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Until 1934 this invaluable narrative was lost among the great bulk of Dewey papers remaining in private hands. The Admiral's son then unearthed it and nearly 10 years later made it available for a biography of his father. This limited printing by the Naval Historical Foundation publishes it in its entirety for the first time.

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Our cover this month shouts THE BATTLESHIP MAINE. The MAINE was a battleship of 6,682 tons, 318 feet long by 57 feet beam, armed with four 10-ifich, six 6-inch, and fifteen smaller guns. She arrived in Havana on 25 January 1898. In the evening of 15 February 1898, she was destroyed by the explosion of a submarine mine, and 266 of the 353 men in the ship's company were lost. The destruction of the MAINE aroused public iruligrwtion in the United States, which culminated in war. Copyright, F. Muller. By courtesy of Office of Naval Records and Library. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

MANAGING EDITOR—C. E. CONEY, '19

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Pierce, Vice-Presidents; C. E. Coney, Executive Director. Printed at Fleet-McGinley, Inc., 109 Market Place, Baltimore ( 2 ) , Maryland. Editorial office, Alumni House, Annapolis. Maryland. Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Annapolis, Maryland. Copyright, 1948, by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc.

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Disability P a y — A i r Transport Merger—Naval Appropriations—Ship Modernization — Unification Steps — More Disability Bills

Statistics received by the committee show that of the 16,533 Regular Navy officers on active duty from 1940 through HE Civilian Advisory Commission to the advisory commission by Secretary 1947, about 10 percent were retired for disability. One percent of 318,521 Reon Service Pay is considering a rec- of Defense Forrestal. serve officers serving during that period ommendation for base pay increases of Under this proposal ail officers would were retired for disability. But the great about twenty percent, longevity pay receive the same subsistence pay—$45 which starts at $30 per month and in- monthly—instead of the current pay of majority of Reserve officers joined the creases by $30 every five years up to $42 for officers with dependents and $21 Navy to fight a war, with no thought for a Naval career leading to retirement thirty years, and increases in other com- for officers without dependents. pensation. The recommendation was Naval officers would receive the same benefits.

Thirteen percent of the 19,000 Regumade in the form of a report by the Joint pay as that proposed for Army officers lar Army officers were retired for disServices Pay Board, and was turned over of the same grade, outlined herewith: ability, as compared to 3 percent of 900,Monthly Rental Pay 000 nonregulars.

Ranli Base Pay Dependents No Dep. Subsistence Major General . . $10,400 $195 $150 $45 Air Transport Merger Brigadier General .

8,640 180 135 45 The Naval Air Transport Service flew Colonel 7,200 165 120 45 more than 320,000 passengers a total of Lieutenant Colonel 5,760 150 105 45 almost 500,000,000 passenger miles durMajor 4,680 135 90 45 ing 1947 with no passenger fatalities, Captain 3,960 45 105 75 Rear Admiral J. W. Reeves, Jr., NATS First Lieutenant . .

3,240 90 60 45 commander, said. The NATS dependSecond Lieutenant 2,880 60 45 45 ability of service, their efficiency and economy, and the way they satisfied their Longevity pay would be in addition ices Committee plan to introduce legis- passengers were almost as perfect as their to base pay. Thus, a young officer after lation to change existing retirement dis- accident record. The Navy record is all five years' service would receive an extra ability compensation laws. One of the the more remarkable in view of the many $30 per month, and after thirty years' purposes of this legislation, a committee tragic aviation accidents in 1947, some service would receive an extra $180 per spokesman said, will be to subject to of them involving Army planes.

But the NATS have met with an acincome tax laws the disability compensamonth. cident of another kind. Secretary of Detion of Army and Navy officers earning While it is almost inevitable that servfense Forrestal has ordered a merger of fair money in civilian employment.

Repice pay will be increased, no one seeins the Air Transport Command (Army) resentative Leroy Johnson, California, to know when it will be increased. This and the Naval Air Transport Command. chairman of a subcommittee on disability civilian pay commission was asked to The combined service will be called retirement, said that Congress might be make a detailed study of the pay of all MATS, the Military Air Transport Servasked to provide "partial pay for men service officer and enlisted grades, and ice. who are only partially disabled."

Apparto justify pay increases by comparisons ently such a bill might suggest that a Forrestal said that the Navy would rewith civilian industrial pay. The job is partially disabled officer receive less than tain responsibility for operation of air proving bigger than was expected. Plans the three-fourths of base pay received by transport essential to naval operations, to expand the commission, to provide officers retired for age or length of serv- such as air transport over routes of sole members with assistants and more ac- ice. Such a bill would receive scant coninterest to the naval forces, where the counting and clerical help, are being sideration. Naval authorities believe. requirements cannot be met by the famade. cilities of MATS. It is interesting to note There is no question of changing laws that about 75 percent of the route miles When the smdy is completed, it will have to be translated into terms of legis- aflfecting a retired officers' right to three- flown by NATS lie outside the continenlation for presentation to Congress. Con- fourths of base pay. The big question is tal United States, and are flown in supgress can process legislation in a hurry what to do about officers retired for dis- port of deployed fleet units and shore eswhen it wants to or believes that it has ability and earning money in civilian life. tablishments. Presumably, therefore, the to. But a service pay bill presented, as At present his disability compensation is Navy will retain a sizable service all its seems possible, in May, will have to face not subject to the income tax. own. some rough competition from other legOfficers living on disability compensaThe new service will be headed by islation as well as indifference from Con- tion only, or plus some small income Major General Laurence S. Kuter, USAF, gressmen anxious to get back home. from civilian occupation, are also being who has been at the top of Army aviaconsidered. But there is no intent to tion in several capacities. Kuter's assistDisability Pay cause hardship, so these officers need not ant will be Rear Admiral John Perry {Continued on page 36) Members of the House Armed Serv- worry, committee spokesmen said.

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U.S.S. MAINE in Havana Harbor, 15 February 1898. Painting by Carlton T. Chaptnan.

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fied victory, but peace is not yet in sight.

Our fleets were victorious throughout Fifty years have passed since a sacrifice all the seas because our ships were of American lives was made in the har- manned by men of the same stock and bor of Havana when the MAINE was calibre as those who went to their death destroyed. In time of peace, without 15 February 1898. warning, two hundred and sixty-men W A T TYLER CLUVERIUS were lost, and soon after, was descended.

FORWARD*

The results of that brief conflict were far-reaching. The United States assumed responsibilities for peoples and territories overseas which made us a world power.

Since that day, we have been involved in all of the troubles between nations and have fought many wars. W e are confronted at the present moment with attempting to achieve the fruits of unqualiMARCH,

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later caused it to detonate, are unknown.

Nor is it known when the mine was put in position. This fact is known: the perpetrators of this infamous thing succeeded in their determination to reduce the capital ship strength of the U. S. Navy at the very moment when war with Spain awaited only a spark. No sure N 15 February fifty years ago, the identification of the mine was found. people of the United States experi* Written especially for SHIPMATE by R. enced our first Pearl Harbor. The battle- Adm. Wat Tyler Cluverius, USNA, 1896, ship M A I N E , at anchor in Havana har- distinguished in war and peace, currently bor on a visit to improve friendly rela- President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. tions with Spain, exploded from the detAdmiral Cluverius is one of only two offionation of a submarine mine. The per- cers now living who were on board the MAINE son or persons who placed this mine un- at the time of the explosion. The other is der the forward keel of the M A I N E and Capt. D. F. Boyd, 1897.

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Before the M A I N E was destroyed Dy warfare, pursued with stern oflicial conan enemy conspirator, we had these bat- science . . . the visit of the M A I N E to Port tleships to fight it out with the navy of Royal was intended to have a U. S. man Spain: MAINE, TEXAS, MASSACHU- of war nearer Cuba . . . her ten inch guns SETTS, IOWA, INDIANA, plus the OREGON were tested for rapidity of fire." In Dewith uncertain utility, on the Pacific cember, the M A I N E dropped down to coast. The M A I N E , representing twenty Key West. "My orders there were conpercent of our sea power immediately fidential,â&#x20AC;&#x201D;to proceed to Havana in case available, was a temptation. Her anchor- of grace local disturbances and to give age in Havana was at an official buoy, asylum to American citizens." assigned by Spanish port officials. A Captain Sigsbee's letters to General Spanish naval pilot steered the MAINE Fitzhugh Lee, our Consul General at to the spot where exactly sixteen days Havana, "were secretly sent. We arlater she was to explode horribly and ranged a telegraph code. "Two dollars' sink in the matter of seconds. Dead im- from him meant prepare to start for mediately from fire, fumes, torn bodies, Havana two hours after further notice." and drowning, were all except ninety- Later, Captain Sigsbee wrote: "I declined four of a crew of three hundred and fifty the proffer of command of the cruiser officers and men.

N E W YORK in the hope that ultimately Little wonder that the cry arose louder I might reach Havana with the MAINE," and louder: "Remember the MAINE and On 24 January, General Lee was cabled to heU with Spain." A formal declara- by the Department of State that the tion of war foUowed nine weeks later on MAINE wotild arrive at Havana in a day 25 April 1898. or two to resume friendly naval visits.

This culmination was well defined Immediately the General notified Washlater by Captain Charles W. Sigsbee com- ington: "Advise visit be postponed six manding the M A I N E : "The explosion of or seven days to give last excitement time the M A I N E at Havana, 15 February 1898, to disappear." was the ultimate incident which impelled Almost at the moment the MAINE the people of the United States to regard was steaming in past Morro Castle enSpain as an impossible neighbor . . . that trance to the harbor. General Lee cabled: disaster was the pivotal event of the con- "Authorities here profess to think U. S. flict which terminated Spanish possession has ulterior purpose in sending the in the Western World."

M A I N E . . . ask that it be not done until Fifty years after the loss of the M A I N E they can get instructions from Madrid." in the harbor of a nation with whom inCaptain Sigsbee later wrote: "It was creasingly strained relations pointed to to be expected that the Spanish people in war, the inquiry by current readers of Havana would prefer that the M A I N E the event is: "What was the MAINE should stay away." doing in Havana, things being what The approach and entrance to her they were? What advantage to the tomb: "When all was ready," stated CapUnited States to expose her to foreign tain Sigsbee, "the M A I N E was headed officers and to a populace that had more nearly parallel to the city shoreline tothan once manifested unfriendly feel- ward the entrance. She was sent ahead at ings toward the United States?" full speed as she passed the city and the The answer to these 1948 questions: U. S. National Ensign was hoisted to the President Wm. MeKinley, reporting to peak and the Jack at the foremast head.

Congress on 28 March 1898: "For some This told that the MAINE was a man of time prior to the visit of the M A I N E to war and desired a harbor pilot. The pilot Havana, our consular representatives service is official. pointed out the advantages to flow from "No U. S. vessel had entered Havana the visits of our national ships to Cuban in three years. There was doubt as to our waters in accustoming the people to the reception. I was not aware of the nature presence of our flag as the symbol of of the diplomatic exchanges . . . it was good will and of our ships in the fulfill- my affair to be ready for all emergencies. ment of the mission of protection to The M A I N E was in such a state of prepaAmerican interests even though no im- ration that she could not have been taken mediate need therefor might exist . . . at much disadvantage," concluded the The Spanish authorities at Madrid and Captain of the MAINE. at Havana were advised of the purpose of this Government to resume friendly VENTS were to prove otherwise. A naval visits at Cuban ports . . . This was submarine mine under the forward received by the Spanish Government with appreciation of the friendly char- keel of the M A I N E (mines had long been acter of the visit of the M A I N E and with used in naval warfare) was outside the notification of intention to return the scope of "preparation" as referred to by courtesy by sending Spanish ships to the Captain Sigsbee. It was this mine (in the judgment of the Naval Court of Inquiry principal ports of the United States."

Captain Sigsbee of the MAINE viewed and the final report of the MAINE Board matters differently. He spoke of the sea after she was raised), that caused the maneuvers the previous October as "sea forward magazines of the MAINE to ex-

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plode, thus completely wrecking the forward half of the ship.

One circumstance was often mentioned to indicate that the conspiracy to blow up the M A I N E had been planned before the ship had come to her mooring buoy.

One of the M A I N E ' S officers has written: "Captain Sigsbee commented on the fact that the M A I N E should have been given a berth in man-of-war row.

Captain Sigsbee however testified: "The berth of the M A I N E was in the

man-of-war anchorage off the Machina."

He added that he had been told that menof-war had never previously been moored to the buoy assigned to the MAINE. In Captain Sigsbee's book: "The MAINE was moored to a mooring buoy, chosen by the pilot in the man-of-war anchorage."

The M A I N E was guarded against sabotage both within the ship; around the upper decks; and in all respects above the waterline. "I had sentries on the forecastle and poop, quartermaster and signal boy on the bridge; signal boy on the poop, corporal of the guard at port gangway, officer of the deck at starboard gangway. A quarter watch was kept on deck all night, sentries cartridge boxes were fuU, their arms loaded. Rapid fire ammunition in the pilot house and in the spare captain's pantry, additional charges of shell close at hand for the secondary battery, steam in two boilers instead of one. A close eye was kept on all who came on board and to observe those carrying packages that might contain dynamite or other high explosive and to afterwards inspect the routes the package carriers had taken in the ship.

"My orders were to consider the MAINE in a position demanding extreme vigilance. Lieutenant Commander Wainwright, Executive Officer was very severe on desultory visitors to the MAINE." Lest there be a spark to explode the powder in the M A I N E ' S magazines. Captain Sigsbee reinstated the order to wear slippers in the magazines.

The explosion (some witnesses testified they felt two shocks) impressed one witness: "My first impression was that the ship had been attacked. I called to the rest: "We have been torpedoed. Get up on deck." Thus the story told to the Court by Lieutenant George F. M. Holman. Navigator and Ordnance Officer of the M A I N E .

Captain Sigsbee testified: "It was a bursting, crashing sound or roar metallic in character,â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a trembling, lurching motion of the ship. I knew immediately that the M A I N E had been blown up and was sinking. I directed the forward magazines to be flooded.

A story frequently told concerns that of Wm. Anthony, Private, U. S. Marines, orderly that night for Captain Sigsbee.

It has Anthony clicking his heels as if (Continued on page 24)

PAiiT Bira Sfieatzd. jfO^ Peace By Frances E. Biadasz Lieutenant, USNR PRODIGIOUS, emotion stirring A narrative was recorded for American and the world by nine fighting men whose golden eloquence was the outpouring of sensitive souls through gifted hands and the paint brushes they touched to canvas. Their work, totalling eighteen hundred paintings and drawings, contains the most dramatic editorials ever created in favor of keeping war away from our own shores. Each picture is worth at least ten thousand words in explaining our Navy's value to this nation. Each is profound in meaning but yet so simple that every man who sees can understand.

Watersoaked after wading ashore with the first assault troops, sweating at their regular battle stations topside, frightened by oncoming kamikazes, exhausted from endless sleepless hours, taking in a USO performance with the men, or enjoying a hot bath at the Red Cross, the combat artists were able to compress, distill and

encompass the feel and spirit of the men, the materials, and the situations of World War II. By painting from first hand experience and on the spot participation, they put into their canvases a fourth dimension which sometimes reached into the soul.

Through them the tools of war and the elements in which they were employed became animate. The elements, air, sea, earth, forests, and rocks became friends or enemies. The whole panorama, mud, heat, cold, shelling, fatigue, pain, exhilaration, comradeship, teamwork, faith, the whole experience afloat and ashore, came into focus culminating in an emotional impact that one cannot forget.

Lieutenant Millman's superb painting of the stark mad terror of a prolonged shelling—on the receiving end—delineated through powerful color and design shows the effect of the shelling upon men's minds and reason. Another, his DEAD COX'N, is one of the most moving in the entire collection. He has used the greatest economy of pictorial ingredients. A landing craft, broken and lifeless, hurled onto Leyte beached by the pounding surf, her cox'n lying lifeless beneath a white shroud, are all he

Death of a coxswain and his boat—Lingayen Gulf, Philippines. Photograph by Lieutenant Edward Millman, USNR. Official U. S. Navy Combat Artist.

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Photograph of an oil painting by Cdr. Albert K. Murray, USNR. Official U. S. Navy Combat Artist.

{This article is the result of talks with Commander Albert Murray, combat artist and deck officer, USNR, who explained to the author something of the value of the Navy's art of World War II.)

chooses. With this he has encompassed the whole futility of war, its heroism, its waste, and its sacrifice. Judicious use of simple design and suggestion, with somber melancholy but distinguished color makes this one of the most powerful editorials against the madness of modern war.

The cold despair of a North Atlantic sinking is powerfully represented in Commander Coale's SINKING OF THE RUBEN JAMES. His BATTLE OF MIDWAY takes,the observer to a point of ideal vantage and there unfolds before him from his encompassing position the full scale, intensity, and feel of the titan efforts of the battle. There is in the painting a fine feeling for the elements of sea, air, steel, and space portrayed in color and design which further supplement the psychology of the physical facts.

All theatres of the war and their principal engagements are covered. One can go with Commander Shepler to the BATTLE OF SANTA CRUZ, with Lieutenant Jamieson to the North African and European assaults and then back into the Pacific and on to Okinawa. Trips with Lieutenant Draper give us a vivid look at the Aleutian campaign, strikes in the Paleaus, and life aboard the carriers. Commander Albert Murray takes us wading ashore on the southern coast of France for the opening, curtain of a 9

drama for which our men have rehearsed attains. As such it is the emblem of the traits is a wordless but deep and dramatic and prepared for months. We see a mas- best that is America, a compassionate saga of our Pacific war. terpiece of preparation, timing, and cour- leader in a darkened world.

President Truman himself came to see age come into fruition. the portraits exhibited at the gallery. He AINTED by the talented sensitive said, "This is an extraordinary exhibition. idealist Commander Albert Murray, I am very glad I had the opportunity to HE peoples native to locales of our see it." He and many of the 7,745 other theatres of operation speak to us from it is part of another large section of the Americans who visited the gallery on combat art collection.

The Navy is forthe canvases of Shepler, Backus, Draper, that opening day went away with a betMillman, Jamie.son and Murray. We meet tunate among the armed services in hav- ter understanding of the spirit of those fine guerilla tyj es of the Sulu Archi- ing one of the most comprehensive men of substance who are our naval leadpelago, Philippino fighters, and brave groups of contemporary military por- ers.

Australians. Soaked to the bone, we traits in America. As a national treasure The entire fabulous collection is the squash in the barnyard mud of Nor- they will become of increasing value with result of the foresight and intelligence of mandie with a G.I. and his prisoners and the years. Collectively, they represent the Navy's Office of Public Relations. significant leadership in one of the most hear the abusive tyrade of a French peastrying periods of our national existence. Early in the war this office set up the ant farmer. section of artists whose primary duty it All of this action of our global war can Individually, great effort has been made was to chronicle the war with the tools to keep them rich in character and hisnow live over and over again for generaof their profession. On the face of it, in toric properties, individual in treatment, tion after generation of Americans. All a national crisis, when all the world was of it is and will continue to be an his- authentic and vivid. thinking of providing demolition exIn the different canvases appear many torical treasure of priceless worth. All of perts, guimers, beach masters, and bomthe paintings will continue to live as his- "stage properties" pertinent to this war. bardiers, the action of OPR in using tory, but many would live for their ar- One sees the kapok vest, pneumatic life artists as such might have seemed a far tistic value alone. One of them will live preserver, steel helmet and liner, heavy cry from reality.

Nevertheless the conas long as man himself. It is more than a weather and intermedite gear, and quartribution to the war effort and to history terdecks and bridges of the fighting ships fine painting executed through the senmade by these eight officers and one ensitivity and skill of genius. It is more too of World War II. listed man who carried their palettes to Subjects include officers and men alike. than a graphic chapter of history. war is priceless.

It is a portrait of the soul of Marc The bulk of these are oil portraits and Its practical value to the Navy and Mitscher. As such, it is the spirit of naval some, such as that of Fleet Admiral America was demonstrated in stimulating aviation. The Admiral is represented sur- Nimitz, are substantial undertakings inbond drives, and enlistments and in genvolving some twenty figures and prorounded in the element of his greatest contribution, sky which supports carrier digious effort to solve attendant aesthetic erally increasing the public response to planes. A carrier in the background problems. These are chiefly the work of the war effort. Currendy it is being used serves to identify the Admiral's type of artist Murray who remained to devote as a plea for a strong Navy.

In 1947, "Operation Palette," which ship. A dark somber sky symbolizes the two and one half years after the war to comprises 100 representative paintings uncertain fortunes of war and at the same this portrait project alone. Preparation, of the collection, toured 16 states and was planning, and skillful execution shown time serves as a foil of proper aesthetic exhibited in 36 cities.

It was seen by 242,in his works reach their height in value to set off the head and figure. A 000 Americans.

It was given 3000 collight area near the horizon holds the Mitscher. umn inches of press coverage in newsThe full impact of the value of our promise of ultimate victory. The Adpapers whose total cirodation was eight Navy's portrait collection was perhaps miral, dynamically placed slightly forward of the center of the canvas, is in best realized in a recent exhibition en- million. It was the subjea of 94 radio keeping with his prominence in chang- titled ""Men of Action in the Naval Serv- broadcasts including a 30-minute teleing our Navy's carrier warfare from de- ices in World War II" at the National vision presentation. Thirty-eight reprints fensive to offensive. He is represented Gallery of Art. Some ninety portraits, of it were given to prominent citizens, alone in this position in an effort to give both oils and drawings, the work of Shep- governors, mayors, college and chamber a feeling of the enormous responsibility ler, Murray and Draper were presented. of commerce presidents. Sixty-five fraof a command such as his of famed Task An interesting feature of the exhibit was ternal, veteran's. Navy, and businessmen's Force 58. His head is turned to reveal in the presentation of the same subject, by clubs and organizations participated in their richest character those traits of different artists, at different times, under the showings.

"Palette" is now touring the 7th and forcefulness, determination, and sagacity. widely different circumstances. There From his squinting clear blue eyes plays were, for example, the two Halsey por- 8th Naval districts where it will wind up the engaging light of compassion and traits. One, in charcoal, was done at its tour at the Memphis Cotton Carnival.

Guadalcanal, Christmas Day 1942, by Following this it is committed for the understanding.

Commander Shepler. The fatigue, strain entire summer season on the Steel Pier at Anyone who sees this portrait who did of exhaustion, the determination and Atlantic City. not know the Admiral immediately unanxiety of those perilous days and hours The art has been effectively used in derstands the bigness of the man who, are etched deeply into the expression of Naval Recruiting, the Submarine Anniwith cool courage and conviction, anthe Admiral. It is one of the fine peneswered to his good judgment, turned on trating, sensitive portraits of the war. versary, the John Paul Jones Bicentennial, Navy Day, and Special RON exhis carrier's lights in the midst of enemy Four years later, another portrait of hibits. It has been reproduced on Navy subs and in range of enemy shore batteries, to bring his pilots back safely Halsey was painted in his headquarters, posters, in publications in the JAG Jouraboard. Anyone who sees this portrait the former home of the Japanese consul nal, and in BuPers training bulletins. One and who fought under Marc Mitscher at Noumea, New Caledonia. The back- was used on a cover of SHIPMATE. Nawill say, "Here is our splendid officer, a ground, a Japanese print with figures flee- tional geographic. Life, numerous trade ing before an approaching storm, is sym- journals, and a volume called "Our Navy keen mind and a great heart."

The portrait is a symbol of the best bolic of Japan's losing battle. The sym- in Action" have featured this work in the qualities the Navy has to offer to the bol is hardly noticed for one sees first the civilian press.

The Secretary of the Navy has been country which it serves. It is a piece of assured look in the face of the conquerthat bigness which leadership at its height ing leader. The difference in the two por{Continued on page 36)

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FONDilTIOI MONG the most interesting of reA cent acquisitions by the Naval Historical Foimdation is the collection of the late Lieutenant C. J. Dutreaux, U.S.N.R., pertaining to the Batde of Manila Bay in 1898. This year being the fiftieth anniversary adds to such interest. Having been a participant in the batde, and subsequendy the moving spirit in the "Dewey Medal Men's Association," Lieutenant Dutreaux aaively collected mementoes of the batde, and exhibited them on appropriate occasions trntU recently.

The collection comprises upwards of a thousand photographs and slides, including snapshots taken during the Battle of Manila Bay. There are also numerous relics: small shells, shell fragments, cartridge cases, fuzes, a Spanish pocket pistol, buttons, insignia, flags, etc.

This unique acquisition is illustrative of a main function of the Naval Historical Foimdation; that of salvaging source material of naval history. As time marches onward family papers, relics, pictures and other collections have a tendency to vanish. Succeeding generations lose interest and the materials are likely to be lost or destroyed, or to deteriorate from poor care. Even the scattering of a collection may result in gready impairing its historical value. This salvage need was the primary influence in creating the Foundation in 1926.

World War II records will ultimately be no exception.

At present the collections number upwards of 100,000 manuscript documents comprising principally letters, reports, professional note-books, order-books, letter-books, journals, diaries and logbooks. There are nearly 10,000 pictures, constituting one of the largest of such collections in the category of marine art.

Among these are rare paintings and engravings of exceptional interest and historical value. The 1,500 naval prints given by Mrs. Eberstadt are for the most part by European masters dating back to the l6th century. The numerous relics include ship-models, stames, weapons, flags, uniforms, etc.

Another important activity of the Foundation is the publication of repro-

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duaions of rare documents and pictures of special interest. The latest example of this is Admiral Dewey's personal account of his squadron's operations in the Orient in 1898, up to the capture of Manila in August. Since official records covering this important episode of history are excessively scant, complete and authorita-

By Commodore Dudley W. Knox

tive source material has been made available for the first time on this epochal naval campaign.

Similarly a few years ago the Foundation publishd a facsimile of the first naval regulations, issued in 1775, taken from the only known surviving copy, as well (Continued on page 25)

Battle of Manila Bay. Standing from left to right are: Samuel Ferguson, Signal Boy; John A. McDougal, Marine Orderly; Commodore George Dewey; Chief Yeoman Merrick W. Creagh. Photograph Courtesy Naval Records and Library.

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By Barry Wilson^

A bluejacket tries his hand on one of the most popular Special Devices, the Automatic Rater. This quiz game, with questions on a wide selection of subjects, has proved its value in training. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

ACK in the days when gunpowder B was first introduced to a somewhat frightened world, people began to declare that man was obsolete as an instrument of war. Weapons count, not men, was their theme. But people gradually discovered there is a lot of skill involved in using gunpowder, and that victories went to the men who used their gunpowder best. People learned their lesson then, but have had to re-learn it with every new weapon that has come along, from the blunderbuss to the atom bomb.

Because men are still necessary for military defense, the Navy is busy studying how men can best use the weapons that modern technology has provided.

Nerve center of the Navy's program to bridge the gap between the man and the machine is the Special Devices Center of the Office of Naval Research, located near Port Washington on the north shore of Long Island, New York.

Special Devices has as its objective the training of more people in more complex skills and techniques faster than ever before. This objective then devolves upon the Special Devices Center the following basic tasks for the national defense.

1. To provide devices and techniques to train—with the greatest efficiency and economy—our Naval forces, including a large reserve organization.

2. To provide devices and techniques *Mr. Wilson has been connected with the Special Devices Center for over four years and is well qualified to explain the function of this important activity.

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for rapid mass training in the event of a full-scale military emergency.

These two tasks go hand in hand. And they are urgent tasks. Modern military weapons stagger the imagination of even those professionally experienced in military and naval^science. But these weapons must be operated by men. The greater the effectiveness of the weapon, the more complex the human role in its utilization. The more complex the human tasks, the greater is the need for training. In times past we trained men largely by having them use operational equipment under supervision. In World War II this method was found too expensive and too time-consuming. From this necessity Special Devices was born —to produce equipment which made possible a relatively new technique known as synthetic training. In synthetic training Navy men performed on training equipment the same tasks they would on operational equipment, but at only a fraction of the cost. A synthetic training device is a machine which presents the full combat environment to a trainee, enabling him to perform a complete combat procedure. The most familiar synthetic trainers to many Navy personnel are the flight trainers, of which standard or ""Link" instrument trainers are a good example. They range from trainers designed to teach pilots how to land a primary landing plane, to trainers as complex as the operational flight trainer which reproduces every detail of actual flight performance.

special desk in the engineering division of the Bureau of Aeronautics. In 1943 it became a separate division. When all Navy research was combined into the Office of Research and Inventions (later named Office of Naval Research) in 1945, Special'Devices became a part of that organization. The following year the Center was moved from Washington, D. C, to its present location.

Today the continued development of synthetic trainers is but one phase of the study of man and the military machine carried on by the Special Devices Center.

Not only must men be trained more efficiently, but also the machines they operate must be designed so that efficient operation can be mastered more easily.

Basic design changes in many Naval equipment units have been effected as a result, as for example the simplified cockpit controls in the new F9F Panther jet plane. This two-fold approach marks every effort to bridge the gap between the man and the machine he operates.

of Naval officers well seaA GROUP soned in combat and operational

problems forms the staff at the Special Devices Center. Working with these officers are civilian specialists. This professional research staff was recruited either from the Naval service itself or from universities and professional institutions. They have a diversity of skills seldom seen under any one roof. There are physicists, electronics engineers, aerodynamics engineers, psychologists, flight surgeons, and optical, mechanical, civil and ordnance engineers — they run the gamut of the physical sciences, with not a few in the biological and in the arts.

A list of some of the sections at the Center indicates the broad scope of its Special Devices began in 1941 as a

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research program: Flight, Sub-surface and Surface, Radar and Communications, Visual Design, Himian Engineering, Computer Equipment, Armament, Films, Publications and Recordings, and Navigation.

Considerable research and evaluation work is carried on at the Center's own laboratories. But the great majority of the research is conducted by educational institutions, professional research organizations and industrial concerns under the supervision of Naval personnel according to contract specifications prepared by the Navy.

This extensive research program is delving into a complex network of problems associated with the utilization of modern Naval weapons. If our new weapons are to be effective, these problems must be solved. In no field is this more true and more vital than in military aircraft.

Combat flight operations have been revolutionized by the use of high-speed jet aircraft. And obviously we are witnessing a parade of new developments which from month to month will change the Naval aircraft picture. Even today, technological progress has far outstripped our human capabilities, and further advancement from the military standpoiiK depends on our success in patterning aircraft so that man can operate them and live. The performance of the modern fighter aircraft is limited by the capabilities of the pilot more than by the capabilities of the plane. The plane can perform tactical maneuvers at high speeds in which no pilot can survive. The fighter plane could have armament beyond man's capabilities to use efficiently during top-speed maneuvers.

There are certain known concrete ways in which these human limitations can be pushed back a few notches. The most important and promising way is by the design of integrated systems of simplified instruments and controls.

Consider the case of a pilot on a combat mission flying at about the speed of sound. To fulfill his role in the mission he will be required to fly his airplane safely, keep appraised of pertinent data about his engine and fuel, maintain visual contact with the ground, navigate his cfaft, conduct communications and

operate his armament gear â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all at a speed in the neighborhood of 600 to 700 miles an hour, and under a severe physical strain from violent accelerations.

Under old-style controls and instrumentation, these demands are all but impossible to meet. The pilot simply doesn't have enough eyes, hands and mental directional capacity.

There is little that can be done to add to the pilot's ability after proper training has been given. But something can

be done about the controls and instrumentation which enable him to fly. For example, a pilot in a standard cockpit must maintain readings on a dozen or more instruments just to keep informed on the mechanical status of his aircraftâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; how fast the engine is turning over, how much gasoline he has in what tanks, his cylinder head temperatures, manifold pressure, oil pressure, fuel pressure, etc.

If a satisfactory arrangement could be devised to enable the pilot to take one glance at one instrument to get all this information, it would greatly simplify his task. A significant step has been taken in this direction by the Special Devices Center. The simplified device is known as the Engine In-Line Indicator. It works on the principle that what the pilot wants to know is not the specific instrument data, as such, but simply that the data conforms to a certain pattern determined by his power requirements and attitude. The In-Line Indicator lines up {Continued on page 25)

A pilot checks out in a navigational instrument trainer. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

7^e l4nUed Btaiel Officers W h o Have Reported and Officers W h o Have B e e n Detached Recently Lt. Raymond J. Clare, Jr., has recently reported for duty in the Department of Seamanship and Navigation. He comes Rear Admiral from duty in the USS RiCH ( D D 820).

Comdr. Edward A. Hynes, MC, has James L. Holloway, Jr., U S N , recendy reported for duty in the Medical Superintendent Department. He comes from duty at the I Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.

Lt. Richard R. Law has recently re- can Mission for Aid to Turkey, for duty ported for duty in the Executive Depart- as a member of his staff.

Comdr. Charles L. Westhofen has rement. He comes from duty in the USS cently been detached from duty as ExecuGEORGE K . MACKENZIE ( D D 836).

Lt. Robert O. Mink has recently re- tive Officer in the Department of Aviaported for duty in the Department of tion. His next duty will be as Executive Seamanship and Navigation. He comes Officer, USS FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT from duty in the USS RICHARD E. KRAUS ( C V B 4 2 ) .

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Lt. Comdr. Max C. Jack has recently reported for duty on the Staff of the Postgraduate School. He comes from duty at the Fleet Weather Central, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Lt. Samuel C. Leedom has recently reported for duty at the Naval Station.

He comes from duty in the USS RANDOLPH (CV 15).

Ens. Edgar G. Hanson has recendy reported for duty in the Department of Seamanship and Navigation. He comes from duty in the USS TOLEDO (CA 133).

Comdr. Stanley M. Zimny has recently been detached from duty in the Department of Mathematics. His next duty will be at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. Comdr. Joseph F. Enright has recently been detached from duty in the Department of Marine Engineering. He will report for duty with Submarine Squadron T H R E E .

Comdr. George C. Seay has recently been detached from duty as Executive Officer in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His next duty will be at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. Comdr. Francis W. Silk has recently been detached from duty in the Department of Foreign Languages. His next duty will be at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. Lt. James P. King has recently been detached from duty on the Staff of the Postgraduate School. He will report for duty in the USS SAIPAN (CVL 4 8 ) .

Comdr. Eli T. Reich has recently been detached from duty in the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery. He will report to the Chief, Naval Group, Ameri14

Twenty-eight Midshipmen T o B e Commissioned As Marine Lieutenants

Robert N. Smith, son of CoL (USMC) and Mrs. Norman W. Smith, Trucksville, Pa. James W. Strother, son of CoL (USMC) and Mrs. James H. Strother, Quarters M-2, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. Richard T. Ambrogi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Ambrogi, 324 Lincoln Ave., Lansdowne, Pa. Charles J. Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Kelly, 200 Darwin Drive, Snyder, New York.

Keith O'Keefe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene O'Keefe, 3100 Linwood Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Orlo C. PaciuUi, Jr., son of Lt. CoL (USA-Ret.) and Mrs. Orlo C. PaciuUi, 498 Southampton Dr., Palo Alto, Calif.

Jack W. Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace M. Robbins, 1607 Caliban Ave., Bemidji, Minn.

Lucius V. diLorenzo, son of Mrs. Lucile D. diLorenzo, 410 N . Penn. Ave., Roswell, N . Mex. Richard C. Morrow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Morrow, 410 Hunnel St., Harrisburg, Pa. Merrill L. Norton, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Norton, 802 No. Rich St., Roswell, N. Mex. Ben A. Moore, Jr., son of Mrs. Lida A. Moore, 364 Mound St., Grenada, Miss.

Ernest H. Ross, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Ross, 109 So. 21st Ave., Hattiesburg, Miss.

Leamon R. Cooke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leamon R. Cooke, Versailles, Ky. Hugh D. Adair, son of Col. (USA) and Mrs. Hugh D. Adair, 423 E. Main St., College Park, Ga., and 750 Santiago Ave., Long Beach, Calif.

Henry C. Hamilton, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hamilton, 618 Thornton Ave., Dalton, Ga. John M. Perkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam H. Perkins, 119 KUldeer Rd., Hamden, Conn.

Robert G. Tobin, Jr., son of Commodore and Mrs. Robert G. Tobin, 25 No. Court, Port Washington, Long Island, New York.

The Secretary of the Navy has approved the recommendations submitted by the Naval Academy for assignment of the following Midshipmen of the Class of 1948B to the United States Marine Corps as Second Lieutenants upon their graduation in June 1948: George T. Balzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Balzer, 2 Darling Ave., Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Robert R. Carson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Carson, 2650 Pierce St., Denver, Colo.

Edward F. Duncan, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Duncan, 128 Branstetter, Dunsmuir, Calif.

Richard N . Hall, II, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Hall, 28 Franklin St., Morristown, N. J. Dean B. Hansen, nephew of Mr. William E. Moore, Riverview Drive, Wausau, Wis. Lee R. Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Howard, 216 So. Price St., Hominy, Okla.

Floyd M. McCurdy, son of Mrs. Isabelle T. McCurdy, 728 South Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. Robert D. Reem, son of Mrs. Erma E. Reem, 48 East Hummelstown St., Elizabethtown. Pa. Edwin Rudzis, son of Mrs. Sophia S. Rudzis, 5400 Pacific, Detroit, Mich.

Robert R. Dickey, III, son of Mrs. Lelia G. Noyes, 1715 N Street, N.W., WashDr. James P . Baxter Addresses ington, D. C. First Class Richard D. Schneider, son of Col. (USMC) and Mrs. M. F. Schneider, 3818 "In my lifetime, the techniques of 4th Ave., San Diego, Calif. lying have developed just as tremendous-

ly and just as dangerously as knowledge in the field of nuclear physics." With this statement, Dr. James Phinney Baxter keynoted his address on Friday evening, February 13th to the Naval Academy First Qass and about 70 West Point Cadets visiting them for the week-end.

Dr. Baxter is President of Williams College, WiUiamstown, Mass., and Historian for the Office of Research and Development, Navy Department. His subjea was The Role of History.

"Some men lie for sheer devilment, some for money, and some for power," the speaker continued. "And those who lie to win power are partioilarly dangerous." It is the work of the historian, he explained, to ferret out and expose these Uars and so prevent at least some of the damage they can do. He cited as an example forged papers designed to prove that Benjamin Franklin was anti-Semitic when — in reality — Franklin was so sympathetic towards his Jewish neighbors that he contributed to their charities.

"The historian," Dr. Baxter said, "has the same attitude towards liars that a native of Colorado has towards ratdesnakes."

From the role of the historian, the speaker went on to speak of the role a knowledge of history itself can play in the lives of men dedicated to the Armed Services. He told his audience that much of their current apathy towards history is due to their never having come in contact with the work of real historians. Textbooks, he said, are of necessity, just as tasteless as the highly concentrated foods developed for combat soldiers during the war. "They are nourishing," he said, "but nobody ever got fat on them."

For a real understanding of the past and the achievements of its great men.

Dr. Baxter recommended the works of such historians as Hakluyt, Parkman and Prescott, whose History of Mexico inspired Archibald McLeish's poem Conquistadore; and the mUitary writers like Admirals Scott and JeUicoe, General U. S. Grant and—a man whom Dr. Baxter caUed the greatest living historical writer —Captain Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR, naval historian of the recent war.

that capacity served aboard the USS He was granted appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy and graduated with the class of '42. During the period in which he served here at Annapolis, he gained promotion from Captaincy, and sat in as senior member on many court martial boards. His record here has been a fine one and the good wishes of all are extended to him in his new work.

The changing of the status of the Marine Detachment to that of a Marine Barrack brings Lt. Col. Gorge H. Ford, a graduate of Tulane University and a native of Homer, La., as the Marines' new "old man." Colonel Ford became a commissioned officer in 1938 and during the war served with distinction in the Island Campaigns at Okinawa and elsewhere in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The best of luck to two fine officers and gentlemen.

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Midshipmen Wardroom Panel Meets in S m o k e HaU In a recent interview with Miss Helen Hall over the Mutual Broadcasting System, Midshipman Scott Holder (Class of 1948B, Calhoun, Kentucky) said that the purpose of the Midshipmen's Wardroom Panel is to give the Midshipmen a chance to broaden their viewpoint and bring about more in life outside the Academy.

He stated that the Panel is run entirely by the Midshipmen with the approval of the Commandant of Midshipmen and the Superintendent of the Naval Academy.

The Midshipmen decide who they want to speak, invite them, and make all arrangements. None of the speakers is paid. "'There are four of us who make the arrangements," he went on to say, '"Hugh Adair, College Park, Georgia; .BiU Pierson, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas; and George Sullivan, East St. Louis, Illinois who aU work with me."

He explained that the speaker talks informally for about half an hour, and then there is a twenty-minute forum period which gives an opportunity for on-thespot questions from the audience.

Asked if they had ever put any of their guests ""on the spot," Holder replied, "I'm afraid that some of the speakers haven't been able to answer aU the questions, but 1 don't think it would be fair to tell."

Among the guest speakers this year have been Lieutenant General Albert Wedemeyer, who talked on China; Cord Meyer, Jr., author of "Peace or Anarchy" and head of the United World Federalists; Rear Admiral Ellis A. Zacharias, who discussed psychological warfare.

Speaking of Cord Meyer, Midshipman Holder mentioned the discussion period in particular and said., "A man who advocates such a plan for World Government is, of course, questioned very thoroughly and the answers were very satisfying. He convinced many midshipmen that world government is practical if gone about in the right way."

When Lord Inverchapel, the British Ambassador, addressed the panel, he "sang for his supper" by demonstrating a few steps of the Scottish Reel.

Major Coggins Transferred; Lt. Col. Ford New C O . of the Marine Barracks Major Thomas M. Coggins, Commanding Officer of the Marine Detachment at Annapolis from December, 1946, to November, 1947, bade fareweU and weighed anchor for Quantico, Va., recently, where he is to attend Amphibious Warfare School, preparatory to further assigtmient. He is succeeded by Lt. Col. George H. Ford, former commander of the Field ArtiUery 'Training Battalion at Quantico.

Major Coggins entered the Marine Corps in 1937 as an enlisted man and in MARCH,

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Midshipmen Wardroom Panel meet to hear their distinguished speaker, Columnist Frank R. Kent.

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your temper when it comes time to punish."

"The enlisted men must have confidence in the ability, integrity, and sincerity of his officers."

Cadet-Midshipmen exchange weekends. Two West Pointers exchange views with their Midshipman host.

Other guests this year have been Mr. Frank Kent, distinguished columnist of the Baltimore Sun, and Mr. David L. Cohn, whose subject was ""The Good Old Daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;American Manners and Morals as Seen Through the Eyes of the Sears, Roebuck Catalog."

First Cadet-Midshipmen Exchange Visits Were Held the Week-end of February 1 4 The ffrst in the series of exchange visits between Cadets from the MUitar)' Academy and Midshipmen of the Naval Academy was held on the weekend of 14 February. The Cadets were met in Baltimore by an officer of the Executive Department and brought to the Naval Academy by busses.

Upon arrival they were met by their inidshipmen hosts, taken to Smoke HaU where the Deputy Brigade Commander, Midshipman Charles G. Strahley of Drexel Hill, Pa., officially welcomed them and a light meal of sandwiches, soup, milk and coffee was served.

A four-page souvenir pamphlet on the Naval Academy giving pertinent information and interesting facts and the schedule of the routine had been prepared for the visitors.

On Friday, the Cadets took the place of those midshipmen who were away on a similar visit to West Point. They followed the same routine as the midshipmen but were taken on one-hour tours of the Ordnance and Gunnery and Marine Engineering Departments in addition.

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A smoker was held in Smoke HaU Friday evening honoring the visiting West Pointers with the N. A. Ten furnishing the music.

Saturday found the Cadets touring the U. S. Naval Engineering Experiment Station in the morning. In the afternoon they attended athletic events with the midshipmen, temporarily forgetting their traditional rivalry in that field. An informal Saturday afternoon concert was held and they enjoyed the Fitst Class hop during the evening. Decorations at the hop were appropriately centered around the Army motif.

The Cadets attended Chapel Services with the midshipmen on Sunday and departed shortly after noon meal.

Admiral Thebaud Lectures T o Midshipmen of the First Class Rear Admiral Leo H. Thebaud, Inspectof General of the Navy, told first class midshipmen on February 6th: ""If leadership is of high caliber, there is little or no need for punishment."

The Admiral addressed the group on ""Leadership in Relation to Punishment."

He told them, "At no time should the Naval Officer mete out unofficial punishment. It is not so much the severity of punishment that restrains men but the immediacy and certainty of it.

"Every delinquency must be looked upon carefully and judged on its own merits. Relentless justice does not always tend toward best morale or healthy discipline. Commend publicly, reprove privately. Don't nay sailors. Don't ever lose

Two Naval Academy Graduates Selected As Rhodes Scholars Two Naval Academy graduates have been selected in the final selection of Rhodes Scholars to enter Oxford in October, 1948. They are Ensign Harry A. Watson, Boston, Mass., Class of 1946 and Mr. William E. Slesnick, Norman, Oklahoma, Class of 1946. Mr. Slesnick resigned from the Navy in June, 1947.

Those eligible for the competition were graduates of the Class of 1948A and classes senior to that and Naval Reserve Officers of comparable seniority.

The Bureau of Personnel limited those eligible to those graduates standing in the upper third of each class.

A board was set up at the Naval Academy, composed of a representative from the Bureau of Naval Personnel and officers and civilian professors of the Naval Academy faculty, to go over the qualifications of aU applicants. Applications were judged on the following qualities: literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates; and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways.

Those applicants recommended to represent the Navy in the competition then presented their qualifications to various State boards aU over the country.

Those selected by the State Boards were then considered in the final selection by the Distria Boards. The country was divided into eight distrias of six states each.

The Naval Academy had the greatest percentage selected of any school in the country during a given year when in 1930 six Navy men were selected out of a total of 32. This was the highest peicentage for any one school during the entire history of American Rhodes Scholarships.

Second Annual Boston University T o u r n e y Held Members of the Naval Academy Debating Team traveled to Boston and Washington, D. C ' the week-end of February 13th, to compete against 15 coUeges in a single tournament in Bostoti and meet representatives of three others in match debates in Washington, D.C. Midshipman First Class Ernest C. Castle, of Sioux Falls, S. D., Midshipman Second Class Donald Lister of Lawrence, N. Y., and Midshipman Third Class Joe

Sax of Memphis, Tenn., went to Boston to take part in the tourney there with Lt. Comdr. William W. Evans, USNR, of the Department of English, History & Goverimient, accompanying them as coach.

On Saturday Midshipman Second Class Jack Lee English of Long Beach, Calif., and Winfred Leon Buckingham of Tyler, Texas, went to Washington to defend the negative side of the question against the Gaston Debating Society of Georgetown University. They were accompanied by Commander Joseph A. Dodson, Jr., USN, also of the Department of English, History & Government.

Both tournaments used the year's official intercollegiate question: Resolved: That a Federal World Government should be established.

On Thursday, February 19th, the University of California team wiU debate at Aimapolis and the foUowing day the local team wiU play host to a group representing Catholic University.

Debating at the Naval Academy is handled by the Quarterdeck Society, a branch of the Trident Society. Both are student organizations. Quarterdeck Society officers arrange debate schedules and assist with arrangements for tryouts and team selection. Professor WiUiam A. Darden, of the Department of English, History & Goverrmient, works with the midshipmen as head debate coach. He is being assisted this year by several civilian instruaors in his department and by Commander Dodson who serves as Officer Representative for debating.

David L. Cohn, Author, Addresses Midshipmen in Panel Series Guest speaker at the Midshipmen's Wardroom Panel on 11 February was David L. Cohn, author. He was the guest of the Brigade of Midshipmen at evening meal and spoke on the subject "The Good Old Days â&#x20AC;&#x201D; American Manners and Morals as Seen Through the Eyes of the Sears, Roebuck Catalog."

Mr. Cohn pointed out that American education and culture is pretty well revealed by the number of pages of the Sears, Roebuck Catalog devoted to each of its consumer products. For instance, if the catalog devotes three pages to cosmetics in 1948 and thirty years ago devoted only one page to them, it is a safe bet that the American people are using three times as many cosmetics today as they did in 1918.

The number of pages covering books and musical instruments has decimated in the last forty years. This is an indication that we no longer know how to amuse ourselves individuaUy. "Our taste has not improved," concludes Mr. Cohn. "Americans are the unhappiest people in the world. W e are {Continued on page 26) MARCH,

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EAR ADMIRAL George B. Dowling, MC, USN (Ret.), now Deputy Administrator of the National Blood Program of the American Red Cross, attended the Symposium on Blood held by the Fulton County Medical Society at Atlanta, Georgia, on 5 February 1948. Dr. Dowling, recently retired, was advanced to the rank of Rear Admiral on the retired list of the Navy as a result of being awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the Army for exceptionally meritorious service during the invasion of Normandy. * * # The-Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy has published for the first time an official historical narrative pertaining to its Medical Department in the first World War. The book tided ""The Medical Department of the U. S. Navy with the Army and Marine Corps in France in World War 1" was written by Lt. George G. Strott, HC, USN (Ret.), and who spent some 30 years in coUecting the material for this book. Lieutenant Strott was a Chief Pharmacists Mate in France and served with the Sixth Marines until the end of the war. This story deals with the activities of the 2nd Division A.E.F. and of the only major unit of the Navy Medical Department to serve as a component of an Army combat division.

