After graduation, "Baldy" reported aboard SAVANNAH in Pearl Harbor to serve in engineering and gunnery divisions. SAVANNAH departed the peacetime life of the Pacific in June, 1941, to join the Atlantic fleet. North Atlantic convoy escort duty proved how miserable life can be with freezing weather, ice, and heavy seas.

June, 1942, brought SAVANNAH to Boston, and on the 13th, Maurice married Mary Lucille Petrik, who answers to "Lucy". The Atlantic War was now on in earnest, with SAVANNAH participating in the African Invasion. A hopeful two week leave in Norfolk was reduced to one hour as Baldy was shanghaied by Guadalcanal-bound WICHITA. The new ship was lucky; during the first Japanese night aerial torpedo attack, WICHITA was hit with a dud torpedo.

Baldy was Evaluation Officer in WICHITA's Combat Information Center during the next 12 major actions in the Pacific. When shooting ended at Okinawa, WICHITA was dispatched to Nagasaki as administrative flagship in the liberation and processing of prisoners of war in Southern Japan. During this time, Baldy contracted an eye infection that sent him to the Treasure Island Hospital for 7 months. Eventually he lost the vision in the eye and was physically retired January 1, 1947.

Baldy started civilian life as an Engineer with Standard Oil Company of California, now Chevron. He decided that his educational background was not sufficient to compete with specialized engineers, and moved to analytical and financial assignments, and retired after 31 years as manager of Long Term Financial Planning. During these years, he and Lucy raised a family, 3 boys and one girl, were involved in some small business ventures, and built the interior, and fitted out a 50-foot cutter-rigged sloop, ENSALLA.

After retirement, Baldy's Naval Academy training in sailing and navigation was utilized for offshore cruising. In early 1979, ENSALLA sailed out Golden Gate on a trip that has taken Baldy and Lucy to more than 30 countries in the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Tasman, Coral and South China Seas. Now ENSALLA is anchored in Cebu, Philippines after 45,000 miles and eleven years of sailing. They plan sailing two more years and have bought a condominium where they live July to December. You are welcome to drop in on the Baldwin's at 1200 Brickyard Way #415, Pt. Richmond, CA 94801.

The old light cruiser MEMPHIS, Cary's first assignment after graduation, was in drydock in Pearl Harbor. He enjoyed a five-day cruise--Navy's misleading training for sea duty--on the SS Monterey out of San Pedro to get there. MEMPHIS departed the liquid sunshine state for Boston Navy Shipyard and an obvious retrofit for war with quarters afloat for ComSOLant. After the accepted qualifying two years aboard, Cary reported to New Orleans for flight training and earned his wings at Pensacola. He was assigned to Jacksonville NAS for advanced training in PBY's. He instructed night flying before assignment to a PBS squadron at Aratu, Brazil, for night patrols against German subs. In 1944-45, he was assigned to staff of FAW based at Pernambuco. With Armistice in August, 1945, Cary returned stateside, to FAW NAS, San Diego. In late 1947, he joined a PBS squadron at Kaneohe Bay, rotated 6-month tours to Tokyo and Tsingtao, China. In 1948, he was Flag Sec. of FAW Kaneohe. The base closed in 1949, and Cary moved to quarters on Ford Island, Pearl, and operated out of Barbers Point. After emotional deliberation, Cary resigned in 1950 in favor of family and a more permanent address.

Cary oriented to civies, with four years in the insurance engineering field, then spent 16 years with ITT in engineering and sales. In his 18 years, he developed a steel fabrication plant, products servicing computer field. He sold the corporation in 1988 and retired.

Cary married (fellow passenger on SS Monterey) Betty Jo, in 1943. Daughter Sharon arrived in 1946, son Bradley, 1951. Betty Jo died in 1961 after extended illness. Edna became his bride in 1983. They travel and both enjoy golf. They chose Vista, California, for their Eden.

After graduation, Don joined IDAHO. Two years later, on his way to flight training, he married Betty Bennett in Annapolis. It was December, 1943, when he joined VB 19, a divebomber squadron embarked in LEXINGTON.

On September 21, 1944, in the face of strong AA fire, Don sank a Japanese ship. For this, Admiral Mitscher awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross. Exactly one month later, his son, now Donald Banker Heimark, was born.

On 24 October, he took command of VB 19 after the commanding officer had been lost to enemy action. The very next day he led his squadron in an attack against the Japanese Fleet. He personally scored a hit on an enemy battleship in the face of continuous, intense anti-aircraft fire. For this he was awarded a Silver Star.

In a second strike this same day, Don dove boldly through intense AA fire and scored a direct hit on a large Japanese carrier that led to its loss. For this act of skill and bravery, he received his first Navy Cross.

On November 5, the last day of his short life, Don led his flight of aircraft in offensive action against Japanese naval forces in Manila Harbor. Besides directing the efforts of his accompanying squadronmates to gain maximum striking power, Don dove through withering AA fire to a perilously low altitude before releasing his bombs for a direct hit that destroyed an enemy heavy cruiser. As Don pulled out of his dive, his plane was shot down and he was lost. For his superb airmanship, indomitable fighting spirit and extreme courage in the face of tremendous odds, Don was awarded a second Navy Cross and a Purple Heart.

In a brief seven-week period, Donald Banker became one of the most highly decorated members of '40.

Today, through his son Donald Banker, and his grandchildren, Emory Banker and Skyler Banker, our classmate Don lives on.

(Submitted by Jake Heimark)

Austin H. "Barney" Barnett, Jr. flunked his last eye exam at USNA and accepted a reserve commission as Ensign to teach Math and Ordnance at the Naval Academy. In March, 1942, he transferred to the Naval Supply Corps, USN, and headed for the South Pacific. His first job in Supply was commissioning a receiving barracks in Auckland, NZ. After the landing on Guadalcanal, he was assigned to the Naval Base Tulagi, BSI, to build from scratch an Advanced Supply Depot adjacent to "Iron Bottom Bay"

In 1944 Barney was shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic to become the Supply Officer of USS MARBLEHEAD which was engaged in convoying Brazilian troops to Italy and later participated in the Southern France Invasion. On May 6, 1945, on a brief visit to the states, Barney married Janet DuBose of Athens, Ga. As the war came to a close, Janet and Barney spent several months in Philadelphia decommissioning MARBLEHEAD then preceded to NATTC Memphis, TN for a three year tour of duty.

The next duty was as Commanding Officer of the Naval Supply Depot, Argentia, Newfoundland, then the Director of the Surplus Materials Division of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, and from there to Charleston Shipyard in South Carolina. After attending the Naval War College, Newport, Barney became Supply Officer of USS FULTON and Submarine Squadron Ten which included NAUTILUS, SEA WOLFE, SKATE, etc. Barney's final tour was as Commanding Officer of FPSO Byron, Georgia, for in June, 1963, Barney, Janet, one daughter, and two sons decided to retire from the Navy and call Fort Valley, Georgia, home.

Fortunately Blue Bird Body Co. was just around the corner from their house in Fort Valley and accepted Barney into their organization to add a touch of Navy Logistics to the school bus business. Twenty-two years later he had organized an effective Service Parts Division and established a Material Control Division capable of supplying six assembly plants utilizing the latest computer techniques. In July, 1985, he retired from Blue Bird and is spending the "Golden Years" in Fort Valley, Georgia, with Janet and their friends.

Barney considers his greatest accomplishments to be: marrying Janet DuBose; raising three fine children; and spoiling eight grandchildren.

Appointed from Pennsylvania, John graduated with the Class of 1940 and was ordered to duty in LOUISVILLE, which served as escort for the last convoy to reach Manila, PI, prior to 7 December, 1941. He participated, with LOUISVILLE, in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands raids in the Salamaua and Lae operation before departing for duty under instruction and qualification as a Naval Aviator in April, 1943. He returned to the PacOpArea on board COWPENS as C.O. of VT-46 in time to participate in carrier-based raids on Japan and the landings on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Post-war duties included commands of VT-4, Quonset, and VU-5, Guam; and Staff, General Line School, Monterey, and ComNavSupForce, Antarctica.

After retirement in 1960, he operated the Briarcliff Yacht Basin in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, before qualifying as a CLU and underwriter for the Prudential Insurance Company.

He was past president of the Treasure Coast Chapter of the Retired Officers Association; past president of Indian River Presbyterian Church XYZ Club; past president of the Fort Pierce Lions Club; and was a colonel of the Flying Fezzes of the Amara Shrine Temple, flying patients from nearby hospitals to burn centers around the U.S. He was also a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association; Fort Pierce Lodge No. 87 F&AM; Scottish Rite Bodies, Valley of Lake Worth; Fort Pierce Shrine Club; Amara Shrine Temple of Palm Beach Gardens; Fort Pierce Elks Lodge No. 1520; Pelican Yacht Club and Port St. Lucie Yacht Club.

