NEVADA was the first duty after graduation for Mat. After fourteen months of battleship duty, which saw him in gunnery, communications, and Assistant Navigator billets, he reported to HORNET just before she was commissioned in the Fall of 1941. A short six months later, Mat entered the Submarine School. He served in a variety of billets in S-20, then as Commanding Officer of 0-3. In early 1945, Mat joined RASHER as Exec. and Navigator for two war patrols in the Pacific and Southwest Pacific areas. After the war, he reported to Postgraduate School at Annapolis for the course in Aerological Engineering. In aerology, Mat served at the Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, in KEARSAGE, and as Officer-in-Charge of Fleet Weather Central, Manila. Next came the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, for nineteen months, then to command of CUSHING. Shortly over a year later, he took over duties as Assistant Officer-in-Charge of the Atlantic Fleet Weather Central in Norfolk. In early 1956, it was back to sea again in COLUMBUS, then command of KERMIT ROOSEVELT in December, 1957. Mat's last tour was in Fleet Operations in OPNAV, and retirement on 30 June 1960.

While in Submarine School at New London in 1942, Mat met and later married Ruth Wilson of Meriden, Connecticut. Their first daughter, Claudia, was born in November, 1943. In September, 1948, Susan, their youngest daughter, arrived. Upon his retirement, Mat joined Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) in Buffalo, New York, as an Administrative Engineer. His employment with CAL spanned a 17-year period, during which he held a number of interesting and challenging positions. In 1977, he took early retirement from CAL to accept a teaching position at Alien Military Academy in Bryan, Texas, where he had been a student during 1934-1936.

After a short tenure in that position, Mat resigned and, in 1978, joined the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI, a transportation research agency of The Texas A&M University System at College Station, Texas. After completing eight busy and enjoyable years, in June of 1986, he retired from TTI with the intent -- after retiring three times -- to stay retired.

Turning to family matters, the Cain family has now increased in number by two sons-in-law, three granddaughters, and two grandsons.

In 1980, Ruth fulfilled a longstanding entrepreneurial ambition by opening a needlecraft shop. Under her capable management, The Stitchery, Inc. has flourished and expanded. Ruth thrives on the busy day-to-day activity and challenge of her successful business.

Mat and Ruth are now residing at 2607 Hollow Oak Circle, Bryan, Texas 77802.

Whiff was born in Annapolis, December9, 1916. Hisfather, Captain Turner Foster Caldwell, had graduated from the Academy with the Class of 1905. After graduation from Annapolis High School in 1934, Whiff moved with his family to San Diego, and taught young men how to pass the entrance exams for Annapolis and West Point at Bobby Brown's Prep School. Following his own advice, he passed the exams and entered the Naval Academy in 1936, with the Class of 1940.

After graduation, Whiff was one of the fortunates who enjoyed that fabulous cruise to Hawaii on the MONTEREY. Reporting to PORTLAND, he was assigned as junior watch and duty officer of the "F" (fire control) division. In PORTLAND, he participated in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. In October of 1942, he went to New Orleans for primary flight training, got his wings at Pensacola in May of 1943, and went on to Vero Beach for operational training. From there, he went to De Land as flight instructor, and took 15 groups of young Marine officers through the dive bombing curriculum.

In August 1944, Whiff joined VB-7 as executive officer. Shortly after deployment of VB-7 in HANCOCK, in November, he took over as commanding officer and led the squadron in many strikes against targets in the Philippines, South China Sea, Formosa and Hong Kong. In the latter stages of the Battle for Leyte Gulf, he scored a direct hit on Japanese heavy cruiser MIKUMA, and was awarded the Navy Cross.

In May of 1946, after VB-7 was decommissioned, Whiff took over command of VBF-19 in BOXER. In October of 1947, he reported for duty at NAS Patuxent River as a test pilot, and was put in charge of flight testing all new and experimental carrier based aircraft. In August 1949, he resigned his commission, ending his career in the Navy.

On 14 April 1945, Whiff married Phyllis Bowers, in Los Angeles, and became the father of Claudia, his step-child. Their first child, Diane, was born in 1946. Their second, son David, was born in 1948? and their third, Carolyn, in 1952.

After leaving the Navy, Whiff joined the Bowers Manufacturing Company in Los Angeles, and remained with this company until 1956, when he resigned to join Douglas Aircraft in El Segundo. He worked for Douglas (later McDonnell Douglas) in various capacities, from project engineer to Director of Military Marketing. From 1962 to 1967, he was assigned to the Washington office of Douglas, in charge of liaison and marketing. In December of 1984, he retired.

Whiff and Skeeter now live in Incline Village, Nevada, and as of this writing, have 2 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

For John, a naval career which started in Norfolk, Virginia upon reporting to RANGER, ended in Norfolk thirty years later with a last tour of duty as Navy representative and Director of Instruction at the Armed Forces Staff College. Very little of Norfolk was seen in the intervening years.

Operations in the Atlantic aboard RANGER were followed by orders to commissioning of DENVER in Philadelphia and subsequent cruiser operations in the South Pacific. Orders to flight training took John to Dallas, Pensacola and Jacksonville, followed by assignment to a west coast photo squadron at Miramar. War's end decommissioned the squadron and subsequent duty on Hawaiian Sea Frontier staff was the first of three tours of duty in Hawaii. Next came a tour of duty with VP-32 operating in the Whidbey Island/Aleutian area followed by a squadron move back to Hawaii at NAS Kaneohe. How lucky can you get? Shore duty came in 1949 with an enjoyable tour as ordnance and gunnery instructor at the Naval Academy. After attending the Armed Forces Staff College in 1951, it was back to Hawaii again for duty in MATS, a very joint organization in those days. On west to Guam for a year as MATS OINC and back for shore duty at NAS Corpus Christi as operations/CNAVANTRA staff. In 1956, squadron command of VP-1 took the Caldwells back to Whidbey Island and the Pacific Northwest. Two years later, it was south to Coronado where John reported to Orca as Executive Officer.

First Washington duty came in 1959 with orders to BuPers, a tour that also provided the opportunity for John to get a master's degree from George Washington University. In July of 1962, it was south to Pensacola as Commanding Officer of the Naval School of Pre-Flight. With historic old quarters on the bay, this was shore duty at its best. Two collateral projects of lasting value were starting the Naval Aviation Museum and installation of stained glass windows in the Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel.

After Pensacola, the Caldwells boarded the S.S. INDEPENDENCE, heading for Italy and command of NAF Sigonella in Sicily, a wonderful experience for all the family. And finally, the return to Norfolk and the Armed Forces Staff College was a most satisfying way to end thirty enjoyable years. All these years were enriched by wife, Eioise and sons, John, Robert and David, who were always ready to go wherever duty called.

