Four classmates, Campbell, Tom Nicholson, Dick Champion, and Cary Hall drove across the country to Bremerton in a 1938 Ford V-8 after graduation leave and reported on board CALIFORNIA. Mick Carney, a truly superb naval officer, was Exec. CALIFORNIA was a great ship, and service in her before the war was pleasant and instructive.

Campbell was assigned to the F Division with the primary job of rangefinder officer and a battle station in Spot 2, atop the mainmast. Coming down from the maintop after the lapanese attack on December 7, Campbell confirmed that there were seven dive bombers in the string that dove on CALIFORNIA because he had emptied his .45 cal pistol, loaded with seven rounds, one round on each plane. Who can say that he didn't shoot down the dive bomber that crashed into CURTIS, on the other side of Ford Island?

After CALIFORNIA was sunk on December 7, Campbell, with the rest of the battleship gunners, worked to install the guns from the sunken ships on the beach and then turn them over to the Coast Artillery. This duty completed, he was ordered to ALABAMA, and on the way he married Rose Willingham in Macon on June 6, 1942. In 1943, Campbell was accepted for flight training and Rose accompanied him to Dallas, Pensacola, Beaufort, and finally Lake City, Florida. During this time, their first child, christened Rosalie, was born in May of 1944. When she was four months old, Rose joined Campbell at Lake City. He was killed one month later, on November 5, 1944 in a training flight. He is buried in his family plot in Macon.

On his death, their daughter's name was changed to Campbell and she is now known as "Cam". She lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, and has two sons, Campbell's grandsons.

Rose married Winburn Stewart in Macon, in 1947, and then, after they were divorced, she married an Episcopal priest from Macon, William Parker Burns, one of Campbell's boyhood friends. Billy was a chaplain in the Air Force during WW II. He retired from the Episcopal diocese of western North Carolina. Billy died in 1985, and Rose now resides in Whiteville, North Carolina.

(Submitted by Cary Hall and Tom Nicholson)

When Cary's first ship, CALIFORNIA, was sunk at Pearl, he returned to the States, married Dorthe Mount at Walla Walla, Washington, in June, 1942, and reported to COLUMBIA. The cruiser won two Navy Unit Citations for her Pacific area actions, being one of the few ships with more than one. Michael was born in 1945 while Cary was an ordnance PG, and Cary, Jr., two years later at Ithaca, while papa was at Cornell. After his MS in Engineering Physics, Cary went to PASADENA as gunnery officer, and, a year later, to FRED T. BERRY as Exec. After going around the world in BERRY, he recommissioned COTTEN as C.O., then to BuOrd, where he gained an ulcer, a dislike for Washington duty, and a new daughter, Stephanie, born in September, 1953. He left to command CHARLES S. SPERRY, then to TraComLant on guided missile problems, and on in 1959 to become COMDESDIV 222. The NROTC Unit at the University of Minnesota was enjoyable duty, but the climate was horrible -- once a Southerner always a Southerner.

After command of NEOSHO in 1962, Cary retired in 1963 and joined Southern States, a manufacturer of high voltage transmission equipment, in Hampton, Georgia, first as Engineering Manager, then as Engineering VP. Southern States was conglomerated in 1969, the engineering department stupidly cut from 80 to 25 people, and Cary left this highly enjoyable job, accompanied by all except one of his 14 graduate engineers. He then became Southeastern Regional Director of HEW, over eight Southern states, in the midst of controversy over school integration and busing. Constant confrontation with a liberal bureaucracy, not inclined to either industry or efficiency, led to his separation from HEW with relief on both sides. Since then, Cary has worked as a consultant on large construction projects, and has prepared investment tax credit analyses for a number of clients, including his largest, Southern Bell. He is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association, and serves periodically as an arbitrator in construction disputes.

Cary has been involved in a number of civic and community service projects: vice-president of the Flint River Boy Scout Council (Silver Beaver); president of Hampton Kiwanis; president of the Henry County Chamber of Commerce; president of the Good Government Association; member of the Henry County Jury Commission; one four-year term on the Henry County Water and Sewage Authority; city councilman of Hampton for eight years; foreman of the grand jury; one term on the state board of directors of the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers; chairman of the Sixth District Republican Committee; poll manager of the Hampton precinct for many years; and so forth. He served one term on the Board of Visitors of the Military Academy at West Point, the second Naval Academy graduate to ever so serve. Cary has had numerous magazine articles published, some in Shipmate, several in Fine Woodworking about his hobby of furniture construction, and a number in professional publications. Their two sons practice law, one in Greenville, SC, and one in Albany, GA, Their daughter is a physician.

Upon graduation from the Academy, Marsh, a native of Oklahoma, reported on board heavy cruiser HOUSTON at Pearl Harbor. Before the summer was out, the ship deployed to the Far East and was in the Philippines when war started. Operations with the Combined American, British, Dutch and Australian Command in southeast Asian waters began 11 January, 1942 in an attempt to stop the Japanese invasions. HOUSTON was damaged in the 4 February Battle of Makassar Strait, then covered the landing of Allied troops on Timor, participated in the 27 February Battle of the Java Sea, and was sunk in the night surface Battle of Sunda Strait off Java on 28 February. Marsh, with the 350 survivors of the 1,050-man crew of HOUSTON, was taken prisoner by the Japanese. He spent the remainder of the war in Japanese prisoner camps in Java, Singapore, Burma (the basis for the motion picture "Bridge Over the River Kwai"), and Siam.

In May, 1946, Marsh resigned his commission and married Joan Bowes in his home town, Tulsa. Thereafter, he was associated with Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, starting as a draftsman, then in 1949 to England and Scotland as Engineering Representative. They returned to the States in 1951, and from 1953 to 1958, he was assistant to the Vice President for sales in New York. Shortly afterwards, he became Vice President of the company.

From 1960 to 1964, he was President and Managing Director of Jamaica Public Service Company, Ltd., a subsidiary of Stone and Webster at Jamaica. In 1964, he returned to the States as Stone and Webster's Vice President in the New York/Boston areas. The family returned to London in 1969, where he spent the next five years as Managing Director of Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, Ltd.

In 1976, after a two-year period in Washington, D.C. establishing a company office, he retired to Pauma Valley, California. Following 12 years of the good life in southern California, he died after a brief illness on 5 May, 1988.

Marsh is survived by his wife, Joan. They have two sons, Marshall Bowes Hamill of Houston, Texas, and Peter Brady Hamill of Pauma Valley, California, as well as two grandsons. He is remembered with admiration and affection.

After graduation, Virgil was assigned to USS OKLAHOMA. However, he never joined the ship since an illness intervened and he spent the next few months in the Naval Hospital in Pensacola. Early symptoms of arthritis were not recognized and he was ordered to USS AUGUSTA.

After about seven months, his symptoms were worse, and the Naval Hospital in Newport came up with a definitive diagnosis of arthritis of the spine. Thinking that hot baths would be helpful, Virgil was transferred to the Army-Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

During this period, he had time to improve his golf game and conduct an active social life. It was here that he met an Army nurse, Mildred Perner, and they were married in April, 1942. They spent part of their honeymoon in Washington, D.C., where he was retired as an Ensign on July 1, 1942.

For the next five years, they moved around from Florida to Texas and New York and back to Florida, seeing doctors and trying to find a helpful climate. In 1947, they moved to the dry climate of Tucson, Arizona.

Virgil took up oil painting and spent some time at the University of Arizona in various classes. When they decided to start their family a few years later, he became Executive Director of the Southern Arizona Heart Association and continued in that capacity for the next twenty years.

In 1974, Virgil resigned and joined his wife in her new real estate company. It was a good move as their timing coincided with the rapid growth in the area and their company prospered. In March of 1976, Virgil went back to Bethesda and had two total hip replacements, which enabled him to play golf again.

