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8 Congratulations U S N A , D G A s The Honorable Gordon R. England

9 Distinguished Graduates 2 0 0 2

COLUMNS

4 President's Call George P. Watt Jr. 7 3

5 Superintendent's Call

Jennifer Sneppard

14 Commitment Ceremony '04 VADM Edward H. Martin '54

16 Reaffirmation Ceremony '06

VADM Richard J. Naughton '68

34 A n O c e a n A w a y 56 Class N e w s

ADM Frank Kelso '56

17 Regimental Dinner '06 RAIJM Robert H. Shumaker '56

FEATURES

141 Chapter N e w s 154 Last Call

DEPARTMENTS

18 Ring Sleuth Ariel Sabar, The Baltimore Sun

20 Ring and Remembrance

2 2 Meet the Trustees 29 Campaign Update

C A P T Edward O . Grunwald '50

20 Veterans History Project T h e Honorable A n t h o n y J. Principi '67

32 USNA's Newest SEALS Jennifer Sheppard

40 Navy Grad Working for the Future U S N A Public Affairs

36 Staff and Programs 38 L u c k y Bag of B o o k s 41 Bravo Zulu 42 All Hands 43 Mail Boat 4 6 N a v y Athletics

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2 Officers and Trustees 4 2 I n d e x of A d v e r t i s e r s 55 Staff and Assistance 166 Classified A d s

Executive Staff UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY

FOUNDATION

PRESIDENT & C E O , U S N A A L U M N I A S S O C I A T I O N AND F O U N D A T I O N

George R Watt Jr. ' 7 3 Captain, U S N R (Ret.)

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

A D M Charles R. Larson '58, U S N (Ret.) Former Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command

CHIEF OPERATING OFHCER, U S N A ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Terrence P. Murray ' 6 8 Major General, USMC (Ret.)

C H A I R M A N O F T H E B O A R D , EMERITUS

ADM James L. HoUoway III ' 4 3 , U S N (Ret.) Former Chief of Naval Operations

C H I E F FINANCIAL O F F I C E R A N D TREASURER, U S N A A L U M N I ASSOCIATION A N D F O U N D A T I O N

PRESIDENT

George R Watt Jr. '73 MEMBERS

Henry J. Sanford Captain, U S N (Ret.)

Maj Gen William A. Anders ' 5 5 , USAFR (Ret.) Former Chairman & CEO, General Dynamics; Astronaut

SECRETARY, U S N A A L U M N I ASSOCLATION DIRECTOR, C O M M U N I C A T I O N S

Michael R. Bonsignore ' 6 3 Retired Chairman & CEO, Honeywell

Lawrence Heyworth III ' 7 0 Commander, U S N (Ret.)

Mr. Edward A. Brennan Retired Chairman & CEO, Sears, Roebuck & Co.

A L U M N I A N D C U S T O M E R SERVICES CAREER P R O G R A M S

T h e Honorable Beverly Byron Former Member, U.S. House of Representatives; Former Chair, Naval Academy Board of \ ^ i t o r s

David E. Church '67 Commander, U S N (Ret.)

ADM William J. Crowe Jr. '47, U S N (Ret.) Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Gerrie Farmer

Ambassador William H.G. FitzGerald '31 Former Ambassador to Ireland

INFORMATION M A N A G E M E N T

Timothy S. Kobosko ' 8 0 Commander, U S N R (Ret.)

VADM Charles H . Griffiths '46. U S N (Ret.) Former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Submarine Warfare Eric R Grubman ' 8 0 Private Investor

ExECuriVE V I C E PRESIDENT

Richard W. Johnson

Gen Robert T. Herres '54, USAF (Ret.) Chairman of the Board U S A A ; Former Vice-Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

V I C E PRESIDENT, PRINCIPAL G I F T S

Dan Struble ' 8 3 Commander, U S N R

ADM Jay L. Johnson '68, U S N (Ret.) Senior vice President, Dominion Energy, Inc.; Former Chief of Naval Operations

V I C E PRESIDENT, ATHLETIC A N D SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS

Edward C. Wallace '72 Captain, U S N (Ret.)

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C A P T James A. Lovell Jr. ' 5 2 , U S N (Ret.) President, Lovell Communications; Astronaut

ADM Thomas H. Moorer ' 3 3 , USN (Rt-t.)

Editorial Staff

RADM Thomas C . Lynch '64, U S N (Ret.) Senior Vice President, Director of Federal Programs, T h e Staubach Company; Former Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy

VADM Charles H . Griffiths '46, USN (Ret.) * President, Counsel of Classes

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

RADM Roy D. Snyder '50. USN (Ret.)

Mike Collins ' 8 4 Commander (sel.), U S N R

J. Willard Marriott Jr. Chairman & CEO, Marriott International, Inc.

The Honorable Bernard A. Maguire '64

Dr. John J. McMuUen ' 4 0 Director, Norton Lilly International, Inc.

CDR Steven G. Young '84, U S N R

ASSISTANT P R O D U C T I O N M A N A G E R

Reverend Father J. Donald Monan Chancellor, Boston College

Captain Thomas O. Wagner II '97, USMC

Maria O'Shea

The Honorable Robert Mosbacher Chairman, Mosbacher Energy Company; Former Secretary of Commerce

CHAPTERS EDITOR

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ANNAItiLIS Rebecca C. Craig

CLASSES EDITOR

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John E. Nolan '50, General Counsel Partner, Steptoe & Johnson

Cim',A(jo COR Fredrick W. Wcher '75, U S N R (Ret.)

Christian H . Poindexter ' 6 0 Chairman of the Board, Constellation Energy Group

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David M. Robinson '87 Professional Basketball Player Kevin W. Sharer ' 7 0 Chairman & CEO, Amgen Corp.

The Honorable John E. Sheehan '52 Chairman, GlobalLIFT Technologies, Inc. ADM Leighton W. Smith '62, U S N (Ret.) Chairman, U S N A AA Board of Trustees J. Ronald Terwilliger ' 6 3 CEO & National Managine Partner, Trammell Crow Residential ADM James D. Watkins '49, U S N (Ret.) Chairman, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy; Former Chief of Naval Operations; Former Secretary of Energy Mr. John K. Welch '72 Executive Vice President, General Dynamics MajGen Leo V. Williams III '70, USMCR Brand Manager, Ford Motor Company

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his is a fitting month for Shipmate to focus on our mission: Perpetuating the history, traditions, memories, and growth of the Naval Academy and binding Alumni together in support. On 10 October, we will celebrate the 157th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Alumni Association chapters, classes, and parents clubs will be holding "founder's day" functions in their respective communities. Here at the Academy, perhaps the finest tribute we can bring our Alumni—and the Brigade— is in presenting our Distinguished Graduate Awards. This year's recipients, Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter Jr. '37, President James Earl Carter Jr. '47, Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost '53, and Colonel John W. Ripley '62, represent the epitome of Leaders to Serve the Nation. The focus of their collective hves has included the Alumni Association, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Naval Academy, and the country itself.

Although we cannot possibly do justice to these men in a few pages in Shipmate, we do hope to give you a feel for the impact these distinguished graduates have had on the nation, the naval service and the Brigade.

Our "Another Link in the Chain" program continues to bind Naval Academy generations together. As a reminder, we ask the 50-year predecessor class to support their successors through the meaningful milestones of their four years on the Sevem.

The Class of '56 recently joined '06 during their reaffirmation ceremony at the end of Plebe Summer and again when the class was officially brought into the Brigade during re-form. Former Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Frank Kelso '56, shared his thoughts with the Plebe Class on Worden Field. The next evening. Rear Admiral Bob Shumaker '56, a former POW in Vietnam, provided the Plebes additional words of wisdom to think about as they tackle their next challenge: Academic Year.

That same week, the Class of '54 congratulated '04 at their Commitment Dinner with remarks by Vice Admiral Ed Martin '54. On the subject of generational bonding, by the time you receive this issue. Homecoming will be in our wake (please see our extensive coverage at www.usna.com).

On the first morning of the Brigade's return, the Commandant invited me to talk to the entire upper class cadre ('05, '04, '03). The night before, I spoke to the Plebes with the intent to give them a very brief overview of who we are and what we do. While I would like to think that they took in every word, I have a feeling that their minds were on three things: the Brigade, the Brigade, the Brigade. Hopefully, I had slightly more impact with the upperclassmen. As many of you know, one of our growth objectives is to grow in our relevance, impact, and import to our members, our Alums, and especially the Academy. Although this is a tough metric to capture, that morning we were given an indication that we are making progress through Colonel John Allen's introduction. The Commandant introduced me by pointing out how important the Alumni Association and the Foundation are to the Naval Academy and the Brigade. He went on to differentiate our

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Naval Academy from all other institutions due to the tremendous focus and support provided by its alumni, parents, and friends. In particular, Colonel Allen '76 proposed that the Academy and its Alumni Association are at a historic point regarding our relationship and our relevance. One couldn't ask for a better introduction to such an important constituency.

Standing on that stage in front of more than 3,000 midshipmen may have been the highlight of my 28 months here. I introduced them to the "Extended Brigade" and reminded them of the 69,000 men and women who have preceded them as graduates, as well as the more than 70,000 Living alums, parents, and friends standing by to support them. I told them that every where I go I seek three elements of support for the Brigade and USNA from our advocates, namely: Moral Support: Trust in the leadership of USNA. Trust that this Brigade will accept the legacy given them and pass it on.

Trust in the process.

Mental Support: Become aware of today's Naval Academy.

Learn about the curriculum, about the 47-month moral, mental, and physical development process. Become an "informed advocate" and serve the Naval Academy in that regard.

Physical Support: Volunteer your time and talent to the Academy via the Alumni Association or the Foundation.

And...volunteer your resources. Donate to the Naval Academy Campaign so that we can continue to provide for the margin of excellence.

That's what I ask of all of our Alums, parents, and friends.

I wanted the Brigade to know there is a large, active, and enthusiastic support structure out there. But...they have to invest in it. Here's what I asked of the Midshipmen: • Seek out Alums when they are in the Yard.

• Introduce yourself.

• Offer a hand or some directions.

• Offer a salute...you never know who might be an Admiral, a General, a former commanding officer, or a decorated combat veteran. Whoever they are, they walked these bricks before you and served.

• Learn about our Distinguished Graduates and greet them when we honor them in October.

• Be yourselves.

• Stay focused on your mission and on your commissioning date.

Finally, I thanked them for what they have done thus far and for what they are about to do. I told '03 that we'll be seeing a lot more of each other (and the Class of '53) as the academic year progresses.

This is a great time to be in Annapolis and a great time to be associated with the Naval Academy. If you were able to attend Homecoming, you know what I mean. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to come back. Attend an athletic event, meet the Brigade. I think you will be just as impressed with them as I am, and you will be reassured that our country's future is bright.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S C A L L

By Vice Admiral Richard J. Naughton '68

...In the Chain Distinguished Graduate Awards ater this month, we will honor four notable USNA graduates for their tremendous contributions to the Naval Academy and to our nation. As this edition of Shipmate will highlight, the 2002 Distinguished Graduate Awardees are Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter Jr '37, President James E. Carter '47, Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost '53, and Colonel John Ripley '62. Each of these great leaders personally exemplifies our core values of honor, courage and commitment. They are both role models and Links in the Chain that make us all proud. Please join me in congratulating them on this well-deserved award.

The selection of this year's Distinguished Graduate Award winners was extremely tough and I also want to thank the selection committee, chaired by Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee '51, for all their hard work.

While we are proud of each and every graduate, I'm sure you'll agree the contributions of Admiral Minter, President Carter, Admiral Trost and Colonel Ripley have truly made a difference to this nation. Their service and dedication to the Naval Academy, the naval service, and America will not be forgotten, and this is our opportunity to say "thank you."

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it was! The reality is that the Plebe Summer training experience is not as tough as it used to be...Bit's tougher.

Here's what the Class of '06 will remember as they look back at Plebe Summer 2002 (this should look familiar!): • Chopping without end • Bracing up • Rack drills • Meals punctuated by the incessant staccato of rate and professional knowledge training • Uniform races until the Detailers are satisfied the Plebes have a "sense of urgency" • High volume training from the Detailers, and high volume response from the Plebes (Joggers told me the Plebes could be heard training in the Hall from Hospital Point!)

• Close order drill, two drill competitions, and four formal parades ('06 is very good at drill) • Room inspections, both white glove and black sock • Personnel inspections • Boxing and wrestling smokers • Interminable 16-hour days punctuated by a high tempo training schedule and the hottest summer in years • More than 60 miles of running • Ninety minutes of PT six days a week at 0600 • PEP calibrated against the USNA PRT and more demand ing than the Fleet PRT • Qualifying with the M9, 9mm service pistol and the M16A3, 5.56mm service rifle (97.2% of the class qualified marksman or better with M-16 rifle and 94.1% qualified with 9mm pistol!)

And here's some new challenges that some of us "more experienced" alumni won't recognize:

Summer 2002: Final Report This past May, the Class of 2002 received their diplomas and Commissions from Vice President Richard Cheney and quickly moved on to begin their naval careers. This was the first USNA class to graduate during wartime in decades. As such, there was more than the usual excitement and tension in the air as loved ones, parents, friends and families watched the traditional hat toss that has marked the beginning of so many successful careers in the naval service. Everyone present in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium understood that these graduates might soon be called on to test themselves in combat. By the end of the summer, many 2002 grads were immersed in operational training enroute to assignments serving on the front lines in Afghanistan, the Arabian Gulf, and elsewhere in the nation's war on terrorism.

Meanwhile, here in Annapolis, the classes of 2003, 2004, and 2005 immediately assumed the leadership roles in the Brigade with a focus on the Naval Academy's professional summer programs. As always, we sought to optim*^^ each Midshipman's opportunity to practice and demonstrate effective leadership in challenging environments with the goal of producing graduates who are prepared to lead in combat.

The Plebe Summer Experience The phrase "no one had a Plebe Year like we did" is a familiar refrain among graduates. And the older we get, the harder Shipmate, October 2002

Running the Marine Corps obstacle course for time Running the 30-foot high Tarzan Assault High Ropes Course for confidence Running the 1.5 mile Woodland Endurance Course for teamwork, cohesion, and small unit leadership Running the Squad Combat Course, a long-range rubber boat and foot race done in small units to build team work, cohesion, and small unit leadership Martial arts instruction Strength groups at PEP to enable the strong to get stronger and the weaker Plebes to improve without holding everyone else back Intramural sports competitions and championships Damage control training Seven lessons on Honor and six on Character Development Captain Jerry Coffey, USN (Ret.), speaking to '06 about Honor and his seven years as a POW in Hanoi Major General Gordon Nash, USMC, speaking to '06 about Courage at Iwo Jima A lecture on Commitment from Captain James Lovell '52, USN (Ret.), of the Apollo 13 mission Visiting the Vietnam, Korea, and Lincoln Memorials as well as the Holocaust Museum in D.C. Detailers who lead from the front by the power of their personal example and by enforcing uncompromising standards of excellence

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SUPERINTENDENT'S C A L L • A Plebe Summer formal dinner and inspirational remarks

by RADM Robert Shumaker, USN (Ret.), USNA Class of '56 and a former POW in North Vietnam • A ceremony where the Plebes reaffirmed their Oath of Office and the Honor Concept while their parents and the USNA class from 50 years prior looked on. This ceremony was highlighted by remarks from former CNO ADM Frank Kelso '56, USN (Ret.) • Brigade Trials. Designed after the USMC Crucible experience, this is a culminating event for the summer with a daylong evolution of eight different phases including a rifle and pack run, small boat drill, physical conditioning, and a personnel inspection Relevant Leadership Tools This year, under the leadership of Commandant of Midshipmen Colonel John Allen '76, we focused on providing the First and Second Class Detailers with the most relevant leadership and ttaining tools for plebe indoctrination.

The goal is to give them knowledge and experience for use in their Naval careers, not just here at the Academy. In every aspect of Plebe Summer, we applied one test: was the training relevant to today's Navy-Marine Corps Team? In every case Usted above, the answer was "yes."

Plebe Summer provided superb leadership experience for the Classes of 2003 and 2004. They met every challenge with the utmost dedication and professionalism. As a result, the Class of 2006 has been instilled with a strong sense of honor, courage and commitment. I am proud of them and hope you are as well.

Upper Class Trains W i t h the Fleet and FMF While the Plebes were busy with Chow Calls, Rack Races, Obstacle Courses and PEP, their upperclassmen were actively participating in summer training programs around the globe.

No amount of training here in Annapolis can replace the Fleet Cruise experience; it will always be the fundamental building block in the professional development of midshipmen. This summer, the hard work of the Commandant's staff and Captain Red Smith's Division of Professional Development resulted in the assignment of midshipmen to 1537 worldwide cruises. This task was even more daunting than usual this year with post-9/11 force protection and security issues. Their diligence paid off and First and Second Class Midshipmen were assigned to overseas cruises with forward deployed units in every Fleet and AOR. The Youngsters set sail on YP cruises along the eastern seaboard.

In a further effort to promote foreign relations and increase midshipman understanding of major geopoUtical issues, 19 midshipmen were assigned to Foreign Exchange cruises with allied navies. Midshipmen traveled to exotic locations such as Australia and Bahrain to meet their ships for a unique professional experience.

Here are some of the highlights of these demanding upper class cruises: Third Class Summer: • Traditional YP Youngster Cruise • 1046 Midshipmen participated • Cruises lead by Firsties and coached by USNA officers • Four-day classroom training and chart preparation

• Ten days at sea for first official underway training • Port visits to Boston, Newport, and New York • Followed by either: • Three weeks w/Special Warfare, USMC, or Joint Services during Naval Tactical Training (NTT) or • Three weeks of sail training aboard USNA 44-foot sailboats Second Class Summer:

• All Second Class Midshipmen receive an "enlisted experience" cruise • They wear dungarees and are teamed with mid-grade petty officers • They live in enlisted berthing and eat on the mess decks • They stand watch as enlisted and participate in drills • Receive first-hand appreciation of the talented men and women they will be leading • Enlisted cruise followed by either: • Professional Training for Midshipmen (PROTRAMID) • Gives midshipmen hands-on experience in aviation, submarine or USMC communities to facilitate their career-field choice • Ninety-percent of midshipmen in aviation pipeline logged flight time in Navy jets and heUcopters, others participated in flight deck fu-efighting team trainer • Plebe Detail • Our most effective, thorough, and hands-on leadership experience • Extensive training process (Plebe Summer Education Program—PSEP) is several months long and covers all aspects of small- and large-group leadership First Class Summer

• Mainstream Fleet and Fleet Marine Force Cruises worldwide • Includes surface, submarine, and aviation cruises. Mini BUDS (SEAL training), a Special Operations cruise.

Leatherneck, Fleet Marine Force cruises, and Foreign Exchange cruises with countries such as Argentina, Japan, Greece, and the Netherlands • Firsties worked closely with their junior officer runningmates, wearing khakis and becoming full participants in wardrooms—their final look at the fleet before making their career service decision • Over 300 midshipmen traded in their khakis for cammies and participated in the intensive, four-week Leatherneck course, which introduced them to the life of a Marine • During their second four-week block of training. First Class Midshipmen had numerous ttaining options including: serving as division officers leading the "Youngsters" on Yard Pattol Craft (YPs) or the Navy 44s, leading the Class of '06 during plebe detail. Airborne training at Fort Benning, Navy Dive School in Panama City, or a second Fleet cruise Well Done to All! The summer of 2002 provided an exceptional ttaining experience for our young men and women. Their experiences will serve them well in future fleet assignments. Well done to Colonel John Allen and his talented staff.

This was a great summer for the Brigade. Go Navy! -i.

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GREETINGS TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION As we honor the birth of the United States Navy and the United States Naval Academy, we are a Nation at war. Our Nation's strong and decisive response to the terrorist acts of September 11th has demonstrated to the entire world America's patriotism and resolve. Nowhere has that duty to Country been more evident than in our Navy and Marine Corps.

Since its birth, the United States Navy and Marine Corps have defended our great Republic and embodied its principles of freedom and liberty. For the past 150 years. Naval Academy alumni have led Sailors and Marines into harm's way to defend our Nation. Four of those leaders. Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter, Jr., 1937, President James E. Carter, 1947, Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost, 1953, and Colonel John W. Ripley, 1962, are being honored as Distinguished Graduates. Their magnificent performance in support of our Nation honors the legacy of those heroes past and present who have sacrificed their lives to make America great.

It is an honor and privilege to serve with all of you and especially the nearly 48,000 members who comprise the Naval Academy Alumni Association. Your service and support ensure that those heroes lost on September 11th , and in all the wars that came before, will not be forgotten. God Bless each of you, your families and the United States of America.

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By Jennifer Sheppard, USNA AA Staff (he United States Naval Academy long has graduated leaders of great characterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;men and women who possess the "true north principles" of honor, courage, and commitment. From this field of superior leaders, a handful of graduates of distinction are chosen annually to receive the U.S. Naval Academy Alunrmi Association Distinguished Graduate Award. Selection is based on character, distinguished military and civilian service, and stature, qualities that the Naval Academy strives to imbue in all its graduates. Awardees are living graduates of the United States Naval Academy who have made significant contributions to the nation, the naval service, and the Naval Academy.

Nominated by their peers, this year's class of Distinguished Graduates comprises a former U.S. president, a Vietnam War hero, a former U.S. Naval Academy Commandant of Midshipmen and Superintendent, and a former Chief of Naval Operations. Each individual with his outstanding attiibutes has led by example, thereby commanding respect from all who know him.

The Alumni Association, along with the Naval Academy, is proud to celebrate the fourth class of honorees: Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter Jr. '37, President James E. Carter '47, Admiral Carhsle A.H. Trost '53, and Colonel John R. Ripley '62.

The Distinguished Graduates will be recognized at an invitation-only award ceremony on 12 October 2002 at Alumni Hall, United States Naval Academy. They also will be honored at a parade on Worden Field on 11 October 2002.

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Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter is a highly regarded member of our Alumni family. His Classmate, Captain John Slaughter, USN (Ret.) says that although he was elected class Shifnate October 2002

president, "the entire class looks to Charlie as their leader."

Vice Admiral Minter has displayed a high degree of professionalism that both past and present midshipmen can emulate.

Upon graduation. Admiral Minter served as a junior officer in heavy cruisers prior to entering flight ttaining at Pensacola.

After receiving his wings, he was assigned to patrol squadrons and flew anti-submarine patrols from bases in Iceland, Argentia, Newfoundland, and Trinidad. Admiral Minter served the remainder of World War II in the Pacific as an assistant air officer, and then air officer on board the aircraft carrier RANDOLPH, performing first carrier strikes on Tokyo, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa and final operations against the Japanese prior to their surrender. For his service in RANDOLPH, he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V." During the Korean War, Admiral Minter commanded a patrol squadron operating from bases in Japan and Korea. He and his squadron conducted reconnaissance missions, antisubmarine patrols, and photographic missions, for which he received his second Bronze Star. He also served as operations officer of Commander, Task Force 72.

Admiral Minter returned to Annapolis to serve as executive officer to the director of athletics at the Naval Academy and was subsequently assigned to the National War College from which he graduated in 1956. He was then appointed head of the Naval Aviation Ships Branch in the Navy Department. In 1959 he took command of ALBEMARLE, followed by service on the staff of Commander, Air Force, Atlantic prior to commanding INTREPID in 1960.

In 1961 he was appointed Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. He was promoted to rear admiral and in 1964, became the 43rd Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. His tenure at the Academy was marked by "sweeping improvements in...overall organization and administration, the academic curriculum and the officer and civilian faculty."

Upon leaving the Academy, Admiral Minter was assigned as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Policy to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. He "played a leading role in the formulation and revision of policies and plans to meet the changing ckcumstances faced by AlHed Command Europe." Later, he took command of Carrier Division 16 with RANDOLPH as his flagship. He commanded Fleet Air Wings, Pacific, and, after promotion to vice admiral, was assigned Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 1974.

Admiral Minter served as a deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference and later as president of the Retired Officers Association. He was on the board of directors of North American Philips Corp.

Admiral Minter has remained engaged with the U.S. Naval Academy through the USNA Alumni Association and Foundation. He was president (equivalent to the current Chairman of the Board position) of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association from 1983-85. On a separate occasion he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, Athletic and Scholarship Programs, which assists prospective midshipmen to enter the Naval Academy. In addition, he has served on numerous boards and committees of each organization. Admiral Minter's Navy service is remarkable, and his tireless dedication to the Brigade and his fellow Alumni has redefined "retirement."

Unlike the other Distinguished Graduates, President James Earl Carter Jr. '47 had a brief military career followed by a longer, exemplary civilian career. After graduation from the Naval Academy with the accelerated Class of 1947, he was commissioned an ensign and served onboard WYOMING and MISSISSIPPI. Carter then attended Submarine School in New London, CT, and qualified for submarine duty onboard PoMFRET, where he was approach officer for simulated torpedo firing at target ships. He scored a "hit."

Then-Lieutenant Junior Grade Carter was assigned as engineering officer on the precommissioning detail for K-1 (SSK-1), the first submarine built after World War II. After commissioning, he was executive officer, engineering officer, and electronics repair officer on K-1, during which time he qualified for command of a submarine.

President Carter interviewed with Admiral Rickover and was selected to participate in the creation of the nuclear powered submarine program. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1952 and detached from K-1 to serve at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission before preparing for engineering officer duty for the nuclear power unit to be used in SEAWOLF (SSN575), one of the first submarines to operate on atomic power.

Then-Lieutenant Carter was selected for the Nascent nuclear power program. He spent most of his time in ttaining, but left the service in October 1953 after the death of his father.

President Carter did not serve in the position for which he had ttained since he had to attend to family matters following his father's death. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1953 and later retired as a lieutenant from the Naval Reserve in 1961.

Although Carter's military career came to an end prematurely, he found success in another career, politics. Fifteen 10

years after retiring from the Navy, a USNA grad from the Class of 1947 was elected 39th president of the United States of America. Noteworthy accomplishments of the Carter administration include the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the Salt II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

Domestically, President Carter sought alternatives for economic and environmental reforms. He was instrumental in creating major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska Lands Act, protecting 103 million acres of Alaskan lands. In the face of the energy shortage in the 1970s, he formed a comprehensive energy program conducted by the Department of Energy, deregulating the energy industiy.

To foster human and social services, President Carter created the Department of Education, strengthened the Social Security Program, and appointed an unprecedented number of minorities to government jobs.

Following his four years in the White House, President Carter further pursued his aspirations when he became a University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atianta, GA. In partnership with the university he founded the Carter Center, an institution where the former president joins with associates in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease and other afflictions on a global scale.

One of President Carter's more well-known humanitarian initiatives is the Jimmy Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity. He donates a week of his time annually to help build homes and raise awareness of the critical need for affordable housing. Another accomplishment is the recent launch of the Atlanta Project, a community-wide effort to attack social problems associated with poverty.

"Jimmy Carter's leadership and reputation have clearly increased in stature since leaving office...," a fellow Alumnus wrote in a DGA nomination letter. "He represents the very highest standards of service to country, family moral values, and continuing selfless commitment to the less fortunate in society."

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On 30 June 1986, Admiral Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN (Ret.), attained the apex of leadership in the U.S. Navy when he was named the 23rd Chief of Naval Operations.

As a midshipman, Admiral Trost was recognized by his classmates for exceptional intelligence and the ability to excel. He graduated first in his Naval Academy Class of 1953, taking with him numerous leadership and academic awards and a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. Admiral Trost was an Olmstead Scholar. He studied German at the Army Language School in Monterey, CA, before attending Shipmate, October 2002

the University of Friedburg in the former Federal Republic of Germany, where he focused on international relations and international economics.

During his more than 37 years of commissioned service, Admiral Trost served at sea in destroyers and diesel-powered and nuclear-powered submarines. He was executive officer of two nuclear-powered submarines and as commanding officer of a fleet ballistic missile submarine.

Subsequent to selection to flag rank in 1973, he commanded Submarine Flotilla One and Submarine Group Five. Later operational assignments included Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Commander, Seventh Fleet; Commander-in-Chief, and U.S. Atiantic Fleet; and Deputy Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atiantic Command. Ashore, Admiral Trost was miUtary assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy; on the Navy Staff as Director, Systems Analysis Division; Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel; and Director, Navy Program Planning.

Admiral Trost was a forceful and tireless advocate for the Navy. He was insti:iimental in putting together and shepherding through Congress the budgets that Secretary of the Navy John Lehman needed to build a 600-ship Navy. As a newly

confirmed Chief of Naval Operation, he took on Congress for playing a "yo-yo game" with defense budgets. As then-editor of Navy Times, Bill Kreh said, "Such a verbal blast might even be expected from a flag officer who has, or is about to become retired and who would have nothing to lose by publicly speaking his mind. .. .It seems apparent that the new CNO is ready and wilUng to speak his mind and fight for what he thinks is right for the Navy and the nation."

Admiral Trost retired from active duty on 1 July 1990, following completion of a four-year term as the 23rd Chief of Naval Operations, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Since his retirement from the Navy, Admiral Trost has served as an independent business consultant and as a director on boards of several U.S. businesses.

Admiral Trost has long expressed his gratitude to the Naval Academy. He has given back to his Alma Mater in a variety of ways, with active involvement in Alumni and Naval Academy programs and various civic organizations. He was the chairman of the first Distinguished Graduate Award committee, which selected Admiral Thomas Moorer '33 as the first DGA recipient. He was also the keynote speaker to the Class of 2003 at one of the first Commitment Night dinners.

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The first Marine to receive the Distinguished Graduate Award, Colonel John R. Ripley '62, USMC (Ret.), has Uved a life of service to this nation, his community, the Naval Academy, and the U.S. Marine Corps. His careers, both miUtary and civilian, epitomize the highest standards of duty, honor, and integrity.

Colonel Ripley served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 35 years. He served two infantry tours in South Vietnam, one as a rifle company commander on the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and one with the Vietnamese Marine Corps during die 1972 Easter Offensive. He was Lima company commander in the Leatherneck Square area of Dong Ha, Con Tien, and Khe Sahn. Colonel Ripley was wounded in action, but returned to complete his tour. During this tour of duty, then-Captain Ripley was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantty and inttepidity in action..." during combat operations. While leading a rehef column, his unit came under heavy fire from recoilless rifle and automatic weapons. He "led his unit out of the impact area across 200 meters of open terrain, repeatedly exposing himself to hostile fire, as he directed artillery fire and air strikes."

Colonel Ripley's true test came during the 1972 Easter Offensive. Then-Captain Ripley was the lone Marine to the 3rd Vietnamese Battalion when a large force of North Vietnamese regulars, backed by more than 200 tanks, surged toward the capital of the Quang Tri province, which, if captured, would leave a clear path to the ancient capital of Hue. One sttategic bridge across the Cam Lo River, at the town of Dong Ha stood in the way.

While under continuous enemy fire. Colonel Ripley loaded a backpack with explosives and, hanging from the bridge, walked hand-over-hand to the bridge's center where he planted his demolition charges. He made a dozen ttips to the center of the bridge before he had placed 500 pounds of plastic explosives in the girdersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;enough to drop the bridge and stop the invasion. By dropping the bridge, Colonel Ripley ttapped the advancing force on the other side of the river, where it was decimated by air strikes and naval gunfire. His selfless action delayed the fall of South Vietnam by nearly two years. For this.

Colonel Ripley was awarded the nation's second highest combat award, the Navy Cross.

John Grider Miller captured Colonel Ripley's Easter Offensive actions in die book entitled The Bridge. They are also depicted in a diorama outside Memorial Hall.

Colonel Ripley's other service included duty with the Marine detachment aboard INDEPENDENCE; with a Force Reconnaissance Company; on an exchange tour with the British Royal Marines; and as commander of a battalion and a regiment. In addition to typical staff billets, he served with the 12

Naval Reserve Officer Training units of Oregon State University and the Virginia Military Institute. He also was the senior Marine and director of the Division of Enghsh and history at the Naval Academy.

Colonel Ripley has earned six valorous and 14 personal decorations.

Following his retirement from active duty in 1992, Colonel Ripley was president and chancellor of Southern Virginia College in Buena Vista and subsequently as president of Hargrave Mihtary Academy in Chatham, VA. He was selected by the Marine Corps Commandant to be the director of the history and museums division in 1999.

Colonel Ripley continues to give invaluable service to the Naval Academy. He has chaired two significant committees for former Superintendent Vice Admiral John R. Ryan '67, USN (Ret.), charged to establish in Memorial Hall a memoriam that would recognize all Naval Academy graduates who lost their lives serving their country in military operations. As a role model. Colonel Ripley has been a keynote speaker at the Naval Academy.

In the mid 1990s, Rear Admiral Robert McNitt '38 proposed the concept of the Distinguished Graduate Award to Rear Admiral Ronald F. Marryott '57, then-president and CEO of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Admiral Marryott brought the proposal to the Board of Trustees, which approved it.

The Alumni Association began the Distinguished Graduate Award program in 1999 as a way to identify to the pubUc and to the Brigade of Midshipmen the broad national significance of the U.S. Naval Academy as a national tteasure.

1999: Admiral Thomas H. Moorer '33 2000: Dr. John McMullen '40, Admiral James L. HoUoway III '43, Vice Admiral WiUiam P. Lawrence '51, Major General William A. Anders '55, and Mr. Roger Staubach '65 2001: The Honorable John W Crawford '42, Admiral WUUam J. Crowe Jr '47, Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale '47, Admiral James D. Watkins '49, and Captain James A. Lovell Jr. '52

^omnAtint Cnttria To be nominated as a distinguished graduate, candidates must be living graduates who have: Demonsttated a sttong interest in supporting the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Academy; Provided a lifetime of service to the nation or the armed forces; Made significant and distinguished contributions to the nation through pubUc service; and Are of character, distinguished military and civiUan service, and stature that draw a wholesome comparison to the qualities that the U.S. Naval Academy strives for, in keeping with values of duty, honor, and integrity, and "tiirough knowledge, seapower."

The award will not be given to individuals who occupy or who are candidates for elective office, or who are still on active duty. d> Shipmate, October 2002

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Commitment Ceremony Remarks by Vice Admiral Edward H. Martin '54, USN (Retired)

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ommitment Night recognizes the obligation the Second Class have made for service in the Navy and Marine Corps. In years past, that evening had different names, including Two-For-Seven night. But Two-For-Seven seems shortsighted, and does not appear to properly honor the commitment to service and country made by the Second Class. In keeping with the "Link in the Chain" tradition, the 50 year class has a large and positive role in the lives of their junior class. On 19 August 2002, Vice Admiral Edward H. Martin '54, and several of his classmates, joined the Class of 2004 on this very special evening.

Before beginning my comments this evening, and on behalf of the entire Class of 1954, we wish to express our condolences and heartfelt sorrow to the parents, family, and classmates of Midshipman John Paul Ruggiero, for the ttagic loss of him this past weekend. As you may know, the Commandant, Colonel Allen, is not with us this evening due to his being with Midshipman Ruggiero's family.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class of 2004, tonight is Commitment Night and we of the Class of 1954 are particularly pleased to be with you to participate in what is rapidly becoming a tradition of heritage; a tradition which began with the Class of 1950 and the Class of 2000; a ttadition that establishes a relationship between classes 50 years apart; attaditionthat underscores the commitments of those in classes gone before you; commitments of service to our great nation, our naval services; and commitments to yourself as individuals—commitments based upon those precepts and values so thoroughly inculcated whUe at this great institution.

Who are we of the Class of 1954?

Before answering this, would all of the members of the Class of 1954 present, and their wives, kindly stand and be recognized. Thirty-three members of '54 have joined you for this special occasion. Now, who are we? First, most of us are still alive and well, and in your eyes, probably ancient, senior citizens, but 50 years ago, we sat exactly where you are now seated, with the same hopes and aspirations as you now have.

• About 1,146 entered as the Class of '54 in June-July of 1950 (the Korean War broke out in June 1950) • 852 graduated with 843 being commissioned • 558 Ensigns • 64 USMC Second Lieutenants • 221 USAF Second Lieutenants (One-fourth of the class went into the USAF as there was no U.S. Air Force Academy at the time) AND.. .the Class of 1954 had the last real Plebe Year!

The Class of '54 has served our nation well in a host of crises, contingencies, regional conflicts, and most notably, in the long Vietnam War. Four of our classmates were held for agonizing lengths of time as prisoners of war in North Vietnam, and I am pleased to say that three of these four are here this evening. '54 is a close-knit class, individually and collectively, with strong commitments. '54 is a class whose members have served our nation well, both in and out of uniform.

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Who are you of the Class of 2004?

• 1,224 members admitted in June and July 2000 VADM Martin speaks at the May • 76% were in the top 20% of 2001 Board of Trustees meeting thefr high school class • 27% previously attended some college or preparatory programs • 65 members attended colleges or preparatory schools under the sponsorship of the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation • Virtually all members stood at the top of their classes in school honors and activities • 11 of your class are representatives of foreign nations • 203 members of the Class of 2004 are women • 57 are sons or daughters of Naval Academy Alumni You are achievers, you are successful, you are winners...and, at this juncture, you are more than half way through what is arguably, die most important and most memorable four years of your Ufe. You have every reason to be proud, to stand taU among your peers in America or in your homelands of Bulgaria, Honduras, Jamaica, Korea, Lithuania, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. The Class of '04 is indeed a class with intemational character In two short years, you of '04 wiU know what it means to stand tall as a Naval Academy graduate. And what does this mean?

As a Naval Academy Graduate you will be a great part of America's future, part of the security and stability of this planet, you will be a leader, a contributor, an individual who has learned and practiced those fundamental values that have made our nation and naval service so great. Values based upon the imperatives of ethical conduct, honor, integrity, and commitment. Commitment to the weU-being of our nation, our national security, the naval service, and commitment to yourself. These precepts will remain with you well past the time when members of your class will be here in 50 years...hence to participate in Commitment Night for the Class of 2054.

Your four years at USNA are providing far more tiian a superb academic education. Academic achievement is vitally important in a world of increasing complexities.

However, and of perhaps greater importance, you are learning to be leaders. You are learning the value of organizational loyalty, loyalty to classmates, camaraderie and devotion to duty and principles. These values are neither

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part of, nor emphasized in, the regimen of most other institutions of higher learning. The significance of these values, so ingrained while at the USNA, was emphasized and dramatically underscored during the years of torment in the prisoner of war camps of North Vietnam. There, Naval Academy graduates were the leaders, those who set the example, those who established and carried out the guiding edict of "Home with Honor." Proudly, this was achieved and became one of the few overall successes of the Vietnam War. The Naval Academy Graduate in Society. The Mission of the Naval Academy is, "To develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order to provide graduates who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for future development in mind and character to assume the highest responsibiUties of command, citizenship, and government."

Many of you will serve long and successful careers in the Navy and Marine Corps. As such, you become the backbone of the Navy, the Marine Corps and our national defense. We live in an uncertain world, a world in which there are forces that will challenge our freedoms and way of life. Undoubtedly, you will be called upon to defend our nation and the free world against these challenges. Being well prepared, supporting and maintaining a sttong national defense is the only way to deter adventurism and aggression by those forces who want to desttoy our way of life.

Eventually, some wiU choose other paths in life after their commitment of service. Your commitment tonight includes

those mandates contained in the mission of the Academy: development in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of citizenship and government.

Contributions of Naval Academy graduates to our nation cover the spectrum of achievements and the list is long, indeed. Graduates are serving in public office, private industty, doctors, lawyers, and on and on. I know of no other institution in this nation whose graduates have contributed more to the positive character and weU-being of our nation; and, I do not know a single Naval Academy graduate who is not far better off in life as the result of having graduated from this Academy.

You, die members of the Class of 2004, are becoming part of a great tradition, part of an enduring heritage to pass along, as diis ttadition and heritage is being passed to you.

Tonight, you have made a commitment to be Naval Academy graduates, men and women who serve our great nation with ability, dedication and honor. You have made a commitment that, upon graduation, you will join a very select fraternity of some 70,000 Uving graduates of whom more than 50,000 are members of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association. The Alumni Association is the Extended Brigade and serves solely to support the Naval Academy and you.

By your commitment today, you may look forward with pride and confidence. We of the Class of 1954 have sat where you are now seated and we salute you, the Class of 2004, as you make the commitment to go forth and serve as so many have done before you. God speed and good luck.

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2006 Reaffirmation Ceremony n 10 August 2002, die Class of 2006 participated in the Reaffirmation Ceremony on Worden Field. The Reaffumation Ceremony has become part of the Plebe Parents Weekend festivities, and is conducted during the Parents Weekend P-rade. The Oath of Office taken on Induction Day is an important milestone in a midshipman's Ufe. In the whir of activities that accompany 1-Day, the complete meaning of the oath may not be fully appreciated. The Reaffirmation Ceremony is designed to reaffirm that commitment made six weeks earlier, after the rigors and training of Plebe Summer have set a new reaUty and understanding for the incoming class. This commitment to the Extended Brigade is even more important when accompanied by members of the Naval Academy Class that graduated 50 years before.

On a hot summer afternoon in AnnapoUs, former Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Frank Kelso '56, addressed the Class of 2006. His remarks are presented below.

Good Afternoon! The Class of 1956 congratulates each of you for choosing to enter the Naval Academy Class of 2006 and for your completion of Plebe Summer. This has been a summer like I remember 50 years ago: hot, humid, and for you it has been fast paced. Some could not and some chose not to finish the course, but each of you made the grade this summer and we are proud of your accomplishment. You have given your parents, relatives, and friends pride in your courage and commitment.

Much has changed since my class stood in your shoes.

The change has been so sweeping and large that I do not think you can comprehend its scope. Let us consider some change, but also some things that have remained the same.

We used sUde rules for calculations, you use computers.

Firsties have cars; we walked. The BerUn Wall has been erected and torn down; we did not know it would ever exist.

The Cold War was at its hottest in Korea our Plebe Summer; we spent most of our careers insuring it would end. You face a very different era; the War on Terrorism will be with you a long time. So, much has changed!

But much remains as we found it. My classmates arrived at AnnapoUs in the summer of 1952 with many ideas about why we were there. I suspect not much has changed in 2002. We sweated in the race to get on the correct uniform and seemed to have two left feet most of the time. Again, I

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suspect not much change. We pondered what it would be Uke when the Brigade returned for the fall semester. Would the academics be difficult? Would we be able to cope with the pace of life in the Yard?

And deep down we began to reaUze that we were changing. The idea of service to our country began to become real. Loyalty to our beUefs, to our classmates, to our nation began to take on new meanings. We started to understand that a midshipman was expected to be different than his civiUan counterpart; that the American people expected more of us. In or out of uniform we were always going to be observed and we learned to be proud of the privilege of wearing our nation's uniform.

The concepts of honor, commitment, and courage began to take on new meanings in our lives. Truth in what we said and how we acted became the standard. Our word became our bond to each other. We learned when we told the truth we did not have to remember what we said.

We became committed to our nation's service, committed to the words of the Constitution, committed to a life of loyalty to our shipmates and to our leaders. Committed to do what is right regardless of consequences to self.

We learned that we developed courage by staying the course, by persevering when the task was hard; trying again when we had failed the first time around and sometimes the second and the third. We hoped these tests would give us the courage we would need when our future job demanded it.

Indeed tiiere has been great change in these past 50 years, but you have proved this summer that your are on the right ttack to continue to your graduation in 2006, and to learn and to live by the fundamental values the Naval Academy has always strived to imbue in its graduates.

The Class of 1956 is proud to have the privilege of observing you run your race and we will celebrate your graduation and our 50th reunion in 2006 togetiier. To remind your class that there is a bond between us, each of you wiU be given a special coin to keep and to cement this bond. It is my pleasure to present the first coin to Midshipman Bryan Nappa.

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Regimental Dinner n Tuesday, 13 August 2002, die Class of 2006 gathered for their Fourth Class Regimental Dinner, held on the last I day of Plebe Summer. Their special guests for the evening included members from the Class of 1956 and their ladies.

'This special dinner, or "formal mess" allowed the Plebes to demonsttate their understanding of proper dining etiquette, while experiencing a time-honored ttadition in the Navy.

The dinner was held at King Hall with many speakers addressing the group. The keynote speaker for the evening was RADM Robert H. Shumaker '56, USN (Ret.); a former war hero and POW who was featured in the PBS airing of "Retum with Honor."

Since Induction Day, the Class of 1956 started to form a bond with their 50-year counterpart and wiU remain a constant companion over the next four years. Admiral Shumaker's remarks to the Class of 2006 appear below.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and most especially, greetings to the Class of 2006. It's my privilege to represent the Class of 1956 and with me here tonight are 20 members of my class and their wives who are seated among you.

Simple arithmetic indicates that there are exactly 50 years that separate my class and yours. Just how long is 50 years?

Well, it depends on whether you view it from the front or from the back. To you it must seem like an eternity; to us it's just a blink. My class is pleased to continue the Academy's ttadition of linking classes which are 50 years apart in hopes of providing advice when desired and serving as mentors for your needs. One of my classmates, Captain Bill Flight, has accepted the responsibility for coordinating this program. I'm sure that he will be communicating with you in the future about how we might assist you.

We are very proud of you for what you have accomplished so far.. .and for the potential you have to serve the needs of the nation.

Fifty years has shown a lot of change in the miUtary. The mechanics of warfare have undergone a revolution in that airplanes can fly faster and stealthily, submarines can dive deeper and operate quieter, and surface combatants can sail farther and deUver ordnance with pinpoint precision. But one thing that has not changed one iota in the past 50 years is the need for young men and women in the miUtary to be leaders who are inspiring, inteUigent, courageous, and ethical. In short, developing leaders is the mission of this Academy.

In your quest for a miUtary commission there are four hurdles to overcome. You have aUeady achieved two of them.

First, you've been carefully screened and selected to attend this great institution. Second, you've successfully completed the Plebe Summer orientation. Third is getting through Plebe Year and fourth is satisfying the professors over the course of four years that you do indeed have a brain. Tonight lets talk just about your upcoming Plebe Year. Yes, it's going to be tough on you and very demanding on your time, but thousands of plebes have gone before you and survived with their bodies and minds still intact.. .and you can too! It might help if you develop a sort of philosophical attitude about the purpose of Plebe Year. AU of us want you to succeed and make it through this first year, from the barbers to the company officers to the Superintendent. Plebe Year is part of your development in becoming a leader. It teaches you how to react favorably under pressure, to respect the discipline demanded of a military person, and to recognize the value of group cohesiveness.

In the course of your life you will frequently be called upon to make important decisions, and these decisions are

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usually under the duress of pressure. You'll be expected to make these decisions promptiy, intelligently, courageously, and with integrity, fairness and clarity. That's what Plebe Year is aU about...not just hazing and harassment...but developing those skills required of a leader.

Finally, let me sttess the importance of developing a strong support base. Sure, you can do it all alone if you choose, but you'll do it a lot better and with greater happiness if you can rely on other people for occasional help and if you reciprocate in helping others. Your families, friends, and classmates are the basic elements of your support base.

You also have the Class of 1956 whose members have been down the path before you and who stand ready to help you.

I know that my classmates wish that they had the opportunity now to be in your shoes and do it all over again. About half of my class chose to stay in the military beyond the obligated time required. Others became doctors, lawyers, ministers, congressmen, whatever.. .and made contributions outside the miUtary. All of us would agree that in whatever profession we chose to pursue, the Naval Academy experience helped us to become better people. I personally look back over the past 50 years with great fondness and appreciation for the high caliber of people with whom I was affiliated. In fact, I even credit the lessons of Plebe Year in helping me survive many years as a POW. Your class, and you individually, have the potential to succeed and make terrific contributions. At this particular juncture in our nation's history, with the threat of terrorism upon us, we need you to succeed as future leaders. The Nation needs you to succeed as leaders. You'll not always have "fair winds and following seas," but I know that you can overcome the "third" hurdle and get through Plebe Year just fine. From the Class of 1956 we wish you happiness, achievement, and fame...and we stand ready to help you along this path. Thank you. t'

Col Allen greets RADM Shumaker and CAPT Walt Carlson '56 in Dahlgren Hall prior to Fourth Class Mess Night

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Timothy Elizabeth Woodburv' holds a USN-A Class Ring which she hopes to re-unite with its rightful owner—^Tliat's her job at the USNA Alumni Association. Photo by Mark M. Odell 07/08/02. Vie Capital newspaper staff. Plwro courtesy ir'The Capital newspdjier.

SLEUTH: ALUMNI WORKER HUNTS MISSING TREASURES AND HELPS GET THEM HOME.

By Ariel Sabar, Sun Staff. Originally published July 8, 2002, Reprinted with permission from The Baltimore Sun ot long ago, the phone rang at the house in the East Texas pine forests where Frank M. Wroblewski was spending a quiet retirement.

The caller, a woman from the Naval Academy, told him that photographs of a gold Class of 1963 ring had just arrived at the school, inside an envelope with a Vietoam postmark. The ring appeared to be inscribed with the name Wroblewski. Had Wroblewski, the woman inquired, perchance lost his ring?

Wroblewski's memory rewound more than three decades to a sweltering day in Vietnam. He had been racing across a rice paddy, buUets tearing past him, when his ring sUd off his finger and, seemingly, into obUvion.

"I figured it was gone forever," says Wroblewski, 61. "The farthest thing from my mind was that some lady would call me up and teU me that somebody had my ring."

That lady is Timothy Elizabeth Woodbury, ring sleuth.

From a smaU office on the second floor of the academy's alumni association, Woodbury, spends part of every day hunting for lost rings and soothing the tattered nerves of bereft graduates.

The heavy hulks of gold are a precious symbol of AnnapoUs pedigree, dipped in water from the Seven Seas and conferred only on those who survive four punishing years at the officer-ttaining college.

Their value as status symbols is such that graduates— sometimes called ring knockers—have been known to flaunt their AimapoUs laurels to lesser mortals by tapping tiieir rings against a table so all can hear. One graduate, asttonaut Alan B. Shepard, took his to the moon.

"When I have people reporting rings lost, missing or stolen, they're absolutely sick about it," Woodbury says. "They're just devastated. They don't want a replacement. They want tiieir ring back, and no otiier ring is going to do."

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Woodbury had been hired by the alumni association as a part-time magazine editor in 1998 but pounced on a job, formally called ring bank coordinator, when it opened a year later. "It had fascinated me—the stories of how the rings show up and of getting them home," she says.

No story is quite the same. One ring was lost while snorkeling in Hawau, another while gardening in AnnapoUs. One was stolen at a beach party on Malta, another left in a jacket taken to the cleaners in Tucson, AZ. There is no formula for predicting where they will turn up.

Rings have been found amid several hundred tons of recycled newspapers, on beaches in the Virgin Islands and beneath suburban lawns being dug up to install decks.

Woodbury compiles lost-ring reports from alumni. She fields calls from across the globe from people claiming to have found rings.

And she searches on the Internet. Academy rings auctioned on eBay have fetched as much as $2,000. So Woodbury fires off silver-tongued e-mails to seUers, asking tiiem to cancel the auction and let the original owner negotiate a retum of the ring.

She has even sought a hand from the diplomatic community. When the letter from Vietnam arrived, she asked the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington to ttanslate it. She mailed the results to Wroblewski, who began a correspondence with the letter's author, a Vietnamese gold dealer.

When a lost ring surfaces, Woodbury determines its class year by studying photos in a pair of large albums that catalog the design of every class ring since 1869. Ship wheels, anchors and mermaids are common design motifs, but none is alike. Then she scours computer databases for the addresses of original owners or their descendants.

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The rate of retum is low: Although 500 rings are currently reported missing with her office, just 10 or 20 tum up each year.

Those finds are of such interest to graduates that the alumni magazine runs a regular column called "Ring Story."

To outsiders, the idea of a college having a ring detective defies easy explanation.

"I was pretty shocked to hear they kind of had a department that handles that—I actually just expected a blowoff," says Jared Richardson, a pawnshop owner in Albuquerque, N.M., who bought a Class of 1926 ring from a customer and then worked with Woodbury to retum it to the children of its late owner. "Who's to think that the Naval Academy would have a budget for that?"

The academy's alumni association has had a ring bank office since 1982. But Woodbury is the first coordinator to actively look for rings, taking the hunt to the Internet and doubling or tripling the number of recoveries each year. "eBay is great because it brings sellers out of hiding," she says. But the sellers know the rings' value on the open market, and more often than not they ignore Woodbury's appeals.

"Each one is a race: Can I get to a seller before the collectors make their mark? Can I locate the owner before it's too late?"

There is nothing illegal about most of these sales, Woodbury says, because most sellers acquire the rings legitimately. In some cases, rings enter the marketplace when the descendants of graduates auction them as part of an estate sale.

Auction Canceled Woodbury does not mind describing some finds as "coups"—such as the ring that vanished during the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to reappear 60 years later The ttail warmed last year, when an eBay seller agreed to Woodbury's request to cancel an auction of a 1936 academy ring. He told Woodbury that he wanted $1,000 for it. He would give her a little time to track down the original owner.

The ring bore the name Capt. Harry Boger Stark. The name was in alumni records, but Stark had died two years earlier.

Woodbury found his obituary and, in it, the name of Stark's daughter. Woodbury found the daughter's phone number in an Intemet directory and called.

Did she know whether her father had ever lost his ring?

Stark's daughter didn't think so. The one he had wom most of his life was accounted for - it had been left to a nephew.

But then she remembered: Her father had told a story of being aboard the West Virginia, docked in Pearl Harbor, on the moming of Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese bombs and torpedoes stmck. He dashed onto the deck, leaving his ring behind in his cabin as the ship began to take on water.

Stark survived, and the West Virginia was later refloated.

The next year. Stark bought a replacement ring he wore the rest of his life. He had assumed that the original was a goner.

Tempers flared when Stark's daughter first got in touch with the seller. She accused him of deaUng in stolen property and demanded that he retum the ring for free. The seller recoiled and broke off negotiations.

Then Stark's nephew, Alan Mills, stepped in. He took a cooler tone and simply paid the seller's asking price.

"To me it's a treasured memento of my uncle. It represents a lot of service and honor and heroism," Mills says from his home in California. "The last thing I wanted to do was have the ring go away. It's something that just never comes along a second time."

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Despite several e-mails from MiUs, the seller would not say how he had acquired the ring or provide clues to its journey since Pearl Harbor "I'd love to know the actual story," Mills says. But like many of tiiose who recover long-lost rings, he lives with the mystery.

'Crazy obsession' A committee of midshipmen, working with an artist, designs a class ring during freshman year. Midshipmen buy the finished product from a jewelry maker for about $1,000 each, and the rings make their debut at a ring dance during junior year, when midshipmen and their dates dip them into a binnacle of sea water before slipping them on.

Students who leave or are expelled before graduation must give the rings back. The rules are much the same at other military academies.

The trouble a graduate goes through to eam a ring accounts for a big part of their allure for collectors.

Christopher G. Wright, a New Jersey psychologist who served briefly in the Army, owns 58 Naval Academy rings.

The class years range from 1900 to 1994. He has spent about $20,000 on what he calls his "crazy obsession." He has bought repUcas from the original jewelry manufacturers and "owned rings"—the most cherished kind, those that once belonged to AnnapoUs graduates—from antiques shops and eBay. He displays the collection on a custom-made, black-velvetand-cherry-wood case in his study. He says he'll leave it to the academy upon his death.

Wright, 53, never went to the academy. But his grandfather. Vice Adm. Carlton Bryant, Class of 1914, did.

Wright has a crisp memory of the day an academy ring first cast its spell. He was 10. He was sitting on a porch on a summer day as his grandfather spun stories of the Navy. The mark of an Annapolis man, Bryant said, was his ring. And then he dropped his lump of gold into his grandson's hands.

"It was relatively wom, and it was filled with symbols that were enchanting," Wright recalls. "I remember it was heavy and sacred. I held it with both hands. I didn't even put it on."

As an adult, he indulged his obsession by spending hours in the dimly Ughted die rooms of the original jewelry makers.

The result was the historical photo catalog of rings that Woodbury keeps by her side in her office.

Wroblewski, the man who lost his ring dodging bullets in Vietnam, has exchanged several letters with the gold dealer in Vietnam. Each time a letter arrives, Wroblewski drives about an hour to have it translated by a Vietnamese-bom Catholic priest in a neighboring parish.

The dealer at first wanted $10,000 but has since lowered his asking price to $5,000. That's still too high for Wroblewski. He lives on a military pension and has wom a replacement ring since his retum from Vietnam. But he believes the dealer will lower his price again.

"He correctly assumed it was worth more to me than anyone else in the world, and he correctly assumed I would like to have it back," Wroblewski says. "He incorrectly assumed my degree of attachment."

Later, he grows more sentimental. "To lose it and get it back after 30-some years would be a hell of a story," he says.

"I'd be so delighted just to hold it again."

Woodbury wants Wroblewski to get his ring back, too, for the glory of it. "It would be quite an accompUshment to get that home," she says. "It would be a coup, for sure."

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By Captain Edward O. Grunwald '50, USN (Retired)

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We were operating south of Cuba and had been launched from the aircraft carrier, FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT (CVA-42) on a ttaining mission in preparation for an extended deployment.

Tom's engine failed at an altitude of around 8,000 feet in the vicinity of Navossa Island, located some 60-80 miles south of Guantanamo Bay. As Tom glided down near the island, the squadron CO suggested that he try to put the aircraft down on the "sandy beach" on one side of the island.

Tom responded with his final words, "The beach looks a little rough to me, I'm going to land in the water next to the island."

I watched Tom glide down alongside the island; and then at the last second, he tumed sharply to the left, which placed him over land, and at that time, he was committed to a crash landing there. Unfortunately, the "grains of sand" on that beach were more like the size of an automobile. The aircraft's engine came off at touchdown, and the plane stopped in an upright position. A minute or two later, a few wisps of smoke became visible and then black smoke and fire—there was no explosion. We hoped desperately to see Tom exit the aircraft, but unfortunately, that never happened. The entire aircraft bumed, with the exception of the tail section.

The next day, the ship sent a landing party via motor whaleboat to inspect the site and recover remains. Included in the

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It was in perfect condition except for one small ash mark on one side. "Joe, how on earth did you find it?" I asked. He replied that he scratched around under the ashes where die cockpit had been and there it was!

I told this story to a group of classmates and wives at one of our committee meetings in preparation for our class' 50th reunion. Rex Kilboum '50 and his wife, Carol, friends of Tom, were appreciative to hear the tme story of his death.

They put me in touch with Earl Dille '50, who wanted to hear the story firsthand, since he was the one who had returned the ring to Tom's wife.

In 1966, I had the opportunity to revisit the crash site, this time in an A4 Skyhawk. The Navy had made no attempt to remove remnants of the plane from this uninhabited, remote site. Although 14 years had passed, the tail of that Skyraider was still visible. Time and weather had faded the color somewhat, but the white "R" on the navy blue tail was still there. I made two or three passes, dipping my wings as a salute to Tom Jenike and to the crash site that will forever remain as a tribute to Tom, our class, and the U.S. Navy. •..•

The Veterans History Project

By Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi '67 s Naval Academy Alumni, you are / \ r ^members of an elite group of men and women whose history is older than the nation itself.

Our country's military revolutionized America. Its history is America's history.

Thanks to the millions of people who have served, our great experiment in representative democracy, which Lincoln called "the last best hope of earth," has continued unintermpted and triumphant for 226 years.

As the principal advocate for America's 25 million living veterans, I am proud to announce that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is working with the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center in a special program to honor our soldiers, sailors, airmen. Marines, and Coast Guardsmen by preserving the memories of their service.

Historians, teachers, students, and writers—even filmmakers—have long relied on the first-hand reminiscences of veterans to leam about the experience of Americans at war.

Unfortunately, that resource is rapidly dwindUng.

Today, and every day, 1,800 veterans—most of whom served during World War II—will die. We are down to the last handful of living World War I veterans; and fewer than six million of the 16 million men and women who fought World War II are still aUve. The Veterans History Project collects oral histories from our military veterans. From the leaders who made the momentous decisions on the battlefield to the veterans whose tours in uniform were spent at stateside training bases and supply depots—all have unique insight into history that we have a responsibility to preserve.

As a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, I'm calling upon my Alma Mater and the other service academies to join with VA and other participating organizations in making this project a success.

Specifically, I challenge the classes at the military academies to adopt the Veterans History Project as their own class projects. Identify sea services veterans who have stories to tell—and to preserve. Take it upon yourself to ensure that the memories of their service in the defense of our freedoms are captured and preserved.

The American FoUdife Center at the Library of Congress has a wealth of practical information about collecting these interviews. That help is a mouse-click away at http://www.loc. gov/folklife/vets. (continued on page 21)

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Our nation's service academy classes have a unique link to our Nation's history. You are the beneficiaries of a long, illustrative legacy, the history of the sea services, which helped to shape the life of our country and profoundly influenced the entire planet. You have a responsibility to understand and preserve your roots. Be an interviewer. Share what you leam from talking with other veterans.

The stories of the contributions America's veterans made to our nation and its history are stories that need to be collected, recorded and preserved so that they can be told again and again.

This project will help Americans—especially young Americans—understand why President Bush has described veterans as "examples of service and citizenship for every American to remember and to follow." This project will help America understand why this is so.

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The museum will work hand-in-glove with the Veterans' History Project. Each group will complement the other, and we hope to share the resources and faciUties of our museum with the project whenever possible.

Both projects will enable Americans of all generations to hear directly from our veterans, and to better appreciate the realities of war and the sacrifices made by those who have served our nation in uniform and the challenges of their retum to civilian life.

The national emergency we now face redoubles the importance of this message, and increases the urgency of the task we face. I ask for your help to make this project a success, -i^

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During his term as a tmstee, Rob is interested in assisting the Alumni Association with its mission: "to serve and support the United States, the Naval Service, and the Naval Academy: by seeking out, informing, encouraging, and assisting outstanding, qualified young men and women to pursue careers as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps through the Naval Academy."

To support this mission, Mr. Bender is a strong proponent of the Candidate Awareness Representative (CAR) Program. The CAR was designed to encourage Alumni to assist the Blue and Gold Area Coordinator and the Academy's admissions office in bringing the Naval Academy's message to their local communities.

Mr. Bender encourages local chapters to raise funds to help support awareness programs and the efforts of the Blue and Gold Officers. These funds can be used for bus trips and in assisting qualified financially disadvantaged candidates attend the Naval Academy's Summer Seminar Program.

As a new trastee representing the Philadelphia Chapter, Mr. Bender would like continue a long fradition of the Philadelphia Chapter: Candidate Awareness and Outreach.

The Chapter has been fortunate to have a very good relationship with the parents and the Naval Academy Information Program dating back to the old Bird Dog Program up to the current Blue and Gold Program. In March the Chapter hosted its thfrd annual USNA Information Day, which included Alumni, parents. Blue and Gold officers, congressional staff, and midshipmen. This information day has been held on the first Saturday of the midshipmen's spring break to facilitate their attendance. In addition, the Philadelphia Chapter has been able to financially support bus trips to the Naval Academy that are organized by the Blue and Gold Program.

At present, Rob is working with Academy Leadership, a company founded by Dennis Haley '67. This company specializes in leadership development training, and its processes are based on the methods used by the service academies' leadership development programs. They combine these strategies with today's successful corporate philosophies to ttansform managers at aU levels into leaders who can energize the team to accomplish goals that are aUgned with the organization's mission, values and vision, resulting in tangible business resuhs.

As an avocation, Rob works with junior high and high school students by coaching them in football and by organizing service projects. Two of these projects are helping to renovate homes for die disadvantage through a program caUed "Christmas in April" and organizing Friday night visits to a home for the mentally disabled to play games with the residents. d>

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T h e Liberty Eagle pin, the most popular brooch in her American Collection, has been worn by some of the most outstanding women in America and throughout the world. It is gold plated with a ruby eye and the finest 14mm faux shell-based pearl. It comes packaged in a genuine leather box. $90 (Please allow an additional 2 weeks for delivery.)

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Quartz: $523.00 Jeweled/Atlantis: $544 Commemorative Rugs These exquisiteTiensin hand-made rugs have been custom designed for the U.S. Naval Academy 100% virgin wool with 80 knots per inch, 3/4 inch pile.

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G Standing the Test of Time: Donor's Inspiring, Giving History Captures Heart of Campaign

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or 29 consecutive years. Commander Francis "Tod" Packer '45, has quietly been a faithful supporter of the Naval Academy, conunitting himself to helping raise the bar of excellence at his alma mater. Packer has the distinction of making an unrestricted gift every year since 1973, amounting to more than $10,000 over the years and generating over $15,000 in matching gifts. He is one of the longest consecutive annual donors to the Naval Academy!

The success of the Campaign depends greatly on the donor loyalty and consistency, exemplified by Commander Packer.

No gift is too great or too small, but each one brings us closer to a primary goal of the Campaign to enhance the margin of excellence across the board at the Academy.

"Fimdraising is much more than a story of dollars and cents; rather, it is about the direct impact that donors' gifts have on the Brigade, the Academy, and the nation," says George Watt '73, president and CEO of die United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation. "We seek equal sacrifice, not equal gifts. Every gift, from every donor, is important in this Campaign. Commander Packer exemplifies thousands of loyal Naval Academy supporters whose ongoing and consistent gifts are the backbone of the Campaign."

Packer chose the Naval Academy to follow in the footsteps of his father, also a naval officer. "Being in and around the Navy for years made me grow more attached to the life, the professionalism, the espirit de corps, and the high standards and values I had noted over the years," he says. His brother, Duncan, later joined him at the Academy, graduating with the Class of 1947. One of his fondest memories as a midshipman was attending his first Army-Navy football game, which Navy won, 14-6, in Philadelphia on 30 November 1941. "Marching into the stadium was such a thrill," he recalls.

Upon graduation. Packer was conraiissioned an ensign and assigned to INDIANA in the Pacific and served as a watch and division officer in the gunnery department. "Against the Japanese, we had shore bombardments, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa, plus the final campaign against the Japanese homeland," he remembers. INDIANA was part of the screen protecting the fast carrier task forces, and Kamikaze suicide bombers were not an uncommon sight.

Following the War, Packer served on MANCHESTER and completed the Naval and ConsOnction Post Graduate course at MIT, which designated him an engineering duty officer. He was later assigned to naval shipyard service in Norfolk, VA, and Service Squadron One in San Diego, CA. Packer

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completed a tour on SARATOGA and then served as assistant director at the Marine Engineering Laboratory in Annapolis.

During several tours at the Bureau of Ships in Washington, DC, he worked as head of the Boiler Branch, in the Landing Ship Type Desk, and in the Auxiliary Ship Type Desk focusing on Project Polaris conversions. After a 22 year career, he retired from the Navy in 1967.

Packer joined Esso Intemational, Inc., the intemational distribution and marketing arm of Standard Oil of New Jersey, in the Design Division. Instead of designing and building warships for the Navy, he was now designing and building civilian oil carriers for Esso, which later changed its name to Exxon. The company sent him all over the world to places such as Italy and Japan to work on various constmction and shipbuilding projects. He eventually returned to the U.S., where he remained until his retirement in 1983.

In addition to his unrestricted gifts, Packer became a member of the Robert Means Thompson Society by establishing a planned gift that will ultimately benefit the Academy. Tod Packer's dedication as a donor is something he takes very seriously: "I believe in the mission and objectives of the CDR Francis Packer and his wife, Barbara, Naval Academy and the Navy as a whole.. .we must support a CDR Packer holds the distinction of being strong defense establishment for the health of the nation." one of the longest consecutive annual Commander Packer's inspiring example serves as a comdonors to the Naval Academy. pelling testimony to a principal rationale for the Campaign: private gifts in support of the developUNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ment of the Brigade of Midshipmen, as FOUNDATION they become the next generation of Leaders to Serve the Nation. 4> THE UNITED S T A T E S N A V A L A C A D E M Y C A M P A I G N

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U N I T E D STATES NAVAL ACADEMY

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5y4CC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associanons 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. Many Fortime 500 and other firms in corporate America recruiting academy graduates will attend.

Thursday, November 14, 2 0 0 2 Interview Prep Seminar Friday, November 15, 2 0 0 2 Breakfast (provided): Registration: SACC:

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Where is SACC The 5y4CC is held annually in Dallas. Typically we have 30-45 companies participating and 200-250 candidates. It is a well attended career fair, and the companies, such as Abbott Labs, Anteon, GE, Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, Target, KPMG, ExxonMobil, Sprint, and many others, have been very successfiil with their recruiting efforts in Dallas each year.

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ecretary of the Navy, the Honorable Gordon R. England, described members of the Class of 2002 as '"'""' having "indomitable spirit and courage" as he addressed the Class at graduation bidding them farewell. Among the 965 members were 16 members chosen for training to be the newest SEAL officers in the Navy's elite Navy SEALs. In light of the War in Afghanistan, special forces have had a heavy impact on combating the Al-Queda terrorist network. With the thought of being thrown into the heat of battle, the training they have acquired as midshipmen and subsequent training in the SEALs will be put to the test during this time of war. Aspiring to excel in the SEAL community, these young men inevitably will be a part of history

From, 1 to r: Dan Cnossen, Ben Zuber, Rob Bocek. Nick Huber. Craig Replogle, Pat McCauley, Nat Thompson, Garret Kulczycki; BaA, 1 to r: Mark Conley, Nate Scott, Ben Ahn, Darren Bounds, and Justin Davis

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during this world conflict. The 16 men who made the final selection, with sheer determination began their SEAL journey as a plebe four years earlier.

Midshipmen are introduced to the Naval Special Warfare community during Plebe Summer, participating in the Squad Combat Conditioning Course. In the grueling humid heat of Annapolis, plebes dressed up in camouflage, run through the yard, carrying small zodiac boats over their heads. In and out of the water, the exercise, although physically challenging introduces the Fourth Class to the concept of teamwork, a skill greatly needed being a midshipman and an officer in the SEALs. During their Fourth Class academic year, the plebes are introduced to the basic structure and different types of missions in Naval Special Warfare.

Later, during their Third Class summer, midshipmen partake in Naval Tactical Training (NTT), a three-segment exercise, including SEAL week. Run by a small corps of Navy SEALs stationed at the Academy and assisted by the graduated SEAL selectees, the youngsters get a glimpse of the typical life of being a SEAL. Each day is different and activities include rappelling out of the back of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter and conducting cast and recovery operations in the Sevem River. "The Midshipmen are given an introduction to tactical shooting with the M-4 Special Operations Modified combat rifle, an opportunity that few outside the Special Warfare community get" reports Lieutenant Bart Randall '95, USN, one of the SEAL officers stationed at USNA. Youngsters are also put to the test exposed to the challenges of operating at night during a small-unit field exercise.

Past their Third Class Year, the screening process becomes more refined eliminating the general masses. At this point, only candidates possessing tenacity and an insatiable appetite to become a SEAL remain part of the screening process.

Second Class midshipmen interested in becoming a SEAL can participate in pre-mini Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) screening, on the academy grounds. This is a precursor to the physically challenging three-week course of mini BUD/S held in Coronado, CA, at the BUD/S compound.

Typically, 70 candidates fully complete the rigorous screening process which is required to participate in mini BUD/S during their First Class Summer Cruise, however only 40 midshipmen make the final cut to obtain a billet at mini-BUD/S. The

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course is front line exposure to life in the SEAL teams. The battery of exercises and training simulate strenuous conditions prevalent in real world combat situations. Lieutenant Randall assisted with the training in Coronado this past June. "The midshipmen from USNA compete side by side with ROTC midshipmen during mini BUD/S training. Owing to the Academy's tough prescreening process, the USNA Midshipmen consistently outperform the ROTC Midshipmen."

First Class SEAL candidates receive NSW career briefings and are also interviewed by both a USNA service assigrunent interview team and a NSW-specific team. The NSW interviews are comprehensive, testing the knowledge midshipmen have acquired about special warfare since the commencement of their military education. Finally, the candidates' records are reviewed by the NSW service assignment board, which consists of five to eight junior and senior SEAL officers, including the company officers who have worked first hand with the SEAL candidates. The board takes the "whole person approach" when considering interested SEAL candidates. This is different than the "whole person multiple" approach used by USNA admissions. Basically, the approach used for the screening process cannot be summed up in a simple equation.

Meaning, there is no codified set of steps a SEAL candidate can take to get that coveted billet into the SEAL teams. The board's objective is to look at the best candidates to become SEAL officers exemplifying high standards of excellence in the areas of academics, athletics, leadership, and conduct. "It is always a tough decision, we have many strong candidates but only the top few are chosen," said Lieutenant Randall. "I am confident that we could send 25 or 30 ensigns to BUD/S each year and they would succeed in the Teams but the community is so small we can only send 16."

The 16 young men selected to become the newest SEAL junior officers have an innate sense of perseverance and determination that will propel them through the next six months of BUD/S training. Upon graduation, they will embark on their naval careers with the weight of the war in Afghanistan bestowed upon them as they join the ranks of the U.S. Navy SEALs. d.

Work Cited: Overview of Naval Special Warfare, 10 July 2002 http://prodevweb.prodev.usna.edu/svcassign/specwar/specwarmain.htm

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ANCHORS AWAY ^ 2003 TRAVEL PROGRAM ALUMNI TRAVEL Yachtsman's Caribbean (8-15 February 2003) A leisurely and totally relaxing winter getaway voyage through the Virgin Islands; including St. Thomas, Jost Van Dyke, Tortola, Norman Island, St. John and others aboard the intimate KwTUCKET CLIPPER. 8 days/fix)m $1,850 plus air/ Clipper Cruises Prague Escapade (12-19 March 2003) Central Europe's most favored and interesting city is yours to discover for eight days; the Strahov Monastery, Prague Castie, Old Town Square, and much more. Stay at the five-star deluxe Hotel Intercontinental. Optional excursions available to many of the area's special sights, or explore on your own. 8 days/$l,495 ind. air/Alvunni Holidays Vdlage Life A l o i ^ the Dalmatian Coast (20-28 May 2003) Start in Venice, then across the Adriatic Sea to Croatia on the 56-passenger M.Y MOXET to see the amazing cities of Zadar, Pula, Split, Korcula, and Dubrovnik, then back to Eavenna, Italy. 9 days/$2,895 incL air/Gohagan & Company Village Life in the Dordogne (31 May-8 June 2003) Discover the Perigord Noir district of Southwest France with its amazing gastronomic bounty and the amazing pre-historic caves of Les Elyzies-de-Tayac. 9 days/$2,495 incl. air/Gohagan & Company Alumni College in the Veneto District (11-19 August 2003) Stay in the walled cit\' of Cittadella, then journey to Marostica, Bassane del Grappa, and Castel Franco Veneto. Visit Venice, Verona and Padua, site of the Basilica of St. Anthony. 9 days/$2,395 incl. air/Aliunni Holidays Alumni College in IXiscany (Cortona) (7-15 May 2003) A repeat of our first and most popular Tuscany destination, early in the season before the heat and crowds. Stay in Cortona and travel each day to the surrounding areas, including Montepulciano, Perugia, Assisi, Siena, and

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"Jackie and I just completed our USNA Alumni Group Tour to Florence. This was our fourth, having previously visited Rome, Ireland and Switzerland.These tours have been outstanding. The attention to details, including hotels, meals, transportation, and overall organization was superb! Best of all was the camaraderie with Alumni, shared backgrounds and experiences. If you haven't tried a tour, do itlYou'll love it'" —Dick Westfahl '59

Florence. A week of Tuscan history, culture and cuisine that will delight your senses. 9 days/$2,395 incl. air/Aliuimi Holidays Scandinavia and the Norwegian Fjords (31 July-16 August 2003) Start in Helsinki, then travel across the Artie Circle to board the M.S. NORDNORGE, a modem ship perfect for all the amazing inlets and ^ords of Finland and Norway Includes a trip on die Flaam Railway, a visit to Oslo and Bergen and many other cities. 15 days/from $3,995 incl. air from NY/Odysseys Unlimited Legendary Passage Cruise on the Rhine & Moselle Rivers (29 July-5 August 2003) Two nights in Amsterdam, then board the MS EUROPA for a wonderfiil cruise from Dusseldorf to Strasbourg, through Germany's most beautifiil region of feudal casties and storybook wine villages. End with three days in Lucerne and its Alpine landscape and amazing Lake Lucerne. 13 days/$3,695 incl. air/Alunmi Holidays British Isles Cruise (15-30 August 2003) A nineteen-day scenic voyage around the legend-laced British Isles encompassing Cornwall, Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, and Outer Hebrides, Orkney Islands and Edinburgh, plus a visit to Le Havre for Normandy and Brugge. 19 days/from $4,595 plus low air add-ons./Gohagan & Company Canadian Rockies Train Tour with the Calgary Stampede (6-14 July 2003) Start in Vancouver, then board the Rocky Moimtaineer to Jasper, travel by coach to I ^ e Ixjuis and on to Banff, with a snow-coach ride in the Columbia Icefields, and tram ride up Sulfiir Mountain, plus much more. End in Calgary for the Stampede, with reserved seats for the famous chuck wagon races. 9 days/$3,099 land/CoUette Vacations Alunuii College in Greece (19-28 September 2003) Stay on the island of Poros and explore the art, architecture, and culture of ancient Greece. Travel by boat to Aegjna, Mycenae, Hydra, and Athens to see the Acropolis and Parthenon. 9 days/$2,395 incl. air/Alimmi Holidays

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lso this year for the first time we have joined the other service academies Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine, and will be doing some trips together. T h e program, named J o i n t Academy Travel, gives you the ability to travel n o t only with a Navy group, but n o w you can be part of a larger joint academy group. Join one of these trips and travel with those w h o k n o w the Academy experience, but haven't heard all your sea stories yet.

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CONNIE,

Looking Back but Leaning Forward

By Commander Doug Denneny '84

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Let friend and foe alike know that America has the muscle to back up its words, and ships like this and men like you are that muscle...you are America's Flagship."

—President Ronald Reagan to the crew of CONSTELLATION off the coast of California, 20 August 1981.

CONSTELLATION (CV-64) is preparing for one more and possibly her last combat deployment. The second oldest aircraft carrier is working up to prepare for her role in the war on terrorism. As she leans forward and heads west, she is oblivious to the debate on her future and of the course the Navy is predicting for carriers like CVN-X that will follow in her wake.

"America's Flagship" was commissioned in 1961, following a lineage of "CONNIES" beginning in 1797. Her age is made apparent by walking through her passageways, not only by referencing the history that emanates from her hull, but also by her physical characteristics. The giants of naval aviation, in the Pentagon and in Congress who conceived, fought for her funding, and designed and built her were truly giants, men who put the Navy carrier battle group ahead of the clamoring for U.S. Air Force supremacy in the 1950s and beyond.

Men of vision, true giants who must have been short in stature—as the new generation of taller CONNIE sailors scrape their heads on the overheads of her second deck.

The officers and men who took CONNIE on her first cruise brought with them a history of spinning propellers, blue aircraft, LSO's with paddles, wooden decks, and open canopies.

They also brought with them memories of tropical sunrises, fast carriers and the taste of victory at sea in two recent wars, Victories ensured by carrier aviation.

These giants returned to the breach in August of 1964, when CONNIE responded to reported North Vietnamese attacks on MADDOX and TURNER JOY. CONNIE was the first U.S. warship to launch airstrikes against the North Vietnamese. Today, the memories of Cunningham, Driscoll, and countless aviators who relentlessly pounded the enemy from the decks of CVA-64 pour out of the ready rooms. More importandy, the memories remain of those who did not retum.

CONNIE made seven deployments to Vietnam over the next eight years. She returned to conflict during the Iranian Hostage crisis, the reflagging of Kuwaiti tankers, and was the first on the scene to stop Saddam's advances on Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield.

But where does that leave a ship like CONSTELLATION with so much to give and so little time left in its service life? What other assets aside from a carrier battle group can possibly serve as the 911 force to counter terrorists like those responsible for September 11th?

Determining force structure is a challenging business. The "iron triangle" of defense procurement is a difficult triumvirate to break. Certainly there is a place for Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles and UAVs. But is it justifiable that the carrier force and the CVN-X—both of which faced and continue to face a formidable threat to their existence prior to September 11th—be lumped under the microscope with other big-ticket weapons like the F-22 fighter jet, the Comanche helicopter, and space-based radar? Is the BaUistic Missile Defense program really worth the inordinate amount of money pouring

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into her contractor's coffers? Shouldn't more money be spent for a replacement on the EA-6B Prowler, the S-3B Viking, the E-2 Hawkeye, and C-2 Greyhound? Have decision makers forgotten that the preeminent force in our recent conflict was the Navy and Marine Corps team who delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of ordnance on target and on time?

Has America created a new force that can move about the earth with impunity and project power? The answer is no. The carrier battle group has held this title since the end of World War II, and will continue to hold this title through the new millennium. Now she needs support in the Pentagon and in Congress to confinue her preeminence and ensure victory for America in tomorrow's armed conflicts.

Fifty years ago, James Michener pontificated this dilemma through the voice of his Admiral in the 1953 classic, The Bridges of Toko Ri, "Long ago, [the Admiral] had begun to argue that some new weapon—rockets perhaps or pilodess planes of vast speed—would inevitably constitute the task force of the future. He had seen so much change, indeed had spurred it on, that he could not rely perpetually on ships or airplanes or any one device. But until America was secure behind the protection of some new agency that could move about the earth with security and apply pressure wherever the enemy chose to assault us, it would be wise to have young officers trained to command a sea burdened with ships and speckled with the shadows of a thousand planes."

Today's present day giants continue to step across her brow and cross the landing area of "America's Flagship." Guided by her Captain, John Miller '79 and her Air Wing Commander, Captain Mark Fox '78, the officers and sailors of CONNIE and her air wing are eager to eam their places next to the giants of the past.

On 4 July 2002 off the coast of CaUfomia aboard CONNIE, Lieutenant Van Rypel '97 and Lieutenant Commander Mike Bilzor '92, taxied their Tomcat to catapult three. Lieutenant Rypel had been in the squadron for two days,finishingthe Fleet Replacement Squadron at Oceana a week earher. Great effort was expended to fly him across the country and COD him aboard to take advantage of the flying during this workup period. It would be his second cat shot in the fleet aboard CONNIE. The event was uneventful—as uneventful as a carrier sortie can be for a nugget F-14 pilot. Swinging into the VF-2 ready room on their way to maintenance control, the aircrew were taken aback by the presence of the Boss and a young member of the catapult crew who thrust a piece of cake in their hands.

The Air Boss congratulated Van and Mike for logging the 150,000 catapult shot off of "America's Flagship" on catapult number 1. No band, no photographer, no speeches, just a handshake for another completed mission and a milestone. A milestone achieved on America's birthday. A milestone measured in 41 years of continued service to America.

The giants of wooden decks, khaki flight suits and leather helmets would have been proud. The times will change, but not the mission or the importance of carrier aviation and the Navy-Marine Corps team. The officers and men of CONNIE are looking back, but leaning forward, •i'

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the ship decided that to save time launching it would be okay to plug in rocket and missile pigtails while the aircraft were "in the pack." No one ever asked the captain's permission to deviate from standard procedure and he never knew. On this THt B6A6LT fl»E OH W£ USS ngUtiJAl Reviewed by Vice Admiral Robert one Phantom the plugged in pigtails allowed stray voltage to SKB THE HtROES WHO fOUSHt 11 flow and when the pilot switched from external to internal F. Dunn '51, USN (Retired) power the Zuni fired.

As to the bombs, it is fact that they were old, of World War 'ailors to the End is the story of the FORRESTAL II vintage and not protected with any sort of fire retardant feafire, a major conflagration tures. They had been delivered to FORRESTAL just the night while the ship was operat- before and the captain wanted to refuse them, but they were all the ammunition ship had and bombs of that size were ing in the Gulf of Tonkin in GREGORY A. 1967. An accidental launch of a required for the next day's strike. The author blames thenFREEMAN Zuni rocket from a parked F-4 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara for that, but some Phantom into a parked A-4 might find that accusation a bit of a stretch.

Skyhawk ignited a fire of unprecedented dimension which, in In the end, besides the 134 men who died, another 161 were tum, led to the explosion only one minute and thirty-four sec- seriously injured, 21 aircraft were lost and 40 more damaged. onds after the Zuni impact of the first of nine 1,000 pound The psychological cost to the families of the dead and the surbombs and the death of 134 FORRESTAL sailors and officers. vivors themselves is incalculable. One would hope the lesThe fire and resulting investigations led directly to improve- sons leamed would atone in some miniscule part for the lossments in ordnance safety and firefighting readiness, training es. Only those who continue to build, supply equip, maintain and equipment. It is a travesty that it has taken 30 years for and lead our sailors can ensure that they will. this story to be told in detail because there are still lessons to Unfortunately, with all the good information so well told in be learned and re-leamed by new generations of sailors and the book, it is difficult to get into the meat of it. That is those who lead them. To my knowledge only one prior non- because the author takes the first four and one half chapters to governmental full scale review of the fire has ever been con- give the background of all the sailors he interviewed and a ducted; that a symposium at the National Museum of Naval description of what is an aircraft carrier. The former is an Aviation in Pensacola in May 2000, a review that did not get interesting sociological effort but has little to do with the fire widespread distribution. and the actions of these people in the fire and the latter is In filling that gap in information Gregory Freeman has done unnecessary for the likely readership of this book. Also, in an excellent job. His narrative takes the reader minute by those same early pages he discourses on John McCain's minute through the catastrophe from before the launch of the genealogy. McCain was sitting in the cockpit of the A-4 hit by the Zuni but his genealogy had littie to do with that.

Zuni to the arrival of FORRESTAL back in her homeport of Norfolk. Some of the fire scenes Freeman paints are gory, Another curious thing is that while there is an extensive list some are heroic, and some are sad and tragic, but throughout, of notes in the back of the book, nowhere in the text are the the one common thread that cannot fail to impress the reader notes referenced. Then, there are a number of technical misis the obvious exercise of individual initiative by the takes which don't make any difference to the story but do American sailor. When Repair Eight, the flight deck firefight- cause a carrier experienced person to gag every once in ing team was wiped out in the first bomb explosion, the job of awhile. A better edit would have corrected those tMngs. rescue and firefighting fell to the flight deck crew whose priNevertheless, Sailors to the End is a well-told and exciting mary job was not firefighting. Indeed, in those days only a few story. Beyond that it is an easy to read compendium of what of them even knew the radiments of using the Navy's oxygen went wrong in FORRESTAL in July of 1967. It would be a great breathing apparatus (OBA). They often fought the fire the review for anyone going to duty in a carrier or large amphib, wrong way; for example, using foam and water simultaneous- especially the part from Chapter Six on. ^i• ly thus washing the foam away with the water, yet they soon figured out the right way. To add to the confusion, much of Vice Admiral Dunn '51 is the former Deputy Chief of Naval their leadership was gone. Even Primary Flight Control, the . Qfi.erQtiLpris.iAir}.

Air Officer's perch, was made unusable by the initial blast.

Yet, sailors organized themselves into fighting crews, rescued people and eventually got the fire out.

This is not to say there was not help from elsewhere. The ship's propulsion and generating plants remained intact, the chief engineer played a critical role from his post in Damage Control Central and the bridge team never lost the ability to control the ship. Other carriers in the area took casualties off Click on News and Pubs to check by helicopter, still other helicopters rescued men who had been blown off or leaped into the water from theflamingflight out our book reinew and lists, then.. deck and destroyers came alongside to pour water into the infemo raging aft.

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Institute, Annapolis, MD (2001) The Admiral was a tme giant among men, a patriot whose Review by William R. Corcoran '59, accomplishments far overshadowed his foibles. To his credit, however, Duncan does not shrink from recounting some of the Ph.D., RE. less-than-ideal episodes near the end of his career, including the gifts from Electric Boat, the fees from General Public aving served in the nuclear Utilities, and the use of his naval staff to work for his private submarine force during foundation. Duncan puts it in perspective by impUcation the 1960s, I encountered rather than by explicit statement. this book as a trip down This is not just another book on Rickover. The strong points memory lane. More importantly it gave me a chance to rethink of this one include the personal details of the Admiral's life the influences of the "Kindly Old GenUeman" (KOG), as he was irreverentiy referred to, on my professionaUsm and on the nuclear and career. The assistance to the author of Eleonore Bednowicz Rickover is clear and positive. power community. I recaU beuig initially mystified at the For those whose professional or personal live were molded Admiral's insistence on meticulous standards of personnel safeby the Admiral's influence, this is recommended reading. For ty, radiological safety, nuclear reactor safety, and environmental those who are more recent members of the naval community protection. These standards now seem Uke common sense to me. or the nuclear power community it is a rare chance to gain By the time I had come under the influence of KOG I had some insights into why things are the way they are. d> been in the naval service for about seven years and I thought Dr. Corcoran '59 heads the Nuclear Safety Review I knew what the Navy standards were. Advanced Nuclear Concepts Corporation, which does root cause analysis and Power School in New London was a shock to the system of a other consulting for the high hazard industries. He earned person who thought he had developed good study habits at the his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at MIT, and his MS in Naval Academy and at Officers' Submarine School. In addimanagement at RPI. He served in the nuclear Navy before tion the technical standards KOG demanded were a few clicks managing physics, licensing, and engineering groups at a up from what I had encountered, as Rickover had, as an enginuclear plant design firm and then serving with a mediumneering watch officer and electrical division officer on an sized nuclear consulting firm. Dr. Corcoran is a registered oil-fired major combatant ship.

Professional Engineer (nuclear) and is a Fellow of the I often regret that Rickover's standards were not more fully American Nuclear Society. embraced by the civilian nuclear community. In fact, I sometimes feel that the accident at Three Mile Island was caused, in part, by people in authority believing that former naval reactor operational personnel would perform with naval effectiveness without the superb technical and training support that Rickover's system achieved. The naval nuclear program was indeed a system and it was never assured that an isolated indiCertified Diamonds (GIA.IGI.EGL) at Unbeatable Prices vidual removed from that system would perform comparably 14kt and ISkt Italian in a different system.

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aval Academy graduate Lieutenant Alonzo Barber preparatory school gives students. Sailors from the fleet '97 spends his days helping high school students as well as high school graduates, an extra year of navigate their way through the application process learning to build a firmer foundation for the intense academic schedule at the Academy. at his alma mater.

Building on his own experience at Barber, 28, said the preparatory the Academy and as a submarine offischool showed him that he could cer. Barber has returned to AnnapoUs to excel in a miUtary enviroiunent. help others set sail on a Naval career.

The Texas native played UneAfter commissioning, then Ensign backer for two years, leaving the team Barber began nuclear propulsion at the beginning of his junior year to training, completing it in 1999. His make better use of his time by studyfirst assigiraient took him to FLORIDA ing and branching out into other activ(SSBN 728â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Blue crew) at Naval ities. "I decided footbaU was not Submarine Base, Bangor, WA, where going to be a career, so I left the team he served in various engineering and to concentrate on grades and miUtary strategic positions. performance."

Submarine duty proved a chaUenge Barber earned his bachelor's in to the young officer. His Academy mathematics. "I wanted to keep my days, however, had prepared him weU. options broad for a post graduate Barber's duties ran the gamut from degree. I thought studying math electrical officer in engineering to LTAlonzo Barber '97 helps a candidate would keep my options open for supervisor of operations. other fields of study," he explained.

Perhaps the best part of serving on a submarine was learning It tumed out to be a good decision. "It gave me a good founhow to drive it. "The only way to see out is to use the periscope," dation to diversify in other areas," Barber said. As a Barber said. "Only the ship drivers can use the periscope." submariner his math background helped in the study of FLORIDA'S patrols lasted two and a half months. Barber nuclear power, a requirement to be a submarine officer. found that leaving his wife was the hardest part of the patrols.

Barber works closely with students who are hoping to During the last of his five patrols it seemed even harder for become future naval officers. "We look for well-rounded Barber, because his wife was expecting their first child. individuals with high academic standards. Athletics are "Deployment periods are always difficult, because the boat stressed since everyone has to participate; which promotes needs to remain covert. We must remain silent so communica- teamwork. Students are encouraged to get involved in tions must be limited," Barber explained. This means extreme- community service activities such as mentoring and tutoring." ly limited communications between Sailors and their families.

With nearly 12,000 seniors applying for just over 1,200 Barber could send out 'family grams,' 40 word spots, competition is keen. Barber's job is to guide the stumessages, ten times during the patrol and receive messages of dents from the southeastem part of the United States through the same length. the process.

Barber met his wife, Kiashia, while on Christmas leave in Many students start looking at the Naval Academy as early Mansfield, OH. His mother introduced the midshipman to a as their freshman year in high school. "I try to tell them to neighbor's daughter. "It was kind of a set up." have fun. Things change through high school," Barber advisThe two continued to date while she attended college at es his students.

Ohio State University. This August they celebrated their Future plans for LT Barber include entering Georgetown five-year wedding anniversary.

Law Center this fall. He plans to be a part-time student focusBarber used his submarine time to take many of the courses ing on intellectual property and technology law. he needed for his master's degree through Program for Afloat Barber finds the study of law exciting because it has so College Education (PACE), a distance-learning program that many areas of practice. "It has a large impact in the world. sailors can take advantage of while at sea or on shore. He You are not locked into a nine-to-five structure." earned his master's in engineering management this summer Additional life plans include a career involving sports. from Old Dominion University.

"Being a sports addict I hope someday to work in the enterWhen the time came to rotate to shore duty the guidance tainment and sports side of the law." counselor position at the Naval Academy became available.

For now. Barber says his favorite sport is playing witii his The Barbers thought it would be great to come back to the son, Alonzo John. He also finds satisfaction in helping his Baltimore/Washington area so Alonzo jumped at the chance. wife, a social worker, with some of her clients.

Originally, it was Barber's love of athletics that brought him If Barber could fashion his next job in the Navy he would to the Academy. As a high school football player. Academy want to help develop programs designed to expand opportuniscouts recmited him. ties for minorities in the fleet, ciThe year before entering the Academy he attended the Naval Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island. The 40

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Send to Anne Sharpe at anne.sharpe@usna.com '47: Eugene B. Tomlinson Jr. was recently inducted into the Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal Hall of Fame. '59: John J. McCabe has recently graduated from Coach U, the world's largest and most prestigious coach training program.

