Anniversary book 1st battalion by edmills43

1ST BATTALION

TH 50 ANNIVERSARY

Not for ourselves, but our country

50th Anniversary Book

United States Naval Academy Class of 1967

50th Anniversary Book 1st Battalion

United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary

Version date: November 28, 2017 Send information on corrections or additions to Ed Mills at ed.mills@1967.usna.com Published by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association in 2017 Created using Microsoft Publisher® and Adobe Acrobat® ©2017 United States Naval Academy Alumni Association 247 King George Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21402

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Table of Contents Table of Contents 1st Battalion Introduction ...................................................................................................... 11 1st Company....................................................................................................15 2nd Company ..................................................................................................60 3rd Company ...................................................................................................94 4th Company ................................................................................................. 148 5th Company ................................................................................................. 198 6th Company ................................................................................................. 249 Index 1st Battalion ......................................................................................... 290

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary

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Introduction This book, one of a six volume set, contains the completed questionnaires and contemporary photos provided by the members of the USNA Class of 1967. One volume has been prepared for each battalion. This was in response to a request for information from the editors of the 50 th Anniversary Book. The completed questionnaires were submitted to Tony Wayne over a two year period from August 2014 until the end of 2016, with a few procrastinators sending their information much later.. The summaries from these questionnaires have been inserted into a printed version of the 50 th Anniversary book that will be distributed to the class later in 2017. This online volume is intended to supplement the printed book.

The story of the Great Class of 1967 is told in these volumes. The questionnaires describe a truly impressive group of young men who joined together on Tecumseh Court in 1963 where each repeated the oath, and accepted a commission as Midshipman, United State Navy. The heights to which these men soared are spectacular as you will see when you read these pages. The biographies list the background, struggles, successes and heart aches of 90% of the class. The men reveal their most humorous memories of life in Mother B, momentous events in their lives and the pride they have for their families who supported our classmates through long deployments and demanding life styles The questionnaires published in these volumes are, for the most part, unedited except for running spell checks. Many classmates, who felt too constricted with a 300 word maximum for the summary that was intended as part of the printed book, also provided a longer version of their summary biography. We included the longer summary in these online volumes. The response by the members of the Class of 1967 to our requests for information was outstanding. We received more than 800 completed questionnaires plus a number of responses that contained only the summary biography. The response far exceeded the typical number of biographies submitted by other classes commemorating the 50th Anniversary of their graduation from USNA. It also far exceeded the volume of information anticipated by the publisher, Jostens Incorporated, so their effort to complete the printed book became heroic. Unfortunately, even with that effort they could not complete the printed book before the reunion held in October 2017. I want to thank Tony Wayne for his dedication in coordinating with the company representatives in their effort to find classmates and collect the questionnaires and photos you see in this volume. Also my thanks to Pete Smullen for his artistic skills and computer expertise who always found solutions for the tricky problems that kept popping up. You can see his skill in the printed volume that contains the Another Link in the Chain section and the Memorial to our classmates in the Memorial pages. The online volumes were prepared by Pete Smullen and Tony Wayne and your editor using Microsoft Publisher spending many long hours banging on their computers. The following letter from the book editorial staff to the thirty-six company representatives contains the initial request for information that initiated this whole effort. The company representatives pleaded, cajoled, prodded and pushed our classmates to submit biographies and current pictures for the project. Their efforts were relentless to the point that we received a few responses after the dead line set for the printed book, but are included in these online volumes.

Thank you all for your efforts in developing this history of the USNA Class of 1967. Ed Mills Editor-in-Chief

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary William T. Ballantine Immediately after graduation I reported to Georgia Tech under a Burke Scholarship to get a Masters, and then attended nuclear power school. From 69-71 I was main propulsion assistant in USS JOUETT (DLG-29), including a tour off Vietnam, and then chief engineer in USS BIGELOW (DD-942) from 7173. I left active duty in 1973 and joined Exxon in Houston as a project engineer, and moved to Zapata Corporation from 1974-1988, working mainly in the marine and offshore areas. I wound up as Vice President, Engineering, of Zapata Offshore. From 1988-2008 I held a number of executive positions with Newpark Resources, a $700m, multi-disciplinary oilfield service company, serving as President, COO and Director from 2000 to 2008. This work took me to China, all over West Africa, and Peru, and included building two of the largest-ever tuna seiners. Carol and I were married in June 1968. We have one daughter, Tara, born in 1975. She was graduated from Baylor, has an MBA from Houston, and is a professional photographer. We have two grandchildren, Leah (born 2005) and Trevor (born 2008). Son-in-law Frank is my hunting and fishing buddy and is the CTO of a software firm in Houston. Retired life is going great-I am on my third career as a professional photographer, including work for a “Sophisticated Woman” magazine and several freelance gigs. Carol and I travel as much as we can and try to fit in as many days as possible at our home in Florida. I also serve on 11 boards of various kinds. We currently reside in Mandeville, LA—just outside New Orleans.

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1st Company Richard Baum

After graduating in June, I entered Nuclear Power school in Vallejo, California, then attended Sub School in New London. Sometime in the summer of 1969, I reported to USS STONEWALL JACKSON (SSBN-634), as Reactor Control Officer, joining my classmates Gary Detter and Rich McNeal who were already on board. After 2 patrols in the Pacific, transiting through the Panama Canal and an overhaul in New London with Electric Boat, I left the Navy to go to New York to start as a Financial Advisor in the fall of 1973. During the next 20 years, I worked in various executive capacities in the financial world, including managing offices for Lehman Brothers, Shearson Lehman and Dean Witter in Atlanta, Boston and New York. I left Lehman in 1994, well before its collapse and being too young to retire at 50, I decided to start again as a Financial Advisor in Boston. I married Jeanne Briscoe, an Annapolis resident, in 1968 and we have 2 daughters, both of whom have advanced degrees, one from Georgetown and the other from George Washington University. We have 2 granddaughters who live in Alexandria, Virginia. Jeanne and I have been married for 47 years. I play tennis, paddle tennis, and duplicate bridge and live in Wellesley Hills, MA. The academy has only gained stature for me every year since graduation. I am especially proud of my 1967 classmates, who continued to serve in government and in the Navy. Academy graduates in my opinion stand out for their integrity, their patriotism, and their values, all of which we take from our academy years.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Thomas G. Burton Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (1st Company) 1967 – 68: Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey 1968: USS Avenge (MSO 423) Charleston 1968 – 71: USS Sellers (DDG-11) Charleston 1971 – 73: COMUSNAVPHIL staff, Subic Bay Philippines 1973: Transferred to Naval Reserve 1976: Resigned from USNR with rank of LCDR Principal Occupation • International Paper Company locations: Camden, Bastrop, Pine Bluff: Supt of Process Engineering. • Gaylord Container Corp. locations: Pine Bluff Arkansas and Deerfield Illinois; • General Manager of Paper Mill, Multiwall Bag Plant, and Corporate Director of Quality. • Temple-Inland location: El Dorado, Arkansas: Senior Continuous Process Improvement Manager, DelTIN Fiber DMAIC Master Black Belt statistician Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • Birth of our two children, son in Charleston and daughter in Subic Bay Hospital where the base Psychiatrist was on duty. • Served as a member of the University of Arkansas Foundation Board of directors. • Love college football Navy, SMU, and Arkansas and attend at least seven games each season. • Was a Project Lead the Way instructor for two years bringing an engineering curriculum to local high school. Lockheed Martin was our corporate sponsor. • My brother in law was Bill Clinton’s pastor and my wife’s college roommate is Tom Cotton’s mother. • In one weekend in May 1997 my wife earned her Education Specialist degree at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, our daughter earned her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from SMU Dallas, and our son earned his Law degree form University of Texas Austin. • I am a prostrate cancer survivor. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren My wife is a retired high school principal. Our son is the Chief Counsel for Service King. Our daughter is an electrical engineer computer person for NetApp. We have five highly competitive, wonderful grandchildren with UT Austin or SMU in their futures. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? After failing retirement three times, I seem to be finally getting the hang of it. -I play six rounds of golf with Gene Zaiser one week each month. We travel to Palm Desert, Branson, Gatlinburg, Williamsburg, Hilton Head, Perdido Key, and St. Kitts to find courses that will let us play. -I do common core results statistical consulting with the local school district Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Roger Staubach, quarterback our plebe year. • Billy Graham at Christmas service our plebe year. • Losing to loyal midshipman roommates at the same time for academics • Having Pete Pace and Mike Mullen both in First Company. • First Company, Color Company • Taking delivery of my first car (67 Pontiac LeMans) • Graduation, 7 June 1967

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1st Company Humorous Memories of USNA: • Tom Ballantine eating the Cannon Balls • Having to sign the virginity chit upon returning after each academy break • Rick Gautschi studying theoretical physics • Upchucking during my first hop at Pensacola Awards Received: • Elected President of local school board • Gold teaching license for secondary Math and Science • President of University of Arkansas Pine Bluff Foundation Board Academic Achievement Immediate Post Graduate School from USNA to NPGS Math (I passed) Athletic Service Awards Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Wanted to obtain a high quality education while serving my country. Expected to be afforded opportunities to provide significant leadership roles in service to others. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Without question, yes. Many doors have been opened because of my having USNA graduate credentials. Made friends for a lifetime while in USNA and the Navy. Burton, Thomas G. Two weeks after graduation I married my hometown sweetheart “Sissy.” We spent our honeymoon crossing the Mojave Desert in our new un-air conditioned LeMans heading to the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. With a Masters in Math under my belt, our first duty assignment was in Charleston to decommission the minesweeper USS AVENGE (MSO-423). After that we stayed in Charleston on USS SELLERS (DDG-11) where I was the CIC Officer and later the Engineering Officer. In 1971 I was transferred to Subic Bay, Philippines to COMUSNAVPHIL staff command center where my duty watch station was Provost Marshall protecting 12,000 sailors and marines in Olongapo. I left active duty in 1973 to begin my civilian career in the forest products industry. I have worked for International Paper Company and Gaylord Container which became Temple-Inland which became International Paper Company. We have lived in Arkansas, Louisiana, and three winters in Chicago suburb Lincolnshire. I’ve been the General Manager of a Paper Mill, a Multiwall Bag Plant, and a Corporate Director of Quality. I am a DMAIC Master Black Belt statistician and do Common Core consulting. My wife “Sissy” earned her Masters and ED Specialist degrees from the University of Arkansas and has retired after being in Arkansas public school education and administration for thirty years. She was a high school principal for eight years. Our son is a graduate of SMU in accounting and the University of Texas, Austin Law School. He is Chief Counsel for Service King. Our daughter has her BS and MS from SMU in Electrical Engineering and is a Project Manager for NetApps. We have five wonderful, highly competitive grandchildren living in the Dallas area. We have a beautiful lake home in Mt Vernon, Texas. Y’ALL COME!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary David Byers Service History 1963-1967: USNA (4TH Company Plebe & Youngster years; (1st Company Second and First Class Years) Jul – Dec 1967: USN Supply Corps School, Athens, Ga 1968 (Jan or Feb) – 196(Feb): USS Providence (CLG-6) Sales and Services Officer 1969 (Jun) – 1970 Jun or Jul) Freight Terminal Danang RVN Don’t remember the real Title but I was What’s called a Box Kicker in the Supply Corps 1970 – 1972: Naval Amphibious School Coronado, CA Materiel and Budget Officer 1972 – 1974 USS Mobile (LKA-113), Supply Officer 1974: Transferred to Naval Reserve 1974 – 1978 or 79, (not sure) Resigned from Naval Reserve Principal Occupation 1974 – 1976: earned an MPA from San Diego State 1976 -2008: Worked at the City of Chula Vista, Ca in various positions (Principle Management Analyst in the City Manager’s Office; Budget Officer for the City; and Deputy Director of Public Works/Operations; and Director of Public Works) 2008 Retired from City of Chula Vista as the Director of Public Works. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: As my first ship, USS Providence (CLG-6) was the Seventh Fleet Flagship, I was able to visit many of the ports in Southeast Asia as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti on our way from Yokosuka, Japan to San Diego. The most lifeaffecting occurrence in my life to date was the massive stroke I experienced in April 2010. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren My wife, Margie, and I met in South Mission Beach in San Diego in Oct 1970 and married in Mar 1972. We adopted a son, Brady, in 1980 and a daughter, Caitlin, in 1982. Brady is an IT systems manager in the San Diego area, has a wife, Jessica, and a daughter, Peyton. Caitlin, her husband, Ahki, and their daughter live in Costa Rica and are forming a cacao co-op. They’re building their home and chocolate making factory with as close to a zero footprint as possible and are living like pioneers. Both granddaughters are two years old and two months apart. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? When I first retied, I was concerned that I might really miss work, but didn’t have that problem. Until my stroke, Margie and I were both going to the gym to develop strength and balance and went skiing several times, including the Winter Olympics at Whistler, BC, Canada. We didn’t ski in the Olympics, but at the same mountain resort. Since my stroke, my balance is shot and it’s a challenge to ride a bike. However, I’m really lucky to be alive and able to stand and walk. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Due to my stroke, my memories of the academy are all sort of blurred together. I still can’t always remember what Marie has told me the previous day. Humorous Memories of USNA: See above. Awards Received Academic Achievement Masters in Public Administration from San Diego State University Athletic Service Awards

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1st Company Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My father was a Naval Aviator who graduated from USNA with the class of 1942. My earliest recollection of what I wanted to do when I grew up was to be a Navy pilot and go to USNA. Unfortunately, my eyes weren’t good enough. I didn’t have stereoptic vision. On to Supply Corps. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy was an enjoyable experience and prepared me for my adult life. The academic preparation was very good. Summary Yearbook write-up for David Byers On graduation I attended USN Supply Corps School and then reported to the Seventh Fleet flagship, USS Providence (CLG-6) as Sales and Services Officer. During this period the ship transitioned from Yokosuka to San Diego via a memorable cruise through Southeast Asia, Australasia and Tahiti. From mid-1969 to mid-1970 I was assigned to the Freight Terminal in Danang, RVN. I then served at the Naval Amphibious School, Coronado, CA, followed by a tour as Supply Officer in USS Mobile (LKA-113). In 1974 I transferred to the Naval Reserve, resigning late in the decade. I earned an MPA from San Diego State in 1976, and from 1976 to 2008 worked for the City of Chula Vista, CA in various positions (Principal Management Analyst in the City Manager’s Office; Budget Officer for the City; and Deputy Director of Public Works/Operations; and Director of Public Works). I retired from City of Chula Vista in 2008 as the Director of Public Works. After retirement my wife, Margie, and I skied and pursued a variety of energetic activities. But in April 2010 I suffered a massive stroke. Since then my balance has been shot, but I’m lucky to be alive and able to stand and walk. My wife, Margie, and I met in San Diego in Oct 1970 and married in Mar 1972. We adopted a son, Brady, in 1980 and a daughter, Caitlin, in 1982. Brady is an IT systems manager in the San Diego area, has a wife, Jessica, and a daughter, Peyton. Caitlin, her husband, Ahki, and their daughter live in Costa Rica and are forming a cacao co-op, emphasizing as close to a zero footprint as possible. Both granddaughters are two years old and two months apart.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Guido Joseph Carloni

Born November 23, 1945 in Hempstead NY, Guido was raised with his brother John in a modest home at 19 Beverly Avenue. Guido became a wrestling phenom in high school eventually winning numerous awards and scholarships, He choose the Naval Academy and was sworn in June 26, 1963. He was a four-year wrestling letterman and eventually settled in at the 191 pound category. Watching Guido wrestle was a delight. He never shaved before a contest and he prepared by eating a lot of garlic. These combined to intimidate his opponents he used to say. His initial move after shaking hands was to cross the mat and pick up an invisible piece of debris. It was his signature trait as was finishing off two pizzas immediately after his win. Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first duty station was Floyd Bennett Field in Long Island while waiting to attend flight school in Pensacola in September 1967. Guido lived at Pensacola beach and was center stage at many parties and Happy hours at Dirty Joes on the beach. He went on to NAS Meridian for basic jets and NAS Beeville for advanced jets. Guido started flying F-8 Crusaders in 1969 and eventually joined his fleet squadron VF-211 in 1970 aboard USS Hancock. After a night carrier landing accident on 28 October 1970, Guido succumbed to fatal injuries and the Navy suffered a great loss.

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1st Company John B. Cotton Service History (Emphasis on – dates, units, places): 1962 – Enlisted in US Naval Reserve. 1963 – 67: USNA (1st Company) June-Nov,1967– Summer: Taught knockabout sailing to new plebes (fun!); Fall: Taught YP navigation (never figured it out myself). Nov.1967-April, 1968 - Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, MD. April,1968-Nov.,1968- Nuclear Prototype School, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Nov.,1968-April,1969-Submarine School, New London, Conn. April,1969-June,1972-USS Sam Rayburn, Charleston, S.C. Reactor Controls Officer for first deterrent patrol. Overhaul, reactor refueling, and missile conversion at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, N.H. Post-overhaul shakedown/ missile shot and another patrol. June,1972- Left active duty; joined US Naval Reserve and served in various units drilling at Philadelphia Navy Base primarily performing maintenance work on Reserve and active ships. 1987-Retired from USNR with rank of Commander. Principal Occupation Concurrent with Naval Reserve duty, worked for Philadelphia Electric Company (which eventually became Exelon Corp.) in their nuclear power electric generating plant business. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: During the recovery of our Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station from a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered shutdown, I went through a very accelerated process to obtain a Senior Reactor Operator license and was appointed Director of Operations. The process of developing and implementing professional standards of behavior and operating practices, plant staff reorganization, and resetting of relationships was a huge and time consuming task, but seeing the plant restart and proceed to be an industry leader was a great reward. I used the lessons learned during the recovery for the rest of my career. After deregulation of the electric utility business in Pennsylvania and several other states, our company formed a joint venture with British Energy to buy nuclear generating plants from utilities that wanted to exit the generating business. I led the purchase team for Three Mile Island, Unit 1 (the undamaged reactor) and was Site Vice President after the purchase. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Kathy and I were married in April, 1968 in the Naval Academy St. Andrew's Chapel right after Nuclear Power School at Bainbridge, MD. We have a son whose family resides in Bel Air, MD and a daughter whose family resides in Derwood, MD. We have four grandchildren ranging in age from 3 to 17. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired life started at age 58 and is great. We get to participate more in the lives of our children and grandchildren . Some golf and some travel. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • President Kennedy speaking to our class at end of Plebe Summer. • Plebe year Army-Navy game and carry-on. • Learning of the President’s assassination and the sense of deep loss expressed by the entire Brigade. • Strawberries and ice cream for breakfast ( It is now a Fathers' Day tradition at our home). • Hair cuts in the Moke's closet. • Arriving in bus in Tecumseh Court after winning 1964 NCAA Soccer Championship. • Parties at illegal cottage on Weems Creek for 3 years (never caught).

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Ring Dance. Sports events at USNA. Academy spirit was always inspiring. Pep rallies in Tecumseh Court before football games. Graduation ceremony, tossing hats, and Ensign shoulder bars installed by my mother and wife-to-be.

Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement Athletic Sports letter for Soccer. 1964 NCAA Champion Soccer Team member. Selected to All-South Soccer Team-1966. Service Awards Alive-in-65 ribbon. Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” ? On the recommendation from a family friend, I joined the Naval Reserve during my senior year in high school and applied for one of the Reserves' slots at the Academy. The process took until the end of my college freshman year at which time I was out of money and very grateful to be accepted. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I think I did not have specific expectations before reporting to the Academy. What I grew into at USNA was a sense of duty, honor, doing the right thing, and respect for the traditions and service members who went before me. Summary bio for John Cotton On active duty I went through the nuclear power and submarine training pipeline at Bainbridge, MD, Idaho Falls, and New London. I had Division Officer roles as Reactor Controls, Electrical, and Machinery/MPA on USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN-635) for a patrol, an overhaul (reactor refueling and missile conversion) and shakedown, and another patrol. I left active duty in 1972 to work for Philadelphia Electric Company (eventually, Exelon Corp.) in their nuclear power business. I had positions in Quality Assurance at the home office; Maintenance Superintendent at Limerick Generating Station; Director of Operations at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station; Director of QA, Director of Nuclear Engineering, and Vice President-Station Support at nuclear headquarters; Site Vice President at Three Mile Island; and Senior Vice President-Operations Support for Exelon's fleet of nuclear power generating stations. I represented the company in various roles with the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Nuclear Energy Institute. I retired from Exelon in 2002. After leaving active duty, I joined the Naval Reserve drilling primarily at the Philadelphia Navy Base in units that provided maintenance work for active and reserve ships. I retired as Commander, USNR in 1987. Kathy (my love and best friend) and I have two children who live relatively nearby and four grandchildren born between 1998 and 2012. It is great being part of their lives. We live in Kennett Square, PA (southwest of Philadelphia).

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1st Company Francis A. Del Balzo I was first assigned to USS DEALEY (DE1006) as Communications Officer, moving to MPA after a year. During that tour, we were involved in a "bumping" incident with a Soviet destroyer. Notwithstanding detailer promises, I received surprise orders to the Naval Advisory Group, NAVFORV, incountry Vietnam. Having been lucky enough to return unscathed, I reported to the Naval Science Department at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy as Assistant Department Head and Instructor of engineering and operations. It was then on to Destroyer School, followed by a tour as Chief Engineer on USS HAROLD E. HOLT (FF-1074). At that time, HOLT was the rescue ship during the SS Mayaguez hijacking incident. I then decided to change course and enter the private sector, and I resigned my commission; but served one final tour as Ops and Navigator in USS HASSAYAMPA (AO-145). I then pursued an MBA in Finance at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from Wharton, I went on work at the Western Company of North America, dealing in offshore drilling (Western Oceanic, Inc.) and oil field services. In 1982 I started a new career in real estate development, first as an employee, and then as an entrepreneur with my business partner and friend since 2nd grade. Since then, I have been involved in the development of residential subdivisions and commercial properties in Texas, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. My wife Thea and I were married in 1981 in Fort Worth, Texas, and our daughter Katie was born in 1983. Her daughter Autumn was born in Boulder, Colorado in 2012. Katie and her family currently live in Elmira, New York. We have lived in Riva, Maryland since 1988, but as "empty nesters," Thea and I are considering downsizing.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Frederick Gautschi Following graduation I was sworn into the Air Force by my dad in Memorial Hall. Then pilot training at Williams AFB, AZ, followed by 3 1/2 years as a T-37 IP at Moody AFB, GA. I left the Air Force in July 1972 and completed an MBA in 1973. Next came a Ph.D. in 1978 from what is now the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. From 1977-1981, I was an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Maine. From 1981-1986, I was an Assistant Professor of Administrative Science at Colby College. From 1986-1987, I was an Associate Professor of Engineering Management at Old Dominion University. In 1990, I received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From the fall of 1988 through the spring of 2009, I held a position as a Lecturer in what is now the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. During my last quarter as a law student I was a judicial extern to Hon. William L. Dwyer, U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Washington. Subsequent to completing law school I had two clerkships, the first with Hon. Sidney C. Volinn, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, and the second with Hon. Charles Z. Smith, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Washington. For the last two decades I have practiced almost exclusively in the area of plaintiff's side employment law. In addition, since late 2013, I have served as a pro bono mediator for the EEOC in Seattle. Easily, the three greatest accomplishments of my life are my three children, Amy, Eric, and Heather, who appear with me in the photo that accompanies this bio.

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1st Company John M. Griffin I came to the Academy from Olean, New York. After graduation I stayed at the academy for the summer to teach knockabout sailing to plebes. I then went to nuclear power school and served on USS GEORGE C. MARSHALL (SSBN-654), following which I returned to USNA and was 35th Company officer. On leaving the navy, I became Sr. Vice President of Arkansas Power and Light Company and then president of UECS consulting firm. I later ran my own company consulting on safety for nuclear power plants. I am currently retired and residing in Little Rock, AR, spending time experimenting in the kitchen, testing fine wines and enjoying my twin grandsons.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Marcio Gurdian After USNA I had a couple of jobs in the stitching industry, while looking for work in International Banking. I married Judith Anne McNeil in 1968 and Marcio Alexander arrived in March of 1969. I got a job with the Foreign Department of Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. in 1970 and obtained an MBA in International Business from American University in D.C. In 1977 a customer offered me a job at Amtech Industries Corp. of Bethesda, MD. where I became V.P. The Company was dissolved in 1990. Elizabeth Anne arrived in 1983 and John Eric in 1985. Judith and I divorced in 1992. At the end of 1994 I arrived in Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico, for a six-month project involving the shipment of Red Snapper and related fish to Washington. The project didn’t last long, but the six months stretched to more than 20 years. Laura Cecilia (Ceci) was born in 1997 to my then-partner Ana Laura Uscanga. In Frontera I joined a small computer business called CORBAN TECNOLOGIAS, started by two local brothers. I am now the Purchasing Manager and partner. Spiritually, as I got older, I have gotten closer to the Church, including choir activities, editing the Parish bulletin and coordinating the local Knights of Columbus Round Table. In 2014 Ceci and I went on a month-long pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Medjugorje and Italy. The visit to Rome coincided with the canonization of John Paul II and John XXIII. I look forward to projections of good growth for the Frontera area based on Pemex exploitation of offshore wells nearby. Decisions may be mostly political and don’t always go as expected, but I’m always optimistic.

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1st Company Wilding G. Harris Jr. Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (1st Company) 1967 – 68: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, received wings 1969-70: VC-8 Roosevelt Roads Puerto Rico 1969-72: HA(L)-3 Helicopter Squadron, RVN 1972-75: HSL-30 LAMPS Helicopter Squadron, NAS Lakehurst and NAS Norfolk 1975-78: HSL-33 LAMPS Helicopter Squadron, NAS North Island 1978: Transferred to Naval Reserve 1979-88: ASWOC, Selfridge ANG Base, Deployments to Keflavik Iceland US and NATO staff. 2004: Retired from USNR with rank of Commander Principal Occupation (Life after USNA, with detours as applicable): Concurrent with Naval Reserve duty, accepted a position as a design and development engineer at Ford Motor Company, where I work today. Assignments have included Crash/Safety, Exhaust Systems, NVH, Accessory Drive Systems and Thermal System Management Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Legal representation for Ford Motor Company in Texas. I won for the company, but it took 6 years of defense to end the issue Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Never did get around to getting married. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Not yet retired. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Winning color company and being a rifle bearer for the flags. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received 16 Air Medals, numerous unit citations

Academic Achievement Athletic Service Awards (Congressional Medal of Freedom, Distinguished Graduate, etc.) Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My father was in the service along with his brothers. It was only natural to expect I would follow and in turn, so did my 3 younger brothers. Completing the course of instruction at USNA served to make me an example for them and my 3 younger sisters, as well. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy experience did provide a broad educational base for my career, especially Oceanography. I got a lot from the museum and the metal working/foundry shops as well. USNA provided an excellent education. I was able to provide a lot of input to the environmental chapters of the newly formed LAMPS Tactical Manual as well as ASW tactics from my studies at USNA. More important was the persistence to succeed with what ever task was assigned: never quit!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Sample Final Yearbook write-up for Wilding Harris My first tour was in VC8, providing services for fleet operators prior to deployment. A composite squadron that had a wide range of aircraft and missions. Flying both the T-34 and H-3 along with the T-28 was jumping the gap between old and new. The tour with HA(L)-3 was an opportunity to work with some of the finest sailors in the fleet, probably because most bring their A game to the combat zone. I was also the awards officer for the squadron and cleared an 18 month backlog of award nominations. The HSL-30/33 LAMPS experience was a start up new mission with tactics undefined. I wrote the oceanography chapter for the TacMan and some of the first OTH tactics. Moving to the Reserves, I found an opportunity to serve with the ASWOC staff that supports Keflavik Iceland. A combination of Dark Ages and IBM 360 computers, it was still interesting to be at a geographic pivotal point between NATO and the USSR. Ended my Reserve commitment in the VTU by working in the SALT program for high school personnel. These are young men and women in their junior year of high school that attend Navy A school in the summer before senior year. Starting work at Ford Motor Co in 1978 and still work there. Assignments have included Crash/Safety, Exhaust Systems, NVH, Accessory Drive Systems and Thermal System Management. No immediate expectation for retirement, but I'm sure that will follow in a few years.

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1st Company Peter F. Leon Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (1st Company) 1967 – 68: DCA School, Treasure Island, CA and then USS Henry W Tucker (DD875) as Admin then CIC officer then Navigator 1968 - USS Boxer LPH Assistant Navigator/ Assistant Decommissioning Officer: USS Muliphen (AKA 61), DCA and Assistant Chief Engineer 1969-71: Weapons Officer School Dam Neck VA then USS Seattle AOE3 :Weapons Officer 1971-72: USS Seattle: Ops Boss 1973-76: J2 Division, CINCLANT/CINCLANTFLT/NATO WESTLANT J2 staff, Norfolk 1976-78: Naval Beach Group 2: Plans Officer/Combat Cargo Officer 1978 Nuclear Weapons Training School, Norfolk: VA Staff 1978: Transferred to Naval Reserve as 1635 Intelligence Officer 1978-80 Naval Reserve Intelligence Program Selfridge ANG Base, Michigan 1981-95 Naval Reserve Intelligence Program various units Norfolk VA 1995: Retired from USNR with rank of Captain Principal Occupation Concurrent with Naval Reserve duty, worked for Ford Motor Company as a design engineer, Resident Engineer, Quality & Reliability Supervisor and Manager, Director of Quality at JMC, a Ford joint venture in Nanchang China. After Retiring from Ford, I joined a startup UAV company drone design/manufacturing company Insitu as Director of Quality. Boeing subsequently purchased Insitu, and I retired in 2013. Now I raise meat sheep and goats and board horses on our small ranch overlooking the Columbia River and Mt. Hood Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: In 2001 my wife and I were ordained as elders in our church in Michigan and sent to China where we planted a church. With Ford, I had occasion to circumnavigate the globe, traveling to Japan, Thailand, Singapore, South Africa, and England, helping Mazda, Ford Asia Pacific and Landrover develop quality plans. Just before retirement from Ford, we went back to China to perform the wedding of the man we had ordained to pastor the church plant we had started and my wife’s best Chinese friend. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Therese and I were married in 1994 and have four sons between us. Peter Jr. has his BS in Aerospace Engineering from UVA and Masters from Oregon State in Oceanography. He is the owner of an environmental consulting company in Seattle WA. John has a BA/MA in English from Radford and a Doctorate in Law from Penn State, and practices in Renton QA. Matthew has a BA from U of Mich Flint, and is currently a USN Corpsman hoping to get into medical school. Geoffrey is an assistant department manager in an Oregon large grocery store. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Apparently I am not real good at being retired. Now that I get my retired pay from Ford and USNR, and my Insitu IRA, hopefully my being a shepherd on a goat/sheep ranch will keep me being retired. We built an incredible timber frame home with 360 degree views of Mt Hood, the Columbia River, and the Columbia Hills of Washington. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Plebe year (63) President Kennedy’s visit to USNA our plebe summer and remembering the shock of his assassination. • Crab stuffed shrimp that I was “forced” to eat because the upper classmen at my table were from the Midwest and they thought it was punishment. • Food fights with 3’ long omelets and cartons of milk. • Ice cream or fried chicken for breakfast • Skippering a yawl on the 1966 Bermuda Race Humorous Memories of USNA: • As a plebe getting caught bringing in a bottle of Mountain Dew, which the upperclassman thought was an alcoholic beverage. • Sneaking out to the yawls second class summer to spend the night with a girlfriend.

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Rich Armitage smuggling in my girlfriend into Bancroft Hall second class summer, dressing her in uniform

Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors: Academic Achievement BS Naval Science USNA Uniform Device Surface Warfare Device Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending”

My Uncle was class of 1931, my father was class of 1933 and my older brother was class of 1959. My father was still on active duty as a Captain when I became a plebe. At the time, I felt that that it was expected of me to follow in their footsteps After graduating I elected to pursue a Surface Warfare specialty. Later, I found Naval Intelligence more rewarding with a tour of duty at CINCLANT in the J2 division. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My education has served me well both in the Navy and working in engineering in civilian life. Summary bio for Pete Leon My first duty Station was USS Henry W Tucker, DD875 where I served as the Admin Officer, then CIC officer and finally Navigator. I served on USS Boxer LPH4, USS Muliphen, AKA 61 and USS Seattle AOE3 in positions of Assistant Chief Engineer, Weapons Boss, and Ops In 1973 shifted to shore duty, serving at CINCLANT J2, Naval Beach Group Two and Nuclear Weapons Training Center in Norfolk. In 1978 I left active duty to become a truck design engineer with Ford Motor Company. Additionally I made a career transition to Naval Intelligence, serving in Naval Reserve Intelligence Program units in Michigan, Virginia and North Carolina, where the highlight was having O5 level command of the DIA unit in Greensboro. My Ford career started with my designing new front axles for the F Series pickup truck. It included being a resident engineer, quality/reliability supervisor, quality engineering manager and Director of Quality. In 2006, our team revised Ford’s global product development process pulling nearly 18 months out of the process. After 29 years, I retired from Ford Motor Company, and moved to a small ranch on the Washington shore of the Columbia River, looking out to Mt Hood. In 2007 I became the first Director of Quality for Insitu, a Drone designer and manufacturer that provides live digital video for the Navy and Marines. In 2014 we finally completed our timber frame dream home on the ranch. Highlights are waking up every morning to a sunrise over the Columbia River and eating breakfast looking at perpetually snow capped Mt Hood. Therese and I have been married for 21 years now and share 4 sons. (An environmental scientist, lawyer, Navy corpsman and seafood assistant manager) . In 2014 we finally completed our dream home on the ranch with views of sunrise over the Columbia River and perpetually snow-capped Mt Hood.

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1st Company Robert McFarland After Graduation, I attended flight school and worked my way to VP-9. In 1972 I departed the Navy and was hired by Eastern Airlines. Then I started night law school and eventually took and passed the bar examination. Shortly after admission to the State Bar of Georgia, Eastern called me back from a three year furlough. I continued to fly full time from 1977 to 1991 while developing a part-time practice of law. In January of 1991, Eastern ceased operations and I became full time lawyer. In 1974, I met and married Becky Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Callaghan. 1975 was the birth of our first son, Parker, who is currently my law partner in the law firm of McFarland & McFarland in Cumming, Georgia. Bryan was born in 1977, and our final son, Preston, arrived in 1981 just as we moved to Cumming. Our final child, Kara, was born in 1990, just before the demise of Eastern. Parker is a fine attorney in North Georgia. Bryan answered a call from the Lord and is currently in divinity school in Columbia, SC. Preston is very successful with a large real estate firm in Alpharetta. Kara graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia and is in occupational therapy school in Augusta, GA. Becky and I have two wonderful daughters-in-law which have given us five marvelous grandchildren. We love every minute we can spend with them. We have a beach house in Fort Morgan, AL and it will hold our entire family. Although there have been many struggles that are not listed herein, I have been blessed beyond anything that I could have ever imagined while I was a plebe at USNA.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Michael Merickel After graduation I went into the jet pipeline and obtained my pilot wings in 1968. I joined Va-152, an A-4 squadron, in Alameda after completing RAG training in Lemoore, CA. During my 27 years active duty I was lucky enough to fly the T-34, T-2, F-9, A-4, T-1, A-6, EA-6B, A-7, C-12, F-86, F-4 and the F-18. Moving was a way of life as no duty station was the same for more than one tour. Pensacola to Meridian to Pensacola to Kingsville to Lemoore to Alameda to Monterey to Whidbey Island to Washington, DC to Miramar to Whidbey Island to Monterey to Point Mugu to North Island. I retired as a Captain in 1994. Nancy and I were married in the USNA Chapel ten days after graduation on June 17th and my retirement ceremony on June 17th, 1994 included a renewal of our marriage vows. We have three sons who all married wonderful ladies and have blessed us with three granddaughters and two grandsons. After I retired from AIRPAC in San Diego we moved back to Springfield, VA for six months and then relocated to Oak Harbor, WA in 1995 where we built our dream house and continue to reside. For the past ten years or so we have been avid cyclists and currently have eight bicycles in our garage, including two tandems. I ride around 7,000 miles per year and Nancy joins me on one of the tandems for about half of those miles.

Life is good.

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1st Company Robert Morehead After graduation and flight training as an A6 B/N in Oceana, I deployed with VA-85 on USS Constellation out of San Diego, to Vietnam, where I completed 100 combat missions. Following a deployment to the Mediterranean, I went back across the country to Monterey and earned a MS in Operations Research. After a tour in the Air Department on Connie, it was back to Pensacola to teach low level navigation to prospective NFO’s. In 1978 I joined the Naval Reserve and began a parallel career in manufacturing management. On the civilian side I held positions including Plant Manager, Multi-Plant Manufacturing Manager, General Manager of a multi-national division of a large corporation and President of a subsidiary company. I retired in 2005. My Naval Reserve experience included XO of the USS Coral Sea, Commanding Officer of NAF Misawa, Japan, and OP-04 staff during Desert Storm. I retired as a Captain with 25 years in 1993. I have been married to my best friend and life partner, Judy Haire, since 1992. Our blended family has three children from my first marriage and three of Judy’s children. After 33 moves, both Navy and civilian, and innumerable nights travelling away from home, I have settled, with Judy, in our new home in Murrells Inlet, SC. We love being near the ocean. I have downgraded from jets to golf carts. From that first day I saw the TV show “Men of Annapolis” in Munster, IN, until today, when I wear one of my various USNA T-shirts at the gym, I am proud of the Naval Academy and the United States Navy. After over 50 years, I know that will never change.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Larry L. Morris After graduating in a class of 16 from Wainwright High School in Taiwan, I was sworn in with over 1300 classmates in the US Naval Academy class of 1967. This began a momentous journey in the military for over 27 years. Flight school was exciting and challenging culminating in receiving my aviator wings in 1969. I received orders to my first choice- F-8 Crusaders at NAS Miramar San Diego where my father had been stationed during my elementary school years. I had returned to my roots. From 1969 to 1983 I made 6 overseas carrier deployments flying the F-8 and F-14 Tomcat and having the time of my life. After being promoted to Commander, I traveled east to the F-14 RAG at Virginia Beach where I started visiting Annapolis again. Eventually I was tapped for a tour as Safety Officer on the USS Independence during a 3 year shipyard overhaul-a most demanding but extremely rewarding job. This led to a tour at the Safety Center in Norfolk where I traveled the world performing unit safety inspections. My experiences in the Navy translated into a wonderful second career as the Safety Director of a large east coast steel erection company. I have had the opportunity to oversee many large projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. It has been very rewarding to be directly involved in building bridges, skyscrapers and football, baseball and hockey stadiums in the Tri-State area. I had the opportunity to travel to 6 of 7 continents while in the Navy and continue to travel recreationally today.

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1st Company Robert L. Mushen For nearly two years after graduation, I was back in school: first in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, then at Mare Island in Nuclear Power School, and finally Idaho Falls for prototype training. In the middle of that sequence, I met Marsha Russell and we were married in February of 1969. We have been blessed with four children: Rob, Jen, John Ross and Emily. Three of them are married, so we’ve added Bruce, Marileen and Jamey. And, to date, five grandchildren have brought smiles to our faces and help us keep perspective on the importance of family. I had the privilege of being a part of the submarine service for 27 years, including command of USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (SSBN-656) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport. For the past eleven years, I have served our adopted hometown of Little Compton, Rhode Island as its day-to-day manager. As I reflect back fifty years to the opportunities I have been given, I get perspective from the words of the prophet Micah: “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?”

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Peter Pace

Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (1st Company) 1967 – 68: The Basic School, Quantico, VA 1968 – 69: Platoon Leader, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, Republic of Vietnam 1969 – 71: Marine Barracks Washington, DC Head, Infantry Writer Unit; Platoon Ldr, Guard Company; Security Det Commander, Camp David; WH Social Aide; and Platoon Ldr, Special Ceremonial Platoon. 1971 – 72: Infantry Officers’ Advanced Course, Ft Benning, GA (Student) 1972 – 73: Security Element, Marine Aircraft Group 15, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Nam Phong Thailand 1973 – 76: Headquarters, US Marine Corps – Assistant Major’s Monitor. 1976 – 79: 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA. Operations Officer, 2d Bn, 5th Marines; XO, 3rd Bn, 5th Marines; Division Staff Secretary. 1979 – 80: Marine Corps Command & Staff College (Student) 1980 – 83: Commanding Officer, USMC Recruiting Station Buffalo, NY 1983 – 85: 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, CA. Commanding Officer, 2d Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment 1985 – 86: National War College, Ft McNair, Washington DC (Student) 1986 – 88: Combined/Joint Staff, Seoul, Korea. Chief, Ground Forces Branch; XO to Assistant Chief of Staff, C/J/G3, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/US Forces Korea/Eighth US Army 1988 – 91: Commanding Officer, Marine Barracks, Washington DC 1991 – 92: 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, NC. Chief of Staff; then Assistant Division Commander. 1992 – 94: President, Marine Corps University/Commanding General, Marine Corps Schools, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, VA. Dec 92-Feb 93: Deputy Commander, Marine Forces Somalia Oct 93-Mar 94: Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force Somalia 1994 – 96: Deputy Commander/Chief of Staff, US Forces Japan, Yokota Air Base, Japan 1996 – 97: Director for Operations, J3; Joint Staff, Washington, DC 1997 – 2000: Commander, US Marine Corps Forces Atlantic/Europe/South, Norfolk, VA 2000 – 01: Commander in Chief, US Southern Command, Miami, FL 2001 – 05; Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington DC 2005 – 07; 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington DC October, 2007: Retired after more than 40 years on active duty.

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1st Company Principal Occupation Following graduation from the Naval Academy, and completion of The Basic School, my first duty station as an Infantry Officer was Hue City, Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive. My last assignment was in the Pentagon, as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was my distinct honor to be the first Marine to serve in either of these positions. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I was honored to be the first Marine to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Lynne and I were married in 1971 and have two children. Our son Peter works in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs. He and his wife Lynsey live in Chicago, and have blessed us with three grandchildren, Linden, Hadley, and Holden. Our daughter Tiffany, a Certified Public Accountant, lives near Charlotte, NC where she is the Controller for M-Spex LLC. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? After more than 40 years in the Marine Corps, I am failing retirement. I serve on the Board of Directors of several corporations in management consulting, private equity, and IT security. I am involved with a number of non-profits, all of which support our troops and their families. I am a member of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar for Fordham University. I enjoy teaching, and giving speeches, especially the opportunities to speak with military students at USNA, National Defense University, Marine Corps University, and others. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Graduation Humorous Memories of USNA: Something at USNA was humorous? Awards Received Academic Achievement Master of Science Degree in Administration from George Washington University. Athletic Service Awards (Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2008; USNA Distinguished Graduate Award, 2009) Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? I wanted to be a Submariner Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The Academy was very good for me. The Marine Corps changed my life! Summary bio for Pete Pace Born in Brooklyn and raised in Teaneck, NJ, I followed my older brother Sim to the United States Naval Academy. Initially focused on the submarine force, my summer experience convinced me to choose a commission in the Marine Corps. Starting out as a rifle platoon leader in Vietnam, who would have guessed that my last assignment would be as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? I remained on active duty to honor those men who were killed following 2d Lieutenant Pace in combat. Forty plus years in uniform was an incredible run, and I would start over as a second lieutenant and do it all again if I could!

I am failing retirement. I serve on several boards of companies involved in management consulting, private equity, and IT security. I am member of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group, a Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar for Fordham University, and an Adjunct Faculty member of Georgetown University. My wife Lynne and I are associated with a number of charities focused on supporting the troops and their families, to include Wall Street Warfighters Foundation, Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, Fisher House, Semper Fi Fund, Our Military Kids, and others. Lynne is also the proud Ship Sponsor of the recently commissioned USS AMERICA, LHA6, homeported in San Diego. Our son Peter works in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs. He and his wife Lynsey live in Chicago, and have blessed us with three Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary grandchildren, Linden, Hadley, and Holden. Our daughter Tiffany, a Certified Public Accountant, lives near Charlotte, NC where she is the Controller for M-Spex LLC.

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1st Company William F. Peters, Jr. Three days after our graduation, I married my high school sweetheart, Barbara. We headed off to flight training in Pensacola. While we were in Meridian for jet training, we had our twins, Michael and Mindy. I got my wings in Beeville in late 1968, and was sent to Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida to transition into the A-7. I deployed with the VA-37 Bulls on USS SARATOGA (CVA-60). Following those deployments, I went to NAS Kingsville and VT-23 as an instructor in the A-4 and T-2. While in Kingsville, our daughter Jenny was born. In mid-1973, we left the Navy and moved to Austin, Texas so that I could start law school at the University of Texas at Austin. Following law school graduation, we moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where I began a job in the litigation section of a firm. Two weeks after starting that job, our daughter, Sarah was born in Fort Worth. Three years later, our daughter, Emily, was born. All five of our children are college graduates. Mindy, Sarah and Emily attended the University of Texas at Austin. Mike graduated from Texas Wesleyan, and Jenny graduated from Texas Tech. We have a lawyer, a doctor, a teacher, an administrator in a large technology firm, and an Honors Business graduate working with her husband in a company they started together. They have each married wonderful people, and Barbara and I truly do believe we have been blessed with ten loving and faith filled children. We have also been blessed with fourteen grandchildren (7 boys and 7 girls), ranging in age from one to eighteen and heading off to college in the fall. I practiced law as a litigator in the Dallas/Fort Worth area until January 2014, when I retired. Barbara is an excellent teacher and taught in public and private schools for almost 30 years. She retired a couple of years before I did. In the last three years, we have been to Europe five times. We love traveling and taking on the task of spoiling each and every one of the grandchildren. Barbara and I are active in our church. My interests continue to be Navy football and lacrosse, all University of Texas sports, and my beloved Chicago Cubs.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary George Samaras Served on active duty in the Marine Corps for ten years and active Reserves for ten more, retiring as a LtCol after twenty. Tour highlights included 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam, First Marine Brigade in Hawaii and USNA in Annapolis. Earned Gold Jump Wings with a couple hundred jumps and served several advisory tours in WesPac during Vietnam War years. Left active duty in 1977 for the restaurant industry. Corporate career highlights included Hardee’s as Director of Franchising, Church’s Chicken & Popeyes Chicken as Executive Vice President of Operations, responsible for 2,500 restaurants and $1.5 billion in sales worldwide. As restaurant entrepreneur, majority owner of Hartz Chicken chain in Houston, serving 10 years as Chairman/President & CEO and expanding company into four Asian markets. Sold company in 2004. In 2003, led acquisition of then 50-restaurant Dallas-based Wingstop Restaurant chain. Initially served as Chairman/President & CEO for Wingstop and its parent, Wingstop Holdings with a major shareholder position. Ownership in Wingstop continued until sold in 2010 with over 500 restaurants in 32 states/several foreign countries. In 1981 married Jeanne and have lived in the greater San Antonio area since 1984. Between us we have five grown children…Elizabeth, Jennifer, Eleni, Nicholas and Richard, all college grads and then some. We’re so very proud of them all and their beautiful families with six and soon seven (at this writing) grandkids who we cherish and love so very much! We currently reside in the magnificent Hill Country of Texas in Fair Oaks Ranch, 25 miles NW of San Antonio. I am semi-retired but stay active in the restaurant industry through my consulting company. We enjoy traveling, spending a good amount of time between Kauai, Hawaii and Sedona, Arizona. We are blessed with a loving family and proud to be Texans!

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1st Company David C. Scott Service History 1963 – 1967 Sep ’67 - Jul ’69 Aug ’69 - Mar ’71 Owner May ’71 - Jun’74 Aug ’74 - Jun ’75 Aug ’75 - Dec ’77 Jan ’78 - Apr ’79 agement Team May ’79 - Aug ’82 Sep ’82 - Aug ’84 Officer Sep ’84 - Nov ’87 ficer 1987

USNA (1’st Company) USS DYESS (DD-880), Gunnery Officer USS ST LOUIS (LKA-116), Weapons Officer, Plank USNA, Seamanship & Tactics Instructor USS PAWCATUCK (AO-108), Chief Engineer USS EL PASO (LKA-117), Chief Engineer CINCLANTFLEET, Imperial Iranian Project Man-

COMNAVSURFLANT, Royal Saudi Naval Forces, Saudi Naval Expansion Program USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER (CVN-69), 3-M COMNAVAIRLANT, Ship’s Maintenance, 3-M OfRetired from Naval service as a LCDR

Principal Occupation Jan ’88 - Jan ’90 Tidewater Consultants Inc. Feb 90 - Jan 2000 Scott Management Systems, Inc. President Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events • Youngster Cruise aboard USCG Bark EAGLE going from New London, to San Juan, to Bermuda to meet up with the other sail training ships from all over the world, and leading the parade up the Hudson River, in the very first Operation Sail, a dream of John F. Kennedy, in conjunction with the New York World’s Fair. From there to Newport, RI, Portland, ME, Quebec, and eventual debarkation and return to New London from Argentia, Newfoundland. A summer aboard a lofty square rigged ship to fulfill a young man’s dream. • 40’th Anniversary of D-Day aboard IKE, June 1984. Ceremonies in Portsmouth, England, mid English Channel, and in Brest, France. A very moving experience. Did not get to the beaches of Normandy, but the pictures of the action there and watching the films of the NATO Naval Forces and Air Forces were awesome. • Condition 3 Watches in the Black Sea aboard DYESS, December 1968. 4-5 days mostly port and starboard in the gun director with mounts manned and blowing snow with temperatures in single digits below and above zero. Press coverage at home was interesting with pictures of us teasing the big bear. • Getting ST LOUIS underway from anchor by 0800 near Iwakuni, Japan in accordance with the agreement for the length of our stay. Unfortunately the CO, XO, and OPS Boss were all still ashore with the gig, one of our LCPLs, waiting at the dock. I was CDO and Sea Detail OOD so the decision was too easy. About 10-15 minutes later the Cox’n reports all aboard, and my answer back is to make best speed as ST LOUIS was proceeding on course 286 at 5 knots. I would have loved to see the Skipper’s face. I couldn’t resist the urge to order ahead 2/3 as the gig came in off the stern, before ringing up All Stop and getting the gig alongside and brought to the rail. No one on the gig thought it was that funny. It ended with smiles all around. The skipper and I had been together on the Nucleus Crew so I had an edge, and he knew I really wasn’t stealing his ship. • As OOD and Sea Detail OOD, drove ST LOUIS, half way back across the Pacific to Long Beach, CA with a thrown blade in the LP side of the reduction gear that limited her speed to 12 knots and bypassed the astern turbine. The pilot’s face in Long Beach when he finally understood we had no backing capability was a real deer in the headlights look. Wife, Children, Grandchildren • Bonnie Herbert and I were married 9 September 1967. I had given her the Engagement Ring Miniature the night of our Ring Dance. We had two children. Wendy was born July 15, 1970, spent a summer in Spain as a Foreign Exchange Student, graduated from University of Mary Washington, and currently teaches at Denbigh High School in Newport News. David was born November 26, 1976, graduated from Radford University, and is currently an Officer in the Virginia State Police. • Bonnie died in April, 1978, and I married Peggy Pierce 28 June 1980, who brought a wonderful addition of daughter Jennifer to our family. Jen was born September 28 1974, and is a Registered Nurse. • Wendy has two children: Ellie 16 and Joshua 13, both honor students and attend school in Newport News. • Jen has three children: Caden 8, Griffin 6, and Hadley Faye 3 in December. She’s a busy Mom.

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Dave has two children: Makenzie 7 and Brooklynn 4 in October I am blessed to have such a fine family. Peggy retired from Eastern Virginia Medical School in June 2000 where she had been the Education Coordinator for the Department of Surgery. We sold the house in August 2000 and moved aboard our DESTINY, a 40foot cutter that has taken us on many adventures up and down the east coast from Maine to the Florida Keys. Yes, I am living my dream.

How is retired life going and how do you spend your time? Retired life is fantastic, although there are times when I know I’ve never worked harder at anything in my life. I tell friends that this cruising life style gives you the highest highs you’ve ever experienced, but at times you get the lowest lows. Our Home Port is Hampton, VA as it is the closest place we can be to visit our family and old friends. Our annual schedule goes something like this: Depart Hampton and head north to Maine, arriving mid-July, depart Maine midSeptember and return to Hampton. Depart Hampton to reach Miami Beach or the Florida Keys before Christmas, depart Miami Beach/Keys mid‑April and return to Hampton. The biggest factor in any of this planning is weather, weather, weather, followed by safety issues, boat readiness issues, and crew issues. I spend the majority of my time doing boat work: maintenance on the 50 HP Auxiliary diesel, maintenance on the 5 KW diesel generator, maintenance on refrigeration and heating and cooling systems and their associated pumps and controls, maintenance on the sails, rigging, anchor windless and chain, dock lines, fenders, navigation lights, radar and the multifunction display and plotter, and oh yes, that wonderful marine toilet called the Head! That quickly makes it to the top of the list even giving safety items a nudge when the “Admiral” is faced with a bucket. You see I may be the Captain, but there is an Admiral aboard, and you do not want to be on the receiving end of that bucket. I still enjoy doing the work, but make sure I get the priorities right. I can’t forget our “car” the 9.5 foot AB RIB and the associated 20-year-old Johnson 9.9 HP 2-stroke. When you anchor out, take a mooring, and don’t go into a marina for any shore side services, you still have to be able to get ashore. I am currently looking at 136 continuous days of this lifestyle on this trip since departing on the current northbound trip. I wouldn’t give it up for a minute. There are those beautiful sunrises after an overnight sail, the quiet anchorage surrounded by Mother Nature in a fresh, clean environment, a little of Buffett’s “has to be 5 o’clock somewhere” cure, usually at 1700, maybe a little something ready to go on the grill, a glass of wine, a good book, and the best mate. It is so worth it. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • The speech to our class plebe summer in Mahan Hall by RADM Kirkpatrick, who said, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” (And in a more powerful, direct voice, pointing his finger around from the podium) “And don’t you forget it!” I’ve lived by that dictum every day of my life since. • The speech by President Kennedy to our class in Tecumseh Court, and his announcing amnesty. While the amnesty was great in itself, his speech was better. • Winning the Plebe Summer Squash Championship • Standing watch to keep the University of Maryland students from trashing the Yard. Taking over the wall liberty in Brobe, pajamas, and slippers and running around the circles. • The assassination of President Kennedy and the blackness, the loss, the calls to my family back in Cohasset, and hanging out with classmates and upperclassmen in the First Company area all at loose ends wondering what was going to happen now, gathering strength from each other. • Beating Army that year, Roger Staubach gets Heisman Trophy, a banner time for USNA. • The gut-wrenching ache I felt for my plebe summer roommate, who shortly after returning from Christmas leave in Jan 1964, found out that his Mom had just passed away. • Strawberries and ice cream for breakfast for sure. A tradition brought aboard DESTINY in the right season. • Beating Army both individually and as a team second-class year. • Ring Dance • The burning sacrifice of the Army Exchange Officer’s VW at what I think was our senior Army-Navy Pep Rally. • Beating Army again both individually and as a team first class year. • Our classmate playing #1 beats Harvard’s number one, a former junior National Champion and currently ranked #1 individually as an intercollegiate player. Navy beats Harvard as a team in the Field House February 1967. • Getting carried around the Mess Hall after the Squash Team won the National Intercollegiate Squash Championships. • Throwing our caps in the air at graduation. Finally!

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1st Company The most vivid and fondest memory is repeated every time I get together with one or more of our classmates. Even almost 50 years later, my best friends, the fellow shipmates who I most cherish and admire, are all members of the Class of 1967. Humorous Memories of USNA: • Watching the public works team figure out how to move the plane out of Tecumseh court and back to its place by Second Class Walk. • #1 of all time is the powder, chalk, or white cleanser shower that blew out of the Virgin Cannons just as the Brigade Staff had wheeled about and approached their mark for a Saturday Noon Meal Formation. Being in First Company we were front row and just to starboard. Awards Received • Meritorious Service Medal • Meritorious Unit Commendation • Battle “E” Ribbon • Navy Expeditionary Medal • National Defense Medal • Two Vietnam Service Medals • Three Sea Service Deployment Ribbons Academic Achievement • B. S. Mechanical Engineering, U. S. Naval Academy • M. S. Engineering Administration, George Washington University Athletic • Came in second in the Brigade Knockabout Competition that helped First Company to earn Color Company and was awarded a very nice pair of 6x35 binoculars at the Athletic Awards Presentation June Week. • Awarded two N-Stars as a member of the Varsity Squash Team and for beating Army in 1966 and 1967. Service Awards None. Why did I elect to attend USNA, and what did I expect to obtain by attending? Growing up near/on the water in Cohasset, MA I knew I wanted to spend my life at sea. I considered USNA, USCGA, USMMA, Mass Maritime Academy, and various ROTC options. My Dad was working with Anderson Manufacturing Company in Boston, and Anderson was working on the electric switch gear at Bethlehem Steel, in Quincy, MA where USS LONG BEACH (CGN 9) was under construction. He met CAPT Eugene P. Wilkinson, the first skipper of Nautilus and now the Prospective CO of Long Beach, and they found they had a mutual liking for tennis. They were joined by CAPT Robert V. Laney, Class of 1939, who was the LONG BEACH Project Officer for Supship at Bethlehem Steel, and happened to live in Cohasset. I had the opportunity to spend time with both these fine gentlemen, and very quickly decided that my first choice, without a doubt, was to pursue the Naval Academy. If you wanted a career in the Navy, there was only one way to go. The advice was absolutely correct, and I was selected for the Naval Academy to enter with the Class of 1967. I retired after 20 years, and fulfilled that dream. I can’t say I loved every minute, but there were many more high points than low ones. I wouldn’t have wanted any other life.

Did the Academy experience satisfy your expectations? My expectations were more than met by the Academy experience. I was of such a small town frame of mind and focus that the Academy blew me away. I graduated from high school, one of 86 seniors, with three AP courses completed and Honor Society for two years. I played a darn good game of tennis, and had come in fifth in the National Competition for the 15-foot Mercury Class sailboats the previous summer. I could swim, sail, tie knots, and handle small powerboats. This last got me into hot water Plebe Summer when I did a little hot-dogging when it was my turn to drive the 40’ launch we were learning on. The EN3 at the controls answered all bells very promptly, and I made a solid one-bell landing that had everyone grinning. Well not quite every-

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary one. The instructor, a member of the Class of 1965, was NOT grinning, and I learned where I really stood. I was not ready for the truly high caliber of individuals I quickly met as classmates. I was a very little fish in a huge ocean. Our second-class squad leader named me Midn Amoeba, 4’th and a half class, and I felt like it sometimes. All three of my Plebe Summer roomies went farther and faster than I did. How can you have a better platoon mate than the first Marine to be appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? All the Eagle Scouts, all the honors students, all the fine athletes. It blew my mind away. My regret is that I didn’t work as hard as I should have. What opportunities missed. When anyone seriously asks me about the Academy, selection process, or academic requirements, I try to answer their questions, but more importantly point them to one of the many other fine officers, active and retired, who have made a commitment to providing the right guidance to these individuals. Summary bio for David Scott Bonnie and I married 9 September 1967 and moved to Newport, where I reported to USS DYESS (DD-880) as Gunnery Assistant. I commissioned USS ST Louis (LKA-116) as Weapons Officer in November 1969 at Newport News and transited to homeport in Long Beach, CA followed by a nine-month Westpac deployment. Three years at USNA in the Seamanship and Tactics Department, included time afloat on the YPs and the Midshipman Sailing Squadron and working with the Squash Team. I made another Med deployment as Chief Engineer USS PAWCATUCK (AO-108) out of Mayport and turned her over to the Military Sealift Command. I joined USS EL PASO (LKA-117) as Chief Engineer, detaching on December 31, 1977 to join CINCLANTFLT’s Imperial Iranian Navy Project Management Team. Bonnie passed very unexpectedly in April 1978 leaving me with Wendy, who would turn 8 on 15 July, and David born 26 November 1976. The Iranian Program folded in April 1979, and I was transferred to COMNAVAIRLANT’s Saudi Naval Expansion Program. On 28 June 1980 I married Peggy Pierce, and her daughter Jen, born 28 September 1974, joined our family. I reported to USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER (CVN-69) in September 1982 as 3-M Coordinator. My twilight tour was with COMNAVAIRLANT in the Ship’s Maintenance Department as the 3-M Coordinator. After a two year stint with a contractor I activated my own Scott Management Systems and was successful enough to get all three children through college or other advanced professional degrees. I bought DESTINY, our 40 foot cutter, in 1998, sold the house in 2000, and Peggy and I moved aboard to cruise the east coast from Maine to the Keys. I am now blessed with seven wonderful grandchildren; the family is healthy; I am living my dream. .

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1st Company Paul Tuttle After graduation, I headed to Pensacola to begin flight training. I received my wings in February, 1969 and returned to NAS Meridian as an instructor in VT-7. Upon completion I transitioned into the A4 Skyhawk and served as ordnance officer and aviator in VC-7. That was followed by a transition to the A3 Skywarrior in VAQ 130 and a deployment aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) to Viet Nam (June 1972-May-1973). I left active duty in July 1973 and settled in San Francisco. I started my business career as a stock broker, ventured into the institutional bond business and became a partner at Kidder Peabody, a New York investment bank. In 1983 I left Kidder to start a specialty financial services business, Tuttle Decision Systems, which I sold to Microsoft in 2000. I started a couple of other companies that have been sold and remain a general partner in Blueline Partners, a private equity firm. Now my wife and I split our time between homes in Belvedere and St. Helena in the Napa Valley. We cycle around the world. When not on our bikes, I make wine at our small winery in St. Helena and spend the fall at my duck club in the central valley of California. I have three sons, a step son and step daughter.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary David A. Vetter I married my high school sweetheart Royce immediately after returning from Viet Nam. We served 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps including two tours on the USNA faculty. I taught Economics as a young Major and concluded my active duty career with service in a character development position. Two of my other favorite active duty tours were as the Director of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College at Quantico, Virginia and service as the Military Assistant to three Secretaries of Defense.

