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United States Naval Academy Alumni Association

Shipmate December 1999

Volume 62, No. 10

ISSN 0488-6720 (USPS 494-440) Officers and Trustees

Features Fund/Foundation Amalgamation

by RADM Ronald R Marryott '57, USN (Ret.) and ADM James L. Holloway III '43, USN (Ret.)

3 Search for CEO ADM Leighton W. Smith Jr. '62, USN (Ret.) RADM Ronald F. Marryott '57, USN (Ret.)

2

Thank You Volunteers!

15

Bravo Zulu

23

All Hands

23

Mail Boat

24

Index of Advertisers

24

4-5 The Nation's Greatest College Football Rivalry

Navy Academics 27 Senior Officers Take Classroom Command

page

by Jack Clary

8 Go Navy, Bomb Army!

An Aerial Assault of West Point

by M. F. Ganders '77

10 A Plebe Named James

by Dr. Steve

Frantzich

16 Cadet Krupinsky's Other Cufflink Trading Academy Cufflinks

by Andy Kremm '51

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An Ocean Away National Security

40

Alumni Travel

41

Navy Athletics

42-46

Alumni Association Staff and Assistance "We're here to help!"

48

Class News

49

123 Chapter News xall meet..."

"But still when two or three s Last Call

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In Business...

141 Services from our Alumni Family

Army-Navy 100 Years of Tradition

30 The Spirit of Army-Navy W h a t the Country Can Be

by John Feinstein I Shipmate, December 1999

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President & CEO, USNA Altmini Association

MEMBERS MAJ GEN WiLUAM A. ANDERS, U S A F R (REP.) ' 55

Former Chairman & CEO, General Dynamics; Astronaut M R . MICHAEL R . BONSIGNORE ' 6 3 , Chief

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Former Member U.S. House of Representatives; Chair, Naval Academy Board of Visitors ADM WILLIAM J. CROWE, JR., USN (RET.) '47

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Chairman & CEO, USAA M R . JAMES W . KINNEAR '50

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Chairman of the Board, USNA Alumni Association ADM JAMES D . WATKINS, USN (RET.) '49

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OFFICERS Chairman of the Board ADM LEIGHTON. W . SMFTH, JR. USN (RET.) '62

Vice Chairman of the Board (Central Area) CAPT NEIL BLOCK, C E C , U S N R (RET.) '61

Houston, Texas Vice Chairman of the Board (Western Area) VADM EDWARD H . MARTIN, USN (RET.) '54

Coronado, California Vice Chairman of the Board (Eastern Area) M R . CORBIN A . MCNEILL, JR., ' 6 2

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania President and CEO RADM RONALD F . MARRYOTT, USN ( R E T . ) '57

Treasurer CAPT PAUL A. ZAMBERNARDI, USN (RET.) '70

President and CEO Emeritus CAPT WILLIAM S . B U S K , USN (RET.) '43

TRUSTEES Past Chairman of the Board THE HONORABLE JOHN E . SHEEHAN ' 5 2

Annapolis, Maryland Superintendent's Representative CAPT ROBERT C . PARSONS, C E C , USN '71

ATLARGE (To serve through Spring Meeting 2000} RADM JAMES L . ABBOT, JR., USN (RET.) '39 CDR JOHN N . CHRISTENSON, USN '81 RADM J. BRADFORD MOONEY, USN (RET.) '53 COL BRUCE F . OGDEN, USMC (RET.) '51

(To serve through Spring Meeting 2001) CAPT DAMEL B . BRANCH, JR., USN (RET.) '59 RADM STEPHEN K . CHADWICK, USN (RET.) '62 LTCOL. VICTOR M . GARDNER, I U , USMC '77 CAPT ROGER P ONORATI, USN (RET.) '61

(To serve through Spring Meeting 2002) M R . ANTHONY M . MARKS '59 CDR KERWIN E . MILLER, U S N R R ' 7 5 CAPT JEROME RAPKIN, USN (RET.) '52 CAPT LYNN H . WIDENER, U S N R ' 7 0

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The United States Naval Unified Approach Academy Foundation: ^o Supporting the Brigad^ Beginning a New Era

of Midshipmen

Last year Shipmate printed an account of the Foundation's history, purpose, and its reinvigorated mission to support the development of Midshipmen by assuring the superiority of Navy athletics. The Foundation's 175 trustees and thousands of its supporters were then, and remain today, conamitted to this purpose.

But something has changed. At the time of that printing, the Foundation operated independently of the other organizations charged with supporting the Brigade of Midshipmen. The Foundation has now committed itself to joining forces with the Endowment Trust and the Alumni Association to better support the full mission of the Academy.

On 8 October 1999, the Trustees of the Foundation voted unanimously to amalgamate with the Naval Academy Endowment Trust forming a single organization. The vote assured that, as of 1 January 2000, the Endowment Trust will shed its name and its directors will join together with the trustees under the name United States Naval Academy Foundation.

This vote assures the unity of purpose and coordinated activity necessary to best support the Brigade of Midsliipmen. The President of the Alumni Association will also serve as the President of the Foundation.

This vote clarifies organizational roles. We will now have a Foundation whose purpose is to raise money to support all facets of the development of the Brigade of Midshipmen and the activities of the Alumni Association.

This vote simplifies fundraising. The United States Naval Academy Foundation will conduct all fundraisingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you will no longer see "Naval Academy Fund" on solicitations and thank you letters.

And, this vote brings together hundreds of dedicated Foundation volunteers and donors whose purpose is to better prepare Midshipmen for the challenges of leadership. We are all excited about the prospects for the future.

1 am proud of the trustees of the Foundation for their foresight, vision, and team spirit. They have ushered in a new era. 1 am confident that we will all soon appreciate the importance of their selfless devotion to the young men and women of the Brigade of Midshipmen.

I am pleased to join with Admiral Holloway and Admiral Smith in announcing the joining together of fundraising efforts under one organization called the United States Naval Academy Foundation. In his companion article. Admiral Holloway describes this new organization. I fully support the concept of a single fundraising organization and I urge you, our alumni, to join me. The success of the Foundation's efforts to support the Brigade of Midshipmen and the Alumni Association are critical to the continued excellence of the Naval Academy and Association. In addition, having ONE fund raising organization in place will reduce the level of confusion that has occurred in this area over the past few years.

As the leader of both the Alumni Association and the Foundation, I and those who will follow, will be able to manage these organizations more efficiently than in the past. As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alumni Association and President of the Naval Academy Foundation I will ensure that the Academy and our alumni receive the required support. Why the Academy and our alumni? Our alumni have made it very clear that our purpose, as clearly stated in our Mission Statement, is to support the Academy and the alumni.

Your Association will continue to emphasize communications, events which bring our alumni together, expanded services and ways to activate our alumni in their respective classes and chapters. While doing so, we will expand our capability through the Naval Academy Foundation, to provide private funding support for the Naval Academy and its graduates.

I hope that you are excited about these important changes. We now have an organization. The Naval Academy Foundation, which can bring all of its resources to bear on fundraising, and a complementary organization, The USNA Alumni Association, whose focus is support for our 40,000-plus alumni. Together we will make a real difference to our alumni in uniform, and to those who serve our country in other important ways. I cannot envision a more rewarding and important mission.

You can be assured that I and my successors will keep you fully apprised of what both the Alumni Association and the Naval AcadBy AdmiralJames L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.). '43 emy Foundation are doing in support of our Academy and alumni in Chairman of the Board, USNA Foundation the years ahead. As I stated when I assumed the helm of leadership of 20th Chief of Naval Operations the alumni Association three years ago, the key to understanding what we are about, where we want to go, and how we plan on getting there is "Communications, Communications, Communications." That applies in both directions. I look forward to hearing from you.

By Rear Admiral Ronald F. Marryott, USN (Ret.), '57 President & CEO, USNA Alumni Association

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In the enclosed letter, Ron Marryott has submitted his resignation as President/CEO of the Alumni Association for the reasons stated in his letter to me. I have reluctantly accepted his resignation.

Ron has agreed to remain as President until a relief is found. I will begin the search process by forming a Search Committee in the immediate future.

Sincerely,

Leighton W. Smith, Jr

Note: This letter w/enclosure sent to all Trustees.

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President and Chief Executive Officer United States Naval Academy Alumni Association Annapolis, Maryland The Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and the Chairman of the Board of the Naval Academy Endowment Trust (Naval Academy Foundation) have formed a Search Committee to find a relief for RADM Ron Marryott, President of the Alumni Association and Endowment Trust (Foundation). The members of the Search Committee are Chairman, Mr. Corbin A. McNeill Jr.; CAPT Neil Block; RADM Stephen K. Chadwick; RADM Peter C. Conrad; VADM Edward H. Martin; Mr. John E. Nolan Jr.; VADM John M. Poindexter; The Honorable John E. Sheehan; and ADM James D. Watkins. Applications for the position are now being accepted.

The President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is responsible to the Chairmen of both Boards for the routine management of the Association and the Trust (Foundation). These responsibilities include supervision of all administrative functions of the staffs, preparation and submission of the budgets, supervision of the expenditure of funds, supervision of all employees in their execution of the programs and services offered by the Association and the Trust (Foundation). The President and CEO is also responsible for communicating information in support of the Naval Academy to the approximately 40,000 Association members and to the public at large. As President of the Endowment Trust, he is responsible for supervising fundraising activities in support of the Naval Academy and the Alumni Association. On 1 January 2000, the Naval Academy Endowment Trust and the Naval Academy Foundation will be merged as one foundation under the name "Naval Academy Foundation" to be the single entity to conduct fundraising activities for the Brigade of Midshipmen and the Alumni Association.

Qualifications for this position include: • Graduate of USNA and a member of the Alumni Association • A commitment to the U.S. Naval Academy and its graduates demonstrated through a record of participation in efforts to promote excellence in both • Demonstrated leadership ability, personal and professional integrity, high ethical values, and experience in developing and administering a multi-million dollar budget • Significant experience in strategic planning and program development • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills • High energy and a lively sense of humor • Residency in the Annapolis area or willing to relocate to Annapolis • Earned advanced degree preferred Specifically desired qualifications: • Experience in fundraising • Experience in oversight or leadership of a non-profit organization • Significant experience in the armed forces All applications should arrive by 31 December 1999 for consideration by the Search Committee. Email will not be accepted; however, signed facsimile applications followed by a smooth copy are acceptable at the following Fax numbers: 202-822-2160 or 202-822-8127. Applications should be addressed to: U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Search Committee Kom Ferry International 900 19th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 Note: Kom Ferry International is the Executive Search Firm assisting us in the search process.

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By Jack Clary lOOth Army-Navy game will be played in Philadelphia on 4 De-

^km\ mber 1999. It should be a gala celebration for the nation's greatest ^ • « « ^college o l l e football rivalry; one that quite properly has been dubbed "the

nation's rivalry."

Since its inception on 29 November 1890 at West Point, it has attracted a cross-section of Americana—a half dozen presidents, the nation's greatest military heroes and statesmen, and millions of moms and dads.

Nearly four dozen players and coaches who are members of College Football's Hall of Fame have participated in its first 99 games.

Many of those players put on dazzling displays of football excellence, but their play, and that of everyone who ever participated, has captivated hundreds of thousands at stadium sites; and hundreds of millions more after the television age brought the game into America's living rooms.

There have been national championships decided; there have been astounding upsets; and there have been a bushelful of unbelievable finishes, underscoring the unstated theme of the game: The only predictable thing about the Army-Navy game is its unpredictability.

What makes this series so unique is that it is more than just a game or a rivalry between two schools. It goes so much deeper than that.

Before a month passes in the life of Naval Academy Plebes, the words "Beat Army" become the two most important in their vocabulary. ("Beat Navy" has the same status for West Point Plebes!) There is a calendar in McDonough Hall, which I discovered during my first visit to the Yard in 1942, when my dad was overseeing the refurbishing of the Severn River docks, that tells only one thing—how many days until the Army-Navy game.

It is said without fear of overstatement, that the football schedule is comprised of just one game—Army. The others are but practice sessions to prepare the team for this battle.

I have been to 40 Army-Navy games since 1958 and there hasn't been one, regardless of the outcome or the margin of victory, where I haven't felt the special feelings that only this game can produce. I know I am not alone in this regard. Certainly, feelings are even stronger and more special for those who were actively involved with the game as Midshipmen or players.

And what about those who come for the first time and who have at best, only a vague idea about an Army-Navy game? They usually find it an overwhelming experience, not unlike former Navy coach Wayne Hardin who, after his first game as an assistant coach at Navy

in 1955, was unable to move from his seat in the coaches' booth for a full 15 minutes because he was so emotionally spent.

You need not be a coach to be so affected. It begins the moment the first students from either Academy step onto the field and produce a march-on of thousands of gray- and navy blue-coated young persons who crisply and proudly fill the playing surface with their respective numbers. There have been a few times when the march-on, the hijinks and pranks, the floats and all of the extra-curriculars which the students concocted, are more interesting and entertaining than the game itself.

Certainly, the Army-Navy game has changed in form, but never in substance. For example, an appearance by the U.S. president is a rarity—only presidents Ford and Clinton have been since 1962—but for the first half of the century, presidential attendance stamped a special imprimatur on the game. Teddy Roosevelt, in 1901, was the first. He spent most of the second half of a 6-6 tie prowling the sidelines of Princeton University's Osborne Field, where the game was played. As was his style, he let all of his emotions hang out, so much so, that some of his aides actually feared he would join the fray.

But the game is not played for a president or for anyone wearing the uniform of the military. It is played for the honor and glory of both Academies, and for those throughout the nation who honor their existence, to continue a tradition that began in 1890 when college football also was in its infancy.

It has always had its stars...

Charley (Red) Emrich (USNA 1891) who, in the very first game, still is the only player to score four touchdowns and 20 points (TDs were worth four points then, an extra point was two points). He helped the Mids to a 24-0 victory.

"Three-to-Nothing" Jack Dalton's two field goals produced backto-back 3-0 wins in 1910 and 1911.

The following year, John (Babe) Brown kicked two field goals in a 6-0 victory.

During World War II, Rear Admiral Brown was deputy commander, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, where one of his top skippers was Slade Cutter. In the 1934 game. Cutter stood bare-headed in a driving rain and kicked what many still believe is the most important Navy field goal ever It gave the Mids a 3-0 victory and broke a ten-game winless streak against Army.

Tom Hamilton, who shares a pantheon with Roger Staubach, Joe Bellino, Napoleon McCallum and Eddie Meyers as one of Navy's

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greatest backs (and also one of its greatest coaches), led the 1926 team to the only national championship. It was a come-from-behind 21-21 tie against a great Army team before some 122,000 persons at Chicago's Soldier Field—the largest crowd in college football history to watch what became known as the "Classic Tie." Heisman Trophy winners Staubach, a gangly quarterback from Cincinnati, and Bellino stepped into the national spotlight with sensational games against Army. Bellino starred on both offense and defense in victories in 1959 and I960 while Staubach put on one of the greatest individual Army-Navy performances ever in a 34-14 victory in 1962. He scored two touchdowns; passed for two more touchdowns while completing 11 of 13 passes for 138 yards; and was Navy's leading 4 «„ ground gainer.

McCallum astounded more than 81,000 at the Rose Bowl in 1983 with 182 yards of rushing as .-s.t;._:C__^,:^ the Mids won 42-13 in the only game played west of the Mississippi River. Perhaps the real heroes were those who won the battle of logistics because 9,000 Cadets and Midshipmen formed the largest peacetime military airlift in history to attend the game. In 1926, both student bodies, totaUng 3,500, were transported by Pullman tredns to Chicago for that epic game where they commemorated the opening of Soldier Field.

And its great moments...

Frank Schenk capped a "drive for the ages" in the final five minutes of the 1989 games by kicking a 32-yard field goal with 11 seconds to play for a 19-16 Navy victory.

And a clock capped the "Drive for Five" (consecutive victories over Army) in 1963 when it ticked off the final seconds of Navy's 21-16 victory with the Cadets at the Mids two-yard hne, lost in their huddle and unable to run one final play.

It was the same clock that in 1946 kept the 18-point underdog Mids from one last play from Army's seven-yard line and a chance to upset the great Blanchard & Davis team. Instead they lost 21-18, but the game stands as one of the greatest ever played. It gave full credence to the mantra of this series: The only predictable thing about the ArmyNavy game is its unpredictability.

Proof? The 21-21 tie in 1948 when a winless Navy team stunned the sixth-ranked Cadets . . . and two years later when the 2-6 Mids stunned second-ranked Army 14-2.

The famed 1954 Team Named Desire, captained by Phil Monahan, and featuring quarterback George Welsh, put on one of the great of-

fensive games of the series, and the Mids won 27-20. Then they went to the Sugar Bowl and upset favored Mississippi, 21-0.

Wars often were waged around the game, though not World War I and the game was canceled in 1917 and 1918. But President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that the game served a valuable morale purpose during World War II and ordered it to be played in cut-down form. The 1942 and 1943 contests, both won by Navy, were at Annapolis and West Point, respectively, instead of the 103,000-seat Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia. No one living outside a ten-mile radius of the academies could purchase a ticket—an example to the country for the necessity of conserving automobile and train use.

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In 1944, Roosevelt ordered the game played at Baltimore's 60,000seat stadium as the linchpin of the 6th War Bond Drive—buy a bond and get a ticket to the game that would decide the national championship, because no team in the nation was better than Army or Navy.

That game produced nearly $60 million in war bond sales.

There have been heartbreaks as well.. ."might-have's" and "couldhave's".. .and while they crush the spirits of every Navy rooter, they strengthen the fabric that is the Army-Navy game...

So, what is the Army-Navy game?

It is all of the above and while the victories have been celebrated, the spirit of the game never was emphasized more than in 1971 when, with Navy trailing 24-21 in the final minute, coach Rick Forzano disdained an easy tie-making field goal and ordered a pass into the end zone to win the game. It missed.. .and so did one that coach George Welsh ordered under the same circumstances in 1977 when he too, could have come away with a hard-fought tie.

The same question was posed to both coaches six years apart: "Why didn't you accept a tie?"

"You only play the Army-Navy game to win," both replied.

Thus has it been for 99 games...as it will be for No. 100...and for every game thereafter.

Jack Clary, author of Navy Football, has produced AMERICA'S CLASSIC: Army Vs. Navy—The First 100 Games, a special history of the series. It is available by calhng 1-800-422-6310.

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every November by my good friend and squadron mate, Major Dave Kish '80. As the two Naval Academy graduates in our Rescue Squadron's eclectic mix of prior service pilots, Dave sought me outrightbefore Thanksgiving each year. He knew that I might be able to influence a "go" decision since I was the helicopter operations officer. But I always put him off, citing the real world ops tempo of our Air National Guard Rescue Wing, the 106th. Our everincreasing total force tasking had us deploying worldwide, including to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. It always seemed too hard to fit in Dave's mission.

November 1995 was the last time Dave had tried to goad me into doing "it." The following May, he lost his life in a tragic helicopter accident while working in his civilian test pilot job at Sikorsky Aircraft. His crew of four was killed instantly. Just before the accident, Dave had returned from a Squadron deployment to Incirlik, Turkey, where he flew combat support missions for Operation Provide Comfort. His loss was deeply felt by all of us.

Dave struck the perfect balance between outstanding officership, superb aviation skills, and being a good friend to all. The maintenance guys loved him because he was willing to spend his time sharing his extensive knowledge of our HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters. He singlehandedly increased our Squadron Tactics knowledge because of his experiences as Marine Corps MAWTS instructor He loved to fly and, I venture to say that, if any of us had to choose a mission commander to do a realworld combat search and rescue mission, the consensus would have been Dave. His love of flying was only exceeded by his love for his family. At the end of weekend drills, he would dash back to Connecticut to be with his wife, Patty, and his daughters, Meagan, Sara, and Mara.

Fast forward to November 1998, two weeks before the 99th Army-Navy game. Our Air National Guard squadron received a request from West Point for aviation support of the Army football team sendoff on 4 December 1998.1 immediately thought of Dave and imagined him salivating at the idea of "supporting" the Corps of Cadets. We now had an invitation to fly over West Point the day before the big game, so naturally, I volunteered for the mission. Little did they know that the mission pilot would be a Naval Academy graduate! I faxed a copy of 10

the Army mission request to USN4t to toy good tnend and Classmate, Lieutenant Colonel V.M. "Corky" Gardner '77, USMC, the 4th Battalion Officer Cork went back a long way with Dave Kish, flying with him in their Marine H-53 Squadron in the '80s. They had been close friends and Cork read a beautiful eulogy at Dave's funeral in 1996. He gladly passed the Army mission request up the Navy Chain of Command at USNA and the Naval Academy requested we deliver a "message" to the Corps of Cadets during our flyover: 2,000 Nerf balls imprinted with the words, "Go Navy, Beat Army."

On 3 December, the Nerf balls arrived from USNA and early on the morning of 4 December, were loaded onto our HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter "bomber." The weather was perfect on the day of the mission; I'm sure courtesy of Dave, as we approached West Point about 7:30 a.m. local time. The Corps was huddled in front of their dormitory, watching as we approached. An unsuspecting Army ground crew deployed a red signal smoke as they signaled us in. We made a first pass over the gathering and then returned, flying slowly with plenty of altitude to assure proper dispersal of the pay load. Two thousand Nerf balls hit their target and a Navy video cameraman was in place to record the event. The footage was spliced into a clever "Mission Impossible" theme skit that was shown on the "Jumbotron" at the game the next day and I knew that Dave Kish had a huge smile on his face. "...We finally got it done, Dave....this one's for you!"

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ebe Named James By most accounts, the Plebe was not remarkable.

He got into his share of trouble and seemed marked more for fitting in.

By Dr. Steve Frantzich, Professor Department of Political Science

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he Plebe experience leaves an indelible mark on most first year students at the Naval Academy. A few have the foresight to record their experiences while fresh in their minds. While the details and terminology of the Plebe Year have changed over the years, abiding patterns and reactions remain remarkably similar The following Plebe diary from 1943-44 captures some of those patterns and reactions. By most accounts, the Plebe was not remarkable. He got into his share of trouble and seemed marked more for fitting in, rather than for extraordinary leadership. Selections from the diary are presented in chronological order, retaining the spelling, abbreviations and punctuation of the original. Selections were included which give a flavor of Academy life, with duplications and mundane descriptions excluded. The Plebe did not write every day, and at times combined many days' experiences into one entry. Where necessary, definitions of idiosyncratic Midshipman jargon, procedures and lifestyle characteristics are explained with notations within brackets.

T h e D i a r y Entries June 26, 27 We were rather nervous and excited because we were afraid that we would be going back home after the physical exam for entrance into the Academy.. .usually about 1/4 of the boys fail it.

June 26, 27 We reported to the Academy where we were told that we would be able to choose the language we wanted, but the officer in charge of the language department would very strongly advise us what to take and we usually took what he wanted us to take.

July 1-7 We started our regular drills the fourth day. .and from then on we had practically no time.

July 1-7

I learned that the rules and regulations are carried out as strictly as I had heard. On the fifth day I was fried [found guilty of an infraction] three times.. .that morning Ens. [Ensign] Heintz found my p.j.'s folded on my bed before breakfast. The report read "Bed clothing improperly turned back,".. .at noon meal formation I was fried for having a spot on my blouse...I guess the 1/Cman [First Classmen are the equivalents of seniors] just felt bad that day.

July 7-24 We went into the regiment Wed., July 7, and of course all the plebes were rather apprehensive about what was to come. We later found that our fears were well grounded. The first night after supper the halls were lined with youngsters [sophomores] who were anxious to try out their new authority. It took all of us about 30 minutes to get to our rooms. We had to tell our names & home state to every youngster we saw & stopped in various rooms to sing, etc. My main trouble was that I smiled too much. I soon learned to concentrate on a serious subject when passing a group of the yapping 3/C [Third Classmen, sophomores]. I also learned how to "wipe it off."

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July 7-24 I met several boys on the 3/C at once who were from Georgia, and all of them spooned [allowing the Plebe to be informal, calling upperclassmen by their first name and not holding him to all the regulations of rank] on me.. .The boys from Ga. really help each other out a lot.

July 25 I was really getting thoroughly tired of the inside of the walls. I hadn't been outside since July 4th.

July 27 I was fried today for not initialing the e.d. [extra duty, punishment for breaking the rules] list, and walked e.d. in the aftemoon.

July 28 I listened to the president's speech until taps.

July 31 The first leave groups [upperclassmen away for the summer] got in today. It was about like the first day all over again. This was the first chance a lot of them had to run the plebes, & it was pretty much of a day.

Naturally, I walked e.d. this aftemoon, but this finished it up for a time.

July 31 "Spike" Bowen [a 3/C from Georgia] came around tonight & talked about the cruise & women, mostly women, as do aU the other Ga. Boys.

August 2 I never do anything to attract notice.

August 11 Ens. Heintz came around with a big pair of shears & cut off all loose shoe strings & got a pair of mine. Got paid reg, $2.

August 14 Over 5 months 'till Xmas. Hope I can stand it.

August 16 Had to crash dive [hit the floor] for laughing, & Cruzen & I painted 1/C shoes with butter August 22 Sang "Catalina Magdalena Reubensleiner Wallendiener Hogon Bogan Logan Was her name" for happy hour.

August 26 Midn. Cooper, 1/C committed suicide this morning, because he was being discharged. Everybody liked him very much.

August 29 Sailed (star) boat this aftemoon. I don't like them so well. Had "Sex life of a Plebe" for Happy Hour and got beat with a bread pan and shoved out most of the meal.

September 1 Worst day since I've been here. Knocked off 50 [push ups] under table at breakfast & 50 at dinner for smiling when Mr. Gaylor didn't get an orange for breakfast.

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September 16 Called Berry (3-striper) [Midshipman officer] a "grease-ball" at Johnson's direction & had to go around tonight ["come arounds" are required visits to upperclassmen for "instruction"]. Berry used broom.

[Punishing Plebes with a swat on the backside] October 1 Had dress P-rade [Midshipman slang for a military parade] for Sultan of Sudu [sic] Arabia today. He looked just like a Sultan should look, & was interesting.

October 1 For some time our table has had a reputation for being the worst one anywhere near. It is called the "Siberian Salt Mine." Plebes on other tables who are extremely "off the wall" are sent to our table as punishment. Therefore the plebes at our table are changing all the timeexcept me.

October 18 During the last few days I have really been "getting away with it."

I've been caught at five different reportable offences, & haven't been fried yet. I went to formation without gloves once, blue jersey once, collar anchors once, forgot a tailor shop party (didn't get caught), & forgot to turn in a form "W."[an official form] October 30 1/C put me in charge of a super-happy hour, with dire threats if it isn't good. That rather spoils my week-end.

November 28 Saturday was the Army-Navy f-ball game. I had bet a bathrobe with a Cadet...Navy won 13-0, and right after the game plebes started carrying on. [temporary respite from Plebe obligations] I guess we were

gladder to see Navy win than was anybody else. The youngsters started beating on the Jap bell as soon as the game was over, & beat it until Sunday evening when the team came back.

November 30-December 30 Got fried Thursday for I.P.D. [Improper Performance of Duty]. The instructor in Math kept two men of my section & I did not know that they stayed, so reported "No unauthorized absentees," to the BOOW [Battalion Officer of the Watch]. So was fried for not reporting them absent. Got fried again at Capt's inspection for dusty visor. Served e.d. all aftemoon-both cutters [punishment of going out in cutter boats] & walk-run.

December Got fried 3 times in last few days...spot on blouse at Capt. inspection, and late formation. Didn't get any e.d. Stood exams all right.

Don't think I did so well on Bull [Refers here specifically to English Literature, but the term was used generally to refer to English, History or Government].

January 2 Did O.K. in my subjects- Bull-3.02, Math-3.55, Skinny [Chemistry]3.58, Dago [Spanish]-3.52,Steam-3.52. [Engineering] Average of 3.478.

January 2 "I lost my suitcase on the way back [from Christmas leave]. A soldier took my bag in Savanna and left me his.

January I finally heard from my suitcase-Jan. 20th. I soldier wired me that his folks were sending it to me from his home. After hearing from him it made me feel much better.

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Been having 3 speeches per wk. in Bull, & I'm really tired of them. I cut my gum this moming at the table, & as it was bleeding I didn't have to speak. I think it was worth it.

February 19 I've had the best profs yet in my subjects, but we change tomorrow & I'll probably get the usually sorry plebe profs. [Part way through each semester, class sections were shuffled to create a more even grade distribution], April 17 The upper class are getting much easier now, & we don't dread meal formation so much....The spring weather helps everyone's spirit, it seems, & because it doesn't seem to long until June Week. I think we can put up with the running we're going to get.

May 3 Well, it's not long till June Week now, & everybody's looking forward to it...I'm practically bilging [failing] Bull this term, having been on the bush [Close to failing, as opposed to being "on the tree," or failing] every week except one. It's partly the teacher, but don't guess I've been studying too much... .We had a P-rade today & we're still in Blue Service [the parade uniform]. Some Peruvian president gave the Admiral a damed medal, & we stood out in the sun for a long time while they made speeches, etc.

May 18 We're still in blue service [winter uniform], although the temperature is 90 degrees every day. The Navy really uses judgment about everything. Never just blindly follows regulationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;always quick to make a change for the better.

May 25 They've been having cruise box races [large shipping boxes measuring approximately 2 feet by 3 feet by 5 feet] every night in our company for about 2 weeks & they finally caught me last night...We have to jump in the box, change from white works [the informal uniform of white pants and slipover blouse] into blue infantry dress (with leggins, blue drill pants & tie & shirt). Jump out & run around the deck, then get back in the box, change back into white works & run around the deck again. My time was 6 min. 20 sec, which is the record for the company.

May 25 I guess all the plebes are getting reckless now. I got beat with a serving spoon twice at noon for wiping a smile off to the class of '45.

They were out to make me stop it, but beat me 4 times before I did.

27 licks each time...It's really sore tonight, but was worth it.

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The diary selections provide some insight into Naval Academy life, no matter who the author Astute readers might recognize this Plebe as anything but average. After graduating with an overall ranking of 60th in a class of 822 in 1946,' he spent seven years in the Navy and then went on to serve as Govemor of Georgia and President of the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the only Naval Academy graduate to achieve that office. For contemporary Plebes, Jimmy Carter's unremarkable Plebe Year may well serve as an inspiration. He felt the same insecurities about being allowed to stay and the same frustrations with the rules experienced by most Plebes. At the end of his Plebe Year, he was ranked 398 out of a class of 877 in conduct, revealing his difficulties with the rules. He lacked any magical insights or clever strategies for avoiding punishment for his infractions. Even in his senior year he was no "goody two shoes," ranking 99th out of 822 in conduct.^ His strong academic record improved his overall ranking significantly.

Later, Carter would assert that "the academic requirements were stringent, but in my opinion not so difficult as at Georgia Tech," where he spent the previous year.'

There is some justice in Carter's experience. His complaint about standing around in the hot sun during the visit of a foreign dignitary is probably music to the ears of the many military color guards required to stand around at the ceremonies he presided over as President.

Some of the upperclassmen who presided over the future president's training probably looked back with mixed emotions during his presidency as they remembered putting him in an impossible situation or hitting him with a spoon.

This teenage diary of a young and relatively naive small town southerner contains little to be particularly proud or ashamed of." It only touches on the coping strategies which he later discussed in more detail as including making a firm commitment to never give up, recognizing the indignities of Plebe Year were only temporary, not taking the hazing too seriously and summoning the strength to deal with the current challenge in isolation.^ As his Classmates remembered him, "No one seemed to consider Jimmy Carter as the man most likely to succeed" from his Class.* His Plebe diary does little to disabuse its readers of this judgment. Its value lies in proving that individuals with normal reactions and unremarkable performance can go on to do clearly remarkable things.

Note Help in decoding Jimmy Carter's Midshipman jargon came from Professor Jack Yarbro, Reef Points, 1944-45, and Ross Mackenzie, Brief Points, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996.

Endnotes 1. Betty Glad, Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House, New York: W. W. Norton& Co., 1980, p. 52.

2. Ibid.

3. Victor Lasky, Jimmy Carter: The Man and the Myth, New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1979, p. 32.

4. The original full 40 page diary is available at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

5. James Wooten, Dasher: The Roots and Rising of Jimmy Carter, New York; Summit Books, 1978, p. 162.

6. Betty Glad, Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1980, p. 53.

Stephen Frantzich is professor and former chair of the department of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy. A past winner of the Academy's civilian teaching award, he is the author of more than a dozen books, the most recent of which are The C-SPAN Revolution (University of Oklahoma Press) and Making a Difference: Citizen Activists in a Cynical Age (Rowman and Littiefield, 1999).

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BY ANDY KREMM'51 After almost five months in white works and my new service dress blues, I was starting to feel the impact of being part of one of the world's great traditional institutions. It was the fall of 1947 and I was hearing more and more about the formidable enemy up the Hudson River As I recall, I was enthusiastic, but not fully plunged into the madness of the Army game workups, having spent the previous year as a Plebe at The Citadel. Perhaps because of that Army experience, I was greatly impressed as an upper classman in my Company showed me the West Point cufflink he wore on his left cuff. I knew I wanted the same. It was like being part of something even larger than the Naval Academy, which was hard for me to imagine at that time. The practice of exchanging cufflinks with a Cadet did not seem widespread, and I heard little of it then or since. To me, at age 19, it was a very romantic notion. We would fight them mightily on the field and after the game, salute each other in a way that would last a lifetime.

As the final gun and the singing of "Navy Blue and Gold" signaled the end of myfirstArmy-Navy game, my Classmates spilled onto the field to start our first real liberty since entering the Academy. I was on my way to the 50-yard line to meet the OAO from Chicago, but I had a mission that had to come first. I surely did not want to deal with an upper class Cadet, so the first Plebe in gray became my target. No introductions, simply, "Nice game, would you like to swap cufflinks?"

He did not hesitate an instant, "Sure," he said.

The exchange was made, each removing his left cufflink. We shook hands and said something profound like, "Good luck," and never saw 22

each other again. I found my girl at mid-field and the cufflink matter quickly faded into long-term memory.

Last year, 51 Army-Navy games later, I wrote a blind letter to my unknown cadet friend. It was included in the '51 class column of Assembly, the USM A alumni magazine. In it, I wondered if my friend had given his life in Korea, or, more happily, was out to pasture playing with his grandkids. I didn't expect a response. It was more a sentimental gesture expressing the solidarity between our two schools.

Just before the game in December, I received an email from Col. Marvin Krupinsky, USA (Ret.), wondering if he was the one who was wearing my cufflink for 51 years. Later, in telephone reunions between Maine and California, Marv described the encounter with a tall Midshipman Plebe exactiy as I recall it, including the sparse dialog. Invoking the doctrine of "beyond reasonable doubt," Marv and I declared our reunion an authentic match. We hope to see each other in this life, and that is possible since 1 have family in Maine and he in California.

Meanwhile, when formal occasions, now rare, call for cufflinks, we are reminded of the spirit of respect and admiration between our cherished academies. On Marv's left sleeve the words read, "Ex Scientia Tridens;" on mine, "Duty Honor Country."

The girl on the 50-yard hne? Her name is Jean, she Uves at my house, and her smile still quickens my heartbeat.

A similar version of this story will appear in the Jan/Feb 2000 issue o/Assembly.

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Bravo Zulu '47: ADM William J. Crowe Jr., USN (Ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, received the Rogers State University's Constitution Award. RADM Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., USN (Ret.), was named a member of the Board of Directors for Quotesmith,com, '62: Mr. Frank W^ner was named Director and Integrated Product Team Leader for the F-14 program for Northrop Grununan Corporation's Integrated Systems and Aerostructiu-es Sector, '64: The Honorable John H. Dalton was recently appointed as a member to the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mr, John E. Gorman was named President to lead the Cybercorp WAVE in North America for James Martin Company, '67: Mr. David C. Gompert was named President of RAND Europe, '69: Mr. Michael W. Pole was named Vice President, Technical Services for construction materials for Knife River Corporation, '70: Mr. Charles J. Yash was named President of Callaway Golf Company. '75: Mr. Gary C. Ingold was named Vice President Business Development for Buffalo Hospital Supply. Mr. Thomas J. Kapurch was named a principal for Bustin & Company. Mr. Gary M. Skura was named Chief Executive Officer for Buffalo Hospital Supply.

'76: Mr. Robert L. Kenny was featiu'ed in a newspaper article about his company. Steel Beach Productions, Inc. '78: Mr. Richard W. Borchardt was named Director of the Nuclear Regulatory Conraiission's Office of Enforcement. Mr. Charles B. Hunter Jr. was named Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for PACEL Corporation. '84: Mr. Mark V. Stys was named as a partner and Chief Operating Officer for Jack Augsback & Company. '86: Mr. Daniel L. Beldy was named as a partner for Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. '99: ENS Nicole V. Aunapu, USMC, was a recipient of die 1999 "Woman of the Year" Award by die NCAA.

Glee Club/Messiah The U.S. Naval Academy Men's Glee Club is the largest and most active musical organization at the Naval Academy. In recent years, they have appeared on several network television shows, most notably the "Presidential Inaugural Galas" (CBS), "Kennedy Center Honors" (CBS), "Christmas in Washington" (NBC), "The Today Show" (NBC) and "Good Moming America" (ABC). They participate in annual performances of Handel's Messiah, which are televised throughout the country and abroad.

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The Ultimate tribute to the Ultimate Game The Army Navy football gameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;An American tradition This year marks the 100* playing of that great military tradition, the Army Navy football game. Played since 1890 (with some off years) this game symbolizes the great rivalry between two great military services. This year in Philadelphia they will meet for the 100* time, and we have created the perfect way to commemorate this great event.

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Great Train Ride Bill Hayler always tells a good story. His "Great Train Ride" made me recall some of the train rides many of us Mids took on Christmas leave for points west. One in particular comes to mindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christmas 1943.

Many of us booked passage on the crack train of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, The Columbian, that was to take us to Chicago for further transfer to other lines. In my case, it was the Santa Fe Chief that would take me to Wichita, KS. Very good in theory. There was short window of opportunity between the scheduled arrival of the Columbian and the departure of the Santa Fe Chief complicated by a change of stations in Chicago to make the connection.

But we did not see The Columbian. We were consigned to the second train that would follow right behind the one we thought we were to ride. It did not measure up to The Columbian by any stretch of the imagination. It was a miserable trip. Stop and go; dirty; and some of the Mids found the club car and stayed too long, I remember one in particular who had a bad time of it and when asked the next moming how he felt, the answer was "Crummy!" He looked it.

Needless to say, we missed the Chief and were consigned to a coal burner, the Santa Fe Ranger. It was a miserable trip to Wichita with an arrival 24 hours late. When I got off the train, my collar was almost black, the first thing my dad noticed, I am sorry that we did not have the diversion Bill mentioned concerning the action observed by the Marines when a honeymooning couple did not pull the shades in the train stopped next to the troop train.

I made three trips at Christmas via the Baltimore & Ohio and drew the Columbian once. With a stroke of luck, I was able to make connections with the Chief for the ride to Wichita. Train travel in those days was a crap shoot, but the thought of leave and all that went with it had a way of putting the travail aside. And, as Bill said, that was a long time ago.

Robert C. Peniston '47

Mid or Midshipman?

It is disturbing to see both Shipmate and the Athletic Association using the term "Mids" when referring to Midshipmen of the United States Navy.

Midshipman is an ancient and honorable rank in the United States Navy and in other navies of the world. The use of the vulgarism "Mid" or "Mids" demeans the rank itself and the fine men and women who hold it.

The offense is made more severe when the perpetrators are organizations so closely associated with the Naval Academy and whose leaders were themselves once Midshipmen.

Beat Army, Frank S. Beat '50 Once a Midshipmanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;never a Mid!

Humor in Uniform I've read the letter in June Shipmate from Victor Delano '41 over and over, and it bothers me more each time, I remember above all else in my 20 years of active duty how much fun it was to be in the Navy. That includes the arduous deployments out of Yokosuka to the Gulf of Tonkin and a tour as Senior Advisor to a Vietnamese River Division. We took our business seriously, but we took ourselves lightly.

We were able to practice self effacing humor and we recognized when humor was inappropriate, in timing or content. My group of advisors was as good as they got, but we survived with antics like the TV show "M*A*S*H" without the medicine! As Supply Officer on a destroyer in the Med, I would draw a cartoon of some funny event of the day and leave it on the wardroom coffee table for the evening meal. For instance, a young lieutenant launching blindfolded birds 24

from the wing of the bridge, as the CO screamed "Blind egress, you idiot, not egretsV At the end of the deployment the wardroom officers gave a signed, bound collection of the cartoons to the CO at his change of conunand. Years later he told me that there was no better way for him to remember that tour.

After my retirement in 1987,1 joined a large military contractor Over the next six years, manpower requirements at my location fell from 7,000 to just under 3,000... I never hired anyone and laid-off a lot of talented people. Stress levels were high; morale was down.

Again, I learned the value of appropriate humor as a stress reliever and a motivator Can we restore fun to the Navy? Who knows; but I think it's worth a try.

Dick Kirtley '67

Who Will Fight for America?

Reading Captain Galdorisi's article in the July/August 1999 Shipmate entitied, "Who Will Fight for America?" leads me to offer a different perspective. Our people do not have sufficient passion for our military commitments to have their children lay their lives on the line in support of those commitments. Therefore, it is time for our government to reduce those commitments to a level that the military can handle with the people the military will have.

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enior naval officers who have fleet operational experience, flying planes and driving ships and submarines, are now training future naval leaders through the Naval Academy's new Permanent Military Professor program.

Established in 1998, the PMP program originated to address a shortage of military instructors at the academy, especially in technical fields. Through the program, commanders and captains who are warfare qualified and have demonstrated success in the fleet are selected in a Navy-wide competition. Once chosen by a board, they pursue doctorate degrees, at the Navy's expense, then repay by teaching at the academy.

Captain Denny Whitford, chairman of the USNA oceanography department and a PMP since the inception of the program, already held a doctorate degree when he applied. A 1972 graduate with 27 years of naval experience including two command tours, Whitford wanted to join the academic realm and teach the Navy's 21st century leaders.

"The contributions that PMPs can make to the academy are multi-faceted," Whitford says. "In addition to teaching, they can contribute to the character development program, the athletic teams, scholarship in their academic subject area, and professional development of the Midshipmen through exposure to senior military officers.

"The Academy gave me so much. 1 just wanted to give something back," says Whitford who serves on the Curriculum Committee that assesses naval leadership courses.

He also instructs an ethics course and an honors course in oceanography.

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Commander Craig Felker, deputy director of USNA's Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and one of the recently selected PMPs, is also quick to point out the benefits to both the individual and to the academy.

"It's an opportunity to get an advanced degree and get back here to teach." A 1981 graduate, Felker has taught American Naval Heritage to the Plebes for the past two years and hopes to add upper level courses to his teaching schedule after earning his doctorate degree in history from Duke University.

For Felker, the program underscored the Navy's interest in graduate education, and it was a "window of opportunity" he couldn't pass up. Although he has flown with four helicopter squadrons, served as a flag aide and worked in the White House as the director of the President's Emergency Operation Center, he enjoys teaching and feels he has a lot to offer both Midshipmen and the junior officers assigned to the academy.

"As PMPs, we can provide continuity for the military and serve as mentors to the junior military faculty," Felker says. "Because of the broad range of our operational experiences—from the squadron to the national level—we can better advise junior officers about their career paths."

Looking back, Felker says, "I never dreamed when I first started flying that I would have the opportunity to go to graduate school, but when the opportunities appear, you take advantage of them."

When Felker attended the Air Command Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama, he also earned his master's degree by taking night classes with the University of Alabama,

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"It was a painfully busy time when I was reading 200 pages a night, seven nights a week," he says. Contemplating the next four years of doctoral study, he predicts "the level of difficulty will be up there," but says the cost is worth it if he can continue in a job he loves, and one that will set the groundwork for producing solid naval officers.

FLEET SHOWS ROBUST INTEREST Nearly 40 applicants applied for the Naval Academy's Permanent Military Professor this year Seven were selected to join five PMPs already teaching at the academy and four PMP-designates in the graduate school pipeline.

"The board considered an impressive array of talent and accomplishments among the applicants," says Academic Dean and Provost William C. Miller of the new selectees. After deliberation, the board selected officers who promise to serve the academy and future classes of Midshipmen in outstanding fashion. It is a wonderful opportunity for careercompetitive officers on into the future. Junior officers who want to explore the PMP and help build their credentials for this program should consider rotational duty at USNA. Selectees for this year are: commanders Craig Felker, William Marr and David Spoerl, all currently on the Academy faculty, and commanders William Dubyak, Leonard Hamilton, Steven Trainer and Vincent VanJoolen from the Fleet. Three alternates—commanders Steven Chism, David Culbertson and Sean Sorensen—were also tapped.

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Field vs. Fleet On 27 November 1976, Navy beat Army 3810. The post-game activities were controlled chaos: the media. Alumni,firiendsand family were packed together outside the locker room like sardines. In the excitement, no one noticed the cold, miserable weather, or musky smell of football players in sweaty, grass stained uniforms.

After Mom and Dad had finally made their way through the crowd, we exchanged hugs while Mom told me excitedly I was voted Player of the Game, We celebrated together Then, Dad shifted to his matter-of-fact tone and said, "Son, let's talk."

Abruptly, the hubbub seemed only a murmur Dad focused his eyes sternly on mine,..exhaled slowly...then, leaning toward me with a grim face, spoke softly. "I couldn't be an officer [in the Army]. It wasn't permitted. You've arrived.

You can be an officer. It is permitted. Don't waste it! Make us proud, Jeffrey." His words held my attention. "Stick with it because we may not always be around to guide you; we'll be somewhere resting. So be a leader Use what the Naval Academy and football taught you to guide others."

Then silence.

I thought I knew what Dad meant, but wasn't sure. What did he mean by resting? When I was about to ask for clarification, Mom talked about dinner plans and pandemonium and noise returned. 1 never asked.

After Jime Week '77,1 plaimed to ask him diuing a September trip to Georgia, but we never went. Two months after I graduated, he and Mom died instantly when their light plane crashed in New Mexico.

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Before the ' 76 Army-Navy game, I thought I'd be out of the Navy in four tofiveyears. After that game, I was inspired to set and achieve higher, more challenging goals. Now, 23 years later, I am stiD inspired. And although I never figured out precisely what Dad meant, in retrospect, I think he meant the final whistle of Army-Navy signaled the end of leadership on the field and the beginning of leadership in the fleet. That he was proud of my choice to guide others and serve our nation. And that he and Mom had taken me as far as they could go; the rest would be up to me.

Dad's words are my best memory about Army-Navy football. I'll cherish them forever.

JeffSapp '77

One Game, One Team I have looked forward to the Army-Navy game, either as a player, a coach, a director of athletics or as just a spectator, since 1939, at which time I saw my first Army-Navy game as a Plebe in the stands.

This was to be my last march-on before a football game—and one I'll never forget. It may have been cold in Philadelphia that day, but I was unaware of it. Then, and before every game since, my heart races, I get tense in anticipation of getting ready for the greatest football rivalry in existence. It's the greatest, in my mind, because it pits the same type of young men against each other, knowing that after it's over, they will have to defend our country on the same team. Perhaps because of this unique quality of the contest, the players try even harder to win—I did. Yet, some of my best friends are those I played against and later went to war with.

Therefore, my answer to the question is simply that the game taught me more lessons of life, quicker, than had I not played in and experienced in other ways this great event—the Army-Navy game!

"Barnacle Bill" Busik '43 Shipmate, December 1999

The first Army-Navy game, 1890

Two Shots At Heaven Living in the shadows of Philadelphia's Memorial Stadium in South Jersey, I dreamed of becoming a Midshipman and playing against Army in what I knew to be the most colorful, stirring, exciting football rivalry that the whole world watched each year. My dream came true in 1952.

As Midshipmen, we won three of our four games against Army, but I can still remember the one lost as a traumatic experience. Beating Army was everything!

Most memorable of my Army-Navy game feelings go back to sharing those moments years later with my son, Joe Jr., who cocaptained the 1977 Navy team. As I related my thoughts to the Philadelphia Inquirer prior to that game I said, "Playing in the ArmyNavy game was the greatest athletic thrill I ever had, but watching my son Joe perform—he was voted the outstanding Navy Player that year—was like having two shots at heaven."

Joseph A. Gattuso '55

An Analogy for War I grew up surrounded by my father's football trophies: Most Valuable Player for the 1955 Sugar Bowl, the Thompson Trophy, and gold-painted game balls.

The pinnacle of athletic endeavor in my world was, and always will be, the Army-Navy game.

The Army-Navy game epitomizes the clash between rivals who share a warrior's culture, with the game itself an analogy for war.

The nation looks respectfully on this assemblage of athletes because fundamentally they are men who have chosen the path of dangerous, altruistic national service.

My most memorable moment occurred during my First-Class year, coming off the field after failing to complete a pass that would have won the game in the last few seconds. The coach (George Welch, teammate of my Dad's, quarterback on that victorious 1955 Sugar Bowl team) asked about the options I'd had. After I explained, he said in the midst of bitter disappointment, "Well, you did what seemed best to you. That's the way you have to play it." That moment of disappointment, more than all the successes, was a painful but edifying test of character, and the coach's comment on the spot has helped me understand what is truly important when we strive for great things.

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My personal opinion In all the football games in which I have is that the Army-Navy played, none compare football game has alto an Army-Navy game. ways been a truly naMy favorite Armytional event that continNavy game had to be ues to create a high level the 1954 game, which of interest across the we won 27-20.

Navy USA. With players from was rated No. I on ofall the states on both fense and No. 2 on deteams, the service acadfense in the country at emies belong to all of the time. We didn't America's citizens.

Number i , Midshipman George Welsh'56, coached Navy footbalI1973-1981. V n n w it b e f o r e t h e People across the nation realize that the Cadets and Midshipmen game, but we had to beat Army to go to the 1955 Sugar Bowl; the have similar qualifications as student-athletes, making for a most first bowl invitation since 1924. equitable contest. Even fans with a limited knowledge of the nuSome fans will think it's just another football game; the hype starts two weeks before the game and culminates at kick-off. In ances of a football game are able to recognize the exceptional sportsbetween, a knot begins to form in my stomach and gets tighter until manship exhibited on the field as well as the fantastic spirit and kick-off. I ' m still amazed that 105,000 people will cram into this pride within the Corps and the Brigade in the stands. stadium to watch this game. During the pre-game warm-up, I ' m In the three Army-Navy games in which I played, I never enthinking, "I hope I don't make any mistakes or embarrass myself or countered an unsportsman-like act. The atmosphere was electric the team."

At kick-off, it seems as if somebody turned off the noise and the contact was intense. All of the players were aware of the machine. I ' m totally focused on what's happening on the field. importance of the outcome of the game, especially to those who It's hard to beUeve that all this happened almost 45 years ago. And I had gone before them at Annapolis and at West Point. The level of still get teary when "Navy Blue and Gold" is sung at the end of the game. total concentration was evident.

Ron Beagle '56 My personal most memorable event was the 1942 Army-Navy game played in old Thompson Stadium in the Yard. (That site was determined as a war-time precaution of larger concentrations of miliIt was my first Army-Navy game. As a Youngster, I spent most of tary personnel.) Navy won the game by a score of 14-0 over a fathe 1951 season on the junior varsity squad. A month before the big vored Army team. In a rare series of events, two Plebe roommates, game, I was called up to the varsity. To run onto the field in PhiladelJoe Sullivan and Ben Martin, each scored a touchdown! Joe scored phia's Municipal Stadium before 100,000 roaring fans was an earth on a fullback plunge and my six-pointer was on a forward pass from shattering experience I will never forget. yet another Plebe, Hal Hamberg, Thus, three Plebes had a hand in As a third-stringer, I never expected to play, so after warm-ups, I making it possible for all 46ers to "carry-on" until Christmas! found a spot at the end of the bench where I could get a good view Ben Martin '46 of the game. Navy jumped out to a big lead (winning 42-7) and Coach Erdelatz decided to empty the bench. Panic hit when I had to go into the game. When we broke the huddle, my mind went blank.

I forgot the play, my assignment, the snap count, etc. As I recall, I The 1961 and 1963 Army games were my first and last as a Midwent after the safety man. In our blocking schemes, the guard never shipman participant and the most memorable. Until the Army game, took the safety! Needless to say, watching the replay on film, many I thought our 1961 victory over Notre Dame at South Bend was the humorous comments were directed at me. highlight of the season. However, the Army game was like no other.

Steve Eisenhauer '54 The mental and physical preparation, the spirit within the brigade, the hundreds of cards, telegrams and letters from Navy fans all over the world culminated in the game itself, which was televised naThis is a different type of story about the Army-Navy football tionally with more than 100,000 in the stands. The impact of my game. In the late 1960s and early 1970s there was a great anti-milifirst Army game will be with me forever. tary feeling around the country as a result of the Vietnam War. The 1963 game is memorable because of its significance. Eight In 1974, M r Roone Arledge, head of ABC Sports, called me to days before kickoff. President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, say he had a great number of letters urging him not to carry the Army-Navy game on TV because it would highlight the military.

Initially the game was cancelled, but we were later informed that The game had been televised every year since 1947. Mr. Arledge Jackie, the President's widow, requested that the game be played. suggested to me that I initiate a letter-writing campaign urging ABC Army had a sound team, but we had Heisman Trophy winner Roger to televise the game that year. The Navy Times was kind enough to Staubach and the knowledge that a win over Army would lead to a allow an article giving Mr. Arledge's address. Alumni chapters. Navy Bowl game to decide the National Championship. The play of the League chapters. Navy Wives clubs and others wrote letters. Thanks game had gone our way until the final minutes when Army scored to that effort, a great number of positive letters were written, and to narrow our lead to 21-15 and then recovered the ensuing onside ABC carried the 1974 game. kick. Army methodically moved to our goal line, but ran out of time In 1977, M r Arledge suggested that we could improve our audion our one-yard line. ence possibilities if we moved the game to a 4 p.m. start. At the late We know they would not have scored; nevertheless, we were a afternoon time, more TV sets are actually turned on than at 1 p.m. very happy squad leaving the field that day on our way to the CotThat year, as luck would have it, the weather throughout the counton Bowl and making our "Drive for Five" goal (five consecutive try was particularly bad that day which drove people inside and wins over Army) a reality. further increased viewership. As a result, that year's Army-Navy Tom Lynch '64 game had the highest rating of any college football game shown in 1977 and cemented its place in college football games carried annually on television.

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The Jolly Roger In 1961, when I entered the United States Naval Academy the most important thing I did after getting my hair cut was shout "Beat Army!"

As a Plebe, the intimidation by upper classmen was always on our minds. But the competitiveness andrivalrywe shared with Army made going to the '61 Army-Navy game the perfect outlet. Freshmen weren't eUgible to play, sofromthe stands I watched the game with 100,000-plus fansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was thrilling. Thinking back on it, I was in a "dreamlike trance" and had no idea I'd be on thefieldagainst Army the very next year.

To me, as a Plebe, one of the greatest "perks" for Navy's '61 win was receiving "carry-on" until Christmas leave.

In 1962, I got my chance to leave the stands and play before the crowd of 100,000-plus, including President John F. Kennedy, I'm positive that no one wanted Navy to win more than I did. The stress and pressure of that game was greater than I felt when I later played in several Super Bowls.

Our coach, Wayne Hardin, enjoyed and practiced uniform variance. In '61 he had Navy wear florescent helmets. In '62, our helmets sported a skull and crossbones. As we ran onto thefield.Army tried to "psyche us out" wearing white football cleats. Army Coach Paul Dietzel also played the "psyche game" at every opportunity nicknaming his team that year the Chinese Bandits. The game had all the right ingredients: two battling head coaches, two high-spirited teams, and watching every play, the President of the United States and a national television audience. All of which made me one very nervous quarterback.

It was a thrill being a part of that historic Navy victory because it remains the most exciting, best game of my career. Every play clicked.

Our team played a strong defense. We were "sky high!" It was because of that game (the skull and crossbones) that 1 was nicknamed "The Jolly Roger." The '62 game was my personal favorite, the most memorable even though the next year was ranked more important.

In 1963, we were the No, 2 team in the country with only Army standing in our way to receiving a berth in the Cotton Bowl. Because it was also the last game of the season, it was one of the most dramatic. It was postponed a week because of the assassination of the President. The tragic death of the Armed Services Commanderin-Chief simply knocked the wind out of our sails, making the game an outlet for our grief and frustration.

With Navy leading 21-7, Rollie Stichweh took over for Army and our offense never saw the ball again. Army scored and went for two points. At 21-15, they recovered the onside kick and were driving for a touchdown as the game ended. I vividly picture the team captain and my good friend, Tom Lynch, by then a very happy man, running off the field with the ball as the final whistie blew!

One of my best friends, Skip Orr, was a receiver in that game and actually threw me a pass. Another best friend, Pat Donnelly, scored three touchdowns. Tom, Skip, Pat and I, along with our wives and families, remain close today.

With a rivalry extending more than 100 games, the Army-Navy game is a national treasure. On a personal level, it provided me with some of my fondest athletic memories. The 1999 game will add to the tradition of this unique athletic contest. I am honored and blessed to have played a role in this glorious history.

Roger Staubach '65

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Heisman Worthy My most memorable moment in an Army-Navy game actually happened while I was playing on defense. Navy was a heavy favorite in 1960 and a win would assure us of a major bowl invitation. With just a few minutes remaining in the game and Navy holding a slim lead of 17-12,1 fumbled a simple hand-off deep in our territory.

It became desperation-time trying to hold Army from scoring the winning touchdown. On the last play of the game. Army threw a desperation pass that I intercepted in the end zone and ran back to the 50-yard line. After the game, our sports publicity director approached me in the locker room and said, "Congratulations! That last play will win you the Heisman Trophy!" I looked at him and said, "That last play saved me from a lifetime of agony!"

As the 100th playing of the Armyjoe Beihno p^ayy game approaches, my thoughts will be of my teammates and Classmates, We created a bond that will never be broken. It has been an honor and a privilege to be part of the most meaningful rivalry in college sports. None other can compare with the tradition and national spirit of the annual Army-Navy football game, Joe Bellino '61

Sweet Success First, I have had many memorable moments in the Army-Navy game, both as a player and a coach, but if I had to pick the one, it would be my playing in the Army-Navy game of 1954 in which we won 27-20 (I believe). It was such a tension-packed game that I still have vivid memories of some of the individual plays in that game.

And when a Sugar Bowl bid followed our victory, it made it that much sweeter (pardon the pun!).

As a player, I knew how vital and important the game was to the team and the individual players, (I learned my Plebe year that the Dark Ages were much more tolerable when we won,) but it was not until I was an assistant coach in 1960-1961 and the head coach in 1973-1981 that I realized how important the game was to our Alumni and the entire U,S, Navy, I recall my last duty as a Naval Officer on a Destroyer in the Western Pacific in 1962; all of us Academy types made sure we could listen to the game on radio.

My first involvement with the game as a coach was in I960 (Joe Bellino's Heisman year) when I was an assistant for Wayne Harden.

I recall I was more nervous before that game than I had ever been, as a player or a coach: An obvious sign to me that on a scale of 1 to 10 this game is definitely a 10.

In all my years in coaching football as a profession (36 and counting), I know there isn't anything in college football to compare to the pure rivalry of Army-Navy. It lies in the hearts and minds and bodies of all who have ever been associated with the game. I consider it a privilege to have been associated so closely with the game for so many years, George Welsh '56

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Spirit

Papal Assistance

I'm a numbers man. At the Naval Academy, I was an engineer I then served on nuclear submarines. And I currently make my living working with numbers. So when I think back to my days playing football at Navy, I can't help to think about numbers. Numbers like 28-0. Or 31-7. Or even 33-6. Of course, those are the scores of the three Army-Navy games I played in "78, '79 and '80. We, of course, won all three.

But, when thinking back to my Navy football experience, I also can't help to remember the people that I had the privilege of playing and working with. Players like Bob Leszczynski and Phil McConkey.

Coaches like George Welsh and Dale Strahm. And inspirational leaders like Vice Admiral William Lawrence, the Academy's Superintendent during my playing years.

For me, men like Admiral Lawrence embody the true spirit of the national institution that the Army-Navy game has become. As young men struggling with the rigors of the Academy life and the game of football, my teammates and I listened to Admiral Lawrence's experiences as a Vietnam POW and were better able to put in perspective the conflicts and pressures of our lives. His ability to describe the value of the discipline, commitment, and mental and physical stamina required to play football or to prepare for the Army-Navy game, and the benefits we would reap throughout oiu" lives from the experience, was acute. I'll never forget my days playing in the ArmyNavy game. Go Navy-Beat Army!

Ted Dumbauld '81

The Midshipman Cruise in the summer of 1934 took us to Rome, Italy, where we visited the Vatican and attended an audience with Pope Pius XI. During the briefing prior to the audience we were told that the Pope would bestow a Papal Blessing upon us. Bill Clark, one of the best punters in the history of Navy football, was standing next to me and we decided to take advantage of the Pope's blessing to help us in the coming football season. As the blessing was given, we remained erect while standing on our left leg and extending our right foot in the direction of His Holiness.

It paid off. On December 1, we played Army in a sea of mud in Philadelphia. Late in the first quarter, Clark got off a great punt that went out of bounds on Army's one-yard line. Army punted on first down and the partially blocked punt gave Navy the ball on Army's 20-yard line. Unable to advance the ball in the quagmire of Franklin Field, we settled for thefieldgoal that held up for the rest of the game.

Significantly, it was Navy's first victory over Army in 13 years, Slade Cutter '35

Song and Sign I cannot believe it has been ten years since our dramatic 19-17 victory over Army in the Meadowlands. Obviously, my most lasting memory is watching the football sail through the uprights in the final seconds of the game. However, my teammates, to this day, never let me forget the Delaware game three weeks prior. Singing "Navy Blue and Gold" after the game was a truly special moment.

I remember how bad we wanted to win that game for our Firsties on the team. They had not beaten Army during their tenure at Annapolis. I'm sure glad they got to walk off the field victorious over Army their final game.

The Army-Navy game is truly special for several reasons. During game week, numerous high profile Alumni, such as Roger Staubach, come back to speak with the teeun. Also, we receive hundreds of letters, faxes, and mailgrams from Navy Football supporters around the world. The coaches put them up all over the locker room for us to read. And finally, we wear patches on our jerseys from the various ships, submarines and squadrons in the Fleet.

The Army-Navy football game is college football's purest, most intense rivalry. Go Navy! Beat Army!

Frank Schenk '91

Shipmate, December 1999

A Fast Track It was a crisp winter day in December 1979 when we arrived in Philadelphia to play Army, We all got off the bus and began to walk on the field (the old Franklin Field), As I stood next to George Welsh, he turned and said to me, "We have a fast track." And I replied, "You're right, the field is in great shape."

You see, I was to be starting in my first Army-Navy game and I was very nervous, George's comment gave me a feeling of confidence and calmed my fears. It was a full moon the evening of the game and although we beat Army and I set many Army-Navy game records (279 yards, 42 carries, and four touchdowns), I remember that this was the last football game that I would ever play along side my brother, Charlie Meyers Class of '80. And even though we went on to the First Holiday Bowl in San Diego, CA, nothing in that entire season could compare with beating Army that year and the great feeling of euphoria that we felt. Beat Army!

Eddie A. Meyers '82

Nerves and Excitement After suffering emotionally through watching us lose to Army in our Plebe year in 1972, my teammates and I purposed subconsciously not to experience that feeling again. We didn't! Outscoring Army 100-6 over the '73, '74 and '75 seasons, we owned the Commanderin-Chief's Trophy, My greatest memory, however, is the nervousness the night before the game in anticipation of what was to come on Saturday, the excitement of playing before 70,00080,000 fans in JFK stadium, and the joy and sadness of participating with my Classmates in the classic event for the last time. That bond between my Classmates and our teammates has been missed, but those memories will never fade. Thanks, Class of'76.1 miss you all.

Chet Moeller '76

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Revenge

Using Loss to Win

As we walked out to warm up in the '96 game, not only was there an air of confidence, but an air of revenge for last year's seniors.

We were not about to look into our teammates' eyes through anything but tears of joy and satisfaction.

I will always remember the empathy I had for Andy Thompson after the '95 game and the class of Army's Jim Cantelupe. In '96, it would be our year to console the seniors of Army.

We were kickin' tails and takin' names until that fateful 4th quarter (again). Our offense made a valiant comeback, but we ran out of three necessary things: field, sunshine and time,, .As the clock ticked down I couldn't believe I was feeling the same way againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;swallowing a hot marble while being punched in the stomach. Thank the Lord we were able to gargle that bad taste out of our mouths with a little salt water in Hawaii (beating Cal in the Aloha Bowl)!

If I had my druthers, I would rather have beaten Army and been a little less philosophical.

Ben Fay '97

The most vivid memories I have of the four Army-Navy games I played concern the one loss we suffered, not the three wins. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I hate losing more than I like winning.

My third A-N game was played in JFK stadium in Philadelphia on a very cold, wet and windy, late aftemoon day in December 1977.

Army came into the game with a strong team while we had underachieved for most of the year but could have secured a winning season with a win. We had come within a whisker of upsetting the No. 1 ranked Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor earlier in the year so we were desperate to finish with a win versus Army.

The game was hard fought throughout but we were down 17-14 with one last chance to win with the ball deep in our own end and time enough for one more drive. Twice we faced fourth and long and both times Bob Lesczcynski completed passes to me to keep the drive alive. The second conversion came as he came into the huddle after a time out and said, "Max protection, Phil, run a 'GO,' I'll underthrow the ball, and you come back for it." Nothing like drawing 'em up in the dirt!

We got down to Army's 12-yard line with fourth down and four to go and about one minute remaining. A game tying field goal was out of the question. The play called was sweep to the left by Joe Gattuso, he had the option to run or pass, with me as the intended receiver I lined up wide left and faked a crackback block on the safety then cut to the comer of the end zone. I was wide open, but by the time Joe threw it, I ran out of room and the ball grazed off my fingertips as I stepped out of bounds. Game over. Loss to Army, I was physically, mentally and emotionally ill following that game and believe it was the stimulus for the great season we had in 1978, when we won 9 games, beat Brigham Young in the Holiday Bowl to finish 17th in the country after climbing to No. 11 after our 7-0 start. Oh, by the way, we beat Army 28-0!

Phil McConkey '79

1-1-1 The Army-Navy games were the most emotional and intensely competitive contests that I have ever participated in. I had the privilege to play in three of the games, resulting in a 1-1-1 record.

In 1956, we tied Army, and Admiral Smedberg (the Superintendent) turned down a Bowl Invitation, doubling our disappointment.

In 1957, we beat Army 14-0 (Anderson-Dawkins era) with Captain Ned Oldham scoring all 14 points. That game will always be the high point of my Naval Academy memories. A special moment occurred in that game involving "Doc" Blanchard. Doc was a great Army fullback, my boyhood idol, and was one of the Army coaches involved in recruiting me on behalf of West Point. I had made a tackle at the Army sideline. As we unpiled. Doc picked me up by the shoulder He had a big grin on his face, and he said, "I hope you get seasick," In 1958, we were on the losing end, which was the low point of my football career.

The memories are enhanced as the years pass on. Best of all, teanunates have remained close and treasured friends.

Robert Reifsnyder '59

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Everyone thinks that their rivalry is the best, the most special,

From A Civil War by John Feinstein: Football coaches love to equate themselves with military leaders and talk about battles in the trenches and going to war At Army and Navy, the players understand the difference between football and war. That doesn't mean they play any less hard or care one bit less. If anything, they play with even more commitment than players at other schools. But as much as the players want to beat each other, as important as it is at both schools to win that football game, there is a bond between the players and their schools like no bond between any other rivals in sports. Army and Navy players have fought together in wars, have died together in wars, and will almost certainly do so again in the future.

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the one that stands above others. But Army-Navy is unique. It is played with a fervor of people who know they are doing something that they love for a final time, that they are closing a chapter in their lives. And it is played by teams who try to crush each other for three hours, then stand at attention together when the game is over It is also the tradition and the uniqueness of the scene inside the stadium that makes the rivalry unique. After all, it is the only college football game played each year that is attended by the entire student body of both schools.

But it is more than that. For all their flaws. West Point and the Naval Academy still represent what the country can be. When we look into the faces of the cadets and the mids, we see the future.

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This new millennium, this new century, and even this new decade will see a sea change in the way in which we pursue our national security objectives. Does our national experience over the last decade tell us much about the future regarding the way we organize, train and fight?

In his September address at the opening of the 54th session of the United Nations, President Clinton urged the world body to continue intervening in humanitarian conflicts such as Kosovo and East Timor while also urging U.N. delegates to try to solve the vexing problems of world poverty, ethnic violence, humanitarian disasters and other calamities. Implicit in that address was the assurance that the United States would remain engaged across this broad spectrum of action.

The actions in which the United States has participated, both within and outside of the context of United Nations' action, in the last decade alone cover an incredible scope and provide the most reliable window on the types of action that our military forces, and especially the Navy and Marine Corps team, are likely to become involved in during the first decade of the 21st century. Among these actions: 1989: Operation Just Cause in Panama, where U,S, troops overthrew General Noriega and arrested him on drug trafficking charges, 1990: The Persian Gulf War, where the U,S, led a large coalition forceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and involved more than a half-million of its own service men and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait, 1991-present: Operations Desert Fox, Desert Strike, Northern Watch, Southern Watch, Provide Comfort, and others, where U,S, forces deployed to protect Kurds, enforce a cease-fire resolution, and prevent military flight in the north and south of Iraq.

1992-1995: Operations Restore Hope, Continue Hope and others where U.S. troops led U,N.-backed famine relief efforts in Somalia.

1993-present: Operations Deny Flight, Provide Promise, Deliberate Force, Decisive Edge, Joint Endeavor and others where U,S, troops lead NATO and U,N. efforts in Bosnia and Macedonia to halt Serbian aggression against Muslims and odiers and provide humanitarian assistance.

1993-1996: Operations Uphold Democracy, Support Democracy and others where U.S. ships and combat troops led U.N. efforts to restore and maintain democracy in Haiti.

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1998: Operation Infinite Reach where the U.S. bombed camps and facilities used by Osama bin Laden for terrorist attacks against the U.S. 1999: Operations Allied Force, Noble Anvil, Shining Hope and Falcon where U.S, and NATO forces wage an air war against Serbian-led government in Yugoslavia to halt repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Is there anything we can learn from these worldwide actions? What does this mean for our Alumni and Midshipmen?

For Midshipmen about to enter the Fleet or the Fleet Marine Forces, it means that they need to study the conduct of these operations and understand more fully the kinds of challenges they will face as commissioned officers. These operations present a very different paradigm from what they studied about conflicts as recentiy as Vietnam.

For junior and mid-grade officers in the fleet and in the field today, looking at what these actions entailed should cause them to think hard about the kinds of training they pursue and the way in which they train the forces under their control. New skill sets are required.

For our more senior officers, these new security paradigms will change substantially the way they structure the force for the new century and the way they organize, equip and train our forces as well as the way that they evolve doctrine, strategy and tactics.

For all Alumni, but especially for those no longer wearing the uniform, who are less consti-ained when they voice their opinion, they should lead an ongoing national dialogue regarding the decisions we make in determining where and when we commit our national blood and treasure. We owe it to ourselves and to the Republic to consider this carefully.

Captain Galdorisi is the Chief of Staff for Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group Three, Shipmate, December 1999

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Some of our trips are similar to those we have offered in the past—our river rripi in Europe are always popular and this year we offer some very special new options.

We have also chosen some wonderful new places—Antarctica on the very popular MV MARCO POLO, fhe Amazon on the exotic AMATISTA, and a very exciting trip to coastal Vietnam on the new CLIPPER ODYSSEY, complete with a VIP lecturer who served there during

the Vietnam War. Listed below are trips currently planned for next year. Please be advised that dates and prices may change slightly For current updates and to read our monthly newsletter—please visit our Web site at http:// www.usna.com/programs, Antarctic Expedition—January 17-30, 2000 A fascinating journey to tfie seventfi continent, Antarctica, featuring an 8-day voyage of exploration aboard tfie M.V. MARCO POLO and three nigfits in cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, the "Paris of South America." 13 days/from $4495(+ air add-on). {Gotiagan & Co.) IHidden Islands of the Grenadines & the Windwards and Leewards—January 29-February 5, 2000 Escape tfie wintry weather for a wonderful week in the sun aboard the YoRKTowN CUPPER as she visits the islands of Grenada, Union Island, Bequia, St. Lucia, Dominica, Nevis and St. Kitts. Her small size (138-passengers) allows exploration up close and a wonderful yacht-like atmosphere.

8 days/from $1950 (plus air). (Clipper Cruises) Kenya Discovery—February 29-March 11, 2000 A 12-day wildlife safari to Nairobi Samburu National Reserve and the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Superior accommodations at well appointed lodges and small group viewing trips to see wildlife. See the spectacular natural beauty and amazing wildlife that is the African continent.

Not your typical safari—comfort and convenience abound! 12 days/$4295 (includes air).

The Natural Treasures of Costa Rica & The Darien Jungle (& Panama Canal)—March 18-26,2000 A repeat of our 1999 sellout, the YORKTOWN CUPPER visits beautiful Costa Rica and Panama then transits the canal. Combines small ship comfort and ttie ability to see up close the natural beauty of this unspoiled area. 9 days/from $2340 (plus air). (Clipper Cruises) Amazon Exploration—May 6-13, 2000 Travel aboard the deluxe LA AMATISTA, with only 30 passengers, to enjoy the most talked about new voyage. Explore the rainforest ecosystem of the Upper Amazon, wtiile traveling in complete luxury. Optional extension to Machu Picchu. 8days/from $2995 (plus air). (Gotiagan & Co.) Asl< to borrow our video and see ail this wonderful voyage t)as to offer Alumni College in Provence—May 9-17, 2000 Nine days at the Grand Hotel Des Ttiermes In the one of the most beautiful areas of France. Provence has much to offer; Its stunning mountains, countryside and festivals, plus Its history as a haven for popular painters such as Van Gogh, Matisse, Chagall and Picasso. You will enjoy It all—the food, the scenery and the people that make this area so fascinating.

9 days/$2295 (includes air). Hosted by CAPT H.J. Halliday '69, Chief Operating Officer, USNA Alumni Association. (Alumni Holidays) Cruise the Heart of Europe—May 13-27,2000 A "first ever" cruise of ttie Inland canals and rivers of Northern Europe from Holland through the Netherlands and Germany, ending in Berlin.

Travel aboard the M/S EUROPA, the newest of Europe's luxurious "floating hotels." 15 days/$4995 (includes air). (Alumni Holidays) Continental Passage—June 30-July 16, 2000 From Amsterdam to Budapest, along the stunning Rhine, Main a n d Danube rivers, this is the perfect cruise along three of Europe's most picturesque rivers.The M.S. EURASMUS is always popular and we tjring her back ogain by popular demand. 16 days/$4595 (includes air). (Alumni Holidays) Oberammergau—June 15-27, 2000 The Passion Play Is only performed once every decade, and we wouldn't dream of missing it. This wonderful Itinerary combines Prague, Vienna and Munich and a trip to see the play Four days In Prague, four days In Vienna, then on to Germany to see the play in Oberammergau and visit Munich.

Three of Europe's most amazing cities combine to make this an unforgettable journey 12 days/$4795 (includes air). Hosted by CDR L, Heyworth, III 70, Director, Strategic Programs, USNA Alumni Association. (Alumni Holidays) Vietnam Revisited-//ie Journey of a Lifetime—Ju\y 11, 2000 Return to an area filled with recent history and memories for many of our alumni. This trip combines the wonderful luxury of the new CUPPER ODVSSEY, with the chance to see an area of the world only recently available for tourism. Start in Hong Kong then visit Haiphong/Hanoi, Halong Bay, Da Nang, Qui Nhon, Nha Trang and Ho Chi Minh City. Lectures from General Hansford T. Johnson '59 (USAFA) a pilot with over 423 combat missions in Vietnam. His tours of duty included Strategic Air Command, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Central Command and Director of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus many others, 18 days/from $6750 (plus air), (Clipper Cruises)

St. Moritz Escapade—July 11 -20, 2000 We have offered Switzerland in the winter, now see It In the splendor of summer. Stay in the stunning five-star Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz then explore the surrounding areas of Lugano, Innsbruck, and Pontresina. Ride the amazing "Bernlna Express" one of Switzerland's picture perfect rail adventures. 9 days/$2495 (Includes air). Hosted by Katherine Hite, Director, Fiscal Sen/ices, USNA Alumni Association. (Alumni Holidays) Alumni College in Sorrento—July 24-August 2, 2000 The newest Alumni College in Italy—and quickly becoming the most popular. Stay in scenic Sorrento, with day trips to see the Bay of Naples, the Amalfl Coast and the Isle of Capri, while learning the history of this wonderful area. Travel back in time as you visit ruins at Pompeii. 9 days/$2295 (includes air). Hosted by Mike Collins '84, Director, Alumni Publications, USNA Alumni Association, (Alumni Holidays) Voyage of the Sea Goddess—August 2-15, 2000 (Formerly Magnificent Passage) Our most popular new itinerary—four days In Paris, then board the SEA GODDESS for a cruise to Aries, Monte Carlo, Portofino, Viaregglo and Rome.

Our best itinerary combined with what many feel is one of the world's best ships. A true luxury cruise. 15 days/$5695 (includes air). (Alumni Holidays) Alumni College In Stratford-upon-Avon and the Cotswolds—August 1523, 2000 With Its famous native son, plus the breathtaking scenery and fascinating towns surrounding it, Stratford-upon-Avon is the ideal spot for our newest Alumni Campus. Visit Oxford and its' university, Warwick and Its' famous castle, plus spend time in London and the surrounding areas. 9 days/ $2295 (includes air). Hosted by CAPT H.A. Seymour, Jr. '65, Director, Alumni Affairs, USNA Alumni Association. (Park East Tours)(Alumni Holidays) Alumni College in Spain—August 21-30, 2000 Visit Ubeda and its surrounding areas—Cordoba, Cazoria, Baeza and Granada. See the beautiful and exotic architecture left by the Moors during their time here, plus Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches from the Christian influence. The wonders of Spain's history and people come alive. 9 days/$2300 (Includes air). (Alumni Holidays) Maritime Canada, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Thousand IslandsAugust 26, 2000 From Rochester, NY, through the lovely Thousand Islands and Prescott, up the St. Lawrence Seaway you will visit Montreal and Quebec City. Spend a morning whale watching near the confluence of the Saguenay Fjord and the St. Lawrence River then discover the seafaring traditions of the Gaspe Peninsula and Prince Edward Island. End with a visit to the stunning Nova Scotia. The perfect late summer voyage. 15 days/$3800 (plus air). (Clipper Cruises) Alaska's Inside Passage—H/dden Fjords and Gtoc/ers—September 2-9 2000 A repeat of a 1999 sellout, the YORKTOWN CUPPER brings small ship elegance to an area you've always wanted to see up-close. With two options: the cruise portion to explore by sea, or add the Denali pre-cruise extension to see Alaska by both sea and land. 8 days/$2200 (plus air). Denali precruise 5 days/$1220. (Clipper Cruises) Treasures of the Seine—September 5-16, 2000 Four days in London, then travel through the Chunnel to France and board the M.S. NoRMANDiE, a deluxe river cruiser Visit Normandy and Omaha Beach with all its history then travel along the Seine River through Caudebec, Rouen, Les Andelys and Vernon. End this wonderful trip with three days in Paris. 12 days/$3795 (includes air). Hosted by CDR Dave Church '67, Director, Alumni Services, USNA Alumni Association. (Alumni Holidays) Islands & Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest—September 12-19, 2000 The wonderful M.V. SEABIRD explores the fabulous areas from Vancouver to Seattle. Visit the picturesque San Juan Islands, Victoria, British Columbia, the Gulf Islands and Alert Bay Marvel at the beautiful fjords of Princess Louisa Inlet and Chatterbox Falls. See amazing wildlife including pods of Killer whales. The naturalist staff on board will enrich your knowledge of this wonderful area. 7 days/from $1990 (plus air). (Special Expeditions) Navy/Notre Dome—Orlando In October 2000 Meet us in Orlando in October 2000 for the always-popular Navy/Notre Dame football game. The travel package will include many options to the surrounding area attractions including Magic Kingdom, Epcot, MGM and Animal Kingdom. Stay tuned for furtlier details.

All prices tentative. Final brochure prices may vary.

For more information or to be on the mailing list for one or all trips, call Bobbi Collins at 410-263-4448 ext. 139.

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Navy Athletics

Colin Young named to U.S. Rowing Honor Roll Navy senior rower Colin Young '00 has been named to the 1999 U.S. Rowing Collegiate Honor Roll for his excellence in both academics and rowing. Young maintains a 3.31 GPA in systems engineering as a member of the Navy men's heavyweight crew team. He is one-of-30 honorees representing 16 states and 20 colleges and universities named to the prestigious honor roll. Upon his graduation from the Academy, Young plans to become either a surface warfare officer or a naval flight officer.

Alarie to be Inducted into Duke Hall of Fame Navy assistant basketball coach Mark Alarie will be inducted into the Duke Hall of Fame in a ceremony this weekend in Durham, N.C. Alarie had a standout career at Duke, scoring 2,136 points and grabbing 833 rebounds from 1983-86. He started all 133 games in his four-year career, as the Blue Devils posted a 95-38 record, won an ACC title and made the Final Four his senior season. Alarie is the fifth-leading scorer in Duke history, trailing only Johnny Dawkins, Christian Laettner, Mike Gminski and Danny Ferry.

Alarie was a first-round draft choice of the Denver Nuggets, selected 18th overall, and started 25 games his rookie year. Alarie averaged 7.9 points in 64 games for the Nuggets. In the off-season, Alarie was traded to the Washington Bullets where he played for five more seasons.

After leaving the Bullets following the 1991-92 season, Alarie worked as a television commentator on college basketball games for

one year and worked on U.S. Senator John McCain's staff as a federal liaison for a year. He then entered the business world where he worked for Morgan Stanley, Legg Mason and, for the past three years, at Alex Brown in Baltimore, as the Vice President for Institutional Equity Sales and Trading Division.

A a native of Scottsdale, AZ, Alarie graduated from Duke in 1986 with a bachelor of arts degree in economics and graduated from The Wharton School of Business at Pennsylvania with a master's in business administration in 1995. This will be his first year as an assistant coach at Navy.

Lengyel Promotes Three Staff Members Naval Academy Director of Athletics Jack Lengyel announced today that he has promoted Gene Taylor and Eric Ruden to Associate Athletic Director and Dave Davis to Assistant Athletic Director.

Taylor, who had been an Assistant Athletic Director, is now the Associate Athletic Director for Event Operations and is also the Administrative Assistant to the Athletic Director.

Ruden, who had been an Assistant Athletic Director, is now the Associate Director of Athletics for External Relations.

Davis, who had been a Director, is now the Assistant Athletic Director for Admissions and Special Projects.

"I am pleased to be able to promote three people within the organization who have done an outstanding job for the Naval Academy and the Naval Academy Athletic Association," said Lengyel.

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Navy Edges Army in Anthracite Bowl The grudge match between Army and Navy in sprint football took place at the annual Anthracite Bowl in Pottsville, PA. The Midshipmen captured the 12-10 victory as a mishandled snap for an Army field goal with 12 seconds left clinched the game.

Two field goals by freshman Ian Duncan proved to be the difference for the Midshipmen. Early in the first quarter, senior Drew McGinly connected on his fifth touchdown pass of the season with junior wide receiver, Doug Hale. The Navy defense continued to cause problems for its opponents with an interception and the Midshipmen special teams recovered two Army fumbles.

Women's Volleyball Knocks Off Army The Navy volleyball team was studying for exams in the academic arena, and got an A while regaining the N star from rival. Army. The Mids and the Cadets went five games, with Navy coming out on top 3-2.