Upon retirement, John took a position as Director of Admissions at King College in Bristol, Tennessee, hometown of both Caldwells. In 1977, deciding to take retirement seriously, they moved to Hawaii as permanent residents. Children are located in Denver, Silver Spring and Honolulu. A mainland car 'at the ready' facilitates visits to friends and relatives on a frequent basis. But mostly it's enjoying the good life in Hawaii, giving thanks for the blessings of fifty years past and looking forward to those ahead.

Upon graduation from the Naval Academy, Abe joined the Off-Shore Patrol (OSP), the sea-going branch of the Philippine Army. He taught Seamanship and Navigation to thirty-seven officers. During the Bataan Campaign, he commanded the Torpedo Boat Q-113 that helped deter enemy landings on the east coast of Bataan. When he returned to military control, he participated in the reorganization and retraining of the OSP. Then he trained in ASW, attended the Instructors School, and observed supply operations at the Naval Supply Depot in San Diego; he further attended the Supply Management Course for Senior Officers at BUSANDA Washington, D.C., the Joint and Combined Planning Course of the U.S. Forces at Okinawa, a Supervisory Course of the Navy in Manila, the Naval Command Course at the War College in Newport, RL, and the Ninth Managers Course of the University of the Philippines, for Small Scale Industries.

He had the following key positions: CO of PC 1122; CO of PC 1564; CO of PCE 884; CO of the Philippine Naval Supply Center at Cavite; Assistant Chief of Naval Staff for Logistics, then for Operations; Chief of Naval Staff; CO of Navy Task Force 13 in Southern Philippines; CO of PN Patrol Force; again Chief of Naval Operations; General Manager of the Customs Arrastre Service (Longshore Company at the piers); Superintendent of the Philippine Maritime Institute (private); Presidential Assistant on Welfare and Rehabilitation; Consultant on Maritime Affairs with the Department of Trade and with the Presidential Economic Staff; Deputy Administrator of the Maritime Industry Authority; Head, Marine Transportation of FEATI University (private).

Accordingly, he patrolled the Philippine waters for the protection of the national integrity, the execution of Coast Guard functions, and the enforcement of maritime and fishery laws; he modernized the Navy Supply System by increasing its effectiveness and simplifying the accounting procedures. He restored industrial peace at the waterfront by settling the crippling labor strikes at the piers; assisted in the relief and rehabilitation of flood victims and homeless people. He organized the Maritime Industry Authority that started promoting, developing, and regulating the industry. He trained sailor students for the domestic and overseas fleets of the country and for foreign vessels. At 72, he is still healthy, and still training merchant mariners.

In his family, he has a Certified Public Accountant, a lady Attorney-at-Law; a lady Physician; a Navy Lieutenant, a Media girl, a lady Economist and a boy in high school.

When the war started December 7, 1941, Jim was in the battleship USS TENNESSEE in the gunnery department. A large bomb hit Turret Three to which he was assigned. Many men in his division were killed. The ship subsequently returned to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for repair, after which it joined Task Force One. When TENNESSEE returned to Puget Sound for modernization, Jim was ordered to the shipyard, Orange, Texas, to the destroyer USS AULICK as gunnery officer. After it was commissioned, and following shakedown, the ship deployed to the South Pacific.

In May of 1943, Jim left the Pacific for flight training, receiving his wings in December of 1943. From 1944 to 1945, he served as flight instructor at NAS Lake City. With the end of the war, he was ordered to flight training for carrier qualification.

Returning to the Pacific in 1946, Jim joined COMNATSPAC, in Honolulu as Air Traffic Control Officer. From there, he went to VR-6 as Operations Officer, to fly the Berlin Airlift until it was terminated in August of 1949.

A nice sojourn in the United States as NAS Monterey, California, as Operations Officer, preceded his orders to Saigon, Vietnam, as Commanding Officer of the Navy Section of MAAG, Indochina. He spent two and one-half years there as advisor to the French Navy. He became fluent in French and conversational in Vietnamese. He returned to the United States in February, 1954, just before the fall of Dien Bien Phu.

Jim's last assignment was at Headquarters, Air Intelligence, Op- 552, Washington, D.C. He was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed en route from Anacostia to Pensacola, October 29, 1955.

Jim is survived by his wife, Betty; daughter, Christy; son, Michael; grandson, Obie Porteous and granddaughter, Elinor Cannon. His son, Jim Jr., then a LT in the Navy, was killed in the crash of an F-8 Crusader while attached to NAS Miramar as a combat flight instructor, Fighter Squadron 124.

Connie traveled to Hawaii upon graduation to join ASTORIA. At sea when Pearl Harbor was attacked, ASTORIA remained at sea almost continuously until her end. After participating in the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal, ASTORIA was sunk at the First Battle of Save. Connie, with Carl Sander, Vince Healey and Ike Blough, swam from the ship just before she rolled over.

Connie married the girl back home, Alice Lindgren, on October 3, 1942. He then joined the destroyer FOOTE as Gunnery Officer. After one cruise to Africa, it was back to the Pacific, working up and down the Slot as one of Arleigh's "Little Beavers." Connie was exec. of DOUGLAS H. FOX off Okinawa, when a kamikaze landed on the forecastle.

After the war, there was command of MACDOUGAL, a course in electronics at MIT, Electronics Officer on the COMPHIBLANT staff, command of BROWNSON, and a taste of civilian life at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Whippany, New Jersey.

After pleasant overseas duty in the Navy Section, MAAG Norway, the Carlsons reluctantly joined the milling throngs in Washington for duty in OpNav, Connie's final assignment.

After retiring in 1962, the Carlsons moved to Wayland, Massachusetts, where Connie worked for Raytheon as a Radar Project Engineer. They also acquired a lovely place on Webster Lake in Franklin, NH for summer vacations and weekends. The pay at Raytheon was good, but the work was very intense. Many weekends and evenings were spent meeting schedules and staying within the budget. In 1968, Connie decided to get some relief from the pressures of business and started teaching math and science at the Winchendon School. In 1976, they moved permanently to Franklin, NH. Connie continued teaching, at the New Hampton School and also taught a few math courses in the New Hampshire College Continuing Education Program. In 1979, he retired from teaching and with Alice, began to enjoy a life of leisure.

Much of their activity is centered around their three lovely granddaughters by Jeanne, their elder daughter, in New Hampshire and at Lyme, Conn. Diane, their younger daughter, still single, lives in New York City. They visit with her frequently both in New Hampshire and in the big city.

In the summer, their activity is mainly swimming. Connie also keeps active with golf: a handicap of 14. Cross country skiing is the favorite winter sport with an occasional downhill excursion. He is the Disaster Chairman of the local Red Cross Chapter and has been on the board of directors of the NH Chapter of The Retired Officer's Association. They are both active in politics and had the opportunity to meet face to face with most of the candidates in the primaries.

