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CLOSING THE " E N D OF THE LINE" Robert Black '63

DOWNSTREAM FROM T H E HWACHON RESERVOIR Lieutenant Colonel William McReynolds '41, USMC (Ret.)

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SUPERINTENDENT'S CALL Vice Admiral John Ryan '67, USN

I N T O THE VALLEY Lieutenant General Charles G. Cooper '50, USMC (Ret.)

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RETURN TO M O G M O G Doug Hubbard, Former Director of Admiral Nimitz Museum

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BETTER LUCKY, T H A N SMART George D. Prestwich '44

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By George P. Watt Jr. 73

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ast month I mentioned that October has always been significant to our greater Navy family as we celebrate the Navy's birthday, as well as the founding of the United States Naval 1 Academy. Thanks to the sheer luck of providence, or perhaps to the wisdom and forethought of our founding fathers, we now continue into another significant month and celebrate the Marine Corps Birthday with our traditional Marine Corps issue of the November Shipmate. I was recently, and appropriately, "checked" by several of our truly observant readers who mentioned that I should always use the term "Naval Service" to include the United States Marine Corps.

Although that may be the formal way and may be editorially and literally correct, the Marine Corps deserves, and has earned, its singular spot in our memories and hearts.

I am the son of a Marine. My earliest memories as a child are of my Dad's World War II picture scrapbook. I learned the words to the Marine Corps Hymn before I learned the words to "A Mighty Fortress..." (Much to the chagrin of my Methodist grandmother and my Lutheran uncle and aunt). I watched every movie about the Marines, memorizing much of the dialogue. I wore my Dad's washed khaki uniform shirt until my mother finally threw it away from too many washings. I still have my father's dog tags and his log book from his F4U Corsair squadron. In my study at home are pictures of Corsairs, including one approaching the WASP (on which his Fleet Marine Force squadron was assigned). It was my Dad who told me about the Naval Service; about Naval Officers; about the United States Naval Academy. It was his Marine Corps background that left an imprint on me and set me on an unstoppable course to Annapolis.

That's just one son's story... How many stories could be told about the Marine Corps since its legendary founding at Tun's Tavern in Philadelphia in November 1775? How many battles; how many conflicts; how many young Marines made the ultimate sacrifice? From the Bahamas amphibious raid in ......,...«:^..,.:..^......,.~^,..:„>..,>.,..,..,, March 1776 under the com• Captain Robert Bailey '95 during a mand of Captain Seimuel NichoVisit, Board, Search and Seizure las to the beaches of Okinawa. exercise on USNS JOHN LENTHAL. Official USMC Photograph by From the foretops of the first Sgt. Brook R. Kelsey WASP (right) to the flight deck of the CV-7. From the capture T Marines in the rigging of WASP, circa of John Young Brown at 1814. Photo courtesy of the Marine Harper's Ferry (while under the Corps Historical Foundation command of Robert E. Lee, USMA, '29) to the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. From the ketch INTREPID under the command of Stephen Decatur to the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions breaching the Iraqi defense lines and storming into occupied Kuwait.

From the halls of Montezuma...

Well, you have the picture.

When we talk about legacy, when we talk about constancy of purpose and when we talk about honor, courage and commitment, we need to talk about the United States Marine Corps.

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And, when we talk about graduating leaders of great character from USNA, the Marine Corps can claim its fair share.

In this issue of Shipmate, we have a few special Marine Corps articles. Lieutenant General Charles Cooper '50 is back with another infantryman's harrowing tale of combat from the Korean War. His experience is complimented by a combat story from an artilleryman in Korea, Colonel William McReynolds ' 4 1 . And Robert Black '63 takes us back in time to Khe Sanh in 1968, to tell about the courage and sacrifice of Marines who always take care of their own. These remembrances do more than validate our experiences, or entertain our history buffs. These stories remind each one of us of our heritage and history, and the legacy we pass from generation to generation. So you can truly "Tell it to the Marines...."

Marine uniforms have adapted to the times, and they all have a practical reason for their evolvement. We know why the quatrefoil was worn on Marine officers' covers and how the Mameluke came to be. Over the years, we have become accustomed to the pictures and films of Marines serving in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Today it seems like we are watching Star Trek when we see Marines dressed like Captain Robert Bailey '95, below. But although their equipment and uniforms may change their outward appearance, it is tradition and legacy, their unique esprit de corps, that connects all Marines, of all wars, of all generations.

And it is a similar tradition and legacy, and of course our own esprit de corps that bond all Naval Academy alumni—the extended Brigade. In a world of many universities and too numerous alumni associations, it sets us apart from the rest. As we reflect on the heritage of the Corps this November, may we renew our shared pride in our entire naval service.

To all Marines everywhere, God bless the Marine Corps, Happy Birthday and Semper Fidelisl ^l' WiK?^ ^.nsc^i •.vif^.ijaffA-^..^.^.^

Superintendent's Call

A REPORT FROM THE COMMANDANT OF MIDSHIPMEN This month, I asked Rear Admiral Sam Locklear 7 7 , Commandant of Midshipmen, to discuss recent improvements in the structure and organization of the Brigade of Midshipmen. I think you will find his thoughts both interesting and informative. I also want to publicly thank Sam for his first-rate service to the Academy over the past months. He and his wife, Ram, are a wonderful addition to the USNA family. Until next month, Beat Army!

Vice Admiral John Ryan '67, U.S. Navy

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he opportunity to serve as the 78th Commandant of Midshipmen continues to be one of the most rewarding and challenging leadership opportunities that my wife, Pam, and I have ever been given. The privilege of implementing Vice Admiral John Ryan's strategic vision in training the Brigade of Midshipmen is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's an honor to follow the Superintendent's well-crafted vision in providing mentoring, professional development opportunities and a rich academic experience to the men and women who will lead our naval services and our nation for decades to come. The quality of our superb staff and faculty, both military and civilian, has never been better. I am confident in their exceptional leadership abilities and I am pleased to have the opportunity to assist them as they train and mentor our midshipmen.

The position of Commandant affords me a unique view into the Brigade and a "deckplate" perspective of who they are and what they will likely become. Alumni and parents alike often ask how today's midshipmen compare to previous generations. There seems to be some expectation that they are vastly different due to the increasingly complex and diverse nature of the society from which they come. It is true that they are amongst the first generation of young Americans who have been bom and raised in the computer information age.

Unlike most of us, they process information at the speed of light.

They communicate comfortably and effectively in the cyber medium...a good attribute for future warriors and leaders in our increasingly high technology Navy and Marine Corps.

Today's midshipmen are also quite entrepreneurial in their approach to their futures. They rightfully want to know what their professional portfolios will contain and what their future growth potential in the naval service will be. We are working hard in our professional development curriculum and our aggressive summer cruise programs to provide them with a realisfic view of our Navy and Marine Corps; a view that will answer their questions, address their concerns, and get them excited about their future careers. As always, service alongside fleet Sailors and Marines continues to provide the most effective linkage between our midshipmen and the naval service.

By most other measures it is impressive how similar today's midshipmen are to those of generations past. They are intelligent, articulate, and patriotic. They are inspired by quality leadership and turned off by the concepts of "political correctness" and careerism. They yearn to be a part of a quality organization that values their contributions as leaders and warriors, and they are all eager to serve and defend our country.

This year we ÂŁire particularly pleased by the professionalism and enthusiasm shown by the Class of 2001 as they assume the responsibility and challenges of leading the Brigade. The classes of 2002, 2003, and 2004 are responding well to their leadership, and the year is off to a great start.

In many ways the Naval Academy is a leadership laboratory where midshipmen at various stages of their professional development are given the opportunity to apply learned classroom fundamentals to practical real world leadership positions. The goal is to properly train and equip every midshipman to lead, and as they mamre professionally, progressively empower them to take the responsibility and accountability for the day-to-day operation of the Brigade. To that end, we are continuously looking for ways to strengthen our fourclass system and to teach midshipmen the basics of "followership," leadership and mentorship. To keep the Brigade headed in the right direction we have introduced a new publication this year. Way Points 200L This handbook was created by select military and civilian leaders from across the Yard and included significant input from midshipmen of all four classes. It was designed to provide a common basis for the leadership development of midshipmen over the course of their four-year Naval Academy curriculum. Way Points 2001 clearly defines the leadership roles, expectations and goals for each of the four classes and seeks to quantify them into specific objectives. It is not intended to be a "leadership checklist" nor is it intended to be memorized and recited like Reef Points. It exists to provide a solid foundation of guidance and direction to midshipmen as they prepare to lead our Navy and Marine Corps. Way Points 2001 is the first ever attempt to better define and clarify the specific leadership expectations for each of the four classes.

Hand-in-hand with the spirit of Way Points 2001 is our objective to improve the leadership training opportunities for all midshipmen, with particular emphasis on the opportunities that are afforded to the first class. We want to use every avenue to empower them to lead the Brigade in ways that will better prepare them to excel in the fleet. To this end, we "shuffled" the entire Brigade prior to academic year reform. Additionally, we implemented a comprehensive Bancroft Hall watch reorganization and made some necessary adjustments to our class privilege policies.

The "shuffling" of the Brigade is simply the group movement of each class of midshipmen from one company to another so that peer group integrity is maintained, but all senior-subordinate relationships Continued on page 6 Shipmate, November 2000

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Continued from page 4 within a given company are renewed annually. The objective each year is to provide all underclass midshipmen the opportunity for a fresh start and the renewed leadership challenges and opportunities offered by a new company environment, while at the same time preserving the strong company-level peer friendships and loyalties forged during the Naval Academy experience. Shuffling provides the first class in each company a leadership environment more reflective of what they will likely find in the fleet; an environment where they will be expected to lead and inspire Marines and Sailors with whom they have no previous connection. Thus far, shuffling the Brigade has been positively received by the midshipmen leadership and the Brigade at large.

The watch reorganization was the product of a four-month assessment of the tools that we believe are necessary to empower midshipmen to lead and to oversee the day-to-day operation of the Brigade.

The basic watch organization is a Brigade-wide, seven-section duty rotation, which is robust enough to properly oversee and execute the Naval Academy's complex daily routine. There is no great leadership innovation here, but a continuing return to basics. The goal is to provide a realistic "fleet duty" experience for our midshipmen and to teach them how to accept responsibility as well as accountability for their own organization. Although we continue to refine the organizational structure to further improve duty section effectiveness, the Brigade's initial performance has been outstanding. The first class enjoy being empowered and in charge.

Along with the restructuring of our watch organization, we have re-evaluated our system of privileges for each of the four classes. At the request of the Brigade, we first simplified the privilege policy and then made necessary adjustments to ensure the policies properly

reinforced our four-class system, acknowledging increased responsibility with increased privileges. For example, a typical plebe has very minimal leadership responsibilities and in turn very few privileges.

Conversely, a typical first classman owns responsibility for the dayto-day operation and leadership of the Brigade, and in turn receives privileges approaching that of a junior officer in the fleet. This is a tried and true aspect of midshipmen professional development that works as well today as it has in decades past.

I would like to add that these initiatives are merely course corrections that we trust will better empower our midshipmen to learn and practice warrior leadership. Although technology and our society are continually changing, the basic mission of our Naval Academy remains the same: To develop midshipmen morally, mentally, and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty in order to provide graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for future development in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.

We are working hard to ensure every midshipman is developed in accordance with the mission, and that all aspects of our Naval Academy are effectively working together As always, we continue to set the bar of excellence very high, and demand a tremendous amount from every midshipman. Most will excel far beyond our expectations. We are confident that our future graduates will continue to have the honor, courage, and commitment necessary to properly lead our Navy and Marine Corps in the twenty-first century, and that they will admirably uphold the traditions of the service of which they are a part. I am proud to be the Commandant of our Naval Academy and look forward to serving with our graduates in the fleet. A Rear Admiral (LH) Samuel J. Locklear III '77

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he fighting slackened somewhat for the next few days. Both sides had pushed themselves to exhaustion and both needed a respite. The respite, such as it was, ended for the Third Platoon when the battalion commander alerted B Company to the fact that the enemy had been sending heavy mortar units into the valley on our right flank to conduct nightly shellings of the rear area command posts. Additionally, prisoner interrogations had revealed that the Chinese were conducting a build-up for a push south through that same wide valley. Colonel Hopkins directed B Company to form a task force to seek out enemy forces in the valley. In particular, the task force was to locate and destroy the mortars and prevent any buildup of forces. He added that the task force, built around B Company's Third Platoon, would be reinforced by a tank platoon and one section each of 75-mm recoilless rifles and heavy machine guns. He called back later to add that, on the previous day, our aircraft had spotted an unknown number of Chinese tanks hiding in the valley. Great news!

We owned the dominating high ground, but the broad valley into which we were to move was not occupied by any friendly forces. On the valley floor were several small hills that dominated the terrain around them. The hills were divided into two groups and designated as our objectives one and two.

The next morning, my heavily reinforced platoon of more than 125 Marines and corpsmen, carrying two days' rations and all the ammunition they could, started the long, easy downhill walk into the valley. In addition to incorporating the other reinforcements specified by the battalion commander, we took along one 60-mm mortar with white phosphorous and illumination rounds only. We would meet the M-48 tanks at a checkpoint in the valley. Our combat sage, the platoon guide, could not help but observe that tanks were nice to have around if you ran into other tanks, but that they tended to "draw fire."

The troops were in high spirits, having had a reasonably calm night and a breakfast of fresh bread, hard-boiled eggs, and canned fruit juice, all brought forward on the backs of the Korean Service Corps "chiggy bearers" the previous afternoon. It was a beautiful day, and for a while things went as planned. We met the tanks as scheduled, and their platoon leader, a first lieutenant, asked for a squad of troops to give him close-in protection. There was a fairly good two-lane gravel road on the left flank, and it paralleled our direction of advance toward an area where the valley narrowed considerably. The narrow portion of the valley was where the enemy tanks had been sighted. We agreed that his tanks and my squad would move on the road on the left flank as we started across the open area toward our first objective.

As we approached the first hill, I studied it carefully through field glasses. It was covered with trenchlines and bunkers. There were no troops visible. There didn't have to be: one of the enemy soldiers had left his laundry drying in the sun to show us that the bunkers were occupied. Without delay, we had the tanks lay in five or six rounds of 90-mm main gun ammunition, just to test the reaction. At Quantico, our instructors called it a "reconnaissance by fire." Whatever they

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called it, it worked. We received long-range machine gun fire in return and immediately deployed to take the hill.

The attack was a classic infantry assault by fire and maneuver.

Using tank fire, artillery support, and heavy mortars firing smoke and white phosphorous for concealment, the platoon moved to the base of the hill. Sergeant Gibson and his squad then moved to the right flank and when ready assaulted under the cover of machine guns and the remainder of the platoon. There were two grenade explosions, and shortly afterward, SergeaYit Gibson appeared on the top of a bunker and waved us up. There were 25 or more enemy dead, all Chinese. Most of them still had their ration rolls of rice looped over their shoulders. They were either just arriving or getting ready to leave when we started the attack. The troops rolled all of them into a large bunker that had collapsed and shoveled dirt over the impromptu grave.

The hillside position was extensive and beautifully dug in. It would make a good patrol base. The tanks moved abreast of us as the last of the platoon climbed the objective and got in place. We would operate from here, possibly riding the tanks up the valley. So far, so good.

About 200 yards to our north, there was a small hamlet of huts with straw roofs and without signs of life. The huts were next to a stream, but otherwise had no appreciable cover or concealment anywhere near them. The number of Chinese troops that had occupied our newly won patrol base probably meant that there were more nearby, and the only place they could be was in the huts, long since abandoned by the farmers who once tilled the adjacent and now vacant fields.

It was time for another reconnaissance by fire, this time with machine guns firing incendiary rounds to ignite the straw roofs. It didn't take long. The roofs burst into flame and men began to scramble from the huts, running in all directions. They were armed and trying to escape. The tanks and machine gunners went to work and within a

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matter of minutes, all of the enemy were on the ground, one of them holding a white cloth aloft on a stick. There had been about 60 of them, and we captured all 35 of the survivors, many of them wounded.

A quick search of the huts yielded maps, radios, wire lines, telephones, and several large bags of rice. The complex had been a headquarters of some sort. We learned later that one of our prisoners was the lieutenant colonel who commanded the mortar unit that had caused so many problems for our rear areas. The commanding officer had no rank insignia, and half his left buttock was shot off, but the deference shown him by the other prisoners made it obvious that he was important. The corpsmen examined him and were surprised that the open wound was not infected. All of the muscles were exposed, and the wound was several days old.

The intelligence non-commissioned officer sent along by battalion was helpful in trying to extract information from the prisoners, but the interrogation was the least of my worries. I wanted more than anything for someone to get them off our hands. Overnight responsibility for 35 prisoners seemed too much for a small, isolated task force. Our radioed report that we had captured what appeared to be a command group, perhaps including senior officers, was intended to stimulate higher headquarters' interest in retrieving the prisoners.

Now the Chinese decided to move on us with tanks. Four Sovietbuilt T-34's emerged from the narrow portion of the valley, about a mile to the north. Apparently they had not seen the Marine tanks. Our tankers radioed that they saw enemy tanks and wanted to go after them. That Fort Knox Armored School aggressiveness was showing as the tank commander visualized a once-in-a-lifetime tank-on-tank battle. He received orders to deploy where he was and engage the T-34's if they closed.

The intent was to attack them with aircraft first. There were Corsairs in the area, but not under our control. That changed quickly, once the report of enemy tanks in sight reached battalion. From our hill observation post, we could see four distinct shapes rolling toward us in staggered column formation. Our tanks, hiding in a nearby stream bed, held a hull defilade position, with only their turrets and guns exposed. The tension was rising fast when 1 remembered the Chinese prisoners and told the platoon sergeant to find a safe place to stash them.

A section of two Corsairs checked in on the radio, reporting an ordnance load of rockets and 1000-pound bombs. The pilots were as excited as any of us: seldom, if ever, would any of us see one, much less four, Chinese tanks out of hiding during daylight hours. The enemy tankers must have been moving with the turret hatches open.

The U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archives

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because they soon saw the orbiting "There are times birds of prey. They knew who was the in combat when prey, but beyond that seemed confused. there is an They stopped about a half-mile from ominous feel our front. about things and The pilots had been briefed to start the air" from the back of the column and work forward. Our tankers, waiting less than patiently, were instructed to take on the Chinese from front to rear As the first Corsair rolled into its dive, our tank guns barked and the first rounds screamed downrange at the trapped T-34's. Two runs of the aircraft and it was all over. The Corsairs destroyed three of the T-34's and the tankers got the fourth. During all this excitement, battalion radioed with the less-than-good news that the prisoners would be our responsibility until some time the following day.

The prisoners were not the problem 1 had thought they would be.

Staff Sergeant Reiman had formed them into a working party and issued each an entrenching tool. He first had them remove their dead comrades from the impromptu bunker grave and bury them in shallow graves at the foot of our hill. He then took the prisoners back to the collapsed bunker and had them widen it and dig another five feet straight down. When the work was done, he ordered them into the large pit. When I arrived, they were all squatting on their haunches, looking up at me, waiting to hear their fate. The interpreter explained to them that if they caused any trouble, we would throw grenades into the pit. If, on the other hand, they remained quiet and did as ordered, they would be taken to our rear area in the morning. He stressed the point that their war was over and that they would receive medical care, food, and water in the rear, but none at this time. They nodded in understanding and never became a problem, even during the harrowing night that followed.

Taking a leaf from the Kerrigan book of defensive tactics, we spent the afternoon organizing the hill as a defensive position and operating base. There are times in combat when there is an ominous feel about things and the air smells of disaster. This was one of them.

Only the foolish or suicidal ignore them. We were a long way from friendlies, and the valley north of us apparently sheltered large numbers of Chinese troops.

Because a tank is more a target than a help in a reinforced platoon's night defensive perimeter, we sent the tanks to the rear We could not spare the infantry to protect them. The tank platoon commander and I agreed that they would return early the next morning. We would then resume our move northward in the valley.

For the most part, the slopes of our hill were steep and almost impossible to negotiate at night, but there were three clearly defined avenues of approach leading up to our positions. We covered these very thoroughly with the 60-mm mortar and machine guns. Topping it off we had the work of our engineer corporal, who handled all of our external security work and had gotten ever more sophisticated with his booby traps. Among other things, he had installed several illumination grenades forward of our lines. They could be used to light up a sizable area when and if the Chinese attacked.

As night closed in, we set up the platoon command post in one end of the largest surviving bunker. The docs moved into the other end, to use it for an emergency aid station. The last thing we did before we settled in for the night was to register artillery and mortar fire on all four sides of the hill. We could shift their aim rapidly from one of these reference points to another to cover our entire perimeter with their fire. By nightfall, we had done all that we could have done to get ready. After dark, we sat back and waited, ears straining to pick up the slightest unusual sound.

When it happened, it was not what we had expected. Rather than the scrabbling sounds of someone slowly crawling, or the muffled rattle of a carelessly secured rifle sling or bayonet, what broke the silence was the "thunk, thunk" sound of heavy mortars starting a fire mission. The sound was coming from our right rear, no more than half a mile away. At first we thought we were the target, but flashes followed by the crumping sound of distant explosions well to the south indicated that they were after bigger game. There were eight mortar tubes firing rapidly. These were the 120-mm mortars that had been creating problems in our rear areas. Destroying them was part of our mission. The fact that we worried them so little, that they ignored us as they continued their nightiy routine, did not bode well for us. Apparently, someone else would deal with us.

When we reported the location of the mortars to battalion, we got the initial response that they were under fire and would contact us later. A few expletives later, we got the point across. Within minutes, we were adjusting an artillery fire mission on the still active 120s.

After two corrections for range, the artillery batteries swept the entire area with a huge barrage. The portion of our mission involving eliminating the Chinese 120s had been completed. It had been easy.

Too easy. The control that we exerted over the valley now had to be obvious to everybody. Trouble was just around the comer.

We returned to watching and waiting: individual Marines nervously fiddling with their grenades, making certain that all were in place, ready for trouble. The quiet of the moonless night was broken only by the sounds of distant explosions. Somebody else was fighting for life. With a sudden "pop," one of the corporal's illumination trip flares exploded, lighting its immediate vicinity for ten or 20 seconds. It showed us hundreds of the enemy huddled at the foot of the hill. The cries of "fire in the hole" rang out as the Marines started tossing grenades down the hill to explode among the waiting Chinese. We were about to have a battle royal and it wasn't going to be one-sided. The basket grenadiers were all around the hill and their throws were entirely too accurate. We had problems all over the hill, and casualties were filling our aid station. We radioed for the first of the protective barrages that were to continue throughout the night. Mortar illumination rounds and the corporal's illumination grenades showed enemy right up to the edge of our lines. These all appeared to be dead or seriously wounded. Farther away we could vaguely see large groups of 50 or more milling around, apparently reorganizing for another try. An artillery concentration caught one of these milling groups dead center, filling the night with the cries and screams of their wounded.

Two of our machine guns had been knocked out, but backup gunners had returned one to action.

The Chinese tried hard "The cries of 'fire in that night, maybe harder the hole' rang out as than they had ever tried bethe Marines started fore. They made three matossing grenades down jor assaults, the first two of the hill t o explode among which were followed by rethe waiting Chinese." grouping and probes. Between attacks, we could hear an officer screaming at the Chinese soldiers. Our interpreter said that he was threatening them with death if they failed to take the hill. By midnight, all of our grenades and 60-mm mortar ammunition were gone and we had taken a big bite out of the machine gun and rifle ammunition. Things were getting desperate and I radioed battalion, asking for an air strike and an emergency air drop of ammunition. There was a long pause, followed by the rather disheartening word that they would get back to us. They did, however, and soon.

In short order, the aircraft arrived overhead, one of them a transport kicking out parachute flares that lit up the surrounding countryside like daylight. The Corsairs rolled in, getting oriented and practicing their attack runs. They reported that the enemy was moving away from the hill, but for some strange reason the Chinese soldiers were still moving in large, vulnerable groups. As the flare plane continued to circle and light the area, the Corsairs tore into the Chinese with napalm, bombs, and machine guns. As the Corsairs finished their runs, a new voice called us on the tactical air net we had been using to control the Corsairs. The voice said that the ammo resupply was on the way and advised us to "hang in there, jarheads." It was my old aviator buddy from the Menard, First Lieutenant Pete Keeling.

I literally wept.

With the entire area lit up from aviation flares, the air drop worked, even though half of it fell outside our lines: ammunition, precious water, and radio batteries—more than enough to carry us through the night. After the aircraft left, we received continuous fire support around our hill: artillery to the east and west, 4.2-inch mortars to the north and south. Considering the magnitude of the Chinese effort, we had gotten off lighUy. Two of our wounded died during the night, leaving 12 others wounded, most of whom could walk. There were huge piles of Chinese bodies all around our perimeter on the hill, and many others farther out. We didn't try to count them: the numbers didn't matter. They had made a major effort to destroy us and failed.

The next morning, higher headquarters decided that we had done enough and directed us to return. As we started out, the tank platoon returned, this time escorting ambulances for the dead and wounded.

The prisoners marched with us. During a break in the march, they got water from a stream and ate some of our extra rations. After eating, they all promptly vomited: the food was probably too rich, but the platoon guide observed, "They can't stand that crap, either."

When we got farther south, we turned the prisoners over to military police. The weapons crews that had been attached to us peeled off to rejoin their parent units. Our work on the valley floor was done.

We headed back to the hills. A

Lieutenant General Charies G. Cooper '50, commanded Marine Barracks, Washington, the 1st Marine Division and I Marine Amphibious Force, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, was CG, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, NC, and was CG, FMFPAC after having served as Director of Manpower for the Marine Corps.

A member of the Class of 1950, he retired on 1 August 1985.

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A Few Inches From the Yard

By M I D N l/C Lauren Majchrzak '01. U.S. Navy

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ovember means I have fewer months than Plebes have November has two major events—the Marine Corps Birthday and semesters; or that I have fewer PRTs than Plebes and Thanksgiving. For some, 1 think that a little party hosted in WashingYoungsters have years. I cannot tell you how long 1 have ton, D.C, takes more precedence than Thanksgiving itself. Eleventh waited to cheer in King Hall for those silly announce- Company traditionally has had a Gunny for its senior enlisted, and last ments. Three years actually, but who's counting? The Brigade is en- year. First Sergeant Curtiss Sullivan came back a little hoarse from the ergized, excited and looking forward to the end of the semester. Birthday Ball. Funny thing though, he would not admit it was because Thanksgiving, Army-Navy and ultimately, Christmas leave. he had been barking all night. We knew the real truth, though. This October was an awesome month for the Brigade. The football team year we have taken on a new gunny. Gunnery Sergeant George saw some of its toughest and oldest opponents, Notre Dame and Air Kesselring. Slowly, very slowly, he is learning how midshipmen work.

Force. Navy-Air Force was out in Colorado Springs with the tradi- I know if we can just get him to wear some regulation PE gear, he will tional exchange of prisoners. Last year, the Navy exchange cadets come over to our side. In any case, the Brigade of Midshipman would repelled down a wall, kidnapped the Wing Commander and later duct- just like to take this opportunity to wish a Happy Birthday to all those taped her to a flagpole in white works in honor of the game. Inter- who have served and continue to serve their country in the uniform of service rivalry is alive and well, while both teams continue to display the world's greatest warriors. United States Marines. the truest forms of athleticism and sportsmanship. Although Air Force November is also the month home to Veteran's Day. This special is a good rivalry, anyone who is anybody knows the only game that day recognizes the sacrifices made by those who have come before us, truly counts will be played on 2 December. and who's lasting legacy continues to influence midshipmen today. Our To help snap a 36-year losing stieak, 2,300 members of the Bri- veterans are this country's greatest heroes, and personally, I would like gade of Midshipmen headed down to Orlando, FL, for a little fun in to take this time to say thank you to all those who have given of themthe sun for one of the greatest college football rivalries of all time. Of selves when their country asked—willingly, openly, unabashedly. course I had to witness this mayhem first hand. The entire weekend Again this year, midshipmen are participating in Giving from the was the most incredible experience. As always, the Brigade repre- Heart of the Brigade. This program is designed to provide needy famisented all that Midshipmen stand for, marching in a parade through lies in the local area with food baskets for the holidays. Last year, Epcot on Friday the 13th, and then participating in a March-on be- more than 1,000 baskets were put together by the various Compafore the football game started. So between Church Street, Paradise nies, including a Brigade high of 92 from 11th Company. ThanksgivIsland, and Disney, the Brigade made its presence known. I think I ing also means that finals are right around the corner, and the happineed to get on that movement order to Tulane and see what New ness factor is increasing at an exponential rate. In closing, I hope all Orleans is all about! of you enjoy your time home with your families and friends this Thanksgiving, and know you are in my thoughts and prayers. ^L

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by Robert Black '63

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f you ask the average person in the military today what "McNamara's Line" was, you will get quizzical looks and a few guesses of something about the Pentagon. If you add that it was also called "The Trace," the befuddlement often increases. And, if you tell them it was in the mid-1960s, the only registration is a non-committal, "Oh!" "The Line" stretched from the South China Sea below the demilitarized zone and north of National Route 9 all the way to Laos. It was anchored by Khe Sanh in the west—"The End of the Line." The Line was strategically important, and the price—in lives and treasure—to control it was high. The Trace was the electronic barrier surveyed by the strong points in the east in Nui Con Thien, dreamed up by McNamara's "Whiz Kids" in the Pentagon.

All work on The Line, and especially The Trace, had over-riding priority for equipment, materiel, and transportation. Khe Sanh, however, had no Trace, but sat on a high plateau of coffee plantations surrounded by even higher mountains. The Marines' "bitter little hill batties" grabbed America's attention in May 1967, as fighting was intense and Marine casualties in securing this high ground were heavy.

The importance of these hills was underscored by the location of Hill 88IS, seven clicks west-northwest of the airstrip at Khe Sanh. A large reinforced North Vietnamese Army (NVA) observation post (OP) had been set up to control a field gun tunneled into Hill 969, some 18 clicks from the airstrip. The OP was set up on the gun-target line, which ran down the long axis of the airstrip, allowing NVA gunners the luxury of easily raking the combat base and shutting down the airstrip at will. Taking Hill 88IS had been costiy and the 26th Marines paid dearly to keep it.

American attention to Khe Sanh went critical in January 1968, when General Giap had two NVA divisions poised to overrun the Khe Sanh Combat Base complex. President Johnson was fixated on the parallels to the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, especially after the famous "Siege of Khe Sanh" began about ten days before Tet 1968, the lunar new year celebration. NVA trenches were advancing snakelike toward the western perimeter of the complex and major NVA assaults were made on the hill outposts around Khe Sanh.

After Tet 1968, the 1st Marines, which hadjust come off the Battie of Hue City, participated in Operation Pegasus, to reopen Route 9 to Khe Sanh and relieve the 26th Marines. 1st Battalion (1/1) was assigned the northern hill outposts, from Hill 950 on the eastern flank to 88IS on the western flank—which had become the closest position to Laos. The battalion headquarters was set up at Hill 558.

After 30 days, positions were rotated and in June, I became the Hill 881S commander. Around the 4th of July we received orders that we would be closing down "The End of the Line," because we were finally using up the great stockpile laid in to reinforce the 26th Marines.

We still continued to operate as usual: one-platoon patrols every first and second day out no more than 800 meters; reinforced twoplatoon patrols with command group every third day out 1,500 meters, working all directions. We paid special attention to Hill 88 IN only two clicks north of us, which was a known NVA stronghold on its reverse slopes, with tunnels and dug-in, hidden mortars. Any time a mortar round was received on Hill 88IS, we immediately fired counter-battery on 88IN. Photo courtesy of U.S. Naval InstittJte Photo Archives

About that same time. Delta Company on Hill 689, patrolling similarly, had one of its patrols caught in an ambush as the patrol dropped off the military crest of a ravine running down its northwestern approach. The NVA had set up a killing zone. Delta Marines didn't know this at the time and went back into the jaws of death twice to retrieve their dead and wounded before reality set in.

The NVA had zeroed in on both the mountaintop position and the ambush site with 82-mm mortars. They also had placed a heavy machine gun in the hillside across the ravine, tunneling in from the southwest so its location and muzzle flashes could not be spotted. Any Marine that tried to enter the killing zone to retrieve a fallen comrade was immediately hit.

Delta Company could not end the situation or extricate itself. The battalion commander, who had just taken over only a week or so before (Lieutenant Colonel Archie VanWinkle, Medal of Honor recipient as staff sergeant platoon leader in Korea), recommended that the battalion be moved to Hill 689 to deal with the situation. The new regimental commander (and fumre Commandant of the Marine Corps), Colonel Barrow, agreed and I received orders to follow in trace of Charlie and Alpha companies, to be heli-lifted the next morning to Hill 689.

Little did I know that "Mr. Charles" was trying to set me up for the same trick. A few days before, a platoon patrol reentering Hill 881S from the west was surprised by what appeared to be an NVA officer and a noncom studying the position's westernmost mount (881 A).

Before the patrol could kill or capture the two, they dropped off the northern lip of the ridgeline and could not be found.

We expected to heli-lift out for Hill 689 early the next morning.

The light fog burned off and we were still sitting there, hunkered down in our trenches, all gear ready to be grabbed in the rush for the choppers. Normally, pick-ups were done in the light fog because it masked the visibility cuid sound direction of the lift. I was getting concerned so I ordered a switch in LZs from the eastern end of the position outside the wire, which NVA mortars seemed to have zeroed in on, to 881A which had never been mortared during our time on Hill 88IS. Then, we waited...and waited.

In mid-aftemoon a shot was heard west of the western gate of our position. A lookout said a Marine had gone down the trail to relieve himself and never returned. The platoon sergeant sent the squad leader to investigate. As soon at the squad leader reached the end of the gate path, he came under NVA machine gun fire. He hauled butt back and reported that he had seen the Marine's dead body.

The platoon leader informed me and I told him to make a serious attempt to recover the body, but not to over-invest troops in the effort.

I suggested that he use strong machine gun suppressing fires over on the suspected NVA emplacement and that troops in the trench line toss grenades over the wire on the right side of the path. I also suggested he use the CS tear gas projectile launcher to cover the effort.

About 20 minutes after the shot had been heard, the platoon leader launched his recovery effort. The tear gas canister was set off, covering a football-field area to the west of the position. Simultaneously, our machine guns laid into the NVA emplacement area, baseball grenades were tossed over the wire, and the gas-masked rescue team ran down the path under the guns. They could not find the body and, as the gas was thinning and enemy fire increased, they ran back up the path into the trench. At the same time, the NVA were lobbing grenades up to the trench line, some landing in the trench, giving us St. Vitus' Dance.

By that time, I arrived at the gate path from our main position. I ordered that smoke be thrown to the right and to the front beyond the gate area. I then ran at a crouch down the path and crawled off to the right, but I could not reach the body. 1 thought I saw it about three to five yards further to the right, but a heavy fusillade of AK-47 fire began digging up the ground around me. I quickly slid back onto the

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path, whose lip gave me some protection from the murderous fire, before 1 regained the trench at the top of the path.

Through that effort, 1 determined that NVA soldiers were dug into spider holes just outside our northern wire and that they had a tunneled-in machine gun to our front. Just to punctuate my suspicions, Mr. Charles dropped mortar rounds all over the area to the west of the mount and a few on top of us on the mount. 1 informed my battalion commander of what had transpired so far, what I intended to do, and asked if he had any further instructions or advice. I asked for suppressing fires on the NVA mortars. Having been his headquarters commandant when he commanded 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, the so-called "Naval Academy Battalion," I fully understood when he said, "They're all yours, Blackie! And we'll see to some gunships for the mortars."

Orders then came via the Battalion OPS to prepare for lift out. I asked for any possible delay, to which the S-3 replied he'd try but didn't expect it would happen. I reversed the LZ to the eastern end again and got everyone headed in that direction. The 1st Platoon left a section behind to try once more to recover their fallen comrade. It was now late in the day and the sun was falling.

As the retrieval group prepared and the CS was launched, the regimental commander, flying around somewhere in a chopper, came up on my company net and laid into me for not being ready to lift out. I told the platoon sergeant to get on with the attempt. As that transpired, I informed the regimental CO of the situation and that we would be disengaging momentarily while the main body was preparing for and being heli-lifted. He said—in words of one syllable—to get on the choppers and forget about everything else.

That attempt also failed, so I ordered everyone to the eastern LZ and onto the two CH-46 Sea Knights that kept ferrying the company to our new position, chosen to refuse the left flank and rear of the mountaintop at Hill 689. In the meantime, two Marine Huey gunships came up to suppress the mortar fires from the reverse slopes of Hill 881N, as the pilots could see the flash of the tubes in the failing light of dusk.

Chopper loads left just my radioman and me to lift out, but with mortar rounds now landing on top of the main eastern position, the CH-46 pilots wanted to wait until the Hueys had done their worst, leaving the two of us alone a lot longer than expected. Now it was dark. I was going to have to use my penlight on narrow beam to guide in the chopper. It was a case of Murphy's Law run amok.

One Huey pilot came up on our net and said he was coming in. We did not know what to expect. When he came down, the door gunners instmcted the radioman and me to straddle opposite skids of the helicopter and hang onto whatever—but not the rocket pods! The pilot then lifted us over to the next ridge, which was open and clear of any enemy fire. As he landed, he instmcted the CH-46 pilot to pick us up immediately.

1 next found myself on the southeast ridge off Hill 689 outside the wire in the dead of night, setting up defensive positions on the military crest of the ridge and its nose, and digging in. 1 ordered a radarguided strike on my old position at Hill 881S to keep the NVA off. A flight of A-6 Intruders silently dropped its lethal load that demolished the eastern part of our former position. All of a sudden, that mountaintop lit up, then we heard the explosions, but cannot recall ever hearing the jets that put the load exactly on target.

The 1st Battalion was alone on the westernmost position of the now empty Khe Sanh complex, well within the NVA gunners' range from their batteries dug into the Co Roc massif in Laos. Why they never fired on Hill 689 is one of the great, unanswered questions.

That night, two probes were made against Bravo's position, which resulted in a major outbound grenade-tossing contest that we won!

Charlie Company had taken up positions within the wire, bolstering the severely depleted Delta Company. Alpha Company had sneaked into positions on the ridge line northwest of Hill 689 and was refusing the right flank and rear. Alpha was on the high ground overlook-

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ing the killing zone where the bodies lay, now severely bloated by the searing Vietnamese sun.

The next day, I had Bravo Company dig fighting holes for daytime use and ordered my men to stay away from the night positions. I also ensured that the 60-mm mortars were dug in deeper than normal.

They were within a major gunpit that already existed. The original upper pit was ringed with tall grass as well, which would help hide the muzzle flash. With the base-plates some eight feet down in the lower pit, plus the two feet of grass above the surface, we could fire all night without the enemy pinpointing the source.

Our 200-meter-long, U-shaped position was fairly secure, as the sides dropped off pretty steeply from the military crest. It was 25 meters across at its widest, narrowing to 15 meters where the 106mm recoilless rifle was concealed. The 106 covered the top of the ridge and could lay down beehive flechette rounds about two feet off the deck to stop any massed assault in its tracks. Its back blast alone would create a "fog of war" that would confuse any assault force. I had the platoons place their "bloop guns" (M-79 40-mm grenade launchers) in deep fighting holes between the 106 and the wire so their 400-meter range could cover all approaches to our position on the ridge. The machine guns supported the platoons in the traditional way along the lines of the military crest perimeter.

Thankfully, the second night passed without incident. It allowed us to get ready for the fight and improve our positions. The third night we were hit, and hit hard.

A human wave assault came across the ravine to the southwest and hit the main position, piercing the wire and flowing to the right and left as they got through the wire. Ten "bo doi" (NVA infantry) would overwhelm a previously pinpointed open-top bunker and stuff themselves in it. Their efforts to cross the crest of the mountaintop were repulsed by Marines in interior positions. A sizeable NVA unit simultaneously attempted to get onto the ridgeline to the northwest and unsuspectingly ran into the guns and grenades of Alpha company, impaling themselves nicely. Alpha company then crossed into the

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main position and counter-attacked down the trench line from the north, decimating the invaders by grenading the overstuffed bunkers on the trench line.

Now it was Bravo's turn. A major force assaulted up the ridgeline as if Bravo were not there. It appeared that this NVA unit thought it could get to the wire without encountering any Marines. When the enemy came up the nose and hit the point of Bravo's lines, the ensuing hand grenades, mortars on charge zero, and 40-mm grenades stopped them in their tracks. We did not allow any M-16s or M-60 machine guns to fire in order to conceal their positions until absolutely needed.

The NVA dropped back, dragging bodies and weapons with it. A few minutes later, B-40 rockets could be seen flying over the top of Bravo's mortar pit. The NVA were sighting in on the air space above the grass where they could see the glow of the mortar's tail as it rose.

The NVA regrouped and came again. Again, grenades and mortars flew at them. Again, they were stopped cold. Again, B-40 rockets flew over the mortar pit. Again, they dropped back, dragging as much of their dead and wounded as they could. We watched through binoculars as they dropped off the nose out of sight for a while before they attempted a third assault. The scout-snipers with Starlight scopes warned that they were now in two columns trying to sneak-along just below the military crest of each side of the ridge. When they got close enough, Bravo let fly with grenades and machine guns. Again, they dropped back.

As I hunkered down in my fighting hole near my radiomen, I felt a peculiar and total calm come over me that probably meant I had subconsciously prepared to die in that battle. I had never felt that before, not even at the height of the fighting in the Battie of Hue. We did not get any rest that night, but at that point it was all over. No more attempts were made to take our position.

The next morning when I went up onto the main position, I ran into Marines in tears for the hell they had undergone and the buddies they lost. It took me 20 minutes to get to the battalion command post.

I ordered everyone to the astern LZ and onto the two CH-46 Sea Knights that kept ferrying the company to our new position...

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instead of tiie usual few minutes. After checking in, I made the rounds of the mountaintop, looking for my buddies and surveying the carnage. NVA "bo doi" lay in heaps in the wire, in the bunkers on the perimeter, and in the forward trench line where they were stopped dead.

That day, the skipper began a major close air support effort to dislodge any NVA in spider holes or possible nearby caverns and the heavy machine gun position across from Hill 689. All of a sudden, a beautiful twin-tail aircraft with a quiet, but powerful, engine appeared overhead and began using rockets and guns from twin pods underneath its fuselage to mark targets. It would fly down the path it wanted the F-4 Phantoms to take, let fly a marking rocket, turn on a dime and fly right back up the same flight path it came down, climbing underneath the diving jets. As the observation plane and jets crossed, the snakes and napes could be seen straddling the littie plane on their way to the target.

It was the most awesome sight. I felt like Bruno Stockel in The Blue Max looking up from the shell crater ofi" a World War I trench at biplanes dueling in the cloudless blue sky above. It was the very first appearance of the OV-lOA Bronco in combat in Vietnam. Today, all of those Bronco squadrons are as silent as the dead from Khe Sanh.

Two days later, the skipper laid out the final solution—a box of steel. Machine guns would lay down fire on either side of the killing zone while mortars, zero charge, would fire onto the end of the box, and the 106 would fire into the NVA machine gun area. Two-man teams would recover each Marine body with fire support from two-man fire teams. When the Bronco showed up to do its thing, all 1st Battalion elements were in place and "Mad Moment" took place. Within 30 minutes of thefirstround being fired, all the Marine bodies had been recovered. Later, a Force Recon unit recovered the body on Hill 88IS. With that action, "The End of The Line" was officially closed. The 1st Battalion lifted out for Vandegrift Combat Base (formerly LZ Smd) to transfer to its "new" position—Nui Con Thien—where it had been "in the barrel" just prior to Christmas 1967, when 1,000 rounds incoming daily was the routine. But that's a story for another day. J. Robert Black '63 commanded the understrength rifle company of this story, among other positions assigned during the four campaign periods of his tour in Vietnam with the 1st Marines. For his gallantry on Hills 88IS and 689, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal. He revisited Khe Sanh and Lang Vei in March 1999 with Military Historical Tours.

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t the end of March 1950, the 7th Marines were ordered from Reserve assembly areas near Chunchon to be attached to the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division. At the same time my battalion, 3rd Battalion 11th Marines (105-mm field artillery), also were ordered to report to the 1st Cavalry Division Artillery, where we were direct support of the 7th Marines. The 7th Marines would have the zone on the left flank of the 1st Cavalry to the west of the Pukhan River. On their left flank was the 6th Republic of Korea (ROK) Army Division. On the east of the Pukhan was the zone of action of a ROK Army regiment.

Colonel Homer Litzenberg, commanding the 7th Marines, was very concerned about these units on his flanks and the fordable Pukhan River that separated his regiment from the Main Supply Route (MSR).

Colonel Litzenberg had recent experience with open flanks and tenuous supply routes at the Chosin Reservoir battle. At Chosin, his regiment, along with the 5th Marines and three of the four artillery battalions of our division, had to fight their way back out of Yudam-ni, and rescue and consolidate the forces of the 1st Marine Division.

To add to his concern, the Pukhan River flowed south from the Hwachon Reservoir dam which was in Chinese Communist Forces control. There was the threat that the Chinese would open the flood gates of the dam timed with their anticipated spring offensive.

My crossing of the river on reconnaissance was just up to the floorboards of my jeep. Litz had established his command post across the river behind a high hill mass with the front lines just forward of the hill. My reconnaissance party found that the only possible artillery position was close behind the infantry command post with the high hill effectively masking all but high-angle fire to support the front lines. Also, the threat of the river flooding meant we could be stuck only with the ammunition we could carry in our battery prime movers.

I decided to use positions on the east side of the river where we could render good support of the front lines, and have access to the main supply route for our ammunition. I found the 7th Executive Officer Lieutenant Colonel Ray Davis (Medal of Honor winner at Chosin, future Assistant CMC), and told him my decision. Ray agreed with my plan, and I proceeded to have my battalion occupy its positions on the east side. In the evening, Litz asked Ray where the artillery was, and when told, he hit the roof and sent for me immediately.

Colonel Litzenberg was known as "Old Grand Dad," both for his white hair and for his supply of bourbon that fortified his spirits in the evenings. By the time I arrived he had about two belts and was ready to give me a reaming.

His great concern was the possible flood cutting ofi'the regiment, and he wanted his artillery support over there with him. I tried to explain the artillery gunnery problems that positions on the west side of the river presented, and the possibility of being stranded without ammo, plus my intention to cross as soon as the front lines advanced to where we could cover them. He would have none of it, and ordered 3/11 across the river at first light.

I highly respected Colonel Litzenberg, having served with him in the 4th Marine Division during World War II, and at Yudam-ni at the Chosin. Also, 3/11 traditionally was the artillery support for the 7th Marines in Korea, and I wanted no problems in that relationship.

Therefore, I did not want any trouble to develop with this very capable senior colonel. Despite the fact that at the time I was under the command of the 1st Cavalry Division Artillery, I responded with a hearty "Aye, aye, sir."

Back at my command post, I had a call from division artillery asking if I needed any help in the situation. I told the Army brigadier general that we had worked out the problem "between us Marines," and received his permission to displace across the river.

At first light we displaced, registered with high angle fire, and started hauling in ammunition. Over the next few days my service battery hauled 8,500 rounds of 105-mm ammunition across the river and we established a sizeable dump. Meanwhile the 1st Marine Division relieved the 1st Cavalry, and we reverted to our normal commands. The division engineer battalion put in a pontoon bridge, and we were ready for the flood.

After the Navy bombed the dam (Shipmate, June 2000, p. 12), the river rose and ran swift for a few days, and then returned to normal.

We attacked and moved forward about eight miles toward the "Iron Triangle" when the Chinese spring offensive was unleashed. They pushed through the 6th ROK Division on the left, causing an open flank. The three 105 battalions of the 11th Marines used up what had been my 8,500 round ammo dump while covering the open flank and supporting the Marine infantry as they recoiled.

I had a tough situation presented by a senior I respected, and solved it through diplomacy. Artillery commanders position their guns where they can best support their mission. This time the mission turned out to be making the infantry boss happy in case of a flood. This situation was later written into a problem at the Amphibious Warfare School, and I'm told that my selection of position was given as the school solution, illustrating that the artillery commander is responsible for selecting the best position for carrying out his mission of supportingfires.-L LtCol William McReynolds '41 served as an artillery battalion S-3 and Exec, in the 14th Marines at Kwajalien, Saipan, and Tinian, as the 14th Marines intelligence officer at Iwo Jima. He commanded the 4th Bn, 11th Marines at Inchon, Seoul, and the Chosin Reservoir. He then commanded the 3rd Bn, 11th Marines in the east-central front batties during the winter, spring, and summer campaigns of 1951.

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f Don Watson had not gotten lost, I never would have gotten back to Mog Mog. And if Dick Van Orden had not wondered what Mog Mog looks like today (Shipmate, March 2000, p. 32), chances are I never would have gotten around to writing about it.

About a dozen years ago, I was a lecturer on SOCIETY EXPLORER. Our little ship had eased up close to the sandy shore of uninhabited Mangejang Island in Ulithi Lagoon, and put us ashore in Zodiacs for a delightful twilight picnic on the beach.

Like me, Don was a nut about looking for World War II relics on each of the islands we touched as we cruised the Pacific from Fiji to Korea. After stuffing ourselves, most of us stretched out on the sand to chat and watch the beautiful sunset. But Don had wandered off exploring and it was not until we got back to EXPLORER that we missed him. His buddysystem tag had not been turned from red to yellow, so he was still ashore. The staff, crew, and all able-bodied passengers grabbed flashlights, canteens and first-aid kits and jumped into the Zodiacs for a three-minute race back to shore.

A recent hurricane had downed most of the trees on the mile-long island, making an almost-impenetrable jungle through which we 20

fought our way in the dark with only our flashlights and the ship's searchlights turned shoreward to orient us.

After an hour or two, our flashlights growing ever dimmer, we gathered the searchers together on the beach. All agreed that it was futile to look longer in the darkness; we should resume at first light. We feared the worst—that Don had had a heart attack and could not answer our calls.

Happily, our first sweep across the island the next morning brought an answering call from Don who had spent the night in a hole into which he had fallen. So the story had a happy ending except for the cruising-hours we had lost searching and waiting for dawn.

Despite the relaxed informality of life on the ship, we were on a tight schedule.

We could not possibly get to Yap as planned so the captain and staff decided to try for Mog Mog after a little urging from the two of us who had been there during the Pacific War. JOSEPH E . CONNOLLY ( D E - 4 5 0 ) , the

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stroyer escort on which I was recognition officer, had sailed into Ulithi Lagoon during the Central Pacific drive. Admiral Van Orden described it well as, momentarily, the world's largest naval facility. Looking at the huge, empty lagoon again I had a hard time remembering it filled with hundreds of warships—

so many it seemed that one could walk from shore to shore across their decks. Thinking of Mog Mog also brought memories of sailors standing shoulder to shoulder, drinking warm beer, singing, playing in the surf—a moment's respite from the tensions of wartime shipboard life and the uncertainties of battles to come.

I remembered visiting the grave of a native princess who had been killed accidentally by a shell from one of our ships. Those memories flashed through my mind as we neared the beach in our Zodiacs—a far cry from the LCVP on which I had come ashore more than 40 years before.

Several island chiefs had come onboard EXPLORER to make arrangements for us to visit. We did not need passports, but we were always careful to ask permission before landing. An excited group of islanders awaited us on the beach—littie naked children, boys and men wearing bright-colored wraparound loin cloths, girls and women topless in striped skirts of woven banana or hibiscus fiber. The children greeted us in English—some shy, the less shy asking our names and how old we were, telling us theirs and taking our hands.

Admiral Van Orden mentioned problems of dispensing beer equitably—four cans to each man. Outstanding in my memory were Shipmate, November 2000

huge mounds of beer cans—thousands of them—and a bulldozer that was used to push tiiem out into tiie sea. Made of iron in those days, they quickly disintegrated. There was not a can in sight when our Zodiacs landed us on the beach, but close to the water's edge was an old bulldozer, rusting into the sand— it had to be the same one!

Life is uncomplicated on Mog Mog today.

The several hundred islanders live in open houses, siuTounded by flowers. Some dwellings have roofs of coconut fronds, others are of galvanized iron. The abundant coconut trees are their staff of life, providing building material, food, water (from the milk), and copra, dried from the meat and sold for making cosmetics. Tuba, a potent drink, is made from the living flowers.

The men fish, the women prepare food and weave their beautiful striped skirts on primitive wooden looms. The youngsters go to school or are taught by their elders.

One of the chiefs asked several of the young men to be our guides, dividing the 50odd passengers into groups for a walking tour of the mile-long island. Our guide was Linus Schomar, a good-looking young man of about 20. As we strolled along with him we could see occasional remnants from the war—a hospital bed, unused beneath a coconut tree, metal powder canisters from 16-inch naval guns catching rainwater from a metal roof, a cowling from an airplane. We even found a Japanese sniper's shield which was given to me.

Men were relaxing in the men's house, which Linus told us was built on the foundation slab of the old officers' club. Women were weaving. A highlight of our visit for one of them was the gift of a polaroid photograph of herself at work, the first she had ever seen.

Linus took us by his home to meet his mother, Elly, and his father, Peter. On the wall of their home was a small wooden plaque with a picture of Frosty the Snowman and a message, "Merry Christmas." I wondered if some homesick sailor had brought it to this isolated, snowless spot.

Peter is a carpenter. He pointed out several houses he had built nearby. Prefab material such as plywood is used extensively today, despite its high cost.

As we were leaving to return to our ship I asked Linus about the princess who had been killed. He brightened immediately and told me that she was Princess Kalara, sister of his grandmother. He led us to her welltended grave beneath a huge slab of limestone. As I looked past her grave at the ship waiting to take us on our way, I thought of the strange quirk of fate that had brought me to this lovely Pacific isle once more, to see things I never expected to see again. And I thank Dick Van Orden for stimulating me to tell you about them, -t .Shinmate. November 2000

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ay back before moon shots, astronauts, vertical assembly buildings, and even SPUTNIK, there was a quiet Uttle airfield a few miles down the beach from Cape Canaveral, where now stands big and bustiing Patrick Air Force Base. It was called Naval Air Station Banana River, and it belonged to the Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATra) way up in Jacksonville, FL. One of its principal purposes was PBM advanced training, using the Indian River and its related waterways. Another was the support of carrier aircraft squadrons training for deployment, including towing air-to-air gunnery target sleeves for them.

And, apparently, one of its subordinate purposes was entertaining the station's skipper and his visiting friends...using his operations department's diverse collection of aircraft.

World War II ended on 14 August 1945; the same day, my wife and my mother pinned my gold naval aviator wings on me. I was due to get my advanced training and deploy to fly operational missions in PBMs somewhere in a world not at war! Thrill! But that also meant sea duty and leaving my bride of two years for who knows how long.

The thrill was dimming.

Then, Lady Luck smiled at me.

Passing casually by the students' bulletin board, I saw a notice: "Volunteers wanted for a three-month tour as a utility pilot at NAS Banana River, Florida. Upon completion of tour, they will proceed to planned advanced training assignments."

Aha! A potential three-month reprieve from separation anxiety... to be spent enjoying off-duty hours in the sun and sand of an Atiantic Coast beach. I signed up and was accepted. In Jacksonville, CNATra pulled my student's 3" x 5" card, noted a three-month advanced training delay on it, and cut my orders to proceed and report immediately to Commanding Officer, NAS Banana River for duty.

Nobody was ever to see that card again, although we didn't know that then.

Lady Luck was chuckling.

My bride and I went to Banana River and I was assigned as assistant operations officer, reporting to Coast Guard Commander Bill Lawrence. I also had collateral duties as officer in charge of the crash crew, and as a utility pilot. I got the crash crew organized and 1 delighted in leading the crash and rescue vehicles down the runway on our weekly drills, careening along on my G.I. Cushman scooter that would go from 0 to 45 mph in about four seconds! Thank the good Lord, we never had a serious crash while I was in that billet... but we were ready.

But what made the assignment "the best" was the utility pilot work.

There were half a dozen of us, one of whom was a rare AP 1/C (aviation pilot first class). We had one or two aircraft each of many widely

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different types. Our inventory included an ambulance Piper Cub (AE), a four-seat Howard (GH-2) and a couple of six-passenger JRB/ SNBs, plus a couple of PBY-5A amphibians. We also had an F4F, an F6F, an F8F, aTBM, an FG-ID, and two B-26s.

The procedure to fly those vastly different planes.. .none of which were anything Hke what I'd flown in flight training...went something like this: • Study the pilot's handbook. Not read it; absorb it! Then do it again, listing questions.

• Sit in cockpit with handbook, find and touch all switches, controls, knobs, buttons.

• Get a checked-out utility pilot to take you on a familiarization ride.. .or if it was a single seater, get him to give you a detailed walkand talk-through, pointing out its idiosyncrasies that aren't in the handbook. Either way, get your questions answered.

• Go fly it; praying a lot and practicing all emergency procedures at 5,000 feet to give you time to fix an error or two.

Was that fun! Was that great to get paid for playing with all of those Navy-supplied toys!

The non-working hours were great too.. .almost idyllic. We'd found a studio apartment (meaning the living room couch unfolded to be made up into our bed every night) which we figured we could handle for only three months. It was over a restaurant, the Cafe Montmarte, just south of the center of Melbourne on Dixie Highway, next to a little bridge over an inlet from which we fished to catch snook. Good food, too...although we did get very tired of the odors of French onion soup and beef bourguignonne, which permeated our nest 24/7.

We had been at Banana River almost six months before we realized it. We figured that Jacksonville just had not yet gotten around to moving me back into the training cycle, but surely would soon. We began anxiously looking for orders to advanced training.. .first every week, then every other week...

Lady Luck was busy answering other customers' calls. In the meantime, the utility pilot duties proved interesting.

It was well known when I came aboard that the skipper liked to take his friends on junkets to nearby offshore resort islands. Bimini was a favorite, but I never pulled that duty. However, I did get to fly the captain down to NAS Ft. Lauderdale in our best VIP transport, where he had arranged for a station car to take us to where a French aircraft carrier was visiting. His buddy, the French carrier's skipper, hosted us for lunch.

The French Navy thinks the U.S. Navy is silly about rules against alcohol on board, so they served a pre-luncheon martini and French wines with each course of the meal. Being the designated airplane Continued on page 26

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Continued from page 24 driver, I knew I had to decline the wines, but under my skipper's urging (to be polite to our hosts) I accepted the pre-prandial martini.

Lesson learned: don't accept a martini at a French naval mess, unless you like your martinis made in a three-to-one ratio, with the vermouth being the three!

A few weeks later, I received a call telling me that the skipper was sending down one of his buddies to be flown to Orlando, and he had to be there by noon or so. Oi veh! It was a busy day. Commander Lawrence was away, all the other utility pilots were out on missions all morning. Only one of our planes with a passenger or crew seat was available to fly, and it was the TBM torpedo bomber.. .a big single engine plane with a gunner's station aft of the cockpit. Problem was, I had not yet checked out in it.

I discussed the problem with the exec, who recommended that, if I liked favorable fitness reports, I'd better be checked out and ready by about 11:00 a.m. when he was sending the captain down. That gave me about two hours, which was just enough time to review the pilot's handbook, and get familiar with the cockpit. But there was no time for a test flight...nor were any of the other utility pilots around to brief me on what the handbook didn't cover.

After I studied the handbook, I got into the cockpit and "dry ran" the flight. I powered up, checked the mags and gauges, then secured the aircraft and waited nervously. When my passenger arrived, he seemed friendly enough. Of course, I acted as relaxed as I could while praying that he would not ask how much TBM time I'd had!

All went well until we were at 4,000 feet headed west, ETA in 15 minutes. I wanted to check the landing procedures in the handbook (my passenger couldn't see my lap), so I decided to go on autopilot.

The handbook said to line up the indices using the knob next to the artificial horizon. I did so, clutched in the auto pilot, and whoops!... we got about one-fourth of the way into a snap roll before I could get it unclutched and back to level flight!

"What the hell was that?" yelled my passenger in my earphones.

"Sorry, sir. A little clear air turbulence," I bravely quavered. "Not unusual over Florida in hot weather."

Silence...Thank goodness.

I found out later that when lining up the indices, one must ensure that both indicators move in the same direction when the knob is turned. If they move in opposite directions, the autopilot is 180 degrees out of phase in attitude, and it will try to turn the plane onto its back when clutched in.

When we arrived in the traffic pattern at Orlando, I prepared to put the flaps and gear down. Every plane I had flown in my lengthy (yeah, right!) flying career had tended to get a bit nose heavy when the flaps and gear went down. So I'd learned to anticipate that with a little back (nose up) tab.

What I did not know, nor did the handbook tell me, was that a torpedo bomber is an exception to the rule. When making a torpedo attack, you fly only a few feet off the water, with flaps down to slow down, which makes it less likely that the torpedo will porpoise or tumble when it enters the water. So a TBM is designed automatically to nose up a bit when flaps are dropped, to lessen the chance that its busy pilot will lose any altitude and fly into the water Makes sense... but I didn't know it, so I blithely added more nose up trim tab!

There we were, at 800 feet, turning base, with a few degrees of back tab rolled in, and I dropped the gear and flaps. It was good that I was then young and reasonably strong, because I was just able to

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force the stick forward and hold it there with my right hand while frantically getting rid of that extra nose up tab setting with my left hand. A scary five or ten seconds, but we got through it without my four-striped passenger even aware of how close we came to a more sudden landing than would have been healthy.

Lesson learned from that whole TBM experience: Better a poor fitness report than a good obituary.

My bride and I had been living in Melbourne a little over a year, with no sign of action from CNATra. We figured that we were lucky we were still at Banana River, but really, I had better do something about it soon. We said the same thing the next month, and the next... and next...

Lady Luck winked at us and we winked back. Life here was too great to seek change.

Finally, when I had been at Banana River almost 18 months, I realized that I could not retire there, and that / might get blamed for not blowing a whistle after the first six or nine months. So, to get on with my Navy career, I decided to bite the bullet and take the initiative.

I jumped into one of our available planes, flew to CNATra headquarters in Jacksonville and told my story to half a dozen yeomen and officers, each of whom passed me up to his boss. I ended up in the office of Commander "Slick" Steams, who fortunately had the authority and the guts to face up to the problem. He admitted that their system had failed and they literally had lost me. My card had disappeared, but my August '45 orders were valid, and Commander Steams concurred I had been due to return to advanced training at the end of 1945.

He told me he and AirLant would give me advanced training in any CNATra aircraft-type I chose, followed by orders to whatever operational squadron I wanted, in return for my solemn promise not to tell anyone how CNATra had "lost" me for more than a year. Naturally I chose PBM Advanced Training at Banana River, and my instractor buddies told me what the best seaplane squadron duty was: VPMS4 at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. We had huge quarters at the sub base, great flying around the Caribbean, including a search and rescue detachment at NAS Guantanamo Bay. We had tropical working hours, 7:00 a.m.-l:00 p.m., and golf for next to nothing at the nearby Army base.

Lady Luck laughed out loud, and we with her We got to the Zone in less than six months and left two years later for postgraduate school, with a baby, alligator shoes and handbags, and wonderful memories of both Panama and Banana River. SUck Steams kept his word, and I kept mine. This story could not be told for 50-odd years because I had made a promise to protect Slick Steams and his staff. But now it can be told, because I am positive that all the potentially vulnerable are now safely separated, or among the venerably deceased.

Many thanks. Lady Luck...and also CDR Slick Stearns and his CNATra staff. ^L George D. Prestwich '44, was editor-in-chief of the 1944 Lucky Bag and graduated at the head of his class in June 1943. He received a master of science degree in nuclear physics from M.I.T. in 1952, and created and taught ComAirPac's nuclear weapons delivery course at the Special Weapons Unit, Pacific. He left active duty in 1955, and worked for General Electric for 13 years.

He then joined RCA, becoming president, RCA Service Company in 1981 and then chief quality executive of tiie RCA Corporation in 1985, before retiring late in 1986.

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As the Ring Bank coordinator for the USNA Alumni Association, I have seen more than my share of lost rings. At this time, we have more than 200 reported missing rings listed on our Web site. Each time a ring is found, it's a treasure hunt to match a ring to its original owner This story is an example of the procedure working perfectly, with a wonderful ending!

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suggest that the Class look into purchasing the ring from Class funds and then we can attempt to find the owner afterward.

Unfortunately, time is a factor when dealing with pawn shops.

The Class of 1988 recently rescued a ring from a pawn shop, and if you have any questions, I'm sure that Class President Kennon Artis '88 would be happy to give his input. Likewise, I am more than happy to help in any way possible.' ' The Class officers got to work immediately, sent the email out to the Class and the replies started coming in. Many were of a similar vein, expressing hope and doubt that the found ring could be theirs, telling of losses spanning the globe.

Meanwhile, Gerry Schaefer, the Listmaster for the Class and Member at Large for the Class Board of Directors, just happened to be in a line of work that could be helpful. He works for MDE Engineers Inc., Seattle, WA, an engineering company that "provides expertise in accident investigation and reconstruction, fire investigation, equipment failures, and product liability issues, as well as design projects."

He offered his assistance with this explanation: * * When information has been engraved in metal, the underlying metal is cold worked. The change in the metal structure can often be exposed with surface preparation and chemical etching of the type used for metallurgical analysis. I have seen this successfully done with engine blocks which had their vin derivatives removed by grinding and have seen it discussed for other purposes. If the owner doesn't come forward, I will donate the time/effort/laboratory to attempt to read the engraving on this ring , ^ Almost a week passed and although we had almost 20 rings reported lost, the owner had not been located. The Class and its officers were very interested in getting the ring back, offering time, money.

On 17 June 2000, I received an email from Lieutenant Andrea D ' ^ b r a '93: Description: Class of '89 (men's) gold ring. Platinum or white gold plug with eight small diamonds surrounding a onecarat white sapphire-like stone. Two five-point emerald dividers. Name rubbed out.

Where: Saw the ring at Superior Pawn and Gun, 4859 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Virginia Beach, VA 23462. Phone 757490-4760.1 suppose that some down-on-their-luck grad could have pawned it, but it seems unlikely. Would have bought it to return, but didn't have the $900 they were asking. Please contact me if I can help its rightful owner.' ' I sent an email to the 1989 Class officers: I am sending this to all Class officers (and the Webmaster) listed on your Class Web site, if you have personal emails for each other, you might want to send this along to get things expedited. Many thanks for your cooperation!

A 1989 Class ring has been found in a pawn shop in Virginia Beach, but the name has been scratched out. More than likely, the ring was found or stolen and then pawned, rather than the owner pawning it. Because of the high likelihood that the ring is stolen, the original owner may have the paperwork to prove the theft and would be able to get his ring back through the police. Since this may be the case, the easiest course of action would be for us to locate the original owner and that person could take over from there.

I am suggesting that this email be sent to everyone in the Class (who has email) and have it posted on your Web site. If the person turns up (the ring sounds pretty unique and I think a match would be pretty 4i for years I could never fully comprehend the meaning behind the obvious—even without a name engraved), I will give them the info and they can take it plebe rate 'take care of your class/shipmate' until I looked at my from there. post-Academy career and then realized the numerous times when If the owner does not show up in a short amount of time (a week, maybe?), I would Alumni were 'watching my back.'

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Ethnic Conflict: Part One

Peace Support Define

By Lieutenant Commander George S. Capen '89, U.S. Navy

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s the Soviet Union dissolved at the end of the 20th Centiu'y, the constant threat of a third world war that loomed for over half a century seemed to pass into history. The forces of democracy and the power of the big stick brought a peace dividend to the United States. Then, within the blink of an historical eye, U.S. forces became engaged in a variety of campaigns of a broad social nature such as peacekeeping, maintaining intemal stability, protecting humanitarian aid missions, etc. in Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor and in many others to a varied extent. The last decade of the previous century saw U.S. miUtary forces busier than at any time in the nation's history. In the absence of a potential global conflict, a ferocious menagerie of ethnic conflicts took center stage.

Ethnic conflict itself is not new in warfare. As long as recorded history, peoples of different cultures, beliefs and various ethno-bonds have sought to advantage themselves over an enemy. The seeds of these conflicts often grow for centuries before a "thrasher" emerges with a vengeance intent on cutting down the field. In the 1990s a large number of these conflicts climaxed in fighting and many are still ongoing with more on the brink of catastrophe. There is no doubt that militaries can intervene to limit bloodshed and there is little argument that genocide and other atrocities often seen in these conflicts are such awful acts as to warrant intervention. For a current index of 275 communal groups, a subset of which represent nearly 60 ethnic conflicts worldwide, the University of Maryland created the Minorities at Risk Project (www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/mar).

Military intervention often begins under the moniker of peacekeeping a subset of peace support (which includes many new terms such as peace enforcement, peacemaking, stability operations, humanitarian aid support, etc). The overarching doctrine prescribing these interventions stems from a belief that there exists a morally imposed international responsibility to promote global stability and security.

As the world becomes more globalized and economically interdependent, this doctrine will become even more salient. Still, there are those who argue that military intervention does not serve national security interests or even result in significant difl'usion of crises. Some even argue that in cases such as Rwanda, where genocide killed several hundred thousand civilians in a few weeks, a military intervention would not have prevented the horrific results. Most experts on the subject agree that political actions provide the best solution. But political action is often indecisive and its effects delayed.

International consensus, tending toward sovereign resolution of intemal disputes, expects militaries to act only after conflict has erupted into an intolerable bloodshed. As reporting becomes more obfuscated by intemal control and deception, and as media access is limited to sympathetic non-govemment organizations, the warning timelines for possible military intervention continue to shrink. In addition to increasing the efforts toward reliable reporting and intelligence, these situations where the international community does demand military action, will call upon the U.S. Marine Corps, an ever more attractive rapid-response force.

As our Navy/Marine forces continue to serve in these conflicts— and at a significantiy higher level of effort than in the past—it is worth a more detailed analysis of the military equities involved in resolving ethnic conflict. This series of articles in Shipmate will look at how ethnic conflict is redefining the roles of our naval forces. Our Marine Corps, in particular, has been actively involved to a large extent in many of the worid's peacekeeping missions and will likely continue to meet the demands of this expanding mission.

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As the light fighting force of the U.S. armed services, the Marine Corps celebrates its 225th birthday this month. Ethnic conflict and peace support missions are not new to the Corps. At the turn of the last century, the Philippine Insurrection (1899) and the Boxer Rebellion (1900) provided bookends to the peace support campaigns in Kosovo (1999) and East Timor (2000). These operations enclose a century marked primarily by large international wars and the Marines' preeminence in amphibious warfare. It is worth noting, however, that peace support has occurred in conjunction with these other large-scale maneuvers and not in isolation. Peacekeeping in Beirut, Lebanon (1982-84), occurred simultaneously with more traditional combat operations in Grenada (1983). Less than a year after the intervention forces of Operation Just Cause were sent to Panama (1989), Marine forces were conducting Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm against Iraq, the largest combat movement of Marines since Worid War II. So, as the Marine Corps studies urban conflict techniques and develops capabilities necessary in peace support missions, there remain many scenarios that require the full combat capability of an integrated amphibious Navy-Marine Corps team. The use of military forces in ethnic conflict resolution deserves careful and detailed study. With a thoughtful understanding of the use of military force, the threats to effective globalization may provide assistance in defining our future efforts. The realities of a peace dividend are yielding to a realization that our dynamic world demands more military capabilities instead of less. The role of our USNA graduates in guiding this process and serving on the front lines is worthy of our attention.

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All Hand Return W i t h Honor n Monday, 13 November, at 9:00 p.m., the Public Broadcasting System and American Experience will present Return With Honor, the story of captured airmen featuring rare film footage from Vietnam's archives. More than 20 veterans—including Jeremiah Denton '47, James Stockdale '47, John McCain '58, and Mike McGrath '62—describe their captivity and their struggle to survive— mentally, physically, and spiritually—and to return with honor. Look for PBS affiliates.

Return With Honor is a testament to the ingenuity and endurance of these extraordinary men. Through riveting first-person accounts, the film describes their sudden transformation from self-confident, top-gun-type aviators into prisoners of war. And it is also the story of the women left behind who for years did not know whether they were wives or widows. Return With Honor is a universal story of honor, love and duty. The video can be purchased through the U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, for $24.00. Call 719-472-0300 for more information.

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Smithsonian Seeks Silver Stories s part of the research process for the upcoming exhibition, "Silver on the High Seas: United States Navy Presentation "Silver Services," the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery invites present and former U.S. Navy personnel who have used "silver services of the wardroom" to share their experiences and memories. The exhibition is scheduled for 2003.

Of interest to the exhibition coordinators is documentation of the use of silver in the wardroom, including photographs, diaries, letters, and invitations and menus from receptions and ceremonies in which these treasures were used.

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"Despite the fact that the custom of commissioning special silver services for Navy ships is more than a century old, it has never been studied as a tradition and a subject in its own right," said Kenneth Trapp, curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery. "With the help of Navy personnel, we intend to examine these one-of-a-kind silver services in the context of American decorative arts, American culture and the United States Navy."

The tradition of presenting silver services began in the 1890s and has continued to the present. Unique silver services are donated on behalf of thousands of American citizens to ships named after their home states or cities. These cruisers, batfleships, destroyers, submarines and aircraft carriers use the silver services in diplomatic receptions, ceremonies and for other formal occasions.

Navy personnel interested in sharing their memories and documentation should contact Sara Desvemine at 202-357-2972 or DesvemS@ nmaa.si.edu.

The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to exhibiting American crafts from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The Renwick is located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW, near the Farragut North (red line) and Farragut West (blue and orange lines) Metrorail stations. Museum hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Admission is free. Public information: 202-3572700; 202-786-2393 (TTY); 202-633-9126 (Spanish). Recorded information: 202-633-8998. Please visit the museum's award-winning Web site: www.AmericanArt.si.edu.

Correction In the October 2000 Shipmate, CDR Margaret Klein was incorrectly listed as Class of 1980. She is a member of the Class of 1981.

Bravo Zulu '55: The Honorable Robert B. Pirie Jr. has been nominated to become Under Secretary of the Navy. '57: Donald J. Lisa has been elected to the board of directors of Global Entertainment Holdings.

'60: Murray C. Nixon was named COO of Music Budda, Inc. '62: CDR Wells B. Doty, USN (Ret.), has earned his doctor of education degree from Clemson University. '64: The Honorable John H. Dalton has become new president of IPG Photonics Corporation. '68: ADM Jay L. Johnson, USN (Ret.), named as senior vice president for Dominion Energy. '70: Larry R. Schear is new president and COO of Ivus. '72: CAPT Robert D. Smith Jr., USNR, is new COO of USA Video Interactive Corporation. '74: CAPT William R. Mason, USN, is new Chief of Staff for U.S. 7th Fleet. RADM James J. Quinn, USN, has assumed command of the Naval Space Command in Dahlgren, VA. '75: Harry A. Lee is COO and director of Champion Sport, Inc. '76: CDR Gilbert W. Rucker, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. LCDR James L. Francis, USNR (Ret), has earned his master's degree in ocean engineering from Virginia Tech. '77: CAPT Mark A. Hugel, USN, became the 100th commanding officer of Norfolk Naval Shipyard. '79: CAPT George H. Baker Jr., USN, has been assigned as an instructor at the Command Leadership School in Newport. CDR Allan P. Kuong, USNR, is a newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve.

'80: CDR Barbara A. Geraghty, USN, assigned as commanding officer of NavComTelSta, Far East. Thomas M. Ryan has been recognized as a certified reliability engineer fulfilling American Society of Quality requirements. '81: CDR Mark E. Donahue, USN, assigned as commanding officer of GUNSTON HALL (LSD-44). '82: CDR Kelly B. Baragar, USN, took command of Fighter Squadron Two at 38

Oceana Naval Air Station. CDR Timothy C. Bertch, USN, assigned as Commanding Officer of HELENA ( S S N - 7 2 5 ) . CDR Michael J. Cortese, USN, assigned as commanding officer of WEST VIRGINIA (Blue) ( S S B N - 7 3 6 ) . CDR Virginia R. Kurtz, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR James R. Low, USN, has taken command of PORTSMOUTH (SSN-707). Kevin W. McGuire named vice president of operations for Brainbench. CDR Kenneth M. Perry, USN assigned as commanding officer of PENNSYLVANIA (Gold) (SSBN-735). CDR Robert L. Rountree Jr., USN, is new commanding officer of the "Knighthawks" of Strike Fighter Squadron 136. CDR Ralph C. Ward Jr., USN, assigned as commanding officer of BUFFALO ( S S N - 7 1 5 ) . '83: CDR Douglas W. Sellers, USN, assigned as commanding officer of VS-32. CDR Gary T. Hobson, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR Joseph E. Tofalo, USN, assigned as commanding officer of MAINE (Gold) (SSBN-741). CDR Michael S. Redman, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR Robert P. Papadakis, USN, assigned as commanding officer of VAQ-133. '84: CDR Robert B. Rabuse, USN, assigned as commanding officer of VS-22. '85: CDR Ashley Y. Laing, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR Gregory F. Becht, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR Michael L. Petouhoff, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. '86: CDR Elizabeth B. Heller, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR James R. McNeal, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve. CDR Matthew C. Hellman, USNR, newly selected commander in U.S. Naval Reserve.

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When along came a sailor, merry as can be and 'E were the start of all my misery.

CHORUS Singing bell bottom trousers and coats of Navy blue.

"E'll climb the riggin' like his daddy used to do.

II 'E asked me for a candle to find his way to bed.

'E asked me for a pillow to lay beneath 'is 'ead.

And me like a silly girl, not fearin' any 'arm.

Crawled into bed just to keep the sailor warm.

CHORUS III Early next momin' afore the break of day A five pound note 'e gave me and these words 'e did say.

Take this m' darlin' to pay for what I've done.

For it may be a daughter, or it may be a son.

If it be a daughter, bounce 'er on your knee.

But if it be a son, send the bastard out to sea.

CHORUS IV Now all ye young maidens, just listen 'ere to me.

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ike Nassr's description of George Hall's exploits in Vietnam is a superb rendition of his fight for survival and sanity under very difficult conditions. What was left unsaid, however, was George's response to those conditions and how he weathered those long years.

I can provide some of that insight because I was a roommate of George's in Hanoi for a couple of years, and I observed his approach to survival under those conditions.

It is necessary to understand that as POWs, the first rule of the game was to focus all our energies in resisting the constant attempts of the enemy to exploit us to their benefit through statements, radio broadcasts, media interviews, etc. But the second obligation was to contribute as much as possible to the mental well-being of our fellow POWs. In those circumstances, it was easy to have bad days, become depressed and question whether you were ever going to see your family again. There was no one better than George in meeting those obligations. He was a standout resistor, he knew when to keep his mouth shut and how to keep himself out of the media circus, but equally important he was a standout in helping others keep up their spirits and hang in there. George always had a smile, a joke, a story to buoy our spirits, and he was a welcome addition to any group of POWs. If you were destined to spend the next year or two in a small sixfoot by seven-foot cell, you could not do any better than draw George Hall as a roommate.

Jim Bell '54, ROWNVN1965-73

Torpedo Failure

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ob Gamble '32's column in the July-August Shipmate, quoted a submarine classmate as blaming inadequate testing by BuOrd for the failures of the Mark 14 torpedo issued submarines at the beginning of World War II, which delayed the effectiveness of our submarine campaign by nearly a year. I do not think there was any inadequate testing of the torpedo itself. The failures came from the too highly secret controls added to the system to provide proximity explosion. Any angled hit merely bounced off the hull, and depth control for under keel detonation simply was not reliable. But, if not properly trimmed for firing, the Mark 14 tended to surface in a long left-hand tum.

In 1928-30 my dad was proof officer of the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport. He was in charge of all testing of the new Mk 14 threespeed torpedo and Mk 18 electric, then being developed for the fleet.

Every torpedo completed in the station shops (their only source then) was given several test firings on an inside range in Narragansett Bay and another series from a working destroyer on an ocean range off Newport. At $25,000 a copy, the warheads were replaced with water loaded dummies that emptied to become a flotation device at the end of the run. They were picked up by following range boats and brought back. If anything went wrong with a shot, that torpedo was minutely examined to find out why, the problem was corrected, and the torpedo was re-tested. Occasionally one sank, which meant that Tom Eadie (awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous salvage diving in recovering the sunken S-4 and S-51) and his crew took a range Continued on page 42 Shipmate, November 2000

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boat and went searching to recover it. I followed these operations with great interest during summer vacations from Sevem, but I never heard of a torpedo being lost altogether.

One aftemoon I was out in the range boat with Tom and crew.

Tom was down on the bottom in his deep diving suit (this was before Scuba) with air pumped down from the boat. Suddenly there came four yanks on his lifeline—"Get me up in a hurry." The hoist went to work and very soon we saw Tom's figure emerging with something huge cradled in his arms. Not a torpedo, what could it be? Tom reached the gunwale and opened his arms to dump into the boat the biggest, maddest lobster we had ever seem. There was near panic in the boat trying to get out of his way and Tom was dropped back below, but the pump operator in the after compartment had stayed on the job. Someone threw a hunk of canvas over the lobster, which pacified him and we went back to the search. Tom found the torpedo, got it up and we went home. That night Tom took the lobster to the seafood cafe on Washington Square where the owner weighed it out at over 25 pounds, bought it for $25, steamed it and gave Tom the meat, then had it stuffed and made the centerpiece of his main window display for many years.

On another day, I wasridingMANNING for outer rangefiring.With one shot left for this Friday afternoon, the skipper was eager to get finished and back to port. But as we came around to the range we saw a big yacht steaming into the restricted range area. The skipper, Julian Timberlake '13, aborted the run and sent a blinker over to the yacht informing him that he was in a prohibited area and please to get out of it so the test firings could continue. There was no answer.

He sent a second message, less polite, but still no answer. Eventually Julian decided that the yacht was well aft on port quarter, he would be firing on the starboard bow, and opted to go ahead with the shot. To our horror that Mk 14 did porpoise into a long left tum headed directly for the yacht. It missed by about 50 yards ahead, whereupon the yacht's bridge became masters of the blinker.

"What the hell are you doing firing torpedos at Me?" "It wouldn't have been near you if you had left the firing range as I requested."

"What is your name and service number? I am the Secretary of the Navy!"

It tmly was Secretary Charles Francis Adams. Fortunately Julian had just been selected for commander, but he retired in that rank.

Roy Smith '34

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As a part of the Caribbean Amphibious Ready Group, she was conducting readiness-training operations with the units of the embarked Marine Battalion Landing Team (BLT) from Camp Pendleton.

That moming, a CH-46 helo had lifted off from the "Swamp Fox" en route to the beach on a logistic support mission. On board were our mail clerk, several transient passengers, a few staff officers, the Marine BLT commander and the commander of PhibRon Four.

Shortly after take-off we were advised on the bridge by our CiC that the helo was experiencing difficulties. As was customary, we were still maintaining visual contact and observed the helo settle gently onto the calm sea surface. I immediately ordered our ready lifeboat, a hardworking and not too presentable LCVP to be lowered and proceed to render assistance.

All went well and the rescue LCVP was able to approach the helo before it sank. The crash survivors had to jump into the sea, swim a few strokes and were easily recovered.

As the LCVP and its soaking wet helo survivors were hoisted up in the Welin davits, they were able to step directly onto the bridge level of the flagship. A smoother rescue could not have been imagined and indeed I was beginning to have visions of commendations or at least a "Bravo Zulu" for the old "Swamp Fox." No one had been injured and the recovery was done in record time.

You can imagine my surprise when the commodore, who was a gruff, salty, ex-UDT type, made the following remark as he stepped aboard and acknowledged my salute. "XO—I can understand why you did not send my gig to pick me up, but at least you could remember to bong me when I come aboard my flagship."

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Navv Athletics

By Scott Straisemeier, Sports Information Director Unbeaten Streak Longest in the Nation he Navy men's soccer team's nine-game unbeaten streak is the longest in the nation according to the latest NCAA statistics. The Mids are 8-0-1 on the season with its only blemish being a 3-3 tie against Davidson on 3 September at Dewey Field. Five teams are tied with a seven-game unbeaten streak.

Team captain Michael Paisant ranks third in the country with an 0.89 assist per game average. Paisant, a native of Norcross, GA, leads the Mids with eight assists and is second on the squad with 14 points.

MIDN Brye Gerhardt is Navy's leading scorer with nine goals and 20 points on the season. Gerhardt is averaging 1.00 goal per game, tied for 17th in the nation.

Keeper Brian Steckroth, who has not allowed a goal in the last 573 minutes of play, ranks eighth in the nation with a 0.44 goals-against-average and has allowed only four goals in 820 minutes this season.

As a team. Navy is sixth nationally with a team goals-against-average of 0.43. Also, the Mids' winning percentage of .944 stands sixth in the country trailing five teams with an undefeated record.

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RifleTeam Wins Athletic Director's Cup he rifle team won the fifth annual Naval Academy Athletic Director's Cup. The cup was started by Jack Lengyel to reward the overall performance of an athletic team in the categories of athletics, academics and leadership.

Therifleteam, under the direction of head coach Bill Kelley, posted a perfect 15-0 record this year and finished fifth at the NCAA Championship and won the MAC championship. George Adams was named First-Team All-America in smallbore, while Adams, Luke Shank and Tran Lam were named Second-Team All-America in air rifle. Bill Tolson was named Honorable Mention All-America in smallbore. Jon ladonisi. Josh Kelley, Shank, Adams and Lam participated in the United States Olympic Trials.

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Navy To Honor Ben Carnevale all of Fame basketball coach Ben Carnevale will be recognized by the Naval Academy Athletic Association at halftime of the 18 November Navy-Wake Forest football game. He also will be honored at the Navy-Rice men's basketball game that evening.

Camevale's storied career began in 1945 when he took over the head coaching reigns at North Carolina, guiding the Tar Heels to a Southem Conference championship with a 25-6 record. He followed up with a 26-5 campaign the next year, dropping the NCAA Tournament championship game to Oklahoma A&M, 43-40.

He left the following season for Annapolis, directing the Midshipmen to an 18-1 record, an NCAA Toumament semifinal appearance and being named the New York Basketball Writers' Coach of the Year Carnevale went on to lead Navy to a 257-160 (.616) record during his 20-year tenure at the Naval Academy. Under his guidance. Navy made six postseason toumament appearances—five in the NCAA Toumament (1947, '53, '54, '59, '60) and one in the NIT (1962).

Carnevale laid the foundation for which Navy men's basketball has carried on today with two-time Patriot League Coach of the Yea Don DeVoe leading the charge.

"Coach Carnevale has always been a giant in the athletic fields," said DeVoe. "He came here after World War II, and built and continued a great Navy tradition. He's been one of the great leaders through-

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out his career—as a player, coach and athletic administrator—as is evident by his induction into several halls of fame."

Carnevale sat on the U.S. Olympic Basketball Committee for 20 years and in 1964 became the chairman of the committee. He was president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1966; a member and former chairman of the NCAA basketball toumament committee; president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics; president of the International Basketball Board; president of the NIT and chairman of the ECAC basketball toumament.

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But it was in 1970 when Carnevale received his highest honor. Navy's all-time winningest coach was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.

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asketball News has named Navy its Patriot League preseason favorite, while MIDN 1/C forward Chris Williams (Savannah, GA) was named the publication's preseason player of the year and MIDN 4/C Mike Higgins (South Jordan, UT) the league's newcomer of the year.

In addition, coaches, sports information directors and members of the media have chosen the Navy men's basketball team as the 20002001 pre-season Patriot League favorite, with Chris Williams selected as the preseason player of the year.

Williams, who has been named the Patriot League Preseason Player of the Year by various ,G ^HI^V publications, returns as Navy's top scorer and IE '^M'f^ rebounder, averaging 15 points and 6.1 caroms a contest. A two-time First-Team All-Patriot League selection, Williams will head a team which returns four of its five starters from last year's 23-6 team. h.

Higgins was a two-time first-team all-state center for Bingham High School. He also garnered USA Today's Honorable Mention All-America recognition as a junior and senior and helped lead Bingham to a combined 42-3 record his final two seasons.

While Williams was named the pre-season player of the year and earned a spot on Basketball News' Preseason First-Team All-Patriot list, MIDN 1/C Robert Reeder (Pasadena, CA) and MIDN 1/C Reggie Skipworth (Chattanooga, TN) landed on the second team. Reeder, Navy's captain, is one of the unsung heroes of the Midshipmen team.

Reeder was Navy's third-leading scorer and rebounder a year ago, posting 7.6 points and 5.9 boards a game. Meanwhile, Skipworth retums to run the point for the Mids. Navy's success in the paint opened things up for Skipworth last season and he scorched the opponents by shooting 46.5% from long range, including 72.7% in Patriot League action.

The Midshipmen open the 2000-2001 season on the road when they travel to Austin, TX, 13 November to face Texas in the pre-season NIT. Action is slated for 8:00 p.m. Eastem at the Frank Erwin Center

Baseball Coach Named

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teve Whitmyer has been named head baseball coach at the Naval Academy.

Whitmyer is a 1983 graduate of Notre Dame where he was a standout baseball player for the Fighting Irish. After graduating from South Bend, he played four seasons in the Cleveland Indians organization.

Whitmyer got his coaching career started in the spring of 1987 at Otterbein in Westerville, OH, and then moved on to Bowling Green where he was an assistant for two

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seasons. Whitmyer was the head baseball coach at Ashland University in Ohio for one year before moving on to Wake Forest where he was an assistant for five seasons. Whitmyer had been an assistant coach at Virginia since 1997.

"I am honored and excited to get the opportunity to coach at the Naval Academy," said Whitmyer. "I am looking forward to working with such high quality student-athletes and I hope to continue on the success the baseball program has had in its great history. It will be a privilege to coach here."

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SEARCHING FOR SILVER TREASURE Research is under way for the exhibition Silver on the High Seas: United States Navy Presentation Silver Services, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery and scheduled to open in 2003. We invite navy personnel who have used silver services of the wardroom to share their experiences and memories with us. We are particularly interested in photographs that show services being used, as well as letters and diaries that describe their use aboard ships.

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A Hockey vs Arizona B Hockey vs Loyola A Hockey vs Villanova

@ Cumberland, MD Dahlgren HaO Dahlgren Hall (autograph nite) Navy Alumni vs Army Alumni Dahlgren HaU A Hockey vs Villanova Dahlgren Hall

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A S Bill wrote: "Thank goodness we were able to sail in better designed submarines!" As the Charleston, SC, paper carried much more than out of state papers, I'll send it on to anyone wishing to have the clipping.

Ted Aylward's Jane phoned for a good long chat. It was good to be reminded of our Classmate and the exploits of this excellent naval officer.

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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.) Bill Anderson wrote from White Rock, SC, enclosing a newspaper account of the raising of HuNLEY. The pictures are excellent. The event was watched by 1,500 people aboard YORKTOWN as well as many of the Battery and other locations along the route in the Cooper

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I received a call with some sad news. Jo Carter, a friend of the McGregors, called to say that Rob Roy McGregor recently passed away. My condolences to the family and the Class of 1929.

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Pres: RADM William O. Snead, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT John A. Moreno, USN (Ret.) 1214 Fifth Street, Coronado, CA92118 h: 619-435-3732 In the July-August issue of Shipmate the email address for Chick Lawver was incorrect.

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Corky and Nona Ward American Heritage History of the United States explains the Cuban Quarantine: Since the abortive invasion attempt at the Bay of Pigs, the Soviet Union had been arming Cuba. The United States took the position that as long as the arms buildup remained defensive, there would be no interference. However, by mid-October of 1962, evidence began to accumulate that the Soviets were installing medium range missiles in Castro's Cuba. Kennedy's response was swift. At the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson presented the photographic documentation of the medium range missile sites and dramatically challenged the Soviet Ambassador to deny it. On the military front, Kennedy put into effect a naval "quarantine" of Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a selective blockade authorized to stop, search and tum back any vessels carrying missiles. On the night of 22 October, Kennedy informed the American public of his stand and the world held its breath. The two superpowers stood like bar-room fighters, "eyeball to eyeball." As a fleet of Communist merchant vessels carrying missiles on their open decks approached Cuban waters, communications between Washington Shipmate, November 2000

and Moscow began to carry messages from the Soviet leadership, at first denying offensive intention in Cuba but finally agreeing to tum back the fleet. Washington made the further demand that the missiles in Cuba be pulled out. With appropriate face-saving language, the Soviets agreed. The crisis was over.

The June Proceedings carried a fine article on the way the Navy is planning to build its new class of carriers. First they argued the merits of nuclear propulsion and every discussion proved the war advantages of nuclear power. Since cost always figures prominently in decision making, a smaller size was proposed. It was shot down for these reasons: use of four catapults; refuel, rearm, reservice at one pit stop; permit higher sortie rates; improved hull protection; and the best reason, a 75-plane ship can deliver twice as many strikes as a 55 plane ship (at an eight percent increase in cost). The CVN-X must be lest costly to operate and large savings will come from a smaller sized crew. The NIMFTZ carriers were designed for 30-year service and one now has stayed at sea 50 years. The new ships will be designed for 50 years.

Willeye Bull called me last August with the bad news that Francie had died. After eight years at sea, he and Francie married and their family ended up with three fine childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Suzanne, Billy and Diane. They both loved golf and played well during the 60 years of their marriage. In the war, Willeye served on SEMMES, first as exec and then as CO. Because of his excellent background in electronics, Francie enjoyed three years basking in the sun out in Hawaii while her husband worked at the Navy Yard. Francie also enjoyed two happy years in Charleston while Willeye commanded the shipyard there. In 1963 they bought their home in McLean, VA, where they have lived for 37 years. Francie did a great deal of trave l i n g ; one trip she p a r t i c u l a r l y e n j o y e d was going around the world in a chartered aircraft, visiting Japan, Hong Kong, India, Dubai, Egypt, Turkey, Israel and England.

Willeye, her many friends and family will greatly miss her.

A short letter from Pat Willard: She has been over to Italy, her favorite destination. She says she came back not feeling so good but now she's back to normal. Marion and I spent ten days there last April and found it interesting but crowded. There are so many steps.

Bob W e e k s sent an interesting story for our column: On 6 January 1941, HMS KING GEORGE V

Catherine and Harry Hull A letter from Harry Hull tells us about a "Navy Night" at the Essex Country Club in Massachusetts. Harry asked the only flag officer in New England, one John Podgett, Commandant of the First Naval District, to come up and tell the locals about the Navy. He brought along two lieutenants and a chief to help him. The country club seating was sold out two days after the announcement. Harry had two old Navy friends invited and no seats!

So he squeezed them in at the head table.

The rear admiral is also commander Submarine (jToup 2 in New London, so his interesting talk included many explanations of the many new roles played by our submarines in the new concepts of underseas warfare. While submarines played a most important part in WWII, he e m p h a s i z e d their increased importance today.

They have several points of interest in the area: A Singing Beach, blessed by Robert Louis Stevenson; the Crane Family Casde Hill; the A n n i s q u a m River and Canal; Wingaersheek Beach; Norman's Woe (wreck of HESPEROUS). Maybe we should have our 70th Reunion up there! Harry sent along a great picture of Katrink and himself, which you see.

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sailed from Annapolis to Scapa Row at 20 knots. We had AA batteries and sailed with no escorts. In the ship were four Americans: two U.S. Army cryptologic officers in civilian capacity, and two Navy officers, LTJG Robert H. Weeks and ENS Prescott Curvier. They carried uniforms, but wore civilian attire.

The group carried with it, for transfer to the U.K. at Bletchley Park, all the information we had on Japanese codes and ciphers and what little then was on German naval radio. The U.K. showed us what they had in the German Enigma cipher and cipher machine. On arrival at Scapa Flow, the Americans with their gear and baggage were transferred to HMS GLOUCESTER, a light cruiser returning for overhaul from duty in the Mediterranean. She would carry us to Gravesend Bay. GLOUCESTER had to steam southeast until passing Duncanby Head and then tum to the south to reach the North Sea swept channel.

We had steamed about one hour when there appeared in the haze over Scotland a Heinkel bomber, which headed to intercept GLOUCESTER.