Following my active duty career I served as the Dean of Admissions at USNA for nine years. Several years after retirement we moved about an hour away from Annapolis to the location of our two children's families which include our four grandchildren. We also have a vacation home at Wintergreen Resort in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

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1st Company Linton Wells II Service History 1963-67: USNA (1st Company) 1967-69: USS MARATHON (PG-89), Weapons/Supply Officer; pre-comm unit Tacoma, WA & EastPac ops 1969-70: USS JOSEPHUS DANIELS (DLG-27), Navigator; WestLant ops and Vietnam deployment 1971-75: Johns Hopkins University, MSE Mathematical Sciences 1974, Ph.D Political Science (International Relations) 1975 1971-75: TDY assignments with USS WILLIAM W.WOOD (DD-715), ops in Med and Black Sea; VP-10, NAS Brunswick; USS ALAMO (LSD-33), WestPac transit; American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, graduate study 1975: Surface Warfare Officers Department Head Course, Newport, RI 1976 – 77: USS RICHARD E. BYRD (DDG-23), Operations Officer; WestLant ops and Standing NATO Naval Force, Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT) 1977-1980: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis & Evaluation, Region Programs, analysis of Japanese and East Asian defense programs 1980-81: USS LOCKWOOD (FF-1064), Executive Officer; WestPac and Indian Ocean operations 1982: Seventh Fleet Staff, TDY to N-6 office; Foreign Service Institute, Yokohama, Japan, Language instruction 1982-83: Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies (Boueikenshusho), Tokyo, Japan, war college student 1984-86: USS JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG-16), Commanding Officer; MidPac, WestPac, Middle East Force operations 1986-89: OPNAV Staff, OP-090R, Assistant for Special Programs 1989-91: Destroyer Squadron 21, Commander; EastPac, WestPac, Indian Ocean ops, DESERT STORM 1991-1993: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), Assistant to the Under Secretary 1994: Retired from USN with rank of Captain Post-USN DoD Service 1994-1996: Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) for Policy Support 1996-1998: Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Policy Support) 1998-2003: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence) 2004-2005: Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) and DoD Chief Information Officer 2005-2007: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) 2007-2010: Distinguished Research Professor and Transformation Chair, Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), National Defense University (NDU) 2010-2014: Director, CTNSP at NDU, led research into areas such as civil-military activities integration, emerging challenges (cyber, space policy, energy, etc.), science & technology, innovative learning 2014: Retired from Federal service after 51 consecutive years with DoD Principal Occupation 1/3 of time teaching, writing and giving back via Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow appointment at NDU and work with the STAR-TIDES network on sustainable support to populations under stress—post-war, post-disaster, impoverished. 1/3 of time for family: traveling with Linda and playing with grandkids 1/3 of time trying to figure out how to pay for it; Managing Partner of Wells Analytics, LLC focused on interfaces between technology and decision-making Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events Chance to participate in some of the great events of our time. Being at sea, in command, the day the Berlin Wall came down. Skydiving and scuba diving with our older son and going to Philmont with our younger. Piloting a Cessna 152 to fly away with Linda after our wedding while the guests threw rice at the plane. Spending a night with Linda and our older son in the Riza hotel in downtown Olongapo while much of the Seventh Fleet was in port—it’s a long story :-). Visiting 95 countries.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Linda and I have been married happily since 1976. Both our sons majored in physics at William and Mary and now are systems engineers at MITRE, living nearby in Northern Virginia. We have a grandson born in April 2013, and are expecting a granddaughter in November. Looking forward to spoiling them both. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time We’ve banished the “R” (retirement) word to the outer darkness--see above under 1/3, 1/3, 1/3. We’re living in the house in Alexandria we bought in 1976, spending weekends at our townhouse in Williamsburg, and trying to explore interesting places using time share weeks. Most vivid/fondest memories of USNA • USNA taught me that I could do things I would never have imagined I could do on my own (“what do you mean ‘hit it for 67?’!!!”) • Getting an N in fencing after my miserable athletic record in high school • Being the plebe Mate of the Deck outside Roger Staubach’s room after the first game in the year he won the Heisman • President Kennedy’s assassination • Spending weekends with Prof Cutting in his house in Annapolis • Learning from special profs: CAPT “Monk” Hendrix (oceanography), Jerry Williams (oceanography, Trident Scholar adviser), Bruce Johnson (fluid mechanics), Bob Langdon (diplomatic history) • Army weekends in Philadelphia • June Weeks • Being Log co-editor • Tossing our hats at graduation Humorous memories of USNA • Moving the A-4 into T-court • Trying (unsuccessfully) to “game” the graduation match from the boxing course with Jack Roe to minimize mutual damage—the instructor caught on • Philo McGiffin stories and other tales from the archives of the Log Awards received Academic Achievement • Trident Scholarship in Oceanography (“The Effects of Internal Waves on Underwater Sound Propagation”) • Burke Scholarship to Johns Hopkins (M.S.E. Mathematical Sciences 1974, Ph.D Political Science (International Relations) 1975 • First U.S. naval officer to attend Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies—senior war college equivalent 19823 Athletic Fencing: regular “N” and manager’s “N” Service awards Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (3 awards), 1999, 2001, 2007 Joint Distinguished Public Service Award, 2014 Defense Superior Service Medal (2 awards), 1980 and 1993 Legion of Merit, 1989 Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service—Johns Hopkins University, 2008 USNA Distinguished Oceanography graduate, 2014 Catalyst for Change Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I remember telling someone in 5th grade I wanted to go to the Naval Academy. As a kid my hobbies were naval history and ship design, I spent a lot of time at sea as a teenager, and there was family support, so this was a logical step (the Navy never figured out during all those years that they were paying me for my avocation). I aspired to command at sea, to visit interesting places and to participate in public service, but I don’t think I had any more specific expectations on

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1st Company graduation. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations

I’d do the Academy experience again in a heartbeat, including Plebe year. I learned I could do more than I

ever thought I could, got an excellent educational foundation in both technical topics and liberal arts, as well as selfdiscipline, which stood me in very good stead in graduate school, and internalized the idea that “I’m a naval officer, I can do anything.” Over time my career has focused at the intersection of policy and technology and the Academy gave me an excellent start for that. Final Yearbook Write-up for Lin Wells My first duty station was aboard USS MARATHON (PG-89) in the Eastern Pacific, followed by tours in cruisers and destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific, culminating in command of USS JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG-16) and Destroyer Squadron 21 during DESERT STORM. Service ashore included the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Chief of Naval Operations Staff, mostly in policy and technology positions. I retired as a Captain in 1994 and then held several civilian positions in OSD and at the National Defense University, including acting as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information and DoD Chief Information Officer. I completed 51 years of continuous DoD service in 2014, and now spend about 1/3 time on volunteering/giving back, 1/3 on family, and 1/3 on business. Memorable moments include skydiving, scuba diving and Philmont scouting adventures with our sons; spending a “family night” with Linda and our older son in a hotel in downtown Olongapo; visiting 95 countries and being able to serve during some of the great events of our time. Vivid Academy memories include moving the A-4 into T-court plebe year, recognizing that USNA taught me that I could do more than I ever thought I could, learning from some exceptional professors and getting an excellent foundation in both technical areas and liberal arts. Originally I expected a more-or-less conventional career in surface line, but USNA gave me the basis for rewarding assignments at the intersection of policy and technology. Linda and I have been married happily since 1976. Both our sons, Linton and Frank, majored in physics at William and Mary and now are systems engineers at MITRE, living next door to each other in Northern Virginia. We have grandsons born in 2013, 2015, and 2016, and a granddaughter born in 2014. We look forward to spoiling them.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary John A. Fears* Service History: 1963-1965: USNA (1st Company). 1965-1966: NATC; received commission and wings 12/1966. 1967-1970: HC-1, NAS Imperial Beach, CA; H-2A, H-2B, H-2C Pilot. 1970-1971: Naval Post Graduate School; BA. 1972: HS-10; SH-3 Replacement Pilot training. 1972-1974: HS-8; SH-3 Pilot. 1975-1978: NRD San Diego; Stationed Naval Recruiting "A" Station Phoenix AZ, Officer Procurement Officer. 1978-1980: HS-12; S-H3 Pilot, Operations Officer. 1980-1981: Naval War College; Command & Staff Course. 1981-1983: Naval Recruiting District Raleigh, NC; Commanding Officer. 1983-1986: Naval Recruiting District Los Angeles, CA; Commanding Officer. 1986-1988: Naval Recruiting District Philadelphia, PA; Commanding Officer. 1988-1991: Naval Reserve Readiness Center Saint Louis, MO; Commanding Officer. 1992: Retired from USN with rank of Captain. Principal Occupation: After retirement from Navy, was kept occupied taking care of parents, relatives, and a wife in ill health. Initiated a small business in real estate investing. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Travel, including deployments to WestPac 1968-69 and a Med Cruise (from San Diego) in 1979. I taxied my T-34 in Las Vegas, NV from McCarran Airport to the Convention Center down Paradise Rd. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren My wife, Carol, passed away in 2007. Since then, I married Diane HMCM USNR (Ret) in 2010. We have a grown son and two extended-family daughters with 5 grandchildren and 1 great- granddaughter. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Our retired life is very busy. Diane and I are still completing the "merger and acquisition"/consolidation process. We are attempting to downsize from hers and mine to ours as we begin to renovate our new (to us) home. We expect to be ready for Navy-Notre Dame in Jacksonville in 2016. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: President Kennedy's visit and speech Plebe Summer. 1963 Army-Navy game. Humorous Memories of USNA: The time Bob McFarland "borrowed" my white works top with my nametag, and got caught by an upperclassman in 8th Company who recognized my name. He ended up paying for my reputation, and for not being able to recite his name which was so obvious on "his" nametag! Awards Received: Meritorious Service Medal (3) Navy Commendation Medal (3) Academic Achievement: N/A Athletic: 1963 undefeated Plebe Football Team, and 1965 Pensacola Navy Goshawks Service Awards: N/A Why did you elect to attend USNA, and what did you expect to "obtain from attending"? I was influenced by my father, a career Naval Officer (Mustang). He convinced me that every day in the Navy was like Sunday on the farm, and made that look like a really attractive bargain! I expected a first class education and a career in the Navy.

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1st Company Did the Academy experience satisfy your expectations? I did not graduate from the Academy, but obtained the discipline that benefitted me throughout my career. My experience at the Academy has remained with me through my affiliation with the institution, as well as personal and professional relationships established there and in the Fleet. Summary for John Fears A fatal encounter with physics mid-term youngster year let me out that infamous gate. To achieve my original goal of a Navy commission and career, I applied for and was accepted to the Naval Cadet (NAVCAD) program for pre-flight school May 1965. I played football in Fall 1965 for Pensacola Navy Goshawks with former members of the 1963 Navy team and traveled to Mexico City for a game against Mexico Polytechnic Institute. I completed flight training in December 1966, receiving a commission and Wings of Gold. I reported to HC-1 at NAS Imperial Beach for my first fleet assignment and deployed to the Tonkin Gulf aboard USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63) in '67-68 and in USS ENTERPRISE (CVAN-65) in '69. My first shore assignment was to the Naval Post-graduate School Monterey to complete my BA. I returned to the fleet and HS-8 to join the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) world in H-3s. Orders to Recruiting Command San Diego lead me to my sub-specialty. I was stationed in Phoenix, and had to fly my T-34 to visit the University of Nevada Las Vegas. A highlight of one visit was taxiing said T-34 from McCarran Field to the convention center via Paradise Road. I returned to the fleet for a Department Head tour in HS-12, flying SH-3Hs in 1978. I lived in San Diego and made a Med Cruise aboard USS AMERICA (CV-66). In 1980, shore duty took me to Newport, RI for the War College Command & Staff Course. I assumed command of Naval Recruiting District (NRD) Raleigh, NC in 1981. Success led to selection to the larger NRD Los Angeles in 1983 and to NRD Philadelphia in 1986. I completed my career as CO of the Naval Reserve Readiness Center, St Louis, and retired in the rank of Captain on 1 Jan 1992.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Lawrence H. Green* Service History 1963 – 64: USNA (1st Company) 1964 – 69: USNR – Rank of PN3 Education Post USNA @ The Ohio State University 1968 – Bachelor Chemical Engineering 1970 – MBA in Finance & Marketing Principal Occupation (Life after USNA) 32 years in corporate finance with Amoco Oil/Chemicals, Whirlpool Corporation, Quaker Oats, HAVI Corporation (McDonald’s distribution), PAREXEL International (Clinical research). While stateside lived in Chicago, Benton Harbor, MI, and Stow, MA. Had the opportunity to live and work in Asia for 12 years, 6 in Seoul, Korea, 5 in Singapore and 1 in Tokyo. Memorable Life Events: Had I not left USNA when I did, I most assuredly would not have met my wife Karen in the summer of ’64, on June 26th, one year to the day after our “I” day. We married in 1968 and will be approaching our 50th at the time of the Class of 1967 reunion. Tell us about your wife Karen is a retired school teacher, gourmet cook, and world traveler, having gone on all of those overseas expatriate assignments with me.

How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired from PAREXEL in 2008 and moved to South Carolina to get away from those cold, snowy Northern winters. Karen and I spend 3-4 months of the year traveling, which includes attending 1-2 Ohio State football games each year. When not traveling we spend our time reading, working on the lawn and garden and playing golf. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Making the plebe football team, and going undefeated and unscored upon. , Being able to eat on the training tables, where I met Roger Staubach. • Being 5 feet from President Kennedy when, after granting our class amnesty at the end of plebe summer, he walked down thru the ranks and shook George Samaras’ hand, who was right next to me in formation (the only time I ever wished I could have been a little shorter). • Navy’s victory over Army in Philadelphia • Rooming with Dave Vetter Humorous Memories of USNA: • PE boxing final exam vs. Pete Pace, the only “lefty” I had ever faced, and he beat the crap out of me. • Some of the goofy things we did for upper classmen on “come arounds”. • My exit interview with the Navy Captain, who was the penultimate officer that I spoke to during the process, right before the Commandant. Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I was recruited by Rick Forzano the head football coach at Navy, who had been a high school coach in Northeast Ohio before going to USNA. It was an honor to receive the appointment, and I was the first appointee to a service academy from my high school in 7 years. The most recent, prior to me, was Ned Oldham, who played football at USNA. I was made aware of the appointment very late in the enrollment process, and consequently received my appointment from a Senator from Arizona, not one from Ohio. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My expectations were to obtain an outstanding education, and to become a Navy pilot. While I only attended USNA for a short period of time I learned discipline and organizational skills that helped me throughout my studies at OSU, and on into my business career. However, I realized that my academic objective of becoming a chemical engineer could only be achieved by at least another 2 years of college, either before, or after, my active duty requirement had been fulfilled. This was a commitment I was not prepared to make at that point in my life. 54

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Larry J. King*

Larry met his wife Ann, on Youngster cruise, Berkeley, summer l964. During a first dance at the Officer’s Club Larry unexpectedly exclaimed: “I don’t want to get married”, to which Ann replied, “Who’s talking about getting married, let’s dance.” Marrying in l966, their dance lasted fifty, adventure-filled years. The joy of Larry’s life was his family; son Joshua, daughter Sarah, son-in-law Austin and grandson, Indigo. Larry’s USNA and Marine Corps service inspired him to serve as legal counsel, pro bono, to numerous servicemen and women, throughout his forty year legal career. He never forgot service to country. After graduating from Golden Gate University School of Law, Larry and Ann lived and traveled abroad during which Larry taught US Constitutional Law to servicemen and women in Germany and England. Highlights of Larry’s law career included his appointment by the US State Department as Fulbright Scholar to Pakistan, where he studied the jirga mediation process in the NW Provinces. A memorable escapade occurred when Larry was handed a Kalashnikov and challenged to hit a tiny, distant target. His Marine Corps sharp- shooter training came to the rescue and he obliterated the target to much cheering and disbelief by local tribesmen. He declined a second challenge! His experiences are recounted in a 2007 book entitled: Ambassadors of Peace - Experiences of Pakistani and US Exchange Scholars. Larry served as an elected WA State District Court Judge, a Squaxin Island Tribal Court Judge and a Justice for the Intertribal Court System. Early in his legal career he was WA State’s white collar crime division’s lead prosecutor. In his solo law practice he emphasized criminal, employment and personal injury. Larry passed away on September 15, 2014. His family honors his love, wisdom and passion for life and his ever-ready laughter which surrounded their lives together. *Attended but did not graduate

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1st Company Peter Koch* I separated from the Academy (7/65) to chart a more direct path into a physics career: B.S. (12/66) Univ. of Michigan; Ph.D. (8/74) Yale; Yale faculty (8/74-8/82). Through close friends I met Nancy, a 6th grade teacher, who became the love of my life. We married (8/80) and spent our honeymoon year in Paris, where I did research and Nancy worked at the International School of Paris. After one more year in New Haven, we moved to Long Island (8/82) when I joined the physics faculty at Stony Brook University. With our two children, Amanda (10/82) and Nathan (5/85), coming soon after, Nan quickly displayed superb skills as Mom. Except for a sabbatical year that we all spent in Bavaria (1989-90) and summer travels for research and conferences, Nan and I still live in the home our children grew up in. Nan returned to full-time, outside work in 1993 and will retire from her position as a middle school guidance counselor in 2016. After one more sabbatical leave, I plan to retire in 2018 from my position as Professor but remain academically active thereafter. Amanda (Univ. of Richmond, B.A., 2004) and Nathan (NYU, B.F.A., 2007) have been working in NY City since college. Amanda and Chris married (2011) and began their family life with Boden (2013), their first son and our first grandson. Nan and I have attended three class reunions (2002, 7, 12) and look forward to the 50th reunion in 2017. I am impressed by the achievements of so many of our classmates and am proud to be a (non-grad) member of the class of 1967. *Attended but did not graduate

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary J. Jeremiah Mahoney* At the end of plebe year I was turned back for academics, but resigned and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1966. I went through the Air Force ROTC flight program and had orders to flight training, but failed the last eye test.

The Air Force granted me an educational delay to go to law school and I graduated from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1969 and entered active duty as a JAG. I got a quick immersion in the courtroom, defending and prosecuting courtsmartial during the Vietnam era, and became a trial judge in 20 months. I was stationed at 12 locations world-wide as a military judge and command staff judge advocate. I tried cases at every AF base, presiding at almost 2,000 criminal trials, including 24 homicide cases, three of which were death penalty eligible. During Operation Desert Storm, I presided in-theatre over trials of wartime offenses. I was a military trial judge for 24 of my 30 years, including one tour as an appellate judge. My last 3 tours were as Chief Circuit Judge. I retired as a colonel in 2000 andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;by happenstanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as the longest-serving military judge (of any service) in U.S. history. I began my federal civilian career as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice Criminal Division, Capital Case unit. Later I served as the Director of the Disciplinary Appeals Board in the Transportation Security Administration. Currently I am the Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, presiding at and overseeing hearings of administrative complaints brought by HUD and four other federal agencies. I have four adult children, the youngest two of whom lived with me after my divorce from my first wife. In 1998 I married Karen Mayberry on a ski slope at Lake Tahoe (see photo). She is still on active duty as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, currently serving as an Appellate Military Judge; previously she served as Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions (at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay). *Attended but did not graduate

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1st Company Bruce M. Rowley* After High School I attended the University of Virginia and was in NROTC. At the end of my freshman year I joined the Navy Reserve and went on active duty for two years. I served in the commissioning crew of the USS OKINAWA (LPH-3) as a Radarman striker and participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. While still in Cuba I passed the fleet examination for the Naval Academy and was sent to NAPS in Bainbridge, MD and entered with the Class of 1967. I played tennis during Plebe summer and was on the Plebe Squash Team. I left the Academy at the end of my plebe year after bilging Chemistry and ended up graduating from a small college in in Iowa in October 1966. I then went to Wall Street, studied at the Stern School of Business at NYU and joined First National City Bank which later became Citigroup. I became an investment banker and worked there for 35 years. I was a Fixed Income Securities sales manager for Citigroup’s Institutional Investment Bank in both NYC and London for 25 years. Later I became a Senior Vice President and was a Global Investment Advisor for Citigroup’s Global Wealth Management Business. I married my first wife Marjorie in 1983 and we raised two wonderful daughters, Courtney and Megan. We also bred and showed champion Newfoundland Dogs. Marjorie died of cancer in 2005. I retired in 2006 and became the President and Managing Member of Highland Investment Capital, LLC. In 2008 I married Elin A. Gursky, ScD, MSc, IDHA, a recognized public health and health security expert and infectious disease epidemiologist. I have been a member of the USCG Auxiliary since 2010 and belong to Flotilla 054-22-02 located in Maryland’s Upper Chesapeake Bay Area. Currently I am the business administration officer for MTI Integrated Business Development, Inc., a 501(c)(3) Corporation that serves military veterans who have barriers to employment. *Attended but did not graduate

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2nd Company Joseph J. Castoro Service History: Naval Surface Warfare 1963 -1967 USNA/ 2nd Company 1967 - 1971 Active Duty (Did 2 WESTPAC deployments aboard USS Long Beach (CGN 9) out of Long Beach, CA. mostly in Weapons Dept. (Missiles) . Got orders while in the Gulf of Tonkin to return to East Coast to Farragut (DLG 6) - suppose to be in Newport, RI - but actually was in Phila PA shipyard . Finished active duty aboard Farragut and kept my Commission as a active Reservist - one of best decisions I ever made. Spending my entire Reserve career in “PAY “ status at Fort McHenry, Balto, MD. Finally “ pulled the plug” after almost 21 combined years. Principal Occupation: Concurrent with USNR worked 20 years for Defense Contractor located in Rockville, MD. Was Program manager of an Air Force program that was moved from Wright Pat AFB in Ohio to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma - been an “OKIE” ever since. When defense contract was cancelled I chose to stay in Ok rather than return to East Coast. Been working for the last 20 years for the country’s largest cemetery/funeral home provider (SCI - headquartered in Houston, TX.), albeit in part time status for last 7 yrs. Life Events: Have 2 sons from 1ts Marriage and 2 Step-daughters from 2nd marriage. 5 Grandchildren - so far. Our children are all bright but can’t figure out what possessed the ones with our grandchildren to live on both coasts (3 in Fairfax, VA. and 2 in Tacoma, WA.) Needless to say we travel a lot. Managed to earn 2 Law Degrees (JD & MLL (Labor Law) -but have never practiced law-story for another time. Managed to survive 2 Quad By Pass Surgeries (1994, 2014). God hasn’t shared his plan for what he wants me do so he keeps me around. USNA Memories: Too many to note but one of my favorites is how I earned my prestigious BLACK “N” 2nd Class Year. My roomie Bob Ryan’s dad and uncle came to visit and took us out to dinner some where on RTE 2 and during the meal must have poured 5 or 6 drinks into our coffee cups during dinner. Needless to say we were a little wobbly when we got back to Bancroft. To make matters worse Uniform of Day was “with Overcoats” and we were carrying ours as we approached the Main Office steps. Who was standing at the top of the steps but Mike Haskins ’66 ????- the rest is history!!! Summary bio for Joe Castoro After graduation spent almost year at NAS Pensacola where I ultimately realized that I was not destined to be a Top Gun ace and transferred to Surface Warfare. I was assigned to USS Long Beach (CGN-9), home-ported in Long Beach, CA. Navy first sent me to Guided Missile School at Mare Island. Upon completion I flew to Philippines and boarded Long Beach in Subic Bay. I completed parts of 2 Westpac cruises and while in Gulf of Tonkin on 2nd Westpac I received orders to USS Farragut home-ported in Newport, R.I. I left active duty after almost 5 years but kept my commission and completed almost 16 years of Reserve duty in various units at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD where I retired as a CDR. After leaving active duty I returned to Maryland and lived on a farm, north of Baltimore, for 7 years before moving to Annapolis. I went to work for a Defense Contractor, north of DC for 20 years, and became the Program Manager for our company's Air Force business. During that time I went to Law School at night and obtained both a JD and LLM but never practiced law. When the Air Force moved my program activity to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, OK, as Program Manager I was the logical choice to relocate. Three years later the AF cancelled the program, I remained in OK, remarried and went to work for the largest funeral services company in the US (SCI - HQ in Houston, TX). I have been with them for over 22 years both full time and part time. Anny and I have been married 22 years and have 4 children and 6 grandchildren.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary John J. Dooley Spent four years in Amphibs, got out and got a ME in civil engineering. Became licensed PE in Virginia and South Carolina. Worked in private practice in Virginia until 1989 when I moved to South Carolina. Served as City Engineer, then Director of Utilities for the City of Columbia. Retired in 2010. Moved to Berkeley, CA in 2013 where my older son and family live. Spend winters in El Salvador with younger son and his family. No longer married, enjoying Bay area and time with my sons and five granddaughters. Play some golf and drink a little dark rum.

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2nd Company Walter W. Dukiet Jr Service History – please include dates NAVY -1967-1969- Flight Training ( Pilot ) 1969-1972- VP-16 1972-1973 COMFAIRWINGSLANT- Admiral's Aide 1973-1988-VP-66 (Reserves ) Principal Occupation Pilot. Worked for foreign airlines – interesting? Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Catherine Ware- married in 1971 - 2 daughters - Kate & Chris- 2 grandsonsBrandon & Ryan... How is retired life going and do you currently spend your time? Retirement-Doing OK - exercise / beach / travel Humorous Memories of USNA: Selling food at night to other "Mids " and not getting caught by the OOD... Awards Received Academic Achievement (Fulbright, Rhodes, etc. along with highest degree earned and major) Diploma - no major

Uniform Device Aviation Wings Please Answer Two Questions: 1. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending"? It was the best scholarship offer I received coming out of high school and I would get a college degree from a prestigious school. 2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? In general as an 18 year old young man I did not have too many expectations upon entering USNA but I did know it was a tough place to get through (over 1/3 of our initial class did not '"make the cut " for various reasons ). The Academy experience & reputation benefited me greatly in life- after graduation. As the saying goes: ".Bad place to be at but Great place to be from”. That second part has definitely been true in my life because of the education received and values that the Academy reinforced in me during my 4 years at BOAT SCHOOL Summary bio for Bill Dukiet After graduation and flight training I joined Patrol Squadron Sixteen in Jacksonville, Florida where I flew the P-3A aircraft. My second tour took me to Brunswick Maine as an Admiral's Aide / Flag Secretary (COMPATWINGSLANT). I left active service in 1973 and joined the Navy Reserve in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania with Patrol Squadron Sixty-Six. While in the Reserves I held various Department Head positions in VP-66 and eventually became the Squadron’s Commanding Officer. I retired from the Navy Reserve in 1988 with the rank of Captain. My civilian career was that of a commercial airline pilot working for several U.S. and foreign passenger airlines. While employed by U.S. carriers besides " flying the line" I held various management positions. I retired from the airline business at the federal mandatory age of 60. In 1971 Cathy Ware and I were married and subsequently had 2 daughters and we now have 2 grandsons. Currently we split our time between Sarasota, Florida - Sun / Beach / Surf, and Raleigh, North Carolina - Grandsons. I attended the Academy because it was the best college scholarship offer that I had in high school. While at the Academy I played on the baseball team and four years later I graduated with a 2.5 GPA right in the "middle of the pack". I thoroughly enjoyed all my years in the Navy and will always be grateful for the Education / Training / Vocation provided to me by the Naval Academy and the Navy. Being an Academy graduate certainly offered me many advantages and opportunities during my life that I would not have had otherwise, plus the values instilled at the Academy made it easier for me to choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong during my adult life

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Stanley C. Ellinwood After graduation, I attended National Cryptographic School located in Fort Meade, MD where I earned a 1610 designator as a Navy cryptographer in 1968. I filled cryptographer billets over the next 10 years in Scotland, on 7th Fleet staff, CA and Washington, DC. I married Barbara Deiss in December 1967 .We have been married 49 years now producing two daughters, one son and four grandchildren. I am retired now living in Inverness, FL close by St Petersburg where I grew up and from where I reported to USNA nearly 50 years ago. I have many fond memories of my days at Navy- most with classmates during Plebe Year or on Youngster Cruise. I attended because I wanted to become a Navy pilot. That wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to be but I am thankful I had the opportunity to serve as a weak-eyed, hard of hearing cryptographer.

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2nd Company Alan Erdelen Service History 8/67-11/68: Pensacola, FL; Meridian, MS; Kingsville, TX Flight training. Received my Naval Aviator wings 11/21/68. 11/68-1/69: NAS Olathe, KS Naval Aviation recruiter on college campuses throughout KS. There didn't seem to be a lot of interest in joining the military in the late 60's for some reason....men avoided us and barber shops like the plague, yet the women loved the uniform. 1/69-7/69: NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL A-7 RAG 7/69-2/71: VA-155, NAS Lemoore, CA One combat cruise to Vietnam (5/70-12/70) flying A-7B's from USS Oriskany. Flew air cover for ground troops, armed reconnaissance missions over North Vietnam, interdiction missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and air support during the raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam in November of 1970. 84 combat missions, 6 Air Medals. 2/71-6/72: NAS Chase Field, Beeville, TX Public Affairs Officer Principal Occupation I had a new Corvette, new son, and no job when I re-entered civilian life in 1972, yet began a career in the travel industry soon afterwards that would last for the next 3+ decades. Several interesting stops along the way in both incentive and retail travel before being named President of Daytons/ Hudsons/Marshal Fields' Travel in the later stages of my civilian career. Ended my travel career as President of Gage Travel/Gage Outdoor Expeditions of Minneapolis, and currently serve as a sales/marketing consultant to a Minneapolis-based marketing/publishing company. Still not ready for the rocking chair. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Having been blessed with 2 accomplished children and 5 grandchildren is easily the most memorable. Traveling extensively to six continents during my travel career and time in the Navy the most interesting. Looking into the mirror and seeing a 70 year-old man looking back at me the most unusual. I'll add rewarding to the list as the classmate, as well as squadron-mate, of the finest men I have ever known. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: JFK's visit to address our class during our plebe summer in 1963 remains a fond memory. I've had a framed copy of his speech to us that day hanging in a place of honor in my home for many years. Not coincidental at all to me is the fact that CVA-67 was christened U.S.S. John F. Kennedy. A vivid memory of my second class year is when I traveled to my hometown of St. Louis, MO for the NCAA "Final Four" soccer tournament as a member of Navy's defending national championship soccer team. Don't ask about our premature return to Annapolis. Humorous Memories of USNA: Conspiring with three classmates to position ourselves in the four corners of the room to open the chart/graph pocketed on the inside cover of our textbooks as soon as the Thermodynamics final exam began. The quadraphonic clatter resulted in everyone else in the room also opening their multi-folded charts in that huge engineering hall, even though the first few dozen questions had nothing at all to do with that chart/graph. A real study in human nature. There are too many other humorous memories to list, yet I have a feeling reliving them with those I shared them with will be a highlight of our reunion. Please Answer Two Questions: 1. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending"? My dad and three of his brothers served in the Navy or Coast Guard during WWII. My mother's only brother, a Purple Heart recipient, flew P-47's out of New Guinea during the war. I knew I wanted to be a Navy pilot while still in grade

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary school due to their influence, and also knew attending USNA would be the best route to take in order to do so. 2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Very satisfied with my USNA experience. Learning self-discipline and that doing things simply because they are the right things to do served me well during my time in the Navy as well as in civilian life. Summary Yearbook Write-up for Al Erdelen Al entered Navy fight training in August of 1967, receiving his Naval Aviator wings in Kingsville, Texas in November of 1968. He later flew 84 combat missions from the deck of the U.S.S. Oriskany over the "Not So Friendly Skies" of Southeast Asia as an A-7B pilot for Attack Squadron 155, the highlight of which was flying air support during the raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam in November of 1970. He left the Navy in 1972 to begin a 30-year career as an executive in the travel industry, during which time he also completed ongoing senior management coursework at the University of St. Thomas and Harvard University. He was named President of Dayton/Hudson/Marshall Fields Travel and its 25 offices in Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois in 1998, and later retired from his travel career as President of Gage Travel of Minneapolis. He has two children, John (MBA, University of Minnesota) and Anne-Marie (BA in French, University of Wisconsin-Madison followed by continuing French studies at the Sorbonne in Paris). He has four granddaughters and one grandson, and has discovered no truer words were ever spoken than those referenced in the saying "Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old". He currently resides in Farmington, MN.

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2nd Company Dennis F. Haley Service History: Jun - Oct 1967 - USNA Plebe Summer Company Officer Nov - Apr 1968 - Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, MD May - Oct 1968 - S3G Prototype, West Milton, NY Nov - Jun 1969 - Sub School, Groton, CT Jul 69 - Jul 1971 - USS Long Beach CGN-9, Yankee Station 5 months then overhaul and refueling, Mare Island, CA Principal Occupation: Aug 1971 I joined my father in a small family heating business: John J. Haley Company. Spent the next 27 years building the business into the largest non-union Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing business in the Philadelphia area; 40,000 customers and 10,000 service contracts. Sold company to a Public Utility in 1998. January 2000 started Academy Leadership, LLC doing leadership training and development using the military model as developed by the Naval Academy and West Point. Presently have 30 affiliates across the U.S. delivering our programs. Marilyn and I had three wonderful children who are all married and a total of four Grand Children. Oldest son, Sean USNA’92, had a very successful Command tour as CO HSL- 44 and became a Navy Captain in August 2014. Marilyn passed away June 6, 2012 after a long battle with MS. Last year I married Maryann and eight classmates joined us to celebrate. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: After a very slow start academically, I was able to graduate and complete Nuclear Power Training. Humorous Memories of USNA: Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Had always wanted to go to Notre Dame to play football and become an Engineer. After a visit to ND, the coach said I was too small. The Navy “bird-dog” convinced me to visit USNA and they got me an appointment from Rev. Abernathy from Mississippi. So I showed up for Plebe football along with 349 other recruited players. I really enjoyed my time at USNA and appreciate all that I learned about being a successful leader. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? . Summary bio for Denney Haley Following graduation, I completed the Naval Nuclear Power Program and served on the U.S.S. Long Beach, CGN9. Following a tour of duty in Vietnam, I returned to Pennsylvania and joined the family business, eventually transforming it from a 5-man operation to multi-million dollar HVAC company with 40,000 customers. When the company was sold to a public utility, I turned my leadership initiatives towards helping others to become successful leaders and holding senior positions in the business world. In 2000, I founded Academy Leadership based on the methods used by the Naval Academy and West Point leadership development programs. We combined these strategies with today’s successful corporate philosophies to create the Lead2Succeed™ process that builds leaders who energize people, effectively communicate organizational goals, and instill smart work strategies throughout the company to achieve tangible results. Today we have 24 Affiliates across the country and deliver our programs at 39 U.S. locations as well as Chile, Brazil, China, Canada, England and Israel. As an author, my most recent book is The Core Values Compass, Moving from Cynicism to a Core Values Culture. I am also the coauthor of The Leader’s Compass, 2nd Edition, A Personal Leadership Philosophy Is Your Key to Success which is being used by many Fortune 500 companies and academic institutions across the country. I also served as an adjunct professor at Villanova University in the Leadership Studies Program. My first wife, Marilyn, passed away in 2012. I recently married Maryann and we live in Juno Beach, FL. My oldest son Sean, USNA '92, is presently the XO of NAS Jacksonville and will become CO next year. My daughter, Erin, recently

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary joined Academy Leadership as our Director, Sales & Marketing. My youngest, Mark, is a senior manager for a Mechanical Contracting firm in PA.

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2nd Company J. Michael Kirchberg After I graduated, I stayed for the new plebe class as a company officer, an unusual, disorienting experience in some ways and also a very special one. I then left in the fall for nearly three years in Oxford, England, spending the time learning a new academic discipline, and visiting Europe, the Soviet Union and Africa. During this period I determined I had become a conscientious objector and declared it so to the Navy. I returned to serve in Washington DC on the staff of the Oceanographer of the Navy until my honorable discharge in 1971. Soon after, I married, adopted my wife Susie’s baby son Douglas, and began a long career in secondary education. My first stint as a teacher was in a Middle School in DC where I could teach a variety of subjects to seventh and eighth graders and coach high school soccer. I found my niche. I taught in Middle School for three years and then in High School for fourteen. I loved it. I discovered a particular rapport with teenagers, the opportunity to generate group cohesion in a classroom and a variety of academic lore. In the process, I became especially interested in how young people best learn and turned my work more and more into teaching learning and tutoring vulnerable teenagers. The latter has been my exclusive professional focus for more than 30 years. It has been a rich, gratifying career. My domestic life has been less linear. Nevertheless, I have been very happily married to my wife Karen for many years. My children— Douglas, Megan and Brady—and my stepdaughter Alexa remain a central feature of our life together, as well as two adorable granddaughters, offspring of my daughter Megan and her husband. Karen and I have inherited my brother Mark’s children and grandchildren as well, so our ranks are much enriched. Though the family is scattered considerably, we manage a gratifying closeness in mutual visits and Skype. I sought an appointment to the Naval Academy largely because of my father, a Navy fighter pilot in WWII, North Africa and Guadalcanal in particular. That experience of his was the most important of his life and colored my youth, evoking in me a wish to please him and to serve. When I got an appointment, I felt a dream come true. The Naval Academy fulfilled my expectations far more than I expected: it has been one of two or three formative and central places of my life. I grew up there; I learned how to expand my academic life; I made friendships of a lifetime, and I gained a sense of myself as a young man. Summary bio for Jerry Kirchberg I sought admission to the Naval Academy largely because of my father, a Navy fighter pilot in WWII, North Africa and Guadalcanal in particular. The Naval Academy fulfilled my expectations far more than I expected: it has been one of three formative and central places of my life. I grew up there; I learned to expand my academic life; I made friendships of a lifetime, and I gained a sense of myself as a young man. After I graduated, I left for three years in Oxford, England. During this period I determined I had become a conscientious objector and declared it so to the Navy. I returned to serve in Washington DC on the staff of the Oceanographer of the Navy until my honorable discharge in 1971. Soon after, I married, adopted my wife’s baby son Douglas, and began a career in secondary education. At first, I taught a variety of subjects to seventh and eighth graders and coached high school soccer. I found my niche. I taught in Middle School for three years, then High School for fourteen. I loved it. I discovered a particular rapport with teenagers, the opportunity to generate group cohesion in a classroom, and a variety of academic lore. Ultimately, I became especially interested in how young people best learn and turned my work more into teaching learning and tutoring vulnerable teenagers. The latter has been my exclusive professional focus for more than 30 years. My domestic life has been less linear. Nevertheless, I have been happily married to my wife Karen for many years. My children—Douglas, Megan and Brady—and my stepdaughter Alexa remain central to our life together, as well as two adorable granddaughters, offspring of my daughter Megan and her husband. Though the family is scattered, we manage a gratifying closeness.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Richard H. Lambert Service History 6/67 – 11/67 Instructor, Naval Science Department USNA 11/67 – 5/68 Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, MD. 5/68 – 11/68 Nuclear Power Prototype, West Milton, NY 11/68 – 5/69 Submarine School, New London, CT 5/69 – 12/71 USS Simon Bolivar SSBN 641 Communications Officer M Division Officer & Radiological Controls Assistant Engineer Principal Occupation After leaving the Navy, I worked in the field of information technology. Starting as a programmer, I rose to manage all IT development for a series of small to medium size banks. I obtained an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and spent the next decade and a half as a management consultant traveling extensively in the US and multiple foreign countries until my wife, Sue, said the traveling was too much. I went back to technology becoming a Senior Vice President for a large regional bank, and then director of customer technology for one of the top five banks in the US. My last corporate job was as CIO of a credit card company in California. I finished my career running my own company helping companies market themselves more effectively using the web and other channels. Upon retiring, Sue and I looked around the country for a great place to settle and we found this wonderful area of South Carolina. We have two daughters, one here in South Carolina and one in Minnesota. Most vivid/fondest memory of USNA My most vivid memory of the Academy was the amount of studying that I had to do. At that time majoring in a subject required taking all the required courses and overloading in the subject area in which you were trying to major. I majored in physics so I felt that I was always going to class or studying. My fondest memory was the camaraderie with the other Mids, especially those in second company. Why I attended My father was a Navy chief (AOC). When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, he was stationed on Ford Island. He survived the attack and served throughout the Pacific during the war. He was an avid Navy man so we were a Navy family. Going to the Academy was a goal that I set for myself fairly early. Expectations I think the Academy helped me grow mentally and physically giving me a great foundation on which to build the rest of my life. Summary for Rick Lambert Upon graduation, Rick remained at the Naval Academy for five months teaching in the Naval Science Department. He started into the Nuclear Power Submarine pipeline in November and completing Sub School in May of 1969. In March of 1969, he married a beautiful woman from Delaware. He reported to USS Simon Bolívar (SSBN 641) at the end of May and made three patrols and one special operation from Charleston, SC. The boat then entered the shipyard for a nuclear refueling and major overhaul. He separated from the Navy at the end of 1971, and began a career in the computer field working with EDS. He then went into the financial world working for a number of banks. He got an MBA in finance from the Wharton Graduate School, and became a consultant to the financial industry. After 11 years of constant travel he decided to go back into banking so that he would actually know his two daughters. He ended up as director of branch technology for US Bancorp in Minneapolis. After the eighth or ninth merger, he went to California as Chief Technology Officer for a credit card processing company before starting his own company helping companies market their products using both traditional and internet-based marketing strategies. Retiring in 2010, he and his wife moved to Indian Land, SC, about ten miles south of the Charlotte, NC. city limits. He now helps church and other non-profit organizations with their financial and internet issues. He is still married to his first wife and has two daughters who have not yet had any children of their own.

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2nd Company Michael Mazurczak Service History 1967 – 1968 1968 – 1972 1972 – 1973 1973 – 1973 1974 – 1986

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Flight Training VP-24 – P-3 squadron - NAS Pax River, Md. One split deployment – Iceland / Lajes - 1969 Two deployments – Iceland – 1971 and 1972 VP-30 – P-3 RAG - NAS Pax River Taught nugget pilots how to fly the P-3 VP-68 – P-3 Reserve squadron – NAS Pax River VP-60 – P-3 Reserve squadron – NAS Glenview, IL Did many active duty periods in Lajes, Rota, Guam, P.I., Japan, Hawaii Squadron Commanding Officer – 1985 – 1986 Officer of Naval Research Detachment Chicago - Reserve unit Unit Commanding Officer – 1988 – 1989 Retired from the Reserves

Principal Occupation 1973 – 2005 Pilot for American Airlines. Enjoyed a 33 month furlough from Oct 1973 – Jun 1976. Worked as a salesman for Honeywell and Pfizer during the 33months. Recalled to American in Jul 1976. 2005 Retired from American and have maximized my fun meter ever since

Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events USNA introduced me to flying our 2/c summer. Love at first take off. Professional pilot for 39 years. Fell in love with the work and luckily, was able to make a living doing what I loved. , Married my high school sweetheart, Diane. Celebrating 48 years of marriage in Dec 2015. Best decision I ever made. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA My father was a retired Navy BMC and was stationed at Severn River Naval Command across the river from USNA when I was in second, third, and fourth grade. We lived on the Naval Base. We went to so many events at USNA and I decided then that I was going to try for an appointment. While he was stationed there, he ran the bowling alley on the base. The day before our induction day in 1963, my dad and I went back to the base and to the bowling alley. I noticed a midshipman cleaning the head in the bowling alley! I asked my dad who that was. He said, “Oh, yah. I had some of those guys. That one must have been kicked out of the Naval Academy and they used to send them to me to do work.” For four years that image stayed in the mind. I did not ever want to get kicked out and clean heads at the bowling alley. Humorous Memories of USNA: We played poker my 1/c year in our room frequently. The one night I decided to go down to the basement and shoot pool, my room was busted for gambling. I missed the whole thing. Came back once through the main entrance of Bancroft Hall under the influence and muddy because we thought it would be a good idea to have a “King of the Mountain” fight in our blues in the mud during the night in a rain storm. The MOOW was at the front entrance, took one look at us and told us to stop. I decided to run and as I turned around to look at him, it looked to me in my drunken stupor that he had just drawn his sword. I thought, “My God, he is going to run me through.” I got to the second deck and collapsed. Amazingly, he let us off the next morning with a warning. Why did I attend? My father left school in 7th grade to earn money for his family. He joined the Navy in 1932 and spent 23 years in the Navy retiring as a BMC. He loved the Navy so much and he influenced my decision to attend simply because he loved it so much. Did USNA satisfy my expectations? I loved it after plebe year. It gave me an incredible foundation upon which I was able to build a wonderful life. Summary bio for Mike Mazurczak My father was a career BMC. He was stationed at the Severn River Naval Command in 1952. I attended 2 nd, 3rd and 4th grade in Annapolis and fell in love with the idea of attending USNA. Receiving an appointment was the best thing that ever happened to me next to marrying my high school sweetheart. USNA introduced me to flying during 2/C summer. I can still remember the first take off in the T-34. After we were airborne, I looked around and said “You mean they will pay Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary me to do this?!â&#x20AC;? Professional love at first sight that continues to this day. I graduated in the upper 10% of the bottom 20% of our class and went to Pensacola in the first SNA class in July 1967. I loved flight training. What a kick! Was assigned to a P-3 squadron, VP-24, in Pax River and spent 6 years active including an extra year as a RAG instructor. Got out and got my dream job as an American Airlines pilot. Then, the Yom Kippur War resulted in a 3 year layoff from the airlines. Got a real job as a salesman for those 3 years and went back to the airline when I was recalled. Retired from American Airlines at age 60. Spent a career in the Navy Reserves including a CO tour in VP-60 and retired as a Captain. What a great life and all because of the moral, mental and physical foundation, discipline and structure that USNA provided all of us. The friends I made at USNA are still my closest friends. We all shared so many similar and wonderful professional and personal experiences. Been married 48+ years to my child bride and could not have had a better life thanks in large part to USNA

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2nd Company Lawrence W. Meyer SERVICE HISTORY / PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION Am Currently Residing In St. Louis, Missouri. Served In The U.S. Navy For Twenty Seven Years Of Active And Reserve Duty As A Surface Warfare Officer. Made Two Westpac Deployments To The Tonkin Gulf Aboard The USS Decatur (Ddg-31) As The Missile Officer And Fire Control Officer. While Fire Control Officer Received A Spot Promotion To O-3 Two Years After Graduation. Served As Executive Officer Of USS Guide (Mso-447). Had Three Reserve Commands Including A Three Ship Surface Combatant Squadron. Retired As A 0-6 In 1994. Graduated Cum Laude From St. Louis University School Of Law In 1974. Served As An Admirality Trail Attorney For The U.S. Department Of Justice In Washington, D.C. And As an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri. Was an In House Corporate Counsel for Four Multi-National Corporations in the St. Louis Metro Area. Currently Do Volunteer Work Including United Way And Serve On The Board Of Fisher House In St, Louis. My Oldest Daughter Colleen Is A Small Animal Vet And Lives In Raleigh, NC. Before Attending Vet School At NC State She Served A Six Year Tour In The Army And Left Active Duty As A Captain In The 82th Airborne Division At Fort Bragg, NC. She Made Thirty Five Jumps, Earned Her Senior Jump Wings and Qualified As A Jump Master. She Deployed To Afghanistan Six Months After 9/11 Where She Was Awarded The Bronze Star. My Son Matt Is The Director Of A Substance Abuse Program For Young Adults And Lives In Atlanta Ga. My Youngest Daughter Mary Lives In Edwardsville, IL and Has Masters Degree in Nutrition from Rush Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. She Works In the Nicu at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis. I Have Five Grandchildren Ages 7 And Under. INTERESTING, UNUSUAL, OR MEMORIAL LIFE EVENTS My three great children and my five grandchildren. MOST VIVID/ FOUNDEST MEMORIES OF USNA JFK’S speech to our Plebe Class on August 1, 1963 in which he stated:”” Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile… can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, “ I served in the United States Navy.””

AWARDS RECEIVED Uniform Insignia Surface Warfare Officer Please answer two questions: Why did you attend USNA and what did you expect to obtain from attending: My parents had stretched to send me to a private Army ROTC High School. My dad told me son for college it’s either a scholarship or a loan. I was lucky enough to obtain an appointment to USNA. Since I was only seventeen when I entered the Academy I really had no expectations except I knew that I could obtain a great education and it would be a significant milestone in my life if I graduated. Did the Academy experience satisfy your expectations: The Academy experience, taken as a whole, gave me a great education and instilled in me the discipline /leadership to succeed in life. Summary for Larry Meyer I am currently residing in St. Louis, Missouri. Served in the U.S. Navy for twenty seven years of active and reserve duty as a Surface Warfare Officer. Made two Westpac deployments to the Tonkin Gulf aboard the USS DECATUR (DDG-31) as the Missile Officer and Fire Control Officer. While Fire Control Officer received a spot promotion to O-3 two years after graduation. Served as Executive Officer of USS GUIDE (MSO-447). Had three reserve commands including a three ship surface combatant squadron. Retired as an O-6 in 1994. Graduated Cum Laude from St. Louis University School of Law in 1974. Served as an Admiralty Trail Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and as an assistant prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri. Was an in house corporate counsel for four multi-national corporations in the St. Louis metro area. Currently do volunteer work including United Way and serve on the board of Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Fisher House in St. Louis. My oldest daughter Colleen is a small animal vet and lives in Raleigh, NC. Before attending vet school at NC State she served a six year tour in the Army and left active duty as a Captain in the 82th Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC. She made thirty-five jumps, earned her Senior Jump Wings and qualified as a Jump Master. She deployed to Afghanistan six months after 9/11 where she was awarded the Bronze Star. My son Matt is the director of a substance abuse program for young adults and lives in Atlanta Ga. My youngest daughter Mary lives in Edwardsville, IL and has her Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in Nutrition from Rush Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. She works in the NICU at Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital in St. Louis. I have five grandchildren ages 7 and under.

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2nd Company Frank A. Mueller Service History: 1963-1967 USNA (2nd Company) 1967-1968 USS Suffolk County (LST 1173) 1968-1969 Swift Boat Training, Coronado, CA 1969-1970 OinC Swift Boat, Vietnam 1970-1972 Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, DC 1972-1974 USS Guam (LPH9) 1974-1975 Instructor, Naval Gunfire Support Trainer, Little Creek, VA 1976 USS New (DD818) 1976-1978 USS Milwaukee (AOR 2) 1978-1981 Operational Test & Evaluation Force, Norfolk, VA 1981-1982 US Military Training Mission, Jubail, Saudi Arabia 1982-1986 Staff, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA 1986-1987 Staff, Joint Command& Control School, Norfolk, VA 1987 Retirement Principal Occupation: 1992-2010 Elementary School Teaching Assistant, Kindergarten, 3rd, 4th grades And Reading Instructor 2010 Retirement Interesting, Unusual Life Events: Oinc of Swift Boats in Vietnam. Task Element Commander of 6 boat detachment in Sadec. Weapons Officer on USS Guam (LPH 9) during evaluation of Adm. Zumwalt's Sea Control Ship Concept. Oversaw conversion of Weapons Department staffing , training and certification to support USMC AV-8 Harriers. While at OPTEVFOR was involved with testing of various systems for the new Spruance class destroyer. In Jubail Saudi Arabia, was a contracting officer’s tech rep involved with expansion of the Saudi Navy. Most Vivid/fondest/Worst Memories of USNA: Plebe year come arounds, running chow calls, early morning steam radiator/ window closing duty in the old 2 nd wing. Football victories and carry on, cold, rainy 4N mornings ending with YPs while desperately needing to make a head call. Losing the coin toss and trudging through a foot of snow to get subs at Chris’s Sub Base. Learning of JFK’s assassination from the MOD, and 4 months later, being called to the Main Office to hear of the death of my father. Getting TKO’d by a southpaw in the Plebe Summer boxing smoker. Ring Dance, Dead Weeks and slapping a Frankie Valle 8 track tape into the player of my new GTO. The intoxicating smell of perfume at June Week noon meal formations. Humorous Memories of USNA: During Plebe Year, pushing the A-4 Skyhawk at night into Tecumseh Court before the Notre Dame game. The massive food fight in the Mess Hall before the Army game. Why did I attend USNA and what did I expect to obtain from attending? I grew up watching Victory at Sea, Air Power, the Silent Service and other WW11 series. Attending USNA was a chance for excitement and adventure. I became the first member of my family to fly across the U.S., and the first to see the Pacific. I was the only public school graduate to be accepted from my area. The academy was door that opened my life to the world outside. Did the academy experience satisfy my expectations ? As a 17 year old, I’m not sure what my expectations were. Join the Navy and see the world? I know that making it through those 4 years was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I got a first class education, made a lot of life-long friends, and during my first tour, met my wife of almost 45 years. Summary bio for Frank Mueller After graduation, I attended gunnery school and reported to USS Suffolk County deployed in the Caribbean. I served for a year, before volunteering for Viet Nam. After training in Coronado, I went to Vietnam as OinC of a Swift Boat. I saw action in the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta. The last several months I was a task element commander, responsible for six boats forward deployed to Sadec. After Vietnam, I went to shore duty in D.C. and married my wife of 46 years, Judith. My next ship was USS Guam, serving as weapons officer. During this time we celebrated the birth of my son Aric. After two years aboard, I returned ashore Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary to teach gunfire support at Little Creek. I went to Destroyer School in Newport, RI and after graduation served as Ops officer on USS New (DD818), and then Ops on USS Milwaukee. Now a LCDR, I went to Optevfor in Norfolk for a tour testing new ship systems. In 1981, I went to Saudi Arabia, for 13 months as a tech rep, interfacing between the Saudi Navy and US Contractors. Now a CDR, I was transferred to the Armed Forces Staff College serving in various billets before retiring in July 1987. We moved to Charlottesville, VA and I was hired by the Charlottesville Public School System. For the next 19 years, I worked at Venable Elementary â&#x20AC;Ś.first as Kindergarten Assistant, and then teaching reading to children in grades 1 -4. I enjoyed playing tennis, golf and senior league baseball. Meanwhile, my son attended James Madison University, earning a BS/ MS Degree in Computer Science. Judith advanced in her profession, becoming President of the American Public Works Association in 2000. I retired again in 2010. Judith continues as Public Works Director and will retire within the year. We enjoy our two grandchildren, Afton 12, and Rowan 10.

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2nd Company Gordon Pettus Service History: 1967-67 USNA 1967-1968 Naval Aviation Training Commands. Designated Naval Aviator 12/68 1969 Flight Instructor, VT-7, Meridian Miss. 1970 VT-125 NAS Lemoore, CA, A-7 Replacement Pilot Training 1970 – 72 VA-153 Deployed on USS Oriskany. 1 ½ tours to Vietnam area 1972– 74 NAS Atsugi Japan Operations Officer 1974 Transferred to Naval Reserves 1993 Retired from Naval Reserve with rank of Commander Principal Occupation: Various positions in manufacturing management for National Steel and Shipbuilding, and Solar Turbines. Additional work: Bought, sold, managed and maintained various apartment buildings; recently traded for commercially leased properties. Memorable life events: Met my wife while in Japan—she was a DOD school teacher. While flying, had two close calls that I still think about—used up two of my nine lives. Joined Toastmasters in 1991 and am still a member—became District Governor—life would have been much different if I had joined when I was young. Have travelled to enough interesting places that I appreciate art and history much more than I would ever have thought. I realize we won the lottery by being born in the USA. Several years ago, I designed a tall Christmas Light Tree. While doing so, I realized that we learn a broad range of skills in life, and we never know which of those skills will be helpful to us or to others. Fondest memories of USNA: You don’t get a lot of those when you live in the gym…but representing USNA in competition was special. I was not a swimmer, but because of plebe year, I never failed a swimming test. During our mile swim, I decided I was either going to finish or they were going to have to drag me out of the pool…I finished, and then they dragged me out of the pool. Exchange cruise on USCGC Eagle was an unusual learning experience. In July, we motored into New York Harbor leading 12 other tall ships—that was special. Also, after we were told not to paint the statues in the yard, several of us made large blue and gold footprints and I was hoisted along the corner of a building so I could tape them in place—sometimes the little things are fun.

Questions: Why did I attend? When I was in grade school, I saw a TV series titled Men of Annapolis. I decided then that I wanted to attend. Later, when I considered the costs of going to college, my decision was reinforced. Did it meet your expectations? The academy surpassed my expectations. There were so many guys who were smarter than me that I was always challenged to do better. I was also impressed by the quality of the institution and the other midshipmen. When considering what was happening on civilian campuses at the time, I was glad I didn’t have to deal with all the drug and political distractions at the time. Summary bio for Gordon Pettus Learned to fly Navy aircraft. Authorized to fly more. Taught others to fly. Flew A-7s in Vietnam from USS Oriskany. Dropped lots of bombs—gravity works—they all hit earth. Short tour in Atsugi Japan. Transferred to Naval Reserve to shuffle papers. After Navy held various positions in manufacturing management for National Steel and Shipbuilding, and Solar Turbines. Bought, sold, managed and maintained various apartment buildings; recently traded them for commercially leased properties. Met my wife while in Japan—she was a DOD schoolteacher. While flying, had two close calls that I still think about— used up two of my nine lives. Joined Toastmasters in 1991—still a member—became District Governor—life would have been much better if I had joined when I was young. Several years ago, I designed a tall Christmas Light Tree. While doing so, I realized that we learn a broad range of skills in life, and we never know which of those skills will be helpful to us Return to: Table of Contents

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Fondest memories of USNA: You don’t get a lot of those when you live in the gym…but representing USNA in competition was special. I was not a swimmer, but because of plebe year, I never failed a swimming test. Summer exchange cruise on USCGC Eagle. When I was in grade school, I watched a TV series: “Men of Annapolis.” I decided I wanted to attend. Later, when considering the costs of college, my decision was reinforced. The academy surpassed my expectations. There were so many guys who were smarter than me that I was always challenged to do better—easier to just be a jock.

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2nd Company Charles M. Pyetzki Service History: Jun 63-Jun 67 USNA - Student Aug 67-Nov 67 CIC Officer’s School, NAS Glynco, GA - Student Dec 67-Jan 70 USS Douglas H. Fox (DD779), Norfolk, VA, Electronics Materiel Officer, CIC Officer, Operations Officer Feb 70-Jun 71 Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA - Student Sep 71-Mar 72 Destroyer School, NAVSTA Newport, RI - Student May 72-Oct 73 USS Richard S. Edwards (DD 950), Pearl Harbor, HI Weapons Officer Nov 73-Jul 75 USS Ponchatoula (AO 148), Pearl Harbor, HI - First Lieutenant Aug 75 - Recruiting Officer Management Orientation, NAS Pensacola, FL - Student Sep 75-Apr 78 - Navy Recruiting District Oklahoma City, OK - Enlisted Programs Officer, Executive Officer Jun 78-Jul78 PXO School, NAVSTA Newport, RI - Student Aug 78-Dec 80 Precom Cimarron (AO 177), NAVSTA SanDiego - Prospective Executive Officer Jan 81-Jul 82 USS Cimarron (AO 177), Oakland, CA & Pearl Harbor, HI - XO Sep 82-Sep 85 Office of JCS, Pentagon, Arlington, VA - Wargaming Analyst Oct 85-Feb 86 Senior Officer Ship Materiel Readiness Course, Idaho Falls, ID - Student Mar 86-Apr 86 PCO School, NAVSTA Newport, RI - Student May 86-Jan 88 USS Haleakala (AE 25), Concord, CA & Guam, MI - CO Mar 88 - Jun 93 CNO Op 16, Navy Annex, Arlington, VA - Director, Manpower, Personnel, and Training Information Resources Management Jun 93 - Retired as Captain, USN Principal Occupation: After retiring from the Navy my wife and I elected to remain in our home in Bowie, MD. A year later I began working for the Maryland Department of Transportation in information technology where I remained until 2009 when I retired again. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: My wife Yvon and I were married in 1986. I have two daughters by a previous marriage, and they have provided five grandchildren. Yvon has two sons, one daughter, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren with whom I have become very close. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: I-Day, graduation day, President Kennedy’s plebe summer speech to us, and the ’63 Army-Navy game. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to obtain from attending? I had four uncles who served in World War II, and the stories of their service in that conflict began my interest in the military. In high school I was in the Civil Air Patrol cadet program, the junior ROTC-like Air Force auxiliary, an experience that solidified my interest in a military career. Service as an officer strongly appealed to me, and I felt that graduation from a service academy was the best way to prepare for that. Thus, I expected that USNA would be the best possible preparation for service as a naval officer and that I would also receive a first class college education. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes. Summary I came to USNA from Albuquerque, NM where I was born and raised. My initial interest in the military came from four uncles and stories of their World War II service. In high school I was in the Civil Air Patrol cadet program which enhanced my interest in a military career, specifically service as an officer. Graduation from a service academy seemed to me to be the best way to achieve that goal and receive a first-class education in the process. My service selection was Surface Warfare. I served on five ships and was CO of one of them. Ashore I went to the Naval Postgraduate School (MS Computer Systems Management) and later served at a Navy Recruiting District, in the Organization of the JCS, and at CNO OP-16 Manpower, Personnel, and Training Information Resources Management. After retiring from the Navy as a Captain my wife and I remained in our home in Bowie, MD, close to both Washington DC and Annapolis. A year later I Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary went to work for the Maryland Department of Transportation in information technology where I remained until retiring again in 2009. My wife Yvon and I were married in 1986. I have two daughters by a previous marriage, and they have provided five grandchildren. Yvon has two sons, one daughter, six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren with whom I have become very close.

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2nd Company Robert Ryan Service History: 6/67 – 1/69 Flight School 2/69 – 4/70 VT-23 Plowback Flight Inst (TF-9 Cougars) Note: At one time we had 7 classmates as instructors 6/70 – 1/71 VA-122 A-7E RAG 1/71 – 6/73 VA-147 (A-7E USS Constellation CVA-64) Note: Rich Gouk squadron mate 8/73 – 2/76 VX-5 (A-7E NAS China Lake) Note: 6 or 7 classmates in squadron 4/76 – 8/76 VA-122 A-7E RAG 10/76 – 12/76 VA-27 (A-7E USS Enterprise CVN-65) 2/77 – 3/77 Staff Light Attack Pac---Separation to Civ Pac

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Principal Occupation: After the Navy figured they didn’t need my aviator skills and honoring my request to not be in the Admiral Pipeline, I returned to Coronado with Margie (met and married at China Lake) and new baby daughter (Katie). Not having much luck with the airlines (not that I really tried that hard) I gravitated into the world of construction, plumbing specifically. During that time we had Brigid and Robbie. Had my own Plumbing Construction Co and did fairly well until the early ‘90s when things went south. Struggled for a few years and finally went to work with an engineering firm as a field engineer/inspector---loved it. Things were fine until a few years ago when the local native Americans became very interested in the supposedly sacred site we were trying to develop and got it shut down. Things were slow so I retired and love it. I’m a docent on the USS Midway (CV-41) here in San Diego. It’s more fun than being on active duty. The boat is welded to the pier, never deploys, go home every day and get to talk about flying to people who aren’t bored to tears with my stories. We’re up to 8 grandkids 3/3/2. Most vivid/fondest memories of USNA: My most vivid memories of school are the great guys I met and the antics we employed to tolerate the system. I believe it was during this time of my life I began to perfect what was to be the guiding principle of my life--PROCRASTINATION!! I’m still working on it. I think when Rock got moved to the 35th it opened the spot on the bottom of the company grease list. Can’t blame LT Hooker as I gave him plenty of reasons. He did know about the big car wreck coming back from Glen Bernie on Richie Hwy. It was pretty hard to deny I was there when our uniforms were flung all over the countryside , I had a cut over my eye, etc. BTW, sorry Joey about getting you fried (you only got one Class-A, I was on a break from a previous one so I had 9-weeks to go). I still get together monthly with some of the classmates here in the San Diego area and for a great Army-Navy party every year. Why I Attended: The first sighting of USNA was when I got off the bus at the north gate (first sign that said Naval Academy). You’d think the jerk bus driver would have given Shannon McCreary and myself a head’s up that the newbies were to go to the main gate. One day, senior year at Coronado High School, my Dad (career Naval Aviator/NAVCAD) came home with a computer punch card that he got at work that allowed me to take the SAT for free---the catch was that The Boat School was stamped in the number one spot. No problem, there were still two left, not that I had given much thought as to who those lucky places might be. Much to my surprise, after a few months I got word to take a physical and some time later got a ranking number for a Presidential Appointment. I was so far down the list compared to the other guys at CHS that we all had a good laugh. Navy must have gotten really desperate because about a month before graduation I got accepted. The rest is history. I think my Dad had a secret plan! BTW, sometime during Plebe Summer I got an acceptance for NROTC at U of Idaho. Not the smartest thing I did was to inquire if a transfer was possible. All in all, going to Navy probably made me finish in four years. Summary for Bob Ryan After flying A-7s for ten years, the Navy figured they didn’t need my aviator skills and honoring my request to not be in the Admiral Pipeline, I returned to Coronado with Margie (met and married at China Lake) and new baby daughter (Katie). Not having much luck with the airlines (not that I really tried that hard) I gravitated into the world of construction, plumbing specifically. During that time we had Brigid and Robbie. Had my own Plumbing Construction Co and did fairly well until the early ‘90s when things went south. Struggled for a few years and finally went to work with an engineering firm as a field engineer/inspector---loved it. Things were fine until a few years ago when the local Native Americans became very interested in the supposedly sacred site we were trying to develop and got it shut down. Things were slow so Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary I retired and love it. I’m a docent on the USS Midway (CV-41) here in San Diego. It’s more fun than being on active duty. The boat is welded to the pier, never deploys, go home every day and get to talk about flying to people who aren’t bored to tears with my stories. We’re up to 8 grandkids 3/3/2. My most vivid memories of school are the great guys I met and the antics we employed to tolerate the system. I believe it was during this time of my life I began to perfect what was to be the guiding principle of my life--PROCRASTINATION!! I’m still working on it. I still get together monthly with some of the classmates here in the San Diego area and for a great Army-Navy party every year.