The highlight of the spring of 1988 was attending the 50th reunion of the Harvard class of 1938. Connie was a student there for two years prior to entering the Naval Academy. It was a marvellous experience for both of them.

Swede's first assignment wasin gunneryand engineering on NASHVILLE (CL-43), touring the Pacific and the Atlantic, including the Doolittle Raid on Japan. Flight training at New Orleans, Pensacola and Fort Lauderdale followed. Then came duty as XO of Torpedo 20 and VC-IL Deployment to the Marianas resulted in a Purple Heart and an Air Medal. The next tour was in ROCKY MOUNT for the Leyte invasion, followed by multi-engine training at Pensacola and Lake City. After the war, Swede served in LUNGA POINT (CVE-94) as Air Officer, Ist Lt., XO and CO. The next job was CO of VU-1, largest squadron in the Navy. Teaching NROTC students at Villanova followed. The highlight of this shore duty was marriage to Isabel Johanson. Orders as CO VA-195 came next, with a deployment to Korea in PRINCETON (CVA-37). Operations included the Hungnam evacuation, bridge busting (which led to James Michener's "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"), and the torpedoing of the Hwachon Dam. DFC and Air Medals were awarded for the Korean action. AD-Class Desk at BUAER came next, followed by a tour on HQUSMC, Madrid staff. After Spain, Swede served as Director of Production and Engineering for BAG REastDist in Manhattan. The last assignment was XO of VAW-II at Norlh Island, where he managed to pick up a number of carrier landings.

Navy retirement in 1961 was succeeded by employment at Lockheed (Sunnyvale) in program controls for some 27 years, less one year leave of absence to attend the University of Stockholm, where he was awarded a Diploma in Social Studies. He also acquired an MBA from Santa Clara University and an MS from the University of Southern California, and he studied law for 2-1/2 years. Isabel and Swede have five children: Bob, Betsy and Bill, UC Berkeley graduates; Cathy, Mills graduate; and Mary, Concordia graduate, with an MA from Pacific School of Religion. Cathy is married to David Leung and has two children, Margaret and Mark, and is in the Naval Reserve. Bill is married to Lori Froehlich.

Retirement from Lockheed in 1987 enables Swede and Isabel to enjoy more travel and to pursue their hobbies -- river rafting, reading, music and foreign languages.

Bill's first orders sent him to the battleship OKLAHOMA, where he served as a junior officer in Turret One until the Japanese Navy sank the ship on December 7, 1941. Bill was ashore the night of December 6, his new bride, the former Mary Alice Comer, having arrived in Honolulu just a month before, and thus he survived to proceed to Boston to report on board a new antiaircraft cruiser, SAN JUAN. Having received his orders to SAN JUAN as an ensign, Bill left the ship four years later as a lieutenant commander and gunnery officer. SAN JUAN spent the entire war in the Pacific, and was the first ship to anchor off Tokyo in August, 1945, to carry out its first post-war assignment of evacuating prisoners of war.

In the summer of 1946, Bill was ordered to the Postgraduate School, then located at the Naval Academy, where he earned a master's degree in aerology (meteorology). After three brief tours in the Naval Weather Service, including one in the Canal Zone, Bill returned to unrestricted line duty in command of the destroyer WADLEIGH, based in Newport. That tour included steaming around the world, from Newport to WestPac and Korea to Newport, via the Suez Canal.

From WADLEIGH, Bill went to be Associate Professor of Naval Science at the University of Rochester, and thence in 1958 to an antisubmarine task force, on the staff of Commander Carrier Division 14 in WASP. Having been promoted to captain on this tour, Bill was ordered to the Pentagon, first in the CNO Politico-Military Affairs Office and then to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, both offices concerned with Asian affairs. One of Bill's assignments during this period was to go to the Geneva Conference on Laos as a military advisor to Ambassador Averell Harriman.

Departing Washington in the summer of 1964, Bill took command of the stores ship CASTOR, based in Japan. Mary and their younger son were allowed to accompany him to live in Japan, but Bill spent most of his time in replenishment operations in the South China Sea. After that tour, it was back to the Pentagon and then retirement in the summer of 1966.

Bill's retirement years have been in the field of national security research and writing with SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), for many years as a staff member and later as a consultant, which takes him on annual trips to the Far East. Community avocations have included several offices in his church, chairman of a college board, president of a college foundation and president of a property owners' association. Their four children, Richard, Katherine, Suzanne and John, having long since left home, Bill and Mary now live in Stafford, Virginia, where they play golf, travel some and look forward to visits from their children and the ten grandchildren. Bill is thinking of retiring sometime before the turn of the century.

Bill went to the famous old Fleet Flagship PENNSYLVANIA on graduation, saw Pearl Harbor happen, married Ruth,and was finally ordered off to the destroyer Navy in October 1942. During the 14 months on board LAUB, Bill progressed from Gunnery Officer to Exec. A big break gave Bill command of the old four piper BABBIT in December 1943. He then took command of EDISON in May 1945 and returned to the Pacific,

After the war, Bill received orders as Flag Secretary and Aide for that fine gentleman, RAdm. S. S. Murray, in the Military Advisory Group, Nanking, China. Ruth loved every minute of it and saw a great portion of China. China duty was followed by 15 months in the Personnel Administration and Training postgraduate course at Stanford University, and a year in Norfolk as Officer-in- Charge of the Instructors School. Bill was then off to sea again in command of MACOMB in the Atlantic, followed by a year in command of LEONARD F. MASON in the Korean area.

Next came three years in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, a year at the Naval War College, and two and a half years of glorious living for the Caspari's on the French Riviera, where Bill was Exec of SALEM and Flag Secretary to Commander Sixth Fleet.

In late 1958, Bill took command of Destroyer Division 132 operating out of Long Beach, then to OpNav, and in March 1963, he commissioned the guided missile frigate ENGLAND as Commanding Officer.

Bill and Ruth loved every minute of his 26 1/2 years of active duty, but at the end of that time, he decided to throw in the sponge and have a fling at industry. He went to Sanders Associates, Inc. in September of 1966, and retired from that company in February, 1982.

Daughter Janet, Mrs. Stuart Thomas, now living in Oakwood, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, produced a happy, healthy son in February, 1987, and a cute daughter on St. Patrick's day in 1988. In spite of a few health problems in the past, Ruth is doing great and will make a good old lady. Bill's golf game has gone to pot, but except for less hair on the head and a requirement for more sleep, he manages to carry on in the usual fashion.

One thing the Caspari's managed to do, both during the time Bill was on active duty and with Sanders, was to live overseas a good bit. This they enjoyed very much. They chose Rancho Bernardo, about 25 miles north of downtown San Diego, for retirement, and you could not get them out of here with a crowbar. They send kindest greetings to all 50-year celebrants and enjoy respectful and affectionate memories of those no longer with us.