This 322-page volume may be purchased for 75 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. * * * Captain Lloyd R. Newhouser, MC, USN, Head of the Training Branch, Professional Division of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, was the principal speaker at a Symposium on Blood held by the Fulton County Medical Society at Atlanta, Georgia, on 5 February 1948. * * # Two new members have been appointed to the Board of Civilian Consulttants to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. They are Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago,

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Illinois, who will be the consultant in Tropical Medicine, and Dr. Donald Anderson of Chicago, Illinois, Secretary of the Council on Medical Education in Hospitals of the American Medical Association, who will consult in Hospital Administration. * * # Dr. Clark Moore Johnson, one of the Navy's Civilian Consultants to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, died in San Francisco, California, on 18 January 1948. Dr. Johnson was the consultant in Urology and had served on the Board since 25 April 1946.

Medical Aspects of Radioactivity The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, in conjunction with the American College of Physicians, presented a course in the Medical Aspects of Radioactivity at the Naval Medical School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, from 18 to 27 February, inclusive. The course was arranged in cooperation with the scientists and specialists from civilian occupations, the Armed Services and the U. S. Public Health Service. The Joint Radiological Safety Training Committee has recommended that all members of the Medical Departments of the Armed Forces be given some training in radiological safety.

It is felt that this training should be extended to include civilian medical personnel.

Medical Officers, both regular and reserve of the Army and Navy, were admitted free of charge. Officers of the Medical Department of the Navy on active duty were given "authorization orders" (no expense to the U. S. Government) to attend this course. Those interested forwarded a request to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery via their commanding officer. {Continued on page 35) 17

A United States cruiser blasts Sicilian shore defenses while 5" AA guns (left, barely visible behind bridge structure) are elevated ready to repel air attacks. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

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HIS was the first question asked by the German tank men almost five years ago when they surrendered during the Sicilian campaign, after their tanks had mysteriously been knocked out of action. Their commanders calculated that there had not been time for our invading forces to bring up heavy land artiUery, nor did the effectiveness of the gimfire over the more than uneven terrain seem to be within the capabilities of land artillery. Yet gunfire from a source the Germans could not see had 18

R. Adm. Albert G. Noble, USN been assigned the specific task of providChief of Bureau knocked out or disabled their armored tanks, shattered their searchlights, destroyed their bridges and gun positions, and disrupted their troop concentrations.

The men who could have provided the best answers were five to ten miles away, sailing back and forth along the coast, two or three miles off shore. They were in the plotting rooms, at fire control stations, and in the turrets or gun mounts of cruisers and destroyers. These ships had

ing Naval gunfire support for the Army's landing and advance inland.

This demonstration of outstanding gunfire caused exclamations of surprise and bewilderment from the German and Italian commanders as they witnessed the death and destruction of their men and equipment behind the front lines, so far from the sea. The most surprising thing about the performance is that it turned out to be a complete surprise to both the Germans and the Italians. The U. S. Navy had been using long-range, indirect fire (fire at targets not visible {Continued on page 31)

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LAG rank orders for January were as foUows: Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN, was ordered to duty as Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department.

Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, USN, was ordered to duty as ComNavForMed. Vice Admiral John D. Price, USN, was ordered to duty as Deputy CNO (Air).

Vice Admiral John L. McCrea, USN, was ordered to duty as Deputy CincPac. Vice Admiral Harold B. SaUada, USN, was ordered to duty as ComAirPac. Rear Admiral John F. Shafroth, Jr., USN, has been ordered to Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., for treatment.

Rear Admiral Edward W. Hanson, USN, has been detached from present duty and ordered to duty as Comdt. 15th Naval Distria, Balboa, C. Z. Rear Admiral Samuel P. Ginder, USN, reported 9 Jan. 1948, as ComCarDiv 2.

Rear Admiral MarshaU R. Greer, USN, reported 9 Jan. 1948, as ComCarDiv 3.

Rear Admiral Stuart S. Murray, USN, has been ordered to the nearest U. S. Naval District, for further assignment.

Rear Admiral WiUiam G. Tomlinson, USN, has been ordered to duty as Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air, London, England.

Rear Admiral Richard F. Whitehead, USN, has been ordered to duty as ComNavResTra, Glenview, lU. Rear Admiral Charles WeUborn, Jr., USN, reported as Deputy CNO (Administration).

Rear Admiral Ernest E. Herrmann, USN, was ordered to duty as ComCru Div 13.

Rear Admiral Francis P. Old, USN, was ordered to duty as Deputy Comdt., Armed Forces Staff CoUege.

Rear Admiral Heber H. McLean, USN, reported as ComCruDiv 2.

Rear Admiral George C. Crawford, USN, was ordered to duty as General Inspector, Atlantic Fleet.

Rear Admiral Leon S. Fiske, USN, was ordered to duty as ComServRon 3.

Rear Admiral Harry R. Thurber, USN, was ordered to duty as Senior Member, Naval Advisory Survey Board, China.

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Thomas L. Sprague, USN Chief of

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USN, was ordered to duty as ComNavTraCen, San Diego, Calif.

Rear Admiral Byron H. Hanlon, USN, was ordered to duty as ComMinLant.

Rear Admiral Ruthven E. Libby, USN, has been ordered to Naval Operations for duty.

Rear Admiral John P. Whitney, USN, was ordered to duty as a member of the General Board.

Rear Admiral Thomas E. Hipp, (SC) USN, reported as Supply Officer in Command, Naval Supply Center, Norfolk, Va. Rear Admiral Murrey L. Royar, (SC) USN, reported as Supply Officer in Command, Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Calif.

Commodore Thomas J. Keliher, Jr., USN, has been ordered to the nearest Naval Hospital in the U. S. for treatment.

Line and Staff Officers to Be Selected to Attend Armed Forces Staff College Applications from qualified line and staff officers who wish to be considered for the FaU 1948 class at the Armed Forces Staff CoUege in Norfolk, Va., wiU be asked for in a circular letter which BuPers expects to publish in March.

The five-month course is outlined below for the benefit of officers who wish to consider in advance whether or not to submit an application: Characteristics, organization and employment of Army, Navy and Air Force components and relations of these forces to each other.

Joint staff techniques and procedures.

Trends of new weapons and scientific developments, and their effect on joint operations.

The organization, composition and functions of operations and major joint task forces, together with the responsibilities of the commanders.

The preparation of plans for amphibious and airborne operations involving the employment of joint forces.

The course of instruction is divided into three phases as follows: Background (150 hours). The Char-

acteristics, capabilities and limitiations of the tools of war employed by the various services, the techniques peculiar to the separate arms and the relationship that must exist between ground, naval and air components to insure a common basic knowledge for joint planning. Selected amphibious and air-borne demonstrations and historical studies are included in this phase.

Theatre of operations (33 hours). The organization, composition and functions of a theatre of operations.

Joint overseas operations (44 hours).

The conduct of joint operations and the preparation of plans for joint amphibious and airborne operations.

Included in the above phases at appropriate times are 30 hours of air and airborne demonstrations, 14 hours of amphibious demonstrations, 16 hours of visits of inspection to armed forces installations and 12 hours of planning demonstrations.

The entire faculty and student body spend one week each at the infantry school in Fort Benning, Ga., and Eglin Field attending air, airborne, ground and Air Force equipment demonstrations.

The course may encompass fleet maneuvers or carrier flight operations at sea.

Of major importance and interest is the inclusion of approximately 42 lecmres by outstanding civilian and military personnel from outside the college.

From the first through the I4th week of instruction the class is organized into balanced committees for the conduct of students seminars. The membership of these committees is changed frequently to afford maximum instruction and to equalize key functional positions within the class.

The last five weeks of the course are devoted to theatre and joint overseas operations staff planning with each smdent participating in various staff assignments in the execution of a directive. A realistic problem is prepared by the faculty and then solved by the students through all the theatre and joint operation ramifications to the finished plans.

Throughout the entire course of instruction new scientific developments and their effect on military science are stressed. The class in its work of planning {Continued on page 33) 19

I^u^iexiu ojf NSC Oakland Celebrates Sixth Anniversary N 15 December 1947, the Naval O Supply Center, Oakland, celebrated its sixth anniversary, marking an amazing record and period of growth from a mass of mud into one of the most important links in the Navy's chain of material logistic support for the Pacific Fleet.

As recently as 1939, what is now NSC Oakland was merely a mass of watery expanse known as the Oakland Middle Harbor and a favorite of duck hunters during the duck season. The Navy, for some time, had been studying the possibilities of establishing a naval supply installation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It had been recommended many times by various Navy Commissions, but it was not untU 1939 when it was agreed that the present site of the Center met aU the stringent requirements, that the first appropriation was passed to.authorize construaion.

The main requirements were (1) proximity to the Fleet anchorage; (2) accessibility to the railroad terminals; (3) accessibUity to markets and sources of supply; (4) accessibility to shipping and berthing piers; (5) accessibility for the loading of merchant vessels taken over by the Navy during emergencies; and (6) availabUity for giving the Navy the best kind of service in any emergency.

Dredging work started in January 1940. First piles were driven in August 1940, and the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, was officiaUy commissioned on 15 December 1941—-just eight days after Pearl Harbor.

From the moment of its commissioning, the role played by NSC Oakland was invaluable to our war effort. As a link between the production line and the firing line, it received, stored, and shipped to the far-flung Pacific Theatre of naval operations, hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, provisions and material for our Fleet and advanced shore bases.

The Center grew by leaps and bounds.

The outgoing tonnage for December 1941 was zero, but in 1942 more than 74,000 short tons of supplies were shipped. In 1943, more than 135,000 short tons were shipped from NSC Oakland; in 1944 the outbound tonnage was 252,000 short tons and for the month of March, 1945, alone, the outgoing tonnage was 361,000 short tons.

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The value of the material handled in 1941 at NSC Oakland was eight miUion doUars and for the year 1945 the figure was three and one-half billion doUars.

The latter figure includes more than six and one-half miUion items requisitioned in that year.

At the height of its activity, the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, employed more than 16,000 Naval and civilian employees. These men and women worked around the dock every day of the year to see that the supplies, equipment and provisions got WHERE they were needed W H E N they were needed. Supplies were shipped in a continuous and never-ending stream to the Pacific Fleet, to advanced shore bases and to the Merchant Marine; lend-lease supplies were also shipped to our aUies. NSC Oakland prides itself on the faa that no ship was ever held up at the Center, that every ship and every demand was met on time.

Everything from toothpicks to giant turbines went through the huge supply facility on its way to the distant fighting fronts. A list of the diversified items would include rubber tires, anchors, chewing gum, airplane engines, stapling machines, tanks, soap. Red Cross ambulances, ink, notebooks, concrete, derricks, telephone wire, furniture, fuel, food of all kinds—canned, fresh, frozen, dried and dehydrated provisions and literally hundreds of thousands of other items.

The Center is actually a city within a city. It has every modern facility that a present-day metropolis possesses. The Center occupies better than one square mile of land located on Oakland's Middle Harbor on San Francisco Bay, just across the water from the City of San Francisco and the Golden Gate. It has its own police and fire departments — its own water supply, heat and power.

There are forty-two miles of railroad ttacks and thirty-five miles of paved streets at NSC Oakland. It boasts of 146 buildings and 13,000 feet of berthing

space along its wharves and piers, enough space to comfortably take care of thirteen ocean-going vessels.

In addition, the Center has its own automotive a n d industrial handling equipment, dispensary facilities, ambulances, telephone and telegraph connections, raUroad connections to the Western Pacffic, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe RaUroads, waterfront equipment for loading and unloading supplies, provisions and equipment, a cold storage plant, individual parking space for more than 2,000 automobiles and a Naval and Marine barracks that can house and feed 2,250 enlisted men. The recreation facilities for these men include a theatre, library, ships service store, baU park, tennis court, and several lounges and writing rooms.

For the convenience of its more than eight thousand employees, both mUitary and civilian, there is a post office, a bank, an employees' service store, and a cafeteria. To serve the outlying areas, there are mobile and stationary canteens strategically located to take care of the men and women who work out of walking distance from the main cafeteria.

A fleet of 68 yard craft is maintained at NSC Oakland to carry supplies to ships anchored out in San Francisco Bay, to the Naval Supply Annex at Stockton and to help provide the smooth-running, efficient water front operations which are the life-blood of the Center. Tliere is also a large modern coffee roasting plant which is capable of roasting 6,000 pounds of coffee in an hour and a box faaory where crates, boxes and packing cases are made.

At the present time, the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, receives, stores, and ships out more than 250,000 different items of Navy supplies. Additional categories are expected to be added to this list in the very near future as a result of the recent change in classification whereby the former Naval Supply Depot, Oakland became the present Naval Supply Center, Oakland. Included as part of the Center are the Fuel Annex at Pt. Molate, {Continued on page 35)

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AST distances, varying weather conV ditions, precipitous mountains, and jungle depths are some of the undesirable features which confront the pilots, navigators, and travelers when flying above the Pacffic area.

To afford maximum navigational safety and facility to both ship-based and land-based aircraft operating above the Pacific area. The Hydrographic Office •prepares the foUowing Aeronautical Publications and Charts: H. 0. Publication No. 503—Pacific Airuays Route Manuals are specifically designed as Operational and Planning Manuals and contain pertinent information for operations personnel and flight crews engaged in Trans-Pacific flights between the West Coast of the United States and the Central and South Pacific areas, Japan, Korea, China Coast, and Australia via routes that are normally utUized. H. O. 503 is the standard publication for the Navy, Air Forces, and coromercial airlines both U. S. and foreign. The manuals are loose-leaf, consisting of approach and landing charts for individual landplane and seaplane aerodromes, together with photographs and explanatory text material. Aerodromes with their surrounding terrain and water areas are charted in detail. Route Manuals are designed to supplement aeronautical charts and contain much information which cannot be placed directly on the charts. Charts are also included for those stations providing facilities for direaing the movements of aircraft over a predetermined glide path for safe approach to an airport runway under conditions approaching zero visibility, namely the GCA (Ground Control Approach) system and the SCS-51 (Needle) instrument low approach system. The charts are 7 X 7 inches on a page 8}/4 x 1054 inches. Corrections are issued in the form of revised pages as numerical changes.

H. O. 503 is avaUable in three volumes. West Coast-Hawaii, Central, and South and West.

Requests for H. O. 503 or for revisions thereto, originated by U. S. Government activities located in the Pacific area are directed to the Air Navigation Office, NAF HonoMu, which activity is responsible for issue of charts and publications in this area. Activities located in continental United States, Alaska, and the Canal Zone direct requests to the Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. NormaUy, issue in these areas is coiffined to the volume West Coast-Hawaii. H. O. 503 is also available to civilian activities direct from the Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Weather Summaries of the Pacific area, prepared by the U. S. Weather Bureau of the Department of Commerce and published by the Hydrographic Office, deal with both surface and upper MARCH,

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Robert O. Glover, USN Hydrographer

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air climatological data of interest to aviators. The summaries consist of tables of average weather conditions and tables of Upper Air Winds, based on records on file in the Weather Bureau. The data in the tables are discussed in an accompanying text and illustrated by means of charts, graphs, and wind roses. The areas covered by these Weather Summaries are as foUows: H. O. Pub. 270—Central Pacific-Hawaiian Islands Area.

H. O. Pub. 271—South Pacific-Tuamotu Archipelago.

H. O. Pub. 272—Southwest PacificFiji and Samoa Area.

H. O. Pub. 273—West Pacific-Caroline and Marshall Area.

H. O. Pub. 275—Southwest PacificSolomon Islands Area.

H. O. Pub. 276—New Guinea Area.

H. O. Pacific Airways Plotting Charts (VR Series) prepared in accordance with joint Navy-Air Forces specifications, are primarily long-range plotting charts for flights conducted over the various air routes over the Pacffic area. These plotting charts are designed to facilitate rhumb line and associated dead reckoning navigation, and for plotting lines of position obtained from astronomical observations or radio aids. They are constructed on the Mercator projection with the scale ranging from 41 to 82 nautical miles to the inch with varying overlaps on adjacent charts to facilitate plotting.

The area coverage of the charts of this series are laid out to include both the points of departure and the destination of an established air route or a part of an established route on a single sheet. Any outstanding features of the terrain along the routes are shown in addition to principal aircraft facilities and isogonic lines.

These charts are printed on a light buff paper with a sheet size of approximately 30 by 40 inches. The foUowing colors are used in printing charts of this series: Black: Projection graticule, drainage, culture and nomenclature.

Brown: Contours.

Gray: Land tint.

Magenta: Aeronautical data and isogonic lines.

H. O. Aeronautical Charts designed for navigational purposes are the basic V 70 series, V 30 series, and the V 14 series. They are specificaUy designed for Naval aviation to meet the requirements of air navigation by representing the surface of the earth on a Mercator projection, showing essential topographical and aeronautical information. Emphasis is given to features of aeronautical importance.

The V 70 series are designed for long range navigation and strategic planning.

They are published on a scale of 1 inch equals 70 nautical miles and have an overall chart size .of approximately 33 x 50 inches. Only the principal aircraft facilities are shown on these charts.

The V 30 series are also designed for long-range air navigation, but on a scale of 1 inch equals 30 nautical miles. These charts have an approximate overaU size of 35 X 54 inches. "This chart series covers the entire world.

The V 14 series are designed as plotting charts for off-shore air navigation and show a minimum of contact aeronautical information. These charts are on a scale of 1 inch equals 14 nautical miles with an overall chart size of approximately 30 X 40 inches. This chart series covers areas of strategic importance.

H. O. Special Naval Aeronautical Charts of the Pacific (VS Series) designed specifically for use on the ground when investigating and planning flight operations and routes. 'They show aircraft facilities by conventional symbol and airline distances in nautical miles between major landplane and seaplane airports.

The overall chart size varies between 17 by 22 inches to 40 by 48 inches.

Azimuthal Equidistant Charts are designed so that straight lines radiating from the center of projection represent great circles in their true azimuth, and the distances along these lines represent {Continued on page'hA) 21

"How shall we build for the Atomic Age?" High C.E.C. officers in conference, as portrayed in the forthcoming recruiting film, "Make No Little Plans," being produced for the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Officers shown, left to right, are: Cmdr. F. C. TyrreU, Lt. Cmdr. J. B. Flint, Cmdr. J. J. Cassidy (face hidden behind Cmdr. Flint), Capt. W. B. Short, Capt. W. O. Hiltabidle, Rear Admiral J. J. Maiming, Chief of Bureau, Capt T. A. Hartung, Capt. B. W. Fink, Capt. R. H. Meade, Cmdr. L. C. Coxe, and Cmdr. P. C. Gillette.

ARLY in January, three former offiE cers of the Seabees' Fifth Brigade held a smaU reunionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in front of a large 1^44/^044 0^ and expeaant crowd, including many Los Angeles dignitaries.

The occasion was the dedication of the Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge, between Terminal Island and the mainland of California. The reunion went unnoticed, yet it iUustrates how the officers of the Seabees are stiU partners in achieving results for the Navy.

Construaion of the new bridge was supervised by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and it was accepted officiaUy at the ceremony by Captain Joseph F. Jelley, CEC, USN, Deputy Chief of the Bureau. Representing the contraaors forces was United Concrete Corporation's vice president, Capt. L. A. Cline, CEC, USNR, who made a speech of presentation. The invocation was offered by the Commander Walter Peck, ChC, USN. Not so long ago, these three were all members of the Seabees' Fifth Brigade; Capt. JeUey was ""exec," Capt. Cline was Officer-in-Charge of the Brigade's 26th Regiment, and the Brigade Chaplain was Walter Peck.

Principal speaker at the ceremony was Captain Henry E. WUson, CEC, USN, the Officer-in-Charge of Construction.

The new bridge, a vertical lift type, was named for Commodore Schuyler F. Heim, USN, who was Commandant of NOB, Terminal Island, during World WarIL He is now retired.

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side of the island and is one of the largest of its type. Accommodating six lanes of traffic, its movable center span is 240 feet long and the total length of the three center spans over water from pier to pier is 700 feet. The bridge's total length and

its elevated approach struaiures on either side of the channel is three-quarters of a mUe. With the movable span in a dosed position the clearance between the water and bridge is 50 feet. The bridge and approaches cost the Navy approximately $5,600,000, widi an additional $2,500,000 as the Navy's contribution to the $6,500,000 connecting freeway to the north. * * * Captain Oscar A. Sandquist, CEC, USNR, is the new direaor of the Civil Engineer Corps' Reserve aaivities. As such, he wiU guide the program now tmderway for the training of approximately 200 Seabee Reserve Units, organized in as many cities.

Captain Sandquist replaces Capt. WUliam H. Godson, CEC, USNR, who departed on a mission to the Near East last faU. In charge of the work during the interim were Commander Paul C. GUlette, CEC, USNR, Commander Ben L. PhiUips, CEC, USNR, and, later. Captain M.Y. Neely, CEC, USN. Commander GiUette is taking a Latin American assignment with the State Department's division of Foreign BuUdings Operations. # Âť * The fourth two-week seminar for Reserve CEC officers will be held in Washington starting March 17. Distria Commandants wiU select volunteers who have been participating actively in the Seabee Reserve Units. The training wiU consist {Continued on page 35)

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Purchasing, The Vital Defense Link* European developments in WHEN 1938-39 revealed the necessity of placing this countrv on an emergency basis aU attention became centered on the question of whether our military and naval forces were adequate for the defense of the nation. Of immediate concern was modernization of our tools of war, development of our air forces, construaion of aU types of ships, aircraft, strategic bases and airfields, but the one aspea of defense effort which required the most radical overhauling was Government procurement.

Historians generaUy agree that the tremendous industrial might of the United States has been the decisive factor contributing to the defeat of our enemies in two wars. Obscured by the drama of war, however, is the purchase funaion which translates national produaive power into a ready fighting potential. It was this vital link in the chain of defense endeavor which weakened and impeded fuU-scale defense produaion before Pearl Harbor.

The Navy's experience during the early defense period proved the need for a strong purchase organization in any establishment where economy and efficiency are important. The cornerstone of aU purchasingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;advertisement and competitive biddingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was entirely inadequate to meet the emergency. Fixed price contracts were impractical in a period when the world was slowly emerging from its most disastrous depression and being engulfed in a war of unknown potentialities. Endless "red tape" and inflexible regulations dating back 50 years had no place in a program where speed and expansion were essential. The Services, in short, were attempting to do a 20th Century job with 19th Century tools.

Out of the war's emergency demands emerged three major developments in the field of purchase which today constitute a firm postwar program for the

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strengthening and maintenance of a modern, up-to-date procurement system.

First, negotiation as a buying technique has become an important instrument of government procurement; second, purchasing has become fully recognized as a funaional specialty requiring men of specialized experience, training and abUity; and third, decentralization of purchase functions with centralized policy coordination has proven superior to an aU-embracing single purchasing agency.

Purchase Techniques Under the advertisement-competitivebidding system of purchase, where monetary considerations were the only basis for an award, reliability, product performance and relative quality were given little or no consideration when awards were made. The advantages of this system were obvious, it was simple, automatic, and, under genuine competitive conditions, it produced the lowest prices. But that system applied primarily to general supplies of relatively stable specifications for which there were several competing vendors.

This method of purchase provided no means of educating new contractors to the manufacturing processes peculiar to the production of defense equipment, nor was there any way to increase the number of suppliers when increased productive capacity was of growing importance.

It became clear, therefore, that a departure from rigid adherence to the methodical and automatic procedures of *This article is condensed from the original the advertisement system was necessary which appeared in the November 1947 is- in deals which could not lend themselves sue of The Southwestern Purchasing Agent, to firm bidding, unchanging specificaby Joseph L. Howard, Lt. Comdr. (SC) tions and full competition. During 1940USN, attached to the Material Division of the OflSce of the Under Secretary of the 41, purchasing procedures gradually became freed from the restrictions of arNavy.

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chaic laws, and when war struck the nation the competitive bidding procedure was completely abandoned and fuU freedom of procurement was given to the Services.

During the war negotiation techniques and contracting procedures were developed to meet the urgency of wartime conditions. Various types of contractual instruments, designed to reflect accurately the terms of each transaction, were devised to expedite production with minimum expense in time and money. Negotiation techniques were developed to a high degree with a "team" system wherein the buyer, as captain of the team, negotiated with suppliers with the help of a legal specialist, cost accountant, and engineer who was technically acquainted with the material under consideration.

Today the Army and the Navy are jointly sponsoring a biU before Congress which embodies in one document a codification of the best of commercial purchasing practices employed by businessmen everywhere. Primarily, under the proposed legislation, the Navy seeks to modernize its purchasing methods and to conduct its business as economicaUy as possible by expending its appropriations more effeaively than was permitted before the war. What is perhaps most important, the Navy seeks to maintain a purchasing system which wiU afford it the same b e n ^ t s accruing to industries whose purchasing policies remain flexible and adjustable to the dynamics of a fluctuating economy.

Purchase Personnel When the Navy was given its first authority to negotiate its overseas construction contracts, the work fell largely to personnel whose training and experience were technical rather than commercial. Traditionally government careerists were and are today experts along certain lines which are of unique value to the government. Business and commerce, on the other hand, has always been primarily a private affair. Consequently, naval purchasing was not a lifetime specialty in which concentrated training and experience were possible, but simply another of the many and varied types of duty to {Continued on page 36) 23

Our First Pearl Harbor {Continued from page 8) on parade and saluting: "Sir, I have the honor to report that the M A I N E has been blown up and is sinking."

As to this. Captain Sigsbee testified: "I met Private Anthony the orderly at the cabin door at the time. He ran into me and apologized and reported to me that the ship had been blown up and was sinking."

Discussions of the MAINE explosion years after the event centered on the erroneous supposition that smokeless powder, then quite new, was unstable. If so, this might result in premature explosion. The testimony of Captain Sigsbee covers this: Q. ""Was there any smokeless powder?"—A. "There was no great-gun smokeless powder ammunition. All great gun ammunition was the ordinary brown powder." Gun cotton was stowed aft, under the cabin.

crew, and personnel in merchant ships in Havana, the finding of the Court was that the M A I N E had two explosions, "of distinctly different character with a short but distinct interval and the forward part of the ship was lifted to a marked degree at the time of the first explosion. The first explosion was more in the nature of a report from a gun while the second was more open, prolonged, and of greater volume. This second explosion, was in the opinion of the Court, caused by the partial explosion of two or more of the forward magazines of the MAINE." Then after description of the wreck, as ascertained by divets, the Court found that the M A I N E was destroyed by the detonation of a submarine mine which caused the partial explosion of two or more of the forward magazines.

"The Court has been unable to obtain evidence fixing the responsibility for the destruction of the MAINE upon any person or persons." The Court said the loss of the M A I N E was not due to fault or

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HE explosion of the M A I N E was such as to cause her Executive Officer (Lieut. Comdr. R. Wainwright), to suppose the ship was being fired on. He testffied: ""I felt a heavy shock and the noise of objects faUing on the deck. The noises gave me the impression we were being fired on. I remember only one very heavy shock." (Note: This is to be borne in mind in reading the report of the Court of Inquity).

The then Naval Cadet Wat T. Cluverius (one of only two living surviving officers of the M A I N E ) told the Court of Inquiry: "I was in room # 3 of the Junior Officers quarters. My first knowledge of the explosion was a slight shock as if a six pounder gun had been fired on deck.

After that, a very heavy vibration in my room and rushing of water through the mess room." Q. "Were you asleep when you heard the first shock.''" A. ""I was not.

Sir." Naval Cadet Holden experienced similar shocks.

The Surgeon of the MAINE, Lucien G. Henneberger: ""I was in my bunk reading. I felt a sudden upheaval of the ship.

The lights went out. Then a deep boom, as of an explosion. That was all I heard."

Private Anthony testffied that he first noticed a trembling and buckling of the decks,—then this prolonged roar." Chaplain Chidwick remembered only one shock. Lieutenant John Hood: "I was sitting on the port side of the deck with my feet on the rail. I both heard and felt,— felt more than I heard,—a big explosion that sounded and felt like an underwater explosion. I turned my head and instantly there was a second explosion."

Lieutenant George P. Blow told the Court: "The first shock was not very severe. It impressed me as sounding like a ten inch gun fired close aboard."

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HE first news of the explosion to be received from Captain Sigsbee was contained in a cable to ""Secnav": ""MAINE blown up in Havana Harbor at 9:40 tonight and destroyed. Many wounded and doubtless more killed or drowned . . . No one has clothing other than that upon him. ""Public opinion should be suspended until further report. All officers believed to be saved. Jenkins and Merritt not yet accounted for. Many Spanish officers including representatives of General Blanco now with me to express sympathy. Sigsbee." (The body of Lieut. Friend W. Jenkins was recovered but Lieutenant Merritt's body was never found).

Sitting concurrently with the U. S. Navy Court of Inquiry was a Spanish Court of Inquiry that found that the '"catastrophe was honestly due to internal causes." But this Court said they could not conjecture the "internal origin of the disaster."

Thus the M A I N E , her officers, and crew, many entombed in their ship in the mud of a foreign hatbor. Two officers of twenty-six were lost. Two hundred and fifty of the crew of three hundred and twenty-nine were killed in the explosion. Eight others who were rescued died of wounds at Havana. Only sixteen of the crew were unhurt. Fifty-four injured survived.

Twenty-five out of every hundred in the crew of the M A I N E were foreign born,—in Japan, Germany, Malta, Ireland, England, Greece, France. Saved uninjured was Katsusaburo Kushida, native of Hiroshima, Japan, and serving as warrant officers steward. Likewise saved uninjured was Firsanion Awo, steerage cook, native of Mikawa, Japan.

Five other Japanese officers' messmen were lost as were men in the crew from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark. Included in the missing were ratings such as fifer, bayman, apothocary, landsman, coal passer, oiler, sailmaker, ordinary seaman, apprentice, shipright.

THE MAINE RAISED Twelve years after the M A I N E sank in the mud of Havana, Congress directed the Secretary of War and the Chief of Army Engineers "to provide with all convenient speed for the raising and removal of the wreck of the MAINE and interment of the bodies therein in Arlington Cemetery . . . $100,000.00 is appropriated . . ."

The work of the Board (Col. W. M. Black, Lieut. Col. M. M. Patrick, and Maj. H. B. Ferguson was completed on 16 March 1912, "by the floating and sinking in deep water of that portion of the wreck permitting of such treatment, the removal of a portion of the balance piecemeal, the sinking by means of dredging and the use of dynamite of such masses as were too heavy to be lifted, so as to clear the site of the wreck, and the removal of the cofferdam erected around it to a depth satisfaaory to the Cuban Government. The site was swept to a depth of 37.5 feet. The bodies of one officer and 74 men were supposed to have been entombed in the wreck."

The wreck of the MAINE as revealed by unwatering the cofferdam, was mute evidence of the terrffic force of the explosion: ""The forward turret was found after a long search under its position in the ship but the barbette feU separately upside down and aft of the turret. Its top with the hood was found elsewhere. The bow of the ship forward of frame 18 was destroyed above the level of the protective deck, the portion below this deck was pointed nose down in the mud. The bow had travelled to port through an angle of 113 degrees. In the engine room several steam pumps were cleaned and put to work unhurt by 14 years submergence. The wreck was floated on 26 January 1912.

The M A I N E afloat once more was towed to sea stern first significantly but also from prudence thus to place no pressure on the wooden bulkhead that gave the ship watertightness. (It should be mentioned "the forward half of the MAINE was distorted and disintegrated beyond repair," as stated by Captain Sigsbee).

The Army Report: ""After having reached a point outside the three mUe limit, the actual sinking was carried out as per plan." The wreck disappeared 41 minutes after opening the valves and gates in ocean water 3,700 feet deep.

Down bow first as planned with colors flying and down where no mines or explosions will disturb the M A I N E .

T h e Naval Historical Foundation ( Continued from page 11) as several facsimilies of other very early documents. Another notable example of our work in the educational field is the -â&#x20AC;˘ap of the Yorktown campaign of 1781.

This was handsomely reproduced in colors from a very rare contemporary French engraving showing both the military and the naval general situation, and dearly depiaing the decisive influence of the French fleet upon the viaory which won the war. Other unique publications are projeaed.

Tbe Foundation has supplemented the Navy's effort in the history funaion in many ways, standing always ready to serve when service could be effeaive and worthwhile. Its coUeaions are freely available to the Navy for reference or exhibit on a loan basis. Some of its pictures have been on exhibit at the Naval Academy Museum since the birth of that instimtion. Relics and piaures are also permanendy displayed in the Navy Department and aU of them are considered available to the Department for use in the projeaed governmental naval museiun at Washington. The latter's main mission is understood to be the naval education of the American public, nearly three miUion of whom visit Washington aimuaUy, principaUy for sight-seeing.

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HE Society habituaUy assists as practicable with maritime exhibits in Art GaUeries and elsewhere. Recently it arranged a permanent display at the Museum of the Society of the Cincinnati, at its national headquarters in Washington.

Appropriately this deals only with the Revolutionary War, especiaUy in its naval aspects, that have been heretofore so little understood by the general public.

For some years the Foundation has been interested in the salvage and restoration of the house in Fredericksburg, Va., where John Paul Jones lived as a boy and became Americanized. Some funds have already been raised for that special purpose, to serve as an appropriate memorial to a founder of so much of our naval heritage. In our Memorial Trust Fund we also have contributions to memorialize six other persons; Commodore George H. Perkins, Admiral Willard H. Brownson, Vice A d m i r a l Wm. L. Rodgers, Captain W. C. I. Stiles, Doctor C. O. Paullin and Commander F. A. Abercrombie-Miller, USN. Advice and encouragement has been given to various projects for the salvage of historic ships, such as the original MONITOR and the small vessels which StiU lie in good condition on the bottom of Lake Champlain. These latter relics of the Revolution and of the War of 1812 could be recovered at relatively small MARCH,

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cost. As yet however our funds do not permit such enterprises.

The Foundation welcomes to membership all those interested in naval history.

It has never made a ""drive" for membership because of the administrative expense of dealing with a large enrollment and the limited financial resources available. A fixed policy has been that membership involves no dues or other financial obligations, so that income is restricted to interest from a small endowment, together with periodic voluntary contributions. We have also consistently made a little money on the sales of our various publications.

Special Devices Center {Continued from page 13) certain instruments horizontally. When aU is well the pilot sees a solid horizontal red line. When one instrument is out of its pattern, that segment of the line can easily be spotted, since it is out of line. A device of this type, when perfected, could greatly simplify a pilot's tasks.

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HIS device typifies the approach to the task of building a plane around the pilot. System-wise integration of controls and instruments into one picture best fits the way the human system operates. These systems are functional in the sense that they are designed to best accommodate the natural way the human being functions. They are standard in the sense that they are not only the same in aU airplanes of a given class, but that they increase in complexity in a regular way from the simplest primary trainers to the most complex high-speed craft.

They are integrated in the sense that instruments, aircraft and controls must be designed so that they contribute to that picture when required and fade out of that picture when they are not necessary.

Present indications are that it is possible in principle, and very likely possible in practice, to ultimately reduce the 50 to 150 controls and instruments in the present airplane cockpit to three or four pictorial representations, plus three or four combined and integrated controls.

Something like that is the end point of this particular Special Devices program.

When this goal is achieved, a pilot's cockpit will look something like this: One instrument will supply him with information about his mechanical fjropulsion equipment. Another instrument will give him his navigational fix. The present approach to the navigational device consists of a map with a small light which pin-points his exact position.

Into this device the pilot feeds the wind direction and force; from here the machine takes over and supplies the navi-

gational fix automaticaUy. A prototype of this device has been produced by the Special Devices Center and tested, with encouraging results. A simple set of flying controls will be provided for the pilot. A few operational controls for the armament gear wiU complete the cockpit.

This goal is stiU to be achieved, but a strong begiiming has been made. The cockpit simplification program, worked out by the joint efforts of many aeronautical groups, already has achieved results in several new types of aircraft.

Instruments have been regrouped along functional lines, and displayed for greater facility of use.

In seeking the solution of these problems, the Special Devices Center has found it necessary to probe in detail the common denominator of all training, that is, the basic abilities and characteristics of the human system. In the field of flight one of the critical factors is the reaction of the human body to the great forces of acceleration and deceleration occasioned by high-speed flying.

To learn just how much punishment the human body can take in high-speed maneuvering, the world's largest centrifuge is being constructed at JohnsviUe, Pennsylvania. This project is a joint effort of Special Devices, the Bureau of 25

Aeronautics, Bureau of Medicine, Office of Naval Research, Bureau of Ships and Bureau of Yards and Docks. The centrifuge wiU consist of a gondola mounted on one end of a horizontal arm fifty feet in radius, powered by a 4,000 horsepower electric motor. The device wiU be capable of accelerating and decelerating at a rate of ten G's per second for tests on human subjects. A peak acceleration of forty G's is possible for testing equipment and instrumentation for guided missUes and rocket projectUes. Some citizens may be inclined today to think of Naval warfare solely in terms of aviation and long-range guided missUes, in view of the dramatic impact of these weapons in the public press. The Naval man knows otherwise. The surface ship and the submarine continue to have a most important role in plans for fumre defense. In these fields, as weU as in aviation, the Special Devices Center is seeking to improve training methods.

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LARGE nimaber of devices have been developed for surface training.

Among the more recent developments is the Shore Bombardment Trainer, located at Aimapolis, which provides realistic training in this important operation.

Primary purpose of this device is to train shore spotters in proper spotting techniques and in communications with the bombarding ship. Through a special optical arrangement the spotter is given an on-the-spot view of a model terrain. Directing the fire of the ship off shore, the spotter observes a puff of smoke at the spot to which he has directed fire. This realistic simulation of shore bombardment enables the spotter to judge his accuracy and re-direct the ship's fire.

Standard communications procedure is foUowed between the spotter and the simulated CIC room of the offshore ship.

This device is being expanded to make it a complete Amphibious Supporting Arms Trainer, to give training in aU phases of fire control communications between a ship and spotters ashore and in the air during an amphibious landing operation.

A large group of other devices constantly is under development, to aid in training men in navigation, recognition, damage control, communications and other phases of Naval operational tasks.

New techniques of mass training constantly are being sought. Television is one field that is currently being tested for its training value. The medium possibly offers revolutionary possibilities in training. The concept is to take the best possible instructor avaUable in a given subject, equip him with the best training material avaUable, have him give his instruction in the subject, and then syndicate this material to where the trainee is.

At the present stage of development, this method appears to have some tre26

mendous advantages over conventional ones. It is always up to date, always complete and always deals with the exact problem for which training is required.

It requires few instructors, and it does not require the transferring, messing, berthing and assembling of the people to be trained. They can be trained on their working stations and on their ships.

However, it is recognized that television is not a simple blend of motion picture and radio; it is much more than that. It is an entirely new medium directly comparable to nothing used before.

In its television experimentation program, the Special Devices Center wiU take typical Navy training situations and attempt to handle them by television means. The results will be evaluated as a basis for determining the possibilities of utilizing television in Navy training.

If television does prove to be a valuable addition to the Navy training program, it wUl be an important contribution to the solving of the problem of rapid, effective mass training. This problem is an urgent one. The possibUity of universal mUitary training, whether in the near future or distant future, adds to the problem. For universal mUitary training, which would bring large masses of untrained men into the armed forces for a very short period of time, makes it imperative that new techniques be used wherever possible. It simply is not feasible to train raw inductees in any useful way in aircraft or ships of the fleet in the length of time for which they wiU be avaUable. The utmost ingenuity and originality in thinking must be used to make the time of these men in the armed forces usefiU to themselves, useful to the armed services, and a foundation upon which later mUitary training can be DuUt in case of real emergency.

The task of the Special Devices Center is not completed when a trainer has been developed and evaluated. The Center is responsible for the production, instaUation and maintenance, provision of spare parts, and assistance in training in the field—for aU synthetic training devices.

A staff of trained specialists is at work visiting ships and shore stations to see that the synthetic training devices are used as they are designed to be used and that they fuffill real training needs.

Because technological changes are constantly altering our concepts of mUitary defense, the Navy's methods of training are necessarily not static. But as long as men are required to perform tasks in warfare—other than pushing buttons— the role of training wiU be a vital one.

The record of the Special Devices Center during the recent war and the present uneasy peace indicates that the job of keeping men abreast of the machines they operate can—and wiU—be accomplished.

U. S. Naval Academy {Continued from page 17) immamre. We don't know how to derive pleasure out of little things." ""One of the reasons for this condition," he suggests, "is that we don't like women. Physically, yes, but as companions, no." He pointed to our lack of national heroines, our stag parties.

"We must develop a community life, good conversation, interest in one as individuals, to become a mature nation."

Mr. Cohn suggested that something like the Rench cafe, which in France is a poor man's club, woidd help us grow up.

Mr. Cohn, a Mississippian, is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale University.

Midshipman in charge of arrangements was WiUiam C. Pierson, Class of 1948B, of Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Wardroom Panel is run entirely by the Midshipmen, with the approval of the Superintendent and the Commandant of Midshipmen.

Scandinavian Naval Attaches at the Naval Academy Three Scandinavian Naval Attaches expressed their thanks to the Superintendent and officers of the Naval Academy and Postgraduate School for their courtesy and hospitality during a recent visit to the Naval Academy and the PG School.

Of the visit. Captain O. P. Oraldsen, Norwegian Naval and Air Attache, said, ""The things they showed us gave me a feeling that the education and the training system is up-to-date in every respea.

The way you have organized your material iUustrations is very impressing."

Commodore Frits H. Kjolsen, Royal Danish Naval Attache, stated, "It wiU be of great value to the Royal Danish Navy to receive my report of this visit."

In his letter of gratitude, Captain Rutger Otto de Croneborg, Swedish Naval Attache, remarked, "I am very much impressed by what I saw in Annapolis and I am of the opinion that the U. S. Navy is to be congratulated to have such a fine instimtion as the Naval Academy."

Engineer Captain C. G. Ekblad, Assistant Swedish Naval Attache, also visited the Academy with the three attaches.

Opening of 2 n d Corps Medical Laboratory at Ft. George G. Meade Members of the Severn River Naval Command Medical Staff who attended the recent opening of the New Medical Laboratory at Fort George G. Meade were Captain WiUiam W. Hargrave, Senior Medical Officer for the Command; Lieutenant, junior grade, James H. Manly, Jr.; Lieutenant, junior grade, Gerald A. Martin; Lieutenant, junior grade, Robert

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The new laboratory wiU function as the chief laboratory for the entire Second Army Area.

Second Army Commander Pays Official CaU o n the Naval Academy Superintendent Lieutenant General Leonard T. Gerow, . Commanding General of the Second Army with headquarters at Fort George G. Meade, paid an official caU on the Superintendent, Rear Admiral HoUoway, Tuesday morning, 27 January.

The Admiral and the General conferred briefly in the Administration Budding foUowing General Gerow's inspection of the honor guard of Marines and the Naval Academy Band.

As the General arrived, he received three ruffles and flourishes played by the Band, conducted by Lt. Alexander Cecil Morris, and a 15-gun salute was fired.

The General was accompanied by Brigadier General Charles Gerhardt (Richmond, Va.); Colonel John M. Lentz (Gettysburg, Pa.); Captain Robert L. Sickler (Baltimore, Md.); and Lt. Oran K. Henderson (Indianapolis, Ind.), his aide.

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proceeded to the Executive Mansion where they were received by Governor Preston Lane.

General Gerow assumed command of the Second Army on 15 Jan. He was formerly the Commandant of the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

In recognition of his work in the invasion of Normandy and his successful sweep across France in command of the V Corps, the Russian Government awarded General Gerow the Order of Suvorov, 2nd grade. He was also awarded the French Legion of Honor with the grade of Commander and the Croix de Guerre with Palm. The British Goverimaent awarded him the Companion of the Bath. He also wears the Distinguished Service Medal with cluster; the Legion of Merit with cluster; the SUver Star; and the Bronze Star.

British M. P. Visits Naval Academy Mr. John Dugdale, M.P., Parliamentary and Financial Secretary of the Admiralty, visited the Naval Academy on Tuesday, 20 January, during his visit to the United States.

Mr. Dugdale arrived in the United States aboard the QuEEN ELIZABETH on the 7th of January. He visited in Wash-

ington and Norfolk and then went on to Bermuda on the 22nd.

While here he was interested in the Naval Organization of our Fleet. At the Academy, he visited the various academic departments and was entertained at luncheon by the Superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. HoUoway, Jr., at his quarters.

He was accompanied by Captain P. W. W. Wootten, Royal Navy, British Naval Attache, and Commander J. E. Best, Royal Navy, Assistant Naval Attache, and his secretary, Mr. G. W. Hinckley.

The official escorts for the party were Captain Cornelius S. Seabring, Head of the Department of Marine Engineering, and Captain Basil N . Rittenhouse, Executive Officer of the Department of Seamanship and Navigation.

Lectures o n Foreign Affairs T o Members of Naval Academy Faculty The Department of Foreign Languages at the Naval Academy is sponsoring a series of lectures on the relation of the Navy to the foreign affairs of the United States. The first of these was presented on Wednesday, 11 February, at 2:30 p.m. in Sampson HaU by Commander George R. Muse on the subject "The 27

Current Situation in the Mediterranean."

Other lectures include Commander Donald W . Gladney—"U. S. Relations with South America and Canada"— 18 February; Lt. Cdr. Elmore F. Higgins —"The United Nations Organization and the Navy's Relation Therewith"— 25 February; Captain Albert C. Murdaugh—"The European Recovery Plan" —3 March; Captain Harry R. Himamer —"U. S. Policies in the Far East"—10 March; and Lt. Comdr. James C. Davis —"Occupied Areas"—24 March.

AU officers deivering the lectures are attached to the Politico-Military Affairs Division of the Navy Department.

eration of new communication equip- the cross country team for the 1948 season at the Naval Academy. ment.

The elections are held among the members of the team after the terminaNavy Communication Station tion of the season.

Expansion

The U. S. Naval Communication Station, Annapolis, has recently announced plans to expand its facilities.

Land is to be cleared, swamp ground fiUed in and leveUed in preparation for the erection of antenna supports. Plans also include installation of a drainage system.

The contract was awarded to F. P. Asher, Jr., and Sons in the amount of $56,270, and construaion began immediately.

Officer-in-Charge of the CommunicaNavy Renders Epiergency Assisttion Station is Captain Paul F. Dugan, ance to Annapolis Broadcasting USN. Station Here Radio Station W A N N , whose radio broadcasting station was destroyed by W m . H. W. Taylor, Jr., Receives Commendation for Forty Years fire early Sunday morning, 1 February, of Service in Navy got back on the air 3 February utilizing a mobUe Naval Radio Transmitter, borAt a presentation ceremony at the U. S. rowed from the U. S. Navy Communica- Naval Postgraduate School recently, Mr. tion Station, Aimapolis, Md. WiUiam H. W. Taylor, Jr., of 106 ConMr. Thomas Carr, Station Manager, duit St., Annapolis, was awarded a letter requested the assistance of Rear Admiral of commendation from the Secretary of James L. HoUoway, Jr., USN, Comman- the Navy, John L. SuUivan, for his forty dant of the Severn River Naval Com- years of service with the United States mand, who authorized Captain Paid F. Navy.

Dugan, USN, Commanding Officer of Mr. Taylor was first employed by the the Communication Station to render Navy in 1900 and since has served more emergency assistance to the local broad- than eight years in the mUitary service casting company. The equipment was and the rest as a civilian employee. He delivered to the broadcasting station by served two tours of active duty in the Chief Radio Electrician Howard W. Navy, the first from 1902 to 1906 and Davis, Jr., USN. then from 1915 to 1919. During the It was also necessary for W A N N to latter period he was a Chief Machinist obtaki modulation and frequency control Mate.

In the letter, Mr. SuUivan said, "Your equipment which were obtained from Coimecticut via special truck as the Navy long and continuous service as a civilian transmitter was not fitted for ordinarj' employee at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School reflects competence and skiU in broadcast purposes.

Detailed arrangements for the loan of the performance of the many and varied Navy equipment were made by Com- duties assigned to you. Your work as a mander C. RusseU Burke, USN, Public machinist in the maintenance and operaInformation Officer, SRNC, and Lt. tion of the mechanical engineering labComdr. F. Metz, USN, Executive Officer oratories has been a distinct contribution to their successful operation." of the Navy Communication Station.

Station W A N N returned to the air on 1190 Kcs at 0930 Tuesday, 3 Febru- Lecture Presented at P. G. School ary, with the opening tune of "Anchors Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, DiAweigh" and the announcer expressed rector of Atomic Defense, delivered a the broadcasting station's appreciation for the assistance rendered by the U. S. lecture at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School on 5 February in the auditorium Navy. of the school. The subject of his lecture Captain Paul F. Dugan, Officer-inwas "Trends of Atomic Energy DevelopCharge of the U. S. Naval Communication Station, Annapolis, has remrned ment—Its Naval Implications." from visiting the Navy's major radio stations at San Francisco and Pearl Midshipmen Captain & Manager Elected to Cross Country Team Harbor and also the station at San Diego.