The captain ordered action stations, clear the decks, man the AA and maneuver to avoid bombs. The bombs, when released, fell about 1 '/2 ship lengths astern of us, and we had a good shake-up. As the plane passed over the ship we could hear and feel the machine gun bullets as they walked across the deck and up the side of the deckhouse.

The ship's AA never did reach the plane, which got clear.

The remainder of the trip was uneventful, and GLOUCESTER berthed at Gravesend Bay. The Americans were met by U.K. and U.S. people who took us and our gear to London.

In the July Proceedings we learn that potential enemies are being equipped with a dangerous new torpedo called the "Shkral." It is a submarine launched rocket torpedo capable of 200 knots. A more deadly variant is under development that has an acoustic search speed of 650 knots followed by an attack speed of 300 knots! Looks like we'll be playing catchup again with our torpedoes as well as worrying more about the safety of our big ships!

A great story from Roy Smith '34: One day I was riding MANNING for torpedo range firing and testing. With one shot left for this Friday aftemoon, the skipper was eager to get finished and back to port. But as we came around to the range we saw a big yacht steaming into the restricted range area. The skipper Julian Timberlake '13, aborted the run and sent a blinker over to the yacht informing him that he was in a prohibited area and please to get out of it so the test firings could continue. There was no answer. He sent a second message, less polite, but still no answer. Eventually, Julian decided that the yacht was well aft on port quarter, he would be firing on the starboard bow, and opted to go ahead with the shot.

To our horror that Mk 14 did porpoise into a long left tum headed directly for the yacht.

It missed by about 50 yards ahead, whereupon the yacht's bridge became masters of the blinker "Why the hell are you firing torpedoes at me?"

"It wouldn't have been near you if you had left the firing range as I requested."

"What is your name and service number?

I am the Secretary of the Navy."

And it was Secretary Charles Francis Adams. Fortunately, Julian had just been selected for commander, but he retired in that rank.

DDs with Nos. to DD-143 were four-stack flush deck destroyers built during WWI. DDs with Nos. to DD-343 were four-stack flush deck destroyers built up to 1920.

In addition to the 89 Classmates who served in command, 17 others also served in destroyers during the war: Jack Catlett; Barney Chase, KIA; Herb Coleman, KIA; Jack Fairbanks, KIA; Whitey Gates, KIA; Dick Harwood, wounded; Deke Kemper, KIA; Matt Kiovisto, KIA; Walt Lewis; Jerry Murphy; Reader Scott, KIA; Max Silverstein, KIA; Levering Smith; Reynold Smith, KIA; Bob Vandling, KIA; Art Vortpahl, KIA; and Ike Wilson, POW. Bill Perkins sent in this citation awarded to him for the Legion of Merit.

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During this patrol on 18 August, the Recon of the beach on Gagil Tomil resulted in the loss of three of the five men put ashore by rubber boats. Numerous aggressive efforts were made by BURRFISH to locate and rescue the missing men. However, landbased Japanese radar and planes (over 30 enemy plane contacts were encountered by BURRFISH) and zero visibility weather forced BURRFISH to depart the area and return to Majuro Island.

As a result of this mission, RADM Perkins was awarded the Legion of Merit, which was presented to him by ADM Chester Nimitz '05.

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Lois Wall and Cy Austin Get-togethers The Northern California group met for lunch on 24 August at Bill Samuel's Los Altos Country Club, according to Bill Germershausen, who says that they skipped meeting in July.

Present, in addition to Pat and Bill Samuel and Virginia and Bill Germershausen, were Polly Lundahl with Bud Gruner, Helen and Ralph Metcalf, and Frank Wheeler.

The Washington area group met for lunch at Clagg Claggette's Chevy Chase Club on 6 September. Besides Poppy and Clagg, Classmates, wives and widows present included Phyllis and Rod Badger, Chet Briggs, Ruth and Slade Cutter, Owen and Jesse Gay, Sellen and Ed Keats, Fran and Doyen Klein, Ruth and Wy Packard, Louisa and Jeff Parker, and Elise Seymour.

Sad News Nancy (Anne Thomas) Sullivan, widow of our Bill Sullivan who died in 1998, died on 22 August in Green Valley, CA, where she and Bill had lived since 1978. She was bom in Baltimore on 3 March 1917 and grew up there, attending Our Lady of Notre Dame. She and Bill were married on 19 February 1941 in Pensacola. (According to their son, Bill Jr., the story they told was that they had only one date before getting married.) Their children are Anne Lynne Sullivan Negus of Fullerton, CA, and Bill of Camas, WA. The Negus grandchild is a boy and the three Sullivan grandchildren are two girls and one boy. Nancy worked as manager of the Bank of America branch at Moffett Field from 1962 to 1978. Her funeral was at Lady of the Valley Catholic Church in Green Valley and she was buried next to Bill at the Green Valley Cemetery.

Email Johnny Becker: commodorebecker@ webtv.net.

Our International Walker Aase Besson, wife of Mike Besson, is a native of Denmark. While on vacation there this summer, she was able to walk on Sunday, 11 June from Denmark to Sweden across the bridge portion of the new Oresund bridgetunnel connecting the two countries. This structure, under construction for six years, consists of a tunnel from the vicinity of Copenhagen to a man-made island, Peberholm, and a bridge from there to Malmo, Sweden.

The bridge rests on pilings except for the span over the ship channel, the Kattegat, connecting the Baltic with the North Sea and the Atlantic. Aase walked with her sister and brotherin-law and an estimated 150,000 other walkers and in-line skaters for the eight kilometers across and then back. They were each charged 70 kroner ($8.75) for the privilege. Her day came between the Saturday reserved for bicyclists and the half-marathon on Whitsuntide Monday. On 1 July, Queen Margarethe of Denmark and King Gustaf of Sweden officially opened the highway and rail structure. Aase notes that now it is possible to go by car from Rome to Helsinki without utilizing a ferry. She also says that so many Swedes are driving across to visit Tivoli Gardens that parking has become a problem in Copenhagen.

The New Navy A member of the Class was sitting in his favorite fast food restaurant indulging in a burger and Coke while reading a paperback when the summer open collar whites of a Naval officer came into his peripheral vision. Looking up he saw a tall, well-built lieutenant commander carry two trays to a table and place one in front of a woman also in summer whites. Her golden shoulder boards indicated flag rank and she was wearing what appeared to him from a distance of 20 feet to be the submarine dolphin insignia above her three rows of ribbons. Intrigued by that sight and desiring a closer look he decided to go over to them. Eschewing bringing his background into the discussion Shipmate, November 2000

he decided on anotiier gambit. "What a coincidence for me to be reading Tom Clancy's 5SAr when a submarine admiral comes into the room," he said. After a few remarks relating to Clancy and the book, her reply told him how little he knows of today's Navy. "This is not the submarine dolphin. I admit it looks much the same, but it is the surface warfare combat insignia," she said. "And, I am not a submariner. I am a supply officer."

Correction The October Shipmate item, "A Confession of Long Ago Events" carries most of Norm Meyer's exact words in a type size smaller than that of the column as is standard Shipmate style, but his last two sentences, "It was a lie, of course, to cover Norm's lousy arithmetic. The cover was not an extra," although transmitted to Shipmate using smaller type, appears in regular type and seems to be derogatory comments from the Corresponding Secretary. They are not. They are Norm's words and should have been printed so as to show it. Norm, for his own reasons, had shifted into the third person for his confession at the end of his letter. The Corresponding Secretary has been a thoroughgoing admirer of Norm's for sixty-nine years and continues to be.

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Jim Cruse, my Plebe Summer roommate, died on 15 July. His interment was scheduled at 1:00 p.m. on 14 August 2000 at Arlington National Cemetery, where his remains will be joining those of his beloved wife, Anne, who passed away on 16 May 1989.

It was Jim who gave me the job of Class Corresponding Secretary when we lost Jack Wadleigh on 14 January 1993.

Bill Brinckloe's (brincklo@netscape.net) telephone area code has been 831 for about a year. I knew this because Bill always sends me a new copy of the Class Directory when he runs one off. It pays us to get a new Class Directory every now and then. Bill has also changed his email address. Please make a note of these changes because we should always get the word to him when there is a change in our data in the Class Directory.

Should you wish to get information to me by email while I am travelling or at Tory Harper's address during the period mentioned in the last Class column, her email address is tory@mymailstation.com. Mine there is fshamer@mymailstation.com.

Our Class officers have reached an agreement with the Naval Academy Foundation to fund certain work projected on our Class gift to the Naval Academy. The following is lifted from our letter of agreement: Our Class, as of the last report sent to me, Annual Membership: 50% has $9,645 in two accounts at the AssociaLife Membership: 41 % tion: accounts 7037 and 9210. This amount does not include our operating fund in acPres: CAPT William N. Price, USN (Ret.) count 2100-037.

Sec'y/Treas: CAPT O. M. Butler, USN (Ret.) We hereby authorize the Association to use 1101 S. Arlington Ridge Road the funds in accounts 7037 and 9210 in their Arlington, VA 22043 entirety for a Master Plan subject to the Corr. Sec'y: CAPT William A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) following: Goodwin House West #832 • Funds can be identified to ensure work 3440 S. Jefferson St., Falls Church, VA22041-3127 will proceed and the project will be comh: 703-578-7546 pleted. We do not want to have our money spent on developing a comprehensive plan, which after completion will merely collect dust and the project never come to fruition.

• The completed project will include corrections of the discrepancies on our Memorial.

Annual Membership: 45% • The Class will receive appropriate credit Life Membership: 45% for the overall project.

Pres: CAPT John S. Slaughter, USN (Ret.) • Additional contributions from our Class Sec'y/Treas: RADM D.G. Baer, USN (Ret.) will not be expected.

Corr. Sec'y: CAPT Frank N. Shamer, USN (Ret.) I trust this contribution will meet your 7112 Lewison Drive, San Diego, CA 92120-1248 immediate needs and the Association will be e: FShamer@aol.com able to complete the overall project in a timely manner.

Al Waugh's funeral came off with full miliJ.S. Slaughter, Class President tary honors at 9:00 a.m. on 18 July. Only Jean Walt Phaler is looking for anyone who was and Chuck Stein could make it at that early along on the visit to Beth Steel in Baltimore hour through the horrible commuter traffic at wherein one Army truck was in a hard collithat time of day. We who arrange these things sion with an interurban light rail car. In the should take that problem into our scheduling collision Walt was thrown into a small tree. I plans. Other attendees were Phil Thull, Al's best friend and executor of his estate, who flew was on the visit but I neither saw nor heard of in from Al's home town, Beloit, KS, Al's such a collision. Walt has real leg problems nephew, Larry Eckberg, and his wife, Kathryn, these days. If you have any information it and Maj Mark Deets '90, USMC, who re- might well help him get treatment. His phone ported that Al had gotten him into the Acad- number is 619-222-9103. This happened duremy. His remains are now close to those of his ing Second Class summer.

Our Skeeta Gardes passed away peacefully beloved Scottie who was his faithful companin his sleep the night of 23-24 July. Skeeta was ion for 46 years, having predeceased him on the originator of the '37 Lunch Bunch here in

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the San Diego area. I think that at that time he was the only one of us who had a computer and so could prepare multiple address notices for whomever was going to host the event.

Jack writes that Charlie Minter has had a pacemaker installed and that he is doing fine.

Don Baer has had back surgery to reduce pain in a knee. He is now free from pain but he has developed a kidney infection that is yielding to antibiotics. Jack reports that the rest of the Washington-Annapolis group are "perking along on whatever number of cylinders" they have left.

You never know what you will find when just doing your duty. In gathering information for Skeeta Gardes' Last Call entry, I find that in Chungking early in WWII, he was given the task of delivering the ship's company of the river gunboat TUTUILA from Chungking to the nearest United States ship or station. I suppose that is why Skeeta, who had been the executive officer in TUTUILA, was chosen for this task. When he arrived he hadn't a uniform but he had that ship's company. For succeeding he was rewarded by becoming the first commanding officer of the Section Base, Trinidad, as noted in his Fifty Year Fix entry.

Later, after feeding our admiral in the area a fine meal prepared and served by the Chinese mess boys from TUTUILA, Skeeta lost that capability to the Flag Mess.

Working on Skeeta's Last Call entry, I discovered that almost none in this area possessed & Register ofAlumni. I recommend that all still above ground get or locate a recent edition.

My 1997 edition has seven pages, starting with page liv, devoted to Bereavement Assistance.

May all who read this be in and remain in good health.

Keep Revvin' with '37!

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Pres: RADM M. H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret.) e: mrindskopf@earthlink.net Chairman, Wash. Area: CAPT Hugh M. Robinson, USN (Ret.) h: 703-532-3772; e: hughrobinsonl@webtv.net Sec'y: CAPT D.K. Ela, USN (Ret.) 3260 N. 12th St., #329, Grand Junction, CO 81506 h: 970-256-7174, f 970-256-9120 e: dkela@gj.net President's Corner Alumni Association Board Controversy. '38 has spoken in a quiet sort of way, generally supporting the Governance Study Groups plan but suggesting that a write-in candidate for Chairman of the Board be permitted. This was the first time that we have tried to elicit reaction through our "ebutf' group. I am sorry to report that only six of some 25 responded.

We'll try again if a project arises on which more have a firm grasp of the problem.

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'38 signs manufactured many years ago by KG Robinson, who is remembered by the sumptuous repasts he and Bou brought annually in their RV Capon Springs. Another mini-reunion at Capon will have come and gone when this appears.

The group may get smaller, but it is no less enthusiastic. The golf course is tougher, and the pool colder; but the camaraderie continues.

KURSK. The sinking of this massive Russian submarine in the Barents Sea produced a flood of opinions, including some from '38, as to the true cause, and the possibility of rescue had the accident been handled in a more professional manner. There were suggestions that a world-wide stockpiling of rescue systems should be developed to respond to another disaster, but is the family of nations ready to participate?

Class Comer There seems to be no end of sad news. Gordon Williams passed away 10 August at the Naval Hospital, Bremerton. We have a note from Jack Mansfield that he. Bob Schelling, and Monk Masterson represented '38 at Gordy's funeral 15 August. Jack's note included a memorial column citing Gordy's remarkable career of public service, in uniform and in his retirement community, which will be apparent in his obituary in this Shipmate.

Our Class memorial was addressed to American Cancer Society, PO Box 2383, Bremerton, WA 08310. The American Diabetes Association, 557 Roy St., Lower Level, Seattle, WA 98109-4219, was also a suggested recipient. Frank Jones' note that the Class memorial for Ike Brooks has gone to Doctors Without Borders, PO Box 2247, New York, NY 10016-2247.

Swede called with the list of attendees at their lunch, 24 August: Foley, Harrington, Henry, Ogle, Olsen, Ratliff and Ready. These hardies persist among about 22 in the region; several more frequently show, but the binnacle list subdues future activities. That is hardly news and we hide our distress behind what our British cousins came to call gallows humor at their weekly hangings. So sick psychology shields our senses. Paul Schultz expresses concern that our last survivor (not on an island and not eligible for a million bucks) may have to prepay for his own memorial. We can leave projected expenses for Frank Jones to solve, perhaps to put an airport fee on landing vultures, or if there is a surplus, the last man can move, second, and vote for one hell of a party.

Washington group had not yet resumed lunches as Hugo succeeds Joe at the helm.

Larry Pierce reports a Northern California Class lunch hosted by Sally and Jim Douglas; Bev and Bud Wolfe, Dave Harris, Lowell Jett (shortly off to a CHESTER reunion). Planned but last minute cancellations were Nate Sonenshein, the Harts, and Lois Riesenberg.

Highlight of the day was the extraordinary praise by Dave Harris for my book which he hadjust read. We'll advise when it is published.

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He wishes the best in our planning for the 65th and hopes Lynn will be ready for it.

A letter from Connecticut, Herb Mandel reports a pleasant lunch with a lively and fun duo, Fran Pearson who has family roots in Mystic and Emily Lynch in Stonington. A letter from George Bourland advises of his new address and remarriage, II May, to Betty.

We've asked him to join our email scuttle-butt express. That number has grown little by little to 27. If you don't have an address yourself, is a family member nearby that can relay the smoke signals? Email or not, by the time this column is in print, our '38 Web page with Class bulletins is a click away under the very friendly umbrellaofusna.com, which already is a great source of the old school information (event dates, reunions, sports schedule, scandals(!), or as Mike has noted above, controversies).

While most of such information finds its way into print via Shipmate with the approximate two month publishing time lag, it is on the Web news overnight. We would focus our use for '38 on reunion planning, quick dissemination of vital statistics, and stories of '38ers that exceed this column's length limits. For example, Jim Payne has just given us a letter of several pages in which Tag Grell records the devious process of escape from a neutral country, Spain, in whose waters his plane splashed in 1943. The Web page is another means to preserve sensitive ties be they bulletins or bull.

In another medium. Bob Carter has sent us another copy of his video on the Leaders Forum in which ADM Boorda roused our ranks, and the tape had an add-on of familiar faces at a Class lunch. Bob was reorganizing files (come visit us with sleeves rolled up. Bob) and suggested others might want to review or archive it.

As we ponder the 65th, what's the current calculus on our survivors? We have come up with 141 surviving graduates. These do not include eight for which mail is undeliverable and status unknown. If any of you have a thread to any of the following graduate names, please advise: Louis K. Bliss, Robert E. Brown, Alton D. Gould, Andrew D. Jackson, William J. Salmon, Harvey H. Sims and Alex Torbitt. We have Ira Stubbart as deceased but lack confirmation. The Alumni Register (1999) lists 119 non-grads of which we carry 19 in our mailing directory who have responded to contacts in the past but we have no status on the remainder.

Adding to Mike's comments on KURSK, Bill Brinkloe '37 writes to the Wall Street Journal that the Russian attitude has historical precedent from the Russo-Japanese war. Engineering space hatches in Russian war ships could only be opened from the topside thus dooming the crews below to flooding or sinking. A comment on our current Navy morale was made to me in a conversation with flyer CDR Susan Fink '86. Morale is high, our undermanned crews are doing more with less and proud of it. She makes a distinction between morale and the current career dissatisfaction

as statistically evident in retention. We're very happy to correct our sloppy semantics.

Our 65th Reunion (First report from the Chairman) This is a report on planning to date for our 65th Reunion. The preliminary plan which follows was worked out by our Class Officers during the April 2000 Columbia River Cruise, was supported by the cruise participants, and is favored by almost all of the Classmates we have heard from in the last three months.

Location: Annapolis Dates: Sunday, II May 2003 to Wednesday, 14 May Hotel: Loews Annapolis Hotel Events: II May: Arrival cocktail party 12 May: Academy speaker; Guided tour of Academy; Lunch at Officers and Faculty Club; Class photograph; Midshipman Store; Picnic, other offsite dinner, or dinner on own 13 May: Business meeting; Memorial Service Banquet 14 May: Breakfast and farewells; Departure Committee: Phil Beshany-Cocktail Party Bill Boykln-Transportation Annabella DuBois-HospitaUty Deke Ela-CIass Data Frank Jones-Treasurer Bob McNitt-Chairman, arrange Academy talk Hugh Robinson-Banquet Note: When ADM Don Griffin '27, announced the committee for his 65th Reunion, I recall him saying at a Class luncheon that it was a temporary assignment to be confirmed the year before the event. This was greeted by appreciative, but uneasy laughter. Mike has sufficient confidence in our durability to make this our permanent duty assignment.

After reviewing competing hotel offers, our old friend, Loews Annapolis Hotel was selected, and the proposed negotiated contract reviewed by the Naval Academy Alumni Association pros. Mike signed with them on 25 July. This is a good time of year, and we were able to get a particularly favorable rate by starting on Sunday, Mother's Day. We have met with the Class Support Office of the Alunmi Association and are taking advantage of their long experience with reunions to set up timely actions to take advantage of their many free programs. More on this as time goes on.

We plan a mailing to graduates, to those who didn't graduate, to widows, and remarried widows in about three months with more details, followed by four more mailings. We will ask for a tentative commitment and deposit to help cover early expenses when we are reaShipmate, November 2000

sonably sure of the eventual cost, probably in about a year.

This should be another great '38 event. Let's make it so! Bob McNitt RSRH (Reefed Sail Retirement Home) Notes By the time you read these scribbles, tiie momentous election will have become history and we will have lost the chance to vent our biases. As we say out here in blue sky country, when the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.

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Pres: CAPT Paul Loustaunau, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT William J. Ruhe, USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBeth Avenue, McLean, VA 22102 e: docabbot@aol.com July Luncheon At the July Washington luncheon, Danny Weitzenfeld noted that the 56 men who'd signed the Declaration of Independence on 4 July were threatened by death if caught by the British—who ran the Americas. But then he failed to note how many men were actually killed by the British. However, Danny's notes showed thatfiveof the signers were captured by the British, tortured and then died. And, "Nine of the 56 died of wounds or hardships in the Revolutionary War. While others were so hounded by the British that they died in rags."

August Limcheon

At the August '39 luncheon in Ft. Myer, the attendance was slightly less than normal. Attending were: Paul Adams, Dick Moss, Norm Short, Stan Claypoole, W.J. Ruhe, H.P. Adams, Danny Weitzenfeld, Dave Bill, Rhythm Moore, Pete Steen, J.C. Lawrence, Norm Bennett, Bud Gore, Ernie Schwab, and DeWitt Patterson. Because 20 persons were guaranteed for dining privileges and only 15 showed up, each '39er had to pay $5 more than usual.

Ugh! Let's go back to luncheons with wives— that guarantees lots of diners, at a much lower cost per person.

Expected but missing were Jim Coleman, who'd turned into Bethesda with a heart problem, Gordy Gayle who had called to say he'd be on hand, but who didn't show up, and Tom Bell who didn't respond to his answering service. Bob Wood made a brief appearance, but as usual was too busy with some weird project to come to rest with the '39ers. Paul Loustaunau was at home after having a brain tumor removed by laser and was undergoing brain radiation. Paul had hit another car—doing little damage—after a mental lapse.

Ruhe, Weitzenfeld, and Adams

Danny Weitzenfeld, as MC at the luncheon, told about how he'd been sheriff in a downtown area of Chicago, and how crime went to zero with him in charge. At which, I asked, "Are you making this up, Danny?" Rhythm Moore, on the other hand, slyly asked, "Did you hang everybody?" Danny, it might be noted, was stumped by both questions.

(Sounds like an Al Gore interview.)

(I'm putting out this information so '39ers won't waste their good money on frivolous bets.)

In light of a news article that all tickets to the Army-Navy football game have been already sold, I asked at the luncheon who was going to the game. Only one hand shot up. And then to the question of "Who has tickets for the game?" only two hands were raised. Since Bing Gillette was looking (how's this possible with Bing's eyes so poor that he barely can tell when a girl with a short skirt walks by) for six tickets, his problem was easily solved right there on the spot.

Classmate Search An article in the August Smithsonian magazine tells of the forming of the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma by George, Joe and Zach Miller.

Remembering the 101 Ranch circus that I saw as a boy, with the long, white-bearded Buffalo Bill Cody in his gleaming-white chamois suit, Anne Oakley in her buckskin skirt blasting clay pigeons. Wild Bill Hickock posing for nick nacks (?), and the Apache renegade Indian chief Geronimo wearing a top hat and riding in a convertible, the article brought back many pleasant memories. But more importantly, I was dumbfounded to realize that the Zach Millers were the forebearers of '39's Joe Zach Miller IV—the inheritor of this lore of the "Wild West."

Joe Zach was a Classmate who bilged out of the Academy in his Youngster Year. Calculus was his nemesis. So he went to Honolulu to play tennis and to use some of his inheritance of great wealth from the 110,000-acre 101 Ranch. As a follow up, I sent this story to Joe Zach at the latest address I had for him— Seagull Lane, Sarasota, FL—but the letter came back, stamped "Addressee Unknown."

So Joe Zach (who must get Shipmate): If you're still alive, rejoin the Class of '39 and find some over-80 tennis players like Pete Steen, Elmo Waring or Herb Kriloff for a game at Homecoming in August 2001. Danny Weitzenfeld assures that if a fourth player is needed he can "fill in."

Class Authors Herb Kriloff has his book, Officer of the Deck, reviewed by Amazon.com. The review notes, "This classic tale retells a young man's coming of age, as he learns real-world lessons no Annapolis classroom could impart." Oh?

Norm Bennett

Norm Bennett, our authority on Florida State University (a team which Norm claims will win the national football championship— as usual) was queried about the two speedy football players who'd broken almost every rule in the books. Norm said: Coach Bobby Bowden likes very fast mnning backs and won't do a thing to discipline them. He'll just forgive them totally.

He never forgets that Alabama and Nebraska are breathing hot on his heels in the national football championship this fall.

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Last week. Bud Gore handed me a 210-page manuscript of a novel. Naval Beginnings: A Novel About a Retirement Home, that he had just written. It clearly and interestingly tells the story of a Navy man who had retired to a home like Vinson Hall, where: "The old gas-bags brag about what big shots they used to be."

Does an occasional nutcake (a fruitcake?) appear in Bud's scenes? Of course!

Then Bud has a disturbing refrain about the wife in his story, Edy, who: "Stopped for a moment, experiencing the sfrangest feeling; she suddenly couldn't remember what she had been doing before the ruckus in the garage."

The beginning of Alzheimer's?

As a bit of humor in Bud's book, he mentions that "an expanding number of military retirees were from the George C. Duncan Naval Air Station."

Bud, however, reaches a high point when he tells how the eminent brain surgeon, S. Rascomb Thomhill cleared his throat and conversation around the table ground to a halt.

Bud then quotes Thomhill as saying, "A roughcoated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman, strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

"That sentence," Dr. Thomhill notes, "contains the nine ways in which o-u-g-h may be pronounced in the English language." This is very important stuff?

Ralph Benitez

Anchors, a book of maxims to live by, has caused an Annapolis publishing company to send me a copy of a contract for the production of at least 1,000 copies, along with the sale of this book, to be underwritten by the Class of 1939, U.S. Naval Academy. (We already sent a copy of Ralph Benitez' philosophic book to each member of the Class of '99.) I will have to refer this to the Executive Committee for their consideration.

Miscellany Grant Rogers sent a flier which describes an Atomic Clock, available for only $59.95.

He writes: I don't think our '39 clock in Smoke Hall at the Academy is operating. So how about using this system?

The flier says: This remarkable clock radios timing and alarm systems, radio signals from the U.S. Atomic Clock in Colorado and resets itself at the beginning and end of daylight savings 56

time. It will not vary even a second in the next millennium. So, why doesn't the Class exercise this option?

(At the Executive Committee meeting we'll discuss this optionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a means to have a workable Clock that the Midshipmen can use as Paul Schratz visualized when he did the spadework for this Clock.)

Paul Schratz is certainly being emulated by this column which takes up any random subject, like Paul's "Sea Breezes" which ran in Shipmate for several decades.

I had decided to stop telling anti-West Pointer jokes, but when my West Pointer of '44 and a choirmate helped me into my civilian coat-jacket after I'd disrobed, and I said: "That's as well done as a valet could have done it," I realized that one more anti-West Pointer slur had been bom. Here is another anti-West Point joke for the month. Question: Is it OK to lie to a West Pointer? Answer: Definitely not! Because to lie to him, you have to talk to him! (Does this mean we treat the Black Knights of the Hudson River to a little conventry?)

I asked Danny Weitzenfeld if he thought that the 13 different pills he takes each day is some sort of a Class record. To this, Danny said: Print this in Shipmate and we'll see if my record will stand up.

On hearing this discussion, Paul Adams chimed in with: I take only one pill/or everything.

Ernie Schwab protested mightily that I'd credited his digital camera for the excellent pictures used in the September Shipmate.

He argued: Not so. I used an 8-exposure throw-away camera for those pictures.

At which I went out and bought such a camera to get photos of the mob presently in my house as a result of my 85th birthday celebration which brought in children, grandchildren and even a great-grandchild who tried to sing along with everyone at the singing evening. As a birthday present for my 85th birthday, I got a massage from an expert masseuse, paid for by my son Bamaby. It proved so arousing that I wouldn't risk having another one, which makes me conclude "there's life in the old boy, yet."

Emie Schwab

The picture shown below, shows a farewell gathering of '39ers on the battleship PENNSYLVANIA in June 1941, to see Ernie Schwab off to Sub School, New London, CT. Gus Norwood, on hearing about the '39 Executive Committee's proposal to take a seven-day cmise on the Columbia and Snake rivers, to celebrate our 62nd year (still alive), sent a brochure about QUEEN OF THE WEST, the only overnight stem-wheeler on the Columbia River. And Gus recommended we look into a trip through the locks and to the dams. Oh?

Dave Bill

'39ers on the battleship PENNSYLVANIA in 1941 Shipmate, November 2000

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Pres: CAPT William M. Carpenter, USN (Ret.) D.S. Bill, Norm Bennett, and J.C. Lawrence

I asked Dave Bill about D.S. Bill Ill's designing of golf courses. He's up in Connecticut right now, designing a course and shortly will go to Europe to design three more particularly super ones in Scotland and England.

This is a really big business with the project manager seeing $ 1 -million memberships in an exclusive rich man's club.

Last Call The Class is robbed of one of its trae saviors with the death of Walter Bernard Miller on 10 July of cancer at his home in Lompac, CA. Walt stood fifth in the Class. Bom in Paris on 23 August 1918, three weeks after his father, an American volunteer in the Lafayette Escadrille, had been shot down and killed in the battle of Chateau-Thierry, he was brought to the U.S. and lived in South Carolina. As an AEDO and expert in guided missiles, he retired in I960 from his job as commander of the Point Mugu Naval Air Missile Test Center and practiced his avocations which were sea shell collecting and the study of invertebrate biology, focused on sea snails. He had 12 graduate smdents accompanying him on his field trips.

Rhythm Moore called in to ask whether I'd seen the obimary of Dick Bowers '38, our high scoring attackman when Navy won the National Lacrosse Championship in 1938.

Rhythm and I were midfielders on that team and grieve at the loss of Dickie Bowers.

Rhythm had also noted that a new regulation restricts a lacrosse college team to four "long" sticks only. That's so the mayhem is held to a more respectable level.

Charlotte Patterson, the wife of DeWitt Patterson, died on 23 July of heart failure.

After a funeral service in the Old Post Ft. Myer Chapel, on 7 August, her remains were interred in the grave of her first husband, CDR Eugene Lammiman '40, at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Dixie Howell and Navy Junior ROTO Cadet Elizabeth Mahon

Dixie Howell sent me this good photo showing him presenting the Legion of Valor for Achievement to Navy Junior ROTC Cadet Elizabeth Mahon. Cadet Mahon is a senior at David Crockett High School in Jonesborough, TN. She is serving this year as the company commander of the Junior NROTC at her school.

As a senior Navy captain in that part of Tennessee, Dixie was invited to come to Jonesborough and honor this young lady who has strong ambitions to go to the Naval Academy. By offering his encouragement and support, Dixie did his part to contribute to our interest in seeing that the best in the country come to Annapolis.

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As was his unassuming manner, Daniel Oscar Blevins Jr. led a quiet life, marching to his own dmmmer. Since over the years Dan never was an active participant in Class activities or reunions, we did not have opportunities to get to know him as well as we would have liked.

After Dan's funeral, his daughter, Ashley, sent Phil Eckert this beautifully done tribute to her father, which was delivered at Dan's memorial service. It is appropriately titled, "Life's Railway to Heaven": It is remembered how Dan Blevins enjoyed the analogy of life being like a mountain railroad. There was the need for trying to make the run successful; the assurance that our faith will get us safely through the curves and tunnels; that our trust in God will keep us from faltering, and thus, lead us to eternal life.

Dan so often tried to sing "Life's Railway to Heaven," which he learned from his grandparents, with its swells, pauses, and emphases, all delivered in just the right places. The memory of this particular song lingers more vividly because of his monotone voice, which could not carry a tune in a bucket. But even with such vocal limitations, his enthusiasm for the verses never faded or dimmed.

Many a Sunday aftemoon during his last year was spent in the rose garden of his nursing home tapping his foot as he accompanied his favorite singing duo. Lulu Belle and Scotty Wiseman, with their rendition of "Life Is Like A Mountain Railroad."

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Even though he left Spruce Pine years ago to pursue a career elsewhere, it was his wish to come home to his mountains. His family feels it fitting that his memories should be honored here where his roots began, for it is from these mountains where much of what embodies his spirit was bom and carried him through his earthly life.

An optimist, he approached life with a positive attitude, made all the more lifting by his dry and joking sense of humor. In this mountain setting of beauty, Dan learned to appreciate the outdoors, the meadows, woodlands, and especially the fairways. He made close to 30 holes-in-one during his illustrious days on the golf course.

His brother Dave told one on him recently about the time their father chided Dan for "Doing way too much golfing, and not nearly enough go-for-ing." Dan's advice to others was often short and to the point: "If you have ten fingers and ten toes, then make the best of things because you really have nothing to complain about."

His family often teased him about his entrenched conservative values while he relished complaining to his children about their hippie clothes and liberal viewpoints. Dan loved to get a rise out of those closest to him, and he did it quite well. However, when his health problems became serious and he was hospitalized for a long time, his family saw another dimension to his optimistic, teasing side. It was a simple philosophy of, through life's obstructions and storms, keep the faith, never falter, never give in to failure, keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail.

Understanding her father's faith made it easy for Ashley to read Biblical scripture to him. This led to introducing Dan to Jimmy Carter '47's book. Living Faith.

At first, for Dan, the very idea of listening to a democratic former president was just too preposterous. A gentle nudge from daughter Ashley assured her staunch Republican father that Jimmy just might have some words of wisdom to offer To her surprise, each evening became one of anticipation as chapter after chapter unfolded.

In his chapter about "Leadership and Faith," Jimmy Carter wrote, "According to my aging copy of The Bluejackets Manual, in the performance of our duties we were expected to exhibit obedience, knowledge, fighting-spirit, reliability, loyalty, initiative, self-control, energy, courage, justice, faith in ourselves, honor, and cheerfulness. But the overarching criterion was truthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;absolute truth, which was described as the final test of a man."

Like Jimmy Carter, Daniel Blevins had this same demanding code of conduct, which he expected of himself and his family. This sometimes made things seem a bit too "miUtaristic" to his children who weren't that thrilled about the Saturday moming "white glove mnning across the top closet shelf for dust inspection." However, as parents and children grew older together, the wisdom and rationale of his actions became a little easier to understand.

On President's Day, what could be more fiuing than to listen to President Carter's profound thoughts on life and death. "The grand things we often spend our days striv58

ing to achieve fade into relative insignificance in the little dash, the scope of life from birth to death. It's the little things, the way we spend our waiting time, that can matter most. So while we are waiting for a profound life experience, or retirement, or death, we are using up the days of our lives."

Near the end of his life, and especially after he lost his beloved wife. Doodle, in August 1999 after nearly 60 years of marriage, Dan remained patient in tribulation while he rejoiced in hope. His having learned the Naval Academy's expectations for a fighting spirit, self-control, energy, courage, faith, and cheerfulness helped sustain him through three years of failing health.

On 17 February, the day of his death, the staff at the Charlotte, NC, healthcare facility remarked, "Dan would be sorely missed because he never complained and that, to this day, he never lost his sense of humor."

Dan and Doodle, having found peace, are finally at home where they built a wonderful life together, surrounded by the beauty of the mountains they loved.

Going through life like a mountain railroad by keeping your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail is quite a good roadmap for us all.

Doesn't Ashley Blevins' most interesting insight into the life of a Classmate who was very little known to members of '40 make each of you wish that Dan had passed his graduation eye exam? I for one do. Had that happened, then over the years we could have had a much better chance to know this interesting, fun-to-be-with person Dan obviously was. To Dan's five children and their families, we, his Academy Classmates, send our condolences. / am in shape. Round is a shape.

This past summer, E m i l y and H o r a c e Figuers graciously volunteered to once again host the annual ' 4 0 picnic at their lovely Leesburg home. Soon after, Emily ended up in the hospital with pneumonia so they were not able to do this year's '40 picnic. Latest reports are that Emily is slowly recovering. For you, Emily, our prayers are that pneumonia never again revisits you.

When this happened. Bill Lamb offered to once again host the annual fall Class picnic on 3 September at his fun-filled home in Annapolis. There were 32 attendees: Art Bemdtson, Betty and Julian Burke, Mary and Bill Carpenter, Eloise and John Chase, Chris and Mike Hanley, Joan Healey, Father Dick Heath, Loretta Hechler, Julianne and Ted Hill, M a u r e e n and Bill L a m b , Marge and Ed M u h l e n f e l d , Pat P a t t e r s o n , B o b Pauli, F l o r e n c e R o s e b o r o u g h , R u t h and B u d Schafer, Betty and Harv Seim, Mary and Ed S l e d g e , P e n n y and H u g h V i c k e r y , D e e W i n t e r s and h e r d a u g h t e r , W e n d y , and husband, Todd Geimer. As always is the case with Bill as the host, a good time was had by all. And, isn't it great that after his long illness. Father Heath is once again able to join '40 on festive occasions?

Charles Moldenhauer and Dick Nesbitt Here is a picture of newly commissioned ENS Charles Moldenhauer '00, being congratulated by his proud grandfather, our Dick Nesbitt. Charles is now at the Navy's Surface Warfare School in Newport, with his first sea duty to be out of Norfolk. Does anyone have a count of how many Navy juniors '40 has who are Annapolis grads who then served in our Nation's armed forces?

It hurts to be on the cutting edge.

We all know that our Bill Carpenter is a very active and involved Class president, participating in most every Class or Alumni function, being the lead Class photographer, plus doing Class obituaries (these days, a full time job for most octogenarians). Bill holds down an important j o b at SRI Intemational as a Far East specialist, writing analysis and articles for publication. He also finds time to attend ship reunions and to participate in church and community affairs.

With all this still not giving him enough to do. Bill gave BBC a long interview on the issue of piracy as practiced, mostly in Southeast Asian waters. His latest commitment involved an hour-long live Voice of America session with the people of China, answering questions they called in to the VOA. They were mostly about U.S.-China relations. This entire unrehearsed program was carried live in China on both radio and television. Move aside, Peter Jennings, our Bill is ready to take over.

For all who fail to see value in chelation therapy, watching our 84-year-old Classmate lead a full life that 60-year-oIds would find hard to match should cause all of you to consider this way to stay healthy and young. It works! If you are still not convinced, consider this picture of Bill. Doesn't he look at least 20 years younger than he is?

Mary and Bill Carpenter

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'40: Carpenter briefing flag officers Death and taxes are always with us. However, death does not get worse every year.

If you are wondering why we've heard nothing from that wonderful caretaker lady in the south, Pat Champion, it can be blamed on falling and breaking her right arm near the shoulder while visiting friends in Annapolis following our 60th. Pat reports that Florence Hughes has now moved to Heet Landing. Her address there is Apt. 4211, Fleet Landing Blvd., Atiantic Beach, FL 32233; 904-2410588. We all hope Florence will enjoy life among friends in that lovely setting.

Farewells Thanks to John Sims of the very active BAG group in the San Francisco area, who reports that Joan, the widow of one of their former BAG members, died in late 1999 of cancer.

To her son, John, daughter, Alexandra, and two granddaughters who survive her, we. Classmates of their father Larry McEwen, send our belated condolences.

We have just leamed that LCDR Eugene Bankes Pendleton, USNR, died on 26 June 1999. To his survivors, '40 sends its long past due condolences. How sad it is that months pass before we leam about losing a Classmate.

How can we do better?

To the family of William Edgar Benbow, the '40 family sends our condolences for the loss of their father and grandfather. Details on his life are included in the obituary section.

Updates Helyn Utley's email address is now Helynu@aol.com.

Only 40 is 4.0. Jake

Shipmate, November 2000

Philadelphians Lindsay and Walker with Heimarks

Alumni Association will be mailing out, to all '41 hands, the schedule of events and a signup registration form. It will also include the reservation procedure for rooms at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel. If you have not received your copy of the schedule and registration form

by Thanksgiving, please let me or Rusty Crenshaw know and a replacement will be sent to you. We can also answer any of your questions. One change among the events is the visit to classrooms. The authorities prefer that we not attend actual classes so as not to interfere with the class itself Instead, we will be taken on a tour of the academic facilities and classrooms so you can see how different things are from what we went through. Finally, the early indications are that there will be a good turn out and the schedule will surely have something for everyone.

Jeanne and Moose Smith are among those planning to attend the 60th. Moose says that he and Jeanne are enjoying life in Mormon country particularly in the high country of Park City. Moose admits to a few aches and pains but no biggies, thank goodness.

Bud Greenlee recently brought me up-todate on his status. His wife, Kay, died in January 1997, after a long bout with emphysema.

In 1998, Bud remarried happily to Dolores, or D. Hope we get to see D and Bud at the 60th.

John Palm has embarked on what he says is a year-long project, "The War Years 19371945," using as his primary source a daily diary that he kept until 1942 when the Navy made us stop keeping diaries. His son in Colorado is helping John get this in readable form and I have suggested that the end product would be a wonderful addition to our repository at East Carolina University. John will be glad to send a copy to interested Classmates.

In his research, John came up with some memorable pictures such as the one with this column when he was the executive officer and navigator of WEEDEN during Atlantic convoy operations. His skipper at the time later became president of TWA.

Lucian Hunt

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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 The planning for our 60th Reunion is moving right along and the schedule is now firm, subject, of course, to last minute changes by the local authorities. Early this month, the

How does this damn thing work Lil and Gail Felton moved from North Carolina to Las Vegas, NV, where two of their kids also live; Charlie is a pilot for Scenic Airlines, a small commuter to National Parks, and Cathy is a flight attendant for National. They were looking for a Lucky Bag and happily got one from the Alumni Association.

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The San Diego '41 Group held its annual dinner party at the Oceanview Restaurant at the Submarine Base, San Diego, in July. Attending were Betty and Jack Alford, Jean and Dave Byrd, Mil and Bill Jones, Carol and Archie Kelley, Dave Kline, June and Cliff Lenz, Pat and Jim Lynch, Sidonia and Bill McReynolds, Lucy and RoUo Rieve, Carol Ann and Milt Silverman, Elsie and Bob Starkey, Bob Thomas and his guest, Margie Wagener, and Marge and Red West. Bill McReynoId's account says that conversation and sea stories were so engrossing that they had a hard time getting everyone off the terrace overlooking the harbor channel and into tiie dining room to end tiie cocktail hour. The dinner was sumptuous, and table conversation included stories of early days in the Navy by reminiscing spouses. A photo session produced the accompanying pictures.

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Last month I told you about Archie Kelley's daughter, Sharon, winning an Emmy, which is television's preeminent award, and here are the two of them with the genuine Emmy.

Sharon and Archie Kelley

Last summer, the tall ships that participated in OpSail 2000 came down Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore. Bob Hayler took some fortunate Classmates on his craft PROCYON, to observe that beautiful spectacle and here they are (following page).

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Shinmate. November 2000

'41: Hustvedt. Heavey, Hayler, Costagliola, Zirkle, and Somers

At this writing, the Washington-Annapolis group plans to have its November Class lunch as a co-ed affair at Fergie's in Annapolis at Il;30 a.m. on Thursday, 16 November. If you are not on the Washington-Annapolis calling Ust and can be there, please let me know so I can confirm the details for you. We have been there before and it was fun with a good view and good food.

Another pair of Classmates has left us: Pride Brown and Red Dreyer. Pride died at home on 16 August. After retiring from the Navy he was employed by the Associated General Contractors of America in Columbia, SC. To his wife, Martha, their two daughters and two granddaughters go our sympathy and understanding at this sad time of their loss. Red Dreyer died on 2 August after a long illness.

Colette and Red were old friends of Jackie's and mine. They were living at Sandia Base in Albuquerque while Jackie and I were at Los Alamos and then he and I went out to command destroyers together off Korea. To their surviving children go deep condolences from the Class.

According to the meaning of their topaz birthstone, the November crowd is noted for its fidelity and here they are: Alford, Badger, Felton, Foster, Hailey, Hayler, Hine, Newland, Reedy, Rowney, Spitler, and Weisner. Give them all a bunch of chrysanthemums and you'll be hitting November right on the nose!

For your new Class Rosters here are a few changes. Olga Durgin has moved to 7401 Westiake Terrace, #716, Bethesda, MD 20817, 301-365-1326; Lil and Gale Felton, 10704 Heritage Hills Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89134, FeltonliI@earthIink.net. Burt Parke has a new email address: Blparke@aol.com; Wally McLellon has deleted his/ax number.

Keep in touch with classmates.

Update your email/mailing addresses www.usna.com/misc/forms/ changeaddress.htm or call 410-263-4448 ext. 203 Shipmate, November 2000

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Pres: CAPT James D. Small, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR R.S. Day, USN (Ret.) 2426 Chestnut St., Falls Church, VA 22043-3052 You have had time to reflect on your vote for the proposals President Jim set forth in his very comprehensive Class letter. Hopefully, you will have responded, but if not, please do so and take heed of Jim's request to send in your email addresses. If you have not tapped the potential of being able to utilize the Intemet, it is well worth your consideration.

Frank Andrews has done a masterful job of providing a very viable Web page and he is supported by a number of our Classmates who provide the material included therein. Their efforts deserve your support.

Betty and Jack Crawford visited California in August and ventured down to Santa Barbara to have lunch with Swede Momsen. They were glad to report that Swede is doing fine窶馬o doubt in part because of the Califomia sunshine.

Ruth and Hank Sweitzer enjoyed a delayed honeymoon the latter part of July visiting Germany, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. They flew out of Philadelphia to Frankfurt and into Munich, traveling Lufthansa business class. A bus trip took them up for Garmisch Partenkirchenfing week highlighted by the

Passion Play in Oberammergeur. The performance runs from 12:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. with an hour off for lunch. The venue accommodates 4,700 spectators in an open-sided stmcture with stage and numerous back-drops in the open. History recounts that in 1634 the good people of the village promised to reenact the last days of Christ if they were spared the Black Plague then traversing Europe.

Since, except for two intermptions during war, they have done so every ten years. The cast is made up of 900-plus townspeople with goats, sheep, horses, and burros depicting the many scenes required. There is a choms of about 40 in the wings and a symphony orchestra of about 50 playing in a pit not visible to the spectators. Hank found it a moving, impressive production just as I did 50 years ago.

From there they went on to visit the upper Bavarian sights such as Mad King Ludwig II Castle Lindenhof where he lived and Neuschwonstein which was never finished as the parliament refused to fund its final completion. Then on to Vienna to board the RIVER NAVIGATOR, a 371-foot long pleasure palace.

The skipper does everything alone from the bridge with thrusting propellers. The entire superstracture sinks to a height of two feet to get under the numerous bridges along the Danube. This was the vessel's second voyage since completion. They went on to see Budapest, Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, and several smaller cities in Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. The latter is experieTahe tarip pn the ncing an identity crisis. They teach German, Hungarian and Slovenian in their schools, but their young people are demanding English courses as the majority of the jobs available to them are with mainly English and American companies.

The trip on the Danube brought together the Sweitzers, Frances and Ralph Morehead '51, and Marjorie and Adam Beni, USA (Ret.).

Ralph resigned in 1955 and spent a full career with Westinghouse in Baltimore. Adam taught school in New York City. Each of the men had a mate who succumbed to cancer. The trip provided plenty of time to swap lots of sea stories, Army stories, and some just stories.

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Hank has lost his large '42 Class crest and will pay up to $100 to anyone who has an extra one. Call him at 610-777-3261.

Kenneth W. Miller Jr. has advised the Class that his father. Ken Miller, died on 12 October 1999, of natural causes. He is survived by his wife, Catherine, two children and five grandchildren. He was accorded full military honors. His son wrote that he looked fondly upon his years at the Academy and his long service in the Navy.

Jack Van Gelder passed away on 7 August 2000, at the Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, NJ. Hank Field left us on 13 August 2000, at the Sentara Virginia General Hospital. See the obituaries in Last Call. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the Miller family and to Foo Field and Helen Van Gelder and their families.

with the estate in order, a new boat completed, and (even more importantly) a lovely Irish lass named Jill courted and wed, it was time for a shakedown cmise.

With wife, Jill, son. Chip, Larry's sister and her husband as crew, in the summer of 1975 it was off to the Mediterranean to explore some of the islands, routes and ports that his ancestor, the British admiral, had visited as captain of a ship-of-the-line in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, and later as squadron commander under admirals Lord Keith and Jervis.

At summer's end MAID retumed to Ireland.

The following spring MAID said farewell to the Royal Irish Yacht Club and departed for Spain and the Canaries with plans to cross the Atlantic and cmise the Caribbean. The crew for this leg of the cruise included two doctors, an American with time on his hands, and a retired Royal Air Force Wing Commander of World War II bomber fame. For the first leg of the cmise—from Ireland to the Canaries—the wives flew on ahead to the Canaries.

Memorable events in the Canaries included Annual Membership: 35% a gourmet luncheon given by the commodore Life Membership: 51% of the Grand Canary Yacht Club and the oncein-a-lifetime chance to witness the departure Pres: CAPT E. A. Robie USN (Ret.) 2111 River Crescent Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 of the Tall Ships in a race to the United States. h: 410-224-0850; e: edrobie@aol.com Departing Grand Canary, MAID set sail for Sec'y: CAPT "Jack" Van Ness Jr., USN (Ret.) Barbados! What an odyssey! For this leg of 7108 Broxburn Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817 the voyage the crew was: Jill (already qualih: 301-320-4564; w: 202-357-3762 fied as assistant navigator, watch stander, and e: Jvanness43@aol.com chef); the executive secretary of the Irish LifeThe Odyssey of MAID OF CRETE boat Association (who wanted to leam celesNote: The story that follows comes from tial navigation); a retired British Army officer Classmate Larry Kurtz. It is suggested that (who regaled everyone with tales of his colothe reader pay particular attention to the man- nial days in Africa) and a young friend of ner of constmction and size of the boat in- Larry's son (who wanted to cross the Atlantic volved, and the once-in-a-lifetime voyage that in a sailboat).

Larry, his wife, Jill, and the crew made.

Crossing was easy—down wind all the way, In January 1971, having just retired from no storms, and plenty of flying fish for breakactive duty, our Classmate Larry Kurtz went fast. MAID reached Barbados only a half-hour to freland to help his mother manage the fam- past its ETA, having sailed 2,400 miles in 21 ily estate—a legacy from the 19th century days, and the student navigator was qualified! left by a British admiral who was a member MAID passed only two ships; one a tanker, and of the family. the other a cargo ship. No other yachts sighted, After bringing order to these estate affairs, plenty of garbage, turtles, Portuguese men-ofthere was time to do other things and (in war, and flying fish.

Larry's words) "the sea, once in the blood, First duty of the moming watch—pick up remains there, so I decided to build a boat and flying fish on deck, clean and present them to go sailing." Having seen a fertocement boat, Chef Jill for crew's breakfast. One moming Larry decided that this was the way to go and, she cooked 45 fish for breakfast and all were with the old farmyard providing the place to eaten. The crew's enthusiasm for swimming build, he bought plans from a former British disappeared soon after the trailing buoy (for Navy submarine commander, agent for the "man overboard" safety) was snapped off Canadian designer of fertocement boats. by sharks.

Construction Note: Ferrocement is a rich On arrival in Barbados everyone jumped mixture of two parts sand to one part of Port- ship for the Holiday Inn and a hot freshland cement. Larry used 12 layers of 1 inch water bath\ galvanized mesh backed up with two layers MAID then worked her way up the Windward of 1/4 inch pre-stressed wire. The hull was only and Leeward islands to Virgin Gorda in the a nominal 3/4 of an inch thick and was quite British Virgins. flexible and completely watertight. A total of At Gros Islet Bay on St. Lucia, Larry 24 tons (repeat, 24 tons) of ferrocement was was reminded of the ordeal of his ancestor, used to constract this great boat—55 feet in the British admiral, whose frigate was blown length with 1,070 square feet of sail. out of the Bay and dismasted during the hurriThree and a half years later the boat, descrip- cane of 1780 and wrecked on the coast of tively named MAID OF CRETE was finished. So Puerto Rico.

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Jill and Larry liked Leverick Bay in the British Virgins so much that they bought a piece of land overlooking the anchorage and built a house. But after three and a half years, the island became too small and it was time to move on, in the direction of the United States.

En route, at Puerto Rico, Larry went diving for remnants of the admiral's wrecked frigate. All he found was the capstan; the rest had been stripped or scattered by storms of the past century.

At Roosevelt Roads they encountered Betty and George Whisler on their handsome yacht and had a great party.

In due course they raised the hook again and headed for Florida in the States.

Larry ends his account of the Odyssey with these words: "We went through stormy weather times and had a few scary moments, but MAID was a great boat. We finally sold her after 20 years to a Marine who couldn't live without her."

For Jill and Larry: What a story! What an adventure! What a dream fulfilled!

P.S.: In the past few years Larry has been writing and publishing two books. One is titied Admiral of the Wooden Navy (about an ancestor on his mother's side) published in 1998.

The other, published in June 2000, is titied Lucky Thirteen, and is the history of DMS 13, his first ship in World War II. For Lucky Thirteen, Larry collaborated with another officer who served with him on the same ship.

A Letter Home Note: This story is about a very special letter written by our Classmate John Milton "Jack" Sweeney to his loving and beloved wife, Beebe.

The story was brought to your writer's attention by Jack Sweeney's former "Roomie" Al Rasmussen and Squadron Mate Bob Greenwood.

In early November 1956, Jack Sweeney, a member of a patrol squadron flying PBMs out of Bermuda, with almost psychic vision, wrote a warm and personal letter to his wife, Beebe.

Here is Jack's letter (please read slowly): November 1956 To the best wife a man ever had: Honey, I am writing to say a few things that I might leave unsaid if I should depart this world unexpected-like. In this flying business you never can tell when you might all of a sudden get unlucky and wake up dead. I suppose this shows me up for being an old sentimental fool, but I thought if I could make sure you know how I feel about such things it might be a comfort.

First of all, let's face one fact—everybody ends up dead. Think of all the infants and children and people who had the misfortune to die before they got much of anything out of life, and then think of all I got out of it.

Even if I should die the day after writing this, I am still one of the luckiest people who ever lived, and you know it. When you come right down to it, I've done just about everything I've wanted to do and seen about everything I've wanted to see. Sure, I'd like to stick around while the boys are growing up, Shipmate. November 2000

and have fun with you once they've done that and when we have time again. But you and I agree so closely on how to raise a family, I'm sure that the boys are going to be all right. And I've had enough fun with you to last a lifetime.

Don't let the memories of me keep you from marrying again, if you run across somebody fit to be your husband, which would be hard to find, I know. But you're much too wonderful a wife and mother to waste yourself as a widow. Life is for the living.

(That's not original, I'm sure.)

So get that smile back on your face, put on some lipstick and a new dress, and show me what you can do toward building a new life. Just remember me once in a while— not too often, or it'll cramp your style—and as long as I'm remembered, I'm not really dead. I'll still be living in John, Bill, and Al, and Dan, bless their hearts. That's what they mean by etemity, I think.

My love as always. Jack Only a few days later, on 9 November ' 5 6 , Jack Sweeney lost his life while on an aircraft night patrol mission of a secretive nature. At that time Beebe was pregnant, and in March 1957 a daughter, Emma, was b o m .

Beebe subsequently remarried, but passed away in 1985. In sorting out the personal effects of her mother, Emma came across this special letter, written almost 30 years earlier.

Because of its wonderful thoughts and words, the letter was kept by Emma, now a promising literary agent in New York City.

Emma leamed that a young historian, Andrew Carroll, realized that there were literally thousands of letters written home over the decades from men in uniform, and that this project by Andrew Carroll, named the Legacy Project, might be interested in including her father's letter. So the letter was offered to Carroll, who, on reading the letter, recognized how "special" it was and accepted it at once.

With the recent interest in military veterans, brought about at least in part by Tom Brokaw's best seller. The Greatest Generation, Jack Sweeney's letter has received wide attention: (1) It was included in a story of The New Yorker msigazme, issue: 27 December 1999 to 3 January 2000.

(2) Emma read it in late April 2000 on a CNN program.

(3) It will be included in a book derived from the Legacy Project that will be published next May by Scribners.

That's the end of the story. But this poignant story reinforces our realization that life is short, and every day is precious.

Virginia Social This past spring our Classmate Jim Aller hosted a small party for Peg Kirkland, Eleanor Blattmann, Grace and Bob Stark, and Betsy and Mike Tremain.

There's nothing like a Virginia party. A great time was had by all!

Shipmate, November 2000

'43: L to r: Eleanor Blattmann, Peg Kirkland, Jim Aller, Betsy Tremain, Grace Stark, and Bob Stark

L to r: Jim Aller, Bob Stark, and Mike Tremain Sec 'y note: This is the third of four episodes sent in by Classmate "Sunshine" Aubrey, relating his experiences aboard SEGUNDO (SS398) during the period of the great typhoon of December 1944.

Near Collision 16 December 1944: Patrolling vicinity Latitude 18 degrees North, Longitude 116 degrees East. Light airs, nearly calm sea, all stars out, most unusual weather early moming.

5:30 a.m.—Very abruptly the north monsoon descended again. Inside of half an hour the sea increased to state six, and the rains came.

6:55 a.m.—Submerged for the day. Visibility zero.

6:10 p.m.—Surfaced.

17 December 1944: Patrolling at slow speed. The sea state six and skies are overcast; the night is dark and murky.

18 December 1944: Patrolling at slow speed. Sea state five, skies are overcast and the new moon is hidden.

19 December 1944: Patrolling at slow speed. The sea state is five, skies overcast and we pass through a rain squall about every ten minutes.

8:43 a.m.—Submerged.

5:51 p.m.—Surfaced. The sea has picked up to state six.

7:45 p.m.—Dove to 40 feet for practice in rough seas. Depth control very difficult.

20 December 1944: Patrolling at slow speed in state six seas. The moon is in the first quarter, but is obscured by a thick overcast.

6:05 p.m.—Surfaced. Navigator was able to get decent stars for the first time in ten days. The sea is more like state seven than state six.

21 December 1944: In position Latimde 18 degrees 30 minutes North, Longitude 118 degrees, 00 minutes East. The sea state is seven and the night is dark and overcast.

12:07 a.m.—Sighted submarine bearing 225 degrees (R), angle on bow 30 degrees port, distance 300 yards. Went to flank speed.

Put stem towards, and had the satisfaction of seeing him cross our wake about 200 yards astern on a 90 degrees port track.

We were in an ideal situation for a shot at him, had he been an enemy, but it was plainly apparent that this one was a product of the U.S.A. The submarine could have been either SEA ROBIN, who was patrolling the station adjacent to ours, or SEALION, who was passing through our area en route to SOWesPac. Attempts to exchange calls via SJ radar were not successful.

1:25 a.m.—Lost submarine on SJ at range of 8,500 yards. (It's easier to track them out than track them in.)

For "Sunshine" and all—that was a scary few minutes, although it could have been a lot worse.

For readers of the December column—The fourth and final episode by Sunshine is titied "Floating Mine." You will hold your breath at this "near miss!"

Back to Korea Jacque and "Whizzer" White went back to Korea in June as a part of the activities marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Here is a report of the event, told by "Whizzer" in his own words: Once again Jacque and I were out of the country when our Classmates gathered for the graduation anniversary luncheon. We were en route to South Korea with a group organized by the Navy Memorial Foundation to participate in the activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. We first spent three days in Honolulu, where Jacque and I had a brief "working" honeymoon in July 1950 while I was en route to Korea. In Honolulu we participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the "Lone Sailor" marker in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ("Punchbowl"). Visited the ARIZONA and MISSOURI memorials, and con-

sumed several authentic mai tais under the Banyan Tree at our hotel, the Sheraton Moana Surfrider. One day we had lunch at the Officers' Club on Hickam Field, only two blocks from the quarters in which Jacque lived in 1941.

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to Yokosuka, Japan, where it all started for Jacque and me in 1949, when she was living in Kyoto, Japan, and I was serving on board a ship operating out of Yokosuka.

In Yokosuka we toured the naval base and the Japanese memorial battleship MIKASA and attended a briefing by Commander Naval Forces Japan.

In Seoul, South Korea, on 22 June, after a briefing by Commander Naval Forces Korea, we attended a ceremony in Inchon to dedicate and unveil a bronze relief honoring U.S. Navy personnel who served in the Korean War. On 23 June we visited Panmunjom and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the Joint Security Area, Freedom Bridge, Bridge of No Return, and the Conference Room in which the negotiations to end the Korean War were conducted. We were permitted to take a few steps into North Korean territory so that we could tmthfully claim that we had visited that country.

On 24 June we were treated to a special cruise on the Hon River, and on 25 June we attended the U.S.-South Korean commemorative events marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. These events included an address by South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung, during which he reported on the summit talks in Pyongyang during 13-15 June with North Korean Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong-il of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The South Korean people are obviously excited by the prospect of a relaxing of tensions between the two countries and the possibility of reunion with family members whom they have not seen or heard from for more than 50 years.

This had to be one of our most memorable trips and one we will not soon forget.

Year 2000 Christmas Ball Mark your calendars—Al Olson '45, called to say that the Annual Christmas Ball will be held on Thursday, 7 December 2000, at the Fort Myers Officers' Club. This change of location is due to the fact the Bethesda Officers' Club is probably closing this fall.

Santa Fe Rendezvous Pat and Dale Cox recently visited Santa Fe with an artists organization. Breaking away from the art group, they had a wonderful reunion and lunch with Rene and Laughlin Barker at a classic restaurant in the Plaza.

Dale reports that the Barkers have five children and 15 (repeat 15) grandchildren who keep them really busy buying birthday presents. Although Laughlin is semi-retired, his spare time is taken up by offering free (and wise) advice to his two sons who are mnning the family real estate empire.

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"Updates" Requested Classmate Dale Cox will be editing the special "West Coast Edition" of our Class column for the month of April 2001. He requests that Classmates west of the Rockies send updates on their activities to him at the following address: Box 41, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274.

Send to Dale before the end of this year, please.

Coming Up • "Sunshine" Aubrey and "Floating Mine" • Report from Dick Walker • Lew Walker and CyberSpace • Bill Jacobs and the December '44 Typhoon • Mike Strohl in Saudi Arabia • Dick Phelps and the May '45 Typhoon • "Van" Van D u s e n and the M a y ' 4 5 Typhoon • And.. .More!.. .Much More!

That's '43 Family for Today and Proud to Be '43!

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Pres: Fred Schnurr Annapolis Rep: CAPT Charlie Rozler, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT William L. Bennet Jr., USN (Ret.) 46910 Grisson St., SterUng, VA 20165 h: 703-404-4882; e: boppab@earthlink.net

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Pres: CDR Everett Parke, USN (Ret.) Secy: CDR Robert O. Sherman, USN (Ret.) 4208 Ormond Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304-1621 h: 703-370-5867; e: rosherm@aol.com In Memoriam Ken Lyons '46, kindly notified us of Steven Callaway's death. Steven, who was in the 13th Company, suffered with Alzheimer's for an extensive period, but died of pneumonia on 1 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 0 . S t e v e n ' s wife, Mary Frances, lives at 26 Dianne Avenue, Portsmouth, RI 02871; 401-849-7186.

Walter Lawson passed away 12 August 2000. Wally's wife. Donna, reported that he lived life to the fullest, even after a stroke in 1992. Donna's address is RED I Box 583, Quinby, M E 04770-9999; 207-444-5421.

William Chester's death was reported by Mrs. Timothy Elizabeth Woodbury of our Alumni Association. Bill was in the 19th Company. Bill's wife, Jane, resides at 46217 Bobcat Lane, Squaw Valley, CA 9 3 6 7 5 - 9 6 9 1 ; 209-338-2004.

We are informed again by Mrs. Timothy Woodbury that George Griffith, 11th Company, passed away 3 July 2000.

Ed Elliot reports the death of Lois, his wife of 54 years and mother of their three children: She passed quietiy and peacefully, asleep on the living room couch, in her own home.

We had been talking together when she decided to take a little nap. We miss her greatly.

E d ' s a d d r e s s is 11 U n d e r b i l l D r i v e , Southampton, NY 11968; 516-283-2696.

Bill Hayler sent a card to his Youngster Year Roommate, Red Henry, with whom he had lost touch over the years. He received the following reply from Ruth Henry: Dear Bill, Received your card but I am sorry to teE you that my husband passed away 27 March 1999.

He had multiple myeloma. He often talked about the Academy and the different friends and roommates. He attended many ArmyNavy games in Philly and would run into Classmates. He had many fond memories of Annapolis. Thanks for remembering. He would have been thrilled hearing fi'om you.

The Way We Are From Gerry Patton: Evelyn and Bob Coulthard came down from Denver to attend a Fourth Company reunion at my daughter's home in Monument, CO (right across 1-25 from the Air Force Academy).

We have met in this way several times in the past—always a great occasion.

My wife, Ellie, and Evelyn were roommates during our graduation June Week.

i A ' J* Jerry Patton with Evelyn and Bob Coulthard My surviving roommate, Lloyd Kuhnmuench, reported that the '45 light was not functioning when he visited the Academy and that the stmcture appeared in some disrepair. Larry Shaffer investigated and contacted Mr. Paul O'Neill of Public Works Facilities, 410-293-1274. Mr. O'Neill explained that the controlling computer in the light fails periodically and must be reprogrammed. So, cast a discerning eye on our light whenever you're in the vicinity—it shouldn't be necessary for Kuhn to travel all the way from St. Louis to keep our light buming bright.

When Spook Elliott asked if anyone else in the Class is still actively flying, Ken Lissy responded that indeed he is and ...flying is not inherentiy dangerous except when Ken Lissy is airborne in rental Pipers at Sportsman's Airpark at Newberg, OR. Pass this along to Spook.

Bill Pledger sends the accompanying photo of his nephew James Pledger '72, Jim's son ENS Edward D. Pledger '00, and himself "By coincidence the three of us graduated exactiy 28 years apart."

Are we up to date?

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46 Great Uncle Ed Pledger with his nephews of different generations

Helen and I ventured south tiiis year and met one of the ttnly fine gentiemen in oiu- Class, Ed Conklin, in Southem Pines, NC. Ed left the Navy in 1946 intending to become a Navy chaplain. Upon completion of his studies at Virginia Episcopal Seminary he was assigned to Kentucky where his only contact with the Navy was through Marjorie and Bert Findly when Bert was assigned at the Naval Ordnance Plant, Louisville. Ed lost his wife this past year, but has family in the local area. Although retired, Ed spends four to five days a week volunteering at the Moore Coimty Hospital.

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The Way We Were The accompanying photo, sent by Don Hill, was taken from an obituary of Robert Gilmth who is pictured being honored by President Kennedy. Mr. Gilmth led the team that created the basic design for Project Mercury, the program that put the first American into space.

Don notes "Shep (Alan Shepard) was about 40 in 1962. How youthful!"

In August, Fran and Bob boarded NANTUCKET to cruise the St. Lawrence Seaway.

They encountered more locks, which lowered the ship 226 feet heading seaward. Stops on the cruise included Montreal, Quebec City, Gaspe, Charlottetown, Lunenburg, and finally, Halifax.

In spite of nearly everything, the proposed Tennis Toumament at the 55th took place as scheduled, but it wasn't easy. We accepted entries before we had someone to handle the toumament and before we had reserved any courts. Fortunately, in March, Hank Glindeman (10), Melboume, FL, volunteered.

Then, we had to arrange for some courts. We had planned on using the courts at the Del until they all disappeared in the rework of the grounds incident to the $50 million renovation, and then, the new replacement courts would not be ready in time. Bob Williamson (2), the Coronado coordinator, was handed the job of finding other courts which we could use at our desired time. He identified several possible sites and made arrangements for Hank to select the one he preferted when he arrived in Coronado. Finally, the tournament was played on the City of Coronado courts on Glorietta Bay Boulevard almost directly across the street from the Del. The number of actual participants had dropped from the expected number determined by the Blue Card survey and, as a result, doubles play including everyone was the only suitable option. Once the players started warming up and hitting the balls, things fell into place. Teams were paired by the luck of the draw and played a two bracket double elimination format. Everyone had a good workout. The cooperation of the City's tennis pro helped make things go very smoothly. All courts were used and, as a result, teams were able to maintain constant play until the toumament was finished. The winners were: Hank Glindeman paired with Georgette King, wife of J.D. King (12).

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Pres: VADM Charles H. Griffiths, USN (Ret.) Vice Pres and Annapolis Factotum: CAPT Jim W. Foust, USN (Ret.) 1914 Sleepy Hollow Lane, Annapolis, 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 Kennelly 7911 Sleaford Place, Bethesda, MD 20814-4625 h: 301-654-7315 Corr. Sec'y and Chairman 55th Reunion: CAPT Ed Ellis, USN (Ret.) 5229 Barstow St., San Diego, CA 92117-2202; p: 858-278-8665; f: 858-576-0979 e: edmhe@aol.com We have reports from more travelers. Dona and Bert Decker (18) departed about three weeks after the 55th and spent six weeks traveling in Europe. They took two organized tours and traveled independently before and after each tour. They spent five days in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Munich, and Berlin. Additionally, they visited Helsinki, Tallinn, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Bavaria. They tried to stay close to the railroad stations. Bert said it was a great trip but didn't say how many suitcases they had or how they got their laundry done.

Closer to home, in July, Fran and Bob Gautier (7) craised from St. Louis to St. Paul in the paddle wheel steamboat MISSISSIPPI QUEEN going through 27 locks. They found Mark Twain's Hannibal, MO, especially interesting. They particularly enjoyed the small town friendliness of La Crosse, WI, and Red Wing, MN. They've been on several of these Mississippi River cmises and should be able to give us some thoughts for our "57th and a Half" (Personally, I like the idea of either starting or ending in St. Louis in the fall and cmise along the northem part of the Mississippi, or the Ohio or Missouri. Additionally, the Gateway Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion under it in St. Louis are excellent. Are there any more ideas?)

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The mnners-up were Forrest Parry (5) and Avery Jones, the wife of A.C. Jones (5).

'46: L to r: Ann Collins, John Collins (15), Sam Anders (5), Bud Willett (17), and Millie Anders

Avery Jones and Forrest Parry with their trophies

Identifying people in photos is going slowly, but, here are more photos from the 55th.

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I deeply regret to report the loss of the following from our '46 family: Marigold Gorton, the wife of Robert J. Gorton (5), died unexpectedly of a heart attack in San Diego on 14 August 2000. She was bom in Quantico, VA, and as a Marine j unior had spent her early years at a number of Marine Corps installations. She and Bob were married 22 December 1945. She was an avid golfer, bridge player and cook and had maintained an active retirement which included extensive travel. She is survived by her husband, one son, three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Ferdinand Brailer "Fred" Koch died of cancer in the Hospice of Northem Virginia on 8 August 2000. He was a naval aviator whose

assignments included command of an attack squadron in INDEPENDENCE, a carrier air wing in SHANGRI LA and command of JOHN F. KENNEDY. During his tour, KENNEDY made a

much heralded 3,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic and through the Straits of Gibraltar before it was believed to have been detected by the Soviets. After retirement, he served as a consultant to the Northrop Corporation from 1976 to 1994. He is survived by EHzabeth Lynch Koch, his wife of 50 years, one son, one daughter and four grandchildren.

A recent report advises that James Patrick Cartmell (20) died about two years ago. No other information is presently available.

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Curtent plans provide for the West Coast Army-Navy Game Party to be held at the Harry Watsons' in Poway, a suburb of San Diego. If you're not on the local mailing list and want information on this, send your request to the Class Corresponding Secretary.

Finally and very importantiy, please note that Ed Ellis's address in the masthead of this column has changed. He has not moved but will terminate his post office box address by tiiie end of the year.

Bea, and Joyce and I agree that we were fortunate to be together on this tour, to be reasonably healthy for our years, retired and living where we choose—the Donohughs in Hawaii and the Lawlers in Naples, FL. Beat Army! Gene Lawler By email: For many years I have fought getting a computer for my home, but our kids ganged up on us. While we were away for a few days in Branson, MO, they took it upon themselves to get us a new computer, and when we got home it was all set up for us, so 1 thought I should give you my address, since you have asked for it from everyone. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the dam thing, since it is so much different from Annual Membership: 31% the one I use at my office. Everything is great Life Membership: 54% here, and we are looking forward to the rePres: VADM John "Jake" G. Finneran, USN (Ret) union next year. Al Rusher Sec'y: Chester "Chet" H. Shaddeau Jr. Final Honors 343 Prestonfield Lane It is our sad duty to report the deaths of JoSevema Park, MD 21146-1512 seph David Gleckler and of David Barker h: 410-647-5868; f: 410-647-2453 Hubbs, and we extend the sympathy and cone: stadir@erols.com dolences of the Class to their families. Complete obituaries will appear in Last Call as soon as available.

And we receive with sortow the following from Bob Peniston: It is with the deepest regret that I report the passing of my wife Fran on 30 August.

She battled colon cancer for a year in a courageous manner, never giving up until the final two days.

There is just nothing more to say except that I was always proud of the way she L to r; Don and Bea Donohugh, Joyce and Gene Lawler, served with such distinction as the Captain's aboard ERASMUS, cruising the Rhine and Danube lady of the four ships I was fortunate to command.

The Mail Buoy She will be buried in the Stonewall JackOn 1 July, it was our good fortune to meet son Cemetery in Lexington, next to our son, up with Bea and Don Donohugh in who died in 1975 while a student at WashAmsterdam to join a USNA Alumni tour ington and Lee University. When my time called Europe's Grand Continental Passage. comes, I will join her on the other side. With We boarded a beautiful river cmiser there best wishes, I am. Sincerely, Bob with about 20 other Navy alumni and their Culture Comer spouses, along with 25 from Notre Dame, 25 from Northwestern, and 17 from ColoFor those of you who don't already know, rado U. The ship, ERASMUS, is 300 feet long, Duncan Packer not only practices law, but draws only 4.5 feet, has both bow thmsters holds a degree in Art History from the Uniand screws that rotate fully around a vertiversity of London. His service as a docent at cal axis. As a result, she could make a 360° the Corcoran Gallery put him in a forewamed tum within her own length. position, and when he learned that the The trip took us up the Rhine, through Corcoran would host the great traveling exlocks and canals to an elevation of 1000 feet hibit of the paintings and sketches of Norman above sea level near Nuremberg. Then we Rockwell, arguably the most popular Ameriwent down the Danube all the way to Budapest, having stopped to visit about can painter of all time, he suggested to the DC/ twenty German, Austrian, and Hungarian VA/Annapolis group that they do a joint tour. villages, towns, and cities enroute.

It came off as planned on the 23rd of AuThe ship was clean as a whistle, the food gust, with Dune leading one of three groups, outstanding, and the service superb. The and the whole gang staying for lunch together weather was more cloudy than sunny, but in the Gallery's Cafe des Artistes. The that proved to be no problem, because the Finnerans, Oilers, Doyles, Urbans, Staceys, grads got along incredibly well, even NavyAlbertses, Coerpers, Kisers, Talcotts, Notre Dame veterans! Lots of new friendCumminses, Days, Bakers, Bob Smiths, ships developed, an experience that has been Apperts, and Bob Thompsons, as well as Roseunplanned, but a really remarkable feature of these USNAAA trips (this was our sixth). mary Enright, Suzanne (Brittain) Stroup, Chet Don and I had not met at USNA nor since Shaddeau, Warren Johnson with two friends. graduation, so we enjoyed getting acBob Marmet, Frank Readdy, Chan von quainted. As you probably know, Don added Schrader, Ted Watts, and Lillian Duden with luster to his Navy career by becoming a phyher daughter made up the crowd. sician and doing highly commendable work The show will open at San Diego about the in both the USA and overseas. Now Don and

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time you read this, and go on to Phoenix and then to Stockbridge, MA before closing at the Guggenheim in New York. See it if you can— it's well worth the trip, and the crowds in Washington were terrific!

Musings I was so pleased at the quantity and quality of input from the Class for last month's fullup column that I was literally blindsided by the extreme dearth represented in this one.

Since there is so much empty space, and it has weighed so heavily on my mind, I have decided to use a little of it to call a few things to your attention: First of all, our ghost list of '47 graduates is down to two—officially. But realistically, I cannot truthfully make that claim because Classmates who were formerly accounted for keep disappearing and taking up my and the Association's ergs searching for them—only to then tell us that "Gee, we just forgot to tell you we had moved", or "we just forgot to renew."! There is a short, accurate, and scatological noun for this that we cannot use in a magazine of this quality. You are all grownups, and you know how to use a phone—or email— or pen. I appeal to all of you to be as careful in notifying us of changes (including phone and area codes) as you are with the rest of your family. One helpful move, as I have stressed before, is to sign up for Life Membership. Even at this stage of our lives, it's a bargain, and makes for one less thing to remember!

I touched on email briefly above, but daily it becomes a more active fact of our lives. I am fully aware that there are a great many of you who have email access but have not chosen to join up with the Class list on CYBERSEVERN47—in spite of repeated invitations in these pages to do so. I cannot imagine why, and it is of course your own business, but please reconsider. You can reach me at the email address shown in the column's masthead.

If you think about it, you will realize that in a sense, I am preaching to the choir—which is to say that if you are reading these lines, you at least are reading Shipmate, and hence are a member of the Alumni Association, either Life or Regular, which fully fifteen percent still are not\ Do a little missionary work. Talk it up to those you know who don't have the opportunity to scan these lines of deathless prose each month, and ask 'em to get with the program!

And in that last paragraph I used the word "deathless".

A look in the mirror or at this column's location relative to the center staple in the magazine will remind you, if any reminder is needed, that no group or person is deathless.

Just as I am sure that you have already provided to the best of your ability for the wellbeing of the family and loved ones we must all leave behind someday, please do the same for your Classmates by assuring that an up-todate and complete bio and a photo of your choosing are on file with your Class Secretary. Nothing is more heartrending than to have 67

to make up for tiie almost total absence of any lifetime data since graduation by asking a wife or child to add to their grief and preoccupation by trying to provide this information at tiie time of loss, ff you need any help with it, call me. Do it now.

Quick Takes Bob Marmet sent us a copy of a recent issue of Frederick, a beautifully produced slick magazine, devoted to the town and county of Frederick, MD, where his farm home is located, and which carries a full-page photo and excellent story on his wife Barbara, celebrating her ten years as owner and operator of local radio station WAFY-FM, known as "Key 103". When we asked if he wanted it back, he said no, thanks, and admitted he had bought up an awful lot of their press run! Who wouldn't be proud?! ...Nat Heller called just before departure from his stateside home in Florida. He and Olga are headed back to Caracas, Venezuela to stay for a while...an email message from Rick Warren alerted me to the 80th birthday celebration at the Academy O and F Club—with all her loved ones— of Helen (Bunny) Sisson, Luke Sisson's widow. We may have a photo for you in the next issue... Vem Dupy called from Florida.

On their way to visit friends and kids in Colorado, Michigan, and Chic ago... George Grove was off recently to a reunion with shipmates of MONTEREY (CVL26) in which he was Gun Boss, 1952-53. He claims it was his best job in the Navy!—no guns, since the ship had offloaded and mothballed them!...

Which brings us to the bottom of a very skimpy bag. Have you people got broken fingers or what? CHS Now Hear This!

Don't miss the ship!! The lines for the 55th Reunion are singled up, the sea detail is posted and the brows are about to be taken in!

As of 10 September, 249 Classmates and widows had signed on for a total attendance of 476.

Two items need Class attention: 1.205 of the 249 have indicated a requirement for rooms at the U.S. Grant Hotel, but as of 9/1/00 reservations have been made with the hotel by only 173.

About 30 of the Class may be sleeping on the pier! Make your reservations!

2. The Shore Dinner is now assured at the Napa Valley Grill in Horton Plaza. Seventy-five of the Class have indicated attendance. At this time the Committee assumes that all who cannot be accommodated on the Dinner Cruise will want to attend the Shore Dinner. Expected attendance at this function will be about 125.

San Diego, 31 May—3 June 2001. Be there!

Hank Ruppel

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Sec'y: CDR Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302-2903 h: 703-549-8739; e: sk48moore@aol.com With this column, Jane and I are back in Alexandria for the next six months, as is our routine. At this stage in life, routines tend to be fragile, but we intend to follow this one until we settle for another. Although we have been doing this for many years, lots of folks lose track of where we are, and so we keep our phone recorder working at the "other" location and try to remember to unload it from time to time. And, of course, the mail is forwarded.

You may recall that a few years ago, Fran and Fred Jackson moved out to the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, and have from time to time sent along glorious descriptions of the magnificent area in which they live, including lots of winter. They can't understand why everyone doesn't move out there, but on the other hand they want to preserve the quiet, and might shoot the next settler who shows up. With the serious wildfires raging through that part of the state and the Bitterroot Mountains going up in smoke, I sent an email around the middle of August to see if they were OK. I've had a couple of replies, and they are OK. In a word, they do not live in the forest, and the fires have limited themselves to the forest and some fields. The fires have been as close as five or six miles, plainly visible through field glasses and not a pretty sight. But, they have had smoke, lots of it, blotting out the sun. From the 14 August email: Today,rightnow, the sun is shining enough to cast shadows. But there is still smoke in the air. We were told it was cloudy this moming, but who could tell? Conditions change with the wind. Generally, for the last two weeks, it has been very thick with smoke. It presents an eerie feeling. It is very quiet— no lawn mowers, no birds, very few cars moving, just very still and little visibility.

Fred's last communication on 9 September: It has been a cool, mostly cloudy week with a few drops of rain now and again. This moming, we got a fairly good dose of snow in the mountains, and with the sun on them, they are beautiful. The fires are not out by a long shot, and some are only about 50 percent contained, but they are winding down and many of the several hundreds of wonderful firefighters are heading home. What is before us now, is the large task of recovery. There is little time to plant and stabilize the soil on the hills before the winter snows and the spring runoffs, but the attempt has started. From what little rain we have had, we have already had mud slides that, for a short time, closed our southem route out of the valley. Standing on our back deck, we can see the large areas of forest that have burned, but there are also some green areas.

Although there have been many that have lost homes, and more that have lost outbuildings, there has been no loss of human

life. There has been some loss of cattle, and, I am sure, some wildlife, but that has not been extensive. Many farm animals were evacuated to our fair grounds. Regrettably, some are not being reclaimed as there is no place to put them and no feed. Thefireshave really pulled the people in this valley together into a family. There is even some good that comes out of disasters.

As predicted, Carolyn and George Ball's annual Splash Party around their Alexandria swimming pool happened on 27 August.

George reports: The party was a success. The food was outstanding as was the company. For the first time in recent history we were deluged by a rainstorm, but this did not stop everyone from having a good time. All it did was create more togetherness indoors, and preclude any swimming. Dolly Rasmussen provided music for the sing-along after dinner, using our grand piano since her keyboard was ailing. Ifiddled(no, tromboned) with my hom to play backup for Dolly, and John Rasmussen played the uke and sang. We provided two kinds of grilled chicken from the barby and wine for those who did not prefer draft beer. The wives brought (and we all ate) hors d'oeuvres, salads, vegetables, cmd desserts. Nobody went hungry. Our son, Geof, did all the grilling, in the rain, and our daughter, Louise, and her two boys did the heavy helping.

Attending, with wives were: Ball, Shockey, Buhrer, Held, Fry, Ahem, Conable, Bartow, Reed, Harkins, O'Keefe, Carmth, Carlquist, Rogers, Sprince, Mertz, McGihon, Rasmussen, and Carlos Villarreal with June McEIroy. Single was Ed Sutter.

Bob Kenyon, the passing of whose wife, Mary Lou, was noted in last month's column, sent me a note in response to mine, concerning his status in Colchester, CT. For the record, not that the dates are important, but Mary Lou passed away on 9 May and was inumed on 19 June. The delay was to give the grandchildren a chance to end the school term without intemiption. I presentiy live in an apartment in my daughter's house. Mary Lou and I were in the process of moving when she was diagnosed. How long this will be is presentiy in doubt as my daughter has a tentative job open in Columbus, OH. We should know soon how that will shake out. I do hope I will get to see you both soon.

In the September column, I wrote of talking with Ann Dunwody after Ken Dunwody's death. In a subsequent note to me she expressed the following words: Thank you so much for your note and telephone call. I appreciate your setting up the memorial gift from '48 to go to the Progressive Nuclear Palsy Society rather than a wreath. As much research is needed to find a treatment and cure, I am eager for funds to go in this direction.

Since the mailer conceming our 21 October Homecoming celebration came out after my last deadline, and by the time you read this, the event will have become history, I can't provide a heads-up. I know the Moores missed Shipmate, November 2000

it since we were not back to the area in time, but I hope y'all were there, and that we beat Rutgers. I'll report later.

You need to hear from our Class Endowment Fund Committee: Notice: There are still a few days left before year's end. A donation now to the Class of 1948 Endowment Fund is a charitable tax deduction on this year's income tax. Take advantage of this benefit while assisting the Class in meeting its goal. We have reached 80% of our goal! Your gift now will be a big boost down the stretch!

Tom Woods sent from Alameda, CA, a page from the Bullis School magazine which features a profile on Classmate Al Van Metre, who departed the Academy Youngster Year, ended up in the Army Engineers, put in for Panama duty and was sent 36 miles from the North Pole. Today, during a drive through Northem Virginia, it would be hard not to pass tiirough a neighborhood built by Van Metre Homes. This prolific and successful company, started in 1955, has developed neighborhoods that cover the market from apartments to townhouses to single family homes (around 10,000 homes). Of particular interest is Al's comment: I've been in every business that has to do with the building business, except electrical contracting. We've had dry wall and heating and air conditioning companies. If something is in short supply, we start our own company. Where you can, it's the most efficient way.

He is known as a high-tech builder because he has always looked ahead to figure what the owner will want. He has been wiring homes for the Intemet for some time now. As most of you will know, Al is a yachtsman of distinction, has been closely associated with Academy sailing programs, and a member of the New York Yacht Club. He and his son, Beau, saiUng competitively until 1985 in a number of boats, but especially his renowned RLTNNING TIDE, won some 200 races. Al can still venture out in an Annapolis-to-Newport race and terrify the competition. He is one non-grad who stays close to the Class and sticks to the Navy.

I am very sad to inform you that Dick Bates died 10 August of complications arising from colon cancer, which had been overcome. During the process of retuming his plumbing back to normal, his system was attacked by a vimlent and rare infection which took his life. Dick was always involved in Class activities. He was editor of the Lucky Bag. He and Connie Uved in Arlington for many years going back before his '79 retirement when he was Commandant of the Defense Intelligence School.

Dick and Coimie's son, Rich, has prepared a comprehensive piece for Last Call in this issue, so please refer back there for a fine mndown on Dick's life and contributions. Meanwhile, there have been comments from others of note. Dick was an usher in Jane's and my wedding, and he and Connie have been our good friends for lots of years. Dick was a "very fine gentieman" in the words of Bill Barnes, another usher in our wedding.

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From an old friend of mine and a member of the intelligence community, Stu Beck '50, reminiscing about a two week turnover Dick provided him in 1959 in Port Said, Egypt: Dick gave me the best indoctrination/introduction to the Suez Canal, the locals, the contacts, the orientation, U.S. Consulate/ Consular Corps modus operandum one could possibly imagine or hope forâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as keys to a bachelor pad with a northern exposure on the Mediterranean and an eastern one on the Canal entrance, a 26-foot motor whaleboat with coxswain (Sayed), a Chewy with diplomatic tags and a driver (Sabdou), a cook (Ali), and a suffragi (Amr). What was best of all lay in the fact that Dick, in the short time we were together, gave me the formula to make it all work. After the turnover and his departure aboard one of the American President Lines passenger ships, which transported him back to the real world and a tour in Washington, I never saw Dick againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;my loss, because he was a great guy and I owe a lot to him for having launched me into a wonderful tour of duty.

Dick Bates was one of the tme leaders in the Class from the beginning. He was always ready to pitch in and lend his expertise. All will remember a recent chore he handled with super efficiency, that of the complex transportation (buses, etc.) during our great 50th Reunion. He is and will be missed mightily.

Incidentally, Fay and Bill Bames hopped off to Beckley, WV, to a reunion of MANSFIELD (DD-728) in late August, looking for shipmates of 50 years ago. First time Bill's been in West Virginia. In my experience, these old destroyer reunions are usually mn by some of the good of boys and often are scheduled back in the hills. They are great events, and the organizers and participants are dedicated folks.

More sad news. John William James died 25 August in his home town, Granbury, TX. I called his wife, Jo, at home, and she confirmed that Johnny had passed away at the Granbury Community Hospice, where he had been receiving care for a couple of weeks after a long stmggle with lung and bladder cancer. He was a submariner and commanded BONEFISH prior to his retirement in December 1969. He and Jo had celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary. They have a daughter in Arkansas and two sons in Dallas, three grandchildren and seven step-grandchildren. Jo asked that contributions be made to the Granbury Community Hospice at 3002 Hwy 377E, Granbury, TX 76049. A stalwart of the 21st Company, '48B, Johnny did a lot of sailing and dragging.

After retirement, he played some golf and he and Jo did a lot of traveting. I know that all hands join me in extending our heartfelt sympathy to Jo and the family. There is an obituary in the Last Call section of this issue with further details, and Jo can be reached at 4219 Resort Drive, Granbury, TX 76048.

Bill Borchert emailed from Chamblee, GA, that Bill Sangster (non-grad) died on 22 August in Atianta. Bill goes on: He had a distinguished academic career. I recognized him immediately upon joining Georgia Tech in 1975 after retirement. I saw

him almost daily for 13 years. As you know, he resigned Youngster Year. He nevertheless had many good memories of his year and a half there. From the obituary, one learns that he joined Georgia Tech in '67 as director of the School of Civil Engineering, having received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate in civil engineering from Iowa, and became dean of the College of Engineering in '74. He was active in athletics at GT, serving as faculty rep to the NCAA for more than 20 years, and served as president of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He had a very distinguished career, and it brings to mind all those Classmates who resigned before graduation, particularly after the war ended, during our second year. Many went on to do great things, and of those we have a meager record. For most, there is not even an address. A pity.

This time, I just received an email from Charley Meyrick '49, indicating that Edward F. McLaughlin died on 31 August. He is survived by his wife, Bettye, and sons, Ed, Bill, and Rick. Ed and Bettye came to the 50th and he has a great write-up in the 50th Book. He and Bettye met on a blind date at the '46 Army game. Ed was retired medically in 1950, but he worked for Raytheon in the missile business for 36 years, and was never far from the Navy. I am trying to get in touch with Bettye and the family, but am out of time for this column. More later.

I have included much information on the passing of Joe Wilson in the last two columns, but I must add that I received a wonderful upbeat and cheery note from Gloria Wilson together with copies of the homily from the celebratory service and family tributes to Joe. Space prevents my including these inspirational items, but I need to say that Little Joe was properly sent off to his Father.

The Alumni Association has provision for a number of Associate Members, who are proposed to the Association by regular members.

Prospective associates should be people who have supported the Navy and the Academy in some fashion over a significant period, and now include many diverse people including distinguished USNA faculty and athletic department members. Also included are Navy minded folks far removed from the Academy.

The proposal should state that the individual is willing to take on the membership, pay dues, receive Shipmate, and enjoy the Association.

It should also describe the reasons for advancing that individual for membership. As an example, I proposed my son, CAPT Sumner K. "Kitt" Moore Jr., USNR (SC) (Ret.), who, as his dad, has a distinguished Naval family background and career. Kitt, fifth generation Navy, served seven years active duty after graduating from Virginia ROTC, mostly in the submarine supply line and as supply officer in MADISON, an SSBN, becoming a fully qualified submariner. He had an outstanding Reserve career, including CO of the Reserve Center, Pearl Harbor. Now he gets to read the '48 Column in Shipmate firsthand. Alumni Association contact is Dave Church '67 (dave.church @ usna.com).

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Bill Clegg signs in from Toledo, OH, with an update on the Clegg family: I reached another milestone on 1 January when I retired for the third time, this time from the University of Toledo. I am now a professor emeritus in the College of Business Administration after 18 years full-time teaching, and three years teaching while I was still employed in business. Prior to that, I was employed at Owens-Illinois, Inc. for 32 years (including two years military leave of absence) in a number of managerial positions in engineering, manufacturing, and administration. While working at O-I, I earned an M.B.A. and a doctorate from the U. of Toledo, and also became a certified quality engineer and a certified project manager. Prior to that I graduated fiom Rutgers in industrial management. Finally, I also retired from the Naval Reserve as captain, following five years of active duty and 22 years in the active Reserve. My wife, Polly, (a former Navy nurse) and I have been married for 48 years. She also retired from teaching in the nursing field, but is working part time for the Toledo Board of Education as curriculum coordinator of nursing programs.

Our son. Bill K., M.D., is practicing medicine in Kalamazoo, MI, and our daughter, Kathleen A., M.D., is practicing medicine in Cleveland. We have seven grandchildren.

We have not heard from Bill Clegg in a long time, and it's great to hear from him. There are a lot of you out there who owe me one.

Please let your Classmates hear!

Captain Howard N. Kay Hall Finally, this one is in from Eddie Welch, former president of the Naval War College in Newport: I was in Newport recently for the reunion of the War College foreign students and to take in the Tall Ships visits. I spotted the sign in front of the Captain Howard N. Kay Hall and took a photo of it. The hall is a very large building where graduation ceremonies are frequentiy held for OCS, NAPS, and many of the other Newport schools. It is a great tribute to a wonderful naval officer who also was an outstanding community leader in Newport in his retirement.

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Pres: John F. Barrow Sec'y: RADM Ralph Ghormley, USN (Ret.) PO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 p: 703-351-0964; fax: 703-351-5864; e: rmghormley@aol.com Secy: CAPT Pete Swanson, USN (Ret) (Departing) RO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 Reports Washington Annapolis Nothing as of this writing.

Here and There Tom Parsons report: Hampton Roads '49ers gathered in July at the Chamberlain, an old, traditional, friendly hotel located at Fort Monroe on the Chesapeake Bay. Thanks to Arch Roos, who lives nearby, for setting it up. The turnout included Don Dahlman, Bill Dotson, Bob Fellows, Jerry Jones, Bob Kesler, Archer King, Tom Parsons, Arch Roos, Malcolm Thiele, Red Tolbert, and Don Trueblood. In August, our favorite seafood establishment, the Lynnhaven Fishhouse beckoned and we retumed. Jerry Jones and Red Tolbert drove down from the Northem Neck. They both are faithful attendees which is commendable considering the time they put in monitoring the growth of those EngUsh Ivyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or is it Americanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on Jerry's plantation.

Jack Magee noted the comment about Nancy's swordsmanship in Carmel in 1955.

He claims that Nancy is Class champion and knows of no challengers at this time. Should a contest of some sort be included in our 55th?

Harry Train has never been briefed on what retirement is all about. In addition to a full-time job, Harry is now part of a National Security Study Group the purpose of which, as I understand it, is to make sure we do it right, militarily for the first 25 years of the 21st Century. The diverse group includes Steven Ambrose, Lynn Cheney, General John Gavin, Newt Gingrich, Andrew Young, and is headed by Warren Rudman and Gary Hart. I am glad we have Harry included to keep that effort going in the right direction.

That does it for the while.

Marge Kirk sent this picture of Bette and Frank Sain.

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Jim Garibaldi and Bob Eustace Kay Garibaldi sent on this picture of Jim G a r i b a l d i and B o b E u s t a c e from a recent meeting.

Address Updates None.

Extract of the month: "He has a knack for making strangers immediately."

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Pres: RADM Roy Snyder, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Wayne L. Jensen, USN (Ret.) 499 Skyhill Court, Chula Vista, CA 91910 Frank Beal writes with news of a recent trip through Yugoslavia. He had a chance to see first-hand the effects of ultrahigh-tech warfare.

Pilots were able to select individual buildings in downtown Belgrade and destroy them with no apparent damage to buildings across the street. All this from 15,000 feet at night while under fire. He also saw the bridges at Norr Sad that were dropped into the Danube with no damage to the surroimding area. Unfortunately, the Danube remains blocked, with serious effect on the economy of southeastem Europe.

Frank concludes that it is tmly a whole new revolution in military affairs.

