Failing the eye exam for a Navy Commission, Joe was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Regular Army. He had applied for,but was denied, a Reserve commission, because the Naval Academy did not have a Senior Army ROTC Unit. He entered the Army's Coast Artillery Corps, at Fort Randolph, Canal Zone in September, 1940, where he assisted in the buildup of the antiaircraft defense of the Panama Canal, including installation of an antiaircraft warning system incorporating early model Army radar sets. In December, 1942, then a Captain, Joe returned to the Antiaircraft Artillery School and the Antiaircraft Artillery Board at Camp Davis, Carolina. Here , he met an Army Nurse, Helen Iwinski, who became Mrs. D'Arezzo on December II, 1943.

In 1944, Joe was assigned to a tactical unit in training for over-seas deployment, but was diverted to the Command and General Staff course at Fort Leavenworth. In early 1945, he went to the European Theatre with an Army mission to study possible defense against German V-weapons. In August, 1945, Joe reported as Army Liaison Officer to the Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland, which had just started on some Navy surface-to-air missile development projects. The aggressive technical pioneering in those days is now reflected in the Navy's operational missile systems. That same year, he started postgraduate work in electrical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and received a Master of Science degree.

In 1949, he reported to Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia, to help develop plans for long term guided missile research for the Army. The following June brought a promotion to Lt. Colonel. In April, 1952, Joe was assigned to the Research and Development Division, Army General Staff, in connection with guided missiles. By 1954, he progressed to Chief of Special Weapons and Air Defense Division, Office of Chief of Research and Development. In light of new opportunities and new personal interests, Joe resigned from the Regular Army in March, 1955, then joined the U.S. Army Reserve and continued his advance in the military profession. He was promoted to Brigadier General, Army of the United States, in May, 1968.

From his new position as Division Vice President and Deputy Group`Executive of Defense Products Group for American Machine and Foundry, Joe progressed to Director of Planning and Marketing, and later Vice President for world trade development.

Joe died February 2, 1981, of a dissected aorta in Treviso, Italy, while on a business trip. The Alexandria Hospital dedicated a CT/T Scanner in his memory for his outstanding contribution to the hospital as a Board Member.

Joe was a great inspiration to his four children: Carol, Vivian, Paul and Mark. His life blended military and industrial careers and he was unstinting in the support of his family, his country, and his community. Helen resides at 3412 Sterling Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia.

Upon graduation, Irv was assigned to OKLAHOMA and was Officer of the Deck when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He abandoned the ship with Commander Kenworthy, XO, shortly after ARIZONA disintegrated.

Assignments during and immediately after WW II: FLETCHER, DD445, as Gunnery Officer; OPERATIONAL TRAINING COMMAND PACIFIC; PURDY, DD734, Executive Officer; and ENDICOTT, DMS 35, as Commanding Officer. During this period, Irv participated in 7 battle engagements including Guadalcanal (3rd Save); Tassafaranga; Consolidation of southern Solomons; Assault and occupation of Okinawa; minesweeping in the Kyushu-Korea area; and the class A sinking of a Japanesesub.

Between WW II and Korean wars, Irv was CO NAVAL RECRUITING STATION, INDIANAPOLIS, September, 1947 through May, 1950, and then was assigned to ELDORADO, AGC 11, as Executive Officer; then recommissioned McNAIR, DD679, as CO. Awards received during these wars included; Commendation Ribbon with combat V, awarded by ADM Halsey; Bronze Star with combat V awarded by SecNav in name of the President. In addition, a Navy Unit Commendation in PURDY: Korean Presidential Unit Citation in ELDORADO.

Subsequent duty stations included USNA, Marine Engineering; Staff COMCARDIV TWO; and staff COMMANDER SERVICE FORCE PACIFIC. On January 12, 1944, Irv married Dorothy Shaw, hometown sweetheart. Their marriage has been blessed with two wonderful children, Stephen and Judy, who is the mother of two fine grandchildren, Todd and Tracy Lehmann.

Irv retired from the Naval Service on July 1, 1960, and returned to Illinois and built a home in Bloomington, where he was employed by General Telephone of Illinois for 12 years. The last six, he was Manager for Marketing Services, in a nutshell, introducing new products and services with associated charges.

After surgery for cancer of the colon and rectum, Irv left the telephone' company to manage farmland that he had acquired earlier. He also obtained a Real Estate Broker's license and became involved in appraising. After attending Indiana and Southern Methodist Universities, he received credentials to become a member of the Appraisal Institute.

Irv was active in Boy Scout Adult leadership training; is a member of the Bloomington Rotary Club and has been its President. Now, Irv has retired from appraising activity, but continues to manage the farming operation.