The Midshipmen jumped out early winning the first set 15-7, hitting nearly 27%. Army responded in games two and three, putting Navy and their backs against the wall. The Mids responded winning the final two games to capture the match and the N star, 15-13, 1512.

Head Coach Mike Schwob was enthused about the Midshipmen efforts, "in this big rivalry it is good to be on the winning end this year after losing last year at home in five games. I think the girls played weU and responded at crucial times to regain the N star from Army."

Freshman setter Jessica Van Norman celebrated her 18th birthday with the victory while collecting 58 assists. Van Norman was busy through out the night setting up senior Jen Williams, who notched 24 kills on 51 attempts, and sophomore Kara Romanowsky for 18 kills on 48 attempts. Senior Rachel Shropa nailed down 17 kills to the cause.

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S E R V ICE

U N I T E D STATES M I L I T A R Y A C A D E M Y

U N I T E D STATES A I R F O R C E A C A D E M Y

U N I T E D STATES C O A S T G U A R D A C A D E M Y

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A C A E)

C O M P A N Y REGISTRATION FORM

SACC SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS:

W H A T IS THE S A C C ?

The SACC 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 previous conferences have been attended by over hundreds of different companies and thousands of alumni.

W H O MAY ATTEND THE SACC? All candidates from the U.S. Service Academies are invited to participate.

These individuals have learned the lessons of leadership, integrity and time management during their undergraduate years. These skills have been honed and tested during active duty military service in a fast paced operational environment. The highest sense of personal honor and commitment to getting the job done are common traits among our alumni.

Thursday. April n. 2000 Interview Prep Seminar

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Friday. April 14. 2000 Continental Breakfast:

7:00 AM -10:00 AM

Registration:

9:00 AM - (All Day)

Open Session I:

10:00 AM -1:00 PM

Lunch (provided):

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Open Session H:

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Saturday. April 15. 2000

Recruiters may schedule individual interviews

H o w DO I REGISTER FOR SACC? 1) 2) 3)

W H A T IS THE COMPANY REGISTRATION FEE?

Complete the registration form below Submit registration fee (check or credit card) Mail to the attention of SACC address below

WHERE WILL THE SACC BE HELD? The SACC will be held at the Ritz Carhon Hotel, Pentagon City, Arlington, VA, To reserve a room at the Ritz, please call 703-415-5000 and request the SACC rate NLT March 10, 2000.

The company registration fee is $2000/lst table, $3000 for two tables and $3750 for three. This fee entitles a company access to the best candidates in corporate America; open sessions to meet with candidates; opportunities for on-site interviews and lunch. For each table registered, a company receives hard copies of all resumes submitted and 30 day password access to the JSARDS (Joint Service Academy Resume Database System.)

PLEASE NOTE: This fee does not cover the cost of your room at the hotel. To make room reservations call 800-233-1234 and request the SACC rate NLT March 10, 2000.

SACC C O M P A N Y R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M Please reserve:

• 1 table ($2,000)

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Bill Company

Check Enclosed

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2 tables ($3,000) •

3 tables ($3,750)

Credit Card

MasterCardA'isa/Discover #:

Exp. Date:.

Signature: Recruiter(s) Attending (Umit 6): Company Name: Company Address: Company Phone:

Web Site:

Mail to: SACC • 247 King George Street, AnnapoUs, MD 21402-5068 USNA Alumni Association 410-263-4448 (Tel) 410-263-9348 (Fax) Web Site: www.usna.com 46

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SERVICE

U N I T E D STATES MILITARY A C A D E M Y

A C A D E M Y

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C O N F E R E N C E

C A N D I D A T E R E G I S T R A T I O N FORM W H A T IS THE SACC? The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapohs) and U.S. Coast Guard Academy (New London) and Associations of Graduates from the U.S. MiUtary Academy (West Point) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). The previous Conferences have been attended by over hundreds of different companies and thousands of alumni.

How DO I REGISTER FOR THE SACC? Send to the SACC office NLT March 10, 2000: 1) Complete registration form below 2) Submit $25 registration fee 3) Send 2 hard copy resumes (1 page/1 side) Upon receipt of the above items, you will receive a confirmation notice and a definitive schedule a few weeks prior to the conference.

WHERE WILL THE SACC BE HELD? The &1CC will be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Pentagon City, Arhngton, VA. To reserve a room at the Ritz, please call 703-415-5000 and request the SACC rate NLT March 10, 2000.

SACC SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS: Thursday. April 13. 2000 Interview Prep Seminar

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Friday. April 14. 2000 Continental Breakfast:

7:00 AM -10:00 AM

Registration:

9:00 AM - (All Day) 10 00 AM-1:00 PM

Open Session I:

1 00 PM - 3:00 PM 3 00 PM - 6:00 PM

Lunch Break:

Saturday. April 15. 2000

The JSARDS is an internet base system. There is no cost to you. Your resume will receive immediate exposure to companies participating in the SACC and other companies interested in hiring academy grads.

T o PLACE YOUR RESUME ON JSARDS First, log on to www.usna.com Second, chck on Career Center Finally, cUck on the JSARDS Unk and register under "Academy Graduate Registration"

SACC

If you have already registerd with JSARDS, please make sure you review your resume by March 10, 2000, to ensure that it is up to date for the SACC. Resumes on the JSARDS automatically expire after 90 days, unless extended by you.

Open Session H:

H O W DO I PARTICIPATE IN THE JOEMT SERVICE ACADEMY RESUME DATABASE SYSTEM?

1) 2) 3)

Please register with JSARDS NLT March 10, 2000, to ensure that your resume is viewed by recruiters participating in the SACC,

Recruiters may schedule individual interviews We cannot guarantee resumes received after March 10, 2000, will be included in the Resume Book provided to each recruiter. This a hard deadline, as the resumes have to be compiled and copied.

If you haye any questions please call Sally Fletcher at the USNA Alumni Association, 410-263-4448 ext. 201 or via email at sacc@usna.com.

CANDIDATE REGISTRATION FORM

Name (for nametag, no ranks):

USNA Class:

Address: (Work)

Phone: (Home)

(Email)

Resume Category: (see www.usna.com Web site for list) Will you attend the free Interview Prep Seminar?

Please enclose:

• Yes

• Registration Form • Fee ($25)

• No

• Resumes (2 hard copies)

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Class News 'But still when two or three shall meet. And old tales be retold.

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Shipmate has received the sad news that Elizabeth R. Lindsay, widow of Stewart Lindsay, has died in SykesvUle, MD. Her son, CDR Stewart Lindsay, USNR (Ret.), writes: I truly believe that the happiest years of my mother's life were those spent as a Navy wife and those in Annapohs after retirement in 1960. She was actively involved in all Class of '23 activities until she was forced to enter the Health Center at Fairhaven in Sykesville, MD. She was four months shy of her 95th birthday when she died.

Until last year, I was able to share Shipmate with her. Even though the '23 notes are few, she did enjoy following news of other classes and information about Midshipmen that she and my father had gotten to know in the '60s.

Mrs. Lindsay is survived by her son, Stewart; five granddaughters and one greatgranddaughter Our condolences go out to the family and the Class o f ' 2 3 .

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Pres. and Sec'y: CAPT Gordon Campbell, USN (Ret.) 3848 Somerset Drive, Durham, NC 27707-5017 h: 919-489-2520 Vice Pres: RADM Ben Scott Custer, USN (Ret.) Sad news to report as we lost another Classmate, CAPT John Leiand Woodbury, USN (Ret.). Lee died on 16 September 1999, in the Virginia Beach General Hospital of multiple causes. Memorial services were held on 11 October at the Westminster Canterbury (retirement community) in Virginia Beach.

Interment was to be in the Columbarium at the Naval Academy. Lee was pre-deceased by his wife of 71 years, Amelia Snoot V^oodbury, on 20 March 1999. Survivors include two sons, CAPT John L. Woodbury Jr. '51, USN (Ret.), and Gerald E. Woodbury, NROTC Duke University '55; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The Class extends condolences to the family.

Lee's older son, John J r phoned to inform us of the loss of his father. He said Lee suffered from a broken hip and other health problems. After Amelia's death, his health went down hill rapidly, missing her so very much.

In the March '99 Shipmate there is a picture of Lee receiving the "Old Goat" plaque presented by the residents of Westminster as the senior Naval Academy resident. The plaque now passes to RADM William A. Moffett Jr. '30. Lee, or Woody, as we called him at the Academy, and I had started our naval careers together at pre-admission physicals at the Boston Navy Yard. He was a good Classmate and will be missed by all.

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ADM Joe Quilter was featured in an article in his local newspaper. The Almanac, of Portola Valley, CA. The following is based on the story, "After 30 years in the Navy, Admiral Quilter helped forge Portola Valley and build its trails." The original article may be found at www.calmanac.com, for 18 August 1999.

The name ADM Joe "Slim" Quilter, has become synonymous with the town of Portola Valley, CA. Since settling there in 1955 following retirement from the Navy, Quilter has been involved in many aspects of local life, particularly the trailsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he planned and built them, and maintains them.

"Trails are a real asset to the area," ADM Quilter said. "In the old parts of town, they're a way of getting around without being on the pavement. In the newer areas which have open space, they are a way to see open spaces."

At age 92, Quilter sits on the Trails Committee and checks the condition of trails and culverts monthly.

"He is guardian of our trails; he's on top of every trciil issue. He comes with the discipline of the military and is very persistent," said Bill Lane, a town founder and major influence in Portola Valley, After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1928, Quilter attended flight school and got his wings the following year.

From 1931 to 1936, he served on AUGUSTA, with part of that fime, 1933-1936, on the China Station, wintering in the Philippines and cruising the eastern seas in the summers.

While on a stop in Sidney Harbor in 1934, Quilter flew under the new arch bridge twice, the second time leading a formation. Later, he "got on the hot seat with the captain, who was Chester Nimitz '05," the Admiral recalled.

In January 1936, Quilter married Adrieime Balch in Manila.

Quilter spent the majority of the War years in Washington, D . C , helping design and supervising construction of aircraft carriers. In 1944 President Roosevelt secretly called on Quilter to discuss future needs for aircraft carriers.

The next year, Quilter commissioned the new aircraft carrier, SHANGRI-LA, for which he was executive officer and for which he later was awarded the Bonze Star for his combat service. SHANGRI-LA survived kamikaze suicide bombers off Japan and was then used to bring U.S. servicemen in Okinawa home at the conclusion of the War. On its return, SHANGRI-LA outpaced a typhoon in the Pacific.

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sunning themselves just off the flight deck.

Quilter, as the executive officer, "pinged him." But that was not the executive's last encounter with the flyer. They found each other again, many years later in Portola Valley. Anderson is a longtime councilman, mayor and volunteer in the town.

Still in Washington, Quilter served on the carrier desk in the Office of Naval Operations when he was sent to witness the atomic bomb test at Bikini, In 1952, he took command of the seaplane tender SALISBURY SOUND at Hunter's Point based in Okinawa. While Quilter was in the Pacific, his family settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, in a place that later became Portola Valley.

The Admiral retired from the Navy in 1954 and joined his family in the Bay Area to pursue other avenues beginning with earning an M.B.A from Stanford Business School. He then worked for Lockheed for 11 years in business planning, mergers and acquisitions.

A second retirement came in 1969.

When Portola Valley incorporated in 1964, ADM Quilter lost a run for the Town Council but he got involved by serving a term on the school board and later earning the title of Trail Coirmiissioner In 1974, Quilter's wife, Adrienne, passed away. The following year he married his widowed neighbor, Phyllis Blum.

Joe and Phyllis Quilter have four children, one grandchild and two great-grandchildren.

They remain active, traveling extensively and mentoring at a local computer club.

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Regular Membership: 44% Life Membership: 49% Pres: RADM William O. Snead, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT John A. Moreno, USN (Ret.) 1214 Fifth Street, Coronado, CA 92118 h: 619-435-3732 We were interested to see that four of the USNA Foundation Scholarships which were awarded this year for chosen candidates were named for the "Class of 1930 Honor Scholarships" and '30 Classmates.

The Brigadier General Russell P. "Whitey" Lloyd Memorial Honor Scholarship; The Rear Admiral W.O. Snead Scholarship; The David A. Stretch Memorial Honor Scholarship.

A very generous offer comes from Mrs. Joan Keeler, daughter of CAPT James O. Biglow, USN (Ret.). She has a 1930 Lucky Bag, as well as a 1928 one, for anyone want50

ing it. Her address is 24580 Vista Valley Dr., Vista, CA 92084; phone 760-726-0440 or 760-726-6116.

Jack Lee writes: Marcia and I have just returned from the 45th Annual Convention of the Submarine Veterans of World War II, Including wives, children, grandchildren, etc. I estimate there were about 3,000 in attendance.

One of those present was the daughter of Jim "Red" Coe who was bom after her father was lost in Cisco. He had previously commanded S-39 and SKIPJACK. She is an

English teacher at a college in Maine. She is writing a memoir, about her father and seeks assistance in collecting memories, stories and anecdotes from those who knew him. Her address is Mary Lee Coe Fowler, 229 Sweetser Road, Powal, ME 04069, 207-688-2256; e: MLFowleri@NLIS.Net. As usual I was the only member of the Class of '30 at the Convention. The next Class represented was '33 by VADM John T^ree. Incidentally, during our First Class year John was Red Coe's Plebe. Mary Lee, of course, appreciated the opportunity to interview him about her father.

Received a very nice letter from Mrs. John B. Wildman about her father I thought your Classmates and wives might enjoy some happy news regarding one of your own.

Just a note to let you know that "the stars (still) shine bright, deep in the heart of Texas!" My dad, ADM Joseph E. Dodson, perhaps better known as Joe and "Flash" during his days at Annapolis, celebrated his 90th birthday on 29 August, in San Antonio, TX; family and friends gathered at the Petroleum Club to celebrate his long life, good health and many accomplishments.

The party was hosted by his wife, Ruth, and attended by family and friends from all over the country. Included among the guests were his son, Jed Dodson of Fort Worth, TX; daughter, Beverly Rawlings, and her husband, Pete, of Williamsburg, VA; and daughter, Peggy Wildman, and her husband, Jack '54, also from Williamsburg. Other guests included extended family and friends.

A wonderful time was had by all. It was an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate his successful Navy career as well as his incredible gift as a husband, father and caretaker. As some of you may know, he cared for our mother, Mary, during her 11-year battle with Alzheimer Disease with unbelievable patience and love. During that time he was only away from her side for one night, recuperating from minor surgery.

What a legacy of love for our family! Joe promises to be there for 2009, so we can all look forward to his centennial celebration.

Griswold (Munk) Atkins died 9 September, from complications of Parkinson Disease at the Coatsville, PA, VA Hospital. After retirement he went to work for Thiokol in Elkton, MD, and then moved to the Delaware Valley when he joined the Space Division of General Electric. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, of 18 years, 475 Balladeer Road, Wand, PA 19096; two stepsons Stephen Bury Richter, Ambler, PA, and Walter M. Richter, M.D., Boston, MA; a brother and five grandchildren. A memorial service was held on 24 September at Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA.

Bill Snead submitted a very interesting excerpt about Hayward from the Naval War College Foundation Notes of August 1999.

ADM Hayward served as a Foundation Trustee from 1975 to 1981. As president of the Naval War College he was instrumental in obtaining the government funds needed to build Spruance and Hewitt Halls.

The U.S. Naval Institute will publish a biography of ADM Hayward, called "Bluejacket Admiral" this winter. Admiral Hayward was an aviator and a scientist. He helped develop nuclear devices used in the World War II atomic bombs and later worked at the Atomic Energy Commission. He was a master storyteller never forgetting a name, a place or a funny incident. He was a scholar, a sailor and a friend.

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Regular Membership: 53% Life Membership: 24% Pres: VADM John B. Colwell, USN (Ret.) 5910 Wilson Blvd, Apt 211, Arlington, VA 22205 h: 703-533-4084 Sec'y: RADM A.B. Metsger, USN (Ret.) 3520 N. Roberts Lane, Arlington, VA 22207 h: 703-524-4599 e: ABEM3I@cs.com On 14 September, we held the autumn luncheon with our ladies. Those who attended from '31 were Marge Bellis, JB Colwell, Ruth Day, A u d r e y Dempsey, Dorothy McFarlane, Lynn and Abe Metsger and Johnny Webster. There was also a good turnout of '33; we were pleased to see Charlie Blick '33 back after a fall and a siege in the hospital, Dick Steere, still wheelchair-bound, could not come, but now free of the chair expected to attend our October luncheon. Bill FitzGerald reports Annelisa's "improving every day" after her August operation.

Bob Heilig reported another fine Class luncheon of our San Diego group on Tuesday, 14 September. Attendance: Betty Adair, Phyllis and Ed Burns, Mary Lou Cumberledge, Bob Heilig, Ruth and Ed Moring, Rivets Rivero, and Kenny Romberg. Ed Moring brought guests. Col. Foley, USAF (Ret.), and his wife, Lillian.

Fran and Ernie Ellsworth were not at the luncheon窶認ran had celebrated Ernie's 90th a few days before with a rousing party at the Sub Base O'Club; Bob Heilig reports excellent food and drinks. Among the attendants were most of our Classmates listed for the September luncheon. Hope we all look as well at 90 as the Ellsworth's in this picture.

Fran and Ernie Ellsworth

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Bob says Georgia and Lew LeweUen are still at their summer address in Encampment, WY, We're pleased to add this letter from Jack Chew's widow, Judy, to Johnnie Webster: The note advising me of the contribution

by Jack's Class to the Alzheimer's Association arrived after I had left for New York on 15 July. I returned just this Friday, 30 July, and do so want to thank the Class for its contribution to fight this dreadful disease. In Jack's case it was very long, but fortunately he remained even tempered, did not wander, and had moments of being futmy and always dear. It was gratifying to have the Chapel, where we were married, overflowing with friends. My best to you and Virginia. Devotedly, Judy.

Giimy, Dick Peterson's widow, is living at Paradise Valley Estates, where she and Dick had moved some months before his April death. She likes her new residence, but misses the friends and activities she enjoyed at Los Altos. She is pleased that a photograph of Mount Fuji that Dick took through his periscope from Tokyo Bay at the beginning of the War is posted on a "Wall of Remembrance" in the largely Air Force retirement home (near Travis AFB). Ginny reports no change in Bay Area Class members.

Elynor Brown tells us about the hurricane threat that caused evacuation of Fleet Landing. In any event, there was no flooding. She and Gene Ritchie found substitute quarters for the three or four days involved. Elynor reports a big to-do at Mayport; a diimer meeting of mostly USNA grads for an excellent speech by David Ellison '70, senior officer of the area.

Georgette Thornton is well situated in Naples, FL; she just returned from a fine Mediterranean cruise.

Red Cone reports from Lake City, FL, that he is being visited by his brother and sister, "It's like a family reunion." We checked separately with Ben Custer '26, Eleanor Cone's brother. We learned from Betts Custer that Ben had been swimming that moming and is in better condition than is to be expected for a man that much senior to us. Note that Betts is a sister of our late Kit Hawkins; Ben has a double link to ' 3 1 . (Not surprising, Ben was an instructor when most of us went through Pensacola—as check pilot gave this writer a needed up, on a recheck.)

Joe Gardiner is in good spirits after recent heavy rains—the lush grass has given his cows a sense of well being that's contagious.

After filing this column, we received news by telephone from Fred Schwager, son-in-law to Andrew J. Smith, that Ajax had died at the Gulfport Naval Home on 18 September.

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Regular Membership: 48% Life Membership: 32% Pres: CAPT Will 1. Bull, USN (Ret.) 1725 Oak Lane, McLean, VA 22101 h: 703-538-5981 Sec'y: Bob Gamble 8311 River Crescent Dr., Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-266-8775 We had a good letter from Fred Howe Jr. '57, the son of Nemo Howe. He has been Class secretary and knows the problem of no news from Classmates.

Fred thought we'd be interested in the fact diat he has three ties to '32: (1) Son of Nemo; (2) Stepson of Spigot Fawcett; (3) Godson of Bobby Fulton.

Last Christmas he and his wife met Bobby at the Memphis Hotel Peabody.

We had a couple horns of cheer and he told us some good old sea stories of old ships and old sailors over dinner. We put on our Navy hats, broke out the camera to record the event, then he bored off into the night in his giant Ford SUV. He was of particularly good cheer, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and he has a full social schedule. His recent move pleases him at 3535 Kirby Road, Apt. K, 122, Memphis, TN 38115-3718.

Fred added that his mother, M a r t h a Fawcett, carries on at Westminster-Canterbury in Virginia Beach, "enjoying passably good health and the good life, hard by the Bay out at Lynnhaven." She sends her greetings to the Class.

Many of you are naturally interested in naval history. To read a large and interesting package of it, try The Longest Battle—The War at Sea, 1939-45. Stories of the British, German and Italian navies are added to those of the U.S. and Japan. Here are a few excerpts: The strategic American victory at Coral Sea, and the halt to Japanese southern conquests, had profound political consequences, especially for Australia and New Zealand. Now, it was not Britain that lifted the threat of conquest by Japan, but the mighty military power of the United States.

In industry, in marketing and much else, the Americans learned with astonishing speed. If Ironbottom Bay was well named, a lot of prejudices, misconceptions and bad American practices were also sunk in those waters. Guadalcanal cost the Americans dearly in lives and ships, but success on this unsavory island led to eventual victory in the Pacific.

Early in May 1943, an outward-bound convoy was scattered by ferocious weather southwest of Greenland and a pack of 12 U-boats descended upon the ships like eagles on spring lambs. Nine ships were sunk. Then two support groups arrived and in short order nine U-boats were sent to the bottom. Look at these figures: April May June Losses in tons: 245,000 165,000 18,000 U-boats sunk: 15 40 17 If Nazi Germany failed by a whisker to win the Battle of the Atlantic, the American submarine was the decisive war-winning weapon of the Pacific war. In August,

1945, the Japanese Merc:. had ceased to exist: 63% of it had becT; ?em to the bottom by American submarines and more than one-third of their waiships were disposed of by these same subs.

An Australian officer: "I was on the upper deck of SHROPSHIRE to witness the early salvos from YAMASHIRO'S 14-inch guns.

Then 16-inch shells from WEST VIRGINIA and 14-inch shells from TENNESSEE and CALIFORNIA began to hit. The scene was unforgettable: the magnitude and incredible rate of fire of the Americans; the sight of YAMASHIRO on fire from stem to stem, then quickly sinking.

As we get on in years, we appreciate the difficulty of getting Classmates together Last September, Willeye Bull wanted to have a gettogether over in Washington for the Class.

We had it at O'Donnell's Restaurant and 11 people came: Willeye, Sara Ann Mott, (Mai Munger), Helen Maulsby, Margaret Van Evera, Mary Pierce, Eddie Nisewaner (accompanied by her very charming friend, Sarah Weldon). Betty Lee Berger (George Pressy), Jane Moncure, Pauline Innes (her latest book is now on World Wide Web), Marian and Bob Gamble. Betty Lee asked me, "Bob, where are all your Classmates?"

This question could only have a bum answer: "They are mostly unable to come!" Between vision problems, hearing difficulties, accidents and assignments to nursing care, my local '32 Classmates have real problems in turning out for Class luncheons. The number "90" seems to be tough to swallow!

Bad news came to us from New Jersey, Brooks Harral passed away early in September. We understand Brooks has not been up to par for some time. Sally said she reserved the Chapel for the Memorial Services held on Friday, 10 September. Brooks will join several other Classmates in the Columbarium, Brooks will always be remembered for the excellent job he did on the "War Narratives" in our Golden Anniversary Book. Because I feel it is important to give recognition to the many Classmates who did so much to win the war, I have referred to these Narratives hundreds of times. They have served as a bridge over the many intervening years.

After retirement. Brooks commuted from their home in Moorestown, NJ, to Wall Street.

He was the VP of American Cargo Carriers, headquartered at One World Trade Center.

Back at the Academy, "Booford" starred in water polo. I remember his trying to impart to me how to go the length of the pool just by the "flutter kick." As his old roommate, Paul Harrington said, "He was a good shipmate, an excellent officer and, above all, a real man.

Here is a note from Sam Labouisse.

Free use of my house for 10-15 day intervals, winter and spring of 1999-2000.

This would be during my absence on short vacations. Call 228-452-2383 for particulars or write to Sam at 744 West Beach, Pass Christian, MS 39571. Offer is open to 1932 retirees or their Academy offspring.

This is a very generous offer and anyone desirous of some beach living, call or write to Sam.

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A nice note from Sevilla Shinn. She is now 100 percent okay after an operation for spinal stenosis last June; she is happy to walk sans cane! Allen's death put a crimp into their travel plans; this fall she is visiting her son in North Carolina. While Sevilla had three fine sons, her six grandchildren include three girls.

Otto Scherini is not content to be our No. 1 athlete. He also writes poetry and stories for our Shipmate column. He has contributed the story of The Unsinkable MAYRANT ( D D 402). We will print his wonderful story in three installments. The first one follows: The Unsinkable MAYRANT (Part I) In the early moming of 12 August 1943, I stood on the dock at Valletta, Malta, watching the crippled MAYRANT being towed into port. Her decks were almost awash, about two feet of freeboard remaining. This was to be my first command!

When she tied up to the dock, I stepped on board and was greeted by Captain Walker and the Exec, Franklin Roosevelt Jr While patrolling off Palermo, the ship had been dive-bombed by several JU88s.

The MAYRANT shot down one bomber but another dropped a 500-pound bomb, which exploded underwater near the mid-section hull, mpturing the plates and flooding all the engineering spaces. Five of the crew were killed, 18 wounded. The crew stuffed 30 mattresses into the gaping holes in an effort to keep the ship afloat and jettisoned everything possible such as the torpedoes and file cabinets. All power had been lost, it looked hopeless. Fortunately, a tug came alongside and started pumping water from the flooded spaces, just enough to keep the ship from sinking. The gallant tug managed to get the ship back to Palermo for further emergency measures. Next day, the Luftwaffe stmck again at the allied ships in the harbor Machine gun fire and shrapnel sprayed MAYRANT, making holes through the bridge and smokestack.

As I inspected the damage, I was overcome with sadness for the personnel casualties and a great feeling of responsibility to get this battered hulk back into fighting trim. The most urgent item was to get electric power restored and I managed to get two Caterpillar diesel generators from the Army at Algiers, which we welded, on deck. They worked beautifully for the next four months.

Malta was a little island with a great history. It was of strategic importance to the Allies during the war; consequently the Luftwaffe had bombed incessantly, some 3,000 bombings! After the Allies took over Sicily, the raids dropped off drastically but when they did come we had no place to hide in the harbor area. We just crossed our fingers and hoped that the raiders wouldn't hit the dockyard, which was so essential to our repairs.

As a result of the fighting around Sicily, other battered ships started arriving, including captured Italian warships. First, HMS EASTON, a British destroyer, moored alongside of us. She had rammed an enemy submarine and had demolished the lower part of her bow. Captain Malins said he was grateful that the liquor compartment was spared. (We were, too.)

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extensive, she got in line ahead of us for the dry dock.

On 11 September, the cmiser SAVANNAH (CL-42) was damaged in enemy action and arrived at Malta the following day. She had suffered severe personnel casualties. Lou Bryan and I gathered our doctors and other available medical personnel, met the ship on arrival and offered our assistance to Captain Lohmann. As we came on board we saw corpses laid out all over the deck and were shocked and grieved to learn that our esteemed Classmate, Johnny Speer, was there among them. He had been killed in action while gallanfly performing his duties as damage control officer SHUBRICK repairs were completed 23 September. I bid Lou a fond farewell as he sailed, and got MAYRANT into drydock. Suddenly, the Maltese dockyard workers went on strike, leaving only the British Supervisor and a few leading men in charge of the shops. So the crew of the MAYRANT took over. They labored on the hull and in the shops. They made templates, did angle smithing, constructed steel frames and put them into place. They labored from dawn to dusk, welding, riveting, pounding and sweating, to get the Mighty May done.

When the Maltese finally came back, the job was half finished. The British were amazed; they had never heard of a ship's crew tackling such a job. But this was no ordinary crew and I thought, "Adolfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tojoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;what chance do you have against men like these!"

A section of our keel amidships was bent and twisted and I wanted it replaced before risking an ocean voyage. The British refused to do the job but finally relented, Franklin In asked me, "How did you get them to backtrack?" "Oh," I responded, "I simply told them you were going to have your father call the Admiral in London!"

On 14 November, we completed sea trials with our one prop and engine and waved goodbye to Malta. Malta waved back. We sailed for Gran, stopping en route at Algers where Admiral Hewitt presented combat awards to the ship and crew, including several Silver Stars, Legion of Merits and 18 Purple Hearts.

Shel Brown sent in the following: Bob Gamble's recent invitation to help him out with stories for Shipmate got me to thinking. My story has to do with the premature death of my four Naval Academy roommates. My roommates were great guys who gave their all. It won't hurt them or us, who are still enjoying life, to be reminded of some of those wonderful Shipmates we had many years ago.

The original three roommates I had were Charles Weschler, Gilbert Mitchel, and John Paul Jones. We lost John while he was still a Midshipman. He died as the result of a severe blow on the head while playing lacrosse. He was a truly worthy namesake of his illustrious predecessor as well as a happy member of our foursome in Bancroft Hall.

John Paul was replaced by Bill Townsend, who swam backstroke with me on the Naval Academy swim team. We enjoyed competing with each other as well as against other college teams. Yale always beat us badly and was good enough to be selected to represent the United States in Olympic competitions.

Our next loss was Charles Weschler. He was invariably near the top of our Class academically, and did it with ease while the rest of us struggled. Two years after graduation he entered MIT and in due course became an EDO with responsible assignments in several of our Navy shipyards.

While assigned to the Cavite Shipyard during World War II, the Japanese attacked the Philippines, and Weschler became a prisoner. About a year later he and other prisoners were being moved to a new retention center by a ship which was sunk by our own forces, not knowing that it held a large number of American prisoners. Weschler and I were from the same hometown, Erie, PA, and knew each other's families very well.

The next roommate to die. Bill Townsend went into a terminal dive in a fighter plane he was flying while the war in the Pacific was still in progress. We have no explanation for his loss, but all that knew him can testify to his selfless dedication. I never knew anyone who worked any harder than Bill.

The last of my roommates to meet a premature death was Gilbert Mitchel. While still on active duty he died of a heart attack. His service record was exemplary. He and I used to wrestle in the Naval Academy gym. He was a lot smaller than I am but put up a terrific fight.

Needless to say, I miss all my roommates very much and feel it was a distinct privilege to know each of them. As the only living member of our five-some, I must say that the Navy, Glady my first wife, and Miggs my second, all have made life wonderful. Miggs and I divide our time between Florida and New England and are lucky to be still active playing golf and tennis. Two years ago we moved into a beautiful retirement home in Sarasota, FL. Note 19 percent of our Class is still alive. Shel's 20 percent is right in line!

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Regular Membership: 50% Life Membership: 31% Pres: ADM Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: RADM Charles A. Blick, SC, USN (Ret.) 8100 Connecticut Ave. #1721 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 h: 301-951-2044 San Diego Correspondent: Mrs. R.S. Riddell 4037 Alameda Drive, San Diego, CA 92103 h: 619-295-9091 The Washington Group met for lunch on 14 September Attending were Carrie and Tom Moorer, Yvonne and Joe Cobb, Lee and Gary Coleman, Tuddie and Jim Elliott, Ginny and John Oren, Susan and Smoke Strean, Charlie Blick and Hal Bowen, Along with a group of 1931 members, wives and widows, it was a relaxing and festive occasion. After a great lunch and discussions on various subjects, Tom Moorer brought us up to date on the Panama Canal, which is scheduled to be turned over to the Republic of Panama at the end of 1999, Tom advises that there is a last minute effort by our Congress to mandate a U.S. lease back effort be-

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fore the end of the year, in order to continue U.S, control of die Canal.

On 17 September, Tom Moorer was honored by the Naval Academy and the Alumni Association with a dress parade and the presentation of the first "Distinguished Graduate" award. While the Brigade stood at parade rest, R A D M R o n M a r r y o t t ' 5 7 , president of the USNA AA, presented Tom with an impressive and beautiful gold medal, held by an equally attractive ribbon pendant.

Tom then gave a brief summary to the Brigade on what it means to be an Academy graduate and an officer of the Navy (or Marine Corps).

In his own inimitable fashion, Tom delivered an inspiring and impassioned oration urging the Midshipmen to be their own men and to do their best, every inch of the promotion ladder. Touching on the distaff side with extreme delicacy, Tom indirectly enjoined them to be careful and patient in choosing a wife. In closing, Tom confessed to the Brigade that his wife, Carrie, was more than equally responsible for his success. At this event, the following Classmates were there to support Tom and bask in his glory: Blick, Bowen, Cobb, Campbell, Coleman and Elliott. It was a great day for the Class of 1933.

Frances Shifley, widow of our Ralph Shifley, gave a substantial planned gift to the Naval Academy Fund, in support of the Naval Academy Museum. Frances met with ADM Marryott to present the gift and was then given a tour of the museum by its director, Scott Harmon '64.

was engraved. At this event, Tom was supported by his wife, Carrie, Renee and Eamie Campbell, and Charlie Blick.

All Classmates are advised that our treasury is in need of additional funds to see us through the millennium and beyond. Please send what you can afford in the form of a check payable to "Association, Class of 1933, USNA" and mail to your Secretary. All donations are fully tax deductible, as approved by die IRS.

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Regular Membership: 50% Life Membership: 38% Pres: CAPT Hugh Q. Murray, USN (Ret.) 6310 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, VA 22307 Sec'y: CAPT Roy C. Smith III, USNR (Ret.) 1310 River Crescent Drive, Annapolis, MD 21491 h: 410-268-5668 West Coast Correspondent: CAPT Robert W. Leeman, USN (Ret.) 1611 Chatsworth Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107 It is with great sorrow that I must report the death of my old Academy roommate, Arthur E. Krapf, on the 26th of September at Thousand Oaks, CA, His son, Arthur advised me by phone on the 28th. He had been hospitalized earlier for conjunctive heart failure but did not make it through the ordeal. His Navy career was in submarines. He earned the Navy Cross, the Presidential Unit Citation and the Bronze Star Medal for his service in World War n. (see obituary in Last Call) CAPTA.L. Gebelin, USN (Ret.)

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Regular Membership: 34% Life Membership: 46% Pres: CAPT Jefferson D. Parker, USN (Ret.) Mrs. Ralph Shifley and RADM Ron Marryott '57 On 21 September, Tom Moorer was given Sec'y: CAPT Jesse B. Gay, Jr., USN (Ret.) a testimonial banquet by the officers and crew Corr. Sec'y: RADM Ed Keats, USN (Ret.) 3704 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 (survivors) of LIBERTY, at the Army/Navy h: 410-235-3803; f: 410-243-1960 Club in Washington, D.C. LIBERTY was on stae: edkeats@aol.com tion in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1967 The October Shipmate carried a statistical during the Arab-Israeli War. What followed account of the Midshipman years of '35. The is unexplainable to this day. LIBERTY was atNovember issue brought the account forward tacked by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats, with statistics that covered the six and a half killing about 30 members of the ship's comyears until the beginning of World War II. pliment and wounding many others. The ship Now this provides some statistics relating to itself was almost sunk and was only saved the involvement of '35 in the war. The source by the heroic efforts of the chief engineer and of these data is our "20 Year Rendezvous."

"Black Gang." Israel excused her actions by During the course of the war, 12 resigned reason of "mistaken identity," a stand that graduates and 18 non-graduates came on accannot be believed. The whole incident was tive duty as reservists to augment the 391 apparently swept under the rug for political members of '35 that were already serving in reasons. However, LIBERTY survivors are the Navy and Marine Corps during Decemkeeping the issue alive in the hope that a ber 1941. Altogether there were 421 memproper "investigation" would produce a facbers of '35 in the naval service during the war. tual explanation. Tom was CNO at the time In addition, three resigned graduates and five of the incident and championed the cause of non-graduates enrolled in the Army.

LIBERTY survivors through the years. At the During the course of the war, deaths rebanquet, Tom was presented with an imposduced the Class by 46 members. Seventeen ing bronze plaque, on which the LIBERTY saga Navy Classmates died aboard surface ships Shipmate, December 1999

during combat. Nine were lost w hiie in submarines in combat areas, One was shc.i dead onshore in an enemy attack. There v/ere 11 fatal casualties in combat air operations. Eight died from non-combat related aviation crashes. No Marines were killed.

Two hundred fifty three '35ers received at least one citation which authorized the wearing of a special ribbon on their uniform, but 12 were not able to do so because their medal was a posthumous award.

Here is a listing of the citations members of '35 received (before the slash the number of Classmates awarded the honor and, because some Classmates received multiple awards of the same medal, after the slash the total number of such awards.) Medal of Honor 3/3; Navy Cross 58/89; Silver Star 64/99; Legion of Merit with Combat V 20/21; Legion of Merit 24/27; Distinguished Flying Cross 26/36; Air Medal 35/79; Bronze Star with Combat V 52/82; Bronze Star 89/122; Commendation Medal 100/121.

Statistics regarding the Class in the years after the war will appear in a subsequent issue of Shipmate.

Notable hobbies and collections Eugenia Mandelkorn (widow of B o b Mandelkorn) is the owner of a mannequin believed to have been the one used by Pierre Auguste Renoir, the impressionist painter, as the model for his portraits of girl children.

As enclosures to a letter to Phyllis and Rod Badger, Eugenia sent clippings from museum catalogs and newspapers. They contain the opinions of curators, based on similarities between the appearance of the model and the young girls depicted by Renoir, that her mannequin is the actual one used in the late 19th century by Renoir Apparently, Renoir, along with many other artists, had difficulty in persuading children to sit still. When he wished to have a young girl appear in a painting, he quickly sketched the differences between the characteristics of that girl's face and the face of his mannequin. His direct use of the mannequin was as an aid in his depiction of her body. Eugenia's mannequin, now more than 100 years old, is still in good condition. It measures three and a half feet high, is fashioned of papier-mache, and wears a lacetrimmed taffeta dress under a wool coat topped by a feathered cap. Eugenia and Bob located the mannequin in an antique shop in Miami, buying it from a dealer who said he acquired it from a friend and benefactor of Renoir's, Bernard Davis.

The word on get-togethers George Baker reports (by email) that the Wednesday luncheons of San Diego area '35ers at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot continue. On 8 September there were, in addition to him, Ralph Baum, Lou Bauer, Bill Hazzard, Dave Nash and Lew Schock in attendance. George says that, for reasons unknown to him, they meet first in the "pitch black" bar, but only one or two have anything to drink and then just a beer Both Bill Hazzard and Steiny Steinmetz wrote with similar reports on the 1999 Sub-

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L to r: Mary Riera; Kiley, Regan, and Reese Baltasar; Emmetl Riera

marine Veterans of World War II Convention held at Fort Worth, TX. They say that the '35 group was the oldest in attendance, except for one officer and one widow; and had the greatest number present at the skipper's brunch.

Cy Austin with Lois Wald, Flash Flachsenhar, Betty Gimber (widow of Steve Gimber), Mary Jo and Bill Hazzard, and Steiny Steinmetz were at the convention and at the brunch. In addition. Morrow Decker is Secretary/Treasurer of the organization.

A Change in Lifestyle Squidge Lee moved to Ennis, MT, during the past year, not "for a thirst for the great outdoors, but by the facts that one daughter and her family have lived here for nearly 20 years and the other daughter moved last fall to nearby Bozeman." Squidge denies becoming addicted to fishing, hunting or hiking. He says (by email) that he is learning how to live in a small town, "A new experience for a lifelong city boy." Moreover, "On balance it is turning out to be a very pleasant change."

Ginger and Bill Wideman, reporting on their move from San Diego to Atlanta in a letter to Jeff Parker, explain it as because "the kids argued we were too old to be out there alone and they wanted us nearby." Bill adds, "We're glad now that we are here." Bill describes the place as having about 300 apartments and says, "We take a nice walk from one end to the otherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can't beat the air conditioned walkway, outside is quite hot."

Great-grandparents and Triplets After learning that Mary and Emmett Riera's eighth, ninth, and tenth great-grandchildren were triplet girls, a request was made to them for a photo of the great-grandparents with the children. The response was the adjoining montage. The children's grandparents are Penny, the oldest of the Riera's four children, and her husband, Dave Perault. The children's parents are Terry, one of 11 Riera grandchildren, and her husband, George Baltasar, of Knoxville, TN. In her letter enclosing the photo, Mary apologizes for the progeny, saying, " I'm afraid Emmett and I

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are overpopulating this poor old world with our ten great-grands, and that bunch are just getting started."

How to communicate quickly Bob Hinckley's phone and fax in Spain are both Oil 34 965 84 8082. George Baker's email address is: gtbakerOl @sprynet.com.

"What I did during the summer" Louisa and Jeff Parker spent their 34th consecutive July and August in Chatham, MA. Their children learned to sail at an early age there and now return to provide their own children with the same opportunities. Jeff writes, "We were visited by six of our eight children who bring their own 13, ages 4 to 21." Jeff adds, showing the affection of the Parker family for Chatham, "Two of our children have their own summer homes here, within a mile of our house."

Notes From All Over Raymond Enzenauer '75, a medical doctor living in Murphysboro, IL, wrote (by email) that he had purchased a 1933 Lucky Bag from eBay (one of several Web auction sites that entertain bids for a wide variety of things). When the Lucky Bag arrived, he was surprised to find, tucked into it, two 8x10 black and white photos of Steve Stever.

Enzenauer kindly offered to send them to Steve or his family. It was arranged to have the photos mailed to Liane.

A possible Guinness record?

A member of the Class, while serving as an election judge during the primary mayoral election in Baltimore on 14 September, had occasion during the day to take their voter's cards and escort each of Maryland's United States Senators into a voting booth. He wonders if any other precinct in America has two Senators living in it.

100 Years of Tradition Go Navy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Beat Army

Regular Membership: 43% Life Membership: 40% Pres: CAPT William N. Price, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas: CAPT O. M. Butler, USN (Ret.) 1101 S. Arlington Ridge Road Ariington, VA 22043 Corr. Sec'y: CAPT William A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) Goodwin House West #832 3440 S. Jefferson St., Falls Church, VA 22041-3127; h: 703-578-7546 No news has come in as usual except obituaries, so the only thing we can say is "A merry Christmas and a Happy New Millennium to you All!" So on with what news we have.

As previously reported, Gordon Fowler died on 21 July at his home in Lancaster, VA. Full Honors interment with family, classmates, and friends present took place at Arlington National Cemetery on 28 July. We share with you the note [misaddressed and later forwarded by Elaine] received from Elaine on 18 September: Somewhere I came across the Ridge Road address, negated by the Post Office, as you can see on the enclosure [the original note of 5 September], for the Class of '36. So now I tum to you for help in conveying to the Class the deep appreciation of the Fowler family for the honor of entering Gordon in the Registry of Remembrances in the World War II Memorial.

Nothing else could have pleased him so much. He was devoted to the Class, the Navy, and the country that Navy serves. It was good to see you all too briefly at Arlington. Thank you for coming and helping Randy Meade to represent 1936. Gordon would have loved to see you all. Perhaps he did! May God bless you and the only Class of '36. With the gratitude of the Fowler family and my own loving remembrances. Long Live '36!

Thank you for your lovely, though belated, note, Elaine and the kudos therein. Keep in touch, and let us hear from you and what you are doing.

It was with deep regrets that we received the following note from Margaret Lovell, Maxine and Casey Lovell's daughter who resides in Golden, CO: My mother, Maxine Lovell, widow of Casey Lovell, passed away on 12 September 1999 after a brief illness. At her service the congregation sang "Eternal Father."

Although Dad has been gone since 1976, my mother was very proud of her Navy "service" days."

Thank you Margaret for your note and our deepest sympathy from all in '36 to you and family members. Classmates and friends of Maxine may send personal condolences to Margaret at her home address: 1980 Denver West Drive, #224, Golden, CO 80401.

On Wednesday, 6 October, family and friends of the late Harry Stark gathered at the Academy Columbarium for his inurnment ceremony with full honors, in the crypt alongside those of his wife, Ginny, who predeceased him in 1993. We who knew Harry will miss him very much, and it was an honor to Shipmate, December 1999

share this dedicated moment with his daughter. Kathy.

With the deaths of Gordon and Harry, the list of surviving graduates in '36 has now shrunk to 76, that's about one-third of those who started with us in 1932 and completed the four-year voyage in 1936.

That's about it for now. Hopefully we'll see you again in the 21st century and have more pleasant news. LET US HEAR FROM YOU IN 2000!!!

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Regular Membership: 48% Life Membership: 36% Pres: CAPT John S. Slaughter, USN (Ret.) Secy-Treas: RADM D.G. Baer, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Frank N. Shamer, USN (Ret.) 7112 Lewison Drive, San Diego, CA 92120-1248 e: FShamer@aol.com Swampy Lajaunie writes that Jean had open heart surgery. She had two blockages.

After several weeks of hospitalization and rehabilitation she has pulled through very nicely.

Swampy has given up golf because of rheumatoid arthritis. He and Jean are following exercise routines. In September, they will visit their children in Maryland and while there, case the area retirement centers for one to which they could commit to spend their later years near their children.

John Huelsenbeck reports that his telephone area code is 856 and that John Garvin has married Mary Jean, his helper since his stroke, and they have moved to Florida. Their address is: 1159 Winged Foot Circle, Winter Springs, FL 32708; 407-366-6072.

The San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter of the American Red Cross has written to thank the Class for the $70 gift in memory of our Ralph Benson.

Eloise and Gene Rankin are back in town.

They were in Greenwich when the total eclipse occurred, but were denied seeing it by an overcast sky. On the phone. Gene seemed to have thrown off the flu that was eating on him at the last Lunchbunch gathering.

Gary Adams reports apparently successful colon cancer surgery on 1 July.

On 27 A u g u s t , C A P T D o u g l a s R. Roulstone '72 was relieved as Commanding officer of JOHN C . STENNIS (CVN-74) in a very well organized ceremony on her hangar deck.

He retired from the Naval Service the next day. Patty and Jack Roulstone '46 were present. It was a bit amusing to find out that their telephone extension number on the North Island exchange was 4637. CAPT Roulstone had a truly outstanding tour in this command. STENNIS received the battle efficiency award from both the Pacific and the Atiantic Fleets during his tour in command.

It was interesting to note that among naval aviators on the podium, CAPT Roulstone was the only helicopter pilot.

The active hurricane season brings thoughts of hurricanes past. From 1924 to 1927, the Shipmate, December 1999

senior Shamer family was stationed in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. My dad was the Dispatching Secretary, representing the Governor who only visited from his headquarters on St. Thomas. While many hurricanes were active in the area during that period, none of them gave us a direct hit. Our house had massive walls and strong, totally blank hurricane shutters on all windows and doors. In a recent photograph of the city, I noted that the house was still there.

In a year and eight months in Key West, FL, in the early '50s, it seemed that every Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico storm pointed at us, but none caused us to sortie. 1 served as executive officer on HOWARD W . GILMORE

(AS-16) a submarine tender that was so unstable that she always had a list.

In 1944, in New London, CT, the eye of one storm went right over the state line separating Connecticut and Rhode Island. At the piers in New London, we submariners just banked down by venting our main ballast tanks in small steps and rode easily at the piers even after they were under water. Our wind reversed with the passage of the eye.

One yachtsman who had anchored off the Coast Guard Academy, and never came topside until the storm had passed, was much maligned by others in the anchorage. He had dragged downstream at first and then upstream after the passage of the eye. Others who stayed topside worked frantically to cause him to miss them as he passed among them.

When he finished, he was so close to his berth that he thought that he had not moved.

In my career at sea, we avoided many of these storms. The silliest situation was in Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, in early April of 1946. There was a big, destructive tsunami bom of a trembler near Kodiak Island that had been very destructive in the Hawaiian Islands and Japan, coming, a typhoon crossing Luzon from the east that was pushing a wild fire ahead of it. The pillar of smoke from this fire was visible and it kept a steady bearing as it approached. There was an ammunition dump just south of our pier Our calculations predicted that all these events were going to converge on us after dark about 10:00. I had been trying to get my division commander to give me permission to sortie.

We had a watch on the pier checking a water level gage looking for a drop that would warn of the close approach of the tsunami. We had a watch section and a half stationed to fight the approaching fire before it reached the ammunition dump. A series of events removed all of our problems. The fire destroyed a Quonset hut way up on a hill to the east of us that had been built during World War II for RADM Fife so he could get a cool night of rest. It was now deserted and was christened "Fife's Folly."

The fire consumed it spectacularly. This seemed to trigger our salvation. The rain shield of the typhoon took over and put out the wildfire and the tsunami pulse turned out to be only a couple of inches.

Submarines rode well in typhoons so long as the swell did not become confused. One

needed to have the swells about two points abaft the beam. They would lift with the swell, keeping the main induction dry and the roll never became excessive. In this attitude, the submarine would dive quickly if needed. This way you would miss no radio traffic or enemy traffic.

All the talk about soccer players hurting their brains by heading the ball makes me laugh. Outside of head to head collisions when defending our goal on comer kicks, I do not remember any situations involving significant head blows. We had some star men on those squads as well as our share of flag officers. Of course, last month's '37 column had its errors. Maybe 1 am having a late soccer brain injury problem. I put 15 July, when I meant to put 15 June. I know how to spell Cynthia Pridmore and Zeke Soucek. Those ertors came from production, not conception.

Jean and Chuck Stein's wedding and reception came off beautifully as planned on 21 August. The next event was to be overnight at the Marriott Hotel at Dulles Airport and then to fly to Canada for their honeymoon. While walking in the hotel lobby, Jean was suddenly immobilized by a severe pain in her right leg. An ambulance trip to a hospital brought a diagnosis of a pulled hamstring. Ten days later, that was changed to an acute case of sciatica. Physical therapy and an anti-inflammatory drug have brought slow improvement, but on 11 September she was still using a wheelchair. They went ahead with moving her furniture across the street to Chuck's house. After two days of that, they have a long way to go. What a test of their marriage! They hope to pick up on the honeymoon.

As to Jean, you have our complete sympathy. Sciatica is a frequent visitor among we old jocks and late-in-life golfers. May you regain radiant good health quickly.

Keep Revvin' with '37!

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Regular Membership: 37% Life Membership: 45% Pres: RADM M. H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret.) e: mrindskopf@earthlink.net Chairman, Washington Area: CAPT J. M. McDowell, USN (Ret.) h: 703-751-6144 Sec'y: CAPT D. K. Ela, USN (Ret.) 3260 N. 12th St., #3329, Grand Junction, CO 81506 h: 970-256-7174; f: 970-256-9120 e: dkela@gj.net Presidents Comer Leaders Forum. The 2000 Leaders Forum has been changed in a way that responds to the Class suggestions over the years. First, the theme is timely: "Basic Leadership: Know your job, Know your troops, Know yourself."

It offers plenty of challenge. Second, it will be held 13-15 January 2000, dates which do not conflict with the New Year's holiday as previously. Third, all the Service Chiefs have been invited to speak, something not at55

tempted before. Fourth, the major speeches will be held in the Main Auditorium, Alumni Hall, allowing most of the First Class and many Plebes to attend. Fifth, a special evening speaker with a "national reputation" is planned. Picture-taking day including '38 is Saturday, 15 January. Anyone close to AnnapoUs on Fomm days has got to attend!

Class Presidents Meeting. The first meeting, under the chairmanship of VADM Chuck Grifnths '46 and the Council of Class Presidents, was devoted primarily to a presentation by the Alumni Association on Class Project and Annual Giving, I have said it before, and will say it again: We do not intend to take on another project, but I do want to stress the importance of continuing and expanding contributions to the Annual Giving Program. There will be a spring meeting of the Class Presidents devoted to Class concems. I ask again that you pass to me juicy items for submittal to the Council, at any time, starting right now.

Nominations for Distinguished Graduate 2000. You are aware that we supported the nomination of ADM Tom Moorer '33 as 1999 Distinguished Graduate. Although you, who read this, do not have much time to get a name and backup material to me for submittal to the Alumni Association by 10 December, I open the door to one and all who can name someone (in our Class, or any Class) who has: (1) Demonstrated strong interest in supporting the Navy and the Naval Academy; (2) Provided a lifetime of service to the nation or the armed forces; and (3) Has made significant contributions to the nation via thek public service. Go to it, guys!

Word to the Wise. And there is a Classmate who was fined for entering a military installation without wearing a seatbelt. He actually was ticketed as he departed! Seatbelts save lives; lives of '38ers too, so wear them.

Class Corner Always we have some good news and some sad news, the latter first. Wells (Willie) Felts died 8 September in Port Orchard, WA. He retired after Korea and Vietnam, had an MBA, was vice president of Pacific Instmment and then a business professor Mary continues to live in Port Orchard, where he is buried at the Sunset Lane Cemetery.

Ruth Berkeley passed away on 21 September in Port Royal, SC, where son Phil has been caring for her and Berk Berkeley. No further details were available at press time.

We have unsubstantiated information that Dave Cohen has passed away. Can anyone add to this?

Good news resumes as Joe McDowell checks in with the resumption of the Washington area Class lunch bunch: Arthur, Beshany, Carter, Dwyer, Fleps, Jones, Rindskopf, Robinson. Topics in the President's Corner were the principal discussions. And three hours later Swede Olsen called in with the San Diego attendance: Foley, the new '38 representative to the area Alumni Association chapter, Finn, Harrington, Kercheval, Klipple, Ogle,

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Ratliff and Ready. He says humor has temporarily replaced political heat. Northern California is into A/N game planning at their lunch, courtesy of Bev and Bud Wolfe according to Lynn and Larry Pierce's news of their best turn out in some time in Burlingame: Ruth Boyd, Marilyn Bowers, Lowell Jett, Jack Robertson, LeClaire and John Saxten, Vic Graff, Sally and Jim Douglas, Ginny and Dave Harris. The binnacle list was temporarily attended by Charlie Hart, George Neel and Lois Riesenberg.

The 13-17 September Capon Springs Caper came off a little damp as a fringe of Floyd lightly showered the region for several days.

Nonetheless the golfers golfed, the hikers hiked, the bridgers mbbered and some readers relaxed. Those so fortunate to gather included all your Class Officers (not on expense accounts, but they did work for an hour not including time spent in splicing the main brace), and their spouses: Sylvia, Gigi, and Margaret. Our support group of Annabella Dubois, Ro Brown and Fran Pearson enlivened the scuttlebutt while the other splicers spliced: Jean and Connie Conrad, Jo and Carl Fleps, Guy GugUotta, Peggy and Hugh Robinson. We found that farm fresh fruit pies a la mode added up to five pounds net gain.

As we modems cope with email eavesdroppers, code-breakers and FBI line taps, we may forget that every colonial community had a Liberty Tree. It was the place where patriots could talk freely without being overheard in tavems and other public meeting places. The Annapolis Liberty Tree, a beloved, 400-yearold tulip poplar on the campus of St. John's College, is in critical condition, thanks to Hurricane Floyd which ravaged much of Anne Arundel County. It caused a large limb to split extending 15 feet down the tmnk of the old 96-foot-tall tree. The danger of falling has prompted college officials to fence off the meeting place.

Bob McNitt reports on the results of Maryland Senior Olympics 24-25 September at Towson State where he and Bill Boykin continue to refuse to admit their age. To the dismay and applause of the rest of us. Bill takes near meet records in the 50 and 100 yard free style, and 50 and 100 yard backstroke for the 80-84 year class, winning gold medals. Bob won the gold medal in 1500 meter racewalk, and bronze for third place in the discus throw.

Bruce Hayden on a tour passing Bar Harbor called Newell Varney for reminiscences and a report on the blueberry crop. Herb Mandel notes that he and Herman Miller were the only World War II '38 skippers introduced at the Sub Vets Convention, 1 September at Fort Worth. They enjoyed the annual Skippers' Brunch, Rett TYickey has written Mike with thanks for the Class condolence note. We have also received his photo with his beloved Peggy posted at the end of the column. Paul Schultz watched Floyd on TV but otherwise would not have known of anything unusual in Southwest Florida where a few gusts reached as much as 33 mph.

Reefed Sail Retirement Home Notes

We can't resist a comment or two as we close out the century and the millennium, as if we haven't already had a belly full in the media for the better part of the year. For example, a Denver Post article cited one of the ten top developments to be the gravity-defying brassiere. It gets our upcheck. One of the best by far look-ahead pieces we've read was a Peter Dmcker analysis of The Information Revolution in the October 1999 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. His point, well proven by historical precedent, is that the information revolution in itself is not the landmark, but it is the applications. Thus the steam engine in itself did not define the industrial revolution but rather its application first to textiles, then to all manufacturing, ships and railroads did.

By analogy there is a revolution in process in marketing and distribution via the Internet.

WalMart has managed its inventory, amazon.com and e-trade have revised retailing to a global market which bypassed malls and national borders. Fords next year will be e-ordered and e-optioned to your desire, as the dealer's parking lot becomes a detour. GE is scheduled to soon follow in appliances and capital equipment. We leave it to the student to dream up how all this will change the face of the Navy; logistic application obviously, but warfare? Well, surveillance for one thing; weather dissemination to prevent the Ukes of the fleet disaster in the December 1944 typhoon; global fire control across borders; strategic misinformation by hackers...go figure guys.

We asked the scuttlebutt express emailers for note of any highlight(s) of the century in this last month as related to our naval and family careers. Ah, the blessings of retirementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;none replied! Perhaps none had to state the obvious: the depression shaped our fmgal conservative attitudes for a lifetime; World War II shaped our careers and stamped the Navy wife. Now we know another generation will have to releam it all because wars and economic cycles are inevitableâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;aren't they?

Rett and Peggy (Dec) Trickey

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John Sa,\ten, Jack Robertson. Dave Harris

Jim Douglas. Bud Wolf; Larry and Lynn Pierce

Lowell Jett, Marilyn Bowers, Ruth Boyd, LeClaire Saxten

At the Georgia Tech game. L to r; Martha Glennon, Ronnie Loustaunau, Bing and Elise Gillette, Jim Glennon and Paul Loustaunau

true. He used his super intelligence to find companies whose stocks were under-valued.

He'd then gobble them up and tum them into big moneymakers for his Teledyne shareholders. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Caroline, and by five children. His funeral service was held in Saints Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, early in September. George Roberts, Singleton's roommate for two years at the Academy, was the president of Teledyne throughout most of its existence. Singleton had designed what for years was a leading missile and aircraft guidance system. He also developed the degaussing method for removal of a steel ship's magnetism. In the eulogy that George Roberts gave at Singleton's funeral service on 8 September, he mentioned that Henry was first in his math class, out of 820 students, which earned him a dunking in the Severn River by his Classmates and which George recorded with a movie camera, showing the movie at Teledyne affairs. George ended his eulogy with: "Heaven has just gone digital." George also mentioned that Henry's acquisition of land in New Mexico and Califomia, made him the third largest landholder in the United States.

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Regular Membership: 45% Life Membership: 37% Pres: CAPT Paul Loustaunau, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT WiUiam J. Rube, USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBeth Avenue, McLean, VA 22102 e: docabbot@aol.com Bob Gulick's wife, Sally, sent an obituary for Henry E. Singleton who was a '39er for two years before being separated for deficient eyesight, from the Naval Academy. After leaving the Academy, he went to MIT where he earned his bachelor's degree and later a doctorate. He died of brain cancer His picture is reprinted from The Los Angeles Times.

The co-founder of Teledyne Inc., he was chairman of its board for three decades. During this time, he amassed a fortune, estimated

by Forbes magazine to be about $750 million. Henry, as I remembered him, was the brightest math whiz in the Class of '39. In fact. Bland, who'd written our calculus math book, flatly declared: "Mr Singleton is the only one of you who actually understands integral calculus." And that, I considered was

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Henry E. Singleton

George A. Roberts

Sally Gulick also noted that she and her wheelchair-ridden husband, Bob, expect to make '39's 60th Reunion in October Pete Steen has taken charge of the Octogenarian Doubles Tennis Championship on 21 October at 1:30 p.m. Pete's legs are still making it on the tennis court and he's hoping that Elmar Waring, Slugger Mathews, and Herb Kriloff are still in good enough shape to make it an epic affair. Danny Weitzenfeld, moreover, promised to fill a void if any one of the players can't make it. At this, Stan Claypoole said: "Let's hope it's not like Bing Gillette's fiasco when be tried to play basketball with Academy grads who were ten years younger. Then, it took Bing many months before he became mobile once more."

Ralph Locke's widow, Trudy, reported the graduation of Ralph's granddaughter, Susan T. Feher '99 with the Class of 1999: "A fitting tribute to her grandfather, Ralph." Ensign Feher-Wood "is now on duty in Rota, Spain, with her husband LTJG Jason Wood '99." Then Trudy closes with: "I'll be seeing you at '39's 60th Reunion in October."

Bud Cooper's widow, Kathy, writes: I had hoped to be among those at the '39 Reunion, but my minor health problems become major when traveling." (Sec'y: I can say "Amen" to that, having to cancel my attendance at the Sub Vets of WWII Reunion in Houston, TX, last month, for the same reason.)

Kathy continues: I know the details of this momentous Reunion will be well covered by you in Shipmate; so I won't be completely on the 57

outside looking in. I have very fond memories of the 45th in San Diego, the 50th in Hawaii and some terrific pictures of both.

Then she quotes: "Tum backward, tum backward, O time in thy flight." (Nicely put.) I am still living in the house that Bud and I built in Kailua, 31 years ago. It's too big for me, but relatives and friends visit frequently. I send my fondest Aloha to you and everyone fortunate enough to be at the Reunion. My mind and my heart will be with you, even though my body flunked. And, we will be together at the Reunion to come.

At '39's Executive Committee meeting in September, it was observed that '39 is the only Class with two Halls at the Naval Academy that are named after '39ers, i.e. Beach Hall and Hendrix Hall. (Hendrix Hall is named after Monk Hendrix, the oceanographer whose laboratory made many important findings in our understanding of the seas of the world.) The Committee also noted ' 3 9 ' s $30,000 endowment of the Lem Cooke football awardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a wrist watch awarded every year to the Navy's leading football player Attendees at Navy's first football game of the season, the Georgia Tech game, are shown, just before the roof caved in with Tech beating the Middies 49-14. As Bing Gillette observed, "All 15 of the Navy football coaches couldn't figure out how to make Broadwater, the quarterback, efficient enough to engineer a win." (They've literally got a coach for every position on the football team. If you can't win with the normal six coaches, try 15?)

I've been remiss in not crediting properly Ernie Schwab's superb photos that I use with every Shipmate column. His outstanding pictures have lent a tme distinction to '39 matters and are a great delight to readers of Shipmate. Well done, Ernie!

Ernie Schwab with the Gores The report that Bob Green will have his toes amputated due to gangrene setting in caused by very poor circulation in his lower legs is belied by a late report that Bob is cmising in the North Atlantic and is putting in to Iceland (to look at glaciers?). Rumors. Ugh. Fred Clarke, writing from San Diego, says that '39's monthly luncheon was attended by Jig Dog Ramage, John Dolan, Art Fischer, Skeet Bemis, John Wallingford, Fred Clarke, Doc Norton, Bob Brent and Tom Walker. Freddy adds: "The news that Johnny Weatherwax has stopped playing golf, is interesting. He has claimed for the last 20 odd years that our Class game of the season luncheons were always on his golfing days. Now we are going to see!"

Murray Frazee, down from Gettysburg, PA, said he just attended the christening of the DDG O'KANE, named for Dick O'Kane of the submarine TANG. TANG is famous for

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sinking the most Japanese ships in World War II. Murray was the exec, for the first four war patrols and luckily got off before she was lost on her fifth mn when a torpedo malfunctioned and booked aroundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;clobbering TANG. Murray reported that he'd gotten $30 worth of half-dollars at Atlantic City to play the games of chance. The casino hoped that Murray would lose his shirt, coaxed on by his $30 stake. (Murray was still wearing a shirt when be attended the Washington luncheon.)

Gayle with Murray Frazee Dick Moss floated a get-well card for Sandy Simmons (who is married to Tete Moss, Dick's sister). In response, Sandy writes: Thanks for your great card. We are doing our best to comply with the many well wishes expressed therein. To bring you up to date, Tete has spent the last year recovering from breast surgery and an operation on her right shoulder to repair a rotator cuff^.

She has become very proficient in the use of her left hand. In the meantime, I've been recovering from a spinal fusion operation on my back. I am now standing in line for a right hip replacement as soon as Tete is well enough to drive. We have our fingers crossed with hopes of joining you all in October for the 60th.

Grant Rogers, writing from Sedona, AZ, says: I recently visited Russia, 28 May to 11 June via INTRAV, sponsored by the Naval Academy Alumni Association. We lived on a Russian ship traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow via the Volga rivers and the Russian "Panama Canal" into Moscow.

At meals, I sat with a West Point '40 colonel, who, when I inquired what was the best deal he'd ever had, said: "Well, I got 425 a month more if I had a horse!" It's unbelievable that the Army in 1940 still believed that the Cavalry could beat the tanks.

An obituary for Max Arnold Berns Jr. '39 was submitted by Tom Berns '68, his son, with a promise of "photo to follow," but so far it hasn't happened. Max died on 26 May 1999 at his home in Vancouver, WA, of prostate cancer His remains were cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. A fighter pilot in World War II, he commanded Fighter Squadrons 92 and 74 and Carrier Air Wing 7, plus CVS RANDOLPH, which was the recovery ship for astronaut John Glenn's historic orbital flight. His wife, Virginia, predeceased him in 1995. He had three daughters, Judy Jean Berns, Susan Jane Dougher, and Barbara Ann Dunbar, plus the one son, Thomas A. Berns '68. Max was a fine mimic with whom I played the straightman in a British accent act about the two of us being "a jolly pair of con-

temptible cads," And forsooth, we were that!

He was also a fine musician, playing the piano nicely and singing on key.

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Regular Membership: 49% Life Membership: 38% Pres: CAPT William M. Carpenter, USN (Ret.) 1119 Aquia Drive, Stafford, VA 22554 Sec'y: CAPT Jacob V. Heimark, USN (Ret.) 410 Old Gulph Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Edward C. Sledge, USN (Ret) 932 Shetland Court, McLean, VA 22102 Nothing has given me more pleasure in a long time then to lead off this column with this very interesting tale from the Midwest.

In July, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis considered this story so significant that it devoted a full page and a half to it. The comer piece of this story is our own Warren Schoen and what he has done recently.

A few years ago Vera Schoen wrote a beautiful book of poems called Under the Flyway.

It is set in the lake and pond country on the westem edge of Minnesota where the Schoens live and was about the wildlife living there.

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For anyone who enjoys wildlife, this book by Vera will give you much pleasure.

Several hundred acres of this wildlife haven, owned by Warren, has been his favorite hunting preserve for the past 40 years. It is flush with waterfowl, deer, pheasants and other wildlife.

Now Warren has decided that while he will continue to enjoy the many wonderful memories brought to him by this land, his holdings should be preserved as they are now so future generations can get pleasure from this land as Warren and his friends have during their lives.

To do this, Warren sold grassland easements to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for conversion into native grasses and reopening of potholes that had been filled. This will provide ideal habitat for wildlife.

Next, a trast was created, to which Warren donated the land. In turn, the tmst will sell hunting rights to private citizens. From this, Warren and Vera will receive a small part of the revenue. And after 15 years, the land and all accimiulated income will be tumed over to the 7,500-member Minnesota Waterfowl Association. This is an organization that Warren has seen do much good and which he has helped support over the years. The association will use these assets to protect and develop waterfowl sites statewide.

This iimovative program, has as winners, the landowners, the waterfowl association, better habitat for wildlife, and improved hunting for sportsmen. As for losers, none are in sight.

Once again, this has been a privilege to tell you how another person in '40 has found a way to make a part of our world a better place for all. And it happened, not by saying, "Why doesn't somebody do something about this problem." It happened in this case because Vera and Warren said, "Because this is good, we WLU do it."

"A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife."

A nearby autumn hurricane that threatened tornadoes and rainstorms in the Washington area cut attendance at the Bill Lamb-hosted aimual Class picnic. Braving the weather to attend were: Mary and Bill Carpenter, Chris and Mike Hanley, Loretta Hechler, Betty and Jake Heimark, Jerry Lindsay, Helen Longino, Pat Patterson, Bob Pauli, Florence Roseborough, Ruth and Bud Schafer, Mary and Ed Sledge, and Penny and Hugh Vickery. Here are some pictures from this enjoyable day.

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The event was more festive since we also celebrated Bill Lamb's 83rd birthday. Also present were his two sons and their wives.

Bill and Jennifer, and Peter and Carol, who brought the birthday cake, along with added pleasure for all.

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1945 while making strikes against Japan as commander of Air Group 23 on board LANGLEY. Here is a picture of our '40 hero, taken shortly before he was lost. His widow, Marjorie, now Mrs. Frank Midkiff, lives in Hawaii. Those of you who knew Merlin are urged to send Marjorie a note during this Christmas season at a time when we are all counting our blessings.

Hugh Vickery It was good seeing Penny and Hugh Vickery who recently got back from Bangor, ME, where Hugh spent nearly two months recovering from his heart attack. Also, everyone was very pleased to see Florence Roseborough and to hear from her that Rosie is slowly improving following his severe stroke this summer.

The Schafers, who came down from their New Jersey home, added to everyone's enjoyment, especially since they had not been at a '40 gathering for some months. Long time Annapolis resident. Bob Pauli, seemed to especially enjoy all the "catch up" talk going on.

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."

Here too is a good picture of Jack Newbould that missed earlier issues.

Jack Newbould Phil Eckert, '40's leading Internet detective, has located another missing Classmate.

He is Robert Gregory Bill. He lives at 15 Spanish River Drive, Ocean Ridge, FL 33435; 561 -736-0339. Welcome him back into the fold.

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Reliable John Lacouture provided me with an interesting report about LCDR Merlin Paddock, who lost his life on 16 April 60

Merlin Paddock "Why do they put braille on drive-through teller machines? " This Christmas season seems like a good time to run a beautifully done love poem written in WestPac, 54 years ago by Ed Hayes to his bride, Claire: In Explanation of My Absence Now the battle is ended; the war has been won.

And many are free to go home.

But for me, there is more of this job to be done And wide are the oceans to roam.

Oh, the shot and the shell will be screaming no more And the skies will be friendly again, But the Navy, although not bombarding some shore.

Will have plenty ofjobs for its men.

Chorus For the problems of peace, to the men of the sea.

Are as varied as those of the warâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; And the work of the Navy, in keeping men free.

Must go on both at home and afar.

And the peace of the world, which was bought with the blood Of the cream of America's youth.

We must never again subjugate to the flood Of an entente so vile and uncouth.

There are islands to garrison, seas to patrol.

And aircraft to pilot as well; On the sea-in the sky-on a lonely atoll The sailor his story will tell.

Chorus There's Hawaii and Johnston and Midway and Wake; Eniwetok and Kwajalein too; And regardless of any direction you take There are islands somewhere in the blue.

From the Solomons on to the Philippine coasts All the islands are garrisoned now Arul the Japs, who had made all the arrogant boasts.

Are the ones who are taking the bow.

Choms But the atolls are only apart of the job That the Navy's expected to do; We must help now to govern the Japanese mob In the style of democracy true.

In Osaka and Kobe, and Tokyo too.

There are problems anew to surmountâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; But the Navy, accustomed to "having to do," Has the people on whom it can count.

Chorus So it's atolls to garrison, cities to guard.

And the Japanese people to lead; But that's still just part of the "long watch and ward" Which will make up the job that's ahead.

The Atlantic, Pacific, and broad Yellow Sea, And the Indian Ocean to boot, Must all be patrolled, andforever kept free Of the pirates who pillage and loot.

Chorus From Amchitka to Darwin, to Colon and home; From Siam to "the heel of the boot"; From London to Capetown, to Singapore's foam It's a long and circuitous route.

But the ships of the Navy, patrolling across The unbounded expanse of the sea.

Will forever insure that with minimum loss The peace-loving nations stay free.

Chorus Now even at that there is more to be doneThere are "specialty jobs" in the Fleet.

There are submarines, aircraft, and blimps to be run.

And diplomats foreign to meet.

Of the thousand-and-one things a sailor can do.

No one man can, of course, do them all' So in spite of my wish to come home to you, dear.

For a while I must answer my call.

Did you like Ed's poem?

One nice thing about egotists, they don't talk about other people.

On a trip to Columbus, OH, Betty and I had a most enjoyable lunch with Helen and Ed Mason. Even though they are both experiencing health problems they were most gracious and very interesting hosts.

Midway through youngster year he resigned so he could marry his childhood sweetheart, Helen Stone. Someone suggested to him that he should consider joining the FBI. However, in those days, FBI agents had to have a degree in either law or accounting. The FBI did, however, hire him as a messenger, with a $100 a month salary. He then immediately enrolled in two colleges, one where he studied intermediary accounting and at the other, advanced accounting. After 11 months he was awarded a degree in accounting from Catholic University and then hired as an FBI agent at triple his messenger salary.

In World War II he was assigned to the Army, with the military rank of Colonel. As soon as war with Japan began, Ed was sent to the West Coast to work on the problem of the

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risk from there being many U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestiry who lived in Califomia.

Later, he was busy helping the Army identify, investigate and prosecute war criminals.

When he retumed to FBI duties after the war, he advanced rapidly, becoming the youngest special agent in charge of a field division and also the youngest inspector and chief inspector.

His last position was as assistant director of the FBI, working directly for J. Edgar Hoover, overseeing the training for all employees, plus management of the more than 14,000 employees of the agency. He also was responsible for liaison with law enforcement in the free world. Ed likes to sum up his FBI career as one where he went from the lowest paying to the highest paying position in the FBI, and he did it in 25 years.

After he retired from the FBI in 1965, the publisher of the Columbus Dispatch hired Ed. This was and still is the leading newspaper in central Ohio. For 15 years he served as the paper's public relations and research director During this time, Ed eamed a master's degree in commimications and a Ph.D. in history and management. He then retired again in 1980. Continuing to keep busy, he has written six books, done a daily radio commentary for 30 years, and been a much-in-demand pubhc speaker who has given talks in 49 states.

In recent years, Ed and Helen have been very busy in two areas. They took up painting, making their large basement into a combination studio and art gallery. As they finish paintings, most are given to hospitals and schools to help brighten their walls as well as the lives of those who see them. The bright colors and the identifiable scenes serve this purpose very well.

What Ed claims as his last big effort, is the creation of the Helen Stone Mason Children's Learning Center. He did this as a tribute to his wonderful wife of 62 years. This center takes in children who have fallen behind their classmates. Much involves tutoring help on school problems. However, since many come from dysfunctional home lives, advice on how best to cope with those problems is also provided.

After but four years, this program is producing excellent results. How wise Ed Mason was to pay a great tribute to his loving wife in this way rather than leave most of what they accumulated to the govemment.

This husband and wife team has raised three children and has five grandchildren they also enjoy. As Ed put it, "We have been so richly blessed in our lives that it is only right and proper that we should retum to society a just payment for the many blessings that have come our way."

To give you a flavor of the "real" Ed Mason, here follows a small part of a speech he made some time ago to an audience in Harrisburg, PA. The Oyster or the Eagle?

When God made the oyster. He guaranteed it absolute economic and social security. He built a protecting shell against most enemies and deposited the oyster beneath the waves for isolation from the outer Shipmate, December 1999

world. When hungry, the oyster opens its shell and sucks food from the passing tide.

The oyster does not think...does not struggle...does not inspire...and contributes nothing to its oyster community. But, has freedom from want.

When God made the Eagle, He declared: "The blue sky is your only limit. Go, build your own house and life. So the Eagle soared to the highest trees and mountains... storm-tossed by day...chilled by night.

There he built a nest through his own labors. Through struggle, he sharpens his mind and talents and becomes master of all he surveys. Instead of freedom from want, the Eagle satisfies his want for freedom.

Eagles are gutsy, proud, independent, self-respecting creatures. Long before this continent was discovered, they were the image here. The Native Americans considered the Eagle as the emblem of victory, "Mitauke Oyasin," they said. Eagles are our brothers and sisters.

For many centuries, mling nobles in Europe had the Eagle emblazoned on their banners because the Eagle was the symbol of authority.

The eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of the United States of America.

Some people don't seem to have a clear perspective on that point. They emulate the oyster in their daily lives. They are selfappointed prophets of doom. They really aren't enjoying that personal happiness God intended for each of us.

In perspective, I refuse to join the host of Jeremiahs who see the United States threatened, falling by the wayside, coming apart at the seams. Life has never been guaranteed as secure. Liberty is something to be eamed anew each day.

Don't let anybody sell you the idea that ours is a sick society. It has warts and blemishes, but it is far and away the most enlightened, the most unselfish, the most compassionate in the history of the world. It offers a better way of life than any system of govemment man has yet devised. It is built on a noble foundation and put together with splendid ideas based on the premise that every American understands that, in the fight for freedom, there is never a last battle.

Freedom is our gift from God. How we use it, and how we protect it, will be our gift to Him. Remind others and yourself that the useless oyster serenely sucks security as the tide flows past. It contributes nothing!

But one gobble by the gourmet and the oyster is gone.

The Eagle exemplifies authority, victory, success, happiness. His eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. He minds his own affairs until threatened and then becomes a most formidable adversary bent on protecting his freedom. Ever hear of anyone eating an Eagle?

What a pleasure it is to be a member of a Class that has such wonderful members as the Schoens and the Masons to open and then close our end-of-this-century column. All of us in '40 are very proud of them.

Farewells This month we say a sad goodbye to two golden anniversary wives.

On 13 September, Dorothy Bechert Roberts died after a very brief illness. Besides her

husband, CAPT Everett E., Roberts Jr. she leaves behind two sons, a daughter and five grandchildren. To Bob and his family, we of '40 extend our most sincere condolences.

On 16 September, Marie Collins died after a very long illness. She was buried in Arlington cemetery. Her many friends remember her before she became ill as an active, interesting and enjoyable lady. Besides her husband, COL T.F. Collins, USMC, she also leaves one daughter, Carol, and her husband, Peter Clapp, to moum her passing. To Tab, Carol, and Pete, please accept deeply felt condolences from the '40 family.

New Addresses Changed emails: Cary Hall to chall57380 @aol.com (at Fleet Landing); Jim Vellis vellis@hawaii.rt.com.

Changed address: W.A. Utley, 2 1 6 0 Monroeville Rd., Monroeville, NJ 08343; 609-694-3685.

Only 40 is 4.0...Jake

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Regular Membership: 38% Life Membership: 40% Chmn & Sec'y: CAPT Victor Delano, USN (Ret) 5610 Wisconsin Ave., Apt # 1409 Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4439 h: 301-215-7532 e: Vdelano@aol.com Just so the rest of us can envy the lifestyle on the West Coast, here is an account of a trip that Sidonia and Bill McReynolds took last summer: In June and early July, we took a driving trip up the West Coast to Canada, about 3,500 miles in all. The difference between driving that kind of distance here as against the East Coast is that you can cover a lot of ground in each day's driving. We enjoyed exploring all this new-to-us territory but I don't think we'll do it soon again. In the Bremerton area we stopped to see Wezie and Dutchie Spritzen at their home in Poulsbo, WA. Dutchie is his "old self," with studied observations on our leading politicians. Although lately he has been fighting the bone marrow disorder called multiple myeloma, his spirits are high, and he has a positive attitude. With treatment he seems to have it under control. Dutchie says his illness was from exposure during the nuclear tests with troops in 1947.

After visiting the Spritzens, we explored the Olympic peninsula briefly, then took the ferry to Victoria, BC. The Straits of Juan de Fuca were calm and the weather bright.

Victoria is a small and nicely planned city, the capital of British Columbia. We stayed two days to explore the city and coast. A highlight of the area is Bouchart Gardens that were created by the owners of a defunct limestone quarry. These gardens are beautiful, especially their many varieties of roses. Next, we again took the ferry to Vancouver. The Canadian ferry was a goodsized ship with a nice dining salon. The voyage threaded through many islands, making for a lot of interesting scenery en route. In Vancouver, we toured the city, enjoying Stanley Park and the art museum.

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We caught the steam clock on the hour when it sounded off with whistles "chiming" the hours instead of bells. I think it is the only steam clock in the world.

Vancouver is a pretty large city all in all. The main downtown business area is on a peninsula to the north but the rest of die city covers a much larger area to the south. Interestingly there is a small tip of a peninsula that is U.S. territory, accessible by land only from Canada. That's what happens when people thousands of miles away draw intemational boundaries. I haven't found out how it is governed, etc. It's called Port Roberts.

On into Canada, we drove up to Whistler, a mountain ski resort that is gaining in popularity. Except for the aftemoon of our arrival, it rained the whole time we were there. The drive up was great. Initially we went along the coast, the Strait of Georgia, then up a fjord-like bay to a narrow valley that is very much like the Yosemite Park area with high granite cliffs, waterfalls and swift mnning streams. Whistler lies in a valley surrounded by snow-covered peaks where people were skiing in July, In the town it wasn't cold, just rainy, but the skiers down from the slopes talked of fresh snow above. We were there on Canada Day, 1 July. They celebrate the transition from colony to self-governed dominion that came in the early 19th century. They had a hometown-kind of parade, a band, floats and the local detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in their red tunics, britches,flathats andridingboots. Although they were on foot, the commander was on his horse. I noticed that they too have succumbed to the feminist movement, with women in the ranks. After the parade, the horse and his rider made themselves available for pictures with the children and anyone else who was so inclined. The only trouble was the horse had to show he was really a stallion. In the evening there were fireworks that we saw from our hotel room, a very nice display that lasted about half an hour We stayed two days at Whistler, leaving as we came, and drove straight through Vancouver to Seattle. Did a little sightseeing in Seattle, and unfortunately weren't impressed. Compared to the two Canadian cities and resort we had just visited, Seattle was not clean, with trash in the streets. The city itself doesn't seem to be organized for aesthetic pleasure. The only notable landmark is the Space Needle, nearly as tall as the Washington Monument, but set in an attractive maritime city with lots of boats and ferryboats and ocean shipping. I liked that aspect of our visit.

There had been an earthquake over toward Bremerton, so we went back toward Portland, then went toward the Oregon coast after crossing the Columbia River.

Astoria isn't much more than a frontier town. I really expected a big city. The Oregon coast had some areas of beautiful scenery with rocky shores, and long sandy beaches. The beach areas aren't developed with high rise apartments and fancy hotels.

They're like the old days at a lot of beaches in the East with small cottages and rooming houses. Apparently most vacationers there go fishing.

We drove on down to Concord, CA, where we stopped for the night and con-

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tacted Joanne and Leon Grabowsky in Danville. We had a nice visit with Grabo the next morning.

Bill McReynolds and Leon Grabowsky As you probably know, Leon is suffering from Parkinson's disease and has heart problems also. We talked about old times and our complaints about getting older It was real good to see my friend and first Class roommate again.

From there we continued down the coast, taking in the Big Sur once again. That is one spectacular drive! Got home in time to finish up the preparations for the San Diego '41 dinnerparty.

What a great trip report. You have our thanks.

In the fall, Frank Costagliola and Ned Hines took a river and canal trip together on a Russian ship in Russia and here is Frank's account: We flew over and back on a Boeing 777 manned by a Russian crew of Aeroflot.

Except for the last two days in St. Petersburg, we lived aboard a 340-foot riverboat in a cabin about the size of the Captain's cabin on a 2100T destroyer After two days of tours in Moscow, we got underway up the Moscow River and began traversing a seemingly endless series of locks that connected various rivers, lakes and canals finally terminating in St. Petersburg's river, Neva. Each day we would stop at a village or town for several hours for a tour and then continue on our way.

Our tour group consisted of three elderly couples, an ex-Navy World War II fighter pilot, Ned and me. Our nine was the only American group and smallest of tour groups from Russia, England, Germany, Belgium and Italy, totaling about 300 passengers. An attractive Russian lady, our group's Intourist guide, who spoke excellent English, accompanied us everywhere, kept us informed, saw to it that we didn't miss our transportation, etc.

