his wife Lisa's name got translated into "Lois" in the photo caption a couple of issues ago. Bill reports that he is working on several books and magazine/newspaper articles and that he hopes to produce a blockbuster on the Korean War, among other things.

This month we are blessed with a fine update from Anacortes, Washington, from the hand of Ed Rudzis: I know that I haven't written since the roaring forties reunion, but I did have to touch base and express my gratimde for a most splendid reunion and my thanks to all that made it so. What a lot of people don't understand that forties is properly plural and that 1987 and 1988 were both fortieth reunions for our Class, as we were divided into A and B as was '21, which Class by the way graduated my father-inlaw, who was also a' B,' Maybe somebody knows of another Class in which the war caused the splitting of the classes? [Please see the opening paragraph of this column,] As you know, I'm up in the great Northwest, almost on the Canadian border, in fact, Victoria, B,C,, is actually southwest of us here on Fidalgo Island, This area was made famous by Lt, Charles Wilkes, USN, back in the nineteenth century when he explored it, 1 was glad to get the information about Bob McClinton from Shipmate as he is across the water from me in Sequim, and we have been able to touch base. I might mention that a Classmate has been president of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Association, namely Angus McDonald, I keep telling myself that someday I'll make it down to Seattle, but there's so much to see where I am that it is hard to get down there. I like to think that I have only been here since '78, and there's plenty of time yet, Tom Wilson, I understand, is on the Kitsap Peninsula, He and I were in the same company for four years, always on the fourth deck in rarified atmosphere. If anyone won-

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ders about me, I live on Burrows Bay (Wilkes' navigator) on Puget Sound, presumably the hearUand of the San Juan Island chain, which consists of 786 islands. We're several blocks from the ferry landing, so if any Classmate ever makes it up this way with the intention of seeing the islands or Sydney, B.C,, on Vancouver Island, give me a call so we can meet in this remote area, 1 keep saying that you have to see this area to believe it. It's truly fabulous.

John Fry, Ed Chapline, Roger Chapman Ed Rudzis needs to know that we are all moving out there next week. Then He'll be sorry!

I had a nice note from RAdm. J. W Davis, '30, of Smyma, North Carolina: Last week my wife and I spent a week at a 'Country Inn in the Smokies' southwest of Asheville. The manager mmed out to be Mrs. D. P Matthews, whose first husband was John Sangster, who was killed in '59flyingan A3D Skywarrior Her present husband is an Episcopal priest with a church in New York City. She manages the inn through October They own it. From November through May they are in NYC (133 E. SOth St, NYC, 10021). The Inn is called "The SWAG" (Rt. #2 Box 280A, Waynesville, N.C, 28786), Her name is Deener, and she says she has pretty much lost contact with the Class and would like to renew contact, 1 told her I would write the Class Secretary. I would hope that some of John Sangster's Classmates might contact her I thank Adnural Davis for his thoughtful letter to rae, and I hope sorae of John's friends might check out the SWAG hui.

Larry Dorsey continues to make news: I had an enjoyable visit at Newport at the Naval War College's Curtent Strategy Forum in June. This was my first contact with 'the Navy' since visit to the NWC since graduation 31 years ago. The college has made some remarkable strides since then, as has the Navy I might also add, so has Newport. My stay at the new Marriott was great. I met another Classmate at NWC, Dick Rubenstein. A very pleasant surprise. He was there with wife, Jean, and daughter, Jane, and 1 shared a seafood dinner with them the last night, Dick's other daughter, Ann, was due to arrive from NYC where she is a prominent NBC newscaster, on the last day, and they were on to Boston. It was a very key time to discuss strategy, with the events of the century unfolding, 1 was greatly honored to be invited. [See the snapshot of Dorsey and Rubenstein.]

I have some sad news this month. Bill Dittmar died 13 July of cancer, having survived a heart attack a few years ago. There was an interment at Arlington

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Cemetery on the 17th. Bill had attended the last Class luncheon and was in good health and spmts at that time. He had been a stalwart Washington area Class supporter, and we will certainly miss him. You will probably recall that Bill's wife, Anita died a few years ago.

Randy Patterson writes from his Mill Creek, Washington, digs and enclosed an article from the Seattle Post Intelligence of 29 June, by Bob McClinton. The article details the fact USS TURNER JOY (DD-951) has been selected as a memorial on the Bremerton waterfront. Bob is Vice-Chairman of the campaign to save and develop the ship as a naval memorial exhibit.

Also frora Randy: "During a tour of the Oregon/ California coast, we took a side trip to the Napa Valley and visited Spring Mountain Winery at the end of the day. It was late, and Mike Robbins had someone in his office, so we did not stay to see him. His is a small but very beautiful place. The historic horae is close to the 'winery,' which is a large structare of sirailar design to the home (ie, Victorian), but buih into the side of the small mountain to take advantage of the cool caves cut into it. He is neighbor to such giants as Christian Brothers." All will remember that Mike provided all that delicious red and white wine for our banquet at the Fortieth. You will also recall that Mike's place is the locus of the "Falcon Crest" soap (wine?) opera.

Roger Chapman provides this month's super photo: "As promised, here is a shot of three stalwart 48ers who took advantage of the Aluinni Association sponsored cruise, 16-23 June aboard the 5-star luxury liner ROYAL VIKING STAR. This cruise coincided with the Newport-Bermuda yacht race and we were in Hamilton, Bermuda, to meet and greet the crews of the six USNA boats. We also had a chance to examine at close range many of the other beautiful boats. It was a memorable cruise, especially since the Atiantic remained glassy calm most of the way. Sorry so many of you missed it." See the pictare of John Fry, Ed Chapline, and Roger in their finery.

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Membership: 72%

Pres., RAdm. Ralph M. Ghormley USN (Ret.) Sec'y, LCol. Richard H. Francis USMC (Ret.) (703) 339-5275 Asst. Sec'y Capt. Warren R Vosseler USN (Ret.) (301) 263-0373 PO. Box 10262, McLean, Va. 22102-8262 After the brief spate in response to Ralph's letter cortespondence has dropped off remarkably. Now that Summer's over, let's hear about your adventares.

And, we stiU have copies of our Class Directory in stock for those of you who have thus far missed out on diis valuable document. The offer remains, a free copy for a $25 donation to the Class coffers; or, $5 a copy. On the subject, keep me posted as to your whereabouts, plus, if you will, your telephone number. Many send the new address but neglect to include a new telephone number.

We had a corporal's guard (Marine Corps lingo) at the Class lunch on June 14th. In addition to your faitiiful secretary, Ralph Ghormley, Pete Swanson, Bart Bartholomew, and Mort Neely were in attendance. Failing a quorum for solving any of the world's problems we exchanged "clean" jokes, gobbled our lunches and departed. Join us for the levhy sometime soon.

In June I had the opportanity to tour the nearly completed Brigade Activities Center, being buih in large part with donated funds from friends of the Academy and interested Alumni. This is a magnificant structare which will well serve the ever expanding educational, athletic and social programs of the

Andy Nelson, Dick Francis, Ralph Ghormley Brigade. As most of you well know, much has changed since we were at USNA, most I believe for the better. For any of you who haven't done so, I commend the Center as a worthy part of your charitible giving. If you are "in town" be sure to pay the Center a vish.

And now for reports from home and abroad: According to Voss, our Assistant Secretary: Shipmate, September 1990

At Sanmiy's Steak House "Responsive to Naval Academy Athletic Association offei(s), we now have a large cluster of FortyNiners sitting together between the 4 5 - 5 0 yard hue upper east at Memorial Stadium for footbaU games.

We may also have the opportunity for a permanent taU-gating site near the water tower at approximately the same place we had our 40th year Reunion tent."

Voss also reports: Your roving 49er secondary scribe recentiy embarked on a cultural exposure trip to New "Vbrk City guided by NYC native friends. A matinee at the Barrymore Theater featured the original London star, Maggie Smith, in the new Broadway opening of Lettice and Lavage. The audience showed their appreciation of this superb British comedy with multi-curtain, spontaneous standing ovations. Maggie has also won best actress Tony Award for this show.

With glowing pleasure from the stage show, we were next immersed in a totally different culture at the Lower East Side landmark known as Sanuny's Roumanian Steakhouse. The diningreviewsays that everything about Sammy's defies conventional wisdom. Food portions are humongous; however, it's not necessary to eat oneself into stupefaction to qipreciate the spirit of the place. The setting is a nofrills dining room with calling cards and photographic memorabdia covering walls; jam-packed, noisy, festive, with live music every night. Recommendation: Have NYC friends qualified at Sammy's take you there and bring a monster appetite. Almost forgot! Inter alia, tables are set with two botdes of seltzer water—BUT—guess what?—the fine for spritzmg is 49 doUars I!! Emphasized by a big sign at the entrance saying "No carlionic water fights—$49 fine!" If Classmate Stan Fine ever went to Sammy's we might imagine a story line such as: "FINER FINES FINEE FINE $49 FINE" (For squirting water—if caught!)

Pills Pillsbury sends the foUowing greetmg: Mary and I continue to enjoy our "retirement" here in the beautiful Great Smokies. I do get a bit itchy every so often, and frankly would like to get a couple of more years of work under my belt but no one seems to be interested in hiring one of the geriatric set.

All the very best of wishes to all. We couldn't make the 40th but sure will try for 45.

Otto Krueger writes: We're stillremindedof what a super time we had at the 40th, And thanks for someone putting a picture in the June Shipmate. (Also afirst).But—that's Rick Berby with me, not Bob Brown. Rick's one chance for fame now gone in flame! A correction may be in order as I'm sure he'll appreciate knowing who he is.

Immediately on retum from Annapolis, Johanna, my lovely bride of 39 years, was off for a lengthy stay in Puerto Rico with Red Cross Disaster Relief Shipmate, September 1990

i.c.w. Hurricane Hugo, for which she earned a big citation.

Hoping to get to Las Lenas for some skiing later this Summer (Winter down Uiere)—and especially looking forward to the 45th!

Don Pantle reports from Singapore the following on his "adventares:" Belle and I are weU into our seventh year in this equatorial city and I am enjoying my second year as Managing Director for Bell Helicopter's Pacific Rim headquarters. Hardly expected to be here this long when we moved here in '83 but an active career promoting Bell Helicopter has caused time to race by.

Singapore hosted a major air show in February this year. I believe this to be the 3rd significant show in the world today—after Paris and Famborough and is of course repeating every two years as the other major shows do.

In continuing oiu' extensive travel, this year we started in Bangladesh then on to Kathmandu and a jungle safari in Chitwan coupled with a flight in a Bell LongRanger landing high in the Himalayas.

This proved to be a highlight of the trip. From there to Delhi, Agra—Taj Mahal, Jaipur, Bombay in India; Sri Lanka and the Maldives. We have significant business activities in all these countries.

Made a quick trip to our Fort Worth headquarters (and sometimes home) in May a visit with our offspring and the ten grandkids. On to visit Bell's factory near Mirabel—Montreal, a few days in Boston and a few more in London then back to Singapore.

Last week in Bangkok so already this year over 60 days on the road. Still have Phillipines, Indonesia, Brunei, Burma and Famborough ahead. So that's why time flies.

Bell tells me I will get tired of all this one day and retire—but as long as the excitement of helicopter promotion continues, I will too. And I note that dear spouse rarely hesitates when I suggest—a quick trip to Rangoon or Kota Kinabalu—need to be there on Thursday!

Our Cruise Director, Warren Vosseler, reports that the "Afloat Forty-Niners" embarked on this year's craise out of Puerto Rico with San Juan resident Wally Valencia coming aboard ship for a special "BON VOYAGE" visit to the craisers. Itinerary mcluded Curacao, Caracas, Grenada, Martinique, St. Thomas/St. John, and retum San Juan with a post-craise two days of seeing Wally Valencia again.

A fill! report and pictures wiU be in the next Shipmate. The June 1991 cruise is tentatively planned for Alaska originating out of Seattle/Vancouver—start plaiming now!!!

That's all for now. Nothing could be finer than to be a 49er. R.H.F.

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June Week West 1990 edition and Dick Miller gets a fully supported "Well Done" for his efforts as Emcee of the Friday night Class of '50 party.

By this time all in the Class of '50 should have received their copy of the "Doo-Dahs" letter from Phil Ryan in Annapolis. Phil has done a masterful job of outiining all the events that will take place at our 40th Homecoming in Annapolis 25 to 28 October 1990 and the things that individual members need to do in order to make the events the raore meaningful. Phil, thanks for all the effort—D-Day the sixth of June should have been so well planned! In the very unlikely event that a Classmate didn't receive the "DooDahs OpPlan" he should contact Phil Ryan at 874 Holly Drive Soutii, Annapolis, Md. 21401 and Phil will send a follow-up. For those who plan to use ah travel and haven't yet made travel arrangements, I urge you not to pay full coach fare. In these days of a slowing economy, airlines are trying harder for your business. Various gimmicks are available and only the travel agent knows the "ins and outs" of the business. If you don't have a travel agent, you might consider one or the other of the following who have been kind enough to send good information on "deals" available: Travel Network of Laguna Hills (Rickie Snyder '50)) Tete: 1-800-332-9133 or Omni Travel of Atlanta (Chuck RusseU USMA '56)) Tete: 1-800-331-1810. Over in Annapolis at the June gathering of Classmates the taUc was of graduation at USNA, football tickets for the Class section. Homecoming in October and persecution of women at the Academy. The advice from '50 in Annapolis is, "Believe very Utile of what you read in the press or see on T V about problems at USNA." Charlie Hooper was over from Baltimore where he is an executive with 1st National Bank of Maryland. Others in attendance were: Tom Anderson, Gerry Coleman, Don Fraasa, Ed Greenberg, Tora Ross and Phil Ryan. Ward Lasley reports on Washington, D . C , area doings with a July luncheon attended by: Galye May, Jim Lynn, Bob Mandeville, Charlie Hhsch, Don Hunt,

Membership: 67%

Pres., LCol. Robert W. Oliver USMC (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Wayne L. Jensen USN (Ret.) 499 Skyhill Ct., Chula Vista, Calif. 92010 In July/August Shipmate the list of anticipated attendees at June Week West in Monterey, 22-24 June was given. Now we are pleased to add to that list and provide pictares of the event. The Class of '50 had the most in attendance (natarally) and to be added to the numbers previously reported we had: Jan & George Conatore from Kennewick, Washington, Shirley & Phil Conley from Santa Barbara, Mary & John Coughlin frora Seattle, Sally & Bev Jakimier from La JoUa, Pat & Bob Ninnis from Palos Verdes, Rosalie & Bill Stewart frora Pt. Hueneme, Loma & Swede Stinson frora Irvine and Beth & Dick Wiseman from Castro Valley In addition the Coughlins brought along Barbara & Joe Barron (Holy Cross '50) as theh guests and the Rip Van Kleeck's brought Peggy & Ray Singer (USMA '50) as guests. With Ray in attendance, the singing of "The Goat is Old and Gnarly" was with gusto. Jack Branson deserves high credit as the overall dhector of the Monterey

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Ken Munroe writes frora Kenneth H. Munroe Associates, Adverscience, 94 Stony Ridge, Auburn, Maine 04210 to say, "Hey, Wayne, we need more pictares 'From out of the past'. So Ken sends along a couple vintage 1948 with the comment tiiat "We must have been one awfuUy frightening sight for the Plebes." WeU, we agree. Ken, tiiat we aU need to be reminded of our 'roots.'

With sadness, we must report the death of our Classraate, Warren N. Loar, HI during April 1990.

No other details are available at present. Wife, Barbara resides at 2238 Pme Chff Dr. NE, Atianta, Ga. 30345.

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Larry Hawkins, Daryle Tripp, Bob Ohver, Frank Rotii, Dick PoweU, Mih Schultz, Tom Bigley, Harry Krantzman, BUI Kiehl and Ward Lasley. Jim Lynn had justretumedfrom his 45th high schoolreunionin Cincinnati where he insisted the rallying cry was "Just stay ahve 'tU '95." Fran and Dick Powell had just retumed frora Algarve, EstorU, and Lisboa, Portagal, where they stiU found bargains for theh dollar m tiiat beautiful country. BUI Kiehl (accepts all responsibiUties for seating assignraents at the USNA footbaU Stadium) reports that our permanent season footbaU tickets are in the upper west at about the 35yard hue.

In San Diego at the Naval Station on the 1st Friday July luncheon we managed: Stan Neander (getting ready for a three-week fishing trip to northem Minnesota and leaving Monday moming golf arrangements to John Malloy), Charlie Clark (to live in Lakeside one has to have a dog and at least one horse, so Charhe has a horse but nobody is brave enough to ride it), Dick Prescott (sorry the avocado tree is taking a short vacation), Mark Frudden (chose the TopOf-The-Cove in La JoIIa for Judy's 40 Anniversary dinner), Dick Smith, Wayne Jensen, Dick Thurston, Lee Baggett (just returned from attending the CNO change of command in Annapolis), Dave Taylor 72

(most recentiy had been on a golfing vacation with Shel in Arizona and Shel says, "When it got up to 122° I felt it was a wee bit warm.), Bhch DeWitt (we get him down from Carlsbad to join the group whenever we can and arrange home and away golf matches twice a year), John Malloy and Frank CassUly The ladies of the group had their own luncheon in their own room at the O'Club promising never again to send lunch tabs down our way. It was suggested that since most of the mates are now on their own Social Security they can assert their independence. Freedom is thus breaking out all over the worid. Charlie Clark produced a copy of USNA changes to Naval Academy Regulations No. 5, of Sept. 1,1921 dealing with "Smoking hours and Places" to which Superintendent RAdm. Henry B. Wilson added, "It is not my intent to encourage the use of tobacco. Those who have not already acquired the habit are counselled agamst it." We all agreed that Henry B. WUson was ahead of his time to which Dick Thurston added 'Amen'. With defense cut-backs facing us at every tum as we watch the peace break out around the world we all are concemed with the stance the new CNO will take with regard to the Navy personnel situation for the future. However we were reassured when the CNO read his orders at the Change of Com-

Membership: 70%

Pres., Capt. William S. Thompson USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Cdr. Jack Hamilton USN (Ret.) 9215 Cutting Horse Court Springfield, Va. 22153 A few announcements. Homecoming at Bay Ridge is 27 October (James Madison game)—flyer due out mid-September. You should have received your Annual Report by now. Hope you send back your 'Return Information' card to Paid Tuzo. Remember, donations for directory, if at aU, not to exceed five bucks! The Board met 19 July and again in August to put out the report and continue plans for the 40th.

Make your plans now—only a year away. Maybe the last 'biggie'!

Frora here and there. John McGrew, as earUer reported on his swing East, stopped by Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to see MarUyn and Bob Miller. Hence die pic of John and Bob. Bob, die 'Texas traUer' was probably Bill Purse, altiiough not sure.

Tma Crowder sent along a neat article from tiie Coronado Jourrml concerning Herb Zoehrer. Duringtiiefund-raiser for Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Humanity, die HIGH Spmrrs yacht, commanded by Herb, hosted Jimmy and Rosalyn, the Mayor of Tijuana and 75 guests. Carter asked Herb if he could take die hehn, and there was an ensuing 40-niinute confab between die two about, among otiier things, tiieir sailing days at Annapohs. Herb said the former President looked m great shape, very trim and looking good, and added "playmg flag captam for my former Commander-in-Chief was a distinct pleasure."

Tina's and Jim's son is a Reserve commander in San Diego, anotiier son is a hospital corpsman in Okinawa, and a durd son is stadying to be an archaeologist. Thanks, Tma. Tom Beattie also chimed m from Coronado with news of finding Ozzie Fourzan. Ozzie retired as a fuU admiral in January, tiie last of our Class on active duty He and Teresa live in Matamoros, across die Rio Grande from Brownsville, where he is Director of Pubhc Security Ozzie plays to a 10 handicap but can probably do better if a few pesos are on die Ime (doUars accepted), says Tom. Theh address: Rte. Almirante Osvaldo Fouizan Marques, Napoles No. 8 C.P 87360, Fraccionamiento del Rio, H. Matamoros, Tamps, Mexico.

Dave Soracco sent along his obit, and says ttiey have a mmi Alumni group on Mercer Island, Washmgton: Jim Hunt, Dick Crawford, and Bill Phillips, who gave up his saUboat and is building a house. Dave sent a pic of him swearing in his son as Ensign USNR. John is a Washington State grad and is slated for flight training.

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Bob Coleman sent along a change of address: 311 E. Morse Blvd, #8-5, Winter Park, Fl. 32789, phone die same. This a one and a half mile move, to a condo, and tiiey call it 'Feet First', which is tiie only wayttieywant to leave h! On a lake, and witti a boat slip—but no boat yet. Bob is retiring in September from Shearson Lehman after 24 years, still attends the Orlando Aluinni meetings, but sees only Bob Adams at tiiem. Diana and Bob were headed for Maine in August, where they expected to rendezvous with Sarah and Al Findlay. Bob also sent an indication of his gift to the Class Gift Fund. Thanx, and will tell Adler.

Louanne and Jack Cromwell are possibly leaving Aloha land and moving to South Carolina. So, in the process of cleaning house and consolidating things, they came across some newspaper photos from the Seattle Sunday Times ('49 Ah Cruise) and Washington Times Herald (Plebe Summer)—including Alvis, Hutchison, Hemdon, Higgs, R. G. Williams, CromweU and Berrier from ah cruise; and Hightower, Cromwell, Sease, Klingensmith, Deady, Nix, McCarthy, Worthington, Thome, Bartholomew, and Willimack in various Plebe Summer poses! Yes, Louanne and Jack, these will go to the Display Committee for the 40th.

Our dear editor, Wes Hammond, sent his customary note of doings, with a pic of the 'elder statesmen' Lawrence, Wes, Doggett and Wales on the steps of Bancroft. Who's that suitcase salesman with the others? Wes did the Aluinni Association bit at USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, and had a delightful dinner with Kay and BUI Helm. Then he and Donna set sail for Scotiand for son Wes's change of command at Holy Loch. Then a ferry to Dublin—no cabs, all drivers watching the World Cup—and toured Ireland. Even walked down Hammond Street.

When he kissed the Blamey Stone, Donna's comment was 'gUding the lUy'! A ferry ride to Wales, and met a 97-year-old who had been a Royal Welch Fusihers sergeant at Gallipoh in WWI. WeU, June Week West '90 at Monterey was a blast.

With John McGrew doing the mailout, Joan and Bob Himter raaking the '51 diimer arrangeraents, and Betty Bohler and Robin McGlohn doing the table decorations, the success of the gathering was assured. Saw people we hadn't seen since graduation.

Here's the group at the Casa Munras Inn: Helen and John Alvis, June and John Armstrong, Margareth and Phil Arst, Pat and Bill Boakes, Norm Busse and guest Linda Terry, Ed Currie, Jane and John Dungan, Fred Graham, Suzanne and Jack Hamilton, Joan and Bob Hunter, Boyd Johnson, Carly and Chuck Larson, Dick Livingston and guest Sharline Searle, Betty Bohler and Robin McGlohn, John McGrew and guest Nancy Baker, Cynthia and Jack Nunneley, Maureen and Don Osbom, Bill Purse and guest Beverly Rodriguez, and Genevieve and Howie Ruggles.

We also had our ex-51er Barbara and Jack Hartley '52. After a report of Class doings by YT, John McGrew had every Classmate stand up and give, in less than one minute, 51 seconds, a profile of his doings since graduation. This was hilarious! Truly a wonderful party.

The next day Hartleys and Hamiltons won the JWW golf toumament, tiianx mostly to Hartleys (who ran h!). The Satarday night dinner dance at Hermann Hall was nice, with about 24 '51ers attending and sitting together. And the band wore sailor hats. There were other activities, of course, including boat trips on the Bay and the usual PG School briefs.

The weather cooperated, and all in all it was a memorable weekend. Suzanne and YT stayed in Monterey for 19 days, with daughter Lieutenant Stephanie who is in a dual master's program, meteorology and oceanography, and has produced two lovely grandchildren in the process (how do you do it while going to school?). Played a lot of golf with Livingston and Shipmate, September 1990

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Hartley including Spyglass at Pebbte Beach the last day Also drove north and visited McGrew and Nancy

at his Sea Ranch horae about 100 railes north of San Francisco. Beautiful layout, and remote! Never trav73

eled so many roads with sheer chffs and absolutely no guardraUs! White knuckle time.

The pics of JWW are aplenty, thanx to Pat and BiU Boakes (ours didn't tum out). In the golf pic, HamUton, Livingston, Hunter and Hartley at Fort Ord after a lashing on die Black Horse Course.

"Western hospitaUty," with PhU Arst extending his hand to YT, and Jack and June Armstrong and Margaretii Arst watching. That's Ed Currie seated. In "Boyd Johnson and friends," that's Boyd (formerly 'Boots') in fiont, part of McGrew, Nancy Baker, Currie, and Maureen and Don Osbom. In "Busse and fiiends," that's Noim mugging, with guest Linda Terry, Rohm McGlohn and Betty Bohler, and Bob and Joan Hunter. In "Serious Talk," that's Alvis teUing h lUcettis to Osbom. In a 'Ton of SmUes," that's Bill Purse and guest Beverly Rodriguez m front, with Chuck and Carly (Carole) Larson, and Howie and Genevieve (partiy hidden) Ruggles in background. In "Who's That," June Armstrong, the Arsts and the Nunneleys. Would recommend JWW to anyone, so save up those fiequent flyer mUes, and get yourself a western treat! And when you lose to Hartley and Livingston, your money is safe in WeUs Fargo Bank!

One thing I'm sure you'U join me in, is that Steve Schoen, after his stroke in May, israakinga remarkable recovery, and we hope he wiU be able to make future Board meetings as a director.

A late note from Bob Dunn, who has a new address at 1106 Dartmouth Road, stiU in Alexandria, Va. but new zip 22314 and same tel: 703-370-9589.

And lastiy, your Board has homed in on the gift for tiie 40th, and plans are meshing beautifully for our great Reunion. Many people are involved—as it should be—both on and off the Board. Don't forget Homecoming 27 October. See ya!

being the best he has known during his nearly four decades of service . . . " Hunt, we are very proud of the job you are doing.

It was just a super wonderfiU evening. The USMA Class of 1952 Luau was hosted in a dehghtful wooded section of Vienna by Gerry and Bert Stubblebine.

About 100 guests were entertained by authentic native dances, as weU as the contemporary hula. Along with the exceUent music, we enjoyed a varied menu of Hawahan food. The weather was perfect and the conversation was just great. Peggy and Jim Keane, Brace and Claudine Brown, and Jean and Leigh Ebbertrepresentedour Class and were most graciously received. On behalf of USNA '52, we say thank you and weU done to our hosts.

Saw Joan Beecher in the Safeway the other day, and she reported that John and Mary-Un Jackson are doing a book on ship sponsors. In other news, I received an inquiry by the Rev. David H. Jackson, RAdm., USN (Ret.) who was lookmg for USNA graduates who had served on active duty and then resigned orretiredto go into the ordained ministry. He says, "I behevetiieirstory is worth telling in a book."

I sent hira tiie naraes of Charlie Furlow and John Fuller fiom our Class plus another friend from the class of '42. Do you know of others? If so, send them to Rev. D. H. Jackson, 4400 86tii Avenue, Soutiieast, Mercer Island, Wash. 98040-4146. I alsoreceiveda letter inquiring about Tom Bakke's famUy. Can anyone teU me where they are located?

Frank Hannegan, our previous secretary, told me that someday there would be something left out of a story, and that people would let you know. And so it has. Whit Hansen attended the 8th Symposium of the Naval Submarine League, but his name was not included in the last column. Nor, it appears, did I hst h for last year's meeting. Whit, I am sorry. I saw Charlie Brown at the Naval War CoUege during the play of Global War Game 90. He was an aeronautical industryrepresentative,and we had an engaging time speculating about possible future worlds.

Hope that you-aiu respond to Frank Hannegan's Membership: 62% flyer on the 40th. 52/40 or? It would be particularly nice to see those of you who haven't been able to Pres., RAdm. John Beecher USN (Ret.) come in previous years.

Sec'y, Capt. Edwin L. Ebbert USN (Ret.) We regret to have to close with a bit of sad news.

2514 Culpeper Rd., Alexandria, Va. 22308 The Alumni Association called just before deadline Where do the Summers go? One Classmate, Bob to teU of the death of Mary Jayne Tuzo, wife of Mark MMTIS, spent most of this Summer on his bicycle. Tuzo, on Friday 20 July in Annapolis. M. J. was He caUed me after his 3600-mUe ride across the from Pensacola, "The Mother-in-law of Naval Aviacountry, to say that he had celebrated his 60th bhth- tion," and she and Mark had been married 36 years. day during that trip. He and 64 others, whose ages A Mass of Christian Burial was offered at the Chapel ranged from 19 to 73, started in late May and finished on Wednesday 25 July with inurnment in the Columin July. He said that he would send me some pictures. barium. The Class extends its condolences to Mark Congratulations, Bob, for representing the Class in and their four children. that sport, and for giving us an altemative view.

Last month, I shared part of an article about Himt Hardisty from the 25 March 1990 edition of die San Diego Union that had been sent in by Maijorie Aldren. Space aUows me to include more of the same Membership: 65% article now, Pres., Adm. Carlisle A. H. Trust USN (Ret.) . . . As the senior U.S. military commander in Corr. Sec'y, LCol. David B. Jones USAF (Ret.) the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas, Adm. Hardisty heads the largest of die unified commands and 6708 Pageland Lane, GainesviUe, Va. 22065 wields authority over Army, Navy, Marine Corps Perhaps the best news this month is that none of and Air Force operations across more than 100 milour '53 famUy has died m the last 30 days. That lion square miles—more than 50 percent of the seems like thefirsttimethat has happened in several earth's surface. He is responsible to the Secretary of Defense and the President for all military matters years. Let's keep h up! from the West Coast of the United States to the east The big news however, was theretirementof Carl coast of Africa andfromthe Arctic to the Antarctic.

Trust on 29 June at the Naval Acaderay. The cereMary Frances Bennett, Point Loma realtor and mony was to start at 1100 m Tecumseh Court and civic leader,remembersHunt Hardisty well. She most of us got tiiere early. In fact a lot of us went to was his high-school math teacher some 40 years ago Annapolis on Thursday die 28tii so as to be sure to get in Jacksonville, a small North Carolina town near there in time. A few did get caught in traffic and Camp LeJeune . . . He was the most outstanding student she ever taught. straggled in late—I won't mention any names. And, as a matter of fact, some of the official party must 'Hunt Hardisty was bom to excel,' she recalls.

'He was tops in everything' . . . Adm. Hardisty have been caught in traffic also, as the ceremony was describes the men and women in his command as five or ten minutes late hi getting started. While we

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waited we had a fine time renewing acquaintances with old fiiends, many of whom were out-of-towners or infrequent visitors to Class functions. Within a row of SaUy and I were Lucy Ann and Steve Hostetier, Staser Holcorab, Dana and CharUe Walker, Maigot and Tom Southerland, MoUy and Randy RandaU and Jean and John Godek. By the time aU the stragglers filed m we had a most impressive tumout of '53ers. I would estimate it as close to 300. There were about 240 of us at thereceptionat the pavilion m the afternoon and quite a few of our crowd couldn't stick around that long. Tecumseh Court was stifling.

The temperature was in the mid 90s and the humidity had to be weU over 70%—remember the reaUy hot days Plebe Summer, well this one matched the worst of those of 1949. Within a few moments most of the men had tiieh coats off and everyone was using the program as a fan. Unfortunately, there were lots of portions during the ceremony when we were at attention (national anthem, three 19-gun salutes, posting the colors, etc.) and one couldn't fan oneself. Having recentiy gone through a siege of pre-skin cancers on my balding bead, I wore a hat. I was one of the smart ones—hats were worth theh weight in gold that day and a lot of the wives also were attired in big sun hats.

The ceremony itself was very impressive. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was the principal speaker and he spoke very highly of Carl and his replacement Admiral Frank Kelso. Carl spoke and stressed the fact that we can't aUow ourselves to get carried away with the spirit of Glasrujst and the break up of the Warsaw Pact forces and make drastic cuts in our own defense forces. He also noted that in Frank Kelso the Navy is getting an outstanding leader, probably because he and his Class of 1956 were so weU trained by die great class of 1953! The ceremony was highhghted by the playing of Lee Greenwood's hit song "Proud to be an American" and then after Pauline had been introduced and tiianked the haunting "Through the Years." Even die fiercest of admirals were near tears when the last strains of that song were finished. Carl's flag was hauled down and presented to him by the Master Chief of the Navy and then Carl and Pauline were piped ashore—actaaUy back into Bancroft HaU, and if there hadn't been tears before there were now. It was a most stirring ceremony, fuU of class and tradition, and was a wonderftil way to end Pauline and Carl's as weU as our 41year tour of service to the Navy and the country. At the conclusion of the ceremony we went to Dahlgren HaU for a reception which, whUe very nicely done, was for us just a means of passing time untU our reception in die '53 pavUion began at 1430. Most of us began edging over to the pavUion a httie early and the real party got in fuU swing. Karen and Bill TruehkKtd had organized this party and Gus Hubal and Dick Albright had handled aU die reservations. The caterers were the same group who had done our 35th Reunion Brunch and if anything they did a better job this time. The food was wonderful, particularly the crab cakes, and die bar served anything one wanted to drink. However, it was so hot most people went after the soft drinks and beer to the exclusion of anydung else. I tiunk everyone tiiere had a good time talking witii old friends and getting a chance to finally see Pauline and Carl start to relax and enjoy Ufe witiiout the stress of duty hanging over tiieir heads.