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2nd Company Richard S. Scivicque Service History : 1967: Plebe Detail Drill Officer 1968: USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training Laughlin AFB Del Rio, Texas 1969: VMAT-102 MCAS Yuma, Arizona 1970: VMFAT-101 MCAS El Toro, Ca F-4 Transition 1970-1971: VMFA-334 MCAS Iwakuni, Japan F-4 Pilot 1971-1972: VMFA-531 USS Forrestal Med Cruise 1973: US Navy Fighter Weapons School 1974: VF-124 NAS Miramar, California F-14 Instructor 1975-1977: VMFAT-101 MCAS Yuma, AZ F-4 Instructor Pilot 1978-1979: US Navy Test Pilot School Patuxent River, Md. 1979-1981: F-18 Joint Test Program 1981-1982: US Navy War College Newport, RI 1982-1983: XO H&MS 15 MCAS Iwakuni, Japan 1983-1986: XO/CO VMFA-314 MCAS El Toro, Ca/USS Coral Sea 1987: Retired LtCol USMC Principal Occupation: 1988-2005: American Airlines Flight Engineer/First Officer/Captain (DC -10/MD-80/B-737/ B-757/B-767) Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Married/Three kids Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: After 50 years whatever memories there were are pretty faded… Humorous Memories of USNA: Watching Tom Ballantine eat 12 Cannonballs and get “Carry-on Forever” Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” The why is simple…the price was right…I needed an education, had no money and NROTC or USNA was my answer. I knew nothing of the Navy or Marine Corps the day I entered the Academy…For 24 years the Navy/Marines provided me a home, a way of life, and financial security for life…USNA, the Navy, and the Marines were my path from a little town in Louisiana to a world of experiences and learning…I got immeasurably more than I either expected or deserved. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Since I knew nothing of the Navy before I arrived at USNA I had no expectations…for me USNA was a not-so-pleasant (but not completely unpleasant) experience which provided me the vehicle to explore and experience a world which wouldn’t have been available had I not jumped on the opportunity. Summary bio for Rick Scivicque After graduation I was assigned to the summer Plebe detail while waiting for an Air force pilot class date at Laughlin AFB. After completing flight training I reported to VMAT-102 in Yuma, AZ then VMFAT-101 in El Toro for F-4 transition training. Tours with VMFA-334, Iwakuni, Japan and VMFA-531 on USS Forrestal was followed by orders to US Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) at NAS Miramar. I was assigned to VF-124 as an F-14 instructor than VMFAT-101 in Yuma as an F-4 instructor pilot. I completed Test Pilot School in Pax River in 1979 and received orders to the F-18 Joint Test Program. I completed Navy War College in Newport, RI in 1982 that was followed by orders as XO of H&MS 15 in Iwakuni. My 20 years of active duty culminated with a tour as XO/CO of VMFA-314 at MCAS El Toro, CA with a tour on USS Coral Sea. I retired as a Lt Col in 1987. I signed on with American Airlines in 1988 and flew with them until 2005 as a Flight Engineer/First Officer/Captain in DC-10/MD-80/B-737/B-757/B-767 aircraft. My wife Ellen and I live in Castle Rock, CO and have raised three children. I knew nothing of the Navy or Marine Corps the day I entered the Academy…For 24 years the Navy/Marines provided me a home, a way of life, and financial security for life…USNA, the Navy, and the Marines were my path from a little town in Louisiana to a world of experiences and learning…I got immeasurably more than I either expected or deserved. ...

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Thomas Stevenson

Thomas Adlai Stevenson came to the Naval Academy as an Air Force “brat” and so knew well much of the discipline and approach to military life. He adapted easily to the demands of a Midshipman in the Second Company. Tom’s quiet, genial demeanor endeared him to his company mates, along with his handsome, toothy grin and warm belly laugh. Upon graduation and following his father, he accepted a commission in the USAF and undertook flight training at Luke AFB in Arizona, ultimately flying KC-135s. He was assigned to service in the Viet Nam Theater, refueling F-105s and F-4s, and became the youngest aircraft commander in Viet Nam. Tom was subsequently assigned to Wright Patterson AFB and removed from flying status following the after effects of a grand mal seizure. His duty thereafter involved assignments to military intelligence commands, and he retired from the Air Force as a Colonel.

After graduation Tom married his longtime girlfriend Robin from his days as a Midshipman, but their marriage eventually ended in divorce. Tom remarried Susan and became a beloved stepfather to her two children. He was active in his church and especially fond of dogs. Upon leaving the Air Force, Tom and Susan moved to Boerne, Texas where he worked for USAA until his sudden passing in 2006 of a brain aneurism.

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2nd Company Paul Sugrue Service History Flight School 8-1-67 to 1-15-68 USS Gainard DD706 out of Newport, RI 1-15-68 to 1-1-70 DESRON 12 staff Newport, RI 1-1-70 to 6-7-71 Principal Occupation (Life after USNA, with detours as applicable): MBA 1973, PhD. 1977 1977 to present - faculty member at the University of Miami Dean of the School of Business 5-1-92 to 6-1-07

Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Left Flight School upon the sudden death of my father to look after my two younger brothers. Moved my family to RI and served for four years on destroyers out of Newport. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe year! 2nd Company lived in the old un-renovated part of Bancroft Hall, which certainly added to the experience and memories of our plebe year. Humorous Memories of USNA: Remembering how good those cheese steak subs tasted on our Saturday afternoon liberty trips to town. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? and I was seventeen in June 1963, two weeks out of High School, and I honestly had no idea what to expect, which was probably OK because if I really knew what to expect, I may have thought more than twice about going!! What I remember most vividly about my experience is the friends, who I still miss. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? . I really did not have well developed expectations. I wanted to be a naval officer and I wanted to fly. The flying did not work out, but I really enjoyed serving on Destroyers, especially on an un-frammed 1943 model! It was great and what I treasure most is the comradery of the wardroom on a destroyer. I have never experienced anything like that since. Summary bio for Paul Sugrue Paul entered Flight School in August 1967. Upon the sudden death of his father in November of 1967, he left Flight School and was assigned to the USS Gainard DD706, a destroyer operating out of Newport, RI. He moved his mother and younger brothers down to RI from Massachusetts as his dependents. He served aboard the Gainard until 1969. He was then assigned to DESRON 12 staff in Newport until his separation from the Navy in 1971. DESRON 12 was embarked aboard the USS Forrest Sherman DD931. After attending graduate school where he earned a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and PhD, he moved to Coral Gables, FL where he has worked as a professor of Operations Research and Statistics in the Business School at the University of Miami until the present time. From 1992 until 2007, he served as the Dean of the School of Business. He and his wife Linda, who is also a professor at UM, live in Coral Gables and have one daughter, Rosemary, who is currently completing her PhD at MIT in Nuclear Engineering.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Robert Szalay

Bob Szalay married Carole Stone the week of your graduation. My parents were moved to the base on Mare Island in California and then went, I believe, to Connecticut? I, Rima, was born in September of 1968, and my father felt he needed to personally take care of us and leave the Navy when an urgent medical situation arose. Dad took a job as a nuclear engineer in NY with a company called Ebasco and was soon moved down to D.C. with another company, the Atomic Industrial Forum. Three Mile Island brought nuclear power to the fore in '79, and my dad was chosen as the pro-nuke public face to explain the accident from the industry's point of view. He was on McNeil Lehrer and was invited to many fancy events. I remember thinking that all Dads attended dances at the White House. Once, I asked him during a no nukes news story, why he didn't put a "Yes Nukes" bumper sticker on his car. He waited a beat, and answered with a smile, "Because I LIKE my car!" He remarried Linda Dobrin in 1982. In 1983, he sat me down and explained, with great poise, that he had only 2 months to live. NIH found his glioblastoma interesting and took him on as part of an experimental case study. Out of his group at NIH, only he survived...and survived...He lived another 16 years. His pride in the Naval Academy, and surviving the ordeal to become stronger and more focused, was the basis of many stories throughout my childhood. Linda and my dad had a son in 1988, Jamey, who would make my father very proud. He is a doctoral student in physics and already working with NASA. Linda and my father divorced soon afterward. Around '92, Dad asked me to attend the 25th Academy anniversary with him, where I am sure we spoke with many of you. Funny recollection, one of you came up to me with a big smile and said, "Carole, you haven't changed a bit!!!" Dad was so proud to see all of you again, yet so nervous that you would notice the wig he wore to hide his brain biopsy. Someone told him, "Bob, you have more hair than any of us now!" and he was thrilled. As the years went on, he lost more and more function. The neurologists told us that a tumor as big as his had to have started growing when my dad was about 19. It's amazing that he lasted as long as he did. His "ring knocker" academy ring and his wool long coat with the gold buttons were his prized possessions. They disappeared in the nursing home and luckily his memory was beyond becoming crushed over it. He passed away in 2000 at age 54. Thank you, all of you, for being so kind to my dad during your years together. He never forgot you, and memories of you brought him joy for the rest of his life.

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2nd Company H. Jack Vance Service History: Naval Aviation; Wings received April,1969. NAS Miramar 1969-1972, VC-7.Flew F-8'S and A-4'S. Released from Active Duty OCT.1972 Principal Occupation: Delta Airlines from Oct.1972-Sep.2003. Flew everything Delta had during those years. Captain; Delta Check Captain; FAA Aircrew Program Designated Check Pilot ; Captain Instructor. Retired since 2003. Life Events: Married to Ev for 25 years...got the 2nd one TOTALLY RIGHT!! Son, Daughter, 1 Granddaughter. Many memorable Europe family adventures and National Park vacations. USNA Memories: • Brigade Football Champions 1st Class Year with my best roommate ever and Co - Captain , Joe Castoro!! • Raiding Bancroft Hall Mess for California Mixed Fruit containers with Rock Harmon! • Lots of great memories with John Morton, Skip Dittman and the 20th Company Baggers! Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Prestige of an appointment to USNA ; A great education [paid]. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? . I will always thank USNA and Navy for educating me, and providing me an unequalled career path.

Also, the wonderful friendships that I have maintained from USNA are irreplaceable and immeasurable!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Karl Volland Service History !967-1968: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations Received Naval Flight Officer Wings 6/68 1968-1971: NAS Miramar VF-121, VF-143 (F-4J), Combat Cruise aboard USS Constellation to Viet Nam 1971-1976; Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River MD, Test Pilot School Class 59, Service Test, Initial F-14 Test team 1976-1978: VF-143 (F-14) NAS Miramar and then TO NAS Oceana, Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun), Two Mediterranean Cruises and a South American Cruise aboard USS America 1978-1980 Selected for the Aeronautical Engineering Duty Officer Program, Navy Postgraduate School Monterey, Aeronautical Engineering Masters 1980-1984: Pacific Missile Test Center Point Mugu CA, Flight Test Officer, F-14 Program Manager 1984-1987: Navy Technical Representative Hughes Aircraft Co. Responsible for Navy Missile and Weapon System programs at Hughes in California and Arizona 1897-1991: Pacific Missile Test Center Point Mugu/ Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Weapons Systems Test Directorate Head 1991-1993: NAWC Weapons Division China Lake CA, Aircraft Test Division Military Director 1993: Retired from Active Duty as a Captain Principal Occupation Worked for various Government support contractors supporting Aircraft Weapons systems and missile testing at both Point Mugu CA and China Lake CA Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Met my wife of 46 years Mary while at Miramar and we were married in 1969 in the Miramar Chapel. We had our twins Matt and Jenny in 1972 shortly after I finished Test Pilot School. Was ordered to Point Mugu in 1980 and have lived in Camarillo since then. Never expected that. My son and his wife and my daughter and her husband and two sons also live her in Camarillo.

How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired Life is great. We are close to family and friends and you can’t beat the climate in Camarillo. I try to get to the gym three times as week and have become a Ventura County Master Gardener working one day a week in a community garden. I have also been a lacrosse coach at the youth and High School level. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: My classmates. It was a true honor and privilege to be part of the class of 1967. It was always a kick to work with classmates during my career and to run into classmates now is just cool. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” Growing up in Maryland I was always aware of the Naval Academy. I was fortunate to go to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and my counselor was a Navy Graduate and encouraged me to attend. I had watched “Men of Annapolis” on TV and seen the Blue Angels at a Boy Scout Jamboree. Seemed like a great place to get a free education. Didn’t really have a plan for after graduation Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Looking back now, certainly didn’t feel this way right after graduation, going to the Naval Academy was what I needed and I hope it made me a better person. Much to my surprise I spent 26 great years in the Navy and the Navy allowed me to do things I loved. My career was not the norm but it was something that if I had to do over again I would. Summary Yearbook Write-up for Karl Volland Entered Flight training in 1967 and became a Fighter Rio. Flew the F-4 in combat in Viet Nam. Met my wife, Mary, in 1968 and we were married in 1969. We have two children Matt and Jenny and two grandsons Evan and Jake. After Viet Nam my career included Navy Test Pilot School, Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) and Navy Postgraduate 90

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2nd Company School where I got a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. In 1978, after two F-14 cruises on the America I became an AEDO and was fortunate to spend the rest of my career in flying billets testing F-14 and later F-18 weapon systems and missiles at Point Mugu and China Lake. I retired in 1993 as a Captain and spent the next 10 years working for various Defense contractors supporting aircraft weapon systems programs at Point Mugu and China Lake. Mary and I have been living very happily in Camarillo CA for the last 35 years. We are lucky to have our children and their families close by. We are enjoying retirement and staying active with family, hobbies and travel.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Robert Warrington Service History 1967 – 1971 DD694 Ingraham – MPA DESDIV 202 staff aboard DD835 Cecil 6th fleet staff aboard Carriers Kennedy and Independence Principal Occupation I left the service, attended Boston University, MBA, and moved to Maine. I managed and operated several wood products businesses as well as a a modular housing company before retiring in 2010. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Married my childhood sweetheart, and had three beautiful daughters – two veterinarians and one physical therapist. How is retired life going and do you currently spend your time? Living the rural life and loving retirement Academic Achievement MBA from Boston University Please Answer Two Questions: 1. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending"? I reported to the plebe summer program as a 17 year old Arlington, MA high school graduate who had never previously set foot on campus. Somehow I survived.

2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My experiences at USNA and in the fleet shaped my life and I will always be grateful for having had the opportunity to see the world. The Naval Academy has opened doors for me throughout my working career. Summary for Bob Warrington I reported to the plebe summer program as a 17-year-old Arlington, MA high school graduate who had never previously set foot on campus. Somehow I survived, and upon graduation, married my sweetheart, Debbie and set off to Boston where I joined USS Ingraham (DD-694) as MPA. After the shipyard overhaul, we went to GITMO, then chased carriers around the Med. and returned to Newport, RI. On DESDIV 202 staff aboard USS Cecil (DD-835), I went to the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, etc. I then joined 6th fleet staff and did another Med. cruise on USS Kennedy and USS Independence. In 1971, I left the service, attended Boston University, earned my MBA, and moved to Maine. I managed and operated several wood products businesses as Wella Modular Housing Company before retiring in 2010. Debbie and I raised 3 wonderful daughters...2 veterinarians and a physical therapist and have enjoyed a rural life style here in central Maine. My experiences at USNA and in the fleet shaped my life and I will always be grateful for having had the opportunity to see the world. The Naval Academy has opened doors for me throughout my working career.

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2nd Company Robert Bagwell* Service History 1963 - 64 USNA 2nd Company Principal Occupations (Life after USNA) Texaco Labs (Richmond, VA} Aerospace Materials development; Polyscientific Div Litton Industries (Blacksburg, VA) Design missile guidance electromechanical devices ; General Electric Industrial Controls, (Salem, VA) Design and test industrial electric drive systems; Westinghouse Electric (South Boston, VA, Pittsburgh, Pa, Buffalo, NY, Orlando, FL) Design engineer, HQ marketing for Middle East projects, Field Sales, Sales Manager power electronics & drive systems, Industrial Service Marketing and Central US operations mgr., Founder and President Neomark Inc, Oviedo, FL, Rep Agency, Distributor and Manufacturer of Gas & Steam turbine auxiliary systems. All above interspersed with study @ Richmond Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Tech (BSEE), and completion of Westinghouse Executive Development. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • #1 - My one year at USNA. I still remember more classmates from that year than ALL of my years in other universities. • Virginia representative to the National Youth Conference on the Atom (1962). Personal meetings with Glenn Seaborg (Chairman AEC) and Dr, Hans Bethe (Nobel Prize - Physics). • Time spent in China over 3 years developing hydroelectric equipment for USA PERPA projects. • Development of Japan suppliers of steel mill drives/controls. • Racing RC Cars, BMX Bicycles, Motorcycles and Automobiles with my two sons. An interest and passion to this day! • My first Porsche. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Hearing news of JFK's death as I walked back from classes. • "Borrowing the A4" from the front of the Field House and pushing it (under darkness) into --Tecumseh Court before the Notre Dame Game in 1963. Still cannot remember who the others were in that escapade.

Humorous Memories of USNA: • Carrier landing practice • Greyhound races • The absolute pandemonium when Firsties headed to watch the Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did I attend the Academy? • I attended the academy as the result of an offer from former Governor of, and, at the time, US Congressman from Virginia. Not sure what I expected other than a great education and fantastic adventure. • While only a student for the Plebe year, that year changed my life. Only by looking back, do I realize how profound they have been. Organization, prioritization, focus and goal setting became new components of my approach to life and business. Summary bio for Bob (Baggs) Bagwell I left USNA at the end of Plebe year, with intentions to turn back in ’65. During the year off, I worked as a technician at Texaco Research in Richmond, Va. and met and married my first wife, obviating plans to return to USNA. I attended Virginia Tech where I started and ran several businesses and was a co-op engineer with General Electric while completing my studies. I graduated with a BSEE in 1970 After graduation, I returned to my hometown near South Boston, VA as an engineer for Westinghouse Electric where I had 25 year career culminating as an executive in the Industrial Service operations.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary I met my current wife in Pittsburgh and we married in 1993. Westinghouse combined its industrial and power generation operations that year and we moved to a suburb near Orlando where the business was headquartered. Our primary residence is still there. I have two sons. The oldest is in aerospace manufacturing in Clearwater, Fl. and the youngest an owner of a computer game business in Redwood City, Ca. After retiring from Westinghouse in 1995, I started a business that supplies mechanical equipment and systems to Gas and Steam turbine OEMS in the fossil-fired power generation industry. In 2015 I sold the business and formally retired to devote more time to my long-standing interests in sports cars and collectible motorcycles. Siemens Acquired the Westinghouse Power Generation businesses in 1997. Being much younger than I, my wife is still there and is VP of Human Resources.

Around 2004 I discovered that my name was listed as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lost Soulâ&#x20AC;? on the Class website and with encouragement from Dave Church and Dick Meade, I joined the Alumni Association and attended the 2007 homecoming. Thanks to ALL for the warm reception! *Attended but did not graduate

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3rd Company Introduction Third Company, Class of 1967, was a “blended” group of guys. We came together youngster year from the 1st and 2nd Companies having had similar but different Plebe Years. We had the privilege (?) of being some of the few to live in the World War IIera Bancroft Hall rooms. Only those of us who lived in those rooms know what "swimming to Baltimore" was or the joy of trying to get the old wooden decks and metal lockers ready for inspection. As for who we were as a company, well, we were certainly not the Color Company, nor were we the ‘brainiacs’ of Bancroft, however we did have a few “jocks” in our midst; so maybe we were just an average group of Midshipmen trying to stay out of trouble (for the most part), cooperate to graduate, and move on to the Fleet to protect and defend wherever our career choices took us.

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3rd Company James H. Aldrich Jr. Service History 1967-1970 USS SELLERS (DDG-11) DCA (1 year) & MPA (1 year); OOD (F) and CDO. 1970-1971 Flight training; NAS Pensacola, Meridian, & Kingsville 1971-1973 VF-126 instrument training squadron at NAS Miramar, flying TA-4J and sometimes some adversary flights in A4E. 1974 VF-124 F-14 RAG at NAS Miramar 1974-1977 VF-32 (F-14A) on USS JOHN F KENNEDY; 3 cruises 1977-1979 Postgraduate School Monterey, CA Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering-Avionics; transferred to AEDO 1980-1982 VF-124 F14 RAG instructor pilot and resident AEDO 1982-1984 COMFAIRMED, Naples Italy Depot Maintenance Officer 1984-1987 Production Officer, Naval Air Rework Facility, Norfolk, VA; Collateral duty as F-14 check pilot 1987-1989 COMNAVAIRSYSCOM, WASH DC, Depot Maintenance Directorate 1989-1992 CO, NAVPRO Bethpage NY; transitioned it to DPRO GRUMMAN under DLA. Collateral duty as F14A, B, and D acceptance pilot. 1992-1994 CO, Naval Aviation Depot Alameda, CA. Collateral duty as A6E check pilot. 1994-1997 Assistant Chief of Staff, Materiel, COMNAVAIRPAC 1997 Retired from Naval Service as CAPT Principal Occupation 1967-1997 – US Navy 1997-2004 – Vice President, Engineering, Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation. Also qualified in Falcon 900EX trijet. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Getting qualified as OOD on my DDG just two months into my first cruise was really memorable, operating with the 6 th Fleet during a time of heavy operations with numerous ships in formation. Later, being part of the F-14 Tomcat fleet introduction was incredible. Certainly memorable was my single engine cat shot in the F-14 when my starboard engine destroyed itself internally just as the cat fired; I was able to fly away, but just barely. I guess an unusual aspect of my career was that I was flying F-14 and A-6E aircraft up until the 27 year point in my career, a lot longer than most of my contemporaries.

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: Loretta and I were married in 1989, and she has been the best thing that ever happened to me. I have three children, Hunt (small business entrepreneur), Meghan (teacher), and Griff (lawyer and oil and gas executive). All of my children are married, and there are eight wonderful grandchildren. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? There is life after work, and it is wonderful. After I retired I was pleased to have more time to spend in three areas. (1) Family, taking care of ill family members, but also traveling with family and also visiting family, (2) Faith, such as churchrelated activities, volunteering several years with a Christian mission in North Carolina, and helping others, (3) Friends, and (4) my hobby - flying radio-control airplanes. I am glad I was able to put my administrative talents to use in in these four areas, and that was most rewarding. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Most vivid memory: November 22, 1963, I was walking back from class, and just about to enter the Second Wing of Mother Bancroft when someone told me, “The President is dead!” • Plebe Spirit: To show “Plebe spirit” to the First Class in our Company, my classmates and I cut the rebar holding the A4 Skyhawk in position by the Field House, and pushed it to Tecumseh Court about 0300, painting “Bomb Notre Dame” on it! • P-rades: Like most, I was not a big fan of going out there to Worden Field. But, when the P-rade was just about over, and we were getting ready to ‘march off’, I can remember the marching music like it was yesterday, and I was filled with a good feeling as we “passed in review”. • Debate Team: Proud to be on it for my last 3 years. There was a good group of guys on the Team, and we won a number of tournaments at other universities, representing USNA well, I’d say. Of course, the fact that we got to travReturn to: Table of Contents

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el away from The Yard often on weekends didn’t hurt much! Fondest memories: Weekends, when things finally slowed down, and we got a break from the weekly routine. Other fond memories are from my times on the water, sailing in the yawls, conning a YP, or just sailing around in a knockabout.

Humorous Memories of USNA: During 2nd Class Year, several of us had the bright idea to try to watch Batman, the new hot TV show, on a small contraband TV that one of our company mates had. We all chipped in and bought the huge number of batteries required to run it. The big night arrived; we were all huddled around the TV, a towel stuffed under the door to keep noise from getting into the hallway, and the theme song “Batman” was starting to play. The door burst open, and the OOD was there. “Take all their names, Mate! Confiscate the TV!” What a bummer… not only did we miss the TV show, but we got to spend the next weekend in our rooms! Academic Achievement: Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering-Avionics, US Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA, December 1979 Service Awards: Legion of Merit with gold star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with gold star, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Unit Commendation, National Defense Service Medal with star, Navy Sea Service Deployment ribbon. Specialty Designation Naval Aviator Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My Dad was an Academy graduate and 30-year career surface officer. Out of great admiration of him I wanted to also graduate from USNA, and serve in the Navy as a career officer. My expectation was to gain the knowledge and the training necessary to become a successful Naval Officer. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? . I’d say my academy experience both did and did not meet my expectations. I felt that what I would call “a sink or swim” environment was not the best way to operate an officer training program, but on the other hand I learned to persevere and achieve objectives and success in spite of daunting obstacles, or people, that stood in my way. I’d say my expectations were met after I completed 30 years on active duty, and could look back at my career. Summary Yearbook write-up for Jim Aldrich As I look back on the past 54 years since I entered Annapolis, I am stunned by the full and blessed life I have been allowed to live. After getting a great start in life from two wonderful parents, following in the footsteps of my father, going to USNA and serving our country for a full career in the US Navy was the fulfillment of my boyhood dreams. To be Officer of the Deck at sea on a guided missile destroyer, to fly high performance fighter jets off aircraft carriers, to be assigned tough, demanding management and command billets were all part of an extraordinary experience, one I would not trade for anything! To then go on and work for a prestigious business jet manufacturer, and continue flying, and tackle complex engineering design challenges were all just “icing on the cake!” I feel that I have had a great life, full of excitement and challenges, and I have been blessed with a wonderful family and many fine friends. Having my wonderful wife Loretta, three amazing children, and eight grandchildren are pretty hard to beat.

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3rd Company Roy D. Capshaw

Service History: 1960-1961 Enlisted Boot Camp and Electronics Technician School, Great Lakes, IL 1961-1962 U.S. Navy Submarine School, - USS Seawolf, SSN 575, New London, CN, Submarine Qualified 1962-1963 Enlisted Nuclear Power School preceding Secretary of Navy Appointment to Naval Academy Prep School, Bainbridge MD 1963-1967 U.S. Naval Academy (3rd Company) Annapolis, MD 1967-1968 U.S. Naval Aviation Training Command, received Wings of Gold, September, 1968 1968-1969 P-3 Replacement Pilot Training, Patuxent Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, MD 1969-1972 Patrol Squadron 45, NAS Jacksonville, FL, several deployments to Mediterranean Area 1972-1975 Training Squadron Three 1975-1977 Sea Duty aboard USS Lexington, CVT-16, qualified Officer of the Deck Underway and received Surface Warfare Device 1977 1977-1978 Training Air Wing Ten, Test Pilot, and Maintenance Officer 1978-1992 U.S. Naval Reserve, Jacksonville, New Orleans, New Jersey, Chicago 1992 Retired from Naval service as LCDR PRINCIPAL OCCUPATIONS Department of Defense/Defense Logistics Agency, Orlando and Clearwater Florida Quality Assurance Engineer Assignments involved Navy, Army, Air Force, NASA, Coast Guard, and NATO contracts for hardware and electronic equipment. Provided Fully Accredited Quality Assurance Engineering expertise for 138 major defense agency contracts. U.S. Department of Energy (Nevada Test Site, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Yucca Mountain Project) Assignments at the Nevada Test Site including providing quality assurance engineering expertise to the underground nuclear weapons testing program. I worked on the Deputy Secretary of Energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steering Committee for DOE-wide quality assurance issues. I was Point of Contact for quality assurance for Nevada Operations Office, including the Nevada Test Site. At Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), I formally qualified as a Certified Nuclear Facility Safety Analyst. I participated in a special multi-disciplinary team providing DOE approval authorization for LANL to operate 19 high-risk facilities including both nuclear and chemical facilities. The team received multiple national awards for leading approval of nuclear and high hazard facilities. At Yucca Mountain Project, I worked on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission License Application for the Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository. Performed duties in many capacities reviewing engineering and license documents and served as DOE Project Liaison to the spent fuel activities of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. I retired after 37 years of federal government service as GS-15. Contractor Consultant as Senior Nuclear Quality Assurance Engineer Subject Matter Expert in the startup to operations activities at the plutonium facility where I inspected and documented proper disposal of 23 metric tons of excess nuclear warheads by converting it into plutonium dioxide, used to enrich uranium for mixed oxide (MOX) fuel to power nuclear electric generating plants. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I was privileged to provide my personal signature for final technical evaluation and purchase of five ($32 million) Inertial Navigation Sets for NASA orbital and space probes. Current locations for the five sets are: (1) on the surface of Venus (deliberately crash landed); (2) still going out of our solar system into the galaxy; (3) in orbit around Jupiter; (4) on the surface of Jupiter (deliberately crash landed), and (5) in polar orbit of the sun. In 2012, my wife, Gail, and I enjoyed a Trip of Our Lifetime, a 35-day motor home trip from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Anchorage, Alaska. This was the highlight of all the many vacations we ever experienced. We drove to San Francisco, California, and up the west coast to Seattle, Washington. Then, we entered British Columbia, Canada, and drove 1,422 Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary miles of the Alaska Highway, including Yukon Territory. This pre-season excursion provided multiple encounters with black bear, moose, caribou, bison, elk, and other wildlife. From Fairbanks, we flew the bush mail plane above the Arctic Circle to Anaktuvak Pass, where we spent the day with 250 native Nunamiut Eskimos, most of whom have never been outside their small community. In an ARGO (ATV) with a personal tour guide, we explored arctic tundra, avalanche shoots, sat on a glacier, and stood on permafrost and the Arctic Continental Divide. We traveled the Alaska Railroad to Whittier, where we adventured by catamaran in Prince William Sound. We explored numberless glaciers, chilled our drinks with glacier-ice, and enjoyed breathtaking vistas that connected us to the magnificent beauty of our marvelous planet. Again, we traveled the Alaska Railroad to Seward and enjoyed a wildlife exploratory cruise in Resurrection Bay, where Dall’s porpoises escorted our ship out of the bay. The day was filled with extraordinary encounters with sea and land wildlife. Truly, we will cherish this Trip as the highlight of our many joyful life experiences. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: I have been married over 30 years to my wife, Gail (Smallwood) Capshaw. When we married, she had three lovely daughters, and I had the pleasure of adopting two of them when they were very young. I have three children from a previous marriage, a son and two daughters. All our children are married and we enjoy ten lovely grandchildren, who are the light of our life. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Gail and I are greatly enjoying our retirement in a gated retirement community in Las Vegas, NV. Nearby is world class dining, a broad spectrum of shopping options, world-class entertainment, and ten months a year of fabulous weather. Although we don’t drink or gamble, the casinos provide us with premier movies, huge buffet restaurants, Las Vegas Shows, and we can enjoy the town or choose to relax and reminisce in our small, comfortable, and beautiful custom, upgraded retirement home. The past year, I have experienced some serious health issues that affect my mobility and quality of life. Nevertheless, on occasion, Gail and I still get out to enjoy some of the wonderful dining and Las Vegas entertainment. We enjoy having our family close by and many friends who visit often.

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: I thoroughly enjoyed attending early morning (before Reveille) Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings in the Bancroft Hall Chapel. I also loved being a member of the Hop Committee and helping with dances. A highlight was being selected to escort Miss Universe and Miss America Contestants. Marching favorites were into football stadiums and in the Inaugural Parade for President Johnson. Add to these, winning the 1965 NCAA Rowing Championship races (USNA swept the Nationals). The week of Graduation activities was most memorable, especially seeing my cap among all those white caps in the air of the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium. Humorous Memories of USNA: • The visit of President Kennedy to Plebe Summer was most memorable, especially when the President asked the Commandant how to get us to stand at ease. (We stayed at attention to honor the President.) • I gleefully enjoyed with my part the morning the A-4 aircraft showed up in Tecumseh Court. • Another fun event that can be laughed at “after the fact” was the day that the windy Severn River sunk four of five Crew racing shells in its chilling waves making it necessary for the Crew to walk their boats overland and back to the boathouse after their swim to shore. That was a cold swim to shore and a very wet and cold hike in the winter wind, wearing only racing shorts and shirts. Carrying the shells helped. Awards Received: During my military and federal government career, I received hundreds of awards, including a Letter of Commendation for safely landing an aircraft which caught fire during a test flight, DOD and DOE cash awards, commendations for exceptional performance, outstanding community service, and many others. Academic Achievement While working for DOD full time, I attended classes after work (in another city) to earn a Master of Science in Engineering Management at University of Central Florida, Tampa, FL. Several years later, I was awarded a Department of Energy, Defense Programs Scholarship. I chose to study for a Doctor of Public Administration at University of Southern California, Course of Study (32 credits.) A transfer to another location did not allow for completion of my Doctorate; however, my attendance in the doctorate program assisted my credibility with National Laboratory Ph.D. personnel at DOE and the Nevada Test Site. Athletic: 1965 NCAA National Championship Race won in a Clean Sweep by USNA Varsity, JV and Plebes. It was a privilege to be a part of the Navy Crew Team all four years. Service Awards: Presidential Unit Citation received for operations conducted in the “Cold War” Mediterranean. 100

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3rd Company Chief of Naval Air Training, Letter of Commendation, for safely landing an airplane after a test flight fire. Uniform Warfare Specialty: Naval Aviator (Officer) Submarine Dolphins –Silver (Enlisted) Question 1: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you to expect to “obtain from attending? While still in High School, I visited the Army, Navy, and Air Force recruiters to find which service to join when I graduated. Needless to say, the Navy recruiter promised me the most amazing service track based on my screening test scores. The promised electronics technician school was followed by the promised submarine school. I started my career in the submarine service and headed for Nuclear Power School. While in training, I applied for a Secretary of the Navy appointment to USNA. While in Enlisted Nuclear Power School, I got orders to the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS). I arrived at Plebe Summer as a NAPSter already knowing how much I liked my Navy career path. I wanted very much to become like the officers I met on the sub and in nuclear power school. I expected to be able to go to Officers Nuclear Power School and continue my service aboard nuclear submarines. For various reasons, I chose the Aviation pathway after graduation, headed for flight training in Pensacola, FL. It was a wonderful, much desired alternative. I much enjoyed seeing the sun and sky through a canopy, instead of a periscope. Question 2: Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I found the academy experience to be exciting, challenging, humbling, rewarding, diversified, and full of opportunities, all of which exceeded my fondest expectations. Three opportunities presented during summer training exceeded my expectations: 1. Crossing the Atlantic to France and England aboard a guided missile cruiser added navy shipboard and foreign port experiences with the French and British people. 2. During AIRTRAMID, learning the basics of flying and experiencing a tail-hook landing and takeoff from the aircraft carrier. 3. First class summer cruise aboard a Polaris Missile Submarine was like a dream come true. I became a part of the real deployed Navy and worked on qualifying as a Diving Officer on a nuclear sub. I am delighted with my career path choices. Getting my Navy Wings of Gold and flying over the oceans far exceeded my wildest expectations. Ports of travel were fascinating and enjoyable. Becoming an Officer of the Deck while underway on a carrier and holding the trust of the Captain to operate the ship while he slept on the mid or morning watches was a marvelously satisfying achievement. Becoming qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer on an aircraft carrier also exceeded my expectations. The diversity of responsibilities and experiences during my Active Duty and Naval Reserve service was completely unforeseen and exceptionally rewarding. It provided a solid foundation for my subsequent civilian and federal government service. I have a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction with my accomplishments in all facets of my life and in interacting with the interesting and magnificent people along the way.

Summary bio for Roy Capshaw My first assignment following USNA was flight training in Florida and Texas in the propeller pipeline. I transitioned to P3’s at PAX River. First sea duty was NAS Jacksonville in Patrol Squadron 45 with deployments to North Atlantic and Mediterranean. First shore duty was at Milton, Florida, as flight instructor in T-28 basic and instruments. My students included the first five Navy women pilots. Next Sea Duty tour was USS Lexington CVT-16 as Ship’s Company and COD co-pilot, where I qualified as both Officer of the Deck Underway and Surface Warfare Officer. Final shore duty was at NAS Whiting Field as Test Pilot. Later, I drilled with Navy Reserve where I flew P-3’s as Lieutenant Commander USNR. Subsequently, I became a Civil Service General Engineer with both DOD and DOE. In DOD, I solved engineering issues for a wide range of purchased items for the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, NATO and NASA. I was engineering liaison to 138 DOD and NASA contracts worth $2.3 billion. I transferred to DOE as a QA Engineer supporting underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site. Next, I was invited to be a Nuclear Facility Safety Analyst at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. After three years, I was invited to be Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at Yucca Mountain Project in Las Vegas, Nevada. I retired from federal service in 2006. After federal retirement, I returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Contract Consultant, Senior Nuclear QA Engineer and worked at the plutonium facility where I inspected and documented proper disposal of excess nuclear warheads. In April 2013, I finally retired to Las Vegas, Nevada, where my wife, Gail, and I enjoy our lovely retirement home with family and many friends nearby. Sad Note: After a long fight with a number of serious health issues, Roy ended his gallant battle on August 20, 2017, just before our 50th. As with our other brothers, we are sad at his passing and will miss him

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Jesse S. Carter Service History: 1967: Sailing Instructor, USNA 1967-68: Naval Aviation Training Command (Fixed Wing) 1968-70: VT-3, NAS Whiting Field, FL, Instrument Flight Instructor/ Standardization Instructor 1971: VP-31, P-3 Replacement Air Training, Moffett Field, CA 1971-74: VP-40, P-3 Pilot in Command, Mission Commander, Airframe Division Officer, NAS Moffett Field, CA 1974-75: USN Postgraduate School, Meteorology, Systems Acquisition Management, Monterey, CA 1976-77: FASOTRAGRUPAC/VS-41, S-3 Systems Instructor, NAS North Island, CA Warfare Specialty : Naval Aviator Principal Occupation: Project Engineer, Army Combat Experimentation Command, Ft Hunter Liggett, CA (6 months) Lockheed California Company, Burbank, CA (4 years): Flight Simulator Representative and Configuration Manager, CP-140 Aurora Program (Canadian P-3); Master Scheduler, VTXTS Proposal and Advanced Tactical Fighter (F22) Concept Development Program. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company, Sunnyvale, CA (27 years): Master Scheduler and Assistant Program Manager-Controls, MILSTAR Program, Project Leader and Manager, Cost/ Schedule Control Systems Compliance, Project Leader, Graphical User Interface/System Development for companywide program management system. Senior Financial Analyst for Civil Space programs. Memorable Events: Surviving a T-28 crash, 3 P-3 tours in WESTPAC ranging from Bandar Abbas, Iran to the Sea of Okhotsk tracking Russian and CHICOM vessels and NVN gun runners, fishing in Diego Garcia, "Buffalo Alerts" at RTAB, Utapao, Thailand, evading interceptors in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea, flying through two typhoons in the South China Sea and Sea of Japan, photographing directly down the Mt Fugi volcanic crater, being tracked by a UFO at night in the Sea of Japan, prices in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong before gross inflation took over, showing S-3 pilots how to land without slamming the aircraft onto the deck, surviving a S-2 ferry flight arrested landing (barely controlled crash) while having runaway rudder boost problems, Las Vegas Tailhook conventions before the "PC feminazis" started whining, and beating out TRW/Hughes for the megabucks MILSTAR System Development contract.

Family History: Married Dottie - one son, Kevin (Leilani), three grand children - Chelsea (Adam), Hunter and Kevin Jay and one great grand child - Drew. Married Corinne - one daughter - Christina and one son - Michael (Karli). Retired Life: Great! Almost stress-free, lots of time for reading mixed with road trips back to Florida (home state), Las Vegas and Montana. Fond Memories of USNA: Not many. I was greatly honored to be there but chafed under the arbitrary rules and discipline. I do fondly remember relaxing after USNA football wins when we were plebes (thanks much Roger!) and lots of privileges as a crew member on our schooner "Freedom", especially weekend cruises and races on the bay and the Newport to Bermuda race! Humorous Memories of USNA: Many opportunities to harass upper classmen as a plebe, moving 2 static-display aircraft (an A-3 and A-4) from the Field House to Bancroft Hall one night without detection, staging the highly successful "Brigade Against Rotten Food" protest, dropping water balloons on Navy "90-day wonder" medical doctors undergoing military orientation during 2nd class summer, running pink bloomers up the admiral's flag staff one Saturday night at Pensacola during aviation orientation training, and "blacking out" my T-28 aerobatics instructor pilot. Awards/Academics, etc.: None noteworthy

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3rd Company Why USNA? Four year engineering education, the fanciful idea of becoming a NAVY ship captain and lots of adventure. USNA experience? Education and experience - definitely yes, but I quickly abandoned that "ship captain" goal after two North Atlantic cruises on tin cans. The USMC and submarines were out and Naval Aviation was left as the best option! 50th Anniversary Yearbook Bio for Jesse Carter: My father was a Spanish American War veteran infantryman, but my favorite half brother (much older than me) was a WWII shipboard sailor so, prior to USNA, I had the fanciful idea of becoming a Navy ship captain. Fortunately for me, Naval Aviation proved to be a much more attractive alternative. I instructed instrument flying in T-28s at VT-3 in Florida, followed by 3 WESTPAC deployments in P-3s with VP-40 out of Moffett Field, CA. After USN Post Grad School in Monterey, CA, I finished with VS-41 instructing S-3 systems and ASW tactics at North Island, CA. Flying P-3s was very satisfying due to the wide variety of locales, missions and cultures that I experienced from Bandar Abbas, Iran all the way around the Indian Ocean/western Pacific Ocean rim to the Sea of Okhotsk very near the USSR, patrolling ocean commerce and USSR naval surface assets and locating/tracking their submarines. We also kept track of Soviet ballistic missile subs on patrol north of Hawaii. S-3s were fun to fly except for the uncomfortable ejection seats. Being one of very few available pilots with both P-3 and S-3 systems knowledge/experience drew Lockheed California Company's attention for the Canadian CP-140 Aurora program that was essentially a P-3 aircraft having upgraded S-3 avionics systems and capabilities. I gained extensive experience there in coordinating, planning and managing military aviation programs. After transferring to Lockheed's Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, CA, I supported primarily the USAF MILSTAR communications satellite and NOAA TIROS weather satellite programs. I was also the company expert in program management cost/schedule control systems. My oldest son, Kevin, was peripherally interested in aviation but much more interested in hunting and fishing. Alaska satisfied that desire in Bethel where he manages Lynden Air Cargo and Alaska Hovercraft operations, while hunting bear, moose, caribou and waterfowl and fishing for king and silver salmon. His daughter, Chelsea, lives off the grid on the Big Island of Hawaii with her husband Adam and my great grandson Drew. Kevin and Leilani also have two younger sons, Hunter and Kevin Jay, that currently attend school in Bethel. My daughter, Christina, lives in Las Vegas and works for the Cosmopolitan Hotel Casino while starting up her own cosmetics company. My youngest son, Michael (Karli), is a successful Las Vegas DJ and has a music production company there. Oh...and my sanctimonious, arrogant 3rd cousin Jimmy (yes, he's still alive) is secretly very relieved that he is no longer the country's worst ever president! I've been a confirmed bachelor since 1980 and will likely remain so while contemplating a move back home to southwest Florida. The weather is great here in Santa Clara, but the Bay Area taxes, politics and traffic are becoming intolerable.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Joseph S Daughtry Jr Service History: 1963 - 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 - 68: USNA Phys Ed Dept./ 150 Football Coach 1968 - 69: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, earned wings 04/69 1969 - 71: NATTC NAS Glynco, GA. Pilot/AIC Instructor 1971 - 72: VF-101 F-4 Transitional Training, NAS Oceana, VA 1972 - 74: VF-14. Pilot. QA DivO; Air Tactics Officer, NAS Oceana, VA 1974 - 76: VF-43. Pilot. ACM Program Head, NAS Oceana, VA 1976 - 78: JTF, Air Combat Evaluation/Air Missile Evaluation, Nellis AFB, NV 1978 - 79: VF-101. F-14 Transitional Training NAS Oceana, VA 1979 - 82: VF-142. Dept. HD. Main Off; Admin Off. NAS Oceana, VA 1982 - 84: VF-84. XO/CO NAS Oceana, VA 1984 - 85: Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). CO NAS Miramar, CA 1985 - 89: USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) CICO/OPSO, NS Norfolk, VA 1989 - 90: Ship PCO Training. Newport, RI and Various locations. 1990 - 92: USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3). CO. Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Agana, Guam 1992 - 94: CINCLANTFLT Staff, Norfolk, VA. Warfare Requirements 1994- Retired at the rank of Captain. Principal Occupation Director Naval Programs for Raytheon Company Norfolk, VA. Primary responsibility was support for deployed Naval Warfighting systems and developing future warfare systems to fill Navy requirements. Director Naval Programs for General Dynamics for command, control and secure systems. Retired to the golf course in 2004. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Multiple deployments embarked in several aircraft carriers and operating fighters off of them. Driving an AFS in the first Gulf War (Desert Storm) and providing logistical support for the gun line shooters. It’s an impressive sight to see a battleship come alongside… speaks power. When a carrier comes alongside… it’s truly four acres of sovereignty. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Pam and I were married in 2000 while she was active duty Navy and I was retired and in the defense contractor business. As a Surface Warrior, she commanded LSD and was the first woman to command a big deck amphib (LHA 5) on the west coast. She retired in 2007 and became a PGA Class A Golf Professional. We have two adult children from my previous marriage. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? We currently reside in Spring Branch, TX north of San Antonio, TX. Life is good…living on a golf course, of course. Life is not a stressful endeavor around our house. I take a newspaper because I enjoy something that was not available on deployments; besides I need it so I can determine what day of the week it is. Sunday is easy and can be determined on the walk up the driveway based on the large bulk. Playing golf, caring for our two Australian Shepherds, family and church pretty much occupy our time. Like I said, pretty non-stressful. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: I-Doc swearing-in. My Firstie Don Wright. Out-of-Company Area All calls to Krulak for two weeks. JFK’s visit and speech. JFK’s assassination. Beating Army in 63 and the carry-on. Steak versus “mystery meat”. Summer cruises. Issuing of SDK’s and brown shoes. Pensacola aviation indoctrination. Steam finals… entropy charts… or was it enthalpy? Last time it mattered. Beating Army in Track, 150’s, and making the Big Blue. Ring Dance. Graduation. Remaining at Navy as a Phys. Ed. Instructor and 150 Football Coach. Seeing a totally different perspective of “Crabtown” after graduation. I always wanted to go to “Boat School” and my memories are extensive and revered… the Classmates I knew make it especially memorable. Humorous Memories of USNA: Plebe Summer group grope come-a-rounds. Mushroom Omelets twirling across Mess Hall Aisles. Uncle Charlie. Pep Rallies in Tecumseh Court. JOOD on YPs doing maneuvering board in the rain and the paper tearing…. Followed by a 104

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3rd Company SWAG. Beating the Rotunda Clock by a click at the expiration of liberty with the OOD standing by the doors. George Hiduk and me playing Coach Cloud 2 v 1 in Badminton… and getting waxed off the court. Best stop here for classification issues…. Awards Received Five Varsity letters and three N stars. Academic Achievement Graduation Athletic Navy Track, 150 Football, and Varsity Football Service Awards National Defense issued in 1963 as a Plebe. Various others that were a direct result of support and performance by the greatest Sailors in the world. Uniform Device Naval Aviator wings Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My Dad was an Aviation Machinist Mate and retired as a Chief Petty Officer after 24 years of service. I grew up around Naval Aviation, Naval Air Stations and Aircraft Carriers. Aircraft, ships, bases, deployments, and Navy life were fundamental elements in my life. When I was thirteen, I decided I wanted to fly Navy aircraft and discussed this with my Dad. At the time he was stationed at Cabniss Field in Corpus Christi, TX as an Advanced Training Command Instructor. He provided an opportunity for me to meet Student Naval Aviators from all sources of commission. We decided that the Naval Academy would be the best avenue of higher education leading to a commission and career.

Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I decided early that the Naval Academy was the right place for me. I wanted to be a Naval Aviator and, in my opinion, the Academy was my best option for a commission and flying off carriers. It turned out to be a perfect decision. I spent my career as an operational aviator until I grew too old to do so. Would do it all over again. Summary Yearbook write-up for Joe Daughtry: After graduation I was assigned to the Phys. Ed Department as an instructor and then later as a 150 LB football coach under Jack Cloud. A fantastic experience and I departed for Pensacola knowing I had attended a very special institution with a national treasure of talented and dedicated faculty. My first duty station was NAS Glynco, GA. as an AIC instructor. Transition to F-4s at NAS Oceana, VA followed and deployments in VF-14. Shore duty was next with VA -43 as an ACM Instructor. Next came a joint test with the Air Force at Nellis AFB. Back to the fleet at Oceana in F-14s and the Department Head tour in VF-142, CO of VF-84, and CO of TOPGUN at Miramar, CA. USS John F. Kennedy was next as CICO and OPSO. Off to the Pentagon for a staff tour and then CO USS Niagara Falls homeported in Guam. Completed my career at CINCLANFLT with 27 years of service. My civilian career was in Defense Contracting with Raytheon, Motorola, and General Dynamics working warfare requirements. Pam and I were married in 2000 and I eventually became a Navy Spouse since she was Active Duty. She commanded USS Carter Hall and USS Peleliu. After retirement, she became a PGA Golf Professional and we moved to Spring Branch, TX and are now both retired.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Michael J. Farlow Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (2nd and 3rd Company) 1967 – 68: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, received wings 10/1968 1969: UH1 and gunnery training Ft Rucker Ala 1969-70: Helicopter Attack Light Squadron 3 (HAL-3) Republic of Vietnam 1970-74: Helicopter Training Squadron 8 and Training Air Wing 5 Ellyson and Whiting Field 1975-76: OOD School, TAO School and TACRON One, Coronado Ca. 1977-79: Helicopter Anti Submarine Squadron (Light) 31, NAS North Island 1979-81: Helicopter Anti Submarine Squadron (Light) 35, NAS North Island 1981-82: Naval War College, Newport RI 1982- 85: OP 602, Office of the Chief Of Naval Operations 1985- 88: Federal Executive Exchange Program, United States Information Agency Washington D.C. 1988: Retired from USN with the rank of Commander Principal Occupation Worked as a systems engineer and later as a corporate officer for Alcoa, McDonnel Douglas, Teledyne Ryan, CACI International and Dell Computer. Currently a partner with Wolf Leadership Development, LLC. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: For somebody with a military history … none. For those without a military history, I can’t explain. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Lynne and I met in the same office in OP 602. We married close to my departure to USIA in 1985. Lynne is a 1982 graduate of USNA and retired from the Reserve as a Captain. She has held several HR business partner and executive jobs including those in Pepsico, Dell Computer and USAA. Currently she is a partner with Wolf Leadership Development, LLC. No children. Three dogs. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retirement in its normal form is a non-starter. Tried retiring several times but can’t stand the boredom. I spend my time working with Lynne in our own company, writing, speaking, coaching and developing leadership programs. Only step toward retirement so far is getting to work later than most people consider normal, and leaving when I want. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Plebe summer visit by President John F. Kennedy • Every Army-Navy game, esp. Roger Staubach. Had a go-around to his room once. • Mystery meat • Helping to roll the A4 into Tecumseh Court • Not having to jump from the tower platform again into the pool. • Tea fights, vivid but not fondest • Mrs. Marshall • Getting fried by the OD first class year for a bad haircut while walking into town to get a haircut. • Receiving my class ring • Getting my first car (67 Pontiac LeMans) • Getting my commission Humorous Memories of USNA: • Having President Kennedy tell us Plebe summer in formation to stand at ease. . . and nobody moved until the second classmen told us to do it. • One of my Plebe year roommates had most of the middle finger of his right hand blown off in a chemistry accident in 106

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high school. When in formation supporting a rifle with a white glove on, the empty middle finger of the glove stuck up appearing to give everyone the finger. No end of trouble from the class of 64 and 65 until they realized his disability. A laugh for us, not for him. Seeing Plebes go by my door with 30 pair of sweat gear on. Standing half-awake in the morning taking a leak in a urinal when a Plebe comes in and flushes the toilet saying “Fire No 1, Fire No. 2, etc.” and runs out. Having Admiral McCain (Senator John McCain’s father) stop his lecture in Mahan Hall, and look up at some of us first class in the balcony and yell “Wake Up!” Then, he said “I’ll have you know that I got 8 hours of sleep every day here. Any I got at night was gravy!”

Awards Received Academic Achievement: MA in Government, Georgetown University; MS in Management, Salve Regina University; MS In Systems Management, University of Southern California; PhD in Organizational Leadership, University of the Incarnate Word. Athletic: None Service Awards Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses; 32 Air Medals, Defense Superior Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, 2 Navy Achievement Medals, 2 Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry, Navy Unit Commendation, Combat Action Ribbon and various other medals and ribbons. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My father was an Air Force Officer with over 15,000 hours of flight time in three wars. Like him, I wanted to fly, but not in the Air Force after living with the Strategic Air Command as an Air Force brat. The Navy offered the best option and a great education for an income strapped family. I never envisioned a career other than as a Naval officer and pilot. After a non-productive 5th alternate with my local congressman, I joined the Naval Reserve and obtained my appointment via the Secretary of the Navy, then Fred Korth. After graduation I was fortunate enough to be able to select Naval Aviation and get my wings. I was able to be in some sort of aviation unit and fly for 13 years before becoming a desk slave in Washington D.C. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? At 19 years old, I am not sure how powerful my expectations were when I entered Plebe year, other than I wanted to be a pilot. Subsequently I realized that had it not been for the friendships, routine, discipline and honor concepts I was exposed to at USNA, I might not have achieved a fraction of what I finally have done. My expectations were vastly exceeded to say the least. My decision to leave the Navy and retire was (and still is) the most difficult decision that I have ever made. It was the right thing to do, but extremely hard to do.

Summary Yearbook write-up for Mike Farlow I went to the Academy fresh out of my first year of college in California. I was a little older than most (19) and was less pliant when it came to being a Plebe. However, the class of 64 and 65 eventually wore me down … late in plebe year. Going to the Academy was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. While I didn’t know it at the time, I needed discipline and regimentation at that age. I went to flight training in Pensacola. I selected helicopter training because I was getting bored flying straight and level and eating peanut butter crackers. When flying was done, went to the Naval War College and then to the Pentagon. Met Lynne in OPNAV and we were married in 1985. Retired at the 21 year point and Lynne and I moved back to San Diego. Lynne left the Navy there (stayed in the Reserves) and began work with Pepsico/KFC . I found work with McDonnell Douglas Technologies and Teledyne Ryan Aeronautics. In 1994, we moved to San Antonio. Lynne still with KFC and I took a job as VP of engineering with a logistics and engineering company. That company was sold to CACI International and I stayed on as SVP of a regional group. Lynne took a job with Dell Computer in Austin in 2000 and I followed a year later. In 2004 we moved back to San Antonio where Lynne started working for USAA. I went back to school in a PhD program and started a consulting company to pay some of the school bills. Graduated in 2009. We are both now partners with Wolf Leadership Development, LLC and doing well.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Richard G. Fuerst, Jr. Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (2nd/3rd Company) 1967 – 69: Nuclear Power School/Submarine School 1969- 71: USS THOMAS JEFFERSON SSBN-618 (Blue) 1971-73: Instructor, Submarine School 1973-75: Submarine NR-1 1975: Resigned Commission 1975-76: Engineer/Scientist with TRACOR, Inc. 1976: Then self-employed in Maine, where we happily remain. WARFARE SPECIALTY: Submarine Dolphins Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren JoAnne and I married the morning after graduation, and continue to feel it was the best decision we ever made! How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired ? Fondest Memory of USNA: Being awakened from an afternoon siesta by my most thoughtful roommate (Larry Torgerson) because some ladies were under our window, ladies who happened to be from the state to which my parents had just moved. That’s how I met my wife, over 50 years ago. Thanks, Torg! Summary bio for Rick Fuerst After graduation I attended Nuclear Power and Submarine School and was then ordered to USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618B). In 1971 I reported to Naval Submarine Base in New London, CT and was a Submarine School instructor until I received orders to submarine NR-1. Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1 was a unique United States Navy nuclearpowered ocean engineering and research submarine, built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Groton, CT. NR-1 was the smallest nuclear submarine ever put into operation. The vessel was casually known as "Nerwin" and was never officially named or commissioned. The U.S. Navy was allocated a specific number of warships by the U.S. Congress. Admiral Rickover avoided using one of those allocations with NR-1 and was also able to avoid the oversight that a warship receives from various bureaus. I married my wife JoAnne the morning after graduation, and we continue to feel it was the best decision we ever made! A fond memory of my time at Navy was being awakened from a workout on the blue trampoline by my most thoughtful roommate (Larry Torgerson) alerting me that ladies were under our window who happened to be from the state to which my parents had just moved. That’s how I met my wife over 50 years ago. Thanks, Torg!

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3rd Company Frank F. Hewitt Service History 1963 - 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 - 69: Chief Engineer, USS SAGACITY (MSO-469), Charleston, SC Promoted to LTJG 1969 - 70: Destroyer School, Newport, RI 1970 - 71: Weapons Officer, USS WALKE (DD-723), Long Beach, CA Spot Promoted to LT 1971 - 72: Weapons Officer, USS MARVIN SHIELDS (FF1066), San Diego, CA 1972 - 73: Company Officer, USNA 1973 - 74: U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI 1974 - 77: Commanding Officer, USS ADROIT (MSO-509), Newport, RI Promoted to LCDR 1977 - 79: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 1979 - 81: Executive Officer, USS GOLDSBOROUGH (DDG-20), Pearl Harbor, HI Deep Selected to CDR 1981 - 82: Chief Staff Officer, Destroyer Squadron 33, Pearl Harbor, HI 1982 - 83: PCO Pipeline Training, Newport, RI & Idaho Falls, ID 1983 - 84: Staff, Commander, Naval Surface Force, Pacific, San Diego, CA 1984 - 86: Commanding Officer, USS CUSHING (DD-985), San Diego, CA 1986 - 88: Surface Operations Officer, Cruiser-Destroyer Group One, San Diego, CA Selected for Promotion to CAPT 1988: Retired from Active Duty Principal Occupation after Naval Service 1988 - 1991: As a senior Staff Systems Engineer, and, then, Manager of San Diego Operations for Tiburon Systems, provided systems engineering support to PMA-281’s Afloat Planning System (APS) for the Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile (TLAM). 1991 - 1995: At Horizons Technology, as Assistant Vice President responsible for Aircraft Mission Planning software development, provided interface software support for uploading moving map data into various aircraft avionics including the F/A-18, F-111, and Harrier AV-8B. 1995 - 2005: ComGlobal Systems, provided executive leadership that was instrumental in ComGlobal’s growth from startup in 1995 to over $40 Million in revenue for 2005. Led San Diego operations that specialized in high technology professional services support to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), and provided management, contracting, and “strategic” business development expertise. 2005 - 2008: Worked as a Senior Vice President (M&A) for the company that acquired ComGlobal Systems; followed by supporting the entrepreneurial development of start-up commercial companies thru CONNECT in San Diego on a voluntary basis while waiting for the expiration of a three-year non-compete in the DoN market place as part of the M&A agreement associated with the sale of ComGlobal Systems. 2008 - Present: Currently the Executive Vice President for intelliSolutions, a San Diego-based woman-owned small business established in 2006. The company provides Government customers with superior, professional technical and operational services in a responsive and innovative manner. Certified by the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce (USWCC) as an Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) in 2014, the company is comprised of a talented and diverse team of C4ISR subject matter experts, with superior skills in developing collaborative solutions across a broad scope of technical requirements focused on Systems Engineering, Program and Operations Management, Acquisition Logistics management, and C4I Systems Modernization and Fleet C4I support. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: While in Command of USS CUSHING was the On Scene Commander for hold down of a Soviet strategic ballistic missile submarine. After years of ASW training and experience, this was a superb capstone, and, with National Command Authority authorization, active prosecution was allowed for the multiple air and surface platforms working on scene to prosecute this target. Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Being a part of providing the highest quality C4ISRT (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, & Targeting) integrated software and hardware in support of our men and women in uniform, including the Tomahawk weapons system among others. Working with all the fine officers and men/women in the armed forces, both while on active duty and afterwards in support of them as a defense contractor. Providing advice and council to my daughter Jamie as she does such a great job of leading intelliSolutions in its successful growth that continues support to our active duty personnel by the next generation of defense contractors. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Jeanne and I were married in 1968 and we have two daughters. Jamie Moraga, our oldest daughter, is the President of intelliSolutions, Inc., and she is also the 2014 President of the San Diego Military Advisory Council (SDMAC), which is also a California Corporation. Jamie is expecting her first child in December 2014. Cori Taylor, our youngest daughter, works for Epsilon Systems Solutions here in San Diego, and has two children, Brynn and Dylan. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I am not retired, and work for intelliSolutions where I’m the Executive Vice President. Prior to joining intelliSolutions, I was the President & CEO and a founder of ComGlobal Systems, Inc. here in San Diego, and led the negotiations for ComGlobal’s successful Merger and Acquisition (M&A) in April 2005 where the company was sold through acquisition. Additionally, I chair the Joint Legislative Committee of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) San Diego Chapter and the San Diego Military Advisory Council (SDMAC), am a Past President of the San Diego Chapter, NDIA, the Founding President of the San Diego Military Advisory Council (SDMAC), and currently serve on the SDMAC Board of Directors’ Executive Committee. Also, I’m a life member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the Surface Navy Association, the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, and the National Defense Industrial Association. Further, I’m still competitively fencing, took 6th Place at the 2014 National Championships in my Veteran age group, and completed the competitive year ranked 8th nationally in Combined Veteran Epee (40 years old and above). Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Taking Atomic Physics during the 1st Semester of 1st Class Year after having the professor, a Rickover blessed instructor, waive my need to have the requisite engineering math required for the course. Talk about a challenging course that had to be satisfactorily passed, which I did accomplish, but not without an exorbitant amount of work and study. • Meeting Jeanne 1st Class year. • Taking delivery of my first car, a 67 Corvette Stingray, in November of 66, slightly ahead of schedule. I still have that Vette, which has been fully restored. • Graduation 7 June 1967 Humorous Memories of USNA: As plebes, helping move the aircraft, stealthily at night, from its location at the main gate into Tecumseh Court in prep for a pep rally, and, then seeing the difficulty in moving it back to its original location. A difficult challenge, particularly when we all realized the tires on the plane were not inflated and the plane had to be moved with flat tires, with plebes on the wing tips to get the opposite wing above the car roof tops as it was moved up Captain’s row. Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors: Academic Achievement 1979 MS, Electronic Warfare Systems Technology, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA Athletic Numbered Plebe Year & Lettered 3 Years in Fencing NCAA 1st Team All-American – Fencing 1967 Naval Academy Athletic Hall of Fame – Fencing 1967 Service Awards Meritorious Service Medal (1st & 2nd Awards); Navy Commendation Medal; Meritorious Unit Commendation; Battle “E” Award Ribbon; Navy Expeditionary Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Vietnam Service Medal with 1 Bronze Star; and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with 4 Bronze Stars. Uniform Breast Insignia Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: 110

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3rd Company Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? I come from a Navy family. My father was a Naval aviator and he flew a variety of aircraft, including tours in lighter-thanair, during his career that spanned from WWII until the early 1960s. Moving around the country, and experiencing his career first hand from a family point of view, I became interested in pursuing a career in the Navy at an early age. His last tour of duty before retirement was in Pensacola, Florida, and I received a nomination to the Naval Academy from Congressman Bob Sikes, 1st Florida Congressional District. Obtaining an outstanding education and the ability to pursue a career in the Navy, I desired to have ship command as a Surface Warfare Officer. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My expectations of the academy experience were definitely met. The education and leadership opportunities were there. In addition to the BS in General Engineering from Navy, I received an MS in Electronic Warfare Systems Technology from the Naval Postgraduate School. I was the Section Leader for the first EW class at the Postgraduate School, and I, also, had the opportunity to attend the Naval War College as a Lieutenant, which was very early in my career. That was followed by command of two ships, an Ocean Minesweeper, USS ADROIT, and USS CUSHING, a Spruance Class Destroyer. Having a gas-turbine propelled destroyer with 80,000 shaft horsepower available was a very pleasant engineering experience form the previous 1200-pound steam plants. Completing my goal of ship command with extensive at sea operational assignments, I elected to contribute back to the service from the defense contractor side of the equation, and to build companies as an entrepreneur. Summary Yearbook write-up for Frank Hewitt I come from a Navy family and became interested in pursuing a Navy career at an early age. My father, a Naval aviator, flew a variety of aircraft during his career that spanned from WWII until the early 1960s. Knowing that I could obtain an outstanding education at the Naval Academy and could pursue a Navy career leading to ship command, I obtained a Congressional nomination while living in Pensacola, Florida.