He was accompanied by Mr. Walter The Commandant of Midshipmen has Goodhue, electronics engineer at the announced the election of Midshipman Communication Station.

James P. Oberholtzer, Class of 1950, of The trip, which lasted ten days' and Indianapolis, Ind., as captain and Midcovered over 10,000 miles by air, was in shipman Gerald F. Brummitt, Class of coimection with the installation and op- 1949, of Havelock, N. C , as manager of 28

Midshipmen Attend F o r u m At Goucher College At the invitation of the Collegiate Council of the United Nations Association of Maryland, the Naval Academy sent ten midshipmen representatives to a forum at Catherine Hooper HaU, Goucher CoUege, Baltimore, on 7 February.

Scandinavian smdents who are visiting the U. S. to attend the New York Herald Tribune Forum in New York in March were members of the forum and several of Maryland's coUeges and tmiversities were represented. The Scandinavians visited the Naval Academy two weeks ago. The group included six from Sweden, six from Norway, six from Denmark, and three from FiiUand.

Guest speaker at the forum was Dr. Aski Ording, Director of the United Nations Appeal for Children. Mr. EgU Tresselt, Ditector of Public Relations for the Scandinavian Aitlines System, acted as moderator.

The ten midshipmen, aU of whom are highly interested in the field of foreign affairs, were: first class— H. Scott Holder of Calhoun, Kentucky; WiUiam C. Pierson of Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Hugh D. Adair of CoUege Park, Georgia; James H. Smeds of WiUiston, North Dakota; George H. StUlivan of East St. Louis, lU.; second class—StaiUey S. Fine of New York City; Joseph N. Kanevsky of Racine, Wis.; Howard B. Parker, Jr., of Baton Rouge, La.; and third dass— Neil D. Chaitin of Parkersburg, W. Va.; and Winston R. Lauder of Greenwich, Conn.

While in Annapolis the Scandinavians were received by Governor Preston Lane of Maryland and attended the NavyBucknell basketbaU game. Their guide, appointed by the Superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., was .1 bluejacket at the Naval Academy, V. Roland Ekstrom, yeoman, second class, USN, of Evanston, lU., who is first generation Swedish, his parents hailing from Vestervik, Sweden.

Midshipmen Participate in Invitational Tournament at University of Virginia Four Midshipmen traveled to Charlottesville, Va., the weekend of 7 February to participate in the Second Annual Invitation Forensic Tournament sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Speech and Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho. They placed 6th out of the eighteen entrants.

They were Jack L. English, Class of 1949, Long Beach, Calif.; Winfred L. Buckingham, Class of 1949, Tyler, Texas; Howard M. Estes, Jr., Class of 1950, San Francisco, Calif.; and Rodney E. Eyster, Class of 1950, York, Pa. Tliey were accompanied by Lieut. Cdr. Wm. W. Evans, of the Department of English, History and Government.

Students from about thirty colleges and universities were invited. 'There were three sections to the meeting: an extemporaneous speaking contest; after-dinner speaking; and the debate. Each participant in the extemporaneous speaking was given thirty minutes to prepare his speech on the subject, "Current National and International Affairs," and spoke for five minutes. The after-dinner speaking was on the subject of the speaker's choice and lasted seven minutes.

The subject of the debate was "Resolved: That a Federal World Government ShotUd be EstabHshed." Each team of two members were prepared to debate on both sides of the question. The Academy entered two teams in the debate and also participated in after-dinner speaking and extemporaneous speaking.

The toiurnament was run on the Oregon Plan by which each participant introduces himself, participants time one another and judge each other.

The Naval Academy debating team has a good record, having placed second last year at the Annual Forensic Tournament at Boston University, received third place in the tournament at West Point last spring and first place there in 1946.

They hope to enter the West Point tournament again this year.

Secretary of the Navy Approves Changes in Pay, P r o m o t i o n and Tenure of Office for Civilian Faculty The Secretary of the Navy, John L. SuUivan, has recently approved changes in policy regarding pay, promotion and tenure of office of the civilian faculty at the U. S. Naval Academy.

Promotions to the grade of Associate Professor may now be made by selection from those in the grade of Assistant Professor with not less than six years' service on the civUian faculty at the Academy, or three years' service in the grade of Assistant professor thereon.

Also, in recognition of scholarly work accomplished at the Naval Academy, special leave for smdy and research may be granted by the Navy Department on the recommendation of the Superintendent to Senior Professors, Professors, and Associate Professors, when, in the opinion of the Navy Department, such leave would result in the improvement of education at the Naval Academy. Unless otherwise specifically provided, such leave shaU be granted at fuU pay for oneMARCH,

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half of the academic year or for the en- the necessary control to utilize this speed tire annual period at one-half pay. The and capacity on the most complex probnumber of the members of the profes- lems of science in institutions of learnsional staff to be granted leave at any one ing, in government, and in industry.

Professor Scarborough contributed intime shall be so limited as to avoid interference with the regular work at the directly to the design and development Academy. Formerly, only senior pro- of such calculators in that his book, fessors and professors were granted such "Numberical Mathematical Analysis" (published in 1930), furnished matheleave. matical information required by the chief Public Speaking Course Convened inventor of the first calculator of this at Post Graduate School type.

The dedicatory program and inspecA public speaking course for officers tion of the machine on Tuesday foUowed and members of the civilian faculty of the Naval Academy and Naval Post- a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the IBM gtaduate School staff has been convened World Headquarters Building. The and is being conducted by Associate demonstration and technical session on Professor of Speech Henry Goddard the use of the machine were given on Roberts of George Washington Uni- Wednesday in the same building.

Professor Scarborough was invited to versity. The series consists of twenty sessions lasting ten weeks, and is being held the dedication exercises by Mr. Thomas in the auditorium of the Postgraduate J. Watson, President of the International School each Monday from 4:30 to 6:00 Business Machines Corporation. o'clock and again from eight until 9:30 Professor Howard Attends Winter in the evening.

Meeting of American Institute of Those taking the course are Major Electrical Engineers John W. Antonelli, USMC; Commander Professor David G. Howard, of the NorveU G. Ward, and Lieutenant Commander Henry L. Vaughan from the Ex- Department of Electrical Engineering of ecutive Department; C o m m a n d e r the U. S. Naval Academy was in attenThomas P. Lowndes and Commander dance at the Winter Meeting of the Ross E. Freeman from the Department American Institute of Electrical Enof Seamanship and Navigation; Com- gineers which was held in Pittsburgh, mander Francis J. Foley, and Lieutenant Pennsylvania, the week of 26 January.

Carnegie School of Technology, the Commander William H. Mack from the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery; University of Pittsburgh and the WestCommander John G. Spangler and Assist. inghouse Electric Company cooperated Professor Eugene J. Eiurys of the De- in these meetings which took place from partment of Marine Engineering; Com- the 26th to the 30th. Professor and Mrs. mander Fred M. Wexel and Commander Howard stayed at the WiUiam Penn Charles E. Hart from the Department of Hotel during the meetings.

Electrical Engineering; Associate Prof.

George A. Lyle and Instructor Joseph Professor Carr and Instructor Milkman from the Department of Mathe- Trumble Attend Winter Meeting matics; Lt. Comdr. Wesley E. Skill and Of American Physical Society Lt. Comdr. Gustave A. Wolf from the Assistant Professor Howard E. Carr Department of English, History, and and Instructor Robert E. Trumble of the Government; Commander Joe C. Eliot Department of Electrical Engineering at and Lieutenant Commander Henry D. the U. S. Naval Academy were in atDavidson of the Department of Foreign tendance at the Winter Meetings of the Languages; and Captain John L. Mel- American Physical Society which were gaard. Commander Stephen M. Archer, held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and Lieutenant Commander Sherwood 29, 30 and 31 January, at Columbia .UniH. Werner from the Postgraduate School versity, New York. staff.

Professor Carr is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Instructor TrumMathematics Professor Attends ble of the University of Washington, IBM Meeting both having done graduate work in Professor James B. Scarborough, of Physics. Both of these members of the the Department of Mathematics of the civilian faculty of the Academy were ofNaval Academy, was in New York City ficers of the Naval Reserve during the on Tuesday and Wednesday, 27 and 28 war, Carr in the Pacific with the carrier Tanuary, as the guest of the International escorts, and Trumble in the Atlantic, the Business Machines Corporation, on the Pacific, the Mediterranean and the China occasion of the announcement, dedica- Sea with destroyer escorts. tion, and demonstration of the new IBM Dukehart Genealogy Given T o Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator.

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has sent a U. S. Naval Academy pennant to the Naval School at Rio Santiago.

Capitan Guillermo D. Plater, Superintendent of the Naval School, in his letter accompanying the pennant, said, "We are sending this pennant sincerely desiring that the honourable traditions, left to us by those who through their efforts and sacrifice gave our schools their present renown, be maintained in the fumre as they have been in the past."

In his letter of acknowledgment to Capitan Plater, Rear Admiral James L. HoUoway, Jr., Superintendent of the Academy, stated, "May these tokens of friendship be symbolic of the cordial relations which now exist between our two schools and which we hope wiU continue forever."

One hundred and twenty-four officers and cadets from the Argentine Naval School visited the Academy on 4 September 1946, and again on 12 June 1947, one hundred and thirty-five officers and cadets came to visit.

"Atomic E n e r g y , " Life Exhibition at Academy The editors of Life in considtation with the United States Atomic Energy Commission have prepared a photographic exhibition on Atomic Energy.

The photographs include those of atomic scientists, of Hiroshima and Bikini, and of the post war uses of atomic energy.

The exhibition was shown in the lobby of the Academy Museimi from 2 February through Friday, 13 February. Then a special showing for the midshipmen was given in Smoke HaU, Bancroft HaU, on Saturday and Sunday, 14 and 15 February.

This exhibition was given through the cooperation of the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Captain Wells L. Field and the Direaor of the Museum, Captain Harry A. Baldridge. It was given a preview by the scientists in attendance at the recent meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Hotel Stevens, Chicago. At that time Dr. Howard E. Carr of the civilian faculty of the Department of Elearical Engineering saw the exhibition and made arrangements for its showing in Annapolis.

vain Dukehart of Baltimore a comprehensive genealogy of his family covering the last three centuries. Included in this genealogy is a sketch of Commodore Thomas M. Dukehart who was ordered to duty here in September, 1866, to serve imder the Superintendent, Vice Admiral D. D. Porter, as instructor in the new Department of Steam Engineering (the predecessor of our present Department of Marine Engineering).

He served three years here as professor of natural and experimental phUosophy, engineering and chemistry.

The Steam Engineering Building, built in 1868, was erected under the direction of Commodore Dukehart. This building stood across Maryland Avenue opposite the present site of Maury HaU. FacsimUes of some of his engineering lecttires given at the Academy in 1866, 1867 and 1868 are published in this Director of the W a v e s Interviewed book.

O v e r Mutual Exchange of Pennants Between Argentine Naval School and U . S. Naval Academy The Naval Academy has recendy been presented with a pennant from the Naval School of the Argentine Republic, which has been placed on display in Smoke HaU, Bancroft Hall. In return the Academy

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If Congress authorizes the WAVES as a permanent part of the regtdar Navy and the Naval Reserve, the girls in blue won't be draped in that new look.

Captain Joy Hancock, Director of the WAVES, said recendy in a broadcast (MBS) that they would "Take the new look in their stride—as is."

Captain Hancock was interviewed by

Helen HaU on the weekly Naval Academy broadcast.

She said legislation pending before Congress to set up a division for the WAVES in the Service "offers the same security of a career in the Navy to women that has long been available to men."

The WAVES has been cut from a wartime strength of 5,500 officers and 125,000 enlisted women to 500 officers and 2,000 enlisted.

The proposed biU would authorize an organization with two per cent of the Navy's eiUisted nimiber and the same ratio of officers.

List of Items f r o m the USS Maine on Exhibit in the Lobby of the U. S. Naval Academy Museum Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the sinking of the batdeship MAINE, 15 February 1898, the Direaor of the Naval Academy Mtiseum, Captain Harry A. Baldridge, USN (Ret.), arranged a special exhibition of relics pertaining to the ship. Centered in the coUection, on display in the lobby of the Museum, was an oU painting of the MAINE in Havana Harbor by Carlton T. Chapman, on the day of the disaster. It was presented to the Mtiseiun, 14 AprU 1940, by Commander WUIiam H. McGrann, USN (Ret.).

Also included was: Framed newspaper account with headline: MAINE SURVIVORS PUB TABLET I N CARE OF JEWISH ORPHANS 17 YEARS AFTER DISASTER. Chronometer from the M A I N E .

Casting from scrap metal from M A I N E .

Captain Sigsbee of the M A I N E (photograph).

Barometer from Captain Sigsbee's cabin in the MAINE. Framed picmre of the M A I N E just after she was raised in Havana Harbor, 1912.

Sextant from the M A I N E .

Coffee cup saved from the M A I N E .

CaU beU from the M A I N E .

Binoculars from the M A I N E .

Permant from the M A I N E .

Lightbidb from the M A I N E .

Key to the magazine sheU room of the MAINE.

Hour glass salvaged from the MAINE. Sailor's cap ribbon—USS M A I N E .

Spy glass of Officer of the Deck, USS MAINE.

Framed picture of the wreck of the M A I N E in Havana Harbor.

Lamp shade from the M A I N E .

Cablegram sent to Admiral Sampson

by Captain Sigsbee annotmcing the sinking of the USS M A I N E in Havana Harbor. (With the years the printing on the cablegram has faded.)

Oil painting of the MAINE, painted on canvas. The painting is 30" x 20" and is in a gold frame 39" x 28M". The

label on the frame reads: U.S.S. M A I N E in Havana Harbor, February 15, 1898, CARLTON T. CHAPMAN. It was presented to the Museum 14 April 1940,

by Commander WiUiam H. McGrann, USN (Ret.).

Rear Admiral Holloway Addresses Midshipmen and Marines Midshipmen and Marines had a good word from Rear Admiral James L. HoUoway, Jr., Superintendent of the Naval Academy.

Admiral HoUoway was interviewed by Miss Helen HaU of Mutual diuring a broadcast of the Academy Band from Mahan HaU on 27 January.

Of the Midshipmen, the Admiral said he believed "the quality is higher than in my day, and it is just about the optimum."

His day was during the fiirst World War. He was commissioned in 1918 and after diversffied Navy assignments, returned to the Academy a year ago to become one of the Academy's yoimgest Superintendents.

Improvement in the caliber of Midshipmen, he said on a broadcast over the Mumal Broadcasting System, is oiUy due to higher entrance standards. And for aptimde and general inteUigence, he declared he woiUd stack the plebes here against the upper crust of coUege freshmen.

"Certain aptimde and educational tests specfficaUy indicate they are approximately equivalent to coUege juniors," he stated.

"Marine Corps officers have been assigned as company and battalion officers in Bancroft HaU for the first time," he pointed out. "That's because the Marine Corps, as an important member of the Navy famUy, has much to give in leadership training to the Naval Service as a whole."

Letter of Appreciation The following letter of appreciation was received by Midshipman Hugh Adair, 1st Class and member of Wardroom Panel Committee.

Midshipman Anderson is a mem.ber of the Thi/rd Class, from Manistee, Mich.

Hugh, I haven't been formnate enough to see you in the last several days so I shaU take this way of delivering the message I wish to send.

Several weeks ago the mate left a mimeographed sheet in the room describing the speaker at that evening's Wardroom Panel; on the bottom of the sheet it was noted that you were a member of the group that had persuaded the speaker to donate his services. So I would like to add my voice to the thanks that are due you and the rest of the group for obtaining the speakers you have. It has unMARCH,

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doubtedly been a huge task but the results are very much evident. I don't think any similar institution has been fortunate or resourceful enough to obtain as esteemed a group of speakers and I am sure I speak for many when I extend my thanks and appreciation.

It certainly has been a job well done and I am sure the coming personages shall have a difficult task to compete with the speakers and notables who have already graced us with their presence.

Thanks, friend, Harry L. Anderson.

He said that the writing of a term paper will involve a certain amount of research in the Naval Academy Library, and that during that period midshipmen would not be required to attend classes but would rather spend that free time in the Library.

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from the firing ship) for such a long time that not even the most optimistic persons would have guessed that the German strategists were not fully aware of Respect for Truth Necessary in this important element of United States World of Conflicting Propaganda power.

More propitious than in the case of Says Naval Academy Professor Lot's wife, a look backward into the hisIn a broadcast over the Mumal Broad- tory of the invasions of Sicily and Italy casting System, originating from the reveals two very important points of naNaval Academy, 11 February, Associate val interest. The first is that all the money Professor E. B. Potter of the Department and effort expended in research, developof English, History and Goverimient said ment, production, testing and training that a new course in that department in- between World Wars I and II paid huge volved the writing of an extended term dividends. The second is that a research paper. When asked what he considered and development program is inadequate of especial value in the course, he stated without parallel, thorough service test "Any student who has gone through the and large scale service use of new dediscipline of research and who has criti- velopments. cised his sources and his own opinions The period betwen World War I and is bound to come out with a greater reWorld War II was marked by steady, gard for truth. Nothing is more imactive, and sound progress in the whole portant in a world of conflicting propafield of naval ordnance and gunnery. The gandas." words "ordnance" and "gunnery," are In his interview with Miss Helen Hall, purposely used together because they are Professor Potter described the smdies of inseparable. The development of better the Department of English, History and ordnance is triggered by the results Government as being linked together, achieved in gunnery. Better gunnery is "building from year to year on what has achieved with better ordnance. Although been taught in the past so that our cur- the U. S. Navy did not participate in the riculum becomes a sort of continuous, Battle of Jutland, which assumed status single four-year course." as the principal landmark during the He went on to say, "For one thing, we post-World War I period, much was are stressing public speaking as never be- learned in the technical field by post-war fore, for we believe that the possession study. Jutland pointed out the deficiencies of facts and idea^.is no more important of the then existent ordnance and fire than the ability'"* tommunicate them control equipment and gave impetus to clearly and z.CQzone d. And we believe the development of superior techniques that for the ntricted Sicer, at least, oral and material. During the 1920's and communication unres^*^ ^ important as '30's there followed a steady procession written commuh-,jjjQpn." of new marks and modifications of ordProfessor PotttV. â&#x20AC;˘described the final nance material, passing from the drawing course which the midshipmen take the board to production lines and then to the last half of their first class year as an en- fleet. After they reached the fleet, they deavor to gather up the threads of all were given realistic tests in target pracprevious smdies undertaken in the de- tices, and were critically evaluated. Critipartment and give them a final extension cisms went back to the men at the drawand integration. He said, "In this final ing boards and in the laboratories. They course, we don't teach, at least in the old- usually came through with still better fashioned sense. W e guide the midship- versions. Probably no governmental men in their discussions of international egency was ever more ably assisted by affairs." Text used is a collection of ar- civilian science and industry than was ticles and selections written by recognized the Navy during this period. authorities on international affairs, By the early 1930's battleships were called "Foundations of National Power." demonstrating their ability to fire effecIt was prepared by Harold and Margaret tively 14" and 16" projectiles at unseen, Sprout of Princeton at the suggestion of maneuvering targets at ranges greater the present Secretary of National De- than fifteen miles, in salvos of from eight fense, Mr. James Forrestal. to twelve, remotely controlled, and fired 31

from a single firing key. After one such battle practice, a gunnery officer (who is now an Admiral), filled with enthusiasm remarked, "No other D Navy in the world can shoot like that!"

The late '30's saw improvements in accuracy, smaller pattern sizes, better rangefinding, increased rates of fire and many fire control refinements which tended generally to solve more varied baUistic problems by more fully automatic processes. Automatic, remotely controlled train and elevation systems for intermediate caliber guns reached the fleet. By 1941, even officers who had been closely associated With ordnance and gunnery for years were awed by the Navy's surface gunnery. Gunnery officers of the newer destroyers would state quite seriously that their "point blank" ranges extended to five milesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a point blank range being one in which misses are not expected. It was with such equipment, developed before the war, that the Navy was able to more than fulfill its responsibilities of support to the ground forces in amphibious warfare.

AMONG the earlier amphibious op.â&#x20AC;˘tV. erations, the invasions of Sicily and Italy are of particular interest from the standpoint of fire control improvements.

The Navy's cruisers and destroyers had most successful experiences with German panzers, in spite of encountering almost every conceivable type of land, sea, and air opposition, except major enemy sea units. The defeat of the German tanks is of greatest interest because these offered the most complex gunnery problems. They were mobile, armored, and for the most part, not visible from our firing ships. Indirect fire against them was intended to be spotted either from aircraft or shore fire control parties. As it turned out, most of the indirect fire in the Sicilian campaign was spotted by shore parties because the spotting aircraft were seriously harassed by enemy fighter planes. The shore fire control parties filled the breach very well, however.

Typical of the performance is the following account of the USS SHUBRICK'S panzer shoot: "The SHUBRICK'S fire control party called for fire on a tank concentration near Gela on the Ponte Olivo road.

The SHUBRICK delivered rapid fire, with intervals for spotting, for about half an hour. This fire was very effective, knocking out three tanks directly and allowing only six or seven of the original 25 to reach the town of Gela."

The overall results achieved by the fire support ships at Sicily were well summarized in the following quotation from official records of the campaign: "All sources of information indicated that naval gunfire support was outstanding, more effective and accurate than the military commanders had believed possi32

sonnel, but only ten percent of the available medical resources had to be used.

The superb gunnery performance is illustrated by the following results selected from only a few of the participating ships, as recorded by spotters and ships during action in the campaign at Salerno, Italy: Observation Shore Tire Control Mean Party Range Effect and 'Remarks Ship Type Target Type Fire SFCP 13,2 00 yds. Target disappeared.

USS SAVANNAH Tanks Indirect SFCP 11,250 yds. Area covered.

USS SAVANNAH Battery Indirect Top Spot 7,500 yds. Two large fires USS BRISTOL Tanks Direct started.

SFCP 17,980 yds. Battery demolished.

USS BOISE Enemy Btry Indirect SFCP 15,500 yds. Well done.

USS BOISE Tanks Indirect SFCP 19,700 yds. Straddle on target.

USS BOISE Troops Indirect SFCP 17,900 yds. Straddles reported.

USS BOISE Vehs and troops Indirect on road 11,800 yds. "Nice Work" SFCP. USS MAYO Tanks Indirect SFCP First salvo 200 yds. left, 100 yds. short.

Indirect SFCP 14,600 yds. Fine eflFect. First salUSS MAYO RR vo 200 yds. short, 100 yds. left.

13,700 yds. Effect on target very Tanks Indirect SFCP USS MAYO good. First salvo short 100 yds.

12,800 yds. D i r e c t hit "well Artillery Indirect SFCP USS BOISE done."

These accomplishments are most imnarrow First Infantry Division beachhead. Fire from cruisers and destroyers pressive arguments in support of the was largely responsible for turning the pattern of research, development, proGerman tanks back. Several tanks were duction and intensive fleet practice and destroyed by direct hits, while others evaluation that existed between World Wars I and II. Minor inadequacies, which were disabled by near misses."

Probably of even greater significance existed in the Navy's fire control equipis this letter from General Patton to Ad- ment in its adaptation to gunfire against land targets, did not prevent the accommiral Davidson: plishment of the job with an effective"7th Army Headquarters ness comparable to that demonstrated Palermo, Sicily 21 August 1943 against enemy ships.

ble. Enemy batteries were silenced, at times by direct hits; searchlights were extinguished and troop concentrations scattered. Most noteworthy is the part played by the cruisers and destroyers in turning back the German counter-attack at Gela when the Herman Goering Division almost succeeded in erasing the

My dear Admiral Davidson: Please accept for yourself and for the officers and men of your force the sincere and heartfelt appreciation and admiration the 7th Army .1^. Is for your constant, gallant anc^'^i/fterous assistance.

Everything that w^w D^ asked from you, you have more th^ccent ited.

The gunfire supjion io^x. you have provided has been of ^t th^iable value, and it is my considered <dTO,iion that the three landing operations,' carried on by you, were of critical importance in the rapid and successful advance on Messina.

It is our hope that in future operations we shall again have the pleasure of being associated with you and your men.

I have forwarded a copy of this letter to Admiral Hewitt with the request that it be made of record.

Most sincerely,

To ovetcome such minor inadequacies as did exist, control officers frequently had to break out pencil and paper to supplement automatic electro-mechanical computers. Deflection spots in indirect fire against land targets can be made only in yards. These had to be converted to mils before being cranked into fire control instruments. Land target elevation above sea level was another problem to be overcome in using surface fire control systems. This brought out more pencils and paper. Shore bombardments against certain objectives required special ammunition. Since our shipboard fire control systems had been designed primarily for the types of ammunition to be used against planes and ships, special ballistic corrections had to be computed and utilized. Such shortcomings were important only to the degree that they bear out the second premise on which G. S. PATTON, JR. Lieut. General, U S. Army this story is based: "That a research and development program is inadequate Commanding." without parallel and large scale service The real payoff, however, lay in the use and evaluation." unexpectedly low casualty figures among our troops. Elaborate preparations had New ordnance developments were been made to handle casualties to per- very thoroughly tested in the fleet against

sea and air targets between the two World Wars, but not as much so against land targets. Had more shore bombardments been fired before 1941 the development of superior equipment for use against land targets woiUd have resulted naturaUy. These matters now belong to history, but in meeting the problems of today and tomorrow, it would be foolhardy to ignore or misinterpret their meaning.

Bureau of Naval Personnel {Continued from page 19) possible future joint naval operations is encouraged to consider carefiUly the faaor of changes due to technological improvements and the possible effea of such improvement upon the taaical simation.

Goverimient quarters consisting of 176 apartments and four smaU houses are provided for the families of the smdents and the faciUty. Line and staff officers of the rank of captain with date of rank on or after 15 Nov. 1945 and of the rank of commander may apply when the direaive is issued.

Seleaions wiU be made for the class which convenes in September. * * * Talk, favorite off-duty pastime of the U. S. saUor, is being direaed into constmaive channels on a group discussion basis by the Educational Services Section, Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Two publications are made avaUable regidarly. One is Town Meeting Bidletin, a stenographic report of the weekly broadcast of America's Town meeting of the Air. The other is Armed Forces Talk, a faa sheet on a subjea of current interest prepared for all branches of the armed services by the Troop Information Branch, U. S. Army.

The manual Now Hear This—Handbook for Discussion Leaders (NavPers 16975) is being revised for early re-issue under the tide Handbook for Discussion Leaders (NavPers 16975A), and may be requested from district publications and printing offices.

Basis for the program is the fact that group discussions—or organized buU sessions, if you wiU—are effective in developing habits, skills, attimdes and opinions necessary for responsible citizenship in a free society. In addition.

Navy smdy has shown that weU-organized discussions are important morale budding instruments, popular with men of aU ratings.

It has become apparent that saUors not only enjoy talking, but they also like to acquire reliable information about the problems of the nation. During the war, the Navy's entire informational and orientation program was focused on the MARCH,

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job of helping personnel understand the war, why they were in it and why we were fighting.

Lessons learned in the war are being used in the program today. The Navy feels that group discussions are important to the individual, to the Navy and to the nation; they cannot be expected to produce miracles or inteUecmal world-saving leaders, but they can and do result in a vital democratic experience by providing a medium for exchanging information and developing intelligent attimdes and opinions. * * * Remarks As to whether or not an officer is considered qualified for promotion wiU no longer be placed in officers' qualification jackets by COs and previous entries by former COs were directed by BuPers to be removed.

CanceUing AlNav 219-45, BuPers Circ.

Ltr. 249-47 (NDB, 31 December) does not alter the CO's responsibility and authority to express freely and fuUy his evaluation of officers under his command by appropriate remarks in fitness reports.

Nor does it remove the obligation to withhold an appointment when, in the opinion of the CO, the officer is not considered qualified; in such cases, however, the matter should be referred to BuPers immediately. m * m Billets to Be Filled in Navy Nurse Corps Procurement of 1,005 officers for the regular Navy Nurse Corps and 7,000 for the Nurse Corps Reserve was authorized in a recent directive to officer procurement branches.

The regular Navy Nurse Corps, with an authorized quota of 3,428, has only 1,958 at present. Coordinated with the procurement program, BuPers Circ. Ltr. 233-47 (NDB, 30 November) oudined details for transfer of Reserve nurses to the regidar Navy. * * * Promotion Zone Clarified for Unrestricted Officers OrUy those unrestricted line officers within the promotion zone extending through signal number 490, who were not selected for promotion to the temporary grade of rear admiral are regarded by law as having failed of selection, BuPers Circ. Ltr. 241047 (NDB, 15 December) points out.

The directive clarified the promotion zone for officers not restricted in the performance of duty. Engineering and aeronautical engineering duty captains who were not selected and who will complete 30 or more years of commissioned service by 30 June 1948 will have failed once of selection.

The promotion zone established by SecNav applies also to the staff corps selection board which convened 1 Dec.

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sion; Captain Clemens Vincent Rault, DC, USN, CO of the Naval Dental School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.; and Captain Spry Owen Claytor, DC, USN, head of die Dental Department at the Naval Academy.

'Those promoted in the chaplain corps are: Rear Admiral WiUiam Nathaniel Thomas, ChC, USN, Chief of Chaplains; and Captain Trenton Charles Miller, ChC, USN, Fleet Chaplain of the Pacific Fleet, Promotion in the supply corps went to: Capt. John Ball, SC, USN, Supply.Officer, Fort Hueneme, Calif.; Capt. Herbert Carlyle Lassiter, SC, USN, Assistant Chief of BuSandA and Director of Material Control; and Capt. Howard Manfred Shaffer, SC, USN, Supply Officer in Command, Naval Supply Center, Guam. * * * More than 700 business concerns of all types grant training leave enabling reserve members of this armed forces to take training duty each year.

The United States Chamber of Commerce sent queries to nearly 7,000 companies asking for the information. Of the 1,256 which replied, 720 have training leave policies already in effect and 132 intend to adopt similar policies in the fumre.

The large proportion of the companies, which range in size to more than 10,000 employees, grant from two weeks to 15 34

days for training leave on several different pay arrangements.

Some employers aUow fidl pay during reserve training, some aUow the difference between reserve pay and the civilian job and some aUow no pay during the training period.

Types of companies covered in the survey included such business fields as banking and insurance, manufacturing, railroads and airlines and many others.

Congress recently enacted legislation permitting government employees to take 15 days with fuU pay annuaUy for reserve training. # * * Conforming with the organization of the National Military Establishment the Joint Army-Navy Personnel Board has changed its name to Armed Services Personnel Board.

The board continues to be basically the same, with representatives from each of the services, including the Coast Guard, and in Certain matters, spokesmen from the Public Health Service and the Coast and Geodetic Survey wiU be included.

Main task of the board is to initiate studies and make recommendations on personnel matters concerning the Armed Services. Vice Admiral WiUiam N. Fechteler, USN, is senior member of the board.

The Hydrographic Ofl&ce {Continued from page 21) the shortest distance along the Great Circle route between two points on the earth's curved surface and are true to scale. By extending a straight line from the center of projection to the periphery scale, any bearing from the center may be read in degrees and the nature of intervening territory along this line can be determined. The azimuthal equidistant charts are useful in planning long-distance flights and general reference purposes.

Loran Charts consist of the aeronautical charts described above as the V 30, V 14, and VR series overprinted with Loran curves or ground wave lines of position emanating from the various Loran station pairs. These charts are for use aboard ships and aircraft equipped with suitable Loran receivers, for determining position.

The preparation of the above aeronautical publications and charts at the Hydrographic Office involves considerable work and effort in the gathering of aviation data reports from all available sources. Each report is carefully analyzed and checked with othet information on hand, and any corrections or changes resulting are incorporated as soon as possible in the publications or charts affected.

H. O. Publication No. 503—Pacffic Airways' Route Manual is constantly being revised and monthly changes are issued. There exists a continuing need for more aviation information of the Pacffic area, which covers such data on seaplane anchorages as, depth of water, character of bottom, landing and take-off area, obstructions (flight or landing), tidal range and currents, shelter, direction and intensity of prevailing winds, sweUs, location and general character of the beaches suitable for hauling out planes.

Important aviation data reports received by the Hydrographic Office are (a) accurate and prompt reports from stations regarding changes in their facilities and (b) reports of errors or suggested changes made by users of the charts and publications (c) aerial photographs both vertical and oblique of landplane and seaplane airports, surrounding country, landing and take-off areas, and landmarks.

Air Navigation Offices (ANO) are located at NAF Honolulu and at NAS Seattle.

The functions of Air Navigation Offices are: (a) Maintain complete library of the latest information on air navigation material applicable to operations in the assigned area. (b) CoUects the latest information relative to air navigation in the assigned area. (c) Make this information avaUable to military aviation aaivities and to such civil aviation activities as may be authorized to receive it. (d) The Air Navigation Office is the recognized Navy office in the gssigned area for up-to-date air navigation information. (e) Distribution ANO Honolulu—Distributes H. O. No. 503, Pacific Airways' Route Manuals, ANO Weekly BiUletins, and Pacific VR series charts to Naval activities in the Pacific. Maintains a supply of all air navigation charts and publications covering the Pacific for emergency issue to local Naval aviation activities.

ANO Seattle—Serves as a subissuing office of the Hydrographic Office for the distribution of air navigation charts and publications to all Naval aviation activities attached to or operating within the 13th and 17th Naval Districts, and to maintain stocks of charts and publications adequate for these purposes.

Persons desiring further information on Hydrographic Office aeronautical publications and charts are referred to H. O. Pub. No. 1-V Catalog of Aeronautical Charts and Publications and to H. O.

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Pub. No. 1-L Catalog of Loran Charts and Service Areas. These catalogs are available from the Hydrographic Office Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. at a price of 30 cents each.

Bureau of Yards and Docks {Continued from page 22) of lectures at BuDocks and inspection trips to nearby naval activities, including NOB, NorfoUc. * * # The first in a series of Design Criteria issued by BuDocks is a three-page iUustrated pamphlet dealing with Navy and Marine Corps erUisted men's barracks.

The barracks basicaUy wiU be two-story buUdings 220 feet long with an inside width of 28 feet. Each wiU house 100 men y^ith single bunking, or, if double bunking is used, 150 men. Although there are three types of barracks, tropical, temperate and northern, the interiors are the same.

The tropical type has operable louvers, whUe the temperate and northern types have steel frame windows. The first two have a flat roof, whUe the third may have a pitched roof if local weather conditions make it advisable.

It is not contemplated that aU barracks buUt for Navy and Marine Corps wiU foUow exacdy the plans set forth in the definitive drawings, nor is any effort being made to restrict initiative in designing such barracks. The criteria, however, are needed to serve as a guide to basic requirements for design.

View of the Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge, in open position. Visible behind it is the Henry Ford Ave. Bridge, traffic load on which will be lightened by the new structure. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

a few hours were devoted to the clinical effects of radiation and to hematology.

Hence, the attendance of civilian registrants during this part of the session was optional. The vast majority of the material of greatest interest to clinicians was from 23-28 February, Monday through Friday. N o classes were held on Samrday.

An effort was made to include the namre of ionizing radiation as it relates to atomic fission; the methods of detection and evaluation, of the hazard; the biological effects of the radiation; the possibUities of protection and avoidance, and present concepts of treatment. The internation aspects of the Atomic Bomb were touched upon briefly and the subject of isotope smdies, tracer techniques, and allied subjects were of particidar interest

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery {Continued from- page 17) Of the eight days of lectures the first three days were largely consumed in the physics, etc., i.e., the process of making the bomb explode, plus the methods of detection of the radiological hazard. Oidy

to the clinician. The sessions extended from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily. The speakers scheduled were outstanding men in their respeaive fields, which made the course interesting and informative.

Bureau of Supplies and Accounts {Continued from page 20) Richmond, Calif., (566 acres) and the Naval Supply Annex at Stockton, Calif., (1,500 acres).

Today, NSC Oakland, staffed by more than 8,000 officers and civilians, supplies the Pacific Fleet, Pacific Island Bases and Naval occupation forces and stands ready to cope with any emergency that might arise.

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either Harvard or Stanford. The Industrial CoUege of the Armed Forces provides another oppormnity for intensive smdy of industrial mobUization problems. A logistics course, established last year at the Navy War CoUege, provides further smdy in subjeas relating to procurement and supply. Officers are also encouraged to enroU in correspondence courses in the business field.

A program of Training in Industry, inaugurated in 1946 with the enthusiastic participation of many segments of industry, provides the oppormnity for working contact with the praaical phases of production, accounting, inspection, distribution and ptirchase.

The need for highly competent businessmen in the Navy's purchasing biUets has impeUed the Navy to establish a system which wiU produce, encourage and develop men of the highest professional competence from within its own ranks.

ducers of war materials is not being overlooked in the Navy's postwar de(Continued from page 10) fense planning. Lest the vital link between the Navy and its civUian suppliers be weakened again as was permitted invited by the Minister of the French prior to the war, the Navy today is acNavy to exhibit selected work in the tively pursuing its three-point program Paris exhibition at the Salon de la Maof improving aU phases of procurement rine. aaivity, namely, techniques, personnel The Guggenheim Foundation has and organization. awarded feUowships to three of the arIndustry has the important respontists as a result of the artistic merit of sibility of acquainting itself with the their work. One received a grant and the' complications and complexities of the Medal of Honor from the Academy of vast public organization which we caU Arts and Letters.

Government, the oiUy agency equipped AU of these things attest to the value to meet threats to our national safety. of this extraordinary coUeaion of art. It MUitary men, on the other hand, must is the Navy's responsibility to see that understand the meaning of economics this priceless coUeaion is permanently and business flexibility in planning depreserved. fense needs. The marketplace, where men buy and seU the necessary defense matrials, is the point of contact between these two segments where understanding Material Division and mumal cotffidence can provide the kind of working cooperation necessary to (Continued from page 23 ) Purchase Organization the establishment of adequate natioi^ The Navy entered World War II with defense. which officers were assigned during a its purchasing system controUed and normal naval career.

These men were technicaUy trained in- largely centralized in the Bureau of Supdividuals who were required, when deal- plies and Accounts, while the engineerThe Navy on Capitol Hill ing with the expenditure of public ing aspects of determining the technical {Continued from page 4 ) money, to conform to strict nUes which charaaer and identity of specialized standardized procedures throughout the equipment were responsibUities of the naval establishment. Being always sub- various material bureaus. This split be- Whitney, USN, a Naval aviator since j e a to sudden transfer to some radicaUy tween the engineering and the business 1925, and former director of NATS. different type of duty, purchasing officers phases of purchasing caused procureBefore Naval aviation officers and encould do litde more than conform to the ment delays which cotUd not be offset ex- thusiasts start worrying unduly over this established regulations and assimUate cept by placing the buyers' desks prac- latest development, let us quote the law what litde praaical business experience ticaUy adjacent to the technical desks. on the subject of Naval aviation, part of Accordingly, in 1942 the Navy aban- the Armed Services Unffication A a : was permitted under the law.

The development of negotiation pro- doned centralized procurement of techni"Naval aviation shaU consist of comcedures revealed the need for a vast cal items by establishing buying seaions bat and service and training forces, and knowledge of certain commodity fields, within each technical bureau. It was shaU include land-based Naval aviation, price analysis, management problems, largely through this reorganized struc- air transport essential for naval operalabor markets, business policies and mre that the negotiating "teams," tions, aU air weapons and air techniques finance. Thus with the war's end the previously mentioned, were developed. involved in the operations and activities Supply Corps announced its intention to Purchasing was thus placed on a busi- of the United States Navy, together with train its newly commissioned officers in nesslike basis and the entire procurement the personnel necessary therefor. certain funaional specialties of the busi- program was accelerated through the "The Navy shaU be generaUy responsiness field. Important among these is the elimination of the bottleneck of a single ble for naval reconnaissance, antisubmapurchasing specialty. The Navy realizes purchasing agency. rine warfare, and protection of shipping. that it needs men who have a thorough Effectively to manage this streamlined "The Navy shaU develop aircraft, understanding of the problems which be- purchasing system a central coordinating weapons, taaics, technique, organization set company managers, who have keen organization was developed at a higher and equipment of Naval combat and insight into production problems, pric- management level. The Office of Pro- service elements; matters of joint coning policies and administrative difficul- curement and Material furnished Navy- cern as to these functions shall be coorties of business. It takes men who are wide control and coordination to insure dinated between the Army, the Navy and keenly aware that even though they are the use of sound business judgment and the Air Force." buying the Navy's materials, they are also to minimize duplication and waste moAccording to Assistant Secretary of the in faa ""seUing" the Navy to the men tion.

Navy for Air John Nicholas Brown, this with whom they do business. FinaUy, it In 1945 this office was reorganized part of the law is there for good reason. requires trained administrators who can under Admiral Ben Moreel and renamed Congress, he said, realized that the initial shoulder the tremendous responsibilities the Material Division which funaions blows against an enemy must come from involved in spending the taxpayer's today in the same coordinating capacity. planes that can reach the enemy, and that money.

Through this division the Navy has a still means planes from carriers.

The Navy's program for developing central liaison with other government de"Naval air power," he said, "can be good businessmen closely resembled In- partments and military services in mat- delivered at once, practicaUy anywhere, dustry's practice of encouraging advance- ters concerning business management and whenever needed. It carries its own ments from within. Young Supply Corps and procurement. bases, and the range of its planes is built The important relationship of pro- into ships so that its fliers face the enemy officers are being offered the two-year course in Business Administration at curement to both the users and the pro- fresh and with tanks full."

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Appropriations

President Trimian has asked Congress to appropriate $3,510,269,700 for the Department of the Navy in the fiscal year beginning Jidy 1, 1948, an increase of $218,546,600 over 1948 fiscal year funds.

The Bureau of Aeronautics would get $691,668,000, an increase of $190,668,000 over the appropriation for the current year. The Bureau of Ordnance would get $195,650,000, an inaease of $11,650,000. Shipbuilding would get $66,270,000, whereas no funds were appropriated for shipbuilding in the current year. The Office of the Secretary and the Bureau of Naval Personnel would receive inaeases; aU other functions wotUd receive less money.

Total funds available for expenditure by the Navy next year would be close to four biUion doUars.

"The budget of the Naval Establishment for the fiscal year 1949 provides for annual and continuing appropriations of $3,510,749,700 and for contract authorizations in the amount of $373 miUion," the President said. "These amounts do not include additional authority of $230 miUion for shipbuilding which wiU not require appropriations in fiscal year 1949. The total budget request is $3,883,749,700. In addition, provision is made for the transfer of $14.3 miUion from the construaion and maintenance appropriation and $1.7 million from the armor, armaments and ammunition appropriation." "rhis appropriation calls for personnel of 417,589 officers, warrant officers, nurses and enlisted men, exclusive of the Marine Corps, which woiUd have 83,548 officers and eiUisted men. FuU time aaive duty Naval Reserves would number 14,103, and Marine Reserves 1,548.

The appropriation calls for retention on active duty of Naval Reserve, temporary and warrant officers, if they choose to remain in the Navy.

launching bombers heavier than any now existing. Four new submarines, with high submerged speeds, would be built. A new anti-submarine surface vessel, larger than a destroyer, nicknamed the "killer ship," would be built. These are all "prototype vessels."

Unification Steps A bill providing for joint Armed Services procurement will soon become law.

A Senate-House Conference committee muUed over separate bills passed by the Senate and the House, and the Senate version was accepted. Negotiated bidding will be the rule for work of a confidential nature.

Secretary of Defense Forrestal announced a new merger project, studies to determine how best such facilities as post exchanges, theatres, clubs, laundries, bakeries, etc., can be coordinated.

Under smdy is a project to coordinate all Armed Services Reserves; preliminary work is being done by a Committee on Civilian Components.

More Disability Bills

Representative J. Hardin Peterson, Florida Democrat, has introduced a biU —H. R. 5017—providing retirement pay for World War I emergency officers who now have or may later establish a 30 percent or more service-connected permanent disability. Funds for such purpose woiUd be administered by the Veterans Administration.

Representative Homer A. Ramey, Ohio Republican, has introduced a bill —H. R. 5009—granting retirement with pay to disabled officers of World War I on much the same basis.

A biU providing disability and death benefits to members of the Organized Naval and Marine Corps Reserve was sponsored by Representative George W. Sarbacher, Pennsylvania Republican.

Representative John McCormack, Massachusetts, introduced a bill authorizing benefits for Reserves suffering disShip Modernization ability or death while on two weeks' acThe House Armed Services Commit- tive duty. tee has approved legislation authorizing the Navy to modernize its warships. The biU would remove the present limit of Additional P e r s o n n e l $450,000 expendable during any eightA man of war has frequently found een-months period on one vessel. Under the biU, the Navy would inform Con- it necessary to embark distressed persons gress each year what ships are to be mod- in order to save life. In 1827 the C O N ernized and what funds are needed, and STITUTION took on board, during the the money would be made avaUable in revolt of Greece from Turkey, two starving boys of about twelve years of age, regular appropriations measures.

The Navy has temporarily abandoned the sole survivors of a destroyed Greek work on conversion to guided missile viUage. They gave their names, or were ships of the Kenmcky and the Hawaii, then and there named, Colvocoresses and so that the $308,000,000 appropriated Sirian. They were likely lads and the offor this work can be used for construc- ficers and men took an interest in them tion of more immediate use. The new and gave them the usual care and in1949 program would include construc- struction received by midshipmen. tion of a 60,000-to-80,000-ton aircraft George Sirian had the lesser ability but carrier, with a flush deck and capable of rose to become a Gunner in 1837 and

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was retired in that grade in 1880 after over forty-three years of active service.

George M. Colvocoresses was made a midshipman in 1832, rose to the rank of Captain in 1867 and died in 1872. His son was the executive officer of the CONCORD at the battle of Manila Bay. In 1886 the'SwATARA picked up a fisherman's dory adrift on the Grand Banks containing only a small boy of about eleven. When the ship returned to port, as no next of kin could be found, special permission was obtained from the Department and the boy was enlisted as an apprentice to serve until majority.

The taking on board of "outsiders" was not confined to "starving boys." The ward room steward of the BRANDYWINE in 1825 was permitted "to take a wife at Gibraltar as he was a valuable man" and the ship's log recorded that the first Lieutenant had been aUowed to "fit up the cabin pantry for her convenience."

One wonders at the complacency of the commanding officer and also how long and how weU the arrangement lasted.

Taking the Hard Way In the old days accommodation ladders were seldom a part of a ship's equipment or, if on hand, were not always used. Cleats fastened to the side and an open port, or up to the spar deck where the carved head boards which guarded the "dress" entry were, or even over the hammock nettings above were the habimal means of ingress or egress.

Man ropes were let down alongside the wooden cleats to assist and the original side boys clambered down to hand out a rope's end to the boarder. Disabled or old persons and women and children were "whipped" over the side strapped in a chair. When General Lafayette arrived in France in the BRANDYWINE in 1825 at the conclusion of his visit to the United States he was so landed to a boat alongside and no comment was made.

At night it was customary to place on deck at the gangway as many lanterns as side boys rated, rwo, four or six.

Commodore Heim, 1 9 0 7 , Honored

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L. J. Gulliver, USN, Ret. A high honor and doubtless a unique one has just been conferred on a Naval Academy g r a d u a t e , — Commodore Schuyler F. Heim, USN-Ret. Last week.

Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, announced to the naval service: "The Terminal Island Bridge, Long Beach, California, is hereby redesignated and wiU hereafter be known as the Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge in honor of 37

Commodore Schuyler F. Heim, United EAGLE I N T H E SKY contains much States Navy, Retired." other interesting information regarding The bridge in question connects the the part seapower played in the Revolugreat naval base on Terminal Island to tion, and something of the life and times the mainland at Long Beach. It spans the of early American bluejackets. AU in all, Cerritos Channel. It is a long and extra- it is a skillfully written and revealing ordinary high span, the effect of which document of the beginnings of our hisis to vastly increase the'efficiency of ve- tory. hicular traffic to and from the Base, while providing vertical clearance to ships.

D E F E A T I N THE W E S T by Milton ShulCommodore Heim took over in 1941 man (E. P. Dutton, $4.50). when Terminal Island was little more When a great military machine loses than an expanse of dredged-made land. a war, the inside story of the causes of In miraculotisly short time, ships for the the disaster holds an interest for everyfighting were outfitted there and dryone. D E F E A T I N THE W E S T is a descripdocks created that served many battle tion of the destruction of the German damaged ships and got them back into Army from the point of view of the action. enemy.

Commodore Heim, known throughout Milton Shulman is weU equipped to the Navy as "Dutch," served as a "Passed present such a record. An inteUigence Midshipman" on board the battleship officer of the Canadian Army, he had acNEBRASKA of the "round the world" cess to captured intelligence documents fleet, 1907-09. He put the new MICHIand also personally interviewed Marshal GAN in commission and later served in von Rundstedt and other German genthe PROMETHEUS, repair ship, and in the erals. cruiser CHARLESTON. Mr. Shulman demonstrates how aU the The Commodore's first tour of duty at mistakes that the Germans made were the Naval Academy was foUowed by sea compounded of the same elements: a duty in command of the destroyer H U L L Fuehrer who was guided by inmition and later the mine laying destroyer rather than logic, who treated experiRlZAL. He graduated from the Naval enced generals like school-boys and who War CoUege; served a second tour at the dictated all strategy and tactics from BerAcademy; an "exec" cruise in the CIN- lin; advisors who consistently underestiCINNATI, a tour in the Navy Department, mated their opponents; and a military served a cruise in command of the clique that was too weU disciplined and cruiser RICHMOND and just before Pearl too self-seeking to protest.