Their older son is a psychiatrist, practicing in Tucson, and the younger son, recently married, is with the U.S. Forest Service in Wyoming. Virgil and his wife are semi-retired and enjoy playing golf and traveling. He has also taken up oil painting again and keeps occupied living the good life in Arizona.

Mike reported to NORTHAMPTON and participated in all the early actions in the Pacific. After aviation training (LTA) in 1942, at NAS Lakehurst, he hunted subs in the Gulf of Mexico Caribbean area. In Florida, he met THE girl, Chris Nystie, from Detroit, and married her in September, 1943. After staff duty at Lakehurst, and the birth of Susan Edith in June, 1944, Mike reported to DASHIELL as Exec., operating with the Third or Fifth Fleet until the end of the war. Mike was awarded the Legion of Merit with combat "V". After the war, Mike commanded SCROGGINS and in 1946, reported for HTA. In 1948, he became Exec. and then C.O. of the Navy's first AD Skyraider squadron, VA-65, at NAS Oceana. At NAS Glenview in 1950, daughter Michele Putnam arrived. Next, Armed Forces Staff College in 1952; F. D. ROOSEVELT as Air Officer in August, 1952 for two Med tours; and C.O. of VA-175 in WASP. In 1953, Mike formed Air Task Group 181, and made cruises in HORNET, TARAWA, BENNINGTON and RANDOLPH. He then spent two years of staff duty at NAS Pensacola.

When Mike reported as Operations Officer, ComCarDiv Two in F.D. ROOSEVELT in 1957 for an eight-month Med cruise (Mike's sixth since 1949), Chris threatened desertion if she couldn't accompany him. They had a fabulous time at fabulous expense. After duty on the Staff, COMAIRLANT, Mike attended the National War College, then reported to the Office of the Chairman, JCS in 1961. In 1963, he took command of THETIS BAY. Before Mike retired in 1970, he was C.O. FORRESTAL, which included a Med tour shadowed by Chris; a tour in the Center for Naval Analyses; and then Deputy Chief of Staff, CINCUSNAVEUR.

On retirement, the Hanleys stayed on in London and moved into a magnificent Victorian flat with sixteen-foot ceilings and windows overlooking Kensington Gardens and the Albert Memorial. Quite a few of the class visited them. Chris had antique stalls in Kensington and Portobello Road. Mike worked in a British merchant bank. After about five years, they started commuting between London and their home in Arlington on a part-time basis. Mike got an MBA from George Washington University. The Hanleys accepted a very generous offer from the AgaKhan for their flat and returned to the States in 1982. Chris still works at her love, antiques, and Mike works on something called an Archive. The Hanleys have two daughters and two grandchildren. In addition to a charming teenage granddaughter, the younger child is a boy who was 11 lbs plus at birth and is now a very large 4-year old. But the grandson really deflated Mike when they visited the Naval Academy. They went into the Midshipman display room and Mike said "You will live in a room like this when you go to the Academy." Grandson, then 3, looked up at him and said very solemnly, "Well, Granddad, I will have to think about that."

The Hanleys live in Aurora Hills, Arlington, VA, with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel from England named Lord Montague. He lets them call him Monty.

Following graduation and commissioning as Ensign in June, 1940, Mark was ordered to USS BROOKLYN (CL-40) where he served as Assistant Navigator. Subsequent assignments included duty as Gunnery Officer, USS PHOENIX (CL-46); Gunnery Division Officer; Staff, Commander OPDEVFOR, Norfolk; Main Battery Officer, NPG, Dahlgren; C.O., USS MADDOX (DD-731); Placement Officer for large combatant and fleet staffs, BUPERS; Executive Officer, USS HELENA (CA-75); Naval Inspector of Ordnance, Minneapolis; Student, Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Manufacturing Officer and Assistant Superintendent, Naval Weapons Plant, Washington, D.C.; C.O., USS TALLADEGA (APA-208); and C.O., U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot, Oahu, Hawaii.

Mark was attached to PHOENIX in Pearl Harbor during the attack on 7 December, 1941. During World War II, he served in the Asiatic- Pacific area, and while in PHOENIX, participated in the defense of Guadalcanal; operations off New Guinea, Admiralty Island, Hollandia, Leyte, Borneo and the Battle of Surigao Straits. During the Korean Conflict, he was C.O. of MADDOX and participated in the escort and blockade operations off the East Coast of Korea, including the defense of Wonsan Harbor.

Mark was awarded the Legion of Merit for meritorious service as Gunnery Officer in PHOENIX during the Battle of Surigao Strait, Philippine Islands; the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" for heroic and meritorious service as Gunner Officer in PHOENIX during the bombardment of Corregidor, Philippine Islands; a Gold Star in lieu of Second Bronze Star Award for heroic and meritorious service as C.O. of MADDOX during the defense of Korea from 27 February - 27 July, 1953, and the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for heroic and meritorious service during February - April, 1952, as C.O. of MADDOX in defense of Korea. He also received the following campaign and service medals; American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with 8 stars, World War II Victory Medal, China Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal with 2 stars, United Nations Service Medal, Korean Presidential Citation, and the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 2 stars.

After retiring, Mark located in the North Shore area of Chicago. He served as Quality Control Manager for two different manufacturers of electrical mechanical products. He later joined U.S. Electrical Motors as a Field Engineer, involved with large industrial motors, power transmissions equipment, including gear reducers and variable speed drives. His last venture before final retirement in September, 1987, was the establishment of Metel Inc., which acted as a distributor for U.S. Electrical Motor products.

Mark and his wife, Bunty, whom he met in Sydney, Australia, were married in Norfolk in September, 1946. They have four children, three sons, a daughter and so far, seven grandchildren.

John's first duty was in PENSACOLA. She took part in the battles of Midway, Santa Cruz, Guadalcanal and several night surface actions until she was torpedoed on the night of 30 November, 1943, in the battle of Tassafaronga. After duty on the Staff, ComTaskFor 65, and a few months ashore at Guadalcanal, he was ordered to flight training, where he married Dolores Webster of Stillwater, Minnesota, on 27 April, 1943.

PG School and MIT gave John a Master of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Duty in OpNav in the Guided Missile Division was followed by a return to sea as XO of Patrol Squadron One operating out of Whidbey Island and Kodiak. The Korean War brought a 6-month deployment to Okinawa and to Washington, as the Head of the Installations Branch, Armament Division, BuAer. 1953 brought duty as C.O., Patrol Squadron Twenty-Two in Hawaii and Alaska, then on to become Experimental Officer at China Lake, CA. Orders as XO of PRINCETON in 1957 saw twelve out of fifteen months on board operating in the Western Pacific. In 1959, John became Naval Aide and Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (R&D) and in 1961, he attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. In 1962, John was C.O. of the oiler TALUGA, and in 1963 C.O. of HORNET (CVS-12). In 1964, he took command of Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, and on March 1, 1967, he retired and became Assistant to the President of Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland.

Case and Western Reserve U. had decided to combine (Case Western Reserve University) and Dr. Robert Morse was to be the President of the new University. John had known him as Assistant Secretary of the Navy R&D and he prevailed on John to take a job and do the organizational planning. John agreed, but to stay only one year. It was a challenging and exciting job; John then moved on to another challenge in August, 1968, to become Director of Engineering at the Government and Aeronautical Products Division of Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dee and John truly enjoyed being back in Minnesota except for the cold winters and the summer mosquitoes!

In the spring of 1975, both had some health problems and they decided it was time really to retire and go back to Coronado. Dee has had two open heart surgeries (1976 & 1981) to replace the mitral valve but she is really doing quite well. As she says "If you have to have problems, it is good to have something where the spare parts are really quite good." John is still a part-time employee of Honeywell, able to keep abreast of the interesting world of R&D.

