Mark began his career after graduation in the cruiser SALT LAKE CITY, destroyers MACKENZIE and PIERCE and commanded the destroyer STEVENSON during the final strikes against Japan. Most World War II time was spent in the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Service in MACKENZIE saw the sinking of a German submarine. After decommissioning STEVENSON in Charleston, South Carolina, Mark served as Flag Secretary and Aide to Commander Battleships-Cruisers, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. He also commanded the destroyer HENLEY during the Korean War.

Of great importance was marriage to Virginia Paull Swift in San Francisco on May 23, 1942. This happy union has led to four children, three boys and one girl, and three grandchildren to date. Shore duty has included the NROTC Unit at the University of Michigan, Flag Secretary and Aide to Commander Naval Forces Marianas, OpNav, Joint Services Staff College in England, Staff Commander Naval Forces Europe, Armed Forces Staff College, and Fifth Naval District Staff.

In 1962, the short year in command of the troop transport MONROVIA was destined to be the last sea duty. Some excitement during that year was experienced in the confrontation with Russia over missiles in Cuba.

During the Navy years, Virginia's life was filled not only with children, but also with music, study, and teaching. She earned a Bachelors Degree in music from the University of Michigan and a Masters Degree in education from Old Dominion University. She led chapel choirs, performed in light opera and taught at Old Dominion University and in the Virginia Beach School System, finally retiring in 1969.

Mark also earned a Masters Degree in Personnel Administration from the George Washington University. When he retired as a Captain in 1970, he went to work for the city of Norfolk in the Department of Utilities, this employment lasted for ten years until retirement in 1980.

Retirement was followed with the last move to Williamsburg, Virginia, at 144 Toler's Road. The children are scattered as would be expected and are busy with all sorts of endeavors, including music, law, small contracting, and insurance.

1990 found Mark and Virginia facing the future with enthusiasm. Mark was spending his time on the golf course at Kingsmill and in maintaining the house inside and out in his fashion. Virginia found retirement impossible and spent her time teaching adults to read, assisting the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, singing in a music chorus, and as a volunteer at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, until her tragic death on 4 March 1990. Mark remains at home at Williamsburg.

After graduation, Art reported to MARYLAND at Long Beach and spent 15 months in the gunnery department (sixth division), with TAD assignments to the Pacific Fleet Camera Party and the AAW school on OKLAHOMA. In September, 1941, Art was hospitalized, spent several months at the Mare Island Hospital and Naval Shipyard, and was retired in 1942 for physical disability.

Later that year, Art began his civilian career at the Sperry Gyroscope Company, continuing with Sperry for 18 years in New York, Tennessee and Connecticut. His last assignment: Marketing Manager, Semiconductor Division. In 1944, he met "that gal" Caryl, and proceeded to rear a family of three daughters. In 1961, they followed Greeley's advice and moved to California, where Art spent the next 17 years with North American Aviation (later Rockwell International), His last position: Manager, Market Research and Planning, Electronic Operations. In 1977, Art joined the Electronic Components Group of TRW as Manager, Market Development and Planning, before final retirement in 1985.

Art's career in electronics and aerospace has encompassed many varied and interesting activities in electronic systems and components. He has had three papers published: one by the U.S. Power Squadron on navigation during ocean races (April 1975); and two by Electronic Business (Nov. 1979 and Dec. 1981) on market forecasts for electronic components.

His hobbies include golf, ocean racing, deep sea fishing and amateur radio (WB6DAD). Art has been active in civic and service organizations since 1964, including the Board of Directors of the Fullerton Boys Club (14 years) and Lions Club activities (12 years). He has served on the National Board of Trustees for the USNA Alumni Association and on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chapter.

Caryl and Art are particularly proud of their family: Ann is a graduate of Stanford (MA in Journalism), living in Brentwood; Susan is a graduate of USC (BS in Dental Hygiene); Dorothy is a graduate of the University of Idaho (BS in Chemical Engineering). Both Susan and Dorothy live in Fullerton. Seven grandchildren enhance the family. In many respects, Art and Caryl feel their most satisfying achievement is seeing their children and grandchildren go on to make their contributions to society and the world.