My expectations were definitely met. In addition to my USNA degree, I received a MS in Electronic Warfare Systems Technology from the Naval Postgraduate School, and also had the opportunity to attend the Naval War College. The highlights of my career were command of two ships, an Ocean Minesweeper, USS ADROIT, and later USS CUSHING, a Spruance Class Destroyer. Completing my goal of ship command, I elected to contribute back to the service as a defense contractor and to build companies as an entrepreneur. Working for Tiburon Systems in support of the Tomahawk program, and then for Horizons Technology managing Aircraft Mission Planning software development, I then had the opportunity to co-found ComGlobal Systems, which was grown from startup in 1995 and sold in 2005, thus forming additional entrepreneurial experience for the future. Jeanne and I were married in 1968, and we have two daughters. Jamie Moraga, our oldest daughter, is President of intelliSolutions, Inc. and had her first child, Jack, in December 2014. Cori Taylor, our youngest daughter, works for Epsilon Systems Solutions here in San Diego, and has two children, Brynn and Dylan. My supporting intelliSolutions, provides a superb daughter-father working experience and the next generation of defense contracting entrepreneurs. Further, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still competitively fencing, and qualified for the U.S. Veteran World Championship Team for 2015.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Russell L. Johnson Service History 1962-63: NROTC, University of Rochester, NY 1963-1967: USNA (2nd then 3rd Co.), Jump School 1967 (July-Nov) The Basic School Quantico, Recon Replacement School, CA. 1968-69: RVN Platoon Cdr, 1st Force Recon, Co. B. Co. 1st Bn Recon (Lieutenant) 1969:Stud. at A.O. School, NC and later Team member. A.O.Unit, Camp Pendleton, CA 1970-71: Stud. Pilot, Pensacola FL, Meridian MS, Pensacola FL, Kingsville, TX (Wings awarded in May) (Captain) 1971: USMC A-4 training California and Yuma AZ (MOS Training) 1972-1974: NAS Beeville, TX, Basic Jet Instructor Pilot 1974-1975: Iwakuni Japan, Aide de Camp, 1St. USMC Wing Cdrs 1975-1976: Hqtrs USMC ,Asst Deploy O. and later Student Defense Intel. School, Wash. DC 1976-1979: Cherry Point, NC AV-8 Pilot (Major) 1979 Separated in August to attend School of Theology, Univ. of the South, TN Principal Occupation After three years in Seminary and after receiving my Master of Divinity degree in 1982, followed by Ordination to the Deaconate and later to the Priesthood I served several Churches in NC, MI, TN and FL, retiring as Dean of the Cathedral of St. Peter, St. Petersburg, FL. Diocese of Southwest Florida. I earned a Doctor of Ministry Degree in 1992 from the University of the South. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Serving as Aide de Camp I got to travel all over the Pacific, meet major political, diplomatic and military figures. Defense Intel School was incredibly educating. Being one of the second tier pilots in the Harrier airplane program was a delight. Saw my Dad healed in a hospital with the touch of my hands and prayers to God. Teaching in churches in this country and in Latin America has been a blessing. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: • Judith and I were married in 1983 each having two children from previous marriages. She is a brilliant educator, BA, MA (Phi Beta Kappa), serving many years in a classroom and in her last ten years as a consultant for McGraw Hill Publishing Company primarily teaching teachers all over the country. • Our daughter, married with one child is a graphic designer. The granddaughter is 14, plays 3 different musical instruments and is headed for great things. • Our oldest son is a musician with one son and they share a love of disc golf. Each is internationally ranked. • Our next oldest son is married and has three sons, 12, 9, 5; each of which is athletically inclined. That son is a high school counselor and last year sent his first counselee to USNA. • Our fourth Son is mentally challenged and suffers severe mental disease yet is able to live independently in a supervised (by the N.C. Mental Health Dept.) setting. • Today……… they are all doing well. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since retirement from fully employed service in the Episcopal Church, I spend time doing supply work for clergy who need to take a vacation or become ill or I fill in for parishes that are in a clergy search process. I volunteer at the Bay Pines VA Hospital one day a week. I try to work out three times a week at our local wellness center and to play golf at least once a week. Judith and I travel to visit family and for our edification. We used to ski and run marathons, but not so much anymore. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Plebe year and the visit of JFK and later, the event of his death. • In the night before the Notre Dame game the plebes from my Company moved the A-4 into the Bancroft Courtyard. 112

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Ice Cream for Breakfast, Rigatoni for lunch and a nap, Cannonballs and a laugh at dinner and the food fight before the Army Navy Game. Singing on TV with the Glee Club, and at the Messiah concert at Christmas with Goucher Girls Choir. Flying in an F-9F during aviation summer at Pensacola Playing touch football in the winter for the Brigade Championships, squash with friends and teaching fellow classmates to swim in our senior year. I loved Jump School and Jumping again with Seals during June Week. Late in the day after a run up Cemetery Hill, sitting quietly in the cemetery, overlooking the Severn and on other days, running the rock breakwater by the bay. Being called to the Brigade Cdr’s office to receive from a newly arrived Lieutenant in Marines, a letter (written by an Officer friend on the night before he died in Viet Nam).

Humorous Memories of USNA: • The wonderful joke JFK told on his visit during Plebe Summer. • The pre Army Navy Breakfast that ended in a food throwing fight that I just knew would keep us all from boarding buses for Philadelphia. (Can they Fry us all?) • The stories of exchange officer’s plights. • Seeing small parachutes floating by my plebe room window with gerbils attached. • Silly white sheet messages for game days and much much more. Awards received: Academic Achievement: Masters of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry Uniform Device Naval Aviator Wings Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to “obtain from attending.” Basically, I wanted a life! I was drawn to the Academy as a way of paying for higher education and by a love for what I had seen on a visit my parents and my family made when I was 12; by what I heard both from the TV program titled “Men of Annapolis” as well as the two guys attending from my home town. I was an avid reader of sea stories as a boy and wanted to do something with my life that would impact my little bit of the world. I did not get an appointment out of high school. It went to a classmate friend. So I accepted an NROTC scholarship at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and then, in the fall, reapplied to the Academy, getting an appointment through the SECNAV’s office.

Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I actually enjoyed most of what the academy offered. I was at home there but very ready to leave also. Clearly I was challenged, broadened and was given tools that served me well on the battlefield, in everyday service life and later, as a Priest of the Episcopal Church. I chose the Marines because I did not know if I would serve a full career and, I wanted to test my life in actual combat, have as much responsibility as I could accrue. While I wanted to fly, I also knew the infantry experience would both challenge me and enhance a flying experience later on. At the Naval Academy, I believed the Marine officers were, by and large, much more impressive than their Naval counterparts. My choice of service never disappointed me. I left to go to Seminary because I believed God wanted that of me. My life as a priest has been every bit as challenging and fulfilling as leading Marines in combat. If you would find charging a machine gun nest exciting, try entering a hospital room that holds a young mother who has been diagnosed with cancer. Life has been good. The Academy gave me a grounding that has, over and over, touched the lives of others, I believe for good. I couldn’t have asked for more. Final Yearbook write-up:. Following graduation, Viet Nam called, and so I attended the earliest Basic School class available. Graduating in November, I arrived in Viet Nam just before the TET Offensive of 1968. Being Jump Qualified, I was sent to First Force Recon Company. I led 28 patrols over the next 9 months, and then became the CO of a Battalion Reconnaissance Company. Back in the states, feeling bored in garrison duty at Camp Pendleton, I won the chance to attend the Air Observation School in N.C., followed by 6 months in an active unit. Hooked, I applied for Flight training. Got my wings in May of ’71 and was off for training in A-4s. New orders sent me in early ’72 to teach Basic Jets in Beeville, TX. In ‘74 orders led to Iwakuni, Japan and eventually to duty as Aide de Camp to two commanding generals. This duty came with a chance to see much of Asia, meet interesting people and see life at the top. During ’75 and ’76 I attended and graduated from the Defense Intelligence School in DC, and was assigned to fly Harriers at Cherry Point, NC. In 1979, sensing God callReturn to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary ing me to a different life, I separated and in September entered the Episcopal Seminary at Sewanee, TN. Graduating in May of 1982, I was ordained as a deacon and later as a Priest. In 1983 I married Judith, a brilliant and accomplished educator who encouraged me to complete my doctorate. We have served 7 congregations in 30 years. In 2009 I retired as Dean of the Cathedral in St. Petersburg, FL. Judith and I have 4 children and 5 grandchildren. 4 years at Navy, 12 as a USMC officer made easier the service to God and Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people.

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Service History: 1963-67- As a SWO served aboard USS Kepler DD765 (67-71) and USS Miles C Fox DD 829 (6971) in various Division Officer and Department Head positions based in Jacksonville, FL, Newport, RI and New London, CT before leaving the active duty Navy in 1972. He continued his career in the Naval Reserve and retired with the rank of Commander. Principal Occupation: Vice President of Commercial Lending with Bank of Boston. Founder and CEO of Poly-Testing Inc. in Chicopee MA specializing in non-destructive testing of high tech metals for the aerospace industry for 10 years. Upon relocating to Cape Cod, MA, served as Director of a Technology Incubator Program; was affiliated with the Cape and Island Community Development Corporation as a Commercial Lender and most recently as a Real Estate agent for Robert Paul Properties in Falmouth, MA. Interesting, Unusual or Memorable Life Events: Always close to the sea, Dick entertained family and friends onboard his 40 Ft Cabin Cruiser the “Splice of Life” in the vicinity of Cape Cod and the Islands for many years and quickly became expert in always knowing where the best fishing was to be found. As an avid golfer, played almost every course on Cape Cod and several at Myrtle Beach, SC. At family parties, Dick was always at the piano pounding out tunes often without the aid of written music. Family Life: Dick is survived by his beloved wife, Toni, of 32 years, and his 6 children and 14 grandchildren. He loved attending the sporting events of his grandchildren and always enjoyed a challenging game of cribbage and backgammon whenever he and his Navy brothers, Ray and Ed, would get together. Fondest Memories of USNA: End of Plebe Year. Watching Roger Staubach do his magic on the gridiron. Beating Army. Carry-on. Cotton Bowl. Christmas Leave. Learning my brother Ray was OK after the Forrestal fire. Sailing on the Severn. Saturday liberty and the “escape from Mother B”. Being allowed to have a record player and radio. Ice Cream at the Evening meal. Steak instead of corned beef. Ring Dance. Humorous Memories of USNA: Learning to enjoy country western music…winning the coin toss and getting all my roommate’s country western records. Explaining to my family my newly acquired musical taste. Constructing the famous toilet tissue daily calendar for the countdown til Christmas leave. Egg nog celebrations on the 4th Deck with Joe, Walt and Dave. The year I had an Easter Baby Duck and donated it to a Yard Engine since it would not stop quacking. Uniform Insignia Surface Warfare Device

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Summary for Dick Lambert Richard "Dick" J. Lambert, 69, passed away after a short illness Saturday, August 31, 2013 at Baystate Medical Center. He was born in Pasadena, CA to the late Raymond and Dorothy (Grindle) Lambert. Dick was a graduate of Cathedral High School, a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy earning his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, 1972 University of Oklahoma, National Commercial Lending School 1973 - Ohio State University, School of Finance. As an officer in the United States Navy from 1967-1972, Dick served several tours aboard the USS Keppler DD-765 and the USS Myles C. Fox DD-829. Continuing with the Naval Reserves, he departed the US Navy with rank of Commander. He was the former Vice President for Bank of Boston WMASS in charge of Commercial Lending, Dick was the founder and CEO of Poly-Testing in Chicopee, MA for 10 years. He was the Director, CVIP Technology Incubator Program for UMASS. Dick was a Commercial Lender for Cape & Island Community Development and most recently worked as a Real Estate Agent for Robert Paul Properties in Falmouth, MA. Dick enjoyed the ocean, boating and fishing, playing golf, playing the piano, enjoyed classic country music, but mostly Poppy loved attending the sporting events of his grandchildren. He also enjoyed a challenging game of cribbage with his brothers as well as somewhat lively conversations about politics. Dick is survived by his beloved wife of 32 years, Toni Lambert of Agawam, his six loving children, Kathleen M. Fox and her husband Matthew of Chelmsford, MA, Stephanie A. Liebel and her husband Brian of Feeding Hills, Jennifer K. DiModica and her husband Thomas of Sudbury, MA, Heidi R. Szalai and her husband Andrew of Springfield, Daniel F. Lambert and his wife Amanda of East Brookfield and Martha E. Lavertu and her husband Edward of Portland, ME, his brothers, Raymond Lambert and his wife Mary Ellen of Paxton, MA, Edward Lambert and his wife Saundra of Centerville, MA and Robert Lambert of Kentucky, and his 14 cherished grandchildren, Jack, Katelyn, and Molly Fox, Ryan, Connor and Brennen Liebel, Brianna DiModica, Sarah, and Jacob Szalai, Will, James and Elizabeth Lambert and Griffin and Charlie Lavertu. Dick also leaves behind many nieces and nephews and good friends. We must not forget his beloved cat and faithful companion The Bat Cat. Dick's associations and affiliations include Cape Cod Technology Council, Member; Securities and Exchange Commission, Committee on Small Business Capital Generation; Regional Employment Board, Cape and Islands, Board Member; Mashpee Economic Development Council, Member; Bank of Boston Western Mass, former Board Member; Pittsfield National Bank, former Board Member; Springfield Boys Club, former Chairman; Baystate Medical Center, former Board Member. Visiting hours were on Wednesday, September 4, 2013 from 4-7 PM. A Funeral Service for Dick followed at 7 PM in the Colonial Forastiere Funeral Home, 985 Main St. Agawam, MA 01001. Dick's final resting place is off the shores of Cape Cod. Contributions in Dick's name may be directed to the Springfield Boys Club, 481 Carew St. Springfield, MA 01104 or to the March of Dimes, 1275 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, NY 10605. Published in The Republican from September 2 to September 3, 2013

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Walter R. May Jr. Service History: 1961- 63: USNR AA VP662, Andrews AFB, MD 1963 – 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 – 68: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, received wings 8/1968 1968 – 72: VR-1, NAS Norfolk, VA, Aircraft Commander/Instructor/Test Pilot C131F (Convair 440) and CT39E (Sabreliner Series 40). Principal Occupation: After active duty, I graduated from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, then began a legal career. As a partner in two larger Boston law firms, my practice concentrated in the areas of construction and suretyship law, and insurance/products liability defense with a further emphasis on trials (or avoiding trials) of complex business disputes. One of my clients acquired a jet aircraft, so I continued flying a bit and obtained an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate, type-rated in the Learjet. I continue working as in-house counsel for Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., a client I represented at its inception some 30 years ago, and which is now a multi-billion dollar construction management company, responsible for building construction projects throughout New England, both coasts of Florida and in California, from San Diego to San Francisco. Family: Susan and I were married in December, 1967 while I was still in flight training. By the time active duty was behind us, we had two children. Michele was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and now lives and works in the Berea/Lexington, Kentucky area. Walter, III was born in Portsmouth, VA and is a financial advisor in Boston. Our youngest, Alex, who was born in Massachusetts, is a real estate agent on Boston’s North Shore. Our daughters-in-law, Asha and Alexandria have given us three beautiful grandchildren Saajan (now, meaning 2015, 14), Anjali (12) and Cameron (10 months). Warfare Specialty: Naval Aviator Summary bio for Walt May After graduation I completed flight training and received my wings in Aug 1968. From 1968 through 1972 I was attached to VR-1 in Norfolk, VA flying C-131F and CT-39 Sabreliner aircraft. After active duty in 1972, I graduated from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, and then began a legal career. As a partner in two larger Boston law firms, my practice concentrated in the areas of construction and suretyship law, and insurance/products liability defense with a further emphasis on trials (or avoiding trials) of complex business disputes. One of my clients acquired a jet aircraft, so I continued flying a bit and obtained an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate, type -rated in the Learjet. I continue working as in-house counsel for Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., a client I represented at its inception some 30 years ago, and which is now a multi-billion dollar construction management company, responsible for building construction projects throughout New England, both coasts of Florida and in California, from San Diego to San Francisco. Susan and I were married in December 1967 while I was still in flight training. By the time active duty was behind us, we had two children. Michele was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and now lives and works in the Berea/Lexington, Kentucky area. Walter, III was born in Portsmouth, VA and is a financial advisor in Boston. Our youngest, Alex, who was born in Massachusetts, is a real estate agent on Boston’s North Shore. Our daughters-in-law, Asha and Alexandria have given us three beautiful grandchildren Saajan (14), Anjali (12) and Cameron (10 months).

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3rd Company Van L. McCullough Service History 1961 - 63: Civilian College (Birmingham Southern College) while vying for an appointment to the Naval Academy. 1963 - 67: USNA (1st year was 1st Company and then 3rd Company when Brigade expanded from 24 to 36 Companies. 1967 - 68: Naval Air Training Command, Pensacola, FL & Corpus Christi, TX. Earned wings in September 1968. Squadrons included VT - 1, VT- 2, VT- 5, and VT - 31 1968 - 69: Ploughed back as Instructor Pilot in VT-28, Corpus Christi, TX 1970 - 73: VP-1, Barbers Point, HA. Made 2 WESTPAC Deployments (Philippines) 1973 - 76: VP-31 Replacement Air Group (RAG), NAS Moffett Field, CA. P-3 Flight/ Simulator/Ground School Instructor. Alternate AIRPAC NATOPS Evaluator for P-3 Aircraft. 1977 - 79 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), Norfolk, VA. Special Weapons Unit Technical Supervisor (SWUTS). Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) Pilot, Bridge Watch Team member. Part of commissioning crew (Plank Owner)! Made first Med Cruise Deployment 1979 - 81: VP- 8 NAS Brunswick, Maine. Safety/NATOPS Officer, Maintenance Officer, Made 2 Mediterranean/Eastern Atlantic deployments 1981 - 82: Staff of Patrol Wing FIVE, Brunswick, ME. Wing Logistics Officer. 1982- 84: Executive Officer/Commanding Officer, VP – 44. Made Bermuda and Sigonella, Italy deployments, 1984 – 85: Student, Naval War College. Earned Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. 1985 – 89: Assigned to the Pentagon in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV 942), Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. Served as Planning, Programming, and Budget System (PPBS) Coordinator for 19 programs. 1989- 91: Chief of Staff for Commander Maritime Air Forces Mediterranean in Naples, Italy. 1991- 93: Assistant Director of the Strategy and Campaign Department at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. and Navy Course Director for the Joint Flag Officers War Fighting course at Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL. 1993 Retired from Naval Service as A CAPT Principal Occupation: Principal occupation for the first 20 years was flying in that I was fortunate enough to have five squadron tours and one ship tour that were all flying billets! After that it was all “paper pushing”. That was not nearly as enjoyable. Unfortunately infrequent but recurring episodes of passing kidney stones prevented me from ever seriously considering civilian aviation options that may have been out there. I still had association with naval aviation in some areas so I stayed with it for obvious reasons until it was time to make a career change. Quality of life was most important to our family at this time so we retired with 26 years of service (30 if you count “Boat School”) in Brunswick, Maine where we first moved in 1979 after six previous moves in the first 11 years of marriage! As it turned out I was fortunate again to have something different (but perhaps not as much as you might think) open up at just about the same time I retired from the Navy. Julia and I had already decided that I was going to stay in Brunswick if I could find employment (at that time we had two kids in college and one more to go)! Mid Coast Health Services (which oversaw the local hospital, nursing home, community home health care-agency, and several doctor’s groups) was building an independent living retirement community and were looking for an Executive Director. So, among other possibilities, I threw my hat (i.e.,“cover”) in the ring! Somewhat to my surprise I was hired. Thus began another challenging career, but I had obtained some good information before hand when a resident suggested I get hold of a copy of the legal documents and read them cover to cover before I took the job! Those words of caution on behalf of all the residents I will always be remembered: “None of us can afford for this endeavor to fail!” So that is what I did over the long 4th of July weekend and it was very good advice indeed! After that I became Executive Director of Thornton Oaks Retirement Community (a Homeowners Cooperative managed by Mid Coast Health Services (MCHS). It had some 30 cottages (with 16 more under construction) and just over 40 residents. Seven years later we had 46 cottages and a three-story/ four wing apartment building with 98 units and a total resident population of some 185. There were plenty of growing pains along the way and after 18 ½ years I retired with all units occupied or under contract, a positive cash flow for the last 10 years, and a healthy Replacement Reserve Fund. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Traveled to many places around the world and enjoyed most of them. In VP-1 we flew in the last six P-3 “B’s” to come off the production line. I was navigator on the first crew to achieve contact on the first Yankee FBM patrol in the Pacific. We closed down Sangley Point and established P-3 operations at Cubi Point in the Philippines. While in VP-31 we esReturn to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary tablished the Patrol Plane Instructor Pilot (PPIP) program for West Coast squadrons; a significant improvement in training and safety. “Plank Owner” on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). I went through final construction, all sea trials, certifications, work-ups and inspections and made most of first Mediterranean Deployment! I also accumulated 102 traps (11 on Lexington, 1 on Saratoga, and 90 on IKE), a lot of deck runs, and one Cat launch! I made the last active duty squadron deployment with “P-3B” aircraft while in VP-8! We received the Six Fleet “Hook’um” award for ASW prosecution in Mediterranean during the VP-44 deployment. Received Master of Arts degrees from Naval War College and Salva Regina College. Learned all about the Planning, Programing and Budget System (PPBS) while at the Pentagon; only Division Coordinator to have money added to his programs upon budget approval (not that some was not later taken away as we progressed through the budget year)! COMMARAIRMED tour was very interesting as national assets were assigned to this Joint NATO command during Desert Storm; a first time and very unique series of events. During the last tour at the Naval War College I was assigned as the Navy Course Director for the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course at Maxwell Air Force which was conducted for two weeks three times a year. This is where brand new Admirals and Generals (1 and 2 stars) came for a (“in my words”) Mini War College Cram Course! Speakers were 3 and 4 star officers from all services and civilian equivalents. The students were mostly guys that had been in Desert Storm and to hear all these guys talk among themselves was truly a comprehensive course in almost every aspect of real combat among the joint forces complete with logistics and political concerns. A great way to wrap up a career for me as far as I was concerned! Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Julia and I were married in 1968 and have two sons and one daughter. Mike, the oldest, and Mandy have three children and live in Simsbury, CT about 4 hours away. They have three children, Kyle, Riley, and Keegan. Unfortunately the boys have hemophilia and must have frequent infusions of “factor” to lead normal lives which they do for the most part. They are wonderful parents and have a good support base in Mandy’s home town. Wes is the middle child and he and Patti live about an hour and a half away in Hamilton, MA (just north of Boston where Wes works). That have three children also but all girls, Norah, Annie, and Faye. Naturally all of our grandchildren are adorable. Our daughter is a little younger than the boys and lives in Clearwater, FL now having moved there from Denver last fall. She is not married and works as a Vet Tech at a local animal hospital. She loves animals, especially dogs and horses and has been following her dream of always helping them where she can. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since my second retirement I do not have enough time or money to do everything I want to do so I just pick and choose and slowly keep working away at my “Bucket List”! Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe year (63) Army-Navy game: The only time we saw Navy win (Roger Steinbach was QB) in the four years we were there as Midshipman. I actually feel sorry for Army now but not enough to pull for them! But I really would like to beat Notre Dame more than Army these days! Army/Navy weekend, June Week, and playing Company sports were most of the “fun” times; all the rest was just Mickey Mouse, hard work, and fighting my way off the Sub-Squad every year!

Chris’s Sub Base Hamburgers and Crab Imperial at the Harbor House Restaurant. Bringing back in the fall of 1st Class year my brand new ‘66 Mustang, 289 V-8 engine, 3 in-the-floor transmission, Amber Glow paint job, Deluxe Pony Interior and wishing I still had it today! The car was a year old and had 12,000 miles on it before I made the first payment ($88/mo.). Humorous Memories of USNA: Tom Ballantine stuffing himself with 12 Cannon Balls Plebe Year in the mess hall (I believe the PC name is Dining Facility now) for “Carry-On” privileges (that caused a split in the “unity” of the 1st Class in the company)! Awards Received None that I know of! . Academic Achievement Earned Masters of Arts at Naval War College and Salve Regina College 1985/86 Athletic Following are the high (and low) points of my athletic career in the Navy! • Always beat 1st Company in the annual Battalion Touch Football game (Big rivalry). • Beat the Plebes (’68) in the fall of 1964 when they challenged the Youngsters (’67) in a touch football at the end of the regular season. Score: 15 – 0 (that is 2 touchdowns, one 1 pt. conversion (soccer style kick by Max Warner) and one 2 pt. conversion (pass McCullough to Torgerson) • Blew out my right knee (ACL) in touch football game while in VT-28. I was never the same athlete after that! By the time medical technology could fix that problem I was too old! 120

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Scored 7 of 10 baskets (wearing a Joe Namath knee brace) at the POAC (Pentagon Officer’s Athletic Club) in one of many afternoon pick-up basketball games. From that point on I was known as “Kareme Abdul McCullough” or “Kareme!” for short!

Service Awards. 2 Air Medals, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, and 2 Legion of Merit awards plus numerous Unit and Campaign awards and a Battle “E” award. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending”. From the time I started thinking about college I never wanted to go to any school except the Naval Academy (my fall back was University of Alabama). I had no family history of military service and only two distant uncles who were in the service (Navy, Marine Corps). I did watch every episode of Victory at Sea and the Air Power series in the ‘50’s with my dad on a 10” B&W TV in a cabinet the size of a small refrigerator every Sunday after church. After that I watched Navy Log and Men of Annapolis also in B&W. In Junior High School I read “Queen of the Flattops, the USS Lexington (CV-2)” and the story of the “USS Saratoga (CV-3)”, the only books that I ever read up until that time that were not assigned in school! The summer before my junior year in high school I visited the family of my uncle in the Navy. He was an Instructor in the Navigation Department of the Naval Academy and I spent more than a week walking around the “Yard”, going in to see everything I could see, and reading everything on the walls (pictures, paintings, memorabilia, etc,). That trip more than anything confirmed my desire to attend the Naval Academy. It took three attempts over three years to gain an appointment (and I was Second Alternate when I did receive the appointment). So my priorities when I got there were not to screw up and get kicked out. Unlike John McCain, I did not have a lot of “fun” there. I followed the rules (as silly as some were) and kept my head in the books. I expected to get a good education and I believe I did, probably better than most with the curriculum being what it had become in the few year before our arrival. I expected to have a shot at making the Navy a career and enjoy what I was doing and for the most part I did just that! Icing on the cake was the “Command” tour of an operational P-3 Squadron that successfully performed every mission a P-3 was designed for and a few others as well. We have met a lot of great people and made some wonderful and dear friends that live all around the country. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations In the interest of brevity at this point expectations were more than met! Final Yearbook write-up for Van McCullough Following graduation I reported to Pensacola for flight training. Julia and I were married in April 1968 in Birmingham. We were off to Corpus Christi where I earned my “Wings” in September 1968. I was fortunate to have five squadron tours: VT-28 (Corpus Christi), VP-1 (Barbers Point, HA), VP-31 (Moffett Field, CA), VP-8 (Brunswick), and VP-44 (Brunswick), one ship tour: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 (Norfolk), one school tour (Naval War College), and four staff tours: CPW-5 (Brunswick), OPNAV 942 (Washington DC), COMMARAIRMED (Naples, Italy), Naval War College staff (Newport). I spent the first 19 years in flying billets and the rest behind a desk. I ended my flying career with 4,400 Pilot hours, 102 carrier landings, 1 cat shot and many deck runs. I made seven 6-month deployments in a fifteen-year span and two unaccompanied two-year tours in the last four years. The latter decisions were based on our children’s time and place in school and consideration for aging parents. We have had quite an adventure, seen a lot of the world, and have no regrets about those choices! When I retired in 1993 I was again fortunate that Mid Coast Health Services was building an Independent Living Retirement Community (Thornton Oaks) in Brunswick and were looking for an Executive Director. I threw my “hat in the ring” and unexpectedly hired. Thus began another 18½-year career! There were scores of challenges along the way but when I retired on December 31, 2011 we had gone through 5 building phases, had 46 cottages, 98 apartment units with common area facilities, and roughly 185 residents. We achieved full occupancy, operated with a positive cash-flow for the last 10 years, and developed a healthy Replacement Reserve Fund. We also had the reputation of being among the finest Retirement Communities in New England!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Kenneth Mero Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 – 69: Naval Nuclear Power School, Submarine School 1969-1989: Various submarine assignments including Commanding Officer, USS Mariano G. Vallejo, SSBN 658 Gold (1984-1987) 1989: Retired from USN with rank of Commander Principal Occupation • Worked as a Quality Assurance Advisor for Lockheed Martin at five DOE Facilities in Oak Ridge, TN; Paducah, KY; and Piketon, OH. • Consultant at various DOE Nuclear facilities. • Program Analyst providing support to the Department of Labor in management of the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP). Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • The USS Mariano G. Vallejo completed the 2500th strategic deterrent patrol during my command. • Conducted several under ice arctic cruises while a junior officer aboard the USS Skate (SSN 578). • Survived Hurricane Hugo in Charleston, SC in 1989. • Running five marathons and bicycling the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway in May 2008. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Susan Lewis and I were married in 1968 and have three children Chris, Patrick, and Katherine and one grandchild. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? At the time of submitting this biography I am still working supporting the Department of Labor in management of the EEOICP. Leisure time is enjoyed by golfing, Elliptical and bicycle riding, and singing in a Barbershop Chorus. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Plebe year (63) Army-Navy game: screaming with the rest of the more than 100,000 in attendance and praying Army didn’t get off another play • Singing with the Glee Club and the “Deep Six Minus Two” barbershop quartet. • Jumping from the platform into the swimming pool but having to do it twice to please the instructor. • Ring Dance, June 1966 • Admiral Rickover interview for acceptance into the Nuclear Power Program • Tossing the Midshipman covers graduation morning, 7 June 1967 (Three cheers for those we are about to leave) Humorous Memories of USNA: • Relocating a plane from the yard to the front of Bancroft Hall. • Singing Ain’t She Sweet with the Deep Six Minus Two Quartet on the Nationally televised Mike Douglas Show with Barbara Feldon (Agent 99) coyly acting as the Ain’t She Sweet Gal. Academic Achievement Athletic Service/USNA Awards Uniform Breast Insignia Submariner Dolphins Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I elected to attend the Naval Academy because of the cost, the potential adventure of being a military officer, and the 122

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3rd Company opportunity to do things others in my family had not attempted. I was not sure what I expected to obtain from attending, other than becoming an officer. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely. My expectations were more than met by attending the Naval Academy. The friendships and relationships with classmates have survived the test of time. The core values of honor and integrity instilled at the Naval Academy were more than I expected and have served me well during the years after graduation. The opportunities to succeed in life as a result of my time at the Academy are dear to my family and me. Summary Yearbook write-up for Ken Mero Ken spent 22 years in the submarines which included two under ice Arctic deployments in USS Skate SSN 578 and concluded with command of USS Mariano G Vallejo SSBN 658 Gold. After Navy retirement, Ken spent 15 years in Oak Ridge, TN with Lockheed Martin as an Operations Specialist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Y-12 National Security Complex and the Oak Ridge, Portsmouth, and Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plants. The next four years he was a consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Honeywell Specialty Chemical Plant in Metropolis, Illinois, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Next Ken joined Paragon Technical Services supporting the Labor Department administering the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program, still working there part time. Ken sang in the Deep Six Minus Two Barbershop Quartet and Glee Club at USNA. He continues to sing, being a lifelong member of the Barbershop Harmony Society singing wherever he lived. Running became a large part of his life from his mid-thirties, competing in five marathons and many half marathons. As knee difficulties surfaced, he shifted to bicycle riding and Elliptical riding. Riding across the United States is on Ken’s bucket list, dipping his tires in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to start and finish. He’s already completed riding the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway starting at the Northern End of the Skyline Drive and finishing at the Southern End of the Blue Ridge parkway. Golf is now in front row in Ken’s activities and while staying in his Colorado Springs summer home he enjoys showing up Zoomies when he plays at the Air Force Academy. Ken is married to Susan Lewis Mero. They enjoy spending time with their two sons, daughter, and grandson. They spend winters and springs in Charleston, SC and summers and falls in Colorado Springs, CO.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary David L. Nydegger Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 – 69: USS Southerland DD743 San Diego Two South East Asia Cruises Communications Officer and SLJO. 1969- 71: USS Haynesworth DD700. USS Ault DD698 Galveston TX Operations Officer 1971-74: NAVCOMSTA Puerto Rico, Officer in Charge HF Transmitter Facility Isabella PR Earned MBA from Inter American University San German PR. 1974: Destroyer School New Port Road Island. 1974-76: USS Garcia FF 1040 Charleston SC Weapons Officer, Med and Caribbean Cruises. Injured at sea, assigned Human Resources Detachment Charleston SC. 1976 Medically retired placed on TDRL. Principal Occupation (Life after USN): After Medical retirement, returned to hometown Oceanside CA. Went to work for local Daily Newspaper. After two years the Navy revoked my medical retirement and gave me a medical discharge. I was not a happy camper. I stayed in the newspaper industry for 17 years for various Newspapers, in advertising, retail manager, General Manager and becoming Publisher of the Daily Sun Post located in San Clemente CA. From 1979 till 2012 I was a part time adjunct faculty member teaching businesses classes at the local College. In 1994, I left the newspaper business (thank God). Also in ‘94 I was hired as the President and C.E.O. for the local Chamber of Commerce. In 1998 I became Pres. and C.E.O. of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, a position that I am currently holding. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • I was honored to be on the committee to produce the “Defenders of Freedom Parade” here in Oceanside in 2003 where 12,000 Marines and Sailors from the First Marine Expeditionary Force (1MEF) marched through Oceanside. We were celebrating President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” and I think it was the largest military parade in the US since WWll. • I successfully beat LTGEN Conway, future Commandant of the Marine Corps, in a pie eating contest. • I led the program in 2012 for the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce in California to raise over $11,000 for the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce in New York for the residents and businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Diane and I were married June 10 1967 the Saturday after graduation. She was always there during long deployments and in port 3 section watches. She took up art as a hobby and was an accomplished artist. She taught in the local elementary school system for 16 years. She worked in “Special Education” a demanding job that she loved. I lost her to cancer after 46 years of a wonderful marriage and two beautiful daughters, “Kinley” and “Abrey”. I have three grand children “Parker” with a 4.3 GPA and Volley ball player at San Diego HS (does Navy have a girls Beach Volley Ball team?), “Alec” a left handed pitcher for his little league all Star team and Jonah a fast growing 10 month baby. All are Happy and Healthy and the joys of my life. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Who is retired? I am still working at the chamber and enjoying it. I have a great staff. After I lost Diane two years ago, I have not been as active in the social scene. We have a sail boat and used to go to Catalina every summer. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Our all class assembly plebe summer when JFK came to address the class. • Moving the A-4 fighter from the field house to Tecumseh court (was it an A-4? I went black shoe) • Second class summer on the “Detail”. • Playing Frisbee in the halls of Bancroft.

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Going to see the Commandant about poor grades!!! I still have letters from him sent to my mom and dad starting with “I note with grave concern your Midshipman” (me) ain’t doing so well.

Humorous Memories of USNA: When the officer of the day came into our room First Class year and caught Walt May and me watching “Batman “ on Walt’s little TV. Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors: Academic Achievement: Masters in Business Administration Athletic: Plebe Soccer, Indoor and outdoor track. Always second in a two man race.

Service Award: Usual stuff nothing exciting. Uniform Device Surface Warfare Device Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My older brother went to West Point and I knew I did not want to go there. I really wanted to go into the Submarine Service after watching Victory At Sea movies on TV. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? As much as an 18 year old could expect. I am pleased that even today friends introduce me to strangers with the tag line “and he graduated from the US Naval academy” Summary Yearbook write-up for Dave Nydegger After graduation I went into Surface Line serving on several Destroyers in the Pacific and Atlantic. Two Viet Nam cruises. When injured at sea and following subsequent operation, I was medically retired only to have it revoked two years later. Worked in the Newspaper industry for 17 years and finished as Publisher of a daily paper. As publisher my newspaper won “General Excellence” in our circulation size. I left the newspaper industry to pursue a 20-year career as President and C.E.O. of a chamber of Commerce. While working I also became an adjunct faculty instructor at our local College, a part time job that I loved.

I was married for 46 years to my lovely wife Diane, We raised two children and I am now enjoying three beautiful grandchildren.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Michael D. Peterson Service History: USNRESFAC San Luis Obispo, CA Feb 63 – Jun 63 United States Naval Academy Jun 63 – Jun 67 USS SAMUEL N MOORE (DD-747) Jul 67 – May 69 Naval Destroyer School Jun 69 – Dec 69 USS GLENNON (DD-840) Jan 70 – Jul 71 USS TUTUILLA (ARG-4) Sep 71 – Feb 72 USS MOUNT BAKER (AE-34) Mar 72 – Apr 74 NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay, Cuba May 74 – Jul 76 Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific Aug 76 – Jun 78 VTU 2213 Jul 78 – Nov 78 USCINCPAC DET 322 Nov 78 – Sep 81 CO SIMA San Diego 1220 Oct 81 – Sep 83 CO NAVWEPSTA Concord 2020 Oct 83 – Feb 84 USCINCPAC DET 322 Mar 84 – Sep 85 CO COMNAVSURFPAC DET 622 Oct 85 – Sep 87 CO FLTSUPTRA 3022 Oct 87 – Sep 89 MARDEZSECPACNW Oct 89 – Sep 91 ONR SCI & TECH HQ 106 Oct 91 – Sep 94 GVTU 0614 Sep 94 – Jun 97 Specialty Designation Surface line Principal Occupation Concurrent with Naval Reserve duty, worked as a Base Services Support contractor at Naval SUBBASE Bangor in Public Works Jul 78 – May 81, and Mar 84 – Apr 87 with a tour as Base Engineer at the Sacramento Army Depot May 81 – Mar 84. Joined Civil Service as an Engineer at the David Taylor Naval Research and Development Center, Acoustic Research Detachment, Bayview, Idaho May 87 – Dec 90; thence SEAWOLF Program Office (PMS-350) Jan 91 – Aug 97 Naval Systems Security Office Aug 97 – Sep 99 CINC Interoperability Program Office, Hanscom Air Force Base Sep 99 – Mar 02 Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Between my five ship deployments, ten cruise ship cruises and a number of road trips, have managed to visit 70 countries, every US. State Capital and every Canadian Provincial Capital. In 2003 took a 17,000 mile, 66 day road trip clear around the US and Southern Canada, stopping in each of the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Wife, children and grandchildren: First marriage to Ann Rae Dec 69 – Jul 90, Daughter Son, Daughter. Second Marriage to Joyce in November of 1994, two step Daughters. Joyce retired from Navy and Coast Guard Civil Service after 31 years as a Program Analyst. Total of 13 Grandchildren, 3 Great Grandchildren and counting. Extremely proud that all three biological children are today successful professionals, one a LCDR. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? After retirement from USNR and Civil Service we moved back to Bremerton Washington, where I have served as a volunteer at the local hospital (generating computer applications for staff) and with the Lions Clubs International Organization as a Club and Zone Officer and doing Leadership Development and Training for the Multiple District. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Come-A-Rounds • Strawberries and Ice Cream for Breakfast • Marching in the rain • Painting Tecumseh • Four sprained ankles • Doughnuts at church each Sunday • Getting hoarse at football games 126

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Army-Navy in Philadelphia (met my first wife there)

Humorous Memories of USNA: • Helping classmates carry a sailboat into Tecumseh Court • Star Trek in the Ward Room Awards Received Two Meritorious Service Medals Academic Achievement BS in engineering USNA, MS in Systems Management, University of Southern California Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Third Generation Navy and Seemed a much better option than Cal Poly for college Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I believe my life to have gained much more than I could ever have imagined from the training and personal development received at the Naval Academy. Final Yearbook write-up After graduation I served two tours on Destroyers, separated by Destroyer School, then two tours on Auxiliaries followed by two shore tours. I then shifted my commission to the reserves and served on the USCINCPAC Staff and as Commanding Officer of four different units, then with the Office of Naval Research from which I retired my uniform in 1997. As a civilian, I worked as a contractor engineer through 1987, then in an engineering position in the SEAWOLF Program Office in Crystal City, VA. In 1997 I moved over to the Naval Information Systems Security Office then in 1999 to the CINC Interoperability Program Office, from which I retired from Civil Service in 2002. Since retiring, I have worked primarily with the Lions Clubs International organization, becoming an integral part of a community for the first time in my life. I am married to Joyce Peterson. We have 5 children, 13 Grand Children, and three Great Grand Children, with one more on the way.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Philip John Polk

Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 – 68: Nuclear Power Training 1969-71: Chief Engineer, USS Mansfield (DD-728) and USS Hartley (DE-1029) 1971: Bechtel Corporation, nuclear power division 1980: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 1986-87: Assistant to the Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1988: FBI 1997: Retired Principal Occupation: I primarily worked in the nuclear power industry after I left the Navy in 1971. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I remember very clearly, during 3rd Class Cruise, when we went to France, a four-day trip to Paris. That was something I never thought I would do! My other memorable life event was being responsible for the re-starting of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, following the accident that occurred there. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren I have spent a lot of my time in recent years caring for people in my family, a tough thing to do, but one which I gladly did. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: One of my fondest memories while at the Academy was our June Week of 2 nd Class year. I was dating a great girl, and I remember the Ring Dance night clearly. It was quite a romantic thing! Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My Dad was Navy pilot in WW II, so I applied to the Naval Academy because of him. But I had my choice of going to MIT, Notre Dame, or Navy. I decided on Navy. Over the many years since that decision, I can say I made the right decision!

Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes, the Academy exceeded my expectations. As years went by, I realized more and more what a great thing it was to be a graduate of the Naval Academy, and to have the Navy nuclear power training! Summary Yearbook write-up for Phil Polk When I graduated, I went in the nuclear power program, but then I went to fossil-fueled tin cans. I served as Chief Engineer in both the USS Mansfield (DD-728) and USS Hartley (DE-1029). When I left the Navy in 1971, I worked for the Bechtel Corporation, in their nuclear power division. In 1980, I went to work in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Washington, DC. Later, in 1986 and 1987, I was the Assistant to the Chairman of the NRC. In 1988 I went to work for the FBI and retired in 1997. I guess one of my fondest memories while at Annapolis was when I got to go to Paris for 4 days during Youngster Cruise. I never thought that I’d be doing that! Another one of my memorable experiences was the re-starting of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, following its repair after the accident that occurred there in 1979. I will say that over the years I appreciated my Naval Academy and Nuclear Power Training background more and more. It seems whenever I went for a job interview, as soon as they knew these things about me, I got the job! In recent years, I have spent a lot of my time taking care of family. I am now the last of my family. I’ve had some “feet problems”, but hopefully my neurologist can get things fixed so that I can be in Annapolis when we have our 50 th Reunion! Phil Polk passed away on 7 December 2015. The following was received from Denny Krebs on 12.11.15 128

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3rd Company It is with deep regret that I inform you that our classmate. Phil Polk passed away. Phil is my wife's first cousin and in fact introduced my wife and I in Annapolis right before we graduated. After graduation Phil trained for nuclear power but shifted to the surface Navy before serving in submarines. After he resigned in 1971, Phil worked for Bechtel Power in their Los Angeles office and got a masters form the University of Southern California. Then he worked on the Nuclear Regulatory staff and was the administrative assistant to the NRC chairman before he retired. Phil returned to northern New Jersey as his health declined. He predeceased by his parents and his sister Marianne Polk Higgenbotham. Below is the obituary that appeared in the Bergen Press on Sunday, December 7 and will be listed with the north Jersey obits: POLK Philip J. of Tenafly passed away on December 7, 2015. Philip was a 1967 graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He served off the coast of Vietnam from 1967 to 1971. After returning from Vietnam he received his degree from The University of Southern California. After graduation he worked as a Nuclear Engineer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Phil is survived by his brother-in-law Fred Higginbotham and two nieces Alexis and Aidan.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Thomas N. Pritchett Service History 1963-67 USNA (3rd Company) 1967 after graduation taught Seamanship on YPs at USNA 1967- 68 Nuclear Power Training at Bainbridge, MD and D1G at Saratoga Springs, NY 1968-69 Damage Control School at Philadelphia, PA 1969-71 USS Long Beach (CGN-9) out of Long Beach and Vallejo, CA. Qualified as EOOW and EDO 1969-70 West Pac cruise 1970-71 Refueling and overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA 1971 Left the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Principal Occupation In 1971 joined Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (which became Constellation Energy) as an engineer. Served in numerous fossil and nuclear power plant engineering, operations, and management positions with increasing responsibilities. Retired as Vice President of Business Services in Constellation Energy Generation Group after 33 years of service. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • Family travel to Europe and meeting my wife’s family in Germany. • Regular vacation trips throughout the USA and Canada. • Numerous opportunities for Christian service ministries that have increased in retirement. Celebrating our 40 th and 45th anniversaries with our children and grandchildren at Disney World. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Linda and I were married in 1968 between nuclear power school and prototype training. After leaving the Navy we settled in the Baltimore – Annapolis area. We are both natives of Baltimore, and our families knew each other before we were born. My father was a policeman who walked the beat where Linda’s parents owned and operated a German bakery. Linda was a substitute teacher for 20 years. We have an adult son, Rob who is married to Sharon. They live and work in the Philadelphia area. We also have an adult daughter, Robin who is married to Karl. They have three teenage children and live and work in the Boston area. Our three grandchildren are in high school and college. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? There is life after work, and it is wonderful. After I retired I was pleased to have more time to spend in three areas of emphasis. (1) Family (including travel with them and also travel to visit them), (2) Faith (church-related activities, volunteering 10 years with a Christian mission in North Carolina, and helping others), and (3) Friends (always looking forward to making new ones). I have learned that using my creative energy for these areas is most rewarding. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • The first night of Plebe summer wondering what I had gotten into. • Plebe year having my parents visit most weekends and going out to Sunday dinner with them wherever we could walk to. • Playing Ping-Pong with friends using our shower shoes for paddles. • Ice cream for breakfast. • Buzzy’s for pizza. • Linda visiting me the summer before 2nd Class year, and we started dating. T • The Ring Dance. • Attending several concerts in Dahlgren and Halsey by groups like Peter, Paul, and Mary. • Singing in the chapel choir and the choir trips. Humorous Memories of USNA: Plebe year my parents brought me a home-made coconut birthday cake. I ate the whole cake before the upper class could get it from me….I got sick!

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3rd Company Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors: Academic Achievement Award for French at the end of Youngster Year. Athletic None Service Awards None Specialty Designation Naval Surface Warfare (Surface Nuclear Power Engineering) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I grew up in Baltimore, and attending the Naval Academy was a goal of mine from my early teen years. After attending a military high school I felt the Academy would be a good fit for me. I wanted a good education and to serve in the Navy. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy experience has exceeded my expectations. I felt the opportunity to attend the Naval Academy was God’s blessing. I enjoyed my time at USNA. The academic education was excellent. However, from my current perspective, I feel learning a disciplined approach to life and leadership were the most beneficial aspects of the education. My learning that one can go beyond perceived limits in life to achieve success has been significant for me. Summary Yearbook write-up for Tom Pritchett After graduation I entered Nuclear Power training. Linda and I were married at that time. I was assigned to the USS Long Beach (CGN-9), completing a West Pac cruise and a subsequent refueling. Leaving the Navy in 1971, we moved from California to Baltimore, where we both grew up. Linda was a substitute teacher for 20 years. I began to work for the local utility. Starting as an engineer, I served in numerous fossil and nuclear power plant engineering, operations, and management positions with increasing responsibilities. I retired as Vice President of Business Services in the Constellation Energy Generation Group after 33 years of service. Growing up locally, attending the Naval Academy was my goal from my early teen years. I feel the opportunity to attend the Naval Academy was God’s blessing for me. I enjoyed my time at USNA. The academic education was excellent. From my current perspective, learning a disciplined approach to life and leadership were the most beneficial aspects of the education. Also, learning that one can go beyond perceived limits in life to achieve success has been significant for me.

Our son, Rob, and his wife, Sharon, live in the Philadelphia area. Our daughter, Robin, and her husband, Karl, have three children and live in the Boston area. Our grandchildren are in high school and college. Concerning retirement, there is life after work, and it is wonderful! I have been pleased to have more time to spend in three areas of emphasis: (1) Family - including travel with them; (2) Faith - church activities, volunteering, and helping others; and (3) Friends - making new ones. I have learned that using creative energy for these three areas is most rewarding.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Gordon R Sloat Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 – 68 Nuclear Power Training Vallejo, CA / Idaho Falls, ID 1969 – Sub School, Groton, CT 1969 - 71: SSN 594 USS Plunger, RC officer, Aux officer, DC Control, Qualified Submarines. Home port: Pearl Harbor. Participated in two WestPac cruises. 1971- 73: SSN 684 USS Cavalla Commissioning Crew, Qualified as Engineer Officer. Home Port: Groton, CT 1974 - 76: Submarine Training Instructor, Pearl Harbor, HI 1976 - 78: SSBN 608 USS Ethan Allen, Navigator, Operations Officer. Home Port: Pearl Harbor. Participated in two Polaris deterrent patrols. 1978 – Resigned from Naval Service Principal Occupation Contractor working with Naval Sea System Command, Washington DC Contractor doing computer programming for US Customs Service, Washington DC Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events One of five members of USNA class of 67 assigned to the USS Plunger out of a wardroom of about 13. Seeing USSR (and some other countries) through a periscope. But my greatest life event has been knowing Jesus Christ as my lord and savior and having my wife, children and grandchildren all being of like mind. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Betty was a nurse at Boston’s Children’s Hospital while I was building the USS Cavalla in Groton, Ct. We met at Park Street Church in Boston where I went to meet some girls. We were married in 1974 in South Hill, VA where Betty grew up. We have two sons, one daughter and five grandchildren at last count. Our two oldest were born in the pink hospital in Hawaii while our youngest son was born in Virginia. Nice of the Navy to give us a three-year honeymoon in Hawaii. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired life is great. I retired in 2010 and following the example of my father I haven’t done any paid work since. I do spend a lot of time at our church doing various maintenance work as well as teaching adult Sunday School class and cooking Italian night dinners with Betty once a month. We also like to go visit the grandkids when we can. But the best part is not having to do much of anything. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Meeting and spending two years rooming with Tom Pritchett. • Graduating. Humorous Memories of USNA: • There was humor at USNA? • I do seem to remember moving an airplane into Tecumseh court one night. • I also remember that time the cannons went off at noonday formation and wiped out the entire brigade staff with white powder. Well done. • And then there was that time I had to go get some stiches in my leg after goofing around and tripping over that safe door in my desk that always had to be unlocked for some reason. • Then there was jumping off the rafters in the natatorium. (Something about it being the same height as the deck of an aircraft carrier but what has that got to do with subs.) Some of us had to practice that a few times after hours. • And did anyone else ever find out where they kept all that ice cream? • And who moved those markers on the parade field. Awards Received Academic Graduating from USNA and completing nuclear power training. Athletic Varsity gymnastics - lettered 132

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3rd Company Service Awards Navy Achievement Medal with gold star Uniform Device Submariner Dolphins Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My father was an Army Engineer who fought in the Second World War but I followed my brother to the Naval Academy. Dad was not a West Pointer. My brother was a member of the class of 1962. Like most of us, I didn’t have many expectations on coming to the academy other than graduating and having guaranteed employment. My brother had become a Navy pilot who died during the Vietnam War. My eyes weren’t up to being a pilot so since I couldn’t fly over the seas I went to see the Admiral and spent my Navy days under the sea in the silent service. After I got married I thought the Navy wanted me to spend way too much time under the water so after ten years of service I became a civilian. One of my better decisions. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Since I didn’t have any high expectations when I came to the Academy I guess you could say my expectations were met. I was always good with math and science so becoming a nuclear engineer seemed like a natural thing to do. Also, playing with the Academy’s IBM 1620 mainframe computer probably helped me into my civilian career as a computer programmer. Summary Yearbook write-up for Gordon Sloat I came with a typewriter and some reading material. USNA would provide everything else I needed, or so the story went. Well the classes are all over and the uniforms are long gone along with that typewriter. The HY80 steel of those submarines is probably razor blades now and where are those sixteen ballistic missiles which could each level a city. But I still have my Bible which tells of the great love God has for me. I also picked up a wife, three children and five grandchildren along the way. They are what have real value to me. After graduation and completing nuclear power training and submarine school my first real assignment was aboard the USS Plunger, SSN 595, home ported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I qualified in submarines and completed two WestPac cruises before being transferred to new construction aboard the USS Cavalla, SSN 684 being built at Electric Boat Co in Groton, CT. While assigned to the Cavalla I was qualified by NAVSEA (Admiral Rickover) to serve as Engineer Officer on a nuclear ship. After commissioning and sea trials of the Cavalla I was assigned as one of two officers to teach submarine basic training to new officers at the Submarine Training Center, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. My final assignment was as Operations Officer/Navigator aboard the USS Ethan Allen, SSBN 608 blue crew home ported in Pearl Harbor. We sailed out of Guam from where I made two ballistic missile patrols in the pacific. At various times I made port calls to Hong Kong and Korea as well as lots of periscope liberty at various other times.

I resigned my commission in 1978 and I started my civilian career working as a consultant for NAVSEA in the Washington DC area. Eventually I started doing computer programming and spent ten years working as a consultant for the US Customs Service. My wife Betty and I were married in 1974 in South Hill, VA. We have two sons, one daughter and five grandchildren. Our sons both do computer-programming work in Boston and Chicago. Our daughter has her master’s degree in speech pathology and is married to an Air Force pilot currently stationed at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Betty and I have lived in Springfield, VA for over 40 years. By the way, you were issued a New Testament along with your reef points at the boat school. If you haven’t read it yet get a new copy and do so. That’s what will give meaning to your life.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Theodore H. Stearns, Jr. Service History: 1967 – 1970 – USS Floyd B. Parks (DD884) – Communications and Gunnery Office 1970 – 1971 – USS Columbus (CG-12) – 1st Lieutenant 1971 – 1973 – Director, Polaris Electronics A School, Guided Missile School, Dam Neck, VA Principal Occupation: 1973 – 1978: Marketing Representative Service Bureau Corporation – Baltimore and Washington, DC 1978 – 1980: Family business in Chicago, IL 1980 – Present: Real Pro-Jections, Inc. Developing and marketing software systems to the real estate industry Memorable Events: Mary Rose and I have been blessed countless ways with good health, abundant provisions, excellent and close family relations, wonderful church family and friends and a personal, saving relationship with Jesus Christ. We have toured the globe near and far from China and Tibet to Russia and Israel. With our church family, I’ve served in Biloxi, MS after Hurricane Katrina helping mud-out homes, supported missionaries far and wide and even provided a home and succor for missionaries, bible college students, family members, pastors, foreign exchange students in our guest home. Family: Mary Rose and I married in 1970 at the Academy Chapel and have been on a continual honeymoon ever since. We are proud of our two children and their wonderful families. Amanda (with two talented children, Mary, a budding gymnast and cheerleader and Seve, dynamic soccer player) has been a missionary with her husband in Hungary for 9 years before returning to Southern California by way of Omaha, NE. She earned her BA from UC Riverside just a few years ago and developed a passion for writing/illustrating graphic novels. Our son, Theo, and his lovely family (two beautiful and smart daughters) is a serial entrepreneur, clever, focused, loving family man and a heck of a racquetball competitor when we play weekly. Retirement: What’s that?! I still enjoy work marketing services and consulting but am heavily involved as Board Chairman at a local pregnancy resource center, Birth Choice of San Marcos. We counsel women in an unplanned pregnancy to choose life for their babies. Tens of hundreds of babies have been saved over the 15 years that I’ve been involved as a counselor and board member. Serving shoulder to shoulder with Mary Rose at Birth Choice and other ministries has been so life changing for others and gratifying for me. Memories of USNA: • Kennedy assassination – we each remember where we were when we heard • Sailing for four years on the schooner Freedom, the largest sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay, and participating in the Newport-Bermuda Race in 1966. • Being a terrified young Plebe one dark night sawing off the shackles of the A-4 Skyhawk by the Field House and helping push and maneuver it up to Tecumseh Court without being caught or reported. • Eternal battle between the diggers and fillers outside the First Wing as they renovated and expanded academic facilities. Humorous Memories: Youngster Cruise to the North Atlantic and stopping in La Havre, France and meeting local girls and their families. I remember a one-day long scavenger hunt throughout the countryside ending at a local restaurant where my French got better with more wine…. and barely getting back to the rust bucket, USS Zellars, minutes before it left port. Too close!! Academic Achievements – MBA, George Washington University, 1973 Athletic / Service – Little League Coach, Cub Scout Master, Birth Choice counselor and Board Chairman. Climbed Mt Whitney in a day with son, Theo, and my brother. Climbed Half Dome (backside, not the face), the next year. Completed a Half and Full Marathon (too many years ago) and even several Sprint Triathlons in 2014. Swam the 1.2 mile leg of a Half Ironman Triathlon relay and around the Oceanside Pier (1.1 miles) in 2014 and look forward to swimming the Pier again in 2015. Why Attend USNA? 134

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3rd Company Growing up in a Navy family, I enjoyed the many wonderful experiences and benefits of traveling and moving (18 homes before even entering USNA at age 17!). Going to the Academy seemed to be a natural progression. USNA helped to develop the essential leadership attributes of discipline, commitment, perseverance, loyalty, integrity and yes, even adventure, generosity and hospitality. These qualities, I trust, have had a positive impact on those who I’ve served and served with, in the Navy and corporate world, family, sports and ministries. I pray that my example and achievements have blessed and encouraged others and even pointed people to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Yes, the Academy was a most satisfying experience but really the springboard for the rest of my life. I haven’t wanted it to be my identity but rather a stepping stone to a fruitful, productive life of service to others. Summary Biography for Ted Sterns: During my first two duty stations after graduation, I drove ships around Westpac out of San Diego and then the Med out of Norfolk. My last duty station was as a Director of a school in Dam Neck, VA. Since leaving the service in 1973, we spent time in the DC area and four cold winters in Chicago but have lived and worked in Carlsbad, CA since 1982 where I’ve had my own business marketing software systems to the real estate industry. Vivid memories of USNA include four incredible years of sailing the schooner, Freedom, a terrifying night moving an A-1 airplane from the Field House to Tecumseh Court and not being caught by the Jimmylegs, exciting summer cruises to Europe and close friendships, some terminated too soon. Attending USNA was a natural progression growing up as a Navy Junior and serving our country as an officer was truly gratifying and enriching. The Academy was a springboard to a rich, fruitful life of service to family, friends, community, country, church and God. Mary Rose and I married in 1970 and have been on a continual honeymoon since then and blessed with two incredible children and four amazing grandchildren. We couldn’t be prouder of our daughter, Amanda, and son, Theo, with their loving spouses, zest for life, creativity, perseverance and parenting skills in raising such talented children of their own. In short, we have been blessed exceedingly, abundantly beyond what we could possibly imagine and on top of that, we have a personal relationship with our Lord, Jesus Christ!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Russell J. Tadych Service History 1963 - 67: USNA (3rd Company) 1967 - 68: US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (MS degree) 1968 - 69: Nuclear Power Training pipeline: Bainbridge, MD and Windsor, CT 1969: Submarine Officer’s Basic School, Groton, CT 1969 - 71: USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643) (Gold). Home port Charleston, SC. Electrical/IC and Auxiliary Division Officer 1971: Submarine Officer’s Advanced Course, Groton, CT 1972 - 74: USS Pargo (SSN-650); Home port New London, CT Weapons Officer. 1974: Separated from Naval Service with rank of Lieutenant Principal Occupation Worked 30 years for FirstEnergy (and predecessor companies) at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, east of Cleveland, Ohio. Included initial design, construction, and 20 years of operation. Held Manager positions in Operations, Engineering (mechanical, electrical, nuclear, and systems), Training, and Quality Assurance. Special early responsibilities were original staffing of Operations group, creation of initial operating procedures and training materials, layout of control room panels, and initial Accreditation of all plant training programs. During the last few years, I had positions as Project Manager and as facilitator for solving complex, critical problems. Retired in 2004. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: On Pargo, I was responsible for getting the ship modified and the crew trained so that it could accommodate Mark 48 torpedoes. This and conducting an underwater launch of a rocket propelled missile were special achievements. Could tell lots of sea stories, but my most memorable events are special family memories. Joanne and I had three children, helped to raise one granddaughter, and took care of two foster babies. Getting married, having our own children, and seeing them graduate and go on their own have been very rewarding. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Joanne and I were married in Hartford, CT in 1968. Joanne was an organist and Liturgist for most of our married life. She is now retired, and has taught piano to school-age children for 20 years. She crochets, quilts, and plays the flute. She is also a 10-year survivor of breast cancer. Daughter Stacey lives in Charlotte, NC and works in the bank loan business; she has provided our two grandchildren. Son Gregory and his wife Laci live near St. Louis, MO. Greg is a Sports Director for a small radio station there, and Laci is an elementary school teacher. Daughter Jackie is single and lives in Santa Monica, CA; she is a personal trainer. None of our children liked the Ohio weather, but we’re still here! How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since retirement, life has been absolutely wonderful -- it has been like a continuous honeymoon. I have not held any paying jobs, instead spending my time doing projects both at home and at our children and neighbors’ homes. I have yet to have a day where I wonder what I should do; instead, I have a hard time prioritizing the various things I want to do! We do activities like fixing things, taking care of the yard, remodeling the home, etc. I have also been able to read (mysteries), do crossword puzzles, exercise (tennis, yoga), and play ping pong. Recently, at Joanne’s suggestion, I cleaned over 50 years of dust off my accordion and have been trying to make music! Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • The life-long friendships I developed while there. • Learning my own capabilities and how they could be multiplied by a group. • Learning of President Kennedy’s assassination when two 2/c Midns. (Messrs. Wilkinson and Pilling) invited us into their room to listen on the radio. • Watching and cheering for the Staubach-led team of 1963 -- what a ride! • Playing sports trivia for carry-on in the mess hall.

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Going to church and the open breakfast afterwards in the mess hall. Playing ping-pong during study hours in our room, using Trident calendars as a net and shower shoes (klax) as paddles! Enduring boxing classes -- what a workout! Graduation Day, and graduating with distinction.

Humorous Memories of USNA: • During the first semester, one day I was chopping enroute to my seat in the mess hall when I saw the nametag of one R. T. Staubach. He was a 2/c Midn. about to win the Heisman Trophy. In awe, I stopped chopping and looked up at his face. He just smiled, and we moved on! • I also remember being on the parade field in 1964 and listening to part of the World Series during the parade. One of the upper class had a transistor radio in ranks, playing for everyone to hear! There was a noticeable (but soft) cheer when Ken Boyer hit a grand slam homerun! Awards Received Academic Achievement I was one of a group of 67’ers selected for the academy’s very first “Immediate Masters” program. My special field was math, and about 14 of us went to the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Nine months later we had Master of Science degrees. Professional Engineer License Senior Reactor Operator License Athletic None

Service Awards Navy Achievement medal Uniform Device Submariner Dolphins Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I was the first person in my family to attend an academy. I chose USNA for its academic reputation. I expected to become a leader and make a significant contribution to the defense of our country.

Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes, the academy fully met (and exceeded) my expectations. I was very young when entering the academy. It wasn’t until I was serving in submarines, that I came to fully appreciate the significance of the deterrent force in the overall defense of our country. I am proud to have served in the submarine force, and to have protected our country during this period of the cold war with the Soviets. Summary Yearbook write-up for Russ Tadych Immediately after graduation, I attended the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, and obtained a Master of Science degree. Then I entered the nuclear power training pipeline, completing schooling at Bainbridge, MD and Windsor, CT. My first submarine was the USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643) (Gold), where I held Division Officer positions. Next, I was assigned to the USS Pargo (SSN-650), where I held a Department Head position (Weapons Officer). On Pargo, I was responsible for getting the ship modified and the crew trained so that it could accommodate Mark 48 torpedoes. I retired from active duty after 7 years of service, in 1974. I worked the rest of my career (30 years) at FirstEnergy Company’s Perry Nuclear Power Plant. After various positions involved with initial staffing and startup of the facility, I managed various sections such as Operations, Training, Engineering, and Quality Assurance. I retired in 2004. My most vivid memories of the academy are the life-long friendships I developed. I’ll also never forget watching Roger Staubach on the playing field during my plebe year, and then encountering him in the mess hall. I was the first person in my family to attend an academy, and chose it primarily because of its academic reputation. It wasn’t until I was in the fleet that I came to fully appreciate the role of the submarine force in the overall defense of our country. Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary In 1968, I married the former Joanne Carlisle. Joanne was an organist and Liturgist for most of our married life. She has taught piano to school-age children for 20 years. She also crochets, quilts, and plays the flute. She is also a 10-year survivor of breast cancer. We have three children and two grandchildren. We are retired, and reside near my home town in Ohio.