At each stop our group had its own transportation and an English-speaking guide would join us. Surprisingly to me, just about everywhere we went, except for the Kremlin in Moscow, and the palaces in St. Petersburg, churches were the highlight.

Abandoned and desecrated during the Soviet era, many were being renovated, their art restored. However, only two or three were active with clerics in residence. Although surface transportation showed signs of age and wear, the underground metro system in both Moscow and St, Petersburg appeared to be up to snuff. Shipboard food was apparentiy Russian fare, not remarkable, but satisfying. American dollars seemed to be accepted everywhere.

Weather, except for the very last day, was excellent with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. All in all, it was an interesting and memorable trip.

Novodevichiy Convent (1524)—Costagliola, Hines, Raczkowski {ex-Navy VF pilot) Thank you, Frank, for such a good account.

Betty Taussig is still hard at work on her book about our Class and here is the latest bulletin from her: By the time this reaches Shipmate, I will have collected a mountain of responses to my letters—absolutely marvelous letters and accounts. As of mid-September I have received over 80 accounts and letters and more are coming!

What I need now is pictures. Does anyone have a picture of Glenn Miller at the Ring Dance? I am looking for fun pictures like girls on sailboats or YPs, loUygaging and having fun.

I also need action pictures—sub "kills," destroyer "kills" and aviator "kills" by '41ers.

I don't want any personal pictures.

Quite belatedly, I have leamed of the death of our Classmate, Mel Warner, in September 1998 and I have no other details. Mel and I went to a year of school together at Sevem before entering Annapolis. I know that all join me in extending our sympathy to Judy.

December is supposed to be a happy time of the year and it is indeed for the following who joined the world in December: Bangert, Burley, Charbonnet, Delano, Greenlee, Kugler, Lilly, Lynch, M a l o n e , R e a d e , Roderick, Seedlock, Silverman and Slaymaker. Maybe I am just biased about December!

If, by any chance, you are going to be in Washington on Thursday, 16 December, please remember that we have our Christmas co-ed Class lunch that day at Chevy Chase Club. The food is pretty good and the comShipmate, December 1999

pany is the very best so join us if you can. Let Ned Hines or me know so that a place will be ready for you and whoever comes with you.

In case you need them for your Christmas cards or calls, here are this month's roster changes: Martha and Pride Brown Jr., 120 Lakes at Litchfield Drive, #109, Pawleys Island, SC 29585; 843-237- 9071. Barbara and Ben Byrnside, 102 McSweeney Circle, Southem Pines, NC 28387; 910-246-1638.

Norma Camera, 100 Oakmont Lane #210, Belleair, FL 33756-1973. Frank Costagliola. email: costagliola@starpower.net. Seymour Einstein, new email: seym@netzero.net.

Jerry Engle, new email: ae4wz@prodigy.net.

Everett Hopkins, cortect street address is 24355 Widgeon Place, Unit 18, St. Michael's, MD 21663. Harry Vincent, correct ZIP code is 60521.

When we Beat Army, I know you will have a Merry Christmas.

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Regular Membership: 38% Life Membership: 43% Pres: CAPT James D. Small, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CDR R. S. Day, USN (Ret) 2426 Chestout St., Falls Church, VA 22043-3052 Happy holidays to each and everyone! Talk about doing your Christmas shopping early, this is being penned at the end of September, but the sentiment is heartfelt.

Bright postcard of St. Petersburg sent by Marci and Bill Spiegel on board MS SERGEI KIROV as they departed for Moscow. As I did, they found St. Petersburg a fascinating and beautiful city and their Kirov Ballet enchanting. On this craise, they were joined by Dr. and Mrs. Bert MacKaman '64.

A cheerful letter came from Hank Sweitzer in Mohnton, PA, announcing his engagement to Ruth Weist, a member of Muhlenberg High School Womens Card Club, of which Mary was also a member. Ruth's husband died two years ago from cancer. She attended Shillington High School, but as her late husband went to Muhlenberg where he and Hank were on the track team in 1935-36, she was admitted to the Card Club in 1950. However, Hank did not get to know Ruth until 14 years ago when the Sweitzers moved back home to Mohnton from D.C. Ruth lives in Shillington, a suburb of Reading, next to Mohnton and 1.5 miles from Hank's residence. They have had lunch with Peggy and Harry Rice several times so they are getting to know Ruth.

Nuptials will be some time in the Millennium and in the meantime they planned to attend the Hawaiian Football Weekend in mid-November and may join the Alumni African trip in early Febmary. She looks forward to joining the '42 wives and is gearing up to shift her allegiance to Navy Blue and Gold from Penn State Blue and White. Her son is a local teacher and coaches cross county and swim teams, while a grandson thinks Joe Patemo walks on water. Hank hopes to have time in the next five to six years to convince him otherwise.

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Swabbo Rawson, Max Duncan, Dave Peto and Lindsay McCarty represented '42 at the 45th World War II SubVet Convention in Fort Worth. Swabbo carries his Class Directory on his trips and as a result gave Darwin Mendoza a call. Had a great chat and was reminded that Darwin went under the name of Kitch at the Academy having changed his name to a family after leaving the Academy in Plebe year. He was in the 3rd Batt and bilged mechanical drawing. West Point welcomed him and he graduated in January 1943. He was assigned to the infantry and volunteered for jump school which led to a tour with the OSS. After the Korean War, he served as OIC of the jump tower at Ft. Benning from which he was separated from the service in December 1955. He moved to Ft. Worth in 1956 and has lived there since.

He was on the boxing team at the Academy and remembers that Buzz Betzel decked him with a left hook that left him with a deviated septum. He has two children and his son rans a very successful recording company.

Swabbo shared a letter he had received from Bonnie Culjat Collett, Leo Culjat's daughter, reporting that he is now confined to a wheelchair suffering from Parkinsons, stenosis of the spine and dementia. He has been in a nursing home since June of this year. You may reach him at 5406 126th Place SE, Bellevue, WA 98006. His daughter reads the letiiers to him and he responds best to Navy memories.

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Mark Woods at his home on 26 September after battling colon cancer. He retired in 1975 as commander of the Pacific cmiser-destroyer force. He joined the Applied Physics Laboratory as a consultant. He became a full-time staff member three years later and retired in 1998. Funeral services were held at the Naval Academy Chapel on 1 October with full military honors. A native of Whitehall, MT, he was interted in Lincoln, NE. His first wife. Marge, died in 1998. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; six children from his first marriage; three stepchildren; and 24 grandchildren, to whom we extend our deepest sympathy.

Following Walt Stegemerten's death on 15 March, his family was able to obtain a photo which they wished to include in his obit.

Walt Stegemerten

Unfortunately, it aixived too late for ihe September issue. Walt was bom in Piltsbuigh, PA, the older of two sons of Gustav Stegemerten, a Westinghouse systems analyst, and Hazel Heverly Stegemerten. He entered the Naval Academy with our Class, followed by his brother, Leiand Richard Stegemerten '45. While at Communications Officers School at Quantico, he married his fiancee of three years, Harriet Bryson Girault, daughter of George and Harriet Randolph Girault of Chicago, and great-granddaughter of Commodore Arsene Napolean Girault, the first professor of French at the Naval Academy. On retirement in June 1968, Walt worked for the next 15 years for Vitro. In 1984 they settled on the waterway at Hubert, NC, near several of their military friends and acquaintances. He was a life member of the United States Power Squadron and was active in volunteer and church activities and enjoyed many years of golfing, fishing and boating.

He is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Harriet; and his loving children, Richard R. Stegemerten, and Barbara Johnston-Dormer; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Walt's youngest daughter, Susan Bryson Boyce, died in 1994. Rest in peace!

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Regular Membership: 38% Life Membership: 42% Pres: CAPT E. A. Robie USN (Ret.) 2111 River Crescent Drive, Annapohs, MD 21401 h: 410-224-0850; e: edrobie@aol.com Sec'y: CAPT "Jack" Van Ness Jr., USN (Ret.) 7108 Broxbum Dr, Bethesda, MD 20817 h: 301-320-4564; w: 202-357-3762 e: Jvanness43@aol.com Class phone: 888-535-4564; fax: 301-320-9123 Prologue It seems like only yesterday that it was December 1998, and here we aie, a year later, a year that just seemed to flash by, hanging in there in spite of a few aches and pains (or maybe a bit more), and in a few days entering a new milleimium. Congratulations to all, and may the days ahead bring you rich rewards.

Destroyerman!

In our September '99 column you read of a ship's boat trip by Classmate Charlie Robison around the wrecked and devastated Kure Japan Naval Base in October 1945. Like a number of you, Charlie spent his World War II years as Gun Boss in combat on destroyers. First in the Atlantic and the Meditertanean, and finally in the Pacific. What follows is a riveting story of some of Charlie's experiences aboard GLENNON (DD-620), the destroyer to which Charlie reported following our graduation.

GLENNON first was engaged in convoy duties in the Atlantic, escorting 17 convoys without losing a merchant ship. But there were two unusual incidents that are sure to be of interest to you: GLENNON was the primary rescue ship when MURPHY (DD-603) was cut in half in 63

a high speed collision with a large fast tanker in 1943. Our Classmate, "Moose" McTighe, was a member of the officer complement of MURPHY, and survived this terrible accident.

With the assistance of motor whaleboats of other vessels, GLENNON rescued 107 officers and men from the frigid water 100 miles off New York. MURPHY'S aft section remained afloat with about 100 of her crew still aboard. GLENNON took this aft section in tow until relieved by rescue tugs. (A new forward section was constructed for MURPHY, and this gallant ship retumed to service.)

Only a month later, in November 1943, GLENNON made a miraculous rescue of a man overboard.

Picture this: GLENNON was a part of a protective screen of a large convoy proceeding from the British Isles to the United States. Shortly after leaving the British Isles the weather tumed ugly. As darkness fell, GLENNON moved into position trailing the convoy. It was 1:30 a.m.; Charlie Robison was OOD; seas were mnning 30 feet. Suddenly, GLENNON was notified that a seaman had been swept overboard from one of the merchant ships in the convoy!

Space limitations here do not permit a proper description of the details of the search for this man overboard. But, to summarize, GLENNON quickly calculated the probable location of the man in these angry seas, proceeded to this location, and began steaming slowly in ever-increasing squares, each side calculated to be 50 yards longer than the previous leg. No lights allowed in this search, but everyone listening, listening...

Thirty minutes had been allotted for this rescue operation. And can you beheve, with only five minutes left to search, the shouts of the man overboard were heard. Superb seamanship continued, and the man was recovered!

The invasion of Europe in June 1944 loomed. GLENNON was assigned to the westem end of the invasion force that landed on Utah Beach, with orders to not only provide gunfire support but also to be particularly alert for attacks by German submarines and E-boats.

It was 6 June 1944. Dawn had not yet arrived. Battleships, cruisers and destroyers began shore bombardment. Many aircraft overhead. 6:30 a.m.—H-hour; first troops landed on the beach. Around noon, GLENNON moved up to fire support position and provided fire support in accordance with directions of shore fire control party. Then moved back to a screening position.

The next day was spent in both screening and fire support duties. Over 200 rounds of 5-inch ammunition were expended.

The next day, 8 June 1944, was a day the officers and men of GLENNON will never forget. The following is quoted from the Operational Remarks section of GLENNON'S log, and is based on interviews, pertinent dispatches, and radio transmissions (the actual logs for 7 to 9 June being lost): 8:03 a.m., heavy shock feU coming from after part of ship,, .Personnel seen floating astern amongst debris and oil.. .Stem nearly severed from the ship between guns 3 and 4...All aft compartments flooded...main engines inoperative...after engine room 64

flooded through stern tubes...Explosion determined to be caused by a mine...ship commenced to settle by stem.

8:38 a.m. (approx.), enemy gun straddled ship astem with three salvos of large caliber guns...RICH, about 500 yards astem, exploded a mine under her stem, about 50 feet of her stem floated clear..,8:41 a.m., second explosion in vicinity of bridge of

lasted for five days, during which they were quartered in huge manor houses and wined, dined, saluted, toasted, and toured a number of imposing and impressive locations in France, Charlie reported it as a grand and exhilarating experience.

RICH. . .8:45 a.m., under tow by STAFF. . .9:00

a.m., abandoned attempts to tow ship, broken portion resting on bottom...

GLENNON was 4,000 yards off Utah Beach. The situation was desperate, with several ships in close proximity being sunk, with acoustic mines exploding nearby, and salvos being fired from heavy German guns on shore. Basically, GLENNON'S deck was tom across the deck and down both sides as far as could be seen between 5-inch guns numbers 3 and 4. The heavily damaged stem section was down at an angle of 30 degrees, with apparently one (or both) propellers caught in the bottom. Water depth was 30 feet. But, the forward section remained intact.

The next hours were filled with heroic actions. A tug tried to pull GLENNON straight ahead (no success), then first this way and then that way (no success), and then pulled the bow around in two complete circles (no success). Weight was jettisoned, and fuel pumped forward. Classified papers were removed. Number One boiler kept the ship alive, with pumps going constantly.

There is not space available here to describe everything that was done, day and night, without let-up, to save GLENNON from the mine explosion on 8 June through 10 June, The moming of 10 June began ominously with four heavy-guns' incoming fire. The hidden German guns quickly found the range, and GLENNON was straddled and hit again and again. It was time to go, and the order to Abandon Ship was given—oh so reluctantly. Later that day, a quick assessment re-visit was made to survey the situation and see if anything, anything, could be done to salvage this mortally wounded warrior. But, GLENNON had received at least 11 direct hits and a number of near misses that caused extensive damage. Thus, shortly after 9:45 p,m., the fatally damaged GLENNON listed heavily and sank.

The writer hopes that he has given the readers a description that clearly conveys the situation, particularly the Never-Say-Die determination of the officers and crew. They never gave up, and neither did the gallant GLENNON. The GLENNON'S original destroyer squadron—DesRon 17—consisted of NELSON, MURPHY, GLENNON, JEFFERS, MADDOX, BUTLER,

GHERARDI, and HERNDON. It was tmly a battie-

experienced and battle-hardened squadron.

MADDOX was sunk off Sicily; MURPHY was cut

in two; NELSON was torpedoed at Normandy; GLENNON was sunk at Normandy; and BUT-

LER damaged by a kamikaze off Okinawa, The other three had many close calls, and received casualties and shrapnel damage.

In recognition of his participation in the Normandy invasion, in early June of this year, Betty and Charlie Robison were included in a select group invited by the city of Caen, France, to come to France to be honored for their heroism in the 1944 invasion. The tour

Betty and Charlie Robison

Charlie, I know that everyone in the Class salutes you and the gallant men of GLENNON for your heroism and your never-ending effort to save your destroyer and keep it in the fight!

Now back to Guadalcanal, and another fighting report sent in by our Classmate, Joe Schmidt, to supplement his report in this column in the November Shipmate entitled "South Pacific Tales." This new story is called, "With Halsey and Richmond Kelley Tumer at Guadalcanal."

Here is the story, in Joe's own words: Almost monthly, during the dark of the moon, supplies and reinforcements were sent up to the Marines on "Cactus." For unspecified reasons, someone on Halsey's staff regularly gave me TAD orders to accompany each invasion fleet, as the principal decoder for Turner, embarked on MCCAWLEY.

On one of these trips Halsey himself came along to participate first hand in the landings. As usual, the transports anchored off Guadalcanal at first light and commenced disembarking reinforcements and supplies. Shortly after noon, while I was busy in the radio shack, a message came in from one of the Aussie coast watchers up the chain of islands. It was in a simple strip code, but badly garbled. I worked feverishly to try to decipher the message and got even more distraught as soon as I could read: "...sighted Jap planes...(garble, garble)..." At last, I got more... "28 Bettys heading toward you 1300 hours"...

I didn't wait for any typing, but grabbed the handwritten sheet of paper and mshed to Tumer and Halsey on the bridge. They immediately sent a signal to all ships to cease all unloading operations, go to General Quarters, get underway, and maneuver independently.

Our fighters scrambled from Henderson Field, and in minutes the Bettys were on us, bombing the Marines ashore and making strafing mns on our ships. By then I had pulled on my kapok life jacket, buckled on my Colt .45.

I decided to stay around the bridge to see the action; to hell with the radio shack! Our fighters did well against the bombers, but so did the 5-inch 38s, the 40 mm and 20 mm of our escort ships. As several of the Bettys made a low level pass over our ships, I saw Halsey and Tumer both pull out their .45s and fire at the passing Japanese planes.

That was good enough for me! I stood alongside them and discharged three clips of ammo at the Japanese planes.

Shipmate, December 1999

From then on, whenever there was invasion plan guard mail to be delivered by jeep or plane to Marine detachments inland on New Caledonia, or to Headquarters at "Buttons" or "Cactus," or to newly arriving troop transports at Noumea, I was somehow designated for the job.

Then came the day one of the Matson Line ships arrived with the first Army units destined for Guadalcanal. She anchored quite far out in the harbor, just inside the mouth of the bay. There was a big packet of plans, charts, and orders to be delivered both to the Captain of the ship and to the Army Commanding General. So with my trusty Colt buckled on over my bleached out khakis, and wearing my saltiest, and only, visor cap, I climbed down into the duty Higgins boat. The coxswain immediately took off for the outer harbor.

The water was rough, choppy, and a stiff wind came over the bouncing bow as we headed out at top speed. I took my position forward, alongside the coxswain, and ducked each time a big wave almost engulfed us. By the time we made the starboard accommodation ladder, I was drenched from head to toe. The dispatches were wrapped in waterproof cloth and tucked inside my shirt. As I mounted the ladder, I could see there was quite a crowd lining the rail, looking down on this strange sight. I might add that by this time I had acquired a very dark tan, a windbumed face, a salty haircut, and a reasonable amount of facial hair After saluting the quarter-deck and the OOD I asked to be taken to the commanding general and the captain so I could deUverthe guard mail. They, in tum, accepted the dispatches, took one look at me, and told the OOD messenger to take me to the wardroom for something nourishing. There, I was given dry towels, a thick ham sandwich, and beaucoup cups of steaming hot coffee.

At that point, some of the officers who had watched me come aboard came streaming into the wardroom asking questions about Noumea and Guadalcanal. I then reahzed that many of the officers were, in fact. Army nurses. One in particular caught my eyeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a petite blond, who asked several pointed questions and stared at me quizzically.

Rising to the occasion, Ifinallyasked her name. "Mary Martin," she said! (And remember that this was long before James Michener's South Pacific opened on Broadway! But, from our Plebe Year, I knew of Mary Martin from My Heart Belongs to Daddy fame.) I quickly invited her to dinner the next night in the wardroom of our flagship, figuring Gene Markey would get a kick out of meeting another Mary Martin so far from Broadway.

The Third Company Wardroom Inspection Party Shipmate, December 1999

Sad to relate, MCCAWLEY and I sailed for "Cactus" early the next morning, and I never saw Mary Martin again until the real one starred in South Pacific on the stage in New York City! As slight recompense, one of my fellow communicators on that trip "up the slot" was a young lieutenant by the name of Peter Grace, who later chaired President Eisenhower's task force to reorganize the federal govemment along more business-like lines.

Thanks, Joe, for this sun-drenched and salty story of those critical days in the South Pacific, tuming the tide of the war in our favor!

The Third Company Thanks '43 Our Class provided the direction and funds for a complete replacement of the carpet and fumiture for the Third Company Wardroom.

Our president, Ed Robie, spearheaded this activity, and completed this work in time for the beginning of the fall of' 99 academic year.

In response, the Class has received the following letter from MIDN Joy M. Miller '00, Third Company Wardroom Representative: The new Academic Year has begun and all members of 3rd Company are back in the saddle. As Wardroom Representative, I am tasked with improving the quality of hfe of the Midshipmen in 3rd Company, but first the members of 3rd Company would like to extend our thanks to your Class. The fumiture and carpet, which you donated this past summer, are a blessing. We greatly appreciate your kindness and generosity.

This year's 3rd Company events include tailgaters at all home football games, a picnic on the aftemoon of 26 September, a Dining-In in November, and Company functions each month. Additionally, I have started a Company Wardroom Mess. Various food items are provided at reasonable prices. This provides convenience for the members of our Company, in addition to gaining a little profit to our wardroom funds. Shortly after reform of the Brigade, the wardroom TV stopped working. A week later, we purchased a new 36-inch TV with the proceeds. The walls have been repainted to brighten up the room and complement the fumiture.

Again, we thank you for all you have done for us in the past, and we look forward to seeing you at various events. I will keep you posted on dates, times, and locations of 3rd Company events.

The Class also received two thank you cards from the Third Company, each signed by approximately 30 Midshipmen. Samples oif the written comments by the Midshipmen are: "Thank you so much," "Thank you very much!" "Much nicer, we appreciate it," "Thank you, the Wardroom is beautiful," "Thank you, the Wardroom is a Home Away

from Home now," "Thank you, thlooks great!" "Thanks, it's greaii> civj.,!-. ,;â&#x20AC;˘ated," "Your generosity is very nuch appreciated," "Thanks for making our Wardroom look great."

The Class also heard from the Third Company Officer, LT Nash, who wrote: Thanks so much for your support in restoring the 3rd Company Wardroom. It looks superb. I salute you for your kindness and generosity in this endeavor as well as for your contributions in the defense of our great nation.

On 15 September, Ed Robie; the Commandant of the Naval Academy, RADM Gary Roughead '73; the First Battalion Officer, CDR John Legg; LT William Nash, the Third Company Officer; and several Midshipmen gathered at the Third Company Wardroom for a final inspection of the rehab of the wardroom. The Commandant said that he had visited several other wardrooms recently, and this was by far the best he had ever seen, and was the envy of all other Companies.

A photograph was taken of the inspection party. From left to right they are: RADM Roughead; MIDN Joy Miller; our own Ed Robie; Commander Legg; LT Nash; and MIDN Brian Mello '00, Midshipman Executive Officer, Third Company. Also present, but not in the photo, were MIDN Michael Slatt '00, Company Commander, Third Company; MIDN Chad Donnely 'GO; and MIDN Mark O'Connel '00.

For this significant achievement our Classmates and the Third Company owe Ed Robie a Well Donel He made it happen.

From Here and There Devastating News.. .On 9 August, just five minutes before boarding a London-bound DC-10 for a Baltic cmise on ROYAL PRINCESS,

Lois and John Lobdell were notified that their son. Dr. John (Jack) Edward Lobdell, had passed away suddenly and unexpected in his sleep at a British Petroleum facility on Alaska's North Slope. What terrible news.

Lois and John, the Class sends you its deepest sympathy.

Anne and Mel Etheridge report their email address is: melannetheridge@home.com.

Polly Gillock, our on-site reporter for the Hampton Roads area sent in this report: On 18 June, Dee and Harry Clark went to Hawaii to visit their daughter and sonin-law, who is on duty with CinCPacFlt. They live in a townhouse that has a view of Kaneohe Bay. Dee and Harry remained there for one month and visited the Big Island. They had a grand time.

Polly Gillock sailed from San Francisco on 24 July for an 11-day cruise aboard SKY PRINCESS. The ship stopped in Victoria, Vancouver, Juneau, Ketchikan, Skagway, and then sailed on to Glacier Bay to see the glaciers. It was truly a fantastic voyage.

Betty and Erwin Jackson just "downsized" by moving into the Harbor View Condos. They are enjoying their new home.

Better late than never! From our Classmate Al Rasmussen proudly comes a claim of the title of The Oldest First-Time Grandfather in our Class. Check the photo. There is Ras, carefully holding Master Gartett McCauley, 65

would like to see a photo of the '44 contingent on the cmise. It is a splendid shot made on the river cmiser including Mary and Bob Coogan, Baldy Chapman, and Marion and Bill Ullrich.

Later on 9 September, Chip was our guest speaker at the monthly '44 Headquarters Chapter luncheon where he filled us in on current programs and policies affecting the Academy and alumni affairs. We thank Chip for all his efforts on our behalf.

George Watkins and his lovely wife, Monica, have moved their residence to Lampoc, CA, after moving their glider operation from the high desert to Lompoc airport last year. George is still instmcting glider acrobatics and has participated in three acrobatic competitions so far this year. His next competition was scheduled in Tuscon, AZ, for the first week in November. George says he is still competing in the "unlimited class," which keeps him on his toes dealing with pulling 7.5 positive to 5.0 negative g's in his required maneuvers. His new address is: George C. Watkins, 3470 Catalina Rd., Lampoc, CA 93436; h: 805-740-9618; f: 805740-9614. We wish both of them well in their new digs and success in the new glider-operating environment.

Bob and Mary Coogan, Bill Chapman, Bill and Marion Ullrich a perfect recmit for the Naval Academy Class of about 2022! Young McCauley came into this world on 14 July 1999, weighing 8 lbs, and 6 ounces, and as this is being written in mid-September, he already weighs more than 10 pounds. Obviously he's a good eater Congratulations, Gartett, Nell, and Ras, and special praise is sent to the new mother and father

Al Rasmussen and Garrett McCauley President's Comments From our President Ed Robie comes the following: This is the last Shipmate issue of this year, this century, and this millennium.

With this in mind it is time to very briefly recap a few of the outstanding events in the life of our Class to date from our entry to the Naval Academy in June 1939. The date of 7 December 1941, had a significant impact, causing our early graduation and our immediate involvement in the Pacific and Atlantic areas during World War II. Sadly, we lost Classmates all too early in their lives and, as would be anticipated, we had many heroes.

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Then followed the Korean War where, once again, our Class distinguished itself and then a lull to the controversial Vietnam War. By this time, our Class was composed of senior and well-experienced officers who performed admirably.

It was during the era of the '60s that our Class commenced retirements in large numbers to make their mark in second careers.

Others continued in the service, with two of our Classmates achieving the Four Star rank of CNO. Support of the Naval Academy via the Alumni Association has been strong as demonstrated by our contributions to the construction of Alumni Hall and Compass Rose Plaza and renovation of the Third Company Wardroom.

Our camaraderie throughout these 61 years, with our numerous accomplishments, makes us Proud To Be '43.

May you all have a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year.

On to the Third Millennium!

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Regular Membership: 39% Life Membership: 39% Pres: CAPT Henry S. Barbour, USN (Ret) Annapohs Rep: CAPT Jack E. Godfrey, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CAPT Wynn V. Whidden, USN (Ret) 6156 Loch Raven Drive, McLean, VA 22101-3132 Mail Bag Harry A. "Chip" Seymour '65, director of alumni affairs for the Alumni Association, retumed in July from an Association sponsored trip touring the Danube and thought we

Strat Wentworth, my old roomie, guessed right when he said we would be surprised to hear that after 25 wonderful years in the islands (Hawaii) he and Mickie sold their beautiful condominium in September and moved back to San Diego. Since one is slightly over four score years old and the other very near that mark, they decided to move back to the mainland to be closer to the family and to execute the move while they both are in good health and fully mobile. They loved their lifestyle in the islands, but have now moved into a nice townhouse in the Del Mar area north of Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.

Their youngest daughter, Peggy, a Ph.D. in immunology, lives 15 minutes away. The oldest, Pat, her husband and most of her grownup family live in the Monterey area, including two gorgeous, blond, blue-eyed great-granddaughters. Strat says that having grown up in the area when his dad was on desfroyer duty there and having had a few tours there himself, he is amazed to see that the density between Los Angeles and San Diego is now practically house-to-house.

Sti-at's new address is: R.S. Wentworth, 12996 Candela Place, CA 92130; 858-720-0868.

Betsy and Bob Osth retumed in September from a visit to their son, Rob, and wife, Maxine, in Tarzana, CA, where, during a golf game at Braemer Country Club, Bob shot his eighth hole-in-one. As he said, "Not bad for an old geezer with two hip replacements."

Amen, brother, say 1. They spent several days at Laguna Beach, where they had dinner with Bob's nephew, John Osth '68, and his wife.

Bob sent the photo of himself and John.

Shipmate, December 1999

Here is another bunch of photos from the 55th, which hopefully are identified properly.

Merry Christmas and season's greetings to all of you great '44ers... WVW.

Bob Osth and nephew John Osth '68

The Osths also had dinner with their grandson, Sean Nulla, now a senior at Pepperdine University. Their other son, Craig, recently visited them en route to Washington, D.C, after several years in the diplomatic corps in Brazilia, Brazil. Bob very aptly observed, "How different life is today as compared to our childhood when most family members remained near each other in the areas of their births."

Your secretary's spouse, Melissa, received a nice "get well" note, after breaking her leg in August,fromLillian and Tom Brown. Tom allowed as how her circumstance should at least allow an additional stroke or two on her golf handicap. Thanks to Lillian and Tom for their thoughtfulness. They also have a new address: Tom and Lillian Brown, 6030 Cherokee Drive, Fairway, KS 66205-3318; 913722-0216.

More Address Changes In addition to those given above, the following are also effective: James A. Aldrich.

1855 Freedom Drive, Melboume, FL 32940.

M.M. "Mike" Casey, 9852 Fairmont Ave., Manassas, VA20109; 703-330-7405.

In Memory Belatedly, we received news that Frank W. Clift died in a nursing home in Piano, TX, on 29 March 1999, of Alzheimer's disease.

Our sympathy goes out to his widow, Smitty, and the family. She may be reached at 1660 Tam O'Shanter Rd. #5F, Seal Beach, CA 90740-4728.

Evangelist W. King died on 24 March 1999, after a long illness in Pass Christian, MS. Our sympathy is extended to his widow, Jill, and the family.

Robert J. Newcomb died on 24 August 1999, iiiMilwaukee,WI. Funeral service was held at St. Hyacynth Church and interment was in St. Adalbert Cemetery. Sympathy is extended to the family.

Secretary's Comer Thanks to Dick Bowie for providing a fine photo of Jake Laboon as a Plebe.

Ruth and Doc Livingson with J.J. Crowder, et al.

Jake Laboon Shipmate, December 1999

Lois and Blackie Blackburn

Regular Membership: 32% Life Membership: 43% Pres: CDR Everett Parke, USN (Ret) Secy: CDR Robert O. Sherman, USN (Ret) 1110 N. Pegram St., Alexandria, VA 22304-1928 h: 703-370-5867; e: rosherm@aol.com In Memoriam John Pirro lost his wife, Betty Lee, on 10 September 1999. A Catholic funeral service was held on 20 September 1999 in St. Andrews, followed by a committal service at the Columbarium.

Friendships formed while at USNA endure a lifetime. Lando Zech traveled from Falls Church to Windslow, ME, to deliver a eulogy at Ed White's memorial service. John Chappel joumeyed from Pensacola to Michigan to attend services for Dick Alderton.

John Hicks notes that we have already addressed the distinguished career of Classmate Bud Nance, but it is not too late to mention more. John writes: 67

The Way We Are Our 55th Reunion is now long smce over but the glow continues. The photo of four Classmates on IMAGINE was provided by Frank Zanazzi and forwarded by Thad Taylor.

Eighth Companymates Don Hill, Bill Cosgrove, Larry Shaffer, and Frank Zanazzi aboard IMAGINE

The week following our 55th a mini-reunion was held at the home of Phyllis and Joe Schroeder in Tustin, CA. Pictured are Stew Berkshire, Wiley Conover, Frank Nepo, Don Hill, John Pearce, Phyllis and Joe Schroeder, Tex Ostrom, Miles Larson, and Bob Barnhart.

Ernie Barrett writes: Enclosed is a photo of the three Classmates and their wives on board NORWEGIAN DREAM taken two nights before the collision with a freighter. Fortunately, we had finished our cmise and were on our way back to Dover when it happened. Quite an experience—one we do not want to repeat.

Harvey Hartzel writes that he did not charter a boat this year but he did g o fishing— with great results.

Jayne and Ernie Barrett, Marge and Bert Findly, and Carol and George Ellis onboard NORWEGIAN DREAM I have just had occasion to read in the 19 May 1999, Congressional Record rather amazing tributes to Bud on the Senate floor regarding Bud's service as chief of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff.

Senator after senator, even some of the most liberal, paid glowing tribute to Bud. When such as senators Biden, Boxer and Whetstone speak to Bud's fairness, even handedness, intelligence and good counsel, you know he was a remarkable figure. Over a long career, I have read much in the Congressional Record. Never have I read more extensive and more sincerely expressed admiration of a person than that delivered about Bud on 18 May.

Congratulations JoAnn Jortberg, widow of Classmate Dick Jortberg, and Howie Blum were wed on 12 June 1999 in the Chapel. The ceremony was performed by Howie's brother, the Rev. R.W. Blum, USMA '53. Classmates and spouses attending were Jayne and Ernie Barrett, Winnie and Stu Bowcock, Carol and George Ellis, and Suzy and Gerry Rester. Howie has sold his home and die happy couple now reside at 1080 Invemess Ave., Melboume, FL 32940.

100 Years of Tradition Go Navy — Beat Army

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Harvey Hartzel with the catch of the day

CAPT Bill Riedel and Bobbie Bergesen Riedel with her son, Chris Bergesen

Our Class now provides scholarships to prospective Midshipmen in memory of Bud Bowler and Earl Fannin. MIDN 4/C Shipmate, December 1999

Vecchio '03 was selected as the Commander Roland T E. Bowler J r Class of 1945 Memorial Honor Scholar for this year.

Midshipman Vecchio wrote: I appreciate very much the foundation scholarship you granted me in order to attend the Valley Forge Military College, which enabled me to receive an appointment to the United States Naval Academy.

Without the scholarship, I probably would not have had such an opportunity. I have enjoyed my time very much so far here at the Academy. It has been hard, but I know it is worth it. I have made many close friends and leamed many valuable lessons, which will help me in the Fleet and for the rest of my life.

I just want to thank you again for the chance you have given me to attend the United States Naval Academy. I will continue to try my hardest and work at being the best Midshipman I can be for the remainder of my time here.

Stephen's thoughtfulness shows a maturity well beyond his age and reflects credit upon the USNA Foundation and its selection process.

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Regular Membership: 35% Life Membership: 39% Pres: VADM Charles H. GriEBths, USN (Ret) Vice Pres and Armapolis Factotum: CAPT Jim W. Foust, USN (Ret) 1914 Sleepy Hollow Lane, AnnapoHs, MD 21401 w: 800-334-5701 Treas: CAPT Wils F. Engel, USN (Ret) 6807 Rosewood St., Annandale, VA 22003 h: 703-256-5832 Sec'y: Clete Kemielly 7911 Sleaford Place, Bethesda, MD 20814-4625 h: 301-654-7315 Corr. Sec'y and Chairman 55th Reunion: CAPT Ed Ellis, USN (Ret) P.O. Box 921117, San Diego, CA 92192 h: 858-278-8665; f: 619-576-0979 e: edmhe@aol.com Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Wils Engel (4), our Class Treasurer had back surgery in August. He assures everyone that he's still kicking, although not very vigorously or very high. This was a planned operation to resolve some painful and serious disc and nerve problems. The prognosis is good but it's going to take at least six months of relative inactivity for Wils to retum to battery. In the meantime, he's relying on Sallie to do the driving.

In my discussions with Wils, I found out that Classmates have contacted him to ask how to address checks which they are sending to the Alumni Association in response to the continuing fund raising appeals. Wil's reply is of interest to all Classmates. He told them to specifically indicate that their checks are for the Class of '46 Fund rather than the general unrestricted fund for which the appeals are requested. (In a sense, we've already responded to the unrestricted appeal with our Class's Million Dollar Unrestricted Gift.)

Now, by specifying the Class Fund, we'll have the option of designating the use of these additional funds.

Shipmate, December 1999

I deeply regret to report the death of another Classmate. Richard I. Gulick (2) died at his home in Norfolk, VA, 17 June 1999, surtounded by his family. He pre-deceased his wife by a little over a month. He had been a submariner who had commanded GRAMPUS from 1959 to 1961. He practiced maritime law from 1964 to 1996. He served as an elder in his church and was a past president of Friends Norfolk Juvenile Court, Norfolk Seamen's Friend Society, Hampton Roads Foreign Commerce Club, Propeller Club of the U.S. Port of Norfolk and the Norfolk Law Library.

His five daughters; ten grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a sister, Patricia G. Kempton, of Peacham, VT, survive him. In lieu of flowers, the family requested memorial contributions to Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, VA, Samaritan Fund.

Stew Hancock, Cazenovia, NY, the 13th Company coordinator, requests that all hands in the 13th Company send an email to him at shancock@hancocklaw.com. He'll then have your email addresses and be better able to communicate with you about the Reunion, etc. It's a good idea but I don't think he'll get many responses. Judging from my records, I don't think the Class has much interest in computers or the Internet. I have only 32 email addresses for the roughly 800 Classmates and widows with whom we have contact.

In referring to Marigold and Bob Gorton's (5) trip through Africa, Red Layton (12), Salinas, CA, reported that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet at Cape Agulhas, the southemmost part of Africa. If you visit the beach at the Cape, you'll notice the beautiful beaches on the westem, Atlantic side, but no one there. They're all on the other, Indian Ocean side, only ten yards away where the water is 10 to 15 degrees (fahrenheit) warmer According to both Bob and Red, the boil where the two oceans meet is very evident from the beach. Red has intimate knowledge of South Africa. He and Kathleen lived in the Johannesburg area when he taught at the National Test Pilot School. Additionally, he also taught for five terms at the Graduate School of Stellenbosch University during their eight years in South Africa. For two of those terms they lived in Strand and for the other terms they lived in Stellenbosch. Still responding to the travel bug, Kathleen and he are leaving in mid-November for a trip around the world: flying and cmising. They fly to Athens and then cmise in RENAISSANCE VIII to

Singapore. They'll fly home from there arriving two days before Christmas. (Harriett and Ed Ellis (7) have reservations for a similar trip next year, leaving home in mid-March.

They're flying to Singapore to embark in MARCO POLO for the cmise to Athens. Ed says they're going the right wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with the sun.

They are scheduled home in mid-April. Is anyone else going to be on this trip?)

L a r r y Stahl (10), who I reported as being in Dover, MA, for special tests has retumed to Delray Beach, FL, where his treatments have resumed. These reports on Larty point out something that is occasionally overlooked with this column. The two month lead-time

makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to include timely information. In this case, Larty's back home but the notice on his original move won't appear for another month and the fact that he's returned home won't appear until December But, the word was passed and Larry received the support which was intended.

The Greater Washington, D . C , Group monthly luncheon program at the Army/Navy Country Club resumed in September There were only 28 but getting back into the swing of things sometimes takes a little time. The attendees who enjoyed Perry Taylor's (19) choice of menu were: Ash Ashley (13), John Collins (15), Bob Disc (9), Denis Downey (18), John Dugger (13), Cliff Duncan (15), Sallie and Wils Engel (4), Al Glennon (4), Kiki and Frank Haak (7), Bob Hanks (4), Jerri and Lucky Jordan (16), George Kelly (14), Clete Kennelly (10), Joe Meyer (9), Art Paletti (4), Stu Savage (14), Liz and Wes Schmidt (3), Bill Searle and guest, Herman Kuntz, June and Bill Simpson (4), Perry Taylor (19), Rod Wingo (19) and Gordon Yeo (4).

The guest speaker for the Fortestal Lecture on 22 September was Louis Freeh, director of the FBI. It is believed that the short notice on the lecture probably kept '46 attendance low. Only Phyl and George Bauernschmidt (13), Delly and Al Bowen (10), Kathy and Wally Hankins (11), Jerti and Lucky Jordan (16), and Luciene and Bill Pfefferkorn (19) were able to attend. The Director spoke of the parallels and differences in the roles of the military and the FBI and emphasized the need for cooperation. Also, he spoke at great length of the new demands being placed on the FBI with the emergence of the Intemet, citing a case where a person in Europe used it to steal money from a U.S. bank. He finished his talk by lauding the Midshipmen for entering a life of national service.

Al Kelley (9) couldn't attend the Class Luncheon because he was attending a twoday NATO Conference, which, by coincidence, was held next door to the Luncheon.

Al's interest in NATO affairs continues strong since his service as Deputy Undersecretary for Intemational Programs in the Department of Defense in the Bush Administration. Al's boss, the undersecretary for acquisitions, frequently served as the U.S. representative at NATO meetings. As his deputy, Al also sat at the NATO table and his group provided a lot of the staff work for these meetings. According to Al, the responsibilities of NATO in Europe and worldwide were always on everyone's mind. Because of this background, Clete Kennelly (10) asked Al for some comments on the Conference. The following are Clete's summary of Al's comments: It was one of the most amazing conferences he ever attended. It was no holds barred. Speakers were trying to shape policy, not follow it, because there was afluiddynamic situation on both sidesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;NATO Allies and the "other side." NATO and U.S. policies were being shaped under great pressures and uncertainties, and still are.

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part series in the Washington Post concerning the conflict and strategy at the top level provided an exttemely enlightening look at the debates between the senior military officers and senior diplomats, both intramural and extramural. Much of what was reviewed concerned the process and the forging of the NATO alliance under wartime conditions.

The conference he was attending focused long-range on the implications for NATO's strategy and requirements, in particular, drawing from the lessons leamed in Kosovo and Bosnia.

There have been many conjectures and differences since NATO was formed 50 years ago as to what should be its evolutionary purpose and mission. Yugoslavia acted as an unusual catalyst in the formation of NATO requirements to respond on a broad range of commitments. But what happens now and in the future? To his mind, the Balkan situation has already provided many answers.

Our big Future Event is our 55th at the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, CA, 1-4 June in the year 2000. That's right, only six months to go. Plans are moving steadily ahead. On 28 September, Ed Ellis (7), chairman; Bob Gautier (7), deputy chairman; and Bob Williamson (2), Coronado coordinator, visited the Del for a meeting with the VP sales and the convention coordinator to work out some changes in event locations caused by the major rehabilitation of the hotel which started on 1 October They were given a briefing on this $50 million dollar project and taken on a short tour of the hotel to see some of the areas which will be affected. All location changes were easily and satisfactorily resolved. The big news that the project is to be completed in six months (two months before our arrival) was happily received.

Seventy-five percent of our room block at the Del has already been reserved. But don't worry. If you can't get our reservation rates at the Del, we have another block of rooms across the street at the Glorietta Bay Inn. Bob WiUiamson (2) at 619-435-8423 can help you with this.

Our count of possible attendees has climbed to 503. Add the following to your lists: Art Bennett (16), Big Bay, MI; Katherine Cutchall Cook, widow of Lee G. Cutchall (18), Arlington, NE; and Micki and Harris Rogers (17), Virginia Beach, VA. Delete: John Eels (5) deceased, and Dee and Dean Mikkelson (18). Both Mikkelson's are ill and doubt that they'll be able to attend.

few months, we recently received a letter from Mrs, J,C. Krumwiede, whose husband, Jerold Krumwiede '54, agreed with her that it would be fitting if tiiey could obtain a '47 Lucky Bag as a gift for her daughter, Laurie.

Laurie was bom in December of 1955, three months after the accidental death of her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mrs. Kmmwiede's first husband and our Classmate, Bill Curran. Thanks to the generosity of Classmates, we had several Lucky Bags available, and one was immediately dispatched into the hands of Mrs, Kmmwiede. It is inscribed on the flyleaf, "To Laurie, from her dad's Classmates, the Class of 1947,"

A snapshot from history, as (1 to r) Bill Nivison, Jack Dempsey, and Joe Weed pose on the beach (maybe Spa Creek?) in the days before Spandex!

The Mail Buoy A brief note from Milo "Mike" Coerper reveals that he is still in the front ranks of the nation's squash playersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ranked eighth nationally in his age group (over 70, if any of you out there can't remember how old we all are!) He also provided us with a newsletter from the art gallery operated in San Anselmo, CA, by Bob Beck. Aside from the update which it gives us on Bob's doings, it also provided a photo of him.

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Regular Membership: 37% Life Membership: 43% Pres: VADM John G. (Jake) Finneran, USN (Ret) Sec'y: Chester H. (Chet) Shaddeau Jr. 343 Prestonfield Lane Sevema Park, MD 21146-1512 h: 410-647-5868; f: 410-647-2453 e: stadir@erols.com A Pleasurable Service There are some compensations to this job!

Among all the miseries and losses of the last 70

Bob Beck, natty as ever!

Bob Barker, writing from Califomia, says: In April, Bobbie and I took the Panama cruise from Ft. Lauderdale to Los Angeles.

In 1948, my destroyer, STRIBLING, visited Colon, but we did not transit to the Pacific, I did fish in the Chagres river for tarpon, great sport. The cruise was very worthwhile. Upon our return home, Bobbie un-

derwent a spinal fusion of the sacrum and ilium. The operation was successful, and she is midway through the recuperation period (as of September).

Then we were able to take our annual two-week vacation on Catalina Island over the Labor Day holiday period. That's about as laid-back as it gets!

A brief email from Tad Moyle: ...Just a note regarding our two-week cruise, sponsored by the Alumni Association. A very pleasant group composed mostly of the Class of '44. We stayed in Prague, then went down the river to Budapest. We made interesting stops along the way, including Vienna. In one medieval town, we traded serenades outside an ancient club, with our group doing a respectable rendition of The Navy Hymn. If this is typical of cmises sponsored by the Association, Sofie and I heartily endorse them.

Even the cuisine was excellent!

And Frank Deaton, writing from Charlotte, NC, says: .. .Carolyn and I have just retumed from a stay at Blowing Rock, NC. The mountains are always great! Earherthis summer, we visited Pat and Robbie Brady in Tampa, FL. Our get-together with them was capped by a tour with Robbie of McDill AFB. While on base, we just happened to be able to witness a long practice session by the Navy's Blue Angels. It was quite a sight, seeing them perform for more than 20 minutes, soaring from horizon to horizon, up thousands of feet, then diving to pass over us at treetop level. They are terrific!

A Social Note Phil Baylor advises us that on 28 August 1999, he and the former Martha Bums of Bethel Park, PA, were married in that town, and are now at home in his longtime residence in Fayette, MO. Our congratulations and best wishes go out to the newlyweds.

SITREP2001 As of late September, 184 Classmates have committed to attendance at the San Diego Reunion. The Class demand is currentiy 161 rooms at the U.S. Grant Hotel, well above the 150 in the current block conti-acted for by the Committee. The Committee is renegotiating the contract with the Hotel for additional rooms. Requests for seats at the Dinner Cruise total 346. The Shipmate, December 1999

ship's limit is 350. Latecomers will be wait-listed in order of commitment to attend. Inevitably, some cancellations are to be expected, so get your applications in ASAP! Total Reunion attendance is expected to be well above 400 Classmates, spouses, and friends, a fantastic response for our age group, and the Class support is deeply appreciated by their hard-working Committee. The Class can anticipate a mailing in early 2000 answering the many questions posed in the responses to the last mailing.

Quick Takes Larry Curtin, using some hilarious notepaper featuring the late lamented "Far Side" cartoons by Larson, forwards a clip of an interesting interview with Jim Stockdale in the San Diego Union-Tribune...MOTC than one Classmate suffered from the effects of Hurricane Floyd. (Coincidentally, our own pioyd—Bowdey, was on his way back to Florida from Virginia when the hurricane headed ashore! No connection, we assume.)

Phil Smith said diey spent one night stormdodging in a motel in town, and the desk clerk recognized them from the LAST time!

Stu Evans emailed from Cocoa Beach that he and Joan-Marie had just had dinner with Inge and Bob IXirnage as the wind started acting up. They were tempted to go back to Orlando with the Tumages but instead did the dishes and bailed out off the Island the next day. When they came back, they found everything in perfect order, and were pleased by the performance of their new hurricane shutters in the condo. Stu asked after our welfare here in Crabtown, and I was answering him by email, saying "a hell of a lot of rain, but little damage," when my power went out, as did cable TV. No prob for us—it came back up in about five hours, but all around us, Anne Amndel County and Annapolis suffered power loss at over 300,000 homes, and in many cases that lasted for four and five days, with flooded basements, uprooted trees, etc. Think what it was like in places where there was REAL damage!

Rudy Schenk checks in with the unwelcome news that Dan Hollis is now in an assisted care facility in Hattiesburg, MS, as a result of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease).

John Snyder reports that DOD has named Tom Hudner as Massachusetts' new state committee chairman for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). Tom recently stepped down after many years' service as Massachusetts Commissioner for Veterans' Affairs...The addition of Bill Harris to our online listing (CyberSevem47) is my cue (again) to urge that any of you who have email and are not already on our list, reconsider and join up. Or go buy yourself a computer, get wired, and then join up! Whatever.

However you communicate, remember it's lonesome out here at Camp Swampy!—write me! Send pictures! CHS

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Regular Membership: 43% Life Membership: 29%

Sec'y: CDR Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret) 308 Mansion Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302 h: 703-549-8739; e: sk48moore@aol.com Early December, with any hopes of a normal year-closing long ago dashed by the hungry media, this is my last column in this, the 20th century. I remain certain that my computer will slither gracefully into the new century, nay, millennium. Yes, we will see, but I'm not holding my breath. Activity this month is more email than letters, which requires somewhat of a different approach to composing and editing, but is more fun.

As you know, the 1948 USNA Foundation scholarship supports the financing of deserving students, aspiring to enter the Academy, at selected prep schools around the country.

We do not field one very year, since they have plenty of other scholarships working. Here is a note from our most recent candidate, who made it, and is grateful. Midshipman Andrew Watts '03 4/c, writes to the Class: I would like to sincerely thank you for giving me the opportunity to come to the USNA through the Foundation program. I have wanted to come here for many years and you made it possible for me to achieve one of my dreams. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Last year I attended the Hun School of Princeton. I received high grades and participated in varsity football and lacrosse. I also made some great friends from all over the world. It was an experience I will never forget. Now I am at the Academy and I still can't believe it. Plebe Summer was something that changed me for the rest of my life, and I'm proud to have completed it. This academic year has brought new challenges that will push me to the limits once again.

Unfortunately, this month I have a number of deaths to report. The Navy Mutual Aid annual report noted that CDR Sebastian Trusso died 13 May 1998.1 have no further info. He was 10th Company Plebe year and roomed with Dan Bloomfield.

Ben Reams, in his capacity as keeper of the Class computerized address-and-who'swhere list, had a note in September from Shirley Kelley that Jim (James Palmer Kelley, of Nashville, TN) is deceased. Again, I have no further information.

Last May's issue contained a note from Wally Helton's son, Mike, telling of his dad's illness and hope that he could make the induction at USNA of his grandson. Mike's 15 September email tells the rest of the story.

First, thank you for publishing the short letter I sent eariier My father read it and was pleased. It meant a lot to both my father and my son to see it in the '48 column.

Unfortunately, my father was too weak from both illness and injury to attend my son's induction. He died peacefully in his sleep at the hospital in Santa Maria on the 7th. We had a memorial mass in San Francisco for family and friends on the 9th.

See "Last Call" for an obituary.

Wally's inurnment at the Academy cemetery Columbarium was on the 20th, followed by this email from Mike.

We want to thank you for sending the flowers to the services at Annapolis. They were beautiful and served as a powerful reminder that dad's life as a career naval officer was not forgotten. Ben Reams attended the services. He is a very nice man and a wonderful representative of the Class of '48. We are very grateful he came. It meant a lot to the entire family.

This sad note from Tom Galbraith, 25 Rose Hill Drive, Bluffton, SC 29910: This is the kind of note you hope you'll never have to write. My beloved wife of 46 years, Ellie, died of cancer here in our home on Saturday, 11 September A memorial service was planned to be held in the Episcopal Church of the Cross in Bluffton, on 14 September, but Hurricane Floyd changed our plans as the entire low country was evacuated. A new date has not yet been set, but I'm sure it will have passed by the time this sees print. Ellie was bom in Hanford, CA, in 1927, married me in San Diego in 1953, and spent the next 46 years dividing her time between being wife and mother, and early childhood educator.

I know all hands join Jane and me in extending to Tom our heartfelt sadness. Ellie was a grand lady, whom we had not seen since the Galbraiths abandoned the D.C. area for nicer points south.

Harvey H u m p h r e y writes from Escondido, CA: I regret to inform you that our Classmate, Glenn "Doc" Savage, passed away 2 September of cancer in San Diego. Oz Osborn and I played golf with Glenn frequently for a number of years. He was a competitor, and we'll miss him. His ashes were laid to rest at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, 17 September. Glenn is survived by his wife, Ruth; daughter, Rhonda; sons. Carter, Tracy, and Mark; and nine grandchildren.

Glenn had been a regular reunion attendee over the last years, and tumed up at a D.C. luncheon from time to time.

From Babs Rudzis out in Washington and Bob Ghormley, who had calls from Ruthie Ross, I have this information, which is very sad. Terry Ross died of leukemia on 17 September. He was hospitalized just five days and had no idea he had leukemia other than that he was tired. He had surgery, but his heart gave out. There was a memorial service at the Presbyterian Church in Bremerton on 23 September I hope to have further details in a future column. Again, our most sincere condolences are extended to Ruthie.

On 5 September in Chattanooga, James Ewing Ballard died. He was a local investment banker After graduating in 1947 he left the Navy in 1950, but was recalled for Korea as a supply officer. He is survived by his wife, Anne Mathis Ballard; two daughters; two sons; and eight grandchildren. He was active in the Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church, the Signal Mountain town commission, the Mountain City Club, and the Signal Mountain golf and country club.

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Harvey Humphrey says that: On Sunday, 29 August, Joel and Tom Dawson hosted a garden party at their residence in Coronado. Although not a Classmate-only affair, it was well attended by '48ers, including with wives: Ayers, Bunganich, Christoph, Gorder, Jaworski, Neely, Stone, and Humphrey. It was a typically beautiful San Diego day and an outstanding catered affair. We all hope it will become an annual. It was great, Tom (smacks of blackmail, Harv). For those of you who don't know where Coronado is, it's an island north of Baja Mexico and halfway between Annapolis and the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

With the approach on the East Coast of Hurricane Floyd, I had sent emails to Tom Murphree at Morehead City, NC, and Bob Slater, Charleston, wishing them dry feet.

Murph was leery, but with the storm passing further out and lots of rain, he probably did OK. Slater's reply is quite interesting.

You probably got more damage out of Floyd than we did, although there was a great deal of trauma (mostly self-inflicted) here. Said trauma was incidental to the mandatory evacuation ordered, but not acmally enforced. If you stayed home, no one bothered you. However, the vast majority of people (85 percent?) did leave. This was because of the Hugo experience, which, bad as it was, could have been much worse. We got Hugo's eye but the 25-foot storm surge, which probably would have killed thousands here if it had actually come ashore in Charleston (the "low country" for good reason), hit about 30 miles to the east. My house is on the water, six feet above mean high water, but with Hugo, we took no water in the house. The wind was blowing the water out of the harbor. (Not everyone in Charleston was that lucky.)

With Floyd's wobblies, the decision as to which way to go to evacuate was problematic. With 1-95 jammed with East Coast refugees, and the speed of advance four mph on 1-26, the main route out of Charleston, the Slaters headed for a new high rise Holiday Inn a couple of miles inland, and got a room on an upper floor. So, Floyd stayed out at sea a ways and slid by, delivering lots of wind and rain. They were able to stay two nights until electricity was restored to their house.

So, all ended well.

On to the Carolyn and George Ball August Alexandria splash party. From George: The party was a success. All had a good time and the food and company were outstanding. Weather, perfect. Again, our star performer, Dolly Rasmussen, provided music for a sing-along after dinner Not too many went in the pool. I guess they were too busy eating, drinking and talking. We had a near record tumout. The day before the Sunday party gave me a preview of Y2K. I went to pick up the beer I'd ordered, and it wasn't there. They forgot to place my order Fortunately, another place had kegs on hand so we didn't have a beerless beer party. With the beer in the car, I went to BJ's to pick up the cake and my car died.

I had to be towed to the repair garage my cars consider their second high-rent home.

Arriving home a couple of hours later, I found the downstairs toilet was overflow72

ing, and my beer cooler gas pressure bottle was out of C02. I fixed the former, and found spare for the latter

Libby and Cab Davis and the McGihons Participating, with wives, were: Bill Reed, Shockey, Harkins, Cab Davis, Heid, Mertz, Bartow, Graham, Rasmussen, Carruth, Conable, Sprince, O ' K e e f e , Holland, Goldman, McGihon, Ahem, and George and Carolyn with family helpers, Louise, Geoff, Phillip and Matthew.

A column or two back, we noted the coming 50th anniversary of Betty and Reid Hunter, and here is what happened from the pen of Reid.

Reid and Betty Hunter at 50th Since seven of the 11 family members are RV types, we all gathered at a campground in Branson, MO, that had condos for the non-RV members. The celebration

lastedfivedays, which was OK for the teenage grandchildren, but was an endurance contest for the grandparents. It was the first time the family had all been together in 10 years, and we did enjoy the time. Memorable events were a gourmet luncheon with the grandchildren as waiters, two stretch limousines weaving through the campground to pick all of us up and take us to the stage show, and then to dinner in a private dining room overlooking Table Rock Lake. The children had also compiled a book of comments letters and pictures covering the 50 years, something we will always treasure. Once it was over, we continued in our motorhome visiting friends and seeing places we had not visited for some years. Now we are back for the fall and winter in Arizona. This follows our usual pattem of seeking the best weather for the season, while keeping Texas as our home.

Jack Gaffigan, who took multitudes of pictures at the Academy, and who was skilled at getting groups to pose effectively, has been gathering those pics he hasn't given away over the last few years and organizing them. He's promised to forward some from time to time, and we'll print what we can. Thanks, Jack. This month, we have a Saturday moming 2/C Seamo drill with a visiting DE in the background.

Kneeling in front, Armstrong. Standing in front, JD Peterson, Dean Douglas, Carrington, Gaffigan. Back row, Boland, Frahler, Schultz.

With regard to the Bobcats cassette, publicized here for several months, sales are moving, and I have received email comments, all appreciative except one, who thought it too scratchy. Well, they were recorded in 1947.

Quality is remarkable, considering. Order yours today. Send a check to Ben Conroy, Bobcat Account, $10, at 4617 Ridge Oak Drive, Austin, TX 78731.

Dick Hoffman emails us: An enjoyable interlude of the 50th was the opportunity to chat with Don Morris.

As you know, he wrote the best selling history of the Zulu Wars, The Washing of the Spears, but earlier, he published an enjoyable novel set in Tsingtao in the '48-'49 era, China Station. The novel caught the fmstrating spirit of the era, but a lot of the experiences were well known to a lot of us: shore patrol and the House of 1000 s.

Pagoda Pier, the Edgewater Club, the Chandler/Ozboum collision, and White Russian bars. Since the Reunion, I have become fairly adept at the Intemet, so the other day I went to "Used Books" and got a copy of China Station. I recommend it to old Tsingtao sailors, Mary Anne and Jim Sizer have been cruising with the Alumni Association (Alumni Holidays intemational), and before we go into some details, Jim would like to say.

We certainly recommend the AHI tour company as a top flight organization in every respect. If any Classmates are interested in touring, they would most certainly be in good hands with this company.

Jim wrote a full trip disclosure while on the plane en route home, using cmise ship stationery, while everything was still very fresh. Because of space considerations, I shall edit it down a bit.

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Our voyage began with a flight from Detroit to Frankfurt and thence to Rome.

Three days in the magnificent Excelsior Hotel permitted guided bus trips to all the usual Rome sights. We were certainly impressed with the designers, builders, and artists of many hundreds and indeed, thousands of years ago. It is a respected tmism that, "They don't build 'em like they used to," Thereafter, we took a tour bus to Viareggio, up the coast from Rome, boarded the small cmise ship, CEZANNE, and continued up the Italian Riviera coast to Portofino and Genoa, thence to Monte Carlo, where there is no income tax. We stayed away from the gambling salons, hence, we could still afford to buy a few post cards and get some good exercise walking. We were tmly impressed by the yellow Maseratis and Ferraris parked at the Casino. Their owners must have driven them there, but, who knows, depending upon their skills and degrees of luck they may have had to go home on a bus. C'est la vie for gamblers. Next, up the French Riviera where CEZANNE locked into the Rhone River and on to Aries. Then to Avignon where we visited the Palace of the Popes, which has endured for 1,300 years.

We got some real exercise climbing more

and more steps and wandering through passageways in this massive structure. It is unbelievable in its size and in fortifications.

Crenelated walls and turrets were designed to permit archers to fire through narrow slits, which warned would-be attackers that it would be wise to leave the Popes alone.

On to Paris in an unbelievably smooth and very fast non-stop train at speeds up to 150 mph. We heard via Paul Harvey in Detroit not long ago, that AMTRAK is experimenting with a similar prototype. If one were somehow required to get out of town before sundown, a train of this express speed would be one way of doing it. Once in Paris at the posh Scribe Hotel, we were able to visit the Louvre and other sights. The Parisian food, like the food on CEZANNE, was superb and guaranteed to make one shy away from any scales at home for a long, long time. It was a "sin now, and pay later" axiom with the culinary arts! We attended mass at Notre Dame, and I looked for Quasimodo, but to no avail. A highpoint of the trip was our visit to Monet's garden at Givemy. It was a great trip.

Bob McClinton emails from the Northwest.

Gunvor and I had a joyous September visit with Marilyn and Bud Warren and Mary and Ed Cummings in the San Fran-

cisco area, and we can report that they are in grand shape and continuing to do good works. We stayed with the Warrens mfun Berkeley. On Sunday afternoon, we witnessed a group of about nine men and women dancing in a circle in the nude on a Telegraph Street comer. Catch my eyeballs!

Talk about a traffic jam. However, you're going to view none of those dancers in Penthouse. Ed and Mary hosted the group at their lovely Piedmont home. We frolicked past midnight, solving most remaining world problems, but not how to tame computers. We had the pleasure of hosting the gang at a brunch at Skates on the East Bay waterfront. With the Warrens, Gunvor and I had some delightful visits to San Francisco, where we had twice lived during our 39 Navy years, and to the Napa Valley where we toured the Behringer Winery and visited the Beaulieu Vineyard.

I had the pleasure and privilege of representing the Class at the Class Presidents meeting in Annapolis on 24 September, making the trip by car from Rhode Island, solo, and using some time to do some damage control at the Alexandria house. There will be coverage of the meeting from the Association in Shipmate, and it was primarily devoted to their methodology in improving money-raising at the individual Class level. This process is becoming most sophisticated. My questions revolved about the Association, once individuals have given to the Class Project, continuing to solicit them for more funds in the name of whatever. The Association made no promises not to do that. I made it clear that they would make few friends with that approach.

We'll see.

Grace and Bill Harkins Well, the Washington group opened the luncheon season on 10 September and fielded a hungry and comfortable crowd. So comfortable, they didn't want to go home, which was great, since in earlier days when folks tended to worry about their work, many bolted after dessert, stuffing cookies in their pockets.

Those attending with wives: Ahem, Bill Reed, Fry, Bass, Harkins, Heid, Tony Duncan, Ball, Stacy, Orfland, O'Keefe, Bartow, Carmth, Dyer Singles were: Graham, Ghormley, Al Gamer, Reams, McKechnie, Welch, Borlaug, and Mary Elizabeth Metzger Second Friday, odd months. Army Navy Country Club,

Bud and Marilyn Warren, Ed and Mary Cummings, Gunvor and Bob McClinton Shipmate, December 1999

Finally, the man who has provided the anchor for many columns during this year, Charlie Heid, spokesman for your Class project committee, needs to have a word: Our Committee for the Class Endowment Fund reported in September that contributions and pledges are being received steadily. We have surpassed $1.33 million in donations and pledges from 54 percent of Classmates whose addresses are known.

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The Committee wishes to extend thanks and appreciation to all those who have contributed, to all those volunteers among our Classmates who are making telephone calls to remind of our efforts to obtain 100 percent participation in this, our Class legacy.

Volunteers have reported that some contacts believe that Congress should fund those activities for which our Endowment is structured. It is a fact that in today's reduced funding for the Department of Defense, many activities, functions and facilities for the Academy must be reduced or eliminated. To obtain many of these needed requirements, gifts/contributions/endowments from Alumni or "friends of the Academy" are acceptable. For instance. West Point has been very active in this arena for many years, and has an ongoing program to raise over $150 million for facilities, professorships, improved athletics and equipment. Through contributions from alumni and others, they are nearing their goal. Our Endowment is consistent with efforts by the Naval Academy and the Alumni Association to raise funding for needed programs and faciUties at USNA. The '48 Endowment Fund is in the.forefront of this needed overall effort to assist our alma mater. In reaching our goal, we will prove once again that...

'48 is Great!

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Pres: John F. Barrow Sec'y: CAPT Pete Swanson, USN (Ret.) RO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 h: 703-573-3653; e: pswanson@capaccess.org You are reading this column in December; but we're writing it in the latter days of September, just three weeks before our magnificent 50th Reunion gets underway. So, first of all, we wish all our Class and their loved ones happy holidays and a warm welcome to the New Year. As you know, next year is the year 2000, the last year of the millennium. Many around the world think the new millennium starts on 1 January 2000. That's OK, but that's wrong; they're a year off. 31 December 2000 marks the start of our new millennium. So let's use the next 365 days getting organized for the 21st century.

The first luncheon of the '99 fall season at the Army/Navy Country Club tumed out these veterans: Jack Benoit (host). President Ace Boughton, Wesley Brown, Bob Coontz, Duke Francis, Ralph Ghormley, Fred Grabowsky, Walt Helbig, Pete Klein, Frank Sherman, Pete Swanson and Bark Wood.

The conversation was light but pithy as we all considered the looming 50th Reunion. One fellow, having recently put on a wedding, reflected on a conversation he'd heard between the bride-to-be and her mother. Said the mother, "We mustn't overlook the smallest item nor overlook the smallest detail." Replied the daughter, "Mother, don't worry, he'll show up." Sidestepping such nonsense, it was good to start the fall luncheons, but we look forward to better attendance and more audible jokes.

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In early September, your 50th Reunion Committee, under Mickey McDonald's leadership, held a meeting to go over the final details of what, when you read this, was our glorious 50th Reunion, jubilation, revel, whatever...Reading now, the snow may be flying but, in this picture, it is a balmy day with the committee gathered on the porch of '49 House.

Assembled are Mick McDonald, Gene Shine, Bark Wood, Cal Roberts, Fred Grabowsky, President Ace Boughton, CMC Jones, Pete Swanson, and Duke Francis.

Unfortunately, two other heavy hitters on the committee were not shown: Steve Krause (Treasurer) and Jack Venable (Transportation Czar).

We mentioned in the previous column that the Hampton Roads area '49ers got together in late July for a baseball outing that saw the Norfolk Tides wallop the Toledo Mud Hens.

Harbor Park, the Tides' home field, is a real gem of a baseball park worth a visit during the season to any fan who happens to be in the area. So, here is a note and a picture from Tom Parsons of the attendees, their relatives and friends during the game: Before the game, there was a buffet in the restaurant overlooking the diamond.

Jack Magee arranged for all the seats which were in the shade. What a difference!

Enjoying a Norfolk Tides Victory were, as seen in the picture in the rear row, Harry Train, Pete Fullenwider, (whose wife is a candidate for the House of Delegates), Arch Roos, Don Trueblood, with grandson, Morgan, Joe Kelley, who witnessed the Normandy landings from the deck of an LST and who is Arch Roos' landlord, and Phil O'Hara, Georgetown '48 and a Marine buddy of mine. In the front row, we see Bill Dotson, Tom Parsons, Don Dahlman, Jack Magee, Bob Kessler VMI '50, an associate member of our Chapter, and Jack Klinefelter '48.

Thanks, Jack, for organizing a great day at the ballpark. Joe Kelley, incidentally, says the Normandy landings compare closely to being Arch Roos' landlord.

A group of '49ers and friends at a Norfolk Tides summer baseball game We have requested Classmates to share stories of their 50th wedding anniversaries which are special times for our Class. Here is one from Bill Eaton: On Sunday, 5 September, Jeanne and I "Celebrated" (YES!) our 50th wedding anniversary with about 70 dear old friends including my best man (my brother), Jeanne's matron of honor, and my first wife of four years in Club Bancroft, John Tinkham. Both our ushers, Doug Guthe '49 and Joe Stanley '52 (my Plebe and great friend) are dead. Tink stood in for them.

We had a wonderful time and all survived.

Let it be known by all that Saint Jeanne survived 50 years with Bill! Then John Tinkham sent this addendum to Bill's celebration: I would like to add this to the message that you got from my USNA wife. Bill Eaton. I joined his family and friends to celebrate Bill and Jeanne's 50th wedding anniversary. To show how much we all love them, not only did I go from Virginia to Oregon for the event, but his brother John was there from Maine, along with a couple from Arizona, and many from all over Califomia, Oregon and Washington.

Those of us who know Bill will understand his speech, in which he said, "Some say that love is never having to say I am sorry. But I say that love is saying I am sorry often: 'I did it, and I am sorry!'"

Bill post-scripted the following: Sorry I can't make it back to the Reunion but we will be in transit to Arizona at that time and I'm really not physically up to both trips. But, "Nothin' could be finer..."

We'll miss you but you are in oirr thoughts.

Bill and Jeaime. Think of us as we think of you.

We've asked Classmates to tell of their doings, plans, travel, etc. In that vein, your Secretary and wife, DeEtte, herewith report

L to r: top row: Mick McDonald, Gene Shine, Bark Wood and Cal Roberts. Middle row: Fred Grabowsky and Ace Boughton. Bottom row: CMC Jones, Pete Swanson and Duke Francis Shipmate, December 1999

on a marvelous, two-week trip to the Pacific Northwest in late August: We had a ball. Our first stop was in Silverdale, WA, where our daughter, Kiki, and son-in-law, Bert Smith, reside. While there, we took a three-day trip to Astoria, OR, where we stayed in quarters at Ft. Rilea. For those who wonder what place that is, it tums out to be an Oregon State National Guard training center. Lots of drill space and buildings; but we stayed in the old Commanding Officer's quarters, called the Chateau. What an amply fumished and roomy place; we were so pleasantly surprised!

While in the area, we visited the Columbia River Maritime Museum, an extensive display of maritime power in settiing the Northwest. (Did you know that President Lincoln ordered a fort erected at the mouth of the Columbia River to stop British and Spanish raiders during the Civil War? It was commissioned in 1864. Thus, there are many Civil War buffs in that area who spend much time doing reenactments of the war.)

On another day, we visited Fort Clatsop where members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered over in 1805-06. We leamed much more of that historical expedition and again marveled at it.

On the way back to Silverdale, we stopped at the Mount St. Helens Volcanic Observatory and releamed of that major eruption in the Northwest.

Next we flew to Coeur D'Alene, ID, my home state, and visited with family for a few days.

The last segment of our trip took us into Canada to Lake Louise. It was a long drive from Coeur D'Alene, but worth it. The Canadian Rockies are beautiful and big(!) and Lake Louise, which our room overlooked, was superb. One feature there was a gentieman who came out every moming with his alpenhom to play and talk to the tourists about the area. Sometimes he would play "Amazing Grace" which, as it echoed over the lake and surrounding mountains, was a hauntingly beautiful sound. Here is a picture of the man, his hom, and yours tmly.

Alphomist and Pete Swanson at Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada From the north country (New York), Paul Laric sent us this picture with these words: There was high elation at the Stamford beachfront station where Isabel and Harvey

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L to r: lop row: Paul Laric, Tommy Watkins, Dave Sprague, Bob Salomon and Harv Conover. Front row: Rita Watkins, Betty Sprague, Betty Salomon, Isabel Conover, and Dodo Laric with her westie, Punchka Conover hosted a mid-September 50th celebration for former Bancroft "wives" and their wives. The festivities included a sail on Long Island Sound, fun and games, and gourmet offerings galore. Attending the mini-reunion were Rita and Tom Watkins, Betty and Dave Sprague, Betty and Bob Salomon, Isabel and Harv Conover, and Dodo and Paul Laric. We're all looking forward to the Big Event in Annapolis, where "Nothing will be finer than..."

It sounds like you had a great warm-up for the main event and many thanks, Paul.

It is with regret that we announce the death of Classmate Max Lee Gillam who passed away on 24 August. His law partner, Tom Mustin '62, reports that Max had a sfroke in October '98 and it was downhill from there.

Tom added that Max was a truly fine man who was held in the highest esteem by the members of his profession. His affection for the USNA seemed to grow with each passing year. Tom said he and Max developed the habit of watching the Army/Navy Game together every year and, now, how he will miss that. There was a Protestant funeral service held at St. Andrews Chapel during our Reunion at the Academy, followed by an inumment, with simple honors, at the USNA Columbarium. As of this writing, the Secretary of the Navy, The Honorable Richard Danzig, was scheduled to present a eulogy to Max. Finally, a note to and about our faithful Class Secretary, Duke Francis, who informed us of his exit as Class Secretary. Duke stepped up to the plate ten years ago, as this Secretary stepped down, and took on the burden and privilege of serving the Class. When Ralph Ghormley stepped down as Class President, Duke volunteered to continue as Secretary for Ace Boughton. Duke has done an outstanding job and our Class is respectful and thankful for his tme services. It has been a pleasure to serve with and support him these past months and we wish him better health, much relaxation, many golf outings, and all good days. Thanks, Duke; you did the jobâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; as our Marine Corp Classmates always have.

USNA '49 Directory Changes Add email: for Ed Dennis: elddenjrÂŽ aol.com; Emile Achee: dlconim@worldnet. att.net; Ed Adkins: ckadkins@sprintmail. com; Gerry Brummitt: gerryclc@aol.com; Mary Louise and Bob Bulmer: m e r r y d u p p y @ a o l , c o m ; John Edson: edsonOOl @maroon,tc.umn,edu; Pete FulUnwider: plfull@aol,com; Edward Otth: swissearv@earthlink,net; Harry Meyer: handmmeyer@accessl,com; cortect Chuck Meyrick's email to: cmeyrick@home.com; new mailing address for Bill "Bone" Hamilton: 8215 N. Fairway View Drive, Tucson, AZ 85741; 520-797-9382.

Again, we wish all Classmates and their loved ones Happy Holidays and a great 2000.

Just because we've had our 50th, don't stop telling us what's going on in your lives. The column depends on it. And just remember and never, ever, ever forget this forever tmth: Nothing Can Be Finer Than To Be A '49er!

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Regular Membership: 49% Life Membership: 22% Pres: RADM Roy Snyder, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Wayne L. Jensen, USN (Ret) 499 Skyhill Court, Chula Vista, CA 91910 We now have words from Al Register's widow, Hope Kingsbury Register, about his death in June at Martha's Vineyard, that she would like to be known to Al's Classmates. Navy was always Al's first and last thoughts. The Navy tried to keep him out of active duty at graduation because of his suffering from rheumatoidal spondylitis, but he managed to get destroyer duty for a few years before being retired. Hope says: His Navy friends should know that he is mercifully at peace after seven years offightingwith Parkinson's, and that his years at the Naval Academy were paramount in his thinking and memories. He was a true gentleman, a loyal friend and an extraordinarily loving and considerate husband.

Hope and Al had always planned that he would be interred at the National Military Cemetery on Cape Cod, always close to the sea and to the service he loved so much.

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B.B. Lane, Corky Angleman at Smith Mountain Lake, VA

Dick Martin, Bill Grimm, Don Elliott and J,B. Farrell

Kitty and Corky Angleman and B.B. and Minnie Lane We have pictures from a recent picnic meeting of a newly formed Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association based in Roanoke, VA, entitled the Blue Ridge Chapter The locale is at Smith Mountain Lake on 28 August 1999. Of interest was the fact that on 28 August 1948 B.B. met Minnie for the first time. Minnie adds, "Wasn't that sweet of him to remember?" B.B. promises that the Blue Ridge Chapter will be an active one and will grow in membership.

COL John C. Akin, USAF (Ret,), sends along a poem he entitles, "Ode to a Mid-watch" which he says brings back memories of watch duty while still a Midshipman. Going into the Air Force, of course, meant no subsequent such watches. It goes in part: What's the reason for this mess?

Of gray machinery's wilderness Pounding, throbbing, never ceasing Watchful engineer's policing Of a sudden comes the sign That number three pump's on the line Reaching high above the din Let's us know she's pitching in To add to present blaring screams.

Competition plus, it seems.

Main condensers have it rough To suck steam through those turbine blades.

And can't be done if vacuum fades Churning water with propellers— And no need for fortune tellers— We all know where our bow is heading— What's the reason for this mess— It's simply guiding our way home, no less.

Roger Freeman request that a correction be made to the information provided for September Shipmate. Roger's heart bypass operation was not 21 years ago, but a bit over two years ago. He goes on to offer that anyone with such surgery should control the diet, quit salt, get exercise and take prescribed medication. And to that we can only add, "Aye, Aye, Sir."

Frudden, Charlie Clark, John Malloy, Gene Wisenbaker, Wayne Jensen, Dick Martin, Bob Muck, Bill Grimm, Don Albright and Murray Kaplan. While we spoke of saving Social Security, funding for education, providing additional cops on the beat and peacemaking in East Timor, our main interest still centered on beating Army come December.

At the Washington, D . C , Chapter of the '50 Class gathering for September 1999 were: Willy Ayres, Bill Kiehl, Daryle Tripp, Bill Diehl, Jim Lynn, Charlie Hirsch, John Cavanaugh, Dick Powell, Larry Hawkins, Frank Stemer, Bob Shultz, Bob Oliver, Law Kivlen, Bill Rockey, Earl Halpem, Gayle May, Marsh Treado, Jack Ryan, Norb Walecka, Bob Bisselle, Tom Rogers, Ward Lasley and Roy Snyder. They met at La Porta's restaurant in Alexandria, VA. Rex Kilbourn stopped by for lunch on his way home from visiting his mother in Frederick, MD. She is 97 years old. Rex is in charge of developing the name tags of the 50th Reunion.

Gayle May is back from a second trip to China.

With all of the current interest at the State Department on relations with China, he reports that he did not receive any support from the Administration for this meeting. Strange doings? Willy Ayres gave some information on Homecoming 1999 conceming the tailgate spot and the dinner dance to be held at the Elks Club along with the Classes of '49 and ' 5 1 . Tom Rogers is investigating the possibility of the Class continuing a precedent started last year by the Class of '49, both at the Naval Academy and at West Point, This is the presentation of a gift to the Class graduating 50 years behind. (Out in San Diego nobody could remember anyone out of the Class of '00 still being alive when we graduated, so now with everyone living longer this presents a new possibility.) Tom is awaiting a response from the Superintendent about making this presentation a part of graduation ceremonies.

Roy Snyder, Dick Martin, Ann Snyder Roy Snyder along with Dick Martin from San Diego, had just retumed from three great weeks in Italy. Both can report that Italy is splendid during September when school is back in session, but keep your available funds in secure inner pockets.

Beat Army, Wayne Don Albright, John Malloy, Frank Cassilly, Stan Neander and Wayne Jensen Thanks to J.B. Farrell we have a couple of pictures taken at the September '99 luncheon meeting of the San Diego '50 group at the Naval Station Mariner Club. In attendance were: Stan Neander, J.B. Farrell, Frank Cassilly, Mark

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100 Years of Tradition Go Navy — Beat Army

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Pres: Lee Doggett 1201 Black Walnut Lane, Annapohs, MD 21403 h: 410-263-5613; f: 410-263-3317 e: leedoggett@aol.com Vice Pres: John P. Sullivan 866 N. Kensington Drive, Arlington, VA 22205 Sec'y: Jack Grace 3812 N. 24th St., Ariington, VA 22207 Corr Sec'y: CAPT H.T. (Beau) Dietrich 9508 Woody Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066 h: 703-759-5006; e: beau9pnt5@aol.com Presidents Corner As I write this in late September, Lee Doggett has finished all of his treatments and is steadily recovering and improving. I know that the whole Class wishes him the best and a speedy full recovery. In these glorious days of late September we have finally finished with hurricanes Dennis and Floyd and many inches of other rain so the searing drought is over. The football season, for which we had (and still have) high hopes, is off to a bit of a rocky start but, by the time you read this, the team will have tumed it around and will have beaten Army!

Special Notice and Reminder John Redfield reports that as of this week he has 320 responses for the 50 Year Book. For those who have not yet responded, please get them in as soon as possible as work is progressing rapidly on all sections including the biographies. If you have lost the questionnaire and guidelines please call and they can be sent or faxed.

From the Mail Bag Frank Rentz reports that his and Peggy's second, Thomas R. Rentz '78, has been promoted to captain. We have sons who are already captains?!

It just doesn't seem possible, somehow. Frank and RADM Ken Slaght '70 pinned on Tom's eagles in Norfolk on 27 July 1999. Tom is assigned to SpaWar San Diego. Congratulations to Tom, Frank and Peggy.

L to r: Frank Rentz, Tom Rentz, Ken Slaght Suzanne and Jack H a m i l t o n went on a Smithsonian Odyssey Tour to Russia in August, Four Days in Moscow, including the Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral, Leo Tolstoy's house, and churches, museums and much art and sculpture. Then a riverboat trip up the Volga, several canals and lakes further north and to St. Petersburg for two glorious days at the Hermitage, Peter the Great's and Catherine's summer palaces, and Shipmate, December 1999

L to r: Joe Hillock, Pete O'Kane, Jack Hamilton, Anne O'Kane, Mel Cunningham, Dottie Cunningham, Sam Latimer

L to r: Back row: ?, Lew Powell, Guy Shaffer, Sam Latimer. Jack Hamilton. Front row: Cunninghams, Anne O'Kane, Eileen Gambke, Baz Powell. Gay Latimer, Lowell Stockdale, Suzanne Hamilton, Ruth Small. I have to guess, but I suspect that the unidentified person peeking over Mel's shoulder is Fred Gambke.

One of our hard working, proliflc authors has published another book. Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. has announced the publication of Wes Hammond's latest, Poison Gas, The Myths Versus Reality. For serious students of warfare and policy makers the book should prove of great interest and valuable reference. Greenwood's address: 88 Post Road West, RO. Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 -5007 or call 1-800-225-5800. Congramlations and good luck, Wes. John Tillson advises that the San Diego '51ers will have a sit down dinner on 17 November at the Ocean View Club from 6-10 p.m. Any other '51ers who will be in the San Diego area at that time and who would like to attend, please contact John Tillson at 850-481-3263.

It is with sadness that I must report the loss of Art Casale's wife, Mercy. Mercy died on 2 September 1999 at their home in Leonardtown, MD. Our heartfelt prayers and sympathy go out to Art and all of the family.

That looks like it for this writing. All Classes are being pushed to keep the columns a little shorter than some have been, but don't forget to keep the info and pictures coming! My watchbill is out of date, but I think that Beau Dietrich will be doing the next column.

The happiest of Holidays and Happy New Year, but look out for Y2K! All the best, Trent Shaver

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L to r: Michael Liston, Peg Liston, Ward and Claire de Groot, Eppy Clark again, more churches, museums, the cmiser AURORA, whose gun fire signaled the start of the 1917 Revolution, plus some fantastic fountains at Peter's Peterhof Jack says that the trip is one highly recommended to all. Jack sent one picture of himself and Suzanne inside the Kremlin, which he reminds is an astoundingly large place which one cannot reahze or imagine until you have been there.

Jack Hamilton and Suzanne inside the Kremlin As mentioned earlier the weather was nearly perfect for the Boston College game, it was just the score that was unacceptable. Nevertheless, the '51 Tailgaters were out in good form. Thanks to Jack Hamilton the following two pictures show some of the early crowd.

One more visit to the flowers of spring. I was handed the following picture of Prez Lee Doggett and Mary Ann taken at Ward de Groot's and

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Claire's showing of the azaleas. I wish you could see this in color.

Mary Ann and Lee Doggett Ward de Groot reports that he and Claire and Paul "Eppy" Clark, Peg Liston, widow of Jack Liston, who was Ward's roommate, and Michael Liston, Jack's son, were in County Clare, Ireland, with an Alumni Association sponsored "Alumni Campus Abroad" tour in September. Ward says the location had nothing to do with the local (and official) misspelling of Claire's name. Eppy Clark, some may remember, did a great job as the Shipmate column writer for three years, before we got organized in 1956. The enclosed picture was taken during one of the bright sunny daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;between showers. One of County Clare's 250 casties can be seen just over Claire's head. Ward says that it is a tmly great tripâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if you don't have Irish roots.