John died on 24 October, 1984 in Ft. Pierce, Florida, and was buried in the Veterans Field of Honor at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

He is survived by his widow Vera, 425 Gasparilla Avenue, Port St. Lucie, Florida 33452; his mother, Carrie Barren of Huntingdon Valley Pennsylvania; and by two sons, two daughters; a grandson; and two brothers.

Upon graduation, Ace joined the battleship WEST VIRGINIA (BB48) at Pearl Harbor. All of '40 on board survived the attack on December 7th which put the ship on the bottom with six torpedo and two bomb hits. Temporary duty with MTBRON ONE was cut short when ex-WEAVY officers available in the area were ordered back to the ship to assist with salvage operations. During this interim Ace remarried Kay, his high school sweetheart and Academy drag.

With the return of the ship to the West Coast in 1943, orders were received to BATAAN (CVL 29). A son was born just prior to the ship's departure for the Pacific and operations with the 3rd Fleet which extended to March 1945 when duty was assumed as C.O. Anti Aircraft Training Center, P.H.

In January, 1946, Ace reported to the P.G. School, Annapolis, for instruction in Meteorology. Upon completion, the family moved west with orders to the Fleet Weather Central, San Diego. Next came a tour as instructor at the P.G. School, Monterey.

In January, 1952, the Korean War brought a return to sea duty, first in the LOS ANGELES (CA 135) and then as C.O. JAMES E. KYES (DD 787). In September, 1955, on the heels of a series of WESPAC deployments, orders to Naval Station, Guantanamo, were a welcome relief to Kay and the family, now numbering five children.

Ace and Kay experienced their first taste of Washington in 1958 with duty in BUPERS and then moved to Newport for a year at the Naval War College, followed by duty as COMDESDIV 202. In 1962 the Fleet Sonar School, Key West, beckoned and then a final tour of sea duty as COMDESRON FOUR based at Charleston. Retirement was requested in 1967 following a tour in the Pentagon with the Weapons System Evaluation Group.

Principal employment in civilian life was with Raytheon, providing ship design support to the Navy in Washington. Since retirement in 1982, an active schedule of volunteer work has been maintained with the Red Cross at DeWitt Army Hospital and with NEWSTART, an organization of volunteers dedicated to upgrading the educational level of Lorton prison inmates. Ace is an active tutor, program coordinator and member, Board of Directors, all of which has been challenging and rewarding.

Most rewarding of all is the life experience with Kay and the family of five married children, along with eight grandchildren. After more than twenty Navy household moves, for more than twenty years the family homestead has happily remained at 9410 Coral Lane, Alexandria, Virginia.

Captain Leonard F. Bassett was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. After graduating from high school, he attended Arkansas State College prior to entering the Naval Academy. During World War II he served in the USS CONCORD and as Assistant Gunnery Officer aboard USS ST LOUIS, and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy Unit Commendation and the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal with seven combat stars.

Following a tour with the Staff, Eighth Fleet, he attended Post-Graduate School, then the Graduate School of MIT, earning a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering. His next three years he spent at sea as Executive Officer of the USS NORRIS and as Gunnery Officer of USS ROCHESTER and USS IOWA. During this period he received a second and third Bronze Star Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Korean Service Medal with three combat stars.

Coming ashore in 1952 he was assigned to the U. S. Naval Aviation Ordnance Test Station at Chincoteague, Virginia, and participated in the research development of naval weapons and missiles. The next three years were spent at sea. He was Executive Officer of the USS BEXAR and Commanding Officer of the USS ROWAN. In July of 1958 he was assigned to duty as Naval Inspector of Ordnance at Mishawaka, Indiana, where the Bendix Corporation produced the TALOS missile. In November 1961 he again went to sea as Commanding Officer of USS UNION. From November 1962 until July of 1965 Captain Bassett served as Senior Member of the Board of Inspection and Survey, Pacific Coast Section.

The next three years were spent as Commanding Officer of the Naval Ammunition Depot, Oahu. His last tour was Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration COM 11.

After retiring from the Navy in 1970 he worked for six years for the United Way in San Diego County where he spent most of his time with the Combined Federal Campaign. Now he spends most of his time golfing, playing with the computer he built and enjoying the weather in Coronado, California with his wife Cathie.

After graduating Chuck reported to PENNSYLVANIA at Pearl Harbor, serving as Division Officer and football/baseball coach. He survived 7 December 1941, and reported to Submarine School in New London in March 1942. While there he met June Wood, a student at Connecticut College and married her in 1943. After ten war patrols in the Aleutians and Southwest Pacific, the war ended and Chuck returned to San Francisco to meet his five month old son, Charles Jr., "Skipper". By June, 1946, the Beers were enroute to PG School in Annapolis, where sister Susan was born.

After PG School, he had a two year tour at Pt. Mugu in the submarine guided missile program. His next assignment was command of REDFISH at Coronado. The inevitable Washington duty came in October, 1951, and Chuck headed up the ASW Fire Control Branch in the Bureau of Ordnance.

In July, 1955, Chuck found his sea legs again as operations officer on DES MOINES, then as CO of ALLEN M. SUMNER in 1956. In 1958, he headed for Pasadena as OIC, Naval Ordnance Test Station. After a year at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Chuck took command of OGLETHORPE in 1962. The Beers then headed for Montgomery, Alabama where Chuck was Navy Advisor at the Air War College. In June, 1965, Chuck returned to Norfolk as Commander, Service Squadron Eight. In 1966 he became Chief of Staff, Commander Service Force.

In 1967, son Skipper graduated from the Naval Academy: then tragedy struck on 30 October 1967 as Chuck's beloved wife, June, died. In May, 1968, Chuck received his last Navy assignment as CO, Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Portsmouth, Va. During this tour he met his present wife, Jo Ann Broaddus. 1969 was a good year for the Beers as daughter Susan graduated from Hood College and married M. J. Hester, a Marine Corps officer in June. Chuck and Jo Ann married in July, and son (now called Chuck also) not to be outdone, married Susan Jackson in November. So Chuck not only gained a son and daughter-in-law but also picked up a step-daughter, Cindy, and a step-son, Jim.

Chuck retired in June, 1970 and settled in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In his second career he joined the staff at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. In 1982, Chuck retired for the second time. As this is being written, Chuck and Jo Ann are busy and in good health. Son Chuck is a four striper in the nuclear submarine Navy; daughter Susan earned a Ph.D., and is a professor at Cornell University; step-daughter Cindy works as a wife and mother and step-son Jim is doing well in the business world. Jo Ann and Chuck are proud grandparents of three girls and two boys.

After Tom's resignation was accepted by the Naval Academy in the spring of 1938, he went to the COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES and studied Geology. In June of 1941, he was appointed a midshipman in the Naval Reserve and ordered to USS PRAIRIE STATE for a 90-day training course. Tom was commissioned an Ensign E-V(G) USNR in September, 1941, and ordered to USS BOGGS (DMS-3) for duty as Assistant Chief Engineer. BOGGS was doing plane guard duty out of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the Jap attack occurred. Entering the harbor at 0800, BOGGS saw NEVADA run aground and was ordered outside to patrol. Later, about 1000, the ship went inside the harbor to sweep for mines--there weren't any.

Miss Mary Dye worked in the Planning Section at Pearl Harbor, processing Ship Alteration and Repair orders. She met Tom in June or July of 1942, and they were married on December 7, 1942. In April of 1944, BOGGS escorted the SS President Tyler to San Francisco, and upon arrival, Mary Bellinger was able to see the bright lights of a city at night for the first time in a very long time. Tom was still a Lieutenant on 4 March 1945, when he received orders as C.O. of USS HULBERT (DD-342). HULBERT was assigned plane guard duty for carriers training aviators in day and night landings. In September, 1945, Tom was released to inactive duty, and went back to the COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES. In 1947, he received a professional degree as METALLURGICAL ENGINEER. This degree was discontinued in 1970, and a Masters degree was awarded for the same 176 hours of study. While at the school, Tom was appointed C.O. of Organized Reserve Surface Battalion 12-12, meeting in Denver. After graduating, Tom was employed as a Metallurgical Engineer at the American Smelting and Refining Company near Vallejo, and from 1947 to 1951 (when he was recalled to active duty for the Korean conflict), he served as C.O. of Surface Division 12-6 out of Vallejo. During "Active Duty for Training" periods of from mere weekends to up to two weeks duration, he served as C.O. of USS G. A. JOHNSON (DE-583) and USS PCS 1445.

