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Volume 58, No. 9 FEATURES President's Call The Making of The Nightingale's Song

by Robert Timberg '64 Association Endowment Plaque Unveiled Profile of 1999 President's Circle Members Honored A Salute to "Uncle Boney"

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President's Call Margin of Excellence It is an exciting time to be at the United States shipmen; expanded the Professional DevelopNaval Academy. Admiral Larson has a firm ment opportunities for the Brigade; enhanced grip on the helm; newfound respect for our the Academy's Admissions program, and has beloved Academy is evident throughout the helped the Academy puts its best foot forward country; our Naval Academy Alumni Associa- in spreading the important Naval Academy tion is helping provide the "margin of excellence " between a congressionallyAdmiral Larson has ... pointed out funded program of adequacy for ourfuture naval the critical role played by the leaders and a program of Alumni Association in making a true excellence; and our Naval Academy is celebratprogram of excellence possible for ing 150 years of producing our midshipmen. national assets for our great country.

Our April 1995 issue of Shipmate contained an article entitled 'The message during its 150th Anniversary Year.

Way It Was.. .The Way It Is." I again commend Many alumni, who returned for last month's it to your attention, as it vividly illustrates what Homecoming Weekend, were struck by the the Naval Academy of 1995 would look like, improvements made throughout the Yard since both in terms of physical facilities and pro- their last visit. To say that Alumni Hall, with grams designed to develop our future officer such talent exposure and inspiration to our midcorps, if it had not been for private fund sup- shipmen as the Kirov Orchestra, the Central port. Admiral Larson has, on numerous occa- Ballet of China, Lady Margaret Thatcher, Gensions since his return to the Naval Academy, eral Colin Powell and Captain Jim Lovell, has pointed out the critical role played by the had a profound impact on the development of the midshipmen would be an understatement.

"How did we ever do without it" is heard often these days! In addition, the beautiful new Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center with its inspiringfilm.To Lead and To Serve, has helped place new focus on the importance of the Naval Academy to the 1.5 million visitors who come to our Academy annually. Finally, every Navy baseball alumnus has been impressed with the Academy's William H. G. FitzGerald Baseball Clubhouse, our "Camden Yards on the Severn!"

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How important a role the Alumni Associa- val Academy Alumni Association was formed tion does play in helping the Naval Academy fifty years ago, gifts to the Association constiadministration execute its mission is clearly tuted only 1% of its operating budget. Today shown in the April 1995 article. Additionally, nearly 50% of our operating budget is suprecent unrestricted private support has helped ported by private contributions. In order to promaintain the nationally renowned Naval Acad- vide Admiral Larson and his team continuing emy Foreign Affairs Conference directly affect- strong support it is vital that we are successful ing the education and development of our mid- with our Annual Fund. Quite frankly, given that Shipmate, November 1995

1995 is the Naval Academy's 150th Anniversary year, we had hoped for and expected a record level of support from our alumni and friends. Unfortunately, nearly 80% of our Alumni Association's members have not yet contributed to this year's Annual Fund. One of my greatest surprises is that the bulk of our membership do not "give something back" to an institution that has played such an important part in creating not only the success they have experienced in life, but established the character development that leads to a very high quality of life in so many areas beyond material well being.

I cannot stress more emphatically, nor urge you more vigorously, to respond positively to the Annual Fund letters that you have recently received in the mail. Our Alumni Association staff is working very hard to provide the type of support to the Superintendent and to our fellow alumni that we, as Naval Academy alumni, should provide an institution of this caliber and importance to our nation.

I again urge you to support your Naval Academy and our Alumni Association. I am most anxious to give you a very positive report in early 1996 on how successful we were in providing such support during 1995.1 continue to believe that our 1994 giving rates of less than 15% for all alumni and less than 20% for all Association members should be significantly higher given what both the Naval Academy and Naval Academy Alumni Association have done for us and our fellow alumni over the years.

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The Making of The Nightingale's Song Robert Timberg In November 1986 some activities came to light that radically reshaped the lives of three prominent Naval Academy graduates — John M. Poindexter, '58, the White House national security adviser; his immediate predecessor, Robert C. McFarlane, '59; and a key NSC aide, Oliver L. North, '68. As the White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun I scrambled to cover the emerging scandal, never imagining that my own life was about to be drastically altered as well.

Nine years later, with the publication this sununer of my book. The Nightingale's Song, I look back with relief, alloyed with a sense of accomplishment. In addition to Poindexter, McFarlane and North, the book focused on Poindexter's classmate, John McCain, and North's classmate, James Webb. The reviews, with a few exceptions, have ranged from good to great, one of the best appearing in the influential New York Times Sunday "Book Review". More important have been the responses the book has evoked from fellow Academy graduates and Vietnam veterans. They have made me feel that I have done something that matters, the unspoken ambition of all Annapolis men.

But it was never a sure thing. The road was long and tortuous. I drilled some dry holes, wandered down some blind alleys, had a ringside seat at a revenue hemorrhage — my own — and experienced daily clenchings of the stomach when colleagues asked, "How's the book going?" It got so bad that my friend. Marine Col. Fred Peck, '70, strolled ahead of me at a White House Correspondents Association dinner about five years ago and greeted people with the oral equivalent of a preemptive strike: "His book's going fine."

The genesis of The Nightingale's Song was a question: How could McFarlane, North and Poindexter have gotten mixed up in all this? At the time I did not know any of them well, but what I thought 1 knew was that they were men imbued with the highest ideals of public service. Yet here they were at the epicenter of what was accurately portrayed as a constitutional crisis, the 1980's version of the Watergate scandal. To make matters worse, as their necks were being fitted for the noose, everyone else in the Reagan administration was running for the hills, including Ronald Reagan himself. For a time it appeared that the three Annapolis men were the ringleaders in a military cabal on the order of Seven Days In May. It never made sense. Still, something had happened and McFarlane, North and Poindexter — two Marines and an admiral, Annapolis men — were drowning in it. I wanted to know why. and the more I explored the question the more I suspected that the Vietnam War had a part in it.

That suspicion was heightened the month after McFarlane's February 1987 suicide attempt when — referring to Iran-Contra — he told Barbara Walters in a television interview: "I think, Barbara, in a year's time, a curious and haunting factor that will come out in this episode is the Vietnam War." Covering the Iran-Contra congressional hearings that summer I continued to pick up the scent of Vietnam, first in the testimony of Air Force Major General Richard V. Second, West Point '55, then in McFarlane's, most notably in North's. Working long hours for the Sun, I helped chronicle the details of the unfolding Iran-Contra story even as

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a larger, more important tale struggled to take shape in my mind. Sometime during this period, I became intrigued by the possibility that IranContra was at least in part the bill for Vietnam finally coming due. And if so, I remember thinking back then, the nation had gotten off cheaply.

Around this time. Esquire magazine asked me to write an article about North and Webb, classmates and highly decorated Marine infantry officers who had been rivals at Annapolis and beyond. By then North was under investigation by two congressional committees and a special prosecutor, Webb was Secretary of the Navy. The article, "The Private War of Ollie and Jim," allowed me to explore to a degree my view that IranContra could be partially explained as Vietnam afterflash. By then I was already thinking about writing a book, one that would deal with Iran-Contra, but only as a subtext. The story I wanted to tell was more sweeping. My focus would be the storied Vietnam generation, but not that portion of the generation about which scores of books had already been written — the antiwar protesters, the kids who ran off to Canada or Sweden to evade the draft, the ones who celebrated themselves and their higher morality in the mud at Woodstock. 1 would concentrate instead on those members of the Vietnam generation who had actually set foot in Vietnam.

Not all of them. Though I sympathized with the men who came home emotionally battered by their combat experiences, their travails had already been amply chronicled, usually by authors who managed to turn the tragedy of war, any war, into ersatz anti-Vietnam parables. My focus would be the apparent survivors, the men and women who felt no need to apologize for their service in Vietnam, who in fact were proud of it, those whom Jim Webb years before had dubbed the "invisible" Vietnam veterans.

I did not want to write an ideological diatribe. Good writers, I'd always been told, don't tell, they show. I wanted to say my piece through people and events, letting the themes percolate through the narrative until it suddenly dawned on the reader what was going on. McFarlane, North and Poindexter took me a long way but not far enough. There was more to the portion of my generation than a Washington scandal.

Jim Webb took me further. Webb's novels, his government service and Webb himself. He showed me how a Vietnam veteran could marshal the anger and bitterness that afflicted his generation and give it a voice, make it real. Over the years, he had become what I call the kickass troubadour for a generation of combat veterans for whom reconciliation will invariably be a concept proclaimed by others, always prematurely.

John McCain added the final piece to the puzzle. He had the worst war of the five principal figures in my book — five and a half years in North Vietnamese prisons that included thirty-one months in solitary and brutal torture. He left prison crippled and yet, almost as soon as he limped off the plane at Clark Air Base he began putting Vietnam behind him. He told himself that whatever destiny had in store for him, good or bad, he was going to fulfill it, prison or no prison. And somehow he did.

Today, even after he has become a major player on the national political stage, I see his long odyssey — often tragic, frequently hilarious — as

an unfinished one. The central theme of The Nightingale's Song distilled itself into a single paragraph in the Prologue: The five major characters in this book display vast differences in personality and style, but some remarkably similar strains as well. In a way, though none would be comfortable with this characterization, they are secretsharers, men whose experiences at Annapolis, during the Vietnam War and its aftermath, illuminate a generation, or a portion of a generation — those who went. Each in his own way stands as afieshand-blood repository of that generation's anguish and sense of betrayal.

Whatever they later became — hero, hotdog, hustler or zealot — they were for a time among the best and the brightest this nation had to offer.

And in their formative years — at Annapolis and during the Vietnam era — they shared a seemingly unassailable certainty. They believed in America.

There is another major thread in the book, the assertion that the Vietnam War fractured a generation of young Americans, creating a divide that may never be bridged. In weaving together the lives of McCain, Webb, Poindexter, McFarlane and North, I was able to explore what I call a generational faultline, a faultline that continues to haunt the nation three decades after it first revealed itself. That faultline is between those who served in the armed forces during the decade of the Vietnam War — and I'm talking about liberals, conservatives and everyone in between — and those who used money, wit and connections to avoid serving.

Of course, the war wasn't the problem. All wars are hell, and Vietnam was no different. It was the homecoming. This faultline surfaced most vividly when men returned from Vietnam. Many had seen friends and comrades killed and maimed. Some came home maimed themselves.

There were no parades. Instead they were condemned by many as babykillers or ridiculed as fools. Some were spit on. It was as if the men who fought the war had barely managed to pull themselves out of the primordial sludge. Across this generational divide, meanwhile, they saw their unbloodied contemporaries flourishing. As Webb put it, the other half of his generation wore their anti-WcU- credentials like combat decorations. Or the war hadn't affected their lives at all. They were unbloodied and prospering.

That was what turned Vietnam into what has been called an indigestible lump. It was as if a social contract had been shattered. Bob Bedingfield, a chaplain who served with North in Vietnam, may have put it best. "What that does," he said, "is dislocate loyalty. It says I can never trust the system again. That's now the filter through which I interpret the world I live in."

Though he may have overstated the case, Webb's friend, Milton Copulos, best captured the intensity of the emotions that still exist: "There's a wall ten miles high and fifty miles thick between those of us who went and those who didn't. And that wall is never going to come down."

Those themes were uppermost in my mind in June 1988 when began a one-year unpaid leave of absence from the Sun to work on the book.

My plan was to spend those twelve months interviewing and otherwise researching, then return to my job at the Sun and write the book during the next year at night and on weekends. I had an advance from my publisher, Simon & Schuster, that was more than adequate to replace my salary for a year and cover book-related expenses as I then envisioned them. It was a good plan except for one problem: it was hopelessly, almost scandalously unrealistic.

Eight months into the process I realized I needed more time. Hat in hand, I told the Sun I needed another year of leave. Without a word or even a grimace to make me feel guilty, my editors agreed, which made me feel more guilty than I already felt. That scene was re-enacted again and again. In all, my leave lasted five and a half years. Say what you will about corporate bean-counters, the Sun dealt with me throughout this long process with great generosity, constantly encouraging my efforts even though my editors had only a vague idea of what I was up to.

I always knew what I was up to. Right from the start, I knew the book would have to withstand the scrutiny of reviewers, many of whom were likely to reside on the other side of the generational faultline. This meant it had to have journalistic integrity so that it could not be dismissed as a so-called buddy book, an effort by one Annapolis grad to puff up five others.

There were other obstacles. McFarlane, McCain and Webb agreed to cooperate from the start. Poindexter didn't agree to any interviews until I was more than three years into the process. North took three and a half years. By then I had spoken to so many people who knew them that I could have written the book without their assistance. But not nearly as well. Their voices, especially Poindexter's, about whom so little was known — were crucial.

One of my favorite stories during this time involves Poindexter and his wife, Linda. For years Poindexter had politely but firmly turned down my interview requests. Throughout my research, though, people were constantly telling me what a terrific person Linda Poindexter was.

One day I wrote to her, saying in effect, I hate to think of myself as a male chauvinist pig, but maybe I am. I've assumed that Admiral Poindexter's refusal to talk to me goes for you, too. If not, please call. A few days later she did. I interviewed her extensively and she provided a wealth of detail and insight.

A few months later, my classmate. Rear Admiral Tom Lynch, then the Academy superintendent, invited my wife, Kelley, and me to a brunch before a Navy football game. Somehow — believe me, I did not engineer this — we found ourselves at a table with the Poindexters.

"Bob," grinned Poindexter, "I hope my unwillingness to talk to you isn't the reason it's taking you so long to finish your book."

"It's really not, Admiral," I replied. "Since you won't talk to me, I can just make up anything I want about you."

That was good for a laugh. Back home, I dropped Poindexter still another note eliciting his cooperation. He agreed and I interviewed him perhaps twenty times over the next year or so.

A major problem, one that caused me great consternation, resulted from my desire to transform all five men into metaphors for a generation of well-meaning, but ill-starred warriors. Fictional characters make easy metaphors; real people don't. At times, I would learn something about one of the five that didn't fit with my perceptions. I was surprised and unsettled, for example, to discover the towering ambition of the outwardly self-effacing McFarlane. Or that North fell so far short of my expectations. And, of course, there were messy elements in McCain's life. After a great deal of agonizing, the solution was simplicity itself.

Let them be. Tell their stories straight, the good, the bad and the ugly, as North would say. If the themes were as compelling as I conceived them to be, the reader would get the picture.

Meanwhile, as I was expending all this energy, intellectual and otherwise, the world was passing me by. During my five and a half years in professional limbo, the nation elected a new president, George Bush, invaded Panama, watched the Soviet Union collapse, fought the Persian Gulf War, and elected another president. Bill Clinton. For much of that time, I was working out of my basement in Bethesda, dependent on Kelley's salary and a home equity credit line to keep the family afloat financially. And from a professional standpoint, although I stayed in touch with my friends in the Washington journalism community, I had fallen off the edge of the earth.

In the summer of 1993, my editors at the Sun gently informed me that it was time to go back to work. Until then I had made it clear that I was prepared to quit or be fired before I jeopardized the completion of the book. Now it seemed the end was in sight. In October of that year I returned to the Sun as state political reporter, my job to cover the 1994 campaign for governor in Maryland. I did, and finished the book, too.

These days I'm the deputy chief of the Sun's Washington bureau.

After nearly a quarter century as a reporter, I'm now an editor. My reporter friends say I've crossed over to the dark side. They may be right.

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ROBERT TIMBERG, '64 Robert Timberg, '64, served with the First Marine Division in South Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Stanford University, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He has worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun and the Baltimore Sun since 1973.

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It was a long haul, seven years in all. Even so, I wouldn't change a thing. The Nightingale's Song did everything I wanted it to do. Looking back, I realize I wrote it for all of us. For those who went before us, for those who will come after us. Most of all for those of us who went.

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Association Endowment Plaque Unvefled Classes of '33 and '78 On Top In September the Alumni Association christened its Endowment dedicated to unrestricted giving. The Endowment functions as a source of unrestricted funds which will help run the train at Alumni House, and provides a source of unrestricted funds for the Superintendent to use to support the Brigade of Midshipmen. The goal of this Endowment is $25 million. With the Endowment in place, the work of the Alumni Association can be directed en masse to the Superintendent's needs in his quest to provide the margin of excellence in our heralded graduates.

The Class of '33 has supported the efforts of the Alumni Association in the yard throughout its 62-year history. They have sponsored the 33rd Company since its inception, and provided one of the magnificent stained glass windows in the Chapel. As a result of a trust established by the late Captain Robert M. Gibbons, a considerable sum of money was left to the Alumni Association with the goal of meeting the needs of the Naval Academy. The Class of '33 leadership of Captain Ray Thompson and Rear Admiral Charles Blick directed the use of the "R.M. Gibbons Class of 1933 Endowment" for the first few years of its existence. This year, upon the announcement of the Alumni Association Endowment, the class elected to provide the impetus for the kick off of the new Endowment. On 7 August 1995, the "R.M. Gibbons Class of 1933 Endowment" became the cornerstone of the Alumni Association Endowment. Class of '33 membership as George Bancroft Fellows for their donation of $500,000 was most welcome and will provide much needed support to the Naval Academy for years to come.

While the senior classes of '33, '39, '42, and '44 have shown their understanding of the Association's desire to support the Academy through the endowment process, the Class of 1978 not only became the most junior class to fund a share of the Endowment, but also, became the first class to dedicate at least $25,000 to the unrestricted Endowment. As a result, they head the Blue & Gold Society of donors followed closely by the great senior classes of '39, '42, and '44.

The Class of '78 has had a busy year. They took a very active part in helping fund the new Visitor Center by contributing to one of the beautiful sculpture gardens.

The class of '39 has been busy over its entire career. Projects they have provided include the Atomic clock in Michelson Hall, the music practice room and stage in Alumni Hall, the Processional Cross for the Protestant chapel services, and support of the 9th Company of the Brigade of Midshipmen. Endowments are not new to '39. The Class has provided endowed funds for the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference as well as being Blue & Gold Society members of the Alumni Association Endowment. The Class has also given considerable donations toward the design and development efforts and renovation of the Naval Academy Museum.

As the plebes of the Class of 1939, the Class of 1942 certainly has carried on in fine style. The Class provided the plaza at Alumni Hall, a stained glass window in the Chapel, the chandelier in the bride's dressing room in the Chapel, and continues to support the 8th Company of the Brigade of Midshipmen. In addition to being Blue & Gold Society members of the Alumni Association Endowment, they continue to support their "U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1942 Honor Scholarship."

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The next member of the Blue & Gold Society is the Class of 1944.

The Class constructed the memorial plaza adjacent to Lejeune Hall, as well as the sports display area within Lejeune Hall. They funded a midshipman activity room in Alumni Hall and have 74 Honor Chairs in Alumni Hall dedicated to classmates lost on active duty. They also provided the dedication plaque for the Laboon Ministry Center, the wrestling loft, and a marker for the old Thompson Stadium.

The sole initial member of the Trident Society is not a class, but staunch supporters of the Class of' 27 and the Alumni Association, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward H. Eckelmeyer. Their gift of $75,000 was exemplary and once again spoke well for our senior class support.

This magnificent lineup of dedicated sponsors choosing to support the Alumni Association Unrestricted Endowment is testimony to the strength of this worthwhile project. The goal of $25 million is not just around the corner, but certainly is attainable in the near term. The Endowment is a powerful tool for recurring requirements such as the gifts the Alumni Association makes to the Superintendent each year.

Our many thanks to the class leadership and classes of our initial investors in the Alumni Association Endowment!

If you would like more information about the Endowment, please contact CAPT Bob Hofford at 410-263-4448 ext. 105, or you may write Naval Academy Alumni Association, 247 King George Street, Annapolis, MD 21402-5068.

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experience of the United States Naval Academy. It portrays the profoundly challenging and lifeshaping voyage that each midshipman experiences.

The Film has been transferred to video and packaged with three kiosk videos currently being shown in the Exhibit Area of the Visitor Center They are Plebe Interviews, Service Assignment and Recent Graduates. This packeige is now available to Alumni, Midshipmen, and their families for $14.95.

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Profile of 1999 The United States Naval Academy Class of 1999 took the Oath of Office to become Midshipmen in the United States Navy on 30 June 1995. Statistics about the Class of 1999 are representative of the backgrounds and qualifications sought in entering Midshipmen.

Applicants And Nominees Applicants (includes nominees)—10,422 Number of applicants with an official nomination—4,756 Nominees qualified scholastically, medically and in physical aptitude—1,818 Offers of admission—1,474 Admitted—1,165

Scholastic Assessment Test Scores Score Range >700 600-699 500-599 <500

Verbal 4% 34% 47% 15%

Math 31% 53% 15% 1%

American College Testing Program Scores Score Range 30-36 25-29 20-24 15-19

English 3% 41% 49% 7%

Math 49% 43% 7% 1%

Rank In High School Class First fifth Second fifth Third fifth Fourth fifth Fifth fifth

78% 17% 4% 1% 0%

Previous College And Prep School The Class of 1999 includes 27% (317) from college and post-high school preparatory programs which include: 184 from Navy Preparatory Schools; 68 from private preparatory schools; and 68 who have completed at least six months of study at a college or university.

93 new midshipmen previously served as enlisted members of the Navy or Marine Corps.

Geographical Distribution Midshipmen were admitted from every state in the nation. The Class of 1999 also includes 11 international students from the following countries: Barbados, Bulgaria (2), Estonia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Romania (2), Thailand and Tobago.

School Honors And Activities Student body/council/govemment/president or vice president 11% Class president or vice president 12% School club president or vice president 28% School publication staff 25%

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National Honor Society Varsity athletics Varsity letter winner Dramatics, public speaking, debating Leader of musical group Eagle Scout/Gold Award Boys/Girls State or Nation Reserve Officer Training Program Sea Cadets

58% 88% 84% 66% 9% 13% 19% 8% 1%

Minorities And Women The Class of 1999 includes 20% (233) minority midshipmen with ethnic backgrounds as follows: African Americans (86), Hispanic (88), Asian Americans (40) and Native American (19) The Class of 1999 includes 17% (194) women.

Sons And Daughters Of Alumni The Class of 1999 includes 42 sons and 4 daughters of Naval Academy alumni (4.4% of the class), 2 sons and 1 daughter of Military Academy alumni, 1 son of an Air Force Academy alumnus,and 1 son of a Merchant Marine Academy alumnus.

Mr. Arthur P. Ismay 1951 Mid'n. John D. Ismay Mr. Oscar E. Williams, Jr. Mid'n. Timothy A. Williams Mr. Richard E. Hanson Mid'n. Sonja L. Hanson CAPT Walter S. Draper, IV.USN (Ret) Mid'n. Stephen R. Draper CAPT Robert P. Glover, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Andrew J. Glover LT Richard E. Hardy, USN (Ret) Mid'n. David C. Hardy Mr. John E. Dolby, Jr. Mid'n. John E. Dolby, III CAPT William P Dobbins, Jr.,USN (Ret) Mid'n. William P Dobbins, III LT Jerome Eggers, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Christian O. Eggers Mr. Edmund Farrell Mid'n. James R. Farrell CDR John L. Kipp, USN Mid'n. Anne M. Kipp CDR James E. Coleman, USN, (Ret) Mid'n. James E. Coleman, Jr. CDR Gregg Ouray Owens, USN (Deceased) Mid'n. Jay J. Owens Mr. Walter Wilkening Mid'n. Sarah E. Wilkening CAPT John S. Doyle, Jr., USN (Ret) Mid'n. Sean A. Doyle CDR Carl J. Tamulevich, USN Mid'n. Jeffrey S. Tamulevich Mr. Joe A. Ylitalo Mid'n. Christopher J. Ylitalo Mr. John Allen Mid'n. Merritt E. Allen CAPT Richard A. Robbins, USN Mid'n. Richard A. Robbins, Jr LT Phillip Crisson, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Kevin R. Crisson

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LCDR Robert M. Doolin, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Richard A. Doolin Mr. Scott Newberry Mid'n. Thomas S. Newberry CAPT Syd Rodenbarger, SC, USN Mid'n. Nathan E. Rodenbarger CDR Stanley B. Weeks Mid'n. Christine M. Weeks Mr. Michael P. Hayden Mid'n. Matthew P. Hayden CAPT Stephen Pelstring, USN Mid'n. Jeremy A. Pelstring LCDR David L. Grouse, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Joshua D. Grouse CAPT David M. Gilchrist, USNR (Ret) Mid'n. Ryan M. Gilchrist CDR Howard M. Holland, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Michael F. Holland CAPT Robert D. Liggett, USN Mid'n. Patrick M. Liggett CDR Thomas Burns, USN, (Ret) Mid'n. David T. Burns CAPT John M. Kelly, USN Mid'n. Gabriel M. Kelly CDR Daniel F. Madden, USN (Ret) Mid'n. Daniel F. Madden, Jr. CAPT Peter W. Marzluff, USN Mid'n. Patrick C. Marzluff CAPT David D. Mericle, USN Mid'n. Scott D. Mericle CAPT Paul J. Ryan, USN Mid'n. Michael P. Ryan Mr. Thomas R. Tritz Mid'n. Gerald L. Tritz CDR Stephen H. Chestnut, USNR Mid'n. Gregory T Chestnut Mid'n. Jeffrey H. Chestnut CAPT Brent James, USN Mid'n. Michael F. James CAPT Kevin G. O'Brien, USN Mid'n. Joseph M. O'Brien Mr Thomas J.M. Weaver Mid'n. Thomas J.M. Weaver, Jr. LtCol Cozy E. Bailey, USMC Mid'n. Cozy E. Bailey, Jr. Mr. Timothy S. Harden Mid'n. Matthew S. Harden CDR Erwin J. Wunderlich, USNR Mid'n. Erwin J. Wunderlich CDR Phillip L. Poirier, Jr., USNR Mid'n. Matthew C. Poirier

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President's Circle Members Honored 78 charter members of the Naval Academy Alumni Association's President's Circle were honored at the Naval Academy in September.

The President's Circle is a giving society established this year to recognize donors for unrestricted gifts to the Alumni Association of $2500 or more. Charter members were honored guests at a parade and for Navy Football's home-opener against Wake Forest. They also met for special briefings by the Superintendent, Admiral Larson, Ron Brandquist, President and CEO of the Alumni Association, Dr. Robert Shapiro, Academic Dean, and Mr. Jack Lengyel, Director of Athletics.

The Alumni Association is quite proud of the President's Circle. Established with the intention of acknowledging generous donors, it has become a virtual "Who's Who" of American Naval, Diplomatic, and Economic leaders. Ambassadors, Admirals, and Presidents and Chief Executive Officers of America's best companies are all well represented among this group of luminaries.

It was an exciting time for these distinguished visitors and for the Alumni Association. The Alumni Association hopes to repeat the special weekend for many years. If you would like to learn more about the President's Circle, please contact Dan Struble at the Naval Academy Alumni Association at 410-263-4448 ext. 124.

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The Naval Academy is a forge that helped shape some of the nation's most revered heroes: Nimitz, Halsey and Burke. This is a living history of young men and women who spent "four years together by the Bay. . . where the Severn meets the tide," where they're challenged morally, mentally and physically in an effort to prepare them to serve the nation when it called them to peril on the sea, as it has so many times since 1845.

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What is the SACa The SACC is the SeiA'ice Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U. S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) and U. S. Coast Guard Academy (New London) and Associations of Graduates from the U. S. Military Academy (West Point) and the U. S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). The three previous Conferences have been attended by over 100 companies and 3000 alumni.

Where will the SACC be held?

The 1996 SACC will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. You may obtain a room at the Ritz for the SACC rate of $165 plus tax a night. Call 1-800241-3333 or 703-415-5000 for reservations and ask for the SACC rate. There are many other hotels available in the area, or think about renewing relationships with classmates in the Washington, DC area.

What to do to register for the SACC: 1. Have a current Association membership and complete the registration form below.

2. Send two copies of your resume (resumes strictly limited to one page/one side). This resume should be the version that sells you the best, not necessarily the one generated using the Electronic Resume Program.

3. Complete the Electronic Resume AND Attribute Program disk, obtained by sending a check for $25 to USNA Alumni Association, 247 King George Street, Annapolis, MD 21402. The recruiters who participated in the 1994 and 1995 Conferences found the electronic database extremely helpful; it would be wise to use this resource.

4. To participate in the March 1996 SACC, send to the SACC office no later than February 16,1996: a. Completed registration form below b. The $20 registration fee c. Two (2) hard copy resumes (1 page/1 side) d. The Electronic Resume and Attribute program 5. Upon receipt of the above items, you will receive a confirmation notice with a definitive schedule.

6. The tentative schedule for the SACC is as follows: Friday, March 22,1996: • Registration opens 9:00 AM - continues all day • Two open sessions from 10:00 AM to 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Saturday, March 23,1996: • Recruiters may schedule individual interviews Saturday.

We cannot guarantee resumes received after Feb. 16, 1996 will be included in the Resume Book provided each recruiter. To have your resume included in the electronic version of the data base, please return the resume and attribute disk to SACC office. Electronic versions received after February 16, 1996 will not be provided SACC recruiters at this conference; however, they will be added to the normal Service Academy Resume Database.

This is a hard deadline, as the resumes have to be compiled and the disks copied. (If you have returned an electronic version after November I, 1995 for the Service Academy Database, it will be included in the SACC Electronic Resume Database).

If you have any questions on this service provided to members by the USNA Alumni Association, please call 410-2630096, leave a message, and your call will be returned.

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But what 1 thought was most impressiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; beyond the fantastic 33-2 final score, that isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Shipmate: Maybe it's because I'm just getting was the way the Midshipmen showed their old, but last night, as I viewed Naval Academy: spirit, [ed. note: see "Brigade Activities " for 150 Years In Annapolis on the Arts and Enter- more elaboration on the Brigade's tainment Channel, tears came to my eyes as I enthusiasm...Nancy] After they began chantwas reminded of the great tradition of which I ing' "Dant! Dant! We want the Dant!" Capt. am a part, and of which only a handful of people Bogel came down and cheered with them. Then have been a part. they started, "Supe! Supe! We want the Supe!"

In these last few years I have been thinking And Adm. Larson came down to cheer with much about the past, maybe it is because it's them. Then they yelled, "SecNav! SecNav! We the only place I have been, but that presenta- want the SecNav!" And I'll be darned if the tion last night reminded me that the most im- Secretary of the Navy didn't go down there, portant birthday present I have ever received take off his jacket, and cheer with the (partial) in my life was to be graduated from the Acad- Brigade! It was a sight to behold for one who emy on my 22nd birthday, June 1, 1956. It also saw far too few Navy football wins in four reminded me of the significant people who years, and it showed a lot of class as well. crossed my path and left an important imprint Coach Weatherbie and the team made a real upon my life. They helped me to form a moral, impression first time out, and from the looks ethical, and spiritual structure in my life. of our guys, we could win six or seven games I have been a hospital chaplain for 20 years this season. Heck, if Notre Dame doesn't shape at the Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Anto- up, they're fair game too! nio, after pastoring three churches, I would not The local sports pages noted that our 3/C QB be following this course in life were it not for Chris McCoy did what even Roger S. never the examples 1 saw in the lives of certain Mid- managed to do: win at the Cotton Bowl. dies who lived out their faith commitment in GO NAVY! BEAT EVERYBODY! Bancroft Hall. 1 know that there are other class- Ken Smith '72 mates from the class of '56 who share these same feelings to some degree. I am looking forward to our 40th reunion in 1996, which will be the first reunion I have attended. I'm not Class "A" Offense. counting our 35th reunion when my wife and 1 Midshipmen can always recall various Comshowed up a week early. 1 guess 1 can credit this to the indoctrination at the Academy for pany Officers during their days at the Naval teaching me to be punctual, if not early, for Academy. Sometimes it is fondly, but often it assignments. But a week early? Age, you know! is with apprehension. In my time, one ComUnfortunately, we could not stay that extra pany Officer stirred this apprehension because of his unerring ability to catch midshipmen in week. the act of their misdeeds. It was rumored that All I can say to all who made possible that he was so successful because he wore one shoe 150th anniversary video is, "Thanks for the with leather heel and caps, and the other with a memories! " rubber heel, so that when he ran, it sounded William H. Simpson '56 like he was walking. Thus, he was able to catch them before they could escape.

During WWII, this very same Company OfAs the Mids say "We Believe..." ficer took command of the destroyer to which Shipmate: Since most of you out there were 1 was attached. My apprehension turned to true not able to attend, let me tell you the Navy VIC- respect for he was the most competent shipTORY over SMU was something to behold! handler, a leader of men by example, and truly The pre-game victory tailgater was attended by a man to sail the seas with, in time of batde.

On one shore leave, we discussed his tenure almost 700 folks from all over the country. We as a Company Officer, and 1 told him of his had alums, parents, 200+ mids, and some dignitaries. SecNav, the Supe, the Commandant, reputation. He laughed, and told me of his inand Roger Staubach all came and ate BBQ with troduction to the role of Company Officer. After reporting in, he made a formal call on the us.

Then there was the game itself. Beaudful Commandant of Midshipmen. The Commanweather and a very respectable 20,300 fans in dant welcomed the then Lieutenant aboard and the Cotton Bowl. Senator Hutchinson (whose asked him to be seated. He then discussed hubby is SMU alum) and Congressman Sam changes at the Academy since the LT's graduJohnson attended, but sat on the Mustang side ation, and brought him up-to-date on what was happening at Bancroft Hall. Then, as he was in boxes with SMU's new president. NAAA finishing, he reminded the LT that they still had and SMU A/D folks did a good job of puUing two classes of offenses. The minor one. Class most of us and the mids in the same area, so "B", was for such things as "out of uniform", lots of Blue & Bold spirit towels were always

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"sloppy room", "late for formation", etc. The major one. Class "A", was for serious offenses.

In fact he said, "We have a special log that lists all Class "A" offenders." When he opened the log, the first name on the first page was the Lieutenant's. Upon seeing this, the LT reached for his cap, thanked the Commandant, and said, " 1 wonder where the Bureau (of Navigation in those days) will send me next?" He was convinced he would not be accepted at the Academy. The Commandant immediately said, "Sit down, you'rejusttheguy we wanton our side, for you know all of the tricks, and where all of the bones are buried". And that was how he became the scourge of the Executive Department in my time.

Paul E. Arbo '44

"Our Alumni Speak", Part II Shipmate: I read with great interest the article "Our Alumni Speak", Part 11. Under the section entitled "USNA Honor, Integrity, and Discipline", the authors state: "The principle concern of alumni responding to this category was the apparent reduced emphasis on honor and other values at the Naval Academy as exemplified by the EE cheating scandal and the PERCEIVED POOR ADMINISTRATION RESPONSE TO THE SCANDAL." It is this last phrase that concerns me. Are the authors implying that the administration's response to the scandal was not poor? Does the Naval Academy administration really give itself high marks on the handling of this incident? I would think that things such as: the tremendous amount of persistent media coverage, the fact that an outside panel was called in to "assist" with the damage control, concerns about the former Commandant's Flag selection, and the relatively unprecedented assignment of a four star Admiral as Superintendent would indicate that poor response by the administration was more than just "perception."

An important part of the response to any incident must be "rumor control" so that an improper percepdon does not exist and surely the administration can not be proud of the publicity aspects of this incident. When I read the paragraph cited above, I immediately recalled the Change of Command remarks of Rear Admiral Lynch which were published in the September 1994 Shipmate. Twice, once in his own words and once in the words of General Robert E. Lee, the Admiral stated that if he had to do it all over again, he would "act precisely in the same manner." I hope he was not speaking for the Academy and I further hope that if anything has come from this regrettable incident, it would be that the administration will respond much better if it should ever happen again.

Michael McHugh '68

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On the matter of Hyman Rickover:

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Shipmate: In the Spring of 1953, when I was a student at the Naval War College, Hyman came up to address the student body, no doubt about the nuclear submarine program, but that I don't remember. What I do remember was that there was this officer addressing the auditorium full of officers, naturally in uniform, and Hyman was in a brown-colored civilian suit. His rather patronizing manner annoyed a lot of us, as did the fact that he was in civilian clothes.

It seems that I was one of about twelve officers detailed to have lunch at the O'Club with Hyman. We were barely seated, when some navy captain asked, "Hey, Hyman where's your blue suit?" Hyman replied by explaining that in the rather sciendfic surroundings in which he worked, he thought civilian clothes were more appropriate. The same Navy captain: "OK, Hyman, but this is the Naval War College in Newport." Being rather junior in this assemblage, I said nothing at all, but I decided that here was a personality that 1 could never like.

Shipmate: The Sept 95 issue arrived today. "Big Wind From the Sea" caught my attendon, especially with the picture of a FRAM II DD alongside WISCONSIN. My first four years following graduation (USNA 69) were spent as a young surface warrior (we didn't know that's what we were yet) aboard first a FRAM I and then a FRAM II. Then the hull number (DD761) leaped out at me. My old ship. BUCK, which I served in as the last WEPS prior to her decommissioning and sale to the Brazilian Navy. But imagine my disappointment to see her mis-identified as MCKENSIE. Though she's long gone from our Navy, she's hardly forgotten, particularly so long as this surface-warrior-tumed-chaplain remains on active duty.

Nonetheless, Shipmate is still favorite reading. Keep up the fine work.

Norman F. Brown '69

Chapter II. In 1960, having just completed grad school, including the PhD, and being exhausted in the brain from the experience, 1 was ordered to the office of CNO on temporary additional duty; I think it was Op-62. One morning I was given a note telling me to call on Admiral Rickover, at his office, and at a specified time. My temporary boss said he had no idea what it was about, but I had better be ready with some answers, whatever that meant.

My PG program was in political science and economics. Arriving about ten minutes before the appointed hour, I was received by his secretary, and at exactly the appointed time, 1 was ushered into Rickover's office. 1 think it was the secretary who directed me to the chair in front of Rickover's desk. And there I sat for about ten minutes in this wooden, straightbacked and highly uncomfortable chair.

Hyman, busy man that he was, concerned himself with a lot of papers on his desk. No handshake or welcome for me, and surely no cup of coffee. Suddenly the Admiral looked up at me: "You're Strohl?"

"Yes, Sir" "I suppose now that you're a PhD, you think you know a lot.

"I sure do, Admiral, I really know a lot.'

"Get the hell out of here, and I never want to see you again."

End of story. 1 keep thinking 1 made the wrong reply, or maybe it was my tone of voice, but he really was a most dislikable man.

Mike Strohl, '43

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Remembered

"Three Sea Hawks"—A Correction Shipmate: Our family has enjoyed Shipmate for many a year as we have proudly read of the accomplishments of family members and dear old friends. Our interests span almost one hundred years as my father, Ziba Wells Reynolds, was in the class of 1890, my two husbands, Stanhope Cotton Ring and A. Putnam Storrs, were in the class of 1923, my son, William Reynolds Ring, was in the class of 1958, and my grandson, Robert Taylor Scott (Ty) Keith III, was in the class of 1987. At the age of two months we don't know what my great-grandson, Brian Taylor Keith, will do with his interests, but he could be the class of 2017.

1 write to correct the captions under two photographs in your May 1995 issue of Shipmate.

Under the class of 1918 there is a picture of the "Three Sea Hawks", the Navy's first acrobatic team. The caption correctly identifies Bill Davis (1924) and Tommy Tomlison (1918), but the one on the right is not someone named Stone, but is Aaron Putnam Storrs (1923). The second picture is under the class of 1924 and shows Bill Davis (1924) standing on the flight deck of the SARATOGA with Charles Lindbergh and "two unknowns". The handsome young gentleman standing to Mr. Lindbergh's right is certainly not unknown to all of us. It is another photograph of Put Storrs, a gentleman and a distinguished Naval Aviator in his own right, who reached the rank of Rear Admiral before his retirement. The officer on the far right is Lieutenant Commander A. C. Davis who was the Commanding Officer of VB-2B. The picture was taken in February of 1927 when Lindbergh practiced with Davis and Storrs as part of the "Three Sea Hawks". We certainly would appreciate it if you would run corrections to the captions on those two photographs.

Shipmate is a treasured publication and for history's sake we know you would want to keep the records straight.

Eleanor Reynolds Ring Storrs

The Carringtons — Oh, My Shipmate: In the past 48 hours I have received comments from both Hank Austin, '55 and Phil Monahan, '55, about the Mail Boat letter, "Social Security and Mickey Mouse", in the JulyAugust issue — comments along the lines of, "I can understand your interest in 'two championship golf courses... and... Room rates (at) ... $85 (compared to) ... S235 per night' but Social Security Credits? Come on! When I teased the source of their comments out of them I was referred to the letter, which I hadn't gotten around to. And they are right: I know nothing about Social Security credits. I was not the author of that very interesting piece.

However, you are not the first to make such a mistake. Starting immediately after my graduation in '481 began to receive correspondence, including bank statements and insurance information, meant for CAPT James H. Carrington, USN and, in 1953 ENS James H. Carrington, USN. The correspondence was duly returned for re-addressing. I'm fairly certain that the two "other" Jim Carringtons must have had the same experience. However, some time in the '60's the problem appeared to have been solved.

And, now, this! Dave, please print a retraction of the attribution, first, to give credit to '53's Carrington, and, second, to allay the fears of those of my friends and classmates who might conclude that I know anything about Social Security except how to deposit the check.

Jim Carrington '48 (Editors note: The Carringtons — oh, my!!

Sorry about the mix-up!! But the letter was signed, Jim Carrington, period. We'll try harder next time. Dave)

Teaching the Use of Technology Shipmate: I am responding to the letter to the editor from M. Eckhart, Jr., '45 {Shipmate, July 1995, pg. 13).

We should thank Capt. Eckhart for a very insightful letter to "Mail Boat."

Many of us believe that the Service Academies are a vital part of our heritage and that they should set the standard for measuring the performance of all military officers. This latter objective is now even more important since future graduates will have to compete for regular commissions with olficers from all commissioning sources.

For the Service Academies to survive as fouryear commissioning schools considering their high cost, they must provide education and training for future officers that is not available elsewhere — they must really be unique, and not just in the areas of leadership and honor.

They must also provide graduates with a unique academic education that will provide them the capability to lead an increasingly technical armed force during a period when the world is facing increasing volatility and complexity.

Humanities are important — vitally important. However, they should not be the focus of the education at the Academies. Humanities should be provided as a rich underpinning for

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all midshipmen, but we should not be providing some midshipmen only a smattering of a technical education while letting them concentrate instead on: "creative writing", "patterns in drama", or "topics in film and literature," which are current course offerings for English majors.

The most telling statement made by Capt.

Eckhart is that there is a "confusion of purpose at the Naval Academy." Next to this statement is the one that states that graduates must "comprehend the technologies they must employ optimally to defend our nation ..."

Surely, some officers serving in the armed forces should be specialists in areas other than technology. Those officers should be obtained the old-fashioned way, by encouraging them to start a career in the military through either ROTC or OCS commissioning programs. In addition, all officers should have opportunities to pursue graduate degrees in technical and non-technical fields through the very successful Naval Post Graduate and civilian institution programs. Adm. Crowe is a very good example of this, having a Ph.D. in political science built on a solid technical undergraduate foundation. This remains the correct model for the future.

If we wish the Academies to be the standard of officer commissioning in the future, the graduates must be better prepared in all three areas, technology, humanities, and leadership, than officers from any other source. It is not a question of technology versus humanities nor technology versus leadership. The debate should be: "what is the proper balance of these three vital areas in the education and training of Midshipmen during a very full and relatively short four years." At this time, I don't think anyone can say we are achieving the correct balance.

David A. Smith '57

Ethics and Generation X Shipmate: Midshipman Smith's "AFew Inches from the Yard" column (March 95) was by far the best and most insightful commentary I have read in Shipmate in the 18 years 1 have been reading. He is absolutely correct when he suggests that ethics cannot be taught to young adults because they have already formulated their standards before reaching USNA. However, his comments are not applicable just to 'Generation X' but equally applicable to earlier generations.

It is my observation that the core values which serve as the backbone of one's moral and ethical standards are set long before graduation from high school. Unfortunately, in many cases when those values are lacking, no amount of Honor Code indoctrination or exposure to historical examples will change those values.

While I am encouraged to see the introduction of Integrity Development Seminars, there will still be too many instances where a person's moral fiber cannot be changed or 'retuned' to meet USNA's high standards.

1 do not suggest that those standards be re-

laxed. Rather, when future breeches reach the public and Congressional eye, that those so quick to criticize, take a closer look at themselves and the society from which USNA draws its ranks.

Robert R. Vogel '77

Transcontinental Tripâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Preposterous?

Shipmate: RAdm. Kemp Tolley's preposterous claim in the '29 Class Notes June 1995 Shipmate, which I have heard before, that he and Rollo Brownlee drove from Washington to San Francisco in three days and 18 hours strains my credibility.

In 1931, the most direct route (mostly via the Lincoln Highway) between the two cities was about 3245 miles. Assuming they drove straight through (90 hours) with their meager 11-gallon gas tank requiring many pit stops, they would have had to average an unbelievable 36 mph! Their 4-cylinder, 40 H.R (Ford did not introduce the V-8 until March 1932) Model A would have had more than burned out exhaust valves.

I think they shaved a day (they crossed no date line) in re-counting their story. If the trip had required 114 hours, their average speed would have been 28.5 mph, still a prodigious but more believable feat considering the unimproved roads of 1931.

Of course, considering the many amazing exploits of his colorful career, maybe Tolley and Brownlee did drive from Washington to San Francisco in three days and 18 hours!

William K. Sharpe '50

USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers and Trustees OFFICERS Chairman of the Board ADM. HUNTINGTON HARDISTY, USN (Ret.) '52

McLean, Virginia Vice Chairman of the Board (Eastern Area) THE HONORABLE JOHN E. SHEEHAN, '52

Annapolis, Maryland Vice Chairman of the Board (Central Area) CAPT. CLAIRBORNE S. BRADLEY, USN (Ret.) '48

Lake Forest, Illinois Vice Chairman of the Board (Western Area) VADM. EDWARD H. MARTIN, USN (Ret.) '54

Coronado, California President and CEO CAFT. ROLAND BRANDQUIST, USN (Ret.) '60

Annapolis, Maryland Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer CAPT. PAUL A. ZAMBERNARDI, USN (Ret.) '70

Annapolis, Maryland President and CEO Emeritus CAPT. W. S. BUSIK, USN (RET.) '43

Annapolis, Maryland

TRUSTEES Past Chairman of the Board ADM. ROBERT L. J. LONG, USN (Ret.) '44

Annapolis, Maryland Chairman's Representative MR. T. J. WojciECHowsKj '69 Texas Gulf Coast Superintendent's Representative CAPT. W. R FOGARTY, C E C , USN '73

At Large (To serve through Spring Meeting 1996)

"Key Men In The Drive To Toltyo"?

Shipmate: What a sorry sight to see General MacArthur as one of the "Key Men In The Drive To Tokyo" on the front cover of the JulyAugust Shipmate.

MacArthur botched the defense plans for the Philippines and lost half his air force on the ground the first day of the war in spite of eight hours warning.

In fulfilling his ego trip of "I shall return!" in climbing up the island chain to Luzon, he tied up large resources in ships, planes, men and materiel that could have been used in a direct advance across the Pacific, as Fleet Admiral King wanted to do, thus shortening the war.

(President Roosevelt settled the matter in favor of MacArthur on a trip to Hawaii in July 19zp4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a sound political ploy not to forget "the Litde Brown Brothers," in facing a 4th election.)

The needless fortnight-long devastating siege of Manila, killing 100,000 Filipinos came only weeks before the end of the war. All told, MacArthur's projects had cost 13,000 U.S. fighting men their lives. MacArthur had indeed returned with a vengeance. 1 sadly viewed those white crosses near Manila.

NONE of the operations which brought down Japan involvedMacArthur: Okinawa,

LT. KENNON A. ARTIS, USN '88 VADM. FRANCIS R. DONOVAN, USN (Ret.) '59 CAPT. ROBERT D. WHITMIRE, USN '74 BGEN. THOMAS J. WILKERSON, USMC '67

(To serve through Spring Meeting 1997) RADM. CHARLES S. ABBOT, USN '66 CAPT. JAMES A. LOVELL, JR., USN (Ret.) '52 CDR. ELIZABETH A. STERNAMAN, USN '80 ADM. CARLISLE A. H. TROST, USN (Ret.) '53

(To serve through Spring Meeting 1998) LCDR. LEO S. MACKAY, USN '83 CAPT. MICHAEL G. MULLEN, USN '68 LTCOL. DAVID H. YOUNG, USMC '73 CDR. CHARLES A. ZINGLER, USN '80

From Local Chapters CAPT. JOHN R. WALES '51

Annapolis MR. JAMES M. RAVENEL '45

Adanta MR. CHARLES K. ROURKE '54

Boston MR. THOMAS J. MARTI '60

Greater Washington, D.C. Area COL. TOM D. PARSONS, USMC (Ret.) '49 Hampton Roads CAPT. STEPHEN M. ANDRES, USNR '67

LOS Angeles MR. ROBERT BLACK, '63

New York CDR. LIONEL J. NOWOTNY, USN (RET.) '61 NORTH TEXAS CAPT. S. ALLAN DAVEY, USNR '67

Philadelphia MR. CHANCEY L. HARSHHELD, '53

Puget Sound CDR. T J. MCKEARNEY, USN (RET.) "73

San Diego/Coronado CAPT. JOTIN POTTER, USN (Ret.) '58

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Iwo Jima, Saipan, Pacific island bases which allowed U.S Army aircraft to do more damage to Japan than half a dozen atomic bombs.

So let us scrub MacArthur from the "Key Men In The Drive To Tokyo," leaving Admiral Nimitz, with his carriers, submarines, U.S. Army and Marine troops — and the U.S. Army and Air Force.

Kemp Tolley '29

President Roosvelt—1933 Shipmate: In the "Mail Boat" of the July-August issue of Shipmate, M. H. Rindskopf '38 stated that 2 June 1938 was the only time that President Roosevelt presented diplomas to a Naval graduating class. FDR also presented diplomas to the class of 1933 during his first term in office.

Kenneth J. Barclay '33 Shipmate: Ret. Adm. Rindskopf '38 in "Mail Boat" is in error. President Roosevelt presented diplomas to the class of '33 on 1 June 1933.

The lower half of the class did not get commissions but only diplomas and release to civilian life. "Note. West Point Academy however offered commissions to their '33 graduates — WHY?" When President Roosevelt handed me my commission I read his lips — but no sound. I was stunned. Then when my next-seat classmate returned with his commission I asked "What did the President say." He also heard nothing. From that time on I mistrusted FDR. John A. Gamon '33 41 5 MADISON

Shipmate: Referring to the lead article in "Mail Boat" of the July-August 1995 Shipmate, I take exception to the statement that 1938 was "the only time President Roosevelt presented diplomas to a Naval Academy class during his three terms in office." He presented the diplomas five years earlier to the Class of 1933 in Dahlgren Hall at the beginning of his first term! Please let's not add any more errors to history. In our graduation rehearsal we were admonished not to squeeze the President's hand if he chose to shake hands with us.

He chose to shake every '33 graduate's hand and my tendons still ache at the thought of his gripLewis M. Davis '33

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All Hands Young Up-Starts Fit The "Bill" On 13 September, the Brigade received two new members from the great state of Minnesota. They arrived at BWl a little dazed and confused, but never the less, brimming full of fight.

Sporting an enormous spread of horns, the new Bill the XXVIll immediately took to wearing the Navy Blue and Gold, charging around the airport parking lot. When one of the airport personnel identified himself as ex-army, the soon to be "Bill XXVIII" took a swipe at his car!

That's right, the latest members of the Brigade are two ENORMOUS angora goats from a Class of 1971 graduate's farm. They heard about this new guy Weatherbie and wanted to take part in the renewal in Brigade spirit. Bill XXVI, the cun-ent goat, and Bill XXVII, the current back-up, are getting a little long in the tooth, and were starting to look around for suitable replacements. These young up-startsfitthe "bill" perfectly.

Look for the latest and greatest goats at sporting events throughout the yard, leading up to the big turnover before homecoming.

Go Navy, Beat everyone!

Very Respectfully, William C. McKinney LT, USN, Midshipmen Activities

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The U.S. Naval Academy was wellrepresented when O'BRIEN, with Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Marianas Rear Adm. David L. Brewer III embarked, visited Vladivostok 31 August - 4 September to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Alumni included, left to right, LCDR. Mike Fien-o (Class of 1982), ENS Brian Campbell (Class of 1994), LTJG Dan Eckert (Class of 1993), LTJG Ken Shropshire (Class of 1993), ENS Steven Schairer (Class of 1994), LTJG J.B. Long (Class of 1993), LTJG Mike Krot (Class of 1993), ENS Russ Hardy (Class of 1994), LTJG Nikolai Mulligan (Class of 1992) and LTJG Judy Baumgartner (Class of 1992).

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CONSTELLATION, U S N S GUADALUPE and USNS KISKA窶認rom the World Famous Golden Falcons of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Two (HS2), commanded by Commander Chip Walston, Class of 1978. The photo was taken in November 1994 from an SH-60F Seahawk piloted by HS2's executive Commander Brian McCormack, Class of 1978, as CONSTELLATION steamed for the Western Pacific and the Arabian Gulf. The crew took time out for the photograph in the hope tat it would bring luck to the Navy football team and, in effect, the entire Navy. Although luck was not on our side [for 1994] the message remains unchanged and eternal: "GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY!"

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Board of Trustees to Meet The Chairman of the Board of the USNA Alumni Association Board of Trustees has called the Fall Meedng beginning on Thursday, November 30 at 1300 in the "N" Room at Hubbard Hall. The meeting will continue on Friday, December 1, starting at 0800 sharp.

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junior she grew up throughout the U.S and graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno before coming East. In 1989 she married Bruce; they held their wedding reception at the Alumni House during its 250th anniversary.

Torii brings to the job a thorough working knowledge of the social traditions of the Naval Academy and the Navy. It is her hope that all who use the House for functions will enjoy their visit and come away with a pleasant experience as have the thousands before them.

"We are fortunate to be the only U.S. Service Academy with such a beautiful and historical building to call home, 1 hope more people will take advantage of the opportunity to use and enjoy Ogle Hall", [ed. note: Torii's warmth and genuine caring about our customers are a great asset to our brides, their families and our classes as they come "home"...Nancy]

Ready to Provide Service—New Activities Manager Torii Campbell recently took over as the Alumni Association's Activity Manager In that capacity she will coordinate the use of the Association's house. Ogle Hall, for social functions including wedding receptions, class meetings and reunions, cocktail parties and other events held in the house and gardens.

Mrs. Campbell is married to Bruce '77 and is also the daughter and sister of Academy grads. Prior to this assignment she worked in the Alumni Services Division. A Marine Corps

sity of Maryland, holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology with a focus in Communications.

Bringing a wide variety of writing, desktop design, retail, and customer service experience to her new position, she looks forward to the challenge of maintaining the excellent standards that have been set for Shipmate and welcomes the opportunity to contribute to this Association, [ed. note: Yvonne brings a great enthusiasm and interest, as well as being willing to pitch in to get the job done. We are very grateful for her willingness to support the cause...Nancy]

Great Relief at Shipmate—New Assistant Editor Ms. Yvonne Marie Parker, who began working for the Alurrmi Association in January 1993, recently moved from Alumni Services to become Assistant Editor and Advertising Coordinator for Shipmate. Currently, she is responsible for the Chapter, Last Call/Obituary and Classifieds sections of the magazine, and for maintaining all advertising accounts.

Yvonne, a Navy fan, a longtime resident of Annapolis and a 1992 graduate of the Univer-

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A Salute To "Uncle Boney" CAPT Robert A. Schelling, USN (Ret.) Captain Robert H. Close '34 passed away on 19 March, 1994. A warm-hearted, soft spoken, practical, professional mariner and gentleman, with a sly sense of humor, he was my dear friend for 45 years.

It began in the summer of 1949. Bob and I met while taking the Destroyer PCO/PXO course at the Fleet Sonar School in San Diego. He came from teaching rules-of-the-road at the Line School, Monterey. I came from the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis. We seemed to hit it off pretty well. This turned out to be a good thing because we were ordered to ships in the same division, and the relative ranks of commanding officers were such that he would be my Section Leader, and much of the time my boss, for the next two years.

We took command of our ships in mid-July at the start of refresher training. Bob the CoLLETT (DD-730), and I the LYMAN K .

SwENSON (DD-729). Our destroyer division had spent the previous year cruising Naval Reservists, and had just completed a navy yard overhaul. The ships did not receive any military improvements in the yard because, as I learned years later, they had been scheduled for decommissioning. Actually, they were destined to serve our country actively for another 22 years!

For the most part our crews were made up of young and inexperienced, but enthusiastic, sailors.

Refresher training was a learning experience for all. I started it off with a bang. When in port, our two ships moored together at a buoy.

One of the first times I got underway from the CoLLETT, wind and current held me alongside and as I backed away my port anchor tore out a large section of the COLLETT'S starboard weatherbreak. After returning to port, my shipfitters spent the night putting the COLLETT back together.

I told my crew that the COLLETT was our boss; try to do things the way they did. Then I learned Bob had told his people that he was an old submarine sailor, didn't know much about dncans, that I was an experienced destroyerman, and for his crew to do things like the SWENSON. It seemed that each crew adopted the best ideas of both ships.

A fleet exercise was coming up. As we were preparing to depart, our squadron commander, who was also our division commander, went on emergency leave. Bob, the senior skipper, took over as acting division commander. Our

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commodore had always used his squadron commander voice radio call, so we were introduced to the division commander call used

by Bob. It was "Hayride U" (pronounced HAYRIDE UNCLE). Long before the operation was over, my bridge and CIC people were referring to Bob as "Uncle Hayride". Then, after they learned Bob's nickname was "Boney", he became "Uncle Boney", a term of affection and respect used by my LYMAN K .

SWENSON sailors even today.

We soon learned that Bob did not like to make signals or give instructions unless very necessary, especially over voice radio. We could operate most of a day with his bidding us "follow my movements" by flaghoist signal. It became a favorite pastime of my watch officers and their people to try and read the COLLETT'S mind, and to do what they wanted us to do before they could tell us. Bob realized this and I think it made operating together more fun for all. A case in point: One morning the division was in the assigned operating area. Our two ships were scheduled to work with a submarine. The division was steaming westward in column, with COLLETT and SWENSON the third and fourth ships, the submarine on the surface several miles to the north. The commodore, by voice radio, told the COLLETT to take charge of the SWENSON and

go work with the submarine. We, of course, received the message also. My signalman with his glass on the COLLETT told the OOD, "white water under COLLETT'S stem and she is coming right". The OOD ordered, "right standard rudder, all ahead full" and we came around on line abreast heading for the submarine at 20 knots. All was going well. At this point the commodore called over voice radio, "METHODIST this is BOOKCASE BAKER. When I say take charge of EVIDENCE I mean for you to make a signal to them to do something. Out!" From the COLLETT'S flag bag came a two flag signal, "Attack enemy"!

The division returned from exercises one afternoon and anchored to seaward of Coronado. In a little while the COLLETT was laboriously sending me a flaghoist message using the International Code of Signals: "ARE - YOU A - STEAM - VESSEL - PROCEEDING UNDER - SAIL - ONLY - BUT - HAVING YOUR - FUNNEL - UP". Hmmm, where does that ring a bell? Seems we once learned something about that in rules-of-the-road. Get the book. Oh, yes, International Rule 14. Such a

vessel "shall carry in daytime, forward, where it can best be seen, one black ball or shape".

Next, take a look at the chart. Yep, we were all anchored just outside of the inland waters boundary line between Buoy ISD and the cupola of the Hotel Del Coronado. I looked at our four ships. Three of us were displaying anchor balls. We hauled our anchor ball down!

One day in mid-February the commodore called his skippers to the flagship. He told us of a message he had just received from the destroyer force commander. A while back there had been occasion to suddenly send an aircraft carrier out to WestPac, and COMDESPAC was ordered to send two destroyers along as escorts for the carrier. As this happened over a weekend the DESPAC duty officer had, logically, chosen the two ready-duty destroyers.

But when the staff came aboard on Monday morning, the force material officer pointed out that these two ships were scheduled to go into overhaul in late April. They had to be relieved out there and get back to meet scheduled dates.

As our division was among the next group to deploy to WestPac, the admiral put the arm on our commodore to nominate two ships.

The commodore asked for volunteers. I thought it might be nice to get out from under authority for awhile, and as the junior skipper I knew I would be going anyhow. So I raised my hand. Bob looked at me and raised his hand also. I'm sure he thought we could have some fun making a voyage across the Pacific together (I'm also sure he figured he had a fiftyfifty chance of going anyhow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as the commodore wouldn't be offering his flagship). So it was decided that COLLETT and LYMAN K .

SWENSON would depart for WestPac on 20 March, 1950.

The morning of sailing day we two skippers paid a departure call on the admiral. After ordering us coffee his first question was, "How many absentees do you have?" We both told him no absentees. There followed a litde small talk and we took our leave. We were in my gig returning to our nest when we each took a double-take. The admiral had not asked if we had any absentees. He had said "How many?"

Like you were supposed to have absentees when you left for WestPac. Here we were leaving six weeks early and with no absentees.

Smiles of satisfaction and of pride in our crews.

So away we went, with fuel stops at Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Guam, and relieved those ready-duty escorts off Okinawa on April 10.

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Typical of his practice of minimal communications, Bob sent us by semaphore as we passed the San Diego entrance buoy: "Take a comfortable distance astern and conform to my movements". Except for signals incidental to the many exercises we conducted enroute, and instructions for entering port, that was about the only message he sent on the whole voyage. In the evening, though, he would play a bagpipe selection over the voice radio.

When we joined up with the carrier, she was heading for Subic Bay and thence on to S i n g a p o r e . At Subic we reported to COMDESRON 1, who was there with his DESDIV 11. We mentioned this Singapore thing and he told us "sorry fellows", his flagship and another of his ships were taking our place for that trip. Our heads dropped in disappointment. Then he said he had arranged for our ships to spend five days in Hong Kong.

We felt much better.

Everybody had a good time in Hong Kong.

Mary Soo's girls cleaned and painted our ships' sides in return for access to galley refuse. On departure the COLLETT got underway from my starboard side and her anchor tore out a big chunk of our weatherbreak. When we got back to Subic Bay the COLLETT shipfitters spent some time making repairs. I guessed we were now "even"!

Bob's ship was ordered to the East China Sea to escort the last Navy transport evacuating American citizens from Shanghai. My ship was ordered to Sasebo, Japan. A few days later, her mission completed, the COLLETT also arrived in Sasebo. We made fisheries patrols in the Tsushima Straits and conducted exercises in the Sasebo area.

One day while at sea, the COLLETT received a confidential message from Commander Naval Forces Far East in Tokyo. It seemed that three junks were enroute from China to Japan loaded with Chinese Nationalist soldiers who wanted to join the Supreme Allied Commander to fight the Chinese communists. General MacArthur had no intentions of fighdng the Chinese communists at that time, and I guess he'd just as soon these people didn't land in Japan and raise some kind of ruckus. Our orders were to locate the junks and keep them from landing in Japan. Odds were about like finding three needles in a haystack. Weather had deteriorated: strong wind, rain, rough sea, low visibility. As we were off the northern part of Kyushu's west coast and the junks would be proceeding generally easterly, Bob spread us out to radar detection range and we headed south.

Would you believe it, but several hours later we picked up three radar contacts. Closing, we found three junks riding to sea anchors.

Bob's message report to Tokyo caused some consternation there, probably because they hadn't expected us to find them. We received

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a message which rather frantically stated we should make the junks go to Formosa where they could report to Chiang Kai-shek. So we took them in tow and headed that way. Bob sent a message, "COMJUNKTOWDIV AND HIS THREE RELUCTANT D R A G O N S RIDING NICELY IN TOW", followed by position, course and speed. We found out later that Tokyo was not amused at this humor. The next day we were ordered to turn the junks loose and return to port.

On 25 June, 1950 the COLLETT and SWENSON

were taking part in an exercise near Tokyo Bay. We were ordered to Sasebo at 20 knots to fuel, and thence to proceed on our various Korean assignments. Bob's COLLETT handled a number of missions: patrolling the east coast, firing at road and rail targets and conducting harassing fire; providing call fire support for friendly troops on the front lines; screening cruisers and escorting transports. Much of that time our two ships were working together Then came Inchon. On the 13 September (D2 Day) "reconnaissance in force" Bob anchored his "Sitting Duck" destroyer about 1200 yards from the face of Wolmi-do Island. A onehour slugging match ensued. The COLLETT took several hits, one of which seriously damaged her main battery fire-control system. (Somehow it seems strange today to call that electromechanical marvel of long ago a Mark I "computer"!) Bob shifted his guns to local control and continued to batter the enemy until the scheduled time to withdraw. His ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation and Bob was awarded the Silver Star Medal for this bold action.

Because her fire-control system was still out of commission, Bob's ship was next assigned as flagship for the Minesweeping Group at Wonsan. Starting 10 October the COLLETT moved on up the swept channel as the minesweepers slowly cleared an area for the planned amphibious landing on Wonsan beaches.

SWENSON followed her in for the next several days, serving variously as gunfire support, flycatcher, mid-channel sonar guard, communication link, and aircraft control ship.

Things were going all right until one night, when it so happened the admiral was on board Bob's ship. The COLLETT made radar contact on a number of fast-moving targets which SWENSON could not pick up. Star shells were fired, nothing sighted. The next day, however, the admiral "banished" the SWENSON to a logistics group at sea, on the basis that I was furnishing inadequate radar support. It was later determined that the contacts were flights of birds and COLLETT'S radar had been "peaked" to an exceptionally high degree!

We returned to the states in November, 1950 and in January went to Bremerton for navy yard overhaul. This was neat! Bob's wife Virginia was a Bremerton girl and they had a great

time observing "old home week". Meantime, like in the Kipling poem, what a difference a litde war makes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our ships came out of the yard complete with all of the new "goodies" that had been denied us at the previous overhaul!

Back to WestPac in June, but by autumn we had both been relieved. So ended a most pleasant destroyer tour together.

We were both ordered to the Navy Department, Bob to BuPers, I to the Ship Characteristics Board. Because he had the complements and allowances desk, he was the BuPers "working member" of the SCB. His wise counsel there, not limited to personnel matters, contributed much toward major improvements in our Navy's ships. The Closes rented a house across the street from us.

We worked together again in the spring of 1955 when my Escort Squadron 11 screened his FiREDRAKE during the evacuation of the Tachen Islands off the China coast.

When Bob retired, he and Virginia settled in Napa, California where Bob taught high school mathematics for many years. We hardly ever drove from our home in Seattle to California without stopping and enjoying the Close's wonderful hospitality â&#x20AC;&#x201D; often a picnic in the Napa Valley with a locally-produced bottle of wine!

Several years ago the LYMAN K . SWENSON

started a reunion group. One of the earlier reunions was held in southern California. My officers and crew did indeed remember "Uncle Boney". The "young JG" reunion chairman sent Bob and Virginia an invitation to be our guests.

It turned out they couldn't make it, but Bob sent back the registration form completely filled out with an X for "cannot attend". In the section which asked "rank/rate/position on board" Bob wrote "GODFATHER!". And so he was!

CAPTAIN ROBERTA. SCHELLING USN (RET.) Bob Schelling '38 served two years in battleship IDAHO and then spent the rest of his sea duty mostly in destroyers, starting with four-pipers BUCHANAN and REUBEN JAMES. In

WWII he served in NICHOLSON, as exec of THORN, and commanded

STEVENS. Later commands included LYMAN K. SWENSON, Escort

Squadron 11, Fleet Training Group Western Pacific, repair ship AJAX, and Destroyer Squadron 23. Following retirement from the Navy in 1968, he obtained a license as "Master of ocean steam or motor vessels of any gross tons", and spent the next thirteen years as Port Captain/Port Engineer in the University of Washington's Department of Oceanography. While in that job he sailed as Master of the University's research ship on two scientific voyages across the Pacific to Japan and Alaska.

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Operation Crossroads: Almost a Catastrophe RADM Edward H. Eckelmeyer, Jr., USN (Ret.) In mid February, 1946, while CO of TULAGI (CVE-72), and after only six weeks as skipper, I received dispatch orders relieving me of command and directing me to take command of ALBEMARLE (AV-5) at the Naval Base in Long Beach, California. While using up some proceed time with my family in Santa Monica, California, I received word to immediately telephone RAdm. W.S. (Deke) Parsons in the Navy Department. Since he was not a naval aviator I was a bit confused as to why I was to telephone him. However, I did so and was instructed to get the first flight out of Los Angeles and come immediately to Washington to receive some special briefing in connection with my new command.

In Washington I learned that ALBEMARLE was not operating as a seaplane tender, but was having her workshops and storerooms modified to carry and have the "A" bombs prepared for Operation Crossroads—the famous first Bikini bomb tests. ALBEMARLE would also be the flagship of RAdm. Parsons, who was to be the Deputy Crossroads Commander for technical direction of the operation. Weapons for the operation were to be loaded at Long Beach along with the nuclear scientists and engineers from Los Alamos Laboratory and Sandia Base at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fissionable material for the bombs would be flown to Kwajalein Atoll after arrival there of ALBEMARLE. The ship was to stop at Pearl Harbor for refueling, but only to the extent that after arrival at Kwajalein her draft would be such that she could enter the dredged berth alongside the pier at Kwajalein.

The tight security under which the Manhattan Engineering District operated in producing the "A" bomb carried over to Operation Crossroads. The bombs, when taken aboard at Long Beach, were covered so as to conceal the size and shape of the weapons. It was not generally known that they were aboard the ship. When ALBEMARLE arrived at Pearl Harbor, the Honolulu newspapers noted her arrival without being able to reveal her cargo or mission.

After refueling at Pearl Harbor and taking aboard a few supplies of fresh vegetables and fruits, ALBEMARLE headed west for Kwajalein on two of her four boilers at a leisurely fifteen knots. On arrival at Kwajalein we entered the lagoon through the opening at the west side of the lagoon and took aboard the pilot who was to take us to our mooring alongside the L-shaped pier on the island. The pilot was a young warrant boatswain who, it was expected, would know the details of the lagoon such as underwater obstructions, currents, etc.

Kwajalein Atoll is a huge area with a very large lagoon. For that reason, perhaps, the pilot elected to start the large circular turn from the lagoon entrance to a westerly heading to the pier at fifteen knots our "standard speed". I immediately advised him we were going too fast.

There followed a series of stepped down speeds to 2/3, 1/3, stop, etc., and after each speed change the pilot was told we were going too fast.

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Finally came the order "Back 1/3", then "Back 2/3", then "Back full".

All this while we were fast approaching the pier—talk about having one's heart in one's mouth!! Then, when I saw nothing but disaster ahead, the pilot ordered "Emergency back full!", and the ship came to a final halt, with the stem of the ship a scant five feet from the coral wall at the end of the dredged area. Shortly after the mooring lines were put over, the Chief Engineer came to the bridge and said, "Captain, had you held that emergency 'back full' for another thirty seconds, we would have run out of steam."

As I look back on that venture I never fail to be amazed that more care had not been taken to insure the safe arrival of ALBEMARLE. I doubt if our young pilot had ever moored a ship the size of ALBEMARLE—some 15,000 tons—and certainly not one to the pier at Kwajalein! Subsequent observations of the pier area revealed that an estimated five to six knot current flowed along the face of the pier and that helped to give an unexpected boost to our approach speed. Once the ship entered the cul de sac we were committed. In addition to the coral wall at the end there were numerous coral heads just a matter of yards away on our starboard side. There was no room to maneuver Had there been any forewarning of the situation, ALBEMARLE would have been on four boilers instead of only two.

What might have happened to the ship had we not been able to stop her in time is a matter of conjecture. Any damage would have depended on how hard she hit the coral wall, and any damage would have seriously compromised Operation Crossroads. Engineering personnel and the nuclear scientists would have had to be transferred to another ship.

Just moving the bombs to a substitute ship would have been a major undertaking. ALBEMARLE was scheduled to go to Bikini for the second, or Baker, test, where the LCT altered to carry the bomb for the underwater shot was to tie up alongside ALBEMARLE for the convenience of the engineers and transfer of the bomb. There were dozens of ships.

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thousands of men from the Army, Navy, Army Air Force, and possibly the U.S. Coast Guard, and millions of dollars involved in the Crossroads tests. It takes no great imagination to realize that damage to ALBEMARLE, really a keystone element of the entire operation, would have been a real disaster for all of the armed forces and civilian personnel connected with the tests.

That little escapade is not generally known. Only the navigator, the officer of the deck, and I knew of it. The young pilot certainly knew nothing of our cargo or mission and so was blissfully unaware of how close to disaster he had brought ALBEMARLE.

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The 5.4CC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) and U.S. Coast Guard Academy (New London) and Associations of Graduates from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). The three previous Conferences have been attended by over 100 companies and 3000 alumni.

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Capitol Hill, Et Cetera Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence, Jr. USN (Ret.) We learn from history that men learn nothing from history—Carl Rowan Command. The following alumni have recently been assigned to command/key positions: Flag Officer—RADM Alexander J. Krekich, USN '65—Director, Surface Warfare Division, 0PNAV(N-886). Ship/ Surface—CAPT George V. Galdorisi. USN '70—Amphibious Squadron 7; CAPT Richard H. Enderly, USN '71—MOUNT WHITNEY ( L C C -

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(DDG-62); CDR Thomas E. Lindner, USN '77—JOHN HANCOCK ( D D 981). Aviation—CA?T Steven A. Kunkle, USN '73—Carrier Air Wing 2; CDR Gerald A. White, USN '76—VFC-13; CDR Dale E. Carson, USN '79—HSL-44. Shore—CAFT Michael W. Casey, SC, USN '70— Defense Distribution Region West; CAPT Randall D. Wagner, USN '71—Undersea Surveillance System, Atlantic, relieving CAPT Alfred E. Ponessa, USN '68; CDR Albert L. Raithel, III, USN '76—Office of Naval Research Europe.

Alumnotes. At ceremonies recently aboard YORKTOWN ( C V - 1 0 ) , The

National Memorial to Carrier Aviation at Patriot's Point in Charleston, SC, an A-6 Intruder aircraft was dedicated to two alumni heroes—RADM Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. '47, an A-6 squadron CO and 8-year POW in the Vietnam War and UF Mark A. Lange, USN, deceased, an A-6 pilot who was killed in action in air strikes in Lebanon in 1983. CAPT David M. Walker, USN '66, was the mission commander in the successful Space Shuttle ENDEAVOR flight in September. Vice President Gore presented the President's Quality Award to CAPT Scott T. Cantfil, USN '72, CO, Naval Station Mayport, PL. This award is given to a federal organization that best exemplifies quality management in operating more efficiently and improving services and products for its customers. NavSta Mayport was the first Navy command to receive this award. CDR Frank M. Drennan, USN '76, CO, PORTSMOUTH ( S S N - 7 0 7 ) , received the 1995

VADM James B. Stockdale Leadership Award which recognizes Commanding officers who have demonstrated the highest standard of excellence in leadership and conspicuously contributed to improvement of leadership in the Navy. CDR John M. Quigley, USN '80, received first honorable mention and CAPT Bruce R. Linder, USN '71, second honorable mention in the Naval Institute's GEN Colin L. Powell Joint Warfighdng Essay Contest. TYPHOON ( P C - 5 ) , commanded by LCDR Scott J. PhUlpott, USN '83, and her sister ship. SIROCCO ( P C - 6 ) , commanded by LT David M. Caldwell, USN '84, were the first ships of this class to make a trans-Atlantic crossing and conduct a Mediterranean deployment. The TYPHOON is the only ship in the Navy currently painted in camouflage. LT Michael J. Collins, USN '84, won second place in the Monterey Chapter Surface Navy Associadon Junior Officer Writing Contest. LT Ben J. Koenig, USN '89, assigned to the Surface Warfare Officers School, has been named the Officer Instructor of the Year by the Chief of Naval Educadon and Training. The first Military World Games were conducted in Rome, Italy in September. 5,000 armed forces personnel from 108 countries pardcipated. LTJG William B. Graves, USN '92 and LTJG Susan S. Minton, USN '92 participated in the sailing competidon. Both were All-American sailors at USNA. Results of the games will be presented later We care. OKLAHOMA CITY (SSN-723), commanded by CDR Richard

L. Snead, USN '77, is the adopted ship of the city of Oklahoma City After the tragic bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 19 April, CDR Snead and members of the crew and families of the ship

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took many commendable disaster relief efforts for the victims of the bombing. First, members of the crew and their families donated 125 units of blood to the Red Cross. Since the ship had to deploy overseas on 21 April, the CO's wife. Missy Snead, personally led an effort along with 35 other ship's wives to collect emergency supplies, resulting in the accumulation of 33,000 pounds of items, including botded water, hard hats, baby food, blankets, batteries, flashlights, and plasdc eyewear.

A Navy C-130 from NAS South Weymouth, MA flew the equipment to Oklahoma City. Missy Snead, her children, three crewman (left behind to attend school), and the wives of four other crewman also flew to Oklahoma City (on round-trip tickets donated by Continental Airlines) to present the supplies to Oklahoma City Mayor Ronald Norick. They also brought with them a $1500 check for the Mayor's Disaster Relief Fund.

Retention. The following is a breakdown of Navy enlisted retention during the past decade, expressed in percent: 1985 1991 1994 First term 37 41 37 Second term 52 60 48 Third term 70 71 58 Women. The following is a breakdown of the women in the various services: Number Percent

Army 58,395 Enlisted Officers 10,889 Navy 44,339 Enlisted 7,978 Officers Air Force 53,433 Enlisted 12,322 Officers Marines 7,029 Enlisted 642 Officers Coast Guard Enlisted 2,549 507 Officers Total Armed Forces Enlisted 165,745 Officers 32,338

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Congress. In action to date on the FY96 Defense Authorization Bill, Congress has approved the following provisions: • FY96 military redree COLA will be effecdve 1 April, 1996, the same as federal retirees. No decision has been made regarding future years.

• Active-duty military pay raise will be 2.4% for base pay and BAS, and 5.2% for BAQ. • Extends eligibility for career sea pay to crew members of tenderclass ships.

• Authorizes BAQ for E-6 personnel, without dependents, who are assigned to sea duty, beginning the last quarter of FY96.

• Reduces total flight duty requirement for military aviators to be eligible to receive Aviation Career Incentive Pay when not in flying assignment from 9 of 12 years to 8 of 12 years (i.e., changes "gate" requirement).

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up to 318 officers for early retirement. 440 officers were selected for early retirement in FY95.

Kuwait. SecDef recently accepted an offer by the government of Kuwait to award the Kuwait Liberation Medal to service members who participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, providing the services authority to prescribe regulations for administrative processing, awarding and wearing the medal.

Smoking. The Navy has continued tough rules on smoking, but smokers will be guaranteed a place to light up in all seagoing units, such as weather decks and open areas that do not place non-smokers at risk.