The pavilion worked out very weU and it was good to seetiiatBruce Borthwick and die conunittee had die memorial plaque up witii tiie names of our deceased Classmates. A smaller plaque Usted die Class officers and die members of the committee tiiat built the pavUion. By 1730tiiecaterers were packing up and as is so often die case, Sally and I seemed to be m die last group to teave. It was a super day and I'm sure I speak for aU when I tiiank Paulhie and Carl for makhig it possible and die Truebloods, die Hubals and die Albrights for arranghig such a great party.

Shipmate, September 1990

Dinner at sea As mentioned earUer, we got to Annapolis a day early and when we checked into our motel we found tiiat Luree and Logan Sharrah were right across the haU from us and Caroline and John PhUlips, Jack and Jack Catlett and Art Mercier were upstairs. Later tiiat night we picked up Myra Bearman who had flown in from Cahfomia and took her to dmner. The PhiUips, Catletts and Art Mercier came to the same restaurant a little later. The next day after the party in tiie pavilion we picked up Myra, and Dean Strong and drove to Glen Bumie where we met Anne and Tom Fitzgerald for dinner. The next moming Pauline and Tyke Furey joined us and we headed home with the Fureys as Satarday night guests. Was a '53-oriented couple of days and as always was most enjoyable.

Instead of listing all the attendees which would take up a couple of pages, I'm just going to mention the out of towners and the seldom seeners. Add the usual Washington area crowd to this list and you will have a pretty close approximation as to who was present. Joy and Stab Chace, Evelyn and Joe Thomas, Jennie and John Hyatt, Jeanne and Don Lovell, Jo and Ed Alves, Dave Fischer, Horace Leavitt, Hathaway and Fortest Anderson, Petie and Don Upshaw, Ruth and Jim Mahony, Barbara and Don Kniss, Shirley and Joe Malone, Elissa and Joe Bomstein, Jean and John Godek, Lynn and Dave Cannon, Connie and Jim O'Keefe, Claire and Dick Pfeifle, Margot and Tom Southerland, Faye and Jim Harris, Angle and Frank Musorrafiti, Marguerite and Linn Felt, Sara and Frank Zimolzak, Sue and Jim Rodgers, Betsey and Jack Morrison, Ginny and Hank Hukill, Doris and J. J. Connolly, Mary Ann and Frank Scolpino, Carol and Bobby Bell, Nancy Cole, Fuzzy Knight, Ginny and Ed Willever, Sarah Jane and Buck Shipmate, September 1990

Scolpino and Trost (Alpha and Omega)

Bobby Bell with the Walkers

Sheeley, Jean and Pete Smith, Phyllis and Joe Smith, Pat and Vaughn Wilson, Kim and Randy Metz (Don's son). Bill Britton, Ingrid and Charlie Fox, Dick Wright, Corhss and Charlie Cole, Myra Bearman, Dean Strong, Luree and Logan Sharrah, Hawley Brooks, Pat and Roy Girod, Mary and Fred Alden, Dana and Chuck Walker, Paul Dudley, Mary Lou and Ted Lloyd, Helen and Don Lawrence, Anne and Tom Fitzgerald, Pauline and Tyke Furey, Anne and Bob Sheahan, Allison and Pete Cart, Mary Lou and Steve Hosteller, Jean and Dave Wagner, Joanne and Staser Holcorab plus our three newly elected honorary Classmates, Barbara and George Graveson, Ann and Billy Kellum, and Linda and John Will were all at one or more of the fiinctions. I apologize if I've missed anyone or got any names wrongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;h was not done on purpose.

The cruise to Bermuda in June was wonderful although the start was alraost a complete disaster. The 10 of us (Jones, McVays, Raffaeles, Sebrings, and Zirps) met at Dulles Ahport for our 1030 flight to New York. Delay followed delay andfinallysome IVi hours late, we took off. When we got to New York, there was no Cruise Line bus service to the pier. Finally, after considerable hassle, we chartered a large van, loaded our 25 pieces of luggage and headed for the ship. We hit stop-and-go traffic most of the way and spent about 30 minutes on 12th Avenue trying to go the five blocks to where we could tam into the Cruise ship terminal. Departare time was getting closer every minute and we could see our ship but couldn't get to it. To say the atmosphere in the van was tense is an understatementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;traumatic is a better word. People were taking blood pressure pills, strong language was rampant and all of us were facing the real possibility that we were going to miss our ship.

Fortanately, we finally got to the tam-in and pulled up to our pier Several stevedores and ship personnel met us and said, "Run!" Run we did, handing our tickets to the ship's representatives on thefly.The stevedores pushed their carts with our luggage up the gangplank right behind us and threw our luggage off.

As soon as they had emptied their carts they pulled the gangplank away. We were the last people on board the ship and thus began seven marvelous days. WiU discuss the seven days next month as I don't have enough room in this column. Will note however, that Royal Viking Cruise Lines is the best of the five Cruise Lines we have sailed on.

Mike Corboy sent Gus a tetter in which he enclosed Al Shure's obitaary. I'm passing the obitaary along to Shipmate for inclusion in the "Last CaU" section. Mike points out that he and Charlie Cole roomed with Al at the Academy and that his sense of humor made life a little easier. Thanks, MUce, and as a matter of interest to all, you don't have to send your news to Gus, he just passes it on to me. Send it to me, Dave Jones, at the address at the top of the column.

Speaking of Charlie Cole, it was a pleasure to see hira and his new wife Corliss at Carl's retheraent.

Corliss is lovely and seemed suitably impressed by the friendliness of the Class. She and Charlie met white he was a cruise host on Royal Cruise Lines. I'm running a pictare of the two of them so you can see how happy they look.

John Godek sent in a letter and a clipping discussing the recent New York State Special Olympics held in Rochester, New York, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. A large number of celebrities assisted in the festivities including Bill Cosby and Brian Baldinger (Brian is the son of our own Dolly and Jim Baldinger and is now playing football with the Indi75

anapoUs Colts). John is the Program Manager for Special Events at Xerox in Rochester. He and Jean also came to Carl's retirement. Thanks, John.

A nice letterfromEd Petersen, which I mentioned last month, reports that Carol and he have moved back to 24 Via Andorta, Coto de Caza, Cahf. 92679, phone (714) 855-4376 and tiiat on 17 April tiiey joined twenty-some Classmates and wives at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles honoring Ross Perot as the winner of UCLA's Graduate School of Management "Exemplary Leadership in Manageraent" Award for 1990. Over 900 people were in attendance.

Ross'sremaikswere weU received and mosttiraelyin holding the key to solving raany of our ciurent Uls. Ross spent 20 minutes or so at the '53 tables where he even pubUcly repaid an age-old $20 debt to Ray Bright. Ed says Dean Strong should be sending pictures and names from this event. Where is it Dean?

Ed also notes he and Carol watched the Navy Crew take 2nd place in the San Diego Crew Classic, rowing the Capt. BUI Robinson, a sleek new sheU named in BiU's honor. They also got to visit with Elaine and Stacie, BiU's widow and daughter. Thanks, Ed. I got a caU the other day from the Secretary of the Class of '63 informing me that one of their long-term projects had finaUy come to fraition. After several years of low key work they have succeeded in having the names of our Philip McCutcheon Armstrong and theh Steven Spencer Toth placed in Memorial HaU with the names of all other graduates who were kiUed in action. As you wiU remember, PhU and Steve Totii were kiUed on 8 June 1967, on USS LIBERTY in the Eastem Mediterranean. WeU done '63!

Scott PiuTos passed me a note at Carl's retireraent which stated Betty and the late BUI Purdum's daughter Becky had three of her paintings on display in the "10 4- 10" Soviet-American exhibition at the Corcoran GaUery of Art in Washington, D.C. Well done, Becky!

Roy Girod was talking to me at the pavilion party about Class history and mentioned that he had started the Class luncheons back in 1964. He also said that to the best of his knowledge we have only hadfiveor six corresponding secretaries writing the Class column in the 37 years since we graduated. He says they are Jerry Weinstein, Charhe Walker, Roy Girod, Curt Anderson, Chuck Mumford and myself. I'll take Roy's word for it. The altemative is to go to Alumni House and go through 37 years worth of back Shipmates. If Roy and I have missed anyone, drop me a line and I'U gladly give them credit.

On the sick list this month is Norma Raffaele who feU in a parking lot, after church no less, and broke both arms. She told us it's very frustrating—I'll bet.

Also Chuck Mumford has just had a malignant growth removed from his chest, but the doctors say they got it aU. We send Norma and Chuck our best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Tony Tortora sent in a note reporting that after retiring from the civiUan naval architect arena in 1987 he and Irene moved to On Top of the World in Ocala, Florida. To keep busy and to meet other retirees he began working with The Retired Officer Association.

As a result of that work, on 9 June he was elected President of the Florida Council of Chapters of TROA. They have some 16,000 members in 43 chapters in Florida, the second largest number next to Califomia and are catching up quickly. Tony adds that he "would encourage all Classmates to join theh local chapter and to get involved in the efforts to preserve the entitieraents promised to us and to the futare rethees." Thanks, Tony and congratalations.

More new addresses: The Rev. Mr. Jim Walker can be reached c/o St. James Church, 8412 Whitfield Avenue, Savannah, Ga. 31406, phone (912) 355-1523; Luree and Logan Sharrah's new address is 1407 Snowy Egret Drive, Murrells Inlet, S.C. 29576, phone (803) 651-9240.

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front of a sign for Jim Walker in Savannah; a picture of Ed Chase, Fuzzy Knight, and Ted Lloyd at die pavilion; a picture of Roy and Pat Girod with Don Kniss at the pavUion; Karen and BUI Trueblood at die pavilion; Frank Scolpino witii Carl Trost at the pavUion; Bobby BeU with Charhe and Dana WaUcer at the Academy; a shot of me in one of my favorite poses surrounded by pretty ladies in our suite on the craise; a shot of Hart Sebrmg enjoymg the seagoing life on the craise; a shot of the McVays, Jones and Zirps at our table on the cruise; andfinaUya shot of Doug Binney and Herb Tiede having a Marine mini reunion at the July luncheon.

That's it for now. Remeraber Class luncheons are on thefirstTuesday of eachraonthat the Fort McNair Officers Club at 1130. Order your '53 golf shhts (large only) from Bud Kauderer at 3204 CantreU Lane, Fairfax, Va. 22031. The Class tailgate in the pavilion will be held in conjunction with the Villanova game on Saturday, 22 September. We wiU tailgate for all other horae garaes at our usual site in the East parking lot behind the Elks Club. Action starts at these tailgates around 1030-1100. Hope to see lots of you there. I think there are stUl openings on the Royal Princess Craise from Barcelona to Fort Lauderdale on 31 October. Remeraber this craise is half price. Send in your news and pictures as I'ra running short again and Carl doesn't retire every month.

Thanks, again to all of you who write and to all who gave me pictures—you'll see raore of your pictures in future columns. Let's all hope for a better footbaU team and another win over Army. Regards to all— cheers, Dave

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Vaughn WUson has had an interesting time in recent months. He had been active as an Episcopal Deacon to the NorfoUc Jail and apparently was doing too good a job. The sheriff fired him, but the state appointed him a raember of the State Parole Board and now he is back in the jail several times a week.

The deputies are very respectful.

Pictures this month include: the pictare of Corliss and Charlie Cole; a picture of Jay and Joanne Hamilton and Carol and Ed Petersen in Thcson; a picture of Irv Boeskool with Ruth and Joyce McVay in

Membership: 60%

Pres., Col. Fitz M. Woodrow USMC (Ret.) Sec'y, Cdr. R. K. "Bob" Sheehan USN (Ret.) Cort. Sec'y Edward H. "Ed" Dawson, Jr. 6601 Howte Ct., Camp Springs, Md. 20748 By the time you read this it wiU have been a past event, and I am submitting this article two weeks before h occiured . . . but I am going out on a limb and doing my Nostradamus bit by predicting the fact that a great time was had by all at die annual '54 picnic at Claire and Charlie McLean's in Deale. You who attended will know how accurate I am . . . and you who could have, but didn't attend . . . shame on you, you missed a blast!

It was good to hear frora ray old friend Dave Campbell [Del Mar, Califomia] who also knew tiiat u s e psychologist m 1962.1 can't repeat Dave's story which beats mine, but it confirms the fact that I am reporting tiie facts, raa'am, notiiing but tiie facts.

Some of you may think that I have been making up stories . . . h-m-m-ra?

Dave has been living in Del Mar smce 1963 and, since he works just down the street at Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical he generally attends the monthly Alumni luncheons at die Admiral Kidd Club where ottier regular attendees are Bob Schlenzig and Herb Dean. By the way. Herb was in my company and was affectionately known as 'Pappy' because, after all, he was an old man at age 24! We haven't heard frora Herb in a long time . . . perhaps a few lines.

Herb??? . . .

Valley Forge Military Acaderay and Junior College announces ttiat our Classmate, VAdm. NUs Ronald Thunman has been appointed Superintendent of die academy effective 1 August, 1990. Congratalations, Ron! Since VFMA enrolls young men from grades 7 duough the sophomore level of college I am sure we wUI start seeing some top-quality applicants to USNA in the future.

Shipmate, September 1990

While on vacation tills Spring in Bryce Mountain Resort in Virginia Ann and Fred Knops ran into Marty and Red Pollock who are living at the resort.

Red has developed a ski resort in the mountains on die eastem side of the Shenandoah Valley . . . a beautiful setting.

Fred reports tiiat his children are well placed for life. Daughter, Ann Marie is a lawyer in Raleigh; Lisa is married to a lawyer in Charlotte; and son Fred III is an aeronautical engineer with Booze-Allen.

I am very grateful to Fred who responded to my request for input to our newsletter and also to William "Cutter" Robinson who was equally insphed to write a lengthy informative letter to his Classmates: If you shake the tree long enough, almost anything might fall out. Ed, you must be doing somethingrightto inspire me to actually share some stuff with you.

In the Down Memory Lane Department you ran that picture of the baseball team which stirred up a lot of images I have of trying to make the team.

Most of the time that effort was great fiin with a great bunch of guys, but there were some moments that were not so positive. In my attempts to hit against that miserable mechanical pitching machine I don't think I ever got one out of the infield. Nevertheless, with the sights, sounds and smells of basebaU in the air it's hard to imagine a better way to spend a Summer aftemoon!

Ens. Chuck Dobony '50 had jsut graduated at the top of his Class as he had previously done at M.I.T. I was quite impressed with his achievements, but more concemed that he was assigned to oversee my Plebe indoctrination.

Mr. Dobony's specialty was in conveying to the troops the proper way to assume the correct military posture. His technique was consise, to-the-point, and effective. Whenever he saw me and was within earshot, he would order 'More chest, Mr. Robinson!' If I heard that once I must have heard it a million times as he inspected us in ranks. It wasn't surprising then that Mr, Dobony had acquired die nickname of 'Morechest'. As time went by 'Mr. Morechest' had done his job well and we were all properly trained in military posture.

'One day, a group of us had an informal meeting with Ens. Dobony in Bancroft Hall. When I asked him a question I unintentionally and unwittingly addressed him as 'Mr. Morechest'! When he asked me 'How did you address me?', I instinctively said, 'Mr. Morechest', 'What is my name?' he asked again. Would you believe, I again responded, 'Mr Morechest'? I became very uncomfortable amongst the snickers as Mr. Dobony stared at me while I did not realize why. I stood there numbly and dumbly as an awfiil feeling began to well up within me as the excruciatingly embarrassing truth sunk in. He had just heard his 'nickname' for the first time and fortunately for me, he decided to laugh it off. Whew, what a relief for me!

The last two pages of Cutter's letter discussed in detail how he managed, through shear willpower and determination to conquer habits that were detrimental to his health and longevity. He did it . . . 10 minutes at a time . . . one day at a time . . . then a raontii and a year . . . and, HE DID IT! What a guy. Thanks, Cutter for taking the time to share your personal real life experiences with your Classmates who may need to comraunicate with you as a supportive friend. BUI 'Cutter' Robinson raay be reached at PO Box 1009, 8502 East Cave Creek Road, Carefree, Ariz. 85377; [602] 488-0502.

[C/S Note]: Ens. Chuck Dobony was an outstandhig leader and role model who 1 first met when he assisted Coach Max Bishop and Art Potter Sr. in the Plebe Baseball Program in the Summer of 1950.

Sadly, what could have been a very dynamic career was cut short when 'Mr. Morechest' lost his life that year in a freak horseback riding accident while going through flight training in Pensacola. It was a tragic loss to the Navy and to our country!

Shipraate, Septeraber 1990

Fred and Ann Knops, Red Pollock

Mary and Tim Wood, Mary and Tom Sisson, Linda and John Wall

Nils Thunman

Shelby Clark

News Release: Shelby V. T. Clark, CLU, ChFC, a registered representative for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has been elected President of the Spartanburg Association of Life Underwriters, Years ago [1970] when my squadron was transferred from Atsugi, Japan the expression was 'here today Guam tomorrow', Recently one of our salesmen won a trip to Hawaii , , . When asked how he felt about his achievement he responded, 'here today gone to Maui!'

I can use all the help 1 can get from you guys , , . even if h's Justin the formofa'fiUer',send a post card such as ray friend Yogi Berra did when he complained that his favorite restaurant was so popular and crowded that nobody goes there anymore!

On a sad note, the Class is advised that Morris Zane Thornton passed away on 1 July. He is sur-

vived by his children Randy, Zane and Karen; and by his wife Nancy to whom the Class of '54 extends its sincere condotences.

FYl, the way 1 write this column is day-by-day or week-by-week as the input comes in . . . not a last minute dead-line type of effort. Therefore when I hear from you, your message is typed and I await additional letters. Guess what . . . ?

Just received a great letter [mini-novel] from the very eloquent and informative Dave Henry. Dave has really taken me to task in trying to paraphrase the message that he wants to get across to all of us who are concerned with our health in the Autumn of our lives. Before 1 get into that let me first state that Dave has just made a major career change as most of us have been forced into. After leaving 'Sirapact Associates' a small computer security company in Reston, Dave made a positive move and took a course to take advantage of his sales experience with Shannon and Luchs Realtors. It is not ray intent to recommend or refer you to companies [no advertising] but perhaps Dave or Tim Wood who both have access to multiple-listing nationwide in real estate can help you if you are looking to re-locate.

The most intriguing part of Dave Henry's letter to me was the fact that he feels that he has a medically proven method of curing degenerative diseases . . . especially for those approaching age 60!!

Althouth, at this time, 1 cannot endorse Dave's findings I feel that he has substantial evidence through research and practical application that his theories may have sorae profound and futuristic and actual cures to certain diseases, now accepted as inevitible. The first of his articles . . . 'You can conquer arthritisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for less than the price of a meal' is a real eye-opener which relates to his real life experiences of how he was cured of this dreaded disease.

Dave wants to share this dynamic cure with you and I would suggest that if you are interested or are concemed please write to Dave . . . send a SASE, legal size, and you will receive detailed info. It's a great informative message that Dave has incorporated for 18 years and shared with others and seen its positive results . . . yet he wonders 'Why don't the doctors know about this?' Dave Henry, 18431 Gardenia Way, Gaithersburg, Md. 20897; [301] 948-5595.

Among the "regular" attendees at the Washington, D . C , monthly luncheon in July Ed Oscarson and Fred Pyeatt showed up after a long absence. A total of twenty-six (26) Classmates were present.

Mary and Tim Wood chartered a canal barge in Central France in May with their good friends, Linda and John Will [Cornell '53]. They travelled north from Chitry-Les-Mines on the Canal du Nivemais paralleling the Yonne River. Tim proudly flew the Maryland flag on the barge up the river. One of the highlights of the excursion was their rendezvous with Mary and Tom Sisson who live in Paris, France.

They all visited the medieval town of Vezelay Mary and Tom Sisson spend much of their time touring the French countryside as Tom reduces the trout population of French streams while Mary does research for the mystery novel she is writing.

The Woods then barged on to the Seine, taming west, then south covering a total of 330 kilometers and 140 locks; including an uncountable number of bakeries, vineyards and fine restaurants. The barge trip of two weeks ended in the Loire Valley town of Marseilles-Les-Aubigny. Tim also claims credit for visiting the great chateaux in Britany, Normandy, St. Malo, Mont St. Michel. On a very moving Memorial Day they visited the American Memorial and Cemetery at Omaha Beach before checking out Paree!

If you live in the area plan on supporting Navy Football. The first game is at home against Richmond on 8 September. See you at the tailgate celebration in the East Parking Lot under the '54 Flag . . .

Beat 'em all!! . . . George Zeberlein says I've

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graduated irom the fourteen yard line aU the way up to the eighteen yard hue . . . WOW, RHIP! . . . Eddie.

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Membership: 56%

Pres., Capt. John W. Renard USN (Ret.) Cort. Sec'y, Capt. Thomas G. Kiefaber USN (Ret.) 10522 Bhnham Rd., Great FaUs, Va. 22066 Sadly, the retum maU for the 35th Reunion informs that Chuck Henry and Devon Jensen have passed away. No particulars are known other than the fact that Chuck was hving in the San Diego area and Devon in Ogden, Utah. Juan Torroella writes tiiat he and Georgina wUl be unable to attend our Class Reunion due to extensive business travels overseas (marketing for Exxon Intemational). Juan has contributed his $55 "towards any Class funds that you may consider appropriate."

This month's maU bag contains the foUowing informative letter from Jack "Doc" Higgs: Thanks for your card a few weeks back and pardon my delay in getting in touch. We've been trying to decide if we can make it to the Reunion, but we won't be able to. Maybe the next one. I hope we're all StiU around by then.

Tom, you asked for an update on me. I'm still an English professor at East Tetmessee State. I've been here 23 years. They've been very good to me here and diis is a great place to Uve. I'm still doing a lot of speaking and writing. Last year I gave 35 programs/lectures on topics in Appalachian literature/ humor/spOTts in literature, etc. and I'm working on four books. One is on sports andreUgioncalled God in the Stadium, Muscle in the Church. I'm throwing in a one-page vita which will give a littie summing of what I've been up to.

I look back and laugh a lot at the things that went on in and around Bancroft. Irememberstepping on Jimmy .^cksm's shoes every time he was going to watch squad inspection, l>eing thrown off the watch squad myself for batting snow baUs with my sword (as BowWow). I was the only person ever to win that honor, I guess. The company officer looked like a baseball umpire as he threw me out of his office and there I was, covered with snow and deprived of my sword.

Iremembernearly wrecking a YP when the lieutenant on deck held up twofingersin a "V" as I was rapidly approaching the pier When I made no response to his signal, he tumed to me upon the bridge tofindme giving biin the ole thumb and index finger indicating that I read him well and that everything on the bridge was under perfect control. I thought he meant "carry on" but he meant "all engines back two thirds." I can still see the look of terror on his face and a few seconds more seeing him reeling around die deck as I slammed into the dock and ricocheted off for another run.

Then there was my Dad upfromour farm in Tennessee for my graduation. When I met him at Tecumseh after thefinalparade and asked him what he thought of it, hisremarkwas, "them binis sho did haul ass when they shot them guns."

The biographical sketch enclosed with his letter reveals that Jack received a Ph.D. in Enghsh frora the University of Tennessee. The raany articles and books that he has authored also are hsted.

The Washington scene is reported on by Denny SidUvan: A note to bring you up to date on some of the doings of the Washington group. On June 23, Joan and Dick Morgan's daughter hosted a lovely party in Port Tobacco, Maryland, to celebrate their 35th wedding atmiversary. The Class was well represented (with many remembering their own June 1955 weddings)—seldom seen faces were Pat and Bill Green, up from Charlottesville, and Derek Wilson,representingthe Manassas contingent.

The July 12 limcheon saw many of the gang report to Portofino's for a couple of hours TAD. A new face

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was John Boardman who surfaced after many years in Pascagoula and Dallas. John is now living in West Virginia with a long daUy commute to Bethesda for his labors with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. We hope to see him at future luncheons and football games.

We are beginning to get a Uttie organized here.

We finally have a Qass section at home footbaU games for seasonticketholders—anyone interested should caU Ted Parker or Wes Saunders in AimapoUs for more information.

Some of us are woridng on a new constimtion for our Class Alumni Association. The new constimtion wiU make elected Class officers direcdy responsible for happenings and activities. It also provides for the election of die Secretary and a Vice President. The new constitution wiU be considered for adoption at the 35th Reunion, Anyone desiring a copy before the reunion should contact me or Jack Renard.

BiU Kenningtonreportsthat plans and provisions for the 35th Reunion are complete—he is just waiting for 28 September If anyone out there has not responded to his directives, please don't wait until that date.

Tom State writes from Redondo Beach, California: 1 have been out of touch with the local USNA and '55 scene for some time, but am willing to join up again. I try to play in the Army-Navy golf matches, but haven't been to a LA Chapter function for ages.

Some '55ers are reputed to be about—Denny Curtis, Pete Odgers, Seab Wade plus Koz, Ed McHale and Ray Medeiros in CamariUo as the old reUable set. Send me your list of the 37 Oassmates in the area and we wiU try to validate and augment it.

My only recent contact was with Dick Perkins who checks in occasionaUy whileflyingfor United.

Dick is now fiiU captain, left seat commander and is loving it. I always enjoy his visits, but his stiUyouthful appearance is starting to get on my nerves.

I'm StUl with TRW, butretirementis only a couple of graduations away. Finally.

The announcement of a lavish '55 fete (has to be, if Charley Plumly arranged) at die NorfoUc Yacht and Country Club on 28 Jitiy was received, but it got caught between columns. Undoubtedly, we wiU have a report, in next month's column, on this celebration of the 39th anniversary of ovu Plebe Summer.

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'56 in Brussels

Potomac Riverfest Membership: 65%

Co-chairmen, Class Executive Committee Capt. James W. Blanchard, Jr. USN (Ret.) LCol. R. H. Lyle USAF (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. P C. Peterson USN (Ret.) 13007 Clarion Rd., Fort Washmgton, Md. 20744 Nearly 190 Classmates attended the swearing in of Frank Kelso when he relieved Carl Trost as the 24tii Chief of Naval Operations in front of Bancroft Hall at the end of June. Special seating for the group permitted (in the words of Admiral Trost) "the well trained Class of 56" to have a ringside seat as Landess and theh two sons Thomas and Donald held Admiral D. D. Porter's bible as Frank was swom in. Following the official reception in Dahlgren HaU, thanks to Ted Shidtz and Doc Blanchard a luncheon for our esteemed Classmate was held at the boat house which permitted all of us to personaUy wish the new CNO weU. I know that I would probably miss a few names in trying to list all of the attendees, but would at least like to acknowledge the presence of some distinguished out-of-towners such as Jarvis Lynch, Diane and Bob Jaeger, Joe Talbert, Anne and Jim Hogg, Gene Ward, Gay and Frank White, Larty White and Roy CoUms. (O.K. You guys I missed now have a reason to write a few lines and teU me that you were there also.)

Brassels was the scene of a mini-reunion as Era and Joe Talbert and Mona and Ted Shvdtz had an

opportanity to visit witii Anne and Jim Hogg before President Bush and MUdiael Gorbachov came to town.

The annual Potomac River festival was again highhghted by hosts Sally and Roger Betts on dieir 45foot CoLUMBL\ in early June. Rich Seesholtz did a remarkable job as hehnsman whUe Bud Alexander and Jerry Green handled fines. Shorty would have been proud of tiiem passing their practical factors while tiieh "sweet patooties" and John Buckley watched. The weatiier cooperated and a grand time was die result.

AH you trivia buffs can get a lot of good items for die next Class get-togetiier based on a short note from Carl Nelson. Seems diat of die 455 people who went Navy after graduation, 80% remained on active duty in 1962 whereas of tiiose 169 who went Air Force, only 67%. The Marines stayed in die middle witti 70% remaining on active duty during the same time.

I always tiiought ttiat ttie boys in sock bag blue were die happtest. Incidentally by 1962 we aheady had 13 deceased Classmates. (Currentiy 51.) hi mid June, Doug Osgood, Steven Soltesz, John Nelson and Mai Malloy managed to get togettier in Placentia, Cahfomia, on flie occasion of tiie marriage of John's second (of four) daughter. John, Steve and Mai were roommates 3/c year, John and Mai 2/c year and Steve joined 1/c year. Witti John living m Great Falls, Montana, Doug living in Dayton, Ohio, Steve m Riverside and Mai in San Diego, it was a great opShipmate, September 1990

portunity for a chance to swap sea, supply and air (ground) stories. Word has it tiiat sorae of tiie stories were really true! Incidentally, ttie bride's uncle's are Doug and Jack Janetatos (who was unable to make tiie ceremony). John, Doug and Jack having married three sistere in a triple wedding Mass after graduation.

The schedule for D.C. area lunches has been estabUshed for die current year by the Executive Committee Pork Chop. I'm told ttiat the dates are as follows: 7 Sept 1990, 7 Dec 1990, 7 Mar 1991 and 7 June 1991.

AU luncheons at Fort Myer. Hint: for all you people who can't remember numbers that there is an easy way to remember the dates. If you have trouble seeing what the clue is, drop me a line and I wUl provide a further clue.

Go NAVY.

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Pres., LCol. George F. Warren USMC (Ret.) Con. Sec'y, Capt. W. H. Pterenboom USN (Ret.) 1003 Rachel Lane, Vtenna, Va. 22180 There are but two mputs this month, but both are lengthy and newsworthy. Before getting to them, it is a pleasure to report on die 1990 version of the Class picnic at Martha Ann and BUI Romoser's farm in the StiU unspoUed portion of Fahfax county. There was an exceUent tumout, and once again, the Romosers outdid themselves in hosting this annual event. Although we missed getting a fuU group photo, the two submitted provide a statistically meaningful sample of the group, which consisted of, in addition to the Romosers and scribe, (recognizing the likelihood of my leaving somebody out due to failing memory), Mohns, Kirklands, Lanmans, Baldings, O'ConneUs, Albertsons, Avis, Warten, Shewmakers, Bowers', Magners, Rositzkes and Scales'. Everyone looked great; George Lanman gets the prize for making the biggest splash in the pool, dousing several onlookers with what he advertised as a "swan" dive.

Had an interesting report frora Dave Isquith, which I wiU let speak for itself. Nice to know yet anodier Classmate is minglmg with the "gliteratti."

Clare and I recentiy took time off from our daily routines, me from Thomas Enterprises, and Clare from her RN position at Holy Cross Hospital, to attend a celebrity wedding, visit with Val and Paul Gibbons, (Coronado), see some relatives, and do a bit of R&R along die way.

We were delighted to see Paul and Valerie again, who not only graciously opened their home to us, but also arranged some "glass clinking" time with the likes of Maxine and Harry Gimber, Valerie (widow of Jim Cox) and Clare go way back to USNA days and when I did tours in BREMERTON and BLUE out of Long Beach, Paul, now RAdm, (Ret,), is presentiy the director of Corporate Relations at the University of San Diego, and one super person—a person who, through Valerie and on his own, has close association with the Class, and whom we consider an honorary Classmate. Unfortunately, my "any fool can operate this" camera did not take very good shots of Paul and Val, and totally missed Harry and Maxine. I can assure you that all are well and happy, and looking forward to the next 100 years.

The wedding in Los Angeles was that of Cy Durante, adopted daughter late in his life of the great Jimmy Durante, —to the son of friends of ours from this area. Not being overly impressed with members of the silver screen, —far less expensive seeing them at the local cinemas, Clare had to work on me to make this trip, I still was not convinced that sending them a gift with the RSVP wouldn't be a better solution than attending, especially after witnessing Clare's preparation for the "coronation"; however, as wives usually are, she was totally correct in her insistence that I would have a great time Shipmate, September 1990

BiU Romoser and guests

Shewmakers and Kirklands (or else!), Acmally, it was like attending a Class reunion, with respect to warmth and good fellowship.

The only difference was that folks like Red Buttons, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Fess Parker, Dale Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, Danny Thomas, John Gavin (also an ambassador), Caesar Romero, Milton Berle and Mayor Daley, plus others were there. This rime my camera did catch "uncle MUton" between Clare and myself, because I was not die one taking the picture. I've enclosed the "guess who is older" photo.

Our schedule did not allow us to stray far, so many Classmates we would have loved to ring up did not get mng Uiis time. For those who love Califomia, let me say Clare and I would have loved to bottie up your weather and brought it back to D.C, if such were possible. Best regards to all, Hope to see you at the next luncheon.