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Pres: CAPT Vincent J. Manara, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Leigh Ebbert, USN (Ret) 2514 Culpeper Road, Alexandria, VA 22308-2133 e: J-L.Ebbert@worldnet.att.com Best wishes to the Class of 1949 and may they have many more celebrations. As they complete their 50th celebrations, it makes me more aware of our progress. This awareness was also present in June of 1949 when they graduated. Of the many things that I am grateful for, as this year draws to a close, is their tutelage, Stan Cooper, my First Classman, was instrumental in assisting my transition to the Navy. Photos of earlier days show Gene Avalone at the helm, and a 3rd Class cruise stop in GITMO. Very best wishes for the holiday season to all of you, and a wonderful New Year.

The Northwest Chapter had their 20th year celebration in September with their annual day at the races. Attending: Esther and Vince Manara; Bunny Buck, widow of Donald (Spud) Buck; Wendy and George Berry; Vera and Ron Campbell; Marty and Chet McRorie; Susie and Chuck Seeger; Ralph Enos; Linda and Bruce Gair; Mary Jane and Fred Adair; Judy and Whit Hansen.

Plans for our 50th year continue. Details of the project are being discussed with other participants in the museum expansion/renovation, and as of the end of August we had raised $330,000. The September Washington, D . C , luncheon was canceled due to Hurricane Floyd. The football and tailgating season has mostly come and gone, as well as the Naval Academy homecoming weekend. I will have additional details on the outcome of the George Vashen Memorial Golf Tournament, as well as the game activities and Homecoming party.

Beat Army! You will have the results of the 100th Army-Navy Classic by the time you read this. Look also for the results of the Army-Navy Gridiron Memories Essay Contest. This contest sponsored by the Military and Naval athletic departments have solicited comments from former football lettermen about fondest recollections and memories and ex-

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periences in the Army-Navy rivalry. The picture in front of Bancroft is one such memory, the 1950 victory.

Lois and Dick Smith and Phil Case will have participated in the 1999 National Senior Olympics scheduled in October. Lois and Phil are competing in the swimming events, and Dick in the threeon-three half-court basketball. J. Val Smith has competed in the past. In August Lois and Dick Smith attended T.J. GARY ( D E R 326) reunion held in Branson, MO. Dick is a former commanding officer. He shares the following.

Before the reunion started, I was invited on stage with the Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff,

to act as a TV host with Yakov as my guest. The reason I was invited out of an audience of 2,400 people was that Yakov had asked for four volunteers from the audience to tell jokes.. .the jokes I told got the largest applause. It was lots of fun.

Thanks, Dick, for the information. Keep it up.

Vince shares a picture of his fun time with the Navy Trans Cycling Team (below); the place is Wichita, KS, on 6 June.

I receive queries from people doing research of one sort or another. I had one conceming the chairs in King Hall. When were the current chairs purchased? Do you remember the chairs? The mess hall we remember was remodeled some time after

we left. Howard McCollum offered that the chau-s might have been changed at that time. In September, The Navy Leaguer, a supplement to Sea Power, reported on the national convention held in Chicago. Jerry Rapkin continues as national corporate secretary. Some of us are looking forward to the Washington, D . C , Christmas Ball to be held at the Bethesda Officers Club on 15 December Doug Payne assisted by Gene Avalone and Toxey Califf constitute the nominating committee for our Class Presidential elections coming up in the spring.

With sadness, I report the death of CAPT George J. Troffer, USN (Ret.), on 15 September in Virginia Beach.

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Pres: CAPT A.E. (Gus) Hubal Jr., USN (Ret) 6449 Johns Road; Falls Church, VA 22043 h: 703-533-3041; work fax: 703-534-8005 Sec'y: LCOL David B. Jones, USAF (Ret) 6708 Pageland Lane; Gainesville, VA 20155-1513 p: 703-754-4492; e: djlocker@erols.com Web master: Paul Dudley e: pauld53@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~pauld53/usna53 As always, it seems there is some sad news, but this month doesn't seem to be quite as bad as recent months have been because there is good news as well.

Lee Harshfield emailed me with the news that George Jatras had undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery at Walter Reed Hospital on 1 September. The projected five-hour operation turned into 17 hours, due to internal bleeding caused by George's blood not clotting properly. However, the news got better: after several days in intensive care, followed by several more in a regular room, George went home where he is recuperating nicely. Lee says both Stella and George have nothing but praise for the group at Walter Reed that handled the operation. "George received outstanding care, while Stella appreciated being kept in the loop throughout." Thanks, Lee, and we hope George keeps getting better.

Several months ago I reported that Marcy Bivens had a stroke and was undergoing rehab. She came to the Navy-Boston College football game on 18 Shipmate, December 1999

September with Art. She looked great and appeared to be doing very well. Obviously, her rehab has been working. I took a picture of the two of them, which proves the above point better than my words could. It was good having you with us again, Marcy!

Marcy and Art Bivens Bill Trueblood responding to my request for news on Father Jim Walker's whereabouts, said that Jim left his parish in Macon because of medical reasons and is now an associate priest at Christ of Kings, a small parish in Pine Mountain, GA. Bill says he thinks the address is P.O. Box 1349 and the zip code is 31822. Thanks, Bill, and I'm sure we all hope that Jim is doing well and getting better By the time you read this the great '53 trip to Hawaii will be just a memory for 64 of us. Karen and BUI Tmeblood, Jack Hoch, Joyce Jones (Hebe Jones's wife), Tak Yoshihara and Watson Goldsmith have done a great job making the many arrangements and reservations. Karen and Bill did most of the overall planning as well as most of the hard grunt type work. Jack arranged for the football game tickets for our large group. Joyce did most of the travel arrangements (both airline and cmise) and Tak and Watson (our Hawaii locals) set up all the bus, tour and party arrangements in Hawaii. They all deserve a big round of thanks. Of the 64,1 count about 50 as members of the direct '53 family, while the balance are close friends of '53. It is going to be a good trip and I hope to have lots of pictures for the next colunm.

Ohe next trip on the horizon after Hawaii is the '53 Australia and New Zealand trip planned and led by Margot and Tom Southerland and their Princeton Nature Tours Company. This trip will take place 18 June-16 July 2000. The AustraUa portion of the trip will be 18 June-8 July while the New Zealand portion will be 8-16 July.

While Margot and Tom's company name includes the words "nature tours," this will be much more than a bird watching or koala, kangaroo and crocodile spotting trip. We will see lots of birds, and most, if not all, of Australia's fabled flora. But in addition, we will see much of the real Australia and its peoples and culture. The Southerlands lead great trips and they know whereof they go. This will be about their 25th or so trip to Australia and they know it pretty well. The weather will be generally moderate while we are thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not too hot and not real cold. We will be ahead of the crowds for the Olympics, but should be able to see much of what is being built for the Olympics.

The itineraries sound great. We will spend time in the Outback, Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, the Great Barrier Reef (two trips there), the rainforest, Sydney, including the harbor and an evening at the Opera House, Caims and even Kuranda (golfing friends named Kuranda said I had to mention that town).

The New Zealand extension is also surprisingly comprehensive for a nine-day tour. We will spend most of this time on the South Island seeing quaint Christchurch ("The Most English City Outside Of Shipmate, December 1999

England"), spectacular Milford Sound, and glaciers in the Southem Alps. We will also spend an evening with a host family, see a farmer work his sheep dogs, and New Zealand's famous "glow worms!"

On the North Island, we will spend time in Auckland, learn about Maori culture and visit historic buildings and homes.

The projected cost for the Australia trip is $3,725 per person (double occupancy) for the land arrangements plus an estimated group economy class airfare from Los Angeles on Quantas estimated at $ 1,985 per person. This airfare figure includes taxes and all flights in Australia as well. The single supplement for the land portion is $895. The New Zealand extension will cost an additional $1450 per person (the single supplement is $275). Airfare and most other costs are included in this fare. Both land arrangement costs include most meals as well, so the totals are fairly close to tme total costs.

If you are interested call, write or email Margot and Tom immediately as space on this trip is limited and reservations must be finalized early due to the pressure on everything in Australia caused by the upcoming Olympics. The Southerlands can be reached at 609-683-1111, or by email at: princetonnaturetours@msn.com, or write them at Princeton Nature Tours, 282 Western Way, Princeton, NJ 08540. Move fast on this one as it is going to be a good trip!

The football season is well underway. We lost to Georgia Tech big time, beat Kent State handily, lost to Boston College in a close game that we could well have won, and lost a close game to Rice in another game that we might have won. Ahead are games with West Virginia, Air Force, Akron, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Tulane, Hawaii and Army. We aren't going to be favored in too many of those games, based on what we have seen so far. Our pass defense is still very suspect and soft. The old phrase, "We are small, but we are slow," is still pretty apt and because of it we do not play tight coverage on opposing receivers for fear that they will mn awayfromus. By not covering them tightly they are always open, almost always catch easy passes and often still mn away from us. In addition, during the BC game there were at least five plays where we had too many men on the field and either got penalized or had to call a time out. That is simply poor coaching. We hadn't seen much of that in Coach Weatherbie's earlier years. Play calling is strange as well. A kickoff during the BC game still has me puzzled. The kicker only took two or three steps before kicking the ball and sent it no more than 20-25 yards down the field. Too far for an onsides kick, but far too short for a regular kick.

BC got great field position just when we had seemed to get some momentum. They went on to win. We also seemed fixated upon trying to prove that we could mn up the middle against the center of the large BC line. "We're going to keep mnning this play until we get it right!" We did get some decent gains once in awhile, but they stuffed us a lot of times and we wound up punting probably more than we should have. A strange and disappointing game because we really were about as good as BC. The Tailgate was good however A welcome visitor to the tailgate was MIDN David "Opie" Nielsen '03. Opie is sponsored by Mike Maher and is from Catalina Island, CA. Tyke Furey, met him last March when the Furey's were visiting Tyke's old haunts on Catalina. Tyke says he is a fine young man and is, as far as Tyke knows, the only one to come directiy to the Academy from the small high school in Catalina. Tyke must have gone somewhere else before he came to USNA, because I'm sure he went to the Catalina High School also back in the '40s. The picture shows Opie with Mike and Jack Hoch.

Jack Hoch, Opie Nielsen '03 and Mike Maher Lots of messages from high in the sunny Sierra from Dolores and Ed Dixon, Ed reports he saw the '53 stalwarts in Section 29 of the sun or rain swept Navy stadium on the Fox Sports Network cheering our Navy team on to another stirring "Inverse Victory." The Dixons miss all of us back here, but not enough to make them want to leave their mountain cabin. They went to a big wedding in Napa Valley recently at a place called Auberge du Soleil. Ed says, "That was some doings for this mountainman." His winery is still a long way from pressing any grapes, but he did look at a Kubuto tractor on his last trip to a bigger city. They sound like they are doing fine and we are glad for them, even though we miss them both.

We went on a golf outing to the Myrtle Beach area just before Hurricane Floyd became big news.

Fortunately, we left our hotel aboutfiveor six hours ahead of the crowds of evacuees and had no traffic problems; in fact we were one of the very few cars on 1-40. A day later I saw pictures of stretches of road that we had driven that were under three or four feet of water. We visited an old Air Force friend on our way back to Virginia. He has since informed us that a stretch of the road we took to his house is under ten feet of water Don Mang sent me a long response to my query asking how Floyd affected them at their Topsail Island location. Their saga could almost fill a book.

They had weathered Bonnie, Bertha, Fran and Dennis, but Floyd was a Category 4 storm and they had seen what Category 3 Fran did, so they decided to evacuate. A friend had offered them their home in Front Royal, VA, but Don and Nancy thought that was too far away and they got reservations at a motel in Petersburg, VA. They got there fine with no problems and very little traffic on I95. The next moming (Thursday), they saw on the news that the storm was already past their home and damage there appeared minimal. They decided to head back (first mistake). By the time they got to the North Carolina border, the sun was out and they thought they had it madeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wrong] They soon started to hit parts of the interstate that were under water. They drove through three of them. Don says, "A very dumb thing to do." When they got to the fourth water hazard, cars were coming back on their side of the interstate. Don says, "It is scary to see cars going the wrong way on a major interstate."

They got off 95 and found a Holiday Inn right close by. "But, it was Gilligan's Island! We were marooned!" The police closed the interstate in both directions after they got off and the east-west roads were also underwater so there was no way out.

"And...the motel had no electricity!" Fortunately, the motel put together a meal using gas appliances, so they did get some food. Needless to say when it got dark at 7 p.m., they went to bed. The road opened up about noon the next day and since their motel no longer had water, they were off. However, part way to Wilmington on 1-40, the road became closed again. They backtracked to Raleigh where they spent the night. Saturday moming Don called the DOT and leamed that nothing was moving east of 1-95 and there was no way to get home.

They resigned themselves to another night in Raleigh, but as he was going to get gas for the car, he ran into a guy who had got directions over the Intemet for a way to get to Wilmington. They got

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back on the road and had to go almost to the South CaroHna border and then on secondary roads most of the way, but they got through just fine, getting home Saturday aftemoon. Their house was in great shape...only a few branches in the yard. Their neighbor who rode it out said they were only out of power for about 12 hours. Don says they probably were in more danger driving through the rain and the high water spots, and in hindsight, should have probably stayed home. They have a well-built brick home and have hurricane clips to hold the roof down so it probably is safer. They cancelled a cmise to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea before the hurricane and it is a good thing as their plane was to leave from Dulles, and at the moment they can't get to Dulles due to continued high water. He also says the local news is showing pictures of the worst flooding he has seen.

Surely am glad that you and Nancy came through safely and am glad we left early enough to avoid all the trouble. I leamed yesterday that the hotel where we stayed lost one wing, most of its beach, its pool and its shuffleboard court. Before Floyd changed direction, we had thought it was going to hit south Florida and were a little worried for our condo.

Hal Walters and Stub Chace both report that all is well in the West Palm-Delray area. Hal says they got very little rain and winds of about 25 mph.

But, Floyd also hit close to home up here. At the BC game. Norma and Bob Raffaele reported that they had been without power for a day and a half Eddy and Frank Adomey were still out of power as of Saturday noon. Those things are scary!

As promised last month, here is the message from Pug McCarty, sent in by Sam Houston. Pug starts out saying he did get married to Elena, the daughter of a Russian Admiral in the Submarine Force. After their marriage, they left Cyprus in order to visit RAF Lakenheath to get his eyes repaired. The doctor discovered a detached retina in his right eye and Pug and Elena received a med evac flight to Madigan near Pug's old Seattle area home. Upon arrival at McCord, he was almost immediately operated on. The next day, the retina in his left eye became detached, so it was back in for more surgery. The result was blindness for two weeks. That is an experience he will never forget.

All is well now and he can see relatively well. They have been living on their boat while their new house is being constmcted on the Hood Canal in Seabeck, WA. It has been wonderful to see all his kids and grandchildren. His youngest child's wife is about to deliver Pug's 17th grandchild. Since Elena has never seen Disneyland, they will visit there next. His eye problems kept him from being able to attend the "Zulu" party for his second submarine grenadier that won the case of Jack Daniels for surfacing the first "Zulu." However, they sent him a copy of the book, Blind Man's Bluff, which the wardroom wants Pug to present to ADM Gregoriev when Pug and Elena visit Russia this September (now). They then will return to their home at Polls, Cypms. They will retum to the U.S. in Febmary or March to check on the constmction of their Washington State home. He also notes that the eye problems kept him from rowing the Zambesi, but they did go on a safari in Kenya two years ago which was great\ Thanks, Pug and Sam. Let us know when you hear what ADM Gregoriev had to say about the book.

A note from Bud Kauderer reports that he is at home recovering from successful prostate cancer surgery. "Progressing slowly, but surely,,.no postop radiation or chemo required. Life is good!" He enclosed a photo showing Bud with his grandson.

Chuck Becker '02 and Chuck's dad, Larry Becker '77, Bud's son-in-law. Glad you are recovering nicely. Bud, and thanks for the picture.

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Bud Kauderer, Chuck Becker '02 and Larry Becker '77 Linn Felt writes that under the gentle prodding of Jim Willenbrink and Vaughn Wilson, Classmates in the Tidewater area have been meeting monthly for coffee and lunch at a local cafeteria.

There is no formal organization, just a casual gettogether to swap news and sea stories. Vaughn has put together a roster of 37 Classmates and five widows known to be in the area. If anyone did not receive a roster, they can call Vaughn at 757-460-4723.

August attendees were: Bill Bentley, Hawley Brooks, Don Cannell, Pete Carr, Bob Desmarais, Al Dunaway, Linn Felt, Charlie Fox, Jim Harris, Walt Hogan, Dave Howell, Don McAdams, Bamey McLaughlin, Buck Sheeley, Dan Sperling, Lew Sykes, Carl Trost, Jim Willenbrink and Vaughn Wilson. Jim Jenkins and Curt Miller attended the July get-together.

Linn sent in several photos, the first I'm mnning shows Jim Harris, Buck Sheeley, Bill Bentley and Pete Carr and the second shows Bamey McLaughlin, Al Dunaway, Vaughn Wilson and Linn Felt. Thanks, Linn, sounds like a good group, I'll mn more of your pictures later

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Jim Harris, Buck Sheeley, Bill Bentley and Pete Carr The Raffaeles, Robert and Bob

Barney McLaughlin, Al Dunaway, Vaughn Wilson and Linn Felt I had a request from a gentleman who is doing a report on King Hall as to whether any of us remember when the chairs in the mess hall were changed to the style now in use. He had heard it was in the fifties so he is asking all the fifties classes, I don't remember any change of chairs, do you?

One additional bit of bad news was relayed to us by Irv Boeskool, who is lost in the wilds of Michigan. Irv had leamed that one of our Associate Classmates, Bill Kellum died in Florida on 1 September. Bill had spent a long career working for Electric Boat in Connecticut and in Washington and was one of the national vice-presidents of the Navy League a while back. His wife, Ann, of Nokomis, n^, and several children and grandchildren survive him, Ann can be reached at 941-4848359. Donations in Bill's memory can be made to the Hospice of Sarasota, FL, We send Ann our most sincere condolences. Bill was a good guy and good friend of the Class.

Additional pictures this month include a shot of Joe DiGiacomo, one of Joe Gildea; a like-fatherlike-son shot of the Raffaeles, son Robert and father Robert; a shot of Lynn Johnson with Cricket Johnson (not the Johnson that is her husband); and the last shot is the Dave Johnson who is Lynn's husband.

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That is it for this month, I'll save news from several of you including almost daily reports from Linda and Al Higginbotham on their car trip across the country via the northem route going out, and the southem route coming home. They started just intimeto get caught in the Hurricane Floyd evacuation traffic jams from Jacksonville and Savannah.

News from Pat Hall about George, and Dave Mets' latest news that I've already put off once—sorry, Dave, Don't forget Class luncheons are on the first Tuesday of each month at the Fort McNair Officer's Club at 11:30 a.m. Donations to the Alumni Association can be identified as For the Class of 1953 Project if you want us to get a headstart on our Pavilion Improvement Project which will get started in earnest next year. Hope we all have a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season and tiiat wefinallyBeat Army! Dave

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Regular Membership: 43% Life Membership: 25% Pres: COL Fitz W. Woodrow, USMC (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Oliver Shearer Jr., USN (Ret.) 9615 Podium Dr., Vienna, VA 22182-3338 h: 703-938-5211; e: ovshearer@erols.com Web master: Will Croom e: willyaye@hotmail.com Class Web site: http://www.usna54.net 45th Reunion We had a great and memorable time! There were 260 Classmates and with wives and guests the total attendance was 490. Tropical storm Floyd took its toll on the city of Armapolis, the Naval Academy and Loews Hotel with power outages on the first day and night. However, the next moming (Friday) was sunny and pleasant as was the rest of the weekend. In Loews, it was "Rig for reduced electrical power" until about 9:30 p.m. resulting in delayed check-ins and a candlelight reception.

Unfortunately, many airline flights were canceled which delayed the arrival of some Classmates and their wives. The USNA Officers' and Faculty Club canceled the 5th Co.'s dinner party the first night and efforts to resurrect it at a restaurant in Parole were halted when the lights went out for the night there. The rest of the weekend went smoothly and reflected the outstanding planning and hard work by reunion coordinators, Ted Walker and George Zeberlein, to whom we are deeply grateful (and to their wives for putting up with it).

Additional thanks for superb performance in making the weekend so delightful go to: Ned Kellogg, John Rogers and Jauncey Sweet for the inspiring memorial service; to Louie Jordan for the Tentgate before, during and after the game; Dick HoUenbach for orchestrating the buses; Dick Alger, Herb Hope, Jess Owens, Bill Land, Jon Hurt, Jim Couillard, Denny Ager, John Lyding, Carl Master and Dave Fitzwilliam for manning the registration desk; Bob Olsen and Lloyd Snider for operating the hospitality room; George Zeberlein for hotel reservations; Bill Rodriguez for RV coordination; to Ned Shuman for making the golf arrangements; and to Dick Raymond, our Poet Laureate, for his new poetry, "The Brigade Everiasting" and "A Toast to 54's 45th."

Ted Walker put together what may have been the best reunion memento package yet, consisting of a beautiful print of the original watercolor of the Naval Academy and City of Annapolis by townscape artist Leonard Weber; for the ladies, a sterling silver dogwood blossom lapel pin, designed by the Don Ray family, and created using a Shipmate, December 1999

45th Reunion blossom picked from the Naval Academy grounds during the spring of 1999; a reengineered '54 ballcap; and a heavy duty blue golf-size umbrella, certified for Grade A shock, with a gold tinted embossed Class crest. We all express our appreciation to a generous, anonymous Classmate who sent each of us a silver dollar-size gold coin souvenir, encased in plastic, with the Academy seal on one side and our '54 Class crest on the other It was like the ring dance again on Friday night as we mingled at a reception in Smoke Hall (but with wine and beer this time), enjoyed a Royal Feast in King Hall (Mid'n Mess), and swung our sweeties around in Mem Hall to the tune of a combo playing '50s Ralph Flanigan-style music, Saturday's highlight was the Navy-Boston College game. While the Mid's defense made its best effort in two years, BC used a fourth quarter TD drive to pull out a 14-10 victory. The sun was hot in the stands and a large group congregated in the shade of the Class of 1953's pavihon to watch, graze and sip refreshments.

The O and F Club regained its composure enough by Sunday moming to serve us a hearty bmnch. We then said our good-byes and the Bermuda Cmise participants boarded busses for their trip to New York to embark on MS HORIZON. There was an upbeat spirit among the cmise crowd despite another hurricane taking aim for Bermuda.

You will read about the seafarers in the JanuaryFebmary issue.

Class News The vote on approval of a revised Class Constitution was 247 Yes and 11 No. There were four incomplete ballots. Of the 412 absentee ballots sent out by email and snail mail, only 102 were retumed.

The next constitutional business will be a proposed amendment by the Executive Committee for an amendment approval process that was overlooked by the ExCom. The Class Treasurer, Fred Franco,

submitted a detailed financial statement which was approved by the ExCom and which was distributed to reunion attendees and placed on the Class Web site on 22 September.

A new Class roster was distributed with the reunion mementos and contains a significant update from the October 1998 issue and includes current email addresses. This new roster is on the Class Web site. For hard copies, send $5 to Jack Wildman, 144 Hearthside Lane, Williamsburg, VA 23185.

Class of 1954 Financial Statement 1 Sept 1999 (Abbreviated Summary) Funds On Hand 10/1/94 $16,106.40 Expenditures 10/1/94-8/31/99 $18,745.61 Income 10/1/94-8/31/99 $19,780.75 Funds On Hand 8/31/99 $17,141.54 If anyone not having access to our Web site desires a more detailed breakdown, write your Class Secretary and you will be mailed a copy.

Reunion photos were provided by Ed Tipshus.

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Pres: LCDR Dennis Sullivan, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Thomas G. Kiefaber, USN (Ret) 11814 Triple Crown Rd., Reston, VA 20191 h: 703-758-1077; e: KIEF55@aol.com http://members.aol.com/us55na/index.html This column reflects what happens several times a yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;interesting stuff, but not a lot. Keep those letters, phone calls and emails coming. Lacking more text, I have some neat pictures of Classmates taken during recent events.

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Ed McHale and Ken Highfill My recent call for help in locating lost souls has tumed up three, thanks to Carlos McAfee (15), Ed Bossart (06), and Tom Hussmann (01). The "fmds" are: Billy Grimes (22) at 103 Sugarleaf Court, Madison, AL 35758; Joe Farley (06) at 124 Meadow Lane, Raymond, WA 98577; and Chuck Newman (01) at PO Box 283, Concan, TX 78838.

An informative letter received from Glenn Arthur (19): On 1 November, Barbara Iwidow of RADM Dwaine Griffith, USN (Ret.)], and I will celebrate our second wedding anniversary, (My wife) Dot and Dwaine both succumbed to cancer in 1996, after 41 and 36 years of marriage. Several of our Classmates attended our wedding as shown in the photo (below).

Tom Kiefaber's wife did a beautiful job on the floral arrangements. Dot and Barbara became good friends while working in the Submarine Force Officer'Wives Club in the '70s. Dot always spoke very highly of Barbara. Although Dot and Barbara were good friends, I only knew Barbara by sight.

In her sympathy and Christmas notes, Barbara offered to talk if I wanted someone to talk to about the challenges we were facing. She was and had been living in the Virginia-D.C. area since 1980 and I had not seen her for many years. In the spring of 1997, on one of my bleakest days, I decided to call her and reminisce about old times and as it tumed out, about many mutual friends.

She told me she was coming to Connecticut in June to help her oldest daughter who would be giving birth to her first child. Since her daughter lived about 15 minutes from my office, we talked about meeting for lunch during her stay in Connecticut.

The week she arrived in Connecticut, I called and asked her to lunch the following Monday.

As I left to meet Barbara for lunch, I jokingly told my secretary I would be back about 1:30 p.m. unless I was having a good time. Lunch lasted four and a half hours. As lunch progressed, I told Barbara she was on my list of candidates to be my wife. She insisted that 1 take her off the list and that she was not even considering remarrying. We became engaged two and a half months later!

I have four married daughters: Shelly and John Pasko '79 (0-6 Selectee), CO of WYOMING (SSBN-742); Marcy and Jim Pillsbury, Maine Maritime '78 (0-6), JAMES K. POLK (SSBN-645) currently in Naples; Cindy and Kim Castro '70, Sonalysts; and Dotty and Don Boland '78 (0-6), PHOENIX (SSN-702) and a son, Mark. I have ten grandsons and a granddaughter.

Barbara has two daughters and a son, all married. She will have four grandchildren under the age of three by the end of this year. We feel extremely blessed! We know that we have two guardian angels watching over us.

I am currently one of five commissioners on the Connecticut Public Utility Control Authority and began a second four-year appointment on 1 July. It is a full-time job. We are responsible for setting utility rates, approving mergers, and many other utility issues. The technology changes and the changing from monopolies to competition and choice make it an especially interesting and challenging era. The issues involved are very complex and challenging. If you are enjoying the competition in the telephone industry, just wait until you have a couple dozen or more electric generators wanting to serve you!

We are hving in Gales Ferry, CT, but function out of a condo in Cromwell, CT. During the week, that saves 100 miles of driving each day.

We are looking forward to the 45th and maybe the 44th, if we can fit it into our busy schedule this year.

In Memory It is with a great deal of sadness that I report the loss of two Classmates (one followed by his wife) and the wife of another. Dick O'Neil (12) passed away on 25 September following a long bout with heart disease. Condolences are extended to his widow Addie and the family. She resides at 1104 Palos Verdes Dr., Oriando, CA 32825; 407-2829635. Bart Fordham (16) lost his wife, Carolyn, on 12 September Bart and Carolyn had two sons, Kip and Doug, and a daughter, Charlotte. Bart can be reached at 6249 Yorkshire Drive, Columbia, SC 29209; 803-776-7028. James R. Holder (09) died on 26 July and his wife, Carol, died on 13 September They were inumed together in the Naval Academy Columbarium on 28 October.

A memorable vignette from Bruce Newell (19) about Jim Holder: Jim was manager of the soccer team. In the fall of '54, we were in New Haven playing Yale.

Staying in our hotel was Miss Universe. Can't remember her name. Jim posed as a reporter for The Log and arranged with her press person to interview Miss Universe. Of course he asked her to tour USNA as his guest. She accepted! My mom lived on Hanover Street just outside the main gate and on occasion had drags in. So, Miss Universe stayed with my mom. Jim, of course, escorted her to the Saturday night hop. My mom's only personal comment about Miss Universe after helping her dress for the hop was, "She's all there." As I recall Jim did get a story on her in The Log, and if I recall correctly she appeared on The Log cover.

Anyhow, Jim was a great representative of Midshipman ingenuity and a real fine gentleman.

I for one shall miss him.

This reminds your correspondent of his own circumstances during First Class Year. I spent spring break in Columbus, OH, visiting my brother and his wife.

He fixed me up with a date one night and she tumed out to be Miss Ohio of the Miss Universe contest. We hit it off famously, and I invited her to June Week, and she accepted. Alas, in the meantime, I got into a bit of trouble (went over the limit in demerits) and was confined all of June Week (and some more!). She decided to come anyway, and one of my roommates, John Yuscavage (19), "the Ukrainian Cabbage," volunteered to escort her.

As I recall, she came to visit me once or twice while I was mustering at the Main Office. So much for tme romance. By the way, she too was "all there."

Pat Taylor (16) and Charley Plumly (16) have joined Frank Farino's (10) American Legion Post 113 of Virginia Beach. Charley says that he and Pat are the youngest ones there!

Sgt. Bilko, Gen. Halftrack and Beatle Bailey

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Class Executive Committee Co-Chairmen: CAPT Douglass F. Hayman, USN (Ret) (11) COL George Mushaiko, USAF (Ret.) (15) Secy: Pete Randrup (3) e: hardhead@erols.com; h/f: 410-243-0552 4407 Atwick Road, Baltimore, MD 21210 Web Page: http://home.att.net/~US56NA/index.htm Season's Greetings A cheerful Hanukkah, a merry Christmas, and a grand New Year to all of you. May good fortune be yours and to your loved ones, as we mn out of the 20th Century and begin our trip within the 21st, As the custom in olden days was for the host to take the first sip to show that the drink was good, I now toast you and the Naval Academy. "And we'll drink a merry toast to our team, the Service boast, and the wearers of the good old Navy blue.

Cheers!"

Glenn Arthur's wedding Shipmate, December 1999

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The setting is the hotel lounge where '56 met upon arrival in Dayton. Using a random selection, the contestants for the evening's prize tumed out to be all '56! Ann and Doug Osgood (3); Frank Graham (17), and Norm "Flea" Frith (3) listen to the DJ

Jerry Green, Barbara Godstrey, Pete Fitzwilliam, and, in the rear, Dick Levendoski take in the Army game Baltimore hosts the 101st Army game. Talk about a ran on tickets, don't react slowly when the call is put out for people to sign up for Army tickets in 2000. The area '56ers will start cranking up for this event shortly. More word will be distributed to the 56USNA-Common email community.

For those not being serviced by the cyberworld, another means will be used as well, but keep a weather eye out for this!

Class Page on the Web Location: http://home.att.net/~US56NA/ index.htm. Please note that the page shall be moved shortly. When that takes place, the word shall be distributed by the 56USNA-Common list and then noted in the next available Shipmate. The word may also appear on Bill O'Keefe's '56 Photo Archive page located on the web at the site: http:// www2.bc.edu/~okeefew/navy/navpix.htm.

On the side trip at the reunion of HARRY F. BAUER (DM26), crewman and '56 mid step hghtly on the decks of Photo taken as we are about to depart Dayton: Sarita Frith, Aim Osgood, Norm Frith and Elie Randrup.

Class Email Communities Community Names. For your messages with personal, Class, or Academy subjects with message distribution to a very wide '56 subscriber list: • " Announcements. Use the 56USNA-HotList community "•• Discussions. Use the 56USNA-Common community • " For your messages on any subject 56Underground • " For your messages with military-political news 56UgTopical • • To subscribe. Select the method for subscribing, by using either email or by using a Web browser. Note: You should substitute your desired community name (as noted above) in any of the following steps: • " Using email. Just send the message addressed to the address and you will be registered for that community: communityname-subscribe@onelist. com • • Using a Web browser Your browser must be configured to accept cookies. Go to location http:/ /www.onelist.com/ and do the registration process completely. Then go to the particular community with whom you are subscribing; here's that location: http://www.onehst.com/subscribe/conmiumtyname.

••" Addressing a message. Whenever you have a personal. Class or Academy announcement, inquiry or discussion, you are urged to send the message to the community that will best distribute your message. The 56USNA-HotList and 56USNACommon communities have 270-1- '56 subscribers.

Sending it directly to these two communities (rather than sending it for relay) is the preferred way of getting the word out. Use the community address and zap, the message goes to all the subscribers.

The address scheme for the ONElist services is as follows: communityname@onelist.com Just substitute the actual community name at the beginning of the address.

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Gatherings Annapolis in January. George Mushaiko (15) recalls the joy last winter to have taken in the ArmyNavy basketball game and then retire to the local scene for a '56 evening meal in town. Since the Army game this year is on a Wednesday evening, we meet, socialize, and eat before the game. The game is scheduled for 7 p.m., 26 January 2000.

(Doesn't THAT look strange!) More details and any discussion on this outing will come out on messages distributed to the 56NA-Balt-Annap-DC-area email community.

At Nancy and Pete Bennett's home, Devon and Audie Audilet, Shirley Levendoski, and Sandy Fitzwilliam enjoy the good company Orlando has the Notre Dame Game for 2000, With the Irish game heading into Florida, the prospect of '56ers gathering began to be talked about.

Into this scene jumped our two old friends, John Buckley (20) and Pete Peterson (20). As details come out on the arrangements and activities, the word will be distributed to the 56USNA-HotList community. Should discussion that concems many of us come about, please use the 56USNA-Common. "Before I lie down to sleep, may we see a Navy victory over the Irish just one more time."

100 Years of Tradition Go Navy — Beat Army

Mike Gluse, commissioner of good cheer for Tidewater!

News Before the yacht EVENTTOE settles onto the coffee grounds, we have the next phase for Jane and Howie Burdick (1) sailing days: Since our great sail to Maine this past summer, we have been resurrecting lawn and gardens from summer drought, prepping for our son Josh's wedding to Melissa, dealing with mother nature, getting the house ready for friendly renters, and some other pesky details associated with our planned cruise of up to eight months.

We hope to be underway before the end of September. Our general voyage plan is to sail from Newport down the Long Island Sound, through Hell's Gate in New York, along the Jersey shore, up Delaware Bay to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, a couple of weeks cruising in the Chesapeake, a few days in the Norfolk area, thence the Intracoastal Waterway with an arrival in Florida around early December. Of course, we hope to see some friends of old along the way, and spend some time with Howie's brother and sister-in-law, Gregg and Nancy Biu-dick, at Stuart Yacht before we head across to Bahamas/ Exumas/Abacos for a month (or so).

Hope to be back in Newport betwixt mid and end May 2000. As with our Maine sail, we plan a brief weekly (or so) email simation report (sitrep).

I Uied mightily and failed to find modem card and cable to connect my Dell laptop with a Nokia 5120 cell phone, so we will continue to take computer ashore to send/receive using phone lines wherever friendly folks abide (takes 20-30 sees using an America Online 800 telephone number).

For those sending email our way, please don't attach files, because I usually don't read the mail until back aboard the boat, and by then the computer has been disconnected, and not able to download until the next sitrep (if the file is still there). Until later, have a grand autumn.

One nice thing about the Navy football schedules, it does allow you to mix social pleasure in with supporting the team. George Mushalko's (15) son settled down in Columbus, OH. So the halfway point tumed out to be the West Virginia University stadium. So east meets west and they took in the game. We are looking for that game where the Tars tumble the big guys. Maybe this was the game! But in any case, it's Mushaiko time!

Shipmate, December 1999

That's Pete Peterson's old trainer! "Great idea. Maybe I could drop a couple of thousand Blue and Gold ribbons on that Irish South Bend green" The Academy's Nimitz Library is always on the lookout for Academy and service material from earlier days. Often it is the notices that mom received during her Mid's days in the Yard. Well they certainly were handed something neat by Alex Morris (2) recenUy: My aging back went on the bum recently, and it held up my usual 72-holes of golf over the weekend, but it did in fact lead me to do something that I have meant to do for some time. I had the pleasure of delivering to the Nimitz Library's Special Collections, a unique scrapbook. The book was compiled with meticulous care by the battleship WISCONSIN'S paymaster diu-ing her cruise around the world with the Great White Fleet in "07 and "08. It includes news ardcles, photos, dance cards, invitations, and other miscellaneous items. The scrapbook starts with an invitation to WISCONSIN 'S launching in 1898.

Many items are in color and look brand new. I had intended originally to bring it to our Washington Class luncheon, but could not because of the back.

The book was rescued from being taken apart and sold in pieces by LCDR Lucky Langdon, USN (Ret). He paid the owner $300, and, as he has no family, wanted it deposited where it would be safe, appreciated, and available for research. He and I talked about the cmise, on which my dad [Bandmaster Morris when '56 arrived in the Yard] had been a bugler in the battleship NEW HAMPSHIRE, and the prospects for depositing it in various museums.

Eventually, Lucky agreed to donate it to Nimitz Library. Curator Alice Creighton received his gift quite graciously, and will see to its preservation and utilization.

Lucky is quite a guy in his own right. He enUsted in 1927 and retired in 1956. He eamed his nickname when he was one of four Beachmasters out of 24 to survive Iwo Jima's invasion.

Mike and Val Ahrens roughing it in Maine deciding which car to fetch the lobsters!

News from the Southwest. Roy Hejhall (1) chimes in with a recent trip up to see his companymate.

Audrey and I recently retumed from a cool, restfiil vacation in the White Mountains of Arizona. Our resort was at 7,200 feet altitude, in the largest stand of Ponderosa Pine in the USA and not far from the home of Dave Male (1).

Dave and Carolyn had us over for dinner one evening. We had a terrific time, a typical "whenever two or three shall meet" time! To our delight, Dave promised to "get even" by spending an evening at our place during one of their trips down to see their son in the Phoenix area. We look forward to it.

Shipmate, December 1999

Tidewater-Virginia Beach tums out in full force again! Look at the shine Sweet Peirce Ferriter (16) came through with an unbiased account of hard-nosed football at NAPS back i n ' 5 1 .

The report on NAPS football high above the Susquehanna really hit the gong with this man with that complete roster of what was a great NAPS squad! Jim Decker was the best football player that ever lived, so it seemed. And Gene Geib laid out the biggest ones ever seen. I can see him in my mind's eye today strutting about the barracks kackling like a hen! Excellent line backer too! Then there was Bucko Herig, "All Navy on the West Coast," Perhaps some photos are in someone's attic somewhere. That would be neat to see.

Don Aitchison (11) passed on some old business: A list of lost '56 souls was printed here and this report came in as a consequence. Bob AUman (11) bilged out if I recall correctly at the end of Plebe Year. He was deficient in studies and didn't feel Uke the re-exam route was worth it. He was discharged as a result, under honorable conditions. I saw him when I was home for youngster Christmas leave, and my memory is that he was a student then at the University of Washington.

The next step came when I was home the next summer. One of our mutual friends showed me a newspaper article saying Bob had been found dead in his car in Califomia, an apparent suicide.

Later, I talked with Bob's mother, and later with an aunt who lived near Annapolis, but neither had more information to pass on. It was especially sad because Bob's father had committed suicide when Bob was in junior high. I never leamed any more about Bob's death.

On a more pleasant subject, Gwen and I are off for Honolulu and a cruise around the islands; all without any watch duty by yours traly; and then back to Ensenada.

Directly from Fundaca Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvinento, a note came in from Buck Buchanan (8).

I hope this finds everyone well. I enclose a photograph that was taken during my visit to Newport, RI, late August. It was a delightful time and allowed me an opportunity to catch up with two '56ers, Jimmy Hogg (17) and Nick Brown (13), in Jimmy's office at the Naval War College.

In the photo's background is an impressive array of memorabilia that Jimmy displays. He continues as the Chief of the CNO's Strategic Studies Group. This work projects the Naval Service's work into the crystal ball aspects of future naval warfare. Nick has returned to Newport as the Director of the Heritage Foundation. But it wouldn't be Nick if he didn't manage to skipper his boat MAMBO around the Bay and down east like the champion skipper that he is.

Buck Buchanan, Nick Brown and Jimmy Hogg close out a strategic move As the year closes, I would like to thank all of the Classmates who have been kind enough to send material for this column and helped in the establishment of better Class communications. Those stories and photographs, and the continuing search for '56ers not heard from for years, have made this enjoyable work just that much easier to do! As the new century starts up, let's continue supporting those ties which bind the '56ers together. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pete Again, '56 says.. .Beat Army

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Pres: CAPT Walter T. Meukow, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT W. H. Peerenboom, USN (Ret.) 1003 Rachael Lane, Vienna, VA 22180-6473 e: whpeerenboom@compuserve.com or 102424.577@compuserve.com or whp36@aol.com There is a real dearth of news this month, and I regret that I must again open the column with the sad announcement of the death of Toni Lewis, wife of Ed Lewis (24). Toni passed away on 22 September of cancer Her funeral was held on 1 October at Fort Myer, and she was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. On behalf of all Classmates and families, let me express our heartfelt condolences. Ed and his family will be in all of our prayers.

As promised in the last issue, we did receive a report of the annual Third Company picnic held at Carolyn and Herb Hoppe's. This year's report was supplied by Bill Mickie and includes a nicely lighted photo of the assemblage by Fred Howe: The Third Company "formed up" on the first Saturday in August for their seventh annual potluck pool party at Carolyn and Herb Hoppe's with 23 "present or accounted for." In addition to the host and hostess, those "present" included, Dianne and Fred Howe, June and Bob Foss, Gin and Paul Behrends, Renee and Bill Mickie, Joy and Jim Foresman, and John Shewmaker.

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3rd Company Summer Muster. L to r: Front row: Gin Behrends, Dianne Howe, June Foss, Joy Fores, Renee Mickie, Carolyn Hoppe; Second row: Fred Howe. Bob Foss; Back Rank: Paul Behrends, Bill Mickie, Jim Foresman, John Shewmaker and Herb Hoppe Monica Shewmaker (out of town), Molly and Jim Quinn (also out of town), Sara and Mark Lenhart (via Bruce Tapper) and Bruce himself.

As usual, it was fun bringing everyone up to speed on our respective activities and sharing sea stories and other reminiscences. Fred carried out his "duty photographer" function in a superb manner as evidenced by the accompanying shots.

The food was delicious, hospitality outstanding, and seeing old friends most enjoyable.

Dick Madouse is watching the 4th of July Parade in Coronado, CA, with Laura Holtmeier and Susan Wisch, both LTJGs from the Class of '97.

They are stationed in San Diego and live on Coronado, as does your retired captain.

L to r: Laura Holtmeier '97, Dick Madouse and Susan Wisch '97 "wave the flag" The wonders of Coronado never cease. Obviously Dick is doing his part to pass along the wisdom of the age to these bright young officers 40 years our followers!

We need more input, gang, so get with the program! In the meantime Beat Army!

58 Hostess and host: Carolyn and Herb Hoppe Bill, I would only correct your last statement .. .none of us are "old" friends.. ."long time" is the correct usage.

Once again we are blessed with an input from inveterate traveler Bob Bowers, whose latest trek has taken him to Vietnam, a location visited by so many of us under more coercion in earlier days. Bob sent a postcard on which is a gent who bears something of a resemblance to Bob himself, but not enough to fool the editor, so you will have to see it on the Class Web site. The card is from Hanoi, not a city that brings back "fond" memories to be sure.

His note reads, "from Hanoi and Haiphong, with love and reunification," Bob and Nancy. Hope the food has improved, Bob. Our final missive comes to us courtesy of Bob Wisch, of Pasadena, MD. It includes a picture of Classmate, Dick Madouse, with two very attractive members of '97, Laura Holtmeier and Susan Wisch, Dick has added a new dimension to Class "ecumenicism." Bob Wisch's (Susan's dad) note reads:

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Pres: Lt Col Gordon M. Gerson, USAF (Ret) e: gmgerson@erols.com Sec'y: Col Warren S. Walters, USMC (Ret.) 5664 Ravenel Lane, Springfield, VA 22151-2430 h; 703-321-9586; e: wwalters@mail.erols.com http:// www.usnaclass.org/class/58 Another December gets marked off the calendar, and once again it's time to wish our Classmates and shipmates a Happy Holiday season. It seems that Christmas was just here a short while ago, or is it taking longer to get the tree down than it used to, and they hustle to bring the merchandising season on so early that it seems a short while.

Most of us haven't even had a chance to break all the toys we got last year, and here it's time for a new batch to be dealt with. And just how do you make this "Furby" thing shut up? The only command it seemed to follow was a small blow from a sledgehammer No more of those critters or their kinfolk, please, Santa! Now lets continue with the late summer and early fall news of the '58 cohort as we travel on our voyage.

September was a sad month, as three of our Classmates were called away. On Friday, 10 September, LTCOL Nyal E. "Tony" Palmer (1), USAF (Ret), died from cancer in Hamilton, OH. After retirement from active service, Tony had worked for the Boeing Corporation. His wife, Sharon; children, Diane Hamden, Kevin, Karen and David Palmer; stepson, Shawn Michael; his mother, Maxine Sulcer; a sister; and eight grandchildren survive him. Services were held in Blue Ash, OH, and interment was at Arlington National Cemetery on 17 September.

In Pensacola, FL, Robert Ernest Holroyd (12) passed away due to cancer on 13 September.

Graveside services were held at Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola on 16 September. He is survived by his wife, Pat, of the family home in Tallahassee, FL, and grown children.

28 September was the closing of Dr. George John David's (9) long suffering straggle with leukemia. He had been in remission for some time, and attended the 40th Reunion convinced he had it under control. This past May, there was a resurgence, and he had been in University Hospital in Cleveland, OH, for some time. On 11 September, his daughter, Pamela, was married in Cleveland, but George was not able to leave the hospital to attend the services. The bridal couple did go to the hospital in full wedding regalia so George could see them. During his final months, George was ably assisted by Nikki and Jack MacKinnon (9), who provided updates on his condition to Classmates, and acted as his email conduit. George was a Naval officer, but due to physical problems, left his commission in 1963. He went to medical school and specialized in radiology, eventually becoming chairman of the radiology department at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, OH. A memorial service was held for George in Hudson, OH, and his cremated remains were retumed to the deep in the Atlantic. His daughter, Pamela, and son, Capt.

George John David Jr, USMC, survive George.

The Class offers it condolences to the families upon the loss of these fine Classmates.

The Class was also saddened by the news that Nancy Sendek, wife of Joe Sendek (17), passed away due to liver and renal failure at Walter Reed Army Military Hospital in Washington, D . C , on 12 August, and she was buried in the Rocky Mount Memorial Park in Rocky Mount, NC. Nancy and Joe had retmned to Rocky Mount after having lived in the Virgin Islands for some years. The Class extends its sympathies to Joe upon his loss.

The Class flag has made some interesting appearances this fall. One of the most surprising was on the NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw on Monday, 27 September The story was about Sen. John McCain (17) making his formal declaration for the Republican presidential nomination, and at the end, it showed him walking towards his campaign airplane. At the last moment, he veered off and the camera followed him, and there were three Classmates, Frank Gamboa (17), Chuck Larson (8) and Dick Haase (9), holding up our banner, which got about three seconds of nationally televised airtime!

Sarah and Walt Ryan (5) had hosted a breakfast support meeting for Sen. John last May at the College Club in Seattie, and a photo of the '58 contingent at that event has found its way to the column. In the picture (following page), left to right, you see Cindy McCain, Virginia and George Kenefick (1), Sarah and Walt Ryan (5), Dick Tennent (13), Ernie Luders (3), Boyd Sharp (5), Ray Riches (11), Barbara and Harry Brown (13), and Sen. John McCain (17) holding up his end of the flag! John wowed the audience, which gave him a warm welcome and a final standing ovation.

Onward to 2000!

Shipmate, December 1999

A '58 Gathering Honoring Senator McCain '58 The craising catamaran KAIMOLOLO has retumed to the mainland of the U.S., arriving in Port Aransas, TX, on 19 September after 19 days at sea.

Cleo and Bob Phillips (2) had to abandon their dream of sailing to the South Seas when KAIMOLOLO again showed the ravages of the sea as it attempted its second try going from Panama to the Pacific Islands. Upon retum to Panama, Bob discovered the basic design flaws in the boat, and declared it too risky for long ocean craising in the Pacific. He and Cleo are decompressing in Texas, and planning their next adventures. You can welcome them back at kaimalolo@yahoo.com.

Some actual travel was undertaken by the flag in the company of Peggy Caldwell, wife of our late Classmate Frank "Pooch" Caldwell (6). Peggy and Frank's sister, Valentine Caldwell Tyler, along with Susan Ring Keith, a former '58 wife and sister of our late Classmate Bill Ring (2), took a craise to Alaska in early September The air was chilly, the glaciers icy, the whales jumping, and the seals loafing as they cruised the Inland Passage. In the photo, you see Susan, Valentine, and Peggy holding the flag in that frosty clime.

The other Pacific state, Hawaii, was invaded by some '58ers on a 12-day tour. Diane Hughes of the "Still Craisin'" travel firm sends a photo that shows Dick Alexander (10) and Massie Hughes (3) keeping the flag from being blown into the crater of Kilauea on the Big Island. Couldn't have picked two better flag holders for those gale breezes!

Alexander and Hughes ji K,I ; J- : Diane also passed along an interesting story related to Hawaii. She was an Army brat whose father was the post surgeon stationed at Fort Armstrong, and Massie was a Navy junior whose dad was a Navy pilot on Ford Island. Both of these military youngsters were in Hawaii on 7 December 1941! They didn't know each other then, and upon meeting and marrying some 20 years later, discovered that they were each Pearl Harbor survivors. Talk about shared experiences that are hard to beat!

Shipmate, December 1999

Traveling without a flag, or motor, was the choice of Gordon Gerson (11), who participated again in the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI). The ride started in the northwest comer of the state and meandered along the northem par until it ended at Bellevue, on the Mississippi. The ride is over when you dip the front wheel in the river, and get your photo snapped.

The subtle riding colors on Gordon are of the Air Force Team "Aim High," wom on the first and last days. And he did have an excused-chit to wear a beard...the only one on the team.

some occasional consulting on the side, out in San Diego. His email now goes to phekmanl@san.

IT.com. Ask him about his golf game, his singing in three choral groups, the Chamber of Commerce or his grandchildren.

PATH Computer Systems, Inc. announced last Febraary that its founder and president, E. Patrick Hanavan Jr. (24), Ph.D., P.E., was certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional. In a column a few months ago, it was pointed out that Pat was the second engineer to be licensed in the United States as a software engineer, as well as his having been licensed in Ohio since 1965 as an aeronautical engineer At the first football tailgate of the year, the Class of 1958 was selected as the "Most Fun" in the tailgate judging. Our usual large group of nearly 175 ticket holders were joined by out-of-towner Marty McCuUough (12) from Coronado, CA, and Bob Musgrove (5) from Clemson, SC. The second tailgate found many Midshipmen from the 18th Company dropping by to thank the Class of '58 for the eight new sofas we had purchased for their wardroom. They politely listened to our tales of what a real Plebe Year was like, then snickered their way back to Bancroft and their cars. (Would you believe Plebes can drag?) Also at that second tailgate was Mike Chappie (5) from Coronado, CA, combining business with pleasure on a trip east, if you can believe losing to Boston College was a pleasure.

There are two grandpa pictures this month. Steve Guthman (13) is shown with three young guys, all Guthmans. They are Aidan, Ethan and Noah.

Holding a new baby grandson, Gregory James Wilcox, who was bom last May in Hong Kong, is Bruce Wilcox, who proves you can sleep standing up and still not drop the baby!

Susan, Valentine and Peggy in Alaska

Gerson at the Mississippi We have a host of new or changed email addresses this month, so if you forgot to send Christmas cards, you can recover with some quick cybergreetings. Ned Oldham (6) is at oldham@ oldham.com, his own domain name...how about that? John Griffiths (6) usesjohn@regenesis.com, his company domain name. Glynn Harper (16), the vicar of St. Anne's Episcopal Church in New Orleans can be sent mail using nolaharper@ aol.com. Pete Hekman is enjoying retirement, widi

Grandpa Steve Guthman and Aidan, Ethan and Noah And finally, one of the last gasps of summer took place for some of the 6th Company Classmates living in the D.C. metro area. The Swope family kindly invited several Classmates to join them for swimming and dining, and managed to work in the obligatory flag picture of the guys. You see Murray Blank, John Swope, Mike Dallam, Henry Miller and Poj Walters, all vertical and all awake, having been well fed and watered. It was a grand evening, with the ladies joining in the sea stories.

After that super Reunion in Annapolis, I should have scads to write about for quite a few months.

My apologies already if you think I have slighted you, your Company, or your group. Email, reminders, fax, phone calls, those bullets to butter will always be welcomed and may remind me of items regarding the Reunion I should include.

I think you will forgive me if I mention our 2nd Company gang who showed up and had a fabulous time. We gave the "Spirit Award" to Sue and Larry Pizenger who came all the way from Arizona, and they could have given many reasons for not attending. They had lost their precious son, Mike, a brave Los Angeles firefighter, in the past year and Sue had a stroke. But, Sue insisted they be in Annapolis, and "Piz" made sure that Sue's wheelchair was there and everywhere! Roommate Tom Lukish joked that Piz had been "in charge of room" for all four Midshipman years, and that good training was just what Sue needed. The Pizengers were going to spend a week with Dolores and Tom in Ocean City, before returning to Maryland and attending a ceremony at the National Firefighters Academy in Emmitsburg, MD, where Mike was to be honored.

6th Company '58ers at Swopes '58 Trivia Smedberg Walk is across the street from the Chapel. Go out the doors, cross the street and tum left. Voila!

Name three places in the Yard where Midshipmen were allowed to smoke back in the middle '50s. H a s t a L u e g o l W S W

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Pres: VADM Francis R. Donovan, USN (Ret.) Chairman Exec. Committee: CAPT Norbert H. Bednarek, USNR (Ret) e: bednarek@annap.infi.net Exec. VP: Joe Flynn Admin. VP: Gary Geist Exec. Sec'y: Bruce Nordwall Corp. Treasurer: Dave Osbum Sec'y: CAPT John A. Butterfield, USN (Ret.) 1130 Sugar Sands #190, Singer Island, FL 33404 w: 561-840-1104; h: 561-881-7512 f: 561-863-8984; e: jbsgma@aol.com www.roanoke.k 12. va.us/Dave'sWorld/usna59.html Hello '59ers! And a proud lot we should be! The Reunion was absolutely fantastic! Mega-congratulations to the many individuals and committees who looked after every detail and made this traly the finest, the most enjoyable, the sweetest Reunion our Class has ever shared. That is not just my sentiments, but those feelings were echoed by Classmates, wives, friends and families. Deepest thanks to all those who provided for and served others, and thanks and well done to all the attendees. I know we all regret that not every Classmate was there to share in the memorial service held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday aftemoon, 19 September 1999, when we honored all those who have died, and we made special note of those who made the supreme sacrifice while serving on active duty. That latter group now has a memorial chair in Alumni Hall, a section for Class of 1959, with beautifully engraved name plates on the chair. Our Class President

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Frank Donovan gave a most touching reminiscence of what our Class has done, and why the Class crest has such profound meaning, and that meaning grows more important as the years pass by. I shall print Frank's words as soon as I have them in hand.

But now, to JoAnn Palmer's very sweet note: Dear Class of 1959, As I walked into Alumni Hall last Sunday and saw Bob Hope's name on the wall, his song came to mind, "Thanks for the Memories." That is just what you gave me on your 40th Reunion. There were so many faces from my youth and so many happy flashbacks.

Major events in my life have taken place at the Naval Academy. From dragging four years, my marriage to Les (Palmer), the baptism of my daughter, death, marriage of my daughter, plus the baptisms of my grandchildren. The circle of life has taken place as I watched my grandsons sit in the Honor Chair you presented to Les. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for that special moment. In just one word, the memorial service was perfect. Les loved the United States Naval Academy, the Navy, his country, and especially the Class of 1959. God Bless! With love to you and your families, JoAnn Palmer, A Navy Wife.

Wow! What more could be said about bonds and events that hold us together? Thank you, JoAnn, for your exceptional, sweet note.

The following was received from Dave Rogers just before the Reunion: Greetings from Washington. I look forward to seeing '59ers this weekend at our 40th.

I am sending you a photo taken at our son, Glenn's wedding recently. It shows two generations of Naval Aviator Rogers, all fighter, strike fighter or attack guys.

At the far left is my brother, Tom Rogers 'SO, our son, Glenn (the groom), our son-in-law, Jon Stevenson '89, and moi.

Wedding of Glenn Rogers, Dave's son

Sandy and Dick Ihly also had many excuses, but they were there, albeit a day late. They had to evacuate from their home in Wilmington, NC, as that rascal Hurricane Floyd threatened to cause the '59er Reunion havoc. The Ihlys fled to a son's home in Raleigh, and then waited out winds, rain, and rising water there, before pressing on for Annapolis. When we all left Annapolis, they still did not know when they would get back to Wilmington (remember the photos and media coverage which focused on the devastation North Carolina experienced from Floyd) and what condition there home was in.

A cute story: Dick was in such a rash to leave Wilmington, beat the impending traffic rash which became gridlock, and head west for Raleigh. When he was getting dressed for the Reunion Banquet on Friday night, Dick realized he had packed one black shoe, and one brown shoe! In his haste, and with power outages, he could be forgiven. (You would like to know that they were for different feetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that could have been interesting!) But, we accused Dick Ihly of being a Tarheel Trendsetter!

His wife, Sandy, may be setting new trends as an artist. You can contact the Ihlys at 5432 Marina Club Drive, Wilmington, NC 28409; 910-452-7692.

Toby Field escorted Missy Kittredge (who came all the way from Panama) and we had great fun filling Missy in on the escapades and the character of Tylor Kittredge, Dave Sullivan (who did a fantastic job for the Class and because of his computer efforts surely tracked down countiess Classmates and got them to attend the Reunion) has a superb memory and a marvelous sense of humor, and he regaled us with many stories and kept us in stitches. Also he escorted Marcia Shiverdecker Glenn and made sure that her trip up from the Tidewater area was meaningful and worthwhile. We all loved Sam and Marcia, and we let her know that.

Norm Bednarek, executive director. Class of '59 Executive Board, sent out a nice Bravo Zulu to all the workers (wives most significantly included) for a job(s) very well done in conjunction with the great Reunion. Addressees included Joe Flynn, Grif Hamilton, Dave Osbum, Leon Hayden, Dan Truax, Jim Lackey, Dave Sullivan, Frank Donovan, Joe Ford, Marty Finerty, Frank Pipkin, Bob Beaton, all of the Company Reps, and yours truly (and apologies for those unnamed/overlooked!) and message read as follows: To all of you I offer my most heartfelt congratulations to all for the most successful reunion to date. No Classmate would let me pass without Shipmate, December 1999

a handshake and big thank-you. Everyone was impressed with the details that were attended to.

This is a great tribute to the foresight and coordination of Joe Flynn (the vice president of the Executive Board) who is responsible for reunions and tailgates; and the tremendous "hands on" leadership of the Reunion Chairman, Grif Hamilton. There was no task too small for Grif to take on personally. To all of you, deepest thanks for your professionalism, dedication to this task, and the many hours you devoted to your areas of responsibihty. For your reward, you will be called upon again for the next one. I hope the Class of 1959 can count on you again. We have a great team. Rise and Shine with '59!

Amen.. .and Thanks to All! I have had a number of emails full of thanks and appreciation. Marty Hanson, who had to miss the last big one (the 35th) at the absolute last minute because of a serious medical problem, was so happy! He had a great time! Marty and Ginny hope to see us all at the 45th in 2004. Plan now! Sheila and Dan Branch enjoyed themselves and sent thanks. They want '59ers to consider continuing celebrations by joining in for the '59 Ski Colorado event, to be held 9-13 March 2000, centered in the Summit County area of Colorado. Contact Dan Branch for details at 303-499-0337.

Noel Flynn was there looking good and not complaining of a sore butt after 5,900 (?) kilometers of bicycle riding across the country. There is a nice feature on Noel and his feat in the Trident publication. Space permitting. I shall excerpt some of that at the end of the column.

Wonderful email from Jon Dachos '88, son of our late John Dachos, who is aboard MrrscHER, a DDG that will be visiting New York City on Veterans Day. Jon hoped some '59ers might like to come aboard. I told him his dad was fondly remembered at our September Reunion.

Telmo Ortega was unable to make Reunion very late in the game. He informed me in an email that he would be joining an Air Force/Navy football game crowd at a sports bar in Fort Lauderdale area.

I will miss Telmo once again as I will be in D.C. for a big 30th Reunion of my Vietnam-era squadron, VAL-4, the "Black Ponies," who were key to the success of the Brownwater Navy. I have a photo with '59er Bob Touhey taken in Vietnam in 1969 when he was flying "Hueys" with HAL-3. We flew the OV-10 Bronco armed/loaded and provided the ftxed-wing support; HAL-3 flew the armed helos and with boats on the waterways and some troops along the banks, we were an effective team.

As I write this, there is a controversy swirling all over the country about the book, Dutch, an "authorized" biography of our great President Reagan.

Bud McFarlane has submitted an article to the New York Times, taking issue with the book and providing criticism with documentation to back it up. Good on ya. Bud! Toby Field, of my 2nd Company, said that he and Missy Kittredge had a super time at the Reunion. Toby wanted to give one and all a 4.0 and he commented there was only the "radeness" of Boston College which spoiled the day/the time.

Super to see Judy and John Collins all the way from Panama for the 40th. They look terrific, and busy as ever with a potpourri of "work" and activities. They are having a house built down there; living on their sailboat in the meantime. John gave me a photo of him and Dave Hager (4th Company, originally from Niagara Falls) taken in Panama a few months ago in 1999 aboard Dave's daughter Nikki's boat the night before leaving for the Galapagos Islands. John is working on me already to be in Panama for a fantastic, very challenging Triathlon he is organizing for March of 2000.1 am giving it serious thought. Priscilla suggested I make the trip a birthday present to my-

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self If my sore feet keep getting steadily better and I can put in more mileage, I may give it a shot.

I figure I can always manage the swim and the bicycle (as long as there are not too many flats to fix...but John said he would provide a good, solid mountain bike to help me get over the hilly terrain). It is supposed to be a very scenic and historic route that includes Forts and wonderful overlooks.

David Hager and John Collins I just got word that we lost another •59er, this time. Bill Skelton (16th Company from Kansas City, MO). Bill died on 25 August 1999 in Missouri. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Missouri (Columbia) and has been a professor and activist in environmental matters. We now have 102 members of the Class (that we know of) who have answered the Last Call; 36 of them died while serving on active duty and have been honored with a chair (beautifully engraved name plate on one arm of the chair) in a section of Alumni Hall for the Class of 1959. I should tell you that there is one more officer, William H. "Bill" Ballard Jr. who may be added to the latter list. Again, the Chapel ceremony honoring our fallen comrades was so special, and then going to Alumni Hall...well it tmly was a special time. A Chaplain Elson and our Bob Beaton (living and working in Annapolis with Campus Crasade for Christ, a special outreach to the Navy) and Dan Truax (very active in the Naval Academy Chapel programs) were on the altar with Frank Donovan to participate in the service. The Class of 1959 did it right!

Another guy who epitomizes the spirit of our Class is George Lehmberg. He has put together a marvelous Web site which features "USNA 1959 Color Company, the Fighting 8th" and it includes up-to-date biographies of many in the Company.

Log on to http://pages.prodigy.net/glehmberg.You will be in for a treat! Also continue to boot up and see what Dave Sullivan has done for the Class at: www.roanoke.kl2. va.us/Dave'sWorld/usna59.html.

I need to tell you that there are rival interests in providing a home for "our" carrier, FORRESTAL. Many, many thanks to Ona and Dan Traax for informing me that Baltimore, MD, is also bidding to get the ship homeported at the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. I shall try to get information for you about the Baltimore efforts so you will have necessary background before backing one or the other places.

Reunion Review A quick review of the Reunion events. Great time not had by the golfers. Most everyone loved tours of the Yard and Harbor. Shopping in the Midshipmen Store drew constant crowds ('twas like being in a Nordstrom's or Bloomingdale's—wow what a change!). The parade brought back such memories, and it was great to see ADM Tom Moorer '33 honored as the First Distinguished Graduate.

The reception, dinner, banquet, and dancing were fabulous! Bruce Nordwall did a great job organizing a fun tennis round robin Friday moming.

John Butterfield held a fun run/walk/crawl Saturday morning and the "predicted time" aspect gave everyone a chance to win prizes. We were even joined by the Superintendent, VADM John Ryan '67, a couple members of the Class of 1984

(Sean Roskey '84 and Mark Patterson '84), and some of the Annapolis Striders (including Betty Moore, wife of Ben Moore '48, who was elsewhere training a large group for the Marine Corps Marathon on 23 October).

The tailgate party was absolutely the best I have ever seen, attended, visited, you name it. 1959 did not spare any expense as the oysters, shrimp, meats, cheeses, and a whole host of goodies and refreshments made our tent the hit of the aftemoon. The competition was fierce for the special ice cream cones (covered with scrumptious chocolate and nuts). And we took "portapotty" honors with the "executive suite" version.

Saturday night's gatherings at the host hotel, Marriott Waterfront, were super. Once again, good food by the hotel, cash bar, and lovely weather to go outside on the terrace and enjoy Annapolis Harbor views.

Many Companies held parties of their own offsite, some at residences of area Classmates.

Sunday's branch was excellent, the Chapel services were inspirational, and what more can I say about the meaningful memorial service.

If you missed all of this for no really good or valid excuse, shame on you. But try to make up for it by pledging with roommates, Companymates, friends, associates, whomever, that you will be with us in 2004.

Special credit goes to our Hawaii contingent; I saw Stan Cobbs, Valli and Phil Powers, and Jim Kelly. From the UK came Liza and Johnny Bray.

Al Shinn was all the way from the Republic of Georgia, and Pat Joynt of the 11th Company was scheduled in from Norway. If someone else wants to claim "distance" honors it will take a "bullet to butter" which I hope many of you will do in the upcoming months.

I shall close with a few words about our intrepid bicyclist, Noel Flynn: Flynn retired as a captain, with a master's of science and an engineer's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, and a master's of science in systems engineering from USC. Since retirement, he has been enjoying the good life, camping and biking and seeing the world. In 1993, he did a biking tour of New Zealand. In 1996, he hiked thru Ireland and England. In 1999, he covered the 5,900 km in 47 days of riding, two days of rest, and six days of rain. His goal was to average 59 miles a day, but in his riding enthusiasm and loneliness for his fiancee, Brooke, he ended up averaging 72 miles a day.

During his travels, he encountered many reminders of the Class of '59—59 million really friendly Americans cheering him on the road, 59 billion mosquitoes, 59 square inches of poison ivy, and 5.9 million road bumps and a 5.9-square-inch saddle sore. "The best part about the trip was the people."

Well done, Noel, for the cross-country trek which helped raise funds and pledges for the Class of '59 Fund! In-line skates next time?

I received an email that said Bill Clautice's wife, Joyce, won the national Ms. Senior America title in Las Vegas. With the title, come many appearances and a good bit of travel. Right now, she is off to the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City to perform her ballet routine. Congratulations, Joyce!

Until next edition, keep those emails and snail mails flowing before you forget all that you intended to provide this writer.

Rise and Shine with '59!

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Pres: Dr. Richard R. Pariseau Sec'y: Bill Lewis 14312 Cove Ridge PI., Midlothian, VA 23112-4337 h: 804-744-8808; f: 804-675-5372 e: bilewis@home,com I appreciate the input over the Intemet. It really helps speed up the transmission of information.

What is going to help even more is the establishment of our Class Web site. Our Web site is up.

Take a visit http://navysfo.org/supersixty.html.

We've got a long way to go getting it the way we want it, but Dennis Vied is doing a great job putting it together There is now a message board, (bulletin board), up and mnning on the Super Sixty Web page.

Feel free to use it for Class communication, or anything else for that matter. Please read the short tutorial that Dennis has posted as the first message. It includes some valuable information you can use to get the most out of the message board.

He can also set up a chat room if you want it. It is available on the site, but he has never used it, so currently, he can't offer any advice on how well it works. Everything else works well, so we can assume the chat script does too.

With that in mind, several people have been trying to locate Tom Head and Al Morales. If someone knows how I can locate them, please let me know.

From Jim McConnell via email: We had an extremely successful mini-reunion last weekend at Lake Tahoe. Nineteen Classmates attended which is a new record for the Mini-Reunions. We lied a lot and laughed till we cried. A new twist was the Navy Songbook which met some resistance at first, but by the end of the weekend we sounded like half the Brigade was in attendance! I would strongly recommend songbooks for future get togethers.

On Thursday, people met at our house for a reception as they arrived in Tahoe. Thursday evening a charter bus took us to a dinner/dance paddle wheel cruise on Lake Tahoe aboard DIXIE. Friday we enjoyed a catered picnic at Ski Beach on the shores of Tahoe. Champions in the volleyball competition were Joe Rosengren, Dick Pariseau and Ted Parsons. The charter bus picked us up at the Hyatt that evening and took us to Harrah's where we enjoyed a fabulous seafood buffet and then the musical review. New York, New York. Rumor has it that Moe Moran's wife. Bo, owns half the Casino with some of her jackpot winnings. Saturday some played golf, others tennis and a few brave souls went hiking the seven-mile Tahoe flume trail. Most notable winners there were Claire Eraser and Fay and Jim's Golden Retriever, Daisy. Others went to Virginia City and took in the sights. Saturday night we went to Captain Jon's, a gourmet restaurant owned by Al Banford, a zoomie (USAFA Class of '62). Al said he was going to water down the drinks so we wouldn't get out of hand. Before the night was over we were serenading the entire restaurant with various Navy fight songs.

Adding "Beat Air Force" after "Beat Army" at the end of Navy "Blue and Gold" is a new twist that sounded great and might be considered as a permanent addition. Rumor has it that our zoomie host even got "mooned" during the evening.

Those attending the events included: Pat and Ray Burkley, Alice and Dan Affourtit, Bo and Moe Moran, Ted Parsons, Betty and Joe Rosengren, Dick Pariseau, Maryann and Tom Glew, Rob Kunkle and friend Barbara, Cookie and Joe Tranehini, Dave Schnegelberger and friend Jean, Jackie and Peter Dolan, Barbara and Ward O'Brien, Karen and Denny Vied, Avery and Benny Hallowell, Louise and Chuck Kiger, Claire and Bob Eraser, Margarite and Dan Roth,

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Carol and Glen Phillips, and Fay and Jim McConnell.

The next Mini-reunion will be at the "Big Easy" in 2001 for Mardi Gras. It's supposed to be bigger and better. I'd recommend blocking the calendar now! Ted Parsons was the official Scribe and Photographer and is putting together a scrapbook. He will forward appropriate pictures to Shipmate in the future.

By the many great comments we received throughout the weekend, I think it's fare to say the reunion was a smashing success. We came out in the black by $222 and a check has been sent to The Class of I960 Alumni Fund via Dick Pariseau to be used towards helping establish the Class Web page.

The gauntlet is down. New Orleans 2001 Mardi Gras! Let's make it even better!

I was glad to hear that Maryann and Tom Glew were at the min-reunion. Hope to see them both at upcoming events.

I received a message and article from Bob Tague about Bob Renner during the past month. From the information below you can see that Bob Renner had a fine career as a pilot and naval officer. Something happened with his death and only recently has his family been able to achieve some sort of closure. Neither his parents or wife knew of his memorial at Arlington. In any event, we will recognize Bob in "Last Call" shortly.

From Stew Seaman: I'm closing my eyes and trying to remember back 40 years ago and it isn't easy. To the best of my recollection Bob's roommates were Mike Midas, Ted McCIanahan, Jim McConnell, Bob Freehill and Ken Loveland. Maybe not all at one time, but they do stick in my mind. (Hope my memory is cortect and that I didn't forget anybody.) As to the Arlington memorial service, I was not aware that any had taken place.

For what it's worth, here are some of my recollections on Bob Renner: After graduation my wife, Liz, and I were very close to Bob and Carol. During our Pensacola days, we'd have dinner on the weekends at each other's place of abode. We also liked our "ram."

Frozen daiquiris did us in a number of times as I recall. We each had ski boats and along with Paul Ilg, who also had a rig, would take adventurous trips (skiing and what have you) out into Pensacola Bay. During Christmas leave, we would each take tums driving from Pensacola to New York and back for the holidays. At the time, Bob's parents lived in (I believe) Rockville Center on Long Island. Bob's parents were charming and when I met them, his father was disabled (Bob said some sort of industrial or constraction accident). After flight training, we found ourselves in the same air wing CVW-10 assigned SHANGRI LA (CVA-38). Bob was flying A-4s

Mike and Pat Merrillâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Congratulations!

From Mike Merrill via email: I'm not sure if I remember you, will have to look you up in the Lucky Bag. Anyway, George Myers has asked me to be the new rep for the 1960 Class 20th company. In his words: "I am looking for a replacement for 20th Company rep and you immediately came to mind with your email prowess. That is the only way to communicate long distance these days." So because I am newly retired and looking for things to do to keep me occupied I agreed. Since this is my first time writing to a Shipmate correspondent I thought I might use the opportunity to give those who are interested an update on my life.

I retired in 1980 after a mostly undistinguished but very enjoyable 20 years in the Navy as an aviator. Went to work for TRW for three and a half years as an S3A analyst. Then to Texas Instraments/Raytheon for 15 years as an analyst in the Mission Requirements/Systems Analysis Division, (TI Defense was sold to Raytheon in 1997) and then took advantage of an early retirement offer. Moved to San Diego in December of last year, and was married to the former Pamela Maudsley, a wonderful lady I have known for 12 years in March of this year (For those of you that know my history, I had been single for 15 years in March.) She and I have settled into a new house here in San Diego where 1 have set up a small computer consulting business teaching computer software applications and solving software/hardware problems for individuals. The enclosed picture was taken at our wedding held at the Admiral Kidd Officer's Club here in SD. I had lunch with John Schmidt recently and visited him at his NAS North Island job site where he supports the range operations for the San Clemente Southern Califomia offshore range.

Would enjoy hearing from, visiting with, or corresponding by email from any Classmates who live or who are visiting in the area, or who just want to cortespond by email. My email address is mikemert@wans.net. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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VA-106 while I was flying F-8s in VF-62. Bob became an LSO and was regarded as a top-notch aviator and naval officer by everyone who knew him. We made one, maybe two, Mediterranean deployments when Bob was selected to transition to "Vigilantes." When he left VA-106, either in 1964 or '65, our paths ceased to cross.

Our families were still great friends however, and I was eager to serve with him again. I was attending the Naval War College when I got the word that he had been killed in a freak landing accident aboard CONSTELLATION. The Navy lost a great naval officer and I lost a dear ftiend and Classmate.

I suppose I could remember more if my mind were prompted with more specifics. I know that in 1971, when I was assigned to USNA as a company officer, I spoke with CAPT Phil Ryan, deputy commandant at the time, about Bob. Phil had been a Vigilante pilot and had known Bob quite well. He confirmed the fact that Bob was extremely talented as an aviator and was a traly outstanding naval officer. In fact, he stated that efforts were underway to try and get a Naval Air Station named in his honor. Since I've not heard anything to confirm this, the effort probably got lost in the Vietnam clutter of the early 70s.

My wife and I have lost contact with Carol and the children. We have been hoping that she would attend one of our Class events. Carol is a classy lady who was married to a very classy guy, Liz and I miss them both.

That's all I have at the moment. You have sparked up some wonderful memories that have remained dormant far too long. I hope additional information will be forthcoming about Bob and his family. If you need me for anything else, simply email or call (410-867-0105).

Jay Grafton also emailed: Bill, you might try Gene Gasser as he was a "Vigie" driver and they probably had a rather closed group.

On another matter. Tony Martin and Geri were over for a couple of days as Hurricane Floyd refugees. Fortunately, they got home safely to little to no damage.

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Dick Hamon and friends From Dick Hamon via email: I am enclosing two pictures (above) taken at "Hamon's Last Hurrah!" Since arriving in the D.C. area in 1978. except for a three year tour in Spain (1985-1988), Joy and I have enjoyed quality time with many fellow 8th Company grads and their wives. Raise the "party flag" and our group gathers. Pictured are Patty and Chuck Bingemer, Barbara and A! Bissell, Joann and Carl Bruntlett, Joy and Dick Hamon, Joan and Jim Lippold, Kay and Jay Newbem (all the way from Atlanta). Debbie and John Ruhsenberger and Marilyn and Dave Williams from 8th Company. Including those near and dear to our hearts are Carolyn and Jim Duffy and Chet Hansen representing the 7th Company, and Ron Hinkel, the 14th.

Retirement is breaking up that old gang of ours.

The Brantletts have built a lovely home in West,

by God, Virginia; the Ruhsenbergers are building in Rorida; the Bingemers are on their way to South Carolina; and Joy and I will move into our new home in Pinehurst, NC, on 17 September.

Joy and I look forward to hosting many more parties from our new abode. The welcome mat is out and the golfing is great, come see us. Our number is 910-295-7278.

We are now partially moved in to our new home in North Carolina. We moved out of Virginia just as Floyd was arriving in North Carolina, delayed an extra day en route to allow the storm to pass, and moved in on Saturday, 18 September. Luckily, there is no flooding where we are and the storm caused minimal damage.

New address, etc; 61 Kilbride Dr., Pinehurst, NC 28374; new email; djhamon@earthlink.net. We have a spare bedroom, come on down/up.

From Bob Allison via email: As you can tell, I now have an email address. I bought a new computer and have installed email and other things. Thanks for the information to get my ring repaired. I have a star raby that protrades a good bit and had chipped it severely.

Josten replaced the stone and it looks great again.

I received your message and I greatly appreciate it. I did not know that Dave Eason was ill. I assume that Barbara emailed you the information that Cyndi forwarded to me. If so, would you send me her email address? I will assume unless she says differently that Dave will see her

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messages, anyway I would like to communicate with her. Hope things are going well with you.

From Jim McCusker: The receipt of my July/August Shipmate arrived today and it was bittersweet. In this issue there is a photograph of myself. Bob Powers, Tom Moylan, Joe Ricciardi and our dear friend Bob DeMaio. You now know that Bob passed away on 8 July some ten weeks after that wonderful picture was taken.

Bob was making preparations for the marriage of his daughter, Nancy, on 10 July and a number of members of the Class of'60 were to join him for that celebration. Instead, the wedding was cancelled and we celebrated Bob's wonderful life at his funeral.

Bob and I were friends from the time we first met in the fall of 1955 when we were both enlisted men at the Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, MD. From that time forward I had the honor of meeting his parents. Colonel and Mrs. Mario DeMaio, USA; his brother. Dr. John DeMaio; and his sister, Patricia Sherman. We attended each other's weddings, the christenings of our children and the marriages of our children.

We thought we would live forever. The United States Navy, the United States Naval Academy Class of 1960 and our families have lost a wonderful guy. May he rest in the peace he so richly deserves.

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Pres: RADM Jerry Smith, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Roger Onorati, USN (Ret.) 1756 Point-No-Point Drive, Annapohs, MD 21401 h: 410-849-3812; w: 301-261-8862 f: 301-261-8669; e: rtrogero@ea.net http://wwwjorge.com/USNA61 Here it is, the last column of the millennium and I feel I should be writing something very profound.

However, I'm going to resist that impulse and instead bring you up to date on the meeting of 25 Classmates held in September to discuss and make

a decision on our Class Project, I'm pleased to report the weekend was a tremendous success. Our Class president, Jerry Smith, sent a follow-up letter to those who attended, and I thought all Classmates would be interested in key parts of this letter to see where we are now and where we plan to go. The following are excerpts from Jerry's letter: By far the most important thing I took away from the weekend was the rock-solid endorsement for the Class of 1961 Leadership Endowment project by the leadership of the Naval Academy. The Superintendent put development of Midshipmen as future leaders in the Fleet, the Fleet Marine Force and beyond square in the center of his vision for the role of the Naval Academy. Underscoring our project's focus on Leadership, he showed us where Midshipmen leadership development is emphasized in the recently published Strategic Plan. In one excerpt from the Executive Summary Case Statement, titled Providing Leaders to Serve the Nation, he states: Our timeless mission provides our direction.

Our focus is the development of leaders. We prepare Midshipmen morally, mentally, and physically to become officers in the Naval Service and, ultimately, leaders throughout this great nation.

The Superintendent also recognized the fine past efforts of the Class of 1961 and our continuing support of the Academy, and lauded the objective of our legacy campaign that will continue as long as our Class exists. He showed us why private sector support was needed and how it has made a difference in the academic programs at the Academy.

The Commandant of Midshipmen continued with the message of the importance of leadership development and informed us of specific areas in which private funds were needed now and in the future to supplement the academic and character development programs funded at only a basic level by public funds. These specifics were particularly useful since we on the Executive Committee have been working with the Leadership, Ethics and Law Department for many months to find out just what kind of support we could provide. We now have the details to respond to Classmates' queries about what our contributions will do. It was also great to have the holder of the Distinguished Chair of Leadership, ADM Hank Chiles '60, join us briefly to confirm the needs, plans, and priorities of the Leadership, Ethics and Law Department.

I thought Dean Bill Miller's '62 recounting of his experience as assistant provost at West Virginia University to be most germane to the situation at the Naval Academy. In West Virginia, a state with the second lowest per capita income in the U.S., the University depends on a combination of state funding, federal grants, income from sponsored research, tuition and fees from students, proceeds from the student union and bookstores, as well as substantial income from private gifts to survive. It is a public institution for which private gifts make a key difference. Dn Miller said it is the same with the Naval Academy except that we have fewer sources of funds, and private gifts make an even greater difference between an adequate program of instraction and an excellent program.

I was also very impressed with the Academic Dean's statement that the mission of the Naval Academy is to produce leaders first, with the academic program designed to give them the tools to practice their specialties in the Fleet and Fleet Marine Force environments and beyond. Dr. Dan Struble '83, Alumni Association vice president for development, followed up with a validation of the key importance of Class giving. He also described how the various foundations and other entities that currentiy support the Naval Academy are sorting out their roles and titles.. .something I'm sure those of us who receive solicitations will find most helpful.

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On Saturday, we met in plenary session to process what we had heard the previous day. After thorough discussion we came to universal agreement on the appropriateness of our project's focus on leadership. We affirmed the direction taken in our May 1998 meeting of '61 representatives and agreed to target the USNA Strategic Plan objective supporting Midshipmen leadership development, recognizing we would have to move soon to stake a claim for our Class, We still must address the Naval Academy Alumni Association's need for unrestricted funds.

We also agreed that our campaign should be broad enough to provide room for those who would prefer to give unrestricted funds or split their gifts, as well as those who enthusiastically support our chosen project to create a major endowment to help the Academy develop Midshipmen as future leaders of our great country.

As you can see, our project is off to a great start.

Many Classmates have volunteered to help us get the project rolling. Our ultimate goal is to create and build a significant endowment to support the Naval Academy's raison d'etre: Providing Leaders to Serve the Nation. Our intermediate objective is to have in hand sufficient gifts which, coupled with the funds raised by past phone-a-thon pledges from Classmates along with Class funds already on deposit with the Alumni Association from earlier fundraising efforts, can enable us to begin a substantial initial endowment in a celebration and ceremony of our legacy project during our 40th Reunion in September 2001.