'64: Thomas F. Hawk, Ph.D., received the University Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, in May 2002. He also received the reviewer of the Year Award for 2002 from the Case Research Journal, the top intemational journal in publishing cases for use in schools of business. '65: Andrew S. Prince has a new position with INFe, Inc. to lead their new corporate strategy to create a merchant banking focus INFe, Inc. '66: Col Warren R. McPherson, USMC (Ret.), was named in late July by Govemor Jeb Bush to serve as acting executive director of the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs. '67: MajGen Patrick G. Howard, USMC (Ret.), is the new administrator for Marion County in Florida. '68: CAPT Eric L. Oser, USN (Ret.), has been named executive director of East Cooper Meals on Wheels. MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr., USMC (Ret.), has retired from active duty after a most successful 34 year career. CAPT Woodrow W. Hulme H, USNR (Ret.), is the new philatelic curator of the National Postal Museum.

CAPT Joe Lee Frank, USN (Ret.), has been named president of CAE USA Inc., Marine Systems. '69: Ronald R. Reedy, Ph.D., is the new vice president of space and defense at Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation. '70: CDR Daniel A. Ellison, USN (Ret.), is the new chief of administration and finance for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. '71: RADM C. H. Griffiths Jr., USN (Ret.), reUnquished command of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Trident submarine force in August 2002 and retired from the naval service after 31 years of service. '72: CAPT J. Frederick Dohse, USN (Ret.), is the new director, CVN-77 Program Operations. '73: CAPT A. Randolph Blough, USNR (Ret.), has received the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. John R. Buttermore is the new North American vice president of labor relations for General Motors Corporation. '74: RADM William D. Crowder, USN, is the new director. Naval Operations Group, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. CAPT William F. Readdy, USNR, is NASA's new administrator for space flight at NASA Headquarters in Washington. RADM James K. Moran, USN, is the new special assistant to the CNO for Task Force Excel. '75: RADM Robert L. Phillips, USN, is the new vice commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Deputy Chief of Civil Engineers in Washington, DC. '76: RADM James G. Stavridis, USN, is the new commander, Cmiser Destroyer Group 12 and commander, Naval Surface Group Two. '77: RADM Samuel J. Locklear H, USN, is the new commander, Craiser Destroyer Group Five. '78: C. Gary Rupp has been appointed vice president of sales for eSoft, Inc. CAPT David A. Williams, USN, has been appointed the dean of students at the Siiipmate, October 2002

Naval War College in Newport, RI. '80: LtCol Kevin M. Scott, USMC, has been selected for promotion to Colonel, USMC. '81: LCDR Timothy B. Fleischer, USNR, has been named to the board of directors of Engineered Support Systems, Inc. '82: Dr. H. Stephen Gatanis is having his memoirs, Annapolis, Achieving the Dream, published. CDR D. Michael Abrashoff, USN (Ret.), has had a new book. It's Your Ship published. '83: CDR Timothy A. Batzler, USN, is the commanding officer of PREBLE (DDG-88). CDR Ronald B. Robinson, USN, is the new commanding officer of VS-24 at Jacksonville Naval Air Station, FL. Edward A. Solar is the new executive vice president, customer operations and sales for CES International. '85: CDR Steven L. Kennedy, USN, is the new executive officer. Naval Station Annapolis.

Richard C. Carlson is the new assistant principal at Broadneck High School in Annapolis, MD. Brian L. McDonald is the new vice president, commercial power systems for UTC Fuel Cells. Joseph Wright has recently earned the master of business administration degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

'87: CDR James V. Matheson, USNR, has joined Flamenco Networks' board of directors. C. Kent Kirby has been recently appointed by Worth magazine as one of the top financial advisors in the country and also received his Certified Investment Management Analyst certification through Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. LCDR Walter S. Sechriest III, USNR, has graduated from the Dallas Business Committee for the Arts "Leadership Arts Institute" and has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Wind Symphony. '89: John G. Wolf is the new director of the Button Hole Golf Course. '92: LT David A. Varner, USN, has been selected to the 2003 team as one of the two F/A-18 demonstration pilots of the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Team. '98: LT Cristina Esposito, USNR, was a member of the Gold Medal winning CISM (Conseilo Intemational du Sports MiUtaire) World MiUtary Women's Soccer Championship in Kingston, Ontario this past May. '99: LTJG Derek R Hotchkiss, SC, USN, has been selected to the 2003 team as supply officer of the U.S. Navy FUght Demonstration Team. '03: MIDN 1/C Anne M. Gibbon, USN, was named Second Team AU-America by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. '04: MIDN 2/C Peter D. Langley, USN, and MIDN 2/C Drew R. Barker Jr., USN, 2002 have been named AU-America Scholar-Athletes by the CoUege Gymnastics Association. Associate: Jack R. Lengyel is the new interim athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University. vi>

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ALL HANDS ^ Naval Academy Rankings in 2003 Princeton Review he 2003 edition of The Princeton Review's The Best 331 Colleges ranks Naval Academy professors second in the nation for making themselves available to students. This marks the third consecutive year that USNA faculty were ranked either number one or number two in the nation for accessibility. The Naval Academy was also ranked in the top 20 schools for overall academic experience, admission standards, most efficient administration, sobriety, and community relations.

The Naval Academy was ranked: • No. 2 for accessibility of professors • No. 4 on the "stone-cold sober school" Ust • No. 7 for the smooth-operating administration • No. 8 for toughest to get into • No. 12 for best overall academic experience • No. 13 for best community relations The Princeton Review, a New York city-based company known for its reputation and admission services surveyed 65,000 students at 331 top schools (less than 10% of America's colleges and universities are selected) who rated their own schools in categories from academics to campus life.

At each location, a random sample of students (200 per campus on average) answered 70 questions about their school's academics, campus life and student body, as well as their own study hours, politics and opinions.

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Athletes in the age category 27 to 80-plus years old race 1,000 meters for the honor of being designated National Champions, plus winning a gold medal also. There will be 120 different rowing and age categories. About 500 athletes are expected to participate.

The Navy Masters Rowing Club is entered in the Master Mixed 8 oared boat race, class D-J (age range 50 to 80-plus years old). The actual average age of the eight rowers is 58.

Time handicaps are given to offset the age differences between crews. The "Mixed" moniker means that four men and four women make up the crew. The men are Academy Alumni, organized by Craig Thrasher '63.

Navy will also be present in the trophy awarded to the winner of the Mixed Master eight-plus, Class B (age range 36-42) races between the nine entries. The Great Eight trophy honors the 1952 Olympic Gold Medal winning Navy Crew. This year is the 50th anniversary of that victory, by open water over the second place Russian boat. The original bow man that rowed with the crew in Helsinki, Finland, Frank Shakespeare '53, of Baltimore, MD, will present the large trophy to the winning crew. Additionally, a copy of the video documentary, "The Great Eight," is presented for the club to keep.

The Great Eight Navy crew members, as well as their supporting crew mates from the 1952-'54 undefeated seasons, will be gathering for their 50th Anniversary Reunion at Annapolis, MD, 3-7 October. Old times will be reminisced and all will declare, "The older we get, the better we were."

And they may be right, having won 29 consecutive races over 91 opponents, with 73% of the races being won by open water (which means that tiiey weren't even close). Those dominating margins included three Olympic races, three 3-mile National Collegiate gold medals and one National Association of Amateur Oarsmen (now U.S. Rowing) National Open Sprint gold medal (at 2,000 meters).

Naval Academy Admissions Outreach Conference he fourth annual Naval Academy Admissions Outreach Conference will be held 7-9 November 2002. This year's theme is "U.S. Naval Academy's progression towards diversity begins with YOU." Thanks to the strong efforts of our Admissions staff. Alumni, and USNA supporters, die Naval Academy Class of 2006 is the most cUverse class in Academy history! During this year's conference, we will build on the progress we have made over the past four years.

Through exciting exchanges of ideas, we will further develop the execution plan to reach out in order to recmit qualified minority midshipmen, and to improve the retention of these midshipmen throughout their education at tiiis distinguished and historic institution.

This year's USNA Admissions Outreach Conference begins at 11:55 a.m. on 7 November 2002 and registration starts at 1 p.m., Rickover Hall. Please share this invitation witii otiier fellow Alumni. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Don Montgomery, admissions outreach coordinator, 410-293-1862 or dmontgom@usna.edu. Together we can each show our commitment to diversity by dedicating ourselves to building more diversity at tiie United States Naval Academy in the future!

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he July-August edition of Shipmate, the cover of which welcomes the Class of '06, set me to tiiinking about my father, Russell Willson, who was also a member of USNA '06—1906, tiiat is. His happy memories of his midshipman days were enhanced by his two tours of duty at the Academy: in the early '30s as head of Seamanship and Navigation and in 1941 as superintendent.

My father enjoyed telling midshipmen how he had been achnitted even after failing the entrance examination in arithmetic: after a year at MIT (then called Boston Tech)—he had been unable to solve the problems without resorting to algebra or geometry! He also delighted in recounting how his class had been the last one required to master the name and function of every bit of rigging in a sail-powered man-of-war; masts, spars, booms, the many different kinds of sails, ropes, lines, reef points, and so forth. But there was one thing, he used to insist, which had never changed: there were still only two ropes aboard a naval vessel. All other cords were Unes. (I have forgotten what the two exceptions were.)

In the same edition of Shipmate there is an article entitled "Academics Update" which would, I am sure, have left the 1906 graduate gasping. It leaves me gasping too, though I have been for many years following the everchanging ciuriculum which now offers the Class of 2006 such a smorgasbord of choices that I am reminded of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, in which one character boasts: "I am the very model of a modem major-general: I've information vegetable and animal and mineral." He then goes on to detail his many fields of knowledge: History: "I quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical."

Mathematics: "I'm very good at integral and differential calculus." Biology: "I know the scientific names of beings animalculus."

Languages: "I can write a washing bill in Babylonian cuneiform." Drama: "I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes." He goes on to include philosophy, art, and music but finally has to admit that he doesn't know the meaning of "commissariat," has not kept up with "modem gunnery," knows less about "tactics than a novice in a nunnery," and has only "a smattering of elementary strategy."

Which leads me to wonder: will the Class of 2006, when reporting to the Heet, take with them—as 1906 most certainly did—the seaman's traditional knowledge that there are only two ropes on a ship? Or has that too—eheu fugaces annos!—now been Overtaken by Events?

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Tailgate Tickets: $30 members/$35 non-members Tailgate registration is required (Tailgate registration ends 10/28/02, no refunds after 10/30/02). Please note that tickets are for the Tailgate Party only, you must purchase your Football tickets through the Naval Academy Athletic Association (1-800-US4-NAVY).

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NAVY A T H L E T I C S Experience Runs Deep on the 2002 Navy Men's Soccer Team

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espite the loss of six starters, the Navy men's soccer team is armed and ready for the 2002 season with an experienced group of players.

Nine First Class dot the Mids' roster, all of which were starters or key reserves the last three years. Navy has posted a 31-14-6 during that span, including an 11-3-3 mark and fourth-place finish in the Patriot League last year.

Replacing departed All-America goalie Brian Steckroth looms as the biggest hole to fill, but Navy head coach Greg Myers, entering his 27th season at the helm, sports a seasoned squad ready for the challenge.

"We have tons of experience coming back, and we retum most of our field players," Myers said. "These young men have started a lot of games and logged quality of minutes for us. Our seniors are going to have to step up and lead us. If we have a mediocre or bad season, it will be because our seniors didn't rally, but I don't anticipate that happening."

Leading the way for the Mids this season will be midfielder and team captain Craig Ruhs '03, a Second-Team All-South Atlantic Region and Second-Team All-Patriot League selection last year. A potential All-America candidate, Ruhs is looking to capitalize on an outstanding junior season in which he was Navy's second-leading scorer with 11 points (three goals and five assists).

Navy also retums 2001 Second-Team All-Patriot League defenders Bobby Chemeski '03 and Matt Wilson '03.

Chemeski and Wilson helped anchor the Mids' outstanding defensive urut, which allowed just 10 goals last season.

Forwards Aaron McEUiose '03 and Dan Montgomery '03, along with midfielders Joe Hembree '03, Dan Neverosky '03, Joe Snyder '03, and Mike Taylor '03 round out Navy's deep First Class.

Goalkeeper ith the loss of Steckroth, one of the most decorated soccer players in school history and the Patriot League's all-time career leader in goals-against average (0.97), Myers will be looking for someone to step forward between the pipes. Four players will battle it out for playing time, two of which are Plebes.

"The biggest question mark for us is who will replace Steckroth in goal," Myers said. "Steckroth is the kind of athlete that comes along at the Naval Academy infrequently and will be tough to replace. We have some very good talent trying out for the keeper position, but they only have 14 minutes of experience collectively. Our defense in front of them is going to have to do the job until these young men get that game experience."

Matt Copare '04 owns the only playing experience of the group and will get the first shot at the position after serving as Steckroth's primary backup last year. Copare came off the bench and played the final-14 minutes in Navy's 4-2 win over Fordham in the Army-Navy Anaconda Soccer Classic.

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Untested sophomore Frank DiFilippo is also expected to challenge for the job. While Copare was unable to play in the spring due to a nagging hip pointer, DiFilippo saw valuable playing time in the cage.

However, two talented freshmen could push the two retuming goalies to the limits.

Britton Chauvin '06 was the 2002 Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year, the first time a goalie has ever won the award in the state. At 5-foot-8, Chauvin isn't the tallest goaUe, but has a ton of athleticism and good ball skills.

Aric McElheny '06 brings a 6-foot-4 frame to the cage with impressive credentials. McElheny helped Wausau High School to a record of 40-4-1 in his two seasons, while serving as team captain.

"Copare will get first crack at the job, and it is his position to win or lose," Myers said. "Then we will look at DiFilippo, but our two freshmen goalies are really good and could push to be starters.

"If any of our keepers take a deep breath and look back over their shoulder, then somebody else is going to pass them by for the position. That is how competitive it will be. Our goalkeeper coach Mark Gower does a phenomenal job with our keepers, which is obvious with the job he did with Steckroth.

Mark knows he is going to have to work with them all, but he is very optintiistic about it."

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he Mids defense will again be one of the team's strengths with the return of Chemeski and Wilson along with several versatile players. Whether Navy plays with three in the back or four, Myers has plenty of options.

"We are stiong in the back if we play with three or four," Myers said. "We have some good flexibility and experience there.

It's a good, solid backline if they play together."

A three-year starter, Chemeski might be the most experienced player on the squad after earning all-league honors as a freshman. He has started 31 games during his career, while Wilson started all 17 games last year en route to being named all-league.

My les McAllister '04 and Neverosky are probably die two most versatile players on the squad to have played in the back.

One of the most pleasant surprises of the spring came in the form of Danny Urbanczyk '04. Urbanczyk, who played in just four games last year due to a back injury, had an outstanding spring and should see plenty of action in tiie fall.

"Danny is marvelous for us because he knows his position, stays where he is suppose to, and doesn't worry about going forward on the attack and scoring goals," Myers said. "He knows his role and does it as good, if not better than anyone on the team based on his performance this spring. That is invaluable because that frees up other defenders to go forward. They know if tiiey go forward and attack that Danny will stay at home and cover."

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robably the deepest position on the squad is the midfield led by Ruhs and Snyder.

While Rtihs was one of Navy's leading scorers, Snyder returned to the lineup last year to start all 17 games after missing his freshman and sophomore seasons due to a serious ankle injury. He regained tiie form that made him one of the most talented players in the midfield as a distributor and attacker.

Also capable of playing in tiie middle is McAllister who was primarily a midfielder during his freshman year before moving to defender last year. Urbanczyk could move up as well to play as a defensive midfielder if Myers opts to play with just three defenders.

On the outside right, Taylor possesses a ton of speed and has one of the hardest shots on the team. Taylor came off the bench in all 17 games last year, but will have the chance to move into a full-time role this year. Ryan Peters '04 had a strong spring and will also see time there, as well.

"Mike's shot, when it's on target, is as hard as anybody's because he just blisters the ball," Myers said. "Ryan is maturing immensely. He likes to go forward and is very competitive and feisty. They both know their roles and work very hard. I think they'll probably end up splitting the duties there because it is such a demanding position to play physically."

On the other side, Neverosky is back for another tour of duty after playing on the Navy lacrosse team in the spring. A

Second-Team All-Patriot League selection in 2000, Neverosky has scored two goals and tallied 13 assists in his three years and is one of the most talented all-around players on the squad.

Along with Neverosky on the outside, Hembree brings a relentless work ethic to tiie field. He has been one of Myers' top reserves the last two years and is a sparkplug off the bench.

"Neverosky and Hembree both run all day, get to the end line, and play the defensive end with the same amount of vigor and enthusiasm as the offensive end."

However, Myers said Snyder wiU be the key cog in the middle.

"If we have a great year out of Joe, then we will be tough because he is exquisitely skilled and seems to have made a full recovery from that devastating break that knocked him out for two seasons," Myers said. "When he is fit and in shape, he is a dynamite player."

Newcomers Zach Capacete '06 and Albert Silva '06 could see playing time off the bench.

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ne of the biggest weaknesses for the Mids last season was scoring, netting just 19 goals as a team. This year proves to be different with the retum of several players capable of producing.

"I am fairly optimistic we are going to do well up front," Myers said. "I think we are going to be able to find the back of the cage a little more often. We have a handful of guys that can play there and it is going to be a real war for those positions."

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NAVY A T H L E T I C S Matt Sanchez '05, who was one of the biggest surprises last season, moved up from the back to play in 15 games as a forward. Sanchez responded with four goals, two of which were game wiimers. All four goals came in the span of five games, but he displayed the skills that Myers said make him effective.

"Matt didn't play this spring because of a broken arm, but he was one of our leading scorers last year and will keep getting better," Myers said. "He has excellent skills, is fast but is a little undisciplined which is what makes him a good forward. He does and sees the unexpected and can really score."

Montgomery will retum to the forward position after playing aU over the field the last three seasons. He has a wealth of experience, having played in 45-career games and registered 21 points. At 6-foot-3, he has great touch and is one of the most creative players off the ball.

"Dan has a knack for seeing and doing things that are a little out of the ordinary, which is what you have to do up front," Myers said. "He has a lot of flair and individuality in front of the goal with a good shot, so we're high on him."

Jamie Coyle '04 played in 15 games last year after seeing action in just five his freshman season. Coyle netted his firstcareer goal last season two minutes into overtime to give Navy a 2-1 victory Bucknell in the regular-season finale, which also chnched a berth in tiie Patriot League Tournament for the Mids. After an outstanding spring, Coyle will be a force offensively with an incredible blend of speed, size, strength, and athleticism.

"Jamie is a relentless competitor who's big, strong, fast and physical to go along with a rocket for a shot," Myers said. "If he can keep that shot of his on target, he's really going to be something special."

McEUiose also had a strong spring and will not be overlooked due to his work rate on the field. He played in just seven games last year, but his aggressiveness is hard to keep off the pitch.

"Aaron is feisty and loves to score," Myers said. "He is relentless in the box and when the opponent has the ball. It won't surprise us if he steals the ball from a defender two or three times this year and goes in to get a goal or create a great scoring opportunity."

Danny Cook '06 and Jason Copare '06, the younger brother of Navy goalie Matt Copare, are natural scorers and provide Myers with two excellent options off the bench.

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avy will again face a demanding schedule with the Mids slated to play five teams that made the 2001 NCAA Tournament. Highlighting the schedule is a showdown in Chapel Hill, NC, with the defending NCAA Champion North Carolina Tar Heels on 8 October.

The Mids will play host to two home tournaments at the Glenn Warner Soccer Facility, including the season-opening Navy Soccer Classic and the Navy-Army Invitational.

Lehigh, Holy Cross and defending Patriot League champion American, who advanced to the NCAA round of 16 last year before falling to UNC in overtime, retum talented teams along with the rest of the league.

"I think the Patriot League is going to be extremely competitive, and it is going to be a challenge to be one of the top-four teams at the end of the year to qualify for the league tournament," Myers said. "It is really too bad only four teams make the tournament because of how strong and competitive our 48

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Volleyball Team Closes in on First Match

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first look at the calendar tells the Navy volleyball team one week has already elapsed since the start of its preseason practice. A second glance at the August calendar also tells the team it is only a little more than one week away from the start of its 2002 season. Despite the short time frame between the first practice and the first match. Navy's players and coaches alike feel the team is progressing well towards its season opener, 30-31 August at the Robert Morris Tournament.

"There has been a good progression each day of practice," said team captain Jessica Van Norman '03. "The first couple of days we were in running and lifting shape, but not volleyball shape. Our arms weren't there at the start of practice. Now, though, we are starting to look like a volleyball team."

"Our players have wonderful experiences during the summer with their cruises, but their schedules do not leave much time for volleyball," said Navy head coach Mike Schwob.

"The first few days of practice are always spent working on timing and getting their arms back in shape. After that, they are always ready to go."

One factor which has helped make training camp go a bit smoother this year for the team is having a veteran squad.

Navy's 2000 team returned two starters and seven letterwinners, while last year's squad was a mix of three returning starters, six returning letterwinners, and eight newcomers. Returning to this year's team are five starters and ten letterwinners.

"The last few years we have had to spend much of not only our training camp, but also our nonconference schedule on teaching and analyzing players and positions," said Schwob.

"This year, with such a large group of returning players, we already have a good idea of who can do what and the players are knowledgeable in our system and in what we expect them to do."

"There is definitely a comfort level this year as opposed to the last few seasons," said Van Norman, who enters the season less than 300 assists shy of becoming Navy's career assist leader on the Division I level. "The players are comfortable with each other and with what we need to do on the court.

Practices have been positive with a lot of energy on the floor.

We all are working hard and are anxious to make a run towards winning the Patriot League."

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NAVY ATHLETICS Schwob feels the tone for practices thus far has been set by Van Norman and her feUow Firsties, Kristin Davidson, Jamie Leverentz, and Erica McEhoy. The foursome has started for much of their careers and have appeared in a combined 1,050 games.

"I expected our seniors to lead us this season and I have not been let down," said Schwob. "They all came in prepared for this season and the rest of the team has fed off of their example. I know their leadership will continue throughout the season and will play a big role in our success.

Enright Joins Hoops Staff

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avy head basketball coach Don DeVoe has hired Brad Enright as an assistant coach. Enright, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant at Cal State Dominguez Hills, replaces Jimmy Allen who recently accepted a job at Wofford College after six years with the program.

"Without question. Brad is a talented and youthful coach," said DeVoe, who will begin his Uth season at the helm of the Navy program this fall. "He has accomplished a great deal in a short amount of time, having worked at Cal State Northridge and Pepperdine before a full-time stint with Cal State Dominguez Hills. He will be involved in all aspects of the Navy basketball program, in particular as the coordinator of our West Coast recruiting effort."

During his two-year stay as a member of the Toros coachmg staff, Emight was the top assistant for head coach Larry Hauser's program. In addition to his floor coaching responsibiUties, he served as a major recruiter for the Toros. He also coordinated CSUDH's summer camps and managed the team's budget and handled travel arrangements.

Prior to Cal State Dominguez HiUs, Enright served as the Director of Basketball Operations at Pepperdine University during the 1999-2000 seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the year in which the Waves captured the West Coast Conference Championship and upset Indiana in the NCAA Tournament. Underclass recruiting, scouting, film exchange, travel and day-to-day operations were among his various responsibilities at Pepperdine. Meanwhile, Enright also served as the director of the Junior Waves, a youth basketball program sponsored by Pepperdine athletics.

Enright earned his first job in college athletics at his alma mater, Cal State Northridge, where he was an administrative assistant for the basketball program. His duties included scouting, on-campus recruiting and coordinating film exchange. He was also the director of the Matadors' summer basketball camps.

A two-sport standout in baseball and basketball at Helix High School in La Mesa, CA, Enright led his prep basketball team to the CIF San Diego Section semifinals in 1991 and '92.

Enright attended Southwestem Community College in Chula Vista, CA, from 1992-94 and was a member of the Siiipmate, October 2002

baseball team his freshman year. While attending community college, he served as an assistant basketball coach at Helix High School, guiding the team to the CIF San Diego Section finals and the California state playoffs.

He enrolled at Cal State Northridge the following year and graduated in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology with a minor in history. He went on to earn a master's degree in education administration in '01.

"Coming to Navy is a great opportunity and I'm happy Coach DeVoe found that I was the right person for this job," said the 27-year-old Enright. "Don DeVoe is an accomplished coach and I'm looking forward to learning from him. With the tradition of athletics and academics at the Naval Academy, there's not another university with its prestige and the kind of people it produces."

Crew Coaches Complete Staffs

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avy lightweight crew coach Rob Friedrich and Navy women's coach Mike Hughes recently announced the hiring of assistant coaches for their respective programs.

Joining the Ughtweight staff is Steve Perry, while Nicole Williams has been added to the women's staff. Both Perry and Williams will serve as assistants with their respective varsity teams, in addition to their duties as head novice coach for their programs.

Perry was the freshman rowing coach for the lightweight program at Pennsylvania last year after serving in the same role for two years at Rutgers. His Penn boat placed sixth at the 2002 Eastem Sprints, while his teams at Rutgers had fifth and sixth-place showings in his two years.

A 1999 graduate of Rutgers, Perry rowed for the lightweights in each of his four years and was named team co-captain as a senior. A three-year member and two-time MVP of the Rutgers varsity, he was a part of the silver-medal winning varsity eight boat at the 1999 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship.

"Steve Perry brings a wealth of coaching experience with him to our Navy program," said Friedrich. "He will fit in well here at the Naval Academy as his enthusiasm and knowledge of the sport are perfect in developing our freshmen rowers."

Williams joins the Navy program from Wesleyan where she was the head novice and assistant varsity coach for the women's crew team. A 2000 graduate of Washington College, Williams served as co-captain and was named team MVP of the crew team in her final season.

In addition to coaching at Wesleyan, where is completing work towards a masters degree, WiUiams was coordinator for die 2001 Head of the Connecticut Regatta and has coached with the Middlesex Youth Program, tiie Middletown Park and Recreation Rowing Program, and with the Navy Rowing Camp.

"Nikki comes to Navy with a real positive can-do attitude, which a coach can use to help bring success to their athletes," says Hughes. "Combining her attitude with her strong coaching skills makes her a great addition to our staff and program."

Gibbon 2nd-Team All-America

Navy's Anne Gibbon '03 received yet another postseason accolade this week as she was named Second-Team AUAmerica by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.

Gibbon '03 was named First-Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region by the CRCA earlier this summer. She has lettered in

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Esposito Lifts U.S. to CISM Title

maintenance officer. Last September, she checked into her current command—Naval Air Technical Data and Engineering Service Command (NATEC)—in support of naval aviation.

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each of her first three seasons as a member of the women's crew team. ormer Naval Academy women's soccer standout Cristina Esposito '98 spent this summer serving as both a lieutenant in the United States Navy and as a member of the Armed Forces Team that competed and won the title at the inaugural CISM World Military Women's Soccer Championship in Kingston, Ontario.

The road to the CISM (Conseilo Intemational du Sports MiUtaire) World Military Games began in early May as the four Armed Forces—Air Force, Army, Marines, and Navy— formed their respective teams to compete in the 2002 Armed Forces Women's Soccer Championship in Fort Eustis, VA. Six games for each team were dispersed among seven days, with Sunday being an off day. Esposito and her fellow Navy comrades, however, didn't fare well, finishing third out of the four teams with a 2-4 record. Following the competition, an 11-member all-tournament squad was named regardless of position. Among those listed was the Navy's lone selectee, Cristina Esposito.

Esposito went on to be named to an 18-player roster which would represent the United States May 22-29 at the fhst CISM World Military Women's Soccer Championship where it would face host Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. A unique aspect of the 18-pIayer roster was that it became a melting pot of all four Armed Forces. It was the best 18 players representing the Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy.

"At the Academy, I was playing against some of these players. But this time around, I was playing with them as my teammates," said Esposito, the only Naval Academy graduate on the team. "I remember playing against Holly Pedley and not liking her because she was playing for Army. Now, we've become great friends and are planning on playing in a toumament together later this summer."

The 18 players were forced to quickly get acclimated with one another, as they had just three days of training in Virginia before departing for Canada. The 10-day, round robin tournament got underway Wednesday, 22 May, with Navy craising past the Germans, 5-1. In fact, the U.S. found its way past all three competitors quite smoothly, putting to rest Canada (5-2) and the Netherlands (2-1) in the early stages of the tournament.

The U.S. drew the host team Canada in the semifinal, but held its northern neighbors scoreless in a 2-0 decision.

Meanwhile, Germany staved off the Netherlands for a 1-0 victory and the opportunity to meet the U.S. in the gold medal game. The U.S., who crushed Germany in the first game of the tournament, continued its dominance. For the second-consecutive game, the U.S. held its opponent scoreless, beating Germany, 5-0, for the gold medal.

"This is one of the greatest deals the military has to offer," said Esposito. "We get the opportunity to step away for a month and play soccer botii on a national and intemational level."

Upon her graduation in the spring of 1998, Esposito was commissioned as an aerospace maintenance duty officer and trained in Pensacola, FL, at Aviation Maintenance Officer's School. Following a three-month training period (October '98), she served her first command at Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron EIGHT (HS-8), a squadron that flies the H-60 helicopter. For the first two years, she was the material control officer and went on to serve as the assistant

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The Navy water polo team closed out its preseason training trip to Hawaii by scoring a 104 victory over North Bay Aquatics Friday to win the Third-Annual Maui Water Polo Tournament.

Led by Firstie Adrian Rawn's three goals.

Navy defeated North Bay for the second time in the tournament to finish with a 4-0 record.

Patrick RoUo'05 netted two goals, while Andy Brown '05, Tim Fox '04, Paul Kepner '04, Bill Miante '04, and Joe Snelgrove '05 rounded out the scoring with one goal apiece.

Goalie Cody Acuna '03 led the Mids' defensive effort and was named to the all-toumament team along with Navy's Joe Donahue '04, Rawn, and RoUo. "The story of the game were tiie penalties we drew," Navy assistant coach Carl Salyer said. "We scored on three of our five power plays and on two penalty shots, so that accounted for half of our offense. Overall, we feel very good about the win. We have come a long way since we all got back togetiier over a week ago. Our team defense has become a lot better during that time, and we are ready to jump into the fall season with the Navy Open in a couple of weeks."

Navy Wrestling Announces 2002-03 Schedule

Navy wrestiing head coach Bruce Burnett announced the Mids' 2002-03 schedule Wednesday, which is highlighted by a pair of dual matches against nationally-ranked opponents in Oklahoma and Lehigh.

"One of the things we wanted to do with the schedule is be able to get a lot of matches for our guys before January," Burnett said. "We have some tournaments before then that will give the guys plenty of opportunities to compete. We want the guys to get experience before we go into our peaking phase which is January. That's when the level of competition really steps up on the schedule, beginning with the Lonestar Duals in Texas."

Navy will open the season 8 November at 10 p.m. (EST) when the Mids take on Menlo College, followed by a dual match against the host Stanford Cardinal at midnight in Palo Alto, CA. The following day the Mids will continue their West Coast swing by grappling with UC Davis at midnight in Davis, CA. (continued on page 52) Siiipmate, October 2002

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NAVY A T H L E T I C S (continued from page 50) The Mids will play host to the Navy Classic 23 November in Halsey Field House, which is slated to include The Citadel, James Madison, Kent State, N.C. State, UNC Greensboro, Rutgers, Western Maryland, and West Virginia.

A trio of toumaments await Navy in December including the Penn State Open, the Orange Bowl Sunshine Open and the prestigious Midlands in Evanston, IL, before traveling to the Lonestar Duals. The Mids face Missouri in their opener in Texas, followed by Northwestem and Oklahoma, which sports six wrestlers that finished the 2001-02 season ranked in the top ten nationally.

Navy will play host to Rutgers, Penn State, and traditional power Lehigh in January prior to competing in the annual AllAcademy Tournament 1 February hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. The annual Star Match against Army is slated for 22 February at 8 p.m. in West Point, NY, where the Mids will attempt to capture their third-straight N-Star.

The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championship (EIWA) will be contested 7-8 March in Ithaca, NY, while the NCAA Wrestling Championship is scheduled for 20-22 March in Kansas City, MO. SPORTS SCHEDULES Men's Basketball 3:30 p.m. Team Champion-Exhibition 10 Nov AnnapoUs, MD 3:30 p.m. TBA-Exhibition Annapolis, MD 17 Nov Annapolis, MD 7:30 p.m. Central Florida 22Nov. Annapolis, MD 7:30 p.m. The Citadel 25 Nov Annapolis, MD 3:30 p.m. Brown 30 Nov Nashville, TN 8 p.m.

Belmont 2 Dec. Annapolis, MD 7:30 p.m. Johns Hopkins 4 Dec. 7 Dec. 7 p.m.

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Our only news this month involves Anne and E d d i e W a g n e r , w h o m w e had previously mentioned as having left their former San Diego address and perhaps had moved East. Thanks to their daughter-in-law, Jean Wagner, F r a n k W a g n e r ' 6 2 ' s wife, we now leam that Anne and Eddie have a n e w address in the San Diego area. They now hve at 1500 Borden Road, Escondido, C A 92026.

Thank you again, Jean, for your help!

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over Japan; and the third, when the Russian Army defeated the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad.

In our Golden Anniversary Book Brooks H a r r a l wrote an excellent history of the great sea battle, which I regard as one of the key victories w e w o n over the Axis Powers.

T h e following is mostly from Harral's write-up: We were at Savo Island and Guadalcanal for the initial landings on 7 August 1942. Jack Lewis was ADM Turner's flag lieutenant and was with him through all the amphibious landings.

Most of our Marine Corps Classmates were in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal. When a Japanese Task Force counterattacked on the night of

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Pres: CAPT Will L Bull, USN (Ret) 1725 Oak Lane, McLean, VA 22101 h: 703-538-5981 Sec'y: Bob Gamble 8311 River Crescent Dn, Annapolis, MD 21401 h: 410-266-8775 In World War II there were three great battles: the first in Britain in which the R A F defeated the Luftwaffe; the second, for Guadalcanal, in which our Navy w o n out

ViNCENNES were sunk. Costello Massey was killed in QUINCY but Jack Andrew and Dick Craighill, exec, on BLUE, survived the sinking of their ships. Sistership JARVIS was lost with all hands to a Jap air attack; Bob Vandling was one of them; he had been in all the naval actions up now.

Supporting these landings were SARATOGA, ENTERPRISE, and WASP. LOU

K i m was skipper of VS-3 in SARA and

Bob Strickler, skipper of VF-71 in WASP. These carriers were heavily engaged in another battle several weeks later, while preventing the Japanese from reinforcing their garrison. Starring in this show were the above two skippers joined by Ernie Snowden's VF-72.

When GREGORY and LITTLE, old four-

stackers now high speed transports, were sunk in a night action with superior Jap forces on 4-5 September, we lost Reynolds Smith. On the 16th, WASP was torpedoed and then later had to be abandoned and sunk. Bob and Ernie survived and operated out of Guadalcanal or from other carriers, but Bob was then lost in another action three weeks later.

A month later, on 11-12 October, occurred the night surface action in the Battle of Cape Esperance when ADM Scott's cruisers and destroyers, covering an Army reinforcement, encountered a Jap cruiser-destroyer force. Mickey McCandless and Jack Wintle in SAN FRANCISCO, had ringside seats. DUNCAN

was sunk in a wild night melee but her Exec, LOU Brian survived. Ten days later MEREDITH, escorting a supply convoy, was lost to an air attack and with her we lot Barney Chase.

Two weeks later on 26-27 October, carriers ENTERPRISE and HORNET were hotly engaged with Jap carriers in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. Gus Widhelm, skipper of VS-8, led a devastating attack against SHOKAKU only to be shot down to

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"enjoy" watching the subsequent proceedings. Tommy Thomas, skipper of VB-10 in ENTERPRISE, was also in the thick of the fight. HORNET, badly damaged by air attack had to be abandoned and sunk. Frank Foley, her air operations officer, survived. In this action GUSHING was sunk but her Exec, Bernie Freund lived to see a lot more action later on.

Then came the naval battle for Guadalcanal. ADM Callalghan's task force suffered severe losses; flagship SAN FRANCISCO took many large caliber hits from HiEi and KIRISHIMA, resulting in the death of the admiral and his Flag Lieutenant, Jack Wintle. Mickey McCandless earned his Medal of Honor by bringing the ship safely out of the battle. Lloyd Mustin, gun boss of ATLANTA, survived her sinking, to be reassigned ashore. Herbie Coleman did not survive when BARTON went down; nor did Duke Kemper when MONSSEN sank. Bill Wylie, exec, on the new 2,100 ton FLETCHER, came through this and many subsequent actions unscathed.

Two nights later, VADM Lee's new WASHINGTON and SOUTH DAKOTA crippled KIRISHIMA in a night action. Hank Seely had the best seat in the house— Spot One in his ship's foretop. Tate Simpson was below keeping the engines turning. Not so fortunate was Pete Pavlic,

Do you remember Churchill's writing of what happened in World War II? This quote is of interest: The Battle of Leyte Gulf was decisive.

At a cost of three carriers, three destroyers, and a submarine, the Americans conquered the Japanese Fleet. The struggle lasted from 22 October to 27 October.

Three battleships, four carriers, and 20 other enemy warships had been sunk and the suicide bomber was henceforward the only effective naval weapon left to the foe. As an instiument of despair it was still deadly, but it carried no hope of victory.

Churchill wrote a great summation of the war. While it seemed to become "our" war, we must remember this struggle to get Britain started on vital preparation. Then he had the job of getting FDR started on America's contribution before Pearl Harbor After that attack, no one had to do anything—we were "hell bent on winning."

It was interesting how Russia moved into the many countries of Eastem Europe; there was no stopping them. And, in retrospect, it

is even more interesting how the Iron Curtain collapsed. Communism, so might in the war, failed in peace time competition.

Now, with America being the number one power in the world, we find it difficult to decide what to do, what weapons to build.

We are supposedly in a war, but how, when, and where to fight it?

Paula Groverman sent in a newsy card telling of her recent trip to the Far East.

They visited Vietnam where she was impressed by the speed with which they have put the past behind them. She felt that Americans are not number one on their preference list; their museums reek of propaganda especially in the Hanoi Hilton; there seems to be a cultural divide between the North and the South. Ho Chi Minh City is more often referred to as "Saigon"; there is a booming atmosphere in the city filled with the influence of the West. In Cambodia she saw Le Royal, formerly a French hotel where Jackie Kennedy once stayed. Paula was impressed with the temple complex of

killed in SOUTH DAKOTA or Reader Scott,

when WALKE sank.

Two weeks later, ADM Wright's task Force took a severe pounding from Japanese "long lance" torpedoes which sank NORTHAMTON, heavily damaged PENSACOLA and detached the bows of NEW ORLEANS

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record Class group—John Grider, Scotty Mclver, Cy Perkins, Bob Goodgame, John Dewitt, and Al Parker—survived the torpedoing. Floyd Schultz arrived a few days later to supervise the patching of these ships so they could retum to the U.S. under their own power.

Brooks Harral did not skip the Marines. I just finished reading Guadalcanal, a detailed story of the great battle, and must say the Navy couldn't have taken the island without our sea soldiers. They were magnificent!

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When we landed. Spigot Fawcett, Red-Eye Thompson, Bill Enright, Bob Denig, and Jack Colley were part of our invasion force. And in the overall Solomons campaign, Neil Murray, Al Bowser, Hector De Zayas, George Carrol, Bob Bisson, and Bob Porter all joined in to complete the task. We must remember that our top military people had their eyes on the Germans and the invasion of North Africa. We, in the Navy, were taking on the Japanese by ourselves and it was an awesome job. At one time Washington planned to give the Solomons to McArthur, but the Navy insisted on its right to the whole thing.

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Anghor with its 30 temples built between 900 and 1200 A.D. I have some nice pictures (on previous page) of many years ago. You probably know and remember all eight of the Classmates pictured. I do not think it is worth while to put the names under these familiar faces.

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Notification of the death of our Classmate, Glover Ferguson, on 1 August has been received from his daughter, Laurie Sanders. Laurie's address is 4234 NW 76th Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32606; 352-3363935. Our few remaining Classmates extend deepest sympathy to Laurie and all of Glover's other survivors. Glover was one of the best known and popular members of the Class and will be sorely missed.

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Pres. and Sec'y/Treas: CAPT Jesse B. Gay Jr., USN (Ret) VR and Corr. Sec'y: RADM Ed Keats, USN (Ret) 3704 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 h: 410-235-3803; f: 410-243-1960 e: edkeats@aol.com Birthdays Vince Sweeney starts the month with his 90th birthday on 1 October and Frank Wheeler brings it to a close with his birthday on 29 October The Class extends good wishes on these important dates to them both.

Attending the 1956 Olympics Wally Nelson received orders in November 1956 to "proceed on temporary additional duty as the Marine Corps 58

representative at the 1956 Olympic games."

He has provided the Class with the portion of his family history that relates to that experience.

About one-third of the 1956 U.S. Olympic Team were members of the Armed Forces and the four service members of the DoD Committee on Intemational Sports Competition were made ex officio members of the administrative group of the U.S. team and assigned to accompany the team to Melbourne. The Secretary of Defense designated Lt Gen O'Donnell, USAF, as his personal representative and he invited the committee to fly with him on his plane, the one normally belonging to the commander of the Military Air Transport Service. We went via San Francisco, Honolulu, Nandi in the Fiji Islands, and Auckland to Melbourne. In Honolulu I played volleyball with Bill Russell, who later was voted the most valuable player on the gold medal U.S. basketball team.

In Melbourne we were billeted with the team members in the Olympic village, where everyone lived in three bedroom detached houses. We were issued and wore clothing from an Olympic kit. I tried to cover every event in which Marines were involved. I had no difficult administrative problems to handle—just details where I could be helpful.

Final Honors J.C. Wilson advises, by email, of the memorial service held for Warren Armstrong at Fort Rosecrans, near San Diego, on 30 July. Mary Jo and Bill Hazzard, Teeny and Lew Schock, and J.C. represented the Class. Warren's ashes had been previously scattered at sea. The colors were presented to his son.

More Recollections of a Budding Officer The July-August column contained an excerpt from Frank Wheeler's oral history relating to his experiences as a Midshipman.

Here is some of what he had to say about learning to be a junior officer After I had been aboard MINNEAPOLIS about a week, I was overseeing a group of sailors painting the executive officer's passageway. I got a little bored just standing around, so I asked the petty officer in charge if there was anything I could do.

He said, 'Sure. Why don't you paint the striping?' All our ships in those days had striping that identified what was in the pipes, like green for saltwater and double green for fresh water, red for steam, etc. I was up on the ladder painting when the exec came down the passageway. He gave me a rather strange look and went on to his office. A few minutes later his orderly came out and said the executive officer would like to talk to me.

I went into the office and he said, "Have a seat."

He looked at me and said, "Young man, we didn't send you to the Naval Academy

for four years to leam how to paint. Never let me see you with a paint brush in your hand again."

Mount Vernon A member of the Class has received a book from the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, sent to him as a "thank you" for a contribution he made to aid them in maintaining the home and memory of George Washington. The book, entitled Mount Vernon, the Story of a Shrine, tells of the efforts of a group of women back in 1853 to save and preserve the famous property from falling into ruin. It describes how they raised money, none however from the U.S. government, and the methods they and their successors over the past century and a half have used to retum the buildings and plantings to the way they were in Washington's time and to inculcate America's youth with the story of George Washington. They rely entirely on admission fees, revenue from souvenir sales, and donations. For those who would like a copy, or just help the Association continue their efforts, their address is Historic Mount Vemon, P.O. Box 376, Mount Vemon, VA 22121-0376.

The New Navy Every summer for many years the Baltimore Sun has sent a member of its staff to Annapolis to observe and report on the activities of Plebe Summer. Here are five verbatim excerpts from the front-page story in the issue of Sunday, 28 July. They may bring back memories of how we were treated 71-years ago as well as revealing the differences between our experiences and those of today's Plebes.

(1) The Academy has already dismissed four upperclassmen from Plebe-training jobs this month after a Plebe complained about being screamed at and scolded too harshly.

(2) Plebe Summer has gradually become less boot camp and more summer camp.

(3) Plebes are grouped by ability so that slower ones can mn and work out at their own pace.

(4) At meals, upperclassmen no longer submit Plebes to sharp questioning.

Instead, they engage them in casual conversation about what sports they played in high school and what they'd like to do in the military.

(5) When a Plebe in C—B—'s platoon lets his military bearing go slack, says B—, "I go right up to his ear and whisper, 'You really disappoint me.'"

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Pres: CAPT William N. Price, USN (Ret) SecyATreas; CAPT CM. Butler, USN (Ret.) 1101 S. Arlington Ridge Road Arlington, VA 22043 Acting Sec'y: CAPT John H. Carmichael, USN (Ret) 744 Oglethorpe Ave. St. Simons Island, GA 31522-4908 p: 912-638-2830; f: 912-638-0436 e: jhc36@earthlink.net From The President Bettsy Riley Perkins Shaw's book Besides Me Still was published by the Naval Institute shortly before she died. An email from Paul Riley '48, Bettsy's cousin, alerted me to the fact that Naval Institute Proceedings for July carried a review of the book, which he and his wife considered unsatisfactory. I checked my issue and heartily disagree with the review. A retired Marine lieutenant colonel wrote the review in which he pooh-poohed the story and found fault with what he considered to be the poUtical orientation of Bettsy and her family. Van Perkins and his family, and Jim Shaw. His concluding line is, "What does come in this book is a different view of the attitudes among those who were part of what has been called The Greatest Generation." Both Paul and I sent emails to the Naval Institute recommending another review. One that deals primarily with the story of these young people who tried very hard to help this country win the war and unhesitatingly made sacrifices in their personal hves to do so.

Class News Frank Springer sent in a wonderful description of his and Lauretta's visit to Puerto VaUarta, Mexico, that included a side trip to a remote primitive Huichols Indian village. The Huichols are one of the few civilizations true to their heritage, resisting Western influences. They have their own religion, language, customs, and antiquated farming methods. They are believed to be descendents of the Aztecs.

They live largely on dirt floors in poorly constructed mud huts and some timber huts.

Their homes are around the mountainside, each with their own farming land. They do not produce anything except what they need to sustain themselves.

We traveled via tour bus for at least four hours, then by boat across a large lake behind the biggest hydroelectric dam in Mexico to a steep dirt hill, which we climbed to their village. Upon arrival at the village, the tour guide arranged for a local shaman to remove any evil spirits we might have, two persons at a time. They took us on a tour by foot, of course, around their Siiipmate, October 2002

village. We were shown a school for all children first through sixth grades. The children board at the school but only during the months they are not needed to harvest the fields. It is a big step forward and relatively new. The govemment helps with expenses and supplies teachers. They have a very small store for supplies, some farm animals, sheep, and goats. It was a tmly remarkable thing to see in the 21st century.

There were about 20 of us on the tour and we all remarked that they have that large dam and lake right there yet do not have electricity or water They transport water by mule, incredible!

Remembrance In 1943 BuOrd "experts" discovered that the six-inch fragmentation projectile produced a much larger burst than the five-inch AA shell. There upon they concocted a scheme to use the new six-inch gunned cruiser's main battery for AA fire. The fact that ballistics characteristics of the two batteries were quite different, did not deter them. Each is controlled by its separate plotting room, director, computer, and stable element. Further the elevation of the six-inch gun was about half of the fiveinch. BuOrd's simple solution was to devise a formula based on range to compute a ballistic correction to make the two systems compatible.

CLEVELAND (Cl-55) was selected to conduct the first live test at anchor in the harbor of Efate, New Hebrides. BuOrd sent the formula. The table of ballistic corrections, ship's company had to compute the table of corrections. Fortunately our fire control gang had some very sharp officers and petty officers that were up to the job. Now all we had to do was to see if the system would work. The day of the test arrived. Gunnery officers from craisers present came aboard to witness the demonstration. The tow plane with target approached for the first run. It was an absolute disaster Tommy Rudden '39 manned the main battery director and Gervias Morrison, USNR, the AA director I was in Plot. We could not get our act together There was confusion as to whether directors were tracking the tow plane or target so the first mn was aborted.

Phones connected the Gunnery Officer, CDR Russell Smith '25, in gun control and me in plot. Our failure to open fire embarrassed him in front of our guests. He became enraged and proceeded to verbally work me over using the most colorful language. The starting of the second mn interrapted the gunnery officer's tirade saving me. This time both directors were on the target, not the plane, and plot entered the ballistic correction. Morrison was tracking the plane, but Rudden controlled the trigger The plotting rooms relied on the computers for informationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;plus, of course, the more or

less excitable communications from the directors. The AA director tracked the target, the AA computer solved the fire control problem, the ballistic correction applied and transmitted to the main plot. There the MB computer sent the corrected solution to the main battery director and turret, with instructions for training and elevating the six-inch gun onto the target. The order, "open fire!" emerged from this strange chain of command and the single burst destroyed the target. I reported to the gunnery officer in the wardroom where he conducted a "hot wash up" of the demonstration. He was in a much better mood. I apologized for a disastrous first mn, and he said, "That was just within the family."

I don't know if any cruiser ever fired their main battery at a Jap plane, in my time aboard, CLEVELAND never did. It was a Robe Goldberg scheme for it ignored that the two batteries had entirely different characteristics and missions. The AA battery was designed for rapid, flexible movement.

The director could train through 720 degrees before hitting the stops. The guns could move rapidly in azimuth and elevation and elevate almost to the vertical. The main battery was heavy and relatively slow in movement. Its guns had about half the elevation of the five-inch. CLEVELAND engaged in one distinct surface-air battle while I was aboard. That was after the surface Battle of Empress in November '44 when 70 Jap dive-bombers hit Task Force 39â&#x20AC;&#x201D;four cmisers and four destroyers, in a tight diamond formation turning in 360 circles at thirty knots. AA fire shot down 17 planes the rest fled back to Rabaul. A small bomb hit one of MONTPELIER'S catapults and CLEVELAND took a near miss. Main batteries remained trained in fore and aft. I dread to think what would have happened if the six-inch batteries had open up during this fast moving melee. (We received a dividend from the battie of Midway for those 1944 Japanese aviators were not of the quality of those wiped out on that miracle day in June 1942.)

Somehow this description of a six-inch gun firing at an aircraft reminds me of Gertmde Stein's description of her opera, "Four Saints in Three Acts," about saints that do nothing and their vision of the Holy Ghost described as "Pigeons in the grass and magpie in the sky." To which she referred to as a "perfectly simple description of the Spanish landscape."

Commentary The cult of the politically correct is spreading like a plague. It attacks American tradition and character The cult is abysmally ignorant of the over 200 years of growth of a cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the striving for Uberty and freedom and the building of a unique govemment.

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It denigrates our forebears and would revise the history of the United States to fit its anti-American agenda. The politically correct have infiltrated much of our society, for instance, the substitution of PC brain washing for educational curricula; the prohibition of religion in pubhc Ufe; The blackmailing of industry; The infiltration of government bureaucracy.

Since the Constitution was ratified, immigration contributed to the prosperity of the United States. Although the population became more diversified, immigrants were anxious to leam the national language—English, and become Americans citizens. Beginning in the 20th century there was an ominous change. Many immigrants opted for dual citizenship and became hyphenated Americans. The large influx of Latinos lobbied to make Spanish a second language. The very substance of the American character is threatened.

Political correctness pops up in strange ways. Jack Bennett '41 related the insidious nature of PC in a recent email. The Subject: "By Stroke of Pen Local Petty Bureaucrat Accomplishes What the Japanese Imperial Navy Failed to Do in World War II." Jack was in SAN FRANCISCO, (CA-38) during the Battle of Guadalcanal (he was wounded). The battle that RADM Ernie King 1901 called, "...the most furious sea battie in history." The following is based on Jack's email: When SAN FRANCISCO limped into Mare Island in December '42 for repairs of major damage suffered in the night battle of Guadalcanal, the city of San Francisco asked the Navy for the battle scared wings of the bridge for use as a monument to the ship. The Navy agreed and in time a dramatic monument was built around the ship's bridge marked by 14inch holes from two Jap battleships that SAN FRANCISCO passed between at point blank range. The cost was borne by public donations and all subsequent maintenance performed by volunteers from various veterans' organizations. This one-ofa-kind monument is located at Land's End, SAN FRANCISCO, pointed on a great circle course to Guadalcanal. Nominally it is owned by the National Park Service, which suddenly expressed a keen interest in it.

Calling the monument an eyesore the NPS regional director is planning to tear it down and convert the space into a "teaming center" No clue was given as to the disposition of the plaques of KIA or WIA (Bennett is on the latter), nor the plaque that dedicates the monument to San Francisco native and MOH winner RADM Dan Callaghan (KIA). The word of this incredible and sudden unilateral move hit the SAN FRANCISCO Association like a bombshell out of the blue. The Association is attempting to solicit political support to stop the park service 60

'36: Photo of Fighting Squadron Five from the July issue in its tracks. Perhaps the park service bureaucrats considered a battle-scarred reminder of the high cost of freedom not politically correct and therefore unacceptable. It is understood that the park service had in mind replacing the monument with some sort of a learning center Jack reports that the monument is proving to be a wonderful learning center as letters are received from visitors who are inspired by this monument and are most grateful to be able to show it to their children. (I understand that the park service has denied ever having had a plan to convert this monument site to a learning center or relocate it. Well?)

In Memoriam General Benjamin O. Davis, USAF (Ret.) died on 4 July 2002. He was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery. He commanded the Tuskegee Airman during World War II and became the first black general in the Air Force. He was the son of one of the few black officers at the time. He entered the Air Force in 1942, commanded a squadron in North Africa, a fighter group in Europe where he developed a successful tactic for protecting bombers from German fighters—this group never lost a bomber to enemy fighters. He graduated from West Point in 1936.

Frederick Ganahl Blitch Sr. died on 17 July 2001 in Statesboro, GA. Fred was born in Roswell, NM, but the family soon moved to Statesboro. There he graduated from high school and Marian Military Institute where in 1932 he received a competitive appointment to the Naval Academy. He resigned early on and returned to Statesboro and pursued a lifelong career of farming. He was actively involved with the Georgia Farm Bureau in leadership positions. He is survived by a son, Frederick G. Blitch Jr, two daughters, India B. Peters and Belle B. Malone, four grandchildren, and a sister, Marie A. Donovan.

Administration There are a growing number of errors in newspapers in recent years followed by apologies in later editions. Now this vims of poor editing infected the '36 column. In the July Shipmate in the article on the

Fleet's trip to the World's Fair, in description of the "flying moor" the term "playing out the anchor" was used. Mariners know the correct phrase should have been "paying out." Amos and Andy used to call this a typewritergraphical error Addendum to July Class Column Missing from Dave's article in the July issue on Fighting Squadron Five was the photo of the squadron on Guadalcanal showing the condition of those young aviators who did so much in those nip and tuck days to tum the war around in the Solomon Islands. It is inserted above.

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Pres: CAPT John S. Slaughter, USN (Ret) Sec'y/Treas: RADM D.G. Baer, USN (Ret) Corr. Sec'y: John W. Simpson 36 East Beach Lagoon Dn, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928-5714 h: 843-671-2523; e: jws@hargray.com Summertime, even more so this summer with the above average temperature and below average rainfall, finds activity, at a reduced pace. The Washington group schedules no meetings as all go their varied ways to relax—or in a number of situations to take it easy in their air-conditioned abodes. The good old summertime.

Planning for the 65th did not get sidetracked. It took some last minute exercises and even then after the newsletter providing the schedule and registration form, a change. Sorry about that. The price for the tailgate party at the football game was changed from $25 to $30. The correct amount does appear in the registration form, but it did not get corrected in the letter For obvious reasons, there won't be as large an attendance as the last reunion, but that doesn't mean it won't be just as good.

It will be, so if you can make it, be there.

While you are at it, we encourage you to bring your extended family: children, and grandchildren. This won't be the last reunion for the Class, but it wUl be for some of us.

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Jean and Chuck Stein plan a visit to a cool spot in Quebec just 30 miles down the St. Lawrence from that French city. They plan to take the drive in easy stages and be gone almost three weeks. In July, Bess and Jack Slaughter had their annual family vacation on the beach at Emerald Isle, SC. With the "grands" so involved in travel and their regular or summer jobs, the crowd was not as large but all had a good time surfing, tennis, strolling, or just observing. On their retum they met Zeke Soucek and his son, Howie, for lunch. The two guys, having been roommates for foiu: years, had much to discuss. In late August Bess and Jack are headed to Burlington, VT, for a destroyer division reunion. The real news is that after waiting for about two years, Mary and Charlie Minter have a large unit at Ginger Cove. They had a contract on their house, but all the contingencies were not met, so it is going back on the market. They will have completed their move shortly before the reunion and will need that occasion to rest and catch up. Having lived in the same place for ump-teen years, beheve me they are going to have quite a job moving out.

As noted in the newsletter Bill Mack has asked, for medical reasons, to be relieved as corresponding secretary. Bill, we all extend you our very best wishes for a speedy recovery. John Simpson has stepped forward, volunteering to take on this onerous task. He will find the position is challenging (but all of John's very successful life has been full of those) with the primary compensation, the ability to keep up with Classmates and the satisfaction of performing an important function in an outstanding manner We thank you, John.

The Class received a very nice letter from PhiUip Dodds thanking us for our contribution on the death of his father We have also received word that we lost Walt Phaler on 9 August. Both are sad notes to close this monthly report.

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Pres: RADM M. H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret) e: mrindskopf@earthlink.net Chairman, Wash. Area: CAPT Snowden Arthur, USN (Ret) 4600 Ashby St., NW, Washington DC 20007-1041 h: 202-342-6210; Secy: CAPT D.K. Ela, USN (Ret) 3260 N. 12th St., #329, Grand Junction, CO 81506 h: 970-256-7174, f: 970-256-9120 e: dkela@gj.net President's Comer At least one of you out there were alert enough to tell us that the jaunty picture of John Mason, pipe and all in the JulyAugust issue was not Otis Wesche as labeled. The editors have apologized for the Siiipmate, October 2002

slip, and agreed to rerun John's picture, properly tagged and one of Otis Wesche as well. (See September issue.) We are always pleased when we receive proof that you read our column.

2003 Leaders' Conference The 19th Annual Conference is taking shape, following the pattern introduced at last year's affair when there were seven civilian colleges and universities added to the six military organizations traditionally attending. This year representatives from Texas A&M, Boston College, and the Royal Military College of Canada will be added, giving an intemational flavor to the affair which is scheduled for 15-17 January.

As speakers and panel members are identified, we will augment this report. As always, any and all '38ers who can find their way to Annapolis are guaranteed front row seats and ample recognition.

BALAO (SS-285) Ceremony The sail, shears, and periscopes of BALAO were unveiled as a memorial to the ship and World War II submarines and submariners on 27 September 2002 at the Washington Navy Yard. LCDR Bob Worthington was skipper of BALAO on patrols 8, 9, and 10 in the spring of 1945, earning a Navy Cross for sinking the second largest Japanese merchant ship during his first patiol. His widow. Peri, was present at the ceremony.

Election Of Class Officers When John Saxton advised the Class that he would retire in 1988 after 50 years as our Class president, a committee drafted a set of by-laws which, among other things, set a term of office of five years for the president; and renewable terms for the vice president, treasurer, and secretary. During the 1993 55th reunion on board MISSISSIPPI QUEEN, the by-laws were amended to permit the president to serve more than one term. The by-laws require that a nominating committee be appointed to present a slate of officers to the assembled Class at the 65th reunion. Our by-laws are in conformance with the Council of Class Presidents policy with respect to the term of office of Class presidents. This is an invitation to all to signify an interest in serving as a Class officer by advising the president before 1 January 2003.

Class Corner We are saddened to note the passing of Jean Conrad on 14 July. We remember that she taught this Plebean soul to appreciate the secrets of illumination in painting. Her services at the Fort Myer Chapel and a reception at the Club 8 August were well attended: Rindskopfs, Beshanys, Raymers, Ray Berthrong from Virginia Beach, Bob Carter, Betty Luby, Peri Worthington, Hugh Robinson, and Joe McDowell. Our vital statistics change. See Snowden Arthur at the masthead as he takes over from Hugh

Robinson. And finally, we've gotten around to updating the roster on our webpage to 31 July. Your sibling's computer can print it out for you, usna.com. The heads up count is 120. While it's on his screen, check the site for news items, or 65th bulletins. (Bob McNitt is preparing a new mailing on reunion as reservations and fees come into focus.)

Swede Olsen's San Diego lunch bunch met the 25 July, Foley, Ratliff, and Ogle. El has just sent the pretty sight on the next page. They are Kitty's snap shots of the male contingent at their 3 June party.

Meanwhile, the Washington bunch doesn't, as usual, venture out in the summer sun.

We had a really delightful time third week of July checking up on our New England contingent. Without a second brazen thought, we called the list and suggested they could keep this sailor off the streets and out of trouble by providing a contribution to our obesity or even over night shelter Pan handlers note, it worked 100%. So we braved some appalling traffic and some beautiful White Mountain scenery in our low price, Korean, compact rental. We looped downtown West Hartford, CT, till finally spun out in adjacent Bloomfield where lively Susie and Bruce Hayden live in a flower laden retirement community center Before retiring from Connecticut General, he had assessed and assisted in the property acquisition. As we asked directions within the site, every one knew the Hayden's. In one of life's coincidences, his grandfather and ours served in Colorado on the Grand Junction School Board only a century ago! Betty and Bob Huron in Winchester, MA, were next.

Bob is in a nursing home and has shown remarkable improvement from my visit several years ago. No problem with his ever sharp mental attributes, but his right side is gone. Betty holds the home fort a short daily drive away.

Working up the Maine stem and picturesque rock bound coast visiting close friends and relatives got us into blueberry country, held down by Wyn and Newell Varney, our ancient roommate and blue water sailing sailor He's hale, hearty, and smart enough to lay up the second TROUBLE, TROUBLE II. We recalled how a tanker sank the first, and his long swim upward to make the surface. From that lonely perspective with considerable time to think over his life history, the tanker had circled to pick him out of the Gulf Stream.

The subsequent Coast Guard investigation exonerated him fully, but it was a lengthy litigation with big oil to recover only fractional damages. Newell drove us over to Bar Harbor where among the blue bloods in a beautiful big old home, we encountered a 61

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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 Tiiirty-Nine On Line: docabbot@aol.com

'38: San Diego summer part>: Pat Foley, Charlie Akers, El Ogle, and Paul Lovelace

huge sign spelling out Marinke. Irene and Charlie were in tmly great shape, easily matching sea stories for an hour before we departed. Charlie had supplied much information on old roomy Swede Anderson's coming induction into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame noted in our July-August column.

Into the White Mountains, and following precise insdructions along back roads to a rambling cabin in Wonalancet, we zeroed on Lo and Ralph Weymouth. These two effervescent travelers are hidden in a woodland fairyland, but not too far from a memorable restaurant. The cabin has been so added to, and added to, much by Ralph's hand, that it too needs a precise intemal road map. They devote many volunteer hours to their community. Much refreshed and redirected to the interstate and the Connecticut River, we visited in Vermont before we headed South to Kimball Farms, Lenox, MA, and snowbird. Herb Mandel.

Herb's new digs is a sprawling retirement community carved into wooded countryside. His energy and devotion to Classmates is unbounded, e.g. male hosts aren't expected to have towels laid out and blueberries for breakfast. More, New London has lost a loyal and hard working (golfing, that is) member of its community council.

End of ttavel tip: Boston's Logan Airport is a frightful constmction mess. To retum a rental car, go to the airline departure passenger drop, wait for the Budget van to show up and discharge, then follow it to the cleverly hidden parking lot. We fortunately, were several hours early and circled more than half an hour in fmstration before we locked on to the aforesaid van.

Reefed Sail Retirement Home Notes The buzz in our dining room is drought, locusts, 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and forest fires. We can't recall stream flows so low; winter wheat in Colorado and Wyoming is a 100% loss. Central U.S. com and soy are severely distiessed. With the pundits all agreed that the stock market is still high risk and shock prone, an agronomic, economic collapse could be the trigger for worse. The Pacific Southem Oscillation's 62

early labor pains threaten to bear an El Nino. It guarantees further global weather distortions. An astute cattleman here has started to ship his herd East to greener pastures in Iowa. It is less costiy than shipping West a ton of hay per animal now with probably another ton later Selling his herd at less than half last year's price is not an option. Navy relevance? Does it sound like Grapes of Wrath or 1934 Plebe Summer?

Hey, the country survived.

Art Fischer called to tell of Fred Clarke's sudden and unexpected death on 26 June. And, that he (Art) was taking over Fred's monthly submission of San Diego '39ers news. Art noted that: Our coed lunch was initially arranged

by Fred but he passed away the afternoon before. Some of his Classmates and their spouses were shocked to hear about Fred's demise. It made our get together quite somber. The lunch was at Reuben's Bay side restaurant, with a view of the carriers STENNIS and NIMITZ at North Island.

Those present at the luncheon were: John Dolan, John Wallingford, Ken Barker and his wife, Maddie, Bob Brent, Bob Dexter, Doc Norton with his wife, Dal, Val Holzapfel and his wife. Gay, plus myself. Art Fischer. Additionally, on hand were Vi Thomas and Mary Lou Lank.

San Diego summer party: El Ogle, Paul Lovelace, and Bill Ratliff

San Diego summer party: Jack Raymer and Swede Olsen Ginny Dunford, Don Chishelm. and Mae Coleman

San Diego summer party: Swede Olsen and Randy Klippel

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Jim Barrett said that he'd sung tenor in the MGM Studio choir that was used to produce background music for some of MGM's movies. Jim mentioned that the choir sang in the production of "42nd Street," rendering "We're in the Money," "Singing in the Rain," "Lullaby of Old Broadway," and other popular favorites.

A tenor? How lucky can one be?

Bill Bowen checked out as a tme-voiced lead. But he couldn't read music and he had to rely on recordings to leam and memorize the melodies he would sing.

I could, fortunately, sing the difficult and "39: Paul Adams. Jim Dunferd. and Caroline and Don Chishelm almost senseless baritone part of most The Holzapfels showed the plans and pictures quartet music. of their future home and farm in Annapolis.

So all that we SEA DEVIL officers needed, Fred Clarke's memorial service was to produce a resonant four-part harmony, held at the Blessed Sacrament Church, was a good bass.

San Diego, on 29 June. The Classmates I recognized that I was allowed five attending the service were: Tom Walker, wardroom officers. I also recognized that John Wallingford, Bob Barnes, Bob Charley Harmon, our fourth SEA DEVIL Brent, Val Holzapfel, Doc Norton, Skeet officer, couldn't keep a tune and sang like a Bemis, John Dolan, Jack Mathews, Bob monotone.

Dexter, John Sharpe, and Art Fischer Don Chishelm and Tom Weschler In other words, Charley was hopeless as a Many other friends and relatives also quartet man. attended the service. The playing of So, needing a fifth officer and needing a "Amazing Grace" by the incomparable good bassâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one who could read music and Pete Fountain was traly a tearjerker, but is who had the guts to sing out as he anchored also a foot-stomper. our wardroom quartetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I called the submaBoth of Fred's sons did the scripture rine detail officer in the Bureau of Naval reading and eulogizing of their father.

Personnel back in Washington, DC, and The whole service was deeply moving asked him to screen his list of volunteers and a great tribute to Fred.

Skeet Bemis' wife, Kathy, also wrote a for submarine duty, and send me a bass Sally Gulick and Art Fischer nice note about Fred Clarkes funeral serv- singer to round out my wardroom quartet. ice on 29 June, mentioning that the Clarkes Thus, on a warm night in May of 1952 and Bemises had been "buddies" for four with Jim Barrett, the duty officer, sitting years a the Naval Academy. She added: topside in a camp chair, up the gangway "We will tmly miss them both. Skeet says, sttode Harry Ellis. At the top of the gang"all '39ers are in the zone." How tme. "And way, Ellis paused and saluted the colors aft. thank God I'm still able to keep up with Then he loudly said, "Permission to come Class doings, with the help of Prozac and aboard, sir?" our son. Skip," says Skeet.

Barrett was favorably impressed by this Tnna Weschler. Caroline Chishelm, and Tom Weschler In an earlier '39 Shipmate colunm, I fellow. But, recognizing "the captain's" encouraged '39ers to submit their good stories from the past. Tme to my request, I concerns about filling out a wardroom hereby submit one of my own stories from quartet, Barrett said to Ellis, who was then the past. It's about the SEA DEVIL Four bar- poised at the top of the gangway: "Can you bershop quartet that saw what needed doing sing bass?"

"Yes, sir" Ellis quickly responded. during the Korean War, and did it!

"Do you read music?" Barrett asked.

Herewith, the SEA DEVIL Four Story.

Again Ellis in a very positive fashion said: "Yes, sir."

At which, Barrett said, "Well then, Mr. Ellis, welcome aboard."

Ginny Dunford and John Wallingford And Ellis provided just what was needed to make the SEA DEVIL Four a memorable quartet!

Charley Harmon was the only wardroom officer who was unhappy about having Harry Ellis aboard. That was because The SEA DEVIL Four: 1 to r: Jim Barrett, Bill Bowens, W.J, Ruhe, and Han-y Ellis Harmon had to stand extra bridge watches When I (Captain W.J. Ruhe), reported while the quartet practiced songs in the aboard the submarine SEA DEVIL (SS-291) wardroom. as her commanding officer, my first action It was my thought that with the Korean was to find out which of my officers could War filling the hospitals in Yokusuka, Bob and Joey Border decendy sing in a barbershop quartet with me.

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Yokahama, and Tokyo with war wounded, a little entertainment for these luckless fellows would be appreciated.

With Christmas approaching, our wardroom quartet assiduously practiced "Jingle Bells," I'm "Dreaming of a White Christmas," "Winter Wonderland," and "Side by Side."

The letter number was used to bolster the spirit of camaraderie between the fellows who were really fighting the war.

Moreover, unlike Bob Hope and Al Jolsen, who would perform only before ttoops who showered no signs of injury, in order to have TV material for remn back in the U.S. that would "brighten" rather than "depress" the TV watchers, the SEA DEVIL Four on 20 December 1952 went into the wards filled with heavily bandaged men.

They were war-wounded, many of whom could follow the quartet only through slits in their head bandages.

There, the gray ladies who helped with the nursing of these wounded men were only too happy to accept our offer to entertain their injured patients.

They took us from ward to ward, and after a brief intioduction of who we were, would then tum us loose to do oiu" stuff.

The ward reaction to our quartet numbers, to say the least, was so well taken that I asked a gray lady if we were the first entertainment group to spend time with the heavily bandaged patients. But I noted that their eyes followed our progress through the wards.

"You're not the first," a gray lady said.

"But you're about the first" since Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon just walked through the wards and shook any of the hands proffered to these two celebrities. The men did appreciate this sort of attention.

In one ward, Jim Barrett let out a big sob and asked for a moment to collect himself.

The hand that he had squeezed was first so firm and then became so placid that Jim felt the man had died with that final gesture.

In each ward one of us would ask, "Who's a member of S.PE.B.S.Q.S.A.? If favorable reply to this question was received, our quartet went over to the man's bedside and there we asked what part did he sing?

When told that he sang bass or lead or tenor and only rarely the difficult baritone part, we would blast off with "The Old Songs" to test the man's virtuosity. If he could ring the chords of that song, a new foursome would be off and mnning.

This business proved to be real fun for everyone!

But in one ward, the fellow there had no signs of being wounded, and merely sat morosely on the tops of several double decker bunks.

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After singing "Jingle Bells" and "Winter Wonderland" without getting any response except for sullen stares at the rank insignias on the collars of our khaki uniforms, I called it quits and we made a hasty exit.

"What's with that crowd of soreheads back there?" I asked a gray lady as we left.

Laughingly, she said, "Oh, they're the psychos. And they blame all of their troubles on the officers they served under" That was understandable.

Christmas was no cup of tea for the SEA DEVIL Four There were no presents to be unwrapped. No baubles to be hung on a tree.

And no loved ones to share their hearts with.

But what the hell, why not bring a little happiness to others. So we hitched up our pants and sang our way through the wards of Korean War wounded menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hoping to brighten their day just a littie.

The results were electrifying!

And this was proved by the broad smiles on the faces of the gray ladies who accompanied the SEA DEVIL quartet through many wards.

There were no families however with whom to share the exuberant feelings generated by the singing.

But just the joy of singing was as great a reward as could be hoped for So let's sing!

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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 Farewell Sad news! On 16 July, Cary H. HaU's life ended. For a person who loved to communicate with people to not be able to reach friends, either by voice or in writing, made his life very hard. It seems that these fmstrations over the past five years with only slight improvement caused him to give up. His ashes were inumed at the USNA Columbarium in Annapolis alongside his beloved Dorthe on 26 August. To his sons, Michael and Cary Jr, both lawyers, and daughter, Stephanie, a medical doctor, and their families, all of us of the '40 family join in sending our deeply felt condolences.

On 17 July we lost Annette Kelly Marks after her long battle with cancer She had joined the '40 family when she married Dave Marks in 1984. Unfortunately, they were married only six years before Dave died in 1990. During their years together they were regular participants at the annual Castine Capers where many in '40 got to know and enjoy the company of this funfilled, interesting '40 family member

Annette grew up in Thomasville, GA. Then she eamed a bachelor of science degree from Huntington college in Alabama, followed by a master of education and certification in medical laboratory technology. Throughout her life she was very active in the Baptist church. Among her last wishes were that those who wished to commemorate her life should send a memorial contribution to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida, P.O. Box 2556, Lakeland, FL 33806.

Surviving her are two brothers. Jack and Ed, three daughters-in-law, and four stepchildren, Susan, David, Floy Marks Hamilton, and Christopher Marks, plus their children and grandchildren. To them all, we, as Dave's Classmates, extend our deeply felt condolences to the family of this lovely lady.

How to get the police department to respond to your call for helpâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; George Phillips of Meridian, MS, was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.

George opened the back door to go tum off the light but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things. He phoned the police, who asked, "Is someone in your house?" and he said no. Then they said that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be along when available.

George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again.

"Hello! I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now cause I've just shot them all."

Then he hung up.

Within five minutes three police cars, an armed response unit, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips residence.

One of the policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

The first two weeks of July the following members of the '40 family gathered in Castine to participate in the 32nd annual Castine Capers: This year there were three generations of Bundys, led by Cissi and Cliff Bundy. Also from California, Pat and Bill Bundy and their three children, Victoria, Jessica, and Elizabeth. Also, Ann and Steven and their two daughters, Lauren and Brooke, came. From Massachusetts, daughter Andrea and her three children, Chloe and Alexa Couch and Daniel Bundy This brought the Bundy total this year to 15. Others there were Mary and Bill Carpenter, Marjorie and John Clagett, Clare and Ed Hayes, Jake Heimark with Mary Ann and Don Heimark and their two children. Also, Yvonne Kalen, George Kittredge, Mary Libbey, Betty and Bob

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Newcomb plus their son-in-law, Peter Alexander and his wife, Carmela, Pat Patterson, Marguerite and Ted Rodgers, their daughter, Meg, her husband, Jim Timberlake and their son, Harrison, and Penny Vickery. Even though tiie weatiier was unseasonably warm, all who came enjoyed each other's company and the events arranged by Bill Bundy.

Our visit started with a warm welcoming party hosted by Marguerite and Ted Rodgers at their lovely lakeside home.

Outstanding events included a special dinner at the Pentagoet Inn that saw about a dozen from West Point '42 joining us. The next day there was a cookout on Holbrooke Island with ocean swimming for all who wished to enjoy the warmer than usual sea water And for lobster lovers, the best fresh lobsters in the world were at Eatons Wharf.

Many also enjoyed dining at Dennetts Wharf and were impressed by how many dollar bills had replaced the 12,300 that were taken down after September 11th.

This year's sailboat races were won once again by Bob Newcomb and his hardworking crew. And on the second Sunday, the Navy Leaguers of the area met for lunch and a fine talk by VADM Bill Houser '42.

And of course everyone in Castine gathered for the annual 4th of July parade where each child won a blue ribbon and rode on fire engines with sirens blowing. Some of us there remembered that in 1970 it was the '40 attendees in 1970, led by Helyn and Wally Utley, who organized the first such event in Castine. All in all, this years Capers was another big success.

A man and woman were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to enjoy the festivities. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal: "A while ago I read in a magazine about how we can strengthen our marriage." "Each of us will write a list of the things we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them and make our lives happier together" The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room and thought about what was annoying about the other and wrote them down.

The next moming they decided that they would go over their lists. "I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes. "What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing" the husband replied.

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to read until she finished. She then neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands.

"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists," she said happily.

Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are peifect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wondeiful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you."

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, tumed her head and wept.

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed, and annoyed that we don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light, and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us and see the wondrous things before us? I beUeve that we are happiest when we see and praise the good and try our best to forget the bad.

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.

Once again Connie Carlson has taken the time to write me about some of his memories. Here is what Connie had to say: When I look back on our four years at the Academy, I'm sure that the Second Class Year was the most enjoyable and the most instmctive. While I was not involved breaking in the Plebes, those who were gained a few points in leadership when we became JOs on big ships.

When we visited the Naval Gun Factory and Dahlgren where we saw how our guns were made and ballistics were computed, I was quite impressed. Later, we appreciated this knowledge during bombardments and anti-aircraft activity when we literally wore out the gun barrels.

Our aviation experience in the old PBYs laid the groundwork for so many of our future aviators. We actually were given the opportunity to fly them. And when we were communicating between planes, we were able to use our mastery of the Morse Code, which we had gained during seamanship classes. In addition, we conducted bombing mns and were shown pictures so we could evaluate our machine gun skills.

But most memorable of all was our cmise in the old four piper destroyers.

There, for the first time, we developed our sea legs. I remember one of our Classmates who was unable to leave his bunk once we hoisted anchor And when the annunciators were out, I remember giving orders to the engine room over the voice tube.

During our visit to Halifax, we met many pretty girls. As a result, several long-term relationships developed. We were also impressed by the historical sites, the extreme tides and especially the

very cold seawater tested by those who dared to dive in during our sailing trips.

The visit to the Worid's Fair in New York with its Trilon and Perisphere was most memorable. This was followed by navigating up the Hudson to West Point where we enjoyed the hospitality of the cadets and their lovely drags. Thus, Flirtation Walk as well as their beautiful campus became realities for us.

A few other notable highlights were selecting our Class crest, receiving our Classrings,and holding ourfirstsword drill.

I remember that before Second Class Year we used to congregate after "Taps" in the rooms facing Smoke Park to hear the music for the Second Class dances in Memorial Hall. Then, in our third year we had the opportunity to experience those dances ourselves, culminating in our Ring Dance where many of us made our vows to the girls who later became our mates two years after graduation. What a wonderful Second Class Year!

What is the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway.)

Today we moum the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense.

Common Sense lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one knows how old he was since his birth records were lost long ago in bureaucratic redtape.

He selflessly devoted his life to service in schools, hospitals, homes, factories, and offices, helping folks get jobs done without fanfare or foolishness. For decades, petty mles, silly laws, and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense.

He was credited with cultivating such valued lessons as to know when to come in out of the rain, the early bird gets the worm, and life is not always fair.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you eam), reliable parenting strategies (the adults are in charge, not the kids), and it's okay to come in second.

A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Technological Revolution, Common Sense survived cultural and educational trends including feminism, body piercing, whole language, and "new math."

But his health declined when he became infected with the "if-it-only-helps-one-person-it's-worth-it" vims. In recent decades his waning stiength proved to be no match for the ravages of overpowering federal regulation. He watched in pain as good people found themselves mled by self-seeking lawyers and comer-cutting auditors.

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teen-ager suspended for taking a swig of mouthwash to rinse after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student.

It declined even further when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student, but cannot inform a parent when a female student is pregnant or wants an abortion.

Finally, Common Sense lost his will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, criminals received better treatment than victims, and judges stuck their noses into evetything from boy scouts to professional sports.

As the end neared. Common Sense drifted in and out of logic while being kept informed about questionable regulations regarding asbestos, low flow toilets, "smart guns," prohibitory laws, and mandatory airbags. Finally, when told that the homeowners association restricted outdoor furniture only to that which enhanced property values, Common Sense breathed his last.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents Tmth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason.

He is survived by three stepbrothers: Rights, Equality, and Whiner Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

The man who fell into an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.

This month we have four pictures that are carryovers from the May luncheon and six that were taken in Castine. The one of Cliff Bundy shows the severe eye bmise he suffered when he tripped and fell during his plane change in Boston. Typical of Cliff, he did not let this accident interfere with enjoyment of his visit to Castine.

A hard boiled egg is iiard to beat.

Here is a message from Bill Carpenter: I still have six men's '40 watches. They have fresh batteries, and at the same old price of $15.1 am out of ladies' watches now, but if there are those who would like to have a ladys watch, just let me know and I'll order a few more. These make excellent inexpensive gifts for young teenagers.

One little atom going down an electric line said to another atom, "Are you all right?" The second atom says, "No, I have lost an electron." The first atom says, "Are you sure?" The second atom says, "I'm positive."

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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 Malcolm Wolfe wrote me about his grandson, Sean Wolfe '03. Malcolm wrote the following: Sean recently won The Steuben Society of America Award for the best essay in German by a Midshipman who is not a native speaker of the language. The award was an engraved sword in its case, which Sean is proudly holding with his father, the Honorable Jeff Wolfe of Tulsa, OK. Sean is presently furthering his language study by a tour this summer with the German Navy. On completion he will retum to complete his month-long, summer assignment with HC-3 at NAS North Island, Coronado, CA. Sean plans to request flight training following graduation and, of course, Elaine and I will be very pleased to have our grandson near us this summer. I have been unable to attend few of the Class meetings in San Diego because we stay in the desert for about eight months out of the year.

Sean and Jeff Wolfe with Steuben sword

Thanks, Malcolm, for your good letter and congratulations to Sean and Jeff.

Sidonia and Bill McReynolds' lovely daughter, Courtney, was married to Peter Wucetich II in San Juan Capistrano, CA, in June. Both are studying law. Peter is at Vanderbilt and graduates next year. Courtney completed her first year at Washington University at St. Louis but will do her last two years at the University of San Diego where Peter hopes to join a law firm when he graduates. Congratulations to everybody.

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"41: Sidonia and Bill McReynolds with newly weds Courtney and Peter Wucetich II

When Jane Price retumed home after Frank Price's committal service in Annapolis, she sent me such a nice note that I want to share it with you: My family and I were so gratified to see so many of Frank's Classmates at his committal service on 29 July at the USNA Columbarium on such a torrid day; he would have been pleased. We also want to thank the Class for the beautiful spray of red roses and white carnations in firont of his niche. I am comforted in knowing that someday we will be together again in that lovely location overlooking the water and the Academy.

Our grandchildren had never been to Annapolis so it was a joy to show them around and share my memories of June Week 1940 as a drag, as well as our years when Frank was at PG School. They were impressed!

The response of Classmates and other friends of long standing has been most warming to me, and Dick Foster, in making all the hotel arrangements for our family, as well as sending maps and detailed instmctions, made life much easier for us. The Class of '41 and their wives have always been very special to Frank and me, and I hope to attend as many reunions as possible in the future.

Frank and I were blessed with over 58 wonderful years together, two great children, and grandchildren, so I have much to be thankful for and many happy memories to cherish.

Thank you, Jane, for your good note and please do not wait for reunions to stay in touch with the Class—any time will do!

Helen and Bums Spore vacationed last summer on the Outer Banks with their children and grandchildren and had great fun.

They asked me to pass on their best wishes to all Classmates. At home in Virginia Beach, the Congers are the closest in the Class. Paris is one of my favorite cities. I was first there when I was five years old

and leamed to speak French. Then came Youngster Cmise, the year before the war, and we stayed at Hotel Lutetia. This summer I did something I have wanted to do for a long time. I rented a four-bedroom apartment on Boulevard du Montpamasse, walking distance down from Hotel Lutetia—where I stopped in for a breakfast omelet. It was a wonderful experience and I had a lot of fun.

I had my whole family there for two weeks and others kept the place full. Jack Kane '42, who has been a friend since we were little boys, came for a week over Bastille Day and that produced a special experience.

We had hoped to get seats to watch the big parade that comes down the Champs Elysees but could not. That was a good break because traffic to and from seats was terrible so we watched it on TV and every French station stayed on it completely. I cannot remember seeing any commercials!

For the two of us the biggest hit of the parade was watching the West Point cadets leading the whole parade and they really looked good. They were given this honor because 2002 is the 200th anniversary of the founding of West Point and of St. Cyr, which is the French equivalent. A little later in the parade a New York Fire Department pumper was included because the French had invited 300 New York firemen to attend and they brought a pumper along with them. Even the air part of the parade came out well on TV, but I had the good fortune of being downtown the day the air show was rehearsed and I happened to see it.

When the parade was over, the mechanized and armored units spread out on various routes to get out of Paris promptly and one of the routes was right outside our windows, which added to our enjoyment. All in all, it was one helluva parade—the best I have ever seen, except on Worden Field, of course. The rest of the time, the food and 67

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wine in France are still about the best in the world. Although my French is no longer what it was when I was a little boy, it was good enough for this tiip.

Now those October birthdays: Bartlett, Don Carr, Fleming, Gray, Murphy, Schoenbaum, Vail, and Vincent. I won't tell you what the flowers are because I never heard of them and you probably won't be able to find them. Signifying hope, however, are Opals and Tourmalines and I suspect that you eight Classmates will just have to keep "hoping."

Only two roster changes this month and one is a correction: Pug Pugin (wnpuginjr@aol.com), 5200 Habersham Street— #222, Savannah, GA 31405-5342; and Rosalie P. Daubin—correct zip code is 34691-1169.

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Annual Membership: 27% Life Membership: 57%

Pres: CAPT James D. Small, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CDR R.S. Day, USN (Ret) 2426 Chestnut St., Falls Church, VA 22043-3052 When we celebrated the bonds of matrimony post-1 April 1942, those who married prior to that date were deliberately not identified and the marriages after 31 July were not counted. That precluded one of the more unusual marriages in our Class history—a "proxy" marriage. On 11 November 1942, Ruth and Dick Opp were joined in holy matrimony while Dick was stationed in Samoa and Ruth was in Elkton, MD. Dick had been there with JT Hill and Hal Harwood since completing their Marine Corps training after graduation. As prospects for getting stateside were most hkely for months to come, the idea of a proxy ceremony became more atttactive.

However, it was far from easy to satisfy all the legal requirements and the ceremony was on hold for months. Finally, Ruth made her way to Elkton with her Duke roommate, Rebecca Constable, as maid of honor, and the latter's father, Judge Constable, who was to perform the ceremony. There they were joined by Dick's father, who stood in for his son. Unfortunately, neither JT nor Hal can remember who was Dick's best man, although there is a presumption that it was a Navy chaplain. In any event, the ceremony went smoothly and Ruth took off immediately for the West Coast in order to be as near to Dick as possible. If anyone cares to top this story (or add any details) feel free to write.

Among a number of email messages commenting on Jerry MiUer's initial draft of his well crafted '42 at Sixty, Ab Abernathy wrote from his Louisville home to add his voice of appreciation. He and Sue are reasonably well and she has fully recovered from the bug, which prevented their participation in the 60th. They are busy with their increasing family, his woodworking, Sue's rose garden, volunteer work and singing groups. With more than 60 rose bushes to guard from the onslaught of many rabbits, she has her hands full. Even a low fence was of little value. There are no Classmates in the area, and although the local Alumni Chapter is quite active, it numbers mostly younger grads, as the members of the Classes of '41 to '45 have become unable to attend many of the group functions. A series of fotos of their house and gardens were most impressive.

Max Duncan is standing by with a contract with the Sheraton Barcelo, the site of our 60th reunion, for the 65th in 2006. We will have five singles and five doubles for Wednesday and 15 singles and 30 doubles for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It's a

beginning and in time a schedule will be worked out and the various events filled in.

As we progress, you will be kept fully advised and have an opportunity to let us know your desires. This will be a laid-back, low-key gathering with plenty of time to sit and reminisce. The choice of dates is the opening game with TCU on 9 September, Homecoming in mid-October, and the Pitt game in early November I recently received a copy of the list of the 750 members of the Class with their entiy dates and place of admission. Am not sure to what purpose this might be applied, but I had forgotten the date I was sworn in, so I now know that. If you have a question, let me know.

Fred Harris '57, Class secretary, picked up a copy of the Ft. Myers, FL, News-Press of 3 June in his travels, which he shared with me as it featured Bill Dozier in an article on the Midway celebration. Bill was shown holding a photo of himself and three Classmates (unidentified) in 1942 and was quoted on the importance of saving Midway and making it a haven for our submarines by placing them 1,000 miles and four days closer to Japan. This is the same quote Duke Harwood had picked up earher in a Baton Rouge newspaper Gene Farrell has authored a piece he titled An Unsung '42 Hero, which we share here: Once upon a time several years ago, I visited Dick "Tiger" O'Brien at his Denver, CO, home. We were enjoying our camaraderie over a beer when I noticed a pair of artifacts hanging on the wall of Dick's smdy. One was a large slightly rusty sheath knife like the kind many of us carried in the Pacific Fleet during Worid War E. The other was a .45 caliber pistol, which was standard equipment wom by many officers during general quarters on board their ships. I asked Dick what was the significance of the two items. His response was a fascinating tale, which ought to be recorded in the annals of wartime experiences of our Classmates. It began 4 June 1942 with the Battle of Midway.

Dick's ship, YORKTOWN, was mortally wounded during the furious action of that historic victory over Vice Admiral Nagumo's UN Carrier Suike Fleet. When the order to abandon ship was given, Dick and a Marine sergeant left their battle station and made their way together along the inclined flight deck toward their assigned abandon ship stations. Hearing a plaintive call for help they investigated and found an injured sailor, one of whose legs was impaled by the twisted grids of the deck grating, which a bomb explosion had distorted. Dick gave the man a shot of morphine from his first aid kit, and ordered the sergeant to stand by the sailor while he went for a tool to sever the grid and free the man. He remembered where the nearest repair locker was located and reasoned that it might contain a bolt Siiipmate, October 2002

cutter or hacksaw. Luckily, he found the latter and sawed the man loose. About that time, another sailor approached Dick and said, "Mr. O'Brien, I don' t have a lifejacket and I can't swim!" Dick took off his lifejacket and gave it to the man.

"That was magnanimous of you," I said. "Not at all," replied Dick. "I knew where there were several stored in a locker, and I went and got one for myself an a extra one for the wounded sailor" He also found a line to lower the man from the deck to the water's edge, and instructed the sergeant, a big burly man, to do the lowering while Dick went over the side and commandeered a large plank of flotsam to support the sailor Once in the water, Dick discovered that the tie-ties of his lifejacket were rotten. To hold the jacket on, he was forced to clamp his elbows to his sides while he and the sergeant straggled to maneuver the "raft" away from the sinking ship. Finally, he gave up on the lifejacket and discarded it only to find that his buoyancy, reduced by the weight of the pistol and knife, was less than zero. He contemplated jettisoning both, but an inner voice told him not to do so.

Clear of the sinking carrier, Dick expected to be rescued by the escorting destroyer which was recovering survivors. He had her in sight about a thousand yards away. Suddenly he saw two black puffs of smoke empt from her twin stacks, which told him their intended rescue ship was about to take off for parts unknown. Dick unholstered the soggy pistol and pulled the trigger seven times.

By the grace of God, three of the seven wet cartridges fired and were heard on the destroyer, which tumed toward them and hauled them aboard. On deck, Dick handed the pistol to a gunner's mate saying, "This old piece saved my life. Take it to the armory, clean it up and give it back to me when I leave your ship."

Dick was never commended for what he did that fateful day in June of 1942. In the after-battle confusion of a lost ship's administrative order, it was probably not even mentioned in his fitness report, if indeed one was ever submitted. And very few, if any, of Dick's Classmates know about it. But we all know from his fighting record in the intercollegiate boxing rings, and the two Silver Stars he was subsequently awarded as division commander of PT boats in the Mediterranean that Richard Hamilton O'Brien is made of the right stuff.

Our thanks to Gene for providing this remarkable account and add our congratulations for Dick's unselfish bravery.

As a follow-up to Marion Livingston's saga of introducing her ten-year-old grandson to the Navy, she called again from her Columbus, OH, home as I was preparing this column to report on their very successful visit to Norfolk. Bill Vose was not going Siiipmate, October 2002

to be in the area when she planned to visit so he enlisted Ted Balis to do the honors, and Ted really came through. They started with lunch at the Breezy Point O'Club, toured the base, visited a ship, while Marion marveled at the changes made on the base in the years since she and Bud had been there. She was amazed to find herself back on the base the following day without encountering any difficulty with security.

As they finally wound up their visit, they were delighted to see the carrier TRUMAN inbound, which impressed her grandson, as previously there were no carriers in port, and this put a fine cap on their excursion.

When they parted for the last time, Ted told the young lad that he would gladly sponsor him when he was ready to apply for the Academy. Impressed? You bet!

Swabbo Rawson made a second Tiger Cruise from Baltimore to Mayport in late June on board GETTYSBURG. His grandson and host, ENS Geoffry Bent '01, is assistant communications officer and Public Affairs Officer, in GETTYSBURG. They were accompanied by a second grandson, Casey Rawson (10). Like Marion's grandson, Casey, was equally impressed by the Navy and announced as they steamed by the Naval Academy, "I really want to be in the Class of 2014!"

CAPT Gordon Peterson '68, Class columnist and senior editor of Sea Power magazine, had the good fortune to cover a ceremony at Lockheed Martin's facility in Moorestown, NJ, recently in which Charles Momsen and his sister, Evelyn Momsen Hailey, participated. The ceremony marked the company's delivery of the 75th Aegis Weapons System to the Navy. It is destined for installation on the guidedmissile destroyer MOMSEN, named for the legendary VADM Charles B. "Swede" Momsen '20. See Gordon's column in this issue for additional details. I'm pleased to share his photo of Charles and Evelyn with her grandson. Fire Control Technician Third Class Andrew William Haileyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a plank owner on DDG-92 who enlisted in the Navy specifically to serve on MOMSEN. Swede Momsen would be proud indeed to know that his great-grandson will take his namesake ship to sea to perpetuate the Momsen legacy well into the 21st century!