Son, Randy (USNA '66) is a Captain, USNR. He and Jane are in Seattle, where he is Superintendent of City Power and Light. Daughter, Janet, is in Boston with her husband, Stanford classmate Tom Willson, and their two children. After responsible positions at Stanford, and Harvard, she does full-time parenting and part-time instructing Senior Citizens in aerobics.

Bob's first tour, 10 month's engineering in PENNSYLVANIA, led to WASHINGTON's precommissioning detail and two more years in engineering. Enroute from WASHINGTON's North Atlantic operations in the British Home Fleet to its South Pacific operations off Guadalcanal, Bob married Joanne Smullin July 26, 1942, in Collingswood, New Jersey.

Other tours were: Master of Science degree at MIT and designation as Engineering Duty Officer; Charleston Naval Shipyard; putting SALEM in commission as Chief Engineer, in Boston; Department of Marine Engineering, USNA; Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco; Board of Inspection and Survey and then Bureau of Ships in Washington; and finally, five very busy years (1963-68) as Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, 13ND in Seattle, building LSDs, DEGs, River Patrol Boats for Vietnam, and also the replacements for those USNA Luder yawls that USNA '40 first sailed in its second class year.

After retiring from the Navy, Bob then spent sixteen and one half years with the University of Washington. As Washington Sea Grant's first Marine Advisory Program leader, he developed the field services for the marine resources program which the University had just begun administering for the state under the National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966. Working with the problems of marine resource users off-campus, and with a large university's faculty and students, was still exciting when Bob really retired December 1, 1985.

After a wonderful fourteen years on Seattle's Lake Union in their two-story floating home with an elevator, they built their dream house on shore overlooking Lake Washington and the Cascades. Son, Michael, and his wife live in San Mateo, CA. Daughter, Kim, her husband, and granddaughters, Sara and Jamie, are across the lake in Bellevue and keep the old folks young.

Born in Los Angeles, California, George was appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Missouri. First duty was in the light cruiser PHILADELPHIA operating between Pearl Harbor in the Pacific and convoy escort to the United Kingdom in the Atlantic at the start of WW II. In 1942, he was transferred to the commissioning crew of the light cruiser SANTA FE, and remained on board during war operations in the Pacific.

Other duties included a tour at the Naval Academy as an Electrical Engineering instructor after war's end, executive officer of destroyer SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, command of the destroyers CAPETON and COMPTON and of the tender TIDEWATER. Staff assignments included ComDesLant, Key West Test and Evaluation Detachment, ComServLant and ComDesFlot 4. In 1966, he had duty under instruction at the Naval War College in Newport. His final duty prior to retirement in 1970 was Commanding Officer, Naval Station, Newport.

He was awarded the Bronze Star for wartime action and the Legion of Merit, as well as many area and campaign decorations.

After retirement, he raised polled Hereford cattle on his farm in Middletown. He was a member of the Newport Rotary Club and of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

George died of cancer on 18 September, 1987 at his home in Middletown, Rhode Island. His wife of 42 years, Margaret Garnett, died of a stroke on 30 September, 1987 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Their family included a daughter, Margaret Garnett Stapleton of Newport; two sons, George Mason Hawes III and James Basinger Hawes of Middletown, and seven grandchildren.

First duty, USS MARYLAND, BB-46. Late reporting due acute appendicitis. Reported for duty in Pearl Harbor. Assigned as Junior Division & Turret Officer, Turret Four. Present at the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Reported flight training 9/42. Received aviator designation at Pensacola April, 1943, and retained as twin-engine instructor at NAS Lake City, FL. Assigned as X.O., VPB-136 and deployed to Attu, Alaska, in mid-1944. Ordered as C.O., late 1944, and commanded through April, 1945. Flew PV-l's. Reassigned as Assistant Operations Officer, Fleet Air Wing ONE, Okinawa, and served through cessation of hostilities. Returned to USNA as Instructor, Department of Engineering, December, 1945. Married Clare Elizabeth Dowd in Holyoke, MA 12/29/45. First son, Ted, born 12/2/46. Reassigned to newly- formed Department of Aviation in 1947.

Reported to VX-4, N.A.T.C., Patuxent River, MD, in summer, 1948. Assigned as Material, Maintenance, and Operations Officer in turn. Operated B-17's on radar development and hurricane chase. Reported as Assistant Operations Officer, Electronics Test Division, N.A.T.C., 1950. Qualified as helicopter pilot 1951. Daughter, Maureen, born 8/21/52. Ordered as C.O., HU-1 (then the Navy's only helicopter squadron), N.A.S. Ream Field, San Ysidro, CA. Took command of HU-1 June, 1953. Son, Stephen, born 9/30/53. Ordered as Head, Rotary Wing Branch, Flight Test Division, N.A.T.C., and reported June, 1955. Primary interest, rotary wing development and test.

Ordered as X.O., USS THETIS BAY, CVHA-1 (world's first helicopter carrier) July, 1957. Relieved October, 1958, and ordered as Navy Section Chief, MILTAG, Djakarta, Indonesia. Served through October, 1959, and then proceeded to SAMAA, the Joint Staff, Pentagon in March, 1960. Ordered as student, Naval Warfare Course, Naval War College, Newport, R.I. July, 1962. Assigned as Secretary, Naval War College upon completion student course; served until July, 1965. Ordered as C.O., ROTC Unit, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, and reported August, 1965. Completed five years, and retired effective 30 June, 1970.

Acted as Special Agent, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company for one year. Then took position as Naval Science Instructor, Naval Junior ROTC Unit, Tiverton High School, Tiverton, R.I. Retired from that position effective August, 1978, and has primarily traveled the world since then, showing his beloved wife some of the things he saw without her. He hopes to continue that delightful way of life for many years to come! They now have three wonderful children and seven simply terrific grandchildren, aged from 7 to 17. May this fabulous way of life continue forever!

Vince reported to ASTORIA in Hawaii. He was assigned to the AA battery at the beginning of WWII, and the remainder of his naval career was thus oriented to weapon systems. He participated in the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the landing at Guadalcanal. When ASTORIA was sunk in the night action of the First Battle of Savo, he spent the night in a raft in Iron Bottom Bay eluding Japs and sharks. Picked up by a destroyer, he showed his profound gratefulness by serving in destroyers for the remainder of the war: Gunnery Officer in BEALE; Exec of AULT; C.O. of DYSON; in attacks on the Philippines, Formosa, China Coast, Nansei Shoto, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the raids against Japan.

The war over, Vince returned and completed an earnest courtship of Helen Clarke of Baltimore, a graduate student in philosophy at Catholic University. They were married on Navy Day, October 27, 1945, and since have been busy raising a very active family. Dominic and John were born in Annapolis in 1946 and 1947 while Vince was attending Ordnance PG. Vince then earned a Master's Degree at MIT. From 1949 to 1951, he served as Readiness and Training Officer of COMCARDIV FOUR out of Newport and Norfolk. Their first girl, Mary, was born in Newport in 1950; Jane followed in 1951 in Norfolk just before Vince took command of GYATT. From 1952 to 1955, he served in BuOrd on provision of fire control and radar equipment. In 1953, the youngest, Peter, was born. In 1955, back-to-sea, with 2 years as COMBATCRULANT Readiness Officer, involved in the introduction of missiles to the Atlantic Fleet. Vince then relieved Art Esch as Exec of NORTHAMPTON, attended the Industrial College of Armed Forces and then relieved Scott Goodfellow in BuOrd, part of the team which merged BuOrd and BuAer into BuWeps. In 1962, Vince took command of PYRO. He next became COMDESRON THREE, homeported in Yokosuka and operating in the South China Sea. In 1965, he became Deputy Program Manager in the new ASW Systems Project Office. After promotion to Rear Admiral, he served as COMDESFLOT SIX, in the Second and Sixth Fleets. In 1969, he reported as Director of the Undersea and Strategic Warfare Development Division, in OPNAV, and in January, 1972 became Deputy Director of RDT&E in that office.