Mail Call From St. Louis, Raese "Suitcase" Simpson sends the following: Sharon and Jim Joyner's departure for Virginia Beach seemed a great excuse for a' 61 party.

They will be missed here, and a real asset to the Norfolk area. We hope someone else will see the light and join us in the Gateway to the West. After all, we're the home of Budweiser and Mark McGwire. (The Cardinals stink, but the beer is good!) The photo (below) taken atop the University Club Tower building shows Pete Danna, Ann Marie Simpson, Sharon and Jim Joyner, Brooke Danna and Suitcase Simpson as they bid adieu to Sharon and Jim. Hope to see some WGNAC classmates this fall in Crabtown and at the Hawaii game in November.

Neil Block sends from Houston: Many '61ers were on hand to see the supermediocre football game against Rice. The following were seen and visited with; Ed Straw: Settled into his new job as Procurement Head at Compaq Computers and home, as well, in Houston.

Buzz Needham: I haven't seen Buzz in God knows how many years. Very unchanged as to physiognomy except for some graying locks. He has just relocated to San Angelo, TX, about 350 miles northwest of Houston. What a great and warm surprise to see him materialize at a luncheon

for the Supe at Bob Mosbacher's home. (Bob M. was a cabinet officer in Mn Bush's administration and a good friend of USNA.) Mel (Tex) Painter: Mel retumed to Houston, his boyhood home and oft stop-over from his Middle East self-imposed exile. He will be here for a year or so doing some technical communications consulting.

Tom Murray: Tom was visiting from the DC area to see his mom who lives just outside of Houston.

Chris Nichols: Chris has been living here for a couple of years after becoming involved in a business enterprise he wrestied with here in the area.

Curt Gibby: Curt has lived here for many, many years and continues as a technical consultant in the maritime industry.

If we didn't win the game, we beat all others at the tailgate where we had an attendance and participation of over 1,400.

From the skies high above San Diego, George Worthington writes: Thought these photos may be of use as fillers in your column. My "free" birthday jump from Air Adventures at Brown Field. That's Mexico behind me in free fall, but I landed in the good ol' USA shouting "Go Navy, Beat Army!"

Finally, Bill Straight sends the following trip report and photos: Kathy and I traveled to Tuscany, Italy, from 28 June to 8 July with the Alumni College abroad.

The group of about 20 couples were from the Naval Postgraduate School, Kansas State, and the Citadel. Kathy and I spent a few days in Rome also. On boarding the bus to go to Pienza, we were surprises to see Classmate Bob Hoag and his wife, Caroline, in the group.

We stayed every night and ate all our meals in the Hotel Corsignano in the small hilltop renaissance town of Pienza. Each moming we had a seminar about the history, culture, art, food, wine, etc. of the area. We would then jump into the coach and head off on our tour for the day.

We visited Florence, Sienna, Peragia, Assisi, Montepulciano, a winery, and a working abbey. The beautiful rolling hills reminded me of my home state of West Virginia. However, I missed not seeing any carts up on blocks, or a sofa or fridge on the front porch. I guess they haven't yet leamed how to do that there.

The guides, the hotel, the food, cheeses and wines were great. It is a beautiful area. It is clean and has great scenery and fresh air. We highly recommend it.

The photos show Bob and I getting refills at the winery from a beautiful Swedish guide, Yanni. It only got better from there! Kathy, Caroline, Bob and I are holding up a sign in Italian, "Viene Fatto Con ' 6 1 " that translates to "Get it done, with ' 61."

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The Hoags and Straights Getting it done in Italia Cyberspace Nooze From the sunny clime of San Diego, Chuck St. Laurent (saint@ixpres.com) comes through with a report and photo: I am happy to report that four members of the Class were able to dust off their military swords, adjust some sword belt sizes (a little of course) and participate in the opening ceremonies for the 1999 San Diego Yacht Club Gentlemen's Craise (No women) held on CataUna Island. Note the picture, taken before the ceremonies at theflagpole.

Jim Richardson (32-foot Catalina sail boat) and Bill Krause (37-foot Carver power craiser) are members of the yacht club and must have had too many beers at one of their club's meetings as they volunteered to provide the honor guard. In any event they recraited myself and Tom Bailey to participate. Ron McKeown was also going to participate, but late breaking business took him out of town.

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Jim Richardson, Chuck St. Laurent, Tom Bailey, and Bill Kraus in Catalina It was a great way to start the three-day, funIn early September, I received the following filled regatta/cruise and after a little practice with from Neil Block in Houston: the swords (remember I was a clean sleever First I just received a phone call this moming reClass Year ) and some left and right faces, the garding the passing away of Dick Bowen (3rd San Diego class honor guard did proud—then it Company). Dick resided here in Houston for was off to the bar. There was an event the previmany years and popped up on the horizon occaous night in Bill's dinghy after reluming from a sionally. Dick had been in the real estate busifour-mile trip to Avalon Harbor for dinner that ness and had a long history of heart problems should be told sometime—just ask Tom Bailey and cancer. His heart problems had been complifor the details. cated by past cancer treatments. I seem to rememOn a personal note, I retired from National ber that Dick was a NAPS entrant with our class Steel and Shipbuilding four months ago and am and served in the Air Force when we graduated. very busy doing what I want; when I want; and Our condolences go out to the family and friends where I want. Arilla and I plan on staying in the of Bill and Dick.

San Diego area. I did buy a 46-foot Beneteau Get It Done With '61 sailboat in the Caribbean and lease it back to the Moorings for charters. The boat is based in St. Lucia and can be chartered either from there or Grenada. If any Classmates are interested in charters from the Moorings or even my boat. SAINTS A'SEA, please contact me as I can get you some discounts, especially with my boat. I am also involved in the recent opening of a fantastic hair Regular Membership: 36% salon in New York City in SOHO (my daughter Life Membership: 29% and her Italian husband own a salon in Pisa, Italy) Pres: CAPT Richard J. Hayes, USN (Ret.) and can probably offer some discounts there. OK, h: 703-461-3582; e: USNA62@erols.com enough of the promotions. Rumor has it that the Sec'y: CDR Howard S. Pinskey, USN (Ret.) 2Ist Company, the Color Company, will be featured in a fiiture issue of Shipmate, trae? Ciao.

P O . Box 3380, Annapohs, MD 21403-3326 Seen and Heard Around Town h: 410-974-1962; e: PINSK62@aol.com Greetings from Annapolis In early September, W a s h i n g t o n - a r e a WGNACers had their annual gathering at the Shorter days, colder weather and downtown fesAlumni House in Annapolis. Art Rowe had the tive decorations are the order of the day. May evreins for this one as our regular social chairman, eryone have a merry and joyous Christmas holiDon Evans, was off with his bride, Joan, touring day season and a healthy and happy new year 2000. some foreign country or another Class Luncheon We graduated last century!? attendees: Jim George, Howie Winfree, Jay Bower, The Class received word that Edward Bode, a Arlie Campbell, Joe Kasales, Dave Stem, John non-graduate Classmate, passed away this past Morris, Roger Onorati, Rich Lamporte, Jerry summer. Edward Charles Bode, a retired naval ofSmith, Skip McGinley and Art Rowe. ficer who helped raise money for the Dallas Symphony and other arts groups, died 22 August of Arlie Campbell sent me a report from a periliver disease at the Veterans Affairs Medical Cenodical published by the U.S. Navy Memorial in ter in Dallas, M r Bode was 59, His ashes were Washington, D . C , featuring our Classmate, Jim buried in Copperas Cemetery in Kimble County.

Rauth, treasurer of Sin.LrvANS Association, presenting a plaque to president of the Navy Memorial in Bom in San Antonio, M r Bode grew up on his April. More than 40 plaques commemorating ships grandmother's ranch near Junction, TX. He atand air squadrons, as well as specific naval actions tended the University of Texas at Austin for a year and people who served in the Navy, are mounted before receiving an appointment to the U.S. Naval on the memorial wall in the Naval Heritage Center Academy. One year later he retumed to UT AusUpcoming Class Events tin, where he eamed a bachelor of arts degree in English literature. He later eamed an MBA from Washington area Class luncheons are scheduled the University of North Carolina, after a career in for Tuesday, 11 January, and 14 March 2000. the Navy. Mr. Bodes service included an assignParting Shots ment on the staff of the chief of naval operations I end this colunm with the sad news of the death in the Pentagon. He retired as a commander. of two Classmates.

In August, I received a letter from the ex-wife In 1982, Mn Bode retumed to Texas, and for of Bill Fitts (11th Company), formeriy of Seattie, the next five years he traveled to do fundraising stating that Bill died in Tucson, AZ, on 5 July 1999.

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and subscription campaigns in various cities including the Washington Opera at Kennedy Center, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Opera Virginia. In Dallas, Mn Bode organized the direct-person campaign for the Dallas Symphony's effort to raise funds for the Morton H, Meyerson Symphony Center He also helped raise money for the Dallas Opera, Ballet Dallas and the Dallas Black Dance Theater In recent years, Mn Bode was a freelance writer for Park Cities News, where he reviewed arts in Dallas.

Mn Bode leaves no immediate survivors. Memorials may be made to St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 8011 Douglas, Dallas, TX 75225.

Class News Hal Koenig sent in the following summary from TROA on some current legislation. He says that action is imminent on the Veterans Millenium Health Care Act, HR 2116. The bill provides a comprehensive blueprint for addressing the health care needs of veterans in the 21st century. Some of its innovative provisions include: • " Requiring VA to increase home and community based long-term care: establishing a long-term care benefit for any veteran with a 50 percent or higher disability or a service-connected need for such care.

••" Establishing a new health care enrollment category for non-disabled military retirees eligible for Tricare, essentially guaranteeing them care, as opposed to their current "space available" status.

••• Allowing the VA to adjust copayments for certain services like pharmaceuticals, eyeglasses, etc., subject to certain restrictions.

• " Authorizing VA to cover emergency costs for uninsured veterans.

••" Directing VA to realign inefficient facilities and reinvest the savings locally to improve veterans access to care.

Call your Congressman for more details.

As promised last month, a photo of J.D. Runnels and Andy Zagayko.

J.D. and Andy That's our Class news for this last Shipmate article of the millennium. Let's all make a New Year's resolution to send in a note, letter or photo in 2000.

A good way to start off the next century.

On Saturday, 4 December, in Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, Navy will defeat Army in the 100th meeting of our two great institutions.

As always, for this game, '62 SEZ-ZONK 'EM Until next time...

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Pres: Hon. Stephen M. Duncan Sec'y: Michael H. Shelley 25 Sweetwater Lane, Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 h: 828-862-4245; e: nstar@citcom,net Web site: www,USNA63.org Somehow we've come around to December again. Another great year is almost behind us. Despite the unending hype, as math whizzes we all know that 1999 isn't the last year of the millennium. Let the masses have their frolic at the end of this month.

A year from now we can have our partyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;much more fun and with smaller crowds. And we can feel smug about "Having Got It Right." Quality, indeed.

I hope you've become a regular visitor to the Class of 1963 Web site. It just keeps getting better The most notable new features are a "Plan of the Day" and the "Electronic Lucky Bag." As you would expect, the POD is updated daily; it contains photographs of Classmates bora on that date, a chow call countdown of the days remaining until various events, and other useful information. A feature unique to our Web site, the ELB contains the Lucky Bag photograph and biography of every one of our Classmates, We encourage everyone to provide current information about themselves, which will be linked to the original material already there. Among the features in the "Pride and Tradition" section, you can find such inspirational material as Chuck Krulak's "Farewell to the Corps," Pat Conroy's "Eulogy for a fighter pilot" (his Marine father), and the unexpurgated text of George Patton's famous address to his troops. Sea stories abound on the site, and we want to add yours.

If you wish to submit scanned photos, just send them to me as email attachments and we'll get them onto our Web site quickly. Take a look at the November Shipmate column on the site for an example of how we can use photos that don't appear in the printed version. Length restrictions sometimes limit the number of photographs than can be printed in the magazine. There are no such restrictions on our Web site, so we expect to be making lots of photos available for your enjoyment there.

Last month, I shared Joel Gardner's exciting news that Bruce Webb married this summer Going straight to the source, I zapped an email to Brace asking for details. Here's his response: I was recently married to a very lovely lady, Larissa Ryapolova, from Kiev, Ukraine. I met her about two years ago when she worked for the U.S. Embassy and served as the translator for a U.S. delegation I was there with. She's also a college professor in linguistics with a Kiev University, and although I managed to enjoy her presence here in the U.S. for the summer, she had to go back under a contract in which she is obligated to teach there for the fall semester. However, I currently am working with this program under the auspices of the Departments of State and Commerce which places me there at least once a month, so for now the separation is not bad.

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Also, here is a photo of Jim Carter and me in Red Square in front of Lenin's tomb. It was taken when he and I were there for the "non-proliferation cooperation" program that I am working with, and he came along to support.

Dick Williams, Dirck Praeger, Frank Gregory and Spence Johnson

Jim Carter and Brace Webb in Red Square Here's an intriguing idea from Bill Anderson (bill.anderson@wffoods.com): I keep reading about our Classmates biking for charity. In the June Shipmate, there was a note about six Midshipmen who were going to bike across the U.S. as "an example of the caliber of individuals who attend the Naval Academy." Dud Hendrick spent part of last year in Vietnam raising funds for hospitals there with a bike race of U.S. and Vietnamese veterans.

Maybe we ought to adapt these efforts to the Class of 1963. What if we had a single Class of '63 bike and each Classmate pedaled it from his home to the next nearest Classmate (or farther) and so on? We could complete a circuit around the U.S. (or more). Maybe we could raise money for a worthy cause too.

If you would like to explore this terrific idea farther, contact Bill by email or write to him at 94 Leroy Avenue, Darien, CT 06820; 203-655-6884.

Maybe someone can plot an all-downhill course.

This being a shorter than usual column, I can include some photos taken by Phil Marsden at a Class of 1963 luncheon at the Army/Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA, this spring. Our most prolific snapshot-maker, Phil sent these to me promptly, but the length restrictions mentioned above have kept them waiting until now. Thanks, Phil, for your patience.

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Jack Fischer, Satch Baumgart, Kent Maxfield and Sonny Glassner George Singer is now general manager for the Washington and Oregon operations of OneStar Long Distance, which is based in Evansville, IN. I have leamed from Claudio Pacheco '64 that our Classmate Dave Shute has taken up residence in a rural area of Costa Rica. We know you're there, Dave, and we're expecting to hear from you soon.

Other news reaching me is that Pete Optekar has been highly successful in expanding his software company, so successful that a British firm, RTS Group, bought the company this summer It was reported that Pete and his partners will remain on board.

Don Freese recently completed his first year as executive director of college relations at the Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg, FL, Tom Meyer has ended an 18-month stint as head of one of three cross-functional teams deployed

by The Thomas Group to reduce the total time to train naval aviators. He was working with the Naval Training Command in Corpus Christi. In September, he left the Navy team to take over as results manager for a new client in Asia. He and Claire moved to Hong Kong in November for a 12-15 month assignment there.

Joe Strasser is a member of the Board of Directors of USAA, the insurance and financial services company which counts most of us among its members. For the past two years, Joe has been Dean of the Commonwealth College, Pennsylvania State University's largest college.

A previous column contained Mike Moore's account of the contributions of Bill Stewart to the establishment of the Vietnam Veterans "Remembrance Walk" in Santa Barbara, C A. Subsequently, I received this note from Bill: I was honored by Mike Moore's comments in the July-August issue. I had no idea he was writing anything about me and was very surprised when I read the column. It's been a privilege volunteering in the community and I am sure many other Alumni engaged in community activities would say the same.

Al Sherman, Steve Duncan, Denny Conley (in rear), Charlie Stubbs, Dave Robinson, Bob Forster Shipmate, December 1999

Thanks to Jim Metcalfe for supplying this information about Ron Baxter: Lisa and I received a surprise visit from Lettie and Ron Baxter on 11 September. They are currently living in Kailua, HI, near Carla and Jeff Miles' daughter. Erica, and son-in-law, David Smith (David is in a P-3 squadron). Ron is flying 747s across the Pacific for Northwest. He and Lettie were visiting her father here in Virginia Beach. He is an 80-something farmer The Baxters have just bought a home on the North Carolina outer banks at CoUington Harbor, Just north of Nags Head. They hope to live there after Ron retires from Northwest (mandatory retirement at 60).

This news comes from Steve Coester: In mid-August, Sandy and Ollie Donelan stopped by for a visit with Yvonne and me after attending a wedding on the Florida east coast.

Yvotme served a marvelous branch and everyone caught up on kids and grandchildren, and resurrected tales of dating. Midshipman life, and careers. It was through Ollie that I was first introduced to Yvonne, so he gets part of the credit for our 36-year marriage. The same day, we got a call from our son. Dean, saying he'd just passed his check ride as a United Air Lines 767 first officer and would start flying out of Kennedy about 20 August Our son-in-law, Bodie Miller, is coming home in late August after being hospitalized since his tragic motorcycle accident in April. He's doing better, but is still paralyzed from the chest down and has only limited use of his arms and hands.

Anyone wanting to keep up with Bodie MUler's progress can find the latest info in the "Hot News" section of the 1963 Web site.

Building on our recent discussion about USNArelated Ucense plates, here's a very good story from Fred Kaiser: After reading this month's Shipmate column, I wonder how many Classmates can claim "USNA 63" Ucense plates on both their car and a motorcycle. I have the prestigious plates in the state of Dlinois on both my Jeep Cherokee and my Honda 750 Nighthawk. The plates provided a very sentimental moment about a year ago. I was remming home from a business trip. It was evening, and I was driving north on one of the Chicago expressways. My mind wandered, but I became aware of a car slowly passing me in the lane to my right. When I looked at the car, the young man driving looked at me and issued a sharp salute, the tips of his fingers touching his ball cap. As he drove off into the night, I attributed his gesture to my license plate, and assumed he must have been a graduate of a more recent class. In that instant my emotions swelled as I thought of my pride in having graduated from the Naval Academy, and our pride in the men and women who have followed us.

The very busy Jim Ring recently represented the family of our late Classmate, Jim Patterson, at the dedication of the MIA crypt at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arlington National Cemetery. He also had spoken with Betty Fitzgerald, who told him she would be presenting a large, framed hthograph of Dick Whalen's painting of FrrzGERALD to the mayor of Montpelier, VT, in October The occasion was the annual commemoration of Montpelier native, ADM George Dewey, famed for his leadership at the Battle of Manila Bay. The lithograph will be hung in the City Hall. Jim reported having seen the movie Retum with Honor about the POW experience in Vietnam and recommends it highly I hope the month of December won't be too frantic for you, and that you and your family will have a wonderful holiday season. Happy New Year!

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Pres: CAPT Jerry Anderson, USNR (Ret.) S e c y : CAPT Grant Fulkerson, USN (Ret.) 6000 Natick Court, Burke, VA 22015 h: 703-978-6885; e: fulkie@erols.com Class Web page: http://www.mindspring.com/ ~gunsmoke26o/USNA64 It is with deep regret that I must report the death of Ronald (Ron) Erwin Harder (16th Co). Ron died 16 September of a massive stroke shortly after he had finished moving mats at his school, which was serving as a Red Cross emergency shelter for victims of Hurricane Floyd, Ron was beginning his third year as principal of Washington High School in the Somerset County, MD, public school system.

Students, faculty, friends and family gathered on the sun-drenched field at Washington High School on 18 September to share thoughts and memories of their principal. The memorial service, attended by the football team and marching band, preceded the team's football game against Snow Hill High School, Harder's wife, Jackie, stood along with the rest of the solemn crowd as her husband was remembered.

Ron's funeral was held on 20 September Ron was a native of Delmar, MD. He is survived by his wife, Jackie, of Salisbury, MD; daughters. Amy and Susan of the Tidewater, Virginia, area; and a son, John, who lives in Northem Virginia. Condolences can be sent to the family at 27661 Equestrian Drive, Salisbury, MD 21801. Please remember Ron and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Jerry Anderson requested that I pass along the following note he had received from the son of our Classmate Bruce Welch.

My name is Chuck Amendola. CAPT Brace E. Welch, USMC (Ret.), Class of 1964 was my step dad. A few years back, I had submitted to Shipmate memories of my family's 21 years with Dad until his untimely passing in 1991. Since then I have developed a warm relationship with his fellow Classmate, "Cap" Pinney. I am attempting to gather as much info on Dad as I can, for my nieces and nephews who were mostly too young to have known him well. As a short recap of the published article. Brace married Mom in 1969 when it was not quite fashionable for officers to marry divorced women with seven children. Yes, seven! My five sisters, my brother and I were traly blessed with a man who loved us to the day he died and loved my Mom completely.

Our life was full of love and chaos. Vietnam took Brace away, until his medical retirement in 1974.

After 433 combat missions and four tours, he built a life as an aerospace engineer and loving father.

His passing from brain cancer was devastating to us all, but his legacy lives on. I attribute his wonderful personality as a man and leader to his own family and the four fantastic years that formed him at Annapolis. If you and his fellow Classmates can fill me in on remembrances of him, then it will be appreciated.

Sincerely, Charles A. (Chuck) Amendola, chief executive officer. Synergistic Evaluation, Inc., Route 1 Box 289, Whitewater, CA 92282; 760416-7409; e: camuck@juno.com.

Unfortunately, that is all the news I have received this month. The reunion committee is completing last minute details for the 35th and hopefully next month's column will be filled with news we can gamer from some of the 300 Classmates who will be attending the reunion events.

For those of you who haven't seen your name in the column in quite a while, please take a few minutes to send me an email or a letter with the latest news about yourself and your family. Maybe a reso-

lution for the year 2000 can be to let your Classmates know where you are and how you are doing.

I hope you all have a happy and joyous holiday season and may 2000 bring you and your family peace and happiness throughout the year.

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Pres: Pete Gness 410-757-4796; e: pdg@nrc.gov Sec'y: CDR Dave Anderson, USN (Ret) 5 Strawberry Lane, Carhsle, PA 17013 e: daveand@planetcable,net Class Web Page: http://www.users.planetcable.net/~daveand Received a great photo from Missy Donnelly.

Shown below are Marian and Dave Schlesinger, Marie and Tim Kelley, and Missy and Pat Donnelly taken at the 1999 SEABEE Ball in San Diego in August.

During September, we were all invited to Paul Reason's change of command in Norfolk. Regrettably, Hurricane Floyd pretty well stomped on the plans for this mega-ceremony and a private CoC was held in the CinCLantFlt HQ office. I know lots of us wanted to be there to say farewell to Paul.

I think Claude Lumpkin (clumpkin@netpath. net) expressed it best in an e-group posting: I know that whomever can be there from '65 will reflect the pride and gratification that we all feel, in having seen one of our Classmates go so far in our chosen profession. Paul Reason is a superlative example of what a naval officer should be. Paul was the first in our Class to achieve Flag rank and from very early on, he demonstrated the characteristics of leadership which marked him for success at the highest levels. The least that can be said is, "Well done." I truly wish him and his family fair winds and following seas.

Pat Fitch (patfitch@pop.dn.net) also sent in an email and enclosed some photos of a party hosted by the Lueckes in Paul and Diane's honor: On Saturday, 21 August 1999, Maggie and Mike Luecke hosted a Class of 1965 gathering in honor of Diane and Paul Reason. Paul's change of command as Commander in Chief U. S. Atlantic Fleet, takes place 17 September at 9 a.m., and this was a great opportunity to have a party before that event. Paul and Diane will be retiring to Chesapeake Beach, MD, in their lovely new townhouse at the edge of the westem shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Mike and Maggie hosted a great party in their magnificent residence on Dillingham Boulevard, on the Naval Station at Norfolk. Lots of great food, good conversation, and a Reef Points quiz.

Yes, a Reef Points quiz. No, we didn't have to shove out if we missed a question or a quote. But while most of the "knowledge and wisdom" imparted by that little book has remained with us over the years, it was obvious that not everyone present had a Plebe Year.

Speeches were short, with Paul, Diane and everyone present, thankful for all the good times we've shared over the years. They concluded when everyone present sang all three verses of "Navy Blue and Gold." It was a great evening to be associated with the United States Naval Academy and the Class of 1965.

Classmates came from near (Norfolk), and far (Colorado, Jim Savard), and places in between (mostly the D.C. area). Others present included Dave Bailey, Karen and Bob Beauchamp, Christina and Al Becker, Paige and Ron Bishop, Frank Burns, Mary and John Burt, Linda and Norm Dean, Melanie and Pete Gness, Gayle and Bill Hancock, Janet and Forrest Horton, Susy and Wyman Howard, Sam and Frog 95

L to r: Dave and Marian Schlesinger, Tim and Marie Kelley, Pat and Missy Donnelly at the 1999 Seabee Ball, San Diego, CA

The gang at the Luecke's Kristensen, Frank and Frank Mixner, Carol and Ed Moninger, Diane and Bill Newlon, Pete O'Connor, Carter Refo, Jim Roorbach, Amy and Carl Spangler, and Peggy and Bob Sullivan.

A photo of all Classmates present is attached, but individuals are difficult to identify.

Mike Luecke will remain on active duty as CinCLantFlt Fleet's Chief of Staff until later this year, when he too will retire. He, Maggie, Paul and Diane are shown in an attached photo.

L to r: Paul and Diane Reason, Maggie and Mike Luecke Since it has taken more than two weeks to get the photos ready to send over email, I might as well include some other events that have taken place this summer that may be of interest.

On Friday, 3 September 1999, Paul Reason was the reviewing officer at the USNA P-rade. Ninetyfive of our Classmates and wives were on hand to view the event from the distinguished visitors seating area. It was followed by a reception at the Buchanan House, the recently renovated Supt's house. Mrs. and VADM John Ryan '67, USN, hosted and were in the receiving line with Diane and Paul Reason.

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Carrie and Carole took in the ambiance of the area.

At another venue, Carrie and I are pictured in the U.S. Capitol, with the new Commandant of the Marine Corps, GEN Jim Jones. He and Carrie are Classmates from Georgetown University and our paths have crossed several times over the years.

This time Jim was the guest speaker at the Exchange Club of Capitol Hill. I'm an active member of that chapter of the club and had Frog Kristensen and John Burt present as my guests.

Frog will be a guest speaker later this month.

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Pat and Carrie Fitch with the new Commandant of the Marine Corps, GEN Jim Jones Of course RADM Mike Luecke, CinCLantFlt NOl, (LueckeJM@clfnavy.mil) also chipped in with his take on the doings for the Reasons:

A great time was had by all! Highlights of the evening included "Reef Points Trivia" which severely tested long-term memory, P-rade music, dancing, and a rousing choras of "Navy Blue and Gold!" Jim Savard won the prize for traveling the farthest (from Colorado).

Jeff Lewis checked in several times this month.

According to Jeff and my records, we now have 634 Classmates, or 89 percent of us, online. There are at least 66 new addresses and over 50 corrections to email addresses made in recent months on our Web site.

Jette Brown called me after detecting I'd moved from Hawaii to Carlisle, PA. All's well with Jette and family in Jacksonville, even though Hurricane Floyd gave them a pretty good scare. They had to evacuate their nice home, but fortunately there was no damage.

Email action to me (and some to Jeff that he passed on) was, as usual, pretty hot. A reasonable representative sample included: From J o h n Kohler ( J o h n . K o h l e r @ M W .

Boeing.com): My son, Karl Kohler '95, just completed CQ in the S-3 and will be assigned to VS-27 in San Diego. His wife, Stacey, was promoted and is now the administrative assistant to the Special Agent In Charge of the San Diego FBI office. Granddaughter Kaitlyn, is advanced for her ageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at 16 months she has learned the word "NO!" Grandpa thinks that's "advanced." Her Mom and Dad have a different opinion.

We had a family reunion in the Branson area (my mother grew up in Forsyth, MO). I have a timeshare in Stonebridge just north of Branson and just south of Silver Dollar City. We are going to use it the last week of August and play golf with Nikki and Elden Ploof. I will retire from Boeing in a year or so and build on a lot overlooking Tablerock Dam that I've owned for 26 years.

Sharon and Doug Katz hosted an open house after the Georgia Tech game for all Washington/ Baltimore/AnnapoUs area in Annapolis on 4 September.

From Steve McDonald (stevemac65@aol.com), 28 August '99: For your city locator in the '65 Web site, there are now three of us in Lakeland, FL, if you want to add a city: Steve McDonald, Lee Rathbun, and Michael J. Riley.

I am the organizer for a new Alumni Chapter in West Central Florida. We have our first organization meeting on 16 September. If they elect me president, I may become the only Alumn to have been president of three different Chapters; Miami, Atlanta and the new one. We'll see. My daily routine is mostly taken up restoring another antique airplane (my fourth). This restoration is a 1939 Staggerwing Beech. I still have my Stearman, which Classmates (and wives) get to ride in when they show up at my home. I only have one raleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a traditional Navy rale: He who puketh, cleaneth!

Mike Riley is CEO of Cutler Manufacturing, They are the gorilla in mailbox manufacturing.

Seeing that mail goes to approximately 6 billion people worldwide now; that is a lot of mailboxes!

Cutler has taken over the old Piper aircraft factory in Lakeland. It is a building about the size of Bancroft Hall.

Lee Rathbun is CEO and owner of Petersen Industries, a heavy equipment manufacturer for the citrus industry, mainly making the "goat." It is a truck with a crane attached that many cities use for refuse pickup. The orange juice you buy in the store starts by coming off the tree with Lee's goats doing the work.

From Joe Luckard (Luckard.Joe@HQ.navy, mil) 26 August '99: Thought you'd all be interested in knowing that a Classmate of ours, RADM Jim Taylor was retiring from the Navy 27 August at Pearl Harbor, HI. He has been the Fleet Maintenance Officer (N43) at CinCPacFlt doing an outstanding job for the last few years after leaving CNO (N43), where I'm still working in a civilian position. We Shipmate, December 1999

all wish him the best in his follow-on career May he have "Fair Winds and Following Seas" in all his future endeavors. These well wishes also go out to his wife, Chris, for helping to make this all happen throughout the years.

Then from Jim Taylor (TaylorJL@cpfnavy.mil) a few days later: Please note Chris and Jim Taylor are signing off this address Monday 30 August. We will be wandering the Rocky Mountains in September and getting settled on Bainbridge Island in October, with a side trip to Paris and Rome, We will be back on line about 1 November with a new email address and I am cartying your addresses on a floppy so will find you all online when we return. Have a great fall.

From Mike Malone (micmal@safeco.com): I checked out the '65 Web site and I have one addition for your Flag officer site: BGen Joe N. Frazar III, US Army. Joe is retired in Valley Forge, PA, where he is the Superintendent (Commandant?) of the Valley Forge Military Academy.

From Mike Paul (meps65@earthlink.net): Dearfriends,here is an update on my physical and medical condition. I just received the news recently and have only now had a chance to assess the consequences. While it may sound bad to you all, keep in mind that this is not a death sentence and I expect to continue my fight to maintain myself at an acceptable "quality of Ufe" for some time to come. So, plan on having me around for a while'.

There have been some changes for the worst in my physical condition during the summer, and I need to take a moment and tell you what's happening. A CAT scan in June indicated that I had a nodule appear in my remaining lung. This, coming on top of the growth found near the thorax last December, which was successfully treated with radiation, is the first indication that the disease is now metastatic; that means, it has continued to grow and transmit itself outside the boundaries of the original tumor site. Not good news.

Thefirstthing this means is that I won't be cured of cancer. It won't go into remission or disappear as a result of any therapies, or simply the passage of time. It will relentlessly transmit itself throughout the blood system if left unchecked. But, it doesn't mean that nothing can be done about it. My oncologists foresaw this development in December, and suggested that I go through radiation for the thorax growth and wait for further development before I elect to have chemotherapy treatments. Chemotherapy has a good success rate of killing the cancer for a certain period of time, possibly measured in years. It has a reasonable probability of maintaining my quahty of life without permanent damage to my organs. While it is not a cure, it is a life-giving treatment that I now elect to endure, since it appears as the last effective treatment offered by medicine today.

The problem with chemo is that it's a systemic poison that can have drastic and permanent side effects on some people. You know that I have worked really hard to get myself back into reasonable condition since surviving ARDS, and the doctors feel that I am strong enough to handle the temporary side effects, and can withstand the assault on my major organs that could cause longterm permanent damage. I begin treatment on Monday, and expect to have them last for five months, during which time I will be nauseous, fatigued, and weak. I have spent the last three weeks reviewing my options, making my choice, and preparing for the outcome, so I am as prepared as one could be, and I will be giving you a ranning commentary on my progress from now until December. In the meantime, wish me the very best and keep in contact as often as you can.

I can use the company.

From Amie McKechnie (awmjr@erols.com), 4 September '99: Hey Classmates, take a look at www.sabp.org, regarding the Service Academy Business Professionals organization. Right now, the functioning organization is in Baltimore, but those interested

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in starting additional groups can get good info about doing so at the site.

From Walt Bayless (walt@lifeasart,com), 10 September '99: We're on the move again, Mary and I recently moved to New York to be closer to our granddaughter who is five today! My new email address is walt@lifeasart.com. This is the same address I've been using for the e-group... lifeasart.com is a Web site I've been developing since October of last year.

Glenn "Ernie" Ambort (gambortl @urjet.net): Love your '65 site. You have put a great deal of time and effort into it. Thanks so much.

I, for one, have not kept in touch with the Class for a variety of reasons, probably none very good.

But, I am getting close to becoming more active in meeting with and joining some of our Class activities, I am glad we have people such as you, Pete, Jeff, Fred and others, who have given so freely of your time so those, like me, who have been "slothful servants" might simply "click" to enjoy hours and years of faithful service by you more stalwart folks.

Again, my deepest thanks for all you and so many others, whom I may never be aware of, have done to keep the memory of our Class alive these oh-so-many years.

From Jeff Lewis (jefnewis65@flineLcom), 13 September '99: Here is the list of Classmates who have had email addresses in the past but none now: Joe Garaba, Pat Philbin, Dick Olds, Frank Peterson, John Padgett, Bill Hunt, Tom Difrancisco, Tom Carson, Jim Coleman, Wayne Allen, Doug Bishop, Gary Blaize, Parker Davis, Harry Hammer, Scott Harris, Bob Killion, Fred Koberlein, Jack Moynehan, Bob Stevens, Paul Thorsen and Larry Swenson.

I'll send letters with retum postcards asking for their new email addresses next week.

From Pete Reiniger (preingr@ goodnet.com), 31 August '99: Hi Dave! Greetings from Arizona. Heard you were moving to Carlisle, PA. I reluctantly left there after nine years and still miss the many friends we have there. We Uved at 504 Belvedere Street—convenient to just about anything in Carlisle. I spent five years at the Army War College and four years at Sprint. Pat was a mortgage loan officer working for First United Mortgage Services in Mechanicsburg.

Anyway, I hope you are enjoying Pennsylvania and are getting to know a lot of wonderful people there. Pete Lumianski (and Chris), Denny McComb (and Karen) and us (Pete and Pat) are the only active '65ers in the Phoenix area, although there have been sightings of Bob Gosnell, John Summa, Larry Mack and Arne Soderman—but not recently.

Don Houghton is in Lancaster. Saw Don and Kay in Pennsylvania several times, and they visit the Phoenix area occasionally. You might want to give them a call. They are tennis and golf fans.

Have fun in Pennsylvania and hope to see you at the Y2K 35th Reunion. Let us know where you are living, we might know your neighbors!

From Bob Halsey (RHalsey@cnsl.spear. navy.mil): On your Web site, under the Class officers section, Jim Amerault is now a VADM. From Doyle Borchers (PaDoylel @aol.com), 3 September '99: Please note the change in my email address.

Joan (Robison) and I closed on our house up in Napa and are busily blowing up everything and remodeling away! We will have it ready for 13 November and our wedding. We really hope you guys will be able to come. If not, we will see you at the 35th, From Tom Dames (TDames@CH2M.com), 1 September '99: Just saw in Shipmate that you two are mainlanders again. Welcome! Ursula and I are building a home in Denver It will befinishedat Christmas. In the meanwhile, we are living in a nearby hotel and enjoying the camp-out. I am the Trans-

portation Business Group Operations Director for CH2M HILL...ports, highways, roads, bridges, airfields—we plan, design, build, operate, own— you name it, Great fun and right down my alley.

Please note the new email address (above) and phone, 303-713-2550.

From Jim Roorbach (RoorbackJ@aol,com), 16 September '99: Guess I forgot to tell you that I left IBM, but took a job with Bell Atlantic as director of business development for IT outsourcing. Jo and I are staying here in Northem Virginia, so she is happy not to make move number 29 just yet. It was good to see you at the luncheon. Have a great time in Carlisle.

From Jim Stark (JStark4173@aol.com), 17 September '99: All goes well in London. I noted a few minor errors in my address and have corrected them on this version. They include: London postal code is W8 5DT; and office phone is 44-171-930-4173.

From Jack "Skip" Moore (cjmjmm@erols. com), 17 September '99: Hi '65ers. If you can make a few of the Washington-area USNA AA lunches this year, please do. The Class of '65 has the leadership this year in the capable hands of Dennis Spurgeon, this year's president.

Here's some locational news from several emails: Furman Thomas' address and other stuff is 5011 Kemwood Court, Palm Harbor, FL 34685, 7 2 7 - 9 3 9 - 2 4 8 7 , f u r m a n 7 2 7 @ a o l , c o m . Dean Richman is now in Dallas-Ft. Worth. Billie Wieland's email address is the same as before, but his company has moved him to San Antonio. His new address and phone number are: 16650 Huebner Road, #423, San Antonio, TX 78248, h: 210-4796501, w: 210-475-8369. Nick Paldino (npaldino® act-sys.com) is now at 2432 Edgewater Drive, Niceville, FL 32578, p: 850-729-2693, f: 850-7292694—he just bought his "retirement" home, with a three-slip covered dock for the 40-foot motoryacht he bought last month. Dave Neal has moved and not yet all hooked up, but here is his new stuff: 325 First St., Annapohs, MD 21403, 4 1 0 - 2 8 0 - 2 8 8 0 , d a v e n e a l @ e r o l s . c o m , Phil Ferrara is now living in the Washington, D . C , area. John "Mike" Donohoo, 600 Currahee Drive, Clarkesville, GA 30523, h: 706-839-1411, w: 770532-7251; donohoo65@hotmail.com.

Harry Hoffman indicates that the total number of Classmates on the e-hst is 418 and growing.

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Pres: VADM John S. Redd, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CDR Mike Baird, USN (Ret) 63 Franklin Street, Annapolis, MD 21401 e: baird@toad.net West Coast Sec'y: Robert G. Johnson Jr., Esq. 30131 Town Center Drive, Suite 147, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Class Web site: http:// www.usna66.org So, another year passes. And this one has been unique. The 1900s have not gone quietly into that good night. Let's hope 2000 begins with a turnaround. I've received some good vignettes and pictures for this article, so on we go.

In a follow-up to his information on Tim Beard, presented in the September 1999 article, Dave McKie provided a picture of Tim and himself, Dave also provided an article from the August 1999 Multifamily Monitor written by Jacques L. Couret Jn The article was in a supplement to the National Real Estate Investor, and is titled, "Merging the forces of East and West." It features Dick

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Michaux. In my October 1999 column, I wrote about Dick and his two siblings, thanks to an article supphed by Mike Field. The article from Dave speaks to how Dick engineered the merger of Avalon Properties (East Coast) and Bay Apartment Communities (West Coast) into Alexandria, VA,based Avalon Bay Communities, Inc. The one-year old, $3.7 billion company owns more than 140 communities totaling more than 40,500 units in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and Northem and Southem Califomia. Dick's answer to the question regarding the most challenging part of the merger was: The cultures—a West Coast company vs. an East Coast company. In the end, while the cultures appeared to be similar, each company had a long history of operating with a set of beliefs and values that were, at least from a bi-coastal standpoint, interpreted somewhat differently. It took us a while to understand a West Coast take on the same kind of value system that we had on the East Coast. Ultimately, it's worked out fine.

We have come together with a similar set of values, beliefs, and practices. But it took time to leam how to talk to each other, to figure out what each meant by spirit of caring or sense of integrity. It's been gratifying, but it took a Uttle longer than I thought it would, and it was more challenging than I thought.

When asked to compare himself to other, similar CEOs Dick said: I was on a nuclear submarine, so I would say my experience provided me with a quick mind as it relates to numbers, a discipline to move things forward on a timely basis, and to expect high standards. I don't know if that differentiates me from other CEOs. I suspect all of them would say they have budgets and want things done on time and have high standards. But on a nuclear submarine, we had to have that. I don't think I'm any different from other CEOs from the standpoint that we're here to serve a lot of constituencies. For example, shareholders— we've got to satisfy them and give them the best retum we can for therisk.We have a lot of people working for us—our associates and officers— who want to have productive careers, and who want to feel as if they're fulfilling their potential. We've got residents who want to be treated well and who want to feel like they're part of the community, whether it's in Alexandria, San Jose, Chicago or Boston. We make certain representations to those communities.

Dick's comments on his growth strategy were: The strategies of the predecessor companies were fairly similar. We were development and redevelopment companies, meaning we did a lot of major rehab to older apartments that were welllocated. We had a high-barrier to-entry strategy, meaning we were not in the Southeast and Southwest, where land for apartments is a commodity.

We were in the coastal areas that were harder.

First, we had to manufacture the apartment land, then we had to manufacture the apartment. We had a similar strategy there. We also had highquality assets and had a service mentality to provide customers with excellent service. We had the best platform for increasing the NOIs of the communities. It wasn't necessary for us to modify those strategies for growth. We wanted to stay in these high-barrier-to-entry markets, and we wanted to penetrate them more completely with new product. If there's a slight tum in our strategy, it would be better for us to be more urban with our product...We do believe in great service, a great product, and great locations in highbarrier-to-entry markets, which gives us a strong cash flow increase stream. But there's one thing that differentiates the company in that regard, and I've had a lot of my co-CEOs agree with this: We have the highest yields on cost in the industry. We've averaged 11.4 percent first-year stabilized NOI against cost, and I think that's at least 100, if not 150, basis points higher than anyone else. That's in 27 different communities.... We sold about $300 million in the last year at an 8.2

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Every dollar we spend creates more value than our competitors. That's the value of the high-barrier-to-entry sttategy.

Thanks again for the picture and news item Dave. Anyone who would like a complete copy of the article can email me or write me.

Dave McKie and Tim Beard Pete Leniart (PLeniart@aol.com) provided me a letter and the two pictures of the 1999 Florida Come-around. This was the fifth holding of the annual event, which occurred on 14 August, and was held in the Jacksonville area. A total of 13 Classmates joined in the fun, which was invaded by three long-distance voyagers. Pierce Johnson (Virginia) and Irma and Bill Geib (New Jersey).

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attend next year. Shown in the first picture (l-to-r) are Trish and Joe Phelan (Gainsville), and son, Sean; Elliott and Mike Smith (Tampa); John Sigler (Tampa); Cindy and Bob Zvacek (Jacksonville); Cheryl and Steve Potter (Fernandina Beach); Lynne and Wayne Lynn (Tampa); and Jane and Pete Leniart (Clearwater). In the second picture (again, l-to-r) are Pierce Johnson; Robin and Tom Blount (Jacksonville); Sally and Tom Barry (Jacksonville); Irma and Bill Geib; Kay and John Earhart (Orange Park); and Mary and Deny Zveare (St. Augustine). Earlier in the day, six intrepid Classmates (Phelan, Smith, Lynn, Leniart, Geib and Earhart) teed it up at the Orange Park Country Club. Six holes into the match, Blount joined in stating he didn't get the word. Pete says, "Some things never change." Thanks for the pictures and news Pete. For those wishing to attend next year, Pete says it will be held in the Tampa area during May. The regulars would like to attract some of the other South Florida Classmates and any passers through. Non-Floridians are encouraged to attend as long as they don't forget to leave.

Bob Johnson, our West Coast corresponding secretary, sent me the following item of news and a picture. He says, if you were at the horse races in Del Mar, CA, the last Saturday in August you may have seen Kathleen and Bob Verratti in the winner's circle following the first race. The horse's name is Shot MD and is sponsored through the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Bob had joined the Verrattis for a day at the races. For those horse racing aficionados, like Marty Healy, the distance

Kathleen and Bob Verratti with Shot MD Shipmate, December 1999

was six furlongs, the time was 1:09 4/5, the horse won by two lengths, and the purse was $40,000 of which die Verrattis received 60 percent. Not a bad day at the races, I'd say. Thanks Bob. Andy Sosnicky checked in from Castle Rock, CO, He is still a program manager widi a Lockheed Martin company. His contract is being renewed for five more years, which is longer than he intends to be there, so life is good on that front. He recentiy completed his fourth Ride the Rockies bicycle ride this summer This time it was 437 miles on a circuitous route from Durango through Telluride to Colorado Springs over 11,312-foot Monarch Pass.

He and Joan planned to visit ScoUand in October for a 30th wedding anniversary trip, and they will be at the 100th Army-Navy game. Thanks Andy, Andy also included some pictures, which I've included. The first is of Andy pointing to his energy pack. It must have slowed his progress a bit to carry it, but, to each his own.

Andy Sosnicky with energy tank The second picture shows Andy taking a brief break at Monarch Pass. Thanks Andy. Great update.

Andy at Monarch Pass Chuck Tebrich (ctebrich@sctcorp.com) sent me the following email.

In keeping with my plan to communicate with my Classmates every 33 years and two months, here I am. Actually, I saw many of you at the 25th and 30th. I am hving in Columbia, SC, with my wife, Karen, and 13-year-oId son, Steven. We have been here since moving from Austin, TX, in 1988. Both Karen and I are in the software business. She is a manager for a vendor servicing insurance companies, and I have a similar role for a vendor servicing utihty companies. Steven plays football and soccer, and fortunately is much stronger academically than his old man. We will be going to the Air Force game in D.C. this year, and would love to hear from anyone who might want to get together Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

The best way to reach me is at this office email address, or my office number, 803-935-8344. I hope to hear from some of you. Otherwise, I'll see you at the 35th.

Our Class Treasuren Chuck Grutzius, provided me the following information on our Class financial status for the year ending 31 December 1998.

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Assets Current Assets Checking/Savings NFCU Sharecheck $4.086.49 Total Checking/Savings $4,086.49 Other Current Assets NFCU Share Certificate $11,793,19 NFCU Share Savings Acct. $ 948.86 Total Other Current Assets $12.742.05 Total Current Assets $16. 828.54 Total Assets $16,828.54 Liabilities and Equity Equity Opening Balance Equity $22,063.72 Retained Earnings -$1,480.58 Net Income -$3,754.60 Total Equity $16.828.54 Total Liabilities and Equity $16,828.54 Thanks Chuck.

Finally, here are some updates on addresses that I've received. Marv Tucker (marvtucker@ earthlink.net) lives at 1109 Lafferty Road, Pasadena, TX 77502-2562, (w) 281-479-2851, ext, 3212; Tim Beard (TimBeard@aol.com), 150 May Ranch, Fallon, NV 89406.

And that's it for another year. I wish each of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or celebration of your choice. I also pray that the coming year is one of health and prosperity for you and your loved ones. Until Febmary 2000â&#x20AC;&#x201D;All the bestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mike!

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Pres: CDR David E. Church, USN (Ret) Sec'y: LCOL Jim McNeece, USMC (Ret) 4832 Solomon Dn, Annandale, VA 22003-4041 h: 703-425-1380; f: 703-425-5073 (call before faxing) e: SCRIBE67@AOL.COM I suppose I should engage in a lot of whooping and carrying on about how this is the last column of the decade, the century, and the millennium, but I can't seem get into it just yeL You see, I'm not a believer Confused Marine that I am, I did a simple counting exercise. Took off my socks to take full advantage of ten fingers and ten toes and counted up all those years one at a time. It took me two days because I kept losing my place, but the inescapable conclusion I finally came to is that we have a year left to ran on this sucker and we must all be victims of yet another media marketing conspiracy to get us to buy mementos, parties, millennium trips to Bali and what-not. Then again, the whole date scheme has been pretty arbitrary all along, what with the Julian calendar, the Jewish calendar, the Gregorian calendar, the French republican calendan the Aztec calendar and I don't know what all!

So, maybe us purists should just quit belly-achin' and get on with the party! By the time the next millennium rolls around, they'll undoubtedly have changed it all again and anyway, who's going to remember? I'll have to give that some more thought.

Aside from that. Navy is part way into another football season and we've had some losses. (See, another calendar! This one reckoned by weekends, since the opening game of the football season and ending after we Beat Army!) After the first losing game, however, I received this nice note from Nita Parry: Something good did come from the loss to Georgia Tech. Jack and I had barely walked in the door at Maury Place on Sunday aftemoon when we got a telephone call from Hal Castle's widow. JuUe and I were at Mary Washington together and made the trip between Fredericksburg

and Annapolis together many, many times. After all, we were going to see our Middies! As you may recall, Hal was killed in Cambodia in the spring of '69 before this country even acknowledged that we had crossed the border into that area. Julie remarried to an attomey here in Richmond in the summer of '78. They now Uve in the Atlanta area, but still have family in Virginia that brings them this way on occasion. Last we saw Julie (and her twin sister, who married a USAFA grad) was a couple years ago when their daddy died.

Julie saw the game on the TV coverage in the Atlanta area and decided to call. When she didn't get an answer at halftime, she figured we were at the game. So, she waited 'til we had a chance to get home. She has very fond memories of USNA days and the Class of '67 members, thus sends hellos to all.

To those who have gone before for this great way of life we enjoy, even when Navy doesn't win, Nita and Jack Parry got a good phone call after Georgia Tech, and I got a photo for the column during the tailgate (next page), I think Al Davy gave it to me, but I don't remember for sure. At any rate, it was taken on Denny Haley's boat and included Jim Goebel, Denny, Ray Smith, Dave Tate and Al. They had sort of made a weekend of it, sailing to Oxford and St. Michael's on the Eastem Shore, then back to Annapolis for the game. At the game, we had the usual crowd in attendance, but some faces were there that we don't see as often, Adrian Gordon was in from Philadelphia and Don Eraser up from Florida. Also saw Bill Belden, Bob Natter, Bill Cross, and Sue and Denny Kelly. Even Poopie Schear is becoming a more frequent visitor, and John Hickok is starting to show up again.

I picked an item off the net from Bob Kelly. He and Terry had some cleaning up to do after Hurricane Floyd, so he wanted to unload his Air Force tickets to anybody who was interested. He put the usual "first come, first served" caveat on the offering. The next day there was another message from Bob; he said, "Paul T\ittle was first, waking me up in bed. (He really must have been interested!)" The Class hstserv gets results...but use caution: those results can come in the middle of the night!

And then another email, this from Tony Wayne (home: 817-431-4165; work: 817-737-1553; waynea@dyncorp.com). He checked in to get the password for the email address list on the Web site and also provided a bit of a personal update. I love guys who take a few extra minutes to do that. I think the current vemacular is they "add value" to a simple note.

Recently relocated to Texas from Pax River after retiringfromNav Air after 20 years of "faithful govemment service." Now working as a senior program manager with a company called DynCorp managing a variety of programs, mainly concenttating on C-130 modifications for both the AF and USN. Been here since January, but just moved the family to a home in Keller, TX, about 15 minutes north of Dallas-Fort Worth and 30 minutes from Cowboys stadium. Life is good.

Will be attending the Air Force game on 9 October. Managed to snag a spot in a skybox belonging to Gene Upshaw with a number of other Alumni from various classes. Hope to see some of the old gang while there.

Short Shot Seen in the sports section of the September 29 Washington Post: Dave Davis has been promoted to assistant athletic director at Navy! And that's all it said...so congratulations, Dave!

Every once in awhile a "lost soul" tums up. The last was Bill Sheahan, who wrote thusly to Dick Meade (of the database): As I was looking around the net for some friends that I have lost track of over the years, I was surprised to find that I am a "lost soul" according to the USNA '67 page! Of course, I know perfectly well where I am, but that doesn't help 99

the Alumni House Patio) we are at $481,304. If you have completed your Class pledge, please consider the '99 Armual Fund and/or an additional gift to the Class project...raise our participation rate even higher...every gift will help '67 stay at the top in '99!

'67 is a great Class!

Weekend '67 craise anyone else! Please send the password to the email section and let me know what to do to become unlost after all these years! Thanks.

Needless to say, Dick fixed him up, but speaking of lost souls...take a look at that page on the '67 Web site. Every one of our old Battalions has between five and ten graduates missing. Most Companies have anywhere from one to three unaccounted fon Each of you take a mission to find one of those Companymates. We have a major reunion coming in less than three years. I'd like to be able to contact every '67 graduate by then and try to reestablish old ties. Then, we can start finding non-graduates. There are only 241 of those.

(By the way, a major difference between USNA and the Military and Air Force Academies is that they have Associations of Graduates, we have an Alumni Association...and an Alumnus is defined as anybody who took the oath of office and spent a day at the Academy. In fact, we have some nongraduates who are very active in the Alumni Association.) If you find somebody, put them on report to me, Dick, or Dave...or better yet, have them tum themselves in!

Moving on, here's part of a great press release for you!

Leiden, The Netherlands; 13 September 1999â&#x20AC;&#x201D;David C. Gompert, one of the United States' most distinguished thinkers on Atlantic relations, will become president of RAND Europe, the famous think tank's European subsidiary, effective 15 January. James A. Thomson, RAND's president and chief executive officer, announced the appointment today..."David's background in govemment, private industry, and the research and public policy sector is exceptional in breadth and depth alike," Thomson declared. "His appointment represents a ringing statement of RAND's commitment to continue expanding its role as a provider of high-quality, independent research and analysis to European clients."...Gompert is currently a RAND vice president and director of its National Security Research Division.

Wow! I really like reading things like that. I guess I get vicarious satisfaction in somebody else's job well done. Dave, you are to be indeed congratulated. You make us all proud!

And now a word from our sponsor! Dave Church sent this over to give you an update on things inside the Alumni Association. (I like this

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piece, too. Something like this is the only way I can get my name in boldface print in this danged column!)

Jim McNeece and I attended the annual Class Presidents' meeting in late September 1999. This was the first meeting where the new Class Presidents' Council was in charge. To refresh your memory, the govemance of the Alunmi Association has been changed to give the Classes much more voice in its affairs. Three "decade" Class presidents will join the Association Board of Trastees in 2000, with four more phasing in over the next few years to eventually bring to seven the number of presidents sitting as trastees of the Association.

A major piece of business for the Class Presidents was for the presidents to be briefed and then vote on a shift in focus of Class fundraising more toward unrestricted funds (UNR). In the past, the Classes have generally completed fund drives only for restricted (R) projects, timed to be completed and presented to the Naval Academy/ Alumni Association at a major reunion. (This has not been the case with '67, we are a leader!) As the Academy, the Association, and the Classes move into the year 2000, it has become imperative that the considerable fundraising prowess of the Classes be also focused on raising unrestricted funds. UNR gift funds, along with eamed revenues, are used in accordance with the annual budget proposed by the Alumni Association staff to support the Superintendent's prioritized needs list. They are not restricted to funding something specific such as a bench, fountain or monument.

The Association's Finance Committee reviews and recommends each annual budget to the full Board of Trastees for approval. Once passed by the Board, the Finance Committee provides oversight of budgetary matters in accordance with formal, written spending polices.

To facilitate Class UNR fund drives, the Class Presidents approved the "2000 Solicitation Model" wherein the Class presidents will work with the Alumni Association on major gifts. Class R and UNR projects, and the Annual Fund. While it remains trae that 20 percent of the donors provide 80 percent of the funds raised, the most important number to consider is the level of participation by alumni. Remember, '67 had the highest total number of donors, ranked 11th in total gifts, and achieved a 50 percent participation rate in '98! As we go into the end of '99 and enter the third year of our Class Project (an Unrestricted Fund project wherein we also rebuilt

Classmates unveil '67 Crest on Alumni House patio As a postscript to Dave's note, I ran into Mike Collins '84 (mike.collins@usna.com) outside Hubbard Hall after the meeting. He's the editor of this fine joumaUstic outpouring. He asked that I put out a call for sea stories or any other kind of stories about us. He said he wants to get us into the front of Shipmate as well as in the back. If you take a look at the last few issues, you'll see he's started to do just that. Articles are now appearing about the things USNA Alumni have done with themselves both in the mihtary and out. Some are humorous, some are serious, some are mihtary experiences, some are not. If you have a tale to tell, write it up and submit it directly to Mike at Shipmate. He really wants to hear from you. His mailing address is in the front of the magazine, and his email appears above.

Well, I've still not decided which side of the millennium question to come down on however I'm leaning toward the party., .but no matter When you read this, you'll probably be gearing up for the holidays and that's celebration enough. Please do take care, be safe, and let me hear from you. As I've said before in this space, I'll take leftover greeting cards if they have a word or two I can use (and by the way, if you'd rather I not use news you send, be sure to tell me...keeps me out of your doghouse!) So, to the extent that the infamous Y2K bug leaves me alone, I'll see you again next year.

That's it...Goodnight! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;^Jim

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Pres: RADM Kendall M. Pease, USN ( R e t ) Sec'y: Leo Kuehn 531Wilson Road, Annapolis, MD 2140I-106I e: lkuehn@arinc.com http://www.usna68.com No, I still haven't received much mail, and it's been a bit of a straggle finding happiness in the weekly football results so far. Hopefully by the time this hits the street the Navy team will have tumed things around a bit and primed themselves for a big win over Army. One item to report is that the Class did purchase a tent to use for tailgating at home games. It was getting a bit costly renting one each time.

I do apologize on my part for missing last month's deadline. Wasn't a lot to report though I had received a very nice letter from Ken Kolarcik.

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His family news is certainly not outdated and well worth passing on.

Enclosed is a picture of my son, Joshua, (USAFA '99) and me in front of the "class wall" at USAFA and right after I had sworn him in as a brand new 2nd Lt., USAF on 2 June. USAFA does their graduation-commissioning a bit differently than we did (and still do) at USNA. Early on the moming of graduation (6:30 a.m.), at multiple sites aroimd the academy, graduation Firsties assemble by squadron (company), in dinner dress to be commissioned as Air Force officers. Any active duty or retired officer can perform the commissioning and several dads did the honors. After a brief reception, the just-commissioned officers report to the stadium for march-on and graduation. We had our entire family present (all six kids, wife, Marie, and my parents) including daughter, Maura, who flew out from USCGA where she is a member of the class of '01, So, in just two years we will have (the Lord wiUing) another academy graduation to attend.

Marie and I celebrate our 25th anniversary this year and will be traveling to Ireland in October (Marie was bom in Ogonolo county Claire) and this will be the first time she has retumed since our marriage. We're really looking forward to the trip and a trae vacation on our own. Just for info, number one son, Aaron, is a PGA golf professional at a local country club; Josh is number two child; Maura number three; number four son, Benjamin, just graduated from high school and is pursuing a career as a contemporary Christian vocalist with several concerts already performed in Kentucky and Indiana. Our number five, son Adam, is an avid golfer and a junior attending a local Christian school as does number six, Leah, who will be a freshman this year, and sometimes aspires to be a Midshipman (USNA '07?). I continue to be employed as the Executive Director of the Louisville law firm Ogden Newell & Welch.

We have been in touch with Chris Glutting and hope to attend the Army-Navy game this year to recognize the 100th battle. Would hope to see some Classmates at that time.

Thanks for writing. Ken. You and Marie have much to be proud of with your family.

Joshua Kolarcik, USAFA '99, with father. Ken There was another Washington area Class luncheon in early August at the regular place (Crystal Gateway Marriott) in Crystal City, VA. Bill Metzger took muster and the small but spirited gathering included Bill, John Almy, Chris Chisholm, Bob Eberth, Dennis Hanrahan, Mike McHugh, Ed Sullivan, and Bill Wilt. If this reaches you in time the last luncheon for 1999 will be on 2 December Luncheons for the year 2000 should be 3 Febraary, 6 April, 1 June, 3 August, 5 October and 7 December Start time is about 11:45 a,m. and it's a buffet-style luncheon with courtesy parking in the hotel garage.

I had hoped to be able to report a new slate of Class officers in this last column of 1999, but the '68 wheels of organizational change move slowly like so many other things we do. I suspect that in the January-Febraary issue the deed will be done and I will pass on the news as the Class moves on to new and exciting things.

So this brings to close the end of another year and we move on into Y2K. (Not a new millennium or century yet; that's 1 January 2001, but who's counting?) I hope and pray this has been a good

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year for all of you. May the holiday season be especially blessed for you and your families. And as usual, I'll put in my plea for you to make a miniresolution to drop your friendly Class scribe a note in 2000 to let us all know what's happening in your life. All the best and God bless each of you.. .Leo

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Pres: CAPT David O. Rose, USN (Ret.) EVP: CDR Pat Stroop, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: Walt Giraldi Tres: Steve Ward h: 703-864-1775; w: 703-620-2279 Corr, Sec'y: Dr. Steve Hudock 6006 Woodlake Lane, Alexandria, VA 22310 e: shudock@erols,com Class Web site: www.USNA69.org Happy Holidays to all of you. We've had a full mailbag and some of the first returns from the Reunion. I expect many more columns to include juicy material and photographs—so please send them on!

But first, a few serious announcements.

Pete Jarina wrote in with a reminder for those of you who know and a few of the lost brethren who are not aware: Dave Grove has ALS and could not attend the Reunion gathering. Please inundate (big word for a pilot) him with cards and letters.

Pete talked to Dave and his super wife, Nancy. All are doing well considering. Send to: Dave Grove, 5703 Landerwood Drive, Greensboro, NC 27405.

Thanks for letting us know, Pete.

Joe Chopek spoke with Emerson "Butch" Carr who has been very ill and is recovering from major lung surgery. A great deal of his right lung has been removed and he is at home in Detroit recovering. He can be reached at 248-538-9199. If anyone has the time, perhaps they could call him and cheer him up. Since he does not have email he asked me to send this out: Thanks to all of you who have called me. Carl Christiansen, Bill Clifford, Bill McCauley, Tom LaForce, Don Nash and many others.

We have received news (via a memorial donation made in his name) that Edward Beckman Wild has died. We do not have any further information at this time, other than that his widow, Pamela, lives at 5466 St. Regis Way, Port Orange, FL 32124.

When Lou Antonetti passed away recently, it was in an environment he cherished the most—at home in his wife's arms, surrounded by his five children. "Lou's first priority was always his family," said his wife, Connie, whom he met while teaching and coaching at Smithtown High School.

"He taught us the tme meaning of the words family and home." Lou was a physical education teacher and retired lacrosse coach. Our Classmate died on 23 August, at his home in Lake Grove, NY, after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer He was 52. The family asks that donations be made to PanCAN, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, RO. Box 4809, Palos Verdes, CA 90274.

Good news RADM John B. Padgett ID will be named to Commander Submarine Force Pacific and will be replaced in Groton as commander of Submarine Group Two by RADM John T. Byrd, as reported

by The Day of New London. John will take over his new post in Pearl Harbor HI, next summer He will oversee two submarine groups and six squadrons with almost 40 submarines, ships and drydocks scattered throughout the West Coast, Hawaii and Yokosuka, Japan. John has spent most

of his professional career in the Pacific, including command of OMAHA from 1986-89, and Submarine Squadron 11 in San Diego from 1989-92. Before reporting to Groton, he was deputy director of submarine warfare at OpNav. Way to go, John!

Onward with the Reunion News Tom Halwachs wrote in with possibly the best alibi for not showing at the Reunion: As everyone is getting home after the 30th, I hope all that were there had a blast! Jewell and I tipped a couple to you all and wished we were there to see everyone and join in the celebration.

Unfortunately, Jewell had to do this with one hand and lots of pain pills (modem chemistry is way cool). As we were heading for the airport on Monday, J. fell and broke her wrist—yes, the whole thing! Easy set, but lots of pain and swelling. Better now, but four more weeks in a cast.

Cheers to all—see you at the next gathering!

We're really sorry for Jewell. Tom, she had to spend the weekend with you. Missed you both!

By the way, the Reunion did generate an election for the Foundation with the following results: President—E.S. Potts Executive Vice President—F.H. Michaelis Secretary—A.L. Cipriani Treasurer—S.A. Ward Director (one year)—D.G. Rose Director (two year)—W. Byles Director (three year)—J.H. Post, MD For additional information, visit our Web page: w w W.USNA69 .org.

Mike Leonard wrote in to tell us: After moving to Annapolis, I thought for sure I'd finally make a Reunion...but alas, another challenge on the edge of the empire. My new company gave me the most interesting challenge of starting our operations in Singapore, Manila and Diego Garcia. This new base operating support contract supports U.S. forces at DG, plus those transiting Singapore. Our employment office is in Manila. I have been in touch with Roy Golez—Philippine big shot and former Navy boxer, who has been helpful on some PI "red tape." Am sure John Scully (curtent assistant DA for Chicago) went some rounds with Golez at some point. I'm out here for the year to jump start the contract and, if successful, hope to roll back into corporate HQ in Dallas to oversee ops from there. My family has been moved to the Gulf Coast where everyone is close. Our no. 2 son is working on a master's at FSU in Tallahassee and no. 1 son is in school/working and good enough to move back in with Chalmer for the year to help out. Four wild months and things are beginning to settle down here. A great business challenge, but/or iure my last deployment! I really am sorry to finally miss hooking up with all of you. Have tried to stay in touch over the years and follow all your exploits via Shipmate. The Leonards are on a glide path for dual residency in Biloxi, MS, and Waldoboro, ME, according to the seasons. I hope our paths will cross soon. Best wishes for success and good health.

Thanks for a great note, Mike. We missed you at the 30th!

Rich Warren waxed eloquently in a missive re the 30th happenings: It was very enjoyable to see you (sorry that some of you could not make it) at the 30th Reunion. This was my first Reunion (I still hate the place, and always will), but I always liked the guys I knew. But, I do have a few observations/ questions after attending my first Reunion, and I will comment on them.

Under the category of "some things never change," the name Bob Gray comes to the forefront. Some of you probably remember that Bob is somewhat particular about "food arrangement;" that is, if someone is preparing a sandwich for Bob, it is important to get the mayonnaise next to the cheese and not the ham, plus make sure that the tomatoes are directly next to the ham and not near the lettuce. Anyway, at Saturday night's dinner. Bob was somewhat miffed tofindthe Chicken Wellington sauce precariously 101

near his broccoli and far from his rice; needless to say, there was an altercation with the waiter over this, but fortunately an incident was avoided by mollifying Bob with a scotch-on-the-rocks. I won't even get into the issue with his salad.. .how could any waiter have the audacity to put the onions next to the tomatoes? Once again, nuclear war was avoided by throwing out the onions and substituting another scotch for them. Thank God Bob had no appetite for dessert, because looming in front of him was cheesecake, which he positively abhors, and since the bar had ran out of scotch, WWIII might have been one course away.

There exists among us a "Michael Jordan," and I am referring to none other than Jonathan T. "JT" Hine. Thirty years ago it was trae, and based on my observations this past weekend JT continues to be the "MJ" of '"Talk." I have observed this quality in a few of Mary's (my wife) friends, and it is simply amazing. Most of us talk while exhaling; that is, as we exhale air we speak, and as we inhale air, for most of us, it is impossible to talk. But not for the JT's of the worid, they have the ability to talk in both phases. This "anaerobic" inhaling part is traly amazing, and that's what makes JT a cut above the rest of us.

JT, I salute you!

I want to congratulate Eddie McMahon on his first email. Probably some of you don't know, but very recently Eddie sent his very, very first email. To this day, he doesn't have a clue as to whether his email was received, but he is very, very proud of himself for sending it. And, I'm sure that all of you agree with me that we're very, very proud of Eddie for sending an email. I mean, gosh, what a leading-edge guy Eddie is! It is difficult for me to think of Eddie as just "Eddie," I mean, gee, Edwin Harold McMahon (Eddie) is a staunch Republican Texan. We're talking about a guy who is almost as big in Texas as George Bush. (Rumor has it that E.H. might be pegged for vice president on the Republican ticket in 2000, but hey, it's just a ramor at this point) I'm going to have to refer to Eddie as E.H. in the future because the Big Guy is hanging around, financially independent, looking for something to do. And why not? He's bored staring at the ranch, the horses and the tractors. Although his father might be rolling over in his grave (father being a Democrat and totally supportive of taxing all Americans equal to 150 percent of their income), E.H. continues down the Republican path.

Take care all of you. My only nagging question from last weekend is: What is a nice woman like Anna Maria doing with Bob Gray?

Dennis Plank wrote: What a great weekend! Wish more of you could have been there. For not the first time, or probably the last, we lost the football game (Boston College 14—Navy 10), but won the parties and the flyover contests. Our E-2 and F-18s vs Boston College's...Eagles? Rich Batdorf (for an hour or so), Doug Berry, Jan and Gerry Gallagher, Joan and Jim Kirby and Emily and I represented ye olde 30th Company.

As far as the entire Class is concemed, those visiting from furthest away, according to a very unscientific poll, were Tito Rincon from Venezuela (ranner up) and Dione B. Mohammad from the Philippines (mythical grand prize winner).

The most meaningful event, by far, was the memorial service led by Classmate Norm Brown, senior Protestant chaplain at USNA. His most poignant message will soon be on the USNA Class of '69 Web site.

The funniest event was the Class of '69 trying to sing all the verses from the Class hymn—at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning and the band not knowing the words. Class hymn? What class hymn? Oh, okay! Then the theme song—"We gotta get outta this place!" Funnier yet was when several Classmates took to the stage and led our Classmates, spouses and guests in a stirring, yes, stirring, rendition of that '60s Ode from the Class of 1969! It was a mooooving experience. In other words, you hadda be there! Emily could not get the song out of her head on the way home later that day! Again, a great weekend. Onlyfiveyears 'til the next big one!

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Loved your comments, Dennis, thank you!

More comments from the 30th next column, with pictures, only if you send them in!

Beat Somebody! Steve

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Pres: Fred Hall Sec'y: CDR Royal Connell, USN (Ret.) 1978 Valley Rd„ Annapohs, MD 21401 e: njrotc@arctic.nadn.navy,mil Greetings all, there are a lot of questions going around about the 30th. For that, I'm glad. The September Shipmate had a registration form in it, but the costs were all messed up. There was a mailing and an email letter that went out with the right gouge in it. For those of you who are still confused, I'm going to go over the basic plan at the bottom of this article, but if that doesn't work, give me a call or a letter and I'll try to go one on one with you.

The Alumni Association is asking that unless the Class is actively working on a Class gift, that when you get a solicitation for the Annual Fund, that you make your checks out to the Naval Academy Fund and not to the Class of '70 Fund. That way they are not restricted in how they use the money.

There is a growing choms of people who are going towards setting up a memorial for graduates who were killed on active duty, in "the line of duty," that is, those who died as a result of service related causes, not simply those who died while on active duty. They will be putting out a call for names and circumstances soon. If you know of Classmates who fit that description, please send that info to me and I'll forward it.

Stephen Coleman complained that my email address had been staring him in the face for months; and it finally became time to get the old rear in gear and write. He's working at QED in Virginia Beach doing technical things as a systems engineer It seems to be a repository of Alumni. Dave Schaffer '57 and Ken Robinson '57 are there, as well as Rob Ploeger '66, and others. Two teenage daughters keep him going.

Fred Hall got a letter at my email address from Carolyn, bride of Clay Grubb. I don't mind the case of mistaken identity, but I really have to point out that the email at the top of the column is Royal's, not Derf's, Anyway, they are hoping to be able to attend the reunion en route from Stuttgart, Germany, (Clay is the ACOS, Asst. Chief of Staff at HQ US EuCom). He will retire on 1 July and after an extensive pre-move, post-retirement final tour of Europe they will be heading back home in Laguna Niguel, CA. I suspect it will be mighty hard for him to finally leave "The Corps."

They took advantage of living over there and attended the last two Memorial Days in Belleau Wood, France, Clay is considering having his retirement ceremony at the site of "Iron Mike" at Belleau Wood next Memorial Day. They plan to visit Normandy and Omaha Beach before leaving Europe. They are going to try to work the reunion in as part of the move. By the time they arrive back in the States the Gmbbs will have been gone for five years, two in Yokosuka, Japan, and three in Stuttgart. Carolyn has recently taken over as the American president of the Stuttgart Chapter of the German American Women's Club so she's almost as busy as Clay. Sons, Eric and Alex, both graduated from college this past May (no, they are not twins). Eric is living near Annapolis and job hunting and Alex is in graduate school at USE in Tampa,

FL. Mike Malone was their neighbor at Patch Barracks until he and Janet moved to Norfolk this past summer Ellen and Tom Shields (daughter Dana too) visited for a ski trip in Liechtenstein and Switzerland last Valentine's Day, but arrived to find Carolyn in the hospital in Davos, Switzerland.

A few hours after they arrived at the hotel, it seems she was busy on the ski slope severely breaking her leg, which eventually required two major surgeries. Following the first surgery she managed to break the titanium plate and three of the nine screws in her leg. Then had to have all the broken hardware removed and replaced with a giant pin/ nail/rod. We told you that motivating a Marine took a lot of kicking in the ***, but did she take care?

Noooo!

Dave Miller wrote from Durham, NC, looking for Bob Milewski. Bob was his roommate for awhile and went SWOS. He left the service around 1976 and became a Roman Catholic Priest. He is now back on active duty and Dave had lost him. I didn't have a good lock on him but he was the command chaplain down at Quantico some years ago.

We found him hiding at Naval Hospital Bremerton, WA. He'd just got off ABRAHAM LINCOLN before it

deployed.

PepsiCo Inc. announced in June that Steven S. Reinemund, chairman and chief executive officer of Frito-Lay, was promoted to President of PepsiCo. The appointment was intended to sharpen senior management focus on PepsiCo's operating divisions and accelerate efforts to leverage the company's combined strength. Steve, a senior PepsiCo executive for 15 years and a member of the Board of Directors since 1996, will partner with PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Roger Enrico in setting corporate direction. He will be responsible for all corporate staff functions and lead key strategic initiatives, including leveraging multi-division opportunities to increase sales, reduce costs and improve productivity. Steve has been chairman and CEO of Frito-Lay worldwide since 1996 and has led Frito-Lay North America since 1992. Under his leadership Frito-Lay sales grew on average over 10 percent a year and profits doubled, as the company launched an array of successful new products and expanded its distribution network. Steve joined PepsiCo in 1984 as senior vice president of operations at its former Pizza Hut division, which he led as CEO from 1986 to 1992. "This change is an important part of our effort to put PepsiCo on a path to strong, consistent, profitable growth," said Roger Enrico, PepsiCo chairman and CEO. "Steve Reinemund is a superb leader who has done a remarkable job building Frito-Lay and laying a foundation for its future growth. His combination of operating experience and extraordinary drive make him uniquely qualified to lead our most important corporate strategic initiatives and free me to devote more time to our operating divisions."

Reinemund will retain responsibility for Frito-Lay until the company names a chief executive officer of Frito-Lay North America, at which time he will assume his new role as PepsiCo president.

BIG Bits and Pieces ADM Thomas B. Fargo had his change of command as CinCPacFlt on 8 October at Pearl Harbor Dan Bowler detached from ComCraDesGra FIVE in early August and assumed duties as the Commandant, National War College, Rod Hackman is now a local, living in McLean. He had season tickets to the football games and has a sailboat on Spa Creek.

Steve Zavadil has now retired from SSP and is working at Systems Planning and Analysis.

Wants and Warrants John Ecks wrote looking for John Seeley. He was in 3rd Company, and John suspects that he was a lifen so he thinks that he's retired, the '97

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Alumni Register has him as the CO of MILLER (FF1091). Anyone have a newer address? If so have him contact John at: JohnEcks@aol.com, Now then, we have a reunion coming up...

Briefly, the weekend of 2 September 2000 will be our reunion. Yes, that is Labor Day weekend. The Class will have its big dinner-dance on Friday, the game is Saturday, and we are planning a memorial service and Class meeting followed by a branch on Sunday. We don't know if the game is an afternoon or a night game and this schedule precludes problems of having a dinner scheduled for Saturday and then finding out that the game isn't over until 10 p.m. We figured that companies could have their own gatherings on Saturday. We have asked for the 53 Pavilion, but we won't hear about that until closer to the date, Friday aftemoon the Balfour rep will be at the hotel to size rings, and take orders for new rings/miniatures. The basic cost of the weekend is $140 per person. That includes the dinnen the tailgate, and a basic memorabilia package. Other logo items are offered for sale through the company, which is doing the work on that. You should have received a mailing or an email with those details. If not, let me know. We're looking for a Web site to assist in the process. The cost of the Sunday brunch is extra because we don't know people's travel plans. In addition, we are exploring the possibility of a standard tailgate tent for the regular Homecoming game. That cost will be separate as well.

There are some things I need you to do. First of all, if you have email and are not on the Class email directory get on it! Send a message to: nvisco@ erols.com today! Second, we need to get everyone to consider joining the Alumni Association, preferably as a Life Member Those two things would really make communications with you a lot easier and would keep me from having to double-answer your questions. Third, if you are procrastinating over your registration, send that in now so we can get an idea of how the numbers are working. And finally, if you haven't called for your room reservations, do that now, because they're getting scarce as well.

Happy New Year and may the Y2K bug fly up your opponent's nose.

Ring-A-Ding- Ding!

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Pres: CAPT Perry Martini, USN Sec'y: CDR Brian Horais, USNR (Ret.) 11234 Cranbrook Lane, Oakton, VA 22124 e: bhorais@schafercorp-ballston.com http://www.erols.com/horais/USNA1971.htm Steve Ayers sent in a brief note documenting once again just how small the world really is.

Steve's daughter started college this fall at Sonoma State University in northem Califomia. The school randomly assigned roommates over the summer, only attempting to get kids from the same city together When Steve met his daughter's prospective roommate, he happened to be wearing a Navy t-shirt. She asked Steve if he went to USNA, and when he replied in the affirmative, she said that her dad, Tom Flaherty '70, graduated in '70! Steve called Tom later that evening to introduce himself and compare notes and found out that Tom retired in '97 and is working for SAIC (where Steve works). Can you believe it? They have since met and together helped the girls move into their dorm room (probably spending more time on sea-stories than doing actual work).

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Sam Mutch sent in a note from Gainesville, FL, providing an update on what he has been doing for the last "few" years. Since leaving Annapolis at the end of Youngster Year, he graduated from Marietta College in 1971. Sam then went to Ohio State University, where he received his master's in city planning in 1974. He has been an urban planner since that time in Florida, rising to director of planning for the city of Gainesville and Citrus County. Sam also has an MPA from Harvard and a JD from Florida. He has had his own law practice since 1992 in Gainesville, where he specializes in land use and govemment law. Sam is the county attomey for Gilchrist County, FL, and the city attorney for the cities of K e y s t o n e H e i g h t s , Micanopy, Hawthome and Waldo. Sam belongs to the Gainesville, FL, Chapter of USNA AA. Welcome back, Sam! Dave Storey sent in a note just after the recent East Coast hurricanes had pelted the Tidewater area where he lives. Dave did not feel the effects, but they were evident in the nearby communities. Dave currently rans a test and evaluation contract for Nichols Research, but is waiting to see what the merger with CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) will bring. Dave says that it will be hard for him to imagine a 53,000-person company, as he left a less than 500-person company to join Nichols with 3,000 people. Who knows? That's the nature of defense contracting.

Dale Peterson sent in some Classmate news from the great Northwest: Lew Mason has recovered from his neck surgery and is flying again. Recently Lew picked up the Debonair he co-owns from the shop after having a more powerful engine installed. Lew is still in Moses Lake, WA, teaching at Big Bend Community College.

Greg Engel is in the Ft. Worth area working Y2K issues for Computer Sciences Corporation.

Greg and Donna are settling in and enjoying Ufe as Texans.

David Knott's widow, Happy, is in Fallbrook, CA, where she is teaching elementary school.

Hank T^irowski and his wife, Eileen, live in Renton, WA, not far from the Peterson home in Seatac.

Dale recalls that Hank is in consulting, but doesn't remember his field of expertise. (He's author of the book, Plebe, and has another one in the works).

And lastly. Bill Hilton is flying MD-80s for Alaska Airlines.

Dale usually sees him as he passes through the training center (where Dale works) for his annual recurrent training. Dale is still working as a flight instractor on the 737 for Alaska Airlines. Dale's wife, Linda, has established herself as one of the premier aerobic instractors in the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so much so that he has to monitor her work schedule to ensure she doesn't over commit herself She is in great shape, but Dale says they (is that the singular they.

Dale?) aren't getting any younger Their son, Erik, and Pete Baker's son. Matt, are both battalion commanders this year in the Corps of Cadets at Norwich University. Matt commands First Battalion and Erik commands Second Battalion. Dale doesn't know if this is a first for the Class of ' 7 1 , but he is sure it won't happen often! Thanks for the Northwest update. Dale.

The USNA Museum renovation is underway and will include a Space Exhibit with contributions from the Class of 1971. Bob Cabana is leading the effort among the USNA '71 astronauts to gather memorabilia for the Space Exhibit in the museum.

The renovation is scheduled to be completed in April '00.

That's all I have for now. Keep the inputs and photographs coming via email and regular mail.

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Pres: CDR Dave Hogen, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR Rich Robison, USN (Ret) 12695 Catawba Dn, Woodbridge, VA 22192 f: 703-413-5376; e: robison_rich@prc.com http://www.charm.net/~bfant/usna72/72toc.htm Happy Holidays, ladies and gents! It's hard to believe that it's that time of year again. (Especially since it's September as I write this. Golly, I love deadlines!)

Investing in the Future It isn't every day that your scribe receives correspondence from one of our former company officers. The following will be of particular interest to those of you in 34th Company.

In 1972,1 was completing my second year as the Company Officer for the 34th Company. In April, my wife, Linda, and I had our second daughter, Amanda, bom at the USNA Hospital which, of course, is long since gone. Following her birth, your 34th Company Classmates got together and presented us with a $50 U.S. Savings Bond which in those days, was a pretty nice gift. Over the years, we kept the bond as much in remembering the graciousness of the guys as for any other reason.

This past summer, Amanda, now married and a second grade schoolteacher, gave birth to her first child, Meredith Rose Lawing. As both she and her husband come from Navy backgrounds, they opened a savings account for their daughter with Navy Federal Credit Union. Much to our surprise, when they cashed in the 1972 bond to open the account, it had grown to well over $200.

So, through the gift of the Class of 1972, the next generation has begun her own investment portfolio. Thanks again to the great guys in the 34th Company, Class of 1972. Bob Denis, Capt, USN (Ret.) Thanks, Captain!

This and That John Byrd will be taking over as Commander, Submarine Group Two in Groton next summer Congratulations!

Caught on the Web Gregg Hamelin (hameling@aol.com) is working for Management & Data Systems of Lockheed Martin in Valley Forge, and lives at 469 Margo Lane, Berwyn, PA 19312, 610-647-4949. Bob Cook (lindanbob@home.com) works for the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University, and lives at 1428 Chestnut Ridge Drive, State College, PA 16803,814-867-1886. Chip Newhart (newhart@wans.net) is still residing in Bel Air, MD. Pat Dunne (patdunne@earthlink.net) lives at 10308 Towlston Road, Fairfax, VA 22030, 7033 8 5 - 3 4 4 3 . Chuck S c h w a l i e r (schwalic@ Colorado.ansenorg) works for ANSER in Colorado Springs, and lives at 632 Hourglass Ct., Jefferson, CO 80456,719-836-4502.

That's about it for this month, folks. As always, our thoughts and prayers are with those who are away from their loved ones this holiday season, putting it on the hne for the rest of us who are privileged to benefit from their sacrifices. Be safe.. .and hurry home.

More to come.,,next millennium. D. O. Tried and True with '72.