CAPT Charles B. Momsen Jr, Mrs. Evelyn Momsen Hailey, daughter of VADM Charles B. "Swede" Momsen, and Fire Control Technician Third Class Andrew William Hailey at Lockheed Martin's Moorestown, NJ, facility following the company's delivery of the Aegis Weapons System slated for installation on MOMSEN (DDG-92)

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Annual Membership: 46% Life Membership: 54%

Pres: CAPT E. A. Robie, USN (Ret.) 2111 River Crescent Drive, Annapohs, MD 21401 h: 410-224-0850; e: edrobie@aol.com Sec'y: CAPT Leslie R. Heselton Jr., USN (Ret.) 212 Meadow Gate Dn, Annapohs, MD 21401 h: 410-757-4570

Forward Our 60th reunion has been over for a few months but has not been forgotten. I keep getting photos from various people and comments regarding the great times that were had. I will insert a few of the photos and will also include some in future editions. The accolades received from the various dignitaries were given to the Naval Academy and are now deposited in the Naval Academy archives for posterity. As I stated in my initial column: the column is only as good as the material submitted. If I do not get inputs from the Class I will have to use my own imagination and think of how bad that would be!

The Wakes of Forty Three

by Jack O'Brien Salted Warriors of the sea.

Navy Nineteen Forty-Three.

From Annapolis, our port of birth.

Stream the wakes. They gird the earth.

Tinged gold and blue, they track the wars.

And show three thousand battle stars.

In Korea, off Valley Forge, lies Herb Baslee, Near Savo Isle, Diirck, Nock and Mulvanity, And the wakes yet wash o'er many others Of this greatest band of brothers.

Long blue water wakes, they're our legacy.

Yes, the sea is in our blood, and our blood is in the sea.

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akeady happened. Don't be too sure. Dan Karcher felt so bad at a poker game one night, even though he was winning, that he had to stop and go home. Things got worse and at 3 a.m. he finally checked with the duty nurse at his wellness center who thought he had an attack of appendicitis! At 82, Dan toughed it out until the next day and saw the doctor about noon. After a battery of tests he was sent to the hospital and after more tests he was finally in surgery around 8 p.m. and had his appendix removed by 8:30 p.m. By noon Dan was back in his apartment recuperating.

Twenty-six hours from the trip to the doctor to home. Not unusual these days. The doctor said that old folks often have appendicitis, so if any of you feel strangely uncomfortable, don't mle out the possibihty but check with a doctor At Falcons Landing, where Dan hves hardly a day goes by without an emergency trip to die hospital.

A Sentimental journey For years Mary McConnell had been hearing about the tent city in Noumea, New Caledonia, where Bob McConnell and many others had been taken to await reassignment after surviving the sinking of HORNET on 25 October '42. VvTiile tiiere Bob was so happy to be alive that he deposited a $20 bill in a chapel on the island. Two years ago Bob and Mary booked a cmise with a port stop at Noumea where Bob promised to show Mary the hallowed place. Unfortunately, the Mayo Clinic said the cmise was out of the question and Mary thought diat she would never get there.

However, last Febmary Mary found that the Radisson SEVEN SEAS NAVIGATOR was going from Los Angeles to Hong Kong with a stop at Noumea. Mary booked passage on the seven-week cmise and finally fulfilled a long awaited pilgrimage. The ship only stopped at Noumea for nine hours, but Mary says it was all worth while.

Jerry Colleran John Shepherd located Betty and Jerry Colleran at "Renaissance Gardens," the assisted living portion of Green Spring Village located on Route 7100, the Fairfax Parkway, fairly close to Fort BelvoLr. Jerry sounded rather upbeat despite over a year's very tough medical problems for both him and Betty. He was happy to report that Betty is improving somewhat, but that he is still in a wheelchair due to repercussion from his long battie with foot infections which kept him immobilized and caused his knee tendons to "freeze." The physical therapists are working hard to loosen them up.

The real tough part was that both Jerry and Betty went down at the same time last year!

Visitors? Absolutely says Jerry, but please call first at 703-866-1472 and calls are always welcome.

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'43: The farewell brunch

Belated News Although carried on the Class roster and still listed in the Alumni Association records, I recently was informed by her son, Tom, that Helen Woodward, the widow of Lynn Francis Woodward who died on 8 May 1989, had died back in January 1993.

Death of a Classmate Ralph A. Brenizer, who was a member of our Class until he resigned on 7 Febmary 1941, died on 11 July 2002 at Manor Care, Prairie Village, KS. After leaving the Naval Academy, Ralph graduated from Temple

University and had a long and successful career as a business executive with Dun and Bradstteet. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; a son, John; a daughter, Janis, and four grandchildren.

CONQRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S

Siiipmate, October 2002

Living it up President's Comments I should like to take this opportunity to acknowledge receipt of all the complimentary letters, telephone calls, emails, etc. that I have received regarding our 60th reunion.

All the accolades and plaudits were well eamed by our wonderful dedicated team approach chaired by Fred Fearnow. Many thanks to all of you who attended because it was your attendance and participation that made us all feel "Proud to be '43." Please start planning to come back to Annapolis to celebrate our 65th!

Proud to be '43

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'44: L to r: Jack Godfrey, Randy and Margie King, and George Peery at 2001 football tailgate

Lynn and Rojo Adamson and Dart Irwin at the 2001 Homecoming

Annual Membership: 30% Life Membership: 51%

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@earthlink.net A few addenda to "Murphy's Law." 1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

3.Y0U have the right to remain silent ...Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

4. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

5.1 just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

6. Backup my hard drive. How do I put it in reverse?

Stan Henderson tailgating in 2001 Shipmate, October 2002

Jane and Moose Schnurr In cleaning out some files George Peery found some pictures taken at last year's Homeconung tailgate party. Here they are: Stan Henderson, Lyn and Roho Adamson, with Dart Irwin, Jane and Moose Schnurr, (our famous president), and Jack Godfrey, Randy King, (with his arm around Margie,) and George Peery himself. Looks like everyone was having a rollicking time. Go Navy!

A recent email from Willie Budd said: My oxygen requirement (because of COPD) precludes traveling North, so regretfully, Betty and I won't make the 60th...The USNA Alumni Foundation's recent publication of donations by level, amount, and name disturbs me.

Classmates who can support the expanding Alumni Association fund raising efforts don't need publicity. I do, however note that our Class has contributed to the memory of deceased Classmatesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; with this I concur.

He signs off with, "Beat Army." I tend to agree with him. Does anyone else agree with us? I think the Foundation would achieve the same results if they would total the amount donated by each Class and then

list just the contributors names below the total. That would take some of the sting out of it. Anyone got other suggestions?

Gene Gralla '46 (BEVANDGENE @aol.com or 561-392-0580) has a copy of the Class of '44 Lucky Bag that he would make available to anyone in the Class who would like to have it.

An email from Mary Gibson Smith, Bill Gibson's (williamgibson@erols.com) daughter said: A faithful luncheon attendee for many years, my father. Bill Gibson, is unable to join you at your monthly gatherings due to rapidly failing health. I would greatly appreciate you sharing his condition with his Classmates and encouraging them to give him a call, drop him a line, or visit him at: Bill and Libby Gibson, RO. Box 187, 507 Wood View Road, Chatham, PA 19318; 610-268-8257.1 know that he will welcome hearing from you. Thanks so much.

Thank you, Mary, for the word on your dad. We have missed him and I know several of us will contact or visit him. For that matter, by the time this gets in print, I know that Joyce and Joe Jennings will have already visited with him.

Bill Budd emailed another bit of news.

He says: CDR John Moore, USN (Ret.), was an experimental test pilot at North American Columbus while I worked there in the 1960's. I knew him only slightly, but he was well known for his skill and his humor. He died last month (June) in Cocoa Beach, FL. I finally obtained, and read his autobiographical book The Wrong Stuff, published by Specialty Press, North Branch, MN. He got his Wings via the AvCad program in December 1945 and flew in our time, getting to Test Pilot School in '53.

Flew F9F-5s from ESSEX and VALLEY FORGE off Korea.

I think you would enjoy John's book. If you concur, pass this to living Classmates who flew jets off Korea '51-'53. I'm mailing to Mho Henderson.

The state of Califomia is searching for any relative of Donald H. Kelton who died in 1993. These officials are trying to settle his estate. All that I have been able to find 71

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'44: L to r: Bob Long. Jack Godfrey, Joe Jennings, Hank Gorman, and Randy King at the Gorman s home in Ginger Cove, 20 June2002

out so far is that he roomed alone first Class year and during Plebe Year he changed his name to Kelton from Gustafson. If anyone has any info about him, please let me know.

A relative's name would be most helpful.

John Driscoll was one of the first to notice the Msting of Charles S. Ely in the "In Memoriam" section of the July issue of TROA magazine. He was ill and living at the Veterans Administiation Hospital, Togas, ME, when he died. The Alumni Association has tried and I have called the hospital twice requesting that they ask the next of kin to call me. I have no more info than this. If anyone can tell me the name of any of his relatives I would appreciate the info.

On 13 July 2002, Peter L. Havenstein succumbed to cancer at his home in Bethesda, MD. Memorial services will be held at tiie Old Chapel, Ft. Myer, VA, on 22 August 2002, followed by intemment with full military honors, Arlington National Cemetery. Please see "Last Call."

On 23 July 2002, Wynn V. Whidden made his last take-off from his home in Virginia Beach, VA. A memorial service was held on 26 July at Galilee Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach, VA. A chapel service will also be held at the Old Chapel, Ft. Myer, VA, on 28 August 2002. This will be followed by intemment with full military honors, at Arlington National Cemetery.

Please see "Last Call." Windy's death has hit me hard. Windy was my savior in that he saved me from an assignment which I disliked immensely and arranged a set of orders to the desk next to his on AirLant staff. Here he taught me how to write concisely and convincingly which stood by me the rest of my Navy career Windy was a real friend, a confidante, an outstanding and dedicated naval officer and your Class secretary for over 25 years. He will be missed terribly by me and I'm sure by many more, especially Melissa, his four daughters, and his hundreds of friends, but he will never be forgotten. He will be remembered in our prayers as will his family.

Hank Gorman sent me a photo that was taken in Joe Jennings' living room at Ginger Cove in Annapolis on 20 June. This could be the last picture taken of Bob Long. Other than Bob, Joe, and Hank, in the photo are. Jack Godfrey and Randy King. As most of the Class now knows, Bob died at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, on 27 June 2002.

His death was the result of a deflated lung caused by a fractured rib. A memorial service was held in the Naval Academy Chapel on 11 July, followed by his burial in the Naval Academy Cemetery. The family asks that charitable contributions may be made in Bob's memory to the Dolphin Scholarship Foundation, 5040 Virginia Beach Boulevard, Suite 104-A, Virginia Beach, VA 23462. This Foundation provides a college scholarship program for children of submariners.

We have lost great men this month and they will be nndssed terribly. Our thoughts are with them and with their spouses and children. May they rest in peace! — wlb

Annual Membership: 26% Life Membership: 53%

Pres: CAPT Fred J. Kelly, USN (Ret) 532 Fort Williams Parkway, Alexandria, VA 22304-1851 Con. Sec'y: Maj Albert W. Blackbum, USMCR (Re 1300 Woodside Dr., McLean, VA 22102-1529 h: 703-734-3843; e: nimbus3@aol.com Our Class seems to have taken a new lease on Ufe. No funerals in July. I took a hard look at the new Class of '45 database prepared for me by the good people at Alumni House. Of the Classmates sworn in as Midshipmen in June-July of 1941—the Alumni Register tells me there were 1,036 of us—the latest count says 518 remain.

Half—exactly half—are still in the survivors column. (I was going to say "still very much alive," but at least in my case, that's a bit of an exaggeration.)

In closing out this, my first monthly column for Shipmate, I can confidently confess it's been an interesting experience. The inputs from fellow '45ers have been meager indeed. Easy lesson: next year accumulate lotsa stuff in April, May, and June.

Come July, August, and September, the smart folks will have skipped town. Indeed, it's a good idea to be ever on the lookout for inputs from Classmates. Okay guys (and dolls as well) my email address is mmbus3@aol.com and, as Bill O'Reilly says, keep them "short and pithy." Tales should be about our Classmates and have the ring of tmth. Be patient, by Christmas I'll have the hang of it.

Meanwhile, Donna and I are heading for England to visit our daughter, Susan.

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'45: Joe and Phyl Schroeder entertain Annapolis friends, Jarrod Marsh '86 and his bride, at the Schroeder's new home in Laguna Woods, CA 72

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Paul Nuschke and Hub Da\ idson at one of last season's pre-game rallies at .Annapolis

Jeanne joined me for hiking in Glacier National Park (no close bear encounters).

I am finding the downhill, even with trekking sticks, is tougher than uphill.

Spent February in New Zealand, both North and South Islands. Jeanne took her first helicopter ride to the top of a glacierâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Palm Ferns to snowball throwing.

After observing the bungee jump and being offered an "age related baigain," I decided to test myself. The key medical question concemed having "tight skin" on my ankles. It was a major adrenalin rash.

The oscillations after the dive were actually fun. (Call that relief.) Jeanne would not attend.

I don't know about you, but I got vicarious tiirill typing this account.

May and we toasted our 57th Anniversary on 6 June.

I checked and confirmed that Mac qualified for that octogenarian affair He turned 80 last May which makes his bungee jump quite remarkable, or would you call it something else?

Clete received a nice card from Frede Froelich (9) thanking him for some photos from a recent gathering. He's recovering from a recent surgery. 'Tt's slow and tough, but positive." He hopes to come to a luncheonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but not yet.

Tmy Atkinson with his spouse, Anna, at last year's Army-Navy event at San Diego

Sam Gorsline and his partner. Ann. also tumed out for the Army-Navy celebration at the San Diego club

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Wendell in the early stages of his jump. But, I got dizzy concentrating on the picture Annual Membership: 26% Life Membership: 5 1 %

Pres: VADM C. H. Griffiths, USN ( R e t ) e: griffc@bellatlantic.net Vice Pres.: CAPT J. W Foust, USN ( R e t ) e: jameswfoust@aol.com Treasurer: CAPT Wils F. Engel, USN (Ret.) 6807 Rosewood St., Annandale, VA 22003 h: 703-256-5832; e: wengel@bellatlantic.net Sec'y: Clete Kennelly 7911 Sleaford Place, Bethesda, M D 20814-4625 h: 301-654-7315 Con^. Sec'y: CAPT Ed Ellis, USN ( R e t ) 5229 Barstow St., San Diego, CA 92117-2202 h: 858-278-8665; f: 858-576-0979

The good news this month is about Wendell McHenry (11). He's done it again. What, you ask? Read the following: No mountain climbing this year but the spirit of '46 has inspired me to other activities. Tried the Middle Fork for the salmon in Idaho for a week in the wilderness. The rapids in the inflatable kayaks provide a thrill. On the wildlife side we had a friendly young black bear enjoying barberries at one of our camps.

Shipmate, October 2002

Mac's letter continued witii the followmg: On the home front I see Bill Searle (11) often, with admiration for the long fight he has waged against Parkinson's. Bill and I joined Mary and Marc Pitz (11) for lunch at their lovely home in horse country. Joined the octogenarian crowd on 15

Class President Chuck Griffiths (6). cutting into his 80th birthday cake on 15 March which happened to coincide with our Class' Greater Washington DC area luncheon.

The reproduction of the photo Shipmate won't show it, but the trim on the cake and the words: "Happy Birthday, Chuck" were in green; so were the shamrocks on each corner. (The latter gave me a strong indication that Clete obtained the cake.)

'46: Back row, 1 to r: Gordon Yeo, Art Paletti, Bill Simpson, Al Glennon, and Dick Scott; seated, I to r, Wils Engel and Sam Bassett

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June and Bill Simpson (4) recently hosted a party for a number of Fourth Company Classmates celebrating an East Coast visit

by Melba and Dick Scott, who were visiting from Pratt, KS. Attendees, besides the Scotts and Simpsons, were: Ella and Sam Bassett, Sally and Wils Engel, Al Glennon, Marge Lyon, widow of Harvey Lyon, Jean and Art Paletti, and Gordon Yeo. Reminiscences were exchanged, along with fond remembrances of the 4th Company mafia: Benedetti, lacobelli, Paletti, Del Vecchio, and Schifanelli and some debate as to whether Thomas, McKeand, McWhorter, and Ward constituted a Confederate mafia.

I deeply regret to report the "apparent death" of Walter Daniel "Waldo" Strang (2). The Naval Academy Foundation received a piece of retumed mail stating that CDR Strang was deceased. No details were specified.

Timothy Elizabeth Woodbury, the lady who handles obituaries at the Alumni Association, reported that she was unable to find an obituary online. She was able, however, to make a tentative Social Security Death Index match based on name, date of birth, last known zip code, and state of issue reporting a date of death as 27 Febmary 2002. According to limited information received from Ernie Lowen, the Second Company Representative.

Waldo's wife predeceased him by several years and, at present, there are no known direct survivors.

This situation is similar to that of George Hosey (7) who "apparently" died earlier this year. Unfortunately, Class records show a number of other Classmates who may face similar circumstances because we have very sparse information on them. If you think this applies to you, please send your biographical update to both Clete Kennelly (10) and me. In this regard, it would be worthwhile to refer to the 45th Class Register.

Albion "BiU" Walton (17) was laid to rest with full mdUtary honors at Arlington National Cemetery on 9 April 2002.

Attending were: John Devlin (17), Bob Disc (9), Denis Downey (18), Sally and Wils Engel (4), Jun Forrest (14), Chuck Griffiths (6), Chuck Hansmann (9), Clete Kennelly (10), Dave Leighton (18), Wendell McHenry (11), Dave Rogers (14), Wes Schmidt (3), and Bob Tisdale (17).

The next major event for the Class is the fifty-seventh and a half reunion/cruise (Memphis to New Orleans, 2-9 November).

It will feature surprise seating every night.

We'll draw stiaws to see who sits with whom. In this way we expect that every cruiser will sit with each of die other cmisers by die time tiiat we arrive m New Orleans.

But, before we embark in Memphis we'll experience a special voluntary add-on. We're going to have the msagMiiat fifty-seventh and a half reception and dinner in the Peabody Hotel. Here we'll be joined by Ed Cooke (5) who is helping me with tiiis part of our reunion, Mary and Bill Fuller (2) and, hopefully, otiier non-cruising Classmates. (Ed, Mary and Bill hve in the area and should be able to help steer Classmates through the mysteries of Memphis.)

The no-host reception will start at 6 p.m. and segue into dinner an hour later The menu will feature a choice between grilled salmon or seared chicken breast and costs $50 a person. It includes a salad, enttee, dessert, coffee or tea, and tip.

Request reservations with appropriate check payable to Ed Ellis, be sent to him at 5229 Barstow St., San Diego, CA 921172202, no later than Tuesday, 1 October Known as "The Grand Hotel of the South," the Peabody is the revered institution in this part of the world.. .the hotel, in the center of the downtown and business district, is within about one-half a mile of the pier where the river boats moor Within that same short distance in another direction, and an easy walk, is Beale Street (birthplace of the Memphis sound: the blues, sour, jazz, rock, and Elvis). At an earlier date in history, Beale Sfreet was quite an exotic address. A stioll round downtown Memphis on Friday night nught suit the tastes of many of you (the entertainment district is interesting, but more so after ten).

For those who don't want to walk, there are horse-drawn carriages, a ttolley which loops through the downtown area and, of course, taxis are always available. There are several good places for lunch; the Memphis barbecue at the Rendezvous is recommended.

(We don't have a block of rooms at the Peabody because we have no feel for the number and kind of rooms desired.

Furthermore, if rooms are not available, there are other hotels in the downtown area.)

Tours include: A bus tiip to Graceland, Elvis Presly's home. It takes about three hours and costs $25 per person; Another tour does the downtown circuit such as Beale Street, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, the Pyramid Arena etc; and, A separate tour goes to tiie Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King was killed. It is now the National Civil Rights Museum and costs $18 per person.

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The gambling casinos are south of Memphis and you'll have to arrange your own transportation to them.

Intrigued? I am. I didn't know what to expect in Memphis except for Graceland.

HopeftiUy, the foregoing will entice you.

Incidently, tentative plans for a post-reunion program in New Orleans have been cancelled.

We beheve that nearly everyone will be wom-out from the cmise.

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Pies: VADM John G. "Jake" Fumeran, 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 Relieve The Watch!

The 541 living members of the Class have spoken, and the election of the new Board and Officers of the USNA Class of 1947, Inc. is now complete. In accordance with the bylaws, the members of the new Board will take office on 1 January, 2003, for a five-year term, as follows: President, Jim Doyle; Vice President, "Nick" Nicholson; Secretary, Chet Shaddeau; Treasurer, Frank Readdy; Director at Large, Ted Davis; Director at Large, Jack Fisher; Director at Large: Bill Russell.

The cooperation of Classmates in the election process is deeply appreciated. '47â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Best on the Sevem!

For The Ages Your Board of Directors has voted to participate in the Class Crest Program in Alumni Hall, and action is underway to carry out our Class participation.

The plan is to display in Alumni Hall, the cast bronze Class Crests of every graduating Class for whom a crest exists. The crests will be installed in chronological order along the upper inboard border of the wall of the mezzanine, facing into the auditorium. Oiu- crest will be approximately 18" X 18", witii a relief depth of 2.5". It will be cast in naval bronze, using tiie lost-wax process, which gives extiemely accurate precision and definition to the design, and allows for jewel-bright highlights against the deep oxide patinas.

In addition, a centrally located display board will provide a general explanation, a history of the Class crest Q-adition, and acknowledgment of donors.

The cost for '47's effort was withdrawn from already-available Class funds, and no fund-raising need be undertaken within our Class. The charge to each Class has been calculated at an amount somewhat greater than the actual cost, thus providing a fund

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sufficient to cover die creation and installation of crests for those early Classes for whom no survivor or organization now exists to underwrite the effort.

It is planned that in the future, each new Class will participate in a ceremony during their time as Midshipmen, formally adding their crest to the display, and symbolically joining the long historical line.

We will keep you posted as things progress.

Final Honors We confinue to suffer the loss of Classmates and their loved ones...

We are advised that Edwin Boyd Robbins died on 14 July 2002, but have no further information available. And on 5 August 2002, James Hyde Forbes passed away at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. AfuU obituaty for him appears in "Last Call".

John Van Sickle advises us that Lila Jameson, the beloved wife of Classmate Jim Jameson, died on 20 July at San Diego; and Carol Doheny, the widow of Jack Doheny, was laid to rest by his side on 13 August at Arlington National Cemetery.

Finally, the ashes of Donald Lawrence Toohill, who passed away some time ago, were inumed in services at the USNA Columbarium on 2 August, in the presence of a large number of Classmates.

We join in mourning these losses from our number, and in wishing their famihes well.

On The Road Again Your secretary took off on a long-desired trip to visit Classmates and other friends in New England, and successfully arranged to get away from the stifling heat around Washington and AnnapoUs for a couple of weeks. Enroute to visit friends in Arundel, ME, near Kennebunkport, I checked in on Ken Volk in Portsmouth, NH, and on Jim "Bird" Dickson in Portland, ME. Both, unfortunately, were out of the house when I called as I was breezing through, (see Nancy Dickson's note and photo elsewhere). After a couple of days' surfeit of Kennebunk lobster, crossed over to visit with George Grove in Vermont, and he surprised me by inviting as a dinner guest a lady who had been in the Missionary School at Chefoo, China, when Dune Packer and I were there in 1934—though in a different school. The ferry trip across Lake Champlain from Burlington to New York was Uvened up when the battery in my car, parked at the front of the line, wouldn't kick over upon arrival in New York, eliciting numerous mde suggestions from the drivers behind me! The skipper very democratically descended from his wheelhouse and helped me push the car off the ship onto the landing. Repaired, I drove on and spent a couple of days with Shirley and Dick Beane at their private island on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence.

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'47: L to r: Son Bob, Classmate Jim Dickson, wife Nancy, and son Jay. at Quabbin Reservoir (unless we have identified the boys backwards, in which case —you figure it out

Absolutely great, as was the trip to visit Kingston, Ontario with them. Broke the southbound trip after that for one day with friends in Ithaca, and then for a stay at Gettysburg—great, but hot\ Arrived at Crabtown to find some 400 of your ballots in the mailbox, so I knew I was home! See photos nearby.

George Grove, the squire of South Ryegate, VT, poses by the mailbox of Chamberlin Farm

The St. Lawrence River spreads out behind (I to r ) Dick Beane and Chet Shaddeau, standing at the wharf of the Beane's Scobea Island

Bill Hosking writes from New Mexico: My ancient computer crashed in a big fashion, so I'm in the process of changing to a new, more sophisticated system.

Unfortunately, I'm spending a great deal of time getting used to all the new possibilities.

The past year was rather dull with the one exception that my oldest daughter and I went to Hawaii for the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor The best part was the first week we spent on Kauai. So many more people came than expected.

The survivors brought many of their relatives and friends; Japanese survivors came; and police and firemen from New York were also invited. In addition, Honolulu was having a marathon race, which attracted people from many places.

This being shortly after September 11th made airport security a nightmare! (They broke the knife blade and the nail file off my USNA money clip). Was kind of glad to get home. Only two of my shipmates from DALE showed up—one in a wheelchair.

Yours is the first email sent from my new computer It nught not at first appear that this belongs under the "On the Road" heading, but Joan-Marie and Stu Evans normally live in Florida now, so their retum to visit in DC, where they used to reside, seemed less like a visit than like a homecoming. They stayed at the home of Joan-Marie's parents, who very kindly took off for an afternoon so that "the children could party with their friends." That's where the pictures came from that you see nearby!

1956-2006 A link in t k Chain Dick Beane joins the select group of those displaying '47 vanity plates on their cars — how about you?

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Secy: CDR Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret) 11 Seastones Drive Portsmouth, RI 02871 401-846-2875; e: sk48moore@aol.cora

From the recent San Diego bash: (1 to r ) Jack Van Sickle. Frankie Krstich. and Georgie Van Sickle Hostess Joan-Marie Evans keeps the crowd fed, while (I to r) Frank Readdy and Jotm Urban settle the world's problems with an unidentified guest

The founders of the feast —Stu and Joan-Marie h\ ans

At the Evanses: (1 to r) Olga Urban, Bets Carnahan, and Frank Readdy

The Mail Buoy From Nancy and Jim Dickson in Portland, ME: Once again, Chet, we are sorry to have missed your call last week.. .1 am taking the opportunity to send on a photo of Jim's first travel since attending Bob's graduation from St. John's at Annapohs in May of 2000 at which time he had a stroke. God, family, and sheer determination combined to get him to Jay's graduation from Hampshire College this May. The picture...was taken at an overlook of the Quabbin Reservoir in westem Massachusetts.

You will note that Jim is the fittest one in the bunch; the boys had just pushed their Dad up to the overtook in his wheelchair, with me bringing up the rear —certain the trek would end in disaster. Check the smile on Jim's face and you'll know who had complete confidence that everything would tum out fine. It did. ...Jim remains an inspiration to all of us, and his doctors have taken to rolling their eyes as he defies the odds. Here's hoping he's still confounding the experts next time you are up our way. We promise a relaxing visit on the water Regards from us both. Nancy 76

Dick Beane emailed that he has always wanted to share this item with Helen Thomas, dean of the White House press corps: Back when Bill Crowe was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, CBS did a good story on his visit to the Soviet Navy.

At the same time, they were doing expose stories on the government's financial incompetence. He wanted a tape of Bill's visit, so he sent off a check to CBS. Weeks passed, and he finally received a reply: CBS had never heard of any Bill Crowe, and in the envelope was his original check, which had apparently been stuffed in a file cabinet and never deposited. "Oh," he muses, "what fun Helen Thomas or NBC could have had with that one!"

Quick Takes If you are looking for a good read, try Humble in Victory by Pete Booth '56—a novel of the Navy in 2010, including a superpower China, missing nukes, and a gender-equal Navy.

Worth your time...Betty and Bo Heininger write to update things: Their Pro Soccer star granddaughter Emily Janss will become and assistant soccer coach at U. of Arkansas, while continuing to play for the New York Power of the WUSA. Bo meanwhile has just organized another Squadron of ANA— Association of Naval Aviators—this one to meet at McDill AFB...Mo Muncie's widow Jeanne writes that she has shifted bases, and is now settled in Pensacola. She says she got a kick out of the June story on Jack Stephens. Jack was supposed to be Mo's best man at their wedding in Pine Bluff, but when he couldn't make it, the Hendrix/Arkansas mafia provided Chief Rainwater and Al Nimocks to do the honors... Fed up with pictures of your scribe and tales of his travels? It's the fault of you who didn't write in to tell me about yours, so we could use thatl We are preparing an excmciatingly detailed and thoroughly boring 4000 words describing the growth of our grass and geraniums, as well as the drying of the paint on the fence. We will have to use it if nobody sends in anything better! See you here next month. —CHS

As you read this, written in August, Navy will have played four of the scheduled twelve football games, a third of the season.

But, as I write, I am ignorant of chances, prospects, scorecards, etc. I have taken steps to get to Boston with the New London Alumni Chapter, which, in their bus, will scoop up a group from the Newport Chapter, and proceed to take in the Boston College game in mid-October We have been playing Boston College on alternate years, and the trip has been fun, if unrewarding. I suppose a winning season tiiis year would be one or more games.

This year's Homecoming, 28 September, from the point of view of planning, looks like it was outstanding. The Annapolis group, which, year after year, gets it organized and mns it, is congratulated again for great work. Dudley Holstein manages to get us into the Boat House, and Ben Reams keeps track of the "Who's Coming" and all the communications, but there are a lot of local Classmates and wives who make it work. I hereby give them a 4-N on behalf of the rest of us. Unfortunately, how it all came off will have to wait for a subsequent column.

Once again, I forward the obligatory nudge from the Class Endowment Committee to send in your contribution, even if you have already done so, in order to pop us over the top with the now less than $100K needed.

Last month's column covered the death of Greg Lang out in San Diego. I subsequentiy received the following note from Florence Lang to the Class: Thank you for your kind expression of sympathy at the death of Greg. Your thoughtfulness was a comfort to me at such a difficult time.

There continues to be a dearth of communication, except for departure notices, from and about Classmates. Hence this montii's column is a lightweight. However, a bright spot this month is provided by Bill Speer from Grand Prairie, TX, whose very name in the middle of summer starts the perspiration flowing. He and Catherine ttekked from Texas to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. They put 6,020 miles on the Avalon, arriving home for Bill's 78tii birthday, 2 July We drove to Cleveland for another reunion with the crews who had served in GEARING (DD-710). Believe it or not, several attendees had been in my department during our craises, circa '50-'51. If you haven't attended ship reunions you are Shipmate, October 2002

missing way too much deja vu. The reunions are invariably ran by ex-enlisted folks, who volunteer to solve the annual logistical challenges of contacting, entertaining, and supporting several hundred old sailors and their wives in fun environments. After the reunion, we continued driving northeast to Toronto and Quebec City; boarded the St. John, New Branswick, auto ferry to Digby, Nova Scotia, and motored through Halifax to Inverness, Cape Breton Island. We rented a cabin on the southem coast of the gulf of St. Lawrence and marveled at the land and sea sights there for another ten days.

Got our fill of lobsters (picked 'em off the boat) and had them prepared at a small nearby restaurant. Salad, drinks, two lobsters each, and dessert with time to witness another glorious sunset as the Gulf waters swallowed the sim at 9:15 p.m.

Had two real highlights on the return to Dallas. First was sailing the CAT (catamaran auto ferry) from Yarmouth , Nova Scotia, to Bar Harbor. It's a 100-mile trip accomplished in two hours and forty-five minutes at speeds exceeding 40 knots.

(Even at flank speed. GEARING would have been left in the CAT's wake.) The CAT accommodates 900 passengers in first class comfort, plus 250 autos. As we boarded in Yarmouth, we noted that the vehicle deck rivaled the hangar deck of a CVL. We drove aboard at the stem and hung a 180 at the bow so that we faced the stem again, ready for debarkation. Pretty neat!

The second highlight involved meeting John Vinsel, my roommate for three years in the 13th Company. He has built a house in New Hampshire in a little town you couldn't find even if you had GPS in the car. Had seen him just once since '48 (at the 50th) and was pleased to confirm that he has tumed out okay. John and his wife live on a hill and can spot Boston through binocs on a clear day. He became a history professor post Navy and has excellent perspectives on U.S. and world histories.

That trip for the Speers was so good that they plan to visit Cape Breton Island again next year after the 55th.

The July-August column contained a note about Paul Keenan being down with a serious bout of pneumonia which had him hospitalized for a mm, followed by recuperation in a nursing faciUty. I spoke with Diana a week ago and she reports tiiat Paul is home and mending nicely, although still weak. That's good news for which we all cheer The Alumni Association reports that some retumed mail contained the information tiiat John Floyd White Jr., has passed away, date and place unknown. He was Seventh Company. The '99 Register of Alumni showed him at a New Jersey veterans hospital.

You may have picked up in the JulyAugust "Last Call" that John L. Everngam died on 4 June, 54 years after graduation, at home in Denton, MD, on the Eastem Shore, his hometown, from which he emerged to Shipmate, October 2002

join us at Navy. As a good Marylander he excelled in soccer and lacrosse, starring in both. "Jack" and I were wives Second and First Class Years, 20th Company, joining with Willie Ayers and Jim Crosby First Class Year. Back in the mid-fifties we both commanded minesweepers on the East Coast, he was in NIGHTINGALE and I was in

Otherwise, we never crossed career paths. We did a lot of dragging and pitched some pretty cool liberties. I phoned Jack's wife, Rhea, in Denton where they settied when he retired after 30 years. He was avidly involved in local county civic matters and served on the board of the Caroline Nursing Home in Denton. They have two daughters living in the vicinity and five grandchildren. Jack had an operation on his back around Christmas time, which led to a hip involvement with cancer, from which he did not recover I know all hands, especially 20th Company, join me in expressing our sincere sympathy to Rhea and the family. Rhea can be reached at 24907 Woods Drive, Denton, MD 21629.

GROUSE.

It seems that trips to Russia and Eastem Europe are in. Dave Marder reports from Punta Gorda, FL: My wife and I just retumed from a most interesting craise in the Baltic, visiting Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Tallinn (Estonia), and Copenhagen. One of the most memorable aspects was the visit to St. Petersburg, seeing first-hand the contrast between the grandeur of the Hermitage and the drabness of the city itself. This is the only city in Russia I have ever been in, but if it is representative, one must conclude that Russia is indeed a third world country. While in St. Petersburg, we witnessed part of the celebration of the Russian Navy Day. There was but one Russian navy ship on the Neva River, an old destroyer, which serves as a training vessel. I was told the bulk of the Northem Fleet was based some 100 km north of St. Petersburg.

Enclosed is a photo I took of a massive hanging which covered a good portion of one four-story Hermitage wall, taken from an inner courtyard. I was told the hanging celebrates the Russian Navy. I wish I knew some Russian so I could interpret. Perhaps a Classmate can help me on this.

From Gainesville, FL, Hart Stringfellow relates some more sad news.

It is my sad duty to report the death of my old roommate and Classmate, Jim Mickle, on 4 July 2002. Jim was tumed back from '47 and ended up in '48B, adding two years to what he bargained for when entering. He hung in there pretty well until the end of Second Class Yeai; but resigned at that time to rettjm home and marry his childhood sweetheart, Sara Hebson, with whom he had three children. Sarah died about 20 years ago, and Jim married once more before marrying his present widow, Kaye, a wondeiful lady and close friend. Teen and I remained close to Jim throughout the years, visiting back and forth and following his Army career with interest. He got involved with the Alabama National Guard and went all the way to the top, retiring with two stars and the senior job in the state. He was also active in USNA Alumni activities in Birmingham, and a successful businessman. Jim and I go back to the days in 1942 when we attended Marion Military Institute where he was prepping for Annapolis and I was prepping for West Point. Imagine the odds of his having an Army career, and, as you may recall, I resigned a commission in the Army Combat Engineers to become a Plebe and have a career in the Navy. I'll miss him; he was a prince of a friend.

Regarding the Stringfellows, Teen and I are healthy and leading arichand fulfilling life of community and church activities. I still play golf, take an active part in University of Florida alumni activities (I am the past president), Kiwanis, and have become an avid student of economics. We are signed up to attend the 55th. See you there!

This has been rather a short column, and future efforts will improve as you send me summer fotos and exciting narratives of sojoums here and there.

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Pres: John F. Barrow Sec'y; RADM Ralph Ghormley, USN (Ret) RO. Box 10262, McLean, VA 22102-8262 p: 703-351-0964; f: 703-351-5864; e: rmghormley@aol.com Correspondence: Washington A dull time indeed.

Here and There Paul Laric writes: "Three former ensigns, Lou Serrille, Joel Rabinowitz, and Paul Laric recalled the times of their first sea duty assignment. CORAL SEA, at a recent luncheon hosted by Lou at his Briarchff Manor home on the Hudson. The consensus: our hair had been darker and our waistlines trimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;obviously." (Photo on next page.)

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Applegate, OR 97530, 541-846-9966; Sag Sagerholm (j35racer@earthlink.net); Walt Schriefer: 871 Reading Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 (Phone and email remain unchanged); Ginger Smith (gdscrsj @beachaccess.net); and Phil Thom (philtS @earthlink.net).

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Sag Sagerholm writes: Incidentally, I've retired from competitive offshore sail racing as of last year. It just became too wearing for me, especially the three- and five-day regattas.

However, I couldn't stay away from the sea. I now own a 14-foot Zodiac RIB and we just bought a 22-foot cabin power catamaran with two four-stroke 115 HP Yamahas. We hope to use it to do some gunkholing on the Chesapeake. We hope to sell the Zodiac soon. And I just signed a sale agreement for my J/35, Aunt Jean, which was proven to be the fastest, winningest J/35 on the East Coast.

Richard W. Kelly writes: Ahoy shipmates, after more than 50 years of sitting on the edge of your seats waiting to hear from me, I finally have an item worthy of reporting. This being the unanimous approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee of my daughter's nomination to fill an opening on the bench of the U.S. District Court here in Tucson. Cindy was nominated by Senator Kyi and sent forward by President Bush.

This committee is headed by Pat "The Leaker" Leahy with advice and consent being handled by his buddy Ted "The 78

Swimmer" Kennedy. They obviously didn't know the right wing leanings of her father so the questioning by the committee went smoothly for Cindy. There were 12 family members there at the hearing so perhaps our gang of surly looking Kellys intimidated them. In any case she handled herself well and we are very proud of her After the hearing. Senator Kyi had his aides take our gang for a private tour of the Senate, in session, and of the Supreme Court Building where we met with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She encouraged Cindy by telling her how glad she was to know that Arizona had nominated the first woman in m£my years to the District Court in Tucson.

The next day I took the gang, including grandchildren and assorted nieces and nephews, to tour the Naval Academy.

They were impressed by seeing where I lived and ate and went to class. They saw the video of Midshippersons life and asked me afterwards, "How did you ever make it?" I'm not sure if their emphasis was on the word you\ It was a very pleasing experience for all. Should you have any legal troubles at the Supremes level, get in touch and I'll take it up with my newfriendJustice Sandra. Sorry—she says she doesn't do speeding or parking tickets.

Losses Tom Kilcline died on 11 July 2002 at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda.

Mass of Christian Burial was held at Fort Myer Memorial Chapel followed by intemment at Arlington National Cemetery on 17 July.

Grace Hofford, widow of our Classmate John Hofford, died on 28 July in Charleston. She is survived by John Jr, Merry Hofford, Andy Ackerman, and Suzanne Hofford.

Address Corrections/Changes John Alvis (jhalvis@cox.net); Ted Annenberg (tjannenberg@aol.com); Fred Grabowsky (fgrabowsky@comcast.net); Jim Keihner (JKeihner@msn.com); Lundi Moore: 7201 Thompson Creek Road,

Annual Membership: 26% Life Membership: 52%

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 that the Northem Califomia '50's met at the Maury "Boats" Condit residence in Saratoga in April. Ruth Condit had just renovated her art studio in their home. Classmates and wives were able to view her fine work. Ruth uses all mediums and has nation-wide repute.

Present were: Jack Branson, Dori and Jerry Davi, Jeanne and Frank Holcomb, Jeanne and Jim Kennedy, Laveme and Bill Berger, Carolyn and Dick Landes, Sue and Jim Lyttle, Barbara and Ken Moll, Joann and Joe Pausner along with hosts, Ruth and Maury Condit.

Charlie Clark reports that he had the pleasure and the distinct honor of swearingin his granddaughter, Taylor Johnson, as an Army second lieutenant nurse following her graduation from the University of San Francisco. We have another first, or rather a sixth, to report this month—Jacques F. Trevillyan writes that he and Marian are pleased and also very much honored to announce the arrival of grandchild number six—a boy, Jacques Trevillyan LeCress, bom in Richmond, VA, on 13 July to Yannick and Lynne LeCress. He is a bit on die small side at six pounds and nine oimces, however he came mto the world reciting the alphabet, multiplication tables, and singing a choras of "Anchors Aweigh." Jacques (the grandfather) concludes that at the age of 75 it is an exciting and renewing experience.

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Dick Powell just happened to mn into his Academy roommate of four years, Jim Wilkins, at Orient Pt. Long Island, while • i P ^ M ' '/M '-^ •'itr " ^ ^ ' ' ' ' ' ^ .J«J4II[^HIM pulling into a restaurant/bar/marina on a 50-footer for lunch. Jim line handled along with Betsy. This Class of '50 is everywhere • K ' ^ ' ^ ' ^ ^ ^ ^ V ^ ^ ^ B ^ ^ M / ^ '^^M^I^.js^fl^K ^ l ^ ^ l one goes!)

Out in San Diego on 2 August at the Mariner Club at the Naval Station we found: Mark Fmdden, Gene Wisenbaker, J.B. Farrell, Wayne Jensen, Bill Grimm, Frank Cassilly, Dick Smith, Bob Muck, Dick Thurston, and Dean French. (Our Hkj^^^^^^^^^^^^H^ Class representative at the San Diego Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association.)

We were pleased and honored to have Gene '50: Bill and Laveme Berger, Dori Davi, Jack Branson, Jerry Davi, and Ruth Condit at the Condit home in Saratoga, CA Wlsenbaker's son-in-law, Maj Mike Hawaiian sovereignty after a brief takeover Park Service, and the regional director, Marlaney, USMC, to speak to us. Mike had by die British. More tiian 10,000 attended tiie Brian O'Neil, wants to tear it down and been the principal planner for Marine operfeast. The menu feattu-ed 271 roasted pigs, convert the space into a "learning center" ations as we went into Afghanistan. He had 662 chickens, 3,125 salted fish, 1,820 fresh Those bridge wings serve as a reminder that a concentrated Army advance planning fish, 180 sqiud, and three whole oxen. For freedom does not come cheap and that a course at Ft. Leavenworth with the Army out of Towner's, a luau is a feast in Hawau petty bureaucracy could accomplish what and put it to good use in formulating how to for friends and family. For our 55tii Class the Japanese navy couldn't do during World do necessary planning when operating in reunion in Hawau in '05, the '50 Hawauan War n. Art Battson '44 suggests we all the dark. He managed to secure two MEU's contingent says not to expect a luau on such visit Land's End in San Francisco and get (Marine Expeditionary Units), a Navy a grand scale as King Kamehameha's, but some inspiration.

Construction Battalion Unit, Political then again one never knows!

Commenting on the administration's support from Pakistan, Air Force C-17's WetiiankENS Tom Uhl '02, Trident staff decision to promote CDR Robert Stumpf to and Navy air support for the entire writer, for information on the foreign captain six years after he left the Navy operation until success was assured. His nationals included in the Class of '06 at when he was blocked by the previous briefing was as complete as any we had ' USNA. Congress provides for 40 foreign administration because of attendance at the encountered during our active duty experinationals to be part of the Brigade at any Tailhook convention, John Haddick '62 on ences and we decided future Marine one time and to replace departing graduates the Intemet supplies the salty verbiage, "It planning efforts would be in good hands. and a part of '06 provide one Midshipman ain't over 'til the fat lady hooks #3 wire."

Mike has been selected for promotion to each from Cameroon, Croatia, Lithuania, On 2 August in Annapolis at the O'Club Ueutenant colonel.

Taiwan, Turkey, and two from Egypt. Four were: John Henderson, Rex Kilbourn, Ed Losses of the new Midshipmen have prior military McLean, Tom Rogers, Tom Ross, Wayne In the July-August Shipmate we experience. Needless to say, they are well Smith, and George Van. In spite of the announced the death of Don Sattler in chosen and represent the finest from their heat, humidity, drought, security inconven- Rapid City, SD, and now it is our sad task respective countries where they will retum iences, and miserable traffic, the occasion to inform the Class of the death of Don's upon graduation in '06. was joyful and the talk was of football and wife, Joyce, of heart failure. Our thoughts Navy Secretary Gordon England toured a promise of up to three "W's" for the sea- are with the Sattler family.

San Diego-area Na-vy and Marine Corps son. Season ticket holders found themBeatArmy\ —Wayne bases in August and he was interviewed by selves moved slightly closer to the 50 yard the San Diego Union-Tribune. Commenting line. Army at this time was a bit too diffion the base closure issue he observed that cult to predict, but then these were "old the boot camp at the local Marine Corps retirees" and not those with irrational exuRecmit Depot will not be moved to Camp berance. The word had been around that the Pendleton and locals shouldn't worry about Commandant of Midshipmen was not try2,005 round of base closures. He concluded ing to formulate policy but was merely trythat these San Diego bases are too valuable ing to correctly execute that policy when it to the Navy. Question: Does the was mmored that he would lead the Class Department of Defense speak with of '06 in a relaxing four nrule mn prior to Class C o l u m n Deadlines one voice? their joining the Brigade. (if sending new directly to Siiipmate) Fleet Admiral Emest King, Class of 1901, In Washington, DC, for the 1 August called the night battle of Guadalcanal the Class luncheon they managed to gather: /SSUE HARD copy: most furious sea battie fought in history. In Larry Hawkins, Bill Rockey, Law Kivlen, December 4 October that battle the heavy cmiser SAN FRANCISCO Bill Kiehl, Tom Bigley, Amold Austin, Bill Jan.-Feb. 1 December received major damage, its wings of the Smoot, Tom Ross, Phil Ryan, John March 3 January bridge had to be replaced and the city of Greenwood, Ward Lasley, Bob Shultz, Dick /SSUE ELLCTROHXC. San Francisco secured Navy permission to Powell, Bob Monroe, Bob Oliver, Bill December 1 1 October use those bridge wings as a center piece to Taylor, Bill Simons, Howard Portnoy, Jan.-Feb. 4 December a monument at Land's End. Land's End Charlie Hirsch, Tom Rogers, and Bill March 10 January acreage is nominally owned by the National Diehl. (In it's a small world department.

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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 The President's Corner It's a slow summer, and Bob is taking a sabbatical this month in the knowledge that he has brought us all up-to-date at the Class dinner during Homecoming, a week before you read this column.

Vice President's Notes Guy notes that the reported $500K in pledges reported last month was in error The correct figure is $400K. Recently, on two occasions, we leamed after the fact tiiat gifts or pledges made directly to the Foundation, or the Alumni Association, have not been properly recorded. One was caught because the donor sent Guy a copy of his pledge letter The other was caught by sheer good luck. The proper address and notations for contributions to the Class 55th Fund are as follows: If the donation is in response to a pledge, it should go to the Naval Academy Foundation, RO. Box 62203, Baltimore, MD 21264-2203.

Make the check out to die USNA Foundation and mark it for account #7651.

If the donation is a gift, not a pledge payment, send it to the Naval Academy Foundation, Box 64978, Baltimore, MD 21264-4978. Make the check payable to the USNA Foundation. If the gift is for the 55tii Fund, mark the check to account #7651. If it is for the Museum Maintenance Fund, mark the check for account #83551.

Please, if you make a gift or a pledge and don't want to send it to the Baltimore Lock Box, send it to Guy Shaffer, 344 Martin's Cove Rd., Annapolis, MD. Around the Class Suzanne and Jack Hamilton vacationed with their daughter, Stephanie, who commands the Navy Weather Center, Bahrain, and family in Garmisch and Chiemsse in the Bavarian Alps in July. They cabled up the Zugspitz, Germany's highest mountain, and visited Newschwanstein and two other of "Mad King" Ludwig's palaces. They also shopped in Innsbmck and toiu-ed the "The Sound of Music" city, Salzburg, Austria.

Suzanne and Jack Hamilton with a Swiss friend in Garmisch Mac Mcintosh and John McGrew, survivors of 'Tahoe Blue in '92"

Jack guarding the fortress is Salzburg, Austria West Coast John McGrew sends the following: It has been ten years since the Class of '51 reps met at South Lake Tahoe for 'Tahoe Blue in '92." The key there was Mac Mcintosh, and he is still holding down the fort. I had occasion to be at the Lake over the Fourth of July. For an old poop, Mac is holding up well, still writingfiction,and sharing his Ufe with his lovely lady, Frieda.

Speaking of writing, I recenfly read Jim Winnefeld's novel An Ace In Masquerade, Sam Cinder's novel McKinnon's Way, and Wes Hammond's non-fiction Tiie Treaty Navy. AU represent fascinating reading and I shall be honored to have them in my permanent library collection along with Larry TVeadwell's Bulldog Drummond Encyclopedia, Stan Piet's and Al Raithel's non-fiction Martin P6M Seamaster, and books by Classmates Boyd Johnson, Andy Krenm, and a half dozen by Jim Irwin. I suggest you send your request to the author; that way you can personalize the book with the author's signature. AnnapoUs resident Dick Smith has developed an Encyclopdia ofAnannapolish. He is recognized as a ranking local historian, but is reluctant to have his tome printed. His rationale is that the history is not complete. Now I ask you!

A few weeks ago we were kidding Jake Thomas. His wife, Kathy, starred in a segment of the San Diego edition of the "Antiques Road Show," and Jake was caught lurking around the camera trying to get nationwide exposure. Rumor has it that he received secret correspondence from 21 lonely hearts captivated by his brief role. He has been under the weather recentiy with a serious eye problem. All the troops are rooting for him.

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Class Luncheons The October San Diego Class luncheon will be a cold picnic at Mission Beach on Tuesday, 22 October Contact Andy Kremn for details. The Washington/Annapohs Area Class luncheons are held twice monthly. The first Tuesday we meet at the Old Towne Hobday Inn in Alexandria at 11:30 a.m. for "attitude adjustment" followed by a buffet lunch about 12 p.m. The third Tuesday of the mondi is set aside for luncheon at the Academy Officer's and Faculty Club, also starting about 11:30 a.m.

Marine Corps Heritage Award The following article was taken from recent edition of Sentinel, the quarterly pubUcation Marine Corps Heritage Foundation: Colonel Gerald C. Thomas Jr., USMC (Ret.), a graduate of the Naval Academy, decorated combat veteran, published author and proUfic contributor to military periodicals, active board and committee chairman, and the Foimdation's most enthusiastic supporter, received the "The Heritage Award," which is given in special recognition of those who have provided unique and significant service to the Foundation in the fulfillment of its mission.

In recognizing Col Thomas, the Foundation's President noted his many contributions: "Jerry joined the Foundation in 1985 and immediately made himself indispensable, serving six years on the Board of Directors and 14 years as Chairman of the Grants and Fellowship Committee. In May 1995, the Heritage Center Committee was formed with Jerry among a dedicated group of former Board members who shared a vision of a world-class campus dedicated to Marine Corps history. Later that same year, Jerry was designated as the Foundation's liaison to the active duty Marine Corps on the project. For six years Jerry has coordinated the Foundation's efforts with the Executive Steering Committee chaired by the Assistant Commandant; with Marine Corps Base Quantico; the History and Museums Division; the Marine Corps university; Prince William County; the Prince William County Board of Education; and the town of Quantico." Using the knowledge gained from a lifetime of service to Corps and Country, Col Thomas articulately offered, often punctuated with wit

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and humor, sound recommendations during the Heritage Center planning process. For these and other services. Col Thomas warrants "special and enthusiastic recognition."

Most of the Class is aware that Jerry suffered a stroke last winter He has made significant recovery since then and all of us are hopeful that it will continue. The accompanying photo of Jerry witii his wife, Dearmie, and Sara Hilgartner is a mUestone. Jeny is now able to take soUd nourishment direcdy and enjoys a good conversation. Jeny is currentiy at the INOVA Cameron Glen Care Center at 1800 Cameron Glen Drive in Reston, VA 20190.

Visits, cards or letters are greatiy appreciated.

Jerry and Deannie Thomas with Sara Hilgartner

The Down East Chapter A note from Bill Hennessey advising me that I had omitted Kevin C Toole and his wife, Martina, in the article and picture of the "Down East Chapter" in a recent column. Many mea culpas. Bill also informed me that he has become the Blue & Gold Officer for 15 high schools in Southem Maine. As part of his indoctrination he spent a week in July in Annapolis and remarked that it was Plebe Summer all over again. He stayed in Bancroft Hall, ate in King Hall, etc. He claims he didn't get much sleep due to the heat and humidity. In his words, "It was dreadful. Those stones of the old buildings must retain the heat accumulated during the day and keep it at night.

Although the seminar buildings like Rickover Hall were air conditioned, I left a considerable amount of sweat in Annapolis during that week."

Reunion Lucky Bags The following is from Bob Small: The problem of not enough Lucky Bags to fiU orders has been resolved. In our initial Reunion Registration Form we said: "Widows may wish to purchase copy of die Fifty Year Book which every Classmate receives as a gift, for the cost of $60." Then in June 2001 we sent another letter to "clarify" an add-on to the previous mail outs.

In it we said: 'The Lucky Bag is included as part of the Reunion Package. For those not attending or wishing additional copies, checks should be mailed to..."

This was a confusing pair of statements to a widow purchasing a Reunion Package.

As a result some paid $60 for a book and Shipmate, October 2002

some did not, thinking it was part of the package. However, we actually gave a Lucky Bag to each widow that attended the Reunion whether she had asked for it or not. Those that had paid for theirs were then listed to get two Lucky Bags. In addition, two Classmates who did not attend bought Lucky Bags twice. I called them and asked if they meant to, and both said no.

Each will be refunded. (One said keep the money in the postage fund.)

So far only two of the 16 people listed as still needing a second book sent to them has wanted it. The others were expecting only the single copy that they have already received. Therefore, I have told all the widows on the erroneous two book list that they will be refunded $60 if they paid for the Lucky Bag. (One said keep the money in the Class Account.) In addition, one widow who did receive a second book sent it back as a duplicate.

We will also refund her money The bottom line is that we have enough books, and will probably have seven extra to work with when all is said and done.

76th Reunion The 76th Reunion of the Class of 1926 was held at the Carlysle Grand Cafe in early August. Representing their fathers in that great Class were Beau Dietrich, John Redfield, and Jay Woodbury along with their wives. Last year Jay and Beau participated in the gala 75th Reunion at the Academy which was attended by nearly 300 sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. John Redfield was able to join our small exclusive group this year. We are still holding out hope for Bill Smedberg. The fifth member. Max Leslie, died several years ago.

How I Ran My First Command Aground The following "Sea Story" is from Ron Davies: In July 1950 I was one of six Naval Academy Midshipmen sent to TURNER for a six-week period of shipboard indoctrination. The CO assigned each of us to one of the ships officers and we stood watches and shared daily work duties with them. I was assigned to a lieutenant junior grade that had the 12 to 4 underway bridge OOD watch.

Shortly after joining, the ship was sent to Rockport, ME, to participate in a Fourth of July celebration and parade.

Rockport Harbor (bay) is a large body of water with a long narrow straight leading to the open ocean. We arrived at night during a period of dense fog and anchored quite a distance out in the bay.

My lieutenant junior grade was OOD that day and I was one of the two boat officers.

Protocol requires that the ship's captain either leaves the ship first or releases this prerogative. The lieutenant junior grade was under pressure from the liberty party (mostly CPOs) to let them leave in one boat before receiving any word from the captain.

No sooner than they had disappeared in the fog, the captain called down to announce he was ready to go ashore. Accompanying him was his relief and the division commodore.

I, along with a seaman boat hook and a third class engineman were the crew for the skipper's gig. It was very foggy and I was alarmed when the lieutenant junior grade told me that the liberty boat had departed with the only operable, portable compass on board. While I was very concemed, he assured me that if we kept on the right heading we would reach the dock in 20 or so minutes. "Keep the ship's horn behind you" were my instructions.

He was a lieutenant junior grade and I was a Midshipman so I had little choice.

The three officers boarded the gig, sat in the bow enclosure, and immediately became deeply involved in conversation.

Within minutes the ship disappeared in the fog and the direction of the foghorn was impossible to distinguish. We were totally enveloped in fog.

My first decision was to proceed at a lower speed and keep close track of the elapsed time. After ten minutes or so I stationed the boat hook on the bow and slowed down some more. At 20 minutes or so we slowed down even more. The officers were still deeply engrossed in conversation. As the minutes passed we had slowed to a point were we were barely underway. When I saw reeds protruding above the water, I ordered "reverse engine," but we grounded with several audible thuds. The CO jumped up and said "My God, we're aground." We had been going so slowly that with the rapid engine reversal we immediately backed out into deeper water The CO came back to me and asked, "don't you know how to read a compass?" Since I do, and was a loss for words, I said "Yes, Sin" At that point, thankfully, the engineman spoke up and informed him that we did not have a compass. Once the CO understood the situation he asked me if I had an opinion where the dock might be. Since we had a wind from the port side I ventured the opinion that it was to our port. He said, "then take us there" and went back to the other officers and left it to me.

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A short time later, after skirting the reeds, the fog lifted a bit and we sighted the dock. The liberty party boat had posted a dockside watch and had a radio with them. Once we had tied up, die CO called the ship and had an immediate conversation with the XO. I was very impressed with my skipper.

He asked for my opinion and then allowed me the opportunity to redeem myself. I was equally impressed with his relief after he assumed command—but that is another story.

Ron Davies and friend

Last Call It is my sad duty to report that three Classmates have died recently. Floyd Martin died in Pensacola on 21 July; Joe Fitzpatrick died at his home in Potomac, MD, on 22 July; and George Mueller died in his sleep at home in Alexandria, VA, on 28 July. We offer our prayers and sympathy to Joyce, Pat, and Libby.

Joe Dailey passed on that Virginia Clark Connor, a long time resident of Merced, CA, and widow of our Classmate, Gerry Connor, died on 11 June in Moro Bay, CA. Gerry, who had a long distinguished career in the Air Force, perished in an aircraft accident in 1967.

And Finally Please keep those cards and letters coming. If you don't like to see the same old faces in the column or read about the same old people, you can change it. Just send information about yourself and Classmates.

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the Presidents Rank of Distinguished Executives presented by President George Annual Membership: 44% W H .

Bush, and Presidents Rank of Life Membership: 31% Meritorious Executives presented by Pres: CAPT Jacob C. Brown, USN (Ret) President Reagan, and is a former editor of Sec'y: CAPT Leigh Ebbert, USN (Ret) the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He 2514 Culpeper Road, Alexandria, VA 22308-2133 told us about the College and about his e: lebbertl@juno.com work as part of an effort begun in 1992 to Webmaster: Howard McCollum tiack down missing POW/MIA informae: hmccollum@prodigy.net tion.

The college offers a master's degree in Class web site: www.usna.com/classes/class52/ strategic intelligence, and a program for a Default.htm A lifetime event! A great Class and a B.A. in intelligence. He shared stories of great reunion, thanks to all. Since this col- the successful efforts to ttack down inforumn is being written in August, there is a mation about missing persons, including certain projection about the reunion com- one that involved a USNA Class ring. ments. Details follow. Pictures taken at the Providing details to a grateful fanuly some reunion, plus your inputs will be the basis 40 years later about a husband and father for subsequent columns as well as for a sec- who had been lost in 1953 was very satisfytion of the Golden Lucky Bag. These ing. It is good to know that such efforts are ghmpses can remind us of events as well as on going.

Attending: Al Bress, Gene Avallone, convey a sense of the activities to those Charles McDonald, Jerry Zacharias, Ed who were not there. Send me your inputs.

From the Emerald Coast Chapter, Lou Leonard, R.C. Amor, Vince Manara, An McMillan sends pictures of their 50th Thompson, Pat Lockwood, Bob Caulk, Red anniversary celebration of our graduation. Stein, John Sell, Toxey Califf, Walt Locke, There was a cake, and a picture (left to Bill Rowden, Jack O'Connell, George right) of Bill Hippie, Hi Gumey, J.J. Lester, Jerry Hyndman, Bill Laux, Harry Rollins, Lou McMillan, Bill Maxson, Spencer, Howard McCollum, Jack Young, Harry Cawthon, Bob Fellingham, and Dick Smith, Joe Wilkinson, Dick Pettigrew, Paul German, Hork Dimon, Jim Troutman, Dave Sperling. Lou writes: Jake Brown, and Leigh Ebbert. Thanks, Al, On 6 June, eight members of the for arranging for the speaker Emerald Coast Chapter and their wives had a picnic at Henderson Beach State Bo Bartley placed a vireath at the Tomb Park in Destin...of the 22 Chapter memof the Unknown Soldier at 11:05 a.m. on 12 bers, this was about an average turnout.

September 2002 to recognize our deceased There always seem to be people going or Classmates, particularly those who died on gone somewhere—grandchildren's gradactive duty. uations, family birthdays, cruises, sons's Tom Lyons and Howard McCoUum change of command, family reunions, etc. responded to the question about how the Sadly, a few members can no longer Brigade was reduced fi-om 36 companies to travel for health reasons.

24. Tom says: Anyway, we cooked steaks and hamburgIn my recollection as to when—was ers on the grill, drank beer and wine, between youngster and Second Class enjoyed the beautiful setting, and talked of Year, although I won't swear to it. oldtimes,children and of course, what pills As to how, they took the middle compawe are taking. A good time was had by all. ny of every three and split them between Thank you, Lou. the other two. For example, in my half of What an interesting speaker! Derus Clift, the Fifth Battalion the 28th Company was president of the Joint Military Intelligence left intact and became the 19th. The 30th College, located at Boiling AFB was our was left intact and became the 20th, and guest at the July Washington area luncheon. the 29th was split between the two.

Recipient of numerous awards, including

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Thanks, Tom. Howard concurs, and comments that, I don't know if the USNA Administration has any records showing what was done. It you really want to nail down who went where, I suppose you could compare the Company photos and hsts between the '50 and '51 Luck\' Bags.

Thanks, Howard. I examined the Lucky Bag's and found that for the First Battalion, 4th, 5th and 6th Companies the split was different. It appears that the Fourth Company remained the same, and the Sixth Company became the Third Company and the Fifth Company (my Company) was spht between the two.

In the July-August column, Garnett Bailey had sent information regarding the 50th Reunion of his Special Basic Course (SBC) at Quantico held in San Diego. In addition to the attendees I listed in the column, Cy Blanton says that Milt Olson and Martin Manning were also there. Ed Moser, adds: ...At the Saturday-night banquet, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Jones, gave the primary address plus the Korean Consul General spoke to us. The Commandant praised our USNA Classmate, Joe Gagliardo (since deceased), for providing him (the Commandant) inspiration in Vietnam when Joe was his executive officer and General Jones was a new second lieutenant. Joe was with us, along with his wife, Mary, in the audience.

Also, the next moming we observed a memorial service, primarily our KIAs but also for our other Classmates who have passed on. After each of our KIAs were read by name (all from the Korean War), a ship's bell was struck, and a floating candle was lit. At the end of the naming of each KIA, Marine buglers from San Diego Recruit Depot sounded Taps and Echo.

The last name read was Mortimer Cox, killed in action on 25 July 1953. He was die USNA Class of 1952's first KIA...

Thank you, Ed. I received a note from Ken Duckworth '62 who saw Martin Manning on "Good Moming America." Martin was being interviewed about the care and compassion he is giving to his wife of some 40 years who is unfortunately suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Thanks, Ken. With sadness I relay information about the deatiis of CAPT Thomas B. Thamm, USN (Ret.) on 23 July 2002 at his home in Southem Pines, NC, and CDR Hugo E. Schluter, USN (Ret.) on 16 July 2002 in Vu-ginia Beach, VA. A full honors interment for Tom Thamn at ArUngton National Cemetery is scheduled for 25 October at 3 p.m.

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Pres: RADM Peter C. Conrad, USN (Ret) 19754 Tower Hill Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650 h: 301-475-5258; e; pjconrad@erols.com Sec'y: Lt Col David B. Jones, USAF (Ret.) 6708 Pageland Lane, Gainesville, VA 20155-1513 h: 703-754-4492; e: djlocker@earthUnk.net Webmaster: Paul Dudley e: pauld53@san.rr.com www.usna53.org Well by the time you read this we will have some idea as to how much we should "expect to win." I certainly hope our new coach has the team back on the road to victory. The Class has our pavilion for the Navy-Rice game on 12 October and we can see for ourselves. Plan to arrive at the pavilion at least a couple of hours before kickoff so that you can talk, eat, drink, and even watch the game.

Speaking of the pavihon, Pete Conrad reports that he, Jack Hoch, and Bill Trueblood met with Athletic Director Chet Gladchuck on 8 August. Their meeting included a visit to the pavihon where they could discuss our specific ideas for the pavilion. Pete also suggests if one hasn't checked our web page recently it would be worth your while to check it to read the commandant's intent which is posted on our site. This document eloquently states the vision which new Commandant, Col John Allen '76, USMC has for our Academy.

Bud Kauderer and Jerry Weinstein both reported good news on the grandparent front. Mickey and Bud had the great pleasure of attending the USNA graduation of their oldest grandson, ENS Chuck Becker '02. Chuck's dad is Larry Becker '77. It was the thrill of a lifetime to participate in the Commissioning Week (nee June Week) events. Chuck has reported to a SPRUANCE class destroyer in San Diego.

Bud notes that he failed to make a submarine convert, but has one more chance in Chuck's younger brother, Adam Becker '05, who at this point is aiming to be a Marine helicopter pilot. Where did you go wrong Bud? The Legacy Book editorial process is moving towards completion. The 50-year stories are greatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it is absolutely last call time now for those of you who have yet to send your biography to Bud. His email address is KaudererBM@aol.com and his snail mail address is 7025 Ibis Place, Carlsbad, CA 92009. Do it now!

Jerry also has two grandsons looking to become Academy graduates. Although, in Jerry's case it is not our Boat School, it is the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. His grandson, Casey, is now a Second Classman while younger grandson.

Curtis, is in the USAFA Prep School which is collocated with the Academy on the USAFA grounds. The two boys are the sons of Alice and Jerry's son, Mike USAFA '77 and his wife Bonnie. In early August, Jerry and Mike, drove up to the Academy to see Curt's graduation parade from Basic Military Training. The following week Curt was to begin their intense academic schedule, which he is going to add to by wresthng on the USAFA Prep School team.

Good luck guys and remember Vandenberg AFB and Los Angeles AF Station are two of the best places in the AF, even though your grandfather will probably say Albuquerque is better Jerry also said the Albuquerque USNA Alumni Association Chapter has chartered a bus and is going to the AF Academy to watch Coach Johnson's new look team beat AF on 5 October Hope you are right Jerry and congratulations to both the Weinstein and Kauderer families.

A final noteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jerry sent me several digital photos and I have printed them out. I am not sure if Shipmate will use the best one, but I will try. If my print out is not good enough I will see if I can electronically transmit it to Shipmate to see if that improves things. More on this later as I try and leam how to work electronic photos into the mix.

Mase Wells '47, a member of the Board of Trustees, makes frequent trips to Annapolis. One of the side benefits of these trips is the opportunity it gives him and his wife, Les, to see old navy friends. On a recent trip the Wells had dinner on two different nights with Pauline and Carl Trost, close family friends for over 40 years.

Thanks Mase and thanks also to Chet Shaddeau '47, the '47 corresponding secretary for forwarding the picture of one of these dinners on to me.

Jim "JJ" Connolly reports that the Williamsburg Chapter of the Alumni Association held a luncheon on 18 lune at the Williamsburg Country Club. George Watt '73, Terry Murray '68, and Christie Huber from the Alumni Association/Foundation were present to install the new officers for the Chapter JJ was elected president of the Chapter for a two year term and I'm sure received a large round of applause from the '53 group of 18 Classmates and wives from the Hampton Roads Chapter Vaughn Wilson gave the invocation. The picture shows most of the '53ers at the luncheon. Dorotiiy and Bob Gradel are not pictured, as tiiey had to leave early. Identifiable in the picture at the end of the colunm are Bob Desmarais, Lirm Felt, Pat and Vaughn Wilson, Curt Miller, Walt Hogan, Don Cannell, Doris and JJ Connolly, Brad Sutter, BiU Anderson, Jim Wdlenbrink, Dave Howell, and Diane Logan.

Thanks JJ and congratulations.

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Pat Flynn has prepared some biographical information on his former roommate Vince Graham for Bud's Legacy Book. Pat says he lost touch with Vince after he left the Navy in 1955. When people would ask him what he heard from Vince at reunions he would have to say nothing. Recently, after Ed Oppermann found out about his death in 1977, Pat's sister-in-law suggested he look up any records or obituaries on Vince. He called Monticello, IL, and found Vince had been buried from the MackeyWright Funeral Home. They were very helpful. They gave Pat the name and phone number of Vince's widow as well as of the local newspaper The newspaper's records did not go back to 1977 so he could not get a copy of the obituary. He did talk to Vince's widow, Rochelle, and she was most gracious and was glad to tell him about Vince, his job, and his family. In Pat's words "Vince was a great roommate and a great friend. He was not big in stature but was big in heart. He loved all sports, especially basketball. I remember when we had wrestling instruction during Plebe Summer, he would never give up, even after being pirmed. Vince loved the Naval Academy and the Navy. He always wanted Navy to win." From Rochelle: they were married in 1960 and had two children, Mary Faith Graham and Angela Spaits and two grandchtidren. Vince attended Supply School in 1953, and served aboard WASP. He was discharged from the Navy in 1955. Eamed a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in 1957 and worked for Clark and Deaks, Civil Engineers until his death in 1977. Thanks Pat, and our thanks and condolences as well to Rochelle and the family.

Joe Thomas wrote that while at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Prizes and Awards Ceremony at Mahan Hall on 22 May to present the Cathy Thomas '81 memorial award, he noted that the winner of the ADM C.C. Smith, Award was Midshipman Third Class Horace M. Leavitt IV. Since '53's own Horace M. was Horace M. Jr, and Horace M. Ill stood number 63 in the Class of '78, it appears that (a) Horace has established a naval dynasty, and (b) even the grandsons of '53 are distinguished, not only by lineage, but in their own right. Young Leavitt's award was "For the best essay or project in Spanish by a Midshipman who is not a native speaker" Joe had the privilege of escorting a relative of Mr Leavitt's to a party in San Diego a few years back.

However, we must excuse Joe as he lies down for a while, since the lady was the young man's great grandmother Thanks Joe, and our congratulations to the entire Leavitt dynasty.

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While selecting pictures for this colunm I found George Knighton's cover letter written in March when he sent me lots of pictures of the Seattle area A-N game party.

I think I have already reported that George said Patti was recovering nicely from her chemo treatments, but may not have mentioned that George himself had a complete hip replacement and was recovering nicely from that. I am sure that the walker and cane are no longer needed. The first of George's pictures at the end of this column is a good shot of Dana Walker with the ubiquitous Curt Anderson. (Always wanted to use that word and doesn't it fit Curt?)

The next shot is a very good shot of Valerie Klee with John Paulk, while the final Seattle snap shows Frank Strohecker, Chuck Walker, and John SoUars. Great pictures George, thanks again, and we are so glad you both are doing well.

A long email from Linda Will reported on her trip to and through most of New England visiting family and friends. Since she has a lot of each it sounds as if she had a really busy and happy trip—until the moming of 11 July when she went to roll out of bed at her cousin's home on Lake Winnepesaukee. All went well until she completed the roU by bouncing off the floor She hit on her elbow and thought all was okay after she put bacitiacin on it. However, by the evening of the 12th the elbow was bad and her friends took her to the local ER. The MD gave her an antibiotic IV and said come back first thing m the moming. She did and was promptly admitted to the hospital for what tumed out to be afive-daystay. Even Linda admits this was a httie scary—not sure what really was wrong with the elbow, a long wayfromhome and close family. Fortunately, the httie hospital did good work and got her weU on the road to recovery and her friends and family in the New Hampshire area all came through big time for her The father of one of her friends, who is a retired orthopedic surgeon, made a long drive up to check on her That is when she leamed the injury was bad, but seemed under conttol if she got home fairly quickly and followed the doctor's orders. She cut the rest of her trip short and retumed to her DC area home. She says "Handwriting still a httie tough (now isn't tiiat tiie best excuse you've ever heard from me?)." Thanks Linda, glad you are getting better and glad you had lots of friends and family to support you.

On the bad news scene, Chris Zirps told me that a letter from Don Rothenberger asked that we be informed that his wife, Cleo, passed away on 2 June 2002. Needless to say we extend our most sincere condolences to Don and the entire Rothenberger family. We hope they are coping with this tiemendous loss as well as possible.

On the bad news/good news scene. Bill Tmeblood told us a couple of weeks ago that doctors had found a lymphoma in Joe Gildea's throat. Fortunately, Sheila and Joe's daughter, Maureen Mann, is the executive director of a Cancer Institute at Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Joe went to Florida where they discovered he had a Type II, Non-Hodghkins, large cell lymphoma at the base of his tongue and in his voice box. It was growing very quickly and was affecting his ability to talk and eat.

He immediately started a five-day session of intensive chemo and is very pleased to report that the lymphoma is already reduced in size, his voice now sounds normal and his ability to swallow is no longer restricted. He has another week of recuperation before going back for the next chemo session. The series of tieatments will be five days of chemo followed by 16 days of recuperation. This series will be repeated possibly as much as six times. Bill will stay in touch with Sheila and Joe and wUl keep us all informed. Surely hope the improvement continues Joe—we need you two at our tailgates! Write to the GUdeas at: CAPT Joseph Gildea, USN (Ret.), c/o Mrs. Maureen Mann, 1905 North Atiantic Blvd. #14E, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33305.

Short takes: DarreU Dempster's new emaU address is dddempster@comcast.net. I hope you have noticed that our column is now printed in a larger font size. Thanks go to our Editor Amy Voight who qxuckly responded to the request from several of our visibUity chaUenged Classmates for larger type. Eddie Best, as our project officer for the Class graduation gift to 2003 (engraved ensign/second Ueutenant bars), reports that he is covering the bases and wiU attend one of the Class of '02 graduations to see how '52 handled the project. In case you don't know there now are two additional graduation ceremonies for those Mids, who for vaUd reasons could not make the graduation requirements by the regular graduation date in May—these are held in August, witii a final one in December Additional pictures (on next page) include a good group shot of a lot of Classmates at the Hawau game several years ago. See how many you can identify. Another Hawau shot shows Bill Trueblood and Watson Goldsmith. The paviUon picture shows Jack Hoch, Gus Hubal, Bill Ryan, and Frank Brady. The final shot is of Libby and Huntley Boyd. Isn't tiiat a fine looking bumper sticker?

Don't forget Class luncheons are on the first Tuesday of each montii at the Fort McNair Officer's Club at 11:30 a.m. We taUgate at each home football game—show up early with drinks and food for our poduck tables.

Plan on attending our annual get together with Shipmate, October 2002

our '53 brotiiers (and sisters) from West Point the week before tiie A-N game. You wUl hear more abouttiiislater Once again I hope Navy finaUy wins some games so we can yeU "Go Navy!" and mean it! Cheers —^Dave

Annual Membership: 38% Life Membership: 32%

flcich. Hubal. R_\an, and Brady at the pavilion—anybody need any cups Shipmate, October 2002

Pres: Col Fitz W. Woodrow, USMC (Ret) Sec'y: CAPT Oliver Shearer Jr., USN (Ret.) 9615 Podium Dr., Vienna, VA 22182-3338 Webmaster: Will Croom e: willyaye@hotmail.com Class web site: http//www.usna54.net Class News Nominations for Class Officers (2003-2006).

Last month your scribe reported that the Nominating Committee had been unable to 85

develop a complete slate of candidates. As your scribe closes out this column, John Juei^ens, the chairman of the Nominating Committee reports that no Classmates contacted would agree to become candidates for the offices of Class president or Class secretary. Whereas there should be at least two candidates for each office, there is only one for two of the offices. As of today the candidates are: President—none Executive VP—Howie Canter VP—Bill Neel Secretary— none Treasure—Jon Hurt and Pete Vogelberger Ballots are scheduled to be mailed by 1 October 2002. That date may be delayed at the most a month, if necessary, to obtain more candidates.

Change to Class Constitution Three-hundred andfifty-fivepostcards and email ballots, of over 600 sent out, were retumed in response to the Executive Committee's proposal to provide the procedure for initiation of petitions and approval of proposals to amend/change the Class constimtion. An amendment procedure was contained in a Class PoUcy Note of 25 August 1999, but this guidance needed to be incorporated into the constimtion. Of the 355 ballots, 331 were marked yes; 14 were marked no; and 10 were not marked and thus not counted. A revision to the cuirent constitution wiU appear soon on the Class web site. A photo below shows Will Croom, your scribe, and Helen Long (honest broker) counting the votes.

Croom, Scribe, and honest broker count votes

Cocktail Glasses Ted Walker has obtained an additional supply of glasses with the '54 Class crest that are same type distributed during our 40th Reunion and wiU not be part of the 50th Reunion package. Price is $30 for a set of four No shipping and handling, if you buy out of Ted's car trunk during tailgates or Class luncheons. He will mail to you if you send check for $35 to 3520 Saylor Place, Alexandria, VA 22304-183:703-823-6149.

Sad News The Fourth Company sustained a heavy loss in the deaths of Bud Poe and Tony Correnti in July. Bud died after a long struggle with cancer on 13 July 2002 at a local hospice. Bud was an all state running back at Linsley High School in Wheeling, WV, and played Varsity Football at Navy. He spent a career in the Air Force, retiring as a brigadier general. He was a command pilot with 3,500 hours. After receiving his wings he was a RECCE pilot in SAC for six years and then went to Vietnam as a forward air controller Later assignments were as a Senate liaison officer, as a deputy assistant to SecDef Legislative Affairs, staff National Security Council, and deputy chief of staff for contracting and manufacturing at Air Force Logistics Command.

After retiring from USAF he worked for Martin Marietta as an aviation industry executive.

Funeral services were held on 8 August at the Ft. Myer Old Chapel followed by burial with full military honors in Arlington, VA. His wife, Jane, plus sons, Matthew and Justin, survive Bud. The Poe family requests that any memorials to Bud be made to ARCS Endowment Fund, 1104 Park Royal Ct., Great Falls, VA 22066. This is a taxexempt organization.

ensconced in the Pinehurst, NC, community.

Nearer home, the Ballou's mountain retreat was used to host Jane and Griggs Wheeler who made it up the steep incline from theflaflandsof Augusta, GA. Dennis sent one photo which shows, left to right, Jennie and Dennis BaUou and Bea and Jon Hurt. The other photo highlights, left to right, Griggs, Jennie Ballou, Jane 'Wheeler and Dennis.

Ted Walker asked your scribe to pass on his thanks and deep appreciation to the Class for their cards and letters of support and for those who attended Carol Ann's funeral.

Linda Sweet sent a picture of Jauncey Sweet and their first grandchild, Ryan Hamilton Sweet.

This new addition to the Sweet family, bom on 20 May is the son of Linda and Jauncey's youngest son, Schuyler

Bud Poe

We received news from Ed Martin in San Diego that Tony Correnti died on 19 July of Alzheimer's. Shirley Povich, a Washington Post sportswriter said of him in 1952: "Pound for pound, there isn't a better linebacker in the country than Correnti." Tony became a Marine, resigned from active duty in 1958, joined the Marine Corps Reserve and resigned his commission in 1967.

His military activity in the civilian world was in sales. He became a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers. Tony founded Waite & Correnti and was president of the firm until retiring in 1993. He endowed six Naval Academy Foundation scholarships in the name of Classmates. Funeral services were conducted on 26 July at Mission San Diego de Alcala, San Diego, CA. His ashes will be inumed in the USNA Columbarium. Tony is survived by his wife, Andy, and his six children from a previous marriage together with Andy's three children.

Jauncey Sweet's first grandchild

The July-August column described Ed Stevens' participation in the 2002 Olympics at Salt Lake City. Ed sent another photo of himself and wife, Mary, after the flame passed through Pasco, WA.

Ed Stevens and Mary

Tony Correnti

Dennis Ballou reported that in his and Jennie's summer travels they went to Alexandria, VA, where they were guests of Bea and Jon Hurt. On the way home to Atianta they crossed paths with Jack Beck who is firmly

More on Jamie Deuel's exploits in Albuquerque Theater. Last summer Carol and Jamie Deuel went to a cabaret night at a local "Equity" (professional) community theater During the intermission Jamie spotted an actor friend and went to speak to him. Before he could get into a conversation the friend said, "Jamie, let me introduce you right away to a director here from New York City." Our puzzled hero was introduced and talked to about the famous Broadway, Pulitzer Prizewinning comedy, "You Can't Take it With You," about to begin rehearsals for an opening in less than four weeks. Suddenly out of the blue the director asked Jamie if he'd be interested in auditioning the next day for a part in the play. Jamie was thunder struck! He'd bought a ticket, belonged in the audience, and now was being asked to try out for a part in an Equity play. One side of his mind said, "You got to be crazy. You can't even remember what it is you cross a room to get Shipmate, October 2002

'54: The Wheelers and the Ballous most time." But another voice whispered, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sucker!" so he said "Why not." The next day after reading a few lines he was offered the role of "Grandpa," the 75 year old head of an eccentric extended family, plus hangers-on, living in NYC's upper West Side. It tumed out to be the male lead with 207 speeches to memorize; 27 days later he was in the dressing room preparing for opening night when a card was delivered from the theater manager. It read, "We auditioned scores for your role (later he leamed about 20) and you were the only one to have the courage to step up to the plate (read dumb enough?) and take a swing." Talk about an unsettling note of encouragement for a rookie facing his first opening night. But the play was a success and during 16 performances he got numerous kisses on his aged cheek from two lovely granddaughters. Later the state's leading theater critic wrote; "Presiding over all was 'paterfamilias' Martin Vanderhof Jamie Deuel had a voice as thick and sweet as the symp he poured on his cereal. As handsome and wholesome as a Norman Rockwell painting, his character's 'carpe diem' philosophy eventually prevails."

At the end of their month long run, Carol and he hosted a cast party following the last Sunday matinee. Swarming to their house were 18 hungry actors, their significant others, the stage crew, and theater management. That evening he got to bed at 3:30 a.m. but what a wonderful experience at this stage in life. Jamie is only worried that he is now type cast as an old man and may miss out on some of those romantic 40 year old parts. Yeah, right! Well done, Jamie.

Can't think of anyone else in the Class with enough guts or fortitude to take that on. Since none of the Footiight Players had a camera, your scribe took the liberty of showing "Grandpa" in Shipmate, October 2002

another role last February. That was when Jamie accepted a plaque, during the Navy Wrestiers Reunion, for being the grandfather in attendance with the most grandchildren. Pictured is Joe Gattuso '55, congratulating Jamie.

Jamie gets congratulations

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Annual Membership: 34% Life Membership: 35%

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 Class web site: http//www.usna.com/classes/1955 As they do every year, Ann and Wes Saunders hosted a marvelous picnic in July at their lovely home on the Sevem, featuring crab, shrimp, chicken, and many more goodies and cool libations. The weather was kind and the tum out great. Enjoying themselves immensely were: Denny Sullivan, Jackie and Mort Rubenstein, Nancy and Don Kellerman, Syd

and Fred Tolleson, Sally and Hartley Holte, Peggy and Otto Zipf, Joan Connolly and Tom Mclsaac, Rita and Butterfield, Mary Gale Buchanan, Dick Peterson, Margot and Gary Snyder, Joanie and Dick Morgan, Ginny and Don Conner, Ted Parker, Tom Davis, Sheila and Cal Weaver, Karen and Pat Taylor, Sabra and Bill Kennington, Ursula and Tom Kiefaber, Shiriey and Steve Lowe, Jean and Darrel Westbrook, Patricia and Kent Drummond, Diana and Steve Ruth, Bumpsy and Ace Davis, and Betsy and John Thune.

Tom Emery writes that Sara and Larry Frost moved from Norfolk to Palmyra, VA, (nine miles east of Charlottesville) into an historic home with 50 acres of land giving them plenty to do since both are now in retirement. They graciously hosted a Ninth Company mini-reunion in their presently beautiful renovated home. Those present are shown in the enclosed picture: Front row, left to right, Joe Kronzer, CuUy Kronzer Lynn Thearle, Sara Frost, Sis Martin, Gale Emery, and Nancy Saunders. Back row, left to right. Bill Martin, Larry Frost, Jim Thearle, Glen Bates, Tom Emery, and Lee Saunders. The Martins are now living in Hot Springs, AR. They were visiting the Kronzers Uving at Lake Anna, VA. The Thearles drove from NorfoUf, Glen Bates (Pat had a previous commitment) from Locust Grove, VA, the Emerys came from Charlottesville, and the Saunders were enroute from Florida to Cape Cod. They had a sumptuous luncheon, and a time filled with wonderful memories. It is hoped that this may become an annual affair with more Ninth Company attendees!

The Class golf program continues to rock along during the hot summer months with a match played at Worthington Manor in the Urbana Maryland area hosted by Joe Chmelik in June and a match at Patuxent River Naval Air Station during July, which was hosted by Dick Morgan. After both events the hosts invited everyone over for dinner and cocktails, which was much appreciated. The culinary expertise shown by both Pat Chmelik and Joanie Morgan was superb. Their homes are a tribute to the fine tastes of each with Joe's post and beam home a testimonial to the efforts of many family members and artisans from Maine. It traly is a lovely and large home in every sense of the word. The Morgan's home is wonderfully situated in the hinterlands of southern Marylandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an area steeped in the history of the 1812 raid on Washington where the British went ashore from the Paxtuxent River, not too far from the Morgan's home which sits above one of the river creeks. Joanie had an opportunity to show the area to a number of ladies who accompanied the men to the course, but who elected to eat, roam, and be entertained by Joanie rather than be frastrated on the warm but breezy day playing golf.

Having visited both residences, it is apparent why both Joe and Dick earn the award each year for the longest driveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by auto rather than golf club. These events at courses close to their home were a means of saying thanks for their continual support and attendance during the Class golf year. Joe Chmelik provided three of his sons to participate in the Worthington Manor event and each can drive the golf ball a mile. The senior citizens enjoyed hitting shorter irons to the pin as the format on both days was the utilization of 87

best drive and then everyone played their own ball thru the green. Exceptions were the par threes where everyone had to play their own ball. Winning teams were Dick Morgan, Tony Bracken, and Tom Chmelik at Worthington Manor and Lucy Mustin, Tom Schultz, and Ray Hine at Pax River. The last was settied by a review of cards with a team tied in score that included a first time golfer with the

Classâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^Ted Parker Ted claims to have enjoyed himself so much that he intends to participate in future events.

Tom Mdsaac (Amcisaac@aol.com) has a request: I have been trying to recruit Company representatives from each Company to help with the collection of bios, sea stories, vignettes or whatever from each and every living Classmate or from the widows for our Fifty-

Year Boole. We missed a few submissions in both the Fifteen-Year and Thirty-Year books and would like to improve on that. So far I have been unable to find a volunteer from the following companies: 3, 5, 7,10, 11, 17, 18, and 24.1 have put out some queries but gotten no response from Classmates in these Companies. If any of you out there can help, let me know via email. It won't require too much of your time and you have a chance to renew acquaintances with some of your Classmates.

We will give you all the information we have regarding last location. We just need the personal touch to convince the non-participants to participate. The timing of this activity will be in the fall of 2003.

Potpourri Ray Hine, Pat and Paul Sutherland, Lyn and Dan Shields, and Genie and Joe Walter got together on the Outer Banks recently. Paul reports that they had a great time talking about old times. They all tried to convince Ray to move down to the promised land but they were unable to close the sale. Hank Mustin sent in another photo of MUSTIN christening bash. It shows the grand line-up of attending '55 celebrants: Tom Emery, John Adams, Debbie Adams, Hank Mustin, Lucy Mustin, Tom Kiefaber, Ursula Kiefaber, Hugh Webster, and Peggy Webster Al Kozischek submitted a snapshot taken on the occasion of Ed "Sea Breeze" McHale's 70th birthday at the McHale residence in Camarillo, CA. Seventy guests celebrated the occasion with a catered party in the garden. Besides '55ers, many of Ed's navy squadronmates and business associates attended.

Taps I regret to inform the Class that Lauren Anthony Johnson (24) died on 22 July 2002 in Richmond, VA, following a long illness. Lauren retired from active service in June of 1975 as a lieutenant commander. He obtained his master's degree in oceanography from Old Dominion University and began employment with Dominion Virginia Power at the Surry Nuclear Power Station in July of 1975. He remained with Dominion Virginia Power until his death. He was an avid pilot. Lauren is survived by his son, Richard L. Johnson of Charlotte, NC; his daughter, Elizabeth J. MacNair of Mechanicsville; his stepsons, Reid Kuder of Flemington, NJ, and Keith Kuder of Roanoke; his stepdaughter, Christine Merritt of Virginia Beach; and ten grandchildren.

Communications Channels

'55: MUSTIN christening

The easiest and fastest method of getting the word out to Classmates is by email. At the present time, I have the email address for 317 Classmates (53% of living '55 graduates).

Regarding contact channels, another 111 receive Siiipmate and an additional 153 can be reached by snail mail only. Eleven Classmates are "lost."

They are James W. Ellstrom (24), John J. Flynn Jr. (11), Leroy F. Gayle (11), Larry Heisel (18), Aaron B. Jacobs (21), Michael D. Kandra (18), Delbert V. Keener (24), Ronald D. Miller (03), Thomas E. O'Brien (10), William R. Young (15), and Donald L. Zuckerman (16). Besides the '55 listserve, which allows for an open exchange of information, I maintain several email address groups for the purpose of disseminating information that I think would be of particular interest to particular Shipmate, October 2002

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Classmates, e.g. get-together announcements, meetings, and USN/USNA special events, sent to non-listserve Classmates as well. The purpose of this message is to improve on the existing '55 communications channels. To accomplish this, I have a three-fold request First, for those 111 Classmates who receive Shipmate and haven't been hearing from me via email, and who have access, please send your email address to me at kief55@aol.com with instractions for its use.

For example, use for Class/USNA announcements only, or more generally, for inclusion on the '55 listserve. Second, for all within range of this message, encourage every Classmate you are in contact with to "sign up." Third, for all again, to inform me if you know the whereabouts or status of any of the "lost" listed above.

Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. The intent is to inform, not intrade.

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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 We are informed by Neil Groepler's (21) son, Paul, that Neil died on 12 July 2002. Neil suffered a debilitating stroke in 1986 and had been residing in a convalescent home in Austin, TX, in recent years. He nevertheless attended our 1996 reunion. Paul Nelson (22), with whom he stayed for a few days following the reunion, said that Neil had not given up striving to recover from his stroke and retum to independent living and work. Bob Park (8) recalls that Neil was originally in the Class of '55, a Youngster in Eighth Company when we were Plebes. Jerry Shipmate, October 2002

O'Connell (21) said the Neil joined '56 as a member of the 21st Company at the beginning of our Youngster Year. Paul Groepler (paulg@usandp.com) is seeking information on his dad. He is putting it together so the family will have a record of his service and stories of his life. Paul remembers that his father had duty on the fleet snorkel BUGARA (SS-331) and the radar picket SALMON (SS-573). There may have been more. Paul says that any help from Neil's days in the USNR at Hilder Prep School, from the Academy, or during his professional days would be greatly appreciated.

John Bull, MD (23) died from lung cancer on Wednesday, 31 July 2002. Elizabeth Hobbs, who attended John's funeral service in Phoenix with her husband Worth Hobbs, said: It was heart wanning to see CoUene and Wally Bigler (24), Bob Cantrell (18), Classmates, and Art Spring '57, at the service.

The church was standing room only, which was a beautiful tribute to John, revealing how much he was loved and respected. We met many doctors, as well, who came by the house after the service. He certainly was well thought of not only in Phoenix but by many who came from other states to be with his family at the time of his great loss.

Your Class column writer asked Elizabeth how she and Worth had come to know John so well, and she filled us in on their history: Worth and I met John when he was a Plebe and roomed with Worth and he dated my college roommate from Hollins. We have remained very close to his family from that time onward and especially during patrol years in New London when we were together for three years when he and Worth served on PATRICK HENRY and ABRAHAM LINCOLN. When

one went on patrol, the other looked after both families and vice versa. We are godparents to one of their daughters and they are godparents to our son, David. We have been very close during the years and will miss John very much.

Condolences on behalf of the Class were extended to three Classmates who have recentiy

lost loved ones: Frank Graham (17), whose wife, Doris, died on 15 June; Dave Minton (18), whose wife, Marilyn, died on 15 July, and Connie Stevenson (13), whose partner, Francine Gordon, died on 27 July. All three deaths were due to cancer Last month we reported that Frank Kelso (24) gave an inspirational talk to the Class of '06 at their Reaffirmation Day parade on 10 August, at the end of Plebe Summer After last month's column was written, another opportunity to strengthen our Class bond with '06 was arranged, a formal dinner with '06 in King Hall on 13 August, where Bob Shumaker (3) tumed to on short notice and gave an inspiring afterdinner talk. Photos and the text of Frank's and Bob's remarks appear elsewhere in this issue.