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3rd Company Larry Torgerson Service History 1963-1967: USNA (3rd Company) 1967-1968: Post Graduate work NC State 1968: NFO Flight Training; awarded wings in November 1968 1968-1969: A6 BN Replacement training; VA42 NAS Oceana, VA 1969-1971: VA85 deployed to SE Asia 69-70 and the Mediterranean 71 1971-1974: Naval Air Test Center, Weapons Systems Test Division, Electronic Warfare and Reconnaissance Section 1974-1976: USS Forrestal Carrier Control Approach (CCA) Officer 1976-1977: Naval War College Command and Staff, Newport, RI 1977-1979: VA 42, Director of Replacement Training 1979-1982: VA176, Administrative Officer and Operations Officer 1982-1986: Staff Commander Naval Air Forces Atlantic. Responsible for funding all Navy East Coast training ranges and NAS ground electronics. 1986-1988: USS America, Strike Operations Officer 1988: Retired from Naval Service as a CDR February 1st on board USS America Principle Occupation after Navy retirement I worked for Ford Aerospace, Loral Corporation, and Lockheed Martin from 1988 to 1999. I was the Program Manager for various programs providing operation and maintenance services for Navy Tactical Air Combat Training Systems, Air Force Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation Range and Electronic Warfare Ranges. I was also the Program Director for a program to provide site preparation, equipment installation and follow on hardware maintenance for an FAA contract to upgrade all en route Air Traffic Control Facilities. Interesting Life Events While assigned to the NATC I conducted a side by side evaluation of what would be the Navy’s first air bourn Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) systems. I also conducted an evaluation of the first air bourn Infrared countermeasures system. I was onboard USS Forrestal during the celebration of the Nation’s bicentennial in New York harbor. Family Marilyn and I were married in 1970 and have two children; a son, David and a daughter, Allison. Both are married and have blessed us with three wonderful grand children. We all live in Virginia Beach. Retired life Since retiring in 1999 Marilyn and I have been doing a lot of traveling and have found that we truly enjoy cruising. I have been playing a lot of golf; unfortunately not a lot of good golf. We have also had the opportunity and time to visit with family and friends, and with our children and grand children living so close to us, we keep our calendar pretty full. Humorous Memory of USNA On a dark and stormy night in during the 1963 football season, the plebes of third company made their way to the field house and the A4 static display. Our advanced party had already cut the turnbuckles. We rolled the A4 off its concrete pads, up Captains row and made a right toward T-court. After doing a little tricky maneuvering around some lampposts we parked the A4 in the middle of T-court. We then watched with great amusement while the public works folks tried to figure out how to get the A4 past the lampposts (they finally just took a couple down). Although we did not take credit or acknowledgement of our involvement, we did get what I felt was some well deserved “carry on”. Uniform Device Naval Flight Officer Why I attended USNA I was recruited to play football (which I never did) and received my appointment from the list of “Qualified Competitors and Alternates”. I accepted the appointment because I felt I was being offered a one time opportunity that I just should/ could not pass up.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Satisfying expectations I know the academy met my expectations as I completed an almost 21 year career. The academy taught me how to effectively manage my time; provided me with a world class education; taught me leadership; and how to work as a team toward a common goal. Maybe most importantly, the honor code we lived by, and carried with us, has provided a guiding light throughout both my military and civilian career. Summary Bio Following graduation from USNA, and post graduate studies in Aeronautical Engineering, I completed Flight training and received my NFO wings in November 1968. I joined my first A6 squadron in May 1969, and made deployments to SE Asia and the Mediterranean. I spent 2 Â˝ years at the NATC PAX River, 2 years as the CCA Officer on USS Forrestal, a year at the Naval War College, and then 2 years with VA42 ( the A6 RAG ) as the Director of Replacement Training. I joined VA176 in 1979 and the following year deployed to the Persian Gulf. I spent four years on the staff of CNAL and finished my Navy career as Strike Operations Officer on USS America retiring in 1988. I worked for Ford Aerospace, Loral Corporation and Lockheed Martin from 1988 to 1999 as Program Manager for various contracts providing operations and maintenance of military training facilities; and the site preparation, equipment installation and follow on hardware maintenance for the upgrade all of the FAAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s en-route Air Traffic Control facilities. Marilyn and I were married in 1970 and have two children; a son, David, and a daughter Allison. Both are married and have blessed us with three wonderful grand children. We all currently live in Virginia Beach. Since retiring in 1999 Marilyn and I have been doing a lot of traveling and have found we truly enjoy cruising. We have also had the opportunity and time to visit with family and friends all over the country.

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3rd Company Max A. Werner III

As submitted by his nephew, Tran Blake (tblake70@gmail.com): Service History: 1963 - 1967 US Naval Academy 1967-1968 CEC school, Newport Naval Base, Rhode Island 1968 – 1970 Two tours of duty in Republic of South Vietnam, Mobile Construction Battalion 53 June 1971 Honorably discharged, Lieutenant, USN 1973 – Died in motorcycle accident. Family: Uncle Max entered the USNA by appointment by legendary S.C. Senator Strom Thurmond on the hopes he would follow his father’s footsteps in a career as a civil engineer. The Naval Academy was also a way to serve his country as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy. Memorable Events: When Max went home during Thanksgiving 1963, he was able to gain access to my Mom and Dad's apartment while they were at work and place “Go Navy, Beat Texas” bumper stickers all over their little apartment, i.e. toilet seat, coat closet, behind the bedroom door, etc. in reference to the upcoming Texas vs Navy National championship football game.

Sports Achievements: Sports played at Navy: Swimming, soccer. Summary bio for Max Werner Max Alfred Werner III, beloved son, brother, uncle and friend, died much too soon just short of his 28 th birthday in a car/ motorcycle accident. He was survived by his parents, Dorothy and Max Werner (now deceased), and his sister, Nan Blake of Austin, Texas, and his nephew, Tran Blake of Bryan, Texas. He was preceded in death, 13 days earlier in another auto accident, by his brother Marc Werner. At the time of his death, Max had just finished his first year of Law School at The University of Texas at Austin where he and his partner finished second in the Freshman Moot Court Competition. Max had served two tours of duty in the Republic of South Vietnam with Mobile Construction Battalion 53, and he ended his Naval career at Newport Naval Base in Rhode Island. His ashes were scattered at sea in the Gulf of Mexico by a United States Navy plane shortly after his death. At the Academy, Max swam and played soccer, and he was on staff of The Log. During Law School, he worked for the University of Texas Press, and he played for the UT Law School soccer team, earning the Most Valuable Player Award. Max owned land outside Austin, Texas, where he was building a geodesic dome. He planned to earn a living as a general contractor after he finished law school, and he intended to be a lawyer for people who could not afford to pay for one. Max’s family and many friends mourned his loss with shock. Max was a kind and independent person who loved people, the law, and building, in the tradition of his father and grandfather. From his mother, he inherited a great sense of fun and enjoyment of music and poetry. He wrote poetry under the pen-name, Nokia, and he adored his young nephew, Tran.

Russell Johnson, Max’s friend and company-mate from USNA, wrote in a letter, “Max would have been a great lawyer and most probably a perfecto of those structures that seem so weak at times today. It was his nature.” Max will always be remembered as a shipmate whom you could count upon. He was always positive, happy, and a pleasure to be around. He is missed by his Company-mates.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary George W. Yankoupe Service History 1963-1967 USNA (1st Company, then 3rd after the Brigade Expanded to 36 Companies) 1967-68: Specialized Training Little Creek, Dam Neck, VA – Various Commands US and abroad 1968: USS SEMMES DDG-18) ASW Officer to Weapons Officer, Market Time, Atlantic and Mediterranean 1970-71: Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA: Post Graduate Dual Masters Advanced Curriculum; changed to CEC staff designator, 5100 1971-72: Student Civil Engineer Corps Officer’s School, Port Hueneme, CA 1972-74: US Naval Construction Battalion 62; Special Construction Project Manager and Delta Company Commander, deployed to Diego Garcia, B.I.O.T., then T.T.P.I. Guam 1974-76: US Naval Academy Public Works Shops Engineer and Special Projects Officer completed and outfitted Rickover, Michelson and Chauvenet Halls, the Nimitz Library and the design of Lejeune Hall 1976-79: Officer in Charge of Construction, Bethesda, MD: University of the Health Sciences, and complete reconstruction of the Bethesda Naval Hospital 1979-80: Student, Armed Forces Staff College, Naval Station Norfolk, VA 1980-82: Public Works Officer, Naval Station Mayport, FL 1982-84: Commanding Officer US Naval Construction Battalion 1: Atlantic Alert Battalion, Rota, Spain and the second deployment, T.T.P.I. Guam 1984-87: Assistant Chief of Staff, N2, Facilities Director, Chief of Naval Technical Training, NAS Millington, Memphis, TN; selected to rank of Captain 06-07-87: Retired from Navy as a CAPT Principal Occupation Following retirement, relocated to Minneapolis, MN; managed multiple privately-held real estate family partnerships which own and operate numerous interstate-oriented entities including restaurants, convenience stores, hotels and a major mobile home community; transformed hundreds of acres raw land to single family and multiple family communities and commercial developments both in Minnesota and Florida; concurrently held position as Research Fellow, University of Minnesota; member of the Headwater Rural Utilities Association; Director of Operations Jacobs Wind Turbine Company; Professional Engineer participating as a forensic witness specializing in soil mechanics and foundations; Board of Directors, Upper Midwest Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association.

Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • Assigned as an Exchange Officer to the French Navy • Scoring a ride in the backseat of an F-4 from Pax River, hitting the magic MACH II • The awe of servicing on an American Guided Missile Combatant • Being "high-lined" transferred between ships underway • As SEMMES ASW Officer and Diving Officer, coming face to face with a giant Sea Sunfish while recovering a test torpedo in the middle of the Atlantic • Privately discussing Pearl Harbor events with Admiral Ben Morrell, “Father of the Seabees” while he was writing his life memoirs at the Civil Engineering Officer’s School, Port Hueneme, CA. • Construction of some of the initial and critical stages of NavSta Diego Garcia • Assignment at the Naval Academy to a billet created to complete the magnificent academic facilities such as Rickover Hall, Michelson Chauvenet Halls, the Nimitz Library, etc; my detailed, personal interaction on the staff level with the professors who taught the Class of ’67 reinforced my belief in the true excellence of our the Academy academic staff. • Nominated as OIC of Camp David, Carter years (an opportunity replaced by assignment to Officer in Charge of Construction, Bethesda, MD) • Developing and operating the first waste-steam generation plant to supply quality domestic dock-side steam to coldiron ships of Naval Station Mayport, Florida permitting total vessel stand down. • Developing the first comprehensible BOS (Base Operating Services) contracting specifications with NAVFAC to publicly bid the DOD privatization of base services operations

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Administering the first BOS contract at Naval Station Mayport that converted military bases to civilian operation. From the DOD, “Mayport created the prototype and paragon and proved that the concept was successful." Nominated as a White House Fellow by then V.P. George W. Bush (an opportunity replaced by assignment as Commanding Officer, US Naval Mobile Construction One) Youngest Commanding Officer of a Seabee Battalion Detachment to Beirut, Lebanon as a member of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force with joint operations conducted with the 22 MAU following Grenada; constructed complete under ground facility to encamp the Seabee’s and the 22 MAU Observing the Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) firing her 16 inch guns from the vantage point of the bridge was as if reliving WWII campaigns memorialized in “Victory at Sea” episodes of the most decorated Battle Wagon in Naval history My Change of Command on the grinder in Rota, Spain with my wife, Debbie, at my side Revitalizing the Military Construction and Maintenance programs for all training facilities for all Major Claimants of the Navy. Servicing with, without a doubt, the most elite enlisted and officer personnel in any service Blessed by having a wife and family beyond reproach who supported me completely throughout the years

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Deborah, my wife, and I met on Hollywood Beach, FL in 1968 by what can only have been "Devine intervention": her last day of Spring Break from Minnesota, my first day to visit to my parents following a long deployment. Our marriage in May of 1969 forged a life-long bond, which has just witnessed its 46th anniversary. We have three beautiful, successful children: Daughter a “Georgia Peach” and two sons, both born in Annapolis, thus carrying the moniker of “Crabs”. We have two beautiful grandchildren from our daughter; yet another “Crab” also born in Annapolis, the other in Minneapolis. We pray that both sons, recently married, will also bless us with additional grandchildren.

How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Having recently successfully transferred most of the Family Partnership holdings and responsibilities to the next generation has provided Debbie and I more free time. While I still practice as a forensic professional civil engineer, I am able to selectively participate. As with most of us, we have “must do” lists; ours includes leisure travel, visiting of classmates and our annual trips to Marco Island, Florida and the Adirondack Mountains in New York; AND, of course welcoming any visitors here in Minnesota. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Accepting the academic nomination to Annapolis vice West Point, Air Force or an NROTC scholarship to Notre Dame • “I Day”….passing time in the Harbor Pool Hall with Mike Scherer waiting for a 1300 check in time • The smell of stenciling issued white works; the sound April Steven’s “Teach Me Tiger” echoing throughout Goat Court (which ultimately gave way to the Animals’ “We Gotta’ Get Outta’ This Place”; Plebe Ho’s; • endless “wipe-offs” and “hit it-s for ‘67” • President J.F.K’s Tecumseh Court Class review; and sadly his later passing; I, in Chemistry Class • Early morning plebe year runs, the smell of “YP” engine rooms, the rifle range; getting the first “M-1” thumb • Last class to live in Mother “B” oldest wings prior to renovation; thus experiencing “the swim to Baltimore” • Football games with Roger Staubach; Army / Navy and Cotton Bowl; Wayne Hardin, and the singing of “Navy Blue and Gold” • Marching to home football games along the hippie-oriented St John College campus • Plebe year Christmas vacation; then the “Dark Ages”, followed by the “Herndon” climb • Attending Mass during the week day AMs; speaking from the Chapel podium; listening to the choir’s “Eternal Father” • First set, Second Class summer…. Plebe orientation…with Peter Pace • Representing “67” as Class President of the greatest classmates, ever • Late night hours above the Rotunda in honor review boards • Ourisman Chevrolet’s order of the largest purchase of Corvette Stingrays for any academy • Admiral “Uncle Charlie” and Draper L. Kaufman • Varsity soccer... an All American team…..and of course Coach Glen Warner • Training table meals…roast beef…Naval Academy dairy ice cream • The “Ring Dance” Return to: Table of Contents

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Meeting, knowing and interacting with some of the most intriguing and intelligent peers Graduation…a spectacular day on 6 / 7 / 67 And, as most would agree: “Seeing the Academy in the rear view mirror of our first cars”, no longer as “Middies” Humorous Memories of USNA: • “Tea Fight” line surges in Dahlgren Hall arranged by “Mrs. M” • Actually wearing over 20 pair of sweat gear • Grey hound races • “Hell on the Hudson’s” and “what are you famous for’s?” • The post reveille P-rade of Army B-robes “clacking” down the hallways • The terrifying “knock Knocks” of the OD entering your room with Form 2’s at the ready • Trying to understand anything that came before “immediate execute” screeched form YP’s Pri-Tac or Sec-Tac, worrying that a collision would be eminent • Perilously transiting the famous gate “zero” long after hours being chased by “Jimmy Legs” • While at a dinner for strippers with the battalion officer, “Col Cos”, having a close classmate receive a call from his “wife” that his Corvette had been stolen. Hilarious cover performance! • Trying to remember just where in Annapolis you actually parked your prematurely owned car • Swimming in the Reflection Pool following our last Warden Field P-rade • Having partially re-bricked Tecumseh Court, convincing Sup Admiral Kinnaird McKee that our class truly was entitled to the “brick that completed Tecumseh Court” which resulted in giving each classmate a “Bricked Again After Ten” T-Court brick at our tenth reunion. Of course, the one given to the Admiral may be in the Admin Building. • Watching Howard Cosell lose his hairpiece in the Field House ring announcing the fight of the century when he got into a tussle with promoter Don King; the event was televised form coast to coast • June 5, 1974 while on the Public Works staff at USNA, President Nixon, upon getting up to make his commencement address ripped, his suit from a crack in the Academy chair he was occupying; closed door “discussions” still ring in my ear! Awards Received Academic Achievement 1967 USNA - BS - (Math and French) 1971 Georgia Tech - BS Civil Engineering 1972 Georgia Tech - MS Civil Engineering (Soil Mechanics and Foundations) 1972 Georgia Tech - MS Civil Engineering (Construction Management) Professional Engineer (Civil) American Society of Civil Engineers Society of American Military Engineers Athletic Plebe year - soccer, swimming and baseball Varsity Soccer, in-door and out-door track Service Awards Legion of Merit; Meritorious Service Medal W/3 stars; Navy Commendation Medal W/1 star; NAM W/2 stars; Combat Action Ribbon; Presidential Unit Citation W/2 stars; Navy Unit Commendation W/2 stars; Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy “E” Ribbon; Navy Expeditionary Medal W/2 stars; Marine Expeditionary Medal; Humanitarian Service Medal W/3 stars; Sea Service Deployment Ribbon W/2 stars; Multinational Forces Medal; Multinational Observers Medal; United Nations Medal, Expert Rifle Medal W/ “E”; Expert Pistol Shot Medal W/ “E”

1979 S.A.M.E. (Society of American Military Engineers) Admiral Ben MORRELL Award for Outstanding Contribution to Military Engineering; Outstanding Military Engineer of the Year (Construction of the Uniformed University of the Health Sciences and the Reconstruction of the Bethesda Hospital) Upon Retirement: Personal Commendations from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; Senator John Glenn; and Vice Admiral David Harlow Uniform Breast Insignia: Surface Warfare Officer: Navy Line: 1100 Civil Engineer Corps: Staff Officer: 5100 Command Officer Pin 144

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3rd Company Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: 1. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending"? Like many of us at that age, I was steeped in graphic history of WWII from immediate relatives and others of their generation who had served in some theater of the conflict, air, land, sea and subsurface. In some respects, I was a "Victory at Sea" baby who rarely missed an episode. I was part of a generation that had been reared on the rationing of food, gas etc. That, coupled with a grandfather who was a WW l general in the French Army (graduate of Saint-Cyr) and a father who had passed through Ellis Island to become an American, patriotism was a way of life. We played army; we were marines, solders, sailors; we were one generation removed from the horror and the ultimate victory of world war. American military men and women were respected heroes; they had earned it. My parents never permitted my older brother (West Point Class of '64, retired General) or me to stray from sound moral principles. With that foundation, being born and raised in Miami Beach and south Florida, salt water was in my veins; why Annapolis? There was never any other choice. From "Climbing the Herndon Monument" to "tossing the hat at graduation", my expectations to be part of the elite backbone of America, educated by exceptional professors and to be the best Naval Officer I could be, were most certainly met. There is something magical about the Class of '67; graduation date... 6 / 7 / 67. Spectacular! 2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Whether the Naval Academy was my "gateway to life" or my "fulcrum of life" is compellingly blended; though hardly subjective, completing the four years as a Midshipman should prepare anyone for life. Plebe year, Youngster year, Second Class year and Firstie...What a progression; there was never a time when I wasn't proud, excited, and in awe of the Academy. Yes, it met my expectations. The grounds, the buildings, the facilities, the setting is spectacular no doubt; it is a shrine, but the Midshipmen- the Midshipmen are the life blood of Annapolis; the members of the class are what exceeded my expectations; I knew we were the cream of academic America, but the intelligence, ability, drive and accomplishments continue to amaze me today.

Summary BIO for George Yankoupe My Naval career now appears as a series of vignettes, bookended by graduation and retirement, with numerous billets around the world, between. Following training at Little Creek, and abroad, I joined the SEMMES, DDG-18, in Gozo, Malta as ASW Officer, departing two years later as Weapons Officer. I met Deborah, my wife now of 46 years, in Hollywood, Florida; married one year later, 1969; moved to Atlanta, attended Georgia Tech’s Advanced Dual Masters Civil Engineering Program; and had our first child, Danielle. My assignments were spectacular, permitting me to serve with some of the most respected military elite in special venues: the Fleet, the White House, Congress, the Pentagon, and NAVFAC. They were challenging; each fantastic: USNMCB 62- (Diego Garcia); Annapolis (outfitting Rickover, Michelson, and Chauvenet Halls, Nimitz Library; converting “Mother Bancroft", dealing with intricacies of our Academy Shrine; BUT foremost, the birth of our two sons, George II and Ryan); nominated as OIC Camp David, detailed to OICC Bethesda instead- (directing construction of USUHS- Military Medical Institute, Naval Hospital reconstruction- being awarded the Morrell Medal, highest DOD engineer citation); Staff College; Facilities Officer NavSta Mayport- (first DOD BOS contract); nominated by VP G.W. Bush as a White House Fellow candidate: detailed to Commanding Officer USNMCB One instead- (embedded with the 22 MAU in Beirut, unit of the Multinational Peace Keeping Force); Assistant Chief of Staff, N2, Chief Of Naval Technical Training, Memphis, TN. "Living the dream" for 20 years had been MY dream; the next was OURS. Moving to Minneapolis; I assumed management of several family real estate partnerships and practiced Professional Engineering. My parents relocated to Minnesota and enjoyed their life with us and their grandchildren. We now have two grandchildren, Danielle’s son and daughter. With God's grace, sons George and Ryan, will catch up soon

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Gene H. Zaiser Service History (Emphasis on – dates, units, places): For example 1963 – 67: USNA (1st & 3rd Company) 1967: DASH school, Dam Neck, VA 1967-68: 1st Lt USS Hooper (DE 1026), San Diego, CA 1968: ASW school, La Hoya, CA 1968-70: ASW Officer & Navigator, USS Richard E. Kraus (DD 849), Charleston, SC 1970: Executive Officer, USS Sagacity (MSO 469), Charleston, SC 1970-71: Executive Officer, USS Park County (LST 1077), Guam 1971: Resigned Commission (LT USN) July 1971. Principal Occupation: Worked as an industrial sales rep for Mobil Oil for two years in upstate New York. Started an oil recycling business located in the Syracuse, NY area. Turned out to be a lot of hard, dirty work with very little reward. Began work with Stuart Pharmaceuticals ( Morphed into Zeneca Pharmaceuticals) as a sales rep in Marietta, GA in 1976. Held a variety of positions in sales and marketing, in a number of cities and retired as Vice President of Sales in 1999 in Wilmington, DE. Worked in various capacities in the pharmaceutical industry until 2004. Moved to Warwick, MD and retired for good. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: While on USS Kraus, made a Middle East cruise which took me to over a dozen countries in Africa and the Mideast including Angola, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan and Bahrain. Navigated the Straits of Hormuz on several occasions. After the Navy, traveled extensively with the Alumni Association. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Nicky and I were married graduation day, in Annapolis and have two children. Our son, Gene, graduated from Wharton, went to seminary and is the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Bechtelsville, PA. Daughter Elizabeth graduated from the University of Delaware and is certified to teach K-8. We have one grandson (also Gene) who will graduate from HS in 2017. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I play a lot of golf and do volunteer in the Wilmington, DE area. I have been a season ticket holder for Navy Football for over 20 years, sitting in the ’67 section. We go to the class tailgates regularly. Travel with Tom and Sissy Burton to golf destinations. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: 1963 Army-Navy game. The quarterback for Army (Rollie Stichweh) was my QB in high school and almost beat us. Running company cross country plebe year Getting engaged during June Week 1966 Getting married graduation day Getting out Humorous Memories of USNA: Food fights in the mess hall My drag getting “bricked” Awards Received Academic Achievement: Isn’t graduating enough!!!!!!!!!!! Athletic Running cross country plebe year. Service Awards Navy Commendation, Nation Defense, Viet Nam Uniform Device Surface Warfare Officer Please Answer Two Questions: 146

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3rd Company Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” My father, an Army Air Corps WWII vet, always told me that you always got a hot meal and a bed in which to sleep in the Navy. He was mostly right. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations?. When I entered the Academy I expected to make the Navy a career. Although Nicky was always supportive, I found that for me the separations from family were not acceptable. Leaving the Navy was a difficult thing to do as I felt that I was only trained to be a naval officer. However, I was wrong. The ideals of honesty, dedication and assuming responsibility were all fundamentals that I learned and honed at USNA and were valued, but not always found in civilian organizations. With this realization I found that I could accomplish anything that was required of me in the civilian world. I guess you could say that the Academy gave me more that I expected in many ways. For this I am grateful. My life aboard ship allowed me to manage a variety of people, from seaman recruit to officers. Although I had expected to be able to do this, it wasn’t until I was in the fleet that I really understood what it meant to “lead” instead of “order”. Once again this became very important to me throughout my civilian career culminating in my managing a sales force of over 2000 representatives. Whatever success I have enjoyed over the years I owe to the support of Nicky and the values I acquired at USNA. I am proud to be a graduate and especially a member of ’67. Summary Yearbook write-up for Gene Zaiser I served four years in what is now called , “Surface Warfare”. I called it the Navy. I was stationed on both coasts and in Viet Nam. The last two ships I served as Executive Officer, but what I really liked what the navigation and piloting. My career after the Navy was in the pharmaceutical industry in Sales and Marketing. I spent 23 years with Zeneca Pharmaceuticals and retired in 2004 and spend my time on the golf course or doing volunteer work for non-profits. I married Nicky on graduation day. We like to travel with the Alumni Association and to see Navy football in Dublin. We have had Navy season tickets for over 20 years and attend the ’67 tailgates at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium. Nicky and I have two adults who call us Mom and Pop and do pretty much whatever they want without consulting us. Our grandson is great and will graduate from High School soon. They all live near our Maryland eastern shore home in Warwick. My best memories of USNA are when I got engaged, married and graduated. (not necessarily in that order) I learned many important lessons at USNA that have sustained me not only in the Navy but also civilian life. My dad told me the Navy was a better way to go than the Army and he turned out to be a very wise man.

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4th Company Charles E. Armentrout Service History 1963-1967: USNA(4th Co) 1967-1968: USS Independence. 1968-1970: USS Biddle. 1970-1971: RVN-Advisor. 1971-1973: USNA-Seamanship/Navigation Instructor. 1973- Department Head School. 1973-1975:USS Rich. 1975-1977:USS Truckee. 1977-1980:Navy Recruiting Command HDQTRS. 1980-1981:USS Saipan. 1981-1985:Atlantic Fleet HDQTRS. 1985-1987:USS Theodore Roosevelt. 1987:Retired from USN as LCDR. Principal Occupation 1987-1991:NJROTC Instructor @ South Florence High School-Florence, SC. 1991-1993: NJROTC Instructor@Admiral Farragut Academy-Pine Beach, NJ. 19932012;NJROTC Instructor@Colleton County High School-Walterboro, SC. 2012:Retired Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Traveled the world & visited many countries while in the Navy. Received President's Award from Denmark Technical College (SC). Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Carol & I were married in 1969 & have two children- Heather & Chris. We have four grandsons. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I play golf about four times a week. I'm the Vice Commander of my American Legion Post. Life member of the Military Of The Purple Heart. Member of VFW. Volunteer @ Veterans Hospital. Volunteer @ the animal shelter. Do yard work. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Beating Army plebe year. Going to away football game @ WVU as a plebe. Graduation. Humorous Memories of USNA: All kinds of shenanigans with my room mates. Awards Received Academic Achievement Graduating. (Fulbright, Rhodes, Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, Olmstead, Burke Scholarships or Trident Scholar, Church Scholar, etc. along with highest degree earned and major) Athletic (All American, Touchdown Club, Blue Gray Game, North-South Game, etc.) Service/USNA Awards Of The 15 awards the top three are: Bronze Star with Combat "V"â&#x20AC;?: Purple Heart; Combat Action Ribbon Uniform Breast Insignia Surface Warfare Device Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? That was about the only way I was going to get a quality college education. I was looking for direction in my life. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My expectations were met @ USNA. I proudly served 20 years & developed deep pride for the Navy & my country.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Summary bio for Charlie Armentrout Upon graduating, I was assigned as Ass't Gunnery Officer on USS Independence. From there I was the 1ST LT on USS Biddle. I then went to the Republic of Vietnam as a River Assault & Interdiction Division Advisor where I was wounded & received The Purple Heart. I returned stateside to USNA as Navigation/Seamanship Instructor. From there I went to Newport, RI for Department Head School. I was the Weapons Officer On USS Rich & then split out as the Operations Officer on USS Truckee. I then went to shore duty at the Navy Recruiting Command in Arlington, VA. Back to sea duty on USS Saipan as Navigator. Back to shore duty at Atlantic Fleet HQTRS & my final duty station was a plank owner & 3M Manager on USS Theodore Roosevelt. Upon retirement in 1987, I got into the high school NJROTC program & was a NJROTC Instructor in Florence, SC, and Pine Beach, NJ. I established the NJROTC program in Walterboro, SC in 1993 & taught there for 19 years before retiring in 2012. Carol & I live in Walterboro, SC. We were married in 1969 & have two children- Heather & Chris. We have four grandsons.

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4th Company Bradley K Beaver Service History; 1962-63: NROTC scholarship University of Virginia 1963-67: USNA (4th Company) 1967: Guided Missile School, Vallejo, CA 1967-69: Missile Division Officer USS Galveston (CLG3) 1969-72: Assistant Professor of Naval Science University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1972: Naval Nuclear Power School Bainbridge, MD 1973 Resigned from Naval Service Principal Occupation: Resigned my commission in 1973 (hated the nuclear power program). Went to work in aerospace at Teledyne Ryan, General Dynamics, Hughes, Northrop and Raytheon. Looks like I bounced around a lot but I didn’t. Those were the days of consolidation. Teledyne was acquired by Northrop, GD was bought by Hughes and later Hughes was acquired by Raytheon. Spent the majority of my post Navy career in Program Management and Business Development with an emphasis on International programs. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: My international travels exposed me to many European and Asian countries. I saw places which I had only read about, enjoyed different cultures and made many lasting friend in both the government and commercial world. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren I finally got the marriage enigma figured out and married Carolyn Rhodes in 2005. I have never been so happy! We were married in the Naval Academy Chapel and, with Dave Church’s expert help, had a fabulous reception in Ogle Hall. I have a daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in San Diego with her husband and two children (Chad and Sarah). She works for a law firm which specializes in settling estates. My son Chad and his daughter (Alexis) also live in San Diego and is an architect. He is also a Lt in the US Navy CEC reserves. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Carolyn and I are really enjoying retirement. We belong to a Country Club in Tucson where we enjoy playing golf (when it’s not 100 degrees plus). But our most favorite activity is taking long Holland America cruises to all parts of the world. I especially enjoy being at sea again without having to stand the mid-watch on the bridge

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Beating Army our plebe year with carry on until Christmas. President Kennedy addressing our class during Plebe Summer. The President’s assassination in November and how the entire Brigade was sorrowed and in shock. Dinner on weekends with my roommate, Vince Corry, and his parents at the Harbor House or Carvel Hall. They were truly wonderful people. The June 1966 Ring Dance. Every June week celebration. March-ons at football games, especially ArmyNavy. Being on the Plebe Golf team and the JOY of relaxing at the Training Tables. Taking delivery of my first car: a 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme convertible. Humorous Memories of USNA: Toward the end of Plebe Summer my father (class of 1940) was in Washington, DC on business and traveled to Annapolis to see me. We were standing just outside Tecumseh Court when out of the blue he comments that “this place is nothing but a (expletive) country club”! Now I’m thinking how could the class of 40’s Plebe Summer be any tougher than ours? As a Firstie, Lt Hooker who was the Duty Officer, fried me for watching “I Spy” on a 6” Sony TV which I had smuggled into my room. He was so thrilled at having busted me that he never noticed that I was also drinking a beer out of my Foamin’ Forth coffee mug. The last thing I saw was him walking out of my room with his plebe mate carrying my TV under his arm and the cord dragging behind him. Lt Hooker was an avid pipe smoker who kept a large humidor of tobacco in his office. Without going into detail, I evened the score! Awards Received Academic Achievement MBA from the University of Nebraska. Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma the national business school honor fraternity for earning a 3.96 GPA. Athletic Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Service/USNA Awards: Navy Achievement Medal, Vietnam Service medal and, of course, the National Defense Medal (“I was alive in 65”) Uniform Breast Insignia: Surface Warfare Device Flag Pennant NA Please Answer Two Questions: • I had no specific expectations for attending USNA, although I desperately wanted to gain admittance and somehow knew it would be a life changing experience. It took me three tries to get in. My SATs were too low coming out of high school and again out of prep school. Finally made the scores while at the University of Virginia. A significant part of my motivation came from my father (USNA Class of 1940) who had very successful military and civilian careers. He always attributed his success to having graduated from the Naval Academy! I will never forget how many times he would say to me “I’ve got mine, what are you going to do to get yours”. • The Naval Academy more than met my wildest expectations. It truly changed my life. I had an engineering degree from an outstanding school and wonderful career opportunities which lay ahead. It provided me with tremendous self -confidence, pride, military bearing, the finest sense of honor and teamwork, leadership skills as well as dedication to the Naval Service and to my country. It also taught me that I could accomplish things which before I never thought possible. Final Yearbook write-up for Brad Beaver After graduation I reported to the USS Galveston, CLG3, as the Missile Division Officer. Thanks to the YP training at USNA I quickly qualified for Officer of the Deck, Underway. Having the missile division and standing1 in 3 on the bridge, I never had so much responsibility in my life. The Naval Academy prepared me well! In 1968, we deployed to Vietnam where during the day we conducted call for fire missions and at night carried out Harassment and Interdiction fire against fixed targets. In 1969, I was assigned duty as Professor of Naval Science at the University of Nebraska. While there I earned an MBA and was ultimately elected to Beta Gamma Sigma business honorary fraternity. In 1972, I had orders to Destroyer School and I was delighted. Unfortunately, I also received a “congratulations you’re being considered” letter from Admiral Rickover’s office. Ultimately, I got drafted. I dragged myself kicking and screaming to Nuclear Power school. All the stories I had heard about the Nuclear Power program turned out to be true (at least to me!). I sadly resigned my commission in January 1973. I went on to have a very enjoyable and rewarding career in the aerospace industry in the fields of Program Management and Business Development with an emphasis on international programs. Probably my greatest accomplishment was in arranging for the sale of Tomahawk Cruise Missile by the US Navy to the British Royal Submarine Navy. I finally figured out the enigmas of marriage and married Carolyn Rhodes in the Chapel in 2005 and she has completed my life. My daughter, Elizabeth, and her children (Chad and Sarah) as well as my son, Chad, and his daughter (Alexis) live in San Diego and we get to visit them often. Carolyn and I remain active and love cruising the corners of the world on Holland America. I especially love being at sea and not having to stand the midwatch on the bridge.

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4th Company Vincent H. Corry Service History (Emphasis on – dates, units, places): 1962-1963: Enlisted USNR, NAS Willow Grove, PA 1962-1963: Midshipman, NROTC, Villanova University 1963-1967: USNA (4th Company) 1967-1967: ASAC & CIC Officer School, Glynco, GA 1968-1969: CICO, 1st Lt, Asst Gunnery Officer USS BRONSTEIN (DE 1037) 1969-1970: XO USS ENHANCE (MSO 437) 1970-1971: Destroyer School, Newport RI 1971-1973: Operations Officer USS ALBERT DAVID (DE 1050) 1973-1977: Officer Instructor, NROTC University of Southern California 1977-1978: Special Assistant to CINCSOUTH Naples, Italy 1078-1979: War College, Newport RI 1980-1981: XO USS CAPODANO (FF 1093) 1982-1985: Program Officer, Ship ASW Readiness/Measurement Program, Little Creek VA 1986-1986: Program, ASW Readiness Continuum, Norfolk VA 1987-1989: XO Fleet ASW Training Center, Norfolk VA 1989-1989: Retired from Naval Service as CDR Principal Occupation 1989-1999: Commandant and Port Captain, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME 1999-2014: Port Captain and Purchasing Manager TOTE Services, Inc. Moorestown, NJ 2014-Pres: Port Captain and Security Officer, Cetacean Marine, Moorestown, NJ Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Still waking up on this side of the divot and still married to the same girl since 1968. (No thanks to me) Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren June 1968 married Louise (Weezer) Patricia Vuocolo. Have two children: Greg born 1971 and Diana born 1973. Have three grandkids: Ariana (2001), Travis (2007), Ella (2008) How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Still having fun working with sailors and ships that keeps me out of the house and maintains Weezer’s sanity. LOVE GOLF!!!!! Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: All of the friends I made there and then graduating. Humorous Memories of USNA: My roommates and our nicknames: ; Charlie Armentrout, aka “Tuna” and “Trout”. Brad Beaver, aka “BK” and “the Beave” yours truly aka, “Dorsk”, “Dosco”, “Ry”. Jim Dulin was also a roommate but he was always “Dulin”. Skip Ditman, aka “Tree”, Rach Armitage aka “Mule”. In fact I can’t remember ever using a first name for any of my friends. Awards Received Greatest Grandpop!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars); Philadelphia Phillies 1950, 1980, 2008, 2009 Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” “All my life I wanted to be in the Navy and go to sea and I figured the Naval Academy was the best way to start which it was. In fact, it was this answer that got me kicked out of Admiral Rickover’s office when he commented that my “grades stink” and “don’t I care about my education?”. I responded that if I cared about my education I would have stayed at Villanova but all I cared about was becoming a Naval Officer. I never saw a man’s face get that red before.” Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? . “Yes and No. Yes for the camaraderie and regimental training but the actual hands on training to be a naval officer at sea and to lead and manage sailors with all of their problems and issues was lacking.” Summary Yearbook write-up for Vince Corry Looking back I have come to realize that my life can be summed up by the blessings the Good Lord bestowed on me. First he gave me three heroes who I have spent my life trying to emulate and usually coming up woefully short. They are my Mom and Dad, Marie and Dan Corry and my wife Louise. And as if that wasn’t enough, God then allowed me to spend 29 years of my life serving with our Nation’s finest, the men and women of the US Navy. After the Navy, I guess the Good Lord realized I couldn’t hack it in a normal job so he kept me with sailors and ships but this time it was our US Merchant Marine men and women and again I found myself surrounded with dedicated and honorable folks with whom I am still lucky enough to be working. What a ride! What a life!

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4th Company Harry G. Dittmann Service History 1962-63 Naval Academy Prep School ,Bainbridge, MD 1963-67 USNA 4th Company 1967-1968 USNA Physical Education Dept. -Asst Plebe Football Coach 1968-69 USS Frank Knox DD-742 Main Propulsion Asst San Diego, Ca 1969-1970 Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia 1970-72 USS Barry DD-933 Supply Officer Newport, RI 1972-1973 Naval Supply Systems Command Hdq, Personnel Officer Washington., DC 1973 Transfer to Navy Reserve 1990 Commanding Officer Defense Industrial Supply Center, Philadelphia. Pa 1992 Commanding Officer Aviation Supply Office, Philadelphia, Pa 1995 Retired from USNR with rank of Captain Principal Occupation 1973-78 Investment Officer Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa 1978-98 VP CoreStates Bank, Philadelphia, Pa 1998-2007 SVP Calibre, Family Office of Wachovia Bank, Philadelphia, Pa 2008-2014 VP Girard Partners (RIA) Philadelphia, Pa Family 1967 married Beth Bowne and have two married daughters. Heather and Chris Garnett with one daughter Elle in Richmond , Va. Courtney and Kevin Brown with two daughters Chloe and Claire in Strafford, Pa. Retired Activities • Chairman of the Board of Mission First Housing Group in Philadelphia providing affordable housing to over 3000 residents • Chairman of the Board of Presby's Inspired Life in Philadelphia which operates 31 senior living facilities • Director Fort Mifflin on the Delaware • Naval Academy Information Officer • Trustee Naval Academy Foundation-Athletic and Scholarship Programs • Chairman of Service Academy Nominations Congressman Patrick Meehan • I have the opportunity to lease a home on the Severn River across from the Naval Academy from my Navy roommate John Morton and enjoy activities at the Naval Academy and playing golf with close Navy classmates in the Annapolis area. Awards, • 1967 North-South Football Game in Miami, Florida • Navy-Marine Corps Memorial All Stadium Team- Offensive line • Meritorious Unit Commendation-USS Barry DD-933 • Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal-Korea • Vietnam Service Medal • Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation Summary bio for Skip Dittmann Upon graduation, I had the opportunity to Coach the Plebe Football team and serve in the Physical Education Dept. with 6 of my classmates. It was then off to Treasure Island and Damage Control School before reporting to Frank Knox DD742 as MPA in SanDiego. After two West Pac cruises and 7 months off the coast of Vietnam , I saw the light and asked for a transfer to the Supply Corps and traveled to Athens, Georgia for 6 months of study thinking shore duty after graduation. It was not to be and off to Newport, RI to serve as Supply Officer on Barry DD-933. After two Med cruises I received orders to USNA as a Company Officer-A pork chop as a Company Officer ! not to be and spend the next two years at NAVSUPSYSCMD in Wash DC before resigning my regular Commission. Spent the next 22 years in the Reserves working in aviation supply and retired as a Captain in 1995.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Entering the civilian world worked for Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh for 5 years then headed East to work for Philadelphia National Bank which became Wachovia Bank and retired after 30 years as a SVP and Director Investments in the family office ,Calibre. Spend one year in retirement before taking an opportunity with a small RIA ,Girard Partners where I worked for 6 years before retiring in 2014. Married Beth in 1967 and have two married daughters and 3 granddaughters and have lived in the home city of the Army -Navy game, Philadelphia for the past 37 years. Active on several non-profit Boards, a Naval Academy Info Officer and a Trustee at the Naval Academy Athletic and Scholarship Foundation. Fortunate to lease a cottage on the Severn across from USNA from my roomy Mort and spend time on the golf course with fellow '67 duffers!

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4th Company John Dornstetter After graduation, I reported to the Naval Air Station near Detroit in order to kill time before reporting to flight school. That was the summer of riots in Detroit. Wow, that was an eye opening experience. In September, I took a road trip to Pensacola. A year later I got my wings of gold and orders to a COD squadron. Luckily, I was given the chance to refuse those orders and elect to be plow backed to be a T 34 instructor then go to a P3 Squadron. VP 6 based in Barbers Point. Newly married my wife joined me for the Okinawa deployment. One beautiful Sunday morning leaving from Cubi Point on a Vietnam flight we lost all four engines at 300 feet. A ditch followed in Subic Bay. 15 out of 16 made it to safety. We had the very good fortune to have a air/sea rescue helicopter overhead.

The war started to wind down and the airlines were hiring. Got to the LAX office of American Airlines and they sent me down to get a physical because an opening had just occurred.. Took the physical and was told that I would get a call in a week. Well, the first oil crisis occurred and the airline stopped hiring and started laying off. I needed a job! My first sales job was with Corning Class in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. I loved it $12,500 a year, company car, and an expense account. I had some great military customers and some new tech startups that were making printers and disc drives for the Silicon Valley. Selling discrete components lead to selling integrated circuits, microprocessors, board-level controllers to a wide array of fiber optic products. From Thousand Oaks we moved to Palo Alto in the Bay Area. Most of the time I was responsible for the Western Area or National sales teams. In 2001, I left an Internet company that I had co-founded to do another start-up in the photonic component world. We were promised $20 million by a partner in a Silicon Valley Venture firm. All we had to do was put on a presentation to his partners, so they knew were the money was going. So, we put together our show and tell and they scheduled us for 2PM on 9/11/2001. I needed a job! I ended back in Youngstown, Ohio, living with my brother and sister and searching for work. There was nothing. Then along came the Homeland Security TSA. I married a high school friend and moved to Tucson managing the morning shift. I retired in 2007 and bought a home in San Carlos, Mexico. I don't need a job!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Curtis R. Dose’ Service History 1962 – Joined USNR in high school, boot camp, signalman 3c 1963-67 USNA 1967-68 Navy flight training – Pensacola, Meridian, Kingsville – T-34, T-2A/ B/C, TF-9, AF-9 1968-69 Plowed back Advanced Jet Training Instructor VT-21 - TF-9, AF-9, TA-4J 1969 Transition to F-4J VF-121, NAS Miramar 1969-72 Replacement pilot VF-92, America and Constellation, 191 combat missions Vietnam, Top Gun graduate, MiG-21 kill 5/10/72 1972-73 USN Test Pilot School class 64, NATC Patuxent River 1973-76 Test pilot – Carrier Suitability Branch, NATC Patuxent River, XF-14 flight test 1976 Transition to fleet F-14A VF-124, NAS Miramar 1976-79 Fighter pilot – VF-2, two cruises Enterprise 1979 Transfer to USNR 1988 Retired from USNR Principal Occupation (Life after USNA, with detours as applicable): Instructor Pilot, Fighter Pilot, Test Pilot, Fighter Pilot, Airline Pilot Flying Tiger Line DC-8, B747 Federal Express B747, DC-10, MD-11 Captain Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: MiG-21 Kill over Kep Airfield NVN in 2v7 dogfight 5/10/72. Initial carrier suitability test pilot for the new F-14A, Member Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Elected to Golden Eagles Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren 1974 Married Anita Camille Pharr (“Camille”) 1976 Kendra Dose’ born, graduated USC, now married with eight children 1979 Kara Dose’ born, graduated Stanford, now married with two children How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Great so far. Trekked to Mt. Everest base camp 17,500 ft. and Kala Patar 18,500 ft., Biked Camino de Santiago 600 mi., Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro 19,500 ft., Hiked Inca Trail 14,000 ft., Walked Camino de Santiago 100 mi., Climbed Mt. Whitney 14,500 ft. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe summer when we lined up by height, then the crew coach told the tallest 16 and shortest two to report to the boathouse. Rowed crew four years instead of p-rades. Humorous Memories of USNA: Constructing the famous 3rd Company football posters in the hallway, and hanging them between the 1st and 3rd wings of Bancroft Hall. Awards Received Silver Star, 13 Air medals, 3 NCM with combat V, PUC, NUC, elected to Golden Eagles The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors Academic Achievement Graduate Top Gun, Graduate Test Pilot School – “Outstanding Student” Athletic Varsity Crew Service/USNA Awards Silver Star, 13 Air medals, 3 NCM with combat V, PUC, NUC Uniform Breast Insignia Aviator Wings

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4th Company Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” I was a Navy Junior with a distinguished Naval Aviator, Carrier Skipper father – Thought I knew the Navy deal and almost demerited out before I squared away. I had planned on submarines, but ended up sold on Navy Air. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations I received great academic, military and character training at USNA that have been everything I needed in life, including my Navy career, Test Pilot School, and three patents. Summary bio for Curt Dose Born in Jacksonville, FL, Curt grew up as a Navy junior, crossing the country 11 times as his famous fighter pilot father switched between squadron and ship commands. With strong confidence that he already knew how the Navy worked, Curt barely made it through Plebe year. But he finally realized that his attitude needed adjusting and he shaped up, rowing crew and spending his upper class years on the honor roll. After USNA graduation, Curt in July 1967 to Pensacola for Navy flight training. He advanced quickly in the jet pipeline, and got his wings in a year. He unsuccessfully fought being plowed back as an instructor in VT-21 flying F-9F Cougars. Curt was sure that he would be the only LT(JG) in the Navy without Vietnam experience, but the war waited for him, and the experience of instructing was invaluable. His squadron was the first to get the new TA-4J and Curt was one of the first instructors to fly it. After his plowback year, Curt finally reported to VF-121 for F-4 Phantom II training. He completed his F-4 transition in three months, then joined VF-92 as a replacement pilot, on USS America CVA-66 off the coast of Vietnam in Sep 1970. The war had waited for him, and he finished that cruise with 29 combat flights. VF-92 deployed next in Sep 1971 on USS Constellation CVA-64 and CAG-9 for the most intense air wing combat in the Vietnam War. Curt flew 192 combat missions, mostly into North Vietnam, including a MiG-21 kill over NVN Kep Airfield on 10 May 1972, the first of 11 MiG kills that day. Curt was awarded the Silver Star, 13 Air Medals, and two NCMs.

Curt reported to NATC Patuxent River Oct 1972. He completed his 9-mos Test Pilot School as “Most Outstanding Student”. He was assigned to the Carrier Suitability branch where he flew virtually all of the Navy aircraft, and most aboard carriers. He was one of the first Navy pilots to fly the new F-14A Tomcat, and did most of the carrier suitability development and testing on the new fighter. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. He married Camille Pharr in 1974, with swords, in Memphis. In Aug 1976 Curt reported to VF-124 at Miramar. The next month, their first child, daughter Kendra Anne Dose was born. After five months of RAG polishing, Curt reported to the VF-2 Silverkings for the second and third F-14A cruises on Enterprise CVA-65. He developed innovative tactics for the new fighter. Their second daughter Kara Lauren Dose was born in 1979. Curt left active duty as a Commander and joined and later retired from the Navy Reserves. Curt was elected in 1991 to the Golden Eagles, a rolling organization of the top 200 Naval Aviators. His father Robert Dose’ was already a member, making them the only father-son Golden Eagles, and the only father-son with enemy aircraft kills in combat. Curt flew DC-8 and B747 freighters for Flying Tiger Line from 1979 to 1988, when Flying Tigers was bought by FedEx. He flew the B747, DC-10 and MD-11 for FedEx, retiring as an MD-11 Captain in 2004 with over 21,000 flight hrs. Living in San Diego, Curt surfs, dives, and races his ’94 Dodge Viper and sand buggies. He has climbed Mt. Whitney, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Mt. Everest up to base camp. He’s hiked the Inca Trail and biked the 600-mile Camino de Santiago and the 500-mile RAGBRI across Iowa. He & Camille travel extensively, often with their children and their 10 grandchildren. He gets together with his area classmates every second Wed at the 94th Aero Squadron.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary James E. Dulin Service History 1963 – 67 USNA (4th Company) 1967 – 68 Aviation Training Command, Various locations, received pilot wings in late 68 1969 P3 Replacement Squadron, NAS Patuxent River, MD 1969 – 1972 VP-49, NAS Patuxent River, MD 1972 – 1975 Instructor Naval Engineering USNA, Annapolis, MD 1975 – 77 Antarctic Development Squadron (VXE-6), Point Mugu, CA 1977 – 79 Bureau Of Naval Personnel, Washington, DC 1980 – 81 VP-4, Barbers Point, HI 1981 – 82 Patrol Wing Two, Barbers Point, HI 1982 – 84 Commanding Officer VP-22, Barbers Point, HI 1984 – 87 Patrol Wing Two, Barbers Point, HI 1987 – 89 Department of Defense, Washington, DC 1989 – 1991 Commanding Officer NAS Adak, Adak, Alaska 1991 – 93 War Gamming Department Naval War College, Newport RI 1993 – 97 Chief of Staff Patrol Wings Pacific, Barbers Point, HI 1997 Retired from active duty as CAPT Principal Occupation I retired from the Navy in Washington DC and established a consulting business. Clients included small aviation companies located both in the United States and abroad. These companies needed someone to lead them through the Washington bureaucracy to get their product/ideas to the right governmental organization. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: As a Naval aviator I traveled to almost every corner of the world, including the unbelievable thrill of flying ski-equipped C130’s in Antarctica. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: I was married to my first wife, Linda, for 38 years. Sadly, my wife died in 2005. Linda and I were blessed with two sons. Both graduated from the University of Tennessee and now live and work in east Tennessee. They have produced three wonderful grandsons. Destiny stepped forward and reunited me with a girl I knew from a chance encounter back in 1966. While on first class cruise in Cannes, France, we met. We had not seen each other in over forty years but through internet detective work, we were able to reunite in 2006 and in 2008 we married. My new wife, Virginia has two sons from a previous marriage and four grandchildren. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired life has been great. I retired from my consulting business in late 2007 and moved to the Chicago suburbs where my wife had her home and business. I play a lot of golf and my wife and I have traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Plebe year – A come-around to Dick Emerson, torpedo runs, snowflake drills, greyhound races, shoving out. How did we make it through it or at least how did I make it through it. • Army/Navy football games. • President Kennedy’s assassination. • Who has the “gouge” • “Tea Fights” - how can so many plebes fit into one head. • June Weeks • Graduation

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4th Company Humorous Memories of USNA: • When I was a plebe, one of the first class in my company kept a pet hamster in his room. He would rig it with a parachute and drop it out his fourth deck window. To play this game you had to race from his room down four decks, get outside, and catch the hamster still in descent. If successful, he would “spoon” you. Although no one was ever successful, the hamster still met his demise when a third floor resident got over zealous and wacked the poor critter with a Lacrosse racquet. • Math professor Milkman would get inventive and use the walls and windows to finish math proofs/problems. • Rigging the twin cannons guarding Bancroft, with white powder and firing them during noon meal formation. The White Coated Brigade staff wasn’t amused. • Seeing the aftermath of a second classman’s room after being Ajax bombed by an unknown perpetrator. Awards Received Academic Achievement Masters Degree in Personnel Management – George Washington University Athletic None Service/USNA Awards Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit Medal (2) Meritorious Service Medal (2) Uniform Breast Insignia Aviator Wings Joint Service Badge Sea Command Insignia Shore Command Insignia Please Answer Two Questions: 1. Since as far back as I can remember I wanted to fly airplanes. As a very young boy I would attach playing cards to my bike to make it sound like an airplane and “fly” around the neighborhood; on many weekends my dad would take me out to the airport and for hours we would watch airplanes takeoff and land. As a teenager I must have watched the TV show Men of Annapolis every week – I was hooked on the Naval Academy. After graduating high school I attended a small military junior college for two years to improve my academic credentials and gained entrance to USNA through a Presidential appointment. After graduation I followed an aviation career for thirty years – I had reached my goals. 2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely.

It took awhile after graduation to realize just exactly what it meant to graduate from a school as prestigious as the United States Naval Academy. The academy set me on the path to achieve my goal to become a naval aviator. These credentials not only opened doors throughout my naval career but in my career after I retired. Final Yearbook write-up for Jim Dulin Upon graduation, I married Linda and headed to aviation training. After completing flight training, I reported to VP 49 home ported in Patuxent River, MD for a three-year tour. The next 3 years were spent as an engineering instructor at USNA. At the end of the Academy tour I was ordered to the Antarctic squadron, VXE-6, home ported in Point Mugu, CA. Flying ski-equipped C-130’s in Antarctica during two deployments was a thrill beyond belief. I served the next 2 years as a Detailer with BUPERS in DC. The next 7 1/2 years were spent in Hawaii with tours in VP-4, Pat Wing Two, CO of VP22, and back again to Wing Two as the Operations Officer. Living on the beach in Hawaii was not hard to take. In 1987 I was ordered back to DC to serve in DoD as the Director, Manpower Requirements. In 1989 I assumed command of NAS Adak, Alaska. Despite Adak’s remote location, it proved to be a great tour for my family and me. After Adak, I spent the next year and a half serving as Deputy Director, War Gamming Department at the Naval War College. In 1993 I was ordered back to Barbers Point as the Chief of Staff, Patrol Wings Pacific. I retired in 1997 and returned to the DC area where I established a consulting business. Linda and I were blessed with two sons who provided us with three grandsons. Sadly, Linda died of cancer in 2005. In 2007 destiny stepped forward and reunited me with a girl I’d met while on my first class cruise in France in 1966. Virginia and I were married in 2008 and now live in Lake Forest, IL. She has two sons from a previous marriage and four grandchildren.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Karl Eysenbach

Service History Flight Training – Wings October ‘68 Plowback to VT-1 as instructor to 1970 VP-24 – Pax River to 1973 VX-1 - Pax River to 1975 Maritime Air Wing Staff – Halifax, NS – to 1978 VP-10 – Brunswick to 1980 Navair – Crystal City to 1987 1987 Retired from Naval Service as CDR Principal Occupation Environmental cleanup system management Computer Programmer Professional Licensing Examination Company Medical Credentialing Company Construction Project Management Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Married since 1969 to Lin with 3 sons and 4 granddaughters. Two sons, Scott and Todd are USNA graduates (’97 and ’03) and the third, Drew, has his degree from Penn State. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retirement doesn’t have enough hours in the day or days in the week. I began raising orchids in 1974 and still grow them. We live on a small farm with a small herd of Angus cattle, we sell calves and enjoy being at home. Jewell is a five year old Friesian driving mare who is a sweetheart. We have a small tennis club where we play and we like to bike ride. Golf and fly fishing are always on the agenda. We have never felt the need to travel as we live in a beautiful part of Pennsylvania. Some of our neighbors are Amish and we have as many Amish friends as English. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Noon meal formation firing of the “Virgin Guns”. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement MS in Systems Management Athletic All conference/American on the 150# football team. 162

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4th Company High school athletic hall of fame. Service/USNA Awards Uniform Breast Insignia Naval Aviator Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations Summary bio for Karl Eysenbach After leaving the Navy in ’87, Lin, Scott, Todd, Drew and I became “farmers” of sorts. We live in the center of PA on a small farm that we bought in ’75 with all that “extra” money we had as a lieutenant. We chose where we wanted to live and then looked for work to support it. That is not really a recommended plan. A number of varied jobs: environmental cleanup consulting, professional licensing examinations, medical credentialing and even construction project management made it all work. We keep a dozen Angus cows and sell the calves once a year. Jewell is our Friesian mare that we drive in a buggy. We used to bring in hay ourselves when our boys were around to help but now we have a neighbor do it. I do enjoy golf, tennis, biking and fly-fishing, which are a lot more fun than haying. We have fruit trees but the frequent weird weather of late makes the crops rather sporadic. We also keep some honeybees. We have been growing orchids since 1974. They live outside during the summer and in a small greenhouse off of the kitchen in the winter. Lin and I still enjoy playing bridge once in a while. We have a community indoor/outdoor tennis club about 20 minutes away and some nice biking routes. Our town is quite small; they recently put in a stoplight. When I went to the local farm auction, I realized that I have as many Amish friends as English. I am on the Township Planning Board and a Township Supervisor. We are coming into the 21st century by starting to have septic regulations and other state-mandated statues. I'm still wearing white wool socks, so not much has changed. We all have trials and tribulations and “To Do Lists” but I have no complaints except that there should be more hours in the day…... I often think of times gone by and friends that I haven't seen in a long time but know that they still belong in the "friends" column.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Joseph D. Gorman Service History 1963 – 67 USNA (4th Company) 1967 – 69 USS HARWOOD (DD861), Damage Control Assistant 1969 Naval Inshore Operations Training Center (NIOTC) (InCountry RVN training) 1969 – 70 Strike Assault Boat Division 201, RVN, Division Commander 1971 – 73 Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA, received MSEE 1974 – 76 USS PREBLE (DDG46), Chief Engineer 1976 – 77 Nuclear Power School and Prototype 1977 – 80 USS NIMITZ (CVN68) Reactor Controls Assistant 1980 – 82 Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board, CINCLANTFLT Staff 1982 – 85 USS ENTERPTISE (CVN65), Reactor Officer 1986 – 88 USS CLAUDE V. RICKETS (DDG5), Commanding Officer 1988 – 91 Naval Sea Systems Command, Fleet Modernization Program Coordinator for Surface Ships, and Chief of Staff for the Deputy Commander for Surface Ships 1991 Retired with rank of Captain Principal Occupation After retirement in 1991, I moved back into a house I have on the beach at Virginia Beach and took off a year to learn to windsurf. I didn’t even write a resume until it got too cold to windsurf. In 1993 I went to work for the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory as Manager Surface Ship Power Plant Engineering. Bettis supports the navy’s nuclear power program. I remained there until my second retirement in 2008. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Now that I have figured out how to enjoy retirement, I don’t know how I ever found time to go to work all those years. I have spent time visiting relatives and friends, painting and patching around my house and relatives’ houses, plus catching up on projects that I let go for 40+ years. A friend has a farm and he lets me help plant and harvest corn and oats. He has some really nice toys – a 23,000 lb. tractor with air conditioning and stereo speakers. No getting sunburned or slapping bugs here. I never thought farming would be fun, but it is. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Sitting in math class in November 1963 when a USMC major came in to announce that the President of the United States had been assassinated • Winning plebe year Army – Navy Game. • Graduation day. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement MSEE from Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

Athletic (All American, Touchdown Club, Blue Gray Game, North-South Game, etc.) None Service/USNA Awards Legion of Merit Bronze Star (w/combat V) Meritorious Service Medal Navy Commendation Medal (w/combat V) (two awards) Navy Achievement Medal (w/combat V) (two awards) Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry (foreign award) Various Campaign ribbons 164

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4th Company Uniform Breast Insignia Surface Warfare Device Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) None Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” My real father was killed at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, and my step-father was a Navy Doctor. Somehow the armed forces seemed like the right thing for me. I thought the Naval Academy was a good place to get started. (The fact that my family’s home address was 31 Upshur Road I am sure had some influence.) Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations. Yes. It gets you off to a good start. Additionally, running into classmates through the years has often helped get business done as well. Summary Yearbook write-up for Dan Gorman After graduation, I joined the USS HARWOOD (DD861) and shortly deployed to the Western Pacific. During HARWOOD’s second day off the Vietnamese DMZ we took a 6-inch round to the after gun mount. NVA making sure we were paying attention. The rest of the deployment was less exciting. After returning from this deployment I received orders to an “in-country” RVN tour as Commander, Strike Assault Boat Division 201 where we worked along the Cambodian border, supported the RVN SEAL units in Cambodia, and finally supported the Vietnamese around Dong Tam. Then to shore duty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. There I received an MSEE, spent the winter weekends skiing at Heavenly Valley, and summer weekends at Yosemite National Park and Carmel. A good fun tour.

Back to sea in Pearl Harbor as Chief Engineer on the USS PREBLE (DDG46). Following training at Nuclear Power School and Prototype I served tours on USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) and USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65). My final sea tour was a Commanding Officer USS CLAUDE V. RICKETS (DDG5). My final Navy assignment was at Naval Sea Systems Command as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Commander for Surface Ships. I retired from the Navy in 1991, took a year off to learn to windsurf, and went to work at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory as Manager Surface Ship Power Plant Engineering. I retired from Bettis in 2008 and I am enjoying catching up on all the things I let go for the last 40+ years.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary John T. Hart Service History : 1963-67 USNA - 4TH Company 1967-68 The Basic School, Quantico, VA 1968-69 Naval Aviation Training Command, Pensacola, FL. Received wings 05/69 1969-70 Fleet Intro Training, H46, New River, NC 1970-71 Vietnam, H46 Medevac Pilot HMM262 1971-75 HMX-1, Quantico, VA. Designated in multiple TMS while supporting the Presidential executive mission 1975-76 Communication Officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School, Quantico, VA 1976-77 1st MAW, Okinawa, Japan. Flew H53s with HMH squadron 1977-80 Flight Instructor, VT-2 Whiting Field, Milton, FL 1980-81 Air Command and Staff College, Montgomery, AL 1981-84 Naval Air Systems Command, Crystal City, VA supported V22 program procurement 1984-88 1st MAW, MAG 36 Okinawa, Japan CO MABS36 1988-93 Naval Aviation Depot, Cherry Point, NC. Director of Product Support. 1993 Retired as Lt. COL August, 1993 Principal Occupation : JWK International, Havelock, NC as the Operations Manager and Senior Logistics Engineer supporting Logistics and Engineering contracts at the Naval Aviation Depot, Cherry Point, NC Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events:

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Karen and I married January 1970 prior to my departure for Vietnam. Our sons were born during my HMX1 stint. John is with HP in Herndon, VA. David is a CAPT (sel), USN currently stationed at Bath, ME supporting the DDG program. John has three children and David has two. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? John thoroughly enjoyed the seven years of retirement in Morehead City, NC. He loved boating, fishing and wood carving. He completed the restoration of a 1971 Corvette convertible (memories of flight school) prior to his death in October of 2001. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: The many friendships that developed during the four years.

Humorous Memories of USNA: Having your retired Marine father living in Annapolis Awards Received: Academic Achievement Athletic None Service/USNA Awards Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal (47), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Uniform Breast Insignia Naval Aviator Wings Presidential Service Badge Please Answer Two Questions: 1. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father was a 1925 graduate of USNA who became a Marine Corps General retiring in Annapolis, MD in 1955. He was an aviator who impressed his son with tales of the early days of Marine Corps aviation. In retrospect I think John wanted to follow his Dad to the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps. He never specifically told me this.