George Deranian, Phil Smith, Janine and George Irish, Tom Bigley, and Joann and Joe Pausner leamed of Dorothy Jensen's death in tiie July-August Shipmate and relayed tiieir cares and concems. Tom proffered the thought that "Death is not extinguishing the Light; It is merely putting out tiie Lamp; Because the dawn has come." All Classmates have been very helpful and I thank them. On 15 August Wayne made a pilgrimage back to Annapolis where Dorothy's ashes are retained in perpetuity. George Deranian observes that he and Jacky will join Dorothy and Wayne there someday. During the trip to Annapolis, Pokie and Don Fraasa took charge and arranged a dinner party with Caral and Ed Grunwald present. We had some great stories to tell and learned of Pokie's generous supply of chip cookies to Don's Company during his Second Class Year together with Ed's accounts of the uses of air power during the Bay of Pigs.

Doug Michie sends a picture of Ray Skelton and Doug in front of TURNER JOY which is on permanent display in Bremerton. Ray could Shipmate, November 2000

not make it to the 50tii Reunion so they had a our country. Leighton W. Smith '62, Chairmicro-reunion on 31 July when Ray and Lois man of the Board USNAAA, comments in tum came over from their home in Caldwell, ID. of actions of the Superintendent saying that Ray and Doug were roommates for four years we all love the Academy and what it stands for. We all want it to be all that we think it at the old school.

Roger Buck checks in to say that email re- should be. We all want to see "warrior gradugarding his prostate cancer resulted in an un- ates" who reflect the sense of honor, commitbelievable response from Classmates and their ment and courage that we saw in our Classfriends who suggested he could write a book mates and ourselves. We occasionally see on treatments and the results thereof. After things that we do not like, but what we really consultations with several oncologists, radi- need to remember is that John Ryan is one of ology and hormone specialists and urologist us. He has the same love, the same commitsurgeons, Roger concluded that he was not a ment and the same sense of urgency to maingood seed implant candidate and opted for tain the level of professionalism among those surgery. On 23 June, a radical nerve sparing who attend and graduate as we all do. He is prostatectomy was performed at Massachu- there every day. He sees and knows things that setts General Hospital. He was home three we do not. He is more than willing to listen to days later and got the good news that the bi- constructive comments and suggestions, but opsies showed the cancer was confined to the he is the decision-maker who, at the end of prostate gland and that he ought to be around the day, must stand accountable for actions for our 55th and 75th reunions. Roger has re- taken. Our job as Alumni is to understand that tained his bladder and has resumed essentially his higher authorities (the Congress, SecNav and normal routine. Roger offers to share his the CNO) have provided him guidelines, and knowledge and contacts with anyone who has with a great deal of common sense and command to face a similar choice of how to deal with perspective, he is carrying out that guidance. prostate cancer.

Bill Sharpe writes to thank Don Fraasa for Paisley Boney and Jerry Coleman report sending the 50th Register and history and tiiat Jody McFall died on 20 July 2000 of a points out that it is a magnificent effort on the stroke in St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jack- part of Daryle Tripp and others who contribsonville, FL. The funeral was on 22 July. The uted. Bill hastens to add that the history claims family asks that any memorials be made to St. we were "free of concem about the wartime Mark's Episcopal Church at 4129 Oxford Ave., draft or the prospects of World War II comJacksonville. Jody is survived by a daughter, bat." Maybe some were free of concern, but it Gardner of New York City; a son, Albert took several years, starting in 1944, for many Dodge of Marietta, GA; and three grandchil- of us to get an appointment. Bill continues that dren. Gardner McFall is an award winning while Daryle Tripp heaps praise on flag and author and poet who recently had her poem, general officers, he spares the feelings of re"Missing" taken from her self-described elegy. tired lieutenant commanders. Bill says he has The Pilots Daughter, published in Naval In- the greatest respect for the naval promotion system and senior officers, he just thinks he stitute Proceedings, August 2000. contributed as much, if not more, to the Navy Our Superintendent, VADM John Ryan '67, commenting on the media accounts of two even if he was outspoken about some things.

At the various area luncheons we had—in Midshipmen recently charged with sexual assault, points out that it is important to under- Annapolis at the USNA O'Club: On 4 Austand that the vast majority of the Brigade gust—John Cavanaugh, Don Fraasa, Ed abides by regulations and consistently displays Greenberg, Caral and Ed Grunwald, Rex exemplary conduct. Observing them closely Kilboum, Ed McLean, Tom Rogers, Tom Ross, through personal contact we could not be more Phil Ryan, Daryle Tripp and George Van. Auproud of their performance. They tmly repre- gust in Washington had: Willy Ayres, Bob sent America and the Naval Academy in a Oliver, Bill Kiehl, Daryle Tripp, Jim Lynn, manner each of you would expect. We con- Charlie Hirsch, Bill Smoot, John Cavanaugh, tinue to improve our comprehensive programs Ray Bowers, Dick Powell, Bill Rockey, Larry of instmction for all Midshipmen conceming Hawkins, Frank Stemer, Howard Portnoy, Tom expected standards of behavior. All Midship- Bigley, Amie Austin, Jack Ryan, Bill Simons, men are thoroughly instmcted on our core val- Norb Walecka and Milt Schultz. Roy Snyder ues and the critical importance of their char- was in Ireland. James R. Wilkins Jr., our Classacter development. A small number of mate, was on hand to see his son, James R. Midshipmen choose to learn the hard way, of- Wilkins III, swear in his son, James R. Wilkins ten with tragic circumstances. The recent in- rV '04 as a Midshipman. Charlie Hirsch, Bill cident is both tragic and disappointing for the Simons and Daryle Tripp traveled to Midshipmen involved and their families, but Fredericksburg, MD, to visit Gayle May, who it is an isolated occurtence, and does not rep- is living with his daughter. They report that resent the overall high standard of behavior Gayle's health is steadily improving. exhibited by the majority. The Naval AcadAnd, out in San Diego on 4 August we manemy remains completely committed to the aged to gather at the Naval Station Mariner highest standards. As we have for the past 155 Club: Stan Neander, Frank Cassilly, Dick years, we intend to continue to produce out- Martin, Don Elliott, Wayne Jensen, Mark standing young officers for future leaders for Fmdden, Gene Wisenbaker, Dick Thurston, Shipmate, November 2000

J.B. Fartell, Dick Smith, John Malloy, Dean French, Frank Taylor, Don Albright, Bob Muck, and Charlie Clark.

Ray Engle sends Aloha from Hawaii and says Classmates there are excited about the Class of 1950 Reunion in Hawaii in 2005. In line with that, Claire and Ray will be in San Diego the end of September to go over lessons learned from that group who ran herd on our 45th. We will try to guide them gently.

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Pres: Bob Small 874 Coachway, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-841-5167; e: rhsusna@aol.com Corr Sec'y: CAPT H.T. "Beau" Dietrich 9508 Woody Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066 h: 703-759-5006; e: beau9pnt5@aol.com Treas: John L. Woodbury Jr. 7515 Corinth Dr., Alexandria, VA 22306 h: 703-768-3848; e: jaywoodl ©juno.com Class Fundraiser: Guy Shaffer 344 Martins Cove Road, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-757-9086; e: ghbs51usna@aol.com Web site: www.usna.com/classes/class51/51a.html "He may tell that to the Marines, but the sailors will not believe him."—John Davis in The PostCaptain, 1805 Around the Class, Around the World John H. Orem, son of John B. Orem Jr., was promoted captain, USN, on 1 August at a ceremony held at NAS Patuxent River. He is currentiy the EP-3 resource sponsor in OpNav. Walter Stevens proudly reports that he recently witnessed the induction of his grandson, David R. "Trey" Buteau '04, into the Class of 2004. Walter spent 30 years in the Air Force, and Trey's father was an Air Force Major on exchange duty with the Royal Air Force when he was killed in an aircraft accident. After visiting both the Air Force Academy and Navy, with a bit of encouragement from "Old Grandad," he chose Navy. Way to go Walter!

Walter Stevens and grandson David R. Buteau '04 While visiting California this summer. Alberta and Wake Stornetta stopped in Carmel and Monterey for a few days. While there. Bob Hunter was a most gracious host at a get-together with local Classmates and wives. Those attending were Joan and Bob Hunter, June and John Armstrong, Sharlene and Dick Livingston, Alberta and Wake Stornetta, and Carol and Will Surman.

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The '51 Board of Directors in Action; Small, Raithel, Hilgartner, Woodbury, Kalish, Dietrich, Shaffer, and Hamilton ago Warren was Dave's best man, and 49 years ago, Dave was Warren's best man. Dave suggests that we collect photos of all USNA '51 related license plates, and have them made into a mosaic which we could submit to Shipmate for a cover in honor of our 50th Reunion. Please, each of you with a Class related auto, boat, aeroplane, dog, etc. license, please send in a good crisp photo to add to the mosaic.

Dave Weidenkopf and Warren Stevens Dick Dalla Mura recently showed Dave Ferree through his Clemson University Project House in Charleston, SC. Dick is the Clemson University Project Officer for this public exhibit of practical measures to improve the environment.

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Dave Ferree and Dick Dalla Mura In July, Dottie and Bill Johnson hosted a wonderful relaxed mid-summer party for the Annapolis-Washington gang at their home in Arnold, MD. As you can see from the pictures, a great time was had by all.

The Annapolis Capitol newspaper recently carried a lengthy article in its travel section about the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, FL. The focus was on the volunteer docents who lead tours of the museum. Among those featured was ' 5 r s own Frank Librato. The article noted: Retired CAPT Frank Librato said he never tires of leading tours. "Whenever I come off one of these tours...I've got an adrenaline deficiency."

His naval career spanned 20 years of active and Reserve duty, but almost ended prematurely in flight training when his F6F Hellcat fighter lost power on launch. The plane crashed into the sea in front of the carrier, which hit the plane and split it in two. Frank got out but was pulled under the ship and passed between its propellers. He was thrown about 25 feet into the air by the wake. He survived with only a scratch.

Board of Directors Just a line and photo to let you know that your Board of Directors is hard at work this summer insuring that the business of the Class is on course and that plans for the 50th will account for the myriad of details that will provide for the best Reunion even End Note It's been a real pleasure to have an abundance of material for the column this month. Please keep those cards, letters, emails and photos coming.

Thanks. Al Raithel

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Pres: CAPT Jacob C. Brown, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Leigh Ebbert, USN (Ret.) 2514 Culpeper Road, Alexandria, VA 22308-2133 e: lebbertl@juno.com Moving right along. Our 48th homecoming is history, as is most of the football season. Beating Army in Baltimore will be interesting to watch.

During a visit with friends the other day, I was asked, "What are you doing?" I had to stop and think. A concise answer was hard to come by. So, I rambled a bit, sharing the trials, joy and tribulations of remodeling our home in Alexandria; work at home-got to get that information in to Howard McCoUum for the 50th Golden Lucky Bag, responding to requests from volunteer organizations, e.g., church, charities, etc. But you all know all that.

The remodeling project has focused on my need to sort not only the Class material accumulated over the years, but other "stuff." So I find myself reemphasizing the notion, "How did I ever have time to go to the office, squadron, ship...?" Now on to the news.

Howard McCoUum reports that over 140 biographies and data sheets have been received. Keep up the good work.

Southwest Chapter at Picacho Peak; the Andersons, Carl Webb, and Sue Michaels

More Southwest Chapter; McCutcheon, the Loposers, and Kirk From the Southwest Chapter some pictures of Classmates at the Picacho Peak Cookout. The two pictures show: Donna and Mason Anderson, Carl Webb, and Sue Michaels at one table, and Ed McCutcheon, Judy and Ken Loposer and Pat Kirk at another. For Bob, yes, we do enjoy seeing pictures. Bob says, "We are not a stay-at-home family" and that they have been traveling this past summer, to the West Coast, Corvallis, OR, to visit grandchildren and to Jamaica. Thanks, Bob, for the information.

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Charlie and Lee From Lee Appell: "It has taken me close to 50 years to write to Shipmate (48 to be exact)." He sends along a picture of himself and Charlie Walsh taken at a meeting of the local chapter of the Alumni Association. He continues, "Charlie is a very busy yacht broker while I still practice medicine on a part-time basis." Thanks, Lee, and please write again.

"Buming Bush" to "Retire" jumps out at you from the front page of the Naval Postgraduate School, Campus News, dated 25 May 2000. The lead article begins with: CAPT Wayne Hughes Jr., USN (Ret.), affectionately known to many of his students as "The Buming Bush" for his authoritative pronouncements on "The Way It Is" over 21 years of teaching tactical and campaign analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, will retire for the third time in his 48-year career of continuous service.

The two articles in this issue described Wayne's career, his roast, and the first-ever NPS Operations Research Department Tactical Analysis Symposium held on 30 May 2000. The second article was titied "Hughes Gets Last Laugh": Operations Research Senior Lecturer Wayne P. Hughes Jr. had the last laugh at his 70th Birthday Bash, 30 May, when he was presented with a surprise of a lifetimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a civilian by the United States Navy. The School's first Chair of Tactical Analysis and also former Chair of Applied Systems Analysis here, Hughes, in his almost 50-yearlong Navy career, had three active duty commands; the minesweeper HUMMINGBIRD, the destroyer NORTON, and as Chief of Naval Education and Training Support.

Perhaps his best known work. Fleet Tactics, second edition, continues to intrigue serious students of naval operations. Pictures in the articles show Wayne with his wife, Joan, and daughter, Wendy, enjoying the Roast and Retirement dinner. Retirement? This phrase was in the final portion of the article: Students...will be pleased to leam that he will continue to teach at NPS as a senior lecturer in Operations Research, on a contract basis with the Navy.

Congratulations, Wayne, and thank you, Walt Locke, for sending me the clippings.

Bob Morris sends pictures of Tailhook '00 and says: Just thought you'd like to see a few of the Classmates who attended the 44th Annual Tailhook Convention in Reno, NV.

Art "Swede" Hedberg Bob adds: Corky Lenox was also present, but I failed to get his photo. Rats! The luncheon speaker was Gene Ceman, the last man on the moon. ADM James O. Ellis Jr. '69, USN, the banquet speaker, received a standing ovation from the packed dining room.

Thanks, Bob, and perhaps next year Bill Ott sends along a news of an unusual (at least, for him) change of command ceremony on 10 August at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. He writes: My son, CDR David Ott '81 was relieved of his command of VAQ 141 by CDR Gilliam after a very successful tour including Operation Allied Force, Southern Watch (Iraq) plus winning the Battle "E" and maintenance and safety awards for 1999.

The unusual part was that MG Boykin, USA, was the presiding speaker. Bill continues: David had served under General Boykin during a Joint Services tour and was honored that the general would take the time to participate in the ceremonies. General Boykin gave a very inspirational speech, which I wish I could have recorded, the gist was that our Military Forces are "Warriors" first and foremost and that their devotion to duty and country is what keeps us free. A simple message and well received!

Thanks, Bill, and congratulations. The picture shows Joann and Bill with their son and grandchildren (following page).

Stand-up comics. Need one to round out a program? Call Dick Smith, our own comic. Dick entertains groups in the Northern Virginia area in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, veteran's retirement homes and senior citizen centers. The Connection, a local paper had this to say:

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'52: The Otts Recently, he performed his routine at the Goodwin House, an Episcopal retirement home for a group of senior citizens. He kept them laughing for almost an hour with one-liners about growing older.

"Humor heals," he told them, "so let's have a few laughs."

Congratulations, Dick, it is very nice to know that you can make us feel better about growing older.

Keep up the good work.

Skeeter Carson sends along information that Emie Schultz, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, stood 13th in the U.S. Tennis Association National Rankings 2000 for 70 singles, and along with Graydon Nichols stood third in the 70 doubles.

Wow! Congratulations, Ernie. Skeeter, an avid reader of the column, for which I am thankful, offers a correction to the reports that the elevation of Mount Cook, NA, is not 22,349 feet (as I had in the column) but a significant 12,348 feet, and also tells me his retirement year was '98 vice '89. Thanks, Skeeter, for both corrections.

Ed Moser tells us of his missionary work in Tanzania in June: I was a member of the Mission 2000 team from the South Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. We worked at the Massama Girls School in Moshji to help them refurbish their school. Our immediate reaction upon arrival was that the American "Mommas and Pappas" would have quite a tizzy if they had to send their children to this type "physical" plant.

The school is located half-way up Kilimanjaro and has beautiful vistas. Ed painted the inside of several Classrooms in several buildings and then the outside, and remarked: The team had brought with us paint brushes, rollers and pans. The hosts were amazed by the rollers. They had never seen nor used them. We each had a Tanzanian work partner who was a teacher. We leamed a lot, and what a wonderful experience it was. A funny aside is that before we left the U.S.A., and at a training session, we were told that we would "bond" by the time we left Tanzania. One of the ladies who was on our team remarked upon our departure, "We didn't bond, we glued." (This was in the context of being very close in the 4x4 vehicles needed to reach the school.)

Ed, thank you very much, and I hope you share your experience with an article for Shipmate or other newsletters. Your comment that, "Here (U.S.A.) we seem to work to increase our wealth or livelihood.

In Tanzania they work to survive," is a powerful message, and Semper Fi to you, too.

I was delighted to receive a copy of Portney 's Ponderables, a paperback by Joe Portney published

by Litton Systems, Inc. (httongsc.com), dedicated to "My mentors at the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. 74

Air Force, and the Guidance and Control Systems Division of Litton Systems, Inc." Joe states in the introduction: It is appropriate at the end of this millennium to regress and review some of history's foremost navigational events and to unravel some of the controversy and mystery still surrounding these events.

The contents of this book is stractured in the context of historical ponderables...

The contents page contains intriguing tities like— Navigational Firsts-Columbus Found Longitude? and others; a Lost and Found Section as well as reference to The Cosmos and finally a section on Experiments. I have browsed through it and find the notion of solving the ponderables enticing.

Thanks, Joe, for sharing.

Sally and John Alexander have been a part of a local Maryland Public Television effort to highlight their programming values. I caught a portion of this spot recently and it was nice to see them. I was reminded of regardless of how different our dayto-day activities are, we are connected through our Class communications.

Seems I have a lot of mail this month of '52ers "on the move." I have enjoyed hearing of the various activities, and tmst you have also. I should have information about the football games, and Jim Fischer's annual seafood outing. Beat Army \

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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 h: 703-754-4492; e: djlocker@earthlink.net Webmaster: Paul Dudley e: pauld53@earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~pauld53/usna53 The first football game of the season was held on Saturday night, four days ago. It was a rainy afternoon and evening. As Martha and Hart Sebring and Sally and I were busy setting up the tables and gas grills for our tailgate, there were two rumbles of thunder and blasts of lightning right close to us. That was not a good start. Needless to say we got in our cars and waited it out for a few minutes. Fortunately, the thunder and lightning moved away and all we had to contend with was a continuous drizzle that did a number on hot dog

buns among other things. I am happy to report that the drizzle did nothing to diminish the beauty and luster of the Johnson Memorial Blue and Gold Table Centerpiece! It came through, a little damp, but unbowed. And, we had a good tailgate; fueled in great part by the big jugs of Dave Johnson-inspired margaritas that Mary Lou and Earl Griggs had whipped up. Amazingly, Mary Lou and Earl arrived very early (for them). Then it was time to go see the game—not a good move, although the fly by of two F-14 Tomcats was spectacular. The cloud ceiling was very low and so were the Tomcats. I would call it a fly through rather than a fly by—we basically were looking straight into their cockpits.

Sadly, that was the last time that evening that Navy looked good. The game was terrible. Our offensive line could not block any Temple players and could not protect our quarterback. Even worse, our run and pass defense could do nothing against the Temple offense. We lost and deserved to lose. It was very disappointing in that the Navy athletic director and head coach had been telling us this was going to be a Bowl team. I think not! An article in today's Washington Post quotes Coach Weatherbie as saying changes may have to be made. He won't find much of an argument from our group, although some of us might be thinking about coaching changes as well as player changes. For a more complete report on the game, check our Class Web page.

On the sad news scene, Chris Zirps received a phone call from Joan Kattman, daughter of our late Classmate Roger Kattman. Joan had the sad duty of reporting the recent death of her mother, Doris.

We send Joan and the rest of the Kattman family our sincere condolences.

There also is a binnacle list report. Bill Britten has had cataract surgery and reports that he is recovering nicely. By the time this issue gets out he probably will be able to pass a flight physical and will be close to optically insufferable (not really).

Glad you are getting better. Bill.

Don Hente reports that Betty has been having medical problems lately, the latest is hearing loss in her left ear However, that is not going to slow them down as they will be off on a long road trip in October visiting a son in Colorado Springs and taking in the Air Force game. From there it is on to Piscataway, NJ, to see their youngest son and their newest grandchild—their seventh. On the 26tii they will head to Baltimore to visit Betty's brother and sister and will then head over to the Academy to join our tailgate at the Toledo game on the 28th.

Don remarks: After seeing the results of the Temple game, my guess is that we are going to see two more Navy defeats. Oh well, maybe we can beat Army again this year.

I also leamed from Bill Britton that Pat Adams, George Adams' widow, is now ill. Keep her in your thoughts and prayers and keep Betty Hente in them also.

As promised last month, here is some news from Don Koch. He sent me so much stuff, it is hard to know where to start. However, he did give me one big clue. He challenged me to print his entire writeup on the 50th. It is a long piece, and not all of it is printable, but here is most of it: I'm just guessing that I fear a Homecoming visit in 2003 would bring on an extreme reality shock rather than refreshing and amplifying an old love for Annapolis.

Right now I still have vivid memories of June Week 1953, not May Week and not September Homecoming. I have memories of leading the 6th Company onto Worden Field, and not into a distant stadium.

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June 2003 is my 50th Anniversary, and I celebrate my 1953 comrades in arms who together were supreme—the greatest Class with the greatest achievers ever produced by the Academy— First Class—in charge, magnificent, young, forceful, beautiful. We were the leaders, not part of an overcrowded, vast and strange assemblage of professional alumni from other Classes that were "coming home."

I cannot risk my precious dreams and lifelong memories of great achievements by attending in September, not even to play geriatric tennis or senior golf. Not even to attend briefing sessions that will tell me how modem and great things are now, uh uh. I'm guessing that our average age is 73 or 74, and cannot even recognize Classmates in recent pictures in Shipmate.

No I don't think I'll go in September, which would merely be a painful competition with other visitors, naval and non-naval, for space, facilities, time, and local transportation. The Classmates with which I correspond have indicated that they will not attend in September (except for a few in the D.C. area) and have already planned on regional or local chapter June Week 2003 Class of '53 festivities and get togethers. I think that their plans somehow reflect my thoughts on September Week.

Remember, in the '50s we would occasionally see some "old grad" sitting on a now-not forbidden bench and pondering with wonderment the fact that he had actually made it and graduated firom this place. I too was amazed, upon reflection, to discover in June 1953 that I had not only actually made it, but had survived—in fact starred the last year of '53. Amazing. What a miracle!

And I'm sure that many of my Classmates share these feelings of our successful navigation of all the rocks and shoals. Where 1,180 started, 925 finished.

We're the Class of '53 that was so good it did change the world. We are unique, and we're still young. That's the way I want to remember you all.

And the shadows lengthen over Worden Field, and REINA MERCEDES partially blocks our view of the roads. (We took prizes of war in those days— it's probably unethical or illegal now and we'd have to give it back.) We see the two visiting warships up anchor and sail away: an Indian Navy aircraft carrier that had escorted a Peoples Republic of Chinafleetballistic missile nuclear submarine as a gesture of friendship to return the Los Alamos hard drives that recently turned up at a garage sale in Qingdao.

It's getting dark now, and the bugs are coming out...just like Plebe Summer 1949.

Thanks, Don. You can actually talk in person to many of your old friends at the September bash vice in your head at the June-May affair. Further, we are holding it in September so we don't conflict with all the other Classes coming back for Homecoming. As for the reality shock—it happens to us all, and yet the world goes on and we always have our reality of the years from '49-'53 and of the years of duty that followed. Finally, as a participant in all the big reunions since our 20th, I can assure you that they are absolutely great parties. And they are great with or without alcohol, as I have seen them slightiy buzzed and stone cold sober. We are a wonderful Class, and it is worth the risks, be they real or imagined, to come back and see for yourself just how wonderful we still are!

P.S. I'm not sure how many Classmates you have corresponded with, but Chris has positive responses from over 400 Classmates indicating they plan to attend (assuming of course that they stay on the right side of the grass). That makes a crowd of well over 800 members of our '53 Family. Next month I will try and print some of the other news that Don sent.

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There is a short message on our Web page from a former Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam who teamed to respect Bill Leftwich as we did. Realizing that not all of you are on the Internet I'll summarize briefly. The Marine, Jim Foresman '67, was a first lieutenant and flight leader for the CH-46 Transport Helicopters while Bill was the CO of the Recon Battalion. During a briefing for a Recon insert, the major, who was the flight leader for the Cobra (gun support) Helos, tried to take control of the briefing, disregarding the doctrine that said the senior flight lead of the transports helos was in charge. Lt. Foresman says: I sort of took umbrage with the major trying to tell me how the mission was to be run... after several polite exchanges, LtCol Leftwich took the major out of the room. When they came back I finished my brief and never heard another word about it.

After discussing Bill's tragic crash, Lt. Foresman notes "The Marine Corps and the country lost a superior officer that day."

I have received several bits of news from my Florida neighbor. Stub Chace. In a proud father piece he reports that his son Chris (chace@ saipan.navy.mil) is back at sea on his second major deployment in less than a year On the first, Chris as skipper of PONCE, took the 26th MEU to the Med for duty in Kosovo. He then recovered them from Kosovo and was ordered to Turkey to assist earthquake victims there. Then they participated in an amphibious exercise with the Brits and Turks. He was the only U.S. ship and turned out to be CATF. For this deployment he was awarded the Bronze Star and his fifth Meritorious Service Medal. He also made captain USN and now is the exec of SAIPAN and they are back in the Med escorting the same 26th MEU. (I saw on the net today that SAIPAN was sailing very near to the Montenegro area in case the bad guys act up again.)

Stub also notes that Chris married Frank Zimolzak's daughter, Sara, so he is a double '53 Junior. If any one would like to leam more about SAIPAN and Chris's experiences. Stub says to feel free to communicate with him by email. Stub also sent me a copy of a message he recently sent Earl Chaney. Stub and Earl had been good friends early on, but had lost touch. In this email. Stub brought Earl up-to-date on what the Chaces had been doing in the 47-plus years since we left Mother B. Si Kittler got an info copy and thought it was a great idea. He suggested that the Marine contingent all get involved with sending out brief bios of where they have been and what they did. It is a great idea, not only for the Marines, but for us all. If you don't have any friends to send it to, send it to me. If you do have friends to send it to, send it to them and to me! I can excerpt some items for times when the mail bag is empty and also use the info, if, god forbid, it is needed for the Last Call section. Thanks, Stub, and tell Chris we are proud of him.

Some short subjects: Hal Walter's (halwahjr® citcom.net) new house is completed, and he is moved in at Ted Taylor's Lakeside subdivision near Brevard, NC, in the Western part of the state, not far from Asheville. Hal put his house in Florida on the market in late March and sold it within a week.

He then drove to Brevard, walked a number of lots, selected one, looked at house plans selected one and signed contracts for the lot and the house in less than a week. Returned to Florida and moved all his possessions to Brevard where he rented a house for three months. The new house was not quite finished that fast so he wound up staying in Ev Truax's house for the final several weeks. But

he is now all moved in and Nancy was to have joined him on 26 August. That is fast work, Hal! Chris Zirps is still looking for current addresses for several widows as well as some of our lost souls.

He also is trying to get back as many of the 50th Reunion response sheets as possible. If you haven't sent it in, please do. As I mentioned earlier he already has over 400 positive responses. This kind of turnout means we will have to line up more lodging and find bigger places to handle our functions.

There are still a number of people that have not responded and there is a chance the positives could go up considerably higher Chris needs to get this high side number tied down as soon as possible so we can get the additional support contracted for while we still have some choice. These numbers are great and would probably be a record, certainly for '53 and very likely for any Class.

Current addresses are needed for Mrs. W.A. Holland, Bernie Grossman, Walter H. Wells, Ed Vigee, and Charles R. Thomas.

Lynn Boynton, who is Tom Fitzgerald's (atfitz@earthlink.net) daughter, reports that Tom is in the Keene, NH, rehab center after having a seizure. He just had his 70th birthday and Lynn says he would really appreciate getting email or snail mail from friends. His mailing address is 29 Blueberry Lane, Peterborough, NH 03458. Lynn says he has really been pleased from the initial response to her plea.

Bill Trueblood is now a docent at the Smithsonian Museum of American History and leads tours and talks on the display on "Fast Attack Subs and Boomers." Check him out when you are in D.C. I'll save letters and news from Jerry Swan, Bob Ruckman, Dave Johnson and comments on the football team from Ramsey, Furey, Dixon (E), Kucyk, Kauderer, etc. Please try to check our Web page frequentiy to see if there is news of interest as well as to make sure that Paul has your correct email address on the list.

Pictures this month include some more of Ed Chase's great close-ups. They are shots of Jack Morrison, Joe Smith, Marge Dumont, Steve Hostetier, Art Bivens, Bruce Borthwick, a shot of Phyl Smith with Tony Miller. The piece de resistance is a shot Lori Salgado took of Bea and Eddie Best and Paul Salgado holding the Salgado Gang (Bram, Ramona, Jeremy and Elena)! Eat your hearts out all you younger Classes!

Class Luncheons are on the first Tuesday of each month at the Fort McNair Officers' Club at 11:30 a.m. We sometimes have guest speakers and if we don't have a guest we do a good job by ourselves.

The Annual Class of 1953 Pre Army-Navy Game Luncheon for both USMA and USNA will be at Fort McNair on 28 November at 11:30 a.m. There will also be a regular Class luncheon at McNair on the first Tuesday in December.

Keep the cards, letters, emails and pictures coming in and let's all pray that the team shows significant improvement so we can realistically say Beat Armyl Dave

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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 Webmaster: Will Groom e: willyaye@hotmail.com Class Web site: http://www.usna54.net Class President's Message Edited extracts from September Web site. Mike Nassr has set up a tremendous deal with Turner Publishing Co. When we get 300 buyers for the book Fifty Years of '54, the presses will start to roll and the final edition will become a reality. For those who didn't get a brochure from the publisher please notify Mike at 770-649-7960. Time is a prime factor in this deal, so don't let it slip by. We are counting on everyone to do his part in making this happen. It is a special edition for a special Class.

We are getting closer to the 50 year point since graduation. Many Classes in the past have done special things on their 50th anniversary. One of those special things is the presentation of a Class gift to the Naval Academy. I can hear a lot of your remarks right now, but this is serious business. It is about the business of doing the right thing at the proper time. We need to do some deep thinking, and come up with what we, the Class of '54, wants to do at our 50th. Please let me and other members of your Executive Committee (Jim Bell, Herb Hope, Ollie Shearer and Fred Franco) know what your thoughts are. We are going to form a committee to assist us in this task and we will need all of the input that you can provide to us. We have a great Class, full of great Classmates, one and all. We lost another one last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tom Murray. We have come too far, together and we can't quit now.

Sad News We were saddened to learn of Tom Murray's (6th Co.) death on 19 August in Chambersburg, PA, following a two-year bout with prostate cancer. Funeral services were in Towson, MD, and burial in Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens near Baltimore.

We will miss Tom at tailgates, picnics and Class homecoming dinners. Our sympathies go to Mimi and their children.

Marge Dumont (widow of Col Tom Dumont)

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The following is a note from Mimi to Fitz: I wish you to thank the Class for me for the lovely wreath. I was very grateful that you and Bill Greenlaw and John Lyding were able to make the viewing and sorry Uiat the burial was so confusing. Tom was very proud of his association with USNA and having been married on 4 June 1954,1 had many years of making service friends.

Also thank the gentleman who does the Web site, that I can keep up with the Class. They do a wonderful job. I will always be grateful.

Our '54 summer picnic was held on 9 August at the Tilghman Island Yacht Club on Maryland's scenic Eastem Shore, courtesy of Marge and Fred Franco. It was a beautiful day, although the hottest this summer. Nevertheless, an early afternoon breeze from the Chesapeake and the big tent near the water made the festivities quite enjoyable. We kicked off about 10:00 a.m. and partied until 4:00 p.m. All attendees provided their own meat dish to be grilled plus a side dish to share. Herb Hope orchestrated the event and provided soft drinks, beer and bloody maries. The following attended: Gail and Phil Livingston, Dave Henry, Mary Ann and Tom O'Brien, Dick HoUenbach, Evelyn and John Lyding, Mary Dee and Ollie Shearer. Sue Deppish, Jane and Bud Foe, Pat and Herb Hope, Shirley and Noel Smith, Cheron and Bill Hargrave, Marge and Fred Franco, Joan and Dick Alger, Phyllis and Howie Canter, Mary and Dick Bums, Sally and Jack Dougherty, Ellie and Ed Dawson, Jane and Hal Wood, Marilyn and Jess Owens, Dora and Jim Bell, Bunny and Ray Pavia came down from New York, Kay and Buck McClellan. Ann Jordan, Bill Montgomery, Jan and John Juergens, Pete Vogelberger, Audrey and Dick Robey and Dave Fitzwilliam.

Shirley Smith, Marge Franco, Pat Hope, and Noel Smith at the picnic

Hope, Franco, Hargrave, and Dawson at the picnic

Bums and Montgomery at the picnic Shipmate, November 2000

Pavias and John Lyding On 12 August, a group of Classmates, invited by the Superintendent, attended the Reaffirmation Ceremony of the Class of 2004 (Plebe Honor Reaffirmation Ceremony) on Worden Field. This is a rather new evolution during Plebe Summer in which the Fourth Class, in the presence of their parents and the Class that preceded them 50 years ago, commit themselves to both the Honor Concept and the Honor Treatise of the Brigade of Midshipmen. This ceremony marked the Class of 2004's transition from a "learning" phase to a "living" phase with regard to honor. Prior to the Commandant of Midshipmen leading the Plebes in the oath of office (a reaffirmation), Jim Bell, our Class Vice President, spoke to all on Worden Field about what the honor concept meant to him, both at the Academy and afterwards in the Fleet. It was a superb speech and a copy of it was put on our Class Web site several days afterwards. On completion of this ceremony we proceeded to the home of CAPT Bruce Bole '78, USN, son of Anne and George Bole. Bruce and his lovely wife provided us with sandwiches and drinks and we enjoyed meeting and talking with the Superintendent, Commandant and several of their staff.

'54 attendees were Joan and Dick Alger, Dora and Jim Bell, Marge and Fred Franco, Cheron and Bill Hargrave, Dick HoUenbach, Kay and Buck McClellan, Diane and Bill Peery, Ollie Shearer and Ted Walker.

Post Army-Navy Game dinner as advertised in the October column and an "All '54" email. The plan for round-trip bus transportation to the game

in Baltimore and return to the Comfort Inn and Conference Center in Bowie, MD, for a '54 Class dinner has been canceled due to lack of subscribers. A minimum of 40 persons was required to commit to the dinner and bus company and only 28 were signed up by the 7 September drop dead date. Your scribe has returned checks received. Regret there was not enough interest.

Herb Trenham sends from deep in the heart of Texas.

On 11 August Peggy and I were in Orange, TX, for a historic event. The first ship I served in, ORLECK (DD-886), under tow arrived in Orange from Turkey where she had served that country well for 16 years as the TCG YUCETEPE (345).

ORLECK, the last of the Gearing Class, was built in Orange and commissioned in 1945. She served in the Pacific Fleet for 37 years and had a great record. During impressive ceremonies on Saturday, 12 August ORLECK was officially turned over to the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation of Orange County, Inc. It is the first time a ship returned to the site from which she was built after service under another flag to be preserved for future generations. She will be cleaned up and outfitted to be a tourist museum ship. On hand were former officers and crew, including about a dozen plank owners, Turkish naval officers and diplomats, members of the ORLECK family, and citizens of Orange. It was a patriotic weekend and more than one eye had a tear We topped it off with a barbecue dinner and dance at the VFW hall. Any Classmates who want to dust off their skills leamed on youngster cruise can drop in at Orange.

Our Class actor. Last month your scribe promised a sequel to Jamie Deuel's newest adventure on the screen. His role was a Commandant Chablanc of Ft.Valjean, a French Foreign Legion post in the Sahara. The movie was a 30-minute pilot to be entered in next year's Taos, Sundance, Telluride and other film festivals and was titled Fort Miserables.

Jamie gave the title line: "Legionnaires, it is here that is your miserable fort." Our masquerading Classmate said that his most lasting impression was of the several hours it took to return borrowed kneehigh, black leather, English riding boots to their original condition. Since the movie had a shoestring operating budget the troupe had to borrow most of their attire. Jamie was loaned a new, $470 pair of boots by the manager of a nearby bridle and saddle store with the proviso that he cover the soles with masking tape to keep them from being scuffed. It took Jamie over two hours to remove the tape with a small scraper and knife to dig out each scrap of tape from the anti-slip sole.

This past summer Jamie and Carol had the pleasure of visits from Marianne and Max Anacker of Switzerland and California as well as Diane and Woody Holtz of Charleston, SC. Max was in Albuquerque to visit a married daughter. The Deuels and Anackers had the pleasure of dining at a new restaurant without paying the tab as they were the 5,000th customer. Woody and Diane were visiting a son near Vail, CO, and stopped over for the night.

Jamie commented that Woody looked to be in wrestiing fighting trim although the still-red headed Holtz claimed that his ear lobe now weighs the 121 pounds he maintained as a Mid. Inputs to this column come via fax, email, telephone, U.S. and snail mail. However this month I got one unexpectedly hand delivered by neighbor, Pete Bennett '56. It seems that Jacquie and Smoky Gard had been on a Danube River cmise with Vienna, VA, friends from '56. Pete gave me a photo showing 1 to r: Ludel and Leo Koerkenmeier '56; Nancy and Pete Bennet '56; Roma and P.J. Wilson '56; and the Gards.

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If you haven't been to the Gaspe, we recommend it. It's unspoiled and beautiful, the food is delicious, and with the favorable exchange rate the prices are a pleasant surprise. Very few people there speak English. Fortunately, I recalled some of the fluency in French for which we members of the 16th Company at USNA have always been justly famous, and communications presented no problem.

Taps On 26 August, Charles J. Zadd died in his sleep after a one-year battle with cancer. He is survived by his devoted wife of 44 years, Nora Sheila, of 139 Carter Ct., Vienna, VA 22180; 703-319-0831; and his three children: Sheila Hartig, Patrick Zadd and Laurie Zadd. A Mass of Christian burial to celebrate his life was held on 12 September, at the Old Post Chapel, Fort Myer, Arlington, VA. Immediately following the Mass, he was honored with a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

Tom McBride passed away in March 1987. Tom was a roommate of Jim Thearle, Roy Heath, and John Haynes during Plebe Year. Tom had a seagoing careerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he graduated from the Maritime Academy 1957, then went on to a 27-year career with Lykes S t e a m s h i p Lines, retiring as a captain.

Tom and B a r b a r a h a v e a son n a m e d Thomas Christopher McBride. Barbara can be reached at 1352C Mardi Lane, Houston, T X 77055-6426; 713-465-8149.

'54: Smoky Gard guides '56 on Danube D o n ' t forget to get out and do your civic duty on 7 November. Now is your chance to help prevent, what your scribe believes would be, another cormpt administration bent on spending the excess tax money you've forked over, incrementally shaving our armed forces down to a dangerously low level and a relentless pursuit of socialized medicine for the whole country. Beat Tulane, Wake Forest and Army. OV

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Pres: LCDR Dennis Sullivan, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CAPT Thomas G. Kiefaber, U S N (Ret.) 11814 Triple Crown Rd., Reston, VA 20191 h: 703-758-1077; e: KIEF55@aol.com http://members.aol.com/us55na/index.html Ned Floyd reported that the San Diego area '55 contingent celebrated VJ Day at a luau in Coronado on 14 August. Those attending included: Teri and Tom Boucher, V e m Carlson with Diane Healey, Lynne and Ned Floyd, Bob Hammond, Lavon and Dick Jones, Pat Kenny (Chuck Kenny's widow), Liha and Jerry Kowalsky, Al Kozischek with Mary Ann Anderson, Scot McCauley, Penny and John Nyquist, Mary and Bob Price, Carol Schrader (Harry Schrader's widow), Peggy and H u g h Webster, and Karen and Bob Weir. All compared electric bills and chewed over the "Atkinson Essay." Many solutions to both problems were formulated but all found themselves powerless to prosecute any of them. Bob Hammond won the right (by having the lowest laundry number present) to draw the ticket for the remainder of the bar. Bob picked his own and passed. Next he picked Bob Price, who passed also. They just had to finish the mai tais and piiia coladas.

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Vera Carlson, Lilia and Jerry Kowalsky On the '55 listserv, Carl Strang gave us the lowdown about their latest venture: For 30 years I had wanted to visit the Gaspe Peninsula in Eastem Quebec, and last month our wish was fulfilled. Along with another couple, Sheryll and I piled into our trasty Cessna Centurion (which I had picked up new from Wichita in 1978), and headed north from home base at Bartow, FL. After a fuel stop at Fayetteville, NC, we passed the DC-New York area during rush hour along with a thick line of thunderstorms, RONed at Barnstable, MA, and visited our friends' daughter who is a marine biologist at nearby Woods Hole. Next day we flew to Quebec City, and after two nights there, we flew to Riviere du Loup, PQ, where we rented a minivan and toured the Gaspe for four days. Retuming to Riviere du Loup, we flew to Bangor to clear Customs and thence to Rockland, ME, spending the night at Camden.

Next day, after a pit stop at Hazelton, PA, we RONed at Charlottesville, and spent the next night at Asheville before retuming home to BOW the following day. In all it was 25 hours flight time of which 16 was actual instruments. I was the only pilot on board, but fortunately my friend in the right seat actually enjoyed trying to find airway intersections on Sectional charts.

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T h a n k g o o d n e s s for t h e Z i p f s a n d t h e i r interesting escapades: Peggy and I spent three wonderful weeks in Germany in July. Besides just general daily sightseeing in the southem areas, we built the trip around a couple of specific events.

We spent nine days in the Heidelberg area, where we enjoyed a social time with the three Otto A. Zipf scholars at the University of Heidelberg.

The enclosed photo (previous page) shows yours truly ;lstLT Shannon J. Massie '98, USMCR, ENS Matt Gull '00, USNR, and 2ndLT Jeff Beelaert '99, USMCR. Shannon was just completing her two years in Heidelberg, and was heading back to Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico. Matt had just arrived to start his two years. Jeff was at the midpoint of his two-year toiu', and had thoroughly immersed himself in studies and culture.

One of our day trips out of Heidelberg was south to the Stuttgart area. Here we spent the moming touring the Mercedes Benz factory in Sindelfingen, followed by an aftemoon visit to the MB Museum in Stuttgart.

We also spent a day seeking out a winery and vineyard in a small town north of Stuttgart. The Weingut Zipf, of no known family relationship, was a wonderful visit for wine tasting, purchasing, and camaraderie. It will be included on our fiiture trips to Germany.

Amongst our many highlights on this trip was our attending the Passion Play 2000 in Oberammergau. This production takes place every ten years, from May to October, in this small village, and is an event for everyone's personal consideration. The entire play is in German, and covers the life of Jesus Christ from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday. It takes the entire day for each performance. For me, this was my fifth consecutive performance.

While spending several days in GarmischPartenkirchen, we took a trip up to the top of the Zugspitze, which at 9,724 feet above sea level, is the highest peak in Germany. As one can see in the photo, our sweat shirts were a comfortable necessity in July at the top of the Zugspitze.

A good part of our overnight accommodations in Germany were arranged at AFRC facilities via an 800 number before we left ConUS. If one plans ahead, this works out very well.

'55: Ted Parker, Wes Saunders, the Kiefabers, the Holies, and the P. Taylors

'55: Rain or shine, crabs reign

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Glenn and Barbara Arthur MG cracking Mai MacKinnon instead of crabs

Wes and Ann Saunders

Potpourri More photos demonstrating the fabulous time had by all at the Saunders' crab feast. Look at the Outer B a n k s s m i l e s on the faces of A n n and Wes Saunders. They were on a short visit there which included lunch with Lyn and Dan Shield and Pat and Paul Sutherland. Talk about smiles! Check out newly weds Barbara and Glenn Arthur.

Correction The Washington, D . C , area Dark Ages Party is scheduled for 3 March 2001 at Hidden Creek Country Club in Reston, VA (not 24 February as previously reported).

Keep in touch with classmates. Update your email/mailing address^ ^usnaxom/misc/forms/changeaddress.htm fl or call 410-2634448 ext. 203

Last Muster Richard Tharpe "Hank" Henry (13)—2 Sept e m b e r 2 0 0 0 — H a n k had been suffering from Parkinson's Disease for many years. Although he has valiantiy fought the good fight, his body gradually eroded. He died peacefully. The family arranged for burial at Arlington Cemetery after a funeral service at the Old Chapel.

Arnold Charles "Arnie" Moia (13)—9 July 2000—Amie left the Academy in Febmary 1954 when his re-exam didn't make the grade. Interestingly, he went on to become a civil engineer, and earned his Ph.D. at Florida Tech, where he had been an adjunct professor for the College of Engineering since 1972. He was a retired project manager of PanAm and served as an officer in Strategic Air Command, USAF. A bit of Annapolis stayed with him—he was the faculty adviser for the Florida Tech Sailing Club.

He is survived by his three sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren.

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Kenneth "Ken" Morgan Fetch (9)—3 April 2000—Ken selected pilot training with the Air Force upon graduation. While serving, he and Pat settled in Lakewood, CO, and have Uved there since.

After nine years of service, he retumed and became a realtor. He is survived by his wife; two sons and a daughter; and three grandchildren, all living in Lakewood.

James EUwood Royer Jr. '57 (1)—26 June 2000—Jim Royer who had turned back to '57 midspring of our Second Class Year, died of colon cancer on Monday, 26 June. Jim had worked in the NFL since 1970 and spent 21 years in the New York Jets organization. He retired from them in 1996.

John "Jack" Slamming (22)—1 September 2000—Jack had a series of medical difficulties.

Toward the end, he had suffered two major strokes and was in a coma, and was on life support (which he did not want in circumstances like his) at the University of Maryland Medical System's Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. His family was with him at the end. His son, Ron, a petty officer first class, gave the eulogy. In attendance for the St. Andrew's funeral service were many of Jack's Classmates and friends, plus many of Ron's shipmates from the carrier ENTERPRISE. Inurnment, with miUtary honors, was at the USNA Columbarium located across Ramsey Road from Dorsey Creek.

Last Call Carolyn McCoy—Carolyn, wife of Jim McCoy (12), passed away 30 August 2000. The memorial service was held at the Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Sevema Park, MD, with interment at the church. She had suffered a stroke last year and had been fighting to regain her capabilities since. About with a diverticulites infection was the final ailment. Carolyn, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, had long served as the nurse to the Maryland Legislature.

She also chaired the Anne Arundel County Dmg and Alcohol Abuse Commission. Loving wife, mother for their two sons, and grandmother, she was an active supporter of Class activities. Contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Binnacle List An attempt was made to incorporate into our Class column the various ills that flesh is heir to as they occur in our Class community, but that hasn't been a timely pursuit. Nevertheless, the "ear of the world today," email does present the means to get that word out today. As illness, infirmity, and indisposition reaches more of us these days, consider using the 56USNA group service to reach Classmates and spread the word. Over 300 Classmates are subscribers, and they use the single email address 56USNA@egroups.com to accomplish this communications to all the subscribers. We hope you will too!

Around The Hom Orlando Mini-Reunion for Class—There were widespread hopes held by many at the time of this column being written that the '56 mini-reunion in Orlando, in conjunction with the Notre Dame game, will be a glorious victory and a gathering of cheer!

Pete Peterson (20) has made the arrangements for lodging and dining together. Hopefully, photos and reports on the weekend festivities will roll into the column in time for the January-February issue of Shipmate.

Notes from Doc Blanchard—George Mushalko (15) passed on a note that he received from Doc (4), who is battling cancer down in Hilton Head, SC:

'56: L to r: standing: Joan (McGarry) and Herm Methfessel, Pat McCool in back of Paula and Angus McEachen, Roger Lyle, Anne and Squirt Crone, Charlotte and Jim Smith, Nancy Keimedy; kneeling: Muriel Lyle, Don Kennedy

'56: The golfers; Squirt, Rog. Hemi, Angus, Pat, Jim. Doc and Don

'56; Award Dinner; Angus, Pat, Doc, Roger, Don; kneeling: Squirt, Jim

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First, thanks for your nice card. It sure helped cheer up this old sailor's bones. Since a great trip to Hawaii in May, I've been in the hospital three times for blood clots which are caused by the cancer.

Just received your football letter. Great piece of work! You guys are certainly more organized than I ever was when I first started this program in '81-'82. I'm sure all our Classmates appreciate all the hard work you put into it. I certainly do.

Couple of changes Sammy and I, and Anne and Squirt Crone (2) will not be attending the Orlando game and minireunion. Medically speaking, I don't think I'd be up to it. However, Muriel and Rog Lyle (4) will be attending. Also, Frances and Millard Allen (6) will be attending with a non-Academy couple. Additionally, I'm not sure what my status will be for the Army game. We'll have to wait and see.

Please extend my greetings to all those who gather in the parking lot for the home game tailgates.

Doc sent me a message in early September as well.

I understand from Jim Smith that you've had inquiries from some Classmates regarding my medical status. Here's a brief to pass along.

My colon cancer, with liver metastasis, has been a major fight for me for the last two and a half years. This has been especially so over the past two months. The cancer has now caused blood clots just about everywhere. So we picked up another fight here as well. This has recently caused me to be in the hospital three times.

This situation has caused me to give up golf in May until we get this thing licked. I have good days and bad days, am pretty much house bound, but Muriel and Rog Lyle, Nancy and Don Kennedy, and Charlotte and Jim Smith are helping Sammy make life as pleasant as possible. Basically that's it.

I have enjoyed hearing from our Classmates, and I'll keep up the good fight. Under present conditions, I don't plan any trips north or south for football games this fall, so please pass along my best wishes to the tailgate crowd. Beat Army\ New '56 classic established Don Kennedy (12) chimes in from South Carolina: Hilton Head was the site of a recent Class of '56 gathering. The occasionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The first Hilton Head Golf Invitational was held. Besides me, the other locals were Jim Smith (12), Doc Blanchard (2), and Roger Lyle (4). These salts hosted Squirt Crone (2), Pat McCool (6), Angus McEachen (18), and Herm Methfessel.

The big competition was preceded by cocktails at Nancy and Don Kennedy's home. Following the match, there was dinner and an appropriate awards ceremony at Charlotte and Jim Smith's home.

Whatever the various golf games may have lacked was more than made up for with boundless enthusiasm! Plans were made to have this as an annual event.

Future interest and entries are welcome.

Mid-West Road-Trip Report Gunnar Jenson (18) reports in from his quaint, small college town in Indiana. His h o m e is on Rockne Drive.

15 April is usually reserved for last minute tax filings, buy not this year. At least, not for Jim Gillman (7) and me. I drove from south Bend, IN, to Olympia Fields, IL, for a too short but very enjoyable Samrday afternoon visit with Jim at his home. This picture was taken on Jim's front lawn.

I wanted especially to take one for a Shipmate Class news column since our 40th Reunion Book did not have one of him in it. "I didn't send a picture for the Reunion Book," he told me. Yes, Jim, we know .. .nor does the Reunion Book say much else about you either!

'56ers Jim Gillman and Gunnar Jenson, 15 April 2000, at Jim's home in Olympia Fields, IL After some post-graduation Navy destroyer and submarine duties, Jim eventually became a patent attorney, I leamed. He has recently retired from his corporate patent executive position with Motorola (in '98). He had been handling patent and trademark matters mostly in the Far East, but also in the United Kingdom and Germany, for Motorola. A lot of air travel developed, too much, in fact, until it (and a longing to play more golf) became overpowering stimulants leading to his choosing to retire.

Jim's wife, JoAnn, made a brief appearance in her wheelchair during my visit. She is upbeat and a good sport, vouched Jim. I agree, as she was mockingly frank in describing how she feels having had MS for 25 years. "It's the pits!" Give 'em hell, JoAnn! There just has to be a cure on the horizon for multiple sclerosis.

When the Cubs won their season opener in Tokyo, earlier this year, Jim was there rooting for the home team and enjoying the company of some of the many friends he made in the Orient throughout the years while employed by Motorola. With him were his two sons, Scott and Todd. It must have been exhilarating for them to witness the Cubs win a game! (sly grin) It was especially so for them to see their father being interviewed by the television networks for viewers in the Orient and back home in the U.S.A. Jim informed them that he also has had the pleasure of attending Army-Navy games quite regularly!

Jim thanked me for initiating contact. You are welcome, Jim. A pleasure. But I can tell you one thing for certain: We won't be able to wait another 44 years before getting together again! Go Navy, Beat Army!

Orv Wright Returns to the States In the early days of the spice traders, it was usual for the ships from England, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal to be away for years. In essence, Orville Wright (14) went off-shore for a long period as well. But he just sent in word that he is a son (in residence) of Uncle Sam again. His new digs are found in Oswego, NY, these days. Welcome back Orv! Pipes & Drums at USNA Having read the below noted announcement, our Mai Malloy (10) rose to the occasion to pen some remarks: "The Pipes and Drums of the Brigade of Midshipmen will give their first performance of the Academic Year on 9 September 2000 at 10:30 a.m. at the USNA Visitors Center in association with Navy Way Day." USNA Announcement.

Glad to hear they are up and blowing already. I own a t-shirt, ball cap, and cap badge from the Academy's Pipes and Drums and have sent contributions to help them buy needed gear. In our day, I was allowed to play on the third or fifth wing side terraces during outdoor meal formations First Class and Second Class years. Seems that CDR Drew ("Muleskinner") liked pipe music.

The "authorities" reacted to pipe music then the same way they did to pipes in the Chapel for our services during our 40th Reunion Weekend. I'll be wearing the USNA P & D cap badge at the Estes Park CO Scottish and Irish Games in early September, where I'll be seeing Don McKee '67, who designed the cap badge, the large Celtic piper's belt buckle that I use, and the pewter shot glasses from our 40th Reunion. He is a drum major for one of the bands in the Intermountain Area.

For the past five years, I spent the day after the games with Hal Bauduit (24), who was virtually a shut-in. Unfortunately, Hal died this past winter.

August Mini-Reunion of Room 2002â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Larry Smith (14) hosted a slam-dunk gathering of his First Class Year roommates from Mother Bancroft. He reports the following on the event albeit John Lally (13) warned him to keep it away from your scribe!

Marianne and I hosted the Second Annual Reunion of Room 2002 (the two-room suite four of us occupied First Class Year). Jan and Moose Eagye (14) flew in from Sunnyvale, CA; George Biles (14) and his friend Janet drove in from the Pittsburgh, PA, area; and Dottie and Duke Edwards (14) drove up from Richmond, VA. We were joined by Bunny and Bob Perry (13) who drove down from Stanton, MI, about an hour away.

Even though Bob was in the sister company, we let him attend because he's the mayor of Stanton

'56: Preview of next month's Donkey Bash: last year's post-Army game round-table discussion at Nancy and Pete Bennett (13). Clockwise: Pete Bennett and his brother; Pete Fitswilliam (13) standing; Bill Doerner (20); Alex Morris (2) back of head shot; Jerry Green (2); and the unknown!

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(Bunny is a councilwoman) and we didn't want to offend any politicians in an election year!

We had a ball, as we knew we would because we'd all gathered at George's house in Pennsylvania in August 1999 for the First Annual Reunion.

Heard more sea stories in one weekend than I've heard in the whole time since I got out of the Navy.

We had the women in stitches, especially when telling our stories about Plebe Year. Nice to be able to laugh about it 48 years later—we are now out of the clutches of the likes of Dirty Al '53, Stupid Staser '53 et al. Took me an hour to haul all the empty bottles out to the trash.

'56 Gathering in West Virginia Driving over to the gathering of those with a vested interest in Goatcourt, I stopped in for a chat with Chauncey Hoffman (24). He was his salty best, and looking forward to a knee replacement so he can kick his heels again! His home in Washington, PA, is also where he was b o m and raised—bet that not many can say that in the Class. We had not crossed paths since the completion of Sub School back in December 1957. One neat aspect of him being back in the home territory, is that he is a beacon for the many Classmates who remm to the area: Willy Auer (24); Cool Sam Morris (4); Wally Bigler (24); and Ron A m o n (15) come to mind.

The gathering was at Oglebay Park, Wheeling, WV. Sarita and Norm Frith (3), and Rosemary and E d Covey (7) made the arrangements. The others this year (in 1999, we had met in Dayton, OH,) were Lorraine and Bob Shumaker (3) and me (Elie was l o a d e d d o w n with s c h o o l f u n c t i o n s — i t ' s h e r school's 100th year celebration).

Golf was a highlight. The Speidel Golf Club at Oglebay has two neat courses: The older course is the Robert Trent Jones design; the newer course, j u s t o p e n e d , is t h e A r n o l d P a l m e r d e s i g n e d course. Beautiful!

A special treat was visiting the submariner's place. Ed Covey runs the Ooga Ooga Farms.. .complete with a pair of goats! His place is on a West Virginia hilltop, right next to the state line with Pennsylvania.

M y personal treat was flying upside down in Bob's Glassair plane. Recall he built it himself Completing it caused a lot of trouble in the Class— "Honey, I'll finish the (project) as soon as Bob Shumaker finishes his plane" and dam if he didn't doit!

Being the quiet church mouse in this group, I heard many a tale that should be recorded here, but they took my pen and paper away!

Washington Class Luncheons Though the schedule of these luncheons is published locally by email and phone, there are many visiting '56ers who may like to drop by. Ted Shultz (20) reports the schedule for this season: 18 October; 30 November (a joint session with WooPoo '56 Cadets); 17 January; 14 March; and 23 May. They are held at the Ft. Myer Officers' Club. Please mark your calendars. Also, note the luncheons are on Wednesdays not on Thursdays as in the past except for the 30 November point luncheon with U S M A ' 5 6 grads which is on a Thursday. The speaker for the joint luncheon is being arranged by Rudy Daus (16). For those of you from out of town please email or phone Ted if you should you be able to make one of the luncheons.

Author, Please Step Forward Joining the ranks of authors in the Class, here's a report from Jacko Binns (15) out in Tucson, AZ: I am pleased to announce the publication of my book. The United States in Honduras, 1980-1981: An Ambassador's Memoir, by McFarland & Company, Inc. It was released officially 1 October, but actually was available from amazon.com.

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borders.com, and barnesandnoble.com earlier.

Amazon has the most complete description of the book. It is largely based on over 1,000 pages of previously classified documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and details many dysfunctional aspects of our foreign policy in Central America during that period of time.

Other news: Don't see many elder-Mids in this part of the world (or young ones for that matter), but I did get together with Tom State '55 when I was visiting Spokane in July. We hadn't seen each other since his graduation, though we had exchanged correspondence. We had a great time.

It was a bit sobering to note the passing of three Classmates, Tim Cronin (7), John Elliott (20), and Bob Ryan (19) in last month's Shipmate. Time is catching up with us, so I'm especially looking forward to our 45th next year.

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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: whp36@aol.com Sadly, I must again begin by reporting the death of two Classmates in the past month. Regarding, Capt. Bob Dixon, USAF, (5th Co.) I have only a brief note from Dave Cooper saying that he got a call from Clark Rook today that Bob Dixon died on 2 August of pancreatic cancer. His widow, Julia, Uves at 105 Lakeview Drive, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661; 256-383-6965.

The Alumni Association passed along the news conceming Bill McMahon (17th Co.).

Bill's widow, Mary McMahon, informed them that Bill had died on 16 July in Omaha, NE. Mary can be contacted at 402-734-0649.

I know the Class joins me in sending our sincere sympathy to their families, and we will keep them in our prayers. We will miss both Bob and Bill!

There has not been a great deal of mail this month; in fact, it seems Hke only yesterday that I had cleared the "incoming" basket of a record amount (that will appear in the issue you receive about a day or two after I submit this). Anyway, on the cycle of "feast or famine" this month tends toward the "famine side."

But that is in quantity not quality, as you shall see.

Fritz Warren sent in an outstanding report of the trip he and Barbara made to Massachusetts to the farm of General and Mrs. George Patton. Here is that report: Barbara and I traveled to the north shore area of Boston in August to Green Meadows Farm, the home of the Pattons since the 1920s. As it happens, the home was purchased by the siblings of Beatrice—the wife of GEN George S. Patton of WWII fame—presented to her as a gift.

We were the houseguests of Joanne and GEN Patton for the weekend. From Joanne's first greeting to the last good bye on Sunday moming, Barbara and I were treated to a demonstration of how one fabulous lady is living her marriage vows and caring for her husband during his physical and mental decline in the privacy of their beautiful farm home. Barbara and I came away from the experience with a renewed faith in the ability of one partner to allow a spouse to live in dignity in their own home during their waning years, months and days.

The General is frail, and his memory is failing quite rapidly. During the weekend we were there, I had many opportunities to connect with him and finally had about ten minutes of lucid conversa-

tion with him on Saturday moming as I sat by his side as he awaited members of the West Point Society of New England who were coming to greet him. He is well cared for and lives in a loving dignified environment.

Joining Barbara and me was Classmate Dan O'Connell (22) who drove up from South Boston to join the Pattons. Dan and I had ample opportunity to catch up on current activities, and I was happy to have another Classmate with whom to share the beautiful weather and commiserate with the West Point guys and their girls about how sad it will be for them in Baltimore on 2 December.

Near the end of the picnic, we all gathered for a thank you to Joatme, for hosting the event, and I took that time to present the book Barbara and I had put together with a few "Patton stories" that had been provided by Classmates. I read aloud one of the stories, contributed by Walt Meukow (4) having to do with then-Capt Patton catching Walt and Jake Reed making instant coffee from their water tap. The story got a big laugh, and when I picked up the book so the back side could be seen, I got another laugh, because Barbara had written "Beat Army" in large letters on the back cover.

After the picnic and a rest, we were hosted by Joaime at dinner in a local restaurant. Joanne read eight or nine of the stories, and commented how very pleased she was to have these stories which related to a very special time in their lives. There are some spaces in the end for additional anecdotes, so if any of you have memories about him to share, please send them on and I wiU get them included. These stories are fond memories and have great meaning for a great American military family. I want to thank those of you who have already contributed tales, and report that your efforts have home frait in the Patton household.

Barbara and I send our warmest regards.

Many thanks to you, Fritz, and to Barbara, for your work in enabling the Class to pay tribute to this fine gentleman and his lady. I am happy to also be able to present the very gracious letter Joanne Patton sent to the Class after the Warren's visit.

To the members of the USNA Class of 1957, There are no words adequate to describe our gratitude for your gift to the Pattons!

Representing your Class, with special emphasis on the Fourth Company—"om" company, Fritz Warren brought to Massachusetts the extraordinary album containing reminiscences by many of you of Capt George S. Patton—once privileged to be the company officer of many of you, during your graduation year.

Certainly, our own memories of the year we spent "at Navy" have grown ever more fond as time has gone on—for it was a most special experience for our whole family, including our second son who was bom during that year. Of course, we Army folks were subject to the teases of honest football rivalry, come November 1956, but there was never a time in that assignment that we did not feel fully welcomed to the Naval Academy family—and nothing could have taken away our pride of association with the men of the "almost Color Company!"

Sharing your 25th Anniversary Reunion in Annapolis was an enormous privilege for both of us, as we tried to express at the time. But to be remembered by you so kindly, now 43 years after your graduation, has got to be the best possible reward for that shared service. With chuckles and misty eyes, we thank and salute you.

I dare to write on behalf of my husband, as a "we" because, as you know, age and imtoward circumstances have disabled him greatly. Still with Fritz Warren making the connection here, George Patton once again felt part of your camaraderie—and with Barbara Warren's encouragement, so did I! We have leamed that your Class has made a contribution in our name to the National Military Family Association, a cause we strongly support.

We are particulariy grateful for this endorsement

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by you of an organization we feel brings the message of service family needs most effectively to the people who are in a position to address them.

Thank you very much for encouraging their work with your donation.

Finally, please know that Green Meadows Farm and the Patton Family will welcome any and all of you into our home and our lives whenever that should be possible in the future. I hope that Barbara and Fritz Warten will underscore that message to you and that you will find your way to us one of these days.

God bless you and yoiu- families, and, by the way. when the time comes, please don't Beat Army\ Fondly, Joanne Holbrook Patton We certainly appreciate that wonderful letter of thanks from such a gracious lady! Fritz sent along a picture of himself and the General to grace these pages.

Gen George S. Patton, USA (Ret.), and Fntz Warren I received a nice note from Paul Behrends with a wrap-up of the annual summer picnic hosted for the Third Company mates in the greater Washington area (and south to Richmond) by Carolyn and Herb Hoppe. Here is Paul's report: On 5 August 2000, Herb and Carolyn Hoppe hosted the annual Third Company Washington area pool party at their home. The Weather Dieties deigned to provide the party with outstanding weather. The Hawaiian Luau theme party attendees included Gin and Paul Behrends, Joy and Jim Foresman, Dianne and Fred Howe, Bill Mickle, Monica and John Shewmaker, and Vic Vieweg.

In true Hawaiian tradition, all were greeted with a lei. While the black and white photograph does not do justice to the myriad of bright colors displayed at the party, Hawaiian attire was in vogue.

Food and conversation were plentiful, with an opportunity to get caught up on another year's activities. It is obvious that the attendees at the party are young men: for the most part, they are still active in the working world.

Thanks for passing that along, Paul. I am only sorry that we couldn't be there. Fred Howe took a duty picture, and is passing it along direct to Shipmateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so if it doesn't show up. Blame him!

Our next input concerns the annual startup of the 22nd Company sponsorship. Here is the information on that, as received from Bob Lutz and Bruce DeMars: On 7 September, Bob Lutz, George Philipps, Dave Cooper and Bruce DeMars met with the 22nd Company. They were represented by the company officer, LCDR Shannon Kwane, the company commander, MIDN 1/C Dennis Holden '01 and the Midshipmen Liaison Officer, MIDN 1/C Preston Rackauskas '01. We presented them with a check for S1,000. In keeping with the Class of '57 philosophy that "those closest to the action know best" it is to be spent as the Company best determines. The company officer and the Midshipmen were together in their appreciation and declaration that we have the best relationship in the Brigade! They hoped we would have a good turn out for their Dining-In on 17 November in Bancroft Hall. VADM Dick Gentz is the speaker and we are looking forward to a great evening!

Seeing the Midshipman up close and personal puts much in perspective.

I can't resist the need to point out that if the names of the two mids are juxtaposed, it is because Bmce and Bob sent me a two part email which had a "fill in the blanks" quality to it...and I am only hopeful that I did it right. But tmsting three of us at our advanced age and senility to get names right is dicey at best!

That is it for this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stay well, and, of course. Beat Army\

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Pres: Lt Col Gordon M. Gerson, USAF (Ret.) e: usna58@home.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 Web page: http://www.usna.com/Classes/1958/ Another page off the calendar, and here's November, with a yard full of leaves for those in Northem climes, and the arrival of the early snow-birds for those in Southern and Sun Belt locations. Only three games for Navy left in the season, with our

first Army-Navy game in Baltimore to close out the season. The D.C. area Classmates have chartered buses to get to Baltimore, and it will be just like being back at USNA. One set leaves from Annapolis and one from the Pentagon, and the magic hour will be 7:00 a.m. The game goes at noon, and we have to squeeze in the trip, a tailgate, and watching of the march-on, all in that short period of time.

Bob Caldwell has been our bus and catering organizer for the excursion, with George Coyne coordinating the D.C. gang and collecting all the money.

The biggest problem has been getting tickets, as the game was basically sold out by April. Season ticket holders had to make their decision last Febmary if they wanted to go, and even then were only allowed to buy four tickets. By the time the next column rolls around, we'll have a good idea of how successful the '58 "Buy the max early!" campaign worked out. The intent was to have everyone purchase game tickets, and then those not going would make theirs available to others in the Class. The only flaw in the plan appears to be that everyone now intends to go. However, it turns out that '58 will be well represented at the game. Look for the Class flags on national TV! Speaking of Class flags on national TV, the answer has been provided as to who got the '58 flag into the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Email from Brad Stumcke (15) tells all: Gary Roberts (11) and I were delegates to the recently completed Republican National Convention. We searched the roster and were not able to find any other Classmates other than the political star of our Class, John McCain (17). Gary and I represented Massachusetts where John took 65% of the primary vote compared to Bush's 32%. We and the other 28 Massachusetts McCain delegates were known as McCainiacs and we did not lose that identity even though John urged us to support Bush. The support that John has generated is unbelievable not only here in Massachusetts, but throughout other states as we talked to other delegates. If the party hadn't been so focused on Bush, John would have won the primaries in a Cakewalk. His message of reform and giving govemment back to the people was powerful and of course the personality of the candidate didn't hurt.

I was with John on three occasions in New Hampshire and twice in Massachusetts and the excitement and enthusiasm of the crowds was amazing.

Even in defeat, John still had the press and supporters mobbing him at the Convention.

Watching John give his speech at the Convention was painful as it was not a vintage John campaign speech. But as we all know, John wants very badly for the Republicans to win the White House, so that's why he's supporting Bush.

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Not satisfied with just being a delegate from Massachusetts, Gary Roberts then packed up his household after the convention and has relocated out to Utah. His intent is to work on the 2002 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, specific position yet to be determined. Gary says his condo is only 30 minutes from most of the major Utah ski areas, which boast tmthfully to have the "Greatest Snow on Earth." He also says that the welcome mat and Class flag will be out for any and all '58ers passing through Salt Lake City. The address is 875 Donner Way # 1 1 0 1 , Salt Lake City, UT 841082180; 801-582-6125; Groberts58@aol.com. Get your reservations in early!

A Classmate visit email came in from George M y e r s (16), who reports: In July, Judy and I visited Fran and Roger Nutting (16) in Bend, OR. They were just finishing their new home which is located on a hill side facing to the west. From their front porch, which extends the length of the house, we could see 11 snow covered peaks! Roger was the chief architect, contractor, and foreman and also did all the electrical wiring. This was the second house he has built in Bend—their son lives in the first one. Roger has successfully transferred his ship design skills to houses! A very fun visit for old roommates.

Oregon was also the ending point for the crosscountry bicycle trip of Bob Musgrove (5), who along with his daughter, traversed the U.S.A. from Atlantic to Pacific in 62 days. We finally have a couple of photos of the event, which puts Bob in some sort of Iron-Man status, as he hiked the Appalachian Trail from start to finish three summers ago, and has now hiked the U.S.A. What next? A swim the length of the Mississippi? Here is his tale of the adventure.

My daughter and I finished our ocean-to-ocean bicycle trip on 31 July. We put our rear wheels in the Atlantic on 30 May at Myrtle Beach, SC, and headed west. We went through South Carolina, North Carolina, Western Virginia, Kentucky and Southem Illinois before crossing the Mississippi at Chester, IL. From there, through Missouri and Kansas and over the Rockies at Hoosier pass in Colorado at 11,542 feet, the highest point on the entire trip. On up through the Tetons in Wyoming and into Yellowstone. Out through West Yellowstone into Montana, down along the Locksa River in Idaho, and through Hells Canyon into Oregon. Through Oregon, and over the Cascades at Sisters, down into Eugene, and on into Florence, where we put our front wheels in the blue Pacific on 31 July A total of 4,303 miles in 62 days. We took two days off when we did not ride, one in Berea, KY, where the heat and mountains got the better of us, and one near Carbondale, IL, where six inches of rain had the bridge over the Little Muddy River under two feet of water. A lot of rain in the East, and to my surprise, a lot of unexpected hot, hot weather in the West. From the Missouri to Kansas border to the central Cascades we saw temperatures in excess of 100 degrees every day.

On back roads all of the way, and I have the route and maps I used if anyone else wants to take the ride and follow our route.

I never cease to be amazed at the kindness and consideration of total strangers we met. People who really went out of their way to assist us in ways too numerous to mention. It really restored my faith in rural America, and the wonderful people who make this great country what it is. All in all, a wonderful trip and a great way to see America.

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The flag did get a bit of traveling with Julia and Jim Corder (3) of Annapolis this past summer. One has to deduce where they traveled from the photos, but it appears to have been in the Baltic region, where they did hit Denmark, Finland and Poland, plus others not mentioned! In one photo, they have purchased suitable headwear at a market in Helsinki, and convinced the young stall attendant to pose with them, all in the interest of fun in Finland. The other, somber photo was taken at the Chopin Monument in Warsaw.

The Corders in Helsinki The Musgrove team reaches the Pacific Another great athletic achievement by a '58er, who is still going strong in his old USNA sport. As reported in late August by Gordon Gerson (11): I went to the U.S. Masters Swimming National Long Course (50 meter pool) championships last week in Baltimore. Marsh Greer (19) was mighty impressive taking third in the 50 backstroke, third in the 100 backstroke, fourth in the 200 backstroke and leading off for the winning 200 meter medley relay team that just missed breaking the national record.

Marsh has been in Masters Swimming events for some years now, and seems to be improving with age. He deserves congratulations from those of us who suffered through Sub Squad for keeping his aquatic skills current!

Travel is great, but even greater if you have your own plane. The photo below shows Dianne and Jake McMichael (10), along with Jude and John Potter (19) in front of John's Rockwell Commander aircraft. While en route home to Benicia, CA, from visiting children and grandchildren in Washington, Jude and John stopped at the Aurora, OR, airport.

Aurora, where Jake flies rental aircrafts, is ten minutes away from the McMichael home on the second green at Charbonneau Country Club, so they picked up the Potters and had a wonderful lunch at another nearby golf course. Jake says: I envy John. He has an airplane and wasn't a naval aviator. I have no airplane, and was a naval aviator. At least I'm current, having earned my FAA commercial (add-on rating) glider rating last summer and seaplane rating this summer. All is well in the Great Northwest. Dianne and I enjoy the USNA AA Portland Chapter luncheons and various activities. The Chapter is quite active for having no Navy presence in Oregon.

The Corders and Chopin in VVaisaw In the continuing search for lost sheep, we have found one of our associates who left us early in our USNA years, Roger Minerman (3). He was Jim Corder's roommate prior to his resignation. Glenda and R o g e r c u r r e n t l y live at 55 P i u t e D r i v e , Star Valley Ranch, Thane, WY, with a mailing address of R O . Box 5 1 1 , T h a y n e , W Y 83127; 307-883-3126.

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A note from Lou Fisler (21) down in the Tampa Bay area states: Time goes by quickly here on the sun coast, mostly mowing the lawn, trimming the bushes, tending the flower gardens and all the tropical fruit trees. Watching the sunsets on Terra Ceia Bay is pretty nice also. When not working in the yard, going over to the BUC games (the Super Bowl will be a home game this season) and fretting over the pitching of the Devil Rays takes up some time.

I do spend three days a week teaching math at our community college. Calculus was never so easy!

Best to all.

A Class ring story has once again fallen upon us, this time through the vigilance of Air Force Academy grad Dick Troy ' 6 3 . He spotted a U S N A Class of '58 ring for sale on E-bay and sent in an alert.

The Ring Bank Coordinator at the Alumni Association did some research work, got a partial ID on the ring from the letter " F " set into the stone, and tracked it down as possibly belonging to Earl Farney (21), our "longest in uniform" Classmate out teaching high school ROTC in Citms Heights, CA. The rest of the story will have to appear in a later column when Earl finally closes the loop. The Class ring of Pat Burke (11) was recovered on an E-bay venture several months ago, with Pat paying the current owner to get his own ring back.

Here is an address change. Bill Cartwright (9) now has an email address ofplcwec@aol.com.

'58 Trivia: "Navy Blue and Gold" was a collaboration, with music by J.W. Crosley and words by CDR Roy DeS. H o m ' 1 5 , USN (Ret). Now another Gerson find. How was "Old Ironsides" (CONSTITUTION) involved with U S N A ? Hasta L u e g o !

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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 Coip. Treasurer: Dave O s b u m Sec'y: CAPT John A. Butterfield, U S N (Ret.) 1130 Sugar Sands #190, Singer Island, F L 33404 w: 561-840-1104; h: 561-881-7512 f: 561-863-8984; e: jbsgma@aol.com www.roanoke.kl2.va.us/Dave'sWorld/usna59.html '59ers! Time to rise and shine, and pay attention to lotsa news from Classmates! I shall try to be fair and start with the material that arrived the earliest for this column deadline. Taking the honors, actually a friend. B o b Strange '57, who gave this report: I was in Honolulu in May for a little R & R which happened to coincide with King Kamehamea Day, a big holiday in the islands complete with parades and other local cultural activities. The big parade was a colorful event complete with floral floats, marching bands, horseback riders, and of course a host of many dignitaries from the islands, riding in open limousines. Lo 'n behold I spotted Bob Kihune, an old friend I have known since we were BUPERS detailers together in the 1970-1972 era and since that time our paths have frequently crossed. The parade is the only one I have witnessed in which the units in the parade came to a stop for each traffic light. With the parade route extending from Ala Moana Park to

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Waikiki, it was somewhat of a prolonged process, but it did enable conversation to take place between the audience and the VIPs during these stops. Bob knew I was there; we had a chance to talk. The enclosed photo does not show your good Classmate off very well, but here goes!

Many thanks for thinking of us Bob and for cheering on Kihune!

Bob Kihune, sitting atop rear seat of convertible at King Kamehamea Parade in Honolulu Roddey comes through!

OK, John, I got your message. Of course I still live on the edge. Is there another way? I am having a ball living on Kiawah Island and doing just enough consulting to keep me interested. (But not so much; I don't let business interfere with the important things in life, like hunting, fishing, sports, etc.) I go back and forth to London every month where we have kept a flat, and I get to see John Bray fairly frequently there. We have been known to tilt a glass together. I keep in touch with a lot of the Class and most of them call me Rich— which has nothing to do with my financial statement! I thought I had told you that story. I grew up as Rich, a middle name, and tried to get you guys to call me that Plebe Year. However, what with "John" plastered all over my white works" and being read out in the Mess Hall every time I got a Class A, it did not catch on and so I gave up.

A few of you did call me Rich, but not many. Some of you may have called me some unprintable things.

I try to get back to the Academy at least once a year during football season. Beat Army! John G. R. "Rich" Roddey (richroddy@msn.com) Deepest thanks. Rich, for your report and carrying the message to Garcia. Now if only other Classmates would respond so promptly to a bit of "urging"—or flat out public pressure!

Next I give you a good news/bad news report from Walt Wynn (wwynn@xtalwind.net). But Walt would want me to be quick to temper the "bad."

Our first grandchild was born near midnight on 1 August 2000. He was bom by C-section weighing in at 8 pounds 6 ounces to Tess and Jeffrey Wynn in Blacksburg, VA. Everyone is doing fine after 24 hours of labor Everyone just needed sleep.

We plan to go up when things calm down a bit to visit, take pictures, and start bragging.

Carol and Walter Wynn—you made a start already. Congratulations! Then within days Walt came on line to say: This message is for the men folk in your lives.

Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. This came as a result of routine PSA testing with slightiy elevated values that lead to a biopsy.

The biopsy came back positive in one out of six areas tested with a five percent positive volume in that needle. For those of you into numbers, PSA 4.6 (normal 0 to 4), PSA II IS percent (normal above 25 percent). The Gleason score (an indication of the stage of the cancer) was 3+3 for 6, with the range being 2 to 10. All of the numbers seem to indicate that it was detected at an early stage and the prognosis is good for treatment and recovery. I am in the research mode now (decisions to be promulgated later). The purpose of this email is not to start a pity party, but to encourage guys to have prostate screening done! Blood relatives of those who have been diagnosed should start

screening at age 40; us guys over 50 should have the screening annually. Go to the Intemet and you can find sites for more advice!

Good luck, Walt, and others like our Classmate Ed Gather need to share experiences and keep the press on for early detection.

Update on plans for Golfing Expedition 2001 from George Lehmberg (glehmberg@home.com) (in consultation with Rich Madden (marsmadden@ aol.com)): We are looking at setting up the 2nd Annual Spring 1959 East Coast Golf Reunion during the period 24-27 April 2001 in the Williamsburg, VA, area. Intentions are to have a format similar to that in Pinehurst, NC, (2000) with four days of golf and three nights in adjacent condos. Courses being looked at include Golden Horseshoe Gold (Robert T. Jones), Golden Horseshoe Green (Rees Jones), Fords Colony (one of three by Dan Maples), and Williamsburg National (Jack Nicklaus). As a backup, there is Kingsmill (one each by Dye, Palmer, Strange). The tentative courses all have top ratings by various golfing pubs. Info about them is readily available on the Intemet (just search for Williamsburg). The condo arrangement is like Pinehurst, but with two double units sharing the same foyer. They are more luxurious than Pinehurst and have one bedroom with two double beds and one with a King, so we're looking at six people in each pair of double condos instead of eight. The units are in Sunterra Greensprings Plantation which is located in the center of the Williamsburg National Course. I will post info on the condos, directions, etc. on my Web site as we go along.

We hope to bring this outing in at a bargain price of $495 which includes the condo, green fees and carts, and hopefully the basic booze package.

However, I need a reasonably accurate early head count (NLT Labor Day...oops/may have to be a bit later for a couple of people) to book the condos since a deposit is required. Obviously we need round numbers of four, with 24 being the greatest number (four side-by-side units). I am sending this note to past attendees with the hopes they will forward it to other potential '59 players.

Please keep Rich and George advised of other candidates. And if some of you receive this late, move quickly! Call George at 757-499-5262, or email George or Rich. Don't delay! There could be a standby list.

Here's an interesting report from one of last year's golfing group, Dave Donovan: Greetings from Tidewater, VA. Waterfront update follows for those who still remember Navy ships and their unique gadgetry. I've been in the ship repair business since "retiring" as an EDO nearly 20 years ago. I'm aboard an FFG, an Amphib, a DDG or a CVN at least once a week, overseeing the installation of "heads and beds."

The Navy's Habitability Program is important to recruiting goals and improving the quality of shipboard life. I have projects ongoing in Mayport, Philadelphia, on the West Coast, in the Med, and in Japan. Installation teams go aboard ship and remove bunks, lockers, lighting fixtures, deck coverings and all piping and fixtures in heads.

Compartments are then rebuilt with everything new, shiny, and state-of-the-art. For some ships, particularly CVNs, we also upgrade galley equipment, chow lines, staterooms, and even add selfservice laundries in Carriers. Women at Sea SHIPALT projects—outfitting ships to accommodate females—have been going on for several years. Nautical jargon now includes the phrase, "Female (or male) on deck!"

The Habitability Program costs the Navy big bucks and is far from easy to plan and execute.

For example, after building to a ten percent females standard, the Navy now finds that they account for 20 percent of "A" School output. So it's back to the drawing board! Another example—on

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a ship with three enlisted berthing compartments, how do you cut it up for ten or 20 percent female?

There is another new naval phrase—gender neutral outfitting. Translation—the urinals will be coming off! Some of these problems could be solved by creating a mix of male-only and femaleonly ships. But sorry, not politically cortect! Another new initiative is the conversion to mattresses with an inner spring. Since the manufacturer can produce only about 200 mattresses a day, it will take considerable time to implement. The initial goal is to outfit the TRUMAN Battle Group. That's 14,000 mattresses; truly a logistics nightmare. A sailor can fold the old style mattress and carry it topside or a hangar bay directiy to his or her sleeping surface. But mattresses with an innerspring are not so easily moved within a ship. How many days will it take to exchange 5,000 mattresses on a CVN? And what's the impact on a ship in a tight predeployment work-up schedule? Lastly, what do you do with all the old mattresses?

Traffic on Navy piers was once limited to the mobile canteen and a food vendor's truck. Now the piers are awash with numerous private contractors' trucks. In port or at sea, ships are crowded with contractors performing essentially all of the maintenance and repair work. Sailors don't seem to perform maintenance anymore—something to do with Enhanced Quality of Life. The CNO says he needs more maintenance money. Yet the Navy throws maintenance money overboard by the barrelful. Everybody in the contractor business can cite examples. The $300 toilet seat was once the byword of price gouging. Now we're building "low maintenance heads" on carriers at $300K a pop! Yes, there are lots of changes on the Navy waterfront. And I hope I have given you some points to ponder. Cheers!

Thanks so much for fascinating comments from a guy who has remained close to the waterline!

T h e loss of the R u s s i a n s u b m a r i n e KURSK was indeed sad, and it captured the interest of us all, but particularly our '59er submariners. Thanks to J a m e s E . C o l l i n s and Bill C l a u t i c e (Bclautice@drc.com) for sharing some bulletins and articles on the subject. Theories are still flying as I write this. You may wish to probe Bill or a former shipmate and submariner friend of James Collins, Pete Petruy (WG@navsea.navy.mil). Our Dick Robinson (rrobby@home.com) can probably insure you get forwarded the latest as well. And since I mention Dick, sad to report he had a minor stroke on 10 August, but happy to report he has had tests done and doctors have given encouraging reports.

A note from Robby today was upbeat and positive.

I hope to see him (and many '59ers) at a Tailgate very soon! Quickies: If you need to contact Ted Alexander, try ealexander@btg.com.

Bud Hill (Budhilll@earthlink.net) advises: I am an arbitrator for seven associations. My book for self-help arbitration was published and it is on the net at arbitrateyourself.com.

Well done. Bud! This from Dave Sullivan: Hi one and all; We have relocated our Web site to where it belongs, http;//www.usna.com/classes/ 1959/usna59.html. All the links on our page are also now on the Alumni Association's Web server except for the one that Dale Minard maintains that gives descriptive information of those of us who have email addresses. If you have trouble, go to the old Web site and there will be a link upon which you can click to get to the new site.

S u l l y w e n t on to ask if a n y o n e k n e w t h e whereabouts of Maj Gen Cecil Powell (cwpowell@ strategic-technologies.net) USAF (Ret.), 15th Company? He had been queried by an old friend of Cec. I immediately went to friend. Classmate, supersleuth, and an Air Force guy, another of our USAF Generals, Don Smith, and he quickly came up with

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the information. But it did provide a few laughs as you will see. Don had an old Albuquerque, NM, address, and eventually got a phone number for Powell there. Don called and had a great conversation with Wanda, and quickly reported Wanda and Cec had been found, and we had the numbers, email, etc. Then when Cec and Don talked, Cec had to say, "By the way, Wanda is our housekeeper. My wife's name is Sally." By then there were a few of us who had passed the word about Wanda and Cecil, so quick corrections had to be in order.

When I communicated with Cec he was quick to describe himself as a "laggard alumnus" but one who now was happy to have been rounded up and in touch with old friends and Classmates. I was sure I had not seen him at the big 40th Reunion, so we now have a "pledge" from Cec to make the next one. 15th Co. Rep George Garton better get him to commit early! I shall continue now with a prelude email from Don Smith, followed by Cec's answer to Don. John, email received from Cec. Really embarrassed confusing Wanda, their housekeeper, whom I talked to at some length on the phone, with his wife, Sally, (who Cec reported is also the chief financial officer, of his company). Wanda never once said she was the housekeeper and no wonder she was confused with all the questions I was asking. Well anyway, we are in the right place in cyberspace now. Cheers.

Don, that refueling stop at Big Spring was the only time I ever passed through (except on the highway of course). Had a 31-year stint with the AF. Seven years at Edwards as a test pilot (F-15, NASA programs, etc.). Two combat tours in Southeast Asia (F-105 and F4E). Ftr Wg/CC in TAC and Air Div/CC in USAFE. All in all a highly satisfying professional life. Finally decided to tum down a chance at a third star which would have required sitting behind a desk in Germany while the kids went off to fly and fight in Desert Storm.

Probably would have tromped on my lolly anyway—I never did quite fit in with the increasingly "PC" military force. Retired over ten years ago.

Bought into a small business in ABQ doing technology-oriented consulting. Basically, trying to connect the technologically needy with those having hi-tech skills/products (not "selling" the products per se). Four years ago bought out the Division of which I was general manager. Brought the folks and contracts to my new company. Strategic Technologies, Inc. (STI). Same business and same client-base. Lots of interaction with the DOE Nuclear Labs as clients. Interesting folks and lots of intellectual stimulation. Great to hear from you.

Glad we solved the confusion! Thanks for the comms link. Will stay in touch. Cecil W. Powell, STI, 6121 Indian School Rd. NE, Ste. 234, ABQ, NM 87110.

T h a n k s , C e c , and may success c o n t i n u e to be yours!

Super email from CEO Nashua, Jerry Garbacz: Greetings from New Hampshire. It's been an interesting year for me. First I thoroughly enjoyed active participation in John McCain 'S8's campaign and victory in the Granite State. At a couple McCain events I spent time with Bill Gabrielson who had traveled up from Massachusetts to help out. On Super Bowl Sunday we hosted a party for the McCains and about 200 potential voters...a very enjoyable affair, except my wife had to explain this was a USNA thing since she is a strong Bradley supporter. Then this spring we finished Nashua Corp's turnaround by acquiring Rittenhouse Paper Co. which makes us the leader in specialty thermal papers (like ATM receipts, point-of-sale register receipts, labels, airline boarding passes.. .you get the idea).. .only to have a group of minority shareholders (less than two percent) try to take over the Board and kill the acquisition with a very acrimonious proxy fight.

which we eventually won {Sec 'y note: Yeah, Jerry!

You have not forgotten that killer instinct, and that fierce competitiveness you were known for on the soccer field. I think I should have taken lessons from you, Meehan, et al.) Now I am back into the local political scene where our Classmate Jim Squires (he left after Youngster Year to go to medical school, and he has been a doctor in New Hampshire for many years) is running for governor in the September Republican primary. He is a state senator, highly respected, and the only candidate to tell it like it is regarding solutions to the state's $100 million, soon to be $900 million, deficit (Good luck, Jim, beat 'em all!). It is a very difficult, uphill fight, but well worth it! You could help, or even send encouragement to Squires 2000, 4 Eagle Square, Concord, NH. Will keep you posted!

T h a n k s , J e r r y ( a n d J i m ) , and k e e p up the great work!

Excerpts from email e x c h a n g e between Bill Wirth and Bill Clautice: Wirth, I just noticed map in the paper about floods in New Jersey, in vicinity of Hackettstown and hope you guys are OK. Speaking of New Jersey, we'll be in Atlantic City Taj Mahal 21 September where the New Jersey Ms. Senior America pageant takes place. We'll be in Reno, NV, week of 15 October (light at the end of the tunnel/when Joyce's reign ends).

Another big "heads up" I wanted to mention is Sunday of Homecoming Weekend, 22 October 2000. We will dedicate the Submarine Memorial (which is big and beautiful—the "crown jewel" of the Submarine Centennial Celebration) in front of Dahlgren Hall with reception following.

Dave Cooper and I have been mothering this thing along for the past year or so...now the fraits of our labor.

Lots of submariners, supporters and fiiends will be there, including many '59ers.

I shall close with a few bits and pieces from Norm Bednarek: A new luncheon season is upon us and with it some changes. Dick Robinson has decided that 20 years of faithful and dedicated service (Sec'y note: You Bet\) is enough. He wants to devote more time to his Masonic Lodge work and leadership roles there. We all owe Dick our most heartfelt appreciation for the energy and dedication he has given to the Class. Call tree responsibility will be picked up by Secretary of the Executive Board, Bruce Nordwall. I have been attempting to coordinate our luncheon schedules with George Watt '73, new President and CEO of the Alumni Association. He's a very busy person! Best bet for now is when he speaks on 20 September at Fort Myer to Greater Washington Chapter we will have reserved tables for Class of '59. I hope to get Brad Mooney, oft-quoted expert on deep submergence rescue, to speak to us, perhaps in October. Stay tuned! By November, Marty Finerty should have had his liaison meetings in Annapolis, and then we will be able to go public with options for our 50th Reunion major gift to the Academy. Still looking for speakers for the rest of the year; your inputs are most welcome. Rise and Shine with '59.

And with that I sign off also.

Shinmate. November 2000

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Pres: VADM Edward W. Clexton Jr., USN (Ret.) Sec'y: Bill Lewis 14312 Cove Ridge PL, Midlothian, VA23112-4337 h: 804-744-8808 e: bilewis@home.com Web site: http://navysfo.org/supersixty.html Some of those who have checked in over the last month include: Bill Backus, Larry Ryan, Cal Sutiiff, Bill Ellington, Dave Quinlan, Lew Gillett, Harley Bames, Bob Freehill. Dennis Blanz, Butch Thompson, Bill Mitchell, Harry Branson, and Clint Johnson.

It might be time to start indicating whom we might be trying to locate. Sometimes when a Classmate is no longer active or in touch, one or two people might still know where he is or whether he is all right. It is not my intention to "bug" people who don't want to be bugged, but it would be worthwhile, I believe, to keep track, so they might be informed of events or things that might be important to them. Most Companies have about 9 5 % of their Classmates accounted for. The remaining five percent might be located with a concerted effort.

I'll start out with a few whom I have not been able to locate. Richard L Harris (1); Frank Braun (3); and Al Morales (4).

I heard from George Marburger via the Intemet: The email address is correct. Looking forward to the 40th. Not much exciting news to report.

Although still a member of the adjunct faculty at Polamar College, I haven't taught a class in over a year due to the time constraints of keeping two residences. In addition to our San Diego residence, we have purchased a second home in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs area). I have met many new friends and keep very busy on the golf courses and tennis courts. Since we actually spend more time in the desert than the coast I'll provide both addresses and phone numbers for your database.

San Diego: Mt. Ariane Drive, 921II, 858-5609271. Rancho Mirage: 5 La Costa Drive, 92270, 760-328-0410.

I have no objection to you publicizing these addresses and numbers so Classmates traveling through either location might make contact for an evening of reminiscences.

The only item of assistance that you might be able to provide is the telephone number of the USNAAthletic Association. They have cashed my check for the football game so I know that if I receive the tickets I can get to the tailgate. I have only one question. When will they mail the tickets? We are planning some travel before arriving in Aimapolis and am concemed that the tickets will arrive in Califomia after we have already departed towards the East Coast. I'm looking forward to seeing you in about seven more weeks.

I talked to Jay Metzler on the phone and we discussed who was coming and what events we might meet up at. Jay is mnning a company in upstate New York, and enjoying life. He and Gail are looking forward to getting back and seeing Classmates.

Also Dick Brown, as coach of an Olympic athlete, will probably be in Sydney during the 40th.

The ranner who is going to Sydney is Anne Marie Lauck in the women's 5000m. Clare Taylor is first alternate in same race. Thank you for inquiring. And thank you for all your work in keeping us up to date.

By the way, I located Larry Ryan (success@hctc. com). Sounds like he's into mnning as well (recreational, etc.). Basically, with Dick Brown, Jim Greenwald, Frank Clark and Larry, I think I've accounted for all the 5th Company grads. Several Shipmate, November 2000

are not on email, but 1 do have their addresses.

W h e w . . . N o w to keep track. Incidentally, several other Companies are either there or close to it.

I talked to Mike Treseder by phone this past week. He is settled in Arizona not far from his original New Mexico roots. With so few Treseders in the phone book, it was still difficult to locate him.

He is looking forward to connecting with the 7th Company.

John Tait contacted me on email: I have been out of the country quite a lot for the past several years working in U.K. and central Europe. I'm hoping to slow down some in 2001 and get better involved with USNA chums then.

You can reach me at PO Box 946, Fair Oaks, CA 95628:916-966-5141.

1 received a note from Jack Whitley recently conceming one of my Companymates, Ed Killinger: I just returned from leave on Sunday and was surprised by the small obit announcement for Cindy Killinger in last Saturday's Washington Post. I talked with Ed last night, and his children are with him. They are leaving for San Diego early this moming (Tuesday, 22 September) to complete artangements for Cindy's funeral. Ed's sisters will arrive in San Diego to be with him, along with a few friends in the San Diego area. His local address is 3422 White Oak Ct., Fairfax, VA 22030.