Both events were well attended by Classmates and wives. Reaffirmation day attendees, most with spouses, were: Pete Bennett (13), Don Brown (2), Tom Bruyere (24), Walt Carlson (8), Bill Flight (4), Dan Garges (24), Ken Godstrey (II), Doug Hayman (11), Duane Heisinger (7), Jim Johnson (8), Hank Jordan (4), Frank Kelso (24), George Mushaiko (15), Mark O'Hara (14), Ed Parker (13), Cliff Peterson (13), Ted Shultz (20), and Jim Van Metre (4).

Football George Mushaiko says: By the time you read this we will be well into the football season. Our season ticket attendance is holding up in the sixties and we also expect a good turnout for the Notre Dame game in Baltimore on 9 November. Dick Levendoski (13) will once again take on the task of tailgate setup for each home game, which is very time demanding and for which we are all grateful to Dick and Shirley. The stadium renovations are well underway with the seating upgrades, long overdue, being done in time for the 2002 season. Also, the halftime entertainment is being upgraded with performance by guest performing bands in addition to the D&B Corps.

As in previous seasons, any Classmates who are not season ticket holders but wish to attend a game may contact George for availability of tickets in the Class season ticket area near the fifty-yard line, upper level, east side.

The Colorado Springs mini reunion is taking place on 3-6 October, the weekend of the NavyAir Force game. Reunion headquarters is the Candlewood Hotel, 6450 North Academy Blvd.; 719-533-0094. Reunion coordinator is Tom Northam (15) (tnortham@aolcom; 719-6388695). Tom and Onie have done a great job setting up the reunion and we will have a full report in the column as soon as deadlines permit.

A number of donors for memorial chairs have asked Cliff Peterson (13), our Class treasurer, to keep them informed about the progress of donations on specific persons. It would help Cliff if donors would include email addresses with their checks. In addition, donors are reminded to make checks payable to the Class and not to NAAA, so that Cliff can deposit the check as opposed to holding it until he has the whole subscription. As sufficient contributions have now been received, a chair memorial has been ordered for Vem Bush (9).

Jim Van Metre (4) (JimVanM@aol.com) would like to hear from Classmates on the subject of the 89

format for our 50th Reunion Book. What features would you like to have included? What photos? What events? Send Jim an email with your ideas. Planning is very preliminary for the Reunion Book and this is a good time to start to set the course. As was the case with our fortieth reunion book, we will aim to locate all Classmates and include a biographical update from each. Robert Samuel Brown Jr. (24), James Kelly Olson (16), Ben Lutes Steele (1), and David Weggeland (20) are four whom we have not been able to locate for more than six years, when we tried to find everyone for the 40th reunion. There are a number of others whose addresses we do not know, but for whom we have evidence to indicate that they are either dead or alive. These are people who have current insurance policies or are drawing military retired pay, which the companies and agencies concemed will verify, but for privacy reasons will not release their addresses. Letters have been sent to these people asking them to contact the Class secretary and evidentiy they choose not to do so. So be it. Yet for Brown, Olson, Steele, and Weggeland we have no clues. Brown left the Marine Corps as a captain and stayed in touch for many years after, living in the San Diego area. Olson left the Air Force as a captain and lived in Hobart, IN, in the 1980s. Steele left die Air Force as a first lieutenant and we have no address for him as of 1963 and later. Weggeland left the Navy as a leuitenant junior grade and we have no address for him also as of 1963 and later We have asked before, but once again, if you have any ideas as to their whereabouts, please let our finder of lost people, Doug Hayman, know.

Joe Doebler and Mel Klein Joe Doebler and Mel Klein (both 17th Company) felt the need for a little shipboard duty so met aboard the French barge.

CHANTERELLE, for a one week canal cruise in the Loire Valley in early July. Joe says.

We were surrounded by friends, family, 24 in all, and an attentive staff. With a professional barge pilot and chef there was nothing to do but enjoy the countryside and superb food.

Josephus Daniels' regs never came this far; the wine mistress is a great addition to this new navy. It was the best six consecutive days of eating I have ever had.

Many operational exploits of the active duty days of '56 remain classified. Dave Minton, who eamed the Distinguished Service Medal for the operation, had a rare opportunity to reveal to an unclassified audience one of two special operations that were declassified for the submarine centennial. Dave has described his experience as a submarine CO trailing a Soviet 90

submarine in an article, "GUARDHSH Trails an ECHO" in United States Submarines, published this year by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. Very modestiy Dave says, "I am honored to be included, but also embarrassed to find my contribution to the cold war placed in company with the traly great submariners of the past."

Jay Taylor (18) and his wife, Carol, Uve in Femandina Beach, FL, and are presently looking at buying a house on nearby AmeUa Island, in the Jacksonville vicinity. Jay told us about his current job, very much in the news this past summer.

I retired from the Florida PSC in 1995.

However, since 1997 I have been a Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE) for FEMA. What that entails is being able to leave my home at a moment's notice for anywhere in ConlJS, Hawaii or Alaska as well as the Islands such as Guam and the Virgins when a disaster, whether caused by man or nature, strikes. I spent a month at Ground Zero in September through October and have been from North Dakota to Texas and from New York to Arizona. I am presently (August) in Mesa, AZ, providing support for the personnel working thefires.My position is as the accountable property officer (APO). I am responsible for the accountable property, which is shipped out in support of the disaster and it can reach into the millions of dollars. We are completely wireless now and use laptops almost exclusively. On this disaster I had 250 laptops as well as a myriad of different cell phones and wireless phones and all of the servers and phone systems. My total inventory on this disaster is approximately $5 million and the count is over 1,500 items. I really enjoy the work but it is hard being away from home for months at a time. We are paid well and live in Residence Inns and have rental cars for our use. Carol and I have decided that she is going to quit her new job in Florida and travel with me around the country. Our dog sitter is going to love u [sic].

From Goodbee, LA, on the Tchefiincte River, west of Covington, Choppy Cusachs (5) reports on the progress of his house-building project: Several years ago we moved out here, thinking it would only take about a year to build a house.

We had an architect in mind, he had done something similar to what we wanted a few miles up the river, and (we) didn't get alarmed when he said he had a couple of projects ahead of us. We bought a little used trailer and set it up on our landâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we have about 26 acres tietween the road and theriver,my half of a tract my father inheritedfromhis. Carol Lee and I laid 600 feet of pipe to bring waterfromthe well to the trailer And we waited. Finally the architect got aroimd to us, and

last month we started. The builder is a Marine, so the crew works crisply. I put in about 200 feet of pipe to bring water from the flow well to the home site. We will use water as heat sink/source for cooUng and heating as well as usual purposes.

The building will be roughly a rectangular screened porch with three modules inside, master sleeping and guest quarters, separated fiom a central hving-dining module by breezeways. There will be supplemental bimking space above the sleeping quarters. It will seat about 35 comfortably for groups. Construction is expected to take from six to nine months. I have wanted to live here for more than 35 years.

Roger Betts (22) (rbettslO@comcast.net) is seeking information on Phil Fales (16): Phil was shot down and killed in Vietnam in November 1969. His Classmates at South Kent School, which he attended prior to joining our USNA Class, are dedicating a plaque to his memory in the chapel of South Kent School.

We have the obituary published in Shipmate and the entry in the '56 Lucky Bag. What we don't have is a picture of Phil as an Air Force officer or any anecdotal material related to his Air Force career. We'd like to have this to help succeeding generations of South Kent boys understand and appreciate the dedication to duty, service and sacrifice of Phil. Please, any Classmates who can provide any information or pictures of Phil as an Air Force officer, contact me at the email address above.

As you know, Jane and Howard Burdick (1) summered in the northem parts of the Great Loop craise in their boat SEABURDS. In Canada, they made a canal lock-wall rendezvous with Ned Roberts (7) and his wife, Peggy, who were roving about in their motor home. The Roberts knew the Burdicks were going to be in the area at some point, and they kept up to date via Howard and Jane's SitReps. Asked if he was flying a '56 flag so Ned could find them, Howard said that the way it worked out was, "Our PIM was much more constrained and easier to predict than theirs, and they just hoped our paths might intersect, as they did evenmally."

Happy new knees to Mona Shultz, Peg Peterson, and Tom Bruyere (24)! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;^Doug

CONQRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S

DQAs

'56: L to r: Bill Flight. Doug Hayman, Jennifer Jordan (daughter of Hank), Anne Flight, George Mushaiko. Rod Flannery, Sandy Fitzwilliam, Judi Hayman, Hank Jordan, Barbara Mushaiko, and Pete Fitzwilliam at the Induction Ceremony for the Class of '06 Shipmate, October 2002

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Pres: CAPT David S. Cooper, USN (Ret) Corr Secy: CAPT F.N. Howe Jr., USN (Ret) 1 Walter Circle. Fredericksburg, VA 22405 e; fTihusna57@aol.com Secy: CAPT R.H. Scales, USN (Ret) 129 Westbury, Williamsburg, VA 23189 e: vkct@mindspring.com Webmaster; Fred Dammann web site: www.usna57.com Dick Scales reports that as a result of considerable investigation it now appears certain that our Classmate John William "Jack" Margedant died on 21 March 2002 in Sunnyvale, CA. The fact that Jack died has only been leamed through an examination of Social Security files and because of this there are unfortunately no other details to report at this writing. Dick and new Company Coordinator Joe Byrnes are working on filling in the blanks and those will appear in "Last CaU" when assembled. Sadly, the Second Company has been hit hard with casualties in the last months and Joe has his hands full.

The Big 45: Well, was tiiat a blast, or what? If you didn't bum up part of last month hanging with your old shipmates down at the farm, you missed a gala occasion with some guys (and ladies) who are still, after all these years, the grandest, most handsome people around. And, did you notice, they seem to get smarter and better looking every time you see them?

Our thanks are due for the not inconsiderable task of making the trains ran on time all weekend to a small, tightly knit group who labored for several years to make all the pieces fit and create wall-to-wall, hassle-free fun for all. Led

by Jim Poole and Cleve Loman, these guys and ladies thought of just everything.

Even though the names that foUow have been previously mentioned in other pubUcations here's the line-up of the principal players (in the order they came off the wire) chiseled into stone—in case you want to single out folks who made a particular function/event particularly outstanding; Golf—Bill Hamel; Football Tickets—Keith Hastie; Memorial Service Celebrant—John Shewmaker; Co-Chairman—Cleve Loman; Mementoes—^Marianne Loman; IT Coordinator— Paul Behrends; Thursday "Happy Houi^'—^Jack O'Donnell; Tailgate—George Philipps; CoChairman—Jim Poole; Business/Financial Manager—Skip Rutemiller; Sattirday Banquet— Pattie Rutemiller; MaiUng/Publicity—^Anne and Jerry Smith; Transportation—^Tom Weissinger; Memorial Service Coordinator—Jim Hower; Check-in/Registration—Rosemary and Sam IHppe; HospitaUty/Good Cheer—Ken Malley; Friday Welcome Reception—Randy Brown; Retail Merchandise—Jim O'Comiell; Nametags/ Class Directory—^Dick Scales.

Thank each of you for a job well done.

As a special bonus, here are a few faces deep in thought to go with some of the names above, capttired at one of the last committee meetings before showtime.

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The Peerenbooms, r to I: Betty and Bill, their granddaughters, Caitlan and Kristin, and son, John and his wife, Michelle

Jack O'Donnell Shipmate, October 2002

In the fullness of time we will try to bring you a few shots of some of the party-goers, quick as we can sort through the pile and eliminate those likely to precipitate lawsuits.

Onward: July is a big month for picnics as it turns out, and the Granddaddy of them all of course is the annual Class clambake at Martha Ann and Bill Romoser's Oakton farm, "Willamar." This year, for the first time since records have been kept, the initial date was rained out and the local officials (Pete Boyne and Tom Sims) stepped ever so lively with the Romosers gracious agreement to postpone the affair for a week. The following Sunday it was just hotter'n the hinges of Hades but the shady front lawn of Willamar accommodated 50 Classmates and wives and everything was cool and went off without a single hitch.

Marge Sims' pudding (for 60) didn't quite make it to the second week, but her watermelon was perfect accompaniment to the barbeque.

Some faces in the crowd:

Mimi and Dave Cooper

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Linda and Don Regenhardt

L to r: Bill and Betty Peerenboom, John Shewmaker, Dianne Howe, and Monica Shewmaker

OC and Barbara Baker For those of you who study the "front matter" (the stuff upstream from the Class news) you will have noted in last month's "Bravo Zulu" section that Col Robert L. Albertson, USAF (Ret) was honored (on 7 June, as luck would have it) by the National Capital Chapter of the Financial Planning Association with their highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. Well, Bob's daughter, Tracey Baker, labored vaUantiy to get us a photo of the clan assembled for Bob's award presentation for our column but, what with the vagaries of digital photography, we were just never able to make it work. So, fresh from the picnic grounds, somewhat belated, a candid shot of young Bob, looking fat and sassy and well-heeled, and enjoying his own Ufetime achievement award.

Hard on the heels of the Class picnic came the famous Color Company picnic. This is the time reserved each year for die Third Herd lads to assemble in Carolyn and Herb Hoppe's backyard, swap a few lies about how we did it to the Fighting Fourth, practice a little close order drill and—in the heat—pay particular attention to staying hydrated. Nearby is pictured the duty squad at this year's renewal (right to left) Bill Mickle, Carolyn and Herb Hoppe, Joy and Jim Foresman, Monica Shewmaker Wc Vieweg, John Shewmaker, and Dianne and Fred Howe.

The scribe has managed to get just way, way behind with reports from the Class Golf Czar, Jim Poole. There's no getting "well" with this at this late date but I will try to get a little caught up by passing on some May and June results and a couple of representative photos provided to me during the summer. For openers: Our Sixth Annual '55/'57 Shootout was held in Stafford, VA, at Augustine Golf Club on 21 May. I was to have co-hosted with Ray Hine '55, but a family emergency required that I leave those duties in the capable hands of Jerry Smith. Although the day was perfect for golf, it appears that many of our Classmates were enjoying the weather more than they were enjoying their golf. '55 wrested possession of the Shootout Trophy from us with a score of minus 20 to minus 23 (high score wins).

Individual awards of gift certificates went to Dwight Avis—1st Place; Monroe Hatch '55—2nd Place; BiU Hamel—3rd (match of cards); Peter Junghans—4th (match of cards); Doc Dugan—5th (match of cards); Buzz Beans—6th (match of cards); and John Adams '55—7th. Closest-to-the-pin winners were: Dick Morgan '55 and Ray Hine '55.

The Commissioner's Prize (otherwise known as the "Prize for Impersonating a Golfer") went to Bruce DeMars. Bruce is obviously spending too much time working on the 50th Reunion Gift and not enough time working on his golf game!

Although I wasn't there, I have heard, once again, nothing but raves about this outing. My thanks go to Jerry Smith for stepping up to the plate and hosting this for me at the last minute, to Ray Hine for again putting together a stellar group of '55ers, and to all our guys and those from USNA '55 who, time after time, show their Class in playing competitive, but fun, golf. It is a sheer joy being part of this group of Classmates and friends, and to look forward to 2003 and recouping the trophy!

Later on the following synopsis from Jim on this year's '57 Army-Navy match: George Lanman sent me some excellent pics of the A-N golf contest we played in June.

This reminded me that I had promised you some further details of the match that we won 38-28. Here they are: 4th Low Net—^Jerry Smith (68); 3rd Low Net—Walt Meukow (67); 2nd Low Net—Nick Robinson, Army (65); 1st Low Net—George Lanman (62).

Closest to the pin honors went to Les McMenamin and Army's Ed Hickey. Longest drive was won by Army's Bill Huckabee.

The win was a nice way to cap off a week in which the Classes of both Academies celebrated the 45th anniversary of their graduation and commissioning.

At left is a shot of the two winners. Navy's George Lanman and Army's winner Nick Robinson.

Don't ask me how Coronado's own ends up jetting in for the big game, but there you are, whatever works. Carpe diem. —^FNH

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Pres: LtCol 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.coni/Classes/1958/ If an octagon has eight sides, an octopus has eight legs, an octet has eight singers, an octogenarian has 80 years, how come October isn't the eighth month? Just when one thinks that a perfectiy logical relationship can be estabUshed, the oddball case occurs which skews the entire concept. But wait...a Class that has an octal in its designator should be able to figure it out.

Through the research powers vested in us by the USNA primer Writing a Research Paper, published by the United States Naval Institute in 1955, we know that primary sources are either documents, published documents, or interviews, and that secondary materials are books or articles on limited subjects by experts, or generalized compendiums. (You do remember all that stuff from writing your First Class term paper, don't you?) Armed with this knowledge, one can go on-line or to a software encyclopedia program and search on the word "October." While the aforementioned primer does not specifically call out computer searching, or for that matter, even mention computers, it seems that this procedure falls within the realm of legitimate research. The answer provided states that October is die eighth month! End of problem!

'57: The Third Herd Siiipmate, October 2002

Oh, that was in the Roman calendar of 700 B.C., when the year started with March, and diere were only 304 days. Julius Caesar, who got us the solar calendar, January and Febraary, 365 days, and a great salad dressing, changed all that around to the system we use today. Now that October is all explained, go look up "octillion" and see if that makes sense! Meanwhile, the colunm must progress, avoiding at all costs octosyllabic words.

At this point on the calendar, many Classmates have been to football games in Annapolis, and have been able to plant their posteriors in the new seats installed in the stadium over the summer These were somewhat of a surprise to many Navy fans, but eagerly expected by those who had attended the July luncheon of tiie Class of 1958 held by the DC Chapter. That luncheon featured the new Athletic Director Chet Gladchuck, who discussed the overall athletic program at USNA and the emphasis upon the scholar-athlete. In closing, he showed several slides of the renovation project, including one where the entire stadium had been stripped of seats, sandblasted, and cleaned. Then a picture showed the new stadium seats, with armrests and folding seats. Only the Midshipmen still get the bench seating, as they have to clamber up to their seats. All the memorial plaques have been removed from the old seats, and are now installed on the top of a wall at the horseshoe end of the stadium, in front of the Class of 1953 PaviUon. This area is called the Memorial Walk.

The Class season ticket holder seating area remains basically the same, with a slight adjustment in seat numbering as the new seats take up a bit more space. The upshot is we can no longer slide to one side or the other and make room for somebody to squeeze in, but on the plus side, we sit in armchair comfort.

Several Classmates were in armchair comfort as they joined in with the StiU Craisin' group led

by Diane and Massey Hughes (3) on a trip to the ^ords of Norway. Joining them on the trip were Cindy and Mike McLane (6), Barbara and Dick Alexander (10), and Air Force friends of the Alexanders and McLanes, Rosemary and Peter Green. The photo below shows the couples, left to right, Hughes, McLanes, Greens, and Alexanders. The dark circle on the photo highUghts the miniaUire Class of '58 flag used as a centerpiece on their table.

I retired from US EPA 26 April of this year.

It took us over a year to sell our home of 27 years in Arvada, CO (on 58th Place!), during which time we had everything boxed (more than once) and earlier in the year 2001 (tried) to stop all correspondence/pubs including Shipmate. Yes, the nation and we went through a bad time period with September 11th and all.

In May of this year, having finally sold the home on 30 April and after giving away all of our old stuff, we left behind (just ahead of the Denver foothills firestorm, smoke, and haze), a hardy son, good friends, neighbors. Naval Academy Classmates, and chums to retire to our townhouse in the Ko Olina resort (of our dreams) in West Oahu, HI. Classmates may recall that Ko Olina is about 25 minutes west of Pearl on H-1 and five minutes west of the old NAS at Barbers Point.

If anyone is interested in vacationing at the JW Marriott Ihilani-run gated resort see www.koolina.com. It's a beautiful 642-acre layout with seven lucent lagoons, a championship 18-hole golf course, a 170-room hotel, four restaurants (one at the golf course and one at the marina), an every-night-of-the-year luau, a world-Class spa, tennis courts atop the spa, a 270 slip ocean-side marina, and miles of walking paths on park-like grounds. As to the white sand lagoons (as the kids say, any one of which you would die for), the four larger ones are equipped with restrooms and outdoor showers.

During the week the beaches are essentially unoccupied. We live in a self-managed 280townhouse complex at the resort's east end and trip daily to the lagoons on our golf cart.

Snorkel, swim, tennis, golf, fish, luau, or just snooze, anyone?

Three housing developments including a 760 unit Marriott timeshare and two single-family home spreads on the golf course are work-inprogress within the mile and a half-long ocean front property. It's laid-back environment out here on the semi-arid Waianae Coast, nothing like the hustle and bustle of rainy Waikiki (about a 45 minute drive to the east). The football Pro Bowl Association takes over the Marriott hotel, spa, shops, and restaurants early each February. The hotel sets up bleacher stands and the access is free to watch (close up) each NFL-AFL conference team practice on the hotel's adjacent field, complete with goal posts and crowd control! The sun shines most of the year so it's usually warm-wear Bermudas, tank-tops, bring your suntan oil, hat, eye shades, munchies, and refreshments!

We'll be mid-field! Aloha!

The address is 92-1471E Aliinui Drive, Kapolei, HI 96707; 808-679-8004. Now we await the glorious photos of the Kiehn's paradise.

Line Mueller (17) (lincsara@cox.net) tells that he is now totally retired from the paying

'58 Norway cruise One of our Qassmates who has weighed anchor in ConUS and moved to Hawaii has checked in.

Marilyn and Orv Kiehn (14) (marilynorv @aol.com) are enjoying mai tais and beautifiil sunsets, as related in the following note: Shipmate, October 2002

workforce, having retired from OMNI Analysis.

He and his wife. Chip, are fishing, traveling, and playing. This past summer they took a threeweek trip to Ireland, which included a two-week intergenerational Elderhostel with one of their granddaughters (age 9). In June, Chip and Line traveled to New Jersey with two of his USNA roommates, Charlie Brooks and Joe Sendek, to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of the other roommate. Stash Wiklinski and his wife, Barbara. The photo shows the four roommates holding up the travel flag, left to right. Brooks, Wiklinski, Sendek, and Mueller.

Joe Steckler (15) is still doing good works on behalf of Alzheimer's disease sufferers, as reported in the following note: In April 2001 I sent you a letter telling you that I would step down as executive director of the Brevard Alzheimer's Foundation, an organization that many '58ers had helped through our annual car drawings. I did step down but am still in the process of tying up loose ends, namely: Completing our $1 million endowment matchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now $70,000 away from goal.

Completing construction of our second Alzheimer's Care Center that we dedicated on 18 June.

Raising $600,000 to build the third (and last) Alzheimer's Care Center in Titusville, FLâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; have $100,000 committed.

Moderating a weekly radio show, "The Elder Hour," on air since 7 December 2000, and something I truly enjoy.

And, learning to walk after a 1 July hip nsplacement My purpose in sending this letter is to let Classmates know about the special promotion of a '53 MGTD and a '67 Dodge Coronet "HEMI," of which 61 were made and only three remain. Only 1,500 tickets will be sold on each car. If you know any collectors I would ask you to tell them about our cars and as soon as all tickets are sold, we will notify all donors of the place and date of the drawing. The winner does not need to be present to win. Please tell your friends about the event. We are advertising nationwide and one '58er already has made a donation for a ticket on the HEMI. I look forward to seeing you at the 45th and have much appreciated your support the nine years I directed the foundation. You also may make a ticket donation via Visa or MasterCard by calling the foundation office at 321-253-4430 or you may visit our web site at www.brevardalzheimers.org and click on fundraisers link to purchase tickets on line. '58 is Great!

Chance meetings among Classmates are a favorite topic, and here is another entry in the "small world" category from Bob Flynn (10): It was only after we got into a conversation with the owner of The Cove resort in

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Eleuthera, Bahamas, that I discovered that the resort we vacationed at was owned by a Classmate. Ann and George Mullin (22) have been living in paradise, but don't take my word for it, check out their web site at www.TheCoveEleuthera.com. "Whenever two or three shall meet," old times are definitely recalled. Ann Mullin crafted a jury-rigged '"58 is Great" flag and between kayaking, snorkeling, and gourmet dining we snapped this picture for Shipmate. In the photo you see George and Ann Mullin, then Barbara and Bob Flynn.

'58 is Great!

Rosemary and Jim Adkins (9) (JimRosemary_Adkins@compuserve.com) moved early in the year out to the Puget Sound, and now their new home is finished and they have provided the address. They now reside at 7304 NW Duckabush Lane, Silverdale, WA 98383; 360-662-1958; f: 360-337-1958.

Duckabush is the name of a river that feeds into the Hood Canal. Looks as though the only thing they couldn't work 1958 into is their street address and zip code!

There is also a new email for Tom Keifer (17), who is now broadbanding at twk58@comcasta.net.

A new phone number for Jim Healey (20) in their San Diego home is 760-749-2241.

Last July, two 12th Company roommates, Al Skiles of Steamboat Springs, CO, and Grant Cooper of Flagstaff, AZ, along with "other" wives Ann Skiles and Susan Cooper, completed a seven-day raft trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The photo shows the two unshaven frontiersmen, Al and Grant, as they completed the trip. Al also submitted a grandpa picture, showing him with his two grandsons, Luke, the six-month old son of Dan Skiles, and Alex, the 3-year old son of Doug Skiles. The Skiles cheering team will be at the Navy-Air Force game on 5 October

^ Skiles and Cooper, mountainmen

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J J Seeberger (10) has sent in another "down on the farm" photo, this time in the company of his son, Scott Seeberger '87, along with the following note: Our oldest son, Scott, and family, now living in the Denver area, recently visited our home in Madison, VA. Scott was at the Academy during Chuck Larson's first tour as Superintendent. Scott went Navy Air and resigned his commission after ten years, but is still active in the Reserve in New Orleans. Our Classmate, Al Swanson (21) was instrumental in helping Scott get into the airlines, where he now instructs and flies the Airbus 320 for United.

Cemetery. The Class offers its condolences to the family on the loss of this fine Naval officer and Classmate.

'58 Trivia; The first ensigns came out of the Class of 1912. Up to that point, graduates were "Passed Midshipmen." In what year during the '40s was there no June Week? Hasta Luego! 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 Osbum Sec'y: CAPT John A. Butterfield, USN (Ret) 509 Buckboard Ct., Richland, WA 99352 h: 509-371-1486 / CEO of Gateskate Inc., 2655 Einstein Ave., Richland, VA 99352 w: 509-371-0726; e; jbutter@gateskate.com www.usna.com/classes/1959/usna59.html

JJ Seeberger '58 and Scott Seeberger '87 The "Binnacle List" this month includes Donald Jerome Hynes (19), who is suffering from cancer.

He served with the riverine squadrons in Vietnam and was exposed to Agent Orange. His address is 334 Hasson Avenue, Oil City, PA 16301; 814-6766763. Also on the Ust is Gordy Schaaf (12), who underwent heart surgery in mid-August to repair a stretched mitral valve. Gordy passed along his symptoms so that others could be aware of possible similar situations: Starting in March, I had a few occasions of feeling lightheaded, but it did not seem like a big deal. In July, the same feeling was accompanied by severe constrictions in the chest, making breathing a bit difficult. Subsequently, the conditions have deteriorated, to where I can no longer do much on the physical side, without becoming very tired, very quickly.

At that point, I visited the medical center in Annapolis, and after several days of tests (EKG's, echo cardiograms, catheterizations, etc.), all of which were very magical, films and CD's showed exactly what was wrong. Not having had much to do with the medical profession, I was absolutely amazed at the quality and clarity of the films that I watched of my own heart and blood streams.

Last month's column mentioned the illness of Jim Clarkson (8), and this month his passing is sadly announced. On 29 July, LCDR James Stroud Clarkson, USN (Ret.), passed away as a result of heart disease. After his retirements as a Navy Supply Corps officer, Jim worked for the CACI Corporation in the Washington, DC area, retiring from that organization as a vice president. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Clarkson, three sons, James III, Jeffrey, and Thomas, and daughter Elizabeth Maher, as well as four grandchildren. Funeral services were held on 6 September at Ariington National

Where does the time go? Seems like I just wrapped up the last report to you. First item is to make sure that you saw Dick Robinson's Installation Ceremony photo in the September 2002 column. Dick is in the center, and is flanked by many high-ranking Masonic Officers, both current and past Grand Masters.

Dick remarked that the ceremony is probably the "highlight of the year as the Lodge Master However, I am looking forward to the end of the year when I tum the Lodge over to my successor. This event will make Virginia history (if not national) because this gentleman will be the first black man installed as the Master of a Virginia Masonic Lodge." (Good on you, Robby, for wise and enlightened leadership!) Health-wise Dick reports he has to keep close tabs on his PSA and blood pressure. But he is still taking Boy and Girl Scout Troops caving in West Virginia.

Priscilla and I recentiy enjoyed a wonderful dinner and evening at the home of Judy and Jim Tritz here in Richland, WA. Thanks to Robby who had sent me a copy, I was able to give Jim the articles/background on Rocky Versace, who had been honored in DC and Alexandria, VA. Joining the gathering at Tritz' was a USMA '59 whom Jim had served with, and they have been friends for 40-plus years. Bill had known Rocky and recognized some of the USMA '59ers mentioned in the article.

Some sad news to report to you, the first of which (concerning Emmett J. Knapp) comes from Mickey Garverick: Hi Classmates! Dee and Lloyd Adams, Ted Santos, Gloria and Karl Keay, Bob Gates, and I attended the memorial service at Salem Baptist Church in Sparta, VA, today for Emmett. I can safely say that we were blessed by the testimonies of his family and his pastor Emmett lived the life we all dream of, spending quality (and quantity) time with his wife, Betty, four children, and six grandchildren.

Betty and Emmett decided to live the life they wanted with their family for the past 11 years, fighting the cancer, but enjoying the outdoors and all that farm life had to offer his family.

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His daughter and granddaughter gave wonderful eulogies for their dad and granddad, and we were so proud to represent you, the Class of 1959, as Emmett was honored for his service to his nation and the Navy. His granddaughter, Katie Gates, also sang a song that I think she wrote for the service and it was a wonderful reflection of Emmett's impact on her life. Betty will tie remaining at their farm and can be reached at 21027 Alps Road, Milford, VA 22514. Emmett died on 20 July, the memorial was on 22 July, and interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery on 16 August.

The local paper did not have an obituary that detailed Emmett's superb naval career. I have pieced together that after USNA graduation he graduated from Supply School. ser\ed on R.L., WILSON, L.WRENCE, and VULC.W, Naval Post

graduate school in 1968, Armed Forces Staff College, Naval War College, two tours of duty with DLA (Defense Logistics Agency), a one year tour in Iceland, and a tour in OpNav. Emmett was bom in Parma, ID. and retired from the Navy in 1984. He was preceded in death by his parents, a son, Harvey Edward Knapp. and a brother. Glen Knapp. The deepest sympathies of our Class reach out to Betty, the three daughters and one son. and all the extended family. Emmett was a super nice guy!

Another loss recentiy reported was that of Anthony M. Franco, one of our members lost along the way, before our '59 graduation. Tony had a most successful career in the Detroit area in the communications and public relations fields. Tony was 69 years old and had homes in Bloomfield HiUs and Naples, FL. A current executive of the Franco Group commented "Even today nearly nine years after Tony retired from Franco, when the company's name is mentioned in conversation, it is not uncommon to have someone say, "I knew Tony" foUowed by a story of a meeting, a golf game, or a charitable involvement." ft any '59ers out there have kept in touch with Tony, or you have a sweet story to teU, please pass that on, so others in the Qass (and other Alumni) can be upUfted by a guy who positively touched many, many Uves.

Thanks in advance!

Another deceased Classmate, this being James Paul Anderson. Don Cooper gave me this report after he received a phone call from Skip Anderson, Andy's son: Andy died on 2 August and was buried in Tennessee on 5 August. He was from Milan, TN, and spent a year at Memphis State.Our Lucky Bag mentioned how he spent much of Plebe Year in the Hospital, and again some of Second Class Year. He had a reputation as a "dragger" Andy was in 21st Company. He did not receive a commission because of a shoulder injury.

Andy was planning on joining a group of us at an Annapolis mini-reunion in September. Diane and I were so pleasantly surprised five weeks ago when Andy called; he had always been difficult to track down. At that time he did mention some health problems with shortness of breath and asthma. We traded emails and sent information preparing him for the mini-reunion. The anticipation of a visit was traly helping to make our summer I got a nice "plug" from Brad Keyes (bradjankeyes@erols.com): Hey, John—Your great efforts in continuing to produce the Class column are truly appreciated. From the Washington Post of 22 or 23 July, "CACI International, an Ariington-based Shipmate, October 2002

government technology contractor, said it is leaving the tech-heavy NASDAQ for the NYSE. 'That should reduce the volatility of the company's stock' said Jack London, chairman and CEO." Also, Don Babcock has taken his distance learning expertise to Singapore, where he is building an international program for Thomson Learning. He signed on for five years, so he and Susan may be in for culture shock when they come back. Thanks again for your dedication. Brad. Thanks so much for the endorsement/kind words. Brad!

Here is a fine press release from JIM Enterprises that describes my Second Companymate, John McCabe: John McCabe graduates from Coach U. JJM Enterprises, the executive coaching firm based in Jacksonville's Orange Park, proudly announces John McCabe's successful completion of required coursework at Coach U., the world's largest and most prestigious coach training program. McCabe's achievement earns him a spot amongst its equally distinguished alumni. The occasion marks yet another run on McCabe's climb up the executive business development ladder A USNA 1959 graduate, and retiree from the Naval Reserve, John has logged nearly 30 years of industrial management experience, holds an M.B.A. from American International College, and has pursued graduate studies in both business management and industrial psychology.

John is involved with a number of civic and business associations, including being very active with the Clay County Chamber of Commerce. I wiU have to forgive JJ that when he moved to Florida, he never let me know, nor did he even try to make contact. But having known John for a long, long time, and knowing how focused he can be and wanting to minimize any distractions, it is understandable. And I suppose he could be mad at me for when I moved out of Florida in December I did not let JJ know. What I really had hoped to do, was go to a miming race/meet diere. The last time we ran together was at our 40th reimion and we had a good time swapping lies 'n stories. John will be a good coach; he is a motivator.

I foHow that item up with a report two good guys made sure I received, Dan Richardson and Dave Sullivan. Dave got the ball rolling when he emailed me: Leslie and Dan Richardson's son recendy got married and I went to the wedding. I spent some time with Dan, my brother-in-law as you know, and I asked him for details on this story that I thought would be great for the Class column.

And it is! WTiat follows is Dan Richardson's report to Dave, and me: As many of you know I am the trustee coordinator at VFMAC (Valley Forge Military Academy/College) in Wayne, PA. It is an all male, all boarding military school for grades 7-8, high school, and two years of college.

Capacity is 819 cadets who wear uniforms taught by a staff of about 250 employees on 120 acres. Most of the graduates go on to business or professional colleges, but about 15-20 each year go to one of the Service Academies.

At the wedding of our son, Daniel Jackson Richardson '85, I was telling Dave Sullivan about one of the cadets who really wanted to go to USNA. It was three years ago when Andy Rapacke first started his marathon effort. He did not make it, but he decided his college sophomore year at VFMAC. For the second time and a second year, he was informed that he just didn't make the highly

competitive selection. So after searching out other schools and obtaining NROTC scholarships, and flirting with success at an appointment to West Point, he was just about ready to go to a prestigious school in New England and try again the following year for admission to USNA. Whoa! Dan gets a call from this young man saying he received admittance to the Naval Academy Prep School at Newport, RI, and asks what he should do. Of course there was no question! He went to NAPS and did well. This past Induction Day, 28 June 2002, at the U.S. Naval Academy, RADM Dan Richardson, USN (Ret.) swore Andy Rapacke into the Navy. Andy had asked Dan to swear him in because of the bond they had built over the previous three years. What a great ending to a quest, and the start of a stellar career for another Navy leader.

Dan closed saying there are success stories of young men every year, but most not as dramatic as this one. Thanks, Dan, and may this be an encouragement to young and old alike, to stick with it and pursue your ambitions, hopes, and dreams. Thank goodness there are terrific people—encouragers and motivators—like Dan Richardson who make that extra effort to help young people!

A quick "look back" from 1962: Gary Smith had departed MULLINIX (DD-944) for Sub Nuc Power Program. Frank Hurley was still aboard.

The Mickey Garverick's had a party attended by Jim Fiene, John Turner Hans Roensch, Frank Hurley, Bob Larson, Al Zuntag, Larry Permenter, Joe King, and John Moore. Bob Oliveri was serving as "aide-de-camp" to an Air Force general at Kirtland AFB, NM. Jess De Cesare wrote from COLUMBUS ( C C - 1 2 ) of his marriage, and redesignation to 1400 and assignment as MPA on the ship. He had seen Carol and Carl Keske, Marilyn and Barry Ketts also in the Bremerton area. He expected Tom Young in the fall and thought Eighth Company would have a monopoly in WA. The Second Company had the lock on communicators aboard submarines on Med deployment: Bob Beaton in JALLAO; Dave Boyd in RUNNER; and John McCabe in CorsAir. JJ eamed his gold Dolphins on the Med craise. Milan Moncilovich was gunnery officer in RUNNER. Another '59er seen around the Med was Hal Sexton, supply officer in CorsAir. And that's the way it was. I hope some of you will give me information on how it is! Need some fresh reports, and reporters!

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From Gene Gasser via email: I was asked to send you the info for Shipmate on our latest luncheon in Annapolis as follows: The Annapolis-Washington area Class luncheon in June was hosted by June and Gene Gasser at their home on 21 June 2002. A BBQ lunch with views of Mother Bancroft and the Sevem River were enjoyed by the following '60 Classmates: Bob Gamba, Gary Cogdell, Jim Knorr, Harvey Kramer, Bob Lowe, Ed Mangan, Ben Mercer, Merf Moerschel and Tom Wishart.

Tentative plans were made for a boating get together in August. We forgot to take a picture, so words will have to do. Have fun.

After trading messages concerning some troublesome vireo, I received the following from John Chenard: I haven't been on line since the 5th.

Regardless, Sheila and I are enjoying New England for a couple of weeks. We just spent three days with my sister in Maine, and are now back in Newport restoring a house in town and sailing. (I sail with Joe Matais on Thursday—he lives in Portsmouth).

Later: Went sailing into Newport Harbor yesterday on a Rhodes 19 from the Navy marina. The special part is my crew: Joe Matais whom I haven't seen for a few years. He looks great and is a very spry forecastle crewman.

The great Alaska Shootout! A stalwart group of Classmates, friends, and spouses headed north to Alaska for some adventure, sightseeing and companionship. Many tales were shared amongst the group and the best of the facts or fiction can be learned by getting first hand reports from those who attended.

From Ed Clexton: Bill, knowing we missed the deadline for the next Shipmate, this is my (there may be others) report of our great Class Alaska trip the first two weeks of July.

The Class July Alaska Cruise: The two weeks started in Fairbanks where we went on a riverboat cruise, seeing lots of sites, including some Q and A time with Susan Butcher, the three-time winner of the Iditarod dogsled race across Alaska. We even got to pan for gold when we stopped at an old gold mine!

Amazing but they even had a gift shop there!

We then went to a wilderness lodge 40 miles south of Mt. McKinley in the Denali National Park. Some of us were lucky enough to actually see (parts of) Mt. McKinley—80% of the people who visit there never see it! We then made our way through picturesque countryside on a Princess party train (nothing but drinks, food, and drinks!) to Anchorage where we spent the night before a coach ride to Seward where we embarked on OCEAN PRINCESS.

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blessed with beautiful weather and consequently, the scenery was breathtaking—calm seas; glaciers upon glaciers—some even calving; with blue skies and beautiful mountains beyond. We put into Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan on subsequent days for tours and treks and some local culture. Did you know it's a state law that for every gift shop there has to be a bar within 100 feet. During our week aboard OCEAN PRINCESS, there were also plenty of bars aboard and we had to eat every meal offered! Our tour director arranged that we sit together as a Class in an alcove in the dining room and that was great! The other guests thought it was a good idea too, so we were separated from them when it came to "wild men," roll lobbing, and "cannonball races."

All in all, it was great fun. Having quality time together over an extended period was the real plus. The USNA and sea storiesflew,but there was always someone there to tell "the rest of the story." There were also plenty of ideas of when and where to go next. I have had feelers from several other Classes to join forces on similar trips and I am in the process of getting contacts in USMA '60 and USAFA '60 to do some sort of triad trip in the future. So I am most anxious to hear from Classmates re some of these ideas.

Attendees this time were Teeny and John Anthony (the instigators), Gloria and Bob Antonio, Pat and Ray Burkley, Barbara and Al Bissell, Joyce and John Claman, Catherine and Ed Clexton, Joanne and Bob Gamba, Muriel and Jack Greenhalgh, Cristy and Joe Jaap, Retta and Jim Kovacevich, Angela Klisch and Bob Lowe, Betty and Jim McKinney, Barbara and Ward O'Brien, Dottie and Mike Porter, Jonnie and Dick Shawkey, Francine and Frank Simpson, Karen and Dennis Vied, and Emery and Robyn Walters. Others with the group were Gamba friends Joan and Duke Schneider USMA '60 and McKinney friends Debra and Dave Ray. By a nice coincidence, Diane and Butch Thompson were also aboard OCEAN PRINCESS albeit with another group.

A number of us took some land tours separate from the cruise. As an example, Catherine and I (and the O'Briens) took a helo tour to a glacier in the moming and later topped that off with a bike tour on the Klondike Hwy in the afternoon. The days were full and enjoyable and as far as I can tell, all had a great time. As far as soliciting takers for any future cruise adventures, we might want to make some contacts with either other Classes or other '60 Classes at the other academies. Anyway, we will be back to you with something more formal for all to consider.

From Jim Kovacevich: Thank you for sharing your draft of our "Alaskan Adventure." It was an excellent summary...clear, concise and accurate! We enjoyed your idea of expanding the experience to include others from our Class and fellow service academies with the cruise lifestyle.

What a great way to combine a memorable vacation with our wives while interacting with our Classmates and their spouses in a great environment! We thoroughly enjoyed our interactions with Catherine and you and wish you two all of life's happiness.

Christy and Joe Jaap offered to find a publisher to deal with all the stories from trips, dinners and other "happenings!"

Jim McKinney sent along a tale and picture (next page) that indicated a lot of excitement prevailed during some of the land-bound portions of the trip. While the story is simply too

graesome to pass on, suffice it to say that everybody survived and Jim was able to outran the bear in the picture. Jim swears that others might not have been so lucky.

John Claman revealed that weapons fraining from the days at Dahlgren Hall stood many in good stead. I'm not so sure that OCEAN PRINCESS was quite prepared, but apparently they weathered the storm.

Dick Shawkey trekked up from Califomia with Jonnie and added his vast knowledge of the Alaskan culture to the assemblage. Not bad for a former Navy fencer Never had to put those skills to use on this trip.

Angela Klisch and Bob Lowe missed the land portion of the craise, and Bob was thankful of that because of the ferocious mosquitoes that could be found inland. Apparentiy there was no problem aboard ship, not because of range, but because there was no landing room.

Robyn Walters also missed the land portion and added: My only "gripe" with the cruise was not hearing a bunch of Bancroft Hall tales. Folks seemed to be overtaken by tales from later careers. Life goes on. "Wherever two or three shall meet, and old tales be retold."

Possibly they just couldn't remember back that far.

Trip organizer John Anthony sent along the following wrap-up: Onboard OCEAN PRINCESS en route to

Vancouver, a number of Classmates and their OAOs were regulars at the Wheelhouse Bar most evenings. Swapping sea stories and discussing philosophy and the deeper meanings of life were: Teeny and John Anthony, Patricia and Ray Burkley, Catherine and Ed Clexton, Christy and Joe Jaap, Bob Lowe and Angela Klisch, Dottie and Mike Porter, and Barbara and Ward O'Brien. Due to the rambunctious nature of the crowd, the writer apologizes for any omissions.

For those adventurous enough, the lure of the slot machines during the late hours had its attractions for Teeny Anthony, Betty McKinney, and a friend of the McKinney's, Debra Ray. By the time it was over, a small contribution to the ship's recreation fund had been made by the women. Bob Antonio, on the other hand, practiced his hand at Black Jack.

Despite having mastered the psychology and intricacies of the game, Bob was unsuccessful at breaking the bank.

One evening, a number of us attended one of the evening entertainment events onboard. The emcee wanted to know who was the most outgoing female in the audience and a number of our Classmates pointed their fingers at and shouted "Christy," (Christy Jaap). What we all failed to recognize was that there was a "plant" in the audience who was supposed to be this part of this program but Christy's bubbling personality won out. Christy introduced herself as "Mary" (her first name) and her husband was introduced as Joseph. She quickly won over the audience with her antics and spontaneity.

The emcee handled the event like the pro he was. Thanks to Christy and Joe for being such great sports!

The foUowing was also submitted by John Anthony: Hi Jonnie and Dick (Shawkey). Great to have a chance to get to know you two. It was truly a memorable vacation.

To bring us up-to-date, there was an impromptu meeting aboard ship to talk about what to do next. A trip to Bermuda in early '04, halfway Shipmate, October 2002

between Alaska and our 45th reunion, was mentioned. "There was some discussion...that an early ad\enture to Bermuda in '04, over the Dark Ages. Initially a January or February cruise was mentioned but it seems that the cruise liners consider Bermuda to be too cold early in the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;April through October are the Bermuda cruising months. Classmates who might be interested should contact John Anthony (goatroom@juno.com) and indicate a preference. There is much to be said about an April date, before it gets too hot and so as not to conflict with those who want to get to Annapolis in the fall, not to mention the financial implications of our 45th reunion a year later. There are few scenic views though.

Another possibility was to invite the Class of '60 from Woo Poo and the Air Farce Academy to go with us. There seemed to be some support for just limiting the participants to Classmates and spouses. I was very pleased with PRINCESS and will check with Sharon as to ports of departure for Bermuda, either New York City, Norfolk, or Charleston. Jack Greenhalgh said there are such originating from Norfolk but there may be better bargains from New York City or Charleston. I was certainly happy with PIUNCESS lines and would be interested in loiowing their ports of origin. Any comments or suggestions will hie welcome.

I spoke to Jean-Loup Combemale a few weeks ago while updating addresses. He has been teaching and working with French-EngUsh translations.

Jean-Loup sent along the following: Over the past several years I have been working at establishing a second home in Mortagne France near the river Gironde. I am looking to form a company to translate high tech and defense data from French to English.

Mike Merrill sent along the following: Hey gang, received this email from Ed Mangan re Bob Kowall's condition. Remember to keep Bob in your prayers and thoughts.

From Ed Mangan: Thanks for the reply, Mike. Bob is at the worst stage of the treatment. That is the most painful, radiation and chemo therapy at the same time every day, can't speak any more, fed through a feeding tube and so on. But Maureen says he is toughing it out. Suzanne and I are going down in a few weeks after this phase of the treatment ends. I really don't know what comes next but he and Maureen are really doing their best to get through. Your prayers help. All the best.

Minneapolis. MN; Seattle, WA; and Wilmington, NC. Our overseas operations are active in twenty countries; with China. India, Japan, and Oman, now leading the growth. We are in the freight forwarding (import/export) and distribution business. We were hurt by September 11th but have recovered. Rita and I have two grandchildren and the three children work within the company. We just returned from two weeks in Italy and Ireland celebrating our forty years of marriage. We plan on traveling to many of our overseas operations in the future. I recently talked to Jacque and Peter Dolan from their summer estate in Orleans, Cape Cod. Peter now has aflotillaof, I believe, five vessels: He is awaiting orders from Rumsfeld. Betty and Joe Rosengren checked in with us. Joe is working as a consultant in Spokane. WA. We plan on being in Annapolis the weekend of 21 September and New York for the Army game. I hope to see a few of you in this off year.

Bob Meek Sent the following: I regret to inform you that our Classmate, Dick Burgess (19), lost his wife, Sandy, yesterday (25 July). Sandy had a heart attack about 7 a.m. She had had one on 11 July and had been battling cancer for a number of years.

Donations to the American Cancer Society, in lieu of flowers, have been requested. Dick resides at 123 Moss Creek Drive, Hilton Head, SC 29926.

Finally Tom Paulsen sent the following: From the Blue Angel's show and get together at the Michalskis, I've got a great Class guys grouping picture and some good couples-various Classmates pictures.

I didn't get a list as to who attended, but I was able to identify some of the following: Bill Zierden, Warren Hahn, Don Delude, Bob Gamba, Ron Burdge, Ron Brandquist, Jim O'Farrell, Pete Latimer, Tom Paulsen, John Michalski, John Chenard, Dave Williams, Ed Mangan, Bob Antonio, Bob Lowe, Fred Philippi, Tom Wishart, Gene Gasser, and Doug Johnston as well as friends and wives.

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I received the following from Ted McClanahan concerning Chris Thomas: Please put out the word (especially in Norfolk area) that Chris Thomas is in Portsmouth Naval Hospital recovering from a cerebral hemorrhage. He's in Ward 4. I talked to him this moming and he's recovering; but expects to be in for at least another week or so.

I called Chris the next day and he was doing fine. As a matter of fact he was holding forth with some friends at the time and expected to be out and back to battery in a few days. It was good news and hopefully we'll be seeing Chris at the next Class get together.

From Bill Griffin via email: I hope all is well with you. I thought I'd check in after three years or so. Rita and I are now residents of Naples, FL. We still come back to Minnesota in the summer I closed the law firm in DC in April, and am now a man of semi-leisure. I'm still active in the company, on a limited basis. The company has grown over the years. Our domestic office's are in Shipmate, October 2002

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Pres; RADM Arlie Campbell, USN (Ret) Corr. 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; rogeronoraa@1961.usna.com Webmaster; winfree@shore.intercom.net web site: www.USNA61.org Howdy shipmates! I must first apologize for a misprint in the July-August issue of this great periodical concerning my new email address that caused much consternation among my loyal fans who tried to get emails to me over the past few months. I confess that the misprint was not one of my doing; rather must be borne on the broad shoulders of my evil editor Edbert. Once again, my new permanent, lifetime, everlasting, eternal, official email address for all WGNAC and personal missives can be found above. For the record it is rogeronorati@1961.usna.com.

Please use this for all WGNAC correspondence in perpetuity. This will get to me through my email provider at: rtrogero@comcast.net.

Enough said!

The WGNAC does it again! In the summer issue of the President's Circle newsletter, under the banner "Getting it Done, With ' 6 1 " was the following report: "36 President's Circle members are from the Class of 1961, the most from any Class."

Our Classmates willing to generously give something back to our Alma Mater continues to grow. I encourage those of you who have not yet joined, to consider signing up. There is no trath to the ramor that I receive a 10% commission on all WGNAC donations.

Mail Call Our resident "snake eater," George Worthington (2) sends the following: You may be getting tired of my skydiving adventures. Nevertheless, here's a shot of me (in white) "swooping" my fiancee, Veronica (whom you've met), over the San Diego east county region called Otay lakes. She's doing a tandem jump. This was Veronica's second tandemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for her birthday this time. I'm at jump 746 en route the magical " 1,000" when you get U.S. Parachute Association Gold Wines.

Tony Deighton (5):

Don Lyons, Al Dessayer, and Rick Sylvester at Yosemite

Companies In The Spotlight Here are some leftovers from Fifth Company inputs last month, foUowed by some current First Company inputs, courtesy of Allen Walker (1).

Bill Emmerich (5) after graduation. Bill left for the Fleet...out west to Long Beach. He continued his naval career as a surface warfare officer, serving as a department head, executive officer and commanding officer on destroyers, mine sweepers, and LSTs. With back-to-back tours in Vietnam (26 months) he commanded an LST in country. He also was pre-commissioning commanding officer on one of the early SPRUANCE destroyers out of Norfolk. Shore duty included teaching NROTC at UVA, a tour on CinCLant staff, and one of the highlights, two years at the United Nations, working with then. Ambassador George Bush. (He still exchanges Christmas cards with the Bush's.) During his active duty years, retiring from the Navy in 1982, Bill earned a master's degrees in education and business (M.B.A.). Bill's civilian career is almost as varied as his naval career He worked as a Beltway Bandit for three years, and then entered municipal govemment, as a department head, assistant city manager, and city manager He worked his way south, working in Virginia and North Carolina, before ending up in Green Cove Springs, FL. However, after 12 years, the pressure of working "at the pleasure of City Council" and his acquired love for Jacksonville, Bill changed industries and worked as an administrator for Florida Community College. Alas, this job also became too political. So, to complete the "circle," he is now working again as an engineer for a Northem Virginia based consulting firm, this time in Jacksonville. Bill is divorced and has two children and two grandchildren. His son, Michael, who graduated from the University of Colorado, is an engineer in Washington, DC; and his daughter, Jeanne, who graduated from Virginia Tech, lives with her husband and children on top of a mountain outside of Denver Bill is loving life, with his fiancee, Alice, his dogs, Maverick and Bailey, cat. Beacon, and his motorcycle. A September 2002 wedding is planned.

Ken Van Sickle (5):

George Worthington on dive #746 with his fianc6e

Cyberspace Nooze Al Dessayer (15): In May, Marie and Rick Sylvester (17) came to Northern Califomia for a weeklong vacation and spent some time with us.

We drove to Yosemite and stayed at a nearby motel. While getting our luggage out of the car around the comer came our Classmate Don Lyons (15). A pleasant "reunion" and a good Italian dinner was enjoyed by all.

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I fully retired in April 1999 after 26 years in the Navy and seven years of federal civil service. My wife, Carol, and I have been full-time residents at Bryce Resort since 1993. I am an avid golfer and active in the resort activities, as well as a member of the American Meteorological Society, Basye/Bryce Lions Club, and Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, VA. We have two wonderful daughters and sons-in-law and four grandchildren (three are teenagers!) who all live in Springfield, VA. Come visit us at beautiful Bryce Resort to enjoy golfing, skiing, fishing, hunting, and relaxing in the hot tub while viewing the lovely mountain scenery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. We watch deer.

Gloria and I continue to live in Long Valley, NJ, where we celebrated five years of retirement last January. Time flies when you are having fun. We are still working on finalizing the adoption of our daughter. Destiny, who tumed 4 in May. The wheels of govemment tum very slowly to the detriment of many kids in foster homes. Our other six children are doing well and are about to supply us with our sixth grandchild. John Michael has just bought a home in Ft. Meyers, FL, Heather is in Portland, ME, Andrew is near us in Randolph, NJ, and Peter, Mary, and Adam are all in Houston, TX. We recently bought a 30-foot travel trailer and have been hitting the road for short trips, working our way up to go west next spring for a long trip to see parts of the U.S. that we haven't seen. I'll be parking the trailer at the Meadowlands for Army-Navy, so stop by for a warm respite from the cold.

Leo Willets (5): This is my first writing for Shipmate, so here is my full story. After graduation, I stayed at Mother Bancroft for Plebe Summer and had a ball teaching knockabout sailing and YP driving; then it was to Pensacola, FL, Meridian, MS, and Kingsville, TX, for flight training.

Following the earning of my Wings, I was assigned to VC-7 (maintenance). Naval Postgraduate School-Monterey, CA (aeronautical engineering degree in aero-electronics), HAL-3 in Bien Thuy, Vietnam (maint.). Naval Air Training Command (logistics).

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Systems Command (AIR-411) in Washington, DC. I left the Navy in July 1981 and moved to San Diego and started my civilian career with CACI and then Turbomach, which later became Sundstrand Power Systems. During this time I was an Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Project Engineer. Caught in the downsizing of the company, I decided to help my church and became the accountant for several years. Now my time is shared between bookkeeping for two non-profit organizations in town, being a USANA distributor for marketing nutritional supplements, and doing volunteer work at my church. I married Kathryn Corso from San Diego in 1966 and we have three wonderful childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Christina (married and living in Michigan with our three grandchildren), Benjamin (San Diego), and Rebecca (San Diego). For many years I kept myself in shape by coaching Kathryn, Christina, Ben, and Rebecca in soccer, as well as playing the game myself. Now we are enjoying being empty nesters; but having the kids and grandkids visit is great. This summer we are having a family get together at Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore.

AUen Walker (1): Ann and I retired last fall, are not bored yet, and don't see that we ever will be. We now have more time to play in the garden, and have traveled a bit, returned to camping (which we'd neglected for too long), visited family and friends, and leisurely re-explored favorite spots around the Chesapeake Bay. Our special activity, however, is babysitting for our new grandson, Hadlee, in Annapolis (courtesy of our son, Jason). We have also just retumed from helping our other son, Allen, move to Ledyard, CT, and while there, were pleased to visit NAUTILUS and the Submarine Museum in New London.

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Lew Bryan (1): Lew reports on a great trip to Alaska in May, by ship, plane, u-ain. and helo. North of the Arctic Circle, then Nome, Fairbanks, Denali, Anchorage. Juneau, Skagway, Hanes, and Ketchikan. Glacier walking, whale watching, glacier calving—the whole bit—finishing up with a few days touring Olympic National Park and Vancou\er Island. Lew retired from Clemson University on 30 June, and accepted a faculty position at Suffolk University in downtown Boston. MA. He says, "When I came to Clemson, I was encouraging Classmates to send their kids to Clemson, now guess I'll have to encourage them to send their grandkids to Suffolk!"

Frank Kirk (1): I am retiring after four years as Berkeley County probate judge at the end of this year.

Lindy and I expect to start construction on our retirement home on Edisto Island in March and hope to be moved in there mid-summer. 2003.

We are looking forward to lots of time fishing, crabbing, and shrimping in the tidal creeks around Edisto. Our son, Robbie, is a rising sophomore at The Citadel and he has signed up with (gasp!) the Army Reserve. It looks like the Citadel still gives a fairly rigorous plebe ("Nob") year. Robbie is a political science major and may well follow his dad into law after his miUtary years. My daughter by a previous marriage lives in Bmssels, where her husband works for an intemational company. I have been blessed with two grandsons. Life is good.

JackMatechak(l): Thought you might enjoy photos of two 150pound football players—40 pounds and 42 years later WTiile sitting on my deck overlooking Lake Winola in Pennsylvania, I was suddenly and pleasantly surprised by a visit from John Quarterman who now resides in Brunswick. GA. John was on an extended vacation (six weeks, I think) with his daughter to visit historic sites and former duty stations up and down the East Coast. John had been leaving messages for me for weeks, using an outdated area code so I had no idea he was coining. He claims the answering machine sounded like my wife, Joanne. So it was a great suiprise. John was able to spend a few days with us and of course we talked about the good old days at USNA, Pax River, the Navy, and old friends. We're both retired and enjoying it.

We think we are aging well, but you can judge for yourself

Seen And Heard Around Town Looks like our new football coach, Paul Johnson, is the "real deal." By the time you read this in October, we will have at least four games behind us and hopefully, will be able to sit through the second halves of Navy football games again. My prediction for the year is that we win the Commander-in Chief's Trophy, and...no I'm not going out of my mind...beat Notre Dame in November in Baltimore, like we did our First Class Yeai'. Don't worry! I didn't put what's left of my retirement fund on the game. I just have one of those hunches.

Judy and I attended the first reunion of the ship I had command of in Mobile, AL, in July.

No, I'm not kidding.. .Mobile in July. It was hot\ We drove from Annapolis and visited a few Classmates en route. The first stop was Wilmington, NC, where we spent a night with Bev and Stan Roman (13). What gracious hosts they were. We hooked up for dinner with Doris and Bob McLaughlin (11) and Hazel and Larry Dishon (10), who all live nearby. We all played the Nicklaus course the next moming, with Larry taking the honors.

Parting Shots By now, you should have aU received the info on our Class of '61 Baltic Heritage Craise aboard REGAL PRINCESS, from 19-29 July 2003.

As of this date, 12 August 2002, 20 Classmates have already signed on. If you haven't yet received any material, contact our cruise director Sharon Stone (no, not that Sharon Stone) at McCabe Bremer Travel to get the gouge. 703762-5046; sharon@mccabebremercom.

The ship departs and returns from Copenhagen, the site of many great stories emanating after our Youngster Craise. Other stops include Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki, Finland; St. Petersburg, Russia; Tallinn, Estonia; Gdansk, Poland; and Beriin, Germany. A pre-craise tour to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest is also available, all at great prices. We think we'll have up to 100 Classmates sign up for this tour so we may call it our 42nd and-a-half reunion.

For more info you can also check our web site: http;//www.usna61.org/ "Get It Done With '61"

62 Your scribe. Tiny McLaughlin, Stan Roman, and Larry Dishon On the way home from the ship reunion, we spent a few days with Gina and Neil Block (1) at their beautiful lakeside house in Hamilton, GA. A visit to nearby Callaway Gardens (they smelled flowers while I hit the links at the beautiful Mountain View course), nightly happy hour craises on the lake, and getting together with their stable-full of four dogs were but some of the highlights of a great mini-reunion.

Upcoming Class Events Washington area Class luncheons on Tuesday, 12 November and 14 January 2002.

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 This issue of Shipmate should be arriving in your mailbox just as 425 Classmates are returning home from the '62 40th reunion weekend.

Over 800 total Classmates, wives and guests renewed old friendships, explored Annapolis and the Naval Academy and had one great time for four fabulous days.

Special thanks goes to Class president Dick Hayes and the reunion committee for their hard work and dedication to the Class. Many letters, stories and photos will appear in the coming

John Quarterman and Jack Matechak have a reunion in Pennsylvania

'62: Tom Dumont, Rocky Spane, Hugh Tabb, and Myron Fleming

John Quarterman and Jack Matechak have a reunion in Pennsylvania

'62: Graig Stratton, Paul Chapla, Paul Tompkins, and Jim Thomes

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dinner, the group sang and toasted the 62nd birthday of Bat LaPlante, while Phyllis slaved away at school in Italy.

Paul Tompkins hosted the Southem California '62 golf party in May. Greg Chauncey sent us these photos.

Herb Sprague writes us that several of our Classmates, along with wives and other active and retired military families, met in July for a week of Christian training and fellowship at White Sulphur Springs, a Christian conference center in southem Pennsylvania ran by the Officers Christian Fellowship (OCF). In fact, the four of us pictured became friends while Midshipmen through the activities of the OCF at the Academy. The picture shows us taking time for a Class of '62 tennis "tournament."

That's our Class news for this October 2002 issue of Shipmate. Now that we are all home after the gala 40th reunion, please send in your stories and thoughts about seeing all your Classmates. Also, those photos you took would be greatly welcomed by Classmates who could not attend this weekend.

Keep in touch. Until next time...

'62: Bing and Lynn Kallus with Bob and Colleen Giles

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Pres: The Honorable Stephen M. Duncan Sec'y: Michael H. Shelley 25 Sweetwater Lane, Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 h: 828-862-4245; e: Class.Secretary@USNA63.oig web site; www.USNA63.org

'62: Marilyn Burke, Bat LaPlante, Barbara Gage, and John Gluck

'62: Gill Marshall, Bob McNeal, Nate Jolley, Greg Chauncey, and Mike Foster

'62: Herb Sprague, Bob Greenman, Tom Ubcr, and John Knubel months of Shipmate reflecting on this event, our 40th Reunion.

For those long-range planners, mark your calendars for the weekend of 30 August-2 September 2007. That's our 45th Reunion. Same hotel, same location. We're also planning our 50th Reunion, but don't rash things. Enjoy your recent memories of last weekend's people and

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Class News Thirty five Classmates and dregs sailed aboard Nina's DANDY on the 40th anniversary of our graduation on 6 June 2002. The group enjoyed a dinner cruise up and down the Potomac past D C s memorial waterfront. After

The Class of 1963's web site is hosted by Bill Kennedy at his home in central Texas. Bill's in the computer security business and has several network servers and other equipment in his large computer room there. We are indebted to Bill for his generosity in providing the equipment and network services for our site, and especiaUy for the application of his amazing technical abUities.

Even Bill's best efforts could not prevent the effects of this summer's incredibly heavy rains.

His home and business spaces were badly damaged and, as of this writing in early August, our web site has been down for several weeks. I expect that it will be restored to full service by the time you read this. When you next visit the site, think of Bill's dedicated service in providing his facilities and expertise.

Our faithful southem Califomia correspondent Phil Marsden has provided some images from a gathering of Classmates on Bastille Day (No apparent connection with the French, however) Here are some pictures from a Class of 1963 picnic in Coronado on 14 July. Jay Roberts has figured out how to operate his digital camera and took these excellent shots. Nancy and Charlie Helsper were our hosts as we gathered for a band concert in Spreckels Park in the center of Coronado. The weather was perfect, the music entertaining, and the fellowship warm and pleasurable as always. We enjoyed seeing some new faces: Dee and John Dolby are moving into the area from northern California; Jim Laswell is beginning his third or fourth career as a principal officer of a local 8A firm; Charlie Helsper's mother. Hazel, was visiting from Texas. The attendees are shown Shipmate, October 2002

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Another photo connected to news in the previous issue of Shipmate came from Lanny Cox, who supplied this picture of himself and his daughter Emily. It was taken at USNA this summer as Emily completed her participation in the Summer Seminar, part of her pursuit of dream of attending the Academy.

'63: Celebrating summer in Coronado in the group photo from left to right: Grant Telfer, Ginnie and John Dolby, Chuck and June Stone, Donna Kaup, Kathy Sridhar, Jim Laswell. Nancy and Charlie Helsper, Kay Krohne, Ron and Dee Wills, Ted Krohne, Mrs. Helsper, Jay Roberts, and Phil Marsden.

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These photos are from the June local Alunmi outing to visit the tall ships in St. Petersburg.

All we could recall from our sailing days was that it is "one hand for you and one for the ship." We concurred that there was no way we wanted to climb the mast! Standing next to the bow of the Coast Guard EAGLE are Elise and Vern Browne, yours truly, with my spouse Connie, and Sandy and Ollie Donelan.

Next to the pier is the edge of the downtown airport and right next to the fence was a perfectly restored T-28. From VT-2, no less! Vem said, "I have 1,000 hours in that machine."

Ollie also claimed some time, so it was over the fence for the picture.

We had a great time. Ollie and Sandy live in St. Pete. He is holding down two jobs at MacDill AFB. His boss won't let him retire.

The rest of us live across the Bay in Tampa.

Vem is retired. After the market crash, I am scheduled to retire in about 2015! We are always having fun. Come on down!

I reported last month that R o l a n d "Curley" Fontaine had died this July. Soon after I filed that n e w s I r e c e i v e d this n o t e from Jeff McLaury, who had encountered Curley in Saigon: I did my Plebe Year in the 11th Company and Curley was in the 10th. As you may recall, both were considered "horse..." companies. I lived in Saigon from 1996 to 1998 then moved to Thailand. However, as I have a fiancee in Saigon, I do visit frequently. I first ran into Curley in December of last year—we had mutual friends in Saigon who got us together We had a great time comparing war stories and trying to create a few more. I retumed to Saigon again in April of this year, when this photo was taken. Left to right are me, my fiancee, Van, and Curley.

Curley seemed to be feeling okay, but I sensed that he at least suspected he did not have much time left. As befit Curley, he was determined to raise hell until the last tick of the clock. I'm sure he did. I feel lucky that I was able to reunite with Curley and spend some happy times together

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Jack Hood has finally retired, for the second time. Here's the story of what he's been doing since his first retirement, from the Navy: I retired in 1987 and retumed to our home in Pensacola. Two months of puttering got old so I used my GI Bill and went to the University of West Florida to get a teaching certificate in high school math and physics. After a year of substituting, I landed a job at the high school four blocks away teaching physics plus ninth grade earth science. I started with two physics classes with 42 students and built that into six classes and 190 students after ten years.

Besides teaching, I coordinated textbooks for ten years and was the science department head for my last two years. I was fortunate that full retirement benefits were available after 13 years and a bonus was offered if I retired at age 62. Both arrived at the same time so I retired for the second, and last, time in June. I will wait until January to apply for Social Security and then sit back and collect three checks each month.

Ginger and I just passed 39 years together so are considering making it permanent. She is into volunteering in various good areas, lunching out, and swimming. So far, we have managed to not get in the way of each other so she is going to let me remain retired, I think.

Most of us considered it nice if a child followed us into our profession. I have been doubly fortunate. Number one son went through NFO flight training, received his wings, did two cruises, followed me into the AED community and is homesteading in the DC area with his wife and our two granddaughters. He is coming up for commander which really makes me feel old. Number two son settled in Alaska and is in his fourth year of teaching high school social studies in Anchorage. He is still enjoying the bachelor life, but his time appears limited and a trip to Alaska is probably 101

in the plans for us next summer to host a rehearsal dinner I discovered last week that I was ready for retirement when the teachers went back to work and I did not miss it in the slightest. I have plenty of yard work to do, exercise, and swim every day to keep my knee, which was replaced last summer, moving and bending, and have a new computer to keep other times occupied. Basically now we just get up in the moming and see what we feel like doing, which is as it should be!

Let's get literary for a moment. Below are mentions of a magazine article featuring one of our Classmates and books written by two of our Classmates. Thanks to Jack McDonald for alerting us to this bit of weapons system history: Sometime ago Ralph Kimberlin and I were telling war stories about our time in Vietnam, over a couple of drinks. I related how my small Navy base in II Corps was frequentiy found to be of interest to the VC/NVA. We almost always called for Army artillery assistance. On at least two occasions we were lucky to get Puff, The Magic Dragon (AC-47 with miniguns, today's AC-130 gunship). Ralph related how he was part of that development. As I remember, Ralph and I concluded that there was a good possibility that he saved my life, which was more than enough reason to have a couple more drinks.

Ralph is extremely modest about his exploits. Fortunately for us, we can read about them in the July issue of the Smithsonian magazine. Air & Space.

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Visit your local Ubrary for this and other pleasures!

(That's a shameless plug from a guy who made a career in federal library management.)

Perry Miles emailed me to say that his wife, Anne, had seen Harlan Ullman on C-Span and was mightily impressed with how much sense he was making about the world situation. Harlan has written a new book. Unfinished Business: Afghanistan, the Middle East and Beyond with a foreword by Senator John McCain.

Dave Moore alerts us to Pete Deutermann's latest novel. It's titled Hunting Season and is available at your local bookstore and online booksellers everywhere.

The Class of 1963 Foundation trastees and officers held a business meeting at Cynthia and Jim DeFrancia's home in Aspen, CO, in June.

Jim Koehn has provided these two photos taken after the working sessions. At the dinner table are Cynthia at the left and (proceeding clockwise) Judy and Jim Koehn, David Robinson, David Puckett, Jim DeFrancia, Judy Puckett, Ken Metviner, Ron Klemick, and Steve Duncan.

Sonny Glassner and Will Settie were seated offcamera. The picture taken in the glorious Colorado outdoors shows Glassner, Duncan, Metviner, the DeFrancias, Puckett, Ron and Sandy Klemick, and Settle.

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Pres: The Honorable Bernard "Bernie" A. Maguire Sec'y; Dennie Pignotti 10907 Wilder Point Lane, Reston, VA 20191 e; dpignotti@navalengineers.org web site; www.usna64.org To the Great Class of '64, well it's almost time to start raking those leaves—my favorite job.

For those in the DC area or visiting the area, please stop by the '64 Tailgate at the Navy home football games. Dee and Dave Gould have reserved the same location in the Navy side (west) parking lot—right along Farragut Road about 80 yards from Cedar Run Road. Look for the 10-foot by 10-foot white tent and Blue and Gold '64 banner Classmates from the local area are urged to bring a dish to share. Out-of-towners are always welcome. Usually, there are some extt-a tickets available or call 800-US4-NAVY or email to tickets@usna.edu. See you at the games and the '64 taUgates!

From Class President Bernie Maguire To the Great Class of 1964: This month seems to be an appropriate time to begin with one very large happy birthday wish to all of my Classmates. I know that it was great having the number five in your age, if you catch my drift, but it's time to move forward. To all of you who have already celebrated the date, and that's ninety percent of you and to those of you who are about to celebrate that date...Happy Birtiiday! Isn't it convenient that we are arriving at this milestone together?

Speaking of age, I am really finding new ways to enjoy this job as your Class president, and in particular, I find this Shipmate column spectacularly useful in monitoring my CRS factor You probably realize that Denny and I woite this material about 60 to 80 days before it arrives in the mail. As more colunms are written, I find myself reading more and more of my own part of the column, and it seems that I am seeing it for the first time. I can enjoy reading almost the entire column now and it's all news to me.

I have composed a trivia question for you.

Which three of our illustrious Classmates have played significant roles in the career of die President of the USNA Alumni Association, George Watt '73? The answers will come later but the clues for you dsefussball, Stewart's wife, and southpaw. For the Classmate who sends me the first email with the correct answers, I will send a copy of the current edition of Ethics for the Junior Officer.

I am happy to report that Jerry Dunne is doing well and itching to play golf again. Jeity suffered a mild heart attack and listened to Sue at the right time, choosing to go to the hospital despite that little voice telling him that he was not really having a heart attack. Jerry's words of advice for Classmates is don't even think of hesitating if your body is giving you worrisome signals; avoid what he calls self-denial. Jerry's self-denial told him, "it can't be me" and "I don't have time for this." Jerry feels most fortunate that Sue was persistent with him and convinced him to get to Fairfax Hospital.

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To tiie best of our knowledge, Elisabeth and Charlie Heath are the only Classmates who were directly impacted by the terrible events of September 11th. Their daughter Sara lost her husband, LCDR David L. Williams, USN in the Pentagon bombing. In better circumstances, Charlie is pleased to report that David Lucian Williams Jr was delivered on Wednesday, 17 April and both Sara and her son were doing well with no complications. Charlie thanks all Classmates for their prayers, encouragement and help. I know that Chuck Higgins and Mary Jo and Lon Cooke have been extremely close to Charlie and Elisabeth during this time.

By the way, we have it on good word, from the mouth of Ken Middleton himself, that he really enjoys seeing his daylilies come up; they are really looking good.

SAM RAYBURN Blue Crew had the possibly imique distinction of providing home away from home accommodations for five Classmates during two separate patrols. (If any other ships had five or more '64 Classmates in the wardroom simultaneously, we would certainly like to hear from you.) Bill Davis, Rick Eckstein, Charlie Moore, Dick Shapack, and I were all quite proud of our service on Mister SAM. Also, B.J. Haynes was on the Gold Crew during this same period. The Blue Crew recendy celebrated a reunion at the spacious and comfortable home of Harriet and Dick Shapack in a magnificent setting on Lake Charlevoix in Michigan. What magnificent hosts!

The foUowing story is too trae to be this good: Alongside a pier after a pleasant ride across a crystal clear Lake Charlevoix, the high tech powerboat was idUng on a hot day in late July. I was partially hidden inside the engine compartment trying to find a gas line that I could squeeze down to cut off the supply to the engine.

Corporate mogul, BiU Davis is loudly asking around among a group of former nuclear submariners: "Are there any engineers around?"

Our former XO, Glemi Arthur '56, is standing on the pier repeating over and over "Don't disconnect anything that looks important!"

In the meantime, boat owner extraordinaire, Dick Shapack is frantically searching for a switch to tum off his 400 HP powerboat. Dick had owned the boat for two years now and none of the gathered submariners could understand why he was still a non-qual! Dick finally called his adopted son, Scott:, for operating instractions and he tumed the two keys to off in the correct order. By the way, the Shapack search was frantic because he did not want to read about this event in Shipmatel Also I should caution you tfiat none of tiiose stories you may hear about that nautical person in the blue bikini are accurate.

For the answer to the trivia question, check out the '64 Web Site in the Hot News/Class Info section (www.usna64.org) after a trivia contest winner is identified.

Expect to win!

The annual Class outing to Wolf Trap on 23 July was a great success even with some nasty thundershowers. Attending the event were: Linda and Dave Ahem, Yvonne and Jerry Anderson, Susan and Jim Arrison, Donna and John Huling '62, Maggie and Tom Bamett, Virginia and Steve Claassen, Dee and Dave Gould, Elizabeth and Charles Heath, Mardy and Shipmate, October 2002

Steve Laabs, Susan and Connie Lautenbacher, Bev and Ken Middleton, Dottie and Dennie Pignotti, Dennie's mother Billie, Jane and Bill Sargent, Sharon and Hal Sisson, Mary and Andy Thompson, and Paula and Charles WUde. Sue and Jerry Dunne and Brace Newell had to cancel out. Thanks to Jim Arrison's impeccable arrangements, we had six reserved tables in the Ovations Restaurant where we had a wonderful buffet supper before the show.

Nancy and Stu Johnson were able to get us great seats, but with the rain Wolf Trap had protective covers along the open sides of the theater This made it pretty loud in the balcony boxes especially since the Four Tops and the Temptations were singing behind a full band. We had an enjoyable evening listening to the two groups and their old favorites. The accompanying photos show the merry group.

Len Wass sent a note and photos on a recent visit by Ernie Blake: Emie Blake came to visit Katiiy and me this past weekend. He was returning a rifle that I lent him to shoot a bear up in Alaska. He

wound up bagging an elk and Sitka deer with it, but used Tom Stick's rifle to do the job on what sounds like a very nice bear he got on Kodiak Island this past spring.

We had a nice time shooting skeet with shotguns and targets with pistols at my shooting club. Later we went water skiing at Lake Holiday where I have a weekend home in Illinois. My 20-year old son, Billy, was absolutely stunned at Ernie's ability to waterski and asked him how old he was, to which Emie replied "92." Bill left shaking his head saying "amazing." Ernie's time as a ski patrol member and paramedic at Breckenridge, and his workout regimen have kept him a very fit 92-year old. He's pretty much disengaged from his Washington law firm, but still helps out there when needed. He's really gotten involved in the Breckenridge local scene with civic and cultural activities and leadership posts in those.

He was elected to the town council and said his campaign manager was from Chicago. Had I known that I would have voted a few more times for him. He plans to mn for mayor, which is good news for Classmates who might get picked up speeding through the town.

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Thanks for passing along the Qassmate info, Lorie.

To Ron Shabosky, now a dentist practicing in Reston, VA, we offer Class of '64 condolences following the loss of his wife, Victoria, after a painful straggle with breast cancer. Victoria died in September 2001.

Please send me some updates on what you and other Classmates are doing. Do not forget to send pictures with your updates. Note my email and home address at the beginning of the colunm. May God bless America. Go Navy, Beat Army! —Demiie

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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 '64: The Middletons, the Goulds, and the Lautenbachers at Wolf Trap

'64; The PignuiUi and the Laabs at Wolf Trap I've enclosed two pictures. The first is of Emie and me showing off my USNA 64 Illinois license plates, and the second is pictorial proof of Emie in his water skiing mode.

That's all the news for now from the heartland of the USA.

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Dave Wagner (davidwagner@comcast.net) sent the following report: We held our bi-monthly Class luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club on Wednesday, 7 August. Those Classmates attending were Dave Ahem, Jerry Anderson, Wayne Amy, Denny Connolly, Bill Franks, Grant Fulkerson, Connie Lautenbacher, Mel Lyman, Bemie Maguire, Bob Murphy, Marty Phillips, Hugh Risseeuw, Hal Sisson, Dave Thomberg, Dave Tuma, John Tweel, and Dave Wagner. We were especially happy to have Bob Riordan join us.

Bob lives in Kansas City and was in town on business in his position as vice president for govemment services with Black and Veatch. If any other Classmates who occasionally get into town on business would like to be added to the luncheon notification list, they should send their email addresses to the alxsve email address.

Lorie Moore reports: On 20 August, a primary election held in Georgia will be of interest to Classmates. Bob Herriott has thrown his hat into the political ring and is campaigning as a Republican for the wide open, newly created llth Congressional District. A recent article in the Atlanta Joumal-Constitution noted that the Republican primary is a close one and all three candidates are using lower profile advertising such as radio and direct mail. Bob is pinning his hopes on an endorsement from Congressman Bob Barr, a conservative platform and his military background. Bob strongly supports revamping the U.S. tax code. For more information, Bob's campaign has a web site: www.herriottforcongress.org.

Greetings Classmates! We hope that you're all doing well and are enjoying a beautiful fall wherever you are. It's always great to be in October. The heat and humidity of summer has left us and we have a bit of space before having to limber up anything that looks like a snow shovel. We also hope that this October will find various bunches of '65ers together snapping those great group shots for this colunm of your Shipmate. Nothing like a crisp jpeg file to Uven up the next issue.

One of the memorable '65 email group topics of the past summer had to do with all things related to Plebes, Plebe Summer Plebe Year, etc.

All aspects of this subject were discussed and commented on...even argued about by '65ers from all over the country. In the midst of the storm of monologue there came a voice of reason and humor that seemed to settle the rhetoric and to quell the storm of controversy over the benefits of a traly fine and valuable Plebe Year experience. The voice was that of our Class good humor man and tell it sort of like it is guy—Pete Lumianski. It is clear now that no topic is so sure to stir up the interest of so many So, for all of you not connected to the email group and for those of us whose short-term memories are about average, we present here only sUghdy edited Pete's Plebe Year comments.

I just got back from a weeklong trip to Califomia and discovered a huge pile-up of Plebe stuff in my email box, all of which was very enjoyable to read and remember about.

It's amazing how detailed our memories can be the farther back we go in time. Accuracy is another matter. In any event, since we're on the topic of newbie Midshippersons, I thought I'd pass along a recent event that took place in Phoenix that always brings forth a flood of memories—some of them good—each year we do it. Over the years, Arizonans have formed what is known as the USNA Parents' Club of Arizona, and it consists primarily of persons who have Middies toiling away on the Sevem.

It has about a hundred members. Each year, after the Blue and Gold team does its magic, the Parents' Club throws a farewell/welcome aboard party for the newly selected Plebes-to-be from Shipmate, October 2002

Arizona at a local Scottsdale hotel owned and operated by a former Midshipman parent (Tom Silverman). The event is attended by all the Plebe selectees, their parents, their friends, and relatives, numerous live Midshippersons home on leave, a few new, freshly minted ensigns, the AZ Blue & Gold recruiters, and various other Navy cats and dogs in the community.

It's a potluck dinner followed by about a twohour program, featuring a guest speaker, presentations of selection certificates, interviews of the new selectees, and the giving of sage advice from the resident upperclasspersons.

Overall, it's a lot of fun and quite an impressive deal. This year there were 19 persons selected to go to the Naval Academy from Arizona.

Over the years. I've been invited to be the MC a few times, including this year. Each year I do it. it gets harder to fit into my uniform and reword my fossilized thoughts into a slightly dift'erent mold, so 1tiiinkI'm closing in on the end of my tenure—but it's always fun to take a few potshots at the Navy, tiie Naval Academy, and my experience as a Middie-goingnowhere. Given free rein, I could easily have taken up the entire two hours, but fortunately for the audience. I didn't. In the spirit of our recent Plebe Year memory excursions, pasted below are my remarks on that evening last month, just six days after the 37th anniversary of our infamous 9 June 1965 date. By the way, I tried the "Sir, sir is a subservient word..." bit out by memory, and dorked it up right in the middle. I'm still working off my comearounds.

The guest speaker. LT Clint Bmce, was a huge ST-5 SEAL from Texas with a beautiful wifie.

They were a lot of fun. His advice to the new Plebes-to-be: act dumb and run. Also, just as a matter of interest, there are a lot of NavyUSNA-military organizations in the Phoenix area—a busy USNA Alumni Association Chapter, headed up by Bill Morrison '57, a fun submarine group focused on attack boats, a good Navy League group, and an Army-NavyAir Force Academy group that meets each month. Valley "65ers include Denny McComb, Pete Reiniger, Bob Gosnell, and me.

U.S. Naval Academy Parents' Club of Arizona Plebe Recognition Dinner of 15 June 2002 for die Class of 2006. Program Kick-Off: Pete Lunuanski Good evening ladies and gendemen, parents, friends, relatives, special guests, and dignitaries—and also, by the way, good evening to those people who are looking forward to calling themselves Plet)es for the next year or so.

Welcome to the 13th annual Parents' Club Appointee Recognition Night, and thanks to all who provided that great feed we've just about finished. May all that caloric input rest comfortably in peace inside those handy storage bags located along the stomach, hip, and buttock areas of our otherwise fantastic bodies of steel. We are here tonight to bless and congratulate us all, of course, but we're going to be doing some particularly heavy praying for all you poor souls out there heading east into what is known as Plebe Summer, the ultimate camping experience for older teenagers. First shave off your hairs, then lose your clothes, your comforts, your privacy, your king-of-the-hill egos, your freedom, your TVs, your cars, your dominance over anybody, including your kid brothers and sisters, your abilities to out-fox your parents, your beach party plans, and all other things commonly referred to as "fun" by normal people. Trade all that in for a little white popsicle suit, a cute little blue-fringed dixie-cup hat, and plenty of humidity, and

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you're in for the time of your lives! Hi everybody, my name's Pete Lumianski, a former know-it-all teenager myself and a very hairy Naval Academy Midshipman from the Class of Staubach in '65, then a crusty, somewhat harried naval officer and chopper pilot for 25 years, and now a hairless, retired father of three Navy brat daughters whose most notable collective skill is their amazing ability to stay in, or just near the nest at all times. Over the past forty years, I have made the successful transition from a short, wise guy with no future to a somewhat shorter, wizened guy with a future well behind me—and here I stand—sort of— displaying all that remains of my Midshipman glory, I was once great, though. I came from a farm town in mid-Michigan known mostly for the abundance and variety of its cow-pies, and then I was herded directly out of high school— with no fanfare or farewell dinner—towards a place called Annapolis, a city that was, as far as I knew, recentiy named after a TV show. I didn't know anything about the Navy, and when I arrived with my proud mama and papa on the grounds of the Naval Academy and spotted all those summer khaki uniforms, I was sure we had made a big mistake and had landed at the Army Academy instead. Hey, who knew the Navy had khakis? That was the first of many mysteries to be slowly revealed to me as I slugged my way through the next four years and to my final resting spot high in the upper one-third of the lower quartile of my graduating class. It was quite a ride, filled with many excraciating memories: my first dress parade practice, all rigged up in some fancy spitshined uniform requiring the pants-tucked-inthe-shiny-boots bit, all covered with something called spats. I carefully tucked in my trousers, laced up my spats backwards, grabbed my M-1, charged down to the parade ground, and promptly fell down the stairs as my inwardfacing spat eyelets firmly locked with each other causing my two legs to become one. Lots and lots of push-ups for that one. Then a just year later, still amazingly stupid and innocent.

I'm taking my first Navy ship ride down the Chesapeake Bay, headed, along with a thousand other Midshipman, to a Navy football game against William and Mary in Norfolk. I tum to what seemed to be a knowledgeable, pleasant person in uniform and said in my very best navalese, "Excuse me sir, is there a bathroom downstairs?" Now any village idiot knows the Navy has official terms for such things. The chief boswain's mate standing in front of me narrowed his eyes, became three sizes larger and yelled something like, "Lumski, get you're a** below, find a head, and don't show your ugly little pathetic face 'til everyone's off this ship!"—or words to that effect. I think there might have been some other, slightly more colorful and heavier duty nautical terms used in there somewhere. That was how I leamed what a chief petty officer was.

Suffice it to say, you've got a lot to leam this summer There ain't no more walls, floors, underwear, Starbucks, ceilings, drinking fountains, boats, bathrooms, food, hats, ropes, and valentines—there's only bulkheads, decks, skivvies, coffee messes, overheads, scuttlebutts, ships, heads, chow, covers, lines, report chits, and lots more. And I mean lots more.

Especially report chits. They'll give you a littie book called Reef Points this summer, much of which you're supposed to memorize, and theoretically containing all you need to know about the Navy. Don't believe it. On average, it takes about 25 years to leam enough about the Navy

to feel comfortable, and like, you're in. For example, here's something clearly high tech and academically rigorous right out of my old 1961 Reef Points—and if it's not become too politically incorrect, it might even be in the 2002 version. It's what you're supposed to say, whenever you forget to say "sir" to an upperclassman: It goes something like this: "Sir, sir is a subservient word..." After awhile, I found it was just easier to say sir There's a lot more I could tell you about many other highly classified and critical naval procedures, like making a square-cornered bed taut as a trampoline, or folding your boxer skivvies in little piles, or leaming the best known naval short-sheeting techniques, or getting rid of smelly roommates, or marching off demerits with a smile, or becoming a varsity level water balloonist, or getting out of dress parades, or maintaining relationships with multiple boyfriends or girlfriends—all of whom are unaware of each other's existence, or sending automated, personalized and highly authentic/sincere-looking fill-in-the-blank, emails and letters to your mom and dad soliciting food or money or answers to some engineering test, etc., etc.

Speaking of mom and dad, let's not forget that tonight marks the culmination of many, many years of efforts to finally get rid of all you new Plebes-to-be at bargain-basement rates. I think they all deserve a tremendous amount of appreciation and respect, first for putting up with you for so long, and second, for finally getting you all pointed in the right direction. I mean, after all, you could be going to West Point or the Air Force Academy—or even worse, that heavy-drinking, fully coed ASU place right here in Tempe. So count your lucky stars for having such good parents and, what do you say, let's hear a round of applause for all they've done to get you here tonight.

Thanks, Pete, for sharing that bit of Plebe Year wisdom with us. It sure is easy to forget many things but that first year on the banks of the Sevem has real holding power on the memory banks. We know that the Plebe Year controversy is part of the etemal straggle of good over bad.

"Ours" always being the good and "Theirs" being bad. How is it possible to be as good as we are without having the same Plebe experience as we had?

We now have the sad honor to send our collective condolences to Geoff Groves and family for the loss of his sweetheart, Mimi, who died of pancreatic cancer on 4 July.

On a happier note we send our congratulations to Ten Nanz on his marriage that took place in the USNA Chapel on 14 September Ted married Meliza, originally from Manila, who he met a couple of years ago in a fitness spa familiar to several '65ers, the South Run Rec Center in Springfield, VA. In another message Ted passed on the following: As discussed with many Classmates, after mnning SPOT Image Corp. in Reston, VA, for ten years, in 2000 I moved to Raleigh/Durham (Research Triangle Park), NC, to co-found a venture capital backed wireless Intemet "middleware" company but kept my home in Fairfax Station, VA, commuting to RTP each week.

Now that that company is getting traction, I have started commuting to San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA, each week to turn-around another of our VC portfolio companies involved in broadband CATV set top boxes and head end encoders. This company's current markets are primarily in Latin America and Asia.

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It would be great to meet up with any Classmates who live or work in tiie Rancho Bemardo, CA area or who are involved with the cable TV industry, or intemational offset counter-trade deals or Mr. Gary Pacific the "guru" of this who teaches this at The Thunderbird School in Phoenix.

Congratulations, Ted! We only wish we had a few more details about the bride to pass on to the Class. While this next item may be a bit dated, we want to include it anyway so that Classmates in the San Diego area that do not monitor the email group may respond to Joe Luckard (jluckard @noesis-inc.com) who asks: I am in the process of relocating with my new job to the San Diego area during the next few months. My wife, Lynn, is battiing an unusual type of cancer—cholangiocarcinoma—that originated in the gall bladder. Had surgery (did not get it all), radiation therapy, and now chemotherapy treatment (pill). We're looking for a "great" oncologist referral in the San Diego area (including La JoUa—Torrey Pines/Scripps area) to replace her oncologist back here in Alexandria, VA. I would appreciate any feedback from Class of '65 (or any other Class, or person you know) who have had direct experience (friends/family) with specific oncologist. We would like to know who is "great" and/or who to "avoid if at all possible." Both sets of information are extremely important. I tend to ask many questions (don't all engineers), so we need someone who is really willing to discuss treatment/ stams/etc.

Thanks in advance for any help from our future neighbors. Joe Luckard, 2523 Gadsby Place Alexandria, VA 22311; 703-824-0431.

Let's now go to something received from Harry "Doc" Hoffman the founder or co-founder of the '65 email group: Dear Classmates, Today (28 July) is the Fourth anniversary of this [email] group...we've now been together in cyberspace about as long as we were together at Boat U. I've said from the get-go that users make or break the group—and you have made this endeavor something special. Bull and I are mostly the technicians. My very personal thanks to every one of you for your contributions, conduct, and support.

We have about 397 subscribers (down from a high of about 420, but several are "bouncing") and this is the 6,194th message posted since 28 June '98. Murph, of course, posted 5,762 of them.

Dick Harris and I were talking off-list about the Class, the group, and lots of other things grads of our vintage get around to discussing eventually. Part of our chat reminded me of something Jim Droste '62 had written to me in an email during December 1995, long before I thought about starting this list. We were talking about reunions, and it was just the way he expressed himself that prompted me to save the quote: "I have only attended one as well (after 18 years.) I found myself as uncomfortable with others as they were with me. We had aged in the interval and it was painfully obvious to all.

On the other hand, those who had participated annually saw no change and so they were quite comfortable with each other It wasn't an unpleasant experience, just different. I found that I still disliked the same people. I was surprised because I had always suspected that USNA's world was so unreal that none of us knew who we were. The truth is, as you say, we were pretty much who we were going to be in spite of USNA." 106

Pretty profound for a submariner! When I think about the collective experience, talent, and wisdom gathered here in one place, it's pretty impressive. Maybe we can get some of the other 350 plus not subscribed to join evenmally. At least that will provide fodder for Dick's next book.

Okay, mush mode off, moderator mode on: Thanks in advance for continuing to stay on topic!

We now have an item from Classmate Dave Porter who for the first time has reported in with his story, here it is: My Firstie was Ron Bell. I think my 13th roomies were Bill Erickson, Van Monroe, and John Padgett? My roomies in my new Company (#?) were Andy Prince and Bob Gross. Chuck Krulak was a Youngster across the hall, and Paul Galanti (VN POW) a Firstie across from my second Firstie, Tom Rue. My Youngster roomie was Mike Riley, in the "Ten-ible 10th."

I had about 225 demerits by October or so. I remember LCDR Applegarth telling me that he didn't want to "put their dirty linen off on someone else" (meaning transferring me to another Company). But I did get a transfer, and made it through to June without breaking 300 (grounds for dismissal).

Then I flunked Youngster Bull (flunked the term paper and the course because in hand printing the paper I left out one set of quotation marks around a quote I footnoted, and opened but failed to close another set). The civilian professor (head of the 3c EH&G committee), said that he wouldn't charge me with a class-A honor offence because it appeared to be an accident. Anyway, I left in Febmary '63 and went to Colonial Williamsburg as a joumeyman bootmaker and "interpreter," meaning a leather crafter and sort of tour guide in the boot shop. I was there about six months, then went back to New Mexico and worked for the Santa Fe Railway, then attended UNM as an advanced AF ROTC cadet for a year. Ran out of money. Then about six months later I went back in the Air Force.