Champ was on board his first ship, CALIFORNIA, when it was damaged in the attack on PearlHarbor. Champ received the Commendation Ribbon for his role in rescuing men trapped below decks when the ship sank. He returned with CALIFORNIA to Bremerton Shipyard, in September 1942, and while there, he married Patricia Cooper, whom he had met in Hawaii. In 1943, Champ served briefly as Engineering Officer of COLAHAN, then commissioned GUAM as Assistant Navigator. Operations with fast carrier task forces in the Pacific followed, and after Japan surrendered, GUAM was part of the occupation force for Korea.

Champ graduated from the Aerological Engineering course at the PG School in Annapolis in 1947, and served in several aerological billets, ashore and at sea. 1956 found him a student at the Naval War College, where he stayed on two more years on the staff. After a brief tour in OPNAV, Champ retired in 1960, and moved to his home town, Tate, Georgia, with Pat and their two sons and a daughter.

After moving to Tate, one more son, David, was born in 1962, to complete the family of three sons and one daughter. After a short period of teaching in the Pickens County High School, Champ was employed by Lockheed as a Senior Nuclear Engineer at their experimental facility, the Georgia Nuclear Laboratory.

In 1970, he went to the engineering firm of Dames and Moore as a Senior Project Meteorologist. Dames and Moore is a nation-wide firm whose specialty is environmental and applied earth sciences, much used in planning public utility facilities such as generating plants, power dams, water supplies, and the like where long range weather studies are essential. In 1975, he accepted a position as Senior Project Meteorologist with Woodward-Clyde Consultants, who do the same sort of consulting work as Dames and Moore.

When Champ was elected to the Pickens County Board of Education in 1968, his fellow board members elected him chairman of the Board of Education. He was a member of the American Meteorological Society.

In 1977, it was found that Champ was suffering from cancer of the pancreas and, after several operations, he passed away on September 26, 1977, and was buried in the Tate Cemetery.

Champ is survived by his wife Pat (who is a frequent visitor to class functions), three sons, a daughter, and seven (so far) grandchildren. All of his sons are Army officers, the oldest a colonel and two younger sons, captains. Two of his sons are helicopter pilots, and one is serving in armor. Charles H. Champion II, his oldest grandson, had hoped to start an Army career, in the Medical Service Corps, like his father, but just before his commissioning, he was robbed and shot in downtown Atlanta, resulting in a spinal cord injury that has left him severely handicapped. Nevertheless, Charles has persisted in rehabilitation, is married and employed, and is the father of the first great grandchild, Charles Conner Champion. His daughter and her husband live near Pat. Pat continues to live in the home Champ established next door to his parents' home in Tate, where his father still lives.

John Chase was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Denver, Colorado, and entered the Naval Academy from high school in 1936. After graduation in 1940, he joined the fleet and served on active duty for 38 years--was last in the class to retire. He served in the Pacific during World War II, originally in SARATOGA, and then in the battle cruiser, GUAM. John earned nine battle stars and was torpedoed twice. As a result of the first torpedo hit, the ship was in Bremerton during the early part of 1942, and Eloise Roper and John were married. They had met in Long Beach the summer after graduation. After the war, John attended PC School and MIT, where he earned a Master's degree. While in Boston, they adopted their son, David. John, then served as Gun Boss in CORAL SEA (Med cruise) and as Exec in HOLLISTER (Korean War Ops: SecNav Commendation Award). He returned ashore to BuOrd and then to the Armed Forces Staff College. John commanded FRANK E. EVANS (two WestPac cruises) and returned to Washington as a charter member of the POLARIS team. He went to ICAF and back to sea as COMDESDIV 192 (West Pac: awarded a second SecNav Commendation) for directing the efforts of his flagship in fighting a tanker fire in Taiwan. John was then Chief of Staff, ComCruDesFlet 3 (again to WestPac), and then served with the Air Force at Norton AFB on the Mobile Medium Range Ballistic Missile Project.

He then worked in Systems Analysis (OPA) on the Secretary's staff and took command of the cruiser BOSTON (high spot in his career). She made a Med Cruise and served as flagship for recovery efforts for the lost AF nuclear weapon off Palomares, Spain. Staff at Naval War College and command of Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, preceded selection to flag rank. John served as ComCruDesFlot 4 in Norfolk, and as Deputy and then Commander MSC, where he was deeply involved in logistic support of VietNam; he visited MSC officers in-country and around the world. (Two Legions of Merit) John completed his career as Op-04B and was awarded the Distinghished Service Medal. He retired on 1 September 1978 and has worked for an analysis firm since that time.

Their son is married, lives in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and they have one teenage granddaughter. Elouise and John like McLean very much. They do some traveling, visit their family, make Castine every summer and enjoy their friends in the Class of 40, at church, and in the neighborhood.

Earle's Navy career was short but full of action. While serving as division commander of a group of five motor torpedo boats, his unit received a direct hit from a 500-pound Japanese bomb during an aerial bombardment of Tulagi Island. Earle lost his right leg as a result of his injuries. His father, a navy submarine officer, was lost in combat in World War I, 25 years to the day before Earle lost his leg.

Retired as a Lieutenant in 1945 on disability, Earle became a real estate broker, and later, master planner for National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. In civic affairs, he was a Coronado councilman in 1949-50 and in 1950 was a candidate for county assessor. He was a past president of the Coronado Lions Club.

Earle liked to build and sailboats. He was a past commodore of the Coronado Yacht Club. His first boat was a 26-foot Yankee Doodle ketch, which was so successful that he built and sold several others on the same design. After selling his first boat, he spent 26 months working on a 36-foot ketch which he raced successfully in the area for several years. His wife, Rita, and their four daughters, have many happy memories of sailing in the boats that Earle built.

Earle died of cancer in 1966. He didn't live to see their four daughters -- Rita Jean, Ellen, Catherine and Elizabeth - married, but Rita and the girls know that he would be proud of them. There are now nine grandchildren, five boys and four girls. The oldest grandson, Kyle Mathews, was admitted to the Naval Academy in 1988, following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great grandfather, all graduates. Rita has remarried, to P. J. Humes, and lives in San Diego.

After graduation, John reported to LEXINGTON in Hawaii. In February, 1941, he was unexpectedly ordered to a PT Boat Squadron, Brooklyn Navy Yard. His two years in various PT Boat Squadrons ended on February Ist at Guadalcanal during the Japanese evacuation of the you-know-what island when his PT 111 was sunk by shellfire during an attack, and he spent the night in the water making friends with the sharks, supported by two of his crew. Six months in San Diego Naval Hospital, where he married Marjorie, his Navy nurse, then a year at PG School in Annapolis. Back to the hospital for more skin grafts; then to USS FARGO. Retired for wounds in 1946. Entered the Foreign Service, spent three years in Oslo, Norway, then got "riffed" in 1949. Received PhD from Yale in 1954. Started teaching at Middlebury College in 1955.

