ALUMNI CLASS NEWS
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1940s
1950s
E. Lee Skipper Jr., (Company D) N ’47 lives alone in Liberty Hill, South Carolina and is quite healthy and energetic. He joined the U.S. Navy a few months after leaving Culver and was on the USS Coral Sea CVA 43 for four years. After the Navy he graduated from Georgia Tech and went to work at the Springs Cotton Mills in South Carolina, which were owned by Col. Elliott Springs, who was an ace pilot in World War I and his son was a pilot in World War II, both of them Culver graduates.
John F. Popp ’50 (Company B) N ’47 is the current president and third generation to lead Aunt Millie’s Bakeries, founded in 1901 by his grandfather, John B. Franke. In 2021, John Popp was inducted into the Baking Hall of Fame, an honor recognizing inductees for their achievements in organizational growth and development, advancements in ingredient technology and processing or in a service related to the commercial baking industry.
SUMMER/FALL 2021
C. Alexander Brassert, Jr. ’51 (Company D) N ’49 and his family have been involved in Culver since his father went to Summer Naval School in 1916. He is proud to have been able to send his daughters to Culver; Celeste and Desiree attended summer and CGA in the 1980s. Alexandra served as a counselor in the 2000s and grandson Oliver was a counselor. He improved his French during early U.S. armed forces intervention in Vietnam. That is when, in 1964, he met his wife, Hong. In the early 2000s, for 10 years, he taught English
in the education systems in Ho Chi Minh City. They spent their summers at their house very near the beach in Hossegor on the Atlantic coast about 40 miles from Spain. Oscar A. P. Raynal Garcia S. J. ’51 (Battery B), a Jesuit priest in Chihuahua, celebrated 50 years in the priestly ministry on June 13, 2019. Harry L. Crisp II ’53 (Company C) N ’49 W’47 was awarded an honorary doctor of public service degree by the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees. He is chair-