I spent two years in Texas, one in Vietnam, and four at PACAF as a computer programmer.

Then got out and stayed here, first as a programmer, analyst, and computer consultant and then (and now) as financial planner. I stayed here primarily because I had run into a cute Japanese RN. We now have two beautiful hapa-haole (half Caucasian—half Japanese) daughters. One graduated from UH, the other is about to start her junior year at Chaminade University here (my alma mater). She took a year off for Army (National Guard) basic and tech school. She's now a spec-4 (E-4). She's also about to start an internship with the HANG/HARNG JAG, and looking at law school.

How's that for a quick recap of 40 years? (Is that possible?)

We now go to an update from Gordie Clark who intended this as a personal letter to the super Class Secretary Davester Anderson (so we'U edit it a bit): A lot has happened since our Christmas card.

We decided to retire and left Ingersoll-Rand 31 May. We had a retirement game plan when we returned from France in January 2001 that was complete except for a house to move to. We had estimated it would take two or three years to find one that met our requirements for location, size and cost. As luck would have it, Frankie found a developer who was planning

on building just what we wanted. We closed last year and once we had a place to move to, the old motivation at work started to go downhill. I put in my notice after I passed my 60th birthday and worked until I completed 34 years.

We have moved down to South Carolina, south of Myrtle Beach near the condo we have had for about 15 years. We have been spending the first few weeks getting the new house set up and our condo ready for sale.

Most of the major organizational work is now finished and now I keep pinching myself to make certain I'm not dreaming and that I really don't have to do anything each day but enjoy the free time. The major decision is to go to the beach or to the pool. We don't have any big projects planned but we bought ourselves a Porsche Boxster and we plan on doing some touring after the summer travelers get off the roads.

Our daughter, Trisha, has finished her internship and has been assigned as the ship's doctor on GERMANTOWN (LSD-42). The ship has 24 officers and about 400 enlisted and she is the only doctor on board. The CO asked for a female who was surface warfare qualified and there are not too many of them in the Navy.

Our son is still in New York City. He is director of Electronic Publishing for the Architect School at Columbia University and teaching graduate courses at Columbia and Pratt Institute in Brcxiklyn.

Thanks Gordie for that update. It seems as if the retirement bug has become rampant in the Class. However we still haven't found any one who has figured out how he had time to work before retirement. Once busy, always busy.

Well, that's about it for this month. We thank you all for contributing to this month's column and repeat what we said in the beginning. Please take those photos and send them in. Remember please that you are all reporters on assignment for this rag. Beat Army]

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Pres; VADM John S. Redd, USN (Ret) Sec'y: CDR Mike Baird, USN (Ret.) 63 Franklin St., AnnapoUs, 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 As I write this in the heat of mid-August, I hoping that when this is read, much cooler weather will be prevailing. In October Homecoming is over, and Halloween is around the comer After that we enter my favorite time of the year—November and December It's hard to believe the year has passed so quickly. And what a year of revelation and craziness. But 1 digress from the important things, and I have several items of interest this month, including a very nice reminiscence on Memorial Day that I've had to defer twice because of article size. So let's get going.

Scott Redd forwarded an email from Hank Nothhaft regarding a celebration at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. He also included two pictures. I've culled out the important stuff from his email.

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We had a great time in Pensacola. I got a chance to meet and talk to Dick Naughton, the rumored next Superintendent. I was very impressed and think he would be a wonderful choice. He is currently CO of Top Gun in Fallon. NV. We also enjoyed the ceremonies regarding my fatiier-in-law. Captain Roy M. "Butch" Voris, USN (Ret.).

I have sent along two pictures and a web site URL. On the web site URL is the program from the Hall of Honor Induction, www. nofty.com/butch.

In the two pictures attached. Butch and his wife, Thea, and Randie and myself are standing in front of the Voris' bronze plaque in the Hall of Honor.

In the second picture. Butch and I are standing in front of an F8F Bearcat, This was the airplane that he selected when he formed the first Naval Flight Demonstration Team that became the Blue Angels,

The Nothhafts and Voris'

Hank and Butch Voris My thanks to both Hank and Scott. That's a real page from naval aviation history.

In a reversal of roles, Steve Kowalick sent the following email update on Mo Foote, who recentiy underwent surgery.

Shipmates...

Spent the day at Walter Reed AMC and then NNMC Bethesda for Mo's prostate surgery. It was scheduled to commence at 10:45 a.m. but did not start until 1:45 p.m. due to complications with the gent ahead of Mo. Surgery lasted five hours. Dolly and I ran interference for Cheryl since she and Mo had never had any other prior experiences with surgeries there.

Reports kept coming from the OR every 30-45 minutes. Cheryl was able to catnap and we got her a bite to eat. She was a trooper. At 6:45 p.m., the surgeon came out with a good report.

Mo's prostate was completely removed and they did find a soft tumor that was definitely cancerous. It took awhile to get everything out because they wanted to be sure they got it all.

Mo spent two hours in ICU until he was deemed capable of being moved to recovery.

The surgeons said he would remain in recovery overnight and that reveille would be at 6 a.m.

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tomorrow. If all signs are normal, he will be moved to Bldg. 10, Wai'd 5E at about 8 a.m. tomorrow. If the PSA count is zero or thereabouts after several days of blood tests, he should be home early next week. They also will be checking his other lymph nodes. We wanted Cheryl to stay with us tonight but she insisted on going home after she saw Mo, She had to feed the cats, Mo's sons, Todd and Jamie, have been notified and will be talking with their dad tomortow moming. The recovery room let her stay. We left as Mo was coming out of ICU, He was asleep. She has gotten home safe and will depart early tomoiTow moming so she can go with him from recovery to Ward 5E. The phone number for the nurses' station on Ward 5E is 301-295-4142/4123, When you reach the nurses' station, ask for CAPT Foote's room and tiiey will patch you to him. They didn't have the room number yet when I checked on it at 7 p,m.

Cheryl was very grateful to all of you and wanted me to pass on her sincerest thanks. On Monday, I will be going in early in the moming. When I get back home, I will provide Sitrep number two. I'll also be there Tuesday moming if he's still there.

It's been a long day and I'm beat but it was a pleasure to finally be able to pay back something for all that you '66ers did for me and Dolly. God bless,. ,If I missed anybody, please forward this email to them. Like I said.. .night-night!

As a follow-up. Mo is doing very well (August) and chomping at the bit to return to work. You can reach him at infoote@battiespace .com. Thanks to Steve, who is also doing well.

And now to that article on Memorial Day that I mentioned earlier Frank Smith provided a following description of his travels and reminiscences over the Memorial Day weekend. I hope you enjoy it: Memorial Day 2002 Driving back from Georgia to Orlando on Monday afternoon (Memorial Day) I decided to take a minor detour and drive past Cecil Field, site of my A-4 and A-7 training. I had been told the previous weekend that the former Naval Air Station was now being transformed into an office and industrial park. I guess I just wanted to see for myself. With my tmsty rented Toyota Corolla replacing my '66 Nassau Blue 'Vette of yester-year, I drove down old Roosevelt Boulevard and turned on Timaquana Road, once a two-lane speed/death trap but now a four/six lane, fast-food lined thoroughfare. Driving past the apartments I shared with Mike Tracey and Billy Barr, I tried to remember the parties, the great looking school teachers, and all the good times..,tossing a football around the pool, our wetting down party for making lieutenant. Recalling how many speeding tickets we all got on Timaquana and 103rd Street, I stayed at 45.., still the limit despite the new widened roadway. The old Red Bam Barb-Cue restaurant is gone and the Shell station is upgraded and moved across the re-aligned street. They no longer give those smoked glasses with each fill up and gas wars are tmly a thing of the past but its still Shell. Most things look familiar, similar to my memory's eye, just showing signs of growth and only now, with the base closed for three years, showing the first signs of decay.

Arriving at the base seemed to take longer Of course, at 45 mph—a speed we often exceeded in first gear going out the driveway of the apartment complex, it does take nearly three minutes longer Now some of you may

recall the opening scenes of the Gregory Peck movie Twelve O'clock High. In the first few minutes of the film set in England in 1949, a man visits a now-abandoned B-17 base and his reminisces segue to the story line. From the minute I drove onto the base, I had that same eerie feeling.. .that I was merely the conduit for a much larger, more important story. Cecil Field is as deserted now as any Eighth Air Force field in Kent or Sussex only now it is our time to reminisce. The vacant pads along the entrance road where once proud static displays of Sky Hawks and Crusaders and Corsairs stood vigil are now just vacant slabs of concrete, cracking in the baking Florida sun and slowly, inexorably being overmn by weeds, reclaimed by nature's onslaught absent the legions of sailors working off extra duty by trimming and paining. For more than an hour at what was once NAS Cecil Field—Master Jet Base, I felt like Major Harvey Stovall, USAAF (Gregory Peck's adjutant in the film), wandering among the buildings, staring at the chapel where I was first married, walking around my old parking spaces alongside the A-4 and A-7 hangers, staring out at the fuel pits where an 18-year old airman rescued a pilot from an A4 with a fire in the hell-hole. I was feeling a connection to my youth and wondering what had happened to all those days and years.

Where did they go? My imagination ran rampant; I could recall checking-in early in Febmary 1968 and being overjoyed there was no room at the BOQ—off-base housing and an additional $140 per month. We were rich beyond imagination. The A-4 RAG. Downs in the links trainer for forgetting to lower the gear.

Unbriefed dogfights over Pinecastle target area. The artival of the Reserve squadrons when LBJ called them up after Pueblo.

Moreover, their raucous stand-down party at the O' Club six months later when they were retumed to their civilian careers. Watching a space shuttle launch from 30,000 feet as we climbed out loaded for bear—12 Mk. Seventysix practice bombs. The missing man formation over the chapel when Ken Harvey hit the ramp on SHANGRI LA. I even recalled John McCain's kids playing little league baseball at the baseball field on the main drag while their dad was a POW. The bank, where a teller refused to cash a check Mike Tracey had given me (probably not a golf bet), now stands enlarged but empty. I recalled being a "nugget" and flying the XOs (Dave Young '53) and COs (Sam Latimer '51) wing. Night landings on SHANGRI LA (scared to death) and the comfort of JFK—big deck,,.which runway do I use?

The silence now at Cecil Field is deafening. No traffic on the ground, no pedestrians, no saluting sailors in dungarees, no activity, no jets overhead in the T&G pattern.

Nothing but emptiness.. .as if a ghost town out of an old war movie but now the setting is Florida and the ghosts are us. There is some irony in the luxurious maintenance of the golf course while everything else goes to seed. No one ever accused us of having our priorities a littie mixed!

After a while the nostalgia began to wear thin so I sucked it up, got back in the car and headed out the main drive. As I neared the chapel again, now abandoned to termites, rodents, and the debris left behind by a recently departed film crew, I noticed a line of trees and a small, weatherwom sign indicating a Walk of Heroes. So, with no fear of "rent-acops 'bustin my chops," I made an illegal U-mm and pulled into the chapel drive—facing

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tiie wrong way. of course. I stopped the car and took in the sight of several trees lined neatly but unevenly in two rows, one with a dozen trees; the other with but two. In front of each tree stood a small round pillar about three feet or so in height. The appearance is solemn yet not somber, peaceful without being morbid. On each of the 12 pillars was a beautifully engraved plaque containing a similarly worded, deeply meaningful inscription and the name of a naval aviator, a former resident of NAS Cecil Field, lost in Vietnam. Some names were familiar to me, others not at all. The two trees standing behind the dozen were similarly inscribed, commemorating men lost in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Each tree was meticulously maintained and the bronze plaques appeared recentiy polished.

Behind the walkway was a small alcove carved into the adjacent pine forest. The serenity there was as calming as any place I have ever visited. A ramp leading to wooden benches facing an elevated circular lectem behind which is a grass-covered berm giving the appearance of a virtual choir. The effect was almost altar-like, peaceful save for the birds, at least one of who had made a nest in the eaves of the centerpiece. No cars or airplanes intermpted the deafening silence. To the left of this memorial is another pad for a static display— an A-4, I presumed, judging from the size of the pad, the tiny entrance road and the nearness of the surrounding trees. It would be appropriate and fitting that a SkyHawk stand vigil.

After all, it carried the load in the early going and probably enshrined many of those whose names adom the plaques. Built in 1973, it is a memorial to fallen comrades. When the base closed, it remained, alongside the chapel in a fitting place, serene, peaceful, moving in a very special way...quite beautiful.

I don't know what made me stop and look. I cannot say I was seeking anything divine or inspirational but in a way I can only describe as uruque, I was moved this Memorial Day unlike any in my memory. Perhaps it was a wake up call after such a lengthy absence from Cecil Field or more likely it is the uncertain times in which we live. We now find ourselves worrying about our children who go in harm's way when we never once worried about ourselves because we were indestractible, immortal—godUke in our cars and tmly divine in our airplanes.

WTiatever led me back to that spot, I was and remain tmly grateful. For the first time in a very long time, I actually felt touched by what I saw, heard, and felt. When I began slowly driving out of the base, up the main road again past those now vacant static-display pads

whose sentinels are now in basking Tucson or Mach 3 razors in some dmg store, I still had this feeling of longing, like I was leaving a part of my past, of my lost or misspent youth that perhaps I wished in some small way to recapture, to cling to, yet I knew I could not. Passing through the gate, turning north and driving along the perimeter looking between the pines, much higher now than I ever remember, glancing at the unused mnways between the trees, I could almost feel the roar of jets and smell the unique odor of airplane tires and JP-5. My imagination made it so. As I passed the last of the trees obscuring the now cracking and cmmbling ranway, I realized I was leaving my past but those 14 trees commemorate men who left their future. And it was for them and countless others that we celebrate this day.

Driving over the new bridge that is part of the interstate loop, I reflected how beautiful the St. John's River is...how blue...like the sky over Saufley Field on our first solo, when we could put out our hand and touch the face of God. I think that is how I shall always remember Cecil Field and those 14 trees.

Thanks, Frank, and again, my apologies for taking so long to get this into print Scott Redd sent me an update on Tom Reynold's address. It wasn't available for the 35th Reunion Directory. He's at 4708 Brookside Drive, Alexandria, VA 22312-1409. U's acttially the address from the 25th Reunion, but some retumed mail led me to beUeve he had moved.

So, he's found. According to Scott, Tom says he's retired-retired.

To close out this article, I have some pictures from the 35th, courtesy of "RB" Adams. My thanks to RB. Thanks again to all who contributed articles and pictures. It really makes my job easy. Have a great October. Until November—All the best!

—Mike!

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Don Winners, Bob Bellas, and Paul Hoar

Rodger Carter and Tony Palazzo

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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 (caU before faxing); e: scribe67@aol.cora Well, did you have a good time at the 35th?

How about taking a few minutes to drop me a line with an anecdote or two...maybe even a photo. A paragraph or so will do just fine. (God, how I hate to beg!) Anyway, I'm writing this in mid-August, so anything I tell you about the reunion will be out of date by the time you open this page. Just thought I'd hit you right away while it's stiU fresh in your minds.

There will be lots of things for "somebody" to report on. The Eighth Company Saturday night gathering will be at 'Nita and Jack Parry's latest restoration project at 20 Jefferson Place in Annapolis. That should be fun, if for no other reason than to get Jack and/or 'Nita to tell tales of the project to restore the house. It's far from done, but coming along! The house itself is off West Street, where...

The 35th Company will be having their dinner at Griffin's West Street Grill. Their head count stands at 20 Classmates the last I heard from Chuck Scherck. Chuck also distributed some news along with the dinner details. I'U shamelessly steal that part!

Congratulations are in order to Karen and Larry Julihn on their wedding on 29 June 2002. Terri and Ron Holcombe and Belinda and Tom Scheber were in attendance and reported that the ceremony was beautiful and a good time was had by all at the reception.

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Speaking of Tom and Belinda, you probably have noticed tiiem in attendance at a number of events in tiie DC area recently—Tom advised tiiat he is still attached to the Los Alamos program but is TAD to DC for two years. He and Belinda are enjoying being back in tiie area seeing tiie group and attending various USNA events. His cunent address is 6109 Berlee Drive. Alexandria, VA 22312 (about a mile from the Julihns. he said) 703-333-3056; tschet)er@ lanl.gov.

I'm glad Tom's back in this area for awhile, but he just missed Joanne and Pete Nanos's arrival at Los Alamos. This from Pete (note the heads-up for Colorado-based Classmates... maybe a chance for a tailgate and another report for Shipmatel): We are temporarily at 454 Ridgecrest Avenue, Los Alamos, NM 87544. pete@nanos .net, j@nanos.net, 505-672-9344 (h) and 505667-2711 (w). I don't know about the reunion and haven't made any commitments, because we are camped out in a rental and looking for a permanent home while I get started at the lab.

I will say that making it to the Air Force game is a real possibility this year though. I do still have my season football tickets and intend to make an occasional game when travel allows.

But I'm not finished with New Mexico yet!

Bill Norris checked in with Dave Church: Albuquerque is great. The high desert never achieves the boiling of Phoenix and you don't need air conditioning except during the hottest days of summer I get to play golf year round.

There is almost no traffic and we have a good airport. If I skied, I'd be in hog heaven.

The job is great! Although tiiis company tends to be a very paternal organization, I am breaking some of their barriers down. I have five managers and 80 people working for me doing weapons testing. Because they do honor my past miUtary assignments, they let me travel nationally and internationally for NATO and Nuclear Weapons Policy conferences.

Obviously, on the downside we don't get to see many Classmates this far inland so I'm really looking forward to tiie reunion.

BiU works for Sandia Corp. out there. I'm looking forward to seeing him and Carolyn at the reunion, too, because the Fifth Company dinner will be at my house just north of Annapolis in Crownsville. Right now we have 15 Classmates in the "yes" colunm, with some more not yet committed. Denny Faulds is on the fence, but it's not his fault. His youngest daughter is due to have a baby the week before the reunion so when he lined up his priority list, dinner in Crownsville lost out...unless she dehvers real early the week before!

Al Barkhart sent some photos taken at the evening parade that was hosted by Mike Williams at Marine Barracks 8th and I back in June. Here's the accompanying note: I'm sending a couple of photos from General and Barbara Williams' reception before the evening parade in June. One is the 30th Company attendees (without the general.)

They are, from left to right, me. Bob Earle, Dick Branum, Jules Seldon, and J.J. O'Brien. The other is a shot of me with General Willie. I think I've figured out how "Boats" got four stars—whenever anyone snaps a photo he gives the camera the meanest, nastiest look, indicating for the record he is not someone you want to mess with. Mike and

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Barbara were terrific. Nancy, my son, Michael, and I had a greattimeattiiereception and P-rade.

Nancy and I moved to Chariotte two summers ago and I have been remiss in notifying everyone of our new location. Duke Engineering and Services was my employer for the last five years until Duke-Energy sold us to Tom Christopher's company FramatomeANP in May. I heard from Wayne Henry's secretaiy tiiat Wayne has retired from Duke; I'll copy this to him to give him a chance to defend himself Any Classmates coming through Charlotte are invited to look us up.

30th Company at 8th and I As for the second photo Al mentioned, it wiU be posted on the web along with this column for your viewing pleasure. Tums out, I wound up with the wrong pictures so I ended up with only the one. We'll get it sorted out. In the meantime, go to http://www.usna67.com/shipmate.htm and click on the October '02 link. You'll even get to see the color version there!

A note and some clippings came in the maU from John Hitchcock's wife, Nancy. She said John would never send them himself, so she decided to "toot his hom for him." On 10 April in Washington, DC, the United States Distance Leaming Association presented John with their award for "Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Govemment." John is the Knowledge Management Officer at the Defense Acquisition University at Fort Belvoir VA. John received the award for his contribution to the DAU distance leaming program. The clipping from DAU's Program Manager magazine said his "vision and leadership have been pivotal in the conception and implementation of the DAU Project Management Community of Practice.

Allowing global acquisition and logistics personnel a way to collaborate and disseminate information and best practices. Community of Practice supports continuous learning and performance support."

Good on you, John. Nancy also said that John is "at the moment, a weekend commuter to Williamsburg where we are building a home in Ford's Colony." Sounds exciting!

Now comes word from Ocala, FL. It seems like but yesterday that Pat Howard retired from the Marine Corps and went down there to take over Florida's Department of Children and Families District 13. A short two and a half years later he's just been hired as the New County Administrator for Marion County, FL. He took over that job on 1 August. Congrats, Pat! Finally, die "near miss" story of the month comes to us from Pete Leon in an email to Dave: Dave, just thought I would share a near miss with you. I was out in the heat (40 degrees C) in Nanchang, China, where I am working with a joint venture, Jiangling Motors and Ford Motors, and I got a call from Len Wells. He was with his wife and boys, on the Yangtze River, almost to Chong Qing, near the Three Gorges Dam. Had we not had a quality

emergency at our facility, I would have been in Chong Qing on a business trip and would have seen him. Today he is in Shanghai, where I would have been, except that I needed to be in Beijing, before starting a short home leave.

When he arrived in Beijing earlier in the month, I was in Shanghai. I guess we were not supposed to meet up in China. I won't be at the reunion, as it is a bit too far to travel with my current assignment. Have a great time.

Did you follow that? Pete's the Ford Quality Director for Jiangling Motors Co. Ltd. in Nanchang, Jiangxi, PRC. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, his phone numbers are h: Oil 86 791 852 1680 and Oil 86 791 523 2888 x7318 at work. He gets his email at pleon@ford.com. (Did anybody get the right answer on the air temperature in degrees Fahrenheit in Nanchang?)

I guess that's all there is for this time. I hope I saw you at the reunion. I was serious about the notes with any tales you might like to tell. And pictures...send pictures! (But if you use your digital camera, kick the resolution up a notch from the bottom quality setting. I need the extra pixels to keep the Shipmate editor happy.)

That's it...Goodnight! —Jim

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Pres; Joseph V. Conway Exec Sec'y; Leo Kuehn 531 Wilson Road, AnnapoUs, MD 21401-1061 e: lkuehn@arinc.com Corr Sec'y: Gordon I. Peterson 7994 Hidden Bridge Drive, Springfield, VA 22153 p: 703-913-5404; f: 703-243-8251 e; gpeterson@navyleague.org Class web site: www.usna68.com I'll open this month's column with a most welcome note from Joe Conway—perhaps the best email I have received since assuming duties as Class scribe: Terry and I would like to thank all of you who were kind enough to send well wishes and prayers to us and our 26 year-old son, Myles, who recently, successfully completed seven months of operations and chemotherapy to battie cancer He's back at work and recovering his weight and hair nicely, thanks to Johns Hopkins and your support.

Nine August was a memorable day in the history of our Class. Jackie and MajGen Charlie Bolden concluded more than three decades of service to the Marine Corps and our nation when he relinquished command of the Third Marine Air Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar CA, and transitioned to the retired ranks.

LtGen Mike Hagee, commanding general of the I Marine Expeditionary Force, officiated at the change-of-command ceremony—presenting Charlie with a richly deserved Distinguished Service Medal and Jackie with a well-earned certificate of commendation for her "constant, faithful, and devoted service" during CharUe's career.

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Mike Hagee presents the Distinguished Service Medal to Charlie Bolden at his retirement ceremony on 9 August

The citation to the award, signed by Secretary of the Navy, Gordon England, speaks volumes about the inspired leadership we all have associated with Charlie since we first assembled on the banks of the Sevem 38 years ago (shouldn't we try to have that number classified?). Of note, despite the obstacles associated with a geographically separated and fragmented air wing, the Third MAW recorded an unprecedented achievement of zero class A or B aircraft mishaps in 2001 under Charlie's leadership. He also was cited for his extraordinary vision in establishing the "Putting Marines First" program and other initiatives diat raised morale to new levels.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen Jim Jones wrote Charlie to express his thanks for a "magnificent career" during some of the "most critical" years in the history of the Corps—whether as a squadron pilot flying combat missions, a test pilot, an astronaut, or commanding general.

Gen Jones also thanked Jackie for her "steadfast support" over many years as a "mainstay" in every assignment.

Secretary England also wrote Charlie to wish him and Jackie well in their transition to new horizons. "One of the great strengths of our country," England wrote, "is the willingness of men of your stature to devote their exceptional talents to positions of military leadership." The secretary also praised Charlie's many achievements and leadership in considerable detail.

Charlie told me that he decided to make his career transition for a number of reasons— including the desire to be able to spend more time with his grandchildren than he did with his own children! The Marine Corps had other plans to capitalize on his inspiring leadership, but the time was right for the Bolden family to retum to Houston and new adventures.

On hand for Charlie's retirement were, from left, Jim Kem, Bob Ameson, Frank Simmons, Gil Lucas, Bob Griffin, Randy Bogle, Kent McQuerter, Bob Parda, Mike Hagee, Chet Carroll, Doug Freeland, Denny Ireland, and Mike Gmlli; front row: Jack Vellis, Charlie, and Ken Pyrz

to Dave Tyler and me so our Class directory can be updated on the '68 homepage.

Steve Haines also reported that our Classmates on the "Left Coast" held a proper retirement party for Jackie and Charlie in August, so I hope to share the details in my next column. I owe Mike Hagee a special thanks for providing the group photo and caption information—he tumed them around immediately. And to Jackie and Charlie, on behalf of all of your Classmates, BZ and best wishes for every continued success and happiness as you travel along life's road together.

Speaking of Mike Hagee, he and Chip Gregson have been cited in several recent newspaper articles as being top contenders to relieve Jim Jones as commandant when he reports to Europe as the Supreme Allied Commander. The Corps will get a winner in either case, and I know I join you all in hoping for the best.

In July, in my editorial capacity with Sea Power magazine, I drove up to Lockheed Martin's facility in Moorestown, NJ, to witness the company's delivery of the 75th Aegis weapons system to the Navy. RADM Bill Cobb, program executive officer for theater surface combatants, accepted the system for the Navy in front of 1,400 guests and Lockheed Martin employees. Signing it over from Lockheed Martin was Fred Moosally '66, president of the company's Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems—Surface Systems in Moorestown.

This Aegis system—substantially upgraded with eight times the capability at one-third the cost of its original version three decades ago—is destined for installation on the ARLEIGH BURKEclass Aegis guided-missile craiser MOMSEN

(DDG-92), named for VADM Charles B. "Swede" Momsen '20. Among those members of the Momsen family participating in the ceremony was the admiral's daughter Evelyn Momsen Hailey; the admiral's son, CAPT Charles B. Momsen Jr. '42; and the admiral's great-grandson. Fire Control Technician Third Class Andrew William Hailey—a plankowner on DDG-92 who enlisted in the Navy specifically to serve on MOMSEN. I can't begin to tell you how captivating it was to hear Mrs. Hailey and CAPT Momsen relate their recollections about their father—a trae legend for his accomplishments in developing a submarine escape-breathing apparatus (the "Momsen Lung" during the early 1930s, salvaging the sunken submarine SQUALUS, leading two submarine squadrons in combat in the Pacific, and commanding the battleship SOUTH DAKOTAfrom1944-1945. It was a special honor for me to join them at their table for the day's luncheon.

As I related in a "page one" article in die September issue of Sea Power, this ceremony was significant for a number of important reasons. Under the leadership of RADM Wayne Meyer ("The father of Aegis"), the Aegis program pioneered evolutionary development and unmatched reliability before the goal of "transformation" and the acquisition strategy of "spiral development" became such fashionable buzzwords in the Rumsfeld Pentagon. The hazegray hulls of our CGs and DDGs may resemble their predecessors of a decade or more ago, but what is packed into their huUs represents orders-ofmagnitude improvements in combat capabiUty. That message was driven home forcefully this past January and June when the Aegis guidedmissile craiser LAKE ERIE launched a standard missile and guided it to a successful intercept and destraction of an exoatmospheric target missile over the Pacific Ocean—demonstrating the Aegis system's capability to detect, track, and destroy tactical ballistic missiles. (You also can read about that in the September Sea Power in an article by CAPT John Hammerer the ship's commanding officer!)

Fred Moosally's remarks at the ceremony also are pertinent. "Each and every system upgrade takes Aegis to a higher level of performance," he said. "It is the undisputed superior weapons system in the world." Bill Cobb held the audience

Charlie with his granddaughter Mikaley; her dad is Marine Corps Capt Anthony Bolden

In addition to Mike Hagee's presence for official duties, we had a nice tumout from the Class including Bob Ameson, Randy Bogle, Chet Carroll, Doug Freeland, Denny Irelan, Bob Griffin, Mike Gralli, Jim Kem, Gil Lucas, Kent McQuerter Bob Parda, Ken Pyrz, Frank Simmons, and Jack Vellis. This was the first recent sighting of Mike Grulli, but he departed the partem without leaving his email address. I hope he reads this column and will pass it along

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Fred P. Moosally (left), vice president of Lockheed Martin's Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems—Surface Systems, and RADM William W. Cobb Jr., the Navy's program executive officer for theater surface combatants, exchange certificates signifying the Navy's acceptance of the 75th Aegis weapons system in July. Looking on are (from left), retired RADM Wayne Meyer, the "Father of Aegis;" Mrs. Evelyn Momsen Hailey, daughter of VADM Charles B. "Swede" Momsen; retired CAFT Charles B. Momsen Jr.; and CDR John W. Ailes V, prospective commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Momsen. Photo courtesy of Bob O'Neill, Lockheed Martin Corp.

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in the palm of his hand with his remarks and humor As one who has served in command at sea, he spoke with authority when he said, "When you are the commanding officer of a ship, you always want to know where the threat is, especially die air direat. The nice tiling about Aegis is tiiat it works everytime—diefirst time."

Tuming from the worid of surface combatants to that of undersea warfare, I leamed in late July diat Rick Buchanan was selected by Raytheon Electronic Systems Naval & Maritime Integrated Systems to serve as its director.

Submarine and Undersea Programs.

Congratulations, Rich! As leader of the company's Submarine and Undersea Programs Integrated Product Team (IPT), Rick will be responsible for executing and growing its undersea-warfare business.

Rick recently served in private industry as the deputy for strategic operations for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) contract at Electronic Data Systems. He also has served as vice president of Corporate Services for the First National Bank of Omaha in Nebraska. Rick's success in private life is an extension of his distinguished career in submarines, capped by a final assignment as a flag officer serving as the director of operations and logistics at the U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, NE. In prior tours of duty. Rick commanded two submarine groups and a nuclear-powered attack submarine. He served as commander Submarine Group Two in Groton, CT, where he was responsible for 45 attack submarines of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Rick also commanded the Submarine Force, U.S. Seventh Fleet in Japan during Desert Storm and Desert Shield and was CO of the nuclear-powered attack submarine PARCHE (SSN-683) for four years. He is unable to discuss many of his submarine's missions while serving in command during the Cold War, but I understand that they rival the most hairraising exploits in a Tom Clancy novel! As the result of this career transition, Terry and Rick are relocating to the Portsmouth, VA, area. Good luck!

As the result of my work writing this column I have the good fortune to cross paths with many Classmates who continue to serve our country and society in many walks of life—in and out of uniform. I recently had the occasion to speak with a young Marine Corps officer serving at the Naval Academy Prepatory School in Newport, RI. He is a company officer When he leamed that I was in '68, he replied, "Wow. That's an illustrious Class!" Doesn't that unsolicited compliment make you feel good? This reputation is not the result of any one person's accomplishments during the past 34 years, but the cumulative achievement of all who graduated, served, and continue to serve in all manner of endeavors.

From out Annapolis way, George Breeden reported that his son. Beau (a 2000 University of Maryland Baltimore Campus graduate) is a financial planner with American Express Financial Services and junior partner in their Kent Island, MD, office. Daughter, Kelly, is a senior at Towson University and majoring in history with a minor in political science as she works toward a secondary education certification. Barbara is still a reference librarian (political science and economics) at the Nimitz Shipmate, October 2002

Library and an advisor to Campus Girl Scouts at the Academy. George is still working for VGS, Inc., a small business supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Program Analysis and Evaluation).

George said that Paul Farmer is still with OSD PA&E in the Tactical Air Forces Division.

Lastly, George reported that Hap Carpenter recently updated the 31st Company's email list and personal information in preparation for the 2003 Class reunion.

Thanks for the update! Perhaps George or Paul can tell us why Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld saw fit to direct (in May) yet another study of the CVNX future carrier program (more than 30 such analyses have been completed since the early 199(}s) at the same time that the Defense Science Board's highly positive report on aircraft carriers and CVNX was making its laborious and time-consuming way through the DoD "chop" process? I'm told that some of the good folks in OSD apparently didn't like the DSB's conclusion: Move out on the CVNX! How many more examples of Operation Enduring Freedom and the carrier's masterful contribution to the war in Afghanistan do we need before some of the green-eye-shade minions in OSD acknowledge the big-deck carrier's utility, flexibility, mobility, and firepower?

Today's carrier air wing enjoys a nearly 500 percent increase in effectiveness compared to the capabilities demonstrated during Operation Desert Storm. The Navy tells me that an additional 200 percent increase in "aimpoint efficiency" will be achieved during the next six years as newer precision-guided munitions are introduced to the fleet. And, having seen the F/A-18E/F Super Homet up close and personal this year, I can tell you that the carrier's highperformance strike-fighters also offer extraordinary advantages compared to aircraft models of just a few years ago. Talk about transformation!

Better yet, the carriers take their ranway with them when our "friends and allies" around the world decide not to allow U.S. land-based air to operate from their sovereign territory!

I'll step off the soap box—I'm starting to feel like Dennis Miller and there's no need to rant to you! But, if you're not following some of the more inane activity underway here in the land of darkness and confusion (DC), I can't help but try to share some insights and call it as I see it!

During the summer the new and inspiring Commandant, Col John R. Allen '76, was in the news with a Baltimore Sun report describing some of the changes that he is attempting to implement as he moves the Naval Academy into the 21st century and improves leadership-development programs in the process—including the trials and tribulations of Plebe Year Heaven forbid, but he and other combatproven leaders at the Academy are trying to adopt more innovative (and effective) methods of leadership development than dropping a Plebe for push-ups for failing to know one's rates.

Rather predictably, many of the "old guard" (and some in the new) have seized upon this news as but the latest example of how the Naval Academy has retreated from its time-honored traditions of ranning the hell out of Plebes to make them better Midshipmen and prospective

officers. Well, as one who has observed the Brigade's activity and Midshipmen directly in recent years, I know the physical-development requirements are stiffer than our prehistory days at the Boat School.

Too many graduates are flooding the Intemet with impassioned pleas for a retum to the days of yore to remake the Academy along the lines of ancient Sparta. Hogwash. Such zealots should reread their history and recall Sparta's fate—not to mention elements of personal lifestyle I wiU not repeat here. Looking back on our days as Midshipmen, I believe today's leadership-development programs and policies are head and shoulders above what we experienced.

All I would ask is that before any USNA graduate sings out to criticize what our Classmate, VADM Dick Naughton '68, and Col Allen are trying to accomplish at the Academy, they first read the latest version of Col Allen's "Commandant's Guidance." It is, without question, one of the most eloquent and moving statements about the Naval Academy's mission and the vision each officer shares in trying to develop the very best officers to lead our nation's Navy and Marine Corps in peace and war. A copy of the guidance should be available on the Academy's home page. If not, contact me—I'U get you my copy.

On a personal note, I decided in June to follow in the footsteps of Jeff Dumas, Bamaby Ruhe, and others in the Class who are running marathons regularly. I joined the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's team for this October's Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC. By mid-August I had raised nearly $1,500 as the result of pledges from generous friends, relatives, business associates, and Classmates! This hospital, founded by Danny Thomas in the 1960s, specializes in cancer research and treatment. I'd like to thank those of you who contributed so generously to this cause.

Along the way, I've shed quite a few unwanted pounds! I recorded a 2:23.27 time for a halfmarathon in early August and also ran this year's Annapolis lO-miler and DC Capital Area 20-miler.

I just hope die knees hold out until the big run!

All the best, and Beat Army] —Gordo

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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 703-205-3251; e: hudocst@mail.northgrum.com Attention World, Attention World! Our annual Class of 1969 Foundation Meeting will be held on Friday, 11 October '02, at 2 p.m. on the 2nd Deck, conference room located on the Leeward end of Ward Hall (remember the weapons classrooms?). All Class members are cordially invited to attend. Memberships may be made current on the spot with appropriate check or cash available for Secretary Al Cipriani to record and III

Treasurer Steve Ward to collect. We have an election this year for two positions with the following nominees: Executive VP: Mike Michaeilis, Tom Klocek, Ron Gumbert; Trastee-at-large: Steve Cominsky, Walt Giraldi, Dave Ehmann Additionally, volunteers are being solicited for the very important jobs surrounding our 35th reunion in September-October '04. (Steve Ward is resisting a draft in his favor but has agreed to offer consulting services to Mike Strand!)

Enough of business, on to the fun stuff!

Roland Knapp finally hung up his spurs.

Roland had an outstanding career and has just retired as a rear admiral, the only one of the Ninth Company and one of the few of the Class of 1969. His retirement ceremony of last Friday was very impressive. The Asst. Secretary of the Navy spoke very highly of his many accomplishments. And we all had a great time at the party too! Jim Higgens (j.higgens@state.gov) has posted prints at: http//help.ofoto.com/I. jst?m=40741313403.34361990503&n=2821461 74. (If that isn't some www string!) You can get prints from online. Congratulations, Roland!

Rick Lottie was recently promoted at American Management Systems, Inc., an international business and information technology consulting firm. He was named as executive vice president to head its new corporate Managed Services program. Lottie will report to AMS President and Chief Operating Officer William M. Purdy. A former Marine Corps officer. Rick gained extensive experience in corporate outsourcing. As an executive from 1993 to 1999 of MCI Systemhouse Corp., acquired by EDS in 1999, he was most recently responsible for the global delivery of outsourcing and technology deployment services, with one billion dollars in revenue, five major outsourcing centers and 4,200 employees in the United States, Canada, and England. At Perot Systems Corp. from 1989-1991, Lottie led a team in the development of specific outsourcing and systems integration opportunities. He also worked with IBM nationwide to train employees in the development of outsourcing opportunities. He built a team and led efforts to win outsourcing contracts as a division vice president at EDS Corp. in the late 1980s. Prior to joining AMS, Lottie was a "customer partner" at Trilogy, an Austin, TX, software company, where he focused on improving customer relationships in major accounts.

Also Ed Piatt made the news lately, as an honored, two-decade veteran of the United States' govemment intelligence services, has been named vice president of Global Security and Intelligence for International SOS, the world's leading medical and security assistance company. Ed joined the Philadelphia, PA, based assistance company following a distinguished career of govemment service, most recentiy as U.S. National Security Agency Assistant Deputy Director for Operations. A former Navy aviator he served with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency from 1978 until 2001. Among the honors bestowed on Ed during his career are the prestigious Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the Donovan Award, and the Operations Directorate Medallion. Another one of the unsung heroes of the Class of '69! BZ, Ed! 112

'69 group 1 June was the wedding date for Amysue Speer and Pete Kashubara. Amysue is the daughter of Sandy and Jim Speer (llth Company). Attending the wedding from the 11th Company were Tony Apollaro, John Post, Jim Slaight, Pat Sullivan, and Tom Verengia, all with their wives. Also there were Dave Rose and Tom Schram.

The wedding took place at the Old Post Chapel, Fort Meyer The wedding reception was highlighted with a few things of a Navy nature.

First, Jim Speer and John Post did a very special rendition of "Knock on Wood" that appeared to have been originally perfected during their time at USNA. Then, Amysue's USNA "godfathers" were invited to the dance floor for a special presentation of "What do you do with a dranken sailor" since Jim used to sing that to Amysue when he put her to bed (in between deployments). A great time was had by all in attendance. The bride and groom headed off to Mexico for their honeymoon (with a 6 a.m. departure from the hotel) while the bride's parents were headed for some much needed rest.

Jim's advice for other fathers of the bride is to keep the VISA card handy and don't argue with the women of the family.

Amysue and Jim Speer And a final bit of good news Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced that the President has nominated Navy ADM James O. Ellis Jr. for reappointment to the rank of admiral with assignment as commander, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Ellis is currentiy serving as commander, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force, Neb. Hope everyone is enjoying watching some Navy football wins\ See you at a tailgate under the "Big '69 Tent!" BeatArmyl â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Steve

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Pres: Lynn Widener Secy: CDR Royal Connell, USN (Ret) 1978 Valley Rd., AnnapoUs, MD 21401 e; njrotc@arctic.nadn.navy.mil Greetings all, and how about that Navy football team?

Hap Perry and Marc Farris were talking the other day and opined that Paccom, Lantcom, and the three Tycoms are all Class of '70. Which lead to the question: Has this ever happened before (not in our Class, but Classmates)? As aU such wonderings do anymore, it generated a series of emails back and forth including one from Joe Goodman who doubted it very seriously. He commented that of course the "type commanders" have morphed over the years and now we are in a lead-follow situation which is a little different as well. In the scheme of things, the Commander, Naval Surface Forces (old ComNavSurfPac), is a three-star (Tim LaFleur) and ComNavSurfLant is a two-star Commander Naval Air Forces (old ComNavAirPac), is a three-star (Mike Malone) and ComNavAirLant is a two-star commander. Naval Submarine Forces (old ComSubLant) is a three-star (John Grossenbacher) and ComSubPac is a two-star.

That has been that way for quite some time. Of interest is that Mike Malone relieved another Classmate, Black Nathman, as commander Naval Air Forces, and John went to CNO N-81.

We are also looking at Ed Giambastiani returning to Norfolk as commander. Joint Forces Command (old CinCLant). He was ComSubLant before he went back to Washington. He will not be SACLant, which is an operational command, and NATO is still trying to figure out how to cover that slot.

Tom Fargo, CinCPacFlt, is the highest ranking Classmate (highest on the precedence list of four-stars). Also don't want to forget Cutler Dawson (three-star), who is in Norfolk as commander. Second Fleet. Skid Heyworth, our old sage at Alumni House even queried the collective wisdom there, and the best we could get out of him was "name it and claim it." So there you have it friends and neighbors, we're the first again...maybe they sliould fry 'em all.

Brad Nemeth sent an update. He attended a reception on 29 July for VADM John Nathman, Shipmate, October 2002

commander Naval Air Forces and VADM Mike Malone, his relief in that job. change of command was 2 August 2002. He also had a quick chat with Ed Fahy in New York last montii. He was tiiere to receive an award from the Navy League oftiie United States. Ed has retired from die Navy and is living in Jacksonville, FL. Oh, by tiie way, tiie attendees at John and Mike's change of command included: VADM Tim LeHeur, RADM Ken Slaght, Charlie Carey, Jon Jensen, and Neil Finn. Allegedly there's an official U.S. Navy photograph somewhere that I can publish if anyone actually sends it to me.

Marc Fanis' wife and daughters are back from die winter vacation they took in New Zeland.

His oldest daughter was in NZ for her junior year abroad from Sweet Briar. They stopped in Venuatu (a.k.a. New Hebrides) for some ti-opical relief from winter and managed to pick up some respiratory crad to bring home. They had dinner one evening in Auckland with Paul Fowler's wife, Judy. Paul is working in Austt-alia for a zinc mining company, while Judy is responsible for the NZ farm, vineyards, and winery. They brought a bottle of Purrinehills home, but it hasn't been sampled as of yet. Beryl and Marc flew to Dallas with their youngest, Ariana, for SMU's new student orientation. Navy plays SMU for SMU's opener. Delta had a nice article in their flight magazine on Kevin Sharer at Amgen.

Mike Gottleib sent his annual STTREP on die Navy Old Goats at die Vail 2002 Lacrosse Shoot Out. For distribution to those Classmates who may have an interest in the Navy Old Goats Lacrosse Supermasters Team. The Navy Old Goats Lacrosse Team completed our assignment to congregate, execute, and celebrate the traditions and heritage of Navy lacrosse in Colorado, 29 June-3 July at the Vail Shootout Supermasters Toumament. We commemorated our 12th anniversary in 2002. The team of 27 players with families and support, trickled in to Vail over several days massing for our organizational scrimmage on 29 June. It was here that intricate plans for closing with and destroying our opponents were carefully laid out. Detailed assignments were gratefully accepted with the typical can-do spirit reminiscent of those bygone days as Midshipmen eager for the opening whisrie to storm the beachhead. It was most likely but a few hours later, when those plans, so wrought with insight and intention, began to deteriorate.

The family picnic was the scene, accentuated with many toasts of grog. Come to think of it, reminiscent of those bygone days as Midshipmen. At the picnic, we made new acquaintances, gave out stars for attendance, distributed our new shorts and T-shirts, and recognized our oldest and youngest Goats: Tommy Hagan '69 and Buddy Garland '84. We looked good on paper A fourth championship was in our dreams. We had retuming veterans for experience, youth for vigor and we sported new shorts. We would look good on the field and we would look good walking off the field. At last, or make that alas, the opening whistle blew and it was all downhill from thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for about seven of eight quarters in two games. Those instructions and carefully planned schematics became memories as we straggled with the question of what it takes to play as a cohesive team. We discovered the answerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it takes two games, at least for

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this year. For after losing our first two, we beat up on our third opponent just as we had planned in our earlier meetings. We played like champions in that final game.. .just like the bygone days as Midshipmen! Here are the details: Game 1: Bowdoin Polar Bears II, Navy 5.

We played the Bowdoin alumni, who had the benefit of an earlier game to get into their rhythm. This was in conUast to our lack of teamwork, where very few aspects of our game worked well. We were a few Middies short of our normal rotations. This lack of depth revealed our Achilles heel, as frequent rotations takes a toll on the lungs at 8,000'. Some consolation was realized as Bowdoin went on to win the toumament championship.

Game 2: Colorado Rockies 8, Navy 6.

With the earlier loss, we were put at a disadvantage before the whistle blew by being assigned an 8:30 a.m. face-off The good news for Wayne Dunham '74 was that the coach was ready to give him the starting assignment on attack. The bad news was Wayne didn't discover we were playing until about the second quarter. Okay, Wayne, the consensus was you looked soooooo much better with the additional rest.

The Goats had a fine first quarter with flashes of brilliance and a 3-1 lead at the half, but a flurry of goals by an undistinguished Middle on the Rockies reversed momentum from which we never recovered. By game's end we were humbled and it was time to begin to play as a team, not as a group of individuals wearing the same shorts. Remember, we were sporting great looking new shorts.

Game 3: Navy 19, WOOF (Washington Oregon Old Farts) 4.

The WOOF met us under an unfortunate set of circumstances; we were hungry for a win, physically acclimated to the altitude, and somewhat PO'd due to being assigned a second consecutive 8:30 a.m. faceoff Added to the circumstances was the WOOF were considerably less talented. Bad combination for the opponents.

The result was a spectacular display of passing, cutting, and shooting (ask Skip Miller '78, who seemed to be throwing the ball at the goal all day long). These were the "reminiscents" of bygone days as Midshipmen that we had been waiting for. Tim Burke '81 scored a goal, his first (?) after seven years at Vail. Nice job Tim! Everyone participated in the victory and we were primed for the closing ceremonies that evening. Chilly Willys, scene of our closing awards ceremonies, has become a tradition in its own right, our salute to four days of camaraderie and embellished tales of lacrosse. Awards and compliments were passed around more frequently than any lacrosse ball we had seen in three days of play. Morgan Ames '74 entertained us with Navy songs, rookies performed the standard ED, and we voted Joe Avveduti '74 as MVP. The women decided to become part of the ceremonies by voting "best legs" to Joe as well...Joe retumed the favor by showcasing the award, a pair of black panty hose. Did I say Margaritas were the house cocktail? Many believed that the judging panelists were bribed or at least unduly influenced with cocktails or other such tactics.

There was considerable talk about getting the word out about Vail and this band of unruly

Alumni. Bob Pell '72 was leaming about all he had missed as a Midshipman. (Don't worry Bob, they were all sea stories anyway!) The Old Goats experience is not just for the guys. As Chuck Coughlin '81 later noted.

Basically, it is more than lacrosse; it is a reunion of sorts and it is a family vacation. Last year Sabrina initially viewed our trip to Vail as a "we are going to Vail to watch daddy play lax" trip. Once there she realized it was much more and enjoyed meeting new faces and socializing with the other wives/girlfriends/ significant others.

Given the propensity that Chuck demonstrated for isolation dodges during the games, if we can convince Chuck that the trip to Vail for the rest of the team is not to go to Vail and watch Chuck play lacrosse, those words of wisdom will have a much greater impact! Steinhorst sported a wonderful bruise on his biceps from the competition. Looked more like a bad tattoo. Rob was anticipating that any red (or blue) badge of courage came from an opponent but in this case it was an errant shot he caught during the practice scrimmage. Nice catch, Rob! It was generally conceded that Steiner was not in the competition for best legs. As a matter of record, we tried to find a pair of XL shorts, not for extra large, but for extra long to hide as much as possible.

John Kiersted was awarded his tenth star for retuming to Vail ten years. Many of you may recall John's gentle manner before succumbing to the engineering and math departments Second Class Year. He teaches sixth grade youngsters in Santa Craz, CA, stays in top shape, and plays as much as any of the younger "D" men. As the evening wound down on the Old Goats edition 2002, we realized despite our earlier transgressions on the field as a team, we had overcome many obstacles to reach a level of excellence.

Our unique band of brotherhood evolved. We acknowledged the absence of those regulars who could not be there, and in that recognition welcomed the new faces who added the freshness and vitality that make each year different from the past. Regardless of who makes it, we have a common heritage and each of us contributed a part to it over many years in making Navy lacrosse who we are today. That was worthy of celebrating, (and we of course rose to the occasion). With final commentary, we sang Navy Blue and Gold and called it a year! The games are but one part of the total Vail Old Goats celebration. In planning for 2003, we will target some more young guys who are in shape to give us a winning edge and bring back that trophy.

For the "old gold" players we invite you to join us as an opportunity to celebrate your contribution to the Navy lacrosse heritage. How about it?

Isn't it about time? As many of you know, the Class of '70 was the last Class to win a national championship. What better way to celebrate but with the Old Goats in Vail 2003.

Contact Mike Gottieib, athletic director. Navy Old Goats, 406-449-4127 to get on the email news list.

Finally, I ran into Bill Fetzer and his bride the other day at Bethesda. She thanked me for all the work I did on behalf of the Class, I should have told her it wouldn't be so much work if I got more mail from some of you.

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Pres: CAPT Perry Martuii, USN (Ret) e: perry.martini@usna.com Sec'y; CAPT Mike Longworth, USN (Ret) 1145 Birks Lane, Virginia Beach, VA 23464-5826 e: duke.longworth@1971.usna.com webmaster: John Holland e: john.holland2@verizon.net http;//ww w.usna.com/classes/1971 /usna 1971 .htm Another hot summer is quickly fading into a warm fall. By the time you are reading this our Class officers will have met at USNA 13 and 14 September. Greg Harper will discuss his leadership class and Bob Parsons will discuss his role as director of finance and budget at USNA. Also, the Chic Burlingame Memorial Chair ceremony will be held. Class officers will view our '71 Astronaut Exhibit at Alumni Hall and conduct our Class Bronze Class Crest unveiling.

Another important topic. Class web site and database, will be briefed by John HoUand. I know many of you are interested in effective ways for the Class to communicate quickly. I will include in the November Shipmate a full accounting of these events.

A special note for Frank Culbertson: Frank, please accept my sincere apologies for erroneously crediting Bob Cabana as Space Station Alpha commander on September llth. There is "no excuse, sir" for getting my facts confused.

For all: Bob Cabana is in Russia coordinating the joint space program with the Russians.

I received a couple notes from Troy Pyles.

The first note pertains to some summertime reminiscing about Spring Break 1971: Yeaks, Wild Turkey, and toast for breakfast reminds me of Spring Break First Class Year in Daytona Beach. As I recall our (Hugh Strain and I) typical breakfast for that low budget vacation from Mother B was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and beer. Couldn't afford real food or a hotel room. Speaking of that trip, did I ever tell you about crashing in our sleeping bags on a remote stretch of beach one night and waking up in the middle of the Easter sunrise service the next moming? Just trying to reserve a good seat.

Madam! And please excuse me while I put my skivvies on and get dressed in this sleeping bag.

Wow, that sounds much more fun than the experiences John Brandes, Brent Greene, Paul Steinke, Steve Pelstring, and I were having as we rowed our shells up and down, then down and up the Sevem in preparation for a winning light weight crew season. I think Troy had the "right idea." Ah, the price we paid.

As we leamed at Mother B, 'Time, tide, and noon meal formation wait for no man." Our time in our various active duty billets always comes to an end. Most recentiy, Jim Metzger completed his highly successful tour as 7th Fleet Commander Here is what the Jiji press release said: July 18, 2002, Thursday Willard Becomes U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Dateline: Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref, July 18 U.S. Navy VADM Robert F Willard Thursday assumed the post of commander of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet in a ceremony on the flagship BLUE RIDGE anchored in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. VADM James W. Metzger left the commander post that he took 114

up in July 2000. He will serve as assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Department of Defense. After graduating from tiie U.S. Naval Academy in 1973, Willard served as captain of ABRAHAM LEMCOLN aircraft carrier.

I know Jim will serve the nation superbly at his new post. Nice to see a "great guy" continue up the chain.

I received the following note from JT Morris concerning the change of command: I just retumed from visiting C7F and CCG5; unfortunately. Rat Willard was arriving the afternoon we were with the C7F staff, so our audience with Jim Metzger didn't come off. Plus, our itinerary had us leaving the day before the change of command, so we couldn't attend. As many of you know, JT is manager of Strike Systems Integration witii Whimey, Bradley & Brown, Inc in Vienna, VA. JT continues with this note: Mike: I was hoping to write you soon and say I had been able to visit all the '71 fleet commanders this summer, but, alas it wasn't so. We've been unable to hook up with Scott Fry at 6th Fleet. I'm working for Whitney, Bradley & Brown, Inc (WBB) and were on a data-gathering mission for a project we are working for OpNav 780.

I was in Bahrain in June and had a full day with Tim Keating, Fifth Fleet. He hosted our meetings and we had a nice lunch with he and his staff. The temperature was a rather balmy 106 degrees with about 106% humidity! Timbo was fine, loving the challenge. Of note was how professional his staff was and how much they actually enjoyed working for him, despite the location.

Our meeting with Jim Metzger, as noted, was pre-empted by RADM Willard's arrival that afternoon (Rat Willard '73) and I went through nuclear power training as CVN XOs at the same time. While there, we spent the day and had dinner with RADM Steve Kunkle '73, ComCarGm Five on KJTTY HAWK, and his

wife, Marty. Kunckle and I were CAG LSO together back in the '70s on INDEPENDENCE while deployed to the Indian Ocean during the Iranian hostage situation.

Many thanks to JT for his update on visiting our Fleet Commander Classmates. Sounds like a great "job" that JT manages!

Okay, how many of "us" did our duty and purchased Black Storm! Well, the first to report success in the attempt to take this superb book to the best seller list is Bill Brown. Bill reports from sunny Palm Beach, FL, that he did his part. So, how about it. Classmates? Bill has laid down the gauntlet! Of note, BiU uses our "classmail" feature as a lifetime member of the Alumni Association. Nice work. Bill. Since graduation Bill has completed an M.B.A. at the Tuck Business School, Dartmouth CoUege. He uses their alumni mail, too.

I received a note from Pete Booth '56 about his novel Humble in Victory, and web site (www.peterbbooth.com) which contains an abbreviated compilation of reader comments you might find interesting.

Admiral Booth was CO, FORRESTAL during the late '70s when I was busy flying A-7s bagging as many traps as possible. He was a superb CO. I expect this is a good read.

Speaking of time, tide and evening meal formation, I received the following press release which appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

TRIDENT SUB COMMAND—Command of the Navy's Pacific Fleet Trident nuclear submarine force changes at noon today at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base off Hood Canal in Kitsap County. RADM Charles H. Griffiths Jr. the 12th commander of Submarine Group 9, is retiring after a 31-year career that began when he graduated with the Naval Academy Class of 1971 at Annapolis. In a traditional Navy ceremony, Griffiths will be relieved by the new commander, RADM Bmce B. Englehart, who most recentiy was deputy director of the Navy's submarine warfare division at the Pentagon. The ceremony will take place on the Bangor waterfront aboard one of the eight Trident ballistic missile submarines based there.

Good on ya'. Classmate! Perhaps someone can email me a personal note about the event with names. We all wish Chuck, "Fair winds and following seas."

Wow, lots going on. The following note surely attests to the "durability" of '71ers. Steve Bruce writes: We just had a 35th Company reunion at Dave Charvatt's wedding. During the festivities, the subject of who exactly is in the National Geographic picture came up. Much like the Man in the Moon, over-active imaginations saw various and select Classmates in the picture; the ensuing visual interpretations led to more heated debates about who is in the picture. My understanding was that it was you and your company, 36th. This explanation was shot down, for two reasons. First, I am a Califomia native and, as a result, can't know what I am talking about. Second, I was sober, so I can't know what I am talking about. WTiat is the gouge, so I can settle this dispute before we go to nuclear weapon exchange?

This was followed by a note from Troy Pyles who filled in the "list of players" at the aforementioned wedding. The following Classmates mustered in Ohio/West Virginia for Dave Charvat's 27 July wedding to a very lovely bride named Sarah. Bill Nevitt, Troy Pyles, Ed Reeve, Ken Jordan, John Sauls, Steve Bruce, Lucho Alvarez, Greg Heath, Wayne Hallenbeck, Al Lowe, Hugh Strain, Pete Mellin, Rick Weldon, Tim Burns, Bill Heflin, Bill Zapf, George Vassos, etc. Did anyone fiU you in on this major reunion event? Troy emailed just in time the following additional note to Dave and Sarah's wedding: There were apparently a few more Classmates in attendance than I listed. I recall Steve Bruce musing tiiat 21 of tiie 28 (graduates) of us showed up—a better tum out than any reunion at USNA. People came from far and wide for the event—Peru (Lucho), Hawaii, Califomia, Washington, Texas, Mississippi. Florida, Massachusetts, etc. We had a great time playing golf, bachelor partying, and at the reception and following dinner wedding night. Dave sure put on a great show and party for all of us. Then he headed off for a well deserved honeymoon in Hawaii. Dave's wife. Sai-ah, is a reverend, as is her sister Her sister is one of the two women reverends that officiated in the wedding ceremony. Wow. the list of names brings back lots of fond Mother B memories. Would have enjoyed being a part of that one—no doubt a couple beers were consumed and perhaps a little champagne.

Now, doesn't that sound like Dave? He needed two reverends to tie the knot! We wish all the best to Dave and Sarah.

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Some of us '71ers are still outperforming the general population. Witness the following note: Steve Brighton came fix)m Little Rock to San Francisco to enter tiie annual Alcana Sharkfest Swim on 3 August. The course starts at die island and is 1.5 miles to Aquatic Park San Francisco.

Two large ferries carried some 1.000 swimmers totiieRock. On signal all contestants jumped into tiie ocean and headed for shore. Friends fix)m Arkansas and the local bay arearelativescheered Steve on. Later, all hands adjoumed to a local tavern to celebrate witii a fun bmnch. (Mrs. B. 1 Itii Co. Correspondent) Now, this sounds like a great "annual event" which many of us could enjoy. If we didn't "win" the swim, surely we could "win" the local tavem event! Nice work, Steve. Keep it up!

Perhaps there is another 35 or 50 years left for us to challenge the locals.

Books, must be the season for reading. My neighbors, Cathy Salvato '83 and Mike Salvato '83, have children in the same local Virginia Beach Boy Scout troop and Girl Scout troop. Over the 4th of July, the Salvats hosted a gathering at their residence. Lisa and I were there chatting with the many folks there when Cathy asked me if I read First Class, a well-written book about the initial Class of young women at Navy. Of course, I had to read the book as I always thought we should have women at Navy.

This is another must read. Some of the characters are fictionalized, but that protects the innocent. The author does a nice job relating that first Class from her perspective. Gives the reader, especially a grad from an all-male Class, something to ponder.

For all photo buffs: This is a "heads up" concerning photos received via jpeg. I am new to jpg and digital photos, but I do hear the words, so I am working on understanding the implementation. AU photos via Intemet must be 300 dpi at 2.5 inches. If you cannot compute the dpi, please send the photo as soon as you think about inclusion in Shipmate. I wiU have the photo evaluated for resolution. Next, you will be notified as to suitabiUty so changes, if necessary, can be made.

Surely would prefer a system that could take all comers, but this is not a perfect world, so we can make do with what we are dealt.

Okay, another column completed ala Duke's style, ie, send me your words. I hope to see many of you at a Navy game under the Alumni tent at Annapolis.

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Pres: CDR Dave Hogen, USN (Ret.) e: Dave.Hogen@hogens.com Corr. Sec'y: CDR Rich Robison, USN (Ret.) 12695 Catawba Dr, Lake Ridge, VA 22192 e: Scribe72@comcast.net Class web page: www.usna72.com Class listserv; TheGouge@usna72.com Greetings, ladies and gents! Although it is still the "dog days of August" as I write this, our 30th reunion will be a fresh memory by the time this reaches you in the mail. Our deepest thanks and appreciation go to Rick Rubel and the 30th Reunion Committee for the tremendous amount of planning, coordination, and plain hard work which went into every detail of the weekend.

(Got photos? Your old scribe would be happy to put them in print!)

Once again, I must report the passing of another Classmate; Adam J. "AJ" Savitsky, 53, died suddenly on 28 July 2002 of acute myocardial infarction. After graduation, A. J. spent six years on active duty serving in Norfolk, Pensacola, Bremerton, and San Diego. He was living in Wilkes Barre, PA, at the time of his death. The Class extends its deepest sympathy to his fiancee, his three daughters, and his family.

Hemdon, Part Deux Dept.

Toby Tobiason's letter in the July-August Class column generated the following 22nd Company response from Rick Bodson: I just caught the latest '72 column in Shipmate in which Toby wrote in to suggest we never really finished Plebe Year because we wussed out on the Hemdon climb. Apparentiy (I don't remember, frankly) it wasn't greased, only watered down, for our Class and we managed to replace the dixie cup with a cap in a short 38 seconds.

Toby suggests we right this wrong so we can rightfully arise from Plebe-dom.

You gotta to be crazy, Toby. A bunch of more than 50 year old guys trying to climb Hemdon?

It'd be mayhem, it'd be dangerous, it'd be...No, wait a minute. You might be on to something here. Klims has been noodling another road trip to recapture the great "Iron Mountain Adventure." This could be it. Of course, we'd have to tweak the details a bit.

LD, research the legality of desecrating the Yard with crankcase oil or Crisco or whatever they use. We need to get a ruling on suitable altematives that still qualify us a Plebes-nomore. Henry, see if you can rent a 20-person cherry picker We can all climb into the basket and get hoisted up with limited fuss. And, we promise we won't lock the keys in the tmck, leaving you to explain to the Marine guards why a cherry picker, with its engine running, is stuck in front of the Chapel. RD, you're the prez of a big grocery chain. See if you can get us a good deal on Crisco, fat back, Mazola, anything of that ilk that'll put a fine shine on Hemdon. The cherry picker approach won't get any of the stuff on our fine civilian attire, so it doesn't have to be quality stuff Protz, be thinking of a suitable poem to mark the occasion. Work in a line about peeing in the shower if you must. Rudy, start submitting a story to Shipmate now on how the Double Deuce righted this wrong after all these years. We know it'll take at least six months for our Class secretary to publish the tale anyhow, so let's get

ahead of the curve on this. (Scribe's note: Now, wait a minute...) Wheels, go through your attic and find the head of your old gorilla costume, to hell with leaving a cap on top of Herndon, let's make a statement (what, I'm not sure) and plant the gorilla head up there. (Protz, maybe the poem can explain this angle.) Glen, contact some of your old helo flying buddies. We may need a back up plan; somehow, I just know Clarence is going to get left behind on top of Herndon, singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (a-whim-ba-way, a-whim-ba-way), so we may need a quick helo extraction. DJ, get the Double Deuce homepage ready for a large influx of digital photos. See note to Rudy above...since we know Shipmate won't carry the story, let's get an alternative ready to share with the worid. Klima, you're on point to work the schedule and logistics. I'm just the idea guy; you're the master of working the details.

And, yes, I can probably get Brenda to put together post-climb goodies to feed us all.

Toby, what do you think? Will this get us credit for no longer being Plebes? This has me wortied. I mean, what if we have to go back to having Plebe haircuts again? Oh, yeah, that's right. Disregard that last point.

Nevertheless, we're still Plebes! Really!

People who Retire Dept.

The following from Bob Cook (seadevil @adelphia.net): A relatively large contingent of the 24th Company was present at Fred Dohse 's retirement on 10 May 2002 at the Naval Reactors, Washington Navy Yard. RADM Bruce Engelhardt and ADM Skip Bowman were the speakers. On hand were Ray Decker, John Porter, Larry Fanning, Bob Cook, Rodger Rawls (and Tracy), Bmce Engelhardt, and Fred Dohse (and Dee Dee).

Pictures are located at http://www.personal .psu.edu/staff/r/b/rbc5/fred%27s_retirement.ht m. It was especially wonderful that Millie and Fred Eliot (parents of Fred Eliot '77) were there. They opened their home to the 24th Company for several Classes, and ferried us back and forth to the Academy on numerous occasions. Sure made that place more tolerable. Ray is an SES with the GAO and lives in Alexandria, VA. John and Barbara live in Baltimore. He is (commuting to Capitol Hill to help run the Senate's restaurants). Larry is a vice president for Day Zimmerman in Philadelphia and lives in West Chester, PA, with Nikki, their son and are expecting another! I work for the Applied Research Lab at Penn State and live in State College with Linda. We recentiy became grandparents and are loving it! Rodger is an executive with BAE Systems and lives in Silver Spring, MD, with Tracy and their three children. Bruce has transferred from OpNav (N77B) to ComSubGm Nine in Bangor, WA. Fred and Dee Dee live in Fairfax, VA. He is holding the mug in which we christened our rings. We have been transferring it to each other as we meet. John is the lucky custodian.

Thanks for the note!

Chris Panos dropped me the following line: With our 30th Homecoming and Susan and I celebrating our 30th anniversary, I am sure we are all having some of the same emotions.

After retiring as an AEDO ten years ago, I joined Merrill Lynch and now lead a wealth management team as first vice president in Oriando, FL (800-937-0376).

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didn't mention that 2000 was required to join.)

Oitf twin sons. Dennis and Victor, both had appointments to USNA and NROTC scholarships to Notte Dame. They stimned us when they decided to split, with Victor going to Notre Dame and Demiis Panos '05 choosing USNA! (We thought they would both be headed to Notte Dame!)

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Thanks for the note, Chris! His address: 250 South Orange Ave., R O. Box 3271, Oriando, FL 32802-3271.

Nits and Grits Dept.

Received an email from Mark Ackley (Murrietateacher@cs.com), who was chairman of the Class Ring and Crest Committee our Plebe Year and subsequently left the Academy.

Mark reports that he went back to the fleet, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a BS and two years later from Yale University with a master's degree. He's trying to locate Coleman Schmidt, who was a Napster with him back in 1967-1968. Anyone who may have an updated address, please contact Mark at his email address above. Greg Hemphill is alive and well in New England, where he says he remains associated with the Navy by keeping his boat at Naval Station Newport, RI. Elizabeth and Steve Ruschmeier's daughter Beth, was recenfly married to Lieutenant Dave Coe '98 at the USNA Chapel. (Congratulations!)

Claire, Rebecca, and Elizabeth Ruschmeier, Dave and Beth Coe. and Steve and Annie Ruschmeier Other Classmates in attendance included Pat Love, Jeff Milanette, and Earl Jamison. Mary and Harry Ulrich are back in town now that Harry has become the director. Surface Warfare (N76) in OpNav. Their address: 632 Warrington Ave SW, Washington, DC 20003-4064. (Welcome back!)

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now teaching at the Air Force Academy in the department of engineering mechanics for at least three years. Mike reports that leaving Castine was not easy—they had sunk some pretty deep roots and made lots of friends. His office address: Dn Michael R. Maixner 2354 Fairchild Drive DFEM, USAF Academy, CO 80840-6240; 719-3334048/2531.

The old mailbag is empty, dear readers. Have a great October and keep puUing for diat Big Blue Team. More to come. D. O. Tried and True with '72

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Pres: Tom Storch Sec'y: RADM Tom "TJ" Wilson HI, USN 8310 Gushing Court, Springfield, VA 22153 h: 703-913-0094 e: wilsontom@earthUnk.net Classmates, This is being written on the very cusp of a new football season and hope traly does spring eternal. The early reports are encouraging and excitement fills the air. Speaking of excitement an article appeared in the Baltimore Sun that really got folks spun up. It talked about new policies conceming Plebe Summer By the reaction, I assumed all of us read the article and then performed in-depth analysis on the issue. Tums out we all just reacted to a newspaper article...it's trae; the pen is mightier than the sword. It's also trae that at some point we all become our fathers. Did anyone ever tell us they were the last Class to have a Plebe Year? As I place my tongue in my cheek let's get on to the very little news I have to pass on.

I received a great email from Thom Holt relaying the recent events of his family and how they related to another Classmate. I will let him tell the story: Rand Fisher, Tom Huegerich, and I had the distinct pleasure of attending the commencement and commissioning ceremonies for our children as part of the Class, of '02. The photo is all of us at the '73 bench taken just prior to a lovely dinner of chicken fingers in King Hall.

My son, Rob '02, is now at the Naval PostGraduate School in Monterey studying oceanography with follow on orders to PORT ROYAL (CG-73) home ported in Pearl Harbor I cannot speak for Rand or Tom directly, but I am pretty sure they share my sentiment that Mother Bancroft and her able staff did a great job preparing these young leaders for our fleet.

I know my wife, Diane, and I will miss the numerous visits to the Yard and the many friends we have made over these past four years. I continue to work with the Blue & Gold program and Gulf Coast parents club. Both organizations provide super support to our Midshipman and their parents. During our stays in Annapolis we saw several folks from '73 and had the pleasure of staying with Vicki and Ray Wenderlich. Most recently, we visited with Kathy and Kevin Vienna at their lovely home in Coronado, CA. (I was on business, Diane and daughter Meredith were looking at Califomia schools in San Diego.) Since I have never written before (always a first time) I want to extend an open invitation to folks that may make it down our way. We are in College

In front of '73 bench Sometimes it's hard to believe we have children that are young officers in the Navy-Marine Corps. Thom, thanks for the update and please stay in touch more frequentiy.

That, sports fans, is all I have to share. The mail bag is flat empty. Please, please help us aU out and let me know how your summer plans worked out or just what's new. Look for a maiUng very soon with details on the upcoming 30th reunion.

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Pres; Steve Middleton 516 Green Forest Drive, Sevema Park, MD 21146 Corr Sec'y; LtCol John Brovra, USMC (Ret) 3928 Red Bud Lane, Woodbridge, VA 22193 h; 703-583-9713; c; 703-568-0385 e: jrbrown74@comcast.net As we move sprighfly into yet another glorious fall, I hope you had a great summer For those of you us with young ones around the house, summers take on a new meaning. In our case, our daughter joined a swim team that had its meets on Saturday mornings starting at 6:30 a.m.! I thought that time slot was reserved for sub squads! Well, that was then, this is now. On with the latest.

Via Tony Racette, the following (edited) update from Dave Besch (beschkz@nursat.kz): "No excuse. Sir!" for taking so long to get in touch...Hope this note finds everyone shipshape. We are working on posting letters and pics to a web page (will let you know when it is worth visiting) so you can access way more info on the Besch's excursion to Kazakhstan than you would ever want. Our transition took lots of energy but went extremely well. If you have ever deployed with your family (including children) then you know what we went through; we are under the U.S. govemment umbrella here so are inside the tent on move, financial, health, and security support and can be engage in American as well as intemational expatriate circles as much as we want. Given the normal "move your family half way around the world" and the cross-cultural challenges, we squeaked in a landing here in Kazakhstan.

Almaty is a large and fairly cosmopolitan city with all modem comforts for those who can afford them (we qualify by being paid U.S. wages in U.S. dollars). We are living very comfortably in a large apartment in one of tiie nicest sections of the city.

Kris is working her tail off. We suspected this before we came, but she inherited a tum-around situation and it will take her at least the better Shipmate, October 2002

part of her first tour to just gettiiebasics mnning well. Meantime, she is getting lots of great experience and doing a grand job in my opinion.

I am beginning to move beyond my Mr Mom role now that we have settled in and have some great help in place. Although I will continue to attend to the kids and manage our home. I expect to sign on with some other work in September when the kids start school.

Would love to hear the update from your end.. .Meantime take care.

From Kolin Jan's retirement comes the following photo of Mike Waters, Kolin and Morgan Ames.

KoUn and friends Bing Jone's retirement ceremony was held at the Navy Memorial on 1 July. Classmates in attendance besides me were; Bob Whitmire— Bing's USNA roommate for almost all four years. Jim Lyons—the CO of the Navy Satellite Operations Center while Bing was the Ops officer at NavSpaceCom. Jim is still on active duty.

Lou Morris—Lou was Bing's XO when he was the CO of HM-14. Lou is currentiy coordinating horse trial events in the mid-Atlantic region and lives on the Eastem Shore of Maryland.

Bing at his retirement Gary Robert's birthday: In attendance were Howard Powe, Buddy Caspari, Bob Hogan, and John Brown.

King Gary and Classmai, Good news of the month: A few weeks ago, someone sent me a newspaper clip that reported some long overdue good news conceming

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Bob Stumpf. In short, after all these years die Navy has finally woke up and given Bob his long overdue promotion to captain. Unjustly caught up in die ridiculous rash for scapegoats for the actions of some at Tailhook, Bob was forced into retirement by die politically coirect. A career fighter pilot at the top of his game, Bob's rematkable career was cut short. Although there is some satisfaction in seeing this injustice finally corrected, you and I can only imagine the pain this travesty must have caused Bob and his family.

Hopefully, obtaining this victory will help ease the memories and foUowup case reviews of all those impacted will be accomplished.

After asking Bob for an update, I received the following note: Susie and I are living in Pensacola, empty nesters now, after our three daughters went off to school and beyond. I'm working for FedEx, grateful for the job with a great company and happy to share the cockpit and crew room with so many old and new friends. First Class Cmise on ARCHERHSH, where I was assigned the mid-watch every night, certainly prepared me for the FedEx hub-tum schedule! But at the end of the week, when the work is done, I still miss being in uniform and envy those of you who completed careers or are still serving in the Navy and Marine Corps.

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Pres: RADM Craig Quigley Sec'y: CAPT Larry Warrenfeltz, USN (Ret.) 5732 Tamarack Drive, Pace, FL 32571 h: 850-324-9712; e: usna75scribe@hotmaU.com Dear 'mates.

To paraphrase country music great Toby Keith, "I like talking about you, you, you, you usuaUy...but occasionally...! iuivta talk about me\" And the reason I must talk about me is that most of you didn't send me any good gouge to fiU up our column. Only you can prevent Shipmate abuse. Fire off a fact-filled missive today.

Our Class is still looking for some 'mates to jump in with both feet as Company reps. First volunteer from each Company wins the job.

Subsequent volunteers get to help. Your only duty at this time will be to try to track down your Companymates. No experience required. Here are our current Company reps: 6th—Jack McCorkle; 7th—Bob Brewer; 8th—Mike Thumm; 9th—Larry Warrenfeltz; 12th— Steve O'Brien; 14th—Ken Hart; 20th—Eric Guerrazzi; 22nd—Kerry Kersey; 23rd—NeU Tollesfrud; 25th—Tom KeUy. If I missed any of our existing volunteers, please jump on my case. If you spent First Class Year in one of the 26 unlisted Companies, we really need a volunteer Thank goodness for Jay Carrizales and his family picture. Jay and his wife, Deborah MacFarland, adopted Sarah Alicia Carrizales earlier this year. I told you last month—she's a cutiepie!

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The Carrizales family of Albuquerque Bill Ferris emailed a short hello: Work continues to be good at FedEx. For the past year I've been mostiy flying test hops on airplanes coming out of overhaul and other maintenance. I don't miss the night flying a bit.

We are now over one year into the World War on Terrorism. Although I write this in early August, I know that by the time you read it, there will have been a number of ceremonies and specials to mark the one-year anniversary of the attacks of September 11th. I hope that as a country we can rekindle the patriotism and the anger we felt a year ago and maintain our focus on the difficult task ahead. It seems to me that the politicians on both sides of the aisle were far too quick to retum to partisan-politics-as-usual. I guess we need a devil incamate like Hitler or bin Laden to unite our congressional "leaders."

Maybe it isn't as simple as it seems from where I sit. Or maybe I just don't get it.

September also marked a personal milestone.

It was the one-year anniversary of the beginning of my cancer battle. My first surgery was on the evening of 10 September 2001. Fortunately, the medical news continues to be good for the Lovely Nurse Nancy and me. My quarterly bone scans and CT scans have been completely clear so far. Life is good! In fact, life as one of "The Lucky Ones" is so good that now I look for the chance to share the lessons I leamed from the ordeal with anyone who's interested.

Some of you were on the receiving end of a bunch of emails I sent as I was fighting the cancer battie a year ago. A few of our friends suggested that I write a book. So I did! By the end of September, SITREP: Emails from the Front Lines of the Cancer War should be available from iUniverse.com. By the end of October you should be able to find it on the Amazon and Bames and Noble web sites as well. The ISBN is 0-595-24101-8. Of course, I would be more than happy to personally autograph a copy for any member of my Navy family. Just call or send me an email for details.

One of the lessons I leamed in the last year is to relish the fact that we are all getting older I don't moum my unrecoverable youth anymore.

On the contrary, I figure that age is one metric on which you want to run up your score as high as possible. The July-August Shipmate contained the annual "Salute to our Oldest Alumni."

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expand, we will have to hang around for 50-55 more years to make the list. Sounds like a plan!

The 75th reunion of the Class of '75 will be a blast. Don't miss it!

FinaUy, I have one more picture to share. I realize that it probably counts as crael and unusual punishment to make you sit through Warrenfeltz on his soap box, read a commercial for Warrenfeltz' book, and then see a picture of Warrenfeltz as well. But Bob Clark and Greg Hofhnan looked so handsome that I just had to include it. Just put your thumb over the euv on the right

The Nineteenth Hole at Coranado

Do you remember those essay questions in the BuU classes where you had to fiU two pages in a composition book, whether or not you knew anything about the subject? Do you feel Uke you've been reading a particularly mediocre effort? WeU, I sure feel like I've been wrtting one.. .In the words of one of my all-time favorite Mississippi colleagues, "Y'aU gotta hep me heah!"

Go U.S.A.! Go Navy! Let's Roll! â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Larry

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Pres; Kevin Stone 928 Lynch Drive, AnnapoUs, MD 21012 h; 41()-974-4313; e: kevinstone@1976.usna.com Sec'y; Chuck Dirienzo 9309 Newfound Way, EUc Grove, CA 95758-4002 h; 916-691-1556; e; chuckdirienzo@1976.usna.com Before I get to Class news I'd like to address our Class project and the Naval Academy Foundation's ftindraising efforts. Starting with the latter, why are we being asked to financially support the Academy, a publicly funded institution? It is quite simple; as much as we'd like to think otherwise. Congress does not fund excellence, it funds adequacy. Private gifts add value and enable excellence in all facets of the Naval Academy's operations, making support from Alumni and friends increasingly important to both the Academy and to the Midshipmen who leam and live in Annapolis. Private gifts make a difference in the life of the Naval Academy every day. The examples are varied and numerous; a door opened to a Naval Academy education through a scholarship to the Naval Academy Preparatory School; a respected scholar and academician attracted to teach here by the luster of a newly endowed faculty chair; a gifted high school soccer player who chooses the Naval Academy in order to play in a new state-of-theart soccer facility; the list goes on. Private gifts help put the Naval Academy on a strong financial footing to attract top faculty and students, and produce graduates who will serve our country with honor and distinction.

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So what is our Class project? We have chosen to endow the "Class of '76 Leadership Lecture Series" which will bring current CO's into the Academy from the field or at sea and give the Mids the chance to leam from them first hand.

This is a great example of how the Campaign will allow the Academy to achieve a level of excellence that simply will not be funded by normal annual appropriations; our gift, if we meet the goal, will permanently endow the Leadership Lecture Series.

How much do we need? $400,000. This seems to be an enormous amount but it is easily achievable if everyone kicks in. I know that for many of us this is cranch time for college mition bills and really can't afford to write one more check; we aren't asking for all of your contribution up front we are spreading it out over the five year life of the ftindraising campaign. All of us were shaped by the Academy; for many it was the turning point of our lives and launched us to where we are today.

Please reflect carefully on this and give a Uttie bit back to keep the Academy up on the crest of the wave of exceUence.

I cannot stress enough the fact that our private gifts will augment, but not take the place of, federal funding. The federal funding of the Academy is committed for the long term and is relied upon to sustain the institution's core missions and activities. If you have any questions please feel free to call me (Kevin Stone) at 410974-4313 any evening or drop me an email at kevin.stone@ 1976.usna.com.

And now on to Class news...

Tailgating] By now Navy has hopefully rolled over NC State, Northwestem, and Duke in Annapolis and '76 was there celebrating the victories at our official tailgate spot on the Navy (Blue) side at the comer of Farragut and Cedar Park roads. We still have Rice and Connecticut to go so look for the blue and gold tent with 1976 on itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^be there!

RADM (lower half) Jim Stavridis is being assigned as commander. Cruiser Destroyer Group Twelve and commander. Naval Surface Group Two. He was previously director of the Naval Operations Group in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Tom Kennedy had an interesting summer vacation. Tom's command, CHANCELLORSVILLE, hosted the 4th of July reception for the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia. About 300 guests attended including many regional and local Russian politicians and VIPs. Tom met the next day with the Russian Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Viktor Fyodorov and Russian Fleet Commander Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov on board the Russian Pacific Fleet flagship RNS Varyag. My how times change!

Finally, I have a couple of sad notes to pass on: Paul Fairless (Sixth Company), who left USNA before graduation, passed away on 3 July 2002 in Tranquility, CA. After leaving the Naval Academy Paul went on to Cal Poly at San Luis Obisbo and San Joaquin College of Law. He was a practicing criminal defense attomey at the time of his death. Paul is survived by his wife, Sylvia and son. Matt. Remembrances may be made to the James Matthew Fairless College Fund, Educational Employee Credit Union, P.O. Box 5242, Fresno, CA 93755.

David Porter (12th Company) has informed us that his wife of 24 years, Debbie, passed away on 14 July after a five-month battle with pancreatic cancer. In addition to David, she is survived by their two sons, Andrew (18) and Matthew (14). He has requested that any memorial donations be sent in her name to the General Fund of their church: New Community Lutheran Church, 30470 Pauba Road, Temecula, CA 92595-6214. Please keep David and his sons in your thoughts and prayers.

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Pres; CAPT Richard "Rick" White, USN 1404 Hunting Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21403 w; 202-781-0938; h; 410-295-0089 we: WhiteRW@navsea.navy.niil; he; betwliite@erols.com Sec'y: Bob Sanderson 210 Aummn Chase Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 From the Yard It's hard to believe that October is here afready; we're now well into the Navy football season and have formally acknowledged the 25 years that have passed since our graduation widi a successful and enjoyable reunion weekend. 1 trast that everyone who attended had a great time and was able to renew old friendships (and maybe even establish a few new ones). I'd like to publicly acknowledge the Classmates who made the weekend possible for the rest of us; namely, Thom McKee (golf outing), Tom "Soup" Campbell (dinner dance and music), Carl Moore (tailgate party), Dave Harding (memorabilia), and Leon Jackson (transportation). Many thanks from all of us for aU of your hard work over the past year. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the photographic evidence from the event, and will be including as many pictures as I can in futures columns.

Please feel free to provide me with any interesting, humorous, or otherwise notable reunion events that you might want to share with the rest of us. Considering the make-up of our Class, I'm sure tiiere were more than a few recent or historical "sea stories" out there that are well worth publicizing! On to this month's mail...

From the Mail Bag Alan Angleman (a.angleman@verizon.net) thinks everyone should send a note to Shipmate at least once every 25 years, so here's his quarter-century update. Alan married JuUe Meushaw tiiree days after graduation, and their daughter Sara, was bom 16 mondis later while he was at nuclear prototype in Idaho Falls, ID. This fall Sara will be starting graduate studies in epidemiology at Cambridge University, England, courtesy of the National Institutes of Health. (Like her dad, she's a big fan of govemment-ftmded education!)

In 1981, after Alan's first sea tour on SILVERSIDES (SSN-679), tiieir second daughter Joane, was bom in Saratoga Springs, NY, where Alan was assigned to the prototype staff. Joane has tremendous rapport with children and will be graduating from Salisbury University next year with a degree in elementary education.

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Escaping the misery of life as a submarine engineer Alan's second sea tour was as navigator of HAMMERHEAD (SSN-663), also out''of Norfolk, ft was during that tour that Alan avoided what could have been a lasting claim to fame.

In Alan's words: I reported for duty in tiie Mediten-anean.

Several montiis later we headed home and I found myself making my first run into Norfolk as navigator in the predawn darkness and fog.

We had littie to navigate by except the sea buoys, and after misidentifying one of tiiem, we mmed west into what we thought was the moutii of Hampton Roads. In fact we were well to the south, and we were saved from planting tiie bow of the ship in the resort area of Virginia Beach only when we finally spotted the Cape Henry lightiiouse to our right. After a hasty U-tum, we made it safely to tiie pier I expected to get blasted by my CO, but he never said a word about it. Maybe he was just happy to still have a career!

Alan's tiiird daughter, Paula, was bom in 1985 while he was taking HAMMERHEAD to Mare Island, CA, via tiie Panama Canal. She'U be graduating from high school next year and tentatively plans to study physical therapy in college.

After a few days in CaUfomia, Alan flew back to Norfolk to take on die best (and last) tour of his naval career, namely, radiological controls officer on L.Y. SPEAR (AS-36). According to Alan: L.Y. SPE'Ut was a breatii of fresh air compared to submarines, where every officer up the chain of command had already had my job and was alwaystiiere,ready to tell me how to do it "better" The only other nuclear-trained officer in the chain of command on SPEAR was the CO, and he didn't have time to tell me how to do my job for me. Instead, the CO. XO. and repair officer actually tmsted me to do the job myself In 1986, Alan left the Navy and moved to Olney, MD, which is Julie's hometown and where they stUl reside. Alan reminded me that I helped him get his first civilian job with ORI, Inc. After seven years as a beltway bandit, he started work at the National Research Council (a non-profit organization) in his current position as a study director for their aeronautics and space engineering board. For the last year, Alan's been working from home, and has been using the time he used to spend commuting to prepare for his next career—working part-time as a pastoral assistant at Glenmont United Methodist Church.

The photo of the Algelman family is from the "best vacation I ever took"—^last January they took a weeklong craise in the Caribbean. Alan said, "It's amazing how relaxing and fun going to sea can be when you never have to stand watch, you can sleep-in every moming, and you have plenty of quaUty time with an attractive roommate!

The Angleman women (and Alan) during a recent Caribbean vacation Shipmate, October 2002

'77: Jen, Betty and Rick Wliite with Rich, Genevieve, and Bret Thompson during Junior Parent's Weekend at Notte Dame In closing, Alan wants to offer his heartfelt thanks to everyone (including his dad, CAPT Cornell Angleman '50) who spent a career at sea. In his own words, "I decided the family separations were too high a price to pay, and I know how much every civilian owes to those who decided to stick it out." Alan's words speak very highly of our past and present military members, and even more so in today's uncertain and demanding world environment. My thanks go to Alan for reminding us of the many men and women who sacrifice so much of their personal life so that the rest of us can enjoy our own personal lives in the freedom and security that we've all come to know and expect.

I received the following two photos from Rick White (bettyiirick@comcast.net) "not too long ago" and decided it's probably a good time to publish them. The first was taken during Junior Parent's Weekend at Notre Dame, where Rick's daughter, Jen, and Rich Thompson's son, Bret, are enrolled. It's really amazing how quickly kids grow up these days; Jen and Bret were juniors when this picture was taken, and believe it or not they're both seniors now!

The second photo from Rick was taken at a 12th Company dining out, where Rick had the opportunity to present Russel Wadlington Riner '04 with a Class of '77 plaque for their wardroom. For those of you who may not remember, our Class now sponsors the 12th Company Wardroom, and Rick has been acting as our Class liaison with the Company. Rick reports that he had a great time at the dining out and the 12th Company really appreciates our support.

Academy, West Point, NY, also known as WooPoo Country. Randy and Len work together in the Chicago area, but were visiting a client near West Point. The attached periscope photo was taken from the General Douglas McArthur Memorial on, which is inscribed his famous speech to the cadets. Looking beyond them into the parade ground (a.k.a. "The Plain") is where the dirty evidence lies. A close inspection shows the word "NAVY" physically carved into the bleacher seats; however, Len informs me that other words precede it, which are also carved in the bleachers, but he felt that the Shipmate censors would expunge them if he stated them here.

Suffice it to say the words are something like "GO ARMY, ****NAVY." Randy and Len ttied to think of a way to switch the bleachers, but it was too formidable task for the two of them, which is why he's passing this on to the Class of 1977 for action (or better yet, to the new Commandant, Col John Allen '76) to organize these bleachers better According to Len, "This seems to be a job for the Marines with Naval support. With a few shifts they could say: "GO NAVY, BEATARMY." The challenge baton has been passed. Good luck!" WeU, anyone up for some bleacher maneuvers?

Randy Moon (the old guy on the left) and Len Wass overiookmg West Point's "Navy Memorial"

Russel Riner and Rick White during 12th Company Dining Out On 1 August 2002, Randy Moon (randall.moon @ 1977.usna.com) and Len Wass '64 made a covert submariner visit to the U.S. Military

Class Communication Nothing new to report on the Class communication front except for those of you who are Alumni Association Lifetime Members, don't forget to make your friends' and associates' lives easier by signing-up for your lifetime email address at www.usna.com (one email address to remember for life!).

Closing Remarks The time has arrived for fall sailing, so if you don't find me at home, look for me out on the Chesapeake Bay. See ya' next month!

— Bob Sanderson

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Pres: Arch Griffin Sec'y: Vince Balderrama 45 Little Fawn Drive, Shelton, CT 06484 e; VBalderrama@Sikorsky.com Class web site: http;//usnal978.org In the last few columns you've captured a little update on Joe Fitzgerald as he reminisced slightly about Bill Terry and how he brought us up to date on his own life and family. Joe's back in the spotiight again as Fred Butterfield (fred.butterfield@gsa.gov) in his newsletter to their 22nd Companymates wrote of the passing of Diane and Joe's son, Christopher (15). While it certainly is sad news, and our sympathy and compassion go out to Diane, Joe and their family, it is an inspirational story of love and courage which I am glad Joe and Fred shared with me; and which I wiU let them speak of through their own eloquence. Here's Fred's email: It is with my deepest regrets that I pass on the very sad news that Christopher Fitzgerald, (15), the adopted, only child of Joe and Diane Fitzgerald, died last Tuesday, 30 July.

Christopher was bom in 1987 with severe autism and cystic fibrosis. Shortiy after birth, he was placed in foster care with a loving Mennonite family in Brightwood, VA, a mral area some 20 miles north of Charlottesville. In the fall of 1988, while Joe was stationed aboard TICONDEROGA (CG-47), Joe and Diane

adopted Christopher, who was then 19 months old. He quickly became the center, and love, of their lives.

Christopher's death from cystic fibrosis was expected, indeed, it was virtually inevitable, barring a miracle. Joe and Diane faced this fact with flinty courage and determination. They loved their severely handicapped son, Christopher freely, fiercely, and unconditionally. In fact, throughout all the unceasing demands of Christopher's respiratory care, which included repeated hospitalizations, overlaid with the formidable challenges associated with raising a severely autistic child, my wife Janet and I honestly don't believe we have ever seen such love in action. Joe and Diane simply adjusted their lives to meet Christopher's need, whatever the cost.

Christopher's funeral service was held in Albany, NY, this past Friday, and he was brought back home to Brightwood to be buried the following day next to his older brother (who had also died of cystic fibrosis) in a small church cemetery several miles from his foster family's home, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge. The graveside service was attended by a small crowd of mourners from the midAtlantic to New York, including Janet and me.

After this, Joe passed out to all a touching eulogy he penned, which he had read at Chris' funeral service the previous day, which offers personal glimpses into their relationship. A few excerpts from his poignant "love letter" to his son follows: Do you remember the first night you were ours to love and hold, forever? You stared at me from your crib, looking for answers—I don't know why—did you miss the valley (in central Virginia) and your family before us?

The next day as I handed out cigars aboard Tico, proudly proclaiming my son...

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Mascot of the regiment of officer candidates (Joe was in officer-in-charge of candidates at OCS), at Newport, trooping the line at Friday's pass-in-reviews; inspecting shoes at the hoot and toot; motorboat rides with me during Saturday sailing classes; shooting hoops in the OCS gym; and loving the regiment's band practices...Newport also saw you aboard dad's ship, SIMPSON (Joe was XO— you liked my stateroom TV!) I always enjoyed being called Christopher's dad by all the people there (Macon, GAO who knew you, and not me, at the (local baseball) games...

Nashville—You made me a better commanding officer (Joe was CO of one of the recmiting districts) than I would have been. More knowledgeable and understanding of my people's needs and difficulties. Though I traveled frequentiy as the CO, your smile welcomed me home every time—especially for our walks and swings at the town part in Franklin.

You left us in mommy and my arms, after you had said good bye with your eyes. You will always be in our hearts. But now you are free of disease, autism, and all your stmggles. Go with Jesus, now, until we see you again...

Fred closed by adding that letters of condolence and greeting can be sent to Diane and Joe at 27 Danker Avenue, Albany, NY 12206. I'll include a note of thanks to them (and Fred) for re-awakening an awareness of things I may have taken for granted lately and reminding me that I can be (and have within me) a much stronger person than I sometimes might have believed.

Now on to other news...