Harbor was in command of Destroyer Squadron 30, flag in the GILMER. His home is in Long Beach, Calif.

SEAMANSHIP BELOW D E C K by Ruth Brindze (Harcourt, Brace & Co., $4.00).

Miss Brindze's book might well be Miscellaneous Cargo sub-titled, "How to be CivUized Though Afloat." In this new and revised edition ( Continued from page 3) of what has become a standard reference EAGLE I N T H E SKY by P. Van Wyck work for yachtsmen, she has added further helpful details on the art of living Mason (Lippincott, $3.00). comfortably aboard a smaU boat.

The name of F. Van Wyck Mason is SEAMANSHIP BELOW DECK teUs how a famUiar one among contemporary authors. His latest work. EAGLE I N THE SKY to make a narrow berth wide enough to promises to surpass his already briUiant sleep two; how to construct an efficient achievements in the field of historical ice-box; how to ventilate and heat a cabin, how to keep junior in his bunk, fiction.

The stirring and eventful days of the etc., etc.

The author speaks from experience.

American Revolution are the setting for Mr. Mason's novel. The ordinary reader For more than twenty years she has will find full enjoyment in the story cruised and raced in big and little craft. woven among historical happenings, but This is a "must" book for those who are Navy men will find added interest in the planning to take to the water come next Spring. non-fictional passages.

Mr. Mason believes the sea battle between French and British fleets off the T H E ARMED FORCES A S A CAREER by Virginia Capes preceding the Battle of North Callahan (Whittlesey House, Yorktown really determined the fate of $3.00). our country. Had the French ships not This is not the first book to extoU the defeated the British, he points out, Lord merits of the atmed forces as a career, Cornwallis fighting with his back to the but it is by far one of the best. North sea at Yorktown would have been rein- Callahan is to be congratulated upon a forced and would without doubt have splendid job, and if service recruiting is won over the combined land forces of spurred thereby, he is deserving of proWashington and de Rochambeau. found thanks from the military.

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traces brief histories of each of the services, cites the type of training offered by each, the specialists' schools, the oppormnities for enlisted men to become noncommissioned or commissioned officers, and the opportunities for officers. Included are complete and up-to-date pay tables with monthly rates of pay, retirement provisions and other benefits. In addition, Mr. CaUahan describes the purpose, the method of aU requirements for entry, and the life of the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Coast Guard Academy.

KiNGSBLOOD ROYAL by Sinclair Lewis (Random House, $3.00).

In this corner, lad-e-e-z and gendemen, we have that old demon. Racial Prejudice. And in the other, that fearless defender of aU that is right and good, Sinclair Lewis. Prejudice looks a little confused about it all, evidently this bout came as quite a surprise.

Lewis, on the other hand, seems eager for the kiU. The old veteran is as cocky and coiffident as ever—it's easy to see he considers this one a push over.

There goes the beU for round one!

Lewis rushes in and launches a ferocious attack. Disdainful of the finer points of the art, he swings nothing but haymakers. Prejudice is proving to be an elusive target, though, and the fans ate yeUing at Lewis to return to the old clever style which brought him so many earlier victories. Lewis doesn't seem to hear, and continues to drum the air in vain. Prejudice isn't worried any mote —Lewis' blows are so wild he doesn't even bother to duck. Lewis winds up a mighty one—a round house right diat continues past Prejudice's whiskers back to his own jaw. Lewis is down from his own blow. "The fans are going wild. The referee is counting—eight—nine—ten —he's out! The winner by a technical knockout—Prejudice!

W H A T T O D O U N T I L T H E PSYCHIATRIST COMES by Norman Anthony

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If you can read this one without hanging on your chair for support while you laugh, you certainly should see a psychiatrist. Norman Anthony has packed more belly-laughs between two covers than anyone would consider possible. It's fun to read anytime, but it's hard to imagine a better gift to a convalescent.

Caution: Don't send to anyone who is in danger of rupmring stitches. Possibly a good book on John Patd Jones is better here.

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Karig review his own best-selling, Bookof-the-Month novel, ZOTZ, in this column, but a sudden illness has prevented this. Captain Karig's misfortune is a double one, for SHIPMATE'S readers are thereby deprived of the opportunity to experience directly the wit, charm and sparkle of the Karig pen.

Briefly, ZoTZ is the story of a shy professor in a southern theological seminary who accidently acquires the power of the evil eye but who can't get past the mountains of red tape piled up in his path by government agencies, including the Army and the Navy, to use it against the Germans and Japanese. That's the framework of the story, but is all the vehicle Karig needs to deliver a humorous and penetrating attack upon much of the political, journalistic and religious life of America.

ZOTZ'S secret of success is its broad appeal to individuals of aU tastes and backgrounds. Karig is undoubtedly the most versatile writer in America, having produced more than twenty novels ranging from a string of juveniles and detective stories to a treatise on Oriental civilization and a modern novel which hit the best-seller lists in 1945. ZoTZ reveals another new facet of his talent and promises to be the most successful of his works to date.

importance of these smdies can not be over-estimated, for the combat success of a fleet, task force, or unit depended in large part on the individual skiU of the officers and men manning battle stations and on their ability to work as a team.

This success was in no small measure due to personnel being placed in jobs for which they had aptimde and for which they had been trained.

This report wiU be helpfiU to anyone T H E INDIFFERENT CHILDREN by Andrew Lee (Prentice-Hall, $3.00). conducting personnel smdies as weU as to educational, business and industrial inIt's beginning to look as though most stitutions. of the young reserve officers who entered the Navy during the war feel their experience won't be complete until they ZOTZ by Walter Karig (Reinhart & write a book about it. Some do it well, Company, Inc., $2.75). others badly. Andrew Lee is one of the The name of Walter Karig should not former. T H E INDIFFERENT CHILDREN is be unknown to many in the Navy. Ex- not only good reading but indicates betnews Bureau Chief and noted author, he ter than average ability on the part of the was a mainstay of Navy Public Relations author.

Briefly, the story is of a young blade during the war, and remained on as Captain, USNR, to complete his semi-official whose rather abrupt transition from the five-volume Battle Report series which salons of New York's Patk Avenue to a dramatizes the Navy's role in World practical existence as a Naval Officer in Panama proves to be highly educating.

War II. It had been planned to have Captain Liberally sprinkled with wit, and with writing AURORA D A W N aboard a deing and delightful piece of Uterature that might have come straight from an eighteenth century drawing room. Although the characters, the setting and the story are as up-to-date as a Russian veto, the style is a throwback to the day when authors took time out—usuaUy at the most exasperating moments—to deliver themselves of solUoquies upon life, love, the price of peanut butter, or anything else they considered as related to the story at hand.

The thought of a modern-day comedy being garnished alternately with generous slices of the author's opinions and free advice to the reader may sound a bit ludicrous if not downright nauseating to Americans who jealously reserve the right to decide on such matters for themselves. But any doubts on that score are dispelled before the end of the first page is reached, for Herman Wouk is a singularly gifted young writer who knows only too weU how to anesthetize with laughter while painlessly applying the scalpel of sadre.

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pinches of satire thrown in at just the right times. T H E INDIFFERENT C H I L DREN wiU find favor with many a Navy reader.

been written by Hemingway and stiU remained secondary to the superb photography which makes up ninety-percent of the book.

Whether you served aboard the LEX-

T H E ASSOCIATED PRESS N E W S A N N U A L

INGTON or an APD, T H E BLUE G H O S T

edited by DeWitt Mackenzie (Rinehart, $5.00).

Five doUars may seem like quite a bit to put out for one book, but in T H E AS-

wiU make a valuable addition to your library.

SOCIATED PRESS N E W S A N N U A L you are

getting a lot for your money. Over five hundred pages and pictures of the outstanding news events of 1946, pltis special seaions devoted to a review of the progress made in the arts and sciences for the corresponding period. Stories of news events are arranged chronologicaUy for easy reference, and there is a large and complete index which furnishes ready reference to any particular event.

by Captain Miles P. DuVal, Jr., USN (Stanford University Press, $5.00).

This is the second and revised edition of what has become a standard reference work for aU libraries and educational instimtions. OriginaUy published in 1940,

CADIZ TO CATHAY

CADIZ TO CATHAY is a complete record

by Rear Admiral Frederick M. Reeder, USN-{Ret.) and Robert C. Osborn (Harper & Bros. $3.75).

As the name implies. SAFE FOR SOLO is about flying. The subtitle, "What Every Young Aviator ShoiUd Know" is even more descriptive of the contents.

Before we go any further, it would be weU to identify the authors. Admiral Reeder is weU known to many in the Navy; as C O . at Pensacola he guided the standardization of the entire naval flight training program. Mr. Osborn is the creator of that popular charaaer known to aU naval aviation smdents as "DUbert." The two combine their talents to offer a book that wiU find instant appeal with aU yoimg pilots.

Even the non-flyer wiU read SAFE FOR SOLO with great interest, for it answers many of his long-standing questions about the technique of piloting a plane.

This is a textbook, to be sure, but it is also dever and entertaining popular reading.

SAFE FOR SOLO

of the diplomatic background preceding the budding of the Panama Canal.

Captain DuVal presents without bias the essential features of the long struggle for an isthmian waterway. He gives credit to each of the nations and leaders T H E INFLUENCE O F SEA POWER I N WORLD W A R II by Captain W. D. who was involved in the effort, and gives Puleston, USN-Ret. (Yale University a comprehensive account of the crescenPress, $5.00). do of stirring events which led to the grant of the Canal Zone to the United Captain Puleston is the author of the States. definitive biography of Mahan and of CADIZ TO CATHAY is the first of a numerous other books. He has served in trUogy termed the "DuVal Panama Canal both World Wars and been Direaor of Series." The second volume, "And the Naval InteUigence. This book is based Mountains WiU Move" was published upon a lifetime of naval experience, and earlier this year. HaUed with great ac- incorporates much material received from claim by smdents and critics alike, it tells German and Japanese sources. In addiof the acmal building of the Canal. The third and final volume, tentatively tided, "The Fumre Panama Canal" is now in preparation and wiU be a description of the marine problems of the Panama Canal with the story of the evolution of the plan for their solution.

T H E BLUE G H O S T by Edward Steichen

(Harcourt Brace & Co., $3.75). â&#x20AC;˘ You're right, this is a book about the new LEXINGTON, the aircraft carrier which the Japs claimed they sunk at least a dozen times but which always mrned up to deliver another blow at their crumbling empire. The author may be recognized as Captain Edward Steichen, USNR-(Ret.) who, as the Navy's outstanding photographer during World War II, snapped some of the most memorable scenes to come out of that holocaust.

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tion, use is made of American and aUied documents and personal interviews with some of the leaders of the actions described.

Captain Puleston concludes that strategicaUy employed, sea power even in the age of the guided missUe and the atom bomb is stiU preponderant, and that the nation that controls the seas wiU dominate the nation that puts its faith and strength in huge armies.

Y A N K E E SURVEYORS I N T H E SHOGUN'S 5EAS edited by Allen B. Cole {Prince-

ton University Press, $2.50).

A coUection of letters which form part of the records of the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacffic Ocean between 1853 and 1856 are printed for the first time in YANKEE SURVEYORS I N T H E SHOGUN'S SEAS.

These letters teU the exciting story of the naval surveying expedition which foUowed Commodore Perry and tested the Treaty of Kanagawa, formaUy opening Japan to the West. The expedition, though of considerable importance in naval history and the history of American interests in the Pacific, is praaically unknown; but the issues of the recent war and those which face us in the Orient today may be traced back to those early encounters when Japan was forced either to meet the terms of the industrious occidentals or to be overborne and relegated to a semi-colonial status.

The sea captains reported their strange dealings with the suspicious Japanese in a vivid salty style, and the sequence of letters, tied together with short paragraphs of explanation, make a realistic â&#x20AC;˘seagoing yarn. These first encounters with the citizens of a nation isolated from western oUmre throw light on the Japanese character, and they are amusing reading as weU as naval and diplomatic history.

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In response to our President's suggestion, Welcoming Committees have already been appointed in several of our Chapters and more are in the process of being activated. The addresses of the Chairmen of these Committees will be published in SHIPMATE as received.

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"Welcome, S h i p m a t e " President Don Walker has, for the past several weeks, been busily engaged in contacting the various local groups of the Alumni Association with the suggestion that within each group, a "Welcoming Committee" be formed. The purpose of this Committee is, as its name implies, the rendering of advice and assistance on local matters to Alumni who are temporarily or permanently moving into a community in which one of our local groups is established.

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President To serve until 1 July 1948 U. S. Walker, '24 yice President (Eastern Area) To serve until 1 July 1948 Samuel D. Foster, '39 yice President (Central Area) To serve until 1 July 1948 A. Arnold Brand, '14 Vice ('resident (Western Area) To serve until 1 July 1948 Fred W. Pierce, '22 Trustees To serve until 1 July 1948 Adm. William H. Standley, USN (Rel.), '95 R. Ailm. Sinclair Cannon, USN (Ret.), •()(»

"o.-, V. Adm. Randall Jacobs, USN (Ret.), "07 Cdr. C. McK. Lynch, USN (Ret.), '07 Mr. George B. Junkin, '13 Rlr. Lawrence R. Becht, '34

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TRUSTEES Mr. Arthur E. Tarantino R. Adm. Clark H. Woodward, USN (Ret.), '99 (Washington) Cdr. W. Van C. Brandt, USNR, '11 (Philadelphia) Mr. E. F. Marbourg, '17 (San Francisco) Mr. W. E. Ditmars, '19 (New York) Capt. J. R. Wallace, USN, '22 (Naval Academy) To serve until 1 July 1949 Adm. D. F. Sellers, USN (Ret.), '94 Capt. M. D. Gilmore, USN (Ret.), '11 Cdr. C. C. Vickrey, USNR, '15 R. Adm. O. S. Colclough, USN, '21 Mr. Hanson W. Baldwin, '24 Capt. W. R. Smedberg, 3rd, USN, '26 Capt. T. J. Hamilton, USN, '27 Lt. Col. John Saxton, USMC, '33 To serve until 1 July 1950 Lt. Cdr. W. B. Jupp, USN (Ret.), '13 Mr. H. McCoy Jones,'19 Mr. D. S. Walker, '24 Mr. Harry R. England, '27

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BULLETIN ^ « . AIDMII HOUSE ARD The doors of the Superintendent's House are opened wide to the midshipmen of the U. S. Naval Academy, with Rear Admiral and Mrs. James L. Holloway, Jr., entertaining the Brigade at a series of receptions in their quarters at home.

This is the first time in a century of entertaining that all midshipmen—some 2800 strong—have received the oppormnity of being a guest of the Station's Number 1 family during the academic year. On Thursday, 26 February, midshipmen of the Second Battalion will be guests at the third in the series of at homes.

On Thursday, 5 February, members of the Fourth Battalion were received by Admiral and Mrs. Holloway, with Midn. Robert R. Carson, Denver, Colo., the Battalion Commander. Company commanders on hand were Midshipmen Robert A. Schultz, Meriden, -Conn., 13th; William Abromitis, Jr., Tamaqua. Pa., I4th; Robert W. Handy, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., 15th, and William A. Kanakanui, Honolulu, T. H., I6th.

Officers and instruaors attending, with their ladies, were Major and Mrs. Harold S. Roise, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. William B. Fargo, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. WiUiam E. Fly, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Jack C. Young, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Richard R. Law, Comdr. and Mrs. Hugh Q. Murray, Comdt. and Mrs. Elvin C. Ogle, Comdr. and Mrs. Vincent F. McCormack, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. William W. Trice, and Instructor and Mrs. Paolo E. Coletta.

Also Asso. Prof, and Mrs. Claud P. Lemieux, Comdr. and Mrs. Myron G. Turner, Comdr. and Mrs. William O. Spears, Jr., Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Perry, Prof, and Mrs. Kenneth L. Palmquist, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson and Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Roland G. Mayer, Jr. Among the Annapolis girls attending were the Misses Fay Taylor, Ann Walsh, Nancy Blew, Frances Wuebbens, Tabitha Field, Dona Zimmerli, Paula Saslaw, Gene Whittaker, Sandra Seabring, Jocelyn Hartford, Elissa Konigsberg, Susan Miller, Sally Westhofen, Marjorie and Monnette Chaney, Lucille Kavanaugh, Vilma Oberholtzer, Faustena Fradd, Mary and Susan Rule, Barbara Ford, Mary Lou Halpine, Marjorie Hayter, Betsy McNair, Lola Steele, Joan Eddy, Marjorie Meadows, Betsy Mattie, Molly Heineman, Lila Read and Ellen Ignatius.

Also Peggy Godfrey, Washington; Maxine Bishop, Baltimore; and Joan Gard, Iris Whittle, Helen Wilson, Jerry Ardoin and Eve McClure of Fort Meade.

Rear Admiral and Mrs. Holloway attended the White House reception given by President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman for the Military on Tuesday evening, 27 Jan.

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by Oretha Swartz

Following the reception they were dinner guests of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Jerauld Wright at the Alibi Club.

ON THE RECORD The Navy Relief Play Committee has announced that "My Sister Eileen" by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov based on the stories in the Netf Yorker by Ruth McKenney has been chosen by a committee of seven as the production to be presented in Mahan Hall the weekend of 9 and 10 April.

The committee was composed as follows: Captain William G. Cooper, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Chairman of the Navy Relief Show; Professor William H. Berry, Department of Foreign Languages and Director of the play; Mrs. Virginia Bays; Mrs. Anne Scott; Lt. Cdr. Max A. Berns; Prof. Royal S. Pease; and Prof. Regis Michaud.

In the cast of 27, parts are representatives from all over . . . Naval Academy personnel, Annapolitans, St. John's, Bluejackets.

The casting committee has announced the following cast: Mr. Appopolous Prof. Regis Michaud Ruth Sherwood Mrs. Virginia Bays Eileen Sherwood Mrs. Lee Pumphrey Lonigan Cdr. Joseph A. Dodson, Jr. The Wreck Cdr. William A. Brockett Mr. Fletcher . . Lt. Cdr. Stiles M. Decker, Jr. Helen Wade Mrs. Wm. A. Hood, Jr. Frank Lippencott Mr. Richard Posten Chic Clark Mr. Ray L. Hutchinson "Cossack" Mr. Eugene R. Flathmann Violet Shelton Miss Patsy Poleyette Mrs. Wade Mrs. Martha Cabaniss Robert Baker Lt. Cdr. Eugene V. Knox Walter Sherwood . . Cdr. William J. Giles, Jr. Prospeaive Tenant . .Mrs. William C. Bryan Other small parts will be played by Mrs. Rosemary Franz; Ted Williams; Prof. William Walsh; Mickey Hushing; Leo May, Jr.; Bill Hamilton; Pharmacist's Mate, second class E. Horey Gardiner; Seaman, first dass Richard L. Powell; J. W. Berger; Patricia Halpine; Grace Parfitt; and Dorothy Emery.

"My Sister Eileen" is one of the long runs of Broadway. It was produced first in 1940 and played for four seasons.

"Who's Dreaming," an original production by the midshipmen, will be presented the nights of 12-13 March, in Mahan Hall, by the musical clubs of the Naval Academy. Officer representative is Lt. Comdr. Claude B. Shaw, USN. Midshipman director is Midn. Aubrey L. Loeffler, of Sonora, Tex., who also is leader of the Academy glee club. The production is a musical fantasy with dream sequence, in

three acts. A 70-piece midshipman band will be heard, of which Midn. John Charles Peters of Indianapolis, Ind., is in charge. Midshipman Peters is now working on an overture to be heard in the musical.

Among the original songs in the presentation will be that of Midn. Lucien Capone, Jr., of Bristol, R. 1. The script is the work of Midn. Wallace Joseph Knetz of Allentown, Pa. Graduation Day was at hand on 18 January for the eleven men who made the grade in this season's Practical Navigation class at the Naval Academy which was held for the benefit of the personnel attached to the local Naval Station.

Lt. (jg) Bernard P. Crossno, USN, Charleston, Ark., 2 Kingwood, Homoja Vill., of the Naval Air Facility, topped this season's class with a 3.8 average.

Ever since Oaober the Class has been burning the midnight oil in Luce Hall with two two-hour sessions a week. Twenty-six men turned out for the first sessions, but this number was gradually reduced to eighteen who attended the majority of the remaining periods.

Of the eighteen, only eleven took the final exam to obtain a grade for the course.

The eight-week course consisted of thirtytwo hours of instruction which included practical piloting, compass adjustment, the basic fundamentals of celestial and Loran navigation.

Joseph Koch, BMl, N. S., of Dorchester, Mass., who finished with a 3.3 average, echoed the feelings of all who took the course when he told our reporter, "I learned more in eight weeks in this class than I have ever learned from any of the Standard Navy Navigation Textbooks in my eight years as a Bos'n Mate.

Lt. Forrest R. Mitchell, USN, Richfield, Utah, 17 Tulip, Homoja Vill., who instructed this course, had a practical way of explaining all of the questions which arose."

A hop for members of the First Class and for a contingent of cadets from the U. S. Military Academy, in Annapolis for the annual exchange visits, was held Saturday night, 14 Feb., in Memorial Hall.

A group of about 12 Sea Scouts from Colombia, S. A., were guests of the Naval Academy on Wed., 11 Feb., when they visited various departments under the escort of Comdr.

Howell A. Lamar, USN, of the Department of Foreign Languages.

The group was headed by Lt. (jg) Oscar Herrera and was sponsored by Lt. Comdr. Antonio J. Tanco, future Colombian naval attache to Peru, who is on leave in the United States with his American wife. With them was Senor Julio Tobon, reporter from the La Razon, Bogota daily newspaper.

The party had lunch in the Mess Hall with members of the Academy Midshipman Spanish Qub, of which two are from Colombia, Midn. George Manuel Castellanos, 3rd class, and Midn. Miguel Enrique Avila, 4th dass.

Purpose of the U. S. visit was the chartering of an organization of sea scouts in Colombia, the members to be trained as future troop leaders and potential naval officer candidates.

Capt. Jesse R. Wallace, USN, chief of staff to Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., has been appointed to serve as the Academy member of the committee to form plans for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Annapolis in 1649.

Chairman of the committee is Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., vice-president and general manager of the Annapolis Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette. During the war he served as a cortunander in the Naval Reserve, with duty on the staff of the superintendent of the Naval Academy.

EDUCATIONAL America's own Bill Mauldin addressed the midshipmen Wardrcwm Panel on Tuesday night, 17 Feb., in Smoke Hall. The young cartoonist had chow with the midshipmen in charge of the panel in the Wardroom Mess preceding his talk at 1930.

Members of the panel committee were Midshipmen William C. Pierson, of Fon Sam Houston, Tex., who introduced the speaker; Hugh Scott Holder, Hugh D. Adair and George H. Sullivan.

Mauldin received world-wide acdaim for his book, "Up Front," which won the Pulitzer Prize. He went off to war at the age of 18 and came home at 23—famous for his charaaerizations of Generals and G.I.'s. The atom bomb and the DAR—of which he has several relatives in membership—racial questions and the little man, all came up against his inquiring and penetrating appraisal—summed up in his latest book "Back Home."

As someone remarked, "What this cherubfaced celebrity gets off his chest is more than what most folks ever get into their heads."

Mr. David L. Cohn, author of a number of best seUers, addressed the Wardroom Panel on Wednesday, 11 Feb., when he chose for his subjea "The Good Old Days—American Manners and Morals as seen through the eyes of the Sears, Roebuck Catalog."

Mr. Cohn is a native Mississipian and is a graduate of the University of Mississippi.

He is author of God Shares Creation, Love in America, New Orleans and its Living Past, Combustion on Wheels and This is the Story.

He is a contributor to the Atlantic, Reader's Digest, Saturday Revietv oj Literature and Woman's Home Companion.

The lecture was held in Smoke Hall at 1930.

Four midshipmen took part in the second annual invitational Forensic Tournament sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Speech and by Delta Sigma Rho, on 6-7 Feb., Charlottesville, Va., placing sixth.

Smdents from 30 colleges and universities took part in the extemporaneous, after-dinner speaking and debate contest.

From Annapolis were Midshipmen Jack L. English, Long Beach, Calif.; Rodney E. Eyster, York, Pa.; Winfred L. Buckingham, "Tyler, Tex.; and Howard M. Estes, Jr., San Francisco, Calif. They were accompanied by Lt. Comdr. William W. Evans of the Depart-

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ment of English, History and Government.

Dr. James P. Baxter III, president of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., spoke on the subject, "The Role of History," to members of the First Class on Friday night, 13 Feb., in Mahan Hall.

Preceding his lecture, he was a dinner guest in the Superintendent's House.

Dr. Baxter was a member of last year's Board of Visitors.

In a letter to Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., thanking him for the Naval Academy's participation in the March of Dimes Campaign, Mr. Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis stated, "In the name of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and of those whom the Foundation has been able to help in their fight against this dread disease, I wish to thank you for your interest and cooperation which helped to make the 1948 March of Dimes in the Armed Forces an outstanding success."

He added, "Please extend to all the members of your command my deep appreciation of their heart-warming participation in our fund raising appeal."

Starting early in March, a contingent of 60 NROTC midshipmen will come to Annapolis for a three-day stay in Bancroft Hall, when they will take part in the classwork, drills and social life of the midshipmen of the Naval Academy.

The contingent is coming at the invitation of Rear Admiral Holloway, author of the Holloway plan for the training of naval officers, which is carried out in NROTC units in colleges and universities throughout the country.

Two midshipmen from the following universities will attend: Illinois Instimte of Technology, Iowa State College, Marquette University, Miami University, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Vandetbilt University and the universities of Illinois, Kansas, Louisville, Michigan, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mississippi and Missouri.

All visits will end by 31 March.

A contingent of 105 reserve officers of the Civil Engineering Corps will visit the Naval Academy on 22 March, with the visit arranged by Rear Admiral John J. Manning, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Washington.

The group is made up of officers from all over the country and is completing a twoweeks training course in Washington. The visit here will be planned by Capt. John R. Perry, USN, Director of Public Works, Severn River Naval Command. They will visit various academic departments and will lunch in the North Severn Officers' Club.

It seems that Uncle Sam's men in blue are getting the word that the Navy life is a pretty good deal. During the month of January through the 23rd, 40.5% of the men on duty in the Severn River Naval Command have re-enlisted. It is expected that a considerable number of the rest whose time was up will reenlist elsewhere within the 90-day period allowed. Many will reenlist at other stations because they will have an oppormnity to be assigned to specialties which are not available here.

Lieutenant Commander Charles A. Hoffman, Educational Officer, has stated that a large majority of the men not reenlisting are returning to school or entering an apprentice training program. Most of these men are re-

maining active in the volunteer and organized reserves so that they will keep in close touch with the Navy.

BROADCASTS Another first is on the record. For the first time, the midshipmen went on the air on 4 Feb. in an original broadcast produced, managed and directed by themselves. The program, "This is Bancroft," will be heard every Wednesday from 4:30 to 4:45 P.M. over station WASL, Annapolis.

The musical introduction is "Anchor's Aweigh," with the dosing signamre "Sleepy Time Gal"—which ends all academy hops.

Purpose of the program is to introduce midshipmen talent and to acquaint listeners with life at the Naval Academy.

The initial broadcast had Navy's football co-captains, Scott Emerson of Susanville, Calif., and Ralph "Pistol Pete" Williams of Miami, Fla. at the mike, interviewed by Jerry Flynn, publicity direaor of the athletic department.

Their subject? George Sauer, new head coach.

Remarks? He's a great guy and a 4.0 coach . . . the Brigade is standing by.

The schedule? The captains said they'd "rather be on top with the big boys, win or lose."

Announcer was Midn. Howard Kay of Milwaukee, Wis., chairman of public relations for the Brigade. A different announcer will be heard each broadcast.

On Wednesday, 11 Feb., Midn. Robert K. Ripley of Kalispell, Mont., announced the program having Senior Prof. Earl W. Thomson of the Electrical Engineering Department discuss atomic energy. His subject covered the atomic photographic exhibition sponsored by Life Magazine now on display in the Museum.

News was presented by Midn. Thomas Frederick Blake, Jr., of Glendale, Calif.

Midn. James Davenport, Jr., of Mackeys, N. C, interviewed Midn. Robert Airy Hilderbrand, whose parents live in Geneva, Switzerland, and who has only lived in the United States the past eighteen months. Young Hilderbrand was a member of the Dutch underground during the war.

Also interviewed was Midn. Jorge Montalvo, Quito, Ecuador, who was a member of the first class of the Ecuadorian Naval School before coming to Annapolis.

News of Bancroft was told by Midn. Robert S. Potteiger, of Reading, Pa. Something new was seen and heard on Sunday, 8 Feb., when "A Salute to Annapolis" was televised during the original amateur hour of the Major Bowes program.

Through the courtesy of the superintendent, scenes from the Naval Academy were screened, among them the Chapel, Smoke Park, and the R E I N A MERCEDES.

Representing the Naval Academy was Midn.

Calvin Carl Norman, 2nd dass, who opened the program by singing "Song of the Open Road." He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Norman of Miami, Fla., and is a baritone member of the Naval Academy Glee Club and choir.

The program was beamed from Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis, after going out over the New York airways by the Dumont System. It was later re-telecast and sent out all over the country. The pro-

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ned4jaje4ii!i Fellow Alumni: Starting 1 July 1948, we go on a dues-paying basis . . . Five Dollars per year, which includes a subscription to SHIPMATE. During the War your Alumni Association was able to meet its expenses with the advertising income from SHIPMATE and the Register.

Today, however, rhat income has been cut in half. To carry on our increased activities with a balanced budget, your Board of Trustees unanimously agreed to the above procedure. It parallels that of most other Alumni Associations including West Point.

This departure from our long established custom required understanding and support of the membership.

As I hope you have read in the new By-Laws, we have two types of members to make this a truly National Naval Academy Association.

Those who have attended the Naval Academy are eligible as Regular Members. Those who hold a Commission in the Regular Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; though not Naval Academy menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can become Associate Members by a vote of our Board of Trustees. Dues for borh classes of members are Five Dollars per year. One subscription to SHIPMATE comes free to all members. SHIPMATE costs Five Dollars per year to non-members who want our magazine.

There are approximately 22,000 potential Regular Members. However, our sole mailing list (SHIPMATE'S) shows but 7,000 names.

Hence we need your help . . . your help in not only becoming a Member now . . . but your help in passing this word along to any whom you know are eligible for membership though not present subscribers to SHIPMATE. It has taken us whom you have elected to your Board, countless hours and much of our own money to reorganize this Association. Now our affairs are in order and we are becoming increasingly effective in our help to the membership, the Naval Academy, and the Navy. This work on our part, however, is not enough . . . out work must be coupled with yotir support.

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Such was the gadget belonging to a tnira batt first classman. Every day he would plug it in, sit under it for fifteen minutes, and at the end of a week of such treatment he emerged a bronzed god in the middle of the winter.

During this period he was plagued by a buddy who wanted to take the treatment. The bulb burned out at the end of a month of constant use, but the persistent first classman

By Lee Shores did not. He still begged the owner of the bulb to let him use it.

What with the demise of the bulb, the owner was handed a glorious opportunity to take in the pest. With a sudden stroke of genius he invited the would-be sun tanned one into his room, plugged in a common every day was soon discovered. Within a week the lad 100 watt bulb, had the first classman strip was besieged with letters from rheumatism down to his skivvies and sit under the "sun clinics, truss makers, body building concerns. lamp." As a matter of fact, he sat under the The first wave of information pamphlets "sun lamp" every day for two weeks, and subsided when a more insiduous return started couldn't understand why he tanned no darker to come in. "The Executive Book Club," "Book than a suit of white works baker. of the Month Club," "Mystery Book Club," "Dollar Book Club." They came in just as soon as the first class in the company could The first night of exam week some overclip out the little ads in the paper, fill them out, and mail them. The books were all dif- anxious MCMO rang a bell at 2300 to denote ferent, but they had one trait in common. the advent of late taps. It happened on the They came C.O.D. During the course of one fourth deck. A plebe who had retired at 2200, day, the instigator, now a victim of his own regular taps, woke up, staggered to the door, machinations, made seven pilgrimmages to and stood in his doorway for ten minutes waitthe express office. At last reports he had just ing for the reveille inspector to come by to received a complete set of the Encyclopedia take the "All turned out" report.

Brittanica.

The coup de grace was provided just a week Speaking of plebes reminds us of the ago. The ad to end all ads was snipped out of a pulp magazine, filled out with the first fourth classman in the first batt who was an classman's name and dispatched forthwith. undertaker's assistant prior to his entrance The ad read something to the effect, "Tired to the Academy. Because of his past experiof being passed up by the mailman? Want ence, he is an excellent tier of bow ties. to impress others with the large volume of Hence it is when an inexperienced hand in mail brought to you every day? Fill in your the art of bow tie tieing desires to have his name on the blank below and mail with fifty bow tie tied, he runs to the former undertaker's assistant. cents to the Co. We There is just one string attached. The forwill print your name on 1000 gummed blanks and mail them to the 1000 companies in mer undertaker's assistant cannot tie the tie, America who send out the greatest volume of unless the subject lies flat on the sack in a state of semi-rigor mortis. advertising."

That was last week. As of this writing, the first classman involved mrns a violent shade The 22 nd Company officer, suspecting a of fuchsia at the mere sight of a mailman. pair of his charges to be harboring illegal goods, pulled a surprise inspection while the Some time ago you may remember our suspects were in their room. He demanded having mentioned the first classman who sat that their confidential locker be opened. The down at a navy P-work only to find the top locker was opened and out cascaded an asand bottom of his steam case glued together. sortment of cups, spoons, plates, and assorted He's not taking any chances any more. He silver bearing the sterling label "Midshipkeeps the kit in his confidential locker. men's Mess." The second locker was opened.

Within it were neatly stacked a dozen cans of soup, coffee, sugar and other midnight One of the boys in the second wing re- pick-me-ups. The officer was not content. ceived a letter from his girl in which she He ran his fingers through the loot, cast a stated that she was going up to Northern cold stare at the two quaking criminals and Michigan for a weekend of skating and ski- roared, "Where's the hot plate, I know you ing. He immediately sent her a "Get well have a hot plate here some where. I mean quick" card which she received prior to her to find that hot plate." He ransacked the departure. lockers, pried up the planks in the deck, slit The following week he received another open mattresses, but after an hour's search letter written by the same girl, only this time could not find the hot plate. He stormed out of she had written with one leg in a cast. the room in such a fury at not being able to ferret out the hot plate that he completely neglected to fry the lads for possession of The wonders of science are unlimited. One illegal gear. of the niftiest gadgets to emerge from the As soon as he was safely out of range, the "Life can be cOmfy" department is the miniature sun lamp. It appears to be merely a plain first classmen breathed a collective sigh of every day ole light bulb but is, in reality an relief, lifted up the joe pot which was perinfra red sun lamp. Merely plug it into a colating merrily on the desk in the middle of photographer's reflector and you have a tan- the loom, disconnected the hot plate and restored same to the locker. ner of the fitst water.

Spindrift

UT of exam week comes the story of the First Batt youngster who literally "turned a pretty penny." Notorious throughout the battalion as a man who could average a pack of cigarettes a day without buying so much as a book of matches, the third classman conceived a plan to make one of the most hallowed of Navy traditions help finance his way through college.

Long about Thursday prior to exams he journeyed to sick bay, mumbled something about "Oh my aching toes," and was placed on the excused squad.

The following Monday, as the third class marched to do battle with the steam dept., they filled the air with left handed salutes and flying shekels. Foremost among the group at Tecumseh's base was the youngster, holding off the Navy Juniors with one hand and scooping up pennies with the other.

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The last member of the flying squadron roared through the Romnda and came to a screeching halt before the sixth batt BOOW, as the clock in the steeple struck 0046. What with everything after 0040 belonging to Navy, the youngster found himself staring down the business end of an OD, a form two waving in the breeze. As the officer was in the act of transcribing the "six minutes late from hop . . ." on the frap sheet, he looked up at the heaving youngster and unctiously asked, "Well do you think these hours of E.D. were worth that last kiss?"

The 3/c answered bitterly, "Kiss hell, we were sipping a chocolate soda."

It was touched off when a Twelfth Co. first classman decided that his classmates could no longer do without the "Poultry Raiser's Journal." Hence, he sent in subscriptions to that popular weekly for most of his friends. As a result, the "Poultry Raiser's Journal" began appearing in the bag marked "U. S. Mail" monthly on the Fourth Deck of the fifth wing.

Soon the regular edition of the magazine was augmented with brochures proclaiming the worth of chicken feed, "Layem or Bust" rooster hormones, and other choice pieces of hterature which, while of invaluable aid to the poultry raisers of America, did litde or anything towards making for jolly tempers in the first class midshipmen who upon entering their rooms, were greeted with the sight of a stack of letters on their desks. Upon closer scrutiny, however, they discovered that most or all of them bore the post mark of some chicken breeder trying to unload a bushel of Rhode Island Reds.

The first classman guilty of sending out the subscriptions smirked happily at the sight of a brother in arms rushing in to read his mail only to find chicken advettisements. The plot

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EORGE SAUER, newly appointed head game." "And I expect we'll have plenty of football coach of the Naval Academy tough teams ahead. We'll probably be underfootball team, has arrived at Annapolis to try dogs in every game. We can't worry about to find housing for his family, to make prepa- Notre Dame and Michigan ahead of time. rations for spring practice, and to select his We'll have to take each one of them as we assistant coaches. come to them. It's going to be a long season."

His family consists of his wife and two Sauer has met and talked to his players, children, one five and a half years of age especially to Pete Williams, halfback, and and the other four.

Scott Emerson, guard, co-captains of the team At present his coaching staff consists of next fall. He plans to use the T next fall, but Vic Bradford, backfield coach, and Bob Ingalls, if he finds later that his material does not line coach. Both of these coaches assisted measure up to the T qualifications, then he Sauer at the University of Kansas. At a press claims he will use something else. conference held recendy at the Naval AcadGeorge Sauer was an officer in the Naval emy Sauer stated that he hoped to add Eddie Reserve during the war and served in the Erdelatz, Navy end coach, and Ray Swartz, aviation physical training program. He reNavy plebe coach, to his four man staff. ceived his indoctrination at the Naval AcadAt the press conference Sauer was asked emy in 1942. Also, he served aboard the airif he thought the schedule was appropriate craft carrier ENTERPRISE for a year and a to the strength of the team and he replied, half.

"Let me experience it first." "You don't gain SHIPMATE wishes Mr. Sauer and the Naval anything by beating the hell out of a weak Academy football team every success in futeam. I'd rather give a strong team a tough ture years.

The following are the results of the Naval Academy athletic teams for the winter season thus far completed: VARSITY BASKETBALL Navy 67 59 39 51 53 43 51 56 50

. . Johns Hopkins . . . . Catholic Univ. . . . . . . Villanova . . . . . . . . Maryland . . . .

Rutgers George Washington Bucknell Duke . . . . Princeton . . . .

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32 34 61 47 63 54 36 46 34

JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL 48 61

Gettysburg J.V. . . . . Univ. of Baltimore . . . .

45 37

PLEBE BASKETBALL 44 70 78 70 37 63 65 40

Wm. & Mary (Nor. Div.) Maryland Fresh Gettysburg Fresh. . . . . Bullis School St. Francis HS . . . .

York Jr. College . . .

Johns Hopkins Fresh. .

Newport News H.S. . .

39 35 34 33 31 42 43 28

VARSITY WRESTLING 21 27 31 33

. . . . Gettysburg College . . . .

Alabama Poly Kansas State Columbia JUNIOR VARSITY WRESTLING

36 12

. . . Pensacola (pre-Flite) . . . .. . Wash. & Lee

0 21

PLEBE WRESTLING 35 22 23

Mt. St. Joe. H.S. . . . . Valley Forge M.A. . . . . . . . . Washington H.S

3 8 13

VARSITY GYMNASTICS 75 Left to Right: Capt. E. B. Taylor, USN, Director of Athletics, Mr. George Sauer, New Head Football Coach, and CapL F. T. Ward, USN, Commandant of Midshipmen.

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Bullard has hit the hoop for 32 points, and appears to be the most deadly shooter from the out-court. Though he never attended college, the 21-year-old youngster has played with fast company since finishing high school, playing with naval teams at Los Alamitos, San Diego, and while playing and coaching a naval team on the West Coast last year, set a mark of 32 points for one game, and averaged 22 points per game for the season. The present schedule calls fot the Olympians to

play a 26 game schedule, which includes tilts with the strong Bainbridge Naval Station five, and the Olympic team tepresenting the Univ. of Ecuador, and the Martin Bombers.

Don Dick, another standout from last year's Navy quint which entered the NCAA tournament at Madison Square Garden, is also a member of the team but is at present on the injured list, but should return to action soon.

The following is the roster of the Navy Olympic Basketball Team:

VARSITY SWIMMING Cornell

58Vi 23 25

361/2 52 50

PLEBE SWIMMING 37 44 32 55

29 29 34 11

. . . . Valley Forge M.A . . . Wyoming Seminary . . .

VARSITY RIFLE

1373 1391 1369 1375 1376 1388

Fordham M.I.T Georgetown Geo. Washington Brooklyn Poly New York Univ

1301 1371 1343 1340 1324 1332

NAVY OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TEAM Name Baines, Andrew, Sl/c Brawley, C. L., Sl/c Bullard, A. H., Sl/c Conroy, D., 1st Lt., USMC Dick, D. P., Ens., USN Duckworth, W. M. Duden, H. R., Ens., USN Longnecker, K. W., Lt. (jg) McMahon, J. J., Sl/c, USN Ndson, P. W., Ens., USN Newman, R. C, Pfc, USMC Olivieri, A. M., Sl/c, USN Shugart, K. L., Ens., USN Simpson, C. H., Sl/c, USN Carroll, J. L., Ens., USN

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Age Hgt. Wgt. 20 6:2 175 19 6:2 190 21 6:1 170 26 6:1 194 22 6:1 168 20 6:2 175 23 6:2 204 25 6:0 170 18 6:1 182 23 6:2 175 19 5:9 170 19 6:0 195 22 5:9 155 19 6:1 152 24 6:0 170

High School or Colleg ?

Hometown High School Oakland, Calif.

High School Duncan, Ariz.

High School Wynne, Ark. St. Ambrose College Chicago, 111.

U. S. Naval Academy Hurley, Wis. High School Van Buren, Ark. U. S. Naval Academy New York, N. Y. U. S. Naval Academy Erie, Penna.

St. Michads, DHS Brooklyn, N. Y. U. S. Naval Academy Seattle, Wash.

High School West New York High School Reno, Nev. U. S. Naval Academy Cheyenne, Wyo. High School Tulsa, Okla.

U. S. Naval Academy Fremont, O.

PLEBE RIFLE 1343 1344 1330

August M.A ..St. Johns of Wash., D . C . . .

Staunton M.A

1283 1310 1320

NEW HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

PISTOL Coach Lt. Comdr. J. W. McCoy, USN Officer Representative Major B. W. Giebler, USMC Captain D. B. Hatmaker, '48 SCHEDULE Dec. 20—South Carolina (633), Navy (1366)—Postal.

Jan. 10—Tufts (1093), Navy (1367) — Postal.

Jan. 17—Wisconsin—Postal.

Jan. 24—Penn State Michigan State— Postal.

Jan. 31—Washington (Seattle)—Postal.

Feb. 7—King's Point Colorado—Postal.

Feb. 14—U. S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Pt., N. Y. Feb. 21—M.I.T.—Annapolis, Md. Feb. 28—U. S. Coast Guard Academy— Annapolis, Md. Mar. 6—Army—Annapolis, Md. Mar. 13—Holy Cross—Postal.

NAVY OLYMPIC CAGERS STACKING UP WINS Navy's hope in the Olympic basketball picmre has gained strength here the past few weeks in the performance of the quint which is made up of officers and enlisted men from the entire Navy in an effort to mold a strong combination which will vie for the right to represent the United States in the Olympic games.

Led by former Naval Academy graduates and bolstered by some outstanding enlisted men from the fleet, the Sailors are beginning to shape up as one of the strongest quints along the Eastern seaboard. To date they have copped five straight with a twenty point margin the closest to date. Johns Hopkins Univ., Naval Air Station, Patuxent, Andrews Field 1946 RESULTS in Washington, and Crown Cork and Seal, NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE an amateur five in Baltimore, have been the CHAMPIONS victims, with the last named taking two de- Navy 0pp. feats.

1331 MIT 1205 Holy Cross 988 Coached by Ben Carnevale, coach of the 1378 King's Point 1162 Naval Academy team, the Olympians floor a 1380 Tufts 1173 team which boasts big names from former 1327 Michigan State 1194 years. Kenny Shugart, last year an all Ameri- 1358 can with Navy, is the top notcher, and is 1356 . . . . Southern California . . . . Forfeit Ohio State 1114 teamed up with Perry Nelson, star of the 1945- 1375 . . Coast Guatd 1324 46 Navy team. Jack Carroll captain of the 1346 Wisconsin 1253 '45-'46 Navy team, and Dick Duden, All 1367 Quantico 1412 American end in football in 1945 as well as 1375 923 Washington 809 captain, and a regular on the '45-'46 team (slow and timed fire) on the court.

Army 1361 But despite this fast company, it is an en- 1365 listed man leading the way, with Al Bullard, 1391 Penn State . 1173 a seaman first class from Wynne, Ark., who 890 S. Carolina 701 is leading the way as far as the scoring depart(slow and timed fire) ment is concerned. In the last two outings, 1385 Corndl 1223

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A bigger and better season is the goal of the pistol team which last year brought the National Intercollegiate tide to Navy. As far as the record goes, this will be next to impossible as the only blemish on their record was a defeat at the hands of the Quantico Marines (similar to standing "only" number two in the class). Where their improvement will come is in point scores. Last year in the four shoulder-to-shoulder matches the team score improved an average of eighteen points with each successive match. Everything points to the fulfillment of these desires. Of the ten

{Continued on page 60) CLOVIS DELADRIER, Head Fencing Coach at the Naval Academy since 1933, died suddenly in the Gymnasium on 24 January as he was about to start the intercollegiate match with Yale fencers. He came to the Academy in 1927 as assistant.

Coach Deladrier's midshipmen fencers had notable successes in matches with West Point and in intercollegiate contests. In the dual meets with Army beginning in 1937, the midshipmen won eight times, losing only in 1940.

The match in 1944 was a tie.

In ten intercollegiate fencing matches since 1934, the Naval Academy under Deladrier won two firsts; two second honors; finished third once and fourth once.

Mr. Deladrier only very recently completed a text book on fencing, published by the Naval Institute. He served twenty years in the Belgium Army. His age was 62. Interment was in the Naval Academy Cemetery following services in St. Andrews Chapel, Naval Academy.

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Farmers Bank and Trust Company, Henderson, Kentucky.

What's the Dope Marine and NaA al Orders from February IQQn JOHN M. ELLICOTT, (Capt.

1000 USN-Ret.) and Mrs. EUicott were accorded a reception and supper by the officers and ladies of the Commissioned Officers Mess, U. S. Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, Calif., in celebration of their sixtieth wedding anniversary, 29 Dec. 1947. The reception was attended by more than two hundred and fifty people.

The Ellicotts were accompanied by their daughter, Mrs. R. S. Kingsbury, widow of Colonel Kingsbury.

serving as European Director of that Company and affiliated companies. His office address is 218 Stafford House, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.2., and his residence is in Grosvenor House, Park Lane London, W . l .

Vice Admiral Anderson has been awarded the Haakon VII Liberation Cross for "outstanding services rendered to Norway in time of war."

J. S. ABBOTT, writes that his address is 40 Legare Street, Charleston, S. C. HAROLD R. STARK, gives his address as 4900 Glenbrook Road, N. W., Washington 16, D. C. 1 QQ1 Class Secretary, REAR ADM. H. PAUL P. BLACKBURN, (Capt. Ret.) reI07I Q GILLMOR (CC) USN-Ret., ports that his new address is 523 Gravilla 1720 N. Street N. W., Wash. 6, D. C. Street, La Jolla, California.

HUSBAND E. KIMMEL, (R. Adm. USNIftQO ^^^^ Secretary, CAPT. STANRet.) informs us that his address is c/o lOTZ FORD E. MOSES, USN-Ret., lives at 4738 Vista Del Monte, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

lftQ4 ^- ^ - CHAPPELL, writes that ' " ' ~ his address is 26 Metropolitan Avenue, Kensington, Md. 1 QQL Class Secretary, COMMO. DUDIOTO L E Y W . KNOX, USN-Ret., Westmoreland Apts., Washington, D. C. 1QQ7 Class Secretary, LT. COMDR. I0 7 / JOHN W. MORSE, USN-Ret., 2337 California Street, Washington, D. C. GUY W. FALLER, is now living at 535 North Orange Lane, Box 254, Mesa, Ariz.