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4th Company 2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely. John said more than once that the engineering degree he received from the USNA was all he ever needed to complete any job he was asked to do. Summary Yearbook write-up for John Hart After USNA graduation, I headed to Quantico, VA for The Basic School and then on to Pensacola to become an aviator. Vietnam was the first duty to test those new “wings” but the tour was cut short due to my father’s death. The next four years were spent at Quantico in HMX-1 and then on to Communication Officer’s School. After an unaccompanied tour in Okinawa and four years in the training command I was back in school in Montgomery, AL for Air Command and Staff College. A three-year tour at NAVAIR on the V-22 program was followed by a four year accompanied tour in Okinawa. My last tour in the Marine Corps was spent at Cherry Point, NC as CO of the Naval Aviation Depot. After retiring I was offered a civilian job as a Senior Logistics Engineer at JWK International in Havelock, NC supporting NAVAIR logistics and engineering contracts. This fit my future plans of remaining in the Cherry Point area. The following seven years were spent working at JWK and enjoying semi retirement while boating, fishing and woodcarving on the weekends. JT completed the restoration of a 1971 Corvette convertible (memories of flight school) prior to his death in October of 2001. Karen and I were married in January 1970 prior to my departure for Vietnam. We have two sons and five grandchildren. Our sons are now men JT would have been very proud of. He never met his grandchildren but they all know who JT was. After retirement in 2012 Karen moved from Morehead City, NC to Williamsburg, VA.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary James H Johnson Service History Principal Occupation International ship transfer training. Database manager. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Harbor defense at Vung Tau, RVN was interesting. Especially enjoyed putting the VN language school training to good use. Travel to East Africa; Egypt; Jordan; Europe; Taiwan. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Married Barbara day after graduation. Married at St Andrews Chapel by USNA Catholic chaplain. Celebrated our 40th in Paris, and our 48th on 8 June 2015. Three married children live in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Pensacola. Two granddaughters here in Pensacola. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired. Read a good bit of history and literature. Barb & I enjoy baseball. Catch preseason ball most years in central Florida. Trying to see as many major league parks as we can. Especially enjoy time with our granddaughters. Sunday lector at local parish church.

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Enjoyed Spanish club and elective courses. Loved using the language after grad. Enjoyed elective literature courses and field trips. Met John Barth at Johns Hopkins. Saw plays in DC/Baltimore area. Humorous Memories of USNA: Excellent access to the ladies. The USNA food was pretty good. Awards Received Academic Achievement (Fulbright, Rhodes, Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, Olmstead, Burke Scholarships or Trident Scholar, Church Scholar, etc. along with highest degree earned and major)

Athletic (All American, Touchdown Club, Blue Gray Game, North-South Game, etc.) Service/USNA Awards (Congressional Medal of Freedom, Distinguished Graduate, Silver/Bronze Star, etc.) Uniform Breast Insignia (Aviator Wings, Surface Warfare Device, Navy Seal Badge, Submariner Dolphins, etc.) Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? and Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations?. Summary bio for Jim Johnson Graduation led to a minesweeper tour in Charleston, followed by the Surface Warfare course in Newport and duty in a Gearing-class destroyer. I then served in Vietnam as senior advisor to the harbor defense unit at the port of Vung Tau. During assignment at Ft Meade I worked intelligence issues of target navies. This led to intelligence collection and analysis work at Adak in the Aleutian Islands. There, friends and I climbed Mt Moffett but still, we could not see Russia. The annual NATO maritime exercises highlighted a tour with the Commander Second Fleet intelligence staff. Postexercise analysis followed at the British Fleet HQ, Northwood. I was then assigned to pre-com on the carrier Carl Vinson, and completed the around the world cruise to California. Final tours were at Pearl Harbor, and with the Navy Education and Training Command here in Pensacola.

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4th Company After retirement in ’89, I worked under contact with the navy’s office managing training of international students. This involved training sailors to operate and maintain ships being transferred to their navies. Barbara and I were married the day after graduation in St Andrew’s Chapel. Chaplain Jake Laboon and Barbara’s pastor near Ft Meade performed the ceremony. We have three married children, living in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Pensacola. Our two granddaughters are here in Pensacola. We enjoy travel. In East Africa, we saw the game parks and the nearby island of Zanzibar. Later, we visited Egypt from Alexandria to the antiquities of southern Lake Nasser. In Jordan we enjoyed Amman, the Dead Sea area, and Petra. We toured Lisbon, on a work-pleasure trip, and spent a week in Paris for our fortieth. Barbs and I enjoy baseball, and most years we catch preseason ball in central Florida. We most recently saw the Red Sox at home in Fenway Park, and hope to catch as many major league parks as we can in the years to come.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary John Lasswell Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (3rd and 4th Company) 1967 – 68: Immediate Graduate Education Program, USNPGS Monterrey CA, MS Math 1968 – 70: USS Chevalier (DD-805) MPA 1970—72: USS John King (DDG-3) Cheng 1972—75: USNA, Math Department, Instructor 1975—78: USS America (CVA-66), MPA 1978—80: CincLantFlt Propulsion Examining Board, Examiner 1980—82: USS Duluth (LPD-6), XO 1982—85: Naval Surface Force, Pacific, Engineering Readiness and Training 1985—87: USS Waddell (DDG-24), CO 1987: Retired from Naval service as CDR Principal Occupation Engineering, engineering and more engineering. Civilian life contractor EOSS program manager and CHENG of UCSD central utilities. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Relieved my brother as XO of USS Duluth

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Betsey and I married in 1970. Three generations of USNA grad admirals in her family. Swore she’d never marry a sailor. One daughter Beth, married a Zoomie, but doing alright with it. Two unbelievable grandchildren N8 and C8. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Golf, sorta…Bicycling, sorta…still trying to figure out what I’m going to do when I grow up. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: First night plebe summer, basement of third wing, on top of boiler room, sweating like a pig, feeling the love. One question English lit final..”trace the development of the concept of God in the bible” Being convinced by a ’65er that Batt Tennis was not my sport, I needed to go out for Boxing. Humorous Memories of USNA: Two dates arriving for the first dating weekend of plebe year. Awards Received Academic Achievement: MS, Applied Mathematics Athletic: Several years on the weak squad. Service Awards: Snipes don’t get awards.

Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Public answer: To continue a family tradition of military service, my father 30+ years in USMC, and my brother, USNA 63 graduate. Private answer: I had no idea what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go, what I wanted to study. I chose USNA because I figured I wouldn’t have to make a bunch of choices for a while.

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4th Company Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Turns out I was a Nerd before Nerds were cool. Academics met all my expectations and then some. The rest served me well, though I didn’t realize it at the time. Summary bio for John Lasswell I was never a ladies’ man, but somehow I wound up with two dates for the first dating weekend of Plebe year. After a delightful encounter at the front door of the drag house, one of them ripped my picture into a million pieces and tossed my high school pin into the Severn River. That woman tis now my wife, Betsey, going on 45 years. Remember the Immediate Graduate Education Program (IGEP), a failed attempt to accelerate the post-graduate learning process and… enhance the resistance of the human liver to alcohol. I survived, with my name on the honor roll of “Five Aces” in the O Club bar. Letter to my first CO...”am looking forward to reporting aboard. I’d be pleased to be assigned to any department except engineering.” Five Navy and two civilian engineering assignments later, God is still laughing. Even CO and XO tours were carefully planned by the detailers to include major shipyard overhauls. Once a snipe, always a snipe! Civilian life was similar to military life, except you couldn’t yell at anybody. More engineering jobs, which were sometimes kind of fun. Not sure what I’ll do next. Mozart knew early what his calling was, but it’s a sobering thought that when he was my age, he’d have been dead for 35 years. Quote my darling daughter at CO change of command….”Don’t crash, Daddy”. I didn’t crash then, but I stumbled a lot. I am still working on that sage advice.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Robert L. Lowell, Jr. Service History 1967 - 1984: Various U.S. Navy assignments including 4 other Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines (SSBNs) (PATRICK HENRY, DANIEL BOONE, JAMES MONROE, HENRY L. STIMSON) and 2 Diesel-Electric submarines (CUBERA, TRUMPETFISH) with a variety assignments …conducting 3 nuclear reactor refueling overhauls, 15 FBM strategic deterrent patrols, and a Mediterranean Sea deployment. 1969 – 1973: Attended Case Western Reserve University under the Burke Scholarship Program to complete a MS and Ph.D. course of study in the field of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. 1984 – 12/1988: Commanding Officer, USS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (SSBN 640), Charleston, SC. Directed 150-300 man crew in full spectrum of in-service Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine operations – from a 30-month shipyard nuclear refueling overhaul to two 3-month strategic deterrent patrols. 1987: Selected as a Defense Acquisition Professional. 12/1988 – 1/1990: Director, Ship Silencing Office (SEA 55N), Arlington, VA. Directed $46M multi-disciplined, state-of-the-art acoustic quieting R&D/T&E program for 22 ship classes in detailed design, 7 in contract design, and 16 in feasibility studies and preliminary design. Project Manager for 6 international information exchange agreements 6/1990 -3/1992: Program Manager, AN/BSY-1 Submarine Combat System (PMO 407), Arlington, VA. Managed $106M annual budget, a staff of 8 military/21 civilians, and program office support of 3 major naval field activities/2 service contractors in concurrent production, shipyard installation, final test and evaluation (T&E), fleet support, and system upgrades in 23 SSN 688I Class submarines. “Sunset” Program Office. 3/1992 – 11/92: Project Director, New Attack Submarine Combat System (PEO Sub-X, CENTURION), Arlington, VA. Managed initial design option development for early program Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analysis – encompassing all submarine non-propulsion electronics. 12/1992 -7/1997: Program Manager/Assistant Director for Maritime Systems, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arlington, VA. Directed strategic planning, budgeting, and day-to-day management of 7 high risk/high payoff diverse technology programs with 24 industry contractors, 10 academic/government laboratories, and an annual budget of $24M. Programs included Ship’s Systems Automation (sensors, wireless communications, data fusion, information management/presentation, human-software collaboration), Acoustic/Non-Acoustic Active/Passive Submarine Signature Reduction (hydrodynamic-wake-stimulated observables, IR, visual, radar cross section) and Management (prediction/modeling of submarine/surface ship detectability relative to a dynamically evolving tactical scene, decision aids to optimize undetected transit through this scene), and Shipboard Damage Control (halon alternatives, sensors for incipient fire detection). Single point of contact at DARPA for all submarine-related Research and Development (R&D). 7/1997: Retired from USN as a Captain with 30 years of active service. Started second career at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, CT. Principal Occupation 1997 - 2013: Staff Engineer, Program Development, General Dynamics Electric Boat Corporation (GDEB), Groton, CT. Seeks out innovative technologies for infusion in submarine platforms to enhance capability and drive down cost, partnering with non-traditional industry, government, and academic institutions. Develops future submarine visions as GDEB representative on multi-company consortia: • On the DARPA/Navy Payloads and Sensors Program (Team 2020), led 18-month advanced (2020) submarine concepts studies; • On the Missile Defense National Team (System Engineering and Integration Team) (MDNTS), led 6-month “Seabased Midcourse Ballistic Missile Intercept” study; • Teamed with an aerospace company, drove a DARPA-sponsored “Submarine Launched and Recovered Multipurpose UAV” (“Cormorant”) concept development; • Supporting MDNTS, led a “Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI)-Submarine Integration Roadmap Study”. “Outside-the-Firewall” Program Manager for the GD MDNTS team providing GD-wide staffing, administrative and coordination support. • Retired from GDEB December 2013.

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4th Company Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: Married the former Judy May Peterson shortly after graduation (11 June 1967)…has 5 children (Robert, Bradley, Jon, Kathrine, and Jodi) with 7 grandchildren as of this writing (and 2 more on the way). How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retirement has been spent in reading, staying fit (water aerobics, walking/hiking), traveling (ocean and river cruises, land touring) and visiting distributed family members…basically enjoying activities “too busy” to find time for while working full time. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Camaraderie of midshipmen life at all level of activity…academics, sports, inter-company and brigade level. Development of self-discipline and time-management habits. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement: Completed the following academic courses of study: • Research as a Trident Scholar at USNA (1967) • MS in Heat Transfer/Fluid Mechanics, Case Western Reserve University (Burke Program) (1969-1971) Ph.D. in Heat Transfer/Fluid Mechanics, Case Western Reserve University (Burke Program) (1971-1973) “The Executive Program”, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Virginia (1992) • Program Management Course, Defense Systems Management College (1/1990-6/1990) Naval Strategy and Policy Course, Naval War College, College of Continuing Education, Non-Resident Seminar Program (1989-1992) as well as the following service training courses: 9/67-4/68 Submarine Officer Basic School 10/73-11/74 Navy Nuclear Power Training 6/80-8/80 SWS Command Trident Backfit (C-4) 1/82-2/82 SWS Command Poseidon (C-3) 4/84-6/84 Naval Reactors PCO Course Athletic None Service/USNA Awards Uniform Breast Insignia: Submarine Dolphins

Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars): None Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” Primary reason for attending was to “follow in my father’s footsteps”. As a ’42 USNA graduate and role model as naval officer during my growing up, I saw a community that I learned to appreciate…the moves from one duty station to another, experiencing diverse cultures (especially foreign locations), making new friends, etc. Additionally, I sought a “free” education with the expectation that I would complete required obligated service and leave for some other profession. However, 30 years later with a mandatory USN retirement, I found myself continuing to be excited by the challenges of service.

As I had observed midshipmen life before admission, I hoped to acquire the self-discipline and organizational skills to do the right thing at the right time. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? All my goals/expectations were realized through graduation and beyond…except the ability to continue serving beyond the mandatory retirement age for O-6. Academically, operationally, socially, etc. I enjoyed the opportunities for work with other military (especially in the submarine service) and then with civilian defense acquisition professional as I moved to shore duty assignments.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Final Yearbook write-up for Bob Lowell Following graduation, I served on two diesel-electric submarine (CUBERA and TRUMPETFISH) to “Qualify in Submarines” before starting a four-year tenure at Case Western Reserve University to complete MS and PhD degrees under the Burke Scholarship program. After the requisite nuclear power training, I continued my submarine service on five Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines (PATRICK HENRY, DANIEL BOONE, JAMES MONROE, HENRY L. STIMSON, and BENJAMIN FRANKLIN)…highlighted by three nuclear reactor refueling overhauls, 15 FBM strategic deterrent patrols, an extended Mediterranean deployment, and command of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Selected as a Defense Acquisition Professional late in my command tour, I left operational assignments for the acquisition community ashore, first at the Naval Sea Systems Command – Director of the Ship Silencing Office, Program Manager of the Submarine Combat System (AN/BSY-1) and Project Director for the New Attack Submarine (CENTURION) Combat System – and then at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as Program Manager/Assistant Director for Maritime Systems. For my second career, I remained with submarines, working for 16 years as Staff Engineer at General Dynamics Electric Boat to integrate innovative technologies for enhanced submarine capability and acquisition cost reduction. I led a DARPA/Navy Payloads and Sensors Program (Team 2020) advanced (2020) submarine concepts study, a Missile Defense National Team (MDNTS) “Sea-based Midcourse Ballistic Missile Intercept” study, a DARPA-sponsored “Submarine Launched and Recovered Multipurpose UAV” (“Cormorant”) concept development, and a “Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI)-Submarine Integration Roadmap Study”. As “Outside-the-Firewall” Program Manager, I coordinated GD-wide MDNTS staffing and administrative support. Shortly after graduation, I married the former Judy May Peterson. We have 5 grown children and 7 grandchildren (with 2 more on the way). We use Groton, CT (where else?) – “The Submarine Capital of the World” - as our base for postretirement operations for ocean, river and land touring and family visits.

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4th Company Andrew T. Mihok Service History: 1963-1967: USNA (3d Company plebe year) (4th Company thereafter). 1967-1968: Naval Aviation Training Command, Pensacola, Meridian, MS, Kingsville, TX. Received wings November, 1968. 1969: Naval Justice School, Newport, RI. 1969: A-7 Replacement Air Training, VA-174, NAS Cecil Field, FL. 1969-1971: VA-37, NAS Cecil Field, FL., USS Saratoga, A-7A pilot. 1971-1972: VA-45, NAS Cecil Field, FL., A-4 pilot and instrument flight instructor. 1972: Separated from USN with rank of Lieutenant. Principal Occupation: After leaving USN, attended law school at Stetson University College of Law, St. Petersburg, FL. Graduated in January 1975. Hired as Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida in 1975. Worked as an AUSA from 1975 to 1978. In 1978, entered private law practice. Practiced law with a firm, then as a solo practitioner, from 1978 until 1995. In October 1995, was appointed as a Florida Circuit Court Judge, 9th Circuit, by Governor Lawton Chiles. Served in the felony, civil, juvenile, domestic, and probate divisions of the court. Re-elected 3 times without opposition. Due to age restrictions in the Florida Constitution, had to retire in December 2014. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Successful completion of day carrier qualifications in 1968 (T-2B, F9) and night carrier qualifications in 1969 (A-7); talking to Florida Governor Lawton Chiles about his appointing me as a circuit judge on a pay phone outside of Columbia University in New York City in 1995; presiding over one of the early Court TV cases with gavel to gavel coverage (State of Florida v. Aaron Campbell) with allegations of racial profiling by white Orange County deputies of a black Miami-Dade police major traveling on the Florida turnpike; presiding over two capital cases while on the circuit bench; seeing the Grand Canyon from my A-7 at low altitude while enroute to NAS Moffett. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: I met my wife, Loreen, in high school in 1962. We were married on June 1, 1968, at our hometown of Aliquippa, PA. We have one daughter, Lorena, who received her BA from Columbia University in New York; her MA and Ph.D from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is presently a professor of anthropology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. My wife, Loreen, was an elementary school teacher until her retirement in 2006. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time?: Still getting used to “retirement.” After being required to retire from the circuit court bench due to age restrictions, I had to find something meaningful to do. In April 2015, became certified as a Florida Circuit Civil Court Mediator. Presently working as a mediator with the firm of Mediate First in Orlando, FL. Loreen and I live in Winter Park, FL. We have been in Winter Park since 1975 and, at least for the near future, plan to stay. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Who can forget the plebe year come-arounds? The Kennedy assassination and the funeral where I had the privilege of performing outside the White House with the USNA Catholic Choir. Our beating Army (barely) during plebe year that got us “carry on” until Christmas leave. Getting Buzzy’s pizza just outside the USNA yard. The photo my wife and I have from the Class of ‘67 ring dance. Getting my first car, a 1967 Pontiac LeMans, during first class year. Service selection night and getting my first choice for Navy Air. Those Saturday mornings with four major classes before noon meal formation. Running the rocks of the seawall near Farragut Field. Meeting and working with the talented and professional men who are my classmates. I am still in awe of their accomplishments over the years. And, I am forever indebted to the wonderful roommates I had from plebe summer to graduation. Humorous Memories of USNA: The come-arounds in 8 pair of sweats; the greyhound races; the torpedo runs; and “carrier landings” on someone’s mattress. And, the evening my roommate and I took a study break by tossing rolls of toilet paper to each other in the passageway, only to be caught by the OOD. We were both placed on report and I lost a planned weekend in Pittsburgh with Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary my fiancé (now my wife). The mess hall hijinks such as the mayo “wild man.” Drinking a few beers behind St. John’s College. Awards Received: Named as “Central Florida Jurist of the Year for 2013” by the Central Florida Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.= Academic Achievement: Member of Law Review at Stetson College of Law; Juris Doctor (cum laude) January 1975. Athletic: N/A Service/USNA Awards: N/A Uniform Breast Insignia: Navy Wings of Gold, November 1968. Flag Pennant: N/A Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending"? I was inspired to military service and specifically aviation by my Father who served as a bombardier/navigator in Aleutian Island based B-25s during WWII. I knew that by attending USNA I would be challenged both mentally and physically---and I was not disappointed. The Academy experience was the logical beginning to a USN commission and naval flight training. I also knew that I would meet many talented individuals from around the country who would be my classmates and from whom I could learn a great deal about academics, military service, and life in general. Again, I was not disappointed. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Absolutely. I received a first rate education in matters military and academic. I was able to get my service selection to navy pilot training and after obtaining those “wings of gold,” I was assigned to my first choice of aircraft---the A-7. I made two deployments to the Med on USS Saratoga and transitioned to shore duty with VA-45 as an instrument flight instructor. Even after I left the Navy in 1972 to attend law school, the Academy experience and military service were instrumental to my selection as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1975 and my appointment in 1995 to the circuit court bench by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. Final Yearbook write-up for Tom Mihok After graduation I began naval air training. On 1 June 1968, between air-to-air gunnery and carrier qualifications, I married Loreen. I received my wings in November 1968 and attended the Naval Justice School for officers at Newport, RI. My next stop was the A-7 RAG, VA-174, at Cecil Field, and then on to my fleet assignment with VA-37. We made two Med deployments on USS Saratoga and I then rotated to shore duty as an instrument flight instructor at VA-45 where I flew A-4 Skyhawks. I left naval service in 1972 to attend law school at Stetson Law School in St. Petersburg, FL. After graduation I was very fortunate to be offered a position as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida in Orlando. My wife and I relocated to the Orlando area, specifically Winter Park, in 1975. Our daughter, Lorena, was born in 1975. She is now a professor of anthropology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. My wife Loreen was an elementary school teacher before we were married and continued that work until she retired in 2006. After working as an AUSA for 3 years, I entered private practice of law---first with a small firm, then as a solo practitioner. In October 1995, Governor Lawton Chiles appointed me as a circuit court judge for the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. I was re-elected to the circuit court bench three times without opposition. Due to age restrictions I retired in December 2014. I am now a circuit court civil mediator with the firm of Mediate First in Orlando. My experience at USNA and my subsequent naval service have served me well throughout my life. The academic education was superb. And, I learned much from my talented classmates and shipmates.

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4th Company Donald D. Mondul Service History USS Ware (DD-865) 1967 - 1969 1st LT (Div Ofcr) & Navigator Vietnam & Middle East USS Askari (ARL-30) 1969 - 1970 1st LT (Dept Head) In-Country Vietnam - Mekong Delta Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU) 1970 - 1971 Safety Officer - Polaris Missile Testing Patrick AFB, Cape Kennedy USS Savannah (AOR-4) 1971 - 1974 Operations Officer Mediterranean Vietnam Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, IL 1974 - 1977 Communications Officer Plans Officer US Naval Reserve 1977-1987 Retired as CDR, USNR-R Principal Occupation Patent Attorney Square D Company Palatine, IL Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Chicago Foley & Lardner, Partner Chicago & Milwaukee IBM, Senior Patent Attorney Fishkill, NY Ericsson USA, General Patent Counsel Research Triangle Park, NC, & Richardson, TX Private Solo Practice Dallas, TX Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • MBA, Roosevelt University, Chicago 1976 • JD, John Marshall Law School, Chicago 1979 Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren • Wife: Anna Marie Towle-Mondul • Two Daughters (previous Marriage): Alison & Ashley (Granddaughter Anna) • One Stepson: Ryan How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? • Carrying on with Montana rural lifestyle... • Felling Trees • Cutting & Splitting Firewood • Plowing Snow • Hiking, Fishing (but not enough catching), Golf

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Active with Lions Club Active with USNA Blue & Gold Officer (BGO) Program

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: A vivid and lasting memory is of that very first morning when the reveille bell just outside our room started ringing at 0615 and seemed never to stop. No one had told me to expect that. Humorous Memories of USNA: None that bear repeating in writing. Awards Received Academic Achievement Athletic Service/USNA Awards Uniform Breast Insignia Surface Warfare Device Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions:. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” I had wanted to attend USNA since I was 11 years old. I expected to gain an excellent education and a maturing life experience... and that is just what I got. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My expectations were exceeded. My USNA education stood me in god stead as I ventured into patenting a wide variety of challenging technological innovations. Leadership principles instilled at USNA served me well in military, naval reserve, and civilian endeavors - both in employment and in community involvement. Final Yearbook write-up for Don Mondul: A native of Miami, he attended Hialeah High School prior to receiving his appointment via the Qualified Alternates and Competitors List. He tried his hand at gymnastics and intramural football, but did better at academics, majoring in physics. He resisted the Nukes' efforts at signing him up and went surface warfare, reporting first to the USS Ware (DD-865) to serve as 1st Lt and Navigator. A tour in-country Vietnam in the Mekong Delta aboard the USS Askari (ARL-30) followed as 1st Lt (a department head). He returned to the world to serve as a Flight Safety Officer for Polaris Missile tests at Cape Kennedy and Patrick AFB. A tour as Operations Officer aboard USS Savannah (AOR-4) followed and then shore duty at Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, IL, as Plans Officer. He left active duty in 1977 and served until 1987 in the Naval Reserve, retiring as a CDR, USNR-R. He completed studies toward an MBA degree and began studies toward a law degree while at Great Lakes, receiving his law degree in 1979. He practiced patent law at several corporations and law firms thereafter, including Square D Company, Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Foley & Lardner (partner), IBM and Ericsson USA (General Patent Counsel). He began his solo patent law practice n 1999 and continued that practice until his retirement in 2014. He was very fortunate to have married Anna Marie Towle of Chicago. He enjoys his stepson Ryan from that marriage and has two daughters from a previous marriage: Alison and Ashley.

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4th Company John Morton III Service History Admiral Rickover’s Nuclear Power Program, Submarine School, 1967-69 USS George Washington Carver (SSBN 656) 4 Patrols,1969-71 Retired from USN in 1971 as a Lieutenant Principal Occupation Executive Vice President, Maryland National Bank 1973-90 Chairman, CEO Perpetual Financial Corp (NYSE) 1990-91 CEO, Farm and Home Financial Corp (NASDAQ) 1992-93 Chairman, CEO Boatmens National Bank of St. Louis 1994-96 President, Private Bank, Nations bank 1996-97 President, MidAtlantic Region, Bank of America 1997-2001 President, Premier (Mass Affluent) Banking Group, Bank of America 20022005 Community Service: • Chairman, Variety Club the Children’s Charity of St Louis • Chairman, Greater Baltimore Committee • Chairman, 2012 Washington Baltimore Olympic Bid Committee • Executive Committee, Federal City Council, Washington DC • Trustee, University of Maryland College Park Foundation • Chairman, Maryland Legislative Task Force on Gaming Tables Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • Golf-Hole in One, #12 Augusta National Golf Course • Met Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba • Visited with wealthiest man in the world (Carlos Slim Helo) • Watched France from 1rst row, midfield seats, win the World Cup in Paris with my son • Attended the 1996 and 2000 Olympics with son and daughters • Round of golf with Tiger Woods as partner following his 1st Masters Trophy Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Spouse-Lisa married 48 years; Children-Caroline, Tiffany, Tilghman; Grandchildren-Willy, Bennett, Brice, Bowen. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Corporate Boards of Directors-numerous public and private; Chairman (Ret.), Maryland Stadium Authority; Commissioner, Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission; Director, US Naval Institute; Trustee, Athletic & Scholarship Program, US Naval Academy Foundation Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received

Academic Achievement MBA-Harvard University 1973 Athletic Service/USNA Awards Uniform Breast Insignia Submariner Dolphins- 1970 Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars)

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” and Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Final Yearbook write-up for John Morton Attending the Naval Academy was a lifelong dream beginning at my grandparents’ home, where I would visit for the summer and sleep on the outside porch overlooking the Academy. Thanks to Trustees of the Naval Academy Foundation a Prep School scholarship was offered. Today we continue to “give back” to the Foundation, Wyoming Seminary Prep students and visiting midshipmen what was so generously then made available to me. While there were no specific goals in mind, the Academy had a profound and defining impact even before July 1963 when we all walked through Gate 1. Beginning with building academic qualifications in high school, indelibly stamping duty, honor and country on my being while a midshipman and thereafter, navigating in life to a compass point of “Don’t Give Up the Ship”. Not fully appreciated at the time, one of the most important personal outcomes was the bonding of lifelong friendships with Classmates that continue to make our lives so much richer. June 10, 1967 was a watershed event of my time, when two high school sweethearts were married. Lisa and I then raised three wonderful children along with many dogs and now are joined by 4 grandsons. After 4 years and 4 SSBN tours, we embarked on life as civilians. Graduate school was followed by a career in banking that took us to Annapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and Baltimore. Retiring in 2004 we returned to Waveland Farm, the Annapolis property of my grandparents, where I divide time between family, philanthropic, community and corporate board of directors work. The goodness in our lives has far surpassed anything imaginable in the dreams of attending the Naval Academy by a ten-year-old boy looking across the Severn on a summer’s night.

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4th Company Basil E. Neal Service History 67-68 Flight Training 68-69 Flight Instructor VT-2 NAS Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. 69-73 Pilot, Asst. Admin Officer VP-6 NAS Barber's Point Hawaii 73-76 FASOTRAGRUPAC San Diego S3-A Fleet Introduction Program 76-78 Executive Officer Naval Facility Saint Nicholas Island, Ca. 78-78 TAD Naval Reserve Point Mugu, Ca. 78-81 VP-17 Barber's Point Hawaii Maintenance Officer 81-81 Fleet Maintenance/Logistics Officer CTF-72 Atsugi, Japan 81-83 Executive Officer/Commanding Officer VT-28 Corpus Christi, Texas 83-86 Commanding Officer Naval Recruiting District Columbus, Ohio 86 Retired (due course) as CDR Principal Occupation DynAir Tech of Arizona Director IT The Allen Technology Group Project Manager Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren 1 wife (48 years), 2 sons, 2 daughters-in-law (all 5 Arizona State University Graduates) 6 Grandkids How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Great, lots of travel, Blue and Gold Officer for USNA Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Graduation Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received CNO Aviation Safety Award for 25,00 hours accident free flying VT-28 (started at 0 hours shortly before my XO tour)

Academic Achievement Graduated! MBA Athletic Service/USNA Awards Air Medal, 2 Navy Achievement Medals, All the Vietnam Stuff Uniform Breast Insignia Naval Aviator's Wings, Command Ashore Pin Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? Wanted to fly, sir! Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Academy was only an interim goal and expectations were met during the service experience. Summary Yearbook write-up for Ed Neal First marriage, then Pensacola. Following flight training assigned to VT-2 as a T-28 flight instructor. FUN! Next, Patrol Squadron 6 at Barber's Point, Hawaii. An adventurous tour. Then three years in San Diego, with the S3-A aircraft. The Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary S3-A computer had 64K of memory! Proceeded to Pt. Mugu, CA. as XO of a Naval Facility on San Nicolas Island, CA. An awesome tour with all of the fish and abalone we could eat. Had a short deviation following this tour as my wife was diagnosed with cancer. Thanks to outstanding help from the Bureau and the Naval Hospital Long Beach she is currently a very long-term cancer survivor. Back to Barber's Point for Patrol Squadron 17. Ultimately became Maintenance Officer. A fantastic tour! Made Commander and was kicked out of the squadron so others could punch tickets for promotion. Next, CTF-72, Atsugi, Japan. A short 6-month tour as I got a command. I was offered 2 years in Japan followed by a 3year tour at a Patrol Squadron in Hawaii. I opted for an immediate transfer to Training Squadron-28 In Corpus, Christi, Texas. I became XO a month after a fatal accident. This issue made me determined to never lose anyone to an accident. At the end of CO tour the Squadron received the CNO Aviation Safety Award for 25,000 accident free flying hours. Finally to CO Naval Recruiting District Columbus, Ohio. Met Woody Hayes! I decided to leave a possible promotion and a probable couple of tours on the East Coast to bring my family to Arizona. A good decision. Following completion of a MBA, worked for a division of DynCorp then as a project manager for a software development company. Two great boys, Six awesome grandkids. Volunteer as a Blue and Gold Officer for USNA.

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4th Company K. William Neuman Service History: Following USNA graduation, I attended Guided Missile School at Mare Island, California in preparation for being assigned to the USS Mahan DLG-11 as the Missile Officer in charge of a nuclear capable missile system. The Mahan was then undergoing an overhaul in Long Beach, California. The following six-month period in the shipyard provided an opportunity to attend other Navy schools, including training in the disarming of damaged nuclear weapons and justice school for line officers. Following the completion of our shipyard repairs, the ship set sail to San Diego for a six-month stay while we went through sea trials and nuclear weapon recertification. Once completed, we set sail for Yokosuka, Japan, which would serve as our homeport when not in the PIRAZ Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, monitoring activities in North Vietnam. Our schedule was typically 30 days on station and then 30 days away with stops in Subic Bay for replenishments and repairs and occasionally an R&R trip to Hong Kong. After having been accepted to University of Michigan Law School and accepted into the Navy’s Law School Unpaid Leave of Absence Program, I departed the ship for Ann Arbor, Michigan in midAugust, 1969. I accelerated my studies and graduated in December, 1971. During my last semester in law school, I was granted the opportunity to go back on active duty as an instructor in the Navy ROTC. I stayed on as an instructor for two months after graduation while studying for the Ohio Bar exam. After taking the exam, I packed up my belongings and headed to Newport, Rhode Island, for the 12-week Navy JAGC Corps Justice School. While there I learned that I had passed the bar exam. Immediately thereafter, I reported to the ComOne Naval Law Center in Boston, where I initially served as a trial lawyer, then progressing to become a Special Court-martial Judge. While in Boston, I attended on a part-time basis, Boston University’s School of Management, receiving an MBA in May, 1975. When the Law Center was disestablished in the Spring of 1974, I was promoted to be the Staff Judge Advocate for the Commandant of the First Naval District, with supervisory authority of a multi-state area, including the Portsmouth Naval Prison and the Newport Naval Base. After being awarded the Navy Achievement and Navy Commendation Medals and after being selected for Lieutenant Commander, I left active duty in June 1976 and joined a large San Francisco law firm. I stayed in the Naval Reserves and after being promoted to Captain and serving as the commanding officer of my Naval Reserve JAGC Unit, I retired from the Naval Reserves in May 1995. While in the reserves, my unit did 2-week acdutras in a number of places, including Subic Bay, Washington DC and Treasure Island. Principal Occupation: Immediately after leaving active duty, I joined the large and prestigious law firm of Heller Ehrman LLP, becoming a shareholder in 1981. My practice has specialized in large commercial real estate transactions and real estate fund formation activities (including syndicated financings). In 1990 I became the managing partner for our San Francisco office. During my 32 years with the firm, the firm grew to 700 attorneys with offices in major US cities as well as London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore. Unfortunately, due to the 2008 financial collapse which affected a very large number of our clients (such as Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual), the firm which had been in existence for over 110 years, was forced by its lenders to dissolve. I immediately joined the law firm of Schiff Hardin LLP which was celebrating its 150th anniversary and has eight US offices, approximately 400 attorneys and no lenders.

Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: After starting law school following my return from Vietnam, I was fortunate enough to go on a blind date with Sharon Anderson, a UofM graduate student, who proved to be the one for me (and after considerable effort on my part, I was able to convince her that I was the one for her). She joined me in Boston where she commenced working as a research biochemist. We eloped in May 1973. With the Navy force reductions and being the Staff Judge Advocate for the Commandant, Sharon and I were able to obtain the Navy’s historical tickets to various professional sporting events, including football, baseball, hockey and basketball (where we sat adjacent to the Celtics’ wives). In August 2000, I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma behind my left eye and pressing on both the eye and the brain membrane. After chemo failed, I was treated at Stanford with radiation, experimental drugs and ultimately a stem cell transplant. I was fortunate to be part of the 40% that successfully survive the transplant procedure and to have Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary a supportive spouse and family throughout the long process. That experience has made me far more sympathetic of others with serious medical ailments and far more appreciative of each day I spend with our family members and friends. My legal practice has included representing the San Francisco Forty Niners with various matters during a portion of their past glory years, including going on the friends and family plane to one super bowl and attending a number of NFL pregame and team post-game super bowl victory parties. My wife and I have experienced our share of earthquakes, including my being on the 32nd floor of my firm’s office building during the big one in 1989. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: My wife, Sharon, grew up in Michigan and attended both undergraduate and graduate school at UofM. Our first child, Katie, was born in September 1975 and attended Dartmouth undergrad and obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She works in San Francisco doing public relations work for high-tech companies. Our son, Scott, was born in May 1978, and attended Stanford undergrad and Harvard Law School. He currently works as a corporate officer for a high-tech company in Washington DC and is married to Brenda Lee, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate who works for a large international law firm. In September 2015, they thrilled us with our first grandchild, Amelia Neuman. Our son, Chip, was born in April 1982 and attended University of California at Berkeley for undergrad and Brown University for a Master’s Degree in Hospital Administration. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for a large public hospital in Fresno California. In September 2016, he married Kristin DeAngelo and they have now blessed us with a grandson, Mason Neuman, We are thrilled to have two of our children living only a reasonable driving distance from us and to have a vacation home in Tahoe California where our children and their families can enjoy spending time. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time?: I have not “technically” retired, but during the last two years I have moved to a materially reduced work schedule as an outside business and legal consultant to a long -term fund formation client. My reduced schedule allows me to be able to spend more time with my wife, our children and our two grandchildren, travel more and more frequently enjoy our Tahoe vacation home. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Attending graduation as a culmination of four years’ of experiences. June Week events were always enjoyable as were attending the various sporting events at the Yard. One very sad but very vivid event was the day we received news of the assassination of President Kennedy. Humorous Memories of USNA: Being at a T-Fight and hearing the band play the Animals’ song “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” while all of my classmates enthusiastically joined in singing the lyrics to it. Being at Little Creek when the Drill Sargent would shout in a garbled voice marching commands which many of us could not understand and improperly and inconsistently followed. Being in a boxing ring and trading punches with my roommate. And last but now least, participating as a plebe in greyhound races. Awards Received: Academic Achievement: Juris Doctorate awarded with Honors from University of Michigan Law School and Masters’ of Business Administration awarded with Honors from Boston University School of Management. Athletic: None.

Service/USNA Awards: Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Navy Unit Commendation & National Defense Service Medal. Uniform Breast Insignia: None. Flag Pennant: None. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending”. I had always envisioned becoming a Naval Officer after graduation from college and had applied both for a Navy ROTC scholarship and to attend the Naval Academy. I was fortunate to receive both the ROTC scholarship and the appointment to the Naval Academy. When I received word of my academy appointment, I was thrilled and there was no question as to which avenue I would pursue to becoming a Naval Officer. In enrolling at the Academy, I expected to obtain an excellent education in math and engineering and to develop leadership skills suitable for service in the Navy. I also had an interest in attending law school while in the Navy and becoming a JAGC officer. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The Academy provided me with both an excellent academic education and the leadership training I had sought. Final Yearbook write-up: . After graduation, I served two years as the Missile Officer on a Guided Missile Frigate – one year being at PIRAZ Station off the coast of North Vietnam. After a leave of absence to attend University of Michigan Law School, I served as a Navy JAGC Officer in Boston for over five years. While stationed there, I obtained an MBA from Boston University. Upon leaving active duty in June 1776, I joined the San Francisco office of a large international law firm and have been practic184

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4th Company ing since then in the areas of large commercial real estate transactions and real estate fund formation activities. Staying in the Navy JAGC Corps Reserves, I was ultimately promoted to Captain and was the Commanding Officer of my reserve unit. While in Law School, I met my wife Sharon who was a graduate student in the Zoology Dept. at the University of Michigan. We have three wonderful adult children, and two precious grandchildren. In 2000-2001, I was treated for Non-Hodgkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lymphoma which traditional chemo failed to eradicate. I then received a stem cell transplant which has proven to have cured that cancer. I feel very fortunate and am very thankful that I have been able to continue to enjoy my time thereafter with my wife and our family!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Stephen Olson Service History 1963-64: USNA (3rd Company) 1964-67: USNA (4th Company) 1967-68: USS Shelton (DD-790), EMO/CIC Officer San Diego, California 1968-69: Destroyer School, Newport, Rhode Island 1969-70: USS John R. Craig (DD-885), Operations Officer, San Diego, California 1970-71: USS Flint, (AE-32) Chief Engineer pre=commissioning crew, Pascagoula, Mississippi 1971-72: USS Flint, (AE-32), Chief Engineer, Concord, California 1973-75: Naval Postgraduate School, Operations Research/ Systems Analysis, Monterey California 1975-76: Center for Naval Analyses, Analyst, Rosslyn, Virginia 1876-79: Pentagon, Special Projects Officer, Washington, DC 1979: left active duty, entered Naval Reserve as an Engineering Duty Officer (EDO) 1994: retired from USNR with rank of Captain Principal Occupation Systems engineer. Director of Studies and Analyses at Texas Instruments and also at Hughes Aircraft Company. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Brother John Olson, USMC and NAPS alum, was turned back while USNA class of 1968, resigned from the class of 1969 and returned to Hawaii. He operates the southernmost law practice in the United States, above Kealakekua Bay in Captain Cook Hawaii. He and I and his two lawyer sons still enjoy surfing his 4-man outrigger whenever I get home, once or twice a year, as depicted on the label of the Kona Brewing Company’s “Big Wave” beer, in honor of John. Wife Cynthia is from West Virginia and postgraduate from WVU in statistics. We met while working at Texas Instruments and we raised our two daughters together. Estranged oldest child, son Christopher, has two sons and lives in Arkansas, working for investment advisor firm Edward Jones. Two daughters, Julie and Erin, are both happily married and living in Maryland and Virginia, with five grandchildren. Oldest daughter Julie was married in the Naval Academy chapel to Shane Marchesi USNA ’98. CDR Shane Marchesi is now XO and slated to become CO of F-18E squadron, VFA-87, in fall of 2016. I am very much enjoying my retirement and have taken up golf, do a little fishing, and help my muleskinner friends take camping parties into the wilderness area and the Cranberry River. I am on the Board of Directors and the Secretary of the Cherry Hill Country Club in Richwood West Virginia. The course was founded in 1946 by a bunch of returning WWII vets, one of whom, a naval aviator, is still on the board. We operate on a very lean budget, but the course sits on top of a mountain with spectacular views, and I believe it is the best 9-hole golf course in West Virginia. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Getting spooned by Roger Staubach, to get us to leave him alone, during a “come-around” staged by his roommate. Travelling on space available planes all over the country with my brother as we tried to get home to Hawaii for Christmas. Awards Received “Jimmie Hamilton” award from the American Society of Naval Engineers for the best technical paper published in the ASNE Journal, 1978. Academic Achievement BS, USNA MS Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School MS Management Science, University of Texas at Dallas PhD (ABD), Information Technology, George Mason University Service/USNA Awards Navy Commendation Medal Navy Achievement Medal (2)

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4th Company Uniform Breast Insignia Surface Warfare Device Navy-Marine Corps jump wings Please Answer Two Questions: Why did I attend the Academy? My family moved to Hawaii around 1890 when my maternal great-grandfather brought his family from Germany to Kauai to work as a plantation overseer. My father was from Chippewa Falls Wisconsin and became a Naval Aviator before the start of World War II. He arrived in Hawaii in early 1942 as a PBY pilot, doing what I can only imagine was a very monotonous job, flying patrols out as far as he could, looking for the returning Japanese fleet. The son of a naval officer, I always had my heart set on the Navy as a career and I earned an appointment to USNA from Senator Dan Inouye. I was determined to make the navy my career but my wife at the time announced that, if I went to sea, she would not be around when I got back. I have remained close to the navy my entire professional career. Today, I pursue my Navy life vicariously through my daughter, the perfect Navy wife and mother, and companion of Shane, USNA ’98. Did it meet your expectations? The Naval Academy fulfilled all of my expectations and empowered me to be an effective officer, engineer and leader. Summary write up for Steve Olsen My family moved to Hawaii around 1890 when my maternal great-grandfather brought his family from Germany to Kauai to work on a pineapple plantation. My father was from Chippewa Falls Wisconsin and became a Naval Aviator before the start of World War II. He arrived in Hawaii in early 1942 as a PBY pilot, doing what I can only imagine was a very monotonous job, flying patrols out as far as he could, looking for the returning Japanese fleet. The son of a naval officer, I always had my heart set on the Navy as a career and I earned an appointment to USNA from Senator Dan Inouye. Brother John Olson, USMC and NAPS alum, was turned back while USNA class of 1968, resigned from the class of 1969 and returned to Hawaii. He operates the southernmost law practice in the United States, above Kealakekua Bay in Captain Cook Hawaii. He and I and his two lawyer sons still enjoy surfing his 4-man outrigger whenever I get home, once or twice a year, as depicted on the label of the Kona Brewing Company’s “Big Wave” beer, in honor of John. My fondest academy memories include getting spooned by Roger Staubach, to get us to leave him alone, during a “come-around” staged by his roommate, and multiple trips travelling on space available planes all over the country, with my brother, as we tried to get home to Hawaii for Christmas. Wife Cynthia is from West Virginia and postgraduate from WVU in statistics. We met while working at Texas Instruments and we raised our two daughters together. Julie and Erin are both happily married and living in Maryland and Virginia, with five grandchildren. Oldest daughter Julie was married in the Naval Academy chapel to Shane Marchesi USNA ’98. CDR Shane Marchesi is now XO and slated to become CO of F-18E squadron, VFA-87, in fall of 2016. I am very much enjoying my retirement and have taken up golf, do a little fishing, and help my muleskinner friends take camping parties into the wilderness area and the Cranberry River. I am on the Board of Directors and the Secretary of the Cherry Hill Country Club in Richwood West Virginia. The course was founded in 1946 by a bunch of returning WWII vets, one of whom, a naval aviator, is still on the board. We operate on a very lean budget, but the course sits on top of a mountain with spectacular views, and I believe it is the best 9-hole golf course in West Virginia. Today, I pursue my Navy life vicariously through my daughter, the perfect Navy wife and mother. The Naval Academy fulfilled all of my expectations and empowered me to be an effective officer, engineer and leader.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary David Palmer Service History (Emphasis on – dates, units, places): 1963-1967: USNA (4th Company) 1967-1968: Naval Aviation Training, FL, MS, TX. Designated Naval Aviator in Nov. 1968 1969: VF-124, F-8 Replacement Air Group, NAS Miramar, CA 1969-1970: VF-53, deployed to Vietnam aboard USS Bon Homme Richard 1970: VF121: F-4 Replacement Air Group, NAS Miramar, CA 1970-1972: VF-51, deployed to Vietnam aboard USS Coral Sea 1972-1973: Student Test Pilot, Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD 1973-1976: Naval Test Pilot, Naval Air Test Center 1976-1977: Staff, Commander Fighter/AEW Pacific 1977-1987: Transferred to Naval Reserve, VF-201, NAS Dallas TX, Squadron Commander 1988-1992: Supported Seventh Fleet Staff, deployed to Operation Desert Storm 1992 1992: Retired from USNR with rank of Captain Principal Occupation (Life after USNA, with detours as applicable): Concurrent with remaining in the Naval Reserve, in July of 1977 was hired as an experimental test pilot (along with classmate Jim McKinney) by General Dynamics Corp at the start of the F-16 developmental flight test pro-gram at Edwards AFB, CA. A few years later came back to Ft. Worth (the primary GD production site) as Chief Test Pilot for GD. Moved back to Edwards in 1984 to head the company test site operation. Returned a few years later to FW as a Director on the fledgling A-12 program (which was later cancelled). Left flight test to become “a suit” with the F-22 program, then the Naval version program derived from the F-22 and finally became Deputy Program Manager on JAST, which is known today as the F-35 multi-role fighter program (the successor to the F-16). Retired from GD (which had been bought by Lockheed Martin Corp in 1993) in 2000. A few years after retirement, I created a one-plane, one-pilot air charter operation which I operate to this day primarily operating in Texas and the surrounding states. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I can honestly say that during the eleven years that I was in flight test at GD, I never “worked” a single day—all fun, all the time. Not only the flight test part, but getting to demonstrate the F-16 around the world (Paris, Farnborough, Western Europe, North Africa, and of course, in the US) was like being Queen for a Day! It was a truly remarkable airplane and those years were the highlight of my life. Later on, I spent a lot of time in Western Europe, which I always enjoyed and even developed a contract with a Russian (gasp!) design bureau during the JAST program. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Betty and I had four daughters and drug them up the Navy way----all over the country. We lost her in 1994 to cancer. Shivaun and I were married in 1996 and have enjoyed the coming into the world of six great grandkids---3 boys,3 girls. All of the grandkids live within 20 miles of us in the Fort Worth, TX area, where I have been located since 1979. My four daughters managed to pick up their educations at TCU, North Texas U and Oklahoma U back in the nineties. Shivaun has developed a very successful multi-media women’s issues platform called www.plaidforwomen.com . How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? After working for large organizations (the Navy and General Dynamics) for thirty-three years, I was completely blown away by the enjoyment of being self-employed! Of course, since my job involves flying, it was a cinch that it was going to be nothing but fun anyhow, but the ability to work as much or as little as you want, when you want is just irresistible. I dabbled with going “back to the mat” as a wrestling official for four or five years in my early 60’s but finally realized that I would never be anything other than a very average ref, so I spared those aspiring young wrestlers of my “expertise”. It was a good experience though, if for no other reason than I learned that I never knew the rules of wrestling to begin with and after a hiatus of 35 years they’d changed a lot anyhow. Lesson learned. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Like most Plebes, the news that Kennedy had been assassinated, especially because he had just (two months prior) granted us amnesty for our Plebe Summer sins in Tecumseh Court • Getting to be part of a wrestling team (under the superb training of Coach Ed Peery) that ranks as one

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of the top three teams in Navy history in terms of National ranking. Devising (again in Plebe year) with my two roomies (Mort and Skip) more intricate ways to stay out of the view of the upperclassmen. Of course, training tables helped immensely, but we went way beyond that in laying lower than a rock in the Marianas Trench for nearly the entire year. Yay us! Fortunately, my roomie Mort’s parents, owned a summer home right across the Severn River, so we had yet another means of living as normal a life as a Plebe can. Yay us again! Tuna fish sandwiches from Chris’ sub shop on Saturday night! Bancroft Hall in my rear view mirror in June ’67!

Humorous Memories of USNA: Too many to count. The best four years of my young life!

Awards Received Academic Graduate, USNA, BS in Naval Science, 1967 Graduate, George Washington U, MS in Engineering Management, 1975 Graduate, USN Test Pilot School, 1973 Completed Program for Management Development, Harvard BS, 1988 Athletic Captain, USNA Wrestling Team, 1967 Three time National Qualifier in Wrestling, 1965-67 Hackettstown, NJ, HS Athletic HOF, 2017 Service/USNA Awards • Meritorious Service Medal • 18 Air Medals • Completed 286 combat missions • 3 Navy Commendation Medals (w/Combat V) • Vietnamese Gallantry Cross • Awarded “Navy Test Pilot of the Year”-1974 by Commander, Naval Air Test Center • Awarded “Laurels” by Aviation and Space Technology Magazine in 1979 “for saving a valuable test vehicle from destruction by virtue of a flameout landing in an experimental F-16 at Edwards AFB, CA”. Uniform Breast Insignia Designated Naval Aviator, 1968 Designated Navy Test Pilot, 1973 At-sea command button, 1985 Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” Many members of my family had served in the Armed Forces of the United States in every war back to and including the Revolution that founded this nation. So, the idea of service to your nation’s armed forces was something that was not alien to me. Having been raised in the immediate aftermath of WWII, of course, the media and books were literally filled with descriptions of and references to the military. This background, in addition to my desire to fly from probably the age of twelve naturally led me to my eventual career path. As I came from a limited financial background, the Academies seemed all the more desirable. My HS academic performance was OK but not good enough to get me into an Academy via academics----but I was a good athlete, both in football and wrestling. My main focus had always been on wrestling so I “pursued” the then-wrestling coach at USNA, Coach Peery, to obtain a nomination for me. Gratefully, he did so. Consequently, my experience at the Naval Academy allowed me to pursue , not only my immediate goal of flying in the Navy, but subsequently allowed me to obtain civilian employment in the field of aviation and it’s rewards. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The Academy exceeded all of my expectations. It has allowed me to achieve virtually everything that I’ve ever dreamed Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary of, both personally and professionally. Final Yearbook write-up for Dave Palmer. After USNA, I received jet aviation training in FL, MS and TX. My first squadron was with VF-53 flying the F-8 with a deployment to Vietnam on the USS Bon Homme Richard and later in the F-4 on the USS Coral Sea in VF-51. In 1972 I entered the Naval Test Pilot School and after graduation, served at the Naval Air Test Center as a Naval Developmental Test Pilot. I transferred to the Naval Reserve in 1977 and spent ten years in VF-201 at NAS Dallas and eventually commanded that squadron in 1985-86 flying F-4s. In 1977, I was hired by General Dynamics Corp as an experimental test pilot at the start-up of the F-16 developmental test program. Later, I became Chief Test Pilot and eventually went on to become Deputy Program Manager of the JAST program, now known as the F-35 aircraft, the successor to the F-16. After retirement I owned and operated a one plane/one pilot certified air charter business for fifteen years. Like everyone else around that time (1963), Kennedy’s assassination was a watershed moment for us, especially as Plebes who had only two months prior, had received his amnesty for our Plebe summer sins in Tecumseh Court. Life goes on though and working closely with my two roommates, Skip and Mort, most of our Plebe year was spent devising ways of “laying low” vis a vis the upperclassmen. To large extent we were successful. All great, good fun (he says, now 50 years on). Betty and I had four daughters that we drug across the country for many years. Sadly, we lost her to cancer in 1994. Shivaun and I were married in 1996 and have enjoyed our six grandchildren immensely in Fort Worth ever since. Shivaun has developed her own successful multi-media women’s issues platform called www.plaidforwomen.com .

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4th Company William S. Richbourg Service History: 1963 – 67: USNA (4th Company) 1967 – 68: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, Navy wings 12/1968 1969: P-3 Replacement Air Training VP-30, NAS PATUXENT RIVER, MD 1969-72: VP-56, NAS PATUXENT RIVER MD and JACKSONVILLE, FL, P-3 Pilot 1972-73: MBA PROGRAM, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON DC 1973-76: CHIEF OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, WASHINGTON, DC Principal Occupation Although I had several different positions, my principle career expertise after leaving the Navy evolved into real estate finance and investment. My first position as a CPA was as a consultant with Coopers and Lybrand, a Big-8 CPA firm where I was primarily engaged in analysis and design of management information systems. After that, I was a financial analyst for a real estate development company. I later became the CFO for the Virginia division of the Trammell Crow Company, a Texas based national development company. Later I did a stint at the Department of Housing and Urban Development as Director of Management Control and lastly as the VP of multifamily loan underwriting at Wells Fargo Bank in Virginia where I formally retired in 2011. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I think some of my most memorable events are associated with Navy Air. The first was my first solo in the T-34. What a thrill that was! Another was a transatlantic training flight in a P-3 when bad weather, led to us flying on “fumes” while trying to find a place to land. Ultimately, we ended up landing on a Norwegian highway and refueled at a base hidden inside a mountain redoubt. Other memorable events included finding and tracking a new model Soviet nuclear submarine, assisting in the rescue of another disabled Soviet submarine. After the Navy our family’s travels took us everywhere from Alaska, visiting killer whales and grizzly bears to Japan where I climbed Mt Fuji, and throughout Europe. Most memorable was when we retraced the steps and battles of the 101st Airborne, 506th Infantry (the ”Band of Brothers”) from England through France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren My wife Donna retired as a Senior Executive in the Pentagon. As a civilian she served our nation in Naval Aviation for 27 years and then worked for the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition for nine years. For the past nine years she has managed a volunteer 2nd grade tutoring program and has been a volunteer adult English tutor. We were married right after Christmas 1967 and have one son, Billy, a bio-engineer, who is currently in his third year of medical school at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. He is a great young man and is working extremely hard to complete medical school and get on with his career as a physician. We eagerly await his decisions as to where he goes for his residency. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since retirement from Civil Service and Wells Fargo, I have pursued a number of interests where I believe I can make a real contribution. My top three priorities have been; 1) I work as a volunteer for the Montgomery County Police where I assist in the investigation of all sorts of financial crimes including mortgage fraud, credit card fraud, identity theft, embezzlement cases, etc. 2) I am a volunteer with the National Park Service where I patrol and provide emergency service for certain hiking trails in the C&O Canal National Park; 3) I work with a number of political organizations that are in the fight to return our state and country to its more conservative roots and, hopefully, make some contribution to saving this exceptional constitutional republic. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Learning of President Kennedy’s assassination. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I learned of the assassination. • Taking delivery of my first car (67 GTO 4-speed manual transmission), and the trips to Oxon Hill to visit my future wife where I learned some of the disadvantages of a powerful engine that got only 8 mpg. • My numerous and nearly futile attempts to get that darn YP tied up at the dock. • Youngster Cruise in the North Sea and a 5-day storm that rendered most of the crew sick, food consisting of nothing Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary but black coffee and crackers, and me out on the flying bridge because cold was better than sick. Humorous Memories of USNA Awards Received Academic Achievement USNA Superintendent’s List, MBA George Washington University; CPA Maryland (ranked third in state on CPA exam); Certified Private Investigator; Certified HUD Multifamily Underwriter Athletic Basketball; Patuxent River Base Championship and Keflavik Base Championship VP-56 Squadron Teams; Service Awards Presidential Unit Citation, Vietnam Era Service Medal; Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I always had a deep interest in military history and had dreamed of either flying or being in the Marine Corps because my father had served with the Third Marine Division in WWII. Many of my extended family had served in WWII and Korea and I just thought that military service would be more honorable, interesting and fulfilling path to follow than what I perceived was a typical pattern of my friends and contemporaries. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I think my expectations were more than met by attending Annapolis. I believe that graduating from an academic institution with the national reputation of USNA with an engineering degree, and commissioned as a regular officer and given the opportunity to fly airplanes for the service was a satisfying and honorable way to start my professional life. I believe that the Academy, the degree, and the military experience I gained were significant benefits in my pursuit of a successful professional career after leaving the Navy. Final Yearbook write-up for Bill Richbourg My first duty station following flight training was flying P3s out of NAS Patuxent River, Keflavik, Iceland and Jacksonville, Florida followed by an MBA program at George Washington University and a tour with the Bureau of Naval Personnel. After leaving the Navy, I started my civilian career as a CPA with a Big-8 accounting firm and from there a short tour with an international consulting firm. The remainder of my career was spent in the real estate business as a CFO for a development company, a Senior Manager in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and, a VP of Commercial Lending for a major US Bank where I retired in 2011. Since retirement from Civil Service and Wells Fargo, I have pursued a number of interests where I know I can make a positive contribution. I work as a volunteer for the Montgomery County Police where I assist in the investigation of all sorts of financial crimes including mortgage fraud and identity theft. I am a volunteer with the National Park Service where I patrol and provide emergency service for certain hiking trails in the C&O Canal National Park. I work with a number of political organizations that are in the fight to return our state and our country to its more conservative roots. My hope is that I can make a contribution to save our exceptional country. My wife Donna and I were married in 1967 and have one son, William J. (Billy). Billy will begin his last year of Medical School at the University of Maryland. We have lived in Potomac, Maryland since 1979 and will probably stay here until our son’s medical career plans stabilize and we know where he will be located.

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4th Company Michael W. Samuels Service History: 1967-69: Flight Training (Pensacola, Meridian, Kingsville) 1969-70: Flight Instructor VT-23, Kingsville, TX 1970: A-7 RAG, Lemoore, CA 1970-73: VA-155, USS Oriskany (2 Vietnam Cruises, 220 Missions) 1973-74: Navy Test Pilot School, NAS Patuxent River, MD 1974-77: Test Pilot, Strike Aircraft Test Directorate 1977: A-7 RAG, NAS Cecil Field, FL 1977-78: VA-81 Operations Officer 1978-79: CVW-17 Operations Officer 1980: Royal Air Force Staff College, Bracknell, Berkshire, England 1981: AF Flight Test Center, Flight Instructor, AF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, CA 1982: A-7 RAG, NAS Cecil Field, FL 1982-85: VA-12, XO/CO 1985-86: Navy Nuclear Power Training (Orlando, Idaho Falls, Washington DC) 1987-88: USS Enterprise, XO 1989: Retired with rank of Commander Principal Occupation: Retired to my hometown of San Diego. Have worked for the last 26 years as a manager, company officer, and marketing director for a private company that performs engineering services for the federal government; designs and produces telemetry systems for NASA, DOD, U.S. and international aerospace companies; designs and produces video systems for the U.S. military and our allies. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: As the senior Naval officer at Edwards, I was asked to escort the Secretary of the Navy (John Lehman) for the first Space Shuttle landing (1981). So with Gin & Tonics in hand, the SecNav and I witnessed the landing from the same lake bed the Shuttle touched down on. To the USAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great irritation, this first shuttle was manned by 2 Navy pilots (John Young and Bob Crippen). Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: I had 2 children (Ryan and Ashley) from my first marriage. Ryan, a graduate of the University of Oregon, decided on a career in films (rather than his original intent to be a psychiatrist). He worked for Sony Image Works (Spiderman, Polar Express, etc.) for several years prior to his death at age 30 of an unexplained heart attack. Ashley graduated from National University with a degree in psychology and now manages a highly successful acupuncture clinic in San Diego. Mona and I were married in 2002 and spend our free time either at our second home in the mountains east of San Diego or on a cruise ship, just enjoying life. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I am still employed and have no immediate plans to retire (same with Mona). My work allows me to travel and to spend time with the regular armed and special operations forces. Mona and I have made an annual cruise a target for the last dozen years (Hawaii, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Northern Europe). Monthly, the 1967 band of brothers from San Diego get together for laughs and reminisces at the 94th Aero Squadron. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Ray Smith, Shannon McCrary, Bob Ryan, and I driving Bobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VW bus from Coronado to Annapolis at the start of our 1 st Class year. Rip White and I launching our Middie caps into the air at graduation. Humorous Memories of USNA: Academic Achievement: Distinguished Graduate at USNA Masters in Management, University of Southern California Service/USNA Awards: 3 MSMs, 4 Air Medals, 18 Strike Flight Air Medals, 3 NCMs (with V), Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Uniform Breast Insignia: Aviator Wings, Command at Sea Star Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” My father was a Navy pilot, so I always thought of that as a meaningful career. In parallel, I attended Catholic school from 2nd through 12th grade and seriously considered the priesthood. The same week that I received my (unexpected) appointment to the Academy, I was scheduled to go to Los Angeles for fitting my ‘outfit’ for entry into the seminary at the University of San Diego. I justified the Academy as my first choice as I could always apply to the seminary, not so for the Academy. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My academy experience measurably exceeded my expectations. As I discovered throughout my career, it was the people who made it all fun and rewarding. Even though I spent nearly 20 years in the cockpit, it was associations with my fellow officers and sailors that created the memories. Even today, as I meet with or bump into classmates and squadron mates, the thrill remains. Final Yearbook write-up: Mike Samuels I was fortunate that in my 20 years I never had to endure a DC tour. I was in the cockpit continuously from graduation until nuclear power school (less one year at the RAF Staff College). Ironically, while I fought my selection to nuclear power training (Bill Cross and I went through the program together), my most satisfying job in the Navy was as XO of Enterprise. In that position, you have the authority and the responsibility to improve the experience of all 5,800 on board. Having had an opportunity to do flight testing tours with both the Navy and the Air Force, I was privileged to fly scores of aircraft from tail-draggers, to gliders, to hot-air balloons, to helicopters and high performance jets. Throughout my career, my family and I moved at every change of orders – 14 times in 20 years. So when I was selected for 0-6, deep draft (USS LaSalle), and PCO Enterprise, the family voted that they had had enough. Retirement soon followed and a return to San Diego. In my current position, I get to work again with the best-of-the-best, the U.S. military – primarily with all branches of special operations, as well as the regular Army and Marine Corps. On a monthly basis, I get to enjoy the company of some of the most stalwart folks of USNA67 – Bob Ryan, Soup Campbell, Pete Phelps, Curt Dose, Pete Burggren, Steve Andres, Steve Fisk, Warren Millard, and Jack Feehan. Pete and his amazing wife Pat throw a bang-up party every year at their beautiful home in Alpine. It has been a great experience!