Aaron Watts (a.d.watts@worldnet.att.net) and his 15th Company Classmates had a mini-reunion over the Memorial Day weekend. Actually it was a combined ship visit and crab party! PHILIPPINE SEA (CG-58) was the "ship in the yard" for graduation of die Class of 2002, and CO CAPT Chris Nichols took his 15th Company Classmates and family on a special tour. They ended the day with a Maryland blue crab party at Aaron's house in Hemdon, VA. Nine 15th Company Classmates and spouses were there: Bev and Case Runolfson, Larry Semanyk, Susie and Kevin Olsen, Morry Ray, Missy and Duane Lafont, Leslie and Chris Nichols, Bob Romaine, and Tony Poleondakis.

Bob Schmermund was among those attending the Philippine Sea tour. Guido Manzo's wife, Lora, also was involved in the crab feast at Chez Watts. She was solo for the day because Guido was at home in Jersey; "under the weather" with the flu. Aaron sent along some photos of the day's activities which I hope will make the "quality check" for Shipmate. If they fail to make the grade you can view the Memorial Day Weekend Crab Party and Ship Tour at www.shutterfly .com/osi.jsp?i=67b0de21b3070828c42b.

Thanks for the update Aaron, nice link too!

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Ols imitates a crab AI Kuntz thought I might have to look up his picture in the Lucky Bag to remember him— especially since it's been a while since he last wrote. I told him how could I ever forget "Big Al"! Besides, these days one can't always be sure that Lucky Bag picture of the 22 year old Firstie even remotely resembles the middle-aged (but still dapper in our own way!) man in the mirror During Al's naval career he spent two tours in Japan with the Eagles of VA-115 (A-6 Intraders, when they were still around). The last go around was as the CO. After a year of Naval War College he did a twilight tour as OPSO on LINCOLN before retiring in June of '99. Today he flies for Southwest Airlines. He's based in Oakland, CA, but that doesn't mean he lives there. Like most of you airline types, he has a long commute from home to crew base. In Al's case his commute is from Whitefish, MT, (near Glacier National Park). It's a little commute— only 1,000 miles each way! He and Michelle (Tozer) have been married for 18 years. They have three kids—a daughter Jaime (14) and sons Brad (13) and Kevin (11). His emad "comm.link" is Aldoa64evr@aol.com or you can get him or the whole family at kuntzfam @ bigsky.net.

Lee Price (Lee.Price@PENX62229Ml.cnet .navy.mil) sent greetings from the cradle of naval aviation in sunny Northwest Rorida. He just touched base to give a little info to help fiU up the "Class Notes" in Shipmate. This Febraary Lee left his job as Chief of Staff at TraWing Five at Whiting Field and reported to Schools Command at NAS Pensacola. He's the Director of Survival there but says he feels like he's more like a "health club manager." His only hope is that the Navy will forget about him and leave him in the job until he retires. So far, he's run into Chip Walston when he was still at TraWing Five. You may remember that Chip is the wing commander for HSL Pac in San Diego. (I ttied reaching Chip while I was on base for a little business in San Diego in July but "no joy." Next trip maybe we'll link up.) In April, Lee had dinner with Steve Brady. (Steve is a contractor in Pax River) Lee also has frequent phone conversations with Jim "Worm" Warren. (Jim is also a contractor at Pax.) Lee's been playing phone tag with Scott Provow, who lives in soudi Florida. He reported that the Class of '78 is in firm control of the Alumni Leadership Helm in the Florida Panhandle. He was recentiy elected

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president of the Pensacola Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association. Mike McCrabb was elected vice-president of the chapter while Dave Babcock was the outgoing secretary of the chapter and Rich Jesmonth is the outgoing ttiistee. Dave's a conn-actor in the Pensacola area and Rich is a lawyer. If you ever have to go to Pensacola give Lee a call or send him an email at lee.price@cnet.navy.mil. He says there's always a cold beer and a steak in the fridge for any Classmate in the area. Of course, having gone through flight school survival training I can't help but wonder what kind o/steaks are in the fridge!

In closing, a few saved rounds—Hey, guess who was this year's Color Giri? None otiier than Eric Lindstrand's daughter, Austin. By the way if anyone has his email or knows how to contact him let me know. Susan McCoy (Color Giri 1966) is nying to get back a form she gave Austin to fill out after the Color P-rade. As this goes to submittal, I haven't had luck in locating Austin or Eric. Belated congratulations to our new Marine Corps Reserve Colonel selectees, Lee Yarberry and Chuck Lowther. Launchin' Spot Four.

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Pres; LCDR Sean Cate, USN (Ret) e; Sean.Cate@1979.usna.com Sec'y; LCDR John "Wiz" Withers, USN (Ret) 22445 Bluebird Court, Leonardtown, MD 20650 h; 301-997-1980; w; 301-342-4936 ext. 156 he: WithersJ7@starpowennet; we: WithersJD@navarr.navy.mil Web site: www.usna79.com Greetings, 79!

Good aftemoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Wiz Withers reporting live from atop the OVBN (Omnes Viri Broadcasting Network) mobile command post in Annapolis, MD. For 360 days a year, the city of Annapolis is known as "Crabtown," Maryland's capital, and the sailing mecca of the East Coast. But for five fall Saturday aftemoons, the town is transformed into the home of Navy football! The streets are lined with vehicles adorned with Navy pennants, pom-poms, and goat mascots. I have even seen a rendering of those famed football heroes of yesteryear, "Super Straight" and "Go-Rilla!"

Alumni are continually pouring in from DC, Baltimore, Northem Virginia, and even as far away as Leonardtown, having packed up the family to make their pilgrimage to "The Stadium." As we await the march-on of the Midshipmen for today's game, we'll bring you the latest news and get you ready for the afternoon's events. Now, for the first of several live reports from our intrepid roving reporters, let's go to Mike Chauvenet. Take it away, Mike: Thanks, Wiz. I'm standing here in the soutii parking lot of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Vehicles started entering tiie grounds at around 9 a.m., and the ensuing jockeying for select parking spaces reminds me of those days along Dewey Seawall in the YP's. One does not merely park a car here, for tiie goal is actually to Shipmate, October 2002

congregate with Classmates for the all-important pre-game activity of tailgating. Over to my left is the famous '79 banner flown from Fred Gerheiser's SUV. Prior to going on tiie air, I interviewed some oftiioseguys, who tell me that tills year's catch phrase in the Yard is "Expect to Win!" In Alumni-land, this translates to "Cautiously Optimistic," which all agree is a noticeable and refi'eshing change. It seems as though folks are coming not only to pailake in these parking lot festivities, but also to watch the games! We're still early in the season, but already the atmosphere is much different.

While sharing hot dogs and Texas sauce with this group, I picked up a couple of important tidbits. First, Mario Bladuell sent word that after updating the Class on his whereabouts, he had an unplanned address change. He's still in New York, and still wants to hear from Classmates. He can now be reached at Mario.Bladuell® 1979.usna.com. Secondly, Kirk Michealson sent a quick email updating his email address to kirk.michealson @ 1979.usna.com. '79ers are advised that if an email sent to Kirk gets bounced back, it's most likely due to the rather unique spelling of his last name. Remember, in Kirk's case, "E" comes before "A" (except after "C"...no, scratch that!). Kirk also let everyone know that he's once again putting together an email list for all Classmates in the greater Washington, DC, area. This includes Baltimore, Annapolis, Richmond, and the surrounding region. Those interested in keeping updated with Class activities in that area are asked to send Kirk an email. Everyone is glad to have him back!

That's all from here, Wiz. Back to you.

Thanks, Mike. Let's go immediately to our foreign correspondent, Bancroft Hall: Hello, everyone! This is Bancroft Hall, reporting from the steps of the Maryland State House. As I look down Main Street toward the downtown docks, all I see is a sea of blue and gold. Those folks not heading over to the stadium are stepping in to one of the many fine establishments to watch the local television broadcast of the game. As they are getting settied, let's hit the items on the foreign desk. In the mailbag was a quick note from Rich Hayes out on the Left Coast. He enclosed a clipping announcing Paul Hanrahan's promotion to CEO of AES Energy as I reported last month.

Rich also forwarded the announcement that Joe Mulloy took command of Submarine Squadron 15 last July in the Marianas. The civilian attire for the ceremony was "Island Wear," and I just wanted to let everyone know that this attire will soon be adopted by the foreign office staff. Anyway, we send our congratulations to Joe, and wish him best of luck in his new command. And Rich, thanks for the note!

This is Bancroft Hall, signing off.

Thanks, Bancroft. Folks, if you've just joined us, this is Wiz Withers atop the OVBN mobile command post, bringing you all of today's Navy football pre-game activities. While we're waiting for our news crew to get situated, I have a couple of items to pass on. Now that football is once again the topic du jour, thoughts are once again tuming to Homecoming. And timt means that we are only two years out from the gala 25th reimion extravaganza] We here at OVBN don't have any specific Intel, but some things are definitely in the hopper. I expect our erstwhile Class President Sean Cate to make an announcement in the not-too-distant future. Once that occurs, expect to find regular updates in our broadcasts as well as the web site.

Stay tuned!

And speaking of the site, '79's Class Webmaster Colin O'Neill (widi two "L's") pointed out that in our recent big promotion of the new and improved Class web site, I forgot to mention the address! I even forgot to put it in the column header of Shipmate] So get out your pencils and copy down: www.USNA79.com. Save diat in your "favorites" folder Make it your home page. Or (now diat I've faced Cohn's wrath) keep the current issue of Shipmate handy. Colin is always updating die site widi current news, event notices, and topics of interest. For example, you can find die "Commandant's Intent," a cogent, thorough document oudining die Commandant's plans for the Plebe System (ably assisted by his deputy, our own Greg Parker). But hold off on "flaming" CoUn for die dearth of photos. That's my fault—I have a bunch that I'm putting on CD to send him, but I haven't yet completed the project. I'm working on it!

Late last summer Karen and I took a pre-season road trip to Annapolis for an opportunity to catch up with good friends. Jean Bradley, widow of Mike Bradley, came up with her daughter Barbara to spend a couple of days. The Bradleys are still living in Montgomery, AL, and are both doing quite well. Barbara, now eight years old, enjoyed her first trip on the train, and got to see the place where her dad went to school. Also joining us in Annapolis were Darlene and Mitch Shipley (mnslO@psu.edu), who drove over with the family from State College, PA. Mitch is a research associate at the Applied Research Lab at Penn State, and is currentiy involved with managing a low frequency active sonar project.

Darlene is teaching in the grade school, and both of them are active in the PTA. Also keeping them busy are their three boys. Trevor started in the ninth grade this fall. Bryce is in middle school, and Austin has started first grade. Karen and I couldn't stay the entire weekend, so our great visit was all too brief.

Looks like they're now ready in the newsroom, so over to you guys.

Greetings, folks. Melville Isherwood here with a couple of items from the OVBN newsroom. A recent headline scan of Navy Times picked out an article that began, "Navy CAPT Bill Toti was traveling overseas earlier this year...when his govemment travel card suddenly stopped working." The article goes on to describe the efforts it took to get the card reactivated while in Afghanistan, and found out that he was but one of many service members who had experienced these problems. Bill didn't pull any punches in describing the government travel card system as "the single most hated issue by military members after health care." After relating some sea stories. Bill pointed out that our soldiers and sailors really suffer because of the delay in govemment reimbursement of travel claims, and added the issue to his list to brief the Navy staff Another '79er on the job.

Also, a couple of weeks ago we received an email from Bob Larys (R_P_Larys @ sar.med.navy.mil). Being newsroom folks, we edited it to suit our needs. When all that was done, we were left with this: Thought I'd check in. I don't remember if I told you or not, but my name came out on the 0-5 list. I've been wondering if making 0-5 twice makes me an O-IO for retirement purposes. I'll put it on next spring I think. That was

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sometiiing of areliefacmally. I wasn't sure how I was going to compete against the career MDs. I've heard from a few Eighdi Company Polar Bears. Lois and Bob Dupuis are alive and well in North Carolina. He's working for CP&L (Progress Energy Co.) in Jacksonville, NC. Bob's most recent birthday was the 27tii anniversary of 1-Day. Jeff Frost sent him a happy birthday note and that started a roimd of emails. Frosty is in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area working for American Airlines while Patty is busy homeschooling tiieir youngest (of four if I counted right).

Donna and Jeff Summerour are living in Virginia Beach. Summy retired in January and is working for American Medical Depot, running the Fleet Med/Surg Prime Vendor, Hospital Ships Vendor Managed Inventory programs and business development. Tommy is 17, Katie is 14, and Michael 11. He says he's traveling a fair amount and was in Hawaii recently for a Fleet/FMF Medical Logistics Conference—hard work I'm sure!

Mark Seaman is on the Joint Military Ops faculty at the Naval War College. Apparently, he still looks 12 years old and I'll bet he isn't any taller either. (Mark's one of the few guys I knew that I could make short jokes about. Uh, no offense Wiz.) John Miller and family are in San Diego.

John is CO of CONSTELLATION. WOW! WTiat an accompUshment. We're all really proud. (I hope he's still wearing his brown shoes.)

Harvey Lyon lives out in Steamboat Springs, CO, and (I think) owns a constmction company.

Wendy is the local pharmacist. Their four kids, 6 to 13, are in various stages of preparation for the Olympic alpine events. He said we can all come to his place for a ski vacation.

We heard from Mike Weiss who updated us on Alex Bagnoli. Alex went into the Venezuelan Navy after grad and later went into the oil industry near Caracas. Mike is teaching high school math and science in Maine.

Everyone's favorite sea lawyer, Sam Sichko, has been practicing real law in Boston for several years. Sam and Medb have two progeny, Demetri, 14 and Stassja 10. Sam is putting an Eighth Co. address list together, so any others out there can fire off a note to SCSichko @plgt.com and put "8th Company" in the subject line.

We here at the newsroom thank Bob for his great email, and congratulate him on his promotion to O5 "again." Our research indicates that eight years ago Bob made 0-5 as an aviator, but when he switched to the Medical Corps he dropped back to O ^ . Actually, during med school, he was officially an ensign—^he must have gotten it right this time!

And that's it from the newsroom. Back to you, Wiz! Thanks, MelviUe. I'd like to thank all of our roving reporters who provided updates for today's broadcast. We here at OVBN—Channel 79—give thanks to all those out there on the tip of the spear who are keeping us safe. And so for Mike Chauvenet, Bancroft Hall, and Melville Isherwood, this is Wiz Withers wishing you all a very pleasant "Good Aftemoon." Enjoy the game, everyone! —Wiz Omnes Viri!

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Pres: Tim Kobosko Sec'y: CDR Joseph A. Grace Jr., USNR 15 AUard Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70119 p: 504-486-9048; f 504-488-9729 e: joe.grace@1980.usna.com Class web site: http://www.USNA1980.org The kids are getting ready to go back to school, it's raining every day, and another summer has passed us by at the speed of light, or heat, as the case may be. The Plebes have just experienced Parents Weekend and they are well on their way to becoming a trae part of the Brigade. Unbelievable! We even have evidence of the rite of passage from one of our Classmates, Dan Nagao who was up there with his wife, Ginny Nagao '83, to see their son, Kyle G. Nagao '06. Pretty amazing, but he reports that we have a slew of our "kids" at the Boat School. Here's his note: Dan Nagao with another update from 35. I'm here in Annapolis after a very pleasant and nostalgic visit to the Boat School. Ginny and I attended Parent's Weekend to see our son Kyle who is in the Class of '06. Strange to be back in the hall, especially as a parent. It was nice to see him, but also very interesting to find out that we have three other proud parents from '80 who have Mids in the Class of '06. They are Keith Shultis, his daughter Jan S. Shultis '06, Ron Jones, his son, Adam C. Jones '06, and CAPT Jim Huck and his son, Joseph S. Huck '06. The Marines out number the Navy 3:1 (because I'm including myself)! It was great seeing all of them and now we're pulling for our Plebes to make it through. Keith just recently retired from the Marines. His wife Sue and kids live nearby Houston, TX, where Keith flies for a major airline (I believe Southwest, but am not absolutely sure). BTW, Keith was also part of 35th Company.

I also heard from Marc Poussard, from 35.

He's working for BEA Systems in southem Califomia. Marc and his wife, Meg, adopted two girls from Kazakhstan two years ago.

Their names are Marina (3) and Nadya (6). He says they're keeping him busy.

Attached is a picture of Ginny, Kyle '06, and me in Kyle's Plebe Summer room. They no longer have the big desk in the middle of the room. It's strange looking, but a lot more spacious. Their desks are located underneath the top bunk beds. That's it for now. Beat Army]

Then there were three

This note came in from Joe Heil with a 19th Company update: Tana and Jim Reagan live in Hemdon, VA, and became proud parents (for thefirsttime!)of beautiful Jackie back in early December Jim has been

with MITRE for many years and is program manager of Broadcast Information Services for Civil Aviation while Tana is working as the soutiieast region sales manager for information systems at a company called SoftwareAG (at least as much as Jackie will allow).

Joanne and Bob Fish have tieen in southern Italy since last summer, after Bob retired to be house-husband to the kids while Joanne Fish '82 is CO of tiie Naval Support Activity, Gaeta.

Chris and Wayne Harman are up in Deleware, staying busy keeping track of their son (starting college after some Army time) and two daughters (high school/college).

Gene Huether remains with SAIC doing tech research, made captain in the Reserve, and recently moved from Alexandria, VA, to San Diego, where he can likely mn into Ann and John Widay, who are also in southern California where John works for a company called REMEC Wireless, Inc. Suzy and Eric Giosa are in Maryland, where Eric is working for Constellation Energy Source, Inc. Vivian and Don Babcock are in Springfield, VA, getting used to shore duty after Don made captain and made the tough decision to be the financial manager for PEO TSC rather than head back to a major command at sea. Hey Don —you'll thank yourself when you see the salary possibilities that this decision will open up if you ever decide to retire!

Nancy and Alan Easterling are loving life on the Eastem Shore of Maryland, where Captain Al is awaiting word from the major PMA slating panel to see if he fleets up to be program manager for the next generation P-3.

Cherie and Pete Cotsonas are not farfromthe Easterlings; Pete traded his NavAir support contractor role for a govemment position last year.

Colleen and Bob Aller and their five kids have been in London since late last year, enjoying the warm beer and cold weather when he's not working for SEI Investments.

Mike Durkin recently visited the AUers while TAD to England; Mike and Melissa are in Virginia Beach, VA, where Mike is still on active duty, but not sure of his new job.

Connie and Steve Charest are living in Middletown. PA, and Steve has been staying busy in a number of areas.

Mary and Matt Lampugnano are still somewhere near the Windy City, and I was able to track Matt down with a Google search; found him as a project manager at Edwards Engineering, Inc. (not a whole lot of other Matt Lampugnano's out there).

Mary and Bill Malloy are up in Norwell, MA, and Bill keeps me informed (?) with regular emails. Bill is witii the Malloy Group and is heavily involved in Massachusettes state politics (and is still in the Reserve).

Caroline and Rich Medley left Crystal City recently after putting on captain to go to Newport, RI. Jan and Jay Whitlock are in Pine Bluff. AR, but Jay called me out of the blue in April when he was in town and offered a skybox seat at an Orioles game that his Company (Washington Group Intemational, Inc.) provided. Next time.

Jay, I promise!

Anne and John Hampshire are up in Poughkeepsie, NY, and I believe John stalled a company called Broad Reach Communications. Inc. Suzanne and Joe Heil are in Woodbridge, VA, with their two boys. Joe retired last Junefiomthe Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and is working for Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. in missile defense analysis.

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Everyone listed above (except Widay, Malloy, Hampshire, and Whitlock) was at tiie 20th reunion, plus the following that I haven't heard from lately: Patti and John Holmes. Ted Mikita, Dave Greer, Gene Bradley, Katiiy and Rich Locke, and Nick Katsiotis. I still contend tiiat Cloud 19 had the best tumout at tiie 20th reunion, witii 20 attendees. If anotiier Company beattiiat.just let everyone know in Shipmate.

I'm falling behind in my email tracking list (been getting some rejects and there are some that I've never gotten), so if the following Cloud 19 guys (or anyone in touch with tiiem) can email me at jheil@spa.com or jphsshl@aol.com, I would appreciate it: Ted Mikita. Gene Bradley. Mike Mullikin. Rich Locke. Pat Troy. Mitch Grouse, Charlie Thompson. Pmdente Baysic, Rick China, and Mark Rossano. The rest of you guys in 19 that I didn't mention, just send me something to the above address and I'll do my best.

Randy Farley (rfarley@score.com) confirmed diat die news from Ninth Company is tiiat CAPT Mike Budney has ttansferred from ComSeventhHt to USNA where he is assigned as the Third Battalion Officer. What that essentially means is that he can now watch all the P-rades from his front porch!

It was a real treat to get a short note from Bob Morris (lambmorris@aol.com) of 26th Company: We haven't talked in five years. Hope you're faring well with your new enterprise and thanks for keeping up otu" Class column in spite of a busy schedule. I still live in Nortiiem Vu-ginia with my lovely wife, Laurie, and our precocious children. Alec (10) and Maggie (7). On the otiier hand, I've left satelUte consulting for the firmer groimd of govemment IT contracting. Despite this career change. I've maintained my old passion for space and written a thriller on the theft of an America earth observing bird; we'U see how soon the stolen Hypersat fmds a home in print as well as in orbit.

In May, at the National Press Club, I was privileged to host a conference panel of thriller writers including our veteran novelist, Michael DiMercurio. It was a pleasure to hear Mike's tales, instructive yet amusing, of how he has kept his submarine stories current with world threats and reader appetites. Expect to see an addition to his series soon...That's all for now.

Feel free to call me when you're here and have time for lunch.

I think I mentioned in the last column that I had a great visit from another West Point exchange buddy, Harley Skidmore, (SkidmoreHT @mfr.usmc.mil) when he came in for a visit during a convention. He just came back through for a senior change of command. He had his own change of command out in Hawaii and is transitioning into his new role. We went out and seriously painted the town. New Orleans may never be the same.

I received another great note from one of my West Point exchange buddies. Wit Davis (Wit.Davis@1980.usna.com) who checked in from the North: Greetings from beautiful Burlington, VT, which is our new home. My relocation was effective today. One of the two business units I have been supporting just completed an acquisition and substantially increased in size. The powers that be decided that the time has come for the Vermont subsidiary to have a full-time general counsel. My new locator information is below. Shawn and I are excited about the move because we love Vermont. We are buying a Shipmate, October 2002

house in Williston, VT, and will move in on or about 22 August.

Our other big news is that our daughter, Ella Grace, was bom on 7 May. Mother and daughter are both doing very well. People say she looks like me so the poor child already has a huge hurdle to overcome.

I had a nice chat with our mutual West Point buddy, Frank Pandolfe. Asidefromhis being glad that I am now a Yankee (and, hopefully, a converted Red Sox fan), he, Anita, and Chessie look to be heading out to San Diego next year for a coimnand assignment. Sounds like the CNO has been keeping him plenty busy.

On my way back East over the Fourth of July weekend, I stopped in Pittsburgh to wish my old roomie. Ken Flack, well on his impending nuptials. He and Jodi were to be married on Saturday, 6 July.

Finally, I heard from my Plebe Summer roommate, Joe Catoe. He is retiring from the Navy and studying for the Maryland bar exam. He will be stalling as an associate in the fall with a well regarded Washington, DC, lawfirm.That's all the news I have. Hope you're well. Best Regards, Wit Davis P.S. I highly endorse Classmail. With this move, I've changed the forwarding address two to three times and it seems to work like a charm.

When I changed jobs, my email changed too, and lots of notes had to fight their way to my new email address. Again, please use the joe.grace@1980.usna.com as the one to contact me—and put Shipmate in the subject line. One persistent correspondent was Alan Wellesley (wellesleyak@earthlink.net) who got back to me through Lyle: Great job with the monthly column. Keep it up! Over a long week-end in January a stellar group of gentlemen gathered in the Louisiana swamps to renew old friendships and to enjoy a little camaraderie and duck hunting. This "almost annual" event was hosted by Luther Futch on the Saline Bayou, not far from Alexandria, LA. Attached you will find a photo of the USNA '80 graduates that participated, including (left to right) B.M. Ferguson, Dave Lengyel, Al Wellesley, Luther Futch, and Kris Elliott. (The Lab in the photo is Duke, I believe he went to West Point...okay, bad

joke). The ducks didn't cooperate on this trip, but the tall tales and hydraulic refreshments flowed quite nicely. That's all for now.

Another victim of the email changes was Kris Elliott, (ElliottK@jag.navy.mil) who lives here in the area. Our daughters are often seen in Navy cheerleading outfits at any Navy function.

I'm not sure I had transferred yet when I saw you last at the luncheon but now I'm the senior defense counsel for the Navy-Marine CorpsCoast Guard here in NOLA. I have two attorneys working for me, one Marine the other Navy. The job is great. The big news I'd like you to put in the column is I am retiring next year and the ceremony will be 14 February '03, and I hope to have the party last through the long weekend—it's President's Day weekend.

Thanks, hope all are well, we must get together soon. BA! I received a note from Bob Beard, (rlbeard @juno.com) of 15th Company. He has had some medical issues but reports that he is recovering fine. He passes on thanks to all those who have held him up in prayer and called to say hello.

I received a short note from Geoff Houck (HOUCKRG@MCRDSD.usmc.mil), from 23rd Company, through Lyle. Geoff will be retuming from Korea and retiring from the Marine Corps.

Since he has been out of the country he is anxious to catch up with Classmates and hook into the grad network. Bruno Padovani, (BPadovani @ladreyfus.com) reports that LtCol Tom Lindblad), of 17th Company, also just retired from active duty. He's mulling over several interesting job offers—so if you need some talent, call him. A brief note also came in from Jim Brownlowe (JimBrownlowe@cs.com) who has taken a new position with Raytheon Right Test in Van Nuys, CA. He was furloughed from United Airlines after September l l t h and worked briefly with TRW. He said that "the lure of a flying position was too great to tum down."

While I am sitting here writing the column, some of our brightest and finest are out there keeping us safe on the front lines. Hard to believe and remember sometimes. Makes me feel like I'm not pulling my share of the load.

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Anyway, here's a note from Mark Guadagnini (guadagninimd@cvwl7.navy.mil), one of our Classmates who's definitely pulling for all of us: Just a quick note as I prepare to deploy on yet another combat cmise. Moose Laukaitis has checked into VFA-106 and is doing his training in preparation to be a DCAG. He was very sad (sic) to leave his job at Prince Sultan Air Base, but the fact that Mike Spence relieved him made it much easier I got the chance to visit with Mike in Saudi Arabia. He is doing great work for the Navy and the nation over there. He has worked so hard that he is back down to his Midshipman weight. He leaves in July to start his training track to be a DCAG. During tiie GWBatGm JTFEX a montii ago, I had the pleasure of hosting a late night meeting with Jim Huck (retuming TRBatGm war hero) and Dennis Watson, the new XO of GEORGE WASHINGTON. Dennis is doing a great job, busy as all get out, and Jim is getting ready to transfer up to DC for duty in the Pentagon.

Tim Dunlevy is doing very well in his ear, nose, and throat practice in Hagerstown, MD. He and Trisha are exploring the possibility of moving to the Charleston area in the future, but not until he beats me in a round of golf So he may be in Hagerstown for quite a while...Jane and Scott Sanders popped down to Virginia Beach over Memorial Day weekend. Scott was giving a speech to a group of retired veterans.

Our sons are going to the Morgan Woolen basketball camp together this summer Time to mn to get ready for my youngest daughter's graduation from First Colonial High School. Congratulations to all of our Classmates with children graduating from high school, and college. My how time has flown!

We have a pretty active Alumni Chapter here in New Orleans. There seems to be a mass exodus from our Classmates who are in the Corps.

Another one of our team, is also hanging up the spurs. Here's a note from Liz and Travis AUen (Uz_trav@bellsouth.net); As some of you might have noticed in a recent issue, I was Usted among the august few Jarheads to select for 0-6. It was a surprise to all of the Corps, but especially to Liz and me as we had already established a retirement date and were getting ready to process out of the Marine Corps family. The selection gave us a moment's pause, but we finally realized that our reasons for retirement (personal and professional), hadn't anything to do with whether I was selected for promotion or not, so I respectfully declined the opportunity to excel and retired on 1 June. I was flattered to be selected and embarrassed to mm down the promotion, but in the end it was the right thing to do for our family.

I was lucky enough to subsequently receive some offers of employment at a couple of regional airlines (the helicopter pilot's happy hunting ground), and accepted a class date at Comair I start class on 17 June and am looking forward to seeing a new part of the country, and to commuting back and forth from Cincinnati to New Orleans many times a month. It's a great opportunity and we are looking forward to starting our new life. Good luck to all the enterprising members of the Class of '80, and give the Aliens a shout if you happen to roll through New

Orieans. Thanks Joe, see you later this summer when Ifinishtraining. Semper fi.

A short note also came in to confirm that it isn't just the Marines that are losing a few good men, Mark Vaughan (mbassv@yahoo.com) sent in this quick update: It's been a while since I have checked in. I retired from the Navy last summer (1 September). My last assignment was in Naples Italy on tiie ComFAirMed staff (along with Greg Miller). Great duty and highly recommend it. After the typical airline search, I was hired by FedEx and started with them in July. I am working as a DC-10 flight engineer and just started teaching in the Flight Training Dept. I met Rick Ryan in the instmctor indoc—Rick retired last year as well and lives in the area. We moved to the Memphis area last year and just bought a house. Any and all Classmates are welcome if they are ever in the area: 545 King Oaks Cove, CoUierville, TN 38017 or give us a call at 901-850-1793.

Captain Bret Gordon (Bret.Gordon @ osd.mil) caught this headline in the news.

"Double Take; Pasadena Couple Repeats Titie Effort at Albacore National Championships." It is speaking of none other than Becky Craig and Jasper Craig. It also goes on to quote that..."The Craigs met while members of the Naval Academy intercollegiate dinghy team, Jasper was the B Division skipper while Becky crewed for A Division standout Gerard Coleman. It was a long article that boasted of their prowess as sailors! Must be that Boat School Training! WeU Done!

I received a surprise note from Gary Siems (Gary.Siems@pfizer.com) of Third Company. It's always a treat to get a note from our long lost Classmates!

I am sitting on an airplane and decided to send in my first article for Shipmate. After graduation and marriage to my high school "one and only Carmella," I spent five years in the Civil Engineer Corps in such hot spots as Great Lakes NTC, Lakehurst NAEC, and Mechanicsburg SPCC. I left the Navy in May 1985 and joined Pfizer as an engineer I leamed the pharmaceutical manufacturing/engineering business and have been with Pfizer ever since.

I am currently the Pfizer Global Engineering Rep for our three manufacturing plants in Puerto Rico. I really enjoy the job. The only downside is the separation from family when I travel to Puerto Rico.

Carmella and I just celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary in May. We have three children Nicole (21), Ashley (18), and Setii (8).

Nicole is a biomedical engineering major at Stevens Institute of Technology and hopes to go to med school after graduation in June.

Ashley is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania and is a bioengineering major thinking of becoming a veterinarian. Seth is going into the third grade and is keeping us on our toes. Carmella is amazing. She works part time, takes care of everyone and everything while being heavily involved in our church and school. We moved into a new home a year ago, so anyone (especially anyone from Thirsty Third) needing a place to stay while visiting the New York-New Jersey area can reach me at either Siems5@aol.com or 66 Rue Chagall in Somerset, NJ 08873.

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WeU, that's about it for the mailbag. Thanks to one and all for the updates, letters, emails, and phone calls. Keep them coming. For all those who are leaving the nulitary; call on Classmates, it's the best network you'll ever find. We're going to be having a fantastic tailgater and bash for the Navy-Tulane football game in 26 October If anyone is interested in coming down to New Orleans for the blowout—give me a call.

I look forward to seeing many of you there.

I hope this finds you healthy, happy, and wiser today that you were yesterday. As Always, Beat Army] —Joe

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Pres: Jim Ahlgrimm 1948 Friendship Place, Falls Church, VA 22043-1542 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 Lesson number one; Don't wait until almost the last minute to write your column because something wiU always come along and take you right up to die last minute. (This is written with 35 minutes left before midnight and "The Deadline.")

Mark Cantrell (mark.CanttieU@hurlburt.af.mil); Just changed jobs in January. Now assigned to the USAF Command and Control Warrior School at Hurlburt Field (Fort Walton Beach, FL) as the Navy liaison. Life is mighty good down here on the Gulf Coast—can't believe I got these orders.

Connie and the kids are fine. Jessica (oldest) is starting college at the University of West Florida in P-Cola later this month (August).

Next daughter. Kimberly. is in the tenth grade at Navarre High and little guy (retirement baby). Christopher, is 17 months old and into everything. He has been a real blessing to us.

If any Club 34ers or any of the other fine folks from '81 are even in the area, please give us a shout. We live in Navarre (exactly in the middle between Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach/Destin) and our home is always welcome to you. Contact: 7246 Brinkley Street, Navarre, FL 32566; (h) 850-936-7559; (w) 850-884-7683; (DSN) 579-7683; (c) 850496-2206.

Bing sends: Looks like congratulations are in order for Dave Kem (18th Co.). He will become the new CO of VIRGINTA (SSN-774) in ceremonies

scheduled for Tuesday, 13 August 2002. I saw Dave at the 774 Dockside Review Meeting on 6 August 2002. She is not yet afloat, but she has had a Navy crew on her reactor for quite some time (year or so) and though her Command and Control System Module has been gutted of electronics (transferred to TEXAS for testing), it was all working and went through OT-IIB in April of this year. I believe Dave will have command up to Sea Trials (scheduled to start in 2004 followed by PSA in 2005/6). With any luck, Dave may get another command after VIRGINIA as her curtent CO is assuming duties of another SSN after leaving.

Phil Antonino (antoninopj@yahoo.com): I am on terminal leave and will retire on 31 August '02. MOS: 0402 logistics officer Final Rank; lieutenant colonel USMC. Final Billet: XO, H&S Battalion, MCB Camp Lejeune, NC. It was a great ride. My second career started today teaching algebra, trig, and analysis at Laney H.S., Wilmington, NC, (alma mater of Michael Jordan). I am also charged up and ready for this second, exciting career I am also a Blue & Gold Officer for a half dozen area schools.

Ollie Nanyes (ollie@nanyes.org): After graduation, I went to Pensacola, but got a flight NPQ due to a shaky knee injury history. I was then sent to nuclear power and ended up serving on TREPANG based out of Shipmate, October 2002

New London. But, I hurt my knees again and was subsequently given a medical discharge in 1985.1 entered the mathematics program at the University of Texas and obtained my Ph.D. in 1991. I joined the mathematics department at Bradley University, Peoria, IL, and have been there ever since. I was granted tenure and have managed to rehabilitate my knees so that I now enjoy outdoor stuff, like running and swimming. I am married to Barbara and have one daughter, Olivia, who was born in 1994.

Anyone who wants to see what I'm up to can check out www.nanyes.org or email me. I'd enjoy hearing from any of my Classmates.

Lesson number two: Don't ride a scooter over age 40 unless you know where the brake is.

Lesson number three: Percocet makes everthing better Later—Chic

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Pres: Maj T. Gordon Thomson, USAFR h: 804-360-8448; e: tgthomson@1982.usna.com 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.usna.coni/classes/1982

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Pres: CDR James H. Flatley IV, USN 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.nejp we: f4jflatl@cvw5.navy.mil Sec'y: Richard F. Woodford Jr. 7329 Crestleigh Circle, Alexandria, VA 22315 h: 703-313-4170; w: 703-292-4999 e: rwoodfor@nsf.gov Class web site: www.usna83.com Greetings again from somewhere on the westem shore of the Chesapeake! Or perhaps it's greetings from the San Francisco Bay? Perhaps the Jersey Shore, just down Route 9 from The Boss's new tour? I'll keep you all guessing this month, suffice it to say that I've been getting around lately.

As noted in the September 2002 column, our Class Act '83 mailbag has depleted, and unfortunately, everyone must still be on vacation.

Rather than another remn, I'm just going to say that this football season, if you're in the Annapolis area, head to spot #34 for the Class Act tailgater. That's where you'll find all your long lost friends and reacquaint yourself with some faces from the past.

Some reflections from Dennis Rogers, a columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer: It is not courage that makes ordinary people perform extraordinary deeds, but the shame of letting down people who are counting on them.

You're never really as tired as you think you are, especially when someone starts yelling at you.

Having someone you trust watching your back makes all things possible.

People will look at you with disapproval if you drop your tools, so hang on to your rifles, wrenches, laptop computers or spatulas.

If you pace yourself, you can keep going all day. Save the mnning for whentiieshooting starts.

A real friend will tell you the truth, even when you're dead wrong.

Until we meet again in this space or in person, please consider sending in a few words or photos, why yes, your vacation photos would be especially helpful. Please use my home address Richard.Woodford@juno.com. By the time you are reading this, I hope to be a demobilized naval Reserve officer, fighting crime in my "regular" job.

Also don't forget to volunteer or make reservations for our 20th reunion, 29 October-2 November 2003. It will be here faster than you think. You do not want to miss this major Class Act. See our 83USNA.com page and the Loew's Annapolis site for reservation info. More on this important topic in our "Back to School" issue next month.

Final thought for this month: Adversity doesn't build character it reveals it. Be the strong link in the cable, you will be tested.

Go Navy football! I am counting on seeing more of our Class Act at the '83 tailgaters this season (at Section 34)!

1983—A Class Act!

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Pres: CDR Steven G. Young, USNR c/o MSDW, 11311 McCormick Road #450 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 w: 410-229-8206, 888-435-2281 e: Steven.G.Young@msdw.com Sec'y: Karen (MaUoy) Halverson 3111 Bent Creek Drive, VaUico, FL 33594 h: 813-681-4088; e: dkhalverso@aol.com Class web site: www.usna84.com Dear Classmates, Unfortunately, I must begin this article with some very sad news.

In June, while on vacation in Toronto, Scott Vy^oessner and his family were involved in a very serious auto accident and Scott's wife Wendy was lost. I'm sure I speak for us all when I offer Scott and his four children our most sincere condolences and all our thoughts and prayers. For those of you wishing to make contributions, they may be made to the Wendy Anne Woessner Memorial Fund, c/o Connecticut Children's Medical Center Foundation, 12 Charter Oak Terrace, Hartford, CT 06106.

Kelly (King) Henry wrote with news that she has reported to her new job in DC, relieving Ronda (Beagle) Syring as the liaison between Navy Recmiting and BuPers. Ronda was selected to serve as the EA to Mr. Henry (the civilian deputy to CNP). Kelly was happy to have Ronda 125

close at hand while she was reintroduced to the world of recruiting. Kelly was able to see a littie bit of Rose Kent while in New York, most recently at her daughter Theresa's, citizenship celebration. Rose is busy working on her teaching certification and being a mom to her four children. Her parents live nearby and Kelly reports it was great seeing them again after so many years.

Evidently, having four kids isn't tiring Rose out at allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kelly says that she looks terrific and is as full of energy as ever.

Robin Franke (robin.franke@teledynees .com) wrote with a bunch of news for us. First of all, Robin sent in an article announcing that Severn Sailing Association Member, Hal Gilreath, along with teammate Aimee Graham, placed third at the Finn National Championships held in July out of Pass Christian, MS. Hal and his teammate had won the qualifying regatta that spUt the 46 entrants from 15 states into two fleets.

This was the fourth third place finish for Hal. The top three finishers of this regatta eamed automatic berths in the Snipe World Championships held next August in Sweden. This will be Hal's third trip to the worlds. Hal's wife, Nancy, along with her teammate, finished ninth. Congratulations to Hal and Nancy on their sailing accomplishments and best of luck next year, Hal! Next, Robin sent along an article announcing that, on Tuesday, 30 July 2002, the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation officially retired the three-star service flag that hung at Alumni House (Ogle Hall) to honor three of its staff members who had been recalled to active duty: CDR Dan Struble '83, USNR (vice president for principal gifts); CDR Bart Rowe, USNR (major gift officer); and LCDR Mike CoUins, USNR (editor-in-chief of Shipmate). George P. Watt '73, president and CEO of the Alumni Association and Foundation, along with the Superintendent VADM Richard Naughton '68, and Alumni Association staff members were on hand to welcome them back.

All three reservists were called to duty last October For those of you who might not know, the Service Flag is an official banner authorized by the Department of Defense for display by families who have members serving in the Armed Forces during any period of war or hostilities the United States may be engaged in for the duration of such hostilities.

Finally, Robin also has extended a plea on behalf of his cousin who is looking for a job next summer He will be in his final year at the University of Texas studying mechanical engineering and would like to line up something in outdoor constmction as a possible basis for an engineering career Robin would like to know if there are any Classmates out there doing something interesting that his cousin might be able to participate in. If you have any ideas, you can reach Robin at his email address above.

Idean Fortune wrote with news about her life. Idean keeps busy working for Vanguard Services Unlimited, a non-profit company in Arlington, VA, where she works as the company training coordinator VSU mns ten chemical dependency treatment programs in Virginia, Maryland, and DC, for adults, women with children and adolescents. In addition to her training

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responsibilities, Idean also mns three addiction education/prevention groups per week at the juvenile detention center in Alexandria. As part of a CSAT grant, Idean mns similar groups for NOVAM (Northem Virginia Aids Ministry) at local schools, community centers and group homes for adolescents. Somehow, in her "spare time" she manages to fill in as a primary counselor at VSU's adult co-ed facility in Arlington.

For fun, Idean enjoys working part-time on the weekends at a nearby cigar shop where she gets to meet other, as she puts it, "cigar aficionado snobs." Idean is looking into the possibility of being re-commissioned in the Army National Guard for possible counter dmg operations.

Other than all of that, Idean can often be found near a body of water with a fishing pole in hand.

Thanks for writing, Idean!

Larry Clark was goaded into writing after seeing a picture of Tom Downing, the long-lost best man at his wedding, in a past Shipmate.

Larry, Shelly, and children Lauren (11) and Andrew (13) live near Syracuse, NY. Larry and his four brothers work at their own business where, as Larry puts it, they "kick butt in the air filtration and industrial air cleaning business."

Thanks for writing, Larry.

Joan (Taverna) Pinaire wrote with news that she has moved back to McCarter & English, LLP as special counsel in its Intellectual Property/Information Technology group.

Congratulations on the new job, Joan!

Finally, from Kevin Monahan and Rich Haddad, the real, unadulterated version of Eric Fippinger's quite illustrious career and recent change of command: Eric "Ripper" Fippinger took over as commanding officer from Dave "Smoke" Beydler '81. In attendance were Rosser "Rosco" Baker, Rich "Habib" Haddad, Mike "Zieg" Heil, Bernie "Bull" Krueger, and Kevin "Moaner" Monahan. Despite Eric's weak (expletive deleted) attempt at updating the Class on the last 18 years of his life in the last column, he has had a pretty colorful career He and Leslie have two children Rachel (10) and Scott (8). Eric started out in single seat F-18 and has flown two sealers for the past few tours including deployments to the Adriatic in support of Yugoslavia Ops. He served in the Third Marine Aircraft Wing Plans section and was in Bahrain on September llth. Third MAW had him crash the Air Force party in Riyadh and he used his sublime charm and daring-do to sneak into the Enduring Freedom Air Ops Center to help get Marine Tac Air involved. He takes command of the largest squadron in the Marine Corps, with 42 aircraft.

Mike Heil took command of VMA-311 (Harrier squadron), MCAS Yuma, AZ, in early 2002 and he and Cornelia had a second daughter in May. Mike served a three-year tour with the Royal Air Force and his RAF Squadron was stationed in Germany, very close to Cornelia's mother's family. Bemie is the XO of Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS) at MCAS Yuma. Rosser is currently at Quantico, working in Procurement as his payback tour from the Naval Postgrad School. Rich was recentiy activated and is working at HQMC in the Intelligence Department for Plans, Policy and Operations. We had a great time catching up with each other at the reunion and the closest anyone got into trouble was Kevin whose mad

dash for the airport to catch his flight back to San Jose disregarded several Califomia State and San Diego County traffic laws. He showed up late at the gate after the aircraft door was shut and nearly got into a brawl with the stewardess over what he calls "her complete lack of customer focus."

Kevin also reports that in July he attended the Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturer International Convention in San Francisco (dang, doesn't that sound fun?) and ran into Frank Crespo. Frank is the vice president for Semiconductor Materials Business for Praxair, Inc. and is based out of Richardson, TX. That's it for this month. Don't forget to hit your knees tonight and say a little prayer.

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Pres: Bob Smith e: upsbobs@hotmail.com; w: 502-386-4078 Corr. Sec'y; CDR Dave McDonnell 88 Bowyer Road, Annapolis, MD 21402 w: 410-293-6331; h; 410-626-0347 e: dclomcd@aol.com; mcdonnel@gwmail.usna.edu (Ed. note: Due to Shipmate error, no column ran in the September issue. Below are both the September and October columns.)

Another football season is nearing and the slogan "expect to win" can be heard from all those involved in the Navy football program. The new football coaches are working the Midshipmen hard and I am confident we will see improvement over last year While I can't promise anything about the football team actually winning, I will promise that there will be tailgaters at every home game this year for anyone interested. Look for the blue '85 tent by the quonset hut on the Taylor Ave side of the Blue parking lot. Stop by and mingle with your Classmates (and bring something to feed the Mids). Matt Schatzle (28) is planning on making some yet-to-be-named improvements to the tailgate site. Hope to see some new faces this year (not that the regular faces are all that bad).

If you have recentiy changed email addresses, either because of military moves or changes in intemet providers, please send your updated address to Bryan Caisse (8) (bcaisse @wsadv.com). This database is an important tool to quickly spread Class news.

Seen around town Recently ran into Russ Dorrell (10) who was sitting at the end of Ego Alley eating Storm Brothers' ice cream after just having dined at Chic and Ruth's. He was definitely hitting all the hot spots. He told me he has five daughters between the ages of 3 and 12 including 10 yearold twins. Living in Monterey and teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School, Russ is still making his mark in the Navy. He was in Annapolis for three weeks taking Midshipmen out sailing for their summer cmise on the N-44's.

Congratulations to Karen and Kent KetteU (25) on the birth of their seventh child. Julia KetteU was bom 13 June 2002 at 2:38 p.m. at the Tripler Army Medical Center. She was 19 inches long, 7 pounds and 13 ounces. Kent William, Grace, Austin, Grant, Spencer and Victoria have Shipmate, October 2002

been very excited. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers as there were no complications and Julia and Karen are very healthy.

As many of our Classmates are taking command, I encourage you to send in some pictures of the change of command ceremonies. Thanks to Peter Martino (31) for submitting the following email conceming Stuart Munsch's (11) change of command.

Peter Martino: The sun shone brightly for '85 on Friday, 7 June 2(X)2 as our distinguished Classmate, CDR Stuart B. Munsch assumed command of ALBUQUERQLTE (SSN-706). The ceremony took place at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as ALBUQLIERQUE is midway through an overhaul there. In attendance were Classmates CDR Pat Piercey (25), who along with Stuart served as a White House fellow last year, and myself RADM Michael Tracy '75. Commander of Submarine Group Two, and more importantiy, one of our top military instractors at USNA during our Youngster Year, was the senior officer officiating. ALBUQUERQUE is the 19th Los

ANGELES class nuclear fast attack submarine, and was commissioned in 1983. and carries a complement of 134 (14 officers. 120 enlisted).

Following the overhaul, Stuart and his wife, Beth, will be stationed at the New London Submarine Base. Congratulations and good luck to Stuart as he takes the helm of a significant component of our nation's military force!

Floyd Devine (3): Hope everyone is doing well. As always, been bouncin' all around the country here.

Spent most of last month in Rio and the next few months look to be pretty busy. I finished the painful process of negotiating my next duty (officially my last in the Navy) and I'll be heading to San Diego next March. The unit is called TACRON 11 and is based on Coronado Island. Once again, for the last time, I think I've managed a pretty good deal and both the Navy and I seem pretty pleased with it. I'll know if I made the right decision next year. In the mean time. I'm going to be here in Brazil working in the twilight zone looking for excuses to go to the beach. Besgs to my lady friends and abrasos to the dudes.

Bobby Armes (Lucky 7) (armesb@aol.com): Found a new job in Atianta, GA. Will be working for an eight-lawyer law firm called Corless & Webster as an attomey in suburbs of Atianta doing real estate law, litigation, finance. They have several offices. I will end up in the office in Duluth. A nice suburb of Atlanta where tiiey play the PGA golf toumament every year (BellSouth Open). Same type of work that I was doing in Northem Virginia.

These guys do more Hispanic real estate closings than any other firm in the Atlanta area.

Lower cost of living than DC metro area. Wife and kids are real happy to get a nice, big, brand new home. I started down there around the middle of July. Also, I do not remember if I gave you the birth info for our third child already. Juan-Pablo Armes was bom 7 May 2002 in Reston, VA. Big siblings Gabriela (3) and Roberto (1) have been helping out mommy Indi. Everyone is happy and healthy.

Curt Lindsay (10): Ran into Ed "Lee" Jaenichen at the Hemdon climb. He is at the Pentagon. He passed that Mario Trujillo was getting married. I later received an email from Mario.

Mario and Heather were married on 8 June on Cape Cod, where she is from. They curtently live in San Diego. Not sure who attended the Shipmate, October 2002

wedding. I recently stepped into the Mid Store and who is there to greet me, but Andy Solgere (18) and his wife. He is still in and just detached from the Pentagon and is on his way to Camp LeJeune.

Mike Midgley (22): I thought this event might be interesting to some. This is my first submission in quite some time! I am currently on active duty with Navy Region SW working CBRNE/WMD issues for the region, but am getting ready to head back to the real world next week (demobiUzing).

Keep up the good work with the column.

Chuck Rader '76 and I are assigned as emergency preparedness liaison officers (EPLOs) representing Navy Region Southwest to FEMA Region IX and the state of Califomia. Picture was taken in front of the Officers Club at the Presidio of San Francisco just prior to the final military departure ceremony. Although the Army officially closed the base down and departed on 30 September 1994, there was still a presence of EPLOs from all services whose Reserve drill and mobilization site was at the FEMA Regional Headquarters located on the Presidio grounds.

In addition to the commissary and exchange closing permanently on 31 May 2002, FEMA Regional HQ moved to Oakland causing the departure of the last military unit. There had been an official U.S. military presence at the Presidio since July 1846, when U.S. Navy CAPT John B. Montgomery from PORTSMOUTH along with 70 Marines officially captured the port of Yerba Buena (San Francisco) and the Presidio from Mexico, and claimed them for the United States.

Timm Bechter (35): I launched coverage of broadband equipment (Nortel, Lucent, AFC, Adtran, Broadcom, and Polycom) in this ugly market then go ahead.

I'm not much for publicity on myself, but in this case maybe it will dmm up some business (if not roust a few old friends out of hibernation).

Geoff Losee (29); Nancy and I proudly announce the birth of our second son, Patrick Thomas Losee (1 July '02). Patrick is a post-involuntary recall baby.

Geoff deployed in 2001 witii elements of MIUW 205 to Soutiiwest Asia (after COLE bombing) as part of Task Group 53.8 (serving as seiuor watch officer and MIUW detachment XO).

Rich Tilghman (1) (_c7frep@bigpond.com): Still unsuccessfully coaching youth soccer, kids are playing Australian-rules football and cricket, and I'm on my 16th ship visit, in as many weeks. These skimmers all blend together after awhile. You've seen one FFG/LPD/DD/CVN- you've seen them all. Am I the last guy on active-duty or are any Classmates on these ships that keep coming in?

If you're coming to Perth-Fremantie, email me and I'll take care of you. Field research on Australian port calls: SWO's: all workdays while inport.. .or pretend to...stay out all night.

Aviators: Chase opposite sex and drink beer, gamble. Shop during day. Marines: Catch opposite sex, drink beer, and get to know police real well after-hours. Submariners: Check into hotel rooms with their wives, never go back to boat, check out at end of port visit.

If Joe Beadles and his new TacRon come in, now that will be a liberty call. Might rival "Protramid Pensacola" 1983 liberty. Nah, on second thought, maybe not! FYI, Helen and Taylor Tilghman, my parents, are still on Oahu, any Classmates that know them, know they've got a place to stay there.

Kevin Best (11): Enjoying the summer and a break before finishing my last year of law school. I continue to work for The Association of Cities and Towns in Annapolis, MD.

Christopher Hodges (15): Tom Plofchan's daughter had a communion in May, in VA and all of us Hodges's went down (Liz is my wife). The next weekend, my son had his communion, and Tom and his family (Katie) reciprocated by coming up to New Jersey. (Actually, it was the other way around.)

A good time was had by all. He has three children, two boys and a giri and Liz and I have three children, two girls and a boy. I also heard from Greg Garcia (his wife is Julie), who called Liz and I at 1:30 a.m. intiiemoming (Greg needs to get one oftiioseclocks that tell time in five time zones) to tell us they are moving back to tiie states in Newport, RI, from Japan during the summer. We can't wait to see them.

Bob-0 Castleton (27): I don't know if you'll get something from Steve Ploof or Joe Stewart, but I'll let you know that we just had a bachelor party for Joe in Annapolis 28-30 June. We staged out of Ploofer's new hut on Green St. and had a great weekend of golf groceries, and grog. Believe it or not, this is Joe's first wedding. He is getting mamied in Hotlanta in Augustâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;anyone who wishes to get married in Atlanta in August must be in love.

Vince Bowhers (9): I just retumed from exercise Maple Flag in Cold Lake, Canada as XO of VAW-124. Andy Lewis (25) was also there as XO of VFA-15.

Our airwing (CVW-8) is full of '85 XOs with Dave Morgan (24) at VFA-87 and John Hefti (23) just arrived with VF-213.

Jon Franke (16): As a quick summary version of my life since Annapolis; finished University of Maryland graduate school December '85. Went through nuke power school. Three years on a destroyer, and two on ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72).

Spent my last few Navy months in the Persian Gulf in 1991 (right after all the shooting was over). I have worked for Carolina Power & Light (now Progress Energy) since then. I married Becky in 1989. We have three children now: Jon (9), Joshua (6), and Jenna (4). At work I spent time in both operations and engineering at a large commercial nuclear plant near Wilmington, NC. I have recently been transferred to Florida as plant general manager for the Crystal River Nuclear Plant (about an hour north of Tampa). Outside of work I spend a lot of time with my kids and restoring an old Corvette that I got my hands on. (To Bryan Caisse) By the way, I sure do appreciate your organization of the Class email list. Our Company has been fairly active communicators since the list got started. It has been great to hear from so many old friends.

James "JJ" Johnson (28): I'm retiring on 30 July at NAB Coronado upon completion of 20 years of service. I would like to thank all whom made my 24 years in the Navy an enjoyable and proud experience.

Simon Hillman (18): The Hillmans are moving again. As much as we liked New Jersey we decided to get back to Maryland before our oldest starts high school.

All being well, this is our last move and gets us back to where we want to be in the long term.

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Gotta love Amtrak. Jennifer is still keeping busy raising four children and keeping me on the straight and narrow. She will also be unpacking a house full of boxes for the rest of the summer We haven't seen much of our Classmates outside of the boys from 18th Company. A pretty good 18th Company crowd made it to Annapolis last October for Jeff Walker's wedding. He lost the bet (last one to get married) with Larry Hickey, but if you met Jeff's wife, Linda, you'd know that he is still way ahead. With the financial barrier removed, Larry should now be available. If anyone knows of any old maids seeking companionship let us know. We did talk to Carl Holte (1) recentiy who is living in Connecticut and is a big cheese for a paper company.

Gordon Ballard (4) works with me at Actema and is loving life in Chatham, NJ, less than two miles from where he grew up. Dave Deist is working in Actema's Denver office and is kicking butt selling to AT&T Broadband, buying new houses and driving his '60s Vette around Colorado Springs. The 18th Company guys still on active duty all seem to be rotating so I can't say for sure where they all are or are going. They told me I'm sure, but as the Company old fart it seems to have slipped my mind. The only thing I know for sure is that I am going to Hawaii next spring to see wild Bill Johnson take command of one of those big grey targets. By the way, Jennifer wants to know where Sandy and Bill Coblentz (1) are.

If anyone needs a room in the Annapolis area look us up. The door is always open and the beer is always cold. Now if only Telecom would rebound.

Gretchen Dayoub PMlUps (8); Susan is too modest to send this bit of news herself Susan (Spieth) 'Tyler (10) (one of my dearest friends) and her business partner have opened a specialty coffee shop on the Eastem Shore in Accomac, VA. The Crescent Moon Cafe opened in April and is located of Front Street in a beautiful historic building. By the way, Accomac is the hometown of Susan's husband, David Tyler (VMI/USNR pilot) and is a short drive north of Norfolk for folks passing through. Their entrepreneur spirit and good business skills have given them a great start, tiiey serve all kinds of coffees, plus bakery items, and they started serving a lunch menu in May. Congramlations totiiem!Also, Sandy (Mahlum) and Rob Haidvogel (33) had their second child, Katiierine June, bom 23 April 2002.

Ron Fry (11): Retiring. Ceremony 5 August on WISCONSIN at 1 p.m. All welcome.

TJMulich(ll): Well CoNTour (Comet Nucleus Tour) launched 3 July without a hitch. It was delayed a couple of days due to some contamination found inside the payload shroud. That took a day to clean up and would have pushed the launch to 2 July. That day would have not put CoNTour into a good power attitude with the sun. So we launched the next day. It was a hectic four days, and we finally got a couple of days off for the July 4th weekend. Talked to Maurice Perdomo and he should be getting off active duty in September He's now in McDill AFB working for Space Command. I also talked to Jim Stemple who is in the South Carolina National Guard with an Air Defense Missile Unit. He's also suppose to get off active duty in September, but isn't holding his breath because his unit is pretty rare, and quite needed.

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Michael Graham (16): My wife of seven years (Glorivee) and I are expecting our first child in October '02! Doc thinks it's a girl, so we are very excited. I'm finishing up my three-year tour as the fleet liaison officer at the Program Executive Office for Mine and Undersea Warfare, Washington, DC, (at NavSea HQ in the Navy Yard). Recently became a SWO-Acquisition Professional in September '01. screened for CDR command afloat and have been slated to PORTLAND (LSD37) homeported in Little Creek, VA. I commence the PCO pipeline in November '02 with a change of command in July '03. Thanks for all your work keeping '85 informed.

BiU Ridings (13): I've been the Navy liaison officer here in Nassau, Bahamas, since last Febmary. This used to be referred to as the best non-careerenhancing job in the Navy, and the only SWO job of its kind. Any Classmates should give a yell if they are coming down on a cmise.

I look forward to hearing from those of you who have been too shy to submit an update. I will start making something up if I don't hear from you soon. Hope to see you at the upcoming tailgater for the Navy vs NC State football game on 7 September The Class of '85 is starting to mn the Navy with many of our Classmates taking command in the recent past. Congratulations to all those in command and to those about to start their command tours. One of our CO's, John Nolan (25), stopped by USNA on his way to San Diego to take command of ELLIOTT just long enough to take this picture. The gorgeous young lady in the picture between Johnny and yours truly is Marygail "MG" Buchanan, the USNA sponsor of the century.

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John, MG, and Dave I was able to get an extension on the submission of this column so I could attend Andy Lewis' (25) change of command of the VFA15 "Valiants" in Oceana. I'm not sure what a valiant is, but the JO's were very protective of their command flag. The ceremony was great and Andy's speech was eloquently delivered. Kevin "Block" Bianchi (23) and Dan "Chester" Ballard (25) were also in attendance. Block, Barrie, and the kids had to leave immediately after the ceremony to head off to Sicily to take command of a helicopter squadron. Andy and Mary threw a big party at their home for the family, friends, and squadronmates. The party was a blast. I must admit that aviators can throw a better party than most submariners. Here are some pictures from the weekend.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Alexandria Patricia Dunn. Stephanie came by to visit with one of the kids she used to babysit for and who is now a Plebe. I am sponsoring her friend, MIDN 4/c David Haines '06, who hails from Pittsburgh, PA. Stephanie reports that her degree in public affairs has come in handy in the recent past as she has had to deal with the media numerous times. She continues to be an outstanding representative for the families who lost loved ones in the September llth attacks.

Dave, Alexandria, and Stephanie Dunn Delano Martins (6) has recentiy reported to the Naval Academy as the deputy director of the HUM/SS division. Del is happy to be back at the Academy and we should see a lot of him at die tailgaters this season.

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On to the Mail Andy Solgere (18): We just moved back to Camp Lejeune, NC. Just before we left in late June, we spent a day in Annapolis celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. During our 24-hour stay we ran into three Classmates all by coincidence: Kevin Reeds (28^, Tim Pedersen (13), and Curt Lindsay (10). Kevin is still peddling boats. Tim flying TACAMO birds, and Curt is recalled to AcDu to force engineering into the Midshipmen. Hope things are going well and thanks for all the hard work you do keeping up with folks.

Vie Otero (25): Can you beUeve it? Two of our Company Classmates take command on the same day (John Nolan and Pat Butler). I would have liked to attend both, but was only able to get to San Diego for John Nolan's Change of Command. Dan Ballard once said, "a CofC is like a funeral, a wedding, a birth, and a Red Sox World Series game. You just don't miss them." Since I always listen to Dan, I flew cross-country with my wife who is scared of flying and attended the event. Everything after the flight was incredible, weather, parties, special event, and close friends we were able to catch up w ith. Thursday night it all started with a party at a house in Coronado. Before you knew it. the Johnny "Wadd" stories started flying. There were many references to his participation in the "too cool for school crowd" and the miUion to one odds, that any of that crowd would stay in Navy and the trillion to one, that any would get command. Last time I checked we have a bunch of commanders and one Ueutenant colonel. Okay they were right about me!

I also got a chance to catch up with John Pietkiewicz (27). Rick Morgan (11), and Dan Redmond '86. All are doing great and enjoying life in Coronado. Not that hard to believe as the place is amazing. Finally the day was here, Friday, 12 July 2002 on board ELLIOT. It was John Nolan's day. He looked great and gave a great speech even if he did mention the New York Yankees one too many times. Come to think about it, he only mentioned them once.

That was too many! I can only tell you that I was extremely proud of John's accompUshments and of his new command. Wlio ever said nice guys fiiush last was 100% wrong, John Nolan is a nice guy and he finished first on 12 July 2002. I congratulate him, his wonderful wife. ElUe, and his super family. Thanks for the hospitality in SoCal. I look forward to hearing all about Pat's change of command.

Dave Loesch (23): I don't know how many of you know this (I don't get Shipmate, you know!) but Sean Logan (24) is ranning as a candidate for Maryland's 33rd District. I will leave the stumping out, but if you have a minute and can check out his web site (http://www.seanlogan .org), I know he would appreciate it. (BTW, he doesn't know I'm sending this.)

Dave Berchtold (22): I'd like to announce a couple things. First, I've moved from OpNav N46 family housing action officer to OPS officer engineering field activity Chesapeake. I will be in the DC area another two years. Second, Sharon and I have adopted a baby boy who is now 4 months old.

His name is Zach and he is most destined to have a love for the game of golf

Rob Vaughan (32): After 17 years, I guess it's finally time to make a submission to the Class column. My wife, Cary, and I are happy to announce the Shipmate, October 2002

birth of Thomas Patrick on 4 June. He joins big sisters Katie (6) and Lauren (3 1/2). We're all enjoying living in our tiny, expensive house in the San Francisco Bay area. I left active duty in November '98 from U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs and got hired by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto. I am a project manager/supervisor developing components on next generation commercial communication satellites. I enjoy my job and am happy to be very close to three Companymates from 32nd Company; Bill Fitzgerald, Simms Duncan, and Peter Stamps. The four of us plus Mike Moore (who came over from the East Bay) got together for the 2001 Super Bowl in my Tivo equipped house. All of us and our families try to get together as much as possible.

Ralph Arcaro (29): I've never submitted to Shipmate before, but you've made it so easy. Keep up the good work! After leaving the Navy in 1992, I went to work for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board as a nuclear safety engineer That job took me to Hanford, WA, for a year as the DNFSB Site Representative at the "most contaminated former nuclear weapons facility in the country." I loved Washington, but not the job so much. So, in 2000, recently divorced, I decided to leave the nuclear community and do a career change. It's been a great move for me.

I'm now living in Bucks County, PA, in the Philadelphia area working as the chief operating officer for a small software company called IntraPrise Solutions, Inc. We develop document management and workflow systems.

We've weathered the dot com crash pretty well and seem to be back on the growth path. I love Philadelphia and old Bucks County. I've had both Brad Buswell (and his new wife, Trish) and Tom Williamson visit in the recent past.

Both are working at the Pentagon and living in Northem Virginia. During each visit, we managed to hit the town in Philadelphia. It brought back old memories of spending Saturday nights in Annapolis. Any USNAers traveling through Philly are welcome to look me up.

Jeff Robertson (28) (Jeff5981@aol.com): I don't know which issue you're collecting info for, but I am planning a tailgate party for the USNA-USAFA game, in Colorado this year on 5 October Lucky for me I live out here (Evergreen, CO). For anybody who wants to join the crowd contact me at the above email address. I've made it a primarily Navy party, although I invite my parents and some neighbors who cheer for the other side (father was a career USAF guy, who instructed at USAFA for a tour). This will be the third time I've thrown it (every other year, of course) and it's getting bigger each year Plan this year is to switch to a potluck of sorts, while I provide the main ingredients. Details will follow once I decide on how much luck we should plan into the potiuck.

Dave Island (20): I am still living in Dallas but have been working at a start up telecommunications switch manufacturer, Telica, for the last two years, mnning sales in the westem half of the U.S. The good news is that over 25% of our sales team is comprised of USNA grads (Shaun Donnelly '88, John Donelan '88, Gene Burgess '86, Andre Smith '90. Of course the bad news is '85 was the last Class to have a real Plebe Year, so I have to keep training these guys. Telecom is in a major recession, but we are hanging in there. Since I am now land locked in Texas, which has had a major impact on my surfing schedule, we have

gotten very involved in competitive water skiing. My daughter Kristen (14) will be competing in the national championships on 15 August. This is her second year qualifying for nationals. Anyone coming through Dallas give us a call.

Curt Lindsay (10): Here is a little tidbit. Dan Richardson and his wife, Karen, were married 3 August at NAS Oceana and are honeymooning in Paris and Europe. No photo. I didn't make the wedding.

Dan is at OpTevFor and Karen is a doctor.

Bob Castleton (27): My wife, Tina, and I went to Hotlanta for Joe Stewart's wedding (yes, his first!) and had a great weekend. Steve Ploof (27) was in the wedding and we got to hang with Steve Bishop and his wife. Jeff Sigler was also there so we had a mini-27th Company reunion. Other Alum's included Jeff Reeves (31), the old man John Snevely '81, and the young pup, Bobby Wehman '87.

JuUa Spinelli (33): I'm currently filling the first Navy MetOc (meteorology and oceanography) officer billet at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). I work in the Consequence Assessment Branch of the Technology Development Directorate (TD). Here's a line on the TD nussion: "By accelerating state-ofthe-art technologies that improve force application/protection modeling capabilities, provide enhanced weapons and sensors for defeat of WMD-related facilities, and optimize capabilities for use by Special Operations Forces, DTRA enhances the survivability and operability of U.S. miUtary equities." My Air Force weather officer counterpart and I are responsible for mnning DTRA's weather program and ensuring the quality of the meteorological data used in counter proliferation and consequence assessment hazard predictions for world-wide military operations/exercises, and high-visibility civil events. As you might guess, we've been extremely busy since September llth. It's unfortunate we are the "growth industry" right nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as the terrorist threat and Homeland Security take center stage. I was also involved in supporting the Salt Lake City Olympics with an extensive weather modeling effort. This job has really been an eye-opening experience for me. I've gotten to work on several facets of the MetOc field that I never dealt with prior to being assigned to DTRA. Also, after 15 years in PacFlt, it's nice to be back in the Annapolis area, so I can see what's new at USNA.

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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 Washington, DC Over did you say over, nothing is over 'til we decide it is—the 15-year reunion is over. Oh well, mark your calendars and plan on attending die 20th in 2007! Toga! Toga! Toga!

Jodi and Tom Graves moved back to Maryland at the beginning of August after he completed his XO tour on BOONE in Florida.

Tom is now assigned to the Navy staff at the Pentagon. The Graves family lives in Chevy Chase, MD. Laura and Kent Van Hom completed quite a bit longer PCS move this past summer After making the long trip from Hawaii to Annapolis following the completion of his XO tour, Kent is the chair of professional programs at USNA. While visiting Florida during leave from his studies at the Naval War College, Jim Fisher hooked up with Jeff Shirk in Pensacola. Noting that Jeff is doing well, Jim added that Jeff owns a mortgage company and lives right on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico.

Tom Bacigalupo sent a note and picture following the annual "Batch" crab feast. As noted in the photo below, attendees including Derrick Smith, Mark Fox, Kathy Allen, Mike Mologne, and Robin (Young) Noyes. Tom added some updates, including: Bob Misch works in Northem Virginia at KPMG Consulting and Jon "JJ" Jewell was recently promoted into management with Merrill Lynch in Grand Rapids, MI. Mark and Tom work at PTC selling software, and have started working with Chris Melting, who is at Deloitte Consulting. Tom has visited with Steve Ballister, who is with the Navy's PEO-TSC office and Matt Mullins, who is in Mechanicsburg, PA. Mark stays in touch with Drew Ricciuti, who is flying charter aircraft out of Pennsylvania and maintains a residence in Key West.

Taking a break from his assignment with CCDG-8, Chris Dunphy gathered family and friends for the Cape Cod Irish Pub Road Race on 3 August. Participants included Dunph, wife Cindy, sister Katie, brother Kevin, and Jim Fisher, who brought the family to the Cape for the weekend. Chris added that he visited with Brian Hendrickson in Norfolk recentiy.

'87: Brian Hendrickson in Norfolk recently Beginning last month, Vince McBeth is spending his year as a White House Fellow serving with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Several fellow USNA Alumni are serving as political appointees in the Bush Administration's VA Department including Secretary Tony Principi '67, Deputy Secretary Leo Mackay '83, General Counsel Tim McClain '70, Under Secretary for Benefits Dan Cooper '57, and Assistant Secretary for I\ibUc and Intergovernmental Affairs Maureen Cragin '85.

Lael (House) '90 and Doug Wojcik have two boys—^Paxson, and Denham Miner, who was bom on 15 May. Doug is an assistant basketball coach with the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.

Ralph Nelson has written a personal finance novel directed at helping young enlisted members of the Navy avoid early financial problems and manage their assets. Though written as a fictional piece, the book—titled The Savvy Sailor—includes fundamental concepts presented in an easy-to-read format. Ralph's work has been lauded by representatives in both the Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, as noted in a review in Military Times.

Having completed his XO tour on CARNEY, Jim Morgan has joined several Classmates at BuPers in Millington, TN. Jim heads the SWO community management branch, which handles the surface warfare community's "hot" personnel matters. Mercedes (Liwski) and Dave Welch are in the neighborhood, as Dave serves as the PacFlt placement officer A couple of Classmates have arrived in the DC area following their respective most recent sea duty assignments. John Fuller works in N76 (surface warfare) on the OpNav Staff, serving as the policy and strategy/community issues

contact. Other Classmates on the OpNav Staff include: Bill Byrne, Art Cimiluca, Kevin Coyne, Pat Curtin, Marc Dalton, David Hughes, Ken Inglesby, Dave Kless, and Fred LaTrash.

And they said it wouldn't be done—well I'm here to tell you that one of our Classmates has set the standard, I doubt will be topped. Jodi and Dave Quint are the proud parents of offspring number seven—son James Thomas bom on 16 July. Dave claims that this is their last. James's older siblings are: Colleen, Kristin, Jonathan, Claire, Caleb, and Moriah. Wow! Scott Bowmer emailed recent news from some Classmates with whom he has been in contact: Rob Roberson is back on active duty with the Marine Corps in a new program called Marine for Life. Essentially, Rob is a transition assistance officer in Orlando, which allows him to network with many private and public sector individuals in the Orlando area. He stays in contact with Steve Ivory and notes that Kevin HoUand is a first officer for United, flying out of Miami. Graham Rogers is a manager with PWC's Financial Advisory Services in Chicago.

Marge (Trott) Binder lives in Minnesota wi± her husband Doug, their two children (Scott and Olivia), and they are expecting their third child soon. After leaving active duty in 1995, she eamed a master's degree in clinical teaching and taught for five years at the junior high level.

Dick Hoffmami is on the staff at BUD/S in Coronado, CA. Bemie Koehr recentiy eamed his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in mechanical engineering. He works for the naval architecture department of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division. He has been detailed to the Office of Naval Research to serve as the deputy ship design manager for the X-craft, or the Littoral Surface Craft-Experimental (LSC(X)).

John Titus serves as the business/financial manager for PMA-242 (HARM and Marine Aviation Munitions) with NavAir in Pax River On the next page is a photo of Stacey and Phil Corcoran with their two daughters, Delaney and Cameron, taken on the 4th of July.

While visiting the DC area from his home base in Texas, Scott McFarlane visited Bruce Shuttleworth and his wife, Divonne, and dieir twins Bowen and Reece. Bowen seemed to like die flavor of Scott's tie, or as Bmce described it as "slobber-testing" the tie. (Photo on next page.)

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going into politics), here is another picture of my lovely family.

Only one year until we get together for our 15th! —Eric

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'87: Scott and Brace with twins Off the business wire in early August—^Jim Matheson has joined the Flamenco Networks board of directors. Jim works for Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm in Boston. His primary focus is software applications and technology infrastmctures. Jim also serves as a director on the board of Yantra, and as a board observer for Affinnova, Brainshark, Blue Agava Software, and OnExchange, all Flagship portfolio companies.

A hearty and sincere thank you to Jason Hardebeck, Jim Matheson, and Ed Schofield for their time and efforts in making the 15-year reunion possible! Their help was invaluable.

Don't forget to visit our web site for continuing updates on Class and Alumni information. Stay in touch! TTFN! —TJW

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couch potatoes.

So once again, it's ereinhold@LNC.com, thanks!

This month I received no emcdls, but I did get an unexpected call from Mark Kutcher. Mark is mnning several oil lube shops "in the middle of nowhere," Ohio, as he puts it. On the side he's racing TransAms. Why did I know that "the butcher" couldn't be doing something safe?

He's kept up with Brian Hare who apparently has changed his name (back) to Brian O'Hare.

Brian is in Los Angeles, showing up in television commercials and some "B" movies. If you get this Brian, give me a call. I haven't seen him since he was in my wedding party. Mark also passed the mmor that Tim Pfeifer is flying for Delta and lives in Vero Beach, CA. Well, that's it for the month. There was no email feedback so, as I promised, and I have yet to break a promise to you (that doesn't mean I'm

Hello '89!

We only have a few updates for this month, so I'll start by sharing some admin on how to get your update into Shipmate on time, with no iterations. In general, the Class update must be submitted to Shipmate by roughly mid-month.

Updates are published two months out from the month submitted (i.e. updates submitted in October will be printed in the December Shipmate). Please try to have your update to the Class secretary by the first week of the month. If you want to include photos with your update (highly recommended!)—please ensure that your photo has a resolution of at least 300 dpi, and is formatted as either a .jpg or .tif. Importantly, there must be an '89er in each photo, and the photo has to have an accompanying caption.

As an aside. Shipmate allocates a set amount of space to each Class per month for Class updates.

Class of '89 hasn't come close to filling up our aUocated space. Let's change that! Please send me your updates at: earl.jones@alum.mit.edu.

On to our updates! Now that it's footbaU season, it's time once again to deploy the '89 blimp!

Ingar has been training hard with the blimp in the off-season, and he's been on blimp flying two-a-days since mid-July. He sends an update and a request for operating funds to keep the blimp flying.

Well, we are a few weeks into the 2002 tailgate season (oh yeah, and football season), so it's time to raise money for the blimp fund. The blimp fund currentiy stands at $179.52. With six home games (five Annapolis and one in Baltimore) and the potential of flying the blimp

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at Army, there's a total of seven games. Seven times $71.40 = $499.80. So, I'd like to raise $320 to cover the shortfall, as well as $80 for repairs (new anchor lines—hopefully that's all we need), for a total of $400. As always, with such a small amount that we are trying to raise, any contribution helps. For example, if 20 of you send $20, we're covered. Since usually a couple of Classmates give between $25-$50, contributions as small as $5 are very helpful.

Please make out your tax-deductible check to: "USNA Class of 1989" with "Blimp Fund" in the memo line.

Please send your contributions to: ATTN: USNA '89 Treasurer; Jim Clautice; 7814 Oaklawn Dr; Alexandria, VA 22306. Let's see if Paul Johnson can make it happen this year!

Regards, Ingar Grev Brian King (bdking@attbi.com or bking @mba 1998.hbs.edu) sends a quick update sharing some big news for the King clan: It has been a long time since my last communication, but I wanted to announce the birth of my daughter, Madeleine Nicole King on 12 April. She is an amazing, little sweetheart, and weighed in at 6 pounds 6 ounces. Just a quick update.. .Beth and I moved to Portsmouth, NH, in 2000 after working for Alcoa forged products in Cleveland. We really enjoy the seacoast and were keen on retuming to New England since we spent a couple years at Harvard Business School 96-98. We have been busy with a new family business and raising little "Maddy" but if you are ever in the neighborhood, please give us a call. If anyone out there knows where Classmates Paul Purdy or Matt Tysler are, please email me.

I received a great update from Wendy (MiUer) Woodward (NWWoodwards@att.net).

Wendy moved with her family from Northem Califomia to Seattie, WA, in March 2002. She quit flying the news helicopter for Sacramento's Channel 3 the year before to be a stay-at-home mom to daughter Audrey (3) and to her and husband Mike's newest addition, William (5 months). William was bom 23 Febmary 2002, a healthy 8 pounds 10 ounces.

Congratulations, Wendy! Wendy asks that if any Classmates have planted roots in the Seattle area, please let her know. If Heidi (Maley) Morrow, Beth (Wainscott) Cronk, Anthony Horton, or Cathy Donohue are reading, please drop an email.

Cathy Masar writes from the bridge of ABRAHAM LINCOLN:

I'm the training officer onboard ABRAHAM LINCOLN, it's a 1200/human resources officer billet, but I just qualified OOD (underway) in May, so I'm spending a lot of time on the bridge. Dave Milot is the METRO guy on REAGAN and came to us TAD to work on his bridge quals so it was nice to catch up with him. Mike Baratta is with HS-4 and Matt Tysler is witii VFA-115. Keep us in your prayers.

: Front row: LTJG Katie Sheldon'99, Asst. 1st LT; LT Kendra Deppe'98, reactor training div. officer; LCDR Robert Duong '92,flagaide; LT Glenn Lininger '96, OIC EOD det.; CDR Ellen Coyne '85, AIMD officer; LCDR Cathy Masar '89, training officer; LCDR Randy Peck '91, CCDG-3 asst. air ops; CAPT Doug Dupouy '74, commanding officer; RADM John Kelly '73, commander, Craiser-Destroyer Group Three; LCDR Kristen Fabry '91, Services Officer; LTJG Micah Weller '99, electrical officer; LTJG David Fry '00, asst. strike ops; LTJG Travis Mattera '00, air transfer officer; LTJG Alexi Jonopulos '00, MSI officer; LT John McKeon '93, catapult officer; back row: CDR Sam Bovington '84, air ops; LCDR Kent Peckenpaugh '84, CCDG-3 asst. air ops; LT Andrea Kuffel '98, M-1 div. officer; CAPT Kevin O'Flaherty '81, executive officer; LCDR Joe Gadwill '91, asst. navigator; CDR Tim Pence '84, intelligence officer; CAPT Mike Turner '80, reactor officer; LCDR Ross Wilhelm '84, electronic warfare officer; LCDR Jennifer Bolin '92, cryptologist; LT Joe Fratangelo '92, CCDG-3 EOD officer; LT Matt Testerman '93, FOTC officer; LCDR Marc Eckardt '92, meteorologist Cathy—Well Done on qualifying OOD! That is quite an accompUshment and you should be very proud. We are!

I'll give a quick update on myself and share news from some of the '89ers that I keep in touch with. My wife, Sharon, and daughters, Hanna and Lillian, and I live in a suburb of Boston. We've been here for about two years now. Hanna and Lillian are twins, and tumed 5 last July. Sharon is an amazing mom, and is stressing big time, as the girls start school this fall. I'm a partner and CFO at an Operations Strategy Consulting firm in Cambridge. Prior to moving back to Boston, I worked at Dell Computer Corporation. While at Dell, I had the good fortune to work with Steve Cook '89.

Steve is doing an incredible job at Dell and is mmored to be considered as the next "Dude!

You gotta Dell" guy (a mmor which I just started)! More importantly, though, Steve and Shannon celebrated the birth of their third child, Jackson, who was bom in January. Michele and Bill Becker and Tammy and Rob Lewis live in the Boston area, not too far from me. Bill is teaching high school physics in a suburb of Boston. Of the many cool things Bill is doing at school, he's the sponsor for the Robotics Club (sorry Bill—I know that's not the right name)— where he helps the students build and compete robots on a national level. Rob is a senior manager in a consulting firm, where he focuses on, among other things, post-M&A integration in the energy sector While Rob works directiy across the street from me, we never see each other (oh, the lives of consultants!). Kalli and Brian Britton are still living in Orlando, where Brian is a senior operations manager at Epcot Center Brian pulled off a Disney miracle for my girls birthday, for which Sharon and I are

etemally grateful. Jen and Kevin Voss are living in New Jersey. Kevin works for GE Power Systems, as does Dondi Edwards and Dave Cox. Mike McGettigan is also now at GE, working for corporate strategy.

Earl, Sharon, and daughters. Hanna. and Lillian Please keep the updates coming folks! Until next time...Beat Army] —Earl

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Pres: Jonathan Salkoff Corr. Sec'y: Maj Carter Honesty, USMC PSC 557 Box 3465 FPO AP 96379-3465 h: 011-81-611-746-8495; w; 011-81-611-745-4099 e: Honesty@1990.usna.com Webmaster: Ron Surfield; e; rsurfield@nettaU.net Class web site: http;//www.usna90.com Oass e-group; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USNA90 Konichiwa, '90! Greetings from hot and humid Okinawa, Japan! The good news...we Shipmate, October 2002

'90 at tx)ys weekend 2002- I to r: Jamie and Ryan Young. Fox. Mike and Patrick Bemhard. and Will and Bill Guarini

'90: Ally and Mark House, (soon-to-be) Catherine and Will Randall, Kim and John Mustin at the rehearsal dinner (Jaime, myself, and the cats) all made the big trip across the pond safely. The bad n e w s . . .1 forgot to load my digital camera software onto my laptop, which means I have no pictures to go along with my stories. So, I'm gonna hold off on a few things until next month. In the meantime, our first update came via snail-mail from BiU Guarini with a short note about " B o y s Weekend 2002" in Westem Pennsylvania. He and his son, WiU (Class of 2019), drove in from Rockville, MD, to meet up with Classmates J a m i e Young and his son, Ryan (Class of 2 0 1 6 ) , from Cleveland, OH, and M i k e B e m h a r d with his sons. Fox (Class of 2020) and Patrick (Class of 2015) from Annapolis. The boys (and the men) had a great time swimming, hiking, exploring caverns, playing in a creek, and playing tee-ball.

Thanks for the letter Bill!

The next update came from J o h n Mustin; I'm checking in with a few updates as promised a few months ago. First and foremost, Kim and I just retumed from the 15 June wedding of Will Randall in Austin, TX. We were happy to introduce Catherine, Will's bride, to a selection of the Class of '90, and to share a few laughs with some old friends during a whirlwind fourday weekend. As you can see in the attached pictures, the Class of '90 was well represented.

I guess I'll start at the top. People from London (Jim Ball), all the way to Hawaii (Mark House), and many stops in between, were present for the nuptials. Mark and Ally House are alive and well and thriving in Hawaii, where Maj House is terrorizing the Marines on the rock. Ally has taken to the culture and says tiiat she'd be happy staying there forever, and Hawaiian life hasn't disagreed with Mark too much either (as witnessed by his completing his second consecutive tour there). Everyone who knew that Mark, even while a rowdy.

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oft-restricted, "studious" Midshipman, was going to excel as a Marine Corps officer has fully validated his instincts—Mark is the ultimate Corps warrior. I'm sure his guys absolutely love working for him, and it was great to see that old Randall, House, Karl Jensen chemistry in action again (they were roommates for three years in 30th Company at USNA). Speaking of Karl Jensen, he's wrapping up a tour at NRO in Chantilly—and by the time this article hits the press, he should just about be done with his active duty service.

While his civilian employment had not been sorted out at the time of this writing, it seems that he'll be sticking with a govemment/defense affiliation of some sort. Can't let that primo clearance go to waste! Though I haven't talked to him since he left SIMPSON as CSO a few years ago, I hear through the grapevine that Joe Reason is also at NRO. NRO seems to attract the '90 talent like a light does a moth. The SEAL contingent from '90 was in Austin in full force, with appearances from active snake-eaters Ken Neiderberger, Roger Ullman, and Steve Rutherford, and former frogmen Chris Haggerty, Rob Jardeleza, and Jim Ball. Q-Ball takes the cake for the longest geographical trip coupled with the shortest chronological stay, flying from his perch at Morgan Stanley's London office artive in Austin on Friday aftemoon. He then tumed around shortly after the wedding reception to start his odyssey and the return flight back to London. With the way the markets have been lately, it's no wonder Jim had to get back! He hasn't changed a bit since his Midshipman days—or since we did Youngster Craise togetiier on VINCENNES ( C G - 4 9 ) back in the summer of '87. I had such a great time on that cmise that not only did I go SWO, but I service selected VINCENNES. Jim's experience was somewhat different—I think he uttered the words "Give me anything but SWO" while we

were still on the cruise, and decided to give BUD/S a try! Hags is in training to become a river pilot on the Delaware River, serving the Eastem seaboard from Philadelphia to the mouth of the Chesapeake. Given that he leamed how to navigate under the water while in SDVs as a DIVO, I'm sure he'll breeze through his apprenticeship with the River Captains. All of the active SWOs in the Class keep your eyes open when you welcome your pilot aboard—Chris realizes that he can pilot everything from CGs, DDGs, SSNs, and CVs without having to get the sheriffs badge himself and just may be taking you and your billion dollar warships into port! Roger Ullman, Steve, and Kenny are still active, and though their stories are great, none of them are fit for printing. You know the old line, "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you..." Rest assured that the teams are in good shape as long as tiiose three are providing oversight to the nation's special forces. Steve was cutting quite a mg with his daughter, Asia, at the reception and had all the ladies commenting about how cute his children were (oh yes, and of course how cute he was...). I was fortunate to steal a littie time from Lynne Smith— another Austin resident—while I was in the area, but couldn't make it work with James Carroll unfortunately. Both James and Lynne are working at Dell in the area. James, by the way, was hardly mobile since Caroline was 8.5 months pregnant with twins. He was smart enough to realize that coming out with the boys while she kept the home fires buming was not pmdent. We'll look forward to an update from him when the kids are bom. I don't want to steal Will's thunder—perhaps he'll submit some photos from an actual photographer with a write up. These are purely the work of Kim and me and I realize now that I've not done justice to Rob and Q-Ball with the photos— sorry guys. In other news, I just got the word that Jim Delaney's wife just had their third— and between school at WTiarton and the growing brood, he's sacrificing a little sleep to make ends meet these days. As usual, his notes are upbeat and positive—seems he hasn't changed much either Marc Scheipe is now settled in Greensboro, NC, and has just started his gig with Bank of America there. Give him a couple of years and he'll be ranning the place. Okay, for those of you who don't know, Kim and I are in Boston, where Navy is taking on Boston College on 19 October this season. I'm getting a large bunch of tickets. On the outside chance that someone reads this after the tickets are purchased—but can still come up to the game, please track me down. You can always reach me at (jbmustin@yahoo.com) and we'd love to see you if you're in the area. Cheers!

Chris Haggerty, Ken Niederberger, Roger Ullman, Will Randall, John Mustin, Kari Jensen, and Steve Rutherford following the rehearsal dinner

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Chris Haggerty, Ken Niederberger, and Roger Ullman at the post-wedding party

Mark House, and Kim and John Mustin

I'm still working with McKinsey. I apologize to those who've written in and found my prior email account deactivated. Current address should now be shown at the top of this column.

For the time being, got a short note from Rich Brophy, our fearless Class president and father extraordinaire. Rich's wife, Kara, recently gave birth to Claire, their fifth child (four giris and one boy). Claire was bom on 26 August, while Rich kept abreast of the c-section delivery and recovery by telephone and email from the ship.

Congratulations, Rich and Kara!

I have a full update from Rob Gaucher, which I'm not going to be able to fit into this column (due to already missing the deadline!)— will include next month. Also received a note from John McVay, who's recentiy joined The North Highland Company, a reputable management and technology consulting group in the Atianta area. Congrats, John! Finally, I received a note from Todd Sears, who is working with Siebel on the San Francisco peninsula, and was recently married to Laura on 8 June. Todd and Laura recentiy bought a home, and have both triumphantiy survived some downsizing at Siebel.

All the best to both of you!

Send mail! Regards —JD

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Catherine and Will cutting the rug—the first dance for Mr and Mrs. Randall Thanks for the note, John. Will, the Class looks forward to some wedding pics and an update from you and Catherine. That goes for the rest of the snake-eaters, too! How about an update? Well, that does it for this month. I am hoping that I will have my household goods (i.e.my computer) and be mnning normally by November's due date. If not...I'U improvise.

Also, I am going to be ditching AOL soon. It's a waste of money over here in Okinawa. Please make a note and update your address books. I can now (always) be reached at; Honesty @ 1990.usna.com. Semper Fi! —Carter

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Pres: LT Matt Amy, USN VP/Treas: LT Matt Amold, USN Treas; LT Efren Mojica, USN Sec'y; LT Jim Mills, USN Corr. Sec'y: Capt Shogo Cottrell, USMCR 4166 San Ysidro Way, Rockledge, FL 32955 h; 321-636-2649; e: shipmate@usna93.com Hello—once again I hope that this finds you well. First of all, congratulations to everyone out there who was selected for 0-4. I understand that the results from the Marine Corps and Navy boards are out, so good on you! I don't know about the other services and those of us who had an inter-service transfer So, if you are one of those and were selected, please share the good news with the rest of us.

Our only contribution is from Doug Self this month. Luckily, he's got a pretty long submission. Without any further delay on my part, here's Doug: Once I completed my tour onboard ALABAMA and my five years were up, I left the Navy to pursue an M.B.A. at the University of Texas. My wife, Shelley, and I spent several years in Austin, TX, going to school and working at Dell after graduation. In April '01, I accepted a job with Health Management Associates as the assistant administrator of a

hospital in Sebring, FL. Since I left active duty, I have been an active drilling Reservist in a couple of different Reserve units. I have been maintaining a website for our company that contains contact information as well as pictures for our Company, check it out: www.theselfs.com. If anyone else in our Company would like to submit information or pictures, you can reach me at doug.self@bus .utexas.edu or 863-382-1762. Shimon Mor went through and put a bunch of his old school pictures up on the Intemet: http://home.attbi .com/~shimonphotos/.

Here is my update for as many of the folks in our Company that I know. First Dave Ashby lives in Northem, VA, working for Lockheed witii Jerry Bryl. Dave went back to school and eamed a masters in systems engineering. He is curtendy attending an executive M.B.A. course at Georgetown. Dave is engaged to be married to one of our Classmates, Missy Gerace, during September of this year up in Annapolis.

Aaron Benway graduated from Harvard with an M.B.A. He currentiy works ABS Ventures, a venture capital shop that focuses on the telco/optical networking space.

Heather Davies went to work for Bradley Morris in the Austin area after she left active duty. After a period of time with them, she decided to accept a job working as a volunteer coordinator at her church in Austin.

Larry Denton is working for Alcatel and lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He claims that he works on engineering projects (hard to believe)! He even told me that he thought that he had proved that Ohms Law wasn't correct on one of his projects! Come on. Large.

Ibrhan Hidalgo left active duty after his five years were up. He spent a brief time out of the Navy pursing some interest, including a singing career He decided that he missed the Navy and has gone back to SWO Department Head School. By now, he should be back out on another ship.

Out of all the submariners in our Company Caleb Kerr is the only hard core one left.

Caleb is carrying on the torch for all of us. He spent his JO tour on RHODE ISLAND. After his shore tour and Department Head school, he headed back out to sea. He is curtently stationed in Pearl Harbor as the navigator on a fast boat.

Scott Ledig lives up in Jacksonville, FL, as an engineering duty officer Rob Metz lives in the Washington, DC area, working for Star Capital, which I think is a private equity firm.

Shimon Mor is about to leave active duty. He lives up in Whidbey Island, WA, as an NFO with his wife, Denise (Chatfield). She left the Navy a couple of years ago. Shimon teUs me that once he leaves the Navy, he is going to continue living as a hermit in the woods up there in Washington state. Shimon put together some of his pictures from the Academy and put them on his web site. They are hilarious, check tiiem out: http://home.attbi.com/~shimonphotos/ Fred Piquette lives in the DC area and works in vice for the DC police department.

Jody Triche lives with his wife, Natalie, near San Diego, CA. He works as a financial planner witii First Command (used to be USPA & IRA).

After her tour at Whidbey Island was done, Megan Tiittle left the Navy to pursue graduate school. She claims she got a good education even though she received it at Texas A&M. Hopefully the Aggies didn't cortupt her too much. She graduated with a master's in ocean engineering (or its equivalent, I don't exactly Shipmate, October 2002

remember). She is now martied with one child and lives in Tennessee.

Doug, thanks for the update and welcome to Florida! That's it for this month. Please, please, please keep those updates coming. I take them by email, snail mail (addresses at the top of this article), and even pigeon courier —Shogo

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Pres; IstLt Scott K. Hombuckle, USMC PSC 556, Box 506, FPO AP 96386-0506 h: 011-826-11-737-0083 e; horabuckle@hotmail.com "Vice Pres/Treas: Kirk Clermont PO Box 5459, Saint Marys. GA 31558 h; 912-510-8537; e; Clennont@eagnet.com Sec'y: Chris Williams 1050 USS Georgia Avenue, Kings Bay, GA 31547 h: 912-673-2739; e; csglt@subasekb.navy.mil Corr. Sec'y; Jim Keck U.S. Naval Hospital Guam, Primary Care Dept.