As you know, we have been engaged in an exercise to get a new charter for the Association of the Class of 1957. Walt Meukow has spearheaded this work, which I can assure you, has not been simple. However, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, I am pleased to report that Walt's efforts have paid off, and I believe I am safe in stating that we now have a superb, up to date, living Charter. Walt sent a letter describing these efforts, which, through the miracle of modem high technology, reaches you next: '57 Referendum Recap If I'd known that 261 of us would respond to our Charter Referendum 1 think we'd still be looking for a volunteer Four Hundred odd staples and pieces of scotch tape later, your interest, offers of help, and personal comments rejuvenated my enthusiasm ten fold. Many thanks; however, I didn't need to be re-

minded that I'm bald.

All in all we received 256 "For" responses, 4 "Against", and 1 "I don't know" (Guess which one was the Marine?). The abstention and two of the negs were on the basis of being unable to vote on something that they could not read, so our moles were provided a clearer version of the Charter Interestingly, two negs were both living in the same town in Georgia. Must be the water Regardless, my apology for inadequately caring for the aged. One negative vote was inspired by fear of too much power being vested in the President, and one person suggested we should have a run-off election. To the first —"don't worry," the Charter amply provides for coordination with other elected officers. To the second—no way, unless you'll foot the bill and volunteer your services full-time. A number of people claimed not to be able to read diefineprint, but were "for" on "blind faith." (Pun intended).

Bill Aldenderfer wins the award for the response from the farthest distance, namely Singapore.

Thanks Bill, but your cash prize was donated to worthier causes.

Comments regarding my placement of the fold lines are not printable. I had no problem, but then again I never folded mine. George Dempsey got even with me. I think he used 14 staples.

A number of you received your referendum ballots after the mid-June cut-off date (would you believe 7 July?) and remrned same immediately. I assure you that you were not disenfranchised. Many thanks for sticking with it.

Fred Howe thought we did a pretty good job, but Bill and I haven't yet agreed on whether we agree with Fred, Some concern was expressed regarding the use of Shipmate to communicate with the Class, and it was suggested that we should establish altemate means of conununications to reach those who don't subscribe to Shipmate. Thats a good idea that deserves attention. However, please be advised that each First Class mailing costs in excess of $300.

We got a suggestion to change "Committee Member" to "Board Member," but that never came on board. Regarding the Vice President's responsibilities for decendent affairs, Jim Bower read it as "decadent" and volunteered. I advised he had to run for the job.

Some questions were raised about the names and reason for nomination of "honorary members."

There is no set "reason." The charter change provides for a mechanism to so honor those with special relationships with the Class. Currentiy we have two: Chaplain Bryan Holderby and Captain Ralph Martin, Commissioning Skipper of USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CG-57),

Bud Edney came up with some good questions regarding die Association Finance Section, Namely, how do we generate funds separate from Class projects? Do we have annual dues? Do we need dues for Admin purposes? This section was left deliberately vague to provide a mechanism for addressing the problems in due course, without unduly constricting our options. Solicitation for one-time donations to estabhsh an operating fund to handle immediate admin needs, and an Investment fund to generate continuing funds to sustain the effort are viable options.

Annual dues collection are used by some Classes, but require atimeconsuming and costly administrative organization to process and maintain. Any specific ideas should be forwarded to die Executive Committee for coordination with die rest of the Association. Incidentally, I can't resist one jab. If Bud can take the time and effort to contribute to Association affaus, then most of us probably also can find thetimewithout disturbing the world's equiUbrium.

Two or three members expressed concem regarding the perception of "a great deal" of power vested in the Washington Chapter, but conceded that it was probably the most efficient way to organize Association affairs. The routine affairs referred to in the Charter are "Homecomings," "Class Projects," "Election," and general communications. Washington Chapter members keep a penny ante stamp fund alive with their luncheon contributions, but don't contribute enough to sustain frequent Association-wide mailings. Hence die need for an Operating Fund. Some of us believe the Alumni Associa79

tion policy regarding project contributions is somewhat insensitive. For example, accrued interest on Class donations are not credited to die Class, Needless to say this amounts to a pretty penny on a major drive. By establishing an Investment Fund we would not only contribute to a sustaining Operating Fund, but also provide for selective "Projects" or "Contributions" (fully approved by all-hands) with some opportunity for leverage should we choose to apply such. At least thats die phUosophy we're using. Any voting memberresidingoutside our 50mUe limit can apply to be a member of the Washington Chapter (article IV para lA.), Further, any other Chapter can petition the Washington Chapter to propose, or present to the Association for Action, any initiative it chooses to support. Washintgon's proximity to so much of ourrecurringAssociation activities support the choice of this Chapter to serve overaU Association needs.

The award as the '57 Worty Wart of the Year goes to an urmamed Classmate who acknowledged it might be too early to worry about, but suggested we would evenmally have to make some provision for orderly termination of the Association affaus when 10 members are no longer available to take the necessary action, "Frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn," But if I'm one of die "10," I'U be happy to volunteer.

In conclusion, your endiusiastic participation and heart warming comments made my day. Many tiianks, and God Bless. Walt Meukow

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Membership: 58%

Pres., Capt. Paul A. POlski USN (Ret.) Cort. Sec'y, Col. Warren S. Walters USMC (Ret.) 5664 Ravenel Lane, Springfield, Va. 22151 (703) 321-9586 (H) September greetings! With Summer behind us and a new Navy football season getting underway, the '58ers are ready for a look at sorae winning Navy gridiron action. At least 68 Classmates, with wives and guests, wiU be cheering along together in the expanded perpetaity seating area. Every Classmate that wanted to get mto the '58 block seating this year was accommodated, so we have quite a sohd section of die-hard fans. There are another 12 or so Classmates who have seats scattered around the Stadium which they prefer to keep, but we all get together for tailgating in our customary area before and after the game . . . atnearly 80 strong. That's close to 10% of the Class on a regular basis!

There wUl be one sUght difference this year! We have been assigned our normal tailgating area, but through a convoluted series of events, some with strange side stories, h tums out that USNA assigned to die Class of '58 a tailgate area that really doesn't belong totaUy to the Naval Acaderay Athletic Association. In fact, about a 10-foot strip of property that we have been tailgating on for years is now owned by "G58A", a consortium ventare of the Class of '58!

Not only tiiat 10-foot strip, but the property abutting the enthe Southwest comer of the Stadium area . . . a property about 450 feet long and 50 feet wide, with house, belongs to G58A. The story starts last April, when Polski, Sinnott, Lamb, and Walters attended a meeting called by the Aluinni Association and the Athletic Association to discuss Homecoming arrangements and to re-invigorate tiie Navy football program. At that meeting, Tom Sinnot casually mentioned to Paul Polski that the property adjacent to the USNA Memorial Stadium was for sale. A '58 group had missed out on an opportanity to buy a similar property about four years ago, and had been waiting for a similar chance.

After the meeting, Paul arranged to meet the realtor at the site, took a quick look, put down an earnest money deposh, then started the process of putting to80

gether a limited real estate venture group, independent of the official Class structure. Many of you were given the opportanity to join in, and a sufficient number did, so the dealfinallycame together. Along the way, a couple of interesting things occurted. In order to insure we were behind the project, a group of sorae 15 Classmates and wives went down to Annapolis one Sunday aftemoon to inspect the property. It tumed out there were three adjacent properties for sale, so we looked at them all. One of them was the property G58A had optioned, which literally is adjacent to the Stadium parking lot behind the old Quonset hut used for the groundskeeping machinery.

It contains a wooded lot, which in fact many '58ers had used in the past in certain relief sitaations, that runs the length of the parking area all the way to our normal tailgate area. The house next to it had an identical lot, but already had an option on it, and the third house was the old original farm house for the property that became Navy-Marine Memorial Stadium.

After our inspection tour and agreement that this was a reasonable investment, most of us retamed horae, but one couple doubled back and bought the farm house! So Kay and Tom Powell (13th Co.) will be great neighbors two doors down from the G58A property.

The survey on the property was another surprise.

It had been thought the property line ended at the tree line adjacent to our tailgate area. When it was finally marked out, the front marker was about 10 feet into land we had been tailgating on for some time. The previous owner had never really checked into it, so the line became sort of nebulous. G58A is in the process of working it out with NAAA! The house is being renovated with new appliances, air conditioning, paint, wallpaper, and some carpeting, and wUl likely become a rental property to produce income.

The long wood lot will be cleaned up and tumed into a tailgate area, with the potential that portions of it not needed by the Class of '58 may be rented out to other groups that would lUce to tailgate on the grass under the trees. There will be a garage buih for storage purposes, possibly for the tents that G58A is purchasing to rent to other groups.

So the futare brings a change to our tailgating, in that we can relax our vigilance and little and let the moming crew sleep just a little later on game days, knowing they don't have to get over to the Stadium to guard a piece of tarf for the Class to tailgate on.

G58A is making the tailgate area available to the entire Class of 1958 to enjoy, hopefully until the last member is sitting under the trees by himself, toasting his departed friends with a glass of that good good Guenther beer! And if you want a share of G58A, call Polski.

Now for sorae news of Classmates around the globe. In far off Saudi Arabia, Don Carty is working for the BDM Corporation, overseeing the maintenance manageraent of some of the Saudi military ahcraft. Don had served a career in the Air Force in acquisition management, flying helicopters and C-47s, being a SAR pilot in Viet Nam, and spendmg time in both tan and Peru. He retired as a Colonel in 1988, and signed on witti BDM at that time. He got married to Patricia Cassady while stationed at Wright-Patterson Ara in 1966, andtiieyhave a daughter, Cara, at Bryn Mawr, and a young son, Sam, who is in the 5th grade. Any of you who are headed for Saudi Arabia and want advance reservations, you can reach Don at USMTM, Box 1499-R, APO New York, 09038.

On die other side of die globe in the Philippines, our Classmate RAdm. Carlito Cunanan retired frora his position as the Flag Officer in Command, Philippine Navy, during March. The photograph shows Carl receiving his fourth Distinguished Service Star frora General Renato De Villa, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, assisted

by Liz Cunanan. Now that he is rethed, he has been

Carlito catchmg up on his readmg, travel, and golf. Liz says he is also in die job market, but tiiat he seems to do most of his searching on die fahway Theh youngest chUd, Kattiy wUl be coming to ttie States ttus Fall to enter college, just as her brother Richard wUl be finishhig up his degree work at die University of Maryland. The oldest son, Carl, a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C, works in Manila for die Baliuag Navigation Company, a steamship line. Congratalations upon completing an enviable and exciting career, Carlito, and best wishes for an equally adventurous retheraent. The D.C. '58 golfers still want to get you over here for some golf game they play and make small wagers on!

Of course golf brings up the subject of the annual Wally Bridgman Tour to die Masters Toumament m Augusta last Spring. On a sort of trial basis, his chosen traveling companion for this year's outing was his longtime associate and parmer in parenting, Maij. By virtae of careful self control and always maintaining a position one step to the left and one step behind, Maij passed aU the obhgatory Master's Course social tests, and indeed achieved such an impressive score that it has been suggested she is a candidate to go on the same tour next year. MeanwhUe, the old duffer achieved his customary success by winning the Westwood CC AprU Fools Scramble . . . and with two female partaers on his team! A gentieman to the end, our Elmer even allowed the ladies to be in his picture, which appeared on the cover of the club newsletter . . . one pace to the left and one behind.

White chasing down season ticket holders for Navy, it was necessary to place a call to RAdm. BUI Pendley's quarters in Makalapa, Hawau. CaUing about noon, one would expect a steward to answer, or raaybe even Anne, but after three rings, a sleepy voice picked up the phone and gave a raurabled "Hello." When asked if he were RAdm. BUI, he responded "No, he's not here, but should be back in about a hour." When asked who was speaking, the voice responded "This is Skip Gross!" And thus it was discovered that Mary Ann and Skip of Pittsburgh were canying on that greatest of all '58 traditions, taking a vacation in a wonderful location and using the latest version of The Gouge for accomodations.

Also on the vacation trail, Mike Moran, who took his wife and son to London for 10 days in May. Mike also passed on the word that his daughter, Monica, is engaged to be martied next April. And there were April weddmgs this year, with Mary and Tom Keifer givmg theh daughter, Mary Joan in marriage to Mr. Kevin Love in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on 28 April.

Several Classmates attended the wedding to help the Keifers get through this occasion, including the Gamboas, Edwards, Polskis, Wiedemans, Ron Fisher, Gersons, Wilcoxes, and Walters.

The D.C. Chapter has continued with its raonthly luncheons, and recent visitors included Bernie Demers (24th Co.), up frora Texas, and Dick Davies, (21st Co.) who lives in Fairfax, Virginia, and works for Advanced Technology on the Aegis program. Our guest speaker for ttie June luncheon was RAdm. C. Shipmate, September 1990

A. "Mark" Hill '44, one of the founders of the Poindexter Defense Fund. RAdm. Hill presented us with interesting points to consider conceming the proceedingstiiatJohn is involved in, with some amplifying remarks on the legal aspects being provided by one of our own Class lawyers, BUI Mooney. We were also given some insights into thefineart of managing a defense fund, and provided a better understanding of some of the letters that have been mailed on behalf of the fund. The gist of the discussion came down to tills: for Classmates and shipmates, the best way to insuretiiat100% of the moneytiiatyou direct towards the fund gets to John's defense is to send it to the original ftmd address, "PDF" c/o Mark Hill, 1322 Mertie Ridge Road, McLean, Va. 22101, with checks made out to "PDF" The bills exceed $2 million! Try that on your retired pay!

'58 Trivia: The states that cmrentiy have no members of the Class of '58 living in them are: Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Now take a guess at what percentage of the Class lives within the D.C.-Virgmia-Maryland area. Hasta luego\

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Membership: 58%

Pres., VAdm. Francis R. Donovan USN Chairman, Ex. Comm., Cdr. Lloyd H. Adams USN (Ret.) Cort. Sec'y, Capt. John A. Butterfield USN (Ret.) c/o National Fitaess Leaders Association 14800 Conf. Ctr. Dr., Suite 401 ChantiUy, Va. 22021

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Pres., Capt. Donald V. Boecker USN Sec'y Capt. Patrick H. Sullivan USNR 250 Meadow Rd., Santa Craz, Cahf. 95060 You know, he continued, how difficult it is to stir one's bones during these warm and lazy days of Summer. It's not only difficuh for yours traly, but apparendy for everyone else. Nothing has appeared in the maUbag for over a month . . . guess everyone else is out in their backyard hammock, taking a well-deserved snooze. Fortanately there are a few items of Class business that willfiUin what would otherwise be a distressmgly blank space this month . . .

Fhst of all, as we approach the Thhtieth, we also approach the end of thefive-yeartenure of the current slate of Class Officers. President Don Boecker has asked a number of former Class officers to serve on a committee whose purpose is to propose a new slate for the next five-year period. Classmates are requested to contact the Committee members with any ideas on the criteria for selection or ideas about potential moninees for office. The Committee is comprised of: Dan Affourtit (former VP), Ray Berkeley (former Sec'y and President), Chuck Bingemer (former Treasurer), BUI Calvert (former President), Mike Midas (former Treasurer) and Bob Osmon (former Secretary).

Ottier news, I contacted Dick Pariseau, President of the Washington-Annapolis Chapter, to get an update on the preparations for the Thirtieth. Dick reports that all is proceeding smoothly. We already have 350 Classmates signed up in advance for the Tailgate & Dinner. We expect that many more Classmates wiU sign up on the day of the events. Conceming hotels, our block of rooms at the Loew's Annapohs has by now been completely filled. There are still rooms available at the Historic Inns of Annapolis, so feel free to contact them directly. Dick had nothing but superlatives to say about the Classmates and their Shipmate, September 1990

wives who have contributed so much to the planning and execution of this Reunion.

I also checked with Ron Hinkel on the status of the Thirty Years Book. Ron is very pleased with how tilings are going, although it has been a bit of a struggle to get the bios and the checks in before the very last-minute deadlines. Problems not withstanding, over 500 Classmates have sent in their bios and their checks. The book is in final preparation at this writing (late July) and Ron expects no problems in distributing the book by mail before the Reunion! This effort, like the Reunion itself, called upon the resources of a large number of Classmates. Everyone associated with the Book has contributed their time and effort way beyond what one would expect. Ron and each member of the team deserve our most sincere thanks and appreciation.

Well, he went on, that's about all we have for this slow-moving month. Next month if nothing new comes it I'll print some of my grandmother's best potato recipes, or Henry Kissinger's essay on clear public speaking, or some Truly Tasteless Limericks, or excerpts from the forthcoming Donald Trump book on sensitivity, or . . . well, let's just hope something better shows up from one of you! See you here next month. Say well.

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Pres., Capt. James Luper USN (Ret.) Cort. Sec'y, Capt. Roger Onorati USN (Ret.) 2907 Springlake Dr., Davidsonville, Md. 21035 Hi gang! Hope this gets to you before the Reunion.

In any case, h wUl be a brief column because, a) my fingers still haven't recovered from typing last month's column; b) I'm quickly approaching the filing deadline and 1 don't want the editor onraycase; and c) there wasn't much input this last month and 1 don't have the ambition to write any morefictionthis late in the Summer.

Anyone knowing the current address or phone number of Hank Hahn, please phone me immediately at (301) 956-6663 and let me have it. I have an important message for him. Hank was last sighted a few months ago in a San Diego saloon by BUI Krause, but we have lost contact with him.

By the time you read this, our Big Blue football team will have a few games under its beh, hopefully all wins. Exciting things are happening with the Navy sports programs with skyboxes being added to the Stadiura for you self-actaalized rich guys out there, improved Class seating for season ticket holders, and many other innovations designed to get the Alums out to support the team. Our Class tailgaters are becoming "can't miss" social events, so those of you within striking distance of Annapolis could do a lot worse with your Satarday aftemoons than to share a few brews and some good fun with your Classmates.

Look for the blue and gold "1961" flag at the north end of the Stadium, pull up a parking space, lay out the groceries, pop the corks, and enjoy a convivial afternoon and a few laughs. End of commercial. On to the nooze.

MAIL CALL. A few Flag moves to report on.

ArUe Campbell was relieved as CoraSubGru Six in Charleston on 13 July. Arlie is now safe and secure back inside the confines of the Washington, D.C, beltway as Vice Commander, Defense Communications Agency. Since he's now an expert in communication, I wonder if he'd like to write the Class column? Dan March has been relieved as ComCarGru THREE in San Diego and has moved up the coast to Alameda to take command as ComCarGru FIVE. I hope the Navy doesn't ran out of CarGru's before Dan decides to rethe or he won't be able tofinda job.

A rose among the thorns Jack Mattiace writes from San Diego: Way back in April, Kim and Virg HUI accompanied the heavyweight crew from USNA to San Diego in order to cheer them on, astiieyparticipated in the Copley Cup Classic, a rowing event of some national note. The San Diego-Coronado Chapter of the Alumni Association sponsored a luncheon for the Hills, which mmed out to be a very fun event. Virg sparkled as a luncheon speaker with stories of USNA life in the present day. In the accompanying photo are sitting (L to R) Bill Krause, Kim Hill, Tom Bailey, and Don CouUahan, Standing are (L to R) Bruce Maxon, Jack Mattiace, Virg Hill, and Don Grinnell, 1 got a nicetetterfrom Jack Pappas along with his registration form. He and Kathy moved to New Mexico a few years back and he took the time tofillme in on some of the local culture, cuisine and folklore. He is by his own account "Vice President of somethingor-other" with BDM Corp., but has raost of his business base here in Washington, D.C. Jack said to pass the word to any Classmates visiting Albuquerque to call him at work (505) 848-5286 or horae (505) 275-1154 and he'll fix you up with some good Spanish food and some tequila that will curl the hair on your chest.

SEEN AND HEARD AROUND TOWN. Kathy and BUI Straight's oldest daughter, Mary Beth, has recently been appointed as the Photo Archivist at the U,S, Naval Institate in Annapolis, She has worked at the Institate since her graduation frora William and Mary Coltege in 1987. Call her at (301) 268-6110 and you can order a copy of a photograph of any ship or ahcraft you might need to put on your "ego wall." For you Marines she even has photos of tanks and foxholes. She even has hmited edition photo of Ben Sotille posing in the nude, taken when he applied to be a Cosmopolitan centerfold. And no, there is no truth to the rumor that if you identify yourself as a member of the Class of '61 you will be assessed a 20% surcharge, just on general principles.

Warren Hoppe called last week to report he'd seen Rick Shreve's name in a June edition of Business Week. Rick, completed a very successful career on Wall Street after he left the service. Now he's decided what he wants to do when he grows up and is pursuing a divinity degree at Yale.

A new AEGIS cruiser, USS MONTEREY (CG-61)

was commissioned 16 June 1990. FMC Defense Systems, a company that provides the main guns and vertical launching systems for these cruisers is offering a complimentary 26-by 30-inch poster commemorating the commissioning, that depicts CG-61 underway launching missiles in the foreground superimposed over General Zachary Taylor leading his forces during the Battle of Monterey. This handsome poster can be had free for the asking by writing to FMC Naval Systems Division, T200 RCS, Box 59043, Minneapolis, Minn. 55459-0045.

The sale of plaques with our Class crest has been a rousing success. For those of you whoraayhave missfed the original announcement, let me do it again.

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Biddle and bear a six-inch high casting of the '61 crest mounted on a beautiful polished shield-shaped cherty wood base. They are $80 each mcluding shipping and handUng, and can be ordered for dhect shipment by writmg to Bob Westfall at 10503 Mount Sunappe Rd. Vienna, Va. 22180 or by calling him at home (703) 759-5694. Please provide Bob with complete shipping information and aUow 8-10 weeks for delivery.

Bob Hofford reported at the last Class luncheon that our annual fund drive is rolling along nicely. As of June 1990, we had received donations from about 320 Classmates to the tane of $61,000.

UPCOMING LOCAL CLASS EVENTS. Class luncheons (all on Tuesdays): 9 October and 12 February (annual Sweetheart Luncheon.) There will not be a December luncheon because we plan to have our annual '61 Christmas Party in December this year for a change. The date has not yet been finalized, but will be reported in the next issue.

COUNTDOWN TO THE 30TH. 10-9-8-7-6-5-43-2-1 BLAST OFF! Execute. Nothing to report that won't be too late. It's here, a year earlier than we planned 29 years ago, but so what? I hope to see the attendees and gather lots of material and photos for futare columns, but primarily, I hope everyone has a great time.

Dick Ardavany has asked me to announce that he is having an open house on Thursday of Homecoming Weekend for his 8th Company corapadres.

PARTING SHOTS. A cold flash frora Neil Block: During a very moving ceremony at the Alumni Association Board of Trustees meeting in September 1989, Dr. Robert H. "Two Dogs" Shapiro, flie recently appointed Academic Dean and Provost of the United States Naval Academy was invested as an honorary member of The World's Greatest Naval Academy Class (WGNAC)-the Class of 1961. Dr. Shapiro, although himself a 1961 graduate of a far less stellar instimtion (University of Connecticut) comes to USNA iimnediately from James Madison University where he wasfirstHead of the Chemistry Departtnent, then Dean of the CoUege of Letters and Sciences, Vice President for Academic Affairs, the college's first Madison Scholar and its first Freshmen Convocation speaker He artived there circuitously in the course of his academic career which was launched after four years of service as a hospital corpsman with the Navy and Marine Corps during the Korean War. He eamed a Ph.D degree in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1964 and spent 15 years at the University of Colorado where he was awarded several teaching and research citations including a Fulbright Scholarship, while honing his skiing skiUs. Soon after arriving at USNA, during a chance encounter with the assembled WGNAC multimde at a formal and potentially severe social event, Dr Shapiro, known as "T\vo Dogs" to his closest friends, happened to comment on his general affection and admiration for things naval and his special and particular recognition of a clear and definably noteworthy abandoned merriment and suave aplomb of the WGNAC personages there assembled. Immediately recognizing die concomitant qualities of a person so quickly able to make the depthful discernment of the special merits of those of us that can claim WGNAChood, and after close scmtiny by die assembled of Two Dogs' non-professional credentials, to wit; his charm and carriage, his commanding demeanor, his wealth of good stories—and not the least, his excellent formne in having a charming and beautiful wife—a plenary session of the TACBBMTW (The Ad-hoc Committee for the Beneficent Betterment of Mankind through GWNACness, i.e., Virg Hill, Roger Onorati, NeU Block) met and resolved to install him as our first and only honorary Class member At a later Class Executive Committee meeting this installation was ratified, so on behalf of the WGNAC, I would like to officially welcome Two Dogs to the Class. He will be attending various functions during our 30th Reunion, so if any of you see a

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mustachioed gentleman with a smile on his face and a nine iron in his hand lurking around the pretty ghls, give him a big welcome, but be sure to check your wallet before he leaves.

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Pres. Ken MacKenzie Sec'y, Howard Pinskey PO. Box 3380, Annapohs, Md. 21403 Homecoming Our annual Class get-together (#28) will be held on 27 October 1990, at the USNA Officers' Club.

The party will start at 1730 and the dress is casual— after the football game style.

The Summer flyer, which you will receive this raonth, will have more complete details including the reservation information.

Around the Fleet Joe Lane writes that the Class has at least one active duty colonel still in the US Army. He is the Director of Land Management at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and is working on downsizing the command in order to comply with budget reductions. Joe hopes to make Homecoming this year.

It's obvious, the Summer mail bag was quite empty. Now that the Fall is close at hand, h's a good time to communicate with your Classmates, via Shipmate. All cards and letters accepted.

Until next month—

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Pres., LCol. Daniel A. Hitzelberger USMC (Ret.) Sec'y Michael H. Shelley 9915 Natick Rd., Burke, Va. 22015 Let's jump right in with the continuation of last month's letter from Jim DeFrancia: While in San Diego to visit Joe Strasser in early June I also found time for lunch widi Max Ricketts and his wife Edith. They have recentiy settied into their new home in the La Jolla area and Max is busy widi writing and politics. His book The Great Anxiety Escape (with Dr. Edwin Bien, MD) was recentiy published and he had just rettimed from the National Booksellers Association convention in Las Vegas. Apart from his writing activities, Max has also become a political activist. Most recentiy, he was the Communications Director for the primary campaign for a Republican candidate for the California state legislature. Unfortunately, the candidate lost by a 52-48 percent margin, but was widely noted in the press for having put on a surprisingly strong showing. Max deserves a great deal of credit for diat, having run a successful media program diat contributed significantly to bringing the candidate from an expected 20 percent in die pre-election polls aU the way to a near upset. When I inquired about his travels to the east. Max assured me that he would attend the Army-Navy game if I would get tiie tickets. I've sent in the order, so we can look for him in December I also has occasion to cross paths briefly widi Ron Terwilliger and Dick Ortwein at die recent Urban Land Instittite meeting in Dallas. Both looked young, fit, and prosperous. Ron's company, Trammel Crow Residential, has been named the top homebuilder in the United States for thefifthyear in a row. Ron was celebrating die achievement with a trip to Egypt and the Middle East, which is where he was last reported when I dropped by his offices in Atianta in late May. Dick continues in his post as Division President of the Koll Company in Newport Beach, Califomia—one of the most successful developmentfirmson the West Coast. Dick and I have been serving together on a Growth Management

Task Force which is evaluating growth policies nationwide.

My own activities have been rather diverse over the last year. Last Summer I was pleased to serve on a panel assembled by the Urban Land Instimte to provide some development expertise to die government of the Netherlands. That oppormnity occasioned a fantastic ten days in HoUand with the unique perspective one gains of a country from seeing it "from the inside out." I was privileged to meet with a wide array of Dutch government officials ranging from cabinet ministers to the mayors of Rotterdam and The Hague.

I tagged a few days of personal vacation onto that trip and spent an enjoyable week in Austria with my fiance^, Brinkley Brashear. No announced date as yet, but we are officially betrodied.

The larger part of last Winter was spent at my home in Aspen where I was delighted to briefly entertain Sonny Glassner and his delightfiil wife Laurie. Unfortunately (for a skier) business got better and I had to bead back East with only a scant 52 ski days under my belt this season!

Notwithstanding the current significant decline in the real estate industry, my company's business has been doing very weU. One of our more interesting projects is the management of the physical development of a new university in the Washington, D.C, area that is sponsored by Japanese business interests. We are overseeing the master planning, architectural design, and governmental approvals for all the physical facilities. Our Seatte office has expanded this oriental relationship with a new venture with Mitsubishi that is cinrendy in its feasibility stages. We have also recently taken over management of the real estate subsidiaries of the Monarch Capital Corporation. We are alsofinishingup a major shopping center renovation in Montgomery County, Maryland, and continue to have several active land projects in Virginia, plus our West Coast and Denver activities.

In closing, permit me to remind everyone not to forget our favorite charity—the Class of 1963 Foundation. As the Treasurer, I continue to receive truly touching thank-you notes and letters of appreciation from the children who have been benefiting from ourfineprogram. We have 24 students currentiy receiving scholarship assistance. Every doUar helps this worthy cause.

Whew! Thanks a lot, Jim, for taking the time to write such a complete report. I certainly agree that the Class Foundation has provided invaluable help, encouragement, and inspuation to the children of our departed Classmates. As an example of the Foundation's effects, here is a letter that Al Griggs recently received frora our Classraate Karl Kolon's son, Matt. A forraer trustee of oiu foundation, Al had made Matt aware of the assistance we could provide for his education. (The letter appears here with Matt's permission.)

Ifinishedmyfinalexams for the Spring semester the first week of May, and as I summed up the year in my mind it occurred to me (as it has recurrentiy throughout the year) that it would not have been possible widiout your assistance and that of your Classmates. I cannot thank you enough for contacting me about the Class of '63 Foundation. As you know, I wouldn't have been able to pay for school this year had it not been for your generous award.

The yearttrniedout pretty well for me, in spite of die fact that I overloaded myself with classes, not having realized how much time smdent govemment would require. Tmly, being President of die GSSA was like taking two or three extra classes. I did leam a lot about bureaucracy. I've discovered something dial I'm sure you know: that leading a group of people to act in some kind of coordinated effort to achieve a common goal is a difficult and frustrating endeavor, but when it works, it's immensely satisfying.

That's an odd sentiment to be expressing in a tiiank-you letter and I undoubtedly write it in part to show you dial I'm leaming something here at Columbia, andttiatdie foundation's money is not being wasted. But I also write it because I feel die need to impress upon you my intention to live up to my faShipmate, September 1990

tiler's ideals. I suppose that's important to me because you are die strongest link I have witii a part of my fatiier Uiat was very important to him. His pride in the Naval Academy was great, and it's unfortunate that I never got a chance to really leam his deeper feelings about his time diere. Not only tiiat, but I feel as tiiough (only now, at 24!) I'm at about the same period of my life as you and my dad were when you were at Annapolis. What his thoughts and ideals were at that time is almost unknown to me, and it's something that I'd love to leam.

Thank you, Mr, Griggs, for your kindness and generosity over the last year and before, If I can help you or the foundation in any small way, please don't hesitate to ask.

Now that letter packs a punch, doesn't it? Clearly, the influence of the foundation extends beyond just financial aid. By sustaining the scholarship program and other, mtangible forms of support we are preservmg the spirit and ideals of the Class of 1963 and making diem serve as insphations to die next generation.

Please continue your own participation.

Here are a few news items about folks moving on to new pastures and pursuhs. Sylvia and John DetweUer sold theh home of many years in Bethesda, and headed West in early July. They will settie in Corvalhs, Orgeon, where John wiU be a graduate assistant at Oregon State while he pursues his doctorate in statistics. Theh new address is P O . Box 2422, CorvaUis, Ore. 97339-2422. After many years in harness, John was reheved as Class Treasurer by Brev Moore. John did a wonderful job in that capachy and deserves our heartiest appreciation. BZ! On 26 July, Deiuy Coidey became Commander Amphibious Group One, based in Okinawa. Phil Gubbins completed bis tour as C O . of USS PELELiu (LHA-5) on 24 July. His next assignment is Coraraanding Officer of the NROTC unit at Ohio State University. Ottier '63 NROTC units I know of are at ttie University of Colorado (George MUler) and the University of Washington (Pete Soverel).

BUI Earner is slated to become Commander, Naval Surface Group Mid-Pacific.

This month's raore-or-less-purely-political-news comes ui an enthusiastic letter from Zimm Zimmerman in Cary, North Carolina.

Our Class has a new Chairman of the Dorchester County (South Carolina) CouncU! Ben Cole won a landsUde primary election on June 12. He and Sue live in SummerviUe. Althouth this was the Republican primary, diis is tantamount to being elected in Dorchester County since die Democrats are non-existent! Benny won 72 percent of the Republican votes, with Sue and Ben taking each side of the street in a door-to-door campaign. Years from now when Senator Cole is holding forth in Washington, D.C., we can aU say, "I knew old Ben when he was a County Councilman!"

An update on our family: son Mark graduated from the University of North Carolina medical school and is headed for San Antonio for a four-residency in OB/G'YN. Daughter Amy just graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel HiU and is dancing as fast as she can tofinda permanent job. Any ideas from Classmates would be cheerfiiUy received at (919) 467-0680. Amy received a BA in Psychology. Linda and I are recovering from college debts and plan to hit the road for some visits—don't be surprised if we bum a night's lodging from some Classmates!

