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NAVY ATHLETICS

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

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STAFF & ASSISTANCE

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CLASS NEWS

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Myron T. Fleming Jr. '62

M A N A G E M E N T BY E M A I L

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Paul Fisher and Joe DiRenzo III '82

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USNA Alumni Association Mission To serve and support the United States, the Naval Service, and the Naval Academy; By furthering the highest standards at the Naval Academy; By seeking out, inforining, encouraging, and assisting outstanding, qualified young men and women to pursue careers as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps through the Naval Academy; and, By initiating and sponsoring activities which will perpetuate the history, traditions, memories, and growth of the Naval Academy and bind Alumni together in support of the highest ideals of command, citizenship, and government.

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By George P. Watt Jr. '73

A BRIGHT FUTURE

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t's April in February, and I admit to having the same challenge as the class and chapter secretaries in relating this column with the appropriate time of year.

Recently I took the opportunity to review in detail the 2001 accomplishments of our Alumni Association and Foundation staffs.

Many of you may already be aware of the remarkable 2001 results of the Naval Academy Campaign; however, that's really only half of the picture. The Alumni Association's friend raising results truly complement our fund raising efforts and paint a bright picture for our future.

FUND RAISING 2001 What a year we had on the fund raising side of our Friend raisingFund raising team! Despite the downturn in the economy, a continued soft stock market, and the negative effects of the 11 September attack, donors to the Naval Academy through the Leaders to Serve the Nation Campaign came through as never before.

For the calendar year ending 31 December 2001, we recorded $22.9 million in gift receipts (that's up from $21.3 million in 2000) with documented total commitments exceeding $52 million (compared to total commitments of $32 million in 2000). As of this writing, we have surpassed $96 million in documented commitments to the Campaign. With slightly less than four years remaining in the Campaign's public phase, we have raised more than half the $175 million goal.

Total unrestricted gifts slightly surpassed $7 million, up more than $1.5 million over 2000 ($5.5 million). As you know, unrestricted dollars remain the lifeblood source for our cost of fund raising, supporting mission critical initiatives at the Alumni Association, and perhaps most importantly, they provide flexibility to the Superintendent.

They are also the most gratifying gifts of all because an undesignated gift largely depends on the trust that the donor has in our stewardship.

This continued positive trend is one that is very encouraging to us.

We now have over 60 Campaign related gifts of $250,000 or more, with nearly 30 gifts at $1 million or more!

The chart below breaks down the 2001 Gift Receipts giving you a sense of the intended purpose and use of the private funds.

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FRIEND RAISING 2001 A consistent theme that I visit during my talks with our Alumni and affiliated Association Chapters is that we all converge at membership, because we all want growth. Most importantly, we seek growth through synergy and partnership.

We are seeing very encouraging growth in both Alumni Association and Chapter membership. Overall Chapter membership grew more than 10% in 2001, with special mention to Annapolis (up 38%) and Los Angeles (up 35%). A special bravo zulu is also in order to the Classes of 1945, 1950, 1951, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1971, 1973 (!), and 1976 who conducted very successful membership drives. In fact, the Great Class of 1973 can boast 100% membership for 2002 as the Class Officers purchased an annual membership for those classmates whose memberships had lapsed (story on page 23). The challenge now is to demonstrate to all of these new members the value of their membership, thus keeping them in our ranks.

The Parents Club organization has been brought into the Alumni Association from the Foundation joining Terry Murray's C3 organization (Classes, Chapters, and Clubs) assuring that we work synergistically for the benefit of all. Speaking of parents, one-third of the Class of 2005 parents have joined as Associate Members in their collective support of the Brigade and the Naval Academy. We are already making plans to welcome 2006 and their parents. Numbers-wise, we went from 44,000 members at the end of 2000 to 46,263 at the end of 2001, which includes 928 Associate Members. As with our Campaign Goals, we are well on our way to reaching our goal of 60,000 members or more by 2005.

Life M e m b e r ® Grads—33,543 • Non Grads—562 Widows—5,192 • Associate—44

USNA Alumni Association Memberships by Type

Annual Member • Grads—5,699 'S Non Grads-295 • Associat^928

TOTAL—46,263

Total Annual Members 6,922

Total Life Members 39,341

WHENTWO ORTHREE SHALL MEET...

For those of you who have participated in our travel program, we enjoyed a robust 2001 with 15 trips and 400 travelers. The 11 September attacks and aftermath caused a slowdown in the bookings, but they are quickly coming back. We are especially excited by the joint opportunities in 2003 when some of our trips will include our compatriots from West Point, Colorado Springs, Kings Point, and Coast Guard.

Our reunion organizers are getting fired up, too. Last year, 5,400 Alumni participated in 14 major reunions. And we now have the capability of facilitating registration for these events through the Internet.

The Class of 1996 coordinated their Fifth Reunion onhne with great success. This method will be available to all reunion classes in the very near future. We also have been working hard to increase Homecoming attendance—especially the All Classes Reception. The families of the Class of 1926 took a page out of a West Point tradition by getting together to celebrate a 75th reunion last fall. What a great way to remember those who went before us and join distant families of our extended Brigade. Attendance at the Alumni Association football tailgates increased 10% with an accompanying 10% reduction in cost! (continued on page 4)

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PRESIDENT'S CALL (continued from page 3) At Homecoming, we saw a 20% increase in tailgate attendance, and a 40% increase in the number of revelers at the All Classes Reception. We would like to fill Alumni Hall, and with the participation of the senior USNA leadership and entertainment provided by the Brigade (Glee Club, Pipes & Drums, cheerleaders) we hope the attendance trend will continue to be positive.

On the subject of reunions and Alumni, we are very pleased to announce in this issue, the 2002 Distinguished Graduate Award recipients. In keeping with the first three years, this is another distinguished selection. They include a career naval officer who served the Academy as Commandant and Superintendent and went on to lead the Alumni Association and the Naval Academy Foundation; a President of the United States who has also made a difference around the world with his extraordinary humanitarian service; another career naval officer who stood first in his class, rose to the Navy's top position, and also continues to serve the Alumni Association and Foundation; and a career Marine warrior who was recognized with the Navy Cross and Silver Star for his heroism. Put together, these men epitomize the product of the Naval Academy's mission as they assumed "... the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government."

They served with Honor, Courage and Commitment. See page 10 for more information about the DGA "Class of 2002."

We also have an excellent piece from Bemie Maguire on the Commander Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award on CARNEY (DDG-64).

Steve Duncan '63 has taken the time to enhghten us on an area that is especially apropos today: Total Force Policy. Joe DiRenzo '82's piece on Management by Email gives us a perspective on a topic that was

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CHALLENGES Despite all of our recent accomplishments and best efforts, we continue to address our greatest challenge—communications. How? How often? What topics? We hope we enabled greater participation in this year's Trustee election by posting the Trustee candidates' background on our web site, usna.com, "pushing" out this information electronically, and providing each candidate space in the March Shipmate.

Additionally, we have posted the Trustees' email addresses on our web site to facilitate your ability to communicate with your respective representative to the Board of Trustees. All that said, we need and value your communications input, and it truly helps us when it is vetted through the chapter and class leadership. As a reminder, please cast your Trustee ballot by 15 April.

On that note, I look forward to meeting with our class leaders in April and our chapter leaders in May so that we can share information and ideas that will make your Alumni Association even better.

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Board ofVisitors Report

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

n February, our Board of Visitors (BOV) sent their annual letter to President Bush summarizing progress and key issues in the past year at the United States Naval Academy.

I am grateful to our BOV for their insights, support, and dedication to the Naval Academy over the years. Their guidance and expertise has been instrumental to me during the time I have been privileged to be Superintendent. The members of the BOV, past and present, have made a key and distinct contribution to the accomplishment of our mission.

We owe them a great deal of appreciation for their efforts to improve the Naval Academy. As in the March 2001 Shipmate, I have—with the BOV's permission—included this year's letter and its enclosure as an addendum to this month's column. (See pages 8 and 38.)

Strategic Plan Revision Many, if not all, of the successes outiined in the BOV's letter to the president can be direcdy attributed to our long-term Strategic Plan.

Not content to rest on our laurels, we recently completed a third review and update to the Plan. In late January, having asked for and received input from all our key stakeholders, we gathered the senior leadership from our staff, faculty, USNA Foundation, and Alumni Association for a two-day retreat. We took a hard look at every aspect of the Plan. With our mission and the attributes we require in our graduates in mind, we re-evaluated every one of the 30 strategic and 19 tactical initiatives against ourfiveinstitutional priorities (see below).

Institutional Priorities Leadership and Professional Excellence

Admissions Excellence

Our goal, as always, is to provide leaders of great character, competence, vision, and drive. To do this, we need to attract the very best candidates by having world-class faculty, facilities, and programs.

The resulting, updated Strategic Plan, with this new infusion of energy and focus, will serve to guide the Academy for the coming decade.

Attributes of Naval Academy Graduates • Prepared to lead in combat • Courageous; take responsibility for decisions and actions

• Role models of ethical behavior and moral conduct • Exemplars of academic, technical, and tactical competence • Passion and commitment to lifelong learning and physical fitness • Highly effective communicators • Leaders who recognize and value individual excellence regardless of gender, cultural, or ethnic background • Able to understand and integrate geopolitical complexities in decision making • Patriots who epitomize the rich heritage, honor, and traditions of the Navy, Marine Corps, and our country

USNA Leadership Conference This year's USNA Leadership Conference, held in January, was based on the theme Leadership and National Crisis: It's Everyone's Business, and was co-sponsored by the USNA Class of 1938, and Linda and Milledge A. "Mitch" Hart '56. It represented a pioneering effort to incorporate perspectives on leadership from across the spectrum of academia, business, government, and military. Participants in the conference included representatives from the five service academies and eight civilian universities, including Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., and Southern Methodist University. Speakers included Dn Shirley Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; General Peter Pace '67, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dr. John Hamre, president. Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former Deputy Secretary of Defense; business leader Mr. Eric Grubman '80; and Admiral Richard Mies '67, former Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command.

The new leadership conference represents an expanded form of the Leader's Forum sponsored by the Class of '38 in previous years.

The new format deliberately incorporates the invaluable knowledge base and experience of highly accredited civilian leadership development programs and students who represent them. Interaction with the nation's top leaders enabled more than 250 undergraduates a rare opportunity to gain insight and advice regarding current leadership issues. Student interaction creates a unique opportunity to build teamwork and lasting relationships from a variety of initial perspectives.

Class of 2002 Excellence I am pleased to report that the Class of 2002 has led the Brigade extremely well this year. The Brigade continues to make strides in gaining Fitness Skills for Life and cultivating a Warrior Spirit. As we strive to maintain the appropriate balance between the midshipmen's academic, professional, and physical lives, they continue to meet every challenge head on and with sustained success.

For example, on the sports fields this past semester. Navy had an overall varsity winning percentage of .631 with 103 wins, 60 losses, and four ties. In Army-Navy competitions, we won 67% of our matches against West Point, including 6-3-1 in N-star competitions.

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Likewise, the Class of 2002 continues to Raise the Bar of Excellence across all aspects of the Naval Academy. While we are proud of all our first class midshipmen, there are several standouts worth sharing with you.

Some of you may remember Midshipman 1/C Amy Jones, a member of 20th Company from Warrenton, NC. Prior to reporting for the challenging surface nuclear pipeline. Amy will represent USNA at Cambridge next year as a Gates Scholar. She was also selected as a Pownall Scholar. She is ranked first in the class militarily and 11th overall with a 3.86 CQPR in honors oceanography. Amy has been a member of the varsity swimming team, and has helped set two Navy swimming relay records. She also helped win a Patriot League Tide and an ECAC title during the 1998-99 season. Midshipmen Jones served as fall semester Brigade Commander, was recently selected to the USA Today All American Academic Team, and has represented the Academy at Leatherneck, on a USCGA Eagle Cruise, and as an intern at Los Alamos laboratory.

Midshipman 1/C Peter Huffman also chose the surface nuclear career path after spending his senior year as a Trident Scholar in chemistry. His Trident Scholar project focuses on the production of better optical limiters, devices to protect equipment and humans from directed laser weapons damage. Peter is the Fifth Battalion Commander, and is ranked fifth overall in his class with a 3.99 CQPR. He has been on the Superintendent's List every semester and hones his warrior spirit in intramural football and field ball. He has participated in the USCGA Eagle Cruise, a foreign exchange cruise, and interned at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Midshipman Emelia Spencer is the Academy's 35th Rhodes Scholar, a future surface warfare officer, and a political science major with a 3.84 CQPR. The Rockville, MD, native also served as our fall semester Brigade Operations Officer and represents the Academy on the intercollegiate sailing team and was selected as the fall season MVP. She was also recendy selected to the USA Today All American Academic Team. Emmy has been published in Women in International Security and studies national security issues at Georgetown under the Voluntary Graduate Education Program. She is also active in the Model United Nations program and the Joint Conference on Peacekeeping.

Midshipman 1/C Barry Shaw is a future submariner who is ranked fourth in the class militarily with a 3.94 CQPR in honors history. A member of the varsity water polo team, Barry hails from Johannesburg, South Africa, and has spent his summers on aviation and EOD Shipmate, April 2002

summer cruises. He was also recentiy selected to the American Water Polo Coaches Association's Outstanding Academic Team for the second straight season.

These four young Americans and the rest of the Class of 2002 are ready to be Leaders for America.

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Peter Huffman Amy Jones Barry Shaw Emelia Spencer (Rhodes Scholar)

Adnnissions Success The positive trend in admissions statistics has continued in recent years with another record number of applicants for the Class of 2006.

As of mid-February, we have 12,200 applicants, a 6% increase in the total number from last year, and the largest number of applicants since 1992. This increase in applicants, coupled with innovative marketing strategies, has led to a direct increase in qualified candidates of 9.1 % over last year.

The number of completed candidate packages has also increased this year thanks to the hard work and dedication of our 1,945 Blue & Gold Officers. This dedicated group of volunteers works year round to mentor and assist candidates through the process of applying to the United States Naval Academy.

The Parents Clubs and Alumni Chapters also continue to identify and mentor talented young students about the Naval Academy, and it is paying dividends with an increasingly more competitive class each and every year.

Students applying to the Naval Academy have indicated in admissions surveys that personal contact with midshipmen, USNA Alumni, or other naval personnel has had a major impact in their decisionmaking. Never underestimate your ability to inspire today's youth to pursue a naval career Stories relating to a relative's service in past wars are the dominant theme in this year's admissions essays. Their desire to serve their country stems from these influences. We are excited about this Millennial Generation who is characterized as confident, achieving, and team oriented. We think the Naval Academy has the tradition, teamwork, technology, and opportunity these bright young men and women are looking for.

I trust you will enjoy reading the attached letter, particularly the very detailed enclosure to President Bush from the USNA Board of Visitors. Until next month...Beat Army!

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VADM Charles S. Minterjn '37. USN (Ret.) Former U.S. Naval Academy Commandant of Midshipmen and Superintendent.

The Honorable James E. Carter '47 39th President of the United States.

ADM Carlisle AH.Trost '53, USN (Ret.) Former Chief of Naval Operations.

Col John W Ripley '62, USMC (Ret.) Vietnam War hero whose awards include the Navy Cross and Silver Star for heroism in the face of the enemy.

These gendemen join a roster of previous awardees since the inception of the award in 1999: Admiral Thomas H. Moorer '33, Dn John J. McMullen '40, Captain John W. Crawford '42, Admiral James L. Holloway HI '43, Admiral William J. Crowe Jr. '47, Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale '47, Admiral James D. Watkins '49, Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence '51, Captain James Lovell '52, Major General William A. Anders '55, and Mr. Roger Staubach '65.

This prestigious award is given to living graduates of the United States Naval Academy who have demonstrated a strong interest in supporting the Navy and the United States Naval Academy, provided a lifetime of service to the nation or armed forces, and have made significant and distinguished contributions to the nation through public service.

The selection committee chose these four out of a large assembly of distinguished graduates, covering four decades of service. The committee, chaired by Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee '51, also included George P Watt Jr. '73, Vice Admiral Chuck Griffiths '46, Mr. John Nolan '50, Mr. Thomas G. Pownall '47, Captain James Grant '80, Mr. Christian H. Poindexter '60, Admiral Charles S. Abbot '66, and 'ice Admiral George W. Davis Jr. '55.

The 2002 awardees will be appropriately feted with a parade and a private recognition dinner this fall. More details will be forthcoming in future communications from Alumni House, but I wanted to let you know now since the 2002 recipients have been notified.

George P. Watt Jr President/CEO U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation

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Citizen Sailors and Soldiers, Designing the New Total Force By the Honorable Stephen M. Duncan '63 â&#x20AC;˘ ^ e r y early in his administration. President George W. Bush ex- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. The first two presi^ pressed his opinion about the "overdeployments" of U.S. mili- dential appointees to occupy that position were Naval Academy tary forces, overdeployments which had rapidly increased since the graduates. Jim Webb '68 and I made the readiness problems of the termination of the Persian Gulf conflict in February 1991. Speak- Reserve Forces our highest priority, but by February 1988, defense ing at the headquarters of the West Virginia National Guard only budgets were coming down and predictable tensions between the com25 days after his inauguration, the president declared that he in- peting Active and Reserve Forces were mounting. tended to "be careful about troop deploymentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^judicious use of Considerable doubt also remained among many career professionour troops." ' It was welcome news to the leaders of both the als about the willingness of political leaders to activate significant Active and Reserve Forces, but it was only the latest development numbers of Reservists involuntarily for an armed conflict. I will long in the 30-year implementation of a Total Force Policy which has remember a conversation I had in July 1990 with a Navy flag officer. involved many Naval Academy graduates. In the days since the He observed that he understood that I was looking for effective ways 11 September attacks on the American homeland, that policy has to integrate Active and Reserve Forces, but he hoped that I underagain come under scrutiny. stood that it was very difficult for the Navy leadership to devote much Students of American military history are usually familiar with the of its decreasing resources to its Reserve component when it was work in 1969-1970 of the Gates Commission and how we came to very unlikely that members of the Naval Reserve would ever be actihave an All Volunteer Force. The creation of a "Total Force Policy" vated in significant numbers. When I inquired about the basis for his and our experience during the first years of its implementation is less conclusion, he responded with the comment that no president had well known. The genesis of the policy was rather simple. On 21 Au- involuntarily activated Reservists since Vietnam. "That is true," I regust 1970, then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird issued a sponded, "but do you know how many times since Vietnam that the memorandum to each of the military services which highlighted his Service Secretaries or the Joint Chiefs of Staff have recommended to any president that Reserves be activated?" On the basis of my own fiscal concerns: "Within the Department of Defense...economies will require research I knew that the answer was none, although I suspected that deductions in over-all strengths and capabilities of the active forces, that fact might have been based partly on a perception by military and increased reliance on the combat and the combat support units leaders that such a recommendation would not be welcomed by political leaders. of the Guard and Reserves.

Emphasis will be given to the concurrent consideration of the Total The question became moot the next month. With the commenceForces, Active and Reserve, to determine the most advantageous mix toment of Operation Desert Shield in August 1990, and the subsequent support national strategy and meet the threat. A total force concept commencement of Operation Desert Storm, the myth of political reluctance to use Reserves was dispelled. By the time combat operations will be applied in all aspects ofplanning, programming, manning, equipin that conflict ceased on 28 Febmary 1991, 202,337 Selected Reservping, and employing National Guard and Reserve Forces." ^ Four years later, the Army Chief of Staff, General Creighton ists and 20,277 members of the Individual Ready Reserve had been Abrams, began to pursue plans to integrate Active Army and Reserve activated. Some 106,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists had served Forces in an unprecedented way. Abrams had served as the Army's with great effect in the Kuwait theatre of operations. On 6 March 1991 vice chief of staff during the build up in Vietnam, and he had to deal then President George Bush addressed a joint session of Congress, and with the problems that resulted from President Johnson's refusal to said the following: "This victory belongs to the regulars...to the Remobilize Reserve Forces for that conflict. According to his biogra- serves, to the National Guard. This victory belongs to thefinestfighting pher, Abrams deliberately built into the Army's then 16-division force this nation has ever known in its history." structure a reliance on Reserves that ensured that no president would By the mid-1990s, the earlier reluctance to rely upon Reservists had be able to send the Army into war in the future without activating its evolved into a policy of over reliance. War plans involving the use of Reserve Forces. â&#x20AC;˘* Reserves had not kept pace with the new concepts of "operations other For the remainder of the decade of the 1970s, considerable rheto- than war." The traditional understanding of what it meant to be a Reric was devoted to the new Total Force Policy, but the actual integration servist was being challenged on all fronts. As early as 1994, the Chief of Active and Reserve Forces remained very much an illusion. Things of the Air Force Reserve noted that the pace of peacetime operations began to change when the Reagan administration assumed power in was causing friction in Reserve families and growing resentment among 1981. In a 21 June 1982 memorandum to the military services, the civilian employers and that Reserve leaders had not been articulate new Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger established what would "about how close we are to the breaking point." ' By 1999, National become known as the "first to fight, first to equip" policy. Having Guard and Reserve strength had been reduced from its 1989 level of concluded that early deploying National Guard and Reserve units must 1.8 million to 876,000, but dramatic increases in "op tempo" were harmhave the equipment to perform their missions, he asserted that Active ing recruiting and retention. Reservists were being activated at a rate and Reserve units deploying at the same time should have equal claim 13 times higher than a decade before when the Cold War was still in on modem equipment inventories. Henceforth, "units that fight first, effect. ^ The Army Reserve was planning to increase the annual training requirement for its members from 39 to 60 days.' Because a very [would] be equipped first, regardless of component.""

Not long thereafter, and as part of an effort to enhance the relative high percentage of Naval Reserve officers have significant active duty influence of the Reserve Forces in the resource and related policy experience, the changed operational environment was having a signifidebates within the Pentagon, Congress created the new position of cant impact upon many Naval Academy graduates.

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Reservists were also being used in ways never imagined when the In an authentic crisis like the current war on terrorism. Reservists are Total Force Policy was established. In September 1994, at a time almost universally anxious to serve. This fact was expressly noted rewhen an ABC News poll found that 73% of the American people cently by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who declared in recent opposed an American military operation in Haiti, when a substantial congressional testimony that, "Many of our Reservists and Guardsmen majority of Congress saw no important U.S. interest involved, and didn't wait to be called upâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they volunteered. I heard about one Navy when there was not even a "fig leaf claim of some emergency that Reservist who sold his business so he could serve without distraction. I required unilateral presidential action. President Clinton signed ex- think you' 11 agree that these American heroes are unmatched in the world, ecutive orders authorizing the involuntary activation of several and we have every reason to be proud of them." " thousand Reservists for service there. In 2000, 80% of the U.S. force In an All Volunteer Force, however, many of the Reservists who in Bosnia was Active Army. By the fall of that year, are needed most will not accept extended operational the Texas National Guard's 49th Armored Division deployments in peacetime, especially if their activaThe determination tion is unrelated to important American security had returned home following an eight-month peaceof how we use our interests. The best performers are likely to have rekeeping tour there and plans called for those troops Citizen Warriors, to be replaced by the Guard's 29th Infantry Division. sponsible and demanding civilian jobs. Their Naval Reserve EA-6B Prowlers had also been used however, will employers are likely to be much less understanding to enforce the no-fly zone north of the 36th parallel continue to require of their absence from the workplace if there is no in Iraq and to monitor Iraqi compliance with resolu- the wise application authentic crisis. A 1999 DoD survey of employers tions of the U.N. Security Council. Two of my of our experience to found that 62% considered the absences of their Reclassmates faced these new challengesfirsthand. Rear servist-employees too long or inconvenient. Even the new realities Admirals Tom Hall '63 and Dennis Vaughn '63 served when a true crisis has occurred, the activation of a of the present. consecutively as the Chief of Naval Reserve from large number of Reservists can have an immediate, September 1992 to October 1998. Admiral Hall is conadverse impact on local government employees. Law tinuing his work with the Naval Reserve as the executive director of enforcement agencies, for example, can be particularly hard hit since the Naval Reserve Association. many police and sheriff's departments draw their numbers from the Debate about the best use of Reservists and the future parameters ranks of the Reserve components. of the Total Force Policy came to a temporary halt on 11 September The most recent Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review, which 2001. In a meeting of the National Security Council on 12 Septem- was issued only 19 days after the 11 September 2001 attacks, emphaber, the president declared that the nation is now involved in "a sized the importance of preparing U.S. forces for homeland security. '* different kind of war than our nation has ever fought," and that it will It declared that the Defense Department "will place new emphasis use all of its resources." So it is. Within days. Army National Guard upon counter terrorism training across federal, state, and local first troops were mobilized to provide security at more than 400 of the responders, drawing on the capabilities of the Reserve and National nation's airports and to help with border security. The Naval Reserve Guard." In announcing a shift in the basis of defense planning from a was planning the mobilization of 14,000 Ready Reservists,' includ- "threat-based" model to a "capabilities-based" model for the future, ing units of the Surface Warfare community's naval coastal warfare the report further stated that to ensure the appropriate use of the Re(NCW) program which resides entirely in the Naval Reserve, Con- serve components, DoD will undertake another "comprehensive struction Battalion personnel, and Naval Air Reserve assets. '" Air review of the Active and Reserve mix, organization, priority misNational Guard F-15s, F-16s, and AWACS aircraft were patrolling sions, and associated resources." " U.S. skies from coast to coast. By 15 January 2002, 13,000 sorties It remains to be seen what exact form the Total Force will take in had been flown. " Other Reservists have since been activated to help the future. Our experience, however, should restrain policy-makers protect the Olympic games in Salt Lake City, to secure the nation's from relying upon the Reserve components merely as a cheap source capitol, and to protect nuclear power plants, public water facilities, of labor for an overextended Active Force. Decisions on the balance and other important infrastructure sites. By the end of January, more between Active and Reserve Forces and when Reserve Forces are to than 72,000 Guardsmen and Reservists were on active duty. '^ be activated must be made within a common analytical frame of refThe length of these Reserve activations is likely to be substantially erence. Neutral planning principles based upon actual experience are greater than that encountered in the Persian Gulf War. In his recent required; principles which allocate Active and Reserve manpower, State of the Union Address, the president declared that "our war on equipment, and other resources on the basis of cost and demonstrated terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be capability to perform specific missions and operational tasks. finished on our watch, yet it must be and it will be waged on our As we enter the new century and shape our Armed Forces to meet watch." " His comment called to mind an observation made by new challenges, it may be reasonably asked to what extent the AmeriWmston Churchill in the early days of World War H: "Few there are... can Citizen Sailor/Soldier ideal remains relevant to our new security who would doubt that the British and French peoples were right to needs. I believe that we will continue to require citizen volunteers draw the sword of justice and of retribution. Fewer still there are those who, like the fifth century B.C. Roman hero, Lucius Quinctius who would wish to sheath it until its somber, righteous work is done." Cincinnatus, can assume the warrior in the interest of country, and The length of the current conflict was also implied in remarks by return to their figurative ploughs when immediate danger passes. The the Secretary of Defense in a congressional hearing on 5 February determination of how we use our Citizen Warriors, however, will 2002. When asked "What will victory look like?", he replied that the continue to require the wise application of our experience to the new United States and its allies will have succeeded when "countries are realities of the present. Naval Academy graduates will undoubtedly no longer harboring terrorists" and when "fewer people give money provide much of the critically necessary leadership, -ito terrorist organizations and fewer recruits are signed up by terrorist The Honorable Stephen M. Duncan is president of the Class of organizations...." "'* The Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic 1963. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Fleet has also noted that "Sailors know this will be a long war." '^ Affairs from 1987 to 1993 and as the DoD Coordinator of Drug And, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Enforcement Policy and Support from 1989 to 1993. He is the recently observed that Reservists may be required to serve on active lOithoT of Citizen Warriors: American's National Guard and Reserve duty for a year or more."^ Forces and The Politics of National Security.

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Many USNA alumni continue their commitment and service to country in Reserve billets. Here are but a few who have shared their roles as ReservistsCDR Arsenic Menendez ^84. USNR

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y name is Commander Arsenio Klecker Menendez, United States Naval Reserve. I'm currently assigned to the Navy Command Center Reserve unit in the Pentagon were I am a qualified Navy Department Duty Officer watchstander. I am fairly new to the Reserve with only four years served. In this short time I have been fortunate to serve in three great units. Navy Command Center, OpNav N86—Surface Warfare Directorate, and Naval Doctrine Command. I served 14.5 years on active duty as a surface warfare officer in the cruiser/destroyer community in the area of combat systems, which has served me well both in my Reserve and civilian careers.

As a civilian, I work for TRW as a Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense (JTAMD) Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communication (BMC3) Systems Engineer supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on their systems engineering and integration contract. I find my work as a defense contractor, specifically in missile defense, has enabled me to keep a high level of currency with both joint and Navy warfighting issues.

Since the attacks of 11 September, I am both humbled and honored to be working with such dedicated Active and Reserve personnel here in the NCC 106 and our OpNav N3/N5 organizations.

he Naval Reserve has allowed me to continue to serve my country after six years of active duty in the Surface Navy. The camaraderie with fellow Reservists and Navy personnel is great and a major reason for my continued affiliation. I've had the opportunity to serve with many of my classmates during annual training periods.

The Total Force concept has placed more focus on Reserve Force integration with emphasis on contributing to operational missions.

Naval Reservists are successfully contributing all over the world, across the spectrum of naval warfare and in staff assignments.

I'm fortunate to have had four commands. In my last assignment as CO, Naval Reserve Director, Surface Warfare (N76) on the CNO staff, I had the opportunity to contribute to "standing up" two new Reserve units that operate the Area Air Defense Commander (AADC) system. AADC is a new 3-D collaborative planning system for theater air defense. AADC is installed in Mr. WHITNEY ( L C C - 2 0 ) and SHILOH. It was a big thrill for me to play a supporting role. I'm currently assigned as Commanding Officer, Naval Reserve Inspector General 106, Washington, DC.

CAPT A.K Wise 7 8 . USNR aptain A.J. Wise '78 was designated a Naval Flight Officer in 1980, and was assigned to VS-32, completing two Mediterranean/Indian Ocean deployments flying the S-3A Viking onboard

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In 1987, he transitioned to the Naval Reserve from a shore billet 'Steven Lee Meyers. "Bush Warns Against 'OverdLplo\ nKnt' of National Guard and as an aviation officer strength planner on the staff of the Chief of Resene Unki." i\'e\>YorkTimes. Fchnar, IS 20O1 "? Naval Operations. Assigned to progressively challenging assign' MeJvin B. Laird. Memi jrandum lo the Sf t rtui lo iil th- MiliUo Departmenis August 21, ments in various NATO and CNO N3/5 staff augmentation units, he 1970. ' Lewi.s Sorlev, ThinuU'rboln'NKV, \ork Simon & Shuster. 1992). pp 161-^66 $ was recalled to active duty for six months during Desert Shield/ •* Caspar Weinberger. Memorandum to the Militar> Serv ices Prioriues tor Equipment Desert Storm.

Procuremeni and Distribution." June 21 1982 Upon promotion to captain, he assumed command of NR DCNO ' William Matthews. •Cafl-Up Plan Hits Snag in Senate, Anm Time. June 27. 1994 p 20 N3/5 Det 106 (an augmentation unit supporting the Politico-Military 'Rowan Scarborough,••Full-Time Warriors 'AmemanLegumMagazine, Aupai, 1999,p 14 ' David L Fautua. "How the Guard and Reserve Will Fight m 202S." Paiarru lei s Spnng, Affairs Division, OpNav (N31/52)). Most recently, a follow-on com1999. p. 132. mand tour, with NR OpNav 09B Det 106 (the augmentation unit »Bob Woodward, Dan Bal/„ -We \V ill Rally the World,"" The Washington Po.'it, January 28, for the director. Navy Staff), was cur2002, p. A10 "^ ' -'Reserve Recall .May Reach 14,000," Navy Times. October 29,2001, p,3, '^ tailed when Captain Wise was '" Mary Kauchak, ".Navigating Seas of Change," Armed Forces Journal International, mobilized to the staff of the Deputy January, 2f)02. pp. 48-50.

Chief of Naval Operation (N3/N5), • Sieve Vogel, Enc Pianin, "Pentagon May Place Limits On Air Patrols of U. S. Cities," in support of Operations Noble Eagle Wasliingiun Post. January 15, 2002, R A8 '^ U. S, Department of Defense News Relea.se No. 043-02, January 30, 2002 and Enduring Freedom. " "Our War On Terror .. .is Only Begun," The Washington Post, January 30, 2002, p A t^ In civilian life. Captain Wise is a " Donald Rumsfeld. Fiscal Year 2(X)3 Department of Defense Budget Testimony befoie vice president and group director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Febniary 5, 2002 " William M. Arkin, "Troops Gear Up for Phase 2 of War," Los Angeles Times, December a Washington-based defense consult29,2001 ing firm. The blending of these two "Terry Joyce. "U.S. Might Expand Military Ranks, Officials Says, Charleston (SC) Po%t careers provides added value to both, Courier, January 19, 2002 individually and collectively; but ul" General Richard Myers, Fiscal Year 2(103 Department of Defen.se Budget Te\ti before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Armed Sennces, February 5, 2002. timately, our Navy is the real winner. " Quadrennial Defense Review Repon, Department of Defense, September 30,2001, p 19.

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Aiumni a^A^AR Resupply Mission 'nims Fatal

By Rachel F, Goldberg with Captain Doug Glasgow '92 "The seventh Marine I could see, but ^Everyone who's at home wants to I couldn't get there. The opening was too go." And one Marine instructor small," Glasgow recounted. He splashed in weapons tactics was called up for a water on him, but didn't get any reacmission to Afghanistan. tion so he figured he must have been On 9 November 2001 Captain Doug unconscious if not already dead. ExploGlasgow '92 received a call that he should sions and fire were all around. report in a week to deploy; however, the The captain made sure that all the othTuesday following the Marine Corps ers had water, and he covered them with birthday ball, that assignment was empty sandbags to keep them warm, changed to prepare to deploy on Thurssince they were lying in the snow in the day, in just two days. cool morning hours.

Captain Glasgow, eight other pilots, Standing near his downed aircraft in and about 30 other Marines left NAS hostile territory with five injured MaMiramar, CA, with four CH-53s on C-5 rines, without a communications tool and helicopters and arrived in Oman on 19 with minimal ammunition, Glasgow had November. They built up their CH-53s to calculate his next steps. He lost his and joined the 15th MEU on the amphibiCaptain Doug Glasgow receives medical care following pistol and his radio in the violence of the ous assault ship PELELIU on 28 November. the helicopter crash in Afghanistan crash, so he took a pistol off one of the A few days later, Capt Glasgow and his injured Marines. He knew his location, unit flew into Camp Rhino in southwest but he had to communicate that to someone who could pick them up.

Afghanistan, "A desolate place out in the middle of the desert."

After taking care of his fellow Marines, "I scrawled 'SOS' in the Glasgow, a co-pilot, and a crew of five Marines, began flying resupply missions, as well as Quick Reaction Force. He participated in snow with sandbags," Glasgow said. He was hoping that he would a MedEvac with a B-52, picking up injured Afghanis, bringing them find somebody to talk to, but not the Taliban. Glasgow had been shot at in this area two to three days prior. Now he had one pistol and in for medical treatment, and returning them to their homes.

He piloted missions in support of the take over of the Kandahar Air about 50 rounds of ammunition, not enough to fend off the enemy.

"I heard an aircraft overheadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I thought it was a P-3, but it was a Base, transporting Lima Company Marines, Infantry Marines, and supplies. They built up the base there and then closed down Camp Rhino. UAVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I hoped they'd beat the locals," he said. Within two and a He also flew missions picking up American special forces work- half hours following the crash, an Army CH-47 "came down and got ing with Navy SEALs, AustraHan SAS, U.S. Army Rangers, and U.S. us back to the airfield." The injured Marines were at the Bagram base for about four hours until they were taken to another facility, Glasgow Air Force units flying inserts and covert resupply missions.

The night of 19 January, one of Glasgow's crewmen was up all said. He stayed at this facility with one crewman for a day while the night repairing their helicopter in freezing cold conditions. "That others were transported to Turkey and then to Germany where they reunited and remained for a week. happens all the time," Glasgow said, a routine activity.

All five survivors, all with injuries, arrived at Bethesda Naval The next day, Capt Glasgow and his crew, including the Marine who had been up all night repairing the helo, were off on a resupply Hospital on 29 January. Two crew members and Glasgow had been mission to Khost. Flying 9,000 feet above sea level, the compressor released as of this writing and two remained at the medical center.

Captain Glasgow was scheduled to meet with investigators in stalled. Glasgow turned to follow lower terrain with the hopes that the crew could "fix the engine and get online," but with the heavy February in Yuma, AZ. Following an incident like this "there's always a lot of what ifs," aircraft and the thin air, it couldn't be done. In a period of five to seven seconds the helicopter crashed. Luckily, he was able to find a the pilot said. As for the actions after the crash, "I didn't do anything that anyone flying helicopters or aircraft would not have done. That's flat place to put down, he said.

"The aircraft was burning immediately," he recalled. "I got out. just what Marines do."

The real heroes, Glasgow said, are the individuals who man the My co-pilot's leg was stuck." Glasgow tried to cut loose his boot, but lost his knife. He was able to untie the shoelace and pull his co-pilot lines and protect the base, and those who work all night in freezing out of the helicopter. "I got him clear of the aircraft and started look- cold conditions and get on a mission the next morning, just like his crew member who was lost in the crash, t ing for survivors," Glasgow said.

One man was walking near the co-pilot, who was lying in the snow.

Captain Doug Glasgow joined the USNA Class of 1992 following Glasgow sited another Marine in the debris. "His leg was messed up a year at the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, TX, sponpretty bad. I carried him out and layed him down," Glasgow said. sored by the Athletic and Scholarship Division of the U.S. Naval "He told me where another guy was." The captain took a pry bar to Academy Foundation. Before he was sent to Afghanistan he was a free another crew member. He dragged out the other Marine, but he weapons tactic instructor in Yuma, AZ. knew he wouldn't make it, Glasgow said. /

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'64 Awards Young Leaders in the Fleet ByJohnH. Palombi'64 With contributions from Rear Admiral Philip J. Coady, U.S. Navy (Retired)

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ince the commissioning of CARNEY (DDG-64), the USNA Class of 1964 has sponsored a leadership award which recognizes the professional achievement and superior performance of a junior officer aboard the ship. The selected junior officer for 2001 was presented with the sixth Commander Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award on 14 January 2002. The award ceremony took place aboard CARNEY while in its homeport of Mayport, FL. Several representatives from the Class of '64, as well as Mrs. Virginia "Ginny" King, the widow of Commander Lanny King, were on hand to congramlate Ensign Carlos B. Santiago '00, the 2001 CARNEY award recipient.

Portions of the citation read by Commanding Officer Mike Jacobsen ' 82, relate an extremely successful transition from the Naval Academy classroom to the fleet. "Ensign Santiago consistently performed his duties in an exemplary and highly professional manner.. .qualified as a surface warfare officer in only nine months and demonstrated the unique leadership talent which embodies the Navy's core values of honor, courage, and commitment in honoring the memory of Commander Lanny L. King."

It all started with a phone call. In the fall of 1995, Commander Lanny King '78, the prospective commanding officer (PCO) of CARNEY had recently completed sea trials for the 14th ARLEIGH BURKE-

class guided missile destroyer and the very successful testing of the Aegis weapons system. He had a strong desire to increase the focus on leadership development among junior officers and chose to use his new command to help promote this goal. Commander King understood the concept of the Extended Brigade and used it to the advantage of his command. He contacted Rear Admiral Bob Sutton '64, to enlist the support of the USNA Class of 1964 in sponsoring a "Junior Officer Leadership Award" for the newest U.S. Navy destroyer that shared the number "64." The commissioning was scheduled for 13 April 1996 in Mayport, FL. It was an easy decision for the Class of '64 Executive Committee.

The USNA Class of '64 has endeavored to focus its activities and contributions to provide increasing benefits for the Navy in the future.

These efforts have included granting memorial scholarships for

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children of deceased Classmates (mosdy Vietnam casualties), funding the development and distribution of the book Ethics for the Junior Officer for use at the Naval Academy, within NROTC units, and in the fleet, endowing operating funds for the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics, and support of the USNA Ethics program, including the annual Ethics Dinner each January with the members of the graduating class. The decision to support this CARNEY leadership award was unanimous and arrangements were made for local class representatives to coordinate the project in Mayport. At the time, there was no hint of the eventual camaraderie that would develop between CARNEY, its crew, and members of the Class of '64.

Shortly after this joint effort was initiated. Commander Lanny King suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm and passed away on 14 December 1995, just four months before the scheduled commissioning.

The arrangements for the development of the leadership award continued with Lieutenant Commander Jim Yohe ' 82 and on 23 January 1996, the award was formally renamed the Commander Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award. This was concurred by Commander King's wife, Ginny, who has participated in several of the ceremonies during which the award was presented. Since Lanny King's untimely death, Ginny King has remained active in the Navy community. She began working in 1998 by providing Government Survivor Benefits education to military spouses for the Navy Mutual Aid Association. She also actively volunteers through the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS).

The plaque that commemorates the Leadership Award was officially presented to the first commanding officer of CARNEY by the USNA Class of 1964 representatives at a formal reception just prior to the commissioning and remains prominentiy displayed in the wardroom. Subsequently, the Class of '64 was represented by 13 Classmates and their wives at CARNEY commissioning on 13 April 1996 in Mayport, FL. The ship is named after Admiral Robert B. Carney ' 16 (1895-1990) who served as chief of naval operations from 1953 to 1955. Admiral Carney's daughter, Betty Taussig who is also the widow of Captain Joe Taussig ' 4 1 , served as ship's sponsor and gave the traditional

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"The Navy develops few models of leadership as compelling as that which Lanny King developed on his own. His service was a great gift to the Navy and the nation and his continuing gift is a model for all those who follow him. I salute the Class of '64 for their wisdom in adopting Lanny King as a model leader."

King's leadership and compassion established a foundation to build a continuing reputation for professionalism aboard CARNEY. His four principles for leadership and success have been embodied in CARNEY Instruction 1650.1, which promulgates guidance for the selection of the Commander Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award: '64 Classmates and Mrs. Virginia King aboard CARNBY (DDG-64) to congratulate Ensign Carlos Santiago '00, on his selection as the 2001 Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award recipient. '64 attendees, 1 to r: Tom Raffo, John Palombi, Dick Burke, Bernie Maguire, John Klein, and Scott Bushneil first order to "man our ship and bring her to life." Admiral Jay Johnson '68, then vice chief of naval operations, was the principal speaker at the commissioning ceremony.

Members of the USNA Class of '64 have had continuing opportunities to meet many officers and crewmembers of CARNEY during the pre-commissioning period and on other occasions during the past six years as the annual awards are presented. Each time they meet, these Alumni continue to be impressed with the outstanding caliber of the officers, chief petty officers, and other crewmembers aboard CARNEY. As time progresses and the faces change, it has become obvious to each of them that more than the enthusiasm of young officers and unit pride is involved.

The tradition of the Commander Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award has established its own unique culture aboard CARNEY. Striving for excellence has become their way of life. The results started with the high-scoring Aegis systems testing before commissioning, but they continue with nearly every opportunity CARNEY meets in the fleet. Early qualifications, multiple Battle Efficiency awards, the ARIZONA Memorial Trophy, and citations by inspecting groups (e.g.

Afloat Training Exercises) of "the best they had ever seen" are all part of CARNEY'S reputation for achievement, continuing improvement, and professionalism. Lanny King's spirit and his sense of "doing the right thing" have permeated CARNEY culture.

"No one ever told me that I had to be miserable, so I choose to be happy," King wrote in a memo to his sailors, laying out his command philosophies. Crewmen said King followed that memo. He was consistently positive, they said. King provided leadership by imbuing in each sailor a belief that he or she could do valuable work, a concept he called "forward leaning."

Rear Admiral Philip J. Coady, USN (Ret.), president of the Navy Mutual Aid Association, knew Lanny King as a division officer, a department head, an executive officer, and as a prospective commanding officer. In Admiral Coady's words, "At every stage of his evolution as an officer, Lanny King represented the finest qualities of character and leadership. He was particularly skilled in conveying to everyone with whom he worked the importance of his or her individual roles in the functioning of the ship. He empowered all those who worked for him by soliciting their views and opinions. He knew the value of harnessing the collective wisdom of everyone in the command rather than relying on "top down" decrees. At the same time, he had wonderful intuition and he would issue crisp, clear orders when the circumstances demanded a prompt decision.

"Lanny had a special gift in his ability to inspire his subordinates.

His respect for them was more than mirrored: it was magnified. He was as comfortable in the Chief's Quarters as he was with the wardroom. The troops, at every level, idolized him.

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Honesty—forthrightness with no secrets Integrity—do the right thing regardless of consequences Manner and Command Climate—the importance of courtesy and compassion Happiness—choose to be happy In keeping with these principles, award selection includes a rigorous "360-degree" review, which includes separate balloting from the ship's senior petty officers (subordinates), the division officers (peers), and the command (XO, command master chief, and all department heads). A final selection is made by the commanding officer following a review of the ballots.

The name of the junior officer receiving the Leadership Award each year is engraved on the wardroom plaque. The recipient also receives a bronze ship's plaque from the wardroom, a U.S. Savings Bond from the Class of '64, and is traditionally awarded the Navy/Marine Corp Achievement Medal by the commanding officer for outstanding leadership and service to the officers and crew of CARNEY. Comments from each of CARNEY'S past and current commanding officers (Commander J. "Ted" McMurtrie, Commander Mark H. Buzby, and Commander "Mike" Jacobson) all speak of "keeping the spirit of Lanny King alive," "doing Lanny's memory proud" with continuing professionalism, and "celebrating the magnificent traits of CARNEY'S first captain" that are being continued through younger generations of surface warriors.

As of today, six officers have received the Lanny King Memorial Leadership Award: 1996, Lieutenant Michael A. McCartney '90; 1997, Lieutenant Junior Grade Timothy Anderson; 1998, Lieutenant Junior Grade Ronald R Rich; 1999, Lieutenant M. Brent DeVore; 2000, Lieutenant Junior Grade Edward H. Jun; 2001, Ensign Carlos B. Santiago '00.

The award's first recipient, Mike McCartney, may have captured the spirit of this award best when he stated that he was "very honored and proud to say this is the most meaningful award I have ever received." Mike had the opportunity to be a plankowner and worked with Lanny King for a short time. He shared some thoughts about Commander King's leadership style, the trust he garnered, and how he always made people feel important. A plaque on Commander King's desk read, "Catch them doing something right"—great advice then and now for fostering the type of leadership style that makes people want to continue improving. Each of the award winners has expressed the feeling of "gratitude and trust" associated with receiving such an honor. They have also been generous in their praise for the leadership opportunities and guidance provided by CARNEY officers and the assistance and support of their peers, their chief petty officers, and crewmembers. Carlos Santiago, the 2001 recipient, stated that "no one person receives an award of this magnitude on their own."

This unique award continues as a "living tribute," fostering leadership development in the Navy and the USNA Class of '64 is proud to be a part of it. -t

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Campaign in Action: Midshipmen Travel ^^^^^ Overseas Through Innovative Language Study Program " 1 ^ Grant Made Possible by the George and Carol OInnsted Foundation

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he Leaders to Serve the Nation Campaign is not only alterThe USNA Campaign: ing the landscape of the Naval Academy, but it is also transforming the lives of the midshipmen who live and learn McoAtrs td Serve tktJ^idwK here. Beyond the "bricks and mortar," are the midshipmen Progress Report (through 1/31/02) who direcriy benefit from private gifts to the Campaign. Innovative programs, such as the Tri-Service Academy Midshipman and Cadet Academic Excellence goal: $37.5 million Actual Overseas Travel and Immersion Program, funded by private gifts from ($ millions) the George and Carol Olmsted Foundation, contribute to the cultural Goal Admissions Excellence goal: $2.5 million experiences available to midshipmen.

Last year the Naval Academy, the United States Mihtary Academy and Athletic Excellence goal: $51.0 million the Air Force Academy each received a gift of $100,000 from the Olmsted Foundation to create this new program, whose objectives are to: Character Excellence goal: $26.0 million • fund service academy student overseas travel and study abroad; • encourage joint experiences for studentsfromall three academies; Leadership Excellence goal: $20.5 million • encourage cultural immersion in non-English speaking countries around the world; and • facilitate the academic departments from USMA, USNA, and Unrestricted Support goal: $37.5 million USAFA in working together closely to plan and coordinate joint efforts to study abroad.

Other "This new program will provide unprecedented opportunities for undergraduate students at the three service academies to be languageoal: $175 million Total Cam educated overseas and to broaden their cultural experience through international travel and exposure," said Superintendent Vice Admiral John Ryan '67. "We're all grateful to the Olmsted Foundation for part in six hours of Spanish study Monday through Friday. Many their foresight and support in this tri-service context." different courses were available including conversation, Mexican According to Rear Admiral Larry Marsh '63, USN (Ret.), execu- history, culture and political activity, and grammar. The last three tive director of the Olmsted Foundation, "This is a unique chance for hours of each day were in small classes with a maximum of five the three academies to work more students and helped focus the instruction for each student's level of closely together and to offer a won- understanding. I enjoyed the conversation classes because young men derful overseas travel opportunity and women closer to the age of many students conducted them. They that will enrich the entire educational were able to instruct in a very relaxed environment where students experience for the outstanding future could leam the sounds of everyday language—not just polished exofficers who will participate. We're amples from textbooks. pleased to help make this possible."

"My most enjoyable experiences happened, for the most part, outAdding to the knowledge gained side the classroom. I was able to return home to my Spanish family in the classroom, this program allows where the real learning began. In my adventures to the markets and midshipmen to obtain valuable ex- shops, I was forced to communicate in Spanish. perience through immersion in a "I value all the time I was able to stay in Mexico and feel it will be foreign culture and language, allow- invaluable in my future career as a naval officer. Not only will I have ing a first-hand experience of our a solid understanding and appreciation for the culture of Mexico, but world. This experience gives mid- I will be able to communicate much more clearly once I have masshipmen a greater perspective on the world around them and enriches tered the language. Because of my trip, I have an even greater desire their lives as future naval officers. to continue to improve my speaking skills now that I have tested In the summer of 2001, these intensive programs have proven meaning- them in a real-world environment outside of the classroom. Thank ful to participating midshipmen. One such Midshipman, Chris Kiesel '02, you for providing me with this opportunity." expressed his gratitude in a recent letter to the USNA Foundation: In the summer of 2001, 87 midshipmen traveled overseas for "Thank you ever so much for allowing me to take part in the language training funded by the Olmsted Program, studying in Spanish study abroad program. With the help of the Olmsted Funds, f?^f seven countries, including Vietnam, Russia, and Ukraine. For 2002, the three service academies received I was able to go to Mexico this summer to the Universidad International for a four- UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY $200,000 through this program, allowing even more midshipmen to participate in week program.

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/ ...like duh, dude! What is the Naval Academy? Like no way I'm gonna wear a uniform. I don't even wear shoes! WTiy would I wanna go there and freeze when UCLA offers me a plate of partying nights 'n cool surfing days?" Enter, the San Diego and Imperial County California Blue & Gold Team, representing (and selling) the USNA experience to promising high school juniors and seniors.

Following decades of peacetime, youthful ignorance about the military itself is amazing to older generations. Against the active Navy and Marine presence in San Diego, it's astounding. After more than ten years as the area coordinator of the Blue & Gold Program here, I am often reminded that I have not yet seen and heard everything. Local high schoolers often call me at home with personal inquiries like, "If my uncle was enlisted in the Navy for three years, will that get me into the Academy?" or "Our family has friends living near there so can I live with them instead of in the Naval Academy dorm?" or "I took reading tests all through school, so why do I have to take the SAT?" To encourage and educate promising high schoolers about USNA, I normally have 24 qualified BGOs, all but one are USNA Alums, always the finest sales force! Each is assigned to cover at least one high school, a time-consuming task for an all-volunteer crew. San Diego and Imperial are geographically large counties, including communities in the desert, mountains, and a long stretch on the coast.

Students and their families are diverse.

I see it as part of our job to serve students individually and also to bring them together occasionally. Several times a year we host tours, receptions, picnics, and dinners. This serves several purposes. It allows potential candidates to meet real mids at home on leave, and assess their competition, and we can actively look them over and recruit. We always include entire families, and we always make it fun! Recently, we had a spectacular stand-up reception on the hangar deck of CONSTELLATION (CV-64). More than 200 candidates, prospects, current mids, and families loved the evening. The excitement of the planes, machines, flight elevators, uniforms, food, noise, and pizzazz had the young people practically drooling, though they were all on

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their best behavior and finely attired! If mingling with the mids was the excellent appetizer, the riveting presentation by CONNIE'S captain was the entree. Captain John Miller '79 had the standing crowd ignoring their feet with a fascinating history of the amazing carrier, and spellbound all as he described the effects of 11 September on his crew of thousands. On the way home from a long deployment, the crew was hosting civilian guests on a Tiger Cruise during the last leg between Hawaii and San Diego. CAPT Miller recalled that, seconds after he received the terrible news, the crew immediately transformed from hosts and guides to trained professionals ready for the worst and prepared for orders to return to batde. Parents and young people were soundless throughout, and I suspect many would have taken the oath, had we been prepared!

Each year about 20 to 25 Plebes from San Diego and Imperial counties enter the Academy. Each one is there, in large part, because of the excellent guidance of a BGO, who initially sparks the interest, fans the flames of questions, and helps with the awesome quantity of application/nomination paperwork, and completes and writes up a personal interview with each candidate from their assigned high school.

Perhaps one of the most significant contributions made by individual BGOs is contact with parents. Sending an award-winning child off 3,000 miles to be yelled at and deprived of pleasure is a scary prospect to parents. A warm, knowledgeable, successful Naval Academy grad who acts as the liaison between parents and that faraway place can make the difference between a decline and an acceptance. Our B&G team hears from current mids who maintain contact and keep us in the loop informally regarding "off the record" news of the Yard, as well as passing on names of good prospects from their high schools.

The Naval Academy could not afford to pay for the personal dedication and real contributions of BGOs around the nation. And it can't afford to do without them. Ask any mid!

Myron Fleming served on active duty on destroyers for five years and then in the Reserve until 1992, retiring as a captain. He received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University and worked in commercial and international banking in London for four years.

About ten years ago, he started his own business, Fleming Associates, a management consulting firm for small to medium size companies.

For more information on the Blue & Gold program and to find your local BGO, visit usna.com/communities. -i-

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By Lieutenant Paul Fisher, U.S. Navy (Retired), and Lieutenant Commander Joe DiRenzo III '82, U.S. Coast Guard

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as personal contact been lost with the advent of the electronic age? Before the advent of widespread computers. Outlook, and the SIPRNET, how did the maritime services (Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps) possibly succeed? The same could be said about secure cell phones and PDAs. What did we do before we went high-tech?

Although the introduction of truly incredible technologies has made the ability to move and communicate large volumes of information both quick and easy, facilitating almost instant communication/command and control paths, has something valuable been lost? The short answer: Maybe.

With computer work stations appearing on every individual desk throughout the wardroom and chiefs mess, with T-10 lines ashore and massive communications systems afloat, which move literally millions of emails, PowerPoint projects, digital pictures, and Excel spread sheets throughout the military, the interaction between the command group (Conrunand Officer, Executive Officer, Command Master Chief) and wardroom, enlisted personnel, is not as prevalent as it was five or ten years ago. It doesn't matter if the command floats, operatesfroman air station, or supports thefleetfromshore. Of course, looking at specific asset types will change the applicability of this statement somewhat. A conunanding officer of a Trident submarine or a Coast Guard buoy tender will have more personal interaction just by virtue of the size or type of ship involved.

Email is now the norm in our "paperless society," with direction and guidance given in an impersonal manner. Look at record message traffic. Email communication is often cited as a reference. Review any battle group's end of deployment data. Record message traffic, the standard for decades, steadily decreases while the amount of email has skyrocketed. What is the impact of using this different method of transferring data? Looking at it from a morale or support perspective, the advent of email has been a wonderful addition. Gone are the days when deployed members had to wait weeks for a mail bag to arrive.

Communication with family and friends can be nearly instantaneous.

But the system may pose a drawback. With the ease of email, the amount of messages and taskers that arrive in our in-box on a daily basis can be enormous. Typically, an individual goes on leave for five working days and returns to more than 500 emails. In fact, within some parts of the military complex those receiving that many emails are dubbed "Centurions."

Filtering out the fluff from the stuff can be time consuming and frustrating, especially in large commands where sometimes the tendency to hit the reply-to-all button is the easiest mode to use. So, a common practice is to delete large portions of email messages before they are ever read and wait for the "what happened to my email" follow up. It is simply a time management issue.

With Microsoft Outlook software, senders can now track when and if their messages were read or merely discarded. These return receipts further clog in-boxes. What if you send an email up your chain of command and your immediate superior discards it without even reading it. What message does that send?

Vice Admiral Thad Allen, Commander Coast Guard Adantic Area, recendy spoke to the Hampton Roads (VA) Officers Association and broached the subject of email vice personal interaction. VADM Allen said, "There is no battlespace, domain, or situation that is more important than your immediate work environment and the people who populate it. You cannot leam about each other if you have not taken the time to get to know them. That doesn't necessarily mean to throw your computer out the window. We have marvelous technology and need to use it to reduce workload. But resist the urge to use technology for technology sake. To use email to replace what you would have previously written in a memo or a letter is a good thing. But there is a new addiction working its way through business, and the military to some degree: addiction to email. You know you're addicted to email when: 1. You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no phone line electricity.

2. All of your friends have an @ in their names.

3. You turn off your modem and get an empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

4. You have a power failure and think, well, IguessI'lljustgohome.

5. You automatically give your email address when someone asks for your address.

6. You check your email. It says "no new message," so you try again.

There are other issues. New problems arise when the command's directives and publications are now all on the computer, along with all of the message boards. Plan of the Day, Plan of the Week, watch bill, etc. The average sailor spends an inordinate amount of time in front of the computer just checking up on what's going on in the command. Don't get us wrong, the ability to retrieve huge amounts of data instandy is wonderful, and sure beats spending hours looking through NWPs, MEU Instmctions, ALCOASTs, and NavOps to find an answer. It is there with a touch of a button.

The advent of email and web-based management also: • Takes away, to some extent, from the personal mentoring and leadership development of our young sailors and junior officers. At least a half-dozen Jimior Officer's have expressed this verbally. As VADM Allen continued in his HROA speech, "Like the commercial for Royal Caribbean cmise lines says, 'Just get out there.' You can often leam morefromthem (your subordinates), than they can from you. But, they will leam by example. And what you leam from each other can't be reduced to electrons. You may find out that like the Grinch, the demands of your own job and pre-occupation with other things may have resulted in your shoes being a bit too tight.

Don't become a Grinch or a grouch."

• Deters command members, especially the command cadre, from taking time to interact. Even underway on a cutter or ship, it is simply quicker to email than to take a walk. It is a sad state of affairs when it is easier to send an email to a person who works less than 25 feet away from you vice communicating in-person, one-on-one. Is having a hard copy of communication that important?

• Creates a negative aura for one-on-one, in-person communications because of the overwhelming use of technological conununications. So now the Sailor, Marine, or Coast Guardsman may take the

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personal touch negatively. Why is the boss coming to see me personally instead of communicating via email? What have I screwed up?

• Puts some members of the National Fleet (Navy and Coast Guard) at a disadvantage—not all members of the Navy and Coast Guard have the same IT capabilities. Two and a half years ago, during a deployment to the Arabian Gulf, wardroom members of USCGC MIDGETT were included during an "In-Chop" brief by members of the Fifth Fleet Staff. Countless briefers stated, "This information is found on otu- SIPRNET web site, or you can find it on the web, or if you run into a problem, just email me and I'll get right back to you." Having this information available at the drop of a key stroke is superb, however, what if your vessel must depend on INMARSAT B to download or surf? It's expensive and time consuming. In this case the cutter was at a disadvantage. Was it a big disadvantage? That depends on who you talk with. All ships and cutters have different IT capabilities, but in this case it significantly impacted interoperability.

Again, we believe the IT advances have been incredible for cementing C4. We would go so far as to write that personal email has been the single greatest morale addition since mail call. Families communicate daily with each other, questions that sometimes took weeks to reply via surface mail now can be viewed in hours. Viewing a picture of a newborn child within hours after birth can bring smiles to even the oldest salt.

Our purpose is to highlight many small questions that arise from this revolution, and one big question: "What happens when the power goes out?" All of a sudden people are lost without their screens of taskers, and the regulations were not backed up, and the message boards have crashed. How will the command authority interface with their troops, especially with those commands that have wide spread departments or are deployed in areas with this type of conductivity?

On two occasions I watched the effect when outside email was secured on the carrier while operating overseas. The overall effect was amazing. People's lifelines were cut!

One possible solution that all services should consider adopting as doctrine regarding this issue comes directly from the Marine Corps Primary Doctrine document: MCDPl—Warfighting (p. 78).

Our (the Marine Corps) philosophy of command must also exploit the human ability to communicate implicitly. We believe that implicit communication—to communicate through mutual understanding, using a minimum of key, well-understood phrases or even anticipating each other's thoughts—is a faster, more effective way to communicate than through the use of detailed, explicit instructions. We develop this ability through familiarity and trust, based on a shared philosophy and shared experience. The Marines recommend four key ideas: • Establish long-term working relationships to develop the necessary familiarity and trust.

• Key people (or what MCDPl refers to as "actuals") should "talk direcdy to one another whenever possible, rather than through communications or messengers."

• Communicate orally/in-person, whenever possible.

MCDPl states, "Because we communicate also in how we talk—our inflections and tones of voice." This can't be reflected through email regardless of how you use holding, underlines, and exclamation marks.

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• Finally, communicate "in person whenever possible because we communicate also through our gestures and bearing."

Those commands, regardless of service, that have the personal touch and use email as a tool vice using the system as a method for demanding answers prevail. It doesn't matter if you're deployed to WestPac, conducting operations in Bosnia, or underway on a counterdrug patrol in the Caribbean. Face-to-face interactions are still the best way to establish understanding and trust. Great commanders and commands will know when to use email, establish face-to-face contact, or when to use phone calls. Command cadre who spend time walking the spaces, interacting with the troops, and doing more listening than emailing succeed. Operational commanders who understand that email cannot always be answered immediately succeed. Leadership, through all the levels of command, is always by the example and not by the impersonal lines of text in an email folder on the computer screen, -t Lieutenant Commander Joe DiRenzo '82 is the Operations Division Regional Strategic Assessment and AT-FP Coordinator on the staff of Coast Guard Atlantic Area. Qualified in submarine and surface warfare, he commanded USCGC JEFFERSON ISLAND ( W P B - 1 3 4 0 ) . He is also a graduate of the Naval War College and the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

Lieutenant Paul Fisher retired in 2000 as a Navy limited duty officer with 28 years of service. Stationed primarily within the P-3 community, he rose through the ranks with stops at chief and warrant. His last tour of duty was with VPU-1, NAS Brunswick, ME.

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ast spring, George Watt '73 met with the Class presidents for the first time and announced the objectives that he had set for his staff. The theme of his objectives was growth. He wanted to grow Alumni membership, grow membership services, grow the Alumni Association's impact and importance to the Naval Academy and to members of the Alumni Association, grow financial strength, and grow informed Naval Academy advocates.

Shortly after this meeting, the officers of the Class of '73 met to discuss George's objectives. It was evident that the key objective was growing membership. Greater membership would mean that the benefits of expanded membership services would reach more Alumni.

Additional membership would also translate into more participation with the Alumni Association, more informed Alumni, and ultimately more financial support to the Naval Academy Foundation.

As the officers of the Class of '73 focused on how to support the membership objective, it was decided that Class funds would be used to subsidize an annual membership for all Classmates who were not current members of the Alumni Association.

The financial commitment to execute this plan was slightly more than $12,000. The Class officers felt that this was a terrific investment. Not only would additional Class membership provide a vehicle to reach more classmates for the upcoming 30th reunion, it also had

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the potential to increase permanent membership and fully support the growth objectives that George Watt had announced to his staff and the Class presidents.

Subsequent to the decision by 1973 Class officers, I sent a letter to classmates who were not members of the Alumni Association. This letter stressed the importance of being a member of the Alumni Association, delineated the benefits of membership, and announced the Class plan to subsidize their membership. The letter also served as a vehicle for identifying the validity of addresses in the Alumni Association's database. Membership was not underwritten by the Class if the letter announcing the plan was "Returned to Sender."

In the three months that have passed since the Class membership plan was launched, the Class President has received phone calls, written correspondence, or emails from more than 40 Classmates. The new Alumni Association members have expressed thanks for the initiative and many have pledged not to let their membership lapse again.

They also expressed pleasure about reading '73's column in Shipmate and catching up with lost friends and old roommates. Alumni Association President George Watt has personally thanked me for the initiative, since it augments the efforts of his staff in reaching the objectives he has put forth for them. <Âą-

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LUCKY BAG OF BOOKS

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers

By Jerry Miller '42, U.S. Navy (Retired) Smithsonian Institution Press, 296 pages, black & white photos, $32.95.

Review by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer '33, USN (Ret), Association of Naval Aviator's Chairman of the Board Emeritus, former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff arui former Chief of Naval Operations. Reprinted with permission from Wings of Gold.

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ith its subtide of "How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation" no one is more qualified than Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller, USN (Ret.), to lay out in simple and direct language the basis for the military employment of nuclear weapons, how the planning for their potential use during the Cold War succeeded in deterring action by adversaries that could have resulted in a third world war, and what the future now holds for their use—or lack thereof—in the maintenance of a peaceful world in the 21st century.

Simply put, while it serves as a useful reference for those military professionals who have been closely involved in the implementation of our defensive strategy since the end of World War H, it also serves as the necessary primer for the vast number of civilians who grew up being conditioned by the media into thinking that we were always just one step from Armageddon with such a fearsome weapon in the hands of military leaders.

Quite the contrary, Jerry Miller makes clear that those who knew the weapon best were the ones who were least likely to use it except to deter its use by others. To accomplish this required increased

reliability and accuracy in delivery of the weapon itself along with the security and flexibility of movement inherent in ships at sea as a launching base. It is here that the modem aircraft carrier best filled the role until the onset of the Polaris submarine and subsequently the Trident systems were brought on line. However, none of the foregoing would have been of any use without the toughness of mind and willing support on the part of our civilian leadership of every initiative required to keep this deterrent credible since its first use to end the Pacific war through the remainder of the 20th century.

In his introduction and throughout the text the author provides valuable insights on the character of the many military officers who devoted their lives to not only making the systems work, but to planning the national security policies that recognized the variety of scenarios that came into being as a result of nuclear weapons. One very interesting story revolves around the early participation of naval officers recruited by General Groves (who headed the Manhattan Project) to take advantage of their "special scientific skills." While the Army Air Corps supplied the pilot and crew of the B-29s, many readers may be surprised to leam that the first nuclear bombs used in anger (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) were armed and dropped on the command of two of those naval officers—one of whom was a naval aviator as well.

In the light of our present situation following the terrorist attack on the World Trade buildings and the Pentagon where four of our big carriers have been hastily deployed to support operations against the perpetrators in Afghanistan, Jerry Miller's final summation is prophetic, to wit: While nuclear weapons continue to provide the security umbrella under which civilization can prosper despite the emerging problems of the 21st century, the aircraft carrier appears more attractive than ever in its relevance to national defense.

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SACC Schedule of Events

SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations of the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the Association of Graduates from the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. More than fifty Fortune 500 and other firms in corporate America interested in recruiting academy graduates will attend.

Where is SACC

Thursday, April 25, 2002 Interview Prep Seminar Friday, April 26, 2002 Breakfast (provided)

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The Washington, DC SACC'is held annually at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia. For reservations, please call 703-415-5000 and request the i'y4CCroom rate. A list of local hotels offering a government rate will be mailed to all alumni registered for the SACC.

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Once registered in JSARDS your resume will receive immediate exposure to recruiters attending the SACC. Please log on to the JSARDS website and register prior to the SACC.

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R I N G STORY

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/^ •>,henJackCrutchfield'36wasmarriedinmid-1938, j/f ja number of our Classmates, then serving on / \ ^ TENNESSEE, went up to die Piedmont in the Bay area of California to participate. Late in the evening after the wedding, while following the bride and groom as they drove in downtown Oakland, CA, my ring came off my finger.

I thought it had dropped onto the floor of Classmate Jim O'Grady's car, but the next morning we searched his car thoroughly and did not find it.

Three and a half years later came the war, and in the following year, I served as a fighter pilot aboard SARATOGA during the invasion of Guadalcanal. While flying with my squadron from Henderson Field, I achieved three more kills and was myself shot down—^wounded and hospitalized.

Several years after the war, and many years after my Class ring had left my mind, I received a letter from the Bureau of Naval Persomiel. The 1949 letter referred to an Army captain named Mason Young, as I recall. Captain Young was head of the United Press Office in Tokyo during the occupation. His letter stated that an employee in his office, a

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Japanese woman, brought him a 1936 class ring with the name David C. Richardson inscribed in it, and she wanted it returned to its owner.

She stated that her brotiier who was working in Oakland in 1938 had found the ring by the sidewalk and when he returned to Japan before the war, brought it with him and refused to turn it in to Japanese authorities during the war.

BuPers wanted to know if this was an accurate account, and I replied it most certainly was.

The ring was returned to me, and I now have it. 1 wrote to CaptainYoung, sending along a letter of my deep appreciation to the Japanese woman for her family's unselfish act, and I inquired what I could do in return. Captain Young suggested sending brightly colored cloth, as this woman had several small children and such material was very expensive and hard to come by. So, over the next few years, I mailed yards of fabric I purchased from Sears Roebuck to Young's office in Tokyo.

I am forever grateful for the generous and considerate way this Japanese family handled this matter. d>

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(C)^—^yfCeet the Trustees Admiral Leighton Smith Jr. '62, U.S. Navy (Retired) Chairman of the Bo.nrd, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni .Association Editor's note: Shipmate will be introducing the Board of Trustees of the Alumni Association a member or two at a time. To contact any member of the Board, visit www.usna.com/about. This month, it is a privilege to begin with the Chairman of the Board.

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dmiral Smith's long and illustrious naval career began with graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1962, following which he entered flight training in September of that same year at Pensacola, FL, earning his wings in January 1964. His first operational assignments were with Attack Squadrons 81 and 22 flying the A4 Skyhawk. Between 1965 and 1968, he deployed first to the Mediterranean aboard FORRESTAL (CVA-59) and then twice to the Tonkin Gulf aboard CORAL SEA (CVA-43) and RANGER (CVA-61) for combat operations in North Vietnam. After a two-year ^hol•e tour flying production test flights in the A7-C, D, and E Corsair II, Smith returned to the fleet via Attack Squadron 82 where he again deployed to both the Mediterranean and Tonkin Gulf aboard AMERICA (CVA-66).

Smith went on to command Attack Squadron 86, Carrier Air Wing 15, and Light Attack Wing One. He was then selected for major sea command and subsequently commanded the replenishment ship

Crosses, two Meritorious Service Medals, and 29 Air Medals. He has also received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, the French Order of National Merit with the rank of Grand Officer, and he was made an Honorary Knight of the British Empire in a private audience with Her Majesty the Queen.

Upon retirement. Admiral Smith established Leighton Smith Associates, a consulting firm that advises major defense companies on both domestic and international defense-related issues.

He also works closely with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory advising them on the development of war-fighting capabilities that exploit leading edge technologies.

Admiral Smith is active in other areas as well. He has been a guest lecturer at many universities and colleges, as well as most of the armed services instimtes for advanced military education. He has served as a mentor to senior military leaders from all services on planning and execution of Joint and Combined Operations; testified before Congress; and appeared live on all of the major TV networks and National Public Radio as a leading expert on military operations. Among his other endeavors he serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Naval Analysis, a senior mentor to the Institute for Defense Analysis, is president of Leighton Smith Associates, and vice president of Global Perspectives, Inc. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, vice chairman of the Board of Tmstees of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, and is a member of several boards of directors of charitable institutions and major corporations.

As Chairman of the Board of Tmstees, Admiral Smith has worked hard to improve communications among the Tmstees through more efficiently managed board meetings and by encouraging Tmstees to utilize the electronic means available to communicate with their constituents, - t

KALAMAZOO (AOR-6), and the aircraft carrier AMERICA (CVA-66).

In 1986, Smith served as a Chief of Naval Operations Fellow in the Strategic Studies Group at Newport, RI. During that tour he was selected for flag rank.

As a flag officer. Smith served in several challenging command and staff positions including commander. Carrier Battle Group Six; Director of Operations, U.S. European Command; Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations; and, finally, as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe; and Commander of the Implementation Forces, Bosnia.

His tour as Director for Operations for the U.S. European Command from 1989 to 1991 was highlighted by the fall of the Berlin Wall and, later, his involvement in preparations for and execution of combat operations in support of Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Following Desert Storm, over a period of a very few weeks, a U.S. led coalition force was deployed into northern Iraq, resetdement areas constmcted, and a de-militarized zone established for the protection of the Kurds. Smith's contribution to this effort was credited with saving thousands of lives.

In 1991, Smith was appointed to the grade of vice admiral. He was then assigned to the Pentagon as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy, and Operations.

Appointed to four-star rank in April 1994, Smith became Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe, a NATO command. In this job. Smith was responsible for NATO's southern region, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he led the first ever NATO out of area operations as commander of the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR).

Admiral Smith relinquished his commands on 31 July 1996 and retired from active naval service on I October of that year.

During his career. Admiral Smith has received many awards and citations: two Defense Distinguished Service Medals, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, three Legion of Merits, two Distinguished Flying Pholo courtesy of U.S. Navy

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By Anne Sharpe. USNA Alumni Association Staff

The main purpose of the Finance (Treasury) and Administration Department is to maintain the accounting and financial services for the USNA Alumni Association and Foundation, including the Foundation's Athletic and Scholarship Programs division.

The principal functions of the Finance and Administration Department are accounting, financial services, and human resources. This includes the accounts payable and accounts receivable, investment management, payroll and human r e s o u r c e s , and generating financial statements on a monthly basis. This office is also responsible for having a complete audit every year and following the recommendations set forth by the auditors.

This group is very focused and instrumental in the success of the United States Naval Academy Campaign: Leaders to Serve the Nation, assisting in the accounting for all gifts for the Campaign as well as a variety of gifts made for certain projects.

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The Campaign, launched publicly in 2001, seeks to raise $175 million over a five-year period to provide financial resources to the Naval Academy and the Brigade of Midshipmen.

The Finance and Administration team, composed of Ted Kiauss '65, treasurer; Hank Sanford, vice president, finance and administration; Gerrie Farmer, director, financial services; Dorothy Hammond, associate director, treasury; Angela Eggleston, CPA, staff accountant; Angela Berteaux, staff accountant; Michael Mundt, staff accountant; Robin Hall, accounts payable; and Ursula Beckman, accounts payable and accounts receivable, work together to provide accurate and timely financial reports to the organization's customers.

The department maintains contribution records, assists with class fundraising, and provides statements for class accounts.

On the human resources side, Diana Vickerman, human resources and payroll manager, is primarily involved with administering payroll and benefits, maintaining

L to r, fiont row Angela Beiteaux, Mike Mundt, second /on Michelle Smith, Angela Eggleston; third row: Robin Hall, Ursula Beckham, Gerrie Farmer. Dorothy Hammond; hack row: Hank Sanford, Joni Jones, Lori Zimmerman, Diana Vickerman employee files, orienting new employees, working with employment agencies, and assisting m a n a g e m e n t in recruiting new employees. Lori Zimmerman provides administrative support to human resources.

A third element of the Department is run

by Joni Jones, business operations manager.

She reviews and maintains all contractual agreements that the Association and Foundation have entered into or will be involved in and manages all real estate properties owned by the Association and Foundation.

The Finance and Administration department is located at 49 College Avenue, AnnapoHs, MD 21402; 410-263-4448; f: 410263-9348; or visit usna.com for more contact information. d>

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By Millie Pierce, Plebe Sponsor Coordinator

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he Plebe Sponsor Program provides the entering class of the U.S. Naval Academy an opportunity to develop and benefit from informal exchanges with civiUan and military residents of Annapolis and its adjacent communities.

This program provides midshipmen a "home away from home" during their first year at the Academy.

The Sponsor Program has been around for more than 30 years. Many alumni can attest to the value of having a sponsor during their years as a midshipman. As a "home away from home," midshipmen value the relationship that is cultivated with their sponsor family. This friendship often continues for many years beyond the time that is spent at the Academy.

The program is a key part of the overall effort to help midshipmen develop appropriate social graces and the proper service etiquette that is required for a career in the Armed Forces. This relationship also Sponsor family dinner 2002 provides a relaxing and comfortable atmosphere that is not usually found during Plebe Year. Sponsors have historically provided the necessary understanding and encouragement to the first year midshipmen as they meet the challenges associated with the demanding Plebe Year. Additionally this program provides a great opportunity for sponsor families to leam more about the life of a midshipman. Sponsor famihes are highly encouraged to watch or participate in

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Naval Academy activities throughout the academic year. These activities include sporting events, concerts, and formal parades. A sponsor appreciation weekend is held each year to recognize the selfless contributions of our sponsor families. This special weekend gives sponsor families the opportunity to enjoy a special meal with their midshipmen in King Hall, shop in the USNA Store, and enjoy designated varsity and club sporting events free of charge.

Sponsors may "name request" a Plebe, ^ or be randomly matched via a computer ^ program that matches sponsors and Plebes ^ by gender, ethnicity, religion, home state, 5= and personal interests.

To participate in the sponsor program, interested sponsors must live within a 22mile radius of the Naval Academy. Military personnel, both active duty and retired, are encouraged to participate and must be E-6 or 0-3 and above. Civilian residents over the age of 25 may also be considered for assignment as sponsors. Sponsor families must agree to adhere to the mles and regulations of the United States Naval Academy and encourage the Plebes to maintain the highest standards of behavior To receive an application, please contact the Plebe Sponsor Coordinator at sponsor@usna.edu or by calling 410-293-2372.

Please leave your name, address, and phone number Applications for the Class of 2006 will be mailed in April 2002. ^Âą'

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ANECDOTE

More Frightening than a Kamikaze!

By Captain Michael A. Lilly, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired) 6 6lt was more frightening than being attacked by kamikazes!" re- itself. Once broaching the swell and settling into the next trough.

WASP thundered down, punching STACK over with a mighty crunch. marked a young Ensign Tony Lilly '41 on Saint Patrick's Day 1942.

"On each downward thrust," recalled Lilly, "the overhang of WASP Tony Lilly had the midwatch on the bridge of STACK ( D D - 4 0 6 ) .

The ship was steaming south from Maine to Norfolk with another smashed again onto our stack." It had already knocked the "mast destroyer, STERRET ( D D - 4 0 7 ) , escorting the recently-commissioned askew." The only noise was the ships grinding together and "my shipaircraft carrier WASP ( C V - 7 ) as part of Task Group 22.6. The destroy- mates swearing futilely at WASP." Above him, Lilly saw "the overhang of the flight deck at the bow ers were protecting the precious WASP from German U-boats—five of the carrier." Under the flight deck gaped the opening to its hanger were reported operating in the vicinity!

STACK'S position was 1,500 yards ahead of the carrier's bow. Not deck. "I watched smoke from our stack pour through that opening having radar, Lilly maintained position by estimating the size of the into the hanger deck. Soon, WASP sounded a rapid ringing of its bell, cartier in his binocular field. Although he never lost sight other, late then the stroke of one bell, meaning they thought there was a fire in in Lilly's watch a thick fog began to envelop the formation. The ocean the forward part of the vessel."

Because "we were clear under the bow of the carrier, its bridge was quiet, no wind or chop, "a vast and oily sea," as Lilly recalls it. could not see us. Eventually, the carrier's fire parties peered down Lilly had no omen of bad tidings. But he should have.

About 3:30 a.m., a mddy Irishman, Ensign John McMullen '40, known from the hangar deck to find the strangest sight of their careers— STACK hung on their bow below." as "Mack" to his shipmates, appeared on the bridge to relieve Lilly.

STACK had lost all power and had no radio, electricity, lights, or In time-honored tradition, Lilly gave McMullen the ship's course and speed (25 knots), the carrier's position, and the captain's "night loudspeakers. Eventually, someone located a battery-powered signal orders." McMullen relieved Lilly who retired to his bunk below for a gun by which STACK signaled the carrier.

The carrier, finally realizing what happened, came to a full stop well-earned rest.

Suddenly, about 5:50 a.m., Lilly was thrown from a deep sleep and backed off. At that point. STACK was DIW—dead in the water— and "almost awash back aft." into the "scuppers of my Fearing U-boats, WASP and room." His first thought was STERRET left the disabled "McMullen was chasing a and defenseless STACK to fend submarine." In those days, for itself. (submarines usually steamed After hours of rough bobon the surface at night and dove bing in the swells and worrying at daybreak, staying under all about foundering or being torday). The most likely time to pedoed, the enginemen finally encounter a submarine, they ignited fires in the number two believed, was during the 4 a.m. fireroom and made way at a to 8 a.m. watch. Lilly and slow four or five knots. At first.

McMullen planned if they disSTACK headed for Norfolk, but, covered a submarine on the as its feedwater began salting surface, they would "wheel the up, the ship changed course for ship into a collision course with Philadelphia where it entered the submarine and then call the dry dock for two months of recaptain on a voice tube to his STACK (DD-406) Photo courtesy of Nimitz Library Photo Archives pairs. sea cabin."

Lilly, who was later awardAs Lilly stmggled to his feet, he noticed the ship was heeled over at a 60-degree angle. With some ed a Purple Heart for combat wounds in the Pacific and who served difficulty, exacerbated by the pitch of the room, Lilly donned his "Arc- in the Korean and Vietnam wars before retiring in 1970 as a captain, tic" overshoes and foul weather gear and stmggled topside to the foc's'le sums up the experience, "It was pretty damn frightening.

"At first we were dead in the water and helpless. Even when we deck into a dark and foggy twilight.

There, through the heavy fog, he discovered the strangest and most got underway, we could not move fast enough to evade submarines. frightening sight of his naval career. The bow of WASP was buried We were sitting ducks. I can tell you it was more frightening than deep into the starboard side of STACK just forward of amidships. Lilly being attacked by kamikazes in the Pacific."

Yes, it was a lucky Saint Patrick's Day for Tony Lilly—and for this did not know it then, but WASP had penetrated the forward (number one) fireroom "just shy of the keel." Upon collision. STACK swung author, his son, who was bom four years later. d> around until it was caught athwart the carrier's bow. WASP was propelling STACK sideways through the water at a 25-knot clip!

Captain Michael Lilly entered the Navy through OCS. He served Lilly scrambled to his abandon ship station on the foc's'le deck, starin Vietnam at the same time as his father. His father. Captain Tony board side, just forward of WASP. "I looked over the side into the roiling, Lilly ' 4 1 , was Chief of Staff, Seventh Fleet and he was the junior icy waters and shuddered at the thought of landing in those waters." ensign aboard WADDELL ( D D G - 2 4 ) . The younger Captain Lilly is WASP and STACK were locked together riding over long swells and also a former attorney general of Hawaii, currently practicing law into deep troughs in between. As the two ships climbed up on a swell. in Honolulu.

WASP would rise faster than STACK. AS WASP pulled away. STACK, which had been keeled over at an acute angle to port, began to right 30

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BRAVO Z U L U '51: CAPT Walter J. Schutz, USN (Ret.), has been inducted into the Fairmont (OH) Athletic Hall of Fame.

'55: RADM Paul E. Sutherland, USN (Ret.), was re-elected as the mayor of the town of Southern Shores, NC, and also elected as the treasurer of the Dare County, NC, Tourism Board. Col Ernest Volgenau, USAF (Ret.)'s company, SRA International, has been selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" for a third consecutive year. '59: Dr. J.P. "Jack" London's company was awarded the contract to support the Tactical Electronic Warfare Division's Central Target Simulator at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. '64: John E. Dempsey has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of Nuclear Solutions, Inc. John H. Dalton has been appointed to the board of directors for eSpeed, Inc., creator of business-to-business electronic marketplaces solutions.

'65: ADM J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.), has been elected to the board of directors of Norfolk Southern Corporation. '67: VADM Norbert R. Ryan, USN, has been selected as the new president of The Retired Officers Association (TROA) and will take office after he retires from active duty later this year. Donald D. Mondul has joined the law firm of Grossman, Patti & Brill as Of Counsel. '68: MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr., USMC, has been chosen to be deputy director of NASA. '69: LtCol Kenneth W. Estes, USMC (Ret.), has earned the Gutenberg-e Prize of the American Historical Association for his 1994 University of Maryland dissertation. '70: Kenneth L. Keymer has been appointed president and co-chief executive officer of Noodles & Company. '71: VADM Timothy J. Keating, USN, has been appointed the 44th Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. Fifth Reet. '72: CDR John M. DiUon, USNRR, has been appointed to the board of directors of Intacct速 Corp. '73: RADM Charles L. Munns, USN, is the new program manager of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Program. '74: CDR WiUiam A. Hall, USNR, is Chula Vista's representative on the San Diego Unified Port District Commission, an agency which overseas

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tidelands, administers Lindbergh field, and operates two marine cargo terminals and a cruise ship terminal. '75: RADM John D. Stufflebeem, USN, has been assigned as the new commander. Carrier Group Two. '79: CAPT William J. Toti, USN, has been awarded a third Legion of Merit. '81: Gwendolyn D.M. Boddie has been recognized as one of the business world's Premier 100 information technology leaders by IDG's Computerworld. CDR Mark H. Adamshick, USN, is the new commanding officer of VFA-122. '82: Dr. H. Stephen Gatanis has been named the assistant dean of Life University's College of Chiropractic in Marietta, GA. C. Todd Morgan has recendy been promoted to GS-15 and assigned as the new Warrior Preparation Center's director for Technical Support in Einsiedlerhof, Germany. '83: LT Todd C. Davis, USNR, has been appointed a partner in Apax Partners' healthcare practice. CDR D. Wayne Nobles, USNR, has been appointed vice president and general manager of Asyst's Wafer and Reticle Carrier Group and SMART Traveler^'^ Group, a provider of integrated automation solutions for the semi-conductor manufacturing industry. '89: Michael J. Priefer is the new assistant special teams coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

LCDR Richard E. Dodson Jr., USN, is the new commanding officer of ORIOLE ( M H C - 5 5 ) . LCDR John E. Shassberger, USN, is the new commanding officer of PELICAN (MHC-53). '93: John A. Faxio has been recognized as a "Modem Day Technology Leader" by the Career Communications Group, publisher of U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology. '00: ENS David M. Huber, USN, ENS Erik M. Thomas, USN, and ENS Marc M. Morhack, USN, have recently been designated naval flight officers. '02: MIDN 1/C Amy E. Jones, USN, and MIDN 1/C J.J. Wathen, USN, have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars for 2002. MIDN 1/C Justine L. Fisher, USN, was drafted by the Washington Freedom women's soccer team. At the Navy football banquet MIDN 1/C Brian L. Schulz, USN, won the George Fritzinger Memorial Award, MIDN 1/C Matthew L. Berger, USN, was awarded the Jeffrey R. Kom Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award, and MIDN 1/C B.J. Bowen, USN, won the Commander Ralph Sentmann Award. '04: MIDN 3/C John R. Collins, USN, won the LCDR A.A. Schaufelberger Award at the Navy football banquet. '05: MIDN 4/C Aaron K. Polanco, USN, was awarded the Collins/Roos Junior Varsity MVP Award at the Navy football banquet. d>

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egining in January, the Alumni Association hosted six battalion receptions at the historic Ogle Hall, known as Alumni House.

Regarded as a "Welcome Aboard" party to the Class of 2002, President and CEO of the Alumni Association and Foundation, George P. Watt Jr. '73, spoke to these First Class Midshipmen and encouraged them to continue correspondence with the Extended Brigade after their graduation through the Alumni Association.

The First Class Midshipmen had the opportunity to leam about the Alumni Association and the Foundation while meeting their 50-year counterparts and the staff of the Alumni Association.

The Mids enjoyed a buffet dinner and bar while acquainting themselves with the Class of 1952, who will provide them with their ensign and second lieutenant gold bars at graduation in May. Notable '52 Grads in attendence were CAPT Jake Brown, USN (Ret.), RADM Jim Nunneley, USN (Ret.), Col James Troutman, USAFR (Ret.), CAPT Gene Avallone, USN (Ret.), and LCDR "Biscuit" Wev, USN (Ret.).

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M A I L BOAT Navy Blue <£ Gold and "Anchors Aweigh"

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nfortunately, I cannot answer the questions about when and why the words to Navy Blue & Gold were changed and then changed back over the years ("Mail Boat," January-February 2002, p. 37).

What I can do, though, is note additional mysteries siurounding great Navy music, in this instance "Anchors Aweigh."

Most Internet references properly state that the music for "Anchors Aweigh" was composed by USNA Bandmaster Lieutenant Charles A. Zimmerman and the original lyrics were written by Midshipman 1/C Alfred Hart Miles, Class of 1907, in 1906. At least one reference, but not others, states that the concluding stanza of lyrics was written

by Midshipman Royal Lovell '26; however, there is no indication when Lovell may have written the concluding stanza and when it was adopted.

The Intemet references often, but not always, state that revised "Anchors Aweigh" lyrics were written by a George D. Lottmar which were adopted sometime in the 1920s. However I cannot find anything on who Lottmar was and when he wrote the revised lyrics and specifically when they were adopted (and by whom). Further, it is not clear, at least to me, whether both the original lyrics and the revised lyrics are authorized and used today.

Here are some web sites which touch upon the history of "Anchors Aweigh," providing good information but also leaving uncertainties which, for the sake of history, I believe should be nailed down.

Official U.S. Navy web site: www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ traditions/music/anchor I .html.

Naval Historical Center; www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia01.htm.

National Institute of E n v i r o n m e n t a l Health Sciences: www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/Iyrics/anchors.htm.

Richard T. Boverie '54

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n an otherwise well-written and erudite tale, I feel that some of Robert Black '63's comments, especially as regards "overweight" and/or "uncooperative" Army MACV officers during the batde for Hue, were—well, not in the spirit of "inter-service amity."

I say that for two reasons: (1)1 was an Army aviator for more than 24 years; and (2) although I narrowly missed Tet '68 (aww, shucks) DEROS-ing after my first Vietnam tour as a Huey B-model gunship pilot in November '67, I am (was) very familiar with the area and some of the intelligentsia from that poor, benighted city.

Both of my Vietnam tours were mostly in I Corps, and my famdiarity with Hue and its citizens came from working with SOG—Studies and Observations Group—and the Army's Special Forces from FOBs 1 and 2—Phu Bai and Khe Sanh.

All of us have tales of the "other" services' perceived "lack of cooperation" or "slovenly appearances" far too numerous to enumerate here—and I was somewhat disappointed at Blackie's referrals although I do not doubt his veracity.

We were kind of in that together, and while, at the time, perhaps such occurrences were enraging (I can relate), I would not have included them.

This was a tragic episode in that conflict; for, as I said, I had a chance to meet some of Hue's teachers and doctors—most of whom were educated here—on several occasions. They were mostly from North Vietnam, had emigrated to the South to escape Communist tyranny, and were extremely supportive of our efforts to maintain their freedom and liberation.

Unfortunately, and rest their souls, many of them were probably in the mass graves that were later discovered.

Nonetheless, my thanks to Blackie for a fascinating on-the-scene narrative of that horrific batde.

James P. Fazekas '64

CHURCHILL

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ary-February 2002, p. 37) reminds me of a historical meeting involving Mr. Churchill. It took place on 5 January 1952 aboard the presidential yacht, WiLLiAMSBimG, moored at the Naval Gun Factory (now the Washington Navy Yard).

The principals were President Harry S Truman; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; General Omar Bradley; The Honorable W.S. Gifford, American Ambassador to Great Britain; and the Honorable W. Averell Harriman.

Paired with them on the British side were Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; Lord Cherwell, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Ismay; and Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador to the United States.

The meeting started in the early evening and ended about midnight.

Being the navigator, I was the ceremonial officer of the deck when VIPs were aboard. The commanding officer. Captain Edward S. Miller, came on deck at the late hour and told me to watch for the emergence on deck of the prime minister. When he did emerge I was to chopchop to meet him and escort him down the gangway.

When the great man, with the huge glowing cigar, came on deck, I went up to him, saluted, and said, "Prime Minister, may I escort you down the gangway?" Whereupon he looked up at me asking in that famous Churchillian voice, "Young man, what makes you think I need escorting?" I replied, "Prime Minister, the captain ordered me to do iL" He then said, "Then, young man, you had better do it."

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Board of Visitors Overview The Brigade of M i d s h i p m e n

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he Board continues to recognize the Naval Academy as a premiere leadership laboratory where midshipmen at various stages of their professional development are provided the opportunity to apply learned classroom fundamentals to practical real world leadership positions.

Professional Development The Department of Professional Development has continued to develop their offered courses to ensure the highest standards in the professional preparation of midshipmen. Navigation training has seen the greatest changes, with a comprehensive review of the "Fundamentals of Naval Science" core curriculum being recently completed. This review has resulted in major changes in both subject matter and course design, with the greatest emphasis being placed on maximizing the introduction of information technology. This includes instruction on electronic chart display and information systems, mirroring the equipment and techniques being introduced throughout the U.S. Navy. These same systems were employed for the first time and with great success during the 1,100 nautical-mile summer training cruise taken by all third class midshipmen aboard the Academy's 108-foot Yard Patrol (YP) Training Craft. Further developments are underway in the "Advanced Navigation" course to ensure that the midshipmen are taught the cutting edge of modem navigation principles.