Having settled in Vermont, John continued teaching Writing and English at Middlebury College until he retired as a Professor of English in 1978. Their two daughters grew up and got married. Marjorie continued her passion for gardening and flower arranging, and is now a top gardener with a beautiful and extensive garden, and a Life Judge in the National Council of State Garden Clubs. She judges flower shows and participates in seminars over much of the eastern half of the country. She collects Chinese art, having extended her knowledge of, and interest in it, during a tour to China in 1981, when such trips were a pioneering experience.

John has continued to write and has now published nineteen books, fiction and non fiction, juvenile and adult, as well as a good many short stories and articles, with some translations in Dutch, Danish, French, German, and Spanish. He regrets the lack of best sellers. Marjorie and John do a lot of skiing in the winter - still -, have taken up Scottish Country Dancing, and manage to get to Hawaii each late March and early April for three weeks, thus missing the Mud Season.

John has done some sailing in Maine. A high point in their year is the annual Castine Caper. John has had several superb sailing trips in Norway, each in July, once for three weeks. Clear, warm Gulf Stream water, a thousand islands, sunrise 0200, sunset 2200, black dark-never. No fog.

John continues to enjoy hunting and fishing, with emphasis on some wonderful weeks in Baxter Park, in Maine. He has a fine grandson with whom he is a close friend, even though he is now a sophisticated twelve and three quarters, and knows more about high tech and computers than John will ever know. John is backing him for the Naval Academy Class of 1999.

Finally, John says there is little to tell. Some one or other said that a fortunate country and a happy man have no history.

How to put 50 years into 350 words? Seven words a year! What memories! A product of New Mexico, Pat set sail for the Naval Academy with great anticipation, but never dreaming that he was entering a 37-year career of fun, hard work, excitement and dedication.

Like so many of the Class of 1940, Pat was at Pearl Harbor, aboard HONOLULU. The ship was hit, but was able to return to Mare Island for permanent repair. Entering the scene from San Francisco was the beauteous Betty. Flight training followed, and in 1943, Pat and Betty married in Melbourne, Florida. But off to war again, he was able to witness the end of the conflict while aboard USS BATAAN as Commander, Air Group 47.

In 1946, postgraduate school beckoned and after that, Pat specialized as an Aeronautical Engineering Duty Officer. Various tours followed, all connected with aircraft and missile development, test and maintenance. During that period, the Clancys enjoyed 2 years in Naples, Italy, with their now four boys, while Pat had duty on a Fleet Staff. 1967 was the exciting year when the Clancy name appeared on the Flag selection list. Duty with the Air Force and a double tour in Washington were followed by the final tour as Material Officer on the Staff of ComNavAirPac. It was the last year of the VietNam War and everything was frantic, but the results were gratifying. It took the Clancys 32 years to get duty in San Diego, but it was certainly worth the wait. Retirement allowed them to move to Los Altos, California, near enough to allow them to enjoy San Francisco, but far enough to get them out of the fog. Pat taught for 5 years at the local Community College, and has done some consulting work, but the big drive now is to travel and play and spend their children's inheritance.

Their boys are all over the place. Mike and his wife live in Spokane, Washington, where he is a farmer. Kevin graduated from the Naval Academy in 1969, but is out now, and flies for Continental. He and his wife, Dawn, live in Kingwood, Texas, just outside of Houston. Dion is out of 1972, but left the Navy, and he and his wife, Kim, live just outside of Dallas; he flies for Delta. They have the grandchildren, a girl and a boy. Timothy is not married and lives nearby. He builds houses.

Two acknowledgments should be made. The first is to the U.S~ Navy for providing such a challenging and rewarding career. The second is to Classmates and their wives for providing such loving and unselfish friendship throughout the years.

Upon graduation, Doug reported to USS IDAHO and enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands for a time. Mid 1941: the BattDiv transferred to the Atlantic and Roosevelt's "Neutrality Patrol". Ship was in Iceland December 7, 1941. Immediately thereafter, a Norfolk Yard stay for Radar and AA installation, then back to the Pacific. July 1942: left ship for flight training. After completion of the flight syllabus and a stint as flight instructor, returned to the Pacific in time for the first carrier raid on Japan, Iwo and Okinawa and the Kamikaze era. Ended that tour as Air Group Commander and CO of fighter squadron. When the war ended, was back in the United States commanding the same Air Group reforming at Alameda. Outfit decommissioned a month or so later, which started Doug on a series of "Aide" jobs. In October 1945, Susan and Doug were married.

Doug left staff duty in 1947 to report to Naval Air Advanced Training Command in Jacksonville, Florida as Officer in Charge of one of the single engine training units. Next was Air Force Command and Staff School at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama. Then assigned as Operations Officer at the Fleet All Weather Training Unit in Key West. This was followed by a two-year tour in command of his first jet fighter squadron-deployed in Coral Sea. Then shore duty-two years at the Naval Academy (Exec. Dept.). Next was command of an air group in 1955-ten years after Doug had had one during the war (what does that say for Navy efficiency?). Deployed with the group in CORAL SEA again. In 1957, ordered to a CarDiv Staff as Operations Officer. This time, SARATOGA was the flagship.

Spent 1958 and 1959 in the Pentagon in Op-05. Naval War College in 1960, and from there to ComAirPac Staff as Plans Officer, which turned out to be Doug's last tour. Retired in December, 1963.

After retirement, Doug came to Florida and looked over the situation for a year, and finally built a home in Boca Raton. A nice little town•of 18,000-now it's 130,000 including an unincorporated area called West Boca adjacent to the city. The first year or so was spent relaxing, the next two in Real Estate, followed by several years in the commercial aviation area. In the early 1970's, folded the tent for good. Susan died in 1978 and Doug thought the world had come to an end; but is still there in Boca Raton living the bachelor life.

End of a very abbreviated fifty-year saga.

Upon graduation, Bill was assigned to USS T.LOUIS (CL-49), reporting aboard in July, 1940. After serving for two years, he reported to NAS Lakehurst, N.J., where he underwent lighter-than-air flight training. Upon completion of this training, Bill served in various Airship Patrol Squadrons until May of 1944, when he reported to NAS Dallas for heavier-than-air flight training. Bill completed HTA training and was attached to Patrol Bombing Squadron One Hundred at Kaneohe, Ohau, Hawaiian Islands, when the war ended.