Things are sure hopping out in the countryside, aren't they? What about YOU? You know who you are, and we haven't heard from you in raany moons.

Time's up! Write now and take advantage of my special offer . . .

Beat Array! (And maybe, perhaps, a few others.)

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Pres., Capt. Thomas J. Swartz USNR Cort. Sec'y Robert L. Gault c/o Allen Photo Service 2800 Shiriington Rd. Arlington, Va. 22206 The "Dog Days" of a typical Washington, D . C , July have arrived as this month's column nears its deadline. Everything comes up 95s; the temperatare

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I received the following letter from Al Weigel right around the time of last month's deadline. Al has a fantastic story to tell and has demonstrated a heretofore unknown side benefit of the "designated writer" program . . . The fear of becoming one!

I thought I had better write before 1 became a designated writer.

A little background . . . After graduation, I spent two tours in destroyers, HUGH PURVIS (DD-709) and VOCE (DE-1047). I was a Plank Owner on VOCE along with Mike Tackney and Al Creal. In '68 received orders across the big pond and spent my 13 months in the Delta with the PBR's, Mike Tackney was there at the same time in Swift Boats, Mike Coughlin was in Nha Be on a River Division staff and Fred Beaudry was on ComNavForV staff.

As I was leaving, I met Jim Hubbard just coming into country. My resignation had been accepted and upon my retum to CONUS I was released.

My original return to civilian life was not glamorous . . . I went into the meat industry starting from the groundfloorup, skinning hogs and boning pork. It didn't take too long and I worked my way to management in production. Up until 1978 I managed three different plants in NYC, the Bronx and then PhUadelphia, In 1978 I started my own sausage business, my factory was in Hoboken, where I made all ethnic sausages for the various pockets in the Metro New York area. During this time, my first marriage went to hell . . . with that and a very lucrative offer, I sold my plant and moved to Phoenix, going into semi-retirement by working as a processing consultant to the meat industry across the county. I did this for a couple of years enjoying myself, traveling ttie country. I remarried a Super Lady, Helene Guarino, with a built-in family of two daughters and a son.

We all retumed back east to New York when I took an equity position with a food processing equipment company in 1982. Things didn't work out between us parmers so, after a year, I started my own equipment company. Within a year, I was putting pressure on one of the national equipment firms and we came to terms by dieir acquiring my customers, my stock and me.

Presently, I am the Vice President of Sales enjoying my work and at home enjoying my family which has expanded by two sons-in-law and two tertific grandsons.

During the past few years, I have expanded my company's business internationally, putting sausage plants into mainland China, the Philippines, Central and South America and, mostrecentiy,Russia. We sell equipment to customers from the comer pork store to Oscar Mayer Grinding, mixing, cutting and stuffing machines, as weU as smoke ovens and highspeed vacuum packaging equipment. Most of our suppliers are European and I travel overseas on buying trips, although we do manufacture about a third of the equipment we sell. In fact after reading in the Shipmate about Roger Sweeney's oven manufacturing business, I have been in touch with him with the possibility of his doing some work for us.

Back to my sales in Russia . . . I became involved in a joint venture widi die Reindeer herders in northeastem Russia. We sold seven full plants to process reindeer 1 spent the months of April and May north of the TUndra in Russian Asia, teaching these reindeer cooperative farms to make hot dogs, salami and various smoked sausages. And, as a result, sold another 10 plants which will be installed next Spring. Next trip I'U know exactiy how much toilet paper to carty with me.

It was interesting . . . primitive . . . and cold.

We had snow up until I left. In fact, two of the technicians I left behind to finish up are presentiy snowed-in at a farm on the Arctic Circle. One of ttie installations was in the vUlage of Seymchan. During WW II ttie U.S. built an airfield ttiere to ferry lendlease aircraft to die Russians. The airfield and its buildings are still the best stractures in the vUlage. Near thefieldis a monument dedicated to die pilots who died in this lend-lease fertying effort.

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mittee Chairman and the Cooperative Farm Director decorating the monument to celebrate both their "People's War Victory Day" (WW II), May 9tti and our Memorial Day. During my stay in die USSR, I had dealings widi an individual from the Ministry of Agriculture. To our surprise, we had both been in Viemam at the same time, 1968-69. He was an advisor in the North on anti-airciaft guns and surface-to-air missUes. We bodi agreed that ifttiepoliticians had been where we had been, diat maybe the war would not have been. He now carries my sUver dollar and 1 his mble as a gesture of friendship. Initially, it was a very strange and tense moment. The world gets smaUer Paul O'Neil is die VP and General Manager of Essex Specialty Products, Inc., in Clifton, New Jersey, which is a company involved in glass t)onding. I also work in Clifton as you can see by my business card.

I admit to not reaching out much over the years regarding .Alumni, in fact I've never been back to ArmapoUs since June '64, shame on me. This Summer I think I'mfinaUyready to visit "The Wall" and wiU probably also mn over to Mother Bancroft.

I guess that's aU for now, thanks for listening.

Al, what a tale . . . You're the first person I ever heard about to enter joint ventures with Russian reindeer herders. If you haven't been back to Annapolis since 1964 you're long overdue. Why don't you try to make it down to one of the football games this year and visit with all us '64 types at the taUgate party?

We'd love to see you and your family and hear more about your exploits. Thanks for taking the time to bring us up-to-date Al. A nine-inch by twelve-inch envelope packed with tons of news arrived frora Rich Belser about two weeks ago. Although Rich asked me to edit his handiwork—I learned a long time ago not to quibble over words with anyone who has been a meraber of the Pacific Fleet Rifle and Pistol Championships since 1965. Rich participated this year with S I M A and finished as the first-place pistol team. Way to go Rich, you can say anything you want anyway you want to say it. Of course Rich failed to raention that his position on the team was as the target . . . His training was excellent, four years of dodging buUets at USNA. Here's lots more from Rich.

Having just read Max CaldweU's "news" I decided that if he could report an '88 event, I could StUl get in one for '89.

An Army-Navy game party was hosted by Captain and Mrs. jerry Negin (CO. USS JOYETT CG-29) at dieir quarters, NAB Coronado, in December 1989. The foUowing Classmates were in attendance: Ira Price—Real Estate, Russ Buckley— USN (Ret), Capt. and Mrs. D. J Wright—Staff type in San Diego, Capt. Steve Saulnier ComDesRon THIRTEEN, Jay Eggers—San Diego Attorney, Rich and Susan Belser—CivU Service. I hope I didn't forget anyone. Also in attendance were wardroom officers andttieirladies plus other USNA types from ottier Classes. Enough from '89, here's some more recent news.

Andy Murphy (whom I don't really know beyond school days) is now ComPhibRon SEVEN as of about a year ago. The reason I know about these things is because I have worked for NavSeaCenPac for the lastfiveyears. I hired on as a Mechanical Engineer, and just recentiy, by the stroke of a pen, became a Supervisory Electronics Engineer I guess that's one benefit of a degree in "Marine Engineering" a-la 1964.

As you may recaU (or may not since I last wrote about two years ago) my "biaimual update" rambles and I trust you to edit it. Anyway, working for NavSeaCenPac as a civU servant gives me an office on the waterfront between Pier 1 and Pier 2 at NAVSTA San Diego. I see the ships and read die message traffic daily. It's "almost" like being in stUl! (Retired LCdr. 1984). So, when I see Capt. Tim Myers wandering around, Ifindout he's Chief of Staff CCDG1 in the bmlding next door (We taUced on the phone).

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Also, one last enclosure is my biannualreporton myself for the PacFlt Rifle & Pistol Championships.

I'm one of the few "retireds" that shoot, and aldiough I'm not a true "big dinger," I manage to finishrespectably.1 first participated in 1965 and have been very faithfiil in die late-seventies and the eighties. Hope you can use some of diis "news."

PS, (Did I say upfront ttiat I "ramble"?) Forgot to mention ttiat Capt, Richard D. WiUiams, III. CO NavShipWpnSysEngSta Port Hueneme, addressed the S.D. Chapter of ASNE in May, His address focused on "constancy of purpose" for the technical community m supporting the Fleet, I spoke with him briefly.

Rich also forwarded the following sad news. Art Holz's wife Lynne passed away in February 1989 frora complications of pneuraonia. Art retumed to Buffalo, shortly afterward where he continues as a patent attorney. He has one daughter in college in Rhode Island and one daughter who is a high school exchange stadent in France. God bless you Art—our hearts go out to you and your faraily.

Rich, thanks for the info you provided. I tried not to do too much editing so put those pistols away for another two years.

And, at long last, the Sixth Battalion pictures from the 25th Reunion. You'll notice there are only three companies represented. Somehow the 23rd corapany got left out altogether. In reality, by the time these pics were taken, only a handful of people were still breathing and functioning. Apparently no one could remeraber how raany companies there were in a battalion and decided three was enough. As you can see, those that were able to get in front of the camera are as handsome and pretty as all the others on that wonderful night. It's great to be a member of the best Class ever to graduate from the Naval Academy. Let's go for 100% attendance at the 30th Reunion!

Keep those cards and tetters coining so I won't have to designate anyone. It scares me when I use up all the news each month and face a total void for the next issue. Remeraber, this column is for you to keep each other posted—you'd be surprised how many Classmates would like to know how and what you are doing. See ya next month!

NO TIME TO SNORE, WE'RE SIXTY-FOUR!!!!

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Pres., Capt. Wyman Howard USN Sec'y, Cdr. Dave Anderson USN (Ret.) 7845 BeUakaren PI., La JoUa, CaUf. 92037 (619) 588-0281 (H): (619) 573-8944 (W) Hi guys! Attended two change of commands in late June-early July. Dave Schlesinger rethed out of his last job as CO, Southwest Division of the Naval FaciUties Engineering Comraand in San Diego. I'll cite a few items from his bio: Dave was commissioned as an Ensign in the CivU Engineering Corps and had his first tour with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion SEVEN (NMCB-7), witii deployments to Spain and Viet Nam. He then went on to Georgia Tech and received his MSCE and followed that with stadies at the CivU Engineering Corps Officers School. He was then assigned to NMCB-74 as Alfa Company Commander and was deployed for much of tiiat time to Viet Nam. In 1970 he took tiie job as OIC of Construction, Mid-Pac in Honolulu and in 1971 he was Aide and EA to Commander, Construction Battalions, Pacific Fleet. From 1972 to 1974 he oversaw numerous naval constraction projects in Hawaii. In 1974 he was assigned as Public Works Officer (PWO) for FleCoraBatTraCen, Dam Neck and tiien attended die Armed Forces Staff College in NorfoUc. In 1977 he reported to Western Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command in San Bruno and then transferted m 1979 to the Naval Air Station, Sigonella,

Steily where he served as PWO/ROICC In 1981 Dave assumed command of Amphibious Constraction Battahon ONE and followed that tour with a stint in D.C. as die Senior CEC Detailer at NavMiU'ersCom. He retamed to San Diego in 1985 as XO of die PWC untU 1988 when he assumed command of what is now the NavFacEngCora, Southwest Division. Dave and Marion will be staymg on m San Diego as Dave has taken a position witii the City of San Diego. Dave's son David, a Midshipman at USNA, home on Suraraer Leave was able to be tiiere for tiie cereraony. Tun Kelley Glen Welch, Mark Davis, Pat Donnelly, George Hurley and Vince Lieggi also attended. The second change of command m July was for Jack Johnston who was reUeved as Commander, Submarine Development Group ONE in San Diego. Again citing frora his bio. Jack, foUowing graduation, went off to Nuclear Power Training in Bainbridge and Saratoga Springs and then attended Sub School in New London. In 1967, Jack reported to USS HADDO (SSN-604) and then had a tour as Engineering Officer on USS SEAHORSE (SSN-669). hi 1974 Jack reported to CoraSubRon SIX as Staff Material Officer and from 1976 to 1979 served as XO, USS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (SSBN-657) (GOLD). In 1980, Jack assumed

comraand

of

USS

SIMON

BOLIVAR

(SSBN-641) (GOLD) (where Jack was tiie recipient of die 1983 Admiral Stockdale Leadership Award for inspirational leadership) and then commanded USS SEAHORSE (SSN-669) from 1983 to 1985. Jack tiien commanded the Naval Nuclear Power School, Orlando, from 1985 to 1988 until he was reassigned to ComSubDevGra ONE. Jack and Susan are heading off to CoraSubLant where Jack will be Operations, Plans and InteUigence Officer (N3). Also attending Jack's CoC were: John Stein and Jim Rouse.

A press release on my old roomie, Jim Taylor, taking command of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard was also received. It turns out that Jim is the 97th Commander in the shipyard's 223-year history. Jim reported to Norfolk from Washington where he was the Deputy Director for Shipyard Maintenance at NavSea. Prior to his D.C. tour, Jim was Production Officer of tiie Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. In earlier years in the Navy, Jim served on USS ENERGY (MSO-436), aboard Swift boats and as Maintenance Officer for Coastal Division 14 during Viet Nam. He later taught national security policy to NROTC stadents at Oregon State, served as Engineering Officer aboard USS WADDELL (DDG-24), and was an inspector for the Pacific Fleet Propulsion Examining Board. During stadies at the Naval Postgraduate School, Jim was designated an Engineering Duty Officer in 1977. He received two MS degrees (both with distinction), one in Computer Systems Management, one in Mechanical Engineering. He had his first tour at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as Ship Sup for the ENTERPRISE'S complex overhaul in 1979. From 1983 duough 1985, Jim was Engineer Officer on USS CONSTELLATION ( C V - 6 4 ) . Jim and his wife Chris

have a married daughter, Susan, another daughter, Heidi and a son Richard, both stadents at the Univ. of Washington. Another news release concemed BUI Frigge and his recent participation m FLEETEX1-90 in tiie Westem Atiantic. Bill is ASW Officer on tiie staff of tiie Comraander, Second Fleet.

Bruce Liska wrote several weeks ago to let us know that he was relieved as CO, ComPhibGru THREE, Det. 219 last October and tiien transferred to the Individual Ready Reserve and now can avoid drilling every month. He's still with San Diego Gas & Electric as Manager, Electric Construction and Maintenance. Bruce completed a two-week ACDUTRA period in March and ran across Glen "Ace" Welch, CO, Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado; Tim Kelley, in charge of PWC San Diego; Ed "Froggy" Kristensen en route his command tour on USS

LAKE

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Tedeschi also heading for his CO tour on USS VALLEY FORGE (CG-50). Bruce sends his regrets early for not making it to the 25th. He and Betty have a big trip scheduled this Summer to Switzerland and other European countries to celebrate their own 25th anniversary. Clipped an interesting article on the Rog in USA Today, expounding on Staubach's prowess in a Flag-Football rematch of the Dallas Cowboys of the 1970s and die Redskins "Over the Hill Gang." The game was played at RFK stadium in Washington D.C. on 23 June and the Staubach to Drew Pearson and Tony Hill combination blew away the 'Skins (quarterbacked by Billy Kilmer and George Allen, Jr.), 42-22. The Rog threw for five TDs and ran for one. Proceeds from the game benefited the March of Dimes.

Therestoftiiisstaff comes courtesy of Jeff Lewis who continues to receive updates to our directory . . . I'U continue to plug into this column new info on you guys as you send it into Jeff and/or me.

"J.J." Smith is still working for Ogden Allied Services, happily martied and working on his fourth dog. Erica and "J.J." will be there for the 25th. Frank Mixner has a new address: 1568 Lord Tennyson Arch, Virghua Beach, Va. 23462. Gene Trimpert was relieved as CO, Fitting Out and Supply Support Assistance Center in Norfolk on 13 June. His new job is CO, U.S. Naval Supply Depot, Guam, FRO. San Francisco, Cahf. 96630-1500. He'll be living at 2 Flag Circle, Nimitz Circle, FRO San Francisco, Cahf. 96630-1500. Frank Corah's new address is Acherweg 5, 6370 Stans, Switzerland. Fred Lentz rethed on 30 June and is working for CTA, Inc., new address: 818 Sherri, Ridgecrest, Calif. 93555.

Deimy Lough will retire 1 October and will work for a defense contractor, probably in Naples, Italy Dick WUliams took command of USS CORONADO (AGF-ll) on 1 July; his new address is 15 First Street, (Juarters 316, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818, (808) 471-0508 (W)/(808) 423-8242 (H). Dave Vigrass is on the staff of ComNavAirPac, NAS, North Island, San Diego, Calif. 92135, (619) 545-5028. He's been there since September 1989 and is the Director of Information Systems. Dave and Geri live at 1 Bridgetown Bend, Coronado, Calif. 92118, (619) 429-8887.

Dave passed on that Tony Notari's address is Box 123A RDl, Black Velvet Road, Jefferson, N.H. 03583, (603) 586-4365. Look for Dave and Geri at the 25th. Wayne Warnken has a new address: 14 Chesterfield Road, Scarsdale, N.Y. 10583, (914) 725-1702. His new law firm is Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, One Battery Park Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004, (212) 837-6000. Wayne is one of two partners in charge of the Trusts and Estates Dept. Wayne's wife, Patricia, is a realtor, specializing in the Scarsdale area. Theh oldest son, Wayne, lives in Colorado and does triathlons,finishingsecond in his age group (he's 22) in the Pike's Peak Marathon in 1989.

Theh other son, Mark, is a high school freshman and is working on a national ranking in junior tennis, playing in tournaments at Forest Hills, Ft. Lauderdale, San Antonio, Chicago and other places that host superstar tennis jocks. Wayne and Pat will also be there for the 25th.

area. Ray Setser is Deputy Chief of Staff, CoraSubLant in Norfolk. Mark Davis retired from the Medical Corps in June, staying on in San Diego, working for Partners National Health Plan as Medical Director. Lee Watkins is Division Chief, FarEast/ South Asia, J-5, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, Room 2E973, (202) 699-8134. Forrest Horton is heading for the Strategic Program Analysis Group.

Rick Adams corapleted his tour as CO, USS CANOPUS (AS-34) on 7 July at the Sub Base in Kings Bay. His next assignment is CO, Naval Sub Base, New London, Groton, Conn. 06349-5000. George Roletter also completed his tour as ComSubRon SEVEN on 11 July at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. John Duck is a business broker for Liberty Business Exchange, address is 7210 Hedge Drive, (214) 2963077 (H)/(214) 484-5225 (W).

Pete Gness called to say that Chuck Russell, USNA '58 owns a travel agency and is offering 45% coach fare discounts on Delta Airlines to grads attending the Reunion. If interested, call Chuck at (800) 331-1810. That's h for this raonth. C U (ffi 25th!! Dave.

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Pres., Capt. Fred R Moosally, Jr. USN East Coast Sec'y Cdr. Mike Baird USN (Ret.) 63 Franklin St., Annapolis, Md. 21401 West Coast Corr., Robert G. Johnson, Jr. 5705 Friars Rd., #51, San Dtego, Calif. 92108 Football season is upon us, and I'm looking forward to a great year for the team. Before 1 forget, just a quick reminder about Homecoming. Homecoming weekend is 26-28 October. The Homecoming Committee is planning the usual festivities for the game on 27 October, at our regular spot, so make plans to join in the fun.

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On 27 June, about 20 Classmates participated in a luncheon and were treated to an excellent presentation by Midn. Dan Barchi '91. Dan was preparing to be the Regiraental Commander for the Class of 1994 Plebe Detail. The recent bad press about hazing and sexual harassment, all aired during Commissioning An article in Aviation Week & Space Technology Week, was discussed, as well as the changes in rouquoted our very own Tom Morgenfeld on the han- tine that have occurred since we traveled the halls of dling of the USAF's new Lockheed F-117A stealth "Mother B," This luncheon was also the first atahcraft. Tora is experimental test pilot at Lockheed's tended by our Class President, Fred Moosally. Fred Advanced Development Projects. Tom was quoted as was still coping with the transition to CIVLANT, but saying, "the F-117A's image as an unstable aircraft is enjoying it. He announced some sad news. Jack not correct—it does not merit the 'Woblin Goblin' Connolly's son Michael was tragically killed in a one nickname that it has picked up." Mike Bordy has car accident on 24 June. Fred called Jack to extend won the Battle Efficiency award for his ship, USS condolences for the Class.

MISSISSIPPI (CGN-40) for the recently completed 18 This Summer was a time for moves. Rufe Taylor raonth cycle. Jim Wagner's new address is 5924 and Frank Bryant both retired. Rufe headed for Las Sherbom Lane, Springfield, Va. 22152. Hank Vegas. Frank retamed to the Charleston area. Joe Lewandowski retired on 1 June, and as this was writ- Felty has finished his South American tour and is in ten, was looking for something in the Atlanta metro

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Washington, D.C. Dale Moses has been assigned to the San Francisco area. Scott Gordon has returned from Germany Mike Brown writes that he and Stephanie are living in Boston. Their daughter Kristen is a senior at Georgetown University, and son Brett (6'-2" and 256 pounds) is a Junior at Lehigh Univershy, playing guard on the football team. Son Lee is a senior in high school and captain of the football team.

Pictured is a very proud Jeannie and Duncan Ingraham. The occasion was Induction Day, 3 July 1990 for daughter Becky. Son Duke ('93) is making sure Becky doesn't miss any of the Plebe activities.

Congratulations all!

Thanks to those of you who took the time to send in your ballots for the Foundation Trustees election.

Doug May, Rufe Taylor and Clay Spikes were elected to another three-year term. Also thanks to those who have responded to the fund raising effort.

The total at the end of July was over $17,000. Anyone who hasn't responded can still do so.

Anyone in the Washington, D.C., area in early December is invited to attend a joint Citadel and USNA Class of 1966 dinner The event will take place at the Army/Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia, on the evening of 6 December 1990; a Thursday. The guest speaker will be Citadel Class of 1967 graduate and renown author, Pat Conroy {The Great Santini, Lords of Discipline, et al.). The evening promises to be a most enjoyable one. For those in the Washington Area, afiyerwill announce the final details. Anyone outside the area raay call me (301) 263-6985 (Home) or (301) 266-4749 (Work) to make a reservation.

Hope you can make it.

By now you should have gotten your initialflyerfor the 25th Reunion. The Reunion Committee has been working on this for nearly a year already. What we really need are some inhial commitments to start final planning. Company Reps will be contacting you in the Spring tofirmup the count. I'll have more details in future columns.

That's it for this raonth. The retam to cooler weather is always welcorae. Once again, letraeknow if you move. The Reunion Conunittee is trying to go to press with the most current addresses for the Class Directory. Some last-minute changes may be possible, but we're nearing the deadline. Until next month—All the best—Mike!

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Pres., Cdr. David E. Church USN (Ret.) Sec'y, LCol. Jim McNeece USMC (Ret.) 4832 King Solomon Dr., Annandate, Va. 22003 Last month's effort is going to be hard to top in volume, but 1 have plenty of quality material to work from again this month . . . and even as I fat-finger this staff into my machine, the telephone is fairly smoking with more staff coming in. Film at eleven.

Fhst, a word from the prez, Dave Church. Just talked to him, and he has gotten our Class seating for football games squared away. Check this out: the seats are in Section 105 in the vicinity of Row 18.

That's in the upper deck above the Brigade about on the forty yard line. Dave said there were half a dozen or so personal season books sold in the block, so he spent sorae of the Class treasury to buy others. He had to do that because the opportanity was a one-tirae deal, and we wouldn't get another chance until other season ticket holders give their seats up. At any rate, he hasticketsavailable for your purchase, either on a season basis or for single games (as available). The seats are good ones, so if you plan on buying individual game tickets or want good season seats, give Dave a call at (301) 266-8081. He swears he's not scalping! Just wants to get the raoney back into the treasury.

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The Class of 1967 taUgate wiU be in its usual place this year. Look for the Class Banner just outside Gate B. Preliminary indications are that Bob Moeller is offering up his house on Captain's Row for our post game dinner after Homecoming. More detaUs to come on that.

Dave also said he's putting together a questionnaire to team your drathers for the 25th Reunion, just barely two years away. Be thinking, and be acting.

There is starting to be a need for people to get the work done, and I stiU need Company Reps. I am nussingtiiese companies: 4, 9,11,15,18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 35, and 36. I want a name and address from each of those real soon. For the rest of the reps, get started on address updates and send rae a hst. I StiU plan to put together a Class address list. For those of you from 31st Company, Ed Kerins, your rep, checked in with his new address; it's 1006 Northampton Drive, La Plata, Md. 20646 with phone numbers (301) 934-9420 (b) and (301) 535-5900 (o).

As promised, this frora Don Eraser: Attended a change of command for Navy Regional Data Automation Center, Washington at the Navy Yardrecentty.Pete White is now die new CO. There are now two '67ers miming an awfiil lot of data processing for the Navy (me and Pete!). Since we print up a bunch of paychecks, we command respect from those who like to get their money on time. Also in attendance at the souee were Pete Long (CO of Mayport) and Adam LleweUyn (Navy lawyer extraordinaire).

The wind was a bit brisk that day and the function was outside. There were more than a few UFH's (unidentified flying horse dee ovaries) from the tables of goodies at thereception.Nonetheless, a good time was had by aU. Pete Long's lovely bride was also there and has alternated seUing tons of Northem Virginia real estate widi trips to Mayport to support her main squeeze. 1 know they are doing weU as diey drove off in a BMW 733 widi REMAX 1 ficense plates. I drove off m a Yugorentalcar!

Had occasion to visit my roomie, Chris Gates.

Chris, Sherry and three offspring now reside in Springfield. Chris is a Northem Virginia road warrior with a Crystal City destination in NAVAIR. Chris likens the traffic in the DC. area to Chinese water torture, and has been impressed with the tax structure of Fairfax County. Sherty has found it necessary to enter the job market to support the mortgage. The family owns three Volvo station wagons, which must be a record of some sort. I could see a station wagon, a sports car, and a family sedan, but THREE VOLVO STATION WAGONS? Perhaps this strange car ownership is some sort of payback for foreign mihtary aircraft sales from NAVAIR. EarUer this year, I managed to visit to Loretta and Walt Vandivort's home in fllinois. Walt is CO of NAS Glenview, is backflyingC-12s, and has a great set of govermnent quarters. They also have three chUdren, one in college and two at home. Glenview is a great location for Cubs fans, but the Winter weather can quickly readjust your attimde, I was in the area visiting a data facUity 1 own at Great Lakes and was delighted to receive a home cooked meal whUe catching up on 32nd Company tales of glory, WhUe waiting for a plane in Pensacola's new and improved regional airport, I met Lou Romano— anottier 32nd Company stalwart, Lou works for Union Carbide and was on a business trip to one of the local manufacturers. He had undergone some successfiil hip replacement surgery and was moving around widiout pain or medication for thefirsttime in a long time. Herelateda memorable trip from his home in Connecticut to Meadowlands for the victory over Army.

Should be interesting to see if the recent woes at USNA generate any dialogue in our Alumni magazine. My guess is we won't hear much from the Old Guard. Perhaps ttie heat of the Congressional spotUght wUI warm up some positive changes. More anon.

Lou, Don said m his letter I could contact you for details about your trip to the Army game. Consider

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yourself contacted. Drop me a line.

I told you the phone was hot. This live sighting report just in: Don Eraser bought a new car, said he didn't want to beat it up driving from Florida to Pennsylvania . . . so he rented a 1990 Cadillac.

Now, Don . . . why are you poor mouthing us about tius rental Yugo . . . and giving poor old Chris Gates a hard time about his sensible stable of reliable machines . . . and laughing at Janet Long's BMW? You guys visiting Great Lakes need to drop in on Dave GentUe . . . at 114 Forest View Drive, Lake Bluff, ni. 60044. His tetter: I had been in submarines and engineering training during my 20 -I- and retired in October 1987 just after our Class Reunion. Afterretirement,I rewrote a couple of engineering courses and did some teaching at Great Lakes. 1 am now a Senior Engineer for Technical Research and Development, an engineering training firm. My team just finished writing a training package

for USS ARLEIGH

BURKE

(DDG-51) test plant in Philadelphia. We are currentiy working on projects with a nuclear power plant and computer engineering programs.

I have settied in the Chicago area near the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, and am going through the expense of sending kids through coUege. That should be famUiar to a lot of us about diis time in life. If anyone out there has any technical training work or just wants to stop by and BS, give me a caU at (708) 295-3483.

I noted the comment on BiU Frawley and had been trying tofindhim earlier We had been roommates our second year. The last I knew of him he was CO at a Naval Station, Coos Bay, Oregon, about 1981, That's when I lost track of him. If you find him, please let me know so I can get in touch with him.

To refresh everyone about BUI Frawley, the Naval Academy received a letter from a retirement home in Florida conceming the death a relative of his. The home would like to retam some personal effects to Bill, but nobody seems to have an address. If there is any information out there, please get it to me as quickly as you can, and I'll pass it along. Thanks.

And finally, for the golf crowd, Ron Cornetta, from New Orleens: I recentiy ran into Ross Barkhurst who is VPNuclear Operations for Louisiana Power and Light.

That makes about five Classmates 1 know about in the "Nawlins" area.

1 work for Mert Pelligrin who is Corporate Aviation Manager for Entergy Services, Inc. I've been working for Mert since January 1989 when I left Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. and flying a Beechcraft Super King Air in Angola. WhUe in Africa, I staged a company golf toumament (more about that in a minute . . . JM). Since joining Entergy I've been fortuante enough to become type rated in our two jets: Cessna Citation U and HI, a goal I've been after since startingflighttraining in 1968. A longtimeto become a jet jock after so many years of screwing around (7K rotary wing time).

Buddy Goodwin and Tom BaUentine round out die five. Buddy is a lawyer and Tom is a VP for a firm in town. I've run into Buddy several times, once after we had both just run the Mardi Gras Marathon—that's right—26.2 miles!

In early May, I met Max Meltzer at the Citation Operators Conference in Wichita, whUe I was going through training on the Citation HI. Max is Chief Pilot for AMR Combs at Denver Stapleton Airport.

He promised to take me fishing next time I'm in Denver About that golf toumament: The first Billy Bob (aka Ron Cometta!) Malongo Golf was held during a four-week period in the Fall of 1988. At the end, the score was tied between the top contenders, so a fourweek playoff ensued. I won't go into any detail about the play, but according to Ron: The Malongo golf course, the only golf course in Angola, is a unique playing area. The rules of play are unusual. The ball can be teed anywhere on the fairway. If a python or monkey takes your ball, you get a free drop. If a fruit bat bombs you while hit-

ting , you can take a muUigan, If ants try to take your baU, you are allowed to use any club, without penalty, to beat them off.

Tennis, anyone?!?

Next week, it's McNeeces in the attack on the beaches of North Carolma! I'll bum, the girls wiU tan, and it will all be great. Hope you all have/had good Summers, too. Gotta close; this has ran over length again.

That's it . . . Goodnight!

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Pres., Cdr. Kendell M. Pease USN Cort. Sec'y, Leo Kuehn 531 WUson Rd., Annapohs, Md. 21401 No letters this month, but I do have a few news items to pass on and a httie news on Classmates coming and going on the local scene.

I received a news release on BUI Scherkenbach.

BUI works for General Motors (somewhere out in Michigan, I think) as their Group Dhector for Statistical and Process Improveraent Methods. (There was nothing in the news release to explain what all that entaUs.) The news release was actaally from the American Statistical Association, of which BiU is a member, announcing that he had been named a Fellow in the Association during formal presentation ceremonies in early August. Congratalations, BiU, when you get a chance write and explain what this means!

I received a change of command invitation from Rick Buchanan. Rick took over as Commander Submarine Group Seven in early July in ceremonies held at Yokusuka Naval Base, Japan. I wished I could have attended. Rick, but this job doesn't come with a travel aUowance! We aU know you'll do a great job in your new command.

And, on to the local scene. PhU Bassi is retiring his "pork chops" and from his job here as USNA Comptroller and joining the civihan world. He wiU be taking his family a littie north into Pennsylvania where he wiU be joining the football coaching staff at Gettysburg College. We'll miss Phil and Kitty here in the Annapolis area, but expect to see them back from time to time. Carl Tamulevich who was expecting to transfer this Summer, reportedly received a threeyear extension in his job as Assistant Athletic Dhector. Sounds like pretty good news to me, and I'm sure to the NAAA as well . . . Mike Hagee gave me a call the other day. MUce just reported aboard as the Academy's senior Marine officer and wUl soon be taking up residence on Porter Road as a neighbor of Skip Wright. Besides his role as senior Marine, MUce will become the Duector of the English and History Division. This gives us two Classmates as Division Dhectors. (As you may recall. Skip johied die staff a year ago as Director of the Professional Development Division.) Welcorae back to the area, Mike.

That does h for tius month. I sure could use a littie raore material, guys, so I issue my monthly request to please send your cards and letters . . . or even call!

By die time you receive tius we'll be heading off into die Fall and a new football season. Hope to see sorae of you back in the area for some of the games. Until next month, stay busy, but enjoy each day . . . Leo

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Pres., WUliam H. Newton III Cort. Sec'y Capt. Peter Renfree USN 3825 S. 7tii St., Arlington, Va. 22204

Duke Elmore sent along a detailed summary of what's been happening with him.