I called Ed a few days later and he sent me the following to pass on to the Class: Thanks for the call and the kind words of sympathy. You bring back fond memories of our years at the Academy; those memories help ease the pain of my recent loss. Cynthia, my wife, died unexpectedly Friday, 11 August, of a heart attack. Since we met 39 years ago on a blind date, she has been the center of my universe. She was all I dreamed a wife could be—she loved the Navy, the excitement of the Navy life, and, most of all, the friendships and camaraderie of those that we had the good fortune to meet and serve with in the Navy family. God Bless.

I was able to email the Company and a number of the 5th Company guys sent Ed notes of concem and support. One such is the following: Thanks for the information conceming the loss of Ed Killinger's wife. I'll be praying for him and his family. Cancer and heart attacks really take their toll in our society these days. Best regards, Gil Hansen.

From Bill Backus via email: Thank you for your interest in this old retired and re-treaded Navy tar. I spent four years on active duty counting my two years at the Academy.

I was very proud of my service in the Sixth Fleet in spite of an unsuccessful and perplexing stint at the USNA. And I was also happy with what 1 leamed at the Academy—especially the confidence building and the French. I now reside with my charming wife in "suburban" Pennsylvania and have had a career in the airline business, 30 years, and I now putter around in the garden (well, woods) read the papers and ponder about who it will be...George Bush or Al Gore? So where are you living? I am still trying to learn how to play bridge about 35 years after most of my peers leamed and were adept-looking for partners. My brother is real good, but he lives in Texas. So drop me a line. 1 was really disappointed to lose contact with Navy people, so thanks for the email.

From Bill Mitchell (16) (bmitch@oakharbor.net) via email: Hi, just to pass on my email address to you and to see if there is any late info on our 40th Class Reunion, etc.

From Chuck Agustin to Paul Bateman, to be shared with the 17th Company and Class: It was a pleasant surprise reading the long but very informative, interesting and greatly satisfying roundup in the Super '60 column by Bill Lewis in the July-August issue of Shipmate, especially when

1 got to that portion where he printed your email (what a wonderful thing, this email business!).

I can never forget that moment in I960 (or early '61?) when a young tall LTJG approached me while keeping out of trouble and playing bingo with some shipmates at the Subic Officers' Club (and really made me miss my prize, as my bingo card had actually blacked out when you showed up). My ship was under repair then, and since you had a job to fly a helo on an embassy run to Manila you asked me to join the flight and we did the town with Carl Cunanan '58 (who later became Philippine Navy CNO, by the way), who turned out to be quite a guide (remember?).

I certainly lost touch with you after we returned to Subic, as fast as I lost touch with you after Plebe Summer '56. A few Classmates did get to me in Manila, some unsuccessfully especially in the early years when Benny Lomotan and I had to do our patrol duties afloat. Jim Kinney managed to see Benny (1 was at sea then). Jack Whitely got to me in 1966 when I was a company officer at the Philippine Military Academy. I missed Larry Laudig (with the Subic golf story complete with monkeys and pythons), Oz Osmon and several others when they visited. But it was Tom Paulsen, whom I had many occasions to meet, often officially. We had "annual reunions" when Tom had tours of duty in the Seventh Fleet (as Fleet Ops O and later as CO of BLUE RIDGE), then twice I got to see him when he headed the ProDev Department at USNA, then again a few times when he became EA of the CNO in D.C. when I got the DA job in Washington (1985-88). That tour enabled me to meet a lot of guys in the Class D.C. Chapter, as well as many of the 17th Company fellows—Bob Osmon, John Rogers (who was a "neighbor" in Fairfax County, VA), John Swanson, and Dick Macke.

PS: Somehow, my nickname (given inadvertently during evening meal by Pat Cecil at the start of Plebe academic year, and picked up by the upper Classmen) got converted in the Philippine Armed Forces from Charlie to Chuck—it's a long story, and some of my Companymates haven't adjusted to the change.

I hope you recall some of these guys I just mentioned.

Dick Hamon, Joan Lippold, Joy Hamon and Jim Lippold

Joy and Dick Hamon and Bob and Charlotte Stevenson

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I received the following from Dick Hamon: Joy and Dick Hamon (8) and Joan and Jim Lippold (8) vacationed together for two weeks in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in February 2000. In the accompanying photo (previous page), they were miles from the normal tourist haunts and on the beach at George's, "right out among "em."

Later, Charlotte and Bob Stevenson (2) and Joy and Dick Hamon (8)joinedaUSNA Alumni group of 12 couples for a July 2000 Alumni Holidays European craise. They craised the Rhine, Main and Danube rivers for two weeks aboard the M/S ERASMUS from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to Budapest, Hungary.

"Technittol Appoints Two Directors" (David H. Hofmann) Business Wire 08/17/00 Technitrol (NYSE: TNL) announced the appointment of David H. Hofmann to its board of directors, effective immediately. Hofmann, president of the Bryce Company, LLC, a privately held consumer packaging concern, will complete the term of Roy E. Hock, who is retiring from the board. The term expires in 2001.

Earlier, Hofmann served as president and chief executive officer of ACX Technologies, a spinoff from the Adolph Coors Company and a foreranner of Graphic Packaging International Corporation (NYSE: GPK).

His career also includes extensive experience at Paper Manufacturers Company, which produced sterile medical packaging, and Container Corporation of America. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Hofmann attended the Executive Program at the University of Virginia's Darden School.

"Dave makes very strong additions to our board," said Technitrol Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James M. Papada III. "He brings an impressive amount of experience in key areas such as manufacturing, distribution and strategic acquisitions."

Based in Philadelphia, Technitrol is a worldwide producer of electronic components, electrical contacts and assemblies and other precision-engineered parts and materials for manufacturers of networking, broadband/Internet access, telecommunications and computer equipment, electrical switching devices and other products.

And from my good friend, Tom Glew via email: I hope Maryann and I can spend some time with you at the Reunion. We are looking forward to this very much. We are staying at the Country Inn and should arrive there by 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, 28 September Look forward to seeing you then.

If you ever need some filler for Shipmate, I have enclosed a picmre with my favorite sailing cap on. (Sec'y Note: Tom, you forgot the picture!) I have a 40-foot sailboat, "XTC," and we had just finished fifth out of 50 boats and second in class in a race from Pensacola, FL, to Isla Mujeras (ten miles off Cancun) in April. I have raced offshore all over the Gulf including to Tampico, Mexico, Key West and Havana, Cuba. If any Classmates would like crewing on these races, please ask them to contact me. Although the peace and tranquility of craising is enjoyable. I love the competition of racing. Looking forward to seeing you.

From Bob Correll (16) (bncorrell@aol.com) via email: Finally, after too many years, I have my home computer set up on email and can communicate with you and other members of the Class. I will not make this a 40-year update. 1 will keep it short with the Reunion coming up at the end of September where, hopefully, we will all be able to renew old friendships. I have recently retired after 18 years with Duracell/Gillette. Nancy and I live at 21 Brookside Drive, Trambull, CT 06611; 203-261-2807. I have an office in our home and currently use the same telephone number.

I have been in telephone contact with Jim Hancock (16), and got most of the Homecoming details from him. I have also visited the Super '60 Web site for further details. Nancy and I are com-

ing to Homecoming and are staying at the Country Inn. All necessary ticket requests and reservations have been made and confirmed. We are very excited at seeing everyone.

We have six children, one boy and five girls.

Everyone has graduated from college and is marching down the career path. Our son and one daughter are married. Each has two children, our son and his wife have a daughter and a son; our daughter and her husband have two boys. The four grandchildren are great and keep Nancy and I happy and very busy. Our son was a captain in the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune until leaving seven years ago to enter business and get married.

These past several years I have read with great interest and appreciation your writings in Shipmate. I want to congratulate you and thank you for the superb job that you have done. I await the arrival of each new issue of Shipmate with great anticipation to catch up on the news of the Class.

Nancy and I would like to welcome any and all '60 Classmates who may be living in this area or traveling through this area to stop in and say hello.

We have plenty of room for visitors. We'll see you at Homecoming.

And from Denis Crawford (dcrawford@eslpwr com) via email: I've been meaning to send my email address to the '60 group in Shipmate, so your call is a good excuse for finally doing it!

Carol and I made it to the 35th and had hoped to make it to the 40th this year, but business got in the way as it commonly seems to do. Well, maybe we can do better for the 45th. We have been living in Long Beach, CA, for the last 25 years or so with a few years in between living in South America and Texas. We now spend weekends in La Jolla and occasionally ran into my old Second Company roommate. Jack Shaw, who is retired in San Diego, and my Plebe Summer roommate.

Hank Chiles. Hank and Katy have their son, Peter, living in the San Diego area.

I left the Navy in 1971 after spending most of my very enjoyable naval career in submarines.

After a three-year tour with Ross Perot '53 at EDS in Dallas and 14 years in the oil business, I now keep busy ranning a couple of small electrical manufacturing companies in Yorba Linda, CA, and haven't even thought about retiring. Having too much fun! We have six kids and 16 grandkids that get out our way not often enough, but that really keep us hopping when they are in town!

My phone is (w) 800-922-4188 or 858-4569619 in La Jolla. Best regards to all.

I received a letter with a picture from Chuck Collins: The first Saturday after graduation, 11 June 1960, was a day for many of our Classmates' weddings. Dorothy and Jack Reilly and Carron "Pudge" and I were two of those couples to marry on the llth.

Jack and I were stationed together for four years following graduation, and we would try to celebrate our anniversaries together. This year we thought it would be nice to spend this anniversary together again. Pudge and I flew to Reilly's home in Princeton. NJ. and spent a log weekend celebrating our 40th anniversary. It was a great time.

Enclosed is a picture of Dorothy, Jack, Pudge and I at a restaurant in Princeton. Congratulations to all of you who celebrated your 40th anniversary too.

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Pres: R A D M Jerry Smith, U S N (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@starpower.net www.USNA61.org Normally, when I light off my computer to compose the monthly column, I ' m seldom at a loss for words. This time it's different. As most of you know, in August we all lost a tmly exceptional Classmate when Jim George (21) lost a second courageous bout with cancer. You can find Jim's obituary in Last Call so I won't be redundant. I will, however, add some personal thoughts as my tribute to a good friend who dedicated a great part of his life to the Navy, the Naval Academy, and especially the Class of 1961.

Through the years, no one did more for the W G N A C than Jim. During most of his adult life, in one way or another, he was dedicated to our Class.

In the late '70s he was one of a group that helped revitalize our Class organization and get it back on track. As a Class officer for more than 20 years, he served first, as Corresponding Secretary, then later as Recording Secretary for the Executive Committee. He helped with major reunions and fundraising drives. He organized social functions. He sat on committees that produced our Class plan and major fundraising projects. More recently, he gave us all a good daily refresher on naval history (his avocation) through his email missives titied, "Today, in U.S. History." During all this time, he gave totally of himself. He was the cement that kept the Class together, often pushing against the tide of popular opinion to keep us on course. He was always coming up with new ideas on the direction the Class should take, and was usually right on target. He was the cool head who always asked tough questions to keep us from doing something stupid.

Jim was someone tmly special. I not only respected him; I liked him a lot. I'm proud he considered me to be one of his friends.

Shortly before his death, Maryanne and Jim Ibach (21) hosted a Class function to honor Jim, during which he was pleased to autograph copies of his latest book. History of Warships, from Ancient Times to the 21st Century. Attending were: Ron Campbell (15), Bob Denis (19), Don Evans (21), Charlie Farrell (21), Buddy Flagg (5), George Glavis (7), Bob Hoffman (21), Rick Holly (21).

Warren Hoppe (21), Jim Ibach (21), Glen Mays (4).

Skip McGinley (13), John Morris (7), Dick Norman (21), John Phillips (9). Art Rowe (12), Jerry Smith (8), Jack Sheahan (21), Jesse Stewart (17), and Bill Sfraight(16).

Have YOU signed up for Life Membership?

Pudge Collins, Dorothy and Jack Reilly and Chuck Collins

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WGNACers paying tribute to Jim George

Bob Sherer and Jim Connell inspecting the Russian Navy From Florida, Scottie Davis sent a photo of R.T. Davis (21), Dick Petrucci (17), and Howie Winfree (3). The Winfrees were down house sitting for the Rooneys. R.T. says we got the house back in shape just before the Rooneys retumed from their cruise.

The photo was taken in March.

Jim and Jeanne George On 30 August, more than a hundred family members, friends and Classmates were present for a beautiful service at the Naval Academy Chapel.

Warren Hoppe (21) and Bill Mackey delivered touching eulogies. Following the service, Jim was interred at the Naval Academy Cemetery on Hospital Point with military honors. His Color Company Classmates formed up behind Company Commander Jack Sheahan who was holding a 21st Company guidon. "Taps" sounded and the Marine rifle squad fired a 13-gun salute in final tribute to an outstanding m a n , citizen, h u s b a n d , father, scholar, author, and to all of us who were privileged to know him, a truly great Classmate. On behalf of Jim's many friends, I pass our deepest sympathy to his wife, Jeanne, and the rest of his family. He will be sorely missed!

Cyberspace Nooze From Russia, Bob Sherer (4) sent a photo of him and Jim Connell (2), who he ran into during his visit. Jim, who is a retired Navy Captain with a Ph.D. in Russian hterature, spent the last eight years scouring the country for clues to the whereabouts of fallen U.S. airmen.

www.usna.conn Shipmate, November 2000

R.T. Davis, Dick Petracci and Howie Winfree whooping it up in Florida VirgHill(13): I have retired from my job at Valley Forge Military Academy and College (effective 1 September 2000) after seven wonderful years. Kim and I put most of our "stuff' into storage and plan to enjoy downtown Philadelphia while we decide what we want to do next and where to do it (or as Kim says, when I decide what I want to be when I grow up!). Hopefully we will be able to get to Annapolis for a few Navy games and other activities around USNA. After seven years with both a high school and college team at Valley Forge, there weren't many weekends we could make it out of town. Our daughter, Kelly, got married in Valley Forge on 21 May 2000. Skip Roman and Jerry Kennedy and their brides joined us for a great weekend. Our son, Scott, is getting married in Bermuda in September, so we're looking forward to another celebration.

Gary Herzberg (6): I plan to attend the game in Baltimore this year and would like to hook up with the '61 tailgate party. As an added attraction, I could arrange for a visit from the Army mules as my son heads up the mule team.

Bob Denis (19): As of 1 September 2000 (more or less) I've finally "seen the light" and transferred into our Deloitte Consulting practice after 12 fun-filled years with the audit and tax firm. My new position is director of support and technology services, Americas. This entities me to fiy all over North and South America getting tons of frequent flyer miles and pretending to know something about technology. For a guy who failed four Spanish finals and only passed the course based on my daily grades, this could prove interesting, particularly in Brazil where they speak Portuguese, and I really don't have a clue. Of course I also go to Canada and I don't speak hockey very well either.

We're going to continue living in Northern Virginia since Linda enjoys her job, the kids and grandkids are close, and I'll be traveling four or five days a week. The good news is; no six-month deployments. I get home every weekend. Anyway, I was starting to do the same things over again and this opportunity allows me to build a worldclass technology support organization without trying to fix something in place on the fly.

Jack Dell (22): A brief update on the Dells. After 26-plus years in the Supply Corps, I retired on I August 1987.

Moved to Atlanta, and worked for six years at Georgia Tech. A great second job, but nothing compares with the Supply Corps. In '93, I quit work and moved to Vidalia, GA (Lynett's hometown). We are enjoying the retired life. We are involved with community service and Church work in Vidalia, and find time for some travel.

We also have a lake home on Lake Oconee, 60 miles east of Vidalia. It is a great place to relax and spend time with our three grandchildren. Last weekend Patty and Fred Farber (12) visited us at Lake Oconee. Lots of fun seeing them and catching up on news. It was a real hoot to get that old submariner on the personal water craft, Wave Runner.

Don Campbell (22), my roommate for four years visited in July. He is still in Gaithersburg, MD, working at one of the Montgomery County colleges.

John Pearson (8): After I graduated, I served as a surface warfare officer for 35 years and retired from active duty as a rear admiral in 1996. During my career, I commanded THOMAS C. HART (FF-1092) from 197981, and TRUXTUN (CGN-35) from 1981-84. Ashore, I was the commander. Joint Task Force Four (the U.S. Atlantic Command's counter-narcotics detektion and monitoring command) as my first flag command. I was then Commander, U.S. Navy Mine Warfare Command, from 1991-96, when I retired. I was the "Cal Ripken" of mine warfare, having held command longer than any other mine warfare commander. I am qualified in nuclear propulsion and was the commissioning engineering officer of CALIFORNIA (CGN-36). I also have an M.S. degree in under water acoustics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, where I presentiy hold a faculty position as the chair of mine warfare. I am married to Georgeanne, my wife of 38 years, who has been my "Most Valuable Player" throughout my career We have two children, CDR (sel) Brian Pearson, USN (a surface warfare officer, also qualified in nuclear propulsion), and Beth Pearson, a marketing manager for Microsoft Corporation for over five years.

Last, but not least, a few inputs from our 12th Company Rep, Tim Dugan, that made it just in time for this issue.

Bob Burgard (burgard7@voicenet.com): I am not as literate on the Web as many of our contemporaries. I got hooked by my former ISP, paid for a year, got three months and they headed to the Bahamas. It was kind of like two soup cans connected by a loose string. My business as a financial planner is booming. My lovely wife, Barbara, and I have eight kids, (my three and her five), scattered from Oregon to New Hampshire.

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The grandkids are ages 16 down to 18 months and number just 12. A not so unique feature this year, my age is on my class ring!

Tim Dugan (tpdugan@clark.net): Still in Annapolis. Still doing a daily commute to Crystal City. One of these days I'll leam better! Family continues to grow. Daughter and AF husband in Alaska with two children; daughter and marina manager husband in Solomon's Island, MD, with two children; and LT, USNR daughter and LT, MC husband in Norfolk with one child.

Always looking for crew. Come sail with me!

Fred Farber (pffarber@erols.com) writes: Patty and I are still living in Montclair, which is near Quantico. Two sons, Kurt and Freddy, and families are within ten minutes of us and we see three of five grandkids regularly. Our daughter, Heidi, and her husband live in Austin, TX, so we miss her and two grandchildren a lot. I am enjoying retirement. Thirty years in the Navy and nine with a beltway company is enough. Withfishingand a never-ending honey-do list, I don't see how I had time to chase government contracts. As for the Navy career, I would do it all over again.. .in a heartbeat.

Dwain Gregg: Wliat I was doing the past three years probably won't be of great general interest, but just in case; I helped my wife with the garden. I wrote three letters to the media and elected representatives conceming military pay. I added three windows to my house. I sold, loaded, weighed, and delivered or spread about 15,000 tons of material for agriculture, building or home heating. I used solar energy where practical. I turned off media programs I considered to be propaganda. I tried to improve the bicycle and am now working on the tricycle (going high tech with three wheels). I avoided drags and doctors where possible. I visited Lou and Chuck Ernst. Chuck was my Plebe Year roommate. I am thankful for the oppormnity to try even though I have had limited success on above endeavors. Marilyn and I have two sons. Mike, an Army E-6, is in Bosnia. Pete is an MK2 in the Coast Guard in Michigan. Our grandson, Mikee (short for Michael) is a three-year-old in Kentucky.

Jim Hodde: Hello from River City (Cincinnati). Joanne is still working—daughter-in-law and I are her gofers. If she (we) could ever convince Jr. to take the business, we plan to spend considerable time in Florida (we're not holding our breath!).

Grandkids keep growing (a sign we're getting older?). Eldest is 13.1 told him I'm not sure I've ever gotten over being the father of a teenager much less the grandfather of one.

Amie Kleban (kleban@primenet.com): All is very good with the Klebans and we are very much looking forward to our 40th in Annapolis.

Bill Kraus (Bkrausl402@aol.com): Six grandchildren and going strong. Looking forward to the Reunion next year.

Luke Landin (LukenKate@Prodigy.net): Joined IBM in Philadelphia after the Navy (1967). Career as a computer systems engineer and tech support manager M.B.A. Temple University 1975. Moved to Atianta 1975. Retired from IBM in 1997. Moved to Boulder, CO, September '97...live in the foothills just outside of Boulder.

Work in the Integrated Instrumentation Design Facility, University of Colorado, supporting chemistry and atmospheric laboratories. Two sons...oldest (28) just completed master's in chemistry and then in aerospace engineering at University of Colorado. Just joined the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, CA. Second son (24) has degree in biology from Colorado College, never outgrew wanting to be a fireman and is doing that in Longmont, CO. My wife died of ovarian cancer March 2000.1 pray that it will be many years before you lose your lifetime partner It's a horrible experience.

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Tom Markley (ChemTom@aol.com): Good News! I am retiring on 30 September 2000 after 35 good years with Vulcan Chemicals. Joanne and I have already moved to the home where we hope to spend many years. We are located at Keowee Key on beautiful Lake Keowee in Northwestem South Carolina, about 15 miles north of Clemson. Our address is 4 Third Mate Court, Salem, SC 29676; 864-944-8812. Our short tenn plans are to relax, do a bit of traveling and relax (that means golf, fishing and puttering around the area). We have four daughters. Two live in Virginia Beach, one in the D.C. area and one in Rome, GA. There is a grandson in Rome and two grandsons in the D.C. area. I am not sure we will be at the next Homecoming, but will be at the 40th. We will attend the A-N game in Baltimore as well as Georgia Tech in Atlanta and Notre Dame in Orlando.

Buzzy Needham (Bnedl836@aol.com): I will write as soon as I get back from my golf game!

Norman Ridenour (norman-eng-art@volny.cz): First, I got married on 1 September. This is number three and dam well better be the final one.

She and I have been together nearly six years and we did not feel a great need to do legal things but as the Czech Rep tries to get in line with EU regulations the situation with us foreigners gets tougher and I will never live in the U.S. again. I will most likely stay here until I kick off. I have known since First Class craise that I belonged in Europe. I am just a bit slow at times. Czech is a bitch of a language. My first four were all romance languages so I did not get any base to build on for this one.

Professionally, three years ago I took over a small language school as manager, built it up, and watched it slide down. That is one reason I moved to Prague. (The other being Eva and the fact that Bmo was dead on weekends.) The other thing happening is that I have had a sculpture studio again for a year now and am getting in 10 to 15 hours a week. I am planning a show for 2001, details later.

I am doing the best work of my life. Prague is wonderful. My son was here last summer and we hiked the southem tier of the country. (Recall the country is the size of South Carolina.) None of my kids or step-kids are married. Eva's (my new wife's) son is 20. I may have to count on him to be grandfather. My son is an architect in Portland and my daughter rans the Hosteling Intemational travel office in Boulder, CO. It is unlikely that I will be in Annapolis or Washington again. Certainly, I will not get to the Reunion.

Art Rowe (arowe@wdn.com): Linda and I continue to live in Alexandria, VA. We divide our time between Alexandria and our other home in North Carolina. I work very parttime as a communications-engineering consultant.

I am planning to do a lot more golfing and volunteer work as I free up more time. We have three grandchildren from our two daughters. Melanie and her husband, Alan, live in Parkersburg, WV, and have two boys: Andrew (4) and Aidan (2).

Hilary and her husband, John, live in Matthews, NC, and have a daughter, Emma (1). We recentiy participated in the Class Alaskan craise and had a great time.

I am leading the project to produce the 40th Reunion Book. I need everyone's input whether you plan to participate in the Reunion or not.

Linda and I are enjoying life, traveling a lot, and participating in our Class activities.

one granddaughter and six grandsons. I'm retired from IBM with more than 25 years. I've picked up a few degrees since '61, including two masters,' a bachelor's, and a doctorate in education.

The additional bachelor's was a B.Th. (bachelor's of theology) in conjunction with being ordained as a Roman Catholic deacon in 1975.

We're slowing down. We greatly enjoyed the Alaskan craise this year with the Mob members and looking forward to the one to come in the Med (might enjoy the Med without standing watch all the time!).

Mickey Smith (Mickey@acceleration.net): I'm still in Gainesville, FL. Retired from the Naval Reserve as a captain and from my building business. I started the local Alumni Assciation and am the president and treasurer for life...1 think. I do a little teaching (building constraction technology) at the local community college, manage my investments and do some charitable volunteer work to keep busy. My wife, Toba, is still an active real estate agent and our three kids are all happily married and doing well. We have five grandchildren thus far and hoping for more! We enjoy traveling to see the kids and grandkids. Also went to London in March and we're going to Venice/Northem Italy in November. Also just got back from my 43rd high school reunion, my first time back. Had a great time seeing kids I hadn't seen since before Plebe Summer Look forward to seeing everyone at the 2001 Reunion!

Jack Williams (sanjack@earthlink.net): I'm finally free from the Mach-2 race of life— Sandra and I both retired last summer. We still live in Gig Harbor, WA. I retired last August after 18 years doing automation engineering for a local machinery manufacturing company, and Sandra retired from teaching. So we now have time to spend with our kids, our six grandchildren and sailing. We recently upgraded to an Island Packet 40, and just retumed from a two-week trip to Princess Louisa Inlet up the British Columbia coast. I had hoped to make the last Reunion, but I just had too many irons in the fire, and things exploded right before we were going to leave. We're really looking forward to making it this time, and my job will no longer be an issue! Retirement is wonderful. Don't wait too long to enjoy it—life's too , short. We can't figure out how we had time to do ft anything when we were working. '^ Mail Call Our resident "Snake Eater," George Worthington (2), chimes in with the only snail mail entry this month.

Enclosed is a recent picture of Mugs McKeown (14) and me at the Palm Restaurant in Washington, D.C. Our mugs were added to the walls in the bar area.. .appropriate. We also paid a visit to Han Scruggs, president and founder of the Viemam Memorial Fund, The Wall, in his new offices downtown. We'll both be back for the TCU game at which there will be a 1961 Orange Bowl team reunion and ceremony.

Ray Sanders (ray@blkbox.com): We have settied in Austin, TX, for good. I'm working at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching and running the computer lab for the geography department. Looking toward just teaching and not working full-time at the end of the year. Joanne is retired as the director of religious education for the Catholic Diocese of GalvestonHouston. She still consults in that area. We have four children, all living in Texas, and among them.

George Worthington and Mugs McKcow n ai the Palm looking for someone to pick up the check

Upcoming Class Events Washington area Class luncheons on Tuesdays, 9 January and 13 March 2000.

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40th Reunion Update By now, you should have received the second 40th Reunion mailing from Jay Bower, asking you to sign up for the Reunion festivities. If you haven't received it, give Jay a call 410-268-9662.

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Pres: CAPT Richard J. Hayes, USN (Ret.) h: 703-461-3582; e: USNA62@erols.com Sec'y: CDR Howard S. Pinskey, USNR (Ret.) P.O. Box 3380, Annapolis, M D 21403-3326 h: 410-974-1962; e: PINSK62@aol.com Class Web site: www.usna62.com Greetings From Annapolis November is a great time in Annapolis. Good weather, weekend tourists. Navy Football and the Thanksgiving holiday. Enjoy yourself and have a safe, healthy and happy turkey season. Now for our monthly Class news.

Class News Our Class president, Dick Hayes, sends us the following note and photos: It has been a busy summer for the Hayes family. My daughter, Kathy, presented us with our seventh grandchild on 26 July. Here's a photo of

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"grandad" with Kacey Nicole Jeannin when she was only a few hours old. Mom and baby are doing fine. My oldest daughter, Tracey, is due in September and is also expecting a girl.

John Kelly has been visiting us for the past few weeks while he gets a house he has been renting ready for sale. While he was here, we had the privilege of attending the CNO change of command at Annapolis on 21 July when ADM Vem Clark relieved ADM Jay Johnson '68 in a beautiful ceremony. It was like "old home week." When John was a Company Officer at USNA, ADM Johnson was a striper in his Company. My last assignment prior to retiring in 1990 was as ADM Johnson's Deputy in BuPers. When John was in charge of the patrol gunboats in the Med in the '70s, ADM Clark was a skipper of one of the gunboats. I've known ADM Clark for over 20 years and we've played a lot of golf together. He always got the good "tee times" when we were in Norfolk. Two great flag officers we can be proud of.

Ann and I have spent most of the summer at our condo in Virginia Beach. We've had great weather this summer—lots of rays and golf. Ann has taken up golf and actually plays more than I do. Something wrong with that picture.

Barney Walsh writes from Pensacola that his son.

Brad, was recently married. Among the wedding guests and family included: Mimi and Dave Lencses, Ann and Dick Hayes, Bamey Walsh, Sherry and Brad Walsh, the newlyweds, and proud mother, Nina Walsh.

Rick Waite, lives in Colorado Springs, CO, and his letter gives us a glimpse into his careers over the past 38 years plus some great photos of his current lobby. Great tail number!

The Supply Corps provided me a couple of tours as fuels officer, one at NAS Alameda, the other at Chu Lai, Vietnam. These tours convinced me that my interests were in fuel management and QC. Six years at Exxon have been followed by 25 at Velcon. We specialize in filtration of aviation fuels. In '92 I was in Alaska where our distributor flew us around Mt. McKinley, various glaciers and the beautiful Alaskan countryside. Then 1 decided to get my private pilot license. This led to renting of various Cessna aircraft. When a 172RG Cutlass came up for sale here in Colorado Springs, I couldn't pass it up. The Cutlass has been reengined, repainted and received a new leather interior I tell my kids their inheritance is all tied up in this plane. Notice the side number—for June '62, Naval Academy. Bill the Goat on one side

and a true Navy fighting cutlass on the other. The trim is in Blue Angel colors—flight blue and wildcat yellow. During my seven years of active duty, the retiring Aviation Supply Corps captains were given Naval Aviator wings with the Supply Corps emblem (the old "pork chop") glued on (for laughs). Now there is a real set of Aviation Supply Corps wings. Times do change! The ratio of Navy to Air Force here in the Springs is a bit lopsided, but Bill the Goat is being proudly displayed here in the West. Best regards and hope to see you at Homecoming 2002!

Rick Waite

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Rick Waite T h e ' 6 2 golf organization, ably directed by Emery Reistetter consists of almost 35 Classmates who live in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis corridor. The group plays once a month, April through October at a different golf course each month. Photo's are from the July outing played at Pax River and the crab feast hosted by Marinna and Steve Nystrom.

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'62: Rich Rice, Geoff Nelson, Kerm Hermann. Mike Miga, Wayne Hickam and George Futch Marshall and Dick Tripp are m o v i n g from Madrid to Buenos Aires.

That's our Class news for this November 2000 issue of Shipmate. Keep those great photos and letters flowing inâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;your Classmates appreciate them.

Keep in touch. Until next time...

John Gluck, Geoff Nelson, Wayne Hickam and Emery Reistetter Stu Fitrell (fitrell@aol.com) writes us that it's time to hang up the old '62 golf jock.

Next week I leave for Duluth, MN, (please no more cold jokes, over the past two weeks I've heard them all) to take on the position of chief test pilot (I've heard all the jokes about the oldest person in the world being hired as a chief test pilot too) with Cirras Design Corporation. I will actually be director of engineering flight test with about a half dozen test pilots, about two dozen engineers and about a dozen others. But I will be doing the flight test work. Basic rale of life; in the cockpit is better than behind a desk. We have one airplane in production, the SR-20, another in development (SR-22) and a third on the drawing board. You can get a good view of the project at www.cirrasdesign.com. I will retain our home email of fitrell@aol.com, which gives you a hint that I will be a geographical bachelor That being the case, the company is giving me two weekends a month with Lynn using their "lead the fleet" aircraft as transport. I have completely enjoyed our golf outings and will miss them. Good luck and good fun to you all.

News from Stew Lingley: George Phillips, Bob Crawford, Dick Lee and I, plus our wives, had a wonderful time on summer craise in the Aegean. We started in Istanbul and ended up in Athens. We will put a report of our craise on the bulletin board as soon as we get our act together A number of other Classmates have indicated that they would be interested in joining us the next time we do something like this.

You might give this some thought. Vacationing with Classmates is fun. If you want to plan something like this yourself, and want to open it up to the Class or just a subset, let me know and I will help you contact whomever you wish.

Lost Classmates William John Brennan, Gordon Howell Carter, Victor Owne Dewey, Harry August Jester Jr., Francis Xavier Odonnell, and Philip Jay Ridgely. If you know where they might be please let Stew know.

A '62 bulletin board is available for Classmates to post items of interest. You can reach it easily from the '62 Roster site. It is not a secure site, so please remember to use judgement when posting any articles there. Please don't include anything of a private or Class confidential nature.

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Pres: Hon. Stephen M. Duncan Sec'y: Michael H. Shelley 25 Sweetwater Lane, Pisgah Forest, N C 28768 h: 828-862-4245; e: Class.Secretary@USNA63.org Web site: www.USNA63.org I regret having to begin this report with news of the deaths of two of our Classmates and one of our children.

Edward "Ned" Walsh died of cancer on 10 August at his home in Canton, MS. Ned's survivors include his widow, Lucy, and their children, Edward and Mary-Lacey. Please see the Last Call section of this issue for his obituary, which also appears in the Last Call segment of our Web site. The family is planning an interment in the Naval Academy Columbarium in the fall with a memorial service in the chapel.

The days leading up to Ned's death saw an outp o u r i n g of a f f e c t i o n and s u p p o r t from h i s companymates. As reported by Jim Carter: Last weekend, ten of us from the 6th Company, Dottie and Bill Hughes, Lionel Banda, Bob Borlet, Tony DeSantis, Bruce Alitt, Dirck Praeger, Dick Williams, Julie and Dick Arvedlund, Frank Gregory, and I, went down to Canton and spent the weekend with Ned and Lucy. We bought a lot of beer and food, and just sat around telling sea stories. Ned loved it. It was good for him. It was certainly good for us. Three more 6th Company guys (Austin Seay, Mike Lents and Chuck Maclin) spent all day with Ned the day before he died. Brian Perkinson came to Canton the following weekend and was a great help to the family.

As Bill Hughes observed: Ned seemed in good spirits and in no pain. He died peacefully and with a lot of faith. I'm sure we all have a friend in heaven. Most of us could use the help.

Shortly before preparing this month's column, I learned that John Harvey had died on 26 October 1999. As soon as 1 can gather additional details I'll share them with you.

K a y and Ted K r o h n e ' s o l d e s t s o n , E N S Kristopher Krohne, was killed in a flight training accident at Vance Air Force Base near Enid, OK, on 6 September. The accident occurred during a solo flight when the T-37 primary jet trainer he was pi-

loting crashed during touch and go landings. Kris was a graduate of the N R O T C program at George Washington University. Ted and Kay have one other son, Carl, who is 21 years old.

A growing number of our Classmates are adding current biographical information to the Electronic Lucky Bag on the Class of 1963 Web site. Here are some excerpts from their recent submissions: From Tom Robertson: I completed 31 years active duty in 1994, almost entirely in the submarine business. Last duty commanded SUBGROUPS 6 and 10 in Charieston and Kings Bay plus acted as ComNavBase Charleston. Spent a year working and living in Charleston before moving to Amelia Island, FL, in 1995. Still involved in two projects in South Carolina but mostiy enjoying good living on the beach. Getting involved in local affairs on the city Planning Board and other volunteer work. Finding plenty of time for golf and surf. Julie and I have been married since 1965, so she is also a true Navy veteran. Our son, John, is a physician practicing in New Bem, NC, where he and his family live. Daughter, Diana Lowery, lives in Alexandria, VA, where she and her husband work.

We are new and happy grandparents.

From Dave Anderson: After flight training I had a wonderful tour in VP-49 out of Pax River, MD. My last two years in the Navy were at BuPers in officer distribution working the VP, VR, VW placement deskâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;another great career job, but a time of early outs, rife with administrative confusion as we tried to conform to budgetary constraints that were being imposed on the military. I began to feel the need for more control over my life and resigned effective 5 June 1970 to enter the financial services field.

I am married to Pat Wamken (sister of our Classmate Larry Wamken). Two daughters, Liz (the first legal child of the 15th Company, bom 13 March 1964) and Laura. Both are now teaching school and parents of three of my grandchildren.

Two sons. Max and John, both working with me, and parents of the other three. We moved to the West Coast after leaving the Navy and settled in Portland, OR. We moved to Longview, WA, in 1978 and formed what is now Interwest Financial Group, Inc. We manage money and provide financial consulting for individual clients and institutions. Our clients range from coast to coast offering the opportunity for as much travel as we can handle.

In 19821 was ordained as a permanent deacon serving the Seattle Archdiocese. While my business life keeps me from being involved to the degree I would like, I have had the unique opportunity to witness the marriages of my children and baptize my grandchildren.

Having my sons as business successors is a luxury that so far affords the opportunity to do as much professionally as I like for as long as I like.

Retiring is something we do every night, about 8:30 p.m. the dogs start heading for the stairs.

Old friendships grow more valuable as the years pass. We've been able to renew several recentiy and would look forward to many more for anyone who's in our neck of the woods.

From Terry Rogers: Upon graduation I was assigned to THEODORE E. CHANDLER (DD-717), homeported in Long Beach, CA. I served two years there as the communications officer. We made one cruise to WestPac and were sent to the Tonkin Gulf after the Maddox/Tumer Joy incident. In 1965 I was transferred to a new construction, WAINWRIGHT (DLG-28), which was commissioned in Boston in early 1966. I was the communications officer on that ship also, which was homeported in Charleston, SC. In the spring of 1967 we sailed through the Panama Canal. I was released from active duty in June 1967.

In September 1967 I entered law school at the University of Wyoming and graduated with a J.D. degree in May 1970.1 spent my law school sumShipmate, November 2000

mers working as a park ranger for the National Park Service in Grand Teton National Park. Upon graduation I moved to Jackson, WY, and started my own law practice. In time I became the city attorney, and then the county and prosecuting attorney. After 19 years as an attorney, I was appointed to be the district judge in Jackson, serving three counties. I continue in that position today.

I was married in 1978 to Gloria Bailey of Ogden, UT. We are the parents of six children, the youngest of whom was bom in 1991. My family responsibilities have been considerable. My hobbies and interests include hiking, photography, woodcarving, woodworking, building musical instraments, officiating basketball games, golf, and playing bluegrass guitar. I hope to work in my job until mandatory retirement at age 70.1 then hope to be able to spend my winters in a warmer climate.

From Vince Gilroy: I attended flight training after graduation and spent 28 years flying P-3s and having a lot of fun.

Retired as a captain in 1991 to South Carolina where I run a Navy JROTC program. Built a nice home on the llth green and play lots of golf. I remain married to my "OW," Robin, who plays even more golf than I. We had three boys, Brian (Villanova '86—NROTC) who also spent six years in P-3s, David (Princeton '88 AROTC) who spent four years as an Army officer, and Peter (Florida '92). While on my next-to-last active tour as Naval Attache in the Philippines, Robin did some volimteer work in a local orphanage. This resulted in our adopting our beloved daughter, Kara, who is now 14 and keeping us poor. All sons are happily married, so far producing two grandsons and four granddaughters.

From George Fister: After graduation, I spent 21 years at sea on eight different submarines including two diesels and six nucs. Completed five years in command in Hawaii, three years on SKATE and then two years on TuNNEY after reUeving Karl Kaup. After so much fim at sea, the Navy decided that I needed to go to shore duty, and as punishment, they sent me to Washington. I thought it would only be a two-year tour, but at the end of my third two-year tour, I decided to retire after 27 years. Often thought I should have stayed for a career Since retirement, I have had some really fun jobs including helping the Korean Navy leam how to operate their new submarines. In addition, I have been involved in environmental remediation of close military bases, and helping communities find altemative uses for the facilities. Most recentiy I was involved in creating a battle space information system for the Marine Corps in a littoral. I am currentiy working in the office of die DON CIO in tiie Navy Smart Card Office. I am still married to Judie, 37 years after graduation. The Academy was right, it helps if you wait for a while after graduation to get married—we waited until Sunday. Our two boys and one girl all live in this area, the oldest is married and we have one granddaughter. Our youngest daughter was married in August 2000 to a wonderful young man. Our middle son, is still looking. After ten years of retirement, I guess I've reached the stage in life where I think back about what I might have done differentiy—and I can't think of much. The kids survived 21 years of their Dad being gone, and I guess I would have to say that I would sure like to do it all over again. I hope this finds all my Classmates as happy and satisfied witii tiieir lives as I seem to be with mine.

From Bob Nobbs: After serving in destroyers on tiie East Coast for three years after graduation, I spent a year in Chulai, Vietnam, as OIC of the MSTS office there.

I decided to resign my commission to attend Fordham University Law School in New York. I worked as a corporate real estate attorney for Metropolitan Life for 31 years in Chicago, Houston, and New York, and retired from MetLife in July 1998. I married Melinda Dale Lawrence in

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September 1964 and we have four children; Kim, a vice president for an upscale retirement residence; Peter and Keith, actors; and Craig, a playwright, plus one grandson, Patrick. We have been very active in Worldwide Marriage Encounter (for 28 years). We also travel quite a bit and spend time with family and friends.

From Mario Fiori: I had a fun submarine career. After graduating I went on a diesel. TENCH (SS-417), qualified, and then did four years at MIT. With a nuclear engineering Ph.D. in hand, I had to revisit Rickover and very rapidly got booted out. Ultimately I did get in the program and served on SSNs and was XO of an SSBN. Commanded SPADEFISH ( S S N 668), Norfolk, VA; Submarine Squadron Four, Charleston, SC; and Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport, RI. Shore tours included systems analysis in Office of CNO in '73-'75 timeframe, and while there also served in the Federal Energy Administration (precursor to Dept. of Energy). From '83-'85 served as technical assistant and senior bag holder for Dr. George Keyworth, who was President Reagan's science advisor. I retired at the end of my NUSC tour in October '89. Since then I had a consulting business through '91, joined the Department of Energy in October '9i and worked one year at headquarters and five years as the manager of the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC. An interesting and challenging experience. I then started Compass Associates Inc. and consult for various clients. I am presently serving as president of a small software company in Seattle until our owners and I, a Manchester England based company, RTS Pic, can find a new permanent president. By the way, Pete Optekar founded this software company and sold it to the Brits in '99. Susan and I continue to reside in Augusta, GA, while our three girls, Cristina, Alison, and Katherine (27, 25, and 22), are all out of Duke, finally. Cris will be married to a doctor next May, Alison continues to work in environmental projects for Duke Recycling in Durham, and Kate is off to Germany for a year as a FuUbright Scholar studying human development.

I may even get to visit her and practice my very weak German.

Nobody has provided a new photo this month, so I have gone to the archives and exfracted this picture. It was taken at an Army game party at our house in Burke, VA, sometime in the 1980s. If you look carefully, you may be able to recognize Jim Ring, Tom Reemelin, Bob Forster, Keith Reynolds, Jerry Mulholland, Phil Gubbins, Ned Ruckner, myself Bemie Conatser, and Mike Lents. In the

rear (believe me on this, even though the photo is murky) are Bob Harper, Charlie Minter, N o r m Shackelton, Jim McClure, and Dave Byrnes. Since I don't know what year this was taken, I can't say whether or not we won the game, but it's clear we were having a good time.

"Del Mar Official Will Start Retirement On Open Road; Ex-Public Works Chief To Take Part In Motorcycle Trip." This headline in tiie 1 September edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune appeared above an article lauding the accomplishments of our Classmate Dick Andrews. Here are a few excerpts: On Friday, Richard Andrews retired as city public works director. This morning, he's planning to hop on his motorcycle and get out of town—and out of a 40-year routine of putting work first and leisure last.

"I've never had a break and I'm taking this time for myself before I get too old," said Andrews.

He and his twin brother, David, are among 600 riders who will take to the road in Tijuana today for a five-day, 2,880-mile road trip to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. "That's about 600 miles a day," Andrews said about the 25th armual event, called the Three Flags ride and sponsored by the Califomia Motorcycle Association.

Andrews graduated from the Naval Academy and spent the next 26 years heading various public works projects, including being constraction manager at Camp Pendleton and then at Naval Air Station Miramar. He also served two tours in Vietnam. Workdays were 13 hours or longer, and he said the only free time he could count on was vacation. "I took the job here ten years ago because it sounded interesting," he said. "Working in a small town is definitely harder than in a large city because you have to have technical knowledge in everything from sewer system maintenance and repair, to the right way to prane a tree."

What surprised him most, he said, was the amount of time he spent on the telephone talking to residents. "In a small city, people know your name and want to talk to the director I spent hours on the telephone." Many of those same residents bemoaned his decision to leave and even threw him a goodbye party on the eve of his retirement.

"Richard was just so capable and so even-tempered, so solid," said City Manager Lauraine Brekke-Esparza. "If there was a crisis, you'd want Richard to be in charge." The mayor, council members, and Andrews' co-workers added their praise.

"They said an awful lot of nice things. I was embarrassed by all the attention," Andrews said.

"I'm pretty much like all engineers. Give us a job, leave us alone, and let us go do it."

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During the three-country motorcycle ride, Andrews said, he intends to pull over and rest whenever he feels tired or fatigued. "We'll take a more leisurely pace on the return trip," he added.

Deadlines and work schedules aren't a part of his life anymore.

The full text of this article can be seen in the " U S N A in the N e w s " s e c t i o n of the A l u m n i Association's Web site at www.usna.com. It's in the archive for 6 September.

It was good to hear from Joe Strasser, who provided this update on his recent activities and newest position: Following my retirement from the Naval War College in June 1995, Barbara and I moved to DuBois, PA, where I became campus executive officer of one of Penn State's branch campuses. I remained in that position for a littie more than two years when Penn State decided to bring 12 of its branch campuses together to form a college. I became the first dean of this new college, the Commonwealth College, with some 14,000 students, making it the largest college within the University. This required us to relocate to State College.

I served in this capacity for almost three years.

It was a wonderful opportunity and Penn State was really very good to me. What a quality university ! There was a great deal of travel involved in visiting 12 locations throughout the state and I decided I wanted to spend additional time at home.

Barbara and I formed many wonderful friendships in Newport during our five years there at the War College, and we thought at some time we'd like to return.

We did so in July. We are renting a home in Newport while our new home is being built in Portsmouth. We expect that it will be finished in March 2001. I started working as executive director of the Naval War College Foundation on 1 September. I will be trying to assist the College as I received great support from the Foundation while I was president of the College. I look forward to hearing from Classmates in the area.

Make a return visit to the Class of 1963 Web site to see our newest feature—Company locator maps showing the whereabouts of the members of each Company and providing direct email connections for your convenience. While you're surfing, take a look at two redesigned Web sites: the Naval Academy Alumni Association at www.usna.com and the United States Navy at www.navy.mil.

We'll close for now with an expression of thanks to Mike Blackledge, the founding Webmaster of the Class of 1963 Web site. Blackie's creativity, technical skills, and boundless energy are responsible for most of the "look and feel" of the site and a substantial portion of its contents. Because of a previous commitment, he is now on an extended leave of absence from his Webmaster duties. The maintenance aspects of his Web site work have been divided between Bill Kennedy and Steve Coester, but we will sorely miss Blackie's creative contrib u t i o n s and his stimulating c o m m e n t s on the "Webmaster Suggests" page.

So much for this month. Let me hear from you very soon. Classmate! Beat Army!

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Pres: The Honorable Bemard "Bemie" A. Maguire Sec'y: Dennie Pignotti 10907 Wilder Point Lane, Reston, VA 20191 e: dpignotti@navalengineers.org Class Web page: www.usna64.org The Great Class of 1964, please keep those "cards and letters" coming in. I'm trying to get more information from Classmates in other parts of the country. Let us know what you're doing, where you've been, and whom you' ve seen. There are a lot of Classmates who are interested in you. Also, please don't forget to update your data on our Class Web site, www.usna64.org. If you have any information on Classmates on the "missing Classmates" list, contact Grant Fulkerson (fulkie@erols.com) or me so we can get them back into our system. The Class October Shipmate article provided detailed information on how to enter and use the Class database. If you need this information contact Grant or me.

B e m i e Maguire, our Class President, passes on the following information: Classmates; Three cheers for those we leave behind on active duty in the Navy and Marine Corps! Approximately 120 Classmates and wives provided Susan and Connie Lautenbacher (cslautenbacher@compuserve.com) and, by extension, the Class of 1964 with a rousing farewell to active duty (place asterisk here) on 17 August on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory. On a gorgeous low humidity, sunny day, the Class presented Connie with a USNA watch engraved with the words: "Last Man Ashore, Class of 1964, Connie Lautenbacher, 5 July 1960 to 1 October 2000." Susan and Connie's new address is 4513 Gilbertson Road, Fairfax, VA 22032.

Now let me footnote that asterisk. The Class has officially awarded an asterisk to our Classmate, Medical Corps Navy CAPT Dick Foley.

Dick is our Roger Maris. Still on active duty as a Navy doctor, he graciously relented the title "Last Man Ashore" owing to his professional switch and to his decade of broken service while a medical student.

Connie Lautenbacher writes; "We appreciate very much being able to share this event with the entire Class. It could not have been better for us personally; and to have so many good friends from '64 in attendance was an enormous blessing."

Applause and thanks to Nancy and Stu Johnson for being great Classmates and for hosting our annual outing at Wolf Trap. Jim Arrison rounds up the money and Stu gathers up the tickets with the best seats.

Congratulations to John Dalton, the new president of IPG Photonics, a manufacturer of high power fiber amplifiers, lasers and transmitters.

John is also one of the Eleven Meeting Street (EMS) boys who are gathering momentum to establish a fitting '64 submariner tribute with their "Adopt a KURSK Soldier's Family" initiative.

Bravo Zulu to the EMS Boys initiative and Geoff Kirkland's personal leadership.

In closing, we received a great letter that expressed some very kind thoughts as well as a check for $500 for our Memorial Scholarship Fund from Tony Moringiello, the father of a Class of '91 graduate. Tony writes, "All I am trying to do is, in a small way, to give back some of the blessings that have been given to me in my own life. I can best relate to your Class because of our age and my son being a graduate....It is my pleasure to help out. You're a very special group of people.

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Bob Yule (Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Milstar Intersegment System Test, 408-756-6337; bob.yule@lmco.com) dropped me a few lines from S a n t a C r u z , C A , w i t h s o m e g r e a t n e w s on Hal Anderson.

I wanted to give you an update on my old 15th Co. roomie, Hal Anderson. A couple of weeks ago (27 July), Hal and I had a great steak dinner together in Chicago—our first time together in about 20 years! The next day (Hal's birthday) we took in a Cubs game at Wrigley Field (my Giants beat his Cubs). As you can see from the enclosed photo, he is looking well and, more importantiy, he reports that his multiple myeloma is in remissiongreat news!

Bob Yule and Hal Anderson He's back working full time and he and Sandy are planning to hit the road soon in their RV. I think that the prayers of his '64 Classmates have made a difference—please ask them to keep up the good work! We plan to get together again at the 40th, if not sooner. As for me, I've been here in the San Francisco Bay area since I retired in ' 84—working for Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin) and living in the hills above Santa Craz on three acres of redwoods with my wife, Sandy, and three to five dogs (it varies). Life is good, and I have no plans to retire again...can't afford to!

Thanks, Bob. It's great that Hal is in remission and is back to work! We'll keep him in otu- thoughts and prayers.

Walt Ericson (9980 Cummins Place, San Diego, CA 92131) sent me a letter and some photos of his summer trips. He wrote: I'm in my second career as a high school teacher here in San Diego which gives me plenty of time to travel, especially now that Sue has retired from nursing. This past summer many of our travels had a USNA flavor. We visited Kathy and Tom Gilmartin in Plainfield, IL, outside of Chicago.

(Tom and I were roommates during all four years in 9th Co.) Tom is in the nuclear power business and they had recently relocated from Longmont, CO. They have a lovely home, however all five of their kids and all three of their grandchildren live between Colorado and Hawaii so I doubt that Illinois will be their permanent residence.

Tom Gilmartin and Walt Ericson We then took part in a family reunion for Sue's family in Cedarburg, WI. The highlight for us was the opportunity to see our son, Chris Ericson '91, his wife, Michele, and our granddaughter, Delaney.

Chris is a pilot currently serving as a flight instmctor in Pensacola. It must be payback for all those years that we had our kids away from their grandparents. Wish we were closer.

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I heard from John Klein (17), 2346 Stafford Drive, Orange Park, FL 32073-5317, who related another vacation story. John wrote: Penny and I were vacationing at the Massanutten Mountain Resort in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia early this summer. When we drove to the top of the mountain for a view from the scenic overlook, an SUV with Annapolis tags pulled in next to us. Penny noticed the driver's distinctive gold "N" on his blue ball cap and asked if he went to school at Navy. When he said yes, I introduced myself to Strohm Evans, whom I hadn't known at school. He's "lawyering" in Crabtown and I had just finished harassing people who failed to submit their census forms in Orange Park, FL. (A great way to learn all the nooks and crannies of your town as well as the interesting, eccentric and erratic residents thereof.)

I thought I had one of the youngest '64 offspring (Christian, 18, first year of college), but Strohm has a couple still in grade school!

'64; The Ericsons; Chris '91, Michele, Delaney, and Sue and Walt

Strohm Evans and John Klein Well it's a small world, John. Sfrohm is also a regular at football and lacrosse games and other events in the Annapolis area. I guess the great Class of 1964 is everywhere!

64: Bemie Maguire, Lorie Moore, Dennie Pignotti, Rich Ruble. Hugh Risseeuw, Stu Johnson, and I I Ii.hns

'64: Debbie Risseeuw, Dottie Pignotti, Sydney Ruble, Nancy Johnson, Joyce Maguire, and Barb Moore

Walt Ericson and Bob Andersen

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Later in the summer we did a Sun Valley, Yellowstone, Grand Teton swing. While in the area we went to Montana to visit Susan and Bob Andersen (21) outside of Helena. Bob and Susan were high school sweethearts who settled back in the old hometown area and convinced both their kids and all four grandkids to follow suit! Bob is a budget director in the state govemment, with an office in the state capital building. He must have some pull as we received a nice "welcome to Montana" letter from the govemor.

Walt, sounds like you know how to make good use of your vacation time while catching up with all your Classmates, too! Make sure you provide us feedback from your next trip.

In early August, Nancy and Stu Johnson invited several Classmates to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to help christen their fabulous new beach home in Whalehead. Barb and Lorie Moore drove in from Atlanta, Sydney and Rich Ruble came down from Mechanicsburg, PA, and J.J. Johnson drove up from Florida where he's working as a conttactor on some Bell South communication network problems. J.J. makes his home in Montana when he's not on the road working. Bemie and Joyce Maguire, Debbie and Hugh Risseeuw, and Dottie and Dennie Pignotti drove down from Northem Virginia.

We had a tremendous timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wonderful food, great company, and unbelievable location with a great beach. Of course, we shared many stories and memories of the past and discussed some serious and not so serious issues of the present and future. The weather tumed out great, however a hurricane further out to sea closed the beaches to ocean swimming, but that did not stop us from taking full advantage of some quality beach time including Lorie's attempts to catch us a fish dinner. He was not successful. The Johnsons' swimming pool and hot tub did get a good test, as well as the new outdoor barbeque area! Stu and I followed the light-off checklist and started the new barbeque without incident contrary to some who thought a deeper analysis of the instractions was necessary. Stu, J.J. and Rich barbecued each night cooking ribs, chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, and fresh tunaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all wonderfully done! The dinner hour was kicked off with a cocktail hour or more late in the aftemoon. We were thankful that the local super market had a good assortment of wines!

During the men's golf outing on Saturday moming, Lorie showed us why he was on the golf team at the Academy by winning all the money! He played very well on a tough course and can still drive 250-275 yards! Bemie who is just starting to golf did surprisingly well, too. Hugh, Stu, Rich, and I had our moments and enjoyed the beautiful course. The women slept in that moming (we had an early tee time) and enjoyed a moming around

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the pool and on the beach away from the men— boy, were our ears buming! Lorie also won the pool championship on the new pool table. Everyone had a wonderful long weekend, thanks to Nancy and Stu Johnson's generous and fantastic hospitality. Don't pass up an invitation to the Johnson's beach house!

Please stop by the '64 tailgate at the Navy home football games. Dee and Dave Gould have secured the same location we had last year in the Navy side (west) parking lot, along Farragut Road, about 80 yards ffom Cedar Run Road. Look for the 10-foot X 10-foot white tent and Blue and Gold '64 banner.

Classmates from the local area are urged to bring a dish to share. Out-of-towners are all welcome. The first game's tailgate was a huge success even with some heavy early rain! See you at the games and the '64 tailgates!

Please save-the-date Monday, 8 January 2001, for the Class of '64's Annual Ethics Dinner where we present our book. Ethics for the Junior Officer to the Class of 2001. The affair will start at approximately 5:30 p.m. wherever Midshipmen are eating at that time. (King Hall may be undergoing a facelift sometime during the next two academic years and we may be dining in Dahlgren Hall.) Dave Carey, former POW and now a motivational speaker based in Califomia, will be our after-dinner speaker. We will also recognize and honor our other former POWs: Charlie Plumb, Read Mecleary, Ted Treibel, and Al Nichols. Make your plans now to come to Annapolis for the 2001 dinner which promises to maintain our high standard of excellence.

I also want to remind you that Steve Claassen has set up a Class of '64 mini-reunion cmise on 18-25 January 2002. The mini-reunion cmise will be celebrated on the Holland America's beautiful Veendam departing from Puerto Rico at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, 18 January and retuming to San Juan at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, 25 January. Arrangements for the cmise are being made by Yvonne and Karl Vogeler through Cmise Holidays LLW. Please visit the Class Web site, www.usna64.com, or www.cruiseholidaysllw.com, or www.cruise holidaysfla.com for all the details. Don't miss this great opportunity thanks to the hard work of Steve and the professional services of Karl and Yvonne.

As mentioned in my first paragraph, I'm mnning out of material for our column. Please send me some updates on what you and other Classmates are doing. I'd like to continue to push the limits of our column space so keep those cards, letters, and emails coming. Don't forget digital photos (at least 300 dpi resolution and 2.5 inches wide) and hard copy photos are always welcome. Until next month, as always, BeatArmyl Dennie

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Pres: Pete Gness 410-757-4796; e: pdg@nrc.gov Sec'y: CDR Dave Anderson, USN (Ret.) 5 Strawberry Lane, Cariisle, PA 17013 e: daveand65@planetcable.net Web Page: http://www.users.planetcable.net/daveand Greetings, Classmates. We hope that the fact that you are reading this indicates that you are reasonably healthy and that dementia has not set in too deeply, yet. We are also aware that by the time many of you receive this issue of Shipmate, you will still be smiling from the lasting effects of a fantastic

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35th Reunion. While that is still in the future as of this writing, we will inch out on a very stout limb and give a hearty well done (BZ) to those who planned, organized and executed the Reunion. A Reunion though, however well planned, will fall on its face if no one shows up. So, thanks also to all those of you who traveled from far or near to be a part of the festivities.

OK, we now tab forward to the news we have from the Class for this time.

The Class of '65 has thanks due to Jerry Robinson for a compilation of sea stories. LCDR George Capin '89, the new "Ocean Away" columnist, used several of our stories in his October column. Please look for it. Of course Dick Zimmerman also deserves muchos cudos for his involvement in the '65 Sea Story project. Thanks guys for the time and efforts. The following are but a few of those who have contributed to the sea stories Bob Andretta, Doug Burgess, Mike Concannon, Dean Richmond and Tom Murphy.

Now let's hear from Jack Devine who, after seeing what Jerry had submitted to Shipmate made the following editorial remarks: Well done, Jerry! Terrific job in capturing the heart of lots of material in a very brief article.

Rivals with Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin.

My only complaint is that you neglected us nukes who suffered through power school and prototype after graduation. I'm sure enemy fire can be disconcerting, but how many of you have ever faced the abject terror of a spot board, middle of the night, at prototype? The IMC announcement "Ensign DeVine, report to the SIMM Room," there to be handed a piece of chalk in front of the blackboard and be commanded to derive the sixfactor formula or draw a one-line diagram of the charging system, or something like that? Top that with your silly sea stories!

Luckily, we got some opportunities to do some serious submarining later on—although (our fault) not well represented in the Class sea story compendium.

Seriously, Jerry, well done—makes us all feel good to be part of this Class. My son, John Devine '91, graduated and I've watched his Class up close.

Great officers, plenty of challenge and sacrifice, but certainly not like the turmoil of Vietnam plus Cold War. Thanks, Jack, for standing up for the nukes of us. I guess you're right, we had better come up with some interesting stories or the idea that we just sat around the wardroom table eating or playing cards will stick. Actually, it was fun to read about some of our exploits in Blind Man's Bluff. Then there was the time we paralleled the boat's electrical system with the ocean...during an ORSE inspection underway at 400 feet. That was fun.

OK, we now will have an update from Doug Metzger (dmetzger@n2unb.net) who says: I have not checked in for a good while, though Steve MacDonald shared my move from a tenyear pastorate in Riverside, CA, in 1997 to a ministry position here in Atlanta. I am the director of Strategic Focus Cities Team at the North American Mission Board of the Southem Baptist Convention. My nationwide responsibilities are directed to the mega cities of North America in seeking to help create a spiritual impact upon the cities and their citizens. I believe it is a needy ministry that has great ramifications for the health of our nation, and so it is a tremendous challenge.

On the side, I have been interim pastor in three different churches over the past two years.

I have recently been blessed to spend time with a former '65 Classmate, Jim Cymbala. Jim was our Plebe Year star basketball player who, after Plebe Year, went on to college in New England.

Today, he is the pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church in New York City. His wife, Carol, and

the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir are worid famous and have won numerous musical awards. Jim has authored two best seUing books. Thefirstof which.

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, tells the compelling story of how God led Jim to the ministry he now occupies as one of America's most influential spiritual voices. I heartily recommend the book to all Classmates. For me, it is thrilling to see a '65er having such a dynamic impact upon our culture.

We appreciate that update, Doug. I now live in an area in which USNA is not well known or appreciated (it seems as if many in this area associate the Naval Academy with one of those ads they see in the back of Boys Life). Recently, I was asked if I thought the Academy offered or provided a good education. My response was something like "it must have because there are Classmates of mine in just about any profession one can think of." Doug is one of several of our Classmates who have wound up in the ministry. It may be supposed that is enough to counter-balance the attomeys of which there are more than a few.

Our next joumey will be to London (the old one) from where Denny Neutze reported that he recently got together with other Classmates living in the London area, Mike Epprecht, John Odom, Jim Stark, in July at a historic pub in Oxfordshire.

Somewhere close by (below) you should see a photo of these guys. Denny went on to say: We had a gathering of our four Classmates living in the London area (Mike Epprecht, John Odom, Jim Stark and myself) at a picturesque and historic pub in Upper Wolvercote in Oxfordshire.

Although we have seen each other separately over the last couple of years, this was thefirsttime that we were able to coordinate everyone's schedule.

The pub is along the Thames, about 50 miles west of London. The building itself goes back to a I4th century convent. It has been a pub for many years and is one of Inspector Morse's haunts. Sunny and I are pleased to report that our eldest daughter, Dana, graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in June with a major in biochemistry and molecular biology, and a minor in Greek and Roman studies. Dana will begin working on her M.Phil, at Cambridge University in October. She will be working on a project involving the genetics of human papUlomaviras. We are equally proud to report that our youngest daughter, Barrie, will be attending Wellesley College starting in the fall.

As for Sunny and I, there is nothing very exciting to report. Keep well and Beat Army.

Four members of the Class of '65 in Oxfordshire Next, we are pleased to hear from Jack Camphouse (jcamphouse@netscape.net) who, in response to a requested update from Jeff Lewis, responded: Greetings from Chicago and thanks for asking.

I'm now happily retired from public education, so you can sttike that line. I haven't remmed to anything on a permanent basis, but have been doing some consultation work in school administration. Public education pensions run the same happy way that military pensions do. Here in Illinois one can retire after 34 years with a 75 percent pension.

In a similar manner we obtained the following from Frank Calkins (fcalkins@dcscorp.com) who says: I am now working as an engineer at DCS Corporation, supporting the Navy in the field of aircraft Communications, Navigation and SurveilShipmate, November 2000

lance (CNS). I recentiy moved to 21219 Mayfaire Lane #103, Lexington Park, MD 20653 but my home phone and business phone remain the same.

I am at extension 136 at the business number and I have an email address at home: fcalkins@us. hsanet.net. I also have a cell phone: 240-447-5655.

Frank went on to describe in detail a family event which for the sake of space we are omitting. The story described how his son, Dave, had arranged a surprise for his bride often years and included some interesting but personal occurrences related to the intimate family gathering. Then Frank concluded his letter with: Jeff, it was great to hear from you and I am impressed by the faithfulness you have shown to keeping the Class informed on everyone's personal information. You are a real blessing to the Class of'65. Thank you.

Chris B e m a r d (Bemardcd@aol.com) reports: My current, and hopefully final and forever, address is; 412 Settiement Lane, Carbondale, CO 81623. My wife. Donna, and I are both professionally certified ski instractors with the Aspen Ski Co. Next year we will be at either Snowmass Mountain or Tihack Mountain which are a mile or so apart. In the summer I am a fly fishing guide with Taylor Creek Flies in Basalt County, a small town between Carbondale and Aspen. Tough work, but somebody has to do it.

From another beautiful part of the country, Paul Bloch sent this update to Jeff: I would have gotten back to you sooner but I've been in Newport for the War College bootstrap and Convocation. My work phone number is 253-7730376. My new titie is Plan Net Project Manager, Architecture Design Group, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company. I am also an adjunct professor in the evening for the Naval War College at the Naval Station Everett resident seminar site. That's sort of the unrelated fact of the day; but if the question comes up somehow, you can pass it on.

Now we have this brief update from Art Wittig: My new address is 1660 Dares Beach Rd., Prince Frederick, MD 20678-4209.1 am teaching math at a brand new school, opening in November; Mill Creek Middle School, Lusby, MD. Keep up the good work you're so faithfully doing!

Ok, that does it for the input from youse guys for this month. Again, well done to all ye who made the 35th such a great success. We'll include photos and the complete m n d o w n on the notable happenings in an upcoming Shipmate. N o w all that there is left to do is Beat Armyl Happy holidays from Dave and Fred. Thanks to all of you who have sent us material for this column.

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Pres: VADM John S. Redd, U S N (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR Mike Baird, U S N (Ret.) 63 Frankhn St., Annapolis, M D 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: www.usna66.org Don't look now, but the year is almost over. Time for Thanksgiving and the holiday season. And, it's almost time for the real millennium to start, for those, like me who are purists. Anyway I hope everyone is prepared for the holidays to begin. I hope they prove restful and refreshing for you. Before I get to the news for this month, I must thank whoever provided the opening insert in the September

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article. I really appreciate it, but I ' m constantly aware that my articles rely on what you provide me. Anyway, thanks. Now on to the article.

Tom Marfiak, chief executive officer and publisher at the U.S. Naval Institute, was featured in the 10 August issue of The Capital, the AnnapoHs newspaper, from which most of my c o m m e n t s come. The c m x of the article was to applaud Tom's openness to different ideas and presenting them in the Proceedings issues. As Tom says in the article, "I believe in intellectual debates the Naval Institute represents." T m e to his word. Proceedings has recently featured articles on the anthrax vaccine, the gap between military leaders, force stmcture, and the roles of women in the Navy and Marine Corps. The Institute is online at www.usni.org. Tom is also quoted: We look to serve the serving professional, but we are also looking to educate people who will become our guardians in the future... .There is no pill for literacy or sense of judgement. Honoring the judgement to be a leader is a process that should begin early and continue throughout life.

One way Tom is taking his literacy campaign to the public is through an out-reach program to schoolage children. He is publishing a serial in the bimonthly Naval History magazine about two teenagers who travel back in time. Continued success, Tom. Though many years late, I want to call your attention to the Last Call article on Jim Loome in that section of this issue. Though Jim died in Febmary 1991 and I've previously reported his death, the tenacity of John Beakes in getting a worthy article completed for Jim deserves credit. Please take the time to read it. My thanks to John, who took this as a personal cmsade. May we all be so fortunate in friends. Thanks, John.

Most of those in the Washington, D . C , area are aware of the death of our honorary classmate Bill Corson. "The Colonel" was an inspiration and source of focus for many of us while at Navy, and for some, long after graduation. He continued a close association with the Class, often speaking at local Class Luncheons. A funeral was held for Bill on 27 July. Many Classmates attended, and as a tribute to Bill, the following last call to Bill is presented in this column. LtCol Mike Kelly, U S M C (Ret.), accepted the task of writing this, and I know you join me in thanking him for it.

LtCol William R. Corson, USMC (Ret.). Honorary Member, U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1966.

Lieutenant Colonel William Raymond Corson, United States Marine Corps (Retired), of Potomac, MD, succumbed to lung cancer and emphysema on Monday, 17 July 2000 and was buried with full Marine Corps honors at Arlington Cemetery on Thursday, 27 July 2000. Bill Corson was known as "The Colonel" to the many members of the Class of 1966 and other Classes who took his courses in strategy and policy and economic theory. Many of us came to know Bill through his strong, provocative classroom persona. You best not show up unprepared for The Colonel's class.

His lectures and discussions always featured anecdotes of his then-recent service in the White House. He personally knew the right people in Washington from Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to McGeorge Bundy and others from the Kennedyera administration. Bill Corson's classroom style and manner offered a challenge that many other professors didn't seem to possess.

He was a Marine who had enlisted in World War II, fought in the Pacific campaigns, finished college, received his commission and went to fight in Korea, before working in intelligence in the Far East, the CIA, and the newly-developed frontier in the Republic of Vietnam. He knew the literature and the authors of the day who developed the political, social, economic and military issues that

were in the newspapers and on TV. These issues became, for nearly all of us who graduated in June 1966, a fact of our livesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Vietnam War. His word was relevant, fresh, and moving. Many times I heard Classmates gathered around the mess hall tables before "Brigade Seats" was ordered talking about the material from "Corson's class." In June 1966, 152 members of the Class of 1966 elected to become Marines, and most of them knew Bill Corson.

Bill was bom in 1925 and grew up on the streets of Chicago. His parents divorced when he was very young and he was working for wages at a tender age. An adult benefactor scooped him off the streets and had him enroll at the University of Chicago were he began studying particle physics under Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein, proving his intellectual capabilities in a formidable environment. After the start of the Second World War, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and went to the Pacific where he was involved in the Bougainville and Marianas campaigns. At the close of the War he was recognized for his intellectual prowess and began to get exposed in the Far East as an individual of promise who could handle unique assignments. He went to language school at Monterey and learned three dialects of Chinese.

Following language school he was assigned in the Far East before being released from active duty to finish his undergraduate studies, which he forthrightly did. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of Marines and went right back into the Korean fray. It was following that WestPac Tour that he was personally sent back to Indo China by then-President Eisenhower to examine the situation between the French in the garrison at Dien Bien Phu and the Communist Viet-Minh forces under Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nugyen Giap. Bill came back and reported that the conflict was a civil war and that the U.S. need not get involved.

Still working for the Eisenhower Team, it was Corson who organized the rescue of the Dalai Lama. Later while working in the National Security arena under John F. Kennedy, Bill played a pivotal role in preventing a war between India and China. He also worked under JFK to find and remove a "mole" at the highest level at the Pentagon. A month before Kennedy was assassinated, he told Bill that he would help General David Shoup ran the CIA for the sole purpose of dismantling the Agency "board by board" (post Bay of Pigs sentiment). Corson was ordered to Dallas

by President Lyndon Johnson immediately following the assassination of JFK to ascertain whether there was a conspiracy. That assignment lasted a year and his findings basically do not comport with the findings of the Warren Commission; that Lee H. Oswald acted alone.

It was at this point that Bill came to his role as an instractor at the Naval Academy in 1964. He became an icon for many Midshipmen in the contemporary military issues of the day (Vietnam).

Many of us were drawn to his presence because it was a challenge. He drove into our hearts and our intellectual spirits with his probing, thought-provoking questions in the classroom. And, "Why do you want to hold the high ground Mr. Finlayson?"

What if you could control the indigenous population of peasants, Mr. Feifs? Col Bill Corson made us think. He became the catalyst for a great many of us who had been undecided about service selection and some of us chose to become Marines.

For me, he guided my humble effort in our First Class research paper to understand the partitioning of the two Vietnams from the Geneva Accords of 1954 that led to the confiict. LtCol Bill Corson then went to Vietnam for the period 1966-1967 as the commanding officer 3rd Tank Battalion, and later as commanding officer of the Marine Corps Civic Action Program throughout the 1 Corps Tactical Zone. He watched the war firsthand.

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many listened, and thus Bill wrote his first book.

The Betrayal, which was published as he was retiring from active duty. The book took issue with the sttategy and the policies being employed by the LBJ Team which he had witnessed from the battlefield and which he personally felt, after working so closely with the Vietnamese, were not going to produce a win in Vietaam. There was some talk of retuming him to active duty for a court martial action, but that was later dropped, and he retired to civil life.

He taught at Howard University in Washington in the '69-'70 timeframe, worked on the Price Commission for President Nixon (he held a Ph.D. in applied economics from American University), and began his joumalistic career. He later published his second book. Promise or Peril, an analysis of the phght of the black college student in America in 1970. That book was dedicated to our Classmate CAPT Michael Wunsch, killed in action at Cam Lo in July 1969.

Following this. Bill became the mihtary editor of Penthouse magazine and continued his writing career. Some have questioned that medium for his message to be broadcast, but he was very effective in securing the voice of the military veteran from Viemam and other conflicts.

He teamed up with Joe Trento, who became a co-author with him and from whom some of this background information was offered to our Class.

Bill's other books are Armies of Ignorance, Consequences of Failure, Widows, in which he collaborated with Joe Trento, and The New KGB. The Class of 1966 was always close to Bill Corson, and he to them. He followed the careers of many of our members as he did with other Classes but there was something special in '66. He came to our limcheons and spoke about everything from leadership to politics, to the absolute requirement of each of us—in uniform or out—to maintain the standards and creed of the Naval Academy and the Naval Service. He sought the trath in political, economic, social, and military matters for the sole purpose of preserving the bedrock of the country, the military and Naval Corps of Officers to v/hom, as leaders, the lives of American Marines, sailors, airmen, and soldiers are entrasted through special fealty. BUI was extremely proud of his own service at the Naval Academy as a Marine instractor. He understood the travails of Midshipman Ufe in the Brigade and he has always revered the experience as one of the finest breeding grounds for future human accomplishment.

In I993-I996, Bill and I worked at his urging with Mike Haskins when he was Commandant of Midshipmen, and now LtGen Mike Hagee '68, USMC, in proffering the idea for the inculcation of an ethics course into the lives of Midshipmen. Exemplified by this work and all the other contributions he made to us, we in the Class of 1966 had elected him our "Honorary Classmate" in 1986.

John Kennedy said at Amherst College in the fall of 1963 that "tiie highest duty of the writer ...is to remain trae to himself and to let the chips fall where they may...in serving his vision of the trath, the artist best serves his nation." Bill Corson has always been an artist with trath who has worked to serve this nation. This nation and all of us will miss him.

On 9 August, 17 Classmates: Clay Spikes, Tom Payne, John Scudi, Larry Fish, Cliff Wiese, Jim Galvin, Jim Cowardin, Tom Eubanks, Dave Lovelady, M o Foote, Rusty Rawson, John Posoli, Pierce Johnson, Ace Sarich, Al Swinger, and I, attended the Class Luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. Tom Eubanks was the featured speaker. Tom works at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in the National Missile Defense role. He works the technical side, while Al Swinger works the program management side. I also learned that the driver of the p r o g r a m is R o d Rempt. Though Rod had intended to retire to fight

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fires in Montana (ha, ha), the Navy had other ideas.

Rod has apparently been the visionary for the program, and the source of continuity. So on 30 June, the C N O announced that Rod was appointed to the newly-created position of assistant chief of naval operations (ACNO) for missile defense. T h e C N O also designated LAKE ERIE ( C G - 7 0 ) as the N a v y ' s

Theater Wide test ship. The tests are scheduled to c o n t i n u e for t h e n e x t t w o y e a r s . S i n c e i t ' s homeported in Hawaii, guess Rod will be doing a great deal of shuttling. Congratulations to Rod and best wishes for success. This is not a program for someone who wants to hide. And, my thanks to Tom Felger, who provided me a copy of the news release on Rod's appointment. Pam and Tom live at Quarters U, 1255 lOtii Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003-4607.

So that's it for November. Have a very happy Thanksgiving everyone. We have much to be thankful for, always. Until December, all the best, Mike!

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Pres: CDR David E . Church, U S N (Ret.) Sec'y: L C O L J i m McNeece, U S M C (Ret.) 4832 Solomon Dr., Annandale, VA 22003-4041 h: 703-425-1380; f: 703-425-5073 (call before faxing) e: SCRIBE67@AOL.COM Last month I encountered an absolute first: my column was a couple hundred words too long, so I had to cut it back. I took the easy way out. Since Bob Cutter had sent me two photos from his October 1999 wedding to Mary Mileski, and since the one with Mary in it was the best (see, ladies, I can be trained!), I pulled the other one with all the guys with the idea tliat I'd just hold it a month. So here it is. Here's Tim Anderson, Tim Sullivan, Bob, Tony Principi (best man), and Pete Long after Bob and Mary's wedding last year. Sorry to have to split the photos. Bob and Mary, but look at it this way, you get mentioned in two columns instead of only one!

Bob and his supporting staff Steve Fagan provided this account of still one more high point for the Class of ' 6 7 : Our Class had yet another reason to be proud when ADM Bob Natter took command of the Atlantic Fleet on 23 June 2000. The ceremony took place on the flight deck of ENTERPRISE in Norfolk.

The speakers included CNO and SecNav. Bob relieved ADM Vern Clark to become the 26th CinCLantFlt. It was an impressive ceremony and quite an honor for his family and friends to see the name Natter added to a list of predecessors that includes King, Mischer, Moorer, Kidd, and Trost.

Bob and Claudia have made friends all over the world, and many were able to travel to Norfolk for the ceremony and enjoy a weekend of typical Natter hospitality, which included a hotly contested round of golf and a seemingly endless backyard barbecue.

Several Classmates were there, with a strong representation by the 33rd Co. Mets. I hope I don't leave anyone out; Jeanne and Mike Quinlan, Dick Couch, Bruce Dyer, Anita and Jim Best, Jim

Perley, Ted Hontz, BiU Gautier, Hank GifBn, and the long lost, legendary. Small Moutii Bass, Mike Neuchterlein. Bob's father was tiiere, a man who has become accustomed to watching honors, commands, and stars bestowed upon his sons. Bob and Claudia's daughter, ENS Kelly Natter, was also able to attend, representing the latest generation of Natters to serve in the Navy.

As I ' m sure you're aware, several of our Classmates play g o l f According to Dick Meade, the weekend of 12 August 2000 was great for '67. Al Davey did a super j o b of organizing two days of golf at USNA and Queenstown Harbor on the Eastem Shore. After the "awards ceremony" at the 19th hole on Saturday, the group split up: some went to Cantlers for crabs; some went to Galway Bay (the official Irish pub of the Class of '67) for Beamish and Irish cuisine. Jim C h r i s t e n s e n ' s son. Buddy, is the general manager of Golfdom at Tyson's Corner in McLean, VA. Buddy donated Goffdom logo umbrellas as tee prizes. The winner of the "who came the farthest" went hands down to John Griffin. He lives in Alaska but coincidentally was vacationing in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Al sent m e this account.

Tiger Woods, sleep tight.. .you have nothing to fear from this crew!

Fifteen Classmates had a great time and a lot of laughs playing Navy course on 12 August. Skip Dittmann, Roger Paradis, Bob Havasy, Jim Goebel, Dave Davis, Ken Barausky, Jack Parry, Jim Schear, John Griffin, WiUie Williamson, Jeff Peck, Dick "the Duffer" Meade, Dennis KeUy and Rick Davis were the players, and needless to say, represented all levels of golf excellence. John and Roger were the two real goffers present. Jack gets the courage reward for playing hurt. Jim Goebel and Bob Havasy usually are in a tight race as to who is the biggest sandbagger about their handicap. Jim won easily this year as Bob earned his.

The most fun came on the I9th hole partly because of the creative score keeping, but also because the club didn't ran out of beer—in spite of our sizable effort. The team trophy was won by Havasy, Dittmann, Paradis and Davey based on our youthful appearance, sound moral judgment, stellar playing ability and the aforementioned creative scoring! We're going to do it again next year, so keep the weekend immediately prior to Plebe Parent's Weekend open. We need to have a date that is good for our Superintendent. Thanks to "Dick the Duffer" for his help and to Jim for his son's gift of umbrellas.

It turns out I have some regular contributors. This is not to say t h e y ' r e frequent contributors, but they're not afraid to take pen in hand and drop me a few lines from time to time. One such is Jack Jakucyk. Every now and then a note from him slips under the door. His latest: It seemed about time for a quadrennial update.

The big news is that we've retired and moved.

Chicago winters, which often include April, May, and June, were too much for Mary. Just bought a house in Whispering Pines, NC, about five miles from Pinehurst. I plan to work at getting my handicap back down to my personal best of 12 (set many years ago), but that may require some creative scorekeeping. We live on a lake, though, so maybe I'll just steam aroimd on a pontoon boat like the other senior citizens in the area.

Our oldest son, Jeffrey, is now in his fourth year of architecture studies at University of Cinciimati.

His GPA is much higher than his father's, which I attribute to grade inflation. From now thra December he will be on an intemship with an architecture firm in Charleston, SC. Our youngest, Justin, will start college at James Madison University in about a week. He was an excellent football player in high school ("most outstanding hneman" in our conference and made special mention on the Chicago Sun Times' All-Metro Area team), but he's smart enough to know when to hang it up.

Shipmate, November 2000

I received a whole handful of photos from Jim Schear's 10 June 2000 retirement reported a couple of issues back. Here are a couple of them. The ceremony was in Memorial Hall with a reception afterward in Dahlgren Hall. The photo of the sideboys shows Ken Barausky and John Craighill in front; the rest are back there...trust me! The shot with Steve Israel is a lighter moment at the reception.

'67: CinCLantFlt Ceremony: Quinlan, Neuchterlein, Perley, Natter, Fagan, Hontz, Dyer, and Couch No sports at JMU, where he'll major in operations management.

Mary plans to get involved in the local garden club, church activities, etc. She also plans to have a lot of work done around the house. Spending money was always her forte. Any Classmates in the area wanting to chase the white ball around, give me a call at 910-949-4050.

A press release from United States Masters Swimming came into my possession from one of my sources. Bill Braswell set a new United States Masters Swimming national record in the men's 5559 age group for the 2-Mile Cable Swim at Chris Greene Lake in Charlottesville, VA, on 8 July 2000.

Bill's time of 48:21.41 was 0.22 faster than the previous mark set in 1992. He and 114 other master swimmers ranging in age from 21 to 78 years were participating in the USMS 2-Mile Cable Championship swim along a quarter-mile straightaway.

Virginia Masters Swim Team has hosted this event since 1977; Bill is a member of D.C. Masters. Wow! And I received a long piece from Bill Cray. He had lots of catching up to do, but it sounds like he's been a busy man so maybe there's a reason!

I am currentiy a partner in the intellectual property law firm of Levin & Hawes in Laguna Beach, CA, with an office also in the Belmont Shores section of Long Beach, CA. I am still plugging away at procuring intellectual property protection (patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc.) for our clients and licensing and litigating those rights. I was working in-house as Head Patent Counsel for the Rockwell Intemational subsidiary Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Inc. in Newport Beach, CA, but got corporate-restractored out of a job when Rockwell spun off the subsidiary as what is now Conexantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so back into private practice. Prior to Rockwell I was in-house in Massachusetts with Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of Compaq) and Analog Devices, Inc. I live in Huntington Beach, CA (412 Golden West St., 92648) just three blocks from the water, so if anyone needs a getaway at the beach, we have plenty of room, barring other visitors. My lovely bride of these 29 years, Marcia, and I are now officially empty-nesters, having graduated our last two daughters from college (University of Vermont, nursing, and University of Maryland, journalism/P.R.) earlier this spring. Another daughter graduated from Salve Regina in Newport, RI, two years ago and the fourth daughter graduated awhile back from Cal. State Long Beach and is now married and has given us three grandchildren. All four daughters are now living out of the house and thus the empty-nest syndrome.

Marcia, after many years of doing medical sonograms, has retired to her hobbies of painting and digital photography, among other things, and being "Nana" with the grandchildren. I am trying to support her in the life style to which she has now become accustomed.

I am the secretary of the local LA Chapter of die USNA AA and Classmates Steve Andres (past trastee), Dick Glasow (reporting secretary) and Pete Thompson (past secretary) are active as well.

My office address is Levin & Hawes, LLC, 384 Forest Ave., Suite 13, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, or 3505 2nd St., Suite 204, Long Beach, CA 90803; 949-497-7676 or 562-439-0902; fax; 949497-7679; home phone; 714-536-5043.

Shipmate, November 2000

Here are a couple more enfries for the "Small World" category. Don Emmons was at a Corvette show and ran into Bob Evans. He didn't say where the show was, but I assume it was around the D.C. area since Bob lives in Gaithersburg, M D . As it happened. Bob was officially one of our "Lost Souls," so Don gets credit for tuming him in. (Check the Web site (www.usna67.com) so you, too, can leam which lost Classmates have bounties on their heads!) The other entry came from Pat Beamer relating his encounter with Ken Belisle: I was deplaning Northwest Flight 433 in Milwaukee on 19 August for the VFW National Convention when I pass the front of the bus and see this grizzled, skinny captain saying good-bye to his passengers. We look at each other quizzicallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he exclaims "Beams" and I respond with "Belisle" and stop the offload. Continued off and waited for him in the boarding area. Tums out we're both living in the Jacksonville, FL, area.

Ken lives south of the beaches and I live northeast in Femandina Beach. In addition to flying for Northwest, he's cmrentiy a Reserve rear admiral and deputy commander of ComFairMed/CTF 67.

Since retiring in '93, I've been fully engaged in volunteer activities with the VFW, American Legion, 40&8, and the local community theatre. I'm still working eight hours a day, I just don't get paid for it.

Ed Kerins sent a short note and said he and Kathy had visited Janet and Pete Long in Newport for Pete's retirement. Bill Calhoun was there, too, and I'm supposed to receive a photo one of these days. Maybe it'll show up in time for the next issue. Pete is now president of the Valley Forge Military Academy.

Occasionally, we (Dick, Dave, and I) get requests from people trying to locate Classmates. I usually take it as an opportunity to get some copy. Rocky English was my last victim. He's living down at Virginia Beach, but has built a log home on a lake in central Virginia. He said they had a builder do the outside and he and his wife finished it up. He seems really happy with it, but I kept asking him if h e ' d not gotten a lot of satisfaction from successfully doing something that ambitious. All he'd say, over and over, was, "It was a lot of work!" He said Dick Field and Lenny Passmore are coming for a weekend.

(Sec'y note: By the way, when we get requests for your contact information, unless we know the requester, we always get in touch with you first to make sure it's OK...jm67) This came in from Larry Murphy, "non-grad but forever alum ' 6 7 " as he puts it!

Sandy Prouty was "promoted" and assigned as special agent in charge of the Boston field office (FBI). He had been the SAC in Littie Rock and did such a good job unearthing political nasties that the Bureau had to move him. And we all thought he would never amount to anything. Stand by criminals, Prouty on the bridge.

Sandy was in the 34th and I put in three years (left ahead of you all!) in the 32nd. We pulled oars together and I taught him how to box.

"So he says to me..."

And finally, Terry and Bob Kelly discovered a great weekend getaway destination and shared a souvenir photo with me. I ' m not sure about the luxury accommodations there, but they visited their daughter in Pan Mun Jom, Korea. Bob said it was really interesting that all the guards were looking north. The South Koreans were watching for North Korean infiltrators, and the North Koreans were watching for other North Koreans who might try to get away!

Bob and Terry's secret hideaway!

There's not much else here. Pete Pace should have taken command of U.S. Southem Command on 8 July 2000, but I don't have reports or photos yet. Maybe next time. That's it.. .Goodnight!.. .Jim

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Pres: Joseph V. Conway Exec Sec'y: Leo Kuehn 531 Wilson Road, AnnapoUs, MD 21401-1061 e: Ikuehn@arinc.com Corr Sec'y: Gordon L Peterson 7994 Hidden Bridge Drive, Springfield, VA 22153 p: 703-913-5404; fax: 703-243-8251 e: gpeterson@navyleague.org Class Web site: www.usna68.com The Alumni Association notified me of the death of a nongraduating member of our Class, Michael Peter Byrnes, of Queens, NY. According to the obimary pubUshed in the Daily News newspaper, Mike died on 10 September at his home in Southampton, Long Island, after a long bout with cancer. Mike was a former Daily News labor attorney and member of Fordham University's Athletic Hall of Fame. He was 53. According to the Daily News, Mike worked in sales and marketing at the newspaper for 18 years before becoming the paper's labor attomey. For the last seven years, he was a lawyer with Counsel Press New York. Bom in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, Mike moved on to Fordham after attending the Academy.

He is survived by his wife, Christine Kennedy, a Daily News advertising sales executive; two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel; his mother, Margaret Bymes of Flushing, Queens; and a sister, Kathy Bymes. I regret that I have no additional details of Mike's time at the Academy as this column goes to press.

As I reported in last month's column. Sen. John McCain '58 announced at July's CNO change-ofcommand ceremony that the first recipient of the Class of 1968 Leadership Award was ADM Jay Johnson. I am pleased to confirm that the second award, to be presented at an appropriate venue, will be made in tlie name of James Webb, our Class's illustrious combat Marine, former Secretary of the Navy, journalist, screen writer, and author. More details will be provided at the earliest opportunity.

This award takes the form of a $2,000 leadership grant to the Naval Academy in the name of members of our Class who have demonstrated superior leadership in military, pubUc, or Class service. Each recipient will be presented with a personal plaque to commemorate the honor, and their name will be recorded separately on a plaque that wiU be displayed at the Naval Academy.

L to r: At the CNO's retirement reception; Terry Conway, Joe Conway, and Jay and Garland Johnson Speaking of Jim, some of you may have seen a recent commentary that he wrote regarding the Vietnam veteran. Writing in the September 2000 issue of the American Enterprise, Jim asks why baby boomers are so eager to praise those who fought in 100

World War n as "the greatest generation," yet they continue to ignore their own generation's heroes in Vietoam. I've passed a copy of Jim's article along to Dave Tyler to post on our Class Home page, but you also can read his article in the AEI magazine on line at: www.aei.org. I would like to thank Phil Hough for bringing this hard-hitting and muchneeded article to my attention.

Also, the Virginian-Pilot reported in August that following his retirement as CNO, Jay is moving into the private sector, joining the executive team at Dominion Energy in Richmond, VA. The article said that Jay will serve as a senior vice president with responsibility for designing and implementing a new quality program for the company, its parent corporate entity, and other Dominion subsidiaries.

TTie chairman and CEO of Dominion said, "We're fortunate to bring to our team a senior leader with this high level of administtative and organizational ability. His contribution to our own organizational efficiency will be critical to our growth as America's premier energy company." The article went on to say that Jay will develop a new "continuous improvement" quality program designed to streamline and enhance processes in the company's core operations and administrative support. Dominion Energy is the electric-power production and natural gas transportation-and-storage subsidiary of Dominion Resources. Good luck. Jay! Our Board of Directors is making good progress with its efforts to improve communication among members of our Class. Jim CuUen provided the following contact list of the current Board and the current Company and Battalion Reps. The Comm Plan specified that we would pubUsh this Usting twice a year to keep Classmates informed about how to contact key people. Please note that we still are seeking volunteers for several of the Company Representative slots.

Board of Directors Bassi, Phil; pbassi@earthlink.net, 717-761-4353 Bieger, George; grbieger@grove.iup.edu, 724-357-2400 Bogle, Randy; rbogle@dpatraining.com, 619-437-1326 Brengle, Jim; jkbrengle@duanemorris.com, 610-647-3555 Conway, Joe; eagle68@dellnet.com, 410-224-3242 CuUen, Jim: james.cullen@trw.com, 703-968-1277 Etter, Steve: setter@mar-test.com, 513-771-2536 Gardner, George: gardnerl ©annap.infi.net, 410-268-8820 Gottschalk, Glenn: gotts@nadn.navy.mil, 410-293-1911 Haines, Steve: stephen@csminti.com, 619-275-6528 Hermanson, Russ: rhermanson@compuserve.com, 301-831-3284 Holian, Fran; cholian @erols.com, 410-260-5501 Kuehn, Leo: lkuehn@arinc.com, 410-266-4429 Lear, Dan; omegadanl@aol.com, 757-437-1800 Neale, Mike; mike.neale@usop.com, 301-459-8III Pease, Kendall: kpease@ebmail.gdeb.com, 703-876-3093 Pyrz, Ken; ken_pyrz@hp.com, 858-655-3510 Reardon, Kevin; reardonkj@aol.com, 703-639-2470 Sullivan, Ed; sullivae@anser.org, 703-416-3433 Tamulevich, Carl; tam@nadn.navy.mil, 410-2932229 Vanderlofske, Pete; pvanderI@houabg.com, 713-690-9898 Woods, Tom; thomas.g.woods@boeing.com, 281-336-4848 Below is a listing of the current volunteers (i.e., the various Battalion and Company representatives) who assist in disseminating Class information and maintaining email listings of Classmates. As you can see, at press time, we still have eight Companies without primary representatives. In fact, we

would like at least two representatives per Company so that the temporary absence of one individual does not hold up the flow of information. Hence, we are seeking additional volunteers (Company representatives) to assist in the Class Communications process. Also, if you have not been contacted yet by a Company representative and wonder if you are on the Class Distribution List, please contact them, their Battalion representative, or Jim CuUen. Communications Representatives 1st Battalion, Reardon Kevin, reardonkj @ aol.com 1st Co., Vellis, Jack; jdvellis@bechtel.com 2nd Co., Vonsuskil, Jim; von.suskil@ worldnet.att.net 3rd Co., Steussy, Mike; hikrbikr@erols.com 4th Co., Wallace Ray, ray_wallace@NSPEmail.com 5th Co., Munsey, Bob; roziemara@aol.com 6tii Co., Need Volunteer!

2nd Battalion, Pyrz, Ken; ken_pyrz@hp.com 7th Co., Simmons, Frank; dfsimmons® worldnet.att.net 8th Co., Scholtens, Mike; scholtens@earthlink.net 9th Co., Kane, Bill; december@erols.com 10th Co., Kuehn, Leo; lkuehn@arinc.com Utii Co., Mulholland, Bill; wmulholland® wbbinc.com 12th Co., Ebertii, Bob; eberthr@mcwl. quantico.usmc.mil 3rd Battalion, CuUen, Jim: james.cuUen@ trw.com I3tii Co., Stara, Lee; startt@Iivenet.net I4th Co., Erb, Steve: serb@genelogic.com 15tii Co., Ahem Richard, gregory.j.wood@saic.com 16th Co., Metzger, BiU: bill-josie@msn.com; Tirrell Bill, tirTewb@perdiem.osd.mil 17th Co., Clefton, Gordy; gclefton@erols.com 18th Co., Davis, Lee; d.davis@unisys.com 4th Battalion, Woods, Tom; thomas.g.woods@ boeing.com 19Ui Co., Need Volunteer!

20tii Co., Need Volimteer!

2Ist Co., Need Volunteer!

22nd Co., Need Volunteer!

23rd Co., Krambholz, Karl; karl.knnnbholz® trw.com 24th Co., Need Volunteer!

5th Battalion. Bieger, George; grbieger@grove. iup.edu 25th Co., Tyler, Dave: dtyler@usna68.com 26th Co., Crotteau, Bob; croneau@blue. friendswood.isd.tenet.edu 27th Co., Gregson, Chip; wgregson@aol.com 28th Co., Earle, Keener; keener@srv.net 29th Co., Allen, Terry Jon; tjaUen@phjw.com 30th Co., Lear, Dan; omegadanl@aol.com 6th Battalion, Sullivan, Ed: sullivae@anser.org 31st Co., Holian, Fran; cholian@erols.com 32nd Co., Sullivan, Ed: sulUvae@anser.org 33rd Co., Need Volunteer!