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Pres: Tom Storch Sec'y: CAPT Tom (TJ) Wilson IH, USN 8310 Gushing Court, Springfield, VA 22153 e: tjwilson@erols.com; w: 703-697-8863 h: 703-913-0094; f: 703-614-1755 Classmates, projecting ahead slightly to the time you will be reading this, the holiday season is upon us. What a great time of the year! Families getting together from distant and maybe not so distant places, the fun of finding just the right present for everyone and just enjoying the good cheen And, this year there's the added benefit of wondering what extra little present will be delivered a week after Christmas...the dreaded Y2K. I write these articles on my PC, so if around March nothing shows up, you can assume I'm still wrestling with my BIOS or some other inner working that refuses to give up.

Larry Myers attended the change of command when Joe Klingseis gave up ANZIO (CG-68) and sent the following along: This is a short 22nd Company update. At Homecoming last year, we decided that we would try to get together as a Company a little more often than five or ten years and try to make it around some significant occasion, if possible. The logical choice for this year was the occasion of Joe Klingseis' change of command on 24 August in Norfolk. It was especially good since Joe was deployed in ANZIO (CG-68) during Homecoming last year. We also thought it would be a good idea to surprise Joe. Bill Kordis, Bill Doherty and I worked to contact guys all over the country to come and we did get a good tumout. We also got to update our database of addresses and phone numbers for some guys we had not seen or heard from since June '73! In attendance were Colette and Joe Klingseis, Jim Van Sickle, Janie and Joe Grosel, Mary and Mike O'SuUivan, Mary and Bill Doherty, Linda and Bill Kordis, Gail and Kevin McClesky, Ben Francisco and myself.

Almost in attendance were Tom Strait, Mark Yerkes, Chip Keener, Mark Armentrout, Frank Kale and Jon Friestedt.

We had dinner at the Grate Steak the night before the change of command and succeeded in surprising Joe, with Colette's help. We had an impromptu bar in my room after dinner (not quite as rowdy as Army/Navy) and all had a nice evening remembering old times. Bill Doherty took picmres with his digital camera and put the evidence on the Intemet, along with old evidence from Homecoming. The change of command was very well done the next day. It was clear that Joe had the admiration of everyone on the waterfront from ADM Jay Foley and his staff to other ship COs and their crews. It goes without saying that Joe also had the utmost respect of everyone on the ship and led by example. I was able to see thisfirsthandas his guest underway for four days.

I saw almost every facet of shipboard operations exercised under the watchful eye of the CO and everyone learned and performed well. It was a refresher in leadership training for me, too. Of course, the ship looked better than the day it was delivered to the Navy. ADM Foley did a great job in sending Joe off to Washington to N81 where he has just taken up residence in the Pentagon.

As for the other guys, Jim Van Sickle still lives in Pensacola and flies with Northwest. Bill Doherty lives in St. Petersburg and flies for Northwest. Joe Grosel just moved from Naples to Norfolk as a chief of staff. Mike O'Sullivan lives in Yardley, PA, and is working business development in a telecommunications company.

Kevin McClesky still lives in Chesapeake, VA, working for ODU and the Navy. Bill Kordis lives in northem Virginia and is CO of the NROTC Unit at George Washington University. Ben Francisco lives in WilUamsburg and works for a health insurance claims company. Mark Armentrout still lives in Atlanta and is working for a new company involved with remote sensors. Mark Yerkes retired in Orlando and works for the University of Central Florida. Chip Keener lives in Houston and is still drilling oil all over the world. Jon Friestedt is still in southem Califomia working in finance and banking. Tom Strait is a CPA in northem Virginia. Frank Kale lives in Duxbury, MA, working in investments. I just completed my fifth year with System Planning Corporation, also in northem Virginia.

Since then, Joe Klingseis ran into Andy Schneck in the Pentagon where Andy drills two days a month so we will probably all get together for lunch next month. Andy lives in Houston. For long range planning, the next 22nd Company get-

L to r: Joe Grosel, Kevin McClesky, Larry Myers, Joe Klingseis, Mike O'SuUivan, Jim Van Sickle, Bill Kordis and Bill Doherty

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together will be next summer for Bill Kordis' change of command in Washington, unless he stays another year. If that happens, Mary Doherty said she would host it at her new home in St. Petersburg.

It was great to see everyone!

Joe Klingseis and Larry Myers Great job, Larry. Thanks for the randown on all the 22nd Company guys. Also, congratulations to Joe Klingseis on a superb command toun That's what I have to report this time. By the time this is in print, I will have been transferred, but the email address will still be good. Since I'm going to sea, getting pictures in articles may slow down some since Shipmate is not yet able to handle digital photos. Other than that, things will remain the same. Please send along your family and Classmate news. We are all very interested in staying connected.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each and every one of you and your families.

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Pres: Steve Hubbard Sec'y: CAPT Larry Warrenfeltz, USN 21 Colony Trail Drive, Mandeville, LA 70448 h: 504-626-4964; e: highvolt_sid@hotmail,com Dear 'mates, A very Merry Christmas and a Happy 2000 to all! Finally, we'll be finished with all the end-of-the-1900s hoopla. When we're done "partying like it's 1999" I guess we can start "partying like it's 00." Who needs a calendar to give you a reason for a party?

Steve Shegrud is helping slow down the flow of illegal narcotics across the Caribbean. Steve is the commanding officer of the Atiantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility (AFWTF) in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. He's quoted in a September Navy News item that followed a 2,000-pound co-

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caine bust assisted by a P-3 supported by "Halfwit's" (sorry Steve, but that old JO-days nickname just won't go away) Tactical Support Center "The Navy's job down here is extt-emely important," said Shegmd. "Working with the local authorities is something we are proud to do in order to help protect the interests of Puerto Rico and the United States."

Ray Wassel plans to put his Plebe Summer knockabout sail training to good use in the "world's toughest yacht race—the BT Global Challenge."

As an employee of a British Telecommunications subsidiary, Ray was chosen to participate in one leg of the race as a fundraiser for the Save the Children charity. The race begins in September 2000 and will take 10 months, going 30,000 miles the "wrong way around" (from east to west, against prevailing winds and currents), visiting seven countries on five continents. You can find out more on the race Web site: www.btchallenge.com. Ray will be raising funds for the U.S. branch of Save the Children. You can send a tax-deductible check made out to "Save the Children US" to Ray at: 2820 Cravey Drive NE, Atianta, GA 30345.

The Donaldson photo archives yielded some early 1970s treasures for this month's edition. Judging from the choice of beverage, this must have been an away game.

Steve Oslund, Kermit Stott, Rich Davis, and Rich Whiteside fiiel up for the game

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76 Regular Membership: 43% Life Membership: 17% Pres: Chuck Gorum 146 Prince George St., Annapohs, MD 21401 h: 410-263-3337; e: cgomm@annap,infi,net Sec'y: Chuck Dirienzo 2833 Horsemans Ridge Drive, Clayton, NC 27520 h: 919-550-2627; e: chuckles@ipass,net Mike Thumm scores with Pat Connally on deck I wonder if Jack Stewart still has that big beer mug from Der Zillertal in Hamburg? I remember that Youngster Craise night, (The bell bottoms we wore in 1972 came in handy!)

With my oldest in his freshman year at Tulane, I asked Steve Hubbard for advice on parenting college-aged kids. He and Maggie certainly have the experience, with three in college this year! Kyle is a senior at Pitt, on the dean's list, playing ragby, and making career decisions. (Go Navy, Kyle!) Jeff is a sophomore at American University, and Joanna is in her first year at Mount St. Mary's. Not to be outdone, Maggie is working on a master's in special education emphasizing inclusion. She does this while teaching first grade and serving as assistant principal at St. Mary's School in Laurel, MD, and taking care of Steve and the one young Hubbard still at home. Supermom lives on!

I caught Dave Gove's name in the Navy Times change of command list. Dave moved on from command of SubDevRon 12 to be one of the deep thinkers on the Strategic Studies Group in Newport.

The Baltimore Sun just ran a nice article lauding the Class of "Ought Three" for their high academic qualifications and excellent Plebe Summer record. The Superintendent gave a lot of credit to the better and deeper recraiting effort led by CAPT Rick Hammond in the Admissions Office. Bravo Zulu, Rick! The top-notch kids with the vision to understand how USNA can fit in their plans are out there—but they are tough to find!

Don Keeler, are you out there? One of your high school buddies from Ambler is trying to track you down. Call or email me and I'll give you all the information.

Until the next issue, then...Go Navy!

Celebrating the victory. Dan Thompson, Pat Connally, Jack Stewart, Rich Torgerson, Steve Simonson, Pete Damisch Shipmate, December 1999

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Pres: Arch Griflin Sec'y: Vince Balderrama 45 Little Fawn Drive, Shelton, CT 06484 e: VBalderrama@Sikorsky.com Web site: http:// usnal978.org Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells. Just singing a few Christmas carols. Grateful to be singing them at home in the U.S. and not still in Turkey. Altogether I've spent about a month and a half there. Of course, since I'm writing this almost two months in advance, who knows where I'll be? I could very well be reading this as I sit in the Ankara, Hilton, cursing myself—"sucker!" Oh well! Please Santa, don't let that happen. I promise to be a good boy, eat my vegetables, say my prayers, pay my taxes (ontime),plant a tree, save a whale,. .aw heck, who am I kidding? I'm doomed. Anyway, on to the mailbag.

Hall Van Vlack (vanvlack@erols.com) checked in. The September issue kicked him into the response mode. His 20 years worth version goes something like this. Despite his graduating USNA late (taking remedial Motors and Rotors to get his BSEE) he overcame his aversion to higher education and decided to go back to school to update his sheep-skin. In May, he completed his MSEE from Johns Hopkins University. It was the culmination of four years of part-time night school. In addition to a few extra IQ points he got a nice piece of paper to hang up on his "I Love Me Wall" along with the one from USNA. Hall says that with any luck that will be the last degree for him. But since he specialized in computer networks, he suspects he'll be stuck in one course or another just to keep up with the technology. It's a process that continues until he retires and takes up fishing. To pay the mortgage, he's working for Uncle Sam as a GS15.

But the man with the beard and striped pants says he can't retire until 2012. (That's funny, my debt-

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ors say I can't retire until I'm dead!) Hall finds computers and networks "fun and interesting" especially as we approach the year 2000 tumoven He doesn't anticipate any real problems. But with all the concems other people have, he expects to be celebrating the New Year in front of a keyboard, just in case. (Of course he didn't say anything about that cache of food supplies and gold bullion he's keeping in his basement.) The Millennium Duty will be just like standing OOD midwatch but this time he gets to sit down and doesn't have 20 pounds of binoculars hanging on his neck. In a few more days we'll see if Hall's prediction of "no problemo" rings trae.

Tom Martinez (Tom.Martinez@nsc.com) sent an update. He says that life is very hectic, but good.

His daughter, Sarah (19), is in her second year at MIT. She hopes to be a civil engineer He says he doesn't know how that could be, as we should know that teenagers "are rarely civil to anyone." He reminded Sarah that civil engineers make things that are targets, bridges, dams, bunkers, and that electrical engineers make things that blow up those targets up. She didn't see dad's Marine artillery humon He's been putting life back together again after losing his wife to cancen He's started dating a very nice lady. They have a lot in common, love of the outdoors, bird hunting, Labrador Retrievers and a slightly off-center sense of humon Tom says she gets extra points for just being able to put up with him. Some might say she loses points for a "below in headwork" for just that same reason.

Still, he's lucky and looking at life positively now.

Glad to hear it!

Rich Polek (Richpolek@aol.com) left "sweet home Chicago" in the middle of August for Richmond. Actually he found a house in Midlothian, VA. Rich started a new career in paper/plastics recycling. He is now the VP of Operations for a start up company called Extraction Technologies of VA. Jennifer and their daughter Nadilee, followed him out in late September Too much prolonged travel with ABB in the commercial nuclear field services business made him feel like a totally inadequate husband and dad. It was just too tough to leave his three-year-old for months at a time. The only difference between that and submarines was that he could call them from the hotel or plant everyday.

The new job will involve travel, but more severalday trips and certainly not months on end.

I spooked Chris B u r g i n ( C C B u r g i n ® leggmason.com) when I responded to his global "radio check" on email. Seems I remembered too much from 2nd Class YP craise. Chris is a Financial Advisor/Certified Financial Planner for Legg Mason out of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (just outside Jacksonville). He's been doing that type of stuff for about 13 years. He says he's just "plodding along trying to make a buck and, of course provide value, added service to my clients (no day trading ...just night!)." He wonders what's up with Charlie Nickel or Matt Rausch, but has managed to keep in contact now and again with Kevin "Grinch" Lynch and John "Younger" Young. If anyone can help Chris with news about Charlie and Matt, zap him an email. How about a "cc" to your Scribe too?

Luis Rodriguez (lrodriguez@transok.com or at home at 12rodriguez@earthlink.net) sent me a "Comm Check" type of email. Luis was with 14th Company and made the trans to CivLant during '76. He's anxious to hear from old Companymates and Classmates. Dennis Pricolo (DenPricolo@ aol.com) of 35th Co. fame also responded to my administrative glitch. He wrote to tell me he was among the guys I overlooked with the 0 - 6 notifications. Dennis is a cryptologist. He converted designators after a couple tours as a SWO, He is

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now the CO of Naval Security Group Activity Denver in Denver, CO. He pinned on captain on 1 October So with the new fiscal year comes the new pay. Since he's never written me before he was awash with an update. Here's his "Cliff Notes" version.

Been married for 15 years to Cindy Mittnacht of San Jose, CA. Have three kids: Danny (9), Nate (5) and Kristi (18 months). During my last tour, I was at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, MD. We lived in Annapolis, and we were able to make some football games, parades and other events in the Yard. It was really neat being back in the area for first time in career. During other cryppie tours, I was stationed in Japan, then on the CarGru 3 staff in Alameda, taught at SWOS Dept Head Course at Newport, attended the Naval War College, and was on CinCEur staff in Stuttgart, before returning to NSA. Okay, now for my version—crypto, yeah sure— he's a spook, 007-type stuff. Just check out that resume—Ft. Meade, NSA—yup, do the math. It all adds up. Any more and I'd have to kill ya. Thanks for the update, Dennis. (If that's your real name!)

Tom McLeod (tom.mcleod@lmco.com) said my complaining so much about empty mailbags was the motivating factor for him to write and fill us in on the goings-on at the McLeod household.

After a series of acquisitions Tom now works (like most of the other defense folks) for Lockheed Martin. He's in Orlando, FL. He, Judy and their boys have been down there for three years. Judy, Matt (15) and Danny (14) seem to be enjoying it, which always makes dad's life easier Tom is still working on the project, which brought him to Orlando, which is part of the Lockheed Martin Simulation and Training organization. They are providing a training capability to the British Army for an Armored Battle Group. Lots of simulators and workstations tied together on a LAN with a visual database etc. It's pretty interesting staff. Since they have a number of U.S. and U.K. subcontractors he gets to travel a lot. He gets to the U.K. almost once a month so the Delta frequent flyer miles build up!

For the 2nd Company guys that read this, Judy and Tom are talking about a company reunion in Orlando for the Navy-Notre Dame scheduled to be played there around October of 2000. They would at least have a party on Friday night, a tailgater at the game and then something after the game. They can also do a golf match and of course there are the "attractions"—you know, that little theme park with the mouse. Tom needs to get indications of interest so he can start planning and costing out the parties, hotel and transportation, Tom says that John Waiters and Dennis Viera are also living in the area and have offered to help with the Reunion, Second Company folks who are interested can drop Tom a line either at work or home. Here are his particulars: work email is tom.mcleod@lmco,com; work phone is 407-306-2650; work fax is 407-3062677; and home phone is 407-208-9365, Sounds like it'll be a fun time. I hope the game will be as successful as the party!

Matt Leavitt (leavitt@erols.com) also filled us in on his 20-plus year gap with an email synopsis.

In a nutshell, he says that "life is good" and he feels as though the Leavitt family has been greafly blessed. They are all reasonably healthy, happy, and doing well in jobs or studies. As to some of the particulars, he just completed two years on the Joint Staff (in J-5 Westem Hemisphere Div.) and officially retired on 1 March '99. He began working on the transition in the fall, intent on remaining in the D.C. area. In December of last year he signed on with UTD Incorporated, a small engineering company. Since Febraary, he's been working for them at an office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in Alexandria, VA. The work is very interesting, and it pays the bills. To Classmates in the transition process he offers some gouge. He leamed of openings at UTD from an ad at the USNA Career Center computer bulletin board. He gives it a thumbs up as a productive resource! Aside from work, he spends time doing things with the family, participating in Rotary, and singing with his wife in the choir at our church.

He and Maria just celebrated their 21st anniversary. Like most Navy wives, she is glad to have settied in one place and has made a lot of friends among the displaced Spanish families here in the D.C. area. She is in the second year of a post-doctoral fellowship and is doing research in Bethesda at the NIH's Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes. Maria is very excited about the research and her flexible schedule allows time for a variety of family activities, choir, teaching confirmation Class, and serving as a volunteer interpreter.

Their daughter, Elizabeth, is in her second year at William & Mary and doing fine. She had an intemship in D.C. last year at the Office of National Drag Control Policy and got to do some "neat" stuff. Matt is a senior now at Langley High School, and is in the application process for admission to USNA with the Class of ' 0 4 . He worked at Raytheon E-Systems last summer as a software dude, and is now working part-time at a small software company near Dulles called "ArcSecond."

Seems to like it! Their youngest, Joe, is a sophomore at Langley. He also professes an interest in USNA, and is off to a great start in athletics, (Track/ Cross-Country) and studies. Last summer he spent a couple of weeks with the family of a friend of mine from the Spanish Navy who was teaching at the NATO school in Oberammergau. As we can see, they have a lot of "moving parts" in the Leavitt household.

Matt's been in touch with a few Classmates over the years—Frank Schraml, now a doctor at Bethesda working in Nuclear Medicine, and Jon Will (who began his Joint Staff tour the day Matt was checking out) is working in the J-5 Nuclear Arms Control Div. Last year, about this time, Matt's roommate at USNA, ]VIL "Lafayette" Norton, came out and stayed with them during the 20th Reunion. Lafayette lives in beautiful Redmond, WA, where he works for a power co-op. His son,

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Michael, also came out for the Reunion and is contemplating application to USNA, The best way to reach the Leavitts is electronically at leavitt @ erols,com. Otherwise, catch them at the tailgaters!

Will Pearce sent an update to his email. Seems the amount of junk mail at the old address was too overwhelming. Here's his new address to which you can now send junk—Will78USNA@aol,com.

Sonny Del Santos forwarded an email from Steve Murphy (s_murphy@bellsouth.net). Seems that Steve is also down in Florida. In fact he's up the coast from Sonny in Brevard County. Steve's been there most of the years since leaving USNA— except school and a few years working out of the country. He's working in the telecommunications field after having spent 19 years in aerospace. He got married a few years after leaving the Academy and now it's been 20-plus years of marriage and three great girls. His eldest daughter just went off to school (college) and the youngest two are juniors in high school. Thanks for the update, Steve— and thanks. Sonny, for forwarding the news.

I was among the recipients of Gary "Iceman" Eisenmann's (eisenmanng@konnect.net) mass mailing from Okinawa. He said he sent it because he hadn't anything better to do during a super typhoon. OK, there are lots of things he could've been doing, but then we'd have missed his update.

Besides, snorkling in your living room isn't as pleasant as sending an email (though he was fully prepared for that possibiUty!), Gary knew there was going to be trouble when he saw the name of the typhoon—Bart! Like the cartoon character of the same name—Typhoon Bart proved to be a hellion.

DOH! He provided a blow-by-blow account of the event (no pun intended). Bart grew in strength as it finally reached the island of Okinawa with better than 100 mph winds. Fortunately the eye was not supposed to pass over them. As it was, the winds were rocking Gary's van, bending the trees, tearing covers off sheds (his and his neighbor's).

Bart was just making a real mess of things. In his job as facihties maintenance officer, Gary gets calls all the time—especially while a storm rages. Two bases were without power (and not a thing he can do about it in that sort of weather He can't exactly send someone up in a bucket track with typhoon winds and rains!). Several houses in his neighborhood had serious damage and flooding (which fortanately was the Air Force's problem. Gary doesn't do housing maintenance—for which at times like that, he's very glad!). Fortunately, he lives in a nice thick reinforced concrete house. He could hear the winds roar and rains pelt, but things were fairly safe. As he was typing, it was getting dark, partly from the setting sun but also in large part from the denser clouds and heavy rain. The darkness only makes things spookier, as one can't see how bad things really are (or aren't). Gary, thought that those of us hving on the East Coast, especially in North CaroUna, have probably experienced the excitement of just such a "httle storm." There was one difference, however When Floyd was heading toward the East Coast everyone fled. Folks on Okinawa don't have that option. They just have to "bunker-down" in their houses and let it blow over them. The storm gave the kids a couple of days off from school and promised to give them a few more.

They don't have snow days on the "Rock" but instead they have typhoon days. In the span that Gary was writing he admitted to going a littie stir-crazy.

After all he hadn't been able to get out of the house at all that day—except for an occasional dash to and from the neighbor's house. As the wind continued to whip around, Gary cut the email short.

He and his four boys needed to play to release some of that pent up energy! I can' t wait to hear the conclusion of his Typhoon Bart story!

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Well, that's all she wrote. Reunions, 20 year histories, typhoons—this month's column had all the makings of a Michener novel or an Aaron Spelling mini-series. I'm looking forward to next month to see what happens to the Iceman and to discover who else has come out from the cold. Of course, I'm just looking forward to seeing if there is anything left of civilization after this millennium bug hits. It could tum out to be as bad as the commercial equivalent of the swine flu or then again it could be as big a bust as New Coca Cola. Who knows? In the meantime, I'm making copies of my files and accounts, stocking up on paper products, water, MREs and canned goods, filling up on my NRA quota of rounds for my "for hunting-only" AK-47, and heading to the bank for those Krageraands. See you after the electronic fallout.

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F*res: Mike Finley Sec'y: Ken Russell 210 South Main Street RO. Box 380, Ariington, SD 57212 w: 605-983-3312; e: gone2pot@iw.net Class Web site: www.usna79.com Well cowboys, for my very last article to you, I was going to write a sappy, flowery sort of thank you type deal that attempted to puddle up a few eyeballs. Vicky puddled up pretty badly when she read it. However, after excruciatingly going through the thing over and over, typing, retyping, trying and failing to get my point across, I decided to scrap it all together I don't know how to write very seriously without boring the hell out of people more than usual. Besides, a monthly article should be fim to read, not painful, not sappy either And, we all know how painful it's been over the years reading some of my stuff anyway.

So, I want you all to know how grateful I am for getting to do this for the past 10 years. I mean, I know more of you than any other guy in our Class; a privilege I jealously treasure. I've made some pretty good friends of guys I never knew when I was a Midshipman. It's one of the best things that's happened to me in my life, and I've had quite a few wonderful things happen to me, as things go.

Plus, I've been able to read about, talk to and hear about you guys and what you've been up to; your wives, kids, careers.. .well, your lives. Some of you might be saying, "Man, Ken, it's only an article," but to me, it has been a pretty big gift in my life.

In a weird sort of way, I feel like I haven't been a member of our Class because I get to see us from a bird's eye view all the time. The view is incredible; so much so that it's hard to fathom being part of such an amazing bunch of people and I don't think it's from an inferiority complex. I wish you could see this whole Class of 1979 like I have had the privilege of seeing it. And look, I'm taming hokie and sappy, but so it goes.

I've seen commanding officers of ships, submarines, squadrons, battalions, and soon will read about aircraft carrier commanders and space shuttle commanders, all from the Class of '79. I've seen people who started corporations, discovered galaxies, became doctors, pastors, lawyers, and myriad other occupations. Some things made me teary-eyed with pride like when a Company got even closer, and became even better people because one of their Companymates fought hard against but, in the end succumbed to cancer. I've seen that

some things are bigger than we are as individuals; a tmdi about life of which I am gladly and quite often reminded.

I'm lucky. From my panorama, I've seen patriotic, honorable Americans who do uncommon things every day and think nothing of it. It's humbling because the more I got to see the Class as a whole, the more I realized how much more you deserve. But, because I know how great you are as a Class, you'd never come to that conclusion.

Lastly, the one who has made sure that there has been an article just about every month for the last 10 years is Vicky. She's the most demanding, caring, thoughtful, funny, loving and beautiful friend who loves you guys as much as I do. Vicky's high standards and inspiration helped tremendously on many late nights and early mornings while I tried to make a deadline. Thanks, Sweetie, For allowing me to be Secretary of the Class of 1979, I'll be forever grateful, and I'll miss it. So, as I continue to make round staff out of mud from The Arlington Pottery studio in South Dakota and read books like Wry Martinis, by Christopher Buckley, and Eat The Rich, by PJ O'Rourke, I'll look forward to receiving my monthly Shipmate, tuming immediately to the '79 Class column, reading about us and hoping the next guy might get to be as fortunate as I've been as secretary. Thank you so very much for letting me do this over the past 10 years. —Ken Russell '79, Omnes Viri

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Pres: Tim Kobosko Sec'y: CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr., USNR 15 Allard Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70119 h: 504-486-9040; w: 504-539-9255 f: 504-539-9257; e: jgrace@notc,org http:// www,USNA 1980.org At last, the summer has past and we are into the really enjoyable months here in New Orleans. We really have two seasons here—summer and deUghtful. We're now entering the second season! It sure seems that I was just finishing my last column yesterday and here we are again. It is now time for all of you who took time off during the summer to send in an update and let me know what is happening in your world. As I mentioned in the last issue, we are working to develop the network for the Class and need everyone's email address. So if you have been reluctant to send it in, now is the time to change. Go to the USNA1980.org site and check to see if you're listed. If not, add your name so we can extend the ring.

I'm not sure if I had the chance to mention that I had the privilege of having lunch with Mike Maliniak in his wardroom with his officers. What a treat! His Command tour is about to end and he is soon to rotate. Being in command of fast attack is one of the few things that I wish I could have done. Few regrets in life, but I will admit that I sat in the wardroom with envy and respect. For those of us who left the Navy early, we can live vicariously through our Classmates and it was certainly a treat and was a great experience. I have to admit that it's a littie frightening knowing that our Classmates, people like you and me, are in charge of nuclear weapons, submarines, ships, squadrons and more. Of course, other Classmates are in charge of multi-million or billion dollar companies too. We have come a long way. On to the mailbag!

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I just got off the phone with an old friend from 17th Company, John Fry, who is a partner at Alston & Bird in Atlanta. He and Griffin have three children, little Griffin (10), Juliette (5), and William (2). They have been in Atlanta for 10 years and Uve pretty close to downtown. Griffin is still as beautiful as ever and continues to be at the heart of volunteerism in the community, while John has managed to continue his career with the Naval Reserve. We have been working on ideas that might bring them in for a few visits to New Orleans. He is the XO of a Military Sealift Command in Raleigh-Durham. He reports that his old roommate, Bill Buchanan is now working for Eiger, Inc., which is some kind of Financial/investment Company. Bill and his bride, Sarah, live in Dallas.

school class.) This was the sixth time we have made the trip and as always the week was great, the beer was cold and, well, Roger is still Roger.

I am still managing the AQS-20 mine-hunting sonar program here at Raytheon. Looks like we will get into production next year if all goes well with the Navy test program scheduled for later this year. Keep up the good work.

CDR Carol D e s m a r a i s ( c d e s m a r a i s ® san.osd.mil) sent me a note to let me know that she is detaching from Portugal and heading home, so look for her here in the states. A short note also came in from Ron Thompson (G. Thompson Jr.) (R0N.TH0MPS0N@APPL.GE.COM), from 7th Company. He has been with GE Appliances since he retired from the Navy a year ago. He is enjoying the work and travelling the world.

Brian Kosinski checked in with an interesting update—not necessarily Class of 1980 related, but USNA stuff.

This isn't 1980 gouge, but it sure speaks well for good old USNA. I hired Rob Lyon '87 and he is a tremendous asset after only being here for a few months. It is really fun to work with people that have skills, motivation and experience! Even though he doesn't have spacecraft experience, the USNA, NPS and Navy background come in handy for almost any task. Amongst other things, he is defining qualification tests for new hardware at Space Systems/Loral.

On the home front, Nancy and I have decided to home school our children (Jeanine, age 9, and Lyie, age 8) this year. For our first science project we rigged a hamster wheel to a generator that lights up a light bulb. It works fine by hand, but the first test hamster didn't want to be part of a school project. We are still looking for a more cooperative hamster. Stay mned.

Another Annapolis email came in from Don Senerius (DSENERIU@arinc.com).

All's fine here in Crabtown since the lights finally came back on after Floyd or whoever blew through a week or so ago. No trees through the roof like many neighbors had, just some spoiled cold cuts and milk. I did get my PEP in that day bailing water and hauling buckets; Heinz would have been proud. Anyway, I've been working with ARINC since 28 May '85 (ring a bell?) after serving my five-year sentence in Hyman's nuke world. Was working NavAir programs at Pax River until recentiy, when I switched to program management of FAA programs. Many have passed through, but I think the only other Classmate left here is Randy Pizzi who I see regularly. Gianna's working at a company down on West Street managing some software systems and Scott is now in seventh grade and tearing up the county soccer fields. Anyone passing through please give us a call at 410-757-1587. Looking forward to seeing you all at next year's Reunion.

I received a great note from John Holmes (John_G_Holmes@res.raytheon.com) who was checking in before they all get snowed in: Joe, hopefully a day late will still help. Things here in Rhode Island are going pretty well. No. 1 son (Chris) is off at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Amazing to think that he is in college. A httle bit of a scare with Hurricane Floyd and the resultantfloodingas it contaminated the local water supply, however, he assured me that he wouldn't go thirsty as they had ample supplies of other fluids! (This is where parents have to bite their lips and just say another prayer!) Hoping to get to the Rutgers-Navy game on 4 November.

No. 2 (Ryan) and No. 3 (Joshua) sons are doing fine as well, however, they have come to realize that the more favorable child/parent ratio they enjoyed the first part of their lives has changed to one of equality which means more quality time with mom and dad! Patti is doing fine and has been doing some substituting at the local schools in the special education area.

Spent a week this past summer on the Outer Banks, NC, with Roger Sexauer and Bob Ausdenmoore (IU 1908). (Some of us nukes might remember Bob as he was in our Nuke

A surprise note came in via a round about way from Dan Hinz (Dan_Hinz@amat.com). He has been a world traveler in support of our Classmates: Thought I'd give you a quick update. On Labor Day, I flew to Hawaii by buming up some of my frequent flyer miles. I went to attend Jeff Zerbe's change of command. He was relieved on 7 September as the CO of CHEYENNE (SSN773). He completed the PSA and then took the boat from one coast to the other by way of the Panama Canal. He also took the boat on its first deployment.

It was a great day and Hawaii is the place to have a Command. The reception was held in the BOQ and was very nicely done. I saw some other Classmates. Bruce Grooms is CO of ASHEVILLE (SSN753) for several more weeks. I'm sure everyone remembers him as the basketball player, I remember him as the guy who taught me boxing our Plebe Year. Also saw Kathy Carlson (Ozimek) believe it or not we went to the same high school in Pennsylvania until I left just before my senior year for South Carolina. My picture made it into the Navy Times; I was the good-looking guy with the lei in the front row. Later I received a letter from Tina and Danny Archer who are out in San Diego. They enclosed a few photos of '80 Classmates who got together at MCAS Miramar O'Club on 30 July 1999 as part of the annual Air Show. They had 14 people show up for the grand event and a good time was had by all. At last count, they report that they have 53 of our Classmates in the local SoCal OpArea. There are probably more, but that is the count at this point.

Danny is working on a San Diego USNA 'SO roster, so if you are out there, give him a call or email him at darcher@mitre.org and give him your data.

Tim Johnson '02, Sharon (Hanley) Disher '80 and Rich Johnson '74

Bill Personius, J.D. McMaster and Rich Carlquist

Jerry Dalo, daughter, Grace, Danny Archer and daughter, Maureen

Some of '80's first retirees—Pete Andreason, Jerry Chandler and Skip Anderson A while back, the Navy, in it's ultimate wisdom, sent Scott Grundmeier (grandy@nadn.navy.mil) back out to sea from USACOM where he was a

Ellen Chandler, J.D. McMaster, Jerry Chandler, Bert Ferguson, FD. Dempsey, Tina and Dan Archer, Al Wellesley, Mike Wellesley and Susan and Skip Anderson Shipmate, December 1999

But I think that the most likely reason, I'd say Was the school he was from was depressing and gray And that color possessed both his soul and his mind And put sour-puss faces on most of his kind But, whatever the reason, his clothes or his school There he stood in December, a sour-pussed Mule From his Hudson high perch with a scowl he stared down At the Goats in their mirth in their Goatvilly town For he knew every Goat down in GoatviUe, yes, aU Was a-buzz, hard at work in their Bancrofty HaU. Al Wellesley, Mike Wellesley, Earl Gay, Jerry Chandler, Rich Carlquist, Bill Personius, Ed Dempsey, Tony Jiles, Dan Archer and Karl Bunker fantastic plaimer and business process expert. It appears that he came back and landed a pretty cushy job back at the Boat School, Figured it was about time I get off my lazy butt and get an email off to you. Besides you're always complaining of the lack of letters. Hope all is well in Nawlins'.

Maggie and I have been back here at the Boat School since the beginning of August. I'm the Academy's Base Operations Officer, or in less glamorous terms. Office in Charge of Parking and Pigeons. It's actually a great job and we love being back where it all started. I teach ethics on the side; I know, a real match for a fighter jock.

USNA was kind enough to let us live on The Yard for a few years in one of the magnificent old homes. Our next door neighbors are none other than Susan and Brian Burlingame. Bgamer is the Commandant's Operation Officer so we get the chance to chat about once a day. I figure out how to irritate Midshipmen with parking and he's busy trying to get them marching in a straight line. There are at least a couple of other' 80 grads floating about here. Liz Stemaman is with Character Development and Brad Taylor teaches in the Division of Engineering and Weapons.

Our son. Tray Calisch '00, continues to show some prowess on the football field as Navy's punter. That's the problem, he's on the field too much this season. We're attending all the games including away games in far off places like Houston and Honolulu. At the Rice game in Houston, we had the opportunity to visit all too briefly with Classmate and F-14 crewmate Joe Edwards and his wife, Janet. They are thriving in Houston; living the life of a typical NASA astronaut.

We have an open house policy here. The Grandy mansion is out by Gate 8 and all Classmates are welcome to drop by and take a load off. U yaw'II need anything from the old stomping grounds feel free to email me at grundy@nadn.navy.mil Gotta go, Joe. The squirrels are in the trash cans again.

We had a great time visiting with Scott's bride, Maggie, at the Tulane-Navy game last year while Scott was at sea. It was unfortanately the same weekend that we had a hurricane scare here in New Orleans and the weekend was cut short. We shipped all of the Mids from the D&B back on busses.

Tumed out that Ocean Springs, MS, home to Pam and IVIike Ales and close to Francis Daniel and Pam Wacek Svendsen, was hit, and we were spared. I used all of my Mid-power to get ready for the blow the moming of the game, only to have no problems. Thanks again to that team of horsepower! Even though it was cut short, it was great to see her down here and we are looking forward to more visits.

If you remember, L t M o m (Jennie Smith Holzapfel) has been a trae champion of keeping everyone in touch from the Class and has always been one of my outstanding secret correspondents.

She is checking back in with a new email for all of you who keep in touch:

Shipmate, December 1999

My new email address is LtMomUSNA@ Prodigy.net. Some of the following is old news, but if you are desperate,. .While visiting the Aviation Museum in Pensacola last March, I noticed a copy of Sharon Hanley Disher's book. First Class, in the gift shop. Speaking of books, Ed Ruggero, exchange Woop, has been writing a bunch of novels, which can easily be ordered, on the Intemet. I've just finished Breaking Ranks myself I ran into Rick Ryan (13th Co) in Corpus Christi 14 September. He's having fun as CO Traron 27, and wresthng with the decisions that come with having 20 years in. I was there to see my son, Chad Holzapfel '97, and nephew, Steven McKechnie, get winged. Chad is a third generation Holzapfel to fly in the patrol community. Remember to change my email address!

Not much more to tell about what is going on in the Ufe of die Class of 1980, at least without more input! I hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas season. When you read this, it will be Christmas, even though it is now only the end of September Don't forget to put me on your Christmas card list along with the canned photo on the front, newsletter Xerox or otherwise, and electronic if you have it. It's one of the easiest ways to get me an update and it is always great to hear from everyone. I'll be putting more info about homecoming and what we're doing as soon as we have the chance to put our heads together as a Class.

Kobo has a lot of that in the works in Annapolis and I'll report on the developments as they occur.

As always. Beat Army â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Joe

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"They'U be painting their posters!" he snarled with a sneer "And tomorrow is game time! It's practicaUy here!"

For tomorrow the Goats would drive up, the Mules down To their annual fight in the brotherly town 'This is something," he frowned, "that I simply can't stand" "For they'U jeer and they'U laugh and exhort the Pep Band" "Then the blue tide wiU surge and the canons wiU roar" "And aU hope wiU be lost as they run up the score" Then he growled, with the pain from his ulcer beginning "I must fmd some way to stop Navy from winning!"

For the game that he feared was soon coming, anon Up in PhiUy, next day, the Mule's hopes would be gone 'Cause he knew with the march on, the terror'd begin And then, three hours later, the Navy would win!

And they'd scream and they'd yell and they'd hug and they'd cry As the Mules glumly sat with lives passing by Then the Goats, young and old, in the lot would taUgate A tradition to which no gray Mule could relate They would gulp Ham Francisco, then crabs and some beer Which was something that gave the Mule hives, if too near Then the Goats would do something most Goatly obscene Every Goat down in GoatviUe, both nuke and Marine Would aU stand close together, with T-Court beUs ringing They would stand hand-in-hand and the Goats would start singing!

Every Goat down in GoafviUe Uked Navy a lot But the Mule, who Uved just north of GoatviUe, did not!

But no Christmassy carols would be sung that day Only verse after verse of that Anchors AweigM

Yes, the Mule hated Navy! The whole blue-gold schtick!

Now, please don' t you ask why, but it made him quite sick

And the more the Mule thought of this Goat-Navysing The more the Mule thought, "I must stop this whole thing!"

It could be his fatigues were aU wrinkled and messed Or with too many patches and medals he dressed

"Why, for 100 years I've put up with it now!"

"I must stop the Navy from winning!...But howT'

Then he got an idea! A most awful idea!

The Mule got a wonderful, awful idea!

"I know just what to do.. .how I'U silence the hoards" And he made a quick uniform with shoulder boards But he didn't dress up like the regular tars Not the Mule. He got thread and he added some stars To the boards on his shoulders and eggs to his cap Then he looked in the mirror and tumed with a snap And he chuckled and said, looking ever so sly "In this get up, I'll pass for that CNO guy!"

"AU I need is an aide..." and the Mule looked around But, since no aide was detaUed, t'were none to be found Then he spied the Black Knight who was covered with rast "WeU, I'U just have to use him, I guess, if I must" Then he said, "Come on. Knight," and they tumed and then flew Not to GoatviUe, no way, but to Navy HQ There he strode down the corridors, straight to the door Of the comptroUer admiral who wasn't sure ff the Mule was, in fact, the boss man, CNO If he was, then his ears had decided to grow But he'd not take a chance, so he Ustened, intent To the Mule's fiendish words to puU back money spent

But the Mule wasn't done, had the ways, had the means To cut force strength by half of the U.S. Marines

And his fib fooled the Nose and he showed him the door Then he emaUed BUPERS and he gave them a chore

Then he did the same thing on each coast to each Fleet Cutting DESRONs and Wings to the bone, the old cheat

"Send that Nosal guy, quick, to a job that is joint" "Make him driU for ten years with the Mules at West Point!"

So the 3-star stepped out, with a cheery "Aye-Aye" And the message was sent and the team went "Bye Bye"

OnflotiUasof ships and some squadrons of planes While ignoring the comptroller's urgent refrains

Along with it, the ships and the planes and the staff Who by moming, no doubt, would be RIF'd by one half

"Please, sir,fightoff the House and the Senate, weU staffed" "Or our Navy wiU die," but the CNO-Mule laughed

Satisfied with his evil, nefarious deed To bring grief and despair to the Navy Goat breed

Then repeated his order and wasn't done yet "And besides," clucked the Mule, "There's no obvious threaf' 'To our national interests, no war, not a noise" "There's no regional conflict to warrant these toys" Then he sUthered and slunk down the bright poUshed haUs Oiled paintings of dead foUcs adorning their walls To the Manpow'r Directorate, coded Nl Where the next 3-star waited to suffer his fun "I'm downsizing the Fleet," he announced to his prey "Many airplanes and ships wiU be going away" "So we won't need more saUors, in fact, we'll need less" "You look pale, my good man. It's a shock, I confess" "But we can't justify all the money we fUng" "At our spending requirements and, oh, one more thing" "We'll not be needing Goats, not for now, that's a mle" "So please go out to GoatviUe and close the Goatschool" "Prithee, do it tonight," said he, eyes all agleam "Save the biggest bucksfirst,no more footbaUy team"

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Jim Galanie, Neil Hogg, Greg Nosal, CNO, Jon Haugen, Tom Gumey, Cecil Davis show the flag

The Mule stroUed to the CNO's office to wait For the Goats to discover their Ul-gotten fate "What a plan, what a stroke. They won't know who to blame" "When they wake up tomorrow and forfeit the game" But the Mule overlooked an 0-5 as he sat Who, though not yetflagrank, had the budget down pat "I am Greg Nosal, sir, and before you I stand" "Just drove upfromthe coast and my change of command" 'With Tom Gumey, a Classmate, we soared and we flew" "In our Hornets from our VFA Eighty Two" "But I must ask you, sir, a quick question of mine" "Why go decomming planes and good ships of the line" But, you know, that old Mule's evil mind was so vast He thought up a lie, and he thought it up fast!

"Why, my good ex-CO," the fake CNO Ued," "There's an old afterbumer won't bum on one side."

"And those ships are so old and almost obsolete" "They will only embarrass the rest of our Fleet" "So I'm early retiring them 'fore they expire" 'To make room for some new ones that we'U soon acquire"

And when orders were cut and the message was sent The Mule laughed long and hard with no thought to repent But, alas, Greg was saved from these orders, severe And he went to the RAG as CO for a year In the photo, regard, his last change of command With the real CNO and our flag, as was planned It was quarter past dawn as he drove out Route 50 To await reveille in T-Court, t'would be nifty As he heard aU the Goats crying out from their gut When they found diat their Navy and team had been cut So he cUmbed to the top of Tecumseh despite Being dropped once or twice by the overtaxed Knight "Hee Haw to the Goats," he was Mule-ish-ly braying "They are finding out now that no game they'U be playing" "They are just coming 'round! Iknow just what they'U do!"

"Their jaws will hang open a minute or two" "Then the Goats here in GoatviUe wUl aU cry BooHoo!" "That's a sound," grinned the Mule, "That I simply must hear!"

So he paused and the Mule put a hoof to his ear And he did hear a sound rising over the bricks It camefirstfromthe left then moved on to Batt Six But the sound wasn't sad! It was loud and quite strong It just couldn't be so! T'was the Navy fight song!

And he stared at the Goats in the Court they caUed T Not beUeving the sight that his eyes made him see With the canons and Pep Band on Bancroft HaU step AU the Goats yeUed and screamed in a rally of pep

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With no game and no fleet the Goats welcomed die day With a rousing rendition of "Anchors Aweigh" And the Mule ground his teeth and a filUng fell out And he scrunched up his face in an ugly Mule pout 'Tt just doesn't make sense," the Mule said to the Knight "My plan shouldn't have led to this Goatish deUght" "Maybe Goats," he hypoth'd, "Are a whole breed apart" "Maybe Navy is not so much science, but art" "Perhaps Goats are unique, reaUy one of a kind" "And GoatviUe's not a town, but a rare state of mind" And then what happened next? WeU, in GoatvUle it's told That the Mule's cold, gray soul changed to blue with some gold And the minute his head didn't feel quite so gray He restored Navy's hardware without much delay He refunded the cruisers and fast F-I8s He purchased some tanks for the U.S. Marines He brought back the team who drove north none too soon So that they were in place for the kickoff at noon And then after the Goats had thus carried the day The Mule, yes, the Mule, he sang "Anchors Aweigh."

Happy Holidays, Chic

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Pres: Maj T. Gordon Thomson, USAFR e: tgthomson@compuserve.com; h: 804-360-8448 Vice President: Matt Moury e:MATTHEWM@ DNFSB.GOV; h: 410-263-7640 Treas: CDR Terry Benedict e: SP273@SPHQ.SSRNAVY.MIL h: 703-913-7183;w: 703-607-1036 Business Sec'y: Dan Proulx e: proulx@nadn.navy.mil@ h: 410-280-5282; w: 410-293-6884 Corr Sec'y: LCDR Greg Eisman 2721 Buckhom Oaks Drive Vahico, FL 33594-4202 e: Eisman82@aol.com; h: 813-655-9141 Class Web site: www.usna82.org A Happy Holiday season to all of you! A fairly good month for inputs (plus, it's not polite during the hoUdays to scold people for not writing in), so here we go!

First, Class Pres Gordy Thomson wanted me to pass on a few items. Our new Web site is up and mnning. Check it out at http://www.usna82.org.

Gordy has established email addresses for each of the Class officers. John Femandes has done a ton of work and deserves a lot of credit for this project.

There will soon be additions to the homepage. The next group of pages will revolve around the company email reps that were identified before our 15th reunion and will include a page for each company that should list everyone in the company with a paragraph on what they are doing now. It's also likely to include a Lucky Bag photo and a current pictare. We may also post the text and pictures that appear in the Class news section of Shipmate.

TTianks for your help, John!

Shipmate, December 1999

Two more items from Gordy. First, please update your address, phone numbers and emails with the Alumni Association and the Class. Lastly, if anyone has not been contacted about the Capital Campaign, contact Gordy and he will forward your name to the proper place.

Todd Morgan wrote in with this update.

I don't know when I've written Shipmate last, but much has certainly happened for my family and I in the last two years. I was fortunate enough to meet my future bride in 1996 and marry her in 1997. Terri (nee Coutts) and I were married on 7 December 1997 with Beth and Glen Sears in attendance and held a church service to celebrate our vows with family and friends at St. Lukes Church in Smithfield, VA, near Norfolk on 21 Febraary 1998. In attendance were Butch Slaughter, Al McCollum, Bem Ruiz '80 (USMA), Bob Strini, Paul Monger, Terri and Todd Morgan, Mark Baulch, Rick Simon, Neal Kinnear '71, and Darrel Morben. We met while working together at United States Atlantic Command (USACom), where I ended my active duty service prior to joining civil service and the Reserve in 1997. Not long after our "I wills," we found out we were in the family way and were blessed with our daughter Sydney's arrival on 16 October 1998. She was christened at the USNA Chapel on 16 May 1999 by Chaplain Duncan. Having the ceremony in the Chapel was both a moving and memorable experience for all involved. We followed the ceremony with a reception at the Officer's Club. Terri and I really enjoyed the 15year Class Reunion and are looking forward to many more returns to Crabtown to see Navy Classmates and attend tailgates. If we had only known then at the Reunion what was coming in the next year, we might of had several more rounds of cheer to celebrate early!

William "Coop" Cooper from 16th Company wrote in this month as well. He is at NAS Pensacola working as the Chief Engineer for the NavFac Constraction Office. They have a staff of engineers and inspectors and do about $40 million/year of constraction for four major bases in the Pensacola area. They are trying to get better facilities for the Navy by using best value awards and more designbuild contracts. He says it's a lot of fun but makes him wish he would have stayed awake a little more in some of those late aftemoon USNA Engineering Classes (don't we all!). He gets to see some younger USNA Civil Eng. Corps (CEC) grads coming through the office learning this business but they just don't make them any more like '82. His two girls are 12 and 8 and growing up fast; too fast. They both play piano and are involved in a lot of church activities. Coop says anyone, especially from 16, can email him at coopemim@netzero.net.

Rich Clyborne wrote in with the following.

Hello! I just started working this month here at the Naval Academy Fund as a Major Gifts Officer. I wanted to contact you to let you know that I'll be working for the NAF and the Alumni Association to raise funds for some of the initiatives identified in the recently published USNA Strategic Plan. Specifically, I'll be working on raising funds to help sustain the Academic Center at the Academy which acts much like the Leaming Centers being established at many other colleges and universities throughout the country.

In order to accomplish the goal of raising money for the NAF, I will be building a network of contacts (Classmates, grads, parents, friends, etc.) that may be in a position to donate a gift to the Academy. It's great being back here in the Yard!

I am extremely excited about working for the NAF and the Alumni Association as we head into the 21 St century!

My wife, Heidi, and I have been married for 16 years and have two children. Molly is our oldest at 13. She is a wonderful student and athlete.

Our son, Bryan, is 12 and is a budding young politician or lawyer; he'll talk to anyone anywhere! Both kids are swimmers, just like dad and both are exceUent musicians. I just finished seven

years as a middle school and high school physics teacher in Connecticut, along with a stint as an age group and high school swim coach. We'll be moving into a house in Sevema Park just across the street from where Heidi grew up. Heidi was working full time for a small bank in Rhode Island and will go back to her role as a full-time stay at home mom. We love being back in this area of the country and want to make a standing offer to anyone who comes through this way to look us up and stop by for some rest and relaxation. My roommate at the Academy, Dave Ruff, just assumed command of LOUISIANA ( S S B N 743) (Gold). The COC took place on 20 August at King's Bay, GA. Dave and his family are living in the KB area. I had a chance to talk with him prior to the COC and he said that fellow '82 Fun One'rs Ric Chapman and Tim Krese were expected in town for the ceremony. Paul Healy (11th Co.) will be taking over as CO of either NEBRASKA (SSBN-739) Blue or Gold sometime in the late fall (this could change by the time this news is printed). He's in the PCO pipeline right now and will be headed down to King's Bay to the same squadron as Dave. I spoke with him also several weeks ago. He's looking forward to command at sea and all the joys that go along with it!

Anyone headed down to the Annapolis area can get in touch with me at the Naval Academy Fund at 410-293-1951 or via email at rich.clybome@usna.com.

George Bonsall just completed his tour as CO of SENTRY ( M C M - 3 ) s t a t i o n e d at NAVSTA

Ingleside, TX. Where they won the Battle "E," got a SurfLant nomination for Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy, and where George screened for CDR Command. His change of command was 6 August. He reported to Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC), Fallon, NV, this month trading the humid heat of Texas for the dry heat of Nevada.

George and his wife, Rita, and their four children (Grace, George, Mary, and Jean) have settled in Fallon and are ready to hit the ski slopes at Tahoe this season.

That's all for now. Have a safe and prosperous holiday and I'll talk to you next year! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greg

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Pres: CDR James H. Flatley IV, USN 8506 Crowley Place, Alexandria, VA 22308-1822 e: CGFLATS@aol.com Sec'y: LCDR Richard ÂĽ. Woodford Jr., USNR 7329 Crestieigh Circle, Alexandria, VA 22315 h: 703-313-4170; w: 301-295-6810 (w) e: (w) Woodford.Richard@hrow.navy.mil (h) e: Richard.Woodford@juno.com (for text only, no attachments) http://class-act-usna83,org As promised, here is the hoUday edition of the eX-YP-Files, presented in a tme "Beat Army" quiz format. All of the news in the first half comes to you in the form of a question. You pick the correct answers, (Hint: Use the Force, Luke and Go Navy).

Question #1: The Navy has only three pediatric surgeons, name one.

A. Dr. Pepper B. Dr. Frazier Frantz '83 C. Dr. Moe Howard (nyuk, nyuk) Question #2: Which Classmates now fly with commercial air carriers?

A. Yo Hoffner, Mike Shippee, Mike Seaver, Will Hall B. Ed Vicini, Tom Dacey, Mike Hastings, Febi Calle C. Danny O'Hara, Tom Tarquinio, Steve Fielder D. None of the Above E. All of the Above

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Question #3: Name the father and son in the picture below.

A. Walt Molano and Collin B. Brace Willis and Cody C. Frank Gifford and Cody

"Like Father, Like Son Question #4: Circle Trae or False; Five of Navy's football games wUI appear on National television this season.

Question #5: What four letter word is described here: a large organized body of men armed and frained for war especially on land (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1977, pg. 62). i. Navy ii. Ares iii. Mule iv. Goat v.ARMY Fill in your answers here: 1.

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Hopefully none of you scored less than perfect on this quiz, otherwise I'm scheduling you for some EI (extra instraction) before the next column. Prediction time: Navy 28, Army 24 on 4 December 1999. You read it here first. Here is the rest of the news in an easier to read format.

Thanks to Chris Pietras for the gouge on Dr. ' T r i t z " Frantz, as featared in the Portsmouth, VA, Soundings, 11 August 1999. Frazier has been treating sick kids at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth for the last two years, about 3,000 patients a year and he operated on another 500 wee folk. He did his residency at the Medical College of Virginia, and a fellowship at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati and has published manuscripts on fetal wound healing. He also has three children of his own. He is one of only three pediatric surgeons in the Navy.

Chris (pietrascj@aol.com) also sent in the following hefty update: It has been 16 years since we have all graduated and I am finally breaking down to send in some news (though no pictures). I served as a strategic weapons officer on two ballistic missile submarines (thanks to my "stellar" performance at pre-graduation nuclear interviews, I became a ship driver and did not have to spend my time in the "box"). Following my second submarine tour, I was trained as a diving and salvage and mixed gas deep sea diving officer, at Panama City Beach, FL. During my dive training, I met my future wife, Jennifer Gross, who was visiting her brother, Paul Gross '87. After a whirlwind romance (engaged just a few short weeks after meeting), we were married on 8 April 1988 at the Chapel. Classmates and former shipmates filled the usher ranks and traditional swordsman arch including Jeff Fletcher '83 (17th). Barbara's son, Owen, was the ring bearer, Jennifer comes from a USNA family; her brother, Paul; her late dad, Ed Gross '59; an uncle, Bemie White '55; a cousin, Jamie Brown '86 (17th); and numerous cousins who have married grads.

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Following a short tour as the course instractor for the CO/XO strategic weapons curriculum at Naval Guided Missiles School, I became an Engineering Duty Officer. Went to Monterey, CA, and received a master's in electrical engineering from Naval Postgraduate School—what a great place to live—poor living conditions in govemment housing but made some great lifelong friends. From there I went to Norfolk Naval Shipyard (docking officer, diving officer and project superintendent for two surface ship availabilities) and am currently finishing up a tour at commander in chief, Atiantic Fleet, as the depot maintenance budget officer (approximately $1.5 billion per year, if only I could...) and fleet diving officer. I will report in December to Naval Submarine Support Facility (NSSF), New London, CT, for duty as the Repair Officer.

Classmates that I have ran into/spoken with/ emailed in the recent months: Brian Antonio (LPD-17 program office in New Orleans); Dennis Bevington (recently reported to the CinCLantFlt N-43 staff); Steve Lewia (SSPO) (Sec'y: sorry, I can't decode that one); Mark Gorenflo (SubLant staff); CJ Loria (NASA, space shuttle pilot in training); Chip Ressel (Washington, D,C., OPNAV N87).

Jennifer and I have two children; Michael (bora in 1990 and now in fourth grade—he is a gifted leamer and way too smart for me) and Katie (bom in 1992 and a first grader). Jennifer and the kids have already moved to Connecticut to start the school year.

Anyone who is passing through Connecticut is welcome to call and stay, we have room. Chris Pietras, 27 Washington Drive, Gales Ferry, CT 06335; 860-464-2702. Or drop me a hne via email.

Thanks to Chris, we got a lot of material on some really great '83 Class actors. If you see some newspaper items or other cyber-postings on someone from '83, please send them to me so we can spread the good news here. Chris, get me some pictures for the spring 2000 issues, wiU ya?

Quiz Question #2 came via Maria and Yo Hoffner's (yohoff@mindspring.com) desk: This is the first letter that I've ever written to Shipmate, (Sec'y note: two first timers in one month!) and what is compelling me to suddenly write after 16 years, you may ask? I have no idea... other than that I ran into a couple of Classmates, a few other grads, a former Plebe of mine, and a Woop who is married to a female high school friend of mine, all during the past week.

It all ties in with my Academy past— well, except the woop/friend thing—and suddenly I found myself thinking of chow calls, chopping, room tours, and other wonderful and rich memories of USNA. Also, having just attended my 20th high school reunion this past weekend, I began to reflect on how one can really get out of touch with those who were once close. Hence this letter. So, here goes...

I've been keeping in touch with most of the knuckleheads I hung out with while at Boat School via the net. Many of my Companymates (29th) are in touch with me via email, and a 29 Web site. But, there just seems to be so many of us out there that we ran into each other all over the world. Isn't that incredible? I wonder if this phenomenon exists with other colleges? Probably not, at least not to the extent that it does with us.

Anyway, last Thursday, as I was passing through O' Hare (oh yeah, I work for United Airlines), I ran into Mike Shippee, whom I haven't talked to in a while. Mike's an A320 first officer out of our Washington base,flyingout of Reagan National, Dulles and BWI airports. Actually, he probably gets more press out of this magazine than anybody else; it seems that there's something about Ship in every issue. But for good reason...he's a good dude! (Sec'y note: the other reason is that Ship sends me stuff! Send me your stuff and you'll see it here.) Then, a few minutes later, I ran into a former Plebe of mine, Russ Lindsay '86, who was in my Plebe detail squad.

That makes four of my former Plebes who fol-

lowed me to UAL; I'm sure not for my sake, but they're here: John Wilboum '86, Kevin Mauch '86, Ray Byers '86 and Russ Lindsay '86. Then, I'm standing out in the hallway outside ops, talking to a couple of fellow 737 captains, and along comes the new chief pilot. He knew one of the guys I was talking to, but he thrast out his hand at me to introduce himself. I noticed his big ole ring.

Apparently, he noticed mine, too. "Brad Thomann, nice to meet you. Boat School grad. What Class?"

He's a '78er. Also working in the front office at O'Hare are flight managers Steve Jones '68, and RADM Jack Mumow '64, USNR (Ret.).

Anyway, we have a few Classmates at United: Mike Shippee, A320 FO, Washington; Mike Seaver, A320 FO, Los Angeles; Mike Hastings, 777 FO, Washington; Ruben Torres, 737 captain, Chicago; John Davis, 747-400 FO, San Francisco; Tom Dacey, 757/767 FO, New York; and myself, 737 captain, Chicago. Of course there are numerous other grads, both upper and lower classes to us. A couple of' 82 29th Companymates at UAL: Marcel Bustos '82, 737 captain, Washington; and Kathy Bustle '82, 747-400 FO, and soon to be 737 captain, San Francisco. Sometimes it's like old home week at the airport. Next time you go flying somewhere for pleasure or business, make sure to look into the cockpit. You may know the pilot!

And that's more likely at the Big D. Delta AirUnes took most of the '83 aviators. I live in Atlanta and try to stay in touch with them. To name a few Delta dudes in Atlanta; Steve Fielder, Rob Haskins, Tom Tarquinio, Febi Calle, Danny O'Hara, Ed Vicini, Mark Manzelli, Rob Piroumian, Matt Gubinsid, Tim Casey, Don Haas, Scott Laverentz, and I'm sure there are more (sorry, I can't think of any more).

Steve Fielder is flying die new 737-800, and Rob Haskins is an instractor at the training center, and Ed Vicini is flying the 767. '83 Delta guys outside of Atlanta: Scotty Brooks, Steve Hubeli, Mike Mahan, Elmer Roane, Dave Groff and Chris Bush, Dennis Carr, Eric Yotz, (that's all I know of). Other '83 airline pilots; Larry McAllister, American; Jim Laufer, American; Mike Price, American; Brian Ostrom, American; Herb Hundley, American; Tommy Garcia, American; Bill Wilkins, Southwest; John McCormick, FedEx; Mark Hopgood, Northwest; Rob Barhite, Northwest; and Will Hall is at TWA. This past Labor Day weekend, I had the pleasure of spending some time with my sister and her husband, Russ Bartlett, and their two children, Samantha and Alex, before they left for Japan, and Russ's XO/CO tour. For those of you that didn't know, Russ was my roommate at USNA, and he and my sister, Yuki, have been married for 14 years (and five or six craises).

Russ will be taking over as XO of VFA-195 in Atsugi on 10 September, and will be taking command of the Dambusters in January '01. Good luck to them, with fair winds and following seas (I had to get some nautical stuff in this letter somehow!).

Another 29th Co. buddy, Dan Braswell, will be stepping in as XO of HC-4 Black Stalhons in Sigonella, Sicily, in November. Best of luck to Dan and Patty, too!

Anyway, that's about it, other than smff about me. I'm married to awesome Maria, and we have two very cool daughters, Erika (6) and Naomi (4). I've been working for United since 1992, and living in Atlanta since 1994.

Between Chris and Yo, I could be out of a job here. Boys, don't let another 16 years of news pile up again! And by the way, I've found that we're getting readers from our other USNA '80s classes, so to any "visitors" welcome to our Class Act! I probably have more info here on '86 grads than anywhere else in this Shipmate (hey, get with the program, Plebers). Also, did you happen to notice the '83 football jersey that Paul Heim was sporting in October's Shipmate in the Class of '75 column? I tell you, a Class Act always stands out.

Shipmate, December 1999

Thanks to Chris and Yo for the submarine and aviation status, now on to the Surface picttire: Mike Silva (michael.silva@ny,frb.org) sent in a pictare from Tiananmen Square, Beijing, and die following news: Greetings and many, many thanks for the fantastic job you have been doing with the Shipmate column. It has really been great to see so much Class news. Keep up the good work! (Sec 'y note: you're welcome, but the credit goes to all you Class Actors!)

As for a quick update on the Silva family, we are thriving on the Jersey shore. My two daughters, Caroline (10) and Catherine (8), are doing well in school and are busy with all the usual activities (soccer, brownies, CCD, choras, etc.).

Liz is very busy being a full-time mom, president of the local Parent Teacher Organization, president of the local chapter of the Trinity College Alumni Association, ranning, etc.

As for me, I have been working as in-house counsel for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1992. My responsibilities at the bank include providing legal support for our account relationships with foreign central banks. This usuaUy involves working on the investment of international reserves, sovereign debt restracturings, "bailouts" and economic sanctions, but has also started to include (ironically, given my miUtary backgroimd) negotiating banking arrangements for financial settlements conceming U.S. miUtary accidents. I recently traveled to Beijing to negotiate a banking arrangement for humanitarian payments to Chinese citizens who were injured by the accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Mike Silva isn't taking any wooden yen in Tiananmen Square, Beijing I also spent over a year traveling back and forth to The Hague to negotiate a banking arrangement with the Iranian govemment for payments to the heirs of the victims of the 1988 accidental Iranian Airbus shoot down. Another small irony conceming my job is that I commute to work everyday on a high speed ferry which travels from the New Jersey shore to the foot of Wall Street, so I still get a httie over an hour per day of "sea time" despite having gone CivLant!

That is all the news from the Silvas. I hope you and your family are all well. Thanks again for aU your hard work on the column. 182 Fox Hill Drive, Little Silver, NJ 07739, 732-224-0168.

Hmm, a lawyer with underway time solves high fmance problems at the Federal Reserve, sounds like it could be an upcoming episode of JAG? Thanks, Mike, for the news from the financial front.

Mary Beth and Walt Molano announced with great joy the birth of their son, Collin Thomas Molano, on 17 August 1999 at 9 lbs. 7 oz. and 20 inches. Do you see how pleased sister Katie is to have a kid brother? The Molanos reported all's weU in Norwalk, CT. Mary Beth is "busy keeping the household shipshape" and Walt and friends have started up an investment bank in Greenwich. So far, their venture has gone well enough to allow Walt to work on racing in Long Island Sound and to endow a scholarship at Duke University. Walt was also appointed to the Duke Board of Trastees.

Shipmate, December 1999

The commute to work sounds rough though: the office is three blocks from the yacht club. Walt, thanks for the annoimcement and we're looking forward to the next update from the deck of the racer?

Brian Corcoran filed a flight plan with me from the suburbs of Chicago: I had the chance this summer to take my family to Annapolis. It was thefirsttimefor my boys, Connor (7), Sean (4) and Brennan (2), to visit the Academy. Their favorite part of the grounds was Heradon monument. They enjoyed setting up their own pyramid at the base of Hemdon, trying to get to the top. (Sec 'y note: Ironically, they took less time than our "record" 83-1-80 minutes). I hope it is good future training for the three of them. We also had dinner with Glenn Woodruff and his family while in Annapolis.

Glenn and Jenny also have three "older" boys so we got to see our lives in a few years.

Sue and I currentiy live in a suburb of Chicago. I work for a cargo company flying DC-9s.

I alsoflywith the Reserve (VP-64, Condors, The Antisubmarine Warfare Sunday Punch) out of Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, PA. Rob Barhite (31) and Walt Ryon (22) also drill witii the same unit and are commercial airline pilots, living in New Jersey.

Brian, those are good looking 'sono-boys' you have there. Thanks for the photo and lines from Chi-town. '83 Condors, keep that Sunday punch ready, we're probably going to need it again soon.

Brian Corcoran with Connor, Sean and Brennan In the November issue I promised you "Updates on t h e ' 83 Class Charter, a Soccer Stadium Progress report, and pictures you will have to see to believe!"

Well, in October there was a progress report on the Stadium and the Charter and there hasn't been any change since thenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both are ongoing projects and for the latest, keep checking our Class-Actusna83,org Web site. There's been a lull in the action to get the Class Charter approved, but hopefuUy we'U have it incorporated in time for the New Year 2000.

As for "seeing is believing," did you see any of the five games of Navy football on national television? Also, I am still working on getting some old pictures from the Yard and the Hall (circa 19791983). If you have any copies that you'd like to share, please send them to my home address. Remember the two rales: 1) It must have a USNA Alum in the photo, 2) Hard copies, no digital files, please.

If you want something that you have to see to believe, check out Rich Whelan's showcase of characters at: www.RICHWHELAN,COM, now that's incredible!

I also received an update for those trying to contact Nancy and David Linton, Their new address is: lintonda@usgypsum.cora. Thanks for keeping us posted.

Well there you have it: you all didn't get a lump of coal, after all, this year. Don't overload on the egg nog or champagne this month, or you'll have some explaining to do after the office party. Cheers!

Have a sane, safe, and traly Joyful Holiday season and New Year's Eve (Y2K not). Oh yes, here's something to think on until next month:

"If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep."

-Anonymous "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

-John Andrew Holmes.

Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Enjoy Kwanzaa! See you here in 2000!

1983â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Class Act of the Millennium!

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Pres: LCDR Steven G. Young, USNR c/o Legg Mason, 6 0 0 Washington Ave, Towson, MD 21204; w: 800-368-2558 e: SYoung@LeggMason.com Sec'y: Robin Franke 304 Dreams Landing Way, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-573-9420; w: 410-495-2210 e: refranke @mindspring .com '84 Web site: www.usna84.com Dear Classmates: I can't believe that my five years as our Class secretary is coming to a close! Time flies when you are having fun. I really appreciate all of the positive feedback so many of you have given to me. Thank you again for all the correspondence and photos that have made this column possible. I am privileged to bring you the last Class of '84 column of the millennium!

For those of you who were at the Class meeting during the Reunion, Karen Malloy Halverson was the winner of the election as Class Secretary. Both Karen and Robin Franke will share the role of Class Secretary. (I like the fact that it takes two people to replace me!) Robin's addresses and phone numbers are included at the start of this column.

What a great 15th Reunion we had! Special thanks to Mike Nichols, Chris (Phifer) Passen, Jim Wilhelm, Lou Ann (Nesta) DeMattie, Joe Albergo, Robin Franke, Mike Collins, Warren "the Maz" Mazanec and Jeff Bartkowski for making all of the events so special!

From the Information Autobahn I took the liberty of generating my own news via the new Class Web site. Joe Thien (jthien@ollinet.com) emailed me from the earthquake capital of the world, HolUster, CA. I had emailed Joe a few weeks earlier and he replied that he "was on a last-minute business trip to Switzerland" and then it was already the end of September. Joe, you jet-setter you! Joe, who was a SWO, exited the Navy in Febraary 1996. His last job was CHENG on KISKA. During his time in the Navy, Joe was awarded his master's degree in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School. Joe currently works as a maintenance manager at Analog Devices in SiUcon Valley for the last three years. He enjoys the valley and was sorry to miss our reunion.

Joe promises to attend the 20th! Thanks, Joe! Chuck Melcher (MelcherCP@NAVSEA. NAVY.MIL) dropped me a few lines on my last day at N80. Chuck just completed his XO tour on BOISE ( S S N - 7 6 4 ) in Norfolk. He said that BOISE

was one of those XO jobs where the wardroom is doing a great job and all the XO has to do is hang on. Chuck moved to Annapolis and started his tour at Naval Reactors (NAVSEA 08).

Chuck's wife, Traci, is a H3/H46 heUcopter pilot, who recentiy completed her department head tour. She recently reported to the CNO staff and is assigned to N88 (Aviation Warfare). The Melchers have four children: Jack (9), Andrew (7), Grace (2) and Charlotte (6 months). Traci had Grace transfer-

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ring from her Flag Aide job to CinCPac. She had Charlotte between her flying tour and her N88 tour.

Chuck told me that after Grace was bom, Traci's sister (who is also an RN) moved in with them.

Traci deployed to the MED (August '97) on LASALLE for six months. Chuck deployed in December to the MED. Baby Grace immediately became a world traveler visiting Italy, Gibraltar, Toulon, Sardinia and Rome with the assistance of Aunt Bridget, Chuck is expecting Traci to screen for Command next summer His vision is that they both go to command in two years or so! Best of luck, Chuck!

Bayly Taff (Bayly.Taff@gs.com) dropped me a note with an update and a request for "Lost Classmate of the Month" (see the end of the column).

Bayly lives in Atlanta and works for Goldman, Sachs & Co. He has been married to John Morrow's sister and fellow Tennesseean, Kim, since 1985. They have two delightful daughters, EUse (10) and Rachel (7). Bayly flew S-3s in San Diego (cu-ca 1986-90) before retuming to USNA to work on the Commandant's staff from 19901992. After leaving the Navy, he attended business school at Vanderbilt. He joined Goldman, Sachs in 1994. Bayly reports that he is still playing tennis and, in addition, enjoys squash.

Lost Classmate of the Month: Jay Bass!

Jay Bass was nominated by Bayly Taff. Jay was a prior enlisted diver who attended NAPS and threw the javelin on the track team. He left after youngster year and Bayly thinks that he moved back to his home near San Francisco. Does anyone have any clues?

With warmest regards, Toni

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Life Membership: 100% Pres: Daniel H. White e: dhwhite@ibm.net Sec'y: Jeff Homberger 348 E. Arabian Drive, Gilbert, AZ 85296 w: 602-675-2351; e: p26825@emaU.moLcom http://www.usna86.org Happy Holidays! As you open to this installment of the Class news, I hope that you all find yourself in the company of family and friends. Yes, the Holidays are upon us! A time of egg nog, family gatherings, restoring our faith and hopefully, snow.

While this will be the case for most of us, many of our Classmates will ring in the holidays standing the watch, flying the left hand orbit on a stormy night at the marshal point, or checking on their troop emplacements "just one more time." For those of you who find yourself away from home in continuing service to our country, please know that we are grateful and proud that you are making our lives more secure with your presence.

Summer and fall passed quickly this year, as did the busy times of family activities, sunbum, deployments and active duty training for Reservists.

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The summer started with a bang courtesy of Operation Allied Force and THEODORE ROOSEVELT battle group getting yet another round of "green ink" in the Balkans. They did a fantastic job winning another CNN "Air Force War." I know that those of our Classmates that participated in the air strikes and support roles worked their tails off. Now that you are home I hope you're getting some quality time and relaxation. Our hats are off to you.

First off, Joe Wallis, "a good looking guy," married Shannon Maher back in May in San Diego.

They had their reception at Humphreys on San Diego Bay, no doubt paid for by contributions from Scott Franklin and myself. You see the day we graduated from USNA, the three of us made a bet that we would never get married. The first to go had to pay one nice crisp $100 bill to the remaining bachelors. Scott ponied up two Franklins (get it?) early on and I dropped another one to Joe in 1992.1 figure that, invested wisely in Intemet IPOs, those hundred dollar bills ought to be worth about $698,436. Shannon, if I were you, I'd be asking Joe where the rest of the loot is. Hopefully, we'll have some pictares for you of the big day in the next issue.

Speaking of investing, I received a note from Dan Beldy the other day. He is married with two children, and has been living in the Presidio of San Francisco for the last year and a half The Army pulled out of the Presidio a few years ago, leaving large, beautiful homes and hundreds of acres of unspoiled redwood and cypress groves on the west shore of the Golden Gate, Besides having impeccable taste in football teams (Go Niners!), Dan is investing in new Intemet companies for a living and is doing very well. His email address is on the Class locator site (mentioned later).

If you're going to Hawaii, I know a really great place to stay. It sits on the beach on a beautiful bay. The tradewinds blow through the windows in the evening and Mai Tai's flow 'til sunrise. Oh, did I mention that it is in base housing at Kaneohe Bay? Al Shaffer and his lovely wife, Sandra, are out in the 50th state, where Al is in his VP department head tour. Al and Sandra have done it all in the 13 years since graduation, including P-3 deployments, grad school and a shooter tour. While a department head tour hardly qualifies as a vacation, I hope you and your family have a chance to enjoy paradise.

In June, yours traly was keeping the supplies flowing as I went on yet another det flying C-9Bs with VR-59 to sunny Sigonella. Made a trip into Macedonia and even snookered a Russian pilot into trading a botfle of Vodka for a squadron zapper Haven't had a taste yet, but my neighbors say it is quite good. While in Sig, I ran into our former sixstriper Dan Merzke. He is doing his VP department head tour. He was in the middle of honchoing end of deployment awards for his squadron. He looked a littie worn out, but after the kind of uptempo his squadron had maintained in Allied Force, it's not suprising. He is geo-bacheloring from Brunswick down to his family in Crabtown.

Also over in Sig is Tony Califano at HCS-4 flying the CH-53E. For those of you that have never ridden in the back of one of those Super Stallions, it's like walking into a hangar, and then the hangar starts flying. I can remember one trip to the boat a couple years ago where we were being flown from NAS Norfolk out to ROOSEVELT. They had about 60 or so of us in the back. All I could think about was the Helo Dunker with 120 extra boots kicking me in the face when I tried to do the underwater egress. When we touched down on the flight deck, I think it was the first time I was ever glad to be back aboard the boat again. The CH-53Es from Tony's squadron maintain logistical beachheads

throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Chances are if you are reading this on craise in that part of the world, Tony has something to do with it. He looked like he was having a great time and was excited to be taking over as the maintenance officer He will be there for a couple of years, so if you're ever in Sicily, look him up.

Because I like self-inflicted punishment, and because my employer (Delta Airlines) is really supportive of our Reserve commitments, I volunteered to go over to Singapore to help out with Exercise Carat '99. During my first night in Singapore my appendix burst, so I spent the next week in the hospital staring out the window. When I finally made it in to my host command, I found that I had missed Scott Rumph by hours, as he had just left for Thailand to work the exercise from there. Andy Shuma is stationed in Singapore as the Flag Secretary for ComLogWesPac, who coordinates the exercise, Andy reported that he has been selected as XO of an AOE. That's a really big ship that airplanes can't land on (but helos can).

Congratalations!

Class Gift Progress on the Class Gift continues. My input was for our Class to donate a huge bronze "C" to reflect our average QPRs at Canoe U. and mount it on the dome of Mahan Hall, Fortunately, cooler minds prevailed and it was proposed that our Class gift be a monument placed out in Crabtown, I think it is a really great idea, and shows our gratitude for the support we received from the residents of Aimapolis, as well as our Middle sponsors. It would also really make us stand out as a Class as we would be the first and maybe only USNA landmark that many tourists to Annapolis would see. There are other ideas that are just as good. One is that the Class contributes to a large memorial honoring shipmates killed in the line of duty. How this fits in with what is already in Memorial Hall is a question that I will have to research. I will try to have an update for you next month on where our Class gift stands.

Class Homepage Hey! Did you know we have a Class homepage?

Thanks to Karl Beckett and Scott Starsman, our Class will soon be online. Scott has a Class of '86 homepage under constmction at www.starsman. com/usna/1986. Karl has generously offered the server space to make the Class homepage a reality. I think this is really going to be a great way for us to communicate as a Class. Please take the time to look at the home page and to provide your feedback. Don't forget! Leave your email address with his Classmate locator We have nearly 100 Classmates that have listed their email addresses and the number is growing daily. We are still pretty mobile as a group, so the email listing provides a great way to keep up with frequent address changes. In the future it may also serve as a quick and efficient way to notify you of important Class news. Deadlines for Shipmate are a full two months in advance of the printing (yes, I am writing this in September). Please do me a favor and drop me an email at paulandkathie@hotmail.com letting me know what you've been up to (especially if you owe me money!). Every one of us has lost touch with close friends from Canoe U. Believe it or not, a few sentences bringing us up to date on family, career, location and whatever else would be appreciated by all, I hope to get this Class column up and mnning again on a regular basis. We were a special group during our years at USNA, and it is time that we stood up and were counted amongst our Alumni. Stay in touch, OBSTCR! Audemus Esse Magnos

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Pres/Sec'y: Tim Wolf RO. Box 87, Annapohs, MD 21404 h: 703-271-0907; e: shipmate87@aol,com http://usna87.com Washington, D.C. A fitting way to go into the year 2000—baby news! Michael and Adrienne (Marks) Griffen are happy new parents. Daughter Claire O'MaUey arrived on 5 September The Griffens Uve in Arlington, VA. Christine and Joe DiPaola welcomed their fourth child, son Michael Connor, into the family on 1 September A future pitcher for the Orioles?

Michael joins older siblings, Joe, Elizabeth, and Sarah. Joe (dad) works for USintemetworking in Annapolis.

From Columbia, SC, Craig Augenstein sent word of the latest family events. Their son, Henry Simpson, was bom on 5 Febraary. Daughter, Mary Legare, is a great older sister Craig sells software for Parametric Technology.

Locally, T^ Keith is a senior manager with Xpedior, a global eBusiness solutions company. Ty handles their accounts for the Mid-Atiantic region out of their Alexandria, VA, office.

John Loesch moved from the legislative branch over to the executive branch here in D.C. John works in the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission after serving on the House Education and the Workforce committee staff. AU the financial industry types in the Class better be on your best behavior—there's a new sheriff in town.

John Dove is a sales r e p r e s e n t a t i v e for Medtronic, a medical device company. He covers the Maryland region. John and Rhonda have two boys and are expecting a third child next year.

In a note from Dawn Plourde, she mentioned that her husband, John Plourde, is a senior electrical engineer for Northeast UtiUties. Dawn added that their daughter, Meghan Elizabeth, was bom on 15 March, joining siblings Mark and Timothy.

She passes a hello to the Roylances, Fauvers, and Bill Orton '84.

Offthelnfobahn Darin McCloy finished his master's degree in electrical engineering at Monterey in September and is now in Annapohs teaching in the Weapons and Systems Engineering Division. Darin and his wife, Teresa, were married on 21 May 1988. Their first child, daughter Lindsey, was bom in January 1991. Shortly thereafter, the McCloys moved from Beaufort, SC, to San Diego, where Darin was OIC of the Marine Comm Detachment on TARAWA. While at Quantico for school, their son, Mitchell, was bom in April 1994. Next, the McCloys went to Camp Lejeune, NC. Son, Stuart, was bom in October 1996. The next stop was post-graduate school in Monterey, but all roads lead (back) to Annapohs and an instractor toun Brian Burgos is a consultant in the nuclear power industry and lives in the San Jose, CA, area.

Tom Doman and Jamie Forsee plan to marry on 10 June in Charlotte, NC. Back in October, David Buckley transferred from his tour at General Electric's corporate headquarters in Connecticut to ran the e-commerce shop at GE Capital's TIP/Modular Space business unit in Devon, PA. Laura Ann Aaron and Kent Van Horn were married at the Chapel in Annapolis on 11 September.

Hopefully I'll have some more details to pass along in the near futare. Kent works in the Navy's legislative affairs shop at the Pentagon.

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In an update from Sam King in Augusta, GA, he works in the logistics and distribution division for Club Car, which makes golf carts. Sam left the Navy Supply Corps in 1993 and spent three years in the automotive industry in Michigan and Ohio before arriving in Georgia in 1996. Sam passed along word diat Stan Cahill's career in Hollywood has really taken off and that Stan was starring in a show on Comedy Central.

Other items to pass along—Tony Fernandez is flying for Continental. John Hottendorf is a recmiter for Bradley-Morris. Kathleen (Buckley) Daniels is an executive officer of a TPU in Norfolk.

Charlie Daniels is an instractor at TACRON in Virginia Beach. Mary (Miles) McElroy and Dennis McGee are attending Georgia Tech and Dennis is studying for his MBA. Dave White owns and operates a lamination business in Clearwater, FL. As noted in the October issue of Shipmate, Suzanne Brown was named president and chief operating officer for InvestorVu,com.

After six long years, John "JP" Mellor completed his Ph,D, studies at MIT and defended his thesis in October, "Automatically Recovering Geometry and Texture from Large Sets of Calibrated Images," Kathy and John have two sons, Phillip and Patrick. They will be moving to Indiana, where John will be an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology teaching computer science and electrical engineering. In his spare time, John has done very well in many northeast bagpipe competitions and was named Overall Champion Piper Grade III for 1999.

Bill Hamblet, now working on the Joint Staff in J-2 at the Pentagon, is on the U.S. Naval Institate's ballot for prospective board members.

Bill served on the USNI board from 1993 to 1996, and he is hoping to be re-elected. For any Classmates who are active members of USNI, please vote for Bill when you receive your ballot, and most importantly, send it in.

If I missed anyone, I apologize. Send in your latest news, gossip, photos or whatever, and I'll pass it along to the masses. To all—have a wonderful holiday season and celebrate the entry into the 2000s with style. Be mindful of the past, but look forward to the futare.

To those of you still in uniform—out there on the front lines, out on the wall, and patrolling the skies or the deep blue—be safe and know your Classmates are thinking of you and your families.

We pray for you and wish you well, God bless us, everyone! Cheers! TTFN. TJW

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Pres: Capt Robert B. Sofge, USMC Sec'y: Eileen H. Laubacher 43 Willowleaf Drive, Littieton, CO 80127 h: 303-904-0806; w: 901-565-2120 e: laubacher3@cs.com Webmaster: Ron Surfield e: rsurfield@netrail.net Class Web page: www.usna90.org Greetings from Littleton, CO, everyone. It is Eileen (Haskins) Laubacher writing once more.

All out here is going well. My daughter, Natalie, is almost 10 months old, now. It is going so very fast! Chris and I enjoy her immensely.

A quick bit of business to start the column. I have been informed that our column length is actually limited. Who knew? Anyway, to make it fair for all Classes and Chapters, our column length is Umited to 4,000 words. This should not pose too much of a problem usually, but last column was apparently going to be way too long. In order to make it legit, our friends at Shipmate cut part of the column. Therefore, I am going to start with the notes that got cut last time and go on from there.

First, here is the rest of Cindy Schultz's note.

Kim and husband, Joe Luchtenberg, are both out of the Navy (surprise!) and live in the Hampton area. Kim got her MBA and works in finance at Newport News Shipbuilding. Joe works at information technology firm Dataline, Inc. They have a beautiful daughter, Ashley, who is four years old. Email them at; luchmbg@erols.com.

I married Kurt Miller '88 in December '90 at USNA Chapel. Although I really loved the CEC, I got out of the Navy in May after giving birth to our daughter, Katie, in March. I am currently at home, working as mom and loving every minute of it (well, except for the diaper changes). Katie is already doing pushups in preparation for her military career. Kurt is flying for Delta Airlines so we moved to Atianta (Delta's hub) in January '99. In '95,1 got my master's degree at University of Texas in stractural engineering and in '96 I got my Professional Engineer's license in civil engineering. Kurt and I have ran four marathons and if the heat will let up in Atlanta, we are planning on ranning the one here over Thanksgiving.