I've been living in the Kansas City area for the past 13 years and have had my own health care planning and facility development consultingfirmfor die last eight years. (1 knew I couldfindsomething relevant to my Naval Academy education.)

31st Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;20 years later I hope you all had a luce Summer. I reluctantiy graduatedfirorathe Industrial College of the Armed Forces (Black and Decker U.) in June. Not to be one to jump back into the mainstream too quickly, 1 set off on 30 days of leave to be followed by three more weeks of "education" at Northwestem University.

I'm writing this frora Evanston, Illinois, where I'm participating in an Executive Development Program, it's been busy, but enjoyable, and I'm particularly enjoying the distinguished lectarers we've been exposed to AND the mandatory, open bar happy hours.

This Navy isn't so bad after all. But, as Rusty Jones said not long ago, h's time for me to get back to work.

Bytiietime you read this I'U be back m Washington, working at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in Crystal City as the Program Manager for Navy Ship and Shore Communications. I don't know my office phone; I'U pass it on next time.

John Post and family have moved from Illinois to Charlottesville, Virginia. John has gone into private orthopaedic practice specializing in arthroscopy and sports medicine, while Barbara has been named Medical Director of one of the University of Virginia sateUite clinics m Northridge. The Post offspring count is up to three with the recent addition of Benjamin James, who was baptized in May. John passed on some uiteresthig comments frora Bob Boynton at tiie Embassy in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Bob and Diane are enjoying not having power 12-14 hours a day, where no power equals no water equals no shower. Bob laments, 'We've traveled to exotic foreign lands, only to end up on water hours tiiat are almost as bad as Youngster Cruise. Additionally, garbage collection is so marginal that people tend to bum it on the sidewaUc." Despite all this Bob quickly pointed out tiiat the country was beautiful and the work interesting. Bob could always see the good side of everything.

Andy Brock, from 19th Corapany, surfaced after 20 years. Andy left the boat school in '67 and ended up with teaching credentials in 1972. Frora there he volunteered to help reduce the teacher shortage in Australia and has been "down under" ever since.

He's an assistant principal in Queensland, still single and enjoying the beach life.

There's not ranch in the photo department this month as I don't have my wholefilewithraein Evanston. The single pic is 20th Reunion vintage again (you'll be seeing these for a loong time). It's 31st company . . . can you name all the faces?

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Vicki (who was with me at the Reunion) and I were married a few weeks after the Reunion, and we recentiy discovered that she is due on 25 December (Wendell, what does that mean?) That will make six, Jamie (21) is a senior at die University of Kansas, and Christopher (19) will be a sophomore at Notre Dame (at least someone inttiefamily can enjoy the game). Since starting college, Christopher is not wrecking the car anymore, but things are still interesting around the house. Emilie (17) will be a senior in high school, and, while her grades are excellent, she has concluded that her two priorities in life are parties and boys, David (15), starting his sophomore year, canoed in Minnesota this Summer He thinks he's going to be the next Mike Lettieri of Navy football, Beth is ten and entering the fifth grade, I appreciate her because she still thinks I'm in charge (or at least pretends to).

That about covers it. If anyone is in the Kansas City area, stop by or give me a call at 11901 Manor Rd, Leawood, Kans, 66209, (913) 345-8351, We got a pretty good batch of new memorabilia requests. The order has been placed, but please don't expect any express tam arounds. With our small numbers, we're at the bottom of the priority list. I'm attempting to have your ordersfilledby Homecoming this year. Wish me luck.

See you at the Stadium. Don't forget that every home game we congregate in the Stadium parking lot in the same location that the twentieth tailgate was held. Cheers, Pete

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Pres, Fred Hall Sec'y Cdr. Royal Connell USN 3 Wood Rd., Annapolis, Md. 21402 This is a relatively light month for news but it may be the last Shipmate you read before Homecoming so I'll repeat sorae of that gouge for those of you who slept through the EI session.

The letters that did arrive included one from Jim Suhr who has just transferred from Newport to D.C. to be Op 701. He reports that his son Jim is a junior at West Virginia and Doug, a freshman at East Carolina. He and Carol and their other two are living in Springfield, Virginia. Dave Butler is on the staff at the War Coltege, living in New London and commuting to Newport. Joe Goodman hasfinishedthe se-

nior course and is moving on to Washington. Bob Milewski has just completed the advanced Chaplain school and has moved to Quantico. Paul Sullivan is CO. of USS BIRMINGHAM. Ed Giambastiani and

Chuck Reigner reported to Strategic Studies Group X in Newport. Bryan Wiggins has been flying LAMPS forever and has just gotten the dread Pentagon duty. Jim ran into Dave Miller in an airport as he was on his way home to Indiana to be inducted into his High School Hall of Fame. Dave is the tactical weapons training and certification officer on SubGru2.

Another letter came from the better half of Clay Grubb. Carolyn writes that Clay is the new C O of 1st ANGLICO (Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company) at Camp Pendleton. She says the assignment was quite exciting for them but that they are not looking forward to the upcoming family separation that it entails. Clay will get to jump out of airplanes again which he hasn't done in 14 years. (I think that's ample reason not to in the first place but . . . ) They are quite active in Laguna Niguel community life with Clay the president of the local Pony Baseball league and district Order of the Arrow chapter advisor for the Boy Scouts. Carolyn is the PTA president for the junior high school and a board raember for the high school. Cap Parlier was on the local news out there recently. He lives in Mesa, Arizona and is chief helo test pilot for one of the major helicopter companies.

Cap sponsored the medical treatment for the Russian helo pilot from Chemoble who risked his life to pour the concrete on the nuclear plant to stop the radiation spread. Cap made arrangements for him to come to the U.S. for treatment, but he has since died from an uncontrollable infection and complications from leukemia.

Mike Wittkamp and painting from his Wardroom Mike Wittkamp left command of the USS GERMANTOWN for SurfLant, when he left, the wardroom presented him with an original oil painting of the ship. Tony Watson made the news again by being awarded the Roy Wilkins Meritorious Service Award from the NAACP for distinguished leadership in the promotion of American civil rights.

By now all of you should have made your Reunion plans and have rehearsed your "do you remember . . . " stories, but for the info of your wives let me run over the happenings just one more time. We will start our shuttle bus runs from the BWI Marriott about noon on Friday. The one thing everyone forgets: every Class, every year, is to go by Aluinni House and register!!! We will be giving out your memorabilia order there Friday, included in that issue will be your Class name tag which will get you on to the buses back to the hotel, into the beer line at the tailgate, etc. PLEASE register at Alumni House! We will have the tailgate tent set up on the Taylor Avenue end of the Stadium, for those of you who haven't been there in a while that's the square end the Mids enter from and if you are standing at the Stadium looking lost it will be next to the street and to the right. Pregame and tailgate festivities all will be starting about noon. If the masochist in you determines you just have to drive, get there early, trust me.

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when the Brigade starts to march through town (around 1115) traffic wiU stop everywhere! Take the bus, at least while you're stack in traffic, you'll have someone to talk to. The dinner that night wiU be a sitdown, not a buffet, there will be dancing for those of us so inclined and we will keep the after-dinner speaking down to the barest of essentials. We will try to set up Battalion areas so that you at least have a httie chance of finding your company mates. For those of you who were confused by the mailings, 1 apologize. For those who made rude comments, I have assumed they want the job next time and have so nominated you to the Class president. For everyone else I hope you have a great time and if there is anything I can help you with please call rae and let me know. And finaUy, for those who were not able to be with us, we wUl miss you, and you will miss a great party.

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Pres., Peter P. Schneider, Jr. Sec'y Cdr. BUI WUUams USN 2108 Tumstone Quay, Virginia Beach, Va. 23454 (804) 496-2470 Greetings! Congratalations on sending rae (or making) enough news to get me through the Summer.

Our first letter comes frora Tom Hayman, and aU of you PacFlt deployers, take note. Tom left the Marine Corps in '76 and has been with Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati ever since. As I write this he has just relocated to Japan, where he'll be serving for the next three years as Director of Purchases. (But promises he'U try to be there for the 20th). His address wiU be: Tom Hayman '71, 17-1 Mikageyamate, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Japan 658. Tom can be reached through the Procter & Gamble Far East number in Osaka, Japan: (06) 316-4840 or FAX (06) 315-7503 Tom passed on some other news about 18th Company Rat Packer, JVlick Brown. Soraetirae in the next 12 raonths Mick is scheduled to be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. After successfully completing tryouts he now has to await a call for either the day or nightime show. Mick is with Michelin The Co. and Uves in Wheaton, Illinois, outside Chicago. His collateral duty is to give endurance tests to golf cart tires in the area.

Mike Longworth reported for duty with Commander, carrier group five in Yokosuka. Larry Johnson is on the staff of ComSubPac in Pearl Harbor.

Dave Chaney completed the National Security Decision Making Course at the Naval War College. Dave is a commander in the Reserve and Uves in Jupiter, Florida. He eamed both an MBA and JD degree at the University of Miami. Drew Beasley retamed from a Meditertanean deployment as CO of USS

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Pres., LCol. Bob Lee USMC Sec'y, Cdr. Rich Robison USN 12695 Catawba Drive Woodbridge, Va. 22192 "Ummra, Keem-o-Sabe, look lUce tracks lead down trail to strange black box with red flag on side sitting on top of pole. What you make of it?"

"Whoa, big fella. Why, yes, Tonto, I believe you're right. We've been following these tracks frora the big city for days . . . Whoever made them must have been cartying something and placed it in the box. Open it and see what's inside. Careful! There may be a rattier in there!"

"Look! Letters . . . have pictures. What you make of this one?"

"Hmm, let rae see. It's from Doug Roulstone, and says: Greetings from ttie Far East/WESTPAC! Enclosed is a picture taken at Leo McGinn's Change of Command in January. Left to right-Jerry "Lefty" Schubert, J. R. "Junior" Goddard, Leo McGinn and Doug "Rolie" Roulstone. Leo was departing as CO of VAW-115 en route to War College. Lefty is J. R.'s XO at VFA-151. I'm CO of HS-12. We're aU pemianentiy forward-deployed in CVW-5 on USS MIDWAY widi our famUies in Atsugi, Japan. Also on MIDWAY is Dan Veldstra (a Gator), TeU any Classmates to look us up if they're in Japan,

Lefty, Junior, Leo and Rolie

STUMP (DD-978).

On the local front, the Oceana swim team has good Class representation on it. Joann and Frank Montesano, Mary and JelT Steelman and Karen and 1 all have our children swimming and competing in the Saturday meets. Frank has just completed his squadron comraand and is en route to the Wing to become Deputy Carrier Air Group Commander. Jeff is CO of USS EsTOCiN (FFG-15) homeported out of PhUly but his ship has just finished overhaul here and has been operating locally.

Hope to see you all at Horaecoraing. Even if it's an off year it's a good opportanity to warm up for the big one. BUI

Chuck Davis and Jim Bradley "Them must be pretty strange gang, Keemo-Sabe . . . make friends with gator!"

"Well, I suppose we all have ourpreculiarities, ray friend. Look at this one frora Jim Bradley: It is beginning to look like I'll always be a blue suiter, having traded by service dress blues for IBM blues in 1979. Last year I moved on from my job as IBM Marketing Manager in Mobile, Alabama, back to Atianta, and my native state of Georgia.

I am now with IBM Educational Systems, headqurters of our national marketing effort to get technology into our schools.

My biggest news is that I have become engaged to an Atianta belle. Cay Moeller Cay is also with IBM, so we'U keep it in the family We became engaged during a bare boat sailing charter m the Brit-

ish Virgin Islands, and since I was the skipper, I suggested that I perform the ceremony on the boat.

My pronouncement tumed out to be valid for the duration of the voyage only, so we'U make it official 13 October in Atianta. [Masked Man's note: Congramlations!]

Chuck Davis is alive and weU as a Navy Dentist.

He was selected for postgraduate dental education as the exchange Navy officer with the Air Force, and is doing his two-years of smdy in San Antonio. Enclosed is a picmre of Chuck and I during a scuba diving trip last Summer at Club Med in Turks and Caicos Islands.

"Here's Jim Bradley's address: 4545 Nortiiside Parkway #18G, Atianta, Ga. 30339. Antyhing else in the box?"

"No, Keera-o-Sabe. Look pretty empty . . . not getting much use. Wait! SmaU scrap of paper. It say, 'More to Come. D. O.' What tiiat mean?"

"I'd hate to diink . . . a code, perhaps, written by some fiendish, demented scribe. Let's go, Tonto. Hi, yo. Silver! Away!"

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Pres., Craig Dawson Sec'y Du-k R D. Mosis HI 4409 Underwood Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21218 This column is hot on the heels of the last one, and with less than one raonth between Shipmates, I do not have much to report. Classmates. It is a typical hot and humid Maryland Summer. Passing through the Yard earlier this week revealed Plebes marching at 1930; die WBGT and black flag must be flying.

1 spent a couple of raost interesting hours with Jeff Woll on 19 July at the Sheraton off Columbia PUce near the Navy Annex. Jeff was spending a week at special schooling (a week in addition to his normal two weeks as an air maintenance officer). We did not solve all of the world's problems, but I did team about ice detectors which Jeff markets out of MinneapoUs-St. Paul. Diane and children are fine. (If anyone is in the DC-Annapohs-Baltimore area and wants to drink a beer, trade tales or whatever, do what Jeff didâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;give me a call.)

Steve Hanson answered Frank Lane's chaUenge of our initial battalion CO. Steve took command of MWSS-373 on 29 June, so is Steve die first Marine m the Class to comraand a squadron? "Just a matter of timing," and raore time in sunny Southem California. (Steve is relieving Jerty GeU, '71.)

Otiier news frora Steve: Dan O'Brien and Denny Sorrell picked up lieutenant colonel. Congrats! Tom White is XO of UMFA-314. BUI Bam, XO, UMA-214. Denny Sorrell, XO, MASS-3. Chuck Ptterson is in Yuma as MAG-13 S-l. Steve spent die last few years in VMA(AW)-121 attached to CVW-2 (USS RANGER). Steve, after bragging about no carrier time bad it coming, and he enjoyed good flying, no loss of au-craft or life, and great liberty. Steve, congratalations on command, and thanks for the news.

LCol. Junmy Jones was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal after Director, European Atiantic Plans, Strategic Mobility Office and Directorate and as Chief, Joint Programs, Sealift Plans. (That's a moutiiful; I chaUenge you to top tiiat.) Cdr. BUI Goulduig is witii Fleet Logistics Support Squadron-30, NAS Nordi Island. Cdr. Jim Haggart is CO of Hehcopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron-14, NAS, NorfoUc. Way to go, Jimmy Hags!

We will be tailgating this Fall. Hope to see you at tiie Stadium. Go Navy! Beat 'era all! '73!

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Pres., Steve Middleton Sec'y Cdr. BUI Hall SC USN 722 N. Armistead St. Alexandria, Va. 22312 (703) 354-9193 Our 20th Anniversary of Induction Day Picnic at Hospital Point on 23 June was a roaring success. At least 55 Classmates, including sorae nongraduating Classmates, showed up with tiieir families and friends for a beautiful day in Crabtown-on-the-Bay Food and beverages were arranged through an Alexandria restaurant that Mick Halbreiner managed, musical entertainment was provided by George "Disco" Yacus, (who carae down from Pittsburgh), chUdren's entertainment was provided by a juggling unicychst, Larry Turner provided the opportanity to acquire Class memorabilia, and tours of the newest Academy facUities were arranged by Steve Middleton. AU in all, everyone had a great time and we only wish that raore Classmates and their families could have attended.

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Pres., LCdr. Craig Quigley USN Sec'y LCdr. Michael C. Stichter USN 282 Yorkshhe Dr., Newtown, Pa. 18940

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The only letter I received this Summer came from Jack "FoEz" Mills, who wrote: Had a great time seeing everyone at the picnic! I really didn't expect such a good tumout. It was certainly worth the effort getting there. 1 only wish we

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Pres., LCdr. Don Bringle USN Sec'y, Maj. Joe Buranosky USMC 3015 Greenwich St. Carlsbad, Calif. 92008-7030 MaryK, Tawna and I have just finished moving into our house in Carlsbad, Califomia; the movers were here just a few days ago so we are still living in the midst of boxes and trying to decide where to put things. We stayed with Alex Cobble in San Diego for a few days when we arrived. Alex has a nice house in Point Loma; he's doing well. 1 just reported to Marine Air Logistics Squadron (MALS) 39, Camp Pendleton and will be assuming duties as the squadron's operations officer. A few pieces of mail have found their way to rae so I'll pass on what news I have.

Dennis DiLucente put together another great update as 2nd Company rep. Dennis and Audrey Beth recently relocated to Tierrasanta, a San Diego community just to the east of NAS Miramar. Dennis is with the Naval Air Reserve Center at Mhamar and Audrey Beth is with VF-124 serving as the Squadron's Intelligence Officer. Dave Haines and his wife Selena are in Hawaii; congratalations to both as they are expecting their first child in January. Dave is the Operations Officer at Pearl Harbor Naval Base.

Pauline and Mark Uhron are both well. Mark is the XO of USS CHANDLER (DDG-996) which is in the

20th Anniversary Picnic Crowd The day started off as a typical picnic sort of day, witii scattered thundershowers breaking out at 0900.

That started the early morning phone calls inquiring about what the "foul weather plan" was, which we didn't have! Fortanately, the rain stopped by 1000, the sun drove away the clouds, and a beautiful, breezy day remained. The drive to Annapolis on Route 50 was a not so enjoyable 5-MPH crawl through a short stretch of construction, made all the more enjoyable by the additional beach bound traffic on the road. Upon arrival at Hospital Point, however, the beer and sodas were cold, the hot dogs and hamburgers were cooking, and music from the '70s was blasting.

In attendance at the picnic were the following classmates: Morgan Ames, Ron Ayers, Steve Bartek, John Brown, Dennis Bostich, Jun Brooks, John Carlson, C. W Chesterman, Jim Colli, Wayne Dunham, Steve Gilmore, Greg Gilmore, Jeff (3reene, Mick Halbremer, Bill Hall, John Harrison, Jim Hazlett, BUI Heinzman, Charles Hendrickson, Ken Houston, Terry Howell, Rich Johnson, Mike King, Henry Lane, Don Lawton, Bill Lee, Don Loren, John Lund, BiU Mason, Kim McCauley, Ben McMillan, Steve Middleton, Charlie Miletich, Bob Miller, Jack Mills, Greg Pearsall, Ken Pisel, Bud Sawyer, John Scherrer. Dean Shilling, George Scott, Randy Seftas, Gregg Stachelczyk, Bob Stengle, John Stevens, Skip Stocknich, Dave Tepley, John Tromba, Larry Tlimer, Scott Varaey, Mike Wahl, Bill Wild, Bill Wright, George Yacus, and John Yeager.

Ken Pisel came from London, which gives him the distinction of having come the farthest to attend the picnic. Other long distance attendees that I know of included Jim Colli and family, who flew in from Texas, and John Carlson from Kansas City. To evShipraate, Septeraber 1990

could have stayed longer We left from there to vacation in Florida. I found ttie enclosed on Pierre (Richer) in Navy League's Sea Power magazine and ttiought I'd pass it along for your column. We wUl no doubt see youttiisFall at a few football games.

Again, nice job with the picnic. Regards, Fozz, 7985 Lisbon-Salem Rd., PO. Box 482, Lisbon, Ohio 44432.

What Fozz sent me was an article that shows a pictare of Cdr. Pierre J. Richer, Operations Officer, Training Squadron 28 receiving the Navy League's Corpus Christi Bay Council annual "Mark of Distinction" award. The award is presented for outstanding performance by an officer, and presenting the award to Pierre was RAdm. Jimmie W Taylor, Chtef of Naval Air Training. Congratalations, Pierre!

As a reminder to those Classmates who live in the Washington, D.C, area. The local chapter of the USNA Alumni Association holds its monthly meetings at the Fort Myers Officers' Club on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, September through May Social hour starts at 1115, and the luncheon normally wraps up around 1330. Chapter dues are $10. The guest speakers are always superb, well worth the price of lunch.

As a reminder, I need input from the Class to keep this column going. At the top of the column is my home address and phone number, so there is no excuse for not contacting me. If you're in the Pentagon, I'm in room 4B740, otherwise call me at Autovon 227-7080. Ciao for now.

yard in Seattle; CHANDLER is Mark's sixth consecutive ship since graduation. Chris Handley is an instructor on the staff at the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Congratulations go to Maryan and Larry Piano who are expecting their second child in October. Larry is a programmer/systems analyst for Unisys. Gail and Jeff Neufeld have raoved to Syracuse, New York, where Jeff is managing an information services/technology group for G.E. Carol and Dale Meyer are doing well and still living in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Margie and Mark Anthony are at NAS Jacksonville; Mark completed his department head tour at a P-3 squadron and is now assigned to the wing staff. Hugh Neighbour is still with the State Department and is a raember of the staff at the embassy in Bonn. Dennis is still trying to locate Gary Littlejohn, Jerry Mobley, and Dan Whitney; if anyone has information on their whereabouts let me know, and I'll pass it on to Dennis.

1 received a short note from Cathie and John Bouldenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;congratulations to them on the bhth of their third child, Jessie who was bom 29 March 1990. John is attending the Strategic Weapons Course for PXOs in Kings Bay, Georgia and will be going to USS MARYLAND which is under construction at Electric Boat.

I got a couple of other short notes in the mail.

Carol and Bruce Petit have moved from Tbstin, Califomia, to Fairfax, Virginia. Joe Sheppard is working hard and doing well with his law practice in Cleburne, Texas. Joe had occasion to visit with Ken Grain who is also doing well and enjoying his law practice in Georgetown, Texas.

That's it for now. Please note my new address and let rae hear from you. Joe

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printer before this year's out so let's have an aU out push to get those cards, letters, and fact sheets m to Membership: 81% our Class Historian, Tim Dowding. Once raore, his address is 6 Robhi Way, Westerly, R.I. 02891.

Pres., Maj. Keith Tibbits USMC This column wiU be primarily comprised of two Sec'y, LCdr. BUI MUlward USN Company Newsletters which were passed to me by tiieu- reps. But before I get on to it, a quick congrat1026 Magnoha Ave., NorfoUc, Va. 23508 ulatory note to Nelson Cayabyab. On 13 July, Nelson West Coast, LCdr. Dempsey Butler USN assumed command of USS CONQUEST, an MSO out VA-185, FPO San Francisco, CaUf. 96601-6240 Shipmates, I don't know about you but this Sum- of Seattie, Washington. I appreciated the uivite and mer has been a hectic one forrae.I started out with regretted not being able to attend. Ah, anotiier of our visions of a lot of golf and time next to the pool with host to achieve Command. '78ers continue to move my son but alas h was not to be! Unfortunately, this on upward!!

The first Company Newsletter came from 33rd rapid pace has carried over to this month's article, for I'm having to prepare it about three weeks in ad- Co.—none other than Brent Obenour. Margo and vance. Can you imagine planning something three Ron Assland are living out in the Norfolk area along weeks in advance of its due date?! . . . why that's witii two daughters, 6 and 4, Ron is die 1st Lt. on un-American! Anyway, aU I have for input is a lone USS GUADALCANAL. Before that he was die OpsO letter from Kevin Brock, who has (fortanately for on USS NEWPORT. Beth and Greg Baur also have two ghls. Greg is a me) written hisfirstletter to Shipmate. Now can you imagine his surprise when hereadsthis andfindsthat co-pilot on DC-9s for American Airlines out of Nahe is the centerpiece of the column! Kevin, bless you tional Airport in D.C. He's still in the Marine Corps for saving my life; I hope this doesn't keep you from Reserve, flying frogs out of NorfoUc. Before getting out he managed to pick up an MS in Management writing for another thirteen years! from Troy State.

I left the Navy in 1983 after a Division Officer Linda and Mike Conklin added to the population tour in USS DEWEY (DDG-45) and a tour as explosion in Woodbridge, Virginia, witii tiieh four Weapons Officer in USS SEMMES (DDG-18), botii in Charleston. After serving a couple of years as a kids. Mike is ciurentiy with the Ops Analysis Branch Project Engineer for a Charleston Beltway Bandit, at MCCDC, Quantico. But I undeistand he'U soon be and a couple of more as a Maintenance Engineer at a heading back to the Fleet. He's done paying penance manufacturing plant here in WaynesvUle, North for the MS he got frora Monterey and should be getCarolina, Iremainedin the area and am now a Field ting back to the cockph, possibly to MCAS New Engineer for a smaU (13 people) design engineering firm. I have also just recentiy attainedregistrationas River. a Professional Engineer in North Carolina. I met my Marie and IVlike Dasovich by now are CIVLANT, wife, Doima, shortiy after leaving the Navy; we Mike was with the Warfighting Branch at (Juantico. I vrere married in 1984. We have two children, Rachelpopped in to see him in the middle of July, just as he 4 and PhiUip-2. We love it here in WaynesviUe, was heading on terminal leave. Armed with a brand which is nestied in the Great Smokey Mountains, 30 new MS in Analysis and Manageraent from GWU he rmles southwest of AsheviUe. With the Great was being wooed by various beltway bandits. A Smokey Mountains National Park, Blue Ridge Parkgroup I think called Tasker seemed to have the inside way, Shining Rock WUdemess and lots of trout steams practicaUy in our back yard, it's a great place lead, but Mike was in the driver's seat. to Uve and a great place to visit. Anyone passing Jim Degree is in the InteUigence Community and through or visitingttiearea is welcome to call so we should be at the Pentagon (Lord knows that place can get together The only Classmate I know of in could use an infusion of that staff!) Jim had picked up the area is Wayne Johnson, who Uves with his wife MS in Systems Manageraent frora USC in '89. ^ Jeaimie and two chUdren, about 45 minutes away in now he, Tracy and their four kids should be settied in HendersonviUe. Wayne works at AshevUle Indusand deahng with life around the beltway. tries, a division of Newport News ShipbuUding.

Being sort of isolated here in the mountains is nice, BUI Deitzler is one of the many '78ersflyingfor but we do come down out of ttie hUls once in a Northwest AirUnes. He's based out Minneapolis/St. whUe! We hope to make one football game this FaU Paul. He and Judy Lyn have three kids to keep him —probably in CharlottesviUe since my wife is a busy, so Bill says the only chance he gets to steep is UVA giad. Kevin.

That's it for September. Hoping to have a few more when he's flyuig. (Boy, that makes me feel REAL letters for next month's issue, happy trails . . . Bill. comfortable about flying . . . at least he didn't say he has a drink to relax hira!) Heraentionedthat a former Classmate, Fred Townsend, is doing well and living in Atianta. I've got the address if anyone is interested in looking hira up.

Membership: 83% Mike Dinn is a project manager for Suramerhill Development Co. in Newport Beach, Califomia. It's Pres., Steve Maloney a real estate development company, which, judging Sec'y, Vince Balderrama by the dapper manner in which Mike was dressed at 10 De Marchis Drive our reunion, appears to be doing quite well. Mike Shelton, Conn. 06484 also is counted among those with a secondary sheepOkay, first a Uttle word frora our Prez, (now a Re- skin—the ever popular MBA (His is from the Uniserve Major select—) Steve Maloney . . . Jock versity of Washington in Seattle). wishes me to pass ontiiatthe Class Directory, which Rick Dubberly is tiie OpsO on USS JOSEPHUS you have been hearing of for so long, is coming to a DANIELS out of Norfolk. He should be moving on head. In other words. It's taking soooo long that we'll someplace this year as an XO. He and Susan have two probably go to print as is. That is to say we'll soon young ones, ages 4 and 1. Dubes and sent a note with print those listings (fact sheets) that we now have; the excuse that he missed the 10th Reunion due to which, I think, leaves us somewhere short of our goal being in the Persian Gulf. Brent thought tiiat was the witii a 60-70% response. So those of you who still best excuse he'd heard yet. . . . It sounds pretty haven't responded to your company reps notices and lame to me. But of course I have a higher standard, updated your addresses and information, (or those tempered by the very late reunion dance arrival of company reps who haven't put out the word) hop on it Jim "Mack the Knife" Shulson, all die way from now or forever hold your peace!! (Well, not neces- Okinawa via MAC air. Sorty Rick, aaaaaaaah, no sarily forever, but at least a good three years until we credit. publish an update!!) I know we're shootmg to get to a

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Paula and Mike Dyer are around the San Francisco area. MUce is the Aviation Procurement Officer out at Treasure Island. I can just see Duffy now saying "Glasses? Sure kid, noooo problem! Just sign on the dotted line." Ah, he always had tiiat "trust me" face.

Katiiy and Tom Eldridge enjoy die pace of life m Zebulon, Nortii Carolma. Tom's die Pastor of die Poplar Spring Baptist Church. He got his Master of Divinity frora Soutiieastem Baptist Theological Senunary in 1987. He stayed m die Naval Reserve, so die Navy didn't lose an officer, tiiey just gained a chaplain. I don't dunk dial's what he does in die Reserve, but he certainly can continue to "buy those cheap batteries from the NEX." "Doctor Keith" Haar has been in more services than anyone else in 33rd Company After Mid days (there's 1) he spent time witiitiieMarines (that's two) frora which he was accepted to Med School at USUHS in Bediesda. After graduation Keitii opted to be an Ah Force doctor (dial's duee). After a short stay at Travis AFB, Califomia he was wisked away to do his residency in dermatology at San Antonio. He and Katiiy have two kids, ages 9 and 6, who probably help daddy play botii sides during the Navy-Air Force games.

Chris Hartman is out of die Navy and works for Raytheon as a meraber of their Techiucal Staff in Arlington, Virginia. He and his wife, Melanie, stiU enjoy the Navy life at least montitiy when he driUs with the Navy Command Center at the Pentagon.

Dottie, Danny (6) and Dan Holoubeck are enjoying Maryland living. In fact, nearly die enthe Holoubeck clan (motiier, father, brother, sister?) have transplanted from Nebraska to the Annapolis area.

Dan works for Lockheed Missile and Space Company in Glenn Dale, Maryland, whUe his Reserve duty is with the Military Sealift Command unit in Baltimore.

GaU and George Kersten are tied with the 33rd Co. procreative record of 4 kids. George is a civilian with Ccxjper Industries as a Marketing Specialist in South Milwaukee.

Gisela, BUI McKeag and family live around the Santa Barbara area. Bill is out of the Navy and works as a project engineer for the Santa Barbara Research Center.

Duncan McLean is CO of the ConsoUdated Diving Unit in Norfolk. Duncan's wife, Kathleen, either hasfinished,or soon will finish, her graduate work at NPS Monterey and they'll link up somewhere.

Vickie, Brent Obenour and their three kids moved from Rockville, Maryland, to the Sacramento area. Brent is die District Manager of Northem Caltfomia offices of USPA & IRA. He's been witii USPA since leaving the Nuke active duty Navy in the Spring of '85 (Last tour as MPA on USS PARCHE out of Mare Island) but still serves in the Reserve.

Dennis Otoshi was a close second to Keith Haar for duty with the most services. He, however, can claim having made lieutenant the most, twice in fact; once widi the Navy and now with Coast Guard. Dennis joined the Coasties in '83 and has been involved in rescues and drug busts. Currently, he'stiieCombat Systems Officer on USCGC SHERMAN. In today's world, that's a REALLY ACTIVE job . . . "This is die Coast Guard, stop your engines, and lay down your weapons!" (I wonder if he's ever tried . . .

"Make my day . . . punk!")

John Rogers is witii Target Distribution Center in Indianapolis, as well as keeping up his USNR statas.

He and Debbie have two children. John loves the Indy area and reminds all tiiat he's just off 1-70 and has a guest bedroom for any migratory workers passing tiuough. Yes, but can he getticketsto the Indy 500?

Walter Sharp is a lawyer with die Navy Detachment in Rota. I'm not sure if Anne and tiieh two kids are with hira—probably so. He picked up his JD

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from Texas Tech in '84 and his LLM in Intemational Law from Georgetown in '88.

Annette, Tom Sudbeck and their two boys live in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Tom is in the White House Liaison Office at HMX-I in Quantico. Next time you seetiiePrez getting out of Marine One see if you can spot Suds. If you can't, don't wony, he'll send you an 8 X 10 glossy of himself at die controls. Aside from the taking care of the boys, my "dance partaer" Annette also occupies her time by teaching aerobics at the base and humiliating hard body Marines. (Hey, she's tough!!).

John Weidner got his MS in Nuclear Engineering (Weapons Effects) frora the Air Force Institute of Technology in Dayton. By now he should be the XO of USS JOHN MARSHALL. Brent raentioned that Diane and John have "two children" but gave ages for three kids (8, 5, and 3). Did one sneak by on you guys, Diane?

Ed Wynne is working at Texas' Commanche Peak Nuclear Power Station as a senior engmeer for Impell Corporation but still drills with the Reserve at NCSO m DaUas. The oiUy "lost sheep" in 33rd was Kevin Ryan.

Anyone who has a clue on him drop Brent or me a line. Brent thought that I'd "never get all of this in one issue" . . . WeU, I love a challenge but with a httie echtorial license it looks like we made it all fit.