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1 QOO ^^^^5 Secretary, V. ADM. JOHN I07 7 w GREENSLADE, USN-Ret., 226 Greenwood Heights, Bellevue, Ohio. lOnn CARLETON R. KEAR, (Lt. I 7 U U Cdr. USN-Ret.) gives his mailing address as 1139-Bourbon St., New Orleans 16, La. 1 OnO ^^^" Secretary, R. ADM. ADOLITUZ pHUS STATON, USN-Ret., Silver Spring, Maryland.

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USN-Ret., 2833â&#x20AC;&#x201D;29th St., N. W., Washington 8, D. C. FRANCIS J. CLEARY, (Capt. USN-Ret.) informs us that his new address is 600 Ninth Avenue, Mount Dora, Florida.

WALTER S. ANDERSON, (V. Adm. USN-Ret.) is now Vice-President of the International Automatic Electric Corporation,

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Class Secretary, R. ADM. FRED E. MCMILLEN, (SC) USN-Ret., El Cortez, San Diego, Calif.

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A REPORT TO THE CLASS OF 1905 1 o n e Class Secretary, COMDR. HUGO I 7 U O FRANKENBERGER, USN-Ret., 1308 Emerson Street, N. W., Washington 11, D.C. I am happy to be able to report to you that according to plan the following members of our class met at 40 Wall Street, on the 24th floor at the Wall Street Luncheon Club 30 January at 12:30 p.m. to celebrate together the 43 rd anniversary of our graduation from the Naval Academy.

Stott, Sears, Carter, Atkins, Selfridge, Neilson, Shaw, Shoemaker, Leary, Campbell, Baggaley, Cresap, Farley, Gordon.

This is the 14th consecutive gathering of the members of our class who have been resident in or near New York and who have gathered together on this day to celebrate our graduation day.

We did not anticipate this year that we would be able to collect as many as fourteen men but we did.

A niunber of interesting communications were received from various members of the dass which will be briefed below, but perhaps the most important of these was a communication from MacFall in San Diego, California,

U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1 8 9 8 "CIFTY years ago, this coming 2 April, the Class was graduated, with very informal ceremonies, at Saturday dinner formation. The Commandant of Cadets, Commander Edwin White, made a few brief remarks, and handed out the diplomas, together with orders to proceed "without delay" to report immediately on various ships of the active fleet. The Class dropped out of formation, hastily packed, and by the following Sunday morning, all were on their way to their various ships.

At a recent Class luncheon, it was the consensus of opinion that the occasion should be celebrated with a Class re-union, to be held at Annapolis, on Samrday, 3 April.

Arrangements have accordingly been made both with the Superintendent, Rear Admiral Holloway, and with the Executive Secretary of the Alumni Association, in charge of Alumni House, Rear Admiral Coney. These arrangements contemplate the following: 10 o'clock Class assembles in the lounge of the Alumni House, accompanied by such of their ladies as care to attend, including widows of deceased members.

About eleven o'clock or so, call on Superintendent and then look over various buildings and grounds.

At noon, witness the noon day meal fotmation, from the steps of Bancroft Hall.

Re-adjourn to Alumni House for luncheon in the Tap room. The cost of the luncheon will be approximately SI.75 per plate. Cocktails will be extra, to be paid by those desiring them, at about fifty cents each.

After lunch, take in such of the athletic events scheduled for that date, as may be desired. There will be a baseball game with Trinity College, lacrosse with Harvard and tennis with Dartmouth. Sections have been reserved for the Qass fot each of these. Later the members will be received by Mrs. Tardy and Mrs. Hulligan.

Unless a business meeting should be decided upon, for which the Board Room at Alumni House will be available, or some further activity desired, the members will then disperse from what will in all likelihood be the last Class gathering.

'Enclosed herewith is a list of surviving members of the Class, together with a list of the widows of deceased members. Also the Treasurer's Report. Also a remrn post card, which you are requested to fill out and mail as soon as you can be reasonably sure you will or will not attend.

Since your acting Secretary-Treasurer expeas to be out of the City till about the end of March, any further correspondence should be carried on with Henry Williams, 1714 Que Street, Washington 9, D. C. J. A. (MAJE) SCHOFIELD *Not enclosed but can be futnished.

mforming G. O. Carter that some twelve or foiu-teen membets of the class in San Diego were gathering together this evening for a dinner. MacFall mentioned that Nimitz had reached the coast and had promised to be present at this dinner. We drew up a telegram to send to MacFall to be read at the dinner tonight from the fourteen members here giving them our felicitations.

As 1 told you in my preliminary bulletin in regard to this luncheon I received a letter from Strassburger from his Paris address given above in which he stated that much to his regret he could not attend the luncheon but he sent a check for ten dollars which he asked me to devote to a round of drinks.

I sent this preliminary bulletin to everybody mentioned above and upon its receipt Godley prompdy wrote me that he wasn't going to be outdone by Strassburger and he sent me a check for eleven dollars to buy a second round of drinks.

This little episode has taught me a lesson in regard to planning this luncheon which I hope to keep up at least another few yeats.

Next year I think I will bribe somebody to start a competition along the lines of Strassburger and Godley and see if I can't finance the entite expense of the party through the rivalry I may engender.

I may add that we had our second round of drinks after we spent Strassburger's money with the proceeds of Godley's check and that we all drank to the health of the two donors with the respective rounds which they bought.

1 will not give you any further report as to succeeding rounds of drink. Suffice it to say that we all left the party at about 2:45, each of us on our own legs and without assistance, which may testify either to our obstemious namre or perhaps to our long experience.

Under date of 29 January I received a profane cablegram from Strassburger from Paris reading as follows: "Please give my best regards to everyone and I wish I were there.

Where the hell is Cook also IngersoU." I have written Strassburger giving him IngersoU's address so that if he wishes to inquire of IngersoU what he was doing on this day, he may do so. I might mention that IngersoU wrote me that it was anticipated that the few members of the class who still lived in Washington would get together today for some kind of celebration.

I also had an interesting letter from Nimitz who wrote that he would be unable to attend much to his regret because he was leaving for the West Coast as soon as he was relieved as Chief of Naval Operations. He stated in his letter to us that he expected to leave Washington within 30 minutes of the mrnover.

According to the news dispatches that were published in the New York newspapers the next day, he carried out that wish to the minute.

I also got letters from Burnham, Frankenberger, Rawle, Nagle and Godley, as the latter, as above mentioned, expressing regret that they could not be present and also the hope that they might ultimately be able to participate in next year's luncheon. Beldini Glover had expected to be present but at the last minute had to go to South Carolina, I presume to escape the "Big Snow" and that consequendy he would be unable to attend.

Also, Nick Carter, who had written me a letter in January that he expected to be present wrote me just a day or so before the luncheon that he had been forced by Senator Brewster

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Rear Adm. Stanford Caldwell Hooper, USN, now retired after a long career of service, has been a leader in developing the field of wireless radio communications in the Navv. By carrying out pioneer tests, establishing a chain of land stations for communication between fleet and land and serving as technical advisor and head of numerous boards and committees dealing with communications, he has made himself prominent in the field of radio.

Rear Admiral Hooper started his career at Annapolis, became an ensign in 1907 and was promoted progressively reaching the rank of rear admiral in 1938. During seven years of sea duty after graduation and a period ashore as an instructor of electricity, radio, physics, and chemistry, at the Naval Academy, Admiral Hooper kept in touch with the infant art of "wireless" then in its first stages.

He suggested the office of Fleet Radio Officer as necessary to the new radio communications and served in the post two years. Later as a member of the Office of Superintendent of Radio Service, Rear Admiral Hoooer gave the organization the benefit of his experience at sea and in Europe in matters of district radio organization, assignment of frequencies, and duplex operation at district centers.

Rear Admiral Hooper was awarded the Navy Cross in the first World War for distinguished service as commanding officer of the USS FAIRFAX. In the Deriod 1915 to 1918, Rear Admiral Hooper was the guiding soirit in developing Naval radio from little more than a toy to the essential communications medium it is today-.

Rear Admiral Hoooer has received numerous civilian medals and awards for his outstanding work in planning and organizing radio committees. He served as chairman for many radio committees and as technical director and research director for Naval research committee and Naval operations. He has served for many years as delegate or technical assistant to practically all international radio conferences; as Navy liaison to congressional committees on communications; as chairman to represent the government, marine and aviation interests in radio matters.

Rear Admiral Hooper was retired in 1945 after 40 years of service, with civilian, military and foreign awards and medals for "outstanding contributions to the radio art, particularly in building up the wireless communications system of the United States Navy from the stature of an engineering experiment to a major military arm for control, detection and communication."

There was, as is usual, one element of sadness in that our classmate Earl Farwell had departed this life during the previous year.

If I am not mistaken he has attended every single one of the thirteen preceding luncheons which we have given on this occasion.

I have received a lettet from Hooper dated 31 January 1948 in which he reported as follows: "The report is on the 30 January celebration here where both of us, Jack London and myself, now present, entertained at a scrumptious luncheon at the Club House Dining Room of Hialeah Race Track, in honor of Class '05.

"We very quiedy got in our class yell during the party and adjourned to the boxes at 2 p.m. to make our fortunes through parimutuel."

"Jack and I and our families live here during winters and hope to hear from classmates coming this way."

In his declination Percy Nagle stated that he had recently bought an estate in Lakeville, Connecticut, and that his place was within two miles of where B. H. Green lived.

LOGAN CRESAP 1 OOA ^^^" Secretary, CAPT. L. M. I 7UO ATKINS, USN-Ret., Franklin Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

GEORGE A. ALEXANDER, (Capt. USNRet.) is now living at The McKee, 186 Main Street, Lancaster, New Hampshire.

In a special edition of The Drury Mirror, a publication of Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, it was announced that Rear Adm. Stanfotd C. Hooper, (Ret.), and Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, (Ret.), were to be honored by that college by the conferring upon them of honorary LL.D. Degrees.

1 0 0 7 ^ ' ^ " Secretary, V. ADM. J. H. I 7U / HOOVER, USN, Bureau of Aeronautics, Bldg. 22, Potomac Annex, Navy Depattment, Washington 25, D. C. CHARLES C. GILL, (Capt. USN-Ret. Deceased ). We were very sorry to hear of the death of Capt. Gill who died 9 January 1948 at the Aiea Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, T. H. C. N. HINKAMP, (Capt. USN-Ret.) gives his mailing as Bay Colony, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

REGINALD E. GILLMOR, President of Sperry Gyroscope Company was assigned to the committee of distinguished Americans appointed by President Truman to supervise American aid to Greece currently in Athens.

HERBERT L. SPENCER, writes that his address is 2050 Asbourne Drive, South Pasadena, California.

HARLOW T. KAYS, (Capt. USN-Ret.) reports that his addtess is Rt. 1 Box 1065, La Mesa, California.

Earle, John B., (Lt. Cdr. USNâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;SC) Station, Agana, Guam, Marianas.

to appear before some damn committee of the Senate at the time we were meeting and consequently would be unable to attend. It must be awful to be so important that one cannot tell the U. S. Senate to go to the devil when one has an annual class luncheon to attend.

Naval Air

1 OHQ ^'^^^ Secretary, COL. D. C. CORI VUO DINER, USA-Ret., U. S. Soldiers Home, Washington, D. C. J. F. SHAFROTH, (R. Adm. USN) informs us that his new address is Kennedy-

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W a r r e n Apartments, 3133 Conneaicut Avenue, N . W . , Washington, D . C. F R A N K J. WILLE, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.) is now living at Campbell Apartment Hotel, Apt. 5 0 8 , 130 Dimden Avenue, Long Beach 2, California.

S. M. K R A U S , (R. Adm. U S N ) gives his address as 220 63d Avenue, South, St. Petersburg, Florida.

J O H N W . B A R N E T T , reports that his new address is 19 Rector Street, N e w York 6, N . Y. PAUL H . BASTEDO, (R. Adm. USNRet.) writes that his mailing address is 73 Catherine Street, Newport, Rhode Island.

E U G E N E E. W I L S O N , gives his address as 22 Fernwood Road, W . Hartford, Conn.

DOLLY H U N T E R writes from Los Angeles : "I never want to see another snowstorm.

All the snow I can do with is visible 60 miles distant." Dolly admits: "I sometimes wish 1 had settled in C r a b t o w n — s u r — s p a which out here is spelled 'patio'."

Dolly commanded a QUEENSTOWN D D in W W I; had 2 shore duties at USNA. Kiaus, Sydney M., (R. Adm. USN) Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

1 O n O ^ ' ^ ^ Secretary, R. A D M . H . C. I T U T T R A I N , USN-Ret., 81 Market St., Annapolis, Md. J. D . M A L O N E Y , (Capt. USN-Ret.) is now living at R. D . 14 Lyons Bend Road, Knoxville, Tenn.

O. M. H U S T V E D T , (V. Adm. USN-Ret.) informs us that his address is 3525 Ordway Street, N . W . , Washington 16, D . C. P E N N L. CARROLL (Commo. USN-Ret.) writes that his address is 217 Shelby Street, Frankfort, Kenmcky.

LEE P. J O H N S O N , (Commo. USN-Ret.) reports that his address is R. D . N o . 1 Prospect Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island.

Daubin, Freeland A., (R. Adm. USN) Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home. i Q i A C l a s s S e c r e t a r y , R. A D M .

I ' t \ f CHARLES J. MOORE, U S N Ret., 3325 Cleveland Ave., N . W . , Washington, D . C. SPENCER LEWIS, ( V . Adm. USN-Ret.) informs us that his new address is 6 0 1 B Westchester Apts-4000 Cathedral Avenue, N . W . , Washington 16, D . C. CHARLES L. B R A N D , (R. Adm. U S N ) reports that his address is 2139 Wyoming Avenue, N . W . , Washington 8, D . C. JAMES T. A L E X A N D E R , (Capt. U S N Ret.) is now living at 6114 Vistade La Mesa, La Jolla, Calif.

L. F. REIFSNIDER, ( R . Adm. U S N ) gives his mailing address as Comd'ts Office 8th Naval District, Federal Bldg., N e w Orleans 12, La. 1 0 1 1 *^'^^ Secretary, V. A D M . H. W .

• ' ' • HILL, U S N National W a r College, Office of the Commandant, Washington 25, D . C .

G L E N N A. SMITH, writes that his address is P. O. Box 1123, Post Office, Beverly Hills, California.

G L E N N H O W E L L , (Capt. USN-Ret.) reports that his address is Box 725, McCall, Idaho.

Mrs. Roger G. Murray passed away in September, 1946, in Jackson, Tennessee. She was the former widow of Comdr. Alfred S. Wolfe.

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AYLMER L. M O R G A N , JR., (Cdr. U S N Ret.) informs us that his address is Summit Point, West Virginia.

J O H N F. MEIGS, (Cdr. USN-Ret.) is now living at 19 Revell Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

B. S. BULLARD, (Cdr. ( C C ) USN-Ret.) gives his mailing address as General Delivery, Carmel, California.

T. S. MCCOY, (Capt. USN-Ret.) reports that his address is 115 N . Laguna Place, Albuquerque, N . M. ERNEST L. P A T C H , (Capt.) informs us that his address is 921 Alameda St., Vallejo, Calif.

H u n t & Co. Fed. Inc., 53 Foo Chow Road, Shanghai, China.

1 0 1 K C ' ^ * Secretary, R. A D M . R. O. I 7 ID GLOVER, U S N , Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. A R T H U R L A N D I S , is now living at Mount Vernon, R D . 1, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.

STEPHEN G. ROCKWELL, gives his mailing address as 1022 Wilkinson Avenue, Orlando, Florida.

GENERAL P E D R O DEL VALLE I N CIVIL LIFE

Lt. Gen. Pedro Augusto del Valle, USMC, Ret., Class of 1915, has just been elected Vice President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company for immediate as1 p i 9 J O H N W I L B U R , writes that his signment to the Middle East with headquar" ' ' •^ address is Oswegatchie, Water- ters at Cairo. H e is a native of Porto Rico ford, Conn. and was appointed to the Naval Academy B. M. T H O M P S O N , gives his address as from there.

8 East 66th Street, N e w York 2 1 , N . Y. General del Valle commanded the First H . C. FRASER, (Cdr. USN-Ret.) is now Marine Division during t h e attack on Okiliving at 2929 Connecticut Avenue, Washnawa during the fierce fighting, 1 April to 21 ington 8, D . C. July, 1945. H i s citation. Distinguished SerE. P. N I C K I N S O N , (Cdr. USN-Ret. De- vice Medal: "Undaunted by the deadly acceased ) . W e were sorry to hear of the death curacy of enemy fire, h e repeatedly visited of Cdr. Nickinson w h o passed away 17 Jan- the fighting fronts." uary 1948 at the U S N H , Pensacola, Fla. In W o r l d W a r I, the then Lt. del Valle comI N G R A M C. SOWELL, (R. Adm. U S N ) manded the Marines on board the TEXAS passed away at the U S N H , Long Beach, Caliin the N o r t h Sea. Post war, h e served on fornia, on 21 December 1947. board the WYOMING and RICHMOND. C. H . W R I G H T , (R. Adm. U S N ) informs Lt. Gen. del Valle observed modern warus that his new address is Trust Territory of fare with the Italian troops in the Ethiopian The Pacific Islands, Guam, M. I. campaign in 1937. After Pearl Harbor he C. D . EDGAR, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.) took the 11th Marine Division o n Guadalwrites that his address is P. O. Box 2212, canal. In 1943 h e served in the islands Carmel, California. bordering on Guadalcanal and the next year ROBERT S. H O G G ART, (Capt. U S N ) commanded the Marine Artillery in the inreports that his addtess is SOQ U S N H , San vasion of Guam. Post war. Gen. del Valle Diego, Calif. was Inspector General and later Director of Personnel.

I Q i O Class Secretary, M R . W A L T E R Gen. del Valle was chosen to make one of ' ' ' ^ L. SEIBERT, Brighton Laundry, the p r i n d p a l addresses on the 100th anniverPittsburgh, Penna. sary of the founding of the Naval Academy R A Y M O N D ASSERSON, (Cdr. U S N on 2 1 October 1945.

— L . J. G. Ret.) reports that his address is 2426 19th Street, N . W . , Washington, D . C. Christie, Ralph W., (R. Adm. USN) Cotmnaoder.

U. S. Naval Forces, Philippines.

JAMES T. M A T H E W S , (R. Adm. (CEC) U S N - R e t . ) . W e were sorry to hear ^ ' " * Secretary, CAPT. LAUof the death of R. Adm. Mathews, w h o died 1 0 1 A I T I O RENCE F. S T A F F O R D , U S N . on 14 December 1947, at the U S N H , BeNaval Communications Annex, Room 3 3 7 — thesda, Maryland.

W I L B U R J. RUBLE, (Capt. USN-Ret.) Bldg. 19, 3801 Nebraska Avenue, N . W., informs us that his address is 150 Gonzalez Washington 2 5 , D . C. C. J. WHEELER, ( C a p t U S N ) reports that Drive, San Francisco 12, California.

W . E. DOYLE, (Capt. USN-Ret.) re- his address is 1106 Government Street, Mobile, ports that his address is 1321 Garfield Street, Alabama.

EARL G. W A G N E R , writes that his adLaramie, Wyoming.

E. R. ZEMKE, (Capt. USN-Ret.) is now dress is W a g n e r Brothers Co., 328 S. Delaliving at 475 14th Avenue, San Frandsco 18. ware Ave., Philadelphia 6, Pa. L. S. FISKE, ( R . Adm. U S N ) gives his California. duty address as Commander, Service Squadron 3, U. S. Padfic Fleet, Care Postmaster, 1 0 1 A C'^5* Secretary, R. A D M . R. W .

San Francisco, California.

I / I" HAYLER, U S N , Board of Decoration and Award, Room 4030, Arlington Price, John D., (V. Adm. USN) Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) Navy Dept.

Annex, Navy Department, Washington 2 5 , Radford, Arthur W., (V. Adm. USN) Vice Chief of D.C. Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

J. D . BLACK, gives his mailing address as Ginder, Samuel P., (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Carrier Division 2.

741 S. George Street, York, Pennsylvania.

Berkey, Russell S. (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Support Group, U. S. Naval Forces, Far East.

L A W R E N C E J. K. BLADES, (Cdr. U S N R ) writes that his address is 95 Briardiff Road, Mountain Lakes, N e w Jersey.

1 0 1 7 ^ ^ ^ * Secretary, CAPT. ROSS F. C. A. M A C G O W A N , (Capt. USN-Ret.) * ' * ' COLLINS, U S N R , Cedarundd reports that his new address is 2628 Laguna Farm, Route 3, Annapolis, Md. Street, San Francisco 2 3 , California.

C. M. P E R K I N S , gives his address as 1306 J. M. C R E I G H T O N , (Capt. USN-Ret.) So. Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles 35, Calif. informs us that his address is c/o William F. C. D E N E B R I N K , (R. Adm. U S N ) is Badger, Oscar C , (R. Adm. USN) Commander, U. S. Naval Forces, Western Pacific.

now living at General Inspector Pacific Fleet, Civic Pac. Hdqtrs., Pearl Harbor, T. H .

J O H N N . W A L T O N , (Capt. USN-Ret.) informs us that his address is 116 Park Street, Gouverneur, N . Y. WILLIAM F. D I E T R I C H , (Capt. U S N ) writes that his address is 3 Pickens Lane, N P F , Indian Head, Maryland.

Sallada, Harold B., (V. Adm. USN) Commander Air Fotce, Pacific Fleet.

1 0 1 fi *^^^5 Secretary, CAPT. J O H N R. I 7 IO SULLIVAN, U S N , Room 3069, Navy Department, Washington 2 5 , D . C. T h e Qass of 1918 is arranging a 30 year reunion at Annapolis on 24-25 April. Vice Adm. Earle W . Mills is chairman of the committee arranging the reunion. All members of '18 who can possibly attend are urged to come to Annapolis for the occasion and bring their wives. Admiral Mills would appredate early notification from all who plan to attend. His address is Room 3032, Navy Dept.

STANLEY C. N O R T O N , (Capt. U S N ) reports that his address is Princes Pt., Yarmounth, Maine.

E. C. ROGERS, (Capt. U S N ) informs us that his address is Office of the Under Secretary of the Navy, Material Division, Rm. 2007, Navy Dept., Washington 2 5 , D . C. GEORGE E. ROSS, JR., recendy remrned state side from Honolulu and is now the proprietor of Trade W i n d s Liquor Store, 3140 Geary Blvd., San Frandsco, Calif.

Pursell, Ion, (Capt. USN) Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, 111.

Sherman, Forrest P., (V. Adm. USN) Commander, Naval Forces. Mediterranean.

Moen, Arthur T., (Capt USN) Proceed home; relieved of all active duty.

Bledsoe, Albert M.. (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Naval Base, Bremerton, Wash.

Sprague, Qifton A. F., (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Naval Air Advanced Training Subordinate Command, Corpus Christi, Tex. 1 0 1 0 ^ ' ^ ' Secretary, CAPT. R. A. • ' I ' D I E R D O R F F , U S N , 9 St. Johns Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

ERNEST E. H E R R M O N N , (R. A d m . ) is now living at 76 Claremont Avenue, Long Beach, California.

GEORGE W . BRASHEARS, (Capt. U S N Ret.). W e were sorry to hear of the death of Capt. Brashears, w h o died in Burlingame, California, 30 Nov. 1947, and was buried in the family plot at Hannibal, Mo., on 5 Dec. 1947.

GEORGE M. O'REAR, gives his mailing address as Sands Point, Port Washington, Long Island, N . Y. G. H. B O W M A N , (Capt. USN-Ret.) writes that his address is Box 118, R. R. 4 Turkey Foot Road.

CHARLES R. SMITH, reports that his address is 4 0 6 E. 3rd Street, Hinsdale, Illinois.

Sykes, James B., (Capt. USN-Ret.) Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

Greer, Marshall R., (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Carrier Division 3.

Lannom, Joseph R., (Capt. USN) Commander, Texas Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Orange, Tex. I Q O n Class Secretary, MR. JAMES A. lTA\f CROCKER, 2 0 0 9 — 4 4 t h Place, N . W . , Washington, D . C. R. B. D A G G E T T , (Capt. U S N ) informs us that his address is Supervisor of Shipbuilding, N e w York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey.

WILLIAM H . GALBRAITH, (Capt. U S N R e t ) is now living at 20 Montana Avenue, Lemon Grove, California.

MARCH,

1948

W . S. C U N N I N G H A M , (Capt. U S N ) gives his mailing address as Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis 15, Tenn.

C. D . M U R P H E Y , ( C a p t U S N ) reports that his address is District Staff Hdqtrs., Building N o . 6 Naval Base, Philadelphia 12t Pennsylvania.

O. A. WELLER, ( C a p t U S N ) wntes that his address is c/o Butler Gen. Rep., Western District 1206 Santee S t , Los Angeles 15, California.

W . E. M A X W E L L , (Lt. Col. USMC-Ret.) gives his address as Maryland State Reformatory, Breathedsville, Maryland.

D O N A L D T. W H I T M E R , (Lt. Cdr. U S N R ) is now living at 216 Notteargenta Road, Pacific Palisades, California.

JEFFERSON K I N N E Y , informs us diat his address is c/o T h e Vinnell Corporation, Box 7 1 , Guam, M. I. J. B. D O W , (Commo. U S N - R e t ) writes that his address is 100-07 Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, L. I., N . Y. CHARLES B. M c V A Y , (Capt. U S N ) reports that his address is Hdqtrs. 8th N . D .

Federal Building, N e w Orleans, La. Good, Roscoe, F., (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Cruiser Division 3.

Gearing, Hilyer F., (Capt. USN) Commanding Officer, Naval Minecraft Base, Charleston, S. C. Robbins, Thomas H., (R. Adm. USN) Commander, Carrier Division 17.

Doyle. James H., (Capt. USN) Commander, Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet.

Weller, Oscar A., (Capt. USN) Assistant Bureau of Aeronautics General Representative, Western District, Los Angeles 15, Calif. i g O l J. J. CURLEY, ( C a p t ) informs ' ' •^ ' us that his address is U. S. Naval Disciplinary Barracks, San Pedro, California.

W . B. P E N D L E T O N , is now living at 1909 N . E. 25 th Street, Oklahoma City, Okla.

E D W I N W . SCHELL, gives his mailing address as 4414 Dale Avenue, La Mesa, Calif.

CHARLES W . R O L A N D , (Capt. U S N ) writes that his new address is 1461 El Camino Real Burlingame, California.

R O B E R T H. CAREY, (Cdr. U S N R ) reports that his address is Office of T h e Commandant Randolph-Macon Academy, Front Royal, Va. M. E. SELBY, informs us that his address is 1041 Noel S t A p t 4-B, Menlo Park, Calif.

E L M O N B. GUERNSEY, (Cdr. USNR e t ) is now living at 4 1 4 I 4 t h S t , Santa Monica, California.

H. A. TELLMAN, (Cdr.) gives his address as 8301 I 6 t h St. Ex., Silver Spring, Md. W I L L I A M A. G O R R Y , ( C a p t U S N ) reports that his address is U. S. Naval U n i t W h i t e Sands Proving Grounds, Las Cruces, N e w Mexico.

Curry, Duncan, Jr., (Capt, USN) Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics Staff, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet.

Alexander, Charles S., (Capt. USN) Bureau of Aeronautics Representative, Chance Vought Aircraft Division, United Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Conn.

Coloney. Paul R., (Capt. USN) Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Watt, Richard M., Jr., (Capt. USN) Munitions Board, Washington. D. C. Pihl, Paul E., (Capt. USN) Naval Operations, Navy Dept, Smith, Donald F,, (Capt, USN) Commander, Naval Air Bases, First Naval District, Quonset Point, R. I. 1 0 0 0 Class Secretary, CAPT. J O H N W . ' 7 ^ ^ G U I D E R , U S N R , Litrieton, N e w Hampshire.

R O Y R. D A R R O N , (Cdr. U S N ) writes that his new address is 3143 Elliott Street, San Diego 6, California.

WILLIAM D. MOORER, gives his business address as President, Moorlane Co., P. O. Box 1679, Tulsa 1, Okla., and writes that his home address is 1626 E. 29th S t , Tulsa 5, Oklahoma.

J O H N R. H U M E , (Capt. U S N ) reports the death of his wife, Mts. Rosario Del Pan H u m e , who died on 19 January 1948, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida.

Mrs. H u m e was born in Manila, P. I., where her mother and sister still reside, and is survived by two daughters. Miss Rosa Rita H u m e , who resided with her parents, and Mrs. John K e m p of Austin, Texas. Interment took place on 23 January 1948, at Port H u r o n , Michigan, the home of Captain H u m e , services being held in Saint Stephan's Church.

Captain H u m e is Commander Sub-Group FIVE, Florida Group, A T L A N ' H C RESERVE Fleet, Green Cove Springs, Florida.

T H E O D O R E W . MILLER, is now living at 30 N . La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois.

J . Y. D A N N E N B E R G , (Capt. U S N ) informs us that his new address is 211 Granby Park, Norfolk 5, Va. A. C. M U R D O U G H , (Capt. U S N ) writes that his address is 817-26 Place S, Arlington, Virginia.

E. J O H N L O N G , (Cdr. U S N R ) reports that his address is Pentagon Bldg., Washington, D . C , and is the Liaison Officer in office of Secretary of Defense.

W . E. Z I M M E R M A N , ( C a p t U S N ) informs us that his address is Mail and Despatch Section, Navy Dept., Washington 2 5 , D . C. B R A D F O R D BARTLETT, ( C a p t U S N ) is now living at 20 Makalapa Drive, Honolulu 6 1 , T. H .

CARLOS J. G A D G E R , (Lt. Cdr. USNRet.) gives his new address as 1245 Sycamore, Mcxlesto, California.

ALBERT L. R. ROSENSTEIN, (Capt.

U S N R ) writes that his address is 2000 Conn e a i c u t Avenue, N . W . Apt. 106, Washington, D . C. R O Y R. D A R R O N , (Cdr. U S N ) reports that his address is 1560 Venice Street, San Diego 6, California.

SWEDE MEYERS reports . . . "It isn't Spring yet but something has slowed down the responses to correct addresses in the Class mailing list revision. Mayhap we have heard from all the S H I P M A T E subscribers and will have to start the diggin' out process to get those that are off the beaten paths or just plain asleep. W a n t someone who covets the deep South to come through with something from that area, because certainly all the Class were not Yankees. At present Clyde King is wrestling the problem of an Editorial Staff and a lot of you gents are going to be drafted, if necessary, to turn to and help with a creditable Roll Call. Have had several excellent suggestions sent in as to what should be included and they will be mrned over to the Editorial Staff for their consideration . . . and more suggestions are always welcomed. Preliminary estimates are also being gathered on the cost of printing in this inflation period.

Presume the printers, like everyone else, also want Cadillacs . . . we shall see.

Some exuberant gent remarked, "anyone with enough get-up to put out another Roll Call should get the Republican nomination.'

Thank you, but I was born in Sweden, and my eligibility is tainted. A m pleased with the many expressions of appreciation and assure you that the thing is eventually coming out

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. . . even if Clyde has to mimeograph and I have to deliver it by hand.

Somebody gave me a book for Xmas called Off My Sea Chest, written by a disgruntied Reserve . . . and does he hate Annapolis men.

Reminds one of an old biddy who finds a couple bad ones in a crate of tomatoes and then whispers to the whole community that the grocer sells nothing but rotten vegetables.

Certainly the Academy turns out some knuckleheads who mm into stuffed shirts . . . wouldn't be human if it didn't. The funniest part of the book, to me, was the author's picmre.

Don't waste your money on it I was a Reserve, too.

Had a brief but very pleasant visit with Ruth (new Admiral) and Evelyn Libby as they whisked East in the Buick . . . from Pearl to Washington. Met for dinner at the quarters of Frank and Peg Watkins at the new General Line School at Monterey. The other five new Admirals in the Class are Deke Parsons, Batt Cruise, Hugh Goodwin, H. E. Regan and Jack Whitney. Repeat the congratulations to all of them." Cherrio.

Atkeson, Clarence C. L., Jr., (Capt. USN) Commanding Officer, USS ALBANY CA 123.

Orem, Howard E,, (Capt, USN) Naval Operations, Navy Department.

Williams, Milo R., (Capt. USN) Ship Maintenance Officer. Western Sea Frontier.

Bauernschmidt. George W., (Capt, USN) Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept.

Becker, Alvin L., (Capt. USN) Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ships for Electronics, Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept, Hylant, Emory P,, (Capt. U S N ) Naval Operations, Navy Department.

Riddle, Frederick L,, (Capt, USN) Director of Naval Reserves, Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, 111.

Dugan, Thomas B,, (Capt, USN) Commanding Offi-

LOUIS M. FABIAN, informs us tiiat his mailing address is 10650 Somma Way, West Los Angeles 24, California.

PAUL F. DUGAN (Captain, USN) reports the following current information regarding activities of some of the members of 1923 in both Navy and civilian circles: LOUIS M. FABIAN is head of the Fabian Company, Beverly Hills, California, an investment company.

CARL G. GESEN is Secretary of the Merchants and Manufacmrers Fire Insurance Company of Concord, New Hampshire.

CHARLES S. (BUCK) WALSH is coaching the Naval Academy crew and instructing the Midshipmen in Navigation.

ZEUS SOUCEK of Montdair, N. J., is with the Arvin Company and is interested in housing construction in West Orange, N. J. WILLIAM B. AMMON, (Captain, USN) is Assistant Chief of Staff for the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, for Communications, and may be found at Makalapa, Pearl Harbor, T. H. J. E. M. WOOD, (Captain, USN-Ret), is living in Wardour, near Annapolis, Md., and has just become the father of an eightpound baby girl (15 February).

ROBERT L. DENNISON, (Captain, USN) is the new Naval Aide to President Harry S. Truman, having come ashore from command of

the

USS

MISSOURI.

ARTHUR A. AGETON, (Rear Admiral, USN-Ret), is living in Wardour, Annapolis, and is engaged in writing for publication.

JAMES R. CUTTING is a professor in the cer, USS W O R C E S T E R (CL 144).

English, History and Government Department Harrigan, Daniel W., (Capt, USN) Chief of Staff and Aide, Staff, Chief of Naval Air Advanced of the Naval Academy.

Training, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla, GORDON W. DAISLEY is back in Washington, D. C, as a Patent Attorney.

1QQO Class Secretary, CAPT. LOUIS JOSEPH B. MORRISON is Manager of the I TZO A. REINKEN, USN, Room Washington, D. C, area for the Chesapeake 0036, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept., and Potomac Telephone Company, and RAYWashington, D. C. MOND B. LEAVITT is District Manager for R. T. ROBERTS, (Capt. USN) informs us Chevy Chase in the same company. that his mailing address is 125 Grafton St., MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR is Assistant Chevy Chase 15, Maryland.

Editor of the National Geographic Magazine, F. S. WITHINGTON, (Capt. USN) is on Washington, D. C. duty on the USS MANCHESTER, FPO, New FRANK V. RIGLER was reported as teachYork, N. Y. ing at Washington and Lee University.

HOMER B. HUSDON, (Capt USN) reALFRED C. OLNEY, JR., (Captain,USN) ports that his new address is Headquarters is in command of Naval Air Station, Moffet First Naval District 495 Summer St, Boston Field, Calif.

10, Mass.

ROLAND SMOOT, (Captain, USN) is reARTHUR A. AGETON, (R. Adm. USN- ported to be slated as Commanding Officer of Ret.) writes that his address is 6 Kent Ave- the USS NEWPORT NEWS, a new cruiser. nue, Wardour, Maryland.

ALBERT C. MURDAUGH, (Captain, J. A. BRIGGS, (Capt) gives his duty ad- USN), recently remrned from sea duty as dress as USS TARAWA CV-40 FPO, San Fran- Captain of the USS PORTSMOUTH in Euiopean Waters, is now in Naval Operacisco, California.

JOHN R. JOHANNESEN, (Capt.) in- tions, Navy Department.

WILLIAM T. RASSIEUR, (Captain, forms us that he is on duty in the USS ADIRONDACK (AGC-15) FPO, New York, USN) was reported recently in command of t h e U S S FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT. N. Y. HENRY A, SCHADE, (Captain, USN) is JAMES R. CUTTING, (Lt. Cdr. USNR) Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, is now living at 12 Southgate Avenue, An- Bdlevue, D. C. napolis, Maryland.

PAUL B. KOONCE, (Captain, USN) reW. E. GUITAR, (Capt. USN) writes that cently on duty at the Naval Engineering Stahis new address is c/o Cdr. At Resv. Fit., 90 tion, Annapolis, is reported to be slated for Church St., New York, N. Y. command of the USS TOPEKA. PETER W. C. R. WALKER, (Capt. USN) reports HAAS, Captain, USN, also on duty at the that his address is Hunters Point Sug Group, Experiment Station is going to the Naval Pacific Reserve Fit. Naval Shipyard, San Fran- Shipyard, Philadelphia, for next duty. cisco, California.

JOSEPH W. WENGER, (Captain, USN) STEWART LINDSAY, (Cdr. USNR) is Deputy Chief of Naval Communications for gives his address as Caves Rd., Owings Mills, Supplementary Activities. GEORGE W. WELKER, Captain, USN, is also a Deputy Maryland.

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Chief of Naval Communications for Administration.

J. MYLIN WILL, (Captain, USN) was reported as Director of 'Training, Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Many members of the class of 1923 were seen at the White House, with their wives in tow, at a tea given by Mrs. Harry S. Truman; those noted included the following, all Captains, USN: WILLIAM H. HAMILTON, H. DONALD FELT, KARL HENSEL, LOUIS N. MILLER, HENRY C. JOHNSON, HOMER AMBROSE, ARLEIGH A. BURKE, FRED W. WALTON, FRANK E. SHOUP, JR., EMMETT E. SPRUNG, PAUL F. DUGAN, THAYER T. TUCKER, HAROLD D. KRICK, WILLIAM H. VON DREELE, LEMERTON E. CRIST, ROBERT H. RODGERS, DAVID L. NUTTER, ALVIN D. CHANDLER, and JAMES H. THACH. LOUIS A. REINKEN, (Captain, USN) now on duty in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, has agreed to serve as Acting Class Secretary for the Class of 1923 for Alumni affairs until the class expresses its desire at the 25th Anniversary Reunion on 15 May, 1948, at the Naval Academy.

DANIEL F. J. SHEA, (Captain, USN) recently retired and became head of the Electronics Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, of the Hazeltine Corporation.

G. MORTON NEELY is a civilian Assistant Chief of Naval Communications (Op 20 W ) in the Navy Department.

WILLIAM H. McCAFFERTY is with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1 Madison Ave., New York City.

FREDERICK MOOSB RUGGER, (Captain, USN) is head of the General Line School, Newport, R. I. Arnold, Ralph J,, (Capt. USN-SC) Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept.

Smiley, Curtis S,, (Capt. USN) Commanding Officer, USS

K E A R S A R G E CV

33.

Ocker, John M,, (Capt, U S N ) Naval Operations.

Navy Department.

Roberts, Reed T , (Capt. USN-SC) Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept, MacMahan, Donald S,, (Capt. U S N ) Commanding Officer, Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Mustin Field, Philadelphia, Pa. Chandler. Alvin D,, (Cant. U S N ) Commanding Officer,

USS

DES MOINES

(CA

134),

Rassieur, William T,, (Caot. USN) Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D. C, Briggs. Josephus A,. (Caot, U S N ) Aviation Supply Office. Philadelphia, Pa. Young, Howard L,, (Capt, U S N ) Commanding Officer,

USS

TARAWA

(CV

40)

Dusinberre, Henry W., (Cdr. U S N ) USS ALCONA (AK-152).

Withington, Frederick S., (Capt, U S N ) Commanding Officer. USS MANCHESTER, CL 83.

Dennison, Robert L., (Capt. U S N ) Naval Aide to the President of The United States, The White House, Washington, D, C, Mclsaac, John M,, (Capt, U S N ) Conomanding Officer, USS S P O K A N E ( C L - 1 2 0 ) .

1 0 9 4 ^ ' ^ " Secretary, MR. P. W. ' ' - ^ T " SIEGRIST, Fidd Forgan Company, 40 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. HOWARD L. COLLINS, (Capt) is now living at Building 62, Apartment No. 1, Fort Leslie J. McNair, Washington 25, D. C. L. E. COLEY, (Capt USN) gives his mailing address as 821 N. W. 42nd Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

JOHN J. SCHEIGELER, (Capt. USN) writes that his address is Qtrs. F, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

J. W. FOWLER, (Capt. USN) reports his address as USS INDIANA, Bremerton Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet, Puget Sound N. S. Bremerton, Washington.

A. P. CALVERT, (Capt. USN) informs us

his duty address is JPO, GHQ, EEC, APO 500 c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

HARRY L. PERRY, is now living at 309 South 15th Street, Centerville, Iowa.

Carlson. Richard P., (Capt. U S N ) Public Works Officer, Seventeenth Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska.

McLean, Ephraim R,, (Capt. USN) Operations Officer, Staff, Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, Cole. William M,. (Capt. U S N ) Fleet Personnel Officer, Staff, Commander, Service Force, Atlantic Fleet.

Seay. Erskine A., (Capt. USN) Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home, Bailey. William B., (Capt, USN) Communication Officer, Staff, Commander, Hawaiian Sea Frontier.

Have you made your plans for a class reunion or gathering in Annapolis this year?

Alumni House extends a cordial invitation to all class groups to establish your headquarters here and make full use of our facilities.

Several dates are still open in the vicinity of June Week. Prompt action will reserve one of these for your group.

distribution of football tickets, etc., to which 1 Q Q C Class Secretary, COMMO. ER"Whitey" gave a very interesting and informaI 7Z.D NEST M. ELLER, USN, Room tive set of replies. When he got through, 0011, Navy Department Washington 25, everyone felt better informed.

D.C. At the meeting on the I4th of January, J. W. MURPHY, JR., (Capt USN) gives twenty-six members of the class turned out, his change of address as Headquarters 17 th including: Naquin, C. C. Smith, Hull, WellNaval District, Kodiak, Alaska. ings. Parks, Hurd, Cronin, S. P. Smith, Pyne, GELZER L. SIMS, (Capt. USN) writes Leggett, Goetz, Pefley, Colt, Howeth, Van that his address now is R. F. D. No. 2, Orange- Metre, Vic Long, Lemley, Gordinier, Schleif, burg, S. C. West, Sid Goodwin, Orville, Monroe, MackinFREDERICK P. WILLIAMS, (Capt non, Gibbs, W. L. Benson.

USN) reports that his address is Bureau of All hands were urged to make the luncheon Naval Personnel, Navy Dept., Washington, a regular date and to bring another classmate D. C. who had not been a regular attendant along WALTER S. MAYER, (Capt USN) gives the next time. his duty address as Comhawseafront, Navy The Class of 1925, USNA, in Washington 128, Pearl Harbor, FPO San Francisco, Calif. had a joint party with the USNA counterE. K. WALKER, (Capt USN) writes that pans. The party was held on Friday, 23 Janhis new address is 82 Bowyer Rd., U. S. Naval uary, at the Officers' Mess at Fort McNair Academy, Annapolis, Md. (formerly called the National War College) B. CHASE WANGLIN, JR., (Cdr. USNR) and 104 people braved the snow and cold to is living at 612 No. Roxbury Drive, Beverly come and have a most enjoyable evening of Hills, Calif. cocktails, buffet supper, and entertainment.

L E. FRENCH, (Capt. USN) reports that Of the 104, 67 were Navy and 37 were Army. his duty address is VCNO (Air), Navy It was a great pleasure to see a lot of classDept, Washington, D. C. mates and their wives and guests, as well as P. S. CREASOR, (Capt USN) writes that to renew or to make acquaintance with the his new address is 1902 W. Minnehaha Ave., Atmy bunch. Excellent amateur entertainSt. Paul 4, Minn. ment was provided by "Slim" Beecher, who T. M. BROWN, (Capt. USN) gives his played his guitar and sang his songs in the duty address as Quarters "F," U. S. Naval Sta- best fashion. After "Slim" got through, sevtion, Green Cove Springs, Fla. eral of the Army and Navy officers and their R. C. JOHNSON, (Cdr. USN-Ret) gives wives gave imprompm entertainments of varhis address as Pine City, Minn. ious kinds. I think everyone will agree that HENRY R. WELSFORD, (Lt. Cdr. it was a fine evening all around..

USNR) is living at 1642 No. 6lst St., PhilaThose present from the 1925, USNA, class delphia 31, Pennsylvania. were: Beecher, W. L. Benson, Bond, J. B. RICHARD SPENCER writes diat his ad- Brown, Charles, Christensen, Colt, Criddle, dress is Spencer, Marzall, Johnston & Cook, Cronin, Gardner, Goodney, Goulett, Ham135 South LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. mock, Hobbs, Hull, Hurd, Larkin, Long, MacBENJAMIN MAY, (Capt. USN) gives his kinnon, Marshall, Parks, Pyne, Schleif, Sides, new address as 30 Hilltop Rd., Chestnut Hill, Swinburne, Sylvester, Turney, Tuzo, Van Philadelphia 10, Pa. Metre, Wellings, West, Wishart, Whedock, S. N. PAYNE, (Capt USN) writes: all with their wives. Clay Latrobe was there "The regular monthly class luncheons held by himself, and Bond and Christensen brought at the Army-Navy Club on the second Wed- guests. A few of the boys who had signed up, nesday of each month are being continued and particularly those from Annapolis, were unwe are getting an increasingly better turnout. able to come because of the bad weather and At the meeting held on 10 December, twenty- we all missed them greatly. two were present, among whom were: Turney, Everyone was so enthusiastic that it looks as HuU, Wdlings, Hurd, C. C. Smith, J. B. though we may have another party of the Brown, W. L. Benson, Gordinier, S. P. Smith, same kind, or else with dancing thrown in, Naquin, Pyne, Parks, Leggett, "Whitey" Tay- sometime in the spring." lor, van den Berg, Broadly, McNally, Paro, King. George J., (Capt. USN) Proceed home, reColt, Mackinnon Pefley, Wheelock. lieved all active duty, At this meeting we discussed a number of Hurd, Kenneth C , (Capt. U S N ) Examination by Naval Boarc^ and orders to home. points about when and where the luncheon Howard, Retiring William B„ (Capt. U S N ) District Public should be held, it being practically unanimous Works Officer, Eighth Naval District, New Orleans, La, that the luncheon should be continued on the Hull, David R,, (Capt. U S N ) Proceed home; resecond Wednesday of each month, at 1215, lieved of all active duty. at the Army-Navy Club in town. Following Murphy, John W,, Jr,, (Capt. U S N ) Commanding Officer, Naval Communication Station, Seventeenth the business part of the meeting, several of Naval District Headquarters, Kodiak, Alaska. the boys asked "Whitey" Taylor certain ques- White, Philip, (Capt. USN-SC) Assistant General Inspector of the Supply Corps ( A i r ) , Aviation tions about the Navy Athletic Association, Supply Office, Philadelphia, Pa.

MARCH,

1948

Headden, William R., (Capt, USN) U. S. Naval Attache and U. S, Naval Attache for Air, American Embassy, Cairo, Egypt, Lyon, Percy H,, (Capt, USN) Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Bermuda, Grimes, Clifton G,, (Capt, USN) Executive Officer, Naval Engineering Experiment Station, Annapolis, Pogue, William G,, (Capt, USN) Senior Member, Navy Sub-Board of Inspection and Survey, Norfolk, Va,

1 OOA '^'^^ Secretary, MR. STEPHAN I TZO E. RICE, JR., 161 Senate Office Bldg., Washington, D. C. JAMES R. GRANGER, reports that his new addtess is c/o USBR, Tracy, Calif.

H. A. FRAVEL, (Comdr. USN) writes that his new duty address is USS CATAMOUNT c/o FPO, Norfolk 11, Va. J. T. BREWER, (Capt USN) reports a change of address, 7104 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase, Md. VERNON P. ROBNETT, (Cdr. USNR) is living at 2893 So. Abingdon St., Arlington, Va. 1926 announces new Class Officers: KENNETH CRAIG, (Capt USN) VicePresident—Kenny will relieve Bob Pirie as Head of Department of Aviation at USNA in March 1948.

HAROLD FRAVEL, (Cdr. USN) Secretary and Historian—Hank is CO, USS CATAMOUNT (LSD 17), c/o FPO, New York. He is an eager-beaver on the class and record keeping. He has been keeping tabs on all of us, as a hobby, for years. Send permanent addresses to Rice or to Fravel. Harold will be sending you an inexpensive Bum-Wad about once a year. We can do a big book, like "21 Years After" about every four or five years.

The next book will be our masterpiece. The Silver Anniversary, "25 Years After," to be in your hands by April, 1951. For that one we are determined to spot and hear from everyone, including photos of family. "Most important," wrote a critic recently, "will be a good photo of each classmate. We want a good likeness of 1926, USNA, in 1951."

Stand by to help Fravel on this new book, along in 1950.