Currendy, 40.2 percent of Navy men and 32.7 percent of Navy women, age 26-55, smoke, as compared to 33.3 percent and 29.3 percent of civilian men and women respectively. For age group 26-55, 35.4 percent of Navy men and 36.6 percent of Navy women smoke, as compared to 29.4 percent and 27.3 percent of civilian men and women, respectively.

Commissaries. Congress has approved the construction of four new commissaries and the renovation of seven others, as follows: New Mountain Home AFB, ID; McConnell AFB, KS; Schofield Barracks, HI; Vogelweh AFB, Germany. Renovate Fort Leavenworth, KS; Fort Huachuca, AZ; Scott AFB, IL; Fort Benning, GA; NETC Newport, RI; Fort Carson, CO; Naval Station, Keflavik, Iceland.

Hotline. DoD has opened a new toll-free telephone line that allows veterans of the Persian Gulf War to report war-related incidents they feel may have contributed to their health problems. The number is 800472-6719. The hotline is open to all military and civilian personnel who served in the Persian Gulf region since August 1990. Health care providers treating veterans of the Gulf War are also encouraged to use the service to report findings which will improve understanding of the problem. DoD sdll operates a toll-free hodine at 800-796-9699 for military personnel and their dependents to register for medical exams and treatments associated with Gulf War illnesses.

Scholarships. The National Navy League will award $25,000 in scholarships to qualified high school students. Applicants must be US citizens, high school graduates under 25 years of age and dependents of current or former members of the US Navy, Coast Guard or US-flag Merchant Marine. To request an application, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Navy League of the United States, 2300 Wilson Blvd., Ariington, VA 22201 Attn: Scholarships.

Ships Commissioned in FY95. RAINIER ( A O E - 7 ) , ARCTIC ( A O E - 8 ) , MiTSCHER(DDG-57), LABOON ( D D G - 5 8 ) , RUSSELL ( D D G - 5 9 ) , PAUL HAMILTON ( D D G - 6 0 ) , RAMAGE ( D D G - 6 1 ) , BOXER ( L H D - 4 ) , HARPERS

WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE '51 A former Brigade Commander who devoted his career to being a carrier fighter pilot. Bill was first toflya naval aircraft at twice the speed of sound. He was shot down while CO of VF-143 and was a POW from June 1967 to March 1973. He attended the Nadonal War College, was Asst. DCNO (Air) and Superintendent of the Naval Academy before Commanding Third Fleet. He retired as Chief of Naval Personnel in 1986.

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A Few Inches From The Yard Objects in the future may be closer than they appear: Midshipman Gregory Donofrio, USN '96 Now that we're into the month of November and getting ready for Thanksgiving leave, I thought my column should ponder the quesdon pondered by every midshipman who has ever sat through an entire class period staring at the clock every second of the periodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;When will this class end? I know that I'm getting paid to go to school and I should stop complaining, but as Thanksgiving grows nearer and nearer, it gets tougher and tougher to concentrate (as is the case for all midshipmen).

Seconds seem like minutes, minutes seem like hours, etc. The prospect of going home (for the majority of the midshipmen) for the first time since the summer is eagerly anticipated. But it is even extra special for the Plebes. The chance to strut their stuff before friends and family is overwhelmingly first on their agenda (actually, their REAL first choice is, unfortunately, unavailable because she/he is now with someone else).

As I, myself look forward to Thanksgiving leave, I'll now answer some various questions posed of me by our alumni: Question: How many midshipmen does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer: One Firstie to give the order, one Plebe to screw it in, a Second Class to yell at him for not doing it fast enough, and a Youngster to sleep through the entire incident. (That was provided by a member of the Class of '92) (and no, I will not reveal the source of such humor) Question: Have Electrical Engineering classes gotten easier since the EE scandal?

Answer: I honestly can't say, because I had nothing to compare with the class that I took. I found the course to be extremely difficult as it got later in the semester and complex circuits were introduced, but each person has problems for different reasons. As for whether or not it got any easier, I don't know.

Question: If the Brigade got to choose who spoke at the Forrestal Lectures, who would be their next choice?

Answer: Well, that's a difficult question because of the many different types of people that make up the Brigade. I think that many of us would want Colin Powell, Bob Dole, or any Presidential candidates for '96. But there are also dmes when a David Letterman or another entertainer would be appreciated. A major sports figure would be nice. So would having Jimmy Carter or Ted Turner. All in all, I think the Brigade just wants someone interesdng that has something to share with the Brigade.

One thing that I've been asked by many alumni is how our Service Selecdon works. Well, let me first say that it is now Service Assignment. Now, midshipmen interview for the field of their choice, and are then ranked by the interview boards (who take into account their order of merit and academics). No more can mids just hear their number called and run down to Smoke Hall and choose at random. I guess it kind of takes a little of the fun out of it from the stories I've heard about alumni, where they left their rooms intending to sign up for the Marines, but ended up on an oiler. Now, on Service ASSIGNMENT night, a list is posted telling you whether or not you got what you wanted.

Well, I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. This semester is flying by and things are happening a lot quicker than expected. Happy Holidays!

GREG DONOFRIO '96 Greg Donofrio '96 is our columnist from the Bancroft "cell block." Raised in Ellicott City, MD, he's a second generation mid (Ed Donofrio '73) now residing in Ashbum, VA. In the 7th Company, Greg is an economics major and an avid sports fan who, in his spare time, coaches and officiates for Little League Baseball and Basketball teams. He is undecided on his service selection.

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February Vantage 25th to Mar 13th The South Pacific Featuring Optional Fiji Extension March (to be determined) Alumni College In Italy Matterhorn Five Nights in Rome and Four Nights in Florence — Visit Assisi, Siena and Venice 5 to 16th

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Brigade Activities Midshipman Kevin McHale USN '96

The bells go off. You look at the clock, its only 0345. Why are there bells going off? The IMC announces reveille. You stumble out of bed and into the shower, almost bumping into one of your roommates as he tries to find the door out into the hall to make a visit to the head.

You are so conditioned to that bell that you forget all about it being 0345. If the bell is going off then it's time to go to school. The water coming from the shower head is a just a little warmer than ice. What did you expect from Bancroft Hall at the beginning of December?

You step out of the shower and there are your SDB's hanging from the hook along with your overcoat, gloves and scarf. You also have those noise makers, that bag of confetti, and that extremely obnoxious yellow and blue knit cap.

Again you notice the clock. The two sides of your brain start having a serious discussion about why in the world you are up so early.

And then it clicks. It's December 2. A day you have been counting down towards for an entire year. A day where you will finally be able to settle a score, extract some vengeance and kick a little tail. It's Army-Navy time!!!

Everybody, at least recent graduates, remember that first Army-Navy game. You piled on to the busses at zero-dark-thirty in the morning. You had a police escort the whole way, rolling right through toll booths and red lights.

They handed out those box lunches that everyone tried to trade the ham sandwiches for the turkey sandwiches. I wonder if anyone in the history of the Academy has ever eaten one of those ham sandwiches. You tried to sleep but it was impossible, you blamed it on the bus but it was really the excitement. Like a little kid the night before Christmas. Everyone formed up by company in the parking lot. People cheering, the occasional Army fan trying to get an Army cheer out, only to be drowned out by the single unified voice of the Brigade. The occasional alumnus tossing a beer into a company as they marched past (This year we ask that you throw candy, just so no one gets in trouble.

If you really want to by a mid a drink do it after the game, and make it a soda. Thank you.)

Marching down the ramp under the stadium, the noise deafening as the cheers echo off the wall. Then finally you emerge from the tunnel and march onto the field. Exams, grades, conduct problems. Dear John letters, all that is forgotten as you walk out onto that field. For a brief moment the world stops and revolves around one football stadium, and this year it's in Philadelphia on the second of December.

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During the season the Brigade has been filling the role of the twelfth man better than any year in recent memory. If you think you saw spirit last year at the Army-Navy game, just wait, it's coming again and it's bigger and better than ever. Best of all there is nothing Army can do to stop it. Even the sportscasters on television and radio commented how much more spirit the midshipmen had than the cadets last year. I can't wait to see what they say this year.

Remember that this is also the Academy's 150th anniversary and Admiral Larson has deemed this the year of the midshipmen. The team is ready, the cheerleaders and Bill are ready, the Brigade is ready, and we hope every single alumnus out there is ready, to finally kick a little Army tail. The Brigade will be the twelfth man, but we need the alumni to be the thirteenth, the fourteenth and however many other people we can have appear on that field. I never took statistics but if we make it seem like there are about a hundred people lining up against the eleven that Army sends out onto the field, I am pretty sure we are going to win. If there was ever a year to come to Philadelphia and cheer on your alma mater, it's this year. It's not like I am asking for a lot of your time, it will be over quicker than Hemdon last year, and three losses in a row are a little much for this author to handle. I have yet to see a victory over Army in football. But everyone, and I mean everyone is behind the team. The new coach has really gotten the Brigade behind the team. When he walks through King Hall the day before a game, there is a standing ovation, and the place just goes crazy, not that lunch in King Hall on a Friday is anywhere close to sane. The theme this year should be "WE BELIEVE!" because we really do. We even had two new goats donated to the cause. Our current mascots were getting up there in years so there are two fresh sets of horns ready to take on the mules.

Even PHILO got an overhaul. No longer is PHILO a couple of boards hammered together and thrown on top of a golf cart. PHILO is now a fiberglass hull, with a VW bug engine for a powerplant making PHILO capable of over fifty knots, the exact top speed is classified. A lot of time and effort went into upgrading PHILO, besides the usual list of lobbyists who had to get the money from congress for this new program, special thanks and recognition goes to Ben Pipes, Tony Singelton, Jenny Greenough, Tiffany Hatfield, Dan Dukes, Mark Lukken, Jaime Hernandez, Jason Wood, and Todd Fowler who gave up a lot of their time and effort to get PHILO

where he is today. PHILO was constructed over at the Naval Station and was unveiled at a pep rally at the beginning of the year. On more than one occasion PHILO has served as the flagship for the Superintendent and Commandant at pep rallies and football games. You can look for PHILO to possibly serve escort duty as the Thirteenth Company runs the Army-Navy game ball up to Philadelphia.

If you are driving up to the game from the Annapolis area or points south you are going to see a number of sheet posters on bridges and overpasses all the way up. If you see someone with a midshipmen cover or USNA sticker driving up the night before the game lay on your horn to let them know you are out there. To quote a line from Top Gun, "This is the real thing gentlemen, make us proud." I can promise you that you will be very proud to be a part of the Naval Academy family at the game, or any other time this year as we celebrate our anniversary and the year of the midshipmen.

In addition to football a lot of exciting things have been going on this year at the Naval Academy. Midshipmen Second Class Tom Wagner saved a woman's life at the Adventure World Amusement Park. She was apparently drowning in the wave pool and without his help would probably not be alive today.

The Naval Academy sailing team as been making a name for itself. As the winner of the Kennedy cup, the United States Naval Academy has qualified for the Course de L'Europe Student Yachting World Cup on the Atlantic coast of France near the town of Lorient. This international competition is for university sailing teams who have qualified through national competition. It will be held from 28 October through 04 November.

This prestigious regatta requires a team of eight, including at least two women. The Academy, by winning at the national level, has the right to send any eight members, not necessarily the same people who won the Kennedy Cup. The team of eight will be sailing one-design chartered sailboats, in France, against participants from 24 other countries, including Portugal, Russia, Japan, Italy, Spain, Canada, Sweden, Turkey and Austria. The competition will consist of six days of intense buoy racing.

The team representing the United States is the crew of the Academy's 50-foot sloop Success, comprised of Chris Bugg '96 (skipper/ helmsman), Jenny Greenough '96 (tactician), Matthew Thompson '96 (XO/bow), Brian Shimkaveg '96 (main trimmer), William

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McCombs '96 (pit-boss), Natalie Caruso '97 (strings), Craig Wiesen '97 (mast-man), and Ryan McCrillis '98 (trimmer/utility). This crew represents the highest quality of Naval Academy sailors. While proving themselves on the water, they have also shown their expertise in the classroom, with a grade point average of 3.5. The Coupe du Monde de Voile des Etudiants will prove to be a highly competitive event involving the best college sailor, yachting camaraderie and the Corinthian spirit of the sport.

The Academy held its second annual Model United Nations Conference. It began on the ninth of November and ran for four days. The conference is open to high schools across the nation, and allows students a better understanding of how the United Nations operates.

The theme of this year's conference centers around the role the UN has played in shaping political, diplomatic, and military matters for the past fifty years and what lies ahead in the future. The club is led by Dr Willie Curtis, a professor of political science at the Naval Academy, LT Kathy Garbe, USN and the club president, Ian Schuster '96. The conference allows students to not only experience the workings of the United Nations, but also allows them to

learn more about the current issues of the world and why those issues continue to exist and discuss possible solutions to world-wide dileinmas.

And now the moment you have all been waiting for, the much anticipated interview with the Brigade Commander, Amy Morrison. Amy came to Annapolis from Ellicott City, Maryland, not that big of a move. Amy likes cats better than dogs, and in fact has a cat named "Admiral". The most embarrassing thing that happened to her here involved giving a chow call on a microphone while country line dancing for the amusement of the entire fifth battalion. Her first memory as a child is playing at the beach in the sand, and her favorite birthday to date was her thirteenth, when her mother threw a big surprise party that caught her totally off guard. She refused to reveal the most embarrassing nickname she had as a child but did confide in me that white chocolate mousse frozen yogurt from TCBY was her favorite flavor of ice cream. Finally she predicts a Navy victory on 2 December with a score of 36-25.

The questions I asked weren't your typical interview questions and were designed to show everyone that the leadership is human, just like the rest of us. She is really working hard this

year and is doing a great job.

I hope to see everyone at the Army-Navy game. I am in the Twelfth Company, so give a cheer as we march on by. Actually, cheer for everybody and anybody who is wearing something Navy. Get a little crazy, bring noise makers, throw confetti, wear obnoxious yellow and blue knit caps, let the team know you are there.

This year we are going to bring home a victory.

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MIDSHIPMAN KEVIN J. MCHALE, USN Our Brigade Activities columnist is Kevin McHale '96, a member of the 12th Company.

Kevin is the oldest of three; sister Margie is a freshman at the University of Virginia, and brother Joe is beginning high school. Kevin's father is a Colonel in the Marine Corps, and his mother is an instructional aide at an elementary school. After graduation Kevin hopes to join the Intel community. He is an active member of the Midshipman Action Group and enjoys playing company intramurals.

Navy Academics Bringing Professional Education Into The 21st Century Robert H. Shapiro, Academic Dean and Provost This month's column deals with one of our most important practical educational areas: Professional Education. The USNA professional curriculum has benefitted from some of the most modern classroom technology in use at the Academy or, for that matter, in higher education today. In historic Luce Hall, where the Division of Professional Development resides, the walls of one classroom resound with the roar of launching aircraft. In another, the image of a former Naval leader passes on words of wisdom about leadership and in several others, opposing task forces confront each other on a computerized battlefield. Midshipmen navigate a restricted channel, practice maneuvering ships in formation and even take a celestial fix all without leaving the building. Ten years ago these notions would have been merely flights of fancy. Today they are reality.

The tidal wave of technology that has washed over American society has altered virtually every aspect of our lives. The process of educating midshipmen is no exception. Since the very infancy of computers, the Naval Academy leadership foresaw their potential as a teaching tool. In the 1960s, then-Rear Admiral Charles Minter, as Superintendent, and thenCaptain Bob McNitt, as Secretary of the Academic Board, started the integration of computers into the Academy. The very idea of Shipmate, November 1995

Computer Aided Instruction, which is widespread today, saw its inception at the Naval Academy during that period.

Today, the Naval Academy's tradition of technology enhanced learning is as vibrant as ever The diverse academic departments are pushing forward with technological programs best suited to their disciplines. In the Division of Professional Development, Director Captain Bill Mason '74 relies on the Technical Programs Department, currently led by Lieutenant Commander Michael Grieco '80, to introduce and manage technology in the professional academic environment. As a result. Luce Hall classrooms are equipped with advanced multimedia equipment that allows instructors to present computer generated graphics, natural images, and full motion video to convey complex concepts such as celestial navigation, ship handling, military strategy, tactics, and naval leadership. There is a large Tactical Advanced Simulated Warfare Integrated Trainer (TASWIT) wargaming center, eight networked Bridge and Combat Direction Center Simulators, and also a state of the art Planetarium generously donated by the Class of 1935. The Division of Professional Development is at a "full bell" in the drive to use technology to improve the education of our future naval officers.

The seed of Professional Development's program was a series of grants from AT&T's University Equipment Donation Program in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Today, the Technical Programs department has outfitted more than 35 electronic classrooms with multimedia systems consisting of large screen monitors. General Parametrics' VideoShow machines and digital control VCRs. Classroom presentations can be stored on standard diskettes or downloaded from the building local area network directly to the classroom. The benefit is that curriculum is easily disseminated to all instructors teaching a course. This introduces a high degree of instructional consistency to courses that may be taught by up to twenty different instructors in one semester. The system is very flexible, yet simple to use. Most new instructors are able to operate the classroom with as little as 15 minutes of tutoring. Instructors experience a 50-70% reduction in class preparation time, which allows them more time for individual student contact outside the classroom. Finally, student surveys indicate that approximately 75% of the students feel that the classroom systems help them to comprehend and retain information better than traditional teaching methods.

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Respondex seamlessly incorporates student feedback capabilities into the classroom multimedia system. An instructor can use either questions that are pre-authored in the courseware or ad hoc questions during a lecture, to generate discussion or test the class's level of comprehension on a particular objective. Students respond through desk mounted keypads and the feedback is instantaneous. Students receive the results of their responses on their keypads and the instructor receives cumulative results on a monitor which can then be displayed as statistics to the class. Instructors can use this information to tailor their lectures to the needs of the students. Once midshipmen have mastered the material, the instructor can move on to new concepts. If there is some doubt, the instructor can spend more time on the topic and perhaps explain the material from a different perspective. Respondex data can be stored on Luce Hall's local area network and recalled through the soon to be implemented Multi-Educator Assisted Network System (MEANS). MEANS will be used for a variety of tasks including the tracking of individual student objective accomplishment and multimedia courseware manipulation.

The development of multimedia courseware for the classrooms is done by teams of officers under the direction of individual course coordinators. The Division has a Courseware Development Center with equipment devoted solely to building multimedia presentations.

Developers receive technical assistance from LT Matt Scarlett, the Courseware Development officer, in producing and revising their curriculum. With access to a wide variety of multimedia hardware and software, plus several gigabytes of military graphics and photographic images, Lt. Scarlett assists developers in producing the most effective courseware possible.

In an instant, one particular "classroom" in Luce Hall can be transformed into an image of the universe. The Naval Academy Planetarium, located on the ground floor of Luce Hall, is a 115 seat state of the art facility. As a result of the Class of 1935's gift, the planetarium is equipped with a GOTO GX-12 star projector capable of presenting 6500 stars and numerous planets from a variable geographic position anywhere on the earth. The representation is so realistic that midshipmen can actually practice celestial navigation by "shooting the stars" with a sextant. LT. Fred Wilhelm can also use the Planetarium's computerized display system to show laser disk projections of the planets or deliver the multi-media "PRODEV Show" which is a 20 minute, narrated presentation about the Naval Academy and the Division of Professional Development.

Midshipmen can then get "underway" using the largest group of networked bridge simulators. The shipboard bridge simulators (SBS) developed by ECO, Inc. are eight "bridge rooms" containing mock integrated throttle controls and instruments, large screen outside visual displays, realistic synthetic radar, various navigation instruments and simulated radiotelephone circuits. The simulators provide

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accurate hydrodynamic models for a variety of Navy ship classes including single and dual screw types. The large screen visual displays provide a geographically correct view of the land mass and navigational aids, in variable environmental conditions. Midshipmen can operate in company with the other simulated "ships," practicing formation DivTacs, for instance, or independently to hone their standard commands and basic navigation skills. Currently, work is underway to integrate the eight "bridges" with eight mockup Combat Direction Center simulators. Once completed, these integrated units will provide a cost effective method for exposing midshipmen to a very realistic shipboard combat environment.

The Seamanship and Navigation Department trains future naval tacticians using the largest TASWIT wargaming center in existence. The multi-warfare tactical training system consists of 96 PC workstations served by two HP 9000/ 720 mini-computers. With a data base containing simulations of almost every naval weapon system in the world, the midshipmen are able to develop a basic understanding of ship and battle group tactics while facing each other or a simulated opponent. In addition to structured course training, select groups of midshipmen from each company come to match wits in the Brigade TASWIT Color Competition. Awards for the winning company and the outstanding individual tactician are provided by the Class of 1928. Someday, the Naval Academy's net-

work infrastructure will support throughput speeds that will make competitions on a greater scale attainable. PRODEV is laying the ground work now to make it possible for midshipmen to conduct war games over a network with other academies or military training facilities in the future.

LT Chris Peterson and RMC (SW) Dave Shipley maintain the 225 node Novell network which links the instructors and classrooms together and provides E-mail access with Naval Academy Data Network (NADN) and the Internet. The network becomes more vital with each passing day. During summer training, instructors are deployed to sites worldwide, yet they are able to maintain connectivity through remote network access. This means that the work here does not stop even when the officers are away from their offices.

Finally, PRODEV maintains a Wodd Wide Web home page with links from the Naval Academy home page (use www.nadn.navy.mil /departments.html or 192.190.229.185). So you can drop by the Division (electronically!).

The Division of Professional Development is keeping alive the Naval Academy tradition of technology enhanced learning. Whether it involves using simulation or multimedia, PRODEV is striving to immerse midshipmen in the highest quality professional education possible, in the hope that they will turn into life long learners.

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Navy Sports Tom Bates, Assistant Director of Athletics

Navy 33, Southern Methodist 2 What a start for Navy's 1995 football team and what a start for first-year coach Charlie Weatherbie.

Surprising, yes! Shocking, perhaps!

The bottom line is that Navy rolled over Southern Methodist, 33-2, in the Cotton Bowl, causing the collegiate football world to sit up and take notice.

"I thought we had the ability to dominate both sides of the ball," said Weatherbie at the postgame press conference. "The only question was if we could come in here and play the way we were capable of playing. I just didn't know.

"The defense did an excellent job of mixing things up with coverages, and coming and not coming. We got a bunch of turnovers."

It was a dream night for youngster quarterback Chris McCoy who was starting his first varsity collegiate game. He rushed for 273 yards on 26 carries, a school record for rushing yardage by a quarterback, and a figure that is also an NCAA record for a player in the first game of his career.

He set a second Navy record with 398 yards of total offense as he also completed 6 of 11 passes for 125 yards.

"This is one of the best days I've ever had. I couldn't have done anything without my teammates," said McCoy. "I wasn't real nervous. I was confident because of the way we practiced, and our team was motivated."

Where did McCoy come from? Well, he was a defensive back on the Plebe/JV team a year ago, but when the Mids were preparing for the wishbone-style attacks of Air Force, Rice and Army last year, he ran the scout team. When the new coaching staff arrived, he asked for an opportunity to return to quarterback, the position he played at Randolph-Clay High School in Cuthbert, GA. The 33 points by the Mids was their most in 73 games (a 41-7 win over Yale in 1988), and they totaled 562 yards of total offense, the fifth highest total ever by a Navy football team.

Included in that was 424 yards rushing, equaling the third best single game mark by a Navy team.

The Mids jumped onto the scoreboard late in the first quarter when McCoy scored from 21 yards out to cap a five-play, 64-yard drive.

Among the plays was a 31-yard pass from McCoy to slotback Ross Scott, a second classman.

Navy completely dominated the second period with McCoy making runs of 72 and 69 yards to set up a 21-yard field goal from Jason Covarrubias and a five-yard touchdown run by second class fullback Omar Nelson respectively. Thus, the Mids had a 17-0 halftime lead.

The relentless Midshipmen also got a score on the opening possession of the second half as they went 82 yards in four plays. The last two plays of the drive were a 41-yard pass from McCoy to slotback Cory Schemm, and a 25yard scamper by slotback Patrick McGrew on a pitchout.

Navy yielded its only points of the game when the Mustangs blocked the extra point try and returned it 97 yards for the two points.

Covarrubias added a 32-yard field goal late in the third quarter and McGrew scored again in the fourth quarter on a 15-yard shovel pass from McCoy. McCoy was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week for his performance and youngster defensive back Sean Andrews, also making his first collegiate start, was Rookie of the Week for his two interceptions, fumble recovery and two pass break ups.

Matt Scomavacchi for 38 yards. McCoy ran for 23 on the next play, and scored two plays later The next drive covered 61 yards with a McCoy-to-Scomavacchi pass gaining 41 yards.

McCoy leaped over from the one.

The Scarlet Knights shot ahead again on a field goal, but on the last play of the first half youngster Jason Covarrubias hit on a careerlong 47-yard field goal for Navy to forge the 17-17 halftime deadlock.

Late in the third period, the Mids gave up their first turnover as McCoy was hit attempting a pitchout and Rutgers recovered on the Navy 26. Three plays later tight end Marco Battaglia caught a 25-yard pass in the end zone.

Rutgers was to control the ball in the fourth period, holding on to the ball for over 11 minutes.

"I thought we played real hard, but I'm not going to take anything away from Rutgers," said Mid coach Charlie Weatherbie. "They are a strong, physical football team and they run the ball very well."

Wake Forest 30, Navy 7

Youngster quarterback Chris McCoy has been a pleasant surprise for the Midshipmen this season.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Photo by Phil Hoffmann

Rutgers 27, Navy 17 Rutgers, behind the speed of tailback Terrell Willis, broke away from a 17-17 halftime tie to hand the Midshipmen their first defeat of the season, 27-17. Willis rolled up 207 yards and scored touchdowns on a 25-yard run and a 72-yard run.

It was those runs that shot the Scarlet Knights into a 14-0 lead with just under five minutes gone in the second period.

At this juncture, quarterback Chris McCoy got Navy's offense into gear, taking the Mids on successive scoring drives that tied the game.

The first thrust covered 71 yards in six plays with McCoy scoring from the four The big play was a pass from second classman Howard Bryant, a slotback, to first class wide receiver

Navy self-destructed in the second half, committing six turnovers, and fell to previously winless Wake Forest, 30-7.

"Anytime you turn the ball over that many times, you aren't going to win," said Navy head coach Charlie Weatherbie. "They made the big play and we didn't."

Weatherbie was talking in particular about the Mids offense, which had only a handful of big plays, and the Navy defense which gave up 232 yards on third down plays. Wake only had an additional 108 yards on first or second down.

The Midshipmen missed a golden scoring opportunity on their first possession of the game, driving from their own 37 to the Wake Forest five. Two downs put the ball on the one but two keepers by quarterback Chris McCoy were stopped.

The Demon Deacons then went 99 yards to take a 6-0 first quarter lead. Two third plays produced gains of 39 and 47 yards for Wake Forest.

On the first series of the second quarter, the Mids covered 51 yards in five plays to take a 7-6 lead. The big play was on a fourth-and-10 at the Wake 33. McCoy scrambled away from defenders and tossed a pass to second classman slotback Cory Schemm in the end zone.

Another long drive, 71 yards, put the Demon Deacons ahead for good late in the second period.

In the third period. Navy failed to take advantage of youngster Sean Andrew's fourth interception of the season and ensuing return to the Wake 37. A fourth down field goal try

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by youngster Jason Covarruvias from 32 yards was short.

Then began the series of turnovers. After the third one, the Demon Deacons scored their third touchdown of the game, and they added 10 more points in the final 3:05 following two more Mid turnovers.

One of the bright spots for Navy was Schemm who caught five passes for 77 yards and a touchdown. He also had one rush for 23 yards.

Navy 30, Duke 9 Navy proved more dominant in this game than it did in its season-opener against Southem Methodist and as a result came away with a 30-9 upset of Duke, which had been favored by 13 points.

"Our players did a great job of preparing emotionally and mentally for this game," said Navy head coach Charlie Weatherbie. "We did our jobs and had a maximum effort on every play. Our blocking and tackling was better and we were sounder fundamentally. It was a great team effort."

There was a brief anxious moment when on the Mids' first play from scrimmage, youngster quarterback Chris McCoy fumbled the ball away on the Navy 36.

Navy's defensive unit then gave an indication of how it was going to play that night. It stopped the Blue Devils on the Mid one and forced a 20-yard field goal.

Navy's offense took up the cue and promptly marched 80 yards for a touchdown. The key plays were a fourth-and-one from the Duke 47—McCoy carried two yards for a first down.

On the next play, McCoy flipped to first class wide receiver Matt Scomavacchi on a reverse and the latter raced 45 yards for the score.

In the second quarter, first class defensive tackle Mark Hammond grabbed a Duke fumble on the Blue Devil 20. A personal foul on Duke on the play placed the ball at the 11 and on the next play, McCoy ran off left tackle for a touchdown. Late in the second quarter the Mids made a 78-yard drive in 3:26 to set up a 22yard field goal by youngster Jason Covarmbias.

Thus, the Midshipmen led 17-6 at halftime.

In the third quarter, the Mids accomplished something they had not done in the previous two games: score some points. They took the opening possession of the second half to a touchdown with second class fullback Omar Nelson driving in from the two. A big play in that thmst was a 36-yard pass from McCoy to second class slotback Cory Schemm, one of only two passes Navy was to complete in the game.

Another Mid tumover gave the Blue Devils the ball on the Navy 30. Duke moved to a second-and-one at the Navy one but second class linebacker Clint Bruce broke through and sacked quarterback Spence Fischer for a fiveyard loss. Duke had to settle for its third field goal of the game.

Navy immediately added its final touchdown of the evening. On first down, McCoy broke loose for a 56-yard gain to the Duke 18. Nelson then rambled 18 yards for his second touch-

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down on the next play.

The Midshipmen rushed for 377 yards with McCoy producing 144 of those on 22 carries.

Nelson added 67 yards on 117 carries and Schemm took six pitchouts for 50 yards.

Navy's outstanding defensive play held the Blue Devils to just 17 rushing yards, the best run defense the Mids have had in 119 games.

They held Princeton to five mshing yards in 1984.

It was the second game this year that the Midshipmen had held an opponent without a touchdown.

McCoy was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week while another youngster, defensive back Kevin Lewis, was on the ECAC honor roll as he came up with eight tackles (seven unassisted), three pass break-ups, an interception at the one-yard line, and a tackle for a loss of two yards.

classman David Cuthbert scored on an assist from firstie Kitch Kennedy. The winning goal came off the foot of Plebe Stephen Earl just two minutes before halftime. It was Earl's second game winning shot of the season.

Second class forward Aaron Swenson leads the Mids in scoring with four goals and one assist while youngster Donald Field has two goals and an assist. Field was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week for his two goals and assist in the Mids' wins over Virginia Commonwealth and Northeastern.

Mid goalie T. J. Grady was selected Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week for this shutout of Howard and his role in the 2-1 upset of Lafayette.

Other Fall Sports Results Men's Cross Country (10-3): Youngster Alex Shelley has been the pacesetter for Navy so far this season. He took first place when the Mids opened the season with wins over Penn, American and Mt. St. Mary's, and followed that with a sixth place in the 27-team Fordham Invitational. At the Boston University Invitational, he also was sixth.

The Mids were third out of 10 teams at the Boston event. At the Minnesota Invitadonal, Navy was eighth out of 16 team with Shelley finishing 16th.

Women's Cross Country (4-3): Plebe Jackie Hayes has been outstanding for the Mid women. She was third in a multi-team meet at Appalachian State and was first in a quadrangular with Appalachian State, Delaware and Mt. St. Mary's the next weekend.

In the Princeton Invitational, Hayes was first with the fourth fastest time ever run on the Princeton Battlefield Course. The Mids beat Goalkeeper T. J. Grady has been the mainstay of the Rutgers, Penn and Columbia that day while soccer team's defense in 1995.—Photo by Phil Hoffmann Women's Soccer (6-2 Overall, 2-0 Patriot losing to Princeton.

League): At the Mount St. Mary's Invitational, the Midshipmen were second in the 12-team field with Hayes finishing second individually with a personal best time of 17:27.

Lightweight Football (2-0): Navy opened with a 58-28 win over the Wesley College Junior Varsity as quarterback David Behnke, a second classman, threw three touchdown passes.

Firstie Rich Guzman mshed for 83 yards and youngster Matt Sobecki added 82 yards mshing.

In its second outing, the Mids scored 21 points in the third quarter to defeat the Randolph-Macon junior varsity team, 45-14.

Behnke threw for 219 yards in the game.

Men's Soccer (5-3 overall, 1 -2 Patriot League): In recent action. Navy upset defending Patriot League champion Lafayette on the Leopards' field, 2-1, but fell the next week to Holy Cross, at home, 1-0.

The loss to the Crusaders halted a four-game win streak that included a 3-0 triumph over Howard University.

The Leopards took an early 1-0 lead but Third classman Con Tliormon is the catalyst as the Navy Navy tied it minutes later when second women's soccer team heads for its first winning season.—Photo by Phil Hoffmann

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The Navy women opened the season with four straight wins (Temple, Marist, Holy Cross and American). The Mids then lost to Old Dominion, 2-1, before a 3-0 triumph over Towson State.

After a loss to Virginia Commonwealth, the Mids followed with a 2-0 Patriot League win over Lafayette.

Youngster Cori Thomton leads the scoring parade with five goals and four assists in the first eight games while youngster Cristina Esposito is next with eight points. Youngster goalkeeper Amy Hakola has allowed only six goals this year while making 48 saves and recording three shutouts.

Amy McGrath, a second classman, was Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week for her two goals in the win over Holy Cross.

Women's Volleyball (7-12 Overall, 0-2 Patriot League): Injuries and youthfulness have made for a rough start for the women's volleyball team.

Second classman Nikki St. Clair made the all-tournament teams at Trident Invitational and the Wright State Classic but has since suffered a season-ending knee injury. Firstie Gina Foltz was on the all-toumament teams at the UMBC Classic, Trident Invitational and Liberty Clas-

' First classman Joe Alton leads the Navy men's water polo team as it seeks to return to the NCAA tournament.— Photo by Phil Hoffmann Water Polo (10-7): After opening the season with four straight wins, the Midshipmen suffered a series of losses to west coast teams.

Navy recovered with wins over George Washington, Richmond and Princeton before a 12-11 loss to Bucknell.

Breslin N a m e d to Navy Basketball Staff Roger Breslin, a standout guard at Holy Cross, has been named an assistant coach in basketball at Navy.

Breslin comes to the Naval Academy from Seton Hall University where he was the administrative assistant to Pirate head coach George Blaney.

As a senior in 1992-93, Breslin helped Holy Cross to the Patriot League championship and a berth in the NCAA Toumament. He ranked second in the nation in free throw percentage (.901) that season and was ninth in assists per game (7.1). He was a first team All-Patriot League selection.

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McCallum Inducted into Blue Gray Classic Hall of Fame Navy's recordsetting running back. Napoleon McCallum, was inducted into the Kelly Tires Blue Gray All Star Football Classic Hall of Fame in early October McCallum was a first team All-America for the Midshipmen both in 1983 and 1995. He still holds the Navy career record for mshing yards with 4,179. His all-purpose mnning yardage total of 7,172 yards for a career is an NCAA Division I-A record. He twice led the nation in all-purpose running, 1983 and 1985.

He later played with Oakland Raiders as a fullback and halfback and also on the special teams. His professional career was cut short by an injury early in the 1994 season.

THOMAS F. BATES Tom Bates has been the Sports Information Director for the Naval Academy Athletic Association since August 1973, coming here after a six-year tenure at Gannon University in Erie, PA and a six-year tenure at Lafayette University in Easton, PA. 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.

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Shipmate received the following article out of the Silverton Appeal Tribune from Tommy Tomlinson's wife, Margaret (Peg) Tomlinson.

Mt. Angel - A pioneer of aviation was enshrined in a prestigious military hall of honor June 20 in an official ceremony during a luncheon at Angel's Table Restaurant in Mt. Angel.

Ret. Capt. Daniel Webb "Tommy" Tomlinson IV, 98, of the U.S. Naval Reserve was enshrined for meritorious achievement in aviation at the James B. Taylor Jr. Memorial and Carrier Aviation Test Pilots Hall of Honor. The official plaque has been placed in the YORKTOWN (CV-10) at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Charleston, SC. He accepted the award from Robert M. Elder of Palos Verdes Estates, CA, a representative and past president of The Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

"Tommy is a true legend," Elder said.

Tomlinson has resided at Benedictine Nursing Center in Mt. Angel since suffering a stroke four years ago. His wife of 14 years is Margaret "Peg" Tomlinson of Silverton.

Tomlinson is the first to fly across the Continental Divide in a Curtiss Jenny, the founder of The Three Seahawks precision flying team, a developer of dive bombing, the first to test fly a McDonald Douglas DC-1, the man who discovered the jet stream and was deputy to Maj. Gen. William H. Tunner during the Berlin Airlift.

He is credited with pioneering work in experimental flight testing, air combat strategies, high altitude research and all-weather flying. He was an authority on air logistics during World War II. He survived at least seven brushes with death as a pilot.

Tomlinson test flew 225 airplanes, landing everywhere from the decks of the Navy's aboriginal carrier LANGLEY to a cemetery in Harrisburg, PA. Tomlinson was born April 28, 1897 in Batavia, NY and as a boy had an interest in kite building and flying. He witnessed the first hot air balloon to come to Batavia.

In 1914 he was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD and moved from his native state. In 1917 he was commissioned with the Class of 1918.

Currently he is the fifth oldest surviving graduate of the Academy.

In the summer of 1918 during World War I he was assigned as an observer and co-pilot aboard the DUBUQUE as submarine patrols were conducted off the Virginia Capes where German U-boats were infiltrating. As the instructor of an aviation school in Hampton Roads, VA, he made patrol flights in HS2L and H-12 flying boats, twice having to be towedin from sea after engine failure.

During July 1919 he was appointed assistant chief engineer aboard the Battleship GEORGIA while still a student at Destroyer Engineers' School in San Diego, CA. Soon he served as chief engineer aboard the Destroyer BREESE.

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"But still when two or three shall meet, And old tales be retold .. "

PL on Aug 11, 1921. He returned to San Diego for duty at the U.S. Naval Air Station.

In June 1922, he was assigned to the Battleship OKLAHOMA, and purchased his first personal Curtiss Jenny from the U.S. Army. On leave he barnstormed the Pacific Northwest.

From 1923-25 Tomlinson worked as an instructor in the Department of Marine Engineering and Naval Construction at the Naval Academy.

In October 1925 he was named commander of the Aircraft Squadrons Battle fleet in San Diego, where he became a member of Fighting Squadron Six, the Navy squadron that developed dive bombing. Flying his rebuilt Curtiss Jenny from Batavia to San Diego, he became the first to cross the Continental Divide in such an aircraft.

Elapsed flying time was 49 hours and 45 minutes.

As commanding officer of Fighting Squadron II he led The Three Seahawks while flying a Boeing F2B-1 carrier-based fighter. In 1928 the Navy's first precision aerobatics team took top honors during the National Air Races at Mines Field, CA. That year in Anacostia, SC, he successfully beached the Navy's largest seaplane, the Pn-11 after the engine caught fire. He also landed safely in an experimental Vought Corsair after a stabilizer failed.

On Feb 28,1929 Tomlinson resigned from the U.S. Navy with the rank of lieutenant. With that rank in April he was appointed to the U.S. Naval Reserve.

In February Tomlinson had become vice president in charge of operations at Maddux Airlines, an ancestor of TransworldAirlines. In September Maddux merged with Transcontinental World Transport, and he became western division manager of the combined companies.

In 1931 he went east as assistant to the president of TWA. As a pilot for nearly one year he flew a single engine mail plane across the Allegheny Mountain Range between Newark, NJ and Columbus, OH. In 1935 he became assistant to TWA President Jack Frye in Kansas City, MO. Tomlinson carried on engineering and flight research for TWA, a position in which he test flew the McDonald Douglas DC-1 across the continent nonstop. The flight set a new record for transport planes (II hours, 5 minutes).

From July 6, 1936 to Jan 24,1937 he clocked more time above 30,000 feet than all other pilots put together to that date. He few as high as 36,000 feet, once he discovered the jet stream when he reported winds as high as 148 miles per hour in the stratosphere.

On one flight the turbowheel smacked the wing, causing a dive he barely recovered from. Another time his plane ran out of fuel, forcing him to land on a hillside in Princeton, NJ. Later he landed a CurtissWright Company pursuit plane when the aircraft caught fire during a test flight.

In June 1941 Tomlinson was granted active duty in the reserve, and was assigned as commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, KS. In 1942 he was named commander of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base in Gardner, KS before returning to Fairfax to become chief of staff to Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster.

On Sep 27, 1943 Tomlinson reported to duty with the Naval Air Transport Service as commander Air Transport Squadron Pacific. On March 31, 1945 he was designated commander of the Pacific Wing.

He left active service in 1946, and was recalled in 1948 to serve as deputy commander of the Berlin Airiift.

Tomlinson retired officially Aug 1, 1951. In retirement he fished off the Mexican west coast, correctly predicting a Pacific Coast drought for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. In retirement he also traveled the United States and Europe. He met his fifth wife Margaret Peg Feller during a 1981 New Year's Day dinner in Yuma, AZ. They married Feb 19, 1981 in Las Vegas, NV. In 1979 Tomlinson's aviation career was featured prominently in the book "Conquest of the Skies: A History of Commercial Aviation in America" by Carl Solberg. This year "The Reminiscences of Captain Daniel Webb Tomlinson IV, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)," a 286-page document was published by interviewers Barrett Tillman and Paul Stillwell.

"Let's say I survived," he told the authors.

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Shipmate received the following from Robert A. McClelland, class of '46, son-in-law of Mrs. Ruth Wadell Nichols. "Mrs. Ruth Wadell Nichols, widow of Capt. Robert Paul Wadell, class of 1923, and RADM Philip Gardner Nichols, Class of 1921, died on 18 December 1994 at home in Burlingame, California. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Wadell Bluck, and son, Robert P. Wadell Jr., as well as by her two s t e p d a u g h t e r s , Ellen Nichols McClelland and Ann Gardner Mayles. Mrs. Nichols' remains were interred in the grave site of RADM Nichols in Arlington National Cemetery during a private family ceremony on 28 December 1994."

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Pres., RAdm. George Bauernschmidt SC USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Mrs. Beverly E. Carter 1202 Grosvenor Park, 10500 Rockville Pike Rockville MD 20852 Our correspondents are really responding these days — and we salute you — especially the Sons of 1922! Last issue told of a wonderful letter from Jim Metcalf (USNA) about his parents. Red (USNA 1922) and Honey Bee — what a great pair they were!

This is such a nice way to receive news about our friends.

Happy Birthday USMC Shipmate, November 1995

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Pres., Adm. Arleigh Burke USN (Ret.) Secy, RAdm. John R. Johannesen USN (Ret.) 6251 Old Dominion Dr, Apt. #103 McLean, VA 22101 Sad news: Janet Wolcott (Atkins) Guitar Folk, 82, wife of Wallace Estill Guitar and Winston Estes Pilcher Folk, died Monday (July 10, 1995) at her residence, 10 Ferry Road. Old Lyme, CT, after a long illness. She was born Jan. 8, 1913, in Annapolis, MD, the daughter of the late Captain USN (Ret.) Arthur Kennedy Atkins, and Frances Griswold (Terry) Atkins. Mrs. Folk spent her childhood in Samoa; London, England; Charleston, SC; and Old Lyme, CT. She graduated from Greenwich Academy, and Now comes another letter from Jerry Nuss (USNA attended Wellesley College. On Dec. 22, 1936, she 1947). You may recall an appeal was made some- married Lt. USN Wallace Estill Guitar, in Old time ago for a 1922 Lucky Bag for Margaret Cooper Lyme. After many tours of duty, including Pearl Pollock of Bethesda, Granddaughter of Ruth and Harbor during the Japanese attack, they settled in George Cooper. So — lo and behold, Jerry Nuss Old Lyme, and raised five children. Rear Admiral read about it, and as a result, a friend of his in Guitar died on Dec. 7, 1967. On July 17, 1971, she Charleston, South Carolina, a Mr. Henry Hutson, married Rear Admiral Winston Estes Pilcher Folk, who is connected by marriage to the Class of 1922, USN (Ret.) in Old Lyme, who was a Classmate of offered it, and so now Margaret is the proud posRear Admiral Guitar at the Naval Academy in Ansessor of a 1922 Lucky Bag. The world becomes a napolis. They shared many happy years of retirement better place every day, doesn't it? The gesture was in Old Lyme, and enjoyed traveling to Wink's home such a touching one, we thank you again. Our Class- in Tennessee. Rear Admiral Folk died on Feb. 28, mates, who are no longer with us, are certainly look1994. Janet was a deacon of the First Congregational ing down from on high — a great band of gentlemen Church of Old Lyme, a former trustee of the Phoebe they were!

Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, a member of At Sea — September 6, 1995 the Old Lyme Beach Club. She is survived by her In case you didn't know, these notes are being children, Terry Guitar Caballero of Bolinas, CA; written on the high seas, mind you, on board our Barry Estill Guitar of Milton, VT; Leonard Griswold small ship Explorer formerly Lindhead E.xplorer — Guitar of Lyme; Gordon Jeremy Guitar of Warner, a sturdy vessel of 248 feet in length and a craft of 14 NH; and Mary Kennedy Guitar of Richmond, CA; a 1/2 feet enables it to venture into more shallow wa- grandson, Alexander Duncan Guitar of Lyme. She ter — and was built for this purpose. Anyway, there is also survived by her brothers, Capt. USN (Ret.) is a great deal of movement this afternoon, rolling Griswold Terry Atkins of Wynnewood, PA, and Adgently and pitching some also. However, our sea legs miral USN (Ret.) Barry Kennedy Atkins of haven't failed us yet. Its purpose is a Study Cruise Fredericksburg, VA. Janet's family is deeply gratesponsored by the Smithsonian Odyssey. It is staffed ful for the love, care and comfort given by Salud with a very competent Captain and Officers, as well Quibir and Charlotte Quigley. In lieu of flowers, as splendid stewards and crew — Filipino — remem- contributions may be made in her memory to the Old ber how great they were — those of you who re- Lyme Visiting Nurse Association, PO Box 56, Old member Philippine days of old! We enjoyed duty Lyme 06371 or the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, 2 there before the War (WWII). Needless to say, a pas- Library Lane, Old Lyme 06371. senger list of only 96 keeps it from being overShipmate received the following from Robert A. crowded.

McClelland, class of '46, son-in-law of Mrs. Ruth The cruise began in Bournmouthe. England, on Wadell Nichols. "Mrs. Ruth Wadell Nichols, widow September 1, 1995. with stops at Brest, France (how of Capt. Robert Paul Wadell, Class of 1923, and many midshipmen cruises put in there?) then a brief RADM Philip Gardner Nichols, class of 1921, died visit to Vigo, Spain, to get to Santiago de Gaurjostilla, on 18 December 1994 at home in Burlingame, Calithen Lisbon, and now on to Sevilla tomorrow. fornia. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Our destination is a port you will all remember, I Wadell Bluck, and son, Robert P. Wadell Jr., as well am sure — Barcelona! Lectures are given while we as by her two stepdaughters. Ellen Nichols are cruising at sea, on Spain and Portugal, and "the McClelland and Ann Gardner Mayles. Mrs. Nichols' Age of Discovery" — those chaps were really the remains were interred in the grave site of RADM "Ancient Mariners" — venturing where few had Nichols in Arlington National Cemetery during a dared before. private family ceremony on 28 December 1994."

The Astronauts of today face much the same as they embark into unknown areas, even with all our scientific knowledge of today.

It was not our intention to write a personal diaWOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A tribe, but no choice was left with our departure date CLASSMATE HONORED IN so far from the deadline of September 18, 1995. So. be patient, perhaps in our absence the mail bag will ALUMNI HALL? ANNIVERSARY, be filled with letters from our fans.

Entonces, Hasta La Vista. Amigos'. Jo Carter BIRTHDAY, GRADUATION, OR

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Pres., RAdm. William B. Bailey USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Raymond R. Waller USN (Ret.) 25 Spruce Court, Moorestown, NJ 08067 All of us are very dedicated as ever to our Class.

All of us, who are left, relive our midshipmen days, with great memories. Also the experiences of fighting WWII together, and our Class, distinguishing itself at sea and on the battlefield. Also the comradeship we had with our Classmates on our Class parties, sharing in the happiness of marriages and the arrival of children. The parties after several years began to dwindle in participation, as we grew older, and some left our ranks to their great reward to their Commander in Chief in heaven.

I respectfully ask that you please send me your current addresses and phone numbers so I can contact you. When I call by telephone, the numbers no longer apply, also letters are returned, marked no longer here. It is a time consuming job looking each Classmate up in the Navy Register I have contacted, in Coronado, California, Betty Ekstron, Helen Yeomans, Helen Townsend (where son. Bill Townsend graduated USNA Class of 1956), and Kay Burroughs, who advised that Truman Redding has a cottage in Rancho Bernardo, California. Leila Dunn celebrated her 90th birthday. Her whole family came from as far away as France, Brussels and all over the U.S. with their children. Really a momentous occasion in her life.

All those mentioned are enjoying their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Gloria Bailey just finished two years as President of Coronado Republican Women, helping to elect Republicans. (Gloria's claim to fame is that she recently had her picture taken with Newt Gingrich.)

The Coronado Chapter Navy League, honoring local WWII veterans recently at a dinner at Coronado Cays Yacht Club, asked those present to give short talks regarding some of their experiences during WWII. Bill Bailey told of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the returning of General Douglas McArthur to and the recapture of the Philippine Islands. It was a huge affair comprising some 700 ships and crafts.

RADM Raoul Waller and Helen Louise recently visited San Francisco, California to attend the wedding of their grandson. They also visited Coronado, California to see old friends, among whom were Helen Yeomans, widow of RADM Elmer Yeomans.

While here they were entertained by Gloria and Bill Bailey at a luncheon at the Meridian Hotel. Also, attending that luncheon were Cameron Briggs and his close friend Theo Feeney.

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There are so many I would like to hear from with their current addresses and phone numbers. Send to: William B. Bailey, 725 Adella Avenue, Coronado, California 921182206.

Again, be assured the U.S. Naval Academy and especially our Class of 1924, will be forever in our hearts, and we will continue to have our Class, with your input.

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Pres., RAdm. Walter C. Ford USN (Ret.) Sends news directly to Shipmate Tribute To The Villa...

Captain George L. Purmont USN (Ret.) now lives in Coronado Villa. He penned the following tribute which he sent in for this column: In the Villa Coronado, with 60 patients much like me, Every need and wish is answered with concerned ability.

Every nurse is skilled and helpful.

Every meal gourmet delight.

Every call for help is answered with speed and care both day and night.

No more golf for this old Captain, No more fishing at the shore.

Still with fifty TV channels.

Who could ask for anything more.

Though my dancing days are over And my eyes can hardly see.

It's the Villa Coronado That is home sweet home to me.

From "Henry" Ford: I recently had as luncheon guests RADM and Mrs. Francis J. Thomas. Our friendship dates back to elementary school in Buffalo, NY. In 19221 we set off in company with Stan Pellman for the Naval Academy Stan left the Naval Academy at the end of Youngster year In September of First Class year Thomas and I decided to visit Stan Pellman in Hamburg, NY, a suburb of Buffalo.

That evening he arranged for us to visit a girlfriend who was having two sorority friends visiting her We had a pleasant time and I met Channez Gates. I arranged several dates in Buffalo before returning to the Naval Academy which let to marriage to Chan and 67 years of happiness together and the rearing of a large family.

A further note, I am planning on leaving Annapolis at the end of the year and moving to Reno, NV with my daughter Barbara and her husband, ending 74 years of association with the Naval Academy.

With best wishes to '25 Classmates.

Happy Birthday USMC 52

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Pres. and Sec'y Capt. Francis L. Busey USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y Capt. Gordon Campbell USN (Ret.) 3848 Somerset Drive, Durham, NC 27707-5017 Our Classmate, George H. Weis, died on 25 August 1995 at his home in Westfield, NJ. "Gus" had left the Navy in 1928 after serving two years aboard TEXAS. He entered the metal industry, later joining the American Smelting and Refining Co. of New Jersey. He returned to active duty during Worid War II including service as navigator of the escort carrier ALTAMAHA in action in the South Pacific. Gus rejoined the American Smelting and Refining Co. after the war and became a Division Manager His daughter, Martha Lee McGill wrote that her father had a very full and rich life and that his family was with him when he died peacefully in his sleep. A grandson, Jeffrey L. McGill, unable to go to the Naval Academy because of his eyesight, entered Purdue NROTC and after commissioning attended the Nuclear Power School, serving aboard LONG BEACH. Gus' wife, Charlotte, lives at 969 Cherokee Court, Westfield, NJ. Martha Lee wrote that her Dad was never happier than when he was at the Academy and took pride in his Class.

Ben Custer has plans well underway for the 70th Class Reunion in Annapolis. Write him at 8 Holly Lane, Loudon Woods, Rye, NY 10580 or phone 914967-3589. On Friday, 26 April 1996, members will review the dress parade at 1545. Loew's Hotel on West Street is tentatively selected for the rallying point. It has good rooms, good service, a broad courtyard for loading and unloading and plenty of elevators.

In the anecdotal department, Mark Clay recalls an interesting happening: During WWII Burnham McCaffree and I were the only two officers aboard a small airplane flying to Quonset Point, RI. As we taxied in from the landing strip we saw, waiting to greet us, a contingent of Waves in parade formation. When the door opened and the officer in charge of the Waves saw that the VIP was only Burnham, a male and a mere captain, she was disappointed. But she quickly recovered her composure, saluted Burnham and said, "The Waves are ready for inspection, Sir" Burnham walked ahead, gravely inspecting the formation, and I followed.

After some conjecture, I guessed that the message announcing our flight plan had become garbled and that Quonset believed it was not Burnham aboard, but Mildred McAfee, head of the Waves.

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Pres,, 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 Endowment Fund - A meeting of class presidents was held at Annapolis on 7 September This afforded an opportunity to become acquainted with the several new members of the Alumni Association staff â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose names are listed in the front part of Shipmate.

The principal topic discussed was fund raising and in particular an upcoming drive to build up an "Endowment." Ideally, the endowment will build up to a size which will be sufficient to generate interest

sufficient to pay for future projects. It was pointed out that a considerable amount had been acquired in the past from bequests in wills.

Memorial services were scheduled for Helen and Pete Ferrall to be held in the USNA Chapel on 26 September, followed by interment in the columbarium. A reception in Alumni House followed.

Contributions for Shipmate - You will have noticed a marked increase in the volume of articles in Shipmate. However, inputs from our dwindling numbers have not kept apace. While this is to be expected, there are sources of material that would be of interest to readers of our magazine.

So, please go through your old snapshots and memoranda that you could not bear to throw away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; rediscover some of your old sea stories and send them in. Remember that we are dealing with a generation that look on the "olden days" as a period in the forties and fifties.

We are sorry to report the death of Larry Freeman who passed away after a long illness at home in Coronado, Calif on 21 August 1995. His Academy roommate. Bunny Gates, described him as "always ready for fun, a fight or a frolic. He is all that can be desired as a friend and a shipmate."

He enjoyed a comfortable academic average, standing in the middle of the Class. He excelled in athletics, winning a block N in soccer and in crew.

He was an accomplished musician with the piano and accordion and delighted in entertaining.

His full and distinguished naval career is described in the "Last Call" section. This was followed by a second career of equal length with the Rand Corporation.

The Class has made a contribution to the Naval Academy Alumni Association in his memory.

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Sec'y, Capt. Albert O. Momm USN (Ret.) 717 Maiden Choice Lane, Suite 518 Catonsville, MD 21228 The B L C lost another famous member when RAdm. Rollo "Swede" Norgaard passed away on 3 September at age 90 in Winter Park, FL. He was the grandson of Nels Johnson Norgaard, one of the pioneer settlers of South Dakota. The story of his life and career, well covered in the Annapolis Courant, appears in this issue's "Last Call".

Other sad news is the death of Jesse (Mrs. John Addison) Scott, age 91, in Sun City AZ, on 2 September She was cremated and interred in Ariington National Cemetery October 23rd.

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Pres., RAdm. Samuel B. Frankel (Chick) USN (Ret.) 17379 Bernardo Center Dr., San Diego, CA 92128 Sec'y Capt. Philip R. Osborn USN (Ret.) 8206 River Crescent Dr, Annapolis, MD 2I40I Corr. Secretaries: Calif, RAdm. Chuck Triebel USN (Ret.) 12751 Gateway Park Rd., Poway, CA 92064 Florida, Dot Flatley Box 813, Bartow, FL 33830 At this writing I am still at the Health Center, Ginger Cove, but expect to get back to the apartment before long.

I received two nice letters from Woodie Teague which follow, and also have news of Dickie Dickinson. I had a nice note from Tweed Ferrier from Huntington, NY. He and Faith are doing all right and glad for Medicare. Otherwise, there has been nothing in the incoming basket.

From Woodie: Mary Ann and I enjoyed, so much, seeing you again after all those years. Enjoyed the brunch at the Academy O' Club and the tour you gave us around the Academy and the old town. With a tour guide, who has lived there as long as you have, it was really educational.

To one that last saw Annapolis and the Academy over sixty-six years ago, it was an eye opener First, I was shocked to see little girls running around in uniform. I actually saw a midshipman parking his car! We were not allowed to ride in a car — much less drive one. The Chapel has been enlarged until 1 hardly recognized it inside. Tecumseh was still there, but Bancroft Hall has certainly been enlarged.

Apparently a lot of the space formerly under the Severn river has been filled in to provide more drill and athletic space. There were many new buildings and some now under construction. The entire premises seemed neat and shipshape, as ever, so 1 guess everything is still in good hands.

As to the town, I didn't notice that much change.

Our old favorite ice cream store was no longer there.

I remember that many of us spent a lot of our $3.00 to $5.00 monthly draws in that place and I miss it — even now. The buildings in the old part of town still front on the streets with no set back, to make it convenient to step out of the carriage onto the porch without wading through the mud. A picturesque old town!

Dickie Dickenson lives in a cottage fronting the Gulf in Pensacola, Florida. I was concerned about what hurricane Erin might have done to him, but his daughter just called me and he is in good shape. He boarded up the windows and he and his dog "Millie" went to a shelter, I believe.

Mary Ann and I went on the USNA sponsored trip to Russia in 1985 and enjoyed it very much, so we have signed up for their trip through the Panama Canal next March. The last time I went through the Canal was our famous trip on the FINLAND in 1925.1 think this will be more comfortable, but probably not as exciting as when we were teenagers.

Drop us a line when you can and keep up the good work on Shipmate. We all appreciate what you do, even if we don't tell you.

So sorry to hear of your accident. I have known of many who have suffered a damaged hip and it "ain't fun". I don't see how you managed to get out your last column. Did you have someone providing the motive power for the wheelchair?

Dickie sent me an E-mail yesterday. He is visiting his daughter on the North end of Colorado Springs.

He banged up his head and arm a little in the hurricane in Pensacola. He, his daughter and her husband are going to Las Vegas to attend a wedding, but 1 expect them back in a few days. They wanted to bor-

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row a truck to bring back their winnings, but, you will notice, that's before they left! We'll see if they still need it on the way back!

Yes, we enjoyed the article on Kemp Tolley. The only thing we don't enjoy about Shipmate is the number of '29ers listed in "Last Call". Guess we should be thankful we have as many left as we do.

The Alumni Association sends the following information on reporting the death of a Classmate or spouse: The individual who has first knowledge of a member's death should immediately call the Naval Academy Alumni Association — Records Department, 410-263-4448 (and the Class secretary if possible) with the following pertinent information.

Date, place and cause of death Date, time and place of funeral services Surviving spouse's name and address Immediate survivor's name and address Biography available YES or NO Photo available YES or NO Person and phone number to contact for further information In reporting the death of a widow. Records Department would need only the date of death and if possible, location.

Philip Osborn, '29

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Pres., RAdm. William O. Snead USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. John A. Moreno 1214 Fifth St., Coronado, CA921I8 619 435-3732 How good to have a happy time, rather than the sad ones we have had for the past several months!

On September 1st we had a very pleasant Class Luncheon at North Island. Among those present were: Dottie and Lee Bole. Harvey Burden and his guest. Dale Johnson, Louise Lynch, Betty McClain, Margaret and Rowland McKnight and their son John McKnight, Stuie and Jack Moreno, Roscoe Newman, Rita Verhoye and her guest Averill Raymond and Walt Walter.

We were particularly glad to welcome Louise Lynch. She has been plagued by bad health and impaired vision but her courage and bravery are exemplary.

Because of low attendance our San Diego Group Class luncheons have been changed to once a quarter The next one will be the annual Army Navy Game Party to be held at the Naval Amphibious Base on 2 December Of course the game starts at 12 Noon Eastern Time which is 9 a. m. Pacific Time. Maybe we should call it a "breakfast" rather than a "luncheon". Anyhow, Beat Army, Breakfast or Lunch!

Belated Discovery: We have just finished reading Tom Clancy's lengthy most recent novel. Debt of Honor. It is fictitious, of course, but one of the leading characters is Captain Bud Sanchez, CO of JOHN STENNIS, grandson of Henry Gabriel "Mike" Sanchez (Honestly, p. 188). Don't know where Tom Clancy got Mike's name—Jack Lee, Mike's old roommate, would like to know, too. Clancy also mentioned Mush Morton but that was mere name dropping of a very famous submariner.

We had looked forward to seeing Bill Lowery this summer during his annual visit to San Diego—not including his quick trip to Rebel Lowranee's memorial service. Bill did come to town but. unfortunately, wasn't feeling well enough to join in any social activities.

A nice note from thoughtful Lil Nelson, forwarding a newspaper clipping from the Alexandria Journal covering Bob Craighill's World War II exploits.

The Japanese bombed VINCENNES off the coast of Guadalcanal in 1942. When the then naval officer swam in shark infested waters from which he would not be rescued for another five hours, he watched the ruined ship slide into the Pacific, bow straight in the air Recalling the stuff of nightmares—and Craighill has had his share—brought him to the question of forgiveness for the destruction and death the Japanese caused in World War

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Veterans, their loved ones and families are attempting to come to grips with their memories of the War. A delightful letter from Jack Howell's articulate daughter, Beth (Howell) Ellis. Quoting: I am writing on behalf of my father, John (Jack) Howell, who is presently living in his home in Winter Park, FL. Dad enjoys your column and that monthly event may well be the highlight of each thirty days. With loss of sight, diminished hearing and breathing difficulties he has been forced to give up sky diving, bungee chord jumping and the steeple chase which activities have long been in advanced contemplative states. He has had to settle for the challenges of getting both feet on the footstool and finding the "on" button of the recorder, sharing stories spiced with four letter words the Navy never taught him. His two eldest daughters have been alternating tri-monthly stays to assist him and chaperone his social life with long time friend and surrogate Mother. Bea Kohr (Capt. G. L. Kohr.

'29).

Thank you for the great job you are doing in keeping the Class of 1930 together and bringing back wonderful memories to brighten the days!

Wasn't that a nice letter!

By the time this column is published we should have completed our 65th Reunion and the mighty efforts of Bill Snead in organizing it. More on the Reunion, of course, in our next issue. Incidentally, did you know that Bill is moving to a retirement home in Annapolis? We'll give you his new address later 30 for now!

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Pres. (Acting), RAdm. J.O. Miner USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. A. B. Metsger USN (Ret.) 3520 N. Roberts Ln., Ariington, VA 22207 (703) 524-4599 (O); (703) 525-2981 (H) Our 15 August luncheon at Chevy Chase Club was — let's say intimate. We had Bouve' (brought by daughter Bobbie), Metsger, Miner, Steere, and Johnny Webster. We were most happy to have Dick Steere who with a vision problem does not drive; he came by taxi from Mitchellville. As usual at these Chevy Chase luncheons the card players — in this case Webster and Metsger — remained for a few hands of bridge. Donald MacDonald could not make our luncheon, but joined the bridge contest later We regretted the absence of our outspoken and regular attendee Joe Gardiner who had been driving in from his distant cattle ranch to Fairfax where he joined Jack Miner for the final lap into Chevy Chase.

The 19 September luncheon was delightful and better attended: Bucky Bouve' brought by son Tom, Bill F i t z g e r a l d , Doc M a c D o n a l d . Dorothy McFarlane. Lynn and Abe Metsger, Jack Miner, Estelle Needham. Easy Stewart. Margaret Toth, Virginia and Johnny Webster, Elsa and Susan Woodaman. We took a number of good pictures. This was one of our four coed luncheons of the year — Valentine luncheon in February, the July "picnic".

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September, and Christmas luncheon in December The secretary again suggested that members provide biographical notes and head and shoulder portraits for their Class files, for use if needed.

left her incapacitated. Dot lived in Los Alamitos, to which she and Jack had moved a few years after their marriage in 1981. Jack had died in 1989; his brother.

Bill, USNA '36 of Coronado was our source of information.

Joe Thornton tells us all is as before in Naples, Florida. He reported flooding rains; we in the Washington area after a month or so of heat and no rain at all wondered why some of this had not been vectored to us. At the time of writing, the golf course played by Red Child had just emerged from the water Johnny Webster's golf visit to Naples preceded the floods.

ChChClb 19 September: Easy Stewart, Elsa Woodaman, Bucky Bouve'

19 Sept: Doc MacDonald, Margaret Toth, Estelle Needham, Lynn Metsger

19 Sept: Metsger, Dorothy McFarlane, Miner, Fitzgerald, Webster We discussed the possibility of a 65th Reunion, but no decision was made — no one offered to take on the task. Is there someone out there who will take responsibility for this as our good Les Wood did for our 50th?

From La Jolla Bob Heilig reports plans for a San Diego Class Luncheon to be on Thursday the 21st.

He expects a good turnout. Bob and Tena plan a vacation in Oregon mid September We called the Crowleys in Severna Park — Lou and Jack have given us steadfast support in Annapolis matters; more recently Carl Mott has looked after our Annapolis affairs. We regret that we couldn't have an Annapolis contingent at our September coed meeting, for reasons of physical limitations and difficulty of transportation.

We telephoned Julie Becton — talked with both Julie himself Becton and daughter Julie. Julie reports he is staying close to home and making progress, and Betty is doing OK. Gene Williams, USNA '56, happily reports that a grandson of his father in law. Bob Wilbur, began his plebe year at the Academy on 30 June. Our new representative is Timothy A. Williams, '99. Gene and Bob's daughter Charlotte attended I Day and Parents' Weekend to give their son a good sendoff They tell us "Tim is doing great".

We report three Classmate deaths in this issue; see "Last Call". They were Pete Powell, Barney Sieglaff. and Karl Wheland. We also lost Dot Parham; our lovely girls not being included in "Last Call" we must say something about our lady losses in this column.

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Jack and Dot Parham with Phil Mothersill, 1988 We are glad to have this nice picture of Jack and Dot (and Phil Mothersill). It was at a weekly bridge meeting in 1981, this time at Jack's, that Classmates heard of their resumed romance: a romantic Jack shocked other members of the group, Bouve', Crumpacker and Metsger, "You'll never guess whom I was talking with on the phone this morning — my Annapolis date Dot, whom I have not seen for fifty years." In a few months the Washington group attended the Arlington wedding of Dot and Jack; transportation for the principals being provided by the Class Official Car (Ray Hunter's Rolls Royce chauffeured by Ray). Dot had been Jack's OAO through Midshipman days; then those fifty years and marriages intervened before they got together again.

In the meantime Dot had worked in the Movie Industry and had achieved a commission in the Army.

Here's a letter Jack wrote about the wedding: "Dot and Jack kept steady company from mid 1926 until July 1931. At our 50th Reunion, Jack learned from Bob Heilig Dot was now a widow and he lost no time in resuming the interrupted courtship, which was carried to a successful conclusion this time."

Bennie Bass reported Karl Wheland's West Coast service: Margie and I just retumed from the funeral held today. Thursday 14 Sept in Santa Ana. I received word of Karl's passing from Bob Heilig. He was about to go to Oregon and he told me Ernie Ellsworth would know the facts about Karl. He told me where and when, but said he could not attend. I asked him if the Class was sending flowers, and he said as far as he knew, no. When I learned I would be the only Classmate at the funeral, I felt I ought to get flowers for the Class — and did. We got a spray and delivered them to the family at the funeral with a card from the Class of '31.

If this is an unauthorized expenditure of Class funds, I will pay for it. [Bennie is being reimbursed.]

As you know, Karl will be buried in Arlington on Thurs., 21st Sept. Karl's son, Tom, and son-inlaw Bill Trueblood '53 USNA, and other family members will be there. I tru.st we will be well represented by the Class. [We'll be represented, but we don V have the numbers we used lo have.]

Margie and I just retumed from a visit to Salt Lake City and attended there the Submarine Vets of WWII convention celebrating VJ Day. (I was at Tokyo Bay at the ceremonies on 2 Sept 1945; and on 2 Sept 1995 in S L City 50 years later) We are leaving Sat for a visit to Arkansas for 4 or 5 days Ali Gadrow, our Virginia Beach reporter, enjoyed an August cruise to Alaska, reported plans for a September 24 luncheon in the Virginia Beach / Norfolk

Joe Thomton, Johnny Webster, JB Colwell, Naples, June 1995 Calling John Crumpacker in Melbourne Florida we were as always delighted to hear his familiar enthusiastic voice. John says he is progressing well.

Elynor Brown assures us all is well with our Fleet Landing residents: herself, PK Will, and Jean Ritchie.

December 1993 we quoted 1st Class Cruise letters from George Greene dated 21 and 22 June 1930.

We continue the visit to France as seen by George, we savor rich memories of this cruise. Most of us had slightly different memories: Cook's Tours.

George: Monday, 23 June. Up 0345 — Madhouse — finally got ashore, train started on time; got off at Megidon. They all thought I had missed the train.

Some French woman next took me for a porter (even as in US) and asked me in French the whereabouts of the train; I told her Changed again at Le Mans and got in a dinky little second class carriage with four wheels. It bounced on every track joint and stopped at every hitching post but finally arrived at Tours. Recognized Yvonne [cousin?] — delightful — beautiful old home — Louis XIV tower. Met three American girls and their two mothers and Monsieur Pauget and the children. Had a real bath in a tub. Just remembered that I had forgotten the letters of introduction. Great stuff. Wandered around after chow (excellent). Beautiful estate, was a hospital in the war (American); collected cherries — swell. The girls are peaches but rather out of my class in the usual course of events. Said goodbye to M. Pauget; a dam good fellow from what I've seen of him — good tennis player. Finally tumed in the best bed I've seen in a dogs age. .. .The French second class about as comfortable as our Pullmans but not so roomy. Military (1/4) fare great stuff, amounts to something less than a cent a mile. Most of their engines are either American built or designed, large and roomy cabs. Quite a few of the old ones left, however Tuesday 24 June Woke up at 6 — again at 7. Got up at 8. Breakfast in bed. Luxury no end. Finally dressed at 9, lazy and how. Best sleep since last Sept, My French is getting a workout. Everyone here can talk English but does speak French.

Yvonne took us to Tours. Visited the Cathedral — wonderful colored windows — and in the old part of town several very old houses. Interesting no end.

Rained off and on most of the morning. Got back at noon, half of the dam leave gone already. I'll leave this afternoon. In the afternoon we went out to a chateau, completely furnished with an unbelievable collection of very antique antiques.

Came back, caught 1800 rapide to Paris — there at 9:30. I seem to be one of the very few that got this military fare. Couldn't find the bunch in Paris, so went to a show. Got out at 1:30. Had to beat them off in bunches on the way back. Too damned good looking for comfort. To bed at 0200.

Wednesday, 25 June. Up at 7. Took my bag to the station and tried lo buy breakfast — not so good.

Finally some rolls and cocoa. Next time Chicago Inn. 24 hours too short a time to get acquainted in.

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Cashed a $20 check at the A. E. at 9, walked over to the Louvre, thence to L'lle de Cite and Notre Dame de Paris. Started to rain. Picked up a taxi, rode for two hours — $2. Saw about everything.

Ate lunch in a little place back of the Madeline.

Tried to shop; no soap. Beautiful stores, gloves and shoes cheap as the devil — but they didn't know any sizes. Found Sam's Bar only soda fountain in Paris and had a cocacola. Met [Eddie] Guilbert and wandered some more — finally back to Cherbourg at 1130. UTAH boat waiting for us. Four letters. To bed at 1230.

We can't help reflecting on the great value of this and similar Midshipman European cruises in broadening the young fellows culturally. (Not to mention the fun.) This cruise to France and Germany canceled out the WWI propaganda in which we had been steeped; we would hope that such enlargement of the outlook of today's Midshipmen can be achieved.

How about adding Japan? A Japanese Mid'n cruise came to Annapolis some time during our Midshipman years.

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Pres., Capt. Will L Bull USN (Ret.) 1725 Oak Lane, McLean, VA 22101 Here and There With '32 We regret that Walt Asmuth's name was omitted in the reference in the September issue of Shipmate to those Classmates who went into the Marine Corps and who are still with us. Walt is very much alive and quite active in the Academy alumni get togethers in the Virginia Tidewater area.

Our loss of Bob Evans in May and Paul Pflngstag in June brought to mind our eight Classmates who, after two years at sea, were sent to M.I.T. to study Naval Architecture. After completing the course at M.I.T, they transferred to the Construction Corps.

Just prior to World War II, in 1940, those in the Construction Corps traded their oak leaf insignia for the star as they were combined with the Engineering Duty Only engineers into one organization as part of the restricted line.

The eight who were members of the Construction Corps were Dick Mandlekorn, Floyd Schultz, Charlie Weschler, Bill Miller, Paul Pfingstag, Bob Evans, Charlie Palmer and Win Bailey.

It is interesting where our Naval Constructors found themselves on December 7, 1941. Dick Mandlekorn and Floyd Schultz were on staffs based on ships at Pearl Harbor Charlie Weschler was in charge of the Dewey Drydock at Cavite and eventually took part in the Battle of Corregidor He became a prisoner of the Japanese and did not survive the War Paul Pfingstag was a very busy person on December 7th and for quite a few days thereafter as he was the docking officer at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and had the task of docking ships that were damaged. Bill Miller missed Pearl Harbor as he was on a staff at sea with a task force in the Pacific.

Charlie Palmer served on the staff of a service squadron in the South Pacific. Bob Evans worked in ship design of landing craft, destroyers and eventually the Worid War II cruisers. Win Bailey was also involved in ship design and ship construction.

The naval constructors of the Class of 1932 ceriainly played a major role in the action in Worid War II. Unfortunately, of the eight naval constructors who contributed so much to the Navy, only Win Bailey is still with us. In a recent note Win reported that he is just out of the hospital recovering from the repair of an aneurysm. We all wish him a speedy recovery.

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Helen and Bob Maulsby recently spent an interesting day, revisiting the Naval Academy. It is something we would all find interesting and worthwhile.

They took BGen. Archie Lyons and his wife to see the Academy as Archie's wife had never been there.

Those Classmates who have attended the annual joint luncheons which we have with the West Point Class of 1932 probably remember Archie as, in his capacity as the more or less permanent Class secretary, he has been the focal point for those luncheons. The four were escorted on their tour by Bob Hofford, '61 who is the new head of fund raising at the Alumni Association. They were all very impressed with the many new additions at the Academy, most of which have been totally or partially funded by the Alumni Association through its fund raising efforts. For those of the Class who have not visited the Academy in recent years. Alumni Hall alone is worth a visit. Also the new Visitors Center is an outstanding new feature of the Academy.

Our Southern California Classmates are condnuing their regular lunch get togethers every other month. They do vary the location. Their last luncheon was held on July 11th at Dick Blair's house on the golf course at Lake San Marcos. Present were Dick Best, down from Santa Monica, Pat Willard, Marge and Harry Caperton, Betty and Al Cope, Boots Smith, Anne Thomas and two of Dick Blair's friends, Faye and Jay Lindsey. Everyone had a great time including the host. Of those who often attend but missed this lunch were Ruth and Jim Clement who were off on another cruise, Oscar Parker who is still involved in business and Jack Kaufman and Neet and Mark Dennett who were ailing. They planned to hold their next lunch on September 12th at the MCRD Officer's Club.

Harry Hull checked in with a note from his home in Manchester, Massachusetts. Katrink and he seem to be doing fine. Katrink is quite the gardener and Harry suggested that we should stop by and see their gardens. We are sure it would be worthwhile but unfortunately we cannot make it at this time. Maybe in the future.

Vic McCrea seems to be well and while he hasn't moved again he does have a new telephone number to report. His new number is area code 203-9287547.

With a new football season upon us the picture of Larry Smith, Francis Foley and Hal Bowen '33 tailgating at the opening football game last year, which was played at night, seemed appropriate. The picture clearly illustrates that little ditty which we were required to learn as plebes which went on with a very descriptive, if somewhat unprintable language describing how cold it was in Maryland, [ed note: unfortunately there was ink on the picture and we were unable to print it...Nancy] The Washington/Annapolis members of the Class held one of their regular lunches at the Fort McNair Officer's Club on September 13th. The fourteen attendees were Janet and Bill Stuart, Muriel and Barry Atkins, Frances and Will I. Bull, Nona Ward, Larry Smith, Francis Foley, Wes Johnson, Jane Moncure, Mary Pierce, Margaret Van Evera and Eddie Nisewaner This was the last luncheon planned for this year at Fort McNair The next luncheon is scheduled to be held in December in Annapolis, probably at the Yacht Club. The luncheon was very pleasant and enjoyed by all. Will I. reported on a meeting of Class Presidents which was held at the Alumni House in Annapolis. One point which was stressed at the meeting is the problem that the Academy has with funding major maintenance or alterations to existing structures. Appropriated funds are just not available and the Academy looks to the Alumni Associafion for help. One case in point is the requirement for about 2 million dollars to fund work on the chapel.

Also there exists a need for major work on Mahan

Hall. Fortunately private Donors have funded this work. One interesting point in connection with Mahan Hall. As we all remember the main floor of the auditorium is flat and now after all these years the floor will be sloped upward from the stage.

It is always sad to report those who have left us.

In this case it is two of our Classmates' widows who have gone. Anne Bom, Marty Born's widow, moved from Annapolis to the Fairfax near Fort Belvoir, Virginia about two years ago. She had not been in good health since she moved and Anne died on 11 July 1995.

Also George Bellinger's ( who was lost in the Pacific in 1942) son, John Bellinger, USNA Class of 1956 reported that his mother Lois Bellinger Starbuck passed away on 6 May 1995 in Sun City West, Arizona. A memorial service was conducted by her grandson, the Reverend Scott Starbuck.

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Pres., Capt. Raymond W. Thompson, Jr. USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Charles A. Blick SC USN (Ret.) 2725 31st St. NW, Washington, DC 20008 West Coast Sec'y, Mrs. R.S. Riddell 4037 Alameda Dr, San Diego, CA 92103 619-295-9091 Tom Long and Howie Kuehl attended, the annual USNAAA barbecue picnic on 24 July at Santa Barbara, CA. Lamar Lee's widow, Peggy, also came to this event. It was a fun affair with an attendance total of about 60 persons. 1933 was the senior class of the group.