Our email address is: dorque@mindspring.com (don't ask).

Colleen Shook married Ken Shook (Penn State '89) in March 1998 at the USNA Chapel. She got out of the Navy in '95 to attend Washington & Lee University School of Law. Graduating in 1998, she passed the Virginia bar exam (smart cookie) and came back in the service as a JAG (well, now I am going to have to reconsider the "smart cookie" comment). Ally McBeal meets JAG. Thank goodness the Navy let her keep her LT status, otherwise she would never be able to pay back her law school loans. She's stationed at the Naval Legal Service Office, Mid-Atiantic at 115

Naval Station in Norfolk. I am sure she would freely answer any legal questions for anyone in the Class of '90, just give her a call (ha ha, just joking. Colleen). Email any legal questions or friendly hello's to; shookcm@jag.navy.mil. Ken is currently attending law school and will graduate in '00. They live in Newport News with two beautiful golden retrievers. Colleen said that Art Gibb and Scott McDonald both have orders to Norfolk. Art is going to the Shooter on GEORGE WASHINGTON and Scott is the CHENG on LABOON.

Tracey and Steve Yeager were married on 17 June '95. Tracey flew H-46s and is currentiy at ComHeltACWingLant. Steve flies F-14s and is on shore duty at FltWingLant. They live in a gorgeous house in Virginia Beach. Tracey just finished her master's in public administration and Steve is at William and Mary in the executive MBA program. All this additional education is so they can qualify as parents. Tracey is due at the end of September, beginning of October. She is going to get out of the Navy when the little one is bora. You can send them all the helpful advice at: syctrac@aoI.com.

Maria and Roger Galbraith '89 are both out of the Navy (boy, there seems to be a trend here).

Roger left the Marine Corps in '96 and is now a civil engineer. Maria left the Navy in '98 and now is an oceanography consultant, manages a ranning/triathlon store, and is preparing for her most challenging job of being a mom. Their first baby is due on 3 October. The only thing that Roger could do to slow Maria down was to get her pregnant; tough job. Maria has competed in numerous triathlons and two ironman races; Hawaii in '97 and Florida in '98. The big milestone in their littie one's Ufe will not be when it walks, but when it can keep up with Maria on aran.Maria joined the Reserve and is a LCDR. They live in Virginia Beach and would love any parenting advice at email; roger&maria@vb.quik.com.

Sara (Burke) Powell is following in her family history (she comes from a family of eight kids). Although pictured pregnant (I'm sure y'all figured that one out), (Ed.'s Note: See November Shipmate) Sara and John now have their third httie one, Ryan, bom 22 July. They have two other beautiful children, Joseph, who is four and Laura, 18 months. They are now realizing what it is like to be outnumbered. Both Sara and John are still in the Navy as METOC officers (I have no idea what that is but I think it has something to do with the fact that she got her master's in meteorology at Monterey). John is a LCDR and Sara will pin on LCDR when she gets back from matemity leave.

Liz (Fitzpatrick) Nashold '91 and Doug got married in July '98. She is the CEC officer in charge of Hag Housing in Norfolk. (Can you think of a more painful job?) Doug is a LCDR, SWO, who is curtentiy going to the Armed Forces Staff College and will be the XO of Mahan in March '00 (I wonder if anyone remembers what Mahan did from their Reef Points?) Liz got her master's in environmental engineering from Florida and passed the PE in Environmental Engineering (with all those credentials, the Navy made her the housing officer?) Liz is still ranning and I seem to recall that she has had some amazing times in marathons.

Tracey and Maria just returned from Kelly VanDyke's wedding in San Jose. Kelly is out of the Navy and martied a civilian, Larry Tajiri. At the wedding, they saw Catheryne (Buckholz) Nicholson and her husband, Brian '89, both of whom are out of the Navy. Catheryne got her master's from Stanford and Brian is a pilot for Alaskan Airlines. Others at the wedding were Kathy (Fitzpatrick) Stewart '91 and her husband, Alex '91; Susie (Stewart) Park '92 and husband. Hank '92, and son, Hilton; Krista (Pierpont) Sturbois and her son, Noah (Krista was a '90 Classmate, but left after two years and graduated NROTC from Penn State). Krista is married to Adam Sturbois '89.

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I just wanted to give a quick update on myself I have recentiy been hired by tiie Soutii Carolina Aquarium (SCA) in downtown Charleston, SC, as the new facilities manager, which I must say, is a dream organization to work for. The SCA is a non-profit, self-supporting entity. The revenues we generate through sales will be the funds we use to operate and expand our organization. The grand opening will be in the spring of 2000 and our focus is to make a seamless transition from constraction phase to operation phase. I will be responsible for all the operations of the building systems and life support systems. I think I have finally found a home, I get to use a little bit of my ocean engineering degree (thanks Professor McCormick!), leadership skills (Go Navy!), and business skills. For those who haven't heard, I bounced around a couple times with GE, a local manufacturing company, and headhunting. All of those opportunities were good, but just not for me long term. I am currently finishing my MBA through the University of South Carolina in a professional MBA curriculum and will graduate May 2000. It's a solid learning program, but best of all it has been a great networking format. The economy here, as in all areas, has been booming, the base closure (which I was heavily involved in) has not affected this community a bit. If only I had picked up a couple pieces of property when it was there for the picking. New businesses are announcing their presence here every day and it just keeps on growing. The expansion is so fast that, companies are unable to fill the positions they need from the pool of available personnel.

Recraiting from out-of-state has been the norm.

My wife, Jody, and I are doing well. We own three properties and continue to look for deals in the area. We are now in the process of building a new home and hope to move in by next year.

Finally, for those who spent nights at my parent's place, throwing up in my dad's car, stumbling into the house, and eating all you care to eat and drink all the beer you want, I have some disappointing news. My dad has recentiy been diagnosed with colon cancer, and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. He's had a section of his colon removed and several lymph nodes (one was found containing cancer cells). He continues to recover from surgery and is progressing well. Jody and I flew up to Maryland, last weekend to visit him. He has lost about 40 pounds (but he needed to lose some of it anyway), but seems to be in decent spirits. My mom and brother are doing ok too. For those who know me, people know that my dad and I are very close, I call him every other day just to say hi. Living in Charleston and away from the day-to-day issues, this whole experience, has been surreal. The doctor's prognosis is good because it was caught in the early stages. If any of you who use to participate in the weekly binges at Mr. Yeh's restaurant have a chance to send my dad a card, he would really appreciate that. His address is: 713 Tanley Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20904. That's all for now. I have a personal email account too: yippykai@aol.com.

Now, from John Drlscoll: I'm a 5ft(pmare-contributing rookie, but thought it high time to pass along some information now that I' m out of the Navy and losing touch with many Classmates. I spent the summer in Charlotte, NC, finishing up an intemship in the Manufacturing Management Development Program at Philip Mortis. In August I'll head back to Nashville for my final year at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management, where I'm pursuing an MBA with a dual concentration in operations and electronic commerce. Nashville is a great town; but unless you're involved with the country music industry, health care, or can withstand being a roadie for guys like Billy Ray Cyrus or Littie Jimmy Dickens, the MBA job market is not that hot. Consequently, I haven't a clue where I'll be this time next year.

I've spoken to several people in recent months and thought I'd update you on their whereabouts.

Jenny and Scott Davids (and their six-month old son, John Ross; a "strapping lad," as Jenny calls

him) have recently packed up and moved from Pacific Grove, CA, to Annapolis, where Scott will be an engineering instractor deep in the bowels of Rickover. He eamed his master's in aeronautical engineering at NPS back in June. Sean McHugh is spending the summer interning with Emst & Young in Atlanta (after waxing me in a few rounds of golf back in May). He'll join Tammy back in Durham and resume business school at Duke this fall. Congratulations to Sean, by the way, for being elected president of the Fuqua Consulting Club. Susan and Henry Guy are living in Tucson, AZ, where Henry is working for ISIS 2000. Word around here is that Henry is on track to become the first CEO in his business school Class since his company has grown like a weed after he reported aboard. Chip Wasson, an Owen Classmate, is doing an investment banking intemship with Bear Steams in New York this summer. Laura and Dave Padula are living the high life in Panama City, FL, where Dave is still on active duty serving as an instractor. Susan and Joe Kirby are back in Annapolis and are about to become the envy of many as they complete the purchase of an historic house one block away from the city dock. Joe recentiy left Circuit City and is working for a Washington-based executive search firm.

And now, from Llew Lewis: Llew Lewis, of 2nd Co. writing from Bella Napoli. I'm currently the Rag Aide for ADM Jim Ellis, CinCUSNAVEUR/CinCAFSoutii. I've had the opportunity to work closely with your dad as well, particularly over the months of the Kosovo crisis while he was the Director of JTF Noble Anvil. I'll actually be PCSing out of Naples in October, en route to ABRAHAM LINCOLN for my

disassociated sea tour (I'm a "VP pilot by trade; gotta do that shared misery tour!). My only real "personal" news is that my wife. Page, gave birth to our first child, David Jay Lewis, on 16 August here at the Naples Naval Hospital, weighing in at ten pounds, four ounces, he's certainly destined for glory on the Naval Academy's football team that his father never even dreamed of! (Or could have been capable of, for that matter.) Lots of stuff on other Classmates I need to pass along, and will soon. Today, I just want to play proud Papa. Might be worth noting that a whole bunch of our Class are on the FYOO LCDR selection Usts, though a whole bunch didn't make into the "zone" due to the vagaries of the selection process. Something like the first 35 percent of YG 90 were in zone this year, while the balance will be in zone next year with a smattering of YG 91.

Frankly, the system is showing the effects of the ongoing retention problem. Only time will tell how it will all fall out. So pass on Congrats to all the new LCDRs out there! (Including the Reservists like yourself!)

Thanks for that, Llew, and indeed congratulations to everyone on the 0 - 4 lists! Now a note from Aaron Johnson, or as he said, "the other Aaron Johnson."

Hello to all. I am living in Ohio, with my wife, Stephanie, and our two children, Aaron Jr. (6), and Gregory (3). I recentiy took a job with Bristol Myers Squibb, thanks in part to Mike Christ of the Lucas Group. I just talked with Bob Liebe, Steve Williams and Rob Beauchamp. Rob and Bob are still in the Nav and Corps respectively; while Steve is in the "other" world. I would love to hear from Fleet, Rappin, and the rest of the crew from the "TABLE." God Speed all!

Thanks, AJ, Now a note from Pete Charles' wife, Jennie.

I am the long off-again, on-again girlfriend he had while going through NAPS, Pete has been very busy, but to sum it all up, we have two girls' ages three and six. We left Rhode Island after he was teaching at NETC command, you know teaching doctors and lawyers how to become officers, pretty funny huh? Pete got off active duty in August '98. We have moved to Louisville, K'Y, where he is working as an engineer for GE at Appliance Park. He likes it and since has gone into the active Reserve. We have built a house and have plenty of room, so if anybody needs a

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cheap place to stay, look us up. Pete's home email address is saiIfiji@aol.com. He has a work email address but I don't know it off the top of my head.

Jim Burmeister we are looking for you so email us win you?!

Now, a note from Jeff Naglestad: As many of these letters seem to start out, I have never written in before, but I thought I'd give a (very) littie history on myself and a couple others I know or have heard about. I am now off active duty and actually working for a living.

While making the transition from the Navy, I was recraited by GE Transportations Systems and currentiy live in Erie, PA. The past year has been interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the sheer volume of change that has occurred. I exited the Navy as a submariner, took a year off, then re-entered the Reserve as an 1125, but am now the XO of an Amphibious Seabee Detachment, (Slight difference in modus operandi.) I left the Navy as a single man, and presenUy have a lovely wife named Beatriz who will be having our first child in January. (We couldn't wait to find out and have been told that it will be a girl. Now we have to wait for the rest of the curing cycle tofinish.)I used to Uve in Jacksonville, FL, then moved to Erie, PA. (Needed to get back to the north so I could enjoy winter again.) There are quite a few other changes completed and in progress but given that the colunm for our Class has undergone a bit of a resurgence, I won't fill up too much space.

There are other grads kicking around this place, but not from '90. Dave Johnson works in my building. Corey Keehn '88 was working here, moved to Kentucky to work for GE Appliances.

Mark Levitt was working here as a buyer, he left here to go into the FBI. Dom Cipolla '88, my former company commander when I was but a wee Youngster in 26th Company works for corporate but I have not ran across him in my travels. I've heard of others but have no confimiations.

On the where are they now front, Jeff Grimes, Duane Sand, where are you? There are quite a few things we need to catch up on and I lost track of both of you when I got out. (A little before that actually.) For anyone that wants to get in touch with me, my email address is jnaglest@msx.trans.ge.com. Drop aline anytime.

Have fun!

Now an ending to Steve Amiaga's cliff-hanger from last month.

Greetings, '90 ! Sorry for the cliff-hanger last month, but thanks to the Onelist and Brent Marquand for helping me find Gary Bruce. I also heard from Bill White, NROTC instiiictor at Duke; John Fischbach, "Mr. Mom" in Louisville, KY; Kyle and Kelly White in Burke, VA; Kurt Schoen, hydrology grad student at university in Wisconsin; Carter Honesty and Greg Archbold. Thanks for helping with the search.

Here's my update.

I have been a not-too-frequent contributor to these pages in the last nine years, but I'm happy to see our renewed vigor in catching-up with each other. This will be pubUshed in December, so my inputs this month are dedicated to Gary Brace, who introduced me to my wife ten years ago this mondi.

My wife, Mia Jealous-Dank, whom I'd met at Hood, moved back to NYC in 1997 and we were engaged in December, coincidentally at the USNA performance of The Messiah. We'd first met eight years before that weekend at Hood, at anotiier Messiah performance. We were married 12 September 1998 in Mia's home church in Greenport, barely five miles from where I'd grown up. Her parents live about five miles in the other direction, but we never met while growing up, because we went to arch-rival high schools.

The idea of knowing, much less dating someone from the other school wouldn't have gone over so well. Mia and I moved in to Brooklyn, a 30minute subway ride from both our offices. This September we celebrated our first of 60-plus anniversaries. Mia works as an architect in an office literally around the comer from mine, so we go to work together, usually have lunch together, and commute home together. I know it sounds Shiomate, December 1999

"cheesy" but we don't ask, "Honey, I'm home.

How was your day?" We say, "Anything happen since lunch?"

On the "My Business" side of the house, I've been very busy photographing all sorts of architectural and construction projects in and around NYC, There are lots of new offices being finished with all the growing, merging, splitting, IPO-ing companies in this area. In the air, I shoot aerial photos out of R22 Robinson, Hughes 300, and BELL 206 long-ranger helicopters all year long. As a private pilot (Rotary Wing) student, I've crossed the momentous hurdle of 25 hours.

Under instraction (hey, for an EX-SWO, that's a lot of hours) I've registered the domain name www.amiaga.com to put up a site for my business. If you can't find the site, email me and tell me to get off my butt and get working on it! That's the scoop from NYC. Nice story, Steve, Now from Mitch Rios.

I haven't heard much from 23rd Co. in quite some time. I touch bases with my old roommates.

Buzz and Matt, occasionally, but that is about it.

I did email Glenn Weinstein a few months ago, but haven't talked with him since. At 9:04 a.m. on 25 March 1999, my wife, Wendy, and I were blessed with a beautiful baby girl named Brianna Lynn! She weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces and was 18-'/2 inches with a full head of hair. Needless to say, our life has not been the same since. As the rest of you parents know, there is no greater joy.

We are currently stationed in Jacksonville, NC, where I am instracting the next generation of CH53E pilots at HMT-302. Flying tiie Super Stallion continues to be one of my top three loves.

What a tremendous machine. It is a great shore toiu- to say the least. Steve Silva is also in the squadron and is doing great. He is planning on getting out and getting his master's degree next year. I just recently ran into Al Ziegler, who is at "VMMT-204 (The new V-22 squadron). We are all looking forward to the 10 year reunion. If there is anything I can do, contact me at mdrios@ onslowonline.net Congratulations on the baby girl, Mitch. Also, congratulations should be in order for Jeff Jockel, Ed Sanville, and Jonathan Salkoff who are all getting married this month as I finish up the column. And that wraps it up for this month. Thanks, everyone, for writing in. As always it is a pleasure to hear from you all. Don't forget, you can email me at laubacher3@cs.com or snail mail me (especially with photos) at 43 Willowleaf Drive, Littleton, CO 80127. Until next month, take care and God bless. —Eileen

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Pres: LT Richard Brophy, USN Sec'y: LT John DeVine, USN 1701 Tyler Green Drive Smyrna, GA 30080 e: jcdevine99@aol.com Class Web site: www.usna91.com You've left me no choice. Due to a lack of substantive and interesting news, I'm forced to create my own agenda this month. I'll pass on the Uttle that I have, and then I also want to address a few additional important Class issues. Charge onwards, brave readers!

First, I want to get to an email I received from Neal Cuevas some time back. Neal's been out of the Intel Navy since June of '96, though he's an active Weekend Warrior, drilling out of Fort Sheridan, IL. Convenientiy, Neal's located himself nearby in Chicago. Who ever said Neal wasn't on top of things? Neal continues to work in Intel, and was working for JAC Molesworth in England during his two week summer vacation—oops, I mean duty.

Neal is just leaving the rank of newlywed, having been married in September '98 to Ms. Vicky Riego de Dios, a practicing actress, Congrats, Vicky, for making it through a year with Neal! Neal has recently changed his employment, leaving Retry Television, where he sold commercial air time, and moving to a hip company caUed Musak (pronounced like the stuff in the elevators). Neal can be reached at 5115 N. Ashland Ave., #2S, Chicago, 60640; 773-334-1909. Thanks, Neal!

I also have some news from Keith "Harry" Reams (ReamsKP@navainnavy.mil), who's out in Point Mugu, working with the Naval Weapons Test Squadron as the F-14D Project Officer. Harry reports that Keith "Squishy" Henry, who's acting as the SLAM Project Officer, has joined him.

Squishy came recently from Virginia Beach, where he cross-trained into the Tomcat from his small and underpowered single-seat Homet. Harry is working at developing software for the Tomcat, and occasionally gets back to NAS Oceana to visit John Suazo and Matt Leahey, who are flying at VF101 and SWATSLANT respectively when the hurricanes aren't blowing, John, Matt, and Harry did their first fleet craise as roommates some time back aboard INDEPENDENCE while stationed at VF-21 out of Atsugi, Japan. Other '91ers flying F-14s out of Oceana are Rod Coleman, JJ Patterson, Mark Brazelton and Will Burney.

Harry was married last year at the USNA Chapel to his wife, Jamie, Jamie works in San Diego, leaving Harry to do the weekend commute each weekend through the city of angels, Harry can be reached at 805-989-5150 x254. He requests news from anyone in the area, or any 36th Companymates. That's all from the Harry and Squishy show!

Okay, now for a little bit of business.

First of all, anybody in the Annapolis area interested in working on some Reunion preparations, please get in contact with me at the address listed above, or get in touch with Rich Brophy (USNA1991@aol.com). Our 10th is coming up fast, and we need some people who are interested in making it a great Reunion for us! We need help.

Secondly, to help us get out Reunion (and other) news, please check into the Class Web site at www.usna91.com. There is a Class database, in which you can enter your email address, as well as leave your latest news. So, please check in and check it out!

Safe and Happy Holidays! —JD

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Pres: LT Matt Amy, USN VP/Treas: LT Matt Arnold, USN Corr. Sec'y: Capt Shogo Cottrell, USMC 1405 SW Highland Drive, Lee's Summit, MO 64081 h: 816-246-4489; e: cottreUs@earthlink.net Class Web Page: www.usna93.com Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings '93!

We're sitting amidst hundreds of boxes and trying to figure out where it all goes (and where it all came from—do household goods somehow mysteriously multiply during a shipment?). Our new mailing address is listed above, but our email address should remain the same.

For Class news, Jim Mills has been nominated for Class Secretary and Efren Mojica has been nominated for Class Treasurer, As mentioned before, the election for these two officers will be done electronically via the Web page. Instmctions and further information about the election will be posted on the Web page and promulgated via a mass email to everyone who has registered on the Class Web page.

First off is some hearty congratulations to Denise and David Johnson who happily announce the arrival of Bryce Zachary Johnson who came into this world at 10:05 a.m. on 14 September '99. He weighed in at 9.3 pounds (whoa!) and was 20 inches long. You can check out the details on the Web at: http://www.babycenter.com/announcement/djohnso7.

I didn't get much in the way of email this time, but I received a few letters and pictares in the mail.

IVIike Flatley sent in this picture of his family as an update to the letter that was printed in the October issue.

L to r: (Back row) Shannon Smith '97, Dede Zailnick '97, Tiffany (Zailnick) Monaco '93, Rob Wyssbrod '95; (Front row) Andy Shinskie '97, Nittany Monaco, A.J. Monaco '91; (missing are Samuel Monaco, Cassie and Hunter Wyssbrod)

L to r: Todd Rampey, Benjamin Finney, John Bortanco, Patrick Hannigan, Casey Hannigan, Brendan Hannigan, Matthew Finney, Jay Schnelle, Kain Anderson Camp Pendleton. They can be reached at: #1 Jocelyn Court, Aliso Viejo, CA 92565.

That's all for this month. Hope that you all fare well this month and that nothing catastrophic happens on New Year's Eve. We'll catch you in the next millennium!—Shogo

94 Emily, Sean and Mike Flatley Tiffany (Zailnick) Monaco writes: Hi from Camp Lejeune, NC. We have a good Naval Academy gang down here. I've ran into Sarah (Quimby) Fullwood and her son; Jean and Steve Himelspach; Lisa and Monte Tenkley and their daughter, Madison. I'm out of the Navy— doing U.S. Naval Reserve work for the environmental office on base. My husband, A.J. Monaco '91, is with 2nd CEB. We had a baby boy, Samuel, in December. Also in 2nd CEB are: Andy Shinskie '96 and Rob Wyssbrod '95. Andy and his wife.

Shannon Smith '97, are expecting a baby any day now. Rob and his wife, Cassie, have a boy.

Hunter, who is two days younger than Sammy.

Looking forward to Homecoming this fall.

Last month Stephanie Hannigan promised a picture of the grads at her wedding. She took some time to write a littie: Sunny (read hot) Galveston Island, TX, was the place to be this June for the marriage of Casey Hannigan and Stephanie Bowers. A special thanks to all the gang who made the trip to Texas!

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Pres: IstLt Scott K. Hornbuckle, USMC PSC 556, Box 506, FPO AP 96386-0506 h: 011-826-11-737-0083 e: hombuckle@hotmail.com Vice Pres/Treas: Kirk Clermont 3991-117 Marine Lake Rd. Virginia Beach, VA 23452 e: clermont_kirki@msn.com Sec'y: Chris Williams 4314 Chippewa Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32210 Jacksonville, FL 32256 e: chrisandmary@ibm.net Corr. Secy: LT Jim Keck, MC, USN 1735 Felch Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32207 h: 904-396-4008; e: JKeck@usna94,com http://www,usna94.com Hello, '94! Wow, is it the holiday season already?

Well, 1 guess this writing marks the last column you'll read this millennium. Aren't you tired of hearing about all this Y2K and "Millennium Madness" already? I hope that not too many of you are caught up in the hype of hoarding toilet paper and trading the family dog for a generator But, in case you do decide to retreat into your underground bunker before the last seconds of 1999 fade into the history books, let me encourage you to take this magazine with you to keep you entertained.

Now, on with the news.

This is the first colunm since our Homecoming festivities on Labor Day weekend. Despite the unwelcome appearance of "Tropical Depression Dennis" in the late third quarter of Navy's losing effort to Georgia Tech, we managed to stay dry (well, most of us did) and have a good time under the big tent. (Special thanks goes out to Brian Lester for being so insightful in providing cover from the storm.) From the start of the weekend, '94 Uved up to its reputation of "playing hard." Our tab at Griffin's ran out by 9:00 p.m. Kirk Clermont managed to save the thirsty masses by reopening the tab for a short period of time at about 11:00 p.m.

Saturday was no less of a success. Most of the food was devoured, and the beer track was sucked dry.

Our DJ could be heard inside the stadium from our nosebleed section, letting everybody know that '94 was back in town. The Sunday moming branch and Class meeting was well attended. I can't possibly begin to name everybody that attended. But I do anticipate receiving emails, letters, and photos from the weekend. (Chris, you got those pictares yet?)

Look for them in the next century, (Thanks next year for those of you still confused,) Okay, it is time to open the mailbag and get to this month's contributions, JP Dunn wrote with the following update.

6 September: I'm entering the home stretch here inflightschool. I should get my wings sometime early after the new year (Jan/Feb). I must say that the aviation world is much nicer than the SWO world. I have never been as happy in my life as the day I stepped off my last ship. Of course being a helicopter pilot will get me back to a ship, but that's OK. No bridge watches for me! My wife and I are having a great time here in P'cola. Our first daughter, Lauren, is a deathdefying 17 months old. I'm convinced she's part mountain goat. She loves to climb. We're also expecting our second child in Febraary. Don't know what we're having, but the first few months Shipmate, December 1999

of the new millennium look to be pretty exciting for us. I don't know if you've heard or not, but Julie Antonacci (Rosati) was down here in HT8 with me and just got winged 20 August. She selected 46s out of Norfolk, but will go to the FRS out in San Diego. Pete is still in Meridian doing the Jet thing. Chris McCranie gets married this month (25th) and has been accepted into the FBI. He's teaching high school mathematics in the meantime. My roommate, Rob Wittmaack, got out in May and is working for a computer company in D.C. and living in AnnapoUs. I'm sure he's at the reunion this weekend.

Thanks for all the effort you guys have put into the Web site and for our Class. You guys are doing a great job. BZ! Juan Gil wrote to announce his transition to the civiUan way of Ufe. 21 September: Greetings from Dallas. How time fUes! I am coming up on the end of my commitment and despite the offer of the EDO community, I have come to the realization that my calling is with CivPac. What a refreshing feeUng I must say. Surprise arrivals to Dallas! Mark Tinder and Nancy Lo recentiy arrived in town so we've all been hanging out these past few months. Mostly odd Academy and Fleet reflections coupled with severe billiard lessons for Mark. Glad to see them so happy together. The wedding is coming up this December. Party Texas style! As for me, I am still happier working on my 944 than looking for any "one" significant other, but we'll see what happens when I retum home in the San Francisco Bay area. I'm set on having a go with one of the many hi-tech firms in the valley so if you're out there, give me an email. Let's network.

Reflecting on the glory of being a SWO, there were those moments that made it a blast. For those sticking it out, have fun and party on. Any 22nd CO types, drop me a message at Jgil72@yahoo.com.

Brent West (bfwest@uniich.edu) wrote to tell us that he finished up his active service in May, and is now going to graduate school at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He's stadying aerospace engineering and hopes to stay awhile to get his Ph.D. That's all for today, '94. As has been my tradition for the past seven months, let me give you the latest update on the Web site: We now have 14,082 hits as of 3 October 1999. The Class list tally now stands at 619 entries. I'll spare you the recent additions and updates to the Class Ust for this month.

Expect more Reunion news and photos in January's column. Remember to stay safe over the holidays.

Take care, and God bless you and yours. C-ya.. .Jim.

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Pres: John Fleet p: 301-263-0384 Sec'y: LTJG Don Jamiola, USN Patrol Squadron 26, Unit 60170, FPO AE 09501-5915 Well, haven't written in a while窶馬o letters! All my mail is being forwarded to me here in Puerto Rico, so there's no excuses! So, I guess you'll have to suffer through some hometown news releases.

Brett Potts conducted port visits to Singapore and Thailand over the summer while on STETHEM. Matt Bobbins received a Certificate of Commendation while assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 366 in Hawaii. Jeff Dietenbeck recently reported for duty with the Office of Naval Intelligence in D.C. Art Watson reported for duty at USNA. Anyone know what he's doing there?

Dusty Rhodes reported to Strike Fighter Squad-

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ron 147 in L e m o o r e over the summer. Bo Mansfield was the recipient of a Meritorious Mast for outstanding service with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 in Jacksonville, NC. So, what is outstanding service anyway? Eric Stenzel graduated from SOBC in July. Shipmate favorite, Tom Dickinson, completed a five-month deployment as part of INCHON Task Group 99-1 while aboard CHAMPION, Tom participated in exercise "Olives Vertes ' 9 9 " off the coast of Southern France, as well as "Alcudra '99."

Some Arabian Gulf news. Kurt Kochendarfer was part of the CONSTELLATION deployment to the Arabian Gulf Kurt is with Strike Fighter Squadron 151, Angel Dawkins and James Patterson did a deployment there on KITTY HAWK, ELROD was

represented by James Sievert and Joel Bernard, enforcing trade sanctions with Iraq. Both also participated in Exercise Cooperative Partner with five other countries.

So, there you have it. For all the Dirty Thirty people out there, I did ran into Carl Smit here in Roosevelt Roads. He is down here with Seal Team Two. Also, I hear that that one of our old Battalion Officers, Capt Home, is doing some P-3 stuff up in Keflavik, Iceland, Note the new rank. I am heading for Iceland for six weeks starting on 24 October, so I'll get to say hi. Until then, take care, Happy Holidays, etc. Send some letters! Later, Don.

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Pres: LTJG Bart Phillips, USN 7980 Sevan Court, Unit D, San Diego, CA 92123 e: bartphillips@ibm.net; hm: 858-278-2739 Sec'y: IstLt Tonya Barz, USMC RO. Box 728, Quantico, VA 22134 e: barzt@yahoo.com Greetings, 1996! As we slide into the holiday season, it appears that our folks are keeping busier than ever. IMike Neill writes from San Diego where he transferred off JOHN PAUL JONES in January '99

and reported to KINKAID ( D D - 9 6 5 ) as the Naviga-

tor/Legal Officer in April after attending some schooling. KINKAID deployed on a WestPac with CONSTELLATION BatUe Group making it Mike's second trip to the Gulf. They stopped at Chinhae, South Korea, where he ran into Michael Carson at the Seoul Hilton. Michael is flying SH-60Fs off CONSTELLATION. Next, the group stopped in Phattahya, Thailand and Singapore before reporting to the 5th Fleet. While in Bahrain, Mike saw Paul Crawford, who is flying EP-3s. Not completing the float, Mike detached from KINKAID in Bahrain and retumed home due to tom cartilage in his knee (which he attributes to his third ACL reconstractive surgery that he had in Febraary '99).

Mike underwent his sixth surgery in November.

Steve Perchalski checked on KINKAID as assistant engineer and is now the Strike Officer. Other Alumni on the ship include: Brian McPheeters '95 (Asst Engineer who is now at SWOS as an instractor); Josh Lorden '97 (AUXO); Rommel Salgado '97 (GUNNO); Elie (Jenkins) Touse '97 (COMMO and AdminO); and Chris Cornwall '97 (ASWO). Completing the group are Bob Pudney '98 (DCA) and Michelle McKenna '98 (EWO).

Chris Castleman, Greg Sawtell and Ron Dowdell '94 are pilots with HSL-49 on KINKAID. Mike is also looking to re-establish ties with many of you out there and you ol' 36 guys. Give him a holler at 619-270-3502 or mike_neill@msn.com. He currently shares his place on Pacific Beach with roommate Neil Koprowski '95 and opens it to all that

need a "place to crash" (pilots, no pun intended).

Dan Smith of 15th Company jots us from MCAS New River. Last December, Dan, Tom Wolter (CH-46s), Jeremy Orr (CH-46s), Thomas Leahy (CH-53Es) and Brendan Collins (CH53Es) were winged, Tom and Jeremy are currentiy with HMM-264 which has been designated as the first MV-22 Osprey squadron. Thomas and Brendon finished HMT-302 and headed to the west coast. Rick Azenon finished his CH-46 FRS and headed to CAX the next day for a trial by fire with new squadron HMM-162. After a 29 Palms baptism. Rick headed to begin his formal check-in at New Riven On Dan's side, he is currently with HMM-263 working up for a float in January 2000 (the first squadron to float in the New Year). Jaime Achee is one of several Classmates within the ARG with which Dan will be floating. In Dan's personal world, he married the former Jennifer Weaver in Pensacola in March. The groomsmen included his brothers, Dave Smith '94 and Drew Smith '01, Rick Azenon, and Ryan Sheehy (CH-46s, west coast). Congrats, Dan. Appreciate the update.

An update from WestPac '99 arrives from Dave Richardson. Dave is aboard CHOSIN "War Dragon" with John Dietter. John is flying SH-60s, and Dave is the ship's Fire Control Officer (FCO). The Combat Systems Officer is LCDR Chris Thomas '88, a former PRODEV instractors. Dave does admit that there are a number of '97ers and some '98ers out there and asked that we pray for their safety.

After two months into the craise, Dave claims they have yet to hit the Gulf Thus far, they have hit Korea, Japan, Singapore and Thailand. Since CHOSIN is homeported out of Pearl Harbor, HI, they miss the beaches and sunsets of Waikiki (buddy, something tells me that there won't be a lot of sympathy for you following things Uke Hurricane Floyd over here!).

Dave married Rita in Agana, Guam, in June 1998. The two met at the Intemational Ball in 1995 when Rita, niece of USNA's Drill Instractor then Sgt Barraga (now GySgt Barraga), attended. The happy couple was blessed with the addition of little Maya bom in Sasebo, Japan. Although having a child in Japan was an experience, Dave claims he and Rita had a bunch of wet nurses (Dan Horner, Aaron Austin and Clint Tracy).

Rita, Maya, and Dave Richardson in front of MIGHTY Mo moored in Pearl Harbor During Dave's tour in the Gator Navy of Sasebo, Dave and Rita made some of the best friends to include Carrisa and Clint, Dan and Aaron. During Dave's Combat Systems Officer training in Dalhgren, VA, he met up with his former roommate Chris Flynn and his fiancde, Missy Ferree, at the Academy. While in Annapolis, Dave and Rita baptized Maya, and Chris and Missy are officially Maya's godparents. Chris is a USMC Aviation Supply Officer and is on float off the coast of Kosovo on KEARSARGE. Great news, Dave!

Matt Tritle updates us on Andy Savory and Steve St. Pierre, who are both at Special Boat Unit 12 as RIB Detachment Commanders. Matt also enjoys this privilege that he considers the best job in the surface Navy—commanding at the small unit level. John Van Jaarsveld, an Ordnance Officer, is waiting to head for flight school. Best wishes to all. Matt.

Grayson Story writes us some updates from Camp Lejeune. IVIiguel "Kico" Eaton married the former Jennifer Lipkowitz in August in Raleigh, NC. Jennifer ("the hottest Harvard grad in North Carolina") will be finishing her Ph.D. in psychology at UNC while Kico plays with 2d Recon BattaUon at Camp Lejeune. Grayson, Craig Erlanger, Miles Gill, Chuck Femandez, Mike Glora, Wade Deliberto '97, and Maj Tony Faust (former Company Officer and Class of "Are you really that old?!?") attended Kico's event. Scott Smith is currently the S-3A at Weapons Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune. Aaron ("I still have yet to see you in the Fleet") Still, where are you? (Rumor has it that Aaron is still enjoying the company of all of the gals at the University of Texas). Ryan Nitcofski has submerged out of sight once again. Mike Sabol (who Grayson still communicated with about once a month—the trials of long distance relationships) has done time in Macedonia and Albania with Army's finest 1/6 Infantry. Mike has served as Platoon Commander and XO at his post near Frankfurt, Germany. He is headed to Fort Bragg to take the Special Forces test. Mike also married Lisa (his girlfriend since NAPS) in Amsterdara. Congrats, Mike. As far as Grayson is concemed, he has deployed to CAX, Bridgeport, Okinawa, South Korea, and Haiti with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines ("America's Battalion"). Grayson did some time as H&S Company Commander at 2/8 before heading to 2DMARDIV G-2 for his next tour. His email is gstoryOl @aol.com. Thanks, Grayson.

The final news arrives from Edward Chapman in E-2C land. Ed, Russ Herrell, and Christian McDowell graduated from E-2C NFO pipeline in January 1999. Russ is in Japan with VAW-115 ("The Liberty Bells") and deploys with KITTY HAWK. Christian and Ed fly with VAW-116 ("The Sun Kings") at NAS Point Mugu, CA, and deploy with CONSTELLATION. Other Alumni in VAW-116 are LT Ken Bates '90, LT Paul Beckly '90, and LT PJ Trudell '94. CONSTELLATION has been in the Arabia Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch. Since both Christian and Ed have more than 330 hours each, they are on their way to becoming E-2C Mission Commanders. Both also have quals as air control officers and have controlled the air wing in real-life combat operations over Iraq. (He would tell us more, but then he'd have to kill us..."Classified"). Ed has been happily married to the former Melissa Ann Spangler since 21 March 1998, when they wed at the Chapel. Best wishes to you! The final news Ed passes is that Michael Jefferson Adams (his old roommate) is in San Diego where he has recently been selected into law school for a transition in to the JAG Corps. Congratalations!

May your holidays be safe and merry and your hearts full as we head into a new year of promise and dedicated military service. Until next month... Tony a

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Pres: 1st Lt Tom Wagner, USMC Sec'y: LTJG Mike McGreevy, USN 4053 Smokey Lake Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23462 h: 757-474-1723 Happy Holidays. Boyce Hunt's dad sent word and pictures of Boyce's September wedding. Paul Clark, Bill Parmentier, Bryan Swenson, Brian Albon and Ari Klein attended, Boyce (recently winged) and his wife, Grace, headed to Miramar, CA, for a USMC RAG and F/A-18 training. Congratulations, Boyce and Grace.

Joe Salus (joenkara@worldnet.att.net; 703-5665343) and his wife, Kara, wrote from Alexandria, VA, where they live and Joe works at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter following his medical discharge from the Navy (he's in good health, just not good enough for the Navy). Joe invites calls from anyone wanting to say hello or inquire about the discharge process, Mike Norton, an SH-60B pilot in Mayport, wrote as well: Alex Lamb (with wife Amanda) and Aaron Rose (with his wife, Sarah) wrapped up helo training in P-cola recentiy, Jesse Jans was married at Annapohs in March. Eric Beckman (USMC in Califomia), Keith Douglas (submariner in Georgia) and Kam Pashneh-Tala (submariner in Washington State) attended. Mike Richardson (with his wife, Katheryn) and Ed Sundberg (with his wife, Carie) are in both in Mayport, Mike flying SH60Bs and Ed driving MOOSBRUGGER (DD-980).

Congratulations to Ed on achieving both SWO and EOOW quals. Walt Levantovich is in the neighborhood flying P-3Cs out of NAS JAX, en route duty in Hawaii. Nate Denman (with his wife, Sue) is flying jets out of Kingsville, TX, Jason Denney and Roy Wylie (with his wife, Dana) are flying F14s in Oceana, VA, with VF-101. Adam Martin retumed to the Navy as we know it following completion of his master's in computer science at UT Austin. He's now in Charleston, SC, for nuke school (with his wife, Sarah), Sean Vieira got reassigned from USMC air to intelligence only to find himself in North Carolina as an adjutant instead (needs of the Corps, they said).

Mike Norton also mentioned the following 24 folks (formeriy 29): Debbie Roberge '95 (SH-60F pilot at JAX), Dr. Chris Alfonzo '96, Luke Barradel '96 (F-14 RIO at Oceana), Jim Boomer '96 (F-18s at Oceana), Michelle Casey '96 (Intel in Virginia), Chris Handwerk '96 (sub school in Connecticut), Bo Hanle '96 (F-18s at Oceana), Greg Lotze '96 (SWO in Virginia), Dave O m e '96 (SWO in Virginia), Greg Roach '96 (recentiy married), Mike's wife, Becky (Stein) Norton '96, Jenn Vratil '96 (F-14 RIO at Oceana) and MIDN 1/C Connor MacLemore '00 (Mid craise with Mike's SQDRN last summer), Scott Harvey, Rick Vtipil and Bryan Tannehill were winged in March. Getting their wings about now are Aaron Shelley (USMC helos), Paul Felini (Navy jets) and soon Travis Wells (USMC jets).

Paul's older sister and brother-in-law, Dave Snyder '94, are expecting their first child in a few months as well. I also hear Chris Sammarro (subs in Connecticut, soon Hawaii) is engaged to be married sometime this year.

Sean Moyer wrote me a letter following our chance meeting on the soccer field last season in Virginia. He is a Navy intelligence officer at VFA81 "the Sunliners" here in Virginia. He deploys soon along with Eric Bronner (aviator in VAW125) soon and saw Eric at Busch Gardens recently, puking after riding Apollo's Chariot,

Sean also sends: Dave Cuthbert is now diving and driving an MCM ship down in Ingleside, TX. Justin Lemmon is going to a DesRon staff in San Diego and rooms with Ryan Cox. Ben Fay (with his wife, Jean) is finishing advanced E-6 training in Oklahoma. Kevin Harbison finished USMC combat engineer training in North CaroUna and was TAD at USNA awaiting orders when last heard from. Xavier Balderas is on EISENHOWER in Virginia. Greg Kirwan recently retumed from deployment on ROOSEVELT along with the following East Coast SWOs (and one sub guy): Brian Guererri on O ' B A N N O N , Will Farrell on SAN JACINTO,

Christine Miller on Ross, Pete Brahan on ALBUQUERQUE and Ed Vernon and Duane Neal on GuNSTON HALL. Greg Kirwan retumed to his wife and son, "little Greg." Sean Moyer asked anyone knowing the whereabouts of Brian Walker (in the NBA?) or Lucas Workman (settled down yet?) to caU or write him at: 985F Avenue (on base at Oceana, VA),Virginia Beach, VA 23454; 757-491-2653.

From hometown news release I got the following: Colby Ritter and Matt Hartley on COLE and Pete Rybski on SAN JACINTO were involved with Fleet Week festivities in NYC this past summer.

Matt Frauenzimmer is at Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One in Whidbey Island. Tim Burke soloed back in June. The following West Coast S W O S (and one sub guy) got back from deployments far and wide: Jose Fikes on CHOSIN, Kevin Luft on WU-LIAM H . BATES, Lisa Shiroma on PAUL FOSTER, Shea Thompson on GEORGE PHILIP

and Kevin Galloway on STETHEM. Here in Virginia, Ed Vernon got orders to CYCLONE (PC-1) out of Little Creek, VA; Amanda MacAlpin got orders to ACU-4 in Little Creek (LCAC's); Jason Brianas got orders to GEORGE WASHINGTON in Norfolk; Laura LaBella got orders to an FFG out of San Diego; Johnny Evans got orders to a CG in Norfolk and Jim Murphy extended his tour on a destroyer in Virginia to make another deployment. Ryan Angold headed out for a SEAL Team Two deployment to the Med, relieving Tom Ryno's SEAL Team eight guys who retumed with ROOSEVELT'S battle group.

Brian Sandberg was kind enough to give me the following update on his scene: Tim Davis has completed NFO training in Pcola. The first Marine from '97 to get his wings?

He selected Prowlers and will be off to Whidbey Island for the RAG in the late summer after ECMO school at Corey Station. Tim got married the day after TBS graduation in January of '98 and will be a daddy around November. (Poor kid.)

Dave Fairleigh and Greg McGee both selected Homets (Marine NFO) and should be getting their wings around June or July.

Also selected of the Marine NFOs in P-cola are Vinny Welch, Mike Russ (son due in June), Amy McGrath, Jeff Corriveau—all Homets.

(The Marines are short WISOs pretty bad right now.) If I missed anyone, I am sorry.

Also hanging around down here of Marine NFOs but haven't selected yet are Dean Driskill and Jeff Chiow. Chris Holloway selected helos, but has just been picked up for jets. He was married in April to Nicole Ringel '98, who recently finished API as a Marine NFO. Cas Ratkowiak was also among those plucked from the ranks of unrestricted Naval Aviators to fly fast movers.

Jon Drexler got married in Febraary of '98 and is a Marine aviation supply bubba at MCAS New River. They are expecting their first Utfle devil-dog in July. (Tim's kid is going to beat up his kid.)

Some more NFOs winged and scattered about.

P-3; Ted Fries and Ryan Perry in Jacksonville, FL; Renee Tanaka in Barbers Point, HI; Joel Milinar and Kelsey Casilius in Branswick, ME. EP-3: John Comerford on Whidbey Island, WA,

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L to r: Sam Wartell, Chuck Grayson, John Kiefaber, Greg Mendenhall and Mark Tripiano Scott Jackson has managed (by the grace of God and partial credit) to make it through both Nuclear Power School and prototype, and is now in Hawaii serving aboard ASHEVILLE. He rooms with Kevin Luft who is on WILLIAM H. BATES with Will Smith and Scott McGinnis (on WestPac this summer). Also in Hawaii are Mark Westmoreland, Brian Blair and John Mues.

Those nukes always talk about how hard school was.

Eric Odom writes from Meridian: I'm winding up Intermediates along with Todd Peasley, Corey Plocher, Paul Felini, Scott Braddock and Joe Greentree. Scott Buchar, Pat McCormick and Andy Wylie are close on our heels. Brice Casey, Leah Potts, Van Rypel, Steve Walborn, Lucas Workman, Jake Spruance and Greg Provencher are finishing Fams and are leaming how to fly the "ball."

A bunch of our Classmates are in the same squadron for the E2/C2 advanced pipeline: John Joseph, Jason Coumoyer, Mark Litkowski, and Bill Fleck are over halfway through the syllabus and should head for "the Boat" sometime in late May/early June. Lauren Lanier and Will Pressley moved up here from Corpus and are getting their feet wet in ground school. Martin Hill should be winged around November.

Big news from John and Nikki Cooke in Corpus. Ryan Matthew Cooke was bom on 9 June at 9:51 p.m. at 8 pounds and 9 ounces, dark hair and blue eyes. John has already sent pictures via the Web to his friends—a very proud father indeed.

Herb Lacy (recently married) has made a name for himself by developing a low cost, commercial based fUght simulator for Student Naval Aviators. Look for his name in news and magazine articles throughout the aviation community. BZ. Plenty more NFOs and Helo bubbas have been winged—too many to include here. Suffice to say all our Classmates are completing training and moving into their first squadrons, besides a few stragglers like Jara Raisbeck '97 organized a decent wetting down in Pensacola on 5 June. The $7,000 budget kept everyone in drinks weU into the night—thanks to all who attended.

Shipmate, December 1999

Keep writing, and look for my new address— Groove

Dave Dees, Tom Adams, Bob Spath getting their B-2 wings at NAS Norfolk

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Pres: David Forman e: DSForman@aol.com; h: 843-763-6458 Vice Pres: John Chau Treas: Daniel J. Martin Sec'y: Shawn C. Gee Corr. Sec'y: Carrie Howe 44237 Webster, Canton, MI 48187 e: Ljohowe@aol.com Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year, Great '98! The new millennium is here, and whatever you plan to do for the occasion, have a great time. I guess everyone has been busy, not many letters this month, but here is what I have from Tony Licari: I am now the Adjutant for 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion; I reported in May. We just retumed from Mountain Warfare Training in the Sierra Nevada's of Califomia. Adam Collier is in my Battalion too, but is at Combined Arms Exercise (CAX) right now. Funmi Adeyemi, Nate Langmack and Brad Ledbetter are also part of 2d Marine Division. Allan Sabol just got married on 5 September in Bethesda, MD. Nate and I were on hand for the festivities. Melissa Martin is the ADJ at MACG 28 at Cherry Point.

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family as, ENS Pete Andrews), Jesse "I'm getting married" Balboa, and I all spent some time in Charleston in June and will be doing the same in late September. Jesse's rendition on the Spanish Rocket Man got me admitted to a local hospital for hyperventilation. I also saw Loren Reinke. He is getting married soon.

Thanks, Tony. That's the second time that Jesse's singing has made its way into the article. I'm sure the whole Class will be able to enjoy Jesse's talent at a Reunion sometime.

From Dave Townley: Greetings all. A little news from down here in South Texas. Back on 26 June I married the former Amie Rebecca Marshall in Little Rock, AR. A bunch of guys from P-cola made the trip.

Russ Crawford (Primary) and his wife, Kasey, Dan Traywick (Primary), Tony Sclafani (P-3 NFO), Dave Fulcher (P-3's), Clay Shane (Helos), Jason Grower (Primary), Cory Shackelton (API), and Ghislane Williams '96 (helos). It was a lot of fun seeing all those people again. A month later we went to Fort Meyer to see my old roommate Dave Fulcher get married to Val Tumminna. Some more "98ers showed up for tiiat. Derrick Dudash (NFO in Norfolk E2s), Guilda Addessi (AMDO), and A.J. Clearindin (SWO). After finishing primary in Corpus, I made the long drive to NAS Kingsville to join some of the Class. Those down here doing the jet thing: Jeff Abbadini (recentiy married), Alyin Duyal, Dan Moll, Mark Brophy, Brian Summers (recently married), Trevor Davis and Shane Marchesi.

Marc Williams, (CEC) has been in Kosovo since June with NMCB-3 and has found it to be a unique experience. The Seabees are building a camp for the U.S. Army at Camp Montieth in Gnjilane. He is due to retam to Port Hueneme in December! Marc is engaged to be married to Pamela Phillips. The wedding is set for May 2000.

Weddings all over the place, best of luck to all.

Down here in Charleston, my Class, 9901, is just about done with prototype. It feels great to be done, and now we are all on to Submarine Officer Basic course in the tropical paradise of Groton, CT. From there, we go to our boats: Going south to Kings Bay, GA, on the "boomers" are Pete Pitre (Blue) and Mike Congleton (Gold) on MARYLAND (SSBN-738). Dave Leather is going to RHODE ISLAND ( S S B N - 7 4 0 ) . Steve Blazejewski (Blue) is going to MAINE (SSBN-741). Pete Andrews (Gold) and Rob Ore (Gold) are going to WEST VIRGINIA

(SSBN-742). Matt Gilbreath (Gold) is going to PENNSYLVANIA (SSBN-735). More boomers out of Bangor, WA include: Jeff Sowa on ALASKA (SSBN-732). John Zurn is going to MICHIGAN (SSBN-727). James Webb (Gold) is going to OHIO (SSBN-726).

Now, switching to the fast attacks: Brian Cushman is going to MIAMI ( S S N - 7 5 5 ) out of lovely Groton, CT. The lucky ones out of Pearl Harbor,

The Marines and Sworriors aren't the only ones graduating at this point. I had the wonderful opportunity to hear from Dave Paz and Alex Leanos who are still down in beautiful Panama City. They graduated from Basic Diving Officer School on 14 October, along with Steve Draper, BJ Cipperly and Duke Powers. All of them managed to get ships out of Ingleside, TX, with Dave on PELICAN

HI, are Mike Breen on CHARLOTTE ( S S N - 7 6 6 ) and Carlos Jativa on KAMEHAMEHA ( S S N - 6 4 2 ) , I'll be

then they have been doing salvaging ops—sinking ships and raising them from the bottom of the ocean floor They wanted everyone to know that they had a great Thanksgiving at home and have managed to stay busy down in Panama City, despite the gmeling training schedule that they have to endure every day. Where do pancake breakfasts and wine and cheese parties fit into the training schedule, fellas? Alex has bought a piano and is now an utter virtaoso at playing. Congratulations to Steve who tied the knot at the end of July. The wedding ceremony was held on the beach with everyone in Hawaiian shirts and barefooted. A great time was had by all. These guys will soon make tiie transition from sunny beaches to harsh, cold New England weather when they start SWOS at the end of January. I'm sure they will be able to cause as much trouble indoors as they do outside. Great to hear frora you guys!

joining a few Classmates out of Norfolk, VA; Ian Schillinger is going to NEWPORT NEWS ( S S N - 7 5 0 ) .

Sam McGowan is going to MINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL ( S S N - 7 0 8 ) . Ed Hanley is going to MONTPELIER

(SSN-765). Dave Forman is going to L. MENDEL RIVERS ( S S N - 6 8 6 ) . And lastiy, Brian Hogan is going to CITY O F CORPUS CHRISTI ( S S N - 7 0 5 ) . He'll

pick it up in dry-dock in Portsmouth, but eventually go to San Diego. Carlos and I are both going to de-cora boats, the last of the Sturgeons—but at least we'll leam how to do maintenance. Now seriously, Carlos put in some serious time here at prototype, and he figured out that the 14 hours a day, seven days a week that he was putting in added up to 98 hours in a shift. He was motivated.

Fair Winds —DSF

99 Pres: Buster O'Brien e: firstcompany@hotmail.cora Vice Pres: Ben Adeyemi Treas: Jason Mendenhall Sec'y: Minh-tu Nguyen 101 King's Crest Drive, Box 13, Stafford, VA 22554 h: 540-659-8101; e: m2nguyen_99@yahoo.com Seasons Greetings, '99! I can't believe that December and the Holidays are already upon us!

Where did the last seven months fly off to? By the time you read this article, Delta Company down in Quantico will have graduated and received their MOS', the first wave of SWOs officers will be getting ready to hit the Fleet, and the football team will be ready to crash Army on 4 December, I hope to see many of you there at the game.

(SSBN-736). Jesse Balboa is going to WYOMING

( M H C - 5 3 ) , and Al on ORIOLE ( M H C - 5 5 ) . Since

I also heard from the Amanda Bomgen and Danielle Lukich who are getting ready to graduate from Intel School very soon. Danielle wiU be attached to an S-3 Squadron out of Jacksonville, FL, while Amanda will be attached to an EA-6B squadron out of Whidbey Island, WA. They also told me that Eric Pederson will be stationed in Oceanus while Sarah Wilkening is headed off to sunny Hawaii. Anthony Toriello is also down there, but he started later then everyone else did and won't know where he'll be going for a Uttle while yet.

I ran into several former 10th Companymates at Julia (Waltsak) and Steve Duke's wedding on 2 October. Chris Tyson and Greg Gebbie just started up power school in Charleston. Greg was in the August dive class and eamed his dive bubble with Chris George, Jimmy Maher, and Jason "Woody" Woodward. Chris and Jimmy are also in power school, along with former 1st Companymate Armando Aviles, and Woody should be headed down to flight school, if he's not there already. Dan Speer and Matt Warke were also at the wedding. Dan was ready to move on from Annapolis and get started with flight school while Matt was enjoying life in Newport and looking forward to moving in with Pat O'Mahoney in sunny San Diego.

Well '99, that's all the news I have for now.

Please keep in touch and keep me posted on how you all are doing. It's wonderful to hear from everyone. In just a few short weeks we will see the end of 1999 and the 20th century. It's hard to imagine that we would ever make it through the Academy and graduate; but we did it, and now we're all blown to the four winds. Nowadays it's hard to keep in touch with those who you were so close to for four short years. But, it just takes that littie extra effort that would raean so much to everyone, I wish everyone a blessed and happy holiday season, Hope to hear from you soon, and Beat Army! -Minh-tu

100 Years of Tradition Brian Hogan, Tim Clark, Dave Forman, John Zurn, and Ed Hanley got together for another SCUBA dive. This time we went down for shark teeth in the Cooper River. We didn't find any sharks, but we all got some teeth.

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Chapter News

ALABAMA Alabama Chapter RADM John T. Natter '62, USNR (Ret.) 2101 6th Avenue Nortii-Suite 700 Birmingham, AL 35203 w: 205-254-3216 e: jnatter@gorham-waldrep.com The September meeting of the Huntsville Chapter was held on the second Thursday of the month at the Fogcutter restaurant. Attendees were: Bob Brown '49. Tom Hartiine '81, Ed Jackson '58, Jeff Kaylor "70, Al Morris '50, Hector Negroni USAFA '61, Bob Sampson '56, John Snyder '47, Fritz Steiner '57, Mike Stroop '54, FrankTatum "56, Tony Tortuella '51, BiU Watts '38, and Herb Woods '56.

There was no formal program and the normal informal chatter took place across the table without the benefit of any records. As usual too, topics flowed from active duty exploits to vacation adventures.

Come join us if you are in the area.

Ed Jackson '58 Edjackson (Saimet.net

Huntsville Chapter CDR Robert J. Sampson '56, USNR (Ret.) 100 Bailey Station Madison, AL 35758 h: 256-881-9333 e: robertsampson@mindspring.cora

ARIZONA Arizona Chapter Col Philip R. Moulton '58, USAF (Ret.) 7500 East McCormick Parkway #14 Scottsdale, AZ 85258 h: 480-596-2975; 480-607-6846 e: moultonaz@aol.com

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Chapter CDR Alan B. Lerchbacker '74, USN (Ret) 131 E. Holly Street #213 Pasadena, CA 91103-3936 e: alerchbacker@weststart.org Corr. Sec'y: Joe Koch '57 September Orange County Luncheon The September 1999 Orange County Luncheon was held at The Revere House Restaurant in Tustin on 14 September 1999. Our speaker for the luncheon was CAPT Chip Seymour '65, who was visiting Southem Califomia from Annapolis. Chip gave us an update on what is happening with the Alumni Association frora the headquarters perspective and answered questions from the floor. We appreciated an opportunity to get a different perspective as to happenings at the Academy. Chip actually was a last minute fill in for our scheduled speaker who was unable to attend the luncheon.

We are very appreciative that Chip was willing to assist the Chapter so ably.

We welcome aboard Jack O'Brian '62 and Tom Stein '80, who attended the luncheon for the first Shipmate, December 1999

time and became Chapter merabers. Alumni in attendance included: Art Vamum '40, Gordon West '40, Bob Rubel '44, Stan Weissburg '46, John Snyder '50, Al Enderle '52, Si Kittler '53, Joe Zebrowski '53, Harold Hussey '56, Joe Koch '57, Jim Paulk '57, Dave Stiller '57, George Watts '58, Dick Banister '60, Danny Musselman '60, Jack O'Brian '62, Rich Pace '63. JimThomton '63, Chip Seymour '65, Skip Storey '65, Steve Andres '67, Tom Stein '80, Steve Shatynski '83, and Joe Mandichak '89.

Navy-Georgia Tech and Navy-Boston College Game Parties Several of the Chapter football faithful gathered at Season Ticket Sports Bar in Irvine on 4 September 1999, to watch the Navy-Georgia Tech football game. Although the outcome was not to our liking, it was great to watch the game in the company of other Alumni. The group included: Si KitUer '53, Joe Zebrowski '53, Al Kozischek '55 and his companion, Mary Jane and Joe Koch '57, Laura and Bud Manazir '58, Steve Andres '67, Dick Glasow '67 and his dad, and Lee Cohen' 82 and his two daughters. As always, Koz was our cheerleader leading all of the Navy cheers.

On 18 September 1999, we had an even smaller gathering to watch the Navy-Boston College game.

We raanaged to out cheer the Boston College group, but still could not add enough for a Navy victory. Alunmi present included: Joe Zebrowski '53, Joe Koch '57, Laura and Bud Manazir '58, Steve Andres '67, and Steve Shatynski '83.

We will be getting together for the other televised Navy games and hopefully have a larger turnout of Alumni.

FITZGERALD (DDG-62) Cruise The commanding officer of FITZGERALD (DDG62), CDR Jim Grant '80, invited a few members of the Los Angeles Chapter to ride the ship from San Diego to Seal Beach to participate in the ship's award ceremony. The L.A. Chapter has adopted FrrzGERALD and provides the plaques for the Sailors of the Quarter and Sailors of the Year. The ship had just completed a short shipyard availability and was going to Seal Beach to load amraunition and missiles. The ship sailed from San Diego on a beautiful September morning and proceeded up the coast in clear weather We could not have selected a better day to be at sea along the Califomia coast.

The Chapter members riding FITZGERALD included Joe Koch ' 5 7 , Dick B a n i s t e r '60, Danny Musselman '60, and Rich Pace '63, Since Joe, Dick and Rich had all spent their first sea tours on destroyers, they presented the three plaques to the deserving sailors being recognized by the ship.

ViOiile on board, LTJG Jamie Murphy '97 acted as our guide giving us a complete tour of the ship.

What a difference between the new missile destroyers and the GEARINGS and FLETCHERS on which we

served in the late '50s and early '60s. FITZGERALD has just received her second consecutive E and is an outstanding ship. We all appreciated the opportunity to see what today's Navy is like and thank Jim Grant for the opportunity to meet his crew and see them in action.

Joe Koch '57 Monterey Bay Chapter CDR John J. Branson, Jr. '50, USN (Ret.) 1281 Sylvan Road Monterey, CA 93940-4942 h: 408-375-8603 e: JJBransnjr@aol.com

Sacramento Chapter George R. Simmons '61 10785 Penstock Trail Auburn, CA 95603-9556 h: 530-888-0860 e: gsim@aub.com On 5 August 1999, McClellan AFB O' Club hosted the monthly meeting of the Sacramento USNA AA, with 23 members and guests in attendance. For a change, starting with the most junior Class, the following put in appearances: Terry Brown '67, Steve Berg '66, Dave McKie '66 (higher class standing...). Jack Everett '64, Bob Grabb ' 6 1 , George Simmons ' 6 1 , Rosemary and John Lally '56, Tom Langley '56, John Haynes '55, Bill Squier '52, John Green ' 5 1 , Barry Whittiesey '49, BUI Spencer '47, Tom Hartigan '47, Lou Renz '47, Stan Hogshead '43, BiU Goode '43, Cay and Joe Drachnik'43, Carolyn and Mo Slater '42, and Vern Popp, guest speaker (photo on following page).

Jack Everett reminded us that he and Pat would be hosting a potluck picnic at their Granite Bay home on 12 September. President George Simmons '61 reminded us that no desserts would be needed, as he and his wife will do Cannonballs!

First mention was made conceming the NavyArray football game, and the fact that, heretofore, one group has congregated at a sports bar (that would be, of course, the Woops), while the other has traditionally assembled in the friendly confines of Pat Geyers lovely and inviting home. Is there a way we can get together or will space considerations preclude?

As usual, Dave McKie '66 introduced the speaker, who in this case tumed out to be Vera Popp, a retired Air Force colonel who proceeded to delight us with the fascinating tale of his military career. Vem had been working for the railroad and was assigned an "essential service" deferment.

Sensing a greater need, he took the draft in Dodge City, KS, as he wanted to drive tracks in the Army; they sent him instead to the air corps. He attended radio ops school, "that dih, dah stuff," and then took a pilot test, which he apparently passed with flying colors. Vem undertook his cadet training in Miami Beach, then was assigned to the West Coast training command. The pipeline took him into bombers and he selected the B-25 (Jimmy DooUttle had already been to Tokyo). "Billy Mitchell's" B25 was extremely noisy and often resulted in ear/ hearing damage.

Vem graduated into B-17s in preparation for Europe. By the time he was ready, the European war was almost over, so he elevated into B-29s.

(Thus began nearly 30 years of bombers and large aircraft.) The B-29 carried nukes in the bomb bays nearly all the time while airborne, and the top-secret classifications meant that Vem could not go to Korea. He did have a target (in China) assigned during the Cold War. Alaska followed, with several polar route crossings during his three-year stay. All navigation depended upon gyros, since compasses were inop over the North Pole. They used the sun and stars to navigate and operated cameras and electronics along the Russian coast.

From there, Vem entered training in the B-47 and ultiraately became an instractor. Again, LeMay set down criteria; this time in his desire that each crewman be "ttiple rated," that is, pilot, navigator and radar operator He spent ten years there in B-52s ("in a captain and out a colonel") as an instractor. Next tour took 123

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Potiuck at the home of Pat and Jack Everett '64 hira to Minot AFB in North Dakota ("coldest place I've ever been") then to Guam for six months, where they flew 25 missions and were awarded air medals.

A question and answer period brought out tiiat, during the Cold War, they flew on airbome alert for 30 hours with nuclear weapons, including trips from stateside up to Alaska and back, during which they had to refuel twice during the mission.

Although a number of our Chapter members spent careers in the Air Force, that was not a prerequisite for enjoying and appreciating Vem's presentation. We marveled during table conversation at the degree of professionalism and expertise required to have fulfilled such a career mission, and the hours of tension he must have undergone, wondering if he would actually have to drop the bomb.

The respect and admiration we all felt for Vem were obvious, and he was loudly applauded for (not only) his presentation, but (even more for) the "right stuff" he exhibited during 30 years of defending the nation.

Twenty members and guests lunched at what appears to be the new home of the Sacramento Chapter: McClellan AFB 0-Club. Due to Labor Day schedules and cabin availability, the meeting was held on 7 September 1999 at noon. In attendance, once again headed by SOP Larry Pierce '38, were M.O. Slater '42, Joe Drachnik '43, Stan Hogshead '43, Mary Lee Logan, widow of Bob Logan '43, Betty and Bill Spencer '47, Tom Hartigan '47 and his guest, Pat Geyer (Stanford '58), Lou Renz '47, past president Jim Yorso '52, former president and future national tmstee John Haynes '55, Bob Johnson '57, Bruce Friederich '57, current president George Simmons '61, Larry D, Smith (USMA '62), Jack Everett '64, Dave McKie '66, Steve Berg '66 and speaker LCol John V. Scudder, USMA '79.

Tom Hartigan, ol' reliable, has temporarily assumed the treasurer responsibilities for the Chapter, and will handle meeting and meal arrangements with McClellan AFB for future meetings (which will continue to be held, incidentally, on the first Thursday of each month, with the exception of November, when the get-together will fall on the first Wednesday).

Larry Smith, president of the local West Point Alumni Association and a regular attendee at our meetings (still trying to figure out how we get it right), once again proposed a joint chapter meeting for the Navy-Army football game, but admitted that logistics make the concept a difficult one to actaate. The Woops have traditionally met at a

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local sports bar, while our USNA Association has met at the beautiful horae of Pat Geyer Capable parties continue to negotiate.

Several members applauded president George Simmons' use of email to deliver the monthly bulletin, which will save on postage and handling for those with Intemet capability.

John Haynes pointed out that our $10 annual dues figure is on the very low end of the gamut, with most chapters at the $18-$20 level. He also pointed out that USNA has hired another consultant for long-range planning and fundraising. Finally, he reported that a number of oiu" group will venture to Reno in a few days for the annual air races. This year, his Classmate Bill Anders '55 wiU be entering with his modified F8F (400 HP added for new total of 2,400 HP).

Dave McKie, quickly becoming indispensable for his program arrangements, announced that next month's speaker will be a CHP officer from Fairfield (father of a current Midshipman) who will demo LADAR (Uke RADAR, but involving the use of laser technology). He then introduced LCol John Scudder, a very capable and interesting West Point grad ('79) who is currently the professor of military science at UC Davis.

LCol Scudder showed a short inspirational film about the Advanced Camp held at Fort Lewis, WA, illustrating the ROTC training and evaluation program for students embarking on their senior year in college. The Camp was gender-integrated in 1995 and focuses on simulated battiefield conditions in a realistic setting, which enables the Army to integrate physical training, leadership skills and contemporary/peer rating.

He also pointed out that there are 270 ROTC schools in the country at this time (down from 360 at one time) and they try to commission 3,800 graduates each year. Due to the current booming economy, they are coming up about 250 short of goal, reflecting a condition that does, in fact, rise or fall with the state of economic affairs in the United States.

The ROTC program concentrates on scholarship, service to nation and camaraderie, and is obviously an extremely important and major part of the Army officer commissioning program in the United States. John concluded his remarks and was given a fine round of applause for his interesting and informative presentation.

John Haynes announced that another business breakfast will be held next month, and president Simmons adjoumed the meeting.

LCDR Robert L. Rubin '82, USNR 10214 Rue Touraine San Diego, CA 92131-2230 h: 619-695-1622 w: 619-271-5807 e: mbin@nosc.mil http://www.san.rr.com/alurani/ September Luncheon Our speaker was the distinguished writer and editor, CAPT Carl Nelson '56, USN (Ret.). Carl has published seven non-fiction books, one novel and numerous short stories and articles. He has served as president of the San Diego Writers and Editors Guild. Carl completed his service with four tours of duty in the Vietnam War and hadfivecommands. His commands included the missile craiser WoRDEN and senior advisor of the Rung Sat Special Zone in RVN. Carl's novel. The Advisor (CoVan), set during thefinalyears of the Vietnam War, has won critical acclaim. The great attendance of his supporting Classmates is also a tribute to the respect he has eamed as a Midshipman, naval officer and as an author.

The crax and essence of Carl's presentation was that each of us probably has a couple of dam good stories to relate to our achievements going back to the Academy and proceeding along through both our naval and civilian careers. And, we should consider putting these thoughts, actions and stories into text if not for publication at least for a family or individual history (Ed.'s note: Shipmate is looking for stories). Carl peppered his presentation with anecdotes, facts and humor. Thank you Carl and well done.

Those present included: Art Fischer '39, Del Cummins '44, Ralph Frame '44, Dave Henderson '44, Ed EUis '46, Bob Gorton '46, BiU Ayers '48, Jim Gararaon '48, Chuck Gorder '48, Bob Neely '48, Jay Verrailya '48, BiU Broughton '49, Art Friedman '51, Andy Kremm '51, John TUlson '51, Fred Kraft '52, Bob Morris '52, Jack Davis '53, Paul Dudley '53, Will Hays '53, Jim Egerton '56, Paul Foumier '56, Jerry FuUc '56, Mai Malloy '56, Mike McBride '56, Carl Nelson '56, Ned Roberts '56, Rich Thomas '56, Tom Fleming '58, Bob Byme '60, Greg Chauncey '60, BiU Lloyd '60, John Schmidt '60, Don GrinneU '61, Chet White '63, Rich Belser '64, Jeff Clough '64, Jay Eggers '64, Glen Welsh '65, Phil Guy '67, Pete Young '67, Ed Hebert '71, Gary Luoto '72, Dram McNaughton '78, Pete Adreasen '80, Jim Gosnell '80, Aldo Ray '80, Tom Stein '80, Steve Streightiff '80, Randy Griram '81, Bob Rubin '82, Craig Smitii '82, Mark Williams '82, Don Hinderliter '83, Dave FenneU '87, Rich Schwarz '88, Tom Dobbins '93, Vince Sivillo '93 and a few guests.

FITZGERALD Cruise Revisited During the visitors' craise we reported in the September issue, the City of Solana Beach, CA, contracted for the filming of cruise highlights.

There were many as tiie CO, CDR Jim Grant '80 and his crew put on a great and professional show.

The film, actually a video of the craise, has been developed, edited, printed and now forwarded to the local congressional representative, some of the PacFlt hierarchy and to USNA AA. There are a number of highlights directly related to a presentation made by the Class of 1963 in memory of their fallen Classmate. For information about obtaining a copy of the video, please contact the City of Solana Beach Community Relations Director, Andy O'Leary, at City HaU, 635 South Highway 101, Solana Beach, CA 92075; 858-720-2451, Army-Navy Game Party What better way to celebrate a successful season than joining with fellow Alumni and Classmates for our annual A-N Game Party at Trophy's Shipraate, December 1999

in La JoUa at die Costa Verde Center Trophy's will open the doors and the breakfast buffet at 8:30 a.m. with game time at 9:00 a.m. PST. The buffet will include fresh fruits and juices, scrambled eggs, French toast, bacon, toast, fresh rolls, muffins, coffee and tea. There will be 20 television screens for viewing and an open bar. The cost is $20 for aduhs and $10 for children 12 and younger. For Chapter members, there will be a reservation form in the monthly newsletter or you can reserve by email or by hotiine. Our thanks in advance to Chris and Bob Rubin '82, for their unselfish efforts to make this a great event each year.

Please see "Homepage and Hotiine" information below. Hope to see you all at Trophy's.

Business and Career Networking Forum Our forams are held on the second Friday of every month (frora 7:00 p.m. to about 8:00 p.m.) at The Bread Basket on Miramar Road at the 1-15 interchange (Miramar Road and 1-15) just to the east of MCAS Miramar. This is a joint service foram/network in company with the West Point Alumni group from San Diego. Air Force Academy grads are also participating. There is plenty of parking available at The Bread Basket/Holiday Inn complex.

The forum is a great place to drop off a business card or two or even a "flyer" describing your services. For $5.50 (cash, no checks, please bring the exact amount) you get all of the networking described above plus juice, coffee, pastries, muffins and assorted fruits.

Our Networking Coordinator is Dave FenneU '87. He is keeping up the work search/networking database for the Chapter and area. If you would like to be included, send the following information to David: name, occupation, company, address, phone (work and home), email address, and what kind of work you are searching for! Dave also has some fresh new ideas that were discussed at the most recent Officers and Directors Meeting. Get in touch with Dave if you are considering a career change or looking for a new career or a new job.

Email: dfennell@bradley-morris.cora or, U.S. mail to Dave at: Bradley-Morris, 4225 Executive Square #390, La JoUa, CA 92037 Homepage (http://www.san.rr.com/alimini/) and Hotline (619-279-USNA) Please check out the information on the homepage or hotUne. This information is updated frequently, but if you have a question please ask.

There is a lot of other information of both standing and short-term importance.

Don GrinneU '61

San Francisco Chapter CDR Richard A. Voytek '77, USNR lOOWestElCamino, 61 Mountain View, CA 94040 h: 650-962-0622; e: mongov@aol.cora www.navysfo.org Secretary: Linda Postenrieder '82 e: Post82@pelicanassociates.com h: 415-759-9413 Merry Christmas and Beat Army from the left coast. As I write this article, it is late September and we are in our traditional heat wave (okay, so a couple of days of temps in the upper 80s/low 90s may not classify in some areas as a heat wave). As you read this article, I will surmise that we are in our perfect weather pattem, with mild temps, while the rest of the country is beginning to experience the cold and snow that will be with them for the next few months. That means only one thing. It's Army-Navy time.

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We've been very busy in the San Francisco Bay Area. CDR Jim Grant '80, CO of FITZGERALD (DDG-62), was the guest speaker at our latest dinner meeting held at the Marine's Memorial in San Francisco, Not only was it a great location, but heard the latest information on FITZGERALD'S deployment to the Persian Gulf, FITZGERALD (named for LT William C. Fitzgerald '63) is a state-ofthe-art Burke Class Destroyer. John Dolby '63 and David Moore '63 attendended which made it even more special. Also attending the dinner raeeting were Ed Baldwin '83, Ed Cummings '48, John Cunliff '73, Linda Postenrieder '82, John Potter '58, Dennis Vied '60, Ed Cotter '72, Neil Chaitin '50, and Mark Lundstrum '86, Of special note, the Chapter was honored to have Nancy Gorel (president of the San Francisco Chapter of the Navy League) in attendance as well. FITZGERALD was one of the featured participants in Fleet Week '99 in San Francisco, and CDR Grant offered special tours for alurani and guests.

The huge Array-Navy garae party is on. To get the latest information on the Party, be sure to check the Chapter Web site (www.navysfo.org). Dave Pallesen '70 has been the driving force in setting up this annual get together and it has brought huge numbers of Alumni (both Array and Navy) together in a great location. This party is second to none; so corae help us root on the last Navy win in the 1900s.

Guests are invited.

As the last article in the 1900s, I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, to wish you and your loved ones the bright proraise of the 2000s and to remember those who have given so much to make this country what it is.

Dinner Meeting at Marine's Memorial. L to r: Nancy Corel, president SF Navy League; CDR Jim Grant '80; John Potter '58; John Cunliffe '73

Santa Barbara Chapter CDR William J. Stewart '63, USNR (Ret.) 1617 Las Canoas Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 h: 805-962-0703; w: 805-963-1863

COLORADO Colorado Chapter CAPT Daniel Branch Jr. '59, USN (Ret.) 555 Apollo Drive Boulder, CO 80303-5002 h: 303-499-0337; w: 303-966-4833 e: dbranchjr@aol.cora Web site: www.raindspring. com/ -usnaaacolorado/

CONNECTICUT Connecticut Chapter Robert R. Figura '58 Five Crescent Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Box 3292 Groton Long Point, CT 06340-8112 h: 860-536-2206 e: Bob-Figura@prodigy,net http://www.usnact.org Our September dinner raeeting featured John Welch '72, President of Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, CT, as the after dinner speaker John gave the asserabled attendees a synopsis of the work at Electric Boat, currentiy, in the past, and looking forward into the futare. Noting that Electric Boat has been in the submarine constraction business for 100 years, he described the business moves, which were made to keep Electric Boat a viable business ventare as the Defense Industry in our country, experienced a significant downsizing.

He highlighted improved productivity and constraction innovation as the keys to their success.

He described the changes in constraction methodology which have evolved as constraction of the SEA WOLF and TRIDENT class ships were completed, and the VIRGINIA class production line began. His presentation was well received by the nearly 50 attendees.

The Chapter will again hold its annual Army/ Navy game party at Arch Pizza in Rocky Hill, CT. All paid-up merabers of the Chapter will enjoy the food and beer free of charge; the cost for all other attendees will be $10 per person. The game will be watched on the large screen TVs. There are also pool tables available for half time entertainraent.

Army vs. Navy Pool Tournament? That means we can Beat Army on two fields of green. Directions to Arch Pizza will be included in the Chapter newsletter. Interested attendees should send in reservations to Tom Hogsten '85, at 33 HolUster Drive, Avon, CT 06001. Use the reservation form on our Web site, www.usnact.org.

Dave Boyd '59

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Costa Rica Chapter Claudio A. Pacheco '64 Apt 4307-1000 San Jose, Costa Rica e: cpacheco@sol.racsa.co.cr

DELAWARE Delaware Chapter Frank S. "Nick" Carter, HI '70 Delaware USNAAA c/o Nick Carter RO. Box 266 Lewes, DE 19958 h: 302-644-4838; w: 302-645-2207 e: nick.carter@dol.net

FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale Chapter Jeffrey Dale Welsh, Esq. '73 2805 NE 29tii Street Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306 h: 954-564-5065; w: 954-564-6994 e: jdwelsh@southem-financial.com

Gainesville Chapter CAPT J. Michael Smith '61, USNR (Ret.) Gainesville Academy Club 10424 SW 41st Place Gainesville, FL 32608 h: 352-376-6611; w: 352-376-3301 e: mickey@acceleration.net

Our first new business social, GradLinks, was held on 21 September, with a great attendance of 40-plus graduates from all Service Academies. This event was held at the new beautiful McLamore Center at the University of Miami School of Business. Our gracious host was Dean Paul K. Sugrue '67 who sponsored a delightful evening complete with open bar, sushi and seafood buffet, roast beef carving station and bananas foster for dessert.

Thomas Shea, managing partner for Right Management Consultants, was our dynamic keynote speaker He delivered a good message to our group.

A lot of networking took place and good business contacts were established among fellow Alumni.

We look to repeat this event quarterly. We will pass on the gouge for the next event.

Of great significance is our initiation of a new USNA tradition. Anchors Aweigh Day, which commemorates the founding of the Naval Academy.

The Superintendent of the Naval Academy, VADM John R. Ryan '67, is our guest of honor for this formal reception and dinner The event was scheduled for 16 October at the Omni Colonnade Hotel in Coral Gables. This is thefirstin what the Alurani Association hopes will be a regular tradition in all Alurani Chapters as well as the Naval Academy.

On 11 November we plaimed to host an All Academy commemoration of Veteran's Day at USCG Station, Miami Beach, under the good auspices of RADM Thad W. Allen, USCG, Commander, Seventh Coast Guard District. We have planned for U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum to be our keynote speaker at the luncheon event.

Satarday, 4 December will find us enthusiastically cheering for Navy during the 100th Anniversary of the Army-Navy Football Classic at the Ft. Lauderdale Country Club. All South Florida Chapters wiU be participating in this memorable event.

Make sure you join us with friends and family in this great tradition.

For any details or information about our Chapter or specific events, please don't hesitate to email or call us.

Naples-Fort Myers Chapter Jacksonville Chapter CAPT Michael O. Boms '70, USN (Ret.) 1185 Salt Marsh Circle Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2543 h: 904-273-4714; w: 904-693-5630 e: usnaaajaxchap@usa.net

Miami Chapter Neil C. Sapp '62 1172 South Dixie Highway, Suite 505 Coral Gables, FL 33146-2918 305-447-7658 e: neilsapp@aol.com Sec'y: Alfred A. Bunge '88 e: aabunge@aol.cora The Miami Chapter is operating with a new slate of officers and directors, who took office 1 June, (that explains why I missed the deadline for the last Chapter News). Under the leadership of our president, Neil C. Sapp '62, Bill Ogden '66 serves as our vice president and OIC of operations, Alfred Bunge '88 as secretary, and Juan Fanjul '93 as freasurer, rounding out the officers of the Chapter.

Two directors, E. Clint Frank '50 and Reginald Thompson '77 compleraent the officers.

This past summer we participated in the ArmyNavy Golf Challenge against the West Point Society of South Florida. We hope to repeat this event in January 2000. All golfers and hackers are invited to join in the fun. Standby for more information.

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Eugene Lawler '47 5601 Turtle Bay Drive #1504 Naples, FL 34108 941-597-8089 e: bvonier@raediaone,net Report on the Chapter's first year Just over a year ago, we surveyed every Alunm on the USNA AA mailing Ust of approximately 100 names, located from Cape Coral to Chokoloskee, asking for their views about a local Chapter We received about 60 retums, which were invaluable in helping the pro-tem officers to plot a course for the "launch."

There were 49 in attendance at the organizational meeting 4 November 1998 in Naples. All of them signed up as dues-paying members, giving tangible support not only to the idea of a Chapter here, but also in support of USNA AA nationally and its outstanding CEO, Ron Marryott '57, who was our first speaker Since then, our dues-paying membership has grown to almost 100, and our mailing list to more than 150, There were 90 in attendance at our Array-Navy game party on 5 December 1998, and 125 attended our March meeting to hear USNA Superintendent, VADM John Ryan '67.

The 70 attendees at the April luncheon heard the Rev. Dr Vince Carroll, CAPT CHC, USN (Ret.), former chaplain at the Naval Academy.

The events of the 1998-1999 season evoked a very positive response, encouraging all of us to move forward aggressively into the new millen-

nium, continuing to demonstrate our loyalty and support of the Navy and the Naval Academy.

The Schedule for the 1999-2000 season: 4 December 1999: Army-Navy Game Party.

Beat Army.

11 January 2000: Speaker Joe Owen, former Marine and author-lecturer. Read his book. Cold as Hell, an incredible account of the Chosin Reservoir.

Febraary and March meetings to be announced.

Thanks again for your support.

Go Navy! Beat Army!

Gene Lawler '47, President Bill Vonier '51, Vice-President Earle Forsthoff '47, Treasurer Dave Ghysels '51, Secretary

Orlando Chapter CDR Jeffrey D. Hall '83, USNR 33 Winsor Isle Longwood, FL 32779 h: 407-805-9485 e: admin@totcon.com The September raeeting was held at the Holiday Inn, Wymore Road just South of S.R. 436. This is our new and permanent meeting place. The next meeting was scheduled for 9 October 1999. Cost of breakfast remains $9 per person.

Twenty-one merabers, spouses and guests attended the Septeraber meeting. Of this number, five announced they would be unable to attend the October meeting. We are obUgated to pay for 20 meals regardless of the number of attendees, so, please make an extra effort to attend.

Attendees: Mary Agnes Sellers (widow Frederick '34); Harriet and Curt Cordell '46; John Leslie '47; Bob Smith '47; Bob T\image '47; Art Herbert '48; Aureha and Tom Nugent '48; Eileen and Lou Branch '49; Dorothy and John MacKenzie '50; Fran and George Ruos '50; Les Christian '67; Don Smith '68 and daughter, EUzabeth; Patrick Reardon '76; J.D. Hall '86 and Eric Reinhold '88.

It was proposed that our next meeting would be a pancake breakfast in DeBary. Voted down.

Our President has assumed additional duties in both his civilian position and the Naval Reserve.

This severely limits the time he is able to devote to our Chapter. He suggested a new president be elected. The Chapter unanimously requested he remain. However, George Ruos was elected vice president. Until now this position was vacant.

Don Smith volunteered to work with the Army representative to organize another Array-Navy game party. He also volunteered to organize a Christmas party.

Chapter dues are $15 per year and are due in January. Either mail it to Bob Tumage or give it to hira at any meeting.

A discussion was held on how to increase membership.