In May, 1951, Tom was recalled to active duty to serve as Executive Officer of USS MC NAIR (DD-679), I. J. Davenport, Commanding. The ship was being reactivated in Long Beach, CA, In early December, 1952, he was appointed ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of NAVAL SCIENCE at NORTHWESTERN UNIV. In December of 1953, he returned to inactive duty, and obtained employment with the R.B.M. Division of Essex Wire Corp., in Logansport, IN. With no naval facilities nearby, he drilled for the next five years each week at PURDUE UNIV. with an Army Artillery unit. In 1954, Tom was promoted to COMMANDER, USNR. In 1958, he was hired by CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, in Dallas, TX,

Tom and Mary are enjoying the good life at their home at 2312 West Five Mile Parkway, Dallas, TX 75224, sometimes getting away for a fun cruise. The photo shows them on board Queen Elizabeth II.

Bill was assigned to PHOENIX (CL 46) upon graduation but on 5 June 1940 received a change of orders to report to San Pedro instead of Seattle, and after travel and temporary duty in three ships finally caught up with her. Assigned to the Gunnery Department, his duties ranged from Gunnery Division Officer to Main Battery Assistant. Operations in the Hawaiian area put PHOENIX at Pearl Harbor for the Japanese attack and then the ship operated in the Indian Ocean, Australian and Guadalcanal areas until he was ordered in June 1943 to the commissioning crew of MIAMI (CL 89). Fortunately this assignment put him in Philadelphia and near his blind date drag of First Class June Week. On 16 August 1943 he was married to Marcia Lloyd Tindall, daughter of Roscoe Cook Tindall, well known Wilmington, Delaware architect. MIAMI was assigned to the Pacific and operated with Task Forces 38 and 58. In succession he served as Main Battery Assistant, Air Defense Officer and Gunnery Officer. During operations in South China Sea word arrived of the birth of a daughter, Susan Tindall, on 29 December 1944.

The end of the war brought orders to postgraduate school. A son, William Ross, was born 19 April 1947 and Bill earned a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. This second graduation ushered in a 10-year stretch in the mine warfare business. In succession he was XO THOMAS E. FRASER, Ordnance Officer at Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, CO GWIN (DM 33), Head of Mine and Harbor Defense Branch in Bureau of Ordnance and Commander Mine Squadron Eight in Charleston. GWIN earned the Battle Efficiency "E" both years of his command.

He later served as Chief of Staff to Commander Cruiser Division TWO followed by a five-year tour as CO Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, where he was awarded the Legion of Merit for contributions to the Polaris training program.

Forced to retire in March, 1967, for medical reasons, Bill and Marcia now reside in Virginia Beach and for a change of scenery spend four weeks a year at the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Born in Evanston, Illinois, on April 16, 1916, Ned attended schools there through three years at Northwestern University. He entered the Naval Academy through the Northwestern Naval ROTC program. At graduation he was ordered to USS MILWAUKEE (CL-5) where he reported at Pearl Harbor on July 2, 1940, beginning a tour of two and one-half years. Subsequent assignments: U.S. Naval Mission to Cuba (1943); USS METIVIER (DE-582) as Executive Officer (1944-45); USS LOESER (DE-680) as Commanding Officer (1945-47); NROTC Northwestern University (1947-49); COMSERVPAC Staff (1949-51); Navy Secretary, Committee on Ordnance, Research and Development Board, Office of the Secretary of Defense (1951-54): USS SAUFLEY (EDDE-465) as Commanding Officer (1954-57); Assistant Naval Attache, Madrid (1957-59); Head, Material Branch, Division of Pan-American Affairs, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (1959-60). He retired as Commander on July 1, 1960.

While on duty at Northwestern, he met D'Arcy Kennedy. They were married in Evanston on March 20, 1948. Peter was born in Hawaii on April 5, 1951, and Melissa in Bethesda, Maryland, February 7, 1954.

After retirement from the Navy, Ned was hired by Monsanto Company as an engineer at the Plastics Division In Springfield, Massachusetts. While there, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree at Western New England College, graduating in 1963. Later that year he transferred to Monsanto Research Corporation at Miamisburg, Ohio, to work as a quality control engineer. In 1964 the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where Ned was sent to be a quality representative at a supplier's plant. After three very nice years in Phoenix, Ned was promoted to Quality Control Engineering Manager and returned to Miamisburg. The family then, in September, 1967, moved into the house at 40 Williamsburg Lane, Centerville, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. This was to be their home for the next eighteen and one-half years. In 1970, Ned was certified as a Quality Engineer by the American Society for Quality Control. Soon after that he joined the part-time faculty of Sinclair Community College in Dayton to teach night courses in quality control technology. In 1976, Ned was given a new assignment in quality management, that of Standards and Calibration Manager. In this position he finished out his service with the company. On May 1, 1981, he retired from Monsanto after more than twenty years.

In March, 1986, D'Arcy and Ned moved to 908 Ravenwood Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina. Peter and his wife, Esther, live in nearby Durham and Melissa in Raleigh.

EIdo, (classmates called him"Bergie", "Swede", or"El",) reported aboard LEXINGTON at Pearl, July of 1940. Two major decisions were made during the summer of '41: He was baptized a Catholic at Sacred Heart Church, Honolulu, and married his academy sweetheart, Miss Agnes "Tomme" Thompson of New Rochelle and Dering Harbor, New York. This precipitated a minor crisis in his naval career, and for a short while, threatened to terminate it!

On December 7, 1941, LEX was bound for Midway. El's bride of 3 months sat on the sea wall near Diamond Head and watched with horror the smoke billowing upward from the burning ships in Pearl Harbor. Three weeks later, El received orders to report to commission LAFFEY, but was delayed 3 months by a nearly fatal bout with pneumonia, which reduced him from 210 to 180 pounds. In March, El and his bride were evacuated from Hawaii

LAFFEY set a record for rapid departure from the United States. Then followed her brief but distinguished service in rescuing 200 survivors from the torpedoed WASP, fighting valiantly in the night Battle of Cape Esperance and again in the first battle of Guadalcanal on Friday, November 13, 1942. In that vicious battle, LAFFEY was sunk. Thus this brave ship, which had the record for speedy commissioning, now set a record for equally speedy decommissioning -- something less than 8 months. After approximately ten hours in the water, El and other survivors were picked up by Marine-manned LCVP's. Then followed four months of treatment in six hospitals from Guadalcanal to Auckland, New Zealand to Santa Cruz, California.

Bergie next received orders to commission the cruiser BOSTON. During El's 35 months on board, she participated in ten battle campaigns from the Marshalls to Tokyo Bay. Of particular interest in October, 1944, was the 36-hour period in which BOSTON towed the torpedoed HOUSTON to safety from a point 90 miles off Formosa. After 6 months of post-war duty in Japan, BOSTON returned to San Francisco, and El reported to the staff of ComBatCruPac in Long Beach.

Bergie resigned his commission in November, 1947, and returned to Genoa to manage the family Road Construction business, now in its 76th year. Eldo became the 1st president of Lourdes Parish Credit Union, served on the Ottawa County Board of Health, Advisory Board of St. Charles Hospital, Chamber of Commerce Board, founded the Wrestling Wing of Cardinal Stritch High School, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal from Xavier University, is a 4th degree Knight of Columbus, a member of the Toledo Opera Council and The American Legion. El and Tomme now have fourteen children and twenty-seven grandchildren - perhaps he still qualifies as the man of '40 with the largest family.

Al's first duty was in USS WEST VIRGINIA, standing top engineering watches until the ship was sunk on 7 December 1941. About December 11, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Al was informed that the Submarine Force needed officers badly; he volunteered, (as did Tom MaGrath and Ed O'Brien) and within a few minutes, Al was reporting to USS TAMBOR without benefit of Submarine School. TAMBOR departed for war patrols, took part in the Battle of Midway. In spite of the deep running torpedoes and exploders that crushed on impact, the ship did well. After serving on COMSUBDIV 61's staff in Perth, in February, 1944, Al went out as X.O. of USS GAR. This tour included the rescue of thirteen aviators off YAP. December, 1944: Al became CO of USS S-47, an old boat that was a continuing emergency drill.

In 1945, Al took command of USS SAURY (SS-189), and prepared the ship for Nuclear Tests at ENIWETOK, but the orders were canceled. 1946 to 1948: the two-year Engineering Course at the PG School. In 1948, he was an instructor in Marine Engineering at the Academy, and a year later, went to be X.O. of USS DIODON, then to C.O. of USS POMODON. A highlight of this tour was a "peace-time" war patrol off VLADIVOSTOK. Next, two years at the ARMED FORCES STAFF COLLEGE as an instructor. While COMSUBDIV 62 in 1965, Al took two of his boats to the ARCTIC OCEAN to test gyros in high latitudes. 1956 to 1958: Submarine School, first as PCO Instructor, and then as XO. The Polaris Program was just getting off the ground, nuclear power was moving in, and the Foreign PCOs were an education. 1958 to 1960: NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, as a student and a second year on the staff. Then came command of USS ORION (AS-18) and in 1962 , Readiness Officer, COMASWFORLANT -- highlight: CUBAN missile crisis. June, 1964: COMSUBRON 6, and a year later, to CNO (OF-95), and while there, was selected for Flag Rank. November, 1967: First Flag Officer's billet: CO NTC San Diego, where Al exceeded the goals SECNAV had set for this command. Al's Vietnam duty came in 1969, as COMSERVGRU/RON 3, based in SASEBO, mostly spent in SUBIC and VIETNAM, providing logistics support for the war. In 1970, a short tour in NAVPERS as head of Education/Training, and in September, 1971, Chief of Naval Technical Training at Millington, TN. In June, 1972, he retired.