34th Co., Teach, Tom: thomasteach@home.com 35tii Co., Need Volunteer!

36th Co., Klein, John; bjdoughert@aol.com Thanks for providing that comprehensive listing, Jim. Right now it looks like 4th Batt needs to step up to the plate—big time! Remember those "cheering contests" during Plebe Summer's competitions?

I also would like our communication points of contact to think of our Shipmate column and provide inputs to me during the months ahead. Photos are always welcome. I prefer to receive imagery as high-resolution JPG files, but if this requirement exceeds your computer's capability, please use snail mail to provide a photographic print.

Frank Simmons filed a welcomed "on-scene" report from MajGen Charlie Bolden's change of command on 9 August. As reported in my last column, Charlie assumed command of the Third Marine Aircraft Wing at the Marine Corps Air Station, Shipmate, November 2000

Miramar, CA. Charlie just retumed from a tour as die deputy commander, U.S. Forces, Japan. LtGen Mike Hagee, the new I M E F commander, also was in attendance but missed out on the picture.

Charlie Bolden assumes command of the 3rd MAW. L to r; Frank Simmons, Sharyn and Ken Pyrz, Jackie and Charlie Bolden, and Denny Irelan My old bud and fellow New Yorker Jim Kiffer took time out from flying for Delta to forward an update from Florida that I am happy to pass along.

Things are fine here in the Satellite Beach area.

We just sent our daughter, Jessica, off to her freshman year at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Our son, Jimmy, is also at USE, in his senior year. Janan graduated from USF in 1970, so I guess you could say we are really supporting the University. I'm stUl flying for Delta Air Lines as a captain on the MD-88 out of New York. My old roomy, Tom Heam, is visiting in October for the Navy-Notre Dame game. We are really looking forward to seeing Tom and Janie. Tom is still flying for American AirUnes as a captain on the big jets. Last time I caUed him, he and Mike Crabtree were fishing in Alaska with Mike's brother. Mike is flying for Delta Air Lines out of Los Angeles, and the last time I heard he was a captain on the 767.

Now on to my old Healey. I had it rebuilt in 1982 in Los Angeles, and it was time to do it again.

This time it will be much more thorough—in fact, a frame up restoration. It's being done by Imagination Engineering, Inc. in Orlando, a firm that speciaUzes in rebuilding old British sports cars. It was quite a shock to see it taken down to the frame, but it has to get ugly before it gets pretty. They assure me it will look even better than the day I drove it off the lot of the Capital Motors Austin Healey/MG dealership at AnnapoUs out on West Street. I'm really excited about this and will keep the pictures coming as it is rebuilt.

Janan is stiU working part time in real estate, and I spend my off days surfing as much as possible.

Jim Kiffer and the frame of his '67 Austin Healey Mk. 3000 Great to hear from you again, Jim. Tell me if they find any peas and diced carrots when they get the fenders off the frame. How many of our Classmates recall the other photo of you and your Healey that we published in Shipmate at the time of your Navy retirement in Norfolk in 1988? Seeing your car, even down to the frame, reminded me of some "interesting" experiences with you driving in formation down Route 50 when I had my ' 6 7 M G B . Unfortunately, I parted with her in 1983 when I went on an overseas assignment. Dave Wallace was driving his red '67 MGB for many years. How many of our readers still have their car from First Class Year?

Not many, I'd wager, but I would like to know if you are out there!

Shipmate, November 2000

The Northeastem National Bank of Scranton, PA, offered atttactive car loans during our Second-Class Year. Wonder how many folks maintained their affiliation with that institution through the years as a result?

From the Lone Star State, Bob Crotteau shared this note: After 24 years in nuclear submarines I retired in August 1992. I did some substitute teaching for three years and then got my certification to teach secondary math in Texas. I'm presentiy teaching pre-calculus and calculus at Friendswood High School, located just south of Houston. I'm also the boy's and girl's golf coach (yes, they make me teach one less Class, play golf every day, and pay me more to do it!). In my spare time I'm a doctoral candidate at the University of Houston, working on my education degree in mathematics education.

I married Celia Kaltenbach in September 1991, and we have two wonderful girls, Madeleine who is eight, and Simone who is six. I'll continue to update my e- snail-mail files so I can contact our 26th Company Classmates as needed.

Thanks, Bob. Please send a photo of yourself in the Classroom when time permits!

Also from south of the Mason-Dixon Line, I was happy to hear from Jim Brown (jbrown6668@ aol.com) after a number of years had elapsed since the time we both were stationed at the Academy and worked with the Glee Club. I'll credit Jim for setting the professional example for the group— including the Midshipman who sang with the Glee Club and also served as brigade commander his First Class Year—Sam Locklear '77. Sam is now a onestar admiral and the Commandant of Midshipmen!

Here's what Jim had to say: I retired in 1997 after decommissioning BAINBRIDGE. I now work in Jackson, MS, for Entergy Nuclear Inc. This area has got to have the lowest percentage of Naval Academy personnel in the country, much less '68.1 am really missing my friends from the Navy and our Class down here. I just wanted to let you know I'm alive and where I am, if someone might want to know. I'm so far out of it down here, but...at least it's always 100-plus degrees and 100 percent humidity.

I'm in the business development group for the nation's second largest nuclear utility. Utilities are not historically interested in expanding in new areas but with deregulation this is exciting in a techno sort of way! We've purchased nuclear reactors in Massachusetts and New York to go with our fleet in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

I actually am responsible for putting together a nuclear license renewal business to serve our plants and other company's plants. Among that and some other business activities, I'm learning a lot of things I never expected to be into, but it's fun.

Life here in Mississippi—actuaUy Yazoo City— is interesting. I just bought an old cotton plantation house (built in 1838) and am rebuilding it.

It's actually a lot of fun—it sits right on one of the best fishing lakes in Mississippi. My address is 4094 Lake City Road, Yazoo City, MS 39194.

I've spent a lot of time in New Orleans lately (remember our Glee Club trip down there—good times for the Mids). I want to become part of things again and join the things I've been negligent in joining—Navy league, NAAA, etc.

It sure was good to hear from you again after a number of years, Jim. We'll have to save some of those stories about the Glee Club for "off-line" discussions! Thanks too for your application for life membership in the Navy League! I ' m sure Jim would enjoy hearing from others in the Class.

That's a wrap for this month! All the best, Gordo

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Pres: CAPT Edwin "Steve" Potts, U S N R Vice Pres: F.H. "Mike" Michaelis Sec'y: A.L. "Al" Cipriani Treas: Steve Ward h: 703-864-1775; w: 703-620-2279 Corr Sec'y: Dr. Steve Hudock 6006 Woodlake Lane, Alexandria, VA 22310 e: hudocksa@ingalls.com Aloha C l a s s m a t e s — n o , this i s n ' t a WestPac cmise column, just a friendly greeting, and wishful thinking that the Big Blue Machine might get a bowl invitation to Hawaii again as in times past! Navy football, basketball, lacrosse, and crew tum out tmly amazing teams every year—hat's off to these, and all the fine Navy coaches and behind the scenes staff that make our school name a household word!

Enough soapboxing—on to the mailbag.

F i r s t , s o m e sad n e w s for all of u s . J a y Munninghoff passed away peacefully with his entire family present Sunday, 20 August after a valiant fight against cancer. The funeral was held at the Ft. Myer Post Chapel on 7 September followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery. Jan sends thanks to all who have sent email, cards, and letters. She says they will all be bundled up and saved for grandchildren. Her address is 3221 Club Breeze Drive, Memphis, T N 38125.

On a happier note, a big Semper Fidelis to our Brothers in Green as the U S M C celebrates another year of dedicated service. We recentiy retired Ed Langston with a great tumout of local '69 talent (see photo). Ed writes: After 31 years of no-comm with the column, I guess this will be my first. I was very fortunate to have Gen Dake, the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, be the officiating officer at my retirement ceremony held in Quantico, VA, on 7 July.

Seven members of the 23rd Company were in attendance—Guy Higgins, Wayne Moore, Ata and Bob Moore, Jan and Paul Alfieri, Kathy and Bill Stieglitz, Carole and Dave Ehemann, and Cliff Deets.

Cliff Deets had secretiy flown in from San Diego. Cliff was Ed and Sandy's best man at their wedding on 4 June '69. Ata and Bob Moore came from Pago Pago and took the prize for the longest trip. Also in attendance were Rusty Jones, Mary and Pat Stroop, and Marlene and Hugh O'Neill.

I had a wonderful career and was blessed to be surrounded by outstanding Marines and bosses who went out on the limb more than once to support me. A "quick" walk through the 31 years showed a tour in Vietnam, two unaccompanied tours to Okinawa, flight instructor tour in Pensacola, a four year assignment in the presidential helicopter squadron, an assignment to HQMC, and I was fortunate to attend the Naval Command and Staff College as well as the Air War College.

The most enjoyable ground tour was my assignment to The Basic School as the executive officer.

All Marine officers are required to go to TBS and it was a pleasure to be around the future leadership of the Corps. Command tours included the CO of HMH-463 in Hawaii and CO of HMX-1 where I was the personal helicopter pilot for President Bush. Assignments as a general officer included tours as the deputy commanding general, I MEF in Camp Pendleton. For a short three-month period, I also served as the CG, 1st Force Service Support Group. My last assignment was in the Pentagon where I was the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (RD&A) for Expeditionary Forces Programs. As you can see, it was a great and rewarding career and I loved every minute.

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Sandy and I wiU be taking a littietimeoff before looking for that next and first "civilian" assignment.

I wiU be golfing a lot and we will be traveling and looking at antiques (besides ourselves). Hope to see some of you at the football games.

L to r: front row: Guy Higgins, Pat Stroop, Ed Langston, Wayne Moore, Bob Moore, and Paul Alfieri; back row: Rusty Jones, Bill Stieglitz, Dave Ehemann, Cliff Deets, and Hugh O'Neill Dennis Bussey rode his bicycle across the "finish line" at 23rd and Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C, on 5 August after seven weeks and 3,250 miles in honor of Dave Grove. Dennis' daughter and a number of Classmates and wives met him there and it was a great event. Dennis went to Greensboro, NC, on Monday to deliver the packet of messages he carried on his back from Seattle for Dave. Dennis we are all very proud of you! Thanks from all of us in '69 for your dedicated service to a Classmate and thanks from the Naval Academy Alumni Association at large for your noble effort.

Cutler Dawson, Larry Caviola, and I had a mini-reunion at Litton Ingalls Shipyard during a visit by the CNO on 30 August. Cutler is still enjoying his tour as the director of SecNav Office of Legislative Affairs and Larry is president of Litton Ship Systems Full Service Support Center. Its always nice to see Classmates staying active.

Al Cipriani passed along a request to publish our updated Company Rep email listing to help improve our communications chain. We would like all hands to check in with their Company rep and update their email address.

Last, First Co. Email (s) Conkle, BiU 1st WCC@conklelaw.com Jones, Addison 1st foxbush@juno.com Mascari, Guy 1st gtm@mcrpc.org Snyder, CF 1st cfsnyder@erols.com KoUay, Dan 2nd dan.kollay@trw.com Gumbert, Ron 3rd rdgum@erols.com Heming, Dave 4th davesfmpl@aol.com Tankersley, Carl 4th ctankersley@csci-va.com; ctankersley @ erols.com Chopek, Joe 5th jchopek@netresultsinc.com Halwachs, Tom 6th thalwachs@nps.navy.mil Jacobs, John 7th jwjake@aol.com Lemrow, Craig 8th clemrow@cisco.com Higgins, Jim 9th higgins@bnl.gov Higgins, Jim 10th j.higgins@state.gov Speer, Jim llth jspeer@erols.com Bannat, Ed 12th edward.g.bannat@blp.bsco.com Oosterman, Carl 13th choo69@aol.com Feder, John 14th jhfed@aol.com Bussey, Dennis 15th dennis@tns.net Reid, Glen 16th GReidll90@aol.com Byles, Bob 17th bboppr@aol.com Etheridge, Mel 18th metherid@lmi.org Chase, Dudley 19th mdchases@att.net Giraldi, Wah 20th walt.giraldi@pci-cc.com; giraldi_walt@msn.com Rose, Dave 21st drose@edo-tsa.com Bowen, John 22nd bowen@adnc.com Moore, Wayne 23rd wmoore@lxpk.veridian.com Klocek, Tom 24th tklocek@mitre.org Cooley, Pem 25th cooleypandl@charter.net 102

Engler, Brian Harris, Jim Robbins, Rich Brown, Norm Plank, Dennis

bengler@cox.it.com james.d.harris@worldnet.att.net rtobbins@wbbinc.com usna69chap@cs.com denem@freedsl.com; dennis_plank@amsec.com Deininger, Dave 31st dein@utelco.tds.net Cavanaugh, Tom 32nd cavanaugh.tj@buckconsultants. com Moeller, Bob 33rd moeller_robert@bah.com Downey, Gerald 34th downey@hughesmachinery.com Adams, John 35th quincy224@aol.com Stroop, Pat 36th stroop@nadn.navy.mil That's it from the '69 mailbag. See you at the Tent! Beat Army—Steve

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Pres: Fred Hall Sec'y: CDR Royal Connell, USN (Ret.) 1978 Valley Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401 e: njrotc@arctic.nadn.navy.mil Greetings all, I am just getting over having a wonderful weekend with about 650-700 of my favorite friends...1 know they're my friends because most of them told me so. Of course many of them were under the influence of the moment (fooled ya', you thought I'd say something else didn't you?), so we can't be real sure, but I choose to believe.

Beetle Bailey was supposed to send me the results of his poll from Friday night, but as of press time I hadn't yet received it. In any case for those who were wondering, and who had bragging rights riding on the outcomes, as near as I can figure it: Roy Golez came the farthest, having made the trip from the Philippines. Although Kent Hamlin claimed more miles traveled coming from London via Tokyo. Paul Foster, our winemaker from New Zealand, was probably next. And Brock McMunn and Ed McKenny came all the way from Tokyo, allegedly debating which was actually farther away, based upon address and floor they lived on. Tom Fargo, our senior military guy, came all the way from Pearl. We had about a dozen lawyers and about a half dozen dentists and I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere. Kerry Smith, one of our two clergymen, was on hand to conduct the memorial service. And we even had a sawmill operator in Jeff Lewis. Favorite quotes ran heavily for "They can't fry us all," but Mike Novak takes the prize for finishing the quote: "Even if they could, they won't.

Even if they do, they won't do anything to us."

Mike, in a fit of modesty, also listed his occupation as: Fed. We know you work for the IRS Mike, don't try to sugarcoat it. Other quotes garnering multiple votes included: "if the mast goes...," "If the minimum wasn't good enough...," and "He who will not risk...," with a smattering of "Beat Army" and "How's the Cow" thrown in for good measure. To all of you who sent in thanks to the committee, I thank you for being the "Class" of '70. Fred "the tailgate" Hall, Lynn "Loews knows" Widener, "Sunday" Danny Rugg, Beetle "the Bag Man" Bailey, Ed "the data man" Moore and Nick "the e-list" Visco deserve the praise. Others who came in and volunteered their planning expertise include our attack attomey Barry Steelman, our man on the inside of the Alumni Association, Skid Heyworth, Guy Knieriem for volunteering his lovely wife, Hillary, to help run registration, plus about a dozen more who came to meetings, stepped in to lend a hand and in general made this Reunion

a pleasure to be a part of To Kerry, Tom and Ed Giambastiani, I thank you for stepping up to honor our Classmates who have indeed "no more rivers to cross" And if any of you've got comments, suggestions and complaints, we want you on the next planning committee. (Nick has already suggested that we recmit a meterologist so we'll have someone to blame for the weather.) Finally, we need to thank Andrea Campbell and Dawn Orlosky from the Alumni Association, for their help. We could not have done it without you.

Actually, there is other news: for instance Mike Casey is proud of his son who is a 1997 graduate of USNA. He also earned his master's degree in 1997 from the University of Maryland in Space Systems Engineering. He sent a picture of him and son, Brice Casey '9'7 during his winging ceremony in Meridian, MS, this past June, but I'm afraid it's too small. Brice is now stationed at Oceana where he will be flying F/A-18s. He is married to one of his Classmates, and according to Mike, the best daughter-in-law anyone could have, Ann Luers Casey '97. Mike retired from the Navy in March 1998 and started working for Ryder Systems, Inc. the next day. He oversees the quality processes for the company's global operations, and loves what he's doing. All those years as a supply corps officer were great preparation for this civilian stuff.

By the way, they are not the yellow tmcks. They sold that years ago. Mike's high school sweetheart is still his lovely bride. He and Adrianne are now living in Michigan. Unfortunately, there are few military installations or events around the area, so he doesn't get to see Classmates much anymore.

Mike Gottlieb sends word of the Vail Shootout 2000. The Navy Old Goats Lacrosse team of Alumni over 40 (Supermasters Division, now, that's a euphemism!) included a few from the Class of '70 at the annual Vail Shootout Lacrosse Toumament held 5-8 July. John Kiersted started every game and is still in incredible shape. His workout regimen is exhausting just to watch. John is an elementary school teacher near Santa Cmz, CA. Eddie "Pig Pen" Tempesta made a guest appearance, and picked up a few ground balls in a valiant attempt to discover his former grace with a lacrosse stick.

Nonetheless, it was in vain. Jake Freeman was there, also reenacting those memorable days of yesteryear. Mike continues to serve as athletic director and coach, although they had the services of the real Navy coach, Richie Meade, this year to give lessons in state-of-the-art lacrosse tactics.

Paul Odell sent the text of John Nathman's change of command speech as he took over ComNavAirPac. It's short, sweet and to the point...No hellos, no thank yous. John stood up, gave the speech, sat back down, then released it via naval message to all PacFleet. The speech was given the day after VP Al Gore said all was well in the military, and was printed the next day in the San Diego paper: My speech should be and will be short. There are two fundamental issues we should understand, demand and value. Let me explain...

This nation, its president and its citizens demand global stability—demand a world inclined to democratic ideals and countries that will protect the rights of their citizens. There is a valid need for a global economy, one that the United States intends to lead. There's a need for constiained oil pricing. There's a need for a community of nations that can deal effectively with rogue states and bullies—this is what the U.S. Navy does.

The value of the naval service is its willingness to do its duty to meet the nation's demands. We will be asked, no ordered, to train, deploy and engage. We engage diplomatically with our forShiomate. November 2000

ward presence and, if necessary, in combat to sustain those demands. Is it not right then that our men and women have demands too? Isn't it right that the pilots and aircrew we send daily into harm's way have modem and capable aircraft. Isn't itrightthat our young men and women expect to work in efficient, clean connected and even new hangars and work spaces. Isn't it right that my Naval Air Force be sustained at levels which support our operations and tempo. Isn't it right that our sailors and their families are paid enough to Uve in dignity. To me, the fact that we have reached such a low level of funding it will soon be impossible to meet the expectations of this nation in executing our operational tasks and completing the mission. There is a fimdamental disconnect between the value we provide and the willingness of the richest nation on earth to pay for its demands. It is obvious, the Naval Service is undervalued. This is the challenge, it must be resolved.

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.usna.com/classes/1971 /usna 1971 .htm It's well into the fall season and our 30th Reunion is less than a year away. The 30th Reunion Committee mailed the initial Reunion information earlier this fall. If you did not receive any information, your correct address is not in the database. If so, contact me and I'U pass your address on to the committee. Our 30th Reunion is scheduled for 2023 September 2001. This is not a Homecoming Weekend, but is the home game against Boston College. Barry Boswell provided input on Classmate activities at NASA in Houston3.

Dave Leestma and Barry are serving on a source board—Dave is chair, and Barry is his deputy—to select the contractors to design the crew remm vehicle for the Intemational Space Station (ISS). Bill Shepherd continues to train and prepare for his mission as first commander of the ISS. Frank Culbertson is in training for his mission to ISS and Bob Cabana continues to serve as manager for Intemational Operations for ISS. Barry is about to celebrate his 14th anniversary working on the ISS program. Long-time coming, but it's great to have hardware on-orbit and soon to have a crew on-orbit. The next year is going to be very busy for the Agency (NASA) and the Class of' 71. Al Ptak provided a photograph of Steve Dmetruk and Al enjoying the good life at a recent Deloitte & Touche off-site at Walt Disney World. Steve has been named the new global business development director for the fum, and Al is Deloitte's man in Washington for their federal practice.

Steve Dmetink and Al Ptak

Shipmate, November 2000

Perry Martini submitted an article from USNA detailing Field McConnell's latest contributions to the historic line of Navy Goats. Here's the article: When Goats Fly: Navy Plane Delivers Academy Mascots. Annapolis, MD Under cover of night, two angora goatsflewinto Andrews Air Base 12 August, joining a long succession of Bill-the-goats that have served as U.S. Naval Academy mascots through more than 100 football seasons. A Navy C-130 from Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 62 in Branswick, ME, ferried the two goats, dubbed Bill XXXI and Bill XXXII, to their new Annapolis digs just intimefor the season opener, 2 September against Temple.

The "horned duo" were donated by Field McConnell of Glyndon, MN. McConnell is a '71 Naval Academy graduate and a retired Marine lieutenant colonel who's now a commercial pilot.

McConnell moonlights as a sheep, beef cattie and goat farmer and describes his goats as "large, sturdy, full-fleshed animals with spiraling homs.

You know how the Academy Alumni Association looks for financial contributions? Instead of money, I sent them goats," McConnell joked. "My contribution may not be as valuable, but it certainly is unique."

The joumey of Bill XXXI and XXXII started behind McConnell's pickup when he loaded them in a trailer for the 13-mile ran to an Air National Guard Base in Fargo, ND. There, the cargo plane and a surprised aircrew waited to take the animals to a new life. "I've only been a load master for a few months, but yeah, this is the strangest load I've ever seen," said Seaman Ian Bemhard, who normally packs his work horse C-130cargo plane with miUtary gear and people bound for exercises and humanitarian operations around the globe.

Since goats can't fly without adult supervision, MIDN 2/C Nathan Bastar and MIDN 2/C Elizabeth Kreft '02 met the C-130 attiieirdestination. The C-130 pilots, both Naval Academy graduates, "took a lot of photos and joked that they should get a patch for their uniforms that read, 'livestock handlers,'" said Bastor who knows that flying Uve goats can be tricky business. "Bill XXXI is really mellow, but Bill XXXU is a bit on the wild side," Bastor said. "Sometimes you get jabbed from a hom, but it's nothing we can't handle."

Mission complete. Goats are safely in place in Annapolis. Stealth plan worked. Team Bill can't be too careful. They know Army may lurk around any comer, waiting to break Navy's spirit by taking BiU for a joy ride in a humvee.

Scott Monson sent a short note from Texas where he works for Enron. Scott is pursuing power projects in the northeast with Enron and says he's never been far from the power business since leaving the Navy in 1976.

Phil Sagi and Charlie BanelUs Phil Sagi (jsagi@gwu.edu) sent in a note and photograph from his recent trip to Vallejo, CA. Charlie Banellis (banellis@aol.com) and Phil, Plebe Year 6th Company roommates, had a Beat Army pep rally at Charlie's home in Vallejo in June.

Phil and his spouse, Margo, were in San Francisco for an academic conference and had the opportu-

nity to visit. Charlie retired after 20 years, obtained a law degree, and now teaches in San Francisco. He is working hard towards his MCSE certification. Phil and Margo reside near Annapolis where Phil is a college professor in the Washington, D.C, area.

The Alumni Association forwarded this Classmate news: "Marketing Expert Named To Aaro Broadband Board" (Michael R. Hecomovich) Business Wire, 17 Sept. (COS-18).

Remember—Class officer elections will take place in the spring of 2001. Al Ptak (luckydog71 @ aol.com), chairman of the nominating committee, is still taking nominations for the election. If you are interested, contact Al at 202-220-2775 or by email. Inputs/nominations for candidates for Class officer positions are due to Al by 31 December 2000.

All Class officer positions (president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary) are up for election.

That's all I have for now. Happy Turkey Day! 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 Dr., Woodbridge, VA 22192 f: 703-413-5376; e: robison_rich@prc.com Class Web Page: www.usna72.org Class listserv: TheGouge@usna72.com Happy Thanksgiving, Mates! Hope this finds you enjoying your autumn and finding a little time to relax. Hopefully, the Big Blue Team will have tumed things around a little since their first game (which your Scribe had the opportunity to sit through in the rain back in early September). Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Tales from the Great Northwest Dept.

Rolie Roulstone, retired? Betcha never thought that would happen, but hey, that's life.

It has been a long time since I've reported in to Shipmate. I retired just about a year ago, the day after I relinquished command of JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN-74) in San Diego. Bonnie and my two sons, Whit and Harrison, moved up to Snohomish, WA, just north of Seattie and east of Everett. I am the chief operating officer of a company I bought with two other guys about three years ago. On 15 July 2000,1 hired Jocko Worthington to be the general manager of one of our companies. He and Carol have also recently moved to Snohomish.

This past August we were on the East Coast—the boys were both at lacrosse camp at USNA. During our jaunt we had dinner with Allison and Paul Bienhoff Their son is a Plebe this year. We also were able to hook up with Eric Davis. He is still with NOAA. Eric was the best man in our wedding 20-plus years ago.

I am interested in starting a Class of '72 luncheon in the Seattle area. I know that John Schork, Jim Applegate, and Bill Hopper are out here somewhere, but if there are other Classmates that would like to join in, please give me a call at 425-334-0329 or emaU atflankl71@aol.com.I am looking forward to becoming more involved now that I don't have a nuclear carrier to run.

Thanks for the note, Rolie! (And congratulations to those of you who could say Snohomish without having to read it v...e...r...y c...a...r...e... f..u...l...l...y.)

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The following from Rob Jones (bluehill® email.msn.com): I am a former Classmate. I dropped out at the April mark in Plebe Year. I would like to get in touch with Classmates and find out how things have gone in the past 30 years. I enlisted in the Marine Corps after leaving the Academy and as an 0311 rifleman spent a tour in Da Nang (197071). Later I graduated from Ohio State, went on to law school at the University of Toledo and reentered the service in the U.S. Army JAG Corps.

I spentfiveyears on active duty (but stayed in the Reserve and retired as an 0-5 LTC in 1997). I spent eight years as a contract litigation attomey for the Coast Guard and for the past five years have been an intemational trade consultant in Austin.

I am particularly interested in the 20th Company Classmates, such as Ron Hughes, Tom Judd, Steve Logue, and others. I look forward to hearing from you. Beal Army\ Thanks for the note, Rob. Cruisin' in the Northeast Dept.

The following from Mike Maixner: I sailed on the annual training craise onboard STATE OF MAINE, the training vessel for Maine Maritime Academy (MMA). This is the third spring-summer craise in which I've participated.

I thoroughly enjoy not only the summer training routine, but the academic year schedule as well.

It's a nice transition from the Navy into academia, and one where the pressures of "publish or perish" are not prevalent. The major emphasis is on teaching excellence.

Our last commandant, Vince Corry '67, retired last fall; Jeff Loustaunau '71 recentiy took over the job, and was also on the craise this summer.

Our craise took us to Barbados, and then south to the equator Unfortunately, Jeff was a pollywog, and had to submit to the traditional initiation ceremony. Passing judgement on the slimy pollywog was yours traly (a.k.a. King Neptune). When in port Philadelphia for that city's Maritime Day in early June, Tom Zysk '70 was aboard to visit Tom Zysk Jr. (MMA '01). Tom, Jeff, and I were all in the 11 th Company.

Tom Sr is with the Washington, D.C, office of Bath Iron Works. Our craise included additional stops in Bermuda, Port Everglades, Rockland (Maine), and then back to Castine on 6 July.

I didn't join the ship until Barbados (one week after departure from Castine) since 1 attended daughter Bethany's graduation from RandolphMacon Woman's College in Lynchburg, VA. She received top honors in art, graduated magna cum laude, and will be teaching at a private boy's school in Greenwich, CT, this fall. Needless to say, we were all exceptionally proud of her.

Upon retuming to Castine, Jeff Loustaunau and I took seven MMA cadets on the trip of a lifetime—we sailed with the Russian tall ship MIR, which is the sail training vessel for MMA's sister maritime academy in St. Petersburg. She had taken time out from OpSail 2000 to be with MMA's training ship during our last port visit in Rockland, ME. We joined MIR in Searsport, ME, where she was taking on fuel, and were onboard during five underway days spent preparing for her next race from Boston to Halifax. Within hours of arriving onboard, all of us were in safety harnesses climbing the masts—what a hoot! Our Russian hosts were most congenial and the food was superb. Our cadets were assigned watch sections and were fully assimilated into the ship's routine. I wound up bunking with a retired Russian naval officer whose career roughly paralleled mine—we were less than a year apart in age, he had graduated from the Russian naval academy, been in subs, ASW ships, minesweeps, and retired with roughly the same time I had spent in the USN. Exceptionally interesting swapping stories with someone who had been my potential adversary for the better part of 104

my naval career. MIR entered Boston on 11 July with the rest of the OpSail 2000 ships, and had the best seats in the house. A fantastic way to end up the summer craise!

This and That Dept.

Yes, indeed, Paul Bienhoff (Bienhoff@jhuapl. edu) and his brood have packed up and moved closer to Annapolis (actually, 13 miles west) to reduce his commute to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and to be closer to Calum while he's at USNA. Their new address: 1727 Mayfair Place, Crofton, MD 21114-2624; 410451-8774; w: 443-778-4323 (if you're in Northern Virginia, there's an "overlap" exchange so you can make it a local call if you use 240-228-4323, I think).

Scotty Borderud and his gang just departed the great northwest; he's now with the 902nd Military Intelligence Brigade at Fort Meade, MD. Scotty says they haven't had an assignment, other than schooling, on the East Coast. They have a number of relatives within half a day's drive from Maryland, and it means they'll get to see some Navy football games in person. (Standing by for your new address!)

RADM Jim McArthur recently spoke at 25th Company-mate Chuck Robie's retirement aboard CONSTITUTION. Also attending Chuck's retirement were roommates Al Kraft (now at Net Commerce, a dot.com) and Bob Leib (who capably spends our tax dollars running the business side of the Anne Arundel County School System.)

Jack Skolds has been named chief operating officer of COMED's NGG; he will become executive VP of EXELON Generation, chief operating officer of EXELON Nuclear, and CEO of AMERGEN at the close of their merger.

Tom Crawford has joined Atlas Commerce as senior vice-president of operations, where he will be responsible for community operations. Atlas' implementation and customer support organization, including continuing development of the Company's global implementation, consulting, and support infrastmcture; training and education of Atlas' alliance and implementation partners and customers; and the development of custom components and other unique client services.

Steve Soroka has been named vice president, operations at Astrolink, where he will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Astrolink network, as well as development of gateways, terminal products, and the customer care and billing systems. Congratulations!

Well, that's about it for this month. Keep the emails a-comin', and (if you haven't done so already) take a moment to subscribe to the Class list serv. The Gouge. (If you have any problems, drop me an email.) More to come. D.O. Tried and True with '72

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Pres: Tom Storch Sec'y: RADM Tom "TJ" Wilson III, USN 8310 Gushing Court, Springfield, VA 22153 h: 703-913-0094 e: tjwilson@erols.com Classmates, Please note my correct address at the top of this column: tjwilson@erols.com.

This comes to you from the Skagerrak-Kattegat area north and east of Denmark. I can tell it's sum-

mer in this area because in port the locals are wearing light sweaters vice coats. The standing joke this year among the Danes is keep your showers short or you may miss summer. It's a long way from home, but through the marvel called the Intemet, we are well connected to the fall football season. 1 look forward to your inputs from tailgaters (hint!).

The mailbag is not completely empty, but as I look into it I can see the bottom in spots. I did get a newsy letter from Dirk Mosis. It seems Dirk runs into more of us than everyone else put together He reports that the articulate and well-read Tom Gallagher relieved John Harvey (no amplifying comments provided on John!) as senior military adviser to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Tom is looking forward to the new assignment especially the challenges associated with a transition to the next administration. Tom's wife, Kathy, will teach history again at USNA. Dirk visited John Graham in Indianapolis. John and his wife, Lisa, will be moving to Racine, WA, when she finishes her residency in ophthalmology. John's eldest. Matt, is going to Westem Michigan as a freshman. Matt is one big guy, like his dad. Lisa and John had a baby on 6 June (easy date to remember) to join thefr first girl, Ryley, who is two years old (plus or minus). John looks great, reads and writes quite a bit, and cross country skis. He had heard from Bob Ford sometime back. Bob was in Hawaii (where else?) helping Barber's Point move to Kaneohe.

Don Jefferson left Spieher Properties and is in business on his own. He still hunts big game, domestic and otherwise. His wife, Bev, says she saw more of him when he worked outside the house.

Brad, no. 1 son, is with a hi-tech firm in San Francisco, and is doing well on his own. Alexandra "Ali" graduated from Pamona in Los Angeles and is going to work with Bain & Co., a superb investment bank in Los Angeles.

Jack Owen is a managing partner for a law firm in Austin and a colonel, USMCR. Sean, no. 1 son, graduated from Harvard and Margwen is a sophomore at Emory in Atlanta. Jack is in great shape, enjoying life and frequently published in military and law journals.

Dirk also reported that he and Virginia joined 2,000 other bike riders on a 400-mile bike ride across Georgia. It was a great ride but hot...(Dirk, who would have guessed it could have been hot in Georgia in the summer! ?) Virginia has been in China and Thailand for three weeks on a church mission trip. Son, Dirk, is 12 years old, loving Boy Scouts and about to try his first year with football.

Dirk, your letters are always great. Thank you for keeping us up to date on so many friends.

Jack Rush answered a plea I sent out for information since this is not suppose to be the shortest column in the magazine. Here's what he had to say: It has been a busy summer for Patty and me since I took early retirement from Nortel Networks on 31 May. I have spent the summer doing a variety of things including three trips to Annapolis for golf and crabs, four car shows in various places in the east and a college trip to Boston with my 17-year-old daughter It has been a busy summer and my first real vacation in more than 30 years.

Patty and I are tom between moving back to the Maryland area closer to our families (Pittsburgh and Annapolis), or staying here in Kansas City where we have made some good friends and our oldest daughter, Erin, is working and our son, John, is in school at University of Kansas.

I am curtently involved with the Kansas City chapter of the USNA Alumni Association and had the pleasure of hosting 25 alums at my house last night for a few hours (Classes '48-'98). One of Shipmate, November 2000

tiie participants last night was Curtis Root who also lives in Leawood, KS, and works in the area.

Curtis and I had the opportunity to be back in Annual Membership: 52% Annapolis earlier this summer and spent an absoLife Membership: 24% lutely delightful evening and dinner with Marty Deafenbaugh who lives in quarters on the yard.

Pres: Steve Hubbard In addition to Marty. Curtis Root, "J" Ross Sec'y: CAPT Larry Warrenfeltz, USN ChafBn. Dutch Schlaich and myself shared the 21 Colony Trail Drive, Mandeville, LA 70448 evening. To add some class to the evening, our h: 504-626- 4964; e: highvolt_sid@hotmail.com lovely wives accompanied Marty, Dutch and me.

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Ciutis and Ross also made a lovely couple, but Once again your scribe blows the dust off his they both wanted to lead. It was a great evening keyboard in time to file a "lame duck" column in and Marty and Cathy were the perfect hosts.

A little news from my home front. Son, Ryan, the November Shipmate. Any column written behas graduated from Florida State University in man- fore Homecoming and read after Homecoming agement information systems and is working with qualifies as a lame duck. Only one more deadline an e-commerce company in the Ft. Lauderdale area. (December issue) before we gather at Mother B to Good news for Ryan.. .great news for Sue and me. do major Mid Store credit card limit stretching.

After several years of being held hostage by vari- Those who haven't visited the old first wing empoous universities, we are done. If you get the oppor- rium in a few years are in for a huge surprise. The tunity to drive through Tallahassee, please know I store has grown to about four times the size it was am responsible for the wonderful road paving job in 1975, and the merchandise selection is impresbecause the out of state tuition could not have been sive. They should just go ahead and call it the "I for education costs alone...not possible! used to be a Mid" Store. I'm sure Alumni outspend George Watt provided some interesting infor- current Midshipmen by a significant margin. mation. The 7999 Annual Report, sent to all doDebbie and Tom Donaldson have settled into a nors, is out. It includes USNA Alumni Association beautiful home in Diamondhead, MS. While Tom fimdraising and USNA Foundation funds. In the prepares for promotion to rear admiral and his 16 area of class giving, the Class of 1973 stands out in November change of command, Debbie has him a chart listing "Top Classes Contribution Dollars."

Our Class is the "youngest" class on the list of working hard redecorating their new home. Tom seven, and ranks sixth at some $250,000 in 1999 has dug up and replanted flowers, bushes, and small total contributions. Class of '64 ranks first with trees as he quickly adapted his body to Gulf Coast $686,000. Our Class also had 32 percent participa- summer heat. (Good call on moving the life-size tion, which, although not top among classes, is well concrete statue to the backyard. I'm sure the golfabove average. George went on to point out that a ers playing the Cardinal course will enjoy his comrecent class ('75) at "VMI committed $7.5 million pany when they end up in the fairway frap behind to its alma mater as part of their 25th anniversary. your house!)

Here's the monthly report on our kidney transCompared to VMI, our total class giving at USNA has a long way to go, but it was good to see '73 at plant patient, Andy Howard. As of Labor Day the van of the class fundraising fleet. By the way, weekend, Andy's doctors are trying to figure out this is sixth out of 75 reporting classes! George, how to identify and correct a leak in his lymph systhe big cheese in the Alumni Association, then made tem that allows fluid to gather around the new kidthe observation that we may just be the smart kid in ney (a bad thing). He may require another surgery— a dumb row, but grading on the curve got many of us something he and Tina really didn't want to do. to where we are today. Very insightful George, but Andy's become quite skilled at translating the medimany of us would rather that be left in the past. And cal terminology to language the rest of the world besides, I for one thought the seating was random. can understand. He also keeps his great sense of I hope this finds everyone well and happy. As humor. He's debating a home remedy that involves you gather family and friends for Thanksgiving sitting by his pool in the 107-degree Houston heat please enjoy the day and stop to consider all we and boiling the contents of his drain bag. Keep us have in die United States...so much for which to posted. Classmate! be thankful. And after that soulful reflection, get Andy dug into the photo archives and found this mean and think Beat Armyl treasure from the past.

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Larry Patrick and Frank Marano doing his John Elway impersonation. Wait a minute—Elway was still in high school at that time Mark Van Dyke bilged us all with a great press release announcing his retirement from active duty.

Dadgummit, Classmate! Now everyone's mother is going to want a press release in her hometown newspaper. And the rest of us don't write as well as you do. I've got it! How about if we send our drafts to you for chop?

It's been a while since I corresponded with Shipmate...so I guess my retirement this month gives me good reason to remedy that neglect. I'm attaching a press release that I sent to my hometown newspapers—what else would you expect from a Navy PAO? Besides, my mom kept bugging me to get something in her paper.

In other news, my wife, Joan, and four kids are alive and well. We are all living in Arnold, MD, only about four miles from USNA gate eight. Joan works as a P.E. teacher in an elementary school in Baltimore. Our oldest daughter, Megan, is finishing her senior year at the University of Maryland, studying public relations and intemational communications. Our oldest son surprised us all and decided to go to the Academy. He was recraited for soccer by Navy Coach Greg Myers, who was attracted by Robert's 6-foot-7-inch height, as a forward/striker! Robert is spending a year at NAPS to get ready for next year, and seems to be off to a good start. Our youngest two, Cristin and Jonathan, are thriving in the local public school systems in Anne Arandel County.

We will all miss the Navy, but it was time to pursue my long-held ambition of teaching. So I'm at the University of Maryland now...a Terp no less! I'll take the next three to four years to do some teaching and complete my doctorate. Then I'll hang up my shingle at some small campus and while away the years teaching young minds. It's been a great ride with the Navy. HopefuUy there will be a few pearls of wisdom from the last 29 years that I can pass along to the students. But I've already been told it would not be appropriate to have my students at Maryland yell "attention on deck," pop to attention and report attendance when I walk into the classroom. Oh well, some habits will just have to die hard.

The Van Dykes had to choose between our Reunion and Parents' Weekend at NAPS. Always the good parents, they went to Newport to support Robert.

Here are some of the highlights of Mark's press release. His retirement ceremony was in Memorial Hall on 10 July.

Schoharie County Native Honored Upon Retirement From Navy Annapolis, MD—CAPT Mark A. Van Dyke, a 1971 graduate of Middleburgh Central School and son of Elizabeth Van Dyke and the late Arden Van Dyke of Middleburgh, NY, retired from the U.S. Navy on 1 September after more than 29 years of military service. He is married to the former Joan Reed, also of Middleburgh and a 1969 graduate of Middleburgh Central School.

Following his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975, CAPT Van Dyke served aboard the guided-missile destroyer DECATUR (DDG-31), based in San Diego, CA. He was selected in 1979 for the Navy's special duty public affairs program, and served subsequently as a public affairs officer in a variety of locations around the world.

Just prior to his retirement, CAPT Van Dyke served in the Pentagon as the deputy chief of information—the Navy's second highest-ranking public relations executive. There, he helped manage the Navy's worldwide public information programs and advised the Navy's Chief of Information, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Defense on public affairs matters.

CAPT Van Dyke also served from 1995 to 1998 as Chief of Public Information for all North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in southem Europe. During this time, he was given additional duties as Chief of Information for the 60,000-member NATO-led peace implementation forces (IFOR) that deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995 following the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords. CAPT Van Dyke was presented with NATO's highest military award and with the U.S. military's second-highest peacetime award for his leadership in managing the crisis communication programs that helped maintain peace after three years of war in the Balkans region.

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In ceremonies on 10 July 2000 at the U.S. Naval Academy, Navy Chief of Information ADM Thomas J. Jurkowsky presented CAPT Van Dyke with the Legion of Merit in honor of his many accomplishments. ADM T. Joseph Lopez, Van Dyke's commanding officer during their assignment together in Naples and Sarajevo, was guest speaker for the ceremony.

"CAPT Van Dyke, more than anyone in his profession, ...exemplifies the extraordinary importance of public affairs in today's military," remarked Lopez. "Mark Van Dyke has viewed the end of the Cold War and the advent of the age of multi-media not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. He taught me and others to seek out the media and ensure that tiiey understand our mission and our story. That advice has never failed me."

Congratulations, Mark, on the completion of a great first career. Good luck as you set out on your second. Doing what you want and what you love— a sure path to success. Keep us posted.

Chuck Louie visited my old stomping grounds at the beautiful and historic Naval Observatory for a meeting a few months ago. He didn't get to see Candidate Al Gore, who lives just down Observatory Hill. Al was busy being nominated at the time.

Check Shipmate for an ad for old King Hall chairs. Steve Daughety '76 rescued them from a premature trip to the landfill and is trying to find good homes for them. I can see it now—we can all have our kids braced up and eating "square meals."

Well maybe we could get the guys to take off the Ambercrombie and Fitch ballcaps and stow them away long enough to eat a meal?

I spent two nights at the visiting officer quarters at Offutt AFB in Omaha not long ago. Lucked into one of those great Air Force VIP quarters in an historic house in the middle of Flag Row. As I searched for Quarters 13 in the dark, I saw the sign in front of RADM Jay Donnelly's quarters. I was tempted to just go knock on his door. But a 1:00 a.m. wakeup call probably wouldn't have been the best way to say hello to a Classmate. Jay is assigned to the Strategic Command.

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Although we were favored by more than a touchdown, we somehow managed to lose by 11 points, 17-6 (Ouch!). The wet weather made the loss even more unbearable, but fortunately we did manage to win both the fly-by (two really fast and low F-14s) and the halftime show (the USNA D&B, of course); I guess two-out-of-three ain't bad. What can I say but Navy is Navy; we save our best games for the more formidable opponents, so with any luck (and a lot of determination) we will have tumed-up the intensity by the time you read this issue. We can all continue to hope and keep supporting Big Blue this season!

A surprise highlight of the game was the fact that our tailgate party was voted the "Most Navy" by the tailgate judges, which we thought was quite an accomplishment since one of our regular tailgaters is a former Army officer. What can you say? One final point on Navy football: I discovered that the last time Navy won their home opener was ten years ago in 1990, and the last time we won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy was the year that most of the current Youngsters were born, which was 1981! Can we all say it together? "C-in-C Trophy four years in a row!"

On another topic, just when you thought that things were getting easier at USNA, in comes the Class of '77 to tighten things up. It seems that RADM Sam Locklear (samlock@erols.com) had some surprises awaiting the Brigade when they retumed from Summer Cmise this year; he tightened the mles for weekend liberty and increased their leadership responsibilities with a revised watch program. According to The Capital (anybody remember The Evening Capital!), the new system involves more Midshipmen on watch at a time to crack down on noise and promote a better study environment.

It also reinforces the four-class system with increasing leadership responsibility for each Class. Who knows? Maybe we won't be the last Class to have a Plebe Year after all! Of course, after you read the next paragraph, you may not agree.

On the Sunday before classes resumed, the Brigade was treated to a camival on Farragut Field.

(Anybody remember how we were welcomed back from Summer Cmise?) Anyway, if you're not familiar with camivals, let me give you a brief description of what they're like. First, you have your camival food (hot dogs, boardwalk fries, soda, lemonade, pretzels, funnel cakes, and cotton candy), then you provide some promotional giveaways (tshirts, water bottles, and Frisbees), and finally, no camival would be complete without a wide variety of entertainment (a live band, a climbing wall, an electronic bull, an air-cushioned boxing ring with oversize boxing gloves, and wrestiing matches in oversized, padded sumo wrestling suits). The night ended with a laser light show and fireworks. I guess a few things have changed over the years, but in all faimess, the event was sponsored by the Right Spirit Campaign, whose mission is to de-glamorize alcohol among the Brigade and show them nonalcoholic ways to have a good time. Maybe some things have changed for the better.

Finally, I had the opportunity to dine in King Hall on those ever-famous z-burgers, which I'm happy to report haven't changed very much and still have the same effect. Fortunately, my only obligation that aftemoon was to attend the rededication of the Class of '77 Midshipman Fitness Center in Macdonough Hall. On hand at the ceremony were CAPT Jeff Sapp (sapp@gwmail.usna.edu), who gave the opening remarks; the Superintendent, VADM John Ryan '67, who made a few remarks and cut the ribbon; and the Commandant, Sam Locklear '77 (who provided the necessary funding). If you recall, our Class had provided funds to assist in the original constmction of the center, but apparently its popularity took a toll on the facility and the equipment over the years and it was in desperate need of maintenance and repair. Somehow, Sam was able to find a few hundred thousand dollars in his budget to overhaul and refurbish the equipment as well as the facility itself If you haven't had a chance to visit "our" fitness center, which is located on the seaward side of the third deck of Macdonough Hall, you should really check it out the next time you're at the Academy. It's tmly a first-class, state-of-theart facility that includes a wide variety of weightlifting and aerobic stations, as well as television monitors in strategic locations to help relieve the Midshipmen's tedium while working-out. What would you guys think about reimbursing Sam for all the money he spent on "our" fitness center and helping to support some other good causes there as well? A quick calculation shows that if each '77 graduate gave the USNA Foundation $1 per day (which is equivalent to our Plebe-Year, take-home pay), we would provide over $300,000 per year of private funding in support of the Superintendent's "Margin of Excellence." (I'm not on a fundraising mission (yet); I just thought that there might be a leadership opportunity here after seeing the kind of tangible impact that we can have on the development of our USNA successors.) Well, enough lecturing, now on to your letters and emails.

From the Mail Bag It seems as though Navy babies are in the air. Eli 1\imer (PORSCHEDVR@aol.com) recentiy sent out an email to alert all of us that we're not "too old to go for one more" and to share his wonderful blessing with all of his shipmates (like us). He and his wife, Jandie, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Elijah Andre Turner Jr. Yes, he's named after his papa who says he's "built like a Navy mnning back" (coming in at 8.5 pounds and 21 inches).

Little Eli was born on 13 August 2000 at Sinai Shipmate, November 2000

Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and big Eli reported that both mom and baby were doing well. Believe it or not, when Jack Gaillard (GaillardJD@navsea. navy.mil) sent his congratulations to Eli, he couldn't help but support the fact tiiat we're not too old since he and his wife are expecting twins in the near future! I suspect that Jack won't be the last new father in our Class since I'm sure many of us still have a lot of vigor (or is that Viagra?) left! Our hearty congratulations to both the new father and the father-to-be!

The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiled Scott Spiker in their Sunday edition on 30 July 2000. It seems that he recently became the president and chief operating officer of HealthCare in St. Louis Park. A short time ago, his wife, Nancy, retired as a practicing dentist. They have two daughters, Maggie (13) and Maddie (11). Scott was previously the senior executive vice president and president of the Business Services Group at Dain Rauscher in Minneapolis (by the way, he noted that his first job was working the broiler at Burger King so it looks like he could really be moving up after all these years).

In the profile, Scott indicated that his dream job, other than his current position, of course, would be "working in any area where a team must come together to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing environment." He said that his top priority in his new job is "helping a dynamic group of individuals combine their efforts to create a unique and valuable health plan for delivery to our major clients by 1 October 2000, and tiien for HealthCare to be the market leader in improving this new breed of health plan, quarter by quarter, thereafter." Some of Scott's other words of wisdom included: the best advice he ever received ("If you want to have job security, insert yourself into an area that requires much change to survive, and be part of the solution"); the person he adimres most and why ("Meriwether Lewis—a great partner, leader, naturalist and explorer. He established a tightly knit team, the Discovery Corps, to accomplish an undimensionable task, and successfully led them on a two-year journey through a land where no white man had ever been"); and the one thing he would most rather do on Monday moming instead of work ("fly fishing in Montana with my family and friends"). Best of luck to Scott in his new position!

While we're on the subject of profiles. The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, VA, carried an article in their business section on 13 August 2000 about Jerry Miller (jermil@pilot.infi.net) and his firm.

Earl Industries, which is now the third-largest private ship repair firm in South Hampton Roads, VA. It seems that when Jerry resigned his commission in 1985, he had no irons in the fire whatsoever (in his own words, "When I got out of the Navy, I had a house, a baby, another on the way and no idea what to do"). To support his wife, Laura, and his growing family, Jerry took a job selling real estate in Virginia Beach, VA. Shortly after that, he got a break when one of our Classmates, Frank Wagner, called him and asked if he was interested in getting into the ship repair business. Frank, who is currently a Republican state legislator for Virginia Beach, was the production manager at Home Brothers Shipyard in Newport News, VA, at the time. Since Jerry fondly remembered his shipyard days while in the Navy (logging his destroyer's machines and parts in and out for repair work), and Frank's offer intrigued him, he decided to join Frank and his stepfather, Jim Eari, when they created Earl Industties in 1985. Now, as they say, the rest is history: Jerry bought-out Eari Industries from Frank and Jim in 1989 and their revenues have grown tenfold in the

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past ten years. Jerry's 17-year-old son. Bill, who was a toddler when Jerry left the Navy, was working in one of Earl Industries' machine shops this past summer, and Jerry's youngest son, 15-year-old Eric, is working for his dad's construction business in Virginia Beach. Jerry spent his summer making deals, and hopes Earl Industries' revenues this year will top last year's by upwards of 15 percent. According to Jerry, "We have a really talented group of people and a great management team. There are plenty of opportunities for us, no matter how you look at it." I know I haven't done Jerry's story the justice it deserves, but if you're interested in reading the complete article, it can be found in the "USNA in the News" section of on the USNA Alumni Association Web site on 15 August 2000 (or you can view it directly at the following link: http://www.usna.com/News_Pubs/News/ ViewNewsDate.asp?Date=8/15/2000#6).

On 23 June 2000, CAPT Walter H. Yourstone (dclark@eagnet.com) relieved CAPT Frank Stagl as commanding officer of the Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay, GA. During his prepared remarks, Walter told the audience that he looked forward to the challenges of replacing Stagl and promised to maintain the high standards set by his predecessors.

"Now, it's time to say, 'Come sail with me,'" he said during his remarks. Walter, who most recently served as deputy chief of staff for intelligence, operations and strategic plans on the staff of Submarine Group 10 prior to his new assignment, said that his knowledge of Kings Bay will be valuable to help him in his new command. Walter said that he looked forward to working with the region, and thought that his biggest challenge during his command will be maintaining high standards and strong community relations, while dealing with a tight budget.

Walter is a native of Bayville, NJ, eamed a master's degree in engineering at the University of Washington, and served aboard submarines at various bases. He was executive officer aboard PENNSYLVANIA, which was home-ported at Kings Bay from 1990 to 1993, and his shore duty assignments included assistant operations officer on the staff of Commander, Submarine Squadron 8; special operations officer on the staff of Commander, Submarine Force, U.S., Atlantic Fleet; and deputy assistant chief of staff for Strategic Forces and Nuclear Weapons at U.S. Strategic Command's Special Activities Atlantic. Walter and his wife, Diana, have a daughter and reside in Kingsland, GA. CAPT Julius "JC" Caesar, USNR, (JSCaesar77@aol.com) of 17th Company, who is currently CO, Naval Reserve, OpNav (N-86), recently wrote-in with several news stories. Last May, JC sailed aboard MOUNT WHITNEY ( L C C - 2 0 ) for

JTFEX 00-2 with two other Classmates, CAPT Jim Adams, USN, (XSSN720@aol.com; C41@ comsecondflt.navy.mil) of 28th Company, who is currently ComSecondFlt JC4I; and CAPT Kevin Quinn, USN, of 16th Company, who is ComDesRon 28.

JC was performing Annual Training on JTFEX 00-2 in support of the Area Air Defense Commander System, sponsored by OpNav (N-86), Surface Warfare Directorate. He has been employed at EDO Corporation for the past 13 years and just accepted a promotion to general manager of their technology, services, and analysis business unit in Falls Church, VA. Last year, JC completed an executive M.B.A. program at the College of William and Mary. He and his wife, Karen, still reside in Virginia Beach with their children, Chris (14) and Jessica (11).

Jim has been at ComSecondFlt for the past two years. Previously, he was at COMENTBATGRU/

COMCRUDESGRU-12, where he spent two-anda-half years and had command of PITTSBURGH ( S S N 720). Jim and his wife, Cheryl, Uve in Virginia Beach, VA, with their sons, Michael (10) and Matthew (5).

Kevin was serving as the liaison between the Battle Group Commander and ComSecondFlt while embarked on MOUNT WHITNEY for the JTFEX. As

you may have read in the July-August 2000 issue of Shipmate, Kevin recently assumed command as ComDesRon 28 in Norfolk, VA. Kevin and his wife, Barbara, are happy to be back in Norfolk after twoand-a-half years in D.C, where Kevin served as Surface Warfare's Land Attack Branch Head (N864) in the Pentagon.

CAPT Jim Adams, CAPT Kevin Quinn, and CAPT Julius Caesar strike a pose on MOUNT WHITNEY during JTFEX 00-2. Who do you think is in the best shape?

Certainly not Commodore Quinn!

The photo above was taken by Journalist 1/C Andrew Karalis, USN, ComSecondFlt, who is the brother of Darius "Cosmo" Karalis '74. JC also said it was good to get re-acquainted with Derwood "DC" Curtis '76, who recentiy reported aboard as ComSecondFlt Chief of Staff.

In other news from JC, he and Bill Millward (william.h.millward@us.arthurandersen.com) of 17th Company visited Tom Harper '78 in January 2000 at his home in Purceville, VA. Most of you may remember that Tom started with our Class but graduated with '78 after a successful battle with cancer. Unfortunately, Tom underwent double bypass surgery in 1999 and has suffered severe complications from his hospitalization. During their visit, Tom and his lovely wife, Lynn, prepared a great steak dinner for them. JC said that Tom was looking chipper despite some weight loss and having to use a tracheal tube.

JC provided us with this email, which Tom Harper had sent to Bill Millward in January 2000: Nice to hear from you. Bill. Happy New Year.

The Harper's are glad 1999 is over. We look forward to a much better year in 2000.1 had serious medical problems this past year and we're hoping and praying that 2000 will see continued progress.

Basically, I went in for a double bypass on 18 February 1999. The surgery went well and the heart was looking good. After I went home, I started developing "breathing" difficulties. To make a long story short, about ten days after the surgery, I was admitted into intensive care.

I stayed in intensive care and critical care for about three months; two of those months I was heavily sedated and "paralyzed" to conserve energy. My lungs were not strong enough to getridoffluid;it was touch-and-go for about 30 days. Lynn was by my side the wholetime.Without a doubt, Lynn saved my life on more than one occasion.

In June 1999,1 was well enough to go home for "home care" with a nurse, etc. Since then, I've been trying to gain weight back—down 60 pounds.

I've had to learn all the basics again—walk, talk, swallow, etc. I still have a tracheal tube in my throat with the hopes it can come out in 2000 as my lungs get stronger. It seems the tremendous amount of radiation 1 received years ago has a long-term side affect with the scaring and nerve damage.

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I've leamed all those things, now I need to gain strength so I can use them. I'm eating fuU meals for thefirsttimein quite awhile. I can "curl" five pounds—not much, but progress over one pound!

It's been quite an experience—the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Your support and prayers would be appreciated; I need everything I can get to keep the fight alive.

I have a wonderful support stracture around me—family, church, and work; they have all been unbelievable. I did get a few cardsfrom'77 friends that I have not spoken to in 20 years and that was ruce. Feelfreeto call me at home (540-338-4493).

USI had another good year—SIOOM—so we keep growing. I see us going public very soon!

Look forward to hearing back from you and teaming about your latest endeavors. Please let JC know what's going on with me, I'd love to hear from him. Phil Nelson has been a super friend; he's visited a couple of times at the house and helped out with all the stuff that "Dad's" do on weekends—house maintenance, yard, etc.

JC mentioned he called Tom's wife, Lynn, several weeks ago; unfortunately, Tom's condition has not improved. I'm sure that he would appreciate your calls, cards, and prayers.

Class Communication Not much new to report in the area of Class communications since last month. Our Class Vice President, Tom "Soup" Campbell (Tom.Campbell@ longandfoster.com), continues to look for and work with Classmate volunteers from each Company to locate and verify the email addresses of their missing Companymates and provide the updated information to the Alumni Association. You can continue to do your part by keeping your Alumni Association records up-to-date. If you have any questions about this effort, please direct them to Soup. My understanding is that at the end of this effort. Soup will have an up-to-date Class email list that he can then distribute to everyone on the list and we (the Class Officers) can use to get important Class information out to everyone quickly.

Closing Remarks For those of you who are planning to attend this year's Army-Navy Game at PSINet Stadium in Baltimore, MD, be on the lookout for a '77 helium balloon. We're going to try and fly it somewhere in the parking lot to give Classmates a place to congregate if they desire. That's about all I know about any Class-wide coordination efforts for the game right now. These arrangements may change since the game is almost three months away at the time of this writing (which is why an up-to-date email list would be great to have right now to keep you informed of new developments on a real-time basis). Enough said about that subject.

As a final note, you did a better job with the input this month (we got up to 3,000 words), but we still have a ways to go before we hit the 4,000-word limit. Keep sending me news and stories about your latest exploits; I know there are a lot of people out there who can't wait to find out what you're up to.

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Pres: Arch Griffin Sec'y: Vince Balderrama 45 Little Fawn Drive, Shelton, CT 06484 e: VBalderrama@Sikorsky.com Class Web site: http://usnal978.org Whoa campers, the mailbag is filled with tons of stuff! Can you say tons of shtuff? I knew you could.

Let's get into it then...

Charlie Love (CLovel978@aol.com) gave a quick update on the Love family. Charlie left Raytheon last year when they relocated the missile business from Lewisville, TX, to Tucson, AZ. He split for philosophical issues—he didn't like the way they'd changed the TI Defense Systems business. He also came to the conclusion that he didn't like the desert—I mean, even your oven at 350° produces a dry heat but you wouldn't want to live in it. Charlie is now at Triton Network Systems in Orlando, FL (ah, a damp heat—but with Mickey Mouse). Charlie was recently named director of materials (purchasing, inventory, supplier management, etc.). It's a good fit for an old SuppO. The company also had a successful IPO as well. The rest of the family, Shelley, Brae (17) and Tye (12) have all adjusted well to Orlando. They live just four miles or so from Disney World. Brae works part-time driving the Jaws boat at Universal. (He must not have inherited Charlie's YP skills.)

Charlie's come across Don Brady. Don lives in Melboume but gets to Orlando pretty often. Moreover, Don is a manufacturer's rep for several companies that Triton does business with. Charlie proclaims that it's always good to do business with a Classmate. Look for the Loves around the tailgate party at this year's Navy-Notte Dame game.

Dave Brown (of the 7th Company Browns) came across one of my columns on our Web site and it sparked him to also send an update. It tums out that Dave probably also lives near fellow Classmates, Jack Fernandez and Mike Clendening in Tampa.

Actually, he's in Palm Harbor, which is about 30 minutes northwest of Tampa airport. When Dave moved there two years ago he tried to get the personalized license plate, USNA 78. He found it was already taken—by Mike.

Speaking of small worlds, while on a recent family vacation to Pensacola, Dave and his family went out to the Boardwalk with a couple that had just recently been married (it was a second marriage for each of them). While they were all enjoying the beverages and the breeze, they not only ran into the guy's ex, but his new bride's ex as well (her ex happened to be there with his new wife too!). Even more, Jaye (Dave's wife) saw a bunch of her old friends there. They told them Dave and Jaye would probably see someone that Dave knew very soon.

Sure enough, about that time H. Scott Rodgers walked by! Dave said he called out to Scott using a name that only a few people who really know Scott would use—"H!" That got his attention. They shot the breeze for a bit. It seems that both Scott and Dave are American Airlines captains. In fact, Dave reported that Matt "Paz" Pasztalaniec is a recent American Airlines hire. Anyway, if anyone is in Tampa give Dave and Jaye a shout. By the way, Mike and Jack, be on the lookout! Dave says he'll be tracking you, down. Neither of you guys owes him money do you?

Jack Christensen (jilljackchristensen@erols.com) answered the question "What's a body to do when you retire?" As he put it, Jill and he decided he needed a hobby during retirement so the "hobby" they chose is fatherhood. Yup, Jill is pregnant and due in late Febmary. At the time he wrote, Jill was about 12 weeks along and is showing. By December she'll wish Jack had chosen gardening as the hobby. Right now Jack is in the study mode of how to be a good "care provider." He welcomes all pointers and suggestions. Of course he says that he is also rethinking this retirement business. That Navy retirement pay only goes so far with Pampers and future college bills. Good luck!

Jennifer and Rich Polek (Richpolek@aol.com) are playing keeping up with the Christensens. Jennifer is pregnant with their second child, due around Thanksgiving. Nadilee will get to be a big sister Rich started a new job as a project manager at Alstom Power in Richmond. He reports to another grad—Rob Casey '73. The Mark James family hosted a celebratory dinner for Rich on the new job.

He passed on a report from Ron McNeal's retirement ceremony held in at Memorial Hall in June.

Besides Rich and Arch Griffin, also present were Ron's roommates CAPT Bill Burke and Roy Cranford, as well as Jack Christensen and Mark Koepke. Mark is a non-graduating Classmate from 31st Company who went on to obtain his Ph.D. in physics. He's now a professor at the University of West Virginia. During the ceremony, the Academic Dean spoke highly of Ron and Ron gave a personal and touching speech of the people who supported him throughout his career. Best of luck on the retirement, Ron. Don't talk to Jack about hobbies!

Bryan Livingston (livingston33@earthlink.net) sent word that the twins arrived on Thursday moming: Audrey Grace (4 pounds 7 ounces) and Chloe Rose (5 pounds 7 ounces). Everyone, including mom, is doing ok.

Kevin "Grinch" Lynch (USNAGrinch@aol.com) claims the following is no sea story, ff you don't believe it, he said you can ask Eddy Reid and Bob Schmermund. They're the ones who told him about it. During the dedication ceremony of our sponsored ship. PORTER, Eddy and Bob said that the CO, Ken Spiro '81, told them that our Class was great "Firsties." (Okay, so far the story has some credence.) They then asked Ken which Firstie had the greatest influence on him and he "ponies up" that it was Kevin—the Grinch! (Now, we're tteading in the fictional section. By the way. Ken Spiro was in 26th Company with Grinch.) Well, Ken's comment got a flabbergasted (We're back to reality.) "WhyV." from Schmerm, Eddy and even Arch Griffin and Dwarf (Chris Nichols). Ken Spiro explained the reason was..."Cause he never sweat the system...was funny and a great guy." (Ummmm, that makes it sound reasonable.) You see, Grinches goal, as John Sturges so articulately put it one day, was to "make friends and influence people." Additionally, comic relief was one of his objectives to provide to the down trodden in the Plebe ranks. Consider it Grinches form of "Farm Aid"—comedy with a military twist. Grinch opined that Spiro must have been one Plebe who grasped his "concept" because if Ken leamed anything from him it was how to entertain (which he did magnificently for his '78 firsties). Here's an example of a typical exchange between MIDN 1/C Grinch and Plebe Spiro: Grinch: "Spiro what the hell are you doing?" Spiro: "I'm bracing up Sir!" Grinch: "Who told you to do that?" Spiro: "Midshipman First Class O'Keefe Sir." Grinch: "Well stop doing it you're making my neck hurt!" Wow, deji vu—I had a flashback with that

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story. Thanks for tiie walk down memory lane, Grinch. You tested our senses of reality but in the end I guess we believe. After all, it does sound like the Grinch we know!

George Tyree (TGeorge678@aol.com) sent some photos from Parent's Weekend. If I have any luck with the file you'll see a picture here. If not, I'll get a computer expert (my 14-year-old kid's classmate) to work it out. George isn't among those who had to suffer trying to get through the phone line at Ticketron for Army-Navy tickets. (Sold out in five minutes!) He already put out his order for the Parents Section seats. He hopes his trial schedule will allow him to go to the game for a change, for once! George's Plebe son, Michael T^ree '04, bumped into Rich Holzknecht at the Academy recentiy. Rich gave Michael one of his business cards that indicated Rich is the Naval Attache for Air at the Embassy in Tel Aviv. George heard that Rich and his wife might have a new baby (which should be their first). How about a confirmation. Rich? By the way, we have a caU on Kevin White's Plebe son's first name is the same as his dad's—no not that one—Kevin White '04! We also got confirmation diat Jock Maloney's son, Chris Maloney '04, is a Plebe in Good Times Ten and is a QB on the JV footbaU team. Good luck to all of '78's Pleberats (former mgrats now Plebes) and continued good luck to the rest of our sons and daughters working their way through the baUs of Mother B. It's not as hard as you think it is—when you look back.

Charlie Pangburn (CPangbum@hemmerlaw. com) reports that aU is going well on his homefront.

His daughter, Kim, is now a senior at Georgetown College (the one in Kentucky). So far, she has maintained a 4.0 GPA. She intends to go to grad school and eventually get a Ph.D., which Charlie says is proof she didn't get her smarts from dad. His son, Chas, is doing equally well and is now an eighth grader. A Uttie over a year ago, Charlie and four of his partners left the firm Taft, Stettinius & HoUister and started thefr own law firm (Hemmer, Spoor, Pangbum, DeFrank & Kasson PLLC in Fort MitcheU, KY). They've done weU and now have a Cincinnati and a Northem Kentucky office and 11 attomeys. CharUe is still active in the Marine Corps Reserve. This April he gave up command of MWCS-48, headquartered in Chicago. He now driUs with an IMA unit at the Pentagon. Charlie picked up colonel on the Reserve promotion list along with Chris Dougherty, Kevin Carmody, Greg Bauer and Art Athens. CharUe's reserve boss found justification to have him frocked, so he was wearing the eagles but not getting the pay. By now he should have the paycheck. During his active duty at the Pentagon this summer Charlie saw Ron Brownley and Dan Bamd. Ron lives across the Bay from AnnapoUs. He and Vicki have two daughters, one of whom (Holly) is a senior in high school and may be considering the Academy. Ron's a captain with American Airlines and flies out of Reagan (National) Airport. Dan is stationed at the Pentagon. Prior to that Dan completed a year as one of the first conunandants of the Marine Corps Fellows.

CharUe said he just missed Tom Algeo. Tom owns a law firm and a development business outside Philadelphia.

Ray Bracy (Raymond.Bracy@PSS.Boeing.com) is back from China. Responded to littie email of mine chiding him for being out of touch with his Class scribe. He sent the following: My family and I are indeed now in the D.C. area. In fact, we relocated very recentiy to a new home in tiie Oakton area. In fact the moving van just left this week past. (As a footnote, we live on Navy Drive and my children attend Navy ElemenShipmate, November 2000

tary. Really!) My curtent assignment in Boeing is to oversee and coordinate all issues as they relate to our govemment and to international political environments. Examples are: regulatory issues, safety issues, intemational trade matters (Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China), intemational sales support and intemational export finance. It is a particularly broad and undefined area—a new job created in our D.C. office—and I am leaming to be diplomatically and politically astute. As for my last assignment in China, my official titie was President, Boeing China Inc. It was a terrific experience, both professionally and personally...this was a "plum" assignment...as a manager and businessperson, I had a degree of autonomy that does not typically exist when you work for a big company. The family really prospered while we were in China. My wife, Evonne, leamed to communicate quite well and contributed to the economy with her shopping forays with her many expattiate friends. The local antique, jewelry, carpet, pottery and artwork merchants probably grieved at the Bracy's departure! Our children (Dale, 10, and 7-year-old triplets Nathan, Clara and Eric) also adjusted well to the new environment. The triplets were a bit of a sensation because China has a one-child policy! Their school was great—52 nationalities represented in the student body. They got a real global experience in a formal way but also informally as the family traveled to Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and inside China. My wife and I have a good deal of family in the immediate area so there is a real blessing in this assignment. Moreover, the proximity to USNA is a real treasure for me. The family already went to the first home game and my son attended a summer soccer camp on the Academy grounds.

Ray will be plugging into the '78 activities in the area so save him a space by keg at the tailgaters.

In the category of boy-look-what-I-found-whenwe-cleaned-off-the-pile-of-papers-on-the-deskare a couple of letters and photos. The first is from Jim Pointer. Jim was elected this year to be the president of the Montgomery Area Licensed Psychologists. This past year has been a busy one for Jim. Besides working as a psychology dfrector at Greil Memorial State Psychiatric Hospital in Montgomery, he serves on the executive council of the Alabama Psychological Associations, its legislative committee and as a liaison to the psychological licensing board. He became board certified this year in Clinical Psychology. That all means he's got enough sheepskins to say we're all nuts—(of course in today's PC world, I'm not nuts. I have "Reality Issues.") That reminds me of the joke about the doctor who took his mental patients to the baseball game...oops, that's not one I can tell here. (Laugh if you know it anyway.) Jim got a chance to visit with Bill Martin and Drew Nienhaus at Billy's house in P'cola. You've all read about Billy and his son, Sean, in one of my recent columns. Drew works at the Chief of Naval Reserve Headquarters.

He and Jan's boys are afready in college in Louisiana. It was mmored that this summer Drew may be a geographic bachelor. He had orders for San Diego. Jan was staying in Louisiana to be near the boys. Of course, as Jim put it, when she visits Drew in San Diego and sees all the dental floss-thin thong bikini wearing beach bunnies living around there she may just figure it's better to be near the big boy!

Well that closes it up for the month. There is another ten pounds more of news that I can't squeeze into this five-pound bag. It'll have to wait until next month. In the meantime, Happy Birthday to all my fellow Marines—the Men's Department of the Department of the Navy! (I just couldn't resist. I'm a second-generation grunt Neanderthal at heart.)

Adios! Launchin' Spot Four.

Jim, Drew, and Billy and Sean Martin

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Pres: LCDR Sean Gate, USN (Ret.) e: scate79@home.com Sec'y: LCDR John "Wiz" Withers, USN (Ret.) 22445 Bluebird Court, Leonardtown, MD 20650 h: 301-997-1980; w: 301-342-4936 ext. 156 e: (h) WithersJ7@starpower.net; (w) WithersJD@navair.navy.niil Class Web site: www.usna79.com Greetings, '79!

You know, I was sitting here poised (well, slouched) at the keyboard, ready to type out a "bangup" opening for this month's column. I mean, come on! November? How hard can it be to write something appropriate for November? The entire month can be devoted to the theme of gratitude. We take a day to give thanks to our Creator for all of life's blessings. We take a day to say thanks to all those who have served the greatest country on this earth, and to all their families for putting up with the trials that that choice brings with it. November is a time given to thoughts of family and friends, as we ready ourselves for the big upcoming holiday season. Add such topics as Navy football and the presidential election, and I have a nearly inexhaustible list of things to discuss.

So with all this, what is the first thing that pops into my mind? Cigars. Or rather this story about cigars that arrived in my email traffic last week.

I'm usually suspicious of emailed stories, because there are just so many hoaxes out there (like a fivecents-per-email tax and the Nieman Marcus $250 cookie recipe, to name a couple). Yet some, like a lot of the "Darwin Awards" out there, are just funny enough that people want them to be tme, even if we know they probably aren't. So I make no claim whatsoever to the authenticity of this, but I find it humorous nonetheless. As my father (the Irish bar owner) used to say, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!"

It seems that this gentieman bought a case of very expensive cigars, so expensive that he insured them against (ahem) fire. Like many cigar owners, he smoked them, and after the last one was gone, he submitted a claim against the insurance company, saying he had lost them in "small fires." The insurance company, you might expect, didn't buy that one and, after the man sued for payment, they 109

headed to court where they expected to kick, er, ash. They lost: the judge mled that the insurance company had, by issuing the policy, guaranteed that it could insure cigars against fire (hello!), and since it didn't, it was obliged to pay the claim. The man received $15,000 for his "lost" stogies. But as the guy cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of arson, saying he had deUberately set fu-e to his insured property. The guy subsequently had to fork over $24,000 and do two years in jail.

As I said, I don't know if it's tme or not, but I think it's a great story!

Well, from the suspicious to the superior. Let's get on with those emails that come from tmsted sources, sources whose integrity is unquestioned.

Sources who experienced the last "real" Plebe Year!

Leading off this month is yet another update from our illustrious Class President, Sean Gate: On Friday evening, 18 August, it was my pleasure to represent the Class of '79 at the OSCAR AUSTIN (DDG-79) commanding officer's pre-commissioning reception held at the Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, VA. During this reception, various sponsors and corporations presented plaques and mementos to the ship's officers and crew. On behaff of the Class, I presented the commanding officer, CDR Paul Smitii, witii a check for $500 for the ship's MWR fund. CDR Smith gratefully thanked our Class for its support. OSCAR AUSTIN was commissioned the following evening and now is the newest member of the Atiantic Fleet. Did not see any other '79ers there, but there were lots of admirals and other dignitaries, including a Medal of Honor awardee.

Sean also passes on that on that same date Ray Spicer assumed command of Desttoyer Squadron Seven in San Diego. He also notes that David Frost is now on the J-5 staff at the Pentagon, but lives outside the beltway in Burke, VA. I mentioned here a couple of months ago that Dave recently completed his command tour on BRISCOE. NOW that the fun smff is over, it's off to the five-sided wind tunnel! Thanks again, Sean, not only for keeping us up to date, but also for representing the Class at this significant event.

And in the "Oh, By The Way" Department, I need to clarify something I said, or rather didn't say, last month: Sean's new email address is scate79@home.com. This changed late last spring, and I didn't realize until this week that the header at the top of the last few columns wasn't appropriately updated. So your rookie corresponding secretary hereby makes his obUgatory mea culpas (Ted Wasylkiw: that means "my fault!") to Mr. President and to all of you who tried to email him without success. If you have an idea as to what the Class should or should not be doing, then Sean's the guy to contact. Although it may seem like just the opposite, Sean's job is a lot easier when more folks let him know what they're thinking. So don't hesitate to drop him a line and give him the business, I mean, voice your opinion!

Next up in the electronic inbox is the following note from Grant Thornton: I had a chance to visit with Kim and Matt Coleman in August when they hosted a crew of Boy Scouts from my troop in Springfield, VA, while we were en route to the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico for a week of backpacking. Having justfinisheda new home in the shadows of Pikes Peak, Kim and Mattriskedit all by allowing nine teenagers to crash on the freshly laid basement carpet for a few days while touring the sights in Colorado Springs. Their hospitality was superb, and Matt claims he wants lots of company! "Hey Matt, can we come back in two years if we promise to retum the good silver?"

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Thanks a lot. Grant, for taking the time to let us all know what's happening!

In my efforts to bring you news of the Class, I leave no stone untumed, no clue undiscovered, no cliche unused. To paraphrase sportscaster Jim McKay on ABC's Wide World of Sports: "Spanning the globe, bringing you the wide variety of Classmate news." (OK, how many looked forward each week to watching that ski jumper crash off the end of the hill in the opening credits?) So I was only thinking of you when I convinced my wife that we should spend a weekend in scenic downtown Zanesville, OH, last summer. I headed there because I knew I could catch up with Sheri and Judd Knecht. OK, so I went there to attend my 25th high school reunion. Sheri and I graduated from high school together, and she felt obligated to bring Judd, which explained his presence. Judd let me know he retired from the Navy last fall, and presently is a consultant. He gave me a business card (which is buried somewhere on my other desk), and I believe it said he was with an underwater technology company mn by Scott Bruce. Sheri is a registered dietician, and she's doing a fafr amount of traveling, leaving Judd in charge of feeding and carpooling the kids. I guess dad's cooking isn't as good as mom's, but that's to be expected: she's a professional! The Knechts have remained in the Norfolk area with no plans of relocating in the near future.

So even though they only live three hours away, I chose to drive eight hours just to meet up with them and 100 other people at a hotel conference room in a small town in southeastem Ohio. Not everyone would go to such lengths. WeU, Ken Russell might, but few others!

I have one other item this month. I hesitate to even mention it, because it should be out of date by the time this gets published. Several of you may have experienced some frustration in getting through to the Class Web site last summer. I just wanted you to know that Dan Vortherms, Doug Auyong and Colin O'Neill have been volunteering thefr efforts in acquiring a new server and getting it and other hardware up and mnning. I sfress the use of the word "volunteer," in that each of these guys has been devoting their sparse free time (and some other personal resources) to get a quality site operational. There have been a "few" bugs to work through, and a couple are still being attacked as I write this. Thanks, guys, for all you've been doing.

We really appreciate your efforts.

Well, folks, it's time once again to ask you to drop me a line and let us all know what you're up to. I know that the hoUdays place even more demands upon our time than ever, and writing to Shipmate drops a couple of notches on the priority list during this time of year. If you'll entertain a suggestion: when you send out that Christmas email this year— you know, the blanket one that goes out to everyone on your Christmas card Ust—please consider emailing a copy to me. I promise I won't print the whole thing (I won't quote it at all if you prefer), but it is a quick and relatively painless way to write me without having to take extra time to do it. As always, photos are appreciated and encouraged, although "company policy" states that an alum must be in the photo to make it into the magazine. As I've said before, this column is a lot more enjoyable to read if there are a lot of photos and names in bold print. So whoever is in charge of the Christmas letter this year, please add my email address to the list!

Karen and I sincerely hope each of you has a lot to be thankful for Enjoy this time of year, because it always goes so fast! Many thanks to all of you, Wiz 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 Class Web site: http://www.USNA1980.org One month and counting! It's hard to believe— no, impossible to believe—that it's been 20 years since we graduated from Canoe U. Our Plebe Year Brigade Commander is now the Commandant of Midshipmen. Classmates now have Midshipmen of their own. Some, through stepfamiUes, have already attended graduation for the second time—in this case as a parent of a graduating Midshipman! What is the world coming to? Recently I had the privilege of helping a young man into the Academy from New Orleans. I've been a Blue & Gold Officer for about ten years, but this Mid (Kip) was really outstanding. I had the chance to spend a lot of time with him prior to Induction Day and I could remember all of the feelings, the anxiety, and the excitement. Then I would go out and look in the mirror and realize that I wasn't 17 anymore, but rather a middle-aged, thin haired guy with three kids, a mortgage, bills and... What I would have given to be back in his shoes. Not to experience the Plebe thing again—no, I don't think anyone's that sick— but rather to realize that he has the world at his fmgertips—and the OOD on his back! Such is life.

Enough of the past, instead lets catch up with a whole bunch of middle-aged, thin-hafred men and middleaged women who used to be where he is now.

Anyway, the heat has finally started to die down and fall has almost crept into New Orleans! It's stiU pretty sticky, but once again, no more sticky than Bancroft Hall in July with no AC or fans! Speaking of Mother B, one more month until Homecoming!

Should be a great party and a fantastic chance to catch up with Classmates and old friends. From the volume of people calling about hotel rooms at the last minute—there should be a great crowd. A strong BZ to the team that is putting it together. Even though you'll read this after the fact, they have really gone all out and made this an event we are all anxious to experience.

I was just in San Jose with the Naval Reserve meeting with leaders from Cisco and Oracle. We were going there to find out some best practices and how they transformed themselves as companies. It was certainly a great experience and we had some heavy Flag attendance. Even more interesting was that there were three members from the Class of 1980 involved. John Coleman, Ira Minor and myself John is still on active duty working with ComNavResFor here in New Orleans, fra is living in Silicon Valley and is the COO for a high tech firm. He and his wife live almost an hour and a half from Cupertino, where the company is headquartered. I couldn't imagine the commute, but he swears that it isn't bad. One of the things that became very clear is that the only way that you can buy a house out there is if your stock options hit and you have a successful company! Unbelievable!

On to the mail bag!

The first letter of the month came in from Dave Clement (ClementDB@yahoo.com) of 31st Company who wrote in from North Carolina: Dave Clement (31) here. I retiredfromthe Navy on 1 August and relocated to the Raleigh, NC, area.

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in Gary, NC, (natives, if you can find any, say Gary is an acronym for "Containment Area for Relocating Yankees") while we got ttie lay of tiie land.

We got a new-found appreciation for tiie Soldier's and Sailor's Civil Relief Act going through the process of getting driver's licenses, car tities/registi^tions, voter registration, etc. We never did those admin items incident to any of our PCS moves.

In September, I joined the Securities and Growth Companies practice group of Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jemigan, LLP, the largest law firm in the Triangle Region of North Carolina. I'm enjoying cutting my teeth on the broad range of legal matters affecting start-up companies and established public companies including securities, corporate finance, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, contracting, tax, employee benefits, and intellectual property matters. It's exciting to be in a place where small tech and biotech companies are vying to be the next success story.

Jenifer and I are already registered for Homecoming and are looking forward to seeing all of my 31st Company '80 Classmates there.

My 30th Company Rep, Bill Bowen (billbowen@ rad.prestige.net), sent in a great company update: Greg Hightaian. Where to start since I have not seen you since graduation, 20 years ago, time flies by when you are having fun. I was an F-14 RIO for my career. I interfaced with tons of the '80 guys in the aviation community over the years and some of the surface guys due to the carrier deployments. Got married in May of '82 to Debbie in Pensacola. Lets see, Tom Yates was at the wedding along with Chandick, Bill Sizemore, and a bunch more from flight school, sorry if I forgot the rest. Made five deployments to the Med and Red Sea area. Was on EISENHOWER, JFK and

SARATOGA carriers. Was involved in the Gulf War with VF-74. Last duty station was a BuPers (9395) in D.C. ranning the Officer Assignment Information System (OAIS). I was the project director. That was my payback tour for going to Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (' 86-'87).

There I got my master's degree in information systems. I took the TERA (a.k.a. the 15-year retirement) and officially retired 1 October 1995.

From there I took a job at McDonnell Douglas as a manager of information systems. A great oppormnity and great job. I am still there, but the name has changed to Boeing. I have been here for five years and it's great. I am in software development with business applications. We are developing an enterprise solution for the whole company 180,000 for both its payroU and HR services. I am just a part of that wheel. I have 35 people reporting to me as one of the software development managers for this project. Surprises are never ending.

As for the family, Debbie and I have three kids, Victor (14), Eva (12) and Alexis (5). We have been involved in just about aU things families get involved with, soccer, baseball, ice hockey, volleyball, tap, jazz, music lessons, concerts, etc. We have been living in St. Louis (actually Chesterfield, one of the suburbs) for close to four and a half years. This has probably been the longest stay for a while. I travel to Seattle about every two months (the headquarters is out there). I still play golf in our spare time. I don't know if you remembered my dad at the tailgaters, but he died in '93 of cancer and my mother, the next year.

As it stands now I wiU be coming to the Reunion. Debbie and the kids are staying back at home. Life is great! Keep in touch and look forward to seeing you in a few months. Octoman Kevin " K C " Mulloy. Ahh, where did the 20 years go? I actaally enjoyed my active duty time on two craisers. SOUTH CAROLINA (CGN-37) in Norfolk and ARKANSAS ( C G N - 4 1) in Alemeda, CA.

My first ship was famous for throwing the ORSE board luggage overboard—about five months after I left it. After my five and a half years active duty I became a program manager for a defense

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contractor (Gould Inc.) for three years. I was leading some high tech design and development programs, several for classified end users (CIA/DIA stuff). I really enjoyed the "pressure cooker" and loved business so I decided to go back and get an M.B.A. at Wharton. Following business school I joined a consulting company—McKinsey & Company where I have been for the past ten-plus years.

It's been a great experience and now I'm back in the job market looking to find a line management job with P&L responsibility.

On the home front, Connie and I have been married 16 years now (she had been one of my sister's college roommates). We have four kids, three girls and one boy; Shannon is the oldest and she is 12 (going on 18). Kyle is almost ten, and he looks exactiy like me (it's almost frightening), Erin is eight, and Casey, the youngest, will soon tum five. We live in New Jersey during most of the year (near Morristown, not far from Newark) and have a summer home in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. I have become even more of a sports nut, much to Connie's dismay. Besides being able to find sports on the TV at all odd hours of the day and night—I really follow the New Jersey Devils and the Washington Redskins. I also joined an adult hockey league and we play every Sunday night—it's a non-checking league but its fun dressing up in all the gear and there is a fair amount of contact anyway.

For those who knew my brother Joe Mulloy '79, he stayed in the Navy and has just moved back to D.C. He made 0-6 and screened for major command and is now the EA for the submarine admiral at the Pentagon. Well, I guess that's it. Looking forward to catching up at the Reunion.

Steve Johnson. Great to hear from you guys. I can't start this reply without thinking back on the four years of memories and snickering. A typical night; after midnight, take a break from studying, play scissors, rock, hammer to decide who's gonna throw the removed fire beU down the rotunda steps (Rick), okay, back to the squash courts.

Since we are doing fill-in-the-gaps, here's my last 20 years; Eight years Navy nuke, finished up as division director at nuke school in Orlando. Put in papers when Daniel was bom (he is now 13). Joined the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in Atlanta (going on 13th year with company). Certified as senior reactor operator, loaned out to work at a few nuclear power plants, typically serve as team manager of plant evaluation teams.

Christopher joined us (he is now ten).

Eileen works for a local hospital. She is taking a break from OB/GYN nursing to teach childbirth education classes to expectant mothers. We just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary a few weeks ago. Eileen has changed very little and she works hard to keep her three boys in check. Daniel aspires to the life of either Indiana Jones or James Bond. He recently completed his open water scuba certification and is looking forward to more adventures. Christopher aspires to obtain Daniel's attention. He is built for speed and rans for a local track club. He smoked the competition in one race this year with a 5:40 mile. I still ran and play a lot of basketball. I had knee surgery last year to repair a tom ligament from a high-speed basketball collision. However, I am good as new and this will not deter me from a littie midnight fumiture slide on the ice rink. Our cat, Jenny, just turned 18, and she takes no crap from our new dog. Rebel (named for Star Wars, not the south.)

I called Rick to tell him of some vacation plans next summer that are bringing us through New Orleans. Even though I work with the largest collection of USNA grads outside the Navy, I had not even thought about our 20 Year Reunion. I just called Eileen and she is starting to plan the kid options for the trip. Will kennels take kids?

Marc Rolfes. Trying to condense 20 years into a couple paragraphs can be a bit of a daunting exercise, but here goes.

After graduation I headed up to Cambridge to get my master's at MIT after which I went through the nuke-training pipeline with the Class of '81.

MIT was both fun and humbling as I found out I was of the more academically challenged grad students. However, being in quite the college town with just a tad more freedom than at USNA made up for the jolt to my ego. I just couldn't figure out how to get my roommates to do my laundry when I put my bag outside my bedroom door!

After nuke training, I was assigned to GEORGE C. MARSHALL, which, according to the detailer, was due out of overhaul any day. Several months later including a ride on JOHN CALHOUN out of Kings Bay, MARSHALL went through shakedown and off to Holly Lock to start the patrol cycle. As I was studying for my engineer's exam in New London, I got a call from the detailer saying he needed to fill a billet at the Academy in the mechanical engineering department. Well, it didn't take much convincing that I should make the detailer's life easy and accept. When I anived a week after classes started, I found I was assigned to teach thermo with the ever famous Ken "Rocket" Reed as the course coordinator. The Rocket was gracious enough to teach my sections until my arrival, so I could do no wrong as far as the Mids were concemed having just rescued them from a certain " F ' in a required course. My time at the Academy was almost too good—I was in the classroom about nine hours a week and was not allowed to get involved with the Bancroft Hall aspects of the Academy. After the fleet I could handle teaching nine hours a week. I took up sailing and ventured forth with a yacht full of Mids down to the Caribbean each summer (while on per diem no less) as my summer duties.

I elected to leave active duty in 1987 following my time teaching and spent the next several years employed with two engineering consulting companies to the electric utility industry. In 1993 I switched industries to wireless telecommunications and joined a small company developing products geared toward improving the performance of cellular systems utilizing high temperature superconductor materials. The field tests of the product showed a poor cost/benefit proposition for the industry so I moved back to engineering consulting but stayed in the wireless telecom field. I joined a small, 20-person firm and eventually became the managing partner (mostly because noone else wanted to do it). We were acquired in June and are now part of o2wireless Solutions, a 700-person company that just IPO'd in mid-August. Back to corporate politics—yuck.

I am married to Susan Comstock whom I met shortly after arriving in the Chicago area in the late 1980s. We have three (usually) great children, Alaina and Eric who are boy/girl twins just short of their seventh birthday, and a soon-to-be threeyear-old boy. Brent. We Uve in Evanston, the first suburb to the north of Chicago and seemingly ran our lives "about two steps from the edge of the cliff." Susan works full time as a corporate banker with BankOne, and between our two travel schedules we claim to be two single parents living in the same house.

I was in Sydney in July where we were putting in some prototype communication equipment. I made the time to do a few touristy things including the harbor tour which is the setting for the photo.

Hope all is well with everyone reading this—I look forward to reading everyone's summary.

For all of the "other" Company reps—Bill has set the bar—get hot!

Harley Skidmore checked in with a photo (next page) from his change of command. He reUeved LtCol Chuck Lowther '78 on 6 August as commanding officer of 4th Force Reconnaissance Company at Marine Corps Base, Hawaii.

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Harley Skidmore change of command Rick Schroeder (rschroeder@jwlaw.com) wrote in to volunteer (didn't anyone ever tell you to never again volunteer yourself?) as the 30th Company Rep. He'll be calling so please give him a hand.

Tums out he lives in New Orleans and has been here since 1985.1 guess he figured if he called me he would have been the rep a lot sooner! On a humorous note, he noted that the Reunion registration page describes the children's tailgater as having a cash bar and complimentary wine and beer.

Only in the Navy!

S p e a k i n g of C o m p a n y r e p s , S c o t t S l a t e r s (slaters@flash.net) made the same mistake and volunteered to handle 11th Company. He just PCS'd to the Northem Virginia area and is in the final stages of unpacking so he promised to provide his inputs for upcoming Shipmate articles soon. He said: Saw your note on the Class Home page regarding the need for Company reps and said, "What the heU, how hard can it be?" I'll see what I can come up with. If nothing else, I'U make up a bunch of lies to scare my fellow 11th Company bubbas into answering my "groundless lies and accusations."

Give him a call or send him an email and check in!

A year or so ago I was fortunate enough to get the chance to tour Mike Maliniak's (maliniakmt速 ccg2.navy.mil) submarine while he was in command. He's now out with the big flat-tops and checking in: How's it going? Have just about adjusted to Ufe on a Canier Group Staff (COMCARGRU 2). I'm out on HARRY S TRUMAN doing some pre-deployment exercises. It has been a really interesting experience, going from the isolated world of an SSN to being responsible for battie group C4I. Have just about gotten used to living under an airfield.

TRUMAN XO is J.R. Haley. We do not see very much of each other, but it is nice to bump into a Classmate every now and then. Have also been in touch with Jim Huck. He has just taken over as COMCARGRU 8 N6. Jim and I were cubicle mates going through Naval Reactors portion of PCO pipeline a few years ago. Some other folks that are in the Norfolk area include; Bruce Grooms CinCLantFlt NPEB. Met him at the Submarine Birthday Ball a few months ago. George Petro ComSubLant Plans and Policy. Jeff Gernand just completed command tour on NORFOLK. Think he was headed to ICAF. Unfortunately, will not be able to make the Reunion; underway for Unified Spirit 2000 NATO exercise. Anyone that would like to check out our newest aircraft carrier can get in touch with me.

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Another note came in from our most famous star gazer, Alan Hale (ahale@swisr.org): I received your email soliciting updates for Shipmate while I was at an airport during a layover on my trip to Iran, and I very hurriedly sent you the press release. I've made it over there and back now, and I hope it's not too late to submit a littie bit about that endeavor I'm sure that we all remember that it was in the fall of our First Class Year when the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was seized, and I think most of us were ready and willing to go over there and fight; I still remember the "Tehran movement order" signs that were up in Bancroft Hall. If someone would've told me then that two decades later I'd be leading delegations of American scientists on peacemaking expeditions to Iran I'd have wondered what kind of stuff they were smoking. But things do change over time, as I think we've all discovered, and during the past two years I've had the privilege of taking two groups of Americans over to that country. Last year my group went to go see the total solar eclipse last August, and this year we attended an astronomical conference in the city of Esfahan. You can read about our adventures at http://www.swisr.org/iranecUpse.htnil (last year's trip) and at http;//www.swisr.org/esfahan.html (this year's trip). We've started to form some collaborations and discussions with our scientific colleagues in Uan, and I'm told tiiat I'm welcome back in that country anytime I choose to return.

One of the participants of this year's trip was former astronaut Bruce McCandless '58, veteran of two space shuttle flights.

Incidentally, it looks Uke I probably won't be making the Reunion this fall. The organization that's funding my research is staging a conference in L.A. that same weekend, and I've been asked to attend, thus it would probably behoove me to go to that. My apologies, and I hope everyone has fun remembering the space cadet from Fun One.

Hayley Edmondson '04 and Charlie Edmondson The last note of the month came in from Charlie Edmondson. It starts with that now famous line as you will see, only the years vary: It's been 24 years now since I made my way into Halsey Field House for Induction Day and recentiy had the pleasure of retuming for a special "revisiting" of sorts. I also felt it was finally time to write to Shipmate. But before I get into that visit I'll just give a smaU recap of the last 20 years. After graduation I attended flight school in Pensacola and was assigned to F-4s in VF-161 located in Japan on MIDWAY. My son Chad was born there. I then instracted at VT-86 followed by a Flight Deck job on IKE. Transitioned to Tomcats in '90 and joined the World Famous Pukn' Dogs in '91. Remarried in '92 to the former Christina Kane of Virginia Beach. Followed the squadron tour with shore duty at the Naval Doctrine Command in Norfolk. Another disassociated sea tour on ENTERPRISE as CDC and now am safely "out to

pasture" here at OPTEVFOR (witii Classmate Dan "Vegas" Tanner and Bill "Pokey" Padgett) in Norfolk. I am enjoying life as a somewhat bulletproof 0-5.

My family (mother, Carrie Lou, sister, Dinah, wife, Chris, and son, Chad) attended the Induction Day ceremonies for the Class of 2004 this past 30 June. It was an especially proud day since I had the privilege of administering the oath to my niece, Hayley Edmondson '04. I must say that I made it through the entire Oath of Office without faltering; not such a small feat when considering my miserable attempts during Plebe Summer In any case, it was a memorable event for our entire family.