WALTER W. HONAKER, (Capt. (SC) USN) is our new Treasurer. Walter's job will be to collect a $10 assessment for the Class Fund. The Class Fund will be able to cope with cuirent News Bulletins {not the Books), administrative expenses (mostly postage and papet), and floral offerings. There will be a separate Fund, known as the "1926 USNA Memorial Fund." Its beginning is $137.78 from the Hutchins Memorial Fund.

Walter also will be its custodian, but will not be charged with raising it. This Fund, especially, is an appropriate object of bequests by members of the class, or by their families.

STEPHEN E. RICE is our Permanent, Central Corresponding Secretary—a big tide that means you always have a great friend and father confessor, and with Steve, a repository for addresses, news, ideas, etc., at Room 161, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C. The rest of us keep Steve advised. He can handle, or channel anything you send him.

Steve keeps the Washington boys together but is very busy while the Congress is in session.

Please read the Foreword and Editor's Mail Bag, especially page 199, of "21 Years After."

Our current Class projects are: (1) Maintain a working organization of interested Class Officers. You should call for Class Officer elections when you desire or require them.

(2) Build up the Class Fund by adequate

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assessments or annual dues. Present assessment, $10.00 for some years to come, is due to W. W. Honaker, Class Treasurer, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, (2030 Arlington Annex), Washington, D. C. (3) Review the Organization and Constimrion of the Association of the Class of 1926 USNA as set forth in 1932 Bulletin and in 1941 "Present or Accounts For." Steve Rice has been appointed to selea and head a Committee for revision and modernization of these instruments. Meanwhile, we'll get along with the spirit which we know is there.

(4) Establish, in some form, by May 1951, a 1926 USNA Memorial to those '26 who have given their lives in service. Ideas and forms are varied. W. R. Smedberg has been appointed Chairman of the Memorial Committee, which he will selea. He will recommend a Memorial Plan to the dass for approval. After a plan is approved by the dass, and then only, will he coUea funds. Honaker will administer them as the separate "1926 Memorial Fund."

(5) Arrange for the "25th Anniversary Reunion" of 1926 to be held in Annapolis in May-June, 1951. K. Craig has been appointed Chairman of the 25 th Anniversary Reunion Committee, which he will select.

Upon his detachment from Annapolis-Washington area he will nominate a successor who will have been resident (or ordered to duty) in that area for the period 1950-51. An important part of the Reunion plan is the next Class Book, "25 Years After," already mentioned. Fravel and the Reunion Chairman will coordinate. This book must reach dassmates a few weeks before they depart for Annapolis. We must bone up "Silver threads among the gold"—if any. Craig will propose reunion platis to the dass for vote and approval. All who attend the affair will share per capita in the expense. Class Funds will not be used for the reunion (except for administrative expenses in determining if and what sort of reunion we are to have). If a reunion is voted, a separate reunion will be administered by the Committee.

Those Jeepers-Creepers, the Leepers, have captured New Orleans so completely that there's a new Kingfish on the Horizon. And Item (8) in the 21 year book came ttue. She's Penelope (Penny) and a honey.

Nina Haman and Gloom Mills are married.

Peg and Charlie Moses have William James Carlton (9-23-47). "Jamie" weighed in at 13 pounds and is 24 V^" overall. Pop says Jamie soon goes on steak. I didn't know the Moses had outside money. Chuck wrote that Grace Lentz was with them for two weeks.

She works in a hospital near Baltimore. Young Gns is a Frosh at University of Virginia. Grace said she sure would reply to the next letter she received re a Class Book. We appreciate Chuck's news letters from BuPers.

Watch SHIPMATE and bring your Book up to date. Call people up when you go cruising.

Joe and Martha Callahan came by last summer from Auburn, Alabama, the Leepers were over, and Mike and Peggy May are due this winter from University, Mississippi. We have those priceless Paschals here at Pensacola.

Now let's all keep track of our 1926 girls, especially the widows. They are still 1926 and we want them and their children in our news; and we want to see them when we can.

The USNA is better than ever. You should read Atlantic Monthly for Oaober and December 1947. Then read nearly every word in

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SHIPMATE, the USNAAA magazine, for December 1947. (SHIPMATE carries current 1926 news. The December issue has some of our pictures.) All hands should subscribe to it We send thanks to the leaders of the revitalized USNAAA, to Rear Admiral Coney for his work with SHIPMATE and to Ralph Sentman for his (Alumni Association) "Naval Officers Placement Service," 1129 Vermont Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Tell Sentman what you'd like to do, if retiring; or what you'd like someone to do for you, if employing.

Please, you absent-minded oldsters, send me the $5.00 for "21 Years After." If you've paid, I'll send it back. My records are good.

We need the $200.00 represented by those of you who were sent Books but haven't sent money.

Those who want Books can still get them from me by the same token—$5.00.

Subscribe to SHIPMATE. We are part of it.

Pass the word. Send your $10.00 Assessment to Capt W. W. Honaker, (SC), USN, Navy Department (Room 2030 Arlington Annex), Washington 25, D.C. Best regards and Happy New Year.

WENDELL F. KLINE President, 1926 USNA Helfrich, Norman A., (Caot. USN-SC) Officer in Charge, Ordnance Stock Office, Washington, D. C. Hollingsworth, William R.. (Capt. U S N ) Administrative Aide to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Stroop. Paul D., (Capt. U S N ) Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Staff. Commander in Chief, Pacific and U. S. Pacific Fleet, Pirie, Robert B., (Capt. USN) Commanding Officer.

USS

SICILY

(CVE

118).

i QO7 W. R. IGNATIUS writes that his ' ' ^ ' address is Box 99, Arnold, Md. ARTHUR K. EHLE, (Capt. USN) reports his duty address is U. S. Naval Reserve Armory, 850 Lilac Terrace, Los Angeles, Calif.

L. BARBOT, (Capt USN) is now serving in the USS KERMIT ROOSEVELT (ARG

16),

c/o FPO San Francisco, Calif.

ROBERT V. HULL, (Capt. USN) gives his duty address as Naval Seaion, Marine Corps School, Ouantico, Virginia.

A. B. SCOLES, (R. Adm. USN-Ret) is living at 120 South Serrano, Los Angeles 4, Calif.

RAYMOND G. BOYD, (Cdr. USNR) writes that his address is 1047 Oakland Ave., Belle Haven City, Menlo Park, Calif.

HENRY P. WRIGHT, (Capt. USN) reports that his new address is 1406—28th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. G. L. HANSEN, (Capt USN) gives his duty address as Commanding Officer, USS KANKAKEE (AO-39), c/o FPO San Francisco, California.

HAROLD M. BRIGGS, (Capt USN) writes that his new address is 29 Connecticut Ave., N. W., Apt. 438, Washington, D. C. W. H. RANDIG, (Capt USN) reports that his duty address is c/o Chief of Naval Operations Op 40, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. JULIAN D. GREER, (Capt. USN) gives his duty address as Jaint Brazil—U. S. Military Commission (Navy Air) APO-676, Miami, Fla. FRANK D. GIAMBATTISTA, (Lt Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is 5421 Phumphrey Drive, Washington 19, D. C. De Kay, Charles, (Capt. USN-SC) Munitions Board, Washington, D. C.

Heckey, Albert R., (Capt U S N ) Deputy Chief for Navy Affairs, Joint Military Advisory Group to the Republic of the Philippines, Manila, P. I. Hansen, George L., (Capt. U S N ) Commandmg Officer,

USS

KANKAKEE

(AO

39).

Wakeman, Calvin E., (Capt. U S N ) Operations Officer, Staff, Commander, Naval Air Transport Service.

Goyette, Emmanuel T., (Cdr. U S N ) Inspector Instruaor. Naval Reserve, Worcester, Mass.

Cooper, Joshua W., (Capt. U S N ) Commander, Destroyer Squadron 12.

1928 Bowers, John T., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) Inspector-Instructor Naval Reserves, Springfield, Mass.

Garton, Norman F., (Capt U S N ) Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

Quilter, Joseph F,, (Capt USN) Chief of Staff and Aide, Commander, Fleet Air Wing 1.

100Q ^^^5 Secretary, CAPT. R. K. \ l ^ O JAMES, USN, Naval Supply Center, Mechanicsburg, Penna.

1 0 0 0 "Tht Class of '29 has a commit• 'X7 tee in the Navy Department preparing muster notes. An earnest attempt has been made to obtain the addresses of all the members of the Qass of '29 who entered the Naval Academy in 1925. If any member, his widow, or his family has not received the form to fill out, please address a letter immediately to Captain W. L. Kabler, Navy Department, Room 3807, Washington, D. C." Dennett, Erie V., (Cdr. U S N ) Inspeaor Instruaor Naval Reserve, Bridgeport, Conn.

1 O^n ^'^^^ Secretary, MR. E. P. DORI TOU NER, 113, N. Columbus St, Arlington, Va. FLARRY B. DODGE, (Capt. USN) gives his new address as Naval Experimental Sta., Annapolis, Md. T. J. THORNHILL, (Cdr. USN) writes that his duty address is the Texas Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Orange, Texas.

ROBERT H. TAYLOR, (Capt. USN) reports that his address now is Rm 150 U. S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

HOWARD G. COREY, (Cdr. USN) reports that his address is Staff Con. Cru. Div. Two, c/o Fleet Post Office, New York.

ERNEST R. SCHRIETER, (Lt. Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is Room 107, Grad. House, M.I.T. Cambridge, Mass.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE CLASS OF 1930 Fund as of 1 January 1948 Receipts: Contributions from 193 members. .$1,015.00 Cash from previous Qass Fund. . .

67.75 Dividend on 2 shares of A B & T Co. stock 1.50 Total ; $1,084.25 Expendimres: Stamps for circular letter to all members $12.00 Stationery for circular letter to all members 23.85 Floral tribute 15.00 Total Balance in Class Fund

$50.85 $1,033.40

Invested in U. S. Government Bonds $740.00 Cash on deposit in the Old Dominion Bank, Arlington, Va. . . 293.40 $1,033.40 (Signed) EDWARD P. DORNER Executive Committee Treasurer (Signed) R. W.JOHNSON Permanent Qass Treasurer

^hinmah

EDWARD S. CARMICK, (Capt USN) gives his address as U. S. Naval Shipyard Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.

JAMES T. WILBUR, (Lt Col. USMC) informs us that his address is Marine Corps Schools, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia.

DENYS W. KNOLL, is now living at 6336 Utah Avenue, N. W., Washington 15, D. C. CHARLES R. HERMS, (Cdr. USN) writes that his mailing address is Insp-Instr. Naval Reserves, New Post Office Bldg., Columbus, Ohio.

WALTER T. JENKINS, (Cdr. USN) reports his duty addtess as USS WINSTON (AKA-94) c/o Fleet Post Office, New York.

E. P. DORNER reports from 113 N. Columbus St, Arlington, Va.: The Class of 1930 hdd its quarterly luncheon at the Officers' Club, Naval Gun Faaory, Washington, D. C , on Friday, 30 January 1948. Monty Montgomery, the aaing chairman of the Executive Committee, conduaed a short business meeting after the lunch. All hands voted for a dinner dance in the early part of April. The present Executive Committee has contacted recent arrivals in Washington to see if they would willingly serve on the new committee to be eleaed at the April luncheon. Red Ailes, Whitey Knoll, Buff Simons, Colonel House, Gleim Williams, Dinty Moore, Pete Horn, Tim Dorner, and Harry Dodge have agreed to their names being placed on the ballot The Qass Fund is gradually growing, and contributions have been received from 201 members to date. The Executive Committee is sending a second letter to the proaastinators, who have taken too literally the words "voluntary contribution" in the Class By-Laws.

Gee Gee Palmer, the chairman of the Executive Committee, has left Washington for sea duty. He did a grand job in getting our dass organization started, and he will be missed by all hands.

Members present at the January luncheon were as follows: J. W. Ailes, S. M. Alexander, G. T. Atkins, F. D. Beans, P. P. Blackburn, R. R. Briner, J. M. Bristol, C. B. Brook, N. A. Campbell, E. E. Colestock, R. R. Craighill, J. B. Dimmick, E. P. Dorner, W. M. Drane, J. S. Dorsey, C. L. Engleman, E. B. Grantham, J. B. Gragg, M. Halstead, H. O. Hansen, J. A. Hartman, H. A. House, L. J. Jones, J. O. Kinert, D. W. Knoll, F. B. Miller, W. B. Moore, E. A. Montgomery, M. L. McCullough, E. O'Beirne, H. G. Sanchez, M. H. Simons, C. B. Stevens, R. J. Stroh, F. G. Wagner, G. D. Williams, and F. I. Winant.

In addition to the letters and comments already published in the November and December issues of SHIPMATE, the Executive Committee has received the following: From H. C. (Hugh) Haynsworth: I enclose herewith my contribution to the Class of '30 Fund. I consider the idea a very good one and trust that I shall be able to attend one of the luncheons in the not too distant fumre. Please include my name on the mailing list for any dope about the class that your committee may circulate.

Ed.—Your name is being placed on the mailing list for luncheon notices.

FromR. W. (Bob) DeGraff: I think that it is a grand idea and that you are doing a swell job. If I can be of any service around New York, do not hesitate to call on me.

M^RCH,

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Ed.—Bob, we will remember your offer. been scarce and not very good for keeping an From E. C. (Eddie) Renfro: outsider posted on the class.

Your letter got stuck away and came to Ed.—Slim, the Committee wishes that light when 1 was cleaning out the desk. This about 150 other members cleaned out their finds me as the Vice President of NATS desks like you and Eddie Renfro did—the (Asia) since last July. Towser Miller just books n the Class Fund would be closed now. came into port, and some of us are getting Last January our class in the Navy reverted together at Jack Howell's place. Will give back to Commander, and the Marines were you a release on the party. This letter also promoted to Colonel. finds me in Tommy ThornhiU's league with From W. H. Hyde: 5 children.

1 am glad you located me and sent the dope Ed.—I bet the party was a good one with to bring me up to date on class activities. I Towser around. am too far away to do anything for the class, From R. L. (Slim) Grannis: but I do have hopes of seeing a few of the Ran across your letter tonight while clean- active people who may get duty in this Naval ing out pigeonholes. In case you do not know, Distfict. My very best to any of the gang (4th Tom Cable was in Pittsburgh for two years and 2nd Batts.) who might remember me up as R. I. N. M. He left the Naval Reserve as that way. a Lt Cdr. Westinghouse has transferred him P. S.: Here is a bit of news on a "30" man to New York, and he lives in Manhasset, Long in this atea. W. B. (Styx) Phillips, back Island. Although we lived only a mile apart again with the Standard Oil Co., after being I seldom saw him during the war. I have not discharged as a Lt. Cdr. from the Naval Reheard from Freddie Hilles for years. I did serve, is now a big Navy Leaguer here in manage to keep posted on him through the New Orleans. He was chairman of the lunchArmy-Navy Register, war reports, etc. It ap- eon committee for Navy Day last fall. Secrepears that the dass is right up there pushing tary of the Navy Sullivan was the prindpal Admiral, and it hardly seems possible at the speaker, and the luncheon was attended by young age of forty.

Governor Davis, Mayor Morrison, and former Assistant Secretaiy of Navy Jahncke.

I was with Mine Safety Appliance Co. for FromW. G. (Bill) Tisdale: 10 years up to July 1946. During the war I Forgive me for not having written sooner worked on contraas for the Navy and for the Army Air Force at Wright Field. At present after all the trouble you took to chase me I am doing machine and tool design for Tal- down. The dope you read in SHIPMATE was on, Inc., and do not regret my change to a O.K. at the time. In addition to teaching I new field as the work is very interesting. Small am working on my Masters Degree through town life is much more pleasant, and everjy the University of Michigan. With the work thing has been in my favor in all other re- I am able to get here and two summers on the campus at Ann Arbor I should make i t spects.

Frankly I wish school had seemed as easy at I must say that dass news in SHIPMATE has the Academy as it does now.

I am happy to know that there is a dass fund and some people willing to devote their time to keep track of the class.

The U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Lackner, Peter R., ( C a p t U S N ) Naval Operations, Association is now in position to give Navy Department almost immediate service in the filling Bardwell, Francis E., ( C a p t U S N ) Commanding Officer, Aircraft Development Squadron 4 . of orders for the Wedgwood service Agnew, Jack, (Cdr, USN) Atlantic Fleet plates, bread and butter plates and cups Wingard, Walter C , Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) Carrier Division 6. and saucers with the Naval Academy Snead, William O., Jr.. (Cdr. U S N ) Navy Comscenes and designs. This China is very munication Station, Fifteenth Naval District, Balboa, C, Z, reasonably priced and it is recomMiller, Theodore T., (Cdr.) USN USS COMSTOCK mended that our Alumni take advantage ISD 19.

Morrison, William C , Jr., (Cdr. USN) San Franof this oppormnity to make their purcisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif. chases while the supply is plentiful.

Westhofen, Charles L., (Cdr. USN) USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (CVB 4 2 ) .

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Chinaware is shipped from Boston, shipping charges collect.

Order blank will be sent on request Order from, and make remittances payable to, U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, Annapolis, Maryland.

igOl EDWARD S. BURNS, (Cdr. I 7<J I USN) gives his duty address as c/o Comnavfe, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Frandsco, California.

JOHN D. CROWLEY, (Cdt USN) informs us that his mailing address is Quarters S, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois.

W. E. MORING, (Cdr. (SC) USN) is now stationed at Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk 11, Virginia.

W. P. SCHOENR, (Cdr. USN) gives his address as U. S. Naval School (General Line) Monterey, California.

H. M. S. GIMBER, JR. (Cdt USN) writes that his hew address is 4722 1st Street North, Arlington, Va. ROBERT L. TAYLOR, (Cdr. USN) re^ ports his duty address as USS PROVIDENCE, Fleet Post Office, New Yotk, N. Y. F. S. STEINKE, (Cdr. USN) informs us his address is Commander Mine Division Six, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.

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Steffanides, Edward F., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept, Firth, Maxim W., (Cdr. U S N ) USS T O L E D O (CA 133).

Rivero, Horacio, Jr., (Cdr. USN) USS WILLIAM C. LAWE ( D D 7 6 3 ) .

Straub, Charles T., (Cdr. U S N ) Service School Command. Naval Training Center, Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

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JOHN M. GRIDER,

(Cdt

I 70Z USN) is now living at 3015 Locust Street San Diego 10, California JOHN C. D E W I T T , (Cdt

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reports his duty address as Operations, Fleet Activities, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California.

EMERSON E. FAWKES, (Cdr. USN) writes that his address is 4114 23rd Road North, Arlington, Va. OSCAR A. HEINLEIN, (Col. USAAF) gives his mailing address as 2731 South Buchanan Street, Arlington, Va. F. L. BRUMBY, JR. (Cdr. USN) informs us that his address is USS WILLARD KEITH (DD775) Fleet Post Office, New York, New York.

STEPHEN M. ARCHER, (Cdr. USN) is now living at U. S. Naval P. G. School, Annapolis, Maryland.

RICHARD S. CRAIGHILL, (Cdr. USN) writes that his mailing address is 32 Upshur Road USNA, Annapolis, Maryland.

EDMON G. KONRAD, (Cdr. USN) reports that his new address is 800 "A" Avenue, Coronado, California.

The Class of 1932 in the Newport Area held a gala dinner party at the Officers' Mess of the Naval Base on 20 December 1947.

Present with their wives were: Cdr. R. O. Greene, Cdr. T. W. Hopkins, Cdr. J. H. Kuhl, Cdt F. B. Schultz, Cdt H. A. Owens, Cdr. G. F. Rice, Cdr. W. H. Weston, Cdr. H. A. Knoertzer, Cdr. J. W. Wiley, Cdr. C. H. Smith, Cdr. W. D. Innis, Cdr. C. L. Frazer, Cdr. H. E. Baker, Cdt K. P. Letts, Cdr. H. J. Campbell. Representing West Point 1932 was Lt. Col. J. C. Steele with his wife.

USNA CLASS OF 1932—WASHINGTON AREA Charley Lanman, retiring chairman of the Washington Chapter, USNA Class of 1932 Alumni, has announced the election of the following to serve in 1948 as officers and council to the Capital City branch of '32: Chairman, Harry Sosnoski; Vice Chairman, Wally Coleman; Secretary-Treasurer, Dabney Waters; Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, Mel Young; Council men, John Chittenden, Paul Harrington, Nemo Howe, Joe Jaap, Jerry Miller, Sam Moncure, Mai Munger, and George Pressey.

The Washington Chapter of 1932 has continued most active. On the roster at present are almost ninety members, embracing the Annapolis contingent and others at nearby points in the area. Class luncheons are held on the second Wednesday every month at the Officers' Mess, Naval Gun Factory. An average of more than thirty members turned out for each of these luncheons in 1947, and prospects for 1948 are even brighter. Class parties have been held every quarter (and of tenet when occasion develops) sometimes with dancing and sometimes with buffet alone, but always with a lot of fun and a good attendance.

Keyes, Charles M., (Cdr. U S N ) Member, Joint Military Advisory Group to the Republic of the Philippines, Manila. P. 1.

Craighill, Richard S.. (Cdr. U S N ) USS LITTLE ROCK (CL 9 2 ) .

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Brown, Sheldon W., (Cdr. U S N ) Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

USMC) writes that his address is Room 2129, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. JOHN N. FERGUSON, JR., (Cdr. USN) 10^^ Chairman (Washington Com' ' ^ J mittee), COMDR. HAROLD G. gives his duty address as USS HARRY F. BOWEN, USN, 3518 8th Street South, BAUER (DM-26) c,/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. Arlington, Va. R. W. CURTIS. (Cdr. USN) writes that JOHN M. MILLER, (Maj. USMC) reports his dut)' address is Commander Escort Division that his address is Earl Avenue, New Holland, One c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif." Pa. CHARLES A. BLICK, (Cdr. (SC) USN) Peter F,, ( C a p t U S N ) Research and Degives his address as 1620 Preston Road, Park Boyle. velopment Board, Washington. D. C. McLaren, William F,, (Cdr, U S N ) Fleet Training Fairfax, Alexandria, Va. Group, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, WILLIAM S. KURTZ, (Lt Cdr. USN). McCallum, James L. P., (Cdr. U S N ) Naval OrdWe were sorry to hear of the death of Lt. Cdr. nance Plant, Forrest Park, 111.

Weldon, Albert R,, (Cdr. U S N ) Bureau of AeroKurtz, who passed away on 15 Januaiy 1941 nautics, Navy Dept, at U. S. Naval Hospital, Canacao, P. I. Badger, Rodney J., (Cdr. USN) USS O H A R E ( D D 889).

OLIVER N. FOWLER, (Cdr. USN) re- Knowles.

Henry P., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) Naval Supply ports that his address is Naval Mine Depot Center. Oakland, Calif, Oliver, Warren E., (Cdr. USN-SC) Aviation Supply Yorktown, Va. Office, Philadelphia, Pa, E. E. GRIMM, (Cdr. USN) is now living Ramey, Ralph L,, (Cdr. U S N ) Naval Station, Tutuila, Samoa. at Genetal Line School, Monterey, California. Hyland, William W., (Cdr. USN-SC) USS KEARK. S. SHOOK, informs us that his address SARGE CV 3 3 .

OHandley.

John G., (Cdr. USN-SC) Munitions is Quarters No. 28-A, Fort Winfield Scott, San Board. Washington. D. C. Francisco, California.

Lee. Robert M,, (Cdr, U S N ) Inspector-Instructor, Naval Reserve. Lawrence, Mass.

F. D. SCHWARTZ, (Cdr.) gives his new Parker, Jefferson D,, (Cdr. U S N ) USS WORCESTER address as 920 Rockbridge Avenue, Apt 118, (CL 1 4 4 ) .

Norfolk 8, Virginia.

1 OQA ^'^^^ Secretary, COMDR. O. G. Turner. Vernon C , (Cdr. U S N ) Puget Sound NaI TOO SEXTON, USN, Staff, Comval Shipyard, Bremerton. Wash, Howell, William S,, (Cdr. USN) Naval Opera- mander, Air Force, Pacific Fleet c/o F.P.O., tions, Navy Dept.

San Francisco, Calif.

DANIEL A. MARTIN, (Lt Cdr. USNR) 19^4 *^" ^' THUSBON, JR. (Cdt reports from 2404 Lafayette Avenue Greens' ' ^ ' USN) writes that his address is boro, North Carolina. '"That we (Myself, wife, No. 1 Court Street, Portsmouth, Virginia. and two children—Ann, 5 years old and Dan, CHESTER A. SIVER, (Cdr. USNR) in3 years old) are fairly established here in forms us that his mailing address is American Greensboro in our new home. With the excepMech. & Foundry, 53rd and 2nd Avenue, tion of 3V2 years of naval service from July, Brooklyn, New York.

1942 to January, 1946, I have worked for the FRANK K. UPHAM, (Cdr. USN) reports Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, North Carothat his duty address is Staff Com Air Pag. lina Division, since January, 1939, and am c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif. a sales engineer with the company here in JOHN C. LOVCI, (Lt. Cdr. USNR) is now Greensboro. Am retaining my contracts with living at 1331 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, the Navy through the local Organize Surface California.

Battalion 6-10 and am in command of DiRICHARD E. BLY, (Cdr. USN) gives his vision 6-25. mailing address as 639 Roslyn Avenue, Akron, Should any of my classmates or other Ohio. alumni be passing through Greensboro in the G. M. CLIFFORD, (Cdr. USN) writes that his address is Armed Forces Staff College, future, Martha Ann and I would be glad to have them give us a call and drop around for Norfolk 11, Va. an old time get-together.

Lewis, Hugh H., (Capt, USN) Seventh Naval DisJAMES B. RUTTER, JR. (Cdr. USN) is trict, Jacksonville, Fla, Harllee, John, (Cdr. USN) USS DYESS D D 880, now stationed at Staff Trans Div. 11, San Hampton, Isaiah M., (Cdr. U S N ) USS KEARSARGE Diego, California.

(CV 3 3 ) .

Ritson, Ernest L. E., (Cdr. U S N ) Bureau of Ships.

Navy Dept.

Powell, Edgar S., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) USS S H E N A N DOAH (AD

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Artz, George E.. (Cdr. U S N ) Texas Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Orange, Texas.

1 O^K C'^55 Seaetaty, CDR. STEPHEN IT03 SHERWOOD, (SC) USN, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. WALLACE M. NELSON, (Lt. Col.) gives his address as NOQ, 2231, Marine Barracks, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

OLIVER D. FINNIGAN, JR. (Cdr. USN) reports that his address is U. S. Naval War College, Newport, R. I. WILLIAM S. SAMPSON, (Cdr. USN) informs us that his duty address is USS BOXER (CV-21) c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California.

CHARLES T. TINGLE, is now living at 419 Marsh Road, North Hills, Wilmington, 281, Delaware.

E. P. PENNEBAKER, JR., (Lt. Col.

IQOT DONALD GAY, JR., (Cdt) ' '*'' informs us that his mailing address is 4912 Navy Dept (DCNOR), Washington 25, D. C. W. J. HELD, gives his new address as Naval Supply Center—Guam, M. 1. c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California.

WALTER J. STENCIL, writes that his mailing address is Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk 11, Virginia.

J. R. WADLEIGH, is now living at Naval School, General Line, Naval Base, Newport, Rhode Island.

A. S. FUHRMAN, (Cdr. USN) reports his duty address as USS CoRSAiR, U. S. Naval Sub. Base, New London, Conn.

CHARLES I. BLANKINSHIP, (Lt. Cdr. USNR) gives his mailing address as Apt. 6D, 1158 Fifth Avenue, New York 29, New York.

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C A R V E L HALL Class of '63 or *43—through t h e years—as classmates have graduated and sailed away as shipmates.

Carvel Hall h a s k e p t cleared for action t o give you t h e hospitable welcome as of old, with t h e same good food, good drink, good lodging a n d good cheer.

Sullivan School Intensive preparation for Annapolis, W e s t Point, Coast Guard Academy and College Board examinations.

Lt. G. J . Sullivan (Retired), Principal W. E. Bailey, grad. U.S.N.A., Assistant Principal Box S, 2107 Wyoming Avenue, V/ashington 8, D. C.

The same old welcome awaits you at America's most famous address . . . King George St. opposite U. S. Naval Acadezny.

zzzzzz: ^ 2 = ^ S. M. ZIMNY, (Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk 11, Va. JAMES H. CRUSE, (Cdr. USN) has reported for duty in the USS /OHN W. WEEKS (DD 701), Charleston, S. C. THOMAS TOWER and Mrs. Tower of Walpole, New Hampshire announce the birth of a son, Thomas Caldwell on 21 December 1947 at Keene, N. H. Mr. Tower graduated from Friends School in Washington, D. C. and from the USNA in 1937. The baby is a grandson of Mrs. Babbitt of Walpole and of Mrs. Thomas Caldwell Tower of Washington and the late Col. Tower, USMC. Smessi. Wesley J., (Lt. Cdr. USN-SC) Naval Receiving Station, Naval Station, San Diego, Calif.

Northwood, Robert H., (Cdr. U S N ) Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department.

Eddy, Frank M., (Cdr. U S N ) Navy Communication Station, Seventeenth Naval District Headquarters, Kodiak, Alaska.

Clapham. Ladirop B., Jr., (Cdr. USN-SC) USS ANTIETAM ( C V - 3 6 ) .

1 OQft ^^^^ Secretary, LT. COL. JOHN 17JO SAXTEN, USMC (Pres.), 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N. C. C. D. COOPER, ( C d t USN-SC) has reported for duty in the USS PALLUX (AKS-4) FPO San Francisco, Calif.

JOHN E. HOLLIS, (Lt Cdr. USN-Ret.) is living at 12700 Shaker Blvd., Cleveland 20, Ohio.

RUSSELL H. HEDGECOCK, (Cdr. USN) and Mrs. Hedgecock announce the birth of a son, Gregory Ellis, on 8 January 1948, at the Coronado Hospital, Coronado, Calif.

HOWARD B. BENGE, (Lt Col. USMC) reports his new address as being Hqtrs, FMF Lant, Norfolk, Va. DAVID FRANCIS writes that his new address is 76 Westminster Rd., Lake Success, Great Neck, N. Y. JOHN A. SAXTEN, (Lt Col. USMC) gives his duty address as 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N. C. RUBIN H. KONIG, (Cdr. USN) writes that his address is the U. S. General Line School, Monterey, Calif.

VERNER J. SOBALLE, (Cdr. USN) has reported for duty in the USS jASON (ARH 1) c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

FRANCIS H. HURON, (Cdr. USN) gives his duty address as Code 240, Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, T. H. B. B. PICKETT, (Cdr. USN) writes that

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his duty address is Staff ComOpDevFor, USS gives his address as Indiana Arsenal, CharlesADIRONDACK (AGC-15) c/o FPO, NNS, town, Ind. Norfolk, Virginia.

R. K. GOULD, (Lt. Cdr. USN) writes C. A. MELVIN, (Cdr. USN) reports that that his address is 101 North Columbus St., his new address is Staff CNAResTra, Box 1, Arlington, Va. NAS Glenview, 111.

F. M. CULPEPPER informs us of a change IRVIN J. FRANKEL, (Cdr. USN) gives of address, Celanese Corp., Erd Department, his home address as 244 La Verne Ave., Long 291 Ferry St, Newark, N. J. Beach 3, Calif.

H. F. LLOYD, (Lt. Cdr. USN) reports F. W. SILK, (Cdr. USN) writes that his new mailing addtess is the Atmed Forces Staff that his new address is VP-ML-8, Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

College, Notfoik l l , V a .

OLIVER H. PAYNE, (Lt. Cdr. USN) gives HARRY B. STOTT, (Cdr. USN) reports that his new address is USS GARDINERS BAY his new address as 441 Coral Sea Village, Mare Island, Calif.

(AVP 39) c/o FPO San Frandsco, Calif.

NATHANIEL W. JAMES, III, (Lt Cdr. Anderson, Edward L.. (Cdr. U S N ) Atlantic Fleet.

Nixon, Harold E., (Cdr. U S N ) Material Division, USN) writes that his new address is Bureau Office of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Navy Supplies & Accounts, Navy Dept., WashingDept.

Hausman, John E., (Cdr. U S N ) USS VALLEY ton, D. C. FORGE (CV 45 ) .

W. D. ADAMS, (Lt Cdr. USN-Ret.) son Ingham, Thomas R., (Cdr. USN) USS MACON (CA 132). of Mrs. Martha Rivers Adams and the late Bryant, Edward J., (Cdr. U S N ) Navy Purchasing William Duval Adams, was married to Miss Office. Chicago, 111.

Nany MacLeod, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William ThornhiU MacLeod. The wedding 1 OQO Class Secretary. LT. CDR E. L. took place Saturday afternoon, 7 February I T O T BEACH, USN, Navy Depart1948 at the home of the bride's parents on ment, Washineton, D. C. Riverside Drive. The Rev. Russell C. Stroup, ORVILLE O. LIEBSCHNER, (Lt. Cdr. D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, USN) gives his new address as 1701 I6th officiated.

St. N. W., Washington. D. C. "SHORE BREEZES" ELBERT C. LINDON, (Lt Cdr. USN) By and Mrs. Lindon announce the birth of a son, Paul R. Schratz Michael Crawford, on 16 December 1947, at the USNH, Jacksonville, Fla. The baby is the The dass lost one of its staunchest bachebrother of Virginia Gail, "Gigi," age 4, and lors on Saturday, 7 February, when Ralph the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Crawford Lindon, Leeds, Alabama, and Captain DELOACH and Marge Raymond plighted and Mrs. Cyrus Dana Bishop, Long Beach, their troths in Annapolis. The class in general Calif. Cdr. Lindon is at present stationed in and the Schratzes in particular are exttemely Jacksonville as Ofiicer-in-Charge of the happy to hear the wonderful news, and to Florida Naval Recruiting District His mailing extend the very best that the world can offer to address is 4629 Blount Ave., Jacksonville 5, both of you.

And while on the subject of the families, Fla. we have lots of stork news for you this month.

HAROLD ARTHUR WELLS, (Lt. Cdr. The ZULLINGER'S dosed out the old year USN) reports that his new address is Fasron with the arrival of another little Wedge, sec112, NAS Whidbey Island, Wash. ond son, born in Annapolis on or about 31 WILLIAM KING YARNALL, (Lt. Cdr. December.

USN) writes that his permanent home adAnd my old Academy roomies got into the dress is 11 Springfield Ave., Merchanrville, spirit of things too. Bobby and Margalee N.J. GILLETTE announced the birth of the baby DANIEL K. WEITZENFELD, (Lt. Cdr. of 1948, their first, Robert Corcoran, born USN) gives his address as 4755 1st North, 1 January in Jacksonville and Larry and Arlington, Va. Jimmy GEIS introduced Eleanor, a new playCURTIS F. VOSSLER, (Lt Cdr. USN) in- mate for him, on 18 January at St Joseph's forms us of a change of address, VP-AM 4, Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.

NAS, Norfolk, Va. Here in Washington the Ben JOHNSWILLIAM D. DOYLE, (Maj. USMC) TON'S are also very proud of a recent ar-

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rival, Frederick William, born at the Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, on 13 January.

Anyone wishing to dispose of a boat From the dass, congramlations ZULLINcape is requested to communicate with GER'S, GEIS'S, GILLETTE'S, and JOHNSCdr. Robert P. Erdman, USN-Ret., TON'S. Sparkleberry HaU, Wilmington Island, Three new executive committee members Savannah, Georgia, stating size and were eleaed in Washington last week to price. evenmally relieve some of the present incumbents who are slated for sea duty this summer. Jim DUNFORD, Walt MILLER and Charlie CASSEL expand the ptesent memberJ. C. "JERRY" BALL, (Lt Cdr. USN) ship to eight writes from Headquarters Caribbean ComVisitors seen in town last month included mand, Quarry Hts., C. Z.; "I have recendy Russ BUCKLEY who made a quick trip in been ordered to duty as naval aide to Lt. Gen. from Iowa, and Charlie CUSHMAN and Jiggs Willis D. Crittenberger, Commander-in-Chief, LARGESS who blew in to town for the Caribbean, with headquarters at Quarry luncheon.

Heights, Canal Zone. This should be a most And here's a new address for one of our interesting job. My previous duty was that of locals—^Major and Mrs. Bill ("Bat") CLO- Legal Ofiicer, U. S. Naval Submarine Base, MAN are now residing at 2016 South Quebec Balboa, C. Z., so 1 don't even have to move my family which now adds up to two redStreet Arlington, Virginia.

About all I have for this month. Hope to headed boys in addition to my wife. I seem see lots of you at the Submarine Parry, at the to be the member of the class on this end of basketball games or just breezing through the canal. All transiting 4rers please look me town. up on your way through."

THOMAS P. COOKE, (Lt. Cdr. USN) Williams, John B., Jr., ( L t Cdr. U S N ) USS STERgives his address as Public Works Dept., 5 LET (SS 3 9 2 ) .

Sharpe, John A., Jr., (Lt. Cdr U S N ) Carrier Divi- No., Norfolk l l , V a . sion 3.

Duryea, Robert. J., ( L t Cdr. U S N ) USS RATON LLOYD V. YOUNG, (Lt Cdr. USN) re(SS270).

BeU, Thomas H., ( L t Cdr. USN-SC) Naval Sup- ports that his home address is 4305 Yuma St., ply Center, Norfolk, Va. NW, Washington, D. C. JOHN E. BENNETT, (Lt. Cdr. USN) in1 0 ^ 0 *^*^^ Secretary, LT. COMDR. R. forms us of his new change of address, 5006 I 7tU V. PARLETT, JR., USN, Post Bradley Blvd., Chevy Chase 15, Md. M. C. NORTON, JR., (Lt Cdr. USN) Graduate School, Annapolis, Md. ROBERT D. KIRKPATRICK, (Lt. Cdr. writes that his new address is BuOrd Re 8B, USN) writes that his address is 6th Naval Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. District Hdqtrs., Naval Base, S. C. SHERMAN NAYMARK, (Lt. Cdr. USN) J. W. WILLIAMS, (Lt. Cdr. USN) re- writes that his new address is 5 Surry St., ports that his address is Naval Academy, An- Portsmouth, Va. napolis, Md. JOHN C. FEICK, (Lt. Cdr. USN) reports LAMEN WALKER, JR., (Lt. Cdr. USN) that his present address is Staff, Com Op Dev informs us that his address is 363 W. LanFor, USS ADIRONDACK, U. S. Naval Station, caster Ave., Haverford, Pa. Norfolk l l , V a .

E. NEIL ROGERS writes that his mailing address is 303 Sunset Drive, Westham, Rich- McDonald, Frank H., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) USS GRAND C A N Y O N AD 28. ard, Va. Macri, Guiseppi, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) Attack Squadron D. J. VELLIS, (Lt. Cdr. USN) reports • 1 g A that his present address is Staff, Commander Marzetta, Dante R., ( L t Cdr. USN) USS WORCESTER (CL 1 4 4 ) .

Battleships-Cruisers, U. S. Pacific Fleet, c/o Parke, Burton L,, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) Naval Operations, Navy Department.

Postmaster, San Pedro, Calif.

Styer, Charles W., Jr., ( L t Cdr. USN) Assistant FRANK A. CAMPBELL, (Capt. USAR) U. S. Naval Attache and Assistant U. S. Naval Attache for Air, Paris, France. gives his address as 321—31st St., Fairlawn,

N.J. PAUL S. TREITEL, (Maj. USMC) informs us of his address. Amphibious Forces Ad. Fit., Norfolk, Va. Laffey, William F., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Rogers, Edgar N . , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) Acceptance of Resignation from the U. S. Navy.

Wallgren, Olio V., Jr., ( L t Cdr. USN-SC) Material Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of tiie Navy, Navy Dept.

^QAI Class Secretary, LT. CDR. I / " I CHARLES W. STYER, JR., USN, 3903 Jocelyn St., N. W., Washington, D.C. CHARLES E. NELSON, (Lt Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is 19 Dogwood, Annapolis, Md. B. C. BYRNSIDE, JR., (Lt Cdr. USN) reports that his new mailing address is U. S. Naval P. G. School, Annapolis, Md. RICHARD L. STEWART, (Lt. Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is 3120 St. Paul St., Baltimore 18, Md.

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Jones. William W., (Lt. Cdr. USN) Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Myers, Arthur J., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) USS TOLEDO CA 133.

1 0 ^ 0 ^1^5^ Secretary, LT. CDR. R. S. ' '"-^ DAY, USN, USS STERLET (SS 392), c/o F.P.O., San Frandsco, Calif.

LEONARD M. CULJAT, (Lt Cdr. USN) gives his address as 24 Denwood Ave., Takoma Park, Md. R. A. KNIGHT, (Lt Cdr. USN) reports that his address is VF-4B, NAS, Norfolk, Va. G. E. PEDDICORD, (Lt Cdr. USN) informs us that his ptesent address is 1837 E. St., Lincoln, Nebr.

RAYMOND W. WIGGINS, (Lt Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is 1007 Fitzallen Rd., Hatundale, Glenburnie, Md. FRANK S. CARTER, JR., and Mrs. Carter announce the bitth of a son, Frank Saulsbury Carter, III, on 27 November, 1947. M t Carter is living at 1510'Bay View Ave., Lewes, Delaware.

WILLARD L. NYBURG, (Lt Cdt USN)

reports a change of address. Attack Squadron Five Able, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

FRANCIS EARL RICH, (Lt. Cdr. USN) informs us that his new address is 2118 N .

Brandywine St., Arlington, Va. THOMAS TURNER, (Lt. Cdr. USN) has reported for duty in USS BUMPER (SS 333), c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

VOLKERT B. VEEDER, (Lt Cdr. USN) writes that his new address is BOQ D-1 Rm. 125, U. S. Naval Station, Newport, R. I. J. C. DOYLE, (Lt. Cdr. USN) gives his address as U. S. Naval PG School, Annapolis, Md. D. E. ZOOLE, (Lt. Cdr. USN) reports his change of address as 208 Carmel Ave., Pacific Grove, Calif.

ROBERT D. McWETHY, (Lt. Cdr. USN) gives his address as U. S. Naval School, Monterey, Calif.

Conger, James W., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) Naval Operations, Navy Department.

Maurer, Leslie C , Jr., ( L t Cdr. USN) Naval Operations. Navy Department.

Ellison, Harold H., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) Marine Corps School, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. Plate, Douglas C , ( L t Cdr. U S N ) USS YELLOWSTONE ( A D 2 7 ) .

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CHESTER W. GATES, (Lt

* * ' ^ USN) writes that his new address is 2912 Broadway, Jacksonville, Fla. MERRILL H. SAPPINGTON, (Lt. USN) reports that his address now is P. O. Box 135, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

M. V. SHIVELY, (Capt. USMC) gives his address as HNS Battery, 10th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N. C. RICHARD A. BANKS, (Lt USN) informs us that his present address is Navy Supply Corps School, NSD, Bayonne, N. J. MITCHELL P. STROHL, (Lt. USN) has reported for duty in USS HARLAN R. DICKSON (DD 708), Newport, R. I. His home address is 52 Berkeley Ave., Newport, R. I. R. O. MINK, (Lt USN) writes diat his new address is 10 Oak St., Homoja Village, Annapolis, Md. WILLIAM A. RACETTE, (Lt USN) has reported for duty in USS ARIKARA, A T F 98, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

L.

LARRAKAS,

(Lt

USN)

and

Mrs.

Larrakas announce the arrival of Paula Jayne, a six-pound, fourteen-ounce girl, on 15 January, 1948. Lt. Larrakas' present station and address is USS WHEATEAR

(AM

390),

c/o

Minecraft Base, Charleston, S. C. DUBAR LAWSON, (Lt. USN) writes that his present address is BTU—5NAS, Pensacola, Fla. ROBERT J. ZOELLER, (Lt. USN) informs us of a change of address, 1305 E. Main St, New Albany, Ind. JOHN J. O'BRIEN, (Lt USN) writes from 6903 Perimeter Rd., Harvardevens Village, Fort Devens, Mass: "I am now on active duty at Harvard University smdying electronics under the auspices of the Bureau of Ordnance.

"Classmates also at Harvard indude Brian McCauley, on active duty also smdying electronics; Phil Childs, resigned and smdying at the School of Business Administration, and Curly Kirdand, also out of the Navy smdying at the Harvard Law School."

Class Secretary, LT. GENE GOUDIE, USN, VF-4B, Naval Air Station, Norfolk 11, Va.

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WILLIAM C. CASEY, (Lt. USN) informs us of a new address, 31 HamUn Place, Staten Island, New York.

A. R. TROTTIER, (Lt USN) gives his permanent mailing address as 35 Iremont Street, Lawrence, Mass., and his duty address as Naval Intelligence School, Rec/Sta., Washington 25, D. C. CHARLES D. WALKER, (Lt USN) and Mrs. Walker have announced the arrival of a daughter, Susan Louise, at the Mercy Hospital in San Diego on 1 January, 1948. The young lady has rwo brothers, Patrick Doyle and Michael Leo. MARTIN M. CASEY, Jr., ( L t USN) reports a new address, 1128 8th Street N., St Petersburg, Fla. CHARLES R. TUCKER, (Lt USN) is now on duty at NATB, Pensacola, Fla. DAVID D E H U F F ,

(Lt. USN) gives his

address as 1905 Vyse Avenue, New York 60, N.Y. ROBERT G. BAGBY, (Lt USN) reports his correa address as 203 Sunset SE, Navy Point Warrington, Fla. ANDREW J. PAPAGEORGE, (Lt. USN) is now serving in the USS H. J. ELLISON (DD 864), c/o F.P.O., New York, N. Y. CHARLES E. HAMUN, (Lt. USN-Ret) informs us of a new address, 1214 Roosevelt, Ames, Iowa. He writes, "At present I am smdying Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State College in addition to teaching half-time.

My wife and I will be glad to welcome any of the classmates passing through this small burg at any time."

EDWARD J. STOCK, (Lt. USN) reports a new address, 1664 St. Davis St, SE, Washington, D. C. LORENZO W. BALDWIN, JR., (Lt. USN) gives his address as A p t 284, 1008 Boiling Avenue, Norfolk, Va. WILLIAM C. CHAPMAN, (Lt. USN) writes that his present address is Attack Squadron FIVE-ABLE, c/o F.P.O., San Frandsco, Calif.

second child, a daughter, Diana Louise, on 4 October, 1947, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda. Grandparents are Capt. R. F. Tyler, USN-Ret., and Mrs. Tyler, and Col. P. M. Rixey, USMC-Ret, and the late Mrs. Rixey.

Lt. Rixey is now stationed at the University of California, taking the Chinese language course, with home address as 2026 Ward St, Berkeley, Calif.

G. P. STEELE, II, (Lt. jg USN) reports his address as USS BERGALL (SS 320), c/o

F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif.

WALTER S. ROSE, (Lt. jg USN) gives his new address as Electronics Material School, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif.

PETER R. PERKINS, (Lt jg USN) is now serving in the USS FLYING FISH (SS

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WILLIAM R. CHESTER, (Lt jgUSN) informs us that his mailing address is now N.A. T.B., Pensacola, Fla. JOHN ROGER NORTH, (Lt. jg USN) writes that his permanent home address is Our new Uniter Policy pro606 W. Midland St, Bay City, Michigan. vides complete protection to the service ofBcer in R. W. HERRICK, (Lt jg USN) gives his peace and war without reduty address as ZP-2, Det. 6, Boca Chica Field, strictions as to travel, resiKey West, Fla. dence, or military or naval service.

EDWARD E. HASTINGS, II, (Lt. jg USN) and Mrs. Hastings have announced the OFFICERS ARE INVITED to write us for facts about this birth of a son on 17 December, 1947. Lt. unique policy, THE UNITER. Hastings gives his duty address as Squadron Send your name, ranli, organiUA-IB, CVBG-1, USS MIDWAY (CVB 4 1 ) , zation, date of birt/t, and address to the c/o F.P.O., New York City, N . Y. '45 had a small reunion at the Fort Taylor UNITED SERVICES Officers' Club in Key West on 18 January.

A wonderful evening—and we learned how LIFE INSURANCE few are left in the surface navy. Most of '45 COMPANY are either out, flying, submerging or smdying.

1600 20th Street N.AV. (The names in parentheses are wives Washineton 9, D. C. and/or children not present Note: only four of twenty-two are bachelors.)

Carvel and "AD" Blair (Dennis)—ODAX. address as U. S. Navscol, E.E., M.I.T., 470 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass.

Pete Snyder (Nettie)—CONGER. JOHN J. HERZOG, (Ens. USN) is now Ben and Jean Young—SARSFIELD. serving in die USS SEGUNDO (SS398), c/o Buck Oder—CUTLASS. Johnny and Barbara Haines—Fleet Sonar F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif.

WILLIAM P. CANTWELL, (Ens. USN) School. gives his mailing address as 174-B Rudedge George and Louise Asman—^PCS 1380.

Avenue, Charleston, S. C. Mike Kane—^VA3E MiNDORO. JOSEPH T. DRUMM, reports a new adBill Shaffer—RUNNER. Jim and Mary Matheson (Ann)—MEDRI- dress, 21 Maple Avenue, Irvington, New Jersey.