In September, 1945, Bill assumed command of Patrol Bombing Squadron Twenty-Eight, based in the Philippine Islands. In July, 1947, he reported to Commander, Naval Air Materiel Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Aide to Com NAMC. Commencing in January, 1949, Bill served as the Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Santa Ana, California, until the base was disestablished in July of that year. His next tour of duty was as Operations Officer of USS CURTIS (AV-4). In July, 1951, Bill was transferred to the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he served until June, 1953. His next tour of duty was on the staff of Commander Task Group 7.3, engaged in atomic testing at Eniwetok and Bikini in the Pacific test areas. From 1954 to 1956, Bill served in USS BENNINGTON (CVA-20), as navigator. In June, 1956, he was assigned as Commanding Officer of Airship Patrol Squadron One.

From August, 1957 to June, 1958, Bill was the Executive Officer of NAAS Cabaniss Field, Corpus Christi, Texas. This was followed by three years on duty with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Aviation Plans Division. In August, 1961, Bill reported to Com Nav Marianas as Commanding Officer of the U.S. Naval Station, Guam, M.I. After two wonderful years in Guam, he returned to Washington, D.C. for duty on the Joint Staff, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for three years. Then, after a two-year stint as Naval Plant Representative, Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Connecticut, Bill retired on 1 November 1968.

Bill was married to Eleanor Stone in 1942, and they had four wonderful children. Upon retirement, they settled on the mid-coast of Maine in the small town of Newcastle. For the next few years, Bill tried his hand at several small commercial enterprises, none of which were very successful. When he finally decided, in 1975, to settle down and enjoy retirement, Bill's wife was stricken with cancer. She died in April of 1977. For the next 10 years, Bill's life descended into an alcoholic hell until in May of 1986, he finally reached out for help and entered the Alcohol Rehabilitation Program at Mercy Hospital, Portland, Maine. Since leaving the hospital, Bill has become very active in Alcoholics Anonymous, has re-married, and has never been happier or more at peace with himself, the world, and the people about him.

Graduating on June 6, 1940, Bob reported to USS PENNSYLVANIA in Hawaii for a two-year tour of duty. This two years as Signal Officer was memorable for the Pearl Harbor attack, Midway, and Coral Sea. These three battles convinced Bob that aviation was the best choice. Eleanore Dunn, of Maul, and Bob were married and were delighted to go to flight training at New Orleans, Pensacola, and Daytona. Then back to the Pacific went the Clements' family, including daughter, Pat. Fighter Squadron Eleven as Flight Officer (later Exec) was "bloody good" duty and a most interesting voyage of the complete Pacific war, via Manus, Formosa, Leyte, Okinawa, South China Sea, and places in between, during parts of 1943 and 1945, and all of 1944.

Bombs and bullets over Clark Field, Luzon, were followed quickly by books and a baby (Billie Leu) at Post Graduate School, Annapolis, with a final year and diploma at Cal Tech. Five trips across the USA and four across the Pacific ended with Bob as Superintendent, Aero Materials Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1947 to 1950. The new AED designation started a new phase in his career and a series of most enjoyable billets. Bob and family enjoyed duty as AeroEngineering, and later, Planning Officer, at NAS Jacksonville. Airborne Equipment Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, and BuAer Rep at Bristol, Tennessee, came next. The spice of the cake was the fourth stripe and assignment as Assistant O&R Officer, Jacksonville, Florida, in May, 1959. The very interesting duties included involvement in projects such as hard flight helmet, titanium, full pressure suits, counter pointer altimeter, ejection seat, inertial navigation, Sparrow III missiles, R4D-8 MAD gear and cone, lunarmodule, and quality control. Duty as Quality Control Officer (and contracts) at BuWeps Fleet Readiness Representative Atlantic at Norfolk from 1962-1966 was followed by two years as Quality Control Division Director, BuWeps.

Pat became Mrs. Davis Jackson (after graduation from the University of Florida) in 1965, and Billie followed suit as Mrs. Robert Horton (after graduation from Florida State University) in 1967. Bob retired February, 1968.

Bob had a rewarding career in the US Navy and good duty with wonderful people, with one wife, two daughters, 3 Air Medals, 2 DFC's and a Presidential Unit Citation. After retirement, he enjoyed the good life, with RV travelling, building a home, family and grandchildren, restoring old cars, boats, woodworking and golf, until his unexpected death on August 16, 1989.

Upon graduation, Jim proceeded to USS HONOLULU, where he remained until June, 1943. Actions in which HONOLULU participated included Pearl Harbor, Tassafaronga and Kiska bombardment. He was assigned to the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering PG School at MIT from July, 1943, until graduation in August, 1945, when he was designated an Engineering Duty Only Officer. Several years at the Naval Station, San Diego, and at Mare Island Naval Shipyard followed. In 1949, he was ordered to the staff, Service Squadron Three, Sasebo, as Fleet Salvage Officer. The following May, 1950, he was sent back to MIT under the aegis of the Navy Nuclear Program and obtained a MS in Nuclear Engineering in 1951. Duty followed in the Bureau of Ships and the AEC in the Rickover organization. He participated in the design of NAUTILUS, SEAWOLF and was the Project Officer for the land-based prototype of NIMITZ.

He resigned from the Navy in 1955, following some differences with Rickover, and went to Southern California to work for North American Aviation in the construction of a nuclear reactor near Los Angeles. The construction and reactor operation were successful and Jim stayed on with NAA which became North American-Rockwell, which became Rockwell International, for the next twenty-five years. He had the opportunity to meet with and visit the facilities of reactor experts world-wide, visiting facilities in the USSR, France, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and West Germany. In 1980, he retired, while Vice President and General Manager of a division which was heavily involved in testing of nuclear reactor system components for a fast flux reactor design. Since then, he has done a little consulting, and tried to catch up on all the things he didn't have time for before. He was given a reserve commission in 1956, and made Captain while in that category.

On the more personal side, he married a Navy ensign, Beatrice Goldberg, while stationed at MIT. They were blessed with five children, four boys and a girl. Of them, two obtained PhD degrees, one is a lawyer, and one has an MBA. There are seven grandchildren, five girls and two boys, living from Baltimore to Santa Monica.

Bea died of cancer in 1973. Jim remarried in 1974 to Helen Wodtke. They were divorced in 1988. Shortly thereafter, Jim married Mira Frances Burns Hays. There is a long story in these few words -- she was his June Week drag in 1940. In 1988, she saw the Naval Academy for the second time.

They currently live at 225 Greenfield Road, Brandon, Mississippi 39042, and are catching up with the last many years.