The YP Training Craft provide invaluable underway training for more than 1,500 midshipmen a year Through this heavy usage. Naval Station Annapolis has provided exemplary service, reflecting countless hours of deep maintenance to keep these aging assets in good running order Additionally, significant progress has been made in procuring replacement YPs. Significant funding has been allocated from central funds between FY05 and FY08 to procure 20 new YP Training Craft that will support underway training well into the 21st century. Detailed specification requirements are being drawn up, and funding is being sought to begin design work in FY03.

The "Strategy and Tactics" course taken by all second class midshipmen includes presentadons on national security and military strategy as well as in-depth analysis of prominent historical strategists such as Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Mahan. Recent changes include an introduction to the theories of Corbett, Mitchell, and Boyd. The flexibility of this course has also allowed extensive discussions relating to international terrorism and U.S. reactions to this new and serious threat. Network-Centric Warfare is also at the forefront of strategic thinking within the Professional Development Division, and great progress has been made towards the design and construcdon of a Network Centric Operations Center This state-of-the-art facility will allow instruction of midshipmen to maintain pace with this ever changing and increasingly advanced warfare area.

Leadership, Ethics, and Law The Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law presents core and elective courses in leadership, ethics, law, psychology, and philosophy. All have the common objecdve of preparing midshipmen to lead with integrity, by providing the necessary principles and

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practical theory required to develop effective personal leadership styles. The core leadership courses are designed to teach basic principles of human behavior and group dynamics. The core ethics course stresses critical reasoning, and is structured around classical and contemporary writing in moral philosophy Current and historical case studies are used to show how these fundamental ideas can be applied to the service of the professional naval officer The core law course is a survey of the major aspects of military justice, administrative law, law of armed conflict, and law of the sea relevant to the junior naval officer

Summer Programs The summer training programs continue to serve as the foundation for the professional development of the midshipmen. This past summer, more than 400 first and second class midshipmen experienced life on deployed ships participaUng in real world operations from the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabian Gulf and Western Pacific Ocean.

Once again, USNA participated in the CNO-sponsored Foreign Exchange Training of Midshipmen program. Twenty-one highly qualified midshipmen were selected to serve with the navies of 18 foreign allies. This program, coupled with the overseas cruises, contributed significantly to the professional development of the midshipmen and served to increase their geo-political awareness and appreciation of the cultures of our allied navies. In summary, over 6,500 summer training assignments were conducted in 20 different programs providing six to eight weeks of summer training for each midshipman.

At the signing of this letter, we have been made aware that the FY02 Defense Appropriation Act did not fund needed sail training craft critical to ongoing seamanship, navigation, and leadership training for the Brigade of Midshipmen. We are hopeful the Department of the Navy will be able to address member concerns and gain support for restoration of this funding. In the view of the Board ofVisitors, this program is a vital component of preparing young men and women for commissioned service in the Navy and Marine Corps.

Physical Education The Physical Education (PE) Department has completed numerous projects over the past year that continue to highlight the physical mission of the Naval Academy and meet strategic and tactical initiatives as part of the USNA Strategic Plan. The 40-foot climbing wall was completed and has received a tremendous response from midshipmen, faculty, and staff. A high-ropes challenge course was completed just in time for Plebe Summer training and the Class of 2005 was the first group to complete the nine-obstacle course. The PE Department has implemented new elective courses that utilize the climbing wall and the high-ropes course. Also, a Human Performance Laboratory was completed that will be used to help midshipmen attain maximum benefit from their physical training through measurement and scientific analysis of metabolic and biomechanical variables.

Several projects within the PE Department continue to emphasize the Academy's unique physical mission and the Board applauds the Academy's efforts in these areas. The Glenn Warner Soccer Facility, paid for with private donations, together with much needed repairs to

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the adjacent Dewey Field have provided excellent facilities for the Academy's highly competiuve soccer teams. Repairs to the outdoor track at Ingram Field are nearing completion, once again providing a state of the art track and field venue.

The Board is concerned, however, with the shortage of indoor athletic facilities. USNA's basic facilities requirements show that they are 180,000 square feet short in indoor athletic facilides. Their sister services sustain over a quarter of a million square feet more indoor athletic space than USNA, with virtually the same missions. This shortage manifests itself in cramped and aged facilities which are inadequate to provide for gender equity. USNA has added no new indoor athlefic facilities since women were first admitted in 1976.

Congress has this year directed Navy to begin design on a new field house {P-334. Field House at Turner Field) that would provide a 120,000 square foot facility, partially correcting the existing shortage. However, the facility is currently programmed in the out-years.

The Board urges Navy leadership to make this project a priority, as indicated by this year's Congressional direction, and to execute this project at the earliest opportunity.

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Dignity and Respect Task Force In the summer of 2000, the Superintendent invited Rear Admiral Ann Rondeau, USN, to lead a study to analyze the culture of the Brigade with respect to improving the dignity and respect accorded each midshipman. RADM Rondeau, was formerly assigned as a battalion officer at the Academy, and at that dme was serving on the staff of Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. She traveled to Annapolis to chair a team of 14 military and civilian staff members who reviewed previous assessments of similar subject, conducted hundreds of interviews, and visited and analyzed peer institutions.

Over the past year, the Task Force's findings have been incorporated in all aspects of midshipmen training and education. The topics below are examples of resulting programs.

Sea Trials As a resuh of the 1997 request by the Board of Visitors to examine the effecdveness of the Plebe training system, the Class of 1998 created a culminating training event to the rigors of Plebe Year This event, "Sea Trials," was modeled after the Marine Corps' "Crucible" and the Navy's "Battle Stations" program. It was designed to be a capstone event for the fourth class midshipmen and a leadership challenge for the upper class. The mission of Sea Trials is to place fourth class midshipmen in a physically and mentally demanding environment that reinforces in them the values of good leadership, teamwork, and perseverance. At the same time. Sea Trials allows the upper class cadre to practice their leadership abilities to be better prepared for future leadership roles throughout the Brigade as well as in the fleet.

Watch Organization The Bancroft Hall watch organization plays an important role in the professional development of the Brigade of Midshipmen. Through the use of established instructions and standing orders, the Brigade operates a watch organization modeled after that of an operational fleet unit. This organizadon provides pracdcal leadership applications for all midshipmen from the senior midshipmen officers who supervise the program, to the junior midshipmen who execute their dudes as watchstanders. Maintaining a high standard of excellence throughout the Brigade is the goal of the watch organization, which they do by ensuring proper compliance to the oral and written orders of the Commandant of Midshipmen.

Supervising the midshipmen on watch, the officers and senior enlisted leaders assigned to the Commandant's staff are always present to mentor and train. The senior enlisted now stand watch as the Staff Duty Officer, providing on-the-spot monitoring of evolutions and providing feedback to the chain of command. In the end, the Bancroft Hall Watch Organization teaches not only how to stand duty, but the meaning of duty as well.

Midshipman Action Group Directed and led by midshipmen, the Midshipman Action Group (MAG) began in 1992 with the goal of involving the Brigade with Annapolis area organizadons that had a genuine need for midshipmen time and labor In the years since its founding, MAG has organized hundreds of midshipmen efforts in reaching out to the greater Annapolis community. Last year MAG members provided over

Sexual Assault Victims Intervention (SAVI) Program The SAVI program has become integral to completing the training of future officers. Training in the past year has included prevention of assaults and victims assistance. In addition, the SAVI guide program has been established to allow the midshipmen to become directly involved in the training and education of midshipmen on issues relating to assault and harassment.

Fourth Class Officership Training Program The Fourth Class Officership Training Program was developed for the USNA Class of 2005 (and future classes) to provide formalized instruction in military and social etiquette, formal dance instruction, and the role of the junior officer within the military society. The goal is to further develop midshipmen by introducing information and topics they would not otherwise receive as they progress towards graduation and commissioning. Through the use of guest speakers, interactive presentations, formal dance instructors, and various films, the midshipmen are introduced to topics that will enhance their development as junior officers both on and off the field of battle.

Academic Program The Board continues its close scruriny of the Naval Academy's academic program and is continually impressed by the quality of the program and the outstanding faculty contributing to the Naval Academy's exceptional graduates.

Civilian Faculty Pay Recruidng and retaining a first rate civilian faculty remains essendal to the accomplishment of the Academy's mission. A careful, year-long look at the compensadon of the Naval Academy's civilian faculty revealed increasing compedtion nadon-wide for a shrinking pool of Ph.D.s interested in pursuing academic careers. Fewer undergraduates are pursuing doctorates and of those, fewer are seeking academic employment. In the 1990s, salaries in non-academic careers requiring postgraduate education have increased 75% more than those requiring equivalent educadonal credendals in academic careers. During the next ten years, post-secondary enrollments are slated to rise significandy for the second consecutive decade at the same dme that faculty from the baby boomer generation will be retiring in (continued on page 40)

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large numbers. Finally, well-resourced private universities are out-bidding the best public universitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with which the Naval Academy has traditionally compared its salary competitivenessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the best new Ph.D.s by at least 10%. The Naval Academy's leadership has made it clear that it must and will respond to this tighter academic market.

The Academy continues to recruit the best new entry-level faculty, and recent budget issues provide for a more robust, career-long compensation package for those already onboard. The Board is pleased that Navy has provided funding in PR03 to support these budget issues and the Board encourages the Academy and the Navy to continue to make teaching and learning initiatives a priority.

Officer Manning The Naval Academy currently has nearly 140 Navy officer faculty billets for which the incumbent should have earned at least a master's degree in the discipline the officer will teach. Over the last five years, the number of active duty Navy officers ordered to these billets on rotational assignments has been declining at the rate of approximately six additional unfilled billets per year. This increasing shortage of qualified Navy officer faculty members on rotational assignments apparently reflects the growing inability of the Navy's personnel system to fill instructor positions with qualified officers from the inventory of active duty personnel. Over the last few years, two parallel approaches have been pursued to fill these otherwise vacant billets with qualified officers: recalling Navy reservists to active duty on the USNA faculty; and initiating the Permanent Military Professor (PMP) program. The Academy is seeking the support of the Chief of Naval Personnel to ensure sufficient qualified naval officers are assigned to instructor billetsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the long term possibly through further expansion of the PMP program and in the near term (through the end of this decade) by setting numerical targets for Navy reserve annual recall.

The PMP program has proven to be highly selective, bringing the Navy's premiere officer role models to the Academy. The attractiveness of the program contributes to officer retention in today's competitive civilian employment market. Without sufficient PMPs, the Naval Academy will be severely challenged in filling its officerinstructor billets requiring postgraduate education. The Board remains concerned with the Navy's difficulties in providing highly qualified officers for teaching duties at the Academy. The impact of this shortage was previously identified and addressed by the 1997 Special Committee to the Board ofVisitors. It is essential that the Navy continue to emphasize graduate education to ensure the future quality of its officer corps.

Information Technology Curriculum The Naval Academy is responding aggressively to the needs of the Fleet with regard to officers with significant expertise in information technology. The Board of Visitors and the Naval Academy are particularly attentive to your remarks during the nomination of Mr Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense in which you stressed access to information as a distinctive military strength. Mr. Rumsfeld also commented on information warfare as a subject of particular interest. The Naval Academy is already modifying its curriculum to include additional course material on information technology. A new academic major in information technology is being designed and consideration is being given to construction of a new academic building to house

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all aspects of courses and laboratories for the instruction of the midshipmen in information technology. We anticipate that the outstanding graduates of the Naval Academy will provide significant assistance to our nation in the field of information technology as a military asset. Further evidence of the Naval Academy's farsightedness in this area was the hosting of a national conference on information technology in October 2001 that included numerous flag officers and industry leaders from across the country.

Accreditation The Naval Academy was last accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in 1996 for a ten-year period. As part of this ongoing accreditation program, an extensive Periodic Review Report was prepared during an 18-month self-study process involving more than 100 of the faculty and numerous staff members.

The final report was submitted to the Middle States Association in July 2001. The Association completed its review of the Periodic Review Report and on 20 November reported the reaffirmation and continuation of the accreditation of the Naval Academy. The next accreditation visit by Middle States will be in 2005-2006.

Academic Facilities Renovation Renovation of its academic facilities provides an impressive example of the forward thinking and thorough planning exhibited by the Naval Academy in ensuring its capabilities for providing an academic program for the future. Sampson, Mahan, and Maury Halls housing the academic departments of English, history, electrical engineering, and systems engineering have been renovated and restored to full use, including the flexibility to incorporate future developments and technological advances. Planning is underway to maintain laboratory capability while the regular laboratories are undergoing renovation during the next several years. The Board supports this allocation of Naval Academy assets to keep this important program proceeding on schedule for the modernization of all of the facilities that support the academic program.

Admissions The Board continues to recognize the importance of admissions excellence at the Academy. Identified as one of the five institutional focus areas in the Naval Academy's Strategic Plan, the pursuit of admissions excellence has continued with great vigor In recent years, the nation's service academies have suffered from a lack of national awareness of the opportunities these premier institutions present.

However, the character traits of the emerging millennial generation along with current world events have annulled that trend and brought the need for a strong national defense to the forefront of the national consciousness. While competition among our nation's finest colleges and universities for the best candidates remains keen, the Naval Academy is experiencing increased interest in its program.

Admissions Policy Admissions policy at the Naval Academy is grounded in the assessment of the "whole person." The Naval Academy seeks highly motivated, well-rounded applicants who excel not only academically, but also in athletics, leadership, and community service. Good candidates are those who have a strong will to achieve, desire a real personal challenge, and want to serve the nation as leaders in the Navy or Marine Corps. Every candidate who matriculates to the Naval Academy was found qualified by the Naval Academy Admissions Board through a whole person assessment, and every candidate receiving an appointment is fully expected to graduate and receive a

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commission in the Navy or Marine Corps. The Admissions Board determines who they believe will take fullest advantage of the exceptional opportunities offered at the Naval Academy, contribute the most to the educational process of the institution, and be most successful in using what they have learned and experienced for the benefit of the Naval Service and the larger society.

Diversity The Naval Academy is a national institution that is reflective of the Nation it serves and the Naval Service of which it is a part. The laws, as they relate to the Congressional nomination process, ensure the Nation is geographically represented at the Naval Academy. The Academy also embraces the ethnic diversity of American society, as well as of the Navy and the Marine Corps; however, the Naval Academy does not set quotas or targets for any segment of society based on gender or ethnicity. Many of the Navy and Marine Corps' enlisted forces are minorities. These young Sailors and Marines want and deserve good minority officer role models, and a diverse Brigade of Midshipman will help achieve a more diverse officer corps. Not surprisingly, attaining the extent of diversity to which the Naval Academy and the Naval Services aspire has been a significant challenge. Most top-flight colleges and universities across the country seek to increase the diversity of their student populations, providing today's minority candidates with a vast array of options. However, due to an effective minority outreach program, the Brigade has experienced a measured but steady increase in diversity in recent years.

Class of 2005 The Academy enjoyed a 13% increase in applications for the Class of 2005 (curtent Plebes) and a record-breaking 84% acceptance rate, justifying its continued annual ranking among the best and most selective colleges and universities in the Nation. This Class persists with the trend of each incoming class setting new and higher performance records in all facets of the program, including physical readiness, increased retention, and academic course validation. With combined SAT scores averaging 1,307 and 75% ranking in the top fifth of their high school classes, the Class of 2005 takes its place among the best-credentialed classes in the Academy's history.

Class of 2006 Preliminary data for the Class of 2006 candidate cycle suggests a resurgence in interest for military service among our nation's high school seniors. The application rate has increased almost 10% over the Class of 2005's banner year, including an 11 % increase in applications from fleet Sailors and Marines. Although this year's candidate cycle is still in a relatively early stage of development and much remains to be accomplished, the Naval Academy is confident that America's top youth are responding to the challenge.

Character Development The Board continues to be pleased that the first priority of the Naval Academy remains that of providing the Naval Service with leaders of character The Academy's systematic approach to this development begins in a midshipman's first summer and continues throughout his or her four-year tenure. Character Development programs put in place seven years ago are continually reviewed for content and effectiveness in educating future Naval and Marine Corps officers.

Seminars There are currently three seminar programs in place to help develop the character of Naval Academy Midshipmen: Midshipmen

Development Seminars (MDS), Character Development Seminars (CDS), and Capstone Character Excellence Seminars. MDS for third and fourth class midshipmen are designed to reinforce the expected behavior of a midshipman with regard to the honor concept and typically focus on case studies and supporting articles. CDS for second class midshipmen are designed to strengthen the foundations of moral values and to nurture ethical and moral reasoning skills. These seminars typically center on readings from ethics texts and articles, and focus on ethical situations they will face in both Bancroft Hall and the fleet. Four years of character development programs culminates in a Capstone Character Excellence Seminar First class midshipmen participate in this junior officer-type seminar that provides a forum where their ideas and solutions to fleet-related problems can be tested. In addition to topics appropriate to their future commissioned service, a guest speaker, usually of flag rank, is invited to add an experienced perspective. All of these non-academic programs are linked to provide an effective complement to classroom teachings on leadership and ethics.

As in previous years, the Peer Training and Mentoring Program in human relations continues to be a genuine resource for midshipmen.

HEROs (Human Resource Officers) receive special training in a wide variety of human relations areas including: sexual assault, stress management, conflict resolution, eating disorders, discrimination, sexual harassment, suicide awareness and prevention, and alcohol abuse.

Training starts in August with a one-day seminar that includes presentations and discussions led by representatives from the Chaplains' Center and the Midshipmen Development Center The goal of the program is to provide support to the chain of command in human relations areas, and to help resolve peer issues within the Company.

Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics The Board remains fully supportive of the Academy's Ethics Center Since its establishment in February 1998, the mission of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the Naval Academy has been to "enhance and promote the ethical development of current and future military leaders through education, research, and reflection." To accomplish that mission, the Center has identified three major program goals: (1) Enrich the intellectual life of the Naval Academy in the field of ethics; (2) Enhance the teaching of ethics throughout the military education and training systems, and beyond; (3) Conduct executive and other outreach programs in ethics.

In the three years it has been in operation, the Center has established an impressive menu of programs tied to its first goal, that is, to serve midshipmen, faculty, and staff of the Naval Academy. One of the key programs is a competition and prize for the outstanding essay written each semester in NE203, the core ethics course for third class midshipmen. Another is an ethics lecture series, which was inaugurated in AY 1998-1999 by Senator Bob Kerrey, followed by Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale in AY 1999-2000, Dr Michael Ignatieff in AY2000-2001, and Professor James Turner Johnson in November 2001. The Center continues to organize a popular series of facultystaff ethics roundtables. It also has sponsored several Naval Academy faculty members on research and publication projects. Center staff members edit an annual revision of Ethics for the Junior Officer, a book of ethics case studies presented to each member of the graduating Class by the Class of 1964. It has expanded its informal ethics discussions for midshipmen. (continued on page 42)

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This year's annual ethics conference convened, for the first time ever, the key officers and faculty responsible for the character development programs and ethics courses at all five service academies.

The group found the experience to be so successful that they agreed unanimously to reconvene every year. Thus, the Center now plans to conduct two annual ethics conferences, one along the lines of its 1999 and 2000 conferences on major contemporary ethical challenges, and one all-service academy conference.

Under guidance from the Superintendent, the Ethics Center is now expanding its menu of products and services focused on the Naval Academy. The Director now chairs an Academy-wide process for assessment in the areas of ethics education and character development. The Center is developing a "teaching ethics resource room," a multi-media collection of materials and a Center staff member to work with Naval Academy faculty in all disciplines who want to incorporate ethics issues into their courses and/or to create new ethics electives. Under Center sponsorship, the Naval Academy will also field a team for the 2002 Ethics Bowl organized by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Center staff are also working closely with Character Development staff to develop an innovative program for using educational technology for the Second Class Character Development Seminars.

Over the past two years, the Center has developed a set of programs in pursuit of its second goal of outreach throughout the military.

The first of these is its case study program. The Center has commissioned several case studies on ethical challenges facing military officers; these are now being used at the Naval Academy and elsewhere. Work is already underway to commission several new case studies during the current academic year The second program is faculty/instructor development workshops on teaching ethics. The Center has conducted such workshops for Naval Academy faculty, for NROTC commanding officers and executive officers, for representatives of various schoolhouses of the Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET), for instructors at the Navy's Command Leadership Course and at the Navy's Chaplains School, for the faculty of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and in June 2000, a week-long seminar for 25 faculty from service academies, war colleges, and civilian colleges and universities. Plans are underway to co-sponsor (with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs) an international faculty development seminar in Europe in January 2002 and a planning session of an international group of experts in May 2002 to expand this January 2002 seminar into a multi-year series of regional seminars.

The third program related to this second goal is now underway and in its second yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Resident Fellows Program in Professional Ethics, with two civilian academics, a Navy commander and a Marine Heutenant colonel. This program aims to prepare its "graduates" to design and conduct courses and programs in professional ethics when they return to their home institutions and services. Last year's fellows demonstrate the validity of this approach: One was selected to be the new executive director of the ethics center at Dartmouth College; another is the new deputy director of the Marine Corps War College; and a third is a deputy division director at the Naval Academy. The Ethics Center intends to expand this program gradually over the next several years.

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As for the third goal of executive and other outreach progran i the Center is continuing to conduct seminars in ethics for senior defense and intelligence officials, as well as the seminars and other programs with ethics centers at several civilian universities. The Center has also launched its web siteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;www.usna.edu/Ethics.

Overall, the Center remains ahead of the planned course, and is growing slowly in size, commensurate with its expanding responsibilities. The Director continues to work closely with the Superintendent and the Naval Academy Foundation to solidify its funding base of appropriated and gift funds.

Information Technology Systems As an information technology (IT) based university environment the Naval Academy emphasizes IT as a strategic initiative, mission critical resource, and a core competency. It is treated as a mature and proven productivity tool used by every midshipmen, faulty, and staff to add dimension to education, professional training, and general administration. Business fundamentals of standardization, centralized planning, configuration control, and distributed computing support the Academy's principal IT goal, to develop a completely knowledge engineered enterprise computing environment.

The Naval Academy continues to advance its robust and reliable net-centric web enabled environment. Today technology enriched education is a highHght of every academic program. Smart-technology classrooms offer immediate access to academic management systems, web based applications, and data to support a variety of teaching and learning methods. Strategically important cost savings initiatives, efficiency initiatives, and academic excellence initiatives, in different stages of planning and execution will define the future of computing at the Naval Academy.

While the Board recognizes the Naval Academy's efforts to work with the Department of the Navy in addressing an emerging NMCI initiative, it also recognizes significant and incompatible differences in both programs. NMCI, by design, eliminates information technology innovation, experimentation, and research at the individual command level; while academic programs require innovation, experimentation, and research as a requirement for accreditation. As stated in previous letters, we continue to strongly recommend limiting the Naval Academy's participation to the number of required seats to support professional development training.

Comprehensive Campaign The Board is encouraged by the initiative of the Naval Academy Foundation's professional efforts to raise private funds for increasing the Naval Academy's margin of excellence in its competition for talent with private institutions of higher learning. The Board takes note that continued, consistent public funding of mission requirements at the Naval Academy is critical to a successful Campaign. There must be no perception in the public eye, or in Congress that private funds are being used to supplant federal public funding. Such a perception would not only be disruptive to the federal budget process for the Academy, but would eliminate any incentive for donors to support the Campaign.

Finance and Property Facilities The Board has in the past repeatedly expressed concern for the overall condition of the Academy's physical plant. Numerous independent reports, reviews, and visits by outside groups and agencies continue to confirm the deterioration that exists in the support facilities, and infrastructure. The curtent maintenance and repair backlog

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of $371 million has been well documented, and it represents almost 12% of the Academy's $3.2 billion plant value. This has resulted in a Facility Condition Index (FCI) that is clearly within the "poor" range (i.e. more than 10%) as measured by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). The Report of the Special Committee to the Board ofVisitors of June 1997 highlighted this problem and stated that "every effort should be made to reduce the deferred maintenance backlog and keep up an acceptable level of maintenance and repair of the physical plant..." We again expressed concern in our last report to the President.

We, therefore, view with concern (in the context of the Naval Academy) the recent development of a new DoD facilities sustainment model being used to budget for facilities maintenance. This model, which treats massive structures like Bancroft Hall generically as if it were any other bachelors quarters, has absolutely no provision for the added cost and oversight inherent in historic structures. The entire central yard of the Naval Academy is designated a National Historic District. Many of the buildings are historic and require special considerations and special handling in any maintenance and repair activity. The new DoD sustainment model threatens to reduce by generic calculation and computation the already narrow funding that has been set by hard lessons learned through experience. Disregarding the unique aspects of such facilities in the budgetary process will be disastrous for the proper stewardship of historic facilities and will cause further deterioration of Academy assets, thus negatively impacting the mission.

The Board fully supports the Superintendent's cooperative efforts with the Department of the Navy to provide adequate funding to recapitalize the Naval Academy's equipment and facilities. The Board cautions that, as renovations of these facilities are completed, present funding levels must continue in order to properly maintain them.

the academic majors are highly technical in orientation, requiring modern classrooms and laboratories for continued accreditation. The Academy's academic facilities repair plan is very comprehensive and well thought out. The Board fully supports this important initiative as a continuing operation and maintenance program funded annually through 2011.

Military Construction

The ten-year Bancroft Hall renovation project is critical to the Naval Academy mission. The seventh of eight wings was completed this past summer and work on the last wing has already begun. A final phase, including work on the historic "center section" and clean-up actions throughout the dormitory wings will begin this year Bancroft Hall is one of the largest single dormitories in the world, and it provides housing and all of the necessary support facilities for the 4,000-member Brigade. The last renovation of this complex was completed more than 30 years ago. Prior to beginning this renovation, the structure and its components had reached or exceeded their useful lives and were in a state of progressive failure. This project, funded annually with operation and maintenance funds, requires continued support to ensure completion.

The Board is concerned about the condition and adequacy of athletic facilities to support the Academy's Physical Mission Requirements. As mentioned previously under Physical Education, there is an existing deficit of 180,000 square feet of indoor athletic space to meet basic physical training, varsity, club, and intramural athletic requirements. This shortfall cannot be resolved without construction of new facilities through Military Construction (MILCON).

At risk are elimination of some physical training or athletic programs, continued issues of gender equity, and continued Life Safety Code violations. The Superintendent, working closely with the Chief of Naval Operations, has requested programming of a new MILCON Project P-334, the Field House at Turner Field. This project, which is the first major step in reducing the space deficit, will provide 120,000 square feet of critically needed space, and provide adequate facilities for both men's and women's athletic facilities at the Academy for the first time since women joined the Brigade of Midshipmen in 1976.

Beyond the additional space itself, this project is critical to correcting existing Life Safety Code violations in other facilities as well as permitting effective and efficient use of existing space. This project will also provide essential swing space to permit needed repairs to other existing athletic facilities without significant impact on the Physical Mission Requirements. The Board is encouraged by congressional action to begin design of this facility in FY02, and fully endorses and encourages the expedited construction programming of MILCON Project P-334.

The Board is also concerned about the quality of life in the dormitory and in many of the athletic facilities. Currendy these facilities are without air-conditioning, due to a shortage of plant capacity.

MILCON Project P-165 was partially funded by Congressional insert in FY97, and provided vital infrastructure, but did not provide for full chilling capacity that would cortect this significant quality of life issue. The Board strongly supports the expedited programming of the remaining work under MILCON Project P-165.

Many members of the Board have visited the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) at Newport, RI, and believe there exists an urgent need for a new dormitory. The project, MILCON P-454 is currently in CinCLantFlt's budget for FY05. The Board strongly urges that this project remain in the 2005 budget.

Academic Buildings

Stabilized Budget

The Academy's academic facilities repair program began in FY99 and continues this year As mentioned in the past by this Board, the Navy, and accreditation reviews, the academic buildings are in desperate need of repair to stop further failures in systems and structures which are accelerating as a result of age-related factors. Some of these academic buildings date back to the turn of the century, and many have never undergone a major renovation. Curriculum development has been limited by outdated facilities no longer capable of supporting the tremendous growth in classroom and laboratory technology that has occurred over the past 20 to 30 years. The academic core curriculum and academic majors program at the Naval Academy are very dependent on these facilities and infrastructure. Two-thirds of

Thanks to the full support of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations, the Naval Academy is now in its eighth year with a stabilized budget. The success of this initiative continues to be outstanding. The financial stability provided by the stabilized budget is critical in the academic environment for proper planning and execution of the curticulum and mission. The stabilized budget has required added fiscal management responsibilities by Academy leadership in order to live within a budget ceiling despite many requirements that often emerge after the budget is set. The Naval Academy has experienced greater efficiency, more flexibility, and improved fiscal planning and has done extremely well in meeting the added demands while living within its fiscal constraints, â&#x20AC;˘i'

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NAVY A T H L E T I C S Army-Navy Update 2001-2002 record against Army: 11-6-1 (.639) 2001-2002 N-Star record against Army: 9-3-1 (.731) Last five years against Army: 108-35-2 (.752) Last five years N-Star record against Army: 74-23-2 (.758) Navy Baseball Tabbed Preseason Favorite or the second consecutive season, the Navy baseball team has been picked to win the Patriot League title, according to the pre-season poll of league coaches and sports information directors. Navy claimed a share of the 2001 Patriot League regular-season tide along with Bucknell with a 14-6 league record. In the tournament championship, the Mids were swept in a best-of-three series by the Bison.

Navy returns eight starters and three members of its four-man starting rotation. Led by hurlers MIDN 2/C Matt Cooney (Mountaintop, PA), MIDN 2/C Matt Foster (Ventura, CA), and MIDN 2/C Rich McDevitt (Albany, NY), the Mids are primed to make a run at the regular season crown and earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1999. Foster was a first-team AllPatriot League selection last season and posted a 5-2 record, while Cooney led all Navy starters with a 3.63 eamed-run average, 45 strikeouts, and six complete games.

Outfielder MIDN 1/C John Cocca (Whitehall, PA), a second-team All-Patriot League selection last year, broke the Navy single-season mark for stolen bases (24) and scored a team-high 33 runs. Catcher MIDN 1/C David Woolsey (Columbia, SC) batted a career-high .337 last year with a .422 slugging percentage in 83 bats.

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MIDN 1/C Jake Bowen (Asheville, NC) was the recipient of the Commander Ralph Sentmann Award, which honors the member of the graduating Class from the varsity football team who has achieved the greatest increase in class standing from Plebe Year until First Class Year. Commander Sentmann '25 served in the submarine force. Upon his death in 1987, he endowed this award through the Naval Academy Alumni Association. Bowen, defensive co-captain, battled through an injury-plagued senior campaign to play in four games, including the season finale against Army.

Quarterback MIDN 4/C Aaron Polanco (Austin, TX) was awarded the Collins/Roos Class of 1949 Junior Varsity MVP Award, which is presented annually to the most valuable player on the junior varsity football team as chosen by a vote of his teammates.

Linebacker MIDN 3/C John Collins (Toledo, OH) was named the Lieutenant Commander A.A. Schaufelberger Award winner, which is presented annually to Navy's most valuable player of the sprint football Army-Navy game. The award was established in memory of Albert A. Schaufelberger '71, who was killed while serving his country in El Salvador in 1983. The son of a career naval officer, LCDR Schaufelberger was bom in Annapolis and during his Academy days played both lacrosse and 150-pound (now sprint) football. After commissioning and post-commissioning training, he was assigned to SEAL Team One and served with the U.S. Military Group in El Salvador At the time of his death, he was the second-ranking officer of the American advisors to El Salvador's armed forces. Collins recorded 15 tackles and a sack in the Mids 17-10 overtime victory over the Black Knights, giving the Mids the Collegiate Sprint Football League Championship.

New Linebacker Coach, Special Teams Coordinator evin Kelly has joined Paul Johnson's staff as the linebacker coach and special teams coordinator Kelly comes to Navy from Marshall where he was the defensive coordinator Kelly, 41, is leaving Marshall for the second time. He coached the Thundering Herd defense, 1996-98, before taking an assistant's job at Syracuse. After one season with the Orangemen as the defensive backs coach, he retumed to Marshall as the defensive coordinator for the last two seasons.

Football Awards Announced Kelly's most-successful season was in 1998 when his defense he annual Naval Academy football banquet was held at Alumni ranked 23rd nationally, including 16th in scoring defense, 14th against Hall where several prestigious awards were handed out.

MIDN 1/C Brian Schulz (Round Rock, TX) was awarded the George the pass and 25th against the run.

Kelly, a native of Rochester NY, graduated from Brockport High Fritzinger Memorial Award, which is presented annually to a member of the graduating Class who, as a football interior lineman, has excelled as School in 1978 and was a high-school teammate of former New York a student-athlete and has contributed to the overall team leadership and Knicks head coach Jeff Van Gundy.

Kelly eamed his B.S. in physical education from Springfield Colspirit The family of George Fritzinger '59, who was a three-year letterman on the varsity football team and earned All-East recognition, initiated lege in 1982 and received his master's degree in physical education the award in 1992. He was a two-year starter at guard, playing both ways, at Southem Connecticut State in 1986.

Kelly played football for three years at Springfield College before and a member of Navy's 1957 team, which defeated Rice, 20-7, in the 1958 Cotton Bowl. He later served in die U.S. Air Force. Schulz, a math- an injury ended his playing career His senior year at Springfield, he joined the coaching staff at Long Meadow High School as the ematics major, was a two-year starter at center for the midshipmen.

MIDN 1/C Matt Berger (Roanoke, VA) took home the Jeffrey R. defensive coordinator After a year at Long Meadow, Kelly became the Kom Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award, which was established by head coach at the Fieldston School in the Bronx, NY, from 1982-83.

Kelly joined the collegiate ranks in 1984 as the outside linebackers Jeff's parents, Dr and Mrs. Ronald D. Kom, in memory of their son. coach at Southem Connecticut State for two seasons, before moving Jeff Kom '83 was more than just a letter-winning quarterback at Navy, on to Syracuse as a graduate assistant (1986-87). After two years at he was always the one who "answered the call" in Bancroft Hall, Syracuse, Kelly got hisfirstjob as a defensive coordinator at Bowdoin whether it was helping a Plebe through some tough times or assisting College (1988) and then moved on to Northeastem as the defensive a Classmate who needed advice. Jeff died in an automobile accident backs coach for two seasons (1989-90). Kelly spent two years as in the summer of 1982 while returning home from serving on Plebe

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He is married to the former Kathy McDonald of North Andover MA, and the couple has three children, Alexandra (13), Patrick (10), and Ryan (9).

Fisher has not only excelled on the field, but also in the classroom.

Recendy, she was named a Second-Team Academic All-America, carrying a 3.66 grade-point average in ocean engineering. She has also appeared on the Patriot League Honor Roll for three years and is ranked among the top 75 in the first class.

Eleven Named to Women's Soccer Honor Roll cademic All-Americas MIDN 2/C Kate Macfariane (Monkton, MD) and MIDN 1/C Justine Fisher (Tucson, AZ) were among the 84 student-athletes named to the 2001 Patriot League Women's Soccer Academic Honor Roll.

Macfariane, the 2001 Patriot League Women's Soccer ScholarAthlete of the Year was named a Verizon First-Team Academic All-America, while Fisher who has gamered Patriot League Academic Honor Roll status three-straight years, earned Verizon Second-Team All-America recognition.

Navy was one offiveteams to put ten or more players on the league's honor roll. In addition to Macfariane and Fisher MIDN 1/C Heather Honnette (Martinez, CA) and MIDN 1/C Melissa Rains (Gold River CA) were named to the honor roll for the fourth consecutive year, while MIDN 2/C Nadia Sheikh (Canal Winchester OH), MIDN 3/C Megan Weller (Richmond, VA), and MIDN 3/C Quinn Rinehart (Winter Garden, FL) have made the list multiple times.

Eight women's soccer players tallied perfect 4.00 GPAs during the fall semester the most of any Patriot League fall sport. Navy produced three of the eight 4.00 GPAs, including MIDN 3/C Jeanne Cameron (Centreville, VA). Cameron is a first-time honor roll selection, along with MIDN 4/C Emma Hagen (Annandale, VA), MIDN 4/C Claire Henry (Bridgewater, MA) and MIDN 4/C Stephanie Parker (Carmichael, CA).

To be eligible for the honor roll, a student-athlete must eam a 3.20 Three Soccer Men on Honor Roll grade-point average in the fall semester and be awarded a varsity letter DN 2/C Joe Hembree (Sarasota, FL), Meanwhile, the women's soccer team was one of 70 Division I Aaron McElhose (Mill Creek, WA), and teams to earn the NSCAA adidas College Team Academic Award. To Matt Wilson (Nashua, NH) were among 57 stu- be eligible, the team as a whole must post a 3.00 grade-point average. dent-athletes named to the 2001 Patriot League Navy produced a 3.08 GPA for the 2000-01 academic year.

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This marks the second-consecutive season Wilson was named to the Patriot League INDEX O F ADVERTISERS Academic Honor Roll.

Anne Arundel Convention and Visitor's Bureau 23 To be eligible, a student-athlete must eam Call to Colors 47 a 3.20 grade-point average in the fall semester CED Solutions 32 and be awarded a varsity letter Finnegan Henderson 5 First Command Financial Cover 3 Washington Freedom Draft Justine Fisher First USA 22 avy women soccer's all-time leading scorer MIDN 1/C Justine Fleet Landing 4 Fisher was drafted by the Washington Freedom in the fourth Jostens Jewelry 21 round of the 2002 WUSA draft, the fourth and final pick by Freedom JPC ;;"";;;;:;;;"; 23 JSAJE 27 head coach Jim Gabarra.

Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) Cover 2 The second-year coach is no stranger to Fisher nor the Navy proOCM/Diploma Display 15 gram. Gabarta's wife, Olympian and Hall of Famer Carin Gabarra, just Peter King Jewelry 33 completed her ninth year as the Navy's women's soccer coach and helped SABRD/iSABRD 24 mold Fisher into a four-time First-Team All-Patriot League midfielder SACC ZZIZ26 A native of Tucson, AZ, Fisher's career has been a storied one. A Tag 9 four-time First-Team All-Patriot League player (just the seventh overUSAA Cover 4 all and second in Navy history), she earned the league's USNA Alumni Association Membership 25 rookie-of-the-year honor as well as offensive player-of-the-year kuUSNA Alumni Association Merchandise 34 dos during her four years playing various positions. She ended her USNA Alumni Association Party-in-a-Bag 36 career as Navy's all-time leader in points (114) and assists (26), while USNA Alumni Association Screensaver 37 USNA Alumni Association Service Flag 37 her 44 goals were just one shy of the record. She became Navy's allUSNA Alumni Association Travel Program 2002 44 time points leader 28 October with an assist against George Mason.

USNA Foundation Planned Giving Program 23 Brass Named Assistant A D for Sports Performance aval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk has named Mike Brass Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance.

Brass comes to Navy from Georgia Southern where he had been the head strength and conditioning coach for five years and served as assistant athletic director for athletic performance for three years.

While Georgia Southem football retumed to the top perch of NCAA I-AA football during the last five years, many people around the program, including head coach Paul Johnson, credited Brass as one of the primary reasons for the success. Among his peers, he was named as the 1998 and 1999 National Strength and Conditioning Association's (NSCA) Professional-of-the-Year for the Southern Conference. The award recognizes coaches who have demonstrated excellence in their respective strength and conditioning programs.

Prior to his appointment at Georgia Southem, Brass served as head strength and conditioning coach at Tulane (1992-1996) and Dartmouth (1990-92) after eaming his first position at Wisconsin-Whitewater as strength coach (1985).

Brass was a two-sport standout at Gering (NE) High School, eaming letters in football and track. He eamed his bachelor's degree in education firom Doane (NE) College in 1985 before acquiring a master's in fitness management from the U.S. Sports Academy a year later Brass and his wife, Cindi, are the parents of three children, Samantha (18), Danielle (13), and Broderick (10).

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NAVY A T H L E T I C S Men's Swimming Wins I Ith N-Star avy posted victories in the first five events on its way to a 160-83 men's swimming and diving victory over Army in Lejeune Hall.

Navy set the tone for the day with a dramatic victory in the opening 400 medley relay race. Heading into the final 50 meters. Army's Richard Babbitt held a slim lead over Navy's 2/C Adrian Rawn (Greenwich, CT), but Rawn, who spent all fall competing for the Navy water polo team, out-touched Babbitt to give Navy a nartow victory. Navy's 2/C Sumner Rollings (Poway, CA) outkicked teammate 2/C Tim Ray (Rochester, NY) to win the 800 freestyle, with team captain 2/C Garrett Kulczycki (Vero Beach, FL) also scoring points for the Mids. After 3/ C Thatcher Carr (Shaker Heights, OH) won the one-meter diving event for Navy, 3/C Marshall Boyd (Pittsburgh, PA) narrowly edged Army's Lucas Meyers to post another Navy victory in the 200 freestyle.

Navy then went 1-2 in the 50 freestyle, with 1/C Brett Cline (Virginia Beach, VA) winning over teammate 3/C Terrence Fenningham (Philadelphia, PA). Army stopped Navy's mn of victories by winning back-to-back swimming events, with Daniel Downs winning the 200 individual medley and Sebastian Rodriguez leading a 1-2-3 finish for the Black Knights in the 200 butterfly. Navy's Carr began another string of victories for the Mids by capturing the three-meter diving event with a score of 313.80. Cline then picked up his second victory of the day by winning the 100-meter freestyle.

The Midshipmen clinched their llth-straight N-Star victory in style by finishing 1-2-3 in the 200 backstroke. MIDN 2/C Mike Heiny Jr (Advance, NC) led the Navy trio with MIDN 2/C Jimmy Battista (Port Richey, FL) finishing second, and Plebe Chris Speicher (Cape May, NJ) placing third. Navy would again have the top-three swimmers in the 400 Ireestyle, as Rollings eamed his second victory of the day, placing just ahead of Boyd and MIDN 4/C Jake Keefe (Cincinnati, OH).

Army won the final individual race of the day as Mychajlo EUaszewskyj recorded a time of 2:17.27 to win the 200 breaststroke.

The meet ended the same way it started, with Navy winning a close relay race. Rawn, MIDN 2/C Jon Rank Jr, (Miami, FL), Boyd, and CUne comprised the winning 400 free relay team.

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Throckmorton (Ann Arbor MI) won the 100 butterfly. She also finaled in the 50 freestyle (third place) and 100 backstroke (eighth place), and was a part of Navy's winning 200 freestyle relay team.

Welsh (Fort Lauderdale, FL) placed second in the 200 freestyle, fourth in the 100 freestyle, and seventh in the 500 freestyle, and helped Navy win both the 200 free and 400 free relay titles. Moon (Bradenton, FL) placed second in the 50 freestyle, third in the 100 freestyle and eighth in the 200 freestyle, and was a part of three Navy relay championships (200 free, 400 free, 200 medley).

Felker (Ellicott City, MD) placed fourth in the 200 breaststroke, fifth in the 100 breaststroke, and seventh in the 200 individual medley, and was a member of the winning 200 medley relay team.

Track & Field Scores N-Star he Navy men's track & field team improved its indoor dual-meet record to 1-1 on the season by defeating archrival Army for the N-Star 92-89, at Halsey Field House. The Mids close the gap in the all-time series between the two schools to 19-22-2. However the Black Knights are protesting the results of this meet due to a controversial ending of the mile relay. The fate of the meet's results rests in the hands of the NCAA Track Rules Committee.

Distance mnner MIDN 2/C Aaron Lanzel (Sugar Grove, PA) led the charge for Navy with a pair of IC4A-qualifying performances. Lanzel bested Army's Clay Schwabe, a NCAA Ail-American last spring in the 1500m, with afirst-placeeffort in the mile, and also finished second in the 1000m mn behind teammate MIDN 3/C Erik Schmidt (Spokane, WA). MEDN 1/C Michael French (Ellicott City, MD) and MIDN 2/C Ben Morris (Annapolis) will both be appearing in Boston by virtue of their one-two finish in the 3000m, while MIDN 1/C Doug Kay (Amherst, VA) rounded out Navy's ranning qualifiers.

Women's Swimming Wins Championship, Places Five on All-League Team MIDN 4/C Adriel Morgan's (Portage, MI) winning leap in the long he Patriot League champion Navy women's swimming and jump qualified him for IC4As, while MIDN 1/C Daniel Chapman (Glen diviing team placed a league-high five swimmers on the all-league Rose, TX) had an IC4A-qualifying effort by placing second in the triple team. The all-league team is comprosed of the top-18 competitors at the jump. MIDN 1/C Steve Ranes (Phoenix, AZ), who has already qualimeet, which was held in Lejeune Hall. Swimmers and divers who win fied for the IC4A meet in the shot put, bested his earlier qualifying individual events are automatically placed on the team, with the remain- mark by placing first in the event with a toss of 56'1". ing spots filled by those totaUng the most points during the championship.

MIDN 3/C Eric Porter (Ocala, FL) won the 400m dash, while MIDN Navy won the Patriot League Swimming Championship with 663 4/C Aaron Dausman (Maulius, NY) scored cmcial points in his first points, outdistancing second-place Bucknell by 31 points. The title is N-Star match by placing first in the 800m. Outdoor track captain Navy's first since 1999 and is the eighth for the program in the 11 years of the event. Eaming automatic spots on the all-league team MEDALS, AWARDS CASES, were MIDN 1/C Melissa Hawley and MIDN CUSTOM MOUNTING 4/C Tori Throckmorton, while MIDN 4/C Megan Welsh, MIDN 3/C Allison Moon, and , ^ ^ / I VETERANS, FAMILIES! MIDN 3/C Laurie Felker were placed on the ^ m " ' HONOR A CAREER team by virtue of their total points. Navy's ^'olo^ OF SERVICE TO YOUR COUNTRY. team captain MIDN 1/C Hawley (Brentwood, TN) was named the league's swimmer of the Full-sized & miniature medals, insignia, badges.

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The Midshipmen (1-0) were led by MIDN 2/C Lisa Procaccini (Vienna, VA), who was victorious in both the mile and the 1000m. MIDN 1/C Melanie Stock (Mechanicsburg, PA), the captain of Navy's cross country team this fall, won the 3000m to complete a sweep of the three-longest distance events. Sensation MIDN 4/C Tineisha Davis (Madisonville, KY), who is still recovering from a pulled hamstring, took home first-place honors in the 400m dash. Her time of 2:21.40 in the 800m mn was actually the same time as Army's Sarah Haag.

However with an extra lean at the end of the race, Haag took home first-place honors in the event.

In the field events, MIDN 2/C Amanda Hasenauer (Sebastian, FL) kept her undefeated streak alive in the pole vault, while MIDN 2/C Shannon Crites (Powell, OH) and MIDN 2/C Joanne Uwujaren (Burke, VA) were winners in the high jump and triple jump, respectively. MIDN 4/C Katie Scotidas (Massapequa, NY) won the 55m hurdles in her first N-Star competition, while Army-Navy veteran MIDN 2/C Amy Stokes (Fort Washington, MD) won the 500m for the Mids. Navy's mile and two-mile relay teams made sure the Star was coming back to the Naval Academy by securing first-place finishes to close out the meet. Stokes, Eva Tukarski, outdoor track captain Jessica Crocker and Kacee Jossis completed the mile relay in a time of 3:59.77, while Colleen Maloney, Carin Benge, Maureen Cart, and Davis ran the two-mile relay in a time of 9:33.50.

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manda Hasenauer and MIDN 4/C A'.Tineisha Davis both set Navy school records in their respective events, as well as meet records, at the Patriot League Indoor Track & Field Championship at Army. The Mids, who won last year's Patriot League title, placed third overall (112 points) behind Bucknell (167) and Army (123.16).

Hasenauer (Sebastian, IT.) broke her own school record of 12'7.5" in the pole vault, set 8 December at Navy's Lid Lifter meet, with winning leap of 12T0". Her mark also provisionally qualifies her for the NCAA Championship in Fayetteville, AR. Hasenauer has not lost the pole vault in her three seasons of competing at the indoor Patriot League Championships, and was named the Field Performer of the Meet for her efforts.

Davis (Madisonville, KY) continued her successful rookie campaign by breaking her second school record of the year. Akeady holding Navy's indoor record in the 200m dash, Davis's racked up the school's 400m dash record with her meet-record winning time of 55.34 seconds.

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In September Sheldon and the Armed Forces Team won the Conseil Intemational du Sport Militaire (CISM) World Military Volleyball Championship in Viterbo, Italy. It was the first championship for the United States in 15 years.

In addition to her volleyball accomplishments last year, Sheldon completed the Seatde Marathon in a time of 4 hours, 5 minutes, had the highest PRT score aboard FIFE, and placed first in the Everett, WA, grass volleyball tournament.

A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Sheldon is a 1999 graduate of the Academy. She was a four-year member of the volleyball team at Navy, eaming three letters and a pair of N-Stars in her career The captain of the Mids as a first classman, she totaled 95 aces and 520 digs while playing the defensive specialist position. She was named to the Patriot League's Academic Honor Roll as a first classman. Sheldon is serving as a staff tactical action officer aboard FIFE ( D D - 9 9 1), based in Everett, WA. She joins Diana (Farraday) Foster ' 87 as the only Academy volleyball players to eam this honor from the Navy. Sheldon was to receive her award at the Pride of the Nation Ceremony, 21-24 March in Arlington, VA. Rifle W i n s N-Star

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Sports Schedule for Apri 12002 Baseball Apr 6 Apr 7 Apr 10 Apr 13 Apr 14 Apr 17 Apr 18 Apr 20 Apr 21 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 27 Apr 28

at Bucknell (DH) at Bucknell (DH) at Maryland Holy Cross (DH) Holy Cross (DH) Maryland Towson at Lafayette (DH) at Lafayette (DH) UMBC at Temple Lehigh (DH) Lehigh (DH)

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Navy Spring Invitational at Princeton Invitational at Patriot League Championship at Scottie Duncan Memorial

Men's Gymnastics Apr 4 at NCAA Qualifying Meet Apr 5 at NCAA Championship, Team & Ail-Around Apr 6 at NCAA Championship, Individual Event Final Apr 11 at USA Collegiate Championship Apr 12 at USA Collegiate Championship, Team & Ail-Around at USA Collegiate Championship, Apr 13 Individual Event Final

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Pres: RADM WiUiam O. Snead, USN (Ret.) Secy: CAPT John A. Moreno, USN (Ret.) 1214 Fifth Street, Coronado, CA 92118 h: 619-435-3732 I ' m particularly saddened by the death by heart attack on 28 January of my close friend Roscoe N e w m a n .

He had an excellent combat record in World War II: service aboard ENTERPRISE, command of a carrier air group and on ComAirPac and Carrier Task Group staffs. Subsequently he c o m m a n d e d N A S M e m p h i s and later was chief of staff for ComFAir Alameda prior to retiring. Since then he lived in retirement in the San Francisco Bay area and Coronado, where he died. His services were held at the St. Paul Methodist Church in Coronado on 5 March. His wife, BilUe, and son, Doug, pred e c e a s e d h i m . His survivors i n c l u d e his daughter, Nancy (Mrs. L. W.) Geenen (1733 Woodside Rd., Redwood City, C A 94061), three grandsons, and one granddaughter.

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From information furnished by his son-inlaw, Mr. W. H . E v e r e t t '59, we learned that R o w l a n d M c K n i g h t died of heart failure in San Diego on 8 February. His wife, Margaret, predeceased him. Rowland had been in ill health for some time, faithfully tended by his son, John. There are plans for his burial at sea.

In addition to John, Rowland is survived by his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Everett (5420 South Oak St., Casper, W Y 82601), three grandsons, and three great-grandsons.

B o b P e r k i n s d i e d in S e a t t l e in l a t e D e c e m b e r We apologize for not having more details about his death. Telephone problems prevented our getting the whole story.

Thanks once more to Lil Nelson for bringing us the sad word about Barbara " B o b b i e " Townsend Wheeler, J a c k S h a f f e r ' s widow.

She died in Alexandria, VA, in January. H e r services w e r e held at G o o d w i n H o u s e in Alexandria. She is survived by her daughter, Sandra VanDoren, two grandchildren, and one-great grandchild. For a very interesting story of her career in the professional theater and her life in, a m o n g other places, Kenya, East Africa, read her account in our 40th Year Book. B u t m u c h has h a p p e n e d since then to a very impressive lady!

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Pres: CAPT Will I. Bull, USN (Ret.) 1725 Oak Lane, McLean, VA 22101 h: 703-538-5981 Sec'y: Bob Gamble 8311 River Crescent Dr, AnnapoHs, MD 21401 h: 410-266-8775 Bill L a w r e n c e , a naval hero in his o w n right, sent m e an article from the February Naval History. It was entitled, "Farewell to M i d w a y ' s B e s t " and w r i t t e n b y B a r r e t t Tillman, one of the foremost authorities on naval aviation. It starts out: Richard Halsey Best, the longest surviving squadron commander in the Battle of Midway, passed away on 28 October 2001. When he received his Wings of Gold in ' 3 5 , he was rewarded for his

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outstanding performance with an assignment to Fighting Squadron Two, the "Famous Flying Chiefs."

After duty on LEXINGTON and doing flight instruction at Pensacola, Dick requested service on scout-bombers, as he anticipated war with Japan. Consequently, he joined Bomb-

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During the next 24 months, he became an accomplished bomber pilot.

After Pearl, Dick flew against every Japanese base that Admiral Halsey attacked in hit-and-run raids. Then, as a senior lieutenant, he assumed command of V-B6; he felt confidence, and as he later said, "I was the best bomber in the Fleet."

Finally they found Nagumo's force. Dick and his wingmen attacked the flagship AKAGI, scoring at least two hits, knocking AKAGI out of the battle. Short on fuel, they had to return to BIG E . That afternoon, refueled, Dick led the remnants of V-B6 against the surviving enemy flat top HORYU; he scored a hit which helped put the carrier on the bottom.

This great day, sadly, was the last flying day for Dick; he began coughing blood because a faulty oxygen bottle had produced caustic soda, which activated latent TB. Our superb dive-bomber was grounded and then, after hospitaUzation, medically retired.

When Dick regained his health, he took a job with Rand Corporation. Later he retired as manager of security. Dick settled in Santa Monica, but he admitted he was embittered about the abrupt end of his naval career "That last day I touched a stick and I sank two carriers." He thought that was more rewarding than 40 years of active duty.

Later on, Dick became a member of the Golden Eagles, reserved for the 200 outstanding naval aviators. In 1997 Dick attended our 65th Class Reunion. He had a great time enjoying all the events and spending much of his time with Pat WiUard, a 1932 lady from way back. She told me one time that Dick, a close friend of Bud Willard, had been given the job of approving Bud's new lady friend. Pat had no trouble passing with flying colors.

While reading The United States Navy in World War II, I have occasionally run into the names of Classmates. For instance: The Philippine Expendables: It wasn't until LT Henry Delong dropped in at 4 p.m. in the 41 boat that I knew how bad off we were. He said the Cavite base was a roaring blast furnace—the yard littered with mangled and scorched bodies—and furthermore all our spare parts for the MTB's—engines and everything—had been blasted to bits. Machine shops completely gone.

Also, he said: Cavite radio has been hit. That still left the short-wave voice stuff to talk with Manila or Bataan or the Rock; but of course, this couldn't be secret from the Japs, so we'd be depending on our six boats for courier duty to relay all the confidential stuff.

"So I wasn't surprised," said Bulkley, "when I had a hurry-up call to report to Manila. As our boat cleared the mine fields around Bataan, looking over toward Manila I saw shipping of all description was pouring out of the breakwater—destroyers, mine sweepers, Yangtze River gunboats, tramp steamers, all going to hell for breakfast. And then I saw them—a big formation of about 27 bombers. By then I was beginning to learn that if we saw planes, they would be Japs. Then came another formation of 29 and still another of 26.

They wheeled majestically iround the bay's perimeter and each time ihey passed Manila a load would go whistling down and presently huge columns of black and white smoke began rising—we could even see some fires although we were miles away.

"Where in hell is our Air Force?" Our crew kept asking me. "Why in Christ's name don't they do something?"

The book goes on, telling how the bombers were flying over our 3-inch AA guns, completely unworried, since our shells were bursting 5,000 to 10,000 feet below their formations.

Al Cope sent me an article from the San Diego paper—"Famed Family's Name to Grace Hull of Destroyer" The ship is named for Lloyd Mustin as well as the other famous Mustins. Lloyd saw service in every major battie in the Pacific and, when AUGUSTA was sunk in the Battle of Guadalcanal, Lloyd spent the next three months fighting widi the 1 st Marine Division.

Arme Thomas joined die Mustin family in the commissioning ceremonies.

Otto Scherini, our one surviving athlete, is also making his mark as a poet. He was inspired by all the patriotic speeches this fall to write a poem, "Call to Freedom." In it he wants "no peace 'til one of us shall fall" and "savage grins are naught but groans." Otto is just as handy with his pen as he is with a discus or javelin! In another poem "To Be Young Again," Otto philosophizes about finding his youth again—"to surf the ocean's crashing waves" and "to hear the laughter of my love and see the sunshine of her smile." Anyone wanting the complete poems should write Ott or me—we'll be sure you get them.

In writing this column, I often feel that some Classmates never get mentioned. A good example is Cliff Johnson. He started his naval career in battleships and played a lot of tennis. He was married and then sent to AUGUSTA for a tour in China. Returning,

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first to PG school, he then helped commission PHILLIE in San Diego. Along with Bill Tagg, Mai Munger, and Toots Blaisdell, he did a lot of communications before he became exec of GLENNON. He worked in the Adantic, Mediterranean, and Sicilian campaigns. Finally Cliff's ship, doing fire support for our 1st Army, struck a mine, breaking loose the stem section. The Germans had a "sitting duck" and they hit the doomed ship until she turned over and sank.

Back to the U.S., Cliff was assigned to TOLMAN, being converted to a destroyerminelayer Then, out to the Western Pacific, he escaped serious damage from the kamikazes and participated in the occupation of Japan. In the fifties, he relieved Corky Ward, taking over his destroyer squadron.

Cliff ended up as chief of staff for the admiral connmanding CruDivSix. When we read about the high prices of military equipment, we must appreciate the close coimection existing between price and quality. A good example is the bombers purchased by Strategic Air Command. Back in the early part of the Cold War, we had 1380 B-42 jet bombers. They were replaced by 680 B-52 strato bombers. Then the plan was to buy 250 B-1 s. Due to cost problems, only 100 were produced. Now we have the B-2s they are so expensive to produce that only 20 have been purchased. An article in Naval Proceedings w o n d e r s , "Is this Unilateral Disarmament?"

The Navy has experienced similar problems as its missiles have become increasingly complex. Some new ones have cost figures like two million dollars. The Pentagon, in its planning of the new DD-21, has its eye on the operating costs. Can they save enough money there to allow for use of the complex weapomy?

Winston Churchill suggested to his king that Oliver Cromwell would be an excellent name for a new class of battleships. His suggestion was shot down, however. How could you name a warship after someone who made a name for himself by beheading a previous King?

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Marvin Starr, Bobby Fulton. Bob Beer, and Steamer Brannon

Classmate,VADM John D. Bulkeley, USN (Ret.), and was sponsored by Regina Day, Joan Stade, and Diana Lindsey, all daughters of the legendary Bulkeley; Carol A. Bulkeley, his daughter-in-law, and Sarah Fargo, wife of ADM Thomas B. Fargo, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. The Class of 1933 is honored to congratulate all the sponsors of this fine new addition to our fleet.

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We lost Eddie Powell in late January. His obituary should be in this issue oi Shipmate.

He was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on 7 January.

Among those attending the services was Paul Desmond '40, who was an enlisted man aboard MARYLAND in 1934 when Eddie and 15 other members of '34 reported aboard. He said he was tutored by members of the Class of '35 and passed the entrance examinations while aboard the ship.

Roomates "Dog" Smith and Rex Little, Youngster Year 1930

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Pres: ADM Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y: CAPT James M. Elliott, USN (Ret.) 6251 Old Dominion Dr #373, McLean, VA 22101 h; 703-237-6639; e: Jimmea2@aol.com San Diego Correspondent: Mrs. R.S. Riddell 4037 Alameda Drive, San Diego, CA 92103 h: 619-295-9091 We have been advised of the death on 7 January 2002 of our friend and Classmate, Col Joslyn R. Bailey, USMC (Ret.) at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, CA. No further information is available at this time.

On 8 December in New York City BuLKELEY (DDG-84) a FlightllA ARLEIGH BuRKE-class guided missile destroyer, was commissioned before an audience of 6,000.

The BULKELEY was named in honor of our late

Chickadee Parsons and Fid Murray Still aboard MARYLAND, there is a photo of Chickadee Parsons, in full dress, and Fid Murray in aviation dungarees. What to do with the oily fantail on Saturday morning inspection was always a problem for the exec, who once ordered the decks "titivated." On the occasion of the photograph, all three of MARYLAND'S VO-5 airplanes had been lowered into the water, then sent off on an exercise that would keep them away during the entire inspection. The photo was taken after the inspection and the recovery of the airplanes.

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had appeared. But then someone yelled, "Hey, there's Dad." My 15 minutes of fame was more like 15 seconds, as were the others. Oh well, I don't have to hire an agent after all.

Happy Birthday The Class extends congratulations to Classmates who atiain the age of 90 years in April: Bill Samuels on the 9th, Henry Tipton on the 16th, and Jack Maurer on the 28th.

Get-togethers On 9 January Lou Bauer, Ralph Baum, Bill Hazzard, Dave Nash, Lew Schock, Fred Steisberg, and J.C. Wilson met for lunch at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.

New Email Address Ralph Baum can be reached at: popbaum@aol.com.

Sad News The Class has belatedly learned that John Middleton died on 22 September 2001.

Dave McClintock died on 11 January. Jeff Parker died on 2 February.

Ethel Shamer Lamkin, widow of our Annual Membership: 30% Fletcher Lamkin who died in 1993, died on Life Membership: 57% 25 December 2001 in Northem Virginia. She was bom on 7 April 1912 in Newport, RI. VP. and acting Pres.: She graduated from Sweetbrier College in CAPT Rodney J. Badger, USN (Ret.) Sec'y/Treas: CAPT Jesse B. Gay Jr., USN (Ret.) 1934. She and Fletch were married on 14 January 1939. Their children are Margaret Corr. Sec'y; RADM Ed Keats, USN (Ret.) 3704 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 Brooks, BG Fletcher Lamkin Jr, USA (Ret.), h: 410-235-3803; f; 410-243-1960 Patricia Lange, and Griffin HI. They had eight e: edkeats@aol.com grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Ethel Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Almost Realized was buried next to Fletch at Arhngton.

Dave Nash reports on his close brush with Margaret Waples Brandt, widow of our John TV exposure in these words: Brandt who died in 1975, died on 10 January Last summer three others and I from the in Fulton, MO. She was bom on 31 March San Diego area were called by a TV pro1913 in Lynden, WA. She graduated from duction company to ask if we could be Mills College in 1935. She and Jack were interviewed for a series they were producmarried on 6 June 1937 in Belhngham, WA. ing for fall showing on the History ChanTheir four sons are Michael, Thomas Brandt nel. The series would be called History '63, Wilham, and John. They had seven grandvs. Hollywood. Our particular program children and one great-grandchild. Her burial would be about the movie Sand Pebbles. is planned for 6 June, their 65th wedding We were chosen because we had all been anniversary, at Arlington next to Jack. in river gunboats in China. I was intrigued and thought this was an opportunity for Photos of Our Class President 15 .minutes of fame.

Jeff Parker has done so much for the Class In due course we were interviewed sepaand in recognition of the sad tidings noted rately here in Coronado. My session was above it is particularly appropriate at this about an hour I enjoyed doing it. The intime to print a collection of images from terviewer had the knack of keeping everysome of the happy moments of his later thing relaxed. Away from a TV studio with years. The pictures, taken in the mid to late only a cameraman, an audio man, and a 1980s, are from a reservoir of one man's single light, it was quite casual. lifetime memories.

The series was scheduled to begin in August and our show would probably be on in September or October In early October we were notified that the Sand Pebbles segment would broadcast on 9 October Then came a notice of postponement until 23 October Anxiety set in.

Finally, show time. My family and I gathered around the TV awaiting my debut in the entertainment world. At the halfway mark none of us Asiatic river rats Rod Badger, Margaret Packard, and Jeff Parker

ADM John L. Hall Jr. '13, was graduate manager of athletics when we were Midshipmen, and admired and respected by many in '34. He had gone to William and Mary before entering the Naval Academy, and following his long and distinguished naval career was asked to come to Williamsburg to be given an honorary degree. Having aimounced his itinerary, he traveled from Washington in uniform, expecting to be met by a delegation on arrival. There was nobody to meet him, either in Richmond or in Wilhamsburg. Surprised and deflated, he started walking toward his hotel, and on the way was greeted by a man by no means of the upper crust. "Say," he said, "ain't you Professor Hall's boy, the one who went to sea?" The admiral thought to himself, "well, here's some recognition, and from an unlikely source." He didn't have long to savor this remembrance of a hfetime promoting seapower, however, for the man's next question was "How's the fishing?"

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Eli Reich and Jeff Parker The Author of a Bestseller Avows His Debt to Slade Peter Maas wrote The Terrible Hours/The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History, a book that has received laudatory reviews since its publication. Near the end of the book he acknowledges the critical role played by Slade Cutter in aiding him. The title would indicate that the book is about the 1939 sinking, the saving of a portion of the crew, and the salvage of the submarine SQUALUS. It turns out, however, to be mainly a biography of Charles B. "Swede" Momsen '20 who directed the recovery efforts. Here, in excerpts, is Maas telling how the book came to be written: As the Korean conflict drew to a close, I was a seaman/journalist in the Navy. During the last three months of my service, I was assigned to the Navy's press office in the Pentagon under CAPT Slade Cutter Renowned for kicking the winning field goal in the 1934 game against Army, Cutter as a submarine skipper had scored Shipmate, April 2002

the third highest total of Japanese tonnage sunk during Worid War II. He was a fivetime winner of the Navy's highest decoration, the Navy Cross. From him I first learned of Swede Momsen—and a revolutionary, then-secret submaiine ALBACORE. ...CAPT Cutter assigned me to put together a general fact sheet about ALBACORE...He [said] that Swede Momsen was the best submariner the Navy had ever had. Then he told me a little about Momsen and SQUALUS. ...After my discharge, I asked CAPT Cutter if he would arrange an introduction to Momsen...I found [Momsen] a man modest in manner apparently at ease with himself.. .1 said that CAPT Cutter had told me, half jokingly, that his [Momsen's] real training manual was 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea. "Ah, yes," he replied, eyes lighting up.

"My true mentor Captain Nemo."

somewhat of McCain's interesting background, which you can get more of by reading his autobiography. Faith of My Fathers (which I have not read), but deals mostly with his political career. He describes McCain's staff and how they work with him and how McCain works with other senators, with representatives and with the White House. He is pretty much his own man. He follows the leadership when he agrees with them, but does not hesitate to follow the course that his conscience dictates. The article is well written and worth reading. I highly recommend it, and wish we had more like him in the Congress. If you cannot get hold of a copy and really want one, let me know and maybe I can help. You can email me at waprys@erols.com.

Class News Ben Robertshaw has a suggestion that we all should take seriously. His idea follows.

It is very simple and is based on the principle that Naval Academy Classmates are shipmates. Shipmates look out for one Annual Membership: 41% another We can do better at this. Email Life Membership: 49% and the Intemet have now been added to our already wide range of communicaPres: CAPT William N. Price, USN (Ret.) tions. We are able to keep in touch better Sec'y/Treas: CAPT CM. Butler, USN (Ret) than ever Let's do it.

1101 S. Arhngton Ridge Road For instance, if each of us paired up with Arlington. VA 22043 " a mutually agreeable shipmate (cellmate Corr. Secy: CAPT William A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) for this purpose) we can communicate by Goodwin House West #832 some measure once a month on a "how 3440 S. Jefferson St., Falls Church, VA 22041 -3127 goes it" basis and possibly do some good h: 703-578-7546 before it's too late—in the worse case sceActing Sec'y: nario. I'm going to start tonight by callCAPT John H. Carmichael, USN (Ret) 744 Oglethorpe Ave. ing Dick Rothwell, Marine and former St. Simons Island, GA 31522-4908 roommate, an example of a good match, p: 912-638-2830; f: 912-638-0436 if you agree. e: jhc36@earthlink.net (Sec'y comment: John Court and Jack Carmichael (high school classmates, Naval From the President Academy roommates, and married to sisters) The New Yorker has some great articles, but since it comes every week, it takes a lot have followed Ben's idea for years and of reading to keep up with it. My late, great regularly visit each other) {Sec'y plea: Once you make correspondwife, Beverly, who died in 1999, was an avid reader of it. Many issues contain a card ing with your cellmate standard operational offering a bargain rate if you renew your sub- procedure, please include an occasional sea scription, which Beverly, being economical, tale to your acting correspondence secretary frequently did—so frequently that her sub- to liven up this column.) scription does not expire until 24 March Recollections 2003.1 thumb through each issue, thinking During defense reorganization for the postof her and how I would love to discuss Cold War era, especially the raiding of the certain articles with her In the issue of 4 mihtary budget for a "peace dividend," many February 2002, (p. 42), I found (and read) were concerned of the affect on readiness of one that we would have discussed, and one the armed services. The performance during that I think would also interest anyone who the Gulf War gave some reassurance. Because reads Shipmate, entitled "The McCain of damage done by the anti-military Clinton Code," by Nicholas Lemann. It is roughly years of political correctness, again fears about eight pages of text about Senator John arose that the military services were at the McCain '58 and how he is governed by his lowest state of readiness since the 1930s. own code, which is much more Navy than Then came 11 September 2001. The poHtical, although he understands politics promptness with which President George quite well. Lemann points out that John Bush responded with a grand strategy, that Sidney McCain III is the son and grandson could not have been developed in the short of admirals ( ADM John S. McCain Jr. time he was president, was spectacular. The '31and ADM John S. McCain '06) and diplomatic coup of forming the anti-terrorist is third generation USNA. He does write coalition, the rapid deployment of specially

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trained forces and reserves, the amazing array of high tech weapons, communications, and intelhgence disclosed a readiness that was long in development. The cooperation among the CIA, the FBI, and the military in the combat area was equally impressive. During the lean years our armed services were doing an awful lot with the paucity of support.

In World War II we who served also were equipped with the latest state-of-the-art weapons, intelligence, and communications.

FLETCHER-class dcstroycrs, the result of the pre-war series of experimental designs, CLEVELAND-class light cruisers, ESSEX carriers, and many others all were development during pre war years of anti-military isolationism and depression. One of the most important high tech secret weapons of the war was RADAR. Neither isolationism nor depression deterred our military from preparing for a war it knew was ahead.

The following is a story of another high tech (smart) weapon of yesteryear—the VT radio AA fuse.

In 1942 I joined the commissioning detail of CLEVELAND ( C L - 5 5 ) at New York Ship Building Corp, Camden, NJ, as prospective F. Division officer. Because of the submarine threat off the U.S. coast, CLEVELAND had to shake down in the Chesapeake Bay. One of the gunnery department's top priorities during shake down was to ahgn batteries of guns, directors and fire control radar. As you gunners know a steady and sharp horizon is essential while ahgning gun batteries. It was a thrill in the Bay with only a bit of horizons north and south flashing by while the ship maneuvered recovering aircraft.

CLEVELAND conducted shore bombardment ttaining off Bloods worth Island in the bay.

One day a barge loaded with 5-inch, 38 projectdes came along side. I had the duty. While inspecting the cargo I discovered that the projectiles were marked with large letters A, B, C etc., the significance of which escaped me.

I called the ammunition depot and was told curtly the matter was top secret and could not be discussed over the phone. I answered, "Okay, they will be stowed as they come aboard." The answer came back, "Oh no!

Store them in alphabetical order" (The projectiles were experimental radio fused VT projectiles. The letters indicated different frequencies.) The next day CLEVELAND rendezvoused with a tow plane. On the first run the AA director tracked the sleeve, trained out a 5-inch mount and fired one projectile. The single round destroyed the sleeve. A second run produced the same results. There was much excitement over this strange new weapon. This was the first at sea test. Later in the South Pacific, CLEVELAND conducted practice AA firing at a target towed parallel to the firing course. The bursts were ragged.

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cut inâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was. On changing the fuse lot the next run was okay. The fuse batteries on the first run were defective. ("Smart weapons" caimot be taken for granted.) The VT fuse AA common projectile hardly can be compared with the "smart weapons" of today. But compared with time fuses, this high tech weapon of World War II was better by a factor of three.

Much later in the 1970s while lecturing in the elderhostle program on the naval batfles that doomed Japan, the VT fuse was discussed.

One of the students had worked on the development of the fuse. He knew about the first sea test so we had a hvely discussion.

In Memoriam The following was received from Skip Wright: Sherman E. Wright, passed away in October 2001 after a long illness. His wife, Ann Wright, is doing well. Sherman's ashes will be interred at the Naval Academy on 4 April 2002 at 11 a.m.

Any Classmates or friends who would like to attend please call Sherman's son.

Skip Wright, at 410-268-4663.

Some may remember that Sherman was in MINNEAPOLIS in May 1942 during the

Battle of Coral Sea. The first battle between carriers and the first time the rampant Japanese juggernaut was turned back from its objective. Later in 1942 he attended the postgraduate school where he majored in aerological engineering. People along the South Atlantic coast appreciated his work at the Hurricane Weather Center Jacksonville. His Classmates send their sincere condolences to Ann, his children and their families.

Corrections to January-February 2002 In memorial to Bettsy Shaw: Paul Riley's name was spelled incorrectly. Paul was kind enough to charge it to my PC. Van Perkins was mortally wounded in BIRMINGHAM alongside the exploding PRINCETON in 1944,

not in ATLANTA during the naval battles off Guadalcanal in 1942.

Additions Bettsy's book. Besides Me Still, has the USNI "ISBN' designation of 155750-9867.

The book hsts for $34.95 or $24.47 for members for a limited time after the new estimated pubhshing date of 1 March. Shipping not included. Van's daughter, Pamela McWerthy, Box 255, Acworth, NH 03601; Jim's son, S. Alan Shaw, 45 Elm St., Deep River, CT 06417; and nine grandchildren survive Bettsy. Any memorials may be sent to the Shaw-Worth Scholarship Fund (managed by the Humane Society of the U.S.) in care of her son.

Commentary From the outbreak of the War on Terrorism, President George Bush and his administration have consistently wamed the nation that the United States will pursue the war until

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terrorism and the rogue nations that support it are brought to justice. Because of the worldwide mfestation it will be costiy and take a long time. Our war aims are to punish tiiose responsible for the attack on the United States.

But of equal importance is toridthe world of those who would wipe out freedom and thereby destroy civdization. To accomphsh the awesome task, a coahtion of free nations was formed because all nations are threatened. The war on terrorism has been called a new kind of war. Not so. Have we forgotten that the United States fought terrorism since the early days of the Republic?

It began with the Barbary Wars 1 8 0 1 1805, 1815. The Barbary States of North Africa plundered seaborne conmierce for centuries. They demanded tribute money from ships passing their coast, seized ships and held crews for ransom or sold them into slavery. ("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." A toast by John Harper at a banquet for John Marshall 1798.)

The United States sent naval squadrons, containing our large frigates of the CoNSTrruTiON-class, to the Mediterranean to blockade the enemy coasts, bombarded his shore fortresses and engaged in bitterly contested gunboat operations. Following the War of 1812, two naval squadrons under commodores Decatur and Bainbridge returned.

Diplomacy backed by resolute force soon brought the rulers of Barbary to terms and gained wide spread respect for the new American nation. (Adapted from www.history.navy.mil.)

The next operation was against West Indian pirates (the terrorists of the day) 1822 through the 1820's. By the second decade of the 19th Century, pirates increasingly infested the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and by the early 1800s over 2,000 attacks were made on merchant ships. Financial loss was great; murder and torture were common.

Under the leadership of Commodores James Biddle, and David Porter the U.S. Navy's West Indies Squadron, created in 1822, crushed the pirates. Sailors manning open boats for extended periods through storm and intense heat relentlessly ferreted out the outlaws from uncharted bays and lagoons (caves of Afghanistan?). To the danger of close-quarter combat was added the constant exposure to yellow fever and malaria in the arduous tropical duty.

The Navy's persistent and aggressive assault against the freebooters achieved the desired results. Within ten years, Caribbean piracy was destioyed and an invaluable service was rendered to humanity and the shipping interests of all nations. (Adapted from www.history.navy.mil.)

Finally, the African Slave Trade Patrol 1820-1861, long illegal, die infamous slave trade was declared to be piracy by Congress

m 1819, and as such, punishable by death.

The Navy's African Slave Trade Pafrol was estabhshed to search for and bring to justice the dealers in human misery. Never exceeding a few ships in number, the Pati-ol, which from time to time included CONSTITUTION, CONSTELLATION, SARATOGA, and YORKTOWN;

relentiessly phed the waters off West Africa^ South America, and the Cuban coast, a principle area for slave disembarkation. By the start of the Civil War more tiian 100 suspected slavers had been captiired. (Adapted from www.history.navy.mil.) Are not puracy and terrorism synonymous?

For 200 years the United States Navy fought threats to freedom of the seas, freedom upon which world peace and commerce depends. In the process forward readiness of resolute force commanded by resourceful leaders has been the key to success.

Administration The USNA AA is anxious to get a good turnout for the upcoming election of trustees, especially in the Central and Eastem regions. Extra space was allotted in the March issue of Shipmate for candidates to state their case; they also have access to the USNA web siteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;www.usna.com/BOTcandidate/ BOTcandidate.htm.

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Pres: CAPT John S. Slaughter, USN (Ret) Sec'y/Treas: RADM D.G. Baer, USN (Ret) Corr. Sec'y: VADM William R Mack, USN (Ret) 3067 Rundelac Road, Annapolis, MD 21403-1321 The January luncheon was held at Paul's Restaurant in AnnapoHs. A few had to fall out at the last moment but the affair was brightened by the attendance of Eloise Davies Rankin who came all the way from the Eastem Shore. She was escorted by Joe Hatch, and we hope he wiU continue to attend.

Also there were Ethel and Frederick Janney, Jean and "Swampy" Lajaunies, Mary and Charlie Minter, Jean and Chuck Stein, Bess and Jack Slaughter, and Elsie and William Mack.

Dave Bell was having his knee refrirbished and hopes to make the next affair to be held in Arlington.

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"37: Bill Mack. Bess Slaughter, Jack Slaughter, and Chuck Stein Jack Slaughter reported that the Loews hotel is giving him some trouble for the forthcoming reunion and he will have to take a later date to avoid high room rates. He will send an update on the affair soon.

There has been a flurry of the hiring of new assistant football coaches. We will bring you up-to-date after the annual football banquet on 9 February. We hope to get a peek at the plans of the new coach at the banquet.

Mark Jordan reported to us on Stan Paist's funeral. The old baseball players will miss him. Details of his career after he left the Navy will be in his obituary.

Following are some pictures of the December luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club. In attendance was Don Baer's daughter

Charlie and Mary Minter, and Don Baer

Jean Stein and Elsie Mack

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Pres: RADM M. H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret.) e: mrindskopf@earthlink.net Chairman, 'Wash. Area: CAPT Hugh M. Robinson, USN (Ret.) h: 703-532-3772; e: hughrobinsonl@webtv.net Sec'y: CAPT D.K. Ela, USN (Ret.) 3260 N. 12th St., #329, Grand Junction, CO 81506 h: 970-256-7174, f: 970-256-9120 e: dkela@gj.net Presidents Comer 2002 Leaders' Conference. In the past three columns, I have alerted you to a 1938 Leaders' Forum totally restructured. It went off without a hitch 16-18 January with perhaps 300 participants. The Naval Academy added many non-stripers to their akeady significant contingent. West Point, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the New York, and Maine Maritime Academies all had effective representation chaperoned by officers, from colonel-captain on down. But the inclusion of perhaps 50 student leaders from MIT, SMU, RPI, Maryland, Richmond, Nebraska, Penn, and Duke—also with faculty support—brought new thinking and opinions to what will, in the future, be called the USNA Leadership Conference.

The visitors bunked at one of the Annapolis hotels, in part because of their numbers, and in part because Mother Bancroft's renovation is still underway.

Gone were the too many formal presentations by flag and general officers. Added were interactive sessions on real hfe topics such as the fight against terrorism, lead by Gen Peter Pace '67, USMC, deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the security problems of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. (This extravaganza will be over when you read this, but we may leam that some of the measures put into effect were bom of Conference dialogue.)

One aftemoon was devoted to a clever film clip presentation of Shakespeare's Henry V with analysis of his leadership at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Finally, there was an

outstanding panel of military and civilian leaders from government, academia, and industry who frankly responded to many searching questions from both the civilian and military participants.

This expanded, and more expensive affair was funded by the income from our Class endowment, and by a generous contribution and endowment from Mrs. and Mr Milledge Hart III '56, with Marine Corps service.

The Class was represented at all sessions by Bob McNitt, Deke Ela, and yours tmly; with Bob Carter, Snowden Arthur, and Bill Boykin on hand for the full day on Thursday, 17 January.

ADM Hank Chiles '60, distinguished professor of leadership, LCDR Rick McCartney '90, project officer, and the entire Professional Development staff go our kudos for a job well done. If my scuttlebutt is correct, we can expect still more innovation in the 2003 Conference.

Class Comer We have no sad news this issue! The tally available for the 65th remains at 126 grads, 18 non-grads, and 149 widows (31 with undeliverable addresses). Wouldn't 100% attendance be a heck of a reunion! Think about it. The majority potential, widows and wives, tells us something. Bob, perhaps you should add knitting and needlepoint to nap time on the agenda to properly address our support group? Noted in our last column was an initiative being taken to insure that all our widows are informed of Tricare for Life because not all get Shipmate. While we are working with the Alumni Association office to identify those with undeliverable addresses, if any of our readers have contacts, pass the word. For full information, visit the Tricare web site: http:/www.tricare.osd.mil.

Mike opened the door for comment from others of us auditing the conference and we wouldn't be a secretary if we had only learned to keep our mouth shut. So, at the risk of overloading this column, we offer three supplemental details, purely personally vivid impacts, to Mike's excellent overall perspectives above. We sat in on one group working session on the Salt Lake terrorist case problem. One of the civihan attendees clearly took charge, i.e. these young people added a dimension and had a contribution to make.

Shakespeare? We never knew ye. We leamed that the Battie of Agincourt and the St. Crispin address to the troops is a much studied classic exarnple of sterling leadership in a situation where every conceivable odd was stacked against Henry V. Finally, but most notable and exciting for this observer was the panel exchange with conferees. Former ADM Richard Mies '67, CinCStraCom set the stage with commentary on "Leadership and National Crisis—It's Everyone's Business."

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Polytechnic Institute, former Deputy SecDef, Dr. John Hambre, and Mr. Eric Grubman, former co-president of Constellation Energy Group provided brilliant, experienced and instant responses to a wide range of conferee questions for three hours. Whether or not there is a mihtary-civilian gap, clearly a common denominator is leadership.

Class lunches are our fodder from the field. We gratefully get the doggy bags, first from Norma and Bill Glennon, hosts for their Army-Navy game party: Marie and John Burkhardt, Ray Berthrong, Barbara and Jake Reed, and Rosamond and Miles Refo. Pictures taken before the final score are below. Bill updated the region Class directory, corrections are made to our web page listing, and he asks where is Charlie DeHority, we've lost him?

Hugh Robinson homes in 24 January with the Washington group: himself. Bob Carter, Carl Fleps, Frank Jones, Joseph McDowell, Jackson Raymer, and Mike Rindskopf. (Bob Carter's pictures below also include the Christmas party.) Frank had attended Will Cranford's funeral at Arlington, and the word is that George Muse's services will be at 10:30 a.m., 18 March, at the Academy main Chapel, the Columbarium, and reception at the O'Club.

(Note for anyone visiting the Yard, the terrorist security rules admit only cars with a DoD sticker and an IDâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^any other special authorizations are cumbersome; call Mike for transport arrangements.)

Swede Olsen's San Diego contingent weighed in: himself, Paul Lovlace from Los Angeles, Kitty and El Ogle, Gayle and Tom Foster with Gayle's sister, and Bill Ratliff.

Rosalie Brown, widow of our Charlie Donald, his son, Rob '65, wife, Kaye, and great-granddaughter, Jessica

We received a letter and photo from Rob Brown '65, son of Rosalie and Charlie Donald Brown: While Mom was here, we took her to the USNA AA Texas Gulf Coast Chapter January meeting. That is the one where we award the "Mike Smith Memorial Sword" to the Midshipman who entered the Academy from this area who has the highest GPA at the end of Second Class Year.

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One of our local grads took the picture of mom, Kaye and myself, our son Chris and granddaughter (mom's great-granddaughter) Jessica. Four generations of Browns.

Salutes Mike has scooped us on a salute to ADM Chiles for the growth in the scope and importance of the Leaders Conference.

What we visualized in 1983 as a kemel is becoming a comfield. There is a wonderful example of leadership being set here. In another of Mike's fully supported initiatives, for the third time, we put our best foot forward by nominating Al Laborde for the Distinguished Graduate Award; and for the third time, we regret that he was not one of the four selectees. We don't challenge the selection criteria, but we do recognize world class achievement. If we try to imagine what the world would be without off-shore petroleum drilling and production, then we Norma Glennon and Ray Berthrong can appreciate what Al's smarts, naval training, and persistence hath wrought.

Reefed Sail Retirement Home Notes What goes on in our institutional confinement (other than the periodic increase in rent, now double the rate of the CPI)? We assume the goings-on is typical and therefore of interest. (Second thought, we can't be typical for the simple reason that we are individual, but Barbara Reed with Miles and Rosamond Refo we're going to report anyway.) We enthused over the Olympic Torch when it entered its last westward leg toward Salt Lake City. Our aircraft traffic is up by a factor of ten because we're a terrorist screening point for smaller planes going to Salt Lake City. On our trip to the Leaders Conference, we had to take our shoes off for a sniff test for explosives. Our change of socks had not yet reached it's annual cycle, but apparentiy that is accounted for in the sniffmg. Then there was a wand search, our dentalfillingsnearly cost us rejection. We were sufficientiy forewarned to put our pocket knife in the checked baggage (no good sailor is without a pocket knife and/or a marlin spike) rather than in the carry on thing ("bag" as a term no longer describes all the "things" like a couple of DVD movies). All tiiat said, how do we decide when to stop this stuff? What to do with Afghanistan? Why continue witii NATO; set up a MEDEASTO? hivade Iraq? We're too confused here to talk about it. We inmates are more interested in recession and Enron and where is the bottom and where are our dividends.

Betty and Jack Raymer

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Acting Pres.: RADM Daniel K. Weitzenfeld, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CAPT William J. Ruhe, USN (Ret) 1310 MacBeth Ave., McLean, VA 22102 e: CaptBillRuhe@aol.com Thirty-Nine On Line: docabbot@aol.com

The obituary for BGen William A. "Willy" Stiles, who died on 18 January 2002 at Vinson Hall, recalls a heck of a good story—which at least his grandchildren should know about him.

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On New Year's eve, 1940, a crowd of '39ers were whoopping it up at somebody's saloon, when a late arrival at the party reported that on the way to the party he'd passed a car that was a total wreck. After stopping to find out what had happened, he asked a highway patrolman "what caused this accident?" The answer he got was really scary! "A young naval officer and his girlfriend were hit by a drunk driver of another car Both the man and the girl were taken to the Allentown Hospital—the one near the fairgrounds."

At this report, eight of us revelers hurried to the hospital to find out how Willy and Adell Bury were doing.

The report we got was not good. "The girl has a broken hip, but she's resting nicely and will be confined here for at least two weeks. The boy was checked by several doctors and given a clean bill of health. He then discharged and disappeared—headed somewhere."

Somewhere? Where would Willy go?

The outside temperature was no more than 20 degrees and snow was on the ground. The hospital was at 17th and Chew Street, while the little house where Willy was staying along with four other Midshipmen, was at 8th Street. That meant two miles of hiking for Willy and he was not warmly dressed.

A pow-wow was held by the '39ers.

They decided that Willy had to be quickly found, thawed out, and put to bed since he undoubtedly was suffering from shock.

Moreover he might be so disoriented that he'd wander off and freeze to death.

We split up into three groups of searchers, one to cover Chew Street, one to cover Linden Street, and the third to head down Gordon Street. It was also agreed that if Willy wasn't found by 6 a.m. the searchers would regroup at the little house where they were staying, have some hot chocolate, and then discuss a further strategy to be used to find Willy.

By 6 a.m. searching farther looked hopeless. The gang of searchers turned into their bunks, having decided to renew their search at 9 a.m. when it was lighter and they could see things that were far more distant.

That made good sense until Harvard K. "Little Robbie" Robinson, heard snoring beneath where he lay.

It was Willy! He was happily and warmly snoozing away.

Little Robbie woke everyone to tell them the good news. While Willy slept on.

Still, the Midshipmen wanted to find out what had happened, so they woke Willy to hear his story.

Will was pleased to tell it: "When the doctors checked me over they found that I was ok. So I tried to get out of the place but I was turned back at the front door by a guard who was stationed there. He insisted that I couldn't leave without discharge papers. Thus, I decided to try getting out of the hospital by going to the ambulance garage. I seemed to know that if I could get the garage door open I'd be a free man.

Finding the switch to open the door was easy. But then if I opened the garage door, how was I going to shut it? I couldn't let the ambulance get freezing cold. That would have been a dirty trick to play on potential patients.

So I switched the door open, then pressed the switch to close the door since I intended to get out before the door swung closed.

But that didn't work. It was too far for me to run before the door shut. Thus I had to wait until the ambulance was put to use.

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as the ambulance started up and backed out of the garage.

Somewhat bravely, I hopped out of it and headed east on Chew Street in order to get back to my sleeping quarters.

When I saw the spire of Zion Reformed Church I felt heartened by the realization that soon I'd be back to sleep. But when I got back to the little house, I noted that all bunks were occupied by sleeping Midshipmen. So I went to sleep under one of the beds. And that's where I was found, because of my snoring."

Ernie Schwab On a lighter note, Doc Abbot said in an egram that he'd been asked to recollect the words to "Abdul, the Bulbul Amir." To which Doc said: I have trouble recalling 15 minutes ago.

And now I've been asked to go back 65 years in my memory. At any rate, I recall that the song was sung lustily by a group when they've indulged heavily in the bubbly. So today, after a severe headache and an extra Gavinscom, the tune came to mind easily, but not the lyrics.

So those who remember the lyrics, please contact Doc! An unknown '39er remembered this verse: A splash in the Black Sea, one dark moonless night, was made by a sack, fitting close to the back. It caused ripples to spread near and far. And was the body of Ivan Shavinshy Skivar.

Pretty gruesome. What?

Who can supply some more verses?

Another egram from Doc Abbot: In my bin today was a position report from Bob Clark, who said he'd be on this side of the pond until early November Meanwhile, welcome aboard! I have quite a few friends who manage to remain online while in Europe or Australia. Why don't you consider this possibility for next winter?

Ray Tenanty

Willy Stiles and his grandson, Daniel Ray Tenanty's lovely, personable daughter, Gail, with a slight Boston Irish brogue Uke her father's, dehvered this egram through a pouring rain, this morning.

The rain is much needed since we're in a bad drought. Gail's egram, notes that John Reigart's wife, Dotrie, (Charley Chandler's sister) would be buried on 24 January 2002, and that her Protestant funeral service was held on 17 January 2002.

Another egram tells of the death of Hal Felix's wife. Hazel. She passed away on 29 October 2001, at Fountain Valley Hospital, of cardiac arrest.

Budd G o r e ' s egram said that Norm Bennett's wife, Gloria, died on 13 January 2002. Bud says, "Please pray that God will comfort and strengthen Norm, our beloved Classmate, in his grief." Ernie Schwab noted that Norm was so choked up with grief about Gloria's death that he couldn't say anything more on the phone and hung up.

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Pres and Frank Shamer Shipmate, April 2002

Pres Shamer (with his brother Frank Shamer '37) who passed away, was normally the '39er who came the longest distance (Moorestown, NJ) to attend a '39 luncheon.

He usually had his wife, Lois, (a charming lady) attending with him.

I've just recalled that when I drove to Willy Stiles' memorial service, my wife, Carol, said very optimistically, "I know exactly (italicized for emphasis since it's a nobrainer to drive from our house to Vinson Hall) where it is." It's only three miles away.

But 75 minutes later and after having driven 40 miles we were much pleased to see that immediately ahead of our car was a large white van with Vinson Hall on its rear. We then followed the van to Vinson Hall's front door Honest!

A news article in the Sunday Capital of 30 December 2 0 0 1 , quotes CDR Paul Schratz Jr of Annapolis (that's "Pete," the deceased Paul Schratz's son) as to his life on THEODORE ROOSEVELT. He told the Associated Press that a goodly n u m b e r onboard seek his psychological help to combat their abuse of drugs or alcohol— about 30 cases a month. Prior to Pete Schratz's casework, "Several dozen sailors would be sent home from sea for psychological reasons." But now, "I haven't lost a single person for such reasons."

A letter from Frank Dailey Jr. '42 notes that a chpping from a local newspaper extols the newly deceased "Ray" Zoeller. "He was a wonderful conversationalist, never boring, never overstating or overstaying, and always interesting. Ray was a quiet and resolute Patriot. When his wife passed away, from my perspective, the fresh wind had suddenly abated and part of Ray had gone with his hfe compaiuon."

An article in the Washington Post of 16 January 2002 by Amy Argetsinger says that, "Right after the Naval Academy's final exam for 'Maritime Strategy' a student turned in a widely circulated review sheet that almost perfectiy outlined the questions on the test."