It's been a real treat through the years reading about Classmates (and others) in Shipmate and with the advent of email actually keeping up witii my 12th Co. mates. I'm certainly looking forward to our Reunion this fall. It will be a blast telling old stories and enjoying a few Ubations. If anybody finds themselves in the Tidewater area and needs a place to stay or better yet, a fourth to fill out a foursome give me a ring. I'm in the book.

Beat Army! 779 Oriole Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23451:757-437-4389.

That's about all for now folks. Once again, thank you to all those who have worked so hard to put our Homecoming event together. I'll have photos on the Web site soon. I hope this finds everyone well, happy, and enjoying life. Take some time, call a Classmate, and keep in touch. As always. Beat Army, Joe

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Pres: Robert D. Ravener Jr. 190 Bennetts Farm Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 h: 203-438-0867; w: 914-767-6127 e: THERAV5@AOL.COM Sec'y: Dave Ciccarelli 38484 Sorgum Court, Purcellville, VA20132-3738 h: 540-882-4225; w: 703-416-0153 e: chicsan@aol.com Daddy?

Yes, dear.

What would it be like if the Class Secretary wrote a "normal" column, you know, like the other ones where all they do is report the news in a "He-said, she-said" kinda fashion?

It would be a gray and dreary day each month when the assembled eyes cast themselves upon that lot. Yea, they would be reduced to the old and lamentable practice of scanning for bold-faced names before hastening away to check out Last CaU. It would go something like...

Noreen Leahy (jmleahy@aol.com): 20th Reunion info; Thursday, 11 October through Sunday, 14 October 2001. We have reserved 175 rooms at the Radisson (used to be the Holiday Inn) in Parole, 410-224-3150, $159/night; and 50 rooms at the Country Inn and Suites (also Parole), 410-571-6700, $134/night for a room, $149/night for a suite. Both hotels require threenight minimum stays (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday). Rooms wiU be reserved imtil July 2001 when diey wiU be made available to the pubUc. BTW, Dan Quattrini is heading up the merchandising effort and Ken Liss has offered his assistance.

Tentative 20th Reunion events include a crab feast at the Crown Sailing Center, 7:00 p.m.9:30 p.m., Thursday, 11 October; a Class meeting at Alumni Hall, 9:00 a.m., Friday, 12 October; a welcome buffet with music at the Radisson, 9:00 p.m.-l;00 a.m., Friday, 12 October; the tailgater at the stadium, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Saturday, 13 October; a light reception at the Radisson, 9:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m., Saturday, 13 October; a memorial service for deceased Classmates in Memorial Hall, 10:30 a.m..

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Sunday. 14 October; and a Class branch in the Chesapeake Room. Bancroft Hall, 11:00 a.m.1:15 p.m., Sunday, 14 October. In addition, tiiere will/may be a hospitality suite at tiie Radisson, a hospitality table/room at Alumni Hall; babysitting; a ship in the Yard/on tiie Bay (hopefully commanded by a Classmate); tiie presence of a Josten's rep for ring-related matters; a roving photographer; a Class directory; gift bags; a shuttle bus service between the hotels, the stadium and the Yard; fire and brimstone; dogs and cats...living together, mass hysteria! Traly an event of biblical proportions. Markest thou thy calendars.

FYI, this is going to be the best 20th Reunion to ever hit the planet. Stop what you're doing (even reading this column), pick up the phone (or pull it off of your belt), dial one of the numbers above (the hotels, not Rav or Chic) and reserve a room or rooms, now! Don't procrastinate, don't dillydally. You know you're going to go. You know you're going to hang with folks you haven't seen in ages. They're all going to be at the hotels. Just do it! Then it'll be done and next October you won't find yourself cursing your inaction while checking into the BWI Marriott.

C.E. Gumey, Tom Gurney's dad: Here's a picture of Kevin Hogan and Tom Gurney at Kevin's change of command when he assumed command of VT-2 at WUiting Field in July.

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Kevin Hogay and Tom Gumey Steve Hampton (hamptonsw@aol.com): Noted your plea for mail (September '00). Here it is. I write this (4 September '00) after watching Navy lose to Temple and then, as a slap in the face, I watched the Packers lose at Lambeau to the Jets. Ack. Life goes on.

First, attached is a photo from the ' 81 does Bike Virginia June '99. If the picture is not classic, the ride was. The first pic features myself, Dave Robertson and Pat Roane on a bridge just outside Franklin, VA, on the first 100-mile leg of the ride. The other pic shows Pat, Dave and myself at the start of that ride. No one wants to see the pictures at the finish. The ride covered about 500 miles in six days around eastem Virginia and was perfectly organized. It was a very historic route, starting in Richmond and heading south, then east, and then retracing McClellan's Civil War campaign up the peninsula from Norfolk to Richmond.

This was the campaign that was enabled by the Monitor-Merrimack action. I promised the Top Ten List of Dave's reasons not to camp while biking, but with reasons like, "You have to lay down in the tent to put on the Butt Butter...," I think I will save it for the 20th.

A few weeks ago, after I took command, I got to San Diego for VADM Bowman's retirement from AirPac. While enjoying the sea breeze and comfortable weather, I ran into Ron Sandoval who is the Gator on CONSTELLATION. He had re-

Pat, Dave and Steve in the starting blocks No Bike Virginia this summer. Dave completed the pipeline and took command of MAHAN in September. The Robertsons live in Norfolk. Pat and family are in Japan where Pat took command of CURTIS WILBUR on 19 September '00. Tilghman

Payne is still in NICHOLAS and he and Suzanne have a new baby boy, Tilghman Jr Tilghman's biking has been cut considerably with his new a.m. responsibilities. I am still in DEYO preparing for deployment with the HARRY S TRUMAN Battlegroup in late November so the bike bunch is looking for a big ride event again intiiesummer of 2001 and 2002.

I have seen several Classmates in my travels.

Recentiy, I ran into Ken Lewko at the O'Club in Roosevelt Roads, PR. Ken is CO of a Reserve P-3 squadron out of Willow Grove and was conducting counter-drag operations with SouthCom. Mike Hawley is CO of Ross. In May, I was privileged to attend Mike Matthes' CoC and retirement from HAMITON. Mike had an extraordinary tour in HAMPTON and the Navy will miss him. The party was perfect. Terry Huxel flew in from Cincinnati where he is a civil engineer and CO of a Reserve CEC unit. Many were in attendance including Fred Reitzel, Ted Dumbauld and Frank MacAlister to name a few. That's it for now.

Peggy Klein (klein.margaretd@tacamo.navy.mil): Your last article evoked much sympathy from the Klein household. Imagine, two months in a row with very little Class news to report. Sorry this didn't get to you earlier, but hopefuUy it is part of the now broken logjam. (It is.)

On 7 July 2000,1 took command of VQ-3, currently homeported at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, OK. We refer to our part of the base as Tinker NAS 'cause there are over 1,200 Navy sailors there. Don't ask why we're in the middle of the stinkin' country and no longer in Hawaii 'cause it wasn't my idea. The people are very friendly here, even if the temperatures are not. Yesterday broke our streak of 20-30 days in the 100s...Yeeehah!

My XO is another Navy grad, Brian Costello '83. The picture is of Brian, his wife, Rose, their children, my husband, Frank Klein '79, and our families. Frank is retiring on 1 December mostly because the co-location game just got too hard.

The Costello and Klein families at Peggy's CoC Our sister squadron is helping in the effort to populate the base with USNA grads. Chris Frasse '84 and Bill Sanders '84 are CO and XO of our FRS, VQ-7. Kay Hire also made it out for the CoC from her homeport of Houston where she's working as a shuttle astronaut. Father Fred Murtay, a retired Navy chaplain who was at USNA during our formative years, came out from his beach house in Massachusetts to brave the Oklahoma heat and officiate at the CoC.

cently tumed over command of his HS squadron.

I also got to go to another land-locked, but less topographically challenged state on a recent trip to USSpaceCom where I ran into another Classmate, Dave Jackson.

Lastly, I heard from Kathy Moeller and Joan Zitterkopf, neither of whom were able to make it to Oklahoma this summer. (They were always the smart ones.) Joan is holding up well under the rigors (?) of Navy War College in Newport. Kathy is still keeping way busy as a radiologist at NH Sigonella.

Chuck Hardy (lavadogl983@yahoo.com): I could say that nothing ever happens, but we did go to Norway this summer, trading the St. Louis heat for the cool tranquility of Eresfjord, a farming community of about 400 in the northwest.

My wife's aunt Uves on a dairy farm and had always been saying "come visit," so we did. The scenery was unbelievable; snow capped mountains over a mile high ringed the valley; waterfalls up to 2,000 feet high are formed by the snow melt.

We also went to Oslo. Interestingly enough, at the Fram museum, we read that Nansen, the arctic explorer, had been inspired by the Jeannette (remember that cross with the snow on it in the Academy Cemetery?).

The Hardys in Eresfjord The other interesting thing this year has been coaching my daughter's fifth grade basketball team. They had never won a game, though once their opponents didn't show up and they got a forfeit. Though my athletic endeavors were mainly rack and subsquad (not necessarily in that order), I thought I could do a bit better, though I kept quiet lest I seem to be volunteering. No one wanted to coach this year, so I was appointed the volunteer. I got advice from a friend whose teams always go to Nationals. Our players seemed to be a head shorter than our opponents, but they were fast and could ran forever. What I learned in Plebe boxing about "generalmanship" came back to me.

I explained this and we kept things fast. There was only one team in our CYC disttict who beat us all season. We then got in the St. Louis summer league. The basketball there was a lot tougher than the CYC. We got clobbered in the first half of the season, but the girls leamed fast and a few of them grew. By the end of the season, these girls from a small Catholic school, plus a few neighborhood kids, were beating AAU teams that drew players from three counties, teams a year or more older and teams from large private schools. The shortest girl on the team could swish from within the restraining circle. Another girl never missed on lay-ups. My daughter could get past anyone and we had twins who would paralyze any man-toman defense.

Winning is fun, but I am proudest of all the players getting equal playing time regardless of their skills or the score. Girls who never played basketball before and rode the bench in whatever they did play became extremely effective players. The only disadvantage seems to be that I can't put on the brakes. When we get up by an unseemly

A bridge too far...

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amount, I put the high scorers on the bench and feed the ball to our least effective shooters, but the score still mounts up. In the final game of the season, against a much feared opponent, one of my players left for a gymnastics tryout without telling me and the girls had added six points to our lead before I realized we only had four players out there. The coming season should be even better

Carlos Ayuso (ayuso.carlos@hq.navy.mil) contact info: C N O N812E1; w: 703-614-9125; DSN: 224-9125.

Tom Fricke (tom.fricke@intl.fritolay.com) contact info: w: 61 02 9951 1983.

Bob Ravener: We've decided to assist the commissioning crew of DDG-81, WINSTON CHURCHILL by sponsoring a

Chuck, upper right, Sarah (#33), and the team Mike Phillips (mphillips@titan.com): Since I went to NAPS, I retired a year earlier than the rest of the Class that will start retiring at 20 years. Please forward my name and address to assist other job seekers in the Beltway/Northern Virginia area. Contact info; Michael P. Phillips, TITAN Research & Technology, Senior Program Manager, Commander, U.S. Navy (Ret.); 703-7585605; fax; 703-758-6595; cell: 703-598-4265; cell email; 7035984265@messaging.sprintpcs.com.

Dave M u t z a b a u g h (dhmutz@msn.com) new contact info: Manager, Global Accounts, Intrusion.com, www.intmsion.com; w: 800-6376381 x382; pager: 888-312-8776.

Mike Shields (mksco@attglobal.net) new contact info: w: 831-443-6501.

Act fast! Mike Hawley (co@ross.navy.mil), CO Ross, will leave Norfolk, Thursday, 30 November 2000 to arrive at AnnapoUs to stay during Army-Navy weekend (game's in Baltimore this year). To quote: I would like to take any and all 'Slers (and dependents) on the transit up and certainly host during the weekend. Bring your clubs to hit drives off of the fantail or use mine and we'll have a contest to see who can slice it the farthest into the wake. The ship will probably depart Norfolk about 6:00 a.m. or 6;30 a.m. Thursday and wUl arrive at anchorage late aftemoon near the Academy. We hope to have transportation arranged for those wishing to retum to Norfolk. Ross was a late add to the Army-Navy festivities and, while I tried to get into Baltimore, three other ships were much smarter and had acted many months before to ensure their places. After some kicking and scratching and much help from those at USNA, we have been allowed the opportunity to see first hand the events leading to the big game on 2 December. As a side note, I relieved CAPT (Sel) Dave Thomas in Kiel, GE on 19 June '00. He continues to do great things up on the OpNav staff and tumed over a highly qualified crew and a super ship. I was very proud to relieve such a fine gentleman and, to top it off, a Classmate, w; 757-445-6331; h: 757-463-6351.

Mailed the Class flag to Brent Jett in August.

Open the shuttie bay doors...

Buz Sorce (co@hopper.navy.mil): I took command of HOPPER on 15 July '00 while underway in the Arabian Gulf. She is a great ship with super sailors and incredible talent in the wardroom. We finished six weeks of eventful operations in theater and are now homeward bound via Phuket, Singapore and Hong Kong. Homeport is Pearl Harbor. This is everything I signed up for.

Roland Huss new contact info: hussjr@navsea. navy.mil.

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donation of $1,981 to their Recreation Fund and contributing to their official ship's painting. We need to raise $5K-$6K using no Class funds to do the job. We're asking for Classmates to commit at least $81 to the cause. At that rate, we need 60plus people to donate. For now, send the money "Restricted Use" to the Class for the purpose of the DDG-81 Fund Drive. A plaque with the Class name will be engraved for the painting.

Chuck French: No time for a detailed write-up, but attached are some photos of the "Hucklebuck '81 Golf Tour" annual outing. This is our second annual event. Last year we traveled west to Monterey, playing five rounds on some very fine Califomia courses. This year (April) eight of us traveled to Orlando, playing four rounds of golf over a threeday weekend on several beautiful Florida courses.

We, of course, entertained ourselves quite well on the Orlando nightlife. The H81 GT includes Frank Marco, Commissioner for Life, Doug Heimbach, this year's host. Chuck French, Mike Mahre, Tim Disher, Dan Quattrini, Jim Ahlgrimm, and Willie Taylor (in his first appearance on the Hucklebuck '81 Tour). We had a great time, and are already planning for our next event.

Slow 'n Loose

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Pres: Maj T. Gordon Thomson, USAFR e: president@usna82.org; h: 804-360-8448 Vice President: Matt Moury e: vicepresident@usna82.org; h: 410-263-7640 Treas: C D R Terry Benedict, USN e: treasurer@usna82.org h: 703-913-7183; w: 703-607-1036 Business Sec'y: Dan Proulx e: businesssec@usna82.org h: 410-280-5282; w: 410-293-6884 Corr Sec'y: LCDR Greg Eisman, USN 2721 Buckhom Oaks Drive, VaUico, FL 33594-4202 e: eisman82@terra.es Class Web site: www.usna82.org Check sec. email: eisman82@terra.es Hello, ' 8 2 ! I ' m back! Now that I've made the move across the Atiantic to our new home in Rota, Spain, I am reassuming my duties as Corresponding Secretary. Many thanks to John Femandes for keeping this column going in my absence. My new email address is eisman82@terra.es. If you ever come through Rota, I ' m only a nine-iron away from the air terminal, so come see me! Now, on to this month's news.

Rich Vogel has moved his Web page. Go to http: //www.thevogelsonline.com and check out what Rich is up to. His email address is rkvworld@yahoo.com.

Ward Carroll has a new book that will be published early 2001. The Web site is www. punks war. com. Check it out.

Our Class is sponsoring some tailgaters this year; Rutgers ( H o m e c o m i n g ) and Wake Forest (last game). The cost is $5 per adult. Kids and Mids are free. First Company Mids will collect the money that goes toward their wardroom fund. The site has changed to #27 along Cedar Road on the Blue Side (Home side). Festivities begin at halftime. For the Temple game, the tailgater is expected to continue until the midnight timeframe.

Tommy and Matthew Garrison

Next thing I knew I was on 1-75 headed to Florida Wow, Daddy. That would be awful.

You said it, kiddo.

Good thing he doesn't do that otherwise w e ' d never get Column Lite, or The Guy in the Desert, or Trick or Treat, or Holiday Poetry.

Holiday Poetry?

Yeah, it's next month.

Omigosh! That's right. It's that time again. Can't put it off 'til later. Chic

I received the following from Tommy Garrison: On 17 August 2000 my wife, Christine, and I welcomed Matthew Charles Garrison aboard! Matt reported in at 7 pounds 2 ounces, and 21 inches tall!

He was b o m down here in St. Mary's County, MD, where I ' m working at Patuxent River's NavAir Headquarters as the T-45/T-6A Class Desk. Matt's nine-year-old brother, Paul, is excited to have someone to brace up...Matt's mom, Christine, is doing great, and Dad's ready for a long nap.

John Jurceka (johnj@lce.com) from 3rd Company checked in as well. He lives in Folcroft, PA, (just south of Philadelphia) with his wife, Rina, and daughter Nicole (bom 20 July '92). He's been working for Life Cycle Engineering, Inc. doing work for the Navy, since he got out of the Navy in 1990.

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Ken P e r r y r e c e n t l y t o o k c o m m a n d of PENNSYLVANIA (SSBN-735) in Kings Bay, GA. His 2nd Company roommate. Charlie King, was a witness because no one would have believed them. The change of command turned out to be a great reunion, with family and friends attending from up and down the East Coast. Attached is a photo of Ken at the change of command. Ken, Alicia and their children have settied in Jacksonville, FL. Now that their youngest, Maria, is in second grade, Alicia has resumed her career as a CPA.

Ken Perry at the change of command Other '82ers in Kings Bay include submarine skippers Paul Healy and Dave Dittmer on the two NEBRASKA crews; Jeff Hughes on WYOMING; Dave Ruff on LOUISIANA; and Mike Cortese on W E S T VIRGINIA. Rusty S m i t h will be relieving soon aboard MARYLAND. Afrdale skippers in the area are Pat Thurman and Dennis Sinnett, both at N A S Jax, and Charlie King at HSL-46 in Mayport.

That's it for now. Remember, my new email address is eisman82@terra.es. Write me and let me know how you're doing!

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Pres: CDR James H. Flatley IV, U S N 8506 Crowley Place, Alexandria, VA 22308-1822 e: CGFLATS@aol.com Sec'y: LCDR Richard E Woodford Jr., USNR 7329 Crestieigh Cfrcle, Alexandria, VA 22315 h: 703-313-4170; w: 202-653-7188 e: (h) richard.woodford@abanet.org Class Web site: http://class-act-usna83.org Welcome to the second "State of the Class Act" and the salute to the U S M C '83 article. This piece was promised for the "October" issue, but other Class Act events took precedence and here it is November afready. A hearty Semper FideUs to our Marines everywhere on 10 November. It figures that the Corps is a Scorpio.

To stay on top of what's coming for the ArmyNavy Game, check out our new and always improving Class Web Page at www.USNA83.COM. To find out where and when the next Class Act Event will be held, read on or drop me a line or phone call!

The first item this month comes from the cotton fields of Tennessee, from Mark Olson (Pers421@ persnet.navy.mil; PERS 4 2 1 , 800-526-3583): Long time, huh? Hey, I saw the issue of Shipmate with the photo of the kids and me. Man, I've got to be careful what I send you! You know, I have not gotten a Shipmate in about four years! I have sent them my address, but I am not sure why I'm getting snubbed. (Ed. note: you can update your email and mailing address on our Web site, www.usna.com/misc/forms/changeaddress.htm, or by caUing 410-263-4448 ext. 203.) Thank God that I keep in touch with so many people in this job, so I found out about the photo and words you put in. OK, if you need some Classmate updates, here goes;

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Mike Barclift (13) and Jane (Rust) Barclift (13) have been here in lovely Millington with me.

Their son, Cameron, saw my photo in Shipmate and said that he didn't realize that I was that famous. They took off for Norfolk a couple of months ago. Mike will be CO of MITSCHER ( D D G 57) and Jane will be exercising her M.B.A. at the CLF compttoller's office. The whole gang is in NORVA now, but 1 don't have a good address yet.

I went to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in Febraary and ran in to none other than Matt Colpoys (18). No lie! I was walking on Bourbon Street and there was Matty. We talked briefly through the noise and commotion. He said he was out in San Francisco now and that he was in email contact with Jim Blake. Man, talk about a small world, huh?

I had dinner in Febraary with Jeff Currer (Sec 'y note: Mark spelled it "Currerrerrerr") (4) and Craig Faller (11), actually on Valentine's night.

Both were out working a selection board and we did some USNA bonding. Jeff was the CinC's EA at SttatCom and is now in PCO school with orders to be CO of PITTSBURGH. Craig is CO of STETHEM (DDG-63) in San Diego (as reported last month). Frank Morneau (4) was also here in Millington as the Special Ops Detailer and was going to go out to dinner with us until he realized it was "V-Day" (wise man). He shipped out in June to be CO of EODMU 8 in Sigonella, Italy. If you want a good laugh, ask Frank (or his wife. Sue,) to tell the story about when Sue got the phone call from our front office when Frank was seen outside the building without his garrison cover!

I also got a nice letter from Ken Boise (35). He and his wife, Maria, are living in Texas after civilian job (tours) in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Mexico (and to think some folks get out because they don't want to move).

Jim Kuzma (I) called to give me grief. He is in PCO school with Jeff Currer en route to PENNSYLVANIA (Blue). He claims that the reason I am no longer in that class is because I want to avoid six more months (we went through SOAC and PXO) of Kuz and Curterrerrerr. This was not an intentional thing, just luck.

I also saw Mike Byman (18) in Kings Bay. He was chasing the CO of LOUISIANNA (Blue) saying, "I relieve you. I relieve you already." Seriously, his change of command was last month and he is now the CO. Hank Bond (missed the company, so you may need to look up (30)) is here in Millington working for the Chief of Naval Personnel Command (CNPC). I ran a road race on base a couple of months ago and got to see his backside as it faded over the horizon in front of me. He will detach next spring en route to be the CO of NavComTelSta Guam. HafaAdai!

I had a couple of great nights out with Eugene Jones recently. He was in town for a board and we went out for dinner and laughs. Talk about someone who looks, talks and acts just like he did as a Midshipman. Geno is the CO of NRD San Francisco and will be there for another couple of years (he can count on me as a houseguest).

I also saw Dan Forney (6) and his wife, Debbie, during a recent trip out to StratCom in Omaha just last week. He will start the PCO pipeline in January go to command (boat still TBD) next year.

I am in my last months of fun at BuPers in Tennessee. I love the job and Memphis is...did I mention that I love the job? No, Memphis is OK, but after hitting every tourist place multiple times (six trips to Graceland since you and I did the vigil in August of '98), you really get ready to move on. I will start the PCO pipeline in September en route to HENRY M . JACKSON (Blue) next spring.

Enough of this sunny, warm weather! I can't wait to get to the cool, wet Pac NW. OK, signing off. This was written both for editing and print and to keep you informed of the latest stuff. I will be in DC in late August. I am going to hang out with Bill Galinis and Di for a while before the PCO class starts. I'll be in D.C. until

December, so we can definitely hang out some.

Oh-tay?

P.S. Elvis vigil was 15 August. (Sec'y note: Sorty I had to miss that one, visitors in D.C!) Thanks, Mark, for the Sub-MARINE update and roundup from Millington. We will definitely have a few laughs before you head back below the waterline. I need a new "mole" at BuPers, any takers?

Still Calling All Class Act Professionals The response so far to the "Calling All Class Act Professionals" has been good. If you have a second, third, or fourth (or more) professional degree or accreditation, please send that information to me.

1 know that Bill McHugh must have at least three master's degrees in addition to a J.D. Anyone else out there with more degrees than that? Also, check out www.usna.com for a quick way to update your home mailing address and other contact information with the Alumni Association. Thanks for your updates, photos, and emailsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they are the fuel that keeps the column going strong. Your up-to-date addresses and phone numbers are critical for getting the word out to "All Hands" for our upcoming 20th Class Reunion (October 2003).

From George Ellard (21st Co.): Hi, Richard. I've got something for your advance professional degree compilation. I was in 21st Co. and have received a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1991. I'm a plaintiff's trial lawyer at O'Reilly, CoUins & Danko in San Francisco and San Mateo, CA. Our Web site is www.oreillylaw.com. The firm is nationally recognized for its trial work. Specific examples are in our Web site. The Web site is presentiy being updated because of new hires, including me.

We represent plaintiffs around the world in contingency fee cases in the areas of aviation accidents, business litigation, catastrophic personal injury, products liability (e.g., auto design, rollovers, tire maintenance, etc.), govemmental liability (e.g., roadway design) and professional malpractice (e.g. lawyers, accountants, doctors, hospitals). Thanks for your interest.

George, thanks for the update and I'll keep you on my rolodex in case my Firestones don't get me to the Army-Navy game this year.

Speaking of updating the rolodex. Bill Williston (willistonwc@navsea.navy.mil) reports: JoAnn Murtay has taken the reigns as the Fleet Manpower and Training Director with PEO TSC. She returns from a year of "getting smart" at ICAF. She and Rene Thomas-Rizzo will continue to fight for quality training for our surface combatants. It has been a pleasure working for/with you all over the last two years. I have sent this to my new email address at DESRON Six. Please drop me a line if you're ever in Pascagoula.

And one more address note, from Joe Rixey (joerixey@hotmail.com): Hey everybody, please send emaU to my hotmaU account as well. Like to get this stuff at home.

Beat Army.

A proposal for a Class Act project from Sean (Freeman) Georges (sgeorges@scvl.com): With respect to this proposed project, I view it as an opportunity to provide a unique "gift" to the Academy and to the civilian community. We could begin now, with a view to having a finished, polished product by 2002/2003 (our 20th Class Reunion). It seems to me our Classmates would have a great deal to say about authentic leadership, what it is, why it is critical to the success of any organization, and how it works in the "real world" (both miUtary and civilian).

I have envisioned a series of chapters which would organize the various aspects of leadership, in a way which would incorporate our experiences and lessons learned. Some of us have leamed a great deal about the impact of leadership both in and out of uniform. Any thoughts on how best to

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proceed? Perhaps a "call to arms" in Shipmatel A special link through the Web site? I can propose a stracture or outline to help get the ball rolling. I think there is something potentially valuable here.

It could be an important, lasting legacy from the Class of'83.

I think there are some important lessons we can share about leadership. I think it is also an opportunity to leave a legacy of some value, one which is unique and important.

As far as my own personal "story" goes, I left active duty in 1996, after 13 great years. The Marines sent me to law school at the University of niinois (1986-1989). I served in numerous billets and places, from Camp Pendleton to Okinawa, in jobs ranging from prosecutor to MEU SJA. In 1992,1 was fortunate to attend the yearlong master of laws program at the Army's JAG School, Charlottesville, VA. In any event, a tough decision on whether to stay or go. Since leaving the Corps, I was with a law firm for three years, then got an opportunity to serve as in-house counsel for a publicly traded company in Evansville, IN. I have since been promoted to vice president, human resources. I am now completing a book on leadership lessons from the Corps of Discovery, based on the joumals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Team leadership at its best. I'm married, with a five-year-old daughter.

I look forward to working with you on the Class project. I think it could be a worthwhile project, with a wide audience.

I took the liberty of editing some of the initial edialogue that has gone between myself, Sean Georges and Rich Hans. This is the "call to arms" so if you are interested in participating in some writing for this leadership project, please contact Sean or me immediately. Look for a discussion group to form on the Class Web site in the near future.

In terms of the "State of the Class Act," we are doing a better j o b in getting together for social events but we still have much of our "bouse" to get in order. We still need to have a ratified "Class Charter" or an incorporation that outlines our Bylaws and elected Class officers in the future. We are making progress on leaving a lasting physical legacy in the building of the Glenn Wamer Soccer FaciUty. Several ' 8 3 Class actors are either teaching at the Academy or are within leadership positions in the U S N A and Alunmi Association administtations. We were saddened by the passing of Scott Larsen last year. As far as I know, no Class Actors have reported any of their offspring admitted to USNA or any other service academy yet, but I suspect there will be one or two before 2002. All in all, I give us a "B-i-" for effort in getting together on the social activities, but only a " C - " in following through on some initiatives and projects. The good news is that we are improving our communications links and more people are getting involved all the time. By the time "12-weekers" come by, I expect the Class Act will be pulling Aces across the board.

From the master of the D.C. area '83 Happy Hour and Tailgater, J i m Beatty (Beatty.James@hq. navy.mil): The wheels are at a self-sustaining speed now and a permanent presence has been established regarding a Class of '83 Navy Tailgater. Doc Saba has graciously volunteered to provide the beer from his very own Deep Creek Brewing Company for two of the games this season. (We could have used a Deep Creek to drown our sortow at the Temple game, but we stayed afloat despite the rains! Some of those present were Ruth and Mike Simmons, Bruce Miller, Malcolm LeMay, Neal Davidson, Seamus Flatley, Tim Kraft, and Paul Boyne (who was down from Connecticut)).

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our very own. Many thanks to Mike Rafter (11) for getting out the "1983" banner for use at the tailgaters and to Tim Kraft (14) for taking the lead on identifying the site and logistics support.

I believe that lots of folks are going to try to make the Army-Navy game this year in Baltimore on 2 December. Parking in Baltimore is a nightmare. I have tentative reservations for a St. Jerome's Church parking lot within a ten-minute walk of the stadium with 83+3 spaces. We may be tailgating in conjunction with the guys from '84 on this effort, so go along with the program.

We are setting up a banner and will have a barbecue going. Restroom facilities are on site. If anyone from out of town is flying in for the game, please drop me a line if you are interested in attending. Parking spots would be $ 10 per car, which is less than it would be at the stadium if there were enough spaces (which there are not). Cheers and Beat Army!

Of course, tickets for the Army-Navy Game sold out on 2 August. You may be able to get a scalper seat, or you may just watch it on the portable TV at the tailgater We'd love to see you there, so get a message into Jim nowl From Scott Watson (9) (h: 205-991-2665; w: 205-917-2220; SWatson83@aol.com): Richard, BZ on the column.

Greetings from Birmingham. We have Uved here for over five years—Lynne and three children, Bryan (14), Jody (11) and Ben (8) doing great. We are adding no. 4 in 2001. I am with Southem BioSystems, a company which develops novel controUed release formulations for the pharmaceutical industry (no not Viagra). We have several Classmates I've ran into in the industry...Todd Davis finished Harvard Business school in 1997 and is a VP with Elan (the world's largest drag delivery company) and Wadi Faruch is with the world's largest biotechnology company—Amgen in 1000 Oaks, CA. Bubba Breuil is with the other drag deUvery gorilla, Alza in Palo Alto.

Also had a wonderful dinner at Craig Husa's house in Seattle last fall. The company he cofounded, CourtLink was recently recognized by tiie INC 500.

Had breakfast with Les Hayward in Boston.

He is an insurance mogul there.

The '83 contingent in Birmingham is anchored by the Gubenski family. Matt Gubenski is flying for Delta, Mary Kaye is doing great. Their two children are Matthew, a (big) chip off the old block, and Mariel, a sweet young lady.

Had the opportunity to visit Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, as part of my Reserve duty in August—and I am really pleased to report to the Class that '83 is large and in charge. CDRs Joe Tofalo and Mike Byman, are commanding officers of MAINE (Gold) and LOUISIANA (Gold) respectively. Mike is still fairly newly wed, and Joe enjoys his three girls. CDR Dave Waugh is executive officer of the Trident Training Facility—wow, what a place. Had a nice pizza dinner with Dave, Denise, and their two grown up children—Greg (14, soon to be Eagle Scout) and Stephanie (11, a delightful young lady).

Kevin Kelly and Mark Davis are on Squadron 16 staff. Kevin will be moving to Mobile, AL, and getting married in 2001. Incoming is Paul Siegrist who is a Trident PCO. Had an opportunity to take the family down to see PENNSYLVANIA (Blue), CO'd

by CAPT (S) Mike Budney '80—what a great ship and crew! Great job guys!

It is great seeing old Classmates—tiiey're all over!

Braver Classmates are always welcome anytime to stay with the Watson family as you pass through Birmingham!

Go Navy!

Thanks for the news and invite to the "Pittsburgh of the South." Give my regards to Vulcan!

Because it is the birthday of the Corps, I thought it was fitting to finish the news with a word from

my always faithful Marine correspondent, "Ping" Scanlon (LtCol John "Ping" Scanlan, VMFA-332 XO, DSN 335-7767; scanlanjm@2mawbft. usmc.mil): Greetings from beautiful Beaufort by tiie sea.

Yep, I am now down at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S C I completed F-18 refresher tiaining on 20 June, and drove the mighty Beretta back across the country from Miramar to Quantico. I promptiy checked out of MCCDC and PCS'ed to Beaufort, where I am curtently the executive officer for tiie VMFA(AW)-332 Moonlighters. I'U be sure to keep you in the loop as time goes by.

Take care and may God bless. When bombs absolutely, positively have to be there overnight.

Happy birtfiday devil dogs!

The final word: while you were reading this, I was on my honeymoon in N'awlens, the Big Easy!

That was a trick and a treat! The '83 bachelor party and wedding photos will start off the last column "of the millennium!"

Keep your powder and martinis dry! Beat Army!

1983—A Class Act!

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Pres: CDR Steven G. Young, USNR c/o Legg Mason, 600 Washington Ave. Towson, M D 21204; w: 800-368-2558 e: SYoung@LeggMason.com Sec'y: Robin Franke 304 Dreams Landing Way, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-573-9420; ceU: 410-991-6642 e: refranke@mindspring.com Sec'y: Karen (Malloy) Halverson, PSC 450 BOX 487 A P O AP 96206-0487 commercial: Oil 822 7916 8342; DSN: (Korea) 736-8342; e: dkhalverso@aoI.com Class Web site: www.usna84.com Hello everyone. It has been an eventful month in the yard. Parent's weekend is behind everyone, the Brigade has retumed, and Navy lost its ffrst home game to Temple. Hopefully, the team will get back on its feet and continue its winning ways. I have received lots of news this month, so let me start off with a quick message from your friend and mine, Steve Young: We are in the process of contracting with St. Jerome's Church in Baltimore to reserve their parish lot for the Army-Navy football game. We'll have about 43 parking spots along with the use of their toilets and space to put up our Class tent.

The lot is about two blocks from PSINet stadium.

We will be charging for the spaces, but it promises to be a great event!

Our plan is to have a joint event with '83 in the church parking lot. A lot of thanks go out to Gary English for making this happen. The idea was his as well as most of the sweat and cash equity that made it a reality. BZ, Gary. Notices were sent out in early September to those individuals whose email addresses are on the Alumni Association's database. Log onto the Class Web site for further details—and if you're flying into town for the big game this year, and are arriving on Friday the 1 st before 4:00 p.m., look me up in the USO lounge at BWI where I have volunteered to assist weary travelers.

A quick note from Steve Brawley and his wife, Kim. Steve signed on with the Navy for Ufe by going the M.D.-Ph.D. route. (Sec'y Note: Must have signed on for a 100 years for that combination.) He finished up medical school at the University of Texas Southwestem Medical School in Dallas in June and is now cutting patients as an orthopedic intern at

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Portsmoutii Naval Hospital, Norfolk. If you just happen to be tiiere getting your appendix removed, be sure to give him ;i ^-M Coniinitulations. Steve.

Kim. Steve. Austin (12) and Cameron (8). Kim is telling Steve, "No more school!"

I received the following quick note from my old Nuke School bud. Bob Clark: I start the Prospective Commanding Officer (PCO) pipeUne in January 2001, along with three other Classmates. Currently, I am slated to take command of CONNECTICUT (SSN-722), Bill Frake will take command of MONTPELIER (SSN-765), Warren Belt will take command of ALASKA (SSBN-732, Gold), and Brian Mcllvaine is slated to take command of OHIO ( S S B N - 7 2 6 , Blue). I beUeve we are the first group of our Classmates to be going to submarine command. Most likely we aU will take command in summer 2001 as the PCO pipeline is seven months long.

Sometime last week I received a call from Frank Andrews. The timing was very unusual as my two girls (Natalie (10) and Caroline (8)) just started swimming with the Naval Academy Aquatic Club (a.k.a. Navy Juniors). Frank and his whole family had participated in the Navy Juniors and I had thought of him and various brothers and sisters that first night in the Lejeune Hall stands. Wouldn't you know that he would call me the very next moming after so many years. Frank passes along the following information: I appreciate the opportunity to catch everyone up on what I've been doing.

My wife, Carla, and I moved to Newark, DE, in November 1991 after I left the Navy. I enjoyed my time in the Navy and frequentiy tell sea stories to those wUling to Usten. Life on board submarines certainly seems better the more time passes.

After leaving the Navy, I joined MBNA America. MBNA pioneered the concept of affinity marketing in 1982 and issues affinity-based credit cards to over 4,500 organizations. Over the past nine years, I've held several positions in marketing areas. Today, I'm a senior executive vice president responsible for the company's relationships with our financial institutions partners (includes First Union, SunTrast, PNC and many others). I've been very fortunate to work for a recognized world class organization that focuses as much on its people as its bottom line. It's been very rewarding to contribute to MBNA's growth— from under $10 billion when I arrived to $77 billion today.

MBNA has its own Alumni contingent; Chuck Krulak '64, Classmate Steve Cochran, Greg Sargent '87, Dan Bates '87, Brent Samuels '89, Chris Mokis '89, Mike Maier '90 and Brian Spano '91. There are an equal number of USMA grads with some USAFA and USCGA graduates.

Carla and I have two active children, Brendan (8) and Elyse (6) who keep us very busy. Caria is a veterinarian and owns her own practice. As you can imagine, we have our fair share of pets including three cats and one dog. My parents still live in tiie same house in Annapolis that many Classmates visited while we were in school. Since Annapolis is just 80 miles away, we're able to get there often to see diem and make time to attend Navy tailgate parties (I've been to more of tiiose than football Shipmate, November 2000

games) and catch up with area Classmates.

Last year's 15th Reunion was amazing as I saw many of my 36th Company friends, many of whom I hadn't seen since graduation, particularly Joey Wiestroffer. We spent four years at 21412 as roommates and somehow lost contact. It was great to get caught up and to bring him over to Mom Andrews' home for another home cooked meal.

As our children get older, Caiia and I will be attending more home games, although 1 suspect we'll continue to spend more time at the tailgates than at the games!

I also received word from John Jordan about the recent change of command ceremony for Adam Levitt held in sunny San Diego which was mentioned in the previous column. John attended, along with other 35th Co. cronies Bill Kumangai and Adam Levitt (duh!). Jack Lerchbacker and Brian Caraveo also attended.

Remember folks, whenever you get the idea to send me a photograph electronically, it is a good idea to check the specifications for such submittals in Shipmate. (Ed. Note: Digital photo specs are also on the Web, www.usna.coni/news_pubs/publications/shipmate.) I was unable to use some good photos this month, which came in on the deadline date, but were not in spec.

I hope everyone has a chance to meet up at the Army-Navy game in Baltimore. We should have directions to the tailgate posted on the Web page in time for that big event (also check below). Until the next column or tailgater—Ya'll take care and I'll see ya' later.

Driving Directions To St. Jerome's Catholic Church (775 W Hamburg St. Baltimore, MD) From Washington National Airport (DCA), about 1 hour travel time.

1. Start out going South on ABINGDON DR towards VA-233 by tuming left 2. Tum SLIGHT LEFT onto VA-233 3. Tum SLIGHT RIGHT 4. Tum SLIGHT RIGHT onto AIRPORT EXIT 5. Tum SLIGHT RIGHT onto TERMINALS 6. Take the ramp toward WASHn^GTON(I-395) 0.1 7. Merge onto GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL PKWY/GW PKWY 1.7 8. Take the 1-395 NORTH/US-1 NORTH exit toward WASHINGTON 0.1 9. Merge onto 1-395 N/US-1 N 0.5 10. Take the 1-395 NORTH exU 0.1 11. Merge onto 1-395 N 0.9 12. Take the 1-295 SOUTH exit on flie left 0.1 13. Merge onto 1-295 S 1.1 14. Take the PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE exit on the left 0.1 15. Merge onto SOUTHEAST FRWY 0.7 16. Take the PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE exit 0.3 17. Merge onto PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE 0.4 18. Tum LEFT onto FAIRLAWN AVE SE 0.0 19. Tum SLIGHT LEFT to take the DC-295 NORTH ramp 0.2 20. Merge onto DC-295 N 9.5 21. Take the 1-95 NORTH/I-495 NORTH exit toward BALTIMORE/COLLEGE PARK. 0.3 22. Merge onto CAPITAL BELTWAY/I-495N/I-95N 4.0 23. Take 1-95 N towards BALTIMORE 0.2 24. Take 1-95 N towards BALTIMORE 0.5 25. Merge onto 1-95 N 23.8 26. Take the WASHINGTON BLVD exit 0.2 27. Keep LEFT at the fork in the ramp 0.1 28. Turn LEFT onto WASHINGTON BLVD 1.4 29. Turn RIGHT onto SCOTT ST 0.2 30. Tum LEFT onto W HAMBURG ST 0.0

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From Philadelphia, about 2 hours travel time.

1. Start out going West on INDUSTRIAL HWY/PA291 W towards AIRPORT EXIT by turning RIGHT 1.3 2. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT 0.0 3. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto BARTRAM AVE0.6 4. Take the 1-95 SOUTH ramp 0.6 5. Merge onto 1-95 S 7.7 6. 1-95 S becomes 1-95 S/US-322 W 0.7 7. Stay straight to go onto 1-95 S 2.8 8. Take the 1-495 SOUTH exU 0.2 9. Merge onto VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL HWY/I-495 S 7.0 10. Stay straight to go onto 1-495 S 4.4 11. Take 1-95 S (Portions toll) 68.4 12. Take the 1-395 NORTH exit 0.3 13. Merge onto 1-395 N 0.4 14. Take the MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BLVD/ RUSSELL ST exit 0.3 15. Merge onto MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD 0.1 16. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD becomes MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD 0.4 17. Tum LEFT onto WASHINGTON BLVD O.I 18. Turn LEFT onto SCOTT ST 0.2 19. Turn LEFT onto W HAMBURG ST 0.0

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Pres: Joel Hanson e: hansonjr@erols.com Sec'y: Mike Casey 10201 Lee Highway, Suite 300, Fairfax, VA 22030 w: 703-691-7768; e: news@usna85.org "It makes me shudder to think that 1 graduated from college thirty years ago and how doddering and venerable the thirtieth reunion class looked to me then." —Adlai E. Stevenson, 8 October 1952 Well, by the time you read this, our Reunion will have entered the pages of history to join Adlai Stevenson (and, presumably, the majority of his Princeton class). I hope you were able to attend— if you did, it would really help plan future Reunions if you could drop me a line with your thoughts on it—the good and the bad. Again, I think we owe a lot of gratitude to Tina Higgins, Paul Rosmilso, Troy Stoner, Pat McPherson, and the rest of Team Reunion for their hard work. Thanks also to Pete Martino for opening up his house on Friday for us to come in and basically trash the place (remember, I'm forecasting this from the beginning of September, so I don't really know what happened at Pete's).

And Now The News Okay, I guess I should pack some news into this column—for some reason, there seems to be a ton of it this month. First off, there's a great letter from Don Alberto, who wrote in from the Joint Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, VA. Don is completing the first year of a joint tour down in the land of she-crabs and Naval Gunfire, and hopes to be at JWAC for the next two years. He says, "I can't imagine a better joint job—JWAC has a great reputation among the warfighting CinCs, yet it is just far enough from D.C. to remain clear of the frag pattern of the Pentagon, so the quality of life is very good." Don and his wife, Joanie, are berthed in Fredericksburg along with children, Emily (10) and John (8). Don also ran into Andy Lewis, who's finishing up a successful tour at JWAC. According to Don, Andy, his wife, Mary, and their four kids are headed off to Virginia Beach for his command tour in an F/A-18 squadron.

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Eric Quinn wrote in recentiy to tell us that "life in Tampa is good." Eric is still in the consumer products business, but has moved into a new role responsible for e-commerce initiatives. This, by the way, is becoming a recurring theme in letters to Your Faithful Secretary—typically followed by several paragraphs of "B2B market space," "mezzanine financing," and "record post-IPO pop." In Eric's case, fortunately, he keeps it simple: We are forming a spin-off Intemet company; we're in the business planning stage right now, we have initial funding and are very confident we'll be able to secure our second round to get operations going. This is pretty exciting stuff.

Eric thinks he'll be responsible for sales and marketing for the new company, which involves more ttavel than usual, but "so far it's been worth it. Time will tell." Eric has been in touch with Rich Brown, Dan Derbes, and Mark Andreas recentiy. According to Eric (and I'm tempted to agree). Rich will be an adnural before we're 40.

But wait, there's more! Mark Andreas also wrote in that things are going just fine out in Japan; he has one more year to go there and then will probably be looking for duty back in the D.C-Annapolis-Pax River area. Mark is working Political-Military Affairs for SEVENTH Fleet, where he's mn into Julie and Greg Garcia, who are getting ready to leave Japan soon. Mark also heard that Mark Weber was working on one of the ships down in Sasebo, but Mark hasn't been able to get in touch with him.

Steven McAllister also dropped me a line this month. Currently he's living in southem New Jersey with wife, Tina, and their three children, Stephanie, Steven and Sean. Steve left active duty in '93 and has toiled away in a Reserve unit (HSL94) since then. In August, Steve retumed from Costa Rica where he'd been assigned to MORRISON ( F F G 13) for a while in the Pacific, doing counter dmg ops. Steve's Reserve helo squadron is just wrapping up a six-month deployment onboard MORRISON. Also in HSL-94 is Don Seivy, Greg Adams and Wade Burchell. The squadron is going to disestablish within a year and it looks now that Steve will be able to retfre when it closes. As Steve says, "I certainly have no complaints since it will be about 16 years and every job I have had in the Navy has been in the cockpit: H-3s, H-60s and H-2s." Outside of the Navy, Tina and Steve are self-employed for the most part and keep busy with the kids and their dog (Baron, a German shorthair pointer).

I recentiy got a note from Jim Ward in Charlotte, NC. Jim has one of those thrilling but vague job tities—Group Manager for Premier & Alliance Support—that software companies (in this case, Microsoft) are always coming up with. When I queried him on it, he responded.

Unlike a pilot or accountant, I have one of those jobs that take a littie bit of explanation. Premier & Alliance Support is the operational component of Microsoft's suite of enterprise service offerings for large organizations. We provide architecture and planning services, proactive/preventative support, and reactive technical support (to include hot fixes and on-site troubleshooting). We take over account relationships after the initial software sale is complete. Our focus is on high availability of the IT infrastracture, but we also provide services for software developers. Anyway, the Group Managers have general management responsibility (personnel, revenue, operations, budget, etc.) for the Premier & Alliance Support business for a particular group of customers. I cmrently have Federal customers worldwide and commercial customers based from Virginia to New York. It was simpler when I could just say I was a Marine!

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Jim says that about half his group is former miliYou guessed it. I am a trial attorney in Bath/ tary. Jim says home life is great, but "I could alPortland, ME. The Navy connection remains conways use more time for family." Jim married in stant, though, as most of my work is as outside counsel for Bath Iron Works. If any of our ClassNovember '88 and the Wards now have four chilmates find themselves attached to a PCU for one dren (ages 9, 7, 5, and 2). of the DDGs or the new LPD we're building they Sean Logan wrote in to find out what's going on should look me up. My office is literally across with the Reunion, and my "delurker" trick nailed the street from "the yard." We're also just up the him (for details, email me. Heh, heh, heh.) Sean road from Branswick NAS for the VP commuleft the service in late 1990 and went to law school. nity. I work out at the base in the moming and Now why would a motivated young Marine officer still get my fair share of Navy every day in spite do something like this, you ask? Well, it tums out of the starched shirt and tie. I also drill as a JAG, that the Marine Corps took an interesting approach but transitioned to JAGC before the TV show. I to retention in Sean's case: handle mostiy employment and business law isFirst I was stationed at 29 Palms, CA, for three sues, but generally handle anything that may end years (a friend described it best, saying he felt as up in court. Since Bath is a small city, I also do a if at any moment a big cat was going to come by fair amount of general practice work. and push sand over him). A brilliant tour of duty Rick Johnson, another legal type, sent in an upfor a fresh ocean engineer graduate. Then I was date to the Class database—I noticed in his update invited to spend the next year unaccompanied in that he was a deputy attomey general for Vermont.

Okinawa. Not a winning sales pitch for a married When I asked if this was a job or a ceremonial poyoung executive of a company. There are, of sition, he replied, course, many reasons for deciding to leave the I work for a living. I'm heading to court on military, but these are the fun ones to tell. I served, Monday for a huge trial that will take up to a month of course, at the pleasure of the Corps. to finish. The ACLU, Right to Life, and the ReSean was married in 1986 and the Logans have publican Party are all suing the state conceming "the two cutest, most intelligent, daughters in the Vermont's new campaignfinancereform laws. By world, ages five and three." Sean's company is a the way, "Edney" was easy to remember but for consulting firm—a collection of attomeys and acthe life of me I could not remember "Butler" Had countants who do business law focusing on insolto get the gouge from Mike Lester. vencies. Sean is a bankruptcy tmstee in Baltimore So if you're ever on the wrong side of the law in and does nearly all the bankruptcy cases on the Vermont—cheese stealing, maple-symp defamaEastem Shore. Sean says, "Since I'm paid a pertion, what have you—expect to find Rick Johnson centage of the assets I tum into cash and distribute, playing the "Law" part of "Law & Order."

I'm waiting for Purdue [the chicken company, not Kathy McCartan Wins "Charles Osgood the university] to go under—it won't happen."

Traveling Reporter Award" Clay Hull also wrote in. The last time I ran into Kathy McCartan wrote in to express "a huge Clay, he and I were both looking for "getting-outamount of sympathy for Navy and corporate wives" of-the-Navy" suits in the same Britches store in based on all her household moves in the last few Rosslyn. Well, it tums out the Hull family is very years. It seems that husband, Pete, decided to get busy. Sang-Ju gave birth to their third son, into gas turbine power plant constmction back in Gregory, in last August. He joins Benjamin (8) and 1998. So Kathy and Pete left Oriando and spent 13 Nathan (6). At this point it seems tiiat the Hulls are months sweltering outside Las Vegas. Kathy enconstantiy on the go; the kids are either on their joyed a part-time job at the community college, way to or from school, Tae Kwon Do, swimming, where she developed a curriculum for non-Englishsoccer, or who knows what else. Clay regularly mns speaking immigrants to leam communications skiUs into Lee Clay doing Reserve stuff at the Office of for work in (what else) the hotel industry. Kathy Naval Intelligence, and he's joined Kurt Menke says, "It was very rewarding—especially when I for a beer every six months or so. Steve Mooradian saw 90 percent of the students get hired!" called Clay recently to tell him that he'd be movSince then, Kathy and Pete have lived in College ing up to Pennsylvania soon, so Clay's hoping to Station, TX, a.k.a. "the home of tiie Aggies." Kathy get together with him. took a great trip to Guatemala in Febmary to conRich Dezelon ("Diesel" to his friends, and, at least tinue her Spanish studies, and kept busy as a volonce, to Salty Sam) also dropped me a line, trying to unteer tax assistant during tax season. Since Pete get into the Web site. Rich told me that in Febmary was supposed to be in College Station for "only he rejoined the Arbifron Company to work on a new three months," Kathy didn't even bother getting a service for obtaining radio and television ratings. job—tums out to be a wise decision, since they've Rich had worked for them for them previously in since pulled up stakes to resettle in Boston where tiieir old TV ratings division. When that business was they expect to be for the next couple of years. eUminated, Rich stmck out on a new endeavor and Kathy's looking forward to rejoining the workforce worked in the world of retail and restaurant multi- in the Boston area. Pete also went to Califomia at unit management and franchise consulting. It was a the end of May and saw a few Academy friends. wild ride that took Rich and wife, Stacey, to various "While in San Diego," Kathy says, "we got toexotic locations including Pittsburgh, Lexington, KY, gether witii Lucinda (McKinney) Giertz and her and Ann Arbor, MI. As Rich says: husband, Andy. I enjoyed their wedding last year— they had a cool reception at a small winery outside The last count had us moving 11timesin the Solvang, CA. Very fun! She and Andy are both ten years since we've been married. For a while United pilots and have just purchased a house in our families were convinced that we were in the Encinitas." witness relocation program. Needless to say, we're In Northern California, Kathy visited Susan thrilled to be back in the Annapolis area.

Wells who is the ranking Naval officer at Travis The Footer Speaks: Lawyers and their email Jeff Peters recently sent me a quick email to ask Air Force Base—she's tiie OinC of the VQ-3 dehow to get into the Web site—a relatively normal tachment there. Susan recentiy made a big Virginiarequest. In Jeff's case, though, the email "footer" Maryland trip and took tiie Wyoming Mids at Anwas full of threatening "herein's" and napolis out to lunch. (How come no one ever did "theretos"...putting two and two together, I asked this for me? Oh, wait—I'm not from Wyoming.) if he was actually (gasp) a lawyer these days, to which he replied: Shipmate, November 2000

Susan also visited Stephanie and Victor Leung.

Victor is a beltway bandit and Stephanie is still in the Navy. They have two beautiful daughters.

Katiiy also reported on Dave Price who, with wife, Susan, and their two boys, moved to Newport in July. Dave has been in class at the War College since early August. KaUiy also visited Lisa and Lou Cedrone in Cincinnati, a couple of Army-Navy games ago. They have two cute girls; Sara who looks Uke Lou (dark), and Jessica, who looks like Lisa (fair). Lisa says most people cannot beUeve that they are both her kids.

In other news (still from Kathy), Tom Adams has left the Navy and recently took a job as a Beltway bandit doing some kind of systems (engineering?) work. Hey, what a noble profession! And I say that as someone who'd know.

Finally, Kathy reports that Rich Rutkowski has recentiy been stationed in Naples. Kathy says, "I have no idea what his job is there—I'm pretty out of touch with the real Navy, I guess. He and his wife, Jana, now have a daughter and a son."

See how it's done, folks? Now that's an update.

Debbie (Peck) and Greg Brown also wrote in this month from beautiful Maine. Ah, yes...

Vacationland. Land of emerald forests, crystal streams, and angry clouds of bloodsucking flies tiiat physically lift your children off the ground. Well, Debbie wrote that Maine has leapt right into the •70s by starting to install 911 services. As a result, Debbie and Greg's address has changed. ("Why is that?" you may ask. To which I respond: No clue, I'm just reporting this smff.) "But," Debbie says, "that's okay, we like the simple life."

Here's the "highlights reel" version of their life together. The Browns have Uved in Maine since 1987, when both were stationed at NAS Bmnswick: Greg in a VP squadron and Debbie at the ROICC office. They did go "south" for a couple of years after Debbie got out of the Navy in 1990—she felt the call of the legal, so she attended law school at B.U. ("Greg graciously took a recmiting position so I could go to a good school"), but then the Browns retumed to Maine so that Greg could get back to another P-3 squadron. Debbie finished her last year as a visiting student at University Maine School of Law. Over the years, Greg and Debbie have produced four "gorgeous and wonderftil" kids, currently (as of June 2000) ages 10, 7.5, 4.5, and 3—all but the last have Greg's red hair. When he's not busy doing the dad thing, Greg now flies the 757/767 for UPS intemationally, mostly in the Far East but often to Europe, too. Apparently, life is good: Greg enjoys the intemational flying and has been to some pretty exotic places. He's also very active in VP-92, the P-3 reserve squadron in Bmnswick. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Debbie lives the wild life of mother and lawyer. Her law practice is in Portland and largely focuses on constraction law. Debbie mostly does trial work (representing contractors or owners in their disputes against one another), but Debbie also drafts and reviews contracts to try to prevent disputes (hey, I bet the other lawyers aren't too happy about this concept). Debbie just left the largest law firm north of Boston and went across town to a cozy, laid back frnn of nine lawyers—weU, that's how she put it, anyway. I can't imagine nine laid-back lawyers, but maybe that's just me. For anyone passing through Maine, Greg and Debbie always welcome visitors.

Debbie says, "We've mn out of travel brochures, but for anyone interested in year round outdoor sports, this is the place to be." (For my comments.

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please see "Vacationland.") In the winters, the Browns pack up and drive a couple of hours north to ski at Sugarloaf. The summer finds them water skiing and drinking beer while lounging on the dock (their back yard and playground is a lake). "So in a nutshell, we're workin' hard, playin' hard (bavin' a wicked good time!), and never have a dull moment!"

Mike Siewertsen, a fellow former Nuke, wrote from the glowing Nuclear Valhalla that is.. .Calvert Cliffs. He sent me email to gain Web site access, and I responded with a totally hilarious gag about the reactor plant control panel. I can't remember the whole thing, but the punchline was "Pressurizer level is increasing, not decreasing!" Oh, man— nothing says "funny" like nuclear humor.

Mike is working at said powerplant, but is not a "panel jockey" yet. Mike's in systems engineering, watching over the maintenance, trending, and modification of the reactor systems. Sonny Dean is at Calvert Cliffs, and has just qualified to stand watch.

Chuck Merritt is still there also; he's working with the finance folks to figure out strategies for long term investment on site. Chuck's particularly busy right now due to electrical deregulation. "So-o-o," Mike says, "I don't think he has gotten a millirem in years."

Speaking of career trajectories, Jeff Sigler's has been highly unusual. As reported recently in The Washington Post (yes, that's right. The Washington Post), Jeff has moved from NFO to... artist? Well, I guess no transition from the Navy to civilian life is easy, but this is quite a leap. According to the Post article, Jeff founded AUes Designs in 1993, a company that combines his interests in lighting, craftsmanship, photography and art. "Originally, it was going to be Allen Designs, for my middle name," he said, "but at the last minute, I dropped the N from Allen and added the S from Sigler and realized that made a word in German—which means everything—and that's what I do." His lamps, especially the tabletop torchieres that are his specialty, have been seen in juried fumiture shows in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Providence, RI. Back in August, Jeff's work became available through a startup online vendor called Artfulstyle.com, which launched a Web site showing more than 1,000 pieces from paintings and pottery to studio fumiture and crafts. Jeff's signature item is a set of really cool lampshades made from formed birch plywood. If you check out the Web site, you'll see some excellent pictures of his work—it's a long way from preflight checklists.

Well that's a wrap. Next time you read this column, you'll be shopping for Christmas presents... Mike

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For those of you that lay awake at night dreaming about such things, NAF Sigonella, Sicily, is alive and well; as is Rota, Souda Bay, and all parts in between. In the last 17 days our aircraft and crew hauled everything from ComSixthFlt to hand grenades. We landed in such garden spots as Malta, Romania, Turkey, Gibraltar, Israel, Ireland, England and Spain. It was a busy and rewarding period of annual training. For my squadron, VR-59, the Lone Star Express out of Fort Worth, TX, it marked the last Med Det in our aging C-9B Skytrains. Just yesterday, the new C-40 Clipper was rolled out of the Boeing factory, marking a new era (and a new opportunity for a type rating) in the Naval Air Reserve. This aircraft, modeled on the Boeing 737700, is a long overdue replacement to the 30-year-old C-9s. VR-59 is slated to be the first squadron to fly the C-40 with an expected delivery date in early spring 2001.

Now on with the show. First and foremost on our Class radar is the fundraising progress on our Class gift. Bob Hofford '61 of the Alumni Association reports that as of 8 September, our phon-a-thon has yielded: 289 decisions with 198 pledges for $180,250. That equates to a 69% participation rate.

At this point, Mn Hofford is close to having attempted to reach our entire Class. If you haven't been contacted by the time you read this, please email me at the address in the Class news header and I will put you and Mr. Hofford in contact with each other. We're off to a great start. Let's keep up the generous giving.

Another of our major Class projects is our Class Web page. J. Eric Smith has spent a great deal of time making it a polished product and I think you will be impressed with the result. To show you the value in such a Class tool, Annapolis area hotel reservation links will be available for booking homecoming rooms. Also in the works are links for Navy sports results and local Annapolis weather. We would like to make sure that your current email and address information is in our files. Please send me a quick email with your name, company, address, phone number and email address. We would like to have it for our Class records, and with your permission, to include it on our Web page so that other Classmates can use it for a locator. No, we won't sell your address to Amway or Publisher's Clearing House, though now that I think about it, that wouldn't be a bad idea. Take a moment to visit www.usna86.org and check out the latest Class news.

Here are a few bits and pieces from the Class Mail Chest: Wilbur Jones sent a brief note. He reported that J.P. Heatherington has screened for command. The an119

nouncement was made in June. J.P. is deployed as XO of WYOMING. WUbur and the rest of oiu' Class would Uke to pass on our congratulations, J.P. WeU done!

I received a wire service copy noting that Tim Allen has started an online yacht supply company.

The piece was published in the VENTURE National Post on 12 August.

Also received was a quick update from Linda and Chris Orwoll (4536 Del Mar Ave., San Diego, CA 92107; OrwoUC@msn.com). They have moved and wanted to update their home and email address.

They have settled here in San Diego and Chris is off at PXO School in Kings Bay for two months.

Now on to the greatest Class news we could ever read: It is my pleasure to report a new member of the '86 family. Erin and Dan Beldy have welcomed Palmer Beldy to the world. Palmer was bom 3 August 2000 at 10:37 a.m. weighing in at a respectable 7 pounds, 10 ounces. Erin and Palmer are doing fine, and Dan is thinking of creative ways to nap. Nothing like those 3:00 a.m. feedings to make you appreciate what you missed while you were on cmise.

The next part of our Class news will be an eye opener if you haven't seen it before. This list comes from the staff of Beloit College in Wisconsin. Each year they compile the facts that follow to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of that year's incoming freshmen. Here is this year's list: The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were bom in 1983. (Yes, we were climbing Hemdon.) They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era and probably do not know he had ever been shot. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.

Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression. (That was the day that several of us were bombardingfranianoil platforms as part of Operation Nimble Archer.) They have only known one Pope. They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War. They have never feared a nuclear war. They are too young to remember the space shuttie blowing up. Tianamen Square means nothing to them. Their lifetime has always included AIDS. Bottie caps have always been screw off and plastic. Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.

The expression, "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them. They have never owned a record player. They have likely never played Pac Man and never heard of Pong. They may have never heard of an eight-track. CD's were introduced when they were one year old. As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33 cents.

They have always had an answering machine.

Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black-and-white TV. They have always had cable TV. There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA was. They cannot fathom not having a remote control. They were bom the year that the Sony Walkman was introduced. Roller-skating has always meant inline for them. Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show. They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool. Popcom has always been cooked in the microwave.

They have never seen Larry Bird play (that hurts!).

They never took a swim and thought about "Jaws."

The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as Worid War I, Worid War II, and the Civil War. They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran. They can't imagine what hard contact lenses were. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. They never heard; "Where's the beef?" "I'd walked a mile for a Camel," or "De plane, de plane!" They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. was. The Titanic was found? They thought we always knew where it was. (This one made me feel real old) Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not groups. There has always been MTV.

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'87: The Gordon family with Jamie and Tom Doman That list sure reminds us all of our mortality.

I can remember gathering at my sponsor, CAPT (later ADM) Kent Riffey '61's house on Plebe Sunday afternoons with Scott Franklin, Joe Wallis, Tim McGarvey and other infamous members of Good Times Ten. We would debate the latest Thompson Twin and David Bowie videos; contemplate the social ramifications of Martha Quinn's latest hairstyle and debate whether or not this obscure cable program known as MTV would last the year. It's funny how something that billed itself as so anti-establishment is now quite the opposite. I would have won a million dollars if I had bet that Tom Jones and Tony Bennett would someday be seen on its play list.

Somewhere in the attic I have a picture of a motley group of First Classmen on spring break. This disheveled group included Kirt Kranker, Merrick Van Dongen, Dan Beldy, and Mark McVay. Standing within our midst was none other than MTV VJ Martha Quinn. She had the bad fortune to have a seat assignment in the middle of our group on a People's Express flight to Denver It was on that flight that we leamed that BYOB was highly discouraged by the FAA. From Denver we hopped in the Kranker family's Winnebago and headed up to Steamboat for a week of skiing after the obUgatory stop at the Coor's tasting room in Golden, CO. We asked Martha if she wanted to come along, but she politely declined. She missed a great week.

Enough reminiscing. Have a wonderful fall. Root for Navy Football every Saturday. And please give generously to our Class gift. Pablo Audemus Esse Magnos

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Pres/Sec'y: Tim Wolf 11409 Rouen Drive, Potomac, MD 20854 h: 703-271-0907; e: shipmate87@aol.com Class Web site: http://usna87.com Washington, D.C. Greetings all! Thanks for the many replies and comments regarding Alumni and Class activities this year. It has been great to hear the goings-on from around the globe.

Let's start this month's news: Lael (House) Wojcik '90 and Doug Wojcik are new parents. Son Paxson was bom on 8 August.

The Wojciks are living in Chapel Hill, NC. Kristen and John Loesch welcomed son John "Jack" William to the family on 15 August. Jack has an older sister, Kelsey. John is an attomey at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

John O'Boyle is living in Dupont, WA. David and Diana (Farraday) Foster live in the Virginia Beach area. They have a son, Michael, and were expecting their second child last month.

Ron Prass is a patent attorney working for Kenyon and Kenyon in Washington, D.C. Reuben Hart and Tom Hubbard work for Advertising.com. Tom works and Uves in the SUicon Valley area. Reuben is in the East, working in the Columbia, MD, office.

Dan "Spike" Snyder (26tii Co.) emailed a note from San Diego. Spike is a Major in the Marine Corps and he works at SpaWar. Vanessa and Ruben Soto, with sons Jason and Gabriel, live in Oklahoma City, where Ruben works for General Motors. Erika and Steve Otto live in Coronado. Steve is an attomey in San Diego. Kristin and "Ty Keith trekked to Coronado from Arlington, VA, over the 4th of July holiday period. They have three children: Colleen, Brian, and Molly. Ty works for Xpedior in Arlington.

Chris Newcomb was awarded a scholarship to the Naval Postgraduate School's master's of science in product development program. Chris works for SpaWar in San Diego.

Walt Sechriest has accepted a position with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP in their Dallas office.

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He will serve with P W C ' s Assurance and Business Advisory Services line. Tania and Walt live in Jackson, M S .

In September, David M. Robinson was recognized for his role as an ambassador for basketball and the close bond between sports and the military by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Dave was awarded the society's Patriot Award. More than 100 of tiie nation's 151 surviving Medal of Honor recipients were expected to attend the society's annual convention.

Debbie and Andy Gordon sent in the picture on the previous page. The Gordons are shown with Jamie and Tom Doman.

Don't forget that the Army-Navy game is at noon on 2 December in Baltimore. If you are attending, please get in touch (email is the preferred method) so we can coordinate some type of Class gathering.

Last, in late August, I was informed that Dave Hemela is receiving treatment for a very serious medical condition in Miami, FL. Dave resides in West Palm Beach. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

The Alumni Association is looking for John G. Pinnata. If you know where he is, please have him contact M s . T i m o t h y E l i z a b e t h W o o d b u r y (timothy.woodbury@usna.com; 410-263-4448 x l 12).

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Pres: Ingar Grev 2721 Summers Ridge Drive Odenton,MD 21113-1589 h: 410-695-0747; w: 703-872-4027; f: 419-8187319; e: igrev@bwwonline.net Corr. Sec'y: Margaret R a y b u m 605 S. Oakland St., St. Johns, MI 48879 h: 517-227-2503; f: 425-871-2697 e: mlmr89@hotmail.com or mlrl@aol.com Listserv: USNA89@mde.com Listserv subscription: send email to usna89-request@mde.com, in body of message write: subscribe Webmaster: Tony Newpower e: newps@sprintmail.com Class Web site: www.usna89.org Happy Thanksgiving! Lots of updates to report this month, so I'll get right to them...received an email update from Mete Uz, Stephanie (Schollaert) Uz's husband, announcing the birth of their first child on 31 July 2000: Hi everybody, In case you were thinking long time no see, here is what is keeping us busy these days: Andrew Yunus Uz, bom 31 July 2000,6 pounds, 12 ounces, 20.25 inches.

And a short time later, I received the full update from Steph: In addition to being new parents of Andrew Yunus Uz (Yunus is a Turkish boy's name which

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Next up is an update I received from Mark Autry (Mark.A.Autry@intel.com; 253-371-5648): I have been out of touch. I have been working for Intel Corporation since I left the Navy in July of 1994. Curtenriy I am married to the beautiful Adela (formerly Canja) Autry, three words—God blessed me! 1 am working to enable IA-64 systems as a BIOS engineer in Intel's Workstation Product Division, and any academy EE's, CS's, ME's or other engineers out there who would like to see what Intel can offer, send me your resume, experience or not, I know some managers who specifically like Academy Grads for their no excuse, results, get-it-done attitude! Yes, I'm writing to recruit some '89ers to Intel, no crime in this I hope. No promises either, but the sky is the limit! I have leamed that while my eyesight has prevented me from accomplishing some of my goals and dreams in the Navy, that being a USNA Alumni has enabled me to have friends who accomplished those same goals, go, go, go Maj Dwight Neeley! I love to watch you fly! I have tremendous admiration for all my Plebe Year roommates who are incredible successes in their own right and am proud to have shared the year with them!

Take Care and God Bless you all!

Thanks for the update, Mark. I received the following news, picture and wedding announcement from David Nosal (noz55@hotmail.com): For my fellow Classmates in the mighty bachelor pool for 33rd Company, I must announce my fall. I happily announce that I am engaged to Fuki Tsujikawa of Sasebo, Japan, wedding date is set for 17 December Wedding is open to any more '89ers who want to celebrate with us—please contact me soon.

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also means "dolphin"). Mete and I are oceanographers at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett, RI. I'm still a Reserve METOC officer, assigned to the Maritime Battle Center at the Navy Warfare Development Command in Newport, RI. Classmates I've talked to recently: Shaun Flanagan got out of the Navy two years ago and has been working out of Boston representing his company (formerly GTE) with international sales...now he is in the process of moving to Milan, Italy, to represent the company there. Brian Caldwell just got out of the Navy and was looking for a job in the Baltimore area.

He and his wife Rosalia had a baby named Vincent in November 1999 and are expecting another baby this winter. Randy Alexander is on CHANCELLORSVILLE and enjoyed a port visit to China this summer, although last I heard from him his ship was attempting to evade multiple typhoons in the Yellow Sea. Thanks for the update as promised, Steph! Congratulations, and welcome to the Class, Andrew.

Mete and Stephanie Uz with new addition Andrew More happy news that yet another handsome littie devil has joined the Class as Jason and J e a n i n e (Noser) Ehret sent in this update (well, actuaUy I guess the update is from the little junior SEAL himself— quite the accomplished typist already, I must say!): Hello everyone!

Yes, I finally decided to join this busy world.

OK, I was a little tardy—almost two weeks, but hey, r m my mother's son—I stUl had some primping to do.

I was born on 12 August 2000 just after midnight...or 0024 to all you military types. I weighed in at a svelte 6 pounds, 15 ounces and am a whopping 21 inches long. I have strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes (so far), and a very active set of lungs! My favorite activity is serenading my parents and our neighbors at 2:00 a.m. (Rock on, Man!) Everyone's glad to have me around—especially the grandparents! Of course the pooches, Java and Jazz, aren't so excited as they realize they are now one rang lower on the old totem pole.

XXOOXXX, Big Jake (or more formally Jacob Joseph Gerald Ehret) Congratulations, Jeanine and Jason, and welcome, Jacob—I'm sure he was worth the wait! Can't wait to meet my new God-son! We'll be anxiously awaiting a picture from the Ehret family.

Next, I received a short update from Dave Klain with some news: Quick update. Just selected as a Navy Legislative Fellow for 2001. Will move to D.C. the first week of September and, following the November elections, be assigned to a member of Congress as a member of their personal staff. Kim and I are moving back to our home in D.C. and look forward to getting in touch with Classmates.

Thanks, Dave—Congrats on your fellowship!

Fuki Tsujikawa and David Nosal Good luck on your upcoming nuptials, David, congratulations! Via Gerry Schaefer and the Class listserve, I received the following update from Jeff Tomlin and thought I'd throw it in for good measure: Hello to all, just a note to catch up on recent events in the Tomlin family adventure. I have started my residency in neurosurgery at the University of Rochester, where I will be spending the next six years. So far I am adjusting to the civilian hospital routine fairly well, and ironically, my PCS orders assign me to the ROTC unit. Residency has many parallels to the boat, in that duty is 1:3, hours are similar, and there is always some little fire to put out.

Our family has grown to three munchkins, Margaret (8), Fiona (6) and Charles (almost terrible two). They are spending the summer with Eileen's parents in Waterford, CT, while I get a foothold in the Rochester area.

Hope all of you are well, for now my data is; Jeffrey M. Tomlin, M.D., University of Rochester, Dept. of Neurosurgery, 601 Elmwood Ave., Box 670, Rochester, NY 14642-8670; 716-275-9160 Thanks, Jeff—good luck on your residency! Next up, an email and photo from Jim Rich (14th Co.) (lijimbo@hotmail.com): I'm answering your call for article info. Unfortunately I do not have any info on other Classmates, but since I haven't sent anything on myself, I figured it was about time.

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I am out of the service and have been since '92.

I went to work for Chase Manhattan Bank in 1993 and ended up in an office romance that led to my marrying my wife, Maria, on 9 September 1995.1 have been working as the systems manager for the American Association of Advertising Agencies (a.k.a. AAAA, said four A's) in New York City since 4 March 1996.

We moved to Old Bridge. NJ, on New Year's Eve 1997 and on 25 April 1999 we were blessed with our son, James Eric Jr., and he has kept us on our toes ever since. As I am writing this, he is playing his little xylophone on my lap.

Jim also passed along a photo of himself and the little guy as well as the address for his homepage at www.hoflink.com/~jrich, where you can check out some more family photos by clicking on the "photo album" link.

Jim Rich with Jim Jr. Next, I h e a r d from N o r w i n and S t e p h a n i e

(Rhoades) Fischer: Since my wife and I have never reaUy had any input to our '89 column in Shipmate, I thought I'd drop you a few lines. I, Norwin R. Fischer ("Fish", 7th. Co., '89) married the former Stephanie M. Rhoades (I8th. Co., '89) on 9 January 1993. We are both Supply Corps officers with Stephanie being stationed at the Navy Fitting Out and Supply Support Assistance Center, or FOSSAC, here in Norfolk, and me at the Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC, ARMY) here in Ft. Eustis, VA. We had a son, Kyle Christopher, on 29 May 1999. He was bora at 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 19.5 inches. We are both still currentiy in, but are looking forward to transferring to civilian life at the end of this year in Raleigh, NC, to be closer to family and to get some real jobs while the job market is still hot.

Thanks, Fish and Stephanie. It's great to hear from Classmates that haven't updated us in a while!

Lastly, I received this update from our Class Prez, Ingar Grev (igrev@bwwonline.net): Classmates: On behalf of the Class Officers and the Steering Committee, I would like to announce the creation of the following committees, along with unofficial high-level descriptions; 1) Projects Committee; essentially, develops plans for interacting with Class members, USNA, the Alumni Association, and other external groups through Class projects and volunteerism.

2) Financial Committee; supports the Treasurer in Class financial matters.

3) Communications Committee; improves Class communications.

4) Social Committee; supports Class social activities, e.g. tailgaters.

The steering committee will provide guidance and propose some goals for each of die committees.

In the meantime, we need volunteers to staff the committees. You do not need to be local, and you don't need to spend a great deal of time. Give what time you can, and if we get enough people willing to lend a hand, no one will be overbur122

dened. Please email me and let me know on which committee you would like to serve.

As a final note, many thanks to Margaret Raybum for all her work with Shipmate and Tony Newpower for his work as our Webmaster. We are traly blessed to have their services!

Thanks for your time!

Ok. I guess that will wrap it up for November.

Take care, and keep the updates coming! Till next time, MLMR

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Pres: Capt Robert B. Sofge, U S M C Sec'y: Eileen H. Laubacher 43 Willowleaf Drive, Littieton, CO 80127 h: 303-904-0806; w: 901-565-2120 e: laubacher3@cs.com Web master: Ron Surfield e: rsurfield@netrail.net Class Web site: www.usna90.org Hi there everybody! So far I have heard wonderful reports from the Class Reunion. It seems that a great time was had by all. That is super to hear. I am looking forward to receiving lots of photographs and emails with details of who was there and what happened. That week did indeed tum out to be a big one for my family. My second daughter, Joanna Maureen was bom on 5 September at 2:57 p.m. Her big sister, Natalie, is excited about the new arrival.

Chris and I are thrilled, and all of us are doing well.

Now on to the Class news. I have two notes for this month. The first is from Jim Forrester: When I last wrote, I was the senior finance analyst at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Orlando. In Febraary, I was asked to move up to become the finance manager for Epcot. The job (role, as they call it down here) is a non-stop challengeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially with Walt Disney World's Millennium Celebration anchored at the park. For those who have not made it down here in a while, please consider coming! As Classmates coalesced for Homecoming, I wanted to let folks know about a few of us that were in Armapolis over Labor Day if you didn't get to see us. John McGrath was there, although he had to leave wife, Kimberly, in Connecticut. John will be leaving NR-1 in November to become the squadron engineer. He and Kimberly will remain happily in Gales Ferry for the duration of the tour. Stacey and Stacey Whitehead were there, sans new sonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Stacey (Scotty).

Stacey is now flying for US Airways out of Charlotte, though he will soon be transitioning to Baltimore. Craig Schwartz flew in from Santa Rosa, CA, where he serves on the city's police force and SWAT team. Unfortunately, Craig was not able to bring wife, Wendy, and son, Ian, with him. Dave Mitchell, wife, Edilma, and son, Isaac also flew in for the event. Dave has moved up the corporate ladder quite rapidly with a large paper manufacturer. Even Allison and Todd Hastie attended from Jacksonville. Todd is a TAR NFO and helps out with a P-3 squadron in Jax. When he's not flying, Todd and Allison keep busy with their two children Katelyn and Ryan. Unfortunately, KForce.com had to keep its newest hot ranning executive, J . C Johnson in Tampa for the event.

J.O.'s, other half, Pam, and their two children, Hendrix and Megan, had to root for Navy over the Internet. Until next time, all the characters down here say Beat Armyl

Next I had a note submitted by Bob Sofge, Wade Reinthaler and John Byington.

'90! Our Ten-Year Reunion was successful and a blast; you'll hear that again many times. About 30%-40% of tiie Class attended, and of tiiat half, about 100 showed up for the Class business meeting; our first in ten years. Bob Sofge, Class President, and Wade Reinthaler, Class Secretary, were present and conducted the meeting. The key reunion committee members, Jonathan SalkofF, Joe Kirby and John Byington were also present. They were the reason for our Reunion's success; we all thank you.

At the meeting, we knocked the rast off the gears of the Class machinery, and laid the groundwork to elect new Class officers and vote Class bylaws into place. Your participation in our Class govemment wiU ensure we continue to function as a Class, and we ask all members to get onUne and vote.

Here is the timeUne of our by-law and voting process; 30 Sep 00; Mail postcards to all members of the Class of '90, announcing election and bylaws vote; addressing how to vote online. (If the Alumni Association does not have your cortect address, you probably will not get this card. Please update your address if necessary.)

Online voting on bylaws begins.

4 Dec 00; Bylaws vote closes; results posted on line. Nomination window for Class officers opens. (Submit onUne, see below.)

1 Jan 00; Nomination for Class officers window closes, online voting begins.

31 Jan 00; Class officer voting window closed.

1 Feb 00; New Class govemment and bylaws in effect.

The election coordinator is John Byington. If you want to nominate someone, email usna90_nominations@yahoo.com Current nominees for elected Class officers are; President; Jonathan Salkoff VP (exec); Dave Streight VP (admin); John Byington Treasurer: Joe Kirby, Daron FuUwood Secretary; Jim Fortester, Alan Reyes The volunteers to fill the non-elected Class officer positions are; Cort. Sec'y; Eileen (Haskins) Laubacher, Carter Honesty Webmaster; Ron Surfield At-Large; Ed Sanville Active Duty Liaison; Jim Hancock/Llew Lewis Fundraising; Chuck Berger Regional VPs; Atianta; Cindy Miller Northwest; Van Emery New York; Steve Amiaga Midwest; Dave Mitchell Rocky Mnts: Mary Kay Wegner Runyan Tidewater, VA: Herb Carmen Jacksonville, FL; Burt Race Texas: Aaron Johnson/Carter Honesty Visit www.USNA90.org and www.Egroups. com (you can link to tiiis from USNA90.ORG) for voting details. If you have contact with Classmates not in the online directories, try to get them plugged in. Be active, and participate in our Class!

Thank you. Wade, Bob and John. I know that we all appreciate all the effort that you and all the members of the reunion committee have gone to. There is also this personal note from Wade Reinthaler, as a Classmate, to the Class of '90: Duane Sand, our Classmate, is ranning for the United States Senate from North Dakota and he has already won the Republican primary. Duane is stiongly pro-military, Navy-Marine, and USNA. If elected, he will have the chance to affect our govemment and lives as a powerful ally for values we share. If you're interested in leanung more about Duane's campaign, see sandforsenate.com.

Thank you all for the input. I am looking forward to lots more notes in future issues. Take care and God bless, Eileen

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Pres: LT Richard Brophy, U S N Sec'y: LT John DeVine, USN 1701 Tyler Green Drive Smyma, GA 30080 e: jcdevine99@aol.com And the winner of this month's best letter award is...Steve Brzostowski! In fact, Steve also takes home the awards for best documentary, best screenplay, and best grammar. Steve (a Marine) won 'em all! Of course, the competition was thin—there was none. But, hey, let's not take away from the letter tiiat any other month would have finished at least in the top half Just kidding. Steve. Yours is tmly quality stuff.

Steve sent his first letter since...well, ever.

Executive summary: Steve is a Marine. He went to TBS. He flies helos. Need to know more? Of course you d o . . .

Steve finished TBS back in '92 or so and married his First-Class Year sweetheart, Tina. From there it was off to Pensacola, and then a year out of MCAS Tustin for CH-53E F R S . and finally off to MCAS New River, NC, where Steve and Tina have been for six years. Steve has been with HMH-464, the Condors, the whole time, though he detted out to HMM-263 for two Med floats. Most importantiy, Steve and Tina have two children—Alexandra (6) and Joseph (2), and a faithful German shepherd, Kacey. Congrats, Steve and Tina!

Steve recentiy retumed from his second deployment to the Med, this one aboard W A S P ( L H D - 1)— a big improvement over his first deployment aboard GUAM (LPH-9)—as part of tiie 24th MEU. Steve includes a picmre of some of the U S N A grads, which we unfortunately could not print due to resolution issues. Richard Tryon '74 (MEU CO), Hugh Story '74 (WASP CO), Steve (QA officer, H M M 263), Pat Everly (deck division officer. WASP), and ToddFinley (golf battery commander, M-198s) are aU pictured. Not pictured because he was "stuck over on one of tiie small boys" is Brett Bourne (Echo C o m p a n y " R a i d e r s " Commander/ AMTRACKS). Steve mentions some liberty in Portugal, France, and Italy during the Med float. Although Steve missed the A R G turnover meeting in Rota, Todd r e p o r t e d l y m e t up w i t h J o h n Bruggeman and Walt Finney who were both with the 26th MEU which relieved the 24th.

Steve mentions having recently spoken with Rob Barry, who is now out at NPS in Monterey. Rob, Suzie, and tiiefr daughter, Alexandra, just welcomed a new baby, Elizabeth, into their family. Steven also notes that Rick Neitzey is now a test pilot at Pax River—he and Dawn now have three children. And lastly, Steven has heard from Bart Bruchock who was headed to the FBI Academy in Quantico, joined by his wife, Ramona.

In the "Where is he n o w ? " category, Steve says, is his old roommate, Sean Jermyn. Last word Steve got from Sean was a cryptic message taped to a chow package sent to Steve aboard GUAM! Steve's best estimate is that Sean is still enjoying his cushy staff liaison j o b in Singapore with his wife, Beth.

Sean, want to fiU us all in?

Thanks, Steve, that's good stuff. Semper fi.

Hold the phone! In a tmly last minute entry, we have a new entrant in this month's competition from the N a v y s i d e of t h e h o u s e — M a t t L a t t i g (mjl@bskb.com) just dropped a line. Due to a fast

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approaching deadline, I'll just include his words verbatim and you can judge the letter's for yourself Hello from the greater Washington, D.C, area.

It has been about five years or so since I last wrote, so thought I'd pass along a little information about those Classmates from our Class that you may not have heard from for awhile. Just recently, we had a Class of '91 Navy Rugby reunion at Denise and Stew Smith's (Stewart.Smith@military.com) house in Sevema Park, MD. Attending were Sandy and Christian "Bono" Bonat, Rachel and Nate Smith, Chris and Joe "Digger" Diguardo and Digger's sister Maria (longtime Navy ragby patron and friend), and finally myself and wife, Heather.

Christian is finishing his time at the Pentagon and getting out. He and Dr Sandy Uve in a beautiful section of Bethesda, and Christian is pursuing a law degree at Georgetown University Law Center. We all should take a moment and wish Christian a speedy recovery, for he just had gall bladder surgery (ouch). Bono still keeps close ties to USNA, as he is on the board of directors of the U.S. Naval Institute as well as on the editorial board of Proceedings.

Nate just left Stuttgart, Germany, where he was Ops NSWU2, and is also getting out to pursue an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Nate and Rachel are the proud parents of four-month-old Nathan Riley Smith, and the three of them will be living in the Hyde Park area of Chitown.

Digger married Chris last year, and they are residing in Bahrain, where Digger is OIC of the EOD DET there. However they will be moving back to the mainland early next year when Digger posts at JSOC Fort Bragg. They wasted no time in preparation, having bought a beautiful home in Southern Pines, NC, right around the corner from Pinehurst. Joe said he'll be moonlighting on the side by ranning golf package trips out of his home.

So book your trips soon.

Stew and Denise have a beautiful daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Stew has been making the most of his time since joining the civilian world. He is a noted author of several books (The Complete Guide to Navy SEAL Fitness, for one), an editor of getfitnow.com, has been seen on television working out Barbara Walters and friends on The View, runs his own gym and private training lessons right around the comer from his house, and owns a merchandise business selling various exercise equipment and clothing. In his spare time, he writes a column for military.com, and is trying to become syndicated. Whew. Further, he is heading up promotions and media in preparation for our Ten-Year Class Reunion, so if you have any ideas, float them his way.

I StiU keep tabs with Van States. He was married last summer to Jean Masar in Boise, ID, under the backdrop of an awesome Big Sky setting.

At the time they had recently bought a house in Phoenix, AZ. At the wedding, the usual suspects abounded: Chris Thomas (a.k.a. CT, Old Man, or other, unprintable pseudonyms), James O'Donnell (OD), Kevin Fisher, Sarah and Matt Maloney, etc. Van is in the real estate business big time with Keller & Williams, and we wouldn't be surprised if he becomes one of ' 9 r s early millionaires. Recentiy, the States picked up stakes and moved to Boise (Jean's hometown), where Van the real estate tycoon is heading up K & W's foray into Idaho.

CT is still in San Diego, playing a lot of golf, and is currently doing consulting work for an engineering firm. Kevin is up in San Jose, CA, I believe in sales. OD is getting heavy on network systems and Intemet infrastructure, but it is hard to pin him down for comment, even though he lives about five minutes down the road from me in Ariington, VA. Matt and Sarah Maloney have a beautiful, old dutch-colonial house in Maplewood, NJ. Matt has been on Wall Street working for Mertill Lynch for the last five or six years, and is probably on track to be one of ' 9 r s early rich kids.

They have two sons, Will and Andrew (little Andy is new to this world). Matt still plays hockey and baseball, and even hit a home ran out of Shea Stadium in a game a few years ago. Occasionally, they run into Liz and Brian DeBruin, who are up the coast in West Long Branch, NJ. Brian is one of my numerous former ranch-mates from llOA 83rd Street in Virginia Beach.

The other day 1 received a call from our long, lost friend JT Anderson (this article is starting to have a distinct Navy Rugby flavor, sorty about that). Jeff, as I hear he now goes by, is an F-18 stud who is currently an instructor at Top Gun in Fallon, NV. He and Lisa have two very good-looking sons, Jonah and Jared, blond hair, blue eyes and all (good genetics). With him in Fallon on staff are Paul Olin, Will Bumey, Art Delacruz and John Enfield, quite a crew and a strong contingent from 1991. JT says they hope to maybe get back east on his next tour, perhaps VFA-106 in Virginia Beach (Oceana NAS), at which yeoman Dave Koss now resides. Dave is actively pursing a single-digit handicap during his off time from VFA-106, and is curtently dating a Ms. Legg (ever hear of the Legg-Mason financial empire?). Dave always had common sense.

It seems like the summer weddings never end, even nine years post graduation. However, the latest wedding Heather and I attended was one to remember Jim "nee Rimrodt" Houston and Kate Wagner were martied on 10 June 2000, leaving Navy Pier in Chicago on a yacht, the service was held by the captain of the yacht (also the Justice of the Peace) in the Chicago River as we were headed toward Lake Michigan. From a former groom's standpoint, the five-minute service was a beaut. Although the party was relatively small, we did ran into Lisa and Diego Hernandez and Valerie and Rob Dunn, as the other USNA wedding reps. Many beverages were consumed, to the surprise of no one I am sure.

Jim and Kate honeymooned in Venice, Italy.

They will be in Norwich, CT, for at least another year, where Kate is based in Boston with Delta, and Jim is the Navigator of CONNECTICUT ( S S N -

22, the second SEAWOLF-class sub) and is quite busy with his duties there. Kate says they may be headed back to D.C. for his next tour. Unfortunately, we could not get the wedding pictures for this printing.

It was great seeing Diego, Lisa and the Dunns.

The Hemandez family resides in Mystic, CT, not far from Mystic Pizza of movie fame. Diego is curtently on deployment as engineer of TOLEDO (SSN-769), and Rob serves with Jim on CONNECTICUT. We feel bad for Diego because he had to winterize his new powerboat in June (since he will be gone for a while). We hope to possibly see the Houstons and the Dunns in October, since CONNECTICUT could conceivably be scheduled for a port visit to Port Canaveral around the time of the Navy-Notre Dame game in Orlando at the Citras Bowl, which leads me to my next point.

Several '91ers are planning on attending this year's Navy-ND game, along with some ND alumni that we have hesitantly made friends with over our time in the NAV. Although it is in Orlando, myself, Rob "Gooch" Gaucher, Brett Fillmore, Jim Houston and possibly Dave Koss, John Spencer and Matt Maloney have made plans to attend. We ask all of you to consider making last minute plans to come and root on the team, as we will finally break this unbearable 30-plus year losing streak to the Domers. If you are interested, contact me. Matt "Bug" Lattig for details.

Gooch is perhaps our most recent daddy, as wife, Renea, delivered a baby girl. Ally (Alexandra Lorraine), this past 23 August. Mommy and daughter are resting comfortably, Gooch is too.

Rob just completed a deployment as the Navigator on OKLAHOMA CITY (SSN-723), and is relish-

ing his brief time off. All three live in Virginia Beach in the Chicks Beach area. Their condo is bigger then our house and overlooks Lynnhaven Bay (well, almost).

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News from the West Coast: In addition to CT's communication, Emmet McCarthy took a few minutes to catch me up on the McCarthy clan.

Emmet and Suzie have a cute little daughter, Teresa Lortaine, and are living about an hour outside San Jose. Emmet works as a design engineer for Stryker Endoscopy, who among other things makes and sells hospital operating room equipment, and in fact designs entire operating rooms inclusive of the equipment. Sadly, Emmet remains a Chicago Bulls fan, but you have to give him credit for not jumping off the post-MJ bandwagon.

EJ Slam still runs marathons consistently under three hours, and has qualified for the Boston Marathon and I think also the New York Marathon.

Given his past social exploits, this is an incredible feat, trast me.

Additionally from San Jose, Jack Wolfe piped in. He intimated that he has not seen a Shipmate article since graduation, so I wrote this in an effort to get him back in the loop. Jack is moving up rapidly at Cisco Systems, which is good news for those of us hoping to profit off the technology boom (near-lawyers like myself). I just hope that Jack has patience with me on the golf course the next time I'm in the Peninsula area of California.

Recent word has it that John Spencer is back from deployment and is in San Diego. Brett Fillmore is the CSO on FLORIDA ( S S B N - 7 2 8 ) and

should be retuming from deployment in time to make it to the Navy-Notre Dame game in Orlando.

Both of these bubbleheads are still free agents, as neither one has decided yet to tie the knot.

Ralph Stowell put in his two cents after moving back to the D.C. area just recently from San Diego. We visited Ralph last spring, along with Rob Sullivan (who is also a new daddy with wife, Elise) and one of our Classmates we left behind (Dave Martinez). The four of us on one day went sailing in the San Diego Bay, and the next day went hiking in snowdrifts less than an hour east of San Diego. Needless to say, three wimps went back east on the plane with colds. Ralph recently quit his job at Pepsi in San-Dog, and took a position locally with netdecide.com in Falls Church, VA. Girlfriend Meredith also decided to shift coasts too. I now have another golfing buddy to complete our future foursome at Army-Navy CC: Bonat, Lattig, Stowell and Greg "Grog" WiHiams.

Speaking of Grogger, he and Tayna have been neighbors of ours here in Arlington, VA, for about three years now. Grog got his M.B.A. at Georgetown, and now is an executive at an e-business media company started by Classmates Jack Colletti and Chris Hale—Iserved.com. Actually, it is now www.stripes.com, since they bought the Stars and Stripes newspaper from the Tribune Co. over the past year. Greg is a very busy man, but still has time for his lovely kids. Alec (6) and Elena (3). When we need to knock some of the energy out of our dog, we take her over to play with Grog's kids.

Greg still keeps in touch with Dwayne "Stick" Cakes and Jimmy Mulik. Stick is in Philly with his wife, Rory, and kids Jack and Katherine. He is involved in family wealth management with SEI investments. Jimmy and his wife, Trish, now live in Raleigh, NC, where Jim works for Nortel Networks.

As for myself, I martied the former Heather Young from Virginia Beach in the fall of 1997.

After finishing my tour on SUNFISH (SSN-649), I chose early retirement from the military, but stayed in govemment service, taking a position as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. While at the PTO, I began night school to get my law degree at George Mason University, and passed the patent bar so as to become registered to practice patent law. Since January 1999,1 have been writing and prosecuting patent applications as an associate at the intellectual property firm of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch in Falls Church, VA. Heather and I still live in Arlington, make it out to USNA at least for the football season, a few 124

ragby matches here and there and Army-Navy or Navy-Hopkins lacrosse matches. We are the proud parents of a 70-pound boxer named Hanna, and are expecting our first human child this December, a little buglet. After the birth. Heather may semi-retire from her position at USAA in Reston, VA, (please all policy or claims questions to her only) to raise the young-un, if all works out.

As a final word, I would like to point out to (or remind) the rest of the Class that we have our own Web site. Heck, I didn't know about this myself until Chris Thomas told me about the site a few weeks ago. The site, http://www.usna91.com, is maintained by Dennis Ylagan, and it is where you want to send your Shipmate articles too, since there is a link to John DeVine. More importantly, Dennis has a database with all of us in it, but you have to register to be in it. This site should be a valuable tool for all of us: to find lost shipmates, to post information, and to keep abreast of what is going on with our Class. Another aspect is that the site provides the ability for those of us who are out to help out those of you who might be planning to get out by providing sound information regarding possible job prospects, new careers, and/ or business opportunities. Before I jump off this soapbox r ve apparently erected, I recommend that all of you at least take a look at our Web site.

Wow! That's some stiff competition for letterof-the-year from the Navy side of the house. Notice, he even kissed up to the judges with mention of the Class Web site at the end—very impressive! Jack, tell him what he's won.

Thanks, Matt. Please, write again soon.