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4th Company John Turner Williamson I was commissioned as a Marine and entered the first available Basic School class, selecting an infantry MOS, and arriving in Vietnam in January, 1968. I served at the siege of Khe Sanh and thereafter in operations across I Corps from the South China Sea to the Laotian border as a rifle platoon and (briefly) company commander. Wounds led to a lengthy hospitalization and involuntary medical retirement as a First Lieutenant. I obtained a law degree at Duke, liked North Carolina, and have never left. I practiced law with the same firm in Raleigh for 34 years, specializing in medical malpractice defense of Duke University Medical Center, and retiring in 2007. Realizing that life had offered me a second chance, I chose to fill it with adventures, among them sailing in the Caribbean and French Polynesia; playing bagpipes in a competition band; horse sports including fox hunting, show jumping, cross country, and dressage; and a private pilotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and ownership of a Mooney. I am married and have one son, a Citadel Marine. Catherine and I live quietly and happily in the country outside Raleigh. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do reunions, but send my best wishes for the celebration of our 50th.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary George A. Zahn, Jr. Service History 1967-1968 The Basic School, MCB Quantico, VA 1968-1969 Undergraduate Pilot Training, Vance AFB, Enid, OK 1969 VMT-103, MCAS Yuma, AZ VMFAT-101, MCAS El Toro, CA 1969-1970 VMFA-531, MCAS El Toro, CA 1970-1971 VMFA-115, Chu Lai & Da Nang, RVN 1971-1973 Marine Aviation Detachment, NAS Corpus Chris ti, TX (VT-21, NAS Kingsville, TX) 1973-1975 Co. B, HqBn, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Navy Annex, Arlington, VA 1975-1978 VMFA-323, MCAS El Toro, CA 1978-1979 HqCo, 9th Marines, Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Ja pan 1979-1982 Marine Aviation Detachment, NAS Patuxent Riv er, MD (U.S. Naval Test Pilot School) (Strike Aircraft Test Directorate) (Board of Inspection and Survey) 1982-1983 H&MS, MAG-31, MCAS Beaufort, SC 1983-1984 CO, MABS-31, MCAS Beaufort, SC 1984-1987 MAD, NAS Patuxent River, MD (Board of Inspection and Survey) 1987 Retired as Maj Principal Occupation 1987-2004 Continental Airlines, (Denver, CO, Washington, DC, Cleveland, OH, Houston, TX) Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Starting a relationship in 2001 with a woman (now my wife) whom I had known for over 30 years. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Married Nedda Evangelista Glenn, Aug 2003 (best & smartest choice I’ve made!) One daughter, Kristin; two grandsons, Nathan and Tyler residing in, Houston, TX

How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? • After marrying moved to NW suburbs of Chicago where Nedda was working. • Volunteer at our local Parish and for the Auxiliary of the local hospital. • Treasurer community Preservation & Restoration Society • Staying ahead of surprises & maintenance inherent in a 46 year old house • Travel Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe Summer - Shock, “What did I get myself into” Graduation - “I survived” Humorous Memories of USNA: Standing next to Roger Staubach in formation plebe year, except when photographers were present and upper classmen would assume my normal position commenting, “Zahnie, you move down a couple of spots and we’ll fill in today.” Awards Received Academic Achievement B.S. USNA Athletic (All American, Touchdown Club, Blue Gray Game, North-South Game, etc.) Intramurals 4 year participant (no awards; one broken clavicle)

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4th Company Service/USNA Awards (Congressional Medal of Freedom, Distinguished Graduate, Silver/Bronze Star, etc.) Diploma Uniform Breast Insignia (Aviator Wings, Surface Warfare Device, Navy Seal Badge, Submariner Dolphins, etc.) Naval Aviator Wings Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Zero, zilch, nada. I have great admiration for classmates who achieved those lofty levels. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” I applied for admission because of the quality of the education and the adventure and challenges I imagined. I had seen the USS Springfield, then flagship of the 6th Fleet anchored in the bay at Villefranche-sur-Mer, France on a road trip following my senior year in high school and the adventure associated with visiting similar ports worldwide was planted. After the surprise of receiving an appointment, I realized I had little idea of what to expect. Having spent a year at the University of Dayton with mixed academic results, the possibility of flunking out early on was an immediate concern. The discipline and routine imposed at the academy was actually beneficial and gave me the confidence and perseverance necessary to be successful both at the academy and in succeeding years. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The challenges I faced and overcame while at the academy inspired me and prepared me to face and succeed at even more difficult pursuits post graduation. Summary Yearbook write-up for George Zahn Following graduation, I was commissioned in the Marine Corps and received my Naval Aviator wings two years later. During my MC career, I served in aviation billets on both the west and east coasts, in Vietnam, as an advanced training command instructor, at Headquarters Marine Corps, and at the Naval Air Test Center. I retired in 1987 and flew for Continental Airlines at bases in Denver, Washington, DC, Cleveland, and Houston until retiring again in 2004. In 2003, I finally got it right and married Nedda Evangelista Glenn, whom I had known for over 30 years (I wasn’t smart enough to make the move earlier - it would have made the ensuing years much more enjoyable), and moved to Illinois where she worked. Nedda retired in 2010 and we continue to live in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We attempt to stay ahead of father time (so far so good) spending time upgrading our 48 year old house, volunteering at our parish church, and at our hospital’s auxiliary. I also served for five years as treasurer of our community organization and still serve as treasurer of our community preservation and restoration society whose objective is to preserve the historical character of our community. We attempt to travel frequently; one trip each year, timed so as escape the worst of the Chicago winter, is to visit Nedda’s family in the Philippines. I have one daughter, Kristin, and two grandsons, Nathan (14) and Tyler (9) who reside in Texas. It’s hard to believe 50 years have gone by so quickly when the preceding four years seemed like an eternity!

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5th Company Isaiah H. Ambrose Service History: 1967: USNA Engineering Dept (three months) teaching “Ship Stability and Hydrostatics” 1968: Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge MD 1968: Naval Nuclear Prototype, Windsor Locks, Conn 1968/9: Submarine School, Groton Conn 1969-72 USS Greenling, (SSN-614), Groton Conn. Served as Reactor Controls Officer, Electrical Officer, Auxiliary Division Officer, Main Propulsion Assistant, Communications Officer, and Weapons Dept Head. 1972-75 USS Nathanael Greene, (SSBN 636), Groton Conn. Served as Engineering Department Head. 1975- 77 Staff, COMSUBRON 14, Holy Loch, Scotland. Served as Squadron Materiel Officer. 1977Resigned to take civilian employment in Hong Kong Principal Occupation: Went to Hong Kong in March 1977 for employment with Modern Terminals Ltd, Hong Kong’s first purpose built container terminal. Was General Manager Technical Services Division until December 1994. Went to Perth Australia and had a break for one year. Took employment in Melbourne with Patrick Stevedores Ltd as National Technical Manager from December 1995 until April 2000. Worked in Melbourne as consultant to Transfield Services Ltd and Rylson Business Solutions and then fully retired in April 2001. Member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Engineers Australia. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Cold War submarine operations were interesting, unusual and memorable! As Engineer on USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN 636) Blue Crew, achieving an “Excellent” on the Operational Reactor Safeguards Exam (ORSE) rated highly for me. Life in Hong Kong was memorable because of the opening up of China which began to occur after the death of Mao Tse Tung in late 1976. The newly constructed Hong Kong container port at Kwai Chung played a key role in facilitating that development because it was the only “door” into China at that time and for many years thereafter. Employment on the waterfront by Australia’s largest container terminal company – Patrick Stevedores Ltd - was interesting and at times personally threatening due to the presence of the Maritime Union of Australia … the “Wharfies”. As Patrick Stevedores’ National Technical Manager, I had the task of preparing all Patrick container facilities to engage in a dramatic improvement to the condition and operation of Patrick’s container handling facilities around the country. This improvement took place at 2300 on the night of 7 April 1998 when at 17 different Patrick Stevedores sites around Australia, Patrick’s newly employed guard force moved in - with attack dogs - and physically threw the Wharfies off the Company’s premises, locking the gates behind them. A new workforce – which for the first time included women - was installed the next day and the efficiency of container handling operations in Australia changed overnight, improving dramatically, forever. This transition was known as the “War on the Waterfront” and it continued for six weeks with final resolution coming before the Australian High Court. Since that dramatic event, Australia’s container ports have performed consistently to world class standards with management firmly in control. Tell us about your wife, children, and grandchildren: Cynthia and I were married in June 1967 four days after graduation. We were high school sweethearts who, together, made it through the rigours of USNA for four years. During my First Class year, Cindy’s apartment was directly across the street from Gate 1 so that was very handy! We have two daughters, Anna Marlene and Greta Elisabeth, and they are both living in Australia having married Australians they met in Hong Kong. Anna has three children, and Greta has one. Grandchildren ages are Sally (22), Max (18), Lucy (16) and Maggie (14). Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary After 38 years of an exciting, interesting, and romantic marriage, Cindy passed away in September 2005. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I divide my time between Melbourne and the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Music, theatre, and boating seem to occupy most of my time which is now spent with the family and friends. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Being inducted on my 18th birthday, 26 June 1963; • Graduating on 7 June 1967; • Looking out over Tecumseh Court and Stribling Walk from the window of my First Class year room on the fourth deck of Bancroft Hall; • Cindy staying on with me in Annapolis after June Week 1966 due to my most inconvenient “Class A” offense and subsequent restriction of all but one week of Summer leave …. Turned out to be the best Summer ever! • Youngster Cruise to Northern Europe; • First Class Cruise …. In the shipyard at Norfolk; Humorous Memories of USNA: Give me a while … I might think of one or two! Awards Received: Academic and Athletic …. Nil. Service Awards: Navy Commendation and Navy Achievement Medals.

Two Questions: Why elect to attend USNA? I came from a career military family, Army and Air Force, and had always hoped to attend one of the service academies. Was prepared to take an appointment to any of them and was finally offered the principal appointment to USNA from 2nd Congressional District in Georgia. What did I expect “to obtain from attending”? I expected a regular commission in the US Navy and four years of interesting times …. Got both! Did USNA satisfy my expectations? USNA was a life changing experience for me. As a military junior with years of moving frequently around different cities and countries, the opportunity to stay in one place for four years was a new experience – first time ever! And to have this wonderful experience paid for by someone else was beyond my imagination. I have no idea what I would have done because I didn’t apply to any other universities or colleges … just wanted to go to USNA. So there is no doubt that USNA far exceeded the expectations that I had although it is difficult now to even think in those terms … I just felt like the luckiest person in the World. Summary for year book Following graduation, I went to the Nuclear Power route and served on GREENLING (SSN-64), NATHANAEL GREENE (SSBN 636) and the staff of COMSUBRON 14 in Holy Loch, Scotland. I resigned from the Navy in 1977 to take employment with Modern Terminals Ltd in Hong Kong. I moved to Australia and eventually went to work in Melbourne with Patrick Stevedores Ltd. as National Technical Manager from 1995 until 2000. Until my retirement in 2001, when I became a consultant in Melbourne. I'm a member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the Institution of Engineers Australia. Of course, Cold War submarine operations were interesting, unusual and memorable, as was life in Hong Kong because of the opening up of China. Employment on Australia's waterfront was, at times, personally threatening due to the presence of the Maritime Union of Australia: the “Wharfies.” My job at Patrick Stevedores was to prepare all Patrick container facilities for a change which took place at 2300 one night in 1998 when at 17 different sites around Australia, Patrick’s newly employed guard force moved in with attack dogs and physically threw the Wharfies off the Company’s premises. A new workforce was installed the next day. The transition, continuing for six weeks was known as the “War on the Waterfront.” I married my high school sweetheart, Cynthia, four days after graduation. During First Class year, Cindy’s apartment was directly across the street from Gate 1 so that was very handy! We have two daughters, Anna Marlene and Greta Elisabeth. They both live in Australia having married Australians they met in Hong Kong. Anna has three children, and Greta has one. Grandchildren are Sally (22), Max (18), Lucy (16) and Maggie (14). After 38 years of an exciting, interesting, and romantic marriage, Cindy passed away in September 2005.

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5th Company Richard L. Armitage Service History -67-68: USS Buck (DD 761) – DCA – Vietnam deployment -69-70: Advisor, South Vietnam -70-71: Instructor at Counterinsurgency School – Coronado, California -71-72: Senior Advisor – RPD 54, RVN -72-73: Senior Advisor – CG 21, RVN Principal Occupation -Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs -Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs -Negotiator of water issues in Middle East -Philippine base negotiator -Ambassador in charge of assistance to the Newly Independent States -Deputy Secretary of State Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: -Parenting 8 children -Knighted by the Queen of England and received similar awards from New Zealand and Australia -DGA USNA 2013 -Arranged successful evacuation for 30,000 Vietnam at the Fall of Saigon Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: -Relationships with certain classmates which have remained until today Humorous Memories of USNA: Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” and I went to the Academy because it was the only school which offered me a no-cut 4-year football scholarship. I had no idea what I was getting into beyond having seen Men of Annapolis on TV. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? After graduating, I served several tours in Vietnam, not because of super patriotism, but because I thought it was expected of me. Upon graduation I thought I’d never need to return to Annapolis…but slowly, over time, I began to return. Clearly something about USNA attaches itself to you. I’ve assisted many others to attend, always telling them that, from time to time, USNA may be a heck of a place while attending, but that it is a hell of a good place to be from. Summary for yearbook I went to USNA to play football, but beyond that, I had little idea what I was getting into. After graduation, my active duty Navy time and association with Vietnam began with a cruise on the gun line on BUCK (DD 761). This was followed by a tour as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy and two tours as an advisor on riverboats. In 1973, I left the Navy and joined the U.S. Defense Attaché Office in Saigon where in 1975, I organized and led the evacuation of 30,000 Vietnamese at the city's fall. Since those days, I have continued to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, negotiator of water issues in Middle East, Philippine base negotiator, Ambassador in charge of assistance to the Newly Independent States that had been formed out of the fall of the Soviet Union, and Deputy Secretary of State. I have been knighted by the Queen of England and received similar awards from New Zealand and Australia. I think something about the Academy attaches itself to you. I served on the Board of Visitors beginning in 1991, delivered Forrestal lectures in 2005 and 2008, and was honored to be named a Distinguished Graduate in 2013. I’ve assisted many others to attend, always telling them that, from time to time, USNA may be a heck of a place while attending but that it is a hell of a good place to be from. Living in Vienna, VA, I am married to Laura Samford Armitage. We have eight children and 12 grandchildren, and have been foster parents to dozens of youth.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Leman John Aunchman Service History NAVAL AIR TRAINING COMMAND June 1967 to September 1968 U. S. NAVAL STATION MIDWAY ISLAND November 1968 to May 1970 Qualified as Search and Rescue Aircraft Commander in the Amphibian aircraft HU-16D- collateral duties included Brig Officer, Crash Fire Division Officer, Terminal Officer, Operations Schedule Officer, Classified Material Control Officer. VS-41 May 1970 to August 1970 LIGHT ATTACK SQUADRON FOUR August 1970 to August 1971 Combat pilot / Quality Assurance Officer - Operating the OV10A in the close air support / attack role in support of all Allied Forces in the Republic of Vietnam. U. S. NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL September 1971 to May1973 Pursuing Master of Science Aeronautical Engineering subspecializing in Gas Dynamics. Thesis Title: "Controlled Turbulence as a Design Criterion for Electric-Discharge Convection Lasers". Work involved the preliminary design of a closed-cycle system to be used in the construction of an electric-discharge convection laser at NPS and the construction of the test section. Performed experimental investigation of screen generated turbulence as an improvement of the performance characteristics of an electric discharge operating at atmospheric pressures. AIR ANTISUBMARINE SQUADRON TWO TWO June 1973 to March 1977 NATOPS OFFICER AND QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER for the first operational S-3A squadron on the east coast. NAVAL AIR TEST CENTER April 1977 to November 1979 S-3A Project Officer/Project Pilot - Catapult Certification Testing, DST-36 Mine separation tests and platform qualification, Initial air refueling qualification with KC-135. VS Branch Head/ Systems Engineer - Designed, prototyped, flight tested and authored report on S-3A exterior formation lighting; Managed complete test and evaluation efforts on all S-3 aircraft, EC-130Q TACAMO improvement, T-44A and T -34C trainer aircraft programs- managed various flying qualities and performance T&E programs. Obtained second Masters Degree at night school. AIR ANTISUBMARINE SQUADRON THREE ONE November 1979 to February 1982 Department Head tour in an S-3A squadron: 4 months as Safety Officer, 12 months as Operations Officer, 10 months as Maintenance Officer. Tour encompassed pre-deployment work-up, 9.5 month deployment to the Indian Ocean, 2.0 month mini deployment to North Atlantic and a second pre-deployment work-up cycle. NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND February 1982 to July 1987 As Air Platform Development Officer, assumed lead project engineer role in developing the detailed specification for the ECX aircraft. Established program office for the Low Cost Sonobuoy System. Completed first operational at sea test (OT-IIA) in less than two years from program start-up. Principal Occupation Systems Engineer and/or Flight Test Engineer primarily with Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability Program. Designated the vice-president of humor at Computer Systems Center Inc. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Continued to fly for the Navy and privately after retirement from active duty; flew about 3,000 hours as flight test engineer and about the same number privately. Obtaining my commercial soaring certificate. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Comradery of company mates; proposing to my wife, Barb, before the Ring Dance. Humorous Memories of USNA: Majoring in graduation, getting class ‘A’ed for June week prank youngster year, future best man and I appropriating a rowboat on Hospital Point while signed out from restriction during academic summer, youngster year room mate and my bulletin boards covered with academic and grease warnings. Please Answer Two Questions:

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5th Company Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? Participated in American Legion Boys State between Jr and Sr year of high school. While there recruiters from USMA and USAFA gave presentations. I told my room mate that USNA must not need to recruit so I was going to apply there and wrote a letter to my congressman the day I got home. I wanted to serve and fly aircraft. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I was young and had no immediate goals other than obtain a college education. My parents wanted me to go to college but I knew there was no way they could even afford the room and board costs at the NROTC school I had applied to should I get one of those scholarships. My expectations of graduation were barely met. When the academic board met to surely expel me, I was in the hospital with double-lung pneumonia so I escaped that bullet and squared myself away. I always planned on giving Uncle Sam 20 years and then deciding whether or not to make it a career. I served the Navy for another 25 plus years as a civilian contractor. I still do not know what I want to do when I grow up!

Summary Yearbook write up for John Aunchman After graduation and Flight School, my first duty station was at U. S. Naval Station Midway Island, where I qualified as Search and Rescue Aircraft Commander in the HU-16D Albatross. I transferred to Light Attack Squadron 4 operating the OV-10A Bronco in Vietnam. I then earned a Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering at Naval Postgraduate School. In 1973, I was assigned to Air Antisubmarine Squadron 22, the first operational S-3A squadron on the east coast. In 1977, I reported to the Naval Air Test Center as an S-3A Project Officer/ Project Pilot and as VS Branch Head/ Systems Engineer. While there, I earned a second Masters Degree. From 1979 to 1982, I served with Air Antisubmarine Squadron 31 as Aviation Safety Officer, Operations Officer, and as Aircraft Maintenance Officer. I finished my career assigned to Naval Air Systems Command, retiring from the Navy in 1987. Since then, I have worked for Computer Systems Center, Inc. as a Systems Engineer and/or Flight Test Engineer. I am also CSCI's vice-president of humor. I have continued to fly for the Navy as flight test engineer and privately after retirement from active duty. I am in the process of obtaining my commercial soaring certificate. When I came to USNA, I was young and had no immediate goals other than obtaining a college education. My sole expectation, graduation, was barely met. When the academic board met to surely expel me, I was in the hospital with double-lung pneumonia, so I dodged that bullet and squared myself away. I always planned on giving Uncle Sam 20 years and then deciding whether or not to make it a career. I served the Navy for another 25 plus years as a civilian contractor. I still do not know what I want to do when I grow up!

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Joseph H. Barker Service History Jun 63 – Jun 67: Jul 67 – Sep 67: Oct 67 – Jul 69: Aug 69 – Dec 70: ficer) Jan 71 – Apr 71: Language School May 71 – Apr 72: (Advisor) Jun 72 – Jul 75: Dept. (Instructor) Aug 75 – Mar 76: Jun 76 – Apr 78: May 78 – Dec 80: Jan 81 – Jan 82: (Force Scheduler) Feb 82 – Apr 82: May 82 – Sept 84: Oct 84 – Jun 87: Officer) July 1, 1987:

USNA (5th Company) Guided Missile School, Mare Island, CA USS Coontz DLG-9 (Missile Officer) USS Bainbridge DLGN-25 (Fire Control OfCounter Insurgency School and Vietnamese Fleet Command Advisory Group, Vietnam

USNA, Weapons & Systems Engineering Department Head School, Newport, RI USS California CGN-36 (Weapons Officer) Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA (Master of Science – Physics) Commander Middle East Force, Bahrain Executive Officer School, Newport, RI USS Wabash AOR-5 (Executive Officer) Commander Service Group One (Operations Retired with rank of Commander.

Principal Occupation I attended Saint Mary’s College of California and earned a Masters in Business Administration during may last tour of duty. In October 1987 I joined the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby, & MacRae as their San Francisco Office Administrator. I soon became LeBoeuf’s West coast manager. I was active in the Association of Legal Administrators and was president of the Golden Gate Chapter from 1996 – 1997. I subsequently moved to the law firm of Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft as the Executive Director followed by a job with Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott as Executive Director. I retired from traditional employment for the final time in June 2002. Kathie and I started to sell our own things on eBay after retirement. Friends asked us to sell their things. This caused us to start a home-based eBay consignment business, The Sand Harbor Group, which is ongoing today. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I participated in all the major events of the 20th Century during my Navy career. I served in Vietnam, Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. My most memorable, satisfying and frustrating experience was a year as an advisor in Vietnam. I sailed in Vietnamese gunboats and river craft from the Delta to the DMZ. I found that the Vietnamese officers and men were competent, dedicated, and brave. Their senior naval leadership was lacking in energy, vision, honesty and dedication. One of my most unforgettable professional events was having dinner in Alexandria, Egypt with the CO of the Egyptian Styx missile boat that sank the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat. I told him that he changed naval warfare forever. The next week I had dinner in Haifa, Israel with Israeli naval officers and discussed this event from their perspective. I learned how they successfully defended their ships from multiple Styx attacks during the 1973 war and defeated a large Egyptian naval force. Another memorable event was being on the team negotiating a treaty between the U.S., Great Britain and France about defending the Middle East.

The most satisfying part of my career was helping to develop the guided missile systems and tactics that were used throughout my career. I also feel a sense of pride in having contributed in a small way to holding the line until the Soviet Union collapsed. I believe that most of us who lived through that period were well aware that Stalin, Mao, and their successors were very dangerous. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: Kathie and I married in 1984 in Subic Bay, Olongapo, PI. Kathie is a 1967 graduate of Northwestern and this was the first marriage for both of us. My only regret is that we didn’t meet and marry sooner. I don’t recommend waiting seventeen years to find the right spouse but that is how life worked out for both of us. We are very fortunate to be celebrating our 30th year together in 2014. 204

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5th Company Kathie was the West coast Financial Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff when I met her on a blind date in San Francisco. Parsons is one of the largest construction companies in the U.S. The firm was in charge of building the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system at that time. Before she moved to San Francisco, Kathie was the administrator in charge of the Washington D.C. Bicentennial celebration. She was responsible for planning all the parades, fireworks, and other bicentennial activities in the capitol. We were married in Subic Bay because my ship, USS Wabash AOR-5, was deployed with the Kitty Hawk battle group. Kathie was visiting during the group’s brief Subic Bay stay. We decided to elope and had only three days to arrange the wedding. Our wedding was held in the Subic Bay chapel. The impromptu reception was at 10 a.m. across the street in the Subic Bay officers club. I think that Subic Bay is the only place where they will open for an impromptu wedding reception at 10 a.m. A party was held that night at the Cubi Point officer’s club. The battle group sailed for the Middle East the next morning and we didn’t see each other until the ship returned to its homeport, Alameda, CA six months later.

We don’t have any children but we are blessed with many loving family members and friends. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time: I spend most of time working on my lifetime hobby of model railroading. I am a member of three train groups and clubs. Model railroading has introduced me to lifetime friends. Kathie is very involved in fund raising for several Alameda based charities. These charities fund the Boys and Girls Club, the food bank, and the animal shelter. We usually take a major trip each year. We recently visited Australia and New Mexico. Kathie and I call our retired life our “bonus” years. We are having a wonderful time being the boss of our own time and doing what we want to do when we want to do it. We feel very blessed to have both the health and financial resources to do this.

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: My most vivid memories of USNA probably shouldn’t be mentioned in the 50th Lucky Bag. They have a lot to do with come-arounds. Do you remember the gray hound races? Do you remember firing torpedoes? Number one is fired and running true, Sir! Fire Two! My fondest time was youngster cruise aboard USS Essex CVS-9. It was my first experience and the helm of a ship and a flight from a carrier. The S-2 pilot allowed me to sit in the co-pilot’s seat while we made diving rocket attacks on a towed sled. What fun! We called at Le Harve, France and I took a memorable trip to Paris with our class. We sailed to Portsmouth and visited London. London was special for me because I lived there for two years as a teenager. Copenhagen, Denmark was awesome. My most satisfying memory was being a member of the Brigade intermural tennis championship team. We won the championship 3 out of the 4 years. In addition to being a player, I was the team coach First Class year when we won the championship. I know that being an intermural champion does not compare to being on any varsity team. But for me, and I hope for others that did not have varsity talent, this was a significant accomplishment. The best Academy experiences are the life long friendships that were forged starting in 1963. I am still very close to my roommate Jim Barrett. We roomed together for nearly 3 of the 4 years and have stayed in close touch ever since. I treasure my friendships with my fellow 5 th Company mates and several other classmates that I have gotten to know over the years. Unfortunately, my most vivid USNA memory is painful. Jim Barrett, Dave Baker, Jim Campbell and I were roommates Plebe summer. Only Jim Barrett and I are still sailing as I write this in October 2014. You may recall that we were lined up during our first week at USNA and ordered to look to the right and left. The upper classman announced that one of the people you just looked at would not be there for graduation. Following every June Week parade, Dave Baker, Jim Barrett, Jim Campbell and I would gather in front of Tecumseh. Jim Barrett’s father took a photo of the four of us standing side by side at attention. We congratulated ourselves First Class year that we had beaten the odds. That was the last time I saw Jim Campbell. His death just a few hours later in a car accident is still very painful. We lost a great classmate. I believe he would have been an outstanding Marine. Humorous Memories of USNA: My most humorous experience was trying to stay in step while marching. I couldn’t stay in step following four years of practice. Marching was so painful for me that it became funny. I can’t sing either. I believe that I was class anchorman when it came to musical ability. This had one good result. I was never selected to participate in any competitive or parade marching activity. Awards Received: Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Bronze Star (Combat V), Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (Gold Star), Navy Achievement Medal, Navy Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea), Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam (RVN) Gallantry Cross, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Republic of Vietnam Staff Service Medal Academic Achievement: USNA 1967 - Bachelor of Science (Naval Science) Naval Post Graduate School 1980 – Master of Science Physics Saint Mary’s College of California 1986 – Master of Business Administration Athletic Achievement: Was a member of the First Battalion Intermural Tennis Team that won Brigade Championships Plebe, Youngster and First Class year? I coached the team First Class year. Service Awards: None Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending”? My father graduated from USNA in 1936 and retired as a Captain CEC. It was natural for me to follow in his footsteps. I did not want to go into the CEC because I felt that I would be somehow be competing with my father. I wanted to fly but poor eyesight prevented that course. I went surface line and had an amazing career serving all over the world. I expected to become a competent sailor and naval officer at the academy. I think that I achieved this goal. Every group and unit that I lead, including Vietnamese units, was successful in accomplishing its mission. I had hoped to become a good leader. This goal is still a work in progress. I worked hard and did my best. I suppose that is all that the USA could expect from its investment in me. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I don’t think that the Plebe year experience, as the Class of 1967 lived it, or at least how I lived it, contributed very much to me becoming a leader or competent sailor. My expectations of getting a wonderful education were met. This enabled me to do well the highly technical Navy that entered after graduation. Looking back 50 years, however, I do think that there was too much emphasis on technical subjects and not enough on history, leadership and mentoring midshipman. I was a good technician but I was not well-rounded person. USNA in the mid 1960s was a closed society. I was naïve in the ways of the world upon graduation. I graduated at the center of the class. I can’t recall a single conversation with my company officer or anyone else in a leadership position about leadership, etc., unless I was in trouble. I was never in any trouble after Plebe year and so this important aspect of my education was missing. I believe that some of these issues have been addressed and that USNA is most likely turning out a better-rounded officer today than I was upon graduation. Lucky Bag Write-up: I drove across the country with my roommate, Jim Barrett, in my new Cutlass Supreme visiting national parks and the Montreal World’s Fair after graduation. Following guided missile school, I joined USS Coontz DLG-9 as Missile Officer on North Search and Rescue Station (NSAR). Our mission was to control air strikes over North Vietnam and to rescue pilots. We rescued a couple of crews during my two NSAR deployments in Coontz. I transferred to USS Bainbridge DLGN-25 as Fire Control officer and returned to Vietnamese waters for another NSAR tour.

My next tour was in Vietnam with the Fleet Command Advisory Group. I sailed on Vietnamese patrol boats from the Delta to the DMZ acting as an advisor coordinating operations between the USN and Vietnamese Navy. This was followed by a tour as an instructor at USNA and then a tour in USS California CGN-36 as Weapons Officer. My time in California included multiple deployments to Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Naval Post Graduate School to earn a masters degree in physics was my next stop. After graduation, I flew to Bahrain to join the Commander Middle East Force staff embarked in USS Coronado AGF-11. My job was Force Scheduler where I was responsible for planning and scheduling all USN Middle East operations. Next was a tour as XO of USS Wabash AOR-5. I married Kathie in 1984 during a stop over in Subic Bay enroute back to the Middle East with the Kitty Hawk battle group. My final Navy assignment was as Operations Officer of Commander Service Group One. I was responsible for schedul206

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I retired as a Commander on July 1, 1987. Kathie and I have lived in Alameda, CA since 1984.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary James W. Barrett Service History: Grad - Sep 67. USNA YP Instructor (my little brother Dan was a plebe in ’71) Sep 67 - Jan 69. NATC earning wings Jan - Mar 69. Navigator Training-Corpus; April 69. Aerial Mine Warfare School, Charleston, SC May - Jun 69. FASOTRAGRULANT Norfolk (ASW tactics, Oceanography) Jul - Oct 69. VP-30 P-3 RAG, PAX River Nov 69 - Dec 72. VP-16, NAS Jacksonville, deployed 25 of 37 months in first squadron. Nov 69 - Apr 70: Deployed Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Gitmo, Argentia (Newfoundland), Lajes (Azores), Rota, Eleuthera (Bahamas) July - Nov 70: Deployed to Bermuda, Detached to Operation UNITAS-Xl Puerto Rico, Caracas Venezuela, Recife & Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Bahia Blanca & Buenos Aires Argentina May - Nov 71: Deployed to Sigonella Sicily, (visited Rome, Naples, Genoa, Venice, Pisa, Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, Capri Italy; Garmisch Germany, Zurich Switzerland, Austria, Athens Greece, Crete (NOTE: My Brother and best friend Dan Barrett USNA ‘71 died, 21 Oct 71 flying over the Chesapeake Bay while I was deployed) Apr 72 - Dec 72: Deployed to Bermuda/UNITAS-Xlll (Buenos Aires Argentina, Lima Peru, Panama, Cartagena Columbia, Bermuda, Lajes (Azores) Jan 73 - May 76: BUPERS – Placement Officer: VP Staffs and Squadrons Fall 1975: Deep Selected to 0-4 Jun 76 - May 77: The GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, MBA Financial Management Jun 77 - Aug 79: USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, CVN-69, Plank-owner, Communications Department Head, one of the 1st five OOD’s (based on my vast YP experience!). Aug - Nov 79: P-3 RAG, JAX Dec 79 - Dec 80: VP-56, JAX Operations Officer, Deployed to Bermuda Jan 81 - Dec 83: Humanitarian Transfer to NAVAIR as an Aeronautical Engineer; P-3 Assistant Program Manager for Logistics; (wife diagnosed with terminal breast cancer) Jan 84 - Jun 84: Defense Systems Management College, Ft Belvoir, VA. Program Manager Jul 84 - Jul 87: NAVAIR PMA-264 Sonobuoy Program Manager Jul 87: As a CDR at the end of 20 years, I retired with EXACTLY the same number of landings as take-offs! 1st Retirement

Principal Occupations: Aug 87- Sep 93: STATCOM, Inc. Vice President (Finance) McLean, VA. Consultant - High Tech Computer Services (NOTE: in Sep 90: Wife Sandi died of cancer) 2nd Retirement. Oct 93 - Dec 2004: Owner, Barrett’s B&B in St Michaels, MD successfully prepared 41,000 Breakfasts in 11 years. Concurrently opened 5 other small businesses; 3rd Retirement. Dec 04: Married Mary C. Durkin and became instant grandfather for 6 grandkids! Jan 05 - Jun 06: Chesapeake College, Wye MD – Math professor 4th Retirement. Jul 06 - Dec 14: Having repeatedly failed retirement, Mary and I moved to Lewes, DE; I became a Realtor; Volunteer High School Mentor; MOAA Chapter Secretary; Rotary Club Director; active supporter of “Home of the Brave” for Homeless Veterans and Habitat for Humanity. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: A. 1971, in my P-3A at FL200 over the Gulf of Mexico, my Ordnance Man reported to the cockpit in agony with a burst appendix! An Emergency Descent while dumping fuel coincided with ATC clearing airspace below us. We came in way too fast, and landed on the last 2,000 feet of the 14,000 foot runway at MacDill AFB. The USAF saved his life with a mobile hospital (looked like a 60 foot RV) by operating on him just off the duty runway. We had called ahead with his blood type. B. 1980, deployed to Bermuda, launched the P-3C Ready Alert and after 6 hours of searching at 200 feet, we found 2 French sailors in life jackets whose sailboat sank in a Bermuda to France race. The only sign of them was their heads (a radar image about the size of a volley ball). Then my crew successfully deployed a life raft (a rare occurrence in the P-3 community). Next we located and forced a Greek merchant ship to turn around and pick them up. A rescued Frenchman went to the bridge and gratefully radioed a heartfelt “Merci Beaucoup, Beaucoup, Beaucoup, Beaucoup…” about 15 times! They had been adrift in the North Atlantic in August for 27 hours when we found them.

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Baker, and my wife Sandi as well as many classmates. E. Joyous times include marriages, births of my two sons, now grandfather to 11 children, one of whom lives with us full time. F. Before dementia afflicted her, my Mother (a retired Physical Education teacher) came to live with us in St. Michaels. For 3 years we golfed 50-60 times a summer. It’s embarrassing to be beaten regularly by your 80 year old Mother! Nov 13: Court Appointed Permanent Guardians for our 8 year old Grandson – What a Joy! I am now the oldest Little League Baseball Coach in Delaware and struggling to learn Common Core Math while attending PTA meetings…. AGAIN. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: 1. Plebe Year: Come Arounds, President Kennedy’s USNA visit and the shock/despair of his assassination; Navy football, especially Beating Army in 1963; Herndon Monument. 2. Youngster Summer: USS Essex with liberty in London, Paris and Copenhagen! 3. 2nd Class Summer: Quantico Obstacle Course; Amphibious Landing from Little Creek; Pensacola flights in a T-2, P2V, T-34 and including T-28 carrier landings, plus a volunteer flight at Sanford, FL in a RA-5C; 1st Class Summer: USS Albany (CG 10) to the Med, liberty on the French Riviera, then on to Italy: Naples, Genoa, Rome, Venice, Pisa, and Florence. Cross deck to USS Saratoga, CV 60 with an afternoon swim call in Med! And then it got better for the next 20 years! Humorous Memories of USNA: Beginning Youngster year, I routinely alternated dating 4 girls, one per weekend. By 1st class year, I got caught at a jazz pianist concert in the USNA Field House. With 600 or so metal chairs set up, my drag and I arrived early, found lots of empty seats and sat near the front. Five minutes later, another of my drags “happened” to sit in the same row, right next to me on a classmates arm. Boy that was a looong, uncomfortable evening! To this day I don’t know how they figured it out.

Why USNA? Leaving high school as a 3 sport jock at age 17, I was focused on earning a college degree. Having been accepted at Duke, Cornell, University of Maryland and USNA, reality really hit when it became clear that there was no money and no scholarship for college. At each of these universities, I would have to give up sports and work several part time jobs. Or I could go to USNA, be required to play sports, earn a small paycheck and travel, travel, travel! It was a chance to do the next right thing. The choice was easy. Why did you elect to attend USNA; what did you expect to "obtain from attending” A. Service Above Self: (“If not a guy like me, then who?”) B. College Degree C. Opportunity to Fly Navy: “Success comes when preparedness meets opportunity.” Dad. D. Develop Leadership Skills E. Provide for and Protect my Family and my Country F. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? G. Exceeded my Expectations –almost daily learning and doing new things… I looked forward to every day H. Travel, around the world and through the USA (unlike my Dad who spent all his working years totally bored behind a desk and hating it) I. Learning to appreciate Loyalty, Integrity, Obedience J. Established Lifelong Friendships K. Doing the next right thing; Living one day at a time. L. Getting back up one more time….always. USNA formed the value system I have employed throughout my adult life. I entered as a naïve but moderately mature teenager, and grew to manhood. USNA values are the core of who I am today Summary for yearbook After graduating and earning my wings, I joined VP-16 in Jacksonville, FL where I deployed 25 of the 37 months I was in the squadron. We traveled around the world in both hemispheres. During one deployment, my younger brother and best friend Ensign Dan Barrett, USNA ‘71 died while flying over the Chesapeake Bay in Oct ‘71. Next came BuPers from 1973 to 1976 as Placement Officer for VP Staffs and Squadrons. Following that, I earned an MBA in Financial Management from The George Washington University. In 1977, I became a plank owner on DWIGHT D EISENHOWER (CVN-69) along with 5 other classmates. I was one of her first five OODs. I attribute this to my vast experience as a YP instructor at USNA the summer after graduation! After 2 years on “IKE” my wife Sandy, our 2 sons and I reported to VP-56 in Jacksonville, but I was soon transferred to NAVAIR after Sandy was diagnosed with terminal

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary breast cancer. As a new AEDO, I enjoyed 2 tours in program management. In 1987 I retired from the Navy and joined STATCOM, Inc. as VP (Finance). Sandy died in 1990, and I left STATCOM in 1993 to become the successful owner of Barrett's B&B in St. Michaels, MD for 11 years. In 2004, I sold the B&B and married Mary Durkin, becoming instant grandfather for 6 grandkids (now there are 9). I was a math professor at Chesapeake College in Wye, MD until Mary and I “retired” to Lewes, DE in 2006. I became a Realtor; Volunteer High School Mentor; MOAA Chapter Secretary; Rotary Club Director; and an active supporter of “Home of the Brave” for Homeless Veterans. Now we are permanent guardians for our 9 year old grandson, making me the oldest Little League coach in Delaware!

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Bill passed away in May of 2001. After separating from Naval service, he became a manufacturer’s representative for various plastics companies until starting his own company, William G. Bartz and Associates, in the mid 1980’s in Annapolis. According to his children, he was the best father they could ever ask for, believing themselves to be his true legacy. They believe that he would say that the academy taught him discipline and gave him the tools to be successful in all endeavors. They also believe that through him, they learned those same traits. He passed away at the age of 57 doing what he loved most: PLAYING GOLF! on the 18th hole of the Ft. Meade Golf course. If Bill could have dreamed his own way to go, this would have been it.

Bill embraced technology and was one of the first to have a phone in his car so he could always be making sales calls. His work ethic and energy were second to none even in his mid fifties. He would be on the road starting at 5 AM and then play a late round of golf with his son until late in the evening. His daughter, Beth, moved to New York in 1997 and though he worried, he could not have been more proud that she was successfully living her dream. Through his love of technology, he would email her early in the morning (in all caps!). Of all of the advances in technology, he loved the latest flat screen TVs the most. In 2001, shortly before he passed away, he repeatedly said: “If the Panasonic plasma TV goes down just a little more, I am going to splurge and buy it.” At the time, the TV he wanted was about $10,000. He is probably enjoying the biggest flat screen ever up in heaven tuned into the latest golf tournament.

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Submitted by Jim Barrett My friend, Lt Dave Belew, USN died in the crash of a T-38 in Dorchester County, Maryland on 24 October 1974. He was 29 years old and one month away from graduating from the Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River. Dave was the first roommate I met plebe summer in our 4-man room. I remember initially Dave and I had limited verbal communications until I adapted to his intense southern drawl! Born and raised in Greenfield, TN, Dave was the local high school academic and athletic hero who lived the good life in (very) small town America. His father was the local pharmacist and Mom kept the home fires burning. When I visited his home in Greenfield during plebe year Christmas break, Dave introduced me to his best high school friend “TBone” (think “Dukes of Hazzard”)! Before we arrived in Greenfield, I almost believed his joke that “the city limit signs are back to back” and I was pleased to learn they did in fact have indoor plumbing! Dave was blessed with a ready wit, big smile and superb academic skills (often playing bridge through most of evening Study Hours). Standing near the top of the class, in just eighteen months Dave successfully completed the immediate Master’s Degree program at Monterey, including completion of all necessary academic requirements for a PhD. After graduation, Dave and his loving fiancée Jane were married and had a son David who graduated from USNA in 1997. In the fleet, Dave was first stationed at NAS Cecil in Jacksonville FL. During 1972-73 Dave was deployed with VA-81 on USS Forrestal, CV-59 flying A-7E’s and from there went on to Test Pilot School. Dave is my friend, and I still miss him.

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5th Company Willis C. Braswell Service History Communications Officer on the USS Laffey DD 724 from 1967 until 1969 Executive Officer USS Adroit MSO 509 from 1969 until 1971 Detailer Bupers 1971-1973 Principal Occupation Management Analyst in the General Accounting Office; Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for Special Health Initiatives; Program Manager in the Ship Design and Engineering Directorate of the Naval Sea Systems Command. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: As I drove away from USNA after graduation, I saw USNA in my rear view mirror. I said to myself that I would never set eyes on that place or think fondly of that place again. It took many years and some degree of insight, when I realized what a fine group of people I shared 4 years with and how much this 4 years was an invaluable life experience. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Humorous Memories of USNA: One learned when one arrived at USNA that one simply could not quit during plebe year. Then, 3rd class year a plebe stopped by my room and noted that we had taken the USNA entry physical together. Apparently, his eye exam and mine were switched. He retook the physical the next year and passed the eye exam with flying colors. So my astigmatism would have disqualified me for USNA. Well, I was in and there was no looking back. Except, all I wanted to do was fly planes. Easy. I chatted up the doc on each eye exam as I memorized the chart. Except the last time just before service selection the doc chatted well also, but flipped to a new chart. Surface navy for me. So one could say luck and mistakes got me into USNA. Please Answer Two Questions: We are developing the reunion book around the theme ‘Catalyst for Change”. It is the editorial staff concept that the academy was a catalyst for change for those of us who attended and we subsequently became a catalyst for change of the Navy/Marine Corps and the world we served in. To carry this theme into the biography sections, we are asking classmates to answer the following questions (Brevity encouraged, 200-300 words desired). The biographies will be limited to a half page including pictures. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Coming from a private military high school there were 10 slots to each service academy for "honor military schools". My classmates were applying for one of these 10 slots so I tried also. It seemed like a way to compete. I was selected about 3 weeks into a summer job in a local grocery store just prior to going to a good southern school. Initially, I went to USNA because it was the unknown and an adventure. And, it was a "free" education. The definition of "free" was explained to me months into the USNA experience. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely. I had absolutely no expectations upon entering USNA. I took a flight to Washington DC and a bus to Annapolis. An utterly new experience for a "wet behind the ears" 18 year old. You check in the next day and your time is consumed from that time forward. The only break that seemed to ever occur was when I started youngster year. Things were so slow in comparison to plebe year. I wondered about what I was missing in a civilian school. Then I met this young lady who lived in Annapolis and there was a reason to stay. But there were doubts. So junior summer leave I enrolled at the University of Georgia for summer courses. That was a defining moment. I was surrounded by students who seemed to be drifting through life without a purpose or goal. I awakened to the thought of what a special full education I was receiving at USNA and how extraordinary my classmates were. It was an honor to be included in their ranks. Then, while in the Navy and civilian life, I saw what an education I had received; not just books, but how to live one's life and meet every challenge head on with gusto. So yes, the comment about never seeing "that place" again showed how blind I was to the people and the experience I had the opportunity to be a part of for 4 years. Summary for yearbook I came to Navy from a private military high school in Georgia. Entry into USNA was through one of the slots assigned to "honor" military schools. I accepted the "invitation” because USNA was the unknown; an adventure. Besides, it was free, but the definition of "free" was only explained to me several months into the USNA experience. After graduation, I served in LAFFEY (DD 724), in ADROIT (MSO 509) as executive officer, and as a detailer at BuPers. I left the Navy in Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary 1973 and worked in the General Accounting Office; Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for Special Health Initiatives; Program Manager in the Ship Design and Engineering Directorate of the Naval Sea Systems Command. After the experience that was Plebe Year, Youngster year was so slow in comparison that I wondered what I might be missing in a civilian school. To find out, I enrolled at the University of Georgia for summer courses during 2/c summer. That was a defining moment. I was surrounded by students who seemed to be drifting through life without a purpose or goal. I awakened to the thought of what a special full education I was receiving at USNA and how extraordinary my classmates were. Even though I still waved goodbye to the Academy as I drove away in 1967 vowing never to return, I am very grateful to the people and the experience I had for 4 quite formative years. Have returned on many occasions. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve settled in Arlington VA and have taken on so many volunteer activities that it seems I am fully employed. So rewarding to see the results.

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5th Company James D. Buttinger Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (5th Company) 1967 – 69: USS Forrest B. Royal (DD872), Mayport, FL 1969-1971: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, M.S. Operations Research 1971-72: Naval Destroyer School, Newport, RI 1972-75: USS Robert Wilson (DD847), USS El Paso (LKA 117) Norfolk, VA 1975-78: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, Professor Administrative Science 1978-1980: USS America (CV66) Norfolk, VA 1980-82: Office of Secretary Defense, Comptroller Washington, DC 1982-87: USNA Professor Mathematics Department 1987: Retired from USN with rank of Commander Principal Occupation after the Navy Built, led and managed small groups of technical people for profit in the information, aerospace and defense industries. Helped sales people develop repeat, profitable business, where no business existed, by listening, aligning, qualifying, and solving customers’ mission-critical business problems. Worked with a group of young, bright people teaching them business excellence and business survival during 4 acquisitions/mergers in just 7 years. Adjunct Professor of Economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, courses taught included Macroeconomics, Economic Statistics, Introduction to Economics, Senior Seminar/Project Course. (The Navy and teaching at USNA were my career; the rest was making money to keep my women in the shoes to which they became accustomed.) Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Being married, having children and grandchildren. Extensive travels in Spain. The selection of my short story “Replay” as one of the 25 best in the bi-annual Gargoyle Press collection. Presenting the findings of my extensive review of the manuscript of the Pilot Mateo Jorge (ca. 1582-1612), written in archaic Spanish and Portuguese, at the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Casa de la Contratacion in Seville, Spain in January 2003. The findings uncovered the connection between the works of the cosmologist Martin Cortez (ca. 1555) with the pilots of the Casa inherent in a sequence of technical illustrations of navigation and broke the code of two of those illustrations hitherto indecipherable.

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Suzanne and I were married June 10th, 1967. We have two daughters Emily and Amanda and three grandchildren, Esme’, Luca and Teo. Suzanne built a business of fine cakes and cookies for special occasions with designs and confections that delight. Suzanne also put in five other careers to my one: besides raising two daughters and being an exemplary Navy wife with extensive local Navy relief work, she served at a high end restaurant, sold toys at a high end toy store and sold fashion at a very high end store to very high end women. Besides being an M-O-M, daughter Emily is a holistic health care provider for humans and canines in Seattle, one of her many claims to fame is doing body work on K9 dogs damaged in drug raids. Grandchild Esme’ (don’t forget the L'accent aigu !!!) dances in the Pacific Northwest and has beautiful Épaulement and Porte aux bras. Daughter Amanda is an M-O-M and a tour guide in Spain, Portugal, France and Sicily for Rick Steves Europe and authors his guide books. Grandson Luca wears number 10 for Club CF Madrid Rio: Chupetines in Madrid, Spain. Grandson Teo races Gran Prix. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Suzanne and I reside in Annapolis at 123 Academy (yes, that is the real address). Suzanne is phasing out of her cakes and cookies for special occasions business for time with friends and family and travel to London and Spain. She walks and reads and watches British cozies. I am a year round kayaker, preferring morning waters: http://jamesbuttinger.com/ Morning_Bay/ I write pulp short stories and novellas, continue my work on the Mateo manuscript and enjoy time with Suzanne in travel, reading, and walking and watching British cozies. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Most vivid: Being sworn in by JFK, who had presented me with a Mayor Daley scholarship, then standing at attention in fear of upperclassmen even though being told to stand at ease--by our Commander and Chief! Walking in front of Ward hall on a cold but brilliant sunny day, wondering why a Captain was sitting in the front seat of his car crying, leaning in without saluting and being told: “the President has been shot”. Return to: Table of Contents

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All the dances and weekends with Suzanne. Being taught German by Dick Meade (and to smoke cigarettes so as to be cool on a date with a Peruvian beauty in NYC, thank goodness I didn’t burn my lips). Feeling very sharp at ring dance with Suzanne because John Aunchman knew enough about music to get the entire Peter Duchin White House swing band for ring dance—THE society swing band of the moment!!!—instead of some lame-O bunch of local hack, half drunk union guys fronted by Henri Mancini. Fitness for life class as a firstie with Heinz Lenz. I still stand up to put on my socks and shoes—“You do this not just for physical balance but to remind yourself to have balance in your life!” (in his Austrian accent, of course).

Humorous Memories of USNA: Boxing class: I loved boxing class. My nose would bleed at the slightest touch and I knew once my blood was all over my face and all over my opponent I could win the round because my opponent would flinch and I could go in for the kill.

Awards Received None that I recall. Academic Achievement Dean’s and Supt’s lists. Athletic Threw the winning TD pass to John Aunchman in the heavyweight touch football championship game. John extended beautifully and although he shattered his collarbone making the clutch catch and being blasted by the opposition in the end zone, he held onto the ball for the winning TD! At least, that’s how I remember the game… Service Awards I forget. Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I knew my parents could not fund a college education and I wanted to be the first male in the entire line on both Mom and Dad’s sides to get a college degree. Also helped that as a pre-teen, one day Dad took me to the automobile storage garage where he worked as day manager and told me to get that red dusty stuff you scatter on the floor and, like he did every day, sweep down the car garage starting up on the second deck (I was the only kid who knew a Bentley from a Rolls). I grew up with the notion from Mom that one ought to serve, somehow, someway and Navy seemed like a way to get a college education and serve. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes. Besides the leadership and academics, I took away a lasting belief in sport and fitness for life. Sample Final Yearbook write-up: For 20 years (1967-1987): a Naval Officer, served in ships-of-the-line: destroyers, amphibious ship, aircraft carrier as division officer and department head in organizations ranging in size from 20-200 sailors, petty officers and officers, responsible for safe navigation and fighting of the ship. Received Masters in Operations Research and Administrative Science from Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). While in uniform, taught at NPS and later, USNA. Retired at 20 years with the rank of Commander. For almost 20 years (1987-2006): Built, led and managed small groups of technical people for profit in the information, aerospace and defense industries. Helped sales people develop repeat, profitable business, where no business existed, by listening, aligning, qualifying, and solving customers’ mission-critical business problems. Worked with a group of young, bright people teaching them business excellence and business survival during 4 acquisitions/mergers in just 7 years. From 2006 until lately: Adjunct Professor of Economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, courses taught included Macroeconomics, Economic Statistics, Introduction to Economics, Senior Seminar/Project Course. Suzanne and I were married June 10th, 1967. Suzanne and I reside in Annapolis at 123 Academy (yes, that is the real address). We have two daughters Emily and Amanda and three grandchildren, Esme’, Luca and Teo. Our daughters and grandchildren live rich, full lives because they embrace: education, fitness, service. Suzanne is phasing out of her cakes and cookies for special occasions business for time with friends and family and travel to London and Spain. She walks, reads and watches British cozies. I am a year round kayaker, preferring morning waters: http://jamesbuttinger.com/ Morning_Bay/ I write pulp short stories and novellas, continue my work transcribing, translating and deciphering the codex in the Mateo pilot guide manuscript written in archaic Spanish and Portuguese (ca. 1582-1612) and enjoy time with Suzanne in travel, reading, walking and watching British cozies (wait, he was in… she was in… like daughter Emily sez, there are only so many British actors... ). 216

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5th Company Stephen D. Delesie In my short Naval career, the highlights were serving as CIC Officer aboard the USS Bache (DD-470), which we abandoned in a storm off of Rhodes Greece in 1968. This was followed as Missile/Gunnery Officer on the USS Talbot (DEG 4). After leaving the Navy, I joined the Arrow Shirt Company in 1971 and started a 44-year career in the Men’s Apparel manufacturing industry. I held various positions in Sales/Marketing for several other companies. I left the corporate world and started my own company with a business model focused on the marketing and distribution of better designer brands in the thirteen Western states. After building my company to revenues of scale, I decided to retire at age 72. I was fortunate my career afforded me many of life’s amenities. I feel blessed that I was able to set aside free time as needed with the financial means to enjoy life to its fullest. I met my wife, Cindy Calkins, right before graduation and we were married in 1968. Her career was spent in education. We have two wonderful children. Aaron, 43,and his wife are published and world traveled photographers whose clients include celebrities and high net worth individuals. Amy, 40, and her husband have created and sold three tech companies and are fortunate to be in a position of “work optional” at relatively young ages. Our two grandchildren, Colin, 10, an aspiring tennis player and Sophie, 7, an aspiring dancer, bring much joy to our lives. I am grateful I was always able to orchestrate my life around my family. I will forever be thankful as life turned out better than I could have imagined.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Dorel J. Dewar After graduation I received designation as a Naval Flight Officer specializing in Electronic Warfare. Several squadron tours in the EK-A3B and EA-6B aircraft culminated in a Commanding Officer tour of VAQ135 at Whidbey Island. I met and married my wife, Leanne, while stationed at Whidbey Island. I’ve been fortunate to enjoy squadron and staff tours of duty throughout the world, and in particular, Athens, Greece and Naples, Italy. The last seven years on active duty were attached to the Navy Recruiting Command, serving as Commanding Officer of two Recruiting Districts and, at retirement, in 1993, as Commander of Recruiting Area Five based in Great Lakes, Illinois. In 1995, I went into business with one of our sons and continued with him for five years before retiring completely to focus on assisting our local church in various leadership, administrative, teaching and music ministries. Leanne and I both continue in those capacities. I was fortunate, while on active duty, to receive a Masters of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Washington. Leanne, using her degree in Fine Arts from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, continues to develop her skills and talents as a Calligraphic Artist. In 2009, we decided to become Snow Birds. We now “winter over” in Indio, California at an “Over 55” retirement resort we were introduced to through Leanne’s parents. We are blessed to have two sons and four grandchildren. We are pleased, and exceeding proud of them all. We thank God for our continued good health. We built our retirement home in Oak Harbor, WA in 2008 and enjoy our summers crabbing and fishing, while trying to keep ahead of Mother Nature. There is “room in the inn” should you find yourself in our area.

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5th Company Dennis J. Faulds Service History 1963-67 Naval Academy (5th Co.) 1967-68 Naval Air Training Command; received wings August ‘68 1968-69 P-3 Replacement Air Training, NAS North Is land and NAS Moffett Field 1969-72 VP-19 NAS Moffett Field, CA deploying to : Adak, AL, MCAS Iwakuni, JA, NAS Cubi, Philippines, Cam Ranh Bay, Viet Nam, Utapao, Thailand 1972 Transferred to Naval Reserves 1972-93 Served in various Commands at NAS Glenview, IL including VP-60, VP-4046, VP-90, NAS Adak. Served as Commanding Officer of final three units. 1993 Retired from Naval Reserves with rank of Cap tain Principal Occupations 1972-89 Commercial Pilot with Eastern Airlines 1974-75 Sales Engineer with Honeywell 1990-2006 Commercial Pilot with Northwest Airlines 1993-96 with wife, Marguerite, started private music company in Crystal Lake, IL Interesting, unusual, or memorable life events Flew many and varied missions in the P-3 aircraft that took me to the far corners of the earth including: 1.) A support mission for the SS Manhattan, a specially reinforced supertanker that tested the viability of the Northwest Passage for the transport of North Slope oil. The results of the project eventually led to the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. 2.) A mission for CINCPACFLT flown out of Pago Pago, American Samoa monitoring French Nuclear Tests in the South Pacific. Wife, Children, and Grandchildren Married to my wife, Marguerite, for 49 years. Raised two daughters, Danielle and Audra. Danielle is a self-employed CPA and business consultant. Audra is self-employed home management counselor. We have four grandchildren ranging in age from 9 to 18; Hunter, Madison, Ansley and Isabella. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Health is good. Family is close. We enjoy our grandkids tremendously. We volunteer lots at local charities. Play tennis and golf. Love to travel. Most vivid/fondest memories of USNA June Week ’67, especially Graduation Day. Youngster and First Class Cruises. First chance to visit many foreign destinations. Bought my first car on cruise. Spent many weekends First Class Year driving my new car and visiting friends. Humorous Memories of USNA Trying to get over wall to return to Bancroft Hall after snow paralyzed Annapolis. Also trying to keep my roommate out of trouble after his many late forays to town. Awards Received Academic: GRADUATED! Athletic: NO BROKEN BONES! Service Awards: Air Medal (2), Navy Commendation Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy “E” Ribbon (2) Uniform Device Naval Aviator Wings Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to obtain from attending? My father enlisted in the U. S. Navy in the early ‘20’s and retired as a LCDR in the Medical Corps after World War II. He died when I was very young. But the memorabilia of his life in the Service piqued my interest in the Navy. Then my high school counselor urged me to apply to Annapolis. The rest is history. Through a family friend who was a retired Naval Aviator, I caught the bug to fly. His tales about traveling the world as a Navy Pilot led me to select Naval Aviation as a career. I spent nearly my whole naval career flying the P-3 all over the world. Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Did the Academy experience satisfy your expectations? Life during and after the Academy more than met my expectations. Responsibility, integrity, and loyalty were engrained in my character for life. There were many hard knocks along the way. But those key traits have served me well throughout life. And that small sense of notoriety obtained by graduating from USNA has always given me a certain â&#x20AC;&#x153;feel goodâ&#x20AC;? experience my whole adult life. I have lived a rich and enjoyable life. Summary write-up for Denny Faulds Selected Naval Aviation as my career path. Received my Navy Wings in August 1968. First duty station was VP-19 NAS Moffett Field, CA. Flew in all parts of the Pacific including Adak, Al; Iwakuni, JA; Cam Rahn Bay; NAS Cubi Pt., Philippines; Utapao, Thailand; Guam and many places in between. In 1972 transferred to the Naval Reserves flying the P-3 out of NAS Glenview, IL. Continued my travels to the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and Europe. Retired from the Naval Reserves in 1993 after CO tours in VP-4046, VP-90, and NS Adak. Married my wife of 49 years in 1968. Our first daughter was born in 1970 followed by our second daughter in 1973. Family has now expanded to include two sons-in-law and four grandchildren. We all live in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. My civilian career started in 1972 when I was hired as a pilot by Eastern Air Lines. Have subsequently worked for Honeywell, Northwest Air Lines, and my wife and I started our own music business in 1993. Have erased the horrors of plebe year. But have vivid memories of all the sporting events, weekend trips to town and especially all the excursions First Class year in my new MGB. I thank my years at USNA for totally rebuilding my character and giving me the tools to live a very enjoyable and prosperous life.

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5th Company Richard B. Hall Service History (Jun 1963-Jul 2003): 1. Engineering USS BELKNAP (DLG-26) – [67-71] DCA, two tours in Viet Nam/Gulf of Tonkin. With detours to Japan, Hong Kong, Australia. Led the Polliwog Revolt when Crossing the Line and got the shit beat out of me. Norfolk Naval Shipyard – [70-71] Ship Sup; over haul, repair, sea trials, dry-docking, etc. 2. Medicine Worked my way thru Medical School 1971-1976 (Pre-med x1 yr, Med Sch x 4yr) Naval Hosp Charleston [77-79] – Residency in Family Practice Naval Hosp Pax River [79-80] – Family Practice US Nav Hosp Naples [80-84] – Family Practice, Emergency Room Director Naval Hosp Newport [84-87] – Family Practice, ER Director Naval Clinic Norfolk [87-90] – Family Practice, Director Medical Staff US Nav Hosp Sigonella [90-94] – Executive Officer, Family Practice Naval Hosp Groton [94-97] – Commanding Officer, Family Practice US SIXTH FLEET [97-2000] – Fleet Surgeon, Family Practice US EUROPEAN COMMAND [00-02] – EUCOM Combatant Surgeon, FP Naval Hosp Portsmouth [02-03] – Family Practice/Retired fm USN 3. Post-Retirement Naval Hosp Portsmouth [02-15] – Occupational Health Principal Occupation : Medicine – Emergency Medicine, Family Practice and Occupational Medicine Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Hard to say what is memorable once you get past the MOST memorable events of my life: marriage to Janie two weeks after my first tour in Viet Nam and the birth of my children. You'd think it would be hard to approach that, but I've had the honor and wonder of a lifetime of medicine - hundreds of deliveries, every one of them a miracle. I've been involved in or witness to innumerable births, life events and deaths. The cruelty of being unable to save a 27-year-old who just made a wrong choice, or the 55-year-old who made a lifetime of small choices. The joy of resuscitating a person to a life that seemed all but lost. But the life-long Navy side of my life has allowed me to experience even more –the solemnity of Shinto temples, grand Buddhist monasteries, meeting the Archbishop in isolated Mount Athos, the Grand Mosque in Bahrain where I sat and talked to the Imam for more than an hour about religion, the chance for our entire family to be part of the week-long Eastern Orthodox Easter celebration in the services and with those families on Easter Day celebrations, more stunning churches than I could count, being in Israel on Palm Sunday with a priest as a 'liberty buddy', in Bethlehem, in the Garden of Gethsemane, walking the Via Doloroso and the profoundly moving experience the Church of the Holy Sepulcher... -- And then one week later, being at sea, watching cruise missiles blast up into the dark, dark night as they streak toward Serbia. And many other events: diving officer (as Mid) on one of the last diesel-electric boats, USS PIPER (SS409), the long 'On Line' periods in Viet Nam, the super-secret flash message that sent us from the Philippines to the frigid waters of the Sea of Japan to take station off North Korea after the PUEBLO was captured, working the Medevac of the dead and horribly injured USS COLE Sailors with the French in Djibouti and later presenting the American viewpoint of the at a French Military Medical meeting in Marseille and going from there (by bullet train with Janie) to meet the French Surgeon Generale for dinner in Paris. Going to Lithuania just months after the Soviet pull-out to help establish their military medical department. How little they had, but how grateful they were for our assistance. Africa will always be on my mind. EUCOM was deeply committed and how many others (as part of their military duties) have met the King of several African tribes in Ghana, been charged by an Elephant in Botswana, flown over the jungles in helicopters to be met by jubilant villagers when we land, or seen such horrible privation in Niger (and elsewhere) that it will always stay with you? -- Finally back to family: Janie is such a talent and such a dreamer: in Italy that she made us do the impossible and get a home in Venice where she can paint (and 'be the mayor"). We hung by our fingernails (financially) to pull that one off and Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary the pay-back meant not retiring until the debt was under control. Another dumb thing that turned out so well. (The first one being dumb enough to think I could get into medical school, and that seemed to work out OK!). I tell folks that "I was in the Navy for 40 years, and that they finally kicked me out because I was having too much fun"!! Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Most vivid – I can still remember walking into the Yard that day in 1963 and just being amazed by the majesty of the Academy. It’s hard not to be impressed and to (in very short order) to buy into the concept of something greater than yourself Humorous Memories of USNA: When we were Firsties we would go sailing with the girls and we would take along food and drink. Ken Ptack had a particular thirst for Mountain Dew – because he would pour out about half of the Mountain Dew (in each can) and add an equal amount of something alcoholic. It was a great idea and lead to some ocean-going (well, bay-going) adventures. More than once we would haul up to an unsuspecting Dingy and board her, sometimes taking prisoners, but more often just loot – and often a thrilling chase. Well, not exactly thrilling, more like hilarious. Everyone was so plowed and giggly we often just couldn’t maintain the good seamanship necessary to escape. – a good time was had by all, even though we were occasionally threatened with being reported. And at least we didn’t sink our boat like Aunchman (and I think Mead). Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” a) “The Men from Annapolis” was a big deal when we were kids, so there was the mystique or prestige factor. b) The excellent education was very attractive and c) When I graduated from HS, my dad said “Write when you get work.” Going to the Academy seemed an expedient method to fund my education. Beyond the above, I have no idea what I expected to obtain from attending. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Short answer: Yes, since I had no realistic “expectations”, at age 18, beyond being accepted at the college of my choice. As I served in the Fleet, and later in the Medical Department, the USNA ‘hardening’ experience made my path immeasurably easier and my goals clear. I stayed in the Navy for 40 years (from I-Day to retirement) and did so to Make a Difference for the commands and for the troops that worked for me or saw me as a physician. My measure was not just efficiency and effectiveness, but also what I called “The Rule of Reasonableness”, meaning would any given action of mine be viewed as reasonable to the “casual observer” - - and I strove to pass these tenets to those who served under me. Dr. Richard Hall's specialty is occupational medicine. He attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and subsequently trained at Naval Hospital Charleston for residency. Dr. Hall has received the distinction of Board Certified in Healthcare Management (CHE), American College of Healthcare Executives. In addition to English, he speaks Italian. He is professionally affiliated with Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth. Summary write up for R. B. Hall USNA graduation was my ticket to two tours in Vietnam on BELKNAP (DLG-26) with detours to Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and Tahiti. I left Navy Engineering behind in 1971 and worked my way through medical school at the University of Virginia. Specializing in Family Practice and Emergency Medicine, I served in numerous hospitals and clinics. I had a taste of leadership as well: after a CO tour at Groton, I was the U.S. Sixth Fleet Surgeon, then Combatant Surgeon at U.S. European Command. I retired in 2003; I tell folks that "I was in the Navy for 40 years. They finally kicked me out because I was having too much fun!!" Since then I have served as Occupational Health Doc at Naval Station Norfolk. As a doctor I've had the honor and wonder of a lifetime of medicine. The Navy side of my life has allowed me to experience the world - from the solemnity of Shinto temples, grand Buddhist monasteries, meeting and talking to Greek Orthodox and Islamic religious leaders, to seeing the foundations of Christianity in Jerusalem. It has taken me from the gun line in Vietnam to the coast of North Korea during the PUEBLO's capture, to working the Medevac of COLE sailors, to helping establish Lithuanian military medicine, to meeting African tribal kings, to witnessing terrible privation in Niger. These things will stay with me always. The highlights of it all, though, were when Janie and I were married two weeks after my first tour in Vietnam and the births of our three wonderful daughters. Janie is such a talent and such a dreamer. In Italy she made us do the impossible and get a home in Venice where she can paint and "be the mayor." She knows everybody and everybody knows her. A magic lady.