Another cheating scandal? But the Academy officials said they now believe that an "overzealous" instmctor went too far with the help he gave Midshipmen in a tutoring session.

The young Navy lieutenant instmctor received "appropriate administrative action."

Academy officials said, "This was an error of inexperience and overenthusiasm with no mahce of forethought." However, in reviewing the test questions, the lieutenant revealed that they were "too exclusively oriented to the topics that made up the first half of the exam."

The Washington Post moreover, showed a nearly exact p a r a l l e l b e t w e e n the student's notes and the first six questions on the exam—with the topics listed in the same order Shipmate, April 2002

Academy ethics remain a sensitive topic at the Academy after a decade-old cheating scandal in which stolen copies of an electrical engineering exam were dispersed widely among the third class the night before the test.

John Muhlenbei^ writesfromPottstown, PA: On 11 October 2001, Barbara and I attended a Founders Day 156th anniversary of the Naval Academy. It was at the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, PA. The speaker was ADM Thomas Moorer '33, USN (Ret.). I was the second oldest Naval Academy Alumnus at the ceremony.

Again we have Grant Rogers carrying the Olympic torch with its flame burning brightly—on its 9,000-mile joumey to the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece. Grant is the only runner with the distinction of carrying the torch as a Naval Academy graduate, and for his Class of '39.

He did his 1-km mn in about six minutes— somewhat slower than his predicted four minutes, prior to some injuries to his knees and ankles. They were very painful but "He carried the torch with such dignity and pride, one would almost cry with patriotism." What tripe?

Grant was one of 157 people who participated in the Olympic torch relay in San Diego. He carried the flame on Seventh Street in Coronado. Jeff McDonald of the San Diego Union-Telegraph writes: Flag waving crowds started gathering before dawn along old Highway 80. Then a motorcade carrying the flame headed for the Olympic Center in Chula Vista where hundreds of excited kids chanted "U.S.A.!

U.S.A.!" Across the bay in Coronado, thousands crammed into Spereckels Park for a welcoming celebration. Flags fluttered from the handlebars of passing bicycles. Theflamerelay headed north along the West Coast, to arrive at Salt Lake City on 7 February with the opening ceremony the next day.

Grant notes that no more torch mns will be made in America until after the Olympic Games are held in Greece in 2004 and in China in 2008.

Grant Rogers carrying the Olympic torch

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Pres; CAPT William M. Carpenter, USN (Ret.) 1119 Aquia Drive, Stafford, VA 22554 Sec'y: CAPT Jacob V. Heimark, USN (Ret.) 410 Old Gulph Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Before we go to this month's "farewells," let's start with a cheery note. Sam Forter was just on the phone and gave me the good news that on 7 Febmary, Maureen Lamb gave up mnning for public office and remarried our long-time bachelor, Bill Lamb. To you, Maureen, welcome back into the '40 family. We have missed you.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Farewells This month we again have sad news. On 27 May 2001, almost a year ago, William Henry Henney Jr. died at his home in Omaha, NE, where he lived after he served in the army during World War II. Following that experience, he joined Mutual of Omaha.

Thirty-five years later, he retired as a vice president of this well-known large insurance company. During the years that followed.

Bill and Mary raised six children: Mary Gumey, Katherine Graham, James Henney, Alice Shoemacher, John Henney, and Janet Schawang. This family now has 19 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren, all of whom mourn the passing of this fine Classmate only a few of us got to know. To the Henney family, we of this Naval Academy Class extend our most sincere condolences.

On the other hand—you have four fingers and a thumb.

'40 lost one of our finest Classmates when CAPT Irvin George Peters died on 14 January after a long stmggle with leukemia. A highly decorated naval aviator, Pete was a very private person who shunned personal 61

pubhcity. This was shown by his wish that there be a very private funeral service at the church which Pete and Saralee attended, with inurrmient at the church's columbarium.

This gentleman of highest integrity will be missed by his many fiiends and admirers. To Saralee, his only survivor, the '40 family extends our heartfelt condolences. For those of us who wish to leave a memorial in Pete's memory, Saralee suggests sending a contribution to: The Leukemia Society, North Florida Chapter, 9143 Philhps Hwy., Suite 136, Jacksonville, FL 33256.

Borrow money from pessimistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; they don't expect it back.

On 26 January we lost CDR William Andrew Jackson Lewis, USNR. Two days later, following a beautiful memorial service.

Bill was buried with military honors in the Ruston, LA, cemetery.

Bill served at sea during World War II, b e g i n n i n g with e n g i n e e r i n g duty on CALIFORNIA until she was sunk at Pearl Harbor. Then he helped put INDIANA in commission. From there he trained and quahfied to be a lighter than air pilot, providing anti-submarine protection off the East Coast until 1944 when this protection was no longer needed. BUI then was assigned to commissionRENO, serving as its chief engineer until the war ended when he participated in her decommissioiung at Bremerton.

Since he was needed back in Ruston, LA, to help the Lewis family manage major business interests, BUI then resigned his Navy commission and joined the inactive Naval Reserve where he gained the rank of Commander. In the famUy businesses, our BUI rose to serve as president of both the famUy-owned department store and their timber and real estate company.

Sixty-two years ago, Bill and Carolyn began their married life together Bill leaves to mourn his passing his beloved wife, Carolyn; four chUdren, Dr Ehzabeth Lewis Their, Catherine Lewis Long, WUliam A. J. Lewis in, and Richard NeU Lewis; and eleven grandchUdren. To this Lewis famUy, the Class of '40 sends its deeply felt condolences.

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

For those of us who wish to remember Virgil Gex with a memorial gift, Isabelle has suggested that a donation to the USNA Foundation in Virgil's name and the Class of '40 would be a most appropriate way to honor his memory.

The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Age doesn't seem to slow down some members of the '40 family. Three have become models who are pictured promoting the retirement centers where they live. Penny Vickery had her smiling picture in the Washington Post along with enthusiastic words 62

to say about Collingwood near Washington where she lives. Meanwhile, a good picture of Jeanne and Don Bruce posing outside their retirement center in McMinnvUle, OR, as they tell readers about the joys of retirement in Oregon, appeared in the Retired Officer magazine. I always used to think that modeling was a job for the young. Now I know it is also for the young at heart. To you three, tharUcs for showing us that age does not matter When everything is going against you, you are either in the wrong lane or going the wrong way.

Hooray! They have finally found a diagnosis for my condition. I have recently been diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. which is, "Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder" This is how it goes: I decide to wash the car. I start toward the garage and notice the mail on the table.

Okay, I'm going to wash the car. But first I'm going to go through the mail. I lay the car keys down on the desk, discard the jurUc mail and I notice the trashcan is full. Okay, I'll just put the bills on my desk and take the trashcan out, but since I'm going to be near the maUbox anyway, I'll pay these few bills first. Now, where is my checkbook?

Oops, there's only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk. I'm going to look for those checks. Oh, there's the Coke I was drinking. But first I need to put my Coke further away from the computer Maybe I should pop it into the fridge to keep it cold for a while.

Oh-oh! There are my glasses. I was looking for them all morning! I'd better put them away first. Then I'll fill a container with water and head for the flower pots...

Aaaaaagh! Someone left the remote in the kitchen. We'll never think to look there tonight when we want to watch television so I'd better put it back in the family room where it belongs.

Then I splash some water into the pots and onto the floor, throw the remote onto a soft cushion on the sofa, and head back down the hall trying to figure out what it was I was going to do.

At the end of the day: The car isn't washed, the bills are unpaid, the coke is sitting on the kitchen counter, the flowers are half watered, the checkbook still only has one check in it and I can't seem to find my car keys! When I try to figure out how come nothing got done today, I'm baffled because / know I was busy all day long\ I reahze this is a serious condition and I'll get help, butfirst, I think I'll check my email.

Here is what I found: My Forgetter My forgetter's getting better But my rememberer is broke

To you that may seem funny But, to me, that is no joke For when I'm "here" I'm wondering If I really should be "there" And, when I try to think it through, I haven't got a prayer!

Oft times I walk into a room.

And say "what am I here for?"

I wrack my brain, but all in vain A zero is my score.

At times I put something away Where it is safe, but, gee!

The person it is safest from Is, generally, me!

When shopping I may see someone.

Say "Hi" and have a chat.

Then, when the person walks away I ask myself, "who was that?"

Yes, my forgetter's getting better While my rememberer is broke.

And it's driving me plumb crazy And that isn't any joke.

Can you relate to this?

Support bacteriaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they're the only culture some people have.

After many years of serving as the sponsor of the 4th Company of the Brigade of Midshipman and financial supporter of their wardroom, these duties were taken over by the Class of' 89. The occasion of the picture in this issue showing '40 representatives from Washington and AnnapoHs was the opportunity for the 4th Company to say "thank you" to '40 for the support we gave them over many years.

A Performance Evaluation: "He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle."

In December 1941, the foUowing appeared m H. Leroy "Bud" Schafer Jr.'s hometown paper: "Local Boy Safe" Mr. and Mrs. H. Leroy Schafer of this place received a letter on Wednesday from their son. Ensign Leroy Schafer who was assigned to ARIZONA which was sunk by the Japs at Pearl Harbor that stated that he was well. The letter contained no further information.

The young man's parents and friends in this place who were anxious about him were greatly relieved when this news was received.

On the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the local Manasquan paper interviewed our Bud to gather his impressions of that fateful day. What follows is the heart of what he had to say: "Nobody saw more of the death and destruction of Pearl Harbor than I did," said Bud. At the time, he was a gunnery officer on ARIZONA. When he retumed on 7 December from an ovemight stay in Honolulu, he found that half an hour earlier the Japanese had sunk his ship. The hardest hit

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batdeship, ARIZONA sank in nine minutes.

Of the 1,177 men lost on ARIZONA, more than 1,000 men are still entombed in the wreckage, (including seven of the 14 Class of '40 ensigns who were assigned to that ship after graduation). "For the rest of that day, we pulled bodies out of the water dead or alive." Bud recalled.

For ENS Schafer indications of war began three days before the Pearl Harbor attack. On 4 December ARIZONA was on maneuvers near Hawaii. Bud was a newly qualified officer of the deck who came on the bridge that midnight. There the captain's night orders book said, "Unidentified submarines in our operating area.

Keep a special lookout."

On the aftemoon of 5 December Bud was on watch again. As they were entering Pearl Harbor a destroyer reported a submarine contact. Admiral Isaac Kidd, commander of their battleship division, ordered the destroyer to depth charge the submarine. To this order Bud said, "My God, this is war." Two days later the Japanese attackers destroyed Bud's ship and killed Admiral Kidd.

On Saturday morning, after ARIZONA'S regular weekly in-port Captain's Inspection, the captain called the entire crew to the ship's bow where he told them that he hoped they all would get what they most wanted for Christmas, a trip back to the mainland. As it tirnied out, only a few did.

That aftemoon Bud decided to join some friends ashore for a night on the town. Late that night, for the first time in three months.

Bud joined a Classmate to stay ovemight at a Waikiki Beach hotel and then enjoy a date with a lady friend on Sunday aftemoon.

When Bud awoke to the sounds of gimfire, he thought, 'Things must be tough if the Army is practicing on Sunday morning." When he called down to the desk, he was told, "If you are in the service, get back to your post." Bud jumped in his car and raced back to Pearl Harbor There he asked what it was that was burning around ARIZONA. He was told that his ship had been sunk half an hour earlier Bud immediately took over a nearby boat and spent the rest of the day rescuing those survivors who had not yet been smothered by the heavy fuel oil on the water His description of the state of affairs there was "chaos and confusion." Almost everyone in the area had a gun and especially after dark, everyone was "trigger-happy." One story was about a night sentry at Ford Island airfield who was on post all night because each time a relief for him came close, he shot him.

Because radar of that day was very primitive and could not distinguish between friend and foe, our own people shot down many friendly aircraft. Everybody was convinced that the Japanese forces that had had such singular successes on Sunday would soon return to do more harm.

When the Japs reported the attack to their emperor they said, "God was on our side."

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Bud counters that with "Luck was on our side because no carriers were in port."

How true!

Bud, what a wonderful memory you have to be able to r e m e m b e r details involving events from 60 years ago. M y hope is that our readers will find this story to be as fascinating and well told by him, as did 1. To our Classmate we all say "thank you. Bud," for sharing these important memories with us.

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Ann Gage and her father. Doc Weatherup

Penny and Hugh Vickery and Helen Longino

Ozzie and Toshiko Osborne, Ben Frana, and Joyce Crowther

N e w Address The M c G i l l i c u d d y ' s new address is: 1 Beach D r SE, Apt 2108, St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3927.—Jake Only '40 is 4.0 63

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Chmn & Sec'y: CAPT Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 5610 Wisconsin Ave., Apt # 1409 Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4439 h: 301-215-7532; e: Vdelano@aol.com web page: http://www.usna.com/classes/1941/ default.html While this is being written, 7 February celebrations are taking place in the west and in the east. On the 7th, in Coronado, the California group is having a celebratory lunch at II Fomaio Restaurant. Last December, Bill McReynolds arranged for a Class Christmas lunch at the California Bistro, Four Seasons Hotel, Aviara. Bill says the attendance was good, the food selection was great, and the ambiance was beautiful. Back east in Florida, the Ponte Vedra group is holding its annual celebratory three day affair and I'll have more about it later And maybe there will be pictures of both 7 Febmary affairs.

Betty Taussig recently had the following interesting letter published in the Annapolis Capital which should be of interest to Navy supporters: Navy Not Prepared I have been waiting and waiting to see in the media a large, all-inclusive package to restore the United States Navy to an adequate capability to deal with an emergency such as we now face.

By the end of the Reagan-Bush era, the Navy had been built to the nearly 600 ships estimated to be needed to prepare us for any contingency. The Navy has dwindled away to the point that we now have only 315 ships, now poorly equipped.

When our destroyers leave the Persian Gulf, they have to unload their missiles for the replacement ships. We do not even have enough missiles for our few remaining ships.

Our Navy planes in Afghanistan, not having enough bombs, had to beg them from the Air Force. Personnel have to cannibalize planes for parts, as there are not enough parts for planes. The Navy needs a whole package of up-to-date ships, missiles, bombs, planes, and whatever else.

Putting these things in production will be good for the economy, creating jobs and circulating money.

Sadly, war has always been good for the economy. And, realistically, with more than 26 countries having atomic energy, we have never had a greater need to be fully prepared.

A recent note from Charlie Trumbull indicated that he spent some time around the Christmas season undergoing and recovering from spinal surgery in his neck. I gather that he is on the mend but it is no doubt a slow process. We all wish him well.

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I am sorry to have to report that Pete Batcheller died last December, in Long Beach, of heart failure. Pete was an outstanding tennis player and a dedicated patriot. To Marie goes the sympathy of Pete's Class.

We share in her loss.

April birthdays are not unfamiliar to me. I have two in my family so I know it's a good month. Here are the ones from ' 4 1 : John Bennett, Eugene Bush, Ace Clark, Lionel Collins, John Duke, Lou Edwards, Charles Fears, Willis Fisher, Clarence Hart, Bill Heavey, Dick Hill, John Hirst, Herbertt Lannon, Everett Malcolm, Mac McLellon, Chuck Merdinger, Jack Messer, Vic Moitoret, Red Plaxco, Kenneth Tebo, Hensley Williams, and William Withrow.

The stone that honors April birthdays is the diamond, sigiufying innocence and would you beheve that the flowers for AprU are Sweet Peas and Daisies? Save your money and just buy them a drink. There are lots of ApriUtes and they are great guys, to say die least!

There are several changes for your Class Rosters this month: Maggie and Tully Shelley, 4708 St. Elizabeth's Terrace, Vero Beach, FL 322967, 561-794-2383; edress changes: Rusty Crenshaw (rscrenshaw@ earthhnk.net); Bill Henning (wjhng@webtv .net); Ned Mines (nedhines@mymailstation .com); Stu Jones (smcjone@cox.net); 'I\illy Shelley ( T S J R 4 1 @ J U N O . c o m ) ; and Charlie Styer (styerl941@mediaone.net).

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Pres: CAPT James D. Small, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR R.S. Day, USN (Ret.) 2426 Chestnut St., Falls Church, VA 22043-3052 This is the month for the 20th Annual USNA '42 Mary E. Hill Memorial Golf Tournament on Tuesday, 23 April. A rain date of the 24th has been reserved, but as always will be utilized only in the event of a tidal wave, disastrous flood, hurricane, or national disaster. If you are a newcomer to the event (and you are certainly encouraged to play regardless of skills) the deadline for signing on is 12 April. Even if you do find that you will be unable to compete, you are welcome to provide favors or promotional items such as golf balls, tees, towels, or knick-knacks for the contestants. Modest cash donations will also be put to good use.

Most importantly mark your calendar now and be sure to forego travel or other conflicting events that might impede your attendance. IT is now back in Triangle, VA, at 703-2210-3490.

Layton Allen, who is one of two Classmates living on the Eastem Shore, came up with an interesting account of his alter ego.

Frank Carter. Seems that Frank is the son of Frank Saulsbury Carter Sr. '09 and the father of Frank Saulsbury HI '70, and now has a grandson, Frank Saulsbury Carter IV was bom on 22 January 2002 in Lewes, DE, andwill undoubtedly be a candidate for the USNA Class 2022.

Trilby, Max Duncan's loving wife, has joined the "zipper" club with a double bypass and is recovering on schedule. Ann Beale has bounced back from her untimely meeting with an Annapohs sidewaUc and the inconvenience of a right-handed individual trying to eat and write with the left hand.

Art Burke was one of a group of San Diego area Battle of Midway veterans mvited to attend a Battle of Midway Celebration held onboard STENNIS in late June 2001. Joining Art were Willie Weber, Dick Sewall, and Nancy and Frank Knight. He provided a photo tiiat Frank Andrews was able to scan into our Class web page. Art retumed to his San Diego home in mid-February after recovering from a quadmple bypass.

Jerry Peddicord has continued his years of a volunteer effort to spread a leafy green canopy over Texas. At tiie annual Texas Tree Conference held this year in Waco he received the year's Outstanding Citizen Award. Mr. Clean, as he is known in his neck of the woods, has been involved in volunteer environmental improvement of the Pottsboro and Grayson County areas for 21 years with emphasis on planting and caring for trees and large shmbs. He has planned, supervised the planting and cared for hundreds of ttees and shmbs planted in highway m e d i a n s , public school parking grounds, parks, city ball grounds, and volunteer fire department grounds in the Pottsboro area. When a dual highway approach to the city of Pottsboro was completed by the Texas DOT, Jerry undertook organizing the work of planning and caring for the plants with help from other volunteers and commuruty service people who had been assigned to him for supervision by the local judges and the county probation office.

The plants were watered using volunteer fire department fire trucks and a water truck loaned by the county commissioner In 1981, a large area inside a main intersection was left covered with black asphalt, a very unsightly view. Jerry planned a landscape project to beautify the area, which was accomphshed with a cost sharing project with tile city and tiie Texas DOT. The city autiiorities named it Peddicord Circle and dedicated it to Jerry. His innovation and leadership have resulted in a marked improvement in the environment of tiie Pottsboro area at a minimum cost to tiie taxpayer Well done, sh!

Hal Wynne succumbed to his long battle with Parkinson's on 19 January 2002. He had served the Class faithfully as treasurer Shipmate, April 2002

for many years and was a beloved Classmate. He was buried at Arlington Cemetery with full honors on 15 February. Hal served in the cruiser RICHMOND after graduation until detachment in November 1943 to report to Submarine School. He served in submarines for eight years before shifting to surface ships and command of OTTERSTETTER and DAMATO. He retired in 1964 and worked for six years with Stanwich Co. before taking a position with the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility. He retired from NASA in 1985. He is survived by his wife, Carol, whom he married in 1944, and three children.

Bill Carver passed away from Lou Gehrig's disease on 9 January 2002. He retired as commanding officer of the Naval Air Station, Atlanta, and served as an instmctor at the Chattahaochee Techiucal Institute in Marietta, GA. He is survived by his wife, Vrrginia, a son, two daughters, ten grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Emma Jane Gibson. He was interned with full mihtary honors at the Keimasaw Memorial Park.

Art Warner died on 31 January 2002 following a sttoke at his home in Atlanta. His ashes and those of CaroUne who died some years ago were placed in the columbarium at Arhngton Cemetery on 19 Febmary. Art was a dedicated golfer and a fixture at J T Hill's annual tournament. He served 17 months in LOUISVILLE after graduation before going to sub school and five war patrols. Following the war he continued in various submarine commands interspersed with tours in BuPers, four years at the Junior and Seruor War College and on the college staff. He completed his naval service as CO of ALLAGASH with a tour at the United Nations. He retired in 1967 and spent ten years with Gmmman before a second retirement in 1977. That led to lots of golf, politics, Irish Setters, lots of grandchildren, and a chance to enjoy life with CaroUne until her untimely death.

The aimual St. Valentine's luncheon was held on 13 Febmary at Ft. Myer Under Bill Montgomery's guidance, the following gathered to salute this day of sweethearts and lovers: Kay Cole, Betty and Jack Crawford, Joan and Dick Curtis, Hap Day, Jeanne and Duke Easton, Peg and Jake Click, Joyce Gooding, Rene Griffith, Peggy and Bunky Herndon, Bill Houser and Jan Evans, Shirley Kelley, Angelique Kidd, Jo Ann and Jerry Miller, Kieran and Jack Mitchell, Marian and Bill Montgomery, Muff and Norm Nash, Rufe Porter, Patricia and Art Rawson, Barbara and Dale Reed, Chariotte and Ken Simmons, Martha and Pappy Suns, Peggy and Jim Small, Martha Jane and Charlie Smith, Peggy Tofalo, and Janet and Dick Werner.

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Bill Houser brought RADM Whitey Feightner, USN (Ret.), so that he could be inducted as an honorary member of the Class and presented with an appropriate testimonial. Whitey was a very active and valuable confributor to the Midway Monument effort and worked closely with Bill from inception to conclusion.

The luncheon closed on a high note with the rendition of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" following the customary selection by lot of die Sweetheart of the Year whose name will be revealed in the next Shipmate.

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The Chiistmas party was an outstanding success as I mentioned last month but here are some of the "mug-shots" taken at that time.

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Pres: CAPT E. A. Robie, USN (Ret) 2111 River Crescent Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-224-0850; e: edrobie@aol.com Sec'y; CAPT "Jack" Van Ness Jr., USN (Ret) 7108 Broxburn Dr, Bethesda, MD 20817 h: 301-320-4564; e: Jvanness43@aol.com Your corresponding secretary has been on leave for the past several weeks. The '43 Class colunrn will resume in the May issue of Shipmate.

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Pres; Fred Schnurr Washington Rep; CAPT Charlie Rozier, USN (Ret) Sec'y; CAPT Bill Bennett, USN (Ret.) 46910 Grissom St., Potomac Falls, VA 20165-3576 h: 703-404-4882; e; boppab@eartWink.net A part of a wonderful message from George Carlin: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

And for those of you that write that I never mention my personal life, let me just say that I still live in a retirement community of WARPIES (White Anglo Retired Persons) and HARPIES (Harried Addled Retired Persons) all of whom are really just hoping to delay joining the Affirmed Association of Expired Persons. These residents talk a lot about that much-touted island playground of the elderly: Club Med-icare. Some seem to worry more about Alzheimer's than AIDSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they just can't remember why. Oh, yes , there's no place like "The Home." We love it here.

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Joe and Mary Travers with Bob Wulf A newspaper article, written about Mark Hill, appeared in the Annapolis Capital on 5 January 2002. Mark says, "part of the big kick he gets from horse racing is the almost unbeatable odds he faces in trying to make a profit as an owner" The writer then goes on to say: But you listen a while and watch what he grins at and you will understand another phase of the magic pull of racing.

He breeds horses on a farm in Kentucky and then races them at Laurel or Pimlico.

When Hill sends a horse to the track with Gregg McCarron as trainer, he enjoys one of the unique thrills in racing. He can't blame anyone else for the makeup of the bloodlines in those horses. And he's not going to give anyone else credit for the names he gives them.

Mark added: To have any chance to make it these days in racing you've got to have a mare established as a top broodmare and I was lucky enough to get "Valid and True." She produced seven winners, one very good stakes winner (Honest Ensign), one stakes placed. When you get a broodmare like that you can deal with top stallion owners because they want your mare for their stallions. It's very satisfying.

The article continues: Hill also has gotten the reputation of giving exciting names to his race horses. They all have applications to the Navy, the sea, the Naval Air Service, or "the lovely girls of the island." Valid and True's first offspring was Two Block Fox, who derives his name from the U.S. Navy Signal Book.

The most recent race horse carrying the red and white silks of Navair Stable is Unbridled Fury. Another of Valid and Tme's offspring is a colt. Gold Wings, who is returning to Laurel soon. Mark remains hopeful and likes the patriotic implications of this name.

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is planned for March but, by the time this gets pubhshed it will have taken place. Hope you all had an enjoyable time. Maybe when I come to the Los Angeles area for my granddaughter's wedding on 17 August, I can make one of these luncheons, that is if the schedules coincide. We'll see.

An exceUent biography of Dr Alfred Kiel was written by Dean Horn and was pubhshed by the M.I.T. Sea Grant program. The title, Alfred Kiel: Multiple Genius, was written, according to Dean: Because, since World War II, no other individual has had greater or more important influence on battle damage resistance and survivability of U.S. Navy ships. Kiel was bom on 1 May 1913 near Breslau, Silesia, an area now part of Poland. Receiving a physics Ph.D. from Breslau University in 1939, Alfred was called to army duty and participated in the invasion of Poland. Released by the Army in 1940, Kiel served as a leading underwater explosions expert at the German Navy's research laboratory at Kiel. Captured by the British in 1945, Alfred was brought to the U.S. as a "paperclip" scientist in 1947 and assigned to the Navy's Bureau of Ships.

The Bureau placed him in the Underwater Explosions Research Division, Norfolk Naval Shipyard. There, while yet a German citizen, he completely revised and introduced new research testing procedures, producing volumes of information and data invaluable to naval ship design.

Becoming a naturalized citizen, Alfred was selected director. Structural Mechanics Laboratory, David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB) in July 1959. He directed experimentation and research, which resulted in lasting, major improvements in ship design. His outstanding work and accomplishments were recognized when the Navy selected him to be the first, civilian technical director of DTMB. He reorganized and energized DTMB laboratories into a cohesive, productive operation that produced many vital ship design innovations. Hired by M.I.T. in July 1966, Alfred breathed new life into a dying Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He created the world's first degree program in Ocean Engineering; which subsequently became the department's name. He organized M.I.T.'s Sea Grant College Program and obtained thefirstfederal grant made by the National Sea Grant Program. Promoted to Dean of Engineering by M.I.T. in June 1971, Alfred continued his innovative academic leadership until he retired from M.I.T. in 1978. Throughout his academic career Dr Kiel always accepted invitations to serve on any professional committee or panel that benefited the U.S. Navy.

Dean worked with and for Dr Kiel over a span of 30 years. First as submarine program officer, DTMB 1959-60, when the first, full-scale shock trials were conducted on

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Dean was Head, Course Xm-A,Mrr, 1968-70 and finally as executive officer, and later director, M.I.T. Sea Grant Program 1970-82. He began writing Dr. Kiel's biography in 1994 to document and pubhcize Alfred's outstanding contributions to the U.S. Navy and his adopted country. Alfred, an outstanding American, died in January 2002. Dean's book is avaUable by making a tax-deductible conttibution to die Alfred A. H. Kiel Ocean Engmeermg Development Fund, M.I.T. Account No. 3149100, and sending it to Head, Department of Ocean Enguieering, Room 5-228, M.I.T., 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Fleet Landing must have canceled all hberty boats because Bobbie Sue and WaU Honour have decided to move again. Their new address is: 4027 Alesbury Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32224; 904-242-8942.

According to Phyllis Gummerson, Bill Booze's widow, Tina, has passed away 1 have no other information. I have not been able to locate a telephone number for any of the children. If anyone can help, please let me know. May God be with her!

On 23 November 2 0 0 1 , William H. Catha's widow, Mel, died in her sleep of an apparent heart attack in the hospital in Beaumont, TX, after a bout with pneumoiua. She was buried in the family plot in Pollard, AL, on 26 November She requested that any memorials be sent to her great-grand daughter's (CarUn Donart) school: St. Anne Catiiolic School, 375 N. lltii St., Beaumont, TX 77702.

On Friday, 18 January 2002, Dale Ness died in Charlotte, NC, from complications arising after a stroke. Services were held on Monday, 21 January 2002, at River HUls Commuiuty Church, Lake WyUe, SC, with internment foUowing in the River HiUs Cemetery. Our hearts and prayers go out to his widow, June, and sons. Dale and Peter, and their famihes. May he rest ui peace. Memorials may be made to River Hills Emergency Squad, 4 Heritage Dr, Lake Wyhe, SC 29710, or to River HiUs Community Church BuUding Fund, 104 Hamilton's Ferry Rd., Lake Wylie, SC 29710. Please see his obituary ill this issues "Last CaU." On Friday, 1 February 2002, Claude Lanciano Jr. passed away. A celebration of life was held on Thursday, 7 Febmary, at The Inn at Warner Hall in Gloucester, VA. Our thoughts and prayers are with his widow, Arhne, and theh children and grandchildrefl.

Contributions may be made to Park Partners c/o WoodvUle Plantation Park, P.O. Box 157, Gloucester, VA 23061 or to the Abington Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 247, Gloucester Point, VA 23062.

Just a couple of questions before I sign off this month. What was the best thing before

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most of what I came up with could be classified as shaggy dog stories! There were several lessons learned, an occasional hairraising affair but nothing that would deserve more that a cold beer at a bar But a thought did wander by that might be of use. Obviously we are all getting to that stage when we must think about our heirs. In particular this should revolve around evading probate. I imagine many Annual Membership: 26% of us have experienced that painful evoLife Membership: 53% lution with our parents. Perhaps I've missed it, but I've seen no comment on Pres: CDR L. B. Findly, USN (Ret.) this issue. Personally, I'm in the process 6009 Oakdale Road, McLean, VA 22101-3334 h; 703-536-4781 of setting up a Revocable Trust which, in Corr. Secy; CDR Robert O. Sherman, USN (Ret) itself, accomplishes removing probate.

4208 Ormond Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304-1621 There are other means available. I claim h; 703-370-5867; e; rosherm@aol.com no expertise in this area. The purpose of this comment is to stimulate some discusIn Memoriam sion—particularly among those of us who Retumed mail to the Alumni Association have knowledge or experience therein. informs us that William L. Graham, 5th Good thinking, Harlan. Dear reader, please Company, died on 18 October 2000, while visiting his daughter in Carson City, NV. Our send your thoughts on the subject and we'll Registerlists Bill's last address as 1730 Cot- spread the word for all.

Charles D. "Dick" Jewell forwarded the tonwood St., Solvang, CA 93463-9706. notice of Dorothy Requam's death and added: Dorothy Lena Ripley Reiquam, widow of On the happier side please see the picClassmate Eldon Reiquam, died on 17 ture of Martha and Bill Doubt with Joan September 2001. and me at the Army game. We were guests Change of Address of N. S. B. Bangor who served as Navy Mort Cooley gives his and Zo's new mailhost this year Next year the game will be hosted at Fort Lewis by Army. The skiping address as P.O. Box 352649, Palm Coast, per of the base awarded a prize for the FL 32135. Their physical address is 27 oldest Alumnus by Class. Bill won a nice Quinton Court South, Palm Coast, FL felt buckle. Bill was a tum-back from '44, 32137; 386-445-1540. so he had us in age. Class—the whole The Way We Are thing. Bunny and Hank Searles were also From Harlan Williams via email: in attendance.

Harlan Williams here, 17th Company.

There are quite a few from '45 in the Been sitting at the computer this aftemoon state but they are scattered. It is hard to toying with ideas on what to submit for the get together Sixty Years .After book. Must admit that

sliced bread? Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?" Remember, it is your input that keeps this column going. Don't forget to put the 60th Reunion on your calendar for 25-28 September 2003. —wlb

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Founding Brothers; 1 to r; Bill Guthrie '49, secretary; Ray Komorowski, vice president; and Al Olsen, treasurer Al Olsen was reunited for a fleeting moment with two of the three officers with whom he shared the national leadership of the Surface Navy Association (SNA) from its founding in 1985 until 1992. The third founding officer was the late Bob Walters '49, who was the founding president. The occasion of the reunion was the annual convention of the Surface Navy Association held in Ariington, VA. The SNA is the surface counterpart to the Association of Naval Aviators (ANA) and the Submarine League (SL).

We have another delightful story from Dutchy Ellenberger entitled Second Grade.

Admittedly, this story has nothing to do with the Academy or the Navy. It is only touching and worthy of print.

A call from the second grade teacher of Our Lady of the Rosary Elementary School alerted Freddy's mother Cissy, and me that our seven-year-old son, Freddy, was doing poorly in spelling and arithmetic. His teacher said, "In spelling he gets around five correct and that's out of a total of ten words in dictation. He does about the same in arithmetic. You ought to help him in spelling and arithmetic."

When Freddy arrived home that evening. Cissy told him not to go out immediately after dinner because "We want to talk to you about school." Freddy had started second grade only two weeks before the phone call from his teacher and it did not seem right to discuss the problem at dinner in the presence of his three sisters, Michelle, Andrea, and Suzanne, who all did well in school.

After a pleasant evening meal, we asked Freddy how he liked second grade after the first two weeks. "I like school a lot, except I don't have enough time for the litde tests in spelling and numbers. We are supposed to print our names at the top of the little sheet and numbers one through ten down the left edge. Then teacher says the spelling words or arithmetic problems like six and three and we're supposed to write the answers." He was silent and then; "You know, it takes a long time printing my names. There are nine letters for Frederick and 11 letters for Ellenberger That makes 20 letters. All the other kids finish their names and I'm still printing my name neatly. So then, I'm writing the words and still doing my name and I get all mixed up."

"I think you should practice printing your name so that you can be faster and finish sooner," was my fatherly advice.

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'45; San Diego Survivors Group during the Army game half time A shorttimelater Freddy's teacher called again and told Cissy that she was receiving daily quiz papers from someone using the name "Ned Fox," but no papers with our son's name. "I think we should permit Freddy to use his new pen name for the rest of the term," she said. We agreed.

Thereafter the "Ned Fox" papers had nines and tens throughout the term.

Dutchy lost his first wife, Cissy, to lung cancer and has been a voluble opponent of smoking ever since—and before, if tmth be told. Further in his letter, Dutchy writes: One of my hopes with respect to the Naval Academy is that Midshipmen will leam to abstain from smoking. It is difficult to change the smoking habit. About 15 years ago I asked a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati "Who are the students that smoke? His reply; "Poor students. Not poor financially, but poor scholastically. The dumb ones smoke."

I believe education is the way to teach people to avoid smoking. I sent a letter to the Commandant of Midshipmen pleading for a program to help Midshipmen to leam that smoking is deadly—a slow form of suicide. Should I write again? Will anyone take me seriously?

I think those of us who are survivors take your message seriously, Dutchy.

The following was noted in the New York Times by our sharp-eyed Classmate, Al Blackburn: Historian Doris Keams Goodwin has acknowledged that her 1987 book. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, closely echoed sentences from the works of three other authors. The newly disclosed sentences echoed The Lost Prince, Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy, (New American Library, 1969) by Hank Searls, Times to Remember, (Doubleday, 1974), the autobiography of Rose Kennedy, and Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Her Times, (Dell Publishing, 1983) by Lynne McTaggart.

Ms. Goodwin's copying surfaced as part of aflurryof fascination with literary theft after recent admissions by the best-selling historian Stephen E. Ambrose that his most recent book. The Wild Blue, echoed several passages from three other books.

Hank was magnanimous, saying he was flattered by the use of his words. 'T think it kind of trivial," he said of the issue. "\ 68

am not perturbed. I guess it could have happened to anybody."

When writing his book about the Kennedys, Hank said, "I took a lot of longhand notes, and I suppose if I hadn't been careful, I might have done the same kind of thing."

In the January-Febmary issue I intimated that the San Diego survivors are mavericks who could not be herded into a single bunch for a group photograph. Survivors Group President, Bob Lenson, called me on that and sent a photo (above) that provfes I was wrong. Front row: Pat Gowan, Bob Lenson, Frank Nepo, Bob McCrary, Art Levy, and Ed Behm; second row: Sam Gorsline, Don Edge, Jim Hamburg, Bob Sherman, Harry Stebner, and Bill Traynor; third row: Bill Benson, Bob Kirk, Tiny Atkinson, Al Giorgis, and Frank Kleber.

The Way We Were As reported by Sam AUis in the Boston Globe, and relayed by Ray Bates, the hoary survivors of the Apollo program gathered recently in Cambridge to remiiusce about the heady days of yore. Why Cambridge and not Texas or Florida? Because Cambridge, specifically the instmmentation lab at M.I.T, developed the guidance, navigation, and control system that took the moon lander to its precise landing site on the moon, not once, but twice. (This astonished the Soviet competition for they had dismissed the precision of the first landing as a matter of luck.)

Tales of the times were told and retold and many of those tales were about the astronauts and their extra-curricular activities.

Astronauts came to Cambridge where they mastered the system on simulators at the lab.

Chaos surrounded those original seven astronauts. They were mobbed. When Alan Shepard tried to go out for lunch, he found the stieet hned with TV tmcks. Alan adopted a disguise consisting of a mask with fake nose and horn-rimmed glasses. This was perhaps topped by Pete Conrad who, at the height of his fame, was asked what he did.

Pete replied that he sold toilet seats. Surely that reminds you of our standard answer when, as Plebes, we were asked, "What are you famous for, mister?"

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Pres; VADM C. H. Griffiths, USN (Ret) e- griffc@bellatlantic.net Vice Pres; CAPT James W. Foust, USN (Ret) e: jameswfoust@aol.com ,« Treas: CAPT Wils F. Engel, USN (Ret.) ^ 6807 Rosewood St., Annandale, VA 22003 Class activities quieted down during the hoUdays but the Greater Washington, DC, Group held its January luncheon at tiie ArmyNavy Country Club with Perry Taylor (19) acting as host. The following attended: Ash Ashley (13), Bob Baylis (3), Art Bennett (16) (spending the winter there rather than in the cold of northem Michigan), Chris Christensen (6), John Collins (15), Ev and Bob Dise (9), Denis Downey (18), Bea and Carl Duberg (11), Sally and Wils Engel (4), Jim Forrest (14), Al Glennon (4), Chuck Hansmann (9), Jerry and Lucky Jordan (16), George Kelly (14) (recovering nicely from knee surgery), Clete Kennelly (10), Dave Leighton (18), Ernie Lowen (2), Dick Lyons (15), Wendell McHenry (11), Dave Rogers (14), Bill Searle (11), June and Bill Simpson (4), Al White (6), Rod Wingo (19), and Gordon Yeo (4).

Chuck Grojean The photo (next page) shows a niunber of Classmates at Kimberly Plummer Damer's wedding. Kimberly is the daughter of our late Phil Plummer (10) and his widow, Kathy.

Kimberly is an anchor on ABC television in Los Angeles.

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'46; Don Iselin. Tuck Huey. Kathy Plummer. Kimberly Damer, and Glen Nobman The second photo (previous page) shows the late Bill Montgomery (1) and his widow, Louise, in balmier days.

The third photo (previous page) shows Chuck Grojean (1), the executive director of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, TX, making the welcome address at the Pacific D-Days Symposium m September 1 deeply regret to report the deaths of the foUowing Classmates: Theodore H. CoUora (15) died on 10 November 2001. No other information is avaUable. He is survived by his wife, Gloria, who resides at 921 River View D r , Brielle, NJ 08730.

Richard Grenier (10) died from a heart attack on 29 January 2002 in Washington, DC. There will be a full honors interment at Arhngton National Cemetery on 1 March 2002. He is survived by his widow, Cynthia Grenier, who resides at 2700 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20008.

William N. Highsmith (7) died in JacksonvUle, FL, on 29 January 2002 according to a report by his son. No other information was avaUable at the time this report was written.

Charles R. "Chuck" Woolums (17) died on 15 January 2002 from heart problems in Portland, OR. He is survived by his wife, Mary "MUd" E. Woolums, at 10 Lakeshore Dr, Skamania, WA 98648 and a son, Charles S.,ofHood River, OR. Our deepest sympathies are extended to the survivors of these Classmates. Refer to "Last CaU" for available obituaries.

The letter concerning the plans for our Fifty-Seventh and a Half ReunionMississippi River Cruise has been mailed, h contains brochures from the Steamboat Company and our travel insurance agency with suggestions that they be studied before making reservations. Former reservations and deposits are no longer valid. Additionally, changes have been made to costs, reservations, air ttavel, and insurance. The dates of the cmise, 2-9 November, are unchanged.

We will stop in Vicksburg, Natchez, St. Francisville, Baton Rouge, and Vacherie in

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Louisiana. Also, we are contemplating something special: a pre-cmise receptiondinner in Memphis on Friday evening, 1 November, and a post-cmise reception-dinner in New Orleans, but these events and their scheduling depend upon the reaction of the "cmisers." Nevertheless, we hope that this addition will permit us to join up with "non-cmisers" in the area.

Responses to the reunion-cruise letter are flowing in and, as a result, as of the first week of February, all Category A cabins have been reserved.

Our latest information indicates that the following '46 family members are considering joirung us: Marilyn and Bruce Althoff (1), Mary Jean and Ken Anderson (3), Nancy and Vince Bacon (11), Jo and Art Bennett (16), Amy and Stu Beyers (3), Marian Blake, the widow of John Blake (15), Delly and Al Bowen (10), Joann and George Clark (18), Charles Cox (8), Dona and Bert Decker (18), Janet and Ted Dibble (18), Joe Dolan (12), Fran Dougherty (18); Flo and Louis Duesterberg (20), Carol and Granville Dutton (1), Harriett and Ed Ellis (7), Pris and Jun Foust (7), Kathryn and BOl Francy (2), Fran and Bob Gautier (7), Peg and Hoot Gibson (6), Gloria and Dan Good (10), Bob Gorton (5), Jean and Hal Hamberg (7), Marlena and Don Hellwinkel (6), Jean and T\ick Huey (1), Phebe Jandrell, widow of John Jandrell (10), Jerrie and Lucky Jordan (16), Connie and Les Kelly (16), Ro and John Kennedy (9), Mary and Frank King (12), Susan and John Langford (6), Bob Leuschner (15), Mary and Bob Lichtenberg (10), Sue and Ernie Litty (2), Benny and Ken Lyons (14), Jane and Tom McCook (16), Camille Metzger, widow of Robert Metzger (2), Barbara and Art Morrow (16), Arlene and Corliss Nugent (2), Audi and Ken Petticrew (19), Betty and Bob Phillips (13), Kathleen Plummer, widow of Phil Plummer (10), Amy and Glenn Reiff (14), Virginia and Hallie Rice (15), Jane and Richard Richardson (19), Trish and Robie Robertson (14), Mickey and Harris Rogers (17), Patsy

Skidmore, widow of Ed Skidmore (13), Nonie and Joe Skoog (12), Jan Thompson, widow of Robert Thompson (19), Mary and Carl Travis (17), Jerry and Hank Waddell (19), Gayle and Jim Watring (daughter, with husband, of Fran and Bob Gautier), Phyllis Whitfle, widow of Al Whittle (9), Maria and Joe Winslow (5), Edie Yerbury, widow of Blackie Yerbury (7), and Lilann and Stan Zipser (4).

Unfortunately, we have already received indications that some of the foregoing may not be able to join us. But, we're hopeful that others, who now see who's planning to come, will change their minds and want to sign on. If you're one of the latter act now— caU Shelley Gellman of Carefree Vacations at 619-299-4379 and make your reservation.

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Pres; VADM John G. "Jake" Finneran, USN (Ret.) Sec'y; Chester H. "Chet" Shaddeau Jr. 1972 Scott's Crossing Way, Apt. #002 Annapolis, MD 21401 h; 410-224-5890; f: 410-224-7613 e; stadir@erols.com Kudos I am sure this news appears in the earlier pages of this issue, but the Class column certainly is the proper place to offer recognition to Classmate Jimmy Carter, who in Febmary was named one of the four grads selected this year as a Distinguished Graduate of the Naval Academy. We offer our warmest congratulations to Jimmy as he joins Bill Crowe and Jim Stockdale in this honored group. A formal ceremony at the Academy, later in the year, will solemnize the affair To forestall the inevitable question—No, no other Class has two DG's, much less three—but who's counting? Best on the Severn, indeed!

The (Not So) Cold War From Pat March: I was especially saddened by the recent death of my old friend. Classmate, and Companymate, Ted Thomas. Our close association continued throughout our Navy careers, as we both became special duty officers (cryptology).

The other day I ran across the enclosed photo taken in the early spring of 1946.

(See photo next page) Left to right, the figures are: Soviet RADM Ramishvili, Ted Thomas, yours truly, and Soviet LCDR Pravdiuk. The photographer was George Maragos.

The story behind the photo: Ramishvili at the time was head of the Soviet Naval Academy, which, during much of the war, was on the Caspian Sea. He was on his way, as a member of the Soviet Delegation, to 69

San Francisco, for the critical conference setting up the United Nations. He stopped to visit USNA, and so it was decided that three of us First Classmen (Maragos, Thomas, and March) who had studied Russian, should sit at the head table with the USNA gold braid and the visiting admiral. It was great fun, and Ramishvili was especially impressed by Maragos' fluency in Russian. He then asked CDR Ebert (later RADM Walter G. Ebert '30) (the first person I ever saw who sported both dolphins and wings!) if we could be his guests the following Sunday in Washington, DC. Ebert immediately agreed, although it was a closed weekend, just before the final exams of the winter term.

So the three of us took the bus to DC and were given a posh sightseeing tour of our nation's capital by Ramishvili and an attache named Pravdiuk. They pointed out the Pentagon, took us to the top of the Washington monument, and took us to dinner at the Shoreham Hotel. Ramishvili (you can probably tell from his name that like Stalin, he was a Georgian, not a Russian) was very voluble and willing to discuss almost any topic. His thesis to us was that the Soviet system would become more open with time, and that the government in the U.S. would gradually have an increased role in our lives; so that the two systems would gradually become more alike. All this time Pravdiuk uttered hardly a word and was more the typical Soviet official.

Now—as Paul Harvey would say—for the rest of the story; About 15 years ago I was researching an article, and had occasion to exchange a few letters with RADM Kemp Tolley '29. The story somehow came up, and Tolley allowed that he remembered Ramishvili from his wartime service. He said that Ramishvili was arrested and executed after his retum from the San Francisco conference. Tolley also confirmed my guess that Pravdiuk was an attache from the NKVD rather than the Navy! Sic transit gloria mundi!

Ray Baker and Bob Barker taking care of organizational details at San Diego The Mail Buoy A postcard from Jean and Bill Dillen: Belated greetings! We finally made it back to Arizona after driving to New York City last October—a full week in New

'47; L to r; Soviet RADM Ramishvili, Ted Thomas, Pat March, and Soviet LCDR Pravdiuk, at USNA in 1946

'47: L to r; Eleanor Jeffs, Chuck Jeffs (seated), Jean and Bill Dillen, visiting at the Hotel Del Coronado 70

York—then cruise from Barcelona to Singapore. Seven weeks. No Suez transit, so via Capetown! Then drove to Florida, then to Arizona. We are moving in tomorrow, and you can put us back on line anytime (We did!) Will ski next month in Colorado, then take time out for a full report with pics. Cheers!

A letter from a friend: I was deeply saddened to read in Shipmate of Ed Scoles' death. I remember him as a Plebe when I was a First Classman in the 11th Company, and he was a terrific guy in every way.

I caught Ed in his bunk during study hour one evening in January of 1944. Instead of putting him on report, I had him write a letter for me to my OAO—with whom I was "on the outs" at the time. Ed wrote the greatest letter you can imagine.

Thanks to his eloquence, we made up, eventually married, and will celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary this April!

Warmest regards, Al Olsen '45 In an email from Bill Metzger: .. .My grandiose plans for last year (40th wedding anniversary, 75th birthday, and 55th Reunion) also included a craise trip through the Panama Canal (where I was bom and grew up in the Zone), but Spring was too crowded and the fall.. .well, plans never got off the ground. But we now have reservations for a 16-day cmise from Fort Lauderdale, ending at San Francisco, 1330 April, which will include both my sisters and possibly my son, so we'll be a group of six or seven, and only two of us have been through the Canal before. We will also make a brief stop in the San Bias Islands, off the northeast coast of Panama, where we Metzgers knew a missionary couple for many years. I ' m the only Metzger who has since (in 1960) visited them. I'll try to make sure we get some pictures this time, and to meet publication requirements I'll get myself in some of them! Warmest regards.

Final Honors It is our sad duty to reporttiiedeatii of Classmate Robert Franklin Gower at Melbourne, FL, on 3 Febmary 2002. Our heartfeh condolences go out to his family and loved ones. An obituary appears in "Last CaU." Relieve The Watch The past few months have been times of ttansition for many of us, and not least for Mary and John Prehn.

Long-time backbone of the Class in the Annapohs area, former Class officer, operator (witii Mary) of Magnolia House B&B, almost in the shadow of Gate 3; businessman. City Adminisfrator, and keeper of the official stats for Navy basketball and football for 16 years, tour guide of Colonial Annapolis, and active in local politics, John has demonstrated what a concerned and involved citizen should be in these days of public inertia and self-interest. And all tiiis after a full career as a Supply Corps officer!

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Mary's tussle with Parkinson's disease, and his own recent stroke have convinced them that it's time to change a few things, so they are now installed in the lovely Sunrise Assisted Living Center (almost direcdy across the street from your scribe's new condo, so that we are both only a long stone's throw from the N a v y — M a r i n e Corps Memorial Stadium!). We thought this bit of news was a good occasion to publish a memory photo (see nearby) and a bit of one of John's own letters to help commemorate tills changing of the old order Otir prideful thanks and deepest appreciation go to a couple who have made us proud to be associated with them, with the Academy, and with the Class.

Sports Information Director, USNA Athletic Association Dear Scott: ...I win be unable to work in the football pressbox this year, and not on courtside during basketball season.

Coinciding with this declaration are my thanks and consideration through the years for the opportunity to serve and assist the NAAA. Ever since Tom Bates asked me to help with the basketball stats in 1986, and later in the pressbox for football, it has been a real privilege for me and provided much enjoyment.

So I will now revert to watching the actionfromthe stands and the bleachers, and I will continue to wear the title that my wife bestowed on me years ago—"Navy's Number One Sports Fan." Very Truly Yours, John The Police Action We thank the Army-Navy Country Club's newsletter for this following insight (by VADM Jerry Miller '42) into the career of our recently-retired Class treasurer and a longtime stalwart in Class activities in the Washington area: As a young officer fresh out of flight training, Verae Jennings was a member of Fighter Squadron VF-63, deployed in the Korean War aboard BOXER (CV-21). He was assigned as wingman for his CO, then LCDR Ward Miller The wingman for the CO is required to remain very close to that leader during flight ops, covering and supplying support as needed. A fresh

young pilot given such an assignment is being offered "special trust and confidence" in his abilities.

Verne Jennings displays the engraved memento received from the Class on the occasion of his retirement as treasurer During the deployment BOXER was operating in the Sea of Japan. VF-63 was flying the Corsair F4U fighter/bomber Although equipped with six .50 caliber machine guns, its principal role here was bombing and ground support. The plane was famous for its unique design, in that the cockpit, instead of being near thefrontof the plane, was located about midway back along the fuselage, behind a 236-gallon fuel tank. Add this to the broad gull wing below, and this meant that forward visibility was notably restricted as the aircraft slowed to land—either on the carrier or ashore.

During a raid conducted against a hydroelectric plant in North Korea, near the northem border Miller's plane was hit by AA fire, causing a flow of leaking oil over the windshield, and further restricting his forward visibility. Communications were intact and Miller reported that he needed directional guidance; that he could not see where he was going, and would undoubtedly be unable to land on board the carrier A crash landing in the water was imminent.

This meant that Jennings would have to fly close to his leader and with voice cues

'47; 13 September 1946,1 to r; best man. John Prehn, Bob Pylkas, Bob's bride and the maid of honor (unidentified), at the Pylkas' wedding in Bayonne, NJ, while both Classmates were in Supply School Shipmate, April 2002

vector him to the sea and to a safe haven, followed by detailed guidance for a safe landing in the water The haven turned out to be a cruiser stationed off the coast for air/sea rescue purposes. With appropriate voice liaison to the cruiser and to Miller Verne was able to coach his skipper to a smooth "ditching" in the water 200 yards from the cruiser Miller retumed by chopper to BOXER the following day and returned shordy to the air leading further strikes against the North Korean forces, and with Verne Jennings more firmly established than ever as his wingman!

Viva Mexico By email, 1 February, from Emiel Meisel, resident in San Miguel de AUende, Mexico: Hola, amigos: The Class of 1947 has invaded Mexico!

In mid-January, we got so cold here that we decided to go to the beach. A friend owns a B and B on the Pacific Coast, just north of Puerto Vallarta, and she put us up. Nobody but us until 19 January, when two couples arrived from Northem California—one of them Peggy and Ted Wellings! We shared memories over the weekend, then we left.

Today, in San Miguel, I wore my Naval Academy sweatshirt, and while walking toward the center of town, someone said "Oh, look! U.S. Naval Academy! What Class, what year did you graduate?" I answered, "I graduated in 1946, Class of 1947.

"Response: "Wow, we're Classmates!"

The couples were Jane and Ralph Kinser with Pat and Dick Southwell.

They arrived last Sunday and are renting a house about four blocks from ours. They leave tomorrow, so I invited them over for cocktails tonight. "And yet when two or three shall meet, etc...we'll pledge the Blue and Gold." How about that!

And then on 6 March, the Chan von Schraders, Tom Hudners, P.G. Millers, and Wayne Warlicks will arrive for the First Annual Mini-Encuentro in San Miguel. Our only regret is that Sybil and Jim Stockdale won't be here with us— maybe next time. BeatArmyl Meis—aka Emiliano.

Quick Takes Talk about lousy timing! My Shipmate (January-Febmary issue) noted on the new plaque at our Japanese cherry tree grove was published just in time to coincide with the plaque's being moved! Now relocated by Yards and Grounds to a point on the seawall—closer to the trees. It's a littie bit less convenient to the public, but still very pretty, and well worth the walk. Stop by...Lots of action recently on Class Ring recoveries, repairs, and questions. Recent inquiries have been from Jim Di Santo and from John Van Velzer, who sent a photo of his recovered ring, side by side with the duplicate he had made. The finder, he says, is a former Marine and retired firefighter who served in Nam,

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Then Bill "Ike" Metzger viTote to say his wife turned up Bill's missing ring, and he is underway to get the broken stone repaired...Received a fascinating surprise from Don Donohugh in Hawaii—a copy of his newest book (he has written several). The Story of Koloa: A Kauai Plantation Town.

It's a beautifully researched, artfully illusttated, and obviously loving history of the town where Don's home is located on the island of Kauai. Koloa is the tiny port from which the first Hawaiians paddled out to meet Captain Cook in 1778, and the history of Koloa constimtes a microcosm of the history of the Hawaiian Islands. It's a keeper!

As a sidehght, Don and I have pondered how in the world the book—published in Honolulu, printed in Korea, and ordered through Amazon.com—managed to get addressed to "Maryland, 21401, Albaiua" and get here via Germany and Portugal! Postmarks show that it did—^but not why!.. .Readers of the A^avy Times may have spotted a very well-done retelling in the 11 Febmary edition of that paper of the story of the Jesse Brown rescue attempt which resulted in the Medal of Honor received by Tom Hudner. Our new Treasurer Frank Readdy points out that at personnel inspections, when he served with Hudner in VX-3 in the late 1950's, Tom routinely took the medal off and put it in his pocket as soon as the Inspecting Officer had completed his inspection!...An enjoyable but all too short phone conversation with "Smug" Winans advised us of the relocation of "Beau" Foster, who now is "the other" USNA grad in Brownsville, TX.. .That's it for now. Back soon. —CHS

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Sec'y: CDR Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302 h; 703-549-8739; e; sk48moore@aol.com Here it is April, and as I write in Febmary, the 55th Reunion Committee has just had its first meeting of the year over at Alumni House, and with that comes the realization that the event is only just over a year hence! (Thursday-Monday,5-9 June 2003). However, the wheels are tuming, and with most of the same Classmates on deck, and with the format not entirely unlike that of the 50th, Phil Rogers, the perennial chief, has things almost self-organizing. Details wiU be forthcoming in due time.

Chuck Sheehan, who lives in Camarillo, CA, is continuing his family connection with the Navy, as we have seen in past columns from time to time.

Thought I would bug you and brag about my daughters. Captain Grace Sheehan, USN, has taken command of Enlisted 72

Placement Management Center (EPMAC, in case you didn't know) in New Orleans.

I attended her change of command that was held at the D-Day Memorial Museum on 15 November Grace and I spent Christmas with Leslie (the other daughter) in Milton, MA. She has her own law practice and enjoys everything back there. I damn near froze to death.

Chuck Sheehan, CAPT Grace Sheehan, Jim Bell '54 and RADM Gerald Hoewing

"Old Goat" Sheehan with his daughters, Leslie and Grace Chuck encloses a clipping describing Grace's career She was a USC NROTC grad and after commissioning, worked her way through various intelligence, admin, legal, budgetary, and selection board duties, and then through various personnel billets of increasing responsibility. She was billeting officer at NAVSTA Norfolk, OinC of Personnel Support Activity Pearl Harbor, flag secretary for Commander Training Command, PacFlt. She was XO of the Aegis Training and Readiness Center, Dahlgren, VA, and commanded the Personnel Support Activity, Great Lakes. She also slipped in a master's degree in strategic studies at the War College in Newport. So, that's how it's done. Good work. Chuck.

You will recall that the Class sponsors a pronusing candidate by scholarship in one of a group of prep schools in a program mn by the USNA Foundation Athletic and Scholarship programs. There are many such scholarships, and we do not field a candidate every year. We do have a Plebe on board now, who sent me a letter, which gives a good idea of what this program is all about.

We have had few such responses from past beneficiaries. His name is Leah Tanner '05: I would like to take a moment to thank you and the Class of 1948 for giving me the opportunity to attend the Academy. Because of the assistance that the scholarship afforded me, I was able to better prepare myself to face the day-to-day rigors of being a part of the Brigade, as well as to help me realize my dream of coming here.

Northwestern Preparatory School (Crestline, CA) helped me develop my study habits and become more solid in areas where I needed more help. I am active in the Brigade Social Affairs Committee, and to date, we have been in confrol of Lifehouse and Toby Keith concerts,

as well as the Homecoming and Plebe dances. I am currently playii^g mframural basketball and would like to try out for the golf team in the fall. I am leaning towards a major in political science and a service selection in either aviation or surface warfare. Again, I thank you so much for your aid in helping me achieve my most important goal in life. Without the Foundation and the generosity and kindness of the Class of 1948, I would most likely have not been able to be a part of the Brigade.

MIDN Tanner was a standout at Eastmont High School in East Wenatchee, WA, playing baseball, basketball, and golf. Of interest is that he attended the USNA Summer Seminar for interested candidates his junior summer This program is mn primarily by selected members of the Youngster Class.

Paul Early, who used to correspond fairly regularly from up Manhasset, NY, way back when he was one of the few who had a computer word-processor, putting me to shame when I was still punching out the column on a hand-powered mill and using office thermofax to make copies, has dropped a line with a copy of the New York Times obituary for Burt Edelson. He adds a comment: Vi and I are doingfinehere in balmy Long Island. We travel a lot to see family and have hooked up with a TROA group to take annual trips to Europe. Our only grandchild is now a Ph.D. candidate at University of Califomia-Santa Barbara. Tectonics. The only plates I can handle come with food on them.

This brings me around to the death of Burt Edelson on 6 January in New York City, which I noted in the January-Febmary column. Jim Beggs, who is the Classmate who worked most closely with Burt in his remarkable career, and who provided a wonderful insight into that career at the memorial service at the Cosmos Club after the burial at Arhngton Cemetery, has furnished me details in which I think you will be interested.

After graduating m 1947, Burt took off to die Pacific and duty in COLLET (DD-730), and spent four years between COLLET, WANTUCK (APD-125), and communications duty with CinCPacFlt, Hawau. Then he left ships and headed for PG School, Monterey, and tiience to Yale for an M.S. in metallurgy by 1954. He skillfully followed this at the Naval Research Lab where his interest in space commuTucations and navigation resulted in initiation of the first Navy program in satelhte communications. He never lost his zeal for space. By 1960, he had completed his Ph.D. in metallurgy at Yale. Then Burt was with BuShips for two years, where he worked on the design of the first satellite communications ship, USNS Kingsport. He created the "live via satellite" TV broadcasts of the recovery of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space capsules. In '62, he moved to The National Space Council, coordinating Shipmate, April 2002

DoD and NASA programs in space science and applications. By 1965, he had joined tiie Office of Naval Research as liaison for DoD and NASA on missile and space systems in Europe, stationed in London, He retired from the Navy in 1967. He quickly joined the newly chartered Comsat Corporation as deputy director, and then in '72, as director of Comsat Labs, building the Lab into an internationally acclaimed R&D center He provided the vision and leadership for new sateUite communications components, systems, and applications. This was the pioneering work that contributed to the current net of world-wide space communications, which has tmly changed the world we live in. He also found time in the mid-70s to cofound Digital Commuiucations Co. He retired from Comsat as senior vice president in 1982, and joined NASA as associate administtator for Space Science and Applications with responsibility for the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He irutiated or directed the "Big Five" science programsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini Saturn Probe, Galileo Mission to Jupiter, the Magellan mapping mission to Venus, and the MARS Explorer He did a lot of other things there, too, but retired from NASA in '86 and became a Fellow at the foreign Pohcy Institute, Johns Hopkins Uruversity. In 1991, he moved over to George Washington University where he founded the Institute for Applied Space Research at the School of Engineering and Apphed Science. There he directed R&D projects, including high data rate satellite communications and contributed to a number of techrucal areas, including flight conttol, right up to his death. Burt co-authored a number of books and wrote more than 75 techrucal publications. He chaired national and intemational committees, served on corporate boards, and was a member of numerous prestigious organizations and societies.

The Navy awarded him the legion of Merit, and civil awards include the Yale University WUbur Cross medal, NASA Exceptional Service Award, and the Henry Marion Howe Medal of the American Society for Metals.

As you know, Jim Crosby and I roomed together all four years, but Plebe Year we were in the same four-man room with Gammon and his wife, and Ben Dowd, all in the 8th Company. (Jack Everngam and Sumner Moore joined Ayers and Crosby in a four-man room First Class Year.) I got to know Jim Gammon quite well. I was from northem New Jersey, Jim was from Philadelphia, and Dowd was from Long Island, but his family had a suite in the Waldorf Towers in Manhattan. Plebe Christmas leave, the three of us spent several nights terrorizing the guests of the hotel and even tried to crash the Debutante Ball on New Years Eve. Jim went to '48A so I saw very littie of him after Plebe Year. The next time we crossed paths was here in Coronado. We were both married. He had earned Dolphins and I Wings. Then in the summer of '57,1 had just detached from LEXINGTON (CVA-16) and was waiting for transportation back to ConUS to go to jet transition. I ran into him in Yokosuka. He was leaving an S-2 Squadron (yes, he also had wings). So, we both flew home from Tokyo to Seattle aboard a Northwest Orient DC6C, a long, long ride via Attu, AK. We had both been in Coronado off and on for many years, and saw each other frequently at USNA AA luncheons. He was quite a guy!

This is a short column because Jane and I are heading south for a couple of weeks, mostly to put our feet up at The Cloister, Sea Island, GA, as is our wont this time of year. Consequently, I had to send in this colunrn ten days early. I will only add that the '48 Endowment Committee would want me to urge you to send in that extra donation, or the first one if you haven't even done that, so as to punch us over the top.

Burt Edelson was always very busy, but he took time to contribute to Class events and undertakings, including the Class Endowment Committee, being instmmental in arranging the successful IT Conference at the Academy in October He was tmly one of the good guys of '48, of which there are and have been quite a number hi the March column, I noted the passing of Jim Gammon m Coronado, CA, and there was an obituary in the "Last CaU" section of that Shipmate. Since then, I received a letter from Willy Ayers, who lives in Coronado, and provides a sea story of interest:

Correspondence: Washington The Washington group celebrated the New Year by lunching at the Army-Navy Country Club on 8 January 2002. Attendees included John Alvis, John Barrow, Jack Benoit, Bill Bryan, Ken Carr, Red Cobb, Ralph Ghormley, Fred Grabowsky, C.M.C. Jones Jr, Pete Klein, Micky McDonald, Mort Neely, Andy Nelson, Charles Reid, Gene Reiher, Cal Roberts, and Pete Swanson.

Tidewater Tom Parsons writes: Don Trueblood, our tireless secretary, decided it was time to include wives for a meeting and that Uncle Louie's didn't cut

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Pres; John F. Barrow Sec'y; RADM Ralph Ghormley, USN (Ret.) PO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 p; 703-351-0964; f; 703-351-5864; e; rmghormley@aol.com

it. He discovered that Portsmouth now boasts a Renaissance Hotel which looks out on those nautical things so dear to a sailor's heart, i.e., rusty hulks, oily water, and so on. Don set things up and a handsome turnout of '49ers and their ladies responded for our December luncheon: Janie and Bob Fellows, Wanda and Marvin Frazee, Rowena and Pete Fullinwider, Fran and Jack Huenerberg, Sue and Jerry Jones, Nancy and Jack Magee, Doris and Carlos McCullough, Alyce and Tom Parsons, Joanne and Arch Rocs, Ruth and Walt Schriefer, Eleanor and Strib Snodgrass, Boo and Male Thiele, Lou and Red Tolbert, Catherine and Harry Train, and Cecile and Don Tmeblood.

Tom continues: Thanks to the generosity of Laila and Fred Grabowsky in making their lovely house available, survivors of the 6th Marine Basic Class gathered on 9 November for an evening of food, drink, and recollections of experiences in the Corps.

Fred and C.M.C. Jones "MC"-ed the informal ceremony concluding with our hymn. I'm sure that each of us was thinking of all the different places in the world where we had celebrated this occasion.

How nice that Jodi Killeen and Sally Francis could join us. Our Basis Class strength is now down to about 100 of the original 158 but that 100 are, as a wife once put it, "joined at the hip." Our next reunion is now being planned for next summer in Vermont by Wayne and Jan Hall, the organizers who could shape up a Chinese fire drill.

We had a small tumout for a less than memorable aftemoon of Army-Navy football at the Breezy Point Club. The Magees, Thieles, Truebloods, and Parsons will quickly forget the whole thing. One distinction we no longer bear is that of the Class whose final football season was the poorest in academy history. That afternoon, I was standing in the beer line where I was greeted with handshake and an introduction; "Joe Blow, Class of '73." "Tom Parsons, Class of '49," I replied. "49," he said, "that's the year I was bom." "Oh well."

Here and There Jack Huenerberg writes: I am sorry to write that George Kling passed away on 2 November 2001, at his home in Femandina Beach, FL, due to prostate bone cancer As I recall, George was fighting this demon at the 50th Reunion. (Sec'y note: Look for George's obit in this issue.)

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never sent a Conch to Congress. Growing Florida will have two more members in the House as a result of the 2000 census.

My wife. May Chote, and I will attempt to be candidates for Congress in the 2002 primary, 10 September May will be in the Republican primary and I will be in the Democratic primary. If you are a Democrat or Republicanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;vote Chote. But remember, you must be registered to vote.

'49ers and their ladies:

'49; L to r: Laila and Fred Grabowsky, Mimi and Paul Riegert, and Alyce Parsons Prior to his death George was concerned with the health of Ginny who was suffering extreme back pains. Ginny came to Virginia Beach and was operated on for a malignant growth on her thoracic spine.

The operation took place Christmas Eve at Virginia Beach General Hospital. She is now undergoing rehabilitation, including chemotherapy, at DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk. Her spirit is up and she is fighting this cancer When she gets her wig, she wants to be a blonde.

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Ginny can be contacted through her daughter Gwen, Mrs. George MacDonald, at 809 Navigator Ct., Virginia Beach, VA 23454; 757-^96-2087; bigmac467@aol.com.

Ginny is in a private room and usually available between 3-5 p.m. Her cuirent hospital phone number is 757-889-3109.

Fred Grabowsky passed on the following from The Key West Citizen: Local Candidates Work for representation.

There has not been a U.S. House of Representatives primary election in Monroe County for ten years. In addition, we have

The happy candidates; May lost the toss and is the Republican and I am the Democrat in this farce Don Trueblood sends: "Harry Train got home from the hospital on the 19th after knee surgery. Talked to him today and he says all is going well, although the six hour therapy session each day is not fun."

Early in January Bob Smith wrote that Cauda had just spoken to Marlene Sherman (Frank Sherman). Frank had recently had another mild stroke and requires some assistance. Their friend, our Classmate Roger Edson, provided long distance medical guidance and then drove to town and assisted organizing the house for accessibility.

Marlene has arranged to have Frank in adult day care Monday to Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;otherwise he is at home. Their address is 1805 Sherwood Hall La., Alexandria, VA 22306; 703-768-3715.

(Sec'y note: Here is the text of a message I sent to Classmates on the Intemet. If any readers can respond, please do so, note the time restraint.)

Wally Knetz's daughter Andrea Knetz Henne (hennea@usd308.com), called and advised that her daughter is working on a family history for a school project (due early April) and seeks information about Wally, either at the Academy or after graduation. He resigned in 1954 and died in 1969 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD. He was a star man, so I cannot ID his company, but he was in the 4th Batt. If you have any information, please reply to her at Andrea Knetz Henne, 2602 Arizona St., Hutchinson, KS 67502 or by email.

Andrea also mentioned that one of Wally's graduation guests caught two hats that had been tossed at graduation. Both had been quietly in a basement until recently, when she was cleaning it out. One was unidentifiable; the other had Tex Lawrence's name plus USMC on the cover Tex is now in the process of retrieving his hat.

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Anotiier hat story. Charlie Culwell sent: We all remember throwing our caps high into the air in Dalghren Hall at our graduation on 3 June 1949. We had printed our names, home addresses, and first duty stations on those cap covers, in anticipation of receiving, later on, a box of cookies in the mail from those in the audience who caught our caps. I never did receive a box of cookies, and wondered who had caught my cap. Fifty-two years later however the answer came as a very pleasant surprise that brought back happy memories when the cap arrived in the mail with the following letter from the sister of our esteemed Classmate Ivan Roenigk: Dear Mr Culwell, I thought you might enjoy receiving the enclosed—52 years later!

I am the sister of Ivan L. Roenigk, a Classmate of yours at the Naval Academy.

At graduation, I caught your cap. Recently I was going through a box of old hats and came across yours. What memories it brought back! I was 16 at the rime and thought June Week was a dream come tme!

Perhaps seeing your cap again will bring back happy memories of that day for you too.

Sincerely, Barbara (Roenigk) Hart, Kansas City, MO Address Changes Dale Adams (dadams499@attbi.com); Mac Adams (maxtoiz@attbi.com); John Benson (ISM) (jsmben@cox-intemet.com); John Donlon (jmdoiUon@mindspring.com); John Jensen (jjensen49@vzavenue.net),1141 Snyder Rd., Apt. J-11, Landsdale, PA 19446; Cal Roberts (calwrl @comcast.net).

Excerpt of the month: "When his IQ reaches 50, he should seU." Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be A Forty-Niner

Frank Holcomb, Jeanne and Jim Kennedy, Carolyn and Dick Landes, Sue and Jim Lyttle, Barbara and Ken Moll, Joanne and Joe Pausner, Lois and Pap Phelps, Beth and Dick Wiseman, Maggie and Steve Young, and Joan and Don Flanigan, guests of the Molls. After lunch at an Oakland Marina restaurant, the group was showed a movie about the building of the yacht and how President Frankhn D. Roosevelt used it.

They were given a tour of the boat and tiien enjoyed a sightseeing trip of San Francisco Bay.

Dick and Beth Wiseman on POTOMAC, San Francisco Bay

Jeanne Kennedy, Dori Davi, Jim Kennedy on POTOMAC, San Francisco Bay

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Pres: RADM Roy Snyder, USN (Ret.) 3921 Colonel Ellis Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304 h; 703-823-2464; f; 703-823-4467; e; roydl314@aol.com Chief Fund Raiser; J. Richard Powell Jr. 8123 Dunsinane Court, McLean, VA 22102 703-893-4583 or 1-866-859-4362 Exec. Sec'y; Larry Hawkins 3916 Linda Lane, Annandale, VA 22003 h: 703-573-4256; f; 703-573-1661 (call first) e; llhawkinsl@juno.com Corr. Sec'y; CAPT Wayne L. Jensen, USN (Ret) 499 Skyhill Court, Chula Vista, CA 91910 h; 619-421-6756; e; wayneljensen@cox.net Jerry Davi writes from Danville, CA, that the Northem California '50 graduates recently took a day cmise of the San Francisco Bay on the Presidential yacht, POTOMAC. Present for the voyage were: Laveme and Bill Berger, Joann and Jack Branson, Dori and Jerry Davi, Jeanne and Shipmate, April 2002

For Valentine's Day, the Washington, DC, '50 group and the San Diego '50 group each had Sweetheart Day observances. The DC group with a luncheon for the ladies at the Washington Golf and Country Club on Glebe Road in Arlington, VA. The San Diego group with a dinner at the San Diego Yacht Club.

Pursuant to bylaws of the Class, a committee of Milt Schultz, Chair, Dick Powell, and Tom Rogers was formed. A review of officer terms was made and a vacancy for the office of treasurer was deternnined. Jim Lynn opted to no longer serve in this capacity. The committee recommended a hearty well done to Jim for his dedication.

His replacement is a unanimous nominee, John McNally, voted on at the January 2002 meeting. The office of President should remain with Roy Snyder through his years of service on the Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Tmstees, which requires a sitting Class President. The office of Vice

President and the office of Executive Secretary will be open for election in January of 2003. The continued service of Corresponding Secretary, Wayne Jensen, was recommended for an additional two years, which would place him at an even 30 years on the job. The gratitude of the entire Class was noted for those now serving in their respective offices as well as our indispensable fundraiser, Dick Powell.

Mark Frudden observes that the Wall Street Journal in an editorial on 21 January has taken on the cause for the retum of regular commissions to graduates of the Service Academies. He thinks it is about time that we lobby seriously to correct the "sins" of prior Congressional actions.

"The faces may change, and the names, but they're there. They're the regiment.

They're the regular Army."—John Wayne in "Fort Apache." When characters on the silver screen talked about "regular army," you once knew immediately who they meant: the lifers, the guys for whom the service was not a stint iDut a vocation. And that's the way it was for generations of Cadets and Midshipmen who all entered the service with regular commissions— until Congress got in the middle of it all.

For officers, a regular commission essentially guarantees a military career barring extraordinary circumstance. The flip side is that by giving our service academy grads such a commission, we remind them that the American taxpayer paid for their education on the assumption that America is getting career oriented military professionals. In the wake of 11 September we understand more fully why the military life is called "the Service," and if we are to attract the best, we need to understand that the commitment works both ways. A retum to regular commissions would concentrate wonderfully the minds of recruiters, applicants, cadets, faculties, and all those involved in producing professional officers. Regular commissions won't fix everything, but that's a great place to start.

In December, Moana and Tom McGIaughlin in Hawaii kept up the tradition of a Christmas party at the Outrigger Canoe Club with tiki torches on the beach for USNA Class of 1950. Gathered at a round table in the "A" room with a mascot goat, the men of '50 kept the custom of singing the Navy Blue & Gold bringing out the sentiments and memories it always generates. A highly vocal call of "Beat Army" got everyone's attention on the beach. Accompanied by great food and hbations, everyone recapped their travels and news (one couple again finished the Honolulu Marathon). There was much discussion about the upcoming reunion of the Class to take place in 2005 in Honolulu. It will be the first USNA Class reunion ever to be held in Hawaii, and the natives are looking forward to seeing us all. Aloha.

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In early December, by happenstance, George Darfus and Dick Fox met in Key West, FL, where they had both driven submarines in the early '60s. Shirley and Dick were in the area for ten days visiting her brother Dorothy and George were in town for the day. During a dehghtful hurried reunion, old tales were told and embeUished. When George and Dickfinishedtheir tours in Cayo Hueso,tiieyboth went to the submarine school staff in New London awaiting assignment.

Our latest update on Classmates holding commissions prior to entering the Class roles in 1946 are: ENS Don Fraasa, ENS Chuck Dobney, 2LT Charley Keating USA, ILT Frank Houser Army Air Corps, and ENS (SO) Walter Congdon. Larry Hawkins and Joe Pausner continue to search. I think that I need a seers session as to why I have the continuing dream in which I go back to USNA after retirement as a Plebe to do it over again. We did have the last real Plebe year didn't we?

Deke Forbes underwent replacement knee surgery on 21 January. This is his sixth knee operation, and he figures the medics have had enough practice and operational development and this time they will get it right.

The Hampton Roads '50 group met at the Broad Bay Country Club in Virgirua Beach for dinner on 16 January. There were: Peggy Dick Fox and George Darfus. Key West, FL, and Ron Kelly, Pat and Tom Mulligan, December 2001 Elaine and Jim DiNardo, Shirley and Dick Fox, Alice and Fred Edwards, and Jeanne and Ray Barber. There wasn't a meeting in Febmary but they were back at NAS Oceana for lunch on 7 March.

Jim Oberholtzer mails a report of his latest travel adventures accompanied by his friend, Mary. They had a three-week cmise and tour of New Zealand and Australia, which was glorious, but had several people on board who appeared to be on their last legs. Jim says, "Let it be a lesson that there is still time for us so do these travels while George and Dorothy Darfus, Dick and Shirley Fox, you can fully enjoy them." Then during FebKey West, FL, December 2001 ruary, he and Mary went skiing at From ShdeU, LA, Herb Babington reports Breckenridge.

(No ski jumping I hope; his wedding on 27 October 2001 to Betty England. Betty and Herb were both widowed enough is enough already!) Jim still does years ago, and knew each other long before aircraft simulator ttaining and maintains his that. They took their vows at the local Meth- FAA insfructor license for the business.

Good attendance for the Class luncheon odist church, where they are both members. in Washington on 3 January was noted pointAll of the numerous children and grandchUing toward better accounting practices in dren attended. Betty's daughter, Denise, was 2002.

They had in attendance: Bill Diehl, her matton of honor and Herb's sons. Bob Marsh Treado, Daryle Tripp, John and Stuart, served as best men. After a great reception the couple departed on a rather Cavanaugh, Larry Hawkins, Charlie Hirsch, stormy Caribbean cruiseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hurricane Bill Rockey, Tom Bigley, Roy Snyder, Frank Michelle went along. The Babingtons plan Sterner, Norb Walecka, Jim Lynn, Bob to extend their honeymoon to April 2005 Shultz, Bill Kiehl, Tom Rogers, John when they see us all at the 55th in Honolulu. McNally, Milt Schultz, Charlie Conlon, Dick Powell, Bill Simons, Law Kivlen, Bill mi Smoot, Earl Halpem, and Bob Bisselle. Out in San Diego we were a victim of poor accounting when the Mariner Club at the Naval Station was kept closed the first week in January, so we postponed our monthly meeting until 1 February when we gathered: Frank Cassilly, Gene Wisenbaker, Wayne Jensen, Dean French, Dick Thurston, Mark Fmdden, Bob Muck, Charlie Clark, and Stan Neander We spoke of ENRON and generally accepted accounting practices and of how the 2002 Army-Navy game was going to be a different story.

Herb and Betty Babington at their wedding BeatArmyl â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wayne

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Pres; CAPT Robert H. Small, USN (Ret.) 874 Coachway Annapolis, MD 21401 p: 410-841-5167; e: rhsusna51@earthlink.net Vice Pres. and Class Fund Raiser; RADM Guy H.B. Shaffer, USN (Ret.) 344 Martin's Cove Road, Annapolis, MD 21401 p: 410-757-9086; e; ghbs51usna@aol.com Corr. Sec'y: CAPT H.T. "Beau" Dietrich, USN (Ret) 9508 Woody Lane, Great Falls, VA 22066 p: 703-759-5006; e; Beau9pnt5@aol.com Treas: CAPT J.L. "Jay" Woodbury Jr., USN (Ret) 7515 Comith Drive, Alexandria, VA 22306 p: 703-768-3848; e; jaywood@juno.com

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first; the lesson afterward" President's Corner Recently, I had the pleasure of presenting gold collar devices to the last few members of the Class of 2001 at their delayed Graduation Ceremony. Although the ceremony was less elaborate than the one last May, it was just as meaningful to the young men involved and to their families. The fact that '51 made the effort to be present at this event and present the collar devices made a very favorable impression. The gesture was not expected and hence much appreciated.

After some lengthy negotiations between the several Classes comprising the Museum Consortium and the Naval Academy Alumni Association, we have received assurances that planning for the renovation of Preble Hall will begin in FY 2005 and tiie actual renovation will commence on an accelerated schedule in FY 2006; concluding in FY 2007. This offers sttong indication that the relocation of and improvements to the Class of '51 Gallery of Ships wiU be weU advanced by the time we hold our 55th Reunion. This is very encouraging as we commence a new fund drive in ' 5 r s continuing support of the Museum.

Also, I am pleased to report that Ralph Hooper has made his last payment (and more) on his pledge to the Class related to our 50th Fund Drive. As Guy Shaffer reported at our 50th Class meeting, we exceeded our goal by almost 20%. WeU done to all whom participated. Guy will make a final report to the Class as soon as the end of year audit of the USNA Foundation's books has been completed.

At its fall meeting, the Alumni Association considered a motion to change the Association Fiscal Year from Jan-Dec to July-Jun. The justification presented was to make the Association fiscal year coincide with the USNA Academic Year. From a fiduciary point of view, this facilitates financial support of the Academy. A final vote on the proposal was taken, electiorucally and Shipmate, April 2002

approved. The current USNA AAfiscalyear will be extended until June of 2002.

One otiier financial item should be mentioned; tiie donation ($2500) that qualifies for membership in the President's Circle can now be made as a restricted, unrestricted, or combination gift. No matter the choice, $2500 will count for membership. The qualifymg period is from one Circle Meeting until the next. There will be but one meeting a year, in the fall of each year. Finally, corporate matching gifts will count toward the qualifying amount.

We have been pleasantly surprised by the large response to our questionnaire regarding future reuiuons. Some 250 responded, giving your board of directors a good insight into your desires for the 55th. More about tills topic will be found later in this colunm.

At a board of directors meeting last fall, the board voted to have '51 assume tiie sponsorship of a Faculty Research Award formerly presented by the Alunmi Association. The Association Board of Tmstees had previously decided to drop the award. The award will be formally named; "The Class of '51 Faculty Research Excellence Award."

It will be presented for the first time, at the 2002 Graduation Week Faculty CoUoquium.

The award is consistent with ' 5 r s long standing support of Faculty Excellence.

Lee Doggett has been re-appointed a member of the USNA AA Board of Tmstees Nominating Committee. This is a comphment to Lee and the Class. More about this will be mentioned as the time for nominations arrives in 2002.

In an effort to improve communications among the Class and its board of directors, I wUl now inform all area vice presidents of scheduled BOD meetings and whenever ' possible the planned agenda. This will provide an opportunity for feedback from the local areas. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bob Small Mail Bag The mailbag continues to hold a goodly I number of items relating to our 50th Reunion. This is gratifying to those of us that worked on the Reunion, but hopefully, we will soon see inputs relating to Class activities of a more timely nature. Until that happens, here is a culling of the Reunion related inputs.

Should anyone doubt that we had a great tumout for our 50th, the following (picttire below) shows an overview of the '51 Banquet.

Not all of those involved in Class activities were as photogenic as those shown in the photo below. The accompanying legend claims the following were present, Fred Gambke, and Gay and Sam Latimer, plus "Dancer and Bubbaduck". Seems to me that the dawgs were fully in the spirit of Reunion.

"51; Really a great crowdâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the foreground are Marilyn and Bob Arn, Pat Gwynne, Bill Whitner, Joyce and Dave Weidenkopf, Dianne and Bob Coleman, and Sam Latimer

'51; Obviously '51 and the 16th Company hit it off well

Watching a "P-rade" clearly is more fun than participating! Particularly if one is in one's 70's as most of those in the following photo are. The photographer failed to identify those present so your scribe leaves it to your memory.

The hectic schedule that accompanied the Reunion did not permit many from partaking of all of the options offered. The opportunities were many and varied. Wake Stometta and the 16th Company made every effort to show the Class the quality of the Wardroom that '51 supports. It's obvious why Wake thinks this is a great Class assignment. I don't recall a wardroom like the one shown below in our day.

Fred Gambke, Gay and Sam Latimer, and "Dancer and Bubbaduck"

Watching the P-rade, can you guess who Ihey are?

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Paul Smith mailed several pictures taken at the reunion along with some nice compliments on the 50th experience. He noted that the picture of Paul and John Armstrong, shown below with Bob A m ; "Was the first time we Plebe Year roomies expected to see each other, all at once since graduation." A fourth roomie, Jirmny Rough, unfortunately, was laid up in Coronado and could not be present.

Paul also provided a picture of GaU and Fred TVost taken at one of the Company parties.

The next picture, taken at the 50th, made your scribe's life simple. The very visible nametags made identification of Gordon Van Hook, John Mcgrew, and Charles Duke (1 to r) very easy. Their good spirit and health is obvious.

'51; Male portion of Tony and Doris' wedding 50 years earlier

Bill and Nancy McDonough, 50th Anniversary

Gordon Van Hook, Jotin McGrew and Charles Duke

Not all of tiie mail was reunion related.

Tony Bartuska sent along a photo of tiie male portion of the Tony-Doris wedding party 50 years ago. Included in the photo from left to right are; Pete O'Kane, George Stecker '53, Joe Dailey (best man), Tony, Bob Malkemes, John Cooper, and Stan Laferski.

Congratulations on your 50th, Tony and Doris. The remainder of Tony's letter addresses a very touchy subject in this time of political correctness. Tony reports that he has been elected as the first male president of the PA Medical Society Alhance (auxihary).

This group is made up of the spouses of PA physicians and has been in existence for 77 years. To prove this shattering of male/female tradition Tony included his new business card. Now ain't that something.

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Continuing in a non-reunion vein, I include a photo of Nancy and Bill McDonough (above) taken at their 50tii celebration.

Bill, also included a photo and interesting story. Bill writes: A few years back, after Sunday Mass, a Kittery lady approached me and informed me her son had just received an appointment to USNA. I advised her that it was exactly 50 years after my Class, and asked her to have the young man meet with me.

He did, and at that time, I presented him with my copy of the Blue Jackets Manual.

During his four years at USNA we met a few times and I received periodic updates on his progress. Last winter it dawned on me that he most likely did not have a sword. Mine had lain idle since the day I retired in 1979. I decided to give it to MIDN 1/C Thomas Finley '01.1 invited him to visit during his spring leave and surprised him by presenting the sword and belt. Ensign Tom Finley visited me shortly after graduation and showed me the "butter bars" presented to him by ' 51 on graduation day...Ensign Finley '01 is now at nuclear power school enroute to a career in submarines" Now that's a real link in the chain! The photo below shows Bill and Tom comparing Class rings.

Ensign Tom Finley '01 and retired CAPT Bil McDonough '51

I might add that Bill is not the only Classmate who has added his sword to the "Linb in the Chain" concept. Lee Doggett passed on his sword to his nephew this year when he graduated from the Maritime Academy and accepted a commission in the USNR. WeU Done to BiU and Lee! Football 2002 Altiiough footbaU is many months away, as I write this column, when it reaches the readers, it wUl be time to tiiink of faU footbaU. Navy's new coach has advised his Annapolis fans that he believes Navy can wm 3-5 games this year! Me thinks this wiU be a real challenge, but the optimism is refreshing. This year Navy will be playing Notte Dame at home, which wUl be at the Raven's Stadium in Baltimore. The 2000 game against Air Force demonstrated what a ttemendous venue the Ravens Stadium is. Contact has akeady been made with NAAA regarding seating for the '02 football season.

As always, priority will be given to season ticket holders and NAAA members. Pete Hilgartner and I will be firming details with Joan Sullivan of NAAA about both Club and regular seats for the Baltimore game, as well as block seating at Navy Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis. The sooner you advise us about your interests and desires the better Mail, email or phone will work but let us know as soon as possible. As always, order your tickets and make your payments direct to NAAA. All Pete and I are interested in is numbers, so that we can organize the seating. This is a volunteer, courtesy effort, please make it easy for us.

Social Calendar The Washington Area' 51 Spring Fhng will be held at the A-N CC on 12 April. As always, the dress will be black tie optional for the men, with the ladies costumed accordingly. Save the date on your calendar. A more detailed flyer will be forthconung. The annual Class meeting will be held at The Ft. Meyer O'Club on 7 May. More on this later.

By the time this reaches you, the San Diego Area Dinner in honor of George Washington will have been held at the San Diego Yacht Club. Let us hope this affair will produce some news and pictures from tiie West Coast.

Shipmate, April 2002

Reunion Questionnaire Results The response to the questionnaire regarding planning for the 55th was most heartening and would seem to reinforce the many glowing reports received about the 50tii. An almost 50% response was received. This is well above the norm for such mailings. The vote was overwhelming for the 55th to be held in Annapohs, in the spring or early summer of 2006. Little interest was shown for devoting time to a football game, but there was a sttong desire expressed for the Brigade to be present. That implies a reunion in April. We have already reserved two weekends in April at the Loews Hotel. We will select the actual date when we have a better idea about USNA and local activities in April of 2006. There was considerable interest in a mini-reunion in 2003 or 2004 on the West Coast with San Diego as the predominant choice. John Tillson has started to mn with the ball.

'51 Mementos At reuiuon, there was considerable interest among Classmates in obtaining a copy of Bill Pardee's wonderful painting of an N3N over USNA cfrca 1947. That interest has expanded to email queries from non'51ers. I am now investigating the most effective way of supplying copies of the painting. The intent is to keep the cost reasonable, but have a quality product, ff any readers are interested advise me by snail mail or emaU. I would like to have a complete hst of those interested at the start. The sign up hsts from Reunion got a bit wrecked during the clean up of the reception area at Loews, and may not be complete. By the way, Bill, also has produced a great painting of W I S CONSIN firing its main battery. There is a copy on the Class web page. Those of the Class who served in WISCONSIN may have an interest in obtaiiung a copy. If so, let me know and I'll see what might be done.

Last CaU This always is the hardest part of the column to write. January was a particularly bad month for ' 5 1 . It is with sorrow that I must report the death of D r Marvin "Marv" Duke on 9 January 2002. Details are sketchy as 1 report this, but Walt Boyes will be writing a formal obituary to appear in this issue of Shipmate. I also must report the death of Josette Grandfield on 20 December 2001.

Her husband and our Classmate Frank Grandfield died earlier last year. Also, leaving us were Bob Hudnett, on January 24, Dick Wray, on 25 January, and Bob Hunter, on 28 January. Our deepest sympathies go to all of the families involved.

Although it will be well into the year by the time this reaches you, let me reflect the time at which it was written and wish you all a happy and healthy remainder of 2002, and Beat Army. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Guy Shaffer Shipmate, April 2002

Argiro that the Class provide the Naval Academy Tennis Facility with the following plaque: USNA Class of 1952 "Ernie" Schultz Memorial Award The plaque would have spaces for 24 names, and the tennis team coach would present it annually to the member of the team that he selects to be the most deserving. The John Wyman, Barbara Wyman, Marie Duke, and plaque will be made in time for the 50th.

Charles B. Duke Jr. Look for Bill Studabaker's article in Shipmate highlighting Class activities. He is planning to include a brief summary of our statistics: entering Plebes, graduates, astroAnnual Membership: 44% nauts, and other pertinent information. It Life Membership: 31% appears that our profile is noteworthy among the annals of the Academy. Fox Charlie Pres; CAPT Jacob C. Brown, USN (Ret.) Johnson, in a note to Vince Manara in 1999 Sec'y; CAPT Leigh Ebbert, USN (Ret.) 2514 Culpeper Road, Alexandria, VA 22308-2133 wrote, "I am not sure of the accuracy of the e; lebbertl@juno.com statistic about to be related but attribute it to Webmaster: Howard McCollum Admiral Bob Long who told me one time e: hmccollum@prodigy.net that despite our 'poor taste' on graduation Class web site; www.usna.com/classes/class52/ that the Class of '52 produced more flag and Default.htm general officers than any Class in Naval (Ed. note: the following photo was inadvertentiy Academy history." left out of the January-Febmary issue. We apoloPhil Case told us about his experiences gize for any inconvenience!) Got a delightful note as a swimmer in the Senior Olympics. Takand picture from Skeeter Carson the other day.

His comment, "Obviously three hard working ing up swimming seriously after mnning Mids at Camid." Thank you, Skeeter The picture became less of an option due to knee injushows Leigh Ebbert, Skeeter and Jack Young ries, Phil has found a calling, not only as a doing something to a piece of equipment. recreational pastime but as a competitive sport. He has been winning medals in the state and national meetings. His enjoyment has been increased by meeting Classmates at these events, Lois and Dick Smith, and J. Val Smith are frequent participants. Attending were: AUyn Bress, Ed Leonard, Jim Troutman, Tom Thawley, Pat Lockwood, Dick Denfeld, Pete Stark, Harry Spencer, Mel Meltzer, Jerry Zacharias, Jack Young, Bob Caulk, Jake Brown, Howard McCollum, George Lester, Bob Reed, Larry Layman, Paul German, Walt Locke, Bill Laux, Phil Case, Joe Wilkinson, Vince Argiro, Jerry Rapkin, Charlie Brown, Hork Dimon, Art Thompson, Vince Manara, Frank Camid wow Hannegan, Dick Laulor, Mike Sorrentino, Five months and counting. Discussions Charlie Darrell, Doane Kiechel, Leigh within the Executive Committee and in other Ebbert, Gordon Engquist, Toxey Cahff, Jack places are a little more urgent now that ad- O'Connell, Doug Payne, Bill Studabaker, ditional monies are beginning to be commit- and Bob Denbigh. ted and deadlines that looked way out in the Paul German is writing a piece for the future, are suddenly here. You should have Golden Lucky Bag about the Class relationgotten a 50th reunion package that lays out ship with the Class of 2002. That relationthe program, and requested an acknowledgship is enhanced

by MIDN 1/C Brian P. ment from you that you will be coming. The Walsh '02, an English major, who will cutoff date for the Golden Lucky Bag is 30 graduate in May. His father, our Classmate, June 2002. We still need your inputs to the Charlie Walsh, a.k.a.