After retirement in 1972, he consulted with Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, Sperry UNIVAC and the EDO Corporation in R&D. In 1974, he joined the EDO Corporation full time and is now Vice President for EDO's Washington Operation. He has been active with the National Security Industries Association as an Advisor in Anti-Submarine Warfare, and with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, having served as Technical Program Chairman and General Chairman of its Electronics and Aerospace System Conference in 1975 and 1976. He is active in St. Dominic Church where he was President of the Parish Council. His five children and the grandchildren keep life interesting, particularly the youngest son, Peter, who is following his father's footsteps, having just been selected for Lieutenant Commander.

Upon graduation, Ed reported to NEVADA at Pearl. Within six months, a transfer to MUGFORD started a career in destroyers. The 7 December Pearl Harbor attack interrupted a very good tennis game!

In April, 1942, while returning from escorting the first convoy to Australia, Ed was transferred to Charleston, SC, for the precommissioning detail of destroyer BEATTY. BEATTY participated in the African invasion and the Sicilian landing, followed by several other convoy crossings until her loss in the Med. during November, 1943. Tours in MANSFIELD (Gunnery Officer), LAWS (Executive Officer), ROE (Commanding Officer) saw the end of the war.

Subsequent duties included "Personnel" with ComServPac; command of QUICK (DMS 32); Instructor, NROTC Unit, University of Utah; Flag Secretary and Operations Officer, Staff ComCruDivOne, in SAINT PAUL, during the Korean "Operation".

Then on to Newport as Aide to President, Naval War College (2 years) and student (1 year). Back to sea for two years in command of McKEAN, followed by a tour on staff of ComCruDesPac (Personnel Officer). A short tour of command of DesDiv 52 was followed by a three- year tour in Oxford, Ohio, in command of the NROTC Unit, Miami University.

For his last tour at sea, Ed commanded the destroyer tender, ISLE ROYALE (AD 29) for one year. On 31 August, 1964, Ed retired, and with Maggie, decided to remain in Long Beach, California.

After renting for a few years, the Hearns moved into their own Belmont Heights home, with Margaret's prophetic statement, "This is our 29th and last move." So be it! They are still there: 241 Quincy Avenue, Long Beach, California 90803/ Tel (213) 439-4776.

About the time Ed retired, Maggie went to work for the Naval Dispensary (and later at the Naval Hospital) as the psychiatric social worker. She retired after 17 years service.

In the meantime, Ed spent much of his time (and still does) teaching mathematics within the Long Beach School District.

By the early spring of first class year, and despite the impending danger of war, a great love for the Academy and a strong attraction to the Naval service and warm friendships in the class, Dick Heath submitted a resignation from the Navy, effective on graduation, to study for the Catholic priesthood. It was accepted; and on graduation day, he separated from the class and returned to Boston. By August, 1940, he was enrolled in a seminary of the Dominican Order of which he had become a member.

In December, 1941, after thought and prayer, he offered his resignation from the Dominican Order, in which he had made vows, to return to the fleet. He was advised to wait a short time for the letter from the Navy. No letter came, however; he finished the course of studies in 1947, when, in Washington, he was ordained a priest. He was then assigned to three years of graduate study, one in Washington and two in Rome.

For the next 37 years, his ministry was concentrated in one professional area: graduate theological education administration, along a career path that developed with added experience and some success. In 1960, he applied for a commission as a Navy Chaplain, but was not accepted on the grounds of age.

His first assignment, in 1952, was as chaplain to the students at LaSalle College in Philadelphia where, after ten years, he was appointed director of the graduate program in religious studies. This was followed by six years at Providence College in the same educational ministry. In 1973, he returned to Washington to serve for four years as Director of the Washington Theological Consortium, the association of all the Protestant and Catholic seminaries and graduate schools of theology in the greater Washington area. For nine years, he was the President of the Dominican House of Studies, the seminary where he had trained thirty years before. During the Washington period, he was also a member of the governing council and director of studies for the community of 350 priests and brothers of which he was a member.

During these years, also, he wrote and published papers, sat on commissions and boards of dioceses and of Catholic and Protestant seminaries, served as officer of national societies and as a member of ecumenical theological groups, led Sunday Mass and preached a sermon nearly weekly and published some of them.

Then, on July 1, 1988, just as his terms of office in his major assignments were coming to an end, he was elected the prior of a religious community of priests and brothers, and appointed the pastor of a large urban parish, St. Louis Bertrand in Louisville, Kentucky.

Through all of these occupations, which seem so alien to the training and experience of the class, the Academy, the Navy and the Class of 1940 have maintained a strong and deep hold on his affection and loyalty.

At graduation, Buff entered the Marine Corps, in which he had previously served as an enlisted Reserve. Following Basic School in Philadelphia, his first assignment was at the Recruit Depot, San Diego, California. He then trained Naval Aviation Cadets in military skills at N.A.S. Corpus Christi, where he met his first wife.

On Pearl Harbor Day, Buff returned to the REINA MERCEDES at the USNA where he married Betty Ann Roose. He then went on to fight training at New Orleans and Pensacola. When they determined he wasn't a flyer, he commanded Sea School in Portsmouth, VA, and while there, their first son, William D., was born.

It was then on to a tropical paradise as C.O. of Marine Barracks, San Juan, Puerto Rico, before heading for the Pacific War, via Camp Pendleton, CA, to Commander Battleship Division 4 (USS WEST VIRGINIA) as Division Marine Officer, Asst. Naval Gunfire Officer and Intelligence Officer.

After the Battles of Surigao Straits, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, Buff returned to the States as Exec. of the Marine Barracks at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and then on to close out his Regular USMC career at Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, VA. After resigning 6 months later to become a civilian, he accepted a position with the Dravo Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA, attended graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, and was promoted to Staff Advisor on Personnel Procurement. While there, their second son, Thomas J~, was born. He then competed in a nation-wide selection process and was appointed Director of Personnel for the New Orleans Public Schools.

Twelve years later, Buff was selected as Associate Superintendent of the Philadelphia Public Schools. After a year, he resigned to return to his former position in New Orleans and was later made Assistant Superintendent. He served in this capacity for another twelve years when he retired to be with his wife and enjoy her remaining years together. She passed away in 1983, and a year later, Buff married his present wife (a recent widow), who has achieved national recognition as a horsewoman, and who taught Buff to ride and attend horse shows with her. His oldest son, Bill, is an architect with his own firm in New Orleans, and the youngest son, Tom, and new wife have Doctorates and are practicing psychologists in Philadelphia. Marie and Buff enjoy their retirement, horses, and world traveling from his old home town of La Forte, Indiana.

Ted's first duty was in PHOENIX, surviving, with the PHOENIX, the attack on Pearl Harbor of 7 December, 1941. Ted was transferred to flight training from the ship while in Perth, Australia, but there was another event connected with the stay in Perth: he met and married Noel James, who became the first war bride from "down under" to arrive at Pensacola. He was designated naval aviator in June, 1943, and served through the remainder of WWII overseas with VPB-92, becoming squadron executive officer in 1945. He later attended MIT, received a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1947, and was designated as AED. He was also a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College. He served in the Bureau of Aeronautics, later the Bureau of Weapons. Sherry Lynn was born in October, 1948, but Ted was not to see her grow up; the marriage was dissolved a short time later, and after a trip to her homeland, Noel and Sherry settled in London.