After graduation, Dick reported aboard HELENA and sailed for the Pacific Fleet. After a year of peacetime training, everything changed the morning of 7 December, 1941. The ship took a torpedo in the forward fireroom and, incidently knocked Dick out of his bunk. HELENA limped back to Mare Island for repairs giving Dick and Ellen a change to get married on 20 April, 1942. HELENA participated in nearly all of the Solomon Islands navai activity, but her luck ran out on 6 July, 1943, in Kula Gulf. After survivor's leave, Dick reported aboard WASP and saw action at Tinian, Saipan and Guam. Charlotte arrived on 14 June, 1944, and orders arrived to P.G. School at MIT. Ellen D. was born in Chelsea and after two short tours in ATLANTA and BASILONE, Dick was ordered to SURASDEVDET in Key West to evaluate homing torpedoes. Richard L., Jr., was born in Key West and Dick commenced two wonderful years as skipper of JOHN R. CRAIG. Three years as Exec of the Torpedo Station, Keyport, came next and Katherine arrived there in September, 1956. Dick was then ordered to Admiral Thach's new ASW command at Pearl Harbor. In June of 1961, they returned to Washington and the Bureau of Naval Weapons.

As the Director of the TARTAR program in NavOrd, Dick initiated two crusades: the conversion of TARTAR electronics to solid state devices, and an ASW version of the missile. They were controversial concepts; however, work done on the solid state conversion paved the way for the Standard Missile development.

Following command of CAVALIER in 1963, he returned to Washington to the Staff of OF-03 and instigated two more co-dependent shipbuilding concepts. They involved modular construction techniques, including a co-axial data transmission bus serving the whole ship. These concepts had partial acceptance in submarine construction and in the Canadian Navy.

Command of PhibRon 7 was next. Two deployments as Commander of the Amphibious Ready Group, a dozen landings were conducted, and two Legion of Merits were awarded. An incident off the coast of Vietnam initiated Dick's last major crusade. A destroyer in the task force sustained an 8" rocket hit which could have been a serious disaster. The Navy needed a close-in defense system with minimum reaction time and high kill probability. Vulcan Phalanx was developed to meet this requirement. It was totally autonomous in operation and had a kill probability of 97%. After universal rejection by the Navy, one courageous Admiral gave the go-ahead and Dick devoted most of his last year to this program. Today, virtually every combatant ship in the fleet is equipped with at least two close-in weapons systems.

Dick retired in 1969, but he accepted a post-retirement challenge, to assist a West German shipyard in the configuration of the weapon system of a new German frigate. It was exciting and both Dick and Ellen enjoyed 3-1/2 years in a total German environment.

In 1936, while serving as a member of the Marine Guard of the USS RANGER, Tab and two seamen (Leigh Winters and Harry Fischer) studied for, and passed, the U.S. Naval Academy entrance examination. Four years later, Tab was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and the two ex-seamen became Ensigns.

Upon completion of a Communications course at Ft. Monmouth, Tab went to San Diego to become Regimental Communications Officer of the 10th Marines, the Artillery Regiment of the Second Division.

Two months after marriage to Marie Roberge in San Diego, Tab was transferred to New Zealand with the 10th Marines and subsequently participated in the Tarawa and Leyte operations. Transferred back to San Diego after 28 months in the Pacific, Tab had a tour at Harvard University as Officer-in-Charge of a Joint Communications School. This was followed by a tour at Quantico, Virginia, where daughter, Carol, was born on March 3, 1946.

Subsequent tours included Hawaii (1948-50), San Diego (1950-53), Quantico (1953-55), Camp Pendleton (1955-57), JCS (1957-59), Okinawa (1959-60), Naval Hospital Bethesda (1960-61) and Camp Ritchie, Maryland (1961-62). Duties at these locations included tours as CO, Communications Schools, Division Signal Officer, Division Operations Officer, USMC Representative in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Joint Task Force Chief of Staff, and Chief of a Joint Alternate Command Element of the JCS, at Fort Ritchie.

Tab was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and Captain in March and May, 1942; to Major in 1943; Lieutenant Colonel (Temp.) in 1945 and Lieutenant Colonel (Perm.) in 1948; and Colonel in 1957. Tab retired on I August 1962, and for the next sixteen years, was employed as Director and Program Manager in the Northrop Corporation or subsidiaries. These positions involved responsibility for such projects as VOA broadcast ~ stations in VietNam and Greece; military microwave communications systems across southeast Asia; a country-wide microwave and cable system of 500 sites in Iran; airport control systems in Saudi Arabia; and supervision of country-wide telephone system contractors in Nigeria. In carrying out these projects, considerable travel was required, including residence of one to three years in VietNam, Greece, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria.

Since Tab's retirement from an active career in 1978, he and Marie have been living a quiet and pleasant life in Vienna, Virginia, with occasional tourist travel. His only work in the past ten years has been on some personal ventures, mostly in real estate.

Cooky", "A.P.", "Al", reported to battleship NEVADA on graduation along with Sugar Cain, Jughead Wood, Bill Westhoff, Ward Witter, "Sully" Sullivan and Gat Egan, (all of the old Seventh Company), plus Ted Hill, Tom Taylor, Bill Boehm, Otto Treanor, Dick Nesbitt, Ed Hearn, and Bob Jeffery.

Al was the last of the 1940 contingent to leave, remaining aboard until February, 1946. In engineering, he took part in the salvage of NEVADA at Pearl Harbor. After a year of repair and modernization at Bremerton, he was a turret officer for a year during which the ship participated in the recapture of Attu in 1943. NEVADA was moved to the East Coast and Al learned firsthand about the North Atlantic winter weather when the ship made several convoy runs between New York and North Ireland during the winter of 1943-1944. He became the First Lieutenant and Damage Control Officer early in 1944 when his boss was detached without relief. He held that job for the rest of the war during which the ship took part in the landings at Normandy, those in Southern France later in 1944, and after transfer back to the Pacific, the assaults on Attu and Okinawa.

March, 1946, found Al back in the Western Pacific as XO of FURSE (DD 830), duty that was nearly too much for a family man. However, a set of orders to the Naval Academy set things right, and he became a company officer. After a year, he was sent to the Military Academy where he was a Company Tactical Officer for a year, and then back for another year at the Naval Academy. Back to sea in 1950 for duty as XO of BUCK (DD7761), he recommissioned BENHAM (DD796) in 1951 as CO. In late 1952, he was ordered to the Armed Forces Staff College and served on amphibious staffs for four years in Norfolk before becoming XO of SAINT PAUL (CA73). Next came the Naval War College in 1958, followed by two years duty on the staff. A tour on the Staff of SACLANT in Norfolk was cut short in order to get a necessary deep draft command. He rejoined the amphibious Navy first as C.O. USS ESTES (AGC 12), next as Chief of Staff, Amphibious Group Three, and finally, his last sea duty as ComPhibRon Five. In 1965, he was sent to be the project officer of an Amphibious Study Group in the Center for Naval Analysis. When he escaped, he reported as CO Naval Station, San Diego, where he served until retirement on "thirty".

Since retirement, the Cooks have lived in San Diego. Early on, a decision was made not to try for a second career, but to make up for all the separations from family endured while on sea duty. The past twenty years have been most enjoyable as they have pursued a life of travel in and around the United States, frequent excursions in their RV, and reunions with their families. They hope classmates will visit them.