"Knobby," is very Golden Lucky Bag; send to: USNA Class of proud of this special situation.

Charlie and 1952, Golden Lucky Bag, PO Box 657, his wife, GaU, are Blue & Gold officers asMerrifield, VA 22116-0657 or via email to sisting the Naval Academy in bringing the jzach52@earthlink.net Navy story to Florida, and interviewing canYour Executive Committee approved a didates. We look forward to seeing them at request from Skeeter Carson and Vince the 50th. One of the events in the lives of

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the graduating Class is a series of Battalion receptions sponsored by the Alumni Association. June and Jake Brown, Jean and Leigh Ebbert, Jim Troutman, Muffle and Jim Nunnely, Jerry Rapkin, and Red Stein attended the first one for the 2nd Battalion.

The reception was a very ruce interchange with the Class of '02. They have their service selection results, and had a lot of questions about our experiences.

It was standing room only at the Officers' and Faculty Club in Annapolis on 23 January on the occasion of the third annual "Life after Graduation and then after a Military Career" as: Gene Avallone, Charles McDonald, Jerry Rapkin, Bill Ryan, Jack Sheehan, Red Stein, Tom Thawley, Jim Troutman, Biscuit Wev, Gus Eggert, Jim Sagerholm, Bob Schulze, Jake Brown, Jim Nunnely, Jack Young, and Howard McCollum hosted the 17th Company First Classmen and their Company Officer, Maj Trabun. Charles McDonald writes: Having just received service assignments earlier in the day, the Mids were still rather excited. For the most part they appeared to be content and raring to go forward, except for perhaps a couple of wannabe pilots having to become reconciled with being Naval Right Officers.

After each '52er gave a very, very brief account of his military and civilian careers, it was a sit-down buffet with two to three of us at each table asking and answering questions, offering some fatherly advice, and of course occasionally slipping in a sea story or so.

Thank you, Charles, for the input. These opporturuties to be a part of the Brigade have been very much appreciated.

Ken Weir sent me the November-December 2001 Volume of The Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America. In it was a feature about the Congressional Space Medal of Honor (CSMoH), its history, design, and brief biographies of the 12 astronauts who have received this prestigious medal. Standing at the pinnacle of NASA's pyramid of honor, it is awarded by Congress based on a recommendation by NASA, and is normally presented by the President. Tom Stafford received the medal on 19 January 1993 from Vice President Quayle, and President Clinton presented the medal to Jim Lovell on 26 July 1995. We are fortunate to have these distinguished men of space in our Class. Thanks, Ken, for sending the joumal.

A note from Frank Hannegan with pictures of World Trade Center taken from New York Harbor heading for the East River last August. They show (no. 1) the World Trade Center, and the other (no. 2) Pete Barry at the wheel with Bill Ryan looking on. Pete, Frank, and Julie and Bill were en route to Northport, Long Island. Frank also sent along the picture (no. 3) of Eddie Paluso 80

and Gus Eggert at Eddie's annual golf and drink get-together at Deep Creek, MD, taken on 10 September 2001. He notes, "Unfortunately our first golf day was upstaged by the fanatics.. .what a time!" Thanks, Frank.

He is taking advantage of this offer, and suggests that maybe there are others who would like to do the same. Thanks, Tom. With deep regret, I report that William A. Blasko died on 7 February in Fredericksburg, VA. He was a good "wife" and friend. CDR George Holland Weeks, USN (Ret.) was interred at Arlington Cemetery with full Military Honors on 1 February 2002. Phillip Edward Lambert, a '52 non-grad, died on 8 January 2002 in CAMC Memorial Hospital, Charleston, SC, after a sudden illness.

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At Deep Creek, MD The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, quarterly newsletter, features "Maritime Pattol Legend, The Lockheed P-3 Orion," and a Presidents Report that talks about progress and encourages membership, signed by President "Gus" Eggert. Thanks, Gus, for the copy.

I appreciated articles from the Baltimore Sun (no date), and The Capital (15 December), discussing the December visit of the board of visitors, sent to me by Charles McDonald. They highlighted the fact that Emelia Spencer '02 is the Naval Academy's first female Rhodes Scholar, that "curriculum now includes mandatory lessons in proper behavior" (Sun). The Capital article's headline: "Naval Academy pushes contact sportsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and etiquette class."

Thank you, Charles.

Tom Thawley: I leamed yesterday (8 Febmary) from the Alumni Association that our Class is now eligible for lifetime memberships at $200, for after 50 years.

Annual Membership: 43% Life Membership: 32%

Pres: RADM Peter C. Conrad, USN (Ret) 19754 Tower Hill Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650 h: 301-475-5258; e; mailto:pjconrad@erols.com Secy; Lt Col David B. Jones, USAF (Ret) 1 Harbourside Drive, Apt. 1-701, Delray Beach, FL 33483 h; 561-278-8325; e: djlocker@earthlink.net Webmaster; Paul Dudley e; pauld53@san.rr.com www.usna53.org A recent email from T^ke Furey forwarded a message from Anne Callicott that reported the death of her husband and our Classmate Jack Demmion Callicott on 10 January. According to Anne, they were in Los Angeles with their daughter and were going to go home on 31 December Early that morning Jack had a small stroke, so they stayed in California. Jack went into the hospital, as he was very weak. While there the pneumonia he had had earlier came back. It was caused by a resistant strain of bacteria and he could not get rid of it. Anne thinks he could have beat the cancer and the stroke, but he could not beat all three, and "the damned pneumonia got him." She goes on to say "We are all devastated!" They were together 48 years.

She does say she is lucky to have a lot of loving friends to help her through. Tyke notes that Jack, who was a former four-year enlisted man prior to USNA, was both a genuine friend and a true gentleman (that is a pretty nice description of a life). I'm sure we all send our most sincere condolences to Anne and her family and will keep them all in our thoughts and prayers.

There is some hopeful news regarding many of our sick friends. Molly Randall notified us in mid-January that Howard "Randy" Randall had become very ill and had to have heart bypass surgery. She asked for all their friends to pray for his recovery. Just got another message from her via Tyke Furey. This was a good news message. Randy had quadruple bypass surgery on 18 January. Not only did he have one fourhour surgery, but also two hours later he had a second surgery, as one of the bypasses was not passing any blood into the heart and that took three more hours. There were a couple more setbacks in the next two days but they were taken care of. After several more days in the ICU and three more days in the hospital Randy was sent home. Molly says she is seeing signs of Shipmate, April 2002

improvement and thinks he is now on the mend.

He has lost a lot of weight but is a good patient and is following both the doctor and Molly's orders. She thanks everyone for their many prayers and is looking forward to his getting healthy enough to start RVing again with her Additional good news reveals that Walt Russell's latest medical check was very good, as was Sam Houston's. Alice Weinstein is now able to stand erect and walk around after a couple weeks face down waiting for her eye to heal. I imagine Jerry is probably as happy about this as Alice is. Patti Knighton is doing well after a long series of tteatment and I know George Knighton and their kids and grandkids are all happy about that. Bev Hebbard is handling her cancer tteatments pretty well also. Maybe there is something to mass prayer by a bunch of friends. Not all the news has been good however, as our Albuquerque friends report that Don Baker is not well. Pray for him and Corrine please.

Bob Ruckman. the "Iron Man of Car Shows" is stiU at it. At the Kent Island Cmisers annual Halloween Show he received his 93rd Car Show Plaque of the year. That obliterated his former record of 74 plaques in a year. This is the 923rd plaque he has received since 1954 and is a world record (that increases each time he attends another meet). Bob has bequeathed his plaques to the new AACA Museum that will open in Hershey, PA, in 2003 where they will be on display for all to see. Even though Bob is growing older and is fighting three kinds of cancer he is not slowing down. He was honored at the Cancer Cure Cruise at the Merriwether Post Pavilion in October and has earned the respect of many area car clubs for his contributions to their charities and for his column, "Commentary." He has been given pre-registtation #1 at their annual meets. He is an inspiration to all, and a friend.

Well done. Bob. Hope that world record keeps growing and growing.

Dave Mets sent me a great picture taken in January 1949, at a bar in Port Deposit, MD. Dave says he can identify most of the crowd and I can spot Dave, John Endlich, Jim Walker, Ray Bright, and Vince Graham (that is tmly a name from the past). Dave goes on to say C. Haffenden, Clyde Middleton, William Schilden (sp?), and John Walker are also in the picture.

Can any of you NAPS barroom habitues identify everyone in the shot? Dave goes on to say he continues teaching at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies at Maxwell AFB and has no immediate plans to retire. He sent me copies of two of his recent books on Airpower One entitled The Long Search for a Surgical Strike, Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs and the other The Air Campaign, John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists I am half way through the first book and it is very good. Dave's business address is Dr David Mets, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, 600 Chennault Circle, Maxwell AFB, AL 361126424. Thanks Dave. Can you find anymore of those NAPS pictures?

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"53; More of '53'sfinestat the Tustin Brewery already deposited with the Alumni Association for our 50th. Chris Zirps reported that as of 7 January 2002, a total of 522 Classmates and widows plan to attend the 50th. This means there will be over 1,000 people in attendance. Of this 522 some 394 have made their initial payments.

To date Bud Kauderer has received biographies from almost 300 of us and Joe Thomas and Bob Umberger have uncovered 210 obituariesfromthe Shipmatefiles.They are still looking for 30 others.

Bud has extended the deadline for receiving your biographies until 30 April. That is 30 April of this year! So if you haven't sent yours in, hop to it.

Carl Trost reported on a meeting in December with the new Athletic Director, Chet Gladchuck. The upcoming stadium renovation will make some changes at the Pavilion end of the stadium, but these should not impact on the pavilion. However the area in front of the pavilion may become a Memorial Park. If this comes to pass '53 may have a significant role in the planning, funding and development of this park.

Bill Trueblood will be our representative on this matter Eddie Best is the project officer for our Class gift to the Class of 2002—ensign/second lieutenant's bars with "53-03" engraved on the reverse. Discussions are underway which hopefully will lead to a transfer of responsibility for the 23rd Company Wardroom from '53 to an as yet undetermined Class. We picked this responsibility up from the Class of 1923 about the time they had their 50th. Finally, Pete Conrad relieved Gus Hubal as Class president. See the column header or our web page for Pete's addresses and phone number In the last column I ran a great picture of Lori and Paul Salgado and their family. The note that accompanied the photo added that they were enjoying Colorado Springs. Lori pinned on her lieutenant colonel's Oak Leaves in July and is having fun in the Air Force Academy Air Operations

Department. They both are hoping that our new football coach will make some positive changes next year The note concludes "We don't have time to watch TV but I sneak a peek at the web site occasionally." Wonder why they don't have time? Thanks guys and give the kids a hug from us all. Their address is 15855 Longmeadow Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80921-3707.

Between Shipmate and Joyce Flynn I now have two copies of her report on the Los Angeles area Army-Navy Game Party that I had mentioned last month. Joyce says it was a great party. They held it at the Tustin Brewery in Tustin, CA. About 80 people attended. After each score, the former Midshipmen and Cadets did their pushups just like the current Mids and Cadets do at the game. The difference is that some of the guys at Tustin are a little older than the kids at the game (guess that is why they wheeze and groan so much). Joyce sent in a very good picture that shows Peggy and Si Kittler, Pat Flynn, Joyce Flynn, Kim Bassett, Joe Zebrowski, and Barbara Carr. Joyce concludes "It was so great seeing all these guys from both Academies still so actively involved in supporting their teams and what was such an incredibly important part of their life. Go Navy" Thanks Joyce, I'm sending your extta copy of the note and the picture back per your request.

While counting the ballots in November we found several Classmates had enclosed business cards or short notes with their ballots. Thanks, we accept news anyplace we can find it. From the business cards we see that Jack Burkhardt is still gainfully employed as a professional engineer He works for the State of Illinois as a project manager in the Constmction Administration Division.

They live in Springfield, IL, and enjoy the life there. They have four sons, three of whom are married and have four grandchildren with one on the way. Unfortunately they will not be able to attend the 50th so he says to say hello for him.

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Charles W. Lamb's business card shows him as the president/CEO of Air Force Village West at 17050 Arnold Drive, Riverside, CA 92518, 909-697-2025. No note from Chariey but hope they are coming to the 50th. Ken Martin's card is ftom Aero Vin and lists Ken as the Wine Merchant to Corporate Aviation. Orders to Ken can be sent to him at 1376 Ken Avenue, Santa Maria, CA 93455, 805-934-1191. The back of his card says, "Wine proves that God loves us and wants us to be happy." I imagine there quite a few of us that will drink to that. Rex Pickett did not send in a card, but did send a short letter It reports that he was surprised to receive a ballot.

To his knowledge it is the first communication he has received other than information about Class reunions. He is grateful to Bruce Ogden for finding him, hidden though he is out on the northem reaches of fly-over-land. He enjoys immensely the memories called up by seeing the names of the Class of '53 in print. Noting the ranks achieved makes him feel honored to have been associated with such an outstanding group.

He was a littie concerned about whether his was a legal ballot and says do with it what we will (we counted it Rex). In any event "God willin and the creek don't rise, I hope to attend the Class reunion. I might even get around to sending in my reservation soon." He also asks us to note his correct address, which is 946 East Travelers Trail, Bumsville, MN 55337-2943. Thanks Rex and please do send your reservation in right away or Chris Zirps might get after you.

Sheila and Joe Gildea on NIAGARA Sheila and Joe Gildea sent another great picture, which should be of interest to all of us. It shows Sheila with her fronman Joe on board a wooden ship, NIAGARA on Lake Erie. It is a rebuilt replica of Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship from the War of 1812. They were under full sail (as much square footage as the Coast Guard ship

away at college." We are getting old aren't we?

Thanks, Mickey and Bud, I think?

Paul Dudley forwarded an email from Jack Myers (buckresort@aol.com) correcting Jack's addresses: 7401 Willow Rd. Apt. 436, Frederick, MD 21702; 301-644-5913. Thanks guys for die update.

Other pictures this month include a shot of Wanda and Fred Mann at a waterfront restaurant at Pensacola Beach last summer A Christmas card shot shows Corliss and Charlie Cole wishing us Happy Holidays. The three Midshipmen in Service Dress Whites are John Smitherman, Bob Plank, and the late Art Mercier. And an Army-Navy Game Party shot from the 2000 game shows George Knighton, Frank Strohecker, and Lee Harshfield at the Seattle area party. The guys are smilingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;oh yes, that is because that was the last game Navy won, and the only game we won in the last two years if I remember correctly.

Don't forget Class luncheons are on the first Tuesday of each month at the Fort McNair Officer's Club. Keep the news coming in and send it to me, not Shipmate. Stay healthy, and keep praying for those of us who are sick. Best regards. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dave

Happy Holidays from Corliss and Charlie Cole

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owned by the State of Pennsylvania and is manned primarily by young and not so young volunteers. Sheila and Joe were passengers on a training cmise. Earlier they had been on a 16 day Rhine River cmise. Their ship there was a 410 foot long, 37 foot wide river cmiser It was very new, and very comfortable with great food and fantastic service. In the 16 days they saw almost all the famous river sights including all the ABCs (Another Beautiful Casde, Another Beautiful Cathedral, Another Beautiful Church, etc.)

Thanks Joe. You guys go on some great trips.

Mickey and Bud Kauderer's holiday note had an eye-opening remark. "It is hard for us to believe that Todd and Nancy and Heidi and Larry are now 'empty nesters'. Our five eldest grandchildren are 82

Second Class Year roommates Smitherman. Plank, and Mercier

The Last Navy win, Knighton, Strohecker, and Harshfield

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Pres: Col Fitz W. Woodrow, USMC (Ret) Sec'y: CAPT Oliver Shearer Jr., USN (Ret) 9615 Podium Dr, Vienna, VA 22182-3338 h; 703-938-5211; e; ovshearer@erols.com Webmaster: Will Croom e; willyaye@hotmail.com Class web site; http;//www.usna54.net

Class News '54 Legacy Gift. You should have voted by 15 Febmary for one of the three alternatives (one was a write in). As of now, 4 Febmary, ballots are coming in. After a ballot count, the winner and detailed results will be announced by "All '54" email, the Class web site and in the May Class colunm.

From Mike Nassr our Class historian: We don't have addresses for the following grads. Please let us know if you have any information on these missing Classmates; William P. Anderson, George D. Brown, Robert Conklin, James Dunning, Bennett Gardner William Gilmore, John Halpine, L e o n a r d Hilder, Thomas Hudgins, William J. Johnson, Robert F. Jones, Gordon Koops, Waldon Lord, James Mahomer, John Merten, William C. Miller, Thomas W. Moore, Richard L. Olson, Ken A. Peterson, James V. Reynolds, Barry L. Roach, Howard R o m a i n e , Charles Roush, Walter Sampson, Willis Schleusener, James Seabloom, R.L. Smidt, Anton Switzer Edgar Terry, Robert Thalman, C.W. Thomas, Charles Ulrich, John Volpone, Keith L. Walker David P. Watkins, and Peter Wyckoff. Please send information to your scribe who will forward to me.

Just off the Georgia Wire Services from Mike, 3 Febmary. He's off to the publisher in Paducah, KY, to finalize his input to Fifty Years of '54. For those who haven't ordered, books can be obtained from Turner Publishing Co., PO Box 3101, Paducah, KY 42002-3101. Price is $54 plus shipping and handling of $6 for first book and $3.50 for each additional book. While in Kentucky, Mike said he was going to visit memorials for the Duke of Paducah and Minnie Pearl in Grinders Switch.

Sad News We lost ten Classmates in 2001. Charlie Steel (17) died on 29 December from complications of a stroke at a hospital in Reston, VA. He and his wife, Cathy, had just driven up from their Shipmate, April 2002

home in Longs, SC, to visit relatives when he was stricken. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery on 14 January. Charlie was a naval aviator and his widow resides at 433 Fox Tail Dr, Longs, SC 29568-8605.

BiU Burr (3) died of lymphomatoid cancer on 31 December 2001 at Mayo Clinic in N. Phoenix, AZ. Memorial services were on 19 January in Scottsdale, AZ, and graveyard services win be in Braselton, GA, on 27 April 2002. Bill was a varsity swimmer at the Academy and was in the Supply Corps for nine years before resigning. His widow, Virginia, resides at 6485 N. 79th St., Scottsdale, AZ 85250.

Ike Heyward (22) died of cancer in Charleston, SC, on 6 January 2002. Fimeral services were held 9 January at St. James Episcopal Church in Charleston. Ike and his wife, Jerre, had been living at the Episcopal Church Retirement Center Jerre is confined to a wheelchair, is nearly blind, and suffers from Alzheimer's. Ike served in the Navy for 30 years and then became a timber farmer in Edgefield, SC. Our sympathies go to the Steel, Burr, and Heyward families.

From Les Ostrom (19).

I have been promising myself for some time that I would really make an effort to establish contact with my Naval Academy "wives." It finally took a cold winter morning here in Washington and a dead car battery to confine me long enough to do it. I took the Intemet route and was amazed at how easy the task really is; almost inmiediately established contact with one of my Plebe Year roommates. Milt McDowell, in Bend, OR, and tracked down my other roommate. Dale Plank, in Grand Junction, CO. Both are, of course, retired—Milt from the Army as a colonel in the medical corps and Dale from the University of Colorado as a professor in Russian.

I've tried the retirement route a couple of times (Navy, Washington Public Power Supply System, and Kaiser Engineers Hanford) and may get it to stick this next time—hopefully within a year. For the moment I am the chief financial officer for Home Debut (an Intemet company providing virtual tours and other Intemet tools for realtors) owned by my stepdaughter. My wife, Ebba, and I live near Spokane where we've remodeled a fixer-upper on Long Lake. We also have a home and numerous ties in the Tri-Cities as a result of living and working in the area for a number of years. We squeeze out every opportunity we can to travel to Europe and Mexico—Europe because of family and Mexico just to escape.

Our travels this year will center on Sweden for a wedding in June. Our door mat is always out for Classmates and Ebba puts on some tremendous feeds—let us know if you are going to be in the Spokane area.

Fred Knops (20) checked in on 20 January with a stams report. In November he got a flu shot, which exacerbated his congestive heart failure. After being in and out of the hospital and failure to qualify for a heart transplant his cardiologist tried a procedure that seemed to have turned the tide. Fred reports that he is feeling much better and has an added spring to his walk.

Since Raley Thomley provided an abundance of October 21st Company Reunion photos, they are appearing in this column again.

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21 St Company reunion at Creagers

Someone snapped one of Raley visiting Chesty Puller's grave in Saluda, VA, Thomley at Gen Puller's Grave

Holmans, Bells, and Hoovers There were also some leftovers that Ed Tipshus sent from the group staying at Wilmington, DE, before and after the Army-Navy game.

From Jim Moore (18) Last year at this time, Tom Watson (T.C. Jr.) hosted a two day '54 golf outing. (Tom's wife, Lynn, was out of town.) This year, again with Lynn gone, Tom hosted the 2nd Annual Snowbird Golf Toumament. Frank Caroccio explained the Stableford Play. Les Huffman berthed in Jim Moore's guest room while the others made do with beds and couch at Tom's.

After the first afternoon of play we all went to Tom's lovely home for steaks followed by brandy and cigars on the lanai. Brilliant solutions to the world's problems were suggested and discussed. I can't remember any of them.

After play the next day toumament awards were presented to winner Tom Watson and runner up Paddy Padberg. Pictured at the awards ceremony are left to right; Padberg, Jones, Caroccio, Huffman, Tolg, Dunn, Watson, Moore, and Byington.

Bill Creager and Billie and Joe Jennings

Annual Snowbird golf tournament

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Pres; LCDR Dennis Sullivan, USN (Ret) Sec'y; CAPT Thomas G. Kiefaber, USN (Ret.) 11814 Triple Crown Road, Reston, VA 20191 h; 703-758-1077; e; KIEF55@aol.com http;//www.usna.com/classes/l 955 Your correspondent attended the Navy Football Banquet at Alumni Hall on 9 Febmary with Lucy and Hank Mustin, Debbie and John Adams, and Mary Gale Buchanan. It was the first time for me and definitely will not be the last. The program was very entertaining and included a warm-up for the 2002 season given by the new coach, Paul Johnson. We had the honor of being seated with Slade Cutler '35, a Navy football legend. He won the '34 Army-Navy game single-handedly with a field goal, and later was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He was a star lacrosse player as well as an unbeaten Navy boxer (good enough to be considered for a professional career). As a 84

submariner in World War II, he eamed four Navy Crosses and two Silver Stars. Prior to his retirement in 1965, Slade Cutter was the Athletic Director at USNA. We enjoyed his reminiscences.

Anne and Ted Parker held their annual potluck dinner after the Navy-Bucknell basketball games on Saturday, 12 January. Great conviviality and a marvelous spread! It was well attended— 40 some with four Midshipmen, and the following; Debbie and John Adams, Jane Bersch (Dave Reynolds' widow) and her husband, John Bersch, Betty and Tom Cann, Ginny and Don Conner, Pat and Kent Drummond, Gale and Tom Emery, Betsey and Bob Fountain, Ray Hine and Virginia Wyman, Sally and Hartley Holte, Sabra and Bill Kennington, Ursula and Tom Kiefaber, Roz and Mai MacKinnon, Tom Mclsaac and Joan Connolly, Lucy and Hank Mustin, Dick Peterson, Margot and Gary Snyder, Denny Sullivan, Syd and Fred Tolleson, Sheila and Cal Weaver, and Mary Gale Buchanan.

Tom Cann, Ray Hine, and Peggy Zipf Margot and Gary Snyder have taken off on another of their RV excursions, this time to Florida. On the first leg, we saw them at the Parker's shindig in Annapolis. Their huge RV took up four parking spots! Subsequently they stopped in the Outer Banks and visited Pat and Paul Sutherland, Don Aven, and Jeannie and Joe Walter.

Tom State noticed in Shipmate that Buddy Parker not only played in the latest Alumni-Varsity Squash rivalry, but won his match as well!

"Congratulations Buddy! For those of us having trouble getting in and out of golf carts, your performance is amazing, impressive and inspirational.

Well done!"

Taps I'm saddened to report that we lost two Classmates recendy. CAPT John "Brent" Streit, USN (Ret.) (10), died on 25 January, at his residence in Virginia Beach, VA. Naval aviation was his passion. He distinguished himself as a pilot in the first A-7 squadron to deploy to Vietnam, and as the executive officer and later commanding officer of the first A-7 squadron to deploy to the Mediterranean. That squadron was the first winner of the C. Wade McClusky award. He flew 167 combat missions, with distinction, in Vietnam. Brent is survived by his wife, Dorothy "Dolly," and by five children, Kimberly A. Carlton and her husband, Russ; James B. "Bart" Streit and his wife, Cathy; J. Douglas Stteit and his wife, Alix; Stephanie M. Cunningham and her husband, P.J.; and Gregory B. Streit. Dolly resides at: 2209 Tanglewood Trail, Virginia Beach, VA 23454; 757-481-5057.

Keith Nyhus (15), died of a brain tumor on 7 December 2001 in Park Rapids, MN. After graduation he spent four years as a lieutenant junior grade and then lieutenant with the Fleet in the Western Pacific aboard GEORGE CLYMER. After leaving the Navy in 1959, Keith attended Mankato State University for one year and then worked on the computer guidance systems for the Polaris and Poseidon missiles as an employee Shipmate, April 2002

Pete Booth (22) has become our latest Classmate to debut as an author I haven't read the book yet, but I certainly intend to purchase it.

Humble In Victory, the provocative and insightful novel of the U.S. Navy in Indian Ocean combat, nefarious politicians and the emergence of superpower China—featuring the aircraft carrier RONALD REAGAN and the world-famous Red

'55; Denny Sulli\ an, Steve Lowe, Otto Zipf, Bob Fountain, Ray Hine, and Bill Kennington

'55: Jim Kenny "58, Don Lovelace. Jim Flatley '56, and Jim Welsch '67 of General Electric and the Conttol Data Corporation. Keith taught electronic technology at Southwest State College in Marshall. He discovered he had a talent for design, ended his teaching career and he and his wife, Nancy, started Nyhus Woodcrafts. They sold their prize-winning fine-art wood sculptures at art shows across the Midwest and to collectors worldwide. Keith is survived by his wife, Nancy, and their children, Paul and Joan Nyhus of Roberts, WI, and their daughters, Greta and Sara; Karin Nyhus and Dan Halsey of Woodbury, MN, and their son, Bryson; and Julie Nyhus of Columbus, OH. Nancy resides at; 14158 Eagleridge Cir, Park Rapids, MN 56470; 218-732-1959.

Ed "Seabreeze" McHale writes: Thanks for the info on Brent. He was a sweet guy. We were in VA-122 at Lemoore together when he was training up as a Plankowner in VA147—^thefirstA-7 squadron. That was in late '67, early '68. I'm sure he flew more that 100 missions in the SAM environment of NVN. Sorry to lose him. Please give my best to his wife. New subj.; I'm off tomorrow for Honolulu and a week of baby sitting on the North Shore. Then Celina and I launch for a month of New Zealand followed by another week of baby-sitting. Then my son's family come to the Mainland and we all do a week of skiing at Mammoth. Of course then we do income taxes to see if we can afford to do anything else. My very best to all!

In the mail from Don Lovelace; Here in Charleston, SC, USNAAlumni head up several of our service-related organizations.

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The enclosed picture was taken at a local Christmas Ball for The Retired Officers Association chapter. The Military Order of the World Wars chapter, the Navy League Council; and the USNA AA Chapter. Left to right are; Jim Kenney '58, commander, MOWW Chapter; Don Lovelace '55, President, TROA Chapter; Jim Flatley '56, president. Navy League Council; and Jim Welsch '67, president, USNA AA Chapter. We believe this is a unique coincidence and significant leadership coverage by our graduates.

(Ed's note: The last sentence in the March issue should have read "Webbie" not Debbie was last seen trying to find the Streetcar named Desire from '55 Sugar Bowl days.)

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Class Executive Committee Co-Chairmen; CAPT Douglass F. Hayman, USN (Ret.) (11) COL George Mushaiko, USAF (Ret.) (15) Sec'y: Dave Swanson (4) 16 E. Del Ray Ave., Alexandria, VA 22301 p; 703-548-7240; f; 703-548-0272 e; hdswanson@aol.com Last Call—Sid Davis Interment Sid Davis's wife, Susie, informed us that Sid's ashes will be interred in Arlington on 14 May at 11 a.m.

Ripper fighter squadron—has hit serious readers offictionwith gusto. The gender-equal crew and pilots of the carrier reflect the frustrations of constant deployment for almost nine months, the heroism in the cockpits and deck plates at stark contrast to weak-willed politicians in and about the nation's power centers. These 460 pages of determination, courage, terror, patriotism, duty, heroism, and honor of what might be in the year 2010 is fostered by an unlikely consortium of Middle East neighbors coveting the vast Caspian Sea oil riches.

Mini Reunion Included in this issue is a picture of Norm Cohn with a model of NEW JERSEY (BB-62), now finally moored at Camden, NJ. A tour of the highly decorated ship is being set up for Classmates for April or May of this year. This is an aU Class "Mini Reunion." Class of '56 has been well represented on past excursions to the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, INDEPENDENCE Port Museum, OLYMPIA, and BECUNA. A follow-up report will be posted. If interested, contact Norm Cohn (normJune_cohn @juno.com (text files only)); subject line, "Whenever two or three shall meet..."

Local contact can be made daily to: 856-8545572 or home: 609-261-4794.

Ernest Olds The following is a letter I have included from Jeff Olds, son of our late Classmate Ernest Olds (11): Mr. Swanson, Doug Hayman, gave me your name and address and suggested I contact you to post a request that I have in Shipmate. The following is a letter that I emailed to the Classmates of 1956 from 11th Company. I was hoping to reach others from the same Class or possibly those in other Classes who may have known my father. Let me introduce myself to you. I am Ernest Olds' youngest son, Jeffrey A. Olds. I am writing this email in an attempt to obtain information, memories, thoughts, and reflections and pictures of my father. I realize years have past and memories have faded but let me share with you some recent revelations; This past summer while performing a Google Internet search on my father's name, I discovered postings on the Internet from several individuals regarding an East German propaganda film called Pilots In Pajamas. This commentary was verbal sparring between several individuals commenting on the fact that my father was filmed at DaNang AFB in 1967 just after he had flown his first mission. One particular individual. Rich Daly, contends that because my father was filmed, then the government is covering up the fact that he was shot down and held as a POW. This particular individual did not take into consideration where this footage was shot nor that it was a propaganda film and the clip was inserted into the film, being that my father was not shot down until the following spring. Considering all the facts, my family is at peace knowing the fate of our father/husband/brother. 1 have since secured a copy of the footage and these were thefirstlive pictures I have seen of my father being I was only three when he was shot down. 1 was able to share this footage with my mother and siblings over the holidays. A truly incredible experience!

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This entire experience had initially led my brother and uncle in numerous conversations as to who our father/brother tmly was as a person, friend, and Classmate. Memories seem few and far between. The fact we were young children and the govermnent's insistence at the time to my mother to keep everything quiet for security reasons being that it was such an unpopular war, we rarely openly discussed this. Now that I have shared this film with my family, this has opened discussions about my father that we have never had. This is why I am contacting you! What do you remember about Ernest Olds? Are there funny times, serious times, what were your memories of him whether positive or negative? Do you have any pictures you would be willing to part with? Are there others who may have known him from other USNA companies or other divisions of the military after you all had graduated? My goal is to compile a scrapbook for the six grandchildren and beyond so that we can pass on the legacy of Ernest Olds. I want to cover all facets of his life from childhood to Vietnam.

My thanks go out to Doug Hayman for providing me with this email list as well as an incredible picture of him, dad, and Ed just as if it was photographed yesterday. Should you know others who knew my father closely, their names, addresses and/or email addresses would be greatly appreciated. Also a very warm hearted, loving thank you goes to Ed "Craig" Mortimer for introducing my mother and father together, we are tmly grateful for you to join two of the most incredible people in the world together. We as children could not be where we are today without these two people!

Not only did my father provide an ever-lasting example, my mother has provided an unbelievable example of love, faith and strength! God Bless you!

May God bless each and everyone of you!

Wishing you a happy and prosperous 2002.

Go Navy! Beat Army] (Hopefully with the new coach!).

More Pictures There are a couple of more pictures from Nancy and Pete Bennett (13) at their Army-Navy game party on December and another pictiu-e from the 45th Reunion.

Pete Fitzwilliam, Ed Parker, and Frank McMullen

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'56; L to r; Bob Schatz, Dick Levendoski, Audie Audilet, and George Hedrich

'56; 45th Reunion, a group of Classmates, mostly from the 4th Company

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Pres; CAPT David S. Cooper, USN (Ret.) Corr Sec'y: CAPT F.N. Howe Jr., USN (Ret) 1 Walter Circle, Fredericksburg, VA 22405 e; fnhusna57@aol.com Sec'y; CAPT R.H. Scales, USN (Ret) 129 Westbury, Williamsburg, VA 23189 e; vkct@inindspring.com Webmaster; Fred Dammann web site; www.USNA.org If you are normally involved in the rites of spring around your place, get warmed up and be ready for the call. It is upon the land.

Before we get too involved in the business at hand, I'd like to send out a call: One of the joys of being at liberty is the availability of time and space to examine the nature of the hoops through which the generation in charge has determined we must jump. Nothing is more ripe for examination than the administration of health care, without which pursuit leisure time would simply overwhelm.

After a year of dedicated observation it appears to me that the word must have got out that this HCFA outfit had things so well in hand that many annuitants were simply standing around with nothing to do. So, whoever is in charge of making sure that everyone has plenty to do, decided we needed a new obstacle. Voila, TriCare for Life (TEL).

Admittedly anecdotal, my evidence is as follows: the national supply of toll free numbers is in critical short supply—every day there is a new exchange so dedicated. I am beginning to suspect the reason for this is TEL. If you successfully negotiate the automated phone answering system, the TFL staff person you get to talk to is like those folks in naval shipyards, terribly pleasant and just so sorry he can't take care of your problem—no matter what it is.

But, not to worry, you're just one call from

getting it done—"You need to talk to Joe Blow at (new number)." If this process doesn't evenmally loop back on itself in a couple hours the only solution (in a shipyard) is to go stand in someone's "in" basket. But with TFL that approach as a closer is impractical, as their nests are nationwide.

I belabor all this just to work off some firusttation, not because I've broken the code. If someone has—and here's the call—please advise.

Of course not everyone has quite this much free time, nor is quite as mystified by TFL. Some are actually applying their skill to heroic ends and the greater good. Exhibit number one in this case would have to be the recent industry of Stan Severance and Dick Scales. Their work is best described perhaps in this letter from the president of the Alumni Association and Foundation to all Class Presidents: The Class of 1957 recently made a proactive move to search out and inform the widows of their Classmates about changes in medical benefits associated with the TriCare for Life (TFL) Statute that went into effect 1 October 2001.

They correctly assumed that there could be many wives who had been widowed many years ago and who were totally unaware of their potential eligibility for these valuable benefits.

They found that several widows had never remarried and had. in general, moved away from military friendships and facilities, with the result that they did not have current and valuable information sources. After being contacted about the new policies, most 1957 widows acknowledged the information effort with sincere appreciation. Two women whose husbands had been killed on active duty over 30 years ago now project that they expect to save several thousand dollars per year as a result of being given the information!

We applaud the stewardship of the Class of 1957 for looking out for their Classmates' family members. We hope you too will consider providing this valuable service of informing Shipmate, April 2002

U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY CLASS OF 1957

45* Reunion Thursday, 19 September - Sunday, 22 September 2002

Annapolis, MD Headquarters: Loews Annapolis Hotel Reunion registration and information on receptions, banquet, football, tailgate, and merchandise orders were mailed in March 2002 Golf Tournament Friday, 20 September

Contact Bill Hamel wshamel@aol.com or 410-647-6214 Additional info on Class Web site www.usna57.org Questions/comments? Call or email: Jim Poole 703-780-7351 usna5745@aol.com Cleve Loman 301-340-3293 celmrlcbr@aol.com

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each of your former Classmates' widows about these benefits. (The letter then goes on to explain in some detail who may be eligible and encloses letters to be used in notifying widows.)

We believe the Class of 1957 has planted a seed that, cultivated, will grow into a grateful and important relationship with a special group of people we have a responsibility to remember. May you too have a healthy and prosperous New Year. Very sincerely, George P. Watt Jr. '73 Special thanks to Stan and Dick for the inspiration and heavy lifting, and to the enablers.

Executive Committee Chairman Bruce DeMars and President Dave Cooper, who have once more done us all proud.

Please note that the coliunn masthead was at long last altered last month to accommodate the "real" Class secretary's name and contact addresses. The corresponding secretary will be pleased to continue to receive the gossip and accompanying photos, but send the hard stoff to Dick.

Speaking of which, get a load of these two former 15th Company veterans, who were standing still just long enough to capture on film last June. Archie Heckler (left) of Angeles, Republic of the Philippines (looking just about the same as in the days of yore) was visiting Cam Fraser in Vienna, VA. The two were scheduled to rendezvous again this past Febmary in Thailand where Arch has business connections, and further reports are promised. Cam says Arch is committed to attending the 45th and so he is handcarrying a map of the Yard and English phrasebook out to the visitor And if you can't read the license plate it says "FIFTY7."

Arch and Cam Bob Bowers says that if you come down to Hobart looking for him, be advised that he and his bride, Nancy, have decided to become landowners. At last report they have bought a spot about ten clicks up River Derwent from the big city and now have a "proper place" to host visiting firemen. Classmates, and the like. The new digs on Dragon's Point are hard by the CadburySchweppes chocolate plant and have been christened "Dragon's Point of View" by guest lexicologist Mick Finn. The new '57 Visitor's Center in Tasmania will be occupied about the time you're reading this, but will not relieve the aliens of the requirement to go "offshore" every six months to get their visas punched. Bob also says to look for him at the 45th.

When it gets around to determining who came the farthest to the Big 45 in September we may need the services of some Youngsters current in spherical trig.

As previously advertised, the 50th Anniversary Class Gift Committee conducted its charter

meeting down at the farm during a recent weekend. Herewith the report of co-chairman Bmce DeMars: A majority of the 50th Gift Committee attended a meeting in the Yard on 26 January. Events were kicked off with dinner at the O'Club attended by Jim Bibb, Eleanor and Pete Boyne, Betty and Dan Cooper, Mimi and Dave Cooper, Margaret and Bruce DeMars, Betty and Cam Fraser, Joan and Wayne Fritz, Alice and Larry Goldstein, Dianne and Fred Howe, Carol and Ron Marryott, David Mitchell, Pete Neumann, Betty and Bill Peerenboom, Dick Scales, Ken Strahm, Rosemary and Sam TVippe, Barbara and Fritz Warren, and Fritz Weiss.

Saturday morning started with a welcome from the first set Brigade Commander. Then VADM John Ryan '67, the superintendent, spoke and answered questions for an hour. He brought the committee up to date on the current challenges the Academy faces and effectively communicated the value of Alumni gifts.

His talk was very well received. The committee then heard from Dick Johnson, the executive vice president of the Naval Academy Foundation. He discussed the focus areas for gifts and the superintendent's Strategic Plan.

Bruce DeMars and Ron Marryott, the campaign co-chairs, led a discussion on the five year dollar goal and the gift alternatives. Class contribution statistics were presented for '57 as well as for adjacent Classes. Gift proposals in each of the focus areas were presented as well as the tradeoffs for a single versus several gifts. Various means to seek Class consensus were debated. A spirited discussion ensued throughout with committee members more than adequately representing the interests of all sectors of our Class. A consensus was reached which, after discussion with Academy officials, will be communicated to the entire Class by newsletter. Bruce and Ron and President Dave are meeting with Academy officials in early February. Shortly after, you will all be asked to respond with comments and ratification of both the goal and the gift.

After the meeting Fred Howe took a picture of the assembled committee and all went to the Army-Navy basketball game. We won!

For the further amusement and fascination of all authorized personnel, here's that photo, snapped in front of the Nimitz Library. Left to right front row: Boyne, Howe, Scales, Trippe, DeMars, Strahm, Peerenboom, Warren, Bibb, Goldstein, and Marryott. Rear rank: Neumann,

Mitchell, Weiss, President Cooper Meukow, Fraser Fritz, and Dan Cooper Among other interesting things underway for the 50tii is the front end planning for our 50-year book. Even though that gala is miles away, those miles have a way of shrinking up to nothing in the context of operations like producing a book.

Aided and abetted by the inimitable Bill Hamel (who has been busy these last several months having, count 'um, two knees replaced simultaneously) negotiations have been opened with a publisher This is step one in what we hope will provide us a new and improved update to the update presented in our 30-year book. The First 30. Together with the indispensable participation of your Company Coordinators, Jim Quinn (finances) and Gerry Seder (photo editor) have signed on, guaranteeing the success of the venture.

We are hoping to collect the coordinators together briefly in September during some small window in the 45th proceedings and, during that weekend, will offer the Class an opportunity to subscribe to the book early, giving us our best shot at the number one objective this time around: a book that includes all hands.

If you happen to be among those did not submit material to the 30-year book, or have never seen that finished product, we'll have some cojg ies available in September for your p e m s a l ^ naked effort to encourage you to climb on board early this time. You'll be glad you did.

I One of the more interesting things you caft leam motoring around in this magazine is that your Classmates in other locales, out of sights are quietly at work doing good deeds and holdf ing the organization together One such example is our old buddy Bill Morrison, holed-up out i | Scottsdale, serving as local president of the Arif zona Chapter, and steering the ship from the Battle n located in Phoenix. Just listen to this: I left the Academy in the spring of 1954, having been found deficient in mathematics (solid analytical geometry and calculus). I immediately transferred to the University of Washington and was a communications major. However my main goal was to gain enough credits to qualify for Naval Flight Training which was my main objective all along. I was determined to be a Marine Corps pilot ever since I was 10 years old and had been placed into the cockpit

'57; The 50th Gift Committee Shipmate, April 2002

of a F4U Corsair by my step-dad who was a 30-year Chief Warrant Officer and had served on carriers through-out World War II. I entered flight training in Pensacola in April 1956 and received my pilot wings and a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps on 7 August 1957. It is quite ironic for this to have taken place exactly two months to the day of our Class graduation date! About one month later I crossed paths with some of our Classmates, namely Hugh Bostick and Bill Weaver, who claimed that I was the smart one since I transferred to a "normal" college, drove cars, and could date girls whenever I wanted to.

At completion of flight training my first duty station was MCAS Kaneohe, HI, where 1 remained until the spring of 1960. By then my wife delivered a boy named Bill at the Tripler Army Hospital. I transferred into the reserve back on the mainland and got a billet at the Glenview Naval Airfield near Chicago.

I was accepted by United Airlines in the summer of 1960 for pilot training. My daughter, Laura, was bom while I was in training. My career with United gave me the chance to fly many different aircraft such as; DC-6 and 7.

Viscount, Caravelle. B-727, B-757, B-767, DC10. B-747. and finally B-747-400 which I flew for my last five years to the Orient and the Pacific Rim countries.

Hastie, immortalized at a recent Class lunch. If you're having trouble recognizing him in this contemplative port bow shot, awaiting a vote on some momentous issue, mentally exchange the coffee cup for a Yuengling botde and it should all come rushing back.

Mr. Keith Enough of this tomfoolery; those of you in the temperate climes should take out a moment from your early season mowing and send your Classmates your recent photo so that (in case you need a reason, perish the thought) you will not need a nametag in September Carpe diem. 窶認NH

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Pres; Lt Col Gordon M. Gerson, USAF (Ret.) e: usna58@comcast.net Sec'y; Col Warren S. Walters, USMC (Ret.) 5664 Ravenel Lane, Springfield, VA 22151-2430 h; 703-321-9586; e; wwalters@erols.com web page; http;//www.usna.com/Classes/1958/

Bill and Joanne Morrison Upon my retirement in 1993 Joanne and I decided to retire in Scottsdale, AZ. Since I am a Life Member I decided to look up the local Chapter and take part in their activities. About a year later, the Chapter president asked me to be the vice-president. Then a few months later he announced he was resigning due to his relocation. I'm beginning my third term as president and am enjoying it. There are two Classmates, Dick Renner and David Isquith, who attend whenever they have a chance. It's fun to socialize with Alums that span from '41 through '92. The USNA bond is alive and well!

Joanne and I are really looking forward to the 45th Reunion. Hopefully everyone will be wearing nametags with bold lettering so as to help us "old folks."

Isn't that cool? Told you.

The following hot input from Jerry Smith of the 45th Reunion Committee has just fluttered in over the transom for broadcast to all the ships at sea.

The 45th Reunion Committee advises that registration forms and info on receptions, banquet, football, tailgate, merchandise ordering, etc., were mailed the first week of March.

Please respond early to enable a smooth 19-22 September reunion in Annapolis.

To wind this up, from our miscellaneous but enchanting photo file, the final exhibit for your consideration is none other than Class football ticket czar and all around Navy Booster Keith

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April is swinging down the lane, and that means once again the rigors of winter are behind and the warm seasons are coming. Those Classmates who live in the more temperate climes are likely to shrug their shoulders and think it's not such a big deal, but those who chip ice off the birdbath or shovel snow off the sidewalk have a bigger smile on their face. Some poets have been a bit reluctant to claim April as the greatest month. Robert Frost said, "You know how it is with an April day..." extolling its ability to flip-flop temperatures on a whim, while T.S. Eliot flat out opined "April is the cmelest month..." The best referral probably comes from Christopher Morley, who wrote, "April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go." Let us agree with the latter and go with the Classmate adventures.

The homework assignment in the January-Febmary column regarding the mysterious plaque with the Class crest resulted in many answers, both by phone and email. Among the respondents were Al Yost (1), Larry Reeger (8), Jim Davis (14), Jim Sheehan (1), Walt Mitchell (12), Bob Haltermann (18), Boyd Sharp (5), Gary Minar (20), and Hugh Palmer (14). The one thing everyone agreed upon was that on the back of their plaques was a seal stating "Bailey, Banks, and Biddle, Philadelphia." This was missing from Jack Adams (4) plaque, the item that originally raised the question. Beyond that single point of agreement, no one could definitely say exacdy

when or where they obtained their plaque! Hugh Palmer undertook to pursue the matter with BB&B, called Philadelphia, and contacted a lady named Margaret Keifer who knew exactly the plaque about which he was inquiring, stating she had several similar types hanging in her office.

She further stated that the plaques were sold only through the Philadelphia store or by mail order from an advertisement. The plaques would not have been sold in any store in Monterey or Annapolis. The BB&B representative made an effort to track down the plaque creation, and ran up against a brick wall. She passed on to Hugh that there were two subcontractors who would have supplied the 1958 crests to BB&B, and both of them have gone out of business. With their demise, the dies for the crest also went into oblivion, therefore, BB&B found it impossible to make any. While this trail has gone cold, a reader from another Class, Brev Moore '63, sent in the address of another company that does that type of work. The company is currently under contract to the Alumni Association to make large copies of Class crests to go into Alumni Hall as part of the decor and has the capability to do smaller reproductions. Many thanks to Hugh for his efforts, and stay tuned for further adventures in the pursuit of another thing to hang on your wall!

Coincidental to some of the responses were additional bits of information thrown into the messages. Larry Reeger mentioned that his plaque was in one piece, but with bum marks as the result of a major fire that he had in his home just before Christmas. Jim Davis disclosed the location of his plaques as hanging behind his personal "head" (think shipboard language) that he had installed, in which the lid can be in any position he wants and where he keeps his abbreviated "I love me" wall. On that wall he has photos of his 100th mission flight over RVN, his last fighter flight in an F-15, a plaque of the last wing he commanded, and his Red River Rat plaque.

The personal head sounds like a great solution for what to do with all those plaques one has collected over the years, and provides a great place for contemplation of the memories associated with the plaques!

Buff Walter (11) sent in the story of his New Year's travels, as follows: 1 just returned from three weeks in Europe where New Years week I was able to gather all twelve of my immediate Walter family in a French farm house to celebrate a great family time together. I couldn't resist unfurling the flag for a family picture so here it is! Pictured are fourteen people, so it includes some very good German friends who joined us for a couple of days. The others include my daughter, Patty, her husband. Randy and two of my granddaughters, Cara and Dana; my son, Scott, his wife, Agnes and my two grandsons, Bruno and Leo plus granddaughter, Ariane; and my son.

Rich and wife, Susan. The time at Issenhausen, an "ink spot" farm village of 30 was great, even with the very cold weather. Trips to Strasbourg and other picturesque areas allowed us to sample the great Alsatian cuisine.

After the family gathering, no trip to Europe is complete without a visit to the Alps for skiing. I spent some time in Garmisch with friends and had three great days of skiing on the Sugspitz with bright sunshine, powder snow, and temperatures about 25 F and no lift lines! The picture is of my friend and his daughter, who was the 89

roast goose banquet on short notice, m season!

JD Williams (9) goes far afield to get some of his hunting done, and has sent in a picmre of h | annual hunting trip to Scotland. He has bee| going there for a week each November sin^ 1990. For the past five years, he has been joine'

by Chuck Baker (11), who lives in Helensburg' Scotiand, and this year he was alsojoinedby jÂŁ Corder (3) of Annapolis. The photo below shov the results of that trip.

Buff Walter family in France

Buff in Garmisch German snowboard champion for some time, though now at 30, she says she is considered the "grandmother" of snow boarders.

Cross country movers Rosemary and Jim Adkins (9) drove from Washington, DC, to the Puget Sound twice over the holidays in order to get all cars to the West coast. Jim has since checked in telling of their resettlement in Washington state; Rosemary and I are doingfine.We were very fortunate in our travels across the country. We made two driving trips, one before Christmas and one after 1 retired on 4 January. In neither case did we encounter any bad weather. In fact, the worst weather for both trips was on the first one with some fog and a little bit of ice on the roads going through the Blue Mountains in Oregon. We still have not unpacked everything in the apartment but it is gradually shaping up.

Our house is going up slowly, partly because of the weather and partly because of issues with our roof, which one next door neighbor thinks is too high. We survived a homeowner's association inquisition and are moving forward again.

We think we will be lucky to be in the house sometime in July. But, it has absolutely a fantastic view so hopefully it will be worth waiting for.

We are enjoying the grandchildren tremendously. 1 have been so busy, that being retired has not really hit me except some mornings I do not get up as early. One of my retirement gifts was fly fishing lessons. I think the fish will be safe at least until the house is finished!

The temporary address for the Adkins until their house is completed this summer is as

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follows: 5419 Village Park D r SE, Apt. #3132, Bellevue, WA 98006; 425-957-3749.

Another cross-country mover has been discovered as a result of the continual verification of email addresses by the Duke of the Database, Gordon Gerson (11). A query by card, which was forwarded, brought the following response from Jim Brewer (19): Got your recent card and you're right, my old email of OldNickl02 has not been reactivated on AOL yet, since a few months ago we moved (permanently, I guess) to Los Angeles.

For some reason, the Alumni Association hasn't acted on the address change notice them, so I haven't received a Shipmate for quite a while.

I miss reading the hews about Classmates, as the only ones I keep in touch with regularly are my old wife. Gene McKenzie (19), and sometimes Pete Berg (18), not counting my brother Bill Brewer (17), naturally.

If you have time, maybe you can send me a listing of '58ers in California, or at least in the L.A. area. The only one I know of for sure is Bruce Craig (19), who after retiring as a pilot for American Airlines, returned to his native San Diego area. We were in the same USNA company and both flew the same plane (FSUs) out of Miramar about 40 years back. Even though we lived in San Diego as kids during the war while our father was in the Pacific, I can't get down there very much, as my wife is pretty well disabled with a chronic lung condition and I have to take care of her most of the time. Thank God for Medicare and her retired Yale University Health Plan!

Also, our daughter, Jill, lives here about three miles away. We were planning to settle maybe thirty miles away, but such things as real estate prices, climate, and availability of medical care, which is very good in L.A., came into play. As a result, we're right around the corner from Jill. As to real estate, the situation around here, at least before 11 September, is that house and property rentals are about twice as high as they were in Connecticut. However, rentals and condos are about the same, so we bought one of the latter and so far like it a great deal. I'm surprised how much 1 like L.A. since my Navy days were either in the San Francisco or San Diego areas and I used to whip through here just as quickly as possible. My address here is 4411 Los Feliz Blvd., #108, Los Angeles CA 90027-2141:323-660-7905.

If the Class ever runs short of menu ideas for a major reunion, we are blessed with intrepid goose hunters who can provide an appropriate

On this side of the Adantic, the goose huntinf continued at Pond House, the Maryland Eastem Shore property of Jim Corder Joining Jim as the host were JD Williams, Jack Adams (4), a^ John Gentile (16). The distribution of gee& shown in the photo indicates that at least oite hunter may have fired blanks, but as no credits for marksmanship were provided, one shooter could have bagged all three trophies! Only Pond House walls know the tmth! As a matter of inr terest, about 50 geese live on a small lake notfm from where this is being written. They will walk directly up to you in search of bread cmmbs, are pleasingly plump as a result of being stuffed therewith, and could be dispatched silendy with a 9-iron. Area residents would be most grateful, and one wouldn't have to dress in cammies! In the photo on the next page, the camouflage makes it difficult to recognize the four "Js," left to right: JD, Jim, Jack, and John. The geese were named Joe, Jerry, and Jason!

Ed Jackson (5) (Edjacksonn@aol.com) has provided an update on his activities: I retired many years ago from Rockwell, and I have done a number of things since; worked for a computer security company; worked in graphic design producing instructional CDs; worked about a year on an agricultural magazine, which didn't make it past the first issue; and now work for a small 8a company, A1 Signal Research Inc.. in the NASA Training Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. I have been trying to set up a corporate university for NASA and am doing some organization development, mainly dealing with engineering directorates. It has been fun working with some of the younger generation moving into management positions now. My current address is 1060 Grandeview Blvd., Apt 622, Huntsville, AL 35824; 256-772-5326.

Al Barbero (15) sent in a note to provide the correct phone number for reaching him, which is 910-295-6789. An eariier number given in the column was for his fax machine. Even with a Pinehurst, NC, address, he and Mary "wintered in Florida" until this month. A new email address for Otto Helweg (6) (bigotto@helweg.com) is, a most appropriate address for our Class heavyweight boxer Two new email addresses for Shipmate, April 2002

Goose hunters in Maryland members of the 12th Company: John Phillips can be reached at LILAX@aol.com, and Tom Lacy has an address ofThomelacy@aol.com.

The binnacle list this month includes Pete Gatje (24) (pjgatje@aol.com), who is now the proud owner of a shiny new titanium hip joint as of 6 Febmary. He will be in for a long recuperation due to the necessary muscle cuts and the need to grow into the new joint. You can give him advice about getting through airline metal detectors.

Bob Shearer (14) provided an update on Clark Dyck (14), stating that he was elated to report that Clark's treatment for mantle cell lymphoma appears to have worked. He underwent the treatment wherein, after killing off his bone marrow, they re-injected his own stem cells. His doctor has pronounced him cancer free and with a 50% chance of living five years, which is "just about par for the course for geezers our age."

And finally, there was a dinner gathering of' 58ers in Jupiter FL on 17 January. Nancy and Tom Sinnott (21) of Annapolis, MD, and Gail and Mike Moran (24) of Gaitfiersburg, MD, celebrated their snowbird stauis, while Liz and Bill Hayes (22) celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary. Bill sent in a "virtual" photo, which includes a virtual '"58 Is Great" flag in the background. Close your eyes and enjoy!

'58 Trivia: The commercial artist who drew football program covers while we were Midshipmen was Gib Crockett.

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Chuck Harrison (12) has submitted a trivia question that only he may know the answer to.

Who (or what) out in Annapolis was "Oscar?"

HastaLuego!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;WSW

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Pres; VADM Francis R. Donovan, USN (Ret) Chairman Exec. Committee; CAPT Norbert H. Bednarek, USNR (Ret) e; bednarek@annap.infi.net Exec. VP; Joe Flynn Admin. VP; CAPT Dan Truax Exec. Sec'y: Bruce Nordwall Corp. Treasurer; Dave Osburn Sec'y; CAPT John A. Butterfield, USN (Ret.) 509 Buckboard Ct., Richland, WA 99352 h: 509-371-1486 CEOof Gateskatelnc, 2655 Einstein Ave., Richland, VA 99352 w: 509-371-0726; e; jbutter@gateskate.com www.usna.com/classes/1959/usna59.html Good moming '59ers! Make this a real "Rise 'n Shine" time and don't let the Dark Ages get to you. Sure, Puxatawney Phil may have seen his shadow, but the fantastic Patriots victory should keep us warm and not wintry for a long time. After all. New England waited 42 years for the sun to shine on them, and what a sweet victory! And what better time than this year after the events of 11 September for the Cradle of Liberty to celebrate

such a sweet comeback, having been written off by many experts. But turning from a high, to a low, I must announce the passing of a tme gentieman, a much-respected member of the Class, John William T\irner. John, bom 5 June 1936 in Denton, MT, passed away on Saturday, 12 January 2002, after a long struggle with cancer He was a Naval Aviator a successful businessman, a most active member of the community, and a wonderful family man. Joe Keeley sent me this note; Attending the service for John in Appleton, WI, on 16 January, were three of John's Naval Academy roommates and their wives; Jane and Joe Keeley, Audrey and Jim Kelly, and LuAnn and Chuck Miller. We all got to talk to John's wife, Fran (John was preceded in death by his wife of 40 years, Mary Ann, and married Fran Lukashewich of Appleton, WI), and John's children, sister, and brother after the service.

USNA roommates Ron Denny, and Julie and Fred March, as well as 19th Company mates Suzie and Pete Shields and Gretchen and Dick Winter will have attended the service for John on Saturday, 19 January 2002, in Durham, NC. Well done, 19th Company for such love and support! I knew John back in flight training, for we were both in the S2F pipeline, and he was always a super nice guy!

Follow-up and clarification re Social Security from Ron Jesberg (Rjesberg@aol.com): As usual I enjoy your Shipmate articles. Walt Wynn and I are both recipients of increased Social Security from our four years at USNA. When you retire from the service, you only get credit from the graduation date (for military retired pay). Your DD-214 only shows active duty from graduation until retirement. You have to show Social Security your DD-214 and they use this to figure your payments; however, USNA will provide a letter upon request stating that the four years at USNA are considered active duty time. This is in addition to your DD214. FYl, once I refilled with Social Security (with the letter from USNA), my monthly payments were increased by $19/month. Not much but who knows; every little bit may help. Finally, they went back to when 1 first started receiving social security and made a one-time increase for the previous months back pay. It may well be worth one's time in obtaining this small benefit. Enjoy your new employment {Sec'y note: I am!). Richland is a great place to live. Have a great day and Rise 'n Shine!

Thanks, Ron, and yes we love living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington!

This from Tony Marks: Just finished reading the '59 column; you have been doing a superb job with this over a lot of years. To update you, my three-year term as Trustee at Large for the USNA Alumni Association finishes in May. I have been active in working with the House Committee helping manage USNA AA's four properties, and we are about to undertake a major renovation for Alumni House. I have been nominated to stand for election as Eastem Region Trustee and hope to be able to finish the work on Ogle Hall. I will be on travel to Norfolk early February for a pre-deployment visit to my son. Charles Marks '88, who is XO on MONTEREY (CG-61).

Otherwise my insurance consulting business keeps me on the road a lot, conducting continuing education classes all over the East Coast. Great to see you, Dan Branch, and Bill Garrett at USNA last year.

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Keep up the good work, Tony. I have seen Tony hard at work in Alumni matters, and he is a winner!

A short follow-up to an item in a previous column, about Brenda and Don Smith's son, Lt Col Tony Smith, USAF. Tony is presentiy serving on the Special Operations Command Staff at MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL. He was selected to command a large squadron at Peterson Field in Colorado Springs, CO, this being his second command. Don Smith (BGDonSmith@aol.com) writes: We are quite proud of him and his family.

"And so you should be, dear folks!" The change of command is scheduled for 21 June 2002, at Peterson Field. We will be in the Colorado Springs area from 17-24 June. We would love to see any and all of you if you happen to be in the area. You are also cordially invited to the ceremony. RSVP if you can make it.

With my new job I have been doing some travel in the West, including Boise, ID, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas. I knew that Willis S. Whittlesey called Salt Lake home, when he was not working overseas or on travel with a variety of interests. I finally caught up to Whit at his new email address (mswhittlesey速 msn.com; 801-272-3928). The timing and schedules have not allowed us to see one another just yet, but here was an email from this great guy; "It was good to hear your voice. My apologies for the errant email address. We just had a similar experience as QWEST decided to stop being an ISP so we are now with msn, and on a longer-term program I expect. If you are coming this way, please plan to stay with us. Holladay, UT, is only 13 miles from the center of downtown Salt Lake City, about a 20 minute drive and really quite convenient. If it is during the Olympics, we are presently not booked at all, but we may be in the east for a week to ten days starting around 8 February.

We helped a Bulgarian swimmer get into a collegiate swimming program over here, first at Iowa State, which promptly dropped their swimming program. Ugh! Now he is a standout at Indiana University! Parents Weekend is 9 February 2002, and we are planning to take that in. Even if we are gone, you would be most welcome here during the games if that is your time frame; if not, we will be glad to see you whenever you pass through, or need to stay for skiing, fishing, skating, whatever! Thanks for calling. I will look forward to hearing from you, and seeing you out west.

Whit, dianks so much for such a positive response, and congratulations for steering a young person onward and upward! Indiana has a tremendous swimming program, a great long tradition of excellence!

If the editors and I have coordinated properly, you should see a photo of our Vince Obsitnik.

Vince is in the midst of his 26.2-mile effort at the Columbus Marathon, mn in Columbus, OH. He looks good and could pass for a politician "on parade" looking for votes. Keep smiling, Vince, and Congrats on a super marathon effort!

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Some quickies: George Lehmberg wants you to have a look at his web site: http;// members.cox.net=/glehmberg. Also please have a look at the '59 web site periodically, because Dave Sullivan keeps you posted and informed.

Dave's email is now dsulliva9@cox.net. Jimmy Brown and Dick Baldwin sent an uplifting email to a few '59ers, entitied "God Works in Mysterious Ways" and is that ever true! Please look at the December 2001, Class of 1963 column to note a beautiful letter written to the Wall Street Journal by Joan Hernon, the wife of Don Hernon. Don was rightfully very proud of his wife of 42 years who could not sit idly by. Twenty years of active duty with four kids and many moves prompted Joan Schaefer Hernon (married 42 plus years) to speak up. Yeah[ Don Smith mused about childhood play with toy soldiers, and lead soldiers in particular. Those of you, who may be collectors or have kept some stored away, may want to contact Don. My wife, Priscilla, says I have kept too many things, mostly junk, and not something valuable like the lead soldiers I once played with. Jim Holds sent a terrific photo along that depicted joint operations in Afghanistan at its best. Army ground controllers, acting on intelligence gathered from other sources, vectored two Navy F-14s to the target, a former Russian BMP used by the Taliban/Al Queda forces. It was obliterated. Go Navy and other forces as well!

If any of you want to be in touch with John T\irner's family, or if you wish to be part of a memorial fund established in John's name, please contact Ron Turner (ron458@aol.com); 706-846-5373.

I was at the Super Show, the largest sporting goods show in the world, from 21-23 January, where we exhibited for the fu^t time in the U.S., our TrailSkate.

It was a huge success, and we ended up being in the top five for New Product of the Year competition.

We sure hope we come out on top when results are aimounced late spring, and that could mean national TV exposure. I had hoped to see Carole and Jerry loveless in Las Vegas, NV, but they were on travel to see family in California and attend to some of their business matters. My next travel is to South Florida and hope to see a few '59ers back in my

old stomping grounds. Wish the timing was such I would see old friend and running buddy Bill Corcoran (Corcoran.nsrc@prodigy.net; 860' 285-8779) there. He often visited the area in conjunction with his work (Nuclear Safety Review Concepts in Windsor CT 06095-1634). Billr^ cently wrote to wish a Happy New Year and let us know: Bonnie Jean and I both completed the Walt , Disney Worid Marathon, 6 January 2002. It was " herfirstofficial marathon, hence a personal best; or PR (personal record in running pariance).

The picture below says it all. This was my 14th marathon, albeit not a PR. By the way, we are still in the root cause organizational learning business. The latest challenge has been helping gas, oil, and coal-fired generating stations improve safety and environmental performance by applying root cause analysis.

Bill and Jean Corcoran after Jean's first marathon Thanks, Bill, and I hope the photo of a dynamic duo with marathon medals will reprint.

Next folks looking for photo coverage are the Powers-Noreika team. Here is what Phil wrote: On our retum trip across country after spending Christmas in Atlanta with combined Butler and Balac families (along with my daughter Kristal and her family), and using a 1993 Honda Accord given Valli by her son, we were fortunate to visit with Josie and Dick Noreika in Scottsdale, AZ, at their beautiful home in the desert. Our previous rendezvous had been here in Honolulu. I forward some photos. The Jag belongs to Dick and is complete with Arizona Navy "59 plates.

'59; L to r; Dick, Josie, Valli, and Phil Shipmate, April 2002

The desert picture (and Desert Mt is in their back yard). 1 to r; Phil, Valli, Josie, and Dick Frank Young (younggrandpa7@aol,com) wrote and he will send me more "old" '59er reports from much earlier Shipmates, which I will continue to use in a "Look Back" section of this regular column. Frank will soon resort to his home email address only. Thanks again, Frank, for your support and contributions!

Some changes and some rather short reports.

Dick Robinson is now at rrobby@comcast.net.

Bud Hill is at Budhill2@earthlink.net. Carol and Walter Wynn deserve some bragging rights re their daughter-in-law, Tess. His son, Jeff Wynn, reported his wife was selected Outstanding Graduate Student, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, and receives a nice check and recognition at an April banquet. Dave Sullivan is on a terrific swimming, ranning, exercise program from his Roanoke, VA, area home, and feels better/is definitely in better shape than he was as a Midshipman. Go Sully! And Brenda and Don Smith stay with their tennis program, although Don has an aching right shoulder Don is an active guy, now serving his fifth year in local politics in Lancaster PA, area, where he is president of the Manheim Township Commissioners. See, we do have a president from the Class of 1959!

And if you want some laughs, ask Jim Holds about AAADD, Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder Most of us could say, "been there, done that" and probably more than a few times. Rise and Shine, gang, and see you next edition. Keep at least the email and cards coming! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;John Butterfield

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Pres; VADM Ed Clexton, USN (Ret) 1000 Bobolink Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 h: 757-491-2141 e; clexboeck@aol.com Sec'y; Bill Lewis 14312Cove Ridge PI., Midlothian, VA23112-4337 h; 804-744-8808 e: bilewis@comcast.net web site; http;//www.usna.com/classes/1960/ default.htm.

First of all let me clear up an error in the Januaiy-Febmary Shipmate. Computers are wonderful things, but they still have to follow the instmctions of their operators. Cutting and pasting is a handy

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tool to move information around. It always helps to cut the right information when you are pasting a notice for people to heed. Anyway, the tour that Jim Duffy handled back in 1998 showed up in my "plans" box and got incoiporated into the column. I understand that it was great, but I also understand that Hank Papa, working with Tom Glew, Hugh Smith and others is planning an even better one. This may also be organized with the Navy game and details will be promulgated as soon as available. I apologize for the confusion. If anything, I hope you will consider it a heads-up.

In ttying to confirm some discrepancies in my database I was able to hear from Don Foery: Bill, sorry about that, 1 know you have been trying to reach me. Presently, home is in Alexandria, VA. You should be up to date because our trasty company rep, John Michalski does such a good job. Annabel and 1 have left Annapolis this past year for old town Alexandria and a place in SW France, just like everybody else. Since arriving in Alexandria, Charlie Jenkins (6) has stopped in to see us. Not many have seen him in the last 40 years. He's retired from the Air Force, living in Charleston, and visiting a daughter here in town. In France, Pat Sullivan (6) dropped in, and we also entertained Jossette and Casey Goodrich (6) for a very American Thanksgiving dinner. Jossette is French, and they live in Monaco. The reason we have been somewhat out of touch is that we have been in Australia for six weeks, visiting friends and Annabel's sister for Christmas. We are looking forward to a ski trip with some of our Classmates at Copper Mountain in March. Our very best wishes to you. You're doing a great job. Thank you.

From Buz Ausley via email: Please let me have a confirming reply if you now have my email address. Class news; Pepper and I just had a delightful visit with Jane and Jim Eilertsen who are here in Orlando for a meeting. Jim is very involved in Christian prison ministry work and achieving some remarkable results. He is still hard to ignore.

From Mike Merrill (20) via email: Hello gang and greetings from a cool, no a cold, day here in South Dakota. I am leaving tomorrow for Albuquerque to visit granddaughter Jordan Lynn and her parents for a week, but wanted to let you know where we stood on the request by Ed Mangan to pulse our company on the Class cruise. The bad news is that Robyn Walters pointed out that reservations were supposed to be in by October 2001. The good news is that if you have decided at this late date that you want to go there is some info at the '60 web site, www.usna60.com, re; being able to get an accommodation to join the cruise. Robyn also provided an email address to the POC Sharon Stone for cmise info. See her comments later in this email. Here are some of the responses I received.

Al Jordan: Hi, Mike! Carolyn and I visited Alaska last summer so we will not be taking the cmise. We enjoyed our trip that was by car and bush plane. I recommend Alaska to anyone who hasn't been there.

Dave Raymond Mike, Nancy and I are thinking about it, but having just retumed from a four week cmise and stays around South America, we are having trouble committing to another one so soon. If anyone is interested I can highly recommend vacationing there, (Chile and Argentina) especially.

Argentina where the dollar now goes twice as far as it did a month ago.

Fred "Corky" Kretz: Sounds like a fun trip, but me and my boys (all well into their thirties) are going to be up there fishin' the Russian and the Kenai. We've gotten addicted. Thanks for the inclusion.

Robyn Walters: The cut-off date for signing up was the end of October 2001, but they may still have some spots open. POC at the travel agency is Sharon Stone (sharon@mccabebremer.com). We couldn't very well pass up a trip to Alaska with Classmates when we live so close. We are on the Aloha Deck, Starboard side, but I don't know the frame number.

From Wayne Vinje via email: I am interested in more information on the Tulane-Navy game. My lovely wife of more than 40 years and I would like very much to be there for the events. Would you provide any additional details you have on the trip, in addition to signing us up.

We are having a real Montana winter, so the powder skiing at our resort, Bridger Bowl, has been fine. It's just over the Bridger Mountain Ridge above our home. At the Bowl, we climb the same ridge from the other side to access new powder. Skiing and flying my Cessna 182RG occupies much of my leisure time during the winter. The workweek is spent with my sonranningour catalog businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Planet Natural, non-chemical products for pest control, and Cosmic Chile, hot sauces. Down to one business now that I've sold our Restaurant/Motel complex in Big Timber, MT. I'm trying to get something started in general aviation now, where my elecrical engineering Ph.D might be more applicable.

We visited the Galapagos Islands in December and loved it. We swam with the sea lions and penguins (sharks, too), walked with the iguanas and stopped just short of flying with the boobies. The bird life, in particular, is spectacular there. The trip also was an education in the ripple effects of the September terrorist attacks.

We were only the second U.S. couple our Ecuadorian guide had been with since the attack.

Normally, U.S. tourists are 75% of his business.

Life in Montana is good, and if any Classmates are in the vicinity of Bozeman, stop by.

Our phone number is 406-585-9849 and email; vinjeduo@onemain.com. We're only 90 miles from the west entrance to Yellowstone Park, and we can provide guidance on other things to see and do here, as well.

The recent success of Class gatherings in Tidewater and San Diego has encouraged Class leadership to recommend similar gatherings in other areas. Annapolis, Northern Virginia/DC, San Francisco, Florida, Texas, Seattie and other population centers are great places to "start something." If you need help finding who is in your area contact Ed Clexton or Bill Lewis and we'll assist with whatever info we have. In the meantime, we'll keep you posted on the great times that we're having elsewhere. What does it take?

I'll quote from one of Ed's recent messages insofar as organizing a local group.

1 do it down here and it really doesn't take that much time, as long as (almost) everyone has an email capability. We have really enjoyed seeing old friends, meeting some we never knew before, and just gathering at a Saloon (Restaurant) once a month to have a barbeque, a beer, and laugh and tell lies about what somebody else did in Rio!

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By way of example, we're shooting for a nice one in May. also from Ed: I want to announce to all from Suffolk to Annapolis that Bob Rutherford is arranging a river cruise for all of us, and our wives or girlfriends, to cruise the Rappahannock River on Thursday, 9 May, from 10 a.m. 'til 2 p.m., including a stop at a winery where we will lunch while sipping select wines. Please let Bob (nTutherford@hotmail.com) (note 3 r's) and I know if you are interestedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^just interested, we can solidify the numbers later as the date gets closer, but for now Bob needs a rough idea of how many might attend.

Company reps have been doing a great job assisting the Class board and hopefully the guys in their companies. With email it isn't a big job, but can be fun keeping in touch with the old gang.

Several companies are very actively in contact and it helps organize company get-togethers and events. Some of those include 17, 20 and 6. I'm sure there are others. The reps help Class officers keep a handle on things and maintain close contact with former roommates, etc., that couldn't be handled any other way.

As below. Gene Chancy checks in on email: Thanks for the contact. I already had the one for Lew Thames but here's a few "back at cha; Dick Meredith, Larry Beyer, Denny Falk, Wendal Jenkins, Herb Mossman, and Russ Rentfro. Before our last reunion I talked to Larry Boyer on the West coast to encourage his attendance. He didn't make it but I believe the email aboveiscorrect...Holly ishis wife. I called and talked to Denny Falk in Albuquerque, NM the other day. He is a lawyer and not yet retired. I also called Carl Harris and left a message for him to please call me. No response yet. I was also able to reach Henry Maguder.

We had a pleasant talk and he seemed very pleased I had called and included him in our email inventory. I have also made contact with Jim Ramsey who will pay Donna and me a visit in October en route to a squadron reunion in Jax. I spoke with Herb Mossman's wife who supphed the email. They live in Port Orange, FL. That's about it for now. According to my list, I'm missing the following from 12th Co; Ron Earle, Carl Harris, Larry McCullough, and Wally Swaverly.

From Dennis Vied, via email: Whew! Well, the Class database is back up and ranning. I won't bore you with all the details. I had to do some major screwing around with the scripts and files, and figure new ways to do things, because the tools offered by this website aren't as plentiful as the old one. Anyway, my son-in-law set me up a complete Linux box and server on an old computer I have here, so I was able to develop everything I needed and got it working on that box, then transferred it to the usna60 site. Then all I had to do was modify all the files to indicate it's new location, and figure out where on the new site to locate the files so they would run properly. Just finished! It works! It's under the "Members Only" tag on the Nav Bar. I will post a copy of this message information on the web site. Bill, I don't have the email broadcaster in place yet, I'm still unsure if I can do it on this site. So I would appreciate an email to everyone that the database is up.

From Ed Clexton on the January get together in Norfolk: We started off 2002 with our largest ever gathering of Classmates (25) in the Hampton Roads area. In attendance were Jack Brockman, 94

Paul Cooper, Bill Kee, John Whelan, Bob lanucci. Bill Ross, Bob Brenton, Rod Friedman, Bob Osmon, Mike McCullough, Frank Kay, Dennis Terry, Moe Moran, Ray Taylor, Torry Rogers, Henry von Kolnitz, Joe Jaap, Ed McCaskill, Al Ablowich, Skip Sweetser, Bert Johnson, Jack Greenhalgh, Bill Townsend, Wick Parcells and myself. Pictures will follow from Rod Friedman. I hope you can make it one of these days. Our next will be on 12 Febraary.

From Pete Dolan via email; As you can probably discern from the date of this reply, I do not open my email every day.

Jack Shaw may have advised you, we had 14 at the Class lunch at the Submarine Base in San Diego, and I was able to chat with several I had not seen since graduation, and a few I did not recall at all (from the invisible 4th Batt.). Ted Parsons and I attended from Los Angeles, and Danny Musselman (who bilged out, but has been the most active Alum for 30 plus years) from Orange County, and the rest live in the Greater San Diego area. Bernie Eberline lives in Fallbrook, but apparently is very ill and was too weak to attend. Both Bill Lloyd and Ted Parsons offered to pick him up, but Bernie declined the offers. Ted planned to visit him on Thursday, and show him Ted's 40th Reunion album with many photos, and I will call Ted to see how things went. In any event, I enjoyed the lunch and I will try to attend on a regular basis. If I can get a list of our Classmates who live in Greater Los Angeles, I will be pleased to bug them to attend as well.

I think Jack will try to schedule the lunch every quarter, to get some momentum, and then perhaps expand the program to include an event with spouses.

I will be glad to help with the Class Project, which I heard about from Bill Griffin (1st Company), with whom I am in regular contact.

Let me know more about our project. Will it be for the Math Department, where I spent a substantial amount of time Plebe Year in Extra Instruction...?

Re; the email addresses, dolanlawÂŽ earthhnk.net is my regular office address, and JacquieDol@aol.com is Jacquie's at home. The yahoo.com address is one I set up in September 1999, as I was preparing to leave Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP to set up my own firm, and before 1 opened the World Headquarters of The Dolan Law Firm in Citibank Center, but I only check it every month or so.

I just received the following from John Michalski via email: On 8 Febraary, 14 Classmates from the Annapolis area met for a lunch arranged by Merf Moerschel at the Eastport Yacht Club.

Plans are to hold monthly gatherings in the future. The next luncheon will be on 22 March at the Eastport Yacht Club. Those in attendance were Ed Mangan, Bob Gamba, Bob Antonio, John Chenard, Bob Lowe, Ron Burdge, Jim Knorr, Merf Moerschel, Jim Britell, Mike Willsey, Ron Brandquist, Jim O'Farrell, Don Boecker, and John Michalski. Old stories were repeated and it was determined that at least 497 Classmates now recall being a night crawler!

(Just kidding). It was decided that a mix of different gatherings, with and without spouses would be planned for the future. Pencil in a Blue Angels gathering at John Michalski's house on Wednesday, May 22. All Classmates in town at the time are invited. Contact Ed Mangan, Merf or John for information about the meetings.

Bill, I don't have a digital camera but will send you a still that was taken of the guys ASAP.

Last minute arrival from Ed Clexton via email: We had another nice lunch for the Hampton Roads '60 crowd. In attendance were 20; Bill Ross, Bert Johnson, Frank Kay, Ed McCaskill, Jack Greenhalgh, Dennis Terry, Bob Rutherford, Rod Friedmann, Jack Brockman, John Mendelis, Al Ablowich, Bob lanucci. Bill Kee, John McNabb, Henry vonKolnitz, Bill Townsend, Skip Sweetser, Nick Stasko, Torry Rogers and myself. In March, Bob lanucci is going to show us the navigation trainers at the D&S piers, NOB Norfolk, before our monthly lunch, either at the Breezy Point O' Club or maybe in town at Felinnis. I hope you can make it.

Just heard from Jack Shaw: Class of 1960 Luncheon-Southem California. Date; Thursday, 25 April. Time; 11 ;30 a.m.

Buffet lunch; cost $10, locafion. Ocean View (old Submarine base BOQ) Please RSVP to Jack Shaw at 619-4370687 or by email at jshawl4@aol.com or Bill Lloyd at 6195791349. The event is primarily for those in the San Diego County area, but anyone in the SoCal area is cordially invited. If you will need a pass to get on the base, please so advise.

L lu I: Jack Brockman, Nick Stasko, John Mendelis and Henry Von Kolnitz

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All photos for use in columns must be submitted by the Class or Chapter Secretary.

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Pres; RADM Arlie Campbell, USN (Ret) Cort. Sec'y; CAPT Roger Onorati, USN (Ret) 1756 Point-No-Point Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 h; 410-849-3812; w: 301-261-8862 f; 301-261-8669; e; rttogero@starpowernet web site: www,USNA61,org Howdy, Classmates! It's spring, and I used up all my words allotted by Edbert, so, instead of telling you about my new mailman. Brace, I'll get on with the nooze.

Mail Call I received a short note from my friend. Norm Pigeon (13), that enclosed a very sttange article from the Prague Post about Norm Ridenour (12) who is a sculptor and furniture designer Uving in the Czech Republic. I will spare my loyal readers the gist of the article, which can easily be summarized in one word..."Very Strange." It is more than obvious that Norm has an abimdance of time on his hands and should be looking for a hobby. I thank him publicly, though, for his loyal contributions to this colunm over the years.

Cyberspace Nooze Bob "Tiny" McLaughlin (11): Just retumed from a short visit to Melboume, FL, where we had the opportunity to visit with Mickey and Jim McCime (16). They are settled into the area and enjoying their children and grandkid who are in the area. Spent an afternoon on Jim's boat (picture below.) and he didn't do too bad considering his Air Force background. He even remembered some of the knots Shorty taught him Plebe Summer. Doris and I still love Carolina, staying busier than we thought we ever would be in retirement.

Jim McCune (on stilts) and Tiny McLaughlin at sea In a past column was a bit from Don Grinnell (16) asking for some information on Gene GoUahon (12) requested by his daughter I got several inputs I sent on to Don including an especially touching one from Mike Hoememann (24) that I'd like to share with you. Mike writes: I had only briefly met Gene while at the Academy. He was in the 12th Company and I was way over in the 24th. Gene and I were both among the 40 or so Classmates that spent the summer of '61 working with the incoming Plebes. Most of us then went to Pensacola, and many stayed together throughout flight training. About a third of the group was married, including Gene and his wonderful bride, Mary.

Beginning in Annapohs, and later in Pensacola, and Meridian, and other stops along the way, both married and single Classmates continued to socialize a lot with each other. Gene was always a really intelligent guy. He graduated with stars, and I recall that in his series of apartments, a photo of him receiving his diploma

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directly from President Kennedy was always proudly displayed. Gene was also a lot of fun.

The pranks started early, when we were teaching sailing to the Plebes, and continued. Gene and Mary were great hosts, and a group of us bachelors were made a regular part of their household. I remember, in particular, a memorable toga party hosted by Gene and Mary. To this day, I have problems with more than a single glass of red wine. Gene and Mary wasted no time in starting a family, and many of us bachelors closely followed the pregnancy, and a whole group of us were at the hospital with Gene when Mary gave birth to their older daughter. Along the way, in addition to the social events. Gene and 1 had become good friends, and we talked on a wide range of subjects. 1 left flight ttaining in June of '62 and went on to destroyer duty, while Gene went on and got his wings and went into F-8s. I am not certain, but 1 think I visited Gene and Mary in San Diego in '63 when he was in the F-8 RAG and I flew in from my destroyer in Hawaii to take some training courses. After that, we pretty much went our separate ways and didn't communicate.

In 1965,1 was weapons officer on a tin can participating in the very early Vietnam operations. In May, we stopped in Subic Bay and I bumped into Gene in the O'Club. After a few drinks and catching up on personal lives. Gene asked if I would go out for a walk with him.

We walked around the base and talked for several hours. I can still vividly recall the settings a quiet tropical nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the gist of our conversation. We talked about our families and our hopes for the future and about the war and our own experiences. Gene particularly wanted to talk about some recent missions he had flown. The F-8s were being used in a limited ground support role with guns and rockets.

Gene described how he would be vectored onto a target, such as a bridge or some stmctures, and given a command to fire his rockets. He said that he had developed a habit of rolling inverted as he passed over the target, and looking out through the canopy at where his rockets had landed. He was upset because of the several times that he had seen destraction by his fire, but it was among apparent non-combatants. He was quite troubled by this. We talked further. I had seen the pathetic povertystricken peasants up close as we boarded fishing boats looking for smuggled arms. These people had no politics, but were caught in the middle of a war, and only wanted to survive.

Gene told me that as much as he enjoyed flying, he had decided that when his tour was up, he was going to resign. He had decided he wanted to go back and study law, and find a way to help people, rather than spreading destraction among them.

After returning to the states, I transferred to PG school, and was shocked to read in Shipmate that Gene had been killed in action in August. 1 immediately contacted Mary and we exchanged several letters. I leamed that she was very frastrated in getting details from the Navy.

It seems that his plane had been seen to be hit and going down. No parachute was sighted, nor was the actual crash. At that time neither his remains nor the plane had been actually sighted.

To this day, 1 don't know what further information was ever discovered. The second item I learned from Mary was that she had met with Gene for an R&R period in Hawaii in July, and that she was pregnant. 1 believe that Gene had a son bom eight months after his death. I am sorry to admit that over the years I have had no

further contact with Mary. Thus I welcome the chance to communicate with their daughter.

Several thoughts come to mind. In light of all that followed. Gene's early doubts about the war may not seem too remarkable. But at the fime they were expressed. May of 1965, everyone was still all gung ho about the war.

Gene's early perceptions were an indicafion of his thoughtful intelligence. His decision to eventually resign and pursue another career is no indication of a lack of dedication or loyalty to the Navy or the country. In fact, I believe his feelings resulted from his dedication and loyalty, and the conflicts with his conscience.

Certainly, his subsequent actions were those of a warrior, and he gave his life in support of his country, even as he was developing personal doubts about the war. Intelligent warriors like Gene are what makes the military as successful as it is in the current new type of war. Had he lived, I have no doubt that Gene would have completed law school and gone on to a successful career. I am willing to speculate, however, that it would not have been as a Utigious attorney, but perhaps as a diplomat in service to his country.

A second thought is related to the irony of Gene's name being brought up in your column at this time. Just last month, you sent out a heads up announcing dedication of an F-8 Crusader painting at the National Air Museum, with a plaque to be added commemorating the achievements of Bud Flagg. At this time, when we are all mouming the tragic deaths of Bud and Dee, it is interesting to note that another Classmate and Crusader pilot also served his country well. Wouldn't it be nice if Gene GoUahon's widow and children were able to see another plaque added to this Crasader display, perhaps including a photo of a young man receiving his diploma and commission from President Kennedy?

A final thought occurs. I hope I can express it without being awkward or trivial. It has to do with understanding what it means to be a member of the Naval Academy Class of 1961.

Gene GoUahon was one of the first of our Class to die in an operational incident (preceded, I believe, by only John Grafton and J.J. Wiley on THRESHER in 1963, and Terry Murphy, whose F-4 was lost over Tonkin Gulf in April of 1965). Between the deaths of these four, and the recent tragic deaths of Bud and Dee, there are others lost in combat, plus years and years and years of unheralded dedicated service to our country. From the combat pilots who survived Vietnam, including several POWs, to submariners in SSNs and Boomers, to hundreds of Black Shoe professionals, patrol plane pilots, marines, and staff specialists in supply, CEC, and Intelligence, our Class served together in winning a cold war, and preserving peace. We have drawn support from each other for over 44 years, and continue to do so today.

The strength of the Class, and the pride we feel in being a part of it, is not due only to the accomplishments of a few individuals, but rather more to the collective composite service of the Class as a whole. Each individual career is a single component of the overall fabric, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice are at the heart of this totally integrated group. As younger men and women take up arms for their country today, we can support them and try to inspire them with an example of how the overall composite service of a Class is what means the most in the final accounting of the history of the Naval Academy.

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two patents. My spare time is spent on martial arts, scuba diving, canoeing, Whitewater rafting, and sign language. I am engrossed in history and renewable energy...solar cells, fuel cells, and wind turbines.

Jim Abbitt:

'61; Plaque honoring Buddy Flagg at Pensacola Air Museum

Mike adds: On a personal note, I am still a civil servant with the SpaWar Systems Center in San Diego, the latest name of the Navy's San Diego R&D center. I am probably one of the last of the Class drawing a regular full time paycheck from the Navy. I enjoy the work and the opportunity to interface regularly with the active duty Navy. Although it is disconcerting to encounter admirals and captains who graduated 20 years or more after us.

I have a few nice perks including the old Bayside CO's office overlooking the harbor.

North Island and downtown San Diego. Off to my right. DOLPHIN is tied up. It is still in commission. I suspect you might find that both interesting and somewhat amazing. {Sec'y notes: 1. My last tour on diesel boats was as XO of DOLPHIN. 2. Mike's input on Gene Gollahan is the most thoughtful and poignant input I've received in more than ten years. My sincere and heartfelt thanks to Mike for that.)

To follow up on the above, in mid-January, Larry McEwen (21) alerted me that an original painting of a crusader has been made available for presentation to the National Museum of naval aviation in Pensacola. Included in the ceremony was a presentation of a plaque identifying RADM Buddy Flagg (5) as the individual with the most Crusader flight hours (3,200 plus). The presentation was made on Thursday, 31 January. Dusty Rhodes (7) was able to attend and sent some photos, one of which is found below.

Our Hampton Roads stalwart, Ned Kuhns (7), sent this amazing story sent to him by Vic Mamon (18) that took place on 11 September: On 11 September 2001, we were at Ground Zero, and I still can't imagine how I was able to make it through. My wife, Biyette, and my son, Dindy, were able to make it to safety separately. You see, Biyette and I were at the lobby of the World Trade Center preparing to get back to our room at the Marriott when the first crash was heard and we had to scamper out to the east side of the WTC. 1 had to leave Biyette out at the Brooks Brothers building area and tried to get back to the Marriott to find out if my son, whom we left behind in the room, was able to get out of the building. The NYC policemen and firemen prevented everyone from returning back, so I had no idea if my son was able to pull through. It was late afternoon when I learned through my sister in Chicago that he made it out of the hotel to the ferry landing for the ride to Staten Island.

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Biyette had to scamper out of the Brooks Brothers area when the second plane crashed and apparently made it to a rescue center somewhere in East Broadway where I was able to pick her up and made our way by ferry to New Jersey in the late aftemoon. We had to make some frantic efforts at reconstituting ourselves and our belongings, which were all lost, including our passports. Luckily, we had a nephew in New Jersey where we were able to stay for a few days before we proceeded by train to Chicago to stay with my sister, and there we tried to reconstitute our passports and other things to allow us to go home to the Philippines by the end of September.

While I was pondering my options, including the worse case scenario in crisis of this nature, I can't help but admire the discipline of the people, especially the police, firemen and all those who participated in bringing so many to safety. You can close ranks to meet an adversity. We tried to put this incident in the backbumers of our mind, and we don't even bother to remember for we can not forget. Again my thanks for the vivid presentation of some of the events of 11 September. We hope to meet with you and other members of Class of '61 in the succeeding reunions to come.

Company in the Spotlight Our 8th Company representative, JP Decker, slickly avoided a Form two by submitting his input two full weeks ahead of my deadline for this month's column. However there is no tmth to the mmor that he has locked up the nomination for the coveted "Company Rep of the Year" award.

Chuck Filley; In 1964 I married Carolyn E. Kepner, a traly beautiful lady. We have two children, Kimberly and Mark, who have an M.B.A. and MD respectively. We have three wonderful grandchildren.

1 worked for NASA from 1961 to 1982 at Langley Field in Virginia, Houston, and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. I worked on assignments in engineering, operations, and management throughout the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and space shuttle programs. In the process, I also managed to get in a few years of sea duty. Upon leaving NASA in 1982,1 founded Space Ventures Inc. to pursue commercial space endeavors with world headquarters in Houston. I did consulting work with Comsat and General Electric, conceptual planning for festival and theme parks, and several environmental undertakings. My postgraduate work was in engineering and psychology. I have

Not much to report this year. Same old thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;eat, get fat, and get older. Actually, I'm having a lot of fun with life and enjoying good health, so far. My wife and I live in St. Peters, just a few miles west of STL airport. We have six grandchildren and four out of five children married. So maybe we'll get a few more. It is fun having grandchildren. My fifth son, Charles, is off on another trek to Asia and who knows when he will be back. I guess he's having too much fun to get married. I'm still enjoying woodworking, flying my 1947 Stinson, playing the hammered dulcimer, and drawing pictures. I ride my bike a lot and took part in crewing for the second place finisher in the Race Across America. Pete Moffett (8) got me into that, and we'll do it again this year. Hope our rider wins this time. I see Pete often and he is doing well and hasn't changed any. Just like he was when we were roommates.

Jerry Smith: Since turning over the Class presidency to Arlie Campbell (3) at the 40th Reunion, I have returned to my day job as chancellor for education and professional development at the Department of Defense. Jill and I joined in on the Y2K Alaskan cruise and hope to participate in the coming summer's Med craise. We enjoy being near our daughter, Dorothy, who works in publishing in the Washington, DC, area and visits by our son, LT Jerome Smith III '95, USN, a flight instractor in Pensacola.

Marsh Clary: I resigned from USNA in Febraary 1960 and over the next nine years had three daughters and twin sons with my first wife. Soon after leaving the Academy, I began a career at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the computer systems area, working the night shift while completing undergraduate studies at American University during the day. In 1962 I graduated from AU with a B.A. in mathematics. I acquired a specialty in computer systems operations and computer systems software design and development, which eventually led to project management, site management, and executive management positions with computer systems consulting firms, a computer manufacturer, and the life and health insurance industry. Among my assignments were systems consulting projects at the Pentagon for the U.S. Army and the Naval Electronics Laboratory in San Diego. During 1967 and 1968 I served as a civilian site manager for two computer installations in South Vietnam under contract to the U.S. Army while employed by RCA. Upon return from South Vietnam, I focused my career in the health and life insurance industry. I led the design and development of numerous home office and agency computer applications software products that were installed in insurance companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 1981, 1 earned my M.B.A. degree at night school from Rutgers University while serving as vice president of Informafion Systems for a life insurance company. In early 1981, I formed a system consulting firm.