On August 1, 1955, Ted married Loretta Cook in Ft. Greely, Alaska. At that time, he was on duty at NAS, Philadelphia. In 1957, he was assigned to the Pacific Missile Range in Pt. Mugu. In 1959, he left California and served his last tour of duty in Bristol, TN, at the Raytheon Sparrow Missile Plant. In June, 1960, he retired from the Navy and joined General Electric Co. in Philadelphia, as a project manager of the Missile and Space Vehicle Dept. In 1963, Ted decided to go back to work for the Government; they moved to Annapolis and Ted went to work for NASA in Washington. He was assigned to the Apollo program, where he held several positions. He retired in June, 1974, as Technical Operations Manager.

Shortly after moving to Annapolis, Ted became involved with the Annapolis Power Squadron, teaching Advanced Piloting and Navigation classes. He was elected to the Executive Committee and commissioned a District Lieutenant. He devoted many hours to the squadron. He presided as USNA class president from 1979 to 1983 and was involved with the Alumni Association and with many class activities. He worked with classmate RADM Frankenberger on the Memorial Fountain and Time Capsule, as project manager. The completed project was presented to the Naval Academy on September 11, 1982.

After retiring from Civil Service in 1974, he spent his remaining years boating, golfing and traveling: winters in Florida, July in Maine, and yearly tours of Europe, visiting many countries. He also spent quite a bit of time in Hawaii, back to Pearl Harbor where his active duty career all started. After nine happy years of retirement, Ted died on August 14, 1983. Loretta remains at 228 Lookout Lane, Annapolis, MD 21401.

Upon graduation, Jim reported on board MISSISSIPPI, and after two years of battleship duty was ordered to flight training, earning his wings in 1943. On his way to flight training, he and Peg were married in Long Beach in November, 1942. Following operational training and duty as an instructor, he joined an operational squadron and went to the Pacific war zone on board FRANKLIN, participating in the major campaigns against the Japanese, until FRANKLIN suffered serious damage; this hastened Jim's return to the States.

After the war, Jim commanded Bombing Squadron Five, serving on board VALLEY FORGE and CORAL SEA. He then went to NAS Patuxent for Flight Test duty. At the outbreak of the Korean War, he was ordered to CINCPACFLT Staff, then took command of Air Group Nine at Alameda, and from there returned to Patuxent for two more years.

Jim's next duty was as X.O. and then C.O. of PHILIPPINE SEA, then to staff duty with COMNAVAIRPAC, and from there to be C.O., Naval Pre-flight School at Pensacola. His final active duty tours were BuWeps, then C.O. of NAS Los Alamitos, CA.

Upon retirement in 1965, Jim joined the McDonnell-Douglas Company in the Long Beach area. He remained with McDonnell Douglas until his second retirement, and then moved with his family to Pensacola.

Jim was a crack lacrosse player all four years at the Academy, and was one of the first of his class to win his "N" star. When it was too cold for lacrosse, he took up boxing and swimming.

Jim died on 9 February 1978. He was survived by his widow, Peg, until her death on 16 January 1989, at Pensacola. Their son, Robert, a graduate of Stanford University, lives in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, with his wife, Louise, and the three grandchildren.

Like most, Jake spent WWII at sea. Soon after the war ended, he married Betty Bennett Banker. In 1947, they moved to DC for graduate training in Naval Intelligence, which was followed by three interesting naval attache assignments, all in Latin America. These were in Argentina during the Peron era, Uruguay, and Mexico with additional responsibility for five Central American Republics. The Navy was determined to keep Jake abroad until he mastered the Spanish language, something he failed to do at Annapolis.

In between, there was sea duty. A year as Exec of an AKA, a year and a half as skipper of a J.S. Nelson-trained DD, two years on PhibPac's staff, a year in command of a destroyer tender that served the fleet in Newport, Norfolk and Naples, and two years with Service Force, Sixth Fleet, home ported in Naples, were all wonderful assignments.

After two years at the Pentagon as Deputy Director of Pan American Affairs, Jake hung up his Navy uniforms and began life in the business world. First he joined a small computer software company where he spent two years in DC, designing and building computer systems. The company's owner then asked the Heimarks to move to Philadelphia to help start a new company. This was a most interesting challenge, not unlike putting a new ship in commission. The job lasted until the company was sold in 1973.

Jake then began fourteen years at Wharton Econometrics, creating a sales department and selling economic forecasting services, with much around-the-world travel for him and Betty. Sales experience? He had sold an old car some years earlier.

On retiring from Wharton, Jake accepted an invitation from his first civilian boss to help start another new company. He says he will really retire only when what he is doing no longer challenges and excites him.

At their Bryn Mawr, PA, home, Betty and Jake enjoy their five children, one fine son-in-law, three wonderful daughters-in-law, four lively grandsons and four lovely granddaughters. Life has been very, very good to Jake and his family, and he knows it.

After graduation, Gene served aboard the light cruiser NASHVILLE through half of the war as a deck division officer and then as Electrical Officer. During this period, NASHVILLE operated on the West Coast, Hawaii, North Atlantic to Iceland, Bermuda, Pacific to Japan (Doolittle Raid), Aleutians, and Solomons.

For the second half of the war, Gene served aboard the submarine SEADRAGON as Engineer and Torpedo Data Computer Operator (Fire Control Officer), making four successful war patrols and receiving the Silver Star. Then he served aboard GREENLING as Executive Officer, completing one war patrol.

In June, 1945, Gene went to the P.G. course in Naval Design Engineering at Annapolis, which was completed in 1948. Then he was off to Hawaii as a submarine Squadron Engineer for one year before becoming Executive Officer of the submarine BECUNA. This was followed by a short tour as Ordnance Officer, Submarine Base, New London. From 1951 on, Gene had the good fortune of rotating duties afloat and ashore with all sea duties being in command and shore duties being senior staff positions and one in command of a shore station.

His afloat tours were: command of the submarine BANG; the submarine VOLADOR; the destroyer BRISTOL; the amphibious flagship TACONIC; and the command cruiser NORTHAMPTON. His shore assignments included: Operations Officer of an ASW development detachment in Key West; Director, Fleet Communications, OPNAV; C.O., Naval Communications Station, Japan; Department Head, War Gaming Department, Naval War College; and Deputy Director, Information Systems Division, OPNAV.

"Retiring" in 1970, he went to work as Director, MIS National Girl Scouts Organization. Four years later, he joined The International Trade Facilitation Council, fleeting up eleven years later to Executive Director which he has continued to be ever since.

Other "trail markers" over the years included: District Chairman, Boy Scouts Far East Council; Black Belt Aikido; M.S. in International Affairs; President, Naval Academy Alumni Association, New York; President, Westchester County Tennis Club; U.S. Business Representative at United Nations Economic Commission European meetings; and hosting President Lyndon Johnson and Northeast governors, congressmen and families on an overnight cruise aboard Northampton.

Gene has been very happily married to his wife, Charlotte, of Huntington, Indiana, since their wedding forty years ago in Hawaii. They have two sons, two daughters, and three grandchildren.

John joined USS ARIZONA after graduation. He served there until she was blown up by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. While in Hawaii, he met and married Ruth Whisler Collins in 1942.

After Pearl Harbor, he and Ruth returned to Norfolk, where USS ALABAMA was being put in commission. He served in ALABAMA until 1945 in combat operations in the Arctic, European, and Pacific Waters. While in the Pacific, he detected and correctly evaluated the initial enemy approach for attack in the Marianas Campaign in June, 1944, giving a vital warning to the Task Force, which resulted in the distruction of the enemy and the saving of many American lives. For this, he received the Bronze Star Medal with "V".

From 1945 to 1948, he was a graduate student at the U. S. Naval Posgraduate School in Annapolis, where he received his Master of Science in Engineering Electronics. From 1948 to 1951, he was the Staff Electronics officer on the Staff of CINCNELM in London. From there he went to the Naval Shipyard at Pearl Harbor, where he was Asst. Planning and Estimating Superintendent (Electronics) and Production Analysis officer.