34 Turner Rd, Asan, GU 96910 h; 671-477-5115; e; jkeck@usna94.com HeUo, "94! Let me first start off by apologizing for the short column last month. A typhoon swept over our tiny little island, knocking out power and water for weeks. Slowly but surely, we climbed back into the 21st century, and I was able to get back onUne in time (barely) to get out a more meaningftil update on Class happenings. So, without further delay (and before the next storm hits...), let's get on with the show...

Candi Cunningham (cbc_usna94@hotmail.com) wrote on 15 June with the foUowing message: As my first entry into Shipmate, I hope it finds everyone healthy and happy. As you read this, I wiU be moving out West from Raleigh, NC. to Seattle, WA. In a recent visit, I was able to see Sarah (Loverich) Dimstan and Dennis Duckworth. Sarah and Aoein are doing well; he's finishing his first year M.B.A. at UW and Sarah's getting her master's of education at UW, and will eventually be teaching middleschool science. Dennis is doing great as well— he's just started working for Home Depot in their Store Leadership Program. He will be working with another Classmate, Darrell Gobble. As for myself, I am going back to school to pursue an RN degree. I am excited to hear that I have a few more Classmates out here, including Becky (Ingraham) Hasse, Sean Kranick, and Alex and Melissa Pease.

Twenty-first Company—I would love to hear from you all. Please write to me. I understand that congratulations are in order for Sean and Jen Fahey and their new addition! That's all for now—take care and keep smiling.

Good to hear from you, Candi. Write again soon.

Next up with a lengthy message is from Albert Angel (betomex94@cs.com), written on 17 June: I've been meaning to write for quite some time but finally decided to sit down and catch everyone up with the latest and greatest. I have been stationed at U.S. Southem Command in Miami, FL, for the past two years. This has been my first assignment as an Intel officer since I lateral transferred from the SWO community in 1999. I've enjoyed living in South Florida and have had the pleasure of traveling frequently throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean. About the same Shipmate, October 2002

time I was getting ready to come to Miami, I was reacquainted with a childhood friend while vacationing in Southern California. To make a long story short, Larisa and I were married a few montiis ago (13 April 2002) in her hometown. A few Academy brethren found time away from cun'ent duties to head down to the small town of Tehuixtia, Mexico, (approx. 130 miles SE from Mexico City). Jonathan Forsberg '97 has finished up medical school and is eagerly anticipating, along with his wife.

Dawn, the airival of their first child. Fr Gribble '75 is teaching again at Stonehill College in Massachusetts and it was great for him to be able to take time away from the busy school year to officiate over the wedding nuptuals. (Fr Gribble was my CCD teacher when I was in fifth grade and was the main reason I wanted to enter the Naval Academy). T\irhan Hidalgo '93 sang songs off his debut CD during tiie rehearsal dinner and also sang with the mariachi during the wedding mass. Eddy Ha (Companymate and sponsor brother) flew in hours before the wedding and left shortly after to retum to the rigors of Test Pilot School. Erik Smith (another Companymate and sponsor brother) is out of the Navy and is finishing his masters program at MIT (expected nothing less from the guy who graduated number one in our Class, but it's amazing that he's simultaneously completing his electrical engineering and M.B.A. degree). That's about all for now. I will be in Miami until about spring 2003. If anyone is ever in South Florida feel fiee to stop by—mi casa es m casa. 305-438-0820.

Congratulations, Albert, to you and your new bride!

Josh Dittmar is otu" final contributor of the month, with this virgin submission made on 30 July: Good Morning '94! Reach toward the Sevem! Walk on the outside of your feet!

Follow the red Corvette! Yes, like many of you I have procrastinated sending anything to Shipmate for over eight years. I won't give you my life story, but I will try and fill you in on where I am and where I have been. I guess I will have to start at the beginning. I left three months early for flight school after a very relaxing P-100 sailing experience, with Barry Bassel and Todd Owens. (Best job in the Navy.) Typical NFO pipeline down P-cola way, roomed with Nick Sherrod for a while, where are you Nicko? T.J. Staffieri, Steve Dazkowski, Mike Hearther, and Mario Correa, among others at VT-10 with me.

I married Christa Thomas in May of '95 (her father—Clay Thomas '68 and my father— Charles Dittmar '68 were Classmates). Then selected P-3's and spent a beautiful six months in San Antonio. Jeff Hockett, Chris Moorhead, and Rod Messick among the grads in my Class who enjoyed the box lunch eating, bus riding, scarves off at base ops, volleyball by two o'clock. Air Farce flight training. Then to Jax, for the P-3 FRS and the birth of my first son, Connor Got to play some good hoops with Buster Swanton in Jax, who I think is in San Anton now? Where are you Buster? Spent four years in Bmnswick, ME, with VP-10, where my wife and I got to be best of friends with Nikki and Harry Fulton. We also got to see Stacey and Trent Gooding while he was in Boston at MIT. Added to the Dittmar tribe in '97 and '99 and had one boy, Micah, and one girl, Sophia.

Now I am in London at CinCUSNavEur, where I have had the pleasure of working with several '94 grads, Mikie Sherrill, Jimmy

Screen, Mark Spencer, and Matt O'Brien. I also ran into Phil Windust here in London and I still have your book. Had the privilege of showing Randy Stoker sunny London just last week—thanks for bringing the sun Randy. We are headed for Norfolk in December and I report to TRUMAN as shooter in March '03.

Dittmar kid number four will come in January.

If you are in Norfolk, or Virginia Beach, look us up. Where in the worid is In Ho Ha '94?

Thanks for the great update. Josh. Now where are the pics of numbers one thru four?

News in Brief Rob Koh just completed his M.B.A. at Duke and will start working at IBM in White Plains, NY, this summer He will likely reside in Stamford, CT. Melanie and BiU Mann wish to announce the birth of their first child, Jonathan Thomas Mann was bom on 8 June 2002 in Atianta, GA. He tipped the scales at 6 pounds 9 ounces. BiU is a flight surgeon at NAS Atianta Branch Medical Clinic.

That's all for this month. We're starting to do some preliminary planning for the ten-year reunion. If you want to be a part of the project, please give me a call or send me an email. Check the web site for more info. Oh, and just as a reminder...all proceeds from the web site gift shop go to supporting our reunion. With the holiday season approaching, this is the best time to load up on '94 memorabilia.

Take and God bless '94. C'ya— Jim

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Pres: John Fleet e: class.president@1995.usna.com Sec'y; LT Don Jamiola, USN Patt-on 26 Unit 60170, FPO AE 09501-5915 DSN 314 624 2457; e: djamiola@hotmail.com Class web site: www.usna95.com Well, got some good letters this time. Long ones at that. After the letters, read on for some more information regarding digital picture specs you guys want to send. Hope everyone is doing well; the cooler months are either here or approaching, so it should give everyone a break.

Well, here we go with one from Jeremy Hill (hill95@aol.com): Hope all is well with you and the rest of our shipmates. I am curtently in my second department head tour as the executive officer on board CORMORANT (MHC-57) in Ingleside, TX. LDCR Glenn Allen '89 is the commanding officer I am martied to the former Cynthia Porter and am the proud father of a four-month baby girl, Skyler Faith. I have received some good news from the last AlNav, which had my name on it for the lieutenant commander selections. I won't advance until next September but it certainly is nice to see my name on the Ust. I have tried to keep in touch with a few of our Classmates and had some limited success.

Corey T\irner and his wife Susan are with MCCAMPBELL, John Tbily and his wife, Julie, are with PITTSBURGH, Chris Slattery was selected for cryptology. Rose Becsey, Mike and Heather Szilard are all out in the civilian world, last I heard. I haven't had much chance to keep with up with too many others but if anyone wishes to write they can reach me at my email address above.

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Jeremy and Cynthia with their daughter. Skylar Faith Here is a request from '95 Classmate WiU Wright; Dear Alumni of the United States Naval Academy and friends of Brody Prieto '94.

Your help is urgently needed to assist us in raising funds for Brody "Taco" Prieto. He has recently been diagnosed with Lou Gherig's disease (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis), a serious neurological disease and is currently undergoing medical treatments to slow the progression of the illness. Many of those treatments are considered experimental and not covered by medical insurance. A fund has been started at NFCU. to raise money to help cover Brody's mounting medical expenses. You can send donations to; The Brody "Taco" Prieto Fund Account number 2649637002: Navy Federal Credit Union Member Service Center Building 200, Damneck Virginia Beach, Virginia 23461. Again, we really appreciate your assistance in getting out the message!

Sincerely. Will D. Wright and Joy Bloom Wright '93 Here is the long one I promised from a trio of '95ers: Andre Coleman, Brian Schultz, and Cesar Rios: Long time reader, first time writer This comes in from the Tip of the Spear; we have been talking about doing this for months but the op tempo of Enduring Freedom has just now afforded us the opportunity to gather our thoughts and put them into print. This letter is a combined effort coming from myself, Andre Coleman the Fifth Fleet Seabee Ops Officer, Brian Schultz the NSA Personnel Support Officer, and Cesar Rios the Mayor of Bahrain (Cesar is now on his third tour in Bahrain.)

Though we have all served on this little island together for the past year our jobs have brought about very different experiences.

I left DC a year ago to take over as the Seabee ops officer, for Fifth Fleet. After completing grad school at the University of Maryland the Navy decided it was time for me to get back to work, little did I know they wanted me to do so full-time; so last August I said to myself "Self, why not go to Bahrain, you get Hazardous Fire Pay. COLA, and you don't pay taxes," who would have guessed the people were going to start shooting. Operations and exercises have given me the opportunity to ttavel to over a dozen countries in the AOR, in the states TAD means boondoggle and partying, but in the Middle East the women are covered from head to toe and alcohol is illegal in many countries, sotiieonly goodtilingis meeting up witii old Classmates. My year of banishment to the outer realm is up; soon I will be heading 136

'95: Dan and Bev Jurta wedding back to DC, preparing for another season of Navy football (tailgaters), I leave behind a JOPA stronger than the one I found. If your ttavels bring you by way of DC be sure to look me up. Andre Coleman Ironically, I left the active duty Navy in July of 2000 to settie down and have a family in Tampa, FL, with my wife. Michelle. Joining the NavCent Reserve detachment at MacDill seemed like a great idea, two weeks a year in Bahrain tax-free. However, we all know that the events of September llth changed all of our best-laid plans. I ended up in Bahrain on 16 September, and was recalled for one year to work in the personnel support office. Let me assure all of the Suppos out there that disbursing is still a very thankless job, but I have been trying to make the best of it, and having so many close friends and Classmates in Bahrain has been the only thing that has made it bearable. That and my 25 credits at the package store. However. I am looking forward to giving all of this up in October and retuming to Tampa to be with my wife and new son, Trevor, bom 26 October 2001. I hope this finds everyone happy and healthy, and if the war brings you to Tampa, please look us up. Brian Schultz Homesteading in Bahrain has been fun.

Having gone from the NavCent staff to XO of Naval Security Group Activity Bahrain and back to NavCent again has given me ample opportunity to see Classmates come and go. having a good time along the way. Flying long hours over Afghanistan and otiier pearls in the CentCom AOR were truly grading, but nothing compared to the long nights conducting "regional engagement." hitting rock bottom among other places, up until the morning prayer call, with several of the notable quotables below...who I'd like to thank for making "War" an interesting and challenging experience.

Stop by if you end up in Bahrain. Best Wishes, Cesar Rios.

The great thing about war is, you get to see people you have not seen in a long time. The following Classmates made appearances in Bahrain during the past year: Studt, Krall, Sheedy, Dombrowski, Sena, Christopher, Epaloose, Montange, Cisneros, Choi, Brosnan, Fitting, Wright, Roth, Rhodes, Dougherty, Dickinson, Bedner and Towle. I'm sure others made it this

way, but there are only three of us in the welcoming committee, and we can't see everyone.

Andre, Brian, and Cesar.

OK, keep 'em coming. Great job by the "welcoming committee" in Bahrain. Anyone else out there serving as official 1995 "welcomers?"

Make a great article...Until later.

FoUowing are some specs that your digital photos need to have in order to be useful. And remember for a column picture, at least one grad has to be in it. Digital photographs are comprised of pixels lined up next to each other to create a picture. Pixels and DPI-what does this mean? A digital camera will have pixel dimensions that define the resolution. This is expressed as the number of pixels horizontally and vertically (e.g. 2,000 X 3,000). Print media works in dpi, or dots per inch, so here is how we translate dpi into pixel dimensions. Calculate the dpi of your image by dividing the pixel dimensions by the size in inches. pixels/inches=dpi e.g. Take a 3" x 5" picture with pixel dimensions of 900 X 1500. Your dpi is 300. 900/3=300.

This means that you cannot simply change die dpi in your photo manipulation program, Uke PhotoShop, to 300 dpi while ignoring the pixel dimensions. If you change just the dpi, and don't calculate the pixel resolution remains, the same proportion and your photo will look smudgy and blurry, not crisp and clear.

If your digital camera is set at 72 dpi, change your pixel resolution to a setting that, once the photo's dimensions are reduced, the dpi will equal 300 dpi. Some cameras have "fine" or "super fine" settings. These settings may have 72 dpi, but the pixel dimensions are very large, creating a 300-dpi image once scaled down. e.g. an image 12 inches x 20 inches at 72 dpi has a pixel resolution of 864 pixels x 1440 pixels. For Siiipmate to use the image (300 dpi), it would be reduced to 2.88 inches by 4.8 inches, which is a good size for a 1-column photo.

864/300=2.88; 1440/300=4.8 When in doubt, check your camera manual or the manufacturer's web site.

Shipmate, October 2002

From your President Hello evei^one. I have some happy news, some serious news, and some business news for you this month.

Hearty congratulations to our beloved Webmaster Steve Shedd, on the birth of Charies Stephen Shedd. He was bom 19 August in Monterey and weighed-in at a whopping 10 pounds 1 ounce! Steve reports that Charlie and mother Lauren are doing very well.

By the time this column reaches you, you may afready have heard about the recent medical travails of one of our favorite and most supportive Alums, Col John W. Ripley '62, USMC (Ret.), who underwent two liver transplants in Washington and is now recovering at Walter Reed AMC. The extraordinary and moving story of how the second transplant occurred is detailed in a 16 August article in the Baltimore Sun. You can access the text at usna.com's "In the News" archive for 19 August, or contact me if that link fails and you would like to read the article. You wiU recall he was guest of honor at both our May '94 Mess Night and our Fifth Reunion. He has also been extremely supportive of our Class on an individual and overall basis. Our prayerful support accompanies him and the Ripley family on his road to total recovery.

Finally, a couple business points that need your attention; 1. If you are going to be attending Class tailgaters on any of the following dates: 12 October/Rice; 9 November/Notre Dame (Baltimore); 16 November/Uconn; 7 December/Army (Meadowlands); please send a message noting the game(s) and the probable number in your party to: usna95tailgater @hotmail.com. This information will be helpful for planning purposes for our Classmates volunteering thefr time to host this season's tailgaters (Grayson Morgan, Katie Dooley, and Debbie Roberge—our thanks go to them for their generosity). 2. Please check the Class site (usna95.com) for more timely updates on tailgaters than this column allows. Also, again, we urge stragglers to get registered at the Class site and to update contact information at the Alumni Association site (usna.com). That action is essential for Qassmates to be informed and involved.

Smooth sailing and Godspeed—John

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I will part with the words of Charles Sumner "The greatness of nations is in tiiose qualities which constittite the greattiess of the individual."

Until next montii—Tonya

Jartod and Joe Family Practice Intemship in June 2001, and then he worked for five months as a staff physician at the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center at NAS Pensacola. Following that, Chris went through his flight surgeon training, which he completed on 14 June 2002. He is now a flight surgeon for VP-30 at NAS Jacksonville, Florida. VP-30 is a P-3 RAG and is the largest squadron in the Navy, so he stays quite busy keeping over 1,500 squadron mates healthy and off the ground. His home life is even busier as he and his wife, Paula, are now the proud parents of their first child. His name is Navy Anthony Alfonzo, and he was bom on 14 May 2002.

Considering Chris still owes the Navy over 14 years of service, "Navy" seemed like a good name! (They are just hoping he doesn't end up going to West Point.

The Alfonso family Joel Metzger, fellow USNA '96 and U.S.U.H.S. medical school Classmate, is also stationed at NAS Jacksonville with Chris. He is the flight surgeon for VP-16, and has recenfly deployed to Sigonella for a six-month tour.

Chris' email is above in case any Classmates would like to contact him. Thanks for the great news, doctor and dad of the only '96 offspring to name his child after the Navy! Our best to all of you!

Looking forward to all of your notes and letters...standing by the mailbox...losing sleep at night...

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Pres: Capt Tom Wagner, USMC h: 703-784-2036; e; towags@hotmail.com Sec'y: LT Mike McGreevy, USN 1869 Somersby Lane, Virginia Beach, VA 23456 h: 757-430-7815; c: 757-270-4654 e: groovel997@hotmail.com Fellas, first I must ask Kevin GaUoway or Lysa Stewart to resend me the text document you submitted from the summer of '01 with news from BOXER A R G . Your pictures were submitted and printed but I was unable to recover the text document. Please get in touch with me, preferably by phone, and I'll make right this long overdue wrong of mine.

Glenn Truitt wrote to tell a tale of King's Bay, GA. Glenn was on TENNESSEE (SSBN-734) (Blue) homeported out of NSB Kings Bay. However, due to the small size of Kings Bay and its uncanny resemblance to an extended Jerry Springer episode, Glenn was living in Jacksonville and making the hour commute every day. The only other Classmate on TENNESSEE was Chris Polk, who is back in Annapolis for a leadership master's and a stint as a company officer. As for Glenn, he's been a civilian since May and just started studying at Stanford Law School. There are already two Academy grads at SLS, and a couple of West Pointers, too; so Glenn says we'll be well represented. Around Jax and King's Bay he's mn into a few of the aviators down at Bailey's Powerhouse Gym, including John Kiefaber, and Brannon Bickel, and he saw a lot of '98 and younger Class folk at the beach bars. Glenn was a part time DJ for about two years, sometimes at clubs, but usually for private parties, and did his share of Navy wedding receptions. If anyone is ever in the Bay area, Glenn invites you to look him up at school and he wishes everyone the best.

Ian Hawley wrote from Jacksonville, FL, where he now flies with VP-16. WhUe he was in VP-30 in Texas, Ian and his wife had a new addition to their family, daughter Kylie Jean Hawley, bom on 11 December 2001 joining her big brother Sean who is now almost 4. The

Pres: LT Bart PhiUips, 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 1928 Lyndale Ln., BiUings, MT 59102 h; 406-656-4795; e: tyler_tonya080799@msn.com Greetings, '96! A few notes have managed to make it our way for this month! Phyl and Joe Schroeder '45 were kind enough to share some recent photos taken with Jarrod Marsh at the Schroeder's new home in Laguna, CA. Thanks to the Schroeders for taking the time to send in the photos. Hope to hear what good ol' Jarrod is up to these days!

Chris "Bad Hair" Alfonso (caamdusn @ wmconnect.com) updates us since we last heard from him five years ago. He finished his Shipmate, October 2002

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delivering doctor was Jeb Kucik, another '97 grad. The other grads from Corpus Christi have spread out to their new squadrons as well. Keith PoweU and his family are now in Bmnswick, ME, with VP-26. Holly and Eric Roe are in Hawaii after globetrotting a littie. Eric is with VP-47. James Norris '96, and his family are in Norfolk as James just retumed from deployment on board the TR, getting his disassociated tour out of the way early. Sheila and Shannon Clark are with Ian in Jax at VP-16. Other '97 grads at VP-16 include Steve Bird, Eric Hanks, Scott Zimmerman, and Tasha Lacy. Next door at VP-5 Ian has mn into Herb Lacy and Jason Gmeiner, fresh off deployment to Sigonella.

Dave Beebe wrote me from the civilian world (not exactly sure where). Dave finished his service with the Marine Corps in March, after which he started a job with Astrazeneca, as a pharmaceutical sales rep. More on Dave when I hear from him soon.

Pat Perdue (patrickfperdue@yahoo.com) is setting up an Army-Navy Tailgater in New York City this December. If you're interested, contact him at his email address so he can get a headcount and tell you the details.

Aaron SheUey moved around San Diego. His new numbers are 619-282-1286 and 858-735-2046.

Paul Felini wrote from the Arabian Sea where he celebrated St. Patrick's Day several months back. He was deployed there onboard JOHN F. KENNEDY as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Paul got his share of flights over Afghanistan before retuming from deployment in August. Paul and his wife, Heidi, live in their new home in Vfrginia Beach, not too far from Paul's sister and brother-in-law, Toni and Dave Snyder '94. Dave is also a pilot based out of Oceana with Paul. Paul says he and Heidi have had tremendous support during deployment from his squadron's wives club, as well as Toni and Dave, who have a daughter Kylie and are expecting their second child right about now.

Paul says Heidi got a visit from fellow Tenth Companymate Jaime Murphy last summer while Jaime was in the beach area for a week or two of supply training. When last I heard from him, Jaime was still a supply officer for a U.S. Navy contingent stationed at an RAF base in Comwall, England. My wife and I visited him there last fall and its beautiful there.

I shared a beer with Steve Salata and Sam Lanasa at the Duck Inn in Virginia Beach back in early August. Steve works a force protection job at Littie Creek, and Sam teaches at the Marine Corps Reconnaissance School at nearby Fort Story.

Chance Mims wrote from San Diego where he's living with his wife and dog. Chance wiU be getting out of the Navy around the New Year. He says shore duty gives him a lot more time to enjoy San Diego's surf.

Tom Wagner got married recentiy to his roommate-tumed-wife in San Diego. Congratulations, Tom. John Bruzza will be getting married next month to Ms. Debbie Lord, whom John met at Halloween in 2000 in Chariotte. John and Debbie live outside Chicago where John scammed a job running USMC Engineer Reservists.

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'97: Scott Voglesonger's wedding in Oriando; I to r: Sam Wartell, Scott Zimmerman, Scott Voglesonger, Greg Smith, Brian Guerrieri, Patrick Perdue, Mike Anzalotti, and Kevin Brink JiU (Dintaman) Robinson, just in case you didn't get my email, Joe Buzkowski's email address is joebuczkowski@hotmail.

That's it for now. I'm sure there's a ton of reunion pictures floating around now, so please send me one or two, with some news and I'll work 'em in over the next few months. From January-April, I'll have someone else handling the column while I'm away from the net. More to follow on that next month. Take care and stay in touch. —Groove

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Pres: David Forman h: 843-763-6458; e: DSForman@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 Happy HaUoween great '98! The seasons are just blowing by, but it sure doesn't feel like it out here in Hawaii. We just make ourselves beUeve that it really is October. Hopefully everyone is weU, and I'll move right in to the letters for this mondi.

David Coe was recentiy married to the former Beth Ruschmeier and sent in a great photo. Here is his letter: The summer back here in Hampton Roads has been great. We welcomed home Scott Walgren and Brian Love about a week after the wedding. Scott was deployed with a det from HC-6 on BATAAN and Brian was with WHIDBEY ISLAND. We are now anxiously await-

ing the retum of Brian Summers who is flying F/A-lSs off KENNEDY. I am approaching crunch time for my PNEO exam and then back to the Jacksonville for another ten months.

Congratulations to James Jones who just passed his exam last week. If you hadn't heard—Dale Matheny's exam went well, too.

Congratulations to you, David, on the wedding and best of luck on your PNEO exam (which you'll most likely know the results of by the time you read this.)

And that's all the news I have for you this month '98. I know our web site is not as up to date as CNN, but check back from time to time to find out about our five-year reunion, which is just around the bend. Plan on Labor Day weekend. My intent is to have it on that three-day weekend so more people will be able to attend.

Catch you next month. Fair winds—DSF.

Front row. I to r: Jessica Harper, Annie Ruschmeier, Rick Coe '95, David Coe, Beth Ruschmeier, Claire Ruschmeier, Rebecca Ruschmeier; swordbearers, 1 to r: John Mentzer, Scott Grossman. Paul Lang, USCGA '99, Matt Janczak '00, Tim Limbert, Chris Handwerk '96, Henry Kayser, Brendan Mahon, Lenny Talbot, UND '97, Tim Joyce, UND '99. and Dale Matheny; Beth is the daughter of Steve Ruschmeier '72) and CAPT Elizabeth Ruschmeier (Ret.); also in attendance at the wedding were Steve Minihane, Cory Durant '99, and Chris Lepore '01

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Pres; Buster O'Brien e: obriencj@29palms.usmc.mil Vice Pres: Ben Adeyemi e: nigeriansteele@hotmail.com Treas: Jason MendenhaU Sec'y; Minh-tu Nguyen 6716 Stonecutter Drive, Burke, VA 22015 h: 703-644-7924; e: minhm99@yahoo.com

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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 To all that shall see this present greeting. The summer is done. I don't know where it went either. We have a couple of interesting check-ins this month. Olivi and Heist have written again and I don't know if I believe a word of what diey have written, but is a good read regardless.

Steve Solon writes: Shipmates, this is my first time writing in, but I have a Shipmate sighting that might beat Brian Wilson a few issues back. I'll take a minute though and let everyone know what I've been up to. After an unsuccessful stint at Nuke School, I re-designated to cryptology. I Shipmate. October 2002

did manage to go to the last day at Nuke School (I don't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing) and pass the comp exam, but I was shy the points needed to move on, no big loss tiiough. I went to crypie school at Corty Station, Pensacola, right up the street from flight school. I ran into many shipmates, and owe a shout out to Justin Canfield and James Reeve for giving me a place to hang out during my four months in Florida. I am now at the NSA in scenic Maryland (join the Navy, see Maryland). I get to do some pretty cool hushhush stuff Unfortunately, there are not too many '00s here, but there are a few of us, myself Stuart Gott, Mike Herlands, Terry Macgregor (formerly Dickman), and Gino Olivi. Things are so good, I am even giving thought to staying in past 2005 (which for anyone who knew me. knows is amazing). I've even got a little woman I hope to marry in the near future. But enough about me, I was at the Ft. Meade commissary the other day, when I ran into Luther Jones, former Coastie candidate (and fellow Baltimore native). First Company, 1st Platoon at NAPS. Luther is about 100 pounds thicker, and now enlisted in the Coast Guard (he had an unsuccessful stint at the Coast Guard Academy). We reminisced forever about what the old platoon was up to, and how everyone did. Despite everything, he seems to be doing well. He specifically asked how his old roommate Chuck Coursey had fared (ah. the battles the two of them used to have). One last quick note for former 8-Ballers.

Matt Chesnik managed to graduate, as a member of the Class of 2000. He is in San Diego on MCCLUSKEY (he even got his SWO pin). He is engaged (to my girlfriend's roommate), and loves SWO life so much that he is putting in his package for a lateral transfer to Crypie. With as lazy as he is, Ifiguredif I didn't teU everyone, or I'd forever be plagued with "So whatever happened to Chesiuk?" questions whenever I ran into somebody. I guess that's it.

If anyone ever finds themselves in the Baltimore/Annapolis area look me up (my contact stuff is up to date on the web). Later On. Heist and Olivi submit the following (I have no idea what this "Steel" nonsense is about, if you know, write usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the management): It's been awhile since we last wrote and told everyone how everything is. So after meeting with our buddy "Steel" we decided to give the news...Gary "Gino" Olivi, got married on 28 March and will be having the formal wedding on 10 August. The job here at Fort Meade is going great. I picked up two NAMs this past year but who hasn't? A lot of Cleissmates have been stopping by when they need some R&R. Anthony James stopped up before he left for six month deployment where he is curtently in the Med. He is doing great. The skipper of his ship promoted him early, so yes, you are junior to him now by two months. Adam "Rosey" Rosensweet just got engaged and is flying high down in Mississippi. He should be getting Winged any day now. He is coming to the wedding 10 August and plans to let our old friend Steel show him tiie patii of enrichment again.

Kurt "Katman" Muhler is doing well on Seal Team 3. Although, do not try to get in contact with him because he never pays his phone bill. He'll tell you to call a certain number and its disconnected. He has been having an identity complex where he thinks he is Dick Marcinko. Overall, he is happily married now to his wife, whom he met over the Intemet.

They are expecting a baby giri in three months.

Congrats. Rob Lang got engaged at his Shipmate, October 2002

Winging ceremony and mmor has it he is not wearing the pants in his relationship. Scott Meyers and Rachel are doing well. Scott's skipper believes in deploying any moment possible and has been keeping Scotty mighty busy with the inspection coming up. He and his wife recentiy started a progi-am in their community that is similai- to the Sea Cadets. Way to go! I got a phone message from Joe "Subdog" Viera and he is doing well in Yokuska. He told me Joe "Bobo" Bobrowski is married to a young woman from the Ukraine.

Heath Heist is laying here a few stepsfromme and not feeling alltiiatgreat after his buddy Steel got a hold of him last night. He is stationed in Guam and is living tieachside. He was recently hit by two typhoons over there so he and his wife.

Alii, are staying here until their place gets built back up. Welltiiisis itfromGino and Heatii. We look forward to hearingfromyou all and remember when in trouble tum to "Steel." It holds the key to your dreams. Peace.

From JAX: It's NEBOSH! I martied Mara Berkowitz on 7 July 2001 at USNA Chapel. (Yes, I know it was awhile ago!) Matt Lachapelle, Jim Anderson, Matt Sproat, Doug Bullock, Sam Lewis '99, Bill Kayser, Chris TUT\, Chris Neboshynsky '04, and Walt Neboshynsky '76 ensured USNA had many of her Alumni back in her grasp. We just celebrated our one-year anniversary and she's survived most of flight school with me. I'm here at the P-3 RAG in Jax after getting my wings on 10 May. Our Class is well represented here. Bill Kayser, JT Pianetta, Bob Robins, Rob Wilkerson, Pat Singleton, Dave Ryno, Phil Day, Tim Kheun, Kris Knaus, Ryan Duffy, and Corey Pope are all I can recall seeing in the squadron. Mara and I are headed out to Hawaii as our first duty station. Only naval aviation would be determined to send a guy to Hawaii when Brunswick was first on his list! I've heard there are many '00 grads out there or heading out, on boats and aircraft, so it should be a good time...The artist formerly known as Andrew Neboshynsky.

The 26 July ceremony in NAS Kingsville saw the following five Classmates Winged as naval aviators: Mike " D e c a f Coffey (S-3 Viking), Chris "Bully" Dentzer (F/A-18 Hornet), Travis "Jungle" Inouye (EA-6B Prowler), Mitch "BaUs" Koch (F/A-18 Homet), MUie "Cash" Register (F-14 Tomcat).

Erik Aubel just got orders to Meridian for Jet training and he is now engaged to Claire Adams of Sevema Park, MD. His pad is available for crashing if you somehow end up in Meridian (Don't spend too muchtimewondering what you would be doing there if you weren't a jet pilot.) JT Ward, Brian Crawford, and Timmy Myers will be off the market by the time this hits newsstands (standing by for pictures). Chris Snider recently invested in a pig farm in nearby Dothan, AL, and is looking for other Classmates to venture with him in buying an entire pig farm to raise money for the Class. Nick Lalota was driving his car down a Califomia highway with his Plebe Year girlfriend (Nick and Kylie are apparentiy reidndUng) minding his own business when a guy on a motorcycle began pulUng up next to him and making obscene gestures witii his hands. Nick being from Long Island would not be outdone and began remrning gestures to the mystery man.

Tums out it was Jason Budde, hugs and kisses ensued at an intersection to the tune of many homs and profanities from happy-go-lucky Califomia commuters.

Last in, here's a photo submission from Kate McMahon:

Kate McMahon and her new tatoo

That is aU for this week sports fans. Write to us, send us a picture, and make up a caption, ShipmateOO@yahoo.com. Go to the web and update your info www.usna.com it will make you a better person. Godspeedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Murph

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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 35 Old Coach Circle., Ludlow, MA 01056 e: usna2001navy@yahoo.com WeU, here we are, over a year has past since graduation. For some I think this might be about the time when nostalgia takes effect. For others, they have always been living the dream since I Day. Anyway you look at it, I think we can all agree a lot has changed in the past year. My youngest brother, MIDN 4/c Patrick Karalekas '06 is starting Plebe Summer as a member of '06 so I found myself going back five years and describing the tiniest details of what takes place in a Plebe Summer day. Mostiy I questioned how any of us could have taken it too seriously.

I told my brother over and over again, to relax and try to laugh at some of the crazy things that will naturally happen when you have a bunch of 20-year olds are teaching a thousand kids how to wear their socks and fold their underwear.

We have a few messages from around the fleet.

This is your anchor Bobby Rashad Jones (Bobby.Jones@2001.usna.com), wishing to put in an update for Shipmate. I am aboard GERMANTOWN (LSD-42) forward deployed out of Sasbo, Japan. In my first few months since graduating from SWOS I have been to Tokyo, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Korea, and most recentiy the Philippines. We took part in Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines, where we landed a huge group of SeaBees and Marines in order to combat tertorism in the Mindano region of the islands. It was a very dangerous but rewarding experience. On a lighter note living in Japan is very very interesting. Since I don't speak the language, I am forced to use an artay of gestures to get my point across to the locals. Very funny stuff. I hope ail of you are doing well and holler at me at my email address.

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David Drake reports from Corpus Christi: Primary's been interesting but it's finally over Ran into many Classmates down here, we've all been working pretty hard, but not as hard as the SWOs—along with the well deserved flight pay (grin). Brooke Massie just got down here after selecting P-3s a month ago out of Whiting Field. Also in the P-3 group are; me, Eric Brown, who may be the first to wing on 13 September, Bonnie Niggeman, Mike Forshay (got married in the Chapel 15 June), Ryan Lacey. Mike Neilson, Adam Porter, Whitney Jelenewski, Jon Van Ecko, and more that I know I'm forgetting. Jet slots have been few and far between lately, but Brent Jaquith made distinguished grad and is on his way to Meridian in July—shocker, eh? Also getting jets were Brian Loustaunau, John Peterson, Jon Vanbragt, Katie Estes smoked primary to get herself over to Meridian, Pete McMarrow, Chris Fisher, Kyle Jason (out of Moody AFB, after flying the T-6A, pretty sure he's getting Test Pilot School next week), and Colin Price. Hey, by the time the we P-3 types get to shore, the jet jocks may get their wings if they hurry. E2-C2 draft was out in force for about a month with Ernie Lietzen, Paige Davis, and Wes TUrbeville. They've been giving helo's out like candy though—only to find that now they've backed up that pipeline too.

Helo bubbas include Paki Gomes and Phil Casteneda (who took the Vance track), David Ayotte, David O'Brien, Reid Adams, Kevin Milligan, Kelly Hamilton, Bruce Lefferts, David Johal, Chad Upright, Mike Fisher, and numerous others. Jenny Bombinski is the token E-6 American Airlines ttack selectee that I know of Anyone near Oklahoma the next six years can crash at her pad. Those of us still in primary are nearing completion and should all be selected by the end of July. Barney Venter, Bob Barker, Chris Lare—newly martied by the way, Valerie Van DeVenter, Dana Chapin, Chad TVubilla, Jon Schiffelbein, Dave Harrington, Jeff "Not so Fatty anymore" Adams, Jeremy Kim, and Preston Rackouskas—both looking for the Navy Dirigible Track, Brian Nunn, Arthur Ball, and anyone else I've forgotton, hit me up for a beer when you see me. Jon Kehoe finally has gotten both shoulders worked on and will be joining the Navy shortly, after some more TAD in Newport. Jonny's wedding was a great time that had Mike Heltzel, Andy Haffele, Dustin Lonero, and myself enjoying lots of alcohol provided by Mr and Mrs. Kehoe. Most SWOs are at their ships and many are out on deployment. Rosie Goscinski just got back from the Persian Gulf with many stops along the way, including Thailand where she met up with Chee Toh. Cullen Brokaw, the Jorge Ensign on his ship, and favorite to the CO, on Iwo JlMA, is soon to be married to Ms. Jen Suellenttop. Frances Tepolt and Alana Garas

are about to get off deployment and start livin' it up in San Diego.

Hey, I know there's 850 others out there I haven't mentioned but we're all doing great things for the Navy. The Marines on their way to API and the earliest have started showing up in their primary squadrons already. Brian Hawkins and his wife, Deborah Hughes '03, are expecting their first in September NFOs in Pensacola are all moving right along. Most have selected jets, including Luke Swain. Tripp Burnett should find out soon.

He and Luke are always wreaking havoc together down on Perdido Key, in tiieir real world mansion. Most of the girls have picked P-3s, to include Christina Ortega and Bethany Baker. Jeff Palmer is in ttaining hold, awaiting the coveted spin and puke.

Michelle Faico will be one of the first winged NFOs, headed to the E2/C2 pipeline. Our heart goes out to her, as she was rooming with John Wilt '00, who recently passed away last montii in a training accident. He was a 28th Company Alum, and we will all miss him.

(Thanks for writing this, David— AK) In a recent trip back to SWOS world with my ship MCCAMPBELL I was lucky enough to mn into guys like Erich Jurges who had gone out diving that day and bagged a bunch of lobsters and cooked them up for dinner. Since there were so few Academy grads in the January class of SWOS they all stuck together pretty tight. Erich Jurges, Amy Straw, Cathy Borkowski, Jess Podewils, and others often hosted "Ring Knocker" Parties. Cathy Borkowski tried out for the National Rugby Team and is an altemate for the World Championship team. Clint Lawler is heading to the diamond of the Navy, LASALLE out of Italy.

Kent Werner and his wife. Crystal, are expecting. Kent is trilled and can not wait to get home from deployment. Kaite McCUntock has a boyfriend! Unfortunately he's a Whoop. She's dating a young first lieutenant she met on exchange as a Second Class Midshipman. She found out she was too short to be a Marine pilot she has transferred to the air inteUigence community.

02 Pres; MIDN 1/C C. J. Simonsen Vice Pres: MIDN 1/C Greg Chapman Treas: MIDN 1/C Chris Carter Sec'y: MIDN 1/C Dani Lasalle e: usnashipmate02@yahoo.com Shipmates, Another month has come and gone...actually, two or three. The crowd here in Annapolis is

beginning to thin out. Probably a good thing for us, a bad thing for business, but I'm sure with reform here and TBS tension kicking up, they'll recover nicely.

The one and only message in two months is from Rebekah Douglas (Mayer), wife of Chris Douglas.

Chris and Rebekah were married at the USNA Chapel on 8 June 2002. The wedding party (in the photo below) from left to right included: Tim Collins, Justin Davis, Jon Farley, Rebekah and Chris Douglas, Matt Pianetta, Chris Sabbatini, John Augusto, and Ricky Hayes. The bride is a graduate of the University of Maryland.

On the topic of weddings, BeUnda King married John Anderson '00 on 28 June in a beautiful ceremony at the Chapel. Several members of our Class were in attendance and cameos from the Class of 2000 were made by Manny Pardo '00 and company.

CoUette Lazenka and Chuck Shehadi were married on 3 August 2002 at the Chapel. The momentous occasion was marked with a unique touch as their marriage was blessed by Pope John Paul H. Shifting gears, Erin Rosa has already put his plan for taking over the planet into motion. He and his wife, MicheUe, welcomed a baby boy in July As for life here at the Academy, a vicious mmor went around that 50 pilot TADs were going to be shipped down to Pensacola early, mainly from the PE department. Whether it was a ploy to get more of them out to PEP or not, remains unsaid. Speaking of PEP, Alex Goodno and myself were forced to give up the headset and platforms on 9 August as PEP for the Class of 2006 came to an end. It was a tough trade for a few extra hours of sleep. I know the aught-sixers are going to miss us.

Speaking of motivators, Rory Kipper and Jay Consalvi were spotted in Corpus Christi in mid-July for Primary.

Well, send in your info to the email account as well as pictures!

Keep us informed. —Dani

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

04 Pres; MIDN 3/C Lincoln Lukich Vice Pres; MIDN 3/C James Denicco Treas: MIDN 3/C Andrew Froistad Sec'y; MIDN 3/C Joseph Zukowsky

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CHAPTER NEWS ALABAMA Birmingham Chapter

CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Chapter

Kevin W. Patton '85 1802 Lancaster Road, Birmingham, AL 35209 h; 205-871-1695; e; kpatton@mcglaw.com

John R. Quinn '91 10 Los Platillos, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 h: 949-766-9845; w; 714-781-3067 e: jquinn@mbal998.hbs.edu Corr. Sec'y: John Peterson ^^' e; john@micromachines.com

Htmtsville Chapter LCDR Frederick N. Steiner '57, USN (Ret.) 1059 Teenajo Drive SE Huntsville, AL 35803-3907 h; 256-650-5423; e; navy57@aol.com The Huntsville Chapter held its monthly limcheon on Thursday, 8 August at the Fogcutter restaurant.

In attendance were Bob Brown '49, Will Cook '88, John HarviUa '54, Bryan Hyde '95, John Snyder '47, Fritz Steiner '57, MUse Stroop '54, Tony TorrueUa '51, and Herb Woods '56.

We were delighted to welcome Mike Murphy '78 and his friend, Roy Bryant, a former Marine officer.

It was decided that we will have our more-orless annual picnic at a home in Madison owned

by Herb Woods '56. The tentative date is 7 September at 1 p.m., with 14 September as the foul weather altemate date. Herb's place has a spacious deck, an above ground pool and a four man hot tub. The Chapter is going to dip into the treasury and fumish the food and beverages.

Our usual sea stories and jokes were told and re-told. Solutions to the crises in the Middle East, the economy, and what to do about Saddam Hussein were abundant.

Somehow, RADM Emie King's 1901 name was brought up. It was agreed that he was an SOB, but he was our SOB. Mike Stroop '54 told us that his father had accompanied Emie to the Potsdam Conference. After the Conference he and other CNO staff members were sent forth to brief naval commands around the nation on the plans for the invasion of Japan. Fortunately the A-bombs made that unnecessary.

We held our July luncheon on the llth.

Attendees were John HarviUa '54, Al Morris '50, Bob Brown '49, John Snyder '47, Mike Stt^oop '54, Frank Tatom '56, Tony TorrueUa '51, and Herb Woods '56.

A highlight of the meeting was Tony Tomella's joke. Thus far your correspondent has yet to find anyone whom he feels would be an appropriate and understanding audience...including exboatswain's mates and master sergeants.

Beat SMU! Beat Air Force! Beat Notre Dame!

Beat Army!

ARIZONA Arizona Chapter WiUiam D. Morrison '57 11801 E. Juan Tabo Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85255-5907 h: 480-585-1867; f 480-473-3262 e; bill7morT@msn.com web site; http;//www.usna.coni/Chapter/us/arizona

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Recently, the LA/Orange County Chapter board of directors spent a Saturday planning the upcoming years events. There are a lot of events this year and we hope to keep the membership involved in the Chapter by planning events that will draw our membership out in record numbers. Here is a calendar of events that are planned for the rest of 2002 and the first half of 2003: October October Chapter Event—USNA birthday celebration—details to follow 8 October—USNA birthday Orange County luncheon 15 October—Army-Navy fall golf toumament, Los Alamitos 23 October—dependents cruise—Chapter visit/underway on ANTIETAM

24 October—luncheon—Pasadena area November 9 November—November Chapter event— train trip to San Diego ANTIETAM visit 9 November—Navy-Notre Dame on TV (CBS Sports) at noon EST—viewing party with Notre Dame Alumni Club 12 November—USMC birthday Orange County luncheon 29 November—Board of Tmstees meeting, Annapolis—committees 28 November—luncheon—Pasadena area December 6 December—Board of Tmstees meeting, Annapolis—Chapter Tmstee Joe Koch '57 6 December—Army-Navy dining out with West Point Society of Graduates (LA Chapter) at the LAX Marriott 7 December—Army-Navy game party with West Point Society of Graduates at the Tustin Brewery in Irvine at 9 a.m. Pacific time 7 December—Army-Navy game party West Point Society of Graduates (LA Chapter) at the LAX Marriott, on CBS TV at 9 a.m. Pacific 23 December—Annapolis Parents' Club AllAcademies Ball January 2003 January Chapter Event—ski trip to Aspen, CO 14 January—luncheon—Orange County 23 January—luncheon—Pasadena area February 2003 February Chapter Event—^Valentine's Day party 11 February—luncheon—Orange County 20 February—call for nominations for new Chapter directors for 2003-2004 27 February—luncheon—Pasadena area March 2003 March Chapter Event—big golf 11 March—luncheon—Orange County 27 March—luncheon—Pasadena area April 2003 April Chapter Event—family day at amusement park

5 April—San Diego crew classic. Crown Point, Mission Bay 8 April—luncheon—Orange County 17 April—Army-Navy golf spring toumament 24 April—luncheon—Pasadena area 30 April—Board of Directors election— ballots sent to membership May 2003 May Chapter Event—business forum— Coordinators: Cosmo Karalis '74, Tom Oxford 8 May—luncheon—Orange County 15 May—gouge deadline 22 May—luncheon—Pasadena area 30 May—Board of Directors election count votes June 2003 June Chapter Event—annual meeting 10 June—luncheon—Orange County 26 June—luncheon—Pasadena Upcoming Event Info All-Academies ball. Sponsored by the parents' clubs of the LA/OC area. This event is for all of the cadets and Midshipmen that are home for Christmas leave, all Alumni are invited to attend.

Date: Saturday evening, 23 December 2002; Place: Omni Hotel, Los Angeles (adjacent to Angel's Flight); Cost: $55 per person; Dress: black tie.

If you want additional information, visit the web site at: www.allacademiesball.com or email Jo Ann Sarlese (joann@allacadeiniesball.com) or 714-525-0526.

Now, a word from Joe Koch '57 about the August luncheon: The August 2002 Orange County Luncheon was held on Tuesday, 13 August 2002, at the Santa Ana Elks Club at 212 Elk Lane in Santa Ana. Our speaker this month was scheduled to be CDR John Neagley, USN, the commanding officer of FITZGERALD (DDG-62), the ship the LA Chapter sponsors. However, due to a last minute scheduling change, John was not able to be at the luncheon. We were lucky to have Art Rodriquez '02 in attendance and he gave a short update on recent happenings at the Academy. Additionally, John Quinn '91, our Chapter president, told of the Chapter plans for the coming year. The senior Class present was '41 and the junior Class was '02, a spread of 61 years! The Class with the most preseitt was '47 with five, followed by '57, '60, and '67 with three each. We welcomed first time attendees Wayne Vinje '60 who was visiting the area from Montana and Murtay Schrantz West Point '71. Mike Flanagan became an associate member of the LA Chapter at the luncheon. We were happy to have John Richards '47, Stan Stiller '47, and Joe Gatlin '67 present, as they had not attended a luncheon in quite a while.

Those attending the luncheon included: Bob Thomas '41 (our senior graduate), Ken Kloflcom '43, Walt Stevens '43, Bob Rubel '44, Rich Crane '47, TR Johnson '47, Jim Kirkpatrick '47, John Richards '47, Stan Stiller '47, Bob Lowell '53 and his brother, Dave Lowell, Joe Zebrowski '53, Harold Hussey '56 and his guest, Don Stewart, Joe Koch '57, Bob Lutz '57, Jim Paulk '57, John Cobb '58, George Watts '58, Joe Casasanto '59, Joe Keeley '59, Dick Banister '60, Danny Musselman '60, Wayne Vinje '60, Jack O'Brien '62, Rich Pace '63, Jim Kelly '66, Joe Gatiin '67, Dick Glasow '67, Tim Hoffman

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'67, Randy Hartshorn '71, Mike Metskas '74, Jim Trotter '74. Lee Cohen '82, Steve Shatynski '83, Tom Kymn '84, Joe Mandichak '89, John Quinn '91, John Stammerich '92, Art Rodriquez '02 (our junior graduate), Murtay Schrantz West Point '71, and Mike Flanagan.

The Orange County luncheons are held the second Tuesday of every month except December at the Santa Ana Elks Club starting at 11:30 a.m. with social time, followed by lunch at noon and the speaker at 12:30 p.m. The speakers for upcoming months are as follows: September—Bill Weaver '51 talking about his adventures as a test pilot.

October—Lizabeth Pace talking about the C-17 program at Boeing (also Navy and USNA birthday, with cake cutting).

November—Col Leon Williamson, USMCR (Ret.) talking about his experiences at Pearl Harbor and Midway (also Marine Corps birthday, with cake cutting).

January—Jack Craigie, USMA '51 talking about the honor codes at USMA, USNA, and USAFA. If you have not attended a luncheon previously, contact Joe Koch at 714-773-1090 to get placed on the luncheon notification list.

Have a good month and I look forward to seeing many of you at the Chapter events this fall. Please check our web site www.usna-la.org for information about the Chapter and the upcoming events.

Mission Valley. The speaker will be a professor from San Diego State who will speak on Chinese culture. The event will kick off with an art museum tour at 5:15 p.m., refreshments at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m., and speaker at 7:15 p.m.

San Diego Fleet Week preparations were presented. The Chapter wdl sponsor all of the golf carts for the EnUsted Golf Toumament, and Tom Hammons asked that individual Classes sponsor the foursomes. This is a great way to show the Alumni support for our enUsted sailors and marines.

Randy Bogle '68 addressed preps for the MCAS Miramar Airshow Alumni tent. On 19 October the Chapter will sponsor a tent with refreshments and food for the Alumni. The airshow will run from 18-20 October Tom Hammons set a target date for publication of the SD Chapter Alumni Association Directory of early 2003. The member database must be updated, advertisers must be lined up, and a printer selected.

Monthly USNA Networking Meeting Dave Fennell '87 (fennelld@mindspring. com) and his gang still meet religiously at the Holiday Inn Select Mission Valley every second Friday of the month at 7 a.m. If you, or another Alum you know is looking for a job, check them out. If you have any questions, contact Dave at work, 619-297-9589, or by email.

NavNet Monterey B a y Chapter CDR John J. Branson Jr. '50, USN (Ret.) 1281 Sylvan Road, Monterey, CA 93940-4942 h: 831-375-8603; e: JJBransnjr@aol.com

Sacramento Chapter CW4 George R. Smimons '61, AUS (Ret.) 10785 Penstock Trail, Auburn, CA 95603-9556 h; 530-888-0860; e: grsim@mindspring.com

San Diego Chapter CAPT Thomas J. Hammons HI '71, USN (Ret) 13423 Salmon River Road, San Diego, CA 92129 h; 858-538-9824; e; tjhammons@aol.com web site: www.usnaaasd.com Con^. Sec'y: Tom Parry '82, USNR w: 858-586-7461; f 858-586-7319 e: tparry@intelesis.org July Chapter Meeting The Chapter departed from its usual monthly luncheon event in July and sponsored an after-five "Splice the Mainbrace" happy hour gathering at the Rockin Baha Lobster in Old Town San Diego.

About 30 Alumni and guests attended to share cervezas, nachos, fajitas, and sea stories. This was the first in a series of new types of events and venues. Everyone enjoyed this event and format, and especially the cervezas and sea stories.

Chapter Board of Directors Meeting The board of directors meeting was held and several issues were discussed.

Tom Hanunons '71 stressed the need for membership and leadership of the five newly established standing committees: Recruiting, Communication, Liaison, Membership, and Quality of Life.

The August Chapter meeting will be a dinner held at the San Diego Hospice overiooking

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NavNet is another networking venue for USNA grads, as well as anyone else. They convene every third Friday at "Trellises Garden Grill in the Town and Country Hotel and Resort on Hotel Circle. It's "come as you are," and pay as you go. We average 30-plus for breakfast, so if you are in the market for a new career or a motivated "new hire" check them out. For info contact Tom Hammons '71, info above.

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 Vice President; James Ryan '86 e; james@peisales.com

Santa Barbara Chapter CDR WUUam 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 Saturday, 20 July 2002 marked the popular annual summer picnic event for our Santa Barbara, CA, Chapter It was another glorious day in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, where this USNA AA Chapter has traditionally held its annual picnic at lovely Manning Park. There were over 100 guests including: Jean Kuehl (Howard Kuehl '33), Donna and Tom Long '33, Hart Kait '34, Bemice Neilsen (John Neilsen '37), Frank Riles '38, Margaret and Larry Lovig '39, (Nancy and Karl Van Meter '39 were unable to attend), Betty and Bob Newcomb '40, Pat Murphy '41 and his guest, Pat Gebert (Wes Gebert '42), Molly and Rusty King '44, Mary and Jim Gayle '45, Betty Graham (Bill Graham '45), Ginger and Bob

Puddicombe '45, Bud Ursettie '45, Jacque and Don Iselin '46, Gin and BUI Spangler '46, Sig Abraham '48, Karole and Russ Christian '48, Barbara and Chuck Whitmore '48, Rod Moore '48 and Linda Wilford, Alyce and Dave Boyd '50, Shiriey and Phil Conley '50, Rosalie and Doctor BiU Stewart '50, Fr. John and Jarrell Fuller '52 with their guests. Lane and J.P. Torsy, Anne and Doug Haigh '52 with their guest. Bob Feely '52, Barbara and John MarshaU '52, Rae Richerson '52 and his guest, George Suder '67, Chalys and Peter Stephens '52, Margaret and Stan Swanson '52, Jan and Scott Beat '53, Sandy and Bob Gibson '53, Pamy Ammerman (Neil Ammerman '54), John Everett '54, Darlene and Stan Keck '54, Pinky and Norm PaUadino '55, Suzy and Jim Clark '56, Paul Cusick '56, Judy and Bob Quinn '56, Fran and Vem Hanna '58 with their son. Matt Hanna, Holly Sipos, John and Melinda Coggi, Barbra and Gary Minar '58, Nancy and BiU KeUy '59, Lillian and Jim Osbom '59, Beverly and Steve Balash '60, Charlie Cox '60 and his daughter, Lori, Carole and Richard Harper '60, Jim McClure '63, Bill Stewart '63 (Chapter president) and his guest, Lynne LeCouvre, Norma and Tom Morgenfeld '65, Terry and Jack Musitano '65, Peggi and Ed Ransom '69 and their children. Belle and Eileen Ransom, Cheryl and Greg May '82 with their daughter, Anna (possibly a candidate for Class of 2024), Kathy and J.P. Hughes (their son is Kevin Hughes '03), and Seth Itifvesson '04. The Class of '52 was expected to pick up the lunch tab, having the most attendees! Careful readers wiU note that tins a 71-year span of USNA Classes.

Overall it was a great picnic...food was done well as usual...Hart Kait's son was especially good doing the background and the sing along music. We sang all the great memorable songs, including a piece for the SeaBees (nearly in tune, an old story). ADM Long's short, but very interesting stories, about his USNA days and getting commissioned were an added treat as was the area Pearl Harbor Survivor Chapter President's short talk. There is interest in adding the PH survivors from our SB USNA AA Chapter to that special group which is chartered locally. It is always nice to have some of these very special stories told at our picnics—like a living history book. We have a remarkable group in Santa Barbara...even more remarkable when you find out some of the things they've done.

We are all proud to be members of such a fine group of Alumni. Wlienever two or tliree sliall meet.

Gary Minar '58 Santa Barbara Chapter Secretary 805-688-7957; gminar@syv.com

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Colorado Chapter CAPT Daniel Branch Jr. '59, USN (Ret.) 555 Apollo Drive, Boulder, CO 80303-5002 h: 303-499-0337; w; 303-966-4833 e: dbranchjr@aol.com web site: www.usna.com/Chapters/US/Colorado/default.htm

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Fort Lauderdale Chapter Charies J. Walsh '52

Tom Hogsten '85 75 Avonwood Rd., Apt C-8, Avon, CT 06001 h: 860-677-8004; e: thogsten@aol.com web site; www.usnact.org Members of tiie Connecticut Chapter were tteated to a joint social event with members of the Connecticut Chapter of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association on 10 August 2002 at the Mystic Seaport. The seaport contains historic buildings, tall ships, and maritime artifacts and memorabilia, in a 19th century seaport setting dedicated to commemorating the sights and sounds of the sea and its impact on the history of maritime America. The current president and director of Mystic Seaport, RADM Douglas Teeson, USCG (Ret.), who served as superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, was the guest speaker at the buffet luncheon. Attendees received a personally guided tour of the Collections Research Center and Hall of Boats,

by Bill Cogar, Mystic Seaport vice president for Collections of Research. Worthy of note is the fact that Bill formerly taught history at USNA and was director of the Naval Academy Museum. The aftemoon was taken up by a cmise on the Mystic River onboard the steamboat SABINO, a guided highlights tour of the seaport and a visit to the seaport store. In all, it was an educational and enjoyable experience.

Attendees included: Jack Apple '56, Chuck Harrison '58, Nancy and Bob CorreU '60, Sharon and Dave Stryker '61, Linda and Pete SmuUen '67, Clarence Mayott '70, Deborah and George Kindel '72, Anne and Tom Hogsten '85 with their children, Trey and Hannah. Bemadette Figura, wife of our former Chapter President Bob Figura '58, joined the group for lunch.

Chapter members are reminded that the following events are planned for the month of October: the Naval Academy Founders Day Celebration at the Graduate Club in New Haven on 10 October and the bus trip to Chestnut Hill, MA, to watch Navy defeat Boston College in football on 19 October Also on the horizon are the Annual Admissions Dinner at the Armory in Hartford in November, the Army-Navy celebrations in Boston and Connecticut and the Annual Parents' Club Holiday Celebration at a time and location to be announced in December. Mark your calendars. Details on these events will be promulgated in the Chapter flyer Dave Boyd '59

COSTA RICA 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

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1724 SE llth Stteet, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316 h: 954-763-4613; e; walshyacht@aol.com

Gainesville Chapter CAPT J. Michael Smith '61, USNR (Ret.) 10424 SW 41st Place, Gainesville, FL 32608 h: 352-376-6611; w: 352-376-3301 e: mickey@acceleration.net

Jacksonville Chapter CAPT Michael O. Boms '70, USN (Ret.) 1185 Salt Marsh Circle Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082-2543 h: 904-273-4714; w; 904-693-5630 e; mboms@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: Sergei Kowalchik '67 e; sergei@bellsouth.net Greetings from Miami.

Since the deadline for the October Shipmate is in mid-August, the slo-o-o-w summer season in South Florida (more on this later), there is not much to report in the way of Chapter "happenings" since the last column. However, that makes for a great opportunity to inform the membership, who may not have previously attended, about a tmly outstanding program— GRADLINKS. GRADLINKS is a quarterly professional networking event, organized by the West Point Society of South Florida and the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association-Miami Chapter.

It is held on a mid-week night and is hosted (thanks in great part to the good offices of Dean Paul Sugrue '67) by the University of Miami, School of Business, at their McLamore Executive Education Center on the Coral Gables campus; it lasts from 7-9 p.m.

The format is informal: mixing over cocktails and hors d'ouvres, a guest speaker ( 3 0 ^ 0 minutes), followed by a question and answer period.

Attendance is open to all service academy graduates, active duty, and retired military in the area, their spouses and friends; essentially all interested parties and friends of the military.

Although it is always great to socialize with fellow grads (and others of common interest), the truly salient and superb feature of the GRADLINKS program has been the guest speakers and their presentations. A sampling of recent speakers and topics includes the following.

Mr. Khalid Salahuddin, deputy director of the Port of Miami who presented "State of the Miami Seaport." Besides the highly informative discussion on the operation and importance of the second largest economic engine in Miami (Miami Intemational Airport being first), it was fascinating to glean insights (from an insider who has to make things work) on the impact of

the post-September l l t h security measures that had been implemented in the port.

Mr. O. Ford Gibson, president of Codina Group Inc. presented "Commercial Real Estate in South Florida," which was an extremely educational update on the current situation in that market. However equally (if not more) interesting was M r Gibson's discussion of the correlation, intertwining and symbiosis between real estate, the Florida economy, and the history of the state.

Mr. Ralph E. Heckert, managing director of Bernstein Investment Research and Management, presented "Update on Financial Markets." Mr. Heckert, in essence, shared with the group the results of Bemstein's recentiy completed research; these were the same results, insights, predictions and projections which they present to their (big $$$$) clients. Events during the past year since the Bemstein presentation have proven it to be dead-on right] Talk about value for the $15 cost of attending that last mentioned GRADLUVKS! Not only would someone (who digested the information presented and used it) most likely profited by saving him or herself a ton of money (and pain), but chances are he or she probably consumed more than that dollar amount in wine, beer, and food during the event.

The next GRADLINKS is scheduled for 26 September (after this deadline, but before publication); by the time you read this, it will have featured Mr. Gregory T. Swienton—chairman, president, and CEO of Ryder—as speaker. It should prove to be another outstanding event and will be reported on in a future column.

Tuming to the schedule of coming events for the Miami Chapter, the following is offered for everyone's advanced planning; 10 October, 7 p.m.—Anchor's Aweigh Day, a celebration of the founding of USNA. New format, more casual than previous (black tie) events; details to be promulgated November—All-Academy happy hour 7 December—Army vs. Navy, in conjunction with the USNA AA Ft. Lauderdale Chapter and the West Point Society of South Florida (WPSSF) 19 or 20 December—Holiday reception,to include the Class of 2007 candidates. Coral Reef Yacht Club January—Luncheon, Coral Reef Yacht Club February—All-Academy happy hour February—GRADLINKS, University of Miami March—Luncheon, Coral Reef Yacht Club April—All-Academy happy hour May—Army vs. Navy golf and tennis May—GRADLINKS, University of Miami June—Miami Plebe send-off Finally, as promised earlier, it is time to address a gross misconception throughout our fair land. Many people (who do not live here) consider the association of the concept of "seasons" and South Florida as a total non sequitur and oxymoron. I am here to refute such a mistaken belief and will try and do so from several perspectives.

Starting with economics (and our capitalistic system), hotels in the area have "in season" rates and "out of season" rates. Anybody who has ever compared the two knows that there is a huge difference.

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Staying with the capitalistic system, our clothing retailers tmmpet the arrival of "fall lines," "winter lines," "spring lines," etc. The fact that you need one of those balances from chemistry lab to measure the difference in weight between these garments is irrelevant; they claim four seasons, we have four seasons.

Tuming now to meteorology, a more traditional measure of "seasons," the local (and national) media continuously refers to "hurricane season" and "non-hurricane season." Anybody who has ever experienced one of these cutely named weather phenomena knows dam good and well; there is a major difference between those two "seasons."

Finally, the most significant differentiator between the seasons in South Florida is a psychosis suffered by a vast portion of the local population. For these people there is either "football season," or..."the other time."

Go Dolphins, Go 'Canes, Go Navy—Beat Army] Naples-Fort Myers Chapter LCDR Edwin W. "Ned" Oldham '58, USNR 400 Park Shore Dr., Unit 202, Naples, FL 33316 h; 941-434-0806; e; ewoldham@hahnlaw.com Sec'y: Bob Shearer '58; e; riiss58@hotmail.com

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 Orlando Chapter of die USNA AA monthly meeting was held at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, 13 July at the Holiday Inn, SR^36 and Wymore Road, Altamonte Springs, FL. The next meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m., on Saturday, 10 August at the same location. Spouses and guests are welcome.

In attendance were: Betty and Jerry BaU '41, James Borop '42, Harriett and Curt Cordell '46, John LesUe '47, Bob Turaage '47, Art Herbert '48 and his guest, Marilyn Grimm, Eileen and Lou Branch '49, Shirley and Walt Marquardt '49, Dorothy and John Mackenzie '50, Fran and George Ruos '50, Peter Kucyk '53, BiU Forbes '55, Eileen and John Long '55, Craig Corbett '73, Joe Belinski '74, Dee and Charles Hargrove '75, Gerrie Santos '83, and Rob B. "Race" Roberson '87.

President George Ruos '50 welcomed all the attendees and guests. He continued the discussion from last month regarding a get-together at the Golf Place in Altamonte Springs. The general consensus was that we should plan an event there when it is cooler.

Chapter Treasurer Bob Tumage '47 reported that there is $1,361 in the bank. Annual dues of $15 are being collected.

Race Roberson '87 (RobersonRB@mfrusmc. mil) spoke about the Marine 4 Life Program. It is a program for Marines who are getting ready to leave active duty and need assistance with job placement. Please contact Race by email if you know of any job opportunities. Race concluded his talk with a sea story that delighted us all.

Jason Walker '94, sent the following note: I am finally employed again! Praise God! I am working for Harcourt (the publishing company) as an IT project manager I started work on Monday, 24 June. The day I showed up, I 144

was invited to a project meeting in which I took over as project manager I've been working long hours since, and not complaining one bit! It's a great job, which is very similar to what I did at USi. The people are very good to work with, and I should be able to make an impact quickly. I think I'm high enough on the food chain to have a voice, and after successfully completing this first project, I should have established a good reputation. Please thank the Alumni for their prayers and support.

Also tell them that my CIO, who was the main person bringing me in, is Mark Mooney '74, a Marine serving in the Reserve. I will try to get him and his wife involved with our Chapter Come join your shipmates and friends at the 10 August meeting. An interesting program is planned. Beat Army]

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 Dn, Jupiter, FL 33458 h; 561-329-0556; e: goeringtr@bemstein.com We have been looking forward to another great year of fellowship at our monthly meetings, commencing in September Our members have been traveling and pursuing their professional and leisure activities, so there will be many new tales to relate at our great gatherings. A few suggestions and reminders: 1. Get involved—we need your presence and energy at our meetings.

2. Provide input—contact our officers through email, phone or in person regarding your ideas.

3. Send your dues (only $15)—to show your support and ensure you receive the newsletter Send to Bob Lees '69 (RLees@aol.com), 110 Wood Lane, Defray Beach, 33444; 561-276-2371.

Be there and Beat Army] Wah Whipple '57 Pensacola Chapter CDR Lester "Lee" Price '78, USN 2101 Scenic Highway, #H104 h: 850-437-9689; e: lee.price@cnet.navy.mil Greetings from the cradle of naval aviation and the beautiful Gulf Coast beaches. Our year here is in full swing with a new slate of officers.

They are Lee Price '78, president; Mike McCrabb '78, vice president; DJ Marzetta '94, secretary-treasurer; and Glenn Montgomery '71, national tmstee.

As of this update, we have conducted a September luncheon in which VADM Harms, CNET, was the guest speaker. Upcoming events include a 10 October luncheon, a lobster-fest in October joining the SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast Chapter in cheering Navy to a victory against Tulane in New Orieans on 26 October and a monthly luncheon on 6 November Plans are underway for the bombing of Army on Pearl Harbor Day at our annual Angus Steak House Army-Navy party on 7 December We would welcome anyone who may be in the Pensacola area to join us as we Beat Army. Doors open at 10:30 a.m.

Good luck to the Class of '06 as they begin their joumey to follow in our footsteps and best

wishes to the Class of '03 as they prepare to join us in the Fleet. We look forward to seeing many of you in Pensacola next year. Beat Army, sir!

Space Coast Chapter CAPT Samuel E Powell III '50, USNR (Ret.) 1712 Independence Ave., Melboume, FL 32940 h; 321-259-5883; e: sfpsampson@aol.com

Suncoast Chapter Clifford P. Bermann '45 7979 S. Tamiami Trail #338A, Sarasota, FL 34231 e; amorency@aol.com

Tampa Bay Chapter CAPT John S. Kamen '77, USN 1105 Culbreath Isle Drive, Tampa, FL 33629 h: 813-288-9548; e; Kamenj@socom.mn Email Coordinator; Steve Swift '87 e: swwift@sysinct.com web site; www.usna.com/Chapters/US/fl/tampabay/default.htm July and August were very busy for us! Next month we'll recap our September luncheon with Bob MUligan '56 from TaUahassee, FL, state comptroller speaking.

On 13 July, we met for a NOAA Hurricane Hunter tour; great job by LCDR Harris Halverson '90, taking us through the mission of NOAA, the IMAX film, and the hunter planes themselves! We were also very honored to have the DCINC, UsCentCom, LtGen Michael DeLong '67 speak about Operation Enduring Freedom and the Navy and USMC contribution.

Thanks for everyone that took advantage of this opportunity, and Rick Craig '77, owner of Mad Dog's for getting us a 20% discount on lunch!

Attendees included LtGen Michael Long '67 and aide LtCol Greg Smith, Harris Halverson '90, Tom and LUIian Dabney '36, Steve Swift '87, Grant and Kirk Barker '77, Barbara and Gaylord Hopkins '63, Curt Wold '88, Sherrie and Don Freese '63, Bryan Hendricks and Ben, son of Kristi Hendricks Watt '92, Joe Wiendl '93, Jonelle, Val and Gary Polansky '69, Charlie Schindler and Carrie Dyer '82, Gaeton Long '60, Alice Lee and Gwyn Crump '84, Bud Alexander '56, Marcia and Mark Krivonak '71, Becky—wife of Bob Courtney '52, and nephew, Andrew 'WiUiams, and niece, Loren Williams, Mary Grace, Donna and Hank Reeves '83, John Kamen '77, Rick Craig '77.

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Aviation Silver Osprey Squadron at MacDill Oftlcer's Club. His wing, based on ENTERPRISE, was enroute home on September llth. They reversed course, even without being ordered to do so, and were on station two days later ready to launch missions. His presentation showed actual combat displays from FA-18 and F-14 missions (unclassified) in Afghanistan.

USNA Alumni included Chuck Greenwood '50, Bo Heininger '47, Tom Carlson '92, Lillian and Tom Dabney '36, Don Marconi '82, and Paul Corrigan '47 (from Venice, FL).

We were honored to be invited by CAPT Bob Silah, USN (Ret.), first VP-programs (BSilah@aol.com if you want to join TROA) for die Honorable Michael Bilirakis, member of Congress (Ninth District, Florida) on 8 August at the TROA luncheon. The Congressman discussed military active duty and veteran's issues of interest, and the latest important topics in Congress. Attendees included Jane and RADM LeRoy CoUins '56, USN (Ret), Steve Swift '87, Rut Flymi '59, and associate member George Dodenhof, RADM Charles Hunter '54, Tom Dabney '36, Sandra and Fred Spence '72, Roger Betts '56. and Mike WUson '81.

On 8 August, we also had a great night at USAA Tampa headquarters! It was a great tour, beautiful dinner, outstanding presentation by Gen Tom Draude '62, USMC (Ret.), VP of the southeast region, and fantastic company!

General Tom Draude speaking in front of the group

Class of '56 wins for having the most Classmates/spouses there—with '63 and '58 tied for second, and then '62! Attendees included; Jane and RADM LeRoy Collins '56, USN (Ret), Steve Swift '87, John Kamen '77, Bud Alexander '56, Roger Betts '56, LA and Mac Fossett '58, Gaeton Long '60, Stanley Gray '77, Chuck Greenwood '50, Donna and Mike Jacqmin '63, OlUe Donelan '63, Pat and Hugh Pahner '58, Donna and Mike Wilson '81, Carrie Dyer '82, Art Fisher '62, Mark Krivonak '71, Gary Polansky '69, BGen Tom Draude '62, USMC (Ret.).

Finally, our monthly meeting (held on each first Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Houlihan's on Westshore) on 7 August had the following folks: *Pat Brennan '61, Tony luculano '89, Steve Swift '87, Gary Polansky '69, Tom Dabney '36, Mike Jacqmin '63, Gaeton Long '60, Stanley Gray '77, Bud Alexander '56, *Coleman Brown '49, *Kyle Langman '96, LeRoy Collins '56, Vince Scott '89 ('* = new member!).

Future events include: 5 October—wine tasting 5-7 p.m. with dinner afterwards 15 October—luncheon/speaking engagement with astt-onaut Dom Gorie '79—11:30 a.m.-l p.m.

7 December—Army-Navy game party!

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21-22 December—Nutcracker show (tentative) Make it a great month! kamenj @ socom. mil; 813-828-9501 sswift@sysinct.com; 813-657-2862

GEORGIA Atlanta Chapter Robert R. Schultz '71 5219 Meadowdale Ct., Norcross, GA 30092-1682 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 This past May, I attended the annual Chapter President's meeting that was held in Annapolis.

It was great to see the Yard and Mother B again.

(I even got pictures of Linda and me pretending to climb Hemdon!) During the same weekend the Chapter Tmstees meeting was held as well, which was attended by our Chapter tmstee BUI Rentz '55. The two days of meetings were very productive and informative.

I think that some of the most important information that we can pass on to our Chapter members is the information put forth in the address

by USNA Alumni Association and Foundation President and CEO George P. Watt Jr. '73. The information that George provided regarding membership, member services, advocacy, financial prowess, and impact and relevance is something that all Alunmi need to be aware of.

You may read George's remarks on our web page: www.usnaaaa.com. Look for August 2002 President's comer remarks in the "News & Info" tab. I think it would be worth your time to read.

Though long, please take the time to read these remarks carefully and absorb thefr full content since, as USNA Alumni, they directiy affect us all.

And...Beat Army] Bob Schultz '71 Immediate Past President Bob Bush '65 Speaks at the Chapter July Luncheon Nancy and Bob Bush '65 recentiy had the unique opportunity to take a trip to China. The trip was one of those organized by the Naval Academy Alumni Association. You know, the ones you get those nice color fliers for in the mail.

The Bush's report that the trip was extremely well mn and organized. Everything was handled like clockwork. From picking up and delivering luggage, to arranging all meals, to ferrying people around to all of the various sites to be seen during the trip. (Hey, what else would you expect from a military organization?)

Bob was nice enough to bring his laptop computer packed with digital pictures of the trip to the July luncheon and share them will the assembled Alumni. The very colorful commentary Bob provided to accompany the pictures really needed to be heard in person to be appreciated.

The presentation was very informative and left most in attendance with many questions to ask and just a twinge of jealousy wishing that they could have gone along!

Thanks very much to Bob for sharing his experience on this wonderful trip with us all.

Present at the July luncheon were Jim Ravenel '45, BiU Wideman '35, Bill Brewster '42, Charlie HiU '42, Bob Schultz ' 7 1 , Lorie Moore '64, Dick Fitzgerald '62, Johns Jauden '55, Ed Flynn ' 5 1 , J. Ashcroft '94, Kary Brownlee '93, Hal Morrison ' 6 1 , Paul Borer '70, Paul Smith '42, Don Thompson '59, Paul Hurst '62, Clint Johnson '60, Arif Cirtlik '98, Patrick Hamilton '87, Nick Ward '74, Bill Rentz '55, Jim Hatch '47, Reggie Vachon '58, Bob Bush '65, George O'ConneU '42, Mitch Rowland ' 7 1 , Skip Gunther '65, Judd Osten '64, and Mario Maddox '85.

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ILLINOIS Chicago Chapter CDR Fredrick W. Weber '75, USNR 2134 Evert Court, Northbrook, IL 60062-6612 h: 847-559-9381; w; 312-750-8899 e; fredrick.weber@rosshardies.com As this colunm went to press, the Chapter is working to put on a program in October or November with Peter Huchthausen '62, one of the technical advisors on the recent movie, K-19: The Widowmaker. Peter is also an accomplished author and has a brand new book coming out, October Fury, that you will want to hear about (and purchase). Be sure to stay tuned via the email circuit regarding the date and other specifics.

Of course, 7 December will be the date when Navy blitzes Army. All our good Veterans Classic Football Series joint preparations aside, this is the one day of the year when we put aU the "Joint Purple" stuff aside, as in. Go Navy, Beat Army] Watch the newsletter and the Chapter eList for rendezvous details.

Chapter Breakfasts Northern Suburbs Breakfasts are held on the first Thursday of every month at the Denny's located in Vemon Hills.

Mike Isabelli '83 reports: The "dog days" of August have arrived (after the ones we had in June and July) and we had a good breakfast in the Northern suburbs 1 August. Those in attendance were Steve Guthman '58, Dave GentUe '67, George SchmoU '69, Cliff Kittle '70, and Mike Isabelli '83. West Point was represented 145

by Steve Cotariu '79, USMA, and Brent Kauffman '93, USMA. George SchmoU is in the process of marketing his recentiy patented new propulsor for boats and other watercraft.

Cliff Kittle joined us near the end of breakfast.

He made the joumey from Woodstock, IL, and is in the computer business. Cliff is getting more active with USNA and Alumni, having recentiy become a lifetime member of the Alumni Association. We hope to see him in the future.

Next breakfast up north is on Thursday, 3 October. Hope to see you there.

Westem Suburbs Breakfasts are held on the second Thursday of the month at the Naperville Holiday Inn, between 7-8:45 a.m.

Mark Rahmel '73 reports: Kind of a small group for our end of summer breakfast on 8 August but lots of lively discussion! Everyone on vacation I guess! Attending were Tom Baniield '54, Mark Rahmel '73, and Lee Smith '76. Topics included K-19—a few big inaccuracies about a reactor plant, effects of radiation, etc., but not too bad.

Energy industry also on the list of discussion items. And of course the pigeon poop fiasco!

Plenty of time for networking and catching up along with the breakfast of your choice.

Next meeting is Thursday morning, 10 October Any questions, give me a call at h: 630-416-9607 or w: 847-258-8608.

Chicago Loop Breakfasts are held at the Rebecca's Cafe, on the SW comer of Randolph and the Chicago River on the fourth Thursday of each month from 7-8:30 a.m. The 25 July breakfast was attended by the following Naval Academy grads Dean French '50, John Scully '69, Dave Frey '79, Gene Kessler '83, Jeff Taylor '87, Greg Stefanon '87, and John Killacky '93. Our joint academy networking breakfast also saw the following West Pointers; Rob Wroblewski '73, USMA, Kent Fredrickson '82, USMA, and A.J. Tamulaitis '88, USMA in attendance. The next Chicago Loop Breakfast will be on 24 October Naval Hero Visits Chicago President Fred Weber reports:

under Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk, and especially football. He has been favorably impressed with the new football coaching staff (As an aside, the Chicago Chapter is curtentiy working on an opportunity for die new AD to visit Chicago. Watch for future news on this visit.)

It was a very special evening and one that those in attendance won't soon forget. Those in attendance were Nancy and Will Denekas '38, Alice and Grady Zillgen '45, Nancy and Tim Bradley '48, John Howland '64, Roland Marquis '64, Lillian and ADM Jack Mumaw '64, Diane and Mike Mazurczak '67, Carol and George SchmoU '69, Vining Sherman '72, Kathy and Fred Weber '75, Bob Burell '79, Dave Frey '79, Mike McDonald '80, Anne and Kevin Wamke '81, Joan Mike Isabelli '83, David Linton '83, Julie and Keith Brunini '85, Katie and Jon Kirsch '95, The Honorable Fred Davidson, Mike Sweatman (Chicago Bears Special Teams Coach), Bud Tumer (Blue & Gold Officer), Jack and Peg Coombe, Beveriy Dillon (Admiral Lawrence's high school classmate) and Ted, Virginia and Warten Halls, Ken and Royce Wood, brothers Scott Burfield '06 and Tim Burfield '06 who entered the Academy this summer, and Keith Burfield who hopes to join them in a couple of years.

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— http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USNAChicago—In the upper right quadrant click on JOIN THIS GROUP The rest will be pretty much by the numbers. Get plugged in and get all the up-to-the-minute news on all things USNA. John G.B. Howland '64 BlaclcfinSS322 @ aol. com

assistant to the JCS. VADM Willard is no stranger to C7F. He is the former ComCarGm 5 and also a previous guest speaker We also welcome back CDR TUo Dua '84, a former C7F staff member who just took over as CO,

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Michael R. Olstead '81. Other recently arriving COs include CAPT Charles Dixon '79, (COWPENS (CG-63)), CDR Alan. J. Abramson '84 (CURTIS WILBUR (DDG-54)). Both Tito and Alan are Charter members of the Tokyo Bay Chapter.

For September's luncheon, CAPT Michael Mahan '79, Commander Destroyer Squadron 15, has tentatively agreed to be the guest speaker. Stay tuned for more details.

Go Navy! Beat Army] CDR Nolan D. Villarin '82, USNR

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: CAPT John Willis, USNR '76 h; 502-456-1889; w; 502-774-7571 e;john_wilUs@b-fcom

LOUISIANA SE LA/SW MS Gulf Coast (formerly New Orleans) Chapter LCDR Milt Jones '61, USN (Ret)

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INDIANA Indianapolis Chapter CDR Charies A. Rainey '84, USNR 12804 Double Eagle Drive, Carmel, IN 46033 h: 317-815-0575; e: crainey@flilbi.com

MAINE Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence made a special trip to Chicago to visit with our Chapter on Thursday, 13 June. A group of 50-plus Alumni, spouses, and friends gathered at the prestigious Shore Acres Country Club as the guests of Ambassador Paul Robinson and his lovely wife, Martha. A lively cocktail hour preceded dinner with many guests chatting with Admiral Lawrence and reminiscing about their Academy experiences. Bob Burell '79, Dave Frey '79, Mike McDonald '80, Kevin Warnke '81, Steve Dahlquist '82, Mike Isabelli '83, and Dave Linton '83 were aU at the Academy during Admiral Lawrence's tour as superintendent.

After dinner Admiral Lawrence treated us to an entertaining talk about how he has seen the Academy grow in stature and developing young men and women prepared to serve our country as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps. He updated us on the national rankings of our fine institution and the strength of our majors program. He sited the outstanding job that Admiral Ryan has done with the Strategic Plan and the curtent Comprehensive Campaign that is needed to build the margin of excellence required to attract the best and brightest young leaders. Admiral Lawrence also is looking forward to an improved varsity sports program.

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Portland Chapter LCDR Jeffrey W. Peters, JAGG, USNR '85 399 Palmer Ave., Portland, ME 04103 ? w: 207-443-5576; e: jeffpeters@1985.iKna.com

15246 Longford Drive, Granger, Esf 46530 h: 219-273-2939; e: CHaizlip@aol.com

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School is still out and many families are traveling to and from vacation to the States and other parts of the world. This month is also the beginning of the traditional o-bon holidays in Japan.

ComSeventhFlt changed hands on 18 July 2002 as VADM Robert Willard '73 relieved VADM James Metzger '71. VADM Metzger, the inaugural guest speaker for the Tokyo Bay Chapter is headed off to Washington, DC, as the

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October—Datdtime TBD. Founder's Day Celebration...inviting senior naval officer from Pentagon staff or U.S. Govemment official November—Date/time to be finalized. USMC recognition...LtGen Charles Bolden (invited) Shipmate, October 2002

15 December—Sunday, 5-8 p . m . holiday party c e l e b r a t i o n . . . t h r e e times as many gift drawings as last year January 2003—LCDR Jeff Winter, F - 1 8 pilot, THEODORE

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operations (invited) Winter 2003—a Chapter ttip to a U S N A athletic event in local area with N o r t h e m Virginia and D C Chapters February 2 0 0 i — s p e a k e r T B D Winter/spring 2003—Possible j o i n t effort with Alumni Association for a testimonial dinner for David Robinson, w h o is retiring fiom N B A ' s San Antonio Spurs March 2 0 0 i — s p e a k e r T B D / March 2003—Possible joint pre-game social event with local West Point Society at the A - N basketball g a m e in Alumni Hall April 2 0 0 i — s p e a k e r T B D 26 April 2003—Possible joint tailgate with local West Point Society at A - N lacrosse g a m e May 2 0 0 i — s p e a k e r T B D June 2003—welcome reception for prospective members of Class of 2007 Special Note In addition, each m o n t h from S e p t e m b e r through June the Chapter will sponsor a business networking breakfast to be held at the D e n n y ' s Restaurant, 2095 West St., Annapolis. It will be at 7:15 a.m. on the second Timrsday of each month. All are w e l c o m e . Council member, S e a n O'DomieU ' 8 9 (seanabby@aol.com) will host each breakfast. If you plan to attend a particular breakfast, please R S V P to Sean prior to that business breakfast at 4 1 0 - 9 9 1 - 5 6 2 3 or emaU. The objective of the business networking breakfasts will be to provide the opportunity to share business experiences, identify business opportunities, and discuss e m p l o y m e n t concerns.

Baltimore Chapter CDR Steve G. Young '84, USNR c/o Morgan Stanley 11311 McCormick Road, Hunt Valley, M D 21031 w; 410-229-8206; e; steven.g.young@morganstanley.com

Greater Southem Maryland Chapter CAPT Michael A. Cosgrove '70, USN (Ret.) 19238 King James Parkway Lexington Park, M D 20653-3627 p; 301-866-1955 ext 109; e: cosgrovem@starpower.net web site; http;//www.navyalumni.org Recognition C e r e m o n y H o n o r s G r a d u a t i n g M i d s h i p m e n . Local C h a p t e r of U S N A A l u m n i Association H o s t s E v e n t

By Norine Rowe, Public Affairs Department Local students soon to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, as well as those recently accepted into the institution, were honored at a luncheon here last week. Hosting the 9 May event for six area students was the Greater Southem Maiyland Chapter of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association. Among those honored at tiie station's Officers' Club were members of the Naval Academy's Class of 2002, including Jeff Servello '02, a 1997 graduate of Leonardtown High School, Nick Juron '02, a 1998 graduate of Great Mills High School, and Stacey Spigler '02, a 1998 graduate of Calvert High School.

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Also honored at the event were three local students slated for admission into the Naval Academy. Armando Hernandez-Christian, a senior at Great Mills High School, will enter the Naval Academy in June as a member of the Class of 2006. P.J. Reister, a senior at S t Mary's Ryken, and Angelica Perales. a senior at Great Mills High School, will both head to the Naval Academy Preparatory School where they will prepare to become members of the Naval Academy's Class of 2007.

Giving introductory remarks at the recognition luncheon was CAPT Scott Sanders, USNR, St. Mary's County Blue and Gold Officer, who provides assistance to local students seeking admission to the Naval Academy.

"I think we have a bumper crop this year, with three local midshipmen graduating and three starting out as a new crop," Sanders said.

There are curtently ten local students attending the Naval Academy, Sanders said.

Commenting on the daunting task of seeking an appointment to the Naval Academy, Sanders encouraged local students to pursue their dream if that is what they tmly want.

"By hook or by crook, if you have a desire to go to the Naval Academy, there's a way to get there," Sanders said. He described a range of opportunities that include direct appointments for qualified high school graduates and enlisted personnel as well as the Naval Academy Preparatory School and Naval Academy Foundation Scholarships.

"There's a way of getting in the Naval Academy if you want to go, and that's the good news for local students," Sanders said.

Also speaking at the recognition luncheon was MIDN 1/C Jeff Servello, one of the graduating midshipmen, who talked about his Naval Academy experience.

"When I first artived at the Naval Academy, 'IHTFP' meant 'I'm here to fly planes,'" Servello said. "But to many of us, it also meant, 'I'm here to find purpose.' And that's what the Naval Academy did for me. It really helped me to find my place."

Besides helping him find purpose and meaning in his life, Servello said the Naval Academy also helped him to grow as an individual.

"It helped me become the man that I want to be," Servello said, explaining that the Naval Academy taught him personal values like courage, honor and the commitment to serve something higher than himself.

His years at the Naval Academy weren't, however, all smooth sailing.

"I can't tell you the number of times I called home and told my parents, 'I hate it here,'" Servello said, referring to the challenges of Naval Academy life that can seem overwhelming at times. "There's a bittersweet duality to the Naval Academy," he added, "but it truly is a great place to be."

Additionally, Servello thanked his parents, members of the Alumni Association and others who supported him while at the Naval Academy.

"To everyone who went before us, thank you for setting the standard and for helping us uphold the standard," Servello said. "And to those of you who are thinking about going to the Naval Academy, come to us, talk to us."

Also speaking at the recognition luncheon was Mary Washington, a member of the St. Mary's County Board of Education, who recently returned from an orientation visit to the Naval Academy designed to acquaint community leaders with the institution. Washington

said she came away from her visit with a strong impression of how the Naval Academy, in addition to providing a quality education, offers an exemplary program of character training and leadership development.

"Knowledge without character is worthless," Washington said. "We need leaders with character who will make good moral decisions."

The final speaker at the recognition luncheon was State Delegate John L. Bohanan J r (D-District 29B), who noted that St. Mary's County has one of the best Blue & Gold Officers in the country and one of the fastest growing USNA Alumni Association Chapters in the country. He also noted that Southem Maryland is very productive in the number of students it sends to the Naval Academy.

"It's probably a lot more competitive in this congressional district than many others, but we go to bat for individuals who are tmly interested in going to the Naval Academy," Bohanan said. "Persistence counts for a lot," he added, "so don't give up if you initially apply and don't get in."

At the conclusion of the program, CAPT Mike Cosgrove, USN (Ret), president of the local USNA Alumni Chapter, presented gifts to local graduating midshipmen and recognized the incoming midshipmen from St. Mary's County.

Local honorees: Six students gather outside of the Officers' Club here following a Midshipman Recognition Ceremony hosted 9 May by the Greater Southern Maryland U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Seated, left, is Armando Hernandez-Christian, a senior at Great Mills High School, who will enter the Naval Academy in June as a member of the USNA Class of 2006. Angelica Perales, a senior at Great Mills High School, and P.J. Reister, a senior at St. Mary's Ryken, will enter the Naval Academy Preparatory School as members of the USNA Class of 2007. Standing are graduating midshipmen with the USNA Class of 2002, from left: Nick Juron, a 1998 graduate of Great Mills High School, Jeff Servello, a 1997 graduate of Leonardtown High School, and Stacey Spigler, a 1998 graduate of Calvert High School

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MASSACHUSETTS Boston Chapter CDR WUIiam E Malloy Jr., USNR '80 31 Wildcat Lane, Norwell, MA 02061 h: 781-659-9484; b: 617-742-3311 e; wfmalloy@yahoo.com, biU@malloygroup.com On Saturday, 3 August 2002 several members of the Chapter joined our landlubbing friends from West Point at their annual WPSNE picnic at Green Meadows Farm in South Hamilton, MA, the home of MGen and Mrs. George S. Patton who once again extended their invitation to us to retum to their beautiful Green Meadows Farm. Blue and Golders as well as parents clubbers were also there. Everyone enjoyed hayrides, swimming, tennis, and blueberry picking in addition to all around general picnicking fun and good cheer The two most exciting activities planned for the remainder of 2002 revolve around the football team. The Boston College-Navy football game events in Boston on 19 October will again be headed by Jim Masella Jr. '62 (vesperent@ aol.com). Activities commence on Friday, the 18th, with a round of golf for a select group of donors to the Naval Academy Foundation with the new Superintendent. This will be followed by a meeting at the Newton-Marriott around 5:30 p.m. with these select donors, and the Chapter leadership. This meeting will, in tum, be followed by a general meeting and dinner at 7 p.m. for the entire Chapter membership to be addressed by the Superintendent. Be there. The next moming will be another meeting with the Superintendent for all potential candidates at around 8:30 a.m., to be followed by the tailgate party at 10 a.m. at Lyons Hall on the Boston College campus. The Saturday times are assuming a noon kickoff. Kickoff time is dependent on TV scheduling and has not been determined as of this writing. For more up-to-date gouge check the Chapter web site. To reach the Chapter web site, go to usna.com, click the "Communities" and then the "Chapter Information Center" links and then the "Chapter Locations" link and then the "Massachusetts-Boston" link and, finally, the "web site address" in the middle of the page.

The tailgate party is $25 per head. To make reservations, please send a check in the amount of the number attending and their names. Also record Class year. Send this information and checks to: Sam Sichko '79, 585 Commercial Street, Boston, MA 02109.

Tickets can be obtained through the USNA Athletic Association by calling 800-US4-NAVY. Speaking of reservationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make your other reservations now] On 7 December 2002, the Chapter will be hosting an Army-Navy football game party! The setting will be the spectacular "Club at CMGI (sorry) Gillette Field" located in the brand new football stadium of the New England Patriots, Super Bowl Champions, in Foxboro, MA. Attendees will enjoy all types of food and beverages (including adult beverages) normally associated with a tailgate party, and will be able to watch the game on numerous screens throughout the club area. Given the preliminary response, reservations are a must since the capacity of the Club is limited. In order to be properly registered, a member's 2002 dues must

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Detroit: gathered around our version of the Stanley Cup are from left seated: Bill Penn '63, Martha Shue '91, second row: Art Bryant '66, Jim Tumer '63. Max Presecan '68. third row; Mike Balow '94 and Joe McMuIlin '92 be paid and a $5 per person fee must be included along with the reservation request. Please do not hesitate to contact the same aforementioned Sam Sichko '79 (SCSichko@PLGT.com) at 617-456-8007 or with reservations or questions.

Chapter members are also invited to attend the commissioning ceremony of PREBLE in Boston Harbor on 9 November 2002 dues are due! Only paid-up members of the Chapter are allowed to attend the football parties. Prospective members can contact our new Membership Committee Chairman, D.R. Dugan Jr. '84 (ddugan@charter.net).

Beat Army] Peter K. Seibert '65

MICHIGAN Detroit Chapter Arthur W. Bryant '66 1811 Hollywood Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236-1311 h: 313-885-2174; f 313-881-2333 e: lynorart@comcast.net

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On 14 June 2002 the Detroit Chapter held its monthly luncheon at Guy HoUerin's in Ann Arbor The main topics of conversation were our championship Red Wings, the success of our recent and our upcoming schedule of events.

These will include a visit by RADM Tom Marfiak '66, USN (Ret.), CEO of the U.S. Naval Institute, in August, the golf outing in September and our Navy-Army game party in December In addition we discussed the project for our Chapter to make a donation to the new Comprehensive Campaign for the Naval Academy. This will be a nice follow-up to the donation our Chapter made to purchase a room in Alumni Hall during the fund raising to honor a local hero, LT Mark Lange, USN, who was killed over Lebanon. Our total donation at that time was $26,000. Let's shoot for that again or more. To end the day we gathered for a picture with our version of the Stanley Cup.

On 17 July 2002 we held our luncheon at Malone's Restaurant in Warren. We were pleased to welcome back to the area CAPT Hal Anderson '64, USN (Ret.), who left here about 42 years ago for the Sevem River. Those in attendance included Mike Bennett, Richard Witten '87, Hal Anderson '64, Art Bryant '66, Jim Fleming '66, John Lin '92, John Buttermore '73, BiU Penn '63, and John Mehelas '51.