Hank spent almost 2 years aboard INDIANAPOLIS, qualifying in all departments and as OOD. While attending Fire Control School in Washington in early 1942, he married Anne Woodall of Baltimore. In July, 1942, he took command of PC-549, and in July, 1943, at age 25, Hank commissioned and commanded SEID in the South Pacific. After three months at Sub School, Hank completed two war patrols as Exec of TUNNY from January to August, 1945, earning the Bronze Star and Commendation Ribbon. From 1947 to 1949, Hank was in the USNA Executive Department, serving also as Officer Representative for Rowing with Navy's 1947 Intercollegiate Championship Crew. After a year as Exec and two years in command of SENNET at Key West, Hank took charge of the Enlisted Sub School at New London.

From 1954 to 1956, he commanded HALSEY POWELL. Although he requested continuation of West Coast duty, Hank was ordered in August, 1956, as Exec of the Boot Camp at Great Lakes. His final assignment was Inspector of Naval Material at Chicago.

In June, 1960, Hank accepted the BuPers offer of voluntary retirement. The Chicago location (and a good recommendation from Croswell Croft) helped Hank to land a plum job in Chicago in 1960 with one of the nation's leading Management Consulting firms, George Fry and Associates, in selecting and training personnel for Submarine Duty. In 1966, Hank moved to another Chicago consulting firm that specialized in Executive Search: The R.M. Schmitz and Co. In 1968, he resigned to form his own company, which he called The Vaughan Firm, again specializing in Management Consulting in Corporate Organizations and Executive Search. Hank operated The Vaughan Firm on a Nation-wide basis until December, 1979 when he decided to retire for the second time, but this was not to be! In December, 1979, he received a phone call from the NJROTC (Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) Coordinator at Great Lakes who told him that their office would like to consider Hank to run the NJROTC Unit at Wheeling High School in Wheeling, Illinois, with the title of Naval Science Instructor. Hank agreed with several stipulations, including a temporary recall to active duty, a promotion to the rank of Captain with the retired pay of a commander, and re-retirement to meet the eligibility rules for the NJROTC program. The job included membership in the unit of 150 students in five nearby high schools as well as thirty-two female cadets! After two years, Hank resigned and retired for the third time.

On the personal side, his wife of 17 years, Anne Woodall Vaughan, filed for divorce in 1959 and took the three children to move to Coronado. In 1961, Hank married Bonnie Jean Rozakles, a Chicago girl, and, in 1968, they built a new home and moved to Crystal Lake, Illinois, a small town about fifty miles northwest of Chicago. Bonnie is now Senior Vice President and Director of Retail Banking for a large bank holding company in Wheeling, which manages twelve large bank sites in the Greater Chicago Area!

At graduation, Roger had defective vision and was commissioned in the Naval Reserve. He worked for Pan American World Airways at LaGuardia Field, New York, until ordered to active duty in 1941. Then, following a course in Diesel Engineering at Penn State, he

taught Steam at the U. S. Naval Academy.

In August, 1941, he and Mary-Francis (Fricky) Lyon were married at Jamestown, Rhode Island. They have one son, Roger, jr., who was born in 1944.

World War II assignments included the Naval Air Transport Service at Pearl Harbor, Wallis Island and the Naval Air Station, Alameda, California; then the Naval Air Ferry Command in the U.S. and the Air-Sea Rescue Service at Pearl Harbor, Saipan and Okinawa (in USS PINE ISLAND).

After World War II, he worked as Assistant to the President of a manufacturing company in Rhode Island for a short while before transferring into the Supply Corps, USN. After Supply School at Bayonne, New Jersey, he had the following assignments: NAS Santa Ana, California; NAAS Charlestown, Rhode Island; USS BATAAN; NAS Pensacola, Florida; Fleet Air Wing 5; NAS Whidbey Island, Washington; Fleet Air Western Pacific, and the Naval Construction Battalion Center, Davisville, Rhode Island.

Upon retirement in 1962, he taught math for a year in the local school at Jamestown, Rhode Island, and then he and Fricky moved to Cocoa Beach, Florida, where they have lived since 1963. Time out was taken for a Masters degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then back to Cocoa Beach. After 18 years as a math teacher, Roger retired from the Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Florida. He and Fricky now spend their time between Cocoa Beach (7 months) and Jamestown (5 months). Fricky got her M.B.A. and has been doing tax and financial consulting for several years. Both are still active on the golf course and on the water -- both power and sail.

Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Jim got the Navy bug with the annual Fleet Week. He joined the Naval Reserve upon graduation from high school -- visiting Hawaii on a cruise ...another bug that never left him. Upon graduation, he was assigned to COLORADO. Six months later, he was transferred to destroyer DALE. He stayed with her through Pearl Harbor and the early Pacific campaigns, including the Komandorski Battle in the Aleutians. Jim was Gun Boss during the battle.

In 1943, Jim married Coralie Anastasopulos, and put STEPHEN POTTER (DDS-538) in commission as XO, staying with her through the Central Pacific Campaign. After Naval War College, he reported as Aide and Flag Secretary to VADM Waiter DeLany, COMBATCRUPAC, in Long Beach, CA. Son, Jack, was born in 1946. In 1948, it was duty in Washington where he was assigned to OPNAV LOGISTICS. Their first little Thalia was born in 1950 but was not with them for long. They buried her in November in Arlington and left the same day for Green Cove Springs, Florida, where he put USS BASSETT in commission as Commanding Officer.

A year later, Jim was transferred to Pearl Harbor where he assumed command of USS PHILIP (DD-498). For Coralie, it was finally coming home, having been born and raised in Honolulu. It was here Thalia II arrived! Jim deployed to WestPac and operated with the Seventh Fleet during the Korean War. The Vellises lived in Hawaii a few more years while he was assigned to the PACFLT PERSONNEL OFFICE as Enlisted Distribution Officer. Then, back to sea as XO of USS ROCHESTER.

One of their most wonderful tours followed when they were assigned to the Naval Academy! Their son got shot full of "Navy Blue and Gold", eventually graduating in the Class of 1968! Initially assigned to the Exec Dept., with the reorganization of the Naval Academy and making Captain, Jim was assigned as Head of the Foreign Language Dept. A tour in PHIBPAC followed as CO MATTHEWS and then as Chief of Staff COMCRUDESFLOT 11. Finally, a return to Hawaii as CO NAVAL COMMUNICATION STATION HONO from which duty Jim retired.

He worked for Page Communication Engineers in Honolulu operating communication systems for the Army and Air Force. In 1968, he became a civil servant, joining the Harbors Division, Dept. of Transportation, State of Hawaii, as Asst. Chief of Harbors. Since retirement, involvement in church and community, golf and sailing fill his time. Their son, CDR Jack Vellis, SC, USN, has two boys; daughter Thalia, wife of CDR Peter Henning, has three daughters...The Vellis' consider themselves blessed! Living in this fair land they are fortunate in seeing many of Jim's classmates who visit, which they enjoy very much.

Upon graduation, Hugh reported to TRENTON (CL-11). In August, 1941, she escorted allied merchantmen in the Pacific approaches to the Panama Canal, and in December, 1941, escorted troop ships to Australia. In August, 1942, Hugh reported to Bath, Maine, for the commissioning of USS TAYLOR (DD-468) as gunnery officer. After a minimum shakedown, TAYLOR was off to North African operations. Next it was through the Panama Canal and a year of nightly battles around the Solomons as well as frequent air defense actions; TAYLOR was an early fighter director ship. Along the way, TAYLOR caught RO-25 on the surface in Kula Gulf and sank her with gunfire. The squadron transferred to the Central Pacific in time for Tarawa and Halsey's first raid on Kwajalein. In mid-December, 1943, back in San Francisco, Hugh was ordered to MAYO (DD-422) as XO, but MAYO took torpedo damage in the Med and Hugh never caught up to her. While awaiting orders in BuPers, Hugh married Dorothy Borden (Penny), whom he had known since dancing school days. He was ordered to GAINARD (DD-706) and she joined the fleet just in time for D-Day at Okinawa (1 Apri1 1945). Though not specially fitted as a fighter director ship, GAINARD served more days on radar picket and as fighter director ship than any other ship present, all without damage by kamikazes.