(Too bad I chchi't bet a brew on it!)

The second source of info is on 18th Company, courtesy of their rep, Rob Cloutier: Rob heard that Mike Amicarella was either hi San Diego or Washmgton (state). I have it on good authority that he is in San Diego. His XO was in at Sikorsky picking up an aircraft a few months ago and mentioned that the "GoriUa" was with his squachon, HS-2 to be exact.

Of course those of you who foUow this column know that Misti and Art Athens are living in Yuma, Arizona, where Art is a Hawk MissUe Weapons and Tactics Instractor with MAWTS-1. As for Art's brotherin-law. Skip Root, Rob hadn't a clue. If anyone has seen his "crooked smUe" lately, let us know, (Just think back to the end of Plebe Year election speeches—you'U know what I mean, and then recognize him.)

Perry Bently is married with children (three to be exact). He picked up a JD from the University of Kentacky and is an attorney in civil litigation in Kentacky. Dave Brown is married and has a daughter.

Dave picked up an MS in Aero Engineering at NPGS. He's serving a department head/instructor tour at Systems Fhght Test, Naval Test Pilot School, Pax River. As for Rob Cloutier, he and his wife and two kids are living in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. He's the Office Systems Program Manager for Boeing Computer Services. Forfiveyears he's also owned a computer consuhing firra. Aside frogi trying to be 18th Co. 's rep he's trying to restore a '7'3 MGB. Jeff Dickman is raarried and has two kids. Jeff reportedly knew where Terry Flanagan was but didn't pass on any detaUs except that he too was married and had a baby. Jeff also noted that Pete Frano is an A-6 BN in NorfoUc. (What about details, details, details?!)

Bob Ferencsik's dad was a source of info. According to him. Bob took a job with a DOD contractor last Fall in Massachusetts. Mark Fox was retraining on F/A-18S but by now has left for deployment of SARATOGA. Mark is also among the "4 Kids Club."

Dave Hall is a Senior Quality Control Engineer at Ensign Bickford Aerospace Company (They make explosives.). That's a job where (JA can't afford to slip up! Dave is married and has two kids whom he has taught to NEVER sneak up behind daddy and pop ballons!! Dave serves his Reserve duty on USS MILLER and is looking for a cheap MGB. He and Rob get together several times a year so it's easy to see that: (1) they're still close friends and (2) that Rob's restoration of that MGB is not cheap enough for Dave!!

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Ray Milton is working for Bremerton Naval Shipyard. Uncle Milt says he "fixes ships" and claims he is still a "melon head." (Yeahh sure and I'm 6' 2".)

Andy Mohler is at NAVAIR in D.C. I came across him in the Metro subway a few months back. Prior to that he was at PAX River (test pilot) and lately as the Ass't Nav on "LADY LEX." Sam Park has his PhD in physics, specifically "low altitute, high magnetic field, extremely small signal signal solid-state physics." (Hey, 1 don't know about you but 1 was already intimidated by just plain old "PhD".) Now, since Rob didn't know exactly where, can anyone tell us where Sam is? Sam, you got the PhD, in what "state" are you? Don Schneider is with Orion Enterprises as a Senior Research Scientist in critical technology, foreign exports and living in Sterling, Virginia. Chad Seizert is in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and is a First Officer on Boeing 757s for Northwest Ahlines. Bob Stuart is in West Oak Harbor, Washington. He is the Admin Officer with VA-128 where he's known by his new nickname, "Stabob." Kevin White was last seen working on his master's in Manpower, Personnel, Training Analysis at NPGS. By now he should've reported to VP-5 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Some 18th Company lost sheep were: Vance Adams (last seen—Charleston, South Carolina), PhU Brady (believed to be living in Mt. Holly, New Jersey), Chris Carlson (Freemont, California?), Gerry Corey (Atlanta?), Tom Fabiani (Woodbridge, Illinois?), George Koucheravy (also possibly in Charleston), and lastly Teddy Null (last seen flying Hueys in the Marine Corps but long since in CIVDIV).

Thanks for all the scoop. Brent and Rob. Anyone with a clue to the lost souls let us know. I have one bit of clarification from last month's column—I was historically accurate when 1 stated that Mike Warner and Scot Miller had at one time tied for a beer can record. But it was at an earlier Homecoming, and not at the 10th Reunion . . . right event (Horaecoraing), wrong year. By the way Scot's wife, Wendy, has a nifty little business, called "Just Bows." As the narae implies, she makes bows for all uses, hah, ornaments, etc. Her best selling item (1 should know, Elizabeth bought several at the last Homecoming Game!) are shoe laces with bows attached to them.

Of course, they come in appropriate school colors.

(Like Blue and Gold, for one.) Business seems to doing well as I noticed her products on a rack at a ribbon store in Mystic, Connecticut.

WeU, that's aU for now . . . be seeing you perhaps at Navy football garaes, on a street comer soraewhere, or and around the mail box!

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Pres., LCdr. IMichael S. Finley USNR Con. Sec'y Capt. Kenneth Russell USMCR 6234 Azalea Dr., Quartz HUI, Calif. 93536 Greetings from the land of two seasons! And those two seasons are: Real hot and windy and real cold and windy This month is going to take you to the pinnacle of excitement. That's 'cause I have a whole envelope of Fleet Home Town News Releases and just a little bit o' Class info. There's also some Used Car Dealer/Real Estate Agent staff that has to get done.

So let's get right to it, shall we?

If you had a warm, fuzzy feeling and felt like keeping those doors and windows unlocked for no apparent reason, frora 9 June until 23 June, it was because I was keeping the country safe for democracy while on two weeks active duty. I even got a few hours of flight tirae between groundings of the Mighty War Frog.

While working for our rich, eccentric Uncle, I was fortanate enough to get to see Mary and Steve

Squires Squires. They invited Steve Brooks and me over for dinner and lots of blabbin'. Squiman's little one, Robert was a blast to play with. (Boy, I hope theh picture got printed!) Steve Brooks is the Fhst Lieutenant on USS TARAWA (I tiiink that's the LHA. Sorry Steve, I never can remember the names of those big gray things with pointy ends) and will be staying with her in Long Beach for a white. Steve, thanks for the ride and hope all works out for the best.

Squu-es, it was great seeing you, Mary, Robert and Brooks. Your kid is THE best. Excellent chow, too!

Patti and Sam Hull sent a letter with the cutest pictare of theh daughter, Elizabeth. What a doll. Fortanately, she looks a lot like Mom. Sam is a computer guru, setting up and maintaining systems for some of the businesses around the Dallas area. Sam told me he and Patti would be seeing Kay and Don Geving before they (the Geving's) head off to Okinawa. Isn't Okinawa the subject of one of those sociology questionnau-es? You know, "Would you rather throw up on a crowded bus or spend three years on Okinawa?" If you had a choice, it would be the bus, hands down.

Don, Kay, hope the best for you two and being as how you'll be together, you'll probably enjoy the tour.

Ruth and Burke Shade are camped out in Escondido, Califomia, while Burke is attending the Westminster Theological Seminary. He has two more years to go to get his Master's with the eventaal goal of being a pastor somewhere in the U. S. of A. In the meantime, he and Ruth (I think mostly Ruth) are mega-busy raisingfive(that's 5, as infive)kids. They are: Elizabeth 9, Lydia 7, Isaiah 5, Nehemiah 3, and Joshua 2. Whoa Silver, my hat's off to you both. I don't know how Vicky and I manage with Bryan (most of the time a great little guy, but sometimes; the "Baby From Hell") but five?? Wow. When do you guys ever sleep?

Well color me ditsy About four months ago, I forgot to mention the fact that Joe Bradiield graduated from Pennsylvania State University's School of Medicine in May of '89. Yeah, I was right on top of my ball garae with that one. Sissy, I'll try not to let that kinda staff happen again, raa'am. Congratalations, Doctor Joe! Bill Corkill and I had a great phone call. His poor brother lives here in the "Arid-Extra-Dry" armpit of the universe, a few miles from my place. Bill was down for a few days visiting. He and Teresa are living in Monterey while Bill is attending Naval Postgraduate School. They have two little ones: Patrick, 7 and Kimberly, 5. Bill decided a few years ago to give up flying EA6-B's and nine-month deployments in order to spend more time with his family. Corky is now a Navy Oceanographer and gets to go home every night. Bill, don't you miss those chocks and chains slamming into the flight deck right above your head at three in the moming? Gettin' a little teary eyed, are ya? Well no more night, bad weather, seat-cushionup-to-your-throat recoveries for you pal. Corky has another year and a half to go, then it's payback time.

And now the hard staff (The Used Car Dealer/Real Estate Agent deal). I'm not real good at this but we'll give it a go. Remeraber that nutty, kookie raotto of mine, "Give, give, give, never take"? Well, in order 91

for us to get this Class of ours on the map, one of the things we need to do is buUd up our Class fund. Yeah, I know, who likes giving away money that we really don't know how it wiU be used? Please lay aside those thoughts and stay with me for a second here.

(Vince Bousa, that means pick the magazine back up and keep reading.) This fund is for us; our Class.

What can we do with h? Set up reunions, create a memorial fund, pay for a Class project like a '79 monument or plaque in the yard or hall. There's aU kinds of staff we can do with it that wUl let people know who we are. How much are we talking about?

Twenty-five bucks a year. Just think about it for now.

Next raonth, the who and where-to-send-it-to staff wiU get printed. In addition, we'll have the first batch of company reps for ya's. Now that I've fixed into your minds the answer to that burning question you aU must be asking, "Ken, why didn't you go into sales?" Let's move on to the biggest, boldest, raost exciting, aU-the-flavor-with-none-of-that-nasty-cholesterol, bright spot of the whole raonth. You know what I'm taUdn' about. Yeah, it's what we hve for . . . the bountiful comucopia of Class news: FLEET HOME TOWN NEWS RELEASES!!!!

John Counts reported for duty witii HS-5 at NAS Agana. John Baskovich reported aboard USS CowPENS for precommisioning. JVIike Davis retumed to Newport last May frora a fun-filled cruise in the Persian Gitif on USS SIMPSON. Bob Harward was a staff pogue with PhibGra-1 during Teara Spirit '90.

Bob also got to visit several foreign countries the PhiUppines and Hong Kong. Pinch me, I must be dreaming. Gary Herbold just left Swamp Lagoon with the 22 MEU for six months o' fun in the Med. (Gary, PLEASE teU General Amos that Larty the Logger said Congrats on picking up his star and that Brooke Shields wants to invite him over for dinner.

There's valuable cash and prizes waiting for you if you relay the message. Thanks.) Kevin Mathison and Kirk Michealson were awarded Navy Commendation Medals; Kevin, whUe serving aboard USS CORAL SEA, and Kirk, while serving aboard USS SPRUANCE. Kev is now witii VP-31 at NAS Moffett Field. John Lovering received the Meritorious Service Medal whUe serving as a staff member of ComSubFor, Seventh Fleet.

WeU Jeepers folks, that's the whole chincadera for September. Mom's, Dad's, get all those ghostettes and minigoblins ready for HaUoween and remeraber, if you got 'em, floss 'em. UntU next month, this Classmate is headed for the bam. Ken.

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Pres., Lt. William C. Crow USN Cort. Sec'y, Lt. Joseph A. Grace Jr. USNR 63 Cherokee Rd., Hampton, Va. 23661 (804) 728-2991 Greetings from the humid, sweltering heat of Virginia. The sticky nights bring back raemories of sweating in Bancroft Hall during those wonderful weeks of Plebe Summer. The Class of '94 is halfway through their ordeal, and another chapter is being written in the Acaderay book of folklore . . .

I recommend that everyone verify theh reservations in Annapohs. I recently had the unfortanate experience of confirming mine at the Radisson on West Street. After telling me that they had no record of my reservation, I gave them ray confirmation number, complete with a super guaranteed rate. The desk clerk then confirmed that I did indeed have a suite reserved for that weekend, in . . . Indianapolis. Fortunately we were able to rectify the sitaation, but rooms were scarce to say the least. Get your rooms now if you stiU can, and confirm those that you have reserved.

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I have received several notes from Kobo that accompanied checks for Homecoming. Amazing how fast news can travel, and how much information can be gained from a retam address and a $25. check.

However, once we have collected aU of the money, I wiU have to come up with another ploy to get everyone tofiUme in on news for Shipmate!!! Once again, I'll attempt to put together the news frora these notes: Donna and Mark Vaughan are living in Texas where Mark is a TAR officer witii VR-59, NAS Dallas, as a C-9B pilot. Neesh and Joe Hayden wrote in frora the West Coast. Joe is about ready to head East "where most of the people are sane!" They expect to be living in the Norfolk area by Homecoming. Sharon and Rick Pickering are living in Annapolis. Rick is working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, and still active with the Reserve. They have two daughters and a son, ranging from 3 - 8 years old. Sharon and Jon Buttram wrote in with a "703" area code, so they must be near D.C. The stationery had a great ship logo drawn at the top, so it seems that our Class artist is still at work. Stacey and BUI Bowen are living in Eldersburg, Maryland. Janet and Mike Kane wrote in from Virgiiua Beach, with a ten-year update. It was sort of cryptic, so I'll quote: "I've spent the last 10 years among various pursuitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;married with three kids (ok, so I lived next to Guad on the IKE); wings in Meridian; Plowback for l'/2 years, F-14's in Va. Beach, Unique Fleet Squadron-VF-143 tiiat I shared witii 5 otiiers from '80: Pilots Joe Edwards and Chris Davids, and RIO's Nets Petersen, Scott Grundmeier and Greg Hightain; then to shore duty flying A4/FI6 adversaries, and have just started working for Delta Airlines." Brenda and Mike Grabbe wrote in from Clemson, where Mike is a PhD stadent in the math department. Cindy and Chuck Knapp wUl be at the tenth. Chuck is bringing his clubs, so any other' 80 hackers out there, give him a call.

It seems that Shipmate has a following far and wide. I received a note frora one of our exchange Cadets from West Point, BiU Wray, 17th corapany, who had been reading our column and wrote in an update.

BiU and I switched places m the Glee Club and folk groups during our semester exchange whUe he was at Navy and 1 was at the Point. He also writes the column for The Assembly, which is their equivalent of Shipmate. After graduation from West Point, BUI went to Stanford for a master's in Civil Engineering, and then spent five years in the Army as a combat engineer. He now lives in Rhode Island, with his wife Nancy and three chUdren: Keeley, 7; Katie, 6; and Willie, 3. He works in Boston, but will soon be taking a position with Shawmut Bank as a Vice President working with die bank's troubled real estate assets. He reports . . . "You wiU be glad to hear tiiat ray Naval Academy experience may have perraanentiy distorted ray allegiance: I am considering switching from die Army to the Naval Reserve, smce there is a major Seabee installation close to ray home." He can be reached at the following address: 20 Topaz Dr., East Greenwich, R.I. 02818 (401/884-5815).

I received a letter frora Cheryl Spohnholtz, who identified herself as the long lost 8th Corapany correspondent with a new job and a new address. Here is the buUc of her tetter: Pam and Mike Ales are die proud parents of Thomas Michael, bom 15 March 89 and weighing in at almost 7 pounds. They are expecting another chUd in July Mike is stiU at Great Lakes, but has a new job as the Director of Steam Training. Maureen and Dave Anderson moved to Califomia last year and Dave is assigned to MAG 16. Kerry and Jim Brownlowe are at NAS Panixent River where Jim is a test pUot. Al Bartow was last heard from at F/A18 training in Irvine, California. Kathy and John Callahan were last reported to be in Dallas where John is a pilot for Delta Aulines. Maureen and John

Coleman are pursuing their own business, a successful cleaning service near Seattie, Washington.

John is still active in die Reserve and is with VP-69.

Dan and Susan (Stapler) Cabral are still living in Coronado where Susan is a busy mom as her daughter Hannah keeps her moving. They are expecting #2 in October Patty and Len Dato were last heard from in Lubbock, Texas. Jody Garrett has not broken his perfect record of in-communicado. Jennifer and Jim Huck are stiU at Mare Island, but are due for orders soon. They hope to come East. Bobby Hudson is divorced, and is die Navigator on board USS HENRY CLAY, which is scheduled for de-

commissioning. He is stiU in ttie Charleston area, and shares his house witti Brian Marks, who is die Navigator on board USS PETREL, a submarine rescue ship. Janet and Dan King are en route to Barber's Point, following Dan's completion of his master's at MIT. Dodie and Rich Maclnnes moved to Charleston, West Virguiia, where Mac is working for McJunkin asttieDirector of Corporate Planning.

Kattiy and John McCarthy are having an exciting/ dangerous time in die PhUippines. He is ttaveling quite a bit in his Supply Corps job, in addition to being a busy dad. Kattiy isttiedirector of die Counselling and Assistance Center and should have had baby #3 diis montii. Babe mentioned possibiUty of twins! Bubba Nixon is a pilot for Northwest AirUnes. Leonita and Alexis SabaUa arereportedlyin North Kingston, Rhode Island, where Alex is working for Rayttieon. Laurie and Rob Schoeneck were last seen at USNA were Rob was coaching lacrosse.

Mike Seaward is stiU in die D.C, area working for Booz-AUen and HamUton. Christy and Dan Secor are StUl in SummerviUe, Soudi Carolina, where Dan is die Navigator on die Gold Crew of USS JAMES K. POLK. Christy had a rough time widi the hurricane of '89 but she and Matttiew (now ttiree) made it du-ough safely Sharon and Brad Smith have not been heard from in years, but according to recortls, diey are in Orange Park, Florida. John Speer is flying for Delta Airlines, and reportedly living on a saUboat in San Diego. Ed Spear is divorced and working inttieVirginia Beach area. Kay and Danny Young are stiU in the Charleston area and are proud parents of MaUory, bom 2 November 89.

Later . . . see you at Homecoming, Cheryl Cheryl also included some info about herself. She is now the OIC of the Naval Space SurveUlance Center Detachment Buckley, near Denver, Colorado.

Cheryl is the only naval officer assigned and has 30 eitiisted folks working for her. She is double hatted as DOS (Tactical Support Coordinator) for the Air Force 2nd Commuitications Squachon. Finally, Cheryl is buying a new house in Denver, and looking forward to Homecoming.

We received a letter frora OMNI travel in Atianta, Georgia, which is a full service travel agency. They have corae up with quite a package to assist Classraates in reaching Annapolis for the 10th Reunion at the lowest possible fare. Discounts are significant, and as a special bonus, the agency will donate 10 percent of its gross profits (frora Class bookings) back to the Class fiind at the end of the year. We are not endorsing one travel agent, but rather, making a super offer known to die Class. Call 1-800-331-1810, or 404-396-2000. Identify yourself as a member of '80 and they will get you on the right road.

Tim Kobosko reports tiiat all is on track for tiie big bash in October. He again requested tiiat all checks be made to "USNA Alumni Association, Class of 1980." For tiiose of you who have not yet responded, please get your checks in soon, $25. per person attending. A meeting for die Class is currentiy scheduled for Friday, 26 October, at 1300 m Rickover 103.

An ENIOO steam quiz will follow.

In addition, there have been many questions about elections for the Class. With all of tiie preparation for the 10th Reunion, tiiese have slipped somewhat. We are currentiy discussmg delaying elections until after Homeconung, and using die meeting to distribute information, take names of tiiose who want to run for an office, and basically get thmgs worked out for a

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Paul Giosa are living in Bowie, with Paul doing consulting work in Rosslyn. Mike Porter is at AWS in Quantico. Lisa Cicchini is the Aviation/Ground Monitor at HQMC. Steve Astolii is doing consulting work also in Crystal City and living in Old Town Alexandria. Thanks for all the news and the D.C. update. ItiioughtI had a lot of Classmates here in San Diego, but it sounds like you can't walk down the street in D.C. without running into an old Academy bud.

Membership: 93% I received some Shipmate news from a rather unique source this month; my Dad. He saw Mary Pres., Dennis A. Sawyer Ellen Paul, wife of John, with their three children Sec'y LCdr. Peter Sciabarra USN when they visited the Statue of Liberty this past July.

11566 Faison Way San Diego, Calif. 92124 John, of course, was out cruising the Med at the time.

Greetings 81— Mary Ellen and John are in Charleston, with John a Congratulations to all you new lieutenant com- Department Head on a cruiser Please excuse me for manders! The selection board results was almost lUce entering a family plug at this juncture, but Mary reading a Class roster of those stiU on active duty. So, Ellen ran into my father as she was boarding Miss from the second name on the list, Syd Abernathy to FREEDOM, which my father pilots for Circle Line diefinalname, Joan Zitterkopf, and all those in be- from Liberty State Park in New Jersey to the Statue tween, CONGRATS. I also noted die Class of '81 every day. So if any of you '81ers are ever on a trip to heavily represented on the Reserve selection list. the Statae, stop by and say hello to Captain Sal. (1 Looks lUce a gocxl month for wetting downs. sure wish I could validate this disassociated ship tour I heard from an old FUN ONE corapanyraate, based on his fifty plus years on the water in various Dave CiccarelU this past montii. Deb and Dave are capacities).

Uving m Elhcott City, Maryland. Dave is running the Washington/Baltimore office of Junior Officer Placements Associates. Dave reported the whereabouts of several of our Classmates starting with my old roommate, Sal Weaver. Margie and Sal are practically neighbors of Deb and Dave also living in Elhcott City, witii Sal working for a defense contractor in NAVSEA in Crystal City. Joe Ziu-lo is with Logistics Management Institate in Bethesda. Terri and Joe are hving in SUver Spring, and are expecting their second child later tins FaU. Theh first, Marie, will be two in Febraary. George BasU is also with LMl, and he and SheUa are hving in Gaithersburg. George's roommate frora Cherty Point, Joe Duplaise is at China Lake, and was married in April '89. Tony Marolt has left the Navy and is working for Louis Me and Capt. Sal Rich in Modesto. Tony and Julia have three chilcfi-en.

Carol and 1 ran into John Christenson at the North Donnie Densford is hving in Silver Spring and Island O Club in July and he informed us of his upworking for TRW in McLean. Don and Mary also coming wedding to the former Teresa Shell on 1 Sephave three jamraers. Mia and WUlie Akana are in tember at Sacred Heart Church on Coronado. John Monterey, as are Michelle and Gary Slyman with has completed his tour as Weapons on DOWNES and is theh two, Brendon, 6, and Luidsey, 4. John Butala headed for DesRon 21 as Combat Systems Officer. is the Chief Engineer on G. W C AR VER on t of Groton. John also reported that Dave Dent was martied to Stu BaUey, Randy Cohn, and Brent Jett are all still Carol in Jacksonville on 12 May '90, and is still flying at Pax River. Dave noticed Mark Donahue's name for Delta. Steve Kim is complete with his tour on ENprominendy mentioned in several race results in the TERPRISE and he and Karen are headed for TAR duty New England area in a recent issue of the Running in Michigan. Jimmy Shannon and Lisa have two Times. The "Fatman" apparently has not lost a step, boys, and are also living on Coronado. Jim has coraand has recently reported on board SAMUEL B . pleted his tour as ChEng on O'BRIEN and is now the ROBERTS in Newport. Mike Geoghagen is with Material Officer for CoraDesRon 31 in San Diego.

Trammel Crow in Baltimore, having completed his Lone and Gerry Hueber have two kids and also are MBA at Harvard. Kathy and MUce live in Belair, with Island dwellers. Gerty is about to take over as Ops on tiieir two sons, James and Blaine. Matt Hein is at the JOUETT. Boat School teaching Economic Geography. BUI That's about it for Class news for this month.

McGuinness is at Westmghouse near the BWI airThanks to Dave CiccarelU for the D.C. news or we port and is hving in Linthicum. Bill is in the last year would have had a rather short column this month. of the MBA program at the University of Maryland.

Well it's almost that time of year again—time for Junior Ortiz is at Headquarters Marine Corps and Navy football. If only every garae could be like last John Parkinson is doing consulting work in D.C. year's ARMY game. Navy has a new coach and a new Bobby Ravener is working for Pepsi Cola in Puroffense (Thank God-no more wishbone) and hopechase, New York and is heading up our 10-year Refully will be back on the road to a winning season. union committee. As you know. Bob did a FABUCarol and I hope to make it back East for a home LOUS job on our fifth in 1986. Qur Class President, game this year; and we're already planning on being Dennis Sawyer, is also with TRW in Crystal City. at the big event next Fall—our 10 year Reunion.

Theresa and Dennis are living in Lovettsville, VirMore news to come on that in following months. In ginia, where rumor has it that Dennis is involved in honor of our outstanding football teams which we enthe local politics, getting elected to the Town Council joyed for four years, our "where are they now" Classon his first try. Mike Stankus is working for mates for this month are: Mike Sherlock, Curt Raytheon in Andover. Patti and Mike have a brood of Gainer and Fred Reitzel. Until next month—GO three; Tim, 7, Leanne, 5, and Beth, 3. Gary Scott is BIG BLUE! Ski living in Gaithersburg and working for Booz-AUen and Hamilton in (where else?) Crystal City. Lona and good election some time after tfie first of die year.

Feedback?

Once again, please drop me a line and let me know what is happening in your life. Company reps, please identify yourself, and send rae an update of your last newsletter. Again, my horae fax is (804) 728-0496, let me hear from you.

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Pres., Lt. Thomas R Garrison, III USN Sec'y, Lt. Gus Anderson USN USS ROBISON (DDG-12) FPO San Francisco, Calif. 96677-1242 As most of you can tell, the issue that was lost in the mail has been found and appeared at the end of the July-Aug issue. You've got to hand it to those people who've proved that there is actually a Santa Claus . . .

Unfortanately, there is not a bunch of input for this month . . . in truth, only the Editor (CZol. Hammond) passed along some info on Wes & Co. Wes Hammond, 111 had his change of command on 20 June and the three Wes's (Jr., Ill, and IV) along with Donna and Alison spent close to two weeks traveling around the British (See '51 column) Isles. The group hopped a plane and headed back to the States on 3 July. Wes 111 is now attending the Advanced Artillery School at Fort Sill. His address is FAOAC 4-90, USAFAS, Fort Sill, Okla. 73503. He, Alison, Jake (Wes IV) will be there until next March.

I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of Billy Dawson in Port Washington, New York, on 30 June.

In attendance were Warren Samolak, Bruce Lindsey, and an assortment of other Naval Officers from the face of the earth. Den Mom was there as would be expected at any wedding of one of her "cubs." She made sure the sword bearers were fine taned prior to showtime. The lucky bride was Vicky Neville frora Port Washington. A great time was had by all and the newlyweds headed to Nova Scotia (for cool weather) for theh honeymoon and then back to the RI. for another 10 months.

The only thing left for this issue is a bunch of HTR's. Russ Smith is with PCU USS JEFFERSON CITY in Newport News, Mike Clark is an E.D., Mike Bateman graduated from NPS and is at SWOS, Ron Parson is now with PCU Cowpens in Bathe, Steve Goertzen is on a WestPac in USS ALAMO, and John Dziminowicz is with 6th Fleet in Italy Continuing on, Paul Jaenichen got an NCM for service in USS BATON ROUGE, Randy Britt (now a civilian) graduated first in his class from J. L. Kellogg School of Management, Barry Kyllo got a commendation for his service in USS TREPANG, Paul Shigley is with HSL-33 at North Island, and finally, P. J. Dour is in IKE. Other than that, not much is going on other than my move and my new job, CHENG, USS ROBISON (DDG-12). Please note the address change at the top and start sending them in. You probably won't see an issue next month and 1 apologize in advance.

Ciao . . . GUS

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Pres., Lt. James H. Flatley, IV USN Sec'y 1st Lt. Gary C. Schmidt USMC 547 Chadwick Shores Dr., Sneads Ferry, N.C. 28460 East Coast Corr., Robert Moran 3 Hanson Dr., Topsham, Maine 04086 Amold Schwarzenegger is going to pump you up!

He's the Chairman of the Presidential Sports Award Program. What a great way for you and your loved ones to start that fitness program you've been thinking about. You can get awards in 49 sports. For details write to: Presidential Sports Award, PO Box 68207, Indianapolis, Ind. 46268; or read the July/ August issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Go Navy, Beat Army!

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September. He is out of the Marine Corps and wiU be After tiiat we had to hide for a long time. Dave Hall enroUed in the London Business School, Master m paid a caU on the Command Center in June with 44 Business Administration programme. Good show, high school seniors in tow. Dave works as a recruiter old boy! in San Francisco. Next door in the CNO's Curtent InPlayboy 21 Brian Sheppard passed along the teUigence Branch, Jim McConnell is a watch oflatest copy of their Company newsletter. Rumblings ficer. Jim and Lisa became the proud parents of from the Mansion. Frank Blankemeyer is at Head- James Lee last 17 October John Kan works down quarters Marine Corps in the enlisted assignments branch and loving it. In December he married Karen Seipel. Congratalations! Terry Biu-t pleasefiUin the blanks: I was married to Bambi on in (Enquiring minds want to know). Bill Gott is at Naval Recruiting Area One in Scotia, New York as a Nuclear Programs Officer.

Linda and he have AUyson, 4, Patrick, 2, and are expecting #3 in November. BUI Mattingly married Ann in February '84. He's been a civilian with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since October 1989. Andrew was bom 5 Nov, 1988 and they are expecting their second this November. In Febraary they bought a townhouse in Gaithersburg. Brad Mivphy is an InteUigence Officer with DIA in D.C. SheUa and he were raarried in Deceraber 83. Leanna and Luke McColliun are enjoying their exchange tour at the Royal AustraUan Naval Staff College in Sydney.

Luke eamed his Master's of Computer Science at the University of Maryland whUe he was aid to Admiral Mark and Sean Richard POrter Trost. They wiU be heading to Department Head School in Newport with their son Blake in Septera- the hall in OP-65 in the Nuclear Command and Conber. John Nielsen is engaged to many Penny Lynn trol section.

The Pentagon seems to be crawling with ClassRough on 24 June. Congratalations! He's recruiting with BiU Gott in Scotia, and working on his MBA. mates. Here are the bodies I have found so far. Tom Jeff WUcox is in his second year of law school at the Owens works in OP-02. Allan Galsgaard works in University of Wisconsin. He and Maureen were mar- OP-92 providing briefing and Intel support and wins ried on 18 August. Congratalations! Kelly and Brian this week's award for raost hideous office code (OPSheppard had their second baby, Alicia Clare on 5 923D2). Allan is working on his Master's of MechanJune. They're waiting for her to start beating up on ical Engineering at Catholic University and raarried Benjamin so that he'll stop beating up on them. They the former Debra Smith in Huntington Harbor, Calhave left Rota, and can be reached at: 611 Barberty, ifomia, last month. Tom Nolen is putting his recentiy Kalamazoo, Mich. 49002. Brian would appreciate eamed Naval Postgraduate School Master's of Operaany infoimation on the whereabouts of: Terty Burt, tions Analysis to use in his role as afleetsupport anaDartyl Gaston, Feb Calle, Ed Lester, Pete Fanta, lyst in OP-81 and wildly enjoying the single scene Chris Ratliff, Mark GaUagher, Erica Ryder, Brad here in Washington. Chris Haugen is the assistant Murphy, Toraoko Tanaka, Jeff WUcox and Ruth operations officer for the Defense Liaison Division.

Chris was married in November 1988 to the former Voor.

Cathy Wells. Glen Krueger works in the Assistant to Thanks for the letter Brian! Have a fun Summer the VCNO office and seUs real estate during his spare everyone. Bob. time. Glen and MicheUe have three chilchen— '83—A CLASS ACT Joshua (four and a half), Jennifer (2), and Chelsea (3 months).

On the Joint Staff, Chris Dickerson works as an Membership: 98% intem in J-1. Chris and Karen are expecting theh first baby next February. Other JCS intems are Dave Pres, Blake RatcUff Yablimowski (Military Education Division), John Cort. Sec'y, Karen Halverson O'SidUvan (Operations Dhectorate), and Greg 3013 Fairmont St. MarvU and Robin Russell (Westem Hemisphere DiFaUs Church, Va. 22042 vision). Robin teUs us that he and Donna are the There raay be sorae intense confusion about to proud parents of Logan who was bom 11 November whom newsletters should be sent as I've yet to re- 1989. Susan (Borden) Davis is a full-time purple ceive one. So, in lieu of news about the real world suiter working as a systems analyst in J-1. Sue and beyond die Washington, D.C. area, let me fill you in John and children Jaraes (4) and Nancy (1) may be on our many Classmates in the area while you adjust leaving the area soon, though theirfinaldestmation is your address books and stop writing to Kevin, still a raystery Over at that architecttual delight known as the Howie, Blake, or (in the case of one poor soul) His Navy Annex, Jeff GiangiuU seems to have his finger HoUness the Pope.