John Carlson '47, previously a member of this Chapter has died.

The Treasurer reported a balance held of $628.69.

Palm Beach Chapter CAPT John A. Butterfield '59, USN (Ret.) 1130 Sugar Sands #190 Riviera Beach, FL 33404 h: 561-881-7512 w: 561-840-1104 e: jbsgma@aol,com Our Chapter has started the season with a friendship-renewing luncheon at tiie 391st Borab Group Restaurant, The goals as outlined by our President Shipmate, December 1999

are to not only to increase our attendance, but to generate more spirit and make our activities more meaningful. One approach in which to do this is to meet at different locations in the Palm Beach area.

The 27 October luncheon was scheduled to be at die Coast Guard facility. The Commanding Officer will provide a tour and presentation. Another location of interest being considered is the PrattWhitaey headquarters.

Those in attendance at our 29 September luncheon were: Paul Alexander '83 and parents, Marilyn and Paul Sr; Ames Bennett '43; Bemard Bennett '43 and son, Sean; Loretta and Bion Bierer '53; Anne and George Bole '54; John Butterfield '59; BiU Cliff '54; Dottie Coney (Charles '19); Jinunie and Walter Epperson '53 and guest, Babs McElvy; Peggy and Hank Gorman '44; Gene Gralla '46; Betty and Al Haworth '57; Bob Lees '69; Lydia and John McNabney '50; Art Osgood '44; Lona and Dick Phelps '43; Helen and Jan Vandersltus '53; Diana and Walt Whipple '57.

President John Butterfield '59 gave a stirring speech on his role in the failed Hostage Rescue Attempt in 1980. The mission was formed of many dedicated men and women who were greatiy disappointed that they were unable to free the hostages and that it cost some lives. It certainly makes us reflect that we are so blessed to be in a nation that wiU act to rescue and defend its citizens in time of peril. Our thanks to John for being one of these defenders.

There is a concerted effort between the Fort Lauderdale and Miami Chapters to share information with us on events and activities. Everyone is doing their part to make the spirit of the Naval Academy Alumni aUve and well in South Florida.

One special upcoming event is the USNA Glee Club giving a concert in South Florida in March, under the direction of Barry Talley, the USNA director of music. This will be an opportanity for Navy friends and faraiUes to enjoy an inspiring concert. Further details will be provided in our newsletters after consulting with coordinators, Barry TaUey and Bob Bedingfield, Chapel minister in Staart, FL. Bob is an honorary member of the Class of '33 and a retired Navy Chaplain. He is a real USNA supporter The Classes of 1954, 1959 (John Butterfield's Class), 1969 and 1984 held "off-Homecoming" Reunions, 17-19 September in AnnapoUs. Some of our Classmates made it in between hurricane threats. Our alum also planned to attend the Homecoming Weekend 22-24 October. Making the trip is certainly worthwhile with the good time that is had by all! Beat Army!

Wah Whipple '57

Pensacola Chapter CAPT Glenn H. Montgomery '71, USN (Ret.) 1152 Ceylon Court Gulf Breeze, FL 32561-3214 h: 850-934-4757 e: monty4gb@aol.com Our first meeting of the fall was well attended with 40-plus attendees representing six different decades of Academy experience. We were privileged to have as our senior grad Jack Monroe '27; our Chapter secretary Angela Brady '83 represents the youth moveraent.

The speakers were from our local minor league ice hockey team, the Pensacola Ice Pilots, who regaled us with tales of what it's like to be promoting ice hockey in the cradle of naval aviation. After three seasons so far, it's been a huge success!

The Chapter had a group outing to an Ice Pilots game on 26 November

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Among those in attendance were Phyllis and Jack Monroe'27, Elizabeth and Paul Durand '42, Gordon Synder '43, Sara and PB, Wall '44, Hank Anson '45, Carol and Robert Clancey '45, Bill McLaughlin '45, Roger Boh '49, John Brick '50, Martha and Anthony Danis '51, Peggy and Mac Maclnnis '51, Lou Sarosdy '51, Bill CampbeU '52, Elizabeth and Tom Goslin '52, Bill Hippie '52, MarkTuzo '52, Dick Gaskill '54, Bob Wilmer '54, Pete Booth '56, Jan and John Horsefield '57, and Chet Carroll '68, The "youngsters" (graduated less than 30 years ago) included Terry and Tom Hoffman '71, Suzy and Glenn Montgomery '71, J.R. Knight '76, Richard Jesmonth '78, Mike McCrabb '78, Lee Price '78, Sandy Jones '79, Cheryl Sponholtz '80, Bill Davis '82, and Angela Brady '83. Hats off to the Class of '52, who had the largest attendance.

Recent Chapter activities have included several sessions with local high schools to offer the Academy as a college option. A social get together was also held at NAS Whiting Field where many active duty instractors and flight students swapped sea stories and made new friends.

Our Army- Navy party will be 4 December at the Angus Steakhouse in Pensacola. A terrific spread of food and beverages will be available. For details or reservations call Angela Brady at 850433-5815. Hope to see you there! Beat Army!

Glenn Montgomery '71

Space Coast Chapter CDR W. Stanley Dodd '48, USNR (Ret.) 3625 Mallie Court Melboume, FL 32934 h: 407-259-9830 e: sdodd@iu.net The Space Coast Chapter held its September luncheon at the Phoenix restaurant in Satellite Beach. After a three-month stand-down, we had a good tam out, considering the recent passage of hurricane Floyd through our area. At this luncheon we also welcomed new members to the group, Majorie and Bob DeTemple '46. The Phoenix, which is a favorite of our members, provided an excellent lunch. During lunch, our President introduced a visitor from the Orlando Chapter, Patrick Rearden '76. Pat is concemed about the media communicating slanted or derogatory information conceming the Academy. He stressed the importance of the Alumni getting accurate information and that we maintain a united front in portraying the trae nature of what transpires at the Naval Academy, and not necessarily what is reported by the media. Pat will keep us informed on the USNA activities that address these raatters.

Our guest speaker, Nick Winn, presented a most informative talk about the growth of Brevard County in Florida. He traced the early development, when the population was about 2,500 in the early 1800s to the 20th Century. The prime factor in leading to the rapid development of the area was the steamboat, which was further accelerated by the building of the railroad. Nick, who is a member of the Brevard Historical Society, provided the audience with picturesque slides depicting life on the Indian River in those early times. We greatly appreciated his talk.

As we look forward to good fellowship and dining, we would like to remind the Alurani that visitors are always welcome at our luncheons. We meet tiie third Saturday of each month, except for June, July and August. If you are in the area and wish to attend, call Stan or me (255-5452).

Those attending the luncheon were: Kate and Tom Blake '49; Jo Ann and Howie Blum '45; Winnie and Stuart Bowcock '45; Betty and Bill

Budd '44; Mabel Bowes (WilUam '45) and guest Mary Earnest; Laurie and Jim Carrington '53; Phyllis and James Comish '40; PoUy and Keith DeMott '57; Majorie and Bob DeTemple '46; Carolyn and Stan Dodd '48; Raymond Harrell '27; Norma and Swede Hansen '56; Cynthia Holly (George '30); Marguerite and Lucian Hunt '40; Anne and Frank Keith '47; Ruth and Richard Lanning '40; Peg and Mac McManus '48; Jeanne Muncie (Maurice '47); Susan and Maurice Oberton '45; Peg and Pete Peterson '56; Jody and Sam Powel '50; Pat Rearden '76; Merle and Tom Schwartz '56; Donna and Ted Speaker '50; Marilyn and Bob Sttieter '41; Betty Sullivan (Emmett '27); Jean and Warren Taylor '45; Norma and Joe Taylor '49; Birgit Toohill (Donald '47); Peggy and William Welch '55; Ruth Wildman (Cyril' 19); Bill Young '58 and guest, Fran Hutchins.

Tom Schwartz '56

Suncoast Chapter Clifford P. Bermann '45 7472 Cass Circle Sarasota, FL 34231-7034 941-921-3111 e: amorency @ aol. com

Tampa Bay Chapter CDR Michael E. Kennedy '79, USNR 6330 Buming Tree Drive Largo, FL 33777 w: 813-828-5963 e: mekimedy@ix.netcom.com

GEORGIA Atlanta Chapter J. Michael Donohoo '65 600 Currahee Drive ClarkesvUle, GA 30523 h: 706-839-1411 e: donohoo65@hotmail.com web site: http://members.aol.com/usnaaaa/ usnaaaa/

GUAM Guam Chapter LCDR Noel M. Enriquez '84, USNR RO. Box 4697 Agana, GU 96932 h/f: 671-477-4382; w: 671-647-9629 wf: 671-649-8870 e: nmenriqu@ite.net

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Detroit Chapter

RADM John W. Townes '72 HI, USN 517 Russell Ave., Suite 100 Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-4884 e: townesjw@hawaii.navy.rail http://members.xoom.com/hawaiialumni

CAPT Howard J. "Tim" Halliday '69, USN 1203 Chrisland Court AnnapoUs, MD 21403 h: 410-267-8546 e: tim.halliday@usna.cora

Arthur W. Bryant '66 1811 Hollywood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1311 h: 313-885-2174; f: 313-881-2333 e: lynorart@flash.net

Baltimore Chapter ILLINOIS Chicago Chapter John G.B. Howland '64 c/o Money Minds L.P, 225 W, Hubbard Street Chicago, IL 60610 w: 312-923-7450x777 e: MoneyMinds@aol.cora

INDIANA Indianapolis Chapter LCDR Charles A. Rainey '84, USNR 12804 Double Eagle Drive Carmel, IN 46033 h: 317-815-0575 e: crainey@fhlbi.com

Michiana Chapter CDR John T. Haizlip '72, USN (Ret.) 15246 Longford Drive Granger, IN 46530 h: 219-273-2939 e: CHaizUp@aol.com

KENTUCKY (see also Ohio)

Louisville/Southern Indiana Chapter CDR Gregory R. Reinhardt '79, USNR 712 Talon Place Louisville, KY 40223-5575 h: 502-244-7707 e: airlgxr@airups.com

LCDR Steve G. Young '84, USNR c/o Legg Mason 600 Washington Avenue #200 Towson, MD 21204 w: 410-821-7700 e: SYoung@LeggMason.cora

Greater Southern Maryland Chapter Jack Pappas '61 RO. Box 154 Dowell, MD 20629-0154 h: 410-326-5496 e: jpappas@erols,com http://www.navyalumni,org Naval Academy Alumni Association hosts successful kick-off luncheon A kick-off luncheon was held on 24 August at the Cedar Point Officers Club, NAS Patuxent River, MD, to hail the estabhshment of the Greater Southem Maryland Chapter. Interest in the start up Chapter was readily apparent by the large group in attendance. Dave Church '67, director of Alunmi Services for the Alumni Association, presented an interesting discussion of the services which the Association in Annapolis provides, and pledged the support of the organization to the GSMC and all area Alunmi. GSMC presented the guest speaker with the original drawing of the GSMC logo created by Mr. Hank Caruso. Mr Church noted that this was the first original logo developed by any Chapter, Mr. Church also presented a Certificate of Estabhshment to the GSMC, recognizing the group as the fastest organized chapter in the history of the Alumni Association,

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LCDR Byron Q. Iverson Jr. '76, USN (Ret.) 4744 Music Street New Orieans, LA 70122-5027 h: 504-288-4477 e: byronil@aol.com

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MINNESOTA Upper Midwest Chapter Darrel Gonyea '61 1053 Peninsula Point Road Shakope, MN 55379 W: 612-882-1112 e: GONYEALAND@aol.com

MISSOURI Kansas City Chapter LCDR Lynn A. Thomas '83, USNR 1404 Stonecreek Drive SW Blue Springs, MO 64015-8838 h: 816-228-6766 e: LynnTW@aol.com

St. Louis Chapter CAPT Douglas K. Rush '72, USNR (Ret.) 9 Lenox Place SL Louis, MO 63108 314-361-5262 jckanejr@juno.com

NEBRASKA Omaha Chapter

LOUISIANA New Orleans Chapter

The September luncheon was held 23 September at the Dearbom Inn 10 Eyke Tavem. Attending were: Tom Cook '57, Bill Penn '63, Art Bryant '66, Charles Schott '85, The Beat Army party is 4 December hosted by Army; see the letter for details. Our Navy team will be minus a couple of sailors, so the personnel recall flag is hoistedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;All Hands Reportl Let's win the Brown Barrel back!

Charlie Schott '85 chukshot@hotmail.com

Dave Church '67, Director of Alumni Services at the USNA AA, received the original GSMC logo artwork from Ted Herring '67, the GSMC Treasurer

MASSACHUSETTS Boston Chapter Frederick J. Sheehan Jr. '78 160 Burkhall Street #609 Weymouth, MA 02190-3533 h: 617-337-3712; w: 617-572-4562 e: fsheehan@jhancock.cora

CDR Jeffrey S. Currer '83, USN 2513 Sheridan Road Bellevue, NE 68123-1965 e: currer@worldnet.att.net On 16 September '99 members of the Omaha Chapter participated in a kick-off planning session for the upcoming 18th annual All-Academies HoUday Ball hosted this year by the USNA Parent's Club of Nebraska. As in previous years, this year's Holiday Ball will honor Midshipmen and Cadetsfrom Nebraska who are attending U.S. Service Academies. The 16 September planning session was held at the Offutt Air Force Base Officer's Club and attended by members from Parent's Clubs of the Naval Academy, Military Academy, Air Force Academy (last year's host). Merchant Marine Academy and Coast Guard Academy. This year's All-Acaderaies Holiday Ball will be on 29

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of the Naval Academy and we deeply appreciate them for thinking of us.

It was a wonderful evening to end our yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; old friends and new friends in a great setting.

Graduates attending Navy's Dinner Craise on 17 September were: Bob Baker '83, Ron Barnett ' 6 1 , Barry Benzing ' 8 5 , Rob Black ' 6 3 , Dave Campbell '49, Jerome Connolly '80, Charles O. Benedetto '49, Ed Dunston '86, John Flanagan (USAFA ' 6 2 ) , Richard Glickman ' 4 9 , Sam Greenberg '60, Don Grennon '86, Jim Hocking '53, Fred Horan '49, Scott Kisch, Glenn Lavry ' 6 3 , Steve Niss '66, Tom Owens '62, Brad Smith '62, Dennis Starr '80, Webb Tramraell ' 5 3 , Wayne Wamken '65, Tom Williams '88, Bob Wysocki (WP '67), and Bill Wynne '49.

Hard at Work! The Planning Committee for this year's All-Academies Holiday Ball is made up of members from the Parent's Clubs of the Naval Academy, MiUtary Academy, Air Force Academy, Merchant Marine Academy and Coast Guard Academy

Decern ber '99 at the Offutt Air Force Base Officer's Club. As of 16 Septeraber Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) was scheduled to be the guest speaker at the event. All members of the Omaha Chapter are invited to attend. Any questions concerning the All-Academies HoUday Ball should be directed to the USNA Parent's Club Co-Presidents, Hank and Tricia King (402-291-6671) and Terry Woodman (402-292-0809).

Steve Bishop '85

N E W YORK Capital District Chapter

Bob and Mary Wysocki and Steve and Teresa Niss

CDR Christopher G. Wenz '79, USN (Ret.) 502 Acland Boulevard Ballston Spa, NY 12020-3074 h: 518-580-1438; w: 518-884-1849 e: CGWenz@aol.com

Metro New York Chapter NEVADA Las Vegas Chapter Mr. Bradley Carlson '91 2246 Darwin Circle Henderson, NV 89014-3105 h: 702-433-7248; w: 702-433-2100 e: BCarlson@goidc.com

N E W JERSEY Monmouth County Chapter LtCol Robert L. Vogt '59, USMC (Ret) 50 PoUy Way Middletown, NJ 07748-3189 h: 732-671-9330; w: 732-530-8444 e: Bob,Vogt@telos.com

James R. Hocking '53 300 Park Avenue, Suite 1700 New York City, NY 10022 w: 212-572-6260 e: j.hocking@snet.net Chapter Hotline: 1-800-234-USNA Web site: www.NAANY.org The Naval Academy Association of New York held its annual dinner dance on 17 September. We craised around Manhattan on the yacht BATEAUX NEW YORK. It was great fun, a large crowd, good food and drink, and a fine orchestra for dancing.

During the evening, we had a drawing for two tickets to the Jets-Redskins game the next Sunday.

The tickets were won by Vanessa, the wife of Jerry Connolly '80. The tickets were a gift of Mike and Terri Sivealman. He is the special teams coach of the New York Jets. They have two USNA sons.

Classes of '97 and '03. They are great supporters

Webb and Susan Trammell and John and Jo Arm Flanagan

Brad Smith and Sam Greenberg

N E W MEXICO Albuquerque Chapter Maj Donald Rohr '55, USAF (Ret) 4804 Nortiiridge Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111-2104 h: 505-294-4048; f: 505-844-5947 e: rohrdf@sandia.gov

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Piedmont Triad Chapter LtCol Gary L. Beaver '77, USMCR 10 Silver Oak Court Greensboro, NC 27455 h: 336-299-4736 e: Gbeaver@AdamsKIeemeier.com

Pinehurst Chapter

Rochester Chapter CAPT Nelson A. Blish '69, USNR (Ret.) 3840 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14618-3729 h: 716-248-9739 e: NelsonAB@Kodak,com

CAPT Norman S. Elliott '58, USNR (Ret.) RO, Box 3898 60 Stoneykirk Drive Pinehurst, NC 28374 h: 910-215-5808 e: neUiott@pinehurst,net

Triangle Chapter

information on Chapter events, check out our Web site at http://triangleusna.home.inindspring.com.

For membership information, call Mitch MitcheU at 252-478-2850.

OHIO Cincinnati/Northern KY Chapter Michael F. Simon '73 757 Maidstone Court Cincinnati, OH 45230-3827 h: 513-231-3174 e: msimon757@aol.com

Cleveland Chapter

CAPT A.O. Rule HI '50, USNR (Ret) CAPT William K. Gautier '67, USN (Ret.) 90 Pheasant Run 116 Birklands Drive Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 Cary, NC 27511-8203 h: 440-247-4379; w: 440-247-5100 x328 h: 919-233-7255 e: raleIII@aol.cora NORTH CAROLINA e: William.Gautier@jcbradford.com http://triangleusna.home.mindspring.com/ Columbus/Central Ohio Chapter Charlotte Chapter Though we recapped the Commandant of Midshipmen's visit in last month's column, here LT G. Wade Evans '92, USNR Bryan Dolan '76 is some more information from the event. In case 293 Dewfall Drive 5629 Laurium Road you missed it, the Triangle Chapter hosted RADM Sunbury, OH 43074 Charlotte, NC 28226 Gary Roughead '73 and his wife at the Sheraton h: 740-965-2361 h: 704-364-6451 Imperial in RTP. e: wevans@agendas.com The foUowing alumni were in attendance: Chuck When you read this I hope it will be after a winning game against Army. However, ii Shipmate gets Adams '63, Stan Bashaw '81, Bill Benedict '42, Sankey Blanton '71, Jim Brown '35, Brace Cavey Toledo Chapter delivered before 4 December, BeatArmy\ '74, Roy Daniel '45, MiU Forsyth '57, BiU Gautier The Tennis Social was very much fun and I'm Robert J. Lauer '45 '67, Dave Green '79, John Guibert '67, Chris Heath sorry more of you were not able to make it. As for '72, Dan Heimbach '72, Jeff Jeffries '64, Fred 3825 Sulphur Spring Road the tennis itself, the winners were Compie Newman '82 and Ellen Bosse (Mrs. Mike Bosse Knops '54, Tora Leiser '67, Rich Lurasden '85, Toledo, OH 43606-2325 '74) and the ranners up were, George Watt '73 Jim Mellencamp '48, Barry Melvin '85, Dave h: 419-536-4462; w: 419-475-2061 and Catherine Newman. Looks like it might be Miller '70, Mitch Mitchell '64, Keitii Nadolski '71, e: rjonlauer@aol.com unwise for any couples to challenge the Newman Rand Neyland '68, Bob Northwood '37, Steve Ramos '54, Mike Robinson '80, Tom Runkle '66, household.

I've been reading a fairly new novel, Annapo- Don Scott '69, John Scott '67, Vic Sharpe '48, BiU O K L A H O M A lis, which you may find of interest. It is not about Smith '51, Ben TerreU '47, and Tom Walter '61.

As part of the evening's events, the Chapter honUSNA (per se) but about several generations of a family who have a connection to the Navy and the ored CAPT Jim Brown '35, our most decorated Oklahoma Chapter Academy from pre-revolutionary days to the Chapter member Chapter President Bill Gautier '67 asked the Commandant to present Jim with a CAPT Charles C. Coley '34, USN (Ret) present time. What is very interesting is the araount of historical and descriptive inforraation about the copy of The Greatest Generation by Tora Brokaw. 411 NW 14tii Street Oklahoma City, OK 73I03-35I0 city of Annapolis and the nearby areas included. h: 405-235-0234 By now you will have received (and hopefully e: cccusn@aol.com responded) to the letter asking for nominations and reminding you that dues for the coming year should be submitted. If, for some reason, you have not sent in your $15 dues, please make it a point to do so. Also, let me remind everyone to be sure to keep your data updated in the Chapter Web site. In particular, we need to be sure your email address is current. Otherwise we are never sure whether Chapter info is getting out to you. If you are not yet signed up on the Web site, do it. Just go to www.egroups.com; use your email address as the "logon ID"; make a password of at least five characters; wait for a verification code (takes about five minutes); enter it in space indicated; click on "My CAPT Jim Brown '35 and the Commandant Space" and double click on "usna-charlotte."

Remeraber the monthly luncheon on 17 DecemTwo iraportant events will take place in December (third Friday) at which we hope some of the ber On 4 December, the Chapter will gather at the local Midshipmen will be home for the holidays Top of the Hill Restaurant in Chapel Hill for the and will join us.

Army-Navy game. Beat Army\ NexL on 12 DeIn case I don't see you, Have a Merry Christ- cember, the annual Chapter Christmas party will mas and a Merry (Y2K free) New Year! be held at the home of Stan Bashaw '81. Check Tom Hutchins '51 the Web site for details. Plan to be there.

The Chapter meets for lunch on the first Friday of the month at Newton's Southwest, at the Harrison Street exit of 1-40 in Cary. For the latest

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OREGON Greater Portland Chapter Doug Bomarito '68 16667 Glenwood Court Lake Oswego, OR 97034 h: 503-699-0003; w: 503-223-8285 e: harkins@usna,net September Luncheon The Chapter met for our monthly Luncheon on 8 September at the Georgian Room Restaurant, in the downtown Meier & Frank. Attending the luncheon were: Aare and John Besson' 35; Jack Barrett '43; Ken Lissy '45; Dave Beadling '48; Jack McCamont '48; Jim Leiser '51; Don Beatty '57; Butch Bewick '62; Dave Lutes '63; Jack Kohl '65; Alex "Tex" Harkins '67; Cal Meek '67; Doug Bomarito '68; Joe Kavale '68; Skip Phipps '73; Bruce Thompson '73; Jennifer and Doug Cooper '86; Matt Wilson '90; Joe McMuUin '92; Brandon Dominguez '94; and Elaine EngUsh (Parents Club).

Personal Notes Attending the luncheon for the first time, was Joe McMullin '92. The Door prize went home with Jim Leiser '51.

The Greater Portiand Chapter meets for lunch the second Wednesday of every month at The Georgian Room Restaurant, Meier & Frank 10th Floor, Downtown Portiand, 6th and Alder, at 11:30 a.m.

Please join us. Call Doug Bomarito '68 (503-6990003) or Alex "Tex" Harkins '67 (503-297-0246) for any additional information.

Joe Kavale '68

The '50s; Don Beatty '57 and Jim Leiser '51

The '80s and '90s; 1 to r: Doug Cooper '86, M.iu Wilson '90, Joe McMullin '92 and Brandon Dominguez '94

The '30s and '40s; 1 to r; Jack McCamont '48, Dave Beadling '48, Kiji '35

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The '60s and '70s; 1 to r: Jack Kohl '65, Doug Bomarito '68, Bruce Thompson '73, Cal Meek '67, Alex Harkins '67, Skip Phipps '73, Butch Bewick '62 and Dave Lutes '63 (taking the picture Joe Kavale '68) Shipmate, December 1999

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Chapter Robert H. Bender '73 45 Grove Avenue Flourtown, PA 19031-1906 h: 215-836-7652; e: RBender@parkwaycorp.com http://USNAPHIL.COM Upcoming Events 12/26/99 All-Academies' MUitary BaU 3/10/00 Alumni Dinner 05/09/00 Parent's Night 06/18/00 Air Show and Pool Party USNA AA events will be preceded by a mailing. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please make sure you have mailed your $25 annual dues to Mike DeLorey '70, 505 S, Lenola Road, Moorestown, NJ 08057-9896.

USNA License Plates The Naval Acaderay Alurani Association of Philadelphia is submitting a request to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to participate in the Commonwealth's Special Organization Plate Program. After qualification, we would be recognized for our services to the community by issuance of a specially designed vehicle registration plate. These plates would be in the Commonwealth's standard plate colors of a blue background with gold characters (Navy Blue and Gold). The Naval Academy Alumni Association's name and Naval Academy emblem will be displayed on the plate. You may have already seen similar plates for other alumni associations and various organizations. Special organization plates are currently available to passenger cars, motor homes and tracks with a registered gross weight of 9,000 pounds or less. Motorcycles and trailers do not qualify for a special organization plate.

Plates are issued in numerical sequence only. No personalized plates are issued under the Special Organization Plate Program. A one-time $20 fee is charged for each plate. This fee is separate from the annual registration renewal fee for the vehicle.

Since this is the first order and we must subrait a miniraum first order of 300 requests, please allow four to six months to receive the plates if not sooner.

If you are interested in our plates, contact Marius Jones '86 at MBJones8@AOL.com Job Networking Luncheons Monthly luncheons are held the first Wednesday of each month at the Chart House, Penns Landing. These joint luncheons with West Point have had great job placement success to date. The cost is $25 paid at the door for a complete lunch with salad, entree and dessert. To reserve a seat email (or call) Julian Tonearto USMA '67 at Adler@fast.net (609-573-9797) or Susan Bawduniak '83 at SMKoye@AOL.com (215-9971971) within one day of the event.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Parent's Association The All-Academies' Military Ball will be held at The Union League of Philadelphia at Broad and Sansom Streets in Philadelphia on 26 December from 7:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. For more information, contact Maura Bock (215-674-3040), President, West Point Parents' Club of Delaware Valley. The USNA Parent's Assn. (SERA) President is Dindy Liebert (215-233-3253 orLiebertCO@AOL.com) and the newsletter editor is Joe Bartish (609-7224336 or JBartish@quadnet.net).

Blue & Gold Officers Anyone interested in becoming a Blue & Gold Officer can contact Don McRae in Pennsylvania at 610-449-9674 or Al Burr '88 in New Jersey at 609-387-9202.

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News Input Philadelphia Chapter news input for Shipmate should be emailed to Paul H. James '81 at Paul_James@Vanguard.com (610-666-1093). Information about the above events will be mailed throughout the year to dues-paid members. You are welcomed to send your email address to Paul_James@ Vanguard.cora.

Pittsburgh Chapter William E. Otto '71 4105 Tartan Court Murrysville, PA 15668-1045 h:412-325-4281; w: 412-856-3500 e:Figaro4105 @ aoLcomPhilippines Philippines Chapter CAPT Rafael V. Dacanay '76, PN Apt. F5E JOQ Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City, PhiUppines h:63-2-894-4121; w/fi 63-2-815-3420 x6458 n2a@nisf.mil.ph Sec'y: LT Vincent Sibala PN &lsquo '93 Hydrographic Center, NISF Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City 63-2-843-1833 and 812-7416 e: nomu@cav.pworld.net.ph

During ray survey last month, I found that several of our members only read their Class columns and do not read the Chapter column! All pride aside here is where I ara heading with this. We must get mentioned in the Class columns to reach the potential merabers. This fact should be obvious if you just look at the number of Classmates that we have.

No other Class comes close to '54. Now I know that we were the best Class ever to graduate, but I don't think that we are that unique. I do read the other Class and Chapter columns, and although I have asked all Class Secretaries to give us a plug, very few have done so. I am asking for your help.

Please put something in your own Class column about us. Tell your Classmates to read our coluran and help me reach the large numbers that I am sure are out there. We don't want to beat anyone into submission, but we do want every potential meraber to know that they are welcorae.

Scuttlebutt Time is working against me this month. I leave in a few days for three weeks on the road, which will include attending my 45th Reunion in Annapolis, Eighteen of my Classmates have reservations at the Naval Station Campgrounds on the Sevem.

That should produce some stories worthy of coluran space, and a few that raay not, but now I am dry as a bone and must go with what I have. All the good stuff went into the November column, which was submitted last week! Rather than forfeit the remaining space that I have, here are a few pictures from my files of raerabers you might want to raeet.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE Lee Martin '46 in his cowboy action shooter uniform American Chapter President: CAPT James N. Roberts '59, USN (Ret.) 152 Springlakes Drive Martinez, GA 30907 h: 706-860-6430 e: jrobe92528@aol.com Sec/Tres: Mike Stroop '54 138 Canterbury Drive Madison, AL 35758 h: 256-461-0774 e: werraanda@aol.cora Welcome Aboard This is a "not for sure" but I got a lead on Ray Anderson '55. Ray's address is The Tree Farm, Richmond, IL 60071, One more is Jim Grise '59 from Los Alamos, NM. Home Port Changes Here are a few email address changes. Frank Bassett '58 (bbbass8995@aol.cora); Skip Chase (wchase@compuserve.cora); Jerry Engle (AE4WZ@Prodigy.net).

Now Hear This Our progress on the Chapter Web site took a wee hit when our webmaster's system went belly up. It is now early September, and the good news is that he is now operational and making good progress.

The site will contain a roster that I will update monthly. Once that is operational, mail outs will only be made to the non-computer merabers. This will reduce our postage by about two-thirds if it works.

While I was representing our Chapter at the Presidents meeting in Annapolis last May; I heard that most Alurani only read their Class columns. As they approach my age they also read the obits. As they get much past my age, they only read the obits.

Action shooting is a very competitive sport utilizing single action revolvers, lever action rifles, double barrel shotguns and the old Winchester '97 pump action. Lee also is a member of the "Tin Canners," which is an RV club that gets its name from the early migrants that used to wander the country looking for work. They ate frora tin cans, which littered the spots where they camped. I was in a state park just last week and I think one had been there a few days earlier I hope Lee reads this because he promised me input on the "tin-canners" and a picture of his rig, a 22-foot Bdes Aero towable. That is one I have never heard of and want to know more about.

Anne and Mike Stroop '54

RHODE ISLAND Moose Smith '41â&#x20AC;&#x201D;our gray eagle as a young stud Moose was the wagon master on the Canyonlands trip that we had to scrab last September Conflicts were the number one reason that we didn't get enough sign ups to make the trip viable.

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Newport Chapter CAPT James M. Conway '55, USN (Ret.) 50 Ayrault Street Newport, RI 02840-2728 h: 401-847-5039 e: castleconw@aol,com Early October 1999 It is my sad duty to report the death of John F. Kopplin '66 on 25 September 1999 in Providence, from injuries suffered in a May '99 auto accident in Florida. He was the husband of Pamela S. Monk Kopplin. In addition to his wife, Tom leaves a son, Adam Gibson Kopplin of Newport; two daughters, Bethany Kopplin Gilpin and Courtney Susan Kopplin, both of Newport, His funeral was 29 September 1999 in Newport, RI, Our 28 September raeeting started with an icebreaker to welcome the new season and to make our activities known to Alurani new to the area.

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Attitude adjustment was (as usual) quite successful. In lieu of a guest speaker, we had two briefings conceming ongoing programs of interest to Alumni. Capt Bob Nestlerode '73 spoke about ALINC (Alumni Leaders in National Communications), and CAPT Carroll Connelley '95, USMC, talked with us about the Naval Academy Prep School (NAPS) Midshipman Candidate Sponsorship Program and the desire for us to become more involved with NAPS. Details follow.

Alumni Leaders in National Communication (ALINC) Public perceptions of the Naval Academy are primarily shaped by the national print and broadcast media. Unfortimately, media coverage of the Academy often is inaccurate, unbalanced or both.

A distorted public perception can influence parents and guidance counselors to direct high quality potential applicants away frora the Naval Academy. We need to ensure public perception of the Naval Academy is in Une with reality.

The ALINC program was formed to do just that.

We view the ALINC program as one of the Association's most powerful communications and recruiting tools. It is designed to be a force multiplier for all Naval Academy and Alunmi Association efforts to improve and enhance the Naval Academy's image. ALINC will educate and influence key players and the public at large regarding the enormous contributions of the Naval Academy and its Alumni to our society. The ALINC program wUl be an important tool in helping the Alurani Association build a soUd foundation which will help us enhance the Acaderay's image and in tam faciUtate recraiting the most qualified candidates.

By die end of 1999, tiiere wiU be 75 ALINC throughout the country. An ALINC must be a Naval Academy alum who understands and accepts the Alumni Association's mission and his or her role in the coordinated ALINC system. ALINC must be organized and articulate, with experience and contacts in the local media. In addition, ALINC should have experience with local organizations that could exert influence on city and state level issues and local school issues. Experience and contacts in the busine'ss community are a plus. Finally, ALINC must have access to and experience with electronic communications, specifically email and the Intemet. ALINC will faciUtate communications in a number of ways. They will complement the Blue and Gold organization and help get correct information out to potential Midshipmen via Blue and Gold Officers. ALINC will compleraent the Naval Acaderay Public Affairs Office's efforts to disseminate accurate information about events at the Naval Academy. Finally, ALINC will develop local media points of contact to aid in the placement of positive stories about the Naval Academy and its alumni. There are many positive stories that need to be told.

The Alumni Association has already exercised the ALINC system with some success. In May 1998, the Baltimore Sun reported that the Naval Academy had "thrown the sextant overboard" and was no longer teaching celestial navigation. The Associated Press picked up the story and it received widespread national circulation as a result. The initial report was incorrect, however The Naval Academy is, of course, continuing to teach celestial navigation and never had planned to stop. It had made plans to stop using site reduction tables to manually compute the calculations and rely almost entirely on calculators to make the computations. The sextant will still be used. This difference may seem insignificant to readers and reporters who do not understand the intricacies of celestial navigation, but it is an important distinction and serves as an example of where ALINC

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can educate the public, and set the record straight.

Through the ALINC communication network, the accurate story was released to the media and was picked up and corrected by some publications. The Virginian-Pilot and New York Times, for example, ultimately printed a correction to the original story.

NAPS Midshipman Candidate Sponsorship Program Captain Connelley '95 is presently stationed at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) and requested our assistance in providing sponsor families to the students at NAPS. He described the sponsor program as one in which the students are provided a "home away from home" during their ten month course in Newport. Many of the candidates may be away from their home for the first time and sponsorship can often make a difference in their success at NAPS. If you are interested in participating in this worthwhile program, contact CAPT Carroll Connelley, USMC, at 841-3296, e: connelley@naps.edu.

Tentative Guest Speaker Schedule January The Global Wargame Professor Bud Hay, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, NWC Febmary Russia, Yesterday and Today Professor Bill Fisher, National Security Decision Making Department, NWC March National Perspective of World Affairs Selected Student, Naval Command Course April Tall Ships 2000 VADM Tom Weschler, USN (Ret.) May The Pacific Rim-CinCPac's Viewpoint Dr. Jim Giblin, National Security Decision Making Department, NWC June East Coast Passage, or. Eight Months with Howard without a Break Jane and Howard Burdick Ben Katz '57 Corresponding Secretary

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failed to make their recraiting goals each month despite the current climate of enlistment shortfalls.

Attendees included Ed Malloy ' 4 0 ; Walt Robinson '42; Bill Seeger '44; Tora WestfaU '46: Jerry Nuss '47; Bill Wright '49; Max HiU '51 Fuzzy Knight, Don Lovell, and Tom Mayberry '53 Tim Taylor '54; Jim Blandford '55; Jim Flatley '56 George Lisle and Dave Morgan '58; Joe Gamboa '62; Jim Welsch '67; Bill Nold ' 7 1 ; Bob Hamblin '77; and Bob Jordan '80, Our next meeting will have been 16 October, a catered picnic on the grounds of Middleburg Plantation, country home of Jane and Max Hill '51.

Don't forget to leave your calendar open for 4 December, the date of our annual disagreement with Army. This will be at Dick Dalla Mura's '51 home in Charleston. Call Joe Gamboa '62 for your reservation

South Carolina Midlands Chapter George S. Hirsch '54 219 Beckworth Lane Irmo, SC 29063 h: 803-781-5325 Web site: www.brickandivy.com/alum

Palmetto Chapter William B. Swent '88 (Acting President) Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, P.C. 100 E. Coffee Su-eet RO. Box 87 Greenville, SC 29602-0087 w: 864-242-6440 e: WSwent@L'WTM.cora

Low Country Chapter Robert M. Hoskins, Jr. '87 14 Sandpiper Road Hilton Head, SC 29928-6419 h: 803-686-4351 e: bobhoskinsjr@hotraail.com

Charleston Chapter CAPT Joseph C. Gamboa '62, USNR (Ret.) 1672 Seignious Drive Charleston, SC 29407-9661 h: 843-556-4544 http://members.tripod.com/~mitt2/navy/ e: ananda6662.aol.com The September meeting was held on the 20th at the Omar Shrine facility. Events of the previous week (Hurricane Floyd's brash by the Low Country) were a prime topic of conversation. Speaker for the day was M a r i n e Colonel Michael Malachowski, commander of the recmit training regiment at Parris Island.

Though not in his prepared remarks, the colonel described how the recmit staff convoyed 7,000 recraits and recrait staffers to Georgia to evade the hurricane. He reported that there was not a single accident or incident during the evolution. In his prepared talk, he described in broad terms the recrait indoctrination process and how contrary to press reports, the training is still as arduous as it has been in past years. He also showed a short video on the final rite of passage of recrait training, the so-called Cracible.

In the question and answer period afterwards, he indicated that the attrition rate for the Parris Island boot camp is about 12 percent, down from about 17 percent just a year or so ago. He also said that unlike the other services, the Marines have not

TENNESSEE Chattanooga Chapter VADM Ronald M. Eytchison '58, USN (Ret) 11 Prentice Lane Signal Mountain, TN 37377 h: 423-886-2823 e: RMEytch@rasn.cora

Knoxvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Oak Ridge Chapter CAPT Jackson B. Richard '52, USN (Ret.) 13 River's Run Way Oak Ridge, TN 37830-9005 h: 423-483-8599 e: richardjb@mindspring.com The Knoxville-Oak Ridge Chapter sumraer event was a fresh-water cruise on 29 August, "Cap'n lira's River Boat Craise," which took us along the Tennessee River from Ft. Loudin Marina. Jim Bibb '57 generously provided for the use of the party barge. A barbecue dinner was catered by the famous Calhouns's. Thirty seven Alumni, spouses, friends, and children enjoyed sunset and moonrise together. The senior man was Bud Oliver '35 and the junior Brian Arnold '85 on this beautiful Sunday outing. Also aboard were Sandy and Jack Richard '52, Mary and Jerry Popp '62, Val

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TEXAS North Texas Chapter LCDR James M. Bethmann '77, USNR 2203 Creekside Circle South Irving, TX 75063 h: 972-402-9596 e: JIMUSNA@aol.com

South Texas Chapter CAPT Michael Stoffel '54, USN (Ret.) 520 North River Seguin.TX 78155 h: 830-379-2373 e: rastoffel@worldnet.att.net

Texas Gulf Coast Chapter

Babette and Brian Arnold '85 and children and Ed Whiting '57, Pam and Rudy Escher '78, Randy Belles '79, Bill Francy '46, Ollie Oliver '61, Susie and Rich Cataldi '69, Paul Mueller '76, Cecil Simpson '44, Skip Weitz '74 and Tom Towler '82.

The enclosed photographs depict the enjoyment of being at sea again, well maybe you have to use a lot of imagination, but we did have to avoid the Vol Navy underway a week early for the first Tennessee garae of the season.

The Chapter continues to meet at noon the first Wednesday of each month at Ryan's in Oak Ridge as well as a social gathering in Spinets at the Cedar Bluff Holiday Inn, Knoxville from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. the fourth Friday of each month.

Our next major event will be an Array-Navy football game party jointiy hosted by the Chapter and the Knoxville Chapter of the Society of West Point Graduates at Jack Richard's home in Oak Ridge. Anyone that raay be in the area is encouraged to join us.

Contact Ed Whiting '57 Chapter Secretary/ Treasurer for information on forth coming Chapter events.

Elaine Mueller and Paul Mueller '76

Cecil Simpson '44 and Trula Cofey Val Whiting, Ollie Oliver '61 and Ed Whiting '57

Memphis Chapter CAPT Edward A. Lyons '69, USNR 2557 Park Creek Cove Gerraantown, TN 38139 h: 901-755-1286

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Jack Richard '52, Jim Bibb '57, Jerry Popp '62 and Mary Popp

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CDR John F. Ohlinger '69, USN (Ret) 880 Lakeraont Drive Nashville, TN 37220-2124 h: 615-370-1441; w: 800-242-8613 e: johUnger@worldnet.att.net

Lynn A. Wegner '65 2202 Winrock Houston, TX 77057 h: 713-781-9932; w: 713-263-8001 exL 265 e: lwegner@rectorseal.com September's Luncheon The following shipmates attended the 10 September meeting: Jack Keller '44, Ed Godwin '46, Walter Lamb '55, Farrald Belote '59, Jim Cameron '60, Neil Block '61, Chris Nichols '61, Marty Green '63, John Kendall '64, Paul Marshall '65, Fred Schlemmler '65, Lynn Wegner '65, M, McQuaid '66, V.M. "Tony" Morgan '66, Ed Brennan '67, Peter Van Derlofske '68, Rich Bulger '69, Tom Wojciechowski '69, Doug Bateraan '70, Richard Pollock '70, Ed Klein '72, Royce Engler '73, Jira Money '87, David SeweU '87, and Amold Galit '92, September's meeting Lois Gibson, Houston Police Department forensic artist, spoke to us about her work, interviewing crime witnesses, gathering observations and finaUy, developing sketches of the criminals. Her sketches have been instramental in capturing more than 800 felons. We were fascinated by her story.

USNAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rice Football Weekend, 24-25 September The weekend's events started with a reception at Brennan's restaurant (open to Alunmi, Parents' Club members, and invited friends of USNA) that was hosted by The Alumni Fund. Lynn Wegner '65, chapter president, opened the reception and introduced the assembled visitors from Annapolis. He then introduced Suzie and Jeff Loustaunau '71 as being named "The Blue and Gold Officer of the Year." We all recognize that both Suzie and Jeff worked very hard over the years to make the Blue and Gold program into the successful entity that it is today. Lynn also called on MIDN I/C Will Mathis '00 to provide a toast for the evening. He saluted all the men and women currentiy serving in our armed forces around the globe. VADM John Ryan '67 USN, Superintendent USNA, then briefed us on the Academy's strategic plan. Other speakers included The Commandant of Midshipmen, RADM Gary Roughead '73, USN, The Academic Dean, Bill Miller '62, and the VP Naval Academy Fund, Dan Struble '83.

On Saturday, we had more than 1,000 hungry people show up for a barbecue dinner hosted by our Chapter and the Parents' Club, The weather for the 7:00 p,m, game was great and the food was excellent. We received a huge number of phone calls frora grads asking for tickets (or directions to the stadium) right up to the day of the game. Lynn Wegner '65 coordinated with the Parents' Club on the game tickets and catering details. Rob Brown

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'65 handled the distribution for botii the game tickets and meal tickets and did an excellent job of arranging the assigned stadium seating by Class areas, allowing us to discover "lost Classmates."

The Navy crowd had a great time as USNA jumped out to a 14-0 lead. Unfortunately, Rice came back and won 20-17, Nevertheless, a good time was had by all.

October's luncheon The following shipmates attended the 1 October meeting: Jack KeUer '44, Zeb Alford '48, Paul Riley '48, Walter Lamb '55, Charlie Chavarria '56, Curt Gibby '61, Tex Painter '61, Jeff Hogan '64, John KendaU '64, Rob Brown '65, Bart Jealous '65, Paul MarshaU '65, Lynn Wegner '65, Mike McQuaid '66, V.M. 'Tony" Morgan '66, Ron Lemon '68, Peter Van Dedofske '68, Rich Bulger '69, Tom Wojciechowski '69, and Jeff Loustaunau '71, October's meeting Chase Untermeyer, was our speaker He is a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and former member of the USNA Board of Visitors. He currentiy serves as the chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. He was asked to serve on The Panel of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources. Mr. Untermeyer spoke about some of the Panel's findings, centering around a surging world economy that is pulling people away firom the armed services, military recraiters that are competing with the civilian marketplace for skiUed personnel, and the civiUan marketplace typicaUy pays more and has no "deployment" issues.

AU of the armed services, except for the Marine Corps, have fallen short of their recruitment goals.

This appears to be a serious sitaation, with no resolution is sight.

Navy-Army Football Game, 4 December We'll schedule the annual Houston celebration.

We've held similar types of events in past years, welcoming all grads, parents and friends of the Naval Academy. Please caU or email us for details.

IVIichael J. Smith '67 Memorial Sword Presentation 7 January 2000: Traditionally, tiie Texas Gulf Coast Chapter presents a sword each year at our January luncheon to the Midshipman 1/C (from our area) with the highest class ranking. As you remember, Mike Smith ' 67 was the pUot of the Space Shuttle ChaUenger when it exploded on 28 January 1986. He became the first alumnus to give his Ufe in the exploration of space. This annual sword presentation to the deserving Midshipman, with his/her family proudly in attendance, is always a memorable occasion.

Business Network Meetings Several of our USNA shipmates are members of The Academy Network (a Houston-based business network group consisting of graduates from USNA, USMA and USAFA). Our twice-monthly breakfast meetings are held at 7:30 a.m. on the fu-st Tuesday and third Friday of every raonth at the Metropolitan Racquet Club. Visitors are always welcome. If you're interested, please call Bart Jealous '65 (281-362-8220), send me an email, or visit our Web site (http://www,academynetwork,org).

Chapter Meetings Chapter meetings are usually held on the furst Friday of every month (3 December, 7 January, 4 February, 3 March, 7 April, and 5 May) at Brennan's Restaurant (11:30 a.m. refreshments, and noon to I p,m. lunch). As always, "lost" shipmates, spouses and friends of the Naval Academy are always welcome at our monthly luncheons.

Please join us! CaU Lynn Wegner '65 (713-2638001 ext. 265) or Peter VanDerlofske '68 (713690-9898) for more information.

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For any additional information on any item in this column, please call me at (713-750-8868) or send an email to kleinI985@aol,com, Ed Klein '72

UTAH/IDAHO/ MONTANA/WYOMING

Hampton Roads Chapter CAPT Daniel B. Lear '68, USNR (Ret) 812 Ringfield Road Virginia Beach, VA 23454-6570 h: 757-721-2063; w: 757-437-1800 e: omegadanl@aol.com Richmond Chapter

Intermountain NA Alumni Chapter James R. Clark '66 5860 South HoUaday Boulevard Salt Lake City, UT 84121-1512 h: 801-272-7183 e: clarkfam@gateway.net Our most recent event was the annual A-N summer picnic, previously hosted here in Salt Lake City by the Blue Team. In a spirit of unaccustomed generosity, the Grey Team hosted this year's event.

And, such fun! Retired Col Arch Arnold, (a heritage of three generations of West Point graduates), invited our sailors to the Amold Ranch near Kamas, UT, USNA showed up with 12 graduates, matching the Grey Team. We had a wonderful time at the barbeque, socializing with those with whom we have so much in common. And, attempting some golf skills on the six-hole course featuring wall-to-wall rough and milk-bucket-holes on the greens. A seven iron and lots of replacement balls were all that was required. Plenty of horses were available for any "cowpersons" present.

Photo shows Kerstin and Dick Luker '62 ready to ride.

Attendees were: Maria and Julian Salas '54, Diane and Don Clark '57, Sharon and Kent Granzin '58, Judith and BUI Whitiesey '59, Kerstin and Dick Luker '62, Pamela and Jim Carolan '64, Barbara and Jim Clark '66, Linda and Bob Allen '67, Lisa and Kevin Dolan '71, Lois and Dick Peterson '81, Hiromi and Jim Foley '86, Monique and Greg Archbald '90, and our Prez of the Parents Club, Pamela and Rich Dropek! Our thanks go out to the Amolds for hosting this summer picnic.

Beat Army!

Dick and Kerstin Luker

VIRGINIA Blue Ridge Chapter CAPT Roger C. Adams '70, USN (Ret) 6609 Fairway View Trail Roanoke, VA 24018 h: 540-989-6198; w: 540-362-7389 e: radams3491@aol.cora Central Virginia Chapter CAPT Anthony A. Hastoglis '55, USN (Ret.) 102 Shawnee Court Chariottesville, VA 22901-1034 h: 804-973-7846 e: AhastogUs@compuserve.com

CDR William L. Ruch III '68, USN (Ret) 5707 Maple Brook Drive Midlothian, VA 23112-6320 h: 804-739-3664 e: wlr68@sprintraail.com Shenandoah Valley Chapter David V. Langfltt '74 125 Henrico Road Front Royal, VA 22630 w: 540-636-2138 Williamsburg Chapter Col Bradley Sutter 'S3, USAF (Ret.) 117 Pierce's Court Williamsburg, VA 23185 h: 757-220-2929 e: sutwil@widomakercora

WASHINGTON Hanford/Tri-Cities Chapter CAPT Edward G. Schwier '69, USN (Ret.) 1200 KnoUwood Court Richland, WA 99352-9448 h: 509-598-4385 e: egschwier@aol.com Puget Sound Chapter CAPT Walter S. Draper IV '61, USN (Ret.) 3725 Bahia Vista Drive Bremerton, WA 98310 h: 360-479-3945; w: 360-478-5113 e: wsdraperiv@aol.cora Web site: www.usnaaa-psc.org And the weather was fine, for the annual picnic, that is. It was indeed a family outing as we had some 15 youngsters (children and grandchildren combined) in the crowd of some 75. Although it was a close race, the Class of '53, for the second year in a row, had the most merabers in attendance.

The junior Class represented was '92 in the person of Dave Helon '92, and the senior '21 by Mrs, Grace Frier, one of our widows. The picnic was held at the Tacoma Country and Golf Club (next year's site also) on 19 July under the auspices of chapter raember Harv Headland '35 to whom we owe a special thanks!

On 24 September, a group of some 30 members gathered at the new catering facility, the Olympic Lodge, at Naval Station Bremerton for Officers' Callâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;AKA Happy Hour! The occasion was somewhat subdued, as the day before we had paid our last respects to Terry Ross '48, one of our Chapter officers (he was our treasurer), who had died suddenly a few days before from acute leukemia.

Next up on the social calendar will be the Joint Services' Academy Dinner to be hosted this year by the local West Point Society chapter in Novera-

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ber. There'll be an after-action report in next month's column.

By the way, local Service Academy Alumni Business Breakfast Meetings are being held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Edgewater Hotel on the Seattie Waterfront at Pier 67. Contact Bob Richardson '84 at 206-544-1035 for details.

And by the time this issue of Shipmate hits the street, Army-Navy Garae No, 100 will probably already be in the record books (hopefully on our side of the ledger). Our Chapter is sponsoring the get-together this year at the Olympic Lodge at Naval Station Bremerton that will include our local West Point brethren. Stay tuned, that is, take a peek at next month's column for a recap of the festivities.

Semper Fi! Fair Winds and Following Seas!

Dick Alexander '58 rhalex @ olypen.com

WASHINGTON, D C AREA Greater Washington Chapter

WEST VIRGINIA West Virginia Chapter D. Mike Ferrell '68 110 Cedar Street Logan, WV 25601-3005 h: 304-752-4192

WISCONSIN

OF TRADITION

Wisconsin Chapter Winston C. Williams '46 13350 West Bluemound Road #2 Elm Grove, WI 53122-2538 h: 414-782-6645; w: 414-782-9410 e: winwUl@execpc,com e: cook.ph01ip@milwaukee.va.gov

GO N A V Y UNITED KINGDOM

CAPT Dennis Spurgeon, USNR (Ret.) '65 10725 River Road Potomac, MD 20854-4118 h: 301-983-3431 e: spurgeon@erols.com

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Great Britain Chapter

BEAT A R M Y !

Susanne Saalau-Bethell '85 50 Aubreys Letchworth-Herts SG6 3 TU England w: 0-1438-76-3419 ssb25133@GlaxoWeUcome.co.uk or rbethell@netcomuk.co.uk

Last Call Requiescat in Face 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. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Laurence Binyon, 1914

Bress, Henry '43 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 5 October 1999 Craig, Donald Earl '49 CDR, USN (Ret.) 9 October 1999 Dixon, Walter John, Jr. '44 CDR, USN (Ret.) 11 October 1999 Evans, Richard L '42 CDR, USN (Ret.) i 15 September 1999

DAVID LIVINGSTON ROSCOE '31 Rear Admiral David L. Roscoe, USN (ReL), died on 21 May, a resident of Astoria, OR. He was born in September 1907 in California.

Upon graduation, he went to TALBOTT

(DD-114)

and then BUCHANAN ( D D - 1 3 1 ) , Next he

had a four and a half year tour in the battleship NEW YORK, His

first shore duty was as a DO at the Academy. Navigator of gunboat ERIE

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Kalen, Robert Lawrence '40 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 18 October 1999 McCleskey, Francis Robert '53, 14 October 1999 Newell, Marcy Lester '55, 7 October 1999 Shay, Fred Loutherback '53 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 1 October 1999

Watkins, Jack Herbert '37, 25 June 1999 Wright, Kenneth Delmer '54 LtCol, USAF (Ret.) 30 September 1999 Zellmer, Ernest Jerome '44 CAPT, USNR (Ret.) 17 October 1999

when World War II started; Dave was aboard when ERIE was torpedoed off Curacao and beached. Other

1959, Dave's awards were a Bronze Star with Combat "V", and the Korean Distinguished Service Medal, Dave became regional consultant to a tax records company, and in 1962 joined a real estatefirm.He was a founder and Vice President of the Columbia River Maritime Museum at Astoria, where he played a major part in developing the museum. He enjoyed golf Predeceased by his wife, Margaret, in 1992, he is survived by four of his five children, A.B. Metsger '31

War assignments were to PRINCETON (CVL-23) and

CHICAGO (CA-136). After the War, he taught seamanship and navigation at the Academy. He then took command of CORRY (DD-817), taking over as DesDiv Commander He temporarily commanded BUCHANAN (DD-131) to tum her over to Turkey.

He then served as Exec of Amphibious Base, Coronado. He commanded BEXAR (APA-237) during the Korean War, then was CO of the Amphibious operational Training Element, Pacific, followed by tours as secretary to the UN Command Component of the Military Armistice Commission in Korea, Chief Staff Officer Columbia River Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet. He retired from the Navy in

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WILLIAM JOSEPH VAN METER JR. '33 MARK EDWIN DENNETT '32 William J. Van Meter Jr. was bom on 6 Febmi Long-time Coronado resident. Captain Mark ary 1910 in Parsons, KS. He was the third child E.Dennett, USN (Ret), and oldest son of William Joseph Van Meter Sr. died unexpectedly on and Katherine Amold Van Meter.

26 September 1999 of Bill was a graduate of Parsons High School and a heart attack. He had Parsons Junior College. He then received an apjust celebrated his 91st pointment to the Naval Academy and graduated birthday with his fam- with the Class of 1933, with a degree in mechaniily the previous day. cal engineering. He served on destroyers in the Bom in Los Ange- Atlantic during World War II. les, CA, on 25 SepOn 28 November 1935, Bill married Allene tember 1908, Mark Guthrie of Macon, MO, and Parsons, KS. The Van was the second son of Meters lived on the East Coast until 1949, when Dr, John and Louie they moved to Santa Fe. In 1950, they established Gage Deimett of Phoe- residence on a small ranch 17 miles south of the nix, AZ, and the grandson of Captain John Dennett city in what is now known as the Lone Butte area. of York Village, ME. Mark received an appointBill's first job after moving to Santa Fe was with ment to the Naval Academy in 1928 and served 32 Robert E. McKee Constmction Company, buildyears in the service to his country. ing the old St. Vincent Hospital. Following the Following graduation from the Naval Academy completion of this job, Bill went to work for the in 1932, Mark served on the craiser AUGUSTA and Sisters of Charity. The Order owned and operated St. Vincent and also a number of other hospitals was aboard the ship when it was accidentally shelled during "Shanghai's Undeclared War," the located in other cities and states. Bill became the historic Sino-Japanese conflict in North China in in-house consulting engineer for all of their facili1937. In the early 1940s, he served as a gunnery ties. Bill later worked as an independent contracinstractor at the Naval Academy where he was tor for Eberline Instrument Company. He was an expert craftsraan in both wood and metal, and he known as a world-class marksraan.

During World War II, Captain Dennett served patented a number of mechanical devices which on various destroyers in convoy duty and played a he had invented. He was a life member of The significant role in introducing a new ship class, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and destroyer escort, into service. He was the first cora- also a founding member of the Turquoise Trail Volunteer Fire Department. manding officer of the first DDE. BRENNAN. Captain Dennett became a resident of Coronado Bill was a world traveler who particularly enin 1956 when he left the Joint Chiefs of Staff at joyed excursions into the wilder country outside the Pentagon to take command of the destroyer the cities. In 1962, he fulfilled a boyhood dream tender DIXIE (AD-14). He was in command of DIXIE when he went big garae hunting in East Africa; for 21 months before being transferred to the Pa- and in 1968, he purchased a Land Rover and circific Reserve Fleet in San Diego. He was the com- curanavigated the Australian continent, stopping manding officer at the time of his retirement in at raany locations in the "Outback." The friendI960. ships that he established in Australia were an enDuring his Naval career. Captain Dennett was during source of pleasure and satisfaction to him. awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V," Bill and Allene Van Meter left Santa Fe in March the Presidential Unit Citation, China Service 1990 to move to Sun City West, AZ; however, they Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Ameri- retumed to Santa Fe in the fall of 1997 to be closer can Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle to faraily. Bill died at Santa Fe Care Center on 20 Eastem Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Cam- September 1999. paign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and the William Joseph Van Meter was predeceased by National Defense Medal. his parents; his two sisters, Anna Lee Van Meter Following his retirement, Mark's interests were Drake and Virginia Van Meter Kitch; his nephew, travel, gardening and golf. He was one of the origi- William Charles Kitch; and by his wife of 63 years, nal charter members of the Coronado Men's Golf Allene Guthrie Van Meter (on 24 July 1999). He is Club, and served as president of the club in 1965. survived by his brother, Robin Amold Van Meter Mark also was a longtimemember of the Coronado of Largo, FL; several nieces and nephews; great Rotary Club and was a Paul Harris Fellow. nieces and nephews; and a brother-in-law, F.R. He was preceded in death by his first wife, "Bud" Van Sant of Las Graces, NM, Cynnie Dennett in 1961; and his second wife, The family requests that memorial donations be Juanita A. Dennett, in 1997. He is survived by his directed to the Samuel Goodwin Memorial Scholdaughter. Gage Dennett Hewes, of Pasadena, CA; arship Fund at the New Mexico Military Institute, son, Mark Trenholm Dennett, of Talent, OR; step- c/o The NMMI Foundation, 101 West College, son, Jerry Heyne, of Coronado, CA; and four RosweU,NM 88201. grandchildren, Tamara Jenkins, Kari Carpino, Chris The New Mexican Dennett, and Debbie Heyne Costello.

Friday, 24 September 1999 Burial was 30 September, at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society.

Gage Dennett Hewes

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. " â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Earl Nightingale Shipmate, December 1999

ARTHUR ELMER KRAPF "34 Captain Arthur E. Krapf, USN (Ret.), died 26 September 1999, at the age of 88. A meraorial service was held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, 1 October 1999, at St, Patrick's Episcopal Church, 1 Church Road, Thousand Oaks.

Art grew up in Annapolis, MD. When Art graduated from high school in 1928, he had neither money nor influence and considered an appointment at the Academy unattainable. A friend changed all that, when he told Art of a way to get an appointment by enlisting. Art and his friend joined the Navy and served as seamen for two years. They passed the entrance exam and were admitted to the Naval Academy the following fall.

Art graduated from the Academy in 1936, and served in destroyers before training as a submariner. When World War II broke out, he was already a trained Une officer itching for a battle command.

He got his chance as commanding officer of JACK. Operating out of Perth, Australia, Lieutenant Coraraander Krapf and his crew waged unlimited warfare on the Empire of Japan and during a series of patrols, sank over 300,000 tons of shipping. Krapf was awarded the Navy Cross and Bronze Star for his actions in the Pacific Theatre during engagements with the enemy.

After the war, he was stationed at the New London Submarine Base in Connecticut. He was assigned next to the Bureau of Ships in Washington, D.C, and then the Underwater Sound Lab back in New London. He was sent to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo and there, was promoted to captain. After three years, he retumed to Washington and was soon given command of the Naval Research Lab on the Potomac River He served as its director from 1959 to 1963.

Art retired in 1963 and with his small family of three, set out for Thousand Oaks and a job with Northrop Corp. He continued to live in the Conejo Valley until the end of his life.

He is survived by his wife, Wadie, the girl he met in high school and married in 1936. They have one son. Art, who is the news director at KCLU Public Radio in Thousand Oaks.

Ventura County Star edited by Roy C. Smith '34 RICHARD WILLIAM WRIGHT '35 Mr. Richard William Wright of AUyn, WA, died on 21 May at the Port Orchard, WA, Care Center.

Dick was bom in 1912 in Rockport, IN, raised in the Yakiraa, WA, valley region and attended grade and high school in Wapato, WA. He enlisted in the Navy on graduation and was discharged in 1931 to enter the Naval Academy with the Class of 1935. He left the Naval Academy his Youngster Year, but then served in various naval technical assignments for most of his working career.

On leaving the Academy, he retumed to the state of Washington to complete his education and served in the Yakima Post Office until 1941, when he became an associate engineer with a naval engineering firra in Seattie. In January 1934, he married Margaret Ley of Wapato. From 1948 to 1965, he was a naval architect in the design division of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Frora then until 1970, he was at the Attack Carrier T^pe Desk in the Naval Sea Systeras Command in Washington, D.C, again as a naval architect. During his extended career in ship design, he became a leading expert in naval weapons placement and ammunition storage design.

Upon his retirement in 1970, Margaret and Dick settled in Florence, AZ, where they remained for some years before retuming to their old home area in Yakima Valley. He was an active member of the Bremerton Elks.

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He is survived by his wife; two sons, Richard, of Las Vegas, NV, and James, of Norwich, CT; a daughter, Nancy B. Lindenberg, of Friday Harbor, WA; 12 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Jesse B. Gay Jr '35 CLARENCE ANDREW BARNINGER JR. '37 Colonel CA. "Bamey" Baminger, USMC (Ret.), died on 19 June 1999 in Evanston, IL, after a long illness. A memorial service was held there and a full military interment service was held in Arlington on 19 July, attended by family members and Classmates, Jack Slaughter and the Reverend Charles Stein, Barney was born on 20 August 1913 in Cassopolis, MI, and he entered the Naval Academy in 1933 with the Class of 1937. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, thence attended a year of Basic School at the Philadelphia Naval Yard. He was then stationed in Quantico until 1940, and on 22 June 1940, he married Rose Berkshire in the Naval Academy Chapel.

In 1941, Bamey joined the First Defense Battalion in San Diego, this unit then being transported in ENTERPRISE to the Pearl Harbor area. During the summer of 1941, Bamey commanded a group of Marines installing gun positions on Palmyra and Johnson islands. In late 1941, an element of his Defense Battalion, including Bamey, was sent to organize the defense of Wake Island (the irony of this being that the units for Wake were still in the U.S. at tiiat time).

The ensuing events are well known, i.e., that the small group of under-equipped defenders of Wake mounted a courageous battle against the overwhelming Japanese assault that came after Pearl Harbor, After the inevitable outcome, Bamey survived the battle, only to be captured and to spend the four years of World War II as a POW. Bamey's group of prisoners were moved frequently, including into Japanese-controlled parts of China and Korea, and in 1945, were moved north to Hokkaido Island. Bamey had stated that all the POWs would have died there in the forthcoming severe northem winter, if it weren't for the atomic bomb's intervention in August 1945, His strength of character and determination brought hira through the four years of abusive captivity, to enjoy the remainder of a long and productive Ufe of service to the nation.

Following World War II, Bamey and Rose finally had time together, with a tour of school in Quantico, then to the West Coast, where their first child, Mary Stewart "Tudie", was bom in 1948.

When the Korean War began, Bamey's involvement found him commanding the garrison of a small island off the coast of North Korea, Bamey had described the possibilities as raising the specter of Wake Island all over again. During his Korean service, his son, John Wesley Baminger, was

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bom at Fort Ord, and Bamey had his next duty at Camp Pendleton. Then came assignment to the NATO Defense College in Paris, and on to CinCElm in London, where the family lived in Wimbledon. After Europe, there was another tour in Quantico as controller, then as G-2, G-3, and finally as Chief of Staff. Bamey's final duty tour was at the Pentagon as Chairman of the Advanced Study Group of the JCS, and at Headquarters, USMC. Bamey took retirement on 30 June 1963, whence he and Rose settled in Evanston, IL. Still active, he launched a new career as a business and professional man, with a term of five years as office manager of a large law firm in Chicago, a tremendously responsible administrative position. He then had fourteen years as an executive with a large financial services firra, as corporate treasurer After fully retiring, Bamey and Rose chose to continue living in Evanston, Rose has now decided on an "assisted living" facility, and is at The Presbyterian Home, room 305,3200 Grant Street, Evanston, IL 60201. Her direct phone is 847-570-3487, and the main switchboard is 847-492-4800. Their daughter, Tudie, Mrs, Richard Naumann, lives in Laramie, WY, and their son, John Wesley Baminger, lives in Jefferson City, MO. Now, exactly half of the USNA Class of' 37 have "gone upon the Rainbow," and Bamey has joined them. We, whom he leaves behind, salute him as a great guy and a wonderful Classmate, We admire him, and we will miss him, Wayne M. Brown '37 RICHARD IVAN GULICK '46 Richard Ivan Gulick, age 76, passed away on 17 June 1999 in his home, surrounded by his loving family.

Bom in East Orange, NJ, he was a graduate of the Naval Academy Class of 1946, and George Washington University Law School. He was a World War II Navy veteran and served as commander of GRAMPUS from 1959 to 1961.

Mr Gulick practiced maritime law frora 1964 to 1996. He served as an elder of Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church. He was past president of the following organizations: Friends of Norfolk Juvenile Court, Norfolk Seaman's Friend Society, Hampton Roads Foreign Commerce Club, Propeller Club of the United States Port of Norfolk and the Norfolk Law Library.

He will be sadly missed by his wife, Vivian Dinger Gulick; five daughters, Gail G. Larkin of Norfolk, VA; Debra G. Plauman of Clayton County, GA; Sandra G. Parker of Richmond, VA; Robin G. Callahan of Mechanics ville, VA; Wendy G. Dees of Richmond, VA; their husbands; ten grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a sister, Patricia G. Kempton, of Peacham, VT, A memorial service was held at Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church on 20 June. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Royster Meraorial Presbyterian Church Samaritan Fund.

The Virginian Pilotâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;20 June 1999 JAMES EWING BALLARD SR. '48 James "Jim" Ewing Ballard Sr., a local businessman, died 5 September 1999, in Erlanger Hospital. He was 75 years old.

He worked in investment securities and was retired from J.C. Bradford and Co. with 25 years of service.

Mr Ballard attended Missionary Ridge Grammar School and Brainerd Junior High and graduated from McCallie School in 1942, where he let-

tered in football and baseball and was captain of the basketball team.

He was a member of Keo Kio and a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, in 1946.

He was reactivated during the Korean War and served in the Naval Reserve as a supply officer.

Mr Ballard had been a member of Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church since 1955 and served as a deacon from 1969 to 1972 and 1974 to 1977 and a trastee from 1965 to 1988.

He served on the Signal Mountain, TN, town commission for three terms from 1967 to 1979, He was on the commission when the new town center was opened with the Mathes Gym, Mr, Ballard was a raeraber of the Mountain City Club, where he served as vice president, and he served as president of the Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club, He was a member of Manker Patten Tennis Club, the YMCA and past president of the McCallie School Alumni, Mr. Ballard was preceded in death by his parents. Judge and Mrs. Fred Berry Ballard Sr,; a brother, Dr, Fred Berry Ballard Jr.; and a son, Staart Mathes Ballard, Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Anne Mathes Ballard; two daughters, Olive Ballard Durant, Signal Mountain, and Abbie Ballard Brooks, Lookout Mountain; two sons, James Ewing Ballard Jr., Lookout Mountain, and Frederick Arthur Ballard, Signal Mountain; and eight grandchildren.

The funeral was held at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church in the Marr Memorial Chapel with Dr William E. Dudley and the Reverend James E. Martin III officiating. Private burial services were held in Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery.

Memorial contributions raay be raade to Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, c/o Pete Cooper, 736 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402 or Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church, 912 James Blvd., Signal Mountain, TN 37377.

Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press 6 September 1999 WALLACE CHARLES HOLTON '48 Captain Wallace Charles Holton died peacefully in his sleep in Santa Maria, CA, at age 74. After meraorial services in the chapel at the University of San Francisco on 10 Septeraber, he was inumed in die USNA Colurabariura on 20 September 1999.

Wally was bom in Warren, AZ, and later moved to Bisbee, AZ. He played football and basketball at Bisbee High School and was the Arizona junior tennis champion his senior year, as well as class valedictorian. Following graduation in 1943, he enlisted in the Array. He received appointments to both Annapolis and West Point, graduating from the Naval Academy with the Class of '48.

After a tour as a gunnery officer onboard ANTIETAM, he went to flight school. He flew Panthers in Korea off PRINCETON with VF-153 and VC61. After PG schools in both Monterey and England, he had a tour with VF-94 flying off HORNET. In 1958, he reported to NAS Patuxent River, MD, as a test pilot in Armament Test. He conducted weapons tests on the new A-3J (later A-5A) Vigilante. Subsequently, he was a plankowner with the first Vigilante squadron, VAH-7, in Sanford, FL. He flew the Vigilante in the Mediterranean off ENTERPRISE and during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

He became an AEDO in 1966. He then commanded the aircraft repair depots in Danang and Cubi Point. He then worked in various BuWeps and NavAir billets until his retirement in 1975.

He is survived by his first wife, Evelyn Holton Rausch, of San Francisco; four sons, Michael

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Hohon '74, Paul, Edward, and Wallace Campion; diree daughters. Prof Claire Hammond of Wake Forest University, Margaret Elizabeth Accatino, RN, and Laura Galvin; and 18 grandchildren, including Midshipman 4/C Edward Holton '03.

Mike Holton '74 MAX LEE GILLAM '49 Max Gillam passed away on 24 August 1999, at the age of 73, from complications of a stroke he suffered a year before. He was bom in Cleveland, OH. His father directed youth programs for the Cleveland YMCA and his mother was a school teacher His life-long comraitment to his later pro bono legal work stems from their influence. After high school, with World War II on. Max joined the Navy and soon thereafter won a fleet appointment to the Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1949. He took his commission in the U.S. Air Force andflewthe P-51 Mustang in the Korean War. He left the service with the rank of first lieutenant to attend Harvard Law School on a scholarship.

After graduating, he joined the Los Angeles law firm of Latham and Watkins where, inter alia, he helped create Latham and Watkins' antitrast practice and was a pioneer defense lawyer in California criminal antitrast cases. Gillam won the law firm's first Supreme Court victory in a rating that protected the secrecy of grand jury proceedings.

The Westem Center on Law and Poverty named GiUam its citizen of the year in 1985.

He was a partner at Latham and Watkins for 37 years and developed a national reputation as a civil and criminal defense lawyer. He was also a mentor to a generation of young lawyers at his firm.

His coUeagues affectionately remembered him as a character: a brilUant lawyer with a shock of white hair who wore elegant bow ties, was well known and had a large personality. One of Max's aphorisms was "Never confuse winning with solving the problem." Though he walked with the aid of cratches for 30 years due to hip problems, it never interfered with his work. A close friend said that GiUam's passion for and commitment to the law had a huge impact on young lawyers. His enthusiasm for the Navy and the Academy was what inspired the friend's daughter to attend and graduate from the Naval Academy.

After he retired from the law firm, he became a senior Utigation counsel and consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrast division. In 1997, coUeagues named him lawyer of the year for the antitrast section of the State Bar of Califomia.

He was the father of seven children and grandfather to seven grandchildren whom he loved and who graciously shared him with a remarkable career. Final services were held in late October 1999 at the Naval Academy during which the Secretary of the Navy eulogized GiUam. He was then inumed in the USNA Columbarium.

Pete Swanson '49

"Adventure is a state of mind and spirit. It comes through faith for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces one in life or death." â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jacqueline Cochran

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CLELL NEIL AMMERMAN '54 Captain C. Neil Aramerman, USN (Ret.), of Camarillo, CA, died at home on 30 September 1999.

He was 67 years old.

CAPT Aramerman was born in Greensburg, PA, on 3 April ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 1932. He enlisted in 1 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H the Naval Reserve pro'^^^^^^^^KI^^^^M gram in 1949, qualified a year later for admission to the Naval Academy and graduated with honors in 1954. As an ensign, he served aboard the destroyer MCCAFFERY for two years in the gunnery and engineering departments. He next served as executive officer of PORTAGE; and in 1957, as commanding officer of ELY, his ship was one of the first to transit the new St. Lawrence Seaway.

In 1958, he was assigned to the National Security Agency for duty in tiie area of technical intelligence. He then attended the University of Maryland for graduate work in applied matheraatics and physics, receiving a raaster's degree in 1961. He then becarae Missile Fire Control and Talo Missile Officer on OKLAHOMA CITY, and was involved in the initial naval action in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964. Captain Aramerman received the Joint Services Commendation Medal for his work in the field of nuclear weapons effects, completed in 1967 at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, CA. Captain Ammerman reported aboard STANDLEY in October 1967 as executive officer. He later became the assistant to the Deputy Director, Research and Technology, ODDR&E, from November 1968 to June 1971, and received the Legion of Merit for outstanding management of research and development programs.

Captain Ammerman assumed coraraand of JOHN S. MCCAIN in September 1971. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" for his actions during hostilities off the coast of the RepubUc of Vietnam between April and October 1972.

After a term as professor of naval science and commanding officer for the NROTC unit at UCLA, Captain Ammerman reported aboard ENGLAND in April 1976. In 1978, he moved to Newport, RI, to command the Navy's prestigious Surface Warfare Officers School before becoming Chief of Staff of Battle Force Seventh Fleet, homeported in Subic Bay, Philippines. He retired frora the Navy in June of 1984 and continued his Navy interests working for Ventura County Naval Contractors until 1995.

He is survived by his wife, Paraela Karolyn; daughters, Lisa Henderson of England; Wendy Corder of Corona; sons, Dirk of Fort Bragg; Craig of Oxnard; Brian of Florida; Kim Peter Haas of Corona; brother, John, of Pennsylvania; and four grandchildren.

The funeral was held on 2 October at the United States Naval Constmction Battalion base chapel.

Interment will be at Arlington.

Donations in his memory may be made to the Navy League of the United States, 2300 Wilson Blvd., Ariington, VA 22201 or the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, 247 King George Street, Annapolis, MD 21402, Pamela Ammerman

GORDON CHARLES CASWELL '60 CDR Gordon Charles Caswell, USN (Ret.), a long-time resident of Springfield, VA, died of congestive heart failure in his sleep on 28 March in Richmond, VA. He was in Richmond, partaking of his avocation, Volksmarching when he failed to awaken for the days walk. Bom is Escanaba, MI, he graduated from the Naval Academy and later received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. A member of the 24th Company, Gordon started out after graduation by managing the Naval Academy 1960 Olympic Crew team. Following the Olympics he reported to ZEELARS. Later in his military career he served on board several destroyers and was executive officer of KEPPLER. CDR Caswell served in Danang, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. He came to Washington, D.C, and had tours with the Air Force in Satellite Communications and in the Navy Space Project within the Naval Electronic System Comraand as well as at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal.

After his retirement frora the service, he worked most of the remainder of his career with ESL and TRW. He was able to spend much of his career and post-Navy time in the Washington area being there for his family. Several years ago he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and life took on new meaning.

His second retirement provided an opportunity to discover the joys of recreational walking. To that end, he joined the Pentagon Pacesetters, finding sincere enjoyment Volksmarching. He had completed walks in 48 states, and also traveled to the British Isles with a group of walkers. Recently, Gordon traveled to Crazy Horse for a walk to celebrate 50 years of constraction on the monument, and was about to finish a two-year quest to have walked the entire C & O Canal, this May. Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Sally; a daughter, Janet L. Caswell, of Old Greenwich, CT; his mother, Leone Davis, of Florida; a sister, Gayle Wallin, of Illinois; a stepbrother, Fred Barton; and a step sister, Sally Wilson.

William E. Lewis Jr. '60 ROBERT MARIO DEMAIO '60 Lieutenant Commander Robert Mario DeMaio, USN (Ret.), died suddenly on 8 July 1999 at his residence at 2404 Ship's Watch Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. A ^.^ ^ ^ ^ Mass of Christian ^ ^ S I ^^f^'t Burial was held on 12 k*" ^ ; July 1999 at the Church of the Holy Family with intemment following at the Princess Anne Meraorial Park.

An Array brat, Bob was the son of Colonel Mario DeMaio, USA, and with his brother, John, and sister, Patricia, followed his parents to duty stations in Oklahoma, Texas, New York, Califomia and Nanking, China.

Born in Providence, RI, Bob retumed there after Colonel DeMaio was sent to Korea, graduated frora Cranston High School and joined the U.S.

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Navy, rising to the rank of sonarman 3rd class. In the fall of 1955, Bob was assigned to United States Naval Academy Preparatory School at NTC, Bainbridge, MD, passed competitive examinations and received a Secretary of the Navy appointment to the Naval Academy, Class of 1960.

After graduation from the Naval Academy, Bob attended supply school, Athens, GA, followed by sea duty on FOREST ROYAL, WRIGHT and CORONADO,

Additional assignments were the submarine Base at New London and the Defense Personnel Support Center at Philadelphia Navy Yard. Between sea duty and shore duty. Bob acquired two master's degrees at North Carolina State University where he became a raeraber of Phi Beta Kappa.

Retiring in 1980, Bob becarae a DoD consultant to a number of defense contractors in the Washington area and at the time of his death was a selfemployed real estate title examiner for numerous title insurance companies in the Norfolk, VA, area.

Bob had incredible wit and charm. They were a wonderful legacy to all those who were fortunate to laugh and share life with him. He was a trae character and dear friend especially to the children and grandchildren. His hope was in Christ and he will be terribly missed by his friends and adoring family.

He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Kennedy DeMaio; three daughters, Jamie Elizabeth VanBergen, and her husband, Peter, of Williamsburg; Nancy DeMaio and Robin Margaret DeMaio, both of Richmond; four sons, Mark Robert DeMaio, Neil Kennedy DeMaio and Andrew Paul DeMaio, of Virginia Beach, and Jonathan David DeMaio of Richmond; a sister, Patricia Sherman of Greer, SC; a brother, Dr John DeMaio of West Hartford, CT; four grandchildren, EUzabeth, Luke and John Andrew VanBergen and Elaina DeMaio. He was predeceased by a daughter, Ellen Anne DeMaio.

William E. Lewis Jr '60 B. DODGE DUTCHER JR. '68 B. Dodge Dutcher Jr. started his career as a financial planner with Atlanta-based RobinsonHumphrey in 1974 and later became an executive with Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York, specializing in retirement investments.

At Robinson-Humphrey, he founded and directed its financial services department and was naraed to its board of directors. When it becarae a subsidiary of Shearson Lehraan, he was named Shearson's executive vice president and director of tmst services managing more than $70 billion in retirement assets.

Rod Dowling of Atlanta, executive vice president and head of corporate finance for RobinsonHumphrey, said Mr Dutcher was a visionary, "He developed programs here that New York wanted to put in offices all over the country. He was one of a few people asked to go to New York," he said, Mr. Dutcher of West Redding, CT, died of cancer on 20 September 1999 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, CT. The funeral was held at Christ Episcopal Church in West Redding.

As a founder of Financial Services Corp. in Atlanta, he directed one of the first personal financial planning departments in the nation to create Individual Retirement Accounts and 401(k)s, said Valle Simms Dutcher of Atianta, his former wife.

In the 1970s, when Congress passed laws permitting tax-free savings accounts, he was farsighted enough to realize their significance, she said. "He was a whiz kid. It was a whole new angle on personal finance," she said.

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Mr Dutcher, a member of the Piedmont Driving Club, has been a consultant since 1993 to major corporations and new business enterprises and was an expert witness in litigation involving the insurance and brokerage industries, Ms, Dutcher said.

Survivors include two sons, Dodge Westbrook Dutcher and Brace Patilloch Dutcher, both of Atlanta; a daughter, Anne Devon Dutcher of Atlanta; his mother, Patricia G, Richardson of Redding, CT; and a brother. Brace Gill Dutcher of Atlanta, In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be raade to Christ Church, P,0. Box 54, Redding Ridge, CT 06876.

The Atlanta Constitution 24 September 1999 DANIEL SHINCHUL PARK '96 Daniel Shinchul Park died on 23 July 1999, when he fell down a rocky coastal cliff on Caines Head State Recreational Trail on Resurrection Bay while on a Youth Ministry backpacking trip. He was 25 years old. A raemorial service was held at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Anchorage, AK. He was interred with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

Dan was bom on 25 June 1974 in Korea. He graduated from the Naval Academy in AnnapoUs, MD, in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and history. He was a member of the 30th Company.

Upon graduation, Dan was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Array; he completed Infantry Officer basics and was quaUfied for airbome, air assault, ranger, and senior jumpraaster Dan raoved to Alaska in 1997. His first Array assignment was as a rifle platoon leader for 2nd platoon, A Company, l-501st of the Parachute Infantry Regiment at Fort Richardson. He continued in A Company as executive officer and was about to take over as platoon leader for the TOW platoon. Dan's commanding officer said, "During ILT

Park's two year service, his performance was nothing short of outstanding. His professional competence, commitment to his profession, and concem for the welfare of his subordinates elevated him above his peers and distinguished him as one of the finest officers in the battalion. He was therefore awarded the Meritorious Service Medal upon his death, the highest award given to a soldier during peacetime."

Dan led in Trinity Presbyterian Church's Junior High Youth Ministry as a volunteer worker. "His gift was being able to draw every kid—no matter who—out into the group and make him feel welcome. He bonded with the kids through wild games, snow baths, water fights, and physical activities.

He had a way of speaking to kids at their level and connecting with them. This love for them was genuine and they knew it. His inner strength in the Lord was obvious. He was gentle, but had great physical strength."

Dan enjoyed outdoor activities, swimming, TaeKwon-Do, working out, arts, growing to know Jesus better, and saxophones. He also sponsored a child through the Christian Children Fund, His fiancee said, "Dan was a good and faithful man who loved God. His life, cut short by a tragic accident, was characterized by optimism, deep joy, and sacrificial service—service to his country and service particularly to young people through his church. He was a humble and courageous man with a giving heart. In his short life, he received many honors, but he seldom spoke of them. He has left behind raany whose lives have been changed by his exaraple."

Dan was to be raarried September 3. He is survived by his parents, Jae and Insook Park of Korea, and fiancee, Stephanie Cumberlidge of Anchorage.

Memorial Donations in his name may be sent to the Dan Park Memorial Fund for Youth Ministry c/o Trinity Presbyterian Church, 12310 Lorraine Stt-eet, Anchorage, AK 99507.

David Wallace '96

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