As the war ended, Hugh took command of USS METCALF (DD- 595), one of the last Fletcher class. He then reported to the Naval Intelligence and Language School for instruction. After learning French in four months, he was ordered in 1948 to French Morocco; as Asst. Naval Attache. 1950 saw Hugh back at sea as the CO of ELLYSON (DMS-19) out of Charleston, SC, and later of SIGOURNEY (DD-643). ONI then made its claim on Hugh for the time he had spent in their school. He served in ONI for three years and then three more at sea on the 7th Fleet Staff. His last fling in the Pentagon started in 1958 in OP-6O. He retired voluntarily on 1 December 1960, and they moved to Greenwich, CT, where he worked for American Machine and Foundry, and later for Bankers Trust Company on Wall Street. In 1962, he got a chance to join CIA, a very interesting organization, but by 1969 he had had enough. He was eligible to retire under CIA rules and did so.

For the next ten years, he worked for Informatics Wheeler Industries and other "beltway bandits". After their fourth and last child graduated from college and the last post-graduate degree, including Hugh's, (History) had been awarded, he and Penny decided that further working would only enrich the IRS. (She had been teaching French at Madeira School for 22 years). They discovered the world of "space available" flying and made a number of trips to Europe. When the Collington Episcopal Life Care Center opened in 1988, they promptly bought a cottage. In 1989, Hugh developed clogged arteries near the heart. Ultimately an operation replacing his aortic valve proved necessary. The result has been most satisfactory. Penny and Hugh are now planning their next trip, to the Creek Islands.

Harvey's first duty was in YORKTOWN. In October, YORKTOWN was fitted with radar and Harvey became the first "CIC Officer." In 1941, he became Signal Officer; YORKTOWN transferred secretly to Atlantic -- minor brush with Admiral Emie King in Bermuda. On December 7, Harvey was in New Jersey visiting his family. YORKTOWN soon departed for San Diego, escorted a convoy of Marines to Pago Pago, raided the Marshall Islands, then deployed to South Pacific. Japanese were active in Tulagi, Guadalcanal, with ultimate aim Port Moresby. In Coral Sea carrier battle, LEXINGTON was lost (biggest bonfire Harvey ever saw). YORKTOWN took one bomb hit, rushed to Pearl, as intelligence saw battle of Midway coming, and after three days of repairs YORKTOWN joined ENTERPRISE and HORNET near Midway. Four Japanese carriers were sunk, but the last one got YORKTOWN, with three bomb hits and two torpedoes, ultimately sinking her.

Harvey survived, went to new carrier INDEPENDENCE, and married Helen Eldridge. Back in the Pacific, Communications Officer, INDEPENDENCE, raided Rabaul (biggest shootout Harvey ever saw) and on to Tarawa landing -- 12 Japanese Betties made torpedo attacks, ship saw 7 tracks but one made a hit. After temporary repairs at Funafuti, ship returned to Hunter's Point to be converted to first all-night carrier. Next was the Palau operation (and news of daughter Carol's birth) and then to the Leyte battle. On the evening of October 24, Harvey personally supervised the Air Plot watch between INDEPENDENCE pilots tracking enemy fleet and the Third Fleet Flag Plot. Harvey has bones to pick with the author of the Third Fleet Action Report. In 1945, after the South China Sea raid and the strike on Formosa, Harvey was ordered to be liaison officer to VADM Sir Philip Vian, carrier commander of the forming British Pacific Fleet (duty included Okinawa campaign).

After the war, Harvey was assigned to CINCPACFLT staff and in 1946 went to PG School, where son, Paul, was born and Harvey earned an M.S. in Engineering Electronics. From 1949 to 1952, he was COMSERVPAC Communications Officer (Korean War) and in 1952 went to be X.O. of DIONYSUS. As Operations Officer of PITTSBURGH, made many` visits to the Med and Indian Ocean. In 1954-55, he was C.O. of REHOBOTH, principally involved in siting measurements for Atlantic SOSUS installations. 1955 to 1963: tours in CNO (Surface Warfare and R&D) and the JCS staff, making visits to CINCSAC, CINCAIRDEFCOM and Cape Canaveral.

Harvey retired in 1963 and was an engineer for Booz Alien in Bethesda and Pascagoula, ten years working on Navy communications, then ten years with Advanced Marine Enterprises, working mostly on rapid deployment force problems. He joined the Shillelagh flying club and visited the Bahamas, Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Morocco and the Azores. Harvey and Bettie Nicolas were married. In 1985, Harvey was hospitalized, lost his right leg, and is now fully retired.