Along with about ten others of the class, Hank was ordered to USS ARIZONA upon graduation. They soon found themselves in a somewhat accelerated program of qualification for top watch, etc., which gave some hint as to what the future held.

It was his luck to have the 8-12 deck watch on that fateful morning. Wounded during action, he was hospitalized for about three weeks before being ordered to a destroyer, USS CRAVEN, where he served for 2-1/2 years as Gunnery Officer and then Executive Officer. He was awarded the Silver Star for action in the battle of Vella Gulf.

Hank returned to CONUS and commissioned USS ROGERS as Executive Officer. The war ended with ROGERS in Pearl Harbor en route to Japanese waters. He thus found himself at the end of the war only a mile from where he was so personally involved in its beginning.

Subsequent tours included: USNA (taught Spanish, Seamanship and Navigation); Operations Officer of an APA during the Korean conflict; recommissioned and commanded USS ROBINSON (DD); Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (concerned with refining atomic weapons effects data; determined the placement of military equipment at Nevada test site to receive specific parameters of damage; determined also the location for troop placement and occupied the trench with the troops); Chief, Navy Section, MAAG, Uruguay (determined the needs of the host Navy to enable them to meet their obligations under the Rio Treaty and programmed the delivery of equipment and training of personnel in the operation and maintenance of same); commanded USS EDISTO (icebreaker) in Arctic and Antarctic deployments. Hank received SECNAV Commendation ribbon for various rescue operations performed during the EDISTO tour.

Hank retired in May, 1963, and spent the next 21-1/2 years as faculty member, Department of Engineering Technology, St. Petersburg Junior College, teaching mathematics, physics, mechanical design, circuit theory, engineering graphics and computer programming.

Hank has been active in community affairs; over 25 years a Rotarian; past Secretary and Past President, St. Petersburg Rotary Club--honored by that club by being named a Paul Harris Fellow. Past Area Coordinator, Polioplus campaign. Member, Administrative Board, First United Methodist Church.

Hank married his Academy O-A-O, Bettye Stewart of Cambridge, Maryland, in 1942. They have two daughters and one granddaughter.

Joe was born on March 27, 1918 in Tallahassee, Florida. After graduation from the Naval Academy in June, with the Class of Forty, he served in Surface Ships until he was accepted for flight training. After becoming an aviator, he was sent to complete his postgraduate work at the U. S. Naval Academy, receiving his degree in Aeronautical Engineering in March, 1946. After graduation from PG School, he attended U. S. Naval CIC School from March, 1946, to September, 1946.

Joe decided to resign, as Commander, USN, on 30 June 1956. After his service in the United States Navy, he went to Jacksonville, Florida, where he was employed by Demetree Builders, Inc. with his brother, William C. Demetree. In 1965, he took a position with General Dynamics Corporation and moved to Massachusetts, where he remained until 1970 and was then transferred by General Dynamics Corporation to Fort Worth, Texas. In Fort Worth, Joe joined a construction firm as a senior partner and remained in the Texas construction industry until he moved to Orlando, Florida, in 1980. He returned to Demetree Builders, Inc. in Orlando, and remained there until his death on July 25, 1989.

He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, was involved in Junior Achievement, a member of the Home Builders Association and a member of Rotary Club of Orlando. Joe is survived by three children, five grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters.

Upon graduation, Paul reported to RANGER, his happy home for 5 years, finally becoming Gunnery Officer in March, 1944 with a spot promotion to LCDR. He had the distinction of attending the Navy's first radar course at Bowdoin College in Maine and the NRL in Washington. The attack on Pearl Harbor found RANGER enroute from the West Indies to Norfolk. She was quickly deployed to Argentia, the only carrier in the North Atlantic for many months. In April, 1942, when RANGER returned from ferrying P-40s to Accra, Africa, Paul was married in Norfolk to the former Luly Ware, to whom he had been engaged since graduation.

After providing air support for the invasion near Casablanca, R4NGER joined the British Home Fleet at Scapa Flow in the fall of 1943. She came home after several fruitless sorties to trap the German battleship VON TIRPITZ and an air strike against Bodo, Norway. Nancy, the first of Paul and Lu's three children, had been born in Norfolk in February, 1943. By the time Anne came along in November, 1944, RANGER was on the West Coast.

Leaving RANGER with sadness in June, 1945, Paul reported as Gunnery Officer of BUNKER HILL at Bremerton. After repair of battle damage, from two Kamikazes off Okinawa, BUNKER HILL took part in Magic Carpet runs and then was deactivated at Seattle. He then served as Gunnery Officer of TOPEKA until July, 1947. His next duty was with the Bureau of Ordnance as the first Project Officer for the Bumblebee Program, which produced the Terrier, Tartar and Tales surface-to-air guided missiles. Son, Donald, was born in Bethesda Naval Hospital in September, 1947.