Howie Kuehl and Tom Long The Annapolis-Washington Group met for lunch at the Chevy Chase Club on 8 August. Attending were Blick, Cobb, Dawson, Coleman, McKibbin, Mott, Oren, Pratt, Ramee, Strean and Wright. A lively general discussion was held on the subject of "retirement homes." Bill Mott advised that he and Edith, his wife, who was an intelligence analyst with the Manhattan Project at MIT during WWII, had been interviewed in depth and written up by The Daily Progress of Chariottesville, VA. Bill's and Edie's comments to the newspaper were published in the Sunday edition of 6 August, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The final "punch line" of Bill's remarks was the atomic bombs were dropped to save American lives and we don't owe the Japanese an apology for doing it. Bill, we concur, 100%.

Carl D r e s c h e r died on 9 August 1995 in Plattsburg, New York. Carl was a superb officer and a gallant and personable gentlemen who always faced the problems of this world with a smile. After retirement in 1956, Cart had an outstanding business career with the Sinclair Oil Corp.. becoming successively the President of Sinclair International Oil and

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Sinclair Refining Co. We will sorely miss you, Carl.

He is survived by his wife, Mary, a daughter Ann, a son Gerald, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Carl was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on 21 August. The following Classmates attended: Blick, Coleman, McKibbin and Strean.

Our condolences to all.

Jim Hartman bought 59 acres of land in 1952 near Sandy, Oregon that at the time was considered scrap land. Upon retiring in 1964, Jim spent the following 31 years personally restoring and redecorating the property which had been logged in 1926 and never replanted. Upon acquiring the land it was overgrown with scrub trees, bushes and vines—a little old goat was even in residence with lots of trash around. By 1993, Jim was named the Woodland Farmer of the Year in Clackamas County. John Poppino, President of the Clackamas County Forestry Association said the Hartman property was an example of a very well managed forest that was brought back from junk as a cut-over area of years gone by and a real testament to his hard work, vision and patience. Jim feels that he and his family are living in a Garden of Eden. Well Done, Jim. Henry Sturr wrote in from Walnut Creek, CA. Jane and he had just completed another wonderful barge trip on the Seine River in France. Some 8 members of their families accompanied them. In midAugust they plan to leave on an Alaskan cruise. Way to go, Henry.

Howie Kuehl wrote in from Camarillo, CA. He had just seen our Classmate Dick Ashworth on TV in the documentary on Nagasaki and our Classmate John Bulkeley on TV in the biography film on General MacArthur Howie was impressed that we did have a few famous Classmates who still make the news on TV! Two of our gallant widows have volunteered to act as West Coast News Correspondents, Lee Riddell and Ruth Jordan. Lee Riddell is the designated Correspondent with the able assistance of Ruth. Lee's address is 4037 Alameda Drive, San Diego, CA, Tel. 619-295-9091. Ruth's address is 6120 Camino del Rincon, San Diego, CA 92120, Tel. 619-582-3748.

Classmates living west of the Mississippi are encouraged to communicate with these fine ladies relative to Class affairs and news, in general.

'33 luncheon 13 July 1995 San Diego—Dorothy Kimball, Jean Duncan, Al Ryan, Leo Leon, Jane Davenport and Jane's guest

'33 luncheon 13 July 1995 San Diego—Macpherson, Ryan, Gamon, Leon

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Pres., Capt. Hugh Q. Murray USN (Ret.) Sec'y Capt. Roy C. Smith HI USNR (Ret.) 3730 Ramsgate Dr., Annapolis, MD 21403 (410) 268-5668 West Coast Correpsondent, Capt. Robert W. Leeman USN (Ret.) 1611 Chatsworth Blvd., San Diego, CA 92107 (619) 224-7710 A letter artived from the ever-wandering John Harllee, from the cruise ship Crystal Symphony enroute San Francisco to Victoria BC, just too late for the October deadline. It reported that Helen and he had a couple of memorable visits with Ginny and Champ Champlin in San Francisco and Oakland earlier in August. John went on to report that: Champ has been most active since retiring as a judge, including the raising of two million dollars for the Lincoln Child Center, which takes care of abused children in the Bay area. He was California State Commander of the American Legion and may well be the only Classmate to have run for Congress. (Too bad he didn't win, he would have been a great one.) Ginny and Champ have done more than their bit for good international relations. Over the years they have taken into their home twentyseven foreign college students for extended periods, and enjoyed every one of them.

A sad note also just missed the October column.

Charlie Henderson died of cancer in Seattle's Northwest Hospice Hospital on 6 August. After a private family service there, his ashes were scattered at sea from a US submarine. Three years of a light cruiser convinced him there was something better so he went off to SubSchool. He was in SCULPIN in Manila Bay when the Japanese attacked in December 1941, beginning a career of eleven war patrols in SCULPIN, CABRILLA, and

commanding BLUEFISH

with a Navy Cross, Silver and three Bronze Stars, and a Letter of Commendation. With the exception of post-war tours as a Seamanship prof at the Academy and a student at the Naval War College, his entire service life during and after the war was in submarines. He retired in 1961, joined Lockheed as a weapons system planner and settled in Saratoga, CA, retired again in 1971 and settled in Pebble Beach to enjoy retired life on the course. After his wife Noreen died in 1986 he martied Eileen Cleary of Seattle and moved up there to become an avid member of the Sands Point Golf Club and a noted chef He is survived by Eileen at 3045 24th Ave. West, Seattle WA 98199, 206-284-3473; son Charies Jr '65 who resigned USN in 1970 as a lieutenant and nuclear submariner and now lives in Arlington, VA; daughter Parol of Aptos, CA; grandsons Charles III of Washington, DC and Lawrence of Boca Raton, FL. A more cheerful note came from Bill Sweeney, who enjoys Shipmate "courtesy of Howie Kuehl '33," with this photo of himself and Hart Kait at the annual Santa Barbara, CA Chapter barbecue. For 28 years Hart has been Secretary-Treasurer of the chapter and head chef of the annual barbecue, where the attendance this year was over 100 alumni and wives. Bill added that he is:

Happy Birthday USMC

Hart Kait and Bill Sweeney .. .still busy trying to terminate a couple of companies that I have managed over about 30 years.

The International Golf Tour was the most enjoyable.

It must have been, for I remember Bill writing a long time ago that he had been on a golfing tour of (I think) Hawaii and had so much fun that he bought the company.

With the downsizing of the services comes a similar reduction in the number of entrants into the new plebe classes, so that the 1995 entry includes only a total of 70 (65 men and five women) Naval Academy Foundation sponsorees, of whom one is from a '34 scholarship. Mid. Thomas Barton is the Class of 1934 Honor Scholar this year, a graduate of Cedar Crest High School in Quentin, PA. He earned varsity letters in football, was President of Students for Christ, participated in the concert choir, band, and a spring musical, and received four scholastic honor awards. He was the leader of a large church youth group, captain of two nationally ranked Bible quiz teams, and served two summers on mission teams in Mexico building homes for the indigent. His Foundation scholarship was at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, PA, where he participated in football, community service, chorale, and co-founded a chapter of Christian Athletes. We wish him fair winds and following seas for the next four years.

In an old scrap book I found this photograph of '32 and '34 with seabags ready waiting on the dock for boats to take them out to ARKANSAS and WYOMING for the three-month summer cruise to Europe.

What a great cruise it was: Copenhagen and Berlin, Glasgow and Scotland, Gibraltar and Tangier, Cadiz and Seville. Somehow it seems that the youngsters of today are missing a lot by never having such cruises as midshipmen.

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Waiting to board ARKANSAS Since this is an otherwise short column, let Fid Murray tell the story of how Shoeless Joe Jackson and Frank Sinatra have one thing in common — they both shook hands with him. Joe came first, on first class summer leave when Fid stopped off to visit roommate Johnny Horton at his home in Belton, SC. Johnny took him to a cold sandwich and Coca Cola place and behind the counter was Shoeless Joe, whose hand they shook. Frankie waited until 1944

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when Fid's destroyer was in the New York Navy Yard being converted to a DMS. One of the junior officers was a college band pal of radio announcer Del Sharbutt, then running "Your Hit Parade" starring Frank Sinatra. Del invited Dotrie and Fid to a live broadcast where, "after being escorted by police through a mob of screaming bobby-soxers," they were introduced to and shook hands with the great man.

Fid added that before catching the train south for that visit to Belton he had gone to Griffith Stadium to see the Yankees, with Babe Ruth in the twilight of his career, playing the Washington Senators. On his only fielding chance in the game: ...Babe charged a short fly ball from his position in right field, lost his balance going forward, bounced to an impressive height off his gargantuan stomach, and dropped the ball in the process. I didn't get to shake his hand.

This month's dicho comes from Bill Peeler: La vida es como un juego de naipes; juege con que se Be ha dado. (Life is like a game of cards, you play the hand that is dealt.)

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Pres., Capt. Jefferson D. Parker USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. L. M. Detweiler SC USN (Ret.) 6251 Old Dominion Dr., #433, McLean, Va. 22101 Corr. Sec'y Capt, W. H. Packard USN (Ret.) 5600 Yorktown Blvd., Ariington, VA 22207 (703)536-7120 Vince Sweeney from Key West, reports on a "small world" situation which he experienced at our 60th reunion in May. The Midshipman. Jamie Valdivia, sitring next to him during the Saturday lunch at Alumni Hall, is pictured herewith. From mutual exchange of background information, it turned out that Jamie was from Owatonna, Minnesota, Vince's home town, located about 60 miles south of Minneapolis on Interstate Route 35 (of course); now having about 20,000 inhabitants, 8,000 in Vince's day. Their pre-Academy schooling, sports interests, hobby activities, and the facilities used were almost identical. Jamie's parents have subsequently exchanged correspondence with Vince, Jamie's mother mentioning that she is a "Blue and Gold" officer for the Naval Academy and enjoys same.

Midn. Jamie Valdivia and Vince Sweeney Ida Mary and Lou Detweiler mentioned their satisfaction at attending the commemorative V-J Day activities aboard the INDEPENDENCE as it cruised around the Hawaiian Islands from 26 August to 2 September 1995. Seminars held by military histori-

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ans and Medal of Honor recipients included Gene Fluckey who talked about his World War II patrols in the submarine. BARB ( S S - 2 2 0 ) . Later, at Pearl Harbor, he introduced President Clinton who was aboard the carrier CARL E . VINSON. That evening, Jeanette and Ken West entertained Ida Mary and Lou at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Honolulu. Other Oahu '35ers couldn't join, being otherwise involved or away on trips. Dining, unannounced at the Outrigger Club, like the Detweilers and Wests, were President Clinton and Hilary.

The Class family lost two more in August. Fred Brooks' wife Elizabeth (Betty), died on 17 August 1995 at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery on 24 August at the grave of their youngest son, Frederic, III. Rod Badger, Lou Detweiler and Wy Packard were the Class representatives attending the grave-side service. She is survived by her husband, Frederic, who is being cared for at the Veterans Administration facility in Bedford, MA; two sons, David and Christopher. The second loss was Don Van Ness's wife, Marie, who died on 25 August at the Villa Monte Vista Nursing Home in Poway, San Diego County, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. She had lived in Rancho Bernardo with Don since they moved there from Chicago in 1977. A memorial service was held on 3 September at the California State University San Marcos (mentioned in last month's Shipmate column). Besides Don, she is survived by three sisters and three brothers.

A note from Jack Seymour's widow, Elise, reported on her West Coast trip in August. She started with a visit to her brother Bill DuBois in BelHngham, Washington. He drove her over to see Winifred and John Middleton in their "lovely home". They had a fine visit and "Pinkie" produced for them a delicious lunch. Elise then headed south to Coronado where she saw many '35ers and neighbors from the four years she lived in Coronado after Jack's death. Mary Jo and Bill Hazzard facilitated this reunion with old friends by giving a nice cocktail party for her Ruth and Slade Cutter also made a West Coast trip in August. Driving west, they spent the first night with Barbara and Norm Meyer in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Betty and Lyie Blohm, of Carlsbad, were included among dinner guests that night at the Meyers'. Driving on, the Cutters stopped in Santa Fe to visit Slades' daughter and husband, Anne and John McCarthy ('62), and then continued on to La Jolla, CA where they spent five days with Teeny and Lew Schock. Cocktail and dinner parties kept them well occupied, and Slade attended a San Diego area weekly '35 luncheon with Lew. Ruth and Slade then drove north visifing relarives and friends at Rancho Bernardo and Thousand Oaks in California before going on to visit for a few days with relatives in Medford, and Portland, Oregon. Finally, they headed east to Salt Lake City for the US Sub Vets WWII Narional and Slade's SEAHORSE reunions. Assume that, in due course, they got back to their home in San Antonio, Texas, after the weather cooled off there.

And on the subject of submarines, John Walling's widow, Annabella Dubois, from McLean, Virginia, attended the dedication of the "Wall of Honor, National Submarine Memorial" at Groton, Conn, on 2 September, honoring those submariners who died in the service of their country in World War II. John was commanding officer of the SNOOK (SS-279) when it was lost on its 9th patrol in April 1945.

Annabella found the memorial service in Groton very impressive, and she was glad she was able to attend and spend a few days in Groton. She passed on a copy of the Dedication Ceremony program to your Corr. Sec'y. Said program shows Gene Fluckey on the Advisory Panel to the Wall of Honor Executive

Committee. The Program also shows the names of all those lost in the 52 honored submarines which are also inscribed on the Wall of Honor These include several '35ers.

Address change: Dick Hughes made a major move from Florida to 624 Redmond Road, Eureka, CA 95503-9526.

Snapshots taken at our 60th keep coming in. A few more are shown herewith.

Joe Wesson's son. Joe III. Janet Wesson, Joe, Annie and Tom Gillmer

Annabella Dubois and Wy Packard

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Pres., Capt. John M. Oseth USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. O. M. Butler USN (Ret.) 1101 S. Ariington Ridge Rd., Ariington 22202 Capt. William A. Ellis USN (Ret.) 4101 Downing St.. Annandale, VA 22003-2017 800-799-USNA; (703) 256-0159 Where did everybody go? Our pleas are apparently only falling on deaf ears because once again we have little or no news from anyone. You don't even have to write, although we must admit that is

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preferable. All you have to do is pick up the phone and ring in 800-799-USNA. We promise you'll not be put on "Hold" or told to press any more numbers.

So let us hear from you. Now on with the news we have.

The WB and A Clan had its Fall luncheon on 13 September at the Rincome, a Thai restaurant on Columbia Pike, with Margot and Phil Phillips hosting.

It was a most delightful luncheon enjoyed by everyone with its unusual selection of Thai foods on the menu. We went for the soft-shelled crabs which were indeed delicious and better than some we've had in the state of Maryland. The turnout may have been small, but the camaraderie was there and the usual number of sea stories told. Present to enjoy this gettogether were: Blanche Baumeister; Fred Bennett; Dick Bradley (Pat was at home packing for their trip north); Mack Butler; Ede and Bill Ellis; Jean and John Oseth; Margot and Phil Phillips; Beverly and Bill Price; and Gil Slonim. No business was transacted, but our President did give us a report on a meeting of all the Class Presidents that was held in Annapolis by the new Staff of the Alumni Association. So now we'll have to sit down and read the new instructions and regulations by which we Class Corresponding Secretaries will have to operate.

Mack Butler had just returned on 12 September from St. Paul, MN, where he attended a reunion of the Wardroom Officers of the old four-piper HOPKINS. Said they all had a wonderful time and were given an excellent tour of the St. Paul, Minneapolis area.

Pat and Dick Bradley left on Friday, 15 September, for Newport, RI, where Dick attended the reunion of the destroyer DALY ( D D - 5 1 9 ) , an event he hasn't missed in many a year After the reunion, the Bradleys planned to head on up north to see Charlie Andres whose wife died earlier this year.

Our best wishes go to Paul Bjarnason who didn't join us at the Fall luncheon because he was just out of the hospital following a bout with celluliris. According to Paul he is at home now and doing well, and we wish him a speedy recovery.

Our thoughts and prayers also go to Jim Gray who was back in the hospital for surgery on his back on the day the Fall luncheon was held. We also wish Jim a speedy recovery.

Our congratulations to Gil Slonim who was chosen to lead the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of V-J Day held at the U.S. Navy Memorial on 2 September Gil spoke at the ceremony and placed a wreath at the feet of the Lone Sailor statue in honor of all who served in the war Gil, who was a member of Fleet Admiral Halsey's staff, served as the interpreter for artangements for the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship MISSOURI. His speech "Victory in the Pacific Maritime War," was most appropriate.

In closing we applaud Bettsy Shaw's efforts to put CBS in its place regarding WWII in the Pacific and who really brought about the surrender of the Japanese on 2 September In her letter to the Producers of the CBS program which used General Swartzkopf as its spokesman, Bettsy said the program was a very fine revelation of the U.S. Army's rewrite of history in its own image, completely neglecting a few facts that would educate the populace about the real happenings in the war of the Pacific. She then puts forth the numerous actions by the Navy and what it did to put the Army ashore so it could do its island hopping. In conclusion, she says: CBS could take a lesson from NBC's Victory At Sea which happens to be a very true depiction of the war, not neglecting the Army's role. Too bad General Swartzkopf didn't see fit to tell it as it was.

What he did was diminish the validity of what he said, and worse, misinform the American people, most of whom know nothing about that long past war and hence have no idea how vital our Navy is to our nation today. Unwittingly, he and CBS have done the country a very great dis-service. Maybe

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you, Ms. Nathan, can rectify this. I hope so.

HEAR! HEAR! CBS take note! Nice job Bettsy With this issue we begin our thirty-ninth year as your Class Scribe. It has been a pleasure keeping you informed, but we can't do it by ESP. So sit down right now and send us a note with some news and what you are now doing, or just pick up the phone and punch in 800-799-USNA. We'd like to hear from you.

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Pres., Capt. John S. Slaughter USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., RAdm. D.G. Baer USN (Ret.) Sec'y Capt. Frank N. Shamer USN (Ret.) 7112 Lewison Dr, San Diego, CA 92120-1248 Ralph Cousins reports in from his annual salmon fishing trip to Iceland. He fished seven days on each of two rivers. The weather was reasonably good, near 50 degrees Fahrenheit, but winds of 30 knots stretched the skills of even this devoted fly-fisherman. He caught a few nice salmon, had a fine happy hour each evening, and punched into the 80 club with a birthday on 24 July. He's ready to return next summer He reports that Mary and he are doing fine.

Frank Shamer and Bud Hall at Skippers' Brunch at Salt Lake City SubVets of WWII Convention Bud Hall and I had our annual event, meeting at the "Skippers' Brunch" at the Submarine Veterans of WWII Convention. We in '37 have our share of super-successful skippers and it would be great to see them at this annual event. Bud and I are the only ones who have showed for the event since it started in San Antonio, TX. Finally, at this convention I had the impression

that I was beginning to look like what was my impression of how the veterans I remember looked.

Our Bill Sims is having uncomfortable health problems. His Frances even suggests that he should be renamed Job. He is confined to a wheel chair and has now faced emergency surgery on his one "good" eye. A follow-up operation on the same eye may restore some sight to it, his only funcrional eye. Their morale is good and the problems are real. Their address is 3925 Marquette Avenue, Dallas, TX 75225.

Al Gerken claims to have artived at that stage of life where anything that happened some time ago were good times, and that anything curtent is by definition bad. The stage is getting old. To prove his point, Al tells of a trip he and his Charlotte made to "The Cloisters" on Sea Island, Georgia, in September, 1950 as result of a recommendation from Jo and Ed Spruance. The Gerkens were apprehensive as to the tariff especially when they eased their Ford in among all the Cadillacs and Lincolns in the parking lot. This proved to be a week of fun and pampering by an attentive staff in sunshine broken only the last afternoon by a thunderstorm. The pampering included four sumptuous meals a day, pool swimming, ocean swimming, and one round of golf At dinner the last day, they could see a man working in a hole, protected from the rain by a small tent.

Their waitress informed them that he was splicing the 360 telephones that had been cut off when a hotel gardener cut a "root" he found under a tree. Al proposed that a plate of spaghetti from him be delivered to the workman.

Al's attempt at humor and generosity fell flat with the recipient whose only comment was a shrug and, "Harrumph". Charlotte took the side of the man, causing an argument ending as did all of their tiffs by saying, "You are never so right as when you are wrong."

The $11 per person per day bill was startlingly low as it included the four meals. Their happy comments brought the clerk's Statement, "You're lucky; winter rates, tripling these, go in effect tomortow."

The fully-refreshed Gerkens had no difficulty returning to Al's Large Metal Desk in BuOrd with its dominating In basket and series of never ending senseless conferences, the mileposts of duty in the bureaucracy that is Washington, DC. When one remembers that inflafion since 1950 is about seven to one (ten to one since 1933), old dmes price wise look pretty good. Remember how small our commander paycheck was in those days?

Our Zeke Soucek-established Coordinator System is not yet functioning in high gear in the area of "Last Call" entries. When we lose a Classmate, it takes action by two elements, the survivors and the Area Coordinator Our families should know who their Area Coordinator is and how to inform him.

Get in contact with him and get him information for a curtent "Last Call" entry as soon as possible. The natural delay in Shipmate's publication schedule is bad enough. We don't need to further delay things in getting our system working.

Prefiling of these entries has been tried by others and has had its problems. In one case, the USNA graduate was "killed" when his wife died. Don't laugh; it happened to Mac and Al Fleming of '36.

So know your coordinator and get the information to him promptly. If necessary, he'll volunteer to write it and send it in or he may forward the information to me and I'll write it up and send it in. The bereaved family receives two copies of the Shipmate in which their "Last Call" entry appears.

Flick Hale has moved to Hunfington Terrace, 18800 Florida Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92647; Tel: 714-847-5580.1 understand he has disposed of his La Mesa property.

KEEP REVVIN' WITH '37 !

Shipmate, November 1995

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Pres., RAdm. M. H. Rindskopf USN (Ret.) Chairman, Wash. Area; Capt. H. M. Robinson USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. R. W. Carter SC USN (Ret.) 3118 Little Creek Lane, Alexandria, VA 22309 (703)780-8779 HI CLASS — Twelve of you asked for the application forms to have your picture and data put in the Navy Memorial video record — surely a most appropriate action!!! I've got almost another 100 applications just waiting — just give me a postcard and I'll send one along. For deceased Classmates, — roommates, widows, friends, or whoever — can complete an applicarion, send it along with a picture and 50 bucks — and the deal is done! We'd really like to see our entire Class on this great Navy record!!

NEW PROCEDURES ITEM!!! — We've had inquiries as to the proper procedures for reporting death of a Classmate or spouse. Alumni Association has given us these procedures: The individual who has first knowledge of a member's death should immediately call the Naval Academy Alumni Association — Records Department (410-263-4448) with the following pertinent information: • Date, place and cause of death • Date, place and time of funeral services • Surviving spouse's name and last known address • Immediate survivor's names and last known addresses • Biography available: Yes No • Photo available: Yes No • Person and phone # to contact for added information In reporting the death of a widow, the Records Department would need only the date of death and location — city and state. The Records Department at the National Association will be the focal point in this procedure and will enter the information in the association's database file — then will forward to Shipmate for publicarion. We'll publish the procedures for "Last Call" information as soon as possible.

PRESIDENT'S CORNER: "VJ-DAY' — Our Class has strong reasons to remember and respect that day — and do honor to its very special significance for us and for the world!! So, when I was invited by the ALABA.MA Battleship Commission to be the principal speaker at their VJ Day ceremony, Sylvia and I visited Mobile, Alabama to participate.

The theme of the day was, "A Grateful Nation Remembers"; and I emphasized, along with most of the speakers, that it was important to talk about "how the nation came together in WWII", and I also spoke of what our Class of '38 so strongly feels that, "if more of today's youth knew and understood what WWII really meant, our potential as a nation would be better assured"!!! Quite appropriately, my WWII submarine DRUM (SS-228) was on display at the Park.

It's kind of sobering to realize that 1 am the only surviving commissioned officer member of DRUM and there are no surviving skippers of ALABAMA. It was a day to remember and reflect — from the Bataan Death March — to the Battle of Leyte Gulf— to the Surrender Ceremonies on board MISSOURI (BB-63).

The ships may be gone, but there remain the memories of sacrifice, achievement, purpose and service to our Nation. Hang in there Class!! MHR M A I L B A G A N D FORUM: The mail this month mostly continues concerns we've already talked about but there are a couple of new ones. One of you is "very concerned" about a reported Academy policy which now will permit Midshipmen (male and female involved) to simply take a "leave of absence" to accomplish parenting matters, during which they Shipmate, November 1995

are eligible for medical care, and with re-admission privilege. The clip also says that Army and Air Force have similar rules! The newspaper caption on the clip is, "Academy won't expel middle parents-tobe". He signs off the letter with a question as to how this relates to the Academy mission, "to prepare midshipmen morally, mentally and physically to be professional officers in the naval service". So, I called a few local Classmates to test their reaction — WOW!!! The second clip I received had to do with whether a U.S. Army soldier could refuse to put on a United Nations uniform — saying that he didn't swear an oath to uphold a UN Charter!! A lesson from the Leadership Forum presentation says unequivocally that," if there are times when your deepseated values are at odds with the institution...you must make that fact known, AND if the institurion doesn't change, you have to make the hard call to go your way, while the institution goes the other way".

This kind of a soul-searching decision was identified to "moral courage" which was further identified as a basic component of "integrity", a most basic leadership factor!! Looks like the application of leadership principles continues to be a moving target — and even though our vintage Class may well be considered to be, "out of it", the same leadership principles continue to be very much, "with it". There were a couple of more forum subjects, but these two are enough to think about for now — what say class!!!!???

CLASS ACTIVITIES: Up Everett Washington way George Bourland hastens to reassure us that, indeed, '38ers do in fact continue to exist in the great Pacific Northwest — and he sends two pictures to prove it! The occasion was a brunch hosted by Muriel and Gordy Williams at their Kitsap Golf and CC on 26 August. Irv Frankel and Monk Masterson were "not sufficiently robust" to attend — Monk had his left knee replaced so he can go through airport check points, as must Mary Anne Schelling. "Robustiest" of the group is Gordy Williams — he has shot his age or better five times already — and Steve Johnson probably qualified as "best fed". George signs off his report by telling us the reason we haven't heard from the group very often is simply because there are so many interesting things to do and places to go in the Puget Sound area that no one has time to write!!

— Then he says, "please do not tell anybody — we are getting too many Californians and others up here already"! OKAY George, we won't tell anyone — but it's hard to trust people these days. Nice report and the pics are great! Send us some of your rain!!

Elouise Johnson, Muriel Williams, Mary Anne Schelling Petey Bourland—and '38

REMEMBRANCE: Alan R. McFarland Sr., died on 19 August, 1995 at Waverly Heights, a retirement community in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. We remember Al as a USNA athlete playing football, baseball, and Captain of the basketball team. In WWII Al had a destroyer command — BACHE that saw lots of action culminating in the Okinawa operation and those kamikaze attacks — where BACHE was badly hit. Al left the Navy in 1947 and for the next 30 years worked in chemical engineering for various companies — retiring in 1980. He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Mathieu McFarland, three sons, Alan R. Jr of Manhattan, Duncan A. of Westwood, Massachusetts, and Stuart A. of Washington, DC; seven grandchildren, and a brother Funeral services were private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Narional Parkinson Foundadon Inc., 1501 NinthAvenue, Miami, FL 33136. We have also been notified by USNAAA of the loss of Lorraine C. Hoffman, at Destin, Florida on 24 August 1995... wife of Classmate Robert C. Hoffman; we have no further information at this time. And — as always, it is hard — for us to lose friends.

M O V E S AND RELOCATIONS: My pile of "maybe" moves is still in the holding stage, and to our credit, all of us seem to be very careful — about moves. We have plenty of horror stories about retirees making quick decisions to, (I) Go to Florida; (2) move to beach front property; (3) go to the mountains; (4) return to their childhood town; (5) move in with their kids; (6) etc., etc., etc.! I'll bet every one of us knows at least one such move that turned out badly. So, it is probably a good sign that we are taking it slowly. There are about 200 of our Class — and statistically, about 85 of us will have new addresses within 3 years — so, by our '"60th" we can expect a bunch of changes. Only one thing — take it cool, and keep us posted on your new address. I can't exactly call it a "move", but our Washington Group President, Jack Raymer has "moved" to Wyoming — for two months. Jack does this every year; — and he does like Wyoming! If yours truly had such a place, he'd be long gone!! Believe me!!

CLASS CLIPS: There is one peg on my Class Board that needs updating — it is the peg for "MOST GRANDKIDS". Right now it reads the number, " 1 1 " for a southeastern Classmate, as of over 18 months ago. So, can anyone top that figure?

LAST THOUGHTS: A presentation by General Krulak to the USNA 1994 Leadership Forum, sponsored by our Class, is about the most vivid leadership discussion we know. Our Class has taken a special interest in the video tape of that address, and obviously, they do find a powerful message. General Krulak laid it out pretty well, — that basic leadership components include — Selflessness, Integrity, Courage — moral and physical, and Decisiveness — all the time, not just on Sundays!

Anyway, it is with a great sense of appreciadon that we now see General Krulak as the Commandant of the Marine Corps!!! — We say Good Luck General, and our leadership project also says, "thanks"!! Now, as a final-final thought, it's Football season! So try to make a game or two, stay slim, do exercise, and don't forget to share your summer clips and photos with us. And remember that this whole world is a fantastic miracle — so stay safe, happy, and enjoy it!! See you next month. RWC

Have you considered including USNA in your Estate Plans?

Bourland, Mansfield, Johnson, Schelling and Williams

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Pres., Capt. George Duncan USN (Ret.) 2028 North Vermont, #202 Ariington, Va. 22207 Sec'y, Capt. William J. Ruhe USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBeth Ave., McLean, VA 22102 Bob Mastin tells about a "new" sport he's discovered — sky-diving, (and he's a soon-to-be octogenarian). He writes: Actually it's really a piece of cake, especially for us airdales as one actually flies aerodynamically with his parachute, like a glider. We jumped out of the aircraft at 13,500 feet, see photo, and did a free fall to 3,500 feet in less than a minute. Then I popped the chute over the airfield for an easy landing. Try it you'll like it.

Mastin (left) being congratulated Bob never mendoned how his legs withstood the landing, though he was congratulated on his jump by the instructor A check on the whereabouts of Ned Beach on 2 September, V-J Day, revealed that he was aboard the aircraft cartier VINSON at Pearl Harbor for the 50th Anniversary "Remembrance" ceremony. President Clinton was the featured speaker Noticeably, victory over Japan was not the theme of the day but merely remembrance of the end of the Pacific War (Revisionism and some form of PC ?) Further questioning revealed that Ned had then gone to Kauai to rest up from his hectic schedule of talks and the plugging of his book. Scapegoats, the story of Admiral Kimmel and General Short being blamed for the Pearl Harbor fiasco. Hearing this, someone remarked that Ned had said that the U.S. was lucky in not getting her battleships to sea where they might have been sunk in very deep water and not been recoverable. (An interesdng thought) In line with this V-J business, Joe Vasey wrote from Honolulu to tell about how he marched in a parade through Waikiki with the WWII SubVets.

There were also marching bands, other vets and active duty contingents from all the services. Al Toulon and I marched in the vanguard of some 12 subvets, the other 25 were in a truck following behind us. The day was a broiler and we had to wait 60

three hours in a hot sun before our already pooped group started moving. But once underway our spirits zoomed as a thunderous wave of cheering and applause from many thousands of spectators followed the SubVets all during our three-mile march down Kalakaua Avenue. Pride ran deep that day.

As we approached the reviewing stand I gave an "eyes right" command and then a "hand salute".

As we passed the Commander in Chief he was preoccupied at the moment and failed to notice our salute. But a nudge from The First Lady quickly caused the President to acknowledge our salute.

Reladve to SubVets, the annual convendon of the SubVets of WWII was held at Salt Lake City at the end of August. Only two '39ers showed up there this year — Mendy M e n d e n h a l l and me, both autographing our submarine books. Bobby Clark, who had planned a massive reunion of his SENNETT crew, fifty years after they'd sunk four ships in the Japan Sea, for which Bobby got a Navy Cross never arrived. Members of his crew said that removal of cataracts and a glaucoma had not turned out too well and his recovery was delayed.

A call from Pinky Palus apprised of the death of "Ben" Johnston's wife Jeanne due to kidney failure. She was to be cremated, according to Pinky, and a memorial service held for her ashes in Saratoga, California, the site of her home. To Ben and his family of five children go the sincere condolences of those in the Class of '39 who knew Jeanne in the past.

Consistent with the "first" for a present-day '39er, as demonstrated by Bob Mastin, it was reported that Bing Gillette's wife Margalee almost equaled Bob's feat. Bing, Margalee and two daughters went to an Orioles baseball game last week, and when a foul tip sailed their way, Margalee reached up and caught it barehanded. (This is not a Bing Gillette tall tale!)

At the September '39 Washington luncheon, Danny Weitzenfeld steered the talk to the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Pacific War with Japan. I wondered why General MacArthur had been given a go-ahead to return to the Philippines. Gordy Gayle said that he was a distant cousin of F.D.R. and that had something to do with it. Then I wondered why MacArthur was in charge of the surrender ceremony in 1945 aboard the batdeship MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. My feeling was that Admiral Nimitz should have received the surrender of the Japanese. But Gordy reminded that MacArthur was to be the commander of all forces for the invasion of Japan. Thus he was designated by President Truman to receive the surrender Gordy then philosophized about how dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had demonstrated the power of nuclear weaponry, making it unnecessary to prove the cataclysmic effect of a nuclear weapon, during the subsequent Cold war with the Soviets. (Years ago, Gordy was Historian of the Marine Corps for about a year and half — and knows his stuff) When Danny discussed the usefulness of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the assembled '39ers generally agreed that Harry Truman had done the right thing — saving the U.S. from a horrendous loss of life from invading Japan itself. Bob Green emphasized that the U.S. public might have been so strongly against condnuing the war that they would have balked at an invasion of Japan. My own thoughts, after reading David McCullough's Truman, an autobiography, was that he was the best man at that point in time to make the decision to drop the bomb. And hence he should be trusted for his excellent knowledgeable judgment on almost everything that happened during his presidency. When Jack Michel, who'd been a prisoner of war for most of the entire war, was asked about the report that the heads of all Japanese prisoner of war camps had been instructed to kill all prisoners immediately upon the invasion of Japan, Jack said that all he was aware of was that the head of his camp said that if an invasion was imminent the prisoners

would get all the food left and that from then on they'd be on their own. Danny Weitzenfeld then mentioned that in Jim McBrayer's book Escape he wrote that he and Ed Huizenga were being transferred to a prison camp in Japan to be hostages, to influence U.S. strategy for bringing Japan to her knees. Ed Aiken added that Blackjack McBrayer was home from the hospital and was guaranteeing that he'd get his book to the many '39ers who've indicated a desire to buy it. Ed will follow up on this with Blackjack, who's in Birmingham, Alabama and regaining some control of his left side. When Bob Green was emphasizing the public sentiment against the War in 1945, he slyly said he was reminded of the course taught at the Boys School by Commander Tobin dealing with financial management. "At the start of the course" Bob remembered with a chuckle, "the Commander honestly admitted that he'd managed to lose all of his money in bad investments."

Then it was noticed that Stan Claypoole was missing — another "first". Concerned questioning about this unusual phenomena revealed that he'd broken his knee cap the night before. With over 30 days of drought in the area and Stan with insomnia, he arose at 1:30 a.m. and went out in the garden to water "his plants." Then he fell into a hole and damaged his leg, his loud cry awakened Betty, who didn't call 911 but resourcefully pulled him out of the hole, helped him to their car and drove him to the hospital.

Aiken, Stiles, Glennon

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Lawrence, Coulter, Duncan, Steen George Duncan mentioned that he'd gone to the annual Tailhook Convendon, this dme in Reno — "for educational purposes." He said that one woman officer attended, but that the 29th floor where "the acdvity" was (and which George looked in on) had only males moving around. He heard that two "girls" tried to crash the 29th floor party but were sent packing. And that although over 400 attended, there were no active duty admirals to be seen anywhere. George also said that he'd moved into Vinson Hall, (what a pair he and Willy Stiles will make!) Already they were planning for the Tuesday night dinner, with the proper wine, and with Betty Dudley and "friend" to be "entertained." There was also much discussion about Navy's 33-2 win over SMU last week. Does this mean we won't have to watch another Navy defeat at Homecoming? W.J. Ruhe, Secy.

Ruth and Bud Schafer, Loretta Hechler, Bill Lamb, Mary Carpenter and Bill Pauli

Pauli family appreciates them very much. It's nice to be a member of the only 4.0 Class at the Academy."

THE DISTAFF SIDE Norfolk's Betsy Williams was another of the Family Forty to report the death of Neil Rogers in Virginia Beach on 21 July, and to forward a local newspaper obit. Thanks, Betsy. Without these notifications we could never get the word out to our Class. And thanks again for sending the volume Old Ironsides up to Casdne Caper #25 as a door prize in memory of our G.G. Williams. In her letter Betsy also indicated her "...delight that Wendy (#2 daughter of Dee and the sec'y) won the Old Ironsides Prize.... " We are abashed to admit that Wendy also won Fritz Freund's carved duck prize in the ' 9 4 CCXXIV drawing. So, POLEASE, all of you — come to Castine next year and help to straighten out this suspicious situation!

Ruth Henry, Mary Carpenter, Harve Seim and DeWitt Patterson

President's Reception—Gex, Bent, Freund, Tony and Dorrie Benjes, Newcomb, President of MMA Len Tyler and D'Arcy Bent

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Pres., Capt. William M. Carpenter USN (Ret.) 1119 Aquia Dr., Stafford, VA 22554 Sec'y Cdr Leigh Winters USN (Ret.) 418 Tyler Place, Alexandria, VA 22302 WASHINGTON REPORT Forty-one of the Family Forty enjoyed the PALS' annual Picnic on a lovely, sunny Sunday, 20 August hosted by Loretta Hechler and Bill Lamb at his spacious Old Mill Bottom Road home — across the Severn from the Naval Academy. Ruth and Bud Schafer, from Manasquan, NJ, and Betty and Jake Heimark — chauffeuring Jerty Lindsay and Louise Walker — drove from Bryn Mawr PA. PALS* (*Potomac Area Lunch Survivors) present included Jonnie and Art Berndtson, Betty and Jack Bowell, Mary and Bill Carpenter (picnic supplies, photography and tables coordinators), Elouise and John Chase, Tab Collins, Chris and Mike Hanley, Vince Healey, Ruth Henry, Julianne and Ted Hill, Sis and John Lacouture, Charlotte and De Witt Patterson ('39/'40), Ed Muhlenfeld, Bob Pauli, Betty and Harv Seim, Mary and Ed Sledge, Lee and Harry Stirling, Penny and Hugh Vickery and Dee and Early Winters. The ancient and tall trees formed a leafy ceiling over Bill's greengrass estate, making this a perfect picnic spot.

Jerry Lindsay, Bud Schafer, Betty and Jake Heimark, Ruth Schafer and Louise Walker Shipmate, November 1995

Seated: Collins, Hill, Carpenter, Healey, Sledge; Standing: Berndtson, Roseborough, Vickery, Chase, Lacouture, Pauli, Stirling, Bowell. Heimark and Hanley Class reunion in June, followed by Castine Caper in June/July, and then an Annapolis picnic in August.. .all this, plus the various mini-reunions from Florida and Texas to California and New England, has given the Family Forty a busy "Summer of'95!"

Congratulations to all of you survivors (Ancient Mariners?)!

Your brain-damaged sec'y (one too many bouts with boxer Stan Wagenhals and the late "The sooner the quicker..." Jess Worley) failed to mention the contributions of Vince Healey's daughters at the Last Mass for their Mother {Shipmate, July-Aug. '95, pg.

80). Mary sang with the very excellent choir, and Jane rendered a beautiful solo of the "Ave Maria".

Helen must have been proud of them.

Frances and Harry White have sold their North Arlington, VA home and moved into Marriot's Jefferson Redrement Condominium at 900 N. Taylor St., #1716, Arlington, VA 22203: phone 703-5284641. Their timing was right on; Frances now has limited mobility because of severe Spinal arthritis, complicated by "a long time hip problem". This move puts them close to good public transportation and shopping.

Fran and Ed Kimball are still at home in Leonardtown, MD, near the nation's capitol. A recent note: "...We play a little golf (I play at it). We go to Florida (Panama City Beach) 3-4 months a year I do lots of "Honey do" and mow a lot of lawn (not too large but often)...

The Class sent a Blue and Gold floral artangement to the home of Bob Pauli following the June death of his beloved Lucille. Bob requested that we: "Tell the Class the flowers were beautiful, and the

On Board an MMA yacht —Heimark, Marjorie Clagctt, Penny Vickery, Charlotte Patterson, Patterson and Gex

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Dining at the Fire Pond in Bule Hill, Maine — Fritz and Margaret Freund, Virgil and Isabella Gex A postcard picture of the Wilson Museum in Casdne, Maine, with an August '95 postmark, carries this brief msg from Helen Longino on her first visit to "Downcast Maine": "Now I know why everyone loves Castine. Hope I can make it here with '40 some day...love the weather... and the lobster.... " But, oh Helen, wait 'til you see Marguerite and Ted Rodgers' two (2) lakeside homes; taste the Castine Inn salmon, and watch Charlotte Patterson and Penny Vickery swim in Penobscot Bay!! Then — you will have seen Castine!!!

A letter from Rose Mary, widow of our late Ed Fruechtl of St. Paul, Minnesota, explains Ed's recent long silence: "...Ed had been in a nursing home for the past 1 1/2 years. I could not take care of him any longer at home after my having 3 heart attacks, a triple bypass and c o n g e s t i v e heart f a i l u r e . . . H e had d e m e n t i a . . . d i d n ' t know his children or grandchildren...I believe he is happier now than he has been for the past few years..."

Letters to Rose Mary from Classmates recalling the happier hours with Ed would be a great help.

NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE Even at this advanced stage of our lives the games, fun and "togetherness" of the Class of Forty does not go unnoticed by our seniors of old Alma Mater.

In a recent card from Capt. Ed Conrad '37: "It was a pleasure to see you at Alamosook Lodge and at Our Lady of Holy Hope during your recent visit to Castine...My best wishes to you (all)...". Ed, a retired Dean of the MMA, lives in Castine.

A large picture postcard from Clare and Ed Hayes postmarked "8/2/95 Glasgow", but with a photograph of Edinburgh Castle "...built on top of an extinct volcano and d o m i n a t i n g the skyline of Edinburgh..."; and with a message from the evertravelin' clan Hayes: "Here we are in Edinburgh. Started in the Highlands (Inverness) and now in Glasgow. Came here on the train. Most interesting pile of rock (That's an Irish lad a-talkin'), plus the Crown Jewels! More later...."

Phoebe and Russ Merrill had to cancel all plans for Reunion 55 and CCXXV when Phoebe had a heart attack requiring a bypass operation and a long recovery period. Her condition improved in time for them to make their annual summer trip to their Nova Scotia cottage in late July '95. They now plan to visit the Washington, DC area in the fall of the year A message of thanks from Bud Schafer in Manasquan, NJ to the Castine Caper group who reacted with a collection to the sad word of son Douglas' death: "Ruth and I are deeply touched by the Castine group's gift in honor of our beloved Doug. We are donating it to the new organ fund of our Episcopal church. When we are there and hear it we will be reminded of Doug and the wonderful Class of '40."

Our co-chairman from Montclair, New Jersey did not get to rest following Reunion 55. A conference of the nation's CEOs was held in Annapolis to discuss, among other items, means of improving business and the government. In the Washington Post of 15 July 1995 Big Mac was quoted in a suggestion to

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tap an unused labor pool: "When the discussion turned to immigration John J. McMullen — former owner of the Houston Astros and current owner of the New Jersey Devils hockey team — said dry cleaners in urban areas "are all run

by Koreans," while "thousands of unemployed (afroamericans)" live nearby. He said society must entice the unemployed (afro-americans) to do these things."

Previous Shipmates have carried the word of Bob Quinn's death at his home in Shooting Creek, Hayesville, NC. We failed to mention that his first wife, Vi Quinn, is still alive but an invalid. Please add this to Bob's obit: Bob Quinn leaves behind a Navy legacy in his daughter, Kay and her husband, Ted. Dr Kay Krohne is a retired CDR who is now a corporate trainer and consultant in Coronado, CA. Her husband, Ted, is also a retired CDR '63 who now flies for USAir For those who remember Vi Quinn, Kay's Mother, she is suffering from Alzheimer's and lives in Virginia. For info, please call Kay at 619-435-6388.

When Mary and Jake Plummer were unable to attend Reunion 55 because of Jake's back injury: "...several Classmates called and told us what a grand time you all had...Really appreciated Vince Healey sending a copy of Dick Heath's homily at the Memorial Service. Dick really understands..."

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Betty Heimark, Phil and Barbara Glennon, Mary Lou Moon, Ben Frana and Louise Walker Lucky D'Arcy and Ned Bent! After Reunion 55 they vacationed at their North Carolina beach area.

Then: "...We were sooo lucky with great weather... we returned home August 12th...the very next day the effects of (hurticane) "Felix" were felt in NC, and

by Tuesday, Aug. 15th they were evacuating people off the whole coast of NC!..."

As of this day of typing the column (13 Sept.) the Bents are in St. Petersburg, Russia, for a viewing of "The Hidden Treasure", a collection of paintings recovered from Germany after WWII. Then, in-October, it's off to Baltimore for a DE reunion. Looks as though they are trying to out voyage the Hayes and Lacoutures.

Georgia may have its Newt Gingrich (a republican congressman), but a very important albeit small portion of Georgia — the town of Hampton, population 2800 — has our Cary Hall!(Applause, please.)

HE reports: .. .1 serve as the unpaid engineer of our town of 2800 ( which is all involved with the fact that we are in the sixth fastest growing county in the US with a whole lot of undeveloped acreage. Our town (with water, sewage, electricity, police, and friendly people — mostly) has NO property taxes (the county only) and we are besieged by developers who go into a catonic state when I tear apart their plans in a report to the City Council, shocked by finding the BEST critic of development plans in the WHOLE USA in the little town of Hampton (GA)....

Meanwhile, Helen and Ed Mason have taken a leave of absence (Aug./Sept.) from their elder hostel duties and Columbus, Ohio to crui.se Alaska on the Holland America Line's MV FAIRWEATHER^ including Alaska's Lynn Canal.

And at this time Cros Croft is planning on departing Glenview/Broadview, Illinois for one day to join the PALS* at their 2nd-Wednesday-of-theMonth (8 November '95) lunch and meedng, Fort Myer, VA. Bon Voyage and a Hearty Welcome?

Out west — an interesting thought from Summerof-'37-cross-country-car-pal Sam Edelstein: descendants of Family Forty members inurned in the Naval Academy Columbarium could combine a visit to their ancestral ashes with the opening of '40's time capsule in the Year 2040. Hmmmmm. Some further notes: .. .Charlotte and Gene Hemley were in Medford (Oregon) last week to visit Chariotte's sister and brother-in-law Florence and Bill Schneider. They invited me over to view the video tapes made for our 55th reunion, which I unfortunately missed.

Gene and Charlotte, assisted by Paul Desmond, Vince Healey, John Chase and Cary Hall did a Shipmate, November 1995

magnificent job — especially with appropriate clips and background music!....

Sam, a Naval Academy German-language student, has recently had published through the Borgo Press his translation into English of a book written by the wife of the governor of German East Africa about her WWI experiences. The title is Bibi Mkuba which in Swahili means "Important Woman."

From sunny C a l i f o r n i a ' s Sunnyvale Ozzie Osborne reports that he is "...Pretty well recovered. .." from the operation noted in the July/August Shipmate, pg. 81. Ozzie uses a word processor/computer that I would kill for. It has BIG and little, pica, script and BOLD FACE type, and it prints on an offwhite papyrus with sea-waves running diagonally across. If you are into writing letters that look like university graduation diplomas — drop a line to Ozzie. You'll be glad you did!

Cissi and Cliff Bundy spent part of August '95 in Green Valley, Arizona visiting Penny and Bill Bryan and Charlotte and Bill Bush. As a result the sec'y has a grand photo of three lovely ladies: Penny, Charlotte and Cissi, which, unfortunately, the editors cannot print. The rules forbid the printing of photos without at least ONE alumnus in the scene.

Many thanks to Harry Fischer for forwarding a Coronado Eagle obit with photo of the late Beverly Norris, previously married to R.L. " A r k y " Mason — killed in action onboard the submarine GROWLER in October 1944. She had maintained close friendships with several '40 families over the years until her death in Coronado in mid-August '95.

Harry reports that Cissi and Cliff Bundy, Ruth and Bill Caspari, Lucy and Baldy Baldwin and Flossie and himself attended her Memorial Service at the North Island Naval Air Station Chapel. Thanks from all of us. * * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0! * * * *

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Burleys Pete Batcheller was good enough to bring us upto-date with the following letter: I know that most of you crossed the equator at one time or another. I first crossed it while serving in MARYLAND (BB-46) on our way to the South Pa-

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Chmn and Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano USN (Ret.) 5610 Wisconsin Ave., #1409, Chevy Chase MD 20815 301-215-7532 Tom Burley sent in a couple of more pictures of the lovely Class luncheon at the Crenshaw's last summer plus a picture of Lois and Tom at a lakeside restaurant by Lake Garda in Italy during a recent Elderhostel jaunt to Italy that lasted 2 weeks and was thoroughly enjoyable. In case you do not know it, we have lots of Elderhostelers in our Class.

cific during the War King Neptune and his court spent a full day making shellbacks out of us lowly pollywogs. Since then, I have crossed the equator by water and air many times — but never by foot.

That all changed last June when Marie and I made a Wildlife Safari to Kenya, East Africa. As you can see from the picture I am straddling the equator. The pot at my feet was used by a local guide to conduct a most unusual demonstration.

Walking 10 yards North of the equator he poured water into the dish (with a small hole in the bottom) and showed how the water drained out with a clockwise swivel. He repeated this action 10 yards South of the equator and the water swiveled in a counter-clockwise direction. On the equator the water drained down without any swivel at all. I have all this documented on my camcorder video plus a certificate to attest to it!

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Pete Batcheller on the Line The wildlife safari was truly fantastic. I've never seen so many different animals in such abundance in their native "bush" and so close'. I have an excellent video-tape of herds of elephants, prides of lions, leopards, cheetahs, rhinos, cape buffalo, antelopes (of dozens of types), etc., etc., and all within spitting distance.

Because of the altitude (5-6,000-v feet) the weather was perfect and not too hot. We had thunder and lightning storms every other evening or so about sunset but nothing to interfere with our "animal hunts." The accommodations were absolutely 1st class plus. But the roads between the events were uniformly horrible'. In one spot 3 out of 5 safari cars got stuck in the mud. Fortunately our driver/guide named Rashide was outstanding and never got stuck and always seemed to be in the right spot at the right time for us to get the best pics of the various animals.

Other than the trip of 1 l-i- hours from Los Angeles to Zurich plus another 8 hours to Nairobi, Kenya, the pace of the tour was very relaxed and enjoyable. The food was good and plentiful except for beef We drank bottled water and/or beer and coke. We found the we could use ice (made from local water) if we added large amounts of disinfectants such as gin, scotch, Canadian Club, etc.

A great trip and highly recommended.

As they say in Kenya (and the Lion King), Hakuna matata.

Pete's description of the water swiveling at the equator helps to confirm what I have always heard in golf about what happens when you move south of the equator: slices become hooks and hooks become slices. Also, from Pete's description of how close he was to elephants, lions, leopards, etc., I am certain that his "spitting distance" must be much longer than mine.

Several Classmates have called and written about the 1996 Navy-Notre Dame football game in Ireland and the fact that it is only possible to obtain tickets to the game through Navy designated travel agencies from whom you must purchase packages that include tickets to the game as well as air tickets to Ireland, lodgings, trips to the Blarney Stone, etc., depending on which package you select. A lot of Classmates would like to go to the game and would prefer to make their own travel artangements. I am one of these. I brought this up at a September meeting of Class presidents in Annapolis. Apparently, this artangement was fostered by the Director of

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Athletics and has been approved by the Superintendent, after what were termed difficult artangements with the Irish government. We were informed that the game and the way seating is being handled, will make a lot more money for the Athletic Association then the same game in Philadelphia. After all the explanation and much discussion at the meeting, about all I came away with is that if others among you dislike this travel agency artangement and want just the football tickets, write the Superintendent.

This might work if he gets enough letters.

We had a Classmate, John I. Warner, who left us before graduation. When World War II started, he joined the Marine Corps. He served with the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific and ultimately reached the rank of colonel. His Marine friends are looking for him but neither the Marine Corps nor the Alumni Association know his whereabouts. Do any of you know where he might be?

November birthday time is upon us and here are the celebrants: Badger, Blount, Felton, Foster, Hailey, Hayler, Hine, Newland, Reedy, Reeves, Rowney, Spitler, Trudeau and Weisner It's a great bunch so toast them all.

Here are some changes for your Class Roster: Jermaine Hoffmeister (now Mrs. Samuel L. Gopeland, 5725 Del Paz Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80918-1701, Diane LaSpada (now Mrs. John H. McQuilkin), 1101 1st Street, Coronado, CA 921181454; Aileen (Mrs. George) McPherson, P.O. Box 6732, Kamuela, HI 96743, phone 808-885-0594; Frank Price's correct street number is 13300; Dutchy Spritzen's new address is 19783 Mosjon Circle N.E., Poulsbo, WA 98370; phone 206-6977487. In addition to these changes there are a few names for whom we do not have a cortect address.

If you can provide any information as to the curtent whereabouts of any of the following, please let me know so that our records can be cortected: John W. Beatty, Jean (Mrs. Robert W.) Harker, John A. Heagy, Jr., Vera (Mrs. James A.) Henry, Mrs. Barbara P. Holton (widow of Guy Lucian), Paul T. Jorgensen, Edward W. Rebard, Roger N. Turner and Clifford R. Wise. Any clue that you can provide will be appreciated.

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Pres., Capt. Max C. Duncan USN (Ret.) Sec'y R.S. Day CLU 2426 Chestnut St., Falls Church, VA 22043-3052 Bob Knight assures us that interest remains high for their Annual Adirondacks luncheon although setting a summertime date always creates conflict problems. The 8th gathering provided the fun and fellowship they have enjoyed over the years, so hopefully they will be able to continue to gather annually. This year, Vince Koehler, Sonny Backus, Ray Herzberger, and Gene Madden attended along with Hope and Bob as the Class reps. They were joined by Charlotte Smith and Marilyn Gilroy, the guests of Sonny and Gene respectively. Harry Kelley was sorely missed, but he suffered a bad fall the night before and was not up to making the drive.

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intended prank, we are fortunate that it had not been spray painted.

Bob and Ray enjoy Hope's picnic spread Vince, Ray and Bob competed for golfing honors the day before with Vince winning low gross and Ray low net. Bob enjoyed the consolation of coming in second while the others finished next to last.

Toby and Vince Koehler have moved into a beautiful and spacious townhome at 4 Saratoga Circle, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866; 518-564-3086.

Ted Balis reports the Tidewater Area is mobilizing for the Army/Navy game. Mary and Bill Vose again have been awarded the concession for hosting the affair and providing the main course. Snacks will be provided by the other ladies. Determined to bring home a winner, they plan to gather at about 1130 on 2 December for a "libacious" prayer prior to the kickoff at noon. The usual rooters and party-goers from North Carolina and Tidewater are expected, but others wandering around the Vose home at 925 Five Forks Road in Virginia Beach (804-499-7295) are most welcome to join the festivities. Once again, Frank Dunham has arranged for a special rate of $29.50 per couple per night at The Station One Hotel (804-491-2400).

Jack Crawford, who continues on "active" duty as a member of the Defense Nuclear Safety Board, attended a briefing in early August given by a team from DOE to the board on the cleanup of a plutonium facility. At the conclusion, one of the team, Lisa Feldt, asked Jack if he had known her father, CAPT Walter Woodson. She picked the right person to ask as Bud and Jack roomed together plebe summer. Jack added that Bud would have been immensely proud of her superb performance.

Anne and Jim Conger spent early September making a speed run north to visit the children which they hope to repeat in late November when schedules are not quite so complicated. Winter Springs survived Hurticane Erin without a loss of electricity or fallen trees and not too much rain. While they can absorb the rain deposited on Florida during this hurricane season, Jim finds hurricanes in general are just no fun, something I can concur in having been driven out of Nags Head by the driving sand and rain kicked up by Hurticane Felix..

Jim has been coasting along with his swimming practice only twice a week, so elected to skip the long course championships held in Oregon the end of August. He planned to enter the local short course meters meet as one of 200 expected contestants. That meant stepping up practice for the two and a half weeks remaining after their northern swing. He had hoped to locate Tom Coppedge, one of our missing Classmates with whom he occasionally had had contact, but Tom is no longer listed in the area phone books.

Frank O'Brien, along with Edie and Ann Beale, have been keeping close watch on the Class globe and fountain in our memorial park. Public Works was enlisted to remove rust from the fountain and put it back in commission. Edie and Anne also removed a card announcing that "we have met the enemy and they are ours," from the globe. While probably a well

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'42 Globe Mary and Hank Sweitzer enjoyed a 20-day South Seas cruise and tour in July and August through the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas, visiting seven ports in Papua, New Guinea, and Australia. They were most interested in seeing Wewak, Madang and Hollandia in Papua, the latter being the site of MacArthur's headquarters for his push north to the Philippines. They found Papua hard pressed to handle the hordes of tourists a cruise ship represents as the natives are still very primitive and their children very friendly and unspoiled and unlike those in most developing countries do not beg for candy or chewing gum, etc. The scenery is spectacular marked by rain forests and the towering Own Stanley Rangeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the backbone of New Guinea.

Now independent from both the Netheriands and Australia, the four million people have gradually Shipmate, November 1995

moved out of the Stone Age, but not necessarily for the better Their culture encompasses some 750 different languages suggesting that they would have been better left alone instead of being jerked into the Twentieth Century as a result of World War II. There are numerous memorials to visit, the most significant being the Coastwatchers Lighthouse in Madang on which are inscribed the names of the Australian and native watchers who lost their lives behind enemy lines while reporting Japanese ship and aircraft moving south towards military objectives. The scheduled visit to Rabaul was canceled after the eruption of two volcanoes covered the city some two months previously.

Hank Sweitzer and wife Mary with natitive participants In Australia, they revisited the Great Bartier Reef on a glass bottom boat and glass sided submarine (which is not really a submersible) from the city of Cairns. Once again they marveled at the sight of giant clams shells, all types and color of coral , fascinating schools offish and accompanying crustaceans that inhabit this 1,200 mile long wonder of the natural world.

Both Mary and Hank are managing to face the Big "C" which have led to three radiological treatments for his prostate cancer—now in remission, while Mary has been diagnosed with chronic lymphatic leukemia after exhaustive tests following an annual physical. Her cancer is still in the early stage and not suitable for chemotherapy for fear of destroying the good red blood cells along with the cancerous ones. This puts her on a three-month reexam schedule while Hank has been upgraded to a six-month schedule. He noted 38 different lipid chemistry and blood count profiles on his last test and as others have done, strongly recommends that all of us have a blood test at least annually.

Max Duncan has passed along the word that Bill Donahue succumbed to his battle with heart disease on 11 August 1995 in Homestead, FL, where he was buried. Thelma and Bill had moved to Homestead a few years ago to be near their daughter.

As reported in the last issue of Shipmate, Bruce Tichenor suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly on 14 July while he and Harriett were visiting their son in Mechanicsburg, PA during a short trip to the midwest and east. He was intcrted at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Pt. Loma, San Diego, on the 21st with full military honors. Hartiett's son, CAPT Michael Kalas, ' 7 3 , gave the eulogy. The Class was well represented, along with former shipmates from FLINT, former real estate partners, friends and family.

We extend our sympathy and prayers to the families of both Bill and Bruce.

Happy Birthday USMC Shipmate, November 1995

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Pres., Capt. Edward E. Kerr USN (Ret) 340 Hampton Rd., Piedmont, Calif 94611-3526 Sec'y Capt. William B. Kirkland, Jr. USN (Ret.) 2805 Middle Woodland Close, Williamsburg, VA 23185(804)258-5410 A first for '43 from cyberspace! Pres. Ed sent along a MSG intended for the September column which somehow made it into the most recent envelope; can't say why, but sure sorty to the sender and receiver Seems that H. Moore\PRODIGY: (WDRM95A) to Edward Kerr\PRODIGY: (TFPF22A) sent: Thanks for the update. The Barretts and Moores had a great time aboard CORONADO yesterday. She is flying the flag of CONTHIRDFLT at the Portland Rose Festival. The "Rose Fleet" goes down river Monday with about 1000 Navy Leaguers, Sea Cadets and their other Navy oriented folks aboard.

RADM Moore goes on to say that he and RADM Barrett see eye-to-eye politically; that they "unelected" Mme Unsoeld, "(0)ne of the flaming radicals," in favor of Linda Smith. They plan to work on the 1996 go. Good luck fellas!

From Ruben Woodall a letter provides important news of interest to all: On 2 September 1995, fifty years after the signing of WWII peace with Japan, the Submarine Memorial (East) was dedicated at Groton, Connecticut. It is located on the bank of the Thames River facing east. Among the 3,716 names engraved in black granite are fifteen members of the Class of 1943 who were lost at sea in WWII U.S. submarines: Robert F.Daly SWORDFISH (SS-193) Paul Doane SEAWOLF (SS- 197) Earl D. Hackman James E. Lewellyn Willis E. IVlaxson

BULLHEAD (SS-332) AMBERJACK (SS-219) SKATE (SS-305)

Norman W. Naylor

GROWLER (SS-215)

Richard H. Peterson Melvin C. Phillips

TULLIBEE (SS-284) GRAYBACK (SS-208)

Robert T. Ruble Daniel R. Seidell

LAGARTO (SS-371) AMBERJACK (SS-219)

John W. Sincavlch Francis P. Thomas

TRIGGER (SS-237) GROWLER (SS-215)

James D. Unger

R-12 (SS-89)

Thomas H. Wilkerson William W. Williams

SCAMP (SS-277) GROWLER (SS-21 5)

Fifty-two U.S. submarines were lost in WWII. Nearly 22% of all who fought in our submarines were lost. This was the highest casualty rate of any WWII branch of the U.S. military.

CT. Cooper and R. F. Woodall attended the ceremony, /s/ Ruben Now, there is another story hidden in these gray statistics. A careful reader will note that there are three Classmates lost on GROWLER. Review of the Alumni Register shows that Williams died 2/7/43 while Naylor and Thomas died 11/8/44. A call to Ruben revealed that "Red" Williams was JOOD on the bridge of GROWLER with the OOD, three lookouts, and the Captain, CDR Howard W. Gilmore.

They had spotted a Japanese convoy in the dark and had commenced an attack run when in the gloaming they came up on a Japanese armed provision ship of 900 tons, the HAYASAKI MARU. The Captain, ordered "All ahead full — left full rudder" and rammed the enemy just as a furious machine gun assault came from the freighter Captain ordered the bridge watch below — two lookouts made it down the hatch. Then the Captain, mortally wounded, called down to the XO, Arnold F. Schade standing in the conning tower, "Take her down!" Schade hesitated about 15 seconds listening to the bullets hitting the conning tower and then gave the order: "Dive, dive". Williams and the third lookout were dying on the bridge deck.

Gilmore, clinging to the bridge stanchion, was

washed into the sea. No one knows how long he remained alive in the water. Schade, with the conning tower filling with water from bullet holes, surfaced intent on sinking his tormentor only to find an empty sea. None of the three lost men were found. Gilmore was awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously.

Thank you, Ruben.

Peg and I just completed an 8 day trip to Detroit to visit her sick brother On the return trip we stopped in Washington, DC to visit number three son and had dinner with Ruth Ann and Hank Bress — Hazel and Bob Greenwood were present; he told some amazing sea stories! Hazel backed him all the way.

Now Bob was an aviator of VP fame and had an Aero Engineering PG to grace his name. As an 0 - 6 heading for a graveyard tour his detailer was at his wits end when he came across a request for a communication specialist in frequency control for a staff job dealing with NATO. Now, ol' Robert claims he complained about his lack of qualifications, so did his prospective boss, a RADM. Since according to the book Robert knew enough math to count in megahertz, his detailer was unbending. But his RADM boss was so sure that Greenwood was a spook from Naval Intelligence that he threw up his arms in disgust and the Greenwoods enjoyed a delightful three years touring Europe while Bob negotiated frequency assignments with our NATO buddies. The RADM still believes Greenwood was a spook! Ruth Ann's dinner was superb. :f:

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President's Proposal: As we enter the season of Thanksgiving and Joy, may I make a suggestion ? Let's think back through the years remembering classmates with whom we had a special friendship, and with whom we have lost touch. Let's, each of us, send them or their widows newsy notes of cheer \yith invitations to respond. The few moments it takes will reward senders and recipients alike with hours of good feelings during this beautiful time of the year. If you need addresses, just let me know.

Beat Army! Happy holidays! E E K tfpf22a @prodigy.com That's 30 for October

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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 Annapolis Rep., Capt. Jack E. Godfrey USN (Ret.) Mail Bag Sue and Ed Mallick's daughter, Kathy, informed us that Sue and Ed had an early celebration of their Golden (50th) Anniversary (martied on 23 December 1945) by hosting a family reunion and dinner in Annapolis at the Officers and Faculty Club of the Academy. Their son, Edgar, proposed a humorous toast to the happy couple and presented an album of photos which included personal remarks compiled by their eight grandchildren. According to the grandkids, Ed's favorite question is "So, which one of you is going to the Naval Academy?" The Mallick family celebrants included daughter Kathy, who is married to attorney/business owner Barry Nissly of Lancaster, PA, their three daughters and son; daughter Susan, Capt. USNR, her husband, Capt. Charies Stevenson, USN (presemly C O . , NavSta China Lake) and three daughters; and their son, D r Edgar Mallick, PhD, VP for Administration, Planning and College Relations at Anne Arundel Community College, his attorney wife, Darlene, and daughter, Kristen. Happy 50th Anniversary to Sue and Ed!

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Wedding Bells Baldy Chapman informed your secretary in August that Ted Snyder would marty Nancy Isamon, widow of the late RADM Roy Isamon, on 28 October. We trust that by the time you read this in November, that auspicious event will have occurted.

Nancy recently built and now lives in a beautiful new home in the Saw Grass Country Club area of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, which we had the pleasure of visiting in July. Ted still has his place at Fleet Landing.

At this time we have no information on their future living plans. Considering that they are both avid and capable golfers, my bet would go down on the Saw Grass site, which is surtounded by a splendid golf course. In any case, all of us join in congratulating this grand couple and wishing them every possible happiness in the future.

In Memory William L. "Red" Mellott recently passed away in Connecticut. We have no date or details available at this time; therefore, please refer to "Last Call".

Your secretary knew him well as a shipmate in IOWA during WWII. Red did his duty well and faithfully and was a true and lasting friend. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to his wife, Donice, and the entire family on the occasion of their great loss.

Secretary's Comer We are providing two more shots from the LABOON commissioning party at Virginia beach. Unfortunately, we have an unidentified Classmate in one photo. In the other, you may see the family resemblance of John Harkins to his late father, our Classmate, Jack Harkins, as he stands beside Lois and Lorin Hay.

Lois and Lorin Hay with John Harkins (Jack's son) A couple of years ago Roy Cowdrey passed us a large print of an official Navy photo taken by a photographer from the Photo Lab of the Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, about thirty years ago at a '44 party in the Fort Shafter Officers' Club. We havefinallyidentified all but two of the twelve Classmates in the picture. No effort has been made to identify the lovely ladies, but there are fourteen of them! Perhaps you can recognize someone. The men are, left to right.

Jack Wohler, Joe Buescher, Jon Boyes, Unident., Unident., Bob Gustafson, Lloyd Yeich, Bob Young, Hap Trottier, Jerty Reyberg, Dick Ryzow, and Dom Paolucci.

Have a happy Thanksgiving and Beat Army!

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Pres., Capt. Dick Wilson USN (Ret.) Sec'y LtCol. R. J. Rowson USAF (Ret.) 7727 Viceroy Street, W. Springfield, VA 22151 -2730 (703)569-4481 Corr Sec'y Capt. Dutch Schuiz USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St. N., Ariington, VA 22207 (703)536-7156 By the time you receive this issue we will have begun our monthly luncheons at Ft. Myer on the second Tuesday. The Association of the Class of 1945 commenced the new year under the leadership of Dick Wilson as President and Al Blackburn as Vice President on Tuesday 12 September with a gathering of 40 Classmates for attitude adjustment at 1130 and lunch about 1215. We were pleased to learn from Don Brooks and Al Olsen that we have about 420K on deposit and another 37K in bonds from the Fannin Estate. No funds have yet been expended from the estate as the Executive Board of the USNA Class of 1945 Foundation is now considering the gift suggestions which have been sent in.

John D. Hicks of Charlotte, NC raised a question after reading of the dedication of the Class of '43 Compass Rose Plaza which can be found on pages 5 and 6 of the Jul/Aug 1995 issue. In order to get the sense of JD's question, let me quote a few lines from the article: The Compass Rose Plaza is an integral portion of the overall design of the new Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center... Highlighted in the Center of the Plaza... is a Compass Rose... with the '43 Class Crest... in the center Surrounding the Rose is a semi-circular brick wall housing three sectional benches... The 4-3 flashing corner light has been approved by the U.S. Coast Guard as a navigational mark, and is now on current official navigational charts.

Now, John's question was: "I thought we had a flashing light signaling 4-5. Surely, there aren't two navigational lights on the same point. Is ours gone?"

No, our green flashing light is still flashing 4-5 at Triton Point. And the Class of '43 has informed me that their light is amber and is one of several lanterns surrounding the Class of '43 Park at the Visitor's Center From Lawrence, Kansas computer guru. Joe Marzluff, comes the following news: The enclosed foto was taken at Parent's Weekend for the Class of '99. We have Patrick, the third generation Marzluff. with his grandfather, Joe, of '45. His dad. Peter '73. is in the Persian Gulf commanding the CG-72 VELA GULF... I was impressed with the presentations made during the weekend by the Supe and the Commandant... The reply to my request fore-mail addresses has been slow... I communicate electronically with all three sons and a eranddaughter at Swarthmore.

Joe '45 and Patrick '99 Shipmate. November 1995

And now, some golfing news from the West Coast

by Bob Baldwin: This picture is a memento of the Menlo Club's member/guest toumament held in early June. Bob Williams was gracious and brave enough to take me on as his partner... Bob is third from the left in the picture and I'm on the right end... We did not win anything, but had a great time... we had an all USNA foursome last week in the San Diego Aerospace Museum fund-raising tournament. Don Shelton, Alan Shepard and I represented '45 and Bill Russell '47 filled out the foursome. Our names were not called when they handed out the prizes.

"45 golfers Bob Williams and Bob Baldwin And now we shift to the sport of Fishing. Los Alamitos fisherman, Harvey Hartzell, writes: Sunday 27 August I had a deep sea fishing charter in an 85' boat out of San Pedro. We went about 160 miles SW and fished kelp patties all day Monday and caught some yellowtail and skipjack. We came back to San Cleraente that night and fished there Tuesday catching yellowtail, barracuda, calico bass, etc. I have chartered many trips, but this is the first time that of the 28 passengers I had two Classmates and submariners, Pat Hannifin and Slick Fitch on board.

And here's a fishing footnote: 1 should have mentioned earlier that Mike Marschall also entertained us at the September luncheon with an account of his 21st trip to Iceland to fish in August of 1995. He even had a foto of his 10 1/2 pound salmon to prove his talent as a fisherman The foto also shows Ralph Cousins '37 in the background trying to get even.

Liars lish. Fishers lie The local Columbia. SC newspaper. The Stale, ran a foto of our own John Mullen in their 2 September 1995 edition which highlighted memories of some local residents upon the occasion of the celebration of the Japanese surtender on 2 September 1945. The piece reports:

When the Japanese surrendered in Tokyo Bay 50 years ago today, John Mullen got a preny good look... He was an Ensign assigned to SOUTH D.V KOTA anchored near MISSOURI where the ceremonies took place. What Mullen remembers most about the end of WWII was not the final ritual that brought official closure. Instead, he recalls the stunning beauty of Japan and the simple elation he and so many others felt.

How many of us can add our experiences on that memorable day?

The Address Book: Mary Ellen and Paul Purkrabek have moved to their new home at 420 Magnolia Lane, McCormick. SC 29836, fone 903391 -3746... Peggy and Jim Bradley have sold their home in McLean and were expected to move to 3200 N. Abington Street, Ariington. VA 22207-4214. fone 703-534-3527. Jim will remain at the Arleigh Burke Pavilion for the time being... Ski Dzikowski has moved from Houston to 719 Maiden's Choice Lane. #HR 631, Catonsville. MD 21228 in the Chariestown Retirement Community. So. now we will see him at the monthly luncheons!

The Travel Bureau: In a 28 August note travelers EUie and Jack Barron checked into the Shipmate Net with the following: "This is day 25 of our tour through England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

We are in Darlington, England at the Blackwell Grange Moat House right on a golf course. After York. Stratford and London, on to Paris through the Chunnel for five nights before returning home."

Nancy and Thad Taylor attended the National Associadon of Investment Clubs annual meeting 2427 August in Nashville... Poppy and Chuck Gardner had just returned (12 September) from a week in Provence, France. See also the engaging article on Provence in the September issue of the National Geographic.

Notes from the Twenty-First Company: Jesse Petrat of 6418 13th St. Ct. E, Bradenton. FL 34203 sent me an obituary from the local paper which states that Rita Bermann had passed away on 22 August 1955. Jesse's note: I had visited Rita a few times during her lengthy stay in the hospital...I was allowed into her room, was able to hold her hand and talk to her and told her how good she looked â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she had the ole merry sparkle in her eyes. That was on the Friday before she died on Tuesday.

Cliff's address is M r Cliff Bermann, 9472 Cass Circle, Sarasota, FL 34231 -7034, fone 813-921 -2111.

I don't think I've ever been to a Homecoming without seeing Rita and Cliff in the midst of all the celebration. Yes, Jesse Petrat was the Mystery Woman on page 88 of the July/August issue!

And from Frank Markle Jr. of 66 Three Mile Road, Glastonbury, CT 06033, comes this sad news: With great sadness I repon that Virginia, my wife of 45 years, died peacefully and without pain at our home in Glastonbury on 30 July after a 9-month siege with cancers... She was a loyal and upbeat Army/Navy football enthusiast, having attended over 30 games. She was buried in her hometown.

Fox Chase, in NE Philadelphia on 3 August 1995.

Our "Watchdog" Class of '45 Correspondent in Rancho Santa Fe, June Baldwin, fired off a hot note to the Editor of Shipmate. She explains, Dutch, don't know if you saw the next to last page in June Shipmate (pg 133) showing Kalina and Kasten at the '45 Light. They never mentioned either '45 or that '45 gave the light. I wrote a letter to the Editor, as I was there at the presentation and Bob made the speech.

Boy, with cortespondents like June. I'll never run out of copy!!!

An item in the 31 August Ariington Journal caught my eye with the headline. "Red Soldier saw u"s.

POWs." The article went on to state that a former Russian soldier had met four U.S. servicemen in 1951 at a military hospital near Arsenyev, in Russia near the North Korean border Malcom Toon, co-chairman of a Russian/US Commission investigating 67

American POWs is quoted, "I believe this... may be a turning point in the search for an answer to one of our most vexing questions: Were Korean War or Cold War era US servicemen taken to the territory of the Soviet Union?" Well, Jane Reynolds Howard, Bob Reynolds' widow, is still searching for a closure.

Bob's PB4Y Privateer was shot down by the Russians on 8 April 1950. There is some evidence that Bob possibly could have been rescued in the Baltic Sea, taken to hospitals for intertogations, ultimately released into the Russian Society, lived in a family environment, and died? Somewhere, sometime, the closure that Jane and her daughters are searching for may be found. She is in active contact with Ambassador Toon and General Volkogonov, the head of the Russian liaison team. On 1 July 1995 she spoke to the 5th Annual PB4Y Association meeting at the local Tyson's Corner Sheraton and showed videos of the Senate Sub-Committee hearings on POW/MIA held last year Those wishing to assist her in her search may make a tax-deductible contribution to "The Bob Reynolds' Search Fund" and mail to Jane Reynolds Howard, Vinson Hall, Apt 056, 6251 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, VA 22101-4818, fone 703-533-1863.

phone at 410-263-4354. The June issue of Shipmate gives an update of the program.

See page 26 of the June issue. The Class of 1945 has used 76 of the allotted 132 chairs/leaving 56 available for allocation. Only 4 Classmates who died in WWII have been memorialized with chairs. What, indeed, could be a more fitting memorial to a fellow Classmate or member of the family?...I hope you all read the "Superintendent's Call" on page 4 of the Jul/Aug 95 issue. Admiral Larson addresses many of the misperceptions created by the Media over the dollar costs of training a midshipman.

I had to go to the Arlington Journal for this Tag Line: "You know that you're getting old when your mind makes a date your body can't keep."

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San Diego Shipmate stringer for this column, Frank Kleber, filed this long-awaited San Diego Report of '45 activities: As you know, we usually have our Annual Meeting at the Coronado Yacht Club when the A/ N game takes place. At half time we repair to the patio for the election of officers, a President and a Treasurer. .. At any rate, I was presented with the sack and Pat Gowan graciously agreed to continue as Treasurer... This brings us to our Cinco de Mayo party which was held on 6 May at the home of Louise and Al Giorgis in La Jolla... We wanted to have a theme which would enable our frustrated actors to dress up and make fools of themselves...

In addition, we wanted something different, so we ordered a Karoke Machine complete with a good looking female operator.. .We had a total of 35 with about one third in costume including Larry Wilder, Louise and Al Giorgis, Evelyn and Frank Kleber, Peggy and Don Shelton, Mary Ellen and Pat Gowan, Bev and Don Edge, Mary and Pat Hannifin, Jean and Don Hill, Bob Tartre, Pat and Bob Swenson, Ann and Sam Gorsline, Beth and Ed Behm, Bobbie Haines, June and Bob Baldwin, Beth and Herb Poorman, Charlie and Max Thompson, Joann and Jack Riley, Elva Randall, Betty Berger, and Harry Stebner with date... The dinner was catered by the El Indio Mexican Restaurant in San Diego and was authentic fiesta type cuisine... Betty Berger was judged best costume of the ladies in her imitation of a bull fighter and Jack Riley had the best male costume as a campesino.

Fotos show various entertainers doing their stuff.