GAL. ALVA M. BOWEN, JR., (Ens. USN) John Sullivan (Barbara, Barbara Jean and writes that he is now on duty in the USS Patrida Ann)—SEA LEOPARD. Bob and Jeanne Herrick—ZP2 (LTA). G L E N N O N (DD 840), c/o F.P.O., Norfolk, Va., and gives his home adress as 13 Franklin Frank Clifford—COCHINO. St., Annapolis, Md. Pinky and Nel Gilmore—-AMBERJACK. WINSTON C. WILLIAMS reports from Bert and Marge Finley (Craig)—AMBER522 E. Baker St, Flint, Michigan, "I am now JACK. Bill and Bev Johnson (Trey)—PCS 1385. employed at Buick Motor Division of General Dick and Mary Helen Neuendorffer (Carol Motors but intend going off to school next fall for my Master's. I heard from Wally HanLee)—SPERRY. kins, my three-year Bancroft wife, the other Jigs and Francis Rawlings-—COBBLER. Phil Erickson (Gloria and Susan)—VP day. He is now on a PCE out in the Pacific.

Also heard from Ted Bly who is now in Sub. (MS)5,BERMLnDA. Bob Reynolds (Jane and Tina)—^VPHL6 School at New London. I'd like to hear from any other fellows out of '46 if they can find ATLANTIC CITY. Jim Masters (Ida)—VP(MS) 10 Coco time to write between ports. I enjoy getting my copy of SHIPMATE every month and parSOLO. ticularly like to read about the fine work that Pat Hannafin (Mary, Steve and Molly) — the Officers Placement Service is doing. I inSEA ROBIN. tend to take advantage of that myself soon."

Bill and Bidde Rand (Out of town on busiD. T. CONOVER, (Ens. SC USN) has ness)—Com Sub Ron 4 Staff.

1 QAt\ ^^^5 Secretary, LT. (JG) SAM' ' " 3 UEL G. GORSLINE, USN, 827 Bedford Road, Batde Creek, Michigan.

R. A. HOGSED, (Lt. jg USN) is now serving in the USS LYMAN K. SWENSON (DD 729), c/o F.P.O., San Frandsco, Calif.

R. A. SCHAUFFLER, (Lt jg USN) reports his address as 115 South Cambrian Way, Bremenon, Washington.

JOSEPH FRANCIS SHEEHAN, (Lt jg USN). It is with deep regret that we report the death of Lt Sheehan who died in a plane crash at sea 16 January, 1948.

ROBERT BELKNAP MACK, (Lt. jg USN) and Mrs. Mack announce the birth of a son, Robert Belknap, on 26 December, 1947, at Family Hospital, North Island.

FRANCIS T. KLEBER, (Lt jg USN) gives his mailing address as BOQ, Room 26, Bldg.

2, U. S. Naval Rec. Sta., Washington 25, D. C. W. L. BRYSON, (Lt jg SC USN)writes from Naval Supply Corps School, Co. B, Bayonne, N. J., "Would be happy to hear from any of the old 'slashing 18th Co.' who might be in this area."

THOMAS POWNALL GRIEST, (Lt. jg USN). We were very sorry to hear of the death of Lt. Griest who died in a plane crash 1 0 4 / Class Secretary, ENS. BENJAat Albemarle Sound, N. C , on 9 January, I 7 t o MIN S. MARTIN, USN (Pres.), 1948.

Executive Department, U. S. Naval Academy, P. H. RIXEY, (1st L t USMC) and Mrs. Annapolis, Maryland.

Rixey have announced the birth of their JOHN E. BRYANT, (Ens. USN) gives his

MARCH, 1948

AN

reported for duty in the USS STORMES (DD

780), c/o F.P.O., Boston, Mass.

THOMAS J. McCOOK is studying aeronautical power engineering at Purdue University and gives his address as 210 E. Lutz St., West Lafayette, Indiana.

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EDWARD LANGE, (Ens. USN) reports 1 Q 4 7 KENNETH J. COLE, (Ens. Navy's foes this year, the team last year his present address as Route 3, Mount Vernon, ' I* I USN) repons his correct address showed a dominance in its field that hasn't been seen in the hallowed halls of Bancroft Washington. as 383 Harvard Stieet, Cambridge, Mass.

R. C. DUNCAN, (Ens. USN) gives his ROBERT C. PENISTON, (Ens. USN) for many seasons. The margin of victoty was new permanent mailing address BOQ, Bldg. writes that his mailing addtess is Qtrs. 59-F, close, and so close, in but one match, the 1365-1361 triumph over Army (the first in 600, N.A.T.B., Pensacola, Fla. Foss Acres, U.S.N.T.C, Great Lakes, 111. six years). From that close squeeze of four WILSON F. ENGEL, JR., (Ens. USN) reJ. D. RUMBLE, (Ens. USN) is now on ports his new address as Boiling Square, Apt. duty at U. S. Naval School, N.A. College Prep., points, the margin went as high as three hundred and ninety points over Holy Cross. AcIIB, 912 Rock Bridge Ave., Norfolk, Virginia. Bainbridge, Md. cording to Mr. W. D. Pennington, last year's PAUL DE LA LLAMA, III, (Lt jg Cuban G. M. SHELDON, (Ens. USN) gives his coach, a score of 1360 is good and Navy exNavy) writes from Cuban PCE SiBONEY (Exceeded this nine times last season. The team USS PCE 893), in Havana, "After finishing duty address as ComCortDiv ONE, c/o F.P.O., is not dependent on one or two men. The San Francisco, Calif. my assignment in the International TelecomROBERT F. WENKE, (Ens. USN) and ten who go to the firing line are all capable munications Conferences which were held in Mrs. Wenke have announced the birth of a of firing good scores.

Adantic City, I returned to Havana to my desk The coach, Lt. Comdr. J. W. McCoy, has job in Naval Operations in our Navy Depart- son. Marc Lewis, at Mercy Hospital, San Diego, ment. On September 25 I was sent to New on 30 December, 1947. The young man is the this to say in summary: "Although the team Orleans as part of the Cuban crew which was grandson of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Davies and doesn't get much applause, the scores speak to take over the Ex-USS PCE 872. During my Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wenke of Seattle, for themselves."

Douglas B. Hatmaker—48—Newton, Pa.— stay in New Orleans I met T. G. Ray, '46; Wash.

Captain of this year's pistol team—began pisHank Snelling, '46; Art Calisto, '46 (Peruvian Navy), and H. Cevallos '47 (Ecuador) 1 Q ^ f i ( L.\ Class Secretary, ENS. tol here and fired first match against Army— and a few others whose names I don't recall. I 7 t o ^ A \ ^ LEON C. BRAMLETT, received Dept. of Ordnance and Gunnery After reconditioning the 872 at the Naval USN, 538 W. Second Street, Clarksdale, Miss. medal for excellence with small arms last year—was number four in National InterStation in Algiers we returned to Havana on MAURICE J. SHANNON, JR., reports collegiate Match—fired high score in eight November 2. that he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree matches last year.

On November 15, I was sent to New Or- at St. Peter's College, Jersey City, N. J. He James D. Buder—^Jim—49—Napa, Calif. leans again- to receive and take over the Ex- majored in English and was awarded Gold •—was started in pistol by his father—fired USS PCE 893. There I met a few more dass- Cross Keys of Honor and coveted membermates and also M. Clement, '47, who was a ship in the highest honor society of the col- at the University of Washington where he was youngster in my company first dass year. After lege, M.N.O.P. (Most Noble Order of the NROTC—fired in nine matches last year ingoing through the same routine with this ship Peacock). He sailed on 9 Januaiy on the cluding Army match—earned N star.

Dale P. Helmer—Elmo—49—Oklahoma we remrned to Havana on December 29. Both Q U E E N ELIZABETH for Paris, France, to work City, Okla.—missed expert pistol by three these ships have made a great hit in the Cuban for an American Company and to study at Navy and I have really enjoyed both of them. the Sorbonne for another degree. His perma- points so decided to get more praaice on the On both of them I have had the duties of nent mailing address is 46 Van Houten Ave- team—fired in five matches last year all late in the season. He hopes to get an earlier start Navigator, Electronic Officer and Ships Secre- nue, Jersey City, N. J. this year—also plays lacrosse and soccer. tary.

JAMES E. VAN EPP gives his address as Robert W. Kennedy—Bob—49—ProviOn January 13, the American and West 58 Old Field Road, Fairfield, Conn. dence, R. I.—Began pistol at Navy—fired in Indies Squadron's Commander-in-Chief, Vice WESLEY D. ENNIS writes diat his duty all fifteen matches last year—placed number Admiral Sir William Tennant arrived here on address is USS LEO (AKA 6 0 ) , c/o F.P.O., one in three matches—was number ten in his flagship H.M.S. SHEFFIELD and the escort, San Francisco, Calif.

National Intercollegiate Match last yeai—N H.M.S. SPARROW, of which I had the honor to WILLIAM H. JAGOE, (Ens. USN) is now star last year. be appointed Liaison Officer. The SHEFFIELD Malcolm E. Phares—Mac—49—Central on duty in the USS KEARSARGE (CV 33), c/o and the SPARROW left on January 20. Up to City, Neb.—fired in all fifteen matches last F.P.O., New York, N. Y. ^ the present moment I am still aboard the year—fired an alibi string in Army match Ex-USS PCE 893. upon which depended the Navy victory, we Those have been my changes of duty as won—stealing of sword climaxed personal feud with officer representatives who were on far as the Navy is concerned but there are Navy Athletics watch—earned N star—fired high of 285 in also different aspects of life in which a young first match this year. man has to think about To make a long story (Continued from page 47) short on January 6,1 became engaged to Miss Byron M. Shepard—Shep—49—Troy, Ohio —High school letters in track and football—Carmen Martha Rodriguez of Havana, and we are getting married on February 14! Please lettetmen last year, nine have returned which fifed in fourteen matches last year—earned N accept my most sincere invitation to my wed- would seem a clear' indication of great things star and NAA medals for participating in win over Army. ding and please extend it also to my class- to come.

Ralph D. Whittier—Whit—49—^Dettoit, mates."

Let's all give the pistoleers a break and see NELS A. GUNDERSON, (Ens. U S N ) . what really is demanded of them. Anyone who Mich.—Captained rifle team at Morgan Park Ens. Gunderson is the editor of the dope sheet has wildly pulled a trigger (the correct Militaty Academy—never fired pistol prior to which is put out to keep the members of the phraseology is "Jerked") in a nearly futile coming to Navy—fired high score against 14th Company, Class of '46, in touch with effort to even hit the target can well appre- Army to letter plebe year—two year lettereach other. If any members of the following ciate the skill that is involved. This is es- man—Navy expert pistol and rifle.

Edgar A. Rawstorne—Ed—49—Phoenix, groups are interested in being mailed copies pecially true in timed fire or five rounds in of this very interesting sheet, they may be ob- twenty seconds and rapid fire of the same Ariz.—Captain of the rifle team at Notth tained by writing to Ens. N. A. Gunderson, number of rounds in half the time. The steady Phoenix High—Arizona Junior Pistol Champ USN, at Gunfite Support School, Little Creek, hand and nerves required is plainly evident. in 1942—overseas fifteen months with the For you "musclemen," try holding about three Marine Corps—fired a 286 to take individual Va. pounds at arm's length for ten minutes, the honors in the National Intetcollegiate Match Company Class time allowed for ten rounds of slow fire, and —two year letterman.

4 First Class see how easy it is—bearing in mind that the '44 William W. McCready—Mac—50—Philahand must be just as steady at the end as at delphia, Pa.—In the Navy two years as an 4 First Class •45 the beginning. The tension built up by the Aviation Cadet—fired in nine matches in14th Co. as youngsters '47 desire to win is just as apparent here as in any cluding Intercollegiate as a plebe last year— '48A 14th Co. as youngsters FRANK J. KELLEY writes that his present other sport but the only oudet for excited Navy expert pistol.

Aren L. Stapp — Larry—50—Oklahoma address is 405 State Bank Building, Evanston, nerves is a quarter inch movement of the forefinger—you can't take a run and knock out the City, Okla.—Attended Southern Methodist be111. bull's eye. fore coming to Navy—began firing pistol at Huey, William M., Jr., (Cdr. USN) Bureau of To give an idea of what is in store for Navy—Received medal for firing in InterSupplies and Accounts, Navy Dept.

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collegiates as a plebe last year—Brigade Boxing Champ in the 127 pound division.

William B. Thompson—Tommy—50— Little Rock, Ark.—Father wrestled for Navy in 1921—first acquaintance with any sort of fire arms came at Navy—fired in two matches last year as a plebe—has high score of 271.

GYMNASTIC PREVIEW NEWS Coach Chet Phillips is sure that this year's gym squad is a better all-around team than that of last year. Graduation losses and Red Morrow's broken hand have hurt the tumbler and ring men, but all the other positions are well filled. None of the meets are expected to be breathers, but Penn State and Temple should be the toughest matches. The atmy match will be held at the Naval Academy this year and Coach Phillips and the team expect a very close match then also.

Team Captain, George L. Hoffman, holder of the Eastern Intercollegiate record for the rope dimb, will be performing as the number one man on the horizontal bar also. On the horse, Roy Grayson and Chuck Ransom are in the number one and two positions, respectively, with Bill DeMers and Chuck Lindley fighting for the number three spot. Phil Rogers and Ken Dunwody will provide depth for the horizontal bar. For the rope climb. Snipe Hoffman leads the list with Marvin Schenker dimbing a close second. John Greene is holding down the number three spot in this category.

Jack Kays, Pat Billingsley and George Moffett are neck to neck for the goal of number one position on the parallel bars. On the rings, John Metcalf, Bob Schneider, Reg Machell and George Bruce will probably appear in that order. Dick Taylor is holding the number one mmbling position, followed by Bill Jones and Ray Gornick.

NAVAL

ACADEMY GYMNASTICS COACHES

CHESTER W. PHILLIPS Head Coach Phillips came to the Naval Academy in 1939—two years after graduating from Temple University. While he was at Temple, he set a record by winning the Eastern Intercollegiate Ail-Around Championship THREE years in a row! In 1936, Chet was the number three man on the American Olympic Gym Team.

JOHN RAMMACKER Assistant Coach Rammacker graduated from Pennsylvania State College in 1932, where he was a student coach in gym, fencing, and freshman soccer. He was all set to participate in the 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles, but he was disqualified because he had coached as a smdent In 1940, he took sixth place in the National Turner Competition at Springfield, Massachusetts and missed first place by 0.8 of a point! Assistant coach Rammacker came to the Naval Academy in 1943.

1948 SCHEDULE 31 Jan.—Lock Haven Teachers College at Annapolis.

14 Feb.—Delaware at Annapolis.

21 Feb.—Temple at Annapolis.

28 Feb.—Penn State at State College, Pa. 6 Mar.—Army at Annapolis.

13 Mar.—Eastern Intercollegiate Championships at West Point N. Y.

MARCH,

1948

HORSE William H. DeMers—'50—Graduated from Troy High School, Troy, N. Y. Served 18 months as S2/c before going to NAPS to prepare for the Naval Academy. Had no previous experience in gym. Year round hobby is photography.

Roy R. Grayson—'49—Roy had no previous gym training. Served 14 months as a private in AAF and as S2/c before entering Annapolis. Placed fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Meet last year. Attended Jay High School, Jay, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma University.

Charles B. Lindley—'50—Chuck is from Danville, Illinois, where in high school he won his letters in swimming, wrestling, and football. Following up at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, and at the University of South Carolina, Chuck played varsity football. In his spare time he enjoys reading, but when the opportunity presents itself he likes hunting.

Charles E. Ransom—'48—Chuck was captain of ttack and basketball teams at Sea Cliff High School, Sea Cliff, N. Y. He attended the Braden School before entering the Academy.

Meticulous in his work. Likes to relax with popular records.

PARALLEL BARS Patrick P. Billingsley—'48—Pat earned football letters at Washington High School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Attended University of Kansas and University of Texas.

One of our top P-bar men.

Jack C. Kays—'48—A remrning N winner, "Pink" prepared for Annapolis at Western High School, Washington, D. C, and Columbia Preparatory School. A polished performer on the parallel bars.

George L. Moffett—'49—Up on the P-bars Moff shows plenty of ability and determination. Left Navy V-5 unit at Penn State to enter the Academy. Wants aviation after graduation. Attended CoUingswood High School, CoUingswood, N. J.

the University of Pa., before coming to Annapolis. Head cheerleader for 1947-1948. He lettered in golf in high school.

RINGS George D. Bruce—'50—Winner of track and cross countty lettets at Bronxville High School, Bronxville, N. Y. George is new at the flying rings. He was S-l/c in the Navy prior to enttance into the Academy.

Reginald M. Machell—'49—Reg prepared for Annapolis at Rutherford Preparatory School in Long Beach, California. Had no gym experience before his Plebe year. Is player-manager of the squad.

John T. Metcalf—'49—"Met" attended Phillips Academy, Middlebury College, and M.I.T. before coming to the Academy. Father was a gymnast at Yale. Played lacrosse and tried for gym at M.I.T. Robert P. Schneider—'50—^Attended University of Virginia and Newport Catholic High School, Newport, Ky. Lettered in basketball in high school and played one year of varsity football at University of Va. TUMBLING Raymond I. Gornik—'48—From Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended St Ignatius High School. Was an aviation cadet before entering the Academy. Editor of The Log. Herman W. Jones—'49—One of last year's lettermen. Bill is from New Castie, Indiana.

Attended Purdue University where his father played football and baseball. Was also an aviation cadet prior to entrance into the Academy.

Richard C. Morrow—'48—"Red" lettered in football at John Harris High School in Harrisburg, Pa. He attended Penn State before entering the Academy. Was number one mmbler until a broken hand forced him out for the season.

Richard E. Taylor,—'50—Had no previous experience but has worked up to the munber two mmbling spot. Came to Annapolis from Westbrook High School, Portland, Maine.

Music Shows Its ROPE William D. Bassett Jr.—'49—Bill came to the Academy from Point Lora High School, San Diego, California. Steady worker at the rope climb. Puts the shot on track team.

Known as "Chief" because of Indian look.

John L. Greene—'49—^Johnny came to the Academy from Georgia Tech V-12 unit. Attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta.

Works hard at rope climb.

George L. Hoffman—'48—Holds Eastern Intercollegiate rope climb record. Captain of this year's squad. Snipe also competes in track. He was in Navy for three years, two of which were spent overseas, before entering the Academy.

Marvin L. Schenker—'50—Chimp discovered his rope climbing abilities in company gym during Plebe year. Placed fifth in the Eastern Intercollegiates a few months later.

Lettered in gym at Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, N. Y. Was of Plebe gym team.

HORIZONTAL BARS Kenneth W. Dunwoody—'48—Ken was a swimmer at Georgia Tech prior to entrance into the Academy. His father also lettered at Ga. Tech in track and basketball. Also attended Darlington School for Boys.

Joseph P. Rogers, Jr.—'48—Phil attended Germantown High School in Philadelphia and

Teeth

One Sunday morning in the Spring of 1891, while the USS MOHICAN was tied up at the sea-wall of the Mare Island Navy Yard, preparations were under-way for "rigging church." The Cabin and ward room chairs and many benches were in place on the quarter deck and the after capstan had been flag draped to serve as a pulpit Most of the ship's officets and some of the yard families had already gathered on deck and Chaplain McAlister was waiting only for the arrival of the portable organ from the station chapel to commence the Service.

A cart bearing that important accessory soon hove in sight and came alongside. The organ was too large to pass between the gangway head-boards and so a fall was made fast in the main rigging and it was whipped over the hammock nettings, and so inboard. The Officer of the Deck was "Horse" Tyler, a well beloved raconteur and wit, who probably rather enjoyed the solemn and churchly setting. "Ease her in a bit more."—"Lower away handsomely."—"Check her"; came in subdued and reverent tone, followed almost immediately by "sotto voce," "No! No! damn it, not that way, swing her 'round!—TEETH AFT!!"

A. FARENHOLT,

Rear Admiral, MC US Navy, Retd.

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WiSHINGTOI NOTES

By Ralph Sentman '25

OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDY ABROAD Two laws, popularly known as the GI Bill and the Fulbright Act, provide Federal assistance to veterans and, in addition, there are many nongovernmental programs which may provide further aid.

GI BILL OF RIGHTS The Department of State and the Veterans Administration cooperate in a policy of aiding quahfied veterans who desire to study abroad under the GI Bill.

Under the provisions of that law, a veteran may attend any foreign educational instimtion which has been approved by the Veterans Administration. No approval of individual veterans is necessary. Therefore, a veteran desiring to enroll in a foreign educational instimtion under the GI Bill should request from the Foreign Education Division, Veterans Administration, Washington 25, D. C, a list of approved instimtions in the country in which he contemplates smdying and from it select the instimtion which he wishes to attend.

Nearly thirteen hundred such foreign instimtions have been approved by the VA. (Such education does not include on-the-job apprenticeship training.) These approved instimtions include many of the world's leading universities, colleges and professional schools, as well as art and music conservatories, technical schools and other specialized instimtions.

A veteran must initiate aU prior arrangements with the foreign educational instimtion and should obtain a letter from the instimtion stating that he will be accepted as a smdent under the GI Bill in a chosen course.

Application for education or training (Form 9-1950) should then be submitted to the nearest VA Regional Office, which will execute the Certificate of Eligibility and Entitlement Such a certificate is valid for entrance to approved instimtions. A veteran who is now a resident of a foreign country should submit his application for education or training through an American diplomatic or consular representative, to the Foreign Education Division, Veterans Administration, Washington 25, D. C. For further information on this subject, either contact the Alumni Association or write directly to the Veterans Administration, Washington 25, D. C. FULBRIGHT ACT Under the provisions of Public Law 584, 79th Congress, the Department of State is authorized to utilize certain foreign currencies and credits acquired through the sale of surplus property abroad for programs of educational exchange. The programs which will become operative between the United States and those countries in which such credit is

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acquired, will be established after conclusion of the necessary agreements with the foreign governments concerned.

A Board of Foreign Scholarships, authorized by the Act, was appointed by President Truman on 17 July 1947. The Board will act on the final selection of applicants after special regional committees or boards have screened all candidates for scholarships. In establishing the basic qualifications for applicants, the Board has emphasized that veterans of World War I and II are to be given preference, provided their educational backgrounds are about equal to that of other applicants. Graduate smdents of American instimtions will also be given preference. Junior and senior college smdents will be given consideration for scholarships under exceptional circumstances.

American teachers and other educators are also eligible for scholarships.

The Instimte of International Education in New York City will make a smdy of the faaors involved in the selection of smdent applicants and will develop funher qualifications for selection. The U. S. Office of Education will devise an administrative plan for the qualifications in the selection of teachers.

Other educational instimtions will set standards for the selection of research workers and professors. All of these programs will be undertaken in cooperation with the Department of State. Final approval of all plans will be made by the Board of Foreign Scholarships.

The fields of smdy will indude the work of librarians, museum personnel, educational motion picture specialists, and agriculmral extension consultants, provided the courses are attached to an instimtion of higher learning.

Financial assistance may be provided for U. S. citizens to smdy in educational instimtions in participating foreign countries, and for citizens of those countries to smdy in American instimtions abroad and for travel to the United States for purposes of smdy as long as they would not displace American smdents.

Financial assistance to U. S. students may take the form of payment for transportation, mition, maintenance and other expenses incident to scholastic activities. AU expendimres must be made in foreign currencies and the provisions of the Act do not, therefore, extend to the expenses of foreign or U. S. dtizens except where these expenses are payable in foreign currencies. Th amount of financial assist-

ance to students will, in all probability, vary in accordance with the needs of the individuals.

Under present VA poUcy, a veteran may be able to qualify for combined benefits of the GI BiU and the Fulbright Act, since the funds used to administer the Fulbright Act were not obtained from U. S. Government appropriations.

As negotiation of the executive agreements necessary to set the plan in operation has started, it is expected that the acmal exchanges wiU start at the opening of the academic year in die faU of 1948.

Although applications are not now being accepted, further information, when available, will be sent to interested persons. Requests should be addressed to the Smdent and Trainee Branch, Division of International Exchange of Persons, Department of State, Washington 25, D.C. NONGOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS The following organizations will furnish information concerning nongovernmental assistance for smdy abroad in particular areas or fields. Most such assistance for smdy in foreign countries is restriaed to graduate smdents.

1. Instimte of International Education, 2 West Forty-fifth Street, New York 19, New York. (Any field of knowledge; summer schools; Junior Year abroad; espedally smdies in Europe and the American republics; Pan American World Airways travel fellowships.)

2. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York. (For research in any field of knowledge and for creative work in any of the fine arts, induding music.)

3. The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 116 East Sixty-fourth Street, New York 21, New York. (Arts and sdences; vocational field research—Scandinavian countries.)

4. The Rockefeller Foundation, 49 West Forty-ninth Street, New York 20, New York. (PubUc health, medical sciences, namral sciences, sodal sdences, humanities.)

5. American Coundl of Learned Societies, 1219 Sixteendi Street N. W., Washington 6, D. C. (Humanistic and social smdies.)

6. Julius Rosenwald Fund, 4901 Ellis Avenue, Chicago 15, Illinois. (Smdies in race relations.)

7. National Research Council, Constimtion Avenue and Twenty-first Street, Washington 25, D. C. (Scientific research.)

8. Social Science Research Council, 230 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York.

(Social sciences.)

9. Belgian American Educational Foundation, Inc., 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, New York. (Higher education, scientific research—Belgium.)

10. American Association of University Women, 1634 I Street N. W., Washington, D. C. (Graduate smdy—women only.)

11. Rhodes Scholarships, American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees, Institute for Advanced Smdy, Princeton, New Jersey.

(Any field—for smdy at Oxford.)

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ACH day adds more job oppormnities to our ever-increasing list of available openings. How do you like these for examples:

Jobs! f

WASHINGTON, D. C. —Although my appointment as Assistant Superintendent of the Maryland State Reformatory for Males at Breathedsville, Maryland, was announced in the papers last Sunday, it was not until Thursday of this past week that I received the news officially—I will be in your office tomorrow to pay you my placement fee—as a matter of conjecmre, I am probably one of the very few, if not the only Academy graduate, engaged in correctional work. It really is an interesting and worthwhile field for one must be or try to be a combination of a psychologist, a teacher and a lawyer as well as an administrator. With best wishes, I am Sincerely, W. E. MAXWELL,

Lt Colond, USMC (Ret), Class of 1920.

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Through the efforts of your employment service and as a direct result of your good advice, I have been offered a position with the duPont Company, which I have accepted.

I wish to thank you for your help and for your sound counsel which you gave me at the interview you held in your office. I went to Wilmington the next day and the job materialized from that visit.

The position is at the Edge Moor Plant for the manufacmre of paint pigment and I am to be employed as a supervisor.

Gratefully yours, EDMUND R. MORGAN,

Class of 1944.

USS OREGON CITY

—I concluded an agreement yesterday whereby I will begin work as soon as 1 am released by the Navy Department, in the position of assistant bulletin editor in the Publicity Division of the Foxboro Company, in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

I wish to take this opjwrmnity to offer you my sincere thanks and appreciation for the invaluable assistance which your service has given me. I am happy to note the expansion of your service, and wish you continued success in assisting othet former officers of the Armed Services.

Sincerely, H. T. LAWRENCE,

Lt (jg) USN, Class of 1945.

MARCH,

1948

Mechanical Engineer—large Eastern manufacturer—for the design of mechanical controls, servo-mechanisms and other control devices for development work on underwater ordnance—salary $4200.

Sales Engineer—large Eastern manufacturer of electrical equipment—must be graduate electrical engineer—will consider young graduates—salary $300 per month.

Mechanical Engineer—Federal Government— four years progressively professional engineering experience—salary $5905.

Mathematics Teachei—one of country's foremost preparatory schools—must be single and under thirty—salaty open.

Supt. Marine Engineering Division—large Eastern company—salary $9000.

Office Manager—large manufactuier oil field equipment—trainee status—must have engineering background. Salary open.

Sales Manager—large manufacturer of pumps and allied equipment—must be engineering graduate with selling experience—salary $15,000.

Electronic Engineer—aircraft manufacmrer— salaty $7500.

Supervisory Engineer—large Eastern utilities company—work involves turbines and allied equipment—must be under 40—salary open.

Construction Engineer—midwest—supervise heavy construction, including concrete— salary $7500.

Sales Engineer—distributor electronics equipment—central Atlantic area—salary $10,000.

Administrative Assistant—Fedetal Government—Padfic Ocean area—salary $7200.

Plant Engineer and Supervisor—large hospital—salary $7500.

Instructor Electrical Engineer—large midwestern university—to teach power courses —salary open.

Salesman—non-ferrous metals industry—3 to 6 months' tiaining—starting salary $3500.

Plant Engineer—large chemical firm—preliminary training—young graduates—salary $200 a month.

REMEMBER—NOPS IS THE TOPS NAVAL OFFICERS PLACEMENT SERVICE, INC. Suite 427—1129 Vermont Avenue, N. W. Washington 5, D. C. Tdephone: EXecutive 5181 or 5183

Jobs!

Jobs!

EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS This is to inform you that I have accepted a position with the General Electric Company —inclosed please find check to cover my signed agreement.

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the services rendered—and wish you continued success in the Service. I believe it is a wonderful thing what with its guiding lost sheep from the wilderness.

With kindest personal regards and thanking you once again, 1 remain Very truly yours, VICTOR P. FINOS,

Class of 1946.

CORNELIAN, GEORGIA I anticipate employment at Sears, Roebuck and Company. I expect to start work 16 January and within thiee days of actual commencement of work, I shall mail money as per contract. Also, I shall inform you of all developments, status of other applications, etc. "Anticipatory thanks."

Very tiuly yours, T. H. BATCHELDER,

Class of 1946.

"The check was received" SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND In confirmation of our telephone conversation last night, I've taken a job with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as editor of a Navy magazine—Since I got this job through your efforts, I am only too happy to send you this check and I thank you for thinking of me in connection with the other position we discussed last night.

Sincerely, FELIX E. AVERILL, JR.,

Lt Comdr., USNR. LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA —I am happy to be able to tell you I have accepted a position in the Watch Design section of the Hamilton Watch Company and so far seems to be just what I wanted.

I want to thank you for everything you have done in helping me find a position in civilian life. The Naval Officers Placement Setvice offers a fine service and I shall continue to recommend it to all my friends.

Yours very truly, HARWELL B . THOMPSON,

Class of 1946.

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L S. I L ILlllIM ASSOCIITIO^ . 8 . « ^

/tuoaatia^

Dinner meetings held the first Monday of each month at the Cincinnati Club.

Secretary, Mr. A. W. Buffiington, '22, 1828 Camden Parkway, South Pasadena, Calif.

CLEVELAND

LOUISVILLE Mr. Churchill Humphry, '07, 4095 Massier Avenue, Louisville 7, Kenmcky.

President Mr. Ardmr K. Blough, '24, 731 Medill Avenue, Massillon, Ohio.

Secretary, Mr. Adolph Bednar, '24, 541 Malvern Road, Akron, Ohio.

Dinner meetings held on the last Thursday of each month.

President Mr. G. A. Mattucd, '24, 14725 Lake Avenue, Lakewood 7, Ohio.

Secretary, Mr. A. Sidney Morton, '39, c/o Babcock & Wilcox Co., 1515 Guardian Building, Cleveland, Ohio.

Chairman, Welcoming Committee, A. S. Morton, '39, c/o Babcock & Wilcox Co., 1515 Guardian Bldg., Cleveland 14, Ohio.

Meetings held at 12:00 noon at the Hickory Grill, 929 Chester Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, on the third Wednesday of each month.

AISISAPOLfS

(O LORADO

President Capt. Robert B. Pirie, USN, '26, 12 Porter Road, USNA, Annapolis, Md. Secretary, Professor W. E. Farrell, '10, 21 Southgate Avenue, Annapolis, Md. Meetings held the second Wednesday of each month at 8:00 P.M. at Alumni House, Annapolis.

President Mr. J. M. Lewis, '30, 827 Grant Street, Denver 3, Colorado.

Secretary, Mr. E. F. Helmkamp, '20, 475 Garfield St., Denver, Colorado.

Meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The time varies as it is sometimes a luncheon meeting and other times a dinner meeting.

When ciianges occur within the Brandt Associations, such as officers or time and place of meetings, please inform the editors at Alumni House.

AKROIS

ATLANTA

DALLAS

President, Mr. Felix de Golian, Jr., '37, Secretary, Mr. Brenton Field, '25, Post Golian Steel and Iron Company, Atlanta 1, Office Box 9088, Dallas, Texas.

Ga. Meets on Wednesday or "family nights at Secretary, Capt. E. T. Neale, USN, '24, the Dallas N.A.S.—bar, buffet and bingo."

Naval Air Station, Adanta, Georgia.

Meetings held first Friday night of each DETROIT month. Officers' Club, Naval Air Station, President, Mr. D. C. Wilkerson, '20, GenAdanta, Georgia. eral Motors Corporation, 3044 West Grand Blvd., Detroit 2, Michigan.

BALTIMORE Regular meetings held the first Thursday President Mr. Delano J. Fitzgerald, '27, of each month.

203 Taplow Road, Baltimore 12, Maryland.

Secretary, Mr. C. Ridgely Lamdin, '21, 4414 Roland Avenue, Baltimote, Maryland.

Meetings held on the Tuesday nearest the 15th of each month at the Hotel Stafford, Baltimore, Maryland, at 7:00 P. M.

President, Capt B. W. Chippendale, USN, '15, 717 Raleigh Ave., Norfolk, Va. Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. W. T. Hastings, Jr., '29, 7218 Ralph St, Norfolk 5, Va.

BIRMIISGHAM

HOUSTON

Chairman, Mr. Leon Hamrick, '22, SteinerRouse and Co., Brown Marx Bldg., 2008 First Avenue North, Birmingham, Ala.

President, Comdr. Charles A. Whiteford, USN-Ret., '21, 2242 Dryden Road, Houston 5, Texas.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. William E. Ford, '29, 2200 Gulf Building, Houston, Texas.

Meetings held on call of Secretary.

BOSTON President M t W. E. Haycock, '22, General Electric Company, 140 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Secretary, Mr. George C. King, '24, Boston Edison Company, 30 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Luncheon meetings held the first Wednesday of each month at the Boston City Club, 14 Somerset Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

CHICAGO President M t Leicester N. Baker, '23, Post Office Box 343, Chicago, Illinois.

Secretary, Mr. Ray D. Sullivan, '22, 21 Imperial Street, Park Ridge, Illinois.

CINCINNATI President, Mr. G. H. Bowman, '19, Box 118, R. R. 4, Turkey Foot Road, Covington, Kentucky.

Secretary, Mr. W. H. MacConnell, '41, 4070 Egbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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HAMPTON

ROADS

INDIANAPOLIS Chairman, Capt. F. A. Graf, Naval Armory, 30th and White River Indianapolis 8, Ind. Meetings held on the third Monday of each month. 12:15 at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

KANSAS

CITY

President M t Ralph W. Hok, '12, 1714 W. 64th St., Kansas City 5, Mo. Secretary, Mr. J. E. Taylor, '37, 503 Dwight Bldg., Kansas City 6, Mo. Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Mo., George R. Turner, '22, 1918 Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo. Meetings held at noon on the second Monday of each month at the University Club.

LOS ANGELES President, Mr. R. McC. Beanfield, '08, 619 Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles 15, Calif.

MILWAUKEE President, Mr. W. F. Kurfess, '11, 2549 N. Terrace Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wise.

Secretaty-Treasurer, Mr. Jim Wheeler, Jr., '45, 744 N. 4th Street, Milwaukee, Wise.

Meetmgs held on the first Wednesday of each month at the Cudworth Post 1756 N. Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at 6:30 P. M.

NEW

YORK

President M t W. B. Jupp, '13, 26 Broadway, New York 4, New York.

Secretary, Mr. John C. Barron, '45, 162 East 86th Street, New York 28, New York.

Meetings held at Schwartz's Restaurant, 51 Broad St., New York, at 12:30 P. M. on the second Tuesday of each month.

PENSACOLA Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Mr. Will J. Davis, Chamber of Commerce, 37 E. Garden St., Pensacola, Fla.

PHILADELPHIA President, Mr. Scott G. Lamb, '19, 1224 Arch St., Phila. 7, Penna.

Secretary, Mr. J. Ross Allen, Jr., '44, Box Q, Devon, Penna.

Dinner meetings held on the third Friday of each month at the Officers Mess, Navy Yard.

PITTSBURGH President, Mr. Clarence J. Moore, '29, Electric Storage Battery Co., 102 Frick Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Secretary, Capt B. A. Hartt, '20, InspectorInstfuctor, U. S. Naval Reserve, Old Post Office Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

ROCHESTER Mr. Luke £. White, '28, 340 Flint Avenue.

Rochester 8, New York.

Meetings usually held the first Monday ot each month. Members are notified in advance of the time and place.

SAN DIEGO President, Comdr. Max I. Black, USN-Ret, '21, Room 301, Civic Centet Building, County of San Diego, San Diego, Calif.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. R, M. Daisley, '2S. Box 215, Point Loma Station, San Diego 6, Calif.

Regular monthly dinner meetings held alternately in Coronado and San Diego. Mem bets are notified by mail.

SAN

FRANCISCO

President Mr. Clyde W. King, '22, 448 Florence Avenue, Oakland 1 1, Calif.

Secretary, Mr. John H. Falge, '12, 1305 Lombard Street, San Francisco 9, Calif.

Dinner meetings held at the Commissioned Officers Club, Treasure Island, at 6:30 P. M on the first Wednesday of each month.

SEATTLE President M t B. B. Cassels, 2437 Lake Washington Blvd., No. Seattle 2, Wash.

Secretaty, Mr. Ken Borgen, '24, 5334 West Lauder St, Seatde 6, Wash.

Chairmans, Welcoming Committee, B. B. Cassels, 2437 Lake Washington Blvd., No., Seattle, Washington, and Mr. R. R. Fox, '22, 12141 23rd Ave., No., Seattle, Wash.

Meetings held on the first Monday of each month at 6.00 P. M. B. O. Q., Naval Station, Pier 91, Seattle, Wash.

ST. LOUIS President, Mr. William P. Kellogg, '21, 4349 Westminster Lane, St. Louis 8, Mo. Secretary, Mr. William M. Holland, '49, 3841 Flora Place, St Louis 10, Missouri.

Meetings held on the second Friday of each month.

WASHINGTON, D. C. President R. Adm. H. B. Miller, ( R e t ) , '24, 2500 Que St, N. W., Apt 231, Washington, D. C. Acting Secretary, Mr. Reginald C. Power, '35, 3713â&#x20AC;&#x201D;"T" St, N. W., Washington 7, DC. Meetings held the third Thursday in the month, 12:30 P. M., Roger Smith Hotel, 18th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C.

On the Bulletin Board {Continued from page 43) gram was sponsored by the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation.

The Tuesday, 17 February broadcast "Who's Here at the Naval Academy," featured Miss Hden HaU interviewing Mrs. WalUs F. Petersenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the only skipper's wife living aboard a commissioned U. S. Naval vessel. The program was heard over WANN at 12:30 o'clock, Mumal Broadcasting System.

Captain Petersen, USN, is the commanding officer of the station-ship REINA MERCEDES, captured during the War of 1898. Standing by was the Naval Academy Band.

On Tuesday, 24 Feb., Miss Hall interviewed George Sauer, new football coach, on Navy's forthcoming pigskin season.

The Tuesday, 2 March program, had Miss Hall interviewing Midshipman Aubrey LinvUle Loeffler, 1st class, who talked on the spring musical club produaion, "Who's Dreaming."

On 9 March she will interview Col. Lowell English, USMC, on his new course in leadership at the Naval Academy.

CONCERT The thifd in the series of Naval Academy Concert programs was presented Samrday night, 14 Feb., when Donald Dame and Anna Kaskas gave a pleasing performance in Dahlgren Hall.

Miss Kaskas, an American contralto, starred in opera at the Metropolitan and has appeared with the greatest symphony orchestras in the country, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Boston and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras.

Mr. Dame, a 28-year-old tenor, is considered one of the best voices at the Metropolitan.

He has appeared in opera, over the air and on the concert stage.

The last of the programs will be held the night of 20 March, when Marina Svetlova,

MARCH,

1948

prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera Association, appears with two members of her company.

On Sunday, 4 April, the Midshipmen Choir will present a vesper service at the National Cathedral, Washington, after which they will sing at the White House from 6:30 to 7 P.M. as guests of President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman and a group of their friends.

Midshipman Frederick C. Jackson, Jr., Durham, N. H., is the midshipman in charge of the choir.

Choirmaster is Asst. Prof. Donald Gilley who is also the Chapel organist. His official title is that of Director of Music for the Midshipmen.

Prof. Gilley came to the academy in 1944 from Worcester, Mass., where he had been minister of music at the largest Protestant church in New England, the Wesley Methodist Church. Prior to that he was at the Jordan Conservatory, one of the schools at Butler University, Indianapolis. He is a native of Stoughton, Wis., and is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

Beginning Sunday, 15 Feb., Prof. Gilley will present a series of six Lenten organ recitals in the Naval Academy Chapel, from 4 to 6 P.M. The programs will be broadcast over WANN, affiliated with a national network.

R. Adm. Train said he had been requested by the commander-in-chief of the Military Order of the World Wars to organize the local chapter.

The Annapolis Branch of the Naval Academy Alumni Association met Thursday night, 12 Feb., in the North Severn Officers' Club at a dinner meeting, with Edgar E. "Rip" Miller as speaker. Mr. Miller is assistant director of athletics at the academy.

Capt Robert B. Pirie is president of the branch.

NAVY WIVES

A panel discussion on the European recovery plan was heard by members of the Naval Post Graduate School Women's Club, which met Thursday, 12 Feb., in the Officers' Town Club.

Taking part in the program were three members of the Anne Arundel County League of Women Votets, Mrs. J. M. P. Wright, international chairman, Mrs. James Cutting and Mts. Samuel K. Groseclose.

During the afternoon, members brought clothing, magazines, playing cards, old sheeting, Christmas cards and money which will be distributed to needy families, with the money going for CARE packages sent to Europe.

Chairman of the social service committee in chatge of the donations was Mrs. Carl E. ALUMNI HOUSE Menneken, and members of her committee included Mrs. Sidney H. Kalmbach, Mrs. The T.O.P. girls were right on top at the Charles C Torrance, Mrs. George D. Marshall, House this month . . . there was the mother- Jr. daughter Valentine tea held on Tuesday, 10 Following the program, tea was served with Feb., with Sally Welch in charge of arrange- Mrs. John J. Kircher and Mrs. William M. ments . . . red hearts were used as invita- Mebane pouring, and assisting were Mrs. Giltions, and as decorations for the libtary where bert S. Kinney, Mrs. Lawrence E. Kinsler, the affair was held. About fifty mothers and Mrs. Henry Kohler, Mrs. William J. Kotsch, daughters attended.

Mrs. Frank E. LaCauza, Mrs. George H. Lee, Assisting during the tea hour were Enid Mrs. Henry F. Maling and Mrs. George D. Vose, Betsy Rogers, Betty Roberts and Vir- Marshall, Jr. Mrs. Ford L. Wilkinson, Jr., is president ginia Compton. Sandwiches and cakes were of the club, and Mis. Herman A. Spanagel, heart-shaped.

And on Samrday, 14 Feb., the girls held honorary president. Mrs. J. M. P. Wright is a tea fight in the House, with Betsy Mattie program chairman, and Mrs. Peyton Cunningin charge of arrangements. Midshipmen of ham, hospitality.

Mrs. G. R. Giet, membership chairman, the first, second and third classes were on has been hostess at a series of teas on Fridays hand from 3 to 6 P.M. Among the members attending were Ed- in her home at Ferry Farms to inttoduce new wina Gladden, Mary Rule, Pat Halpine, Doro- memt)ers of the club to old members.

A check for $500 was given the Anne thy Emery, Margaret Harrington, Donna Zimmerli, Mary Lou and Jacqueline Weber, Fay Arundel County health officer to go to the Taylor, Marjorie Hayter and Betty Schu- Damon Runyon Cancer Fund by the Naval Academy Women's Club at their Tuesday, 3 macher.

Feb. meeting in the North Severn Officers' Betsy Rogers is president of T.O.P. The book jeview group of the Naval Club. The money was raised by the Drama Academy Women's Club met Monday, 9 Feb., group, with Mrs. Leon F. Brown, chairman, in the House, with Mrs. Ernest K. Gatcombe when a play "Hay Fever" was recently given reviewing Abigail Adams, and Miss Esther in Mahan Hall. An additional $25 check was King, librarian of the Annapolis Public Li- also presented by a member who wished to remain anonymous. brary, reviewing The Proper Bostonians.

Mrs. Rollo N. Norgaard presided at the Hostesses were Mrs. J. R. Heverly, Mrs. W. M. Hodges and Mrs. Daniel Healy. Mrs. meeting, and the guest speaker was R. HamParker Armstrong is chairman of the group. mond Elliott, editor of the Annapolis EveLt Comdr. and Mrs. George W. Folta were ning Capital and Maryland Gazette. The edihosts at the House at the regular Sunday cock- tor gave a newspaper man's opinion of how tail party the first of the month. The com- the United States stands in the world picmre mander is attending the Naval Post Graduate today.

A luncheon preceded the meeting when School.

Hosts recently were Capt. and Mrs. Ross F. guests included John W. Basil, president of the Annapolis (Zhamber of Commerce; Mr. Collins.

Rear Admiral Harold C. Train was in Elliott; Mr. William J. French, county health charge of the Monday, 23 February meet- officer; Capt. E. R. Morrissey, tteasurer of the ing in the House, when attending weie vet- Chamber of Commerce; Capt H. A. Baldridge, Director of the Naval Academy Museum; Mrs. erans of both World Wars.

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Brown; Mrs. John T. Bowers; Mrs. E. M. Jackson, Sr.; Mrs. H. M. Gwynn; Mrs. O. W. Heineman of Philadelphia; Miss Kathleen Asplin and Mrs. Orval H. Polk.

Also at luncheon were the officers and standing committee chairmen of the club.

Miss Asplin played several violin solos, accompanied by Mrs. Polk during the afternoon's progam.

During the tea hOur, those pouring were Mrs. C. L. Blew, Mrs. Arthur Burneston Owens, Mrs. Carl Roderbourg, Mrs. Jackson, St, and Mrs. Bowers.

Assisting were Mrs. C. W. Seekins, Mrs. Allan Smith, Mrs. J. R. Smithson, Mrs. William Pessin, Mrs. C. C. Torrance, Mrs. J. R. Tucker and Mrs. Myron G. Turner.

Mrs. Charles W. Travis, child smdy chairman, asked for donations of clothing for persons of all ages needed by worthy families.

Mrs. C. P. Brady, community service chairman, asked that magazines and playing cards be donated by members for the hospital.

The next meeting of the club on Tuesday, 2 March, will have Dr. H. C. "Curly" Byrd, president of the University of Maryland, as guest speaker.

The 141st anniversary of the birthday of General Robert E. Lee was the cxrcasion of the meeting of the William H. Murray Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, which met in the home of Comdr. and Mrs. Chester E. Lewis, Southgate avenue.

Mrs. Lewis, program chairman, presented Mr. John S. Kieffer, president of St. John's College, whose grandfather had a part in Lee's education as an instructor at West Point when Lee was a cadet. The Rev. Dr. James M. Magruder gave the invcxration.

UDC Crosses of Military Service were bestowed upon three former residents of Annapolis, all veterans of World War II, whose mothers are members of the chapter.

Receiving crosses for their sons were Mrs. PhiUp Stuart Ball, for PhUip Smart BaU, Jr., Mrs. Lewis for Richard Quarles Lewis, and Comdr. George B. Keester, for George Bennett Keester, Jr. During the tea hour, Mrs. James M. Magruder and Mrs. J. LeVoy Hill presided.

A training course, qualifying volunteers for work in Navy Relief, is being given at the Naval Academy. Headquarters in Washington offered the services of an experienced social worker to aid in the course, and the Naval Academy Auxiliary of the Navy Relief Society have assembled a large class.

Mrs. James L. HoUoway, Jr., wife of the Superintendent, is the Chairman of the Volunteer women of the Naval Academy Auxiliary.

NAVY JUNIORS Miss Sibyl Vincent Godfrey, daughter of Capt. Vincent Hubbard Godfrey, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Godfrey, of Pittsburgh, was presented by her grandmother, Mrs. Arthur Burneston Owens, at a reception on Samrday, 7 Feb., from the hours of 4 to 6. The reception was held in the home of Mrs. Owens on Southgate avenue.

Miss Godfrey was formally presented in Pittsburgh at the Cinderella Cotillon on Thanksgiving Eve in the University Club. She is now attending Margaret Morrison College, Pittsburgh, and formerly attended the Woodward School in Annapolis and Fairfax Hall, Waynesboro, Va.

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Roses and spring flowers filled the rooms of the house, with the mantd in the living room banked with mlips, jonquils, snapdragons, roses and lavender stock. The honoree, in white faille, wore orchids in her hair, and carried in succession a number of oldfashioned bouquets. The orchids, also draped on the skirt of her gown, were flown from Honolulu.