In 1949, Paul began his destroyer career as Exec in K.D. BAILEY and then WALDRON. In April, 1951, he took command of AMMEN. A 3- year tour in the Department of Seamanship and Navigation at the Naval Academy was followed by another command, MULLANY. A subsequent tour in MAAG, Japan was thoroughly enjoyed by the entire family. The return on the liner PRESIDENT HOOVER gave them a taste of how the "rich folks" live. Paul next served in command of the ammunition ship MOUNT KATMAI before reporting to CNO (OP-412), overseeing mobile base equipment and logistic support for "Deep Freeze" in Antarctica. In January, 1963, Paul was reassigned to OP-331 as a senior watch officer in CNO Flag Plot. In September, 1964, he was ordered to the Navy Council of Personnel Boards, where he served until his retirement on 1 July, 1965.

After retirement, Paul taught mathematics at Fort Hunt High School in Fairfax County, Virginia for 12 years before final retirement on 1 July, 1977. Paul and Lu still reside at 2231 William and Mary Drive, Alexandria. VA 22308

On-the-job training started in USS NASHVILLE (and continued for 24 years). A fortuitous lull in that training permitted a knot-tying rendezvous with Betty Rowe in their home town, Findlay, Ohio. Betty, a 1940 graduate of the University of Michigan, continued her career in chemistry, later including atomic research at the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Dick returned to sea.

Assignment in 1943 to RENO, then under construction in San Francisco, provided the high-tech challenge of organizing and operating the fledging Combat Information Center. RENO subsequently participated in several battles and was torpedoed off the Philippines. RENO's condition enhanced availability for assignment in 1945 as Gunnery Officer of the new HELENA in shakedown and, later, on prolonged visits to England and China.

After a tour as OinC, Gunnery Officers' Ordnance School in 1949, it was off to Stanford for a PG in Personnel Administration, graduating just in time for the Korean conflict. This made assignment as COMCRUDESPAC Personnel Officer particularly interesting and rewarding as the force doubled. Next came a "first tour" in destroyers as CO BAUSELL, still in the Pacific.

In BUPERS as LCDR Grade Assignment Officer, developing the Officer Manning Level for servicewide use was a source of great personal gratification. Then, after a year as a student at the Naval War College, the family embarked in SS United States, headed for France. The next three years as War Plans Officer on the staff of US CINCEUR were of exceptional interest. The location (near Paris) and the job afforded beaucoup opportunities for travel to interesting places. Unfortunately, the kids were more interested in the PX than in the milieu.

A second tour in BUPERS as Assistant Director, Officer Distribution Division stretched to retirement in January, 1964. Following retirement; Betty and Dick operated an employment agency and, in 1977, gravitated to incomparable Arizona.

Ed was born in Salamanca, New York, and received a congressional appointment to the Academy. Ed entered in July, 1936, and left in February, 1937, for academic reasons. He transferred to the University of Michigan.

In 1940, wishing to reestablish a connection with the Navy, Ed entered the V-7 program at Northwestern, receiving a commission in March, 1941. A week later, he married Emily Olson of Florida, culminating a 4-year courtship. After Diesel Engineering School at Cornell, Ed was assigned to an AMC operating in Florida, followed by Officer-in-Charge of another AMC, then Mine Warfare School and EXEC on an AUK Class AM Building in California. Duty in the Aleutians followed, Ed taking command of HERALD (AM-101) in July, 1943. Then, operations in CENTPAC until February, 1945, when he was reassigned as CO of PILOT (AM-104), completing duty afloat in Japan in November.

After mustering out of the Navy in March, 1946, Ed was employed briefly by a general contractor in Ft. Lauderdale. After building his own home, he opened a small materials yard in Deerfield Beach. This company, eventually employing 60 people, evolved into a full service lumber yard serving Southeast Florida. A subsidiary company, Florida Atlantic Forest Products, sells wholesale building materials to other lumber yards and exports to the Caribbean.

Ed retired as president in 1985, turning over operations to his son; Ed H., a lieutenant, USCGR. Semi-retirement gives Ed freedom to retreat to the cool mountains of North Carolina in the Summer.

Ed's family includes wife, Emily; son, Ed; daughters, Joanna and Christina, and eight grandchildren.