Not shown are fotos of Bev Edge and Bobbie Haines belting out, "You made me love you" and Joann Riley responding to the silky tones of Bobbie Haines who had been a professional singer. Frank continues on a more somber note:

Pres., VAdm Charles H. Griffiths, USN (Ret) Vice Pres., Capt Jim W. Foust, USN (Ret) 1914 Sleepy Hollow Lane, Annapolis, MD 21401, 800-334-5701 Treas., Capt Wils F. Engel, USN (Ret) 6807 Rosewood St., Annandale, VA 22003,703-2565832 Cort. Sec'y Capt Ed Ellis, USN (Ret) 4158 Decoro St., Apt 20, San Diego, CA 92122; 619457-7526

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Scottish Dancers, Sam Gorsline and Bev Edge Of course. Jack Riley's death was a shock to all of us. I'm enclosing the program from his Memorial Mass held on 25 August. Personal and touching eulogies were given by Hap Perry '44, Pat Hannifin and Bob Erly '37. After the service, a reception was held at the Coronado Yacht Club, a wake in true Irish style. A total of 34 Classmates and spouses, including Bob Williams from Northern California attended the services and reception.

It was a fitting send off for Jack who had a great sense of humor and knew how to enjoy life.

Your Corresponding Secretary is eternally grateful to Frank Kleber for his timely and complete account of our San Diego Class activities.

Notes from Navy OnLine, "http://www. navy, mil/": Of increasing interest to the Class of '45 is the following note which I plagiarized word for word from the Class of '54 column in the Jul/Aug 95 issue: The Alumni House Honor Chair Program is a wonderful and permanent way to honor an individual for any reason. An Honor Chair can be reserved through a tax deductible contribution to the NAAA of $1000. For further information contact Jennifer John at the Association's address or by

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Two way communications with Pablo de la LIAMA (13) have been established by Stew Hancock (13th Company Rep). Pablo's a Life Member of the Alumni Association and has been monitoring us via these monthly columns. His address is: Caixa Postal 76, 13290 Louveira, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Louveira is a small village 70 kilometers northwest of Sao Paulo. For those who've forgotten, Pablo, one of two foreign midshipmen in our Class (the other was the late Alberto Jimenez (15) from Peru), was commissioned as an Ensign in the Cuban Navy when we graduated and resigned in December 1949. He reported that Carmen and he are fine and trying to sell their house and then, maybe, they'll move to the US, possibly in the Miami area.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I believe I should report the death of Frank Engel II, the oldest grandson of Sallie and Wils Engel (4), on 20 August, in a car accident on an interstate highway in Virginia. Frank was a passenger, riding in the back seat of a car which was struck head-on by a drunken driver driving at very high speed on the wrong side of the highway. Our condolences were extended to Sallie and Wils and their son and family.

It is my sad duty to report the death of John R. (Rudy) Hess (14) on 7 June 1995 in West Hartford, CT. This was reported in the "Last Call" section of the July/August Shipmate and, unfortunately, I have no other information.

I deeply regret to report the death on August 30, 1995 of Lucille W. Kaufman, the wife of VADM Robert Y. Kaufman, USN (Ret) (2), Potomac, MD. Memorial services were held at the Fort Myer Old Post Chapel followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery. In addition to Yogi, she is survived by her daughter, Connie Robinson, and son, Steve, and brother Ralph Werner In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Here are some excerpts from a letter from Glenn A. Reiff(14)Pueblo, CO. Not being able to attend our 50th reunion was a great disappointment to us. I was looking forward

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to seeing everyone, telling a few stories and liscolumn. The updated biographic information extening to many others. In partial compensation, panded from that contained in the 1990 Class Registhough, I participated in the annual Family ter will be maintained by the Corresponding SecreFunshine and Home of Heroes Day celebration this tary. The issuance of a new updated Register is not pa.st 4th of July in Pueblo. ...In 1993. the 103rd contemplated, at present.

Congress of the United States proclaimed Pueblo.

LOST AND FOUND CO as America's "Home of Heroes" (It is the home Fred F. Bass (II) LOST. Last known address 1106 of 4 living recipients of the Medal of Honor).. .As S. 28th Place, Birmingham, AL 35205 -1302. He rethe only USNA graduate here in Pueblo, it was signed a commission in the Army in order to enter my pleasure to help in hosting RADM Gene the USNA with our Class.

Fluckey, USN (Retired) '35, and his wife Ben. M. Britain (7) FOUND. He was at the 50th.

Margaret....Gene was the senior hero among the 7720 Benaroya Lane, Apt 308, Huntsville, AL 35802.

14 others honored. We had many delightful conGeorge B. Clegg (11) FOUND. 14 Quanaduck Rd, versations and got to know one another...When Stonington, CT 06378. there was time. Gene was selling his book ThunMrs. Marilyn Hart, widow of Chuck M. Hart (11). der Below. Already having financed a reunion and LOST. Last known address 1135 Ricardo Ct., Seacruise down the Mississippi on the Delta Queen side, OR 97138. for his crew of the BARB and their wives, he will Mrs. Constance Huddleston, widow of William E. use the proceeds from this year's sales to pay for (Bill) Huddleston (6) LOST. Last known address 57 another cruise â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this time to Alaska. Although Columbia Ave, Jameston, RI. an aviator, I could not put his book down after I The former Mrs. Mary Judith MetschI, widow of started reading it and found it more exciting than John J. (Jack) MetschI (20), martied CDR Robert one of Tom Clancy's novels. ...If you want the W. Foster USNR (Retired). Judy and Bob are "nobook at a bargain price, his address is 1016 Sandmads" traveling most of the time in their RV. They piper Lane, Annapolis, MD 21403.

However, I found the following in the letter to be receive their mail at 1614 Seagull Way, Palm City, Fl of even greater interest and significance: "The 34990. Although my records do not show this, I beDaughters of the American Revolution and other lieve that Jack was the CO of an icebreaker when he genealogists are recommending that any known diswas killed in a helicopter accident in 1963. Any clarieases and causes of death be included in genealogy fication of this would be appreciated. records. ...It would be diagnostically valuable, he Robert Stan Hutches (7) FOUND but had died says (Dr William H. Carlyon, director of health eduNovember 1992 in Florida. His widow, Lois died cation for the AMA), for every American to be conFebruary 18, 1993. cerned with his family history of illness. ... Include Jack Perkins (7) FOUND. His address is 19 East mental illnesses because many of them are genetic."

Napa Drive, Petaluma, CA 94954. (Did you know that The time to gather this information was yesterday Petaluma once was the chicken capital with the highbut if you start now it may not be too late. est per capita income in the US? There is a section of The numerous festivities celebrating the end of town with a number of blocks of delightful old VicWWII reminded me that one of our Classmates was torian houses.) He was relatively easy to find after I very close to the actual signing of the surtender used the right procedure. Dick Dunning (12), Harry documents on board MISSOURI (BB-63) but didn't Watson (7) and Jack came to the Naval Academy and see a thing. Walter E. (Ernie) Saunders (12) Key our Class via NAPS and, prior to that, all three, from West, FL, was the Second Division Officer in MISPENNSYLVANIA ( B B - 3 8 ) , sister ship of the ARIZONA. SOURI and was assembled with his division alongHarry told me that they get together at least annually side Number Two Turret, on the opposite side of and provided Jack's address. the ship from the ceremonies. Yours truly was the Mrs. Sue Taylor, widow of Jack Rose Taylor (11).

JOOD in HAWKINS (DDR-873) in the screen of TG 38.4 which was providing aerial coverage to the LOST. Last known address 223 Broad Street, New Bern, NC 28560-8515. ceremonies. The travels of HAWKINS from the cesIf you have a current address for any of the foregosation of hostilities to that point makes an interesting LOST, please send it to Ed Ellis. He'll send it on ing story for another time. to the appropriate Company Rep. He's happy to reWish everyone in the Class was a Life Member port there are no LOST Classmates from the 6th and of USNAAA. If you're an annual dues paying mem7th Companies. (They're still together They were the ber, now is the time to convert: it's only a one time 1st and 2nd COs our first two years at USNA). payment of $200 (one of the benefits of OUR SALE OF FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 50TH.) MEMORABELIA Our Company Representative organization performed superbly in "recruiting" attendees for our The rugby shirts are gone. Glasses are available at 50th. It's being continued and among its tasks are the development of updated addresses for "active" and Lost Classmates and widows. The latest "official" lists of addresses are contained in the 1990 Register of the Class issued incident to the 45th and Addendum No. One to it, which was published April 1993. The latter identifies 101 Lost Classmates: 21 were graduates. It also lists those Classmates who died after the publication of the 1990 Register and the names and addresses of their widows. Starting with this Column, a Lost and Found .section will be used to promulgate the latest information in our search with the hope that some of the Lost will be found by others who are still in contact with them.

After a suitable time and search for addresses of Lost Classmates and Widows (search priority will be given to graduates), probably by next Spring, a new alphabetical list of all Classmates with addresses, names of spouses, and, as applicable, date and location of death and name of widow will be published. This new document, still to be named, will be structured so as to permit simple annual corrections. Its availability will be announced in this 13th Co. Shipmate, November 1995

$3.00 each plus $3 shipping, but, for 3 or more shipping is $5. Other items still available are: T-shirts (medium only) - $10; Lady's pendants - $25 each; and copies of the 50th Anniversary edition of the LOG - $12. Shipping is included in these prices. Send order and checks to Wils payable to Class of '46.

Orders are coming in slowly for the new design Class Tie. This is a special item. The tie is navy blue with slanted nartow gold stripes approximately every 1 and 1/4" with an alternating design of gold miniature USNA Seals and the '46 Crest; each approximately 3/4" in diameter Ties have to be ordered from the manufacturer in lots of 100, so don't expect early delivery. Cost is $31.50 each including shipping. As for above, send order and check to Wils.

COMING EVENTS - December 2. Army/Navy Game festivities and our final Mini 50th parties at Patsy and Ed Skidmore's (13) in Arlington, VA (703-920-8743) and Barbara Ann and Harry Watson's (7) in Poway, CA (northern suburb of San Diego 619-748 - 6640). Call to be sure you're on the mailing list and to get your "dish assignment". BEAT ARMY! November 2, 1996. Shamrock Classic in Dublin, Ireland (Navy versus Notre Dame). Watch Shipmate for details. Labor Day Weekend 1997.

Reunion West in San Diego (Navy versus San Diego State). The Chairman told me that it'll be bigger and better than '94 and we're going to win.

The Third Battalion (namely the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Companies) get the FIFTIETH photo highlights this month.

14th Company-Chauncey Glenn, Jim Forrest, Bob McElroy, Mel Rogers, Ken Lyons, Mac MacDonald, Leroy Jackson, Hank Ortland, Andy Dearman, Stu Savage and Robbie Robertson

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Pres., Adm. William J. (Bill) Crowe, Jr. USN (Ret.) Sec'y Chester H. (Chet) Shaddeau, Jr. 343 Prestonfield Ln., Severna Park, MD 21146 (410) 647-5868; FAX (410) 544-1324 (mark for USNA '47); E-mail to Stadir@aol.com.

11 th and 7th Co.-Wall Hawkins (11) and Amanda and Ed Ellis (7)

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A CLASSMATE HONORED IN ALUMNI HALL? ANNIVERSARY, BIRTHDAY, GRADUATION, OR MEMORIAL GIFT. CALL HONOR CHAIR COORDINATOR, JENNIFER JOHN 410-263-4448 EXT. 118 FOR DETAILS.

SCOTCH FOURSOME? Chuck Slonim writes from Manassas, VA: On 12 August, our youngest son, Jeffrey, was married to Fiona Moore in Cork, Ireland. Everything nice that has ever been said about the Irish is absolutely true. It was a wonderful celebration.

That isn't the purpose of this note, though. The attached picture of Mikie and Bob Stone with Louise and me was taken at a lunch stop in Scotland, where I was startled by someone coming off a bus. who came running over yelling "Chuck" .. .it was Mikie. We were on a ten-day tour and they were on a fifteen-day tour of Scotland and Wales.

Our paths crossed again in Edinburgh. A unique way of getting together with Classmates from Norfolk.

Sorry to be missing the Japanese get-together, but we are off again to Michigan to visit a daughter, son-in-law, and three beautiful granddaughters.

Sincerely, Chuck

Happy Birthday USMC In Scotland.! to r: Bob and Mikie Stone. Chuck and Louise Slonim

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WORDS FROM MISERY HALL Somewhat edited, the following comes to us from the Fineview, NY digs of Shirley and Dick Beane: You just came to the top of the "gotta write" list in a very rapid redo of our Plan of the Day. The front deck of our island cottage is bordered by a large ground juniper...after much procrastination I waded into it to trim out some deadwood. I rapidly waded right out again with the assistance of a swarm of hornets.. .now it's inside work only until the hornets calm down...We'll be in Annapolis for the Air Force game...While there, will .see Floyd Spence, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He came as an Ensign to LSM397 while I was CO, and we apparently did something right. I want to thank him for his reaction on proposed Navy budget.

Interesting to see Tom Teply's name; his son was my son-in-law's skipper in GUITARRO, and we saw the son recently at Ford Island...we like some of the imaginative vanity plates...ours is not very inventive, just Florida US47NA. We have, after ten years, sold the motorhome, but on our last trip we were parked in overflow at the seaplane base marina (North Severn), and in addition to the great sounds from the Yard, we got a wonderful picture with the ramp and seawall in the foreground, the Academy and Capitol spire in the background. Shipmate is considering it for possible use next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wish me luck.. .We had hoped to be there 8 October when Dr Robert SchuUer is guest preacher at Chapelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he's a semi-personal friend of long standing...We wrote to tell him he can expect to stand a little taller when he sees the color guard retire the colors!

The hornet bites are finally beginning to subside, so will sign off...see you later at the football game. Beat Army. The Beanes GRAY EAGLES DEPARTMENT Jerry Nuss writes: I recently attended a very patriotic ceremony on board the Naval Museum Ship, YORKTOWN, in Charleston, SC. Two of our Classmates were featured participants. Jim Stockdale gave a stirring and inspirational introduction of Jerry Denton, who was honored by having a Navy A-6 Intruder bomber with his name on it dedicated into the museum.

I was most pleased to see these two great Classmates again. All of us are looking forward to meeting again in Annapolis at our fiftieth next June.

Sincerely, Jerry Jerry sent along the press coverage from the local paper, as well as the photo reprinted herewith. The press article particularly accentuated the role of the A-6 in Vietnam, the numbers lost in that and other action, and the prison experiences of our classmates.

At Charieston, 1 to r: Jim Stockdale, Jerry Denton, and Jerry Nuss FINAL HONORS We have been advised by his wife, Christine, of the death on 1 April 1995, from pancreatic cancer, of our Classmate Daniel B. Adams. Dan, for many years a civil servant, had retired in May of 1994, and is survived by Christine and by his son, Daniel B., Jr, who is retired from the U.S. Air Force.

We are indebted to both Frank Keith and Clare Gower for notification of the death on 28 August of Wilma Robertson, wife of our Classmate Joe

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Robertson, in Melbourne, FL. Then just as the column was closing, several Classmates called with the sad news of the loss of Jack Raftery's wife, Pat, in early September The class joins in extending our heartfelt sympathy to the families and loved ones of our bereaved Classmates.

OKH KYO! For those who were misled and confused by my reference in the September column to a 23 September visit of our friends in the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy's 75th Class, be advised that computer or not, there are just plain too many dates buzzing around in your scribe's head to keep things straight.

The date was, of course, 18 September, as previously advertised, and it turned out to be a beautiful one.

Now, getting to it was something else!

On Thursday, the 14th, Buildings and Grounds still didn't have a firm contract with the nursery to provide the trees! That was settled in time to dry out our sweaty palms and actually get the (beautiful) cherty trees on site and appropriately prepared on Friday, and they were no sooner planted than it rained for the first time in almost two months! All seemed to be going well, so we were relaxing with a martini (six olives, to avoid malnutrition) when the phone rang, and our liaison officer for the affair, LT Glenn Hopson ('90), called with the unwelcome news that the Superintendent was forced to send his regrets for the luncheon, but would attend the official ceremony.

Okay. Unhappy news, but not disastrous, so add a couple of olives and cool the liquid part a bit, make eight phone calls, and stand by. Stand by for what, you ask? The strike, of course.

All hotels in Washington, but according to the hotel workers union, the Washington Hilton in particular, were due to be struck at midnight, unless a new contract was artived at. Naturally, the visiting group was booked at the Washington Hilton. An eleventh-hour agreement was finally reached, and the strike was avoided. Okay. Back to our martini, and stand by. For what?

For the weather news, naturally. A beautiful Monday was forecast for Crabtown, but in the Western Pacific, typhoon OSCAR was raising teetotal hell with the east coast of Japan in general and Narita airport in particular And so began the wait to see if they would get here at all. They did, at about nine o'clock Sunday night, after spending six hours waiting in the airport, with CAPT Uesaka, our trusty point of contact, filing FAXes which didn't get delivered, advising of the delay. Martinis were inadequate, at this point, so we simply left out the Vermouth, and kept the olives moist with cooled gin.

Like so many such affairs, once the visiting group got their buses on the road Monday morning for Annapolis, things went as smoothly as one could possibly expect. With the dedicated efforts of John Urban, his wife Olga, Mike Larkin, Glenn Hopson, LCDR Sumio Nagai, the 0-Club caterers, the Academy Band, and last but far from least, my own everloving shipmate, Pat Shaddeau, everything fell into place, and it was, as they used to say, a gas.

Larkin and LCDR Nagai, (a Japanese naval officer on exchange duty at USNA with Seamanship and Navigation,) toured them through the Yard, Mike calling upon his USNA-taught and well-maintained Japanese to clarify the sights to his busload, while Nagai gave explanations at Buchanan House, The Chapel, The Crypt, and the Museum, as well as showing off "our" crests at Alumni Hall. The group toured the Rotunda area, sample rooms, and Memorial Hall, watched the noon meal formation march off, and took, shall we say, a few photos!

(The executive Department, in one of its famous efforts to screw up well-laid plans, tried to trick us by changing noon meal formation time to 30 minutes earlier, but no two percent we — we got the

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word!) The visitors artived on the dot at Alumni Hall, where we awaited them, clad in Japanese Navy fatigue caps, in order to make them feel at home. The caps, as well as handsome tie clasps for the men and beautiful pendants for the ladies of our class, were gifts of the Japanese visitors. We reciprocated with gold-and-enamel ornaments depicting a Mid in white full dress for the ladies, and an Academy-crested brass keyring for the men. The bar was busy ( by this time your cortespondent had been reduced to Sprite with Advil) and the luncheon was delicious.

LTGEN Teruo Kamei was introduced by Jake Finneran as Chief Delegate of the group, and drew enormous applause at the end of his speech by pointing out that although he was an alumnus of their Naval Academy, he had made his career in the ground forces, hence he felt he was authorized to make a choice, and was willing to do so.. .a rousing "BEAT ARMY!".

He brought down the house.

After lunch, the 75th Class (they designate classes in order of sequence, not by year group) sang and marched, with great vim and vigor, their school song, which roughly equates to Anchor's Weigh. Their performance was great, so we responded (though perhaps in the cases of George Brungot, Joe Cofer, Vern Dupy, Stu Murray, Joe Flanagan, Grant Apthorp, and Bo Heininger, the operative verb should be retaliated) with The Goat is Old and Gnarly and one verse of Navy Blue and Gold. We were all primed for this performance, by Mike Larkin, who had just previously, and with very little urging, stepped up to the mike and sung, in flawless Japanese, a Japanese nursery song ca\led AmeAme, Furu Furu. It's as well-known to their kids as Ring Around The Rosie is to ours, and almost every one of the guests could be seen singing it to themselves through broad smiles.

Properly exercised, we all adjourned to the sunny seawall park overlooking Dorsey Creek and the Severn outside Alumni Hall, where the Superintendent, ADM Chuck Larson, joined us, and the band played Sousa marches (Our choice!). The ceremony opened with Anchor's Aweigh and the Japanese Navy's Gunkan March, and Jake again introduced LTGEN Kamei, who then formally presented the five beautiful Yoshino cherty trees in the park to the Academy.

ADM Larson accepted on behalf of the Academy, and, joined by Jake, LTGEN Kamei, and CAPT Shirou Yokoyama, the Naval Attache to the Japanese Embassy, placed the symbolic shovelfuls of soil, after which each member of the visiting Class did the same.

We weren't quite finished. Jake, for the Class of 1947, then presented to them a magnificent shadowbox of cherry wood and Navy blue velvet, containing all the insignia and uniform devices of the Midshipmen of the Academy, with engraved brass plates recalling the occasion. We hope that it will take its place alongside our Class crest in the 75th's Club room in Tokyo. They then surprised us by presenting beautiful paintings of the UNA site at Etajima to ADM Larson and to the Class of 1947.

Finneran called on the bugler to sound "Attention", after which the band concluded the Ceremonies with the national anthems of the two countries. As the final strains floated across Dorsey Creek, more than one of the guests joined in our "Beat Army"!

Back aboard their buses, after the good-byes, the visitors stopped before leaving the Yard to give the Visitor's Center Gift Shop what was surely one of the biggest afternoons in its short history, and headed back to DC. Most of us were tired, some of us exhausted, but I think we can all agree that it was a great day. I would be remiss in the reportage, however, if I failed to note that a number of our Classmates who had been on the visit to Japan in 1987, in order to pre-

vent the cost of this affair from impacting the Class treasury, and to reciprocate for the magnificent hospitality they received on their visit to Japan, contributed substantial amounts to subsidize our costs, even though, in most cases, they could not attend the affair That's class—this Class! Thanks to all of you and to whoever else didn't get mentioned above.

The title of this report? It means Big Day! Sayonara.

Head Table, Joint Reunion luncheon, L to R ; Lil Finneran. CAPT Uesaka. LTGEN Kamei, Jake Finneran, Pat Shaddeau.

Wearing their Japanese Navy "kapus" ; Johnny Johnson, Jake "One-Crutch" Finneran, and Joe Flanagan share a grin.

At the tree-planting: LTGEN Kamei displays the shadowbox — our gift to the 75th Class

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Sec'y Cdr Sumner Moore USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, VA 22302

The Supe and LTGEN Kamei toss in the first shovelfuls of earth on the ceremonial cherry tree PARTY ANIMALS What if you threw a party, and only one guy brought his family, but that overloaded the pool? It would be Bob O'Shea, if you're lucky! As verified in the attached letter, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Alumni Association threw a pool party at NAS Willow Grove to watch the big air show last June. Let Bob tell the rest: .. .an estimated 200,000 tumed out for the Air Show, but only twenty showed up for the pool party.. .what they lacked in numbers they made up for in enthusiasm and esprit d'party. The story is authenticated by this photo of the entire turnout. The "slew of O'Shea's" you reported at last year's Army game came from among the "unruly mob of O'Sheas" in the picture, and include me (in '47 cap), wife Dorothea, and assorted O'Sheas, Millers, and Sinclairs, they being my sons, daughter, and various progeny. The only one left out is the photographer, Mark Miller The Air Show was great.. .hope to see you soon at Homecoming or Army game.

Bob

^^^^^tmm^Ken Robinson .. REALLY on the road!

This month the mailbag is essentially empty, as you will see. 1 looked back at some of Stew McLean's plebe summer reminiscences which we have printed in years past when mail was sparse, and find some that were not printed and go back to the time we joined the brigade. You should find them amusing and your memories will be jogged. But, let's start with this from Fred Jackson out in Hamilton, Montana.

We (Fred and wife, Frances) ventured up to Bigfork, MT, the end of July for an overnight visit with Sally and Bill Wagner in their beautiful home on the golf course. Had a great time. We went to their local theater in the evening and walked their lovely village the next morning, having lunch in one of their favorite restaurants. They haven't lived there too long but seem to know a lot of people.

Bill was not much more than just back from California where he had a 5 month stint in and out of the hospital. He looks good, is in fine spirits, hopes to get back to his sculpturing soon, and was looking forward to the delivery of his new boat. He should have it by now. Things in this area of Montana are great. Have had a little more rain this year than last and it has been a little cooler Still have a little snow on our southern peaks. Been good for the forest fire season. Have 'felt' for you folks in the east. Our normal evening summer temperatures have been in the 40's with daytime humidity in the 25-30% range. Really hard to take. So far our year can be summed up in three words, travel (mostly fairly local), company, and church. We have enjoyed all three. You are welcome to visit any time you wish but please get a round trip ticket â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there are enough of us immigrants here now. As one local bumper sign says, 'Enjoy your visit, then go home'.

Ben Goodman's widow, Alice, reports a new address: 300 Westover Ave., Norfolk, VA23507-1826.

There was a Class luncheon, Friday, September 8, at the Army Navy Country Club, and I was not there. Hoss Graham did not get the roster to me, so who was there I know not. However, you can guess by this time. Dave Carruth provided snapshots of attendees and I print selected shots. It seems that luncheon-goers get their mugs in this column right often. That situation can be remedied by you folks out there sending your own offerings. Please do. But, if it's a picture of your cat, be sure you are in the picture too.

A pool full of O'Sheas .. NAS Willow Grijve, last July KEEPS ON GOING, AND GOING, AND ....

The photo records the continuing saga of Ken Robinson, who writes that it shows him in his 85th Marathon in Boone, NC, last July. He has been averaging about 6.5 miles a day for the last 18 years, and is now coming up on 43,000 miles on his personal odometer. (Yes, I checked the math!) He expects to join us at the 50th next June.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE A call from Jack Stevens in Texas to confirm that plans for the Renewal of Wedding Vows are booming along, with both our own Rev. Thomas R.(Tiger) Teply and the legendary Fr Francis X. Murphy, of St. Mary's in Annapolis, who martied many of our Classmates, participating in an ecumenical service in the Chapel.

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QUICK TAKES Mase Wells, in addition to passing along notes from his stay in Japan, noted the appearance of a photo in the Boston Globe's activities pages of the shining face and star-spangled blue MOH ribbon of our own Tom Hudner .. .Frank Keith, reporting on the population explosion at Indian River Colony Club, in Melbourne, FL, says '45 reports seven Green Bowlers in residence there, so '47's six families is close, but no cigar...most recent arrivals there are Janet and John Callaway, and Maria and Bill Donaldson. Frank says they'd be happy to welcome a few more!...

That's all for this month. Off to the lawnmower for the last time this year! CHS

Carruth and Graham

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Held and Keenan Dave also sent along a letter on the subject of the status of the 50-Year Book: The luncheon last Friday was great, as usual, and I enclose pictures taken there. Naturally, the subject of the Book came up and I apprised the group that since Shipmate asked for biographies I have received three. Today I have gone through my files to see how many sent them in after the first and second letter I think it would be a good idea to publish in Shipmate each month the names of those responding, as an incentive to others to join the fun.

Anyway, here are those whose biographies I now hold: Albanese. Bass, Corson, Hoffman, Jortberg, Lastova, Lochner, Don R. Morris. Pendergrass, Pawlowski, Rennacker, Rufo Robinson, Shorr, Sprince. Sisson, and J.K. Welsh. Of these, only five provided pictures: Corson, Jortberg. Hoffman, Lastova, and Pawlowski. The rest of you please send a photo to cover your biography.

As you will recall. Stew McLean of Baltimore provided us with letters home from plebe summer.

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much of which appeared in this column several years ago when things were slow. Here is more; Friday, September 29, 1944. All the upper classmen came back today, and things are all different. We sit at different tables, are in different platoons, etc. After supper we had a big pep rally out on the front court.

Saturday, Sept 30. Marching to class this morning we cheered, sang Navy songs, and worked up spirit for this afternoon's game. For noon meal we wore our blue uniforms for the first time. We have collars that you have to put on the shirt, and it takes a long time to get the uniforms on. They look swell though. Next week everything is going to be different, as we start academics. Our classes are Spanish, Skinny (chemistry). Math (trig), descriptive geometry, and bull (English). I'm in the savvy section of Spanish, that's good because you get better grades than in the bucket section.

Wednesday, Oct. 4. In chemistry the prof told us we'd have to leam the slide rule. We wore a different uniform to the Parade, blue shirt and blue pants, leggins and a tie. We tackled, blocked, and scrimmaged a little in football (battalion). Even with new coaches, we don't seem to get much done. I was really rushed after football practice, I had 15 minutes to get ready for chow and look up four questions.

Saturday, Oct 7. We had a long period of steam (mechanical drawing) that we have every Saturday.

Then we had two hours of infantry. Plebes get run a little during this time. This, and it's being very hot, and having to wear blues, made it a horrible couple of hours. At meal formation we stood for about 20 minutes while officers inspected us. It was really hot. Also, my shoes weren't shined and I needed a haircut. After lunch all plebes had to go see the plebe team play. The plebes ran all over the Columbia JV 66-0. The varsity game was swell.

Clyde Scott played first team. This evening I saw the best movie I have ever seen, "Arsenic and Old Lace", with Cary Grant. The trees went up today, and I wasn't on any. The tree is the list of failures for the week, and there were lots of plebes on it. I guess I'll bit a few times or more before I leave.

Friday, Oct. 13. I didn't go out for football today, I play very little and expect to get cut. We have our first game on Sunday and Sprince is going to tell me if I'm cut. I sure have been having a lot of fun at the table lately. The first Class have been letting them ask us carry-on questions. Tonight we are going to have a question bee, they asking us questions and we carrying on if we get a certain number right, and shoving out if we miss a certain number Swell fun.

Tuesday, Oct. 17. I'm eighteen now. I'm really leading a different life now from last year, or any other year. This is swell here, but I wish I could go back to last year Wednesday, Oct 18. All the company plebes had our picture taken today for the Lucky Bag. Regular P-rade, not bad because it wasn't hot. We got an ice cream cone after I won 75 cents on a football pool. The first class run lots of them.

Saturday, Nov 4. The best time I've had in many, many moons. We left here at 0815 (by bay steamer), got to Baltimore about 1145, and marched to the stadium. A whole lot of little kids came up to get autographs. It was fun marching on the field, our company did it a little bit wrong, but I guess no one noticed but the officers. As you know, we beat Notre Dame 32-13. We got back here at 0115 a.m.

Sunday afternoon we had a battalion football game and won so easily I played. Here's how good I am: The coach doesn't even know my name or position. They scored their only TD while I was in. We won 20-6.

Friday. Dec 1. We've really been building up spirit for this Army game. Cheering and yelling and singing in ranks (when we usually have to keep very quiet), really whooping it up. Tecumseh is all painted with bright colors (Weber across the hall, did most of it). Today we colored our white caps with chalk, wrote Beat Army on them, and put pictures of a dead mule on them. 1 just got back from our big pep rally, we had chow early so it could be long. Admiral Beardall, Captain Murray, Coach

Hagberg all talked, we sang a lot of songs, had a couple of skits, shot off a lot of rockets and cannons, and then they tumed off all the lights and a boy juggled lighted sticks. We're really ready to beat Army tomorrow.

Monday, Dec 4. You know we lost to Army 23-7 though we played a good game. I'm now on watch and would be royally fried if I was caught writing a letter. Things aren't any different because we lost to Army, though we would be carrying on if we had won. Clyde Scott came over and got some clippings I told him we'd give him from the Baltimore American. They really played him up, had a bunch of pictures of him. He played a swell game.

So, that pretty well completes Stew's reminiscences. It was fun for me, and 1 thank brother McLean.

I just had a phone call from Ed Meyers over on Block Island, some 12 miles out to sea from my house here. He and Lois didn't leave their Sanibel, Florida, home until August to occupy their summer home, a large rambling Victorian house. They are seriously considering unloading it after 25 years, and sticking to Florida. Too many maintenance headaches.

A couple of hurticanes back, in this late summer of multiple cyclones, the Lesser Antilles island of St. Martin, the home of Paul Corrigan, was hit pretty hard. A couple of years ago we had some great pictures of his digs there and descriptions of his wife's art studio and shop. We hope all is well with him, but have no news.

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Pres., Lt. Alfred C. Boughton III USNR (Ret.) Sec'y LCol. Richard H. Francis USMC (Ret.) PO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 703-339-5275 This is going to be a short column; first, because there is a paucity of material and second, I am headed to Ireland and Scotiand on a guys-only golfing trip the third of September for two weeks, so the November column submission has to be done early. We do need your cards and letters to make this column work. No item is too brief and fluff is welcome!

Emil Achee. Master Swimmer

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Emil Achee sent the following: A short note to inform Classmates that I am still staying healthy by working out and swimming in the Masters Program. The last major competition was the National Short Course Yards Championships which took place end of May in Ft. Lauderdale. I placed high up in the freestyle events. We also reached another of life's milestones, when we became great-grandparents with the birth to Suzie's daughter of a baby girl.

The sad news, was the death of Joanie's mother at our home in early June followed by the untimely passing of her brother, Wolfman Jack, real name Bob Smith, three weeks later He had just returned from a successful promotion of his autobiography, "Have Mercy" published by Time Warner. He died of a heart attack at his home in Belodere, North Carolina. Reverend Schuler of the Crystal Cathedral officiated at the services at Wolf's home, and I gave the eulogy. Many thanks to all those Classmates who sent condolences to Joanie. A special thanks to our wedding usher and forever good friend, Harry Train, for attending the services. Our dearest friend, Molly Barrow, accompanied Joan and me to NC and we'll be ever grateful for her loving support during those sad and difficult days."

This is all for now. Nothing can be finer than to be a 49er!

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Pres., RAdm. Milton J. Schultz USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Wayne L. Jensen USN (Ret.) 499 Skyhill Ct., Chula Vista, CA 92010 John Brick writes to say that in Pensacola they somehow survived hurricane Erin whose eye passed directly over the city. John adds that he and Carolyn weren't taking chances with this year's proliferation of storms so they vacationed in Charleston, SC in August with further plans to visit in Vermont with George Halperin and with Elaine and Dick Bossert on their Vermont farm. While in Charleston, John noted that Dave Emerson had been recognized by the CO of that Naval Hospital for having been instrumental in keeping the institution open while operating through the Defense of Charleston campaign.

John also points out that Al Drew's son, Jed, owns and operates a bar/restaurant in Charleston named 'Arizona'. It is worth a trip to South Carolina just to see the place.

Words of congratulation continue to pour in with regards the 45th reunion of the Class in San Diego.

Many letters continue to send pictures some of which are included with this article. Joe Grier sends along comments with, "I just had to write to someone to express my appreciation for the many happy memories that I gathered at our 45th. Any that missed our 45th must attend the 50th, it is an experience everyone must have."

HTM

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Gayle May, Carol Dewitt, Mark and Judy Frudden Donna and Byron Lee relate, "Without a doubt that was the most exciting and thrilling time of our lives. Everything was absolutely perfect and we are still reliving the events."

George Will, the inveterate baseball fan, but also noted for his musings for the Washington Post Writers Group, was in San Diego in late August for some Padre baseball and also to ride the COWPENS as she exercised off the West Coast. Lloyd Harrison writes

to point out that Will in an article in the San Diego newspaper reported, There is an unencumbered self-sufficiency about U.S. ships. They can remain on station without any host country's permission, they bring a complete package to a crisis and are more easily reversible than an onshore buildup. That is why the Navy is such a versatile instrument for preventive diplomacy, for controlling crisis and for conventional deterrence by swiftly demonstrating intentions and capabilities.

Lloyd points out that George Will must have been influenced by One Hundred Years of Sea Power, a new book by George Baer who is Chairman of the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College. Whatever the influence, we can use all the support we can find from the George Wills of the world. J. B. Farrell writes that the possibility of the Farrells leaving Hawaii for a permanent move to the mainland grows ever stronger particulariy since sons, Benjamin and John Jr are anticipating similar moves.

Overcrowded conditions in the Island paradise have precipitated the consideration for the move. Benita's health is shaky at best and J. B. must find proper medical care for her on the West Coast.

In San Diego on Friday the 1st of September we gathered for lunch at the Naval Station Mariner Club: Dick Thurston, Stan Neander, Mark Frudden, Dick Smith, Dick Prescott, Bob Muck (The 1996 San Diego Valentines Day dinner for the '50 group will again be at the San Diego Yacht Club on Wednesday the 14th of February), Gene Wisenbaker, Lloyd Harrison, Wayne Jensen, John Malloy, Charlie Clark, J. B. Davis, Bill Grimm, Don Elliott and Dick Martin. We conducted a straw vote and it was determined that Bob Dole after a few setbacks in the coming months would still be the '96 Republican candidate for President. The attempt to bring in voters from outside and thereby change the Dole momentum proved unsuccessful. The group was unanimous in their observation that, "Eternal purgatory is best evidenced by 'The Defense does not rest'."

Wayne Jensen reported that he had contacted Myron Fleming USNA '62 who is the San Diego area Blue and Gold Officer and obtained applications for his twin grandsons to attend USNA with the Class of '17. The '50 San Diego wives at their concurtent luncheon were: Ailene Morgan, Mary Lou Thurston (We now have 14 grandchildren and are happy to see the Jensens are now getting a start with twin grandbabies. Our oldest grandson is now 19 and on his way to Tulsa on a mission for the Mormon Church), Mary Ellen Prescott, Dottie Martin (Daughter, Tracy, martied to Jan Murton at Oceanview on Pt. Loma on the 9th of July. We are off to Massachusetts to visit Mary and Frank Carter), Marcia Clark, June Neander (Attended a high school class reunion in Minnesota and later Stan took a salmon fishing trip to Canada. What do you do with 250 pounds of salmon?), Terty Malloy (Malloy clan gathered at Lake Tahoe for a reunion in August. Our newest is a granddaughter born on 20 July), Judy Frudden and Dolores Harrison.

Dorothy and Wayne Jensen with identical twin grandsons, Sean and Kincade Jensen Chuck Mull reports of the death of our Classmate, Charles J. "Chuck" ReichI on 30 August 1995 of cancer after a short illness. Besides his wife, Kathryn,

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Chuck is survived by daughters Mrs. David Hill and Mrs. Dale Haverman and son, LCdr. Charles J. Reichl. A funeral mass was celebrated on 2 September at St. Charles Bartomes Church in Brunswick, ME. Burial with full military honors was held in Riverside Cemetery, Brunswick. Chuck Mull represented the Class of '50 at services. Memorial contributions may be made to the Navy Relief Society, Naval Air Station, Brunswick, ME. 04011. BEAT ARMY, Wayne.

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Pres., Capt. F. Trent Shaver USN (Ret.) Sec'y, William W. Boyes, Jr. 2214 McAulift'e Dr., Rockville, MD 20851 Well, the California Casuals are at it again! As a reprise for last year's '51 'Tween Reunion in San Diego, plans have been firmed up for a '51 dinner at the San Diego Yacht Club on Friday night, 23 February 1996. They'll be honoring our first President, General George Washington. The hosts will be Jean and Andy Kremm, longtime yacht club members where they berth their sloop. Lucky Bag. Party sponsors include the Bolts, Ron D a v i e s , Haig Donabedian, the Fontaines, Hutchisons, Leahys, McNerneys, Ruggles and Herb Zoehrer. "Engraved" invitations will be sent to all San Diego '51ers, and all other USNA '51ers who desire to attend. Of course, the uniform will be Classy California Casual. In support of Trent Shaver's plea, and as was the 'Tween Reunion, this dinner will be a benefit for our Class project, the USNA Class of 1951 Gallery of Ships. Put the date on your '96 organizer and plan to be there. Details will be published later Out of San Diego area '51ers who may consider attending should call or write to receive their detailed information. Make San Diego your next winter's vacation destination. All this came from the Party Coordinator, John Tillson, 619-481-3263.

If you can believe it, we had one Classmate out of the 725 graduates who never made a Youngster Cruise. To find out who he was, you'll have to read the rest of the column carefully. We also had three Classmates who received Class "A" punishment in May of 1951 and were required as part of their penance to repeat first class cruise again as midshipmen. The remainder of the stipulation being that if they kept their noses clean on this additional cruise, they would receive their diplomas and their commissions would be back dated to 1 June 1951. That worked fine for the two who went into the Navy line, but the poor soul who went into the USAF upon reporting to them was told, "We didn't tell you we'd back date your commission; we didn't even know if you'd show up.

Sorry about that but the best we can do is commission you as of your date of reporting aboard."

Received a nice letter from Joe Biron stating that he, far from being "unknown" in the July/August Shipmate of all those '51er beer drinkers down in GITMO in August 1948, his wife, Barbara, says she "knows" him very well. Joe was on the far left, top row and besides scarfing up an unknown number of Chief Hatuey brews, it was his job to keep the entire top row from falling over I think all the Classmates in that picture were from the MACON and I, unfortunately, being on the "MIGHTY M O " didn't get to meet many of those who were on the laid back MACON. 1 say that with certitude because of the number of dawns that found us in the 2nd division heaving oil lines to all the "small boys" who came alongside the

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AO-63 (that's what we called it) to be topped off.

All we saw on the MACON were guys standing in the chow line waving to us. At least they didn't moon us.

Heard from Curly Matson that the local high school in his home town of Burke. SD (pop. 700, not counting cows) had an all classes reunion. Curly's oldest brother, 88 years old, made it for his 70th reunion. And it reminded me of a story Curly told all four years we spent together in the sixth Batt. It seems that his Dad bought the second internal combustion engine automobile in the state of South Dakota. And within a month, he had a collision with guess what?

No, not a buffalo roaming the streets, but with the other guy in the state who owned an automobile.

Nancy Stuart sent our Class President, Trent Shaver, a nice thank you note for the "blue and gold" flower wreath the Class sent for Tom's memorial service in the Naval Academy Chapel. Tom Stuart and his brother, Jake, may now be gone, but they will never be forgotten by their Classmates. They were just two great guys.

Al Raithel received a letter from George Stubbs, '59, a nuke submariner requesting that the next time we run a picture of his late older brother, Jim "Bear" Stubbs, that we at least spell his name correctly.

George says "Bear's" wife, Ellie, never remarried and that their mother is still living, too.

Ray Reig had a quadruple bypass on 25 Sep 1995 and is doing well on his diet and exercising. Ray, having been tall and slim all his adult life — and a non-smoker to boot — doesn't fit the pattern of most heart artery blockage cases. But then, neither did Rosemary Thorne. I guess it must be all in the genes, which is why I am looking forward to the 45th reunion starting next Sep 18,1996, and a big "maybe" for the 50th in the year 2001.

It appears that the Don Gordons and Al Burkhalters spend much of their time in the summer at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. That foursome recently attended the Mystery Cafe Diner where Al was the only one out of 150 attendees to discover "who did it?" He was awarded a tee shirt for what Don says was Al's use of the Charley Chan theory thereby displaying true sleuthing genius. Don, on the other hand, used the tried and true "the butler did it" technique. Only one problem though; there was no butler so Don received the "Bonehead" certificate.

Betty and Don Gordon, Al and Betty Burkhalter Don Osborn has sent me a revised obituary and I'd like to again remind the rest of the Class who haven't sent in an obituary, that you put your widow and children to an added stress when I call a month or so after your demise asking for a full-fledged obituary with a recent picture of the deceased, preferably taken at your retirement ceremony or any other one your widow thinks is a better likeness. Besides, who better than yourselves can recall the highlights of your career after we all split on 1 June 1951?

Here's some more nutritional advice: an all-natural hormone "Melatonin" has been receiving a lot of press about being great for boosting the immune system, protecting the body against cancer, lowering cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure, fighting

stress and depression, helping prevent heart attacks and strokes and beats insomnia. The other one is called the "ultimate antioxidant." Co-enzyme QIO (CoQlO). It also reduces blood pressure and one patient who refused a heart transplant after being healed with CoQlO is still alive five years later 1 recommend doing your own research on these and see, if on a trial basis, they actually improve your quality of life.

Bad vibes still emanating from DOD in reference to Korean MIAs. Dick Dean's wife, Nancy, whose father was shot down over the Yalu River, found out from Russian sources, through BBC contacts, that her Dad was captured by North Koreans, turned over to and interrogated by Soviet intelligence officers and then turned back over to the Koreans. They hung a sign on his chest saying "War Criminal" and marched him into a North Korean village with a single guard whereupon the populace started to beat and stone Nancy's father which resulted in his death.

Upon confronting DOD with this material and asking if they had any other information on her father's death and whereabouts of his body, they replied to the effect that, "Yes, we do," but it is classified information. I mean this info is 45 years old and it's still classified? And Nancy doesn't have a need to know? With so-called friends like that, who needs enemies?

And then there is still Billy Bell and Ed Guthrie who were actually on a list to be returned as POWs and never showed up. And we're going to give those North Koreans some nuclear power plants? Give us a break!!

Well, the Classmate (and only one) who never made a Youngster Cruise was the ubiquitous Tony Thorne. Near the end of Plebe year, Tony was sent to Bethesda to have one of his kidneys reconstituted (I've seen the scar). So, he missed all the final exams and the Academic Staff wanted to turn him back into '52. Tony objected and requested to take re-exams (thereby foregoing his last chance to learn how to holystone a wooden deck). And with the help of Phil Pahl tutoring him in Russian and some hard book work that summer, Tony passed all the re-exams and the rest is, as they say — history.

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Haig Donabedian, Walt Boyes, Lee Doggett With that, I'll see you next month — Walt

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Pres., Capt. James P. Keane USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Leigh Ebbert USN (Ret.) 2514 Culpeper Rd., Alexandria, VA 22308 What does this season bring to you? Some friends of ours are off on an Elderhostel tour spending some time in Santa Fe exploring Indian legends, and seeing a part of the country that they haven't seen before. What adventures have you to share with the Class?

The news continues to be about the story of Apollo 13. Jack Sheehan shares an account of viewing the movie at the Naval Academy and describes it as an incredible evening: On Sunday evening, August 18th, Jean and I enjoyed one of the most thrilling experiences of our lives.

Admiral Chuck Larson, USNA Superintendent, convened The Brigade in Alumni Hall for a showing of Apollo 13. He introduced our own Tom Stafford who introduced Jim Lovell, who then introduced the film. During the evening Admiral Larson remarked that it would be a useful ambition, that one's lifetime achievements would be celebrated in a highly successful film in which Tom Hanks would play a lead role.

In introducing Tom Stafford, Admiral Larson said that Tom is qualified in 126 aircraft and four individual spacecraft.

Jack says, As a naval aviator, I consider that a truly stunning record. Career Navy test pilots would have qualified in perhaps 30-40.

In introducing Jim Lovell, Tom said that in the early hours of Jim's APOLLO 13 dilemma, it appeared that the probability of a recovery was less than 10 percent! Tom then told the Brigade that the recovery of APOLLO 13 was NASA's finest hour and exceeded in significance the first moon landing.

Jim Lovell emphasized to the midshipmen that the most important thing they should get during their four years is an education in leadership; math, physics, EE, and others are important, but leadership is paramount.

For those who haven't seen it, the Apollo 13 movie is a prize winner and a technological marvel in its ownright.At its conclusion. The Brigade gave Jim Lovell a standing, highly enthusiastic and pro-

longed ovation. They were certainly inspired.

The only thing that I can compare that to, was the ovation we gave Fleet Admiral Wm. F. 'Bull' Halsey when he was introduced in the mess hall the night he spoke to the Smoke Hall panel when we were in The Brigade.

The six striper then invited Jim to the stage and presented him a Navy jogging suit. Admiral Larson brought Marilyn to the stage and Jim said, 'There is not one role model in this film, but two.'

At that point. The Brigade gave the Lovells a prolonged standing ovation. While Admiral Larson, Tom and Jim were on the stage, Jean overheard a midshipman standing near us say, 'There are three truly great men.'

I have often said that it is a rare privilege to be a member of the Naval Academy Class of 1952. I never felt that more deeply than on this marvelous Sunday evening. The achievements of Tom Stafford and Jim Lovell (and Don Eisele) — our Classmates — are truly historical. Being present to experience the Brigade's reaction was one of those most moving, emotional and profound experiences of Jean (whose brother. Bob McEvers, was my roommate) and my lives. I only wish each of the Class of '52 and their wives had been there.

Thank you. Jack, for the report. Jean and I saw a rerun of the National public TV version of APOLLO 13 while we were on vacation, and then a day or so later saw the movie. Jean said that the NPR version helped to provide the context for the movie. We are a fortunate Class to have helped pioneer these flights and to know those who flew them.

Harry Bixby forwards pictures taken at Reunion West 1995 in San Francisco with the following: Thanks once again to Charlie Wiseman's indefatigable wife Hannah, we had a great Class party on 16 June at the Tior d'Italia restaurant in the heart of San Francisco's North Beach area. Following dinner, about half the crowd continued on to a performance of "Beach Blanket Babylon"; as the brochure says, 'a raucous, witty and irreverent parody musical show about San Francisco'. The list of attendees in the large group picture includes: left to right standing; Charlie Wiseman, Mickey Knapp and Clare Ryder, Ed Shiver, Evelyn and Bill Caudill, Nancy and Jim McFeeters, Lu Lambert, Bob Howell, Ora Marie Lambert, Susan and Joe Masi, Rhodie and Forrest Firth, Ann and Harry Bixby, Dick Pohli and Lynn Eckersly, and Lori and Jack MacPherson. Left to right seated: Hannah Wiseman, Ellen Shiver Helen and Rae Richerson, Angelica and Ray Alcarez...

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Tom Thawley forwarded the Thursday, 7 September issue of the Arundel Report in the Annapolis Capital which featured an article headlined, "Rewarding Instructor" "Magothy River Middle School science teacher Faustena Vahsen went to Baltimore yesterday and came home $25,000 richer.." It goes on to say that Penny said she had no idea that she had been selected as one of Maryland's five recipients of the 1995 Milken Family Foundation National Education Awards. Congratulations, Penny. We are very proud of you.

Jackson B. Richard has been named director of the Office of Laboratory Nuclear Operations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. BEAT ARMY

'52 in San Francisco no one wanted the plate, I gave it up.

A quick call to DMV will reveal who has it now.

That's how I discovered it was available in 1977.

Betty and I love Vegas. We have frequent visits from our six children and five grandsons. Our youngest is in law school. I am about ready to retire for the 4th time, I think.

Glad to hear George Berry has been found. Give us a call, George...702-898-0600. All '52ers are welcome anytime. We are in the book. Come and see one of the top 10 places in the USA to live.

Bob ("Walt") Fellingham writes that he has sold his home in the Akron-Canton area of Ohio, and he and Elnora have moved to Pensacola. They have one great grandchild. Bob has passed the Florida State real estate broker's exam and is licensed. He has been in real estate sales in Ohio since 1984 and enjoyed the work. He is looking forward to joining us in future reunions. Bob, thanks, and keep us posted.

Phil Case sends the picture of Lois and Dick Smith and himself decked out with senior Olympian medals. Dick Smith and Phil are sporting gold medals. Dick won his as a member of the three-man half court basketball team, and Phil in the 200 yard backstroke event. Lois is shown with one of her two silver medals won in the 100 and 200 yard freestyle swimming events. Thanks, Phil, for the information and congratulations to you and Dick and Lois.

Frank and Jim Don Jensen was taking the picture. Harty also provided several informal snaps taken by Charlie Wiseman before dinner He adds.

By the time this makes Shipmate, Ann and I will in all probability have departed the San Francisco area for good and will be living around Santa Fe, New Mexico. We will keep you posted.

By the way, we certainly enjoyed Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 and even though Jim had wanted Kevin Costner I think Hanks did a great job and the movie is superb. Even knowing how it tumed out, I was on the edge of my seat for most of the mission. And was I imagining it, or did I see, at the end of the film when the astronauts are welcomed back on the flight deck, the real Jim Lovell in dress whites playing the part of the skipper or Admiral? Ann and I send our best and hope to see some Classmates in Santa Fe someday, and certainly at the 45th.

Thanks, Harty, and let us know where in Santa Fe to find you.

Hal Lewis responds to Bob Morris's question about who has the CA USNA 52 plates with.

Greetings from the Entertainment Capital of the World! Always enjoy your '52 happenings in Shipmate. Continually I am amazed by the numbers of '52ers who still live around the beltway in high humidity and high taxes.

In response to Bob Morris, I had CA USNA 52 auto plate until February 1989 when we moved to Las Vegas. At the time I called around, and since Shipmate, November 1995

The medal winners In September, a group of Washington, DC Classmates took a 3 hour harbor cruise of the AlexandriaWashington waterfront aboard the cruise ship DANDY. The group included: Joan and Vince Argiro. Rita and Garnett Bailey. June and Jake Brown, Tanya and Dow Collins, Sjana and Hork Dimon, Peggy Keane, Carmen and Lary Layman, Dolly and Ed Leonard, Rosemary and Walt Locke, Lortaine May (widow of Dave May), Jane and Jack O'Connell, Lois and Dick Smith, Betty and Harry Spencer, and Petey and Biscuit Wev. Garnett reported that the weather was great, the luncheon food was delicious, and the company was delightful. He notes that the DANDY Captain and First Mate were both former active duty Marines. Thank you, Garnett.

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Pres., VAdm. William E. Ramsey USN (Ret.) Sec'y, LCol. David B. Jones USAF (Ret.) 6708 Pageland Lane, Gainesville, VA 22065 At the September luncheon we were informed that Hawley Brooks had been convicted in Federal Court in Norfolk on several charges related to supplying electrical assemblies to the Navy or to Navy contractors. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail plus a significant fine. However, he is appealing the conviction and from what we were told at the luncheon he should be totally cleared by the Appeals Court.

We certainly hope so and send our best wishes to Hawley, his wife Kathryn, his two sons who were also convicted and are appealing and to his former wife Joanie. This is tough news that is hard on everyone.

As mentioned last month I received a long letter from Logan Sharrah. He and Luree love their Murrells Inlet, SC home and don't like to leave it for more than a week or ten days. However, from what Logan said it sounds as if they stay there a week or two and travel a week or two â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a nice kind of life! They now have five grandsons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most recent being Connor who was born on 31 March, 1995.

Having grandchildren requires one to visit grandchildren. Thus in April the Sharrahs visited Lansing, Michigan to check on John (4), Caleb (2) and Andrew (6). In May they flew to California to visit old and dear friends that they have known since newlywed days. The friends live in San Juan Capistrano and they had a great time visiting them. In June they went to Houston to formally welcome young Connor into the clan as well as to help their son and daughter-in-law celebrate their birthdays (only two days apart) and to all celebrate Luree and Logan's Anniversary. Logan says Connor "...is a doll and very contented most of the time. Of course having four adults and an older brother doting over him didn't hurt."

In July they came to Gaithersburg, Maryland to visit Luree's mother She lives in Asbury Methodist Village there. She is in pretty good shape and knows what is going on which is great since she recently celebrated her 90th birthday. In September they are going on their seventh cruise to Bermuda. They also flew there once. On three other cruises they went to the Caribbean. Logan's brother and his wife usually travel with them and will on this cruise too, as will an Aunt and Uncle plus some of their neighbors in Murrells Inlet. In early June Logan was invited to spend two days on the EISENHOWER to observe CarQuals and to get a guided tour of the ship. He and three others from the area, including a retired Navy Reserve Captain (Aviator) who artanged the trip flew from Myrtle Beach to Norfolk where they boarded a COD flight to IKE and landed aboard (ar-

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rested landing). They spent the night and then the next afternoon were catapulted off in the COD. It was great. He took his still camera and his camcorder and got about 30 minutes of video of F-18 and F-14 takeoffs and landings. Logan also wanted the S.S. info as well as news as to when Virginia was going to refund the taxes they improperly took from some retirees. I sent him the two S.S. sheets I have and told him to read Jim Carrington's letter on page 32 of the July-August issue of Shipmate. Shipmate identifies Jim as being out of '48 but the letter is the letter that the Jim Carrington in '53 sent to me which I in turn sent on to Shipmate (thanks again, Jim). Told Logan I didn't have any info on the status of the Virginia tax refunds and suggested he call Gus Hubal. Thanks, Logan. The pictures of you with your two sets of grandsons are great.

of Horse Holders), all under the watchful eye of Ens. Molly Boron '95. Thanks, Tony — it is a super picture and a good story. I bet BILL smelled a lot better when Helen finished with him than he did when she started.

Bill XXVI and Friends A letter from Hugh (Pete) Higgins enclosed a picture of Pete and his wife Zeta with their son. Commander John L. Higgins S.C. USN at his Change of Command Ceremony where he became the Commanding Officer, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Charleston, SC. Zeta and Pete flew in from their hoine in Las Vegas along with most of the rest of their family and they all had a great time. He says to give their best to all their friends and that with any luck they hope to make a football game in Annapolis sometime soon. Thanks, Pete — hope to see you at one of this year's tailgates.

Connor, Logan and Cole Buck Simpson sent me a change of address card and stated that he and Margret have moved back to the area and are finally settled at 2539 Mission Hills Court, Annapolis, Maryland, 21401-7384. Home phone 410-224-0451. However, as soon as they got everything moved in they took off for the rest of the summer He does say that "as soon as I get a word processor 1 will send details of our 'Last' move."

Thanks, Buck. We are glad you two are back.

A letter from Tony Miller stated that in 1992 his wife Helen, who is a professional pet groomer and her daughter Leslie who is a Veterinarian, opened the Arnold Pet Center The Center is a "full-service" pet care facility, including a veterinary hospital, a grooming salon, and a 60-run indoor boarding kennel. Recently the full service nature of the Center was tested to the extreme. Helen was requested to groom the leading pet celebrity in Annapolis, BILL XXVI. The picture Tony enclosed shows Helen and BILL with Ens. Nick Mangas '95 and Lt. Bill McKinney '90 as Goat Holders (a lower level form

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A short note from Martha and Hart Sebring enclosed a picture of Hart fresh off the golf course and looking for his car — "I think it has some kind of a USNA license plate!" He says it has been hot in Central Florida this summer but he imagines it has been hot in Virginia as well. You're right. Hart! They are coming up on the Auto Train on 11 September and will rent an apartment while they oversee and wait for their new Virginia Condo to be built. They will also join us at all the tailgates and other Class functions of the fall and eariy winter I imagine he was as astounded as I was on 10 September when 1

finally found a sports page that had the results of Navy's 33-2 rout of SMU. Having been at the last SMU game when those huge Texans just pushed us all over the field I was not expecting good things. A rout was truly hard to believe. As a matter of fact this past Monday I got a call from Jack Wilson in Tennessee wanting to know if it was really true that Navy won and, if so, how? It was a pleasure to tell Jack (1). Yes, and (2). I don't know, except the new coach made a youngster who was a defensive back on the plebe team last year his new starting quarterback and the kid only ran for 250 plus yards and threw for 125 more. Additionally, the coach also moved several players up from the 1501b. team to the varsity. Makes one wonder a littie about prior coaching staffs. At any rate we are looking forward to Hart's return and to his leading us in some positive cheers this year — not those awful "Hold that Line" and "Stop Them" yells that we have been making for so long.

At the September luncheon Chuck Fellows gave me a picture taken a few weeks earlier at their summer home in Maine. The picture shows Chuck, his wife Alix, Nell Gilmore and Art Gilmore standing on the deck with the water in the background.

Thanks, Chuck, looks like a lovely place.

Summer in Maine A short note from Tom Southerland enclosed a long newspaper article on a father-son photographer team that uses a 4 large, circa 1917, panoramic camera to take pictures of large groups such as entering or graduating college classes or large reunion groups, etc. Tom wonders if we might schedule these guys for our 45th. It might be a great idea. The images in the group pictures we have taken recently are so small one can hardly tell who is who. I will pass the clipping along to Gus to give to whoever gets volunteered to Honcho the 45th. Tom notes that he and Margot are off to Hawaii where they will look for the highly endangered Hawaiian Crow on the Big Island, get in some R and R and then board the World Discoverer to cruise down the Line Islands and on to Tahiti (watch out for the Green Peacers and their friends). He also enclosed a copy of an article about them in the September, 1995 issue of The Western Tanager magazine. When the author asked Tom where the best bird watching is to be found he, in effect, said it is good almost everywhere in the world, but he thinks the best birding is in Southeastern Arizona! Thanks, Tom, hope you have a good trip.

A nice letter from Pauline Furey said her trip to England to do more research on 43 Squadron, the RAF and the Battle of Britain had gone very well and she had learned a lot — some of which she can't put in her new book. She enclosed a lovely picture taken of her sitting beside the Battle of Britain Memorial at Hawkinge which looks out across the channel — in fact you can see the French coast in the picture she sent. Unfortunately, there is no alumnus in the picture so you'll have to take my word for what it shows. She goes on to note that she and Tyke are going to San Francisco in October to attend the World Wings Convention. As she says "Pan Am may

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be gone but we still hang in there!" While in California they will get to visit Pauline's daughter Julie and her family in Monterey. Julie and the grandkids will be free to play while hubby Dan studies at the PG School. Later they will head north to Seattle where Tyke was born. Pauline has never been to Oregon or Washington and is looking forward to that trip. Thanks, Pauline — our best to Tyke, Julie, Dan and the kids.

1 have some more of Gus Hubal and Ed Chase's good pictures. One is a character shot of Bud Kauderer while the other are shots of Huntly Boyd and Mike Greeley. Shots taken at the September luncheon include one of Dave Frost with Irv Boeskool, one of Art Gilmore with Don McVay, and one of Ed Dixon with Chuck Fellows. Three circa 1953 shots from Bobby Baker are also included, the first two show the fabled '53 Silent Stealth Drill Team at a pre-demonstration muster and inspection-see if you can find the stealth members — there should be at least 15 or 20 in the pictures.

The final picture is of the late Frank Liethen who became an Air Force Thunderbird pilot, and if I remember cortectly was an Astronaut selectee before his untimely death.

Frost and Boeskool

Frank Liethen Don't forget, Class Luncheons are on the first Tuesday of each month at the Fort McNair Officer's Club at 1130. We will tailgate at our normal location in the Gold Parking lot behind the Elks Club for both the Delaware game on 11 November and the Tulane game on 18 November At both of these tailgates we will be judged on the following categories: Most Navy, Most Fun and Most Creative. There is a special Mardi Gras theme for the Tulane game tailgate.

Come out and help us see if we can win again as we did last year. The grand prize is worth working for — four round trip tickets to your favorite destination in the US, courtesy of US Air The annual USMA '53-USNA '53 luncheon will be held during the week before the ARMY-NAVY Game. Plan on attending — it is a fun affair Keep the news and pictures coming in and Beat Army and as many other teams as we can!! Cheers-Dave.

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Pres., Col. Fitz W. Woodrow, USMC (Ret.) Sec'y Edward H. "Ed" Dawson, Jr. 6601 Howie Ct., Camp Springs, MD 20748 301-449-1954; FAX 301-595-2586 Well, here it is... that month again: No bats, no balls, no strikes, no mitts; No runs, no hits, no errors... no baseball!

No weeds, no sniffles, no sneezing, no tears...

No summer Ain't no bug juice, ain't no water, ain't no wonder...

No-vember! ... Make it a great month, shipmates!

'54 BI-COASTAL REUNION VACATION The Class owes a triple attaboy to Bob Schlenzig who has almost single-handedly coordinated and organized a West Coast reunion to be held in San Diego, California next spring from April 19th through 23rd, 1996. You should have received a schedule of events by now with a request that you inform the committee of your interest in attending. Bob has really done a commendable, a truly outstanding job in artanging for your vacation pleasure. Along with the standard receptions, cocktail parties, Class meetings, dinners and lodging. Bob has included golf and tennis; beaches for swimmers and surfers; San Diego Zoo trip; evening dinner cruise of San Diego Harbor; tours of a nuclear submarine, surface warship and an aircraft carrier; Sea World and a host of museums including the Air and Space Museum. FFI contact Bob at 1042 Encino Row, Coronado, CA 92118, 619-437-1273. Bob has recently been promoted and has received permanent orders as COMMEXVILL. Let me now pass along info received from the Director of Alumni Services. In the event of the death of an alumnus/alumna or a spouse, the individual Mike Greeley Shipmate, November 1995

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who has first knowledge should immediately call the Alumni Association at 410-263-4448 with complete information. We request you also call our Class President, Fitz Woodrow at 703-354-4871 who will arrange for flowers from our Class and initiate the telephone chain to notify the rest of us. Obituaries (including a photo) should be sent directly to the Shipmate "Last Call" editor with a copy to the Class Secretary.

John Lyding writes from Crofton, MD that he has recently been fired... I mean retired (it's a political appointment and a new administration just took office) from his position as Maryland's Director of Driver's Licenses and School Vehicle Safety as of July 1, 1995.

As a retirement present John says his wife, Evelyn took him on a trip to Alaska. They were accompanied on their cruise by Evelyn's sister and brotherin-law. Amazingly, on this eight day cruise aboard MS RYNDAM, they met Sherry and Ed Martin who, unlike the Lydings, were with the USNA Alumni Cruise group... small world. The high point of the cruise, other than the great food and service, occurted when the ship approached within 500 yards of the Wangell glacier There they observed several small bergs calf and then one about the size of a five story building... exciting! We'll see John at the monthly Class luncheons from now on.

Seeing that a lot of jocks are sending in pictures to show off their athletic prowess of yesteryears, writes Fred Knops, I have noticed a distinct absence of soccer players. Fred wants to change that by enclosing a picture of the 1954 Plebe Soccer Squad (circa '50-'51). What a great bunch it was. Fred did not identify anyone in the picture... please try to do so when you send in your sports photos... these shots are really tertific and a wonderful input to all of us who follow the Class of '54. After 45 years I can only pick out a few of you in this photo... There is Walt Shaw (standing far left), Tom Conboy (#17), tall Jo Brendel (mid-back), Fitz Woodrow (#33), Fred Knops (far right standing), Dick Chuday (#20).

Plebe Soccer Class of '54 Fred Knops noticed that the roster of members of the Triangle, North Carolina Alumni Association included four Classmates... Dick Childress, Dallas Pickard, Steve Ramos and himself. Next effort... you guys get together I just called Bob Gibson in Hawaii because Fred advised me in his letter that Bob's beloved wife, Roseanne passed away August 21st after a long illness. Bob has authorized this announcement to his Classmates. We all wish to express our condolences to Bob and his children at this time of grief and sorrow.

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

Psalm 55:18 Herb Trenham reports a change of address to where his boat is ready and the fish are biting. His lakefront home is now 17 Galeon Lane, Hot Springs Village, Arizona 71909. 501-922-6420. Don't forget, everyone, notify Jack Wildman when you move.

The Class wishes to thank the ladies who read and contribute to this column. , Jane Poe, Bud's wife.

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has been a faithful "stringer" who has provided me with valuable, up-to-date information about Classmates who are perhaps not inclined to sit down and share their achievements. Jane found an article in the San Angelo Standard Times (July 1, 1995) announcing the retirement from his position as president and founding board chairman of the Southwest Bank Investment Center, Charles E. "Charlie" Powell. "Mista Chuck", a graduate of USNA Class of '54, joined Southwest Bank in 1984 after his retirement from the Air Force. His last duty assignment in the military was Commander of Goodfellow AFB where he played a key role in the successful drive to keep the base open and expand its mission.

For those and other efforts, the Chamber of Commerce named Powell Citizen of the Year in 1982.

Three cheers for you, Charlie from your Classmates... and don't forget that you promised to send me the complete Arkansas "Mister Speaker" speech.

I've been waiting over 40 years and if I don't receive it soon... your ears will fall off!

Recipe for Greatness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; To bear up under loss; to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief: to be victor over anger; to smile when tears are close; to resist disease and evil men and base instincts; to hate hate and to love love; to go on when it would seem good to die; to look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great... Zane Grey.

I j ust retumed from the Army-Navy Country Club where we have our monthly Class luncheon (2nd Wednesday every month at 11:30). Twenty-one Classmates showed up. George Zeberlein was extremely enthusiastic about meeting with Navy's new coach. It appears that this football season is going to be more exciting than in previous years with more aggressive offense and defensive squads. Anyway, as I must get this into the mail to meet Monday's deadline, as of now we are undefeated after walloping SMU 33-2. Hopefully when you read this we will still be singing their praises.

Fitz Woodrow said that Bob Schlenzig has been receiving very positive responses concerning next year's San Diego Reunion Vacation, however he has also received many Classmate notifications back in the mail because of wrong addresses. The roster is a year old and Jack Wildman will be coming out with a new one very soon... so I repeat, call Jack if you have moved. He has also moved so the old roster doesn't have his new phone 804-258-5129.

Mike Nassr 203-271-2994 writes that enough Classmates have volunteered as company representatives/'54 Chroniclers to make our Class the best documented in Naval Academy history. For the next year the below listed Classmates will represent their Class companies in assisting Mike in obtaining biographies on the 413 graduates not covered in our 40th Year History Book. Non-graduate biographies are also desired. Please help them find missing Classmates and by submitting your own biography to your Company Rep. (1) Jauncey Sweet (2) Herb Hope (3) Steve Eisenhauer (4) Bud Poe, Dick Gaskill (5) Ernie Evans (6) Chuck Deppish (7) Harvey Taffet (8) Scott Mobley (9) Bob Monti-oss (10) S.J. Shaffran (11) Bill Hoover (12) Bob Martin (13) John Juergens (14) Mike McCaffree (15) Jamie Deuel, Mike Nassr (16) Ken Stanley (17) Pete Vogelberger (18) George Zeberlein (19) Jack Riester (20) Fred Knops (21) Ted Gerst (22) Steve Jordan (23) Dick Dean (24) Mah Maltagliati.

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HONOR CHAIRS Would you like to see a classmate honored in Alumni Hall? Anniversary, Brithday, Graduation, or Memorial Gift. Call Honor Chair Coordinator, Jennifer John, 410263-4448 xllSfor details.

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Lord, I confess that I am not what I ought to be, but I thank you that I am not what I used to be...

Come before winter... Love, health and peace...

Eddie.

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Pres., LCdr. Dennis Sullivan USN (Ret.) S e c y Capt. Thomas G. Kiefaber USN (Ret.) 10522 Birnham Rd., Great Falls, VA 22066 Sorty! Not alot of Class news to report. You know — vacation time, outdoor activity, reduced correspondence, etc. Quite a number of us are still busy arranging for the 40th, but the particulars would be OBE by the time this column hits the street. We're anticipating one of our biggest (and hopefully, most successful) reunions. On the basis of Navy's first game (Navy-33, SMU-2), the homecoming game should be more exciting (to grads at least) than usual.

And, of course, the celebration of the 150th anniversary of USNA adds to the enjoyment.

Did receive an update from Bob Hlawek: Greetings from the (HOT!) desert Southwest style. In recent communication with Joe Clarkson regarding the 40th reunion he hinted that it might be a nice idea if I let you know what I've been doing for the last 40 years — so, here goes.

Paul Treagy, Mike McCaffree at September Luncheon The world has no room for cowards. We must all he ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. ..and yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat... Robert Louis Stevenson.

Shipmate, November 1995

After graduation I married the former Janet Elaine Jones of Claymont, Delaware. We now have five children (all married) and eleven grandchildren, most of whom live in the immediate area.

After entry into the USAF I spent 3 years in the ground radar business, after which 1 finally managed to get into pilot training. Following pilot training I spent 7 years in SAC, 5 as a B-47 crew member, and 2+ as a member of an Air Division staff.

From there I went to Arizona State University and finished in 1969 with a MSE in Industrial Engineering. Then, on to Vietnam for a year, following which I got back into the air defense business as both a staff officer and a squadron commander I retired in June 1974 with the help of some enlisted time.

After retirement we stayed in Destin, Florida (near Eglin AFB) for four years, then returned to Tempe in 1978, where I am now employed by the State of Arizona as a network computer software specialist.

Our civic activities are generally confined to heavy involvement with Tempe's Sister City program. Other than sitting on John McCain's Academy Selection Committee, my contact with the military world is almost nil.

Hope I've kept this brief enough — we're looking forward to the reunion.

Dan Peckham sadly reported that Bettie, his wife of 40 years, lost a short battie with cancer on September 10th at home in Rockville, MD. Bettie was a training officer for the Public Health Service until her retirement in 1988.

USNAAA forwarded a message recently from Greg Lyden's wife Jacqueline that he was 100% disabled since '65 and she knew he would appreciate it if some of his Classmates might get in touch with him. 1 provided a number of his company mates with this information, and one, Dave Koonce, found the opportunity to visit with Greg. I intended to put this information in this column, but Dave says it all with the following letter: On my most recent trip to Cape Cod, I took an opportunity to visit a Classmate of ours, a company mate of mine and one of my roommates for the first two years at the Academy, Greg Lyden.

Greg is residing in a nursing home in Lawrence, MA having recently moved there from the VA Hospital in Bedford, MA. He has been hospitalized since 1965 with the exception of several years when VA funds were cut. A few of you may know Greg was injured in a serious automobile accident re-

turning home from Maxwell AFB where he was attending Command and Staff School at the time. I just learned of it a few weeks ago when Tom Kiefaber tracked Greg down in his search for missing Classmates. I hadn't seen or heard of Greg since graduation.

Greg is upbeat, outgoing and communicates well when he concentrates. In spite of his obvious disabilities, he still has a clear eye and his old sense of humor He walks with some difficulty and I understand is apt to fall although I did not see that tendency. He is described by one of the attendants at the VA Hospital to whom I spoke on the phone as a beautiful man and I could see that myself in the hour and a half I spent with him. He is also able to read when he concentrates. I wasn't sure before I visited Greg if he could leave the premises. I now know he can so on my next visit we will go out to dinner In my efforts to reach Greg, I spoke to his wife, Jacqueline on the phone. She told me that they have four children, two of whom, a boy and a giri, graduated from the Air Force Academy and are on active duty. She lives in Hampton, NH but told me she is selling her home.

I am sure that all these years of infirmity and isolation from the outside world have taken an emotional toll on Greg and his family. It would be nice that any of you who knew Greg would send a note. I know for sure that he would appreciate it. A personal visit would also be welcomed.

Greg's address is: Wood Hill Nursing Center, 800 Essex Street, Lawrence, MA 01841 Tel: 508-6862994. Jacqueline's address is: 2 Tober Sneet, Hampton, NH 01730, Tel: 603-926-3506 Class Potpourri. Received a snapshot, from someone who attended, of Ann and Jim Todd at a recent USNAAA Atianta chapter lobster fest. Savvy Sanders wrote that since moving out on his wonderful island (Orcas in Puget Sound) his contact with the "outer world" becomes less and less each year Consequentiy he didn't get his act together in time to plan for the reunion. But "I'm sure it will be a great event and please give my best to all the troops".

John Long checked in from Winter Park, FL to regret that he and his wife will be unable to attend the 40th but soon will celebrate their "40th" anniversary at home with two daughters and three precious grandchildren. In response to John Haynes' query, Dave Dunn has plates US 55 NA and 55 USNA in California. Dave enclosed a photo of Paul Slack and himself and one of Paul's horses, taken on Paul's small ranch in Summit County, Utah (the horse is the one in the middle). Dave has a second home in Park City, Utah, and gets to see Paul and Katie Slack quite often.

Ann and Jim Todd

Happy Birthday USMC 81

Paul Slack, David Dunn

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Co-Chairmen Class Executive Committee Capt. Bill Henry USN (Ret.) Col. George Mushaiko USAF (Ret.) S e c ' y Capt. P. C. Peterson USN (Ret.) 401 Third Avenue, Melbourne Beach FL 32951-2537 Twenty percent of the Pensacola contingent headed north recently when Pete Booth visited Virginia for a wedding and was the house guest of Effie and Danny Michaels. Helping welcome Pete to Oceana NAS 'O' Club was Hoot Foote. Pete reports that number 3 grandson recently entered the world in Atlanta and he and Carolyn had their hands full between the two speeds of all ahead full or all stop.

Other Classmates in the Pensacola area are Ry and Skip Furlong, Mary Lynn and Mickey Brown, Sally and Slug Butts and Marianne and Bill Green.

Sounds like a colorful place with Browns and Greens.

Fjelsted, Ray Fleming, John Forbrick, Steve Gardella, Bob Greene, Al Haddad, Hugh Hanna, Mitch Hart, Bob Herz, Ernest Higgins, Fred Hoerner, Art Hovater, Don Hughdahl, Murl Husted, Phil Isaac.

To commemorate our 40th reunion, Jim Van Metre has been asked by George Mushaiko to produce a commemorative yearbook in time for the reunion. Assisting Jim will be Jack Wilbern, Bud Alexander, Law Groner and Doug Hayman. Right now the book is in the conceptual stage as Jim and Co. want to know what you want in it. They want to produce a book that will be enjoyable to read and browse through — not stodgy. Favorite ideas so far are up to date biographies of each Classmate (in his own words) to include professional and personal achievements, photos of each Classmate (Lucky Bag and current), current photo of spouse. Class data including maps of where we came from and where we now live, key national and service events since we entered USNA including some great photos from USNA and Navy archives, some anecdotes (from you) involving our Classmates over the years, listing by service and branch, memorial section, indices by last name, USNA company and zip code. They hope to keep the cost low—under $25—by using some creative computer and reproduction operations in preparation. Needed are your ideas in what you want in the book. Send your ideas by phone to Jim at 703-360-5715 or to any of the others in the group as soon as possible. Soon thereafter each Classmate will be contacted by mail for input. Remember that the final output is only as good as your input so we will need input from everyone. Sounds like a great idea, guys and a very energetic one. Good luck on keeping the cost down.

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Pres., Capt. Walter T. Meukow USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. W. H. Peerenboom USN (Ret.) 1003 Rachel Lane, Vienna, VA 22180

Oceana Lunch Bunch Hopefully all you loyal readers have received a newsletter from Bill and George our Class co-chairmen covering info on homecoming, football and future DC area luncheons, etc. If you didn't, it's because you haven't kept the Alumni Association apprised of your address. All returned letters cost the Class dinero and shame on you. Listed here is about 1/3 of Class members whose address is incorrect or non-existent in our files. As we are trying to get the word out to all about the big 40th next year take a moment to review the list and if you know of an address for someone on the list send us the correct info to the Class secretary or better yet call them and have them join the Alumni Assn. Missing: Joe Anthony, Charlie Baggs, Greg Bittner, Frank Boebert, Cliff Borden, Bernie Boshoven, John Bossert, John Boyd, Richard Bryant, Jim Buddie, Wes Byng, Bob Cecil, Tom Colman, Dick Cook, Don Coyne, Henry Culberson, Joe Davis, George Decell, Arsenic Delgado, Walt Denham, Dave Deuterman, Nat DeVoll, Ken Dickerson, Don Douglas, Dale

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I'm sad to begin this month's column with the news of the death of our Classmate, Ron Linder, which was provided by Jim Poole. Jim had received this communication from John McKean up in Anchorage: Your message reminded me that I needed to send someone information regarding the death of Ron Linder. Ron came to Elmendorf three years after we arrived up here and our children went to school together He had failing health in the mid-seventies, which was due to cancer We saw each other occasionally over the past few years but were not in the same social circles.

Barry and I are both in good health and working our buns off We are also working to sell the business and really slow down. The demand for business has grown so much that I just can't keep up with it, and do not wish to make a business grow larger at this point in my life. Haven't heard from Dave Rosser or John Yarborough , but we did spend a couple of days with Dave and Pat last January when we were attending a business meeting in Orlando. Hope you and Ginger are enjoying life and smelling the roses.