Returning to Washington in 1954, John was Head, Communication and Computer Design Branch, Bureau of Ships. Following that duty, he was the Industrial Manager for the 10th Naval District in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1960-1963. He was then Deputy Chief and later Chief of Development Standards at the Defense Communications Agency until he retired from the Navy in 1966. He was awarded the Joint Services Commendation Medal.

John then joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation and was a Fellow Engineer at their Leesburg laboratory until it closed in 1974. From 1974 to 1976, he was a student at Lord Fairfax Community College in Animal Husbandry. In 1976, he was asked to be a physics professor at the college. He then taught physics and sometimes mathematics until he retired in 1983.

He was a member of St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg and also served as a Director of the Loudoun Speech and Hearing Center. He was an avid reader on all subjects but his particular interests were military history, American Civil War and animal husbandry.

John suffered a heart attack in January, 1984, and during his recovery made plans for travel with his wife. He died on January 24, 1985. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, two sons, Michael and Peter, three daughters, Sheila, Norah, and Eileen. A third son, Thomas, predeceased him.

Following graduation and seven months at the Marine Corps Basic School in Philadelphia, George was assigned to the 5th Marine Regiment at Quantico, VA. After the outbreak of war, he joined an all-volunteer force commanded by Lt. Col. Merritt Edson. The unit was designated the 1st Marine Raider Battalion. Edson's Raiders, as they became known, departed Quantico for the South Pacific in April, 1942. Participating in the battles for Tulagi, Guadalcanal, and New Georgia as a company commander and later battalion operations officer, George returned to the United States in November, 1943.

After a tour, first as a student and then instructor, at the Marine Command and Staff School in Quantico, George left for flight training in January, 1945. With his newly acquired wings, he departed Jax for Cherry Point, NC, in 1946. There he was assigned to an F4U group, first as assistant operations officer, then squadron commander.

In January, 1948, he left for Tsingtao, China, for duty as Operations Officer, AIRFMFWESPAC; later in the year he took command of VMF- 211. By January, 1949, old China was crumbling and VMF-211 went aboard RENDOVER, the sole carrier in NAVFORWESPAC. In July, 1949, George began helicopter training, first at Quantico and then at Lakehurst and back to Quantico where he assumed the duties of Exec. HMX-1. December, 1950, found him headed for El Toro, CA, to commission the Corps' first transport helicopter squadron, HMR-161, which he took to Korea to support the 1st Marine Division. George next served in Quantico as CO of HMX-1 and shortly thereafter reported as Aide-de-Camp to General Lemuel C. Shepherd, then Commandant of the Marine Corps. After several assignments in the 3rd Marine Air Wing, he was ordered to the Army War College in 1957 and a year later, he joined the 1st Marine Air Wing in Iwakuni, Japan, as G-3 and later CO, Marine Air Group 16.

In November, 1959, George went to the 2nd Marine Air Wing as logistics officer, remaining there until the summer of 1961, at which time he went back to Washington as a member of the Joint Staff. Two years later, he moved down the Potomac to take command of the Quantico Air Station. After two years, he retired and began teaching school in the public schools of Alexandria, VA. He remained there until June, 1973, when he retired to his native Georgia, this time settling on Jekyll Island, which is fifty miles north of Jacksonville, FL.

There it has been all fun-boating, beach-combing, biking, golfing, and in between traveling with Lit to some exotic places-and some not so exotic! In 1976, he purchased a Cessna 172, which he still flies about 120 hours a year. With this puddle-jumper, he and Lit manage frequent visits with children and grandchildren from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

George married Lit (Elizabeth Morgan) of Rockmart, Georgia. They have three children and six grandchildren.

The first 26 months after graduation Frank spent aboard VINCENNES (CA-44), operating in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Transferring at sea off Guadalcanal, he returned to CONUS for flight training in August, 1942. Designated a naval Aviator in March 1943, he headed back to the Pacific theater.

While attached to VB-151, flying PV-l's for 18 months, he followed the war across the Central Pacific via the various islands and atolls as far as Tinian, the Marianas Islands. In December, 1944, it was back to NAS Kaneohe, Hawaii, to become CO of VPB-200. He decommissioned that squadron in December, 1945.

Upon return to CONUS, he was ordered to the Naval Academy as an instructor, remaining there until July, 1948. After 30 months and some 3,000 flying hours with VR-1, based at NAS Patuxent River, MD, he spent two years with ONI at the Pentagon. From there, it was off to Hawaii in March, 1953, as CO of FASRON-117 at NAS Barbers Point. Came January, 1955, he returned to sea for 18 months (11 months of which were spent in WESTPAC) as Navigator HANCOCK (CVA-19). For a rest, it was back to the Naval War College at Newport, RI, as a student for ten months. This was followed by two hectic years at BUPERS in Arlington, VA. In April, 1959, he reported as Chief-of-Staff, Commander, Barrier Forces, Atlantic Fleet at Argentia, Newfoundland. The final four years of active duty were served as CO, NROTC Unit at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, from which assignment he retired as a Captain in July, 1965.

Having been awarded his Master of Science and Doctor of Business Administration degrees while studying in his spare time during the active duty years, Frank returned home to employment by the University of Wyoming in October, 1965. While progressing to the exalted rank of Professor, he also held the position of Associate Dean, College of Commerce and Industry, as well as Director, Institute of Business and Management Services for eight years. Awarded the honorary title of "Professor Emeritus" by the University Board of Trustees, he retired for the second time in January, 1981.

Frank married his Naval Academy OAO, Alma Lucille Eney, of Annapolis, MD. They have four sons: Michael M. (12/12/43), David B. (10/12/47), Robin C. (1/16/51), and Timothy A. (1/12/55), as well as three grandsons and three granddaughters. Frank's beloved bride and helpmate of some 45 plus years passed away on 17 October, 1987, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Ted Hill was ordered to NEVADA after graduation and was serving in her at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. After assisting in the salvage work and sailing her to Bremerton for rehabilitation and modernization, he requested flight training. Orders to commence flight training in New Orleans came in October, 1942, where he joined many other classmates who had chosen the same training. He got his wings at Pensacola in May, 1943, and following some additional operational training, joined VF-84 at North Island as XO. He later became CO of the squadron during the deployment aboard BUNKER HILL in 1944/45. The post-war years brought a standard pattern of aviation billets at sea in squadrons, ships and staffs and ashore in OPNAV and the Navy Material Command. On 1 April, 1970, he retired from the Navy.

The post-retirement years were still with naval aviation but as a civilian employee of the Naval Air Systems Command for eleven more years. From late 1974 until September, 1977, he was in Tehran, Iran, as the USN project manager for the delivery of 80 F-14 fighter aircraft to the Shah. The Hills got out ahead of the revolution which ended the Pahlavi regime. During those three years, there was opportunity to travel to Russia, India, Nepal, Egypt and most of the Middle East, as well as Europe.

In September, 1942, Ted married the former Virginia F. Kent, in Bremerton, Washington. Son, Kent, was born in 1944, daughter, Leslie, in 1945 and son, Neil, in 1949. They are all married and have each provided a grandson and a granddaughter for a total of six. Virginia died in March, 1986 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

In October, 1987, Ted and Julianne Burt were married in the Old Chapel at Fort Myer, Virginia. This marriage brought Ted three more children -- sons, Dennis and David Pinch and a daughter, April Lyn Pinch. All have completed college and are on their own. Ted and Julianne are retired and plan to remain in Arlington.

Bill's picture was in the Lucky Bag, but he did not graduate, having been forced to leave in 1939 because of an eye defect. He went on to complete his education, graduating in Aeronautical Engineering from RPI in 1941. After World War II began, Bill was commissioned Ensign in the Naval Reserve, and served in the United States and overseas, leaving active duty near the end of the war as a Lieutenant. His war-time duties were first concerned with rehabilitating aircraft at a repair facility on one of the small islands in the Southwest Pacific, probably Funafuti, and later in Washington on a project developing jet engines.