After a very satisfying naval career, the Bergners moved to Pungateague Creek on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and built a house they had designed a few years before: a rural community, many retirees, few ex-military. Both Jayne and Al are involved in community and country club activities. Their son, Ion, (USNA '68), now Captain, is Repair Officer, PHILANAVSHIPYD. Their daughter, Barbara, in Annapolis, has two sons, and with Jon's two, gives them four grandsons.

Art first reported to ENTERPRISE and served in her through Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in October 1942. After PT training at Melville, Rhode Island, he returned to the Solomons as XO MTBRon 10 and later CO MTBRon 20. Returning to Melville he was XO and CO MTBRon 4. In April 1944 Art went as CO MASSEY (DD 778) in the Philippines, moving on to Okinawa and then the occupation of Japan. MASSEY returned to CONUS in December 1945 and Art was ordered CO HAMBLETON (DMS 20). In September 1946 Art was ordered to JAG for the Law PG course at GWU Law School, Upon graduation in June 1949, he reported as Flag Secretary to ComCruDiv 3 and was embarked in SPRINGFIELD, HELENA and TOLEDO at various times. After returning from WESTPAC, CruDiv 3 quickly re-deployed to Japan-Korea when the war broke out in June 1950. After a second Korea deployment, in April 1951 Art became CO STICKELL (DD 888) and again deployed to Korea. In January 1953 he had a two year tour in the Legal Office, 12ND. This was followed by a two year assignment on the staff of ComTraPac. Art then was ordered as XO, TOLEDO (CA 133) and in Summer 1958 was promoted out of his job and went to BuPers as Director, Training Management Division. In 1960-61 Art attended ICAF and then went to sea as CO OGLETHORPE (AKA 100) in PhibLant. In August 1962, he reported as Legal and Legislative Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and served under Generals Lyman Lemnitzer, Maxwell Taylor, and Earl Wheeler. Art then went to sea as ComPhibRon 6, deploying to the Caribbean and to the Med. From 1967 until retirement as a Captain on June 1, 1970, Art served in BuPers as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Performance.

Upon retiring, Art went into private practice of law in Washington, D.C., at first on his own and later as a partner in the firm of Rothwell, Cappello and Berndtson. After a second interesting and rewarding career, Art retired from practice in December, 1987 and is now happily engaged in hunting, fishing, gardening and spoiling two granddaughters. Jonnie and Art continue to reside at 626 4th Place, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024

Art's awards included: Silver Star, Bronze Star with "V", Navy Commendation Medal with "V", Presidential Unit Citation with star, Navy Unit Commendation, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Meritorious Service Medal.

ENTERPRISE (CV-6) on graduation. Started guided tour of Pacific, Pearl to Guadalcanal. May 1943: Tour interrupted. New construction. LANGLEY (CVL-27). Betsy Vogler waiting in Davenport. Married. 11 June 1943. Together to Camden, New Jersey. Commissioning. Shakedown. Philly for last goodbyes. Betsy to Davenport. George resumed guided tour, Tarawa to Okinawa. Eighteen months west of Pearl. Very poor liberty. Nine months without going ashore. August 1945: New construction. Gunnery Officer KEARSARGE (CV-33). V-J Day. One room apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Commissioning 2 March 1946. Shakedown. Bayonne to demobilize. 23 July 1946, son Jim, Brooklyn Naval Hospital.

New Year's Eve 1946: George to Norfolk, Gunnery Officer Carrier Division ONE Staff. MIDWAY (CVB-41) and ROOSEVELT (CVB-42), V2s from flight deck, a long Med deployment, and shore duty began to look like something only for other people. July 1948: Naval Reserve Units, Facilities and Training Centers Madison and Lacrosse, Wisconsin. Nancy, 28 December 1948. Korea. June 1950. Reserves off to war, George to Bayonne to recommission NEW JERSEY (BB-62). Gunnery again. Susan, Norfolk 26 February 1951. House on Dover Circle. George to Korea. Bang up good time-Bronze Star for bullseyes.

July 1952: C.O. WATTS (DD-567). Tour cut short by Medicos claiming TB. Not guilty. May 1953 to staff SACLANT. NATO logistics. Dover Circle too small with the old man home from sea. Moved to Blake Road. March 1956: New construction in Brooklyn again, Gunnery Officer (what else?), SARATOGA (CVA-60). Egyptian Crisis. Strikeback. October 1957: C.O. WILLIAM M. WOOD (DDR-715). Lebanon, etc. March 1959 to OPNAV. Home at Lake Barcroft. Logistics. Fire Fighting and Super Flap Division. March 1962: C.O. attack transport CHILTON (APA-38). PHIBRON 2 Flagship. Floating marina for itinerant Marines. Betsy stays put. Kennedy. Krushchev. Castro. 6 June 1963: back to OPNAV. Assistant Naval Inspector General. Traveling trouble shooter. August 1966: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Deputy Commander Defense Atomic Support Agency Command. Army quarters at Sandia Base.

July 1970: Headed for the hills in northern New Mexico and moved into newly built lakeshore home in Angel Fire, a high (8700’) mountain valley surrounded by snowcapped mountains, wildflowers, trout, deer, elk, gun club, tennis courts, 18-hole golf course, snowmobile trails, and ski runs. The Blocks plan to spend New Year's Eve year 2000 on their own ski slopes. The welcome mat is out.

Ike's first duty aboard ASTORIA in Pearl was exciting and delightful. With the war, this changed and Ike found himself in the thick of it, finally being sunk off Guadalcanal in August, 1942. He transferred to the HORNET, but this duty was cut short by her sinking in November.

Observing that the future was in the air and desiring more education, Ike earned his wings and applied for PG School. After a tour at NATC, Patuxent, he began the Aeronautical Engineering (Armament) course at USNA and finished at MIT in 1946.

This course set the tone for his naval career, heavily oriented in missiles, aeronautics, and computers. He first served in OpNav as Aeronautics Officer, Guided Missile Division, then to NAMTC as Air Launched Test Officer and Technical Information Officer. After a tortuous red tape battle involving eye injury, cataract, grounded, denied sea duty, requiring sea duty for promotion, he was selected for AEDO and assigned to Armament Division BuAer. NADC, Johnsville, as Director, Analytical and Computer Laboratory, then Armament Laboratory followed. Back to BuAer as Plans and Programs Officer, Guided Missile Division, and with BuWeps, Air Launched Missile Development Officer. Then it was the Polaris Program as Fire Control and Missile Guidance development and production officer at MIT and the GE Ordnance plant in Pittsfield, Mass. Finally back to Naval Air Systems Command as Aircraft Development Officer and retirement in 1966.

Near the end of his PG course, he also completed his bachelorhood, marrying Nancy from his home town. Three daughters followed. With much shore duty, he was able to fully participate in their upbringing. However, the tragic death of their middle daughter in her late twenties devastated Nancy and him.

In retirement, Ike was successively Program Manager for Navy projects aboard the Manned Orbital Laboratory at GE; Systems Analyst at Grumman; Assistant Manager, Analytical Division, Boeing Helicopter, Philadelphia; and finally Research Administrator, University of Pennsylvania.

He now lives a relaxed and satisfactory life--a little travel, playing the option market with puts and calls, getting a little exercise, taking his medication and tending his flowers.

Will joined NEVADA at Pearl, returned with her to Bremerton in the winter of 1940, where he met and fell in love with Mary Grayson Waterman, and soon a miniature sealed the engagement. December 7, 1941, found NEVADA in Pearl, badly damaged, and Mary Grayson's all- diamond wedding ring lost in flooded J. O. Country. Long hours of salvage work refloated the ship, and miraculously, the wedding ring was recovered, soon to be put to its proper use when on April 1, 1942, the Navy's marriage ban was lifted.

The summer of 1943 brought orders for Bill to PG School (electronics engineering) and the first house Bill and Grayson were to own, and where Bill, Jr. was born in November, 1943. Duty changes followed: 1954 to SERVPAC in Pearl; 1946 to BuShips; 1951 to the Naval Academy; 1954 to the Norfolk Shipyard; 1956 to Tenth Naval District (San Juan, P.R.); 1958 to the Charleston Shipyard; 1960 back to BuShips. Next, Bill attended the advanced management program at Harvard and then took command, for the highlight of his career, of the Naval Electronics Laboratory (now Naval Ocean Systems Command). Along the way, two more children were born: Douglas in 1945 (the Naval Academy Hospital's 1000th baby) and Mary Dutton in 1951.