John included an obituary on Ron, which read in part: Anchorage resident Robert Gene Linder, 61, died August 31 at his home. After a memorial service, his ashes will be scattered over the Churgach mountains. Mr Linder was born in Hamilton, Ohio.

He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1957, and joined the U.S. Air Force. He later graduated from the University of Wyoming with a master of science degree in electrical engi-

neering, and from Auburn University with a master of arts degree in political science. He moved to Anchorage in 1973, and was director of studies and analysis at the Alaska Air Command. He was acting Chief of Staff from 1973-1977. He was placed on the temporary disability list from 1977-1982, and retired at the rank of Colonel in 1982. According to his family, he will be remembered for the love and values of a family he instilled in his children and grandchildren, which they, in turn, will instill in their children and grandchildren. The family suggests that memorial donations be made to the Salvation Army, or to Hospice of Anchorage, 3605 Arctic Boulevard, #555, Anchorage, 99503.

I know the Class joins me in extending our condolences to Ron's wife, Carolyn, and their family.

Jim also was kind enough to include a good bit of news in his note, and here is what he passed along to us: The Class luncheon on 12 September was well attended by about 55 Classmates, who had the pleasure of hearing Bud Edney tell us about the process that went into the Roles and Missions Commission chaired by the new DEPSECDEF, John White. It was truly a four star presentation (no pun intended), and one we have come to expect from Bud. His comments were interesting, relevant and to the point; devoid of the usual bureaucratic B.S. and political correctness, far too prevalent, coming from the mouths of our so-called leaders.

Unfortunately, I had the task of informing those in attendance of the death of Alice Lou Viessman, widow of Classmate Bruce Purvis. She passed away on September 10, having succumbed to cancer She will be buried in Forrest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk following services at St. Andrews Episcopal Church; I will be a pallbearer, and Janet and Mick Finn will also be in attendance. Memorial gifts may be sent to either Hospice Volunteers, 4663 Haygood Road, Suite 211, Virginia Beach, VA 23455, or The American Cancer Society.

Sam Underbill informed us that Joe Andrews is ailing; on a lighter note. Bob Bowers won the luncheon raffle for the second time, and is now challenging Buzz Beans for the all time win record of (can you believe?) three! Once again, he did it by buying one measly ticket. (I sense a fix....Ed.) From way down south in the center of Florida, we have a report and pictures, from Al Koster, who writes: Betty and Dick Dolliver (1) struck a chord for Class camaraderie and hospitality with a great '57 gathering at their beautiful new home in the Indian River Colony Club in Melbourne, Fl. on July 30th. It was a wine and cheese tasting for the gourmet. The atmosphere was great, and we found ourselves getting acquainted, in some cases.

Attendees: Polly and Keith DeMott (12); Judi and JJ Stewart (24); and Ed Peresluha (3), all from Cocoa Beach; Margaret and Stu Marcotte (23), from Cocoa; Mary and Chiz Woodrow (11) from Palm Bay; Jan and Norm Prosser (3), and Janet and Tom Burke (3) from Vero Beach, and Aggie and Al Koster (3), form the Orlando area. (Note that four of us were from the "thirsty third" still seeking that Perfect glass of wine. We carne close at Dollivers!

Growing numbers are retiring in Central Florida, and the Dollivers' initiative sets the stage for what we hope will be an expanding social setting for all Classmates in this part of the country. We all agreed that central Florida is the ideal place for a Class reunion for everyone. It has so much to offer: golf, fishing, beaches, cruises and the attractions of Disney, Sea World, etc. Ed Peresluha has some great plans to make this happen, and I'll lend a hand for Orlando artangements. Contact either of us.

Dick and Betty have the best of all worlds at IRCC. They can go wherever they want any time, and IRCC minds their home. Some of you may be considering heading south too! We have an active '57 group — thanks to Dick and Betty — and look forward to others coming for future gatherings.

I must add some background for the Dollivers'

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Fred Howe sent in a picture taken at Carolyn and Herb Hoppe's summer picnic and pool party. By the time this hits print, an earlier report of that affair, grand, to be sure, will have been printed in the intervening issue. If that doesn't confuse you, please get in touch, and I'll turn over the Class cortesponding secretary job! Speaking of the Hoppe's, though, a number of us were privileged to attend a grand kitchen shower and elegant cocktail party hosted by Monica and John Shewmaker at their Bethesda home, honoring the Hoppe's daughter Suzanne, and her fiancee', Chris. It was truly an elegant affair, and great fun. Others from the Class besides Hoppe's were Bev and Bob Foss, Betty and Bill Peerenboom.

That sums up our month; one last item, in the "ecumenical" department is a picture of three "fifties" grads, taken at the recent wedding of Betty and Gerry Green's ("56) daughter, Mary Kay. Yours truly on the left; Doug Volgenau ('59) in the center and Gerry Green , proud father of the bride on the right.

move south from Rockville, MD last year Dick invited me to help bring his Cal-34 sloop, Coquina. from Deal, MD south on the Intra-coastal waterway to Melbourne last summer (Dick and Betty had sailed her in the northern Chesapeake for the previous two years and needed to move it closer to their new home a-building at IRCC. Betty couldn't make the trip.)

Dick needed help, and Ed Field, Betty's cousin was the third crew member We worked hard to make the transit as swiftly as possible, because Ed and I had to get back to work. Underway before sunrise, to dark with few breaks. We worked long and hard, and enjoyed every minute of it. That 17 day odyssey was the most fun I've had underway since leaving TUSK (SS-426) in '72. 'Twas a great voyage! (Anyone need to bring a boat to Florida?)

In closing, central Florida is a great place to plant roots, and you have some doorbells to ring. There are many more Classmates in the general area and we hope to get them out for the next gathering.

Front (1-r) Ed; Chiz; JJ Back (1-r) Al; Tom; Keith; Stu; Dick and Norm

L-R Peerenboom ('57); Volgenau ('59); Green ('56)

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Pres., LCol. Gordon M. Gerson USAF (Ret.) Sec'y Col. Warren S. Walters USMC (Ret.) 5664 Ravenel Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 703-321-9586

Front: Betty; 2nd Row (1-r) Janet; Margaret; Polly; Judi; Mary and Tom; third row: Aggie and Jan; fourth row; Al; Ed; Dick; Chiz; Stu; Keith; JJ; and Norm. We smile a lot in Florida!

Hoppe's Summer picnicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;L-R (and more or less vertically) are Dianne and Fred Howe. Molly and Jim Quinn. Renee and Bill Mickle. the Hoppes, Joy and Jim Foresman, Betty and Bill Peerenboom, Gin and Paul Behrends. and Paul's cousin Catherin Seilhan Shipmate, November 1995

Once again the month of November cycles its way into our lives, that month of build-up for the holiday season, that month of finishing autumnal clean-up chores, that month of football and more football!

N o v e m b e r was originally the ninth month {novembris) of the Roman calendar, but they started their year in March, so it would have been the 11th month by our current calendar, had they not thrown in two extra months to prevent frequent adjustments to get back on the proper lunar cycle, making it the 13th month. But they later decided to start in January, dropping us back two months and getting it back to the Uth month! Use this explanation with your grandchildren and they'll think you are really .smart, before their parents have you committed! And if you really want to tangle your grey cells, look at the short explanation of the Julian and Gregorian calendars in your almanac, then try to explain November!

Just to avoid the whole mess, lets go back to Class news of August and September In the last column, we mentioned the wedding of the daughter of Chuck Smith (20) and Betsy Smith.

This month, we open with a great photo of the bride surtOunded by a gathering of distinguished, dark suited members of the Class of 1958. In the center.

Dia-Dianne (Mrs. Wayne Alberts) escorted by Tom Powell (13). Harry Hurst (7). Wally Bridgman (12). Paul Polski(2). proud father Chuck Smith.

George Jenkins (10). Jack Adams (4). John Poindexter (18). Gordon Gerson (11). Pete

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By now you will be several weeks into the Navy football season and chewing over the results. The opening game against SMU down in Dallas was a great start for the season, and several '58ers were there to cheer on the team and fly the '58 flag. As a matter of fact, the flag was on display on a fraternity fire truck parked in the end zone. In addition to the Larsons, '58 was represented by: Mary and Tom Keifer (17) from Westchester, PA; Virginia and Jim Hamrick (17), Texas; and the swarm shown holding up the Class flag in the photo, Ivan Nance (10) from Niceville, FL; Marty McCullough (12) from San Diego, By Schriver (24) of Little Rock, AR; JC Tipton (10), Texas; Hy Lyon (12), Texas; JJ Seeberger (10) of Madison, VA; and Mike Neely (3) Texas. JJ reports that when the cheerleaders saw the '58 banner, they went into the '"58 58....GRRREAT" cheer, way down there in the Lone Star State. Nances, Schrivers, and Seebergers were the guests of the Tiptons, and enjoyed a fabulous weekend and a great football victory for Navy. By the way, a new address for Neelys at 2803 Roundtable Road, Austin, TX 78746.

Dia-Dianne Smith Alberts and '58ers Hekman (2), and Al Barbero (15). The occasion was the Fort Washington, Maryland repeat on August 12th of a ceremony which had been held on June 16th in the groom's home city of Cape Town, South Africa. At the wedding in Maryland, the Reverend Linda Poindexter officiated for the young couple, who will be making their home in the Washington, DC area. Congratulations again to the '58 junior newly weds!

A note from Gary Minar (20) over the Internet to '58 President Gerson (gmgerson@cpcug.org) lets us know of a USNA alumni gathering in the Santa Barbara, CA area which pulled in some 150 alumni and friends. Representing '58 were Fran and Vern Hanna (24), Betty and Jim Higgins (17), Ernie Meritt (19), Barbra and Gary Minar, and Bev and Nils Rueckert (6). Local chapters all over the country have good representation from our Class, and it looks like the beautiful area of Santa Barbara is well covered!

The Charleston, SC chapter is equally active, and when The Supe went there to speak in May, a contingent of '58ers had their picture taken in front of an old AD-4 on board the YORKTOWN at the Patriots Point museum. The CEO of Patriots Point, RAdm Jim Flatley '56, had the name on the cockpit of the "Spad" reading "LTJG Chuck Larson", barely visible in the photo. The '58ers standing in front of the plane are Jim Kenney (6), Dave Morgan (1), ADM Chuck Larson (8), George Lisle (18), and Jack Sutton (2). The note was sent in by Jim, who reports that he and Danielle have their home near Charleston in Hollywood, and that it is always open to classmates!

The Spad, Kenney, Morgan, The Supe, Lisle, and Sutton Some Classmates even travel a distance to go to a chapter meeting, and we have a photo of RADM Ron Eytchison (1) of Signal Mountain TN, taken when he attended the Atlanta Alumni chapter Lobster Fest last June. He is shown with Joe Cofer '47, and the 84

picture was sent in by Duane Young '49. Doesn't that crest look sharp on Ron's golf shirt?

Cofer '47 and Eytchison '58 at Atlanta Lobster Fest The Class Gift Committee has the responsibility of determining the usage of the funds to be collected for a gift to USNA upon the occasion of our 40th Reunion. There have been several suggestions put before them by the Class, but to insure that the needs of USNA are being met, the committee, along with the Class President and Vice President, met with The Supe in July for a business luncheon in Buchanan House. The photo shows the group, along with the last member of the Class still in the uniformed Naval service. Gathered in front of the historic painting are Frank Gamboa (17), Gordon Gerson, ADM Chuck Larson, Chuck Smith, and Clivie Goodviin (3). The Class will get further information concerning the gift in a Class letter, but you should be aware that USNA is not actively seeking any more statues, gates or fountains commemorating the glories of a class, but is more interested in utilizing gift funds for the upkeep or betterment of USNA in atimewhen federal funding is being drastically reduced. In the meantime, remember to mark any donations to USNA to be applied to the Class of 1958 Memorial Fund, which will be counted towards our overall Class gift.

'58 At the SMU Game Letters from three wives to the Class have been received this month. From up on Long Island, Tom O'Neill's (22) wife Barbara reports that Tom is battling with complications of diabetes, primarily pain from neuropathy. He has undergone CAT scans, and has apparently gotten good news in that area, but is still in discomfort. O'Neills live at 32 Long Meadow PI., S. Setauket, NY 11720. From the Baltimore area, Mig Gartity Sturt writes seeking information from anyone that may have information relevant to the service of her husband, Henry Dixon Sturr (20), aboard THUBAN (AKA-19) during 1960 to 1962, particularly the time around the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Dixon is suffering from brain deterioration which has impacted heavily on his memory, and he is a private patient at Keswick Home in Baltimore. Mig is seeking information to help substantiate a duty-related disability, which is currently being denied Dixon, notwithstanding his status as a retired naval officer. Mig can be reached at 7117 Mt. Vista, Kingsville, MD 21087, telephone 410-592-6160.

Lastly, Liz Cunanan has sent a thanks and appreciation to the Class for the condolences received upon the passing of our Classmate, RADM Carlito Cunanan (6) last summer Liz will continue to reside in Manila, where her children are nearby, but is planning enjoining us for the 40th Reunion in April, 1998.

A letter from Tony Miller tells how he and Bonnie took a trip to Coronado CA , to get away from the Florida heat and humidity, and while there saw the remodeling job taking place at the home of Adrienne and Marty McCullough, a real roof-raising! They also stopped in Memphis TN, for a ballet recital of grand-daughter Jacquelyn, which must have been very strenuous, as the accompanying "Grandpa Picture" shows. Tony also reports that he often sees Terty and Joe Steckler (15) when he walks around his Florida neighborhood, and that Joe is doing a great job as the director of the local Alzheimer's association.

Vice Pres, Pres, The Supe, and Gift Committee Shipmate, November 1995

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Pres., VAdm. Francis R. Donavan USN (Ret.) Chaimian, Ex. Comm., Capt. David W. Dyke USNR (Ret.) Secy, Capt. John A. Butterfield USN (Ret.) 1130 Sugar Sands #190, Singer Island, FL 33404 FAX 407-863-8984 Tony Miller and grand-daughter Jacquelyn A couple of travel notes from the summer found Terty and Bruce Wilcox (12) cruising on America's rivers aboard the Mississippi Queen paddle-wheeler, but they forgot the Class flag for a photo! Going even further abroad were Charlys and Ron Randall (12), who took a 'round the world trip in April and sent in a photo of them at the Taj Mahal. They also forgot a flag, but did the next best thing with the crest and a flag substitute. Sounds like a great trip that merits a more complete report!

Arlys and Ron Randall at the Taj Mahal A change of address for '58 Washington Chapter President Bruce Wilcox. He and Terty have moved to 1103 Belle Vista Drive, Alexandria, VA 22307, telephone 703-768-5858!

A note from Bill Brewer (17), who is through 8 courses at Westfield State College up in Massachusetts en route to being certified as an elementary school teacher, and hanging in with a 3.964 average.

He says the 4.0 system at Westfield is not quite as rigorous as the earlier 4.0 system he did battle with some 40 years ago!

Lance Massey (11) passes on the word that his daughter, Barbara, has been accepted into the Peace Corps, and began a two year tour in Jamaica last July.

Old Marine Jim Dalberg (21) has retired a second time after 16 years with Conrail up in Berwyn PA, and is now working part time consulting in the terminal business, sort of an extension of what he was doing!

Lastly, a plug for interesting reading about some members of the Class of 1958. If you haven't already gotten involved with The Nightingale's Song

by Robert Timberg '64, you may want to consider it as a Christmas gift! Itdetails the careers of 5 USNA grads, two of whom are RADM John Poindexter and Senator John McCain (17). Many '58ers are mentioned in the book, and it does describe several events from our Academy days while tracking the impact of Vietnam on the primary subjects and their subsequent career actions.

'58 Trivia: In our youth, a "shot" was 15 fathoms of anchor chain. If you wanted a negative of your Lucky Bag portrait, you would have to write to the original photography studio that took the pictures.

Who would that be? Hasta Luego! WSW

Time again for '59ers!

We begin with a wonderful letter from good friend Charlie Dobbs: It has been a very long time since I have written.

I know we have seen each other at various events around town, in the Yard, or in DC, but not for awhile. Living in Annapolis does give one a bit of a different perspective on writing to Shipmate. For the record, Betsy and I purchased our home in Annapolis in 1988. We moved to Naptown, Labor Day Weekend 1989, shortly after I retired from Bell Communications Research, i.e. Ma Bell. The move was pretty much without incident, except for our newly acquired boat. We finally settled on a new C and C 30 in July of '89 and enlisted my tmsted 'First Wife' i.e. Dennis (Jake) Read and our elder daughter to help us sail from Sandy Hook to Annapolis. Unfortunately, with Betsy at the helm, and Jake on 'Watch', we found bottom off Cape May. Fortunately there was minimal damage and Betsy and I brought the Sea Hog on to Annapolis the next weekend. It's hard to believe it has been six years.

The time in Annapolis has been everything we expected or hoped it would be. The Tailgates, reunions, local '59 dinners. Chapel, and NAVY basketball have been great! We sail the Sea Hog every chance we get and have had some great times on the Bay. This past June marked one of the very memorable events for the Dobbs clan. Our youngest, Patricia, whom some of you might remember; she was bom at home in Middletown, RI in 1961, with yours truly doing the delivery chores, and she managed with that start to develop into a very intelligent daughter and recently decided it was time to tie the knot. Patty is a Branch Chief — Violence Against Women, and Michael Medaris is a Program Manager with the Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice in Washington. They met while Patty was running the 'Weed and Seed' program for the District and Mike was a Captain with Metro Police Dept. They both joined DOJ a little over a year ago and have settled into apartment living in Pentagon City. The wedding was on our patio with Chaplain Margaret Joslin-Kibben officiating. It was very special for us to have Margaret here. Some may remember she was assigned to the USNA Chapel in 89-91 time period, and we thoroughly enjoyed her tour and the opportunity to get acquainted (and involved with her ministry). Joining us for the wedding were 10th Company faithful Suzie and Charlie Pease, Joan and Marty Finerty (see enclosed photo), along with many other friends and family members. Everyone enjoyed a beautiful day and a really happy wedding! We are at home in Annapolis, actually Eastport, and welcome any and all Classmates any time you are in the area.

Check the phone book for our listing. Sincerely, Betsy and Charlie (Homer) Dobbs. Thanks!!

Happy Birthday USMC

HONOR CHAIRS Would you like to see a classmate honored in Alumni Hall? Anniversary, Brithday, Graduation, or Memorial Gift. Call Honor Chair Coordinator, Jennifer John, 410263-4448 xll8for details.

Shinmate. November 1995

Charlie and Suzie Pease, Mike and Patty, Betsy and Charlie Dobbs, Joan and Marty Finerty I received a short note and clipping from Dick Russell.

Thought you might enjoy this article re. a roller hockey rink being built in Ft, Myers, Florida, area, the San Carlos Park. See you at Homecoming 95.

And I thought your Dad lived over this way and you would come over and do some sailing. Call 941-283-1901 or write R. D. Russell 16136 Bowline St., Bokeelia, FL 33922-1648.

I tried to call but that is a cellular phone I was told, and Dick was out of pocket. My Dad lives in Clewiston, near Lake Okechobee, in the middle of the state, and I rarely get over to tjie West Coast, but guess I need to do it and get my sealegs, and especially with a guy who lives on "Bowline St." Sorty to say I will miss Homecoming this year; I have meetings in Palm Beach from October 20 til the 24th.

Next yr I hope!

Great letter from a dear 2nd Co. friend, the old redhead and our Lucky Bag Editor, Dave Sullivan: The Class of 1959 is finally on the World Wide Web. We have now joined an elite bunch of Naval Academy Alumni "wireheads" who have prepared web pages on the Intemet. And I am the "nethead" you can blame for it. The URL (address that is): http://pen.kl2.va.us/~dsulliva/usna59.html — also keep in mind that is a tilde before the dsulliva and there is no period or mark after html. The page is not Shipmate let me say right off the bat. But we can use it to keep information updated and available to everyone concerning our Classmates, such as: where you are, what you are doing, and any highlights of your life that you would like to share with others. It has another function and that will be to maintain a current address (including email and WWW address) of everyone so that the next time we have a Class reunion (and mailings/ information prior) we might be able to find everyone by then and invite them. I have an e-mail address and that is dsulliva@roanoke.infi.net which will serve as a mailing source for information to go into the web page. The page will also serve as a link to the U.S.N.A. Home Page which has a ton of useful information and includes a large section on just the Alumni. I am the Instructional Technology Trainer for the Roanoke Public Schools and it is a great job (sec'y: and you deserve that Sully!!). I teach the teachers how to use the Macintosh computer so that they can teach their kids and make them smart and I teach the administrators and principals and superintendents how to use the DOS machines and the associated software. I meddle in a bunch of things like the Columbia attendance system and Integrade, and lotsa things to stay abreast of the changing worid of computer technology — which is a lot of fun! It is a challenge to stay on top of things that change almost daily. The only problem with living in Roanoke is that there is no such thing as a daily run on a flat course. I run 6 to 8 miles every day on the Blue Ridge Parkway, usually at 5 a.m., and it is either up a hill or down; the surface never really levels off. Come run with me! (I will) and hello to Priscilla. Dave.

Thanks for kind words, super report, and a means by which the entire Class can draw even closer together, if we use the technology available.

I sent a note back to Dave, thanking him, and asking for his phone/fax numbers, which follow: Work 540-853-1601, Home 540-989-1162//fax-1701. He

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confirmed the email and WWW addresses, so if I typed them cortectly, and the proofreaders have done their job, you got it!!

Don't know how much mail I will collect in the next few days. I will have been on a trip for International In-line Skating Association (USA) to the West Coast, from 1-10 September, and will have tried to contact a few CA-based 59ers and received some 'pearls' from them ...some info or scoop I can put in the column at the last minute. However, I will have a '59 deadline staring me in the face. 1 won't really have time to even make up some lies and stories!! I shall look forward to seeing DC area folks later this Fall.

I did collect some great mail and I start with a beautiful letter from Jim Roberts: It has taken 36 years and the death of a best friend to cause me to write. As you know, Jack Seeburger died on 31 July 1995. He had been suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for a number of months. The immediate cause of death was an aneurysm of the thoracic aorta. More about Jack should appear soon in "Last Call." I first met Jack when we were taking our admission physicals for the Naval Academy at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego. One of my earliest recollections is of his visiting me at my parents" home in Whittier in late '54 or early '55 and hearing with delight — and some envy — that he had a friend in the Class of '58 who was going to "spoon" him — whatever that meant — and that, accordingly, Plebe Year would be a piece of cake. A pessimist Jack was not!

He was in truth my memory of much that occurred during our years at the Academy. He remembered things that I simply could not. His sense of humor, coupled with his uncanny recollection of events long past, and his unusual ability to recount a story, made Jack one of the funniest men I have known. I never tired of hearing of his comearounds to the 10th Co. (Jack was in 17) as the Lone Stranger He went in white works with leggings "disguised" to look like boots, bayonet belt with clothes brushes as six guns, "dixie cup" as the crown with cut out brim slipped over as a ten gallon Stetson, eye mask made of cardboard and fabricated "bullets" to be left on the upperclassman's desk as his only identification. He was ordered to avoid detention, if not detection, as he made his way from the 4th wing to the 5th over the number of weeks that these comearounds continued. Another of his favorites was the reading of his "grease"

by Captain Hunt USMC during Plebe Year "Mr Seeburger, you aren't particularly good, you're not particularly bad, you just blend into the background," said the Captain. So much for Capt.

Hunt's perception. It simply could not be said, in truth, that Jack Seeburger just "blended into the background."

Jack met Linda Sparks while we were Midshipmen. They celebrated their 36th anniversary this past June. One of the stories he loved most was of late evening departures from Mrs. Boyer's "Drag House" where Jack and Linda, Barbara and I, were habitues. One night he was the last one out of the basement "pit." There was one pair of shoes left inside the front door of the house. They did not fit!

Jack had to force his size 10 or 11 feet into Bud McFarlane's 8 1/2 size shoes — Bud was already 'loosely' in formation with the "flying squadron" wearing Jack's shoes.

I had the good fortune to be with Jack and his family about 2 wks before he died. We were celebrating Linda's birthday. I could not help feeling, though, that the celebration was for Jack. They all enjoyed the evening. Jack was a loving and faithful husband and father and he was so very proud of the children: Tammy Coleman, a sales rep with Digital; Chris Szigeti, an Army Doctor recently selected for Major; and John, in real estate development. On this day. and for the last time, he was with them all, as well as his sons and daughter-inlaw: Bill Coleman: Julius Szigeti, and Yolanda Seeburger; his grandson Alex Szigeti; his Motherin-Law Mrs. Etta Sparks, and his sister Jean Stevens.

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Because I stayed in the Marine Corps for only 4 yrs, and because Jack had joined the Marine Corps after almost 4 yrs in the Navy, I never had the pleasure of observing Jack up close as a Marine. I do know that he loved the Corps, and from those in a position to know, he took care of his troops and was courageous in combat. Dave Erie, who served 2 tours in Vietnam with Jack, tells me that Jack's sense of humor and his steadiness of hand under the most severe conditions of deprivation and combat were an inspiration to the officers and men with whom he served. I will miss him greaUy. Best wishes, A. James Roberts IIL Thanks Jim for a moving, insightful letter and allowing the Class and others to share in the life of a truly great man!

I talked to Jim on the phone, and thanked him profusely. He told me that he had made it back to Annapolis for the services, and was impressed with the many Classmates and friends who had gathered to pay honors to Jack and his family. Jim has prepared a "testimonial" which should appear in "Last Call."

The experience seeing and talking with '59ers got Jim Roberts 're-connected' with USNA and the Class, and he wanted to thank you all for your loyalty, dedication, and commitment. I think there is an important lesson for all, and that is do not wait too long to appreciate the bonds which unite a Class, a Company, an Academy, a world-wide fantastic fraternity!!

A P.S. from Dave Sullivan: I forgot to tell you about my trip to New England in August, when I was busy talking about the Web Page, etc. I took a trip from Roanoke to my roots in Newport, RI. On the way, passing thru Mystic, CT, I decided to call Joan and Dave Boyd, something I have told them I would do "the next time" for the past 10 yrs. Well, I thought I would just call, but Dave kept saying "Sullivan, get over here!" I told him I just called as I was passing through and did not really have the time, to which he again replied, "Sully, get over here!" Now Dave Boyd had taken me "to the mat" very quickly a number of times in our Wrestling classes and I thought it was no time to argue and I am very glad I did not! Joan cooked a fabulous dinner and I met their son, also David, and I had the best time of the entire 10 day trip right there in their house that night. After dinner we went to the new casino, run by the local Indian tribe, which made anything I had seen in Las Vegas look like a shanty. Oh, construction of the Web Page is taking shape and has some linked pages to other interesting Navy news.

It's URL (that's an address for nonwireheads) is: http://pen.kI2.va.us/~dsulliva/usna59.html That is a tilde before dsulliva.

Thanks again, Dave!!

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Pres., D r Richard R. Pariseau Sec'y, Ron Hinkel 2721 Bcrtyland D r , Oakton, VA 22124-1448 Classmate News: As promised, the obit for Tom Mariano should be in this month's "Last Call" section of Shipmate. Tom died of a heart attack on Sunday, August 6th in Upper St. Clair, PA. The funeral and interment in Queen of Heaven Cemetery was held on Wednesday, August 9th in Peters Twp near Pittsburgh. In addition, the following has recently been announced: September 6, 1995 Many of Tom Mariano's friends. Classmates, and business associates have urged that some form of lasting tribute be established in his name.

A group of Tom's close friends recently decided, with the approval of his wife and children, that an appropriate living memorial would be an endowment scholarship at the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. Here's the value of the scholarship: An important part of the Naval Academy's recruiting program is the ability to enroll approximately 80 outstanding candidates each year in selected prep schools for one year after they graduate from high school and before they enter the Academy.

These prep schools provide an opportunity to develop the individual's academic background to a level above that which public schools usually provide.

Contributions are tax deductible and should be mailed directly to: G. Thomas Mariano, Jr Memorial Scholarship Fund U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, Inc. 25 Maryland Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 21401 Thanks for your help. What a great idea for remembering Tom! For those of you who do not know it, Tom entered USNA with our class after a year of prep school in Pennsylvania. In deciding whether to contribute to this fund, think of the many Classmates who not only entered this way but also graduated because of the start they received at these supporting schools. Many served full careers in our nation's service and distinguished themselves as military and civilian leaders; careers that might otherwise not have happened. Most importantly, perhaps, would have been our loss of truly great friends and shipmates as well as the part they contributed to the Class as a whole. Please consider being generous.

Bill Spearman checked in with a follow-on report on the Class' participation in a pre-commissioning ceremony for PAUL HAMILTON (DDG-60). He

I did not get to contact many '59ers while I was in California. I was simply too busy. I did have a great chance meeting with Howie Young. He looks great and shared with me a sweet time for him and his family, which occurred in March '95. Howie wrote about that 'reunion' and dedication ceremony, and his late Father, RADM Howard L. Young (USNA '23), who was the skipper of the OMMANEY BAY

(CVE-79), which was sunk in a kamikaze attack in the Sulu Sea, on Jan. 4, 1945. Look for more information in Class of '23 news! I had last seen Howie in Corpus Christi, TX a few yrs back, where he had done a super job as the Commodore, TraWing 4. He had a great career, including serving with a super Admiral, Bob Dunn, at OP-05. Today Howie keeps busy as a teacher at a small private school for K-6 (Reed School) in La Jolla, where he lives. He does a bit of consulting also, and stays in shape by swimming in the ocean, and br-r-r-r-r is it cold water there!

Thanks for your note, Howie, and I appreciate the kind words re. the "work" for the Class, your best wishes to Priscilla, and encouragement for my work with in-line skating. I'm still on a roll! And as some Navy friends have said, Butterfield you've been skating for lots of years... not just on your Rollerblades for the past 4-1- yrs. Rise 'n Shine!!

writes, "Received the enclosed letter from C O .

DDG-60. Thought you would like to share it with the class."

Dear Mr Spearman: On behalf of all the Officers and Crew of PAUL HAMILTON {DDG-60), I would like to express our sincere thanks to you for participating in our commissioning ceremonies in Charleston. Those events marked the culmination of over three years of construction and 18 months of crew preparation. Without your contribution to the AEGIS Program it would be very difficult to accomplish our mission of preserving National Security on a daily basis. Your handsome memento of the Commissioning will be a constant reminder that, no matter where we are in the world, we can rely on our shipmates of the USNA Class of 1960 to provide the support we need to keep America safe. The entire Wardroom and Crew join me in wishing you the very best in the months to come, and hope that you'll consider PAUL HAMILTON as your home away from home in our new homeport of Pearl Harbor Sincerely, John D, Hammerer, Jr Thanks for passing on the letter. Bill, and much appreciation for representing the Class at the ceremony. I shall forward it on to the 12th Company.

How about you Classmates out in Oahu meeting this ship or having a visit soon after its arrival to view the Class gift to the wardroom to cement our relaShipmate, November 1995

tionship? Not without recording it in words and pictures for the column, of course.

Dick Pariseau passed on a letter from Bill Fannemel received this summer Bill's surprising new address might bring on memories for many Classmates; some of which aren't fun.

Aloha from Saigon! It's not Christmas or New Years, or the 4th of July, but nevertheless, we thought we would use the form of a form letter for a brief update on the status and whereabouts of the Fannemels. As you can see from the envelope, we have taken up residence at #1 Dong Da Street (which is about 3 minutes from the entrance to Tan Son Nhat International airport). Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We've got a phone number Do not have a fax yet, but hope to have a number within a few weeks. Things take a bit of time to achieve here because...it's Vietnam!

We have opened up a Representative Office here in conjunction with Bill Deuchar and U.S. Pacific Builders, Inc., and both of us are busy working on development and construction activities.

The "welcome mat" is out. the guest room has sheets on the bed, the pool is full of water, the beer ice cold, and visitors are welcome!

As for "the clan", Shawn and Bud Ah Nee are still in Phoenix, Arizona, where Bud, now in his 8th year with IBM, takes full responsibility for the recent rise in IBM stock. Jasmine finished her sophomore year at Thunderbird High School, is varsity cheerleader for 95-96 sports, is an honor student, and just got her driver's permit. Taylor turned three years old in March, and on the 23rd of March, Hawkins Peter Kahumoku joined the Ah Nee family at almost 8 lbs. All are doing fine and we had an enjoyable visit with them when we visited Whales Resort the latter part of May. Tracey and Mark Campbell and Kaikona, who tumed just 1 in December live in Honolulu. Tracey is expecting another child in October Tracey works for Whales Resort, and Mark is continuing with his body conditioning business, and coaching summer sports at Punahou Academy.

Nani is managing Whales Resort, where she is spending the summer and joined by Jessie, her 6 year old daughter Nani and Jessie will be moving to their new home in Phoenix after the resort closes in September Bill, Jr, finished his junior year at Menlo College, and is working at Whales Resort for the summer returning to Menlo this fall where he is majoring in International Business.

Our schedule calls for us to depart Ho Chi Minh City for Singapore on July 21st, then Ketchikan, Alaska (on to Whales Resort by float plane), and some great fishing! We will be at the resort until August 8th, then back home to Vietnam via Singapore, stopping for a few days. We send our love and aloha to all our friends, relatives and classmates, with best wishes and good health, /s/ Bill and Nobey.

Much thanks to Duane Young '49, received result of photo op at USNA Alumni Assn - Atlanta Chapter Lobster Fest in June 1995 featuring classmate, Carl McCallum.

Al Jones '67 and Cari McCallum '60.

Recentiy ran into former Vietnamese Intelligence Officer living here in Northern Virginia who has collection of over 1000 books on the subject. Says he's interested in expanding his collection and information regarding Naval Intelligence, presumedly with Shipmate, November 1995

emphasis on operations during Vietnam War. Feel free to contact me if interested in sharing your knowledge.

That's all Folks!! Keep the Momentum Rolling!

Think Forty!

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Pres., M r Jack Stevens Sec'y Capt. Roger Onorati USN (Ret.) 1756 Point No Point Dr, Annapolis, MD 21401 (410) 849-3812 (H); (301) 261-8862 (W) (H) (410) 849-3812, (W) (301) 261-8862, Fax (301) 261-8669 Reveille, Reveille! Good news from Crabtown!

Navy finally has a football coach. Judy and I just returned from a great weekend in Dallas. On the excitement meter, the highlight of the trip was watching Navy annihilate SMU in the Cotton Bowl on 9 September You may think it a bit masochistic of me to travel all the way to Dallas to see a Navy football game, but no one has ever sent me an application to join MENSA. However, my patience and optimism was finally rewarded. For the first time in many years, I saw a well-coached, well-prepared Navy football team take the field just like they used to during our glory days as midshipmen ... meaning with a good chance to win. It was actually fun again being in the stands, swilling a few "Dr Peppers", and having a few laughs during the game, rather than having to be restrained from throwing myself from the top of the highest point in the stadium crying in agony at yet another fumble, missed field goal, or stupid penalty. I promise you won't be wasting your money or your time if you venture to Annapolis this season to take in a game. It's the best ticket in town.

The local Navy folks in Dallas put together a giant pre-game tailgate party at the Hall of State building adjacent to the Cotton Bowl. Besides all the Navy dignitaries present, we had a small, but very vocal group of WGNACers. Listed in order of decibel readings were Gina and Neal Block, Marji and Milt Jones, Moni and Mike Bickel, Ray Wilson, and Ed O'Brien. Photos were taken, but were not available before my editor's deadline for this column. Look for them in the next column.

Coming in a distant second on the excitement meter for the trip was a visit to the world-renowned Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum in Piano, Texas, which happens to be the same town where my BIL (Brother-In-Law) lives. I guess that tells you a little about the family I married into.

SEEN AND HEARD AROUND TOWN. Not much news this month. Our bimonthly Class luncheon was held on Tuesday, 12 September, but I wasn't able to attend, and didn't get a list of those who did. Just assume the SBOR (Staunch Bunch Of Regulars) were there, no doubt talking about me behind my back.

Class Prez, Jack Stevens, sent me a few official photos from Dan Schroeder's retirement ceremony in June, reported in September's Shipmate, which are presented for your viewing pleasure.

Dan and Army's Chief of Staff reviewing the troops

Dan and Karen Schroeder saying good-bye.

MAIL CALL. I received an invitation to the retirement ceremony for Rear Admiral Wilson F. (Buddy) Flagg, USNR held on Friday, 6 October 1995 at the Washington Navy Yard.

The only other item I received this month was a copy of the following letter sent to Jerry Smith by the Commanding Officer of RAMAGE (DDG-61).

Thank you again for remembering RAMAGE on the occasion of our ship's commissioning in Boston. It was a very proud day for our Navy, for the Naval Academy, and, of course, my crew ... made even more so by the generosity of the Class of '61.

Enclosed with my compliments is a commissioning program and photograph of the warship recognized so graciously by the Class of '61. Thank you for remembering us on this most important day in the young life of our ship.

UPCOMING LOCAL CLASS EVENTS. Washington area Class luncheons on Tuesday November 14 and January 9. Army-Navy football game party at Gloria and Dave Stem's new home in Rockville, Maryland on Saturday, December 2nd beginning at 12 noon.

GET IT DONE, WITH '61

Happy Birthday USMC 87

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Pres., RAdm. Stephen K. Chadwick USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Howard Pinskey PO. Box 3380, Annapolis, MD 21403 GREETINGS FROM ANNAPOLIS! Football is in full swing and the internationally acclaimed in-water power and sailboat shows have just concluded. It's a great time to visit just before the holiday season begins. Here's our Class news for November 1995.

AROUND THE FLEET! Classmate Bob Ditchey sends along the following: Just a quick note to let you know that I had the privilege to attend Tom Mercer's Change of Command and Retirement Ceremony this past Friday at Monterey. Also in attendance with me to represent 1962 was Tony Maness, who retired about 18 months ago and now resides in the Bay Area.

I enclose a booklet from the Ceremony, which contains a bio about Tom, which I am sure the members of the Class would like to read. Tom and Becky told me that they would remain in the Monterey area for the immediate future.

As for myself, I recently did another aviation/ airline consulting project in a distant land... this time I spent four weeks in Zimbabwe, consulting for Air Zimbabwe, which operates B-767, B-707, B-737 and Fokker 50 aircraft.

Tom Mercer is our Profile Classmate this month.

Rear Admiral Thomas A. Mercer, USN (RET.) Rear Admiral Mercer graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962. He was designated a Naval Aviator in February 1964. After A4C training he reported to VA-172 for a three-year tour which included two Mediterranean cruises and one Southeast Asia combat deployment aboard FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (CVA-42). He then attended

the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, C A and was awarded a Master of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1969, After A-7E training, he reported to VA-195 where he made two combat deployments to Southeast Asia aboard KITTY HAWK (CVA-63). Following a shore tour, as the light Attack Placement Officer at the Bureau of Naval Personnel, he joined VA-82 as Executive Officer in July 1975. He assumed command of VA-82 in November 1976 while embarked aboard the NIMITZ during her first Mediterranean deployment. In July 1979, he was assigned as the Executive Officer of the ENTERPRISE (CVN-65), after completing Navy nuclear power training. He assumed command of the GUADALCANAL (LPH-7) in September 1981 and

then command of CARL VINSON (CVN-70) in July

1983 as her second commanding officer While commanding CARL VINSON he completed two

WESTPAC deployments. In March 1986, he detached from CARL VINSON and was promoted to Rear Admiral. He was assigned as Deputy Director for Command, Control, and Communications (J-6), in the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and subsequently became the Vice Director of Operational Plans and Interoperability (J7). He assumed command of Carrier Group 7inJunel988 and flew his flag as commander of the NIMITZ, MIDWAY and

RANGER battle groups. He assumed the duties of CINCPACREP Philippines and Commander U.S. Naval Forces, Philippines in July 1990 and remained in command through the Subic Facility disestablishment on 24 November 1992. Rear Admiral Mercer was assigned as the Superintendent, Naval Postgraduate School in January 1993. Rear Admiral Mercer's awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (two awards). Distinguished Flying Cross (three awards), four individual Air Medals, 25 Strike Flight Air Medals (225 Vietnam Missions) and six Navy Commendation Medals. He has logged over 3,000 hours in the A-4C and A-7E aircraft and has made over 970 carrier landings. Rear Admiral Mercer is the son of Captain and Mrs.

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Willoughby Mercer, USN (Ret.) He and his wife, Becky, reside at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. They have two sons, Tom a SH-60 pilot is currently in the Rotary Wing Directorate in Patuxent River, Maryland and Bill, a Surface Warfare Officer assigned aboard ARKANSAS (CGN-41) homeported in Bremerton, Washington.

RADM David C. Brown, USMS, was recently appointed President of Suny Maritime College. Admiral Brown previously served as Superintendent of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, a position he assumed following twenty-nine years of service in the U.S. Navy. A native of Michigan, Admiral Brown earned a B.S. degree in Marine Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1962, a M.S. degree in Government and Public Policy from Southern Illinois University and a M.S. degree in Management from Salve Regina University. He is a graduate of the masters-level senior officer course at the Naval War College.

He has ten years of sea duty in both single and twin screw vessels, both steam and diesel propulsion, and has served in all deck officer positions from navigator to captain. Coupled with nine years of hands-on administration of education and training programs for the US Navy and Merchant Marine officer candidates and junior officers, he brings a wealth of experience to the Presidency of the College. Congratulations to Dave on this important appointment and on his rewarding naval career.

GOVERNMENT!!!

President Clinton recently announced his intention to nominate John A. Knubel of Potomac, Maryland, to be Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. M r Knubel has over 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He curtently serves as a Senior Advisor at the retirement Thrift Investment Board where he is curtently overseeing a study to assure long term systems support for the $29 billion, two million participant Government 401K Plan.

Mr Knubel's private sector experience includes serving at Chase Manhattan Bank as Director of International Budgeting, Financial Planning and Analysis; as the President of Centennial Properties Company; and President of the Financial Services and Real Estate Divisions at USAA Financial Services Company. M r Knubel received his B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy and his M.A. from Oxford University which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar The mission of the Office of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Headquarters and Field Office officials toward the understanding and practice of sound financial management in program development and operations, and the stewardship of public resources. The Chief Financial Officer reports directly to and advises the Secretary on all aspects of financial management. Congratulations to John on this nomination and his continuing service to our country.

The October commissioning of FITZGERALD (DDG62) does not honor any of our Classmates except that the hull number is significant to us. Our Class wrote the officers and men of the ship wishing them good luck and smooth sailing and we sent a contribution towards the commissioning party reception.

Happy Birthday USMC

FITZGERALD

Lex Fleming has the first submission in our specialized license plate series, Virginia tag 19LXII. His father's car has Pennsylvania tag USDD-770, the destroyer he served aboard in World War II. If you have a plate with any USNA '62 Naval Academy, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Army or nautical designation, take a picture (stand by the car yourselO of the tag and send it in. Let's see how many states are represented.

Attention all WEB browsers. Paul Galanti has created the following URL (address) for the 62 WEB page. HTTP:/AVWW.MSV.ORG/62.HTML. That's our Class news for this November 1995 Shipmate. Have a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving Holiday and think of your Classmates. Cards, letters and photographs are greatly appreciated.

Until next time ...

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Pres., Robert L. Harper Sec'y, Michael H. Shelley 9915 Natick Rd., Burke, VA 22015 Internet mshe@loc.gov We began the 1995 Navy home football game series with a loss to Wake Forest the evening of 23 September Fortunately, the Class of 1963 bracketed the game with its tailgate party, making the trip to the stadium well worth the effort, after all. Thanks go to local stalwarts Judy and Norm Shackelton and Caria and Jeff Miles for artiving early and setting up the area. Among the others who enjoyed the gathering were Pat and Jim Czerwonky, Steve Leisge, Sharon and Bob Forster, Fern and Ian Sargent, Andrea and Spence Johnson, Jan Richardson and Pete Quinton, Lue and Steve Duncan, Bob Harper, Bruce Webb, Tom O'Brien, Arlene and Forrest Siburt, and Al Sherman. At the Class tailgate party while attending 1/c Parents Weekend were Kathy and Mike Krause (Matt '96) and Pat and Jim Fontana (Tim '96).

Our first report for this month comes from John "J.J." Calande: Hi again! I forgot to mention in my last communication with you that I recently talked with Alex Daunis up there in Providence, Rhode Island. He was departing to Nantucket Island to work on the two cottages he owns there. He was kind enough to invite me along for the weekend but I declined when he told me he had also invited a group of young starlets who are working in a movie with him. If I understood it right, he plays bit parts as the executive-behind-the-desk-type that the movie folks are looking for: you know, the profile slim, middle-age, with graying (if any)hair, etc. I sure would have liked to have had the strength to make that trip but thought better of it. Perhaps another time, Alex. Quality 63 Shipmate, November 1995

John Detweiler sent this brief note to inform us of a gathering of 12th Company classmates in Oregon: Dave Greeneisen, Mario Fieri, Bob Hudspeth, Dick Kinnear. and I had lunch at Dick's place in Cottage Grove, Oregon, in August. Greeneisen and Fiori had not seen Hudspeth since 1963. 1 had not seen Greeneisen since 1966. A good time was had by all. Mario and Dave came a long way — Mario from South Carolina and Dave from Michigan, Dick is hanging in there, battling his liver cancer with great determination.

Sylvia and I bought a motor home recently and are getting underway tomorrow for a trip to Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and California to see our kids and parents. Sylvia twisted my arm to the point where 1 just have to make this trip. I will miss part of the deer season, but so it goes.

On the heels of Detweiler's report came the firstever Internet communication from Mario Fiori, which he supplemented later by sending some photos for you to see. Left to right in the picture of the 12th Company group are Detweiler, Hudspeth, Greeneisen, Kinnear, and Fiori. Here's the rest of Mario's message: Recently I had to make a trip to the DOE site in Hanford, Washington. My first evening there, 10 August, I visited Grace and Pete Optekar. They have a beautiful home and we had a great dinner after a pre-dinner workout when Pete took me on 5 mile mountain bike ride/walk through a nearby apple orchard.

Fiori and Optekar I also visited Bill Pawlyk. He looks great and his spirits are fine. I am still asking for contributions from friends and interested Classmates in order to build a sufficient defense fund.

On Friday, I drove along the Columbia River to Portland, Oregon. A beautiful country. Met Dave Greeneisen whom I hadn't seen since we were at MIT together in 1967. He hasn't changed a bit. On Saturday we drove south to visit Cecilia and Dick Kinnear. We had a lunch at their secluded wooded location and Sylvia and John Detweiler and Bob Hudspeth joined us. As you can see in the picture, the years haven't been too rough on us.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A CLASSMATE HONORED IN ALUMNI HALL? ANNIVERSARY, BIRTHDAY, GRADUATION, OR MEMORIAL GIFT. CALL HONOR CHAIR COORDINATOR, JENNIFER JOHN 410-263-4448 EXT. 118 FOR DETAILS.

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12th Company in Oregon I am still the Department of Energy Manager of the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina and I live in Martinez, Georgia. Over the past year Susan and I have had various Classmates visit and would like to extend our welcome to whomever may be in the area. Sorry — no Master's tickets!

I was very happy to hear from Mac Myers, whom I hadn't seen or heard from since we were shipmates in CHARLES R ADAMS ( D D G - 2 ) back in 1963-64. He

informs us that he is ending his civilian career at the Navy Yard in Norfolk.

I'm going to retire from the Navy Yard on 30 September My wife has told me to be "fiscally responsible"; that means having another job to start on 2 October A lot of water has gone under the bridge since we were shipmates. It really hurt a few years ago when Naval Institute Proceedings called the DDG2's "these elderly vessels."

I'm a lot younger than the rest of you old farts, though. I'm still going to Scout camp and the U-11 soccer league. Our first wedding is imminent — my younger daughter Kiersta, 22, a graduate of George Mason University. We'll have all six children home at the same time for three days. My brother and sister-in-law are coming in tonight for the first time at my house in over thirty years of marriage.

Obviously, the stress level at home is pretty high.

I'll let you know where I end up working.

There was an error in Bob Harper's recent letter to the Class about the FITZGERALD commissioning and other matters: there is at least one other ship named after a Vietnam veteran, LEFTWICH. He was our 21st Company's Company Officer plebe year Later, as a Marine colonel, he died leading the charge to rescue his troops from a downed helicopter That was completely in character from when he was a captain.

Mac, it's great to hear from you. Can you send us a snapshot or two from the wedding? We want to see just how much younger you look than the rest of us.

Folks, as I remember, at least one other ship was named for a Vietnam veteran: ROARKE, which honored Bill Roarke '60 who was killed there in 1965.

Does anyone know of others?

Jim Ring recently made the Great Leap from paper to cyberspace and filed his first Internet message for your reading pleasure.

I just came back from my second week of vacation at the end of August. The first week was spent in Webelos camp in Goshen, Virginia, with my youngest son. Daniel. We had a great time despite the oppressive heat. The heat reminded me of plebe summer in Mother B and I remembered that if you do not have air conditioning, the heat is not as bad.

Two years ago I went to Webelos camp with my oldest son, Christopher so this time I was an old hand.

The second week of vacation, we rented an RV and went off on the great vacation experiment, since Kate, the kids, and I had never been in an RV before. It was great. We first passed through Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and saw the Taiwan team that won the Little League World Series. Then we drove on to Cooperstown, New York, to the Major League Hall of Fame. Cooperstown is a beauti-

ful town and the Hall of Fame is worth a visit, however, I got lost on one of the country roads leading out of there. After traveling about an hour I am ashamed to admit that I did one of the hardest things for a man to do — I asked for directions.

When I got back on track, we stopped and visited Sally and Al Griggs and their family at their place on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire. The lake is picture perfect and at 75 degrees it felt great to jump in after our travels. At sunset, Al cranked up his beautifully maintained 1911 Fay and Bowen boat named Priscilla and we went for a trip around the lake. As we sipped white wine and had some pat6, I remarked that we have come a long way since plebe summer Who would have thought, as we were getting hit in the back by an oar while paddling a whaleboat, that we would have so genteel a cruise. The next day their son, Billy, left for his first year of college at Bowdoin in Maine and Al remarked that he had left 36 years ago for the Naval Academy from his parent's place on Lake Sunapee. By the way, Al and Sally are building a guest house right next to their house on the lake.

I'm sure they would welcome the entire Class at any time. Right Al? Right Sally?

We then traveled to Plymouth and went aboard a replica of the MAYFLOWER. They have several people aboard dressed as crew members and passengers of the original MAYFLOWER. They speak with an English accent and act like it is 1620. The master of the vessel was a grizzly looking guy with a full white beard, who kept on complaining that he couldn't take the Pilgrims anymore and was going to leave for England as soon as he could get 10 well crewmen. I was wearing a NEW JERSEY cap and he asked me if I was a man of the sea. I tried to explain to him that I graduated from the Naval Academy, but it was difficult, since it did not exist in the 1620 date that Master was pretending to be.

Then he took me aside, showed me his class ring, and said very quietly that he too graduated from the Academy — in 1949. He retired as a Commander having served in submarines for 26 years.

His last name was Cortin and he did a wonderful job as Master of the MAYFLOWER. What a great job for a retired Commander or anyone.

We enjoyed our trip so much, that Jack Reed, Al Sherman, Phil Rain and I are renting one (RV) to drive to Newport for the FITZGERALD commissioning. More about that later Jack McDonald submitted this intriguing information: While recuperating at home from recent surgery, 1 was flipping through the TV channels one day and came across a Boston College football game.

One of the BC players was Eric(?) Storz of Rockaway, New Jersey. I'm fairly sure that he is the son of our Classmate Erwin Storz. I continued watching the game and the name was repeated by the commentators several times. The young man played defensive back I believe.

I can confirm that Erwin does indeed live in Rockaway. Is this young BC player his son? What other pleasant secrets does he have to share with us?

Over to you, Erwin!

Our column in the September issue contained a letter from George Singer in which he reported that he. Bob Forster, Charles "Goose" Gosnell, Ed Hutchinson, and John Burns had paid a visit to Bob Stiger and his family in Sterling, Virginia. Goose has just informed me that Bob is still waiting for a lung transplant, but is doing better and even getting out of the house with the aid of a portable respirator Gosnell also says that in April he was able to make a "Tiger Cruise" with his son, Capt. Paul Gosnell, USMC, a Harrier pilot on ESSEX. After the enjoyable trip from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, Goose spent a day there with Chet White.

Dave Robinson has become a fairly ft-equent contributor to this Class news exchange, and we're grateful to him for that. Here's his interesting account of a recent trip to Texas: WTien you stay in the Navy for a long while there are times when opportunities come along for which you may or may not be deserving or qualified. Such

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an opportunity befell Gene and me when we were asked to represent the Navy at the 50th Anniversary of the end of WWII celebrations at the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas. We had a wonderful time listening to a plethora of sea stories from proud, deserving veterans and sharing in their remembrances.

The celebration was billed as "V+50", and the Churchillian sign for victory was much in evidence.

The honorary chairman of the festivities was James Michener the author, and President and Mrs. Bush were the honored guests. Also present were nine Medal of Honor recipients â&#x20AC;&#x201D; eight USMC and one USA. I have never seen nine MOH winners in one gathering!

While we were waiting for the festivities to start, someone tugged at my sleeve and handed me a card and pointed to a press photographer covering the event. The erstwhile member of the Fourth Estate was none other than our Classmate Don McAlister who hailed from (according to my copy of the Luck)' Bag) Bonham, Texas. Don is now the Editor of the Taylor Daily Press in Taylor Texas, a town of approximately 12,000 great people 30 miles northeast of Austin. We only had a couple moments to talk (we were both working), but it was great seeing him.

His vital statistics are: Donald McAlister, Editor Taylor Daily Press. 211 West Third Street, Taylor Texas 76574. Home phone: (512) 365-7068, E-mail DLeeMc@aol.com.

It was a treat to hear from Don Palen, who sent this note from his home in Middletown, Rhode Island: I'm hard at work putting together a catalog for my new business, ICBM (international collectibles, belts, militaria). Once it's on the street, I'll do a winter "road show", visiting bases as a vendor in the PX/NEX and selling the same stuff, with time out (of course!) for beach, margaritas, fishing, and fun. I did test marketing at the NEX's at Newport and New London last winter and it went well beyond my highest expectations, so I'm hoping that mail order will be successful, and the mainstay of the biz. If I can cover winter expenses, including camper payment, meals, and fun with the "road show" I will be happy.

Noting that we have donated a Class crest plaque to the wardroom of the FITZGERALD, Phil Marsden has made an interesting suggestion: that the Class of 1963 donate a Class crest plaque to all USN ships with hull number 63, such as COWPENS ( C G - 6 3 ) . The Class officers are studying this idea. More later, perhaps.

Our last report this month just arrived via Internet from Jim Fontana, who provides evidence that the current generation of Midshipmen are the quickthinking, quick-acting young people we need in the fleet. Here's what he had to say: I love this electronic communications stuff. It takes the formality out of keeping in touch and makes it so easy. So...in the intere.st of providing some news for Shipmate, please know that my son Tim, USNA '96, received a Navy Achievement Medal in Memorial Hall last week for saving the life of another Midshipman. The incident occurred in Bancroft Hall last spring when Tim witnessed a mid running full bore into a steel fire door and in the process ramming his arm through the "safety" glass window. The mid in question severed an artery in several places and went into immediate shock. Tim was first to react and with the help of a classmate, worked to stop the bleeding, treat for shock, and comfort the injured mid until the medics arrived. Yes, indeed, it did make this dad and old grad proud.

Congratulations to you, Tim! This was another tertific month for news! Thanks to all those who took a few minutes to make contact.

If you haven't been in touch with me lately, please decide now to break your silence. Your Classmates are depending on you. Don't let us down...

Happy Thanksgiving! And, most important: BEAT ARMY! QUALITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; '63

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Pres., Capt. Jerry Anderson USNR (Ret.) S e c ' y , Capt. Grant F u l k e r s o n USN (Ret) 6000 Natick Ct., Burke, VA 22015 (703) 978-6885 gfulkers@csc.com Hope all of you had a great summer! Am not sure why, but for some reason summers don't seem to last quite as long as they used to. Fall is certainly in the air in the Washington area, with leaves starting to turn early because of our summer long drought, temperatures down into the forties already and the football season is off to a great start with a big win over SMU. Doesn't make up for that upset win by SMU our First Class year, but after listening to the game it sounds like a spark of old may be back in the team. Will be having Class tailgate parties in the parking lot again this year and hope to see many of you before and after the six home games.

Speaking of football, I received a nice letter from Bob Orlosky with information about the first annual Arizona golf reunion of the 1963 football team.

Over the Labor Day weekend the Navy Football Team of '63 held a reunion at The Pointe Hilton Resort on South Mountain in Phoenix, AZ. It was a very informal affair with the uniform of the day being shorts, swim suits, golf clubs, big cigars and liters of water The event was organized by our Team Captain, Tom Lynch and executed with flawless precision by our host and Recreation Officer Jim Campbell. The consensus of opinion about the event was overwhelmingly positive, and we plan on making it an annual event at The Pointe. Attendees from '64 included:- Tom Lynch, Debbie and Jim Campbell, Dick Earnest, Mary and Ray Snyder, Teddy and Gary Kellner, Karen and Bill Ulrich, Mary Jo and John Sai, Andrea and Jim Maginn, and Bob Orlosky. Other attendees included: from '65; Diane and Andy Kish, Larry Kocisko, Pat Philbin, Margaret and Wayne Hanson, Barbara and Kip Paskiewich; Coach Jack Cloud and his wife Charlotte; Larry Kocisko's son-in-law, Steve Buck; and Jim and Andrea Maginn's daughter and son-in-law.

Bob said there were enough highlights to fill several columns, but he managed to sort out a few of the best for us.

Since Staubach, Orr and Norton weren't there, golf was the sport of choice instead of basketball, and Mary Snyder led the way. She was consistently long off the tee and precise with her irons. We all took notes and enviously wished our skills were as good as hers. We have a year to practice, but think Mary will be practicing also.

Jack and Charlotte Cloud were delightful. Charlotte was the official photographer and Jack, ever the coach, was offering instructions to whomever he thought would benefit. It should not surprise anyone that his tone and style of delivery bore a strong resemblance to, take your pick. Jack Cloud inside the green fence instructing linebackers or Jack Cloud, boxing instructor Jack also held his own on the golf course. We suspect the key to his success was a hidden cellular phone with long distance instructional calls from Red Romo, Wayne Hardin and Steve Belechick.

We had a great time during the Sunday afternoon happy hour when we were joined unexpectedly by John Foley '62 and his friend C.J., who were staying at the hotel. They did a great job of making sure all the other guests were aware that the Team of '63 was something special. Hopefully the group pictures they took will make their way into a future Shipmate column.

Of course, this group couldn't get together without discussing the current state of football at USNA. There were plenty of solutions developed, but as you might expect, no startling solutions were discovered. Consensus centered on starting with a coaching staff that knows the X's and O's and can instill a winning attitude. As I listen to the SMU game, it appears that we are on track for the near

term. For the long term, we all agreed that the key discriminating factor for sustained success is intensive dedicated recruiting by the staff for solid qualified prospects in every region of the country.

It can be done despite all the constraints service academies face, if the art is practiced as we saw it done during the Erdelatz and Hardin era. We know this to be true because we were the focus and the product. That's all for this year Standby for next year's report, Orlo.

Am sorty to report I have not been able to locate an address for Geoff Shumway's son. Have received letters for him from Mike Pemberton and Mike McGrath, an inquiry from Tom Tarbox, and e-mail notes from John Howland and Charlie Plumb.

Have tried several avenues to locate SeaShum (his e-mail name), but without success. Will continue to try and find an address and then will forward any mail or other information 1 receive. If any of you know the address or can give me any help in obtaining it please give me a yell!

Received a long, newsy letter from Mike Pemberton. Inspired by Salty Sam's letter a couple of month's ago, Mike wrote his first letter to Shipmate since graduation (hope others of you catch that bug). After graduation, Mike went to Pensacola for NFO training, not as the Lucky Bag would have us believe to a Minesweeper out of Charleston. After qualifying as an NFO and completing advanced training at Glynco, GA, Mike was assigned to VAW 13 at NAS Alameda. Following two WestPac/VietNam deployments, Mike spent two years at Monterey in the Operations research curriculum. When he wasn't studying, he did manage to play a little golf, tennis, and bridge with Gerry Evans, Bill Sargeant, Dick Hofferkamp, Dick Curly and Dave Gray. Following another sea tour as the Electronics Warfare Officer and Assistant Strike Warfare Officer on the CTF 77 staff in WestPac and a shore tour as the EA-6B Project Officer at OPTEVFOR in Norfolk, Mike left the active Navy, but accepted a job as a civilian Ops Researcher at the Naval Ship Weapon Systems Engineering Station (NSWSES) at Port Hueneme, CA. Mike also served in the Naval Reserve for a few years, but gave that up as well to concentrate on his job as well as spending more time with his sons and his wife Charlene. For more than 15 years Mike served as a project leader and senior analyst for a variety of Anti Surface Warfare (ASUW) programs.

In July of last year Mike selected the early retirement option, left NSWSES and southern California and he and Charlene moved to southwestern Colorado where they built their dream home. They live in the middle of a ponderosa pine forest, near Summit Lake and are thoroughly enjoying the rural life.

After a year of unlimited golf, tennis, fishing, jeeping, hunting, fishing, and skiing (sounds like a real tough life), Mike felt a need to find something to help him keep a littie more active. He recently accepted the position of adjunct professor of mathematics at the local community college and he is expecting to accept the position of student services coordinator and academic advisor in the near future.

Mike and Charlene get plenty of visitors with six children and seven grandchildren (that may be the current Class record), but they welcome any Classmate in the area (Dolores, CO, 970-882-7207) to drop by for a visit. Mike also sent along an interesting "sea story" from his CTF 77 days tiiat I'll include in another column.

Jay Eggers' letter also prompted a short e-mail note from Ed Farrell. Ed and his wife Barbara ran into Jay and Martha on Stribling Walk while they were both visiting the Academy for Parents Weekend for the Class of 1999. Ed's son Jim is a member of '99 along with Jay's son Christian. Haven't heard from any other Classmates who may have children in '99, but at least we know of two who will be carrying on the 64 tradition. Ed and Barbara got a chance

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to tour Bancroft Hall and visit the 10th Company Wardroom during the weekend. He said Bancroft Hall is showing signs of age over the past 31 years, and I'm sure some lean budget years have not helped that situation one bit. Ed also passed along an interesting note that this Plebe Summer was the hottest on record (obviously they didn't start keeping records until after the summer of 1960).

Bob Lawrence sent along a new address for those of you who have not ordered one of the Anchormen cassettes we mentioned in the column about three months ago. The cassette can be ordered directly from Bob at 1624 Candace Way, Los Altos, CA 94024 or by phone at 415-962-8341. In case you may have forgotten the cost of the cassette is $12.75 and any money made from the sales (above cost) will be donated to the Alumni Association.

Here is the second installment in our lost Classmates search that began in the last column. Due to the delay between column submission and the publishing of Shipmate the first list of names has not yet been published so I have no "found" Classmates to report, but hopefully next month we can report some initial successes.

Here are the names for this month: William Forestell (13); Edward Fox (11); Carl Gallmeyer (11); Carl Garrett (24); Edward Gerhard (8); Paul Graves (10); Richard Halbert (04); David Hanson (03); and William Hartwell (06).

Thanks for all the letters and e-mail notes, it sure makes writing the column a lot easier for me and a lot more interesting for all our readers.

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Pres., Capt. Wyman Howard USN Sec'y Cdr Dave Anderson USN (Ret.) 468T Mananai Place, Honolulu, HI 96818 808-484-2827(H), 808-477-4162 (W) Jeff Lewis will be passing out the new, improved '65 Directory at our 30th Reunion, 19-22 October in Annapolis. He'll be mailing out those not picked up at the Reunion the following week. Jeff is asking for a $10.00 donation to cover his costs (but not counting the many hours), so when you take delivery at USNA or via the mail, please provide a check to Jeff Lewis for (at least) 10.00. If you received yours at USNA, but haven't paid Jeff yet, his address is 6320 Fox Run Circle, Jupiter, FL 33458, 407-746-6644.

Attended Tom Dames' Change-of-Command on 25 August. Tom took command at the Makalapa headquarters in Hawaii of the Pacific Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command/Third Naval Construction Brigade. Also in attendance was Bob Stevens out here for some work with his Clevelandbased engineering company. We have a photo. Shown below are Bob, Tom and Ursula and moi.

Dames C-o-C Some random stuff from Tom's bio: Tom was born in Argo, IL and besides his BS from the Boat School, he has an MS in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in

Urban Planning, both from Purdue University. Tom also completed the program for management development at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. Tom's 30 years in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps started as an assistant Resident-inCharge of Construction with the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Midwest Division in Great Lakes, IL. Subsequent assignments included company commander for Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 at Gulfport, MS, including two deployments to Vietnam, aide to Commander, Construction Battalions, U.S. Pacific Fleet/Commander Pacific Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pearl Harbor (his new post!!), and planning officer of the European Branch Office, Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, in Naples, Italy. Tom has also served as staff engineer for the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations in DC, Director of the Systems Analysis Division at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters in Alexandria, VA, public works officer at Naval Air Station, Keflavik, Iceland, Resident Officer-in-Charge of Construction for the Charleston, SC area, and executive assistant to Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Tom served two years in the Pentagon on the CNO's staff as head of the Program Appraisal and Information Branch and was also assigned concurrently on the SECNAV's staff as Deputy Director, Department of the Navy Program Information Center He was CO, Public Works Center, San Francisco Bay from 1986-88. In his previous two tours, Tom commanded the Atlantic and Northern Divisions of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. During his tour with the Northern Division, he also served as flag officer on Joint Task Force Andrew, the U.S. military hurticane relief and recovery operation in South Florida. Tom was promoted to the permanent grade of Rear Admiral (Upper Half) (two stars) on 1 June, 1995. Tom has a ton of medals and awards including the Legion of Merit with two gold stars and the Meritorious Service Medal with one gold star. Tom and Ursula have two boys: Thomas, a Marine Corps aviator and John, a construction engineer in the private sector Don Hallwachs (WaXer '65) checked in with a good letter He's still working for Hughes Training, Inc. in Hemdon, VAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;having just received his 20 year employment pin. He is currently the Project Engineer for the UH-IN Weapon System Trainer to be delivered to the U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton, CA in early 1996. In the past, he has engineered several other projects; a B-52G and B-52H trainer for the USAF at Seymoure Johnson AFB in North Carolina; an EA-6B Weapon System Trainer for the Navy at NAS Whidbey Island, WA; a CH-53D Operational Flight Trainer for the Marines at MCAS, New River, NC; a Landing Craft Air Cushion Trainer for the Royal Australian Air Force at Tindal AFB, Katherine, New Territories, Australia; and a V-22 Operational Flight Trainer for the Navy. After 10 years in the regular Navy, as a P-2V7 and P-3B driver, WaXer was RIFed in 1975, whereupon he joined the Reserves and became a weekend warrior for 12 more yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6 years at Patuxent River, flying P-3As and 6 years at NAVAIR, flying a desk. Don retired in 1987 as a Commander with 22 years. At that time he was still wearing his middie-issue #3 and #4 blues.

Don and Deanna celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in June. Their children, Scott (29) and Kristen (25) both live nearby in Virginia. To celebrate their 30th, Don and Deanna visited Maui and the big island of Hawaii in June. Don says that Wayne Moni also works at Hughes Training, Inc. He escaped from NAVAIR a while back and now resides in their marketing department. When Don runs into Classmates, they continue to ask him if he still does cartooning.

Sadly, no. WaXer's view is that the real world is not as funny as USNA. He has, however, saved all his

Log and Trident works and lots of non-published works in three-ring binders.

My ol' bud, Pete Robinson wrote to say he's hanging tough with the treatment program for his recurrent brain cancer Pete has valiantly strived to not let this condition upset his life. Pete is still working for the Mare Island Naval Shipyard and is fairly senior there now. His industrious wife, Joan, is still going gangbusters with the business she owns and operates, the California Academy of Performing Arts of Moraga, Ca. At the Dance Masters of America National Convention, one of her performing groups recently won the national title for their category. Pete and Joan's daughter, Julie is Strategic Marketing Director for Red Herring, an upstart, upscale magazine on high-tech and on-line businesses and pursuits. Their other Daughter, Megan, is a sophomore at Colorado State in Fort Collins. Pete and Joan recentiy attended the San Francisco chapter's hosting of Reunion Week West (ex-June Week West). 1 think the 'Throng (Fred Berthrong) reported on those activities last month.

The 3 July edition of Navy Times carried an article on "Putting Ghosts to Bed," about ex-Navy Swift Boat drivers during Vietnam taking part in a last ride on these boats. The boats, with their 6-member crews, patrolled the coast of Southeast Asia and were credited with shutting down the enemy's supply routes and troop movements in Vietnam's rivers, many of which cut through dense jungle. The Navy retired the last two of these patrol craft on 17 June in a ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard.

Skip Gunther, who commanded a "swiftie" from 1967 to 1968 said, "I didn't think it would be this emotional. In many ways it was the best year of my life. The crew was like family and the job was exciting. We even water-skied behind the thing. The missions were intense and the possibility of death was a constant companion." Skip, his wife, Nancy, and daughter, Emily, are pictured in the photo. As Skip held his 15-month old little girl, he said in reference to his swift boat tour, that he didn't think he was going to make it back.

In the news: The San Diego Union Tribune carried an article citing RADM William Schmidt replacing RADM Mike Bordy as Commander CruiserDestroyer Group ONE aboard CONSTELLATION on 31 August. Mike had commanded the group since the summer of 1993 and will now move to Tampa, FL as Deputy Commander of Naval Forces for the Central Command, which commands the U.S. military forces in the Middle East.

Jeff Lewis' newspaper recently cartied an ad with Skip Yachanin's grinning photo displaying two prime real estate properties he has listed with his office. The Prudential Florida Realty Company.

Skip's office number is 407-744-2500 x278.

A nice gent form the Class of '49 sent in the following great pic of Kate and Mike Donohoo, taken at the June Lobster Fest at the Georgia Tech Softball Field, put on by the Atianta Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association.

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The USNAAA informed me of two unconfirmed deaths of CLASSMATES. Byron Humphries and Stephen Foster. Jeff Lewis heard of Byron's death when his widow retumed one of his inquiry cards.

Stephen Foster's mail was returned by the Post Office, marked deceased. If any Classmates have additional information on these two Classmates, please contact me and/or the Alumni Association.

Am embarked on a Class project to enable all of you who have or get on-line access to the Internet and World Wide Web to exchange info easily with Classmates. By the time you read this, hopefully there will exist a link in the USNA's home page on the Web to the Class of 1965 home page—that I'm in the process of creating now. Info available on this home page will include: lists of email addresses, links to Classmates' individual home pages or those of their businesses, news as it becomes available on Classmates, functions, luncheons, etc., photos of Classmates when I figure out how to scan them and include them, info on address changes, perhaps in the future a link to an on-line directory, and a menu of notes/messages that are posted by Classmates on the Web page. Would like to hear from every Classmate who has an email address through their work or America On-Line, CompuServe, Prodigy, etc. If you know email addresses of other Classmates, please email them to me, too. The following is the curtent list, printed here so you guys can also start e-mailing the hell out of each other, as well.

Alexander, Ed—ecalexan@rsoc.rockwell.com; Allen, Chip—chipa@aol.com; Anderson, Dave — daveand@aloha.net / andersonhi@aol.com; Barto, Jon—^jbarto@mitre.com; Berthrong, Fred— fberthrong@aol.com; Bordy, Mike—aabordy @aol. com;Butler, Jim—jbutler728@aol.com; Champoux, Bob—bobchamp@aol.com; Coleman, John—^jcolemanl @aol.com; Dailey, Bill— b d a i l e y @ c a s d e . c o m ; D u r h a m , Wayne — durham@apollo.aoe.vt.edu; Epprecht, Mike— mjepprech@dpcmail.dukepower.com; Eversole, Tom—74032.2363@compuserve.com; Flanagan, Dan—cflanagan@eworld.com; Foy,Al—afoy@sys plan.com; Gatliffe, Tom—gatliffe@csn. org; Girard, Paul—paulgirard@cpqm.saic.com; Graham, Pat—dpgraham@amoco.com; Gustavson, Gus—csg5@nosc.mil; Hadd, Hap—haph@ospa mn.ssw.dhhs.gov; Hart, Bill—navy65 @aol.com; Heselton, Les—heseltonl@pgate.he. boeing.com; Hester, Mike —mikehva@aol.com; Hooks, Thel— thooks@logicon.com; Jackson, Carl—carl@ tbyte.com; Krebs, Gary—g.krebs@ aol.com ;Krom, Dick—rcxw34a@prodigy.com; Lycett, Roy—fnrj71a@prodigy.com; Mager, L e e — glmager@lightni.brevard.edu /—71214.3543 @compuserve.com; Martin, Bob—rjmartin® ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu; M c K e c h n i e , A r n i e — mckechnie@tcs-inc.com; McMurry, Larry— mcmurry larry j@hq.navsea.navy.mil;. Morris, Tom—tmorris571 @aol.com; Morrison, Charlie— aettch@email.grafenwoehrarmy.com; Musitano, Jack—jrmusita@plumme.elan.rdyne.rockwell.com; O'Connor, Ed—coconnor@gpu.com / kgrm71a@ prodigy.com; Prince, Andy—aprince@capaccess. org; Regan, Tom—74011.340@compuserve.com; Robinson, J e r r y — r o b i n s o n j e r r y @ s m t p g w y . techmatics.com; Rogers, Paul—rogersp@usva8 .dyncorp.com; Spangler, Carl—crs65@aol.com; Spurway, Aaron —steinway@iea.com; Sullivan, B o b — b o b p e g s u l l @ a o l . c o m ; Taylor, J i m — taylorj@n4.opnav.navy.mil; Thompson, Hugh— hlt@nrc.gov; Tower, Phil—philtower@dow.com; Utley, Wally—utley%wec@dailcom.tymet.com; Vigrass, Dave—dvigrass@dacom.com; Wood, CM—cmwood3 @aol.com Following Classmate updates sent to me via email (yay!). From Ted Krauss: Yup, Jan and I are living in Annapolis and loving

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it. I never would have put a 2 bet on that pony. My CPA practice still takes me to Stamford, CT four days per week but the three-day weekends within steps of the Yard make the commute worth while (30 years have done wonders for the place, just like my parents got smarter as I got older). I've been doing a lot of sailing the last few years, including frostbiting the last three years on Long Island Sound, so Annapolis is the place to be. The only problem is all that noisy bugle music when I'm sleeping in on Friday mornings. The house is a money pit, just like the movie. We expect to do a complete rehab—but not by the '65 reunion next month. Right now, we're living out of boxes and ignoring the squeaks, cracked plaster primitive plumbing, flickering lights, etc. You're looking for e-mail addresses, so I'm writing to give you mine (TAKrauss@aol.com). Poor Jeff Lewis is going to have to add another field to his data base. Since I know that you are a displaced San Diegan, you can discover a little nostalgia at web site known as the S.D. Source (http://www.sddt.com). See you soon!

Ted. From Chip Seymour (our guy at the USNAAA): Dave, great hearing from you via the net!! I owe you some answers concerning the payment of a home page. Please stay tuned on that one. Yes, it is busy around here—many changes at USNA and at the Association, all good, I am happy to report. Both USNA and the Association are moving swiftly toward 21st century ops!! The new football coach knows his stuff and is a back-to-the-basics guy who has an obvious ability to put the right mids in the right positions. That was some win over SMU and it was fun hearing Roger interviewed at halftime by the local Annapolis broadcasters. Let's chat periodically on the net. I will pass along what's happening at USNA and at the Association. With the 150th Anniversary Celebration in full swing and with Admiral Larson at the conn—and an undefeated football team (!!), it is far more pleasant around here. Much more to follow. Chip. <23> From Ann Bordy: Dave, Mike intended to respond to your e-mail, but with the change of command and trying to move, it has been impossible tofinda spare minute.

Since you didn't give Jeff Lewis' e-mail address and if I am supposed to know it, I don't, will you please pass on the following changes to him. {Sec 'y note: Jeffdoesn 't have email —YET.) We are packing out now and will leave SD either the 13 or 14.

Our plan is to drive straight to Tampa where our address will be: 2003 McClelland Avenue, MacDill AFB, FL33621, Phone: 813-840-0105. Mike's new work address: DEPCOMNAVCENT, 2707 Zemke Ave., Bldg 532, MacDill AFB, FL 33621-5105, Phone: 813-828-6772. Unfortunately, Mike will be in Bahrain during the reunion, so we will miss all the fun. The only other class e-mail address I have is Bob Champoux which is Bobchamp@aol.com.

Have a great time at the reunion and hope to see you at the next one. Anne Bordy From CM Wood: Hi Dave. Long time since Happy Valley Alley.

I'm doing radiation studies with the Centers for Disease Control in Atianta—and I used to hate radcon in Nuclear Power School. I'm the only nuke in a building full of medical people. You've heard the definition of a consultant—a guy who knows 50 ways of making love and doesn't have a girl friend. I live on Lake Lanier 30 miles north of Atlanta and across the lake from Steve MacDonald.

I'll see you at the 30th. The only other E-mail I know is Fred Berthrong, and I think you have his address. He's on AOL also. My work address is cmw6@cehdehl.em.cdc.gov. CM. From Gus Gustavson: Dave, Got your email...but at a new address.

Lynne and I have had an eventful and exciting year We have tried to cram all of the "lifetime most stressful events" into a short time frame. First, our daughter Christina, got married in late June on Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor Then 1 retired from active duty as Rear Admiral (Lower Half) effective July 31, 1995. My last active duty position was Commander Submarine Group Five/SUBPAC Representative West Coast in San Diego where I served from July 93 to July 95.1 disestablished the

group as part of the Navy downsizing, and passed the SUBPAC REP baton to an 0-6. On the same day as my retirement I went to work at Lockheed Martin Energy Systems in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as the Vice President for Defense and Manufacturing. The major part of this position is managing the Y-12 nuclear weapons manufacturing (now unmanufacturing) facility. The job has plenty of challenges, and is really keeping me busy. Lynne and I have purchased a house here and, effective the end of September our address will be: 12940 Buckley Road, Farragut, TN 37922. My new Email address here is gustavsonfp@ornl.gov. Good to hear from you and see you at the 30th. Sincerely, Gus. From Wayne Durham: Dave, the email address 'durham@apollo.aoe.vt.edu' is a good one, should be for the foreseeable future. I retired form the Navy in '87, moved to Blacksburg, VA, got a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech in Dec. '89, was hired on in tenure track position in Jan '90. This is my up-or-out year so if in 6 months my email address bounces messages you'll know the news was bad. I'm told not to worry, but insist on doing so anyway. Five kids, ditto grandkids. Oldest son is USAFA '82 (you do the math) now a Major flying what's left of Wild Weasels at Nellis in Las Vegas. Tough duty. Oldest daughter up in Ball'mer middle son in Florida, youngest son and daughter still at home. Can't help with any more email addresses. Sorry, Wayne.