Assisting during the afternoon were Mrs. William Preston Lane, Jr., Mrs. James L. Holloway, Jr., Mrs. Frank Trenwith Ward, Mrs. Gordon Everett, Mrs. Harry A. Baldridge, Mrs. R. M. Watt, Washington; Mrs. Benjamin H. Adams, Mrs. William P. Upshur, Mrs. Basil N. Rittenhouse, Mrs. Leon F. Brown and Mrs. Schamyl Cochran.

Also, Mrs. Oliver G. Kirk, Mrs. Spencer Dickinson, Mrs. Hubert Hayter, Mrs. Parker Armstrong, Mrs. William M. Hodges, Mrs. John L. Arrington, 2nd, Mrs. F. Richard Putnam, Mrs. John Holcomb and Miss Marjorie Hayter.

Among the many guests attending were Miss" Godfrey's godfather. Commodore R. Morgan Watt, Jr., and Miss Tina Watt from Washington.

EUzabeth H. Leggett, daughter of Capt. Wilson D. Leggett director of the Naval Experiment Station, and Mrs. Leggett, was named on the Dean's List at the University of North Carolina where she is a member of the junior class.

It was a party for the seventh and eighth graders of Wroxeter-on-the-Severn, held in the home of Capt. and Mrs. John E. Fradd of County Road, with daughter Dorothy Ann the hostess.

Games and dancing, plus sundaes, cakes and cokes, were on the house and attending were Sandra Pirie, Betsy Schmidt, Ann Cupp, Ronnie Westhofen, Hallie Hollister, Arthur and Pickett Wright, Bill Hamilton, Michael Jasperson, Dick Crisler and Bill Leggitt.

WEDDING BELLS Cox-Hargrove Miss Grace Whaley Hargrave, daughter of Capt. William Walter Hargrave (MC) USN, and Mrs. Hargrave, of Porter Road, and Lt. (jg) Harry Duffidd Cox (MC) USNR, die son of Dr. and Mrs. Russell M. Cox of Portsmouth, Va., were married Samrday, 31 Jan., in the Naval Academy Chapel. Chaplain Everett P. Wuebbens officiated the 4:30 P.M. ceremony.

Midshipman Calvin Norman sang "Because," with Prof. Donald C. Gilley at the organ.

The bride was given in marriage by her father. Matron of honor was her sister, Mrs. Byron M. Burbage, wife of Lt Burbage, USMC, Pensacola, Fla. Bridesmaids were Miss Charlotte Ewald, Annapolis, cousin of the bride; Miss Betty Frances Cox, sister of the bridegroom; Miss Marion Sankey, Montgomery, Ala., and Miss Caroline Stickney of Fort Dix, N. J. The latter two were Zeta Tau Alpha sorority sisters of the bride at the University of Alabama, from where she was graduated last spring.

Best man was Lt. (jg) James H. Manley (MC) USNR. Ushers were Lt (jg) John Gaul, Philadelphia; Lt. (jg) J. H. HoUowdl, Portsmouth (MC) USNR; Mr. Robert Rawles, Richmond, Va.; and Mr. Richard Cox, Washington.

A reception followed the ceremony in the Porter Road quarters of Captain and Mrs. Hargrave. Assisting weie Mrs. James L. Holloway, Jr., Mrs. Benjanjin H. Adams and Mrs. O. J. Mink, of Washington, D. C. Also, Mrs. W. F. James and Mrs. J. R. Perry, Annapolis, and Mrs. A. A. Marsteller, Mrs. J. H. Howard, Mrs. O. D. King and Mrs. Lamont Pugh, Washington.

Lieutenant Cox is a graduate of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., and received his medical training at the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia.

FoUowing a wedding trip to West Palm Beach, the couple now is at home in Portsmouth where Lt. Cox is attached to the Naval Hospital.

DeLoach-Raymond The wedding of Mrs. Marjorie Woodcock Raymond and Lt. Comdr. WilUam Ralph DeLoach, Jr., USN, took place Saturday, 7 Feb., in the home of Comdr. and Mrs. Henry D. Smrr at Silver Spring, Md. Chaplain Everett P. Wuebbens officiated the 3 o'clock ceremony.

Mrs. DeLoach is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Folsom Woodcock of Nfew London, Conn. She is the widow of Lt. Comdr.

Reginald Marbury Raymond, USN, who lost his life in the recent war. She has recendy been entertainment direaor of the North Severn Officers' Club.

Lt Comdr. DeLoach is the son of Mr. W. D. DeLoach and the late Mrs. DeLoach of Georgia. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy, Class of 1939.

The couple was attended by Miss Louise Woodcock of Rhode Island, sister of the bride, and Major Gay Thrash, USMC, Arlington, Va., best man.

Following a wedding trip to Sea Island, Ga., the couple wiU be at home in the Cooper Apartments. Comdr. DeLoach is currendy attached to the Naval Post Graduate School.

Anderson-Berger Miss Anne Buckley Berger, daughter of Mr. Roland H. Berger of Chevy Chase, Md., and Ensign James Lennon Anderson, USN, son of Mrs. WiUiam F. CanneUa, Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Mr. William C. Anderson of Forest HiUs, Long Island, were married Samrday, 31 Jan., in the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Msgr. Thomas G. Smythe offidated the 11 o'clock ceremony.

Escorted by her father, the bride wore a gown of ivory satin and carried a bouquet of roses, sweet peas and an orchid.

The bride's rwo sisters, Mrs. Walter U. Nicholas and Miss Lois Berger were matron and maid of honor, respectively. Bridesmaids were Miss Elaine Mahoney of Pordand, Me., Miss Joan Foley of Hartford, Conn., Miss Cecilia Butier, Lewiston, Me., and Mrs. WUUam A. McGowan.

Best man was the bridegroom's brother, Mr. William C. Anderson. Ushers were Roland H. Berger, Jr., brother of the bride; Wilbur S. Alderson, Walter U. Nicholas, Lewis Y. Buckingham, Jr. and Ensign John Raftery.

Following a reception in the Mayflower Hotel, the couple left for a wedding trip to Sea Island, Ga., and are now at home in Key West, Fla. Mrs. Anderson attended Holy Cross Academy and Trinity College. Ensign Anderson graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy class of 1947.

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BETROTHED Mr. and Mrs. William Tilghman Davidson of St. Margaret's have announced the engagement of their daughter, Nan Chapman, to Lt. Comdr. David Blackwell Rodman, the son of Mr, and Mrs. Guy H. Rodman of La Grange, lU. Lt Comdr. Rodman is currendy attached to the Naval Post Graduate School. He was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1937.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther B. Gaines of Melrose, Mass., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Ruth, to Mr. David Grant Winchell, the son of Prof, and Mrs. Homer B. Winchell of Round Bay. Prof. Winchell is attached to the Department of Languages at the U. S. Naval Academy.

Miss Gaines graduated from Mount Holyoke College last spring. Mr. Winchdl, following his graduation from Yale University in 1946, received his commission as an Ensign in the Naval Reserve. He is now conneaed with the General Electric Company in Pittsfield, Mass.

Prof, and Mrs. Alexander Dillingham of Thompson street announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth, to Mr. David Woodruff Savage, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Savage of Woodbury, Conn.

Miss DiUingham is a graduate of Southern Seminary and Junior College, Buena Vista, Va., Hood College, Frederick, Md., and the PhUadelphia School of Occupational Therapy.

For the past year she has been with the Connecticut Society for Crippled Children and Adults at Hartford.

Mr. Savage is a graduate of Yale University.

He served in both Adantic and Pacific theatres of war as an ensign in the Naval Reserve.

The wedding wiU take place in the spring.

GOINGS ON The Arthur D. Condons of Londontown Terrace, Edgewater, were hosts at dinner in the Mayflower Hotel preceding the reception given

by President and Mrs. Trvunan for the American Newspaper Women's Club, Washington, of which Mrs. Condon is a member.

Dinner guests included Vice Admiral W. W. Smith, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission, and Mrs. Smith; Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, Commander, Caribbean Sea Frontier, with headquarters at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Mrs. Condon's son, Frederick Drum Hunt, American consul to the French possessions in the Caiibbean area with headquarters at Martinique, F. W..I. Admiral Barbey commanded all amphibious operations in conneaion with General MacArthur's campaign in the Pacific. • The Condons—he's a Navy captain, retired—spent the Christmas holidays in Martiitique with Mr. and Mrs. Hunt . . .

Comdr. and Mrs. William O. Spears entertained members of the Department of Seamanship and Navigation at cocktails this month in their Southgate avenue home . . .

On hand were Capt Richard Stout, head of the department, and Mrs. Stout, and Capt.

Basil N. Rittenhouse, executive officer, and Mrs. Rittenhouse.

Also attending were Capt. and Mrs. Graham Bannerman of Portsmouth, Va. . . .

In town over the weekend were Comdr. and Mrs. John S. McCain, Jr., of Fairlington, Va. . . . the commander will be on his way to the West Coast come springtime . . .

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1948

Mrs. Aladuke B. Mewborn entertained inWILLARD EUGENE NEVE, '36, (Lt formally at tea on Wednesday, 11 Feb., at her Comdr. USN). Died 17 January 1948 in home on Aberdeen Qeek, South River . . . Charleston, S. C. this is the first of a series at homes . . .

It was a gay reunion on Samrday, 7 Feb., E. P. NICKINSON, '12, (Comdt USNfor the Class of 1932, when old grads and Ret) Died 17 January 1948 in die USNH, their wives held forth in the North Severn Pensacola, Fla. Officers' Mess . . . Comdr. John G. Spangler was in charge of arrangements.

JOSEPH F. SHEEHAN, '45, (Lt ( j g ) ) .

Special guests were the widows of four Died in a plane crash at sea, Atlantic area, members of the class, Mrs. Maximilian 16 January 1948.

Schmidt, Mrs. Truman Carpenter, Mrs. Hector deZayas and Mrs. Edwin William Hurst, VIRGINIUS E. CLARK, Class of 1907, disof Washington.

On hand were Comdr. and Mrs. Alton tinguished aeronautical engineer for the old Parker, Comdr. and Mrs. Michael B. O'Con- Army Air Corps and later in civil life, died nor, Comdr. and Mrs. D. I. Thomas, Comdr. 29 January in the Santa Monica, CaUfornia, and Mrs. Frank M. Parker, Comdr. and Mrs. Hospital. He had been ill for months from Thomas P. Lowndes, Comdr. and Mrs. T. M. a heart ailment His age was 62.

"Ginny" Clark was a wooden man who Fleck, Comdr. S. M. Archer, Prof, and Mrs. made good in a big way. Graduating in the E. R. Pinkerton, Comdr. D. R. Frankes.

Over from Washington were Comdr. and third section of 1907, he transferred to the Mrs. Lloyd Mustin, Comdr. and Mrs. M. T. Army (C.A.C.) rwo years later. He qualified Munger, Comdr. and Mrs. K. P. Letts, Comdr. as a pilot of Army aircraft in its infancy in and Mrs. E. D. Waters, Comdr. and Mrs. 1913 and was chosen for special instruction Harry Sosnoski, Comdr. and Mrs. Joseph Jaap, in air at M.I.T. He was chief of design for and the latter's sister, Miss Catherine Army aircraft from 1915 until after the first World War. Davies. . . .

Now in their new home at King George He became internationally famous for draftstreet are Mrs. Charles L. Westhofen and ing the air-foils for Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. daughters Sally and Ronnie.

Louis," Vought's "Corsair," Wright's "Apache" Comdr. Westhofen, recently attached to the and other record breaking planes built by Aviation Department of the Academy, is now Martin, Douglas, Curtiss, and Consolidated. executive officer of the USS ROOSEVELT, Nor- His last design work was for Col. Howard Hughes Aircraft Corporation. His was the folk.

Comdr. and Mrs. Eli T. Reich, recently of prize winning plane in the Navy competition Perry Circle, are guests of the latter's parents in 1922—a General Motors amphibian. He in Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley, prior to was one of the founders of Consolidated Airtheir leaving in another month for Turkey. craft of Buffalo.

Comdr. Reich will be on temporary duty in Ginny Clark was a Fellow of Instimte of New London until time for him to join the Aeronautical Sciences, a member of AutomoNaval Mission to Turkey. tive Engineers, American M. Engineers. He A round of parties preceded their departure wrote extensively on aeronautical sciences. . . . including that given by the Department of As a midshipman, Ginny was on the quiet Ordnance and Gunnery, of which the com- side. He was a fine football player in the B mander was a member, held at the Officers' squad and played second varsity baseball. He Town Club . . . on hand were Capt. Merle A. was a warm hearted classmate and the most Sawyer, head of the department, and Mrs. unboastful man in the Class.

L. J. G. Sawyer, and Comdr. Roy A. Newton, executive officer, and Mrs. Newton . . . then there CHARLES CLIFFORD GILL, '07, (Capt was the dinner given by Comdr. and Mrs. USN-Ret.) died 9 January at the Naval HosJohn A. Heath of Bowyer Road. pital, Pearl Harbor. He had been living in Honolulu since retirement after V-J Day. He is survived by his widow, his daughter, by his first marriage, Mrs. Floyd B. Schultz, the wife of Comdr. Floyd B. Schultz, and a son, Charles H. Gill. His age was 62.

Charlie Gill, known far and wide in the Navy as "Pop," was officer, scholar, athlete and gentleman. He played three years of varGEORGE W. BRASHEARS, '19, (Capt. sity baseball (shortstop) at the Academy and USN-Ret) Died 30 November 1947 in Burthere laid the ground work for his post-gradulingame, Calif. ation career as a nationally known tennis player. His motto for progress up the tennis CHARLES C. GILL, '07, (Capt. USN-Ret) ladder was "Never play anyone you can beat" Died 9 January 1948 at the Aiea Naval HosAs a Commander in the first World War, pital, Pearl Harbor, T. H. he served on the staff of Adm. Albert Gleaves.

THOMAS POWNALL GRIEST, '45, (Lt. His last sea duty was in command of the (jg). Died in a plane crash at Albemarle cruiser ASTORIA in 1938. During the recent Sound, North Carolina, on 9 January 1948. war, he organized the Naval R.O.T.C. unit at Yale and commanded it throughout. He was twice chosen for our Naval Mission to WILLIAM S. KURTZ, '33, (Lt. Comdr.

USN). Died 15 January 1941 in the U. S. Brazil, the second time as Chief of Mission.

Captain Gill wrote several articles which Naval Hospital, Canacao, P. I. appeared in the Naval Instimte Proceedings JAMES T. MATHEWS, '13, (R. Adm. and was recognized for his writings on Jut(CEC), USN-Ret.) Died 14 December 1947 land. His remains were interred at Arlington following cremation.

L. J. G. in the USNH, Bethesda, Maryland.

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Commobore ebbarb Hlopb, f r. as steam during the junior officer years of Edward Lloyd. He served in the transition era from sail to the White Squadron of the 1880's that preceded the batdeship building period just before the war with Spain.

Edward Lloyd served in the Frigate CONSTITUTION in 1880 and in the war with Spain, in the protected cruiser CHICAGO, first of the White Squadron. He was three times on duty at the Naval Academy and in the practice cruise squadron of the summer of 1904, he was Executive Officer of the batdeship MASSACHUSETTS, remembered by the Academy dasses of 1905, 1906 and 1907.

When Commodore Lloyd came to Annapolis on retirement, it was coming home to him.

All told, twelve of his adult years had been lived in or close to the Academy which in his Cadet days had a total enrollment of only 160. Litde about the Academy of 1845 had changedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Edward Lloyd could say that he grew with the Academy from the days of Secretary George Bancroft to that of Rear Admiral J. L. HoUoway, Jr. Commodore Lloyd lived as perfectiy befitted a retired commodore. Leaving the "quarterdeck" completely astern when he retired, he became immediately and thereafter the best-loved citizen of Annapolis. He was officer and gentieman to his finger tips. He gave no advice on how to "run the Nav^" nor the Naval Academy. He never claimed to have been an iron man in the days of wooden ships.

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OMMODORE Edward Lloyd, Jr., Naval Academy graduate in the Class of 1878, died in Annapolis on February 6th. He was in his ninety-first year and was the third oldest living graduate. He retired from the Navy on his own volition in 1911 shortly after being promoted to Captain. Existing law provided for advancement to the rank of Commodore. He is survived by his son, Edward, resident in New York. Mrs. Lloyd, to whom the Commodore was wed for fifty-five years, died in 1944.

Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1857, Edward Lloyd of distinguished Colonial

YATES STIRLING, JR., '92, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.) died at his home in Baltimore on 28 January. He would have been 76 years old next April. His father, the late R. Adm. Yates Stifling, dass of 1863, was the 545th Academy graduate. Yates Stirling, 3d, graduated in the class of 1926. Another son, Harry E., was of the class of 1940. The Admiral's brother, Comdr. A. G. Stirling, graduated in 1906.

After two years in the cruiser SAN FRANCISCO as a Naval Cadet, the then Ensign Stirl-

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Edward Lloyd, Jr., 1857-1948. Offidal U. S. Navy Photograph. ancestry, became the 1360th graduate of the Academy. In his graduating Class of only thirty-five Naval cadets was Heidemaro Namboo, Japanese "midshipman." Two engineers of '78 were Ira N. Hollis, later Harvard histoiian, and Hollis Cooley, famed University of Michigan engineer. A bilger from '78 who later enrolled at West Point and graduated was Stephen C. Rowan of "Message to Garcia" fame.

The U. S. Navy was as much under sail

ing had Spanish War service on board the DOLPHIN. In the insurrection days in the Philippines, he had duty in the little gunboat PARAGUA where among othet sea duty stations he took in the atmosphere for his series of six midshipmen novels. Among these were, "In China," "In Japan," "Afloat" and "In the Philippines."

Adm. Stirling's last sea duty was Commander Yangste Patrol and his last duty prior to retirement in 1936 (44 years service) was Commandant New York Navy Yard and Third Naval District. As a Captain, he com-

Commodore Lloyd's last home in Annapolis, he named Wye Lodge. His home from infancy to young manhood was Wye House on the Eastern Shore. Lloyd men from 1673 were noted in the political and social life of Maryland. Edward Lloyd V was Governor and U. S. Senator in Marjdand, the former, 18091811; the latter from 1826 to 1833.

Funeral honors for Commodore Lloyd, as ordered by Admiral Holloway, provided a battalion of Midshipmen, a battalion of U. S. Marines and Bluejackets and the Academy Band. The colors on the REINA MERCEDES on which he served in World War I were lowered to half mast. A salute of 11 guns was fired. Honorary pall-bearers included distinguished flag officers and captains in the Navy.

Interment took place in the Naval Academy Cemetery beside Mrs. Lloyd.

L. J. G.

manded the batdeship CONNECTICUT in 1920 and the batdeship NEW MEXICO in 1923. He was Commandant at Pearl Harbor during the tempestuous days of the Massie case. In World War I, he was a submarine flotilla commander and later commissioned the transport PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

After retirement, Adm. Stirling wrote, "Sea Duty, Memoirs of a Fighting Admiral." In 1940 he wrote, "How to be a Naval Officer."

He was also author of "Why Sea Power will Win the War," "Fundamentals of Naval Service" and a book on submarines.

L. J. G.

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS BALTIMORE

All members were reminded of the notice in December SHIPMATE calling for nominations for officers to serve on the National Board. This notice is in accordance with the By-Laws of the Association and all nominations are due in the Executive Directors office by 15 February 1948 to be eligible. Members

were urged to submit nominations prior to that date and suitable forms were furnished for that purpose.

Members attending this meeting included: H. M. Acketman, '41; G. W. Collins, '28; Capt. H. Frericks, USNR; Capt. H. C. Haynsworth, '30, (SC), USN; J. E. HoUis, '38;

The January meeting of the Baltimore Branch USNA Alumni was held Tuesday evening, 13 January, at the Hotel Stafford.

Members and guests present were: S. D. Kolb; Don Riley; C. K. Russell, '06; M. A. Leahy, '08; P. L. HoUand, '08; M. D. Gilmore, '11; Howes Bodfish, '15; Clayton The by-laws require a secret ballot. For President Demarest Jr., '19; C. R. Lamdin, '21; J. T. Waldhauser, '23; D. B. Duckett, '26; H. R. (1) Use this ballot. Indicate your n Donald S. Walker, '24, New York, England, '27; D. J. Fitzgerald, '27; W. B. N.Y. Bristor, '27; F. G. Wagner, '30; E. G. EUen- preference by marking your choice with For Vice-President (Eastern Area) an "X" in the proper square. berger, '34, and R. P. Horton, '44.

(Vote for one) The evening was devoted to informal dis(2) Place your ballot in an envelope n Randall Jacobs, '07, Philadelphia, cussions of numerous subjects of particulat and seal it. interest to the group.

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THE BALLOT

C. R. LAMDIN,

Secretary.

BOSTON

(3) Place this envelope inside an enve- D William B. Jupp, '13, New York,N lope addressed to Executive Director, N. Y. USNA Alumni Association, Annapolis, • H. McCoy Jones, '19, Washington, Md. D. C. (4) On the back of this outer enve- n Edgar T. Neale, '24, Atlanta, Georgia. lope, sign your name and class. Your • George L. Powell, '35, Washington, name and class are absolutely necessary D. C. in order to verify the validity of the ballot For Vice-President (Central Area) enclosed. Unless this is done, the ballot (Vote for one) will be thrown out. n A. Arnold Brand, '14, Chicago, 111.

(5) All members of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, are entitled to • George A. Mattucci, '24, Cleveland, Ohio. vote.

The regular monthly meeting of the Naval Academy Graduates Assodation of Boston was held Wednesday, 7 Januarj' 1948, at the Boston City Club, 14 Somerset Street, Boston.

Luncheon guests of the Association was R. Adm. Edwin J. Taylor, '24, USN ( R e t ) , Adm. Taylor, now Dean of the College of Applied Science, Ohio Univetsity, Athens, Ohio. He was in Boston on business and took advantage of the oppormnity to visit classmates and shipmates. While he was not specific regarding his business in Boston, it was For Vice-President (Western Area) surmised the Admiral had a weather eye out (6) Voting by proxy is prohibited.

(Vote for one) for some good Instruaor material, particu• Robert Henderson, '02, Los Angeles, larly Math and Physics Professors.

(7) Ballot must be in the office of California.

Other members present were: Hugh Allen, the Executive Director, USNA Alumni '06; W. F. Boyer, '16; J. F. Morgan, '22; Association, by noon, 15 May 1948. n John Falge, '12, San Francisco, Calif.

Stanley Pullen, '22; R. Adm. E. J. Taylor, '24, USN (Ret.); Capt E. C. Burchett '24, For Trustee at Large USN (Ret.); H. G. Broussea, '24; Hunter Robinson, '24; G. C. King, '24; Robert H. (Vote for four) Wescott, J t , ' 3 7 .

G. C. KING,

Secretary.

CLEVELAND The Cleveland Branch, U.S.N.A.A., held its regular monthly business-luncheon meeting on January 14, 1948, at the Hotel Carter.

Following the luncheon President Matmcci conducted the meeting as follows: Treasurer Jack Hollis reported on the state of the operating funds which is considered adequate. Some assessments are still outstanding and notices will be forwarded to these members in order to bring the finances to date.

A letter from National President D. S. Walker was read, in which it was suggested that a number of members from each local organization be appointed to serve as a welcoming committee to assist Naval personnel reporting in our area in getting established.

It was agreed that such a move was desirable but for our small group (40 members), five members seems excessive. It was, therefore, suggested that we proceed as at the present with the Secretary acting as contact man and having all requests directed to him. He, in mrn, may call on other members to help as necessary. A letter has been directed to Walker advising him of this action.

MARCH,

1948

• Sinclair Gannon, '00, Annapolis, Maryland.

• Robert Henderson, '02, Los Angeles, California.

• Austin S. Kibbee, '03, Boston, Massachusetts. n Harold C. Train, '09, Annapolis, Maryland.

• JohnFalge,'12, San Francisco, California. n A. Arnold Brand,'14, Chicago, Illinois.

• NormanO.Wynkoop,'16, New York City, New York.

• Edward F. Marbourg, '17, San Francisco, California.

• ThomasL. Sprague,'18, Washington, D.C. n Arthur S. Adams, '19, Ithaca, New York. n Walter E. Ditmars, '19, New York City, New York.

• Robert G. Waldron,' 19, Detroit, Michigan.

• Daniel C. Wilkerson,'20, Detroit, Michigan.

• Renwick S. Mclver, '21, Merion, Pennsylvania.

• Francis M. Adams, '22, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Clyde W. King, '22, San Francisco, California.

• J. Pierre Bernard, '23, Annapolis, Maryland.

• George A. Mattucci, '24, Cleveland, Ohio.

• Harry N . Lyon, '2 5, San Francisco, California. n Henry H. Caldwell, '27, Staff, Atlantic Fleet.

• Richard P. Wilkinson, '27, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

• Ben Martin,'46, Annapolis, Maryland.

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M. B. Jewen, '23; Capt A. O. K. Uergesen, '20, USN; G A. Matmcd, '24; J. I. Mingay, '37; A. S. Morton, '39; H. L. Sargent, '32; C. A. Schipfer, '08; Comdr. J. F. Tenney, '31, (SC), USN; Comdr. F. J. Thomas, '20, USNR; R. J. Walker, '16; G. R. Whitmyre, '36.

Next meeting at Hotel Carter on 18 February 1948, 12 noon.

A. SIDNEY MORTON,

Secretary.

KANSAS CITY The first regular luncheon meeting of this Chapter was held on 12 January 1948 at the University Club. General Association business was discussed.

A Welcoming Committee was appointed with George R. Turner, '22, named as Chairman. His address is 918 Baltimore (Telephone Vi-5721). Any Naval officer or alumnus moving to this area is hereby requested to get in touch with him.

A By-Laws Committee was appointed with H. T. Brian, '25, as Chairman.

The meeting was attended by the following: Jozach MiUer IV, '39; George Turner, '22; H. T. Brian, '25; J. G. Speer, '24; E. N. Hubbard, '24; J. C. Ferguson, '45; P. L. Humphrey, '29; R. W. Hok, '12; Junius Yates, '09; W. L. Evans, '26; J. E. Taylor, '37.

J. E. TAYLOR,

Seaetary.

The Kansas City Chapter met at luncheon on 9 February at the Uitiversity Qub. Lt. D. K. Ross, USN, discussed the present Naval Recnuting program and told of his experiences at Pearl Harbor, resulting in the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to him. Other guests present were Lt. Cdr. C. M. Stearns, USN, and Mr. Frank Young, appointee to the Naval Academy.

Regular members present were: Viaor B. Tate, '23; J. G. Speer, '24; Jozach MiUer, IV, '39; Edgar H. Logan, '23; Patrick L. Humphrey, '29; C. N. Hubbard, '24; Ralph Waldo Holt, '12; J. C. Ferguson, '45; WiUiam L. Evans, '26; George R. Turner, '22; Junius Yates, '09. J. E. Taylor, Secretary.

LOS ANGELES The regularly scheduled meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, was held at 1900 on 5 February, 1948, in the Los Angeles Athletic Club at 431 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles, California. The following members attended: P. M. Beanfield, 1908; H. F. Kingman, 1911; J. C. Arnold, 1914; Paul S. Goen, 1916; C. B. Hum, 1919; Tom A. Rin, 1920; P. D. Sweeney, 1921; Max Black, 1921; Earle Lowell, 1921; G. Dalkowitz, 1921; B. K. Culver, 1921; W. F. Broun, 1921; A. W. Buffington, 1922; H. D. Smith, 1922; G. S. Fitzhugh, 1922; P. S. Omohundro, 1922; W. G. Jones, 1922; Ralph Burleigh, 1922; F. W. Pierce, 1922; W. B. Terrell, 1922; L. D. Lebinow, 1922; B. E. Dodson, 1923; J. A. Marsh, 1924; H. T. Read, 1924; John S. Littig, 1926; W. C. Brennon, 1929; E. A. Teague, 1929; E. W. Friess, 1929; T. E. Chambers, 1932; D. G. Burdick, 1932; J. W. Graham, 1936; H. M. Fussdl, 1936; John M. Duling, 1939.

There was a short discussion by E. A. Teague with reference to the presentation of an award to the outstanding smdent of the two Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Units in the Universities of Southern California and U.C.L.A.

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A donation of $100.00 was received from a member of the Assodation for the purpose of financing an annual award. At the condusion of this discussion upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, it was RESOLVED: That the donation of $100.00 be accepted by the Alumni Association, and it was further: RESOLVED: That an award be made annually to the Junior or Senior who has been the most outstanding smdent in the two Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps for the year. The recipient of this award to be determined by the Prof, of Naval Science, giving consideration to the individual scholastic marks, naval science, aptimde marks, contribution to the morale and development of the unit and extra-curricular activities. The award to be a suitable cup to be retained at the University with the name of the winner engraved thereon each year, and that in addition the winner be given one of the foUowing, a brief case or a pen and pencil desk set. A suitable gift to be awarded annually to the sophomore who has achieved the highest marks in the two N.R.O.T.C. units in naval science and aptitude, for the first two years of N.R.O.T.C. The gift to be either a pen and pencil set or a two years' subscription to the Naval Institute Proceedings. And it was further: RESOLVED: That a committee of four, consisting of Capt. B. K. Culver, Capt. Crissmon, Capt. W. W. Feineman and E. A. Teague, be appointed to selea the appropriate awards, arrange for proper engraving and to work out the details of the presentation.

Upon motion duly made, seconded and uiunimously carried, Robert Henderson, Capt., Ret., 1902, was nominated to serve as West Coast Vice-President of the National Assodation.

Upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, Robert Henderson, 1902, was nominated to serve as West Coast Trustee on the National Board.

Upon motion duly made, seconded and unanimously carried, the following members were elected to the governing coundl of the Los Angeles Chapter: Adm. Paul Hendren; Adm. E. M. Pace, J t , 1912; Adm. H. F. Kingman, 1911; Cdt A. B. Cook, 1921; P. S. Omohundro, 1922.

Max Black, 1921, President of the San Diego Chapter, attended and gave an interesting discussion of the ptogress of his Chapter and recommended that the San Diego and Los Angeles Chaptets hold at least one joint meeting during this year, which was felt would be pleasant and helpful to the members of both Associations.

The guest speaker of the evening was Dr. R. F. Cristy, of the California Institute of Technology, whose subject was atomic energy.

His subject matter is, of course, of primary interest to everyone today and his talk was extremely interesting and illuminating. All of those attending left the meeting with a better understanding of the use of atomic energy for productive purposes in the fumre economic life of our country.

A group of 15 of the Los Angeles Chapter visited the San Diego Chapter 30 January, 1948, on which occasion Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz gave a veiy excellent address.

This was one of the largest Alumni meetings this group ever attended and the San Diego Chapter deserves great credit for such a large meeting of the Alumni, which was very efficiently conducted.

NEW YORK On Tuesday, 13 January, the Naval Academy Assoc, of New York, Inc., held its monthly luncheon at Schwartz's Restaurant 54 Broad Sr., New York, N. Y. The guest speaker was Mr. Donald S. Walker, of the Class of 1924, die president of the National Association. His topic was "The Plans and Future of the National Alumni Association." Mr. Walker, who is naturaUy well acquainted with the parent association presented faas—past and present—and ideas for the fumre. His talk was very well received by those in attendance and I am sure that aU who heard his message will be more actively interested in the fumre.

M t W. E. Ditmars, 1919, presided at die Tuesday luncheon in the absence of Mr. W. B. Jupp who was unexpeaedly caUed out of town on business.

An open forum discussion was also conduaed concerning nominations for the posts which will be open in the National Alumni Assoc.

The foUowing were present: Capt Geo. F. Cooper, '86; Comdr. F. W. Osburn, '02; Mr. Glenn O. Carter, '05; Comdr. Logan Cresap, '05; Capt. C. H. Shaw, '05; Capt Henry M. Jensen, '06; Mr. J. W. Barnett, '08; Adm. Thos. C. Kinkaid, '08; Mr. E. H. Connor, '08; R. Adm. T. J. Kdeher, '08; Capt. A. S. Dysart, '09; R. Adm. M. KeUy, '09; Maj. Louis E. Fagan, Jr., '10; R. Adm. O. M. Read, '11; Capt L. P. WenzeU, '12; Mr. Calvert Carey, '14; Capt M. L. Worrell, '14; Mr. C. C. Vickrey, '15; Mr. Alexander C. Kidd, '18; Mr. Edward E. Conroy, '18; Mr. William B. Cooley, '19; Mr. W. E. Ditmars, '19; Comdr.

W. J. Strachan, '19; M t E. W. Mantd, '20; Capt. Francis Taylor, '20; Capt. D. L. Maderia, •21; M t David S. Rau, '22; M t T. F. Christie, '22; Mr. L. D. Bain, '23; Mr. George E. Taylor, '23; M t D. S. Walker, '24; Capt R. B. Stevens, '23; Col. Bertram Kalisch, '24; Mr. S. J. Singer, '24; S. F. Morris, '24; M t A. E. McLaughlin, '24; Mr. P. F. Gibson, Jr., '25; Paul M. Lion, '25; Mr. R. N. Flippin, '26; F. D. Overfdt '27; M t C. A. Popp, '27; Mr. A. Bruce Crane, '27; Mr. Edward F. Butier, '29; M t Robert W. DeGraff, '30; Mr. D. E. DaUman, '30; Lt Comdr. A. A. Denton, '31; James W. Humrichouse, '32; Lt. Comdr. H. L. MuUer, '35; Mr. Calvin H. Lawrence, '36; Mr. Paul C. Huelsenbeck, '37; Comdr. States M. Mead, '37; Lt Donald A. Dean, '37; Mr. W. J. Myers, '38; Mr. B. H. Sexauer, "39; Mr. George Hoppock, '42; Mr. Wallace Kemp Ponder, '43; Mr. H. E. Sims, '44; H. B. Fowler, N.C.; Franklin E. Farris, '45; Mr. Stanley Hirsch, '45; Mr. J. A. Carroll, '45; Mr. John C. Barron, '45; Comdr. G. A. O'Conndl, J t , N.C.; R. Adm. W. B. Fletcher, N.C; Capt. P. R. Heineman, N.C; Mr. C. E. Snedeker, N.C; Comdr. J. B. Gilmer, N.C; Lt Comdr. C K. Post, N . C ; Mr. James W. Kdley, N . C ; Duncan I. Sdfridge, N.C; M t John Daix, N . C ; V. Adm. Calhoun, N.C; Comdr. Quinn, N.C.

PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Alumni Ass'n. started the new year with a most interesting dinner meeting on 16 January, under the guidance of the newly elected officers and directors, led

by Scott Lamb, '19, President. The Officers' Mess at the Naval Base provided the location, where cocktails and a highly savory dinner were the fare.

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The business meeting opened by Scott Lamb's presentation of the following list of proposals made to the association by the officers and directors: 1. That our organization be known as the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association of Philadelphia.

2. That the President appoint a committee to revise the Constimtion and By-Laws to conform to those of the National Ass'n.

3. That no dues be set but that contiibutions be solidted when our Ass'n. needs funds.

4. That dinner meetings be held alternately at the Officers' Mess and at a suitable location in the dty.

5. That the May meeting be a dinner dance at the Yard; that the December meeting and annual dinner be held at the Union League; that arrangements be made for a meeting before the Penn-Navy game, and that arrangements be made for a joint meeting with the West Point Sodety.

6. That plans and negotiations be undertaken for a cocktail party following the ArmyNavy game.

7. That the President be authorized to approve advances for the Athletic Committee.

8. That consideration be given to the printing of a roster in bound form and that membership cards be provided.

9. That the Ass'n. ccxipetate in plans for Navy Day. Immediately following a motion was made and seconded that these suggestions be accepted by the Ass'n. This motion was passed unanimously. The President also appointed working committees.

As the business meeting conduded. Vice Adm. J. L. Kauffman, '08, was asked to comment on the Naval Enlistment Drive in the 4th Naval Distria. To this apt discussion we were also formnate in having Vice Adm. Randall Jacobs, '07, who added a few well chosen words from his vast experience with BUPERS. The highlight of the evening was a talk by our guest speaker, the noted newspaper man, John McCullough, a member of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who recendy was singularly honored to receive the Sigma Delta Chi National newspaper award for his vivid articles on the Atomic Bomb Tests at Bikini. As his topic Mr. McCuUough presented a resume of present National problems, with particular emphasis on National Defense. This talk was received with attentive interest.

ANNUAL DINNER The Alumni Associations of West Point and Annapolis are combining forces and holding a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, 2 Apiil at 7 p.m.

The President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, the Secretaiies of Navy, Army and Air Forces together with their Chiefs of Staff have been invited. Many other leaders of National importance have also been invited. At this writing (15 February) the majority have already accepted.

This dinner as a tangible expression of the effectiveness of unification and the high mutual regard each of the Alumni Associations holds for the other, will be one of the most important dinners of the year.

Tickets are $10.00 each. You and your male guests are urged to send in your reservations and a covering check at the earliest possible moment. Seating will be on a fitst come first served basis and checks should be sent to Paul T. Cullen, Treasurer, Suite 4524, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.

R. Allen, Jr., '44; Wm.-K. Holman and John M. McCullough.

The February meeting was held on Friday, 20 Feb., at 1800 at Michaud's Restaurant at 1522 Walnut St, Phila.

J. R. ALLEN, JR.,

Secretary.

PITTSBURGH

The Pittsburgh Chapter of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association held the second meeting on 23 January, and had an attendance of approximately thirty (30). At that time, we elected a slate of officers to serve until the regular meeting in January, 1949. This election was by secret ballot, with nominations made by mail and from the floor, so that we had a number of nominees for each office.

The results of the eleaion are as follows: President, C. J. Moore; Vice-President, M. C. Barrett; Secretary, B. A. Hartt; Treasurer, A. W. Neal; Council, Harold L. Challenger, William C. Godfrey, Joseph W. Ludewig, C M. Lynch, Joseph F. Ryan.

The rest of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of the proposed By-laws, and to a short talk by Rip Miller. We did not have time to continue the discussion started in the first meeting in regard to "What's wrong with the Naval Academy and the Navy in general?"

If you would like to send anything for the Chapter's consideration. Captain Hartt's address is: Capt. B. A. Hartt, Inspector-Instructor U. S. Naval Reserve Old Post Office Building Those in attendance for this January meetPittsburgh 19, Pa. ing were: L. C Shute, '06; Randall Jacobs, '07; Bryson Bruce, '07; J. L. Kauffman, '08; R. W. Wuest '09; P. C Mayfield, '11; Marvin L. Brown, '11; G. Fulton, '12; J. H. Hoff- SAN FRANCISCO man, '13; T. M. Searles, '13; E. F. Enright Our regularly monthly stag dinner meeting '13; D. Royce, '14; J. E. Boak, '14; R. B. was held on 4 February at the Commissioned Twining, '16; J. Ross AUen, '19; Scott G Officers' Club, U. S. Naval Station, Treasure Lamb, '19; Hariey Cope, '20; Jas. B. Don- Island, 62 attending—45 alumni and 17 nelly, '20; E. J. Milner, '21; Wyatt Craig, guests. Clyde King, President, presided.

'21; Wm. G. Buch, '21; L. E. EUis, '22; H. N. The class of 1921 again carried off top Paul, Jr., '22; M. C. Jackson, '22; F. S. Peddle, honors for attendance with 6 classmates pres'23; A. J. Fleming, Jr., '24; H. W. Blakeslee, ent. There were three former Commanding '25; S. H. King, '25; M. J. Drury, '25; T. C Officers of USS BLACK HAWK sitting toThomas, '25; E. N. Leonard, '26; G W. Camp- gether—Captains F. W. Beard, '20, E. H. Mcbdl, '26; J. L. Woodbury, '26; G. A. Mul- Menemy, '20, and Charlie Marshall, '21. hoUand, '27; R. P. Wilkinson, '27; D. G. Bon Voyage was being said to H. F. Burt '27; John Milburn, '27; W. H. Mc- "Squire" Pullen, '22, Commanding Officer, Clain, '30; J. C Snyder, '30; J. W. Humric- USS THOMAS JEFFERSON (APA-30), who house, '32; W. L. Aiken, '33; John E. Walsh, sails soon for Japan. His transport will carry J t , '33; S. R. Ours, '34; M. S. Schmidling, 1,000 passengers, 17 of them babies less than '35; H. G. Etchen, '37; E. S. Gillette, Jr., '40; a year old. The round trip will be made in F. P. Cuccias, '41; T. M. Searies, Jr., '40; J. 2 months' time.

MARCH,

1948

We were pleased to have with us at this dinner an alumnus from New Orleans— Captain S. G. Mayfield, '16.

The following alumni attended: W. H. Shea, '00; George M. Baum, '04; E. D. Washburn, J t , '06; W. F. Lafrenz, '07; Leo Lindley, '09.

R. C Ryan, '10; E. L. Patch, '11; John Falge, '12; G. S. Gillespie, '12; NeU H. Geisenhoff, '13; H. Watts PiUsbury, '13; S. G. Mayfield, '16; Ned Marbourg, '17; L. P. Sargent '17; E. M. Senn, '17.

Geo. E. Ross, '18; C. C Carmine, '19; C. A. Griffiths, '19; G L. Schetky, '19; P. H. Talbot '19; F. W. Beard, '20; E. H. McMenemy, '20; P. E. Howdl, '21; F. A. MacGurn, '21; Charles J. Marshall,'21.

G. C Millet '21; Kent H. Power, '21; Rufus Thayer, '21; H. L. Fudge, '22; H. A. Ingram, '22; Clyde King, '22; P. D. Parcells, '22; H. F. Pullen, '22; E. R. Duncan, '23; F. M. Falge, '24.

H. N. Lyon, '25; W. W. Rutledge, '26; Eugene P. Burton, '28; Sam Harrison, '28; M. C Mains, '29; A. W. Strahorn, '29; Frank L. Robinson, '30; Bill Stewart '30; R. A. MaUek, '40; Ralph W. Shearer, '41.

Our guest speaker was Brigadier General Gar Davidson, USA, (USMA 1927), Chief of Staff, Sixth Army, and Senior Member, Joint Army-Navy Board for Second Bay Crossing. During his cadet days the General played left end for Army. He was Assistant Football Coach ('27-'32) and Head Coach ('33-'37) at West Point His subject was "The Proposed Second San Francisco Bay Crossing."

In his presentation General Davidson used 15 large charts, mostly colored, which gave us a vivid, graphic picmre of the traffic problems involved. Assisting in the showing of the charts was W. W. Ruriedge, USNA '26, now a retired Army officer. It was evident that there were many ramifications to the problem. The speaker stated that letters had been mailed to 2,500 Bay Area business interests inviting them to testify before the Board.

A wholehearted response followed, for this question of a second crossing to cost about $75,000,000 is considered a vital one to everyone living here. It boils down to two locations—one a second bridge paralleling the present San Fiancisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and distant 300 yards, the other a crossing 1 Yz miles south, from Army Street, San Francisco, to Alameda. The Board recommended the latter.

After a lucid, concise talk, questions from the floor were asked.

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Captain Eddie Washburn, '06, a proponent of the Reber Plan to dam up part of San Francisco Bay Ln order to create fresh water lakes, and give access to shipping by locks, led the questioning. Both the talk and the question period were very enlightening and provocative of thought. Reluctantly Clyde King adjourned the meeting.

Our San Francisco stag dinner meetings are held monthly at the Commissioned Officers' Club, Treasure Island, on the first Wednesday of every month. All Alumni of the Naval Academy and their friends are cordially invited to attend.

SEATTLE The regular meeting of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Seatde Branch, was held at B. O. Q. of the Naval Station, Pier 91, Seattle, Washington, Monday, 2 February, 1948.

The meeting was presided over by B. B. Cassels, president.

After dinner Dr. Eric L. Barr introduced Professor Charles E. Martin, Head of the Political Science Department of the University of Washington, who gave a very interesting talk on the subjea "Washington Whispers."

Upon motion of the Board of Trustees, three additional Trustees were elected, D. A. Frost, '21, for thtee year term; T. C White, '25, for two year term; and L. L. Stedman, '15, for one year term.

The president announced the following committees: Social—Cdr. F. M. Christiansen, Chairman, J. G. Beard, Jr., H. M. McLellan.

Program—W. E. Parker, Chairman, Eric L. Barr, John W. Brady.

Publicity and Membership—T. C. White, Chairman, Cdr. Robert I. F. Fravel, C C Hornby.

Scholarship—F. A. Strohecker, Chairman, R. O. Gilber, Jr., D. A. Frost, W. J. Colson, R. R. Fox, Jr., C. H. Thompson, Gordon Rowe,

Cdr. Fravel, Cdr. H. C Duff, Capt G. B. Sherwood.

Mr. P. L. Thurber, West Point, '14, was introduced and made the suggestion of a joint dinner for West Point and Annapolis Alumni Associations, which met with approval.

It was announced that the majority favored holding a tea dance on a Sunday and so Washington's Birthday, 22 February, was selected as the date.

The following members were present: W. A. Wiley, '96; Joseph Baer, '07; Eric Barr, '11; G H. Fort '12; A. R. Early, '14; H. R. Leonard, '14; Lewis L. Stedman, '15; A. O. Rule, '19; P. E. Voinot '20; H. ColdweU, '20; O. D. Emory, '21; E. D. Poole, '21; Bernard J. SkahiU, '21; F. J. Firth, '21; D. A. Frost '21; W. R. Carter, '22; B. B. Cassels, '22; Robt. R. Fox, Jr., '22; D. J. Smdabaker, '22; C H. Thompson, '22; J. L. Brown, '23; H. M. McLdlan, '23; Ken Borgen, '24; J. T. Warren, '24; A. W. Axtdl, '24; John W. Brady, '24; F. A. Strohecker, '24; P. W. Mourer, Jr., '26; J. L. Tracy, '27; J. B. Danhoff, '27; T. C Fauntz, '27; H. L. Tallman, '27; A. C. Burrows, '28; R. O. Gilbert '31; Loren Grinstead, '31; G. N. Stevenson, '32; C T. Fritter, '33; E. G. Osborn, '35; W. T. Samuels, '35; R. E. Brown, '38; R. A. O'Neill, '38; R. W. Lombard, '39; W. J. Colson, '40; E. L. Bush, '41; Harry A. Abel, Jr., '42; W. L. Nyburg, '42; V. K. Atkins, '43; Kirk L. Burns, '44; W. C. Chapman, '44; B. H. Comery, Jr., '44; A. J. Hennes, '44; J. F. Braun, '45; C D. Jewell, Jr., '45; Roger North, '45; R. W. Puddincombe, '45; Capt. Cy Taylor; Cdr. F. M. Christiansen. Kenneth Borgen, Secretary.

ST. LOUIS The January meeting of the Naval Academy Alumni Association was held at the home of Captain William P. Kellogg. Movies of the Naval Academy and the Second Batde of the Philippines were shown and refreshments were served.

Index of Advertisers Artistic Painting Co 35 The Bead Chain Mfg. Co 25 Bennett-Stewart Co 27 L. A. Benson Co 33 Bulova Watch Company 7 Carvel Hall 57 Federal Services Finance 27 The Fuller Brush Co 5 J. H. Harding 39 Hayes Mfg. Corp 35 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Back Cover Little, Brown & Company Inside Back Cover Glenn L. Martin Company Inside Front Cover Meredith Brothers 34 Peerless Pump Division 5 Radio Corporation of America 6 Reversible Collar Co 30 Southern Builders, loc 39 Sperry Gyroscope Co. . .* 1 Sullivan School 57 United Ser\'ices Life Ins. Co 59 Walker & Dunlop 27

Those in attendance were: Capt. and Mrs. William P. Kellogg; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Quillion and daughter; Capt. and Mrs. W. H. Ferguson; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. LaBarge; Mr. and Mrs. Rollins H. Mayer; Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Murch; Mr. and Mrs. C F. Braught; Col. and Mrs. J. B. Cook; Comdr. and Mrs. C P. Callahan, Jr.; LJ. and Mrs. J. Schmidt; Mr. and Mrs. C E. Ashley; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Benoist; Lt. Col. H. M. Elwood; Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Brinson; Cap;, and Mrs. W. D. Hoover; Comdr. and Mrs. Robert F. Diebel; Col. and Mrs. C. P. VanNess and Mr. Joseph F. Holland.

The next meeting will be held at the Mark Twain Hotel.

W I L L I A M M . HOLLAND,

Corresponding Seaetary.

C E. Coney, Executive Ditector United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc. Alumni House Annapolis, Maryland 1. (Check one) [^ I am eligible and apply for REGULAR Membership in the Association. I am a member of the Class of at the U. S. Naval Academy. [^ I am eligible and apply for ASSOCIATE Membership in the Association, subject to the approval of the Boaid of Trustees. 1 hold a Commission as dated 19. . . ., in the Regular Navy.

2. Attached is my check payable to the Association fcr: Five Dollars covering dues until 1 July 1949.

OR One Hundied Dollars covering LIFE MEMBERSHIP. 3. It is understood that this automatically includes a concutrent subscription to SHIPMATE at no additional charge to me.

4. My permanent address is (Name)

5. My mailing address for SHIPMATE is

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