Bill retired in 1971, not to become a gentleman farmer, but to become a tank farmer, after buying a 207,000-barrel fuel oil storage terminal. Graybill Terminal (from Grayson and Bill) stored fuel oil for a decade for San Diego Gas and Electric. Bill believed that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and by owning his own business, he could incorporate play into his life. He went to the Orient several times with Grayson, went with her and with George and Betsy Block to the tip of Baja California, and spent six weeks one summer driving up through Alaska with Grayson. He also realized a fondly cherished dream by learning how to fly an airplane and received his instrument rating.

After Bill's death from cancer in 1981, Grayson became president of Graybill. Bill Boehm, Jr. left his architectural practice in San Francisco to handle the day-to- day operations of the firm. Grayson continued her work for the community, serving on the boards of the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center (where she was the first woman president of the board), the Museum of Man, the University of California, San Diego Cancer Center, as well as sitting on advisory committees for the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego National Bank. She received recognition for her community involvement--The Woman of Dedication Award in 1981, and the Community Service Award from Converse College, her alma mater, in 1988.

Grayson Boehm continued to travel. She went with a group from the San Diego Zoo to China in 1984 and 1987. They negotiated the loan of rare golden monkeys and pandas from the Chengdu Zoo to the San Diego Zoo. She also went on a walking safari in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana in 1988. She died of cancer in 1989.

Bill and Grayson Boehm's legacy is their three children and six grandchildren. Bill Boehm, Jr., the oldest, lives in San Diego with his wife, Louise. He has two children, Ashley and Carl Henry. Douglas and Susan Boehm live in Vienna, Virginia, with their three children, Molly, Betsy, and Douglas, Jr. Mary Boehm lives in San Diego with her husband Morris Hill and baby girl, Emily Grayson Hill.

(Submitted by Mary Dutton Boehm)

Bob was Deck Division and Turret Officer in TUSCALOOSA (CA 37) when the ship hosted President Franklin Roosevelt on his Caribbean inspection trip of "Bases for Destroyers," and escorted him to Argentia. While one of only four (all classmates, Pancho Hunker, Ray Koshliek, Dick Laning) top watch standers in HORNET (CV 8), Bob saw LCOL Doolittle (Tokyo Raiders) and LCDR Waldron (Torpedo 8 - Midway) wave on take-off. After that it was flight training at New Orleans (New Year's Eve 42/43), Pensacola, Jacksonville. Bob hunted German subs off Brazil with VP94 (PBY 5A); then familiarization in PBM and Commanding Officer of VPB 18 (PBM 5) during the Okinawa operation (for which they received the Navy Unit Commendation). The squadron established the first and only Navy Air transport between Saipan and Tokyo for two months. PG School at the USNA and MIT came next and then on to be Executive Officer of the FASRON at Whidby Island, Washington. Bob then became the Operations Officer of MINDORO (CVE 120); Commanding Officer of FASRON 115 and Commanding Officer of the US Naval Station, Trinidad, B.W.I. Two tours in BuAer preceded retirement on 31 October 1959. Bob received the last of "Tombstone" promotions to Captain. After retirement, Bob engineered for Chance Vought, Dallas; General Electric, Utica, NY; and finally Westinghouse, Pittsburgh until 1976. He now works at golf, gardening, and woodworking (roll top desks) and resting. Bob enjoyed a coronary bypass in 1983 and remains as one of the elders of 1940.

Dotty Beach and Bob had Kristin in 1945, Rich in 1948 and their marriage led to 5 and 2 grandchildren. After a divorce in 1955 another attempt at wedded bliss failed, and Bob married present Margy in 1969 and is holding.

Bob grew up on the Hudson River above West Point but chose Annapolis, being appointed from New York. After graduation he reported to IDAHO which was taking part in the North Atlantic Patrol during 1941. On December 7th he was en route to Kearny, New Jersey to commission AARON WARD. That ship was considerably damaged at Guadalcanal and he transferred to PENSACOLA. He served as Gunnery Officer supporting landings at Tarawa, the Carolines, Leyte, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and spent the summer of 1944 in the Aleutians raiding the Kuriles.

After taking part in the occupation of Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, PENSACOLA returned and Bob was married to Sally Ray, a lieutenant in the WAVES, in 1946. PENSACOLA then performed her last mission at the atom bomb tests at Bikini.

Bob and Sally's children--Robert Anthony Jr., John Harker and Jane Roberts--were born in Washington, Oregon and Virginia during shore duty in 13th Naval District Intelligence and Fleet Training Group, Chesapeake Bay. Bob reported as Exec of GURKE and spent seventeen out of twenty-seven months at sea. He participated in the Inchon invasion in 1950 for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

In 1953 Bob commissioned and took command of NEPTUNE, the Navy's first large cable layer. After twenty months laying the largest submarine cable ever made, he reported to SERVLANT Staff to continue supervision of this most interesting project. In 1957 Bob took command of CONY which helped suppress the uprising in Lebanon. His last duty before retiring was Exec of Naval Station, Norfolk.

The family settled in Portland, Oregon, where Bob was an account executive for two brokerage firms before joining U.S. National Bank's Trust Investment department. He retired for the second time in 1979 and moved to the Oregon Coast where he and Sally had built a beach house.

In retirement Bob most enjoyed his hobby of wood carving. Representative of his work: a class seal hangs in the '40 wardroom in Bancroft Hall and a USNA crest is in the tap room at the Alumni House. Bob died very suddenly in February 1983 of a pulmonary blockage. His wish was to have his ashes interred in the family plot in Coxsackie, New York--where his ancestors settled 350 years ago.

Bill had defective vision and was not commissioned at graduation. He worked for Pan-American in New York and US Steel in Worcester, Ma. After commissioning in USNR, he went on active duty to an Aeronautical Engineering course at MIT. 1941: to NAS Norfolk, O an R Department, Patrol Plane Overhaul Officer then to Experimental Division of NAS, where he helped to develop a program for fuel consumption testing in flight for all new models of naval aircraft. 1943: to NATC Patuxent River, Flight Test Division, Senior Power Plant Engineer, where he continued to direct the Fuel Consumption Test Program. 1946: to PG School at Annapolis, B.S., Aeronautical Engineering. Bill was commissioned in the Regular Navy and designated AEDO 1948: to Cal Tech, Professional degree of Aeronautical Engineer. 1949: to BuAer, Aeronautical and Hydro Division, Head, Missile and Facilities Units. He became a Registered Aeronautical Engineer in the District of Columbia. 1952: to David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Md., BuAer, Head, Industrial Equipment Division.

Bill retired from the Navy on 30 June 1961, moved to Redlands, Ca. and joined Space Technology Labs (now TRW) as a Senior Staff Engineer on ICBM programs. He retired from TRW in 1971 and worked in civil engineering for three years. In 1974 he joined the San Bernardino County Flood Control District performing hydrology studies and as Laboratory Head. He became a Registered Civil Engineer in California in 1978 and retired from the county in 1981. From 1981 to 1987 he did consulting work for the county.

Bill married Mary Millard Butler of Norfolk in 1942. They have eleven children (Bill, Molly, Tom, Dick, Lucy, Julie, Matt, May, John, Pete, Amy),born about every two years from 1943 to 1966, and 17 grandchildren. Tom and John graduated from Oregon State on NROTC scholarships and Dick is USNA 1971.

From 1964 to 1975 Bill was on the Executive Board, Grayback Council, BSA; in 1972 and 1973 Chairman, Citrus District, BSA; and 1981 to 1984 was a Scoutmaster. Bill received the Award of Merit and the Silver Beaver from the BSA. In 1971 and 1972 he was Chairman, Budget Committee, United Way of Redlands. Bill had a 5-way coronary bypass in 1978. Mary and Bill are Rockhounds and are out in their 4-Runner as often as possible. They have traveled coast to coast looking for minerals.

Jack entered the Naval Academy on 17 June 1935, and graduated with Class of 1940, having taken the regular five-year course. Assigned to USS NEW MEXICO (BB-40) as a CWO and Radio Officer, operated in Hawaiian waters until Spring, 1941, when ship was assigned to North Atlantic and the Neutrality Patrol. Upon start of WW II, returned to Pacific. Ended this tour as Signal Officer and Ship's Secretary in June, 1942, to attend Submarine School; with a stop in Washington, D.C., to marry his present wife, Betty Krogman. After Submarine School, reported to USS POLLACK (SS-180) in Pearl Harbor and served for two war patrols in the Japanese Empire area. Back to New London in June, 1943, to commission USS ANGLER (SS-240) and to make three war patrols in the Southwestern Pacific. Then to USS NAUTILUS (SS-168) as Exec. for her last patrol before coming back to Philadelphia Navy Yard in Spring of 1945 for decommissioning. Upon surrender of U-858 and her arrival at New London via Philadelphia, took over as Officer-in-Charge for operational testing for a year on East Coast.