I curtently work as an operations briefer at the on the pulse of the Navy. Jeff is the assistant submaNavy Command Center, a job not unlike giving a rine placeraent officer and is working on a Master's of five-minute chow call to the CNO. Andy Hale also Engineering Management at Catholic University. works in the Comraand Center in the countemar- Tom Callahan in OP-13 works with enlisted recruitcotics office. Andy and 1 work well together. We once ing programs. Tom and the former Kathryn Permenhelped an irate officer who was upset because our ter were martied at the Academy last month and highly complex, NASA-designed, hychogen-cooled should be honeymooning in Italy as we speak. Tora projection system seemed to be chewing up his video will begin law school soraetirae this month. Brian tape. Andy began punching buttons on the control Jones is in NMPC-41 and Brian Doyle is working in panel while I attempted to apply cold compresses to die Defense Liaison Division. Also, Rebbekah Barthe forehead of die enraged man. Finally, Andy rish is working at the Navy Photo Interpretation Center and Jonathan Smith is at the Strategic Systems pressed the magical combination of buttons which somehow produced (I am not kidding) the Jetsons. Program Office. Bill Frake is working at NAVSEA-

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08 and Mark Michaud also works at NAVSEA as a subsystem engineer for Trident subs. Mark says he's really enjoying the dating scene here and actaally adraits to living in a place called the "Snake Ranch."

Tony Mauro is working as die OIC of the White House mess and boasts he'U have the Commanderin-chief eating broccoh by September. Tony was awarded die Defense Meritorious Service Medal for his outstandmg work in his previous job as OIC of the SECDEF mess. Tony and the former Karen Martin were married last March.

Bucky D'Andrea works at NAVAIR as a project engmeer for crew life support systems. Pete McCawley also works at NAVAIR on aircraft survivabiUty. Joey Weistroffer is attending medical school at Bediesda, Chip Lmdsey is m die Marine Corps inactive Reserve and works artanging financing for busmess real estate. Larry Stovall works at NAVOTTSA in Crystal City and refuses to tell us what it is he does or what that acronyra represents.

Over at NRL (Naval Research Lab or Nuts Running Loose) Liz Yoimg is working as a research physicist after earning a Master's of Physics from the Naval Postgraduate School. Liz reports that Buddy Garland is also working at NRL and Mike Nichols is working at the NRL detachment at Patuxent River.

Finally, at the Naval Acaderay (some people never get enough), Jim and Becky (Lewis) Vautier are hating life as assistant soccer and women's basketball coaches. Jerry Stefanko, Perry WUlette, GaU Haberlin, Brad Driunmond, and Mark Porter are instructors. Dianne Hardin works as a pork chop, Joe Arnoso is the First Lieutenant of Halsey Field House and coaches the powerlifting team, Frank Andrews is the First Lieutenant of McDonough HaU, and Ronald McDonald works in Candidate Guidance. Brian Goodrow wiU be taking over as 17th Corapany Officer Brian also wUl continue to teach navigation classes and head up VTNA. Other company officers are Augie Ponturiero (1), Tommy Calabrese (6), Dave Kiehl (32), and Chuck Melcher (35). Rob TUIery has justfinishedup a Flag Lieutenant job and is en route the Acaderay to take over as a Corapany Officer as weU. Scott Gordon, Steve Lott, and Paul Gawryszewski are working in PRODEV. Paul and the former Nancy Novak (a Navy JAG herself) were married in March. 1 hear that J. J. Brennan is also running around the Academy somewhere but I'm not sure where.

That's about it for now—my apologies to those whom I've not yet run across. Keep those cards and letters coming or next raonth will have even more boring Navy Command Center stories!!! Bye for now.

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Pres., Lt. Chuck Sharkey USN Cort. Sec'y, Lt. Pat Mooney USN 774 E. Naptes Ct., #162, Chula Vista, CaUf. 92011 Lt. Nancy Heckman USN SMC #1582, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey Calif. 93943 Hello, Hello. I trust everyone had an enjoyable Summer and is planning an exciting Fall. It was a great month for letters, mostiy because I tamed die last article m early so it wouldn't get lost m the moving process. The above address wUl be good for die entire time I'm at tiie PG school. And now, on to die news.

Myfirstletter is from CharUe Schott. He gave up die Navy on 31 May and he and Lisa headed to Michigan to strike fame and fortane on the outskirts of Motown. Charhe said tiiat Gard Clark and his wife, Betti, have transferred to Monterey where Gard wiU be gomg to die Postgraduate School.

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My next letter is from Bobby Armes. He also joined die civilian ranks at die end of May and will be attending ODU in Norfolk, to get his M.B.A. After diat he will be going to law school and says if anyone ever gets into trouble look him up in aboutfiveyears.

Bobby also wanted to say he wishes all his Classmates who've decided to continue their careers the best of luck, they will always have his respect and support and he will be setUing in Virginia Beach or Norfolk so let him know if any of you ever need anyttung. He and Tish send news of Brendan Fahy, his wife, Diane, and theh two daughters. They all will be leaving the F-14 squadron and going to Meridian, where Brendan wUl be a jet instructor. Kenny Perrone and his wife, Karen, are headed for NROTC Instractor duty at die Univershy of Michigan. Bob Byron was out hi the Med

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(CG-47) untU August. He is engaged to be martied in January of 91. John Wade ended his Naval career in July and wiU be attending law school at the University of Arkansas this Fall. Looks lUce a good portion of our Classmates are m fact planning an exciting FaU. PersonaUy I have a sign that I'm going to hang above my desk tiiat says "BEAT HEAD HERE." Bobby asks if anyone has heard from Kevin Brooks.

HeUo Kevin are you out there?

My third letter is from Kathy (McCartan) Weeks. She and Susan Wells have sold theh townhouse in Hawau and Susan is off to be a penguin chaser with VXE-6. Susan moved to Oxnard, in June. Kathy and Peter were married in a small church service m Hawau on 17 March. They later had a big beach partyreceptionfor all theh friends and escaped on a Hawaiian cruise for the honeymoon. In May Katiiy was stiU widi V(2-3 and verbals to CmCPaCFlt. Peter is an ex-submariner civiUan working for the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in die nuke section.

Kathy sends news of a bunch of folks. Jeff Sigler will be staying in Hawau also. He just bought property (ah, the joys of being a home owner) and will be workmg at USCmCPac. During RIMPAC, Lou Cedrone was in Hawaii aboard USS TEXAS and as far as Kathy knew was heading for the civilian life.

He was planning on staymg with Rich Rutkowski in San Diego untU he found a job. Katiiy said Lou seemed eager to join the real world. Tom Mohr was married to Bea 30 June in Monterey. Bea was a travel agent m Hawaii. A ramor is running around that Jim Cochrane was raarried in April in Annapolis. Patty (Rouble) GalUp recently had her second child, a girl.

She and BiU are stiU in Virginia Beach. And lastly 5tii Company had itsfive-yearreunion on 14 July at the Pearson's on the Eastem Shore. The Pearsons are Curtis' parents and sponsored all of 5th Company.

My next letter is from Kate and Vic Otero. They were married 12 August ui Winchester, Massachusetts. Greg MUler and Mike Dashiell were two of the swordbearers. Vic is working in InteUigence at CmCLntFlt and Kate is domg her graduate work in Nurshig at tiie University of Virginia.

My last letter is from Bob Loria. He sent news from the gathering at the last Army-Navy game. It seems to have been quite a party to be reraerabered so long. They all gathered at Andy and Chuck Earle's home in Monterey, to watch the game. The book they are holding is Rob's Plebe issue songbook and they are singing everybody's favorite, 'There's and Aggregation." Curt Pfeiffer is with the InspectorInstractor staff of a Reserve tank company in Mhamar, and has taken up and become quite good at surfhig. Mike Skelly, Ray Alfaro, Rob Vaughan and Chuck Earle are all at the Postgraduate School and are stadying hard. Bob amended that to say they are aU stadying hard except Ray, who never had to stady hard at aU, even though he was an EE major. MUce came to grad school from Yokosuka, Japan after three years on USS OLDENDORF. Bob is the the Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Pacific along with Shipmate, September 1990

Dave Taylor. He asked that you all note in the pictiire that. Yes, after five years of trying. Chuck can now finish a whole beer. Bob would like to locate Robert "Mad Dog" Hadley. Bob says, "Mad Dog, where

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Curt Pfeiffer, Mike Skelly, Ray Alfaro, Bob Loria, Rob Vaughan and Chuck Earle are you? Are you alive? Are you ui a Federal Penitentiary?"

And now the information from the Fleet Home Town News Center. Matthew Shihadeh and Walter Hirsch have been promoted to Captain. Walter is with the Fhst Marine Ahcraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan, and Matthew is with Carrier Ahborae Early Waming Squadron-242 stationed at MCAS El Toro.

Tom Marshall visited Pusan, Korea aboard USS TRUXTUN. TRUXTUN is homeported in San Diego.

Maureen Ford reported to USS LEXINGTON, homeported at NAS Pensacola. Timm Bechter and John Nixon deployed to the Persian Gulf aboard the frigate USS VANDEGRIFT, homeported in Long Beach. They are on a six-month cruise and are expected to visit Pearl Harbor; Subic Bay; Singapore; Phuket, Thailand and Australia. Frank Fries completed the Army Ahbome Course in Fort Benning. Sean Patton is in Monterey, attending the Postgrad School. Tim Croy and Greg McGiffney have retamed to San Diego after deploymg to the Eastem and Northem Pacific aboard USS BERKELEY. They participated in PACEX '89 which was the largest exercise conducted since WWn and visited Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and the PI. They both received two Battie Group Foxtrot Shattered-Hulk awards in recognition of superiority in anti-surface warfare and were also awarded the Surface Action Group (SAG Foxtrot) Anti-Air Warfare Detection Award for the most ah detections in any unit in SAG Foxtrot. Mark Brownell and David Moore deployed aboard the Norfolk-homeported USS EISENHOWER to the Med. They will participate in various military exercises, visits to foreign ports and take part in the ship's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the bhth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. At least four of our Classmates completed the Around-the-Worid Craise with USS ENTERPRISE. James McDonald was with VAW-135 from NAS Whidbey Island, Thomas Bourbeau was with VF-114 from NAS Mhamar, Brian Norris was

with VF-213 also from Miramar, and Roger Phelps was Adm. Strassor's Flag Lt. ENTERPRISE also participated m PACEX '89 which involved 2nd, 3rd and 7th Fleets and forces frora Canada, Japan and South Korea with over 100 ships and 43,000 personnel. ENTERPRISE completed more than 2,000 flight hours in over 1,000 sorties. Their port calls included: Hong Kong; the PI; Pattaya Beach, Thailand; Singapore; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (after 52 days at sea—I wonder if the town has recovered, or maybe I should wonder if Jim, Tora and Brian have recovered); and St. Thomas, U.S. Vhgin Islands.

My last bits of information are by word of mouth.

Peggy Menzies is also at the Postgraduate School and will shortly be the Commodore of the sailing squadron. If anyone tells you that it's all work and no play out there, don't take them seriously, Iraeanwhat other naval base has its own wine? Paul Rosmilso is in Norfolk, with the Fleet Deception Group Atiantic and is TAD to Carrier Group Eight. He will deploy witii the ROOSEVELT Battle Group. Paul has been my raost regular provider of news for this article, thank you. Pat Piercey was accepted for department Head School. Fred Knehans was married Memorial Day Weekend and Ricky James was able to attend. Ashley (Yetman) Laing joined the civilian ranks at the end of May. If any one would like to contact someone who has written, drop me a note because I save all the retum addresses or if you send a pictare be sure to give me your retum address and I'll return the photograph after it has been published. That's all for now, and don't forget to write. Nancy

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Pres., Lt. (jg) Paul S. Gibson USN Cort. Sec'y, Lt. (jg) Joseph J. Luntz USN 3554 W Christian Chcte, #4 Anaheim, Calif. 92804 It's been very interesting reading the letters you've been sending me these past few months. I'm starting to not have to depend on the regulars to supply me with all of the info. Also, we've corae to the period where people are getting shore duty, and, within a fewraonths,more than a few of you will be putting in your letters. Instead of losing touch with many of your Classmates, please drop a note or two when you move, teU us what's up or just leave an address so people can stay in touch. (I know I'd like to hear from some people who I've aheady lost contact with.) Additionally, if anyone would like to start a company newsletter, I'd be more than happy to help out.

My first note is frora Lee Ann Stevenson, wife of that famous fighter jock—stad, Robert. She and "Tank" are living in Lemoore, where Robert is with VFA-25 and she plays mom to "Tank" Junior, Robert IV. They both love it. They'd like to hear from Bill Flinter, John Man and Bob Round.

Dave Driftmier sent an 18th Company update.

He's starting a newsletter, so his address will be at the end of his letter. Dave writes: Blake Sprayberry married Sophia Athineos on Long Island on 30 December at a wedding to end all weddings. Present at the wedding were: Jeff Whelan, who is an EA-3 NFO in VQ-2 at Rota.

Scott Bibeau ('88-18) was also there along with Mark Roquel.

Mac TUIman, who is a combat engineer in the Gyrenes,flewall the way from Hawaii to be at the wedding. Mac is rooming, once again, with Paul Sita who is deployed in Adak, Alaska with his VP squadron. Paul wrote that he enjoysflying,but the liberty doesn't amount to much—even though Paul couldn't make the wedding, his parents did manage to make it.

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Both are co-located at NPS, where he's a stadent and she's on the staff as plans and facilities officer.

However, she'll start law school at Santa Clara after transferting to the JAG Corps via the law education program.

In addhion, Denise wrote that Kathryn Davidson came up from Norfolk, where she's a diver, to attend the ceremony Denise has also seen companymates: Chartes Piersall '83, Pat Kolbas '84, Mario Maddox '84, John Jorgensen '84, Rick Bodziak, Joey Hines and Cteon Walden at Post Grad School. Last of all, she'd received a phone call from Ingrid Turner. She works at USNA admissions with Gerry Hodge, but used to work in the same office that Denise currently does. It is a small world.

Lisa Cambre Meyer also sends a letter and photo.

The photo is of Paul and their two boys, William and Joey who are three and one, respectively. It's kind of scary seeing futare grunts and especially scary when we all know that there are plenty more to come.

(Couldn't resist twisting the knife a little, Lisa.)

Now, Lisa and Paul live in K.C., Missouri, where Paul works for the USMC Finance Center. Truthfully, 1 find that a contradiction because we all know that the Marines have no money.

Lisa does manage to keep in touch with many people and provided info on a select few: Barb Dunn is in San Diego getting ready for shoulder surgery. Trish (Trudell) and "Hairy Art" Samora are somewhere in Califomia and have a house between their duty stations.

Rob Gray is in New York City, drives thru Norfolk area occasionally while visiting his folks in Elizabeth City. Kevin BerUn was married in Norfolk and now lives in Tennessee (Lisa thinks). Rick Fresquez, wife Tracy and two daughters are at Cherty Point, with Lisa and Paul. Rick flies AV-8Bs. Ron OIko, wife Kris and daughter just left Cherry Point for California. Jeff Layton and wife Dawn are in Washington state where Jeff's a nuke. Robbie (Shaw) Belesimo—are you still in Norfolk?

Lisa would like to hear from Tod and Lori Burkert, John and Brenda Baker, Pattie McCarthy, Mitch and Cheryl (Price) Tumer and Agnes Connally This last note is from LuAnn Masterson. She'd sent a pictare of her daughter, Samantha, sitting next to Alex Woods, son of Trish and Mike. However, it couldn't be included because it doesn't have a grad included. She did provide an update on the two and that will be gladly printed. Father Jeff is MPA/ASSTCHENG on USS MICHIGAN Blue and Father Mike is TSO on USS FLORIDA Gold—both out of Bangor.

Well this is all for the month. Keep sending the tetters. Joe.

Denise and Frank Strick

Paul Meyer and sons Kevin lams was there with his wife Susan (another great wedding). Kevin will be stationed in Beaufort widi the USMC Flying F-18s after he leaves the RAG in Jax. Kurt Homey is also married. His wife, Patty was at the wedding with Kurt, They are living in San Diego as are Blake and Sophia, Kurt is playing with guns in the artillery , , , Jim Ryder was there with his girifriend, Nancy Matthews. Jim arrived in New York in a superstretch limo (of course), Jim is doing well in Business in Wilmington, Delaware, Other news comes from Sean Cannon who is with VP-24 which retumed from a Med deployment to Sigonella, Last time I saw Sean was at a send-off party in Jax and as usual he was surrounded by people, mostly female. Last I heard from Tom Furey was that he was married and an A-6 NFO at Oceana, Fran Sullivan is going to be DCA of PHILIPPINE SEA and stay in Mayport after leaving the PAUL, Sarah and 1 are having a great time in Canada, 1 am doing a pep tour at the Fleet Software Support 96

Rehearsal Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, It's a great place, but snow in April? We are expecting our first baby 30 August, My job is fantastic—Canadians definitely know how shore duty should be. If any airedales make it up to Shearwater or Greenwood, please give me a call, UntU next time, take care and God bless—Dave, Dave's address is: Site 21, Box 11, RR #1 Enfield, Nova Scotia, Bon Ino. Denise Edson Stich sends an announcement and photo of her 8 April 1989 wedding. Her husband is Frank whom she'd met while at DCA School and later started dating while their ships (YOSEMITE and CORAL SEA) were nested in Naples during a 1988 Med deployment. After six raonths and a romantic weekend in Sorrento, they were engaged and then raarried in Frank's horaetown of Lexington, Kentacky. I've looked at their wedding pictare at least 50 times and it amazes me how much Frank looks like Dave Kaye. They could definitely pass as brothers.

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Pres. & Corr. Sec'y, Ens. Brian S. Sears USN 626B Arenas St. La Jolla, Calif. 92037 (619) 454-4116

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Sec'y, Ens. Joe G. Herlihy USN PO. Box 381 Sanford, Mame 04073 What's up Classmates? Lack of news has left me in tiie clouds about what to write, so unfortanately, diis column wiU probably be brief.

I did receive two letters recentiy that I can't seem tofindamidst the rubble of myfirstapartment. I apologize to die authors, especially to the Sixteenth Company since I don't have the pictures I was told to pubUsh. Don't worty though! It's a small apartment, and rU track them down soon enough!

The first news is about the diplomas. The Registrar's Office told rae diat all the diplomas have been mailed to everyone's home address on record. However, a few diplomas have been retumed to them because the addresses on record were incorrect. SO! If you haven't received your diploma, you should call theh office at (301)-267-4377 to give them a correct mailing address. UiUess of course you don't want a new diploma. But that's up to you.

News around the Academy is fahly mundane and routine. I think everyone assigned to the Academy is

struggUng tofindtiihigsto do witii all the time on our hands. Spending money is no problem! Many of us, including yours truly, quickly went out and bought our self-titied "Ensign (Second Lieutenant) Bikes."

Otiierwise known to die rest of the free world as Mountain BUces. They seem to have replaced the mustache as a means of expressing our freedom of being able to do pretty much whatever we want now tiiat we've graduated.

Jim Bartelloni is perhaps the biggest rebel of all of us! He's having lots of fun playing with his new fish aquarium and the five tropical fish it holds. Just so long as he's not doing this as part of sorae mad experiment for home-grown merraaids! He's also quite impressed with the new Belgium waffle iron he bought. What did I tell you? A true rebel!

Joe Gugluizza (can anyone really pronounce that?) is also working with the Plebes while saving money after paying for all his uniforms.

Reliable sources say that Alan Ziegler is becoming serious with a ghl from Virginia. What's the deal, Zig? Inquiring young 0-1's want the gouge!

Others on detail include: Matt Banks, Ray Bichard, Dave Bradley, Dave Bucher, Chris Cabaniss, Ed Dewald, Dean Ebert, Kevin Flynn, Ken Georgi, Hugo Gutierrez, Gerty Highberger, Tom Hofer, Dave Holahan, Alex Johnson, Kisa Kirkpatrick, Mark Kustra, Andy Leung, Karon Lewis, Chris

Lovejoy, Dave Mcintyre, Dan Pepper, Dave Perrin, Tom Phillips, Walter Scott, Mike Sherman, Rob Sofge, Stephen Spagnuolo, Andre Stroud, Bill Suggs, Jim Tannahill, Bryan Tauzer, Tara Traynor, Rob Waters, Jeff Wilson, Tom Young, Hal Zabrowski, and John Zuzich.

There are many more of us hanging around doing such things as P-100, Dean's Office, Cox Fund, Language lab, etc . . . Sorae of these include Paul Valesky, Dave Makowitz, Paul Krush, Dave Colgrove, Jeff Foltz, Pat Walker and raany others.

Bob Sofge has promised me a letter for the next column, telling us all about the Class Trust Fund and other staff. I've sort of comraitted hira now, so he has no way out of writing it!

Finally, just a quick congratalations to those of us who graduated a little late. Your presence was missed by all of us, but we're glad you all made it through that last hurdle.

And that's about all the news from here folks! I'll be in Newport by the tirae this column is printed.

However, any letters should still be sent to the address printed at the top of this column until I get settled in a nice, plush "Ensign Pad." Hope everyone is doing well out there in the "World." Stay in touch and full speed ahead! Until next month . . . Joe

ing to the Charlotte area should make contact with us and becorae participants in an active Alunmi Chapter.

Loop skyscrapers along the Chicago River's north and south branches. Commentary on the cruise was provided by a most knowledgeable raember of the Chicago Architectare Foundation. Dinner and conviviality followed at the Boat Club restaurant on North Pier.

Claire and Jack Martin '44 made all the artangeraents. It worked to perfection with lots of rave reviews. Unfortanately, Jack couldn't make it, but Clahe acted as our hostess extraordinaire for the evening.

Getting the perspective on our great city from the water were Shhley and Willy Nyburg '42; Lolly and Jack Bailey '44; Clahe Martin and her two guests (we missed Jack '44 who is recovering from back surgery); Sally and Roy Sandquist '44; Marie and Bob McCarthy '45; Alice and Grady Zilligen '45; Marjorie and Andy Valentine '46; Joan and Ollie Hallett '47; Nancy and Tim Bradley '48 with three guests including granddaughter, Serena; Jean and Jack Oberrieder '48; Lill and Bill Brandfon '49; Geri and Dean French '50; Claire and lira D'Orso '52; Gail and Dick Wise '53; Karen and John Howland '64; Flo and Roland Marquis '64; Susan and Al Bruggeraan '66; Joy and Chuck Waterman '66 with guests. Gay and John Kraii of South Holland; Jerty Purciarello '73; Joan and Dave Evensen '77 with Joan's parents, Isabel and Fred Spann, West Point Jan. '43; Kathy and Pat Blake '81; and Linda Bolan '83 with two guests.

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CHARLOTTE John L. Plyler, Jr. RO. Box 909 Davidson, N.C. 28036

CHICAGO On 24 June the Charlotte Chapter gave its annual John G. B. Howland send-off to Charlotte area members of the incoming 776 Pleasant Lane Plebe Qass with a covered dish supper at the home of Glenview, IL 60025 Jeff and Miriara Searcy.

(708) 998-6688 Charlotte area members of die Class of '94 are Michael Carter and Joe Emmert. They, with theh Next event: Chicago's beautiful waterways will be famihes and local Alumni, were shown the video of Plebe Summer 1989 and given an opportunity to look the site on 21 and 22 September (Friday and Satarduough "ancient" Lucky Bags and Reef Points sup- day) for some unusual waterbome vesselsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;eight oared shells. Navy's varsity crew wUl be competing phed by Aluinni.

The aftemoon was enjoyed by all and it was very with Wisconsin, Oxford and Cambridge in a special evident that the Class of '94 is receiving two quality event set up by Chicago-based Mowbray Sports International. The course will run on the Chicago River young men from the Charlotte area.

Those who made the aftemcxin a success included: from Adams Street to the finish at the Water Cannon Cis and Lee Swepston, '40; Joan and BiU Eaton, '46; at City Front Center. This will be a not-to-be-nussed Betsy and Harry Delaney, '47; Margaret and Tom spectacle whh lots of attendant celebratory events.

Nemzek, '49; Nancy and Pat Ritchie, '50; John Call for detaUs. Our Chapter will have its bi-annual, annual meetPlyler, '57; Kay and Bob Majeski, '62; Jeff Searcy, '62; Pam and Mike Epprecht, '65; Juha and Wayne ing dus month. We will elect officers and dhectors for Henry, and daughter, Lorri Ellen, '67; Audrey and the foUowmg two year period. Check the newsletter Gordon Thomson, "82; and Julia and Carl Thomas, for details.

Mark your calendars: 10 Novemberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Navy footand Ellen and Michael McGinnis, parents of Midshipmen m the Class of '93. Also offering theh sup- ball at Toledo. 8 December-Army-Navy football at port were active Blue and Gold participants Lois and Ditica's.

Barry Miller; Renee and Joe Steiner; and Marilyn On an absolutely superb Summer evening (17 July) and Ray Beem. the Chapter enjoyed a leisurely cruise aboard FORT Some Charlotte Aluinni have aheady purchased DEARBORN with informative commentary and dazztickets to the Navy-Vhginia game on 15 September ling views of Chicago's celebrated riverfront ar(closest game to Charlotte this year). The Chapter is chitectare. The assembled crew saw historic 19th planning a scKial hi the Fall prior to the annual Army- Centary railroad bridges and warehouses, classic Navy game party set for 8 December. Alumni mov- 20th Centary bridge houses, and the magnificent Shipmate, September 1990

HAMPTON ROADS Capt. Donald T. Cannell USN (Ret.) 4236 Country Club Ch. Vhginia Beach, Va. 23455 The Hampton Roads Chapter of die USNAAA eel97

ebrated the arrival of Spring with its traditional "Spring Fling" 1990. Some 65 couples enjoyed predinner cocktaUs, roast beef or chicken, and dancing to the music of the Red Coats, a versatUe group whose music had to appeal to year groups ranging from '29 to '84. And it did. Jom Dinardo organized and executed a snappy fashion show.

Enjoying the evening were Margaret and Roy Johnson '29, Lester Wood '31, Margaret and Carl Schoenweiss '34, Patty and Roger Mehle '37, Eleanor and Frank Blanchard '38, Greta and Henry Conger '41, Mary Lee and Richard Lowe '42, Mary and Raymond McGrath '42, Mary and WiUiam Vose '42, Betty and Erwin Jackson '43, Fritzie and Gerty Schherf '44, Marian and Joe Bonds '45, Betty and Beetie Forbes '45, Maggie and Robert Hogsed '45, Barbara and Christian Petersen '45, Fran and Frank RawUngs '45, Betty and Buck Steere '45, Bobbie and GiU Erb, associate members, Judy and Bumey Greenwood '46, Irene Harlan '46, Lois and Jack Roulstone '46, Ethel and Fred Bouwraan '47, Dolores and Hank Munnikhuysen '47, Mikie and Bob Stone '47, Pat and Jim Linder, '49, Doris and Carlos McCuUough '49, Alyce and Tom Parsons '49, Boo and Malcohn Thiele '49, CecUe and Don Traeblood '49, Jeanne and Ray Barber '50, Mary and Jim DiNardo '50, Shhley and Dick Fox '50, Sye and BUI Grigg '50, Catherine and George lessen '50, Peggy and Ron KeUy '50, Patricia and Tom MuUigan '50, Charlotte and Gene AUender '51, Eleanor and Frank Degnan '51, Dottie and Peter Maloney '52, Terri Manfredi '52, Audre and Don CanneU '53, Ester and Bob Briner '54, Mary and Don Meyer, '54, Joanne and John Roberts '55, Carol and Carl Vogel '55, Mary and Robbie Robertson '56, Joyce and Tyler Brown '57, Betsy and Maury Browne '57, Joann and Ronald Del Duca '57, Sandra and Dick Hanna '57, Elaine and Wayne Lustig, '57, Joann and Jim McGinn '57, Nancy and Jack Matheson '58, Janet and Dave Harden '60, Jane and Tom McNicbolas '61, Jane Smidi '67, Dbc Wolcott '67, Betty and Gary YagieUo '76, Beth and Bob Greene '82, Helene and Fred Eisler '83, Sal Carolo '84, Patty Gossner '84, Marguerite and Ace Davis '55, Deborah and Ron Lovelace '78.

lenbel Acres on Satiuday, 21 July 1990. This was be a late aftemoon affah with a trip to Al's cave, countryside wandering, a Social Hour, and a dehcious barbecue with trimmings. This meeting was the Chapter's Sixth Annual Summer Event, and Al added a hot tab to his hst of activities.

The following is a hst of attendees: Kay & Alec Hammond '25, Winnifred & John Middleton '35, Colleen & Bob Armstead '42, Margaret & Leo Culjat '42, Art Tagland '42, Vehna & bv Potter '43, Edie Yerbury (widow of Bob) '46, Herb Bridge '47 (assoc), Mary & John Coughlin '50, Bobbie & Walt Davis '50, Ron Campbell '52, Stan Keck '54, Pat & Guy Grafius '55, Faye & Don Hanson '56, Nona & Fred Lippert '56, Meg & Hal Lewis '56, Binnie & Jim Braso '56, Tora Langley '56, Bev & Terty Mahoney '57, Nancy & Angus McDonald '59, Pat Schnauffer '59, Dave Raymond '60, Sue & Dave Chenault '64, Cara & Ken Viafore '64, John Naye '66, Juhe & Mike Young '66, Curt Johnson '66, AUce & Dick Couch '67, Sue & Skip Soper '67, Ed Laskowski '67, Fred Myers '71, Vince La Cava '73, Jeff Peterson '74, Rudy Ing '85, Mid'n MacDonald '92, and Mid'n Mauden '93. The following parents of current Midshipmen; Mr. & Mrs. Scyhterz, MacDonald, and House, and the foUowing future Mids and parents. Bode, Gordon, Hammond, Hawks, Hooper, Spadoni, Willraan, Cable, Denney, Loverich, McMechan, Yamamoto, Hawthome, & KeU were among the attendees. In addition Blue & Gold Officers Dr. John German, and Tony Fortino '69 attended and were recognized for their service to the Academy by Hal Lewis '56 Puget Sound Chapter President. Special appreciation was also given to Cara & Ken Viafore, and Bobbie & Walt Davis for the arrangements for the event. This annual affair has been held at the Sand Point Officers' Club, but a fire destroyed that faciUty a short time before the event.

On 14 July our annual picnic was held at the home of Gerty & Jim Russell '26, and our next scheduled meeting wiU be in Everett Washington, at the Everett Pacific Hotel on 5 September. The Everett Naval Base wiU be the subject presented by our guest speaker. Other future events include a joint service academies meeting in October, and the annual Ciurent officers are Don CanneU '53, President, Christmas Ball. Times and places to be announced at Tom Parsons '49,1st VP, Jim McGinn '57,2nd VP, a later time.

PhU Rooney '63, Secretary, and Tony Franzitta '66, Treasurer. Jim Linder '49 is the National Trastee.

Alumni in the Hampton Roads area who are seeking information on Chapter activities are encouraged PUGET SOUND to caU Don CanneU 464-5088 or Tom Parsons Jim Bruso 491-0925.

9008 165tii St. E PuyaUup, Wash. 98373

HUNTSVn.LE Capt. Frank L. Rentz USN (Ret.) 6523 WUlow Springs Blvd.

HuntsviUe, Ala. 35806 (205) 721-1936 The Chapter usuaUy holds a luncheon meeting at Boot's Restaurant, 1522 Memorial Parkway S. m HuntsvUle on the second Thursday of each month.

Friends and guests are always welcome. Those attending die June meeting were: Harty Hamly '27, John Snyder '47, Frank Rentz '51, Frank Tatora '56 and son, John Tatora, John Robbins '68, and friend Douglas Glover (prospective Class of 1994), Frank Cohee '74, and Andy Niflis '74.

Elections were held at that same meeting with the following results: President—John Snyder '47, Vice President—Frank Rentz '51, Secretary/Treasurer— Frank Cohee '74.

The July meeting of the Chapter took place at the country horae of Al and Annabel Morris. They extended an mvitation to aU Aluinni to gatiier at Al98

The Puget Sound Chapter held the June meeting at the Bellevue Washington Athletic Club on 19 June.

The piupose of this meeting was to honor those young men and women who are entering the Academy this Summer witii the Class of '94. This group included 12 bright, enthusiastic future Mids, who look forward to the next four years with excitement and sorae anxiety. Two additional future Midshipmen were also present. These two, a young man and a young woman, are Naval Academy Foundation Scholarship recipients and will enter next year with the Class of '95. The future Mids were accompanied by their parents, as well as several "Blue and Gold Officers," who were instrumental in the appointment process of these fine candidates.

This chapter was particularly fortanate to have Dr Robert H. Shapho, Academic Dean and Provost of die United States Naval Acaderay. Dr. Shapho addressed the group and outiined his duties as the chief academic officer, and many of the goals that he and the Academy are striving to accomplish. He pohited out that USNA is the only Service Academy where

graduates have a major field of stady. He inchcated tiiat Midshipmen take a five-year course hi four years, and that the Academy is doing everything h can to ensure that die necessary balance between professional and academic training is maintained. Dr. Shapiro said tiiat recent "unfriendly" publicity has had an effect on the Administration, but the Academy would survive. He answered questions from the audience foUowmg his remarks, and attendees were left with a very good feeling conceming the state of our Ahna Mater, and were encouraged bytiiecompetence of the Academy leadership. Dr. Shapho would be welcomed at our chapter anytime.