International Data Processing, Inc. This company provided systems facility management services for other insurance companies and for other clients. Also in 1981 I was named president and chief operating officer of three related , April 2002

hfe insurance companies that I consolidated and reorganized to use shared personnel and shared computer systems while selling unprecedented volumes of annuity business nationwide through Wall Street stock brokerage firms.

In 1983. upon completion of the insurance company's reorganization objectives, I dedicated my full time efforts into growing and managing my systems consulting firm. My efforts enabled me to retire at the end of 1989 at the age of 50. Since my retirement. 1 have undertaken several song writing and recording projects with various country music artists in Nashville. 1 also conducted a two-year research effort to uncover my family history, producing an 800-page book of my family and descendants. During my retirement, my second wife, Sharron and I have traveled extensively while residing in La Jolla, CA. I have maintained my love for the sea and have owned two sailboats that we have sailed in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, then down to San Diego, then down and back from Mexico. My five children have remained an important part of our life throughout the years. As of January 2002. Sharron and 1 have 11 grandchildren from my five children.

Seen and Heard Around Town First, a reminder, a memorial service for Bob Gnibb (10) will be held at St. Andrew's Chapel at 11 a.m., Friday, 26 April 2002 followed by inurnment at the Naval Academy Columbarium.

All Classmates are invited to attend.

Prior to a scheduled meeting on Monday, 2 Febmary, yotn executive committee gathered at Alumni House in downtown Annapolis to attend a presentation in honor of our recently disposed President, Jerry Smith (8). George Watt '73, president/CEO of the USNAAlumni Association and Foundation, honored Jerry for his outstanding leadership during the past five years that included one of the most successful Class fundraising projects ever Upcoming Class Events Washington area Class luncheons on Tuesday, 14 May and 9 July.

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Pres; CAPT Richard J. Hayes, USN (Ret) h: 703-461-3582; e; USNA62@erols.com Sec'y: CDR Howard S. Pinskey, USNR (Ret.) PO. Box 3380, Annapolis, MD 21403-3326 h; 410-974-1962; e; PINSK62@aol.com Class web site; www.usna62.com Greetings from Annapolis The Easter holiday is here and spring is coming into view. It's always beautiful here after the Dark Ages. Included in our Class news this month is congratulations to John Ripley, info about Homecoming 40 and other words about our Classmates. Now onto our monthly offering of news.

In Memoriam It is with a feeling of sadness that I inform the Class of the passing of our Classmate Peter L. LeBoutillier, 64, who passed away in his sleep Thursday, 24 January 2002. A memorial service was held at St. Alban's Episcopal Church,

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911 S. Davis Drive, Arlington, TX 76013. Peter Lucas LeBoutillier was born on 23 November 1937 in Bryn Mawr PA, to Edward Howell J r and Una Lucas LeBoutillier He graduated from George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, ME, in 1957 and attended Bowdoin College and the Naval Academy. After a career in sales, Peter retumed to college and eamed his bachelor's degree in liberal arts and master's degree in European history from the University of North Texas in 1999. Peter was a lector and lay eucharistic minister in the Episcopal Church for nearly 40 years, a faithful member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church and a member of St. Gregory's Benedictine Community at St. Alban's. His parents preceded him in death. Survivors include his wife of 34 years, Gaye Steinman LeBoutillier; daughters. Amy Brock and her husband, Rodric Alan Brock, Esq. and Christine Gray and her husband, John David Gray; grandchildren, Ian Andrew Brock and Courtney Christine Gray, all of Texas; brother Tobias "Toby" LeBoutillier of Brewer ME, and many friends. Donations in Peter's memory may be made to St. Alban's Episcopal Church. The Class extends its sincerest sympathies to Pete's extended family and friends.

40th Reunion I'm sure your calendars are marked for the weekend of 26-29 September 2002. That's our 40th Reunion weekend. Make your travel reservations as soon as possible for the best rates and schedules. In next month's Shipmate, we'll publish the agenda, announce hotel reservation procedures and provide other information concerning all the details for the gala weekend.

This information will also be promulgated by mail and via the email system. See you in less than six months.

Class News The Naval Academy recently announced that our Classmate Col John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.), has been selected as one of the 2002 Distinguished Graduates: The Distinguished Graduate Award is to be given to a living graduate of the United States Naval Academy whose character, distinguished military and civilian services, and stature draw wholesome comparison to the qualities that the U.S. Naval Academy strives for in keeping with it's traditional values of duty, honor, integrity, and "Through Knowledge, Sea Power." With the purpose of identifying to the public and Brigade of Midshipmen, the broad national significance of the Naval Academy as one of the Nation's cherished institutions, candidates for the Distinguished Graduate Award will be living graduates of the United States Academy who; Have demonstrated a strong interest in supporting the Navy and the USNA. Have provided a lifetime of service to the Nation or Armed Forces.

Have made significant and distinguished contributions to the Nation via their Public service.

The following four Naval Academy graduates were selected by the Distinguished Graduate Award committee, chaired by Admiral Kinnaird McKee '51.

Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter Jr. '37 USN (Ret.), former USNA Commandant of Midshipmen and superintendent.

The Honorable James E. Carter '47, the 39th President of the United States.

Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost '53, USN (Ret.), former Chief of Naval Operations.

Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.) a hero of the Vietnam War who received numerous combat medals including the Navy Cross and Silver Star for heroic efforts in the face of the enemy.

These four now join 11 other recipients of this prestigious recognition by their alma mater and Alumni Association. Our newest members will be formally recognized in ceremonies at the United States Naval Academy as soon as the 2002 dates are set.

We will publish John's bio and/wZ/awarJpresentation after it is released by the Naval Academy. The Class enthusiastically congratulates John, Moline, and his family for this prestigious and well-deserved honor Our President, Dick Hayes writes us that it was a tough football season sitting through all those losses. Thank God, we never lost a tailgate party. Lex Fleming and I journeyed up to Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game. We were hoping for the big upset, but alas we'll have to wait until next year With a new coach and athletic director I'm sure we'll see some big improvements. The Mids played their hearts out looking for a win but the whole game plan the coaches prepared looked like the same old stuff we've been watching for the past five years. Time for a change in direction.

All the Class officers and committee members are deeply involved in preps for our big 40th reunion this year It will be a great four-day party.

Speaking of our Class officers, they have all agreed to stay on for another term. Having said that, if any Classmate wants to "ran" for one of the offices, let me know and I'll arrange an election for that office. The Class officers are: Class President—Dick Hayes Vice President, East Coast—Ray Madonna Vice President, West Coast—John Kelly Treasurer—Lex Fleming Secretary—Howie Pinskey Steve Garrison sent us his condensed but interesting bio of events over the past 40 years: After the Academy, I was stationed on BARBEL out of Pearl and later Bremerton, WA. Served under Harry Train who was probably the best naval officer and boss I had in my lifetime. Tried for nuke submarines, but was told as long as my last name was Garrison, Rickover would refuse to even meet with me. (My father, along with Red Raybom, had fought the good admiral from the start of his empire building days.) After the best days of my life in WestPac, the boomers were being faced with being tied up alongside the piers because of the admirals restrictive selection practices, so the Navy had reassumed control of selection, and I was invited to visit with the admiral. Probably one of the few LTJGs ever to say "thanks, but no thanks" to an admiral. After some notso-subtle hints regarding what the admiral was going to do to my dolphins and that of my CO at the time, I ended up at Dam Neck training for navigator of ETHAN ALLEN.

Two patrols out of Holy Loch on ETHAN ALLEN turned into pure boredom after the excitement of WestPac. "You must understand, Mr. Garrison, that a perfect patrol is one where absolutely nothing ever happens." (Carios Dew, CO) Given that my career in the admiral's Navy 97

'62; Lex Fleming, Pat Lawson, Ann and Dick Hayes

'62; John Lingren, Paul Tompins, Myron Fleming, and Larry Rank

'62: Craig Stratton, Nate Jolley, Hugh Tabb, and Mike Foster

professionals about age 22 to 26. They were a group with extraordinary intelligence and energy, bouncing off the walls, without the remotest idea how companies were organized or ran. Patricia, my business and soul mate for many years, and I found ourselves in a role of more advisor and father confessor than a directive business leader. Not believing the then fashionable BS that NASDAC markets were going to go straight up forever, we sold our stock in the first sell window available. We later purchased a 100-year-old apple orchard on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound, WA. We take an occasional consulting contract, but we were looking forward to slowing down the remaining years, joining the seasonal cycles of nature and using the long nights for reading, writing, and taking liberal arts courses over the Intemet. In the distant past of several marriages, I had two sons, Daniel and Charies. Over the years we have grown to treat each other as more brothers than father and sons. That is, when they are not threatening to disown me for my various eccentricities.

Greg Chancey tells us that on 12 December, in San Diego our first current 62 West Coast Scramble Golf Party was completed. Rocky Spane got our tee times and gate passes and Mike Foster organized the format and ran the toumament. We had four teams, good weather and good golf shots (some really bad ones also, but we did not have to count them in a Best Ball format.) We had scratch golfers teamed up with 110+(me) wantabees. Everyone contributed to their team. We had several '62ers from up north.

It was nice to meet them. Oh yes, the winning team was captained by Mike O'Connor, with Bob McNeal and Greg Chancy at six under We squeezed out (by tie breaker also at six under) the team captained by Mike Foster, with Hugh Tabb, Nate Jolley, and Craig Stratton. The other teams were Rocky Spane (captain), with John KeUy, Tom Dumont Steve Todd, and Paul Tompkins (Mr. Mayor of Solana Beach-Captain) with Myron Fleming, John Lindgren, and Larry Rank.

That's our Class news for this April 2002 Shipmate. As always, your letters and photo's will of interest to the '62 family. Please keep in touch. Until next time.

'62; John Kelly, Tom Dumont, Steve Todd, and Rocky Spane was going nowhere, I resigned after five years and attended Harvard Business School. The dean of admission, Tony Athos, had a soft spot for those of us in the military. He stacked the school with West Point, Annapolis, and Air Force graduates. This made for a rather schizophrenic class, one-half former military and onehalf draft dodgers. We were advised not to go across the Charles River, where the undergraduates were in full riot. After graduation, 1 moved to Houston using the selection criteria that it never snowed there, and became an institutional stock analyst/investment banker/asset manager (big title, meaning a high salary for little productive work). I attended a cocktail party, had too many martinis and woke up to find that 1 98

had joined Hedrick & Struggles as a headhunter. Much to my surprise, I discovered that I was pretty good at this business. With this firm, I ended up as SVP, board member, and in charge of a good hunk of the mid-continent. In 1981 was recruited to Ward Howell International, first in the office of president and later was elected to CEO. I spent about six years wandering around Europe and Asia opening offices, including in the USSR before the curtain came down. Got into a battle with the board and left to build our own consulting firm. After a series of iterations, we found ourselves in the bowels of a dot.com with pre-IPO stock.

Absolutely fascinating to find myself at age 60, reporting to a CEO under 30 and working with

Mike OConnor, Greg Chauncey, and Bob McNeal

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Pres; Hon. Stephen M. Duncan Sec'y; Michael H. Shelley 25 Sweetwater Lane, Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 h; 828-862-4245; e; Class.Secretary@USNA63.org web site; www.USNA63.org Let's begin with some very good news. As I was finishing this month's report it was announced that our honorary Classmate, VADM Charles S. Minter Jr. '37, has been designated a 2002 Distinguished Graduate of the United States Naval Academy. This is a high and welldeserved honor for a man who has made many important contributions to the Academy, the Navy, and our nation. That he is an honorary member of the Class of 1963 makes us even more proud of his accomplishments. We are grateful for his leadership as commandant when we were Midshipmen and tteasure his friendship over the many years since then. If you would like to offer your congratulations to ADM Minter you can write to him at 238 Puritan Place, Annapolis, MD 21401.1 know he will be glad to hear from you.

Mike Rubel checked in from Seattle with this news about a recent graduation: Here is a photo taken at graduation ceremonies from Thunderbird Institute in Phoenix, AZ, where M.B.A. degrees in Intemational Studies were conferred. Pictured on the right are myself and my son, Michael Rubel Jr. '93. At the left are Dave Tornberg '64 and his son Dave Jr. who graduated from the University of Virginia. It was nice to see Michael complete his advanced degree and set out to tackle the world as we did 30-plus years ago after finishing our obligation to the Navy. Thank God I don't have any more children going to school.

Dave Tomberg was in the 19th Company with us when we switched to the 23rd. He and I served on GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

(SSBN-656) for two years and were roommates. It was a nice reunion for us as well. As a matter of fact, he and I and the doctor made wine in sick bay for New Years Eve 1967. To tell the whole tmth, the wine was heavy bodied, lacked maloactic conversion, and tasted somewhat like the plastic carboy we used to ferment it.

Fathers and their M.B.A. sons

Fourteenth Companymates Tom Miller and Dave Moore have been conducting a lively email correspondence, which recently included Tom's description of some of his archaeological activities. Dave got Tom's OK for me to share part of this with you.

We went to Papua, New Guinea, for about a month, including the Trobriand Islands. It was the most remote place I've ever been. Great collecting of artifacts. I also went with my UPenn/Stanford archaeological team to the jungle in Thailand to excavate, and that is special, but I couldn't convey it adequately to Shipmate, April 2002

you. Lots of dirt, labor frustrations, rocks, sweat, snakes, bugs, bandits, and whiskey (and a chance not to shave). Tom Clancy (a friend of the chief boss) was with us for about two weeks last year.

I have always been interested in archaeology and digging in old places. Comes from my Kentucky background, I suppose. Today, collecting antiquities is a major part of me. A few years ago, Ros and I were doing a trip to Southeast Asia and the Deputy in Charge of Mission at Bangkok, a friend of mine from my days at the State Department, asked me to make a little talk based on some experience I had when I was EA to CinCPac. (Asia was my specialty when in active duty.) I did that, and ended up meeting a Thai two-star who was in charge of a military district. By chance, we came to find we both were interested in archaeology, and at a reception, he drove me off to his residence to see the things he had acquired. We had a great time, and that was that.

A few months later, I got an email from my embassy friend, saying that General Tuan had invited me to participate in a new major excavation, which was granted by the Thai government to the University of Pennsylvania and a consortium of other universities. I went in March during my Spring Break. It is a tremendous site, and some day you will read about it.

I ran coffee, said "Yessir, Nosir", stayed in the back, and was respectful to all. My son was an electrical engineering major at Penn, and by the chance of fate had taken a spare class with one of these great men last year, and the impression stuck. Thank God for kids. I was able to talk about digging with an icon of American archaeology, William Webb from the University of Kentucky, in the '50s and I became, somewhat, a member of the team.

The next May, I received an invitation from the leader of the team to join them, and thus my participation changed complexion. I am proud to say that last summer 1 was assigned a site within the complex to supervise, and, given my unfortunate experience in raising money for non-profits, I was tasked to hit the funding trail, which has been a secondary activity here in Hawaii. Before Christmas, I was able to get a big bundle from the McArthur family, but my biggest thrill is being in the field.

My site is an interesting one. We literally are carving it out of the jungle, and that is excifing for me. Every day brings something new.

Snakes are there in abundance, and I am a coward about them. But we have a group of teen boys who get a bounty for killing them. My Ros shakes her head at all this, but grants me her okay to add this to my "middle age." I enjoy my teaching tremendously, and am enjoying my interaction with the grad students in the dig. I hope my health and motivation last to give me some more years in this.

I am planning a sabbatical in 2004 to trace the Mekong from Mongolia through the delta in Vietnam. I want to do it solo as much as I can, but am including my son-in-law (who is Vietnamese and will be a physician at that point) for the latter part, and will add a visit to some of his family. 1 hope I can make that a reality.

Ros and I enjoy exotic travel, and we have gone in partnership with an experienced travel guy here in Hawaii to do eco/soft adventure.

We're going to Equador, the Amazon basin, and the Galapagos this summer. I will continue on from there for a month in Thailand and a side trip to Cambodia for looking at my Mekong trip.

Well, Tom makes most of us look like dull stayat-home folks, doesn't he? Wow! I'm hoping for some photos from his digs and excursions to share with you in a coming issue.

Mike Blackledge passed along this email he received from 4th Company roommate Gene Dehnert, who now resides in Mishawaka, IN: 1 amflyingbusiness jets for Executive Jet Aviation, owned by Warren Buffet. We do fractional ownership of biz jets from small to 757. I fly a thing called a Citation X. Until the Concorde came back, it was the fastest thing in commercial aviation, capable of mach 0.92. If you have a few spare million its a nice way to travel.

Sue and 1 now have a local grandson. My oldest stepdaughter, Stephanie, and her husband, Gordie, are the proud parents of Preston.

He's 17 months old and does a great imitation of the Energizer bunny. The little guy is really a lot of fun, and we can hand him back when we start to wind down. Both Zeke and Chip are married and live in the San Francisco area.

Zeke and his wife, Christina, have two sons, David (8) and James (5). They are really energetic, but one can occasionally persuade them to slow down. Chip and Tammy don't have any offspring yet. No problem; I never heard of a grandchild surplus.

Here in the frozen comfield, I am trying to get in enough training to do a few cross-country ski races this winter. The grand finale to the season will be the Vasaloppet in Mora, Sweden. I've done that one before, but at 90km it takes some serious preparation. The last 10km will be very long. Say a prayer for me the first Sunday in March.

Northern Virginia residents Ann and Tom O'Brien have been far afield this winter spending time with family members and Classmates on the West Coast. Tom filed this report for me to share with you.

In January, Ann and I were out in the beautiful Pacific Northwest visiting with our son, John O'Brien '89 and his wife, Julianne, who are expecting their first child in April. We were pleased to have made contact again (during our 35th Reunion in Annapolis) with 18th Company Classmate Dave Durfee, who lives in Bremerton, WA, with his wife, Vivian. I emailed him before we left our home in Alexandria and we estabhshed a lunch meeting for 30 January.

After a pleasant, down-memory-lane Washington State Ferry ride across Puget Sound and a nostalgic drive through downtown Port Orchard, our "homeport" in 1971 -72 while my submarine was on the blocks in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for overhaul, we arrived at Dave and Vivian's beautiful home, literally in an Olympic forest, and were treated to an exquisite lunch. Vivian's relatively new sun roomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a glass-enclosed, many-skylighted "cathedral-in-the-cedars" room, was the setting for a great three hours' worth of catching up over an extended meal under the watchful eye of their friendly Gordon setter, Tristan. Dave is staying very busy with their house, writes the program notes for the Bremerton Symphony's performances, plays the cello with a local group, and serves as an officer of a national club preserving the history of the nation's railroads. Vivian serves as a docent at the Bloedel Preserve on the north end of Bainbridge Island.

We had a lot of fun exchanging stories, but it was way too short. We hope to be able to resume our catching up the next time we visit in Seattle, tentatively scheduled for May.

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Tom supplied some digitized photos from the visit; you can see them in the Shipmate section of the Class of '63 web site.

Speaking of photos, here is a picture of Bimey Pease and Bob Nobbs. It was supplied by Bemie's wife, Barbara, who noted that it was taken when they met in Ft. Lauderdale in December to discuss a rebirth of "The Bridge Club" and tell tall tales about Youngster Craise.

Birney Pease and Bob Nobbs "Our" ship, FrrzGERALD (DDG-62), continues her tradition of excellence and has been recognized for sustained outstanding performance.

Named for our gallant Classmate Bill Fitzgerald, the ship received the prestigious Spokane Trophy last summer reflecting a uniquely high level of operational excellence. We thank our Classmate Rich Pace for providing information about the award. An active member of the Navy League's Long Beach Chapter, which sponsors FITZGERALD, Rich was aboard ship for the presentation.

The Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet recognized FITZGERALD as the winner of the Spokane Trophy for the year 2000. This prestigious award is given to the surface combatant ship considered to be most proficient in overall combat systems readiness and warfare operations.

This trophy, established in 1907 by the Spokane, WA, Chamber of Commerce, was originally set aside for the battleship or craiser "that made the highest final merit with all of her turret guns."

Having evolved over the past hundred years, the Spokane Trophy now recognizes demonstrated ability to conduct, on a sustained basis, simultaneous and coordinated air surface, and undersea warfare operations. The award offers tangible evidence of the countless hours spent training and performing operations at sea. In the year 2000, FITZGERALD participated in Rim of the Pacific Exercise 2000, successfully performing Standard missile engagements against supersonic targets and Harpoon missile engagements. The ASW team received a grade of outstanding on a live torpedo firing exercise and served as surface attack unit commander during several exercises. For naval gunfire support, FITZGERALD received an overall grade of over 103% for the second consecutive year and conducted over 20 gunnery exercises with zero mishaps. FITZGERALD also set the standard while deployed to the Arabian Gulf, conducting eight non-compliant boardings and diverting a record amount of smuggled petroleum products in support of UN sanctions. The crew of FITZGERALD are proud of their efforts and accomplishments, and feel they've eamed the name of "FIGHT'N FITZ." FITZGERALD received the Spokane Trophy on 28 June while underway for a dependents' day cruise. Assembled on the foc'sle, her crew 100

accepted a plaque representing the trophy from Col Paul Gourd, USAF (Ret.), from the Navy League Spokane Council. The event was made more memorable by a special audience.

FITZGERALD received its most prestigious recognition to date in the company of its family and friends. Nearly 300 family members and guests of crewmembers were aboard. In many respects the ceremony also honored the dependents, whose tremendous support allowed FITZGERALD to excel and achieve recognition as the trophy winner The ceremony provided an opportunity for the ship, its crew, and their families to celebrate and thank each other for a year of service, dedication, and accomplishment.

Our 40th Reunion coordinator Bill E a r n e r asked me to remind you about an exciting project, which needs your participation, beginning now: The 40th Reunion Committee has reviewed a video presentation done for the 40th reunion of the Class of 1960. It was something of a collage of their Midshipman experience. We would like to compile a similar video for our own 40th Reunion. We have "recmited" a few volunteers who have begun work but cannot go much farther without help from the Class.

We need pictures, negatives, slides, movies, and audio tapes of our experience as Midshipmen.

Already digitized material or items converted to videotape would be appreciated. (16mm. film would be difficult but doable for really good scenes.)

This will be an events-oriented production built around a few general themes; (1) Plebe Summer—Airival at USNA, swearing in, before and after haircuts, our new life in Mother B, all Plebe Summer events. Parents' Weekend, etc.

(2) Plebe Year—Come arounds, pep rallies, Plebe sports, Hemdon Monument, Hundredth Night, etc. (3) Third and Second Class years— Summer craises, life in Bancroft Hall, classes, Army-Navy weekend. Ring Dance, etc. (4) First Class year—Our Plebes, their come arounds, Prades, life in Bancroft, sports, our Hundredth Night, graduation, first salute, weddings in the Chapel (really good would be pictures of Classmates married on Graduation Day.), etc. (5) General—Good scenes and action shots focused on group activities and sports, Christmas leave departure, the Yard in winter, the Yard in the summer heat, etc. We are looking for both historical and humorous coverage (all in good taste, of course). None of the above descriptors is meant to be all-inclusive. We need things of general interest to all of us.

Please send any materials to Mr. Jim "Speed" Leeper (jleeper@flir.com), 1676 Wingspan Way, Winter Springs, FL 32708; 407-359-7783.

All materials will be retumed in the same condition as received so everything must be documented with the sender's name, return address, email address, date(s), narrative of what the pictures are about. This is very important. Good documentation will aid in final selections. All contributors will be listed in the production.

Let Speed know if you want a digitized copy of any film sent. Pricing will be available later.

All material will be acknowledged by email upon receipt.

Copies of the production will be made available in CD movie-formatted disks.

(DVD is too costly for us.) We are not trying to recreate our yearbook. We are looking back from 2003. These are our memories. With your help we can restore some faded memories to vivid color. Go up to the attic now and dig out those pictures!

As you plan your ttavel for the warm months of this year include a visit to the cool mountains of western North Carolina. In addition to the natural beauty and many cultural attractions, there is a little-known benefit available to members of the Class of 1963—a rocking chair free beer and "sweet tea" at the Shelley house. We enjoy entertaining Classmates and would love to add you to our guest book. Only 30 miles from Asheville and j u s t a short distance from Interstates 26 and 40, our front porch and mountain view are yours for the asking. Come up the mountain, y'all!

Quality—'63

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Pres; The Honorable Bernard "Bemie" A. Maguire Sec'y; Dennie Pignotti 10907 Wilder Point Lane, Reston, VA 20191 e; dpignotti@navalengineers.org web site: www.usna64.org The Great Class of 1964, you missed a great mini-reunion craise. You'll find more on the craise farther down the column.

Class President Bernie M a g u i r e sent the following notes; To The Great Class of 1964: We have lots of ground to cover this month.

First and foremost, no topic is more important than reminding you of the men who build success into our Class events and activities. These are the members of the Class Executive Committee who often toil long hours without notice. Dave'Rmia is the executive vice president who coordinates the Committee. Bob Gault is the administrative vice president. Hugh Risseeuw, secretary, and Bill Sargent, treasurer, have been at the executive committee table for the longest time. At-large members of the executive committee are Steve Claassen, cruise officer extraordinaire, Gordon Clow, ethics book project manager, Ed Conant, DC, Chapter liaison. Grant Fulkerson, our untiring eMessenger, Waddy Garrett, reunion coordinator, Dennis Pignotti, Shipmate correspondent, and Keith Waldrop, Class fundraising officer. Serving as consultants to all of us, our past Presidents, Tom Swartz, Bob Sutton, and Jerry Anderson are always available to us. These are the men who make our decisions sound, our events successful and who keep us on top among all Classes. I want to thank them for keeping me in line and for helping me look like I know what I am doing time and again.

I am pleased to report that we now have funding to complete our obligations to the Memorial Scholarship Fund. There is about $35 in excess for transfer to our Ethics Center Project.

More than 300 Classmates contributed to this worthwhile effort over the past 17 years, but 1 must mention that Tom Barnett and Bill Sargent sent in the last two checks to put us over the top. Since I recently ran out of official receipts, Tom and Bill can cut this out of Shipmate if the IRS needs proof of their donation.

Great delivery on this commitment we made at graduation. Class of 1964!

We have done a lot during the past month so I do have a lot of "thank yous" to pass around.

I'll do this in chronological order. At the Ethics Shipmate, April 2002

Dinner, we presented a specially designed, goatskin bound, gold lettered Ethics for the Junior Officer book to VADM John Ryan '67 because this will be Admiral Ryan's last Ethics Ditmer as the Supe and he has been a strong supporter of these dinners. Our memento had the following words inscribed on the cover; To Vice Admiral John Ryan. Our Most Admired and Respected Plebe. from the Great Class of 1964.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Hugh Risseeuw for putting this together for us. The book was a quality keepsake and a big hit with the Supe.

Next, the presentation to the Junior Officer of the Year aboard CARNEY (DDG-64) was held in Jacksonville, FL, on 14 January. Year after year since 1995, John Palombi has taken this project on with single-minded attention to all the details.

He has tumed this into an exceptional occasion for our Classmates in the Jacksonville area. John reminds the executive committee when it is appropriate to give out the award, buys a $ 1,000 U.S. savings bond himself (we pay him back well after the fact) and orchesttates a get together for all the '64 members who can attend. He delivers the award with the dignity and professionalism appropriate for the occasion and even gets the pic'64; Chet Gladchuk (USNA AD), John Dalton, Coach Paul Johnson, and Bemie Maguire tures for posting on our web site and in Shipmate.

John Palombi deserves our special thanks for confleet. It also allows available Classmates to sistentiy representing the Class with the CARNEY I am adopting football coach Paul Johnson's meet with some outstanding young naval wardroom in an outstanding manner (See John words of wisdom on Bob Orlosky's shirt in the officers and tour their ship. The award is a Palombi's note later in the column.) accompanying picture. "Expect to win!" Bernie three-way formal selection made by peers The Class of '64 mini-reunion, our cruise to Maguire within the CARNEY wardroom, the senior petty the Caribbean, is documented by other authors officers and the command based on evidence in Dennie's column, however I wanted to add a of leadership skills and achievement. The : special thank you to Yvonne and Karl Vogeler award includes the recipient's name being embossed on the memorial plaque in the wardfor outstanding service in helping us through our room, a Navy Commendation Medal and a first Class of '64 mini-reunion. Everyone had savings bond presented by the USNA Class a wonderful week, and we are indebted to Karl of 1964. and Yvonne for all their hard work. They This year's award ceremony was attended by seemed to orchestrate each aspect of the craise the following Classmates and their wives; Tom ; with so little effort but we all knew they were Raffo, Pat and John Palombi, Pam and Dick , hard at work. In particular, we appreciate their Burke, Myra and Scott Bushneil, Bernie , extra effort in hosting two great parties for our Maguire and John Klein. The ceremony also ' cmising Classmates. was attended by Mrs. Virginia King, the widow of CDR King.

Loud and boisterous Bravo Zulus to Hugh, For the first time the U.S. Naval Academy John, Karl, and Yvonne! had a "clean sweep" in this ceremony; the skipOther Classmates are in the news. Congratuper, CDR Mike Jacobsen '82, the XO, LCDR lations to Joe Prueher, accorded the honor of Jim Morgan '87 and most importantly, the being named a Distinguished Graduate by 2001 Leadership Award winner, ENS Carlos ' George Washington University. Joe was honored Santiago '00. in May 2001 but his award was noted in the WinClassmates and wives met to enjoy some time . ter 2002 George Washington University alumni together before the ceremony and then socialmagazine. Shipmate timing beats them! ized with the officers on their last day before deploying. The event required fast logistics this Jack Dempsey was named executive vice year to blend with the deployment schedule, but : president of Nuclear Solutions, Inc., a company was a success enjoyed by everyone attending in the business of neutralizing nuclear waste.

Also, John Gorman became global chief oper- Bruce Beckwith and Gene Berger with their birthday ating Officer of Headstrong. John added offices cake in Tokyo, Manila, London, et al., to his previous John Palombi sent this account of the Great North American domain. Class of '64 Kudos to Class of 1964's CDR Lanny King Memorial Jack and John.

Leadership Award ceremony aboard CARNEY I have one more congratulatory note for Dale (DDG-64): Schempp's wife, Carol. It has come to my atTo the Great Class of'64; tention that Carol won five gold medals in track The sixth presentation of the CDR Lanny for the over-55 age group in the State of Illinois.

King Memorial Leadership Award took place Carol also entered the nationals at LSU and finon 14 January 2002 aboard CARNEY (DDG-64) in Mayport. This unique award for junior ofished eighth in two events. Carol's gold medals Raffo, Palombi, Burke, CDR Jacobsen, ficer leadership is sponsored by our Class and at the state level were in ranning high jump, mnENS Santiagoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;CDR Lanny King Leadership Award continues to provide us an opportunity to conning long jump, standing long jump, 50-meter winner, Bushneil, LCDR Morgan, and Maguire Klein sciously promote leadership development in the dash, and 100-meter dash. Well done!

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'64; Class of '64 on Mini-Reunion Cmise Grant Fulkerson sent a note from John Thuente: A bit of an update on us personally. We continue to thrive in the not-so-frigid North. Rosie and I have 16 grandkids. Six of our kids are married, the seventh (currently serving on a FFG out of San Diego) will be married this summer.

The eighth is a freshman in college and has a while to go. I will be partially retiring from the law practice this summer and Rosie and I will be shifting the flag to a farm in westem Miimesota. No real tillable land, but lots of peace and quiet and nice neighbors. Driving the neighbors' bigfieldmachines is a kick. A John Deere is not exactly an F-4 or an F-14, but it can be a challenge. Our second son, Tom, is buying the homestead in St. Paulfromus, and we are being slowly displaced this spring.

Thanks, again for all your good work.

The Washington, DC, area '64 group held a luncheon on Wednesday, 6 Febraary, on the Sun Porch of the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. Those in attendance were Jerry Anderson, Wayne Amy, Jim Arrison, Lonnie Cooke, Rick Dau, Ed Conant, Bill Franks, Grant Fulkerson, Charles Heath, Don Hunter Mel Lyman, Bemie Maguire, Bob Murphy, Dennie Pignotti, Brace Richmond, Hugh Risseeuw, Bill Sargent, Dave Tuma, and Dave Wagner It was a nice lunch with good company and good food.

Our next Class luncheon will include wives.

It will be held on Wednesday, 3 April at 11:45 a.m. again on the Sun Porch at the Army-Navy Country Club. Hopefully, those of you from the Washington area are on Dave Wagner's email list and have received notice of the meeting. If not, contact Dave at davewagoner@comcast.net.

Visitors to the area are always welcome.

Scott Bushneil and Bemie Maguire send an account of the Class Mini Reunion Craise: Adventures in Paradise! On Saturday, 19 January, USNA Class of '64 Alumni got underway on a craise to the Eastern Caribbean aboard DAWN PRINCESS with their wives and significant others in tow. What a great experience and opportunity to renew and or make new friendships.

We got underway from San Juan, Puerto Rico and headed overnight and the next day to Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela. Of course we took advantage of the shipboard time to have a kickoff party on the after deck and all got pleasantly ready for the craise before us.

See photos of the party at www.usna64.org by clicking on the moving banner on the index page. Note the sample of the ship photographer photo of the Great Class of 1964 craisers with this article.

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Lucy Guzman, Sam and Mary Ann Davies, Brace and Joyce Beckwith, Marion and Charlie Culbertson, Steve Claassen and Virginia Hyland, Jim and Judy Fazekas, Scott and Myra Bushneil, Tommie and Charlie Shields; Middle Row; Bernie and Joyce Maguire, Reva and Gene Berger, Barbara and Roger Sweeney, Jerry and Rosemary Ellis, Lou and Bill Quirk, Dona and Potsy Scoville, Kathleen and Mike Chumer, Yvonne Anderson, Dottie and Art Collier; Bottom Row: Dave and Linda Ahem, Hugh and Debbie Risseeuw, Reed and Margie Mecleary, Gordon and Holly Clow, Erik and Christy Woods, Donna and Fred Crawford, Karl and Yvonne Vogeler, Jerry Anderson, Dottie and Denny Pignotti. On Deck: Bob Gault, Stu Johnson, Ken Middleton. Not Picture; Roland and Florence Marquis, Jim and Sandi Shanahan, Vangie Gault, Nancy Johnson, and Bev Middleton.

Our first port on Monday was Aruba. If you' ve never been there, Aruba is a strange combination of desert island and breath taking beaches.

Many of us took advantage of the numerous shore excursions to sunbathe on the beautiful beaches or snorkel, dive or just swim, as well as the island tours of this unique island.

On Tuesday morning we arrived in La Guaira, the port city for Caracas. While many took the city tour and lived through the enormous traffic jams, some of us toured the Avila National Park located on the mountains east and north of the city. We left La Guaira at six in the evening and prepared for our first formal evening. The ladies all looked gorgeous in their evening gowns and the rest of us just tried to somehow complement their loveliness as best we could.

On Wednesday we arrived in Grenada about noon. Grenada is a lush, beautiful island noted for its spice growing. Our ship left Grenada with a decidedly heavier load due to all the spices our wives brought aboard.

Whatever day was next, we didn't take note or much care. We were at the English-speaking Dominica, a Windward Island, with its evergreen, oceanic rainforest, one of the last in the world.

Our last port was Charlotte Amalie, the capitol of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Most of us got down to some serious shopping or touring. Others went snorkeling, diving, or just hung out and got browner on the beautiful beaches.

Many of our wives did some serious damage to the credit cards in the jewelry stores here.

While leaving St. Thomas, we managed to make another excuse for a party and the Vogelers volunteered their spacious suite for the brew-hah-hah. It made for a fitting end to a terrific cruise. Everyone was in unanimous opinion that it would definitely not be our last.

We even celebrated some birthdays on the cruise. Bruce Beckwith (24 January) and Gene Berger (22 January) both celebrated on 24 January.

Many thanks to Karl and Yvonne Vogeler, and Steve Claassen for arranging this idyllic time together. We definitely look forward to the next one!

I don't have enough space to include other craise photos and comments. I'll include more on the craise next month.

Keep those emails, cards, letters, and photos coming in! As always, BeatArmyl Expect to win! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dennie

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Pres; Pete Gness p: 410-757-4796; e; subman65@yahoo.com Sec'y; CDR Dave Anderson, USN (Ret) 98-2039 P Kaahumanu St., Aiea, HI 96701 w: 808-477-7483; e: daveand65@earthlink.net homepage: www.users.planetcable.net/daveand Hope by the time you receive this, the spring weather where you live is blasting away the blues of the Dark Ages. I do need to start out, however, with some sad news. On Friday, 11 January 2002, our good shipmate, Robin Wood passed away at Fair Oaks Hospital near DC Robin was the husband of Therese A. "Terry" Wood; father of Tracy W. (Russ) Libby and Robert (Heather) Wood; brother of William "Chip" Wood and Wendy Wood Bull. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Russell and Pattick Libby.

Robin was the son of Marion S. Wood and the late Captain Robert H. Wood. Funeral services were held on 11 Febraary at Ft. Myer Chapel, with interment at Arlington National Cemetery.

Conttibutions may be made to the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, PO Box 64740, Baltimore, MD 21264-4740 in LCDR Robin Carder Wood's name. Class of 1965. In recent years, Rob had battles with lung cancer heart disease, and diabetes. Please check the "Last Call" section of this Shipmate for Robin's obit.

Dick Zimmerman passed the word on 21 January '02 that Bob Andretta is doing well in his recovery from heart surgery. Dick talked to him by phone on 19 January, and he sounded great. At that time he was hoping to be back at work in four or five weeks.

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Received a newsy Christmas letter from Fred Hugnagel in December Said 2001 was—all in all—a pretty good year They added two family members. In June, daughter Sarah, was married to Kevin Murphy in Richmond. Understand Richmond now has a new standard on social events, set due to this wedding. Of course it helps when the bride's parents are both successful professional event planners. Fred and Anne own and manage the Blue Mountain Management Group.

Bride Sarah at the post-festivities cocktail hour made her appearance by sliding down the banister of the Jefferson Hotel grand staircase. Kevin and Sarah are both graduates of John Marshall University and will now be living in Fairfax. Fred and Anne's son, Fred J r was not to be left behind and was married in September His bride is the former Miss Pam Boley and they met in the workplace—SAIC in McLean. They were married in DC, with a reception at the St. Regis. ' They now are residing in the Ashbum, VA, area.

The other Hufnagel daughter Donna, and her husband, Stephen, have moved to a new house in St. Michael, MD. Stephen manages the wonderful resort hotel there and Donna represents a prestigious wine distribution company.

• Fred and Anne have been taking in most of the Redskin games and working on their farm out in Rappahannock.

Doyle and Joan Borcbers announced in an email the forthcoming marriage of Joan's second daughter Megan, in late May in Napa Valley, CA. Megan will be marrying John Hurd, who [ has been her boyfriend for the last six years. ; Megan works for Spinal Concepts in the San Francisco area. Also received a Christmas letter from them citing some of their 2001 activities.

• Joan still is active with the dance studio that she owns and this year produced again the annual "Nutcracker" ballet and even conned Doyle into ' playing the role of Dr Stahlbaum. I think that's " a non-dancing role, or if not, Doyle is now ttained in some new, exotic skills. Joan's other daugh; ter AJ, still works for a media company in San ; Francisco. Doyle's daughter Wendy and her husband Sven are now living in Germany where ' both work for Siemens. Son, John, is a neuro; surgeon in the Bay area and Doyle mns his practice. Doyle and Joan are enjoying forays into I the hay and ocean on their new cabin cruiser : FLYING DANCER.

: A few excerpts also from the Christmas letter . from Sharon and Doug Katz. They feel blessed ; that their son, Robert, barely made it out of the • Pentagon on 11 September And other good news 3 last year, was that they welcomed their latest :: granddaughter in March. This is son Rob and Melonie's daughter named Cayla. Daughter - Erica and Rob's wife, Melonie, both finished up i masters degrees last year and Rob was selected to be XO of the Craiser PRINCETON out of San

: Diego this coming May. Doug stepped down : last year as president of the Surface Navy Association and he and Sharon have now tumed to golf in a big way. Doug continues •• his extensive consulting and he and I were able to meet for breakfast on Oahu during one of his frequent jaunts to Guam. Hope you all saw their way cool red, white, and blue family photo in last month's column.

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Chuck Zschock checked into the net on 5 February '02 and I queried him for news on his recent activities. Chuck's response: Hi, Dave—1 sent a note to Bull to get accessed to our database—to ensure my email address is in there. What have 1 been up to lately? Well, 1 just closed an organization that I founded 11 years ago—on 3 October 1990, Germany's Unification Day. The last official German American Business Association (GABA) event was our German American celebratory dinner on 23 January 2002, held in the ballroom of the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. Senator Charles T. Hagel gave an absolutely superb talk, and also presented the GABA Award of Excellence to General Mike Davison, chairman of the GABA advisory board, "...in recognition of superior accomplishments and a lifetime of exceptional service." Later in the program, awards were also given to; Admiral Al Burkhalter. chairman (emeritus) of the GABA board of directors; Charles Zschock, president and founder of GABA; Chuck Doe, editor of the GABA newsletter; and Uli Gamerdinger, GABA's vice president. Dr. Bemd Fischer, economic minister at the German Embassy in Washington, DC, read and presented a laudatory letter to GABA on behalf of Germany's Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger. It was a delightful evening, with the more than 50 in attendance enjoying the event, heralding GABA's "mission accomplished." Other work, mostly govemment contractual in nature, continues unabated as part of my company— Zschock Intemational Group, Inc. The following email was sent to all tmstees and Class/Chapter presidents and was also sent to Class and Chapter scribes: The March issue of Shipmate will have the ballot for the 2002 trustee candidates and their biographies. In an attempt to provide our members more information, we have expanded the section in Shipmate for each candidate, and we have provided each candidate space on our web site at http;//www.usna.com/About/ BOTCandidates/BOTCandidates.htm.

Please encourage ail Alumni Association members to vote in the election—especially those of you in the central and eastern regions.

We will send out an "All Hands" broadcast at the end of February to remind everyone to vote before they have read their Class and Chapter columns and the obits. Thank you for your help!

Lawrence "Skid" Heyworth III '70, director, communications, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation, skid@usna.com.

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Pres; VADM John S. Redd, USN (Ret.) Sec'y: CDR Mike Baird, USN (Ret.) 63 Franklin St., Annapohs, MD 21401 e; baird@toad.net West Coast Sec'y; Robert G. Johnson Jr., Esq. 30131 Town Center Drive, Suite 147, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Class web site; www.usna66.org Welcome to April. Though some of the country, especially Annapolis, has had a warm winter some have had it tough. Still the warmer weather will be appreciated, regardless of the locale. Later in the month, some will celebrate Passover while others will celebrate Easter It is

a time of celebration. I have news on several fronts so let's begin.

Deanna and Tom Stouffer (stouffertd @earthlink.net) are moving back to Franklin County after just six years in Lancaster County.

Tom's last day as president of Lancaster Farmland Trust was 11 January. Their new address for their "self-financed sabbatical" is 5107 Helsey Rd., Shippensburg, PA 17257. They affectionately call their new home Conococheague (pronounced kon-uh-kuh-jig), the name it had when it was a hunting camp early in the last century. It is located on a gravel road in the foothills of the Appalachians, on the east side of Route 81, between exits 20 and 24. If you plan to visit and need directions, send them an email. Thanks for the update, and enjoy the time off.

Donna and Bubba Phillips provided some pictures to capture a '66 gathering at the last ArmyNavy game. As Donna says. Army may have won the game, but '66 was victorious off the field.

Jeannie and Duncan Ingraham came down from Rhode Island in DEERSLAYER. You have to ask Dune why the name. Cubby and Duke Ingraham '94 had a gazillion Classmates and friends to sample the gourmet delights from early moming until the army packed up and left. Donna and Bubba came with their son, Brent, who is class of '90 from the University of Missouri, and the 4th Company Officer; cousin Andrew Roy '01, former brigade commander who is headed for his ship, HAMK-TON, out of Pearl Harbor; and Skip Orser, who made the trip up from North Carolina to do the cooking. If spirit had anything to do with winning, we did it, Donna says.

Andrew, Bubba, and Brent My thanks to Donna for the news and the pictures.

Tom Kimmel (tkkjr@juno.com) recently sent the following email regarding the status of his grandfather's recommended advancement on the retired list.

You asked me to keep you updated on the issue of RADM Husband E. Kimmel 1904's congressionally recommended advancement on the retired list. Since President George Bush has asked DoD for a new look at the matter, perhaps you will be more inclined to revisit the issue as well, especially in view of a newly released firsthand account of the injustice done to a fellow officer. If it is true that the only thing required for injustice to prevail is for good people to do nothing, then it is also true that it is never too late to do the right thing.

The attached book is new and important to the issue of posthumous advancement on the retired list for ADM Kimmel and General Walter C. Short. It was written contemporaneous to 103

events in 1946 by Major General Henry D. Russell, the member of the Army Pearl Harbor Board (APHB) responsible for investigadng Washington's contribution to the disaster.

Clearly, Russell had great standing to write on the subject. It was not published until 2001. I have included three quotes from the book: 1) on scapegoating, 2) on the severity of punishment to Short and Kimmel, and 3) on Marshall.

General Russell's conclusion on scapegoating is found on the last page, page 160, in part, as follows; "1 believed then and believe now that all those responsible for our defeat at Pearl Harbor should have been dealt with alike. If one was driven out of the Service, all should have been.

If one was forgiven, all should have been. To select an individual as a sacrifice for the sins

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of the group was not only unfair, but was downright despicable.

To me the conduct of those in high places, after the attack, was dishonest and inexcusable."

General Russell's comment (attributed to APHB member. Major General Walter H. Frank) on the severity of the punishment accorded to General Short (and, of course. Admiral Kimmel) also found on page 160 is as follows; "General Short had received the soldier's greatest punishment, relief from his command, and retirement in time of war."

General Russell's comment on Gen George C. Marshall is found on pages 118-119 as follows; "Marshall knew that his derelictions were equal to or greater than those of Short, and that military men, so long as they studied the catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, would censure Marshall's conduct in protecting his own official life by destroying that of his subordinate Short."

Thanks, Tom, and best wishes for a positive outcome. Tom also attached a copy of the text referred to in the email. If you'd like a copy, you can send an email to him.

Just to keep you up to date on the Class Project, Clay Spikes, Chuck Grutzius, and I met with members of the USNA Foundation in February to scope the possibilities and have some recommendations to take to the Class Project Conunittee. That effort is now progressing to selection of candidate projects. I hope to have more to report in the next column.

So that wraps up April. I'll close with some more 35th Reunion pictures, courtesy of "RB" Adams. By the way, several of the pictures sent digitally couldn't be used because they weren't dense enough. If you get them to me in time, I can usually send them to the Shipmate staff to check out. It wouldn't hurt if you backed them up with hardcopies, anyway. Alumni House is only one-half mile away, and I usually drop the photos through the mail slot on my moming run, or on the way to work. Thanks for all the support. Keep the mail box full. Until AprilAll the best. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mike

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and John Guibert, among other '67ers there.

John's email address is pelorus@bellsouth.net, and he gave Dave some grief for not knowing what a pelorus is. Well, I don't either, but it sounds like some sort of Navy contraption that a Marine should probably stay away from. (Actually, I looked it up, and my Webster's says its alternate name is "dumb compass." Figures!)

And.. .1 got this from Marty McKnight: Just read Jan-Feb Shipmate. Don't know how information about me serving any tours in Vietnam got started. I have way too much respect for those who did serve to take any kind of credit for something that did not happen. I did return to the Corps when I left the Academy (at the end of our Plebe Year), completed my enlistment and was discharged as a Sergeant.

Thanks for passing this correction on. Don't want any confusion. Go Navy, BeatArmyl

Sorry about the mix-up, Marty, and thanks for setting me straight. Semper Fi! If Terry Brown ever wants to give you an lOU, take it. In my last column, I claimed one from him to give us a photo from 16th Company's last fifth Class Cruise. Here it is, promptly delivered, along with some descriptive verbiage:

'66: Jeannie Lopacinski. Joan Barchi O'Dell, John Posoli, and Glenda Adams

We have again survived The Craise. The third Annual 16th Co. (West Coast Chapter) Midshipman Fourth Class and YP Drill was conducted in July 2001. And, as before, I'm late in getting the evidence of our survival to you which means that this picture probably won't be published in Shipmate until we're on the water for the Fourth Annual Cruise. From left to right are; Jim Gilbert (Navigator), Harry Kluckhohn (Galley Slave), Terry Brown (ICOB—"In Charge of Boat"; honorary title) and Bruce Wright (Chunky—self explanatory) The picture was taken by a nice person Gilly promised a beer to and, unfortunately, it's not easy to see us in the picture. On the other hand, since we already drank the beer that Gilly promised the "nice person" we couldn't see him either. We are currently making plans for the next craise and since we are now well known—but not well thought of—in the Sacramento Delta, we plan to follow the Sacramento Ri\'er north next time.

'66; Rey Bald, Ned Samo, Emie Schoolfield, and Manny Lopez

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Pres; CDR David E. Church, USN (Ret.) Sec'y; LCOL Jim McNeece, USMC (Ret.) 1603 John Worthington Way, Crownsville, MD 21032 h: 410-849-3423; f; 410-849-3623 (call before faxing); e: scribe67@aol.com Remember how we're always mentioning "Lost Souls?" Dave Church came up with a new technique for smoking them out of their holes.

He flashed an email a few weeks ago reporting the passing of Jack Wood. Somebody called lack's wife, Karen, to ask what the Class could do in her time of grief. Well, she was caught totally off guard since Jack was, at that very minute.

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hard at work at his desk. Needless to say, there were a sufficient number of red faces to go around with some to spare. However Jack promptly tumed himself in to Dick of the Database for inclusion of the Class email list. While effective in this case, I suspect this will not be a technique that is used very often. By the way, it wasn't Dave's fault. He'd received the wrong word from a co-worker of the other Jack Wood, the one who'd really passed away.

No underhanded tactics were needed for a couple of others. Bob Groncznack resurfaced after a "house sale, a move, and a busy holiday period." Check the web site for his new email address. John Scott turned himself in. According to Dave, he's a member of the Triangle (NC) Chapter along with Bill Gautier, Tom Leiser,

Chunky and crew—July 2001

Every winter for four or five years 'Nita and Jack Parry have been playing host to an evolution that has become known as '"67 Goes South."

A bunch of us from the Washington/Annapolis/ Baltimore area head south to Richmond for a day in that city or its environs. This January, we 105

expanded to include Classmates from the Tidewater area. However 01' Man Winter got in the way and hit us with just enough snow to scare away all but the most fearless.. .or maybe it was all but the most foolhardy. Either way, in Jack's words: ...A stalwart band of '67's hardiest adventurers gathered at the Virginia Aviation Museum and proceeded with the full Monte of the day! Coffee, juice, and gingerbread were consumed while the aggregation assembled. A personal tour of the museum's collection by Senior Assistant Director, David Hahn and a slide presentation of Virginia's rich aviation heritage were well received by pilots and less lofty aspirants. A light snowfall covered the Richmond area as we boarded the tour bus. 'Nita Parry provided the commentary as we covered historic sites and neighborhoods over the next hour and a half. The tour concluded with a pit stop at the Science Museum of Virginia before heading back to the Aviation Museum to disembark.

The snow had turned to a light rain washing all trace of snow from the area by the time we said our farewells to the bus driver.

The Cooks headed home from the Aviation Museum and to our delight the remainder of stalwarts reconvened at Maury Place for desserts and refreshments.

Shown in the picture are Barb and John Aunchman, Kathy and Dick Meade, J.C. Bates, Terry and Bob Kelly, Deme Bates, Paula and Jim Cook, 'Nita and Jack Parry, and Pat and Jim McNeece. Now, we're going to do this again next year, so everyone who lives within striking

distance of Richmond keep that in mind. You'll be missing a bet if you let it pass. 'Nita is the real spark plug and organizer for this thing, and she plans a super day. Be there!

Dave heard from Randy Thompson. He's vice president—Finance for Pasteurized Eggs Corp. in Meredith, NH. According to Randy, they have: .. .developed a process whereby chicken eggs in the shell are exposed to our technology and are pasteurized without materially changing the egg's functionahty. Pasteurization of shell eggs eliminates food pathogens such as salmonella in a basic food source. We began marketing the product under the brand Davidson's Pasteurized Eggs and are struggling with consumer awareness—an expensive process for a branded item. To date, all the entrepreneurial emotions have been experienced and retirement is not a recognized status on the horizon.

Randy and Debbie have three children; Sarah (19), Beth (16), and Patrick (15). They live on a 91-acre original post and beam homestead (he's only the second owner) with the "usual smattering of dogs, horses, moose, and beaver One of those 'move right in and fix right up' continuing projects." It sounds to me like they have a really interesting life. Makes me feel pretty inadequate that he's got time for enttepreneurial efforts while holding down a 91-acre piece of property!

From Gary McBride: I tried to send a photo of Tony Principi and several of us together when he was recently in Atlanta. I don't think I was successful. Please log on to www.usnaaaa.com (Atlanta Chapter) and

look for the Principi luncheon. The guys in the picture are (left to right) Dave Spisso, Gary McBride, Tony, Rich Rodgers. Pete Dabbieri, and Reb Hester. Tony requested the picture be sent to Shipmate, but I guess it never made it.

Nope, it didn't make it, Gary, and I fried to capture the photo from the web site, but its resolution was too low for Shipmate's printer However Classmates, you can go to the URL Gary gave, or you can go to www.usna67.com/ atianta_chapter_meeting.htm where Dick has it posted on the Class web site.

In Febmary, Lin and Jim Barrett again hosted a 5th Company weekend at Barrett's Bed & Breakfast in St. Michaels, MD. ft was a bit lower key than usual since a couple of the real rabblerousers had to drop out at the last minute. Larry Pigeon had business he had to attend to, and John Aunchman had a close encounter with some poison oak. I think he wound up broken out pretty much every where... which may be more than anyone needed to know. Anyway, the rest of us enjoyed the B&B with its Jacuzzis in every room, and we had our customary dinner next door at 208 Talbot, perhaps the best restaurant on the Eastem Shore. Even though the group was small, we had a great time! In the rear in the photo are Jim Barrett, Dick and Kathy Meade, Lin Barrett, and Suzanne and Jim Buttinger. My wife Pat and I are there in the front.

And finally, a word from Dick of the Database (DOTDB); I have had an increasing number of email addresses go south recently for a variety of reasons including our Classmates changing their provider and not keeping DOTDB in the loop.

At your next Shipmate opportunity would you please put in a plug for them to update their email addresses so they don't miss out on the 35th Reunion information that will only be promulgated via the listserv and the Class web site.

Bottom line; If they don't get the monthly "Slummers" email, then they are not connected and they need to contact DOTDB. Consider it done, Richard. Everyone remember that monthly "Slummers" email is really a ping to give you the chance to make sure you're still connected. By the time you read this, information on the 35th Reunion scheduled for 27-29 September will probably have started being posted on the web site. That's information you need to know. If you haven't heard from DOTDB for awhile, you need to check in by looking on the web site to make sure your email address there is correct.

And so, another exciting (?) episode draws to a close. I'm out of stuff. My email directory has been stripped bare, and my "Shipmate-Pending" file folder is empty. That's it.. .Goodnight! —^Jim

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Unfortunately, Spence is not listed in the to a conversion of her Intemet provider she lost a Memorial Hall display containing the names number of email messages. Her new email adAnnual Membership: 39% of Naval Academy graduates killed during our dress is: burke949@cox.net. If you communicated Life Membership: 36% nation's wars. I have brought the matter to the with Linda, please resend your email to her new attention of the Alumni Association with an address so that she may have a complete record Pres; Joseph V. Conway urgent request that this oversight be corrected. and be able to reply. Thanks!

Exec Sec'y; Leo Kuehn In January Linda and RADM Jeff Cook joined As Orr Kelly relates in Brave Men, Dark 531 Wilson Road, AnnapoHs, MD 21401-1061 Waters: The Untold Story of the Navy SEALs the civilian ranks upon Jeff's retirement as vice e; lkuehn@cuinc.com (published in 1992 by the Presidio Press), commander of the Naval Aviation Systems ComCorr Sec'y; Gordon I. Peterson Spence's daring mission involved the Navy's first mand at Naval Air Station Patuxent River MD. 7994 Hidden Bridge Drive, Springfield, VA 22153 use of a submerged delivery vehicle (SDV) in Joining more than 300 guests (including two high p; 703-913-5404: f: 703-243-8251 combat. Spence was one of four SEALs ordered school Classmates) for the memorable retirement e: gpeterson@navyleague.org to be dropped by helicopter into the waters off dinner held in the atrium of the system Class web site: www.usna68.com the coast of North Vietnam during the predawn command's headquarters building were Jim In Febraary President Bush and NASA Admin- hours of 6 June 1972.

Rather, Dick Borowiec, Lee Startt, Bill "Boog" isttator Sean O'Keefe nominated former NASA The rescue was not to be. The POWs called Powell, Ron Cook, Jeff Dumas, and me (all asttonaut and Assistant Deputy Administrator off their escape attempt, but not before Navy from Jeff's 13th Company) and Mike Tkach and Maj Gen Charles F. Bolden, as NASA's next forces were sent into action from the sea on the Chip Dudderar. deputy administtator Charlie and Jackie will be dark, overcast night. Tragically, as the first in leaving California's sunny clime, where Charlie his four-man team to jump, Spence was killed currently serves as conunanding general of the when the force of his impact with the water's 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, to retimi to Washing- surface broke his neck. ton, DC, "I am grateful for the president's overAlthough Kelly reported that the official acwhelming confidence in General Bolden," said count of the accident said the Navy helo was at Administtator O'Keefe. "I could not ask for a an altitude of 35 feet, other participants in the more qualified partner to help lead this great mission told him the free-fall drop was probably agency." Way to go, Charlie! Congratulations on made at closer to 100 feet—or from a height the richly deserved honor of being selected for equivalent to that of a ten story building. Other this critical leadership position.

SEALs had their weapons and equipment torn from their bodies by the force of their impact with the water Another Navy helicopter rescued the surviving SEALs the following day and also recovered Spence's body.

Spence's final operation was highly classified for many years until it was documented publicly in 1981 by Edwin L. Towers in Operation Thunderhead: Hope for Freedom and later described by Kelly, a veteran defense correspondent who served as the Pentagon reporter for U.S. News & World Report magazine for a number of years. Full details of the operation are said to be Maj Gen Charlie Bolden and fellow Marines during still classified, but I wanted to share what I have a training exercise in Kuwait last year Jeff and Linda Cook leamed with you.

Linda Burke (Bob Steffen's sister) reports that Space will not permit me the luxury of repeatIn my last column I shared Ed Sullivan's recollections of a number of Classmates who served she has heard from a number of Classmates re- ing all the praise that Jeff received from a long in two of the Navy's most highly decorated avia- garding her request for information about Bob's line of speakers at his retirement dinner Nav Air's tion squadrons, the Black Ponies of VAL-4 and time at the Academy and commissioned service current commander VADM Joe Dyer captured the Seawolves of HAL-3. The name of another prior to his death. "You cannot know how much the emotions of many when he said of Jeff, "I gallant member of our Class is recorded in the it means to me," she wrote. Unfortunately, owing reckon you don't walk on water; I think you annals of Navy special operations during the Vietnam War—the last SEAL to lose his life in that conflict.

Melvin "Spence" Dry, company commander of the 8th Company during the "first set" back in our senior year in 1967, was assigned to SEAL Team One in 1972. WTien it was leamed that a number of U.S. POWs were going to attempt an escape from captivity in a prison camp near Hanoi, it was decided to insert a small SEAL team ashore to monitor the mouth of the Red River for any sign of a sampan or other small craft containing the fleeing Americans. For obvious operational-security reasons, it was not possible to relate this story—or the brave work of other Navy SEALs who were inserted into North Vietnam to rescue downed U.S. pilots— at the time. Their decorations, including one Medal of Honor were awarded in private ceremonies accompanied by suitably sanitized '68; On hand lor left Cook's retirement in January were I to r Gord\ Fcicison, Jeff Dumas, Ron Cook, Bill award citations.

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hover over it!" One coworker remembered Jeff as, "smart, athletic, good looking, dedicated, modest, and the perfect boss!"

When we see Navy and Marine Corps aviation conducting the war on terrorism with such telling effect in the skies over Afghanistan, it is worth remembering that Jeff played an important role in bringing many of today's modem airwarfare systems to fruition during his distinguished career as an aeronautical engineering duty officer As one former NAVAIR commander noted, there has been a revolution in naval aviation's weapons and sensors, and much of that revolution was accomplished under Jeff's direction. His imprint and achievement will be felt for many generations. Jay Halloran, a friend of 43 years, said that Jeff has always been a "constant source of inspiration," and he could well have spoken on behalf of all members of our Class who have been associated with Jeff since the summer of 1964.

The Cooks have moved to Nashua, NH, where Jeff will work as a scientific and technical advisor for BAE Systems Corp.

As noted, M i k e T k a c h (michael.j.tkach @boeing.com)and Chip Dudderar were on hand from the '68 contingent at Patuxent for Jeff's retirement. Mike is the V-22 program director (since 2000) for Bell Boeing. He was an A-7 Corsair 11 driver while on active duty, before joining the F/A-18 Hornet program. As Mike told me, "It is a big change for me after 20 years with the Hornet program—and other fast burners— in flying, selling, and program management."

Mike and Vicki's son, Brian Tkach ' 0 1 , is now enjoying Navy flight training in Pensacola.

Mike, Brian, and Vicki Tkach at USNA Class of 2001 graduation Chip Dudderar retired from the Navy in 1996 after a career in attack aviation flying the A-7 and F/A-18 Hornet. He is now with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in charge of tactical aviation programs at Nav Air Last autumn, Terry and Joe Conway reported that Judy and John Lanning passed through Annapolis on their 55-foot Fleming motor yacht while plying the waters of the East Coast from their home in Naples, FL, to visit various anchorages in New England. Spending a few weeks in a "selected availability" in his outfitting yard, John and Judy took the opportunity to visit their daughter in Guam while their vessel was readied for the voyage south for the winter L'ATTITUDE is outfitted with a flying bridge and proper destroyer man's captain's seat, cameras monitoring the bilges and engines, multiple GPS units, computer-assisted navigation using the latest electronic chart tools, bow thmster autopilot, great comms, and an even better galley and wine cellar! Joe reports it was a wonderful treat

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to have assisted in the pre-voyage sea trial. As he related: To make things even better, when we boarded for sea trials, John had obtained the logs of ROAN (DD-853) from the time when he and I served together in 1972 (John as navigator, and I as chief engineer). We had a wonderful visit down memory lane, reading our log entries of "observed sunrise," dropped loads, wiped spring bearings, character UAs who returned, and all the things that make our experiences so vivid, even years later. John, a retired senior executive with KPMG, admits he routinely applies the lessons he learned in YPs and on ROAN in shiphandling and navigation. I can vouch that he has a heck of a memory, as he put L' ATTITUDE smartly alongside the pier in 20 knots of breeze single-handedly. A member of the 26th Company as a Plebe, John graduated with the 25th Company, and he has been a sttong supporter of our Class fund-raising campaign. After a strong career in the corporate world , we're lucky to have John and Judy rejoin the active membership of our Class.

John and Judy Lanning Susan and M i k e C a r r o n ( c a r r o n ® saclantc.nato.int) have decided to call it quits from govemment service and take on a final adventure. Mike retired in 1999 as a captain in the Naval Reserve after a career of 31 years. He decided to end his civil service as chief scientist of the Naval Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center, MS, this year because he was offered a senior scientist position at the NATO SacLant Undersea Research Center in La Spezia, Italy.

We couldn't resist," Mike reported. "I was a science advisor to Area ASW Forces Sixth Fleet in Naples, Italy, in the early 80s, and we both loved living in Italy. We even remember how to order a couple of glasses of wine in Italian. The chance to live on the Italian Rivera and work in the Mediterranean again was just too tempting.

Mike also reported that his son, Chris, decided after spending a summer at wrestling camp at USNA that the College of William and Mary was more to his liking. Chris will be spending summers in Italy and winters in Williamsburg, VA, and he cannot help but point out that W&M was in the top 20 rankings in I-AA this year "We're hoping Paul Johnson can bring some of his magic to USNA over the next few years," Mike wrote.

He would like to hear from you, and you can reach him by email.

Shortly before the new year Dennis Garrity (garrityl@llnl.gov) forwarded a note reflecting on our Class' preference for two categories of cars when we were finally authorized to bring them within the ten-mile limit and in the yard.

Muscle cars. Corvettes, and British sports cars seemed to top the list, and Dennis reports that he

still has his original Oldsmobile, but it is now' confined to a garage pending restoration. Here's | a great trip down memory lane; ^ The 25th Company was big on sports cars. I | trust my memory less and less, so please excuse any "misinformation" that follows, but I believe that besides Jim Kiffer both Bill Scott and Mike Sullivan also had Austin Healey 3000s. Tom Hearn had a sweet 350-horse Corvette, and Kent MacNeill went all out for , a tri-power 427 with 435 h.p. version. It seems f^.

I have forgotten at least one other sports car— '% maybe Hank lyier can help me out. I secretly ';=> lusted for a Jaguar E-type myself (still hope one day to own one), but circumstances strongly dictated that I go the muscle car route. ;: My dad was general manager for A.D. Pelunis 'J Oldsmobile in Lakewood (Cleveland), OH. We put roughly a hundred Mids in 442s or Cuflasses between '64 and '69, many of them convertibles.

Besides me in 25th Company, Bill Dow had one, as did Wayne Nonoshita, Ivan Williams, and Rick Marien. I may be leaving out a couple others, because some of the guys bought cars in the years following graduation. John Lanning had one that was a gorgeous dark metallic gray called "antique pewter" which was accented with red-line wide ovals and pin striping. I liked the look of that car better than my own. Gil Brickler also got one. I think it was metallic gold, with a matching roof (or was the top black?). Does anybody remember the "Brickler Handshake"? Jim Webb mentioned it in one of his novels, but gave "credit" to some imaginary Midshipman.

Later I heard that the Annapolis Oldsmobile dealer was really steamed about my dad's great deals—he had never matched the amount of the big discounts other dealers were giving to Midshipmen, and suddenly his sales dropped to a trickle. Of course, that dealer wasn't giving the guys a room to stay the night or a home-cooked meal or the jokes and banter that made it worth the trip to Ohio to buy a car!

I was with George Harris during summer leave in '67 when he picked up a glossy all black 442. Being from the road-salt-snow-andrust belt, I had held reservations about that choice of colors, but it ttuly looked great, and George loved it. Unfortunately, it was one of several USNA cars that got completely crampled. Fortunately George got through that accident okay, but his roommate Sully lost his spleen, and accumulated the last few available demerits in his allotment. When Mike got out of the hospital and back to Bancroft Hall, one weasel of a battalion officer made sure he was drummed out, so he is another name missing from our roster.

George replaced his car with another 442.1 heard later that one was also totaled. Supposedly "Possum" was home on leave, "ridge ranning" in his native Arkansas, when some farmer's derelict pickup truck spontaneously starting rolling down an incline. It fell off one of those ridges, directly onto the back half of George's car, wrecking it. Naturally George was unharmed—at worst, his front teeth might have popped loose again! That would be an incredible story if it happened to anyone else, but for ol' George to have a car fall out of the sky, it hardly seems unusual.

1 noticed from the memorial list that George is one of our fallen comrades. The last time I heard from him, very long ago, he proudly enclosed a picture with his wife and two stepchildren. I know that Ivan Williams was also lost to us. When 1 saw him in San Diego, he Shipmate, April 2002

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Pres; CAPT Edwin "Steve" Potts, USNR Vice Pres; F.H. "Mike" Michaelis Sec'y: A.L. "Al" Cipriani Treas: Steve Ward h: 703-864-1775; w: 703-620-2279 Corr Sec'y: Dr. Steve Hudock 6006 Woodlake Lane, Alexandria, VA 22315-2637 e: hudocksa@ingalls.com

'68: Shown at a recent Drexel women's basketball game are left to right; Edie Lucas, Dottie Katauskas, Phil Katauskas, and Gil Lucas had been divorced from his wife (a Cleveland girl that had been a nursing student in B-more).

Ivan had two MGBs in his driveway—one belonged to his new woman. Ivan had likewise gone through a couple of cars: he showed me some awful burn scars from when he had wrecked one and been pinned under it against the exhaust system.

Overall our Class had been pretty lucky despite bad car wrecks. One Classmate (name withheld to protect the guilty) smashed his jade green 442 convertible, but safely made it back to the Academy undetected. Then he secretly bought an identical one from my dad, something neither revealed to me until some years later. I can't remember all the other crashes, much less close calls. We led charmed lives then, and we seemed indestractible.

The last four years I have been working at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab on the NIF (National Ignition Facility—an odd name for a football stadium-size research laser).

Please pass on my wishes for all the Class of '68 and their families for a healthy and safe year in these turbulent times.

Jim Kiffer wrote to say that he understood that "Possum" Harris resigned his commission from the Marine Corps and worked a farm for awhile with his wife and daughter was divorced, remarried, and working toward being a minister with a new wife when he sadly took his own life. "He was a great guy, and I still think of him a lot," Jim wrote. Jim said that he spoke with Bill Scott recendy, and he's doing fine up in the state of Washington. He retired from the Navy and after working for a while he is now hanging loose and managing his money. Jim also said that his Healey's complete restoration is coming along slowly even with someone else doing it—but that gives him more time to pay for it. It is an expensive operation, Jim said!

All the car talk brought back memories of my English racing green '67 MGB purchased from Capitol Motors out on West Street. Several Classmates on the track team, Phil Katauskas and Dave Wallace to name two, researched the subject carefully and opted for MGBs. I thought that if an MGB was good enough for them, it was good enough for me. The June aftemoon before I departed USNA for first Class cmise in WestPac I went out and ordered one sight unseen and with no road test—courtesy of that wonderful financing from the Northeastem National Bank of

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Scranton, PA. When I retumed from craise in late July, the car was waiting for me to drive home to New York, and it was love at first sight!

I racked up more than 300,000 miles on that MGB before orders overseas to Europe in 1983 obliged a painful end to our relationship.

Jack Cosgrove also had a big 442.1 leamed the hard way. During one Sunday drive back to Whiting Field from weekend liberty on Pensacola Beach, I elected to drive back by way of a dirt road through the scrub pine near Whiting. All was fine until I hit a one-foot trench at 45 mph. The impact shifted the engine, sending the cooling fan straight through the radiator core. I hiked the mile or so to Jack's home, and he kindly towed me to a garage for repairs!

Leo Kuehn owned one of the most unusual sports cars in the Class—an English all-aluminum A.C. Bristol. I know, because I seriously considered purchasing it from him during flight school! Purists will recall that the marriage of the A.C. Bristol's body with a new Shelby design powered by a large V-8 engine produced the legendary Shelby Cobra (pre-Ford version) "Cobra Killer" Hawk Adamson also drove a more unusual English Griffith sports car 'What was fairly typical, however was our English sports cars' notorious need for continual tinkering and preventive maintenance. I well remember Hawk laboring to fix a fuel leak out in the car port of his lovely cinderblock temporary abode at the "Surf and Sand" community of winter rentals out on Pensacola Beach!

How many Classmates out there still have their First Class car?

Speaking of Phil, Gil Lucas forwarded a photo taken at a Drexel basketball game in Philadelphia. Gil's daughter plays for the Drexel women's team in the Colonial Athletic League, and he used one other games as an excuse to visit Dottie and Phil. Both Dottie and Phil are doing well, and their son, Alex, was successful in his quest to go Navy SEALs after USNA graduation in May. That's a wrap for this month. I'll close with a plug for our Class homepage. Dave Tyler is working hard to keep it current, so I encourage you to check it out from time to time at w w w . u s n a 6 8 . c o m . Keep those notes and photos coming!

All the best, —Gordo

Greetings fellow '69ers. Another great spring is here and the Big Blue under new Coach Johnson looks promising for next fall. Tickets are on sale now! Our maUbag is low this month, but Secretary Al Cipriani provided a great update on the Class of '69 Foundation: The current Class Foundation has been in existence for about three years and is starting to mature. This letter is to give you the current condition of our Foundation.

1. The current officers are; Steve Potts (espotts@psii-worIdwide.com) president 1999-2003; Mike Michaelis (mike.michaelis@ns.doe.gov) executive vice president 1999-2002; Al Cipriani (acipriani @fticonsulting.com) secretary 2000-2003; Steve Ward (sward@mmiconnect.com) treasurer 2001-2004; Mike Strand (mstrand® fortunegroup.com) director 2000-2003; John Post (jhp424@aol.com) director 19992002; Todd Creekman (ccreekman® worldnet.att.net) director 2001-2005; Steve Hudock (hudocst@mail.northgrum.com) corresponding secretary—Shipmate; Tom Klocek (tklocek@mitre.org) web communications director; and Bob Byles (bboppr @aol.com) investments.

2. The current active and paid membership of the Foundation is 165. Of those members, 56 are Life Memberships. Life Membership is $250 and Annual Membership is $20. BZ to the 11 th Company and Jim Speer. A hundred percent of the known company are members of the Foundation, including four life members.

The 11th still has not been able to locate Gale Brink or Mike Hall. If anyone knows their whereabouts please let me know. Your Foundation dues go to support various programs and services shown below.

3. The next annual meeting is on Friday, 11 October 2002 in Ward Hall. Navy plays North Carolina State on 12 October.

4. The 35th reunion is coming up in the fall of 2004. We are looking for volunteers now to start organizing this major event. Please contact Al Cipriani at the above email if you are interested.

5. Steve Hudock is always looking for input for the Shipmate articles. The usual lead-time is about eight weeks from submission to publishing.

6. The Foundation is solvent and has about $75K. The Foundation supports the following; Michelson Lecture series; gavel presented to the graduating 1 st Class; sponsorship and support of the 9th Company; public relations related to the 9th Co. and or the Class of '69; Class of '69 web site (http;//www.USNA69.org); seed money for major Class reunions; and Class plaque to the family of deceased Classmates.

As you can see by the list, the Foundation is just scratching the surface of possibilities.

A mission statement is being prepared to formalize what we do.

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A letter will be coming out soon soliciting proposals for a major Class gift to the Academy.

8. We continue to lose Classmates as we age.

Last year we lost; Terry Bingman, 34th Co.; Kevin Connor 23rd Co.; Joe KeUer. 18th Co. Dave Montoya 6th Co.; and Doug Muir, 12th Co. 9. If you have any news you would like to pass along, please contact me, Al Cipriani (acipriani@fticonsulting.com) or at 410-2632659. I am also attempting to keep an up-todate address, phone number, and email listing for the Class. This list will not be provided to anyone outside our Class, nor for any type of spamming of services. This list will only be used to help Classmates find each other and communicate Class affairs.

As I said, it was a pretty dusty mailbag this time. Probably the result of the Dark Ages. Looking forward to hearing more from any of you who can write, call or email!

Beat Osama\ â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Steve

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Pres: Lynn Widener Sec'y: CDR Royal Connell, USN (Ret) 1978 Valley Rd., Annapohs, MD 21401 e: njrotc@arctic.nadn.navy.mil Greetings all. Tonight I watched the opening of the Winter Olympiad and was impressed that a couple of times the networks cut to a bunch of our ttoops obviously watching from Afghanistan and cheering USA! USA! USA! I don't know and can't predict the future (those of you who are keeping score, know how bad my optimistic ttack record is with Navy football) but I know that this one we are going to win. The spirit and confidence is there. And I for one would be willing to bet a B-robe on the outcome in the world out there.

Another optimist in the crowd would be "Call Me Gramps (1st timer)" Bob Alden, who wrote to inform us that in early January, Matthew Harrison Alden arrived in Winter Garden, FL, one month early. They had to do a c-section to avoid risking his daughter-in-law's health. Baby and parents, Mike and Joceyln, are doing fine.

I got a missive from Skid Heyworth telling us scribes to tell you all to vote for the slate of officers before you even read the Class news or obits.. .Of course, that makes it just a bit harder to tell you it before you read this, but there you have it. I was impressed to see the name of Lawrence Heyworth IV '05 on the Supe's List that just came out. I guess, he'll not have to tell his Classmate to write a note to his other Classmates that they are supposed to do something even before they read the note. I ' m so confused.. .now that I think of it, did daddy-Skid ever wear stars?

Brenda and Gary Knight felt appropriately chastised by the column in the January-Febmary Shipmate for not providing material, and offered what he referred to as "my meager attempt to provide some." Mick Herdrich and his fiancee, Mercedes, attended the Navy-Air Force game at the Redskins' stadium last fall, and they're going up to see them in Oceanport, NJ, in Febmary.

They're both retired] And having fun traveling

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the world; they spent two weeks in the British Virgin Islands in December and in early January are going to Colorado skiing for a week and then a surprise trip to Hawaii for Mercedes' birthday (sshhh!). Gary attached a view from the new retirement home that his new wife, Brenda and he bought in December overiooking Gallows Bay, in Christiansted, the capitol of St. Croix, ft's gorgeous, but it doesn't meet the specs to publish. It has a complete apartment in the basement, so when they move down there for good in four years, everyone will have to go visit!

Nell Finn has logged some time reading the papers out there in San Diego and it seems that we hit two in one day for '70 a couple of weeks ago. First VADM John Nathman, speaking at a defense conference in San Diego: The bombing campaign launched from aircraft carriers has "validated" the Navy's future in a military refocused to quickly respond to terrorism or regional wars.

The paper labeled him as an outspoken proponent of naval aviation, but I guess we already knew that. Further they went on: The Pentagon, even before 11 September, was starting to transform its armed forces to handle a wide range of military action, ranging from terrorism to regional conflicts anywhere in the world. Naval aviators, like Nathman, have argued that the air campaign over Afghanistan proves the versatility of carriers. With three countries denying the use of airfields and facilities by U.S. forces, the air campaign was largely handled by carrier-based aircraft and long-range Air Force bombers, he noted. Because of the long distances. Navy and Marine Corps pilots have endured up to ten hours in the cockpit, he added. That's the same as launching aircraft from Washington, DC, flying to St. Louis, bombing a target and returning to Washington and then landing on an aircraft carrier at night, Nathman said. So far.

Navy fighters have hit their targets 84 % of the time, an unprecedented accuracy.

The second article was labeled: "Defense in a Hurry." In it, RADM Ken Slaght, commander of SpaWar, was touted as responsible for developing the Navy's command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. And was quoted at the same conference as saying; Some priorities emerged in the military's response to 11 September and as the war in Afghanistan unfolded, for example, SpaWar has rashed to deploy a number of embryonic technologies urgently needed by U.S. forces.

Bit and Piece: Steve Reinemund was written up in the 14 January Business Week magazine as one of the top 25 managers of the year. It had a nice article about his taking the top spot at Pepsico. Good on 'ya Steve!

And finally, Dick Thompson sent me a real letter with a real picture and everything. He and his "Original Navy Issue" wife, Peggy (sorry about that Peggy, you're really going to have to get him to submit his writings to you first for censorship) hosted a get together for some 21st company guys last fall. Kirk Van Tine has a new job as the head attorney for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Dick noted that Bruce Henry and Syd Rodenbarger couldn't make it, and muttered something about Kirk eating their share.

Something about not having time to eat in his

new job. I'm not real sure about Dick's handwriting. Especially when it might get me hammered by some other irate Classmate. I look forward to the others in the crowd writing me to tell me the rest of the SKMA Ring-A-Ding-Dingl

L to r; Dick Thompson, Tom Bricken, Kirk Van Tine, Steve Root, Ed Lucke

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Pres: CAPT Perry Martini, USN (Ret) 1 Sec'y: Jim Yeakley f 10879 Chinon Circle, San Diego, CA 92126-2567 e; jyeaklel @san.rr.com webmaster: John Holland e; john.holland@verizon.net http;//www.usna.com/classes/1971/usnal971.htirJ

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The dearth of news in my mailbag and my email inbox suggests to me that we must be in the Dark Ages. Nevertheless, a few things to report.

On their way to Detroit in late January, Jan and Chuck Boyer dropped in for a few days with Audia and Bill Otto at their home in Pittsburgh Joining them for the visit was Bill and Audia'f delightful daughter Candace (Miss Kankak^ 2001), home for the weekend from Northwest em University. | Bill had been trying for ages to get Chuck to share in some sort of religious experience with him, and Chuck, being an open-minded person, finally took Bill up on his invitation, not knowing what to expect, but open to anything.

According to Chuck, Bill drove around for what seemed like hours, but the blessings realized after their arrival made it all worthwhile.

"It was a trae miracle!" says Chuck. "We were seated at the altar, literally! The rites for the service were equally inspiring...definitely a place for those who want to be saved from life's problems or otherwise have a great time!"

Bill notes that Chuck accepted several blessings during the experience, and adds that the experience is non-denominational. He looks forward to sharing it with other Classmates in the future. The services are carried out at The Church Brew Works, and the eucharistic fluid, according to Chuck, is identical to that used by the old Church of Monday Night Football, where the sacraments, as I recall, included selecting one devout sheep from the flock to heave a brick through a television set while Howard Cosell droned on. " J i m m y Brooks\...the Body\ ...somehow not the re \...when the tackle is sought to be made...(crash, snap, crackle, pop, fizzle, tinkle)."

Speaking of bricks, Jim Brick, one of our last 0-6s, retired shortly after our 30-year reunion, on 5 October Wife, Marsha writes that the ceremony was carried out in the Mahan Rotunda of the Naval War College, where her husband Shipmate, April 2002

Don and Lin Disney jibe ho on the Caribbean

'71; Under the '71 Big Top at the 30-year reunion: Frank Wnek, this reporter, Lambeit Heikes, and Dave Maskaluk surround Jim Duffy '60, their Plebe and Youngster Year 30th Company Officer, mentor, father figure, and role model, just before throwing a blanket over him and beating the hell out of him for hollering at them so much back when they were little enjoyed kind and generous acknowledgements from Admiral Frank "Skip" Bowman (the nukes' nuke) and Jim's former department chair Col Bill Spain, USMC (Ret.). Family and friends shared in a bit of an unusual moming as the masters of ceremony were the Brick daughters, LTJG Lauren Elizabeth Brick (Vanderbilt '99) and ENS Kristin Marie Brick (Vanderbilt '01). As the mother of the DC A on PORTER (DDG-78) and the electrical officer on CARNEY (DDG-64), Marsha's day was filled with emotion and pride as Jim passed the watch to their daughters.

Marsha adds that Jim currently is seeking employment in Newport. They love being near the ocean and within a mile of the famed Cliff Walk and Newport mansions, and the fact that both daughters enjoyed the area during their surface warfare training means they'll see them as they take leave. They extend an open invitation to Classmates who travel in New England. Just give Marsha a little advance notice.

From your Classmates, Jim, congratulations to both you and Marsha on your fine achievement: 30 years of dedicated service to your country and two daughters who now proudly serve. Marsha points with pride not only to the Brick's own daughters, but to the continuing contributions of Shipmate. April 2002

Jim's 27th Companymates in keeping the sealanes open for democracy. Dan Brown, Jeff Loustaunau, John Massie, Dale Peterson, and Bill Cocos all have either active duty naval officer "children" or Midshipmen. The Brick daughters and Dale's son are products of the NROTC programs; Dan's sons, USNA '96 and '01; Jeff's daughter and son, USNA '96 and ' 0 1 ; John's daughters, USNA '99 and '01 (Marsha thinks); and Bill's son is a Midshipman, Class of '05 (see December Shipmate). Pretty good representation from one Company! Marsha thinks they all should gather one of these days at the Pilgrim's Inn, Dan's B&B in Deer Isle, ME, to take some photos of these dedicated young men and women.

Linda and Don Disney decided to pay good money to go back to sea. In late January they boarded Royal Caribbean's ADVENTURE OF THE SEAS (largest cruise ship in the world at 1,100 plus feet long and 142,000 gross tons). Their craise departed from San Juan, and ports of call were Araba, Curacao, St. Marteens, and St. Thomas. Highlights of their cruise included racing (beat the Canuck 12-meter boat True North), a visit to an ostrich farm on Curacao (according to Diz, they taste just like roast beef), and pigging

out on food and drink and then hitting the casino, hot tubs, etc. Diz says you can see in the photo (Diz is the gray haired guy abaft the helm and Lin is the good-looking lady just forward of the helmsman) that it was fairly typical of most deployments in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

Diz says he'll need to take a couple of more weeks off to rest up from all the fun. The Disney's next big event was to be daughter Shannon's wedding to a naval aviator (helo pilot) last month (March) followed by their free trip to Las Vegas, courtesy of Lin's company.

Looking forward to pictures and stories from both events, Diz, and wishing Shannon and her husband a lifetime of happiness.

Classmates planning on being in Southern California over the Memorial Day weekend might want to drop by Anaheim High School, Chic Burlingame's high school alma mater, on 24 May. Principal Carl Hecht is moving forward with plans for a groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial fountain to honor veteran Alumni from all wars, including the war on terrorism. The groundbreaking ceremony will be dedicated to Chic and to Staff Sgt. Brian Cody Prosser one of the Green Berets who died when a U.S. bomb missed its Taliban target north of Kandahar SSGT Prosser was a graduate of Maricopa High School, which is jointly participating with Anaheim High School in the ceremony. Families of each of the deceased will be represented.

Principal Hecht has been working through the representatives from the two congressional districts involved and based on optimistic reports from those offices, is very upbeat about the chances for presidential participation. Col William Barber USMC (Ret.), a Korean War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient (Chosin area), already has accepted an invitation to participate.

Principal Hecht also continues hopeful that Tim Keating and John Sattler will somehow be able to work the event into their own busy schedules.

Principal Hecht has been keeping me informed as plans progress. If you would like to be kept in the loop, please send me an email stating such and I will pass along word to you as I receive it.

That's it, except that I know there are more reunion tales out there just waiting to be told.

Remember that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it only counts as 150 or 250 in our 4,000-word limit.

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Pres; CDR Dave Hogen, USN (Ret.) Sec'y; CDR Rich Robison, USN (Ret) 12695 Catawba Dr, Woodbridge, VA 22192 f: 703-413-5376; e; robison_rich@prc.com Class web page; www.usna72.org Class listserv; TheGouge@usna72.com

Remember to send in your Ballot by 15 Aprill BOT Ballot is in your March Shipmate 111

30th Reunion September 2002 Friday, 20 Sept 02 0900 Class Golf Tournament 1200 Registration 1300 General Visiting in the Yard 1500 Parade in Honor of Class of 1972 1900 Dinner Dance, Dahlgren Hall: Cash Bar, Welcomefromthe Supt., Buffet, Entertainment

Saturday, 21 Sept 02 • 0930-1800 TaUgater, Stadium Parking Lot: Brunch, Raw Bar, Dinner • 1000 Rmg & Crest Vendor Rep • 1200 Na-vy vs. Northwestern • 1900 Indep endent Ops (Plan your own p arty!)

Buses available every day for transportation to and from events

Sunday, 22 Sept 02 • 0900-1230 Brunch for Class of 1972, KingHaU • 1230-1300 Manorial Service for Departed Oassmates, St Andrews Chapel

www.usna72 .com For Registration Information contact Rich Goldsby at (410) 757-4424 or at rgoldsby(^aol.com

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Pres; Tom Storch Sec y; RADM Tom "TJ" Wilson III, USN 8310 Cushing Court, Springfield, VA 22153 h: 703-913-0094 e: wilsontom@earthlink.net Classmates, At this writing we proceed through winter looking forward to reading this in the spring. The Super Bowl is over skiing season is upon us, and we await the Olympics. Meanwhile the war against terrorism has become part of our landscape, a backdrop to our lives. We do live in interesting times. Stay safe and stay engaged. On to the news.

The January issue of Shipmate carried the news of the death of the wife of Tom LaForge '69 and the serious injiny of his young son. Many of you may remember Tom as a Plebe football coach. John Edvardsen passed along that the Class of '69 has set up a fund to help the family through this time. If you want more information please contact the Class of '69 directly.

George Watt passed along the following concerning a Classmate's birthday. I sttongly urge you to take George off yoin invite list. This guy is bratal: Although I'm sure you and others have already read about this news in papers all over the country, I had the distinct pleasure of joining literally "tens" (maybe it was "fives") of admirers of Classmate Jim Campbell (35th Company) on 17 December in celebration of his half-century milestone. Jim is the head of Character Development at USNA, reporting directly to the superintendent. Although doing credible work in that regard, he is much better known as father of Dave Campbell '01, Matt Campbell '04, and a daughter who wishes to remain anonymous as she and his wife, Jan, were totally embarrassed by Jim's speech that night. Although I attempted to do ray best in protecting Jim's reputation and integrity, it was hard to take someone seriously as he sat in a rocking chair, eating liquid food and wearing a baby-sized "Go Navy" bib. You get the picture. However, if it is a slow news month, perhaps you could indulge Jim's few (but rapidly approaching many) friends and colleagues in the Yard and print one of the enclosed pictures. At least pretend that we all care...very best regards. Watt, 739240.

P. S. It was a great tumout, including Classmate Marty "Dr. Death" Deafenbaugh. Jim was also a good sport.

George Watt and Jim Campbell at 17 December celebration

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George, I thank you for the news...Jim may not. By the way, it's always a slow news month.

Keep those cards and letters coming! Jim, happy birthday from the Great Class of 1973.

I received a nice letter from Mark Gabrynowicz relaying a great story of two families coming together Let him tell the story.

I'm sure that many of us have some interesting stories resulting from the life long relationships we established at mother B. I thought that I'd share one of mine. Two women swimmers at Lehigh University have a lot more in common than just Lehigh and their dedication to swimming. My daughter Laura, now a junior, and Lauren Ayres, now a senior discovered a few seasons ago their common link to USNA. Both "73 daughters are now co-captains for Lehigh's women's swim team. Cathy and Jim Ayres and I have enjoyed our rendezvous at the swim meets and related team functions.

Unfortunately, I can't get to many of them, but Jim and Cathy are more than up to the task of supporting the '73 team at Lehigh without me.

Lehigh competes against Navy's women in the Patriot League and recently Lehigh's women have had the upper hand. They have been Patriot League Champions two of the past three years. USNA will host this year's championship and we are all looking forward to the meet and our return to the Yard. I'm sure pleasant memories of the Natatorium, the 40 minute drown, and trying to make noon meal formation after fourth period swim class will complete the weekend event. I must confess that I thought I would never be associated with competitive swimming after witnessing what fellow 20th /13th Companymates Doug Rice and Bret Graham endured, but our older daughter Jocelyn was also a swimmer and competed for Kenyon College. (17 consecutive NCAA National Swimming Championship Titles).

Jeannie and I have had our share of chlorine, early moming practices, weekend long swim meets and all the ups and downs of kids in a competitive sport, but it is of course all worth it. I leamed that Kelly Welsh '99, daughter of Charlene and Jeff Welsh, was captain of Navy's team and competed against our Lehigh girls, but I did not meet or see Jeff at the championships held at West Point two years ago. Jim told me that another '73 daughter, Kelly's sister MIDN 4/C Megan Welsh '05, is a star for Navy and will be competing against our girls at the Patriot Championships!

Great story, Mark. By the way, when you get to the pool at USNA stay back from the edge...Bill Laskin, aqua-rock from 17th Company is still trying to pass the 400-mile swim!

The final bit of news for this month concerns a cornerstone member of the Annapolis tailgate group. Paul Ryan has been reassigned to Corpus Christi, TX, where he will be commander Mine Warfare Command. Good luck in Texas and good luck in the new job, Paul.

Kevin Callahan sent in the accompanying photo of a group of classmates at this year's Valentine Day Dinner Dance held at the Naval Academy O&F Club. Susan and Peter Flynn deserve the credit for making sure '73 was the largest (and according to club management, the loudest) contingent at the elegant affair Joining the Flynns were: Judy and Kevin Callahan, Rhonda and Jim Hamlin, Anita and Chuck McKeone, Elizabeth and Don Patton, Connie and Mike Rader Laura and Paul Ryan, Mary and Tom Storch, and Peggy and George Watt.

'73 and their ladies at USNA Officer/Faculty Club, Valentine's Day 2002 The mailbag is completely empty. I'm sure your emails are arriving even as I type, but if for some reason that's not the case please hurry then along! We all look forward to catching up with you and your events. Talk to you next month.

Non Sibi

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Annual Membership: 47% Life Membership: 26%

Pres; Steve Middleton 516 Green Forest Drive, Sevema Park, MD 21146 Corr Sec'y: LtCol John Brown, USMC (Ret) 3928 Red Bird Lane, Woodbridge, VA 22193 h; 703-583-9713; c; 703-568-0385 e; jrbrown74@comcast.net Alas, spring is upon us, the Dark Ages have ended for another year. Good news is that a few more Classmates have surfaced this month. Unfortunately, there are some who still duck their social responsibilities to their Classmates, so once again this month, I have enclosed a picture of Randy Seftas to entice these slackers to come forth and present themselves! (This practice of visual torture will continue until all have reported to the "Main O." You can thank Kolin Jan for this; he failed to report as ordered. This month, let's add Dave Bayly and Florian Gunkle to the list. No input, you get Seftas again.)