From Mid-1946 to mid-1949 was instructor and Head of Reserve Training Department at Submarine School. Was X.O. of USS REMORA for six months, followed by C.O. of USS SEGUNDO (SS-398) until mid-1958. Staff of Amphibious School in Coronado until December 1959, when became C.O. of USS POINT DEFIANCE (LSD-31) out of Long Beach. In 1961, transferred to Staff, COMPHIBPAC in Coronado for three years as Training Officer and later as the Operations Officer. While there got the first Seal Team organized and operational as well as having got involved with unconventional warfare.

In 1963, spent his last three years in SECDEF's area and the Joint Staff in the Office of the SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR COUNTERINSURGENCY AND SPECIAL ACTIVITIES as Head of the Special Operations Group. Retired in October, 1966, and spent the next five years based in Singapore, while working for Esso Eastern as an industrial advisor in Southeast Asia. Came home in late 1971 to play golf, etc., but times changed that. Became a commercial industrial and business broker, where he still survives.

Outside of helping his dear wife raise three great kids, being yard boy with certain privileges and some professional and social volunteer work, Jack manages to keep busy. It has been a wonderful life between the Navy and the family.

Following a confrontation with a Calculus book and an ongoing struggle with color blindness, Paul terminated his happy relationship with the Academy at the end of Youngster year. Scranton University and the Academy constituted his formal education, and when the war came, he obtained his commission in the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army.

Paul taught Bridge Engineering at the Field Officers' Course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia when first commissioned. Later joined an Engineer Combat Battalion as platoon commander and went to the European theatre where he was ultimately promoted to Company Commander. Retired from active service as a Captain in 1946.

Civilian life included a brief stint in the traffic department of an airline and then a thirty-two year career with his own insurance business, the latter being operated out of his home in northern Virginia. It was during this period that Paul was able to maintain his friendship with Navy folk as they came and went through the Washington, D.C. duty mill.

At sixty, Paul retired. He gathered his wife, Sunny, a host of wonderful memories and two cats, and settled in the state of Washington on Puget Sound. Port Ludlow boasts an excellent marina, a world class golf course, and delightfully warm citizens with whom to share. Paul's deck overlooks the Sound where it joins the Hood Canal, and his Navy memories are regularly stirred as the big Trident submarines pass quietly to and from their base at Bangor.

In closing, he would like his old classmates to know that regardless of the four years spent in the Army, when that all-important football game takes place, he still dens a sailor's hat and roots for Navy.

Bill served aboard the TUSCALOOSA from June 1940 until she was decommissioned in 1946. He took part in the Murmansk run, Normandy and Southern France invasions, and then the war in the Pacific. He and Isabel Basye were married in Rochester, New York in October, 1944.

Bill resigned from the Navy in 1947 and held a civilian job until he came back into the Navy as a Reserve officer, serving as inspector-instructor in Syracuse, New York. His next assignment was Exec of the destroyer HARLAN R. DICKSON in the Mediterranean. Upon return to Newport, he was ordered to the battleship NEW JERSEY as Gunnery Officer, participating in the Korean Conflict,

After Korea, Bill came back into the Regular Navy and served his next tour at Treasure Island, California, Later he earned a Master's Degree in Business at George Washington University in Washington. Returning to sea, he assumed command of the destroyer ERNEST G. SMALL, based in Long Beach. Bill made two deployments to the Western Pacific in this ship, and then was ordered to the 12th Naval District Headquarters in San Francisco as comptroller. He made Captain in July 1959 and not long thereafter became Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations of the 12th naval District. In March, 1961, he took command of the ammunition ship VESUVIUS, home port San Francisco. During those two delightful tours in the Bay Area, the family occupied spacious government quarters at the Mare Island Shipyard -- a delightful place to raise a large family.

The San Francisco tours were followed by duty on the Joint Staff as Logistics Officer of the Joint Alternate Command Element (JACE) at the underground pentagon at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. A year later, he was ordered to Norfolk, Virginia as Chief of the JCS relocation teams in the National Emergency Command Posts Afloat (NECPA). The cruiser NORTHAMPTON (CC-1) and the converted medium aircraft carrier WRIGHT (CC-2) were the designated NECPA ships.

Bill’s naval career closed on 1 May 1965. Soon thereafter, the family settled comfortably in Cherry Hill, New Jersey while Bill was manager of the operations research laboratory at the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories in Philadelphia. After five years in the management consulting business, the relaxed pace in the southwest was too attractive to resist, and so the Braybrooks moved to Arizona. Bill worked on the budget for the City of Tucson for a year; then as Director of the Arizona State Planning Agency in Phoenix until he retired in 1980.

Bill and Isabel reared six children: Nancy, Bill, Jim, Martha, Isabel and Tom. There are now six grandchildren. Their home address is 7321 N. 47th Avenue, Glendale, Arizona 85301.

The significant dates and events in his all too brief life are substantially as follows. He was a native Oklahoman, born in April of 1916 in Oklahoma City. After graduation from Classen High School in 1934, he attended the University of Oklahoma for a year, then worked for the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. for another year while awaiting an appointment to the USNA. He entered the latter with the class of 1940.

He is best remembered as a good and dependable friend, a considerate roommate of a cheerful and tolerant disposition with a wry and entertaining sense of humor. He was an excellent student in the first quarter of his class, and ever available to help the less talented. He was of a curious mind and involved himself in a variety of activities, sports and clubs. He was fascinated by classical music. Somewhere along the way he picked up the nickname "Joe", though the source is lost in antiquity. He had his share of faults and weaknesses, no doubt, but they too are lost in that same haze of passing years.

In June, 1940, Joe reported to the light cruiser USS BROOKLYN in the Pacific and spent two years aboard during the final year and a half of peace and the early months of U.S. involvement in World War II. In June of 1942, he returned from the western Pacific to begin flight training, but first was married to a charming young woman, Alice Grenelle Reid of Washington, D.C.

By February of 1943, Don had won his wings and was to return to Washington on leave. On the morning of the 24th, however, a bizarre aircraft landing accident at Cecil Field, Florida, ended those plans and all plans for the future. He walked away from the accident, apparently unharmed, but collapsed within minutes and died almost immediately of spinal injuries.

A son, Donald R. Bried II, was born prematurely that day and survives. Alice Bried, never remarried, died in 1962. Like her husband, she is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Along with so many of his classmates and contemporaries, Donald Raymond Bried was caught up in and destroyed by an inexorable war long before he could fully realize his considerable potential. He was less than twenty-seven years of age.

To paraphrase the epitaph on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Edinburgh: "He did not grow old as we that are left grow old, age did not weary him nor the years condemn; at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember him ...".

After finishing the Marine basic training in February, 1941, Steve reported to Parris lsland where he joined the staff of the Barrage Balloon School. In April, 1942, he shipped overseas with a balloon squadron to American Samoa. About a year later, as a gung-ho Marine, Steve joined the Third Marine Division and made the Bougainville landing with it. Because of a tropical illness, he returned to the states via hospital. During his recovery at the Oakland Naval Hospital, Margaret and Steve were married. They had met during the 1940 June week. Upon release, Steve joined the Troop Training Unit, Amphibious Training Command, at Coronado, as an instructor. Although scheduled again for overseas, he unexpectedly received orders for the Tenth Command and General Staff Course, Quantico. During this time at Quantico, Steve's philosophy about a military career changed. He resigned his regular commission and joined the Marine Reserve in 1946. After approximately 25 years of reserve service time, he retired therefrom. Steve was offered his regular commission again in 1951 during the Korean Conflict, but after two months of active duty, he again opted for the reserves.

Steve's civilian employment was primarily with two copper and brass mills at various capacities, but mainly in sales. In an interim between the brass mills, he was vice president of sales for a fastener manufacturer. His family was fortunate as he did not transfer from upstate New York. The Brodys were able to raise their family of ten children in a relatively steady family environment. Steve had completed his master's degree in business management from Steven's Institute of Technology prior to moving to upstate New York. All of their children have matriculated at college and most have graduate degrees in business, education, music, science and law. Their youngest daughter, Erin, was graduated in the Month of May, 1988 with a major in music. Their next in line, Michelle, began medical college in the fall of 1988. To date, there are seventeen grandchildren, of which Steve personally baptized eleven. This is one of the privileges of a permanent deacon of the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained about six years ago. This is truly voluntary, non-gainful employment --but like virtue, it has its own rewards. Steve's present ministry is in parish work, a large part of which is calling on shut-ins at hospitals and nursing homes. His retirement from civilian work was a bit early, as of November, 1980. Steve's wife, Margaret, had taught elementary school for a while, but she too is now retired. This has provided them considerable time to travel, to do church ministry and take care of their home. Their travel is mostly to visit their scattered family, but they have managed to get to Hawaii and New Zealand, and are planning more such trips. As a couple of senior citizens, they do find their comfort and pleasure primarily in their home, family, friends and church.