Activities since 1946 included the Naval Reserve, with Ed retiring as Commander, USNR (Ret.), in 1976. Interests have centered in Deerfield Beach, population 55,000, where Ed served as a City Commissioner; a founding Director and Chairman of the Board of the First Local Bank; President of the Chamber of Commerce and two building organizations. Ed has been an elder, deacon, and trustee of his Presbyterian Church. Music has been a lifelong involvement, including participation in NA-10. In Florida, Ed has played clarinet in a professional symphony, in several orchestras and bands, and currently in Deerfield Concert Band.

Other hobbie: Woodworking, bicycling, boating, and the Historical Society.

Ed has found that the last fifty years have gone much too fast. He had lost touch with almost everyone from '40. He left the Navy shortly after graduation when he married his wonderful wife, the former Marion Lorraine Miller, of Annapolis, whom he had known and dated since prep school.

Ed entered the Army in the summer of 1941. The Big One, WW II, found him with the 76th Infantry Division. He came back from Europe in the summer of 1945 with the 30th Infantry Division for redeployment to the Pacific. The "Bomb" changed all that and they, Marion (Jo) and Steven (their first born), stayed at Fort Jackson, S. C. In 1947, after a tour with the State Department, the Army sent Ed to the University of Michigan for a Master's Degree in Industrial Management, then in 1949 to Panama and back to Washington 3 years later where number two son, Kevin, was born. From there, it was Picatinny Arsenal for 21 months and back to Washington. By then, Ed was a Bird Colonel and ready for the Industrial College and their 3rd son, Douglas. This was followed by a tour in Korea with family for two years. From there to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, where he became the Pershing Project Manager and later received his first star. Tours in St. Louis as CG of the Mobility Equipment Command, and in Europe as CG Material Command Europe, followed. Back to Redstone in the Fall of 1969 as CG of the U.S. Army Missile Command and a promotion to Major General. After four years of the best job in the Army, Ed decided to retire.

Jo had wanted for a number of years to live on a golf course in Florida, so in the summer of 1987, they moved to a townhourse on the 18th green at Suntree - just north of Melbourne. They still maintain roots in Huntsville, Alabama, where Steven lives with his lovely new wife - his only child, a daughter, is now in college in North Carolina. Kevin, with his wife and three fine children, are also in Huntsville, while Douglas is in Nashville.

Life has been more than generous and Jo and Ed are enjoying their "Golden Years" beyond any expectations of fifty years ago.

Dupzyk enlisted in the Navy in September, 1934, and entered the Academy in 1936. Upon graduation, he was assigned to USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) with duties in the Engineering Department. From April, 1941 to November, 1942, he saw duty with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron One as Skipper of PT 30; he was at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack, and took part in the Battle of Midway in June of 1942.

From 1942 to 1944, Dupzyk served as X.O., USS STRINGHAM (APD-6), engaged in amphibious landings in the Solomons Island chain from Guadalcanal to Green and Emirau Islands. In 1944, he reported as X.O. of USS ZELLARS (DD-777). On April 12, 1945, ZELLARS, operating off Okinawa, took aboard a torpedo-loaded Kamakaze. After three weeks' emergency repairs, ZELLARS made the long trip back to the United States and a shipyard, where Dupzyk was ordered to command USS THE SULLIVANS (DD-537).

After the war, Dupzyk served in CLEVELAND (CL-55) as Navigator; two years as an NROTC Instructor at the University of Colorado; as C.O., USS MARSH (DE-699); 18 months as Flag Secretary to Commander Naval Operating Base, Guantanamo; and as Navigator, USS MISSISSIPPI.

From 1952 to 1955, he served in the Office of Inspector of Naval Material, San Francisco, and later as Surface Operations Officer on the staff of Commander Carrier Division One, operating principally in the Western Pacific. Then, it was back to destroyers, this time as CO USS HAMNER (DD-718) from 1957 to 1959. A tour on the staff of Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, was followed by duty in OpNav, as Head of the Flag Plot Branch.

In 1964, Dupzyk took command of SPIEGEL GROVE (LSD- 32), and in 1965, he reported as Professor of Naval Science at UCLA. This proved to be a delightful and final tour of active duty.

After retirement in 1968, Dupzyk did a year as Office Manager/Controller for one of the Big Eight accountant firms and in the process, decided he did not want to go the corporate route, did not want ulcers and heart attack; he decided that during retirement, life is to enjoy. For several years, he took lesser jobs, shifting as the spirit moved. Such jobs included three years with the County of Los Angeles and six years of real estate. In 1981, it was to quit and sojourn to Australia, and in 1982, to establish a home in the Sierra foothills near Yosemite National Park. In 1983, Dupzyk married Patricia Englund, a well established and highly regarded Australian painter and potter.

The Dupzyks live on their six acre plot in Mariposa; they plant and tend trees, they travel near, sometimes far. Life is to enjoy; they are living and enjoying life actively.