After the war, Bill founded his own company, W. T. Hill Engineering, in Hoosick Falls, New York. He married Katherine Lohr in September, 1946. They had five daughters; Kathryn, Anne, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. All have professional careers of their own.

In his post-war career, Bill's focus shifted from aeronautical to mechanical engineering. In the early 1950's, he moved his business to Dalton, MA, where he was a consultant for the design and operation of paper mills. He had made plans to retire early in the 1980's, and did announce his retirement in 1980, although his last business connection was in the spring of 1985. The previous fall, he and Kay purchased a home on a golf course in Rotunda West, Florida, with the plan of spending winters in Florida and summers in Massachusetts. Bill's sudden death on 20 July, 1985, however, preempted those plans. Kay has kept and improved the Florida home, but also has an apartment in Dalton, so she does carry on with the seasonal plan, and in addition, makes visits to her daughters around the country, and sometimes travels overseas with a daughter.

Margaret and Ajax have Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as their home port. They met at an early age at their family summer homes on Pewaukee Lake. They were graduated from Washington High. Ajax went to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Campus and a year and a half later, he entered the Academy via the competitive exam route. His intent was to enter West Point, but the examiner suggested that he take the additional exam segment for the USNA. To his surprise, he became first alternate for the USNA and second for West Point. The principal candidate failed the entrance exam and a Navy career became his destiny.

Margaret entered Milwaukee State Teachers College during the fall of 1937 and upon graduation, taught math and English at the high school in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Upon graduation, Ajax was ordered to USS CONCORD (CL-10) stationed at Pearl Harbor. In August, 1941, he received orders to the first Radar School at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine for 3 months, and 3 more months at the Naval Research Lab. Upon return to CONCORD, his duties were to install radars and train radar operators. CONCORD had patrol and convoy escort duty in the Pacific with ports of call at Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and the Islands of Wake, Midway, Samoa and Bora Bora.

During the summer of 1943, Ajax received orders to PG School at Annapolis, pursuing EE. Margaret and Ajax were married and drove to their new duty station. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the staff of COMDESPAC at the former PANAM Clipper base at Pearl City. The staff moved in 1945 to San Diego on the DD Tender USS PRAIRIE. In 1947, new orders sent them to COMSURASDEVDET Staff in KEY WEST. As an ASW project officer, he became closely associated with NRL scientists. His next assignment was XO of USS SARSFIELD (DD 837), an experimental ASW ship.

Tempted by a position in ASW research offered by NRL, Ajax resigned during the fall of 1949 and began a long and productive career at NRL, retiring in 1972. His Navy career continued in the Naval Research Reserve and he achieved the rank of Captain.

After NRL retirement in 1972, Ajax consulted to the private sector until 1982. Presently, Margaret and Ajax are enjoying a relaxed lifestyle at their country home on an old farm near the Bowie racetrack. They have 4 married children, all living in the area. Travel is their current endeavor.

Jack started his Navy career in the anti-aircraft division of USS COLORADO. He had obtained his Pilot's license while still in the Academy, so when the first chance for flight training came along, he applied to become a Naval Aviator. While working on earning his wings, he met and married Electa Klare (now deceased), sister of '40 classmate and shipmate Herman.

After a time as flight instructor, he was sent to the Postgraduate School at Annapolis, ending with a Master's degree from MIT. A series of tours followed in patrol squadrons, Washington assignments, and staff billets. After a period on the Taiwan Patrol Force, he returned to the United States as Head, Department of Ordnance and Gunnery at Postgraduate School, Monterey. Next came shipboard duty as XO of CVHA-I, THETIS BAY. Following another Washington tour, he took command of Air Development Squadron ONE. In addition to testing and evaluating new ASW aircraft, he had the collateral duty of senior squadron commander, Key West, during the frustrations of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Don't get him started talking about that.

During his next duty as Commanding Officer, NAS New York, he married his present wife, Betty Lacey. She and his late wife had been best friends 17 years before in VP-2 at Whidbey Island. His family suddenly increased to seven, including his two sons and Betty's son and two daughters. Orders to National War College gave Jack a chance to put in some evening overtime and earn a second Master's degree, this one from George Washington University, before a final Washington tour as Inspector General, NavAirSysCom. Next he became Chief of Staff to classmate RADM Scott Goodfellow in OpTevFor, of which Jack's old squadron, VX-1, was a part.

Retirement came around on 1 July, 1970, and with it a move to Florida. As Head, Aviation Management Program for the School of Aeronautics, Florida Institute of Technology, he enjoys being part of an excellent faculty with dedicated students and can slip an occasional sea story into his lectures. To keep from getting too Florida-oriented, he and Betty go to Colorado every winter for a few weeks of skiing. But that is another story.

Bill spent his brief naval career in the Pacific. In the early part of World War II, he saw action in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands, before returning to the United States for training prior to his being ordered as Executive Officer of a new destroyer, USS COOPER, launched at Kearney, New Jersey on 9 February, 1944. COOPER joined the fleet in the Pacific, and was also to have a short career. Around midnight on the night of 2-3 December, 1944, COOPER and two other destroyers were patrolling Ormoc Bay on the west side of Leyte Island in the Philippines. Japanese forces were trying to reinforce their Leyte garrison through the port of Ormoc. First, the destroyers were attacked by enemy aircraft, but the planes were beaten off by AA fire; COOPER shot down two dive bombers. At 0002, COOPER made her first surface contact and opened fire at 12,000 yards on an enemy destroyer close inshore, COOPER closing in fast and raking the Japanese ship from stern to stern for eight minutes until it caught fire and began to sink. Next, COOPER detected another one or two small transport ships to the south, again closing and opening fire. At least one of these ships, with troops on board, was sunk. At 1217, either a mine or a torpedo struck COOPER amidships; she listed 45 degrees, broke in two and sank within seconds, with the loss of half on board, ten officers and 161 crew members -- LCDR Hodnett went down with the ship. The survivors, who were rescued after 15 hours in the water, praised their Executive Officer for his stern insistence on wearing life jackets at battle stations; Bill lost his own life, but his orders saved the lives of many others. For this and other vital actions by Bill during the battle, the Secretary of the Navy posthumously awarded him the Bronze Star Medal.

Bill met and married Ruth Hanson early in the war; she was a nurse at the Bremerton Naval Hospital. They had one son, William Philip Hodnett III. Ruth now lives in Martinsville, Virginia.

On graduation, Jack spent two interesting and challenging years in ENTERPRISE. The Pearl Harbor attack changed radically their Hawaiian area peacetime routine. For Jack, a very hectic period of watch-and-watch and later watch-in-three as OOD at sea ensued. Attacks on the Gilbert Islands, Truk, launching of the Doolittle raid, and Midway provided adequate excitement.

The year 1942 marked a significant life change -- Jack was married in August to Dorothea Smiley and subsequently started his flying career. Flight training was followed by one year as a fighter instructor and then orders as XO of Composite Squadron 72 which operated from KASSAN BAY (CVE) in the South Pacific. Post war flying assignments included tours as C.O. of VBF-14 and FV-GA. After a year as officer Personnel Officer, COMFAIRWESTCOAST, Jack attended the Naval War College, class of 1947, and subsequently served in the Plans Section, Staff, NWC.

After a sea duty tour as Air Officer in USS WRIGHT, Jack spent one year in the Special Studies Division (OF-05) of CNO, and two years on the JCS Joint Staff as Navy member of the team responsible for preparation of the Joint Strategic Objectives Plan. In the late 60's, he was Assistant Force Personnel Officer, COMNAVAIRLANT, then Head of the Manpower Information System in BuPers -- a very interesting assignment, involving the computerization of information in support of the various BuPers personnel responsibilities.