Dick was born 5 November, 1915, in Creston, Iowa. He attended Northwestern University for two years. Upon graduation from the Naval Academy, Dick served aboard USS HONOLULU from July, 1940 to December, 1942. He was the Engineering Duty Officer the morning of 7 December, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. HONOLULU participated in the Aleutian Campaign, (bombardment of Kiska Island) and the Battle of Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal Area.

Following flight training at Dallas, Pensacola, Green Cove Springs and Vero Beach, Florida, and Carrier Qualification, he reported aboard USS COWPENS for operations off the Coast of Japan (November, 1944). In late August, 1945, during the first days of the American occupation of Japan, he commanded a group from COWPENS and took over the Japanese Naval Air Station at Yokosuka, japan and, subsequently, evacuated prisoners of war from the camp in Nagota, Japan.

Dick was Air Officer aboard USS POINT CRUZ (CVE-119) with WESTPAC for Atomic Testing; was Navigator aboard USS BARIOKO and took detachment of VF-151 for Cold Weather Exercise in the Alaskan area.

Dick was Assistant Air Operations Officer, Staff, Commander, Fleet Air, Alameda, (March, 1949 - April, 1951) and while on TAD, took experimental Shaped Charge Rockets from Naval Ordnance Station, Inyokern, California to Japan and CVEs off Coast of Korea for use against North Korean tanks; instructed personnel in use and observed operations.

He next reported to the Bureau of Naval Personnel as Placement Officer for large combatant ships and fleet staffs (May, 1951 - August, 1954); then was C.O., VS-32, Quonset Point, RI, conducting ASW Evaluation of USS NAUTILUS off Bermuda and where, after initial contact and at direction of CNO, tracked a Russian submarine in Mid-Atlantic for one week.

From June, 1956 to October, 1958, he served in Strategic Plans, Staff Commander in Chief, Atlantic, concentrating on U.S. and NATO Air Defense Plans and NATO Air Bases and Storage. This was during the Suez and Lebanon Crisis. He returned to the U.S. in November, 1958, for duty in the R&D Division of the Bureau of Aeronautics, for Transport, Early Warning and Trainer Type Aircraft and coordination with ASW type Aircraft.

Dick was placed on the disability retired list on 1 July, 1960. In retirement, he imported catamaran sailboats from England and later designed and arranged for the manufacture of COUGAR Catamarans for U.S. markets, in addition to pursuing his interest in farming of family properties in Texas.

He maintained an avid interest in aviation and the Navy to the end of his life on 7 July, 1988. His widow, the former Marine Anneler Pole, resides in the Washington area.

In June 1940, Don reported to USS SAVANNAH (CL-42) and cruised to Samoa, New Zealand, Tahiti, Mare Island, Panama Canal to North Atlantic convoy duty, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Recife, Bermuda (as a base to patrol for Nazi SCHARNHORST and GNEISNAU) and then final detachment in July, 1942, for flight training at NRAB, New Orleans, Pensacola, and Cecil Field, Jax.

On August 10, 1943, Jeanne LaSalle Brown, having traveled from Alameda, California, married Don at NAS, Jax. Duty stations that followed were: VC-28; VB-301; VB-84; PG School then at Halligan Hall, USNA; MIT for his MSc in Aeronautical Engineering; BuOrd; NAS, Corpus Christi for an F4U refresher; Carrier Air Group 19 and a Korean combat tour in USS PRINCETON; BuOrd again; NAS, Kingsville for F9F jets; CO, VF-54; ComAirPac Special Weapons Officer; and last tour of Navy duty was as Experimental Officer, NOTS, China Lake. Retired July 1, 1960, and spent next 10+ years at Naval Warfare Research Center of Stanford Research Institute. Then to "pioneering life" as Superintendent of Camanche Regional Park, California with boats, horses, cattle, and a few rattlesnakes until April, 1983, final retirement and a move to their new home on La Contenta GC, Valley Springs, California. Since then, they have been active outdoors with golf, gardening, deer and upland game hunting, fly fishing, and travel--attending as many USNA 1940 reunions as possible at the Academy, Castine, Maine, and West Coast.

Events of Note since 1940: Donald Earl, Jr., born February 17, 1945, but later killed in a tragic landslide September 7, 1955; Kathleen Amelia, born September 8, 1946 at the Naval Academy Hospital; Charles Robert, born September 30, 1947, at USNH, Oak Knoll, California. Kathleen and Charles both graduated from Lewis & Clark College, Oregon. Kathleen married James O. ROAHEN, now Captain (DC), USN and stationed at USNA, but teaching at Bethesda. She is deep into USNA and Annapolis visitor-guiding, active in Annapolis Historical Society and chapel staff work. They have two children: Jenny (16) and David (7). Son, Charles, obtained an additional degree in Wildlife Management at Oregon State University and married Cynthia Lee Schultz. Cyndy does physical therapy with small tots. They have two children: Shelley (14) and Kevin (10). Charles is the Wildlife Biologist for Non-Game Animals with Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, starting in 1972.

Assigned to USS MARYLAND upon graduation, Bill's first job was Signal Officer, followed by Port AA Battery Control Officer (his assignment during Pearl Harbor), followed by Signal Officer again (no implication, he hopes!). Flight training August 1942 - April 1943. Pre-Op training Opalacka, Op training Green Cove Springs followed by fighter instructor duty until Summer, 1944 (F4F, F4U). First fleet duty, Flight Officer VF 10, then CO VF 95. Married Jeanne (Penny) Penhale December 23, 1944. War ended while at Hilo awaiting carrier. Subsequent post-war years included Assistant Air Officer USS RANDOLPH, PG School, CalTech (AeroEng), Fawtupac, ComAirPac (Aircraft Engines and Aircraft Engineering Officer), BuAer (Fuels & Lubes), XO VC 4, CAG 8, CAG 1 (USS FORRESTAL), OPS Officer CarDiv 4, BuWeps (Program Director Air Weapons), CO NAS Atsugi, BuWeps (again). Attended Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School in the Spring of 1965. Retirement in June, 1966. Adopted Donald A. Bryan in 1952 in San Diego.

Upon retirement, the Bryans moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and Bill went to work for General Dynamics as Project Engineer, Phoenix Integration for the F1I1B. Upon the demise of the F111B, Bill became Project Engineer, F111 A/E/D/F for Weapons Integration and subsequently Project Engineer, TAC versions of the F111. The F16 was coming on by then and, after a brief tour on the Navy version of the F16, Bill went over to program management of the Netherlands version of the F16. He retired from General Dynamics at the end of 1979.

During all this time, Penny did various things like working for John Robert Powers as an instructor, teaching a variety of courses at a business college in Fort Worth, and finally becoming one of the better golfers at their country club. During the latter part of this period, son, Donald married, and the Bryans now have a grandson, aged two at this writing.

The final chapter is that Bill spent five years as volunteer Administrator of the Senior Education Program at Tarrant County Junior College after his GD retirement. In July, 1988, the Bryans moved to Green Valley, Arizona, where they hope to spend their days playing golf and exploring this beautiful part of the country. Visitors welcome!

Postscript: Two signiicant events occurred in the past ten years. Our son, Donald, passed away in 1994. On July 13, 1998, my beloved wife, Penny, passed away after a long illness. She was inurned at the US Naval Academy columbarium on August 5, 1998. I plan to stay in Green Valley.

Buck received a medical discharge upon graduation, having lost his right foot in a subchaser accident the latter part of Second Class Year. He joined the Sperry Gyroscope Company and was sent to the South Pacific in October, 1941, as Sperry Representative to the Air Corps, R.A.F., R.A.A.F., R.N.Z.A.F., and Dutch Air Force. Buck was in Singapore when WW II started. Two days before Singapore surrendered, he flew to Java. As the Japanese swarmed into Bandoeng, Buck took off in a beat-up B-18 bomber for Australia. The plane crash- landed on the north coast of Java and all were taken prisoner the following day, March 19, 1942.

Buck spent over three and a half years in various P.O.W. camps with survivors from HOUSTON, PERCH, LANGLEY, POPE and several hundred Texas National Guardsmen. During this period, Buck constructed a small short-wave receiver in his artificial leg and was able to receive news broadcasts from around the world. Buck later received the Navy Bronze Star and citations from the British and Dutch Governments. After a post-war rehabilitation in Calcutta, he returned to New York and his work with Sperry. On December 23, 1945, Buck married Esther Clark Montgomery, M.D.