MINNESOTA Upper Midwest Chapter David C. Berghult '91 6628 Parkwood Rd., Edina, MN 55436-1073 w: 952-953-5353; e: berghultdc@bemstein.com

MISSOURI Greater Kansas City Metro Chapter Kyle E. Martin '74 16901 Meadow Lane, Belton, MO 64012-4112 w: 913-498-8088; e: kmartin@mUepostrans.com: I Sec'y: Joe Spencer '92 e: jspencer@go-onpoint.com St. Louis Chapter LCDR Alex Von Zur Muehlen '90 12565 Larkwood Dn, St. Louis, MO 63146-4501 h; 314-878-1288; e: avonzurmuehlen@srob.com On 22 June, John Winkler '85 took command of VAW-77, the Night Wolves, a Naval Reserve squadron of EC-2 Hawkeyes. John's squadron flies out of NAS Atlanta and works with die Coast Guard and other agencies to head off dmg smuggling from the Caribbean. John fleeted up after spending a year as the XO. John has 2,000 flight hours in the Hawkeye and 9,000 hours in all. Congratulations, buddy!

Also on 22 June, the Chadwick Swim Club in Manchester honored the memory of long time Shipmate, October 2002

member Terri Fussner '96 by naming their annual enthusiasm, reliability, diligence, and good sportsmanship award after her. Terri, who was killed in a helicopter crash in March, was a ten year member of the club and still holds the records for the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 200-yard medley relay.

On 20 July John Kane '44, Dwight CaldweU '66, Mike Dunham '70, Mike Nolan (A), and Jim Eriinger (A) attended the change of command ceremonies at NAS New Orleans for RADM Dan Kloeppel (A). Dan is taking over responsibility for all Naval Air Reserve activity in the U.S. We all had a good time and at one point counted 22 flag officers present (21 Navy, 1 Marine). The reception held at the O'Club was outstanding! It should be noted that your correspondent and a high ranking SEAL (0-4 plus) felt it was their duty to guard the beer keg. It was not stolen. The following photo is of our esteemed CAPT Kane and RADM John McLaughlin '72 in New Orleans.

N E W MEXICO Albuquerque Chapter Michael J. Petrofes '80 1916 Morningside Drive NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 h: 505-255-4253; e: petrofes@flash.net

N E W YORK Capital District Chapter LCDR Thomas M. Owens '84, USNR 205 Colonial Ave., Albany, NY 12208-2404 h: 518-446-9278; e; towens@uswired4ed.net

M e t r o N e w York Chapter LT Robert V. Peyreigne '81, USNR 45 Bradley Rd., Weston, CT 06883 w: 203-291-1021 e: robert.peyreigne@ubspw.com Chapter Hotiine: 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.bhsh@kodak.com

RADM John P. McLaughUn '72 and CAPT John C. Kane '44, USN (Ret.) The 2 August happy hour at the VFW was the most highly attended since we reinstituted the event. Dorothy and John Kane, BiU Edens '63, Mike Dunham, Ron HiU '70, Barb and BUI Cocos '71, Greg Hightaian '80, Dave Jason '81, and Mike Nolan (A) attended. Making the evening more enjoyable was the presence of two friends of John's, Annie Galvin and Julie Zebelman.

I hope to see a good tumout at Founder's Day on 4 October.

Miice Dunham '70 "Molon Labe"

N E B R A S K A Omaha Chapter CAPT Demiis R. Fox '79, USN 2113 Christine Stteet, PapiUion, NE 68133 h: 402-597-8862; w; 402-294-3722 e: fox79@hotmail.com Sec'y; LCDR Chris Verdoni '88 4605 Longview Street, Papillion, NE 68133 h: 402-292-3230; w: 402-294-8309 e; cverdoni@email.msn.com

NEVADA Las Vegas Chapter Bradley Carlson '91 2246 Darwin Circle, Henderson, NV 89014-3105 h: 702-433-7248; w: 702-433-2100 e; BCarlson@goidc.com Shipmate, October 2002

Suzanne and Richard Kievit '61

The Westem New York Chapter held its Annual Candidate Recognition Dinner on 14 June. The tumout was good with members of the Parents Club, Navy League, ROTC, USNA Alumni, and of course Midshipman candidates for the Class of 2006. The speaker was George Watt '73, president and CEO of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and Foundation.

George discussed the relevance of the Academy and the Navy after the September 11th attack. The loss of 14 USNA Alumni at the Pentagon and World Trade Centers makes the event especially relevant. The Alumni Association's mission and the Academy's mission are those beacons that keep all of us on track in support of the Brigade and the Academy.

George explained that there are several areas where the interest and mission of our Chapters, our Class organizations, and our parents clubs converge.

George also remarked that synergy between the Parents Club, the "Rising Plebes" and the Navy League work well in Westem New York.

He stated that the Chapter models the way "informed advocacy" should work.

Attendees at the event included: Kevin and Cheryl Albaugh and their son, Kurt Albaugh '06, Pamela Bamard and her son, Chris Benard '06, Susan Bielat, Sharon Stiller, and Nelson BUsh '69, and his son, Jacob Blish, ROTC Camegie Mellon University '06, Debbie and Jamie Bmgler and their son, Chris Brugler '06, Larry Coan and his daughter, Mary Coan ('07?), Norb Holderle, Navy League, Kim and Jim Isaac and their son, Brian Isaac '06, Suzanne and Richard Kievit '61, Chris and Susan Konkol and their son. Matt Konkol ('09?), Gavin Lowder, commanding officer ROTC University of Rochester, D. J. and Cathreen Nelson '62, Scott and Maureen Valentine '88, George Watt '73, Mary and Bob Whitehead '65, and Joe VaccareUa '92.

George Watt '73 and Kurt Albaugh

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Charlotte Chapter Bryan Dolan '76 5629 Laurium Road, Charlotte, NC 28226 h: 704-364-6451 Piedmont Triad Chapter LCDR WUUam H. Gregory '72, USN (Ret.) 2242 Nettlebrook Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27106-9411 e: wmgregory@aol.com

Triangle Chapter Hehnuts Feifs '66 Festive Fen Acres 6242 Dello St., Durham, NC 27712 h: 919-477-3148; e: vanags@mindspring.com Although Mother Nature doesn't follow suit, summer ends early in North Carolina with school starting in early August. And neither the North Carolina natives nor the "relocated Yankees," like myself, seem to know the reason why!

The Triangle Chapter took a summer break in July and met again on 2 August. Despite it being that "last chance to get away" before the school routine picks up, we had good attendance including a few new faces. Enjoying the lunch were Jim Brown '35, Ben Terrell '47, Charles Paddock '51, BiU Smith ' 5 1 , BiU DeHart '53, Gil McCuUen '53, Fred Knops '54, Sharon and Paul Basse '57, Milt Forsythe '57, Dave Burden '58, Gary Lew '60, Jim Mergner ' 6 1 , Chuck Adams '63, Bmce Runberg '64, Helmuts Feifs '66, Tom Leiser '67, John Scott '67, Will Pearce '78, Chris Hayes '79, Jenifer Clement ' 8 1 , and Karl Darden '84. Please remember that spouses are not only welcome, but encouraged to attend!

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in Cary. For membership information, call Jenifer Clement '81 (clementja@earthlink.net) at 919-677-2581.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Chapter CAPT Charies C. Coley '34, USN (Ret.) 411 NW Uth Sr, Oklahoma City, OK 73103-3510 h: 405-235-0234; e: cccusn@aol.com

OHIO Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter

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Michael F. Sunon '73 757 Maidstone Court, Cincinnati, OH 45230-3827 h: 513-231-3174; e; msimon757@aol.com

CDR Harry V. Rouse IV '77, USN (Ret.) 2623 East 33 Place, Tulsa, OK 74105-2334 h: 918-748-8650; e; HVRouse@aol.com

Cleveland Chapter CAPT A.O. Rule IH '50, USNR (Ret.) 90 Pheasant Run, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 h; 440-247-4379; w; 440-247-5100 x328 e: mlein@aol.com

Columbus/Central Ohio Chapter RusseU A. Puppe '66 242 Crossing Creek North Gahanna, OH 43230 h: 614-418-5024; e; rpuppe@columbus.rr.com The Chapter met at 6:30 p.m. on 20 July 2002 at the Hearth and Eagle Tavem, 7800 Olentangy River Road, about a half mile north of the 1-270 Beltway on Route 315. The occasion was a sayonara dinner for our outgoing President Mick Taylor '68 and his wife, Karen, and the election of new officers. The evening began with a social/attitude adjustment hour (cash bar) followed by dinner and then a business meeting.

The menu was excellent, and was well served and received. After dinner, Mick was presented with a certificate of appreciation from the Alumni Association signed by Chairman of the Board, SnuÂŁfy Smith '62, and our President George Watt '73. Mick has retfred and is heading back to his roots (we should say "surf) in Califomia where when the surf is up and the sun is shining, nothing is more important than catching the next big wave.

John Augenstein, our local Blue & Gold officer, followed with a talk on the Blue & Gold program and the Naval Academy Parents Club.

Following his most informative talk, our new slate of officers were installed. They are Russ Puppe '66, president; Howard Russell '71, vice president; Ed Tipshus '54, secretary; and Jerry O'Donnell '61, treasurer Following this, our new President Russ Puppe '66 led a discussion on "where do we want to go with the Chapter."

Those attending were Deke Lang '49, George Fox '50, Jo Anne and Derrell Hauser '51, Pat and Roy Girod '53, Lena and Tom Pettit '53, Dick Robbins '53, Jerry O'Donnell '61, Dana and Jim Cowardin '66, Debbie and Russ Puppe '66, Karen and Mick Taylor '68, Carole and Charies Hoffman '69, Pat and Lowell Gulp '70, Rhett Oliver '78, and John Augenstein, Blue & Gold officer Ed Tipshus '54

Toledo Chapter Robert J. Lauer '45 3825 Sulphur Spring Rd., Toledo, OH 43606-2325 h; 419-536-4462; w; 419-475-2061 e: rjonlauer@aoI.com

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The Tulsa Chapter will be holding its annual golf outing in October. The current plan is to have tee times on the moming of Thursday, 17 October at the South Lakes Golf Course. Format TBA. Not only will this allow some time for fratemal fellowship (and some golf), it will give us a chance to see our tax dollars at work, in the form of the new pavillion funded by the "Four to Fix" county tax our fellow voters saw fit to approve.

We would love to have you join us. Come around and bring a friend. Contact Harry Rouse '77, above, for more details and to reserve your space.

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; bmce@btelderlaw.com web site; http://usnaaa.coni/Chapters/US/OR July Luncheon The Chapter met for our monthly luncheon on 10 July 2002. Attending the luncheon were: Jack Barrett '43, Dave Beadling '48, Jim Leiser '51, Jake McMichael '58, Mike Hartman '59, Bill Milwee '59, Butch Bewick '62, Bert Mackaman '64, Jack Kohl '65, Alex "Tex" Harkins '67, Cal Meek '67, Doug Bomarito '68, Joe Kavale '68, Mark Cooksey '71, Skip Phipps '73, Bmce Thompson '73, Scott Fitzpatrick '80, Doug Cooper '86, Scott Bowmer '87, and Eric Laurel, a prospective candidate for the Class of 2008.

Personal Notes There was no scheduled speaker, but we still managed to fill the two hours of the luncheon with lively table talk. Scott Bowmer '87 spoke to the group for a few minutes about his candidacy for a position on the Portland City Council.

Scott reviewed what he felt would be the salient points of the upcoming election, and gave us a little insight into his feelings about each of them.

Good luck, Scott!

Doug Bomarito '68 told the group, that he had gotten word through the folks back at Alumni House, that there was a 1996 Class ring in a pawn shop here in Portland. Doug contacted the police sergeant assigned to the case, and was working with him to track down the owner (the name had been obliterated). The members present at the luncheon voted to pay the pawn shop owner the money that he had outstanding on the ring as a gesture of good will, and with the idea that any other pawn shop owner would be much more willing to come forward with a USNA Class ring should this happen againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;knowing that they would not lose the money they had invested in it. Subsequent to the meeting, Doug and Cal Meek '67 did some more legwork, and

with the help of the police sergeant, the owner was located at Postgraduate School in Monterey.

It mms out, he had been visiting friends in the Portland area, and upon retuming to his motel room after a mn, found the ring missing.

Attending the luncheon for the first time was Eric Laurel, Eric is working hard to gain an appointment to the Class of 2008. Good luck and keep working, Eric!

The Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter meets for lunch the second Wednesday of every month at the Georgian Room restaurant, Meier & Frank 10th Floor Downtown Portland, 6th and Alder at 11:30 a.m. Please join us. Call Bruce Thompson '73 (503-292-8833) for any additional information, or check our web site.

Joe Kavale '68

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Chapter LtCol Victor M. Gardner HI '77, USMC (Ret.) 121 Glenn Rd., Ardmore, PA 19003 h; 610-645-5361 e: President@USNAPhil.com http://www.usnaphil.com VP_Membership @ USNAPhil.com "VP_E vents @ USNAPhil.com 'VP_WebMaster@USNAPhil.com Shipmate News Input: Casey Johnson '89 e: CaseyJ@vspan.com Upcoming Events 10 October. Founders Day dinner 11 October. Navy Day luncheon A mailing to dues paid members wiU precede USNA AA of Philadelphia events. Anyone interested in helping to mn events throughout the year, please email VP_Events@USNAPhil.com.

News Input Philadelphia Chapter news input for Shipmate should be emailed to xl630s@aol.com.

EmaU Contacts President@USNAPhU.com VP_Membership@USNAPhil.com VP_Events@USNAPhil.com VP_WebMaster@USNAPhil.com Pittsburgh Chapter Waiiam E. Otto '71 4105 Tartan Court, MunysviUe, PA 15668-1045 h: 724-325-4281; w; 412-856-3500 e: Figaro4105@aol.com Unfortunately PANIC was called off this year in order to focus our efforts on an inter-service golf match (PANGS) to be held Sattirday, 5 October Don't worry if you're not a big hitter, one of die competitions will be largest attendance, so everyone who shows up will help. The point of contact will be Paul Kress '96 (pkress@andrew.cmu.edu).

He can be contacted at w: 412-395-5487, h: 412939-3443, or by email for details.

Kyle W. Baker, CFM

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Mr. Hector M. Atienza '83 Senior Vice President, Compttollership AFP Savings & Loan Association, Inc. Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City 1110 Philippines 632-911-6732 hatienza @ afpslai.com.ph Sec'y: LCDR Julianito Bucayan Jr. '85, PN Asst. Vice President Management Info Systems Department AFPRSBS, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City 1110 Telefax: 632-912-3483; p; 911-4071 x275 e: junbucayan@yahoo.com We got an update from George Leonard '64, who has submitted this report on his Classmate and former roommate, Edwin Mella '64; I noticed in your Chapter column in Shipmate several months ago you published missing Alumni and that you are looking for information regarding their whereabouts. One of those listed was Edwin Mella '64. Ed was a Classmate and a roommate for two years.

Although I have not heard from him in about ten years, I will pass along what information I have. Ed had joined the ministry after he left the Philippine Navy. Unfortunately, I do not recall the faith. I have two addresses for him: 12 Rhapsody St., Sta. Cecilia Village, Las Pirias 1701 M.M.. Philippines and P.O. Box 331, Bagio City. Philippines 02600. The Class of '64 web site lists his address as: St Cecelia Subdivision. Las Pinas, Metto Manila.

Hopefully, you will be able to locate him with this information.

Chuck Agustin '60 was able to confirm that the Mellas are in the Sta. CeciUa Street address in Las Piiias City. As the Chapter was going to meet on 28 June 2002, he actually tried to convince Edwin to attend, but unfortunately he did not show up.

Chuck also got a recent feedback by email from his former FSec Pando Del Rosario '84 (femandodelrho@msn.com), who emailed: "Just keeping in touch. I've been monitoring all emails sent to all USNA AA members." Pando's address: 27 Park Lane, Woodbridge, CT 06525; 203-397-3286.

Tidbits from Don Koch'53 Chuck Agustin '60 sends this with the hope that the editor will read carefully and allow Don's literary style to be exhibited without malice. The recipe he talks about are available for anyone interested. Just email Chuck, Don, or the secretary.

Early in January 2002, our good friends Grace and Nelson Lim invited us out to a "special dinner" at the San Fabian Yacht Club, about a halfhour's drive east from Dagupan on the Lingayan Gulf It was marvelous experience, as it tumed out that our host was not only one of the owners of the yacht club, but an American Navy veteran of World War II, about my age, and an accomplished yachtsman under sail.

Our host, Don Powers, immediately cautioned me not to order the cheap beer, but to enjoy not one but two bottles of chilled imported American beer This made him my friend and shipmate for life.

During the course of the dinner we exchanged outrageous sea stories and Navy yarns...all true, of course...and eventually came to discuss the breakfasts that we had in Shipmate, October 2002

World War II and what the sailors called the various menu items. We agreed that the U.S. Navy breakfasts were mostly good and that we missed them from time to time, but not including, ugh, powdered eggs that were green.

I said I'd taught TY to make regulation U.S. Navy baked beans and that I had many other Navy recipes too...and would make up a packet so that all of us, including absent friends and shipmates, could tty out a few of the recipes, recall their time at sea, and enjoy a real Navy breakfast] Recipes varied from ship to ship. After all, there was an old Navy saying, "Different ships ...different long splices." Some ships used live steam direct from the ship's boilers to huge vats in the galley, and submarines used small electric hotplates and ovens. So things were not only made and tasted differentiy from ship to ship, but also on the same ship from time to time as ingredients ran out or short and substitutions were made, and cooks came and went.

The recipes herein are a good cross section sample, and you're certainly invited to add or subtract ingredients to bring the 'taste-up' up to your own memories of breakfast underway at sea. So here we go. Don't be offended by the names, as this is what the sailors really called things and we are, after all, recording history whilst satisfying the pallet: • Traditional U.S. Navy baked beans, served on hot buttered toast • [S.O.S.] • Scrambled eggs with sauteed ham and apple chunks ring These names aren't too bad. We haven't mentioned lunch, where, at long periods at battle stations, the mess cooks came around with pitchers of steaming black coffee to be dispensed in soup bowls (the chiefs had all the unbroken cups) and the [coldcut] sandwiches, nor have we mentioned baby barf But, we've even added a recipe of our own for homemade San Francisco style sourdough French bread and English muffins so that you can enjoy a really first class breakfast.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE American Chapter CAPT James N. Roberts '59, USN (Ret.) 152 Springlakes Drive, Martinez, GA 30907 h: 706-860-6430; e; jrobe92528@aol.com Shipmate inputs to: Mike Stroop '54 248 West Lake Circle, Madison, AL 25758-7920 e; pstroop@knology.net Chapter web site: http://members.tripod.coni/frankconery

RHODE ISLAND Newport Chapter ADM James R. Hogg '56, USN (Ret.)

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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.com http://home.sc.rr.coni/mitt/navy

South Carolina Midlands Chapter George S. Hirsch '54 219 Beckworth Lane, Irmo, SC 29063-8333 h: 803-781-5325; e: gsh5325@aol.com Web site; www.members.aol.com/usnaaasc

Palmetto WUIiam B. Swent '88 Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, PC. 100 E. Coffee St., PO. Box 87 Greenville, SC 29602-0087 w: 864-242-6440; e; WSwent@LWTM.com

Low Country Chapter John R. Rodman Jr. '66 30 Persimmon Place Hilton Head Island, SC 29926-2868 h: 843-342-2856; e: jrodman@hargray.com The Hilton Island/Beaufort/Savannah Low Country Chapter members had a busy summer with only minimal time available for any organized activities. We did get together in nudAugust for a trip to Savannah and attended the local Sand Gnats baseball game. In attendance were Norm Altman '49, Betsy and Dean Hines '57, Cindy and Denny Tomlin '63, Doo and Rich Weidman '63, and Roxanne and Steve Cheney '71.

Scheduled for fall and early winter: Happy Hour at MCAS Beaufort. We have lost a number of our active duty aviator Alumni due to summer transfers. To introduce our Chapter to those who remain and those who have recentiy joined units at the air station and at Parris Island, we are planning a Chapter sponsored happy hour at the O'Club on Friday, 6 September 2002.

Joint meeting with Charleston and Columbia Chapters. We are trying to arrange a trip to Charleston, SC, for a joint event with our fellow Alumni during the weekend of 27 September Annual Chapter Picnic. At the Dolphin Head Recreation Center on Hilton Head Plantation on Saturday, 19 October 2002. An old fashioned, low country boil, family affair.

Navy-Wake Forest Football. 23 November 2002. Several Alumni are planning on attending.

If others are interested, we can get block seating and try to arrange for transportation Navy-Army Football. 1 December 2002. We are pursuing several sites in the Bluffton/Sun City area.

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(see photo below). The crowd thoroughly enjoyed the story, and when Erik claimed die jumper, it looked as if it might still fit! It must also be said that Paul Moore did credit Erik for providing some humor and leadership in what otherwise was a tough Plebe Year. We should acknowledge that Erik Woods did write a check for the $64 fine! Thus, for Paul Moore '67 and his Classmates, the healing process has started—there is closure!

Low Country: Sand Gnats baseball game

TENNESSEE Chattanooga Chapter Charies T. Higgins '64 PO. Box 15427, Chattanooga, TN 37415-0427 h: 423-877-0776 x l l ; f 423-874-0852 r: 423-886-1111; o: 423-877-0776 xll e: cthiggins64@hotmail.com Knoxville-Oak Ridge Chapter CDR A. Jerry Popp '62, USN (Ret.) 106 Heron Court, Vonore, TN 37885 h; 423-884-2860; e: PoppJ@pathwayb.com M e m p h i s Chapter CAPT Jack Quinlan '67, USNR (Ret.) 3987 Lake wood Cv, Memphis, TN 38128 h: 901-372-8423; e;JACK.QUINLAN@namanpower.com 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

TEXAS North Texas Chapter LCDR James M. Bethmann '77, USNR 2203 Creekside Circle South, Irving, TX 75063 w: 214-954-1834; e: jim.bethmann@tmp.com, keith.tibbits@tmp.com LCDR Kurt Metcalf '91 9718 Enmore Ln., Frisco, TX 75035 e;kurt.metcalf@ 1991 .usna.com web site; http://www.usnaaa-ntx.com

South Texas Chapter LCDR Lawrence S. Stovall II '84, USNR 2427 Wilderness Wood, San Antonio, TX 78231 h: 210-493-4377; e; mysabrina@aol.com

Texas Gulf Coast Chapter Lynn A. Wegner '65 6909 Northhampton Way, Houston, TX 77055 w: 713-263-8001 x265 e; lwegner@rectorseal.com June Dinner...the Firstie's Jumper As reported last month, our Chapter's annual June dinner for Alumni, spouses, guests, and the local USNA Parents' Club members was held at Brennan's Restaurant on 7 June. By pure coincidence, in late spring, Paul Moore '67 wrote to Lynn Wegner '65, Chapter president, in the hopes righting a series of wrongs that took place during the Class of 1967's Plebe Year—specifically in the 16th Company, a.k.a. "the Savage Sixteenth."

Apparently, there were two Firsties who were always in need of spending money. Those Firsties had a series of "get rich quick" schemes—including selling spray-on lacquer shoe shine, making and selling hot dogs, selling old scratched record albums, and, finally, their broken stereo system. The final insult occurred as graduation day neared, when a particular 1/C Midshipman decided that the Plebes needed to supplement their wardrobe by buying all of his old uniforms, including his old white jumpers.

As you may know, '64 was the last Class to have their names stenciled across the front. The newer Classes all used nametags. However, the firstie convinced the Plebes that "no one would notice the wrong name stenciled on the jumper." As you can imagine, those wounds did not heal with the passage of time. Eventually, Paul Moore noticed that the Class of '64 culprit resided in Houston.

Paul Moore '67 kept the jumpers packed away until earlier this year when he told the story to Lynn Wegner Our board decided that an appropriate punishment would be a fine of the "offending" Class number—$64. Plus, the offending Firstie had to agree not to sell this jumper to any more Plebes! Lynn Wegner told this story during the June dinner and then displayed the jumper such that the "E.C. Woods '64" stencil was clearly visible. At that point, the jumper was presented to Erik Woods '64

Erik Woods '64 USNA Birthday Celebration...4 October As we have done the past two years, we plan to celebrate the Academy's birthday on Friday evening, 4 October with a 6 p.m. social hour and 7 p.m. dinner on board our state's historic battleship, TEXAS (BB-35) (www.usstexasbb35.com). This dinner wiU be in lieu of the October luncheon. The cost will be $15 per person—more info will be sent in newsletters to the area Alunmi. However, by the time you read this column, the date will be near. Please call us for more information Business Networking Meetings Several of our USNA shipmates are members of The Academy Business Exchange (a Houston-based national business networking group consisting of grads from all the service academies). Currentiy, the twice-monthly breakfast meetings are currently held at 7:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Friday of every month at the Metropolitan Racquet Club. Breakfast is_^ee for all first-time visitors. A nominal charge of $10 is for recurring attendees 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) at 281-370-3813, or Monica Ortega (mortega© hdinc.com) for schedule updates. There is also a monthly luncheon meeting—currentiy scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at Brennan's restaurant. Contact the same individuals for the details.

Chapter Meetings Chapter meetings are usually held on the first Friday of every month (1 November, 6 December 3 January, and 7 February) at Brennan's Restaurant (11:30 a.m. refreshments, and noon-1 p.m. lunch). There will not be an October luncheon because of the 4 October Birthday celebration dinner. Please join us! For any additional information on any item in this column, please contact me (713-750-8868; kleinl985@sbcglobal.net), or visit us at http://www.usna.com/Chapters/US/TX/GulfCoa st/default.htm.

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UTAH/IDAHO/ MONTANAAVYOMING Intermountain NA Alumni Chapter J. Kevin Dolan '71 2415 East 10305 South, Sandy, UT 84092 h: 801-942-7240; e: kdolan@fonix.com

VIRGINIA Blue Ridge Chapter 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. HastogUs '55, USN (Ret.) 102 Shawnee Ct., Charlottesville, VA 22901-1034 h; 804-973-7846; e; a.hastoglis@att.net

Dulles Chapter LCDR Eric C. Ruttenberg, USNR '88 20445 Needleleaf Way, Ashbum, VA 20147-2389 p;703-858-4404; e; emttenberg@east.delfin.com www.cybertowne.com/dusnaaa H a m p t o n R o a d s 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 IH '84 8902 Highgate Hill Dr., Chesterfield, VA 23832 b; 804-639-3583; e; njrichiii@COMCAST.net Shenandoah Valley Chapter David V. Langfitt '74 125 Henrico Road, Front Royal, VA 22630 w: 540-636-2138; e; davidlangfitt@netscape.net Williamsburg Chapter LtCol James J. ConnoUy '53, USMC (Ret.) 105 Hermitage Rd., Williamsburg, VA 23188-2551 h; 757-229-4510 CAPT Thomas R. Pratt '62, USN (Ret) 670 Counselor's Way, Williamsburg, VA 23185 757-564-9090; e; ttpratt@erols.com The Williamsburg Chapter hosted CAPT Thomas K. Cole '74, USN (Ret.), the USNA Blue & Gold Program Coordinator for the Southeast Virginia Area at its 30 July 2002 meeting. Tom's area of responsibility in Virginia includes the Tidewater area and central Virginia bounded by the Eastern Shore, north to Fredericksburg, and south to Richmond, and almost to Charlottesville. This area encompasses 270 schools which are served by 37 Blue & Gold Officers (BGOs) who Tom coordinates to bring the word about the Naval Academy to aspiring, young, high school students.

Tom walked the Alunmi through the admissions process, defined the place of the BGO in Shipmate, October 2002

Williamsburg: 1 to r: Tom Whaley '57, Tom Pratt '62, Jim Connolly '53, Tom Cole '74, and Ed Lull '55 the process, and discussed some of the qualifications that are sought today in applicants. It is worthy of note that in the formal admissions process that the BGO is the only person who actually goes face to face in an interview environment with these students. Tom encouraged the Chapter to consider hosting local events and noted that he is actively seeking additional candidates as BGOs. Three local high school counselors were present at the meeting and indicated a strong interest in the Academy's program.

Tom Pratt '62 trpratt@erols. com 757-564-9090

W A S H I N G T O N Hanford/Tri-Cities Chapter 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 Puget Sound Chapter CAPT Colin H. Saari '60, USN (Ret.) 12503 Ninth Ave., NW, Seattie, WA 98177 h; 206-361-1192; w: 206-543-1363 e; saari@apl.washington.edu web site: www.usnaaa-psc.org

WASHINGTON, DC AREA Greater Washington Chapter CDR Edward J. SuUivan, Jr. '68 USN (Ret.) 1312 Red Hawk Circle, Reston, VA 20194 h: 703-437-5457

WEST VIRGINIA West Virginia Chapter Stephen S. Shumlas '69

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WISCONSIN Wisconsin Chapter Guy T. Mascari '69 6619 West Lloyd St., Wauwatosa, WI 53213 h: 414-774-6874; w: 414-778-1400; f 414-778-1178; e: gtm@mcrpc.org

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LAST CALIJ Requiescat 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 moming, we will remember them."

—Laurence Binyon, I9I4

Anderson, James Paul Jr. '59 2 August 2002 Blair, Ralph Glenn '48 25 January 2002 Bracci, Charles Lester Jr. '69 25 February 2002 Chinn, Courtney Dean '75 LtCol, USMC (Ret.) 2 August 2002 Da'vis, John Blount Jr. '42 RADM, USN (Ret.) 13 August 2002 Dewitt, John Carroll Jr. '32 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 5 August 2002 Drake, Frank David '68 LCDR, USNR 25 August 2002 Ellis, WiUiam Anthony '36 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 1 September 2002 Fairless, Paul Wesley '76 3 July 2002 Forbes, James Hyde Jr. '47 * 5 August 2002 Frost, Richard Floyd '49 27 August 2002 Gibson, William Comire '44 CDR, USN (Ret.) 30 August 2002 GUck, John Albert'26 RADM, USN (Ret.) 15 August 2002

Grey, James Robert '37 CDR, USN (Ret.) 15 August 2002 Hammond, Robert Arthur '55 Maj, USAF (Ret.) 25 March 2002 Harrell, Raymond Lee '27 LCDR, USNR (Ret.) 15 August 2002 Hilbum, John Presley '44 * 7 July 2000 Hogan, Bernard Charles '49 29 June 2002 Kreutzer, Knox '44 27 August 2002 Lincoln, Frederick Irwin '36 22 April 2002 Loomis, Robert James '44 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 24 August 2002 Lyden, Raymond Gregory '55 CAPT, USAF 24 February 2002 Michaels, John Richard '54 1 August 2002 Osmer, James WendeU Jr. '48 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 15 August 2002 Oswald, Peter George '84 CDR, USN 27 August 2002 Phaler, Walter Louis '37 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 9 August 2002

GLOVER TRENHOLM FERGUSON '33

Captain Glover T. Ferguson, USN (Ret.), died in Gainesville, FL, on 1 August 2002. He was 90 years old.

Bom in Baltimore, MD, Glover and his family were living in New Orleans, LA, when his father serving as consul to seven Central and South American countries, contracted the flu in the epidemic of 1918 and died. His mother relocated the family to Annapolis, MD. Glover attended the Gunston Farm School and was a graduate of Annapolis High before attending the Sevem School to prepare for admittance to the Naval Academy. Absent an appointment to USNA, Glover enlisted in the Navy at 17. He soon received his appointment in time to enter with the Class of 1933. He was an AllAmerican and captained the Navy lacrosse team in his First Class Year.

Glover's career as a "black shoe" took him through the horror that was 7 December 1941, as a gunnery officer in NEW ORLEANS, to what he considered his finest moment in 1960 when he took command of BOSTON (CAG-1). Along the way he commanded WILTSIE, DesDiv 12, and HENRICO, all in the Pacific. Shore duty included aide to the Superintendent at the Naval Academy, BuPers, and the National War College. His last tour of duty was as chief of staff to the commander of the 14th Naval District.

Retiring from the Navy in 1964, Glover worked in the private sector in Hawaii before relocating to Coronado, CA. In the course of his career he was awarded, among other decorations, the Silver Star.

In 1936, Glover married Mary Louise Reifsnider daughter of Vice Admiral Lawrence Reifsnider USNA 1910. Their happy union produced two children, Laurie and Glover Jr Sadly, after 63 years of marriage, Mary Lou passed away peacefully in Coronado, CA, in 1999.

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Robertson, Jack Leighton '38 LCDR, USNR (Ret.) 13 August 2002 Rudolph, Francis Albert Jr. 'S3 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 14 August 2002 Ruggiero, John Paul Vito '04 ^ MIDN 18 August 2002 ,fl Sattler, Donald Charles'50 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 5 March 2002 Scanland, Francis W. Jr. '34 fl^ CAPT, USN (Ret.) 12 August 2002 Schneeman, Charles Joseph Jr. '48 ^ 28 March 2002 « Seagroves, Jean Conrad '54 Wm Col, USAF (Ret.) 25 August 2002 • Seitz, Thomas Henry '37 S 1 May 2002 fl[ Sherman, Frank Edwin '49 mm CDR, USN (Ret.) 25 August 2002 Spillman, Frank Leroy Jr. '45 ^H CDR, USN (Ret.) 6 July 2002 S Thro, John Baptiste '41 S CAPT, USN (Ret.) 30 July 2002 ^^ Wilcox, Burr Curtis Jr. '46 CAPT, USN (Ret.) 14 August 2002 J * obituary appears in this issue JH

In addition to his daughter and son. Glover is survived by four grandsons; four great-grandchildren; and his sister, Polly Ferguson 'WilUams of Annapolis, MD. We wUl always miss him and remember him as the epitome of an officer and a gentleman.

Ttie Ferguson Family WARREN WILSON ARMSTRONG '35

Captain Warren W. Armstrong, USN (Ret.), died in La lolla, CA, on 18 lune 2002 after a very brief illness.

Warren was bom in Filley, NE, on 12 Febmary 1912, was raised in the Midwest, and —pj, _ . was appointed from Illinois to enter the Naval F ^A J- ^ ^ ^ ^ Academy with the Class of 1935. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^^k Following graduation, Warren commenced a ^ ^ H j ^ k ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H series of consecutive sea duty assignments that ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ m may have set a record. After two years in the carrier SARATOGA on the West Coast followed by two years on the China Station, he retumed to the States to help recommission old destroyers being tumed over to the British. He then spent a year on the four-stack cmiser RICHMOND before joining destroyer MAURY in September 1941, in which he participated in many of the early battles of World War II in the Pacific, including the attacks on Tarao and Maloelap, the strikes in the Marshalls and on Wake Island, the BatUe of Midway, the Invasion of Guadalcanal, and the batUes of the East Solomons, Santa Cmz Islands, and Tassafaronga. In early 1943 he took command of the minelayer GAMBLE and participated in the mining of straits in the Solomon Islands, which resulted in the sinking of three Japanese destroyers. He ended the war in command of the destroyer Shipmate, October 2002

LAST CALI/ GRAMBLE and in the invasion of Okinawa went through many kamikaze attacks unscathed. He was awarded two Silver Stars and one Bronze Star Medal for his wartime services.

Warren finally came ashore for the first time in 1946 in San Diego, on the staff of ComFairWestCoast, followed by assignments as UN military observer in Greece, staff duty with MSTS in Brooklyn, and a year at the Naval Training Center San Diego, CA. He retumed to sea in 1952 as ComCortRon 8, based in Norfolk, VA, then served in the Department of Defense in Washington in 1956 and in 1957 with NATO's Standardization Agency in London. His final sea duty tour was as commanding officer of MuLiPHEN (AKA-61), after which he retumed to Omaha, NE, as the district director of Naval Recmiting.

On Warren's retirement on 1 July 1962, the Armstrongs moved to La JoUa, CA, where he engaged in many activities, including building apartments, buying estates, acting as conservator doing income tax work, and writing book reviews for the Navy Times. In 1973 Warren married Mary Edwards, who served in the RAF during World War n and ran an antique shop in La JoUa. In 1997 her health failed and Warren visited her each day in the nursing home where she still resides.

Survivors include his wife, Mary; son, Bmce, who is in the Foreign Service and currentiy in Bem, Switzerland; sister Ruth Catey of Mount Morris, IL; and two grandchildren.

A private family service was held, his ashes were scattered at sea, and later a memorial service with military honors was held on 30 July 2002 at Fort Rosecrans.

Jesse B. Gay Jr. '35

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Captain William E. Lewis, USN (Ret.), passed away after a lengthy illness in Summerville, SC, on 5 December 2000.

He was bom in Attleboro, MA, on 21 July 1913. After attending Attleboro High School, where he was a member of the football team, he entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1936. While at the Academy, Bill was a member of the pistol and rifle teams.

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517). In 1943 he reported to INTREPID ( C V - 1 1 ) , remaining there as chief engineer until 1946, when he went to Newport, RI, for duty at the General Line School. Duty at the U.S. Naval Receiving Station, Boston, was followed by a tour aboard WINSTON ( A K A - 9 4 ) as executive officer in time to land Marines at Inchon, South Korea. Next came duty at the Naval Amphibious Base, Littie Creek, VA, followed by assignment as commanding officer of ALDEBARAN ( A F - 1 0 ) . In 1955 he reported to the 15th Naval District as assistant chief of staff for operations. This was followed by duty at the Boston Naval Shipyard as administrative officer until 1960 when he retumed to the West Coast as commanding officer of OKANOGAN (APA-220). Upon completion of this tour in 1962, he was transferred to the Naval Station, Norfolk, VA, for retirement.

Bill and Milly settled in Norfolk for the following 20 years as their children grew up and left the nest. Bill was then employed by the State of Virginia for a number of years. In 1982 his childhood sweetheart and devoted wife, Milly, passed away and after a subsequent heart attack. Bill relocated to Moncks Comer SC, to be near his daughter, Mary Ellen Arthur Captain Lewis is survived by his children, William E. Lewis Jr. '60 of Midlothian VA, Marcia Grimes of Fayetteville, GA, John A. Lewis of Nashville, IN, and Mary Ellen Arthur of Ridgeville, SC; grandchildren.

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Andrea L. D'Ambra '93, William E. Lewis III, Wade Evan Lewis, and Jason Grimes; great grandchildren, Morgan D'Ambra, Kelson D'Ambra and Carrie Alise Grimes; as well as his brother, Robert Lewis; sister, Evelyn Lannon; and numerous nephews and nieces.

Captain Lewis was buried alongside his wife at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Family, friends, and Classmates were in attendance at his burial in the shadow of the Pentagon.

William E. Lewis Jr. '60

RANDOLPH MEADE JR. '36 Captain Randolph Meade J r , SC, USN (Ret.), died of Parkinson's disease at his home in Annapolis, MD, on 16 June 2002. He was 87 years old.

Bom on 19 May 1915 in Danville, VA, Randy entered the Naval Academy shortly after his 17th birthday, and graduated with the Class of 1936. His first assignment was in PENNSYLVANIA ( B B - 3 8 ) after which he transferred to the Supply Corps, graduating from Staff Supply School in 1939.

His tours of duty included staff supply officer South Atiantic Fleet in Brazil during the early part of World War 11 and assistant staff supply officer. Naval Forces Europe in England during the mn up to and support of the D-Day invasion; aide and special assistant to the Under-Secretary of the Navy; staff supply officer. Service Squadron 3; and commanding officer. Naval Supply Depot, Yokosuka. After serving as supply and fiscal officer and head of the Midshipman Services Activities Department at the Naval Academy, he retired in 1966.

Randy then spent seven years as vice president for business and finance at the University of Delaware during a time of incredible growth for that institution. In 1973 he retired and retumed to Annapolis, MD. He was a member of the board of Annapolis Life Care for 13 years, serving as chairman of the building committee during Ginger Cove's planning and constmction phases and as vice president of the board during the community's early years of operation.

He attended Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1952, the National War College in 1958, and received a master's degree in intemational affairs from The George Washington University in 1965.

Until his health curtailed his activity, he enjoyed squash, tennis, swimming, sailing, and fishing. He also fulfilled a lifelong dream by obtaining his private pilot's license at the age of 66.

Randy is survived by his wife of 58 years, Audrey P. Meade. They met on a mixed doubles tennis date in Rio de Janeiro, and married less than a year (and three dates) later. He is also survived by three daughters, Kathleen Craighill (wife of Captain John Craighill '67, USN (Ret.)), Julie-Ann Urban (wife of Captain Jack Urban '65, USN (Ret.)), and Susan Fitzgerald; one son. Captain Randolph Meade m , USCG (Ret.); and six grandchildren, including Lieutenant Christopher Meade Urban, USN, and Midshipman John St. Clair Craighill Jr. '03, who are continuing the family's military tradition that stretches back to the Revolutionary War. Tlie Meade Family

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LAST CALL JULIO JOSEPH USERA '36

After the war, he served in a number of posts, including as executive officer of the converted sea plane tender, GREENWICH BAY, on tour in the Middle East on diplomatic duty.

He retired from die Navy in 1957 to manage die family farm, Pleasant Plains Farm in St. Margarets, in Annapolis.

In 1939 he married Margaret Thackray Weems of AnnapoUs. She died in 1998. Surviving are his sister lean Dodds Taylor of Oregon; three children, Thackray Dodds Seznec, Philip V.W. Dodds, and Nathaniel C.W. Dodds, all of Annapolis; and five grandchildren. He was the brodier of die late Elsie Dodds Van Keuren.

Services were held on 17 July 2002 at the Naval Academy Columbarium. A memorial service was held on 18 August 2002 at Pleasant Plains Farm.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Anne Amndel Medical Center Foundation, 2001 Medical Parkway, AnnapoUs, MD 21401 with "In Memory of Charles Dodds" in the memo Une. The Capital (Annapolis, MD}—16 July 2002

Julio J. Usera, a long-time resident of Chatham, MA, died on Wednesday, 29 May 2002 at his home after a long illness. He was 89 years old.

X ^ ^ ^^^K Mr. Usera attended the Naval Academy with the Class of 1936 and served in tiie U.S. Army in Worid War H. Ruent in Spanish, at the age of 23 he was sent to South America to set up distribution offices for the Schick Corporation with head offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There, he met and married his wife Joan (Chirgwin) Usera in 1940.

After tiie war, Mr. Usera joined the plastics division of Monsanto Chemical Co. as manager of Uieir New York office and later headed up their European division based in Paris, France. He joined M&T Chemicals until his retirement.

In 1978 he volunteered his expertise to the Intemational Executive Service Corps and spent six months in Korea.

He is survived by his wife, Joan; his children, Vincent Usera of Juneau, FREDRIC B . CLARKE AK, and Alicia Wolfington of Washington, DC; sisters, Adriana Vidal and ^^^^^^^ Madeleine ReviUa; eight grandchildren; and tiiree great grandchildren. ^ H | ^ ^ ^ ^ A funeral service was held Sattirday, 1 June 2002 foUowed by burial at ^^^BHjj^H the Union Cemetery.

H^B^P^V j In lieu of flowers, donations in Mr. Usera's memory may be made to • >C^^r J the Hospice & PalUative Care of Cape Cod, 270 Communication Way, ^ ^fjjr ^^a Hyannis, MA 02601. ' excerpts from the Cape Cod Chronicle—8 June 2002 CHARLES ROBBINS DODDS '37

Captain Charles R. Dodds, USN (Ret.), died on 13 July 2002 of complications related to pneumonia in Annapolis, MD. He was 88 years old.

Captain Dodds was bom in Baltimore, MD, on 3 October 1913, the son of Dr Solon and Elsie Dodds. He attended Boys Latin and City CoUege in Baltimore. He showed an early interest in music and, when he was about 8 years old, began piano lessons at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. He studied classical piano for several years and then switched to jazz. He took a keen pleasure in music all his life, and is fondly remembered by friends and family for leading piano and accordian song tests.

After sttidy at Sevem School, he entered the Naval Academy, graduating with the Class of 1937. He was a naval aviator initiaUy as an aerial spotter and first was catapulted off' the battleship TEXAS and then ARIZONA. He was transferred three weeks before Pearl Harbor to train for anti-submarine warfare.

During Worid War H, he served in the Pacific and was awarded die Distinguished Flying Cross for his role in downing an enemy float plane in the Philippines.

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Fred Clarke died on 24 June 2002, at his home in San Diego, CA. He had been in decUning health for several years.

A native of BUlings, MT, he was a member of *^ Naval Academy Class of 1939. FoUowing graduation, he served brief tours on SALT LAKE CFFY and the destt-oyer HATFIELD before reporting to Sub School at New London in January 1941.

After Sub School he served as gunnery and torpedo officer aboard the recommissioned 0-3 before reporting in the same capacity to SAWHSH, then under constmction at Portsmouth, NH. Once commissioned. SAWFISH was sent to Pearl Harbor where she undertook a series of war patrols resulting in die sinking of 11 ships. For his actions, Clarke was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V. Lieutenant Clarke was assigned to the submarine POMFRET as executive officer in August 1943, where, in subsequent combat, he eamed the Silver Star Medal and a Letter of Commendation.

Lieutenant Commander Clarke took command of the submarine SEAL in August 1944, but detached in early 1946 to attend postgraduate school at AnnapoUs. He eamed a graduate degree in aeronautical engineering at the Califomia Institute of Technology in 1947. A pioneer in the submarine guided missile program, he assumed command of CUSK, one of the Navy's first two guided-missile submarines, in May 1948.

Commander Clarke retumed to sea in command of the destroyer BOYD shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. BOYD saw action in that theater, for which Clarke was awarded a second Bronze Star.

He was promoted to captain in 1958, while on the staff of CinCPacFlt in Hawaii. He subsequentiy commanded Submarine Division 12, also at Pearl Harbor and the submarine tender SPERRY in San Diego. He retired in 1968, following tours as commanding officer. Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthome, NV; Fleet Training Group, WestPac; and the Service School Command, San Diego.

Following retirement, he taught mathematics at Lincoln High School in San Diego, CA, until 1975. He was an enthusiastic member of the Class of '39 and remained active in Class alumni affairs until his death.

His wife of 57 years, Elizabetii Leach Clarke, died in 1997. He is survived by two sons, Frederic B. Clarke HI of Arlington, VA, and Michael McCormick Clarke of San Francisco, CA; two daughters. Merle Clarke of San Diego, CA, and Lani Clarke of Davis, CA; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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VlCTORVICH UTGOFF '39 WILLIAM RICHARD KURTZ '42 Captain Vadym V. Utoff, USN (Ret.), died on Captain William R. Kurtz, USN (Ret.), died in 18 July 2002 of Parkinson's disease and compliPhoenix, AZ, on 22 June 2002. He was 80 years cations of a stroke at his summer home in old and had been in ill health for several months, Islesboro, ME. He was 84 years old. suffering from a severe respiratory infection.

He was bom in 1917 in Sevastopol, Russia, In 1937, at the age of 15 and a senior in the son of an Imperial Russian naval officer and Greeley High School in Colorado, Bill won a aviator. He graduated from the Naval Academy principal appointment to the Naval Academy. witii the Class of 1939 and won his Wings at Entering as the second youngest member of the Pensacola, FL, in 1942.

Class of 1942, upon graduation he stood tenth in He commanded a squadron of PBY Black Cat a class of 564. seaplanes in the Soudiwest Pacific during Worid After graduation in December 1941, he spent 27 months in the Pacific War n and was awarded die Legion of Merit widi Combat V, die Distinguished serving in the destroyer PHELPS. Selected for graduate work in ordnance Flying Cross, and die Air Medal widi Gold Stars in Ueu of second and diird engineering, he received a master of science degree from MIT in September awards. His squadron was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation.

1947. Later highlights of his 22 years of service include assistant gunnery He commanded a squadron of PBM Marine seaplanes in the Korean officer, IOWA; gunnery officer DULUTH; gunnery officer MISSOURI; conflict and was awarded a Commendation Medal. commanding officer of two Pacific Fleet destroyers; and a two-year tour His tours included the staff of Commander Naval Air Forces Pacific working on the POLARIS missile program. His final tour was as Fleet; the carriers YORKTOWN, WASP and VALLEY FORGE; the Office of commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Corona, CA. Naval Research; and as deputy director of the Naval Weapons Laboratory After retiring in 1964 he joined Raytheon Co. in Massachusetts as Apollo in Dalhgren, VA. program manager for the computer which was used in both the command module and the lunar excursion module. He later moved to Washington, DC, His last tour was as commanding officer of the Naval Air Facility at Sigonella, Sicily. Captain Utgoff retired in 1963fi-omthe Navy after 24 and worked for Northrop Corp. before retiring again m 1982. years of service. He became a civilian professor of aerospace engineering Bill is survived by his wife of 60 years, Betty; daughter, Leslie at the Naval Academy in 1964. He retired again in 1983 and was named Christensen of Castle Rock, CO; son, William R. Kurtz Jr. of Sonoma, professor emerims in 1985.

CA; and two grandchildren.

Captain Utgoff received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineerAfter cremation, his ashes will be inumed in the Naval Academy ing from die Naval Postgraduate School in 1948 and a master's from MTT Columbarium in Annapolis, MD. in 1949. He also graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College and the The Kurtz Family Naval War College.

He was a member of the Army-Navy Club, the Army-Navy Country RICHARD HAMILTON O'BRIEN '42 Club, die City Tavem Club and the Tarratine Club of Dark Harbor, ME. Richard H. O'Brien, a 50-year resident of the He also belonged to several professional societies, including the Denver CO, area, died on Wednesday, 24 July American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American 2002.

Helicopter Society, the Soaring Society of America, the Experimental He was bom on 8 May 1920 to George and Aircraft Association, and the Naval Institute.

Pauline (Hamilton) O'Brien in Vandergrift, PA. Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Mimi Scott Utgoff; children, O'Brien, a Class of 1942 Naval Academy Vadym Wilmer Utgoff of Edmondton, Alberta, Canada, Alixe Utgoff Day graduate, served on the aircraft carrier of Andover, MA, and Marina Utgoff Braswell of Washington, DC; five YORKTOWN in the South Pacific. A lieutenant grandchildren; and his sister, Valeska Scott of Rockland, ME. (junior grade), he was in the Battle of Midway Services were held at the Naval Academy Chapel, followed by burial when the aircraft carrier was bombed and sunk. in Arlington National Cemetery.

His photograph appeared on the cover of "The Battie for Midway, The In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Navy-Marine Discovery of the USS YORKTOWN," a 1999 National Geographic video, in Corps Relief Society. excerpts from Tiie Washington Postâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;28 July 2002which he was featured.

O'Brien was awarded a SHver Star "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepredity while in command of two PT boats in action against enemy forces in the Gulf of Eufemia, Italy, in 1943. He led his small craft, despite extremely heavy odds, in vigorous, determined combat against the hostile vessels, courageously delivering furious, closed range torpedo and gunfire attacks. O'Brien's feariess leadership and expert tactical skill contributed materially to serious dismption of the enemy's supply lines. His unit Music, when soft voices die, consisted only of two PT boats."

Following his active sea duty O'Brien completed flight training in 'ViSrates in the memonj; Pensacola, FL. Odors, when sweet violets sic((en.

In October 1942 he married Marguerite Louise Stockberger in Roselle, NJ, and began his post-naval career with General Cable Live within the sense they ([mckpi.

Corporation in Perth Amboy, NJ. He joined Sun Oil Company in 1947 and â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tercg (Bysshe Shettey Rogers Publishing Company in Englewood in 1952. He founded Information Handling Services (IHS) in 1959. The Inverness-based company remains a viable presence today. He was listed in the World Who's Who in Commerce and Industry, 13th edition 1964-65.

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LAST CALL FoUowing the sale of MS, O'Brien was in commercial real estate with the Frederick Ross Company. During his business career he served as a board member at the Central Bank & Tmst of Denver a member of the Young Presidents Organization, a director Vertical Corporation, Frost Engineering and served with the U.S. Naval Reserve. Other organizations in which O'Brien was a member include Cherry Hills Country Club, the Garden of the Gods Country Club, Columbine Country Club, the Denver Athletic Club, and the Rivercliff Fishing Club.

O'Brien is survived by daughters, Barbara Ellen O'Brien and Carole Hamilton Rollins of Littleton, CO; granddaughters, Jennifer Hamilton Everson of Mesa, AZ, MeUssa Lynne Bray of Gilbert, AZ, and Holly Anne Ghella of Littleton, CO; grandsons, Christopher Scott Wood of Lakewood, CO, and Jeffrey Nichols Wood of Littleton, CO; great-grandchildren, Madison and Bryce Wood; and son-in-law, C. Dean Rollins.

PAUL LIEDER HAVENSTEIN SR. '44

Commander Paul L. Havenstein Sr., USN (Ret.), died on 16 July 2002 in Bethesda, MD. He was 82 years old.

Paul was bom in Flushing, NY, on 13 July 1920, to Ruth and Percy Havenstein and was raised in Wellesley, MA. His early college years began at Lehigh University where he studied engineering and was a fratemity brother with ATO. "Buster" to his friends, he began a distinguished military career at the Naval Academy, graduating with the Class of 1944. He served in the Pacific during World War 11 as a fighter pilot flying the F4U. In the pursuit of continuing education, a Havenstein family tradition, Paul received advanced degrees from both MIT (1951) and the Naval Postgraduate School (1950), as well as a specialized degree from the Oakridge School of Reactor Technology.

His naval service included assignments to the Space Task Force, Project Mercury, NASA, and special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. During this tenure, he worked to develop the mission statement for man's first venture into space. He performed the duty of mission control for Project Mercury. Retiring from the Navy after 20 years in 1963, Paul continued his service to his country as a civilian employee to the U.S. govemment, serving as a senior reactor engineer for the Atomic Energy Commission, now the Department of Energy, and retired in 1985.

Paul shared his enthusiasm for the community to the benefit of allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; through Montgomery County Players Theatre, golf at Kenwood Country Club, sailing, reading, gardening, and politics. He was also an involved member of the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, where he provided assistance in his home for the handicapped. His children and grandchildren found Paul's interests and accomplishments a source of inspiration, and his sense of humor and love of his country an invaluable asset to a large family. He lived and raised his family in his Bethesda home for 41 years and passed away there.

Paul is survived by his beloved wife of 17 years, Mary Frances Shea Havenstein; seven children from his first wife, Kathryn Creech, Paul L. Havenstein Jr of Linden, VA, Peter F. Havenstein Sr of Bethesda, MD, Walter P. Havenstein Sr of Bedford, NH, Polly B. Cameron of Baltimore, MD, Patricia H. Elliott of N. Potomac, MD, Phyllis H. Koch of Bethesda, MD, and Preston M. Havenstein of N. Potomac, MD. He is also survived by nine loving grandchildren.

The Havenstein Family JOHN PRESLEY HILBURN '44

John P. "Jack" Hilbum died from complications from Alzheimer's disease in Tampa, FL, on 7 July 2000. He was 78 years old.

A native of Tampa, Jack attended Georgia Tech prior to receiving his congressional appointment to the Academy from Florida. He graduated with the war-accelerated Class of 1944 in June of 1943, a member of the 19th Company.

Upon graduation, he joined the destroyer WADSWORTH (DD-516). While on board he participated in the Guadalcanal and Bougainville operations, the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, and the invasion of Guam.

He started his primary flight training at Ottumwa, lA, in November 1944 and received his Wings in Pensacola in 1945. His first fleet assignment as an aviator was flying scout aircraft from the cmiser FALL RIVER (CA-131), and participated in Operation Crossroads, the atomic warfare tests in the Marshall Islands. He then joined the cmiser TOPEKA (CL-67), and deployed to the Orient as a unit of the Seventh Fleet.

He was selected to attend Intelligence School in Washington and became fluent in the Arabic language. Upon completion of his studies he was assigned to duties in Washington, DC. His wife, Edi, contracted poUo in 1952 and was permanently confined to a wheelchair. Because of this. Jack resigned from the Navy in May 1954 with the rank of lieutenant commander to return to Tampa with his family.

He then began his career with Florida Steel Company, where he spent his entire civilian working life. He climbed the corporate ladder until 1985, when he retired as corporate vice president.

Jack was a member of a number of professional, business, and technical organizations and was active in business and civic activities in the Tampa Bay area both before and after his retirement. Included among his many activities were president of Florida Investors; director of the Rotary Club of Tampa; president of the United Cerebral Palsy of Tampa: president of the United Cerebral Palsy of Florida; vice president of the United Cerebral Palsy of America; chairman of the Service Academy Selection Committee for his congressman; and chairman of the Business Services Committee of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce.

Jack was an avid runner and participated in numerous lOK runs and marathons.

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Edi; daughter Leslie (Clyde); and son, Commander John E. Hilbum '69, USN (Ret.).

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LAST CALL ROBERT LYMAN JOHN LONG '44

Admiral Robert L.J. Long, USN (Ret.), died on 27 June 2002. He was 82 years old.

Admiral Long was bom in Kansas City, MO, and graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1944 in June 1943.

He received the Bronze Star while serving in the Pacific Ocean on board the battleship COLORADO during World Wai- II. He then served in a variety of surface ships and then attended submarine school. Following more sea duty, he eventually took command of SEA LEOPARD (SS-483) in 1954, which was then followed by naval nuclear propulsion tt-aining. command of PATRICK HENRY (SSBN-599) (Gold) in 1960, and command of CASIMIR PULASKI (SSBN-633) (Blue) in 1963.

As a flag officer. Admiral Long served as the Commander Service Group Three/Commander Task Force 73 and Deputy for Fleet Maintenance and Logistic Support, Naval Ship Systems Command before becoming Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Atiantic Fleet. He later was assigned Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare.

Following this assignment, he served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and then as Commander U.S. Pacific Command.

After his retirement in 1983, Admiral Long became a board member of Northrop Gmmman Corporation and the Hudson Institute. He was also principal executive of President Ronald Reagan's fact-finding committee that investigated the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beimt.

Survivors include his wife, Sara, of Annapolis, MD; three sons, Charles Long of Reno, NV, WilUam Long of New York City, and Robert Long of Seattie, WA. He is also survived by two sisters andfivegrandchildren.

A memorial service was held in the Naval Academy Chapel followed by burial in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

JAMES EDWARD HUGUS '46

Captain James E. Hugus, USN (Ret.), died peacefully at his home near San Diego, CA, from complications of kidney failure and cancer on 4 August 2002. He was 80 years old.

Bom in RockviUe Centre, NY, in 1921, Jim was appointed to the Naval Academy from New York, then graduated with the war time Class of 1946. He served on active duty for 31 years.

His duty assignments included the cmisers ALASKA and WILKES-BARRE and the destroyer WITEK. He was then selected for training at the Electronics Maintenance School, Great Lakes, followed by appointment to the ASW Command Staff, Key West, FL.

Military funeral services were held on 14 August 2002 with interment at Arlington National Cemetery on 5 September 2002.

JAMES HYDE FORBES '47

James H. Forbes died of cancer on 5 August 2002 at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. He was 79 years old.

Jim Forbes was bom in San Francisco, CA, in 1923, and was raised in Palo Alto, CA. He enlisted in the Navy in June 1941 as a USNA candidate, and received his recmit training at NTS, San Diego. After winning both Congressional and Naval Reserve appointments, he attended NAPS at Norfolk, VA, in June 1943. He was 15th Company Commander in the fall set of 1945.

Upon graduation with the Class of 1947, he served in SPRINGFIELD (CL66) as a gunnery division officer and assistant navigator. He subsequently transferred to the Supply Corps, graduating first in his class at the Navy Supply Corps School in Bayonne, NJ. His first supply assignment was as assistant supply and disbursing officer at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard.

Upon the outbreak of war in Korea, he joined a team in Bremerton, WA, selected to reactivate CAPE ESPERANCE ( T C V E - 8 8 ) , the first ship to be withdrawn from the post-war Reserve Fleet. Later in the war, he became supply officer of TALUGA ( A O 62), refueling and replenishing ships at sea off Wonsan, North Korea.

At the war's conclusion, Jim was ordered to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in the Navy Department as Head of the Fuel Statistics Branch, helping to organize and commission the Navy Fuel Supply Office in Washington, DC. Upon its commissioning, he became its first financial control officer Upon leaving the service in 1954, Jim joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) where he held the positions of senior industrial economist and head of area development research for Southem Califomia. While at SRI, he completed numerous economic studies and evaluations in connection with proposed public and private development projects. Since 1959, he had been engaged in private practice as an economic consultant on many land developments, public projects, conmnunity plans, and the evaluation and selection of development sitesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;most notably Sea World, ARCO Plaza Twin Towers in Los Angeles, and the Califomia Water Project.

Jim is survived by his wife, the former Beatrice Lillian Watten of Minneapolis, MN, whom he married in the Stanford University Chapel in 1947; sons, William, James H. IH, David, and John; four grandchildren; and his brother Gail William Forbes, of Las Vegas, NV. Inurnment will be at the U.S. Naval Academy Columbarium, following private services.

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In 1953 Jim was assigned to the desttoyer KENNETH D. BAILEY (DDR-

713). After several deployments on BAILEY, he was assigned as executive officer on the destroyer escort BROUGH (DE-148). During this tour BROUGH was deployed on Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic waters.

In 1957 Jim was selected for postgraduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Two years later he was designated as a 1400 engineering duty officer and reported to the Peari Harbor Shipyard. Following this, he traveled east to Norfolk, VA, where he reported to the staff of the Service Forces Atiantic Fleet as the electronic maintenance officer His next assignment took Jim to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard as production officer followed in 1968 by appointment to the staff of Military Sea Lift Command Pacific as engineering officer Captain Hugus retired on 6 June 1976.

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LAST CALL JOHN LESTER EVERNGAM '48

JOSEPH ANTHONY FITZPATRICK '51

Captain John L. Everngam Jr, USN (Ret.), Captain Joseph A. Fitzpatrick, USN (Ret.), a of Denton, MD, died on Tuesday, 4 June 2002, volunteer for Washington area Catholic organiat his home. He was 75 years old. zations, died on 22 July 2002 of complications Bom on Maryland's Eastem Shore, Captain from a stroke he initially suffered in 1995. He Everngam was the son of the late John L. was at his home in Potomac, MD, where he had Evemgam Sr and Margaret P. Evemgam of lived since 1969.

Denton. A graduate of Caroline High School in , Captain Fitzpatrick grew up in Weehawkeen, Denton, Captain Evemgam was a 1948 graduate ^ ^ ^ • | | t o ^ ^ ^ ^ NJ, and was a Class of 1951 graduate of the of the U.S. Naval Academy. He served in the riJl^Vi^K: ^ ^ ^ B Naval Academy. He was among the first generaU.S. Navy for 33 years until his retirement in ^ ^ ^ ^ R t J L i ^ ^ ^ H tion of officers who served in nuclear submarines 1978. He had been avidly involved in Caroline in the 1950s and 1960s. Following graduation, he County Civic matters and also served on the Board of Caroline Nursing served in the aircraft carrier MIDWAY before entering submarine school and Home in Denton, MD. graduating in 1954. He first served in JALLAO before attending Nuclear Power School. Subsequent tours in the submarine force included HALIBUT Captain Evemgam is survived by his wife, Rhea P. Evemgam of Denton, as chief engineer executive officer in SWORDFISH, and then in LAFAYETTE. MD; two daughters, Allyson E. LeFevere of Clarksville, MD, and Pamela In 1962 he took command of PULASKI and followed that with command of E. Deringer of Chestertown, MD; sister, Marianna Nuttle of Denton, MD; SAM RAYBURN. Staff duty included tours in the office of the Chief of Naval brother Michael Evemgam of Durham, NH; and five grandchildren.

Operations, Strategic Systems Project, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Bureau A private memorial service was held. of Naval Personnel. During his career he was awarded the Defense In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Caroline Distinguished Service Medal, and three Commendation Medals, as well as Hospice Foundation, RO. Box 362, Denton, MD 21629. excerpts from the Easton Star-Democrat—6 June 2002numerous campaign and service medals.

Retiring in 1970, he tumed his efforts to the service of his community and fellow man. He had been a volunteer for the Josephite Order of JAMES A. MICKLE '48 Catholic Priests and during that period he acted ad the executive assistant Major General James A. Mickle, AUS (Ret.), for corporate matters in the Archdiocese of Washington. He also led a passed away on 4 July 2002 at Birmingham prayer and song group at the Randolph Nursing Home in Potomac. Since Hospital after a recent illness. He was a native the 1970s, he was also an active leader in the Montgomery County meetof Anniston, AL, and had been a resident of ings of Alcoholic Anonymous. He was a parishioner of Saint Raphael Mountain Brook for many years.

Catholic Church in Rockville, MD. Jim Mickle received his formal education at Captain Fitzpatrick is survived by his wife of 50 years, Patricia S. Marion Military Institute, the U.S. Naval Fitzpatrick of Potomac, MD; eight children. Bo, of Rockville, MD, Academy, U.S. Army Command and General Staff Francis of Monroe, CT, Daniel of North Potomac, MD, Brigid Edelen of CoUege, and the U.S. War CoUege. He was comSparksville, MD, Peggy Calvello of Massapaqua, NY, Susie Rector of missioned as an Army second Ueutenant in 1948 Ellicot City, MD, Tisha Walsh of Kensington, MD, and Resa Kennedy of and served in various troop and command assignments in the U.S. Army and Scottsdale, AZ; two brothers; a sister; and 20 grandchildren. the Alabama Army National Guard for 35 years, culminating as the longtime commanding general of the 167th Corps Support Command with the rank of major general. He retired in 1983. He was a Korean War Veteran.

GEORGE EDWARD MUELLER '51 His military awards include the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal.

Captain George E. Mueller USN (Ret.), He was a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, died on 28 July 2002 in Alexandria, VA. His United States Naval Institute, and the Alabama Chapter of the U.S. Naval life was honored with a requiem Mass at the Academy Alumni Association, the Governors Military Advisory Old Post Chapel in Fort Myer, VA, with interCommittee, and served as an advisor to the Alabama Veterans Memorial ment at Arlington National Cemetery on 30 Foundation. He also served on the board of tmstees of the Marion Military August 2002.

Institute for several years. He was a member of the Summit Club, The George was bom on 7 November 1927 and Club, and a past president of Vestavia Country Club. He was one of the grew up in St. Louis, MO. Upon graduation founders of Southem Aluminum and Steel Corporation in 1959 and served from high school, he enlisted in the Naval as its president and CEO until retirement in 1993. He was also active in Reserve as a combat aircrewman and served as several other associated companies. a radioman machine gunner in SB2C "Helldivers" with Bombing Squadron Four (VB4), the "Black Top Hats."

Jim is survived by his wife, Kay; daughter, Sally Mickle, of George attended NAPS and entered the Naval Academy. He played Birmingham, AL; daughter, Melissa Beaird, her husband. Bill, and their varsity soccer, eamed his N-star and was part of Navy's 1949 NCAA two children, Alex and Drew, of Birmingham, AL; son, James A. Mickle in, his wife, Jane, and their two children, Sara and Andrew, of Huntington championship mnner-up team. After graduation with the Class of 1951, Beach, CA; stepdaughter, Tara PoweU, her husband, John, and their he joined BLUE (DD-744) with the Seventh Fleet during the Korean War. children, Lacey and Aaron, also of Birmingham, AL. George attended submarine school in 1953, and was assigned to STICKLEBACK (SS-415), then BASHAW (SSK-241), ComSubRon 1 staff, Funeral services were held on Saturday, 6 July 2002 at Dawson Regulus II Naval Technical Evaluation/Fleet Intt-oduction Unit, and Memorial Baptist Church with graveside service immediately following at GROWLER (SSG-577). He served as executive officer of GRAYBACK (SSGSouthem Heritage.

574), and commanded BARBERO (SSG-317) and GUDGEON (SS-564). In In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the American 1964, he attended Naval War College prior to assignment to CNO's Cancer Society or a charitable organization of your choice.

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LAST CALL In 1967, George requested surface warfare and was ordered as executive officer to HERMFTAGE ( L S D - 3 4 ) with Seventii Fleet during die "Viettiam War. George commanded CASA GRANDE (LSD-13), served as PhibRon 7's chief staff officer attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and served in the Joint Chiefs' Plans Division. After serving as executive assistant and senior aide to DCNO Surface Warfare, he commanded NASHVILLE (LPD-13), then assumed his fifth command at sea, serving as Conunander PhibRon 2 and Commander Amphibious Forces, Sixth Fleet. After his final tour as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Material, Fleet Readiness and Support, George retired on 29 May 1979.

He worked for Logistics Management Institute in Washington, DC, prior to his final retirement in 1989.

He eamed a master's degrees in foreign affairs from The George Washington University and a master's in management of national resources.

George is survived by his wife of 50 years, Elizabeth Mueller; sons.

Lieutenant Colonel Ned Mueller '76, USMC (Ret.), Captain Paul Mueller USMC (Ret.), and Lieutenant Stephen Mueller USN (Ret.), a nuclear submariner. George is also survived by eight grandchildren.

George's Classmates remember him as a superb naval officer and a good messmate. Goodbye, George. We will miss you.

Class Order of the Sacred Treasure from Japan, the Grand Cross of San Carlos from Columbia, and the Diplomatic Cross of Merit from Korea.

His loving wife, Charito, and their children, Alejandro HI, Michael, and Beth and John Jude, survive him.

Mrs. Alejandro Melchor Jr & Garnett Bailey '5 ANTHONY ROBERT CORRENTI '54

"Tony" Correnti passed away from the effects of Alzheimer's disease on 19 July 2002.

A Catholic Mass was held for him on 26 July at Mission San Diego de Alcala, San Diego, CA, followed by a reception at his Coronado home.

His ashes will be inurned in the Naval Academy Columbarium.

Tony was bom on 21 January 1931 in Saint Louis, MO. He attended schools in St. Louis, and after high school, attended St. Louis University for two years. Tony received a SecNav appointment to the Naval Academy and became a midshipman on 2 August 1950. He was in Fourth Company and one of the most colorful and popular members of the Ned Mueller '76 & Sam Ginder '51 Class of 1954. A superb athlete, Tony was the sparkplug of Navy's great football defense of the early 1950s. In 1952, Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich said of him, "Pound for pound, there isn't a better lineALEJANDRO MELCHOR JR. '52 Alejandro Melchor Jr. died on 12 July 2002 backer in the country than Correnti."

Upon graduation, Tony was commissioned in the Marine Corps. He at the age of 72. He was given a hero's burial at then underwent training as an infantry platoon commander and Marine Heroes Cemetery on 16 July 2002 at the Feast of officer ttaining at The Basic School, Quantico, VA. On completion of Our Lady of Carmel. Cited as a soldier, diplotraining in January 1955, Tony was assigned to Camp Pendleton, CA, with mat, scholar, and technocrat, Melchor was first and foremost a great Filipino patriot and nation- further assignment to the 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, as an infantry platoon commander He then received orders to the 3rd Marine alist, a man of integrity, and a dedicated public servant, devoting more than 50 years in service Division in Japan, and subsequently moved to Okinawa, where he was aide to Major General David M. Shoup, who later became Commandant to his country under nine presidents. of the Marine Corps. In June 1958, he resigned his active duty commisAs a bemedaled naval officer, he was cited sion as a first lieutenant, and joined the Marine Corps Reserve. He subsefor heroism four months after graduating from the Naval Academy with quently resigned his Reserve commission as a captain in June 1967. the Class of 1952. On his first command, he was awarded the Philippine Navy's coveted Operations "E" Award for Excellence. Retiring at 37 years Tony's post military activity in the civilian world was in sales. He of age witii a Senior Command-at-Sea Badge, he was appointed became an allied member of the New York Stock Exchange, and a princiUndersecretary of Defense the following day. He mobilized the resources pal member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, specializof the Armed Forces for Civic Action work in mral areas to spur economing in the institutional money management side of the business. In July ic development; the World Bank cited his work as a model for developing 1978 he founded Waite & Correnti, an institutional investment firm, countries effectively to use their military resources for national building. which became highly successful. Tony retired from his firm in 1993.

Highlighting Melchor's record of govemment service was his appointLong active in Naval Academy and Class functions, Tony was very ment as Executive Secretary of the Republic of the Philippines, the pre- philanthropic, endowing five Naval Academy Foundation scholarships in mier cabinet post, referred to as "Littie President." He founded the the name of Classmates. Shortly after attending his last Class reunion in National Computer Center, and was a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute 1994, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. of Peace. He was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from four univerTony is survived by his wife, Andy; six children and 12 grandchildren sities for humanities, public administration, sciences, and economics. He from a previous marriage; and Andy's three children and two grandserved on the executive board of the Asian Development Bank; the children. Semper Fidelis.

Intemational Fund for Agricultural Development; the Intemational Advisory Council of the Asia Society and the East-West Center; and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences grants committee. He was co-convener of the Williamsburg Group, and the vice chairman emeritus of the O Memory, thou fond deceiver.

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Capping his distinguished career as a respected diplomat, Melchor Stiff importunate and vain, served as special envoy to Washington, and later to Riyadh. As ambassaIJO formerjoys recurring ever, dor to the Soviet Union (1986-89), he, together with his wife, Charito, arranged the epochal visit of H.E. Cardinal Sin to tiie former Soviet Sind turning aff the past to pain.

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LAST CALL EUGENE MARION POE JR. '54 Brigadier General "Bud" Poe, USAF (Ret.), died of cancer on 13 July 2002 at the Holmquist Memorial Hospice in Arlington, VA. He was 70 years old.

Bud, who lived in McLean, VA, was a native of Wheeling, WV, and graduated from Linsly Military Institute. At the Naval Academy, he was a member of the Fourth Company and was a varsity football player Upon graduation he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force. He received his Wings in 1955 and flew reconnaissance and electronic countermeasures missions in SAC for six years. Bud received an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1962. Following graduate school, he was assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, and in 1965 he went to the Republic of Viemam as a forward air controller.

In 1977 he was chief of the U.S. Senate Liaison Office and later served as Deputy Director for Legislative Liaison and Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (legislative affairs). Bud also served on the National Security Council in support of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces. His last assignment before retiring from active duty in 1983 was Deputy Chief of Staff for Contracting and Manufacturing, Air Force Logistics Command, Wright-Patterson AFB. Bud Poe was a command pilot with 3,500 flying hours. His military decorations included the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Medal with 17 Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and Joint Service Commendation Medal.

After retirement he worked as an aviation industry executive for Martin Marietta. Bud was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, a tmstee of the Naval Academy Foundation, a member of the Air Force Association, the Emil Verban Society, and the Buming Tree Club.

Bud is survived by his wife, Jane of McLean, VA; sons, Matthew of Alexandria, VA, and Justin of Jacksonville, FL; sister, Ruth Ann Schwinn; and six grandchildren, Madeline, Amanda, Meredith, Justin, Matthew, and Zachary.

Funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery on 8 August 2002.

Memorials in Bud's honor may be made to the ARCS Endowment Fund, 1104 Park Royal Court, Great Falls, VA 22066.

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Commander Donald W. Stevenson, USN (Ret.), died on 16 May 2002 of pulmonary fibro^'^ ^' ^^^ home in Pendennis Mount in Annapolis, MD, after a courageous two-yeai" stmggle. He was 71 years old.

Commander Stevenson was bom on 16 July 1930, in San Jose, CA, graduated from high school, enlisted in the Navy, attended NAPS and graduated with the Class of 1954 from the Naval Academy, 14th Company.

After Pensacola, he flew fighters and made two WestPac cmises before reporting to China Lake, CA, testing weapons introduced during the Vietnam War. After receiving his master's degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, he was assigned to Fleet Weather Central, Guam, forecasting surf conditions for amphibious landings in South Vietnam, and then to the Naval Air Station, Beeville, TX, for a training command tour 162

FoUowing duty at Whidbey Island, WA, he was assigned to TICONDEROGA as detachment officer in charge of VAQ-130 from die Alameda Naval Air Station.

He made a southeast Asia cmise providing airborne electronic countermeasures. He retumed to the Naval Academy for three years as the physics department's associate chairman and was the officer representative to the Navy lacrosse team. In 1973 Commander Stevenson retired after serving as Joint Chiefs of Staff liaison officer at the headquarters staff of the Defense Mapping Agency in Washington, DC. He received several awards, including the Presidential Unit Citation, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and Vietnam Service Medal with three Stars, as well as a Meritorious Unit Citation and other medals from the Vietnamese govemment.

After retiring, he ventured into industrial sales, founding Conveyor Technology Inc., a manufacturer of specialized industrial equipment. He was also a fixed base operator at the Cecil County Airport in Elkton, MD. Don had a keen sense of humor was a devoted husband, proud father, and a warm and gracious host.

Commander Stevenson was a member of St. Anne's Episcopal Church, a Masonic Lodge, and the American Philatelic Society. He was also a private pilot and a collector of stamps and HO trains.

Surviving are his wife, Edna P. Stevenson, whom he married in 1957; son, T. Mark Stevenson of Annapohs, MD; daughter Tracy Postma of Nahant, MA; sister, Susan Kellogg of Camp Sherman, OR; and a granddaughter A memorial service was held in St. Andrew's Chapel at the Naval Academy on 29 May 2002, with burial in the Naval Academy Columbarium.

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Captain Jimmie Rogers Moore, USN (Ret.), died of lung cancer at his home in Mount Pleasant, SC, on 30 June 2002. He was 70 years old.

Bom in Sapps, AL, on 1 January 1932, he graduated from Aliceville High School in 1949.

After graduation, Jimmie enlisted in the Navy and eamed his Silver Dolphins. He won an appointment to the Naval Academy, where he became an integral member of the Seventh Company. He often brought his enlisted experience to aid his land-lubber Companymates, stmggling through the early days.

After graduation, Jimmie became a surface sailor just long enough to qualify to apply for Submarine School. During this tour he met and married Jackie, who was with him through many tours of sea, shore, and school duties, to the very end. She not only served as "Chief of the Moore Boat," but also presented Skipper Jimmie with a son, David, and two daughters, Jennifer and Jessica.

After Submarine School, Jimmie won his Gold Dolphins in due course and shortly thereafter commenced his first conventional submarine command tour in 1965 with a second in 1970. Following that command tour he served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. While on duty as a student at the Naval War College, he graduated from George Washington University with a master's degree in intemational affairs. On retuming to the fleet for a tour with the Atlantic Submarine Force Commander Jimmie commissioned the first all-new SSN-688 class squadron. He ended his service to his country and the Navy as a member of the faculty at the Naval War College.

After retiring in 1981, he first eamed his juris doctorate degree from Suffolk University Law School and later qualified as master gardener from Clemson University. He used those skills and knowledge to help his neighbors through a local radio station program. He was recentiy selected Shipmate, October 2002

LAST CALL by the Aliceville Museum and Cultural Arts Center as a local man who had brought honor and pride to his birthplace. As part of the ceremony, Jimmie donated the bulk of his naval service memorabilia to the museum.

Jimmie was buried near his birthplace in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery in Sapps, AL. He was a tme friend, a wonderful husband and father and an outstanding naval officer He brought joy to many lives and will be sorely missed by friends, colleagues, and family alike.

JAMES STROUD CLARKSON '58

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Commander Edwin H. "Ed" Bailey, USN (Ret.), died of cancer on 21 May 2002 in Ocala, FL. Ed ("Beetie" to many of his Classmates) was bom and raised in Washington, lA. After graduation from high school he attended the University of Iowa for two years and then the Naval Academy, graduating with the Class of 1960.

Ed's first duty station was the destroyer BRINKLEY BASS. For the next 20 years he served in the Supply Corps at various duty stations including Glenview, IL, Turkey, Washington, DC, San Diego, CA, Naval Supply Center Cleveland, OH, and Mechanicsburg, PA, where he retired in 1980. Ed received a master's degree in business administiation from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Following his retirement, Ed worked for Ruppman Marketing in Peoria, IL, where he retired in 1996 as vice president. He moved to Ocala, FL, with his wife, Janie, in 1997 and bought a house on the fifth hole of the Golden Hills Golf & Turf Club, where he could pursue his love of golf, which he did, with the same exuberance he exhibited as player/manager of the Academy's golf team First Class Year.

During the period shortly before his death, many of Ed's 22nd Company Classmates contacted him. All recalled the joy and excitement Ed brought to them during the Academy years, like the evening he and Companymate Hap Peterson worked a tough come-around to Tom O'Neill '58 into an end-of-day "spooning." Fred Hale, Ed's Second Class roommate, recalled with hilarity the Sixth Battalion's last march-off First Class Year: Ed relieved the dmmmer, and some jokingly say the Company, if not the Battalion, has been out of step ever since!

Later, Paul Ploeger (his Plebe Year roommate) and Tom Moylan (his Youngster Year roommate) summed-up Ed's Classmates' feeUngs, "Ed had the ability to make things brighter" that first year, and "his two strongest points were his humor (never at the expense of others) and his innate kindness."

Ed is survived by his wife, Janie, whom he married in 1962; sons, Geoffrey, Tim, and Brad; and six grandchildren. He is also survived by his sisters, Marsha Homes and Eleanor Shirley; and brother Ted Bailey.

Services were private and Ed's ashes were scattered over the second hole at the Washington Country Club in Washington, lA. Donations in memory of Ed may be made to Hospice of Marion County, 2895 SE 62nd Street, Ocala, FL 34480.

Lieutenant Commander "Jim" Clarkson, SC, USN (Ret.), former executive vice president of CACI, Inc., died on Monday, 29 July 2002 after a long illness.

Bom on 20 October 1934 in New Jersey, Jim was son of Lieutenant James Stroud Clarkson '30 and Margaret Clarkson.

Jim was destined to follow in his father's footsteps to the Naval Academy. After graduating from Admiral Farragut Academy, Jim enlisted in the Navy, was selected for NAPS and reported to the Naval Academy on 30 June 1954 with the Class of 1958. He was commissioned in the Supply Corps upon graduation.

Jim married his sweetheart, Patricia Rear, on 21 June 1958. After Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, GA, the happy couple headed to Newport, RI, where Jim reported to HAZELWOOD (DD-531) as supply officer.

Jim's first ashore assignment kept him in Newport as assistant officer in charge. Naval Supply Schools and Naval Schools Command. Rotating overseas thereafter Jim served as the first supply officer of Naval Communications Station, Greece. Retuming to ConUS, Jim reported to Ships Parts Control Center, Mechanicsburg, PA. Jim's second afloat duty took him to MONROVIA (APA-31) as supply officer. The ship carried a reinforced Marine battalion in the Mediterranean.

Retuming home, Jim worked on a classified project with the Defense Communications Planning Group in Washington, DC. Duty at the Defense Logistics Agency followed. Jim next reported to Naval Security Group Command, from which he retired in 1977. Jim eamed an M.B.A. from American University during his extended period in the DC area.

Jim embarked on a second career with CACI, Inc. of Rosslyn, VA. After ten very successful years with that professional and high-technolo22nd Company Classmates gy services company, he retired for a second time as executive vice president and division group manager During retirement Jim and Pat traveled extensively. They especially WILLIAM ELDRIDGE CARTWRIGHT JR. '60 enjoyed life in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, where they built a second William E. Cartwright Jr of Sarasota, FL, home in 1989. They rettimed to northem Virginia often for family holidied on 22 May 2002. He was 65 years old. days and to spend time with their wonderful grandchildren.

Bom on 23 March 1937, in Elizabeth City, Jim is survived by his dear wife of 44 years, Pat; sons, James IH, NC, Bill entered the Naval Academy through Jeffery, and Thomas; daughter Elizabeth Clarkson Maher; sisters, BuUis Prep from Portsmouth, VA, and played Margaret Dutton and Elizabeth "Betsy" Warten; and four grandchildren.

Plebe and JV football. His family hosted our Betsy is married to Jim's Eighth Company roommate. Bob Warten '58.

"Oyster Bowl" parties every year when Navy ventured to Norfolk, VA. All who attended Interment with full military honors was held on Friday, 6 September acquired lifelong memories.

2002 at Arlington National Cemetery.

Following graduation. Bill went into the Patricia Clarkson & Cfuirles Bowne '58 Supply Corps and served most of his four years in the Mediterranean Sixth Reel. His last eight months in the Navy were at the New York Navy Finance Office where he attended night school at There is no greater sorrow than to recaff NYU, gathering 18 business school credits. happiness in times of misery.

Upon leaving the Navy in 1964, Bill joined General Electric Technical Marketing Program. After training assignments in the Philadelphia â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tfante Switchgear Plant and Rome, GA, Medium Transformer Plant, he was Shipmate, October 2002

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LAST CALL assigned to the intemational sales department in New York with Caribbean area of responsibility. Four years later he left for project management jobs in the engineering and constmction industry. He worked for Bechtel for five years on two different nuclear power projects in Arkansas and Hope Creek, NJ, concemed with planning, scheduling and cost control.

Bill then went to Saudi Arabia next as planning and scheduling manager on a large Northrop project for the Saudi Air Force to build 90 completely new facilities at three different air bases. After his first Saudi tour, he took a two-year breather as a project manager for a U.S. A/E firm in Athens, Greece, handling all the Army Corps projects in Germany and the Navy projects in Spain. He later retumed again to Saudi Arabia in 1981.

For the next five years, he was an offshore constmction superintendent working for ARAMCO in the northemmost Saudi offshore oil fields.

In 1986, he retumed to the United States and began working as an electrical engineer for the Navy Telecommunication Command in Washington, DC. "When he retired from the Navy Department, Bill moved to Alabama for a few years, and then settled in Sarasota, FL, in 1999.

Bill is survived by his sister, Anne K. Little of Somerset, KY. A private memorial service was held.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 5011 Hillsborough Avenue W, Tampa, FL 33634.

William E. Lewis Jr '60 GEORGE SAMPLE GROSSMAN III

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George S. Grossman died on Monday, 1 April 2002 in Fitchburg, MA, after a lengthy illness. He was 64 years old.

George was bom in Wilmington, DE, son of Dorothy (Veasey) and George S. Grossman Jr. '34. He graduated from St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE, in 1956, and from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1960.

His Academy Classmates considered him a friend and one of life's characters that many will never forget. George made an art of optimizing his academic efforts to achieve exactiy a 2.5 grade point average. One of his roommates felt that his own grade point was improved by George's demand for last minute and lights out cramming assistance. It was no accident he was Anchor Man for '60. George also hated to fold and put away his laundry. He would spend significant time hiding it and then enjoyed the game of getting away with it or the occasional pain of getting caught. Exchanging Christmas cards with Classmates, George would always end his Christmas card with, "My laundry is folded and stowed, what's your status?" It's hard to believe George has folded his laundry for the last time.

Following graduation, George served three years in the Navy aboard BOSTON (CAG-1), and later Pocono (AGC-16).

After leaving the service, he entered the chemical industry, working for Dupont in Pennsgrove, NJ, for three years and later BASF in Ramsey, NJ, for 15 years as a pigments sales engineer Subsequentiy, George went into business for himself serving as a manufacturer's sales engineer for several pigments companies in New England and elsewhere in the Northeast.

Surviving are his sons, George S. Grossman IV of Templeton, MA, and Scott V. Grossman of North Kingstown, RI; sister Carla G. Lantier of Tiburon, CA; brother-in-law, Brian Lantier '65; two grandchildren; his former wife, Mechthilde (Scheict) Grossman of Kingston, RI; and nephews, including Brian Lantier '93.

A memorial service was held on Friday, 5 April 2002. After cremation, burial was in the family lot in Intercourse, PA. In lieu offlowers,memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association, Always and Forever Memorial and Honor Program, ATTN: ADA Web, RO. Box 2680, North Canton, OH 44720.

William E. Lewis Jr '60 CHARLES STAFFORD PARKER '60

Charles S. "Chuck" Parker, a retired mathematics teacher with the Houston school system, died on Tuesday, 19 Febmary 2002, at his home in Baton Rouge, LA. He was 63 years old.

Chuck came to the Naval Academy from Baton Rouge, LA, where he played varsity baseball. He spent the next four years of his life playing baseball at the Academy. He also loved football playing two years of battalion ball and during his Second Class Year, playing 150-pound football. He graduated with the Class of 1960 and eamed a bachelor of science degree.

Following graduation. Chuck was assigned to the Atiantic Reet aboard a destroyer out of Philadelphia. Subsequently he was reassigned to the West Coast aboard a San Francisco based oiler. Following a number of deployments, he transferred to the Navy detachment at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM. This shore tour was then followed by a year-long tour in Vietnam, where he was involved with psychological warfare and assisting the South Vietnamese in dealing with guerilla warfare.

He received the Vietnam Service Medal, National Defense Medal, and Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.

Leaving the service in 1970, Chuck went to Philadelphia where he was employed by a large air conditioning manufacmrer Several years later he relocated to Minnesota where he went to work for St. Regis Paper Company. After eight years in the north, he left the company and retumed to the south where he went into teaching in the Houston School System.

He retired several years ago and spent his time between Baton Rouge, LA, and Houston, TX. Memorial services were at St. James Episcopal Church, conducted by the Rev. Chuck Wood, followed by interment in Port Hudson National Cemetery.

Predeceased by his father, Charles W. Parker, Chuck is survived by his wife, Yvonne Cheeks Parker; mother Janet L. Parker; former wife, Frances D. Parker of Houston, TX; daughters, Michele M. Parker Priddy of Hermitage, TN, Sally Ann Parker Cohen of Houston, TX, Penny Frances Parker Davis of Austin, TX, and Leah Ann Parker Rembert of Houston, TX; sister, Sally Dupree Bamett of Union Grove, AL; brothers, S. Dupree Parker and Anthony L. Parker, both of Baton Rouge, LA; and numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to your favorite charity.

William E. Lewis Jr '60

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irst of all, get the obit into print ASAP. The normal print lag is about seven weeks. Don't add to it! I generally begin the obit with a flat statement, including full name and title, of the time, place, and cause (if available) of death.

I then proceed to place of birth, date of birth, age, early schooling and parents, as available and appropriate, followed by the source and type of appointment to the Academy. The description of their Midshipman career is usually very short, but may well expand if he was an All America, six-striper, Rhodes Scholar, or whatever, and I try to include clubs and sports as available. I always indicate which Company he (or she) graduated with, as it is invariably asked for by Classmates. If married, I try to include wife's maiden name (or husband's name), home, and date of marriage. If multiples, be as accurate as possible—these can be dangerous rocks and shoals!

1 generally follow this with his (or her) service career, in as much detail as possible, but keeping it concise. 1 try to ignore routine "meritorious" and "attendance" medals but highUght decorations for valor Ships, stations, aircraft squadrons I attempt to pinpoint as fully as possible, but exact dates are not usually included—^hard to get right.

Civilian careers should be covered in just as much detail, and include honors, fraternities, and civic distinctions as appropriate.

Advanced education and degrees are important in both civil and mihtary careers. Fit them in where they occurred.

In fuU retirement, hobbies, charities, and clearly interesting activities should be included. Use judgment about detail in Usting survivors—^if there are only a few, be detailed, but if he had 14 grandchildren, don't name them all.

Finish off with known details about place, date, and manner of final disposal of remains and services. Probably best to avoid matters regarding memorial donations unless requested by family.

Remember that the family will be extremely attuned to details, so be cautious about making any assumptions as to relationships. Avoid them if unsure. Try to talk with a member of the family other than the widow, in most cases, who will be able to get details without inflicting further pain. I refer here to divorces, estranged children, hve-in girlfriends, etc., but it refers to all details.

Try to get an obit from the local paper—it usually has much of what you want, but remember that you are writing for an audience (Academy Alumni) who is possibly interested in some things that the paper (and the family!) may not understand. (References to "driving battleships" when he was a DD skipper are not uncommon!) Correcting that is your job.

If you write the obit, sign it, if you wish. If the family writes it, credit them, even if you edit. Keep in mind that the family will probably cUp and retain the obit, and it will be a keepsake for them. They deserve good work.

For God's sake, try to get all the names spelled correctly!

The following is just one (fictionalized) example, but you may find others in previous and subsequent issues.

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WATER TIGHT DOOR '47

Water T. Door died of a stroke at Albion, KY, on 26 June 1999. He was 75 years old.

A native of Albion, "Leaky" attended Kansas State University prior to receiving his congressional appointment to the Academy from Alabama. He graduated with the Class of 1947 in June of 1946, a member of the 15th Company.

Upon graduation, he served briefly in JONES (DM-36), and decommissioned it, then operated from the Philippines for a year in PCE-871 and another year out of Kwajalein in PC1186. He served thereafter in WALDRON (DD-699) until his resignation in 1949.

In 1949 he began his engineering career with Southland Widget Power Co., where he was to spend his entire civilian working life. He climbed the corporate ladder, and on the way up served as plant superintendent of two widget producing stations; superintendent of production; assistant chief engineer, then chief engineer; vice-president, executive vicepresident, president in 1970, president and CEO in 1971, then chairman and CEO from 1984 to 1989, when he retired as chairman emeritus.

He served on the boards of numerous businesses, as well as on the Robert E. Lee Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Board of Trustees of Beauregard College and of Agnes Scott College, was a past president of the Albion Chamber of Commerce, and of the Paul Jones Society of America. He held membership in numerous professional, business, and technical societies, was a member of Sigma Chi and of Rotary, and was particularly active in working to keep Albion as host city for the 1960 Intemational Widget Competition.

He is survived by his wife of 53 years, the former Mary Lee; sons. Water and Explosion; ten grandchildren; and one great grandchild.

Memorial services were conducted at the Albion Memorial Church.

Chet Shaddeau '47

Please note that we have a word limit of 400 words for obituaries.

Obituaries may be submitted electronically to obits@usna.com, or via USPS to: Shipmate obituaries, 247 King George Stireet, AnnapoUs, MD 21402-5068.

One photo may accompany the text and will be retumed once the magazine has been printed. We request that irreplaceable photos not be sent in case of loss or damage m transit.

If sending the photo electronicaUy, please be sure that the resolution is least 300 dpi.

If you have any questions regarding submission of obituaries to Shipmate, please contact either your Class secretary, or Shipmate's obittiaries editor, Titnothy Elizabeth Woodbury (410-263-4448 xll2 or tunothy.woodbury@usna.com).

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