From Jerry Robinson: Thought I would give part of an update on some '65 doings in the Washington area. Navy alums, nationwide, have formed a Navy Masters Rowing Club and '65 has several members. Mostly, everyone trains in their own areas and comes together for regattas. In May, Sted Garber and I attended a 5 day training camp at Hubbard Hall for the NMRC. In eternal pursuit of our youth we two and 6-8 other guys (mostly from the 60's and 70's) rowed the Sevem River twice a day. Bob Stoddert joined us for the last evening dinner which included spouses.

In June, I represented 65' in one of two Navy Masters' boats at the IRAs in Camden NJ. Since then we have been training twice a week on the Anacostia River here in D.C. This was capped with a three boat entry in the Canadian Henley Regatta at St. Catherine's, Ontario in August. It is kind of interesting to race once again with the same guys we beat in the IRA Clean Sweep by Navy in 1965.

We sure could use some more representation by '65 in the NMRC. If anyone would like to join please contact me: Jerry Robinson, 10156 HiUington Ct., Vienna, VA 22182, 703/281-6179 (H), 703/802-2334 (W), robinsonJerry@ techmatics.com. There will be another camp/camaraderie next May and it is not to early to start erging.

Also, very much welcome your ideas as to what can go into our Class' Home Page on the Web, as its construction is not locked in concrete. For you guys that are "wired," e-mailing me updates on your lives is the preferted way to communicate stuff destined for Shipmate. That way I (or Fred "Throng" Berthrong, when he submits the article) can just download your email messages, edit them and include them in the article that is now emailed to USNAAA on their specified deadlines. Of course, if you don't have email access, please type, write, scribble or crayon SOON and OFTEN. We are more often than not hurting for info on you guys to include. WARNING: Fred and I have discussed making up salacious and scandalous news items on selected Classmates should the submitted material by you all mn perilously low.

That's it for this month. Next time: all the good gouge and photos from the 30th!!

Beat (the snot out of) Army, Dave.

Happy Birthday USMC Shipmate, November 1995

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Pres., RAdm. Albert H. Konetzni, Jr. USN East Coast Sec'y Cdr Mike Baird USN (Ret.) 63 Franklin St., Annapolis, MD 21401 West Coast, Robert G. Johnson, Jr., Esq. 30011 Ivy Glenn, Suite #124 Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 714-495-1211; FAX 714-495-7736 I really don't know where this year has gone. From my perspective it has been a busy one. Once again Annapolis is decking out for the holidays, and the new year is just around the bend. This will put us over the hump for the half-way point to the new century. 1 don't have much news, in fact none for this issue.

One point of importance regarding reporting the death of Classmates. The Alumni Association has published procedure, and I want to share it with you.

I would prefer you call me at home or work. My home phone has an answering machine, and my work number has voice mail. My home number is 410263-6985, work is 410-266-4749. The reason I like to get the information first is, I can coordinate the "Last Call" article and also coordinate notifying the Foundation in cases where potential education support exists. I will notify the Alumni Association. The information I need is the following: • Name, place, and cause of death (note: this can be modified depending on family wishes) • Date, time, and place of funeral services • Surviving spouse's name, address, and telephone number • Other family members surviving • Send me a biography, or tell me if I should contact the spouse for it • Send me a photo, or tell me I should contact the spouse for it • Please leave your name and number(s) so I can call you back if I need additional information or further coordination • Tell me, if you know, whether flowers from the Class are appropriate, or if a Class donation for a similar amount to a charity is desired.

Obviously, timeliness is important. Please don't assume I know. I'd rather here the information 20 times than not at all.

Rick Grant was the featured guest speaker at our August luncheon. Rick is the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of the Navy. About 20 Classmates gathered to hear him give his views on current issues facing the Navy, and everyone who attended was impressed with the breadth and scope of Rick's job.

It proved to be a perfect follow-up to Al Konetzni's talk at the May luncheon. Thanks Rick! By the way— There is no luncheon scheduled for this month.

Well, that's it for November I told you I would be short. I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

All the best—Mike!!!

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Pres., Cdr David E. Church USN (Ret.) Sec'y LCol. Jim McNeece USMC (Ret.) 4832 Solomon Dr, Annandale, VA 22003 Internet: SCRIBE67@AOL.COM Attention World! Attention Worid! The U.S. Naval Academy Class of nineteen hundred sixty seven takes pleasure in announcing a new e-mail address for its Secretary. That address is: SCRIBE67@AOL.COM...

That's all I want to say about that!

Went to the Navy-Wake Forest football game last night, and Navy lost (you knew that already). We got there well after the kickoff, so we missed the pregame tailgate. The theme food for this one was Mexican; Dave Church told me later the Mexican apple pie and South of the Border chocolate cake showed up as expected! There was a good turnout, and I expect Dave to call me later in the day with a list from his log book. Somebody said two grads from Army '67 strolled in. They both have sons in the Class of '96, and now have standing invites to our tailgate. I didn't get to meet them, however After the game, I talked to Chuck Scherck for a minute. He promised me a peek at his next 24th company newsletter Chuck's brother, Russ (LtCol, USMC) was there, too, from down Norfolk way. I asked him if he knew Mike Delong, and he said he'd gotten acquainted with him one day waiting on a helicopter pad for a ride someplace or other I also had a quick chat with Doug Ogden. Doug's in the FBI and was in town from Dayton. He had been to Columbia, SC and played golf with Sandy Prouty.

Sandy's the FBI Special Agent-in-Charge in that office. One of Doug's good friends from Ohio showed up as well and it turns out, he owns the golf course.

Even though we've all seen this guy, Doug showed me a picture and bet me nobody could identify him (sort of an FBI kind of bet, I suppose. I couldn't do it, but then, I'm rusty. I used to be pretty good, but I gave up hanging out in Post Office lobbies reading the posters.) The picture Doug gave me shows Sandy on the right, Doug in the middle and on the left is the golf course owner My only hint to you is that the golf course connection is a red herring...not something you'd expect to find as a menu item.

Check in again next time for the answer.

????, Doug Ogden, Sandy Prouty Last month, Pete Long mentioned the Ryan brothers Change of Command in an e-mail. A note from Jim Dulin added some details and a picture.

Thought you might be interested in a recent Change of Command that took place here at Barbers Point. Hawaii. Norb Ryan relieved John Ryan as Commander Patrol Wings. Pacific and Commander Antisubmarine Forces. Pacific. I'm sure somewhere in the history of our great Navy one flag officer brother has relieved another but from all we can leam, this is the first flag change of command where identical twins passed the baton. Adm. Zlatoper (PACFLT) and Adm. Spane (AIRPAC) were the guest speakers. You can imagine the number of twin jokes that were told during the ceremony. As usual, John and Norb took the humor in stride, even managing to throw in a couple of digs themselves. It was a tremendous occasion.

attended by many VIPs from throughout the Navy.

I have attached a picture of five Classmates who were present. On the far left is Don Hefkin; Don has retired and is currently residing in the Mountain View area of Califomia. Next is Pete Long; Pete has recently retumed from Singapore and is now the SHOREPAC czar at PACFLT. John Ryan is en route to Naples to be COMFAIRMED, Norb Ryan is the new WINGSPAC, and the distinguished guy on the right is Jim Dulin. I have had the honor of being John's Chief of Staff and now Norb's.

Don, Pete , Norb, John, and Jim Pat Staeheli sent me a long letter, among other things answering my request for information on Julio Giannotti and his shipyard.

After a futile effort attempting to LOGON to the Intemet with my old Commodore 128 and an unsuccessful retry with my Smith-Corona PWP 500 word processor I decided to contact you the "old fashioned way" through the U.S. Postal Service.

Summertime is winding down in the Pacific Northwest with comfortable temperatures in the mid-70s and everyone getting ready for the new school year and the rainy season. In the Puget Sound area that usually goes from mid-October to mid-May. I am now in my 19th year working for the Boeing Company in the Tacoma-Seattle area. Over the years, I have bounced around through several engineering related jobs with Boeing Computer Services, Boeing Defense and Aerospace Group, and most recently with Boeing Commercial Airplane Group where for the past 5 years 1 have been the Customer Engineer for Post Production Airplanes.

That means I provide retrofit engineering assistance to airlines that still operate "old" Boeing airplanes: 707s, 727s, and older 737s. Boeing built these airplanes so well back in the 60s and 70s that they are now in competition with our new airplanes as well as with AIRBUS and McDonnell-Douglas. If anyone needs information on older Boeing airplanes they can give me a call at my office (206-544-0972).

USNA '67 is well represented at Boeing. The last time I checked, our Boeing members included Dick Collins (Systems Engineering for the F-22), Jay Fontaine (Senior Manager, Airplane Configuration, 737 and 757 programs), Ritchie Gouk (777 Aircrew Training & Publications), Barnie Racely (Maintenance Manuals, 737/757 Mechanical Systems), and Bruce 'Hirner (Flight Deck Configuration/Flight Crew Requirements). From these job descriptions, one may conclude that Boeing is about as bureaucratic as the Pentagon, however in the current climate of downsizing, restructuring, upgrading, refocusing (call it what you will), things at Boeing are in as rapid a state of flux as Bill Clinton's foreign policy.

An article in the Tacoma News Tribune featured the takeover of Tacoma's largest shipyard by Giannotti Marine Services, a naval architecture firm owned by our classmate Julio Giannotti. The article states that Giannotti is well recognized in the ship building industry and now has offices in San Diego and Ventura, CA and Everett and Tacoma, WA. The company provides design and repair services to Alaska and Washington State ferries, commercial fishing vessels, and the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. I saw Julio last year at the Class of '67 Labor Day Weekend bash in San Diego. After serving in the Peruvian Navy, he earned his Masters in Ocean Engineering from MIT and a doctorate in ocean engineering from Rhode Island University. I believe Julio and his wife, Janice, have homes in Ventura. CA and Everett. WA. however he has wisely left his name unlisted in the local phone directories.

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I recently signed up for an IRA investment account with a large local investment banking company called SEAFIRST Investments and received a "welcome aboard" form letter signed by the company president, Ned Laskowski. I wish he could have tipped me off about the growth of Microsoft Stock when it was originally offered for $5.00 a share! 1 fully expect to see Ned as a special guest on Wall Street Week before the next stock market crash.

I picked up a Vietnam veterans monthly magazine at the library the other day (Vielnam; April 1995) and noted an article entitled "Secret Evacuation of the VNN Fleet" that features Rach Armitage's pivotal role in getting 34 Vietnamese naval vessels with crews evacuated from South Vietnam just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The last time I remember seeing Mule was back in 1972 when I was flying helicopters for the Navy in the Mekong Delta. Back then, he and Bill Applegate were assigned as special operations advisors to the Vietnamese Navy. Armitage's rise up the State and Defense Department ladders was well documented in the article. Bill Applegate lives now in the Philippines in Makai, near Manila. He represents an American Corporation that specializes in exports to Southeast Asian countries. I have seen several "economics in Asia" articles by Bill in the Wall Street Journal and the Asian Free Press Hong Kong.

My own part-time military career has continued to the present as a helicopter gunship pilot (AHIF Cobras) with the Washington National Guard since 1978 when I traded in my Navy wings and LCDR rank to become aflyingWarrant Officer with Army Wings. Our anti-armor Attack Battalion was invited to Desert Storm in 1991, but that war ended before we could mobilize and deploy. The only real action I have seen as an army aviator was during the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 and the occasional winterfloodsand summer fires that have tested my aviator skills and my cardiovascular fitness. At 51,1 may not be the only USNA '67 grad still on military flight orders, but I am probably the first and only one to make Senior Chief Warrant Officer (CW04). I go on annual training duty in the Cobra for the last time in September '95 as our unit is transitioning to CH47 Chinooks, I will probably be relegated to a desk job in FY 96 before 1 get put out to pasture. I look in the mirror ands realize that 1 am now a grandpa with one kid still in high school, two in college, and three others semi-independent of me, financially speaking. Old dogs can't run with the young pups forever Pat, the old dog, sent copies of the two articles he mentioned, and both made for good reading. And speaking of old dogs, I don't know too many at 51 who are still flying Cobras, but here's one that hangs in there. Jim Buttinger competed in the Annapolis Rowing Club Wye Island '95,al3.5mile race around Wye Island. He completed the course all the way around the island in 2 hours 31 minutes, the winning time for his boat class (recreation single-Alden). He said this was his second entry in the race. He rowed it and won in 1993, so he's won every time he's entered. Jim says he'll challenge anyone in '67 for Wye Island '96. All you have to do is learn how to row and go for it. There will be no bets on the winner, but each competitor will send $67 to the American Cancer Society (or other charity, if you choose).

"Why?" says he. "Wye not?" Any takers...former crew-meisters?

Coincidentally, here's one now! (No, 1 didn't plan it this way...I just stack the letters as they come in and that's the order they show up here...Honest!)

Another old dog, Tom Knudson, writes from Houston: Just a quick note to say hi! My USNA roomies and our wives had an enjoyable mini-reunion in Santa Fe this summer Here are a couple of pictures. Left to right in the one of the three of us are Chris Ward, me, and Dix Wolcott. The one with the wives has Jane and Dix Wolcott, Jane and Chris Ward, and Candy and me.

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last day on active duty. He's looking for capital to open a brokerage house with his son and his son's friend.

Tune in again next month for the answer to our little quiz...and can you believe it, that one will be the last column of 1995? Where in the world has it gone? Oh, well...That's it...Goodnight!...Jim

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Pres., RAdm. Kendell M. Pease USN Sec'y, Leo Kuehn 531 Wilson Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401

Jane & Dix, (another) Jane & Chris, Candy & Tom Chris is a doctor in Elko, Nevada and gentleman rancher He makes enough as a surgeon to cover his losses as a cattle rancher I think I'm beginning to see why medical costs are so high. Dix is also a doctor (ob/gyn) in Virginia Beach.

I'm still running the natural gas business for Conoco. Chris and I had lots of discussion in Santa Fe as to whether beef or natural gas prices were lower! Dix is unconcerned since the price of babies just keeps going up and up.

I got short note from Tim Hoffman. He's the director of a management consulting company called Business Mentors in Irvine, CA that specializes in international business development. He's working with a company called Vietnam Tour Ventures that's made up of veterans and orchestrates Vietnam tours targeted at military types who served there. Tim's note said they customize tours to visit landmarks and points of interest outside the usual tourist stops. His phone number is 714-474-8553 if you want more info.

We've added Wayne Olsen to our e-mail address list. This from him: Please add me to the E-mail list.. .being stationed overseas, I've not used Over the Wall BBS, since for me it's a dollar a minute, but CompuServe is just a local phone call.

I've never written to our Class secretary to give an update for Shipmate. Lazy, I guess. Amazing how on-line services make it "a little" easier I'm half way through my twilight tour â&#x20AC;&#x201D; never imagined 28 years ago that I'd be a lifer As most previous tours, it was hard to pass this one up,... 1 consider it the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...

I'm NATO's meteorologist/oceanographer in Brussels. I can't believe I'm really getting paid to do this job!

If you're still puzzled who I am, the '67 Lucky Bag won't help. I was in the Uth company, and somehow the photo of Bill Olsen and mine got switched. Have you heard of that happening to anyone else in '67? I went surface Navy, back to school at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for an M.S. under the Burke Program, then transferred to Restricted Line (1800), where I've been ever since.

That's a new one on me, Wayne, but it sounds like the Navy's trying to make up for it with this tour of duty!

I missed the last Slummers, but the report I got said there were nine folks there. Al Toppleberg gave some insight on the OJ case, and the consensus of the group seemed to be that Rock Harmon is getting grayer by the day. That was also Jim Hensley's

It's tough to look ahead as I write this column and think about when it will be read. Our football season got off to a bang-up start and hopefully as you read this, the Navy team will have won a few more than last year Just a couple pieces of cortcspondence to pass on with this month's column.

Received a short note from Carol and Dennis Irelan advising of their latest move. Denny completed his tour as CO of INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) and is now J-33 on the staff of USACOM in Norfolk.

The Irelans have taken up residence in Chesapeake, Virginia and I'm looking forward to seeing them occasionally up here in Annapolis now that they are here on the east coast.

I also received a nice note from Ken Kolarcik. I will pass on this bit of correspondence in Ken's own words: After completing a surprising quick twenty years in surface line, my wife of 21 years, Marie, and I settled here outside of Louisville, Kentucky, with our six children to complete the upbringing of our most important charges. I took a job as administrator of a 30+ lawyer firm and we adapted quickly to the country environment that surrounds the city of Louisville. It seems like leaving the service and (participating in) a few reunions does a world of good to rekindle old relationships and the fire that makes us remember the yard and the years of '64'68 with such fondness. After our 20th reunion I was convinced I had to get some of my progeny back to see USNA. We also took trips out to Colorado Springs just for comparison. My eldest son after strong consideration (he has perfect eye sight) decided to stay in Kentucky and plays soccer and golf for Campbellsville College. My #2, Joshua, with a somewhat macho "save the world" attitude, seemed intent on one of the academies. He has found his niche at USAFA as a member of the Class of '99. We had a chance over Labor Day weekend to visit for the first time since his swearing in (their parents' weekend occurs after the return of the Wing) with our remaining four homesteaders in tow.

Enclosed picture is of our young man, his mom, and yours traly. Hopefully identification is obvious. You may detect a note of proud Papa shining through. Our #3, our eldest daughter is interested in USNA and we hope to take the opportunity of the USNA/USAFA football game in a few weeks to visit wiour Air Force son and introduce our daughter to Crabtown. Think 1 might try sitting on the Air Force side with my Navy hat on!? Pray for

The Kolarciks Shipmate, November 1995

Ken goes on to say that he still keeps in touch with his friend and former roommate, Chris Glutting. Chris in his retirement has reestablished his home base in Massachusetts and is busy doing some traveling and fixing a few things up on his "beautiful estate of Green Hill" in Hull, Massachusetts.

Thanks for taking the time to write. Ken, and thanks for your kind words of support for my meager efforts here.

Just a few "admin" comments before I close this month's column. I attended a local alumni meeting recently on behalf of our Class president. It was very informative even for one who lives here in the area and should probably be more aware of what's happening in the Alumni Association and at the Academy. Most of the information related to those in attendance can be found in the pages of this and previous issues of Shipmate. The most striking item to me was an overall sense of optimism and forward thinking on the part of the Association staff and in particular, the newest members of that staff. I got a good feeling about some new approaches and new organization in the doing of business to support both us. as alumni, and the Academy. Of course, one aspect of this meeting was to address the issue of money requirements and fund raising. This is always a tough subject but I suppose one that is fact of life in organizations like ours. Anyway, even in this area, I felt less uncomfortable and more optimistic that there can be a non-threatening approach that can allow and encourage donations to support the operations and projects of the Alumni Association.

That about wraps it up for this month. This is November and that time of the year we use to reflect and be thankful for the many good things we have.

This may have been a very good year for many of you and it may have been a year with some tough, trying, and even sad times for some of you. For me personally I have to say it's been a year with a littie of both. However, with a bit of the eternal optimist in me, I can sincerely say even in some of the tough moments there was always something good and positive to be found. I pray that is the case with each of you. So with that thought, may you all see and be thankful for the blessings of friendship, family, camaraderie, and love. See you next month...Leo

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Pres., Fred Hall Sec'y Cdr Royal Connell USN (Ret.) 210 Claude St., Annapolis, MD 21401 Greetings all and The Twenty-Fifth is upon us.

Many of you may not read this until after the reunion, and many of our own will never read it because they don't belong to the Alumni Association and therefore don't receive Shipmate...what a shame! I hope if you know someone who falls in that category you will get them to come back into the fold.

It never fails, reunion comes up and someone starts feeling young again. This time it's Nev Shaffer who enters the Youngest Progeny sweepstakes with John Nevin Shaffer III, born 14 April 1994. He claims that now your kids are in college and he has a 7 year old daughter (Ellen) and a one year old son, plus a Dalmatian, two goldfish and a hamster He cites a strategy that when Ellen is old enough to date, he'll be senile and won't care. Personally, I believe a bit of that senility is starting to show, I think he'll care but he won't be able catch the young men with his walker. Anyway, his note comes on stationery from Shaffer and Culbertson, Attorneys at Law, in Austin, Texas, specializing in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law.

Warren Mackensen sends word that he and his son Andy and Leslie and John Demlein spent the weekend together on 29-30 July at the Portsmouth Shipyard, Kittery, Maine. They were there to honor Gary Gradisnik by witnessing the commissioning of MAINE. John is the Chief of Stuff at Sub Group Two in New London and played a large role in arranging the commissioning at Kittery. Pat and Warren sent their middle son, Andy, off to Boston University NROTC this Fall, whilst their oldest continues studies at University of New Hampshire.

Mike Casey dropped me a note that he assumed command of Defense Distribution Region West in Stockton, CA in July and is loving it. He does a lot of traveling, but doesn't see too many Classmates, since most of his dealings are with civilians and other services. John Montgomery or Bob McPhail take note: he wants to join in on the photo-op of Classmates with offspring at USNA. His son Brice is an astronautic engineering major in 24th company and headed far away from the Supply Corps.

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Pres., William H. Newton III Sec'y, Steve Hudock 6006 Woodlake Lane, Alexandria, VA 22310

Thank You! Private support built a baseball clubhouse and dugout facility!

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Nick Carter and Sam Rasmussen. playing cowboy at Halloween The big letter of the month goes to Frank S. "Nick" Carter III who updated his Alumni Profile sheet and sent a note with it. He notes that his father Frank S. Jr was in the class of '42, and grandfather, Frank S. Sr was in '09. Are there any other third generation grads in our Class? After spending his five years in the San Diego and Viet Nam Navy, he resigned and spent several years in a variety of positions in San Diego, from owning a solar heating firm to commodities and stock brokering, to large estate homes and beach properties sales. In the past year he has managed to take in sights from Puerto Vallarta

to Palm Springs to Banff Canada, then on to Montreal, New Hampshire and Vermont, with a side trip taking a 68' sail boat from Costa Rica to Jamaica through the Panama Canal.

Jennifer and Sam Rasmussen live about two blocks from Nick where he is president of Ocean Properties, a real estate syndicator in San Diego. Bo Havlik is a commercial real estate broker with Rancon in San Diego. He has a new baby as well [see paragraph #2.]

In e-mail fall-out, I have notes from Trip Beattie who is also in San Diego in the financial/estate planning and insurance field with Barney & Barney. Brad Nemeth is a lawyer in his building, and has the parking space next to Trip's. Brock McMunn works for Lockheed-Martin in Tokyo. He and Carol, and daughter Shauna have been there for about a year, his son Christopher is a 2/c at USCGA. Brock joined LM after retiring in April '94. Other Classmates in the area include Clay Grubb, CO of the Marine Barracks and Tim LaFleur Chief of Stuff for ComSeventhFlt. Bits and Pieces: I got a commissioning invite for CARTER HALL (LSD-50) to be at theriverwalkin New

Orleans the 30th of September Of course I would have loved to attend, moreover I would love to announce it, but when you send such official invitations, please note that they don't include your names and therefore I have to guess which one of our numbers is still on active duty and thought of well enough to rate another command. Steve Root called to ask questions about the 25th, he has been at the Applied Physics Lab in DC for the past 11 years, and this year retired USNR. Trivia rates for the month: who were the two Classmates who started the infamous pep rally?

Ring-A-Ding-Ding!

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Pres., Capt. Perry Martini USN Sec'y, Cdr Brian Horais USNRR 11234 Cranbrook Lane, Oakton VA 22124 I always felt it was just a matter of time before someone got our goat, but I never expected that it would be the Naval Academy. In this case. Field McConnell is responsible for providing the latest two mascots. Bill XXVIII and Bill XXIX, the latest in a line of mascots going back to 1893. Field, a pilot with Northwest Airlines, raises Angora goats on his farm near Glyndon, Minnesota. Field and his wife Alison picked the goats based on the appearance of their homs. As Field put it in a quote from a recent article in the Fargo Final, "It's sort of an honor to help the institution." But as a midshipman "I never dreamed that someday my contribution would be a smelly old goat. " For those of you who attended Homecoming, you will notice that the new Bills proudly wear the numbers "71" on their blankets.

Thanks for exceeding your wildest dreams Field. (Is that anything like field of dreams?).

The Class of 1971 is also sponsoring the new mascot uniform for the two-legged Bill the Goat and will get top billing on his jersey as well.

Mike Kehoe wrote from the NROTC Unit at Cornell University where he is the Commanding Officer Mike provided updates on several Classmates.

Jim Parks recently completed a tour as CO of the Naval Special Warfare Center in San Diego. Jim. his wife Viv. and their 3 year old son James are in the process of moving to Tampa where Jim will be on 95

the CINCSOC staff. Joe Sheppard still works for Houston Lighting & Power at their South Texas Project. His oldest daughter is a senior at Tulsa University this year and his youngest is a Freshman at Texas A&M. Mike O ' R o u r k e lives in New Hampshire but works out of Springfield, MA, where he is the national sales manager for a radiator manufacturer company. Mike and his wife Wendy manage to work in a lot of traveling along with his job responsibilities. Nancy and Mike Kehoe and their four children are enjoying life in a small rural community in upstate New York near Cornell.

Dave Stahlhut sent in an announcement on his change of command. Dave was relieved as CO of Naval Reserve NAS Jacksonville 0167 in October and will be assuming command of Naval Reserve Cartier Group 0167. Congratulations Dave. W i n ning the award for mail from the most remote location this month, Ellen and Andy Mazzara dropped a line from Okinawa informing me that Andy is presently CO 12th Marine Regiment, Third Marine Division. Andy will be relieved by Lenny Supko, '70, this winter and Andy will take Lenny's place on the Division staff. Andy and Ellen are expecting their ninth child (no that's not a typo...) this December Sounds like they are well on their way to establishing their own regiment. Andy looks forward to attending the 25th reunion and left instructions for his old friend Ron Spratt to send two round trip plane tickets for next October That's it for now. Enjoy your holidays.

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72, had three kids, and lived happily ever after Brian is now 20 and a junior at the University of Florida. Chris is 18, living with Brian, and a frosh at Santa FeCC. Megan is a 12 year old metal mouth, freckled face ballerina at private school in North Palm Beach, yahooing with the Rich and Famous.

Kath and I are revived after 23 years, and ready to party again. Whew. We're all healthy and happy and enjoying life.

On the working side, I did eight years with the Corps, twelve years in constmction equipment, and now am co-owner of a utility constmction company in the Palm Beach area. My aspirations are clear: make enough money to enjoy lots of time off sailing and fishing in the islands, and going to reunions to tell lies.

Kathy's brother Tim Beutell (32nd Company), is bad at writing Shipmate, so we'll do him, too.

He's married to Beth Bairstow of Jacksonville, whom he met during flight training, did seven years in A-7s, and has been flying and training pilots with the airlines since. They have a daughter Jackie, and a son, Brett, and are living in Minneapolis, and thinking seriously of returning to the Sunshine State.

Now that I've done my five minutes at the typewriter, let it be a motivation to all you other missing '72 middies to do the same!

Is that a testimony or what? Steve is Vice-President of Pledger, Inc. His address: 12848 S. E. Suzanne Dr, Hobe Sound, FL 33455.407-546-4848; fax 407-546-3211. Thanks for the letter!

Wedding Bells Dept. Now, take a look at the accompanying photo and identify the gentleman with the lovely lady. Couldn't be a Classmate—too young looking. Wrong-o! Taken 15 years ago, you say?

Guess again! Joe Bridgeford sends the following:

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Pres., LCol. Bob Lee USMC Sec'y, Cdr. Rich Robison USN (Ret.) 12695 Catawba Dr, Woodbridge, VA 22192 E-mail robison_rich@prc.com; FAX 703-685-9849 Hey there, boys and girls, time to gather round the campfire once again and warm up your cold beehind whilst your old scribe passes along the latest gouge from near and far. Went to the Wake Forest game last night over at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, which was the first home game (and only one played at night this season in Annapolis). It was also Parents Weekend for the Class of '96. (Parents of firsties throughout the stands were wearing bright blue and gold Navy Football windbreakers. Nice idea.) The air was a mite brisk, but the rain stayed away and it was a good night to watch football. They even installed a new scoreboard on the north end of the field.

The Big Blue Team even wore all blue jerseys and trou. The defense played tough through most of the game and, up until the 4th quarter, it looked like we may even be able to recover from a 14-7 deficit. Alas, three interceptions put the Navals on the short end of the stick once again. Oh, well., .we still throw nice tailgaters.

First Timer Dept. Hallelujah, Brothers! Got the following from Steve McLaughlin: Been meaning to drop a line to Shipmate for 23 years, but just never got around to it. Been busy, ya know, building empires, raising kids, etc.. But.. .it's time to find some long lost Classmates, and sometimes the best way is to wave your flag. I particularly want to find my "best men" at my wedding, namely John (Woody) Teply, and Bif (Skipper) Leonard. Where are you ...? (Scribe's note: Whoops—sorry Mac, you can't say that on a family show...) You drank my wine, had a fine time, chased rriy wife's best friends, and disappeared into Subs and Seals. You got my address now, so drop Mac a line, OK? That also applies to all our 27th Company Classmates as well.

Here's my humble update. On the personal side, I married Kathy Beutell (Tim's lil sister) in Dec 96

The Bridgefords Cindy Kimble and I were married April 7 at St. Mary's Church in Canandaigua, NY. Following the wedding, we vacationed on a cruise in the Western Caribbean onboard the Regal Princess. Cindy is a second grade teacher at St. Louis in Pittsford, NY, and I've been the Director for Manufacturing at Ultrafab in Farmington, NY, the past three years.

Both of us have settled into a new home overlooking Canandaigua Lake, and have adjusted well to blending each of our daughters into a family.

During the summer we were very delighted to see both the Ruschmeier and Ives families, who took time from their busy travel schedule to stop by our home in the Finger Lakes Region. We also heard from Steve Neuman in Tennessee and Jim Pledger enjoying a tour of duty in Japan with his family. Cindy and I look forward to seeing my Classmates at the next reunion and hope they will let us know if they pass through our area.

Congratulations to you both. The Bridgefords reside at 4914 Bramblewood Trail, Canandaigua, NY 14424-2715.

Mike Joyner dropped me a line that Ted Morandi assumed command of Aviation Maintenance Depot at NAS Norfolk on 14 July 1995. Also in attendance at the ceremony were Ted's wife, Laura, his brother and sister and other family members. Ted became an Aviation Engineering Duty Officer some years ago after starting out as an A-6 pilot. Unfortunately, his command tour will be

somewhat bittersweet, since his agenda calls for closing operations next year Mike is still doing management consulting, specializing in utilities, working out of his home near Athens Georgia.

Mike's new address: 1006 Mill Pointe, Bogart, GA 30622. 706-549-5320. Thanks for the note!

Bits and Pieces Dept. Nic Torelli is alive and well and back in the Sunshine State. He is Director of Electro-Optical Programs for Westinghouse in Orlando, working 12-14 hours a day (what else is new?). His address: 5790 Donnelly Ct., Oriando, FL 32821; 407-239-7131. (Great to hear from you, Nic—keep in touch!) Speaking of life down in FL-A, I had a nice chat last week with Mary, the better half of the Ulrich clan (oh, yeah.. .talked to Harry, too). Seems that '72 has something of a coup down in Mayport, with Gino Uricoli having recently assumed the reins of ComDesRon 24, Scott Cantril as CO. of the Naval Station, and Bob Shields, Ted Kaye and Harry as skippers homeported in Mayport. Mary says they have a nice place right on the water, she plays tennis every day, and that they don't miss the pace back in DC a bit.

(I think about you every day back here picking up "slugs", Harry...)

News From WWTTWBW (World Wide Todd T. W. BrunerWeb), or W4T2B Dept. Those of you fortunate enough to have been "found" on the Intemet are already exchanging e-mail pleasantries with TTWB at his office suite overlooking the majestic Severn River (at about the same geographic coordinates as the laundry smokestack used to be).

Your scribe will endeavor to keep the rest of us informed via this conventional...albeit somewhat time-late.. .medium. (You web surfers out there can reach him at: bruner@novell.nadn.navy.mil...then stand by.) Greg IVIeyer is currently living in Geneva and working as JCS Representative to the Disarmament Conference. (gmeyer@itu.ch). Ray Glennon is still with ARINC in Annapolis (rglennon@arinc.com). The following is a list of other e-mail addresses I can decypher: Pat Dunne (pwdunne@aol.com); Jack Boyle (jboyle@dsmet. com); Bill Rubel (rubel_william_r_capt@hq. navsea.navy.mil); Justin Winney (wmwinney ©kuentos.guam.net); Nick Pantelides(pantelid@ mayport.nadn.navy.mil); Don Carlson (carlson @nadn.navy.mil); Ed Wallace (ewallace@ nadn.navy.mil); Tom Sizemore {sizemore@ nadn.navy.mii); Denny Whitford (whitford@ nadn.navy.mil); Tim Traverso (traverso@ nosc.mil); George Voelker (voelker@nosc.mil); Rich Goldsby (goldsbyr@smtp-gw.spawar .navy.mil). My apologies to those of you whose cyberidentities I cannot determine. (Will xvxa42a@prodigy.com and usnchief@riyadhemhl .army.mil please stand up.)

Hey, gang, it's late and I've got to do battle with Shirley Highway tomorrow. (Fred Gorris: Drop me a line.) Have a Happy Thanksgiving. More to come. D. O. "Tried and True with ' 7 2 . "

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Pres., Tom Storch Sec'y Dirk P. D. Mosis III P O . Box 27738, Houston, TX 77227-7338 713-656-7736 (w), 713-871-8958 (h) There must be a black hole out there somewhere that is capturing the mail from '73. And the hole is not here. Could it be that the mail is on the Intemet, and I'm not?

I endeavor to get on the Internet in the first quarter '96. I am certain that we would get more, rather than less, mail from '73.

Ken Reightler sent me an invitation to "STS 73".

The invitation, itself with the ' 7 3 ! ' , does look neat.

Other info from Ken: Ken was invited by Bobby Watts to speak at a Shipmate, November 1995

winging ceremony He is Wing Commander of Training 5 at Whiting Field, Florida. He also saw the NAS Commander, our very own Dick Dick. Ken states that both are fine.

Thanks, Ken! '73 was well represented at the Gulf Coast (Houston) Alumni Chapter Meeting on 15 September Admiral Larson addressed the group, and Captain Brandquist was in attendance as well. I believe that the Academy and Alumni Association are in good hands with these gentlemen. Bruce Hargus (Air Products), Jim Burdette (leaving Compaq for private practice in Baltimore), Ken Mayeaux (Catalyst Recovery, Houston) and I were there.

Ken and I headed up to Dallas to watch Navy beat SMU at the Cotton Bowl. The team, the Brigade, et al looked great. Good leadership in evidence...and we were able to actually drink a brew, live, and all the while watching a Navy victory — YES! Scott Krajnik sent his updated 16th Company list.

He is Base Operations at the Academy after three years at the Pentagon. Thanks, Scott, for the list and note.

The Ross Hardings have retired from Navy life and have started the "civilian adventure" in Knoxville. Tennessee where Ross is Nuclear Programs Safety Manager at the Y-12 Plat of Lockheed Martin (615-966-5152). Good luck, Mary and Ross!

Two members of our '73 team were joined aboard ABRAHAM LINCOLN on 22 August 1995, when Captain Bob Willard took command from RADM (Sel) Rich Nibe (68) in the Arabian Gulf Bob joined Captain Dennis Gillespie, Commander, Carrier Air Wing Eleven where the first order of business was to get both into the air over the Persian Gulf to access the tactical situation.

CAG Gillespie will move his air wing to KITTY HAWK in December, preparing for yet another deployment, while Captain Bob will change homeports from Alameda, California to Everett, Washington.

The LINCOLN Air Wing team has been deployed since early April to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch over Iraq. Barb and Donna look forward to their men returning in October

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Pres., Steve Middleton Sec'y Cdr Bill Hall, SC USN, Retired 1833 Meadowgrove Ln, Frederick, MD 21702 301-694-5883 (h); 703-218-8454 (w) BHall74@aol.com 301-694-5883 e-mail: BHall74@aol.com This month's column is truly dedicated to the new age of cyberspace communications. With the exception of a letter from Brent James on Commanding Officer, DETROIT (AOE-4) stationery, all other correspondence comes to us via E-mail.

As already mentioned. Brent James writes to us from his position as CO, DETROIT: Thought I'd drop you a note and a photo taken on induction day for the class of '99. The photo is of my father RADM Jack M. James, USN (Ret.) '42, my son. Midshipman 4/C Michael F. James '99, and of course, me. (Sec'y note: The photo was taken in Memorial Hall after Brent and his father finished swearing in the latest member of the James family to enter USNA.)

Bob Willard and Dennis Gillespie Thanks for the update, Dennis and Bob! The attached photo is a great one, encompassing the Spirit of '73! Thank you, gentlemen.

A bit short. Start thinking about including me on your Christmas card list! '73!

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The new plebe with "Deer in the Headlight" look By way of catching you up, 1 had command of VF-143 at Oceana from '90-'92, was assigned to JCS from •92-'95, and took command of DETRorr (AOE-4) on July 20, '95. We are just finishing up a four month availability in Chester PA and will be underway 8 October My wife Catherine and three of our seven kids now reside in Virginia Beach. The four oldest are already out the door and on their own.

I've seen or spoken with several Classmates lately. Mark Checchio is retired in VA Beach and is with the company that is building my new home down there, although he works in the Defense Programs part of it. He and wife Bobbie and their children live in VA Beach. Spoke with Andy Borchardt a couple of months ago. He, wife Debbie, and kids are in Japan where Andy is CoS for COMSUBGRU Seven. Andy has become the quintessential diplomat and is personally handling most of America's thornier problems with Japan.

Jeff Cull is still living in south Florida where last word he was attending school to become a psychologist. He .sold his construction companies and I think he got bored counting his millions, so he took on the new challenge of school. Bob Whitmire, who was a "classmate" of mine at Harvard last year has just taken command of NAS Jacksonville. Jim Deppe is mnning the PCO course up at SWOS in Newport and gave the finest lecture on "Virtue and the Warrior" I have ever heard.

JJ Waikwicz was in my PCO pipeline class and is now XO of NASSAU. Spoke with Joe Avedutti on the phone the other day. He just retumed from XO of INDEPENDENCE in Japan enroute to command of KALAMAZOO which will happen in October Also spoke with Paul Banks in the Bureau. He helped me greatly with some orders for one of my super JO'S. He also reported he is enroute to command of a DESRON in Norfolk. Don Loren is also a DESRON commander also out of Norfolk I believe. He was also up at Harvard the same time I was and he then went to the Roles and Missions Commission where we worked together regulariy trying to "damage limit" the potential downsides

of well-intentioned but often unwise consoUdation proposals among the 4 services. Don did a great service for the Navy in that assignment.

And you did a great job bringing us up on the recent successes of a number of Classmates. Thanks Jim, any desire to take over the Secretary position again?

From Cyberspace we'll hear from Dave Antanitus first. Dave comes to us via E-mail at antanitc@smtpgw.spawar.navy.mil.

I have been at SPAWAR since I left command of HAMPTON (SSN 767) in March of '94. Since that time I have been Deputy Director and Major Program Manager for Fixed Undersea Surveillance Systems (formeriy SOSUS). I still work in the Undersea Surveillance Directorate as the Director for International Programs.

I decided to go into the acquisitions business after command. With a 45% chance at 0-6 and a 15% chance of major sea command, it seemed like the right thing to do i.e. leam a skill that would someday transition to a civilian job. Well. I did pick up 0-6 and I also screened for major sea command.

Commanding a squadron/tender/trident would have been fun, but I know in my heart that joining the AP community was the right long term decision.

There are currently 6 submariners from '74 in the AP community. Besides me, here is a rundown: CAPT Vic Fiebig - ASN RD&A office - EA to DASN; CAPT John Higbee - Deputy Director for Torpedo Defense Program; CAPT Gary Graupmann - Deputy Director(R) Heavyweight Torpedo Program; CAPT Tom Dion - ditto above as outgoing - will go to school (DSMC) this fall; CAPT(sel) Jim Lyons - staff COMOPTEVFOR Jim picked up 0-6 on the second look- the only submariner to do so! Also CAPT Ben Wachendorf is our OPNAV sponsor as N874 — he should slate for major sea command this fall (Ben is not an AP).

As far as other info goes: CAPT Dave Antanitus, 7123 Freshaire Drive, Springfield, VA. 22153, (H) 703-913-1149, (O) 703-602-3661. Wife - Betsy and children - Emily (7 Jan 83), Alison (12 Sep 84), and Rachel (3 Mar 90) The next Intemet surfer to check in is Tom Glover, who comes to us from E-mail 74214.1221 @ compuserve.com.

Barbara and I will be celebrating our 20"' anniversary in four days. We got married between "FAM 1" and "FAM 2" while training in T-2s in Texas.

The squadron was very understanding and gave me an extra day off (it was a long weekend)!

No kids - other than an 8 yr old thoroughbred horse which Barbara is starting to campaign in hunter/jumper They do well together and we hope to be moving up to the regional level for next year No, I do NOT ride, I just hold the horse. We can only afford one of those habits.

The natural thing for me to do after retiring last year was to go into the real estate business with Barbara since she's been doing it ever since we moved to Va. Beach in '81. It was a bit of an adjustment but things are working out beautifully. RE/ MAX is a great company with which to be associated, and Bob Blount '70 in particular is an unbeatable broker/owner Our company is growing like gang busters and 1 wouldn't be surprised if we are dominant in the local resale market within two or three years. USNA alumni have been very supportive; we have had as clients friends going back as far as '44 and as recent as '93. It's a great business!

I had the recent honor of attending class- and company-mate Ken Pisel's retirement. It was a grand affair over at Armed Forces Staff College.

We particulariy enjoyed the reception at Ken and Andrea's house afterwards. It's spooky seeing their grown-up son for the first time in several years; he looks more like Ken than Ken did plebe year! Jim Boyer. also at AFSC, was present also. Just got back from a hunting trip to Hampton. South Carolina with Dave Antanitus, who was commissioning CO of HAMPTON. GO figure!!! Of course he got the only deer but I think the locals arrange to have a big buck released right in front of his stand every time we go down there anyway. (Dave, now you have to send Bill an e-mail in rebuttal!!) I speak periodi97

cally with my old roommate Dave Treppendahl, who is a commercial real estate broker in Baton Rouge. He, wife CoCo, and their tribe are doing well down there.

Don Patterson is a real estate broker here in Va. Beach, managing an office for GSH. There were some good pictures of our old gang from the 20"' reunion, but SOMEBODY spilled a drink all over them...or was it an effort to destroy the evidence?

That's about all for now. Bill. Now that I have your e-mail address I'll bong off a note whenever I have any tidbits of import. Take care!

Company classmate Jim Wilbur is the next to report in.

His E-mail address is 76364.2737@compuserve.com.

Here is a snapshot of my last 21 years, FWIW. •74 - '79 flew P-3's at Moffett Field, CA Married Sharon in May 79. '79 - '80 instructed at Whiting Field, FL Left active duty in Oct '80. '81 - '85 Reserve flying at Pt Mugu, CA then Moffett. Several humble jobs ending with a year as intern Math teacher at Independence HS, San Jose. '85 - present pilot for Continental Airlines. Currently based at Houston flying MD-80's. Allison was bom June '86 and Stephanie was bom Jan '90.

I still am crazy about cars. Currently I have a 400 horsepower '95 Camaro Z-28 to play with. I play some golf, lay out by the pool a lot and I'm getting back into radio control airplane flying.

The last E-mail I got this month came from the Secretary of the Chicago chapter of the Alumni Association. He wanted to let me know that Dave Lipinski was on the Board of Directors for the Chicago chapter I'll have to cut it off here for this month. I really appreciate the opportunity to get some use out of my America On-Line account by sending and receiving E-mail from so many Classmates. I know that more of you have computers out there with modems and access to the Intemet so there's No Excuse for not dropping me a note. (Be sure to include your address, phone number, and other family information so I can update my Class records as well.)

Ciao for now and Beat Army!!

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Pres., Raymond P. Wassel, Jr. Sec'y Cdr David P. Gray USNR 8112 Cedar Run, Waldorf, MD 20603 301-870-8756 (H); 703-707-5106 (W) Did not expect much this month since I know you are saving everything for the 20th and by the time you read this you will have all the news that I have.

But in the meantime I did get a letter from Doug Martin Thought I should try out this e-mail program and see if I could send you and the rest of the Classmates a line. I made it to London last spring for my annual Naval Reserve two-week duty. London is great in April. My luck may ran out if I don't get another naval reserve job come this October I'm still practicing law in Topeka, and Deb and I are trying to keep up with four kids (I think I have the oldest Desert Storm baby in the Class — she is almost 4 years old). If any of you Classmates have a World-Wide-Web Browser out there, check out my home page at the following site: http:// pages.prodigy.com/KS/eugz61a/eugz6la.html ...and Beat Army. Doug Martin.

That's it for this month. Remember you can send me files via the "over the wall" BBS or via INTERNET to my CompuServe address, 7 1 2 2 3 . 2 4 4 6 @ c o m p u s e r v e . c o m . Until next time.. .Take Care.. .Dave

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Pres., Chuck Gorum Sec'y, Cdr T. S. Traaen SC, USN, Supply Officer, BOXER ( L H D - 4 ) , F P O AP 96661-1663

Howdy, howdy, howdy! Welcome to another edition of the Class of 76 Shipmate column! Got a few letters this month which I'd like to pass on to you all... first from Mark Hubbard (of Hubbell Telescope fame)... .. .wanted to drop a note to give an update about what I've been up to...Bob Jackson and his wife Gerri and their kids spent a week with my wife and kids at Topsail Island, NC, the last week in July.

My dad has owned a beach house there for over twenty years and it's like paradise [don't spread the word too much! (OK, guys keep it quiet— Tim!)]...Bob is finishing up his tour as CO, MERRIMACK, and I heard he has orders to San Diego. We had a wonderful week at the beach together The following week we all rode Bob's ship as part of a dependent's craise. Bob's cabin 'suite' is nearly half the size of my house (well, almost...)!

Later, one of my old roommates, Jim "Doc" Dougherty, and I sailed up from Gainesville, FL, on his dad's 34' sailboat. It was one of those 'guys only' weekends—you know—recapture the innocence and youth of years gone by...moored near Annapolis' city dock and rowed the dinghy to the sea wall (in front of jeering customers at the various waterfront drinking establishments)...talk about packed! We picked Parent's Weekend to sail into Annapolis, but it was worth it! We just had to run the Academy's perimeter for old times sake...also brought my football to toss around on Farragut Field, but stopped at Halsey Fieldhouse before our ran, where I managed to punt it into the nets hanging from the fieldhouse overhead. What a knuckle head! Al Cantello now has it sitting in his office at USNA. .. .am still working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt as HST Carrier Development Integration & Test Manager for the SM-2 (The second servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope scheduled for Feb 97). Part of my duties include supporting the astronaut crew training at the NBS (Neutral Buoyancy Simulator) in Huntsville, AL, as utility diver (and I get PAID for this!).

Also, my wife and I just retumed from Penn State, where we just dropped off our eldest son for his Freshman year.. .he plans to study meteorology.

Domo arigato gozaimasu, Mark-san. For all you computer able people out there, Mark's Internet address is: mark..hubbard@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov. His phone nbrs are 301-286-4554 (W) and 301-829-1043 (H).

The mailbox had a fnst time letter from Al Groves, who writes: ...Quick history synopsis. 18+ years ACDU, all flying assignments. 3fleettours in F- 14s (700 traps/ 3000 hrs/Desert Storm), adversary instructor tour (w/Chuck Tiirpen in the '80s), and 2 tours as a test pilot at Pax River (the last one fortunate enough to fly the X-31 and serve with Dave Venlet, Jack Kirk, and John Rader). Took Uncle Sugar's eariy retirement option last September... worked for a regional airline for about 4 months before catching on with UPS where I'm a 'Second Officer' (read Flight Engineer) on the 727flyingthe 'night freight dog' routes. It's great work if you can get it and I can continue to defy gravity and aerodynamics (there is no lift at night). The personal transition is also going well. I was gone more than home in my last six years (2 cruises and geo-batching at Pax) and that takes some getting used to from both sides—mine and the family's.. .have been home on reserve status with UPS much of the summer which is nice. I've even releamed the kids' names (3— 16/13/8) and my wife, Sallie, has been patient with me as I learn to handle the 'Housfrau' duties while she works part-time as a home health care nurse (boy, does that help to pay the bills!)

...have re-established contact with company mates Ron Schuller, Jerry White, and Joe Martinka, and I hope to run down even more...

For those approaching THE CHANGE, I can only say TO START PREPARING EARLY and I hope your transition will be smoother, but just as satisfying...

Thanks for the update, Al, and the advice! Less than a year and a wake-up for that big two-oh point!

Also got a letter from Rex Bent: ...My wife, CDR Trissy Bent, USNR, recently relieved CAPT (Sel) John Willis (35th Co) of his duties in New Orleans at REDCOM TEN. John continues his success as a Naval Officer and in civilian life. John was promoted early to LCDR before he left active duty and joined the reserve.. .he is also a mover and shaker with the Tennessee Valley Authority, where he oversees many important developments in nuke power John's next reserve duty will be with the office of the CNO. .. .keep in close touch with Dr John Davis (19th Co). He is in private practice as a general practitioner outside New Orleans... does a great job in keeping my three boys healthy. John spends a good amount of time helping disadvantaged folks with their medical problems. In fact, in the small town where he practices, he is a local hero. John may not get rich financially with his medical practice, but is many times traly richer for his beneficence.

From time to time, Ralph McKinney and I exchange telephone calls. Ralph retired last year and is currently working on his PhD in Psych. He hopes to teach at the college level.

I retired as an 05 last November and currently enjoy working as an agent for USPA&IRA. Jim Petersen (15th CO) also works for the company and is on a pace to be CEO one day. In addition to his many duties with USPA&IRA, Jim still manages to be active in the reserve. My bet is that one day, '76 will have lots of Flag officers in both active and reserve components.

I extend an invitation to all Classmates to visit with Trissy, me and my three boys, should your travels bring you through New Orleans. Best wishes!

Gracias, Senior Rex! Rex gives his address and phone number as: 229 Blue Crane # 1 , Slidell, LA, 70461. Tel 504-847-9862 (H) or 504-394-8744 (W).

Also got word from the CO, WHALE (SSN 638), none other than our own Scott Pugh, that he ran into Jeff Hoy in Pearl Harbor in August. Scott told me that Jeff was there as an interpreter for Russian ships which were visiting Pearl at the time.. .hey, the only Russian I know comes out something like 'Minyer fsyo Gavno', which means something, but I forget what—it was probably something unprintable anyway!

Once again, from my 'it's a small world file', comes another 'it's a small world' experience. My youngest son. Slater, recently experienced a burst appendix and was treated at Balboa Hospital. Lo and behold, the physician in charge of his case was none other than our own Johnny Greene! Just like that immortal doer of good things, Chiken Man, we're everywhere. We're E'VERYWHERE! By the way, in case you were wondering. Slater is doing well and recovering nicely.

A short note from Annapolis... Well we did it! The locals finally got off the dime and had the first serious organizational meeting for next year's reunion.

Can you believe that almost twenty years have evaporated right before our eyes?

For those who have not been paying attention, let me remind you that we will be having the Class's 20th Reunion on November 8,9, and 10 1996. Navy Football will be beating the heck out of Delaware and we'll be partying hearty! There will be events starting on Friday evening for early birds and we'll have a few things on the Sunday agenda. The Class headquarters will be at the Holiday Inn on Riva Road.

So call to reserve your room now. (410-224-3150) Stay tuned to Shipmate and malce sure to spread the word. There are a lot of Classmates out there Shipmate, November 1995

that we 'II have a difficult time contacting. We 'd like you alt to join us in trying to recruit one Classmate to join the Alumni Association and come Home to Homecoming in 1996...Chuck Hey guys, that's about it! Hope you're all doing well and life is treating you right...you ain't alone out there, there's a grunch of us around! Later, Tim.

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Pres., John Rudder Sec'y, Vince Balderrama 45 Little Fawn Dr, Shelton, CT 06484 Happy Birthday, Devil Dogs and Devil Dog wannabes! As I pen this November column I am in the Capital City of Washington DC. Like an expectant father awaiting the news of birth, I wait another fiscal mark and wonder whether or not I will still have a program and can make the mortgage.(Yup, it's September) But unlike the birth of the Corps, I'm not in a Tavern, mugs clanking in revelry, the foamy sloshing about the floor and down the gullet.

Instead, I'm stuck in an office, lurking about the Pentagon, or lingering around Capitol Hill. Oh, the life of a lying, cheating contractor—I'd rather be in the bar, some foxhole, or better yet a cockpit! You can bet, I'll be in the bar soon after I hear the final results of the budget. (Not that I ever really need an excuse.)

Those of you still on active duty are also anxious to hear what the new fiscal year promises—perhaps another pay raise (always just a point or two BELOW the inflation level) and fleet operating dollars (never enough to keep you flying as much as you want, but always enough to keep you at sea and away from home). That Uncle Sam he's such a generous guy. One thing that gets funded, and one that's really important to your mortgagor, is your paycheck.

That pay package also says how many of you can be promoted and how long it takes for the really big bageetas to kick in. For the Marines of year groups '77 and '78 it's of special interest as the powersthat-be finally decided to promote a few more good men. The flying fickle finger of fate finally landed on something better than what the flight surgeon's digit used to and picked a few of our own for promotion to Lieutennat Colonel. Yup, now at least some '78 Marines can finally be on an equal footing with our peers.

Here are the fortunate names I could make out from the fuzzy fax copy of the promotion list: On the active duty side: D.J. Barile, D.J. Barnd, T.P. Benson, R.J. Blanco, M.G. Bolin, C. R. Davis, R. W. Destafney G.A. Eisenmann, W.G. Fell, R.J. Findlay T.C. Hanifen, J.E. Harbison, D.R. Heinz, H.A. Hopper, L.W. Longcoy M.F. McKeon, J.E. Page, R.L. Reece, J.D. Rudzis, G.R Shaw, J.J. Spegele, CM. White, J.E. Wissler, L.M. Yeary From what I could spy on the Reserve selection list, selected weekend wartiors were: A.J. Athens,

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G.J. Baur, K.M. Carmody, G.S. Cory, C.E. Dougherty, S.A. Maloney, D.D. Mossbarger II, C.H. Pangbura, M.T. Spencer Those of you fortunate enough to make the promotion cut, congratulations! Don't get too heady now. Some of your wives may already be spending that extra pay but like they say, remember what LtCols select are called ?—MAJOR. As this fiscal year's budget gets put to paper, we hope there's enough change to let you pin those silver oak leaves on soon, with pay. None of this frocking stuff for you guys. At least we hope it comes in time to pay the bills form the extra spending spree and the big wetting down. Those not yet on the lists, we'll catch your names next time. I know I have my fingers crossed.

I got a very long distance letter from Debbie and Keith Davies. They are in Turkey where Keith is the Assistant Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Ankara. They arrived July of last year and are enjoying it immensely. Keith has the typical aviator attache's lament—they make him fly C-12s. Ain't life rough? His Turkish language skills have improved enough so that he can get by in his job. He now knows more than the standard liberty phrases of "How much is the beer?" and "Where is the bathroom?" (Which I can still say in no less than 6 languages—French, Italian, Spanish, English, Southern (North Carolinian dialect) and sign language.)

Keith's working on really improving his linguistic talents so he can mesh it with his C-12 ticket and qualify for the embassy "Rug Run Team". Persian Carpets anyone? So far it looks like Keith will stay in Turkey until June of '97. With the NAPS credit, that's his twenty-year mark (Some of you are also in the same boat.). His options are many. He could open up a Davies Carpets of Ankara, become president of the Hair Club, or settie down and get a real job. But in any case he might have to grow up, something to which Debbie can attest is a lost cause. There are three kids now in the Davies household. Besides Kurt (16) and Katie (14) they now have Evan (2/1/2), whom they adopted back in 1992. As for Debbie, she got her nursing degree (RN) in '92 and is working as an embassy nurse in the British Embassy Ankara. She overcomes the "English-American language bartier" and really enjoys the job. You can drop them a line via the embassy at USDAO, PSC 93, Box 5000, APO AE 09823.

Larry Semanyk (Yak, sorty if I misspelled you name) dropped by the office a while ago. He now works for DP Associates, a beltway bandit firm that does support work for folks like NAVAIR. He's also in the Reserve and works out of the Aviation Logistics Branch at the Navy Annex. Besides Lawrence, he and Leslie also have three daughters all below the age of 6. Leslie's still working as a nurse. She pulls the long weekend rotations which means Larty pulls the Mr Mom routine on Saturday and Sunday.

It's a tag team artangement that suits their needs for parenting.

Larty mentioned that Steve Sterner is doing fine these days. He did have a little setback a while ago.

After a car accident, he was even further laid out with what almost sounded like a half body cast on his arm and torso. Seems that Steve was cmising along when someone tried to prove out Newton's Law about objects in motion being acted upon by other objects — WHAM! Totaled his car and plaster of parised Steve. Don't feel too bad for him. In typical resilient Sterner fashion, he had somebody available to pop and pour the beer down him! When you' re given lemons, Steve doesn't make lemonade, he brews! If you ever get down to Severna Park (I think) don't forget to look up Steve. At the very least you've got to check out what has to be the very best I love me wall and boat school memorabilia display this

side of Preble Hall. (That's the Yard's museum for those of you who skated Plebe summer) Well, 1 hope you're out of the cast by now Steve and getting along better. Get healthy, bubba!

I've been talking to Steve "Jock" Maloney a lot more these days. Part of that's because, eventually, we're going to replace his reserve squadron's aircraft with my "big rig" CH-53E; and partly because I've talked my way into doing a littie active duty time in Norway for an exercise "at a not yet determined time" next year. (Is that indefinite enough for all you Secret Squirtels?) As the Reserve Squadron CO at Willow Grove, Jock will be leading his guys from the front but he'll also lead the R&R. You can be certain that at least one of those RH-53Ds of his will have some nets, balls and backboard. On weekends the rotary warrior, during the week he's "Joe Entrepreneur" with his Continental Rubber Seal Company. The company's doing okay, making payroll and paying off debts. Jock's doing what he can to push it to the big time.

Speaking of that exercise of an undetermined time, joining us will also be Alex Dimitrew and Chris "Doc" Dougherty. (Sounds like Jock's padding his five on five team.) I'm probably remembering the "org" table wrong but I think Alex will be running the TAC Center and I'm reasonably certain that Doc will be the Headquarters JAG. I know he is the JAG, 'cuz he's an attorney in real life and besides there's a requisition form with his name on it for a mahogany field desk. As for Alex, he's living in New Jersey and working Lockheed Martin on the Aegis Program.

Marines running around the Washington DC area are: Tim Hanifen—due to leave Aviation Plans Branch sometime next year, back to New River He and his new bride, Ann, bought a house there and we'll see what exposure to full time life in lovely Jacksonville, NC, brings to the newlyweds. Mike White is at the Pentagon as N880F—the money guy in aviation amphibious warfare for 53s and 46s. I bumped into Gary Shaw at an MCAA dinner a few months ago. He's running around the district at school, I thought. Mark Bolin is supposedly mnning around the Navy annex in one of those "Iron Majors" jobs. Jim Shulson and Bill "If Fell were last heard of in Okinawa, as was Tom Sudbeck.

It looks like I'm mnning out of space for this Uncle Sam's Misguided Children edition. I know there were over 168 of us who took the oath from the Assistant Commandant, General Sam Jaskilka, on that warm June day. I haven't even scratched the surface of where you are and what you are up to. So pick up a pen—or crayon if you went 03 (infantry)—and drop me a line, cortect me, berate me—but just write. Let me really pack these columns with tons of news.

In closing I just have to say for all you guys who could reach the line on the wall for debutante escorts—There's a new "Commandaddy" at 8th & I— a fellow Boat Schooler and a guy with whom / can see eye to eye! Life is good!

So here's "health to you and to our Corps, which we are proud to serve." Cut the cake, light the smoking lamp, and pour the toast to another year Semper Fi, Semper Gumby, Semper Tardus... (Always Faithful, Always Flexible—Always Late!—I'm IBuster, launchin' Spot 4 with the FedEx express. Hold the presses!) [ed note: For a Marine, always!! Happy Birthday, Vince...Nancy]

Thank You! Private support built a baseball clubhouse and dugout facility!

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Pres., Mike Finley Sec'y, Ken Russell 210 South Main Street, PO Box 380, Arlington, SD 57212 (605)983-4777 75053.2444@compuserve.com.

So I'm watering my Chia pet the other day and I suddenly became mesmerized by the luscious crop growing out of the back of this famous earthenware animal. No doubt it was named after the great Alexander Graham Chia, father of early moming TV advertisements, infomercials and those Sea Monkeys advertised on the back of comic books. Anyway, as I'm staring at this agricultural bounty sitting on the kitchen table, I was transmogrified into a trance-like state that allowed me a fuzzy and not so accurate view of the future. There I was in South Carolina watching none other than Admiral and Guest Speaker Wiz Withers giving the dedication address for the Shannon Faulkner Memorial Woman's Studies Building at the Citadel. His beautiful wife Karen was scowling at him because for some reason during his speech, he had a tough time keeping a straight face.

And then, I got very confused, something was very wrong with this picture of the future. Time slowed w-a-y down (slower than 33rpm) and I said to myself, "H—e—y, W—h—e—n d—i—d K—a—r— e—n a—n—d W—i—z g—e—t m—a—r—r—i— e—d? About that time Vicky came into the kitchen with the mail and answered the puzzling question by slapping an invitation envelope right on top of the green backed cow looking thing, bringing me out of my strange transmogrification and breaking the helpless, yet highly life sustainable beast. The envelope was an invitation, not to the dedication ceremony at the Citadel, but to Wiz and Karen's wedding!!! Suddenly it all made sense. YES, kids it's gonna happen THIS month, on November 11th. So you have very little time to get your good clothes out of the hamper, get 'em cleaned and fly on up to Kinosha, WI. Plus, if you got an invitation and you're flyin' in, Wiz even made up a handy knee board card with freqs, callsigns, push times AND an E&E map of the wedding site and reception site in case you get bagged. Wiz, Karen, Congrats!!! And I hope that if Vicky and I got to go, this article came out afterwards so as to keep the butt chewin' I'm gonna get down to a minimum. Another wedding day tip for all of you who are buying gifts when you get to Kinosha, stop by the Great Midwestern Craft Market on 120th Street and go buy 'em one of my pots.

If they're out or low, tell them they really need to order more stuff from The Arlington Pottery. ALL RIGHT!!! That's just about enough abuse of this high, responsibility soaked office of the Sec o' '79 for this month. One more pathetic stab at comedy and the Give King gets it. Kids, we're a little low this month or would have been had it not been for 21st Company rep Denny Fox more than filling up the column with REAL info, not Sears info (well, Wiz and Karen's info is real not Sears). PLUS, Denny did the best thing by sending a floppy of what he wrote so I can simply cut and paste. Here goes: Tom Arenz has been out of the Navy for a while.

He moved back to the East Coast, got his MBA and works for an investment company in New York City.

He and Barbara are enjoying Hfe in Connecticut with Caroline (6) and Elizabeth (3). They are expecting baby #3 in December '95.

Lou Beyer was a Surface Wartior on the West Coast, until he did a Lateral Transfer to Intelligence where he got a Masters Degree at the Defense Intelligence College. He worked for the Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Tertorist Alert Center, then got out, become a civilian and took over as head of his old office. During the filming of Tom Clancy's book 100

Patriot Games, Lou got to meet Harrison Ford, who came by to learn what it was like to be a tertorism analyst. Lou is now a GS-14 working for Naval Criminal Investigative Service (formerly NIS) in the Navy Yard combating the transfer of technology to foreign governments. Lou was picked up for Commander in the Reserves, and does his ACDUTRA in Suitiand, MD. His latest passion has been his regular volleyball game. Pat finished her degree, but then gave up her job at Grumman Corporation to be a full time mom for Christopher (7) and the twins Matthew and Kimberly (3). Between the kids and their new house in the wilds of Southern Maryland, Lou and Pat have been keeping busy.

Steve Clark, Nancy, and sons Andy (6) and Henry (2) live in Seattle, where Steve has been working at Boeing for the last 11 years, the last 5 with the F-22 program. He finished his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington, and has shifted from swimming to bicycling over the years, where he has finished the 200 mile Seattle-to-Portland race in under 11 hours.

Stu Cummings got out after flying C-2's to Carriers from the East Coast and Italy. He flew 747's out of JFK for Federal Express (with 7 trips to the Gulf in support to Desert Storm). During a trip to Europe he met Patricia where she worked for IBM and Citibank as a finance executive. He is now settled down piloting 727's for FEDEX on domestic routes out of Newark, with occasional week-long intra-European trips between Paris, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Milan. Stu, Patricia, and Steven (3) are living in Connecticut where he is an active Nature Conservancy member and has been biking throughout the state.

Mark Dancer has gotten out of the Navy, but hasn't been heard from in a while.

Dennis Fox became an A-7 pilot and then did a Lateral Transfer to Intelligence. After a tour on RANGER and at CINCPACFLEET, he went to CTF70/Cartier Group 5 as Assistant Staff Intel Officer on MIDWAY. He then went to head the Collection Advisory Center for the Office of Naval Intelligence in Suitiand, MD, and then received his Masters at the Naval War College in Newport. He and Wanda (a former High School History teacher and Department Store buyer from Raleigh, NC) were martied at the Naval Academy Chapel this past April 29"*.

Denny is in DC, where he and Wanda are going through training before he leaves to be the Defense and Naval Attache to the Republic of Albania. They will artive in Albania in November '95.

Estaban Garcia has gotten out of the Marines.

He and Judy are living in New Jersey where he works for a school system.

Jim Gigliotti is an A-6 BN. After his East Coast tours, he was at Naval Strike Warfare Center in Fallon, NV and then got his Masters at the Naval War College in Newport. He is finally back in Virginia Beach, and was looking forward to a normal life as XO of VA-42 when they got word that the squadron was to be disestablished; from there he was off to Phase II of his Joint Education. He is now XO of VA-75 (the last A-6 squadron) and should have a full CO tour before the squadron goes away in April 1997. His wife Lee, and children Lauren (8) and Jimmy (6) are enjoying being back at home.

Speaking of Gigs, the Fall 1994 issue of Wings of Gold had a picture of Kenny ('79, 15"" Company) and little brother Bill (also a USNA grad) who were both at VX-4 in Pt Mugu. All three of the Gigliotti's have been to Test Pilot School in Pax River; Kenny is XO of VX-4 and Bill is a F-14 pilot.

Ted Houck became a West Coast F/A-18 pilot.

His wife Laura followed him to Pacific Missile Test Center at Pt Mugu, were she graduated with a BS in Interior Design and established her own interior design firm. They then went to Japan where Ted joined VFA-192 flying F/A-18's out of Atsugi on board

MIDWAY/INDEPENDENCE. He then went to the Air War College in Montgomery, AL and followed it up with a tour in the Pentagon on the OPNAV staff In May, Ted retired and packed Laura, Corey (2), and Christina (5 raos.) off to Orlando to fly 737's for Air Trans.

Mike Long has been at Silver Bay Computer Systems in Wisconsin since '91, building computers and writing software. Mike, Joy, and Hannah (7) are active in their church and homeschool group.

Bill Marriott went into P-3's, had a tour as an Admiral's Aide in Naples, and had his Department Head tour in Jacksonville. Bill then went off to be the Aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shalikashvili, and has since transferred to the Office of Legislative Affairs.

Mike Mowins, Danni and Megan are living in Magnolia, Massachusetts, northeast of Boston, where Mike is President of Phillips Screw Co. They are enjoying church activities and sailing his boat.

Rob Needham went into the Air Force after graduation. Rob was a Flight Commander in F B - I l l ' s , then went to USAFA as an AOC (Air Officer Commanding—their version of a Company Officer) and flying the UV-18/Otter for the Parachute Team. He then went to Space Mountain in Colorado Springs and last year graduated and received his Masters from the Naval War College. He retumed to Colorado for another tour and works in the J-3 shop at NORAD. Heidi is an RN working in NeoNatal Intensive Care.

Their children are Ryan (13), Eric (9), and Christina (7).

Kent Norgrove has been out of the Marines for quite a while. He and Jan live in New Jersey.

Brent Norman hasn't been heard from in many years.

Cliff Perkins was picked up for Command at Sea on the last board, and should be slated for a ship in about a year He was Combat Systems Officer on GRIDLEY, then went to Monterey for a Masters in Space Systems Operations. He then went to be XO of BELKNAP and got his Masters at the Naval War College. He now works at SPACECOM as Deputy Director for Ballistic Missile Defense (J5B) working coordination for theater ballistic missile defense.

Sometime soon he'll be going to Norfolk for Phase II of his joint ticket. The Perkins family, Danette, Adam (15), and Stephanie (13) should be leaving Colorado for his ship in the summer of '97.

Renny Picchini was in the Surface Line and left the Navy 12 years ago, moving to York PA to work on the design and sales of refrigerated transportation systems. Renny started a new career last year as a partner in a publishing company. Melissa has finished her degree and teaches high school science.

All three littie Picchini's, Alyssa (14), Ryan (12), and Anna (7) are active in sports, with Renny helping by coaching throughout the year.

Chad Sain went into P-3's. He had a tour as department head in VP-I7 at NAS Barbers Point following a tour at CINCPACFLT, then went to work for NAVAIRSYSCOM in Crystal City. Chad then went off to be OIC of the P-3 unit at Diego Garcia while his wife Karen (an Army Lieutenant Colonel who works at Defense Mapping Agency), and sons Nicholas (7) and Brett (1) remained in Washington.

He is now is in Virginia Beach and about to become the XO/CO of VC-6, which handles the Navy's Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV's).

Mike Trcka was lost to us in May 92, when he died of cancer in San Diego. He was buried at Rosecrans Military Cemetery in San Diego. He had been an A-7 Pilot and flew for Delta Airlines.

Dave Walker became a Helo pilot on the West Coast. After tours in San Diego, he went off to be the ASW Officer for Carrier Air Wing Five based in Atsugi, Japan on MIDWAY/INDEPENDENCE, followed by a tour as Department Head with HS-12 on the INDEPENDENCE. His wife Kaye taught at the DOD Elementary School at Atsugi. Dave is now in the Pentagon, Shipmate, November 1995

on the OPNAV staff working on the next generation aircraft trainer (JPATS) for the Navy and the Air Force. Kaye is working at a nursing home helping Alzheimer's patients, and Dave is giving the boys, Stephen (11) and Kyle (9) training in the finer points of football. Dave has put in his papers and will retire in December Last 1 heard of Mac Williams, he was flying A6's on the INDEPENDENCE.

I've also been able to get some information of a few of those we left behind before graduation: Kerry Groomes, Marilyn and Kaitlynn (8) are living in Sayre, PA. He became an Engineer at IBM, working on various RF related systems for Navy aircraft. Steve Mihacevich and his wife Linda live in New Orleans. He owns his own company, a model management company "New York Model Contracts".

Pal Smith became a doctor in Largo, Florida, and is doing well. He and Johnell have two children; Jenna (5) and Jeremy (2). Last I head, John Snyder was in Los Angeles. Tim Snyder lives in Covington, KY. Man, Denny thanks for all that stuff! And for the great shot of all the folks at your wedding. I know I speak for everyone when I say, thanks for writing the article, keeping my nonsense down to a minimum.

Dave Walker Laura, Christina and Ted Houck, Wanda and Denny Fox. Cindy Houck (Ten's sister), Pat and Lou Beyer One other thing, the photo of Kevin Reilly and the Reilly clan up in Alaska was sent in by his brother from that Brand X, second to the last all male class.

Thanks Dennis. Kevin lives in Buffalo and is a Senior VP and member of the Board of Directors of the John W. Danforth Company. Yeah but can he get the kind of yield I can get from a Chia??

Reilly Family—Wayne. Keven '79, Neil USMMA '83, Dennis '79 Well I'm outta room for the Internet stuff and it'll have to wait 'til next month along with hopefully some FHTNR's from the Dillingham Boulvard Players. Oh yeah, FRANK!!!! Dennis Fox never got his two hats he ordered from the Fifteenth. Give me a call so I can tell Denny who to hook up with. ALSO, my internet address is: 75053.2444@compuserve.com. Hopefully the Home Office will put my internet address in my address header at the top of the column. (Nancy, I'll send you a casserole if you'll do it.) That's THE best way for everyone to update yourself or flame me like 1 know Wiz and Karen are gonna do. Info via mail is a VERY close second. Jon Brazee, your email address didn't work. Send me an e-mail message. Gotta go. Happy Thanksgiving!! Ken. '79, Omnes Viri.

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Pres., Tim Kobosko Sec'y LCdr Joseph A. Grace, Jr. USNR 15 Allard Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70119 (504)539-9255; fax (504)539-9257 NOTC@GNOFN.org [ed. note: Joe is very faithful about providing us with information about the Great Class of '80. We let him down in Oct. by not including his column. I apologize for the omission. We will include it in the December issue...Nancy] J a m b a l a y a , Crawfish Pie, and a Filet Gumbo...how true the song starts to ring when you are here in the land of "how to get fat without even trying!" The food in this city is fabulous to say the least. Most of the best gmbs seem to be in the hole in the wall places that you would only venture into if you have someone with you who is constantiy saying "tmst me...have I ever steered you wrong?" Or possibly if your car broke down and it was a foggy, rainy night, full moon, and you are the star of a horror flick. Needless to say, it's an experience...one worth repeating!

Another month come and gone. Kids are back in school, soccer and football season are in full swing.

Parents are busy trying to recall what day they promised to bring drinks for the team and how to juggle all of the requirements. Good thing that we had Plebe Year to show us how to manage time! At least we did have a Plebe Year! Wasn't it the last one they have had at the Academy? Any way... it was a slim mailbag again. Good thing that Homecoming is next month and I'll have some face to face gouge for all to hear. The bad thing about that is that hopefully many of you will also have heard the news first hand.

We are expecting a great crowd for the festivities.

Kobo and his crew have promised a great spread.

I'll report on that next time!

A great letter came in from Dr. Bogard, so I thought that I'd include it in full: Dear Joe, I hope this letter finds all Classmates in excellent health and in good spirits. I never thought I'd write a letter to Shipmate—often delegating that task to my better half, but I thought I should send in a few words and let you all know that I'm still out here taking names and meting out some serious forearm shivers!

I've ran into Classmates literally all over the globe during my career to date, sometimes when running to catch a plane in Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, etc. Not to mention those that I've stumbled across in faraway places such as the "Hollywood Bar" in Pusan, Korea and "Mad Dogs" in Hong Kong. The Class of '80 certainly has Made an impact and our influence has been found in politics, business, science and the media. You're welcome Montel) There was no doubt in my military mind that our Class was indeed very special-for many reasons.

Patti, Alexander and I have been here in the Puget Sound (Bremerton) for about ten months now. I'm currently the last XO on the bliss ROANOKE (AOR7) as she will be decommissioned the 6th of October it has been a very rewarding tour for us out here, we have a nice house on base or as nice as a 100 year old house can be with 100 year old plumbing! Patti really hasn't got used to the weather out here If you don't like it-wait 5 minutes!) but she has grown fond of Seattle and the gorgeous scenery.

After decommissioning, I'll be transferring to the Pentagon where I'll be working at OPNAV N8B on the Combat Logistics Force (ELF) side. I still don t know what the hell I'll be doing but no doubt sharing an office with the deep sink and swabs. Don t ask me what ring my office will be in because I haven't got the faintest idea! I think I'll take the visitor's tour and maybe they'll go by the passageway to N86. That reminds me of I-DAY: Don't for-

get that room number!

For all Classmates in the MD-DC-VA area, our new address will be; 10166 Marshall Pond Road.

Burke. VA 22015, 703-978-4172. If you re in the area please come visit, you can always pull up a piece of the carpet!! Bring a "six" and your sticks, cause my handicap is about 12-15!! (no sandbaggin') We re looking forward to being back East and hope to see many of you during our tour at least I'll be able to get in some NAVY football and basketball games. I wonder if McGarvey's still has my seat? That's all for now. Take care, remember to chill and for all the members of the 33rd Herd, drop me a line! My office number in the Pentagon will be 703-697-2317/5281. Much love and peace to all.

Charlie Meyers (Bogard).

I received another note from Mike Wallace from 30th company. He is working with Newport News Shipbuilding as an Electrical Engineer His work centers on a 1/4 scale model of the SEAWOLF Submarine, an unmanned sub called the LSV (Large Scale Vehicle) (aren't we clever in our naming of things?).

It is based in Bayview, ID which is in the northern tip of Idaho. The Class of '80 has a stronghold on this research vessel because the chief engineer is Drew Meyer. Drew is there together with his wife Robin and their three children. The CO of the base is none other than Rick Shultz. Mike left active duty in '89, but stayed with the Reserve. He is curtentiy with CINCLANTFLT Logistics as a Commander He recently received his PE license and has applied to the EDO program. He is martied to Robin, and they have a 5 year old girl, Rachel. Robin is a certified Norfolk Master Gardener and is enrolled in college in pursuit of potential career in Biology.

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of having lunch with Kathy Slevin Rondeau, who is stationed here in New Orleans. She is the XO of the fast Sea Lift command. I know that I am getting the name wrong, but it covers the subject. She and her husband and two children are loving New Orleans and looking for the next position which will keep them here. Funny thing that sea lift stuff They are Navy ships, manned by civilians...sort of strange.

Alvaro "Al" Ventura, from 2nd Company, wrote in to see if he could get some support for an endeavor in Costa Rica. He also hadn't written in since graduation. He has two daughters and has been martied for about ten years. He is the Tech Ops manager for Motorola in Costa Rica. His letter is as follows: Can you give us a hand?

The Costa Rica Chapter is promoting a weekend for USNA/USMA alumni to visit Costa Rica and watch the Army-Navy Game with us via satellite.

It will be great fun. Ask our Classmates to look for program and information in the "Chapter News" section. Or write, call, fax, E-Mail, or phone toll free to get the gouge. Even if you cannot be with us this year, let us know what you think.

Travel and accommodation packages are available from major US cities. Costa Rica is a great place to visit and weather is guaranteed to be better than Philly! Our Chapter members will be delighted to see you. We have invited alumni residing in Latin America. Costa Rica's president (USMA '79) will lead the Woo Poos in cheers. 1 look forward to seeing some of 2nd company down here!—e-mail:@ctvsa@sol.racsa.co.cr; Toll free: 800-331-1810, Home: 506-282-7545, fax 506-2350670.

I did receive a call from Ernie Scheyder, he plans to be at the reunion. Rick Edmonson is also planning on being there if he can swing the work schedule. Bill Nash is another probable reunion man!