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The following Classmates have changed their email addresses (new ones are shown of course): Saul Zavala (saul.zavala@usa.net); Mark Sullivan (22kiss22@cox.net); Jim Rucks (JRUCKS @bak.rr.com); Barb and Ben Singleton ( r u b i c o n l @ g v t c . c o m ) ; Charlie Cannon (charlie.cannon@fmcti.com); Mick Keville (mick@eastemhills.org) and last (and maybe least) me, John Brown (jrbrown74@comcast.net). So, consider yourself advised!

Now, from the electronic mail bag, our first writer is Brad Stephan (bjstephan 1 @attbi.com).

After flooding his email with a few requests, he wrote; Okay, I get the message. I'll try to fill you in. First of all, I retired in 1995. Previous to that I had been, in descending order; Head Manpower MarPorPac, Asst Ops 4 MEB (to include eight glorious months on NASSAU in SWA), Navy War College Newprt, XO 2/9, MIFASS (whatever that was), ComPhibGru-2 (NATO planner), AWS. 23d Marines (I&I), 1st BN 4th Mar, Aide to CO MCAGCC 29 Palms, OCS instructor, and USMC Track. That's about all that I can remember at this advanced age.

My lovely wife. Jani, has put up with me for almost 28 years. My children are pretty much grown. Our oldest daughter, Jennifer, graduated from UW and works for KATZ media in New York Co. Bo (Bradley Jr. but you may remember Bo Coppedge) is a senior at WWU and a member of a golf team that has been to the NCAAs twice. Our youngest is a frosh at UW. Jani is a reading specialist at Custer Elementary School, a Jazzercise instructor, and overall home coordinator. I'm a high school civics/ history teacher and currently the head wrestling coach (I did go to a wrestling match one time at Navy, and if anyone can offer any advice or free assistance I would appreciate it, actually we are currently ranked seventh in the state as we go into our toumament month). We are quite busy here in the Pacific Northwest; skiing, golfing, fishing (we are now owners of a 28 ft Trophy that heads out into the Puget Sound often, and last summer brought home 300 pounds of salmon from Rivers Inlet, Canada).

We enjoy the "quiet" life of retirement.

Visit sometime.

Thanks, Brad, stay in touch. Brad's email address is above.

From Dick Brooks, I received the following note packed with Classmate stuff: With the power of the computer growing every day Roamer has obviously developed a database of those Classmates who have been "a little light" over the years in their contributions to Shipmate. He asked for a few thoughts, so I'll start with myself and then cover some company-mates and Classmates I see around.

Here we go; I'm currently in the job of Commander Patrol and Reconnaissance Force Atlantic, which means 1 head up the East Coast VP/VQ/VPU community including the FRS. It's the best job in the world as I'm surrounded by the best people in the world and get to work with our sailors who do the heavy lifting for our Navy and country every day. Been married to Sheryl for coming up on 22 years (best move I ever made—she tells me that every day!) and have three super kids; A daughter who's a freshman at Virginia Tech., a son who's a high school sophomore and my youngest daughter, who's ten. All do well in school (get that from Sheryl, I'm sure) and make us proud every day.

Enough about me. On the Classmate side, from 19th Company; Tom Lozier is doing well 114

in the business world living in Connecticut and working in both Connecticut and New York City. He just had a new baby—Congrats to he and Trina! Branch is still a captain with Continental and working on showing his son Todd all his best basketball moves. Joe Mastin and his bride. Sue Paige, live in Tampa (on the water with a boat) and are doing well. Bruce Hamlin lives in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ and doing well with Wilson Sports. Mike Dow is a teacher in the Hampton Roads area. Trigger Nagelin is a TAR and assigned to New Orleans. Ned Smith is alive and well in San Diego (last I checked) and a captain for the Military Sealift command.

Tonuny Weaver lives in Massachusetts and has his own company.

Haven't heard about many others from 19 except that Bill Kloppe is doing very well at Frito Lay. On the Classmate side; My trusted fellow department head and squadron XO/CO from our Moffett Field days. Pops Hallowell is on the DISA staff in DC. My old SSG running mate. Rich Terpstra is working on the OSD staff. Hugh Story is the EA to OpNav N6 in the Pentagon and looking forward to an upcoming move to the Norfolk area where he and his family reside. Saw Ben Wachendorf the other day, works in the OpNav N3/5 world.

Lou Crenshaw is also there and every time 1 see him he wants me to take his job. I always try to change the subject! Joe Sestak is also a Pentagon type but as I understand will soon escape to a BG. Speaking of battle groups, Dave Stone isfinishingup a tour as NiMrrz BG CDR and JJ Quinn is CDR Carrier Group Two on TRUMAN. Kevin Moran has a PHIBGRU out of Little Creek. I work closely with J J Waickwicz who is currently Commander, Fleet Air Keflavik, Iceland and loving every day of it. Finally on the '74 side, Sam Kupersin is a Delta Captain. As a Reservist he's the deputy on the staff here. We just made a swing through the SOUTHCOM AOR...but that's another story. Rusty Yeiser is retired now and working for the Alumni Association and Foundation. He'll be calling all you business tycoons for donations any day now! From the '75 world, a close friend from our training command days, Gary Skura '75 is doing great in the business world as he's the CEO of a hospital supply company in Buffalo. Another '75 buddy, John Mauthe '75 retired a few months back and works in the Northern Virginia area. I was honored when he asked me to be his guest speaker.

(Figure he got hard up, but, hey, I'll take it!)

Went to Army-Navy but stmck out with any Classmate sightings. Normally I follow the '74 balloon and see Bobby Marshburn, Skip Stocknick. Branch, Loz, Mitch, and others but no luck this year. Hopefully next year. All from this end. Roamer...update your database as I should be good for awhile.

Dick, thanks for a great update! (Scribe note: Loz sent me a note and said their new child's name is George Edward Branch Roamer Willy Blacky Brooksie Lozier...just in case you were thinking about sending a gift that will be engraved.)

Now, I am sure you all remember fondly your YP craise. (Ok, just go with the flow here.) I recall sitting behind the flag bag at night, chain smoking and yukkin it up with the one and only John Bruno. Luckily that freighter missed us, but that is another story. In response to the lost Classmates named in the last article, T.J. Mearsheimer provided contact information on John (stats: 973-844-1417, 39 DeWitt Ave,

Belleville, NJ 07109). (Sec'y note: TJ can either have carry on for two weeks or take the choice to drop any six letters from his last name.)

Now from John: After a 32-year vacation from my home state of New Jersey, I am back. The last time I lived here I was memorizing Chow Calls! I moved back last August from Seattle; nice town but too much rain. I was working as the vice president of sales for a company called Hydrometrics.

An ancient copper mining company called ASARCO owns them. All was going well until the price of copper slammed through the floor.

No future there, so I left and decided to finally come back home. As we speak, I am looking for work in the New Jersey area. If you hear of anyone looking for a solid sales manager, I'd love to send him my resume, with all the sordid details! Pretty soon, I'll be sending my resume to Navy for a MOC's job! Hey, I could make some serious tips doing chow calls for the Plebes! As you now know, I ran into T.J. Mearshimer last month at a wake.' Always a fine place to meet Classmates. He looked terrific. I am glad to be reconnected.

It was great to hear from you. I look forward to staying connected. Take care and keep in touch. Semper Fi. Now for those musically inclined, I found out that Earle Babcock (aka The Cool One) made it to Carnegie Hall! Earle was bouncing his vocal chords around in Benjamin Britten's gripping War Requiem—a mass for the dead with pacifist overtones. (I read that description in the paper) Earle wrote: The concert date was 9 October, and it was a real thrill. Karen and I had a chance to visit Ground Zero and see a few of the sights around Times Square. It was definitely a memorable experience.

Way to go, Earle!

To close this article, I want to share a powerful email note I received firom Doug Ballard (200 Jessica Drive Forest Grove, OR 97116, e: BallardDouglas@msn.com). Doug writes: I don't know why it always takes something going wrong to kick-start me to write to the Class column, but it seems to be the case. My wife, Karen, died at about 4 a.m. on 5 January 2002 after fighting Multiple Sclerosis for almost 12 years. Stuck out here in Oregon, I have maintained contact with only few members of the Class over the years, especially as more and more of my time was consumed in caring for Karen, but I did want to inform those Classmates who knew her of what had happened. I don't know if you remember her from TBS, as she was only at Quantico a few of the 26 weeks.

We had to wait for our wedding until after the Miss Oregon Pageant in July "74, and that is why I was in Bravo Company instead of Alpha Company. She was with me through August, but returned to Oregon for a term of nursing school just as our TBS Class started. CAPT Detering even let meflyhome for a long weekend to be with her in October (as long as 1 could hoof it to Camp Barrett from the rifle range to secure my weapon and still make it to Dulles to catch my flight). She retumed at Christmas and stayed in Quantico until after our TBS graduation. When I talk about her, I tend to not know when to stop, because I was always so very proud of her. So I will restrain myself and say only that she was a respected nurse (an Advanced Cardiac Life Support-qualified nurse), a selfless Christian, and a devoted mother and wife. Even as the MS gradually robbed her of everything, she maintained a Shipmate, April 2002

sense of humor and a quiet grace; she rarely (if ever) complained.

Finally, if this goes in the Class column and if my first battery commander (Bill Broderick '70) happens to read this, I want him to know that Karen never forgot how Elizabeth took her under her wing in the late summer-fall of 1975 and began teaching her the ropes of being a Marine Corps wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially with a difficult husband such as they both had (just joking).

Incidentally, Chris Rowan refuses to report on himself, so I will point out that he has been on active duty at HQMC since 15 October 2001.

If he wants to tlesh that out it is up to him.

Semper Fi and Beat Army.

As yoiu' scribe, it is my duty to remind you that it only costs a few coins to call a Classmate or old friend. Remember as Heinz said "74, you are supa!" Roamer sends. (Don't forget my new email address: jrbrown74@comcast.net.)

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Annual Membership: 48% Life Membership: 28%

Pres: RADM Craig Quigley Sec'y; CAPT Larry Warrenfeltz, USN 21 Colony Trail Drive, Mandeville, LA 70448 h: 985-626-4964; e; usna75scribe@hotmail.com Dear 'mates, OK. It's time to kick-start the keyboard and spew forth a column of tteasured tidbits to keep you enthused and enthralled for another month.

It's either that, or kick-start the brain to overcome my monthly writer's block affliction. No matter how you look at it, sumthin's about to get kick-started!

USNA announced the 2002 Distinguished Graduate Award winners in February. Once again, I didn't win. Neither did you. (Unless Junmy Carter '47, Carlisle Trost '53, John Ripley '62, or Charles Minter '63 is reading the Flower Children of the Brigade column!)

Congratulations to Boomer Stufflebeem on his orders to command of Carrier Group Two. I can imagine the admiral's sea stories from his last job nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"There I was, inside the Beltway, when Wolf Blitzer asked the first question..."

Before we jump into the Class news, take a quick look at the column header for changes. No, I haven't retired again (but I hope it happens soon). However, the address and phone number

are new. Nancy and I have made our last move for a while. As Wallace Stegner writes, "It is easier to die than to move.. .at least on the Other Side, you don't need boxes." (Thanks, Charlie.

Borrowed that one from you.) The new house is on the golf course and it has a pool and plenty of room. We are open for company!

Chris Cikanovich keeps saying he's going to grab the Burdman, get a couple of Southwest's $90 tickets, and head on south to play some golf, hang out at the Aviation Museum, and help me drink my beer Any time. Chick! Chris and Diane are "almost finished with this move."

We are in, we have sold our other house and are settling into our new life. 1 wish work was more fun and I traveled less, but it is nice working on what we hope will be the final house. It is fun to work on a house and not worry about what it will take to undo what I have done to get the house ready for the next tenants. Now I only have to worry about how long I will have to wait before Diane gets tired of the paint job and I have to paint.

Diane and I visited Raleigh and Larry Weckbaugh last week. Great wine, food, and friendship. The ladies worked on the Annapolis economy the next day. Living in Ocean City means that Annapolis is the big shopping stop.

We were at Heidi and Steve Ferguson's over the Christmas holidays. Heidi puts on this great exposition of her holiday collection of Dickinson houses. The Fergies were due at our house after the New Year but Steve had to ship out to sea and reload the fleet. We hope to see them in February. Pam and Rex Estilow are now residents of Ocean City, MD. They still commute from their home in Virginia but we expect to see them regularly now. We are getting a chance to visit more and more friends since the nest emptied out. It is funny though, I remember the days when we started the party at 10 p.m. and stopped with the eight-hour bottle-to-throttle rule. I am not sure of the rule now, but I think it has something to do with the II ;00 p.m. news and decaf after 8 p.m.

Thanks for the note, Chris. Mike Maynard sent an email encouraging me to kick the chemo drag habit (finished in January, praise the Lord!).

Mike is an orthopedic surgeon at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery.

Let's dip into the Christmas card mailbag to see what some of our Classmates were up to as 2001 drew to a close; Caryn and Dave Mears are busy in southem Washington State. Caryn teaches elementary

'75; Mark and Marcia Lambright, Ron and Lori Frigo, and Laurie and Mark Disney at the Disney's place on Gull Lake Shipmate, April 2002

school music. Dave works for SAIC across the border in Oregon. He's the Boy Scout Troop Committee Chair and on the board of the TriCity Outrigger Canoe Club. Jonathan (high school freshman) plays sax and oboe and has become chief cook in the Mears house, thrilling his mother Jillian (high school sophomore) plays trumpet, French horn, and E flat horn and catches for the Tri-City Spirit travel fastpitch softball team. Mimi (college sophomore) is a 4.0 student and is considered a junior academically. She was the manager of the Seatde Seahawks concession stand during their pre-season camp at Eastern Washington University.MIDN 2/C Mollie Mears '03, majoring in mechanical engineering, managing and playing shortstop on the Midshipman softball club.

Ann and Jim Phillips are in Pennsylvania. Ann is the school counselor for a group of seventh graders in the Cumberland Valley School District. Jim develops business in Pittsburgh and in DC for Computer Aid, Inc. Betsy will graduate from Muhlenberg College this spring with a degree in intemational studies. Allan (CVHS senior) has a nomination to USNA from Arlen Specter He's hoping for one to the Air Force Academy as well. (No Allan! Stay away from the dark side!) Abby (CVHS freshman) sings and plays piano and oboe. She is a member of the Harrisburg Youth Symphony.

From their almost-still-new house in Michigan, we have Laurie and Mark Disney. Laurie is guiding the development of a literacy center at the vocational rehab center where she works. Mark rans an engineering company. Sons Ben and Ryan are at Michigan State. Ben, a senior is exploring the Chicago area job market. Ryan is a sophomore, active in his fraternity and intramural soccer Youngest son. Matt (Gull Lake High School junior) plays football, hockey, and golf. He lifts weights and wakeboards in his spare time.

Joy and Bob Young had a very busy year in Virginia. They accomplished major overhauls on both the house and the sailboat. Bob achieved his FedEx Airbus 300/310 qualifications in January. He says the three flights of stairs to the cockpit (no jet ways for the cargo bubbas) will help keep him from becoming a wide-body himself.

Bob's concerned that after years of listening to Boeing's "Bi***hing Betty" and now Airbus's "Nick the Eunuch," that he's somehow destined for simulator purgatory. Andrew (Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy youngster) sails for the Academy team. He worked on debris removal from Ground Zero in the days after the attack.

Ben is putting himself through graduate school at Virginia Tech, with the help of the National Guard, the GI Bill, and Outback Steak house.

He's majoring in ocean engineering.

Mark Lindsey is also a FedEx Airbus captain.

To Florida for Susan and Erwin Wunderlich: Susan teaches math at Martin County High School, one of Florida's "A" schools. She quilts in her free time. Erwin is working on his Ph.D. and teaching evening university classes. He spends days on Army Corps of Engineers environmental restoration projects on both Florida coasts. (Actually, Susan, we have three coasts. Don't forget the Emerald Coast up here in the Panhandle!) For details on the happenings with the younger Wunderliches (Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army, and Air Force), see the March issue.

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Tina and Andy Howard get away from the warmth of Houston at the Santa Fe Ski Resort From the Hi-Ho Holiday Herald, published by Tina and Andy Howard in Texas: The Houston area had a rough few months.

Tropical Storm Allisonfloodedmuch of the city last June, and Enron fallout blanketed everyone in the winter. But 2001 was a good year for the Howards. Tina resigned from full-time work as a nurse practitioner at Memorial Geriatrics and took a part-time position at Tomball Regional Internal Medicine Associates. That gives her an extra couple of days each week to play in the dirt. She finished a series of master gardener classes through Texas A&M. Now she volunteers in the Harris County Agriculture Extension Office, working in their gardens and answering the Help Line. Andy's kidney transplant-related health is not perfect, but is stable and improving slowly.

Finally, a note from Ann and Bob Atwell '57, super sponsors of a bunch of guys from the 1970s Classes...and now enjoying life in Central Florida. Ann and Bob have five grandchildren.

Son, Chris Atwell '86 and Patti have three in Orlando. Daughter Melanie and Russ have two little ones in Boston.

Well, that's a wrap for April. Keep those cards and letters coming in, boys and girls!

Go U.S.A.! Go Navy! Let's Roll! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Larry

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7th Company at the Dant's; 1 to r: Sean Carroll, Mark Finley, Eric Johnson, Jerry Nosky, Pete Lantry, Jeff Holloway, John Graham, Rich Faulkner, and Sam "The 'Dant" Locklear

Annual Membership: 55% Life Membership: 28%

Pres; Chuck Gorum 146 Prince George St., Annapolis, MD 21401 h; 410-263-3337; e; cgoram@annap.infi.net Sec'y; Chuck Dirienzo 9309 Newfound Way, Elk Grove, CA 95758-4002 h: 916-691-1556; e; chuckd76@citihnk.net

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this situation is no exception). I've enjoyed the writing, but I really dislike the deadlines. I still haven't leamed how to plan ahead as well as I'd like, and for some reason I always seem to wait until the eleventh hour (or the midnight hour in this month's case) to write the column. Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for all of your emails, letters, and photos; it's a whole lot easier to write when you give me the material. By the way, if you ever have any feedback or suggestions, I liope you take the time to jot them down and send them in.

Now, as promised in the January-Febraary issue, here's some of the evidence from our last party at the 'Dant's. I think most of these pictures speak for themselves, so I'll just let them do that.

36th Company at the 'Dant's; 1 to r; Floyd Houston, Mike Reed, Bob Kennedy, Jim Lochry, and Fred Vogt

Annual Membership: 29% Life Membership: 58%

Pres; CAPT Richard "Rick" White, USN 1404 Hunting Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21403 w; 202-781-0938; h; 410-295-0089 e: (w) WhiteRW@navsea.navy.mil; (h) betwhite@erols.com Sec'y; Bob Sanderson 210 Autumn Chase Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 h; 410-571-6267; e; mbsanderson@earthlink.net From the Yard Well, it's hard to believe, but this issue marks the beginning of my third year of writing this column. Part of me never thought that I'd make it this far and another part feels like it hasn't been that long (life is full of contradictions and I guess 116

Ron Sticinski and Owen "This party's really rockin'!" Thorp

From the Mail Bag Bob Condry (CondryR@ONR.Navy,miI) seldom writes in (well, he actually never writes in), so he thought it was about time to drop us a line (not to mention the fact that he has some rather self-serving reasons for doing so, which will quickly become apparent). Bob lives in Lake Ridge, VA, works for a defense consulting firm, has three kids in private school (Ouch!), and claims to be constanfly battling gravity since he's married to the world's greatest chef! He's still trying to decide what he wants to be when he grows up, which may help explain why he's just pubhshed his first novel, entitied The Butler's Ghost (and available online at www. publishamerica.com). It's the story of a man who moves into his dream house with his family only to find that the third floor is haunted by the ghost of a butter who worked there in the 19th Century. Although Bob apologizes for senselessly plugging his book (and acknowledges that he's got to keep working on his marketing skills), he still urges everyone to, "Buy ten! They make great gifts!" Bob also welcomes any Classmates in or passing through the Washington, DC, area to get in touch with him.

Albert Seither (bseither@earthlink.net) sent in the following news update, which he says is "many years overdue," and apologizes to Bill Millward (william.h.millward@ us.arthurandersen.com) for not having sent it in sooner (In Albert's words, "Bill, you did an outstanding job of keeping the Class informed for many years, and we're all very appreciative.")

Before the update, however, Albert wanted to let everyone know about his plan for getting the 16th Company together during the 25th Reunion (which everyone knows is still scheduled for 2022 September 2002). Five years ago at the 20th Reunion, about 1/3 of the 16th Company Classmates attended a company dinner on the Saturday night after the game. According to Albert, "An outstanding time was had by all," and now they'd like to try and have 100% participation at this year's 25th Reunion. Albert has agreed to search out options for a company dinner in Annapolis for Saturday, 21 September 2002, if everyone from the 16th Company would call or email him with their intentions. He would then get back to you with dinner locations to vote on as well as everyone's current contact information. Albert can be contacted either by email, regular mail or phone. (Home address: 88 Morgan Creek Road, Earleville, MD 21919,410275-0054, (c) 302-399-8438.)

Now here's Albert's update of Classmates he's seen or heard about over the (last 20?) years (he apologizes in advance if he missed anyone).

Albert is happy that this update will put a few Classmates' names in print, and hopes that it will prompt others to write-in with an update as well.

He admits that "Some of this [information] is old and needs to be updated, so please don't wait 20 years to write like I am doing now." Well, here goes nothing: Rory and John Althans (jsalthansÂŽ althans.com) are in the Cleveland area and have a beautiful family while John is running the family insurance business. Cindy and Chris Diller are living on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and Chris is with US Airways. Last I saw Ricky Hammonds is when I went through Top Gun Shipmate, April 2002

many years ago and Rick was one of the instructors. I heard that he went on to Delta Airlines. I saw Jeff Sapp two years ago when he was the assistant athletic director at the Academy. He looked great and was in better shape than he was 25 years ago when he played football and was an All-American. Saw Bill Ittner ten years ago on an overnight in Las Vegas; we ran into each other in the lobby of the hotel.

Bill has been with Northwest Airlines for probably 17 years or so. Had lunch with John Kamen (KamenJ@socom.mil) two years ago in Tampa. John looked great and was in excellent shape (he and Jeff Sapp must be on the same workout routine!). John is the head of SOCOM in Tampa at the McDill AFB. John is also president of the Tampa Chapter and is doing a great job. I spent a year or two on the same aircraft carrier with Marc Troiani since we were in the same Air Wing, but I've lost track of him since then (Marc, where are you'?).

Saw Glen Bacon at the 20th Reunion and he's now Dr. Bacon. Glen and I grew up together in the same hometown up in New Jersey, and for those of you who remember. Glen's dad. Gar, was a Blue & Gold officer and responsible for helping many of us gain admission to Annapolis (for which I'm sure we're even more appreciative today). Glen, your Dad and your Mom gave many, many hours of their life and family time to help the academy and others, and I think I can safely speak for everyone when I say, "We think about them often and are grateful many years later for all their efforts." Ray Crevier was also in the same air wing on DWIGHT D .

EISENHOWER (CVN-69) many moons ago. Now I believe he's either at Northwest Airlines or FedEx. Dane Swanson flew F-14s with me back in VF-142 (The Ghost Riders). We had a great time together, then Dane left the East Coast to go out to the desert and do funny things that are never discussed. He then came back to NAS Oceana and was CO of the adversary squadron. After that, he left for Pax River and is now the CO of NAS Pax River. I had lunch with Dane two years ago and he looked great. He was in the process of getting married and last year I heard he became a proud father. Robin and Bob Julian (rjulian@mailgw.sanders. lockheed.com) were in our sister squadron many years ago and lived around the comer from us in Virginia Beach, but I don't know where they are today. Sandy Saunders was back in the Navy again last time I saw him down in Virginia Beach, but that was many years ago, and I don't know where he is today.

Twenty five years ago Richard Thayer (ThayerRL@msn.com) lived two floors above us back in Pensacola when we were flight students, but then Jim Boyle burned our apartment down, and we all got displaced. I heard that Rich went on to do very well in F-18s. Pierre Thuot (thuot@erols.com) is probably still our most famous Classmate, but I haven't seen him since NAS Oceana and his F-14 days years ago.

Scott Jamison flew A-6s and was another '77 Classmate in Air Wing 7 back on DWIGHT D .

EISENHOWER (CVN-69), don't know where he is today.

As for some of the 16th Company guys, Ted Brown is somewhere in the Pentagon. He was a CO of a Helo Squadron many years ago and was also on DWIGHT D . EISENHOWER (CVN-69).

Mike Callahan flew A-6s and was last heard living in the Orlando area designing big malls for a real estate company. I saw Nick Episcopo several years ago out in San Diego over at Christy and Tom B a u e r ' s ( 7 2 0 3 2 . 1 2 6

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@compuserve.com) house. Nick looked great and was still flying in the reserves at that time.

Neil Gillespie (gillespien@bah.com) is doing great; I spoke with him a few months ago and he's a managing partner with Booz-Allen at Pax River. I also spoke with Harold Gretzky back in the fall. He's doing very well; he's married, living in Michigan, and running a nuclear power plant out there. Jerean and Tom Hutchinson are living out in New Mexico. Tom took early retirement from his job in Dallas and also finished his Navy career as the CO of the P-3 Squadron in New Orleans. Jane and Pete Hyers (I04376.1654@compuserve.com) are retired and living down in Hilton Head, SC. Pete is doing great; their boys are loving the beach life with surfing, swimming, and golf, and I'm sure Pete's getting his fair share of those activities as well. Liz and Jay MacKercher were at the 20th Reunion and looked great. They were living down in the Virginia Beach area and last I heard Jay was the CO of a destroyer. Not sure where he is now (Jay let me hear from you!). Skip Miller is also running around the Pentagon somewhere. He too has had a very distinguished career in Subs. Jim Miller also had command of a destroyer, if my memory serves me correctly. Kevin Quinn was also at the 20th Reunion and looked great (saw Kevin's picture in Shipmate several months ago with Julius Caesar). Brenda and Steve Schlientz are down in Virginia Beach somewhere, and last I heard Steve was the CO of an LHA. I knew Steve would do well; he and I were in the same F-14 squadron (VF-142) and did a lot of flying together as the two junior guys in the squadron.

DanRyan (DRYAN@PHXAO.DCMDW.DLA. MIL) was also at the 20th, but I'm not sure where he is today. Saw Tim Thompson many years ago out in Memphis. Tim's a Captain for FedEx, but I'm not sure where he's living these days. Pete Green (pgreen@paxr.veridian.com) was also at the 20th and looked great. I think he's still in the DC/Pax River area. Bob Magee flew Helos many years ago with Pete Hyers.

Ted Brown, and Bob Dunne. Not sure where Bob is these days. Chris Ryan was also in Air Wing 7 back on DWIGHT D . EISENHOWER (CVN-

69). I heard he got out early and don't know where he is today. Madonna and W a y n e Repeta are living up in Vermont somewhere.

Wayne is a captain at Northwest and I had dinner with Wayne and Madonna several years ago in Detroit. They both were great and we had a lot of laughs. George Platz (73634.240@ compuserve.com) was the CO of the C-9 Reserve Squadron down in Norfolk several years ago, and I think he flies for US Airways now.

Glen McCormick (gmccor@worldnet.att.net) is flying for American and living on his boat. I think 1 read an update on him several issues back. Glen was in the same reserve aggressor squadron with me back at Oceana VFC-12.

That was back during the days of rebuilding his sailboat and moving down to Key West.

Maybe Glen will bring his boat to Annapolis for the 25th if he still has it. Patty and Steve Harden (swharden@fedex.com) are out in Memphis. Steve is a captain for FedEx flying the heavy metal around the world, and last time I spoke to him he was teaching in the training department for FedEx. Steve flew fighters on active duty and was one of the instructors when I went through Top Gun. Steve was also in the same reserve squadron with me. Monk McCormick, and Roger Sheppard. Roger is a captain with FedEx and living back in his hometown of Rome, GA. Although I have not

talked directly with him since our VFC-12 days, 1 do stay current on his whereabouts through Bill Kelly '75, who grew up with Roger and also lives in Rome, GA. Bill flies for Southwest, like me, and was an old crash-pad roommate from many years ago in Houston.

Christy and Tom Bauer ( 7 2 0 3 2 . 1 2 6 速 compuserve.com) are living out in San Diego and are doing great. Tom is also a captain at Southwest Airlines. They leveled their old house on the beach and just recently built their dream home on the same lot. Joan and Jeff Hoobler are living down in Virginia Beach. Jeff flew fighters at Oceana, and also flew in the C-9 Reserve with George Platz. Fran and Don Barbaree are doing great; Don has had a very distinguished career flying Navy fighters and commanding deep drafts. Now he's over in Japan on the staff for the Seventh Fleet. John Herr (jherr@lpcommercial.com) is living somewhere out in the San Francisco Bay area (I lost your address, John, drop me a line!). Pete Caulk is at Delta and his brother, Bob Caulk '76, is at Fed Ex last 1 heard. Jim Bethmann (JimUSNA@aol.com) is doing outstanding; he lives in Dallas and is working for Korn-Ferry.

1 got a great email from him several months back (he had just gotten back from losing to his daughter in tennis). Rich Coan is a captain for American Airlines, but I'm not sure where he's living these days. Arch McKinlay flew A-7s on DWIGHT D . EISENHOWER (CVN-69) in

Air Wing 7 many years a go, but I'm not sure where he is today either.

Again I apologize if I've missed anyone.

Please write to Bob and let the Class know where you are and what you're doing. Best regards to everyone.

Class Communication Same old story for the 25th Reunion, but it's good to keep reminding everyone. The dinner dance is scheduled for Friday, 20 September 2002 at the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront, and the tailgate party will be held at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium on Saturday, 21 September 2002. The estimated cost for the combined dinner dance and tailgate party is $150 per person, and the cost of the Tailgate Party only will be approximately $60 per person (which not only covers the food, tables, open bar and servers, but also the tent, the buses, and the much-appreciated bathrooms).

We've reserved rooms for Friday and Saturday nights at both the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront (410-268-7555) and the Sheraton Barcelo Annapolis (410-266-3131), and reservations should be made early. Also, don't forget to verify and update your contact information with the Alumni Association so we know where to send your registration packages (go to the "Alumni Only" link at www.usna.com, look-up your record, and make any changes). We're now down to five months and counting, so make sure to plan accordingly. Feel free to contact Tom " S o u p " Campbell ( T o m . C a m p b e l l 速 longandfostercom, 703-293-6368) if you have any specific questions about the reunion.

Closing Remarks Thanks to Albert for his much overdue update on everyone he knows or has met over his

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career (I just want to know how he remembered who he met and when after all these years!).

Spring is almost here in Annapolis, and I'm sure the diggers and fillers are chompin' at the bit to start their work on the yard. That's all for this month. Drop me a note then you get a chance; untU then, "Go Navy!" —Bob Sanderson

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Pres; Arch Griffin Sec'y: Vince Baiderrama 45 Little Fawn Drive, Shelton, CT 06484 e; VBalderrama@Sikorsky.com Class web site; http;//usnal 978.org Slow news month. It must be the weather It can't possibly be that I have exhausted all the emails, cards and letters. I'm not that organized or efficient. I know there's a stray email or letter somewhere around my house or office. As for the email, we recently "refreshed" our office computers—new hardware and new systems. All the data that existed on the old "Betsy" was migrated to the new one. You know what that means—lots of luck trying to find everything.

As for the home system, my son just upgraded us to the new AOL 7.0 system. I don't know about you but I'm having ttouble with it. The sign-off and linking is erratic and slow too! Must be a bug or something. It can't be the recendy purchased hardware we bought with its megabazillion bytes of RAM and ROM and the penultimate processor with the 18.4 jigawatts of speeds. I know it's not the man behind the mouse.

I guess I'll just chalk it up to the doldrams and dark ages. Hmm let's see what I can scrape up from the bottom of this peanut butter jar of news...clink, clank, clink, clank.

Some of you have started to get in touch with Glen Woods about signing onto the 25th Reunion Committee. Mark Nault was one of the recent draftees— urn volunteers. From the return mail it looks Mark's out of the service and working at Systems Planning & Analysis in Alexandria, VA. George Teufel (GBSDADl@aol.com) sent thanks to everyone for all the cards and letters and email notes of support he's received since his wife's death. He says they've seemed to ease the burden. He was especially grateful to Chris Slack for letting us know about it and for representing the Class of '78 at the funeral; and to the other grad who immensely helped him to maintain course—that big guy from ' 8 1 , his brother Bob. By way of update, the Teufel family is getting on. George has one son out in the work force.

Another son is a freshman at the University of Richmond and the youngest son is a seventh grader at Kempsville Middle School in Virginia Beach. He says the challenges are many but fun.

Thanks for the update, George and the words of appreciation—we're all here for you. Hang in there and smooth sailing.

A couple of questions have come up regarding the subscription list I advertised in a recent issue of Shipmate. Here's more background and gouge to try and further clarify it.

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communicate as rapidly and as globally as possible to the Class, and to allow the Class to communicate with one another This is especially needed this year as we plan for our upcoming 25th reunion. From this need sprang Rob Cloutier's idea of implementing an automated mailing list for our Class. The way it works is that you send a subscription request email to the mail list, and your email address is automatically added to the list. Then, whenever you or anyone else want to send an email to the Class, you will send that email to the list, and the server will automatically blast it out to everyone that has subscribed to the list. To subscribe, send an email to; usna78-subscribe@calimar.com. To unsubscribe, send an email to: u s n a 7 8 unsubscribe@calimar.com If you want multiple email addresses on the list (say both your work and your home email), simply send an email from each account. Once you have subscribed, you will receive an email from the system giving you additional information. The response will be from: ezmlm response, so when you get that, do not worry about it being a viras. Finally, for additional commands, you can send an email to: usna78-help@calimarcom. Final item that must be mentioned, but we will not dwell on it. This is not set up as a marketing tool. Please do not use it that way. If you use it that way, we will remove your name from the list, and may block you from subscribing in the future. OK? 'nuff said on that. Remember, you have to subscribe or unsubscribe. We can't add you on to it from the current list of email addresses we have. It'll only be as effective as the number of subscribers we have. We'll continue to use Shipmate, website, direct email, company reps and snail mail to get word out (a system of communication). But if we need to blast out news quickly, those forms aren't always the fastest. We'll try it out and see how it works. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Well that's all I can muster up. Oh, you may have noted the ballots for Trastees in last month's Shipmate. Last year Chris Nichols boldly tossed his cover into the ring. While he didn't get elected he made the attempt (and we hope he will try again!). What I'm trying to say in my simple Marine-speak manner is that I strongly encourage any one of you with an inkling to be more participative in the leadership, direction and guidance which the Alumni Association provides to the Alumni and to the Naval Academy and the Navy's future, to get those covers ready to toss.

While you may feel Trastee-ship is not your first likely choice of "billet" there are ample venues open to you—involvement in your local alumni chapters. Blue and Gold, or volunteering for one of the several Standing Committees that support the Alumni Association. For more information just contact the Alumni Association. Now that's been said I'll get off my soapbox (besides, I'm getting a littie dizzy being up this high). Catch you next month when the mailbox is more full.

Launchin' Spot 4!

Final transmit: Notice that we have two Academies with Marines as commandant?—our own Art Athens at the Merchant Marine Academy and now Col John Allen '76 here at Mother B. Now on to West Point, Air Force and Coast Guard—ooooraghhhh!

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Pres: LCDR Sean Cate, USN (Ret.) e: scate79@comcast.net Sec'y; LCDR John "Wiz" Withers, USN (Ret) 22445 Bluebird Court, Leonardtown, MD 20650 h: 301-997-1980; w; 301-342-4936 ext. 156 e: (h) WithersJ7@starpowernet; (w) WithersJD@navairnavy.mil Class web site: www.usna79.com Greetings, '79!

It's here! It's here! The time is finally here!

We're now in April, and the time is here!

I've been saving this special treat for a long time. In the two-plus years that I have served as your humble scribe, I've been waiting for just this moment. Twice before I've felt this anticipation, only to then endure the crash of disappointment when things fell through. I'm so glad I waited, for now I can share this with the entire Class (and my fan club of one in the Class of ' 84), knowing that this is the moment. It's here!

Gentlemen, I am proud to announce the completion of my latest epic, and rather than go through all the hassle and rigmarole of looking for a publisher, I thought I would, in the pages of this column, unveil it for an unsuspecting world. I had to get special permission to do this: editors had to be appeased (I had to promise to get future columns to them before the deadline), the planets had to be in alignment (had to talk with our man in the ISS on that one), and pigs had to fly (a Navy H-3 helicopter flew over the house just the other day).

And so, for the first time anywhere, I present, in its entirety, "Wiz's Ode to the Dark Ages": "Good riddance!"

The End (OK, Wiz, slow news day? Have you been doubling the dosage of those growth hormones again?

Do we need to call Ken Russell out of the Old Class Secretary's home in South Dakota?)

Well, maybe I was just a little over the top there. Our winter here along the Chesapeake was fairly mild, with low temperatures seldom below 35 degrees. But it still quaUfies as the Dark Ages, and now that the days are getting longer as well as warmer summertime activities seem close at hand. I'm looking forward to getting on the water this year, spending some time sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. Now if I can just find someone with a boat...

I've been accused of taking up space with this column, but here's a man who takes space to a whole new level. Yep, we have an update from the Intemational Space Station, where our own Dan Bursch has been spending his days, nights, weekends, and hoUdays since Thanksgiving. Dan and his two crewmates have been doing great things up there, and if all goes according to schedule, they should be retuming to the land of 1 g later this month. Dan was gracious enough to include yours traly on a recent "friends and family" email, and I'll tell ya, it's interesting to see the address "Outer Space" in my electronic inbox. OK, OK, the address just said "Dan," but I knew it was our local ISS correspondent.

Shipmate, April 2002

Dan mentioned that back in January he perfomied his first space walk to set up some experiments. Crewmembers have both Russian and U.S. suits, so depending on what they're doing or which ground controllers are in charge, Dan has to wear the appropriate suit. As you might imagine, the two types are different in several areas, each having its own advantages.

Dan wrote that he was just a bit nervous before the EVA. He had done a lot of training, but there is always something about doing something for real the first time. When the "Go" came from Moscow to open the hatch, they were a little early—they were supposed to go out right at sunrise, but decided to go out anyway.

It was really dark, and with no lights outside the station, they could only see a few feet. Dan said it reminded him of those night catapult shots off the carrier! He got some great photos, but on 35mm film, so they'll have to wait until it (the film) returns to earth.

The other thing Dan mentioned was that it was hard to think about what walking on earth will be like, since he is so used to "flying" everywhere, as well as simply letting something go when he doesn't need it for a few seconds. The daily schedule runs from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Wake up, read the moming mail (usually three to five messages to read), wash up, eat breakfast, talk to the ground during a "planning conference" (15 min.), then off to work. Each day includes about two hours of exercise and a onehour break for lunch. Evenings are spent getting ready for the next day. Dan, all of us thank you for the outstanding job you're doing to further our reach into space. All of us here on the ground wish you a safe retum and a joyous reunion with you family. Good on ya. Classmate! I'll bet that when you joined NASA, you thought you left deployments behind...

Some recent news articles have highlighted the activities of a couple of our more down-to-earth Classmates. Back in January, Tom Joyce was invited to speak to a men's chtirch group in Pennsylvania about his experiences on 11 September According to the article, Tom was five floors up in the Pentagon's D ring when the Boeing 757 crashed directly under him. The impact of the jet, he said, "launched me back about five feet."

The ceiling collapsed and he felt the building shake as it went down. Joyce said he helped make sure others in the building were evacuated safely and got out into the courtyard. He said, "It was eerie. It was as if everyone knew the world had just changed." His faith has kept him going, and now he's reexamining what he's going to do with the rest of his life. Tom, it was great to hear you survived those events, and all of us are thankful for your safety. If you get the chance, please drop me a line to say hi.

Also in January, the publication Telecommunications Americas reprinted an interview with Ray Dolan, who is president and CEO of a telecommunications company called Flarion, a spin-off from Lucent's New Ventures Group. The interview was primarily Ray offering advice to other telecom executives. Trae to form, Ray's discussion was mosdy over my head, but the article did give a brief summary of his career to date.

After graduating with an ME degree (see, I told you most of this was over my head), Ray flew Shipmate, April 2002

aircraft off carriers for a few years before leaving the Navy for a business career In 1989 he decided to pursue his M.B.A. at Columbia University. By that time, he had "achieved enough business experience to share perspectives with my Classmates—to have something to offer— and to know what I wanted to get out of it. Going back to get my M.B.A. gave me the tools to change from a technology focus to a business focus and to see issues from a broader perspective," he said. Ray became director of technology at NYNEX Mobile, then executive vice president of marketing, before becoming COO for NextWave Telecom. When asked what gives his company staying power in the cunent business climate, Ray replied, "We are creating a solution to a tremendous industry challenge— unwiring the Intemet. We have big vision." Readers also leatned that when the time came, Ray is looking at retiring in Martha's Vineyard. I don't know how Cookie (Ray's wife) responded to that, though. (Wiz to Cookie: TAG, you're it. You owe me the next email!)

There was a quick note this month from "Dr B o b , " aka Bob Larys (R_P_Larys@ sar.med.navy.mil). After nearly two years. Bob is leaving his "temporary" assignment at the branch clinic in Jacksonville, FL, and is headed over to HSL-40, the East Coast Fleet Replacement Squadron for the SH-60B helicopter Bob will soon be known as "The Flyin' Doc" (among other things, but I couldn't print those here). In addition to being the squadron flight surgeon.

Bob will also be an instractor pilot there, which is an uncommon combination. So congratulations. Bob! That's one heck of an accomplishment! I'd be concerned, though, if I were a student in that squadron. I mean, if the poor kid had a flight physical in the a.m. and a flight with you in the aftemoon, you could stick it to him twice in the same day!

In closing, I'll pass along a few "historical photos" sent in a while back by Al Whiting. Al came across these as he was packing up for his move to Chile. In the meantime, I need to drag out the lawn mower Hmm, the lawn mower repair place is right next door to a boatyard.

"Honey, I have to run down for a choke gasket throttle quadrant adjuster for the mower I'll be back around dinner time..."

See y'all next month! (Sec'y Spouse note: after he cuts the grass!)

Onmes Viri! —Wiz

The 26th Company Fieldball/Snowball Team, led by Steve Schock, checks out Hospital Point before a match. Check out those "modern' uniforms

Jim Stetson descends to the ice in pursuit of a fieldball

Al Whiting quickly opens a care package while simultaneously fending off roommates

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Pres; Tim Kobosko Sec'y; CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr., USNR 15 Allard Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70119 h; 504-486-9040; w; 504-539-9255 f: 504-539-9257; e; jgrace@notc.org Class web site: http;//www.USNAl980.org Happy Mardi Gras! Throw me somethin'.

Mister! We are in the midst of the biggest party in the world! Chaos abounds here in the Crescent City. People are going nuts, beads actually have value—to some—and of course, a few people have been know to drink a litde bit.. .Not that I can say I've ever seen it...

We just came through Sugar Bowl, Super Bowl, Mardi Gras is in full swing, and we have the French Quarter Festival and Jazz Fest following closely! To add to it, we're in the midst of a famous New Orleans election for mayor— what more could anyone ask for? If anyone is on their way down to New Orleans and wants a great place to stay or ideas for the town—let me know.

We've got lots of fabulous ways to make your stay wonderful.

Please go to the web site: www.usnal980.org to check your information, update your email, read details on our Class election, and check out the new look of the site. On to the mailbag: I've had a lot of responses to an update on our Firsties's that I printed a few columns ago. It's brought about some humorous letters. Here's one from Ken Hall of Club 34 that came about after my update on Harry Rouse's '77 letter of November 2001.

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frequently crossed paths with Ray TVystad '77, who was my squad leader Plebe Summer first set (2nd squad). Ray's working for Illinois Institute of Technology as a computer instructor and finishing up his Ph.D. He retired out of his NROTC billet at IIT and is a frequent participant in the unit's activities. 1 accused him of going over to the dark side (academics) when he wore black tie instead of mess dress to the Dining In. The President of the Mess accepted my suggestion that Ray demonstrate his former skills at the bagpipes as fit punishment for his lack of uniform. Ray paid me back by playing Navy Blue & Gold, bring myself (and the guest of honor) to my feet and allowing me to demonstrate my very poor singing voice. I'm back at StratCom (it's a long story, maybe another letter).

CDR Mike Reed (reedms@eucom.mil) sent in this brief update: Good hearing from you. Been promoted to the chief, operational plans here at EuCom. No, the Navy wouldn't frock me because I am in an Army 0-6 position, not a Navy 0-6 position, but it is sure keeping me busy! Lots of CT stuff these days. Was here over the Christmas holidays as I covered for those on leave.

My kids arrived afterwards, and we headed to Switzerland for New Years. Fun time. Back in the grind now.

Looks like I will be out of here in August.

Not sure where 1 am heading but put my name in for a job in Naples. Didn't get picked up for the major command screen this time around, so am trying to stay in Europe to stay close to the kids (in the UK).

I received a whole slew of new email addresses and changes. E d DiMarco is now at: p.edward.dimarco@mindspring.com, Pete Kilger is now using: pkilger@adelphia.net.

Robert Anderson is no longer at Ezra Company, he can be reached at; andersonrw3@home.com.

Rick Etem sent a note and said the best way to reach him is at this address; rtetem@yahoo.com.

Bret Gordon is now at: Bret.Gordon@osd.mil.

Ernie Scheyder is available at: escheyder @ answerthink.com and Bill Metzger asked that we use billmetzger@jps.net instead of his old HP address. Barbette Henry Lowndes, of 24th Company can be reached at; blowndes@ dcmde.dcma.mil and reports that John Spencer, also of 24th, can be reached at the following; john.p.spencer@lce.com.

Kevin Scott (kevinscott@home.com) of 9th Company wrote in to let us know that While we may take a little longer to get there, we had our Classmates finally reach the colonel's list for the Marine Corps (the list came out on 20 December 2001); Ronald Baczkowski, Howard Barker, Russell Jones. Ralph Kohlmann, Raymond Damm Jr. Travis Allen, Richard Slater, and Kevin Scott.

Tom Ryan (Thomas.M.Ryan@rollsroyce.com). our 36th Company Rep, wrote in to report the death of Mrs, Rita Macken, who was the mother of John Corbett. She was very special to many of the members of 36th Company. We extend our fondest wishes and sympathies.

C A P T Jill V o t a w (Votaw.Jill@sb.cnrsw. navy.mil) sent in her faithful update from the West Coast; Ran into CAPT Earl Gay, now XO of BELLEAU WOOD, on the set of the filming of

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doing Reserve duty helping escort the crew on the base. Earl's been onboard for just about a week, and by the time this goes to press will probably be deployed, but he says to pass on his hello's to everyone! I think he's the first of our Class to be XO of a major combatant, but am not sure. Sounds good anyway! Earl's ship is being used in some of the scenes from the movie. It comes out in the fallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;should be a great flick.

With the war effort, most of the Fleet is out of town, but all the fun in San Diego still goes on. Several of our San Diego Classmates got together for the (disastrous) Army-Navy game in December, and I've included some pictures of us all. Bravo Zulu to Danny Archer and his wife. Tina, who planned the event, which was held at Seau's Restaurant (a sports-bar owned by the Charger's Junior Seau). About 30 folks attended, and it was a great reunion! That's it from Sun Diego.

Assistant. Between operations in support of the EP-3 incident and Operation Enduring Freedom, we've not seen much of Dan, but we will miss Beth, Amy, Jenny and Bryan. Also attending the ceremony were Kathy Shanebrook who is CO Naval Pacific Metereology and Oceanography Command Western Pacific; Derek Hesse, N3 at Commander Submarine Group SEVEN; Mike Budney, N6 on the Seventh Fleet Staff; and John Spear who recently relieved Classmate Kevin Lynch as the XO, KrrTY HAWK (CV-63). I'll finish up my command tour at Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Far East in August of this year and most likely head to the Norfolk area.

In addition to our Classmates in Japan, my recent TAD assignments have allowed me to see quite a few others. Ran into Charlie Booth, Jill Votaw and Jerry Nies at West 2002 in San Diego in January. Charlie is with Cisco, Jill is PAO for the SubBase at Pt. Loma and CO of her Reserve unit in Hollywood and Jerry is at SpaWar overseeing submarine communications programs. On the same trip I met Rich Pickering at the airport in Denver. He was on his way to Hawaii for some reserve duty with the Marines. While in DC, I had an opportunity to see Cheryl Spohnholtz who is working for the National Security Space Architect, designing the satellite architectare of the future.

Hope this finds you fully recovered from the Superbowl and Mardi Gras festivities. Thanks for all your hard work with the column. i

Class of 'SO's San Diego contingent at a 2001 ArmyNavy game party Davenport change of command Kathy Shanebrook, Derek Hesse, Dan Davenport, Mike Budney, John Spear and Barb Geraghty

The guys Billy Turnoc (USMCTurnoc@aol.com) has threatened to come by and see me here in the Big Easyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he is drilling every weekend with the Marines in New Orleans.

This next note cam in from Barb Geraghty (geraghty@ysa.attmil.ne.jp) who wrote to us from the far reaches of the world: Hello from Yokosuka, Japan. We recently had a fairly large gathering of our Classmates for Dan Davenport's change of command and, as the only one not wearing the fourth stripe yet (I'll pin on in June). 1 was elected to make sure you received the photo. Dan was recently relieved as Commander Destroyer Squadron 15, after a short, but eventful year in command and is on his way to be the CNO's Executive

This next letter came in from Nancy and Bill Stuehler (S2LER@aol.com).

Hello from Fairfax, VA. Bill and I have been here going on 16 years now. Bill is an analyst for Naval Intelligence in Suitland, MD. He is in and out of the Pentagon and has run into a few Classmates over the years there and in Suitland. We have two children: Jennifer (19) and a freshman at UVA, and Christopher (14) and an eighth-grade sports addict. The 11 September incidents left all of us very emotional as Bill was on his way to the Pentagon as the plane hit. Bill knew quite a few of the people killed. Things have calmed down, and we are thankful on a daily basis that Bill was running late that day.

Lilly and Tim Anderson (timm_anderson@ msn.com) sent in a note to report that they have a new litde girl, Isabella he says: She is cute as a button. She was lifting her head up on day two! I thank the creator for giving me another child. She is indeed a treasure.

Now. off to getting a SSN. funding a college account, and all that other good stuff.

If anyone can remember the last Shipmate (I can barely remember yesterday) there was a photo of Dan Hinz (dan.hinz@ieee.org) and his Shipmate, April 2002

fourth child, their new daughter Fallon. Dan put out a plea—"Can any of you folks help me figure out what is happening? It seems as if this happens every four years." If anyone has any answers, you can contact him at the email address above.

Another note came in from Bill Bowen (billbowen@md.prestige.net) of 30th company; basically he sent out a plea for Classmates to send him some updates. Since last note, his daughter won a big event—here is part of the note and a photo of the proud Papa: A brief update...! mentioned in the letter below that my oldest daughter, Brittany was a contestant in the Miss Maryland Job's Daughter Pageant. Well she won the pageant and is now serving as MMDJD 2002. "The entire family will be traveling to Australia this summer to see her compete in the Miss Intemational Job's Daughter Pageant. We are looking forward to an exciting year! I have attached a picture of Brittany and I that was taken the night of the Maryland Pageant. 30th Company please send me an email.

At the 20th reunion, we discussed holding an election for Class officers. At this time, we would like to officially solicit nominations for Class officers. Please check with the person you nominate to ensure they want to hold the office. Please to the web site www.usnal980.org to see the appropriate article from the Class constitution, which describes the responsibilities of each office.

At this time, we have the following situations.

Tim Kobosko has volunteered to run again as president. Lyle B u m h a m has volunteered to mn as executive vice-president. Joe Grace has volunteered to mn again as secretary. Officially, Joe has also been the Class Treasurer, and Tim has actually been performing most of the duties, since the Alumni Association keeps the finances.

However, it probably makes sense to have someone as the treasurer.

Please send in your nominations by 28 February 2002. Again, check with the person before you nominate them. In March 2002, we will hold the election, probably through the Yahoo group page. If you have any questions, please email.

Randy Farley (rfarley@score.com), one of our trasty Company reps sent in this update:

Bill Bowen and his daughter. Brittany Dave HaUer ( d h a l l e r @ e b m a i l . g d e b . c o m ) finally sent in a letter to confirm the ramors that h e was alive and kicking near the A c a d e m y : Well, since I have never written before, why not now. I have been working for General Dynamics, Electric Boat Company for the past 12 years. I work out of the Washington, DC, office and support the Naval Sea Systems Command, Submarine Fleet Support Branch. I work both TRIDENT (726 Class SSBNs) and fast attack (688 and SEAWOLF-Class) submarine issues.

I have been living in Crofton, MD, for the past 16 years and my daughter, Kassandra (17), is a junior at South River High School. Kassandra and I sponsor two Youngsters (Class of 2004; sort of makes me feel old) both named Jennifer.

Jen #1, is from Long Island, N Y , and "OJ" (Other Jenn) is from Dale City, VA. Kassandra and my "Jerm twins" try to keep me pretty busy on the weekends.

I have also been a football season ticket holder for the past three years, and am hopeful for the new upcoming season. If any of you are sending your "youngings" to the Academy and would like a Classmate to be their sponsor, let me know and I can request them. As always, fair winds and following seas to all of our Classmates still serving.

On a business note, Lyle Burnam (lylej4 @juno.com) has been working with the Officers of the Class to put together the election that we described at the 20th reunion. Here is a brief section of his letter The details of the offices are on the web site www.usnal980.org and will be there for all to review. Please take the time to vote— send in your input and give us feedback. Lyle is mnning this for the Class.

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Just wanted to be first in line for next month's submissions! Things are busy with me here in San Diego at the range as we work up the Lincoln BG. 1 am headed to the National Defense University for their Reserve Officer National Security Course the end of February. In May I'm going to Thailand for Exercise Cobra Gold 02 in my ComSeventhFltJFACC role. I am working very closely with Mike Budney, as my active duty counterpart N-6 on the 7th Fleet Staff.

Dan Davenport just had his change of command from DesRon 15 and is now the EA to the CNO. (I guess '80 really is just a heartbeat away fi-om our leader!) All of us in 9th Company agree that there is no one more deserving than Dan. My money is on him for the first flag in the Class!

Earl Gay just took over as XO on BELLEAU WOOD. He will spend the next 18 months or so lUT, then they give him the keys to that big gray boat! If Dan doesn't get that first star, the rest of my money is on Earl. It is nice to have him and Delia here in San Diego for such an extended time. I received a flyer on an Upcoming NDIA Navy BMD Conference that has CAPT Kenyon Hiser speaking on "Intemational Cooperation— Japan." He is the NavSea Japan Cooperative Development Program Manager.

Kevin Scott just made the 0-6 list on the USMC side of the DON. He is not sure where that will take him, just that it threw a (pleasant) wrench in his retirement plans! He is still here in San Diego with the 3rd MAW, but conventional wisdom. (Can I use wisdom in the same paragraph as Marine?) puts him in the Pentagon in the near future.

Finally, although a bit dated, Steve Johnston left the govemment-feeding trough over the past year and is now an engineer for ACS Systems and Engineering, Inc. in Virginia Beach. If I get any more info I'll pass it on closer to your last second plea for inputs!

got 16 good years towards retirement and will likely retire at the 20-year mark. After leaving the Naval Academy, I earned my degree at Ohio State University, joined the Marine Corps, fought in the Gulf War, had a successful acting career, and am currently working with the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the DC area.

Congratulations on becoming a doctor and raising two fine boys.

Final letter of the month c a m e in from Kevin Ketchmark (KCKetchmark@aol.com) w h o is the C o m p a n y rep for 32nd C o m p a n y : I hope the New Year is off to a great start for everyone! Wanted to help the mailbag by passing along just a few notes I have collected from some of the 32nd Gang. I recently received an email out of the blue from Monte Burr. However, it was brief, and I've had no follow-up yet.

So all I can tell you is that Monte is alive somewhere, doing something, with somebody— which is good. Monte, write!

Ron Colvin checked in from DC, and the Customs Service. 1 am sure his work has picked up its pace in recent months. Ron proudly reported that his son, Chris, eamed Eagle Scout in January. Congratulations, Chris. Bill Hoeft wrote a few months back with an update. He left command of SALT LAKE CITY, and remained

in San Diego as the Submarine Squadron 11 Deputy. Bill passed along a wonderful story in the wake of the September attacks. He was in Manhattan to attend a memorial service for a friend lost in the World Trade Center, and was overwhelmed by the response he received from the citizens of New York as he walked the sUreets in his SDB. "They shook my hand, they gave me high fives and told me to kick some backsides and give 'em hell. It was a great day to be in uniform in New York City. It made you even more determined." I am confident that scene was repeated in towns all across our country.

Melissa Harrington, Bill's wife, retired last summer, and after taking a few months to decompress is now happily ensconced in a second career working with environmental nonprofit organizations. They expect to move to DC, in the summer of 2002. I had the opportunity to share a bit of Navy tradition with some of my family, fellow military Fellows and Classmates here at Fletcher in my promotion ceremony aboard CONSTITUTION in Boston Harbor in November. It was a spectacular and fitting venue.

My uncle, Jerry Ketchmark, a retired naval aviator, administered the oath of office. As an aside, I saw Mike Shane's name mentioned in a recent column. Mike, if you read this drop me a line so I can add you to our 32 locator. Finally, another Classmate Andy McCawley (27), was back in his old stomping grounds while attending an Executive Leadership course at Harvard in November. He and I were shipmates aboard CARL VINSON. Andy recently left VINSON as XO,

and will assume command of JUNEAU in Sasebo this month (January).

Dr Pam Wacek Svendson (DrPamFP® aol.com) sent in a letter from one of our long lost Classmates that left the Academy early, Greg Davis (davisgr99@hotmail.com):

Andy and his wife, Randa used the opportunity of being in their favorite city, Boston, to renew their wedding vows on the occasion of their 15th anniversary. Linda and I witnessed their vows at a church in the seaside town of Winthrop, MA. A retired Navy chaplain, whose name now escapes me, conducted the ceremony. Andy, were you late to the first one, too? Many more happy years to them. All the best in 2002. Fly safe.

1 just got engaged for the first time on 23 December. This is my fiancee's first time too. We are planning to get married on 21 September.

Actually, I'm in the Marine Corps Reserve after leaving active duty after the Gulf War. I've

That's it for the mailbag for this month. I hope that everyone is healthy, happy, and wise. Call a Classmate, renew an old friendship and let people know you care—it really makes a difference! As always. Beat Army—Joe

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P*res; Jim Ahlgrimm 1948 Friendship Place, Falls Church, VA22043-1542 h; 703-848-0793; w; 703-886-2200 e; jim@ahlgrimm.net Sec'y: Dave Ciccarelli 38484 Sorgum Court, Purcellville,VA 20132-3738 h; 540-882-4225; w; 703-416-0153; c: 703-798-8313; e; chicsan@aol.com Class web site: www.usna.com/classes/1981 Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

Note the new prez info at the top of the page.

Next upon the stand, will you please extend a hand, new career move, quite unplaimed, heading south, heading south.

From John G e s h a y (new e; j g e s h a y ÂŽ armorholdings.com) A quick note to let you know that I've accepted a sales-marketing management position with Armor Holdings, Inc. and will be pulling chocks from ExxonMobil on Friday, 1 February 2002. This opportunity came quite suddenly and we feel it's a good fit for me, plus we'll be moving back to Teresa's hometown, Jacksonville, FL. The kids are excited about living closer to grandma and grandpa although we really liked this (Northern Virginia) area. I've especially enjoyed rekindling friendships with fellow Classmates through the (DC area) luncheons and school events and my new job will have me back in the DC area frequently.

Next up on the clock, a legitimate jet jock, with new email, send a note, send a note.

From Tim Morse (morsetka@aol.com): Next up on the bill, in our House of Vaudeville, we've a writer, not of swill, buy his book, buy his book.

From Tony Chiffolo: Besides working as managing editor at Fordham University Press, I'm also teaching a class at the College of New Rochelle, doing freelance editing, and continuing to write books. The latest is just out, 700 Names of Mary: Stories and Prayers. 64 Columbia Ave., Hartsdale, NY 10530,914-328-2967. ff you follow me, there's a specialty, a new Prez for you to see, and to read, and to read.

From Jim Ahlgrimm: Having mn unsuccessfully on two other occasions for Class office, I finally figured it out. Run unopposed and your odds are much improved, assuming an unorganized write-in candidate.

First of all, thanks to Bob Ravener and Chuck French for their efforts over the past ten years as Class president and vice president. Implementing their vision has established a strong foundation to build upon. They got us through those years when we were still in our 30s and now in our 40s, volunteering their precious time to the Class and the Naval Academy. It was always a pleasure to see a smiling Bob Ravener at the annual meeting, early on Friday morning, the day before Homecoming, fresh bagels and coffee in hand. Thanks to Bob and Chuck, we have eamed the "'81 Second to None" Class motto! Also thanks to Dan Quattrini and Tim Disher for their services as Members-At-Large.

They have always been valued advisors during consideration of Class business.

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I look forward to my term as Class president and, along with new Class vice president.

Nelson Moe, and new/returning Members-AtLarge; Ed Tucholski, Jon Wall, Dennis Murphy, Cecil Davis, Noreen Leahy, and Bob Kennington, plan to build on the theme of Class unity as we approach our 25th reunion.

Thank you for supporting the Naval Academy and the Class of 1981.

We'd like it to be known, the exhibits that were shown, were exclusively our own. All our own!

All our own!

New song. r ve sent this letter hoping it will reach your hand And if it does 1 hope that you will understand That 1 must leave in a while And though I smile Yu know the smile is only there to hide What I'm really feeling deep inside Just a face where I can hang my pride Goodbye... Goodbye...

Apologies to Keith, Greg and Carl.

Laterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chic

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Pres; Maj T. Gordon Thomson, USAFR h; 804-360-8448; e; president@usna82.org Vice Pres; Matt Moury h; 410-263-7640; e; vicepresident@usna82.org Treas: CDR Terry Benedict, USN h; 703-913-7183; w; 703-607-1036 e; treasurer@usna82.org Business Sec'y: Dan Proulx h; 410-280-5282; w; 410-293-6884 e: businesssec@usna82.org Corr Sec'y; CDR Greg Eisman, USN NEMOC, PSC 819 Box 31, FPO AE 09645-3200 (34) 956-82-4322 e; eisman82@hotmail.com Class web site; www.usna82.org Hello, Class of '82! It's good to be back in the U.S.A., although I must admit I was getting quite used to southern Spain. First, a big thanks to Gordy for keeping the Class column going while I was in transition. My email address remains the same (eisman82@hotmail.com). I've received quite a number of inputs for this month's column, so here we go.

Don Bennett (bennett@bgcc.com) asked that all 23rd Company Classmates send him their email address. Don is currently the president and CEO of Bennett Information Technologies, Inc. Bill Dawson is heading off to 7th Fleet to be supply officer for the Westem Pacific Fleet. Sushi and saki for all my friends that go to visit him!

Joe Direnzo wrote in to say that he ran into Ed

Delaney who

is the CO

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(LSD-50). He says hello to everyone. Frank Koye wrote in with the following: My wife, Ina, and I have been blessed with the birth of our second daughter, Fiona. She was born on 12 December. This year we were in Albania, while 1 did a month of orders as assistant defense attache (Reserve duty) at our embassy there in May. We retumed home and decided to buy a home since our family was growing. We bought a home in Chevy Chase, MD, in August. Other than that. 1 have been hanging tough in the high tech wireless world of ultra wideband. My son, Michael, graduated

from high school and he has been blessed to receive nominations to several service academies. Navy being among them. We'll see how it goes. God Bless.

Russ Luehrsen (LUEHRSENd'aol.com) sent in the following updates: Tim Powers accepted a new job doing computer programming with Sonalysts, Inc., which is based out of Waterford, CT. Tim moved from Allentown, PA, up to Middletown, RI. I am still on the Joint Staff doing arms control (finishing off my fourth year). 1 plan to retire in May and work in the Northem DC area. I'm still u-ying to track down several 9th Company Shipmates and would ask that they [Classmates] email them to me.

Dave Ruff and family are on die move.. .their new contact info is: daveruff@prodigy.net. Drop him a line and see how life in Naples is tteating him.

John Jurceka of 3rd Company sent in the following: My wife, Rina, and I are still living in the Philadelphia area, where we moved when I left the Navy in 1990. Our daughter, Nicole (9), and the three of us are having lots of fun in Philly. Rina and I have marked our calendar for the upcoming homecoming and hope to see lots of '82ers there.

After too many years in the easy chair, I took up miming in the surruner of 2000.1findmnning to be very relaxing and have started to participate in races. My first race was the Philadelphia Half Marathon, held last September. I had so much fun that I signed up for the Philadelphia Marathon, which was held in November. I made it through the 26.2 miles and managed to beat my planned goal byfiveseconds (my elapsed time was 3 hours, 59 minutes, and 55 seconds). If anyone doubts the existence of the runner's "wall," I can confirm that it definitely exists. I hit mine at about rmle 17.1 must be a masochist, because I am anxiously awaiting this year's races.

Jim Garman (jgarman82@adelphia.net; w: GarmanJC@mfrusmc.mil) also sent in a super input: 1 thought I would take a moment to send a quick update for your reading public. 1 am in the process of packing as my life, once again, is about to change drastically. My Reserve squadron has been activated as of 24 January 2002 I and will be retuming to active duty. On 18 August 2001, I took command of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772 (HMH-772), a Marine Corps reserve CH-53E squadron stationed in Willowgrove, PA. Classmate Steve DePetris was on hand to act on behalf of the Class to witness and verify that the Marine Corps did in fact grant me a command. With the recent events in the world, the squadron has now been activated and recalled to active duty to provide support for Operation Enduring Freedom. The squadron will get worked into the rotation for providing heavy lift transport support for the next MEU that deploys overseas. Prior to this acfivation and for the last 12 years, 1 have been employed by Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, CT. 1 am working in the Engineering Department currently within the Advance Design/New Product Definition group. My responsibilities over the last couple of years have been to work on the project to modemize the CH-53E Super Stallion. This has been a very interesting and rewarding project.

One way to look at my recent activation is that for the next year I will be given the opportunity to see and work with the aircraft in more detail. 1 have been given the opportunity to collect, first hand, field data to help support modernizing the aircraft. Unfortunately this

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schedule is going to preclude me from participating in the 20th year reunion activities. Someone will have to send me the details on how things go. Drop me a line my at my home or work email.

Kendall Miller, who by the sounds of his email to me thought most of the Class figured he'd dropped off the face of the earth, checked in with the following (by press time, his retirement ceremony will already be in the books).

Most of you already know that 1 plan to retire from the Navy soon. In fact you may have thought I already retired, or you're thinking "It's about time." But no. this year marks the 20th anniversary of my commissioning, so it's time to move on. This note is simply a "heads up" note to let you know about ray retirement ceremony on 19 March. 1 hope you will put it on your schedule and make plans to be here.

It'll be in Memorial Hall at USNA, 12:30 p.m. on 19 March—a relatively short ceremony, with a brief reception afterward. You may also receive a follow-up invitation in the mail soon (if I still have your address, that is). Please come and share the occasion.

That's all I have for now. One note: a few of you sent in pictures with your updates. As I am at the top of the "computer rocks," I'm having difficulty properly formatting them for publication. I will continue to try to get them for future issues. Keep those updates coming...Greg

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Pres: CDR James H. Flatley TV, USN h; PSC477 Box 296, FPO AP 96306-1299 h; 011-81-3117-64-6408 w: "VF-154 Unit 25431, FPO AP 96601 -6123 he: fivefam@ata.attmil.ne.jp we; f4jflatl@cvw5.navy.mil Sec'y; Richard F. Woodford Jr. 7329 Cresdeigh Circle, Alexandria, VA 22315 h; 703-313-4170; w; 703-292-4999 we: rwoodfor@nsf.gov Class web site: www.usna83.com No long introduction, let's roll: The Thirty Third Herd Herald Returns From Pete Stitt (peter(i21csi.com; 21CSI 425-3772205, (c) 425-231-2804) Greetings, Companymates, Classmates, and friends. Here is my attempt to resurrect The Thirty Third Herd Herald after a very long hiatus.

I do not know why I let it lapse. No excuse sir!

Here is the nooze: (Some of it is old nooze, but still nooze...)

Leo S. Mackay has risen to the lofty level of under secretary for Veteran's Affairs. He was sworn in this past summer (6 July, to be exact) in Memorial Hall at good old Mother "B." Congratulations Leo and you have permission to "Wipe down Mackay!"

I was fortunate to have Leo as my guest speaker at my retirement ceremony on 19 October in Everett, WA. It was an honor and privilege to have him speak before family, friends, and shipmates. My vacation post-Navy was shorter than I anticipated, as I took a job with 21st Century Systems Inc. 21st Century is a small privately held firm that has developed software to help the decision maker.

For those of you that do not know. I am married to Melissa (since Febmary 1988) and have two sons, Tunothy and Daniel. We have a two-acre Shipmate, April 2002

place just outside of Snohomish, WA, (about 30 miles north of Seattle).

Flask. Henry C. "Hank" Smith took command of the mighty ARTHUR W. RADFORD in a ceremony pier-side at the Naval Station in Norfolk, VA, on 25 January 2002. The ceremony was well attended by '83 (33) and others. Spotted at the ceremony were; Hank Smith (wouldn't have been much of a change of command if he wasn't there to accept...). Ken Enriquez who looks great and I had not seen since graduation—soiTy Ken that 1 did not recognize you right away, USNA comptroller Todd Hauge, Grant Soderstrom, Tom Snyder, the Honorable Leo S. Mackay, Mark Hagerott, and yours truly.

There may have been others that 1 missed in my haste but worthwhile visit to Norfolk. Here is a link to Tom Snyder's homepage with photos of the event; http;//homepage.mac.com/ tsnyder/PhotoAlbumS.html Tom Sedlack works for Lockheed Martin and lives about 20 minutes from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International airport.

Paul Haynes is living in suburban DC. Peter Morrison is in the Tidewater area. Brian Fletcher is in DC. Rex Hayes is on active duty with the Department of Transportation, specifically the United States Coast Guard.

Those that think I know a little about what is happening include: Bill Mountford lives in South Bend, IN, and just got out of the bagel business. Mike Thompson works at the Department of Energy in DC. Kyle Carr is in New Mexico. Todd Boussom lives in Southem Califomia. A.J.S. Muna lives in Saipan. Mike Isabelli is near the windy city. Darwin Webster lives down the street from L.L. Bean in Freeport, ME. If you have any inputs, I would appreciate them.

Missing or "lost contact, increasing range;" Denny Carr—last seen at graduation...flying for the airlines—I think? S.X. Carroll—last seen at graduation. Bill Cusack—last seen by me on the mighty warship GRIDLEY ( C G - 2 1 ) in

San Diego. Dave Fox—last seen by me at a USNA football game a few years ago, and I believe he is still flying in the USN. Dave Kelln—last seen at graduation. A.J.S. Muna— I had his email during my deployment, but I have lost track of him...Mike Thompson— saw him at the Mid Store just before Christmas, but do not have an email address for him. Darwin Webster—does Darwin own a computer?

Many thanks to Pete for taking up the reins for the 33rd Herd. If you have a Company newsletter that could use some reconstitution, please forward me a copy and you'll increase your readership by at least two people.

This next message for the Class of 1983 comes from our seniors in the Classes of 1923 and 1953: Good Afternoon. My name is CAPT Bill Trueblood '53, USN (Ret.), administrative vice president of the Class of 1953.

About 15 years ago the Class of 1923 approached the Class of 1953 and asked that we take over the sponsorship of the 23rd Company wardroom at the Academy. They, the Class of 1923, were getting old and wanted a younger Class to take over the responsibility. Now we, the Class of 1953, are in the same situation and are looking for a younger Class to assume the responsibility from us.

Please consider becoming the next sponsors for this wardroom. The duties are not extensive and can be very rewarding. We can and will provide more information should you be

interested in accepting this responsibility. We hope very much that you will. Thank you.

I'd like to be able to respond affirmatively to CAPT Trueblood soon. Any objections or counterproposals? Contact me by email or regular mail. My addresses are listed above. This looks like a good item to ratify at the 20th Reunion Class Business Meeting (October 2003), although I'd like to be able to pledge our commitment this year Our First Firm Reunion Volunteers are Sounding Off CDR Tom "Katz" McKavitt (katzmck® mindspring.com) recently received orders to report in July as the next Base Operations Officer at USNA. As we are all anxious to get someone as the overall coordinator I hope Tom will think this over for a week or two, do some research and some local networking to try and identify a core group to take this on and do it right.

If you'd tike to contact Tom to help out, CDR Tom "Katz" McKavitt, Operations Team 4, National Military Command Center The Joint Staff, Pentagon.

Here's a photo from Hank Smith's Class Act change of command:

Leo MacKay arriving at Hank Smith's change of command I was glad to be there and it was a proud day for the Smith family, friends, and the men and women of RADFORD. Henry's remarks were traditionally brief and memorable. He paid tribute to several honored guests, family, and friends, many of whom traveled great distances to be there. He praised and thanked his XO and new crew for their hard work, which was obvious in the execution of the ceremony. He also promised them that more hard work was ahead. Indeed he was very clear that he intended to take them into harm's way, for that is what our Navy and our Nation expects in these dangerous times.

That was a quintessential "Class Act"—Godspeed RADFORD.

On a lighter note, in case you need some consolation after the fall of your Enron shares, I hope this helps put it in perspective: How to Explain "Enron" Economics to Your Children...

In the beginning there was...

Feudalism—Your lord and master owns two cows and your village. He allows you to milk the cows so you may churn butter for his English muffins. You also get to take away the cmsts to feed the hogs.

Communism—There are two cows grazing in the commons. You and your heroic neighbors help take care of them and your collective all shares the milk.

Totalitarianism—You had two cows. That was before the government took them both and denied they ever existed. You are drafted into the army to harvest wheat. Milk is banned but cabbage is plentiful.

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CapitaUsm—You buy two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your cowherd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them all and retire on the income (after taxes). Steak costs $2.89 a pound.

Venture Capitalism—You buy a foreclosed cow ranch but own no cows. Instead, you leverage the ranch to some Japanese banks in order to speculate in British beef options. You sell short just before a "mad cow" scare. Shortly after prices plunge and the SEC and USDA want to ask questions about your "ranch scheme." Meanwhile your profits sit in a discrete offshore bank in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. Sirloin anyone?

Enron Venture Capitalism—You have two cows, on paper. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at your bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a federal tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.

If after reading this to your kids, they say they still have questions, say, "I'm sorry, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer any questions."

Next mondi we'll discuss how to explain the Fifth Amendment to yoiu" kids without them invoking it on you later Also, leam how to send them to their rooms without violating the prohibition on "crael and unusual punishments" in the Eighth Amendment. Hint: don't let them watch too much Camp X-Ray news or they'll get ideas.

Thought for the month: "Blest be the man who first identified sleep—a cloak to cover all human imaginings."—Cervantes That concludes this chapter in the saga. Remember your friends may come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate. We're aU in this together Shipmates, so stay in touch.

1983—A Class Act!

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Greetings, Classmates. First of all, I have a message for you from Mike "Red" Nichols; This is for those of you who have registered on the Class of 1984 web site. It has been up and mnning for about three years and has come a long way since the opening post. I have gotten some great feedback and suggestions and have incorporated many changes so far. We have plans to create a few more features in 2002 to include an advertisers section and Class Store tab. (All of you financial planners take note.)

We have seen a steady increase in numbers of registered Alumni so keep beating the bushes to get your Companymates to join us. I have enjoyed the comments that I have received and think that Jim Keck '94 has done a great job for us so far. We have been able to keep the costs of the site very modest and Steve Young and myself have financed the site to date.

Our Class has been very generous in the past with Class donations and our restricted funds, which pay for Class projects in the yard. This generosity has allowed us to make a measurable impact around the campus. Unfortunately our unrestricted fund account has received minimal funding to date and thus forced Steve and I to finance the web site.

We are asking for you to make the next donation to the Class of 1984 to our unrestricted fund so that we can continue to fund projects such as the web site. If you are looking for one more donation for 2001, we ask that you consider the 1984 web site a worthy choice. Please send any 2001 or 2002 Class donations to; Class of 1984 Operating Fund 2100-084 USNA Alumni Association 247 King George Street Annapolis MD 21402-5068 Please send me comments or suggestions and get those family pictures posted!

Robin Franke, since giving up official Class secretary duties, has continued to be a wealth of information for us all. Robin recendy wrote with a quick update from Annapolis and a meeting between several of our Classmates, representatives of the Class of '64, and members of the Class of 2002. As a result of the meeting, our Class will be assuming the duties previously held by the Class of '64 with respect to pubhshing a book of ethics case studies for each graduating Class. Our Class would not bear the cost for publishing the book, as an endowment has been established to cover this expense. Steve Young added further that our responsibilities will include taking over the presentation of the book to each Class, and the dinner that serves as the presentation's backdrop. Also, Steve mentioned that Shipmate was planning on doing a feature on the work of two Classes of 20 years difference are doing together That's all I know for the moment. If you have any questions or insights, please contact Steve.

Robin also passed along that Robert Rabuse took command of Sea Conttol Squadron 22, "The Checkmates," at Jacksonville Naval Air Station back in February. Thanks for the information, Robin, and congratulations on your change of command, Robert!

Finally, Robin has the following plea for any of you who are packrats, at least when it comes to books: 1 am pursuing the higher calling of graduate education and was wondering if any Classmates would mind parting with their 20 year old differential equations text book. The biographical

information is as follows; Applied Differential Equations, third edition (or later). Murray R. Spiegel, published by Prentice-Hall ISBN 013-040097-1.1 was parted from my own copy several years ago in a moving fiasco that I will not go into. If anyone out there is willing to sacrifice their copy for the good of a Classmate, I would be very grateful. I can be contacted at my usual address: 10 W. Burke Ave., Apt 514, Towson, MD 21204.1 would be very happy to pay someone's shipping costs. This particular textbook was far superior than any references I have picked up in recent years, and so I don't think any substitutes will do.

Well, that's it for this month. Talk to you later—Karen.

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Pres; Bob Smith e; upsbobs@hotmail.com w; 502-386-4078 Corr. Sec'y; CDR Dave McDonnell 88 Bowyer Road, AnnapoHs, MD 21402 w; 410-293-6331; h: 410-626-0347 e: dclomcd@aol.com; mcdonnel@gwmail.usna.edu A note from the vice president: The 2001 Class of '85 football tailgates were a tremendous success with lots of Classmates, kids, food, and plenty of beverages. First tent to open on game days, and last tent to come down gave us a great reputation, as we welcomed numerous wandering grads who could not find anyone from their own Class. In order to give you a heads up on the 2002 season and afford everyone an opportunity to start planning a trip to Annapolis, the schedule is printed below. If you haven't heard we have a new coach, Paul Johnson, who went 62-9 at Georgia Southem, and even if the team does not do any better, the Class of' 85 will be working hard on raising our tailgate ranking from number five in the country to number four. Make plans now to attend one of the following home games with us this fall. All games start at noon and there is usually a formal parade the Friday aftemoon prior. 7 September—North Carolina State, 21 September—Northwestern, 28 September— Duke (Homecoming), and 12 October—Rice, 16 November—Connecticut.

Season tickets go on sale 19 March 2002.

Normally there are tickets floating around our tailgate prior to kickoff, as some folks just never make it into the stadium. The Notre Dame game is in Baltimore on 9 November and Army is at the Meadowlands on 7 December. TBD what Class events, if any, will be associated with these games. Go Navy! Matt Schatzle (28).

If you have recently changed email addresses, either because of military moves or changes in Intemet providers (like @home, ©excite and that whole debacle), please send an email with an update to B r y a n Caisse (8) (bcaisse@ wsadv.com). This database is an important tool to quickly spread the word.

Tad Update: Remember Tad Robbins '05, our Plebe? Well, he did great first semester in academics (3.25) and is doing fine so far in the spring semester Unfortunately, Tad's girlfriend had a problem with the long-distance relationship (Indiana). This didn't go over too well with Tad, although he has gotten over it. As I recall, this Shipmate, April 2002

same phenomenon occiured to many of us while here at USNA with our girlfriends, shall I say, out of touch. Somehow we managed to survive.

Barb and Bob Smith's (16) Christmas card included the following picture of them with their two boys, Truman and Harrison (born on 13 November 2001).

Tmman, Bob, Barb, and Harrison Smith

JeffHoyle(20): Number one on our list of highlights this year was our vacation to Spain to visit Brigid's wonderful friend from graduate school at University of Califomia-Berkeley, Carmen. Thanks to her personal tour services we were thoroughly exposed to the warmth of the Spanish people and the richness of their traditions. Our itinerary included Madrid, Sevilla, Toledo, and Chinchon—each fascinating and delightful in its' own way. See the photo of us in front of the bell tower at the cathedral in Sevilla. Quite interestingly, Christopher Columbus' tomb is encased witjiin this cathedral's exquisite blend of European and Arabian architectural influences. Columbus sailed from Sevilla on his historic voyage of discovery to the new world.

Magellan also started his famous trip around the world from the same location, and Sevilla has a quaint nautical museum that pays tribute to both of these sea-faring adventurers.

We were also happy to be able to attend Jeff's 20th high school reunion in October. What a treat to catch up with old friends and leam about their lives since our Cherryville High School graduation so many years ago. This trip also gave us an opportunity to visit with our extended family in North Carolina. A short, but hugely enjoyable visit packed with nostalgia.

Jeff's parents and grandmother were also able to travel to San Diego this summer, creating more great memories, enjoying the Fourth of July fireworks over San Diego Bay and giving them the opportunity to meet and spend time with our fabulous friends here in California.

Brigid continues to excel as a strategic alliance manager at Hewlett-Packard, despite the economic downmm this year. She was once again recognized as an HP Star performer, and we're confident she'll pull the company through these challengingtimes.Jeff completed his second year at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, managing VIRGMA (SSN-774) Exterior Communications System Development and pursuing a master's degree in product development through a Naval Postgraduate School distance leaming program. Together, we've embarked (literally) in a new sport—sea kayaking. We're still mastering the basics like how to launch and land through the surf without being tossed about and rolled unmercifully by the unforgiving waves. But the beauty of paddling among dolphins and seals in the (sometimes) calm waters off Torrey Pines State Park make kayaking a sport that's fast

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becoming one of our favorites. We're looking forward to whale watching off the California coast from our kayak this winter.

The events of 11 September deeply aft'ected all Americans, and we're certainly no exception. Two of left "s former shipmates were killed in the attack on the Pentagon, contributing to his strong desire to get back to an operational submarine and participate more directly in Operation Enduring Freedom. Defending our country is an honor for everyone in uniform, and we possess both the commitment and capability to succeed in the war on terrorism.

The coming year will most assuredly be one of change for us. Jeff will be departing SpaWar in March to begin Submarine Prospective Commanding Officer School in April. After approximately seven months of training, he'll assume command of one of the U.S. Navy's finest warships. At this writing, the specific command and location of his next homeport are still unknown to us, but one thing is certain—command at sea will be the highlight of his already fun and exciting naval career. Brigid plans to further her success at Hewlett-Packard, and we tmst that our respective career paths will continue to intersect sufficientiy to maintain the excellent quality of life to which we've become accustomed. You're always welcome in San Diego!

system provided on the Naval Academy's web site. The person that helped me get hired was a West Point graduate. Before this job I worked for a consulting company and prior to that 1 was a store manager for Office Depot. 1 am extremely happy to be here in a good, stable, and wellpaying job. Unlike Ken 1 already have my four children (yes, we are done). They are Melba (16), Geoffrey (10), Oliver (9), and Hans (6).

Bob Johnson (23) (rjohnson@ccg3.navy.mil): Presently, 1 am the JAG for the ComCarGRu Three, CARL VINSON battle group. Ran into John Hefti (23) who took over as XO of VF-213 (and promptly was given an investigation to complete) and Brad Olds (13), my old nuke school/ prototype shipmate, who was standing TAO on CARL VINSON. More to follow when we get home from this deployment.

Steven McAllister (32); A quick response to Ron Fry's (11) question about retirement. He will not be the first, I have been on the retired list since 1 April 2001.

I think Wade Burchelle (19) may also be retired. When HSL-94 was decommissioned there was a small window of year groups that were offered retirement due to the loss of pay billets in the Reserve. Two other Classmates decided to stay with the Reserve, Don Selvy (33) and Greg Adams (26). For me it has enabled me to spend much more time with Tina and the kids. Work on my 1933 Ford is finally seeing some progress. My dog training has come a long way and this hunting season was very productive. Speaking of hunting if anyone would be interested in a big game hunt in eastem Canada or maybe Colorado drop me a line.

Harry Gimber '57: The arrival of Shipmate prompted me to let you know 1 ran into a former '85er in Aspen last week. My ski instructor for a week was John Wiltgen(jwiltgen@aspensnowmass com).

He stated he left USNA in Youngster Year after being told his eyes were not good enough for Navy air. John is one of the top instructors at Aspen Ski School. He is married to a charming lady. Sheila (I think that's correct), who is also a ski instructor. In the off-season John is a golf pro in the Aspen area. He spoke fondly of his days at USNA. Smooth sailing.

Ray Alfaro (32):

Brigid and Jeff Hoyle Jon Fulton (08): My wife, Betsy (sister of Bill Wright '84) and I are living in Evansville, IN, with our nine children, six girls, and three boys. Our oldest child is in the ninth grade and our youngest was born 3 August 2001. Betsy home schools the children while I am working in engineering and maintenance for an Alcoa, Inc. smelter and can sheet factory. We live on a five-acre plot in the middle of a large com and soybean field just a few miles off of Interstate 64. So, if you are ever traveling across the country on 64 and need a place to stay in the Midwest, stop by and join us for a stay, the more the merrier—we do have a guest room. So, we don't top JoAnn and Dan Lafave (35), but we do tie them—and who knows.. .there may be a number ten.

Below are two photos from my recent change of command at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Activity, Pacific in Pearl Harbor, HI, on 10 January 2002. Coming home as officer in charge of the premier C4ISR facility here in the pacific is a dream come tme. The activity is made up of 220 civil service personnel across the pacific, primarily engineers with LCDR OiCs in Japan, Guam, and Bahrain. If you're coming to visit Hawaii or traveling on TDY, please stop by. Although we're back home in Hawaii, I won't be able to just sit right back for this three-year tour. Aloha.

Jeff Smith (6): 1 have been working here at Lockheed Martin since March of 200land I helped Ken Adams (16) get his current position here. I am definitely a strong advocate of using the Networking

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flight school in August in Pensacola. Woodie is in his sixth year at FedEx and serves in the Naval Reserve at VP-65 Naval Base Ventura Coimty at Pt. Mugu, CA. Thanks, Bryan and crew.

We welcomed twin giris, Katrina Marie and Alyssa Kristina, into the world on 11 October 2001! They join their big brother, Alexander (9). We live in Houston and work at NASA.

Imelda and Ray Alfaro

Ken Adams (16); I noticed in the most recent column that I was credited with asking the question foremost on everyone's mind, "Where is Bob Poor (9)?"

Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for work that someone else did, no matter how much it would improve my reputation in the short mn. I ran into Steve Kennedy (24) last week at a conference in Port Hueneme. Steve's in the operations research program at Monterrey, and is slated to be XO at NavSta Annapolis when he finishes. By the time this column mns, the Adams family will be a little bit bigger. The doc says it's a boy, and due around 23 March.

AUson, Sarah, Michael, Matthew, and I are really looking forward to his airival.

Bob Byron (11): Just completed a year of purgatory in Bahrain on the NavCent staff unaccompanied. The only saving grace was working 15-hour days since 11 September making the last five months fly.

I will be in Newport, RI, through early May doing the PCO pipeline and will soon report to the precom unit PtNCKNEY (DDG-91) as CO in December. PINCKNEY should be homeported in San Diego arriving December 2003. In Bahrain I had a few cocktails with my Plebe Year squad leaders Bill Ault '82, CO of HIGGENS, and Mike Fierro '82, CO of KINKAID as well as former Companymate Craig Faller '83, CO of STETHEM. A special thanks to Kevin Leeds (9) as he was doing his two weeks AcDutRa and graciously took my place in Exercise Bright Star in the deserts of Egypt. Thanks, Kevin.

Jeff H o r t o n (6) (jeffrey_c_horton( icpphil.navy.mil): Felicia and I are in Philly at the Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) where I am working in contracts. NAVICP is mostiy involved in buying spares and repairs for the aviation community. We are active in our church in Bryn Mawr (Proclamation Presbyterian Church PCA) where Felicia is also the assistant to the senior pastor. Give us an email if you plan on passing through. We are in housing at the base and have a couple of spare rooms if you need a place to stay. Dave Schweizer (6), where the heck are you? Go Navy!

Woodie Clark (12): Brooke Katherine and Sierra Yvonne were bom 21 January 2002 at 1626 at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara to Kim and I. In one swoop we have halved the distance between Debbie (Peck) (12) and Greg Brown (12) and hope to close the gap by the second artival!

Everyone told us children bring big changes and after two years of looking in Santa Barbara, eight days after the twins' birth, we found the house: 1523 Portesuello Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Open invitation if you are passing through. Last, we will be attending my nephew, MIDN 1/C Charles R. Clark '02's 2002 graduation in May with the girls and hope to see a few of you there. Charles will be attending

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Lisa and the twins Woodie and the twins

Gregg Olson (2): I'm curtently the operations officer for 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Special Operations Capable, on the way home from a WestPac/ CentCom deployment that included operations ashore in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I got a bunch of assistance with finding theater airlift from Andy Butterfield (2), who was working mobility issues with CentCom. Made a port call in late January in Perth, Australia, and bumped into Rich Tilghman (1) who is assigned as the 7th Fleet liaison to Westem Australia or something of the sort. Rough duty, I assume. I've also kept up with Giles Kyser (5) who is working MEU and other curtent operations issues at HQMC until he heads to Camp Lejeune, NC, for command of an infantry battalion. Dawn and I still have some time left at Camp Pendleton; timing will determine what's in my immediate future. It's either continued duty with the 15th MEU or over to the 1st Marine Division.

Rich Tilghman (1) (c7frep@bigpond.com): Here in Westem Australia, just had a beer with Gregg Olson (2), just back from the war, looking just like the day of graduation I might add. He brought 4,200 well-behaved sailors and Marines to town on their first liberty since Afghanistan, and now I'm sorting out all the medical cases and "engagements" they left behind! Classmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;give me a heads up if you're planning on pulling into Perth/Fremantle.

Charlotte (Monk) Smith (36): Settled in to my new job as fleet fuels officer for Naval Forces Europe (London). This is a great place to work. London is certainly exciting and my family and I are starting to visit other countries in Europe. We traveled to France right before Christmas and visited Disney World Paris. It was great fun.. .cold, but fun. We have also been camping in South Wales and have climbed around several UK castles.

Additionally, I had the opportunity to conduct a site survey of Cape Town, South Africa this past fall. The port cities of Cape Town and Simon's Town are well worth visiting. Britain has had an outpouring of support for Americans here since 11 September. "The Star Spangled Banner" has been played at official ceremonies. Brits on the street approach me to express their support when they figure out that I am an American. There are three of our Classmates that I have run into in Europe. Vic Meyer (12) is stationed at CincUsNavEur with me, Nick Olmsted (11) is at ComfAirMed and Stephen Grace (14) is at EuCom.

Lisa (Caputo) Nowak (14) and Richard Nowak(18):

Roger Phelps (35): Thanks for the heads up on the issue. Well it appears that the need to change jobs on a regular basis continues. After a great year with the Virginia Arts Festival producing the Virginia Intemational Tattoo, I received an offer to work for Stihl Incorporated as their sales promotions specialist. So from large men in kilts and bagpipes, I went to large men with axes and chain saws. I am responsible for producing the Stihl Timbersports Series that is seen on ESPN, and managing the various corporate sponsorships including Stihl's sponsorship of Evemham Motorsports in the Winston Cup (Dodge cars 9 and 19). Stihl is a great company with quality product and terrific people and I am having a blast. The job involves a lot more travel but going to various NASCAR races around the country is not all that bad. Andrea Webb Phelps (5) and I moved to the West Ghent area of Norfolk and are experiencing the joys of old (1934) home ownership. Andrea's law practice is going very well and continues to grow. She is moving in to new offices in March and will be adding personnel. Andrea specializes in supporting small businesses and intellectual property matters.

TedDigges(l); My wife, Lisa, gave birth to our fifth child, Jordan, on 13 December 2001. Our other kids are Mickey (11), Linda (10), Lois (8), and Edward (5). I am currently the director of operations at the Naval Ammunition Logistics Center in Mechanicsburg, PA. That's it for this month. Please send in an update on what you have been up to for the last 17 years. If I don't hear from you I will start making some stories up about you. Any suggestions on how we, your Class officers, can do a better job are welcome.

Fortima Favet Fortibus!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;^Dave McDonnell (25).

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Pres/Sec'y; Tim Wolf 11409 Rouen Drive, Potomac, MD 20854 h; 301-299-6409; e; shipmate87@aol.com Class web site; http;//usna87.com Hey everyone! Among a host of great news passed along recently, I wanted to share the results of the FY2003 Marine lieutenant colonel selection board. As you may recall, a few months back I mentioned that a number of Classmates on active duty were picked up on the Navy's 0-5 selection list for FY2002. Well, now the Marine Corps has rightfully selected some members of '87 to wear the silver oak leaves next fiscal year.

Tthey are: Scott Alley, Karl Brandt, Jeff Colwell, Mike Danzer Scott Erdelatz, Paul Huxhold, Ed Magee, Doug Mason. Greg Monk, Kevin Moroney, Mark Mykleby, Bob Plantz, David A. Robinson, Matt Sampson, Mike Sheerin, Dan "Spike" Snyder and Bob Zaorski. Congratulations! In reviewing the selection list, it appeared that only a portion of active duty '87 was in zone, so we should see more ' 87 picked by next USMC 0-5 selection board.