Buck resigned as Sales Representative to the Air Force at Sperry in March, 1949, and entered medical school at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He received his M.D. in 1954. A rotating internship was followed by five years in General Practice. In March, 1960, he returned to the University of Utah for a residency in Anesthesiology, followed by a partnership in a group practicing at Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City. Certification followed as a Fellow in the American College and as a Diplomate of the American Boards. While in active practice, Buck served as President of the Central Utah Medical Society, President of the Utah Society of Anesthesiologists, Chairman of the Holy Cross Hospital Anesthesiology Department and Clinical Instructor, University of Utah College of Medicine.

Following a divorce in 1973, Buck married LCDR Leanna Aretas Ruth, N.C., USN (Ret) on May 31, 1974. This culminated a romance that had started in high-school and had been interrupted by WWII. Plans for retirement came to fruition in December, 1977. Since then, Buck and Aretas have been enjoying the GOLDEN YEARS at 9329 South Sneddon Drive, Sandy, Utah 84070. Buck is still active in amateur radio as W7UG, and both enjoy frequent local desert trips and overseas jaunts.

Kent reported to QUINCY after graduation, and completed his WWII service in the Office of Inspector of Naval Materiel, Cleveland, Ohio. While in Cleveland, he met and married Betty Louise Gordon of Baden, Pennsylvania, then a Wave on duty with the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Cleveland.

In April, 1946, Kent and Betty (Becky) were released from active duty, and returned to Kent's native New England, where he accepted a position in the Industrial Sales Department of the Shell Oil Company. A son, Scott Robert, was born September 16, 1948.

In December, 1950, Kent was recalled to active duty, reporting to COLUMBUS in Boston. After being detached from COLUMBUS for temporary duty with the Navy-Marine Olympic Rifle and Pistol Team, he reported to ALSTEDE as Engineering Officer. A tour in Korean waters was followed by return to civilian status in 1953.

Daughter Nancy Ann was born January 17, 1956, and shortly thereafter, the family was transferred by Shell to San Francisco, where Kent served in various positions of increasing responsibility until his retirement from Shell on January 1, 1977.

Scott graduated from USNA in 1970; and, after two sea duty tours in Vietnam, was married to Ensign Susan Heelan, USNR, at Key West, Florida, February 25, 1974.

Nancy was married to Kenneth Mazzoni on December 18, 1976. Ken and Nancy have favored the family with two lovely grandchildren, Nicole (1981) and Danny (1983).

The other high point, in retirement, was a trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1986, to attend the ceremony when LCdr Scott R. Bulfinch took command of Oceanographic Unit II in USNS DUTTON.

Kent picked Siskiyou County, California's "last frontier" as a retirement location. There, he pursues the trout, bass and steelhead with his fly rod. He ties flies, writes articles for various fishing magazines, and engages in various conservation projects to preserve and enhance the fisheries.

After half a century, like "Ole Man River", Kent just keeps rollin' along. He is grateful for having lived; and, to be still living, in interesting times. There is a final Note of sadness, however; on June 18, 1989, Becky passed away after a lengthy bout with cardiopulmonary disease.

Cliff joined COLORADO in Honolulu after graduation and spent almost 4 years in the gunnery department. Last of the thirteen classmates who reported, he finally got off by being shot off at Eniwetok. However, during the 4 years, a wonderful event did occur. He met and married Cicci Solveig Lofthus of Bremerton, Washington, on May 17, 1942. Cliff celebrated Washington's Birthday, 1944 (East longitude), by collecting steel fragments. After some eight months hospitalization, he went to PG school for Ordnance Engineering.

Andrea Lofthus Bundy arrived in Annapolis April 10, 1945, and William Alien in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on December 2, 1946. As the three years of instruction drew to an end at MIT, Cliff was declared medically fit for sea. He asked for Gun Boss of a PacFlt cruiser, which turned out to be ST. PAUL After joining her in Shanghai in late 1947, many months of the tour were spent in revisiting WestPac and included the evacuation of China in 1949. Inchon with President Sygman Rhee was one of the final ports of call in 1949. The President made a vehement address on the quarterdeck in which he predicted the conflict about to ensue.

Ready for shore duty, Cliff went to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he established the first TALOS Guided Missile Unit. Cissi, enciente, went home in May to be settled prior to the birth of Stephen Perry on 5 August 1952. Cliff took command of GEORGE K. MacKENZIE in November, 1952 and pushed out the same month for a go in Korea. Returning in August, 1953, it was again honeymoon time in California after a 15-month separation. This 2 years in command justified, at least to Cliff, if not to Cissi, his career in the Navy and made the whole process of growing up professionally very worthwhile. Three years at BuOrd followed.

After two years in Honolulu at ServPac, the family sailed to San Francisco so that Cliff could take command of FIREDRAKE. In 1961, Cliff returned to Washington for duty in BuWeps Surface Missile Systems Group. He retired in early 1963 to start a second career in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Since retirement, life for the Bundys has been on a fairly even keel (not many hard blows). Cissi and Cliff enjoyed twenty-four years in one community, albeit they did make local moves. Retiring from the Navy meant careers in the other world, of which Cliff had two: seven years with Stanford Research Institute and seventeen years as a Real Estate Appraiser and Investor. In 1987, both Cissi and Cliff retired for the good life of "golf". During these years, they were blessed by the acquisitions of two daughters-in-law and five grandchildren. All are in good health, and to that, they add the friendship of all of the classmates and their families, and who could ask for anything more! ALOHA!

First served in Battleships until February 1943. Thence in Submarines for remainder of hostilities. Thereafter: At sea, Julian had command in Submarines, President's Yacht WILLIAMSBURG, a DD, and in Amphibs. Made deployments to Mediterranean, Caribbean and WestPac, both as CO and Task Force Commander. Final Fleet assignment with Service Force.

Ashore assignments included three Navy Department tours, Naval War College graduate, Naval Academy, LANTFLT Staff, NAVFOR Japan and NAVBASE Charleston.

On retirement, 1976, returned home to Alexandria, Virginia. Fortunately, was hired as Vice President of Navy Relief Society. A rewarding and gratifying experience from which Julian re-retired in late summer of 1983.

None of this could have happened without Betty. We first dated Spring of "youngster" year. Married 4/10/42 in Falmouth, Maine. Julian's ship was in Casco Bay. She managed 30 changes of residence with skill, humor, and aplomb, usually without "old Dad." There were four children along the way. She has earned a batch of "Oak Leaf' clusters for performance, diplomacy, and support.

Retirement is a different pace. Occasional travel with volunteer work, too. "Sniffing the daisies." Annually, in August, a visit to Squam Lake, New Hampshire for a two weeks "battery charge." Many relatives and good friends gather -- seeing and knowing the rising generations as friends, being blessed and returning home enriched.

Bill reported to PENSACOLA in Pearl Harbor and enjoyed the mid and south Pacific until December 7. On that day, PENSACOLA was just across the equator and date line on the way to the Philippines. After a detour to leave her convoy in Brisbane, Australia, PENSACOLA returned to Pearl and a variety of assignments with various groups. Bougainvilie, Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal were all on the itinerary. With orders to Flight School, Bill left the ship off Guadalcanal. After primary flight training in New Orleans, Bill married Charlotte Jones of California, in New Orleans on January 16, 1943. Upon completion of flight school, Bill reported to VB-86 and the squadron joined WASP at Ulithi in March 1944. Before the war ended, Bill went in the water twice, being fished out by a destroyer on one occasion, and by the submarine WHALE, the next time.

After the war, Bill was briefly Navigator in LONG ISLAND (CVE-1), and then Assistant Air Officer in SHANGRI LA. Then came three years in PG School, Annapolis, and a tour with ComFAirGuam Staff at NAS Agana. Meanwhile, three new Bushes joined up: Mele, Bill III and Charles. Next was VS-24 out of Quonset Point, and then Washington, with the Air Navigation Development Board. It was time for a fun tour and the Bushes headed for a two-year tour in Athens, Greece. Back to the States, it was XO at NAS Norfolk, and then the CIC School at Glynco, Georgia~ The next tour was with J-6 of the Joint Staff, but once again as a reward for enduring D.C., Bill was ordered as Naval Attache to New Delhi, India and Kathmandu, Nepal. The final naval tour was as Chief of Staff to CNATECHTRA in Memphis, Tennessee. Retirement came July 1, 1970.

After leafing around the midsouth for some months, Bill and Charlotte relocated to Incline Village, Nevada. They remained there and in Reno for 15 years until February, 1986. This "longest time ever in one place" was spent skiing, boating, hiking, golfing and at more mundane things like real estate sales (Bill) and running an art gallery (Charlotte)~ Bill also put in 12 years with the State of Nevada Employment Security Department as a Hearings Officer. Since 1986, Charlotte and Bill have lived at Sudden Valley in Bellingham, Washington. Boats and golf are the main interests. Address: 1096 Sudden Valley, Bellingham, Washington 98226.