Following graduation from the National War College, class of 1962, Jack and his family spent six of eight last active duty years in overseas assignments -- three years in The Hague, Netherlands, as Chief, Navy Section MAAG; a tour as C.O. NAS Memphis; and then finally, Chief, Policies and Studies Division, U.S. EUCOM, Stuttgart, West Germany.

After retirement, they returned to Memphis, TN, and established their permanent home. Jack worked for several years in various positions, the most notable being Executive Director of Health Systems Management, Inc.. an experimental Federal government program. With farm property to manage in Montana, Dorothea and Jack decided to spend summer months in Southwest Montana, where they lived in a delightful mountain cabin. The unexpected death of Dorothea in 1986 altered their plans but left Jack with close Montana ties.

His oldest daughter, Jeanne, lives in Knoxville, TN, with her vascular surgeon husband and three children. His youngest daughter, Jackie, and her husband live in Memphis, where she teaches and he is a Systems Engineer for Federal Express.

Jack was born in Beijing, China, and was appointed to the Naval Academy from the Fleet. At graduation, his first duty assignment was to USS ARIZONA as Radio Officer. Surviving the attack of 7 December, 1941, he served as Executive and Salvage Officer of the USS ARIZONA Unit until reassigned to USS CALIFORNIA as Communications Officer. Other duties included tours in destroyers USS THOMPSON, as Executive Officer, spearheading the Normandy invasion, operating in North Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys and taking part in the southern France invasion; USS WINSLOW; USS JEFFERS; USS DASHIELL, as Commanding Officer, in 1956. From 1950 to 1953, he was Executive Officer, MAAG, Rome, Italy. For his performance of duty at the Normandy landings on 6 June, 1944, Jack received a letter of commendation.

An interesting hobby, or avocation, of Jack's, at sea or ashore, was archery. While on recruiting duty in Salt Lake City, Jack put his skills to a challenging test, hunting cougars with a bow and arrow in the mountainous terrain nearby.

After retirement from the Navy in 1958, he received an MA in mathematics and physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and introduced modern math to the Ithaca School System. From 1963 to 1965, he was Head, Mathematics Department, Manlius Military Academy, Manlius, NY.

In 1968, he entered the data processing field in St. Petersburg and retired as a consultant in data processing, specializing in hospital systems.

Jack died of lung cancer on II January, 1987, at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida. His ashes were scattered in the Gulf of Mexico. He is survived by his wife, Alix Brunet, of 2527 70th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33712; son, John Robblee Howatt of Bedford, Massachusetts; daughter, Noela Alix Howatt of Buffalo, New York; and sister, Betteanne Howatt of Washington, D.C.

Jonse was born in New Jersey. After graduation, he served in USS BROOKLYN, then in JEFFERS during World War II in the North Atlantic, participating in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and Southern France. He was executive officer and navigator in FRANK E. EVANS during the Okinawa Campaign in 1945, then commanded NORMAN SCOTT.

After attending the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis, Jonse served two years on the staff of Commander Carrier Division One, then on the staff of Commander Fleet Air, Jacksonville. He was aide and flag secretary to the Commander Sixth Fleet in 1950, then served in the same capacity to Commander Naval Air Atlantic.

He commanded ROBERT K. HUNTINGTON; completed the Armed Forces Staff College course in 1954; served on the National Policy Section of the Strategic Plans Division, then became executive officer in MACON. He graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1960; served in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, then retired on 1 April, 1961, for physical disability. He joined the firm of Goodbody & Co., stock brokers, at St. Petersburg, FL, then went with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. in Long Island. He held the American Defense Medal with ribbon, among other awards.

Jonse died suddenly on 7 January, 1968, in Huntington, NY, and is buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Surviving are his widow, Florence, of 444 Kingston Drive, Ridge, Long Island, NY 11961; sons, William J. Hughes, III, and Woodleigh Hughes; a daughter, Suzanne; and five grandchildren.

Ray, a native of New Jersey, was on the water polo and swimming teams at the Academy. Upon graduation, he reported on board heavy cruiser VINCENNES, which initially was engaged in "neutrality patrols" and convoy duties in the Atlantic. On November 5, 1941, he married his Academy OAO, Del Kronmeyer, at Portland, Maine. VINCENNES deployed to the Pacific shortly thereafter, where it participated in the launching of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo and in the Battle of Midway.

On August 9, 1942, the ship was sunk and Ray was wounded in the Battle of Savo Island, incident to the initial landings on Guadalcanal.

For the remainder of World War II, he was assistant gunnery officer on destroyer HERNDON during convoy operations in the Atlantic and the landings at Sicily; exec of destroyer UHLMANN during Pacific carrier task force operations and the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea; and flag navigator for Commander Amphibious Group One, the commander of the advance force at the Iwo Jima and Okinawa landings.

Post-war, Ray took postgraduate courses at Annapolis and Cornell. He then commanded the Atlantic Fleet UDTs in their initial work with SCUBA and submersible sneakcraft working from submerged fleet submarines. Then came command of Atlantic destroyer VOGELGESANG, a tour as COMCRUDESPAC's operations officer, a planning desk at BUORD, a year at the National War College, and a tour as Commander Second Fleet's war plans officer. Following two years as director of missile propulsion RDT&E at BUWEPS, he commanded Atlantic AKA MULIPHEN. From then until his retirement in June, 1965, he was director of program planning in OPNAV.

Ray and Del then moved to Redlands, California, where he became associated with Lockheed Propulsion Company, initially as senior program manager, and later as Chief Project Engineer. There, he was manager and chief contributor of an eight-company study for NASA, which designed the system by which the two large, solid-rocket booster cases are retrieved from the ocean after each launch of the Space Shuttle.

Ray and Del still live at Redlands. They have two daughters, Mrs. Linda Pew of Redlands, and Mrs. Jane Pole of Bismarck, North Dakota, as well as four grandchildren.

Lucian served in USS OKLAHOMA until Pearl Harbor, then in USS WOODSWORTH, DD-460, until flight training. He flew PBY's and B-24's, then went to PG School at Annapolis and MIT. Subsequent duty: Planning Officer and test pilot at Patuxent; then AIRPAC North Island, setting up first competitive squadron exercises, first of program called Top Gun. He was designated AEDO, served in BuAer and as Special Assistant, Tech., to SecNavAir. While serving as O&R Officer, North Island, Lucian resigned his commission, later becoming Captain, USNR.

After shedding his uniform, he became Vice President, American Airlines, Tulsa, in charge of maintenance. Subsequently, he was President, American Flyers Airline, Ft. Worth, TX, and Ardmore, OK. He spent four years flying military and cargo to Vietnam, the DEW Line, Europe, and a few hundred thousand charter passengers annually to Europe, the Caribbean and Mexico. He returned to his ranch but before the first horse was saddled, he was en route to Trinidad and Tobago as CEO of British West Indian Airways, a spinoff of BOAC. While there, he and Marge saw most of the world they had not seen.

They returned to their ranch and opened an aviation consulting office, which led to a two-year stint as Vice President and Saudi Arabia Manager of the Peace Hawk program. He delivered the final 50 of 100 F-5 fighters to the Saudi Air Force, and rebuilt major installations at three air bases. Commuting between Saudi Arabia and California meant constant jetlag.

Back in Oklahoma in 1979, they set up Travertine Properties, developing ranch and lake acreage. Marge has made all his "wars." Retire? NO!

Jack, their lone offspring, was a Supply Officer, USNR, after Williams College, then Harvard MBA. He is President and CEO of Tejon Ranch Company, the largest contiguous ranch in California and a major diversified agribusiness. He married a Smith grad and they have three daughters.