Well, I (John DeVine) should also mention that my wife. Laurel, and 1 were blessed this past month with the birth of our second child-Julia Frances DeVine. Julia was bom on 8 July, here in Atlanta, checking in at 9 pound, 2 ounces. I can say with confidence and complete objectivity that she's one of the two most beautiful kids on the planet—my son Jake, now 3, is also in the mnning. I won't bore you with pictures this month—I'll indulge myself soon, don't worry!

Later, amigos!—JD

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Pres: LT Scott Hottenstein, USN Sec'y: Robert Pothier 63 Ashland St, Apt. #2 Medford, MA 02155 e: rbpothier@yahoo.com Class Web site: www.usna92.com By the time you read this come November, the following point will be moot, but I write this now as a self-exercise so that I may make a personal note of my reckless procrastination tendencies: 1 could've written this column any number of convenient times over the past four weeks. Instead, I chose to write it on deadline day while recovering from my own wedding and waiting to board a plane to Amsterdam. Ladies and gentlemen: the Internet kicks arse.

So this month I'm choosing to "eff aU of youse" and kick off the Howaya Bowl myself Yes, every once in a while good things happen to lowly, psychopathic, politically motivated scribes besides getting angry VRWC letters to the editor published on The Boston Globe's editorial page. I am pleased to report that I was able to con the former Ms. Brenda Joy Cheney of Melrose, MA, into becoming Mrs. Robert B. Pothier—a titie which, as you all know, carries greater clout around Greater

Boston than does the title Mrs. Edward Moore Manslaughter Kennedy.

Attending my nuptial ceremony, which took place in my father's "south" field slightiy east of our home-made trapshooting range (sounds snobby, doesn't it?), were fellow Naval Academy winners Matt Berg, Drew Kettering, Sean Murphy, and Dan "Lumpy" Holsberg. Lumpish won the award for most dedicated friend—he flew all the way from Whiting Field to New Hampshire just to join us.

His wife. Missy, however, well, let's just say my brother Jeff was impressed. Dn Feelgood Murphy was decked out in all his G.Q. glory: my friends, the suspenders matched the tie, and both were decidedly not Straight Outa Compton. Drew, I love ya pal (Cubans = outstanding), but I've got to give you the PropHead Award for the cell phone attached to your belt, a la Spock from Star Trek. And Bergla, m'hoy.. .the Fat Anthony Fan Club apparently was not impressedl Well done, son. Well done (no tongue-in-cheek).

Perhaps I'll beguile you with pictures in a future installment, but that'U have to wait. Try and contain your hysterical sobbing. But honestly, I must mushily record in print what an absolutely wonderful feeling it was to have these four chumps and their high-class wives at my wedding. I love them all in completely non-homosexual ways.

Back to the slushpile.

Since Jim Rowland (jim@rowland.net) hasn't leamed to write, he makes his wife, Claire, pen Shipmate letters. Take it away, Mrs. Sunny Jim: My husband, Jim Rowland (3rd Company), was in Bosnia earlier this year and was only able to send a quick email update to Shipmate. I figured I could fiesh out some of the details for you about both Jim and other '92 grads: After Jim finished his master's in operations analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey in March 1999, we moved in July 1999 to Maryland, where we bought a house in the Piney Orchard section of Odenton. We have one daughter, Emily, who is now five years old.

Dan "Digger" Doney and his wife, Jodi, also Uve in Piney Orchard. Digger just finished a tour at USNA as an instractor and I beUeve is now a civilian. Digger and Jodi recentiy had a baby boy, Alek.

Jon Thiessen, our daughter's godfather, is working for US West back in his home state of Colorado. He has a house in Littieton, a dog, a Porsche, and a girlfriend. Life is good. (Sec 'y note: This is what we writers call a Softball. I'll leave it alone—ha ha!)

Roland Klein is in Darien, IL, working for Eaton Corporation. He got married in Wisconsin this past June to Joette Bredl.

John Stammreich is in California and just passed the bar exam. Steve Cargill is at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Larry Kennedy is still flying, and Donnie Kennedy is an aide on an admiral's staff. Alec Chalmers and Sam Walker are both working at USintemetworking in Annapolis.

We have unfortunately lost track of several of our good friends: Gary Morris, his wife, Julie, and their daughter, Sarah, were at NPG School in Monterey from 1996-1998. They left for department head school in Newport, RI, and we lost track of them after that. Steve Ralph, his wife, Chris, and their children Jasmine and Alex were homesteading in Norfolk, VA, and also headed to Newport, RI, for department head school in 1998. We think they planned to retum to Virginia, but we're not sure where they are now. When we last heard from Alex Cabrera over a year ago, he was planning to bike across the country.

For those friends we lost track of, and for anyone else who would like to contact us, email or write us at 808 Estuary Drive, Odenton, MD 21113.

Shipmate, November 2000

One final note; The 0-4 selection Ust was released the first week of August and we were tiuilled to leam that Jim has been selected for O4. (Sec'y note: Don't consider this note tiie official word, but I believe her, don't you?) Other '92 grads on the 0-4 list include Juliane GalUna, Judith Baumgartner. Jennifer BoUn, Sean Heritage, Joey Johnson, Brian Luke, and Dan Sander.

Now that we're back in Maryland, we of course have season football tickets and we are looking forward to seeing everyone at the tailgaters! Go Navy! Beat Army!

From Matt "ChangesOneBowie" Taliaferro: Just wanted to drop you a note to fill you in on what's been happening with me over the last several years. Wow, time has been flying lately because so much has been changing. After I left my submarine, ALEXANDRIA, in December 1996, I moved to Newport, RI, where I was a calculus instractor at NAPS. Newport was about as good of a shore tour as I could have asked for. Newport is one hell of a great time! I also had a great time as a teacher and had a chance to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my Ufe since I knew that I didn't want to go back to another sub. I made the decision to get out of the Navy to get my M.B.A. and began the rigorous process of filUng out the long appUcations. I ended up going to Duke in the fall of 1998 and made the transition to civilian life. Down in Durham, I ran into Bill Wiseman who started a year after I did. I also found Tom York who was getting his M.B.A. in Duke's weekend executive program. Other Academy grads in the program were Sean McHugh '90, and Jake Mitchell '93. Bill is crazier tiian ever and has taken an active role in the business technology club (Sec'y note: WooHOO (Homer voice)) and Sean foimd himself at one of the top consulting firms in the country after graduation.

As for Jake, I beUeve he ended up at Goldman Sachs on Wall Street. I graduated in May 2000 and am now working for a Johnson & Johnson company called McNeil Consumer Healthcare where I work in the marketing department. My cmxent assignment is helping to develop and market new products for Tylenol. (Sec 'y note: After a heavy night of drinking, pop three Tyienols, drink one glass of water, and choke down two pieces of dry toast. There's your marketing campaign. My fee is $10,000.)

A lot of other things have changed as weU in the last couple of months. I now have a beautiful wife, MicheUe, whom I met on my summer intemship while at Duke. We got married this past June in a smaU inn just outside of AnnapoUs. Her whole family came in from Michigan where she grew up and we had a hell of a time at the reception. We're now Uving in a lUce Uttle area just outside of Philadelphia and have both gotten settled into our new jobs. We're having a great time exploring the area and look forward to our fu-st Christmas together with our new families!

After moving here, I found out that Manny Bui^a Uves just 15 minutes from me and is expecting his first child any day now. He is working for Frito Lay in their finance department. I continue to talk to several of our other Classmates as well. Chad Breese is still in the Marine Corps and is living in Texas doing some work that requires him to travel to Europe quite frequently. He got married about three years ago, I think, and is expecting his second child later this year. I have heard that John McGunnigle is back in Groton going to SOAC. The last I heard from Brad Dunham, he was Uving in Hawaii, but I've lost track of him. Where are you Brad?

Well, that about wraps it up for me. Take it easy and I look forward to seeing all of you at the ArmyNavy game this year!

Ladies and Gentlemen, next up on the Jerry Springer Show is the one, the only, Mr. Carl Nease.

(The audience boos. Carl flips them the bird. The audience bucks chairs and rottilfg vegetables.)

Shipmate, November 2000

Bill Stevens and I recently graduated from Darden (UVa's business school), and joined the other 85% of people our age with an M.B.A. I'm working for an investment bank in Richmond that specializes in middle market mergers and acquisitions (Hartis Williams and Co.). Bill took the consulting route with PWC Kirsten and I have had our second ankle biter.

Her name is Karoline (w/ a K) and she is almost one year old. Greg Puschnigg and his wife, Kristen recentiy had their second. Unfortunately the world will have to deal with another male Puschnigg who goes by the name Jack Fisher.

Nease. Man of few words.

Joe Muck is one polite man. After thanking me and guys like Helmreich and Martensen et al for keeping the Class wired, he "respectfully" wished that we, as a Navy, should go. No exclamation point or nothin'. He's far more of a grownup than I am.

He also informed me that he and Bill Dey were once roommates and companymates (6th Co.), and he wants to extend his best wishes to Bill's wife. Deb, and his daughter. That goes for the rest of us too.

Deb, if you're reading. Peace and harmony from all of Bill's Classmates.

Did you know Joe Muck left the Navy? Well he did. He's now working for Lucent Technologies (Sec'y note: A fantastic bunch of guys who were smart enough not to hire yours tmly.) in tech support as a network support engineer specializing in DSL systems. Joe lives in Alameda and has been happily married for three years to his wife, Fydra, and they apparently are working on children. Work hard, Joe. Work hard.

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Joe Muck Next, dear readers, I would like to inttoduce a new feature called "The Semi Blind." Blind items, of course, are the bitchslap tools of the gossip journalist. Pretend for a moment that this column is "Page 6 of The Boston Herald." Here's a blind item: What amazingly fat Teamster hack senator was seen last Saturday night gallivanting around the South End carrying a bottie of Chivas and a leash attached to several scantily-clad Newbury College sophmores from the Rainbow Coalition?"

I'm caUing the next items "semi bUnd" since I'm going to give you the initials of the individuals so uncovered. You'll have to guess who they are and who dimed them out; What former Naval Academy Neanderthal is now playing in the new professional lacrosse league (MLL)? Sara, his fiancee, owns an ostrich farm outside San Diego and wrestles in the Women's Worid Wrestling Federation (WWWF).

The wedding is planned for March, (initials: S.D.).

What Los Angeles also-ran actor has appeared as an extra in several films—including a part as one of the "slaves" that kicked "ass" in The Gladiator! He got killed in the scene with the chariots racing around, (initials: CO.).

What PGA Tour wanna-be got married last September to a woman named Chris, one of the original "Million Dollar" secretaries at AOL you might have read about in the Wall Street Journall Apparently this Cheech y Chong-nicknamed dufferhack has made $1,000 in six months on the Buy.com Tour (initials: C.A.).

I'm spent.

From where I sit, I can hear the mystical opening strains of James Marshall Hendricks' seminal guitar ditty "Are You Experienced" emanating from somewhere well beyond the Boston Harbor horizon. So I must go. Have you ever been experienced? Well—I have. Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

Next month: Robert Pothier's version of Henry Miller's Under the Rooftops of Paris. A man's gotta have hope.

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Annual Membership: 1% Life Membership: 96%

Pres: LT Matt Arny, U S N VP/Treas: LT Matt Arnold, USN Treas: LT Efren Mojica, U S N Sec'y: LT Jim Mills, USN Corr. Sec'y: Capt Shogo Cottrell, U S M C 1405 SW Highland Dr., Lee's Summit, M O 64081 h: 816-246-4489; e: shipmate@usna93.com Class Web Page: www.usna93.com We've got a few letters to pass on to you this month. First up is the one and only Efren Mojica who recently transitioned to CivLant. Efren, take it away!

Hello to '93 and 30th Company members! It's hard to believe that it has been eight months since leaving USNA's Leadership Dept. (Great shore duty, by the way) and I definitely miss all the people there. I got out of the Navy in Jan. 2000 and am now working for a company called A&E Signature Service out of their regional office in Pittsburgh, PA. I am the East Region operations manager and am responsible for the day to day operations for the company's eastem service area.

The job scope is broad but it has included getting my hands into budget planning, business consolidations, take overs, setting up national accounts, hiring personnel, maintenance of fieet vehicles and even Intemet design, to name a few. Just when I think I'm getting the hang of things, there's always something new that brings me back to reality. A&E Signature Service, a Wards and GE Capital division, is the second largest major appliance and electronics servicer in the U.S. (behind Sears) and does work for: Lowes, Home Depot, Best Buy, Circuit City and others. If you need the scoop on appliances and electronics reliability, just ask.

Sonia and I bought our first house, and our son, Avery, is two years old (latest pictures on our family Web page). They are both doing well and adjusting to hilly Pittsburgh. Academy grad-wise, Mike Thiel is at Carnegie Mellon getting his M.B.A. We saw him a couple times but he's been very busy of late. Other than him, we don't know of anyone else here and the USNA Alumni Association here isn't too active. The only people who can relate are the old salts at the gym with WWII and Vietnam experience. So if you find yourself in the area (yeah, right) or looking for a place to "crash" as you transit the Pennsylvania tumpike, we're right here off exit 6. Take care and be safe.

Sounds like you made your transition off on the right foot. I've got 342 days and a wake up until I'm eligible (but who's counting). Our next email came from Devan Cross who is writing to us for the very first time! Devan writes:

Are we up to date?

Visit www.usna.com to updatejojir address.

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Hey all, I thought I'd write my first letter to Shipmate, because it's now my tum to get out. I'm tired of getting beat down, keeping an eye out for enant daggers, and puking over the side. My time as a SWO has ended. After completing two sea tours in San Diego on CHANDLER and REID and a

recraiting stint in my hometown of San Francisco, I'm trying my hand at CivPac. I'll first make the transition at UC Berkeley's M.B.A. program, the Haas School of Business. I'm excited about making this new start and I can't wait to begin, although I am a littie nostalgic about the Navy. I'll certainly miss the camaraderie of a wardroom and other sea-stories in the making, but I'm sure that other opportunities are waiting out there. Please drop me a line if you're in the Bay Area or have questions about Haas. Good luck to everyone— that whole Fair Winds and Following Seas thing.

Sounds like there are lots of Classmates headed back to school. You know, when I first left good o f crabtown several years back, I had no desire to retum to school (and it was because of my stellar study habits, right Finney?). But, believe it or not, I'm working on my master's degree at Keller Graduate School of Management. Guess that 1 saw the light.

The next update from Dave Cattler (dcattler@ wbbinc.com) also came in via email: Seems like I only remember to send something in when we have another kid...my wife, Karen, and I received the blessing of the birth of our daughter Paige Anne on 16 August. She was bom here in Woodbridge, VA. Stats: 7 pounds, 11 ounces, 18.5 inches, birth at 7:51 p.m. Karen and Paige are both in excellent health and retumed home at the 24 hour mark. We had lots of family in to visit, as well as Jon Jensen, and had the christening at our church on 20 August. Our son, Owen, is adjusting well to life as the "big brother," but clearly was a Uttle disappointed that Paige can't play with him yet. By the time she can, he probably won't want her to anymore. Oh, well.

I separated from the Navy in April, following a very enjoyable tour in SPEAR at ONI. I finished up a master's in strategic intelligence at the Joint MiUtary Intelligence College just after separation, and will be transitioning to intelligence in the Reserve. I managed to get a billet in the Reserve unit supporting SPEAR right away and am doing essentially the same job now. Karen and I bought a house in Woodbridge, VA, and have become happy suburbanites—new house, mini-van, dog, two kids, and all.

I had a very brief stint with Booz, Allen, and Hamilton in Crystal City, realized that it wasn't working out, and moved to Whitney, Bradley, and Brown, as the manager for Intelligence Support Systems. We're a small defense-consulting firm in Vienna, VA, with a large Academy contingent.

I enjoy the work very much and learned a great deal by transitioning to industry twice. If anyone needs any information, feel free to contact me.

One final note as a long overdue public thanks to Mike Krot for his compassion and loyalty. Last year, my son, Riley, was stillborn at 41 weeks. As you can imagine, my wife and I were completely devastated. When Mike got the word a few days later, he drove from Florida to Annapolis, with literally only the clothes on his back, to be with us and to help in any way he could. It meant a great deal to us to have him with us—more than I can adequately express. He fielded phone calls, assisted in funeral coordination, watched our son during the funeral, and was a great source of comfort to my entire family. He really proved that the bonds we formed at USNA are for life.

Thanks, Dave Cattler, Manager, Intelligence Support Systems, Whitney, Bradley, & Brown, Inc. 703-448-6081 xl52.

Dave, congratulations on the newest addition to your family. I ' m sorry to hear about your loss, but it sounds like Mike did a wonderful job taking care of a fellow Classmate. Three cheers for you, Mike!

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Well, last and certainly not least is an epistle from Larry Young (pappyandtrish@juno.com). It's long but really has some great gouge on what everyone from the 33rd Herd is up to these days.

Here's a copy of a letter I wrote to guys from 33rd Herd. We try to keep in touch with one another and I figured you might want to include it in Shipmate. I'm hoping you may be able to reach a couple of guys from 33rd whom I've lost touch with and if they see this in Shipmate, they'll contact me at my email address. I apologize in advance for the length. (I'm long-winded). Also, I proofed it and deleted most of the non-PC stuff.

Dear Herd, Wackers! Finally I am sitting down to get this letter to print. I appreciate all the responses from you guys letting me know your addresses, etc.

Fribbish and Adcap I am especially indebted to you guys for keeping such accurate records of where everybody is and what is going on with folks.

Well, It's been quite a year so far for many of us and I'm betting that I have probably seen more of the Herd in the past seven months than anybody else, so I figure I can write a decent "newsletter" updating most folks about what's going on with most of us. Without any further ado.

I was on deployment this past year from September '99 to March '00 and stopped in Naples, Italy, twice. Both times Rob Atha was there to greet me and was an outstanding host!

Rob really loves it there in Naples (just kidding, Rob). In fact he told me his favorite picture of Naples is one taken during WWII from the bomb bay doors of a B-29 depicting several bombs dropping on the city. Actually, Berto seems to be making the most of it and was on hand to give me tours of Pompeii and Herculaneum (which I highly recommend to any Roman history enthusiasts). I must say that the Latin Lover is still active—as each time I visited him, Rob had a different houseguest of the female persuasion. Rob some of us live vicariously through you.

I retumed from deployment on 17 March. Tricia and I got in the Explorer and drove straight to New Orleans for Rachel and Eric Winter's wedding on the 18th. That was a great time! Quite a few folks made it to the wedding: Dooch, Tom Schmidt, Rob Atha, John Jones, Patti and Marc Genualdi, Ann and Ken Dehan (with Aidan), J.D. Delarodie, Quico Pinelli, Brad Kinkead, and Jack Mastripolito (BG & Scooby's sponsor). (If I forgot anyone, I'm sure it's because I was too drank to remember.) Anyway, the wedding was an absolute blast! Thanks again to Eric, Rachel and their folks for putting us up in the hotel and for throwing such an awesome reception. Even wandering up and down Bourbon Street with Tom and Dooch was fun though we walked what seemed like miles just to have a drink that tasted like kool-aid. Eric showed me the video of the reception while I was home in Maryland and I think Dooch and me were pretty much all over it.

(Dooch aren't you just a littie embanassed?).

Jonesy, it was great to meet Monica. NIH was a really rewarding experience for Tricia she leamed a lot during her four years there, especially in the field of oncology. Congratulations on your transition to the civilian world. I understand you're living in Rockville, MD, now tiiat is where Tricia grew up. Let me know your address when you're settled.

For anyone who may not know, Dooch is working at the Pentagon (for N88?), just biding his time 'til his jump to CivLant. Apparentiy he's in charge of computers or something for the Navy. When Frank showed up for his first day of work, they asked him what he knew about computers and he said, "Well, I know how to use Windows." (the learning curve is steep, Dooch). But Dooch has a nice apartment in downtown D.C. and is happy to be in a town where the female to male ratio is greater than I. (Or is it male to female ratio?— just watch out for Dupont Circle, if she's got an Adam's apple be careful!)

By the way, it looks Uke some of you guys have been pretty busy out there: Congratulations to Becky and Tom Schmidt.

Becky delivered their son, Ryan, on 6 June (thanks for the baby picture, Becky). Tom and Becky are now settled in Hilliard, OH, where Tom is working with the NROTC unit at Ohio State.

Congratulations also to Andrea and Rob Peterson. Andrea delivered Catherine Peterson on 24 April. Rob reports that they now have "two little Petersons (Connor and Catherine) barking around the house, standing at attention as they sing the Marine Corps hymn. One question, Pete, can they make a "war face" yet? Rob is in school in Quantico until May 2001.

Congratulations to Nefertiti and Tony Gilless.

Nefer delivered their daughter, Madison, on 4 March. Tony is out here attending NPS in Monterey with me. I can tell you that some things about Tony may never change. He still has that classic "why do you hate me" attitude that we all know and love so well. I've even heard him call my name in a crowd a few times at school (or maybe it's just my imagination). He and Nefer are here for another year or so and Tricia and I look forward to getting to know Nefer and Madison.

A belated congratulations to Kris and Ryan Christopherson. Kris delivered Jakob on 17 Febraary. According to Kris, Jakob is the spitting image of Ryan and is referted to as "mini-me" by Ryan's squadron-mates. (Thanks for all the pics, Kris.) Ryan, I heard your little boy was pretty strong for a six-month old, can he do push-ups yet? Ryan is getting ready to deploy with his F14D squadron on LINCOLN for his second WestPac. Another belated congratulations to Heather and John Boone. Their son, Nicholas, is ten months old this July and "growing Uke a weed!" So Nicholas eats more than you do John? Sounds like John is enjoying NAS Fallon and Top Gun where he says the flying is a lot of fun (is it as fun as they made it seem in the movie?).

Anne Dehan brought little Aidan into the world on 4 September 1999. Not even a year old yet and little Aidan is walking! Anne and Ken recently retumed from a vacation in Seattie where Aidan got lots of practice leaming how to walk with his relatives. For anybody who may not know. Ken switched to the Intel community and they're getting ready to move to San Diego, soon. Keep us posted on your whereabouts, guys.

Also, a very belated congramlations to Erin and Jeff Carpenter. They were joined by their son, Benjamin, about a year and a half ago. Jeff and Erin are building their new home in Greenville, TN, and expect to move in sometime in September. (124 Oak Grove Road, I assume the zip code will be tiie same?) Jeff wrote me a quick email before he went to work, but didn't tell me what he does. (I leave that to anyone's imagination.)

Ben and Lisa's Evan tumed one year old this past March. Lisa has been kind enough to send us pictures via the Internet of the littie guy. Thanks Lisa. Ben is enjoying his work with Perot Systems and is working as a programmer in Richmond. Thanks for the quick update, Ben. Not sure if you guys all know that Janet Kuberski had her second daughter, Brynne, in Febraary 1999. So that brings Scooby's family up to four with two daughters (Brooke and Brynne).

Well, I think that about covers all the recent additions to the Herd since my last letter. Except for the few that Dooch said he's unsure about, I don't think anyone else has had any children (unless I've been out of touch with you). Please verify the info on the attached address list and let me know so I can cortect any mistakes.

Check out YOUR Alumni benefits online.

www.usna.conn Shipmate, November 2000

Speaking of kids, Andy Williams writes tiiat he is enjoying duty as a flight insUoictor in Corpus Christi. Dane and Jordan are nine. Haven is four and Noah is two. Between Jana teaching tennis and Andy coaching Pop Warner footbaU, it sotmds like a busy household! Andy says he's not siu:e where he's going next but it won't be to sea, if he can avoid it (yeah right!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;I guess he's going to CivLant tiien?).

I heard through the grapevine (Becky Schmidt) that Eric Brendan is moving from Los Angeles to New York to attend New York University's School of Business. Eric, hope all goes well with your studies.

I got an email from J.D. back in April informing me that he was getting engaged, getting out of the Navy, moving to Detroit and going to work for Ford. Sounds Uke a lot of change in a short amount of time. (J.D. doesn't mess around, he gets right to the point.) Jim will be a product development engineer for Ford. He said that Tom Wolfe from CDC-VA was a great headhunter. Jim, best of luck to you and Alexandra, and let us know how things develop.

Jeff Eggers is off playing war with the SEALs in Guam (again). He'll be there 'til December and is reaUy psyched to be there for the rainy season.

His email address is the same and he will respond to you if you write him. (Guess how I know?)

Mike Favetti is still partying it up down in Key West. He's been there for the last two years. He told me he was recentiy in D.C. and visited with Eric W. and Bradley Kinkead. Thanks for the info, Mike, (you sound busy down there) let me know what you're up to when you have a chance.

Brad recentiy moved into a new home at the end of May. He reports that Melissa is "out of the picture (sorry Patty, J.D. is the next one to get married)." Also Patty, if you have any single ftiends. Brad asked me to ask you to let him know.

Unless of course, he hasn't met anyone else yet (apparentiy Rachel was gonna introduce him to one of her friends). Also, Brad passes along that he is starting with the reserves next month with a bUlet at ONR (how'd he swing that one?) and says he'U be working on electrotuc battlespace stuff.

In Bradley's words "who could have seen Marines in the field with laptops? What is warfighting coming to?" Beth and Louis Molina are curtently in Groton, CT, for the summer while he attends Submarine Dept. Head School. Afterwards he heads to San Diego to be the CSO

on JEFFERSON CITY

(SSN-759). From the email, it sounds like Louis wiU be in Groton until next April (?). Be sure to let me know your address in Sand Dog. If Tricia and I get down there after NPS, we'U have to catch up.

Juan Pinelli is working as a physician's assistant in Atlanta after finishing his master's at Emory College. Quico, it was great to see you at Eric and Rachel's weddingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tricia really enjoyed leaming about your work as a PA. She worked pretty closely with some PAs as a nurse practitioner in Jacksonville.

Stephanie and Justin Richards are curtentiy enroute to Groton, CT, for (you guessed it, Louis) Submarine Dept. Head School. He'll be there 'til mid-January and then transfers out to Bangor, WA, to be Nav/Ops on ALASKA (Blue). The best address to reach Justin wUl be at his in-laws (included in the address Ust). Justin, I find it hard to believe that "two years in Hawaii gets old." Granted, I've never been there, but how bad can it be? I take it you'd rather be haze-gray and underway?

I can't remember who told me, but I heard that Paul Schimpf (of "Schimpf, Schimpfmate, Self fame) is moving from Illinois to Newport, RI. Does this mean that he's finally done with Law school and is a "doctor of jurispradence?" Paul are you a full-fledged JAG? Let me know.

It was great for Tricia and me to catch up with Eric and Rachel while we were home this past May. Congratulations again you two newlyweds.

(Enjoy tiie honeymoon, kids, everything changes after the first year.) In all seriousness, it was a Shipmate, November 2000

beautiful wedding and reception and a great party for me to return to after a six-month deployment to the Med. (You guys did not have to go to all that trouble just for me!) Rachel is finishing up her Ph.D. in Baltimore (that's right, I said Ph.D., how Eric met a Ph.D. candidate is beyond me, too.)

During our trip across these great United States (from Maryland to Califomia), Tricia and I were able to stop and visit Billy "BG" Cushman in Denver. And wouldn't you know it, Scooby happened to be in town at the same time working out with the Broncos. Needless to say, BG showed Boober and me his favorite watering hole and the three of us proceeded to reminisce about the good old days (did I just say that?). What a stroke of luck to have the Penthouse reunited, if only for a brief time. Now if I could just remember at least some of it! Although I'm sure we talked about each and every one of you guys (so that's why your ears were buming). Bill is all settled in a house in Denver while he teaches at the University of Colorado's NROTC unit and finishes his M.B.A. He told me he misses Japan (not!).

Right now. Bob is in the middle of tiaining camp with the Denver Broncos. For anybody who didn't know, he played for the New England Patriots last season and was traded to Denver this past spring (I think?). Anyway, he and Janet have a home in Westchester, PA, where Janet takes care of their two Uttle ones, Brooke and Brynne. It was great to catch up with Scooby and BG in Denver. I think Bob will continue to play in the NFL for as long as they let him (just stay injury-free, please!). He continues to practice as a Ucensed broker and seems to be enjoying that as well. I refuse to believe he's all that sophisticated, though, I know that he must stiU leave his boogies where he pleases.

Lastly, I saw Jack Mastripolito (BiU and Bob's old sponsor) both at Eric and Rachel's wedding and again while Tricia and I were home in May. I figured he's pretty much an honorary Herd member since he took such great care of so many of us while we were in AnnapoUs. Jack is doing well and continues to work with NAAA. They gave him a ring when Navy won the Hula Bowl a few years back, at least some recognition for all the work he's done.

Tricia and I are all settled in Monterey and ready for any visitors.

That's about all the news I have on you guys.

Folks I have no news on (mostiy because I don't have an email address for them) include Regee Alqueza, Jay Bartish, and Eric Farrar. If anybody has a curtent email for them I'd appreciate it. As it is, I'll mail a hard copy of this to their home of record addresses.

Well, I guess ray gift for being long-winded is once again demonstrated. Hope you guys enjoy this letter as much as I've enjoyed putting it together and seeing all of you these past few months.

Let's be sure to try and keep in touch. Please check the attached address list I put together (mostly from stuff I got from Ben and Eric W.). Let me know any cortections. Thanks again, gents.

Beat Army and GB2BAN. Whew! Thanks for sending that in Larry. I'll go ahead and close with that since we are but a mere few words from our 4,000-word linut per article!

But, much better to have lots than none at all.

Thanks to all for keeping us up to date. Adios! Shogo

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Pres: IstLt Scott K. H o m b u c k l e , U S M C PSC 556, Box 506, FPO AP 96386-0506 h: 011-826-11-737-0083 e: hombuckle@hotmail.com Vice Pres/Treas: Kirk Clermont 103 Juliana Place, Saint Marys, GA 31558-3624 h: 912-576-1775; e: Clermont@eagnet.com Sec'y: Chris Williams 1050 USS Georgia Avenue, Kings Bay, G A 31547 h: 912-673-2739; e: csgU@subasekb.navy.mil Corr. Sec'y: Jim Keck 1735 Felch Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32207 h: 904-396-4008; e: Jkeck@usna94.com Web page: http://www.usna94.com Hello, '94! Welcome to the newest addition of our Class news column. Unfortunately, I didn't receive a single email or letter this month to pass on to you. But I do have one photo.

Since there isn't much news to pass on, let m e take this opportunity to plug the Class gift shop once again. With the holidays quickly approaching, I ' m sure you'll find some great gift ideas on the Web site. Some people have noticed problems accessing the gift shop using Netscape Navigator. I've optimized the site for Intemet Explorer. I ' m working on getting it fixed, but in the mean time Intemet Explorer is your best bet.

Web update We now have 22,348 hits since registered on the site. The Class Ust tally is up to 696 entries. Additions or changes to the Class list since 10 August include: Robert Koh, Phil Armas, Paul Davis, Jay Dantone, Kimberly Robertson, Joel Robertson, Daniel Sameit, Michael Harris, Keith Hartman, Paul Lutz, Bill Williamson, John Ross, Craig Monroe, Mark Zipsie, Kris Edwards (Burks), Arnold Alqueza, Richard Paquette, Jason Peek, Laura (Kratz) Mannix, Sinclafr Smith, Marc Alexander, Van C h a p p e l l , K e n d r a ( H e r b e r ) C h a p p e l l , Westenberger Dan, Maria Pallotta, Thomas Stroud, Dan Sheridan, Matthew Hawks, Chad Burke, Troy Shoulders, Rudy Quiles, Roy Gilbert, David Wallis, Gregory Hryniewicz, Tracy Clark, Jason Testa, Laura Herath, Goddard Hampton, Frank Hutchison, Kimberley Cowling, Matthew Kirby, Elissa Smith, Christopher Claiborne, Laura (Kratz) M a n n i x , Frank Spmde, Homer Denius, Biff Freely, Patrick Mowles, Jimmy Bishop, Leon Hsi, Ryan Murphy, Brian Campbell, Kevin Johnson, Bert Steele, Nardo Day, Christopher Frey, Kyra Prawlocki (Hawn), Bert Steele, Luke J a m e s , Jim Hicks, Byron Alexander, David Van Brunt, Michael Bellotti, Robert Hartman, Thom Landis, Christopher Pesile, Erik Ostmo, Dan Sheridan, and Roy Gilbert.

Our new message board is starting to catch on.

Be sure to use it to post messages on just about any topic: weddings, births, parties, tailgaters, ArmyNavy banter, j o b opportunities, missing person alerts, etc. Nobody has been naughty yet, so I applaud your efforts to keep this and all parts of our Web site rated "G." Oh, and I added a news section to the main Web page which is intended to include relative news stories. If you have some big news you want to announce (births, weddings, promotions, etc.), just give me a holler and I'll get you your 15 minutes of fame.

Well, that's all for now. Hopefully Shipmate will pubUsh the pictures I'm sending in. (See the following page.) Please reach out and send me some news in time for the next issue! Take care and God bless. C-ya...Jim 127

'95; Nicole and Mark Early were martied 3 June 2000

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Pres: John Fleet p: 301-263-0384 Sec'y: LTJG Don Jamiola, USN Twin Pond Road, Topsham, ME 04086 p: 207-373-1459 Greetings '95ers! Just retumed from a little detachment in Puerto Rico and lo and behold I get a couple letters. Well let's just kick it off with some news from Steve Shedd, our Class Webmaster If anyone has not had a chance to check out the '95 Web site, hop on your computer right now. It's at http://usna95.freeservers.com. There's some interesting stuff on there, and any suggestions for improvements can be sent to Steve via the Web site.

Check it periodically for upcoming events and new stuff that Steve has put on there. Thanks for all the hard work, Steve!

Cheryl Harrison (rjclharrison@cs.com) sends some information. She and Rich (rjclharrison® cs.com) are doing well. Cheryl just got out of the Navy and worked at Joint Cmise Missile Defense for a few months. Rich, now in the Air Force, just accepted orders to Beale AFB, just north of Sacramento. He is throwing the shot put again and ended up at the Olympic trials this yean He didn't make the Olympic team this year (top three), but is now ranked number 13 in the nation and is eligible for the AF World Class Athlete Program. He'll have to work one year in a regular Air Force job, then he'll have three years to train for the Olympics; not a bad deal! Cheryl just finished her Masters this year, so she is looking forward to a new career and the great Califomia weather Because the Harrisons have been down in Eglin AFB, they have lost touch with almost everyone, but they do have some recent inputs: Rich Lawson graduated from aviation school in March and is flying Cobra's in Califomia, Heidi Huerter accepted a great PAO job in San Diego and is finally able to live near her husband, Blanca Shaeffer just graduated NPG school and is heading to Dahlgren, VA, and Troy Hamilton is living in Tallahassee with his family. Cheryl also wants to let everyone know of some billets and jobs that she has had some experience with. Just drop her an email or check www.sentel.com.

Cheryl, thanks for the info, and best of luck to both of you guys in California. Keep the letters coming, Don

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'96: L to r: Stephen Phillips '67, Rhoan Boucher '96, Mike Glova '96, Cara and Mick Cromwell '96, CAPT Gany Holmsttom '71 (Ret.), Sean Cronin '95, CAPT Michael Dunaway '73, Tim Phillips '96; seated is CAPT Charies 0.

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Pres: LT Bart Phillips, USN 7980 Sevan Court, Unit D, San Diego, CA 92123 e: bartphillips@ibm.net; hm: 858-278-2739 Sec'y: Capt Tonya R. Barz, USMC 6416 Sugar Maple Court, Fredericksburg, VA 22407 h: 540-548-3344; e: barztr@tecom.usmc.mil Greetings, '96! As we push into the season of thanks, I am happy to share some news of our Alumni and the great things we continue to do out in the Operating Forces (and in our personal lives).

Our first news arrives from Karen (Mazure) Wingeart who is writing from NPS in Monterey where she is working with her husband, Paul Wingeart '95. While out there, the two have seen Julie Maynard, Toby Lemerande, Neil Sexton '95, and Mike Roth '92, Tony Gilles '93 and Robert Witzleb '92 have also been spotted in the area.

The other big news on Karen's home-front is that she and Paul became parents on 9 June, when they had Aubrey Ellen. They agree that she is the best thing to happen to them. Congrats to you! Additionally, Paul is working on his master's in operational analysis, and Karen is working towards hers in oceanography/meteorology (she had transferred to the METOC community after her first tour on BARRY). Karen submits the missing personnel call of the month for Kim (MacKenzie) Himmer, Alyce Fernebok, and Ann Chamberlain. Thanks for the news, Karen.

Mrs. Galdieri (John's mom) writes to celebrate John Galdieri's participation in the "Ironman USA" competition that took place in Lake Placid, NY, on 30 July 2000. John managed to finish the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.1 mile run in a time of 12 hours, 2 minutes (28 minutes ahead of his goal). In his "spare" time, John is the operations officer for the Navy's East Coast Hovercraft out of Virginia Beach. What an accomplishment, John (and I'll be forwarding all of your fan mail to you—as it is clogging my mailbox). Congrats!

From Europe comes word from John Costello, who has been the inspecting officer for Company A, Marine Security Guard Battalion in Frankfurt, Germany, for the past year. Having no opportunity for travel (ugh!), John has inspected Marines at embassies and diplomatic posts in 24 different countries in Central/Eastern Europe and Central Asia (again, we sympathize!). On a personal note, John acknowledges that his biggest news is his marriage to his sweetheart and best friend, Jennifer (Jensen).

The two wed in San Luis Obispo, CA, on 22 Janu-

ary 2000. Joining them in Califomia for the ceremony were Anthony O'Daniel, Patty Restrepo, Thomas Leahy, Stacey McClintock (and her husband, Frank), and Sean Haney. Jennifer works for the FAA in Frankfurt, and the two now spend much of their married life traveling Europe in their offtime. (John sends his best to all of the mighty 36th Company). Best wishes to both of you crazy kids over there!

From the Navy Cryptologic side, Nick Cromwell sends us news from the D.C. area. After Crypto school in Pensacola after graduation, Nick ventured to Hawaii for three years. For the most part, Nick stayed at NSGA Kunia but did do one WestPac on RUSSELL ( D D G - 5 9 ) . On 31 July 1999, he married

Cara (Millard) at St. George's School Chapel in Middletown, RI. Cara comes from a long history of Alumni as her great-great-grandfather was ADM John R. Edwards 1874, great-grandfather was CAPT Phillip Huston Hammond 1907, and grandfather is CAPT Charles O. Cook Jr. '31 (Ret.). She also has an uncle, CAPT Gary Holmstrom '71 (Ret.), and a cousin, CAPT Michael Dunaway '73. Classmates Tim Phillips and Rhoan Boucher were groomsmen, and Mike Glova was an usher. CPiPT Dunaway, Sean Cronin '95, and Bill Tanzey '95 were swordsmen. Tim's father, Stephen Phillips '67, also attended the wedding. All had a wonderful time, and Nick and Cara enjoyed seeing so many friends and family who made the trip to Rhode Island. Nick joined Cara in D.C. where he is working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Anacostia.

The couple bought a home in Arlington and is getting settled. Thanks for the great news, Nick.

Until next month, looking forward to hearing from all of you. —Tonya

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Pres: 1st Lt Tom Wagner, USMC h: 703-784-2036 e: towags@hotmail.com Sec'y: LTJG Mike McGreevy, USN 1025 Backwoods Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23455 h: 757-343-4438 e: groovel997@hotmail.com First, the stuff I've seen around. Paul Felini, Scott Braddock and Chris Sammarro all got married this past summer. Paul and Scott are in Virginia Beach flying F-14s and Chris drives an SSN out of Hawaii. Jaime Murphy, a DDG disbo and Jeff Dee, an SSN MPA, both out of San Diego, were

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able to make it to the BUD/S graduation of Dave Earp, Mike Ennor and myself Earp headed for Team 5, Ennor for Team 1 and I for Team 4 . 1 hear Tarey Gettys is classing up now for graduation this coming spring (class 234). I saw J.J. Bancroft at a Padres game while I was still in SD. He flies Hueys there and is married. Aaron Shelley was supposed to move to SD tiiis fall to keep flying U S M C 53s, but when I last saw him he was still flying in N C waiting for 53s to be flyable again. Let me thank all the fellas who said hi while I was on the West Coast, including Jeff Dee, Jaime Murphy, Dave Earp, Mike Ennor, J.J. Bancroft, Sam Lanasa, John Bradley, Tom Keefer, J.J. Puga, John Greun, John Choate, Jason Martin, Elias Gates, Chris Irwin, Chance Mims, Jeff Smith, R o b Kent, Maureen Maroney, Walt AUman, Anthony Cassino, Jerome Dixon (expecting his first child soon), Ben Frye, Brian Sandberg, and Rob Sinram. Best of luck, fellas.

chopped to tiie llth MEU (SOC) already and will be leaving in March I believe...not sure what Jason's doing...maybe 31st MEU or UDP, both leaving in January. Danny Sarner just checked into HMT-303 flying Hueys west. I bumped into Sean Dunleavy at a bar in Carlsbad this weekend. He's at Pendleton working at TAVSC. I've also seen Greg Szepe out here trying his best to look like Ricky Martin. Steve Nolen is working at one of the MALS squadrons out here. Rick Worthington is doing the aviation maintenance at HMT-303. I just finished the Huey FRS syllabus at HMT-303 and I'm heading down to HMLA369 Gunfighters.

The last email I received deserves word for word copy, as it's too good to be paraphrased by anyone less humorous than its authors:

Micah Newton's folks say he wrapped up a tour

Greetings from Jim Drew and Bryan Clairmont from Naval Station Pascagoula, MS. We're sending a quick update on ourselves and some of our esteemed ranning matesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jim and I got back in July '00 from WestPac as part of

in Japan aboard KITTY HAWK as ATO in Nov ' 9 9 .

BONHOMME RICHARD ARG out of San Diego. We

Micah then completed crypto school in Pensacola in May and is now assigned to Rota, where he'll be for another year. lyier Ladue emailed me from CivLantFlt where he is making lots of money as a systems engineer for the Theater Ballistic Missile Defense System with Anteon Corporation in Arlington, VA. Tyler lives in Sevema Park, M D , with his wife. Heather, (married 18 October '97) and son, Logan (2 years old). Tyler was released from service 31 May ' 0 0 because of a bad back. Before he left he was working with Brian Kalamajka who is now at the Joint Forces Intelligence C o m m a n d in Norfolk when Tyler last heard from him.

Mike Russ completed F/A-18 training this summer. He joined "VMFA (AW)-533 out of Beaufort, SC, in the fall, and deploys in January ' 0 1 for six months to Japan.

Rick Vtipil got married at the Chapel back on 11 March to Sharon Poole from 10th Company. Rick is sending me a picture of the wedding party for a later issue. The reception was at the Fleet Reserve Club and included 14 other folks from ' 9 7 . Rick is in NorfoUc and his number is 757-583-2294.

Eric Shangle is now back in Gulfport, M S , at his newest command after quite a while in Japan on BLUE RIDGE. Eric says his swim97@usa.net account will still be working for anyone that wants to contact him.

Bear with me on this next part because all the info is from a stack of Hometown News Releases I received with dates a year old. Back in March ' 0 0 from Med and Persian Gulf deployments with the JFK Battle Group and BATAAN A R G were Mike Wheeler, aboard CARNEY, a D D G out of Mayport, Amanda Kuehne aboard SPRUANCE, a D D out of Mayport, and Ed Byers aboard SCRANTON, an S S N out of Norfolk. West Coasters that got back in Dec. '99 from Persian Gulf floats include: Jose Fikes and Jo-Jo "the Webmaster" Jankowski aboard CHOSIN, a CG out of Hawaii, Elizabeth Touse aboard KiNKAiD, a destroyer out of SD, and G r e g Szepe, part of the 1 Idi MEU in PELELIU ARG. AuggieSciuUa got the wings o'gold way back in Jan. '00 in Corpus Christi along with Dave Lundahl.

ran into Classmate Ben Chong in Singapore, where he is in the Singaporean Navy and engaged to a friend from home. Upon our return to San Diego we transferted to Naval Station Pascagoula,

Brad Butler wrote from southem Califomia: Jason Gibson (Cobras) and John Jaeski (Hueys) are both at HMLA-267 Stingers. John has

MS. Jim is tiie FCO on YORKTXDWN ( C G - 4 8 ) and I

am the chief engineer on STEPHEN K . GROVES

(FFG-29). Jim is set to deploy to South America in March '01. I'll spend most of my tour in the yards or doing work-ups. Jim and I spend our free time in Mississippi fishing the Gulf Coast and gambling in the casinos. We did manage to place fourth and fifth respectively in the annual "Biloxi Catfish/Cross Training Derby," which consisted of a fishing derby for catfish on the coast followed by an all-terrain run/swim through the ocean springs marsh land. Jim is getting married in Jan. '01, just before he deploys, although he doesn't know who to. Mark Schumann is on a frigate out of Mayport, FL, and is set to be married in Dec. '00. Darren "dug pound" Genstil is the acting ops on THACH out of San Diego. Besides studying for his TAO letter, he spends his time roller blading on Mission Beach, or teaching tae bo at the local 24 hour fitness. John " J F ' Walsh is on PELICAN, a minesweeper out of Ingleside, TX. He leaves for a 90-day deployment up the East Coast at the end of September. He was ranked in the top ten in the state of Texas for extreme mountain biking. After his deployment he hopes to compete intemationally. Rick "Dumpy" Ardolino is on HARPER'S FERRY out of San Diego as the train-

ing officer. After coming home from his first tour in Gaeta, Italy, 40 pounds over weight, he managed to shed the weight (through intensified jazz dance class), and now spends his free time writing low calorie/low fat cookbooks for the junior officer. The honorable Arthur James Leveris, lives in Jersey with his girlfriend of two years and is a senior district manager of commerce for Airbome Express. In his spare time he carves wooden sculptures, and has a Web site at www.unclearty .com, where you can view his work. Site may be down due to the massive volume of traffic. Dave Ricci is now in BUD/S class 232 and should be graduating in the next couple months. Dave just bought a new set of teeth, so if anyone ever sees him, make sure to send a compliment. That's allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bryan and Jim out.

Keep sending the emails, letters and pix and remember that no matter how bad you think you have it. Wags spent last summer in a cave underneath Seoul. Stay in touch. Groove

I^ep in touch with classmates. Update your email and mailing addresses.

t(#fWww.usna.com/misc/forms/changeaddress.htiin or call 410-263-4448 ext. 203 Shipmate, November 2000

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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 Dear G r e a t ' 9 8 , I hope Thanksgiving finds everyone well. My last cry for help seemed to work, because I have a ton of good information to share this month. I'll just get right to it.

Meghan Forehand now has her "wings of gold," and might be the first female pilot to wing in the Class o f ' 9 8 . She received her wings on 19 November '99. She is due to report to Guam on 1 October, and she'U be flying the CH-46.

From Aaron Beattie: There are quite a few of us still here in Pensacola. I just got winged on 25 August and will be heading out to Guam to fly the Navy's newest helo, the CH-60S. It will replace the CH46s out there. Trevor Davis and Jerome Gussow will also be out there. My roommate, Dan Lindblom, just finished up primary and selected Marine helos. Just talked to April (Goldsby) McBride and she only has one flight left in the RAG before she reports to VP-5 as a P-3 NFO. Must be nice to have your wings already. Keep those skies safe!

Shawn Triggs has been a staff supply officer on VADM Fallon's staff in Norfolk. Next year, after Groton (Febmary to April) and back to Athens (May and June), he wiU be retuming to his home state for a tour on a Boomer out of Bangor. He has been attending Old Dominion University at night and has almost completed his master's in business adminisfration.

Another full letter from Todd Sawhill.

Howdy Y'all. Not too much I can say that ought to be put in a magazine. However, like most of my buddies knew I would do, I ended up in Athens, GA, for eight months at the tail end of the football season. (However, this time the Navy paid me to do it after the doctors said no more flying for me). I got a good opportunity to live the college life again and even managed to study supply stuff every once in a while. I got to see Jared Payne a few times, and he is doing great with his new wife.

As for guys in the Class; Dave Loya wound up in San Diego; Pat McGrew is in Italy and so is Dennis Kane; Dave McKeIvy is in Nah-fahk on a cartier along with Jon Limbert '99; Malcolm Rumph is in Washington.

As far as the other guys go, Chris Kovack, JD Gainey, and the others all did great and are doing great out in the Fleet I am sure.

From the flyboy side, all I know is that Aaron Shoemaker is going to a VP squadron in Jacksonville and Brian Bradford is going to a VP out of Jax. Oh, and anyone who wanted to know where Pat Faye was, he was lucky enough to be on the Gator that hit the supply ship in the Pacific and enjoyed a long stay in Hawaii for repairs.

I'm now the aviation supply and logistics officer at NAS Keflavik for P-3s, so any of you guys and gals make it up this way, swing on by the shop.

Already seen a few of y'all...and we are always open. Remember, if you can't blame anyone else, blame supply. Keep in touch and God bless, Sawdawg Thanks, Todd, I hope the Supply Corps treats you well, and keep those letter coming.

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On to another letter from an aviator, K e i t h Henderson: I received my wings of gold in November and am now flying SH-60Bs in Mayport. I just finished the RAG with Bobby Brown '97 and am checking in to my fleet squadron, HSL-44, next week. I performed my initial landing qualifications on tiie back of ROBERT G. BRADLEY ( F F G 49). I visited the bridge while I was out there and found out that while I was landing in the back, Scott McBride was the OOD. I have also ran into a few others here in Mayport. Matt Music is here on GETTYSBURG (CG-64) and Amy Carson is on O'BANNON (DD-987). I tiiink. In two weeks I will be traveling up to Buffalo, NY, to be in Rob Radak's wedding. He received his wings around May and will be flying 60Bs in San Diego.

It's amazing bow small the Navy sometimes seems when you've graduated USNA. The Navy must not make aviators work hard enough; here is another letter from a pilot; Rocky B u m s (rockybums@juno.com): I'm still down here in P-cola finishing up before I head to Sigonella flying 53s. I thought I'd write because '98 has pretty much been dominating down here for the past three months. But it is scary, the '99ers are starting to flow in and even some '00. I'm living here with Everett Alcorn who is getting winged 15 September. I see Greg Pawson, Brian Swanson, Amy Kelstrand, and Jeanette (Gaudry) Haney stUl flying in helo land.

Marine track is a littie slower than the rest.

Here's a Ust of the last three months wingers; Jim Grieco, Chris Barnes, Eugene Bolton, Rob Danberg, Tim Davis. Greg Paradis (now married almost a year). Brain Saal, Rob Wickman, Jeremy Lieby, Paolo Carcavallo, Bill Delmar, and Ben Cone are all going to Mayport flying 60Bs. Trever Davis, Dan Keeler, Jerome Gussow, Steve Minihane and Aaron Beatie are all going to Guam. Trever, Jerome, Steve, and Aaron are flying the new 60S. The rest 46s.

The San Diego crowd includes; Sandy (McBeth) Ennor, Mike McPhail, Jason Coffey, and Diana Yorty are flying 60Bs. Sumner Lee and Kevin Popp are flying 46s. John Arbuckle is flying 60Fs. Going on vacation in Hawaii are Lisa Berberich and Ryan Seggerty flying 60Bs. Flying in Norfolk; Lydia Duffey (H-3s), Scott Walgren (46s) and Doug Burfield (46s). Jacksonville; Kate McCreery and Jared Asman both flying 60Fs. Tony Schwarz is flying 53s out of Corpus and Scott Pichette is flying H-3s out of Puerto Rico. Some other info. Brendan Eagan is getting married 16 September. Chris Gilmore, Everett Alcorn, Robby "Werm" Burton (ramor recently engaged), Doug Ramsey (E-2s Norfolk), Chris Domencic and I will all be attending.

Should be a good time.

Thanks for the huge update on names and assignments. Rocky!

From M i c h a e l Davis: To catch up on me, I came home and got in a local university and finished my business degree (bachelor's) in May. I'm planning to start on my M.B.A. in Febraary. I just started at a new job at Satum selling cars. This was after spending two and a half years at Lowe's doing appliances, plumbing, and kitchen cabinets. What I'm hoping to do now is use the money I make selling cars to pay for my M.B.A. and then use my time here as a springboard into the corporate side of Satum.

Good luck, Mike.

Kevin C o r d l e is stationed on ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) in Everett, WA. He's the maintenance support officer where he is the youngest in the entfre department of maintenance, yet the second highest ranking. He's been doing C D C watches while on his six month deployment to the Persian Gulf He got married at the Chapel on 25 September 1999 during the mist of hurricane season but were fortu-

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'98; Some of RIVERS' crew in what some like to call Ft. Liquerdale. Pictured here at tiie Sage restaurant, 1 to r; standing: Steve Vancott '00, Ryan Mewett '00, Chris Wojtaszek '01, Jeff Lee '01, Chris Hansen '01, Keitii Baravik '97, Carole (keyboardist), Gary Rotella, James Henry '01, Gary's associate, Dave Forman '98, Robbie (Gary's associate), Jim Shell '95, Efly Peters; seated rear. CDR David Portoer '81 (CO); seated front: Steve Karpi and Todd GUdden nate to catch a beautiful day. Along the way, he has been in touch with Vins E v a n s who's tying the knot on 7 October in Tennessee to Anji. He's got orders later in October to San Diego as a supply officer on a small boy. J o s h H u g g i n s is already in San Diego on CONSTELLATION (CV-64). J a s o n F e s n a k is still in Earle, NJ, and he got married over a year ago to Melissa. K e n C h o n g has made it to his destination of H a w a i i as N F O . M a l c o l m R u m p is in Bremerton, WA, on CARL VINSON (CVN-70), I be-

Ueve as a Supply boy too.

A quick note from Phil D a n a (Pmdjaw@aol. com) (10th Company) and the mighty warship STETHAM (DDG-63) out in sunny San Diego: I relieved Paul Datka '97 (lOtii Company) as DCA and will soon be relieved by Alex Kom '99 (10th Company) who is now the MPO. I'm finishing up my first tour this coming December after serving as AUXO, DCA, and now the training officer. One deployment to the Arabian Gulf as a MEF with stops such as Fiji, Saipan, Port Kembia, Australia, Perth, Australia, and Phuket, Thailand.

Stateside libs have included Portland Rose Festival and Cabo San Lucas. Mazatlan and San Fran are coming up. Interesting stories include liason officer to Kuwait during FON ops and noncompliant boardings in the Gulf. My wife, Jen, and I have a home in Oceanside, CA, with two golden retrievers command and we will be off to retum to Newport, RI, early in December. I'm giving the department head thing a try and have pretty much committed to life (not a surprise). The $50,000 bonus had nothing to do with my decision...ha ha. I'm slated to retum to San Diego as WEPS onboard SHILOH (CG 67). Aegis Warrior! In closing, I would love to hear from some of my Shipmates. Go Navy, Go SWOl Thanks, Phil. I think you need to consider Navy recmiting for your shore duty.

From S u s a n Olivier: I am on JOHN YOUNG (DD-973) as the AUXO and

enjoying my time here. San Diego is a fun place to live and I run into '98ers all the time in bars in Pacific Beach and on the base. I am living with Dean Balcirak. Steve F o r t m a n n , Kathy McMorrow and Lacey Edge. Dean is on deployment on VALLEY FORGE (CG-50), but due back in just two weeks and tiien we are getting married a week after that in Rhode Island. We have been apart for a year because my deployment ended right when his began, so it was not very fun. Steve and Kathy are still together and going strong and Steve left for his six-month deployment to Guam a few weeks ago. He is doing really well with

SEAL Team 5. Kathy just left on her deployment too, she is on the Tarawa LSD-1. She is in deck division and just loves her job and the Navy. Definitely a lifer. Lacey just got back from her deployment to the Gulf on BONHOMME RICHARD

(LHD-6). We're just hanging out in San Diego and enjoying the in-port time. Jason Dalley is also on my ship and he has the stressful job of DCA, but is hanging in there. Suzanna Brugler just moved here from Yokuska and she is getting married in December to my CSO, LT Chris Cigna. Melissa Plean is still in CEC and just moved from Sasebo, Japan, to Coronado. She is getting married in November to Neal Plaskonos '96.1 ran into Dave Loya, Matt Sladky, Dave SUverman, Chad Graham, Tom Ogden, and Luke Radlinski a lot here in PB. Also, Colleen and Sandy Kosloski came to San Diego for a visit last weekend and they are great. I hadn't seen them since graduation. That's about all the '98 news I have from out here.

Thank you for the letter. Sue, and by the time this goes to print, congratulations on the wedding.

Wow! A bunch of good letters from all around.

Please, keep them coming. The next two articles will be written by someone else, because, for the first time, I ' m going to be gone for a significant amount of time. Thus far I've been able to go on short underways that managed to fit in between deadlines. J u s t i n A n d e r s o n , J a m e s J o n e s and I are going to be three section gas pedals on this next mission. It's just the three of us back aft, and as if know the layout of our subs, you'll know what I mean by gas pedals.

Other news from me: On 18 August I attended Scott Kinkele's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. I a n Schillinger, J o s h Roots and Tommie Watkins were also in attendance, with Alumni from '97 and ' 9 9 as well. The service and military honors were deeply moving. I realized that the cemetery I always associated with old war heroes, and thus I myself seemed not directiy associated with, now strikes too close to home as it shelters one of our Classmates. That whole day was a sobering experience. I will publish photos in a later issue.

But now, to try to end on a more positive note, I've included a picture back from May, when my boat was down in Port Everglades. We had all our USNA Midshipmen with us on summer cmise, and we got to meet up with G a r y Rotella and friends.

Gary is RIVERS' unofficial sponsor and spared no expense when it came to treating the wardroom and crew of L. MENDEL RTVERS (SSN-686). None of us

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will soon forget that spectacular port visit, and Gary's generosity was appreciated by all.

And back to Class stuff to finish this month off, our Web page www.usna98.org has a new Class directory thanks to Mike Gawlas. You've got to check it out. Keep working hard and stay safe.

Fair winds...DSF

Second company turned out in full force for the reception. Kneeling: Jeff HoUenbach, Ben Huggins; standing: Josh Powers, Kevin Chlan, John Moore, Will Wiley, Lesley Alexander, Josh Rupert, Stephanie Stevens, Pat Sundy, Kyle Shoop, Drew Jones and Doug Martin The former Kimberlj1 Knight and her groomsmen ;

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Chris Barker and the bridesmaids Trent Templer also tied the knot, marrying Ashley Lancaster in a ceremony attended by many of the 2nd Company's distinguished grads, including Jeff HoUenbach, Ben Huggins, Josh Powers, Kevin Chlan, John Moore, Will Wiley, Lesley Alexander, Josh Rupert, Stephanie Stevens, Pat Sundy, Kyle Shoop, and Doug Martin.

00 Pres: J.V. "Murph" McCarthy Vice Pres: Art Terry Treas: Nick Lalota Sec'y: Tim O'Connor 317 N. Pleasant Ave., Ridge wood, NJ 07450 e: ShipmateOO@yahoo.com Greetings from mandatory study hall up here in beautiful Newport, RI. Well the fear of having to report who failed Moboards and Rules of the Road was alleviated when I reaUzed that about 90 percent of our Class decided to get married over the past couple of months. Chris Barker married the lovely Kimberly Knight on 27 May On hand were 2000 grads Joshua Johnson, Rob WiJkerson, Wally Hicks, Chip Moldenhauer, John Laney, Justin Canfield, as well as LCDR Eric Kyle '86. The newly-wed Mr. and Mrs. Barker spent their honeymoon in France.

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After getting married on 27 May, she is now known as Mrs. Mark Symmes '98. They were married in a ceremony attended by Chris Narducci '96, Jamie Wagner '98, Dan Jent, Karen Goff, Holly Fryburger, and Mary Beth Hartman. Jay Tolley '97 was also on hand and very busy as a member of the wedding party and ensuring that the "Right Spirit" was being observed.

Chris Streng was wed on 17 June. On hand were Marshall Chastain, Tim Atherton, Wally Hicks, Brian O'Shea, Mike Stoker, and Jason Morrison.

I feel like Liz Smith, that obnoxious gossip columnist, and thankfully am out of submissions.

Please, continue to send them in. We also have several pictures submitted, so fellas, if you see any of these beautiful girls in Pensacola, Newport, or anywhere else, they are definitely spoken for. Congratulations, guys and girls, and good luck.

One quick admin note, as part of our new and innovative plans of fundraising, we are trying to put together a system that would make the whole Commissioning Week, house rental process considerably easier and have some proceeds go to our Class account. If you get the chance, please send in the name, address and phone number of the family you rented your house from. We are trying to put together a Web-based service that will have a percentage of the proceeds help fund our reunions and other functions.

Until next time—Tim O'Connor

01 Pres: MIDN 1/C Aaron Fielder Vice Pres: MIDN 1/C Dave Harrington Treas: MIDN 1/C Andy Hen wood Sec'y: MIDN 1/C Angela Karalekas

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Pres: MIDN 2/C Tim Kain Vice Pres: MIDN 2/C C.J. Simonson Treas: MIDN 2/C Hannah Martin Sec'y: MIDN 2/C Greg Chapman

Keep in touch with classmates. Update -your email and mailing addresses.

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Dr. Roy A. Smith HI '73 530 Bayhill Ridge Circle Hoover, AL 35244-3338 h: 205-979-8070 e: RoyS5564@aol.com Alabama Chapter Meets for Summer Picnic The Alabama Chapter closed ranks for its fourth annual summer picnic in beautiful Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham, AL, on Sunday, 27 August 2000. Special Events Chairman Ken Blalock '89, his wife, Libby, and one-year-old daughter, Suzy, organized the event, hoisted the N-star flag and provided a barbecue feast that was enjoyed by all.

Swapping stories of the last real Plebe years were Rich Ahem '68, Jim Pointer '78, and past Chapter President Jack Natter '61. Winning both the senior class and furthest distance traveled awards was Troy, AL, resident Bob Gordon '59. Ensuring the event would be a success was associate member SCPO Benny Reeves, USN (Ret.), and lovely wife, Kitty. Splitting time between mouthfuls of pie, football predictions and waterfront lifeguard duty were Classmates Scott Watson '83 (accompanied by wife, Lynne, sons, Bryan and Ben, and daughter, Jodi) and Doug Pass '83 (supported by wife, Susan, and children, Rebekah, Nathan and Mary).

Four-year-old Mary Ellen Newton and three-yearold Sam Patton had a ball while dads Mark Newton '91 and Kevin Patton '85 looked on.

JoEllen Patton and one-year-old Sarah Patton rounded out the crew. Chapter VP Patton explained the notable absence of our fearless leader. Chapter President Dr. Roy Smith '73, temporarily laid low by a Saturday backyard backsprain.

CDR Alan B. Lerchbacker '74, USN (Ret.)

The Chapter will reunite on Friday, 15 September 2000, for the fall dinner meeting at the Vestavia Hills Country Club and welcome guest speaker Academic Dean Bill Miller '62. If you can't be in Baltimore on 2 December, the next best place will be the Vestavia Hills Country Club for the Chapter's Army-Navy party sponsored jointly with the Alabama West Point Society. See you there!

Huntsville Chapter LCDR Frederick N. Steiner '57, USN (Ret.) 1059 Teenajo Drive SE HuntsvUle, AL 35803-3907 h: 256-650-5423 e: navy57@aol.com

ARIZONA Arizona Chapter Mr. William D. Morrison '57 11801 E. Juan Tabo Road Scottsdale, AZ 85255 h: 408-585-1867 e: BILLMORR@USWEST.NET

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Corr. Sec'y: Dick Glasow '67 ^^B e: dickglasow@hotmail.com Orange County Luncheon The Orange County Luncheon group met on Tuesday, 8 August 2000, at The Revere House restaurant in Tustin. Our speaker for the day was Charles Wiley from "Accuracy in the Media."

Charles is a World War II Navy veteran and career journalist. He regularly gives talks on how the present day media is not reporting the news, but attempting to slant the news in the manner they so desire. He utilizes present day news events to illusttate his points. Charles spoke to us about the true present day situation in the various world hot spots as well as national politics. It was a very interesting presentation with numerous questions following. We have invited the Orange County West Point Society of Graduates to join us for the luncheons and Tom Sharp, one of the West Pointers, won the 50-50 raffle. The proceeds from the 50-50 raffle are used to pay the expenses of the plaques presented to our adopted ship, FrrzoERALD (DDG-62), for the sailors of the quarter and sailor of the year.

We welcomed Lee Bendell '50 as a first time attendee and hope he will join the LA Chapter. Tom Stein '80, who joined us again after a lengthy absence, is retiring from the Marine Corps in San Diego and job hunting in the Orange County area.

Alumni attending included: Ken Klofkom '43, Lefty Lavrakas '43, Walt Stevens '43, Bob Rubel '44, Rich Crane ' 4 7 , TR Johnson ' 4 7 , Jim Kirkpatrick '47, Lee Bendell '50, John Snyder '50, Bob Watson '50, Al Enderiee '52, Bob Lowell '53, Larry Marr '56, Joe Koch '57, Jim Paulk '57, Dave Stiller '57, John Cobb '58, Jack Bundarin '59, Dick Banister '60, Danny Musselman '60, Dick Lee '62, Rich Pace '63, Bill Cray '67, Pete Thompson '67, Tom Stein '80, Jeff Hallin '83, Steve Shatynski '83, Joe Mandichak '89, and John Peterson '94.

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number of rooms at the Jonathan Club will be available on a first-come first-served basis, so please be prompt in sending in your reservations and money.

Checks should be made out to WPSOG-LA, and sent to Charlie Tennant '59, USMA, 1317 Breckford Ct., Westiake Village, CA 91361. Please provide names of all attendees (indicate which event(s) attending). Class (indicate USNA), most senior military rank attained, address, phone numbers, and for Friday if salmon is preferred to prime rib. POC is Steve Shatynski '83, 800-640-5836.

Army-Navy Game Party in Orange County The Orange County Army-Navy party will be held on Saturday, 2 December at the Tustin Brewery, 13011 Newport Blvd., Tustin, CA. The doors open at 7:30 a.m., march on at 9:00 a.m. and kickoff at 9:15 a.m. This year's party will be held in much nicer, roomier and better surroundings. The Tustin Brewery is located adjacent to the "Nieuport 17 Restaurant" at the comer of Newport Boulevard and Irvine Boulevard in the City of Tustin, just east of the 55 Freeway at the 4th Street exit.

The menu for the day is: 7:30-10:30 a.m.: coffee, orange juice, rolls and muffins, eggs, bacon, sausage, and potatoes served buffet style. 10:30 a.m.12:00 p.m.: carving table with barbecue brisket and tri-tip, pasta salad, potato salad, baked beans and rolls. Drink specials:...$2 Bloody Marys and $2.50 house brewed beers. The cost is only $20 per person, payable in advance by mailing a check to: USNA AA LA Chapter to: Mike Seaver '83, 25001 Woodridge, Lake Forest, CA 92630. Reservation deadline...22 November!

Dick Glasow '67

Monterey Bay Chapter CDR John J. Branson Jr. '50, USN (Ret.) 1281 Sylvan Road Monterey, CA 93940-4942 h: 831-375-8603 e: JJBransnjr@aol.com

Sacramento Chapter CW4 George R. Simmons '61, AUS (ReL)

10785 Penstock Trail Join us in Los Angeles on the weekend of 1 De- Auburn, CA 95603-9556 cember, for another gratifying shellacking of the h: 530-888-0860 Woops in football. The prestigious Jonathan Club e: gsim@aub.com again will be the site of our annual celebration with McClellan AFB O' Club, 12:00 p.m., 3 August the West Point Society of Grads. Never fear. Bill 2000: Monthly meeting of Sacramento Chapter, Conkle '69 has volunteered to supervise our coun- USNA AA. SOPA Mo Slater '42 was joined by Cay terparts (who will host this year) as Mr. Vice for and Joe Drachnik '43, Stan Hogshead '43, Bill Friday's formal dining out. The weekend begins Goode '43, Marion Logan (widow of Robert C. Friday night with a hosted reception, followed by Logan '43), Tom Hartigan '47, Betty and Bill the traditional and lively dining out in the grand Spencer '47, Lou Renz '47, Bill Doddy '48, Mary main dining room. Attendees will have the option Lee and Ed Axtell '48, John Green '51, Jim of staying that evening in the club's luxurious ho- D'Orso '52, John Haynes, Tom Langley '56, tel upstairs (very favorable room rates have been George Simmons '61, Larry Smith USMA '62, arranged). The game day party, which will again Steve Berg '66, Brian Grubbs '92 and his brother, take place on the club's rooftop, will include a gour- Jeff Grubbs, and Rita McHugh (Penn). met buffet brunch with full omelet and hosted bars.

Once again, no speaker, since summer vacation Make your plans now and bring friends. Don't delay a moment as reservations are limited. Cost for schedule prevails. President George announced that the reception and dining out is $ 105 per person and Mo and Carolyn Slater will host the annual sumthe Saturday game day party and brunch with hosted mer-ending potluck on Sunday, 17 September, at bar is $40 per person ($45 at the door); rooms for their lovely home, with 24 September as a back up Friday night are $ 105 (find a deal like that in down- if necessary. He also related the very interesting tale town L.A.!). Cost per couple for the package deal of his mid-summer trip to England for a car show, (all-inclusive for weekend with the exception of flying Space-A out of Travis after having made "resfines at the dining out) is $390. Again, the limited ervations" on the Intemet. It took ten hours to U.K.

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on a KCIO refueler and tiiree days to get back in a roundabout fashion. He stayed in a tent for six days on tiie 215-acre exhibition site.

It was announced that Cay Drachnik won an Award of Excellence at the Califomia State Fair, and did some demo painting on Tuesday, 28 August. BZ, Cay! At the same State Fair, John Haynes poured wine from the prize winners at the Wine Garden at Cal Expo. John just retumed from a successful fishing trip in La Paz, Mexico, nailing yellow fin tuna and dorado. He flew down Aero California in an old surveyed DC9. The stewardess pours drinks out of a bottle and stops when you say "stop." One can smoke in the back if no one complains. Going through Customs, they were govemed by a red and green light system, and he was lucky enough not to have the red light illuminate for the infrequent random baggage examination (not that John has anything to worry about, of course...). He will be attending the 45th Reunion of his USNA graduating Class at the end of October.

Steve Berg spoke briefly about his recent ascent of Washington's Mt. Adams, 12,276 feet, in two days away from home and a number of members questioned if anyone his age should be doing such things.

BUI Goode provided an excellent recitation on "giving up the ship." He reminded us of some of the famous naval sayings such as, "The colors must never be stmck," (Lt. William Burroughs, ENTERPRISE, 1813): and "Fight her 'til she sinks and don't give up the ship," (Captain James Lawrence, mortally woimded on CHESAPEAKE). He supplemented his talk with visual aids such as the "Don't Tread on Me" flags and informed us that the bow of the ship is pointed so you can tell it from the stem. His presentation was based on his re-assessment of PiFEBLo's surrender under CAPT Lloyd Bucher back in the late '60s. His initial reaction had been similar to that of many citizens, civilian and military alike, that Bucher had violated a time-honored naval tradition of never giving up. However, his indepth study of the situation led him to conclude, as many now have, that PUEBLO was placed in harm's way with no chance of survival or assistance, by bureaucrats, and any other action on his part would have simply meant instant annihilation of the entire crew, loss of the ship and possible compromise of military secrets. It can only be hoped that "those in charge" leamed from the experience, and vowed to avoid similar faux pas in the future.

Finally, Marion Logan charmed us with a heartwarming story about one of her late husband Bob's uniform accessories. She reminded us that we probably all wonder what happens to our Midshipmen caps when they are tossed at graduation. She was recentiy contacted by a couple in Annapolis who had been cleaning out the attic in the home of their deceased aunt. They found a Midshipman's cap (you can imagine the condition), with some identification indicating that it had once belonged to MIDN Robert C. Logan '43 (graduated in June '42). They went through a search process and found Marion, who now has the treasure. The woman (who must now be "of retirement age") explained to Marion that she had remembered playing with the hat in the attic as a small girl.

The meeting was adjourned on a sentimental note.

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San Diego Chapter LCDR Robert L. Rubin '82, USNR 10214 Rue Touraine San Diego, CA 92131-2230 h: 619-695-1622; w: 619-271-5807 e: rubin@nosc.mil Web site: www.san.rr.com/alumni/ 12 August, at sea aboard JOHN C . STENNIS

(CVN-74) Our most appreciative Thank You to CAPT Richard K. Gallagher '76, his superb crew and the air wing pilots for putting on a spectacular show. We arrived at the North Island NAS berth in the early moming hoiu-s tofindJOHN C. STENNIS ready and waiting for a family and friends cmise. As we arrived aboard we found a buffet fit for all. The fare ranged from doughnuts, bagels and pastries to bananas, apples and fnut juices.

Each group of family and friends was assigned a ship's company tour guide. It was obvious that an enormous amount of energy had been dedicated to training, preparation and most certainly safety. At sea we were greeted by CONSTELLATION (CV-64) and we steamed alongside at about a half-mile, for 30 minutes or so en route to our OpArea. For those who had never seen a carrier underway at sea. CONSTELLATION alongside was definitely a treat. Once in the OpArea flight ops began. Although hampered by some mild overcast, the show was spectacular.

There were helicopter ops and fly bys, F-18s for multiple arrested landings and catapult shots and then the S-3s boomed in for a long series of touchn-go's. Needless to say the performance of these sailors and pilots held both the seagoing and nonseagoing audience spellbound. The cameras were clicking non-stop during the entire period of flight ops. Thank you again CAPT Gallagher Will you please give your crew and air wing a Well Done along with our appreciation?

Admissions Standing Committee Many Alumni have not learned or heard about the Admissions Standing Committee. Our Chapter Tmstee, Bob Stevenson '60, who is also a Blue & Gold Officer here in San Diego, serves as a member. The objective of the committee is to increase awareness of our Naval Academy to increase the number of applicants throughout the country. A corollary objective is to raise the awareness of our Alumni to the evolving USNA candidate requirements and scenario in America.

Army-Navy Game Plans By the time we are reading this announcement and invitation our team should have a record of 6-0, well maybe 5-1. (Please do not forget that the Navy-Notre Dame game this year will be played at Disney World in Orlando.) What better way to cap off a successful season than joining with feUow Alumni and Classmates for our annual ArmyNavy game party at Trophy's in La Jolla at the Costa Verde Center. Once again Trophy's will open the doors and kickoff the breakfast buffet about 8:30 a.m. with game time anticipated to be 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 more than 20 television screens for viewing the game.

For Chapter members, there will be a reservation form in the monthly newsletter or you can reserve by email or by hotline. We also anticipate inviting local Army alumni.

Please see the following Homepage and hotiine information. We will be sending out more information as 2 December draws closer. Hope to see you all at Trophy's.

Business and Career Networking Forum Forums are held monthly on the second Friday (7:00-8:00 a.m.) at Amber's on Miramar Road at the 1-15 interchange just to the east of MCAS Miramar.

Amber's is located in the Holiday Inn complex (9355 Kearney Mesa Road, 858-689-7305) and there is plenty of parking. This is a joint service fomm/network in company with the West Point Alumni and Air Force Academy grads also participating.

The fomm is a great place to drop off a business card or even a "flyer" describing your services. For $5.50 (cash窶馬o checks, please bring the exact amount) you get all of the networking described plus juice, coffee, pastries, muffins and assorted fruits.

Our Networking Coordinator is Dave Fennell '87 (fennelld@mindspring.com). He is keeping up the work search/networking database for the Chapter and area. For those with Internet access, please log on to the Chapter Web site listed above and view the online career Web for our new and dynamic service. Another Web site to reach Dave is www.armtechjobs.com. Dave can also help you if you will send the following information directly to him: Name, Occupation, Company, Address, Phone (Work and Home), email address, and what kind of work you are searching for! Get in touch with Dave if you are considering a career change or looking for a new career or a new job.

You may also use USPS mail to Dave at: ARMTECH, 3692 Fifth Ave, #108, San Diego, CA 92103.

San Diego Chapter On-Line For access to Chapter information and scheduling, please check out our interactive homepage at: http://www.usnaaasd.com. For last minute luncheon reservations, etc. please call our hotline at 858-279-USNA. Don Grinned '61

San Francisco Chapter CAPT Rick Voytek '77, USNR lOOWestElCamino, 61 Mountain View, CA 94040 h: 650-962-0622; e: mongov@aol.com Web site: www.navysfo.org Sec'y: Dennis Vied '60 e: Dvied@home.com Less than a month to Army-Navy...Wow, talk about a year flying by! Seems like we just were ramping up for the game and a great Navy win.

We're making changes to the way in which we celebrate the game this year. We had such an overwhelming number of Alumni turn out for the game last year that we swamped the restaurant we met in. Following a number of suggestions to make the celebration more accessible to those members living outside of the East Bay, we've come up with a plan to hold numerous get-togethers around the Bay Area. So, if you haven't attended past games because it was too far to travel, check our Web site (www.navysfo.org) or the newsletter for the most current information on locations.

The Chapter has been busy. Last month we cosponsored the first ever Candidate Orientation Day aboard HORNET along with the Blue & Gold Officers and assistance from the National Association.

We hope to make this an annual event in identifying qualified potential candidates and getting those candidates in touch with the Blue & Gold program.

It is absolutely critical to ensure that the Academy continues to have qualified applicants in sufficient numbers if we are going to meet the rigors and demands of the naval service. There will be more follow-up in next month's Shipmate.

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We're kicking off our annual membership drive early. For those members of the Chapter, thank you for making this one of the largest in the national organization. But we can't rest on our laurels. We can have an impact on the quality of life for Alumni and Midshipmen thanks to you, but only through your continued support. If you know an Alumnus in the area who isn't a member of the Chapter, give them a call and invite them to join.

We need your help!

Beat Army!

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 e: tenbears@silcom.com Army-Navy Football Detailed plans for this year's gourmet brunch at the La Cumbre Country Club are awaiting the retum of the Major Domo Larry Lovig '39, who is, at this writing, decimating the Maine lobster population. Invitations should be in the mail shortly after this issue of Shipmate arrives—meanwhile, put it on your calendar, 2 December 2000, and prepare to Beat Army in style.

Bill Britton '53 (fax and phone) 805-682-8590 barnacle53 @ home, com

Gary Francis '68 anranged the toumament this year

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.com Web site: www.usna.com/Chapters/US/Colorado/ default.htm Colorado Alumni summer events included a night at the Rockies, the annual golf toumament with West Point and Air Force Alumni, and the annual family picnic.

Navy fielded six foursomes at the Air Force Academy golf course, and a Navy team had lowest score.

Rich Church '75 was best "golfer." Ninety tumed out for a great tournament. Some of the golfers waiting to tee off are shown (top right).

The family picnic was a huge success. It was held in Littleton, CO, in great weather. Picnickers shown (center right)are J.J. Mackin'68, Barbara and Arland Kuester '61, Jan and Bob Westfall '61, Hank Estes '59, Dick Sargent '57, and Sheila Branch.

Pictured in the picnic group photo (bottom right) are Sheila and Dan Branch '59 Barbara and Arland Kuester '61, J.J. Mackin '68, Jim Gonzales '71, Gerald English, Associate Member, Doreen and Jim Ryan '58, Norma and Dave Govan '53, Jenny and Hank Estes '59, Tricia and Hank Sargent '57, Andy Sosnicky '66, Darin Cline '92, Mike Morrissey '86 and Jody Jennings '86 and children. Rusty Stephens '74 and son Mike, Chris Nuegebauer '88 and Ruth Nuegebauer '88 and children, Sarah Grouse '94 and her parents and sister, Suzanne and David Fong '90 and children, and Steve Martin '77 and guests.

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C O N N E C T I C U Connecticut C h a p t e r Mr. C. Thomas Hogsten Jr. Ir. '85 .^m 33 HoUister Drive Avon, CT 06001 h: 860-673-0033 e: thogsten@aol.com Web site: www.usnact.org The next Chapter meeting will take place on Friday, 17 November at the Hartford Armory O'Club.

USNA Dean of Admissions, Dave Vetter '67, is scheduled to be our speaker.

Our annual Army-Navy party is again scheduled for Arch's Pizza in Rocky Hill, CT, on 2 December. Please check the Chapter Web page (www.usnact.org) and current issue of the Chapter newsletter for up to date information on these and other fiiture events.

The Chapter is repeating a focus program that was quite successful last year; assisting the Coast Guard Academy in New London with their Family Sponsor Program.

USNA Alumni who reside within a 30-minute drive of the Coast Guard Academy are invited and urged to volunteer to participate in this very satisfying and worthwhile program. Should anyone have any interest, details on the program can be obtained from LCDR Dan Kenny, USCG, at 860-444-8231 (Dkenny@exmail.uscga.edu) or Mrs. Carey McNeil at 860-444-8281 (cnmicneil@cga.uscg.mil).

Our Chapter continues to make progress in attaining our membership goal of "200 in 2000" with a current paid membership of 192. We are offering a year-end special to new members. Check the Chapter Web site for details, or contact our membership chairman, Tom Hogsten '85 (thogsten@aol.com).

Doug Wilson '77

COSTA RICA Costa Rica Chapter Claudio A. Pacheco '64 Apt 4307-1000 San Jose, Costa Rica h: 506-224-4325 w: 506-256-: 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: sunirtan@aol.com

FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale C h a p t e r CAPT William J. Aston '51, USN (Ret) 659 Coconut Drive SW Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315 "^H h: 954-463-3047 e: saltysam@bellsouth.net Shipmate, November 2000

Gainesville Chapter CAPT J. Michael Smith '61, USNR (Ret.) 10424 SW 41st Place Gainesville, FL 32608 h: 352-376-6611 w: 352-376-3301 e: mickey@acceleration.net

We're also grateful we don't have any bad hurricane news to report and hope it continues that way.

Debbie fizzled out, and that's how South Floridians like the hunicane season to pass. Beat Army!

Walt Whipple '57 Pensacola Chapter

Jacksonville Chapter CAPT Michael O. Horns '70, USN (Ret.) 1185 SaU Marsh Circle Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2543 h: 904-273-4714; w: 904-693-5630 e: usnaaajaxchap@usa.net M i a m i Chapter LT Douglas J. Ross '81, USNRR 16923 SW 79th Place Miami, FL 33157 h: 305-252-2379; b: 305-252-4904 e: rossfinl@bellsouth.net Sec'y: Zachariah R. Bell '89 e: zbell@cenetec.com

Naples-Fort Myers Chapter Mr. William H. Vonier '51 2065 Imperial Circle Naples, FL 34110 p: 941-514-4031 e: bvonier@mediaone.net

Orlando Chapter CDR Jeffrey D. Hall '83, USNR 33 Winsor Isle Drive Longwood, FL 32779 h: 407-805-9485 e: jhall@fedsig.com

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 At this writing, our Chapter is on schedule for its monthly luncheons beginning in September at the Ballen Isles Country Club. Along with a fabulous buffet, the program scheduled will be a salute to Navy football, including a showing of the video Anchors Aweighfor Honor and Glory. We will report to you in next month's issue those who attended and any other item of business discussed.

A number of our members will have journeyed to Orlando for the Navy-Notre Dame football game.

Also, a number are planning to be at Homecoming 19-21 October. We expect a good tumout for our October luncheon meeting so that folks can relay their stories from all these events. For October a very informative luncheon is planned at the U.S. Coast Guard Lake Worth Inlet Station.

Our Chapter welcomes new member Tim Goering '89. Tim served in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduation until 1998. He was living and working in the Ponte Vedra area of Florida (near Jacksonville) before moving to Jupiter, FL, and working in West Palm Beach.

Please pay your annual Chapter dues if you have not done so already. The amount is only $ 15. Thank you for your support!

CAPT Glenn H. Montgomery '71, USN (Ret.) 1152 Ceylon Court Guff Breeze, FL 32561-3214 h: 850-934-4757 e: monty4gb@aol.com

Space Coast Chapter CAPT Peter C. Peterson Jr. '56, USN (Ret.) 401 Third Avenue Melboume Beach, FL 32951-2537 h: 321-952-2066 e: peteusna@aol.com

Suncoast Chapter Clifford P. Hermann '45 7979 S. Tamiami Trail #338A Sarasota, FL 34231 e: amorency@aol.com

Tampa Bay Chapter Ms. Kristi W. Hendricks '92 3905 Rolling Terrace Lane Valrico, FL 33594 h: 813-662-7325; w: 813-301-2092 e: khendricks@kpmg.com

GEORGIA Atlanta Chapter CDR Robert P. Bush III '65, USNR (Ret.) 4103 Madison Drive Atlanta, GA 30346 h: 707-351-0008 e: bobbush65@mindspring.com Web site: http://members.aol.com/usnaaaa/usnaaaa/ A Bit of "Old News" The Atianta Chapter was proud to have Republican Congressman Bob Barr, representing Georgia's 7th district, address the gathered Atianta Alumni for the June luncheon. Much of Congressman Barr's speech centered on how the world has changed over the last generation; and not for the better. According to Congressman Barr, we have entered a world similar to that of the old Bizarro World comic books seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where things appear to be 180 degrees opposite of what they really are. He said he believed it to be caused by a change in our value systems and our culture that has occurred gradually over the last generation. Whereas a generation ago, honesty, integrity, and decency were the norm, today they are the exception. Bizarro World is a global phenomenon that is being seen in the United Kingdom and many other parts of the world as well. The following Alumni enjoyed his company: Bob Schultz '71, Bill Rentz '55, Richard Wilson '64, John Cumberiand '44, Donald Thompson '59, Brent Kinman '94, Pete Dabbieri '67, John Stark '51, Lorie Moore '64, Ian Wamberg '92, Will Wood '66, Mario Maddox '85, Mitch Rowland ' 7 1 , Mike Herger '90, Jim Ravenel '45, BiU Wideman '35,

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Rick Miller '74, Glenn Brewer ' 5 1 , Richard Rodgers '67, Gehrig Wiles '74, Charles Hill '42, Dave DeJamette '82, Steve Gatanis '82, Mike Rose '48, Perry Stephens '53, Ed Sundberg '68, Pies Bmce '77, David Rudko '92, Frank Roescher '59, Lee Whitfield '71, Gil McCuUen '53, Ned Hunter '81, Reggie Vachon '58, Jim Coe '86, Mark Dixon '90, Jim Slemenda '66, and Walt Coakley '54.

26th Annual LobsterFest Just shy of 200 Alumni, family, and friends attended the Chapter's 26th Annual LobsterFest cookout on Saturday, 3 June. Nearly 300 fresh Maine lobsters flown in from Maine, plus 25 pounds of mussels, tons of fresh-made salad, hundreds of ears of com slathered with melted butter, plus dinner rolls and more were consumed by the crowd! Many thanks to the McCallum '60's and the Dabbieri '67's for coordinating the event again this year! And many thanks to all of the volunteers who worked so hard to make this event possible again this year! Paul Hurst '62 held a Reef Pointsltrivia contest, which was won by the combined classes of the 70s! Go 70s! Musical entertainment was provided by the Hanson's, a local husband-and-wife DJ team. After dinner, the music volume went up and some spontaneous dancing broke out.

The Chapter elected the following officers to serve for the next one-year term: President, Bob Bush '65; Vice President, Bob Schultz '71; Vice President, Information Systems, Pete Dabbieri '67; Secretary, Joe Solymossy '68; Treasurer, Mike Herger '90; Web site Manager, Bob Schultz '71; Chapter Tmstee, Paul Hurst '62; Board Members at Large, Emie Matacotta '82, Lorie Moore '64, and Don Thompson '59.

The 21 July Chapter lunch hosted Mr. Rusty Slider, Director of Admissions, who spoke about the Woodward Academy in Atlanta (formerly the Georgia Military Academy), and their program specifically for students entering the 11th grade who have a desfre to attend one of the service academies.

All visitors from out of town are welcome at our luncheons, which are held on the third Friday of each month at noon. Our luncheon location is the Jocks'n Jills Sports Bar and Restaurant at 4046 Peachtree Road NE, in Brookhaven, a few miles northeast of Buckhead. You can readily pull directions to the luncheon location, as well as other chapter information, from our Web site at www.usnaaaa.com.

August Newsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; USNA AA Governance Study Group Neil Block '61, Chairman of the Governance Study Group and recently elected Central Region Tmstee, spoke at the Chapter luncheon on Friday, 18 August at our regular meeting. The meeting was well attended for a mid-summer event, with a large number of new attendees mixing with the regulars.

Neil's message centered around the aims of the Govemance Study and the changes to the stracture of the Association's Board of Trastees that resulted from the committee's recommendations. The objective of the restmcturing was to give greater representation to those Alumni who reside outside of the cities with the largest chapters. That this was achieved is reflected in the substantial changes that are being made to the Board. While the number of "large" chapters automatically getting to send a tmstee to the Board is being reduced from 12 to 9, all other chapters will be able to compete for three seats that will be rotated every two years.

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least two, and in some cases three, Trastees through whom he or she can communicate with the Board.

Neil also briefly discussed the manner in which the Chairman of the Board of Trastees is selected.

He spoke of the recent survey the Study Group conducted to gather opinions regarding the advisability of nominating only one candidate for the Chairman and Vice-Chairman's slots (a.k.a. the single slate issue) and whether or not the election for those posts should include a write-in opportunity for the membership. He reported that the replies received to date favored the single slate by about 2 to 1, and on the write-in issue the responses were about equally divided.

Neil's closing remarks were in the form of a challenge to the Association in general, and the Atlanta Chapter specifically. Our Association is becoming more pro-active on a national basis in several areas, but especially with regard to attracting good candidates for admission and to the opportunity to assist the Academy financially in some important areas. The Atlanta Chapter is especially well situated to assist in these areas and can make a significant mark on the future of the Academy if our membership accepts the challenge. The following Alumni enjoyed his company: Bill Rentz '55, Pete Dabbieri '67, Lorie Moore '64, Mario Maddox '85, Mike Herger '90, Jim Ravenel '45, Bill Wideman '35, John Stark '51, Vemon Wright '67, Paul Hurst '62, Jim Slemenda '66, Bob Bush '65, Walt Coakley '54, Richard Rodgers '67, Ben McMillan '74, Mike Donohoo '65, Paul Bames '51, Neil Block'61, Jim Hatch '47, Donald Thompson '59, Britt Watwind '72, John Mlincsek '85, Joe Grantham '46, Brad Ededfield '87, Brian Pilger '73, Stephen Dix '72, Carl McCallum '60, Alan K. MiUer '61, and guests David Kennedy and Dennis McGee. October Luncheon The 20 October Chapter lunch will host Jim Maddox, Atlanta City councilman. All visitors from out of town are welcome at our luncheons, which are held on the third Friday of each month at noon.

Our luncheon location is the Jocks'n Jills Sports Bar and Restaurant at 4046 Peachttee Road NE, in Brookhaven, a few miles northeast of Buckhead.

You can readily pull directions to the luncheon location, as well as other chapter information, from our Web site at www.usnaaaa.com.

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LCDR Noel M. Enriquez '84, USNR RO. Box 26849, GMF Barriguda, GU 96921-6849 h: 671-477-4382; hfax: 671-472-1966 w: 671-649-9629; wf 671-649-8870 e: nmenriqu@ite.net

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CAPT Harvey Gray Jr. '52, USN (iSft. 1117 Akumu Street Kailua, HI 96734-4012 ^ h: 808-261-9722; e: hamgray@juno.com http://members.xoom.com/hawaiialumni

ILLINOIS Chicago Chapter CDR Frederick W. Weber 2134 Evert Court Northbrook, IL 60062-6612 h: 847-559-9381; w: 312-750-8899 e: fredrick.weber@rosshardies.com

INDIANA Indianapolis Chapter CDR 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: CHaizlip@aol.com

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Louisville/Southem Indiana Chapter CDR Gregory R. Reinhardt '79, USNR 712 Talon Place Louisville, KY 40223-5575 h: 502-244-7707 e: afrlgxr@air.ups.com

LOUISIANA SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast (formerly New Orleans) Chapter CDR Rex A. Hent '76, USNj $N(R|L^n 229 Blue Crane #1 Slidell, LA 70468 h: 504-847-9862 e: Rexuspa@compuserve.com CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr. '80, USNR 15 Allard Blvd NewOleans, LA70119 h: 504-486-9040 e: jgrace@notc.org It's "All ahead flank speed" time to order tickets for the Navy-Tulane football game on 11 November at the Louisiana Super Dome in New Orleans.

Call 1-800-US4-NAVY for game tickets ($23/each, if there are any left at this point) and beg for seating in Block 1401 (with the New Orleans Alumni Assn.). Note that NAAA has indicated that reserved block tickets for this game will be "closed" about 29 September and that initial ticket mailings will probably happen the second week in October.

The SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast Chapter is also hosting a pre-game victory tailgate party, starting two hours before kickoff time, with food buffet and cash bar in one of the Quadrant Ballrooms of the Super Dome. Tailgate tickets purchased in advance (pick them up at the door) are priced at $20 for Shipmate, November 2000

adults ($25 if purchased at the door), age 15 and under free.

Please send your "tailgate" reservation request (not later than 23 October, along with your check) to the address indicated below: Navy-Tulane Pre-Game Victory Tailgate Party, USNA Alumni Association. 1632 General Taylor Sueet, New Orieans, LA 70115 Make checks payable to: SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast Chapter, USNA Alumni Assn. and indicate (print, please!) names and Class year to be preprinted on name tags.

Other Chapter contact points remain: Secretary: MUt Jones '61, h: 504-895-8445, cell: 504-4513510, nihjones61@aol.com; and Treasurer: Fred Zeile '73, h: 504-641-9103, e: efzeile@atinc.com.

MARYLAND Annapolis Chapter CAPT Stephen K. Laabs '64, USN (Ri 1937 Baltimore-AnnapoUs Blvd. /^napolis.MD 21401 h: 410-268-7709 xl04 e: stephen.laabs@usaa.com The Annapolis Chapter held its "Double Barrel Breakfast" in September. George Watt Jr. '73, president and CEO of the Alumni Association, kicked off our breakfast meeting with a rousing talk about his vision for the Association. His chat was very well received, and he stayed after breakfast to answer questions. After George Watt spoke. Coach CharUe Weatherbie got up to talk about Navy footbaU, and offer an up-beat prediction for the season.

CharUe also stayed afterward to answer questions.

Breakfast was held in the Bo Coppedge room of Alumni HaU. The change of venue was refreshing, and more than 95 guests joined in. Our October event is scheduled to include dinner, and a private tour of the Naval Academy Museum with Museum Dfrector, Dr. Scott Harmon '64.

We look forward to seeing new faces at our events. So feel free to call one of our officers or board members, join up, and come on down.

Baltimore Chapter LCDR Steve G. Young '84, USNR c/o Legg Mason 600 Washington Avenue #200 Towson, MD 21204 w: 410-821-7700 e: SYoung@LeggMason.com

Greater Southem Maryland Chapter Jack Pappas '61 P.O. Box 154 Dowell,MD 20629-0154 h: 410-326-5496 e: jpappas@erols.com http://www.navyalunmi.org

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MASSACHUSETTS Boston Chapter

MINNESOTA Upper Midwest Chapter

Frederick J. Sheehan Jr. '7' 160 Burkhall Street #609 Weymouth, MA 02190-3533 h: 617-337-3712; w: 617-572-4562 e: fsheehan@jhancock.com

Darrel Gonyea '61 1053 Peninsula Point Road Shakope, MN 55379 w: 612-882-1112 e: GONYEALAND@aol.com

MICHIGAN Detroit Chapter

MISSOURI Greater Kansas City Metro Chapter

Arthur W. Hryant '66 1811 Hollywood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-13| h: 313-885-2174; f 313-881-2333 % e: lynorart@flash.net Web site: www.usna.com/Chapters/US/Michigan/ Detroit/default.htm

Mr. Kyle E. Martin '74 16901 Meadow Lane Belton, MO 64012-4112 w: 913-498-8088; e: kmartin@mileposfrans.com Sec'y: Joe Spencer '92 e: jspencer@go-onpoint.com

The Detroit Chapter held a very well-attended luncheon on 17 August at the Dearborn Inn's 10 Eyke Tavem. Those present were Tom Cook '57, Jim Hanford '59, Bill Penn '63, Mark Schramm '72, Vaughn Bennett '73, Larry Carello '73, Chip Campbell '76, Matt Shipley '94, and Mike Bennett (local Association of Naval Aviation Commodore and a Blue & Gold officer). Discussion centered around the KURSK incident, with expert insights from both a former submariner and a former SEAL, each of whom had deep water exit training. Another topic of conversation was the TV series "JAG" and its flirting with reality. One member of the group has a law degree and pointed out several implausibilities with the program, while another member countered with the fact that the show does deal with real world, "hot-button" issues thinly disguised as fiction. The general consensus was that for a medium (television) that is usually hostile to the armed forces, the program does show the services in a positive light and attempts to show their side of controversial issues.