Al is married to Velda Craven, formerly of Mayfield, KY and Glendale, CA. They have two daughters, Charlotte Cook Howard of Boise, ID and Elisabeth Cook Sullivan of San Jose. They also have five grandsons and two granddaughters.

It was in the early Spring of 1939 that Jake decided that love was stronger than the call of the sea and made the decision to escape to that great world outside the wall. (Of course, during the previous several years, he had made a few nightly escapes just for practice.) Taking the quick and convenient way out, Jake prepared for the final exam week by studying and practicing magic tricks with a large assortment of such tricks he had obtained through the mail. Everything proceeded according to plan except that such a study procedure almost took his roommate, Dick Shafer, along with him! Once through the gate, Jake proceeded to New York where he promptly married Helen Carl from Baldwin, Long Island. Helen had long been the object of his affections since prep school days.

The boy from Ohio was not to be overwhelmed by the Big City and to prove it, he took a job as a messenger for Hanover Trust Bank carrying securities and such via the subway. He and Helen settled down in a small, small house by the railroad tracks in spite of Helen's father being the Builder of "Homes of Distinction" on Long Island. Some independence!

World War II saw Jake, for some unfathomable reason, with opportunities in both the Navy and Army for commissioning, enlisting in the Army and quickly becoming a master sergeant in the MP's in the Philippines.

However, as the saying goes, you can't keep a good man down, and after the war, Jake began the rise to the top, finally emerging as Vice President and Head of the Personal Trust Dept, handling billions of dollars in the early 70s. Along the way he sought further training and education at various colleges in the NYC area. During his 30-year banking career, he handled personnel training and was much sought after in banking circles from New York to Chicago as a lecturer on personal finance and banking practices.

Following Jakes' retirement from banking in 1976, he busied himself with golf and fishing while he and Helen were still living in Chappaqua, NY. After 30 years of commuting, he vowed it would almost take another war to get him to travel back to the city. In early 1986, Jake and Helen sought escape from the ice and snow in the North and moved to Elizabeth City, NC. However, Jake didn't have the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine very long as he suffered a stroke and died Nov. 3, 1986. Helen continues to live in Elizabeth City where she is unsuccessfully trying to convert the natives to "Yankeeism".

(Submitted by Dick Shafer)

Jim was appointed to the Naval Academy from Philadelphia. Upon graduation in 1940, he was assigned duty in USS RALEIGH in the Pacific Fleet. During the attack on PearlHarbor, RALEIGH was heavily damaged. Jim was awarded the Bronze Star with combat V for his actions as senior Engineering Officer aboard during the battle. He returned to CONUS in 1942 and married Eleanor McGlinchey of Philadelphia. After flight training in 1943, he reported as XO, Patrol Squadron VP-17, and returned to the Pacific Theater. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and Gold Star for combat missions performed from Saipan, Ulithi, Palau and the Philippine Islands.

Upon returning from the Pacific in 1945, Jim reported as C.O. VN- 18A at NAS Corpus Christi. This was a multi-national training squadron for French and Latin American flight students. For his work with the French, he received the honorary designation French Naval Aviator. He next went to the PG School at Annapolis, graduated with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1949. From there, he served as Maintenance Officer, Air Transport Squadron Three, Continental Division, MATS. With a change of designator to AED in 1950, he was ordered to the Bureau of Aeronautics as Project Officer to develop the Sparrow 1 air-launched guided missile.

In 1953, Jim reported to the Naval Air Material Center, Philadelphia, as Assistant Superintendent, Aeronautical Engine Laboratory, and later Superintendent. In 1957, he became Logistics Officer for Fleet Air Wings Atlantic/Fleet Air Wing FIVE in Norfolk, where he assisted in the evaluation of a replacement for the P2 aircraft as a land-based patrol plane. Next assignment was as the Bureau of Naval Weapons Representative to the Bendix Corporation, Teterboro, NJ. Following that, he returned to the Bureau of Naval Weapons, where he served as Head, Aircraft Branch, Maintenance Division; Assistant Director and finally Director, Maintenance Division.

Jim retired from the Navy in 1964 and then taught for 18 years at Villanova University, Villanova, PA. He taught the freshman engineers the rudiments of Engineering Graphics and Fortran programming as well as teaching courses in Aeronautical Engineering. He is a member of the engineering honor societies, Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma. He retired from Villanova in 1982.

Captain and Mrs. Coyle have seven children: Captain Michael T. Coyle, USN, Commander, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard; Sister Mary E. Coyle, IHM, Runnemede, NJ; Mrs. Garry Jerome, Philadelphia, PA; Dr. Joseph P. Coyle, MD, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Mrs. Stephen Morris, Narberth, PA; Mr. James A. Coyle, Phoenix AZ; and Mrs. Bruce Fisher, Alexandria, VA. The Coyles also have fourteen grandchildren.

After graduation, Cros joined USS CALIFORNIA, which was in drydock at Bremerton, Washington Naval Shipyard. Served as Turret Officer until CALIFORNIA was sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Detached in February, 1942, and ordered to INDIANA, which was fitting out in Newport News, Virginia. Married Helen Barbara Engh, 40's color girl) in March, 1942, before it was legal to do so. Married same girl again in April, 1942, after it became legal in order to claim the $40/month housing allowance without having to lie about the marriage date.

Served as Turret, Division, and Deck Officer on INDIANA until 1944. Detached and ordered to PG School at MIT shortly after the great collision between INDIANA and WASHINGTON - this was the worst collision in the history of our Navy, and reduced both ships to six knots maximum speed, within 90 miles of a Japanese airfield.

Arrived in Boston 30 days before the MIT course was to commence, and within three weeks concluded that he simply couldn't concentrate on school work -- he called BuPers and requested a sea billet, resulting in telegraphic orders to MASSACHUSETTS within 12 hours -- a record for fast action by the U.S. Navy.

Served out the war in MASSACHUSETTS in various capacities, ending up in command with the ship in mothballs, tied to a dock in Norfolk. Cros suffered for six months in this boring assignment, and since he couldn't see any interesting billets coming up in the near future, he resigned in December, 1946.

His first civilian job was with Anaconda Wire and Cable Company in California. After two years, left to join a small engineering and construction company in Los Angeles. In 1950, moved to Chicago and joined the Pyle National Company as plant manager. Was elected President of Pyle in 1955 and served in this capacity until 1977.

Purchased a small company in 1971, started another in 1973, and now has six companies engaged in manufacturing electrical and textile products, plus a sales order catalog business selling first aid items. Currently serves as chairman of his own company (Clements National Company) and since August, 1987, as chairman and CEO of First Illinois Corporation, a $1.5 billion bank holding company.