Allison and Tom Mercer sent an announcement regarding the birth of their son, Thomas 'Ty" Reston Mercer on 7 January. Ty and his older brother Jake, hang out with mom and dad in Rancho Santa Margartia, CA. I believe Tom is still working for McKinsey & Company.

Cindy and Tim Florian are parents to son.

Troy Joseph, bom on 2 Febraary. Tim is a civilian employee with the M a r i n e Corps at Henderson Hall in Arlington, VA. Dan Sammons works for Ball Company in Colorado. Carol and Dan have three children, Danny, Caitlin, and Hannah.

Scott Vasina '82 and Carol (Berry) Vasina are also living in the Rocky Mountain state (Denver) with their children, Ryan and Melanie. Scott flies for United.

As noted in the January-Febraary issue of Shipmate, Earl K. Wilson is a special agent in the FBI. He works in the National Security Division in Washington, DC. Making a smooth career shift, Tony Sindoni (tsindoni@netreach.net) is now working for Everett Kelly Associates, Inc. in Philadelphia. The company is a recraiting firm that works with junior military officers (JMOs) looking to transition to the private sector as well as lateral corporate management moves. Many of the candidates they work with have an academy-related background (USNA, USMA, etc.). If you, or anyone you know, may be considering a move of this nature, contact Tony.

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Many Classmates on active duty have made a brief stop in Newport, Quantico, or other locations hosting fine institutions to brush up on their professional military education. The latest group of Classmates to attend the Naval War College in Newport includes: (back row) Doug Mason, Chris Bolt, Mike Tluchowski, John Gasperino, Walt Martin, (front row) John Feeney, Chip Neidhold, Jim Fisher, Mike Herrera, and Dave Fluker. Also, Tom Wilder was selected for the CNO's Sttategic Studies Group.

Maggie (McKee) Utterback is an attorney at the law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP in Madison, WI. On 15 January, the San Antonio Spurs rolled into DC to play Michael Jordan and the Wizards.

While it's still incredible to watch MJ, a number of Classmates, and other distinguished Alumni, enjoyed seeing David Robinson and the Spurs chalk up another win. Both before and after the game, George Watt '73, president/CEO of the Alumni Association and Foundation, and Kerwin Miller '75, were able to spend time with the ' 87 attendees: Tony Hollinger, Ed Magee, Vince McBeth, Jim Gfiierer, Michad Kurka, John Loesch, and Tim Wolf.

Tony, Ed, and Vince at the MCI Center

USNA Alumni after the Spurs victory Here's some random information for you to ponder while stuck in traffic. The USNA Class of 2002, who will graduate on 24 May and is 75 years our junior went through service selection in January. For the 979 participating Midshipmen, the results are as follows: 237—Surface Warfare, 44—Surface Warfare (Nuclear), 127— Submarine Warfare, 257—Navy Pilots, 88— Naval Flight Officers, 164—U.S. Marine Corps (54 pilots/5 NFOs), 11—Special Operations, 16—Special Warfare, 6—Cryptology, 3—Intelligence, 8—Supply Corps, 5 - ^ i v i l Engineering Corps, 1—Aeronautical Maint. Duty, 10—Navy Medicine, and 2—U.S. Air Force.

Finally, some of you may still be looking for lodging for Homecoming/the 15-year reunion on the weekend of 26-29 September Besides the many hotels in the area, you may find one of the

many B&Bs in Annapolis to your liking. The Annapolis Inn, one block from Gate 1, may still h a v e s o m e r o o m s for t h o s e w h o p r e f e r luxury accommodations. Check them out at: www.annapolisinn.com.

Speaking of the reunion, planning for the September festivities kicked in earlier this year I'm sure you're anxious for details, so we're hoping to provide some solid information very soon. It is our intent to have a dedicated web site listing the activities for the extended weekend and allowing registtation for the '87-sponsored events, such as a Friday evening reception and the Saturday tailgater at the stadium. Stay tuned—we'll get something to you soon. TTFN—TJW.

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Pres; Kennon A. Artis e; Navy88@aol.com Sec'y; Eric Reinhold 101 Southhall Lane, Suite 400, Maitiand, FL 32751 w; 407-667-4825; fi 407-667-4883 e; Academyfinancial@mindspring.com Well guys, it looks like the well has gone dry.

Not much input for this month, but I'm not going to let a small thing like that keep me from putting in a column. I've been getting a lot of good letters over the past year and encourage everyone to send a quick paragraph updating their life. My direct email address is academyfinancial@mindspring.com. Before I go into our only input for the month, I thought I'd drop in another picture of me! Remember my second promise? Or was that a threat? If I don't get input or pictures then I put in photos of my family and me. This one is a picture of me with one of my clients, Evernham Motorsports— NASCAR, at their office in raral North Carolina.

Eric Reinhold with the #9 Bill Elliot car Our one and only input of the month comes from Ron Wince (Rwince@aol.com).

It's been about ten years since I sent an update so (like others) it's time to get off my duff and send an update. First of all, tertific job by you with the Class updates. It's good to hear about what Classmates are up to. For my personal update, I remain martied to Stacy (yes, she puts up with me but can't figure out why they don't have deployments in the civilian world) whom 1 married following graduation.

It's hard to believe that it is going to be 14 years in 2002. We have two fantastic boys, Tyler (10), and Connor (7). We spend most of our time at sporting events on the weekends and try to travel, ski, etc. My career has been one fortunate experience after another. I hit civlant and went into manufactaring, eventually working my way up to a general manager position and then into internal consulting roles for turnaround acquisitions. Then joined a small boutique firm in

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North Carolina as an external consultant focused on operational improvement and sttategic planning and execution. After two years in Raleigh we were asked to head west to start up a westem region office and have now landed in Phoenix, AZ. The entrepreneurial itch hit me last year and I left my former firm to start a tumaround management firm in Phoenix. We are also in the middle of forming a holding company focused on acquisition and tumaround of disttessed companies. So life is pretty interesting here. I have to be honest and say I've been terrible about keeping up with my former Classmates. I have kept in sporadic contact with Jim "Yeeman" Yee and, as you would expect, he is doing fantastic. He lives in Virginia, is a consultant for a DoD firm, and has a fantastic wife and a boatload of kids. I have also kept in touch with Tim Salmon. He spent some time flying former President Clinton around and has since reported staff duty. He is doing well also and loving the Marine Corps life. I believe he is waiting to start training to fly the Osprey. Well, that's about it. A short note for a ten-year absence but at least it will fill a paragraph for you. If any '88ers are in or around the Phoenix area, you should give me a call. I'd love to take you on in a round of golf or catch up on some old times. I look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming reunion.

Thanks Ron, for your update, as well as the information about Jim and Tim. Until next month! —Eric

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Pres: Ingar Grev 2721 Summers Ridge Drive Odenton,MD 21113-1589 h: 410-695-0747; w; 703-872-4027 f: 419-818-7319; e; igrev@bwwonline.net Corr. Sec'y; Margaret Raybum 605 S. Oakland St., St. Johns, MI 48879 h; 989-227-2503; f; 425-871-2697 e; mlmr89@hotmail.com or mlrl @yahoo.com Listserv; USNA89@mde.com Listserv subscription; send email to usna89-request@mde.com, in body of message write; subscribe Webmaster; Tony Newpower e: newps@sprintmail.com Hello again—another short input for '89 this time. It's pretty quiet out there, but I know you're there! I have to count on one Classmate to carry us again this month...and that input was in response to my "Where are they now" call a few months back looking to hear from Jen (Jaunsen) Davis (jjaunsen@netzero.net). She emailed me with a quick update that she is doing well, working in an engineering field and raising her son, Elijah, who is now three years old and the light of his mom's hfe! Jen would love to reconnect with some of her USNA buds since she has lost contact over the years, so she wanted me to pass along her email address. Give Jen a yell!

Unfortunately, that's all I have to share this time.. .As always, take care, '89—and once again I will make my standard plea—write me please!

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Pres; Jonathan Salkoff Corr. Sec'y; Major Carter Honesty 2625 N. Hwy 360, Apt. 926, Grand Prairie, TX 75050 h: 817-371-2694; w; 817-280-4481; e: clhonest@aol.com; chonesty@bellhelicoptertextton.com Webmaster: Ron SuriSeld e; rsurfield@nettail.net Class web site: www.usna90.org Hello, Classmates! I hope 2002 is treating everyone well. Let me start with an update from Mike Warner (mwamer90@earthlink.net): Elizabeth and I are doing well in Terte Haute, IN. Who would have thought a Florida giri and a Tennessee boy would end up in Indiana—but nothing is permanent. Our daughter, MacKenzie, is going to be three in March. I am having a lot of fun living with two redheads.

Of course, it is good that two in the family have hair. Elizabeth is staying at home with MacKenzie—being mommy is a full-time job and then some. Curtently, I am the telecommunications manager for my company and I am really enjoying life in the information systems world. We keep in touch with Mike Gordon. He and Michelle are expecting a baby in the spring of 2002. Mike is working for Dell in Austin, TX. Speaking of babies, Lynne (Chapman) Mandell and her husband, Rob, had a boy back in the fall of 2001. Mike Monaco is still working in the consultant world for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Hard to believe we have been out of school for 12 years! Where does the time go? Anyone I have been out of touch with, please drop me a line at my email address. 35th Company, are you out there? All the best to those of us who are still standing the watches and guarding the walls—thanks for keeping our families safe and defending our way of life!

Thanks for the note, Mike and "Welcome aboard, MacKenzie!" Next, I received a note from Jim Maher: I've been living in Port Hueneme, CA, for the last two years. Off active duty since January '00, but doing Reserve at NAS Point Mugu, now Naval Base Ventura County. Married for five-plus years to Gillian. One son, David, now 21 months. Loving life! Training curtently underway for child number two. Just switched jobs from Shell Solar as manager-supervisor to Comair/Delta Connection as first officer on Canadair regional jet. Rotary wings are being retired. My wife and I want to pass on greetings to a few folks; Eric "Lou" Pihl "nella" (thanks for golf and recent night out in San Diego), Pete "Eges" Egan (can't believe you wrote in!), Rob Jardeleza (where are you?), and those who were in Annapolis for Zig's (Allan Ziegler) ceremony who I haven't spoken to in a while—Mark Deets, Brian Cavanaugh, Steve Williams, John Donnelly.

Jenny and Scott Davids, John Calvert, and Jim Bartelloni. All the best.

Thanks for the update, Jim. Congratulations to you on your new career Fly safely! And, "Welcome aboard, David!"

I also received a link to a USNA Alumni Association article about Wes Smith. Wes is currently serving at the 27th Company Officer and upon his arrival to USNA stumbled upon

a pile of old guidon flags that were headed for the dumpster Wes and his Midshipmen secured the guidons and presented them to the Alumni Association where they will be made available for Alumni functions. Job well done, Wes! What else are you up to?

LCDR Wes Smith '90 donating guidon flags Now, for those of you who are members of the Yahoo email group (I'll address that later), you know that in early February I made a trip to Quantico, VA to attend the promotion of a fellow Marine to CWO—5. Since I was going to be in the Northem Virginia/DC area, I proposed (via the Yahoo email group.. .hint!) an informal gathering of the Class of 1990 in Old Town Alexandria on 2 Febraary. So, the rest of this month's column centers around that trip or emails from folks sending their regards for not being able to attend. My first stop was Tysons Comer, VA, where I finally (after eight long years) got a chance to meet up with J e r r y Wallace (OvrNt2U@aol.com). Jerry was on a layover for FedEx. He left the Navy (Pt. Mugu) in April and relocated to Memphis, TN for training. He is presently a flight engineer on DC-lOs. Jerry can be reached at the email above. Jerry, next time remind me to take a picture. I can't beUeve I forgot!

Next, I headed down to Quantico for my buddy's promotion ceremony. It was pretty neat to see Rick pin on CWO-5 as his son, MIDN 1/C Anthony TViviso '02 (service selected USMCGround), stood close by. Also in the Officer's Club that afternoon were Brian Cavanaugh, Mark Deets, and Dave McCord '89...who all fly for HMX-1. Brian and Mark can't believe they stayed out of the pages of Shipmate for 12 years and now they've been mentioned and photographed twice in six months. Hey guys, I'mjust doing my job. Mark and I ran into each other a few months ago in Fort Worth at the Rotary Wing Aviation Operational Advisory Group (OAG) meeting. We had a nice chat about what it is like flying the President and all the unique rales for the Washington, DC, airspace. He said it is quite a surreal experience landing on die lawn of the White House. Fly safely Marines and keep in touch!

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Happ.N lioLii ai the Quantico O'Club The gathering in Old Town took place at Portner's Restaurant, a nice place recommended

by Jonathan Salkoff, although he couldn't make it because he had "Daddy Duty" with Eleanor Attendees included Natalie (3) and a very pregnant Linda (Slootmaker) Jarusewski, Pete and a "not-as-pregnant-as-Linda" Barb (Rapson) Bierden, Michelle Vanexel, Harold Katz, Lara and Tim Feldhausen. and Mike Bernhard.

Linda Jarusewski did not stay very long as Natalie was being quite rambunctious and the baby was due in a few weeks. She is still working at the Pentagon. Linda, please let us know when the next member of the Class arrives! Barb Bierden is due with number two in July. She left the Navy in '96 to work for an environmental consulting firm and at General Electric until the arrival of Meghan (3) in 1999. Barb, same thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;please let us know when the next member of the Class arrives! Send pictures! Michelle Vanexel is finally getting settled at the Pentagon and seems to enjoy her work in J-2 (Intel). Tim Feldhausen left the Navy in '97 finishing up as an insttuctor at USNA. He promptly reported to George Washington University Law School graduating in May ' 0 1 . Lara is a lieutenant (MSC) at Bethesda and is planning on leaving the Navy in June. They have been married for five years. Congratulations to both of you! Mike Bernhard is now out of the Navy and working in Supply Chain Management in the Baltimore area.

Finally Harold Katz (hpk90@hotmail.com or hkatz@anteon.com) provided the following: I have been out for about a year now. I am now working for Anteon Corporation in Crystal City supporting the Aegis LEAP Intercept Project which is part of the Missile Defense Agency's Seabase Midcourse Defense Element. (The name changes every few days to protect the guilty and confuse the innocent).

We just had the first successful intercept test of the SM-3 missile launched from LAKE ERIE (CG-70)offofKauai, HI. My last tour was as operations officer on GARY in Yokosuka, Japan. When I left there, several Classmates were there: Pete Smith at the METOC Center; Mai Sandie at CARGRU 5, and Renee (Rasera) Comett at Naval Forces Japan (I think). I have no idea if they are still Shipmate, April 2002

now on one of the Desron Staffs there. I am more certain of the following: Debbie Courtney is Cheng on RADFORD in Norfolk; Raoul Gandara is the combat systems officer at Desron 18, and just retumed from deployment.

He is tiiere with his wife. Kathleen, and their two sons; Mike Kostiuk also is in Norfolk with his family. Mike is working as one of the examiners on the ORSE board. (1 think.) He just screened for XO. Congrats! Michelle and Dave Bradley are wrapping up a tour in Ingleside where Dave is XO of CHIEF, one of the minesweepers there. They are off to Pearl Harbor this summer where Dave is going to be on the CincPacFlt staff. 1 am coming to visit you guys twice this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you have been warned! In the DC area, I occasionally see Chuck Good who is working at OpNav N71 (Missile Defense).

Tom Workman was here in the office recently, but 1 am not sure what he is up to. Tim Feldhausen is out now and working for Keller and Heckman, a law firm in DC. He lives in Bowie with his wife, Lara, and two very active dogs.

Last, but not least, belated Congrats to Kristin and Dave Bryson on the birth of theirfirstson, Andrew. He was born in June 2001. They are in Ridgefield, CT. The door is always open in DC or in Crystal City (CP-3 Second Floor), so if you are in town, drop by.

Thanks for the update Harold, and congratulations to Kristin and Dave Bryson. "Welcome aboard, Andrew!"

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That's all I have from the gathering. It was great seeing everyone and I encourage the rest of you to do it more often and send emails and pictures. You never know who will show up! In response to the invitation I sent out, I received a couple of emails from folks who could not attend.

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mentioned she had seen you in the not-too-distant past. Don't know if you sent your invite to Ed Devinney, but he works in the office with Annual Membership: 1 % me. Tom Workman, too, although he is in a Life Membership: 97% different OpNav directorate. There are a numPres; LT Richard Brophy, USN ber of folks in the area—Ed gets us together Sec'y; LT John DeVine, USN from time to time. Some folks I've seen fairly 1701 Tyler Green Drive, Smyrna, GA 30080 recently include Joe Kirby, Aimee Hodges, e: ljdevine@bellsouth.net Rob Musseman, and Harold Katz. Anyway, that's all the news from Chuckville.

Chuck, thanks for writing and sorry we missed you at the gathering. Martin Culbreth could not attend due to out of town guests. Mike Junge was supposed to show up. What happened, Mike?

Life Membership: 99% Marcelo Perez sent his regards from Brazil. I asked him for a bit more info on what he's up Pres: LT Scott Hottenstein, USN to, but haven't heard back from him, yet. I also Sec'y; Robert Pothier received an email from Jeff Hickox: 63 Ashland St., Apt. #2, Medford, MA 02155 Wish I could be there, but we're working on e; rbpothier@yahoo.com our second beer day here in JOHN C. STENNIS Class Web site: www.usna92.com battle group. The guys on TEDDY ROOSEVELT (TR) win eam their third beer day on 1 Febmary.

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Life Membership: 96% Scott MacDonald also wrote in from underway on VELLA-GULF. He too wrote about how Pres; LT Matt Amy, USN incredible the U.S. Navy is that we can support VP/Treas; LT Matt Arnold, USN a ship of that size (TR) for so many consecutive Treas; LT Efren Mojica, USN days without hitting a port. It traly is an impres- Sec'y; LT Jim Mills, USN sive task and a testament to the coordination and Corr. Sec'y; Capt Shogo Cottrell, USMCR skills of all the logisticians (shameless plug) out 4166 San Ysidro Way, Rockledge, FL 32955 there. Someone in the Class has to be involved h: 321-636-2649; e; shipmate@usna93.com in that support-supply effort...how about writI hope that this month finds everyone well. I ing in? It has been quite some time since I last don't liave any Class business to report, so I'll saw Scotty and our other roommate. Art Gibb.

We are planning on gathering for the first time go right into this month's updates. Scott in almost ten years at Art's timeshare at Snow- Overbeck announces that his wife, Catherine, gave birth to a baby boy last August named bird, UT, in March for some late season action.

Now, let me address the Class of 1990 Yahoo Cameron Joseph. Cameron is their second child.

Group. If you are not a member I highly encour- Congratulations! Scott is still working for age you to join. How do you do it? It's easy. First Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals in South Jersey of all, get a Yahoo! account (it's/ree...just do as a process manager Tim Crawford wrote in that he is trying to it). Once you have your Yahoo! account, go to the search window and type in "Groups." You reach some of his fellow 29th Company Classwdl see a header for "Inside Yahoo! Matches" mates and wrote a newsletter as part of that efand a link to "create or join a Group." Click on fort. He graciously sent it on to me for inclusion that link and follow the instractions. Our group into this month's article. (Tim, I've edited your is titled "USNA90." Currendy, there are 470 newsletter somewhat to match the format for the members, which equates to roughly half of the column. Hope that you don't mind!)

Class. Finally, I'll make another plea for subAs I am sure that your life has been incredibly busy, so has Mark McGinnis'. He spent a missions. Every month I send out an email (via year as a grad assistant with Coach Chaump the Yahoo Group) requesting input. I really and while coaching he met a little cheerleader should not have to do that. The only way this from the University of Texas named Holly. column will remain successful is if all of you Mark, never one to resist a pretty face, married willingly submit info. It only takes a minute to her in Febmary '95. write a few words about what is going on in your As he selected the Marine Corps out of the lives. If you are waiting for someone else in the Academy, Mark then went to TBS only to be Class to write in about you, I can tell you that assigned the illustrious duties of an aircraft it's probably not going to happen. Sometimes you maintenance officer at Camp Lejeune. Feeling just have to blow your own hom. For this month, that his true calling was not in spare parts, afthe only emails I received without asking were ter one year in the FMF Mark decided that he from Mike Wamer Jim Maher, and the link to needed a change of scenery, so he called ADM Wes Smith's article. As members of the Class of Joseph Prueher '64, CinCPac at the time, and 1990, let's try and improve upon keeping the got an inter-service transfer to the Navy and went to BUD/S. After BUD/S he went to Class informed about what's going on. OtherSEAL Team Five and did two deployments. wise, blank pages loom in the future. Take care He is curtentiy with SEAL Team Four. Having and Semper Fi!—Carter just finished up his last deployment, he is now ShIPo until May when he gets out. Any job leads?

He and Holly had a little giri, Reagan Kenna, who was born on 22 December 2000, three days before he deployed for seven months. In his words, "That sucked!" Needless to say, that was

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Cory Culver is in his seventh of eight quarters in the operations analysis curriculum at Monterey. In case you were wondering, he tells me that Ops analysis is like applied math—lots of probs and stats.

He also says he ran into Steve Roberto out in Monterey for the test pilot co-op getting his good deal aero degree spending most of his time on the golf course! Ah, to be smart...

On a brighter note, Cory graduates in March and then heads to Norfolk for his disassociated sea tour on NASSAU (LHA-4). If anyone is in Norfolk, give him the gouge on where to live as he's been a west coast guy and doesn't know anything about Norfolk. As a LAMPS pilot he expects to end up in Jacksonville after Norfolk.

Cory's big news is the addition of his son, Jackson Gabriel. Jackson was bom on 29 May this last spring at the hospital in Monterey. He advises that if any of you are out there with your wives and want (more?) kids, the Monterey hospital is about as close to a resort for your wife as it gets.

Jackson Gabriel was a pretty big kid according to confirmed sources—8 pounds, 6 ounces, and is still enormous for his age. What a trooper! Whatever you do, don't send them a gift—he has more clothes and toys than they can store. Kristen was working at the Navy Federal-Monterey, but left work to stay home with Jackson. Cory's anxious to see what everybody else is doing.

Dave Morgan has been stationed in Cold Lake, Canada for a year and a half now with at least another year to go. In case you didn't know, Dave reports tiiat -40 F is the same as -40 Celsius. "Just freakin' cold!" in his words.

Other than the bitter cold, he says life is good.

He rents a house with nothing behind it but trails that lead to the North Pole. There's a hot tub on the deck to view the northem lights.

Geese, deer, and bear are at his doorstep.

He's pleased as the Canadians give him plenty of time to hunt and fish and theflyingis ok. He's in a training squadron.

Janie (his wife of one year) and Dave were married in Lemoore, CA, (where he was stationed with VFA-97) after dating for three years.

Steve "Spock" Himelspach and Jean came cross-country for the wedding, along with many squadronmates, and a few Hornet guys from Canada.

Janie is from Kansas and was going to school in Fresno studying speech pathology when they met. Dave wonders about her ability to suceed as a speech pathologist, as she has not yet been able to rid him of his redneck accent.

On a side note. Marc Drobny was in his sister squadron there. (Where is Marc now?) Dave says it was a good tour but he is glad to be out of the California valley.

Dave's looking forward to seeing what the boys from 29 have been up to as he feels he's been out of the loop for quite some time.

We're sorry that we had to move from the Kansas City area, particularly when good friend and fellow Classmate Efren Mojica moved into town. I must thank Efren for putting me in touch with his vice president at Sprint who brought me in for an interview and subsequently gave me a job offer Unfortunately, I had to make a choice from several offers and had to turn down Sprint.

It would've been fun working with you Efren, perhaps sometime again in the future! Anyway, Efren sent in an update about his wild ride:

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Hello to all from Overiand Park, KS! I think tiie last time 1 wrote, 1 was still at USNA. Since leaving USNA shore tour in January 2000, I have been out in the corporate world and already went through one Chapter 11 and one huge layoft". Prior to Kansas I was in Pittsburgh, PA, working for a division of the Montgomery Ward retailer as their regional operations guy.

When Wards went under, we went under two months later. Back on the job hunt a short one year later, 1 ended up taking a position with Sprint in their Broadband Local Networks (BLN) division working on Sprint's Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) initiative. I've never found a better group of people and executives to work for. The vice president is a big proponent of JMO's so that made it better. As a matter of fact, since me, there have been six other JMO's hired (one USCGA, two ROTC, and three Woops.. .one was a '93 guy so he's partially okay in my book).

As many know, having that mihtary commonality is great and it has been a great experience working with and becoming good friends with these people. Unfortunately. Sprint had a major lay off back in October-November with more than 3000 people being let go. On the bright side, all the JMO's got placed (myself included) but one West Pointer took another position with GE Power. So now I'm working for Sprint's Technology Services Integration Management continuing to work on the MAN initiative. Overland Park is truly a great city.

The stories of cows and com everywhere aren't tme...but there is a lot of BBQ. tennis, and shopping! Other USNA Alumni here are Winston Jimenez '93 and Matt Hermstedt '89. I've heard there's more but I haven't mn into them...there are more West Pointers here that you'd believe. Anyway, I hope everyone's doing well. Sonia and Avery are doing well (Avery's 3-1/2 now) and looking forward to the holidays. Hopefully I'll get new pictures on the Mojica web page before 1 January. Until next time, stay safe.

Efren, thanks for sending in the update. Keep them Woops in line, okay? Next up is Matt Testerman who is finishing up his tour back at the Yard.

My retum engagement at the Naval Academy is rapidly coming to a close. With a tear in my eye, I graded my last American Govemment fmal and entered the grades into the computer. (Does anyone remember the *** programs?) This has been an amazing 2-1/2 years. Teaching was great.

Max time with family was even better. A week after I showed up in 1999, Jenn gave birth to our fust son. Dean. And just as we're getting ready to leave, our second son, Henry, has artived. (A picture of the family at the ArmyNavy game is attached.) I'm on my way to

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Before I hit send on this letter, 1 want to let you know that the Academy continues to attract, develop, and graduate some amazing folks. They may not have as hard a Plebe Summer, they may not get yelled at in King Hall, and they certainly get more Christmas leave than we did, but the standards remain high. The Brigade's reaction to the events of 11 September, and the ensuing military campaign, reminds me of the mood in the Hall when we were Mids during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Thanks for the update and photo. Matt. I received the following photo from Heather Osbome, John Osborne's wife, that was taken over the bohdays.

Heather says that the good looking Marines and famihes are (from left to right): CAPT John Osbome Jr and his boys James and Shane; CAPT James Erwin with his children Andrew, Catherine, and Gray; CAPT Walter Lee with his son, Owen; and CAPT Monte Tenkley and his children, Madison and Mason.

Will Oliver, and his wife, Marsha, recently enjoyed the birth of their new daughter, Elizabeth Sloane. Will is currently an instructor pilot and LSO for VT-9 in Meridian, MS. I sincerely apologize for not having an entry in the last issue of Shipmateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;definitely no excuse on my part. This article contains three months worth of submissions. Until next time â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shogo

ABRAHAM LINCOLN for a TAO tour.

A couple of other Classmates are staying past their initial aviation obligation. Ken Ferguson is set to deploy with GEORGE W. Mike Farten is retuming to Rota, Spain, for a super JO tour with VQ-2. Mark Holzrichter is moving down to Crofton, MD, to start work at the Pentagon.

At the Army-Navy game, I ran into Rob Atha. Possibly the best four engine pilot in the Navy, he's going through the refresher syllabus at VP-30 before reporting to a squadron in Bmnswick, ME. 1 also sat across from Kirstin Krawczyk who is finishing up a master's degree at Georgetown. When she's not studying you can find Kir walking the playing fields in her physical education department uniform, working hard to keep the turf green and the

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34 Turner Rd., Nimitz Hill, Asan, GU 96910 h; 671-477-5115; w; 671-344-9461 e; Jkeck@usna94.com Web page; http;//www.usna94.com Hello, '94! Thanks for checking back in to catch up on what's happening with your Classmates. I'll start off with a first timer: J.P. McDonough wrote in on 1 Febraary with the following summary: This is my first submission to Shipmate, but thought I would take a shot at it. I just got back aboard WHIDBEY ISLAND (LSD-41). I am the

battery commander for Kilo Battery, BLT 3/6, 26th MEU. We just completed operations in Afghanistan in support of Enduring Freedom.

I had the huge privilege of leading the security detachment, which raised the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. It was quite an experience.

Upon completion of the mission I tumed it over to CAPT Ferrell Sullivan '93. My battery then headed down to Kandahar International Airport and we linked up with the rest of the BLT. Doug Glover '94, a fellow Third Company Alum, is a forward air controller in the BLT. There are several other Academy types on the BLT staff to include the operations officer: CAPT Dan Greenwood '92, the air officer: CAPT Chuck "Dingle" Berry '93, the logistics officer: Capt Brian Burns '97, and the other FAC; Capt David Law '95. The whole operation went very well, and we were all glad to do our part in the fight against terrorism. We can't wait to get home. I hope to make it for my youngest son, Keegan's first birthday on 22 March, but we'll see. Attached is a picture (see next page) of me on the front steps of the Embassy in Kabul Afghanistan with my Comm Chief: SSgt Eatmon (left) and Battery Gunny: GySgt Schmidt (right).

Good to hear from you, J.P. Our prayers are with you as well as everybody else who is protecting our freedom there in Afghanistan.

I heard from Tristan Rizzi (Destn2trvl (Saol.com) in the middle of January. He just returned from a SocPac deployment with the SEALs, and is getting ready to head out the door again. If any '94's are in Japan, feel free to drop him a note. Joanna Walters also checked in to let us all know she and her family have leveled off at a new altitudeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;8,000 feet to be exact.

They've settled in their new home in Golden, CO, after an exhausting moving-in process. If you're looking to make contact, you can check out their new info on the Class list. I also got a small note from Kevin Glathar where he is in the Marine Corps motherland going through the Amphibious Warfare School. By September he plans to be in New River Air Station, NC, with his wife, Mel, and their two beautiful girls, Hannah (6) and Samantha (3).

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The next two letters deal with the loss of the crew of the KC-130 in the support of Endtuing Freedom on 9 January. The first is from Mike Balow: It is with deep sortow that I must report the death of Matt Bancroft (Seventh Company).

Matt and six of his fellow Marines died on 9 January after their plane crashed into a mountainside in southwestern Pakistan. The complete details of the crash are not yet known, as the mishap investigation has not been completed yet. The KC-130 was on approach to Shamsi airfield when it went down. It was to be the first stop of a multi-stop mission. Matt was a true friend to all and will be sorely missed. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen, stepsons, Sean (13) and Christian (12), daughter, Maddie (10 months), parents. Bob and Beverly Bancroft, and sister, Sarah. The funeral services and burial were held in Monterey, CA, on 1 February with full military honors. Matt, also known as "Bumey" (after his hometown in northem California near Mt. Shasta), was excited about going overseas and making a contribution to the war on tertorism. He was sad that he missed Maddie's first Christmas, but as he told everyone before he left, it was just something he knew he had to do. Matt's career after USNA took him to Quantico, flight school, and then ultimately to VMGR-352 (the Raiders) at MCAS Miramar. He loved flying and was a damn good Marine, despite his Bancroft Hall antics. And yes, he is a descendant of that George Bancroft. Funny thing is, he didn't realize it until he reported for 1-Day back in 1990. Anyone who knew him knows that he is tmly irteplaceable. Beneath all the pranks and smart remarks was a heart of gold, loyal to his friends to the end. He martied Mary Ellen in October 1999. In the short time that they were married, he showed that he was a devoted husband and father, a tme family man.

Heaven is now a better and more interesting place now that he's there. Rest in peace, brother.

We'll miss you.

For more information, including how to contribute to a scholarship fund for Maddie, please see the following web sites: usna94.com (message board) and usna.com (war on tertorism memorial link).

Chris Baker wrote a moving account of the memorial ceremony for Matt's crew held at MCAS Miramar in January; There were about 2,000 people in attendance, to include all the major broadcast news affiliates. The theater probably held just over 1,000 people, I was lucky and got one of the last seats available inside. The unlucky ones sat outside in tents, and watched the service on TV screens.

The back of the stage was draped with a gigantic American flag, and a PowerPoint slideshow was cycling through pictures of the Marines and their families. As soon as 1 saw the first picture of Matt and his wife, 1 broke. I had a picture with me of Matt. Kyle, and I taste testing some fine tequila during Youngster Year; I wasn't ready to see the family shots.

After the families were escorted inside, the chaplains gave their opening words, and we sang "Amazing Grace." Two readings followed, and then the commanding officers spoke. Matt's CO had a hard time getting through his piece. The eulogies that followed were delivered by a friend of each of the crew members; Kent Kroeker spoke first about Matt. He did Matt proud. Kent talked about Matt's devotion, his kindhearted nature, his smile.. .the part that resonates the most for me was when he described Matt explaining to his

kids why he volunteered to go to Afghanistan. He told them "it's your freedom I have to protect."

After the remaining eulogies (a mix of humorous stories and very sad remembrances), the CO delivered the colors to each family. He did this with poise, but I couldn't help thinking how absolutely miserable he must've felt at that moment. Immediately following the last flag, a firing detail let loose three volleys, and dueling buglers exchanging "Taps." One of the mothers in the front row whaled. We ended by singing "Eternal Father"...and then we all watched as the families were escorted out of the building.

What I was least prepared to see awaited across the street in a grassy strip immediately outside. There, in a perfect row, were seven M-16s buried bayonet first, straight up in the ground; on the top of each was an IC helmet, and beside each weapon were a pair of combat boots. I never thought I would see a friend represented by this marker. It was stunning.

God bless you. I hope this email finds everyone well. I hate to admit that it took the death of a Classmate for me to try re-establishing contact with friends, but losing Matt has made me realize that we used to be 18...now we're at 27.

Thank you, Chris, for that moving account for those of us who couldn't be there. Chris also wrote to let us know that the VMGR-352 Raiders memorial fund was advertised for donations to assist the family members of the deceased.

Checks payable to (VMGR-352 Raiders Memorial Fund) should be mailed to: Marine Aerial Refueler Transport, Squadron 352, MAG 11, 3rd MAW, MarForPac, PO Box 452046, San Diego, CA 92145-2046.

If anyone wants to get a hold of Chris, you can find his contact info on the Class list at usna94.com. After getting married in May (to "the most fantastic woman alive"), he left active duty in September and is in his first year at University of California-Los Angeles School of Law. On a different note, the Class web site has undergone a major facelift. In addition to a different look, new features have been added to complement existing options. Security is a major emphasis of the new re-design. Your privacy is important, and these updates have this idea in mind. So please take a moment to check it out and let me know of any suggestions or comments you might have to make it better Before we close, here's a ran down of Classmates who have recently added or changed their information on the Class List since December: Adam Kinnear, Sean Kranick, Andy Van Slyke, Joe Buss, Frank Bronson, Paul Algoso, Maxwell Luter Jason Walker Brian White, Erik Jilson, Kendra Herber (Chapped), Ashley Steele, Brian Metcalf, Mark Palmquist, Don Chudzik, Scott Beltz, Grant Goodrich, Laura Herath, Ryan Murphy, Ryan Carron, Chad Hixson, Anthony Roach, Kimberley (Cowling) Jordan, Scott Lazenby, Jimmy Screen, Christopher Claiborne, Kyle Colton, Chris Bradner, Jason Walker, Tremayne C r i n e r Robert Dudley, Michael Gardner Mike Bruneau, Marc Boran, Elliot Avidan, Andrew Eanniello, Garth Devries, Tracy Clark, Kimberiy (Hurd) Robertson, Michael Hede, Sinclair Smith, Michael Kim, Amy (Hughes) Cleary, Mark Eariy, Sarah Grouse, John Maurer Douglas Bird, Robert Wittmaack,

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Marc Boran, Laura Boran, Patrick Greene, Dan Clevenger David Smith, James Harrell, Jon Sweeten, Tristan Rizzi, Ben Buring, Raissa Wilson, Michelle (Montgomery) Pettit, James Pettit,Shawn Cunningham, Jimmy Bishop, Patti (Nichols) Moyer Eddy Ha, Patrick Turner Chris Williams, Christopher Baker Jennifer Ogilvie, Kevin Glathar, Michael and Heather (Keane) Graham, David Greenwood, Sean Whitiatch, Scott Patterson, John Salmon, Greg Foster Jason Peek, Phil Windust, Joe Nefflen, Michael Perez, Tom Lazo, John Kochendorfer Paul Davis, Anthony "T.J." Staffieri, Jason Frei, Kimberly Uhde, Chad Sweazey, Roland DeGuzman, Stephanie Kogler David Fagen, Jay Schultz, and Mike Makela.

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Have a blessed spring, '94.1 look forward to hearing from you as we celebrate the eighth anniversary of our graduation. Take care and God bless. C-ya... —Jim

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Well it is time for another column. Don't forget to keep those emails coming. Got a couple good ones for you guys this time. Let's get right to it. Mike Davies (mikeski207(® aol.com) sends another input regarding the big game: Hey fellow '95ers, just wanted to let you know that although the Army-Navy game was not on par with prior clashings, we had a great time tailgating before and after the "main event." A huge gathering of '95ers (plus or minus five) were on hand to mingle and be merry. It was great seeing many familiar faces in the crowd, including Bill Coleman, who is a NROTC instmctor down at North Carolina State; Jeff Webb, who is at the University of Virginia working on his M.B.A. (got to meet his wife for the first time, too); Gary Sullivan (and his wife, Carrie), who just recendy got out of the Navy, but is staying in the area; Grayson Morgan (and his wife, Cyndi), who also recently got out of the Navy and is pursuing his endeavors at NSA; Greg Jones, who also recently got out of the Navy and his working out in Virginia with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, putting his M.B.A. degree to practice in consulting; and Dale Heinken (and his wife, Amanda), who is the deputy director of ProDev, here at Canoe U. With Dale in the "hot seat," ProDev Division is on turbo-drive!

Among the others I bumped into were myself (Mike Davies), my wife. Amy Jo, and my mother-in-law; Paul Judge and his wife, Liz; Senul Ramchand and his wife, Michelle; Adam Tight, who rolled in the night before with a huge RV fully loaded with "the house;" our Class President John Fleet, who stays ever so busy working on the staff for Senator John McCain '58; Blair Keithley, who is in the LEAD program and on deck to be a company officer; and Rich Cochrane, who is assigned to the physical education dept. Forgive me for not naming more, buttiiehst could go on endlessly, as there were many familiar faces in attendance...

With the help of my Three Amigos—Dale, Grayson, and Greg, we hosted a series of successful '95 tailgaters this season, culminating in the overwhelming Army-Navy gathering.

Having the Class of '95 blimp has helped reveal our "Ten-Twenty" to everyone. In addition, we have to thank John Fleet for getting us Lot 15 at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, as it was prime real estate, especially being right next to the highly visible '53 Pavilion scoreboard. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Duffy were always providing us with surplus food and "beverages," as they and the Class of '50 were our lot "neighbors." I am heading up to Newport, RI, for department head school in August '02, so am hoping to be able to turnover the duties to someone who may be interested. It's a lot of fun and very appreciated, so contact me if you "wanna get some...tailgating spirit."

Let's see, I guess it's time to wrap this up, since my Christmas leave starts in a few more

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hours and I need to pack for a road trip down south with my wife.

Well. Amy Jo and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Beat Army', (next year...?)

Army-Navy tailgate Yes, thanks to Mike for the column and thanks to Mike and all those putting together these wonderful tailgaters. Next up is Scott Stringer (sjstringer@yahoo.com or sjstringer@juno.com or stringersa@navairnavy.mil, (this one will get checked most often for now)), from Test Pilot School.

TTiis is probably the first many of you have heard from us in a while. Indeed, it seemed we might have dropped off the face of the earth.

But alas no. we're just here in Southem Maryland! Here is the Cliff's Notes version of how we got here; 1 applied and was accepted to the Navy's Test Pilot School back in August of last year. I quickly headed off to Corpus Christi, TX, for six weeks of multi-engine fixed wing training (to prepare for the multitude of aircraft I would be flying at TPS). I retumed home just before TTianksgiving, in time to supervise the pack-up of all our belongings and to start our six week "on the road" saga. We lived with numerous friends and family {Thank you. all, by the way!) between Thanksgiving and Christmas. On the 26th, we loaded up all six of us (Janell, me, Katelynn (now almost 4), Emily (20 months), and Eli and Abbey (our golden redievers)) in the mini van and headed east. It was sti3ightoulof National Lampoon's Vacation. Day 1: Ran out of gas in Arizona. Day 2: Speeding ticket in New Mexico. Day 4: Stayed an extra night in AR (that's Arkansas I think) because Janell got so sick she couldn't get out of bed.

Not to mention the fact that Katelynn also lost her dinner that night. Day 6: Emily pooped all over the already nasty motel room in Virginia.

We artived in Maryland just in time for me to catch the stomach bug that had followed us all the way from California. And then it snowed eight inches.

Janell is just now getting over the flu she caught two weeks ago. Needless to say, it's been a rough transition. So much for the Cliffs Notes version. Anyway, here's how to get hold of us for the next few months (we are living in a two bedroom apartment on a short lease while we wait to get in to base housing or find a better place out in town).

Home address; 43686 St. John's Rd. #3, Hollywood, MD 20636; mailing address; PO Box 406, Patuxent River, MD 20670 (this address will be more permanent that the apartment); 301-373-3427; c; 301-351-1656; w: 301-757-8688.

Despite the seemingly negative tone of the above paragraph, we are starting to enjoy it here. They have a Target, a JoAnne's Fabrics, and a Taco Bell, so I think we're going to survive. The girls are doing great despite our best efforts to completely uproot their world. We are trying to find a home church and Janell is looking forward to getting to know the other TPS "widows." I guess I shouldn't joke with that term, considering the nature of the business, but we aren't home/available much this year, and safety plays a huge role in the dayto-day operations of the squadron. Well, if you're ever out our way (about an hour south of DC and Annapolis), please give us a call.

We don't have room for overnighters yet, but we'd love to see familiar faces!

Well, Scott, it sounds like you have yovu" work cut out for you. Best of luck.

Web site update from Steve Shedd (slshedd @ earthlink.net): Hey everyone! The new Class web site is finally online at www.usna95.com! And it's definitely cool! The site includes a public access area for friends and family and private access area for members of the Class. The private area includes the "Class Directory," "Message Fomm," and a chat room. The public area includes a Shipmate section, "'95 Memorial Hall," Reef Points, and a "Useful links" section. In order to access the private area, members of the Class must first register at the site. Simply click the "New User..." button on the homepage and follow the instmctions. That's all!

Information privacy needs to be addressed at this point. Your account on the web site includes a personal profile. The collection of personal profiles make up the information in the Class Directory and a profile is viewable by any member of the Class of '95. The purpose of the Class Directory is to provide a private, secure, one-stop source to find out what our shipmates are up to. The profile includes your email, curtent duty station, mailing address, etc. There are a few mandatory items of information in the profile, but the majority of the fields are optional. Two of the mandatory items are your email address and mailing address. These two bits of information are extremely important to Class communication.

Here's the bottom line: No information will be given to outside groups or individuals. Additionally, your profile includes privacy settings to prevent other Classmates from seeing specific items such as your mailing address. I hope that no one gets too uptight about the Class Directory and privacy issues. The authentication process (logon and password) will prevent commercial groups from accessing personal information. So, any threat to privacy comes from within our own ranks. However, any Classmate who is found to violate our privacy policy will lose their web site privileges.

There are big plans for additional site features including a photo gallery, an event calendar, a "Classmate in the news" archive, an electronic Lucky Bag and a "Kid's Comer" to give our young ones some fun. The goal is to make our web site as interactive as possible so you can directly upload pictures, chat, submit a fomm message, or post an event to the event calendar. However, here comes the pitch.... in order to make these features possible I really need some help!

I'd like to expand the "95 web development team by at least four or five people. Right now it's just me! I need help in all areas. I need one or two people to simply help in maintaining the site content like news articles, etc. If you have an interest in graphics or Flash applications, I could really use your help in making the site more visually appealing. If you would like to do some web development using Active Server Pages (ASP). HTML, and JavaScript, you could be a big help as well.

Finally, if you would like to dive into the deep end.. .and I mean the really deep end, I want to establish an assistant webmaster so things like deployments and other schedule conflicts won't grind things to a halt. This would be a big job with a lot of responsibility. If you are interested in any aspect of web development mentioned above, please shoot me an email. Thanks, and I hope you visit the site soon.

With deepest condolences and admiration, the Class acknowledges the loss in Pakistan on 9 January of one of our old upperclassmen, Capt Matthew W. Bancroft '94, USMC, of the Seventh Company. Information will be forthcoming from his family and Classmates on trast and scholarship funds being established on behalf of his daughter Bailey Madison Bancroft. We encourage all members and acquaintances to keep his surviving family at the forefront of your thoughts and prayers.

That should wrap things up for now, Hke I said, feel free to inundate my hotmail inbox with any information you'd like to share. Till next time, later â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Don '95: Army-Navy tailgate 134

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Pres; LT Bart Phillips, USN 7980 Sevan Court, Unit D, San Diego, CA 92123 h; 858-278-2739; e: bartphillips@ibm.net Sec'y; Capt Tonya R. Barz, USMC 6416 Sugar Maple Court, Fredericksburg, VA 22407 h; 540-548-3344; e; barztt@tecom.usmc.mil Greetings, '96! Some wedding news comes our way announcing the marriage of Shelly Loustaunau to David Price ('91 North Carolina State). The two met while at M.I.T. graduate school where they are both engineering duty officers. The wedding took place in Castine, ME, on 18 August 2001, and the new couple traveled to New Branswick, Canada for their honeymoon.

They are currently in Somerville, MA, and hope to be in the Norfolk area this fall. Many graduates were able to attend the festivities. Congrats to you both!

'96: L to r: Jeff Loustaunau "71, Andrew Mell '94, Jennifer Tica, Lucas and Laura (McClelland) Dabney, Shelly (Loustaunau) and David Price, Dirk Renick '92, Megan Gerstenfeld '96, Mike Maixner '72, and Brian Loustaunau

Rota, Spain. Jason flies P-3's and Susan is a METOC Officer. Thanks for the great update, Christie. Best wishes to all!

Nagel Sullivan sends happy news of his marriage to his wife, Robin.

His groomsmen were (best man) Wade Landis, Tom Conroe, LT Sam Tanner, LT Chuck Stickney, and LTEric Schreiber Nagel is headed on deployment, but, upon retum, the couple will be moving to Colorado Springs (Peterson AFB) in October There, Nagel will be the Navy Rep in the NORAD Exercise Design. Congratulations, Nagel!

Thanks for all of the news. Please keep it coming! To close with a quote used by Patton, "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood." Keep working hard... â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tonya

L to r; Heidi (Svoboda) Greentree, Wade Landis, Christie (Patterson) O'Connell, Baominh Vinh, and Jenny (Greenough) Pulliam

Christie (Patterson) and Brian O'Connel More wedding bells rang on 12 May 2001 when Christie Patterson married C W 0 3 Brian O'Connell, USA, in Humble, TX. Two of Christie's Academy roommates were among the a t t e n d a n t s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; H e i d i ( S v o b o d a ) Greentree and Jenny (Greenough) Pulliam.

Companymates Baominh Vinh and Wade Landis were ushers.

The newlyweds are currently living in Troy, AL. Brian is an instractor pilot for UH-60s at Fort Rusker and Christie is working at Navy Recruiting District Headquarters. In other news, Baominh was married to the beautiful Thuyvi Vu in August 2001. In attendance were Kimberiy and Jamie Chitko who are living in Jacksonville, FL. Jamie is still an NFO and, admits Christie, still reverts to the "slightiy less sophisticated Jamie of old." (Much to the chagrin of his wife!) Barbara and Frank Okata jumped ahead of his SWO counterparts and just finished his first department head tour in Norfolk. Mark Lukken completed his second ship tour and is now enjoying shore duty at the Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey with Cindi and Jon Schmitz. Several Shipmate. April 2002

more are enjoying their shore tours in the DC area to include Anthony Singleton (SWO), Shauna and Brian Giracca (Subs), and Dan Dukes (USMC infantry) with his wife and son.

Jack. Ashleigh and Ben Pipes are stationed with the Marine Corps Detachment at NAS Pensacola, FL. Rich Whitlock just finished a sub tour in Hawaii, and Andrew Hurst, another submariner is working at CNET in Connecticut. As for the rest, Greg and Jenny (Greenough) Pulliam are living his Washington state and enjoying CivLant much more than the nuclear power community. Heidi and Joe Greentree '97 are living in Chesapeake, VA. Heidi is the token SWO at the Intelligence Specialist School at Damneck, and Joe is flying jets at Oceana NAS. Bart Phillips is flying SH-60s in Califomia. Jamie Hernandez is flying P-3s in Hawaii was married on 15 December in Corpus Christi to Mary Brankenhoefer Sara and Kitch Kennedy had their second child and are enjoying the METOC community in Califomia. Tiffany (Hatfield) and Wade Landis are about to leave Jacksonville, FL, for their first shore duties in Washington, DC. Wade has been driving a boomer for the last three years, and Tiffany just retumed from her second deployment flying SH-60's. Finally, Susan Feher '99 and Jason Woods are still in

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Pres; 1st Lt Tom Wagner, USMC h; 703-784-2036 e; towags@hotmail.com Sec'y; LTJG Mike McGreevy, USN 1869 Somersby Lane, Virginia Beach, VA 23456 h; 757-430-7815; c; 757-343-4438 e: groovel997@hotmail.com

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Pres; David Forman h; 843-763-6458; e: DSFonnan@aol.com Vice Pres; John Chau; Treas: Daniel J. Martin Sec'y; Shawn C. Gee e: shawngee@aol.com Corr. Sec'y; Carrie Howe 44237 Webster Canton, MI 48187 e; Ljohowe@aol.com Hello, great '98! Now that the month of April is upon us, winter is officially over and we are one month shy of four years of active duty (except those of you with prior service). January must have been a busy month for everyone, since not a single person emailed me. All I can say this month is that, once again, it really is a small worid. Just today I was at Tripler Hospital with my wife for her pregnancy check-up and ran into Kerry Hudson (formeriy Kerry George '99) who

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Uved a few doors down from me at USNA. Her twin sister Kelly George '99, is stationed out here at Kaneohe, but happens to be out in Okinawa while Kerry is here. A few hours after that I was picking up some pizza and I saw a guy from '97 who was a Battalion Commander (I think) our 2nd Class Year. Earlier in the day I went down to Key West and ran into two other guys I know, from '99 and '00. Small, small world. Bret Levander once called Hawaii "Naval Academy West," and he was right on.

(I'm sure someone else called it that first, but Bret was the one to tell me.) I hope everyone is doing well. Please send me some email so the articles can be more fun for you to read, and I can write about the Class of '98 instead of other Classes. Take care and be safe.

Fair winds... —DSF

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Pres: Buster O'Brien e; obriencj@29palms.usmc.mil Vice Pres: Ben Adeyemi e; nigeriansteele@hotmail.com Treas: Jason Mendenhall Sec'y: Minh-tu Nguyen 6716 Stonecutter Drive, Burke, VA 22015 h; 703-644-7924; e; minhtu99@yahoo.com Hello '99! Not much stuff for you this month so I'll just start with what I have. Best wishes to Karen Castle and Mark Tompkins who will be married on the 6th of this month! Karen has exercised her oceanography option and is currently stationed at NAS North Island. Mark retumed from his deployment aboard LAKE CHAMPLAIN in Febmary and is now stationed aboard CONSTELLATION. A huge congratulations to Katie (Bluemling) Sheldon who was selected as the Navy Athlete of the Year! This past spring, she played on the All-Navy Volleyball team in Hawaii and was later selected to compete in Germany with the AllArmed Forces team. She was in Washington, DC, this past March to receive her award. She and her husband, Vic Sheldon, just recently retumed from deployment with CARL VINSON battle group and took some well-deserved time off to see the Winter Olympics. Both of them will remain in Everett for their second tours, with Katie on ABRAHAM LD^ICOLN and Vic on FIFE. Way to make

us proud! From Karen: Last but not least, along with Katie, Vic, and Mark, I want to mention several '99ers whom I know have made great contributions to Operation Enduring Freedom: Andy Young, Jeremy Rich, Ben Cakes, Bill Spann, Dwayne Barnett, and all the others who are fighting for us 24/7. May God bless you all and bring you home safely.

Those among the recendy engaged include Jesse Rehus, Jeff Tamulevich, and Landrick Walren.

The only picture for this month comes from Matt Severson (seversmr@columbus.navy.mil), who is currently stationed on COLUMBUS ( S S N 762), which left for deployment not too long ago.

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Matt Severson with his friend, Lisa Dan Beck also checked in recendy and says things are great over in San Diego where he is still the COMMO onboard HIGGINS and extended his PRD onboard until February '03. He ran into Matt Warke and Chris lyson at some random hoUday function and reports that the Southem Califomia weatiier seems to be tteating them very well.

Here's an update from Joe Troy an: My 16-month journey as a flight student is finally over. My mom pinned my Wings on my chest on 20 December 2001, then made sure they were secure—I have the pin marks to show for it. I am now awaiting orders to be sent to the Fleet Replacement Squadron to leam the AH-IW Cobra gunship. After about six months in Camp Pendleton at the FRS, I'll finally settie down in New River, NC, where I'll Urain and deploy to Europe, the Med, Africa, and wherever else the boat I'm on sails to.

I'll close with an update sent by Lane Askew and his wife, Tammie: I am presently stationed at Kaneohe MCBH. Spin and puke didn't work out too great for me and I retumed to Hawaii NPQ'd. I just submitted a Lateral Transfer package for information professional. Wish me luck—the board convenes on 25 March, so I won't hear anything until April most likely. Tammie is stationed at Hickam AFB as an Air Force contracting officer. Tammie is 8-1/2 months pregnant with our first due in March—it is a boy!

Congratulations on the new addition to the family! That's it for this month, I can't betieve it's already April and coming upon the three year anniversary of our graduation. Thanks for all your updates, emails, pictures, and letters; keep them coming! Take care, God bless, and until next month, there's absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. —Minh-tu

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Pres; J.V. "Murph" McCarthy Vice Pres: Art Terry Treas; Nick Lalota Sec'y; Tim O'Connor 317 N. Pleasant Ave., Ridgewood, NJ 07450 e; ShipmateOO@yahoo.com Warriors of the High Seas, Greetings from the desert of New Mexico.

When the weather gets bad enough in South Texas you and your toothbrash can get flown out here to finish your flights. It does not rain out here and it is minus 50% humidity. I have decided to open up a ChapStick shop out here and become a millionaire.

The flow into the ShipmateOO@yahoo.com box this month was not quite overwhelming. Stop forwarding jokes and chain letters to your friends.

Write your account instead and proclaim yourself a freelance author who has been published in a monthly magazine with over 40,000 readers.

The random sighting and blurb section this month is very fraitful and is as follows: Timmy R h a t i g a n and his wife, the former Miss Daigneault, are expecting. So are Ryan Duffy and his lovely wife Jenny. Jamie McUvain is a father (beautiful baby giri named Saga). Robert Woods is also a father His son's name is Bronson (as in Charles). "While Rob and his wife, Diosa, were getting close to their son's arrival. Woods realized he had forgotten his camera. He called an old friend and explained his situation. You will never guess who showed up with seven disposable cameras...Brian Wilson. The former Napster and Plebe football standout that retired early from the Navy while still a Midshipman resides in Virginia Beach. He is still 275 pounds and contrary to popular ramor he is a free man.

J.T. Ward is engaged and plans to get married next labor day in Texas. Chip Kelleher, I say again. Chip Kelleher the winged H-60 pilot is engaged. Her name is Christine and Chip has stated he will hide her from us that know him until the deal is done. Chris Han and Drew Corey are also engaged (not to each other).

Ken Hockyco and Mark Hermanson were spotted in Corpus Christi. They are in Kingsville doing the jet thing. Bob Poggio, Grace Kelly, D-wain Donaldson, Shawn Coniff, Rob Powell are all in Pensacola flying helos. Kevin Szepe recendy got jets. Shane "Groove Thang" Groover and Tony "Squid" Moore got fighters (NFOs). Doug Martin is a winged P-3 NFO and so is his longtime friend and former roommate Chad DonneUy. Doug and Chad are pretty close.

Chad is one of the few trasted individuals on this earth honored with the duty of applying Nair to Doug's back. Doug found it rather inconvenient to wear his genetically induced SWO sweater under his uniform down in San Antonio. Chad being the trae shipmate he is stops at nothing to help out his friend. Doug wanted everyone to know that his lovely sister Katie, is just fine and still in Annapolis. Doug has lost a bunch of weight since his deep snapping days on the football field. If you fear there will be eventually not enough of Doug to love, do not worry, he eats a large pizza by himself every time he starts getting close to going under 200 pounds. Doug Howard, Chris Abott, Brandon Griffiths, and Jamie Thurston are all winged P-3 guys headed to Jacksonville, FL. Chuck Coursey is now in San Antonio doing the P-3 NFO thing. Bart Orr recently headed off to Newport RI for SWOS. New Year's Eve 2002 in Boston saw Lesley Alexander, Jeff Colvin, Matt Ventimiglia, Jen Harris, Kyle Pitman, and Todd Duez. Check out the picture of Colvin getting double lovin from Jen Harris and Leslie Alexander (on the : following pages). Chris Oliver has made it tqff P-cola via Quantico and soon will be in Corpusij: Tony Apodaca is in El Paso, TX is married a n ^ has kids. Mike Slavik is now in Cambridge, MAv'^ Zuben Sharma is in Athens, GA, and Chris, Barker is in Chesapeake, VA. ''M Chris Purcell and Amy Straw '01 were mar^ ried at the USNA Chapel on 12 January. (SeeS pics.) The groomsmen included fellow 2000? grads Jim Pappas, Moe Karagiorgos, and Nick Wineman. Chris received his Wings on 1 February and is on his way to VP-30 at NAS Jax, with a two-week stop in Brunswick, ME, for

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^ i ^^^1 Kale Buonerba, Josh Hamel, and Ted Dyckman in Key West SERE school. Amy is scheduled to complete SWOS and join the crew of ROOSEVELT ( D D G - 8 0 ) in June.

Here is an update from Josh Hamel on the grad school scene: Shipmates. I figured it was time for me to take a turn and write a letter to Shipmate. I just finished up my master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan this past December. Grad school was tough, all that sleeping in, those "Big Ten" football games and college parties...but somehow I got by. Josh Collins is still up in Ann Arbor, working on finishing his computer science master's degree

by May before heading down to Nuke school.

1 guess he isn't quite ready to give up the grad smdent life just yetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;smart man. I'm now down in Pensacola waiting to start API. I was planning on staying in the BOQ til I found an apartment, but apparently there's no room in the BOQ for smdent pilots who knew. Anyways, I was lucky enough to find a couch to sleep on at Scott Menzies, Bryan Hopper, and Mike Beard's place. Bryan just winged as an EA-6B NFO. and Scott and Mike are still in school. There are a ton of other 2000 folks down here, but they are slowly starting to finish up. But luckily I won't be the only 2000 guy still down here in few months, because Ted Dyckman still has yet to show up. He's still up at M.I.T. designing a new space shuttle or something...damn smart kid.

He'll be coming down to Pensacola in May, so he'U probably be die last 2000 guy to start flight school but I may be wrong on that one. Speaking of Ted, I couldn't just go straightfromgrad school to flight school, so I took a little leave and stopped

by Key West for a week of sailing. During the last week in January, a big sail boat regatta took place in Key West, and Ted, Kale Buonerba, and I all got to sail on a 46 foot racing yacht for six days... not a bad deal. (See pics.) Needless to say we had a good time down there... enough said.

Kale is still attached to CivPac and has a few special projects going on over there in San Francisco, although mmor has it he may be heading over to Singapore for a couple of months starting in March. You just never know what that kid is going to do next. Anyways, that's all for now from the A-pool in Pensacola.

"00 Wedding party including Jim Pappas, Moe Karagiorgos, and Nick Wineman

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Pres: 2d Lt. Aaron Fielder Vice Pres: ENS Dave Harrington Treas; ENS Andy Henwood, SC, USN Sec'y: ENS Angela Karalekas 7 Gladding Ct., Newport, RI 02840 e; usna2001navy@yahoo.com Ryan Donohue (P-3 pilot, stationed in Corpus), Erik Kjellgren (P-3 NFO, stationed in San Antonio) and Mike Register (jet pilot, stationed in Kingsville)

02 Pres; MIDN 1/C Tim Kain Vice Pres; MIDN 1/C C.J. Simonsen Treas; MIDN 1/C Hannah Martin Sec'y; MIDN 1/C Greg Chapman

03 Pres; MIDN 2/C Daniel Bailey Vice Pres: MIDN 2/C Dan Emmert Treas: MIDN 2/C Noelle Navas Sec'y: MIDN 2/C Rick Mui

Chris Purcell and Amy Straw

Leslie Alexander, Jeff and Jen Hartis

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That's all for this month. Enjoy the pictures.

To send your own pictures to us they have to be at least 2.5 inches wide and 300 dpi to make the magazine and slightly worse than that to make the web page.

Things for you to do: Go to usna.com/classes/ 2000 page and update your info yet again so your friends can find you or call the Alumni Association at 410-263-4448 and update your personal information so you can get your magazine. I hope you have ridiculous plans for a huge wetting down party. Godspeed...Murph

Check your Rank and Status on your Shipmate label.

Visit

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CHAPTER NEWS ALABAMA Birmingham Chapter Kevin W. Patton '85 1802 Lancaster Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 h; 205-871-1695; e; kpatton@mcglaw.com Huntsville Chapter LCDR Frederick N. Steiner '57, USN (Ret.) 1059 Teenajo Drive SE Huntsville, AL 35803-3907 h; 256-650-5423; e; navy57@aol.com On 14 February the Chapter held its regular monthly meeting at the Fogcutter Attending were; Bob Brown '49, Will Cook '88, Al Morris '50, Glenn Morris '80, Ed Jackson '58, Hector Negroni USAFA '61, John Snyder '47, Fritz Steiner '57, Mike Stroop '54, Frank Tatom '56, Chuck Tomajczyk '59, and Herb Woods '56.

We bid fair winds and following seas to our shipmate Hector Negroni USAFA '61 who is leaving Huntsville to retum to his home in Tysons Comer VA. Although we hate to lose Hector he and Joan will be closer to their children and grandchildren, all of whom live in the northeast.

Hector was a valuable member whose wit, wisdom, and camaraderie will be missed.

ARIZONA Arizona Chapter William D. Morrison '57 11801 E. Juan Tabo Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85255-5907 h; 480-585-1867; f: 480-473-3262 e: bill7morr@msn.com web site; http;//www.usna.com/Chapter/us/arizona Our monthly Chapter meeting took place on 9 January at our usual place. Aunt Chilada's in Phoenix. President Bill Morrison '57 stated that our next meeting on 13 Febraary will have a Valentine's Day theme and to encourage all wives or lady friends to share lunch with us.

CAPT John Lester USNR (Ret.) our Blue & Gold Coordinator gave us an update for the Class of 2006. He had 15 candidates, plus four in NAPS, and five in the Naval Academy Foundation. There were nine Midshipmen from Arizona home on Christmas leave who took part in an all-academies dinner and dance.

The speaker was CDR Rick Nicklas '82, commanding officer of the Tri-State Southwest Recruiting District. Since 11 September the monthly recruiting has been 110% of the goal.

The District had moved from Albuquerque in 1998 due to the greater manpower pool available. Of the many volunteers since 11 September one was 65 years old, and another was a penitentiary inmate. CDR Nicklas also actively recruits in the medical, legal, and chaplain fields. CDR Nicklas, a nuclear submariner finds recruiting as a somewhat different calling than sea duty.

Those in attendance were: Ruth and Bob May '45, Art Kinneberg '46, John McKinney '46, Al Levine '49, Deck Harrison '53, Chuck Horowitz '54, Jim Rothrock '55, Wally Bigler '56,Jioy Hejhall '56, Ron Hall '57, BOl Morrison '57, Gus Littlefield '59, Pete Lumianski '65, Pete Reiniger '65, Ron Stoll '67, Rick Nicklas '82, 138

and supplies from the north to the south of the Solomon Islands, ft was the job of the PT boats to harass, interdict, and destroy these barges to interrupt the flow of men and materials. Virtually all action was at night, and the PT's were CALIFORNIA • ** constantly harassed by Japanese floatplanes and Los Angeles Chapter shore batteries.

There were 12 boats in their battle group.

CDR Alan B. Lerchbacker '74, USN (Ret.) They operated generally on a three-night sched131 E. Holly St. #213, Pasadena, CA 91103-3936 ule, whereby the first night they would attack e; alerchbacker@taylor-dunn.com the barges, the second night they tried to sleep, Corr. Sec'y; John Peterson and the third night they would be the ready boat. e; john@micromachines.com The U.S. PT boats had the advantages that they could attack and escape at high speed. At first, the PT's attacked one behind the other.

Monterey Bay Chapter Thefirst—andsometimes the second as w e l l almost always got shot up pretty bad, when the CDR John J. Branson Jr. '50, USN (Ret.) waters were smooth and they had stable plat1281 Sylvan Road, Monterey, CA 93940-4942 forms for their guns. But once our waves had h: 831-375-8603; e; JJBransnjr@aol.com an effect, we could do more damage without suffering casualties ourselves. We would just pass by and blast the barges with everything Sacramento Chapter we had. We would fire until the machine guns CW4 George R. Simmons '61, AUS (Ret.) tumed red, then white, and then they would just 10785 Penstock Trail, Auburn, CA 95603-9556 shoot all the ammo by themselves. All PT h; 530-888-0860; e; grsim@mindspring.com crews were stricfly volunteer, due to the extreme dangers involved, and the sanity of The Sacramento Chapter of the USNA AA met many was questioned. at 11:30 a.m. on a pleasant Thursday, 7 FebraIf the barges ran aground on a reef, they reary, at the Hof Brau restaurant (comer of Watt ally didn't have much of a problem, as they and El Camino) in the northeast section of town. were under the safety of their own guns on all the SOPA Larry Pierce '38 was again our honorislands. The coast watchers—mostly Australian ary leader Also in attendance were Carolyn and and Brits—were our eyes and ears, and told us Mo Slater '42, Cay and Joe Drachnik '43, Sue when the barges were coming down.

But the PTs had weaknesses, as well. If we and Stan Hogshead '43, Tom Hartigan '47, were damaged, we had to sinktiieboat or escape.

Betty and Bill Spencer '47, Mary Lee and Ed Since each boat had 6,000 horsepower, we were Axtell '48, Claire and Jim D'Orso '52, Joyce extremely noisy and everyone could hear us and John Haynes '55, Tom Langley '56, Bruce coming. The charts we had to use were very Friederich '57, Robert Johnston '57, JohnTait poor and we lost scads of boats at night on the '60, George Simmons '61, Dave McKie '66, reefs because we couldn't see. The biggest and his guests, Bruce Sauer and Fred Rogers problem was the floatplanes that flew over us USCGA '74, Steve Berg '66, Terry Brown '67 at 85 knots and dropped flares to illuminate us.

(Ph.D.), and honorary members, speaker Ted Finally, in the tropical weather, we picked up evRobinson and Rita and RADM Jim McHugh. ery disease available, from dysentery to yellow jaundice to purple Jesus. It was 120 degrees in President George Simmons announced that the shade, and there was no shade, since all the long-time Chico member JDP Hodack, who was trees had been bombed away. I promised God personal secretary to C.S. Forrester in the '50s if I lived I'd go back as a missionary. and '60s, has moved to Montana. Mr Forrester Then Ted lifted his eyes and arms and said, authored the Horatio Hornblower. George also "God, I haven't done it—I'm sorry!" pointed out that the local area parents' group has On top of all that, we were faced with Shinto asked for a liaison, and Dr Terry Brown, our enemies who were trained that they can't lose Chapter vice president, has offered his services. and they can't live if they do. All we had to do Since Tom Hartigan, a frequent contributor to was start a fire. Once on fire, we got a real tarour meetings, was singled out as a non-particiget. Also, the enemy didn't know what to do if pant at a recent gathering, he made a point of the leader was shot, and they seemed to panic. telling a joke given to him by his granddaughter 1 think those poor soldiers knew it was a one-way ttip: if they made it on the southbound leg, they'd 'Nuf said. John Tait briefly reviewed a sequel to never make it back. But it wasn't all one-sided.

Blind Man's Bluff hy John Craven.

The CO of our squadron was a full lieutenant, with George then introduced Ted Robinson, honorlife expectancy of one week. ary Chapter member and marvelous spinner of Some of the happenings during that time tales, who gave us a sample of the program he brought serious emotion to the surface, and Ted delivers at Navy Reserve Centers around the had to choke back tears when he told about one state. Most of us know Ted as the PT boat skip- particular instance. per who rescued John F. Kennedy when PT 109 They had not had any bread for a year, and was destroyed by the Japanese in World War II. some allies at one British camp baked fresh bread Ted began by explaining that, as a graduate of Duke University, he was a "90-day wonder" and and invited some of the PT crews to join them for dinner Ironically, later that night the enemy went on to tell us about the new widow of a man launched a huge attack on the camp. 'When Ted that had just died. retumed there the next day, not a man was living.

For 38 days in the fall of 1943, Ted was part War at that time was a game of cat and mouse. of some of the most frightening and dangerous Whenever one side improved its situation, the action of the war The Japanese had built hunother side made a counter move to gain superidreds of wooden barges for transporting troops ority. We found that we could attack in echelon

Rudy Hacker '84, Ed Brzezinski ' 8 5 , John Valerio ' 6 1 , and Tom Short ' 9 1 .

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fortnation, with the lead boat farthest away. The Japanese put cheap armor plates on the barges so tiie troops could hide in the bottom and be safe. Suddenly we started seeing our 50s bounce off; it destroyed our morale. So we countered by adding 37mni anti-aircraft guns to the bow and had success. Then they countered by bringing in landing craft that blew us out of the water. Then, we put on more 37mni guns. Their 3-inchers fired very slowly, so we could pour a lot of lead in and then we regained the advantage.

In September after less than 40 days in battle, Ted's command, PT 118, was destroyed and he was taken off station. His group had been gone for 18 months, 13 of which were on station in that battle zone, and they lost all but three boats.

Of his officers' class of about 35 men, only five made it back in one piece. Ted thought about his good fortune and decided it was because'T never rode boat no. 1 and I was little and never got hit."

After a sustained, genuinely sincere round of applause, many of the members stayed to talk shop with Ted, after George adjoiuned the meeting.

San Diego Chapter CAPT Thomas J. Hammons m '71, USN (Ret) 13423 Salmon River Road, San Diego, CA 92129 h; 858-538-9824; e; tjhammons@aol.com web site; www.usnaaasd.com Cort. Sec y: CDR Dave Ray '80, USNR p: 619-698-4808; e; davidray@adnc.com San Francisco Chapter Linda G. Postenrieder '82 14 Makena Court, Petaluma, CA 94954 h; 707-773-2899; b; 415-235-9413 e: post82@pelicanassociates.com 1st Vice President; Nana Adae '91 e; nana.adae@gs.com 2nd Vice President; James Ryan '86 e; james@peisales.com We're continuing to work with the National Association on the Chapter web site. Our events will all be managed through our site so please bookmark (or add to your favorites) the site at: http://www.usna.com/Chapters/US/CA/SFBay/ default.htm! As the year progresses, we will have an online San Francisco member directory with rich search capability (by area code, zip code, company, etc). For those without email/internet access, we will continue to provide the hard copy newsletter In March, we helped a couple of events to help West Point celebrate their 200-year anniversary.

Nick Williams '70 of Sextant Ventures was our speaker for the two celebratory events. March also included a Patriots League event where we rubbed elbows and had some fun with other Alumni of the Patriot League schools.

Look for golf toumaments and summer activities sprouting for the summer months. In August, we'll have a special event in San Francisco that I wanted to start publicizing now. MCCAMPBELL will hold its commissioning ceremony on 17 August 2002. Watch this column for more details as they become available.

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Santa Barbara Chapter CDR William J. Stewart '63, USNR (Ret.) 1617 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 h; 805-962-0703; w; 805-963-1863 e; tenbears@silcom.com

snail mail from us, but if you do check in we will be happy to put you on our email list. Please stop by and say, "hello." In the words of the old Yale drinking song, "We're aU good fellows, each the other's friend..."

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CAPT Daniel Branch Jr. '59, USN (Ret.) 555 Apollo Drive, Boulder CO 80303-5002 ^ h: 303-499-0337; w; 303-966-4833 e; dbranchjr@aol.com web site; www.usna.com/Chapters/US/Colorado/ default.htm

C O N N E C T I C U T Connecticut Chapter Tom Hogsten '85 33 Hollister Drive, Avon, CT h; 860-673-0033; e; thogsten@aol.com web site: www.usnact.org

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CAPT J. Michael Smith '61, USNR (Ret.) 10424 SW 41st Place, Gainesville, FL 32608 h; 352-376-6611; w; 352-376-3301 e; mickey@acceleration.net Jacksonville Chapter CAPT Michael O. Borns '70, USN (Ret.) 1185 Salt Marsh Circle Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2543 h; 904-273-4714; w: 904-693-5630 e: mborns@meridianmgmt.com web site; usnaaajaxchap@usa.net M i a m i Chapter Richard W. Ogden '66 5590 SW 92nd St., Coral Gables, FL 33156 h: 305-665-9641; b; 305-663-5860 e: billo@kcl.net Sec'y: Zachariah R. Bell '89 e: zbell@cenetec.com

Costa Rica Chapter Claudio A. Pacheco '64 Apt. 4307-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica h; 506-224-4325; w; 506-256-3855 e: cpacheco@sol.racsa.co.cr

F L O R I D A ' 'Vc^ Fort Lauderdale Chapter CAPT William J. Aston '51, USN (Ret.) 659 Coconut Drive SW, Fort Lauderdale, FL33315 h; 954-463-3047; e; saltysam@bellsouth.net April will soon be here and our winter snowbirds are heading back north. But if you happen to be around our town please try to make it to our third Wednesday evening rendezvous at the Bimini Boatyard. That's right next to the Intercoastal Waterway in the 17th Street Yachting World. Attractive resort surroundings, excellent buffet, and a cash bar are routine. We muster at 6:30 p.m. The best weather of the year is just about now, so smart Yankees should take a late vacation and join the fortunate year-round Navy folks here in Northem Cuba.

Having served as Founder Chairman, and Chapter President, Bill Aston '51 will step down this month and again smell the salt breezes. The ballot box has not been rigged, so we do not yet know the name of his successor We are pleased to have Drew Jones '85 and Rob Gillette '90 (rgilettfa"ccgmail.com) remain on the active list as vice president and treasurer Importantiy our Membership Officer Talisa Jones (tdjones(i>yahoo.com), has agreed to serve for another year So with youth at the helm and a comfortable tteasury the Chapter faces good times ahead.

There are a few National Members who reside in our area and who receive Shipmate on a regular basis but who have not yet joined our Chapter You probably won't receive any more

Naples-Fort M y e r s Chapter William H. Vonier '51 2065 Imperial Circle, Naples, FL 34110 p; 941-514-4031; e: bvonier3@comcast.net The well attended 17 January luncheon meeting was treated to an outstanding presentation of two future weapons systems, the V-22 Osprey and Stealth Ships. RADM William Smedberg '51 defined the programs and their benefits to future Navy operations. It was a nuts and bolts military hardware talk, presented with clarity, wit, and good visual aids, and it received rave accolades from all, including the ladies. In addition to spouses and friends, we were pleased to have our associate member Phyllis Whittle (ADM Arthur Whittle '46) join us. The Alumni in attendance were: Michael Abbott '76, James Ahem '48, Richard Ambrogi '48, Jack Bailey ' 4 4 , Roger Betts ' 5 6 , Floyd Bowdey ' 4 7 , Heyward Boyce '57, Allen Brown '55, Lee Catalano ' 5 1 , Jack Cummings ' 4 7 , Harry Donahue '49, John Driscoll '44, Veme Dupy '47, Earle Forsthoff '47, Richard Foster ' 4 1 , Lynn Fowler '46, Grover Higginbotham '35, Robert Jones '58, Edmond Kelley '44, Robert Knowles '45, Brace Lakefield '67, Gene Lawler '47, Glen Leram '58, Ray Lessig '51, Hugh Murphree '45, Steve Neuman '72, Tom Pollak ' 6 1 , Ashby Reardon '51,GeneRosadino'58,TomRoss '50, Allen Ruth '59, Mark Shaughnessy '73, Bob Shearer '58, Boyd Sibert '48, Allen Slaff'45, Gene Spalding '48, Roger Tettault '63, Nicole Tonnessen '94, Bill Vonier '51, and Dave Wagner '53.

The next meeting will be held on 13 February at the Vanderbilt Country Club. Our speaker will be D r William Miller academic dean and provost at USNA. Bill Vonier, president

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Orlando Chapter LtCol George V. Ruos Jr. '50, USMC (Ret.) 950 Kersfield Circle, Heathrow, FL 32746-1936 h; 407-804-1308; e; georgeruos@aol.com The first 2002 monthly meeting of the Orlando Chapter of the USNA AA was held at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, 12 January at the Holiday Inn, SR436 and Wymore Road, Altamonte Springs, FL. The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, 9 February at 8:30 a.m. at the same location.

Spouses and guests are welcome.

In attendance were: Betty and Jerry Ball '41, James Borop '42, Bill Sims '45, Joan and John Leslie '47, Bob Turnage '47, Art Herbert '48 and guest Marilyn Grimm, Eileen and Lou Branch '49, Shiriey and Walt Marquardt '49, Dorothy and John Mackenzie '50, Fran and George Ruos '50, Peter Kucyk '53, Bill Forbes '55, Eileen and John Long '55, Jane and Don Smith '68, Connie and Gary Washam '71, Craig Corbett '73, Nancy and Jason Walker '94.

Jason Walker '94 not only entertained the group regarding the Marine Corps, he brought several items to display. His topic was the various training exercises undertaken by his Marine Battalion in 1996 in Korea, various Islands around Japan, and the Vladivostok area of Russia. It was a reminder that a state of war still exists in Korea, as the trace endures. His stories ofjoint exercises with the Russian military were fascinating.

The topic of permanent name badges was discussed. A vote was taken to continue in the present style of cards. Connie Washam has graciously offered to take requests and place orders for name badges for people who do not have one. Please call her at 407-366-6195. Bill Forbes kindly offered to furnish magnetic clips for those who desire one.

They can be used on the current name badges.

Annual dues are being collected now in the amount of $15. Make checks payable to the Orlando Naval Academy Alumni Association and bring them to the next meeting or mail them to: Bob Tumage 4612 Oak Cove Lane, Orlando, FL 32806-6939.

On Friday, 11 January, Bob Tumage called Mary Agnes Sellars (widow of Robert Sellars '34) and leamed that she is in the care of Hospice. As a way of greeting all of our members, she retumed the call. She is restricted to bed, but is free of pain. Her daughter Mary Ann, is staying with here as long as necessary.

George Ruos is always looking for breakfast meeting speakers and ideas for group functions.

Don't hesitate to call, email, or talk to him at the next meeting.

Another great program is planned for 9 Febraary.

Please join us. BeatArmy\ Palm Beach Chapter CAPT Keith T. Weaver '76, USN 3764 SE Fairway E, Stuart, FL 34997 h; 561-288-0460 e: ktw2311@aol.com Timothy R. Goering '89 217 Barbados Dr, Jupiter FL 33458 h; 561-630-5427; e: goeringtr@bemstein.com Our January luncheon was an exciting event!

The Govemor's Club provided a magnificent setting overlooking the Intra-coastal by Palm Beach Island. Our members dined on a delicious buffet while enjoying the beautiful view. Our 140

speaker was Sharon Merchant, a former State Representative, who now seeks office as State Senator Ms. Merchant was most informative on current issues affecting our state and community.

For more information on her campaign, you may contact her web site at www.sharonmerchant.com.

Those present at the meeting were: Gil Barbe '63, Ames Bennett '45 and guests, Charles Hickam '70 and Malcolm Lewis USMA '49, Bette and Reynolds Beckwith '49, Frank Chace '53 and guest, Mr. O'Connell '53, Brian Cheslack '81, Dorothy Coney (Charles Coney '19), Addison Douglass '45, Sean Fuller '89, Kim and Tim Goering '89 and their daughter AisHnn, Peggy and Hank Gorman '44, Betty and Al Haworth '57, Carl Keske '59 and his wife. Bob Lees '69, Nelson McDermott '46 and his wife, William McFarlane '49, Anne McMillan, Lydia and John McNabney '50, Jane O'Meara (Donald O'Meara '39), P. X. O'Neill '54, Art Osgood '44, Fred Simcich '49, Tom Sinnott '58, Betty and Swoose Snead '47, Ed Tipshus '54, Robert Tisdale '46, Bettie Vogel (Jack Vogel '40), Keith Weaver '76, Don Welt '47, and Diana and Walt Whipple '57.

Co-Presidents Tim Goering '89 and Keith Weaver '76 thanked everyone for such a great turnout and encouraged all our members to continue their support. The next two luncheons are also slated to be held at the Govemor's Club with very interesting speakers. At the 19 February luncheon, along with celebrating another Valentine's outing, Keith Weaver '76 invited Jeff Scarpiello from Senator Bill Nelson's office to be our speaker Mr. Scarpiello is the constituent advocate for Military Affairs and Veteran's Outteach.

If you know of someone who would like to be a speaker at our luncheons, please notify our copresidents. All comments or suggestions are welcome as we strive to make our Palm Beach Chapter a dynamic outreach to all the members in the area.

Wah Whipple '57

The distinguished Class of 1952 took the gold medal with six members in attendance. The Class of '54 drew the silver medal, and for the first time on my watch, the Class of '71 made it to the medal stand for the bronze. Lou Sarosdy '51 and Warren Stevens '51 from the Class of '51 were our most veteran attendees witii Steve Blankman '82 taking honors as the most recent grad. Larry Grimes '55 brought a local high school sttident, Brian Hamlin, who aspires to join the Class of 2008.

Attendees included Steve Blankman '82, Don Campbell ' 6 1 , Lamar Dixon '52, Dick Gaskill '54, Scott Gray '52, Larry Grimes '55, Tom Hoffman '71, Rick Jensen '74, Jim Link '52, Bill Maxson '52, Lou McMdlan '52, Pete Mellin '71, Bert Melnick ' 5 7 , Glenn Montgomery ' 7 1 , Patrick O'Connor '55, Pat Patrick '54, Lee Price '78, Bill Ramsey '53, Lou Sarosdy ' 5 1 , Marie and Warren Stevens ' 5 1 , Jerry Thompson '52, Bob Wilmer '54, and John Woodward '54.

We wish all a splendid spring and a warm welcome should you venture along the Gulf Coast.

Keep a visit to the National Museum of Naval Aviation on the list of things you need to do.

It's terrific!

Fortune favors boldness, Glenn Montgomery '71 Space Coast Chapter CAPT Peter C. Peterson Jr. '56, USN (Ret.) 401 Third Ave. Melboume Beach, FL 32951-2537 h; 321-952-2066; e; peteusna@aol.com Suncoast Chapter Clifford P. Bermann '45 7979 S. Tamiami Trail #338A, Sarasota, FL 34231 e; amorency@aol.com

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CAPT Glenn H. Montgomery '71, USN (Ret.) 1152 Ceylon Court, Guff Breeze, FL 32561-3214 h: 850-934-4757; e; monty4gb@aol.com

CAPT John S. Kamen '77, USN 1105 Culbreath Isle Drive, Tampa, FL 33629 h; 813-288-9548; e; Kamenj@socom.mil Email Coordinator: Steve Swift '87 e; swwift@sysinct.com http;//www.usna.com/Chapters/US/fl/tampabay/ default.htm

As the Dark Ages fade away, we bid you best wishes from the "Westem gate to the Sunshine State." A rather mild winter is winding down as we put this missive to paper Our January luncheon was our annual sojourn to the eastern end of our footprint at the Hurlburt Air Force Base Officers Club. It was a pleasure to see many of our Air Force retirees who have nested in the Niceville, Fort Walton Beach, Destin area. (Those of you not familiar with Florida's geography, Hurlburt is about 40 miles east of NAS Pensacola.) Our guest speaker was CAPT Jim Melesky, USN, the commanding officer of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) School that is a tenant command aboard Eglin and Hurlburt Air Force Bases.

CAPT Melesky gave a terrific overview of the special operations community in which he has excelled. The EOD courses are quite exotic dealing with many different types of potential weapons. The short version to describe their activities is "playing with things that go boom."

Recap of Our February USNA Monthly Alumni Chapter Meeting We are holding them the first Wednesday of the month at Houlihan's from 6-7:30 p.m. Houlihan's (813-287-0954) is on 1801 Westshore, just north, on the right, past the Marriott (go north on Westshore if you are coming from 275, and it is on the right). We continue the carryover "kitty" of $43 for a free drink for any new or non-recent attendees!

Attendees at the recent meeting included: Bud Alexander '56, Mac Fossett '58, Gaeton Long '60, Gary Polansky '69, Mark Krivonak ' 7 1 , Perry Dempsey '72, Bud Sawyer '74, John Kamen '77, Stanley Gray '77, Steve Painter '78 (first time attendee!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and guest, Warrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fellow Navy co-worker), David Jung '84 (first time attendee!), and Steve Swift '87.

By the time you read this, we should have successfully had two great luncheons with USNA Academic Dean, Bill Miller '62 and the USNA Director of Athletics, Chet Gladchuk. We

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should also have had a great Tampa Bay Lighting game outing, as well as helping coordinate and welcome the USNA Gospel Choir to sunny Florida. There are other great events coming up. If you have not been able to participate in something in the past, there should be at least one thing you can join your fellow Alumni with from below that hits your interests and schedule!

Star Ship Cruise—6 April! {firm date) Thanks to Bud Sawyer '74 for taking this on and coordinating.

He has coordinated with the CEO of STARSHIP, and we are scheduled for 6 April at 5:30 p.m. for 40 to 65 people. Price will be $40 for a $60 value due to the price break and contribution from tteasury. We have reserved the second deck of the ship from 5-8 p.m. A great buffet will be served, and there will be dancing for everyone!

Golf Toumament—3 May 2002 {firm date) Not too early to be thinking of golf—date is 3 May 2002 (first Friday in May) and this is the annual event to Beat Army. This year let's not only beat them with munbers, but beat them with the score! (We all know they cheated last year!) It is now firm on the Bardmore for the toumament.

Had a great tumout last year, and looking for an even better one this year. Mark yotu" calendars now to set aside the date! (John Kamen '77 and Gary Polansky '69 to coordinate for now, with Bud Alexander '56's help) We are looking at getting some Navy shirts for both the golfing and future events. Perry Dempsey '74 was able to obtain a 20% discount on the total sale of shirts excluding shipping and handling. We are looking at the white shirt polos.

Final details to follow soon!

USNA Tampa Alumni Web Site is Uve http://www.usna.com/Chapters/US/FL/ TampaBay/defaulthtm (Dave Long '86 webmaster!)

Future Ideas NOA—^Hturicane Hunter Tour in future (possibly on 13 July) including a tour potentially, maybe with a box lunch. (Mike Jacqmin '63 to coordinate with Carl Newman '89). Other speaking ideas include: Centcom leaders, spouses, high school leaders, sports figures, Tampa Bay icons, high school outstanding students, recruiters/financial planners (as they pick up the tab). Cocktail socials at a home/ restaurant or family things at Busch Gardens/ ball-hockey games/picnics, adopt a social or fraternal cause, invite/challenge other service alumni to events/competitions like socials, golf, bridge, and lOK rans. If you have the contacts on anything above and want to be the "Action Officer" we can give you the help to get it done!

usna.com can lead you to a good book! ckk on News and Pubs to check out our book review and lists, then...

Link directly to amazon.com!

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GEORGIA Atlanta Chapter Robert R. Schultz '71 5219 Meadowdale Ct, Norcross, GA 3009: h; 770-448-4299; w; 770-236-7891 e; RobertS71@aol.com Sec'y; Matthew Kirby '94 h;404-351-2534; w; 404-504-7882 e: matthew.kirby@iesg.com web site: www.usnaaaa.com The President's Corner First, just another reminder that you will be receiving your year 2002 Chapter dues mailer soon. It will look much Uke the one used last year, with a place to fill out/update personal information for the Chapter roster a choice of membership types, and an enclosed return envelope. I won't give you my pitch from last month again, but you know we need to get our membership numbers up to maintain our representation on the national board of trustees.

In that regard, current Chapter Trastee, Bob Bush '65, has informed us that he will be moving out of state well before the end of his term as trastee.

As such, it is the board of directors responsibility to nominate and elect a replacement. Only past Chapter presidents who are currently Chapter members are qualified to serve as Chapter trastee.

Since past Presidents Paul Hurst '62, Carl McCallum '60, and Jim Ravenel '45, have already served terms as Chapter Trastee, they have unanimously thrown their support to past President Bill Rentz '55, who has volunteered for the position.

As such, we expect that Bill will be officially voted in as Chapter Trustee at the next board of directors meeting on 12 Febraary. Thank you to both Bob and Bill for their dedicated service and support of the Atlanta Chapter Now, for a job that I wish I did not have to perform. I am sorry to have to report to you that we have lost yet another Chapter member and shipmate from the Class of '42. For those who weren't at last month's luncheon, I announced there that Bill Carver '42 had passed away after a long straggle against Lou Gehrig's disease. It is now my sad duty to report that just recently Art Warner '42 was the victim of a stroke that he did not survive. Bill and Art could always be counted on to be among the Class of '42 contingent at Chapter luncheons and events. We will miss them dearly. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of both of these fine men.. .veterans, shipmates, and good friends.

God bless America, and God bless our troops deployed in the Middle East.

And...BeatArmy\ Bob Schultz '71 Chapter Announcements Chapter membership drive kicks off January 2002. Keep your eyes peeled for our dues mailer and the beginning of the Chapter Membership drive. We are sending the mailers to over 1,700 Alumni in the state and are looking forward to great r e s p o n s e . Contact Geoff Anderson (geoff@tazmediagroup.com) with questions.

The Naval Academy Gospel Choir The U.S. Naval Academy Gospel Choir was in Atlanta for Martin Luther King Jr Day, and they visited local high schools and participated

in the re-opening of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Just before the concert, the Atlanta Chapter with much help from the Georgia Parents Club, sponsored a lunch for the choir members in the Martin Luther King Jr visitors' center The barbecue lunch was certainly appreciated by the Midshipmen, but the homemade desserts from the Parents Club members were the big hit!

It was a nice chance to see the caliber of young people going through the academy today. The concert was held from 2-3:30 p.m. in the just re-opened Ebenezer Baptist Church. There was clappin' and praisin' and dancin' in the pews! It was an uplifting experience that made the outside weather (rained all day) seem much brighter Mrs. Coretta Scott King briefly took the pulpit and spoke regarding her late husband and the deep meaning and symbolism of his "old church." She is a gracious and compassionate person. Those of you who missed this event should make a mental note to plan to attend next year It's a great time and a great opportunity to visit with the Midshipmen on a one-on-one basis.

Thanks to Stewart Caldwell '65, our Chapter's director for Brigade Support, for coordinating this event for us. Thanks also to Kent and Janice White (Parents Club President) and their members for making the great desserts and giving the event a real "being back home" flavor for the Midshipmen.

The Academic Dean of the U.S. Naval Academy, RADM Bill Miller Sr. '62 (Ret.) spoke to the Atianta Chapter at the January luncheon. After an eloquent inttoduction by his son. Bill Miller '88, ADM Bill Miller '62 spoke before a packed house at Jock's and Jill's.

Admiral Miller started by saying how excited the entire USNA community is to be bringing in Paul Johnson as the head coach of our football team. Unequivocally, Admiral Miller announced, the administtation "expects to win."

Admiral Miller structured his remarks into four areas—faculty, students, curriculum, and facilities—^but said overall the Academy is looking for candidates with a high degree of moral character who are willing to work hard academically to graduate.

Present at the January luncheon were Jim Ravenel '45, Bill Wideman '35, John Fry '80, Bill Mdler '88, GUMcCuHen '53, Jim Todd '55, Ed Flynn ' 5 1 , Bob Schultz ' 7 1 , John Stark ' 5 1 , Ned Hunter'81, Bill Brewster '42, Harry Miller, Jeff Sayre '80, Marc Farris '70, John Brashear '54, Mike Nassr '54, Mitch Rowland ' 7 1 , Arif Cirdik '98, Johns Jauden '55, Jim Hatch '47, Linda Postenrieder '82, Sean Banks '96, Joe Frazar '65, Britt Watwood '72, Linda Watwood '72, Paul Hurst '62, Ron Sedgley '67, Perry Stephens ' 5 1 , Paul Bridges '42, Jim Traa ' 6 1 , Beverly Traa ' 6 1 , Art Warner ' 4 2 , Carl McCallum '60, Bill Rentz '55, Paul Borer '70, Bennett Christman ' 0 1 , Dick Fitzgerald '62, Eddie Myers '82, Arnold Galit '92, Mark Poole '82, Chariie Hiti '42, Witi Wood '66, Steve Frederick '72, Rich Rodgers '67, Matthew Kirby '94, Dale Herndon '56, Bob Bush '65, Clint Johnson, Jon Barton '66, Eric Busko '88, Dan Branch '96, Jim Slemenda '66, Walt Coakley '54, and Barbara and Bill Miller '62.