The schedule for upcoming Chapter luncheons follows: Thursday, 16 November: Hogan's Friday, 15 December: Henry Ford Fairlane Estate Pool Restaurant AU lunches begin at 11:30 a.m. Please RSVP to Charlie Schott '85 (chukshot@hotmail.com).

The Chapter also welcomed a few new members. Brian Corcoran '83 arrived in the area from Chicago, with wife. Sue, and sons Connor, Sean and Brennan in tow. He currently flies DC-9s for USA Jet and also flies P-3s in the Reserve. Steve Kowalkoski '85 recently moved to Plymouth with wife, Suzanne, and his two sons, Bernhardt and Thomas. Steve is the VP of Automotive Operations for FedEx Logistics. Matt Shipley '94 recently moved into the metro Detroit area after leaving active duty, and Wit Davis '80 also joined the Chapter.

Chapter members should keep an eye out for information on the annual Army-Navy football game party (a.k.a. the Battle for the Pickle Barrel) with the Michigan West Point Society. Look for info in the monthly mailings and also at the new Chapter Web site, located at http:// www.usna.com/Chapters/US/Michigan/Detroit/ default.htm. More details will follow in the coming weeks. Go Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Beat 'em alll

Many events are being discussed in the local Chapter. The KC Chapter Web site is now up and operational. This will be our primary communications source for the most current information conceming the KC Chapter. If you would like the most current information on our Chapter (events, meetings, news, contact information, etc.), visit www.usna.com and follow the links to the Kansas City Chapter pages.

On Tuesday, 5 September, we had a Chapter meeting at the home of Jack Rush '73 (jdrush@kc.rr.com; 913-219-7460). The events listed below are what is planned for the fall, most of which will have already taken place by the time you read this (a reason to check the Web site often). If you live in the Kansas City area and did not know about these events, contact Jack (913-2197460) with your email address or other contact information and he will add you to the database. If you don't have email, there will still be mailings, so please get your address to him.

1. USNAAA tailgate at the Chiefs game, 17 September 2. Road trip to Navy Air Force on 7 October 3. Army-Navy Golf outing, 28 September 4. Army-Navy Football Party at the University Club 5. Monthly luncheon meetings 6. Christmas in October for 2001 Again, check the Web site for the latest information. Beat Army!

St. Louis Chapter LCDR Ronald M. Hill '70, USN (Ret.) 1026 Parkwatch Drive Ballwin, MO 63011-3642 h: 636-207-9376; e: rmaxhiU@aol.com Corr Sec'y: John Hueseman '78 Hhueseman @postnet.com h: 636-394-5302; w: 636-530-3432

NEBRASKA Omaha Chapter :-.cty: CAPT Dennis R. Fox '79, USN 2113 Christine Street PapUUon,NE 68133 h: 402-597-8862; w: 402-294-3722 e: fox79@hotmail.com

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Omaha, continued Sec'y: LCDR Chris Verdoni '88 4605 Longview Street Papillion,NE 68133 h: 402-292-3230; w: 402-294-8309 e: cverdoni@email.msn.com

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 50 Polly Way Middletown, NJ 07748-3189 b: 732-671-9330; w: 732-530-8444 e: Bob.Vogt@telos.com

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Maj Donald Rohr '55, USAF (Ret) 4804 Nortiiridge Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111-210h: 505-294-4048; f 505-844-5J e: rohrdf@sandia.gov

NEW YORK Capital District Chapter LCDR Thomas M. Owens 'M, U l 205 Colonial Avenue Albany, NY 12208-2404 h: 518-446-9278; e: owenst@bsk.com

Metro New York Chapter RADM Henry F. White Jr. '68, USNR RO. Box 800 Bronx, NY 10471-0800 718-549-2177 e: hfwhite@iicl.org Chapter Hotiine: 1-800-234-USNA Web site: www.NAANY.org

Western New York Chapter CAPT Nelson A. Blish '69, USNR (Ret) 3840 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14618-3729 h: 716-248-9739 e: nelson.blish@kodak.com

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NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Chapter Hryan Dolan '76 5629 Laurium Road Charlotte, NC 28226 h: 704-364-6451

OHIO Cincinnati/Northern K Michael F. Simon '73 757 Maidstone Court Cincinnati, OH 45230-3827 h: 513-231-3174; e: msimon757@aol.com

Piedmont Triad Chapter

Cleveland Chapter

LtCol Gary L. Beaver '77, USMCR 10 Silver Oak Court Greensboro, NC 27455 h: 336-299-4736 e: Gbeaver@AdamsKleemeier.com

CAPT A. O. Rule HI '50, USNR (Ret.) 90 Pheasant Run Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 h: 440-247-4379; w: 440-247-5100 x328 e: raleIII@aol.com

Triangle Chapter

Columbus/Central Ohio Chapter

CAPT William K. Gautier '67, USN (Ret.)

CAPT Wm. "Mick" Taylor '68, USMC (Ret)

116 Birklands Drive Gary, NC 27511-8203 h: 919-233-7255 e: William.Gautier@jcbradford.com http://triangleusna.home.mindspring.com/ Periodically, the Chapter's monthly luncheons are highlighted by the appearance of a guest speaker.

On 8 September the Chapter heard from Dan Heimbach '72. Dan worked for Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. He was a member of the White House Staff under President George Bush, serving as associate director of the National Policy Council and later as deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for Manpower. Dan is currently a Professor at SouthEast Baptist Seminary.

Dan's talk dealt with the reasoning for President Bush's decisions in the Gulf War. He discussed the role of the President and Chief of Staff John Sununu. Dan conceived of the need for a document of the ethical underpinnings for the war.

He recommended this to Sununu who approved it and completed this effort. Later this was the subject of a major policy address that was well received by the press. It "spiked the guns" of the news media who had been attacking the administration for the use of the term "just war" Dan illustrated his points with several incidents during Desert Storm, such as the bombing of the retreating Iraqis on the "Highway of Death." Dan's talk was well received by the Chapter.

At all good gatherings of shipmates and Alumni, stories of grand and occasionally dubious nature are shared. New member, Jennifer Clement '81, announced one such story that she insists is true. Six midshipmen at West Point used a cherry picker to put sheet posters on the overhead of the Army Mess Hall. The frustrated Pointers could not get them down as they plugged the cherry picker into an inoperative electrical outlet. (Navy used a good outlet.) They were accused of disabling the cherry picker by removing a key partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which, of course, they denied. The posters stayed up through the game.

Come join your Alumni friends for our next luncheon 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 Gary. For the latest information on Chapter events, check out our Web site at http://triangleusna.home.mindspring.com. For membership information, call Mitch Mitchell at 252-478-2850.

1450 Abbotsford Gfreen Drive Powell, OH 43065 h: 614-888-6774 e: micktaylor@yahoo.com

Toledo Chapter Robert J. Lauer '45 3825 Sulphur Spring Road Toledo, OH 43606-2325 h: 419-536-4462; w: 419-475-2061 e: rjonlauer@aol.com

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Chapter CAPT Charles C. Coley '34, 411 NW 14th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73103-3510 h: 405-235-0234 e: cccusn@aol.com

l\ilsa Oklahoma Chapter CDR Harry V. Rouse IV '77, USN (Ret.) 2623 East 33 Place Tulsa, OK 74105-2334 h: 918-748-8650 e: HVRouse@aol.com

OREGON fh Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter Mr. M. Alexander "Tex" Harkins Jr. 4055 SW 48th Place Portland, OR 97221-3735 h: 503-297-0246; w: 503-297-0252 e: harkins@computer.org Web site: http://usnaaa-or-swwa.homepage.com August Luncheon The Chapter met for our monthly Luncheon on 7 August. Attending the luncheon were: Chuck Whiteside '45, Jim Leiser '51, Ruth and Jock Craig '53, John DeZell '55, Butch Bewick '62, Sylvia and John Detweiler '63, Joan and Jack Kohl '65, Alex "Tex" Harkins '67, Jill and Herb Colomb '67, Joe Kavale '68, Jennifer and Doug

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Cooper '87, and guests, Tessa Hayden, Michal Mesa, Madeline Mesa, Rachel Cooper, and Nick Cooper.

The August luncheon was a lot of fun for a number of reasons. We met for lunch in die Senate Lounge at die Oregon State Capitol in Salem, for our first "out of Portiand" field trip of the year. Herb Colomb '67, who is the director of facilities for the state Capitol building, made the arrangements for the luncheon and served as our tour guide. Our tiianks again, to Herb. The fun started when John DeZell '55 arrived with his "boom box" playing tiie USNA Dram and Bugle Corp rendition of "Anchors Away." Who could help but sing along! John continued to entertain everyone by first telUng us about his trip to the Republican National Convention, and then providing more Drum and Bugle Corp music for our ttek up over 100 steps to the top of the capitol dome. With the luncheon out of Portiand we had the opportunity to see some new faces. Alumni that have a hard time getting to the luncheons at our normal location. During the luncheon. President Alex 'Tex" Harkins '67 coaxed each of us into speaking a littie about what was going on currentiy in our Uves, projects, trips, etc. Of particular note was hearing from Rachel and Nick Cooper on how thefr parents, Jennifer and Doug Cooper '87, for the second summer in a row have kept them so busy during the summer that they didn't have time to play on a computer all siunmer long.

Late Entry I faUed to mention in last month's Chapter News, that at the July luncheon, our outgoing President, Doug Bomarito '68 was presented with a letter of appreciation from the Alumni Association for his outstanding work as our president for the past two years. Way to go Doug!

Army-Navy Game As noted in last months article, the location for this year's Army-Navy game viewing party is yet to be determined, but it is not too early to mark your calendar for 2 December, there will be a party to celebrate another win for Navy!

The Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter meets for lunch the second Wednesday of every month at The Georgian Room Restaurant, Meier & Frank 10th Floor, Downtown Portland, 6th and Alder, at 11:30 a.m. Please join us. Call Alex "Tex" Harkins '67 (503-297-0246) or Bmce Thompson '73 (503-292-8833) for any additional information, or check our Web site.

Joe Kavale '68

Kamryn Dey, daughter of LT William Dey '92 The Philadelphia Chapter raised over $6,000 for the education fund of Kamryn Dey, daughter of LT WiUiam Dey '92. LT Dey lost his life in the WG Air Show this past June. If you would like to make a contribution, please make checks payable to "LT Dey Memorial Fund" mailed to The Vanguard Group, Attn: Paul H. James VM-FIO, RO. Box 2600, Valley Forge, PA 19482.

Upcoming Events sponsored by USNA AA of Philadelphia: 11/19: Sandcastle Winery Tour 12/2: A-N Football Party 12/7: Dinner with CAPT Jenkins '30 12/26: Military Ball 1/21: Philly Phantom's Game 6/2: Blue Angels, WG NAS-JRB USNAAA of Philadelphia events will be preceded by a mailing. Anyone interested in helping to ran events throughout the year, please contact Kelly Salmons '93 (DSalmons@Woridnet.att.net) 215-321-2105.

PENNSYLVANI Philadelphia Chapter Mr. Paul James '81 323 Minuteman Drive CoUegeville, PA 19426-3491 h: 610-666-1093 e: Paul_James@Vanguard.com http://clubs.yahoo.coni/clubs/USNAPhil RADM Vii^l L. Hill Jr. '61, USN (Ret.), tumed over command as the president of Valley Forge MiUtary Academy and College in mid-August. His reUef is RADM Peter A. C. Long '67, USN (Ret.).

Another Naval Academy Alumni to lead the Cadets! CAPT Thomas F. Nagelin Jr. '74, USN, tumed over command of the Willow Grove NASJRB to CAPT Cameron "Cam" Blake '77, USN. Tom has a command in New Orleans now. Welcome to Philadelphia "Cam!"

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Keith Smith '74 cooking for a WOOP

John Coney '89 enjoying the Air Show from the pool

Sandcastle Winery Tour: On Sunday, 11/19 at 1:00 p.m., we have scheduled a Millennium Barrel Tasting Tour of the Sandcastle Winery nestled in the banks of the Delaware River, ten minutes north of New Hope in Bucks County, PA. The price is $20 ($15 for duespaid members). Make check payable to "Keith Smith" and mail to Prodesco, Inc, c/o Keith Smith '74, PO. Box 237, Perkasie, PA 18944. For more information contact Keith Smith '74 (KSmith@ Prodesco.com) 215-513-0753.

Army-Navy Football Party: On Saturday, 12/2, starting at 11:00 a.m. we will meet at the Orion Club, Willow Grove NAS-JRB, for an Army-Navy Football Party. We will have a 60-inch TV to cheer the Mids to victory. Make sure you wear your letter sweater or B-Robe. There is no charge to attend. The dining room will be open for lunch and we will have a cash bar. We have invited the West Point Chapter to join us. For more information, contact Paul Barr '84 (thebarrs @bellatiantic.net) 610-918-3892.

Dinner with CAPT Walter "Jenk" Jenkins '30: On Thursday, 12/7, starting at 6:00p.m., we will meet at Bryn Mawr Terrace to have dinner with our oldest living Alumni. CAPT Jenkins ' 30 has promised us some exciting WWII Sea Stories. For more information contact Paul James '81 (PJUSNA81 @Yahoo.com)610-666-1093.

Service Academies Military Ball: Tuesday, 12/26 at the Union League. This is an annual event run by the Parent's Association. It is a formal night of dinning, dancing and celebrating the holidays with friends of the service academies.

Parents, Alumni, Midshipmen/Cadets and friends will fill the night with Xmas cheer and rivalry. This is a singles event as well as a couple's night on the town. Contact Dindy Liebert (LiebertCO ŠAOL.com) 215-233-3253.

Annual Dues: Our Chapter supports many local USNA functions such as the Annual Dinner, Parent's Night, Army-Navy Gala, high school field trips to USNA, Navy Day Regatta, business network meetings, inter-service events, pool parties and many other worthy activities. Your support benefits the Navy, Marine Corps and the Naval Academy in the Philadelphia area. Dues for Year 2001 are $25. This year we will not produce a membership directory. We have several copies available from Year 2000. Also the directory is available to dues-paid members on our private Web page. Additionally, you are invited to join our Blue & Gold Club for a total donation of $50. Blue & Gold Club members can submit a business card to be displayed on our Chapter Web page. Make check payable and mail to: USNA AA of Philadelphia, c/o Paul James '81, 323 Minuteman Drive, CoUegeville, PA 19426-3494.

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. Come to our luncheons and support our program, which has helped over 100 Alumni find jobs in the area. 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 Toneatto '67, USMA (Adler@ fast.net) 856-757-0070 within one day of the event.

Southeastern PA Parent's Association: The USNA Parent's Assn. (SPPA) President is Debbie Feigel (wurgelf@erols.com) 215-483-2959 and the Newsletter Editor is Joe Bartish (JBartish@quadnet.net) 609-722-4336. http:// www.navy-usna.org/SPPA/.

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Blue & Gold Officers: Anyone interested in becoming a Blue & Gold Officer can contact Don McRae in PA (DonMcl@AOL.com) 610-449-9674 or Al Burr in NJ (Diamondl @BellAtiantic.net) 609-387-9202. http://www.nadn.navy.mil/BGO/.

News Input/Philadelphia: Chapter news input for the Shipmate should be emailed to Paul H. James '81 (PJUSNA81 @yahoo.com) 610-666-1093. Information about the above events will be mailed through out the year to dues-paid members. You are welcomed to send your email address to PJUSNA81@yahoo.com.

Pittsburgh Chapter William E. Otto '71 4105 Tartan Court Murrysville, PA 15668-1045 h: 724-325-4281; w: 412-856-3500 e: Figaro4105@aol.com

PHILIPPINES PhiUppines Chapter CAPT Rafael V. Dacanay '76, PN ( Apt. F5E JOQ Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City, Philippines Jl|; Tel: 815-3420 loc. 6458 894-4121 and 917-521-5044 e: rvd76@yahoo.com Sec'y: LT Vmcent Sibala '93, PN93 - " Hydrographic Center, NISF Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City, PhilUpines Tel: 843-1833/812-7416 e: nomu@cav.pworld.net.ph The Philippines Chapter met with ADM Ron Hays '50, former CinCPac on 4 September 2000 during a visit in Manila. A small lunch was hosted

by Roberto Lim '42 at the Manila Golf Club on 4 September. The small group who attended were; Ariel Abriam '74, Denn Charlie Espanola '95, ADM Ronald J. Hays '50, Roberto Lim '42, Carlos L. Agustin '60 and Joseph Abaya '88. Among others, ADM Hays works as a consultant for Parsons Intemational and has several ongoing projects in the Philippines and elsewhere.

The Chapter President has the following information: Sorry for being out of touch for the last two months. I am still on a deployment but I expect to fly the homeward bound pennant soon.

We have two new officers for our Chapter. Ariel Abriam is the new VP replacing Leo McGinn '72.

Jun Bucayan '85 is the new secretary vice Vince Sibala '93. I am confident they can take care of things while I'm away.

We have a big event coming up and that is the Army-Navy game. The Subic guys have made a proposal and it sounds good to me. Ariel and Jun B., please bum the lines and get a pulse of local USNA and WP Alumni reaction to the offer.

I am about to wrap up my shipboard tour and I should be able to discharge my duties as Chapter president better soon.

C.L. Agustin

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE "jililP-X American Chapter

young to remember Prof Gilly, be was the guy fliat taught us all how to sing Navy songs. Gilly is long gone now, but his memory is alive and well in our Chapter thanks to his star student, Hugh's Classmate, our own "Song and Trashman," Brian Van Metre '61.

Brian Van Mette and Jim Roberts told of thefr

CAPT James N. Roberts '59, USN (Ret.) 152 Springlakes Drive Martinez, GA 30907 back and forth transfer of JOHN ADAMS ( S S B N - 6 2 0 ) h: 706-860-6430 as Blue & Gold COs. Tom Powell '61 was Frank e: jrobe92528@aol.com Conery '58's Plebe Year roommate but left the To join contact;Sec'y/Tres: Academy after Plebe Year. Chuck Norton '62 was LtCol Michael C. Stevens '59, USAF (Ret) Mike Steven '59's Plebe. Here they are port to star900 Big Lick Hollow Road board: Brian, Jim, Tom, Chuck, Mike, and Frank.

New Haven, KY 40051-6211 For some this was the first time that they had either h: 502-549-3610 seen or spoken to each other in over 40 years. It e: mstevens@bardstown.com happened at a Chapter Come Around!

Shipmate inputs to: I got a great report on this wonderful weekend Mike Sttoop '54 but do not have the space to include it all. One thing 138 Cantebury Drive of note that I must share is that the USNA guys and Madison AL 35758 gals were having such a good time that Doris and e: pstroop@earthlink.net Dave Hiester '36, USMA, joined the group for the Chapter Web site: www.clik.to/rvnews potluck supper. Frank and Marion had a tape that Two or three shall meet...is alive and well and included both alma maters' school songs and more now on the Intemet! than a few eyes grew misty as they were played.

Our Chapter Board members normally copy each other on our emails. Here is one 1 received recently from President Jim Roberts '59: Today I was browsing though Shipmate and saw the Recreational Vehicle Chapter column. I had no idea that such a group existed. Bev and I have been "fulltimers" for almost two years. Right now we are at Lewis and Clark Resort on the Clearwater River near Kamiah, ID, for a week. I would appreciate receiving info on the Chapter.

Thanks so much.

Hugh Duncan '61, 22nd Company.

Jim Roberts repUed by email from Prince Edward Island where he happened to be on a Canadian CaraBrian Van Metre '61 and Mike Stevens '62 van with the Holiday Ramblers. He copied Terry For some reason some members are best known Sutherland '54 who was somewhere near Washington State on a shakedown of his new Winnebago! by their nicknames and these are two of the best Now, when I learned these words 50 years ago I examples: Brian "Song and Trashman" or "Gutter was thinking of meeting a couple of Classmates in Crancher" Van Metre and Mike "Zoomie" Stevens. a bar, maybe in Hong Kong, or perhaps the Med, a Most have only one nickname, but for good reafew years after we graduated! I never dreamed that sons Brian has three that have been combined into it might happen this way! I wonder if Prof. Gilly just two. I haven't fully figured out Brian even ever thought so. For those of you that might be too though I have spent hours trying. "Colorful" comes

Brian, Jim, Tom, Chuck, Mike, and Frank

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Ben Pittard, Bob Jordan '80, De Anna Adams '94, and associate Bill Dull '01.

18 September Meeting at the Omar Shrine Temple at 12:00 p.m.

Our speaker at the September Alumni luncheon will be Chapter member RADM Jim Flatley '56, who will discuss the challenges inherent in building the Medal of Honor (MOH) Museum.

Chapter luncheons are usually held the third Monday of each month at the Omar Shrine Temple facility adjacent to Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant. No reservation needed. If you are visiting from out of town, contact a member for dfrections and by all means come and give us die pleasure of your company.

South Carolina Midlands Chapter Rev. Aris P. Metrakos '78 9 Baying Hound Way Blythewood, SC 29016-8743 h: 803-786-8100 e: colagoc@mindspring.com Web site: www.members.aol.com/usnaaasc Here is another example from the Chambersburg Come Around last June. Darrel and Jan Westbrook, Kay Powell, Frank and Marion Conery, Mike and Mary Lou Stevens, Tom Powell, Marie Roberts, Charlie and Jan Pinkham, Brian Van Meter and Jim Roberts

Palmetto Chapter William B. Swent '88

to mind. I'll let you know as I fill in more of the blanks.

There is much more to Frank Conery's report that won't fit the space I have, but I do want to include his last paragraph: This has been the third Come Around that Marion and I have attended, and they all have been excellent. This can only be due to the warmth, grace, and comradeship instilled in us by our days around Mother Bancroft, and enhanced by the lovely ladies who keep us on the straight and narrow. Until next time, whenever two or three shall meet...

Garry Snyder '55 did a wonderful job keeping the Ships Log on the two-month trek to Alaska. I beUeve that Terry has all, or most of it, posted on the Web. Check it out. In fact just check out the Web. Try it, you'll like it. Mikie Ukes it!

Anne and Mike Stroop '54

Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, P.C. 100 E. Coffee Stteet RO. Box 87 Greenville, SC 29602-0087 w: 864-242-6440 e: WSwent@LWTM.com

RHODE ISLAND Newport Chapter CAPT James M. Conway '55, USN (Ret) 50 Ayrault Street Newport, RI 02840-2728 h: 401-847-5039 e: castleconw@aol.com

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SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston Chapter CAPT Joseph C. Gamboa '62, USNR (Ret.) 1672 Seignious Drive Charieston, SC 29407-9661 h: 843-556-4544 http://members.tripod.com/~mitt2/navy/ e: ananda6662@aol.com August Meeting Our speaker at the August luncheon meeting at the Omar Shrine Temple in Mount Pleasant was Walt Higgins '66, new chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Sierra Pacific Resources with corporate headquarters in Las Vegas, NV. Walt began his talk by citing a number of USNA graduates who hold leadership positions in industry, and describing some of the challenges inherent in his new position including a merger with Portland General Electric. He then delivered a most interesting address in which he described what he had learned when, and what he wished he'd leamed, along the way toward becoming a successful CEO. Walt credited his father (also a CEO) with teaching him the importance of integrity and work ethic; the Naval Academy with ingraining preparation and technical understanding; his active naval service as a nuclesu trained submarine officer and his service in the Navy Reserve (from which he retired as a captain) for teamwork and leadership; and his business experience including ten years as CEO of several different companies for respect for individual dignity and diversity, a long-term outlook, understanding of politics, and the need for good communications. Walt most graciously took time out from his relocation from Atlanta, where until recently he was chairman, president, and CEO of AGL Resources, to visit the Charleston Chapter. We wish him well in his new responsibilities.

Attendees were; Walt Robinson '42, Jerry Nuss '47, Gene Dunaway '50, Fuzzy Knight, Tom Mayberry, Bob North and Jim Rodgers '53, Jim Flatley '56, Dick Kiel '57, Jim Kenney, George Lisle and Dave Morgan '58, Ollie Oliver '61, Larry Fulton and Joe Gamboa '62, Walt Higgins '66, Jim Welsch '67, Bill Nold '71, Rik Dilgren '72 and guest

Low Country Chapter Robert M. Hoskins Jr. '87 14 Sandpiper Road Hilton Head, SC 29928-6419 h: 803-686-4351 e: bobhoskinsjr@hotmail.com

TENNESSEE Chattanooga Chapter Mr. Charles T. Higgins '< RO. Box 15427 Chattanooga, TN 37415-0427 h: 423-877-0776 ext. 11; f 423-874-0852 r: 423-886-1111; o: 423-877-0776 ext. 11 e: chiggins@voy.net

Knoxville-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

Memphis Chapter CAPT Edward A. Lyons '69, USNR 2557 Park Creek Cove Gemiantown,TN 38139 h: 901-755-1286

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Texas Gulf Coast Chapter

CDR John R Ohlinger '69, USN (Ret.) 880 Lakemont Drive Nashville, TN 37220-2124 h: 615-370-1441; w: 800-242-8613 e: johlinger@worldnet.att.net

Lynn A. Wegner '65

TEXAS North Texas Chapter LCDR James M. Bethmann '77, USNR 2203 Creekside Circle South Irving, TX 75063 w: 214-954-1834 e: jim.bethmann@komferry.com On 5 September, the NTX Chapter held its newyear kickoff luncheon at the Lincoln City Club at the Tollway and LBJ. Attendees included: John Wroten '65, Dave Miller '65, Denny Connor '66, Rick Lottie '69, G.W. Flinn ' 7 1 , Steve Ingram ' 7 3 , George Gutierrez, USAFA ' 7 6 , Jim Bethmann '77, Keith Tibbits '77, Mike Huber '78, Doug Gattuso '84, Eric Mehalko '86, Ross Beaton '87, and Kurt Metcalf'91. Upcoming programs and Chapter officers were introduced.

Chapter officers for 2000-2001 are as follows: President: Jim Bethmann '77 Vice President for Membership: Steve Ingram '73 Vice President for Programs: Mike Huber '78 Vice President for Fort Worth: Richard Dawson'64 Treasurer: Kurt Metcalf '91 Secretary: Keith Tibbits '77 Monthly breakfast meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 a.m. at the Lincoln City Club, SE comer of LBJ and Tollway. These will resume in September.

Upcoming events include: 7 November: 7:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast, Lincoln City Club. RSVP to Jim Bethmann.

14 November: 11:30 a.m.. Chapter Luncheon, Lincoln City Club. RSVP to Jim Bethmann.

18 November: Tri-Services Football game: 9:00 a.m., Jesmt High School 2 December: Army-Navy football game party, location TBD. See Keith Tibbets for details: 214-954-1834, xl4.

5 December: 11:30 a.m. Chapter Luncheon, Lincoln City Club. RSVP to Jim Bethmann.

12 December: 7:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast, Lincoln City Club. RSVP to Jim Bethmann.

19 December: Blue Chip Dinner: Royal Oaks Country Club. VADM Ryan and George are confirmed to attend.

Kurt Metcalf'91 Senior Associate - Advanced Technology Practice Kom/Ferry International 3232 Lincoln Plaza 500 North Akard Street, Dallas, TX 75201 w: 214-954-1834 ext. 14, fax: 214-954-1027 Web site: http://www.kornferry.com

South Texas Chapter CAPT Michael Stoffel '54, USN (Ret) 520 North River Seguin.TX 78155 h: 830-379-2373 e: mstoffel@worldnet.att.net

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2202 Winrock Houston, TX 77057 h: 713-781-9932; w: 713-263-8001 ext. 265 September's luncheon meeting Prof Harold Hyman, Rice University, spoke about President Clinton's near-impeachment in the context of both the constitutional issues and the ongoing U.S. military involvement around the globe.

September luncheon attendees The following shipmates attended the 8 September meeting: Ed Potter '41, Jack Keller '44, Tom Watt '46, Paul Riley '48, Zeb Alford '48, Chariie Chavarria '56, Herb Kuykendall '56, DickWestfahl '59, Buddy Wellborn '59, Jim Cameron '60, Greg Mather '62, Marty Block '64, Erik Woods '64, Joe Ince '64, Rob Brown '65, Lynn Wegner '65, Paul Marshall '65, Fred Schlemmer '65, Bart Jealous '65, Nelson Jones '72, EUiott Reagans '82, George Carter '83, Angela Roth '83, Eric McQueen '86, and Mark Early '94.

USNA Birthday Celebration Dinner, 6 October As this issue of Shipmate is printed, we will have just celebrated the 155th Birthday of the Naval Academy onboard TEXAS ( B B - 3 5 ) , only 20 miles east of downtown Houston. The festivities, beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, 6 October, included ship tours, a social hour, birthday toasts, dinner, and the presentation of a USNA birthday cake. Plus, George Watt '73, USNA Alumni Association president and CEO, was our keynote speaker.

Michael J. Smith '67 Memorial Sword presentation, 5 January Traditionally, the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter presents a sword each year at our January luncheon to the Midshipman Ffrst Class (from our area) with the highest class ranking. As you remember, Mike Smith '67 was the pilot of the Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded on 28 January 1986. He became the first Alumnus to give his life 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.

Chapter News Army-Navy football game (2 December). We'll have our annual Army-Navy football game party at SRO Sports Bar, Woodlake, please contact us for details...Angela (Smith) Roth '83 (chrisangelaroth@compuserve.com), joined our Chapter in May. Angela and Chris have a daughter, Rhianna, who will be two in December. Angela studied Chinese at USNA, then worked in mainland China on two separate occasionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;once on a Marshall Scholarship, and again on a torpedo coproduction venture with the PRC Navy. Currentiy, Angela continues to develop her skills in the arenas of mothering, garden design and writing. Our newest Blue & Gold Officer, she plans to help send the very best of Texas to USNA. She can be reached by email or at 281-565-0465.

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 first Tuesday and third Friday of every month 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 (newly re-named to http://www.eacademies.net). Visitors are always welcome.

Chapter Meetings Chapter meetings are usually held on the first Friday of every month (3 November, 1 December, 5 January, 2 February, 2 March, and 6 April) at Brennan's Restaurant (11:30 a.m. refreshments, and noon to 1:00 p.m. lunch). Of course, "lost" Shipmates, spouses and friends of the Naval Academy are always welcome at our monthly luncheons.

Please join us! For any additional information on any item in this column, please call me at (713750-8868) or send an email to kleinl985@aol.com.

Ed Klein '72

UTAH/IDAHO/ MONTANA/^VYOMING Intermountain NA A l i ^ n i Chaptel James R. Clark '66 5860 South HoUaday Boulevard Sak Lake City, UT 84121-1512 h: 801-272-7183 e: clarkfam@gateway.net

VIRGINIA Blue Ridge Chapter CAPT Roger C. Adamsi3Âť, USN (Ret) 6609 Fairway View Trail Roanoke, VA 24018 h: 540-989-6198; w: 540-362-7389 e: radams3491@aol.com

Central Virginia Chapter CAPT Anthony A. Hastoglis '55, USN (Ret) 102 Shawnee Court Charlottesville, VA 22901-1034 h: 804-973-7846 e: Ahastoglis@compuserve.com

Hampton Roads Chapter CAPT Peter K. Glasier '62, USN (Ret) 1105 Glenside Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23464 h: 757-467-2064; w: 757-486-2410 e: pete62@erols.com

Richmond Chapter CDR William L. Ruch HI '68, USN (Ret.) 5707 Maple Brook Drive Midlothian, VA 23112-6320 h: 804-739-3664 e: wlr68@sprintmail.com

Shenandoah Valley Chapter David V. Langfitt '74 125 Henrico Road Front Royal, VA 22630 w: 540-636-2138 e: davidlangfitt@netscape.net

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Williamsburg Chapter Mr. Allen P. Whitaker '60 2304 West Island Road WUliamsburg.VA23185 h: 757-258-4628 e: apwhitaker@widomaker.com

or me by email with information for our monthly Chapter newsletter or a suggestion for an event, we can be reached at egschwier@aol.com, Edward_G_Ed_Schwier@rl.gov, or schwierjf @ aol.com. To join our Chapter, contact Ed for an application form. Cost is just $10 a year.

Edward Schwier '69

Puget Sound Chapter WASHINGTON Hanford/Tri-Cities Chapter CAPT Edward G. Schwier '69, USN (Ret) 1196 Brentwood Richland, WA 99352-9448 h: 509-627-7288; w: 509-372-0176 e: egschwier@aol.com The Tri-Cities Chapter normally meets on the third Friday of the month at 6:30 p.m., however, we vary that as required because of schedule conflicts. If you are going to be in the area and want to spend some quality time with fellow Alumni, give me a call and we can arrange an impromptu "meeting." We called just such a special gathering for 11 October to join with my Classmate and USNA Alumni Association Chief Operating Officer, Tim Halliday '69. Since Shipmate input for the December issue is due a week before Tim's visit, you will have to wait awhile for the after action report. Tim has accepted my offer of lodging and the promise of a breakfast worthy of our best days in King Hall, strawberries and ice cream over waffles. Tim doesn't know it yet, but I've reserved the mess hall chak I recentiy purchased for his use. I wonder if he can stiU rig knees.

As I reported in the last column, the November meeting date will be on the 17th, at a location yet to be determined. The Annual Tri-Cities Area ArmyNavy Game Party starts at 8:00 a.m. at Schwier's on 2 December. Hopefully, Jerry McGuire '64, will continue to provide his special smoked salmon.

The format will be the same as previous years.

Please bring a dish to share (remember it is a long game and most of us tend to keep eating throughout). Please call Jeanie if you are at a loss as to what to bring. I will have our home-brewed beer on tap (the Spiced Scotch Ale that we sampled several months ago) and bottled (brown, pale, and wheat ales). There is a possibiUty that I may brew a keg of stout this coming weekend (9 September) which could be ready for game day. There will also be a selection of wines and soft drinks, coffee, etc.

On my trip back to the Academy for the Chapter Presidents and Board of Trastees Meeting in May, I picked up a special prize for the party attendee who best exemplifies the "Beat Army!" spirit.

Jeanie and I will serve as judges and our decision will be final (although bribes may be proffered prior to our reaching a decision).

If you are passing through the area, just visiting, recently settled here, or a long time desert resident, we invite you to join us. No charge, of course, to participate in any individual function but we do ask that you join the local Chapter if you attend regularly. You are always welcome to bring guests, particular alumni of other Service Academies, to any of our functions. If you want to contact either Jeanie

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CAPT Colin H. Saari '60, USN (Ret.) 12503 Ninth Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98177 h: 206-361-1192; w: 206-543-1363 e: saari@apl.washington.edu Web site: www.usnaaa-psc.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA Greater Washington Chapter RADM Pierce J. Johnson '66, USNRR 13720 Greenbriar Drive Woodbridge, VA 22193-2516 h: 703-670-6355 e: johnsonp@cnrf.nola.navy.mil

WEST VIRGINIA West Virginia Chapter Joe Dailey '51

WISCONSIN Wisconsin Chapter Winston C. Williams '46 13350 West Bluemound Road Elm Grove, WI 53122-2538 h: 414-782-6645; w: 414-782-9410 e: winwill@execpc.com e: cook.phillip@milwaukee.va.gov

UNITED KINGDOM Great Britain Chapter Susanne Saalau-Bethall '85 50 Aubreys Letchworth-Herts SG6 3TU England w: 0-1438-76-3419 e: ssb25133@GlaxoWeUcome.c,o.uk e: rbethell@netcomuk.co.uk

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1226 Mount Vernon Road Charleston, WV 25314-2528 h: 304-346-6193 ^ ^ e: josephdailey@excite.com West Virginia Chapter President, Joe Dailey '51, got the invitation of his Ufe for an event at the Naval Academy. He was asked by a member of the USNA Class of 1990 to be someone's date for the Class of 1990 10th Reunion held the weekend of 2 September 2000 at Annapolis.

Our Chapter President has four daughters, and one of them graduated from the United States Naval Academy 39 years after her father did. Kathryn Dailey '90, proudly asked her father, Joe Dailey '51 to be her date for the weekend. Joe accepted.

And Joe never even mentioned he had a daughter who is a USNA Alumnus before.

Our next meeting of the West Virginia Chapter is a luncheon at Cagney's Restaurant in Charleston the first Friday in November, and will be held at noon on 3 November 2000.

Right now, it is a toss up whether we'll be going to the home of Steve Shumlas '69 in Hurricane, or to the home of Mike Ferrell '68 in Logan for our Army-Navy party. Both have volunteered to have the party at their place this year. So, come to the 3 November luncheon to get directions to the Beat Army party for year 2000!

Dan McCague '66

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we wiU remember t h e m . " —Laurence Binyon, 1914 Alter, Alan Brian 6 June 2000 Ayres, William Harvey Jr. '50 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 12 September 2000 Blanchard, James Williams Jr. '56 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 16 September 2000 Brumfiel, Robert Thomas '51 Lt Col, USAF (Ret.) 29 August 2000 Byrnes, Michael Peter '68 10 September 2000 Cone, James Ingham '31 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 17 September 2000 Dreyer, Oscar Frank '41 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 2 August 2000 Earle, Ralph Jr. '22 VADM, USN (Ret.) 7 September 2000

J O H N THAYER WULFF '31 Rear Admiral John T. Wulff, USN (Ret.), was bom in Evanston, IL, on 14 August 1908, and passed away on 29 July 2000 at tiie Healtii Care Center of Village on the Green in Longwood, FL. He was 91 years old. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 1931, served 34 years in the Navy and retfred in 1959 as a rear admiral.

During his naval career, he eamed a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in naval engineering (design) in 1941 and a graduate of the senior course in Strategy and Tactics, U.S. Naval War College 1953. During his career, he served on aircraft carriers, desfroyers, cruisers and frain ships and held commands of: MIAMI (CCL-89); MCCAFFREY ( D D - 8 6 0 ) ; DIPHDA

(AKA-59); and GEN. W.A. MA^fN (TAP-111). He was attached to the anti-aircraft cruiser ATLANTA (CLAA-51) at the Battle of Savo Island, when the ship was sunk in 1942; after which he spent six months on Guadalcanal with the First Marine Division. From that point forward, he always said that he was living on borrowed time. His medals include the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V, The Commendation Ribbon with Combat V, two Presidential Unit Citations, and the AsiaticPacific Medal with twelve battle stars, and the Marine Corps Insignia.

In retirement he served as mayor of Hollywood, FL, from 1969-1971, as well as councti chairman for the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets; a Blue & Gold representative for the Naval Academy Candidate Guidance Office, identifying and help-

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Fagan, Fredric Galen '54 19 September 2000 Hunt, Robert Gordon '49 LtCol, USMCR (Ret.) 3 September 2000 Jones, Benjamin Fleetwood '44 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 6 July 2000 Knape, Eldon Harold '46 11 September 2000 La Moy, Elwin Francis '52 29 July 2000 Lamb, Leroy Albert Jr. '55 Maj, USAF (Ret.) 5 December 1999 Manwaring, James Murray '32 LCDR, USNR (Ret.) 19 June 2000 McGregor, Rob Roy '29 RADM, USN (Ret.) 5 September 2000

IcLaughlin, Edward Francis Jr. '48 LTJG, USN (Ret.) 31 August 2000 Miller, Kenneth Woodrow '42 CDR, USN (Ret.) 12 October 1999 Fetch, Kenneth Morgan '56 3 April 2000 Rivero, Horacio Jr. '31 ADM, USN (Ret.) 24 September 2000 Smallman, John '56 LtCol, USMC (Ret.) 1 September 2000 Smith, Donald Wanamaker '46 11 September 2000 Tibbetts, Herbert Ernest '54 CDR, USN (Ret.) 17 September 2000

ing candidates for admittance to USNA; and vice president. South East Florida, State Council of TROA chapters.

Rear Admiral Wulff was preceded in death by his wife, LCDR Mildred S. Wulff, in 1998.

He is survived by his son, Brian C. Wulff of West Toluca Lake, CA; and his brother, Alden T. Wulff, of Hinsdale, IL. Inurnment will be in the Naval Academy Columbarium in Annapolis, MD. Brian C. Wulff

He subsequently served as special assistant to the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Upon retiring from the Navy as a captain in 1959, he worked in strategic planning for the Aerojet General Corporation and the Stanford Research Institute. In 1969, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, a position he held for four years until his final retirement in 1973.

After retiring, he served as a consultant to several government and civilian research organizations in the area of sfrategic defense. He was a resident of Menlo Park, CA, for the past 17 years.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Helen Handle Morse of Menlo Park, CA; his daughter, Mrs. Joan Satiier of Pacific PaUsades, CA; his son, John H. Morse HI of Louisville, KY; his son. Dr. Peter B. Morse of Napa, CA; six grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, 1 December 2000 at Ariington National Cemetery in Ariington, VA. The family would greatiy appreciate memorial contributions be made to The United States Naval Academy Foundation, in memory of Captain John H. Morse, Class of 1932. Please send contributions to the Naval Academy Foundation, 247 King George Street, Annapolis, MD 21402.

JOHN HENRY MORSE '32 Captain John H. M o r s e , USN (Ret.), passed away on Thursday, 31 August 2000.

He was bom on 20 May 1910 in Sumter, SC. After graduating ^ ^ . from the Naval Acadr i f ^w i^ I emy in 1932, he served '"^ W X - , J at sea on surface ships prior to becoming a naval aviator. He graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1940 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941 with a master's degree in aeronautical engineering.

He served as a test pilot in World War II and as head of the Navy bureau responsible for the design integrity and performance of all naval aircraft engines. After a tour of duty as a faculty member at the Naval War College, the remainder of his naval career was spent in intemational affairs with the U.S. govemment. He served as head of the Nuclear Planning Section of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).

It's a pleasure to sfiare orte's memories.

'Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious.

M [east tfiepast is safe—t/iougfi zoe didn't Iqunv it at tfk time.

We Iqwzv it twzo. 'Because it's in tfiepast; Because we have survived.

—Susan Sontag Shipmate, November 2000

Last CaU HAROLD GARDINER BOWEN JR. '33 Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen, USN (Ret.), former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Research and Development); Commander, Pacific Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare F o r c e ; and president,

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Court of Inquiry, died 17 August 2000 at his home in Alexandria, VA, of cancer. He was 87 years old.

Bom in AnnapoUs, MD, on 15 October 1912, he was the son of the late Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen 1905, USN (Ret.), and Editii Brownlie Bowen. He graduated from Bremerton Union High School in Bremerton, WA, was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, and was subsequently commissioned as an ensign on 1 June 1933. He retired from the Navy on I October 1972.

At sea, he served with desfroyers BALCH ( D D 363), SEMMES ( A G - 2 4 ) and cmisers SALT LAKE C n r ( C A - 2 5 ) , NEW ORLEANS (CA-32), CLEVELAND ( C L - 5 5 ) , and NORTHAMPTON (CLC-1). He

commanded desfroyers CONWAY ( D D - 5 0 7 ) and SAMUEL N . MOORE ( D D - 7 4 7 ) in the Pacific dur-

ing and after World War II. Command of CONWAY involved frequent and intensive combat operations against Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands and BougainviUe, Rabaul and Kavieng in the Adinfralty Islands. On SAMUEL N . MOORE,

he was present at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. He later commanded Destroyer Division 92 in MADDOX ( D D - 7 3 1 ) during combat operations against North Korean ground forces in the Wonsan Bay area, was commander of the Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 4, and later Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Force, Pacific Fleet, during which time he achieved the rank of vice adirdral.

Shore assignments involved time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he eamed a master's degree in metallurgical engineering. Duty at the Naval Gun Factory, the Bureau of Ordnance and with the initial American mission for aid to Turkey as an ordnance specialist, allowed him to develop extensive technical expertise which led to assignments in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. There, he was a director of the Atomic Energy Division and a Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Research and Development. He also served as Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, and as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence and later as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence).

After retiring. Admiral Bowen was associated with the co-founding of Dominion Federal Savings and Loan Association, was president of

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an intelligence analysis company (Sparcom) and conducted a ten-year consultancy to Hudson Wire Company and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours in electrical wire and cable technology. He was an avid sportsman, and in 1998 and 1999, he held the United States championship titie for squash singles over the age of 85.

Admiral Bowen was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with Gold Star, two Legion of Merit medals with Combat V, three Bronze Star medals with Gold Star and Combat V, three Navy Commendation medals, and many campaign ribbons with engagement stars.

He was a member of veuious associations, including the American Newcomen Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Naval Engineers, the Naval Academy Alumni Association, and Naval Intelligence Professionals.

Admiral Bowen was married for 61 years to the late Constance Baker Bowen, daughter of the late Vice Admiral Wilder D. Baker '14, USN (Ret.). They are survived by their three daughters, Constance Bowen-Camp, Kathryn Wilder, Charlotte Phelps; and six grandchildren. Admiral Bowen was predeceased by his daughter, Edith Easley.

EUGENE PARCHMAN RANKIN '37 Captain Eugene P. Rankin, USN (Ret.), caring husband, loving father and loyal friend, died in San Diego, CA, surrounded by his family in t h e early morning hours of 27 August 2000.

"Gene" was bom in Arkansas and grew up in Sapulpa, OK, where he eamed his merits as an Eagle Scout. His character reflected the love of an adoring mother and the persistence of a father who worked his way through the Depression as a railroad engineer.

Gene graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1937, and went on to become a naval aviator with a distinguished 30-year career.

Highlights of his career included the 1946 record-setting long distance flight from Perth, Australia, to Columbus, OH, in the Lockheed P2V aircraft known as the Tmculent Turtle, which is currently on display at the Naval Aviation museum in Pensacola, FL; and the 1962-63 ocean recovery missions of two of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, Wally Schirra and Gordon Cooper, as skipper of the aircraft carrier KEARSARGE.

As a pioneer naval aviator. Gene was selected for membership in the Golden Eagles, in recog-

nition of his outstanding skills as a pilot, his personal character and his dedication to flying.

After retiring from the Navy in 1967, he went on to assist many San Diegans during their times of difficulty as a tmst officer for San Diego Tmst and Savings Bank.

Persistence and ingenuity, two of Gene's enduring characteristics, emerged in his daily endeavors. From his accomplished golf game to his e n g a g e m e n t in t h e stock m a r k e t and computers, he was always setting up new personal challenges.

Gene married Virginia Watson in 1941, and together they had five energetic daughters, who had eight grandchildren, and recentiy two great-grandchildren.

Gene and Virginia shared close to 50 years of an adventurous and caring family life. After Virginia's death in 1991, Gene married Eloise Davies, and together they have traveled the world as cherished and loving companions for the past eight years. They shared a lovely home in Coronado, CA, where they generously and frequently hosted friends and family members.

Our Gene, our Dad, our Gmmpa, exhibited an exfraordinary strength and endurance until the end. His confidence in us all, his understanding of our unique needs, and his generous and playful spirit will be missed by his wife, Eloise; his daughters, Betty Marshall, Peggy Kopec, Gene Diaz, Ginger Scuba and Mary Lou Herter; his grandchildren, Kat Marshall, Chris and Matt Jones, Tamia and Sebastian Diaz, Jeff and Bill Scuba, Steven Hake; and his two little greatgrandsons, Tyler and Kyle Jones.

His many kindnesses will certainly endure and multiply through us all.

A memorial service was held on 6 September 2000, at St. Paul's Methodist Church, 700 D Avenue, in Coronado, CA.

GORDON BENNETT WILLIAMS ' 3 8 Captain Gordon B. Williams, USN (Ret.), died at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bremerton, WA, on 10 August 2000, after a long struggle with cancer and diabetes. He was 85 years old.

"Gordie" was bom on 8 April 1915, in Massilon, OH, to John S. and Mary Bradwell Williams. He attended Washington High School, where he played on the very first football team ever coached by the legendary Paul Brown. He entered the Naval Academy in June 1934, was a member of the 1 st Company, and was active in football and track.

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Last Call Upon graduation in 1938, he reported to LEXINGTON prior to commencing a long career in destroyers including CLAXTON, GREER, executive officer of WOODWORTH and WEDDERBURN, and

commanding officer of STERRETT and AGERHOLM.

Then followed tours at CinCPacFlt, and as executive officer. Naval Station San Diego.

After a short tour in command of a squadron of DERs, he attended the senior course at the Naval War College along with several of his Classmates. Gordie also took courses in political science at Boston University. After a tour at 13th Naval District Headquarters, he went to sea for the last time in command of MATTHEWS. His final tour was administrative officer of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. He left active duty in 1966, when he underwent colon surgery, and retired in 1970 after 32 years. He was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star.

He settled in Bremerton, WA, and successively served as business manager at Olympic College and executive director of the Kitsap County United Way, finally retiring in 1979.

Gordie became one of the premier golfers in the Class of 1938, amassing no fewer than six holes in one, and shooting his age numerous times. His graduation Lucky Bag biography highlighted his love of history, and indeed he established a scholarship fund at Washington High School, and a professorship in history at the University of Washington. He was the president of Bremerton Rotary, Kitsap Golf and Country Club and the local Retired Officers Association.

In his later years, he and his wife of 59 years, Muriel McMillan Williams, wintered in Rancho Bernardo, CA, where Gordie was wont to recite the final verse of "Thanatopsis," which epitomized his philosophy of life.

Beside his wife, Muriel, he leaves four children, Stanley G. of Bremerton, WA, Maureen Zimmerman of Seattle, WA, Suzanne Cannon of Bremerton, WA, and Julia M. Williams of Alexandria, VA; and six grandchildren.

Services were held on 15 August 2000, at the Summit Avenue Presbyterian Church of Bremerton with interment at Miller-Woodlawn Memorial Park.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 718 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton, WA 98310, or to the American Diabetes Association 55 Roy Street, Seattle, WA 98019.

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JAMES PAGAUD COLEMAN '39 Captain James P. Coleman, USN (Ret.), died of heart failure on 24 August 2000, at Arlington Hospital in Arlington, VA. He was 85 years old.

He was born on 7 July 1915inWhitmire, SC, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy on 1 June 1939.

Upon graduation from the Academy, Ensign Coleman was first assigned to OKLAHOMA ( B B 37), operating out of Long Beach, CA. After a brief tour, he was ordered to the recommissioning of the "four piper" MCCORMICK (DD-223) in San Diego, CA. On this ship, he served in the Panama area, then on the Gulf and Atlantic Neutrality patrols, and later, on convoy duty to Iceland.

He detached in April 1942 to put NICHOLAS (DD-449), the first 2,100-ton destroyer, in commission in Bath, ME. He served onboard until April 1944, first as engineering officer and later as executive officer. During this wartime period, the ship operated primarily in the South Pacific and participated in the capture and defense of Guadalcanal, the New Georgia campaign, and in the consolidation of the Solomon Islands. In the Kula Gulf action, NICHOLAS was credited with the sinking of an enemy cmiser by torpedo fire.

Also, on that night, the ship participated in the rescue of the survivors of the cmiser HELENA ( C L 50). For this action, NICHOLAS was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. Lieutenant Coleman was awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat V for his services in this engagement.

Later, while serving as executive officer of NICHOLAS, Lieutenant Commander Coleman was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat V for his services as CIC evaluator when the ship sank a Japanese submarine off Wotje Island in the Marshalls campaign.

On retum to the States, he had a short tour with Fleet Operational Training Command on staff of the San Diego shakedown group. From November 1945 until June 1946 he commanded BAGLEY (DD-386) and participated in early phases of the Crossroads Operations. From BAGLEY, he went to the Atlantic, where he assumed command of HOBSON (DMS-26) and operated in the Guantanamo to Norfolk area.

In September 1947, he was ordered to duty in Washington in the Fleet Operational Readiness Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

In 1 9 5 1 , C o m m a n d e r Coleman took command of PURDY (DD-734) in Newport, RI, and deployed twice to Koreaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two trips around the world. For his performance of duty during bombardment of the East Coast of Korea he was

awarded the Gold Star in lieu of the Second Bronze Star Medal with Combat V. After shore duty at USNA, as executive officer of the seamanship and navigation department and on the staff of CinCPacFlt, Pearl Harbor, as surface operations officer, he took command of DesDiv 152 in San Diego. He had this command for 14 months and then took command of the Fleet Anti-Aircraft Warfare Training Center, San Diego. A year later, he assumed additional duties as commanding officer of the Navy's first fleet computer programming center when it was commissioned in July 1961.

Here, he assisted in getting the Navy's first tactical data system (NTDS) operational in the fleet.

Back to sea in command of MONTROSE (APA212), he had an active year in the Amphibious Force, Pacific.

In July 1963, Captain Coleman took command of DesRon 15 in San Diego. This squadron had three divisions of 14 ships, including the first two NTDS DLGs. He was able to participate at sea, in both EastPac and WestPac, in the operational evaluation and refinement of this new shipboard automatic data system.

Captain Coleman's last active duty assignment was in OpNav in the Strike Warfare Research and Development Division. He retfred from the Navy on 1 January 1968.

After retirement, he worked on U.S. Navy guided missile systems programs with Vitro Laboratories in Silver Spring, MD. He eamed his master's degree in business administration from George Washington University in 1970. He retired for the second time in July 1985.

He became very active with the Class of '39's executive committee, especially in planning a seven-day paddlewheel steamer class cmise on the Columbia and Snake rivers of Oregon and Washington. In the 60th Reunion Book he noted, "I still go to Navy football games, still play high handicap golf with a '39 foursome at the ArmyNavy Country Club, travel to Europe or Cancun once a year, and take numerous trips to Bethesda Hospital to 'help the doctors maintain their geriatric skills.'"

Captain Coleman is survived by his wife of more than 59 years, the former Mae Taber Maner, originally of Columbia, SC; daughter, Mariana Coleman Blain of Burke, VA; sons, James Pagaud Coleman Jr. of Marietta, GA, and William Sloan Coleman of Arlington, VA; and five grandsons.

Funeral services were held at Ft. Myer's Old Post Chapel, followed by burial with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery on 12 September 2000.

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Last Call WILLIAM EDGAR BENBOW '40 Captain William E. Benbow, USN (Ret.), died on 10 August 2000, at Pine Run Health Center in Doylestown, PA, where he had lived for the previous 16 months.

Funeral services and interment were private.

Ben attended the Oak Ridge Military Academy and graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1940. He also eamed a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ben's first duty after graduation was in PHOENDC (CL-46), with duties in gunnery. Operations in the Hawaiian area put PHOENIX in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941. Leaving Pearl, the ship operated in the Indian Ocean, Ausfralian and Guadalcanal areas.

In June of 1943, Ben was ordered to the commissioning crew of MIAMI (CL-89). This duty put him in Philadelphia, near his blind date of First Class June Week. On 16 August 1943, he married Marcia Lloyd Tindall. MIAMI was assigned to the Pacific area, where she operated with Task Forces 38 and 58. Ben's duties were as main battery assistant, afr defense officer and gunnery officer. While operating in the South China Sea, Ben received word of the birth of a daughter, Susan Tindall, on 29 December 1944.

The end of the war brought orders to postgraduate school. A son, William Ross, was bom on 19 April 1947. After earning his master's degree, he began a ten-year sfretch of duty in mine warfare. In succession, he was XO of THOMAS E .

FRASER, ordnance officer at the Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown, CO of GWIN ( D M - 3 3 ) , head of Mine and Harbor Branch, Bureau of Ordnance, and Commander Mine Squadron Eight in Charleston, SC. GWIN eamed the Battle Efficiency "E" both years of his command.

Ben later served as chief of staff to Commander Cmiser Division TWO, followed by a five-year tour as CO, Naval Guided Missile School, Dam Neck, where he was awarded the Legion of Merit for contributing to the Polaris training program.

Forced to retire in 1967 for medical reasons, Ben and Marcia took up residence in Virginia Beach, where Ben enjoyed his hobbies of gardening and stamp collecting. Marcia predeceased him in Virginia Beach, and he remained there until a year before his own death, when he moved to Doylestown, near his daughter, Susan.

He is survived by his daughter, Susan Tindall Kroupa of New Hope, PA; and his son, William R. Benbow of Norfolk, VA; five grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.

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While Uving in Pennsylvania, he was deeply moved by a tragedy in which a young man was injured and disabled in a shooting accident.

Therefore, the family requests that any memorial gifts be made in his name to the Tucker Mahoney Trust Fund, P.O. Box 313, Solebury, PA 18963.

EUGENE BANKS PENDLETON JR. '40 Lieutenant Commander Eugene B. Pendleton, USNR, died on 26 June 1999, in Washington, D.C. He entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1940, but did not graduate. He was commissioned in the Navy when World War II began, and served in LOUISVILLE from 1942 to 1945. After the war ended, he retumed to civilian life.

Eugene was bom in Hartford, KY, in 1917. He was married to the late Barbara Murlin Pendleton until her death in 1973. He was a businessman in Atianta for many years, where he founded an interior decorating concem known as the Good Ship. He lived in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, from 1981 to 1996, until he moved to Washington.

He is survived by a son, Eugene Banks Pendleton III, M.D., of Atlanta, GA; and two daughters, Barbara Pendleton Jones, Ph.D., of W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , and Robin P e n d l e t o n Bascetta of New York City. He is also survived by his daughter-in-law; two sons-in-law; and six grandchildren.

A memorial service was held at St. Columbia's Episcopal Church in Washington, D . C , on 16 July 2000.

Memorial contributions "In memory of Eugene Banks Pendleton Jr." may be made to the VA Medical Center, General Post Fund, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422.

LEON GRABOWSKY '41 Captain Leon Grabowsky, USN (Ret.), USNA Class of 1941, died at his home in Danville, CA, from compUcations of Parkinson's Disease, on 28 July 2000, two days short of his 83rd birthday.

He was born in Paris, France, the son of Polish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island in 1920 and settled in New Jersey, where Leon grew up.

After graduating from high school, Leon enlisted in the Navy and served aboard CINCINNATI for 18 months before being admitted to the Naval Academy in the summer of 1937. Upon early graduation with his Class in Febmary 1941, Leon was assigned to the battleship ARIZONA. On 7 December 1941, when ARIZONA was sunk by the Japanese in their attack on Pearl Harbor, Leon happened to be at the Ford Island hospital after a routine physical exam. When he returned to the ship immediately after the attack, he saw the ship's flag still flying underwater. He dove overboard and retrieved the ensign from his sunken ship and the flag is now in the museum at Pearl Harbor.

After various temporary assignments, Leon served as gunnery officer of the destroyer GILLESPIE during naval action in the Aleutians and, in December 1943, as gunnery officer of the newly commissioned destroyer LEUTZE. During the American landings in the Philippines, LEUTZE distinguished herself at the Battle of Surigao Straits where the Japanese force of b a t t l e s h i p s , cruisers and destroyers was completely overwhelmed.

At Iwo Jima, in 1945, when Leon had become the executive officer, shore battery fire damaged the ship and severely wounded the captain. Leon took command, continued to fight the ship and remained in command until the end of the war.

This 27-year-old officer became the youngest destroyer commanding officer in the U.S. Navy.

The ship's next assignment was at Okinawa.

During an evening retirement, the group of which LEUTZE was a part came under kamikaze attack.

When Leon saw that a sister ship, NEWCOMB, had been seriously damaged and was in danger of sinking, he maneuvered alongside to render all possible assistance. While there, she too was hit by a kamikaze which exploded on the fantail and it appeared that LEUTZE might sink. Reluctantiy, Leon maneuvered away from NEWCOMB and with magnificent effort by the crew saved his ship. For this heroic action, Leon was awarded a Navy Cross.

After the war Leon attended postgraduate school and received a master's degree in electrical engineering and, later, two degrees in business administration. His subsequent sea duty included assignments as weapons officer of three aircraft carriers and commanding officer of PORTER, HECTOR, and

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Vietnam, he deployed twice as the Commander, Underway Replenishment Forces, South China Sea. During a shore duty assignment as executive officer of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, CA, he was involved with the development of the Navy's air-to-air missile.

Sidewinder. He retired from the Navy in 1971 at the end of two years in command of the Concord Naval Weapons Station. After retirement from the Navy, Leon taught business at Diablo Valley College for a number of years.

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Leon is survived by his wife of 40 years, Joanne Karpen; children, Kari, Lori, Paul, Jeanne and Steven; and six grandchildren.

Those who wish may make contributions in Leon's memory to the National Parkinson's Foundation, 1501 Northwest 9th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.

HENRY CALLENDER FIELD JR. '42 Captain Henry C Field Jr., USN (Ret.), died on 13 August 2000 at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital surrounded by his family. He was 80 years old.

Henry was bom and raised in Seattle, WA, was valedictorian at Lakeside School, and a cum laude graduate from Phillips Academy in Andover. He attended Yale Uiuversity and graduated with distinction with the Class of 1942 at the U.S. Naval Academy on 19 December 1941, twelve days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He studied radar design at MIT and served on the battleship MARYLAND in the Pacific.

After the war, he received a master's degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from MIT, his Navy career focusing on ship design, constraction and repair. He retired as a captain.

He continued his ship-design career with General Dynamics in Quincy, MA, consulting, and as vice president of Metro Machine Corp. as it expanded to a full service shipyard, finally retiring in 1997. He loved sailing and golfing at Princess Anne Country Club. He was active in Galilee E p i s c o p a l C h u r c h and Contact Teleministries.

On 8 April 1944 he married Phoebe Withers of Suffolk, which he claimed was the best day's work he ever did.

He was preceded in death by his sister, Rosalie Field Milbum, formerly of Seattle, WA. He is survived by Phoebe Field, his beloved wife of 55 years; two sisters, Mrs. William M. Allen and Miss Marguerite Field of Seattle, WA; three sons, Henry C III "Rusty" and his wife, Nancy, of Johnson City, TN, Thornton and his wife, Andy, of McLean, VA, and Peter of Elk Creek, VA; daughter, Phoebe Carlopio and her husband, James, of Byron Bay, NSW, Australia; six grandsons; and two granddaughters.

A memorial service was held on 15 August 2000 at Galilee Episcopal Church with the Rev. John Burley officiating.

Memorial donations may be made to the Virginia Beach Rescue Squad.

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J O H N HENRY VAN GELDER '42 Lieutenant Commander John H. Van Gelder, USN (Ret.), of Sea Girt, NJ, died on Monday, 7 August 2000, at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, NJ. He owned and operated the Country-by-the-Sea Real Estate Agency in Sea Girt, for 45 years. He was a World War II Navy veteran, serving in the Pacific Theater and retired as a lieutenant commander. He later was an engineer at Fort Monmouth. He was the founder of the Monmouth County Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. He was a graduate of Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, NJ, and the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Bom in Jersey City, he lived in Spring Lake before moving to Sea Girt.

Surviving are his wife, Helen G. Van Gelder; two daughters, Jacquette Williamson of Sea Girt, NJ, and Jacqueline Yost of Laurel Springs, MD; a brother, Henry J. Van Gelder; and two sisters, Alice L. Van Gelder and Lucile A. Van Gelder, all of Spring Lake; three grandchildren; and a niece, Alice Camso, of Metuchen, NJ. Services were held at St. Catharine's Roman Catholic Church in Spring Lake, NJ. In lieu of flowers, donations are requested to the Parkinson's Foundation.

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STEVEN WARD CALLAWAY JR. '45 Captain Steven Ward Callaway Jr., USN (Ret.), died on 1 September 2000 at Village House in Newport, RI, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

He was the husband of Mary F. Albro Callaway. They were married on 23 April 1949.

Bom in Washington, D . C , on 21 July 1922, he was a son of the late Captain Steven Ward Callaway, USN, and Catherine Nagle Callaway.

His father was one of the first Navy test pilots.

Captain Callaway attended the University of Pennsylvania for a year before he was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy. He graduated from the Academy with the Class of 1945, and was assigned to MANSFIELD in the Pacific.

His numerous assignments as a naval aviator included duty in Pensacola and Jacksonville, FL, and El Centro, CA, where he was an instructor in the Fleet Air Gunnery Unit. He also served with the Air Force 32nd Fighter Squadron in Moose Lake, WA. He also received training in helicopters.

He was a graduate of the test pilot school in Patuxent River, MD. In 1960, he was a student at the Naval War College, after which he was the commanding officer at VA-46 and later at VA-44. His sea duties included being navigator aboard FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT and command-

Patuxent River. He retired on 1 July 1974 with the rank of captain.

He was a member of Green Valley Country Club and the Newport Art Association.

He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Mary; brother, Richard J. Callaway of Corvallis, OR; and several nieces and nephews. excerpts from The Providence Journal-Bulletin - ^ September 2000

WILLIAM RICHARD CHESTER '45 CDR William R. "Bill" Chester, USN (Ret.), died on 20 August 2000, in Fresno, CA, after a short battie with lung cancer.

Commander Chester began his naval career by enlisting in the Navy in 1939 at the age of 19.

He served two years prior to his appointment to the Naval Academy in 1941, part of which time was on COLORADO ( B B 45). Bill graduated on 7 June 1944, in the 19th Company of the Class of 1945.

Bill served on three destroyers before entering flight training in 1947. One was MONSSEN, which eamed a Presidential Unit Citation for action in Leyte Gulf while he was aboard. From flight school, he joined Patrol Squadron 47, where, during the Korean War, he received his second Presidential Unit Citation as part of the squadron. On a later assignment at the Naval Air Special Weapons Facility, Kirtland AFB, Bill became a member of the Caterpillar Club when he left his buming AD-5 via parachute.

Additional training came in the form of a master's degree in educational adminisfration from New Mexico University in Albuquerque, NM, in 1967. BiU retfred from tiie Navy in 1968.

In addition to his Presidential Unit Citations, his awards were the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal.

Upon retiring, he accepted the position of Director, Facilities Planning, State Center Community College District, centered in Fresno, CA, with the responsibilities of planning, funding, and constmction of new facilities and remodeling old facilities. He retired from this position in 1983 after 14 years.

Bill is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mary Jane; three daughters, Peggy Jane, Patricia Ann, and Cathryn Jean; and five grandchildren.

Memorial services were held at the Squaw Valley Cemetery on 24 August 2000, in Squaw Valley, CA, where Bill had a retirement home.

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Last Call NELSON JACKSON GAMBRILL '45 Captain Nelson "Jack" Jackson Gambrill, USN (Ret.), died on 27 July 2000, from the effects of cancer. He was 78 years old.

Jack was a native of the B a l t i m o r e , M D , area and obtained a SecNav appointment to the Naval Academy, entering in July 1941. As would be expected, his sports at the Academy were lacrosse and soccer, which were sfrong in Maryland. He graduated on 7 June 1944, as a member of the Class of 1945, in the 11th Company.

Upon graduation. Jack served on ALABAMA (BB-60) as "N" division officer in the Pacific until August 1945. Jack began his flying career in 1945 at various flight schools, and after completion of fraining in 1947, was assigned to duties as admiiusfration, fraining, and operations officer with VA-3E. In 1950, he was sent to the Naval Postgraduate School, where he eamed a B.S. degree in ordnance engineering-aeronautical in 1952, followed by a year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he eamed an M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering. Subsequent tours of duty included V F - 6 1 , Oceana, VA; instructor at the Naval Academy in ordnance and gunnery; VX-5 at China Lake, CA; and as a student at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. His command cycle began as executive officer and then commanding officer of VA-2I2 in 1963, with following duties as Commander Afr Group 11, and commanding officer of PAUL REVERE (APA-248). These tours were interspersed with assignments in Washington at the office of the Chief of Naval Materiel, Office of Secretary of Defense, and Chief of Naval Operations. His final command was Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, from which he retired in 1973. During his naval career, he was awarded the Legion of merit.

Jack and his wife, Elayne (whom he called Layne) settled into a new home on a golf course, on which Jack claimed to have played at least 4,500 rounds. They also found time to do some serious traveling, having made more than 15 cruises to various parts of the world, including Europe and South America.

Jack is survived by his wife of 54 years, Elayne; son, Donald; and two grandsons. He was predeceased by his son, David.

In accordance with his wishes, he was cremated, no funeral service was held, and his ashes are to be spread at sea.

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GEORGE PERRY GRIFFITH '45 George Perry Griffith died on 3 July 2000, at his home on Long Mountain near Cleveland (White County), GA. He was the son of the late George Perry Griffith and Ruth Luckman Crowe.

George was born on 18 November 1922 in Erie, PA, and attended school through high school in Erie. He joined the Naval Reserve and attended Randall's Preparatory School. He received an appointment to the USNA in 1941 and graduated with the Class of 1945 on 7 June 1944. He served in the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Forces for the remainder of World War II. After the war, he entered flight school and was designated a naval aviator in 1948. He later served two tours during the Korean War and flew F9F fighters off carriers on both tours. He resigned from the Navy in 1953.

His service medals include the World War II Victory, Pacific Service and Korea. He was awarded an Air Medal for service during Korea.

His civilian career included real estate development in Atianta, GA, and mnning his own company developing investments tailored for military personnel. He moved to White County, GA, in the 1980s and continued development of Mountain Resort Property.

He is survived by his daughter, Ellen Griffith Moura of Fafrhaven, MA; and two grandchildren.

Memorial services were held on 5 August in Cleveland, GA, and his remains will be interred in the Naval Academy Columbarium on 26 September 2000. brother-in-law, CAPT Louis K. Tuttle '43

ROBERT ERVIN MCCALL '46 W ^ ^ 1 ^ J On 7 June 2000, 1^ ^ ^ J M Captain Robert E. McCall, USN (Ret.), died of pneumonia at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville, TN. He was 78 years old.

His long and honorable Navy career began in 1939, with enlistment and recmit fraining at the Naval Training Station in Norfolk, VA. He was a seaman aboard NEW YORK, VINCENNES,

CROWINSHIELD and NOA before entering the Naval Academy from a competitive Fleet appointment.

After graduating from the Academy, Captain McCall attended the Naval Mine Warfare School in Yorktown, VA, and participated in minesweep/ mine disposal operations at Okinawa and in the Empire Minesweep Operation in the Inland Sea of Japan. He served aboard Y M S - 2 3 1 , an auxiliary minesweeper, COWIE, a destroyer minesweeper, and LST-603, an amphibious landing ship.

Designated a naval aviator in 1948, Captain McCall subsequently flew in every type of fighter and attack aircraft in inventory and aboard most of the carriers in the Navy.

His first squadron duty was with Composite Squadron 33, one of the first units to perform night carrier work. Tours followed in Fighter Squadron 82 as operations officer, and in Fighter Squadron 62 as landing signal officer and executive officer.

As a graduate of the Navy Test Pilot School, he served in the Armament Test and the Weapons Systems Test Divisions at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, MD. Captain McCall was one of the first naval aviators to fly faster than 1,000 miles an hour.

Additional tours included assistant for aviation safety on the staff of Commander Naval Afr Forces, Atlantic; assistant air group training officer on the staff of Commander Fleet Air Jacksonville; air operations officer aboard INDEPENDENCE; assistant for Electronic Warfare Research and Development Planning in the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (development); and as systems integration coordinator for anti-ship missile defense in the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Fleet Operations and Readiness).

From August 1970 to August 1972, Captain McCall was commanding officer of the Naval Air Station, China Lake, CA. Before retfrement in 1975, his last tour of duty was in Washington as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Materiel.

Academic credentials include a master's degree in systems management from the University of Southem Califomia. He was an instractor in the department of marine engineering at the Naval Academy, and had completed advanced courses in nuclear ordnance, aerodynamics and electronics.

Following retirement from the Navy, he worked for the Project Management Corpoiation with the Clinch River Breeder Reactor in Oak Ridge, TN, for ten years. He held the position of chief executive officer, engineering division.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Marilyn Wray McCall, 5409 Cove Island Road, Knoxville, TN 37919; two sons, Robert E. McCall III and James P. McCall; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Mrs. Marilyn McCall

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Last Call R I C H A R D WARD BATES '48 Captain Richard Ward B a t e s , USN (Ret.), passed away unexpectedly on 10 August 2000 at the Northern Virginia Community Hospital in Arlington, VA. Dick was born on 11 Aprri 1924, in Calexico, CA. He grew up with his extended family in Southem Califomia leaming various skills ranging from bee keeping to architecture .and draftsmanship. On his 18th birthday, Dick enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was assigned, among other duties, to sub chasers off the coast of Florida.

He emerged from the war as a quartermaster second class and accepted an appointment to the Naval Academy in 1944. WTiile at the Academy, Dick put his artistic skill and love of photography to use as the editor of the 1948 Lucky Bag. Upon graduation in 1948, he served aboard JUNEAU ( C L A A - 119) off North Korea in the opening days of the Korean War and then in Taiwan, establishing the Sfraits Patrol. Dick became a special duty officer. Naval Intelligence in June 1951 when he entered the Naval Intelligence School in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. Dick's career as an intelligence officer included Fleet N2 tours, and duty as the assistant naval attache in Port Said, Egypt, during the nationalization of the Suez Canal. In 1960, he married his beloved wife, Constance Nine of Baltimore, MD. He was assigned to the Seventh Heet and was stationed in Manila, Philippines.

There, his son, Richard Louis, was bom in 1962.

Dick was then assigned to the Command School at the Naval War College, Newport, RI, and upon graduation was assigned a tour there as instractor. During that time, he eamed his master's degree in intemational affafrs from George Washington University. In 1965, it was back to the Sixth and a tour of duty in San Diego where, among other duties, he was assigned to the Board of Inquiry for the PUEBLO Incident. In 1969, Dick and his family moved back to his home in Arlington, VA. There, he had several tours including officer in charge of the Navy Field Operational Intelligence Office (NFOIO) at Fort Meade, deputy director of the Office of Naval Intelligence and no fewer than five assignments in the field of professional education and training in the intelligence profession. He culminated his career with a tour of duty as the commandant of the Defense Intelligence School, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. Dick reshaped the school into a university format, eventually earning approval from the Department of Education for the Defense Intelligence College to present a master's level program in intelligence. He retired from active service in 1979.

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After retirement, he continued to serve his country by consulting with the National Security Agency, developing an online training system for their COINS intelligence database. He also continued to pursue his goal of gaining recognition of intelligence as a profession, identifying the defining qualities of a profession and demonsfrating that the nation's intelligence efforts bore these qualities.

He was a past president of the National Military IntelUgence Association (NMIA), vice president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), as well as a board member of NMIA, AFIO, Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP), the National Intelligence Study Center and the National Strategic Information Center. He and Connie continued the work of the Common Interest Network (CIN) which serves as an ombudsman between the various intelligence interest groups to further their common goals, interests and cooperation. CAPT Bates also authored the NIP Quarterly, a review of intelligencerelated books, reviewing countless books on the subject of inteUigence and intelUgence operations throughout the history of the U.S. In November 1999 Dick was diagnosed with colon cancer, which he conquered. However, during a related surgery he conttacted a massive infection which proved to be fatal.

He is survived by his wife, Connie, in ArUngton, VA; his son, Richard, and his daughterin-law. Heather Rupertus (daughter of Patrick Rupertus '62); his grandson, Pafrick; granddaughter, Devon, (all in Ashbum, VA); and his sister, Barbara Traman, of Lompoc, CA. Per Captain Bates' wishes, there will be no memorial service. His ashes will be scattered over the Atlantic Ocean off the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

Richard L. Bates, with excerpts from the 1999 NIP Red Tie Award Citation

JOHN WILLIAM JAMES '48 Commander John William James, USN (Ret.), died on Friday, 25 August 2000 in Granbury, TX. He was 75 years old.

He attended Hendrix College in Conway, AR, and Louisiana Tech College in Ruston, LA. He was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, with the Class of 1948. He also graduated from the Royal Naval Staff College in Greenwich, England, in 1963, a distinguished honor.

His naval background was very extensive, on 28 July 2000 having served on many ships and submarines. He was the commanding officer of BONEFISH and was the youngest captain of submarines at that time.

He was a resident of Granbury, TX, for 24 years and was a member of the First United Methodist Church. He was a past president of the Pecan Plantation Men's Golf Association.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Jo James; daughter, Cynthia Anne Sweatt; son, WilUam Howard James; son and daughter-in-law, Stephen Alan and Tami Louise James; eight grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law, Dorothy James and John Kelsey Ross; sister-in-law and husband, Vfrginia Faulkner Adams and Dr. James Alan Adams; several cousins; other family members; and many dear friends.

A memorial service was held on Monday, 28 August 2000 at Wiley Funeral Home Chapel in Granbury, TX, with the Rev. John Robbins and Dr. Eugene Robertson officiating.

Memorials in his honor may be made to the Community Hospice of Texas or The Ffrst United Methodist Church in Granbury, TX. excerpts from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram â&#x20AC;&#x201D;27 August 2000

ROBERT THOMAS BRUMFIEL '51 Lieutenant Colonel Robert T. "Tom" Bramfiel, USAF (Ret.), died on 29 August 2000, at Reston Hospital in Vfrginia.

Tom was born in Buffalo, NY, on 15 December 1928 to Edwin Vernon and Alice McKinnon Brumfiel. The family moved to Chevy Chase, MD, in 1930 and Tom graduated from Bullis Academy in 1947.

He was appointed to the Naval Academy from the state of Michigan and was a member of the Class of 1951. He left the Academy in Febmary 1950, enlisted in the Air Force, attended OCS, and was commissioned a second lieutenant on 15 December 1950.

The next two years were spent in traiiung command, stationed at Lackland, Sheppard and Amarillo AFBs. While in Amarillo, he met and married Dora "Dee" Kenyon on 4 May 1952.

From there, he was assigned to 22nd Crash Rescue Boat SQ and was sent to Korea as commanding officer of DET 1, operating out of Inchon.

He was sent to USAF Cryotologic Course, HQ USAF Security Service, Kelly AFB. Next, he was given additional training in ADF and was assigned to 6902nd Special Communications group, Shirol AFB, Japan, as an "IBM" officer.

From there, it was back to Kelly AFB as Chief Computer Programming Branch, HQ USAF Special Communications Center. Assigned to "Operation Bootstrap" at Oklahoma State University for six months TDY and received a B.S. degree in aerospace science, and was subsequentiy sent to 6901st Sp Comm Gp, Zweibracken, Germany, as director, OPS SVC Div. He was then assigned the dual job of Director Data Processing HQ USAF Sec Svc and CO of USAFSS Computer Center. After attending the advanced compfrolShipmate, November 2000

Call lers course at Air University, he was assigned as assistant chief of finance. Defense Confracting Region New York witii HQ 60 Hudson Sfreet, NYC, and finally retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel.

After retiring from the Air Force, Colonel Brumfiel joined Wright Data Systems in New York City as a senior computer consultant, then moved to Mid-Atiantic Toyota in Columbia, MD, as vice president of management services. He then joined MWS Consultants as vice president in their Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, office, retuming to the United States for health reasons.

He was an avid reader and military history scholar. He belonged to the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, The Retired Officers Association, the Naval Academy Alumni Association, Freedom Through Vigilance Association, AAF-USAF Crash Rescue Boat Association and the VFW. Colonel and Mrs. Bramfiel were residents of Potomac, MD, for 25 years before moving in 1997 to Falcon's Landing in Potomac Falls, VA. Colonel Bramfiel is survived by his wife of 48 years, the former Dora Kenyon of Amarillo, TX; son, Robert K. Bramfiel of Columbus, OH; daughter, Tracey Bramfiel Nelson of New York City and Austin, TX; and grandchildren, Kate and Drew Nelson.

ROBERT EUGENE MACK '54 Robert E. Mack died suddenly on 31 March 2000, at his home in Toronto, Canada. After graduating with the Naval Academy Class of 1954, he went to Pensacola to earn his pilot's wings, then served on the Polaris program and resigned from active duty in 1964.

His post-military career started as a civil service employee working in Vfrginia. In 1976, Bob moved to Califomia and in 1978, joined Science Applications International (SAIC), where he rose to become president of Comsystems, an SAIC Division in La JoUa, CA. In the early 1990s, he left SAIC and set up his own business which marketed a software product, MOSAIC, that was developed by SAIC. At the time of his death. Bob had been working on flight simulators and had a Web site (www.flightsimtraining.com) which is being maintained by his widow, Susan, a native of Canada.

Besides Susan, Bob is survived by a son, Robert E. Mack Jr. of San Diego, CA; daughter, Elizabeth Joyce, of Virginia Beach, VA; sister, Barbara Diehl of San Francisco, CA; and two grandsons. Hunter and Tyler Joyce.

WILLIAM EUGENE SHEPPARD '57 THOMAS FRANCIS MURRAY '54 William E. "Bill" Sheppard died on 3 April Tom Murray died of cancer on 19 August 2000 in Norman, OK. He was 68 years old.

2000, in a hospital in Chambersburg, PA. He was 72 years old. A native of Staten Island, NY, he Bill was born on 15 September 1931, in served in the U.S. Marine Corps for two years Norwalk, OH. He graduated from the Naval before entering tiie U.S. Naval Academy. Tom Academy in 1957 with a bachelor of science was in the 6th Company and was well liked by degree, as a member of the 22nd Company. He all his Classmates who knew him. also graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the UniverAfter graduating from the Academy, he sity of Oklahoma in 1962 with a bachelor's in served in destroyers and minesweepers before electrical engineering; and summa cum laude resigning in 1961. For the next ten years, Tom from the University of Cenfral Oklahoma in 1976 was employed by Grumman Corporation in New with an M.Ed. York and worked in the aerospace industry. He Mr. Sheppard married JoAnn Brooks on was a flight test engineer for the Lunar Excur- 18 August 1958, at Andrews Air Force Base. sion Module, a deputy project manager in the His duty stations included: Andrews AFB; F-14 program, and then a project test engineer Olmstead AFB; Hanscom AFB; Fuchu Air on the High Speed Train program. After leaving Station Japan; and Tinker AFB. He retired from Gramman, he worked 14 years for the U.S. Postal the Air Force in 1977.

Service and was director of facilities in New York Upon retirement, he joined the Civil Service City before retiring in 1986. where he supported maintenance and programIn 1990, Tom moved to Towson, MD, where ming of the Ground Launched Cmise Missile. he lived until January 2000 when he moved to Mr. Sheppard retired from Civil Service in 1993 Chambersburg, PA. Funeral services were held and resided in Norman, OK, since 1970. in Towson, MD, and burial was in Dulaney Mr. Sheppard was raised as a Master Mason Valley Memorial Gardens near Baltimore, MD. in 1951 and was a member of the Norman MaSurvivors include his wife of 46 years, sonic Lodge, Guthrie Scottish Rite, India Shrine Mimi; son, Thomas A. Murray of Princeton, NJ; and National Sojoumers. He was an active memdaughter, Kathleen A. Tegtmeyer of Las Vegas, ber of the Norman Eastern Star Chapter and NV; and five grandchildren. served as Worthy Patron in 1983. He was also a Captain O. V. Shearer Jr '54past Rainbow Dad of Norman Assembly #18 of the Intemational Order of the Rainbow for Girls.

His hobbies were computers and woodworking.

ROBERT MAURICE DIXON '57 Mr. Sheppard is survived by his wife, JoAnn; Robert M. Dixon, of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin his mother, Edith Stall of Morganton, NC; two Islands, and Muscle Shoals, AL, died on daughters and sons-in-law, Kim and Michael Orr Wednesday, 2 August 2000. He was 67 years old. of Norman, OK, Debbie and Stephan Howard of He was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Norman, OK; a brother and sister-in-law, Fred Academy, and the University of New Mexico and Peggy Sheppard of Bucharest, Romania; a School of Law. After a career in the Air Force, sister, Becky Hodges of Morganton, NC; four he practiced law for 15 years. After that, he and grandchildren, Steven Orr and his wife, Emily, his wife started and ran a wonderful business in Ashley Orr, Joseph Howard and Jacob Howard, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. all of Norman, OK; an aunt, Carol Renna of He is survived by his wife, Julia Slack Dixon Norwalk, OH; an uncle, Avery Pool of Norwalk, of Muscle Shoals, AL; sons, William Buck Dixon OH; and several nieces and nephews. and Kevin Dixon, both of Orange Beach, AL, and Mr. Sheppard was preceded in death by Cameron Dixon and his wife, Tanya Dixon, of a daughter, Beth Sheppard, and a brother, Bryan, TX; granddaughters, Cassandra and Nicole Robert Sheppard.

Dixon, and Miranda Hale, all of Bryan, TX; and Daniela Dixon, and great-granddaughter, Laura Ashley Dixon, both of Albuquerque, NM. Bob felt that he was blessed with wonderful in-laws and a devoted wife and family. God's I Still find each day too shortfor all grace surely did shine on Bob. the thoughts I want to thin/(j all the A memorial and burial service is to be held at a later date in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. wall(s I want to tal(e, all the 6oo/^ I The family requests that memorials be made want to read, and all the friends I to Hospice of the Shoals.

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Last Call JAMES LESLIE GEORGE '61 With the passing of James L. George on 24 August 2000, tiie Class of 1961 lost a sterling Classmate, and the Academy and Navy lost a stalwart champion.

Dr. George, Jim to all his friends, was an intemationally known expert on national security affairs and former assistant director of the Arms Confrol and Disarmament Agency. He died at his home in Potomac, MD, after a 34year battle with cancer.

Although bom in Chicago, IL, Jim's presence at the Academy was a bit of a mystery to some because he was raised in Canada and came to USNA direct from high school in Hamilton, Ontario. He often explained the nature of his appointment, but it always seemed that some sort of sleight of hand was involved. Regardless, Jim's friendly nature and mischievous grin eamed him many friends during his four years on the Sevem and launched him on what looked to be a promising career in Navy line. He served on the desttoyer SOLEY, and the LSTs SUFFOLK COUNTY and PULASKI COUNTY, the latter in the

capacity of executive officer. He had orders for ship command but a rare form of throat cancer forced him to retfre as a Ueutenant in 1967.

Losing his larynx to cancer siurgery, Jim could have easily thrown in the towel and become a recluse, sorry for himself and the fragic tum his life had taken. However, with his rare gusto he pursued graduate studies full-time, to receive a master's degree in poUtical science and his Ph.D. in intemational relations from the Uiuversity of Maryland in 1972. He went on to be a public affairs fellow at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford Uiuversity.

From 1973 to 1977, he served on the Senate Govemment Operations Committee as a staff member for national security affairs. Next, he held a sinular position with the House Committee on Govemment Operations. In 1981, he was appointed assistant director for Multilateral Affairs at the Arms Confrol and Disarmament Agency by President Reagan. He subsequently rejoined the House Committee on Govemment Operations and retired in 1992. He was also a past senior fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses and a senior adjunct fellow with the Hudson Institute, both in Washington.

Jim, who wrote extensively on naval issues, was also the author of History of Warships, published in 1998, and U.S. Navy in the 1990s: Alternatives for Action, published in 1992, both by the U.S. Naval Institute Press. He was also a five-time winner of the Arleigh Burke Essay Contest sponsored by the Naval Institute's Proceedings.

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contributing editor of U.S. Naval Forces, a bi-monthly magazine based in Bonn, Germany, and a commentary writer for Defense News, Navy Times and other publications covering the armed forces.

Despite this full professional career, Jim found time to be the corresponding secretary, and later the recording secretary for the Class of 1961 executive committee (for longer than most can remember), and took time as a volunteer to counsel patients battling throat cancer. The frony is that Jim succumbed to a reoccurrence of his throat cancer that was diagnosed early this year.

A Potomac, MD, resident, Jim is survived by his wife of nine years, Jeanne M. George; two daughters from his first marriage to Patricia Kacsmar George, Laura M. George of Purcellville, MD, and Leslie M. George of Germantown, MD; six stepchildren, Thomas J. Carolan of Rockville, MD, Jeanne C Broadhurst of Smyma, GA, Kathleen Carolan of Vitoria, Spain, Suzanne M. Carolan of Washington, and Timothy A. Carolan and Michael P. Carolan, both of Austin, TX; and seven grandchildren.

He was buried with military honors at the Naval Academy Cemetery with many Classmates, including several from his cherished 21st Company, in attendance. He will be missed by all.

Don Evans '61 & Warren Hoppe '61

EDWARD LAVIN WALSH '63 Edward Lavin "Ned" Walsh died on 10 August 2000 of cancer at his home in Canton, MS. He was 59 years old.

Ned was bom and grew up in Philadelphia, PA. After graduating from high school, he attended Villanova University for one year before entering the Naval Academy in 1959. A member of the Sixth Company, Ned was an excellent student and a trae friend to iimumerable Classmates. He participated in a variety of school activities including the Catholic Choir, the Hop Committee, and the "First Base Club."

Among his many contributions to improving life at the Academy, he is fondly remembered for his role in signing up the great Si Zentnor band for the Second Class Ring Dance in spite of a multitude of "Si who's?" from his Classmates.

After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1963 with a bachelor of science degree, Ned attended the Navy Nuclear Power and Submarine schools and served as a division officer on two submarines before leaving the Navy in 1968.

Ned attended Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. After two years with AT&T in Atianta, GA, he moved to Canton, MS, where he and Lucy built a beautiful home in the country. Over the next 28 years, Ned had successful careers in a variety of businesses. He was president and CEO of a large management consulting practice and held these same positions

in a national entertainment media distribution company. He most recently worked as a broker and financial planner with Merrill Lynch.

Ned was also very active in the community.

He was a daily communicant of the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle. He was a founding member of Jackson Right to Life, which recently named the Pro-Lifer of the Year Award for him.

He was also a board member of Mississippi Blood Services.

A memorial Mass of the Resurrection was held for Ned on 14 August 2000, with many of his family and friends present. His remains will be inumed in the Naval Academy Columbarium in the fall on a date yet to be determined.

Ned is survived by his wife, Lucy; his daughter, Mary-Lacey, and her husband. Bill Reuther, of Washington, D . C ; and his son, Edward L. Walsh Jr. of Brandon, MS. He is also survived by his brothers. Bill Walsh of Marco Island, FL, David Walsh of Malvern, PA, and Dan Walsh of Longport, NJ. Memorials may be made to Jackson Right to Life, 618 Briarwood Drive, Suite B, Jackson, MS392II.

JAMES MICHAEL LOOME '66 Captain James Michael Loome, USNR-R, died on 1 Febmary 1991 in San Diego, CA, of compUcations associated with a brain tumor. On 7 March 1991, his ashes were scattered at sea with fuU military honors from the deck of CONSTANT (MSO-427), a ship that he had commanded during the early 1970s.

Bom in Albany, NY, on 3 November 1942, Jim entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1966 on 27 June 1962, having graduated from Calvert Hall High School in Baltimore, MD, in 1961 and The Bullis School in Silver Spring, MD, in 1962. He was a member of the 23rd Company during Plebe and Youngster years, and then moved with many of his Classmates to the 34th Company, when the Brigade was expanded from 24 to 36 companies. His many friends from those Academy days remember Jim for his unfailing good humor, devotion to duty, and determined performance in academic, athletic, and exttacurricular pursuits. At the Academy, Jim participated enthusiastically in fencing, boxing, and squash, and he was a very committed member of the Foreign Relations Club, playing an active role in the annual Foreign Relations Conference.

He enjoyed his work as a member of the YP Squadron, where he spent many aftemoons on these small naval craft leaming the basics of life at sea, and he participated regularly in overnight weekend YP trips to various ports along the Shipmate. November 2000

Last Call Chesapeake Bay. Jim graduated with the Class on 8 June 1966, was commissioned an ensign, U.S. Navy and joined the surface fleet.

In July 1966, after graduation leave, Jim attended Damage Control School at the U.S. Naval Station, Philadelphia, before reporting to TURNER (DDR-834), where he served through April 1968. From May to November 1968, he attended Naval Desttoyer School in Newport, RI, and was then assigned to WARRINGTON (DD-843) as engineering officer from November 1968 to August 1970. While assigned to WARRINGTON, he was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for superior performance of his duties while conducting surveillance operations in the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic.

After attending various schools at the Naval Base in Norfolk, VA, Jim was assigned as executive officer and navigator of PLEDGE ( M S O - 4 9 2 ) from October 1970 to May 1972. He was awarded his first Navy Commendation Medal for meritorious service on PLEDGE during combat operations off the coast of South Vietnam. Jim then served as commanding officer of CONSTANT (MSO-427) from June 1972 through September 1974.

After serving at Surface Warfare Officers School in San Diego, Jim was honorably discharged on 1 August 1977, and took up residence in San Diego. He earned a J.D. degree from Westem State University of Law in San Diego in August 1980.

After leaving active duty, Jim served with distinction in the Naval Reserve. From October 1984 to October 1985 he served as Commander, Mine Division 54, for which he was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second Navy Commendation Medal. For his service as Harbor Department Head of the Naval Reserve Command at Subic Bay, the Philippines, from June 1986 through December 1989, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and a Gold Star in Ueu of a thfrd Navy Commendation Medal for

his duty as commanding officer of a Naval Reserve Minesweeper Detachment of the Surface Fleet, Pacific, from January through November 1990.

Jim's awards included the Navy Achievement Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (witii two gold stars in lieu of additional awards), the Meritorious Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon, and National Defense Service Medal.

Jim is survived by his brother, John Francis Loome Jr., of Tampa, FL; and his sister, Patricia Loome, of the Sisters of Notte Dame de Namur, Parkville, MD.

WILLIAM JOSEPH DEY '92 II On 18 June 2000, the Class of 1992 suffered a great loss when an F-14 went down during an air show in Willow Grove, PA. Lieutenant William "Dewar" Dey, a member of the Navy's F-14 flight demonsfration team, was the pilot.

Bill was in the 6th Company, and many of us who were in his Company, recently gathered to say our good-byes. A moving memorial service was held at Oceana Naval Air Station chapel, capped by a missing man flyover by Bill's squadronmates in VF-101. Two days later. Bill was laid to rest with full military honors, following a funeral mass in his hometown of Hightstown, NJ. The memorial service in Oceana was an overwhelming testament by the F-14 community to Dewar's prowess as a fighter pilot. Simply stated, Dewar was ranked the best among his peers for his awe-inspiring aeronautical ability and his natural leadership within the squadron. Bill died

doing what he loved, flying his Tomcat to its fullest at an air show, fronically, his application package was set to go before the Navy's Blue Angel selection board in early July. He would have been a perfect choice for that elite group of aviators.

But, it was Bill at USNA that most of us remember best. He was the star defenseman of Navy's highly successful varsity soccer team. His tenacity and skill earned him the "honor" of marking the opposing team's top offensive threat.

This tough-as-nails character from "Joy-sey" was seen by most opponents as an impassable defensive wall.

For as talented a pilot and soccer player as Bill was, he was an even better friend. Those of us who were fortunate enough to traly know Bill, discovered that beneath his "hard-nosed" exterior, was a friend whose loyalty was unwavering. Bill had a profound sense of right and wrong and refused to let anyone live at less than their full potential. He led us on some of our most thrilling adventures as Midshipmen, and some of the best memories of our lives will be of times spent in his company.

Bill is survived by his wife of five years.

Deb; his one-year-old daughter, Kamryn; his parents. Bill and Cathy Dey; his three sisters, Carolyn, Karen, and Kathleen; and eleven nieces and nephews.

The Navy has lost a gifted pilot and an inspirational leader. We have lost a Classmate, a friend, and a brother. We pledge to watch over his wife, daughter and family. We'll always cherish our brother, and until we meet that trademark laughing, crooked smile once again, may we all strive to live and love to our full potential, as Bill would have insisted.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Kamryn Dey Education Fund at Navy Federal Credit Union (account 2284645-005).

To suKmt obituan^Tor publication in ShipMSWTW^^^"^^^^^^^ more than two pages, typed and double spaced. If it is possible to submit the obituary in electronic format, whether via email or on disk, it would be greatly appreciated. One photo for publication with the obituary may also be submitted. To submit an obituary, please mail to Shipmate, 247 King George I Street, Annapolis, MD 21402, or email to obits@usna.com. We also ask that you contact the Class Secretary of the deceased as soon as possible. Please see ^ ^ ^ the Class News section for addresses and phone numbers.

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