SACRAMENTO Capt. John C. Burrill SC USN (Ret.) 5840 Wyraore Way Sacraraento, Cahf. 95822 Sixteen of us enjoyed the Seventh Annual Lorma and Don Andrews '47 Pot Luck poolside dinner on Saturday, 16 June. The setting was lovely and so was die weather with die temperature about 78 degrees at the beginning, and graduaUy ctwling to about 68 degrees at the end. Once again Lorma and Don managed to find room to keep cold items cold and hot items hot until time to serve. The food was weU balanced, tasty, and ample. Summer travel schediUes probably cut the attendance.

Participants included our honorary members Ted and Lynn Robinson, Duke '40, Ed and Mary Lee AxteU '48, who came the furthest, Joe and Cay Drachnik '43, John and Joyce Haynes '55, Marion Logan, widow of Bob '43, Tann and AUce Ligbtsey '54, Larty and Lynn Pierce '38, and John BurriU '38 (m addition to the Andrews and Robinsons).

Instead of our usual First Wednesday meeting we enjoyed our monthly luncheon on the Second Wednesday, 11 July, in order to free our raerabers for other activities on The Fourth. We had several treats, starting with a video, presented by one of our newer members. Rick Nathanson '76, the CO of the Navy and Marine Corps Training Center, the video was the current recruiting film for the USNA. Personally I did not like the scenes in which an upper classman shouted at Plebes. I'd also like to see more of the academic aspect of the Academy; even though I probably got more personal satisfaction frora boxing, gymnastics (rope climbing) and cross country running than firom integral calculus. On balance, I was happy to see there is such a film. There was nothing like it in the '30s. In fact, I'd like to see it again in an atmosphere of no distractions, such as eating. We all thank Rick for bringing the video. Wives, like mine, whoraarriedme late in my career (already a captain) may have teamed from seemg the Ufe of a Midshipman.

Our new President, Lou Fifer '72 demonstrated a take-charge attitade that pleased out-going President, Steve Beig '66, as well as the rest of the chapter officers. He passed around two versions of our roster for editing and, later, convened a meeting of the Calling Committee to re-vitalize it. Lou did a good job of editmg myreportof the June meeting inre-writingit to send out his announcement of the July meeting.

Lou filled in for our joke-master, Dick Doughterty '41, in telling a joke about a dog named "Divot" who was a golf caddy and told Lou which club to use to be sure to get eidier a slice or a hook. MercifuUy, we do not tell the rest of the story.

John Haynes '55 brought three attractive guests, his wife, Joyce, daughter Catiierine, and Jeff Bootii a handsome young man who has aspirations for going to . . . tiie Air Force Acaderay! John gave us a very coraprehensive report on die 1990 June Week West and plans for future meetings, starting witii Colorado Springs m 1991. One suggested event would be an Shipmate, Septeraber 1990

amounts are $5.00 for a singte and $10.00 for a couple.

Jack Everett '64remindedus that we have only six tickets for tiie 20 October Navy Ball at $20.00 per person at Mather AFB. Don Bruce '40 told of his rewarding trip back to Annapolis for his 50-year Reunion and how his Class got a big cheer from the Midshipmen in the Stadium.

Also, with VP Dan Quail handing out diplomas, raost of the graduates gave hira a handshake, but one feraale gave him a hug!

Odiers present were: Larry Endacott '77, Scott Whitfield '81, Barry Whitttesey '49, Bruce Friederich '57, Joe Drachnik '43, Jeanne Bruce '40, Tferry Brown '67, Dave McKte '66, Frank Blake '68, and Carlotta and John Burrill '38.

TRIANGLE AREA CHAPTER

AGNEW, WILLIAM WALTER, JR '25 (CDR USN RET), 8 June 1990, Palo Alto, Cahfomia BARNHART, FRED CARL '25, 26 November 1989, Vera Beach, Florida BELLIS, LOUIS JOSEPH '31 (CAPT USN RET), 15 July 1990, McLean, Virginia BOWMAN, NEWELL STEDMAN '47 (ENS USN RET), 16 June 1990, KnoxviUe, Tennessee DITTMAR, WILLLAM DANIEL '48 (CDR USN RET), 13 July 1990, Bediesda, Maryland DOUGHERTY, JOHN JOSEPH '46 (CDR USN RET), 30 June 1990, Prescott, Arizona EBERT, WALTER GALE '30 (RADM USN RET), 20 June 1990, Winter Haven, Florida FITZGERALD, JOHN ALLISON '31 (RADM USN RET), 6 July 1990, Beaufort, Soutii Carolina FLECK, FRANCIS EDWARD, JR '34 (RADM USN RET), 12 July 1990, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania FOLEY, PAUL '29 (RADM USN RET), 7 July 1990, Manhasset, New York HAWK, CLAUDE VERNON '31 (CAPT USN RET), 31 July 1990, El Cajon, Califonua JOHNSON, JAMES BROWN, JR '41 (CDR USN RET), 21 March 1989, Honolulu, Hawau

KERN m , LUDWIG AUGUST (LCDR USN RET), 31 July 1990, Bethesda, Maryland LIEBEL, RICHARD GILBERT '46, 20 May 1990, Farraington Hills, Michigan LILL, HARBOROUGH IRWIN, JR '42, 21 May 1990, Haddon Heights, New Jersey LOAR, WARREN NELSON 111 '50 (LCOL USAF RET), 20 April 1990, Atianta, Georgia MCWHINNIE, CHARLES JOHN '22 (RADM USN RET), 29 June 1990, Denver, Colorado METHVIN, JAMES ROBERT JR '44 (CDR USN RET), 6 July 1990, Hemando, Rorida MOEBUS, LUCIAN ANCEL '21 (VADM USN RET), 3 July 1990, Biloxi, Mississippi PANTER, RALPH CALVERT '38, 13 February 1989, Fayetteville, Georgia PIEHL, ROBERT HERMAN '46 (COL USMC RET), 4 June 1990, Oceanside, Califomia POULOS, NICHOLAS DIOGENES '35, 15 July 1990, Sarasota, Florida REHBERG, JEROME ALEXANDER '44 (CAPT USN RET), 8 December 1989, Honolulu, Hawaii RICKABAUGH, ROBERT STULTZ (CDR USNR RET), 31 July 1990, New Britain, Connecticut

ROUZEE, GEORGE MILTON '38, 25 July 1990, Federal Way, Washington SYLVESTER, JOHN '26 (VADM USN RET), 26 July 1990, Washington, D.C. TERRY, JAMES HUGH, JR '36 (CAPT USN RET), 24 January 1990, San Francisco, Califomia THORNTON, MORRIS ZANE '54, 1 July 1990, (Alexandria, Virginia) TROWER, ROBERT SMITH IH '30 (CDR USN RET), 3 June 1990, San Dtego, California TUGGLE, RICHARD BRITTAIN '19 (RADM USN RET), 1 July 1990, Jupiter Island, Florida

ROBERT BOSTWICK CARNEY '16 Adm. Robert B. "Mick" Camey USN (Ret.) died of cardiac artest at his home in Washington, D.C, on 25 June 1990. Services were held in Washington and burial was in Arlington National Cemetery on 28 June beside his wife of 71 years, Grace, who passed away last December. He was also preceded m death by a son, BGen. Robert B. Camey, Jr. USMC (Ret.) who died in 1983.

He was bom in Vallejo, the son of LCdr. Robert Emmett Camey USN (Ret.) '89 and Mrs. Bertha (Bostwick) Camey. He attended high school in Phila- . delphia before being appointed a Midshipraan by President Taft in 1912. He graduated in 1916 and briefly served in the old battleship NEW HAMPSHIRE before transferring to USS DIXIE, a destroyer tender

sent to (Jueenstown, heland, in 1917. He joined the destroyer FANNING, operating out of Ireland, as the Gunnery and Torpedo Officer and participated in the fight with, and sinking of U-58, subsequently landing her captared crew in Queenstown.

After the war, he served in the destroyer RATHBURNE on the China Station. He was on duty at the Naval Academy from 1923 to 1925 before reporting as a Division Officer in MISSISSIPPI. He was promoted to lieutenant comraander in 1927 and came ashore for duty in Washington, D.C. Thence, he was Gunnery Officer for three years in the scout cruiser CINCINNATI with the Battle Fleet in San Pedro. His next tour was Officer-in-Charge of the Receiving Station, Washington, D.C. Then he was off to sea again witii three consecutive commands. His first was the

BUCHANAN , Mick put the destroyer REID in commission as her first commanding officer in 1936. Scheduled for shore duty, he wangled command of the store ship SiMUS taking a scientific party to Alaska. On the retam trip to the East Coast, SIRIUS towed the crane ship KEARSARGE through die Panama Canal.

Finally shore duty caught up with him and he was assigned to the Shore Establishment Division in the Secretary of the Navy's Office. There he assisted in the coordination of the Navy's small craft program and the construction of motor torpedo boats and submarine chasers. During the Summer of 1939, he spent two weeks as aide to the Crown Prince of Norway during the latter's visit to the United States.

From there h was sea duty as Executive Officer in CALIFORNIA in the Pacific. In February 1941, he was recalled from the Pacific to assist in organizing, equipping and training a special Ah and Surface Force charged with protecting shipping in the North Atiantic from ah and submarine attack. The Force, based in Argentia, became fully involved in convoy escort prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

early moming jog up PUce's Peak! There would be a tour of die Au Force Academy (We should note die comfortable Jewish Chapel in die basement witii stones from Israel intiiedeck!) A tour of Norad raay cause securhy problems, but we are now taking Soviet generals on such tours. JWW for 1992 wiU be in die Los Angeles area, 1993 in the Bay Area, and Seattie and Hawaii in future years. This writer recalls a very good JWW in Seattie, except tiiat they ran out of the clams before his third helping. In conclusion, John said die Monterey chapter did a superb chapter tius year.

Our "freasurer, Wayne Harbarger '47, reported on the busmess aspects of JWW and gave his Treasurer's report for tiie 1989-90 Fiscal Year. Our expendittues for mailing, duplication,flowers,and the Beale AFB tour exceeded our donations so our balance dropped from $511.-1- to $463.-1-. As a new Fiscal Year started on 1 June, new donations are solicited and several people responded immediately. Suggested

Michael T. James 9405 Greenfield Drive Rateigh, North Carolina 27615 We had oiu first "No Host Happy Hour" on 6 June at the Holiday Innâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ahport at the Research Triangle Park. The taraout was relatively modest, but a good time was had by those of us tiiere, which included: Gene and Heather Swecker '49, Jim and Ginny Mergner '61, Brian and Kathy Van Metre '61, Jack Meckler '62, Tom Runkle '66, and Mike James '71.

Our next event is currently in the planning stage and we will send out an announcement on it when the arrangements are finalized.

The Triangle Area Chapter-North Carolina meets four times a year for social events. If you are interested in future activities and are not on the mailing hst, please contact Mike James at (919) 847-0832.

Last Call Requiescat in Pace

Shipmate, September 1990

old four-piper BUCHANAN, which as HMS CAMP-

BELLTOWN was to later gain fame when a Polish crew under Royal Navy officers rammed the gates of the locks to the submarine pens in St. Nazaire in March 1942, exploded and effectively blocked the egress of U-boats for some tirae. After commanding

TUHEY, EARL FRANKLIN '43 (CDR USNR RET), 3 July 1990, Muncte, Indiana VOGEL, HARVEY OSCAR '40 (CDR USN RET), 19 July 1990, West Palm Beach, Florida

j around the place of death iruiicates hometown at the time of death when specific location is unknown.

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As Operations Officer and later Chief of Staff of this force he made a major contribution to antisubmarine warfare.

In October 1942, he put DENVER in commission as her Commanding Officer and participated in action in the central Solomons during 1943. He was promoted to rear admiral and became the Chief of Staff to Adm. WiUiam F Halsey, Jr. Commander South Pacific Force. When Adm. Halsey assumed command of Third Fleet in the Central Pacific in June 1944, RAdm. Camey accompanied him, as Chief of Staff.

He took part in the Palau, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, and Okinawa campaigns and in the attacks on Formosa, in the China Sea; against the Japanese Home Islands and in the Second Battie of the PhUippine Sea. He also was at sea with Third Fleet when it was lashed by two typhoons.

He arranged with Japanese enussaries for the entry of Third Fleet into Tokyo Bay; accepted the surrender of Yokosuka Naval Base and surrounding area and attended the surrender ceremony on board USS MISSOURI where Adm. Halsey had shifted his flag from his normal flagship, USS NEW JERSEY, for the ceremony.

He was promoted to vice admiral in 1946 and untU Febraary 1950 was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics). He had cognizance over Fleet support; shore estabUshment, procurement and supply matters. He was the Navy member of a three-officer committee to solve the complex problem of dividing defense appropriations and developing a budget strecture appUcable to aU Services.

On 6 March 1950, he assumed command of the Second Fleet m die Atiantic. On 2 October 1950, he was advanced to admiral and subsequentiy was CmCNELM m London. On 18 June 1951, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme AUied Commander, Europe announced that Adm. Camey was to be CinC, AUied Forces, Southem Europe. Less than 48 hours later the command was operational as Adm. Camey broke his flag in USS OLYMPUS in Naples. He continued in comraand of the corabined staff as it moved through various stracturalreaUgnmentsunder NATO until President Eisenhower announced in May 1953 tiiat Mick was to be tiie next CNO. He was swom in August 1953, serving a two-year term until August 1955. Heretiredand hved in the Washington, D.C. area imtU his death.

Inretirement,he served on various boards as a director and in two instances, Bath Iron Works and BeU Intemational, as the Chairman. He was also a consultant to several corporations, a term he with his wellknown wit described as " . . . being just like the eunuch in a harem." He was President of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association from 1967 to 1969.

He had araostfacUe pen. Hisfirstpiece of professional writing appeared in the July 1921 Proceedings.

He regaled thousands of Alumni with his letters and anecdotes in Mail Boat in Shipmate, replying to the aUegation that they did not contain a grain of trath with assurances that " . . . in every instance diere has been a grain of trath."

He maintained his writing until his eyes began to faU; then he trained in but kept alert and active. Death came to him at home in his sleep. He thus avoided that Regional Medical Center that he irreverendy described as "Arlington Prep."

His decorations included: the Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Medal with three gold stars. Legion of Merit with Combat "V" and the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" as weU as campaign medals with combat stars and decorations from twelve foreign nations.

He is survived by his daughter, Betty, wife of Capt.

Joseph K. Taussig USN (Ret.) '41 of Annapolis; four grandchildren, including Joseph K. Taussig, III '66; and eight great-grandchildren, including Midn.

Christopher T Graves USN '93.

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DAVID EVANS ALLEN '22 Mr. David E. AUen died on 26 June 1990 m Neptune Beach, Florida. No information regarding memorial or burial services is avaUable.

He was bom 30 July 1899 in Pennsylvania and was appointed to the Naval Academy from Ohio. He graduated widi die Class of 1922 but resigned upon graduation, 2 June 1922.

After graduation he settied m PhUadelphia where he woriced for the United Gas Improvement Co. for five years. During tius period he married IsabeUe White of Annapohs, Maryland, on 11 Feb. 1925.

He then worked for the General Cable Corp. of Birmingham, Alabama, forfiveyears. In 1932 he began work with the Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., a subsidiary of Anaconda Copper Co. He continued with them untUretireraentin 1964 as Executive Vice President and Director and also Director of Coradumex in Mexico City.

During WW II he served three years and seven months of which two were in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and received a SecNav Letter of Commendation. He also served in the office of the Chief of Naval Materials andreceiveda Letter of Commendation fitim VAdm. Cochrane. He also served a year as Executive Officer of USS ADMIRAL BENSON.

He served on the Board of Govemors of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association and also of the Aluminum Association of New York. He was a member of A IFF, the Navy League and the American Legion. He was a member of the Union League of New York City, Sleepy HoUow Country Club, Scarborough and the Shattemuc Yacht Club, Osshung.

CHARLES JOHN MCWHINNIE '22 RAdra Chartes J. McWhinnie USNR (Ret.) died on 1 July 1990 in Denver, Colorado. Services were held at the Moore Memorial Chapel, Clarkson, and burial was at the Ft. Logan National Cemetery on 3 July 1990.

He was bom 19 Jan. 1900 on a ranch in Wyoming and was appointed to the Naval Academy from that State. He graduated widi die Class of 1922.

After graduation he served on the CALIFORNIA for four years, the last two as Flag Secretary to Commander Battie Fleet. He then served on the MARYLAND for two years and resigned 30 June 1928.

He then worked for Great Westem power and then Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in Oakland, Califomia, untU 1930. During tius period he raarried Edna Bames of Oakland on 7 Dec. 1929.

In 1930 he went to the Chase Brass and Copper Co., subsidiary of Kennecott Copper Co. and continued with thera, with tirae out for active duty during WW n, until retirement in 1965. He remained in Oakland until 1950 and then established a branch in Denver and becarae District Manager.

He served on active duty from 16 Oct. 1940 to 16 Jan. 1946, rising from Lt.(jg) to Capt. USNR. He commissioned and commanded WATERS (DD-105), later designated APD-8, for almost duee years of which 15 raonths were in the Solomons campaign.

During this period he was awarded a SUver Star Medal, a Legion of Merit Medal (Combat) and a Bronze Star Medal (Combat). After bemg inactivated in 1946 he commanded the "Organized Brigade of Naval Reserve" in San Francisco composed of 3500 men and 500 officers. He was rethed as RAdm. USNR in 1960.

He was a meraber of the Rotary Club and die Valley Country Club, both of Denver.

He is survived by two brothers, Ralph E. and C. H. McWbhmie, Jr.; a sister, Mary Hutchinson; a great niece, Angelique Davis; and a nephew, Robert C. McWhinnie.

PAUL FOLEY, JR. '29 RAdm. Paul Fotey, Jr. USN (Ret.) died 7 July 1990 at home in Manhasset, Long Island, N.Y. of pneumonia and congestive heart faUure foUowing several strokes. Bom in Porter House (adjacent to Alumni House), Annapohs, on 12 September 1908, he attended die Irving School, Tarrytown, N.Y. for sue years prior to attendmg die Naval Academy at age 16, one of the two youngest m bis Class.

During a year m SARATOGA, he was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship from Soutii Carohna, but lost out to a native son and decided upon flight training instead. Thereafter, he spent four successive dueeyearflyingtours: back to SARA in VF-6,tiiento VP-1 m Hawau, as Senior Aviator m HOUSTON foUowed by NORTHAMPTON (during the period President Roosevelt was frequentiy embarked), as XO and then CO of VP-41 in Alaska during WWII. He distinguished himself in die Aleutians. Assigned responsibiUties far beyond his rank, be was strongly recommended for spot-promotion.

He then served in BuAer, Mihtary Requirements Div., where he had a strong hand m management of the highly successful Lockheed P2 program which generated over a thousand aircraft for the Navy, some of which are stiUflyingin third-world countries. Retuming to sea as CO, AirSupConUnit 4, during the Saipan Operation, he continued as Ops Off for ComASCUPac untU, at war's end, he was assigned to staff of ComJTF-1 as AsstAirOps for Bikini Tests A and B, where he helped send his beloved SARA to her grave. Almost a year as Air Officer for Com2ndFlt was foUowed by retum to BuAer for three years as DepDirMaintDiv. In 1950 Paul was in mid-term at the Naval War College when he was plucked therefrom to become Ops and Plans for Cora6tbFlt in the Med. His performance in that capacity brought him comraand of MINDORO (CVE-120) operating in tiie Nortii Adantic. However, the determined NWC President eventaaUy got his stadent back, appointing him Head of the Comraand and Staff School at a tirae when electronic innovations were the order of the day. In 1955 Paul took command of BENNINGTON, reconfigured her with an enclosed bow, steam cats, angled deck, and mirror landing system which she was the first carrier to receive. She deployed to the Pacific Coast via the Cape of Good Hope and soon continued to the 7th Fleet in WesPac. This tour was followed by becoming C/S to ComFirstFlt and finally C/S at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey untU retireraent in 1959.

Paul's decorations included the Legion of Merit, tiie Bronze Star, and die Navy Commendation Medal with combat "V's".

The PG. School assignment brought hira to the attention of Hofstra College (later a university) where he began a 12-yr tenure, first as Business Manager, but soon elevated to Coordinator for the vast budding prograra being undertaken on campus. This mcluded she 10-story dormitories, underground power plant, Ubrary Law School, tiieatre, stadent union, atiUetic facilities includmg one of die first astro-ttuf fields, over-passes, parking, and otiier facilities. His success witii this expansion, which helped tum a commuter coUege into a vibrant university, engendered close association witii Hofstra which continued after hisretirementtherefrom in 1971 until recently.

Paul tiien tamed to voluntary programs, the most notable of which was as Chairman, American Red Cross Disaster Relief, Nassau County. This often involved emergency assistance far beyond county and Shipmate, September 1990

state limits in which he participated for anotiier twelve years. Paul served his country, a university, and die people of Long Island in accordance with the Foley family motto, Ut Prosim.

He is survived by his wife, Cornelia of Manhasset, his daughter Jean of Sevema Park, two sons. Jack of Coliunbia, Maryland, and Mark of Cooperstown, New York and two grandsons. Paul was interred 13 July 1990 hi /Arlington National Cemetery beside his first son, David, who was drowned in 1951. A brotiier, RAdm. Francis D. Foley USN (Ret.), '32, lives in Annapolis.

ROBERT EDWARD LAWRENCE '39 Cdr. Robert E. Lawrence USN (Ret.) died of emphysema on 18 June 1990 in Sun City, Arizona. A Memorial Service was held for his cremated remains on 23 June m the Desert Palm Presbyterian Church of Sun City, foUowmg which his ashes were buried at sea.

Bom in Akron, Ohio, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from that state and was graduated with die Class of 1939. On graduation, hereportedto the cruiser NEW ORLEANS and served in her as Ah Defense Officer until 1944 with much of NEW ORLEAN'S activity taking place m the Westem Pacific.

Detached in November 1944 be was transferred to Adm. Radford's ComCarDiv Six Staff as Gunnery Officer, serving there imtU November 1945. For service during this period he was awarded the Bronze Star witii Combat "V" In 1946 he was made Officer in Charge of the Naval Academy Preparatory School and then was transferred to the Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, serving as Administrative Assistant totiieCommanding Officer. In July 1948 he became Executive Officer of die icebreaker EDISTO, making many trips to Greenland and Canadian Arctic waters.

In 1949 he assumed duties as Assistant Director of Mamtenance and Repah for CoraSTS, Pacific area.

In 1952 he took command of the destroyer DUNCAN (DDR-874). In 1954 he assumed duties as Force Gunnery Officer on ComServPac's Staff, and m 1957 he was transferred to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard assuming duties as Ordnance Superintendant. He retiredfromdie Navy in October 1959 and took a position witii Westmghouse Electric Corp. on theh Polaris MissUe Handling and Launching Project. Later he estabhshed the Westinghouse Office in Cape Canaveral and spent six years working on Polaris problems as weU as domg development testing of ballistic

During World War II he was assigned totiiecruiser ASTORIA, went through flight training, was a pilot in VF-14 and later served on ComCarDiv 15 staff until heresignedin November 1955. An engineer for Martin Marietta, Ed was involved in the Titan I missile program.

A Life Member of die Alumni Association, he is survived by his shipmate of 43 years, Harriet, of 5941 Soutii Fahfield Way Littleton, Colo. 80120; two daughters, Pat Fritsche of Denver and Sherri Driver of Englewood, Colorado and a son, Edward of Silverthom, Colorado. Memorials in his name raay be made to die Boy Scouts of /Vmerica.

came Manager of Underwater Tests for die Poseidon launcher, at Long Beach, and m 1968 he moved to the Sunnyvale Office of Westmghouse, rething from that assignment m 1970 and remaming fully rethed.

He is survived by his widow, Virginia C. Lawrence of 14735 Buttonwood Drive, Sun City West, Ariz.

85375, and two sons R. WiUiam and Paul H. Lawrence.

CAMERON SEVIER, JR. '45 Lt(jg) Cameron Sevier, Jr. USNR, 65, died of stomach cancer on 8 April 1990 at Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Soutii Carolina.

Memorial services were held on 10 April at the Fhst Presbyterian Church of Greenville and his ashes were inumed m the family plot at Canton, Mississippi.

Bom in Jackson, Mississippi, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from the Thhd Congressional District, attended Marion Military Institate and was graduated frora the Acaderay in June 1944 with the Class of 1945 and a member of the Tenth Company.

At the Academy, "Shot," as he was known by his Classmates, served as Second Battalion Four-Striper and participated in Varsity Football, German Club and the Regimental Hop Committee.

During World War n he was Commanding Officer of two amphibious landing ships and served as main battery assistant on the heavy craiser, ROCHESTER. Following his resignation on 7 April 1947, Shot worked for Republic Steel Company until recalled for the Korean War in 1951 and 1952 as Coraraanding Officer of two PCS in the Atiantic. Later he was employed in engineering, marketing and management in the Uiuted States and foreign markets for Brown and Root in Australia and Singapore, Atiantic Steel in Atlanta and Republic Steel in Gadsden, Alabama until his retheraent in 1983.

A lifetirae raember of the Alumni Association, he was an active raember of the Fhst Presbyterian Church, Sunday School Class and the Executive Ministries Men's Bible Stady and is survived by his shipmate of 44 years, Catherine, of 607 Jenkins Bridge Road, Simpsonville, S.C. 29681, a daughter, Bonnie S. HamUton of Shnpsonville; two sons, Cameron ni of Duluth, Georgia and Coy Beckert of Houston, Texas. Memorials in his nameraaybe raade to the First Presbyterian Church Missionary Fund, 209 W Coffee Street, GreenviUe, S.C. 29601.

EDWARD MCNAIR BAIN '45 LCdr. Edward McNah Bam USNR (Ret.), 69, died of cardio-pulmonary complications at home on 19 Jtme 1990 m Littleton, Colorado. Funeral services were held at the Littleton United Metiiodist Church on 25 June followed by murament services at the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver. A floral arrangement in his memory was provided by his Classmates.

Coming from Boulder, Colorado, he was appomted to the Naval Academy from the Second Congressional District and graduated m 1944 with the Class of 1945 and a member of the 20th Company.

Standmg 27tb in his Class, he was captain of the Pistol Team and participated in batallion swimming and track and was a member of the Spanish and Model clubs.

PHILLIP MORRIS ERICKSON, JR. '45 Cdr. Philip Morris Erickson, Jr. USNR (Ret.), 67, died of cancer after a long and courageous battle on 23 April 1990 at die Northem Virginia Hospice, Arlington, Vhginia. Memorial services were held on Satarday, 28 April, at the Demaine Funeral Horae Chapel m Alexandria. Inurnment services at the Columbarium of die Arlington National Cemetery were performed on 30 April. The Class of 1945 was represented by a floral artangement in his memroy and botii services were attended by many of bis Classmates.

Bom in Brooklyn, he grew up in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Connecticut and Washington, D.C. Phil received a SecNav Appointment to the Naval Acaderay and was graduated in June 1944 with the Class of 1945 and a member of the Thhd Company At the

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Academy, he was Second Set Company Commander and participated in battalion track, cross-country, the German Club, the Reception Committee and die Press Detail. The 1945 Lucky Bag notes, "He spent tiiree years on the Press Detail and didn't miss a single Navy game."

During World War II he served in the gunnery departtnent of USS PHOENIX and completed flight training in 1947, serving in VP-5 stationed in Bermuda until 1949 when he was assigned to Naval Intelligence Post Graduate School for training in Chinese.

Qualifying as a Chinese interpreter-translator in Mandarin Chinese, he was assigned to the staff of ComNavFE. He resigned from the Navy on 1 April 1957. Phil then went to the State Department where he was a political and special projects officer. His overseas assignments included service in Sweden, Morocco, Zambia and Kenya until his retirement in 1972.

An enthusiastic member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association for many years, he served as Secretary to the Association of the Class of 1945 from 1976 to 1981 actively participating in many projects and programs inclucling die Fortieth Annual Reunion in 1984. An active volunteer for the American Heart Association in the Alexandria area, he became a volunteer with Alexandria /\rchaeology in 1982 and corapleted several long-terra projects and stadies for them receiving the Alexandria Archaeology Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award in 1984 and 1985. To demonstrate theh appreciation, the June issue of the Alexandria Archaeology Volunteer News was dedicated to the memory of Cdr. Philip Erickson, "Our LUV (land use volunteer)."

He is survived by his second wife. Evelyn, of 6313 Golf Course Square, Alexandria, Virginia 22307, four children of his first marriage: Susan Sturtevant of St. Thomas, Pennsylvania; Peggy Shields and Lisa DeLeon, botii of Annapohs; and Carol Draper of Lemaster, Pennsylvania; a brother, Evarts Erickson of Oakland, Califomia and a sister, Cynthia Porter of Altoona, Florida.

Memorials in his name may be made to the Friends of Alexandria Archaeology, Maritime Education Fund, PO Box 21475, Alexandria, Va. 22320. This fund was started by Phil to bring historic waterfront research into the lives of stadents to entice them into heritage stadies.

JOHN LOUIS FAIG '45 Lt.jg John Louis Faig USNR, 69, died at Ft. Myers, Florida, 4 May 1990 after a long illness.

Memorial services were held on 11 May at the New Thought Unhy Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio followed by burial at Spring Grove Cemetery. A floral artangement in his memory was provided by the Association of die Class of 1945.

A native of Cincinnati, he relocated to Ft. Myers in 1985. After completing two years at the Univershy of Cincinnati in chemical engineering, he was appomted to the Naval Academy from die Second Congressional District of Ohio and was graduated in June 1944 with the Class of 1945 and a member of the Thhd Company. While there he participated in battalion football and was a meraber of the Reception Committee.

Upon graduation he reported to the destroyer GATLING and later served in the destroyer PERKINS until his resignation in 1947. Recalled to active duty during the Korean War he served in USS NOA. Upon retaming to civilian Ufe, he worked as a division manager in charge of marketing for two local firms untU moving to Ft. Myers.

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A Life Member of the Naval Academy Alunmi Association, he is survived by his shipmate of 46 years, Betty, of 5838 Wild Fig Lane, Ft. Myers, Ha. 33919, a son, John Jr. of Cincinnati and a daughter, Nancy Donnelly of Amherst, Massachusetts, and six grandchildren. A memorial has been established in his name with the Harvard Medical School and contributions may be made to Hematology Research Fund, care of Jane Carey Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Mass. 02115.

ERNEST JOSEPH KING, JR. '45 Cdr. Ernest Joseph King, Jr. USN (Ret.), 68, dted on 19 June 1990 of renal failure at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C. Graveside services were held at the Naval Academy Cemetery on 22 June. A floral artangement in his memory was sent by the Class and a number of Classmates were in attendance at the graveside service.

Bom m Annapohs, he was die only son of Fleet Adnural Ernest J. King who was Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. Cdr. King received a Presidential Appointment to the Naval Academy and was graduated in June of 1944 with the Class of 1945 and a member of the 18th Company. His roommates at the Academy, Dan Zinn and Len Bush, had this to say about him in the 1945 LMC*)'Sag: " . . . quiet, unas-

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Joe retired on 1 March 1968 after serving in cruisers SAVANNAH, MACON, DES MOINES and the battleship NORTH CAROLINA. Following duty at the

Naval Acaderay he served on the destroyer CONE and later as Commanding Officer of the destroyer escort POWELL.

A lifetirae bachelor, he is survived by three sisters: Mrs. Frederick H. Smith Jr. of Washington; Florence King of Coronado and Mrs. Jaraes Oliver McReynolds of Rancho Santa Fe, Califomia, and several nieces and nephews. Memorials in his name may be made to St. James Episcopal Church, 5737 Solomons Island Road, Lothian, Md. 20711.

ALAN HARRIS SHURE '53 Mr. Alan Sure, co founder, chairman and CEO of International Components Corporation and a resident of Chicago's North Side and Nederland, Colorado, died on 2 May in Northwestem Memorial Hospital.

He helped develop and manufacture raore powerful battery poweredrainiataremotors. The small motors were used first in slot racing cars and later in a variety of appliances from Polaroid cameras to power tools.

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Al graduated from the Naval Academy in 1953 and went into the Marine Corps. He resigned from the Marines in 1957 and went to work for the faraily firm, the Strorabecker Corporation. He worked there until 1967 when he helped develop a motor for toy racing cars. The motor was smaU, had more torque than previous motors, and could be raass produced cheaply.

Al saw a vast raarket for such a product and left the company to join James Gaza, general manager of Strombecker, in founding Intemational Components to produce and market the new motor The new corapany, headquartered in Chicago, opened factories and offices in Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China and sells motors to General Electric, Motorola and Polaroid Camera among others.

Al also became active in real estate development in the DePaul and River West areas of Illinois and in Nederland, Colorado.

Survivors include his wife, Michal; two daughters, Janet and Carol; a son, Edward; two stepdaughters, Elizabeth Laidlaw and Katherine Laidlaw; and five grandchildren, besides his brother. Donations in his memory can be raade to the Hazelden Foundation, Center City, Minn. 55012.

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