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GUAM Guam Chapter LCDR Noel M. Enriquez '84, USNR PO. Box 26849, GMF, Baniguda, GU 96921-6849 h; 671-477-4382; hfax; 671-472-1966 w; 671-649-9629; wfax; 671-649-8870 e; nmenriqu@ite.net

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ILLINOIS Chicago Chapter CDR Fredrick W. Weber '75, USP 2134 Evert Court, Northbrook, IL 60062-661| h: 847-559-9381; w; 312-750-8899 e: fredrick.weber@rosshardies.com A great Navy day in Chicagoland on 81 ary: The Great Hall at the Harrison Conference Center in Lake Bluff saw one of the more concentrated ALNAV turnouts in recent history.

Hosted by RADM Ann Rondeau and guided by Congressman Mark Kirk, the occasion was to demonsttate Chicagoland hospitality to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England. On hand from the Chicago Chapter were Nancy and Tim Bradley '48, Jun LoveU '52, John Howland '64, Tim Murphy '66, George Schmoll '69, David Frey '79, Don Harker '80, and Mike Isabelli '83.

Our thanks to Congressman Kirk and his aide, Dodie McCracken, for inviting us along. There were many other Alumni on hand as well, some on active duty as part of the SecNav's group and others in official capacities. Your trasty scribe failed to record all of them (will do better next time), but one we did properly record was Crordon Peterson '68 (gpeterson@navyleague.org). Gordon is senior editor of Sea Power magazine, which you receive as part of your Navy League membership. In addition, there were many Friends of the Chicago Chapter, including former State Senator Bob Mitchler the Honorable Fred Davidson, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (19811985), and Lt Gen Don Johnson, USAF (Ret.).

One of SecNav England's interesting stories was of President Bush's visit to the Pentagon on the moming of 12 September The Pentagon was still in damage control mode with the human toll still to be determined. President Bush went around to each of the assembled Pentagon folks saying, "Never forget!" SecNav England made it crystal clear that George Bush knew instantly from the first moments of 11 September that this was no passing episode that would require some sort of muted, measured response that we could then all forget. He knew that this was an event that required the triggering of a worldwide response that will be long recorded in h u m a n history. He knew further that America's body politic will eventually want to let 11 September fade, but, that, like the 46-year Cold War, we can't let America "forget."

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We now have a Chicago Chapter lob Networking Editor! Steve Dahlquist '82 (shdl960@ yahoo.com; 847-548-8856) has volunteered to help the Chapter in facilitating job networking.

In this role, Steve will become our primary contact for Chicago area job postings and Alumni engaged in job searches. If you have a position to fill or are looking for a new opportunity and want to spread the word in the Chapter please contact Steve. Even if you personally are not hiring, but happen to hear of a position that may be of interest to a fellow Alumnus, please pass it on. Along with disseminating over the yahoo groups email, Steve is looking into other ways to get the widest possible exposure. Let's take advantage of our diverse and talented Chapter!

A disappointing message for us landlocked salts.

Last year, CinCLantFlt designated two MCM vessels to support the 2002 Great Lakes cmise.

However, a significant increase in naval presence requirements, homeland security efforts, and continued support for many other forwarded deployments have greatly strained surface force itempo and placed a difficult fiscal burden upon the Fleet. This situation has been aggravated by the sharp increase in funding necessary to provide requisite security measures for Conus Port visits.

These circumstances compel CinCLantFlt to fulfil only the highest priority operational commitments. Therefore, CinCLantFlt must regrettably cancel participation in the 2002 Great Lakes Cruise. Future out year participation in the Great Lakes will be evaluated as force structure, budgeting, and operational commitment permit.

Chapter Breakfasts Check the Chapter newsletter for dates and times of our three monthly breakfasts throughout Chicagoland. North Burbs is on the first Thursday, West Burbs is the second Thursday and Chicago Loop is the fourth Thursday.

Mark Rahmel reports in from the wild West Burbs.

Another great tumout for our first breakfast of 2002 on 10 January! Attending were Mike Bendas USMA '71, Dave Leather '73, Ken Smith '73, Mark Rahmel '73, Lee Smith '76, Marc Dapas '82, Kent Fredrickson USMA' 82, Brian Filler '90, Doug Tmax USMA '92, and Tom Karn '93. No one has beat the '73 attendance record in a long time!

A lot of discussion about the new football coaching staff hires. Coach Johnson is wasting no time and the emphasis so far seems to be offense. Scoring points; sounds like a great idea to me! Dave Leather reported that he is also passing on info on the Chapter eList about other sports.

The West Task Force meets on the second Thursday of the month anytime between 7 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. at the Holiday Inn in Naperville, just off 1-88 at Naperville Road. You will find us in the raised section of the coffee shop. Give me a call at 630-416-9607 or w: 847-258-8608 for info, directions, etc.

Mike Isabelli reports in from the northem climes.

February was a tough month to get people out to breakfast. It seems that the Dark Ages may have contributed to this. Not even the mild Chicago winter helped this month. The three in attendance at the North Burbs Breakfast on 7 February were George Schmoll '69, Mike Isabelli '83, and Jim Cantelupe USMA '96.

Fred Weber '75, Chapter Prez Sez; Wherever you live and whichever breakfast location best suits you, load up your Palm Pilot for the first, second, or fourth Thursday of

every month. Let's continue to seetiiesebreakfasts grow and keep our network going.

Blue Angels in August Mark your calendars now for the Blue Angels on 17-18 August. Watch die Chapter newsletter for details as another Dark Ages fades into history.

Chapter eList If you have successfully graduated to the Intemet world, then you need to be on the Chicago Chapter eList. Here's the drill: Go to http:/ /groups.yahoo.com/group/USNA-Chicago. In the upper right quadrant click on "join this group." The rest will be pretty much by the numbers. If you are already on the eList, then make sure you are "Registered" with Yahoo so that you have access to all of the good stuff at our site.

Check out our Chapter web site at http:// www.usna.com/Chapters/US/Illlinois/Chicago/.

John G.B. Howland '64 MoneyMinds @aol. com

I N D I A N A Indianapolis Chapter CDR Charles A. Rainey '84, USNR 12804 Double Eagle Drive, Carmel, IN 46033 h; 317-815-0575; e; crainey@fhlbi.com Michiana Chapter CDR John T. Haizlip '72, USN (Ret.) 15246 Longford Drive, Granger IN 46530 h: 219-273-2939; e; CHaizhp@aol.com The Michiana Chapter had a chance to get together for the Army-Navy game at the Varsity Club Hotel in Mishawaka. It was a great venue, normally reserved for the hometown Notte Dame crowd, and we were able to fill the room and make some noise. Everyone had a great time, even though the outcome was not exactly what we wanted for Christmas. There's always next year! Those in attendance were: Pat and Russ Owen '46, Lou Duesterberg '46, Fran and Bill Haidler '50, Marion and Paul Bradfield '53, Aim and John Raster '55, Sharon and Gunnar Jenson '56, Nancy and Bill Teeple '62, Gail and Jim Pattison '69, Norma and Jim Todd '69, John Strauss '69, Nancy and Mike Kehoe '71, Joan and Chris Haizlip '72, and Sally and Jerry Hogan '73.

J A P A N Tokyo Bay Chapter CDR Nolan D. Villarin '82, USNR U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems PSC 473 Box 5, FPO AP 96349-1901 e: villarin@drs-tsi.com

KENTUCKY (see also Ohio)

Louisville/Southern Indiana Chapter CAPT Gregory R. Reinhardt '79, USNR 712 Talon Place, Louisville, KY 40223-5575 h; 502-244-7707; e; greinhardt@telocity.com Sec'y; Jim Hibbler '87 h: 502-897-6917; e; jimhibbler@aol.com Shipmate, April 2002

LOUISIANA SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast (formerly New Orleans) Chapter LCDR Milt Jones '61, USN (Ret.) ^ 1632 General Taylor St., New Orieans. LA 70115 h; 504-895-8445; e; mhjones61@aol.com CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr. '80, USNR 15 Allard Blvd., New Oleans, LA 70119 h; 504-486-9040; e; jgrace@notc.org

MARYLAND Annapolis Chapter Joseph P. Ferrara Jr. '65 ' ^ 902 Ravelston Terrace. Arnold, MD 21012 h: 410-757-7760; e; pferrara65@aol.com

A loyal group of about 15 Chapter members journeyed to American University on 30 January to support the Navy basketball team. It was an exciting game that went into overtime. Despite a 67-66 loss, everyone certainly witoessed a hotly contested event.

The Chapter's 7 February lunch featured USNA's D r Ernest Tucker an internationally recognized scholar of Islamic history and culture. He spoke to the group of nearly 90 guests on the subject of "Islam and modernity; the current confrontation." His comments focused on the great internal conflict in Islamic countries today in trying to resolve issues of separating govemment and religion, and how resolution of that problem would help them to develop modem states. Dr Tucker fielded numerous questions and provided an insight into the peoples of that region of the world.

Annapolis Chapter, USNA Alumni Association Planned 2002 Chapter Schedule RSVP's to 410-293-6337 or AnnapChap@ usna.com. All events at the O & F Club, unless otherwise noted.

April: Tuesday, 2 April at 11:30 a.m.—Direc' tor of Athletics, Chet Gladchuk, on an update of S Navy sports and his long term plans (confirmed).

Saturday, 20 April—tailgate for Chapter members at Navy for Johns Hopkins lacrosse game.

May: Tuesday, 7 May at 11:30 a.m.—Commandant of Midshipmen, Col John Allen, on his plans for the Brigade (date being finalized).

June: Tuesday, 4 June from 5-8 p.m.—Class of 2006 appointees' night with parents. To include an Academy official as host.

September: Date and time TBD. Propose to invite new Superintendent.

October: TBD. Plan to invite senior Naval Officer from Pentagon staff.

November: TBD. USMC recognition with senior Marine Officer December: Sunday, 15 December, from 5-8 p.m. Holiday celebration with twice as many gift drawings as last year!

Special Note In addition, each month from September through June the Chapter will sponsor a business networking breakfast to be held at Denny's Restaurant, 2095 West St., Annapolis, ft will be at 7 a.m. on the second Thursday of each month. All are welcome. Sean O'Donnell '89 (seanabby@ aol.com) will host each breakfast. If you plan to attend a particular breakfast, please RSVP to Shipmate, April 2002

Detroit Chapter I to r: Jon Bayless '79, Wit Davis '80, Joe Walsh, Jim Fleming '66, Art Bryant '66, John Lin '92, and Mike Bennett Sean prior to that business breakfast at 410-9915623 or by email. The objective of the business networking breakfasts will be to provide the opportunity to share business experiences, identify business opportunities, and discuss employment concems. As this new event evolves, we envision including topic speakers as appropriate.

Baltimore Chapter CDR Steve G. Young '84, USNR c/o Morgan Stanley 11311 McConnick Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 w; 410-229-8206; e; Steven.G.Youns@msdw.com

Greater S o u t h e m M a r y l a n d Chapter CAPT Michael A, Cosgrove, USN (Ret.) '70 19238 King James Parkway Lexington Park MD 20653-3627 e; mcosgrove@bsspax.com http;//www.navy alumni.org

In addition, several Alumni, both active duty and civilian, spoke about life in the service and afterward. At the reception there was plenty of time for one-on-one questions and answers. The night marked the changing of the guard in the Blue & Gold organization as Joe Walsh is tuming over the head job to Mike Bennett after 15 very good years of sending candidates to USNA from Michigan. Thanks, Joe. The January luncheon was held on Wednesday, 16 January at the Dearbom Inn. Present were Joe Walsh, Mike Bennett, Doneta Malinowski, Jun Hanford '59, BiU Penn '63, Larry CareUo'73, Al Fylak'78, Charles Schott '85, and Mike Lanterman '88. We got the new year off to a good start discussing the war against terrorism and current Navy actions. Please attend our next luncheon.

April dinner: Saturday, 20 April, 6:30 p.m.

DAC. 7-8 September: Blue Angels at Toledo (www.blueangels.navy.mil).

M I N N E S O T A Upper Midwest Chapter

MASSACHUSETTS Boston Chapter CDR William E Malloy, Jn USNR '80 » j f 31 Wildcat Ln., Norwell, MA 02061 h; 781-659-9484; b; 617-742-3311; e; wfmalloy@yahoo.com; bill @malloygroup.com

M I C H I G A N Detroit Chapter Arthur W. Bryant '66 1811 Hollywood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1311 h; 313-885-2174; fi 313-881-2333 e: lynorart@home.com On 27 December 2001 our Chapter assisted the Blue & Gold Officers with OPINFO night at the Dettoit Athletic Club. More than 130 people attended the event where Midshipmen, home on Christmas leave, talked to prospective candidates.

David C. Berghult '91 6628 Parkwood Rd., Edina, MN 55436-1073 w: 952-953-5353; e: berghultdc@bernslein.com

MISSOURI Greater Kansas City Metro Chapter Kyle E. Martin '74 16901 Meadow Lane, Belton, MO 64012-4112 w: 913-498-8088; e; kmartin@mileposttans.com Sec'y; Joe Spencer '92 e; jspencer@go-onpoint.com St. Louis Chapter LCDR Alex Von Zur Muehlen '90 12565 Larkwood Dr, St. Louis, MO 63146-4501 h; 314-878-1288; e; avonzrmuehlen@srob.com On 8 December 2001, an awards ceremony was held for the Naval Sea and League Cadets in Olivette, MO. Alumni present were: Dorothy and John Kane '44, Mike Dunham '70, and 143

Alison and Columbus PoUard '82. The Cadets put on a wonderful program, and I am pleased to inform you that Columbus Pollard 11 is a member of the League Cadets.

On 29 December 2 0 0 1 , the All Service Academies Ball was held at the Millennium Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The Midshipmen and Cadets from Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, and Navy were present in large numbers and each Service Academy contingent invited their altmini to join them in singing their respective alma maters. The Navy group was John Kane '44, Tina and Mike Dunham '70, Sonya, Nichole and Alex Von Zur Muehlen '90, and Julie Zavodny '95.

Adult beverages were available in quantity and the dancing went on until midnight. It was a very enjoyable evening.

NEBRASKA Omaha Chapter

NORTH CAROljlNA Charlotte Chapter

CAPT Dennis R. Fox '79, USN 2113 Christine Stteet, Papillion, NE 68133 h: 402-597-8862; w; 402-294-3722 e; fox79@hotmail.com Sec'y; LCDR Chris Verdoni '88 4605 Longview Stteet, Papillion, NE 68133 h; 402-292-3230; w; 402-294-8309 e; cverdoni@email.msn.com

Bryan Dolan '76 5629 Laurium Road, Charlotte, NC 28226 h; 704-364-6451 This will be a short column but will include tiiree important items. First, we hope (direct from Bryan Dolan), that by mid-year, to have a web page up and ranning through the auspices and support of die USNAAlumni Association web site.

Frankly, I do not know any details yet; however information will be passed to you as quickly as possible. Your responsibility will be to input the data (name, address, phone, etc.) that I have been trying to keep current on an Excel spreadsheet. Once the page is operational, that will become om first line of communication within the Charlotte Chapter Second item: I now have a complete printout from USNA AA of all Alunmi they consider to be in our area. The list obviously includes Charlotte and surrounding environs (all of Mecklenburg County), but also includes Concord, Gastonia, Salisbury and about 12 other cities in Nortii Carolina, plus Chester Clover Fort Mill, Lake Wylie, Lancaster Rock Hill, Tega Cay, and York, SC. Believe it or not, the total number of Alumni listed is 253 (of which we know diree have recendy moved as a result of business transfers). As you are probably aware, there are only about 70 or so on our active Chapter roster I am going to try to convert the list to a spreadsheet and send the complete list (email or U.S. mail) to everyone on the list. To those whose email address I do not have, I will include a short questionnaire to be retumed to me. The first question will be, "Are you interested in maintaining contact with the Alumni Chapter in Charlotte?" If the response is "no," we will discontinue "bugging" that person.

N E V A D A Las Vegas Chapter Bradley Carlson '91 2246 Darwin Circle, Henderson, NV 89014-3105 h: 702-433-7248; w; 702-433-2100 e: BCarlson@goidc.com W'*

N E W M E X I C O Albuquerque Chapter

Mike Dunham. Julie Zavodny, and Alex Von Zur Muehlen

Michael J. Petrofes '80 1916 Momingside Drive NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 h: 505-255-4253; e; pettofes@flash.net

N E W Y O R K Capital District C h a p t e r , ^ g n ^ â&#x201E;˘ n ÂŤ LCDR Thomas M. Owens ' I 205 Colonial Ave., Albany, NY 12208-2404 h; 518-446-9278; e: towens@uswired4ed.nel Metro N e w York Chapter LT Robert V. Peyreigne '81, USNR 45 Bradley Rd., Weston, CT 06883 w: 203-291-1021 e; robert.peyreigne@ubspainewebber.com Chapter Hothne: 1-800-234-USNA web site; www.NAANY.org Western N e w York Chapter CAPT Nelson A. Blish '69, USNR (Ret.) 3840 East Ave., Rochester NY 14618-3729 h; 716-248-9739; e; nelson.blish@kodak.com Julie Zavodny, John Kane, and Tina Dunham 26 January 2002 saw an impromptu Dark Ages festivity at Yia Yia's euro cafe in Chesterfield.

Participating Alumni were: Arm and Raese Simpson '61, Marie and Phil Saunders '62, Margarette and John Boley '63, Mary Beth and Jun Checkett '64, Gloria and Bob Berber '70, Tina and Mike Dunham, Carol and Chuck Stout '70, Barb and Bill Cocos '71, and Leah and Skip Giessmg '73.

The Febraary happy hour was held at the VFW on Midland Road on 8 Febraary. Dorothy and John Kane, Ron Hill '70, and Mike Dunham kept the banner flying. DEXA Mike Dunham '70

The Westem New York Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association held its fall meeting on 11 October 2001. The guest speaker was Col John Allen '76, commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy. Col Allen gave an update on the state of the Naval Academy and the Class of 2005. The meeting was attended by Naval Academy Alumni, members of the Parents Club, and members of the Navy League.

Tom Hutchins cthmph@bellsouth.net 704-375-9046

Piedmont Triad Chapter Col Gary L. Beaver '77, USMCR 10 Silver Oak Court, Greensboro, NC 27455 h; 336-288-8792; e; gbeaver@adamskleemeiercom Triangle Chapter

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Last item and one that I think you are going to like. Mark your calendar for 8 and 9 November, 2002! I am pleased to be able to tell you that the Midshipmen Men's Glee Club will appear in concert with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestta on Friday and Saturday evenings, 8 and 9 November of this year. 'This will be one of the Orchestta's "Pops" Series concerts and, as you can tell from the dates, will be the weekend before Veteran's Day. You will certainly want to make plans now to plan to attend one of the two performances. The Glee Club only makes one trip each semester for performances throughout the countty. We are very fortunate to have been able to obtain approval by the Commandant for one of those trips to be a visit to Charlotte.

Helmuts Feifs '66 Festive Fen Acres 6242 Dello St., Durham, NC 27712 h: 919-477-3148; e; vanags@mindspring.com Shipmate, April 2002

The February lunch meeting was a nice break in the middle of the "Dark Ages!" Our focus was giving recognition and thanks to Bill Gautier '67 for his efforts as Chapter president from 1999 to 2001. Helmuts Feifs '66, our current president, presented Bill with a well-deserved Certificate of Appreciation from the Alumni Association. Bill is well-known for asking members to "tell everyone what you are famous for" It was evident from the remarks of the members present that Bill is famous for making others feel welcome, tirelessly helping members find employment, and always putting others first—a legacy we're all grateful for Members present at the meeting were: Chuck Adams '63, Greg Atchison '78, Bill Benedict '42, Sankey Blanton '71, Jim Brown '35, Dave Burden '58, Dave Clement '80, Jenifer Clement ' 8 1 , Candi Cunningham '94, Bill Dehart '53, Helmuts Feifs '66, Andy Finlayson '66, Milt Forsyth '57, Bill Gautier '67, Mike Hodges '88, Tom Leiser '67, Gary Lew '60, Jim Mellencamp '48, Chuck Paddock ' 5 1 , Bill Pearce '78, Dave Ruden '87, John Scott '67, Bill Smith ' 5 1 , Ken Smith '66, Ben Terrell '47, and S.T. Walter ' 6 1 .

The Chapter meets for lunch on the first Friday of each month at Newton's Southwest Restaurant, at the Harrison Avenue exit of 1-40 in Cary. For membership information, call Joe Matza at 919-816-8050.

Toledo Chapter Robert J. Lauer '45 3825 Sulphur Spring Rd., Toledo, OH 43606-2325 h: 419-536-4462; w: 419-475-2061 e; rjonlauer@aol.com

O K L A H O M A O k l a h o m a City Chapter CAPT Charles C. Coley '34, USN (Ret.) 411 NW 14th St., Oklahoma City OK 73103-3510 h; 405-235-0234; e; cccusn@aol.com 1\ilsa Chapter CDR Harry V. Rouse IV '77, USN (Ret.) 2623 East 33 Place, Tulsa, OK 74105-2334 h; 918-748-8650; e; HVRouse@aol.com

O R E G O N %,.,.,„,.„_ Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter Bruce G. Thompson '73 8425 N.W. Copeland St., Portland, OR 97229 h; 503-292-8833; w: 503-226-6491 e; brace@btelderlaw.com web site; http;//usnaaa.coni/Chapters/US/OR

For more information view NEW JERSEY web page at www.BattleshipNewJersey org or call 866-877-6262.

News Input Philadelphia Chapter news input for die Shipmate should be emailed to Paul H. James '81 (USNAPhil@yahoo.com).

Pittsburgh Chapter William E. Otto '71 4105 Tartan Court, Mun-ysville, PA 15668-1045 h: 724-325-4281; w; 412-856-3500 e: Figaro4l05@aol.com Another meeting of the Pittsburgh Chapter Business and Professional Network (BPN) was held on 12 February at Houlihan's in Station Square. Chapter President Bill Otto '71 was in attendance, as were Vice President Rick Lee '75, and Secretary Kyle Baker '92. We also saw Jim Phelan '60, Fernando Cardoza '76, Tom Shumaker '86, and Scott Ward '90.

Everyone enjoyed drinks, dinner and a casual conversation. It was a great opportunity to meet other Alumni in the area and shai^e some ideas about the community, current events, and business. The BPN holds meetings in the even numbered months, and is planning to attend a baseball game in June.

Contact Kyle Baker at 412-566-6476 for details.

PHILIPPINES Philippines Chapter

P E N N S Y L V A N I A Philadelphia Chapter Paul James '81 323 Minuteman Drive, Collegeville, PA19426-3494 w; 610-669-6700; e: USNAPhil@Yahoo.com http;//www.usna.com/Chapters

LtorAnu i - ; . i^nifer Clement'81, Helmuts Feifs '66, Maggie and Bill Gautier '67, and Chuck Adams '63

OHIO -* Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter Michael F. Simon '73 ^>^ 757 Maidstone Court, CincinnatitOH 45230-3827 h: 513-231-3174; e: msimon757@aol.com Cleveland Chapter CAPT A.O. Rule III '50, USNR (Ret.) 90 Pheasant Run, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 h: 440-247-4379; w; 440-247-5100 x328 e; ruIeIIl@aol.com Columbus/Central O h i o Chapter CAPT Wm. "Mick" Taylor '68, USMC (Ret.) 850 Katherines Wood Drive, Columbus, OH 43235 w; 614-416-3501; fi 614-416-3668 e: wmtaylor@greatlandinsurance.com

Shipmate, April 2002

Elections for the Philadelphia Chapter officers and board of directors are scheduled for 30 June 2002 via mail. We have openings for president and vice president of events, as well as, directors.

If you are interested in becoming involved with the Chapter board, please contact VP-Membership, Clay Henry '82 (LerzC@aol.com), before 7 April by email or call 610-948-6998 in the evening.

The Philadelphia Chapter board of directors has planned a diverse schedule of events. For more information, visit the Philadelphia Chapter web page at www.usna.com.

Upcoming Events Sponsored by USNA AA of Philadelphia 20 April: Fonthill Museum Tour Bucks Co. 4 May: A-N Golf Challenge, Limekiln Golf 5 May: VFMA & C Regimental Parade / / May: Buckingham Valley Vineyard tour 15 September: Air Show/Pool Party— Thunderbirds 10 October: Founders Day Dinner A mailing to dues paid members will precede USNA AA of Philadelphia events. Anyone interested in helping to ran events throughout the year please contact VP-Events, Keith Smith '74 (KSmith@Prodesco.com).

NEW JERSEY (BB-62), is now open for tours, dinners, and receptions. Home Port Alliance President, RADM Thomas Seigenthaler '54 would like to invite Alumni to make plans to visit.

CAPT Rafael V. Dacanay '76, PN Apt. F5E JOQ, Bonifacio Naval Station Makati City, Philippines h; 632-894-4121; w/fi 632-815-3420x6458" e: rvd76@yahoo.com Sec'y: LCDR Julianito Bucayan '85, PN Head, Info Systems Office AFPRSBS, Camp Aguinaldo, QC p: 911-4071 x275;e;jun@nisf.mil.phan(i mleague@compass.com.ph

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CAPT James N. Roberts '59, USN (Ret.) 152 Springlakes Drive, Martinez, GA 30907 h; 706-860-6430; e; jrobe92528@aol.com To join, contact Sec'y/Tres: LtCoI Michael C. Stevens '59, USAF (Ret.) 900 Big Lick Hollow Road New Haven, KY 40051-6211 h; 502-549-3610; e; mstevens@bardstown.com Shipmate inputs to: Mike Stroop '54 138 Cantebury Drive, Madison, AL 35758 e: pstroop@earthlink.net Chapter web site; www.clik.to/rvnews Key West is over for another year I missed it, so I can not report facts but I feel safe with the assumption that all who attended had a great time. There is never a dull moment when the Trash Man is in charge.

The Great Outdoors—Titusville, FL, is on the schedule for 13-16 March. Bev and Lee Hebbard '53 are in charge of this one. Our special rates apply for any that want to arrive a day or two ahead or stay a day or two later The roster that I saw

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had many of the standard attendees but some new names that are attending for the first time. I like to see that because I think that once you experience a Come Around, chances are good that you will want to come more often.

River View Mountain Vista—^Dillard, GA, will be our second National Come Around. Bing and Bunny are our Firsty's this year and River View has a lot to offer Some of it is new and different like the white water rafting. You don't want to miss this one so mark your calendar now for 15-19 May. Missed an Issue Did anyone notice the lack of a column last month? Unless I hear from someone that reads and wants this each month I'll start resting on my oars and cut back. I am looking for a relief after over two years scribe duty. Any volunteers?

From Watts Bar One might think these guys are twins. They sure look like it in this picture taken at Watts Bar. Both are ex-Navy pilots but one is from '56 and the other from '59. One was a six striper One is Dale and the other is Darrel. I wonder if they have another brother Darrel?

Who's who?

Mike and Cricket Dog

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Newport Chapter ADM James R. Hogg '56, USN (Ret) 2556 West Main Road, Portsmouth, RI 0 2 8 7 1 ^ ^ h; 401-841-2625 ^ ^ Our January speaker was CAPT Bill Calhoun '67. Bill describes himself as a real "cat and dog" helo pilot whose tours included flying gunship support in the Mekong Delta for Riverine Forces and SEAL Teams, CVA and ttaining assignments as well as XO/CO of HC-1 at North Island and Air Boss in PELELIU ( L H A - 5 ) . Bill joined the faculty at the War College in 1988 and was dean of academics from 1993-2000 and is now back full-time teaching NSDM at the War College.

In 1977, Bill earned his law degree from the University of Georgia.

Bill's talk to us was entitied "A Brief Inttoduction to George [Washington] on his Birthday."

He started digging into George while recuperating from surgery (his brother Marcus Calhoun '64, USNA, gave him a seven volume biography, "...and I surprised everyone, including myself, by reading it.") Bill does not claim to be a scholar of George, just a layman with a very thin veneer of knowledge. Those of us fortunate to attend Bill's presentation know better! Rather than recounting George's most impressive or well-known accomplishments. Bill told us a little bit about "where" he came from, what and who influenced him, and a brief look at his legacy.

If the General were at our Alumni dinner he would not have made the gathering any more casual or informal—in fact, he would have

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made us feel pretty stiff, adding an air of a very dignified gravitas. Think of a powerful man who has the physical stattu-e of an NFL linebacker—6-foot, 2-inches, with sttong arms and huge hands—with the look if not the literal appearance of a very grave and composed George C. Scott. Yet, he was also graceful (...the best horseman of his age..." according to Jefferson), generous and calm, and apparently a courteous and attentive listener The deeper Bill researched George, the more he realized he was a very great and real man.

Bill kept us enttanced with slides and characterizations, which depicted the George we never read about in school. Space limitations preclude me going into the humanizing details that we were fortunate to hear, but some of Bill's concluding remarks must be shared.

George Washington's reputation and stature had been fundamental to the constitutional Convention, "Be assured, his influence carried the government," James Monroe wrote to Jefferson. As President, George Washington made many important contributions; perhaps, the most important was firmly establishing the power and dignity of the office and the primacy of the President in foreign policy, treaties, and in the appointment of officials. Remember, no one had a firm idea at all of how tiie executive would work! He worked to strengtiien the Union, and then (as when he left the Continental Army), he resigned from an office everyone assumed he would have for life, thus establishing the unwritten two-term limit. He linked the ideals of the past embodied in his character into our nation's future by being a man of virtuous and resolute action in his own time. He was a man who did what he was asked to do, and had the great goodness of good sense, or pmdence. Pradence is not a spectacular quality, but what could be more valuable given the awesome responsibilities Washington undertook?

Bill Calhoun's talk was followed by a lively Q & A session, which could have gone on indefinitely if not for everyone's desire to get home in time to watch President Bush's State-of-TheUnion-Address.

If you Trussed our January meeting, you really missed a good one!

Joining us for our January dinner meeting were; Tom Weschler '39, Benny and Ken Lyons '46, Dot and Fred Stevenson '46, Wirt Thayer '47 and Mary Soares, Gay and Brad Becken '47, Earle Trickey '47, Maggie and Frank Snyder '48, Muriel and Roger Buck '50, Pud and Bob Connelly '52, Tom Lyons '52, Anne and Jim Hogg '56, Jane and Howard Burdick '56, Ben Katz '57, Katie Aheame '57, Wayne Robinson '58, Barbara and Joe Strasser '63, Jane and Bill Calhoun '67 and their daughter Janie, Vince Mocini '73, Gary Hoist '77 and Associate members Rachel and Tommy Thompson USMA '36, Mary and Jack Bumey USMA '46, Carol-Ann and Fred Lantz, Betsy and Charles Jauss, and George Smith and his guests, Tom Suprock and Susanne Daley.

Here's the schedule for the rest of the year; 26 March: CDR Vassilios Politis, Hellenic Navy, NCC Student 30 April: Alberto Coll "Cuba Today" 28 May: Mackubbin Owens "The Marine Corps Today" 25 June: Keith Stokes "Visions For Newport"

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, 26 Febraary 2002 at tiie Officer's Club. Sea stories from 6:30-7:15 p.m. and dien enjoy a dinner of broiled scrod.

Our guest speaker will be RADM Rodney Rempt '66, president. Naval War College.

For those passing tfu-ough, we usually meet on the last Tuesday of September-November and January-June. Spouses, friends, and otiier service academy grads are welcome. While we encourage membership at $20 ($10 for active duty), those who are only here for a short time are most welcome without joining.

If you plan to attend the Febraary meeting, please tty to let me know by Friday, 22 Febraary.

Cancellations by Monday, noon, 25 Febraary may secure a refund or credit—^but please let me know right up to meeting time if you must cancel.

Dinner is $23 per person.

Ben, corresponding secretary becat@ earthlink.net

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Charleston Chapter CAPT James E. Welsch '67 USN, (Ret) 1093 Deleisseline Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 h: 843-849-1979; e; jamesew@awod.c©ni http;//home.sc.rr.coni/mitt/navy South Carolina M i d l a n d s Chapter Rev. Arts P. Metrakos '78 9 Baying Hound Way, Blythewood, SC 29016-8743 h; 803-786-8100; e: navyjenkins@mindspring.com Web site; www.members.aol.com/usnaaasc Palmetto WUliam B. Swent '88 Leatherwood, Walker Todd & Mann, P.C. 100 E. Coffee St., RO. Box 87 Greenville, SC 29602-0087 w; 864-242-6440; e; WSwent@LWTM.com L o w Country Chapter John R. Rodman Jr. '66 30 Persimmon Place Hilton Head Island, SC 29926-2868 h; 843-342-2856; e; jrodman@hargray.com

T E N N E S S E E Chattanooga Chapter Charles T. Higgins '64 RO. Box 15427, Chattanooga, TN 37415-0427 h: 423-877-0776 x l l ; fi 423-874-0852 r: 423-886-1111; o; 423-877-0776 x l l e; cthiggins64@home.com Knoxville-Oak Ridge Chapter CDR A. Jerry Popp '62, USN (Ret.) 106 Heron Court, Vonore, TN 37885 h; 865-483-0258; e: PoppJ@pathwayb.com Here's a continuation of photos from the March column.

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Army-Navy Party Hosted by Linda and Carl Strawbridge '72

Memphis Chapter CAPT Edward A. Lyons '69, USNR 2557 Park Creek Cove, Germantown, TN 38139 h; 901-755-1286

audience. Lisa and Richard Nowak '85 have three children and live in the Clear Lake community.

The Nowaks and Bart Jealous '65, Chapter vice president, appear in the accompanying photo taken by our photographer Andy Howard '75.

Nashville Chapter CDR John E Ohlinger '69, USN (Ret.) 880 Lakemont Drive, Nashville, TN 37220-2124 h; 615-370-1441; w; 800-242-8613 e: johlinger@worldnet.att.net

Farly in the game a happy Paul Mueller '76

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West Point Society presentation to Linda Strawbridge

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LCDR James M. Bethmann '77, USNR 2203 Creekside Circle South, Irving, TX 75063 w: 214-954-1834; e; jim.bethmann@komferty.com Kurt Metcalf'91 ^ Advanced Technology Practice Kom/Ferty Intemational, 2100 McKinney Ave. Suite 1800, Dallas, TX 75201 w; 214-954-1834 x3014; fi 214-954-1027 web site; http://www.koraferty.com

South Texas Chapter LCDR Lawrence S. Stovall II '84, USNR 2427 Wildemess Wood, San Antonio, TX 78231 h: 210-493-4377; e; mysabrina@aol.com Jerty surtounded by smiling Army fans

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Lynn A. Wegner '65 6909 Northhampton Way, Houston, TX 77055 w; 713-263-8001 x265 e: lwegner@rectorseal.com

Jay McDonald "64 and Rudy Escher '69

Jeny Popp "62, Jim Bib "57, Val Win Richard '52

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February's Meeting Our Chapter's "Third Annual Valentine's Luncheon" was held on 1 February, and red roses were given to all invited special guests. Bart Jealous '65 introduced our keynote speaker CDR Lisa Nowak '85. CDR Nowak, currendy serving as a NASA asttonaut, joined us and candidly shared her experiences regarding the integration of women into the Naval Academy and the aviation community. Several stories revolved around "peer pressure," sometimes as a catalyst for change and sometimes as an inhibitor of change.

Lisa eamed her NFO wings in June 1987 and flew the EA-7L in the Electronic Warfare Squadron 34 at Point Mugu. She later completed graduate studies at Monterey, eventually followed by Naval Test Pilot School, and then she was selected for the Astronaut program in April 1996.

Lisa's comments were very well received by a diverse audience of Alumni, spouses. Parents' Club members, and friends of USNA. Later she answered a wide range of questions from the

Richard Nowak '85. Lisa Nowak '85, and Bait Jealous '65 The luncheon was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

And as witness to the large turnout, this kind of innovative programming, suggested by Lynn Wegner '65, coupled with an interesting speaker really works. As always, our thanks also go to Bart Jealous '65 for his continuing success in bringing first-class speakers to our meetings.

June Dinner As in prior years, our annual Chapter dinner will be held on Friday night, 7 June, at Brennan's Restaurant for Alumni, spouses, guests, and the USNA Parents' Club members. More info to come. Also, please visit our Chapter's new web site, http://www.usna.com/Chapters/US/TX/ GulfCoast/default.htm.

Business Networking Meetings Several of our USNA shipmates are members of the Academy Business Exchange (a Houstonbased national business networking group consisting of grads from all the service academies). The twice-monthly breakfast meetings are cuirently held at 7:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Friday of every month at the Metropolitan Racquet Club. Breakfast is free for all first-time visitors. A nominal charge of $10 for recurring attendees is to cover the cost of the breakfast and the meeting room. The breakfast schedule changes periodically, so please contact Steve Joens '71 (joens@swbell.net; 281-370-3813), or Monica Ortega (mortega@hdinc.com) for schedule updates Chapter Meetings Chapter meetings are usually held on the first Friday of every month (5 April, 3 May, 6 September, and 4 October) at Brennan's Restaurant (11:30 a.m. refreshments, and 12-1 p.m. lunch). Our annual Chapter Dinner (for Alumni, spouses, guests, and the USNA Parents' Club members) will be held on 7 June. As in prior years, there will be no luncheon meetings in June, July, or August. Please join us! For any additional information on any item in this column, please call me at 713-750-8868 or send an email to kleinl985@sbcglobal.net.

Ed Klein '72

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U T A H / I D A H O / M O N T A N A A V Y O M I N G Intermountain N A Alumni Chapter

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Allen P. Whitaker '60 2304 West Island Road, Wilhamsburg, VA 23185 h: 757-258-4628; e; whitaker57@home.com

J. Kevin Dolan '71 2415 East 10305 South, Sandy, UT 84092-4416 h: 801-942-7240; e; kdolan@fonix.com W A S H I N G T O N Hanford/Tri-Cities Chapi

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CAPT Roger C. Adams '70, USN (Ret.) 4-100 Wexford Court, Apt K, Roanoke, VA 24018 h: 540-776-3327 e; cadamsusna70@msn.com

Central Virginia Chapter CAPT Anthony A. Hastoglis '55, USN (Ret.) 102 Shawnee Ct., Charlottesville, VA 22901-1034 h; 804-973-7846; e: a.hastoghs@att.net

Hampton Roads Chapter CAPT Peter K. Glasier '62, USN (Ret.) 1105 Glenside Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464 h: 757-467-7476; w; 757-340-6700 e; pete62@erols.com Richmond Chapter Nelson Rich III '84 8902 Highgate Hill Dr, Chesterfield, VA 23832 b; 804-639-3583; e; njrichiii@aol.com

Shenandoah "VaUey Chapter David V. Langfitt '74 125 Henrico Road, Front Royal, VA 22630 w: 540-636-2138; e; davidlangfitt@netscape.net

CAPT Edward G. Schwier '69, USN (Ret.) 1196 Brentwood Ave., Richland, WA 99352-8540 h: 509-627-7288; w; 509-372-0176 e; egschwier@aol.com The Tri-Cities Chapter normally meets on the third Friday of the month at 6:30 p.m., however we vary that as required because of schedule conflicts. If you are going to be in the area and want to spend some quality time with fellow Alumni, give me a call, and we can arrange an impromptu "meeting." If you have a "distinguished Alumni" visiting, please let me know and we can, perhaps, arrange a special gathering—and, of course, we are all "distinguished Alumni."

Jeanie and I are attending a major reunion the last week of Febraary (yes, the column inputs are due two months in advance). My graduating company, the 33rd is gathering in Las Vegas for our 33rd reunion. I will have details in my next column and at our March gathering in the Tri-Cities.

Our April meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Friday, 19 April at the TS Cattle Company Steak House in Kennewick. The May meeting location has not yet been established, but we plan to gather on 17 May. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us. If you are interested in planning or hosting a USNA AA gathering, please give me a call.

Have a great spring and Beat Armyl You are always welcome to bring guests, particularly alumni of other service academies, to any of our functions. If you have information for our

monthly Chapter newsletter or a suggestion for an event, contact either of us by email at Edward_G_Ed_Schwier@rl.gov or egschwier@ aol.com.

Edward Schwier '69 Puget Sound Chapter CAPT Colin H. Saari '60, USN (Ret.) 12503 Ninth Ave., NW, Seattle, WA98177 h: 206-361-1192; w; 206-543-1363 e: saari@apl.washington.edu Web site; www.usnaaa-psc.org

W A S H I N G T O N , D A R E A Greater Washington Chapfer RADM Kenneth P. Barausky '67, USNR 111534 Hemingway Drive, Reston, VA 20194 h; 703-904-9231; e; Ken.Barausky@eds.com

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W I S C O N S I N Wisconsin Chapter Guy T. Mascari '69 6619 West Lloyd St., Wauwatosa, 'WI 53213 h: 414-774-6874; w: 414-778-1400; fi 414-778-1178 e; gtm@mcrpc.org

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Requie.scat in Pace 'They shall grow not old. as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."

-Laurence Binyon. 1914

Bailey, George Winston '32 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 14 Febraaiy 2002 Baker, David Arthur '63 20 February 2002 Batcheller, James Hervey Jr. '41 * CDR, USN (Ret.) 24 December 2001 Baum, Raymond Ernest Jr. '68 * 8 January 2002 Blasko, William Anthony '52 7 Febraary 2002 Blizard, Floyd Harry '48 CDR. USN (Ret.) 16 November 2001 Cagney, Thomas Patrick '52 CDR, USN (Ret.) 8 Febraary 2002 Christian, Dale '53 CDR, USN (Ret.) 24 June 2001 Curtis, Donald Putnam '45 CDR, USN (Ret.) 11 August 2001 Davis, Henry William '53 * 8 Febraary 2002 Dougherty, Francis Steams '46 13 February 2002 Duke, Marvin Leonard '51 * CAPT, USN (Ret.) 9 January 2002 Ellis, David Eugene '53 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 23 Febraary 2002 Enriquez, Kurt James '86 2 Febraary 2002 Ewoldt, Leonard Emil '37 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 10 October 2001

Fisher, James Rhodes M. II '46 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 13 Februaiy 2002 Gerath, Joseph Anthony Jr. '37 * Col, USMC (Ret.) 1 Febraary 2002 Goldberg, Herschel Joseph '35 RADM, SC, USN (Ret.) 14 February 2002 Gower, Robert Franklin '47 CDR, USN (Ret.) 3 February 2002 Hanson, Ralph Morgan '43 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 27 January 2002 Hertel, Frank Monroe '40 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 26 Febraary 2002 Highsmith, William Newton '46 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 29 January 2002 Howell, Jay Stanley '44 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 31 December 2001 Jaworski, Edmund William '48 LtCol, USMC (Ret.) 17 January 2002 Kane, Richard Neil '57 * 30 July 1999 Kling, George Malcolm '49 * 2 November 2001 Lanciano, Claude Olwen Jr. '44 1 February 2002 Leonard, John Albert '38 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 26 December 2001 Martin, Charles David '74 3 January 1988 McKnight, John Rowland Jr. '30 RADM. USN (Ret.) 8 February 2002

Captain Stubbs practiced law in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Nebraska Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Tax Court. He served as assistant attorney general of Nebraska; and was also a partner in Davis, Stubbs and Healy in Lincoln, NE, and Stubbs and Metz, in Alliance, NE. Captain Stubbs is survived by his sons, John DANIEL STUBBS ' 2 5 M. Stubbs of Nashville, TN, Commander David Captain Daniel W. Stubbs ' 5 8 , USNR (Ret.), of Tucson, AZ, Stubbs, JAGC, USNR and Daniel F. Stubbs of San Luis Obispo, CA; (Ret.), died on 8 January seven grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; 2002, in Tucson, AZ. He and a sister Frances Stubbs Hill of Colorado was 98 years old.

Springs, CO. He was born on His ashes will be interred in the columbarium 30 October 1 9 0 3 , in of St. Phillip's in the Hills Episcopal Church in Superior NE, to Frank Tucson, next to those of his wife, Margaret.

Hales Stubbs and Avis excerpts from the Arizona Daily Star Idona Long. He married —13 January 2002 Margaret Davis, daughter of the former governor of Idaho, David W. Davis, on 14 September 1930.

He graduated from both the Naval Academy Tjlunl<iof a[[ the. Beauty stiCCteft with the Class of 1925 and Harvard Law School. arouncfyou and be fiappy.

Captain Stubbs commanded LST squadrons and flotillas in the European and Pacific theaters —yltine !Fran/(i during World War II. Correction: In the March obituary for Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Jr '36, the last name of his daughter, Elizabeth, was printed incorrectly and should have read: Elizabeth Van Dom. We apologize for the mistake.

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Middleton, John Robert Jr. '35 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 22 September 2001 Newman, Roscoe Lee '30 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 29 January 2002 Parker, Jefferson David '35 * CAPT, USN (Ret.) 2 Febraary 2002 Parker, Charles Stafford '60 19 February 2002 Phelps, John MitcheU '34 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 11 January 2002 Powell, Edgar Samuel Jr. '34 * CAPT, USN (Ret.) 25 January 2002 Rodes, Nye Goble '47 * LtCol, USMC (Ret.) 18 November 2001 Spencer, William Allen '47 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 9 Febraary 2002 Stewart, Richard Lewis '41 LCDR, USN (Ret.) 20 December 2001 Sullivan, Joseph James '46 * LCDR, USN (Ret.) 2 July 2001 Walton, Albion William Jr. '46 RADM, USN (Ret.) 24 January 2002 Wamer, Arthur Hobart Jr. '42 * CAPT, USN (Rct.j 31 Januaiy 2002 Willmarth, John Morrison '58 LtCol, USMC (Ret.) 22 Febraary 2002 Wolff, Marc Theodore '56 22 November 2001 * obituary appears in this issue

FRANCIS MARION PETERS J R . '31

Captain Francis M. "Pete" Peters J r , USN (Ret.), died on 6 January 2002. He was 93 years old.

Captain Peters was bom in Bluefield, WV, on 22 January 1908.

After attending Bluefield College and Emory & Henry College, he graduated with the Naval Academy Class of 1931. He was first assigned to the destroyer BABBITT, then to the batdeship MISSISSIPPI (1933-1934) forherrecommissioning.

Subsequently, he was in gunnery positions on the aircraft carrier RANGER, (1934-1936), the heavy cruiser HOUSTON (1936-1937), and CHAUMONT

(1937-1938) which evacuated Americans from China during the Sino-Japanese War From 1938-1939, Captain Peters taught in the electrical engineering department at USNA. During this time, he married Virginia Page Sellman of Baltimore, MD. Back at sea. Captain Peters served on a series of destroyers as gunnery and e x e c u t i v e officer of ABLE P. UPSHUR;

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LAST CALL executive officer of GRAYSON (1940-1942); and then to Guadalcanal as commanding officer of HOPKINS (1942-1943) which saw action in the Solomon Islands, Rendova Island, and the New Georgia Group, for which he received the Silver Star and his ship the Navy Unit Commendation.

After a tour of duty at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, DC, Captain Peters served as executive officer of ROCHESTER from commissioning until 1948. Two shore duty posts followed—BuPers Plans and Policy Control Division (1948-1951), and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (1951 -1952). He then served as CO of AMPHION ( A R - 1 3 ) (1952-1953), until

becoming head of the personnel mobilization plans branch of the office of the CNO (19531956). His final sea command was as squadron commander of DesRon 28, on board ROBERT A. OWENS (1956-1957). After serving in the office of the inspector general for the Military Sea Transport Service, MSTS, Captain Peters retired in 1961.

His campaign and service medals include the Silver Star Navy Unit Citation, China Service Medal, American Defense Service Medal with "A," American Theater Medal, European African Area Medal, Asiatic Pacific Area Medal with four Stars, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal, and the Korean Service Medal.

Upon retirement, Pete and "Page" lived in Falls Church, VA. In 1992 they moved to the Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville, MD. Inurnment will be at the Arlington National Cemetery columbarium with full military honors.

Captain Peters is survived by his wife of 62 years, Virginia Page Peters of Sykesville, MD; and his daughter Virginia Amdt of Lusby, MD.

Littk drops of water, Litttegrains of sand, !Mal(e tfte mighty ocean fAnd the pleasant [and: So the titt(e minutes, Humble though they be, 'Mai^ the mighty ages Of eternity.

LittfJe deeds oflqndness, Little words of love, Help to ma^ earth happy Li^ the heaven above.

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E D G A R SAMUEL POWELL J R . ' 3 4

Captain Edgar S. Powell Jr, USN (Ret.), died on 25 January 2002 in his sleep at home.

Upon graduation ^^^""^l^^ ' S L ^•'•'^ ^^^ Naval Acad\5$^ ^ ^ ^ emy Class of 1934, Edgar was assigned to the battleship MARYLAND. From 1936 to 1938

he served on AUGUSTA in Shanghai, China, Admiral Yarnell's flagship visiting the China Station including Japan, Vladivostok, ports in China, Singapore, Bali, and Manila, and up the Yangtze River 800 miles to Hankow. AUGUSTA was moored in the Wyangpo River at Shanghai when the Japanese started the war in China. Ed left China ttaveling via the Trans Siberian Railroad with orders to DAHLGREN (DD-187) testing a new engineering design.

Next, Ed was chief engineer of HUGHES ( D D 410) joining up with YORKTOWN. He was involved in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. Next Ed was executive officer of BALDWIN ( D D - 6 2 4 ) , assigned close-in support of the landings at Omaha Beach, Normandy, in close support for the invasion of Southern France. Ed was then ordered to the staff of Commander Destroyers Atlantic and then to New Orleans and Washington, DC, where he became executive officer of the destroyer tender SHENANDOAH, operating in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet. Later he attended the Armed Forces Staff College, then Ohio State University where he received a master's degree in personnel. He was then a senior planner in the strategic plans division of Chief of Naval Operations for Admiral Arleigh Burke '23 and later commanded a division of destroyers in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.

Shore duty brought Ed to the Bureau of Naval Personnel as director of distribution of enlisted personnel, then sea duty in command of ALTAIR, homeported at Barcelona, Spain, operating in the eastem Mediterranean. He served as a member of the faculty of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and after three years, was assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Southem Command in the Canal Zone, Panama.

Included in Captain Powell's awards are the Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre, Commendation Ribbon, Expert Pistol, and many Area Service Ribbons with Combat Stars.

After a naval career of 30 years, he was then involved in banking and traveled extensively.

Edgar married Mary Elizabeth Ware on 14 April 1940, in Annapolis at the Naval Academy Chapel. He is survived by his wife, Mary; daughters, Devan, Dawn, and Darleen; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

The Powell Family

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Captain David H. McClintock, USN (Ret.) died on 11 January 2002 in Marquette, MI. Following services at St. Peter's Cathedral on 15 January 2002, he was interred with military honors in Park Cemetery in Marquette.

Dave was raised in Marquette and entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1935. Upon graduation he served two years in the battleship ARIZONA before joining a destroyer in the Asiatic Fleet and marrying a Navy Junior Mary Kirby Patterson, in Manila. In 1940 he entered Submarine School and commenced a long career in submarines, which included command of submarines DARTER and MENHADEN, Submarine

Squadron 8, Submarine Flotilla ONE and Submarine Tender HOWARD W . GILMORE.

In the opening hours of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, DARTER sank an enemy craiser flagship and disabled another craiser for which Dave was awarded the Navy Cross. Later in that same day. DARTER hit an uncharted reef and was lost, but Dave still managed to alert the Fleet to the approach of the enemy. He and his crew were rescued by a second submarine. DACE. Following World War II, D a v e ' s nonsubmarine duty assignments included tours at the Naval War College, as commanding officer of the NROTC unit at the University of Utah, on the staff of the National Security Council, and as director of National Strategic Studies at the National War College, from which position he retired from the Navy on 30 April 1965.

Following Dave's retirement, the family returned to Marquette where Dave served as director of campus development for Northern Michigan University until 1976. He served on the Marquette Planning Commission for 14 years, including two years as chairman, and, in his own words, "for more than 14 years supported and defended the Navy's ELF submarine radio system, proposed for his home county, against the opposition of environmental groups, peace groups, and various politicians," receiving for his efforts a letter of commendation from President Reagan.

He was a member of three veteran's organizations, the SAR, two genealogical societies, and our Alumni Association, and enjoyed deer hunting and fishing in his spare time.

Dave was predeceased by his wife, "Kirby," in 1988, and is survived by his sons, Wayne P. McClintock of Greely Hill, CA, and David H. McClintock Jr of Lexington, MA; a daughter Emily Ann Gibson of Tulsa, OK; five grandchddren; and five great-grandchildren.

Jesse B. Gay Jr. '35

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LAST CALL JOHN ROBERT MIDDLETON J R . '35

Captain John R. Middleton, USN (Ret.), passed away following a lengthy illness at Overtake Hospital in Bellevue, WA, on 22 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 1 . He was 89 years old.

A native of Hy sham, MT, "Turk" attended the University of Idaho from 1928 to 1931, prior to receiving an appointment to the Naval Academy.

He graduated with the Class of 1935, standing 11th in the class. He was awarded a dress sword by the Military Order of Foreign Wars for his standing of first in the class in mathematics.

Upon graduation. Captain Middleton reported

Memorial services were conducted at the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina, WA, on 20 October 2001.

The Middleton Family

Jr, Thomas, Nathaniel, Robert, and Patrick; two daughters, Maida St. Hilaire and Rosamond Smythe; and 13 grandchildren.

Jesse B. Gay Jr '35

JEFFERSON D A V I D P A R K E R ' 3 5

JOSEPH ANTHONY GERATH J R . '37

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Colonel Joseph A. Gerath J r , USMC (Ret.), of Sevema Park, MD, passed away on 1 Febraary 2002 at the age of 87. He had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years.

Colonel Gerath was a member of the Naval Academy Class of 1937 and was designated a naval aviator in 1940. He attended postgraduate schools for radio engineering, and later, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

In the Pacific during World War II, he was staff communications officer for communications and air waming systems. First Marine Aircraft as assistant navigator in CHESTER ( C A - 2 9 ) , with Wing. He was awarded the Bronze Star for subsequent assignment to ROPER (DE-147). meritorious service in the Northem Solomons, Diunng a 1937 port call in Ft. Myers, FL, he met and was particularly cited for support of the his future bride, Winifired Glenn, of Rockville successful invasion of Emirau Island. He also Centte, NY. They were married in Hempstead, received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air WEST VIRGINIA and then JOHN D .

EDWARDS in the NY. on 9 August 1937. In 1938, John entered Medals for combat missions flown.

Asiatic Fleet.

He was the senior officer on board submarine school, with subsequent assignment Following World War II, he was assigned as DOWNES when she was destroyed by bombs in to DOLPHIN (SS-169), homeported in Pearl executive officer.

Marine Air Control Group I at the Pearl Harbor attack and was awarded the Harbor, HI. He next pursued specialized Cherry Point, NC, for air support development.

Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroism education in ordnance e n g i n e e r i n g and Reassigned to Wright Patterson AFB, he was and leadership that day.

After serving in COWIE mechanical engineering at both the Navy Navy liaison officer for guided missile in the Atlantic Fleet and participating in the North Postgraduate School and MIT, receiving his development. He was later reassigned to Cherry master's degree in mechanical engineering from African Landing, he retumed to the western Pacific as executive officer of BOYD and then as Point as commanding officer Marine Air Control MIT in Febraary 1944. commanding officer of LARDNER, participating in Group 1, where all weather air support operations Captain Middleton assumed command of actions in the Marianas, Palau, and Okinawa. He were refined and personnel trained for THRESHER ( S S - 2 0 0 ) in September 1944, and received the Bronze Star Medal, a Gold Star in deployment to Korea.

FLOUNDER ( S S - 2 5 1 ) in April 1945. He was lieu of a second Bronze Star Medal, and the Navy In South Korea, as commanding officer Marine awarded the Silver Star Medal for wartime action Commendation Medal.

Air Conttol Group 2, he was responsible for air as CO of THRESHER. Subsequent sea commands Following World War II, Jeff served three control, waming, and coordination of close air included FLYING FISH (SS-229), PORTER ( D D years in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, and support to U.S. and NATO troops. As Director 800). Mine D i v i s i o n 6 2 , and OGLETHORPE (AKA-100). Other sea tours included service as married Louisa Bowditch Barbour of Boston, Electtonics Division, Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, Chief of Staff to Commander Amphibious Group MA. Later tours of duty included serving as Washington, DC, he was responsible for all Navy operations officer in WORCESTER, commanding airborne electronic systems development and TWO. Ashore, he had tours at the Bureau of Ordnance and as Executive Director and Acting officer of oiler NAVASOTA, under instraction at the test programs.

Naval War College, and as assistant director of Among his other service decorations are the Director Fleet Readiness Group, Bureau of Naval Weapons. His final tour was in San Diego, the General Line School, Monterey, CA. In Navy Unit Commendation, Defense Service Medal, and Korean Service medals. as Bureau of Naval Weapons Fleet Readiness November 1960 Jeff assumed command of Destroyer Squadron 13 and in 1962 he became Upon retirement from the Marine Corps in Representative, Pacific. He retired from active Assistant Director Ship Characteristics Division 1958, he was a manager for defense systems duty on 31 March 1965. in the Pentagon and the Parkers settled in marketing at the former Westinghouse Air Ann In 1965, the Middletons relocated to Medina, McLean, VA. Division in Baltimore, MD, and later program WA, where John began a five-year career with administrator at the Maryland Academy After retirement from the Navy in January the aerospace division of the Boeing Company. of Sciences.

1965, Jeff was employed as a consultant on Subsequently, he worked for Henderson several projects, including a study of naval He is survived by his brothers, George F. Technical Corp. in Seattle as a consultant and shipbuilding procedures, a surface missile Gerath of Collins ville, CT, and Francis C. Gerath office manager until the age of 80. assessment group that eventually resulted in the of Camden, ME; his wife, the former Dorothy Captain Middleton held memberships in AEGIS Missile System, and Postal System Theresa Smith of Hartford, CT; daughter Sharon numerous professional, business, and technical Studies. In 1970 he again retired. He became his L. Clark; son, Joseph G. Gerath; and his organizations, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta Class President in 1968 and devoted many years grandson, Joshua. and Sigma Tau, an honorary engineering fraternity to the support of the Naval Academy and the Colonel Gerath was inurned at the Naval Captain Middleton is survived by his beloved Naval Academy Alumni Association. He was an Academy Columbarium. wife, Winifred; daughter Lee Williams; and his avid sailor and spent summers on Cape Cod. The Gerath Family grandchildren, John Robert Williams, and Lee Captain Parker's survivors include his wife Francis Williams. of 56 years, Louisa; six sons, William, J. David

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"Jeff" Parker, U S N (Ret.), died at his home in McLean, VA, on 2 February 2002 of diabetes complications.

A memorial service and interment in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors were held on 26 February 2002.

Jeff was born in Grandview, TX, was raised on a cotton farm, and worked his way through two years of community college before entering the Naval Academy with the Class of 1935.

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L A S T CALL^ WILSON H O U T CRANFORD

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Commander "Wil" Cranford, USN (Ret.), died on 17 December 2001 in Seattie, WA, of complications related to Alzheimer's disease. He was 87 years old.

Wil was the eldest of four sons of Walter and Delle Cranford, and was bom in Washington, DC, on 12 September 1914.

After matriculating at Washington High School, he attended the University of Maryland for one year. He enlisted in the Marine Corps, spending time in the air branch, before accepting an appointment to the Naval Academy. He was in the Ninth Company.

Upon graduation with the Class of 1938, he was ordered to NEVADA, and in 1940 to flight school in Pensacola. Although he qualified as a naval aviator, he chose to retum to the surface Navy, with a tour in the river gunboat LUZON in China. Ordered to MARBLEHEAD just prior to World War U, he was wounded in the Battle of the Flores Sea and was awarded the Purple Heart.

He later served in INTREPID as damage control officer but after she suffered two kamikaze hits, he reported to QUINCY as gunnery officer where he witnessed the Tokyo surrender ceremonies.

Subsequent to the war he served in FLOYD B .

PARKS and as executive officer of MSTS THOMAS JEFFERSON. He spent two years in Guam before his retirement in July 1958.

After his retum to Seattle and two years at the University of Washington, Wil spent an interesting 12 years as an aeronautical engineer with the Boeing Company Commercial Airplane Division. After a short stint in real estate, he became a man of leisure in 1984. He and his beloved wife, Diane, whom he married in 1940, traveled a great deal, enjoyed scuba diving, and dabbled in carpentry.

The Cranford family had traced its ancestral roots to the first families in Virginia. Many served under General George Washington in the American Revolution. They would have been as proud of Wilson as he was of them. He leaves a "legacy of love for his country."

Wil was predeceased by his wife in 1998. He leaves his son, Roger; grandson, Steven; and Steve's children.

Services were held on 15 January 2002 in the Ft. Myer Chapel with burial with full military honors. Wilson was laid to rest alongside his wife, Diane.

Contributions in memory of Wil Cranford may be made to the National Brain Tumor Foundation, 414 Thirteenth Street, Suite 700, Oakland, CA 94612-2603.

W I L L I A M A L F R E D STILES

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Brigadier General William A. Stiles, USMC (Ret.), died on 18 January 2002 at the Arleigh Burke Pavilion at Carl Vinson Hall in McLean, VA. His death was attributed to complications resulting from strokes and cancer He was 84 years old.

General Stiles, a native of Kansas City, KS, graduated with the Naval Academy Class of 1939 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. A crack shot, he was a member of the Marine Corps rifle team that won the national championship at Camp Perry, OH, in 1940.

In 1942, then-Captain Stiles went to the Pacific with the 1st Marine Division. He took part in the campaigns for Guadalcanal and New Britain. In 1944, he transferred to Marine Corps headquarters in Washington.

After World War II, General Stiles served in China, on sea duty with the Pacific Fleet and at the Marine Corps School in Quantico as an instractor He also commanded the 2nd Marine Regiment at Camp Lejeune. In 1955, he was the amphibious plans officer for the Atlantic Fleet.

He later graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and received a master's degree in business administration from The George Washington University.

In 1960, he went to Okinawa as a staff officer with the 3rd Marine Division and then as commanding officer of the 9th Marine Regiment.

In 1965, after four years at Marine Corps headquarters. General Stiles retumed to the 1st M a r i n e Division as assistant division commander and served in Vietnam from 19661967. For part of that time, he commanded Task Force X-Ray, a multi-regimental tactical force.

For that s e r v i c e , he was a w a r d e d the Distinguished Service Medal.

General Stiles's final assignment before retiring from the Marine Corps in 1968, was as commanding general of the Landing Force Training Command of the Adantic Fleet and of the amphibious training center at Litde Creek, VA. In addition to the Distinguished Service Medal, his personal decorations included the Legion of Merit.

He was vice president and eastem regional manager of O p p e n h e i m e r Industries, an investment company based in Kansas City, MO, until he retired a second time in 1986.

He was predeceased by his wife, Adell Jane Bury, in 1992. Survivors include three children, Susan Jane Rountree, Hunter Adams Stiles, and William A. Stiles J r ; two sisters, Rowena Anderson and Ruth Brady; and one grandson. excerpts from The Washington Post â&#x20AC;&#x201D;25 January 2002

JAMES HERVEY BATCHELLER

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Commander James H. "Pete" Batcheller Jr, USN (Ret.), died on 24 D e c e m b e r 2001 following a brief illness.

He was 83 years old.

A 1941 graduate of the Naval Academy and a Pearl Harbor survivor Commander Batcheller was a 23-year old ensign aboard MARYLAND when she was bombed and sank to settle on her bow, just aft of the flaming ARIZONA. Soon afterward. Commander Batcheller was awarded command of his own ship, HUSE, a destroyer escort. The young captain and his crew received several a w a r d s , successfully hunting submarines in the North Atlantic. In his final duty station. Commander Batcheller served as executive officer of the Seal Beach Ammunition and Net Depot.

Following his retirement from the Navy, Commander Batcheller enjoyed 20 years in a second successful career as a stockbroker in Long Beach, CA. Married for 53 years, Pete and Marie enjoyed decades of adventure travel to exotic

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LAST CALL destinations. Together they flew around the Houston, TX, Elihu F. Robertson and his wife, DALE VANUS NESS '44 Dale V. Ness of world, spending time in dozens of countries, Elizabeth of Rye, NY; and four grandchildren.

Lake Wylie, SC, died going on safari in Africa, visiting small islands He is also survived by a brother George G. suddenly on Friday, in the Western Pacific, and cruising on both Robertson; sister Kendrick R. Nuttall; sister-in18 January 2002 in oceans. Pete and Marie also made a formidable law, Mary Scearce Robertson of Kentucky; and Charlotte, NC, from duplicate bridge team, playing for the love of their children. complications arising the game and the joy of the company.

A memorial service was conducted on after a stroke. He was 80 Commander Batcheller was quick with a joke, Saturday, 12 January 2002 at the Second years old. and was never caught without a pocket full of Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, by Dr Steven E. Dale was born in balloons, from which he created an endless Frazier with interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Devils Lake, ND, on 23 supply of colorful characters. He took Memorial donations may be made to Second tremendous pride in his family, home and Presbyterian Church, 7305 Hampton Blvd., April 1921 to Christian O. Ness and Oline H. gardens, and wasfrequentlyseen with a plumeria Norfolk, VA 23505, or to the National Multiple Ness. Dale graduated from Central High School from his yard tucked behind his ear.

Sclerosis Society, Hampton Roads Chapter P.O. in Grand Forks, ND, and attended the University of North Dakota prior to receiving his He was a fiercely patriotic man long before Box 8127, Virginia Beach, VA 23450. appointment to the Naval Academy. Dale national emergency made it fashionable. For 39 received a bachelor's degree in engineering and years, he whistled each moming as he raised Old was commissioned an ensign with the accelerated Glory to the top of the 20-foot flagpole in front ARTHUR HOBART WARNER JR. '42 Captain Arthur H. Class of 1944 on 9 July 1943. He later received of his Long Beach, CA, home. Each evening, as Wamer Jr, USN (Ret.), a master's degree in engineering from the Naval he retired the colors, he whistled again. Now the died on 31 January 2002 Postgraduate School. flag that had flown over the U.S. Congress in at the age of 83. his name remains at full staff, day and night, During World War 11, he served aboard the Bom in Denver, CO, battleship WASHINGTON (BB-56) in the South according to Marie's wishes. he attended the Univ- Pacific Theater On WASHINGTON, he commanded Pete leaves his wife, Marie; three children; ersity of Colorado at one of the ship's 16-inch gun turrets. He was seven grandchildren; and two great-grandsons to Boulder and graduated designated a naval aviator in October 1945 in remember and cherish his legacy. from the Naval Acad- Pensacola, FL, and continued his naval service excerpts from the Press Telegram (Long Beach, CA)—3 February 2002emy with the Class of 1942. until his honorable discharge as a lieutenant A commissioned officer in the United States commander in 1954.

Navy for 29 years, he served in submarines. He After his military service. Dale joined General FREDERICK S. ROBERTSON JR. '42 attended the Naval War College at Newport, RI, Electric as a marketing executive in Rome, NY. Lieutenant Com- and received his master's degree in political After a transfer to Washington, DC, Dale resided mander Frederick S. science from Boston University. His active in Falls Church, VA, where his career in the ••••jEM. Robertson J r , USN military duty included service during World War defense industry continued. He held positions in I C K S « (Ret.), of Norfolk, VA, II in the Pacific Theater and an appointment as Washington, DC, with Texas Instruments, died on 8 January 2002. Deputy Naval Representative of the U.S. Chiefs MITRE Corporation, and Hughes Aircraft CDR Robertson was of Staff on the Military Staff Committee and the Corporation; where he retired in 1980 after 20 bom in Finchville, KY, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, acting as an years with Hughes as the sales manager of the in 1918 where he was advisor to Arthur Goldburg, then-U.S. Navy Division. a graduate of Shelby ambassador to the UN. Upon retirement, he moved to River Hills He was awarded the Legion of Merit.

High School before attending Georgia Tech. He Plantation in Lake Wylie, SC. Dale was an avid Following ten years at Gramman Aircraft, his golfer tennis player bird hunter and fisherman. graduated with the Naval Academy Class of retirement years were spent in Canterbury, CT, He was also active in the local community, where 1942. He served in World War II and the Korean War He was decorated while serving in the where he became active in local politics, serving he was the president of the River Hills carrier FRANKLIN when she suffered severe bomb asfirstselectman for the Township of Canterbury Community Association; a board member of the and kamikaze damage. The rest of his time in and on the board of finance. After the death of River Hills Country Club; an active member of the Pacific was spent serving in crtrisers. After his spouse of 55 years, Caroline Miller Wamer the River Hills Lion's Club; a volunteer at several a tour at the Naval Academy, he was transferred he moved to Atlanta, GA, to be near his children local charities and a member of the River Hills to Norfolk, VA, where he served on a variety of and grandchildren. He was a member of St. Community Church, which he joined in 1980. commands until his retirement from the Navy Bartholomew's Episcopal Church.

Dale was predeceased by his first wife of 32 in 1962.

Captain Warner is survived by his three years, Evelyn Sorlie Ness, and his brother, He then taught mathematics at Granby children, Arthur Hobart Wamer III, Caroline W. Dwight O. Ness ' 39. He is survived by his present High School in Norfolk, VA, until his second Wessels, and Daniel H. Wamer all of Atlanta, wife, June A. Ness; and his children from his retirement in 1978. Thereafter his chief interests GA; and by his eight grandchildren, Dru first marriage, sons. Dale S. Ness, of Columbia, were his family, his church and growing roses.

Gearhart, Catharine Wamer Benjamin Wessels, SC, and Peter G. Ness of Dunbarton, NH; He was a long-time active member of Second Andrew Wessels, Thomas Wessels, Matthew daughters, Charlotte M. Ness and Cheryl E. Ness Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, where he served Wessels, Daniel Wamer and Charles Wamer of Vienna, VA; and three grandchildren. as a deacon and an elder and was an active Interment with full honors took place at participant in the choir Arlington National Cemetery on 19 Febraary 2002.

Commander Robertson is survived by his The Warner Familv wife of 56 years, Mary "Pat" Fowler Robertson; One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond Imman strength. his daughter Patricia Allen of Leonardtown, MD; sons, Fred Robertson III and his wife, Sara, of One must choose. —jeanlAnouilh Shipmate, April 2002

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Lieutenant Commander Joseph J. Sullivan, USN (Ret.), died on Monday, 2 July 2001 peacefully at home surrounded by those who loved him. Bom in Pittsburgh, PA, a son of the late John L. i and Margaret (Rogan) Sullivan, he had lived in North Kingstown for 32 years.

He was a 1945 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was an All-American in football. A Navy veteran of World War II, he served aboard CORPORAL from 1956 to 1958 and retired from the Navy after 24 years.

Commander Sullivan had taught at Point Park College in Pittsburgh for four years and had been a professor at the Community College of Rhode Island for 21 years before retiring in 1991.

He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Father Wallace Fourth-Degree, and was a past grand knight and financial secretary for the St. Francis Council 2011.

Commander Sullivan is survived by his wife, Maria E. (Celani) Sullivan; two sons, Joseph K. Sullivan of Richmond, and Kevin A. Sullivan of Cumberland; a brother, Edward Sullivan of Highland, NC; and two grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brothers, Lawrence and John Sullivan, and his sister Mary O'Donnell.

A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Francis de Sales Church, with burial with military honors in Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery in Exeter, RI. excerpts from the Providence Journal-Bulletin -^ July 2001

ROBERT F R A N K L I N G O W E R ' 4 7

Commander Robert F. Gower USN (Ret.), died in Melboume, FL, on 3 February 2002, after suffering a stroke.

Bob Gower was bom on 14 September 1924 in Lawton, OK, and was appointed to the Academy by Congressman Jed Johnson of Oklahoma's Sixth District.

He was active in tennis as a Midshipman, and graduated as a member of the 18th Company in June of 1946.

He married Clare Payne of Worwood, MA, a week after graduation, and served aboard FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT ( C V B - 4 2 ) , until entering

flight training in 1948.

Bob received his wings in 1950, and served until 1953 with VP-23, the Hurricane Hunters, out of NA AS Opa Locka and NAAS Brunswick.

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From 1953 to 1956 he was a company officer and operations officer in the executive department at the Naval Academy, then went back to flying with VW-14 (BarPac) at Hunter's Point. Next came two years on the Staff of ComAirPac in Coronado.

In 1960 he retumed to the Naval Academy for two years as assistant to the commandant, and in 1962 attended the Naval War College.

From 1963 to 1965 he flew with VW-4, again as a Hurricane Hunter at NAS Roosevelt Roads, first as ops officer, then as XO, and in 1965 became executive officer of YANCEY (AKA-93).

He served with the Naval Air Systems Command in Washington from 1967 until his retirement from active duty in September 1969.

Bob earned a master's degree in personnel management in 1963 and a master's in data processing in 1970, both from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He worked with Computer Sciences Corporation from 1969 to 1982, then with Arthur D. Littie until 1991, when he and Clare retired to the good life at Indian River Country Club in Melbourne, FL. In addition to his wife of 55 years, Clare, he is survived by his daughters, Mrs. Bobbi Knight and Mrs. Billi Paras (wife of John Parus '73) and several grandchildren.

At the date of this writing, it was planned that his ashes would be inumed at the Naval Academy Columbarium on 4 April 2002, after services at the USNA Chapel.

Chet Shaddeau '47

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Lieutenant Colonel Nye G. Rodes, USMC (Ret.), died on 18 October 2001 in Walnut Creek, CA, of lung I cancer ' "Dusty" Rodes was

'i'fif^^SS/^ ''°'^" ° " "^ October f.''**!< m^y^ 'I- '.» 1922 in Stirrat, a small coal-mining community in Logan County, WV (a mile or two from the homestead of the Hatfields of McCoy feud fame). He graduated from Logan High School in 1940, and worked for a while at a filling station, then in the local coal mines, and in 1942 enlisted in the Marine Corps. While undergoing Recruit training at Parris Island, he received a congressional appointment to the Naval Academy. He completed Boot Camp, and after NAPS at Norfolk, entered with the Class of 1947 in June of 1943. He graduated with the 16th Company in June of 1946, commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.

Dusty's Marine duties were almost exclusively in his chosen fields of Infantry and Logistics. He served over the years with the Fleet

Marine Force Western Pacific (as an MP in Tsingtao), the 1st Marine Division, and the 1st Marine Regiment, with time out to marry Lois at Camp Pendleton in 1949. He did an instructor tour at the Naval Academy, was CO of Headquarters Co, Fourth Marines at Kaneohe, HI, attended the Marine Corps Junior School and the Amphibious Warfare School at Quantico, VA, and the Armed Forces Staff College in 1965.

His two combat tours in Korea and one in Vietnam resulted in a Legion of Merit with Combat V, Bronze Star with Combat V, a Presidential Unit Citation, and the Purple Heart, for wounds received in the Chosin Reservoir action. Shortly after the March 1972 death of his wife, Lois, he retired, and in July of 1972, was relieved from active duty while serving as Headquarters Battalion CO at Camp Pendleton.

In retirement, he eamed a master's in business administration from U.S. International University in San Diego, CA. He was an enthusiastic golfer and active with The Retired Officers Association and in Class of 1947 affairs.

Dusty is survived by a daughter Donna; two sons, Gary and Noel; and by his longtime companion, Ms. Walla O'Donnell.

Plans for inumment of his ashes at the Naval Academy were incomplete at the time of this writing.

Chet Shaddeau '47

JAMES CHESTER DAY J R . ' 4 8

Commander James C. "Jim" Day J r , USN (Ret.), passed away at his home in Front Royal, VA, on 3 January 2002.

Jim Day was bom on 22 November 1924 and grew up in Natchez, MS, the son of the late Lucille Harris Day and James C. Day. Following high school graduation. C o m m a n d e r Day enlisted in the Navy on 8 December 1942. During World War II he served as a radioman in the South Pacific and in 1944 received a fleet appointment to the Naval Academy. While at the Naval Academy, he was the Eastern Intercollegiate and National Collegiate Saber fencing champion, was selected to the 1948 All American fencing team and was an altemate on the 1948 U.S. Olympic fencing team. He graduated in 1948 with a b a c h e l o r ' s degree and was commissioned in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps. In 1950 he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a BCE. A career naval officer with service in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War he served in various engineering assignments in the United States, the Philippines, and Okinawa.

From 1966-1967, he completed his military service as commanding officer of a SeaBee battalion in Vietnam and retired after 25 years of combined service.

After his Naval career Commander Day was employed as a Federal Civil Service employee

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3^ LAST CALL at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters, Washington, DC, until 1980. He completed that assignment as head of engineering and design and retired after more than 31 years of distinguished military and federal service.

In July 1980 Commander Day and his family relocated their home to Front Royal, VA. A registered professional engineer for many years, he worked as an engineering consultant on constraction projects at Lord Fairfax Community College and at the Front Royal 4-H Education Center Commander Day is a past elder of the Front Royal Presbyterian Church.

Surviving are his wife of 51 years, Eleanor E. "Pat" Day; sons, James Copeland Day, Laurence Steven Day, and John Randall Day; daughter Rebecca Sue Day; sisters, Peggy Sue Harris of Houston, TX, and Mary Anne Steele of Louisville, KY; foiu- grandchildren; and two step-grandchildren.

Interment at Arlington National Cemetery was held on 17 January 2002.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent to the National Kidney Foundation.

TTie Day Family

BURTON IRVING E D E L S O N

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Dr Burton I. Edelson, a leader in satellite communications who helped start and oversee some of NASA's most popular science programs, died on 6 January 2002 of a heart attack in New York, where he was visiting family and friends.

He was 75 and had lived in Chevy Chase, MD. Dr Edelson was bom in New York, graduated from the Naval Academy, where he studied engineering, and became interested in satellite communications while at the Navy's research laboratory in Washington in the 1950s. He received his master's degree at Yale in 1954 and his doctorate there in 1960; both degrees were in metallurgy.

In 1967, he became deputy director of Comsat Laboratories, created that year with a Congressional charter to perform research and development in support of a global satellite system. At Comsat he led a program that helped develop some of the first satellites to be used for commercial communication. He became director in 1972.

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan appointed Dr Edelson associate administrator for space science and applications at NASA. In that post he played a central role in beginning and directing several programs, including the Hubble Space Telescope and Mars exploration missions.

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Dr. Edelson supported international cooperation on space research and communications throughout his career and, while at NASA, worked on a number of technical collaborations with the Soviet Union, Japan, and Europe. In the early 1980s, he was a driving force behind the H a l l e y ' s Comet Intercept, a multinational effort to study the comet. In addition, he managed the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite program, which measured background radiation from the Big Bang. He also oversaw the A d v a n c e d C o m m u n i c a t i o n s Technology Satellite, which links doctors to distant settings so they can perform remote medical procedures.

After retiring from NASA in 1987, D r Edelson directed research and development projects in satellite communications at George Washington University's Institute for Applied Space Research, which he had founded.

D r Edelson wrote more than 75 scholarly articles in technical publications and won several major awards, including the Navy Legion of Merit in 1965, Yale's Wilbur Cross Medal in 1984, and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1987.

He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Betty Good Edelson; sons, Stephen of San Francisco, CA, John of Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Daniel of Evanston, IL; and five grandchildren. excerpts from The New York Times â&#x20AC;&#x201D;14 January 2002

GEORGE MALCOLM KLING

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George M. Kling, a retired U.S. Navy aviator died on 2 November 2001 at his home in Femandina Beach, FL. He was 76 years old.

Mr. Kling was a native of Paterson, NJ, and had lived in Syracuse, NY, before moving to Femandina Beach in 1991.

A 1949 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, M r Kling served during World War H and the Korean War He received his designation as an aviator in 1951, was assigned to fighter squad No. 32 in Sanford and was later moved to Cecil Field.

He was a flight instractor in Kingsville, TX, from 1954 to 1957 and became a carrier controlled approach officer for SARATOGA in 1958. He resigned his commission in 1959 and was discharged after receiving the rank of lieutenant commander Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Virginia M. Kling; a son, Matthew Kling of Chanhassen, MN; two daughters, Christine Cox of Houston, TX, and Gwendolyn MacDonald of Virginia Beach, VA; and six grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to send memorials to the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, 4266 S u n b e a m Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257.

MARVIN LEONARD DUKE

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Captain Marvin L. Duke, USN (Ret.), a resident of Honolulu, HI, died on 9 January 2002 of cardiopulmonary failure. He was 74 years old.

Born on 18 May 1927 in St. Louis, MO, Marv enlisted in the Navy in 1945 and won a fleet appointment to the Academy. Upon graduation, he was flown out to SICILY during the Korean War Subsequent orders sent him to Pensacola, FL, and after winning his wings, he was sent to VW-2 at Patuxent River In 1956, Marv eamed a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School and received a master's in nuclear engineering at Iowa State University. Sea duty followed on YORKTOWN and later a tour in VQ-1 at Atsugi. He returned to the Naval Academy as a physics professor followed by a stint at the Naval War College.

A mandatory tour in Washington, DC, enabled Marv to earn another m a s t e r ' s degree in intemational affairs at The George Washington University. A second assignment to VQ-1 had Marv going to Vietnam twice, fleeting up to XO and later assuming command of VW-1 at Guam.

Marv was then selected to be the defense attache in Tokyo. He was directly responsible for coordinating the evacuation of the Soviet MiG-25 fighter pilot who flew his aircraft from the former Soviet Union to Japan and requested political asylum in 1976. For his services in interrogating the pilot and overseeing the complete disassembly of the jet, he received a commendation from then-CIA director George Bush. He also received one of Japan's highest honorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Order of the Sacred Treasure from Emperor Hirohito in 1978 for his efforts over the years to promote friendly relations and mutual understanding between the United States and Japan.

Marv's last active duty tour was as Chief of Staff in the Trast Territories in Micronesia. Marv completed his doctorate at the International Institute of Advanced Studies in 1979. Marv retired to Florida and worked with Boeing Services on the first space shuttle program in 1980.

Martin Marietta poached him for their Denver operations and promoted him to senior vice president responsible for all of their interests throughout Asia for more than a decade in Tokyo.

Marv is survived by his wife of 47 years, Judith; three sons, Lawrence in Taiwan, Michael in Ireland, and Andrew in England; and his brother Edward.

Interment was at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery with full military honors.

Walt Boyes '51

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3r LAST CALL\> HENRY WILLIAM DAVIS '53

Henry W. "Bill" Davis died peacefully at his home in Titusville, FL, on Friday, 9 February 2002. He was 72 years old.

Bill Davis was born in Indianapolis, IN, on 24 June 1929. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1953. He then joined the Air Force and moved to Texas for flight training to be a B-47 pilot in the strategic Air Command.

In 1957 he relocated to Homestead, FL, Air Force Base and manned Christiane Foinneau of Paris, France. After serving in the Air Force, he moved to Titusville, FL, where he worked in the Aerospace industry associated with the NASA space program.

He was an active member of Titusville High School Booster Club. Which brought much pride and joy to his life.

Bill is survived by his daughter Laurence "Lori" Cecile Davis-Stewart of Ft. Lauderdale, FL; son, Tom Davis of Titusville, FL; brother Stephen Sanders Davis; sister-in-law, Sharon Davis; and two nieces, Susan Hudson and Kathryn Hoskins of Indianapotis, IN. Services were held at Sandpoint Park Pavilion in Titusville, FL, on Samrday, 16 Febraary 2002.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent to: Titusville High School Booster Club, 150 Terrier Trail Titusville, FL 32780.

The Davis Family

Ginny then lived in Willingboro, NJ, where Bill owned a health salon, worked as a youth counselor and in the Poverty Program, and rented construction equipment. In 1973 they moved to Phoenix, AZ, to 118 degrees of heat and to P.O. Box 1664. He liked to call his address, "cramped quarters."

In Arizona he worked as a land developer health food distributor and seller of packed meat products. Continuing to swim freestyle, he was winning medals competing in the Arizona Masters Program, Senior Olympics, and Grand Canyon State Games up until shordy before his death.

Bill is survived by his wife, Virginia.

Memorial services were conducted at St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Scottsdale, AZ, on 19 January 2002. Final interment will be on 27 April 2002 at new Liberty United Methodist Church in Braselton, GA. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, the National Diabetes Association or the American Heart Association.

Mike Nassr '54

CLYDE DIXON DEAN

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Lieutenant General Clyde D. "Dick" Dean, USMC (Ret.), died unexpectedly on 23 December 2001 in Martinsburg, WV. A native of Little Rock, AR, Dick atWILLIAM EASTWOOD BURR '54 tended schools in New William E. Burr died Jersey, Texas, and New of lymphoma cancer ^^fe ^ P " ! ' " ^^^ Mayo Clinic York before entering the Naval Academy with ^^^l^^4^ *- 1 Hospital in Phoenix, AZ, the Class of 1954. He was president of the Class â&#x20AC;˘HplW^ on 31 December 2001. and Brigade Commander twice First Class Year At The Basic School, he finished first out of â&#x20AC;˘f - j He was 71 years old.

Bill was born and more than 1,000 second lieutenants taking the graduated from high course. He was a platoon commander at Camp 1(| school in White Plains, Pendleton and executive officer of the Marine NY. He spent a year at Detachment aboard Los ANGELES. After the University of New Hampshire before commanding a training company at Parris entering the Naval Academy. While at the Island, he was 15th Company Officer at the Academy, he lettered three years on the Navy Naval Academy, as well as varsity pistol coach swim team. One of his proudest achievements and drill officer After two years at the University of Sao was winning an N-star by beating David Scott of Army in the Army-Navy swim meet of 195 3. Paulo, Brazil, as an Olmsted Scholar, he retumed Scott later became an Apollo astronaut as an as an Infantry Company Commander He deployed to the Far East and Vietnam in 1965 Air Force colonel.

Bill attended Supply School in Athens, GA, where he was wounded in action. He attended and became a supply officer aboard DIPHDA and USMC Command and Staff College and was assigned to USMC Command Center then to VESUVIUS. He then became commissary officer at Patuxent River NAS in Maryland. He had met Okinawa as an Infantry Battalion Commander Ginny at Supply School and again in San He instructed at Marine C&S College and then Francisco and they married in 1956. He deployed attended National War College.

From 1975-1978 he was CO of The Basic to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to Spain with a School followed by head of leadership instraction Mobile Construction Battalion.

In 1963 he left the Navy while assigned to at Quantico. He then became Fleet Marine the Philadelphia Regional Audit Office. He and Officer 7th Fleet, WestPac. Upon his promotion

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to brigadier general, he became Director of Intelligence, USMC. He was promoted to major general and Inspector General of the Marine Corps, then became Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. In 1985 he was appointed Commanding General, I Marine Amphibious Force/Commanding General, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1986, he became Chief of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps, serving in that capacity until retiring in 1987.

Dick's decorations and awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Distinguished Service Medal; Legion of Merit with Combat V; Bronze Star Medal with Combat V; the Purple Heart, three Meritorious Service Medals; and the Combat Action Ribbon.

Dick was on the board of directors of USAA from 1984 to 1994 and was a president of the Marine Corps Historical Foundation. He was on a three-man Class of 1954 committee to recommend a 50th Anniversary gift to the Naval Academy.

General Dean is survived by his wife, Helen; daughters, Robin Walker, Trisa Fubrmann, Darien Chamberlain, and Susannah Olsen; son.

Rex; and ten grandchildren.

Services were at Central Church of Christ in Martinsburg, WV, with interment at Quantico National Cemetery.

Mike Nassr '54 & Ed Tipshus '54 DALLAS LANE WALLACE '54

Dallas L. "Steve" Wallace died of cancer in Naples, FL, on 20 December 2001. He was 70 years old.

A native of Greensboro, NC, Steve served in the fleet prior to receiving his appointment to the Naval Academy. He was a member of the First Company and graduated with the Class of 1954.

Upon graduation, he was assigned to YORKTOWN ( C V - 1 0 ) . Steve was selected for submarine school in 1956. His first boat was GUDGEON in Pearl Harbor HI. Subsequently, he was selected for nuclear power training and later served on THEODORE ROOSEVELT until his resignation in 1962.

Steve began is civilian career with Pan American World Airways as a program manager for the Polaris missile and manned flight test programs at Cape Canaveral, FL. He was later assigned, within Pan American, as project director of the nuclear rocket program in Jackass Flats, NV. Next he joined McMasterCarr Supply Co. and later became a subsidiary president of I.U. International, Inc. Shipmate, April 2002

L A S T CALL^ Starting in 1976, Steve owned and operated Raub Supply Company in Lancaster PA. In 1989, he graduated from Villanova Law School. He was a former Lancaster County, PA, assistant district attorney. In 1989 he moved to Naples, FL. Steve served as chairman of the Warwick Township, PA, board of supervisors and on the board of directors of the National Association of Wholesalers. He was a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Steve is survived by his loving wife, Sandi Knight-Wallace; his children, Stephen C. Wallace, Kelle D. Wallace, and Jamie L. Wallace; brother Norman; two sisters. Ruby Hinshaw and Betty Wallace; and two granddaughters.

Memorial services were held in Naples, FL, followed by burial services at St. Andrews Chapel and interment at the Naval Academy Columbarium on 7 January 2002.

Mark W. Bvrd '54

Subsequent to his Navy career Captain Streit taught AP chemistry and physics at Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach, where he retired and enjoyed the company of his family.

He had married his hometown sweetheart, "Dolly" Barton. She survives him, along with their children, Kim, Bart, Doug, Stephanie and Greg; and ten grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son, Steven.

He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors on 19 February 2002. A memorial stone in his honor resides at Buff's Garden in Virginia Beach at 47th Stteet and Ocean Front Avenue.

He "slipped the surly bonds of earth...and touched the face of God."—High Flight, by John Gillespie Magee J r J. Douglas Streit '83 & the Streit Family

RICHARD NEIL KANE

JOHN BRENT STREIT '55, Captain John B. Stteit, USN (Ret.), died peacefully in his home in Virginia Beach, VA. on 25 January 2002.

Bom in Ralls, TX, on 3 January 1933, Captain Stteit was designated a naval aviator following his graduation from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1955. He also graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School, majoring in physics, and from the U.S. Naval War College.

During his 28 year career in the Navy he flew in VA-25,65,216 (admin), 147 (operations), 122 (XO) and 113 (XO/CO). He served aboard INTREPID, HANCOCK, MIDWAY, SARATOGA,

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R.'UJGER, flying more than 3,500 hours in the A l , A4, A6, A7, and F4, and accumulating 750 carrier landings. He also served as technical liaison officer for the Defense Atomic Support Agency in Albuquerque, NM; A7-E project officer in VA122; project officer in the Navy Space Projects Office; Commander of Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5); logistics officer at CinCLantFlt and commander of the Nuclear Weapons Training Group Adantic.

Naval aviation was his passion. He distinguished himself as a pilot in the first A-7 squadron to deploy to Vietnam, and as executive officer and commanding officer of the first A-7 squadron to deploy to the Mediterranean. That squadron became the first winner of the C. Wade McClusky award. He also eamed the Bronze Star, Air Medal, Joint Services Commendation and several Navy Commendation medals among otherhonors. Heflew 167 combat missions, with distinction, in Vietnam.

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We have recently leamed of the passing of Richard Kane on 30 July 1999. We had lost track of Dick until an article in the Contra Costa Times was found.

Originally from Fort Worth, TX, Dick was a 20-year resident of Alamo, CA. Following service in the U.S. Navy on destroyers, Dick entered the ship brokering business, first as an associate of James A. McQuilling of Midland Maritime Marine Brokerage Company of San Francisco and then as an independent broker At the time of his death he was active in the auto finance business in Contra Costa County, CA. He is survived by his daughter Lorie Kane of Fort Worth, TX; and sons, Barry Kane of Forest Ranch, CA, Richard Kane of Richland Hills, TX, and Brad Kane of Bedford, TX; and three grandchildren.

Memorial gifts may be sent to the American Cancer Society, RO. Box 4295, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.

Classmates wishing to contribute to a memorial chair for Dick should mail their contributions to the Naval Academy Athletic Association, 566 Bronson Road, Annapolis, MD 21402, Attn. Sherry Wemer Donald L. Mitchell '57

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RAYMOND ERNEST BAUM JR. '68 Raymond E. Baum Jr died of a heart attack on 8 January 2002. He was 55 years old.

A graduate of Desales Catholic High School in Louisville, KY, Ray continued to star as an athlete and scholar during his days at the Naval Academy. He was captain of the 150pound football team during his First Class season and a two-time All-American linebacker— leading the team to a perfect 6-0 record and the Eastern Intercollegiate League championship in 1967. Ray earned his Navy Wings following graduation in the 19th Company.

After service during the Vietnam War as an attack pilot flying the A-7D Corsair II, he resigned his c o m m i s s i o n , j o i n e d the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1975, and eamed a master's degree in mathematics in 1976 from The George Washington University.

During his 27 years at EPA, R a y ' s responsibilities increased greatly and led to a number of important improvements in U.S. environmental-protection policies and programs governing the nation's wetlands, oceans, and watersheds. For the past ten years he worked for the director of EPA's Oceans & Coastal Protection Division. Ray managed several large federal contracts used to implement various environmental statutes related to marine and coastal protection. He was responsible for ensuring that contract dollars were spent wisely and that the division's technical needs were met.

Ray's family and church were the twin pillars of his life. He served as a Sunday school teacher and member of the choir for many years, and he enjoyed worship service each day at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden, MD. Ray was eulogized as a devout Christian and a proud father who always made time for his family. On 8 January 2002, he attended a track meet in Landover MD, to watch his son, Caleb, compete.

During the last seconds of his life, his voice was heard ringing across the arena: "Go get 'em, Caleb!" Ray's words will forever echo in his family's hearts and minds as they finish their race of life.

Ray is survived by his wife of nearly 23 years, the former Dorothy Mae Manley; sons, Timothy, Michael, and Christopher Manley; son and daughter, Caleb and R a c h e l ; 15 grandchildren; brother Steve Baum; and two sisters, Rosemary Blanton and Leslie Brown; and a host of other relatives.

A celebration of Ray's life was held at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Landover MD. Gordon I. Peterson '68

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