I hate to make this such a short column, but that's all the news folks! Hopefully I'll get a few new notes to put in after the Homecoming bash. Take a few minutes to drop me a line either by fax, or by mail.

Put it on a disk if you really want to be helpful! Or send it by e-mail. As always, — BEAT ARMY — Joe.

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Pres., Robert D. Ravener, Jr. Sec'y, LCdr. Peter Sciabarra USN 6200 Roudsby Lane, Alexandria, VA 22310 Greetings '81! This promises to be a quick one because I received exactly zero pieces of cortespondence this month. In fact, if not for a chance visit from Rick Doran I would have nothing to report this month. Rick stopped in to see me at the Annex and delivered this photo:

Rick Doran with his daughter, Laura, and Chariie Rourke with Timothy and Alanna Rick is curtentiy working in J-3 on the Joint Staff, and will be rolling to his command tour in about a year. Sue and Charlie live in Duxbury, Mass., where Charlie is an agent for a local insurance firm after leaving the Marine Corps a few years back. Rick reports bumping into Rich Perry in the Pentagon.

Rich was also in 22nd Company and works for OPNAV. Dan Duquette is in Norfolk at COMPATWINSLANT. Also in town is Ric Harned, who is at Navair. Thanks for the info Rick, and preventing a news shutout this month.

As promised several months back I have an unofficial list of all our Classmates who screened for Aviation Command on the most recent command screen board. As I compiled this list, please do not get irate if I missed a name or two, just give me a call and you'll get full credit in the next issue.

Our Aviation Command screeners this year were: Carlos Ayuso, Joan Zitterkopf, Bill Cone, Corky Vazquez, Ron Sandoval, Pat Smith, Neil Hogg, Mark Adamschick, Mike Hamele, Ted Carter, Stu Bailey, Randy Parrish, Marty Paulaitis, Greg Nosal, Randy Cohn, Mark Cantrell, Randy Lovdahl, Dave Woods, Jim Hamill, Syd Abernethy, Peggy Klein, Henry Holt, Jim Heffeman, Dave Jackson, Jim Murtay, and your Class secretary. Congrats to all! And PLEASE, if I missed someone, let me know ASAP, and accept my apologies.

Randy Cohn informed me that our next astronaut, Brent Jett is set to launch in January as a pilot on the Space Shuttle. Brent is slated for shuttle mission STS-72 launching on 11 January 1996. The mission calls for a rendezvous with the Japanese Space Flyer Unit (SFU), and use of the mechanical arm to retrieve the satellite for return to earth. Congratulations Brent! More info to follow in coming months.

Well gang, that's about it for this month. Hope you had a great Halloween, and let's please Beat Army!!

Til next month '81 is Great, and start writing, calling and faxing....SKI

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Pres., LCdr. Thomas P. Garrison IH USN Sec'y, LCdr Gus Anderson USN 5446 Broadmoor St., Alexandria, VA 22310 Welcome back to another short issue. We had a get-together of the local (DC) Classmates last month at the POAC. Here's some notes on others that are in the area. Shawn Mank is at DISA, Stacy Van Houten is at HQ Marine, Ed Delaney was at N86 but has since moved on to XO School in Newport, Chris Paul is on the Hill as an aide to Senator McCain, Pat Thurman is at N43, Mike Ulrich and Matt Klunder are with JCS, Bill Flynn is with N85, Dan Lynch is with N80, Mike Shoemaker is with VCNO, Kevin Baugh is with SOLIC, Jim Settle and Darrel Morben are at BUPERS and Scott Leftwich is with OPA(TAD). We intend to meet about once a month for lunch. If you are interested in joining us, call Gus at 703 693-7828.

Steve Murillo martied Patricia back in June out in San Francisco. Present were Erin and Pete Strait with their child, Peyton and Steve's old roomie, Dave Palmer. Dave lives in Northridge (where there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on). The bachelor party was a four nighter in Vegas with Doug Miller, Chuck Gepford, and Dave. Steve got out of the Corps in '87 and opened his own mortgage company three years ago in Manhattan Beach and all is well.

Steve ran into Steve Taracevicz a while back. He is Long beach with his wife Cheryl and their two sons and works for a chemical firm. Andy Wilson is in San Diego and loves civilian life. Steve goes on to say that he kind'a lost touch. Steve wants everyone to know his phone 310-545-8300. Steve is also wondering what happened to John McClain and would like to pass along a belated (but not diminished) "atta boy" to Mark Converse on his winging some eight years ago.

John Kelly passed along a pix of his new baby who has more hair than John. Brendon Burns Kelly was born last May and is now a playmate for his older brother Patrick. John and Anne are moving to Northem Virginia where John has orders to MAGTF at Quantico.

Well I'm sorry to say that this is about it for this month. Keep 'em coming.

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Pres., Steven G. Young c/o Legg Mason 600 Washington Ave., Towson, MD 21204 800- 368-2558 Sec'y LCdr Toni Kasprzak, USN 4205 Dandridge Tertace, Alexandria, VA 22309 h(703)799-0832; w(703)602-4756xl67; DSN 3224756x16; Internet address: kasprzak_toni_lcdr @hq.navsea.navy.mil; CompuServe account number 73121,2252 Dear Classmates: As you can see I am in need of pictures. I don't want to revert to freelancing stick figures! Help!

From the Mailbox: My first letter comes from the land of Bill Gates', the beautiful Pacific Northwest, via Bob Richardson. Bob was concerned with avoiding the notoriety sometimes associated with being labeled a "Lost Classmate of the Month." However, Bob argues that he is not lost because he was just sighted at lunch 29 August 1995 by fellow 18th Company Classmate Dave Brumley. Bob recently graduated from Seattle University Law School at night in his ample spare time while testing submarine sonar systems as an electronics engineer for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center by day. Now he is an associate in patent law with a firm in Seattle where he prepares and prosecutes patents, mainly for computer memories and other semiconductor devices. So far he has taken the patent bar exam, and now is preparing for the Washington state bar exam. Being the salty dog that he is. Bob still gets an hour of sea time a day via his ferry commute to and from Seattle. Bob and wife Joann are living in Silverdale, Washington, where Joann teaches piano and plays the organ for a couple of churches. They just added a seven foot Steinway piano to their living room which competes for space with a pipe organ. They installed the organ themselves in all of their spare time during Bob's first year of law school. Bob and Joann also added another beautiful child to their family in all of their time during Bob's second year of law school. Maria is now two years old, and David is five and one half (Bob now teaches time management on his own infomercial. Get a free set of Ginsu knives with your tapes!)

My second letter comes from Rocky Goins who wrote to announce the artival of Kassandra bom on the 4th of July 1995. Rocky claims that she is 8'4" and that she is destined to excel. Rocky is willing to start a 29th Company newletter again. All you have to do is send him your address (and a baby gift) and what you have been up to and the 29th Company will be on their way.

Jonathan Harber wrote that he is employed at Norand Corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Norand makes turn-key wireless information data passing systems. Jon is there in the telecommunications and

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WAN areas for Norand world-wide operations after checking out of the Marine Corps. Jon reports that Jim Hinen and Marr McKelvey are doing well. Jim is working at the Harrier Group out at MCAS Yuma and Matt is flying 737's for Southwest Airlines. The McKelvey's live in Yuma and probably have had their second child by now. Connor , the oldest, is about three. Matt flies with the Yuma reserve squadron and is based out of Phoenix with Southwest. The Hinens have three girls and are doing well.

When Jon was living in Arizona, he had several occasions to talk to Rudy Judy Hacker. Rude is working for Intel and working on his MS in Computer Science. Jon's wife Pamela is still in the Army and is stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. They hope to rejoin next year in June when Pamela leaves the Army. Jon is interested in being involved in any regional stuff going on in Iowa, Minnesota, or Wisconsin. Jon is also willing to U-y to start something if there is interest. Jon may be reached at 2515 Oxford Lane NW, Apt #5, Cedar Rapids, lA 52405. Phone 319-390-4758 or work 319- 369-3170. Email is Internet harberj@norand.com The column saving letter this month comes from Gerral David! Gertal sent me the last three issues of the 24th Company newsletter Take it Away Gertal!

Mark Heaphy got out of the Marine Corps flying UH-IN Hueys after three WESTPAC deployments aboard various LHAs. He says that he enjoyed flying in the USMC but after 2000-1- flight hours knew it was time to move on. "So about the time I received my Air Medal in the mail — I did the most logical thing, I resigned my commission, sold most of my belongings, packed up my V.W. van, moved to Breckenridge, CO and became a ski bum! Along the way, I managed to go bungee jumping with Dave Petitt and to visit with Phil Desjardins and Conrad Brown and Nellie — what GREAT FRIENDS! After two years of working in ski shops and "repairing" his USNA GPA through college courses he was accepted into the Ph.D. (Math) program at the University of Montana." The Heaph dog has gotten engaged to "a great gal" named Margaret Smith. They should already have been martied this past summer at Glacier National Park (Pictures Please!) He's working as a teaching assistant while he's taking his Master's courses with an ultimate dream of teaching at a small college or high school and to live in a modest back-country cabin with Margaret. Mark and Margaret have gotten into mnning ultramarathons which are 50-100 mile races. Dave Petitt ran (part of) the Vermont 100 with Mark last year Mark's time in that race was 16 hours and 03 minutes which placed him 11th fastest in North America. Mark points out that these races take "total determination and commitment (and all the other 'comy' things...) that USNA helped instill in us... the Academy experience helped prepare me in so many intangible ways."

Gertal visited Norm Smith in Dallas, Texas where Norm works for Texas Instmments. Gertal had a great time visiting the Smith's which include wife and former high school sweetheart Mary, and daughters Megan (8) and Maddie (4). After getting out of the Surface Nuke Navy, Norm's been working for TI making cooling systems for Infrared gear He is still driving his Midshipman Mobile (a VW Bug) and it still had the Mid sticker on it!! Mary works at Natural Wonders and is a cheerleading coach.

John Pendola and Terti are living in London where John is on an admiral's staff. John has a cushy job working in business suits and is forced to live in the outskirts of London. Sons Nicholas and Aaron settled well into the British schools and apparently their Charleston-created southern accents are a hit with the girls.

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and Koh have a dog named Geordi (after Geordi LaForge) and are buying a house. His new address is: 14819 Pomerol Lane, Pineville, NC 28134.

Other Classmates that Gertal has updates on include: Phil Springer is martied and living in Dallas after working for Entex in Houston for seven years...Rich 'Pinky' Farrell is an instructor at USNA. He is a former A-6 B/N that survived the transition cuts and is in the pipeline to Department Head tours in S-3s...Rebekah Barrish is a former Aviation Intelligence Officer now employed by the CIA in the DC area...Tim Summers is on his way to an S-3 Department Head tour in Jacksonville.. .Jack Reape is flying C-130s as a TAR in New Orleans. This year was his fifth Mardi Gras...Gary Swain and wife Laurie are heading to Bmnswick, ME for Gary's Department Head tour in VP-8...Mike Spradlin was a Shooter on the LINCOLN but should have rotated by now (how about an update Mike?)...Gary Watson is Engineer on ASHEVILLE and is also up for orders.. .Doug Cassidy is on the CVW-11 staff embarked on LINCOLN...Lantz Ellis is the Weapons Officer on PUFFER in San Diego...Paul Gawryzewski is the COMCARGRU THREE Communications Officer embarked on LINCOLN.. .Mike Dobbs is the Navigator on DRUM in San Diego...Rich Dohoda is an Ophthalmologist at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego... Allan Galsgaard is the Navigator on OHIO in Bangor, WA and is due to transfer soon...Mike Potochniak was the Weapons Officer on PASADENA and has transferred to the Submarine Squadron Eleven Staff. Carl Schwenker is stationed at VQ-6 in Jacksonville.

From Toni's World Wide Web: I got a nice voicemail message from Russ Krause.

Russ works on the Joint Staff's action division as a civilian and moonlights as a reservist on the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations staff as a lieutenant commander Russ said that he called to welcome me to the right coast and it was great to hear from him. He has been happily married to Mary for the past 11 years and they are the proud parents of Theresa (10) and Joe (8). Russ says that he hasn't mn into anyone at the Pentagon, so if you are there you should look him up!

And Now a Word from Our President: Thanks primarily to the efforts of Andy Laing, the Class has been able to stake out a plot of valuable Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium tailgating turf for home football games! The location is along the West Side of the stadium Perimeter Road very near the southwest corner Look for the Class Flag affixed to our BRAND NEW! 20X20 foot tent (Blue and Gold of course!). We had a great time at the Navy-Wake Forest game. All who came, saw, and enjoyed. Thanks for the support, we'll be making it a regular event. If you're in town for a home Navy football game, you' II have a place to meet your Classmates and refreshments! Until later!—Steve Young Lost Classmate of the Month: This month's candidate originated from a USNA Class of '46 graduate Captain CV. (Daisy) Wilhoit, who is trying to locate Christopher Bennett Nelson.

Chris attended La Jolla's The Bishop's School prior to attending USNA. Anyone with information may either notify me or Daisy Wilhoit at P.O. Box 156, Townsend, TN, 37882-0156.

With warmest regards, Toni

Private support provides funding for 66 extra-curricular activities for today's midshipmen.

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Pres., Lt. Chuck Sharkey USNR 545 E. Braddock Rd #307, Alexandria VA 22314 Sec'y Lt. Pat Mooney USN 1 Westover Dr, Gautier, Miss. 39553 Cort. Sec'y, LCdr Nancy Heckman USN PSC 813 BOX 134 FPO-AE 09620 nheckma@cpo-link.eucom.mil I tmst all who made the reunion had a great time.

We owe a special thanks to all of those who worked so hard to make it the awesome time it was. And for those of you who missed it, we thought of you and hope to see you at the next one.

It was a short letter month so on to it. This one was from Jeff Hein. It is the first that I have received via my e mail address. Jeff says that after submarine training he was assigned to BUFFALO out of Pearl Harbor While there in Hawaii he and Heather, whom he had known for a long time from St Louis, were martied. During the tour he also made two WestPac deployments. After Hawaii they transferted to Naples where Jeff worked for COMSUBAGRU Eight. From then until March of 93 he was able to participate in submarine exercises around the Med and ride several foreign submarines. Jeff and Heather were also able to travel extensively. In Aug. of that year Jeff separated from the Navy and joined HUSCO International as a quality engineer HUSCO manufactures hydraulic valves for large off highway applications.

Currently they are living outside of Milwaukee, WI where Jeff is also going to night school to get his MBA. Eventually he and Heather hope to be assigned overseas.

I hope every one has a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know I will try. A couple of us here in Naples are planning on spending Turkey Day in Turkey. An in case you missed it last time my e mail address is nheckma@cpo-link.eucom.mil. Nancy

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Pres., LT Paul S. Gibson, USN Sec'y LT Guy Maiden, USN VF-101, NAS Oceana, Virgina Beach, VA 23460 Jeff Hornberger 348 E. Arabian Drive Gilbert, AZ 85296 email: "p26825@email.mot.com phone: 602441-1371 How's it going, '86?

When 1 last left you, the burning question that remained unanswered was "Who is this guy?", and as promised, I will now reveal my identity. But first, congratulations to all of you who were able to figure it out. Kinda surprising, isn't it? Yes, it is none other than Jeff Hornberger, the man who never fails to amaze! If you still don't have a clue, just ask a Classmate, I'm sure they know me, or at least of me, good, bad or indifferent, [ed. note: Welcome aboard, Jeff.

We look forward to a long relationship. Guy, thanks for all your efforts to keep '86 in the magazine. Good luck and Fair Winds and Following Seas!...Nancy] Well, we are still transitioning, ergo there is no pertinent Class news. However, I do have some Academy insider gouge that I thought I would pass along.

First, were you all aware that they no longer have a Service Selection for the Firsties? Neither was I. At any rate, now they have Service Assignment, whereby a panel interviews Midshipmen and winnows down the list of accessions until everyone is assigned a Service, based on the needs of the Navy, Sounds pretty interesting. Anyway, I don't have any details about the process and criteria, but hopeftiUy

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On the lighter side of goings-on, USNA has also been properly indoctrinated by the PC (Politically Correct) hoard. It seems that Bill the Goat (Bill XXVIII) was originally named "Buckwheat" by the farmer who raised him (because he was the light tan color of the crop, genus Fagopymm, grown by said farmer,). By all accounts, the name was not intended with derision. However, upon becoming a member of the Brigade, he has now formally had his name changed to "Bill XXVLII". When asked for comment.

Bill XXVIII reportedly shook his head, ate some grass and "baaa-ed".

The Naval Academy Commemorative Stamp is out, the second of its kind. The stamp features an artist's rendition of midshipmen sailing the Navy 44foot sloop Swift on its way to winning the Annapolis to Newport race in 1992. The previous stamp which honored the Naval Academy was issued in 1937, featuring portraits of famous Naval officers. The new stamp is in honor of the Naval Academy's 150th anniversary, capturing the spirit of our Academy tradition: teamwork, navigation and seamanship.

On the sports side, after a tertific win at SMU, Navy lost a close one to Rutgers, and then fell short against Wake Forest. Still, there is alot of excitement surtounding the team. Get out there and support the effort!!

The Women's Soccer team is looking GREAT!!

At this writing, they are 5-1-0 and look like they will break into the NCAA top 20 rankings. They have a young team, which bodes well for the next couple of years, but they need support. Let's get them into the NCAA post-season tourney with a big push!!

That about wraps it up. I had a couple of other items, but they didn't seem worth mentioning, even as filler material. I believe you all have my name, address and email, but you can get a hold of me by phone at 602-441-1371.

In the mean time, take care of yourselves and yours. As a parting shot, remember, "Two wrongs don't make a right; but three rights make a left."

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From P-cola, Margie Trott dropped an update for the Class. She left active in January and will finish graduate school in December She is studying in the special education field, specializing in the learning disability area. After earning her wings in March of 1989, she had tours with HC-4 at NAS Sigonella and with HT-18 as an instmctor and flight leader Those who were in 34th Company with Margie can reach her at 3740 Hidden Oak Drive, Pensacola, FL 32504 or 904-484-3895.

She added that she had tracked down Lee Johnannsen, a non-graduating Classmate. He is a third-year resident doing trauma work in Jacksonville. Lee asked that Tom Graves and Greg Harris get in touch with him at 150 12th Street, Atiantic Beach, FL 32233 or 904-247-6898. Other news Margie passed along included Brian and Shelley (Laurilla) O'Malley had moved to their family to east coast; Paige and Paul Curran were last known to be in Southern Califomia with son Jake; David Bisaillon and his family were last known to be in Virginia Beach; Carlos Zengotita and Doug Keller were at HT-18; Tom Browne and Rob Horel were at HT-8; Lucinda and Rob have two daughters, Sloane and Delaney; and lastly, before detaching from VT-3, Ed Schofield was named Instmctor of the Year. Thanks for the update!

For those interested. Navy plays Notre Dame in Dublin, Ireland next fall on November 2nd. You can get some preliminary travel info from the "official" USNA Alumni Association tour agency — ConlinDodds Athletic Tours — at 800-553-5527.

Rule #7 — "You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours."

Colin Powell, My American Journey, page 613.

TTFN. TJW.

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Washington, DC Wow, did autumn arrive in Washington this past weekend or what? I had to do some rapid changing of outdoor attire for the Navy-Wake Forest football game. Fortunately, only the temperature was dropping, not any precipitation. I did get around to having sturdy stanchions made for our large Class banner, at long last, and it stands out very well in the stadium parking lot. So look for it near the Quonset Hut if you're at any Navy football games.

The mailbag wasn't quite as full as last month, so we'll keep it short and simple. From the 26th Company, Ruben Soto is a proud dad once again. Gabriel Alexander Soto was born back in August. Kathy and Mike Browne celebrated the birth of Matthew Ryan in late June. Ty Keith is working for NDC Group in Rosslyn, VA doing telecommunications work for MCI. John Raymond writes from Graceland that he and wife Melissa happily welcomed their first child, Joshua James, on August 16 of this year Joshua is named after John's father, who passed away last year The Raymond's are residing in Memphis.

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Pres., 1st Lt. Robert B. Sofge USMC Sec'y, Joe Herlihy 910 Constitution Dr, #509 Durham NC 27705 E-mail: jgh 1 @ mail.duke.edu 919-382-8338 Happy Thanksgiving! Hope this column finds everyone, as always, doing well where ever you are in the world! We have had a fantastic response this month with letters and lots of pictures from many places around the world and country. Thank you for

the input and we'll get right down to business with the e-mail side of the house before getting to the letters and photos. We haven't collected data yet from Homecoming, but that will probably be spread out over the next few columns.

First, a couple of new e-mail addresses and an address update for Jonathan Salkoff: 1214 Akers Ridge Drive, Atlanta, GA 30339; 770-988-9030 (h), 404-859-5977(w);home e-mail: salkoff@msn.com; and work e-mail: Jonathan.l.salkoff@sprint. sprint.com. Two new e-mail addresses from Glenn Hopson: Ed Gernat at: (EdGerard@aol.com); Herb Carmen (Ball) at (HECarmen@aol.com) First, from Bob Ferrante at e-mail address 100733.675@compuserve.com: Hello from Sigonella! We've finally made it to the 20th century (a little bit, at least,) and are online. I'm enjoying my time overseas with my wife Meg and the Black Stallions of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Four (HC-4). Other Classmates here are Sal Rafanello, Lynne Chapman and my old academy roommate Tom Dent. I recently got to fly an MH-53E from Souda Bay, Crete to Haifa, Israel with Tom. Not something we ever dreamed of when we were Youngsters! Some other Classmates that I keep up with: Bert Hays is out of the Navy and was in the MBA program at the Univ. of Georgia when I last talked to him. Dave Springer is in Austin, Texas working as an engineer for Motorola, with his wife Cathy and their new addition to the family, Austin, who was named before they were ironically moved. Dave passed on to me that Scott Rosa is also out of the Navy now and working on his PHD at MIT. I've got to go now. If anyone's in Sig, give me a call or e-mail me at 100733.675@compuserve.com, Any Classmates who are out there on ships receiving cargo and mail deliveries from HC-4, feel free to write me or the other 90rs if you need anything. HC-4 Unit 50011 Box 3300, FPO, AE 09627-3300. Bob Thanks for writing Bob. Next, from Richard Hager (rshager@nps.navy.mil): Just a quick note to let you know I have seen a few of our company mates out here in Monterey.

Ed Devinney is graduating in Dec and will go to DH school, then to be Weps on the CAPE ST. GEORGE out of Pearl. He's very happy!

Debbie (Sparks) is here and is due in the next few weeks. If you don't remember, she got married to Bob Cox. He's here too. Mike Burns is also here and is doing well, but is having trouble with his hip. Rob Cameron is also here and has been here about a year Other 21st Co. I've seen include Chad Acey, Tom Popp, and Rob Dumont. I have also learned that LCDR Ransom (remember our old company officer) just finished as CHENG of SAN JACINTO and is now at Newport in the Gas Turbine School. About two months ago, I also talked to Danny Pepper. He's doing well and is enjoying flying. I am in the C4I curriculum and will be here until June 97. Then it's off to Newport for DH school. Sarah is expecting again in late Nov. We feel it is another boy. You can't believe how many of our Classmates are here. I talked to Joe Luchtenberg in early May. He and Kim (Fowler) were expecting and she should have delivered by now. He's in Norfolk on his shore tour I've heard from a few others and also have seen quite a few, but will not mention them all. Rich Next from Maria K. Galbraith at e-mail address 75107.1061 ©CompuServe.com: Joe, as you printed in the most recent Shipmate I received, I have recently been married to Roger Galbraith (class of 90-1) in Quantico, Virginia. It was a wonderful day and we were able to share it with many friends. My bridesmaids included: Tracey (Fuchs) Yeager —my maid of honor, Cathy Moody, Stephanie Myers, Kelly VanDyke, and Susie Stewart (90 + 2). Our wedding was in April, and in June, Tracey was married to Steve Yeager in Hampton, Virginia. A number of Classmates came as well, and I am not sure I can remember who all was there! I was Tracey's matron of honor on her day. / have some pictures to follow up this e-mail message, one of which was all of our '90 Classmates ttiat were there. They Shipmate, November 1995

included: Mike Giles, Ken Hobman, Sparky Simon, Terry Clark, Ken Caves, Bill White, Joe and Kim (Fowler) Luchtenberg, Sara Burke, Kelly VanDyke, Cindy (Shultz) Miller, Amy Joe (Oliver) (forgothermarriedname!), Kelly (Durban) White and I'm missing two more that I can't remember (sorry guys!) I have to apologize to Kelly White whose idea it was to get the '99 picture, but couldn't stay around for it by the time I got my act together to get it taken!

I am still stationed in "bloody" England, and can't wait to get out of here. Pitching and heaving in gale force winds in a tiny boat isn't my idea of a good time. No wonder they are allowed to drink on their ships! Roger still lives in San Diego and we plan to move to Norfolk together next spring or summer. In the mean time, I have a 6 month deployment to the Gulf on my ship from here. I'll be in the Med and the Gulf from Nov. to Apr so if any of you see a little ship called the HMS BULLDOG in any ports, come over and see me! I'm sure we'll have plenty of beer onboard. Just bring me a pizza!

Okay, updates on some of the above and others I have seen. (One good thing about this job is the vacation time, 20 weeks in the past 15 months! I now own stock in United Airlines!) Kelly VanDyke is out of the Navy and loving her new job in San Jose. Tracey Yeager is on deployment on USNS SAN DIEGO, as well as her husband Steve Yeager and Mike Giles who are deployed on AMERICA. Ken and Wendy Caves live near LL Bean and want visitors in Maine! (We'll be there next fall Ken!), Sara Burke had a beautiful baby boy, Joe, and is at Monterey getting her Master's. Cathy Moody just got engaged to Dave the Doc (a Navy flight surgeon) in San Diego, Stephanie Myers is still working on admiral and is going back to sea on an amphib out of San Diego. Terry Clarke is flying jets in San Diego and raising a house full of Dalmatians with his wife Mandy. Ken H o b m a n is flying E-2's out of San Diego and continues to have the best house parties in town. Bill White is dating my husband's sister and we are waiting for the ring any day now Bill (It's been almost 6 years!) Cindy Miller is in Texas with her husband working on her Master's. Kim and Joe Luchtenberg are in Norfolk and are about to have their first child. Amy Joe Oliver is married and out of the Navy living in Virginia. Jeff Gill and Glenn Young are both out of the Navy and have left San Diego for new jobs.

Mai Sandie is married to a naval officer and is flying out of San Diego. Mike Huck is here in Plymouth, England with me on exchange as well. He is about to deploy to the Adriatic on HMS BRAZEN for 8 months.

That's about all I can recall seeing in the past year Hope this e-mail makes it to you! They need to get a spell checker on CompuServe! Cheers!

Maria (Filonczuk) Galbraith

Tracey (Fuchs) & Steve Yeager Next from Duncan O w e n ( d s o w e n @ m a i l . w m . e d u ) Joe, What's happening! Hope all is well in Durham! Is it true that the best thing about Duke is that Durham is only 10 miles from Chapel Hill?

Joe, my entire family went to Carolina—so you can see I have a bit of a bias. Anyway, I hope things are "A" okay in B .school. Guess what, I am at William & Mary's Business School. Lot of work, lot of great people and yes, a lot of fun. Please tell anyone if they are looking at B schools to give W&M a good look (in addition to Duke I am sure). For all the individuals who might be Virginia residents, the

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state tuition is fantastic. So what have I been doing for the last five years. Last time I actually saw you was up in Newport for SWOSDOC. Where in the world has the time gone? I spent three great years on O'BANNON (DD-987) out of Charieston, SC with Lewis Glenn and Mac Dungan. Lew is now here in Williamsburg (also CIVLANT) in William and Mary's Law school. Lew married a fantastic giri, Kim Waltz (USNA Class of 92) in February 1994.

Lew has seen what deployments are like for spouses as Kim serves aboard SANTA BARBARA. She transfers soon and will report aboard BRISCOE in November Mac serves in Officer Recruiting in Columbia, SC and continues to enjoy South Carolina.

I recently married Tia Tilman of Charlottesville, VA on April 9, 1994. Tia teaches kindergarten in Richmond. With her long commute to work from Williamsburg, she tells me daily that her big payoff is coming in less than 2 years. I, of course, respond to that with as long as I have a great job! Tia has definitely been a true trooper—our honeymoon lasted a total of 60 hours. The last night of which was spent in lovely Camp Lejeune. After O ' B A N N O N , I was the Assistant OPS of COMPHIBRON 2 and just had to be there for Fleetex/Socex. At COMPHIBRON 2,1 spent a year and a half with Rich Radice designing amphib landings and ops. Rich left CPR 2 in May for NPGS and the MSEE curriculum. Joe, as you well know I could continue on for absolute ever Please give everyone my best and tell all to come see us in Williamsburg. If you have any great ideas for intemships, jobs— let me know. I will do the same. I also hope that we can get together for a cool one in NC some time. I am really going to try and get down there this year My sister is a senior at Chapel Hill and my brother is a Banker with Nations in Durham/ Chapel Hill. By the way, my sister is off limits to you and Tazza. Anyway, I better get back to Statistics and Debits/Credits and Marketing and this and that. See you at Homecoming! All the best, Duncan Owen.

N e x t from R o n Surfield: Kelly and I are well, as is my rambunctious daughter, Allison, coming up on 2.1 am living just outside Kansas City, Missouri. If anyone else has a CivLant billet near here, please let me know. My e-mail address is RSurfield@AOL.COM. Our mailing address is 4620 D Whispering Winds Dr., Lee's Summit, MO 64064. Ph: 816-795-1713.1 do computer network sales and installations, and finally have some time to enjoy family life. If anyone is on the fence, it's definitely the right move; there's also the reserve, which I just picked up a billet for I spoke to Tim Bush yesterday, and picked up some news about the guys I left behind on ENTERPRISE. He is facing the prospect of being one of the senior Nuke watchstanders onboard, and isn't thrilled. I know he'll be fine, having lived through several episodes of his now-famous Bush-Lamoy casualty, which they are currently studying up at Naval Reactors. His wife, Laura, is due in October with their second child. Tim filled me in on Charlie Simpson, leaving the Navy in December; Perry Pascual, taking his Eng Exam any day now, and permanently indentured to the Nav; Jeff Hickox, going to PG Monterey, and even more under the man's spell; and Mike Bice, who is still stuck on the Big E for forever I think. I remember something about Mike being voted the blue-shirts' favorite LT — maybe that's why they want him to stay. Brad Staley and his wife Terry are the proud parents of a new baby girl, although my sources couldn't remember her name. They are moving to Texas to work for Air Products. Gene Robertson is close to his rotation from the Big E, but is actually considering leaving to become a professional wrestler and bass fisherman. Todd Carlson, working at Air Products in Pennsylvania, is also going to be a new Dad. Let's see...who does that leave?

Oh yeah, Jon Salkoff! He is a member of the Sprint Corporation's semi-pro golf tour being well paid to fly to various cities and shoot a few rounds. He's hoping his prize money will pay off his debt for a certain several-hundred-thousand-dollar gear sitting up in some SWOS display with his name on it, with the caption "See what happens if you don't use Slick-50?" And last I heard, Dave Foglesong had

volunteered for a top-secret, very hush-hush mission with the USAF that prevents him from contacting anyone. Well, that's all I've got. We're looking forward to the Class reunion and seeing a lot of old friends. Till then, take care. Ron T h a n k s for e v e r y o n e writing in via e-mail. I understand from different sources that w e are trying to put together an e-mail directory for o u r Class w h i c h I will put in Shipmate w h e n I r e c e i v e it. It is und o u b t e d l y a fantastic w a y to stay in touch. Now, on to the letters and p h o t o s I r e c e i v e d o v e r the past m o n t h or so. I think I o w e an apology to several folks for failing to get their letters/photos in. I d r o p p e d the ball on the last c o l u m n , but at least w e ' r e counting the m i s t a k e in m o n t h s and not y e a r s ! H e r e we go. First a letter from Kelly ( D u n c a n ) W h i t e : I was thrilled to be able to attend the weddings of a few Classmates recently and wanted to send you some news and photos. Tracey Fuchs and Steve Yeager married in June at Fort McHenry in Norfolk. It was a beautiful wedding and ceremony attended by a plethora of Classmates! M a r i a (Filonczuk Galbraith was the matron of Honor and Kelly Vandyke and Sara Burke were bridesmaids. I saw Sparky Simon, Bill White, Mike Giles, Amy J o (Oliver) Aiken (and cute daughter!), C i n d y (Schultz) Miller, J o e and Kim (Fowler) Luchtenberg who's expecting, and many others who I'm sure I'm mdely forgetting at the moment. Of course, Tracy looked beautiful!

On August 5, we had the privilege of participating in the wedding of Lisa and Erick Goss. Lisa is wonderful, and we had a terrific time in San Diego at the mini-reunion.

'90 grads in San Diego attending the wedding. Pictured are (L to R) Tracey and Dave Perrin with daughter Maria (Dave is in North Carolina), Jim Lee (PG School at Monterey), Erick and Lisa Goss (soon to be assigned to Public Affairs office for Sixth Fleet), Kyle and Kelly White (both at USNA).

I recently spoke with Tawny (Petrick) Mercer who is recruiting in Florida and having a great time, especially with the arrival of Auburn a few months ago. Lynne Smith recently left the Navy and is starting law school in Oklahoma. Eyo Ita recently reported to USNA to the Physics Department—no surprise there—I'm sure they were thrilled to get him.

That's is all for news. Hope everyone is doing great! Please keep in touch if time. My e-mail address is (kdwhite@halligan.nadn.navy.mil). Kelly T h a n k s for w r i t i n g , K e l l y . N e x t , f r o m A l e x V o n z u r M u e h l e n . Vonz, I a p o l o g i z e for not getting this in the last c o l u m n .

That's all right, Joe, you loser! Let's just not make this a habit! Okay. . .

A lot of things have happened since I last checked in with Shipmate. As you can see from the enclosed photo, I managed to find a fantastic wife, Sonya, who is from Virginia Beach, VAand came with two incredible daughters, Nicole and Meghan. We were married in December 1993. My son, Joachim, was bom back in August of '94. It was pretty cool because I had just gotten back from the Red Sea on BRISCOE and we managed to evict him before I had to turn around and go back out lo the Caribbean on SOUTH CAROLINA.

Mike Gochis and I both left the SOCAR in May bound for CIVLANT and went to opposite ends of Missouri. He is in Kansas City and I am in St. Louis working as an engineer for Ford. I'm not sure where

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Mike ended up working, but he had a couple of offers waiting.

Being in CIVLANT kind of puts me out of the loop for a lot of news, but I have heard from Steve Rutherford who is living it up in Guam between Seal missions. Le'Anne and Skyler are still in San Diego and may be headed back to Panama for their next duty station. I have also heard that Chris Le passed his engineers exam.

It is nice to be back in St. Louis, but 1 certainly want to keep in touch with all you lifers! So, if you find yourself in the area, please look me up! I'm the only Alex Vonzurmuehlen in the book! My address is; 12607 Woodygrove Court, St. Louis, MO 63146. Hope everyone is doing great and I look forward to seeing everyone who pops into the area!

Vonz

Alex von zur Muehlen and Family Thanks for writing, Vonz! Next letter is an "Update from the Outside. . . " from Steve Amiaga!

With my departure from the Active Duty side of the Navy-house on June 1,1 became the last Plank owning officer to detach from ANZIO (CG-68) out of Norfolk. I've been very busy since the day I went on terminal leave, jumping right into my new career I have retumed to my roots in Southold, NY, to join my father's business as an Architectural Photographer base in the hub of the Westem World, New York City. To keep my fingers in the "USNAtill," I've also taken-on duties as the USNA Blue and Gold Officer affiliate for Long Island, NY's North Fork. My region extends from Fishers Island in the east to Rocky Point in the middle of the Island. I've been sailing as 'mate' in local races during my free time on Skillagalee, a J-80 out of Cutchogue, LI. As I write, we have a four-race winning streak and another race tomorrow â&#x20AC;&#x201D; knock on wood! (Tom, the skipper/owner is a retired Air Force Officer but I justify myself by calling every race a "Joint Exercise conducted in a Naval Theater of Operations." How's that for "PurpleSpeak?")

After working for about six weeks, I took a weeklong driving trip with Chris Culver to Nova Scotia in the middle of June to drink some 8.5% McKewan's Scotch Ale and celebrate our respective decisions to 'Five and Jive.' It was a great opportunity to see some of the most scenic coastline in the world.

The photo shows Chris 400 feet above the Bay of Fundy atop Cape Split. "Hey, Chris, could you lean just a little bit farther o u t . . . " Chris has just entered his novitiate year in the Catholic seminary with the Paulist Fathers, a small but active order in the Church in New Jersey. On the way up from LI (and back, for that matter) we stopped by Sandy and Dave Sanders' house in Groton, CT (Dave is an instmctor at the sub base) for a little summertime fellowship and water-skiing.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Homecoming! God Bless to all of the '90's who are in harm's way. You are in my prayers always. Steve Thanks for writing, Steve. And congratulations, Chris. You've undertaken a wonderful challenge and I wish you the very best luck and God's blessing.

Next, we have a couple of pictures. The first is a photo of Andre Smith and his wife, Angela, who were martied in the Main Chapel at NAS P-Cola on July 1. Congratulations.

Andre and Angela Smith Also, quick letter and nice photo from Larry Halvorsen and his wife. Parish, who were martied in San Diego on April 15. Larry was in VAW-112 at NAS Miramar as an E2-NF0. In June, they moved to Kirkland, WA where Larty has begun his shore tour as a recruiting officer for Medical Officers.

Congratulations to you both!

HONOR CHAIRS Would you like to see a classmate honored in Alumni Hall? Anniversary, Brithday, Graduation, or Memorial Gift. Call Honor Chair Coordinator, Jennifer John, 410263-4448 xllSfor details.

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Larry and Parish Halvosen Wedding 15 April 1995 Also spoke at great length with Dave Sanders who is an instmctor up in Groton with Bob Bunger, Matt Polk, and Dave Colgrove. I see Steve Tazza almost every week as he and I are enrolled in the Real Estate program at UNC's business school (I'm taking this class as an exchange student from Duke!) Steve has found his calling and been offered a job with one of the big banks in NYC, or one of the East Coast Metropolises! He's psyched about that and obviously relieved to be finished with the job hunt process.

Also spoke with CarIa Meyers, who as I spoke to her, was in the process of getting all her stuff together for a move to her new duty station at NSCS Athens, GA to teach baby Suppos. CarIa was married on 14, October to LT James Albritton. She also had word on Terry Bradford who was supposed to be martied on September 30 to LT Steve Crane until the Navy changed their plans and sent her to Bosnia.

Nice. Also, Davida Nelums is now out of the Navy and working in Tennessee as a senior manager with KFC. Thanks for the scoop, Carla and congratulations on your marriage! We missed you at Homecoming, but look forward to hearing more about the wedding and getting some pictures!

Finally, I want to send out a huge "THANK YOU!!" to our Classmates in the Annapolis area who contributed to putting Homecoming together. For those of you on the "mailing list," you know that the preparation process began last winter and was nonstop throughout the weekend! It was a tremendous effort and an absolutely fantastic time! It was great seeing everyone and catching up on events which have transpired in the past five years. "Whenever two or three shall meet..." was certainly lived out to its fullest during that weekend and I look forward to the tenth! If not sooner.

That's it for this month, folks! Life here in Durham, NC continues to go well. As you read this, I am almost probably panicking about what I want to do with the rest of my life. My Grandfather's only words of wisdom to me when 1 left for the Academy so many years ago were, "Joseph, just make sure you love what you do!" At this writing, I have no idea what that is, but I'm having fun investigating different options! So, if you're feeling the same way, be sure to give me a call and we can commiserate together! If anyone is traveling through the Raleigh/ Durham area, please call! Our home is open to all comers and I'll even buy the beers at the local college dive (I'm a share holder â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I've always wanted to own a bar!). All points bulletin to Dan Pepper, Joe Kirby, and other 21st company mates! Call me ASAP! Until next month, please continue to send letters and photos. Be safe and God Bless. Joseph

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Pres., LT Richard Brophy USN Sec'y LT William G. Freehafer USN Patrol Squadron 45, Unit 60172 FPOAA 34099-5918 Asst Sec'y ILT Dave Stohs, USMC Box 50064, Irvine CA 92619

for HC-5 stationed at Andersen AFB in Guam. He rolls in October to the CONSTELLATION out of North Island. Steve got his Pork Chop Wings with VRC50 which was decommissioned and worked at NAS Agana which is now closed. Fellow '91 wartiors in HC-5 include Dom Strada, Rob Kivacs, Jude Burke, Dave Scheu, and Conrad Dungca.

Hello again and Beat Army! From Jacksonville Erik Harris says hello and wants everyone to know that he is still very much a player..."E" is in VP-45 with myself and a whole slew of 91ers. Sean Liedman is also in VP-45 and just returned from a UNITAS detachment in Peru. In Peru, Lieds ran into our Pemvian Classmate Cesar Rojas. Cesar is on a Peruvian Type 209 submarine (B.A.P. Pisagua) and seems to be a friend of everyone in the country. Sean passed on a letter from Cesar who writes that he and Vilma had a daughter, Vilmita, last November Travis White is another P-3 bubba here in Jax. He is in VP16 along with Shawn M c G e h e e and Chris Schneider. All three of those guys are sitting Tacco now having just returned from a split deployment between Keflavik and Roosevelt Roads.

In other news Mike Borgschulte writes from Okinawa flying Cobras with HMLA-169. Sam Mowery is also in his squadron. Borgs and Valerie were married this past spring. Quite a few Classmates made it out to the wedding and their mugs should be alongside. Josh Skule is working Intel at 29 Palms; Dave Berghult is in recon at Camp Pendleton; Brett Bourne is in recon at Lejeune; Don Chipman is a Maintenance Officer in Yuma; Greg Price is flying Hornets out of Lemoore; Rob McGregor is flying Homets out of El Toro along with Bob Friedman; Jimmy Mulik is a Comm "O" at Pendleton; Brad Carlson is on ELLIOT in San Diego; and Tess Carlson is Gen URL in San Diego.

Chris Thomas is an A-6 BN up in Whidbey, Borgs was thinking Mike Stevens was flying S-3s in San Diego; Jason Whitehead is supply in San Diego and Tom Short is a SEAL in Coronado.

Front Row: Sam Mowery, Josh Skule, Dave Berchult, Brett Bourne, Don Chipman, Greg Price. Standing: Rob McGregor Bob Friedman, Jimmy Mulik, Brad Carlson, Valerie Starr Borgschulte, Mike Borgschulte, Chris Thomas, Mike Stevens, Jason Whitehead, Tom Short Sharon and Gib Armstrong had a daughter, Courtney Beth, last April. Gib is the XO/Guard Officer for a 70 Marine guard at NAS Patuxent River Of his many collateral duties his favorite is acting as Training officer where he gets to plan fun stuff like helicopter insertions, 10 mile forced marches/mns, call for fire (w/ artillery), etc. He says Sheila and Rob Keefe passed by their way from Dive School to Dept Head School in Newport. He also reports Rob Turner was getting ready to bring his second child into the world. Dan Wagner is on his way to Cuba, Doug Zimbelman was last reported to be waiting on orders to MCRD San Diego. Out at Monterey, Mike Kupers is getting paid to relax, play golf and occasionally study oceanography. Steve Jendrysik and Cathy recently got engaged. She is from Nebraska and is a C-2 pilot. Steve is the Supply Officer

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am preparing it for KENNEDY'S final of 4 LOEs in July. Being on a CV is totally different from what I was raised on as a SWO Dog. The Engineer and MPA are both Engineering Duty types and the CO and XO are Airedales. The only SWOs are the 1st LT and one other 2nd tour Dep. Head and 7-8 other second tour divos. There are two other '91 folks onboard and we all share the same office. Mick Koslow reported on board in January and is currently of #4 Main Machinery Room. Mick and Susie are expecting theirfirstchild this November James Braun just joined us in Propulsion from Auxiliaries and is the man in #1. James and Ethel have a baby girl, Rachel, who is now 10 months old. Yianis Selinidis is getting ready to transfer from a FFG to DESRON 8 in Mayport. Yannis and I hit the mountain bike trails of Hanna Park when we can and he still owes me a surfing lesson.

Dave Allen writes from San Diego. Dave really seems to like the life of a submariner He runs into Molly Armijo from time to time in the gym. She is still rowing and heading the pack during base PT. She enjoys her job in the supply dept aboard DIXON. Guy Torres is in PG School at Monterey working towards a masters. Harry Gray is supposedly keeping La Salsa in business. Pat Tiirner is a supply officer on board LA JOLLA and is mmored to be a settled down family man.

LT and Mrs. Marty Daniel That's all the news that's fit to print for this month.

Keep the mail coming and stand by to Beat Army!

See ya'! Bill Sean and April Liedman (Jendrysik Wedding) J.J. Patterson is in the Med on board ROOSEVELT and is the Legal " O " in his squadron. Mark Brazelton is the first '91 pilot in J.J.'s squadron. JJ recently flew in support of Southern Watch where he said it was pretty cool to strap on a .45 with live missiles and a GBU-16 attached. He signs off as a steely eyed purveyor of death.

Ian Hadden writes the following: I was transferred from the HUE CITY (CG-66) at

the beginning of April after making the Atlantic transit to start her current deployment with the ROOSEVELT. Bart Larocca is still Strike on HUE Crrv but will join Civlant when he returns in September When I left he was still hoping to get a job coaching football somewhere but if not will return to school for a graduate degree. 1 reported to the KENNEDY the 2nd of May at Philadelphia after a couple weeks of leave in sunny Atlantic Beach. FL. I have taken over the #3 Main Machinery room and

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Pres., LTJG. Doug Barber USN USS PETERSON (DD-969) FPO AE 09582-1207

Thank You! Your support built Alumni Hall!

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Pres., Ens. Matt A m y USN Sec'y, LTJG Vinny Smith USN 3 Abingdon Way Durham, NC 27713 Hello again ' 9 3 .

APRIL Tom Mills and Rob Thompson returned to Yokosuka, Japan from a five-month deployment aboard the destroyer HEWITT which included duty in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iraq enforcing the no-fly zone.

MAY Ken Krueger returned to San Diego after completing a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Persian Gulf aboard the frigate JARRETT whose duties included enforcing the international sanctions against Iraq. Tony Hatok is at the Navy Exchange Service Command, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Lonnie Crawford and Jon Martin are with Marine Aircraft Support Squadron 2, Marine Aircraft Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Okinawa, Japan. John Polidoro and Ben Brown are with 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Paul Miller is with 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group, Okinawa, Japan. Mike A m o s , Bryan O ' L e a r y , Ben Elliot, Cori J o n e s , Maria Grauerholz, Doug Bafer, Max Shuman, Ed Grohe, and Tom Plott are at Training Squadron 21 (VT-21), Naval Air Station (NAS), Kingsville, Texas. William Moriarty received his "Wings" as a Naval Aviator after completing flight training with Helicopter Training Squadron Eight (HT-8), NAS Whiting Field, Milton, Florida. James Elias and Todd Heyne received their "Wings" as a Naval Flight Officer (NFO) at Attack Squadron 128, Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington. James McCall and Lesley Fierst received their "Wings" as a NFO at VT-86, NAS, Pensacola, Florida. Marc Genualdi participated in a major amphibious landing exercise off the coast of Califomia while serving aboard the destroyer JOHN YOUNG. The exercise included landing Marines ashore, mine countermeasure activities, and the largest medical exercise ever conducted by the Navy.

Chad Chatlos received a Letter of Appreciation citing his superior performance of duty while with the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 29, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

June Heidi Althoff completed a six-month deployment aboard the destroyer tender SAMUEL GOMPERS which included duty in the Persian Gulf. John Land completed a deployment to the Baltic Sea aboard the frigate TAYLOR. The deployment was part of a two-month exercise known as Baltic Operations 95 (BALTOPS 95) which is designed to improve naval operations and cooperation between NATO and non-NATO countries. Mike Summer retumed from a six-month deployment aboard the cruiser GETTYSBURG which included duty in the Persian Gulf and participated in multinational exercises with the South African navy and air forces. Philip Armas recently participated in a commemoration of the end of World War II as part of New York City's Fleet Week celebration aboard the aircraft cartier AMERICA. Paul Ostrowski received his "Wings" as a Naval Aviator after completing flight training with HT-8. Andrew Ruiz, John Hellmann and Dave Williams completed their first solo flight at HT-8. Monty Hasenbank received his "Wings" as a Naval Aviator after completing VT31, Corpus Christi, Texas. Danilo Espiritu received

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September Tony Gilless and Rich Kincaid retumed from a sixmonth deployment to the North Atlantic Ocean and Baltic and Meditertanean Seas. Tony is aboard the mine countermeasures ship PIONEER and Rich is aboard the mine countermeasures ship DEFENDER. November Brendon DiBella, Joe Bartish, and Dave Bretz finished their six-month deployment aboard the destroyer ARLEIGH BURKE which included duty in the Adriatic Sea. Dan Degner finished a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf aboard the frigate INGRAHAM.

Until next month '93. Have a safe holiday. Take care and God bless. Yin.

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Toledo, Ohio. Both are now living in San Diego, Califomia, where Todd is stationed aboard REID. 2nd Lt. and Mrs. Kevin Glathar, proudly announce their newest recruit to the US Marine Corps family: Hannah Joyce Glathar was born on August 25, 1995.

She made her debut weighing 7 lbs., 15 oz. Congratulations, good health and blessings to you all!

2nd Lt Scott Hornbuckle, USMC, writes to officially confirm his marriage to Miss Paola Soto, which took place on June 2, 1994. After completing TBS, Scott and his new bride made a detour in Spain (Paola's home country) before settling down in Pensacola on January 6, 1995 for flight school. In what appears to be a trend to expand the ranks of the Corps, Scott and Paola also happily report the birth of their daughter. Erica Joy, on April 29,1995, checking in at 7 lbs., 15.9 oz.

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Pres., 2/Lt. Scott Hornbuckle USMC Sec'y, Ens. James Keck USNR MC 9804 Bristol Square Ln. 201, Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 564-9893 Hello '94! Welcome to another informative addition to our Class News article. I have a cortection to make to some news put out in the October article.

This concems my former wrestling teammate Brent Blackmer, now curtently stationed in Pensacola doing the fly-boy thing. He is engaged to the lovely Miss Aileen Byme from Crofton, Maryland. Their wedding is planned for August 24, 1996 at USNA. Congratulations you two and best of success.

This semester has been quite busy for me, and from the amount of letters I've been getting, it has certainly been busy for you. I recently stopped over at the Class of '61's tailgater, and a number of comments were made about how much you and they were impressed. Keep it up,' 94! But speaking of tailgaters, I'm looking forward to seeing a number of you at the Air Force and Homecoming games in October I hope to have a list of "seen at the games" for the next issue. So if you see me, pull me aside and tell me a story, and I'll be sure to get you in bold print.

Moving on to a story...Kelly Shekitka got a little banged up playing catcher for the USUHS Softball team. He needed a little surgery on his hand and now he is nursing his boo-boo at home in MD. Kelly is now Pensacola bound and should be making his debut in Mid-October! Kirk Clermont stopped by on his way up to Groton, Connecticut in early September for prototype. He's complaining about the cost of living, but reports that the wife and kids are doing fine. His new address: Susse Chalet, Rm 403, Kirk Clermont, Box 92, NAV SUBASE NLON, Groton, CT 06349-5092. Phone number: (203) 445-6699 and give room #. Ian Thomas writes from Athens, Georgia with the billet list for the latest group of '94 Supply Corps Officers: Ens. Rob Catten — PLATTE ( A O 186) Norfolk, VA; Ens. Brad Cougher — ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) Norfolk, VA; Ens. Chip Patrick — F T

2nd Lt. and Mrs. Scott Hornbuckle, USMC Ahmed Williamson and his wife Mattrice also had a baby girl (7 lbs., 5 oz.) in early July. Arnett and Nikki Klugh are expecting a baby boy in early September Other news from the desk of Scott H. — D.L. Wilson is getting martied August 26, 1995 in Maryland. Ned Biehl, Jose Dominguez, Allison Thompson, and Adam Musoff are other 94 Grads (USMC) who finished API with Scott. MESSAGE FOR CHRIS WILLIAMS: Please send Scott your new address. Scott's address is: 504-B Corsair Drive, Milton, Florida 32570, 904-623-5478. Kim Uhde writes to let us know that she has completed her graduate work at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated with a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science in August. Kim is now on her way to Newport where she will join the '95 September SWOS class. Eventually, she will be heading out to Everett, Washington to be on DAVID R .

RAY (DDG-972).

MCHENRY ( L S D - 4 3 ) Sasebo, Japan; Ens Dan

Pidgeon — Shore Duty Sasebo, Japan; Ens. Mike Sweeney — MILIUS ( D D G - 6 9 ) Pascagoula, MS; Ens.

Matt Tate — Surface Pool Athens, GA; Ens. Ian Thomas — CIMARRON (AO-177) Pearl Harbor, HI Congratulations and best of success, fellas. Ens. Karyn Sandell forwarded her new address: 441 Central Avenue, Post Office Box 1367, Scarsdale, New York 10583. Phone number: 914-834-2322.

Morgan Paul checks in from NIMITZ with her greetings. Ens. Todd Smith married Jennie Wanick (sister of Britton Wanick '95) on September 10, 1994 in

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My next letter is from Dan Sheridan: Here's an update from flight school in Corpus Christi and also from Japan where Steve Schairer wrote me. Steve is in Japan (O'BRIEN) where he is the ERC department head and uses multiple of visual displays when conducting training for which he has received several achievement medals. Additionally, as Chief ERC Guru he collaborated with ERC at USNA as a correspondent in Japan for the 50th Anniversary of the Atomic bomb dropping in a special to be titled "50 Years of Victory." It was rumored in the international press that Steve was the silent bell ringing ceremony in Hiroshima (6 August) and was supposedly doing the 1980 Lake Placid chant "U-S-A, U-S-A !" Good job Steve.

Here in Corpus Christi there are several '94 guys living on Padre Island including Pat Mowles, Gregg Jasso, John Knox, Barry Bassell, Will Reynolds, Clint Moxey, Marc Stufflebeam, Mark Stevens, Rich Weeden, Eric Mitchel, Larry Mehan, Scott Wilson, Scott Bracher Jay Schultz, Mikey Sherrill, John Renning, John Kelly, and Sean Valentine.

Everyone is doing pretty well.

In closing I had heard some former 6th Co Classmates (Al Cano, Mickelson, and Stan Bryant) have opened their own Big Game Fur Trapping company in Fairbanks, Alaska. Look them up. Take it easy.

Dan. For my last letter. Grant Goodrich writes from the desert paradise known at 29 Palms, where he is in Echo Company, 2nd Batt/7th Regiment as a rifle platoon commander Grant graduated from IOC on July 11 with Ward Jones and Jason Gordon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both of them had orders to Lejeune and 2nd MAR DIV. Jason was going to join his unit in Gtmo Bay, Cuba.

Grant arrived in 29 Palms on August 18. Dave Blankenship is the adjutant with 1st tanks. Chris Clayborne is an engineer platoon commander Dwayne Smile is the Supp-0 for 1/7. Sinclair Smith is in Artillery with 11th Marines. Lewis Rhodes will be joining 1/7 in a month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as soon as he finishes IOC. Paul Davis is engaged to Tracy Hoyt ('96).

Paul Urbine and Erin Nickles tied the knot back over Memorial Day Weekend. Present from the Class were Kevin Glathar, Bartt Greene, Tara Caroselli, Yolanda Ray, and Jen Ogilvie. Paul is down at Camp Lejeune as an engineer platoon commander Erin was heading out for a 6 month UNITAS float around South America and Africa. Paul was sharing a house with Mark Zipsie who was at Supply School down there. Tracy Clark is still the Electrical Officer on PAUL F. FOSTER. Her ship will be leaving Long Beach and heading up to Everett, WA in November Grant's address is: 5765 Hall Ln, 29 Palms, CA 92277, (619) 361-9201.

Okay '94, have a great Thanksgiving holiday, and my thoughts and prayers are with you all. Take care and God bless. C-ya...Jim

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Pres., Ens. John Fleet, USN Sec'y, Ens. Don Jamiola, USN 2355 West Michigan Ave CV-5 Pensacola, FL 32526 The Annapolis heat wave is finally over It has actually hit sixty degrees here, I guess Fall is on the way (at this writing). There is a lot more to talk about than the weather. This past month a lot has happened, and I have a lot of news. The Brigade is getting into the swing of things, and Navy Football has started another season.

Let's start off with news of a huge surprise goingaway party for Kelly Cantley, thrown at the house of Jim Mill, K.C. Williams, Damon Dixon, and Brian Fitting. I think every TAD ensign at the Academy was present. Among those were Jess Osborne, Ron Finch, Gene Cran, Jay Driskell, Chris Rush, Chad Froelich, Ed "Vedder" Kelley, and Dave Overcash. Gene and Jay have since moved down to Florida to await flight school. Gene and Jay wanted to say hello to Andy Dombrowski and Dennis Farrell who are "living it up" in Newport. Brian Delutio is in Florida and gave me some gouge on what to expect once I artive.

The P.E. Department is still going strong. The last PRT's were finished recently, so the ensigns there have a little less to worty about. Aole Ansari, Mike Bonnett, and Brendan Barber are keeping busy working with the football team. Nick Bruno, Chris Churchill, Rich Cochran, Greg Roberts, Chad Froelich, Erika Gompers, Ken Grzymalski, Paul Hockran, Johnny Krall, Bill Reagan, Kurt Kyle, J Smith, Al Sprenger, Seth Walters, and still others are contributing to the physical excellence of the mids.

Karen Flaherty recently checked out of the department, therefore we will never see her happy face in the intramural issue office again. Chris Ognek and myself are also helping out with odd jobs around the Yard. Chris missed the home opener as he went to Jersey for the weekend to attend a formal dinner for his former karate instructor Tim Buller and Bob Pieroni recently checked out of NAAA and are on their way to be roommates in Pensacola. NAAA threw them a big going away party as well.

Elsewhere on the Yard is Brian Anderson working for the Dean's Office, Ed Kinsella with EE, and Corey Turner working with Commander Rhyner Rich Pugh and Marco Trevino can also be found working out at the Academy. Lamar Douberly got his picture on the front page of the Trident as he was taking a group of Japanese students from their naval academy on a tour of the Yard. Amanda Chasteen also leads tours for invited guests of the Naval Academy.

The first home football game was against Wake Forest, and Navy suffered a loss, though the team is looking really good and the future is promising. I was on hand to park buses and keep mids off the field as part of my TAD duties. From this position I was able to see many alumni, including many from '95. Frank Brandon, Dave Boxmeyer, and many others made the trip down from SWOS to view the game and hold some tailgaters. Jen Hauser, Carl Briley, Suzanne Lesko, Ed Kelley, Mimi Cottrell, Greg Guidry, John Smolen, Matt Kaslik, Damon Dixon, Jimmy Mill, and others were among those I saw enjoying the game. Frank Shone made the trip from TBS, and said the work is somewhat difficult, but he is enjoying it. Alex Chehansky was present at the game and later Griffin's. Rob Bailey's tailgater was refertcd to as "the hooch," and he too came up from TBS. Jeremy Jorgenson was also at the hooch for post-game celebration. Bill Reagan also had a pre-game party at his place in Annapolis.

Yes, there is more to this column than "Who Don Has Run Into at USNA." I received a letter this month from Mona Gardella, recent wife of David Gardella.

The two were married on June 17th, at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jarrett Millsaps sang two solos, one of which was accompanied by Chris Rush on the piano. Ray L a m a s and John Smolen were g r o o m s m e n .

Swordbearers were Jartett and Chris, as well as Jeff Gallery, Jim Dillon, Mike Flynn, Ken Grzymalski, Pat Modlin, Mike Spooner, Brad Soper, and Craig Turner. The civilian crowd of 300 were impressed to see so many ensigns! Mona's favorite part of the wedding was when the swordbearers sang The Irish Blessing from the back of the sanctuary as a benediction. The wedding was beautiful and the reception was enjoyed by all. Congratulations to the newlyweds from all of '95.

Ensign and Mrs. David Gardella And finally the Dirty Thirty Alumni Update- (I really need more letters!) Doug MacKenzie is in Athens, Georgia at Supply School. The work is hard, and being in school is no fun, but Doug is getting by. Nick Mungas is now TAD in Pensacola with many others awaiting school. He is living in the BOQ until I get down there and our apartment becomes available. Frank Brandon has started SWOS, and is living with Justin Orlich, who spent September in Europe. Jason White and Dave Boxmeyer are at SWOS, and Jay missed the home opener to go to Wisconsin to see an old wrestiing high school buddy tie the knot. Josh ZIoba is still at the Pentagon, and apparently is enjoying himself and his work. Chad Sund is curtently attending University of Illinois for grad school, and spent some time with his father when he came for a visit. Al Hernandez should now be enjoying the married life, and preparing for SWOS. I heard through the grapevine that Bryan Duran is trudging through nuke school, but we all know he'll make it through. Elizabeth Scoonover is working for detailers in the Navy Annex and will attend AMDO school in January. She will then report to HSL-49 in March. Joey Delaski got out of Bethesda in mid-September and is recovering nicely.

In other news, Scott Young spent the summer TAD in Germany working with Intel officers. He and Jeremy Rabitor are working at the Pentagon till Intel school in Virginia Beach. Amy Hutchison is off in the wild blue yonder, as she jumped ship and went to the US Air Force. She is at Tyndall AFB in Panama City, and is curtentiy doing meteorology work. Jen Hauser and all the other supply TAD's at the Pentagon will start school in October Others include Kevin Casto, Reg Williams, Byron Woodard, and T.J. Hall. Apparentiy T.J. met Sylvester Stallone at the Planet Hollywood in New York, and got some interesting gifts at a Hail and Farewell party.

If you read this on time, have a good Thanksgiving and upcoming holiday season. Don't feel bad if you are not in this column, because you too can be famous. Just send your politically cortect news to me, and the magazine does the rest. 1 will soon have an address in Florida so I'll keep you posted. More to come in December-Don.

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Chapter News ALABAMA Huntsville Donald L. Horvath '56 496 Highland Drive Madison, AL 35758-1366 H: 205-461-7012

ARIZONA CAPT Dennis N. McComb, USNRR (Ret.) '65 1146 E Village Circle D r N Phoenix, AZ 85022 H: 602-863-6313; W: 602-222-5970; F: 602-222-5972

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Chapter Steve Andres '67 2812 Vanderhoof Drive West Covina,CA 91791 H: 818-331-6811; W: 909-735-3300; F: 909-735-3065 The Ball was great — now kick back at Winterfest and get ready for the Army Game. Here's the LA Chapter calendar for the next several months: November 11/10/95

220th Birthday, United States Marine Corps 11/10-11/11/95 See-A-Battie, Fort Irwin NTC 11/14/95 1130 Business Luncheon, MCAS El Toro O'Club, USMC Birthday/ 11/16/95 0730 ILASC Business Breakfast, Century City Marriott, Speaker; Dr William Ouchi, author "Theory Z" 11/17-11/19/95 Winterfest 1995 Palm Springs Hilton 11/26/95 1800 Networking Dinner San Fernando Valley 11/24/95 NCAA Waterpolo National Championship, Long Beach, CA

December 12/2/95 Army Game Party, The Bam, Tustin, CA 12/22/95 Annapolis Parents' Club Christmas Ball 12/25/95 Merry Christmas!

January 1/1/96 Happy New Year!

1/9/96 Business Luncheon, MCAS El Toro O'Club 1/30/96 1800 Networking Dinner San Fernando Valley February 2/10/96 Annual Meeting, Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA 2/13/96 Business Luncheon, MCAS El Toro O'Club Your Chapter keeps trying to hold a choice of events, so everyone will attend at least once a year, but we

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aren't clairvoyant. Tell us what appeals to you - we'll consider almost any idea. Call Steve Andres at 818331-6811 UPCOMING EVENTS Take your pick. If you aren't participating in your Chapter's events, how about giving one a try? Or plan your own! Be a part of the liveliest, most funfilled Chapter in the nation!

WINTERFEST '95 Hope this announcement isn't too late. If your Shipmate arrived on time and you read this column promptly, as you should, then maybe there's still time to join us for the second annual Winterfest celebration in Palm Springs at the Hilton Resort, 17-19 November We should enjoy wonderful November Low Desert weather for golf, tennis, hiking, horseback, or jeep rides in the desert, the Palm Springs Follies, Mt. San Jacinto Tram, or whatever strikes your fancy. Our visit also coincides with the Palm Springs Grand Prix, a classic race car race through the streets of Palm Springs. It should be a great opportunity for a weekend in the desert at very reasonable cost. If you don't want to play golf or tennis, catch rays at the pool, dude. Bring the whole family or your "significant other" (I hate that NoCal expression).

The Army Association of Graduates (AOG) and the USNA Alumni Association Chairmen, General Shy Meyer, USMA ' 5 1 , and Admiral Hunt Hardisty ' 52 are our guests of honor for the dinner COL John Snodgrass, USMA '56 and CAPT Ron Brandquist '60 will join us for a Joint Army-Navy Business Meeting Saturday morning. For those of you in the job market you can participate in a Career Advisory Workshop by COL Morgan Roseborough, USMA '66, Director of Alumni Services of the USMA AOG. Phone Chariie Tennant (USMA '59) at (H) 805-4951549, (W) 805-497-5150, or (FAX) 805-497-4530 for info and reservations. Contact the Palm Springs Hilton Resort directiy at 1-800-522-6900 for reduced room rates. Mention 'Winterfest '95' (or try your own approach to reduced rates - AAA, Government rates, AARP, whatever).

Don't forget to tell Charlie Tennant you're coming, so he can plan the events!

SEE-A-BATTLE AT FORT IRWIN Through the good graces of the West Point Society, us Navy types can see what a mechanized battle in the high desert looks like. The National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin is where the US Army (assisted by the USMC units and aircraft from USAF at Nellis AFB) train under realistic battie conditions.

NTC is a state-of-the-art training facility which uses real-time reconstruction and superbly qualified trainers to provide "no-fault" training to today's combat arms units.

Contact our mountain-man, Wayne Hildebrand '59 at 909-336-1839 to request a reservation (he lives up at Lake Arrowhead). There is a short waiting list, but they try to accommodate everyone who wants to go. It involves an overnight in beautiful downtown Barstow with reveille at zero-dark-thirty to get to the battlefield at first light. The Army really rolls out the red carpet (well, they give you a ride in a HUMMVEE at least) with a full battle briefing in the OpCenter Sometimes the good guys even win.

Check it out. It will really make you proud of our armed forces.

ARMY GAME PARTY Come to best Army Game Party in the entire USNA Alumni Association! You don't have to freeze in Philly! Enjoy the Army Game with us at 'The Barn' in Tustin. Dust off your most outrageous Army-Navy game garb, break out your Navy Songbook — "The Goat is Old and Gnarly and he's never been to school, but he can..." Anybody remember the rest? Come out to cheer on the new Big Blue Team to an overdue victory over the Black Knights. We'll have Tshirts, mugs and other paraphernalia for sale if your stockpile is getting low. There will be prizes for the best decorations and an opportunity to do push- ups after every score. Brunch is served at half-time.

This year your "brilliant" officers and directors have finally come to the startling realization that 1200 (PST) is too dam early to end the party. Following 'Navy Blue & Gold' we will be holding an Irish Wake complete with coffin for the recently departed Army Mule and the partying will continue!

Yes, its just another excuse for the LA Party Animals to "Party On, Dudes!"

2 December is just around the corner, so mark it on your calendar and then call Danny Musselman at 714-258-1173 for a reservation. Please consider coming at 0700 to help with the 'decorations' announcing 'Mule Stew' and 'Goat Steaks,' and, oh yeah, the free Bloody Mary's at 0730. Can you handle it?

ANNUAL MEETING The annual membership meeting and Installation Dinner will be held on 10 February 1996. This year we have booked the QUEEN MARY in Long Beach for this event, at which we swear in the new Board. We have arranged for CAPT Wil Rogers, USN (Ret.), former CO of VINCENNES, to be our guest speaker as an added attraction. The QUEEN MARY will offer ship tours for our group up through 1630 at a special group rate (about $6 each). Cabins are available, also at a group rates ($78, $88 or $98 plus tax); for room reservations call 310-432-6964, 800-437-2934 or fax 310-437-4531. Contact Steve Andres 818-331 -6811 or Danny Musselman 714-2581173 for the dinner and tour sign up. Make this a full weekend of fun aboard this great historic vessel in Long Beach Harbor We will be able to order dinner selections off the menu at prices from $23.50-37.00 (plus tax & service). We will gather for happy hour at 1800 (nohost bar) before dinner It should be a great evening — or make it a weekend on this fabulous ship!

REUNION WEST '96 The LA Chapter will host the Reunion West celebration for 1996. Pass the word. We have selected Carnival Cruise Lines' M/S Holiday as our cruise ship; our destination is Ensenada (do we need one?).

Cabin prices will be $424.50 to $514.50/pp (including port tax) double occupancy for our group. We will have dinner together as a group at a single seating for all Alumni. Dates are 2-5 August 96, so mark it on your calendar Contact Myra Bearman (widow '53) for further information at 1-800-995-0405.

NAVY-NOTRE DAME DUBLIN '96 Are you ready for Navy vs. the Fighting Irish in Dublin? The date is 2 Nov 96. Is this a great reason

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for a party? If you can't get someone to buy you drinks in Dublin this weekend, you have lost your Liberty skills. The Alumni Association is planning travel packages for the event, or you can plan your own. Myra Bearman (widow '53), our "official" Chapter travel representative, can help you book sightseeing tours if you hurty Word is, the ND subway alumni are blocking out the hotels all over the Republic. Don't be forced to commute to the game from the Isle of Man! Get your reservations now!

Call Myra 1-800-995-0405.

BUSINESS LUNCHEONS AND DINNERS - JOIN THE NETWORK! ORANGE COUNTY The Business Luncheons are held on the second Tuesday of each month at El Toro MCAS Officers Club. The Business Luncheons continue to be a popular draw. Under the leadership of Mike Wray ' 85 and Steve Shatynski '83, these Luncheons bring out a good number of USNA alumni, friends, and colleagues from USMA and USAFA upcoming dates: 11/14/95 1130 MCAS El Toro 1/9/96 1130 2/13/96 1130

U.S. Marine Corps Birthday O'Club MCAS El Toro O'Club MCAS El Toro O'Club

Our November speaker will be BGen Charlie Bolden, USMC '68, Assistant Wing Commander, 3rd Marine Air Wing and former Deputy Commandant at USNA and Space Shuttle Commander In case you missed some luncheons over the summer we had some great speakers. In September our speaker was CAPT Tim Holden '72 of the Special Warfare Command in Coronado. Tim brought along an awesome video and gave a super slide presentation on the SEALs. Join the network and experience some great programs. Call Mike Wray '85 (714-8335868) for information and reservations. All you need to do to get on the mailing list is attend one luncheon every six months.

BUSINESS DINNERS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY In September the SFV Breakfast Club decided on a change in format. We are now using a dinner meeting format with a guest speaker every other month.

We will be joining forces with all Service Academy grads in the area. The after-work timing should enable more alums in the San Fernando Valley to get there.

We hold our meetings every other month on the last Tuesday beginning at 1800. The site is the 94th Aero Squadron at the Van Nuys Airport 16320 Raymer Ave (off Woodley south of Roscoe Blvd).

Spouses and guests are welcome!

Our speaker program started with the first dinner on 26 September when we were fortunate to have LCDR Dick Best, USN (Ret.) '32 as our guest of honor Dick was the Commanding officer of BOMBING SQUADRON SIX aboard ENTERPRISE (CV-6) during the Battle of Midway. Dick was credited with three direct hits on two Japanese aircraft cartiers at Midway.

Our schedule is as follows: 1800-1840 d'oeuvres 1840-1845 1845-1930 1930

Socialize - Dinner style hors Introduction Presentation Adjoum

Contact Bill Goodwin '67 at 818-707-4267 to join the Group. Get on the mailing list so you will know what is planned.

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NOMINATIONS FOR ANNUAL ELECTION We are entering that time of year when we elect the Officers and Director for 1996. We will have three Director positions open; these positions require attendance at the six Board Meetings and honchoing an event. The term of office is three years. We will also be electing the Chapter Officers for the next year: President; Vice President (can be more than one); Secretary and Treasurer. At the request of Alumni House we are slipping our election calendar six months. This means the next election will be held in May-June 1997 and those elected this December will serve until that election. Can you serve? Or do you know someone who can? Call Steve Andres at 818-331-6811. The ballot will appear in the next Newsletter. PLEASE VOTE !!!

JOIN RDAC Recruiting District Los Angeles has a new CO, Henry Gonzales '77. A former submariner, Henry is a member of LA Chapter You may have already seen him at some of our events. The Recmiting District Assistance Council (RDAC) is a great way to payback all the help you got when you were getting started. There are many ways you can help, none of which are very time consuming. Contact CDR Dave Rupp, USNR, the RDAC Chaimian at 310-676-8109, or Lieutenant Ray Ricario, the District XO, at 213298-6650 for more details.

USNA VETERANS LICENSE PLATES Have you seen the new USNA Veterans license plates? They really look sharp! There are about 65 of them out there on the LA Freeways. You can get a personalized plate too! If you have personalized plates and want to transfer them to a USNA Veterans plate, it will take a onetime payment of $10 (in addition to the $30 charge for the Veterans plates).

Steve Andres has the form to send to the California Department of Veterans Affairs. Call him at 909-7353300 (W) if you are interested in either the standard or the personalized version of the new USNA Veterans license plates!

CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP Do you live in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside or San Bernardino Counties? Do you live in the Coachella Valley or the High Desert area. If the answer is yes, Los Angeles is your local Chapter Are you a member of LA Chapter? All it takes is $25 annual dues. What it gets you is: • Five newsletters (plus flyers and bulletins) which keep you updated on the Chapter events; • A tremendous slate of social, professional and sporting activities throughout the year; • A chance to have your voice heard at Alumni House through Trustee representation backed up by the collective voice of the entire LA Chapter mem bership (over 400 and growing); • Your own personalized nametag; • A "node" in our network and an extended network into our affiliated organizations including: the Annapolis Parent Club, three West Point Societies, the USAFA Association, numerous Navy League Councils, the Ivy League Association of Southern California (ILASC), two Blue & Gold Areas, the Recruiting District Assistance Council (RDAC), and more; • A Chapter Directory; • Fellowship and camaraderie with a group of folks with the same outstanding value system and view of the world;

• A continuing connection to your roots in USN/ USMC and USNA, and more...your Chapter Officers and Directors are always dreaming up new ways to try to capture your interest.

Get involved in your Chapter! Beat Army!

That's all for now from Shakeytown. Out. Steve Andres '67

Monterey Bay Chapter CDR John J. Branson, Jr., USN (Ret.) '50 1281 Sylvan Road Monterey CA 93940-4942 H: 408-375-8603

Sacramento Chapter CAPT John B. Haynes, USNR (Ret.) '55 132 Oak Canyon Way Folsom, CA 95630-1850 H: 916-989-2947; W: 916-988-2547

San Diego/Coronado Chapter LCDR Michael S. Midgley, USNR 13295 Kibbings Road San Diego, CA 92130 619-792-9196 Message Phone: 6I9-463-USNA Our September speaker was CDR Tom Gregory '73, Commanding Officer of JOHN YOUNG (DD-973) and former Commanding Officer of REID (FFG-30).

While in REID, CDR Gregory served in TASK FORCE 50, charged with enforcing the UN embargo on Iraq. CDR Gregory gave an outstanding talk on operations within the Persian Gulf and his personal experiences exercising "sea control".

Bob Stephenson '60 has assumed the duties as Chapter Vice President as we bid a fond farewell to Joe Bridge '81 and his wife, Mary. Joe is making a career change and has accepted a position in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Joe for his dedicated service to the Chapter We wish both Joe and Mary fair winds!

ARMY/NAVY GAME Plan to attend the Army/Navy Game/Bmnch sponsored by the San Diego/Coronado Chapter and the West Point Society of San Diego. Come to harass the WOOPS, for the camaraderie, good food and cheer, and bartoom ballads! Five televisions will be tuned to the big event for your viewing pleasure as

Don't forget to update your address in order to continue receiving Shipmate.

Call 410-263-4448 to give us your new address.

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we whip the Black Knights. Buffet breakfast includes scrambled eggs, roasted potatoes, bagels and assorted pastries, orange juice, coffee, and soft drinks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; full no-host bar, with $1.50 beer and wine.

Date: Saturday, 02 December Place: Elario's, 7955 La Jolla Shores Drive (on top of the Summer House Inn) Time: 0830 Price: $13.50 per person Reservation Deadline: Postmarked no later than 11/16/95 Send checks payable to: USNAAA SD/COR Chapter Mail to: USNAAA, Justin Miller, 1010 University Ave #177 San Diego, CA 92103. If you have any questions, call 619-463-USNA. BEAT ARMY!!!

Justin Miller '86 continues with this year's membership drive. He may be contacted at W: 619-5446119 and H: 619-234-9025. For our November luncheon, there is a good possibility that Ron Brandquist '60, National Alumni Association President and CEO, will be our guest speaker Please remember that the San Diego/Coronado Chapter meets the 3rd Thursday of every month (except August) at the Admiral Kidd Club (Bayside of NTC).

Bob Rubin '82

San Francisco Bay Area Chapter CAPT Thomas G. Lozier, SC, USNR '74 2614 Derby Drive San Ramon, CA 94583-4311 H; 510-866-8299; W: 510-887-7333

Santa Barbara Chapter CDR William J. Stewart, USNR (Ret.) '63 1617 Las Canoas Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 H: 805-862-0703; W: 805-963-9151

to have a different experience. We are inviting those Alumni living outside the USA. We realize that the success of the event depends on you being here!

Events will provide the opportunity to get together with friends and classmates and get to know Costa Rica. Prices are very reasonable and we have put together a very interesting program.

SHORT GAME RELATED PROGRAM: Friday, 12/1/95 Pep Rally for each Academy with an informal buffet.

Saturday, 2 Dec Game with tail-gate party; Evening celebration and get-together Sunday, 3 Dec Informal Brunch For those wishing for an extended stay, a full program of visits and recreation is available to be tailored to the length of stay and desires (including deep sea fishing tours â&#x20AC;&#x201D; marlin, swordfish or snook; golf on a PGA approved course; visits to National parks, volcanoes, coffee or banana plantations; shopping; and cultural tours, such as to the Gold or Jade Museums, tropical rainforests, etc.).

Details and brochures available through OMNI Travel the Official travel agency for USNAAA, who you might know donates a percentage of the fares to the Association PLUS obtaining discounted fares.

Take time to see your mates! It will be a great occasion and we will have great cheer as we BEAT ARMY! Regards, Claudio A. Pacheco '64

FLORIDA Jacksonville Chapter Point of contact to be determined. Please direct questions to Alumni Services: 410-263-4448

COLORADO

Orlando Chapter

David M. Go van '53 1607 Lakeshore Drive Fort Collins, CO 80525-2420 H: 303-223-6104; W: 303-236-7185

LCDR Jeffrey D. Hall, USNR '83 PO Box 950909 Lake Mary, FL 32795-0909 H: 407-330-2693; W: 407-628-0009

Palm Beach Chapter CONNECTICUT CDR Greg R. Gullette, USN '77 86 Pond View Circle Guilford, CT 06437-1245 H: 203-457-0220; W: 203-386-5710

COSTA RICA Claudio Pacheco '64 PO Box 4307-1000 San Jose, Costa Rica W: 011-506-224-43-25; F: 011-506-224-20-17; E-mail: ctVsa@sol.racsa.co.cr ARMY-NAVY GAME IN COSTA RICA Our Chapter is organizing an "Army-Navy Game Celebration" in San Jose, Costa Rica. We want to offer graduates from both Academies who will not be at Veterans Stadium the opportunity to join our Chapter members and get together in Costa Rica. We would like to start an annual tradition, so come and enjoy a great game-week in Costa Rica.

We have contacted Mr Chuck Russell, USMA '56 of OMNI Travel in Atlanta, phone 800-331 -1810, to act as our travel agent for the event. He will help with the artangements and will have more information on the event. Jose M. Figueres, USMA '79 is the President of Costa Rica and will attend.

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LCDR Jeffrey B. Jerome, USNR '79 3912 S Ocean Blvd, Apt 111 Highland Beach, FL 33487-3312 H: 407-272-7205; W: 407-994-1191

Pensacola Chapter LCDR James R. Knight, USNR (Ret.) '76 4465 Madura Road GulfBreeze.FL 32561 H: 904-932-1147; W: 904-456-9237

Southeast Florida Chapter LtCol Kenneth J. Duckworth, USAFR '62 5201 SW 163rd Avenue Davie, FL 33331 H: 305-434-6634; W: 305-558-5300

Space Coast Chapter Col Harvey Taffet, USAF (Ret.) '54 502 Eleuthra Lane Indian Harbor Beach, FL 32937 H: 407-773-0863

Suncoast Chapter (Zips 33571-73; 339; 342) LCDR Susan S. Welch, USN '80 5310 Foxwood Drive Sarasota, FL 34232-5612 H: 813-923-2771; W: 813-923-2771

Tampa Bay Chapter Col Walter Havenstein, USMCR '71 10520 Vonn Road Largo, FL 34644 H: 813-593-2198 The Fall Social at the recently opened Florida Aquarium in Tampa seems to have been enjoyed by all. The evening began with a self-guided tour of the aquarium followed after closing by a special behind the scenes tour conducted by John Fisher '72, Director of Life Support and Engineering at the aquarium. The tours were followed by an excellent dinner catered at the aquarium. Regrettably the Chapter Secretary's suggestion for reducing the ration cost while getting to know the inhabitants of the aquarium better was rejected after lamentably brief consideration. (Just kidding, John!) The unanticipated highlight of the evening was the discovery that Al and Nell Rasmussen '43 were celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary. Congratulations!! Also in the "as times go by" department, it turns out that Al was at PG School with Paul Havenstein '44 when his son (and our curtent Chapter President) Walt, '71, was born. Thanks again to John Fisher and Mark Krivonak '71 for making a delightful evening possible.

The attendees were: Mike and Linda Albano '74; Doug and Marti Berry '69; Fred and Gloria Beckham '82; Dave and Kathy Bliesner '83; Ken and JoAnne Castelano '65; Tom and Lillian Dabney '36; John Fisher '72; Bob Flynn '58 and his son Tom; Mac Fossett '58; Carl and Deborah Gaines '68; Jack and Michelle Gantley '69; Allen and Bonnie Goins '61; Walt and Judy Havenstein '71; Rudy and Teresa Heller '82; Rick and Kimberiy Hunt '82; Mark and Marcia Krivonak '71; Gaeton and Beth Long '60; Mel and Ann Long '61; Kent and Martha McKnight '54; Dave and Teresa Olson '79; Wally and Babs Ponder '43; Al and Nell Rasmussen '43; Byron and Barabara Ruble '50; Bud Sawyer '74 and his bride; and Lee Smith '81.

By the time this issue is published, we will be a month away from the Army game celebration with the local Black Knights. The location is the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. The date is 2 December. This will be the year, so come on out for a Navy victory!

Applications are still being accepted by Dave Olson '79 for the Game committee. Those interested, please give Dave a ring at 813-787-4488. BEAT ARMY!

GEORGIA Atlanta Chapter CAPT Paul F Hurst, USN (Ret.) '62 1505 Dansford Court Marietta, GA 30062 H: 404-509-7300 Attendance continues to grow at Chapter events as the membership becomes more and more dynamic this year. In attendance at the 15 September luncheon were: Jim Weldon '34; Jack Cumberiand '44; Jim Ravenel '45; Duane Young '49; Mitchell Smith '50; John Stark '51; Gil McCullen '53; Walt Coakley '54; Dick Petmcci '61; Paul Hurst '62; Rick Hartis '64; Bill Baker '64; Bob Bush '65; Steve McDonald '65; Jon Barton '66; Will Wood '66; Jim Slemenda '66; Al Jones '67; Dick Borowiec '68; Ted Webster '68; Marc Farris '70; Les Gable '70; Mike Stephens '71; Jim Murphy '73; Dennis Stockwell '76; Kent White '77; Mark James '78; Tom Hamilton '78; Mac Williams '79; Skip Krause '79; Paul Wright '79; Bill Druce '82; Neil Sawyer '86; Dave Alexander (NAIO); and Phil Smith (guest).

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Because of the number of attendees, artangements have been made to increase the size of our meeting spaces at future meetings, and to improve the efficiency of service. Our meetings will continue at Paisano's, but in a larger room, and the service will improve to the point that the luncheon service itself will not slow anyone down who needs to leave early.

The folks at Paisano's have been exceptionally good to us and are making every effort to accommodate the increased participation that we have been encouraging and are now witnessing.

Plans continue for the 4 November USNA Birthday Celebration at Stone Mountain (an event which will have already occurted by the time this article is in print) and the annual viewing of the Woop thrashing at TJ's Sports Bar on Holcomb Bridge Road, on 2 December The Army/NAVY party has been an extremely enjoyable event over the years (not counting the score) and everyone looks forward to this year's event (including the score) with great anticipation. Anyone residing in Atlanta or just passing through and interested in attending any of the Chapter events is invited to participate. Contact Paul Hurst '62, the Chapter President, at the address above, to get more information. As always, all Alumni are invited to join the Chapter members on the third Friday of each month at 1200 at Paisano's, on Roswell Road, just north of 1-285, in the K-Mart shopping center Paul Hurst '62

Randolph and Michigan, one block from Marshall Field's. Located less than one block away are two Self-Park lots. System Parking at 60 East Randolph and Central Parking at 30 East Randolph.

The last time the Chicago Army-Navy crowd got together was at the Annual Army-Navy Golf Outing on Friday 21 July. Our Chapter golf expert, Colin Mackenzie '77, put it all together for the eighteen golfers that entered the fray 10 Army and 8 Navy.

Our side was well represented by Matt Stapleton '83 and his guest Ken^ McGraw; Mike Isabelli '83; Colin Mackenzie '77; and Tim Murphy '66 with guests Dave Gladstein, Terry Brennan and Dave Marcellis.

The weather was extremely cooperative with a beautiful day and a good time was had by all. Mike Isabelli '83 came away with low net honors while Navy guest Kerry McGraw was low gross.

The Chapter Board held meaningful deliberations on 12 September at the Como Inn. On hand were Jack Bailey '44; Roy Sandquist '44; Bob McCarthy '45; Tim Bradley '48; Mike Bemgard '49; Dean French '50; Jim D'Orso '52; George Dempsey '57; John Howland '64; Mike Clawson '72; Dave Lipinski '74; and Colin Mackenzie '77.

John G.B. Howland '64

GUAM

LT Thomas M. Ryan, USNR (Ret.) '80 617 Ramblin Road Greenwood, IN 46142 317-889-1103 (H) 317-230-2787 (W)

LCDR Noel M. Enriquez, USNR Box 26849, GMF Bartigada, Guam 96921-6849 H: 011-671-477-4382; W: 011-671-647-9629; F: 011-671-646-8776

MARYLAND Annapolis Chapter LtCol William R. Roll, USMC (Ret.) '62 18 College Avenue Annapolis, MD 21401-1604 H; 410-268-9287

Baltimore Chapter LCDR Steve G. Young, USNR '84 c/o Legg Mason 600 Washington Avenue Towson, MD 21204 W: 410-821-7700 or 800-368-2558

MASSACHUSETTS Boston Chapter Peter W. Grieve '77 51 Asbury Street Topsfield, MA 01983 H: 508-887-2823; W: 800-252-1852

MICHIGAN

INDIANA (see also Kentucky)

Detroit Chapter

Indianapolis Chapter

Arthur W. Bryant '66 1811 Hollywood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1311 H: 313-885-2174; W: 313-322-6452

MISSOURI KENTUCKY (see also Ohio)

St. Louis Chapter

HAWAU

Louisville/Southern Indiana Chapter

CAPT Harvey Gray, Jr., USN (Ret.) '52 1117 Akumu Street Kailua, HI 96734-4012 H: 808-261-9722; W: 808-423-1341 or Jim Anderson '85: 808-455-7722

LCDR K. E. Kolarcik, USN (Ret.) '68 5912 Centerwood Drive Crestwood, KY 40014-9195 H: 502-893-7945

John R. Boley '63 5 Sunnymeade Lane St. Louis, MO 63124-12721 H: 314-991-4348; W: 314-982-2432

ILLINOIS Chicago Chapter CAPT C. S. Bradley, USN (Ret.) '48 403 E Westminster Road Lake Forest, IL 60045-2267 H: 708-295-5269; W: 708-405-7356 THE ARMY-NAVY GAME, traditionally the biggest event of the season for the Chicago ChapterThis year, Saturday, 2 December; the location: the Michigan Avenue Alumni Club.

Our Navy Football Expert, Rick Bott '80, has set the deal: $18.50 per adult, $10 for youngsters ages 6 to 18. That includes salsa & chips, burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, and dessert. Cash bar Reservations in advance please, so that we can make some guesstimates as to attendance figures to pass on to the Michigan Avenue Alumni Club folks.

Call our Alumni Services at 708-256-4462. Checks should be made payable to USNA/USMA Alumni Association (CHICAGO CHAPTER).

Doors open at 10 a.m. for pregame mingling. Kickoff is set for 11 a.m. (local). Food will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Michigan Avenue Alumni Club is located in the Stone Container Building at 150 N. Michigan Avenue on the Concourse Level (312-345-1400). It's at the northwest corner of

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Kansas City Chapter LCDR Lynn A. Thomas, USNR '83 1404StonecreekDrSW Blue Springs, MO 64015-8838 H: 816-228-6766

LOUISIANA New Orleans Chapter LCDR Anthony T. Capasso, USNR '84 4430 Lennox Boulevard New Orieans, LA 70131-8348 H: 504-392-5872; W: 504-392-5735

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CAPT Richard E. Westcott. USN 911 Michael Drive Papillion, NE 68046 402-294-2146

RICKETTS HALL Remember a classmate - Honor a friend. Reserve a locker in the new Roger Staubach Locker Room OR a chair in the new Joe Bellino Auditorium. Reserve NOW while still available. For more details, callJennifer John at 410-263-4448x118 113

NEVADA

Greensboro Chapter

Las Vegas Chapter

Maj Gary L. Beaver, USMCR '77 5005 Windermere Drive Greensboro, NC 27407-5845 H: 919-299-4736

Edwin Carlton III '71 8909 Montego Bay Dr Las Vegas, NV 89117 H: 702-363-9162

OHIO

NEW JERSEY

Akron Chapter

Monmouth County Chapter

George B. Garton '59 1616 Pauli Street Canal Fulton, OH 44614-9333 H: 216-854-3501; W: 216-794-9770

LtCol Robert L. Vogt, USMC (Ret.) '59 50 Polly Way Middletown, NJ 07748-3189 H; 908-671-9330; W: 908-842-8647

NEW MEXICO CDR James A. Dickey, USN (Ret.) '56 8523 Rio Grande Blvd NW Albuquerque, NM 87114-1226 H: 505-897-9200; W; 505-843-6331; F; 505-843-8189

NEW YORK

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky CAPT D. R. Freese, USNRR '63 3092 Arbor Lane Edgewood, KY 41017-2355 H: 606-331-0449

Cleveland Chapter CAPT A. O. Rule III, USNR (Ret.) '50 68 Water Sft-eet Chagrin Falls, OH 44022-3148 H: 216-247-4379

Albany Chapter

Columbus/Central Ohio Chapter

CDR Robert G. Smitii, USNR '73 2061 Benson Avenue Box 257 Minetto, NY 13115-9999 H; 315-343-0088

CAPT Roy O. Girod, SC, USN (Ret.) '53 1505 Ramble wood Avenue Columbus, OH 43235-7326 H: 614-451-3696

Buffalo Chapter (forming) Mr. Richard T. Bowman, Jr. '71 The Cottage 431 Quaker Street East Aurora, NY 14052 W: 716-687-4640

Central New York Chapter Edward A. Alberts RR 3 Box 406A Oswego, NY 13126 H: 315-342-1930; W; 315-448-3373

Toledo Chapter Thomas R. Case '61 3918 Woodhurst Drive Toledo, OH 43614-3309 H: 419-382-0820

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Chapter CAPT Charles C. Coley, USN (Ret.) '34 411 NW 14th Sti-eet Oklahoma City OK 73103-3510 H: 405-235-0234

NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Chapter CAPT Wayne O. Henry, USNR '67 2404 Rock Creek Drive Charlotte, NC 28226-0713 H: 704-365-1879; W: 704-373-4484

Triangle Chapter George F. Mitchell '64 4647 Edwards Mill Rd Raleigh, NC 27612-4401 H: 919-571-8930

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12/1/95 1900 Army-Navy Dinner Dance ' Union League, Philadelphia, PA j 12/2/95 1000 Navy BEATS Army Pep Rally i Naval Station, Philadelphia, PA ' 12/2/95 1400 Navy BEATS Army Game \ Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, PA ' 5/??/96 TBD 37th Annual Parent's Night i i The above events and others are in the planning i stages and will be preceded by a notice if you are on j the curtent USNAAA of Philadelphia mailing list. I Annual dues for the mailing list are $10. You can receive a 1994 Edition of the USNAAA of Philadel- i phia Directory by sending an extra $5 with your ; membership dues. Mail your check for $15 payable ' to "USNAAA OF PHILADELPHIA," addressed to ' Mike DeLorey ~70, 413 Linden Avenue, Riverton, " NJ 08077.

I BUSINESS & JOB SEARCH NETWORKING BREAKFAST 0800, Connelly Center, Villanova University 1/10/96; 3/13/96; 4/10/96 These dates are tentative. Contact Al Davey '67 at 215-368-7700 for a head count on those planning to attend. There is a $5 fee to cover expenses.

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speaker, CAPT Ron Brandquist '60, brought us up- ' to-date on brigade activities and various events < planned for this year's 150th Anniversary celebra- I tion. : Plan to join your shipmates at some of the upcom- j ing events planned for the Philadelphia Chapter: '

OREGON Greater Portland Chapter Mr Jack E. Kohl, Jr., '65 471 SW Riverbend Drive West Linn, OR 97068-9416 H: 503-655-4205

PENNSYLVANIA

1996 ANNUAL ELECTION MEETING 6/5/96

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PHILADELPHIA AREA PARENTS CLUB Many events are planned throughout the year. Parents of alumni are welcomed to contact the Parents' Club President, Peggy Thomas at 215-836-7493.

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William E. Otto '71 4105 Tartan Court Murrysville, PA 15668-1045 H: 412-325-4281; W: 412-434-8682

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The 20 September board meeting was held at the Pitcarin Club on board the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base hosted by the station Commanding Officer, CAPT Skip Wiegand '73. The base Public Affairs Officer, LTJG Kendra Kewak '93, organized a superb dinner for the meeting. Our guest

Thank You! Your support built a first-rate Visitor Center!

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PHILIPPINES PhiUppines Chapter COMO Carlos Agustin PN '60 22 Muelle de San Francisco Suite 100, South Harbor Manila 1018, Philippines H: 632-801-9320; W: 632-530-0875; F: 632-530-1199

RHODE ISLAND Newport Chapter CAPT James M. Conway, USN (Ret.) '55 50 Ayrault Street Newport, RI 02840-2728 H: 401-847-5039 Our 26 September dinner meeting was held at the NETC Officers' Club, where our guest of honor and speaker was Ambassador Lauralee Peters; and her husband Lee, a retired foreign service officer AMB Peters is a career diplomat who has just artived in Newport as the International Affairs Advisor to the President, Naval War College. She served most recentiy as our Ambassador to Sierta Leone (1992-95); and has also served overseas in Paraguay, Vietnam, Thailand, and Pakistan. Her specialty is intemational finance, but she has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Personnel (manpower planning and systems development).

AMB Peters reviewed the history of her curtent position at the NWC, where she is also teaching a course in strategy and force planning on the National Security Decision Making Faculty. She also reviewed briefly the history of female ambassadors, wherein she was one of twelve females out of some 140 U.S. Ambassadors - and the only one to be posted to a war zone following a coup in Sierta Leone just before she was posted. In her opinion, there is considerable similarity between the duties of an ambassador overseas and the commanding officer of a ship at sea - particularly in regards to safety, well being and negotiations.

In looking at Sierta Leone as an African nation, she really concentrated on Africa South of the Sahara (the Northern African countries are most often looked at with the near/mid-east). While the population of Sierta Leone is 4.5 million, some 1.5 million have been displaced by civil war, and the country is leaning heavily toward anarchy. While Sierta Leone and other African countries are clearly in our national interest, they may not be in our national security interest (that is, we would not go to war to protect that national interest). Some of our more tangible interests are democracy and stability - particularly in view of geography and resources. Sierta Leone has reserves of diamonds, gold, bauxite and titanium dioxide. There is a strong feeling in Sierta Leone (and other African countries) that the U.S. could do more in direct assistance to help solve their problems particularly in view of the experience in Somalia.

AMB Peters pointed out the great magnitude of difference in costs relating to direct U.S. military assistance versus normal foreign aid - and made the point as often as she could to the Africans of Sierta Leone that they have to make their country for themselves. While the U.S. needs to stay engaged in Africa, budgetary questions may impact on our ability to maintain embassies and missions wherever we'd like.

Sierta Leone is considered by many as the Athens of Africa, with a strong British legacy, some of which gets in the way of practical employment for the populace. In a spirited question period, one of AMB Peters' more interesting observations was that there is

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no word in any African language for "opponent" only "enemy". One either wins - or loses, utterly!

Those in attendance included: Sid and Helene Mertill '34; Ken and Benny Lyons '46; Fred and Dorothy Stevenson '46; Wirt Thayer '47; Earle Trickey '47; Jim and Ginny Mellencamp '48; Roger and Muriel Buck '50; Phil Conley '50; Bob and Pud Connelly '52; Tom Lyons '52; Jim and Anita Conway '55; Howard and Jane Burdick '56; Jim Dranchak '77; West Pointers Tommy and Rachael Thompson '36; Jack and Mary Burney '46; Chuck and Jackie Canham '51, and guests David and Linda Gordon '60; Associates George Smith and Chris Christensen; Neil and Madeline Porter (son Robin '69); Fran Meroney; and Dorothy Council with guests Laura and Lee Peters. Earle Trickey answered the carry-on question that the USNA Alumni Association was formed in 1886 as the USNA Graduates Association (see Shipmate, July/August '95).

Our next meeting will be 24 Oct 1995 at the NETC O'Club, when our guest speaker will be Lieutenant Colonel Mike McGinnis, USA - West Point Professor curtently on the War College faculty.

Howard Burdick '56

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston Chapter CAPT Richard A. Dalla Mura, USN (Ret.) '51 839 Bridgepoint Road Mount Pleasant, SC 29464-2849 H: 803-884-3896 We are very fortunate to have remained out of the paths of the hurticane march across the Atiantic this year. So far, so good! Let's all pray that "Marilyn" will be the last.

We were not fortunate enough to evade the "nosee-ums", the mosquitoes, and the black flies. Believe me, as a recent transplant to the South, I can attest to the fact that these things can bite.

Anyway, after standing down for the summer months to do battle with the elements and pests, the Charleston Chapter is operational once again.

Our first luncheon meeting was held at the Charleston Air Force Base Officer's Club on 15 September Our future meetings will continue to be held there, at noon, on the following dates: 20 Oct, 17 Nov, 19 Jan, 16 Feb, 15 Mar, 19 Apr, and 17 May. The ARMY/NAVY game party will once again be hosted by the Dalla Mura's on 2 December at their lovely home. Our Christmas party site and date is still in the planning stage at this time. Mark your calendars, pay your dues and join us for fun, excitement and camaraderie.

What a fun and exciting speaker for our first meeting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; FRAN JOSEPHSON! Fran was recmited by the Navy from Goucher College to become one of about 70 young women to be trained in cryptology Sworn to secrecy, or be shot, she worked at breaking the Japanese and German codes during the second World War. Only in the last two years has this story been de-classified. Finally commissioned as an Ensign, given a uniform, (there were none for women in the Navy at this time), she made a career out of our Navy, rather than become a doctor (Those naval uniforms will do it every time). What a fascinating story!

We had our new elections. Captain Dick Dalla Mura '51 will continue to serve as President. Jim Beltz '73 is our Vice President. Our Treasurer is Dan Lovell '53. And guess who got suckered into the Secretary's position? I knew I shouldn't have volunteered to write this column for Shipmate (I've always been a slow leamer). Our newly elected Tmstees are: Admiral Jim Flatley '56, Ed Newbegin '55,

and Al Baciocco '53. Ed Newbegin will also serve as our National Tmstee.

The list 1 inherited shows 286 Alumni in the Charleston area. Probably there are a little less than that now with the closure of the Naval Base. Dues paying members, to date, are 41. Where are the rest of you? Come on out, join in the fun and excitement, socialize a bit, and swap some sea stories. We look forward to having you with us.

In attendance at our first meeting were: Dave Kem '92; Donna Murphy '88; Matt Minahan '73; Jim Beltz '73; Rick Dilgren '72; Ron Ruys '67; George Lisle '58; Jim Kenney '58; Jim Flatley '56; Ed Parent '56; Ed Newbegin '55; Tim Taylor '54; Lew and Nancy Diley '54; Don and Jean Lovell '53; Bob Knight '53; Neale Bird '53; Joe Klingensmith '50; Jerry Nuss '47; "Slip" Haizlip '47; Audley McCain '43; and several guests.

As of this writing NAVY is 1 for 2, beating SMU and losing to Rutgers 27-17...so far, so good.

BEAT ARMY !

Ron Baker '57

Palmetto Chapter LT John W. Hesse, USNR '87 207 Elizabeth Drive Greenville, SC 29615 H: 803-268-0809; W: 800-298-0828

South Carolina/Low Country Chapter Col Thomas H. Galbraith, USMC (Ret.) '48 25 Rose Hill Drive Bluffton,SC 29910-9519 H: 803-757-3738

TENNESSEE Chattanooga Chapter VADM Ronald M. Eytchison, USN (Ret.) 11 Prentice Lane Signal Mountain, TN 37377 615-886-2823

Knoxville Chapter CAPT William O. Rentz, USN (Ret.) '55 270 Cedar Brook Lane Kingston, TN 37763-9317 H: 615-376-1468; W: 615-574-9864; F: 615-574-5086

Memphis Chapter CAPT Walter C. Nix, USN (Ret.) '54 3758 South Lakewood Dr Memphis, TN 38128-4311 H: 901-386-8258

Nashville Chapter CDR John F. Ohlinger, USN (Ret.) '69 880 Lakemont Drive Nashville, TN 37720 H: 615-370-1441; W: 615-371-8596

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TEXAS North Texas Chapter LT D.A. Jones, USN '88 5534 Monticello Avenue Dallas, TX 75206-6602 H: 214-823-5953

South Texas Chapter Roger E. Hopkins '62 PO Box 311007 New Braunfels, TX 78131-1473 H: 512-620-7748; W: 512-344-5581

Texas Gulf Coast Chapter CDR Peter Vanderlofske, USNR '68 1106 Glouchester Lane Houston, TX 77073 H: 713-443-1854; W: 713-690-9898 USNA SUPERINTENDENT COMES TO HOUSTON...

ADM Charles Larson '58 joined us for our 8 September luncheon. He was accompanied by his wife, his aide (LT Scott Fuhrman, USN), and a recruiting officer (Lieutenant Larry Guiticrtez). Ron Brandquist '60, President USNA Alumni Association, also accompanied the Admiral. They visited Houston as part of the Navy-SMU Dallas football ti-ip. We all enjoyed hearing the Superintendent's comments conceming, among other things: reserve commissions, service commitment upon graduation and USNA budget requirements. He was also quite clear in his request that the Alumni Association support his efforts in behalf of our Academy — he needs both financial and political support.

SEPTEMBER LUNCHEON ATTENDEES...

The following shipmates attended our 8 September meeting: Felix Davis '41, Andrew McKinney '44, Dan Mahoney '47, Walt Lamb '55, Chariie Chavarria '56, Neil Block '61,CurtGibby '61, Marty Block '64, Donald Hannsz '64, Erik Woods '64, Ed Hlopak '65, Bart Jealous '65, Paul Marshall '65, Lynn Wegner '65, Ron Cook '68, Hal Dantone '68, Ron Lemon '68, Peter Vanderlofske '68, Jim Babb '69, Rich Bulger '69, Rick Bush '69, John Gates '69, Tom Wojciechowski '69, Doug Bateman '70, Bill Chambers '70, Hugh Mauldin '70, Ed Klein '72, Jim Burdett '73, Bruce Hargus '73, Ken Mayeaux '73, Dirk Mosis '73, Mark Johnson '74, Andy Howard '75, Steve Koronka '78, Steve Colon '81, Steve Plaisance '81, Jon Messinger '81, Mark Stolzenberg '81, Jim Rebhom '83, Peter Landauer '90, Carter Conlin, Bill Stevenson (Blue & Gold), and Chase Untermeyer (USNA Board of Visitors).

NAVY-SMU FOOTBALL GAME (DALLAS SEPT 9TH)...

Of course Navy won the game in a big way — you can read the football details elsewhere. Our Chapter sent the following "representatives" to the game: Neil Block '61, Lynn Wegner '65, Ron Lemon '68, Hal Dantone '68, Peter Van Derlofske '68, Dirk Mosis '73, Ken Mayeaux '73, Tim Rebhom '83, and Mike Wimer '94. This list of Houston attendees is probably incomplete, but it's all I had. In the "small world" category... after the game, the Houston '68 group was checking into the Doubletree Hotel. The desk clerk stmck up a conversation with them, and it turned out that the young man (Ken Long ??) is the son of Bob Long '68 (a Houston resident).

CHAPTER NEWS...

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and we hope to see him at future Chapter luncheons.

Jim Burdett '73 attended his last Houston Chapter luncheon (for a while!!). As mentioned previously, Jim and Marie are relocating to Washington, DC. Jim served as Vice President of our Chapter — we will miss him. Peter Landauer '90 also joined us for the first time. He is working at WILTEL. BUSINESS BREAKFASTS...

Several of our shipmates are members of The Academy Association (a Houston-based business network group consisting of graduates from Annapolis, West Point, and the Air Force Academy). Our breakfast meetings are every Tuesday morning (7:15 a.m.) at the Metropolitan Racquet Club. Visitors are always welcome!! If you're interested, please call Ed Klein '72(713-960-9551 ext. 222) or Bart Jealous '65(713655-1440).

CHAPTER MEETINGS...

Chapter meetings are held on the first Friday of every month at Brennan's Restaurant (11:30 a.m. refreshments and noon to 1:00 p.m. lunch). Brennan's (3300 Smith St.) offers a premiere luncheon (only $15) at a downtown location that is easily accessible to most Houstonians. Please join us!! Call Peter Van Deriofske '68 (713-690-9898) or Ed Klein '72 (713960-9551 ext. 222) for more information. Our next meetings are scheduled for 6 October, 3 November and 1 December Plus, we will have something scheduled around the Army-Navy game. For other Chapter information, call Peter or me, and we'll put you on our mail/fax list!!

Ed Klein '72

UTAH/ID AHO/MONTANA Beehive Intermountain NA Alumni Chapter POC's: Mr. H. Keith Haines 11 & Mr. Michael Nichols 1700 North Hickory Lane Provo, UT 84604 801-373-5856

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The 1995-96 year for the Greater Washington Chapter commenced with a bang at our first luncheon meeting, at Ft. Myer, on 20 September Tom Marti '60 passed the torch to our new leader, Don Evans '61, who ascended the podium and presided in typical Marine Corps fine style. We had a great turnout — 202 attendees — with a record-breaking span of 66 class-years. Dorothea Cutts (Richard M.) represented the Class of 1923, and Eric Toweson and Lisa Thomas stood in for the Class of 1989. This range of representation shows that we are succeeding in accomplishing one of the foremost goals of the Chapter, that of obtaining involvement in our activities by the widest possible distribution of age groups.

Hopefully, as more members of the classes of the Nineties come ashore to the "joys" of Washington duty, they will step up and fill the vacancies left by many of our dedicated old timers. The class-year distribution of our Chapter is now centered at about 1957, continuing the annual progression we have previously observed.

We excused SECNAV Dalton '64, who was originally scheduled to speak, because of a most-welcome higher priority, that of welcoming the battle group returning to Norfolk after a long and outstanding Bosnia deployment — a superb example of our current "From the Sea" strategy. He will meet with us at a later date.

President Evans was successful in obtaining a very generous pinch-hitter, Giles Nortington, an ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) attack pilot shot down over North Vietnam in May of 1968 and a contemporary guest in the Hanoi Hilton, with John McCain, until March 1973. His electrifying recollection of the incredible deprivations and torture suffered as a POW gave us all cause to think about, and to appreciate, how comfortably different our own lives perhaps were in that five-year period. Since retiring in 1988, Giles has served in numerous areas of public service, notably in the Red Cross and the Crisis Task Force in Norfolk.

Our next major event is the 10 October celebration of the USNA's 150th, at which we plan to hold a special Chapter meeting, conceived by Bill Heavey '41, at a reception and dinner at the Naval Academy Officers' and Faculty Club (It is doubtful that much official "business" will be transacted)!

John Shepherd '43

Hampton Roads Chapter CAPT Donald R. Trueblood, USN (Ret.) '49 2504 Forehand Lane Virginia Beach, VA 23454-2744 H: 804-481-3657; W: 804-427-4131

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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."

Lawrence Binyon, 1914

ADAMS, DANIEL BRECK '47 LCDR, USNR (Ret.), 1 April 1995, California BACHHUBER, JOSEPH ANDREW '42 CAPT, USN (Ret.), 15 January 1993 BRITAIN, BENJAMIN MOSELEY '46 LCDR, USNR (Ret.), 25 September 1995, Huntsville, AL COLE, KENNETH JOHNSON '47 CAPT, USN (Ret.), 21 September 1995, South Wellfleet, MA DARIUS, HENRY ANTHONY '58, 25 September 1995, Los Altos, CA FRIEDRICK, ERNEST SOUTHARD '37 CDR, USN (Ret.), 20 May 1995 HANES, WILLIAM TRAVIS, JR. '53, 29 September 1995, Lubbock, TX HAY, FRED EDWARD '42 LCDR, USNR (Ret), 23 December 1994

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HOFMAN, LEO CHARLES, SR. '47, 25 September 1995, Boynton Beach, FL JOHANNESEN, JOHN RAYMOND '23 RADM, USN (Ret.), 22 September 1995, McLean, VA MOBAYED, RONALD JOSEPH '91 LTJG, USN, 03 October 1995, Atlantic Area OSBORN, DONALD RODERICK III '51 LCDR, USN (Ret.), 19 September 1995, Glendale, CA PARK, BENJAMIN F. '44, 19 August 1995, Richmond, KS PFINGSTAG, PAUL WILLIAM '32 CAPT, USN (Ret.), 8 June 1995, Wickenburg, AZ SMITH, ROBERT SEGUINE '27, 20 July 1995, Interlachen, MI STECHER, ROBERT WESLEY '43 CAPT, USN (Ret.), 20 September 1995

SUAREZ-MARILL, JAVIER '82, 26 July 1995, Falls Church, VA VOGEL, ROBERT WILLIAM '89 LT, USN, 03 October 1995, Adantic Area

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CHARLES LAWRENCE FREEMAN '27 CAPT Charles Lawrence "Larry" Freeman, USN (Ret.) died on 21 August 1995 at home in Coronado, CA, after a long illness. Memorial services were conducted at Christ Episcopal Church in Coronado. His ashes were scattered at sea and a plaque was mounted at Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Bom and reared in Newton, Massachusetts, he received his early education there and was graduated from Daltham High School. He was appointed to the Naval Academy from his home state to graduate with the Class of 1927.

On graduation he served successively in the cmiser MARBLEHEAD, a unit of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, thence to the Naval Torpedo School at Newport, RI; the Submarine School, New London, CT; Submarine PECOS (S-30); cmiser PORTLAND; Submarine R-Il; and from 1935 to 1936, he attended the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at AnnapoHs. His next assignment was to Submarine S-31 and a year later he assumed command of Submarine S-34. This was followed by a year as an instmctor at the Submarine School and then as CO of Submarine SKIPJACK a unit of the U.S. Asiatic Heet. SKIPJACK was at Manila when the United States entered World War II. Detached from SKIPJACK in April 1942, he served on the staff of Commander Submarines 7th Fleet and a year later ti-ansferted to Staff of COMSUBLANT. He received a commendation ribbon from CINCLANTFLT for: "meritorious service as Personnel Officer and for contributing materially to the effective manning of submarines..."

In August 1944, as Executive Officer of Cmiser AUGUSTA, he participated in the invasion of Southem France, and in 1945 made artangements for President Tmman's trip to the Potsdam Conference. He was awarded a 2nd Commendation Medal by CINCLANTFLT for: "meritorious service in supervising artangements in AUGUSTA for the Presidential trip to Potsdam."

Later assignments included: Command of Transport DREW, engaged in returning deployed troops in the Pacific Area to the United States; Command of WILLIAMSBURG, the Presidential Yacht, with additional duty as White House Aide; Command of REINA MERCEDES; staff of SHAPE and Assistant Naval Attache in Paris; C/S to COMSERVFORCE SIXTH; Office of the CNO in Washington as Assistant for Foreign Military Aid matters; and as C/S for COMSLXTHFLT. Later, as a member of General Eisenhower's Staff, he assisted in establishing NATO Headquarters. His final assignment was as Superintendent of the Naval Observatory. He retired from active duty in 1957.

In addition to the two awards of the Commendation Medal, Captain Freeman had the Army Distinguished Unit Badge and the following area medals: Yangtze Service; American Defense with Fleet Clasp; Asiatic-Pacific American Campaign; World War II Victory; Navy Occupation Service with Asia Clasp; National Defense Service; and Philippine Defense.

In retirement Captain Freeman embarked on a second career as a research specialist and advisor on national security matters with the RAND Corporation, which continued for thirty years.

His survivors include: his wife of 66 years, the former Phyllis Yates of Comado, CA; two daughters, Nancy Hancock of Cape Elizabeth, ME; Phyllis Howard of Coronado, CA; six grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren.

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TRUMAN JOHNSON HEDDING '24 VADM Tmman J. Hedding passed away on 23 August 1995 in Rancho Bernardo, California. His ashes are to be scattered at sea from CONSTELLATION.

Tmman was born 14 July 1902 in Morrisdale, Pennsylvania. He grew up in New Mexico from where he received his appointment to the Naval Academy, which he entered in 1920. He graduated sixth in his Class and was commissioned as an Ensign 4 June 1924.

Tmman then served aboard MARYLAND until 1926 when he requested a transfer to NAS Pensacola, Florida for flight draining. He was designated Naval Aviator on 24 November 1926 and was subsequentiy assigned to Fighting Squadron One of Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet. Two years later he applied for postgraduate training and received a Master of Science in aeronautical engineering, in 1931, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following graduation, he reported to the Flight Test Section, NAS Anacostia as a test pilot. In 1933, he was assigned to SARATOGA as Flight Deck Officer and Landing Signal Officer Transferted to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, DC in 1936, Tmman had additional duties as Naval Aid to the White House. One of his most treasured memories was of Eleanor Roosevelt, "a very gracious lady," who entertained him and his mother at a private tea in the White House.

In 1937, he joined Fighting Squadron 2-B based on LEXINGTON and later assumed command of Fighting Squadron 2 aboard that carrier Tmman was serving at NAS Pensacola, Florida when the Japanese stmck at Pearl Harbor His next assignment was at Newport News, Virginia where he assisted in the fitting out of the ESSEX. From the commissioning of ESSEX in 1942 to 1943, he served first as Air Officer and then as Executive Officer He became Chief of Staff to the Commander Carrier Division Three in 1943, and in 1944 to Commander Task Force 58, under Admiral Marc Mitscher For outstanding service in these capacities, he received the Legion of Merit with Combat V and the Commendation Ribbon with Combat V, "For exceptionally meritorious conduct...during successful attacks on enemy Japanese-held territory of Tarawa, Apamama, Makin, Jaluit, Wotje, Kwajalein, Truk, the Marianas, June 1944...Captain Hedding ably assisted the Task Force Commander in planning operations and in coordinating and directing attacks against hostile aircraft, shipping and shore installations...He was greatly instrumental informing plans which, when placed in effect by the units of the Task Force, caused great destruction on the enemy with little danger to our forces."

While on these assignments, he revised and simplified the procedure for fueling carriers. According to Tmman, "Instead of the tanker making the approach to the large ships, the tanker held a steady course and speed. The large ships (carriers, battieships, and cmisers) made die approach and 'flew formation' on the tanker, only passing over a messenger line, a distance line, and the fuel lines. This was both safer and faster than the old procedure."

From June 1944 to August 1945, Tmman served on the staff of the Conunander in Chief Pacific Fleet (Admiral Chester Nimitz) and for meritorious service was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon and Stars. At the end of the hostilities, he was assigned to the U.S. Strategic

Bombing Survey, Japan, completing this survey in March 1946.

Following a tour of duty at NAS Kahului, Maui, Tmman retumed to Washington, DC in 1947 for an assignment to the General Board. While there, he was assigned to the desk that had been used many years before by Admiral Dewey. When he left the Board, Tmman artanged for the desk to be placed in the Academy Museum.

He next graduated from the Naval War College and then assumed command of VALLEY FORGE in July 1948, one of his favorite assignments. Detached from that command, he was next ordered to the Joint Staff, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC. Next he joined the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, becoming Chief of Staff in 1951. In 1953, he served as Commander, Formosa Patrol Force, Pacific Fleet. In 1954, he reported as Deputy Director, Joint Strategic Plans Group, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and in 1955 assumed the duty of Special Assistant to the Chairman (Admiral Arthur W. Radford) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was next Commander, Carrier Division Three until 1957, and then reported to his final assignment as Bureau of Aeronautics General Representative, Westem District. From this position, Tmman retired from the Navy, effective 1 January 1959, being advanced to the rank of Vice Admiral.

Following his retirement from the Navy, Tmman worked for six years for General Motors Corporation in the Los Angeles area. He eventually moved to Coronado where he hved for many years before moving to a retirement community in Rancho Bemardo, Califomia in 1988.

Truman was married to the former Ysabel Wolfskin Weyse of Santa Monica, Califomia. He is survived by four children: Tmman J. Hedding 11, of Phoenix, Arizona, Nancy Kletzein of Manito Wish Waters, Wisconsin, Michele Stephenson of Hollister, Califomia, and Joan Hedding of Irvine, Califomia; 14 grandchildren (including Tmman J. Hedding HI); and 13 great-grandchildren (including Truman J. Hedding IV).

ROLLO N I E L NORGAARD '28 RADM Rollo N . Norgaard,USN (Ret.) died on 3 September in Winter Park, FL; the cause of death was not available.

Bom in Dell Rapids, SD, he was the grandson of Nels Johnson Norgaard, one of the pioneer settlers of South Dakota. He graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1928, and prior to Worid War II attended the post-graduate school in Annapolis and the Naval War College in Newport, RI. He served in light and heavy cmisers and aboard the battieships UTAH, MARYLAND and PENNSYLVANL\.

He was also w a s on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet. After Worid War H broke out, he served first in the Atlantic theater of operations as a routing and diverting officer for Allied shipping. Then, In 1943, he was assigned as Commander of TASK GROUP 21.7, an escort for fast Allied convoys from die United States to Britain, and was awarded the Legion of Merit for his efforts.

Transferted to the Pacific, he took part in the amphibious assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He received tiie Navy Cross for his actions as commanding officer of HYMAN during the Okinawa invasion. The ship came under attack by Japanese Kamikaze planes and was heavily damaged, but managed to continue in action and shot down a number of enemy aircraft.

In 1945 Norgaard served as Assistant Chief of Staff to the Commander, Atiantic Fleet Training Command, and then as Chief of Staff of CRUISER DIVISION 18, on TOPEKA, operating in ADM Halsey's Fast Carrier Task Force. He participated in a raid on Tokyo Bay and later patrolled the coasts of Japan.

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After the war, he served on the Naval Academy faculty, heading the Department of Foreign Languages, in 1948. He later served as senior military and naval attache at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, and head of the Foreign Service of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

During the Korean War he commanded Moiwr MCKINLEY and was awarded a Bronze Star medal for combat duty. Additional honors included the President of Korea Unit Citation and the United Nations Medal. He also received several area medals, one with three battle stars.

RADM Norgaard retired in 1958 as Assistant Director of the General Planning Group in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

After his retirement from active duty. General Mills, Inc. employed him as Eastern Regional Manager of its Electronic Division in Washington, DC. Later he worked for Aeronca Manufacturing as Astro-control Systems Division Manager and as Assistant General Manager of the Aerospace Division.

Before moving from Annapolis to Florida in 1969, he was Assistant to the President of Oceanics, Inc. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Naval War College Foundation, the University Club of Winter Park, the Navy League of the United States, the Military Order of the World Wars, the Retired Officers Association, and the American Association of Retired Persons.

In 1930, he was married to the former Elizabeth Gordan Everett of Portsmouth, VA, who died in 1991.

Survivors are: his daughter, Elizabeth Norgaard De La Barte of Arlington, VA; his sister, Grace Rovang of Dell Rapids; his brother, Quinton David Norgaard of Anchorage, Alaska; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held 8 September at St.Andrews Chapel, at the Naval Academy, followed by burial in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

PETER G. POWELL, JR. '31 Peter G. Powell, 85, died on 22 June 1995 in Lexington, KY. He had not been in good health for some time and following a fall down the stairs, he was alert and comfortable in the hospital for 2 weeks, but did not re..^>£«. b::; cover He died peacefully and his two daughters, Eugenia Grayson Powell and Margarett Powell Brooks, were both with him at the time.

A native and lifelong Lexington resident, M r Powell was the son of Peter George and Eugenia Fetter Powell. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1931 and served until 1937 as a Naval officer Then, during World War II, he taught air combat intelligence. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Naval Affairs for the Lexington area, and the local Naval Reserve Unit was named after him.

Beyond his service to Country, M r Powell was the Manager of Lexington's airport. Blue Grass Field, from 1944 until 1951—under his leadership the airport gained administration and maintenance buildings, two hangars, ramps, parking, a communications station, and a control tower In 1952 he became Lexington City Commisioner, serving as such until 1964, and he was President of Imperial Petroleum Company from the early I950's until 1985, when he sold the business.

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Following the death of his first wife, Margaret Grayson Powell, in 1987, M r Powell continued to enjoy living in the home they had built in 1963 along the golf course, and continued playing golf until poor health detertcd him in 1994. He martied Mary Ellen Davis (who was with her first husband, also in the Navy, at Pearl Harbor) in November 1989. He thoroughly enjoyed keeping in touch with old Naval friends. He was a member of Christ Church Cathedral, the Idle Hour Country Club, the Lexington Club and the Keeneland Association.

Mr Powell is survived bv his wife, Mary Ellen Davis Lowell; two daughters, Margaret Brooks of Pittsford, NY, and Eugenia Grayson Powell of Bozeman, MT; a step-son, Daniel Alexander Davis of Denver, CO; two granddaughters, April Brooks and Crystal Brooks; a cousin, Dora Fetter Coe of Deerfield Beach, FL; and a sister-in-law, Elizabeth Grayson Cady of Sarasota, FL. Burial was held in Lexington Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Lexington Humane Society.

Please direct phone calls and/or cortespondence to: Eugenia Grayson Powell, 2110 Spring Creek Drive, Bozeman, MT 59715; PH: 406-587-5510. She will forward anything requested to his widow, Mary Ellen.

WILLIAM BERNARD S I E G L A F F ' 3 1 RADM William B. Sieglaff, USN (Ret.) died 16 August 1995 in Urbana, Virginia. Interment with full military honors was in the Naval Academy Cemetery on 21 August.

Bom 6 July 1908 in Albert Lea, Minnesota, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from Califomia in 1927. In the Academy he was active in football (Captain, B Squad) and basketball.

On graduation in 1931 he joined OKLAHOMA and went on to Sub School in 1933. On completion he joined S-37 on the Asiatic Station.

1938-41 he attended PG School, Annapolis, then MIT where he was awarded an MS degree. His next duty was at Pearl Harbor as a Submarine Division Engineer In November 1942 he took command of TAUTOG in Perth; by April 1944 he had made seven successful patrols against the Japanese. He then commissioned TENCH in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and proceeded to Pearl Harbor arriving January 1945. He made a patrol as Wolf Pack Commander, then, in April, joined the staff of COMSUBPAC at Guam. For the surtender ceremony in Tokyo Bay he commanded the 5(X)0-ton Japanese submarine 1-400.

He remained on COMSUBPAC Staff until March 1947. In September 1949 he took command of SUBDIV 81; 1950 Commander Submarine Development Group 2; 1951 Officer in Charge of Sub School; 1952 Commanded Sub Base, New London; 1953 Naval War College; 1954 Chief of Staff, C O M S U B P A C ; and 1955 command of oiler ALLAGASH, followed by command of cmiser ALBANY. After two years in the Pentagon he was promoted to Rear Admiral, reported to Staff, CINCAFMED at Malta. In 1960 he Commanded CRUISER DIVISION TWO and from 1961 to 1964 he was on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, and then Commandant, First Naval District in Boston.

He retired from the Navy in 1966 and moved to New London. In 1979 he moved to Manchester Center, Vermont.

His distinguished submarine war service eamed him two Navy Crosses, three Silver Stars, three Legions of Merit, and a Navy Unit Citation.

Sieglaff married Ruth Maynard in Manila in 1935.

In addition to Ruth, he is survived by son Peter M. Sieglaff of Boca Grande, Florida; daughter Astrea Hubfel of Waterford; a sister Gretchen Sieglaff Temple of Bloomfield; six grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

CARL GEORGE DRESCHER '33 RADM Carl G. Drescher, SC, USN (Ret.) died on 9 August 1995 at Champlain Valley Physican's Hospital at Plattsburgh, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial was held at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in Lyon Mountain, NY, followed by interment with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on 21 Augustx 1995.

The youngest of the eleven children of Frederick William Drescher and Ann (Burke) Drescher, Carl was born in Washington, DC on 10 October 1910. He attended Eastem High School and Devitt Preparatory School before entering the Naval Academy where he graduated with the Class of 1933. He later graduated from Harvard University where he received a Master's Degree with Distinction in Business Administration.

Following graduation from the Naval Academy, Carl served briefly with the Farm Credit Administration and as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers until the latter part of 1935 when earlier legislative restrictions were eased, which permitted him to be commissioned as an Ensign in the regular Navy. As a young officer, he served aboard the cmisers SAN FRANCISCO and BROOKLYN. He then attended

the Navy Finance & Supply School in Philadelphia followed by duty aboard the submarine tender ARGONNE. He was later stationed at the Naval Ammunition Depot, lona Island, NY, at the Naval Air Station, Elizabeth City, NC, and then as a supply officer aboard the carrier MONTEREY during fitting out.

During World War II, Carl served in the South and Central Pacific on cruisers, destroyers and tankers.

Throughout most of 1943 he served as Fuel Officer on the Staff of Commander Service Squadron/South Pacific and in December 1943 he was transferred to the Staff of Commander Service Force/Pacific for duty as the Assistant Fleet Supply Officer In this capacity he was stationed aboard the destroyer CANFIELD and the tanker CALIENTE (Flagship, Task Group 17). During the early part of 1944, in connection with the operational control of all tankers supplying the FIFTH FLEET, he logged brief assignments aboard fleet oilers SuAMico, PECOS, CACAPON, NESHANIC and SARANAC.

In May 1944 he was assigned as the Fleet Fuel Officer and Squadron Supply Officer with Commander Service Squadron Eight/ Pacific aboard the destroyer JOHN D . HENLEY and in January 1945 he began a tour as Logistics Officer on the Staff of Commander Service Squadron Six/Pacific Fleet aboard the cmiser DETROrt. He participated in seven major battle campaigns: the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, the Marianas, Hollandia, Iwo Jima and

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Okinawa. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" while serving with tiie FIFTH FLEET under hostile enemy air attacks in the Gilberts, Marshalls and Marianas campaigns including the capture of Saipan, Guam and Tinian. He later received a Gold Star in lieu of a second Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement during the assault and capture of enemy held Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Additional to the above, Carl was entitled to wear the American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with seven battle stars. World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the Phillipine Liberation Medal.

Following World War H, Carl served as Executive Officer, Naval Supply Corps School at Harvard University and at the Pentagon as Director, Supply & Distribution Division, Army-Navy Petroleum Board, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was then Officer in Charge, Fuel Division, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, as well as Head of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts Technical Section, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. This was followed by an assignment as Executive Officer, Naval Supply Center at Pearl Harbor and as Director, Armed Services Petroleum Purchasing Agency; a joint service agency organized to consolidate the procurement and distribution of petroleum products for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Upon completion of this tour of duty he was commended by the Secretary of the Navy for the outstanding manner in which he handled the responsibilities assigned to him.

Following his naval retirement in 1956, Carl joined Sinclair Oil Corporation as a Vice President and Director. As an executive of various Sinclair subsidiaries, Carl served as President, Sinclair Intemational Oil Company which coordinated foreign operations in both hemispheres and as President, Sinclair Refining Company. This was the subsidiary through which domestic cmde oil purchasing, manufacturing, marine transporation, product supply, distribution and marketing operations were administered. Retiring from petroleum business in 1969, he then served for a period of two years as President of GiftAmerica, a Westem Union subsidiary. In 1965 Carl was inducted as a Knight of Malta by the late Cardinal Spellman. As a member, he joined the ranks of the very few to have been so honored with one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a Catholic lay person.

Except for summers, which Carl and Mary spent at Lake Chateaugay in upstate New York near Plattsburgh, they have lived in Stuart, Florida for the past twenty-five years where both of their children live with their families. Carl died peacefully in his sleep from heart and lung complications arising from a four year battle with diabetes related kidney failure.

He is survived by his wife of sixty years, Mary, a son, Gerald Carl (Gerry), a daughter, Ann D. Jones, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

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DONALD MORISON WHITE ' 3 7 RADM Donald M. White, USN (Ret.) died 11 September 1995 in Pensacola, FL. He did not recover from abdominal surgery. Services were held at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Pensacola on 15 September and interment was in Bartancas National Cemetery.

Bom in Minneapolis, MN, 19 August 1915, he entered the Naval Academy in 1933, graduating with the Class of 1937. Following two years in the cmiser MILWAUKEE, he entered flight training at Pensacola and on graduation joined TORPEDO SQUADRON 6, and embarked in ENTERPRISE. In 1942 he joined TORPEDO SQUADRON 9 and embarked in ESSEX as a pilot and

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Gunnery Officer He left that unit in 1944 as Commanding Officer His W W n service included the early efforts at offensive action in the Pacific and the beginning of the march across that ocean, seeing action in attacks on Marcus Island, Wake Island, Tmk Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, Rabaul Harbor, and Majuro Atoll.

RADM White's subsequent service included many staff and operational naval aviation assignments, including two Korean deployments in BOXER and in VALLEY FORGE. He was a graduate of the Naval War

College. His individual ship commands were SHASTA, an ammunition ship, and the carrier FORRESTAL. Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1964, he commanded CARRIER DFVISION 22 until 1966, when he became Commandant 17th Naval District, Commander Reet Air Alaska, and Commander Alaskan Sea Frontier He retired in 1970.

His decorations include the Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals, and three Presidential Unit Citations.

On retirement from active duty, he became a repairer of antique fumiture until back problems intermpted that venture.

RADM White's wife, Ruth, passed away in 1987.

He is survived by; six children, Bmce W., Donald M. Jr, Edward L., Barbara Smith, Tony, and Mike; his sister, Joan Greene of Lockport, ME; fifteen grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren.

ALAN ROBERTS MCFARLAND SR. '38 Alan R. McFarland Sr, 79, a retired Rohm & Haas executive and the youngest commander of a destroyer during Worid War II, died 19 August 1995 at Waveriy Heights, a retirement community in Gladwyne, PA. He was a longtime resident of Wyncote, PA. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1938, he was assigned to the staff of Admiral Emest King and was a member of the admiral's staff when King rose to command all U.S. Naval Forces.

In 1944, at age 28, Lieutenant McFarland was placed in command of BACHE. In early 1945, the ship supported landings during the Battie of Iwo Jima. At Okinawa, while still under LT McFarland's command, the ship was badly damaged in battle with the loss of 50 officers and sailors.

Following the war, LT McFarland was transferted to Washington and became King's aide and flag lieutenant.

He received numerous commendations and medals including the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, die American Theatre Victory Ribbon, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and the Legion of Valor He was honorably discharged from the Navy on 11 June 1947.

Following his Naval service, M r McFarland pursued a career in chemical engineering, in which discipline he had received a degree from the Naval Academy.

He was first employed by the Wobum Chemical Company in Harrison, NJ, and then joined Rohn & Haas in Philadelphia. He retired after 30 years' service in 1980.

Bom in Jenkintown, Mr. McFarland was a leading athlete at William Penn Charter School. He went on to captain the Navy basketball team at Annapolis and also played football and baseball.

He was a member of the Huntingdon Valley Country Club for 69 years, and a member of the Union League and the Sunnybrook Country Club.

Mr McFarland served on the board of tmstees at Abingdon Memorial Hospital from 1958-1980, and was also a member of the St. Andrews Society and the Navy League.

For many years, he served on the vestry of St. John's Episcopal Church, Huntingdon Valley.

Mr. McFarland is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Mathieu McFarland; three sons, Alan R. Jr, Duncan M. and Smart A.; eight grandchildren; and a brother A memorial service was held in September Memorial contributions may be made to the National Parkinson Foundation, Inc., 1501 Ninth Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.

CHARLES WHITACRE CUSHMAN '39 CDR Charles W. "Whit" Cushman, USN (Ret.) died on 23 June 1995 of heart failure at his Highland, NC home. A memorial service was held at the Mayport Naval Station Chapel, Mayport, FL, after which his ashes were spread on the waters of the Atlantic.

Bom 5 September 1917 in Vermont, Commander Cushman was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from the State of New Jersey and graduated with the Class of 1939. On graduation he was assigned to the light cmiser DETROrt and had duties as Assistant Gunnery and Air Defense Officer In 1942 his ship was in the Aleutians campaign.

Then, in early 1943, he went to the new constmction light cmiser ASTORIA. In 1944 his ship joined the FAST CARRIER TASK FORCE in the westem Pacific. As Assistant Gunnery Officer, he took part in the late '44 and early '45 Fast Carrier actions. In March 1944 he became the Communicator of the ASTORIA. In 1946 Commander Cushman was assigned to the Staff of COMDESCRUSAC and in 1947 he became a Communications and Crypto Officer in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In 1949 he joined the Staff of CINCLANTFLT and in 1950 was assigned to tiie Staff of COMPHIBGRU 2 in Norfolk. In 1952 he took command of the destroyer KIMBERLY and finally, in 1954, he decommissioned KIM-

BERLY and became Officer in Charge of the Naval Recmiting Station, Philadelphia, PA. In 1957 he joined the Fleet Training Group, Guantanamo, Cuba, and in 1958 was Commanding Officer of AF HYADES. In 1959 he served as Liaison Officer for the Naval Reserve Training Command at Omaha, Nebraska and finally retired from the Navy in June 1960.

On retirement he spent a year in Mortgage Banking and then, in 1962, he joined the frnn of American City Bureau, the oldest fund-raising firm in the United States. First as Associate Counsel and then as Senior Counsel, he conducted fund drives in all parts of the U.S. for non-profit clients. His firm merged with Beaver Associates in 1963 and in 1975, he was elected to its Board of Directors. In 1976 he became its Vice President and later retired from that position for a second time.

Commander Cushman is survived by his widow, Beveriy Dyer Cushman, of 3490 Northeast 17th Way, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33334, a daughter, Helen Amanda Knobel, and two sons, Charles W. J r and Kenneth K. Cushman.

CAPT William J. Ruhe, USN (Ret.) '39

Note: The obituaries for Commander Cushman '39 and for Captain Henry '39 are being reprinted because they were initially run without their photographs. Please accept our apologies for this error.

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EUGENE BAKER HENRY, JR. '39 CAPT Eugene B. Henry, USN (Ret.) died of a stroke on 21 June 1995 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. A burial service was held for his remains on 24 June at St. Columbus Berkeley Memorial Chapel, Middletown, RI, and he was interted in the cemetery there.

Bom 17 May 1917 in Birmingham, Alabama, Captain Hemy was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that State and graduated with the Class of 1939. On graduation he was assigned to the battleship CALIFORNIA. After a year, he was ordered to the destroyer LANSDOWNE and remained in destroyers throughout World War II, operating in the Pacific except for three months in 1942, when LANSDOWNE made two Class B attacks on German submarines in this Atiantic. In January 1943 he became the Executive Officer of the destroyer LANSDOWNE. In April 1944 he put the destroyer HOWORTH in commission as Executive Officer and Navigator, and in April 1945 he took command of the destroyer FRANKS. He put the FRANKS

out of commission in May 1946 and then reported for duty as an instructor in the N.R.O.T.C. Unit at Princeton University. In July 1948 he joined COMDESLANT's Staff and in August 1950, he took commandof the destroyer BROWNSON. In late 1951 he joined the Staff of the Naval War College at Newport.

In 1954 he became Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Middle East Force at Bahrain. In late 1955 he became the Executive Officer of the battleship IOWA, and in the spring of 1957 he went to the Pentagon to serve in OP-60's Strategic Plans section, and later in J-3 of the Joint Staff. In 1960 he took command of the AD ARCADL\ and then became COMDESRON 24, operating in a HUK Group in the Meditertanean and Middle East. Subsequentiy he was COMDESFLOT 5 at Pearl. He retumed to the Naval War College in 1966 and became Aide and Chief of Staff for the President, Admiral Colbert. He retired from the Navy in 1969.

On retirement he went to the University of Rhode Island's Graduate Librarian School and on graduation became Head Librarian at Newport's Ubrary, serving there until 1983.

Captain Henry is survived by his widow Bushnell Pearce Henry of 326 West Main Road, Portsmouth, RI, two sons, David Vaughan Henry and Douglas Davies Henry, and a step-daughter, Bird B. Starz of Geneva, NY. CAPT William J. Ruhe, USN (Ret.) '39

WILLIAM ALVA DONOHUE '42 LCDR William Alva Donohue, USN (Ret.) died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Homestead, Florida, on 11 August 1995. He had been suffering from circulatory problems since a massive heart attack 12 years ago. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Miami, FL, on 14 August.

Bill was bom in Vermillion, South Dakota in 1918.

He attended high school there as well as 2 years at the University of Soutii Dakota, also at Vermillion. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by Senator Gumey in the class of 1942. He was a football star in high school and at the University, later making the Naval Academy squad.

Upon graduation in December 1941, Bill was ordered for duty on board NEW ORLEANS, on which ship he served during Worid War II. The NEW ORLEANS was noted for being "the only ship that rammed itselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a torpedo blew off her bow, which broke off and rammed

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the ship in a night battie off Guadalcanal in November 1942.

After a short course in gunnery in Washington, DC, Bill spent a tour as Officer in Charge of Recmiting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was followed by tours on the staff of CINCPACFLT at Pearl Harbor, on die staff of COMPHIPGRU THREE and the tanker PASUMSIC, and a tour at ONR, Pasadena. He retired from active duty in 1962.

Bill immediately found a post-retirement job with the State of Califomia where he worked on the Board of Medical Examiners. He and his wife Thelma settled in Elk Grove, CA, where they lived for 26 years. They moved to Homestead, FL in 1991 to be near their daughter, who is their only child.

Bill and Thelma were married at the height of WWII in Honolulu in 1942. She is the former Thelma deHame of Honolulu.

Thelma will continue to live in the family home at 747 SE 22nd Drive, Homestead, FL 33033.

WILLIAM BRUCE TICHENOR '42 Bmce, who passed away on 14 July 1995, was bom 26 September 1918 in Brooklyn, NY, and spent his childhood as a navy junior attending many schools on both coasts. His father.

Captain Lawrence Tichenor, and mother would move the family of six to each new duty station.

He graduated from Point Loma High School and entered United States Naval Academy. His class of 1942 graduated early, on 19 December 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor He served the entire war years in the Pacific theatre on several ships, among which were the carriers SARATOGA, PRINCETON, and FLINT, as gunnery officer

After the war he became CO of the destroyers TWEEDY and DAVIS. His dedication and hard work took these destroyers from the bottom to first place in their squadons.

During these active years, he found time to graduate from USNA Post Graduate School with an electrical engineering degree and a Masters Degree in physics from San Diego State.

Bmce retired from the Navy in 1962 and became an engineering manager with General Electric at Cape Canaveral, on the Apollo project, the Special Military Space Project, Mars Lander, Biosatellite and Minuteman 111 Reentry System. He later became a project director with WestemUnion. He rounded off his careers as a real estate developer and broker in Florida and Califomia.

His hobbies over the years have included hunting and fishing, and in later years gardening, growing orchids and fmit trees.

He and wife Harriett moved back to San Diego in 1977 from Rorida, and he has been so happy to renew his fiiendships with his classmates of 1942 and shipmates in the area.

Bmce grew up in a military family. His father was 38 years active and his brother. Lieutenant Walter Tichenor, was killed in the Battle of Normandy.

Survivors include: his wife, Harriett Tichenor; a son, W. Bmce Tichenor of Mechanicsburg, PA; two daughters, Robin Hendrickson of Portland, OR and Dr Melanie Tichenor LaPlace of Baton Rouge, LA; nine grandchildren; two step-children. Captain Mike Kalas of San Diego and Kathy Puplava of Escondido;

and tiiree step-grandchildren. He would alwaysflyhis flag at the arrival of each new grandchild.

He lived his life with high goals and high standards and he set the same for his children as his parents did for him. They have not disappointed him.

Bmce and Harriett enjoyed many good years together He will be sorely missed, but here forever in our hearts and prayers.

ROBERT E. DOWNEN '46 Maj Robert E. Downen, USMC (Ret.) died at his East County home on 20 June 1995 of lung cancer He was 73 years old.

Major Downen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1945. He served 20 years in tiie Marine Corps. He saw duty in both China and Korea. His service also included positions as an instmctor at the Naval Academy and at Quantico, VA, and as a military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Djakarta, Indonesia. He also headed administrative positions at MCRD. After retnement from the Marine Corps he served as Admissions Officer for SDSU for 11 years and then as SDSU's Energy Coordinator until he retired in 1982.

He is survived by his daughters, Pamela Terdik of Escondido and Deborah Jack of Poway, and a son, David Downen of Vancouver, WA. A memorial service was helld on 6 July 1995 in the MCRD Chapel.

Interment took place in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the American Cancer Society, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society or Volunteers of America.

Note: The above obituary is a reprint. It appeared in the September issue of Shipmate, but was assigned to the wrong Class.

Please accept our apologies for this error.

DONALD RODERICK OSBORN III '51 LCDR Donald R. Osborn III, USNR (Ret.) died 19 September 1995, a resident in Glendale, California, and received a Mass of Christian Burial. He had fought prostate cancer for many years.

He is survived by his wife and their four children, James B. Osbom, Mrs. Kathryn Kidwell, Donald E. Osbom, and Mrs. Susan P. Smith, and by four grandchildren. They loved him dearly as he did them.

Mr Osbom was bom 13 September 1929 in San Diego, CA. The son of a distinguished naval officer (Captain Donald R. Osbom, J r '20), he attended St. Albans preparatory school in the Disttict of Columbia (where, as he said, he leamed to write a clear, correct, and reasonably graceful sentence), and entered the Academy in 1947, graduating with the class of 1951.

First duty was in DALY (DD-529) where he was assigned to the engineering department. Following CIC school in Glenview, IL, he was ordered to ROCHESTER (CA-124), later becoming its CIC officer In 1955 he left the Service and married Maureen Bannon of Los Angeles. She was a double blind date with his classmate Max Leslie, both men subsequentiy marrying tiieir respective dates. In M r Osbom's case

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the phone call to Miss Bannon came as she was out the door and in the car ready to drive off with her family. Twenty seconds later and the two would not have met. This profoundly affected his thinking and regard for that estimable woman.

Concurtently with marriage he attended Stanford Law School, from which he was graduated in 1958.

He practiced law for many years in Pasadena, then in Glendale, Califomia. Having moved many times as a Navy Junior and while in the Service, he later quipped that had he known he would spend over 35 years in the same neighborhood as a civilian, he would never have left the Navy.

His career as a lawyer included various savings and loan employments until he was 40, at which point he stmck out on his own with 15 years of general civil litigation, followed by a niche specialty in commercial and consumer debt collection.

Though he regarded himself the least of lawyers, during his private practice years he was able to educate his four children and marry off his two daughters without exhausting his capital; in all this he began to perceive the Invisible Hand of God at work. From his Navy and subsequent legal career he leamed how many there are who could do what he was doing better, or faster, or more imaginatively. From this knowledge, a certain note of humbleness was ground into him, which he hoped would stand him well when his tale wasfinallytold. After nearly dying from an overdose of chemotherapy in 1994, he said there was no one he could not love thereafter, regardless of his racial, or cultural background. His constant endeavor was to be a no-fault husband to his wife, but it remained an elusive goal.

He was greatly influenced by the example of John Henry (Cardinal) Newman and worked hard at developing a secret interior life of piety, like the glowing of a burning coal deep inside the log on the manor hearth, from which spring he hoped the radiance of the love of God would bum in him and through him, abounding in works of love and mercy to those in his community.

He was a published poet. His family said he was more at home in the past than the present, and it is tme that while in his 50's he returned to the classroom for Latin, and continued his study of that language in retirement. However, in his defense, he said that he had loved his wife and children to the end and had always turned to for them with a will. He had learned much from his parents, faithfulness and lovingkindness through his wife, and from the Navy, Duty, Honor, Country, and the initiative to get the job done.

The family requests that any donations made should be to the Class of 1951 Model Ship Gallery Fund.

Wah Boyes '51 JOHN ERNEST SEEBURGER, JR. '59 Maj John E. "Jack" Seeburger, Jr, USMC (Ret.) died 31 July 1995 in Long Beach, Califomia of an aneurysm of the thoracic aorta. Memorial services, attended by many of his family, classmates and friends, were held with full military honors at the Columbarium at the U.S. Naval Academy where his ashes were inumed. Classmates in attendance were Marty Finerty, Jack Flikeid, Joe Rynn, Dave Erie, Bill Gartett, Grift" Hamilton, John

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Heiges, Rick Johnson, Walt Kopp, Jim Roberts, Dick Robinson, Tim Tinsley, Rod Tomlinson, Dan Truax, and Jim Wilson.

Jack was bom 21 January 1938 in Chester, Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Southem Califomia at the age of 13. Graduating from Chino High School, Chino, Califomia, he won a Congressional appointment from his local Congressman and entered the Naval Academy in the summer of 1955 as one of the youngest members of the Class of 1959.

Upon graduation from the Academy, he was commissioned as Ensign, United States Navy Supply Corps. Schooling at the Naval Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia was followed by service on THETIS BAY, at NAS Anacostia, and at the Naval Air Facility, Washington, DC. Either his eyesight improved or his desire became irtcpressible (perhaps both) and in 1963 he effected an interservice transfer to the Marine Corps, graduating from The Basic School, Quantico, Virginia as his platoon's honor graduate later that year.

He was immediately posted as an infantry officer with the 4th Marines, 1 st Marine Brigade, Kaneoe, Hawaii.

With his battalion, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, he deployed to Okinawa in March 1965 and on 14 April 1965 landed at Danang, Republic of Vietnam, as part of the second Marine Battalion Landing Team sent to Vietnam.

During this, hisfirst,tour to Vietnam, Jack served as H&S Company Commander, 3/4, and Company Commander of L Company (a rifle company), 3/4 (later redesignated 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines). While under his command, L Company participated in search and destroy operations in the Chulai and Danang areas of operations, including the first peneti-ation by a United States unit into the heavily Viet Cong occupied area later to be known as the Arizona Tertitory.

He was evacuated from Vietnam in Febmary of 1966 due to of blood parasites contracted as a result of conditions in "the field."

Stateside Jack served in administrative billets at the Marine Corps Helicopter facility in Tustin, California and, at Camp Pendleton, Califomia, with an infantry battalion and with an antitank battalion. In 1968 he attended an intensive one-year course in the Vietnamese language at the Department of State, Washington, DC. He volunteered for a second tour and, as a Major, was retumed to Vietnam in Febmary 1969.

While in Vietnam, he served first on the Intelligence (G-2) Staff of the Third Marine Division where his duties included the collection and analysis of intelligence from a variety of sources, including POWs, captured enemy documents, aerial photography, ground seismic sensor devices and paid informants.

One of his major contributions to the Division during this period of time was his development and cultivation of the 2nd ARVN Regiment's S-2 Section, from which valued intelligence information was obtained.

This was followed by service as Operations Officer, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, from September to December 1969, while his battalion participated in a number of major operations including Georgia Tar, Arlington Canyon and Idaho Canyon. He was commended for his role in the successes obtained during these engagements. As Executive Officer of Headquarters Battalion, 4th Marines, Jack rotated out of Vietnam to Okinawa in late 1969, returning to the United States in January 1970.

Jack was assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency from March of 1970 to July of 1973. For his service there he was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal. Following graduation from the Marine Corps Command Staff College at Quantico, VA, from 1974 through 1978, he was assigned to intelligence activities in Hawaii with afinaltour at Headquarters, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Okinawa. Jack retired from the Marine Corps on 30 June 1979.

In addition to his Joint Service Commendation

Medal, Jack's decorations include the Bronze Star with combat V, Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V and 2 Gold Stars, Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Commendation Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Combat Action Medals Republic of Vieteam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Republic of Vietnam Service Medal (6th award).

Following retirement from active duty. Jack was engaged in the private sector, primarily in the defense and aerospace industries. His last 10 years were with McDonnell Douglas Corporation as a Senior Manager, for the most part engaged in connection with the C-17 project. His principal interests were golf (not great, but getting better), mihtary history, baseball (his son, John, was a minor league pro), and his family (in particular his grandson, Alex).

He is survived by his wife, Linda of San Clemente, Califomia; daughters Tamara E. Coleman of San Jose, Califomia and Capt (P) Christina L. Szigeti, MD, of Ft. Bliss, Texas; son John E. Seeburger HI of Trabuco Canyon, Califomia; and grandson Alex Szigeti.

Jack was one of the lucky few. Blessed with a wonderful marriage (Linda was his Naval Academy drag), a loving family of which he was so very proud, and an irtcpressible sense of humor, which served him and his colleagues so well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in good times and in bad; even in the worst conditions of deprivation and combat. While he will be missed, he also lives on in the memories of his family and of those among us who were fortunate to have known this good, caring and courageous man.

Memorial donations may be made in Jack's name to the Naval Academy through the Alumni Association.

A. James Roberts HI '59 JAVIER SUAREZ-MARILL '82 Javier Suarez-Marill '82 passed away on 26 July 1995 in Falls Church, VA, after a two and a half year battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. He is survived by his wife, Ellen, and a son, Alex.

Javi will be remembered by those of us who knew him well for his loyalty and tremendous sense of humor, including a penchant for telling terrible jokes in the most stressful of times. Javi's strength, and maybe his weakness, was that he held his family and friends above all else. When the rest of us were sweating about the less important things in life, he reminded us about what was tmly important. I am hard pressed to recall a memory involving Javi that doesn't bring a smile to my face. His ability to retain these traits to the end uplifted everyone around him and inspired us all. Although disease consumed his body, Javi refused to submit his character to death.

Several of our classmates were able to gather in DC in January to help Javi celebrate what was to be his last birthday. Our conversation over beers in Riordan's the night before his party revolved around our disbelief that we were soon going to have to bury a close friend and classmate well before histime.Since then, 1 have had time to reflect on what we may yet be able to leam from Javi's life. For me, Javi's life and death have taught me to appreciate what I've got rather than what I wish I had. He has made me reconsider my complaints when my young sons wake me up in the middle of the night, or when my job takes me away from home for weeks at a time, or when the promotion that I had counted on doesn't come through. I know that Javi would trade places with me in a heartbeat. We would all do well to remember his example when life deals us some bad cards.

The class is taking donations for an Honor Chair in memory of Javi.

Ted Stank '82

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The Naval Academy Lamp Sirrica, LTD. is proud to announce the availability of the Official U.S. Naval Academy Lamp.

The distinctive Academy Coat-of-Arms is vividly re-created in gold on the black parchment shade.

This classic desk lamp is hand-polished and handassembled of the finest solid brass and features a solid black marble base and centerpiece. Indeed, the lamp makes an impressive statement of quality about the owner.

You can also have your lamp personalized with an engraved brass plate affixed to the marble base. The Naval Academy Lamp is a tremendous value as you are able to purchase direct from Sirrica, Ltd. Of course, you must be completely satisfied with the quality of your lamp or you may return it within fifteen days for exchange or refund.

Whether selected for your personal use or as an expressive, thoughtful gift, the Naval Academy Lamp is certain to command attention.

For faster service, credit card orders may be placed by dialing toll free

1-800-346-2884.

All callers should request to speak with Operator 772USN. NOTE: For Christmas delivery, all orders must be telephoned or postmarked by December 10.

Symbolizing a tradition of excellence for the home or office.

Solid Marble; Ht. 22"; Wt. 8 Lbs.; Solid Brass

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A Naval Academy Tradition.

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Climbing Herndon Monument and trading in your dixie cup for a bridge cap. Skating through "skirmy"—or not. Christening your ring in the binnacle at the Ring Dance. Sounding three cheers as you throw off your Midshipman rank. Taking a dip in full dress. There are many memories and Academy traditions that you'll remember for the rest of your life. Now there's a special new way to uphold 150 years of USNA honor and customs—a program as unique as your own class crest.

Introducing the no-annual-fee U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Visa® cards from MBNA America—the only credit cards that generate contributions to the Academy's Alumni Association every time they're used to make a purchase.

When you carry and use a U.S. Naval Academy

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Alumni Visa, you'll not only help the Academy, you'll also benefit from a special, low Annual Percentage Rate of just 6.9% on cash advances, balance transfers, and purchases.' Plus, you'll enjoy 30-minute credit line increase decisions, free additional cards, and instant access to cash worldwide at more than 160,000 ATMs. And your card will be backed by an MBNA tradition—24-hour service, seven days a week (a big help when you're on tour halfway around the world).

So get in on the inside gouge. Join the ranks of those who support the efforts of the USNA Alumni Association in every way they can. Request your U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Visa card—the only card that lives up to the Academy's 150-year tradition of excellence.

Call 1-800-847-7378 Please mention priority code NQVX when you call.

tNo annual fee. The current Annual Percentage Rate {APW for cash advances and purchases: 6.9% through your first twelve statement closing dates, commencing the month after your account is opened; the APR may vaiy thereafter and will be applied to both new and outstandmg cash advance and purchase balances; the current indexed APR for cash advances and purchases is 16.1%. which may vary. Transaction fee for bank and ATM cash advances; 2% of each cash advance (S2 minimum, $25 ma,ximum), Tiansaction fee for Premium Access Checks' or Prefeircd Access Checks* cash advances: 1% of each cash advance ($2 minimum. 510 ma.\imum). Transaction fee for the purchase of wire transfers, money orders, bets, lottery uckets. and casino gaming chips: 2% of each purchase ($2 minimum, $25 maximum), MBNA America,* Premium Access Checks, and Preferred Access Checks are federally registered semce marks of MBNA America Bank, NA. Visa IS a federally registered semce mark of Visa U.S,A. Inc, used pursuant to license .^IOQ'5 KiRNU AmpHra Rank N A

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U. S. Naval Academy GrandfatherClock

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e take great pride in offering the United States Naval Academy Grandfather Clock. This beautifully designed commemorative clock symbolizes the image of excellence, tradition, and history we have established at the United States Naval Academy.

Recognized the world over for expert craftsmanship, the master clockmakers of Ridgeway have created this extraordinary clock..

Special attention is given to the brass lyre pendulum which depicts the Academy Seal in deeply etched has relief; a striking enhancement to an already magnificent clock. Indeed, the clock makes a classic statement of quality about the owner.

Each cabinet is handmade of the finest hardwoods and veneers in a process that requires over 700 separate steps and the towering clock measures an imposing 83"H x 2 3 ' " ^ x 13"D. Finished in brilliant Windsor Cherry, the clock is also enriched with one of the most advanced West German timing mechanisms. Exceptionally accurate, such movements are found only in the world's finest clocks.

Enchanting Westminster chimes peal every quarter hour and gong on the hour.

If you prefer, the clock will operate in a silent mode with equal accuracy.

Beveled glass in the locking pendulum door and the glass dial door and sides add to the clock's timeless and handsome design. ^ou are invited to take advantage of a convenient monthly payment plan with no downpayment or finance charges.

Reservations may be placed by using the order form. Credit card orders may be placed by dialing toll free 1-800-346-2884. The original issue price is $899.00. Include $82.00 for insured shipping and freight charges.

Satisfaction is guaranteed or you may return your clock within fifteen days for exchange or refund. Whether selected for your personal use or as an expressive, distinctive gift, the United States Naval Academy Grandfather Clock is certain to become an heirloom, cherished for generations.

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I wish to pay for my clock(s) as follows: By a single remittance of $ made payable to U.S. Naval Academy Grandfather Clock, which I enclose.

By charging the full amount of $

to my credit card indicated below.

By charging my credit card monthly @ $89.90 for a period of ten (10) months.

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All callers should request Operator 771 USN. NOTE: All orders telephoned or postmarked prior to December 5 will be guaranteed Christmas delivery. Installment orders subject to credit approval. .

Symbolizing a tradition of excellence.

83"H X 23"W X 13"D