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5th Company Gary W. Hodak Service History ACTIVE DUTY: 1963-1967: Naval Academy 5th Company 1967-1968: Pensacola/Milton, FL Designated a naval aviator October 1968. 1968-1969: NADC Warminister, PA Recruiting duty! Recruiting aviation candidates was a real eye opening experience during those years. 1969-1972: Duty station Imperial Beach, San Diego, CA. Spent 6 months in the RAG getting qualified in the UH-2C. Spent the next 21 months in HC-1 Det-9 cruising. First cruise was on the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43). Between short cruises and a long one, spent almost a year aboard. Left San Francisco September 1969 and returned in June 1970. Got to see Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, and spent a lot of time on the line. Got to pick a few folks out of the water too. Next cruise was aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34). It was an instant replay of the first cruise except I was an aircraft commander and the ops boss and a maintenance test pilot. Test pilot for the UH2-C gave me more than a few gray hairs. 1972-1974: Spent the next two years at NPGS, Monterey getting a degree in Operations Research/Systems Analysis. Worked real hard to get my thesis done three months early so I could take electives and play golf my last quarter. My efforts were rewarded by getting terminated three months early. Got my diploma in a crushed brown envelope while aboard ship in WESTPAC! 1974-1976: Spent the next 2 years as Air Operations Officer for Commander Amphibious Squadron Seven. Worked with the Marines on a number of exercises in the Philippines and South Korea. Was in the task force that evacuated the embassy in Saigon. Had most of the embassy staff personnel on our ship. We were pushing Vietnamese Hueys over the side as fast as we could. We had to make room for the Air Force 53s and the Marine 46s that were bringing people out. Watching those Air Force pilots landing on the ship was very interesting. It was an experience I will always remember. 1976-1977: Stationed at NAS PT. MUGU. Transitioned to the H-46. Flew drone recovery, SAR, logistics, test and evaluation missions. Participated in the testing program for the development of the cruise missile. Left active duty July 1977. RESERVE DUTY: 1977-1978: Helicopter Training Squadron 0874, Jacksonville, FL. Training Officer 1978-1982: Helicopter Antisubmarine Wing 0174, Jacksonville, FL. Was the admin/pers officer initially, then selected as commanding officer. 1982-1983: Patrol Wing 1174, Jacksonville, FL. Admin/training officer 1983-1985: Naval Reserve Voluntary Training Unit 0809, Orlando, FL. Special Projects Officer 1986-1993: Commander Sealift Command, Southwest Asia 108, Tampa, FL. Operations Officer. Unit was recalled to active duty March 91 for operation Desert Storm. Spent 6 months in Saudi working the ports. The amount of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps equipment that had to be shipped out was incredible. 1993: Retired 3 September 1993 as CDR-USNR Principal Occupation After leaving the service I took a position as an operations/systems analyst with the Training Analysis and Evaluation Group (TAEG), Orlando FL. TAEG was a part of the Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) organization. The group did analysis and studies relative to training/education/fiscal/computer problems in the training command. Next TAEG became part of the Naval Training System Center. Finally Navair took command of the organization. The new name was Naval Air Systems Command, Training Systems Division. During this time I enrolled in the University of Central Florida and obtained a doctorate degree in training and education. I continued to do studies and analysis until 1995 when I became Deputy Director for Marine Corps Ground Programs. I remained in that position until I retired in 2001. Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Mary and I were married at Christmas time in 1967. We had three children, two boys and a girl. Now I have three grandchildren, two boys and a girl. One little boy was adopted from Russia and I had the privilege of going with my daughter to get him and bring him home. We got him in December and I can tell you Russia in winter is cold and snowy. Life is good, all three of my children and grandchildren live in the local area. Retirement is great! I spend my time traveling, fly fishing, and spending time with the grandchildren. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA:

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There are many memories I have of the Academy. And a lot of them I would like to forget! The most vivid memories are of some of the comearounds I had as a plebe. The fondest memories I have are of the people I met. Humorous Memories of USNA: The food fights in the mess hall were unbelievable.

1. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” . My original intent was to attend the Air Force Academy. I wanted to fly, see Disneyland, and go around the world. My congressman had no opening for the Air Force Academy so I chose the Navy. I planned to get a degree in aeronautical engineering and transfer to the Air Force at graduation. 2. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy exceeded my education expectations. The quality of content and instruction were, for the most, part outstanding. The part of the Academy experience that had the most impact on me was how it changed me not only physically but mentally. I learned I could do a lot more than I could have imagined. And the value of teamwork! Summary for yearbook After graduation went to Flight training, got my wings, got married and went to San Diego to fly helicopters. Spent three years there (21 months at sea) and made two cruises to Westpac, one on the Coral Sea the other on the Oriskany. Family grew by two, daughter and son. Tour at beautiful Monterey followed. It was back to the books and resulted in a masters degree in operations research/systems analysis. Then it was back to San Diego for a tour with the amphibious navy. Had to do a short deployment and a long one. Also got to deploy for the evacuation of Saigon. Family grew by one, another son. Then it was off to PT. Mugu for my last active duty assignment. I left active duty and joined the civil service in Orlando, Florida as an operations research analyst. Coached two soccer teams for about 12 years, joined the Naval Reserves, and got my doctorate degree in education. Spent 16 years in the reserves, was recalled for Desert Storm, spent 6 months in Saudi, and retired as a Commander in 1993. Worked another 8 years and retired from civil service in 2001. Am presently enjoying grandchildren, traveling, and fly fishing.

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5th Company James R. McNeece Service History 1967-1968 University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, IL 1968-1969 The Basic School, Quantico, VA 1969-1970 Undergraduate Pilot Training, Craig AFB, Selma, AL 1970-1971 VMAT-103 & VMAT-102, MCCRTG 10, MCAS Yuma, AZ 1971-1972 VMA-223, MAG 13, MCAS El Toro, CA 1972-1973 VMA-311, MAG 12, MCAS Iwakuni, Japan & Bien Hoa AB, RVN 1973-1976 Physics Department, Division of Math & Science, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 1976-1977 Amphibious Warfare School, Quantico, VA 1977-1979 VMAT-102, MCCRTG 10, MCAS Yuma, AZ 1979-1982 VMA-214, MAG 13 MCAS El Toro, CA & MCAS Iwakuni, Japan 1983-1984 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, MCAS El Toro, CA 1984-1987 Plans Division & Tactical Space Planning Branch, PP&O, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Arlington, VA Principal Occupation (Life after USNA, with detours as applicable): Director, Simulations & Training Systems, Decision-Science Applications, Inc; Senior Vice President, Administration, SM&A Corporation; Volunteer Coordinator/ Administrative Coordinator, Chesapeake Region 2012 Coalition; Director of Finance & Administration, The TCI Companies; Manager, Program Finance, Serco, Inc. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • Going through Air Force flight school at Craig AFB. AL instead of Navy flight training at Pensacola, and checking into my first Marine Corps duty station wearing silver Air Force wings instead of gold naval aviator wings. • Being part the leadership of an ad hoc 10 plane A-4 "squadron" run by 4 USMC captains and 6 lieutenants from two established gun squadrons and taking it into combat to Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam in 1972. We received adult supervision the next day when the rest of Marine Air Group-12 arrived. • Founding and standing up a new branch in Plans Division, HQMC that was devoted to the use of outer space assets and products by the Marine Corps. • Being part of the effort to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to Washington, D.C. Though we failed, being able to associate with athletes of Olympic caliber was a once in a lifetime experience. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Pat and I married in 1970. Our daughters, Kate and Erin, were born in the USNA hospital during my tour as a physics instructor at Navy. Both girls are married. Kate, the oldest, lives in Cleveland, OH with her husband and two sons; Erin, the youngest, lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? After retiring from the Marine Corps in 1987, working for a couple of defense contractors, and failing at permanent retirement two or three times in the process, I finally have it right. I am the Secretary of the Great USNA Class of 1967 and do volunteer community work. Pat likes travel, so we spend several weeks a year seeing Europe and North America. And then there are the grandkids.

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Lining up on the sidelines with the D&B for a halftime show and watching Roger Staubach just feet away with a would be Army tackler hanging on him complete an amazing touchdown pass. • Being snowed in for 2 days in Hagerstown trying to get back from Spring Leave 2/c year with my roommate, his girlfriend and her roommate. • Coming out of Portuguese class in Leahy Hall and learning of the assassination of President Kennedy. A workman outside Isherwood Hall had his car radio on, and a group of us gathered around to listen. • Strawberries and ice cream; do-it-yourself ice cream sundae kits, and at the other end of the spectrum, scuba steak.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Humorous Memories of USNA: • The A-4 in Tecumseh Court. • Maj Crash Griffin making us patch holes in the walls of our 1st Wing rooms using liberated cement mixed in the sink the night before we moved to 3rd Wing during Plebe Year. • Digging out the car of a liquor salesman at the motel in Hagerstown where my roommate and I were snowed in. When the Maryland State Troopers turned him back, he opened up his sample cases to ease the pain. Please Answer Two Questions -• I never applied to the Naval Academy, only to the Air Force Academy because I wanted to fly Air Force jets. It turned out that my congressman only had one USAFA appointment available that year and I was 4th on his list. He said I should come back the next year, but asked if I'd take an appointment to another academy. All I knew about Navy was that a retired Army major, a life insurance salesman, had told me that it was the place to go for the best education, so I replied, "Maybe Navy." A few weeks later, my mother called me at school and told me that Earl Wright, publisher of our town's weekly newspaper, had gotten the list and I had an appointment to the Naval Academy. I told her to "Call Earl back right now and get this straightened out. I'm going to Air Force." About ten minutes later, she called back and said "No…Earl says you're going to Annapolis!" I first laid eyes on the place when dropped off on the corner outside Gate 1. • Not knowing anything about USNA when I arrived I had no specific expectations, but I had dreams. Every one has come true. Since I was a little boy, I had wanted to fly and be part of a great military organization. The Academy made that possible. I spent a career in the cockpit of the A-4 Skyhawk. I am a Marine. I have had the distinct privilege of being part of the Class of '67 and being able to call "Classmate" some of the most outstanding people in this country. And I have done it in the company of my best friends in the world, Pat, and our daughters Kate and Erin. I am so lucky and blessed. YEARBOOK WRITE-UP After graduation I attended the University of Illinois for one year on an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship before going to Quantico for The Basic School. In 1969, I was assigned to Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training at Selma AFB, AL followed by additional training at MCAS Yuma, AZ to earn my naval aviator designation. After a swing through MCAS El Toro, CA, I joined VMA-311 at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. While deployed to Okinawa in 1972, our training detachment was ordered to pack up and fly south. We formed an ad hoc 10 plane A-4 "squadron" run by 4 USMC captains and 6 lieutenants from two established gun squadrons. We led Marine Air Group-12 into Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam for combat operations. Upon return to the U.S. in 1973, I had a tour at USNA teaching physics. That tour was hard to top, but I wound up back in Yuma as an A-4 instructor pilot, followed by another trip to El Toro and Iwakuni with the VMA-214 Blacksheep. My final Marine Corps tour was at Headquarters Marine Corps as the Corps' nuclear weapons planner. In a strange twist, I stood up a new branch in HQMC's Plans Division devoted to the use of outer space assets and products by the Marine Corps. Upon retirement from active duty in 1987, I began working in the defense industry in the Washington area and finally retired for good in 2012. I met my wife, Pat, at the University of Illinois. We married in 1970, and our two daughters were born at the Naval Academy Hospital during our USNA tour. Kate, the oldest, lives in Cleveland, OH with her husband and two sons; Erin, the youngest, lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two daughters.

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5th Company Richard J. Meade Service History 1963 - 67: USNA (4th then 5 th Company) 1967 - 69: USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764), Newport, RI. Communications Officer 1969 - 70: Staff, Commander Destroyer Squadron Thirty-Two, Norfolk, VA. Staff Communications Officer 1970-72: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. MS, Telecommunications Systems Management 1972-73: Destroyer School, Newport, RI 1973 - 1975: USS Corry (DD-817), Norfolk, VA and then Philadelphia, PA 1975-77: Staff, Commander, Cruiser- Destroyer Group Two/Destroyer Development Group, Charleston, SC. Staff Communications Officer 1977 - 79: U.S. Naval Communications Area Master Station Western pacific, Guam, MI. Operations Management Officer 1979: USS Chicago (CG011), San Diego, CA. Communications Officer 1979 - 81: USS Charleston (LKA-113). First Lieutenant 1981 - 83: Defense Communications Agency Field Office, Naples, IT. Commander 1983 - 86: U.S. Naval Communications Area Master Station Atlantic, Norfolk, VA. Executive Officer 1986 - 87: U.S. Naval Communications Area Master Station Mediterranean Detachment, Sigonella, Sicily, IT. Officer in Charge 1987 - 89: U.S. Naval Communications Station Sicily, Sigonella, Sicily, IT. The first Commanding Officer of the newly established Communications station. 1989 - 1990: Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Norfolk, VA. Chief, Communications Systems Section 1990: Retired with the rank of Commander. Principal Occupation I was a Surface Warfare qualified officer who was “marked” early in my career as a Communicator. My Communication assignments were afloat on DDs, a CG, Destroyer Squadron Staff, Cruiser Destroyer Group Staff and ashore from GUAM, MI to Sicily, IT where I stood up U.S. Naval Communications Station Sicily. Post-retirement employment naturally was in Communications as a government contractor working with companies such as GTE and MITRE in positions that were sometimes classified. My final position was as a subcontractor to CACI performing personnel security investigations for the Office of Personnel Management. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I was most fortunate to be able to have my family with me for all of my shore duty assignments and as a result my children are at ease in a variety of cultures and are comfortable talking with people of all social classes and positions. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Kathy and I were married in June 1967 and we have one son, Richard, who is one of the founders of the Wounded Warrior Project and father of one son and grandfather of one girl; a daughter Mary who is a Program Manager for a major Telecommunications Company and mother of two boys; and a daughter, Margaret who is a Registered Dietician and mother of five boys and one girl. Kathy has held several administrative positions over the years but when she retired in 2006, she assumed the most important and enjoyable position as a fulltime Grandmother. Kathy is totally involved in the lives of all of the grandchildren and we are most fortunate that they live close enough to us so that we may attend their soccer, basketball, baseball, and swimming events. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired life is good and I keep out of Kathy’s way running a small business at home that sells Italian Espresso and espresso equipment online. Kathy and I also discovered the joy of river cruising and have made several cruises in Europe. We also revisited Italy, including a cooking class in Cortona, and traveled throughout England with a trip that included attending the Military Tatoo in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • The blind date on April 11, 1964 where I met my best friend and future wife Kathleen Mary Cashman. • Attending Football, Soccer, and Lacrosse games. The thrill of the annual Army Navy game. • Singing in the Catholic Choir. Being a member of the Navy Fencing Team (Saber), that placed third in the 1967 “Easterns”. • Making lifelong friends. Humorous Memories of USNA: Every good comedian knows that timing is the key to success and my timing was flawless as I played numerous tricks on the upperclassmen as a Plebe. Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors: Academic Achievement I graduated in the top ten of the bottom 100. Squeezed through grad school at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA Athletic Navy Fencing Team (Saber) Service Awards Meritorious Service Medal (2nd Award), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation with Operational Distinguishing Device, National Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Navy and Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon (5 th Award)

Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I grew up in the South Bronx, NY and was influenced by the popular television show at the time: “Men of Annapolis”. I liked the thoughts of obtaining a degree from a prestigious college, the job security of a twenty or more year career and the challenges and adventure serving the USA in the Navy. As I reflect on the past, I would do it again and wouldn’t change anything. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes. I obtained a degree and had fun in the process. I was somewhat apprehensive when I received my first assignment to be a Communications Officer on a Destroyer because of my experience during my First Class Cruise. I observed the almost daily “chewing out” that the COMMO received and resolved to do my time and then get out. However, I found out that I really liked Communications and with all humility aside, I was good at it. I was fortunate to be placed into challenging positions both afloat and ashore and had fun working in a field that was growing by quantum leaps and bounds. Summary for yearbook My first duty station was a Destroyer out of Newport, RI as a Communications Officer and that was the start of an adventure that would take me from the far reaches of Guam, MI to two tours of duty in Italy. My assignments were afloat on DDs, a CG, Destroyer Squadron Staff, Cruiser Destroyer Group Staff and ashore from GUAM, MI to Sicily, IT where I stood up U.S. Naval Communications Station Sicily. I retired on September 1, 1990 as a Commander.

Fond memories of life at USNA: The blind date on April 11, 1964 where I met my best friend and future wife Kathleen Mary Cashman; attending Football, Soccer, and Lacrosse games; the thrill of the annual Army Navy game; singing in the Catholic Choir; being a member of the Navy Fencing Team (Saber) that placed third in the 1967 “Easterns”; making lifelong friends. Kathy and I were married in June 1967 and we have one son, Richard, who is one of the founders of the Wounded Warrior Project and father of one son and grandfather of one girl; a daughter Mary who is a Program Manager for a major Telecommunications Company and mother of two boys; and a daughter, Margaret who is a Registered Dietician and mother of five boys and one girl. Kathy has held several administrative positions over the years but when she retired in 2006, she assumed the most important and enjoyable position as a fulltime Grandmother. Kathy is totally involved in the lives of all of the grandchildren and we are most fortunate that they live close enough to us so that we may attend their 228

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5th Company soccer, basketball, baseball, and swimming events. I was most fortunate to be able to have my family with me for all of my shore duty assignments and as a result my children are at ease in a variety of cultures and are comfortable interacting with people of all social classes and positions. Retired life is good and I keep out of Kathyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way running a small business at home that sells Italian Espresso and espresso equipment online. Kathy and I also discovered the joy of river cruising and have made several cruises in Europe. We also revisited Italy, including a cooking class in Cortona, and traveled throughout England with a trip that included attending the Military Tatoo in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary David J. Nielsen

After graduation from USNA I attended the Navy Postgraduate School in the immediate masters program, graduating at the top of my class in aeronautical engineering. I next attended flight school and after receiving my wings I was assigned to an F-4 squadron on the East coast. I had squadron and carrier tours and left the Navy when my obligated service was completed. Putting my NPGS education to work I got a job with Pratt and Whitney in Florida for a couple years. I also taught math at a local Junior college. I then moved back to my home state of Washington and went to work for Boeing. I spent the rest of my career at Boeing in various assignments first in Washington and then in California. I tutored math through our church both in California and when I retired in Alabama. I traveled extensively to Europe and besides working hard was able to enjoy visiting much of continent. I especially enjoyed a mapping project to Alaska when I flew with a bush pilot and was able to see some of the more beautiful and remote parts of the state.

My wife Brenda and I had one child, Ryan David Nielsen. We have two step-children and four grandchildren, one of whom is in the Navy. I retired in Alabama to be near family and enjoy the laid back low cost of living the South has to offer. My hobbies include fishing, diving, tennis and especially golf. I also enjoy picking up bargains at local swap meets. Dave submitted this information before he died on June 23, 2017, fighting multiple ailments. He will be sorely missed by Brenda, his step-children and grandchildren, as well as all of his classmates and shipmates. Guide those who navigate on high Who through grave unknown perils fly, Emma Mayhew Whiting (1943)

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5th Company William L. Norris Service History 1963-67: USNA (5th Company) 1967-68: Immediate Masters Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (MSNE) 1968: USS Halfbeak (SS 352) Assistant Engineer 1968-69: Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, MD 1969: Nuclear Power Training Unit, Winsor Locks, CT 1970: Submarine Officers Indoctrination Course, Naval Submarine School, Groton, CT 1970-72: USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657) Blue, Groton Connecticut (Refits in Holy Loch, Scotland and Rota, Spain – Electrical Officer, Reactor Control Officer, Damage Control Assistant – Qualified in Submarines and Engineer Officer) 1972: Submarine Officers Advanced Course, Naval Submarine School, Groton, CT 1972-74: USS Greenling (SSN 614), Groton, CT (Weapons Officer) 1974-76: Flag Lieutenant and Junior Aide to Deputy Chief of NaBill and Carolyn in Istanbul Harbor val Operations for Submarine Warfare (OP-02), Washington, DC 1976-1980: USS Richard B. Russell (SSN 687), Groton, CT (Engineer Officer) 1980-82: USS Baltimore (SSN 704), Groton, CT and Norfolk, VA (New Construction – Executive Officer) 1983-87: USS Memphis (SSN 691), Norfolk, VA (Commanding Officer) 1987-89: Deputy Director of Submarine Officer Assignments (N 42B), Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, DC (Command and Post Command Detailer) 1989-91: Submarine Squadron Three, San Diego, CA (Commander) 1991-92: National War College, Fort McNair, Washington, DC 1992-95: Chief of Nuclear and Counterproliferation Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5), Washington, DC 1995: Retired 1 October as a Captain, USN Principal Occupation 1995-2006: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (Served as staff member, Deputy Director of Surety Assessment Center, and Senior Manager for Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Assessment) 2006-09: Consultant to Sandia National Laboratories for NATO Relations 2009-14: Consultant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological) for NATO Relations Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Multiple deployments in submarines to the Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean and Barents Sea on what we called missions of national importance. While on the USS Greenling, we mistakenly made the deepest dive on a nuclear submarine with torpedo tubes. While in command of USS Memphis, we remained submerged for 89 days on one mission returning to port with less than four days of food remaining (ate lots of pancakes). As the Chief of Nuclear Policy, I became the briefer for the Defense Department’s 1994 Nuclear Posture Review and briefed the President’s Cabinet, NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group, the CODEL in Geneva and the French and British Defense Departments. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Carolyn and I were married in 1968 and have three sons. Christian is a Planner for Evergreen Shipping in Long Beach, CA, Scott is a Chef in Oregon City, OR and Joseph is a planner for W. L. Gore Medical Products in Flagstaff, AZ. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since retirement this year I am playing a lot of golf and traveling to places Carolyn and I want to see. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Plebe year (63) Army-Navy game: screaming with the rest of the more than 100,000 in attendance and praying Army didn’t get off another play • Learning of the President’s assassination and the sense of deep loss expressed by the entire Brigade • Splitting companies with the Brigade Shift to 36 companies in 1965 and no longer having those 15 company mates that we had shared life with for the first two years at the Academy. • Ring Dance, June 1966 • Taking delivery of my first car (67 Austin Healey 3000).

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Tossing the Midshipman covers graduation morning, 7 June 1967 (Three cheers for those we are about to leave)

Humorous Memories of USNA: Replacing the wall between our Firsties’ closets so they would pass post-move inspection by the USMC Company Officer after moving from the decrepit 1st wing to the newly renovated 3rd wing in spring 1964. Helping my roommate get his brother suited up so he could march in with us at the 1966 Army-Navy Game. Awards Received Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit (2) Joint Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal (2) Navy Commendation Medal (2) Defense Service Medal (2) Joint Unit Meritorious Unit Commendation Navy Unit Commendation Meritorious Unit Commendation (2)

Joseph, Christian, Carolyn, Bill and Scott on the beach in California

Academic Achievement Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Graduation Certificate from the National War College Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I came to the Naval Academy as the son of two teachers in the state of Iowa with little idea of what Naval Service meant (except what I had seen in the television “Victory at Sea” and “Men of Annapolis” series). I was determined to finish and then to see whether a naval career would be possible. I decided on trying that career in the submarine force after our classmate’s father’s presentation of his submarine mission during plebe summer. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I thoroughly enjoyed my four years at Annapolis. Although taking one or two electives every semester was truly time consuming, that education and work ethic allowed me to go to the immediate master program which in turn better prepared me for my career in nuclear submarines. Summary for yearbook In my twenty-eight years of active duty, I served in six submarines (a diesel, a boomer and four fast attacks). The highlight was definitely my command tour during which we completed two exciting missions, an 18 month overhaul (shortest submarine overhaul in seven years) and won numerous squadron awards. There is nothing like closing the hatches and being on your own. Building a ship and crew from the ship’s inception as XO was unique and very satisfying. My squadron command tour was also great, but while it is very satisfying to train ships and crews, nothing compares to being in command of a ship. In my civilian endeavors, service to the nation at a National Laboratory and as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense was also very rewarding. I had a chance to be part of transforming Stockpile Evaluation in the Departments of Energy and Defense from its historic rationale of an evolving stockpile to an engineering and science based rationale for an aging stockpile. Included in this was leading the construction of a modern non-nuclear testing facility (built under budget and ahead of schedule). I also had the opportunity to teach at the NATO School in Oberammergau, GE as well as provide training to NATO commands and NATO diplomatic staff. One never knows where life will lead you. As a country boy from Oskaloosa, Iowa going off to the Naval Academy after high school in 1963, I could have never envisioned such a varied career as well as a great and fulfilling life. A good Midwestern founding, the growth into an adult at the Naval Academy and the University of Illinois, and 48 years of service to the nation have indeed been a blessing. Carolyn, my high school sweetheart, and I were married in 1968 and have three sons. Christian is a Planner for Evergreen Shipping in Long Beach, CA, Scott is a Chef in Oregon City, OR and Joseph is a planner for W. L. Gore Medical Products in Flagstaff, AZ. We have four grandchildren. We have lived in Albuquerque, NM since my retirement from the Navy in 1995.

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5th Company Justin J. O'Hara Service History: 1963 – 67: USNA (5th Company) 1967-1969: USS Gearing (DD710) Newport, RI, Gunnery Officer 1969-1971: US Naval Facility, Argentia, Newfoundland, Watch Officer/Operations Dept. Head 1972-1974: USS McCard (DD822), Tampa, FL, Weapons Dept. Head 1975-1977: Fleet Combat Training Center, Dam Neck, VA, Weapons Training Dept. Head 1978-1980: Readiness Training Facility, Ferndale, CA, Officer-in-Charge 1980-1981: US Naval Facility, Midway Island, Commanding Officer 1981-1987: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Wash, DC. Integrated Undersea Surveillance System Program Office Principal Occupation: From 1987-1991 I worked for System Planning Corp. supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency I spent the rest of my post Navy career (1991-2013) working for TRW, Northrop Grumman and TASC supporting the Undersea Surveillance Program. We moved from Northern Virginia to San Diego in 1997 and back to Northern Virginia in 2010. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Meeting my wife Sharon and the birth of our children. Everything else pales in comparison. As for the Navy, I enjoyed my career and had many interesting events. One that stands out was during an independent ship transit we encountered a hurricane/tropical storm. I was asked to take the conn and spent an entire night maneuvering to keep the ship safe, taking one 57 degree roll. I was able to avoid the Pentagon my entire career supporting the Navy until my last two years of work when I was assigned to the OPNAV Sponsor’s Office. Hectic, but I actually enjoyed working in the Pentagon. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Sharon and I were married in 1972. We have three children and nine grandchildren. Our daughter Shannon and her husband Jim Strauss have three children; Casey, Justin and Brendan. Our son Brian and his wife Melissa have three children; Lilah, Adele and Brynn. Our son Brendan and his wife Elizabeth have three children; Victoria, Vivien, and Declan. All are within four hours so we get to see them often, but not too often. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? It is going great. It’s only been 11/2 years, but I have kept very busy playing a lot of tennis, with some basketball, running and biking. We spend as much time as we can visiting kids and grandkids with a little traveling thrown in. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Carrier landings plebe summer. Plebe year football games, especially Army-Navy. Living in the old 1st wing plebe year and having to turn on the radiators in the upper class rooms. Commandeering building supplies from the 3 rd wing renovation to repair walls for several upper class rooms so they could pass inspection before moving out of the 1 st wing. Making life-long friends.

Humorous Memories of USNA: See above Awards Received Academic Achievement: Highest degree is Master of Science in Personnel Management Athletic: Plebe football and four years on the track team. Service Awards

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending”? During a high school visit to USNA I met Tom Lynch, Pat Donnelly And Roger Staubach (all from my home state). I was very impressed with them as individuals and thought if this is what the people are like then I would like to go here. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy experience satisfied my expectations. It imbued in me a strong work ethic and a life-long interest in exercise and sports. Sample Final Yearbook write-up for Bud O’Hara My Navy career started out with normal surface warfare division officer and department head tours. In between I was assigned to the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) I was very impressed with the dedication and pride they took in their work and when I had the opportunity to get back into IUSS I took it with Officer-in-Charge, Commanding Officer, and Program Office tours. After retiring from the Navy I continued supporting the IUSS community working for TRW, Northrop Grumman and TASC. We moved from Northern Virginia to San Diego in 1997 and back to Northern Virginia in 2010. I retired in 2013. My wife Sharon and I were married in 1972. We have three children and nine grandchildren. Our daughter Shannon and her husband Jim Strauss have three children; Casey, Justin and Brendan. Our son Brian and his wife Melissa have three children; Lilah, Adele and Brynn. Our son Brendan and his wife Elizabeth have three children; Victoria, Vivien, and Declan. All are within four hours so we get to see them often, but not too often. I am thoroughly enjoying retired life. I’m playing a lot of tennis, with some basketball, running and biking. We spend as much time as we can visiting kids and grandkids with a little traveling thrown in.

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5th Company Stephen A. Phillips Service History 1963 – 1967: USNA (5th Company) July – August 1967: Guided Missile School, Dam Neck, VA September 1967 – June 1969: Missile Officer, USS Richard E, Byrd, DDG-23. Home Port Norfolk, VA June 1969 – July 1971: Fire Control Officer, USS John S, McCain, DDG-36, Home Port Long Beach, CA July 1971: Resigned Commission Principal Occupation After leaving the Navy I earned a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering. I worked for several years as a project engineer designing Industrial wastewater treatment facilities for clients such as Ford Motor Co., Republic Steel Corp., Whirlpool Corp., etc. I then moved into Engineering Sales, eventually becoming National Sales Manager for two large Environmental Services/Engineering companies. I ended my corporate career as Senior Vice President for an Environmental Services company where I was responsible for sales & operations in the Northeastern United States and Great Britain. After ending my corporate career, I joined the Promotional Products company started by my wife Maureen. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Between the Navy and my corporate career I’ve traveled to numerous foreign countries and all but 6 US States. I participated in the cleanup efforts of major waterways (Boston Harbor/San Francisco Bay/Lake Erie/Chesapeake Bay/St. Lawrence Seaway, etc.). We have two sons and both are USNA Graduates (Steve ’92 & Tim ’96). Our oldest grandson is a member of the Class of 2017. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Panic, fear, and confusion on I-Day Going to my first college football game Hearing about President Kennedy’s assassination from my Chemistry Prof Attending the most amazing Army-Navy Game of all time - Plebe Year Climbing Herndon Youngster Cruise to Northern Europe The hard work and satisfaction of being on Plebe Summer Detail as a Second Class Brownies from Johnnie’s Sweet Shop Burgers at The Little Campus Inn Dancing with my mother and favorite aunt at the Farewell Ball Graduation Day Humorous Memories of USNA: Uniform races Carry On questions Army Week pranks Having to wear my room mate’s way too big trousers to noon meal formation and being inspected by the Company Officer who thought it was hilarious. Please Answer Two Questions: We are developing the reunion book around the theme ‘Catalyst for Change”. It is the editorial staff concept that the academy was a catalyst for change for those of us who attended and we subsequently became a catalyst for change of the Navy/Marine Corps and the world we served in. To carry this theme into the biography sections, we are asking classmates to answer the following questions (Brevity encouraged, 200-300 words desired). The biographies will be limited to a half page including pictures.: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” and I decided to attend USNA because I knew I would get an excellent education and have great opportunities in life whether I stayed in the Navy for a career or not. Patriotism was also a factor. My father enlisted in the Navy for WW II and participated in many Pacific campaigns. He was proud of his service and loved the Navy and that “rubbed off” on me. Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely. My academy experience more than satisfied my expectations. Despite some rough times each year, I thoroughly enjoyed my four years in the Yard. In the Fleet I quickly learned that the leadership and time management skills I learned at USNA were invaluable. When I entered graduate school, I was given the opportunity to try to validate required undergraduate courses I had not taken at USNA so I could start my Masters studies immediately. Offering this opportunity was unusual and only given because I graduated from the Naval Academy. In my corporate career I achieved management positions earlier than normal because of the management and leadership skills I had learned at the Academy and in the Fleet.

Summary writeup for Steve Philips After graduation I served in two guided missile destroyers –RICHARD E. BYRD (DDG-23) and JOHN S. MCCAIN (DDG36). I was assigned to the Tartar Missile Weapons Systems on both ships. I made Mediterranean and WESTPAC (Vietnam) deployments, with numerous other operational cruises in between. After resigning my Commission in 1971 I earned a MSE and entered the corporate world as an Environmental Engineer. In my early career I was involved in designing industrial wastewater treatment facilities for major corporations. After several years of project engineering, I was given the opportunity to migrate into engineering services sales. In the later years of my career, I served as National Sales Manager for two companies and also served at the VP level for one of the leading environmental services companies in the US. In that capacity I directed negotiations for licensing and acquisition of European and British technology and companies. I left the corporate world in the mid-90’s and joined the company started by my wife Maureen. A major portion of our business is supplying merchandise for USNA Class Reunions. It’s a great, low-key business that keeps us active and in touch with the USNA “Family”. Maureen and I were married the Saturday after graduation. We have lived in the Annapolis area since the mid-70’s. We sponsored dozens of midshipmen and I served as President of the Maryland Parents and Sponsors Club. We have two wonderful sons and three cherished grandchildren. Both sons are USNA graduates. Steve – ’92 and Tim – ’96. Grandson Steve is a member of the Class of ’17. Outside of work, Maureen and I have kept busy with boating, traveling, reading, birding, and volunteering in various community associations and parish ministries at our church. We have also enjoyed socializing with local classmates and wives.

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5th Company Lawrence R. Pigeon Service History: 1962 – 63: Naval Academy Prep School, Bainbridge, MD 1963 – 67: USNA (5th Company) 1967 – 68: Naval Aviation Training Command, VT-1, VT-9. VT-4. VT-26, Various locations, designated Naval Aviator (1310) in 10/1968 1969: A4 Replacement Air Group, VA-44, NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL 08/1969-12/1969: VA-12, NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, FL, A4 Pilot 01/1970-02/1970: VA-23, NAS Lemoore, CA, A4 Pilot 03/1970-10/1970: RA5C Replacement Air Group RVAH-3, Albany, GA 11/1970-05/1972: RVAH-1, NAS Albany, GA, RA5C Pilot, Squadron LSO, Squadron ASO 05/22/1972: hung up the wings, voluntarily separated from USN, launched a life in CIVLANT Principal Occupation: After settling in back home in Weymouth, MA following separation from NAS Albany, GA, I enrolled in the MBA program at Boston University, earned the degree in May, 1977, and then jumped into the “high tech” industry-of-the-day, data communications/telecommunications, where (I still can’ believe) I marketed and sold 9.6 kbps (yes, that’s 9,600 bits per second modems) for over $16,000 per copy . . . and, believe it or not, our firm, Codex Motorola, could not build them fast enough. Data communications was pretty fast-moving in those days, so I moved around the industry, sometimes because the grass looked greener, sometimes to optimize location, and finally landed in northern Virginia, along the “dot com corridor,” where I’ve had some great fun helping the Internet evolve. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Initial carrier qualifications provided the setting for a moment in life I’ll never forget; however, its roots date back to my high school years. My dad was a blue collar worker – a steamfitter for Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, in Quincy, Massachusetts. One summer, he found work in Groton, Connecticut as a temporary solution to keep funds flowing, while union workers at the Quincy shipyard went on strike – yet, again. While there, he visited the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and quickly concluded that it was the way to get at least one of his three sons educated. He launched a plan to do just that, building a network, calling people, meeting people, and lobbying, at least to the extent that he could. His dream didn’t exactly mirror my own, and I chose not to attend a military school. Instead, after high school and a short stint as a bank teller, I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, in April, 1961. In the fall of that year, my father lost his battle with cancer, and passed away just a couple of weeks before his 59th birthday. The very next year, I reported to U.S. Naval Prep School in Bainbridge, and then on to join the Class of 1967. On June 7, 1967, for a moment or two I reflected on my dad’s efforts, and, of course, regretted that he was not there to celebrate with me Fast forward to and through NAVAIR training and VT-4, when it was finally my turn to make my first arrested landing. During the briefing for the flight out to the boat, we learned that the “Lex” had some technical difficulties and would not be available for our quals. We returned the next day to learn that the “Lex” was down hard, but had been replaced for our mission by USS Wasp (CVA-18). We were briefed on the differences between steam cats and hydraulic cats, and all that important stuff, but as the briefings continued, it suddenly hit me, that my Dad, a steamfitter at Bethlehem Steel’s Quincy Shipyard had actually helped build the USS Wasp. Dad had talked about a few ships he’d worked on; Wasp and Hornet were two he named. I was overwhelmed with an unusual calm that I carried to the boat that day, and had a very uneventful and very pleasant experience on my journey to become a U.S. Naval Aviator. I’ve always wondered . . . amazing coincidence? Guess I’ll never know, but it’s a moment I’ll never forget! Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Stephanie and I met at a wedding in Norfolk, VA, when one of her high school friends married the ready room yeoman from RVAH-1, who was also a bartender at my apartment complex while I was in Albany, GA. We were partnered as bridesmaid and usher, and liked what we saw, so pursued the “partnering” to the next level, and married in May the following year. We initially settled in Massachusetts until I finished my studies, but then moved up and down the East coast with my career moves. We raised four lovely daughters – Emily, Maura, Sarah, and Maisie – who live in Burke, VA, Sydney, Australia, San Diego, and Denver, respectively, and we couldn’t have been more blessed. We have two grandbabies, Anna and Brady, Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary and just learned we’ll welcome another in August, 2015. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe year (63) Army-Navy game was as tense and exciting an experience as any I’d ever encountered to that point. As soon as the last note of “Blue and Gold” was played, I dashed to an end zone and went to battle with some of the other 50,000 souvenir hunters scrambling to get a small keepsake from one of the goal posts (goal posts were still made of wood back in the day). Caught an accidental elbow in the face, and left the field with a black eye and a 3 foot piece of history, that, for the remainder of my stay at USNA, became a talisman, that I often worshiped around exam time, and which never let me down. I had the pleasure of passing on the good luck charm to the Athletic Association at the preview of the CBS Sports Net documentary, “MARCHING ON: 1963 ARMY-NAVY REMEMBERED” in 2012 that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the game that helped a grieving nation begin to heal. Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending.” When I was selected to attend the U.S. Naval Academy Prep School in Bainbridge, I barely knew any more about USNA than what I had digested as a middle school/high school student, watching the (black and white) TV series, Men of Annapolis. There was virtually no military influence in my family, and, aside from selective service requirements, i.e., “draft” and the buzz it occasionally stirred, there wasn’t a great deal of environmental military influence in my world. Everyone respected our military, and no one ever had a bad word to say about it, but few in my circle pursued a serious interest in it, and I just don’t recall any “military career” events at my high school. I voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after I turned 18, because the Marines offered the shortest path to fulfilling my military obligation, men seemed to respect Marines more than other service members, and adult women were definitely more attracted to the Marine Corps than to other services. In short, USNA reached my radar scan until midway through my Marine Corps enlistment. After Parris Island, and completion of Radioman Class “A” school, Norfolk, I was ordered to a Marine Comm Detachment aboard USS Taconic (AGC-17). My newly discovered Morse Code skills provided some unexpected visibility and access at more senior levels, and a glimpse at life above E-3. It had some appeal. With guidance and assistance from my Comms Division Officer, Ensign Skolnick (who probably worked harder than I did on this mission), I applied for acceptance to NAPS, took the test and physical then the officer panel, and obviously, made the cut. The bottom line answer to the question is pretty straightforward. I was a Marine; I followed orders and respected authority. Ensign Skolnick told me that this venture was a good thing for me . . . and it would be a good thing for my country. I didn’t need a great deal more inspiration than that! Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My academy experience greatly exceeded my expectations; and, like most of us, to say it was life changing, is an understatement. I am truly honored to be a member of this club, and wear this badge with great pride. Of course, I discovered things about myself that I might not have known otherwise, and did a few things I had never even dreamed. I was handed the keys to a 100,000 pound, Mach 2 concoction of carrier-based titanium and steel aviator eye candy, that I used to take off and land around an 1100 foot floating bastion of U.S. diplomacy and national security . . . and got paid to do it . . . two or three times, if you will (flight and combat pay). What’s not to love about it? Despite the good times and camaraderie, my tour was a little shorter than most. I chose to forego the sacrifices that come with long term service and pursued a life in CIVLANT, instead. While my tour was short, it remains packed with vibrant memories – most good, some sad. USNA and USN prepared me just as well for civilian life as for any other command. I remain proud and honored to have taken this path. Final Yearbook write-up for Larry Pigeon: It’s hard to describe the period of my life from April, 1961, when I enlisted in the Marine Corps to the day when I separated from the U.S. Navy, as anything but a fun ride. From NAPS through commissioning, it was an awesome life-changing experience that made a lot of things down the road come a little easier.

Following graduation, I hung around the D.C. metro area, TAD to NAF Andrews AFB, then, off to NATRACOM in October, 1967, and, only twelve months later pinned on my Wings of Gold. Anxious to get to the fleet, I had opted to remain in Meridian over Christmas leave and fly 2-3 hops a day to accelerate the program; the plan worked. Next stop was VA-44, East Coast A4 RAG, and assignment to VA-12. No sooner did I check in there, than I opted to transfer out, due to DoD budget cuts. Arrived in NAS Lemoore, only to learn more budget cuts had forced shut down of my newly assigned squadron, VA-23, although I was able to stay in Lemoore long enough to build and train a small drill team to perform at VA-23’s decommissioning ceremony – alas, no such thing as an ex-Marine. One more new set of orders, my third in fewer than six months, sent me back East, to RVAH-3, the RA5C RAG in Albany, GA. In RVAH-3, the absence of a full sea tour made me still a “nugget” in this 2nd tour community, so I hold the distinction of

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5th Company first “nugget” to hit the fleet in the RA5C, in November, 1970, landing in RVAH-1, recently arrived on Yankee Station, aboard USS Ranger, CVA-61. In May, 1972, I opted out of the sacrifices of long term service, separated from USN, and returned to Massachusetts to launch a new life in CIVLANT, starting with enrollment in Boston University’s MB A program. Met my bride at a wedding in 1973. We were paired as bridesmaid and usher, a pairing we obviously took seriously, and less than a year later, in May 1974, we followed that course. We were blessed with four beautiful daughters, and now have two teen aged grandbabies, but, wait, hold that thought for a moment. While there are a couple of things that hindsight might improve, we’re all pretty happy with the outcome. No reason to reboot . . .

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Kenneth R. Ptack Service History: 1960 – 61: USMC Boot Camp and Ground Radar Electronics School, MCRD San Diego, CA 1961 – 62: 2nd Light Support Company, Camp Lejeune, NC, to include a Caribbean Sea Float 1962 – 63: Naval Academy Prep School, Bainbridge, MD 1963 – 67: USNA (4th Company Plebe Year and 5th Company until Graduation) 1967 – 68: The Basic School (TBS), Quantico, VA 1968 – 69: Air Force Aviation Training, Big Spring, TX, received AF wings 1/1969 1969: A-6 Training Squadron, Cherry Point, NC 1969 - 70: VMA (AW) 242, Da Nang, Viet Nam 1970 - 74: VMA (AW) 242, El Toro, CA 1974 - 76: Marine Air Weapons Training Unit (Pac) (MAWTUPac), El Toro, CA 1976 - 77: First Marine Air Wing, G-3 Operations, Attack Action Officer 1977- 80: Naval Air Training Command, VT-10 Standardization Officer, Pensacola, FL 1978 – 80: Marine Corps Advanced Degree Program, University of West Florida 1981 - 84: Acquisition Sponsor Project Officer and Mission Critical Computer Resources (MCCR) Officer, C4, HQMC, Washington, DC 1984 - 2010: Systems Interoperability and Support Operations Manager, Northrop Grumman, Patuxent River, MD Principal Occupation: After Graduation, I attended The Basic School (TBS) at Quantico, VA and was selected to attend Air Force Flight School at Webb AFB in Big Spring, TX where our first son was born on my birthday, 1 Nov 68, requiring us to name him Ken, Jr. In addition, I received my Air Force wings in Jan 69 and was transferred to Cherry Point, NC where I received my Navy wings in July 69 and was assigned to VMA (AW)-121 at Cherry Point until Oct 69. I transferred to VMA (AW)-242 at DaNang, RVN in Nov 69. Flew over 150 combat missions in support of Marines, Army, and the US Government out of DaNang. I returned from RVN via a Navy “Cruise Ship”, the USS Mobile, LKA 115. I was the “Team Embarkation Officer” responsible for transporting my Squadron, VMA (AW)-242, MAG-11, 7thMarines, 1st Recon Battalion, and MABS-11 out of RVN for redeployment to Hawaii and California. My two+ week cruise included celebrating the USS Mobile’s first anniversary in service – 6 hours of liberty (the anniversary date was actually while we were loading the ship in DaNang harbor so it was not celebrated until we reached Okinawa for refueling). We spent 12 hours in Hawaii off-loading some equipment then proceeded to San Diego where we off-loaded the rest of the equipment. I was “Bussed” to Camp Pendleton where I was welcomed back to the US then went on leave to Maryland to pick up Jo Ann and Ken Jr. for our drive to El Toro, CA. where I was stationed until 1976. While at El Toro, I was assigned to multiple duties, with the best one being the A-6 Pilot Instructor at MAWTUPac which is now MAWTS (Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ). At El Toro, our second son Adam was born 20 Jan 1972 in the Newport Beach Hospital. I was transferred to First MAW G-3 Jul 1976 as the Attack Action Officer. Coordinated multiple 1st MAW activities and flew the A-6 and A-4 during the year, Scuba dove all around Okinawa, plus spent time flying around and on the ground in Korea, Japan, Philippines, and Taiwan. I was transferred to the Navy’s Training Command in Pensacola, FL in Jul 1977 where I was the Standardization Officer for VT-10 for 2 years. Then assigned to the Marine Corps Advanced Degree Program at the University of West Florida where I earned my MS in Systems Analysis. While earning my Masters, I continued to fly and instruct with VT-10. The “Pay Back” was an assignment at HQMC. I arrived at HQMC Jan 1981 as the Acquisition Sponsor Project Officer for the Marine Corps Command and Control System, TCO (Tactical Combat Operations) and then served as the Marine Corps Mission Critical Computer Resources (MCCR) Officer. I retired out of Headquarters Marine Corps December 31, 1984.

I started work for Advanced Technology, Incorporated (AdTech/ATI) on 3 December 1984. The following weekend was the Company Christmas Party and the Beach Boys was the main entertainment – paid for in full, with banquet dinner plus all drinks by the Company. What a change from the Marine Corps where we paid for our own parties. ATI was bought by the Emhart Corporation in 1987, which was bought by Black and Decker in 1988. The good deal about being a Black and Decker employee was the employee discounts on DeWalt Tools and Black and Decker products. The bad thing about Black and Decker was all they wanted from us was the profit we generated. In 1989 “The Wall” came down and Peace broke out. Black and Decker finally sold us to Litton in 1992. Litton was bought by Northrop Grumman in 2001 and I retired from Northrop Grumman in October 2008 with just under 24 years of service in the “Same Company” but with several different organizational names. When I retired, I ran the Patuxent River Naval Air Station office for Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems operations. This included technical, acquisition and management support

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5th Company for the Government employees at Patuxent River. I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse by the Company when a Navy Customer had some work they wanted done and only wanted me to do it. This brought me out of retirement and I worked as a part-time employee for NG until December 2010. During this time, I helped found the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) starting in 1989, was the INCOSE President in 1999, am an INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional, and Founder. I now continue to support INCOSE and the International Standards Organization (ISO) as a volunteer, supporting systems engineering education and efforts worldwide. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: In 1982, Jo and I “bought the farm” in Southern Maryland. We bought an 1822 brick Federal three-bay house with 20 acres in the middle of a 360-acre farm, remaining from the original 1000+ acre plantation. The first thing we did was get it on the National Register of Historic Places in hopes of getting Government help in the restoration. We qualified, but didn’t get funded. We dedicated ourselves to restoring the house as architecturally accurate, for the period as possible, with hidden modern conveniences such as electricity and air conditioning, vice rehabbing it as a modern home. This, plus the purchase of 205 of the remaining 340 adjoining acres, turned our planned 10-year restoration project into 26 years. We reached a 98% completion point in September 2008, just before I retired from Northrop Grumman the first time. We gave our son Adam a lot off of the back of the farm where he and his family live. They are our closest neighbor, about ¼ mile walk through the woods. Our four granddaughters enjoy coming over for visits and bring their horses to graze on our pastures. Our horses died when they were about 32, after living here on the farm with us for 25+ years. Travels associated with both USMC and Northrop Grumman have taken me to around the world and I have over 3,080,000 miles on American Airlines plus many thousand more miles on other airlines Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren I met Jo Ann Plebe Year, dated her throughout our time at the Academy, and we were married 8 June 1967, not wanting to “rush into it”. We have two sons, and eight grandchildren, 6 girls and 2 boys. One son, his wife, and four daughters live on the farm and our other son lives across the Patuxent River in Calvert County, MD with his wife and children. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since retirement in 2010, I continue to support INCOSE and ISO as a volunteer. I have learned how to build “timber framed” buildings, have built a historic bake oven, working smoke house and dairy. I have also assisted with historic restoration work on General Lee’s Grist Mill in Stratford Hall, VA, the Wye Mill in Talbot County, MD, the Satterley Plantation in Hollywood, MD, and the Cremona Plantation in Mechanicsville, MD. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe year (63) climbing the “Laundry stack” with other 4th Company Plebes to paint ‘67 on it. The “Training Tables”, Eggs and Legs plus strawberries and our very own “USNA Dairy” vanilla ice cream for breakfast. Humorous Memories of USNA: Getting “Fried more” as a ”Firstie” than as a Plebe. Being caught by the OD sitting in Jo’s MGB in the Mid-store parking lot, while on restriction First Class year. Fortunately for me, the OD did not write me up nor did he appear at the midafternoon restriction muster and recognize me. Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors: Academic Achievement: USNA Graduation, MS Systems Analysis, University of West Florida Athletic: Intermural Service Awards: Air Medal w/10 Strike/Flight, Meritorious Service Medal Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending”? In 1957-58 I watched the TV series “Men of Annapolis”, was really impressed with it and dreamed of attending the Academy. I was not a good student in high school so knew that there had to be a way for a young man with non-stellar grades to make it to the Academy. I enlisted in the Marine Corps and was fortunate enough to be in the right places at the right time and was qualified to attend NAPS. Upon successful completion of NAPS, I received a “Fleet Appointment” to the Academy. While there, I expected to learn good leadership principles, serve with and meet the future leaders of the Navy and Marine Corps, earn a Bachelor’s Degree, and obtain a commission in the Marine Corps upon graduation. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? My expectations were more than met by attending Annapolis. Graduation from the Academy with an engineering deReturn to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary gree, commissioned as a regular officer in the Marine Corps, given the opportunity to fly airplanes for the Service, and serve in various jobs and locations as a Marine Officer and pilot was all that I hoped for. In addition, after retirement from the Marine Corps I was successful in leveraging my engineering degrees and experiences into a 26+ year civilian career providing technical and administrative support to the DoD, the Joint Logistics Commanders, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the Army Material Command (AMC), the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) and private industry as an engineer and program manager. Sample Final Yearbook write-up for Ken Ptack: My boyhood dreams from watching the TV series Men of Annapolis were fulfilled by my attending and graduating from the Naval Academy. I envisioned making a career of the Marine Corps and serving my country. Graduating from USNA then flying Marine Corps and Navy aircraft in combat, peace time, and training new aircrew to serve their countries, plus providing improved systems capabilities for the DoD, Naval Service, and Marine Corps more than met my expectations following graduation. I have several memories of our plebe year with painting our class numbers on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Stackâ&#x20AC;?, shoving out, eating a square meal, and the training tables being a few of the experiences that made the Academy experience really memorable. I met my wife, Jo Ann (Buscher), the week after President Kennedy was shot. We dated from that time on, were married 8 June 1967 and have two sons and eight grandchildren. We bought our farm, now 225 acres, in Bryantown, MD in 1982. We plan to remain here the rest of our lives. We have a vintage 24 foot Class C RV and eventually plan to travel the old Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway in it. We have made several trips in and around MD, VA, WV, and KY and hope that we will run into some of you on a future trip.

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5th Company James M. Taylor Service History 1963 – 67: USNA (5th Company) 1967 – June through August in the USNA Naval Science Dept. as a sailing instructor then August through December in the USNA Athletic Department as a football coach. Dec1967 – 69: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, received wings Jan 1969 1969: P3 Replacement Air Training, NAS Patuxent River, MD 1969-72: VP 24, NAS Patuxent River, MD P-3 Pilot 1972-: Transferred to Naval Reserve 1979-86: VP-68 NAS Patuxent River, MD 1986-1989 NAS South Weymouth VTU 1992: Retired from USNR with rank of Captain Principal Occupation: 1974 – 1983 Instructor and Department Head at the Calhoon MEBA Engineering School in Baltimore Maryland training merchant marine engineers. 1983 – 1997 Shift Technical Advisor at the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset Maine. 1997 – 2008 Corrective Action Program at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. 2008 – Retired Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events:

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Sharon and I have no children just a Scottish terrier to run our lives. I have two sons from my first marriage and two granddaughters Iris and Poppy. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Most of our activities are family related. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • The assassination of President Kennedy and our reaction to the event has remained vivid. • Playing football against teams and in places I never dreamed I would. The only three plays I was on the field with Roger Staubach resulted in over 100 yards of offence and two touchdowns. Youngster cruise to Northern Europe was my first time in a foreign country. Paris and Copenhagen were wonderful. I recall being lost in the French countryside with Ted Verdery trying to get from Versailles to Paris. I enjoyed the experience of being at sea. • I enjoyed sailing and was able to share the sailing experience with my sons. • First class cruise in the Med was likewise memorable. Several of us traveled around Italy enjoying Milan, Pisa, Florence, and Venice. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement: After leaving active duty I studied Biology, Chemistry and Education looking for anther path until life events took over. While training merchant marine engineers I taught courses in Chemistry, Basic Thermodynamics, Engineering Materials and mathematics. I was SRO certified at a PWR while working in nuclear power.

Athletic Service Awards Finally, Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” I elected the Academy because I thought it was a more exciting and stable option. As a football player there were other options but I insisted on attending and not spend a year in prep school. With a weak academic background a year of prep school could have been wiser. Beyond a college degree my expectations were vague at best. There were no career military people in my family. So I had no real understanding of military life inside the institution. For me being able Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary to select Naval Aviation was good but not planned. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes, it launched me on a path to a successful life. Sample Final Yearbook write-up for Jim Taylor Following graduation I remained at the Academy teaching sailing and coaching football. After flight school and receiving my wings, my first duty station was VP-24 at Patuxent River MD in 1969 as a pilot. Leaving active duty in 1972 I joined the Naval Reserves remaining in VP-68 until 1987. I retired in 1992 as a Captain. Sharon and I have no children, just a Scottish terrier to run our lives. I have two sons Bart and Dan from my first marriage; both graduated from Johns Hopkins and completed law school. Bart lives in Salem, MA. Dan lives in Kennebunk, ME and has two daughters Iris and Poppy. At Navy, I played football against teams and in places I never dreamed I would. I was only on the field for three plays with Roger Staubach but they resulted in over 100 yards of offence and two touchdowns. Youngster cruise to Northern Europe was my first time in a foreign country. Paris and Copenhagen were wonderful. I recall being lost in the French countryside with Ted Verdery trying to get from Versailles to Paris. We returned to the hotel in time to catch the tour bus to Versailles. I enjoyed the experience of being at sea. Learning to sail was great and I later enjoyed sailing with my sons. First class cruise in the Med provided a fond memory of Genoa, Naples, Milan, Pisa, Florence, and Venice. After leaving active duty I studied Biology, Chemistry and Education looking for another path until life events took over. I became a teacher. While training merchant marine engineers at a union school in Baltimore I taught courses in Chemistry, LNG science, Basic Thermodynamics, Engineering Materials and mathematics. I was SRO certified at a PWR while working in nuclear power.

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5th Company Robert S. Waters Service History Navy Nuclear Power School (Mare Island, California and West Milton, N.Y.; August 1967 to August 1968. Reactor Watch Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise, CVN 65, September, 1967 to June, 1971. (Emphasis on – dates, units, places): Principal Occupation: Attorney, Washington D.C. Law Firms, representing electric power companies with issues subject to federal regulation, principally the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Remained a bachelor until age 51 when I gave up the bohemian bachelor life and married Kate, two kids, and their cats. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Going to the 1963 Army Navy game and surviving plebe year; going skiing with Bud O'Hara on an anthill slope near Warren, Ohio; flying copilot with Mike Smith at his hometown airport in Beaufort, N.C., where he almost lost too much airspeed as he were landing over the power lines; playing golf and taking New England road trips in the summer with Jack Brereton, my twin brother Bill's roomie; and being Best Man for Ike Ambrose and Cindy in Atlanta, Georgia. Humorous Memories of USNA: On second year cruise, aboard a destroyer in Flensburg, Germany ( Home of the German Naval Academy), as part of the first group of U.S. warships to visit since the close of WW2, I fell overboard in the harbor, trying to vacate a badly rigged bosun's ladder, swam furiously away from the port side to escape a menacing school of jellies, and thus sending all hands on deck while simultaneously scrambling German harbor craft, blaring away their sirens familiar to all who had seen the movie "Diary of Anne Frank", to rescue me from a buoy of some sort about 200 yards or so from the ship. Please Answer Two Questions: We are developing the reunion book around the theme ‘Catalyst for Change”. It is the editorial staff concept that the academy was a catalyst for change for those of us who attended and we subsequently became a catalyst for change of the Navy/Marine Corps and the world we served in. To carry this theme into the biography sections, we are asking classmates to answer the following questions (Brevity encouraged, 200-300 words desired). The biographies will be limited to a half page including pictures. Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” and Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I attended the Academy because my father did ( Look Alive with 45) and, as he was still in the Navy, he and my mother had limited income to enable both Bill Waters, my twin brother ( also Class of 67), and me to attend college. I expected to receive a good education and see the world as we had done for our growing up years as navy juniors, at bases all around the States and in Kenitra, Morocco. I think I probably understood from before I attended USNA that my ultimate goal was to become a lawyer and perhaps judge like my beloved grandfather in Southeast Missouri. My hunch was that a degree from USNA and four years of service would enhance that goal. I liked the Navy but not nuclear sea duty, and was hoping to transition to Navy Jag. No such luck in those days, but I did become a lawyer after attending UVA School of Law, which I picked because , while the Big E was undergoing a nuclear overhaul in Newport News, I became a Virginia resident, eligible for reduced tuition at UVA, even then an 'expensive" Ivy type law school.

Summary write up for Bob Waters In 1967, I went to Navy Nuclear Power School and afterwards was assigned as a Reactor Watch Officer on ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) until 1971. I liked the Navy but not nuclear sea duty. This may have been foretold on First Class cruise when aboard a destroyer in Flensburg, Germany as part of the first group of U.S. warships to visit since the close of WWII, I fell overboard trying to vacate a badly rigged bosun's ladder, swam furiously away from the port side to escape a menacing school of jellies, thus sending all hands on deck while simultaneously scrambling German harbor craft, blaring away their sirens to rescue me from a buoy. Though my father is a 1945 USNA graduate, and my twin brother, Bill, is a 1967 Classmate, I had always intended to become a lawyer and was hoping to transition to Navy JAG, but that was not to be. While ENTERPRISE was undergoing overhaul in Newport News, I became a Virginia resident, thus eligible for reduced tuition at the University of Virginia Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary School of Law where I earned a law degree. For the next 32 years I worked at various Washington, D.C. law firms representing electric power companies. In 2007 I retired from the hectic practice of law. After 19 years of marriage, Kate and I are enjoying travel to South America, birdwatching, exercise, reading, cats, and Church activities in Arlington, VA. Our daughter Julia is an associate in a Washington, D.C. law office where she works in antitrust and mergers. Son Jack is an MD in the Navy Medical Corps who hopes to become a surgeon. He is soon to be married and will then report to the Marines at Camp Lejeune while his new wife begins her own medical residency in the civilian world.

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5th Company James A. Wood Service History Aviation training followed by a half tour as an instructor pilot in Kingsville, TX, VT-22, flying the F-9 Cougar for 800 hours waiting for fleet seats to open up. Reported in January '70 for F-4 training in Virginia Beach. Became an expectant father and swapped my original orders to VF-103 aboard the Saratoga for some to VF-102 on the Independence so that I could be present for my daughter's birth. Katie arrived, January 4, 1971. Two Med. Cruises including traps on the Arc Royal and a young bride with a baby following the ship around. Stateside activity included endless detachments and exercises in Key West, Gitmo, Fallon, and Top Gun training in San Diego. Scoffed at orders to Pax River test pilot school and called it quits in September, 1973. Principal Occupation Found out that airlines are not impressed by hot headed fighter pilots and jobs are hard to come by during an oil embargo. Started as a sales engineer for a small Baltimore industrial equipment company and soon jumped to a specialty HVAC shop. Sold nails to contractors in D.C. and became an award winning area manager in Northern California. Next up was robots out of Philadelphia which led to computer sales to manufacturers and then telephone systems and consulting back in D.C. .

Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Monday, June 6, 1988 was the last time I was drunk or stoned and the first time I went to a meeting to get help. Strangely enough, right there in Anne Arundel County. Subsequently discovered that there was a simple reason for many of my memories of those life events being unusual, predictable and blurry. Recovery is continuing, however. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: I'd have to say that would be the image of the USNA campus in the rear view mirrors of any of many cars that I stashed all around town in those “secret” parking enclosures. The joy that I took escaping clearly blocked any form of embracing on site experiences. Humorous Memories of USNA: Probably most notorious was calling in “extra corn cobs” for a Firsty that irked me one Saturday evening meal in May of our Plebe year. The powers that be convinced themselves that I was covering for whoever put me up to it, so they awarded a minimum Class A penalty. My first of many. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "obtain from attending” Watched the TV shows, “Men of Annapolis” and “West Point Story” when I was 12 or 13, I noticed that all the characters had pretty girl friends. I wanted a pretty girl friend. I also read “Run Silent, Run Deep” and so I wanted to serve on subs and picked Navy. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? It never occurred to me that the rosie ambitions imagined by a 12 year old may not mix well with the needs or demands of the service. But I was drinking a lot at the time. Summary write up for Jim Woods Uneventful aviation training was followed by a surgrad tour as an instructor pilot in Kingsville, TX in VT-22, flying the F9F Cougar for 800 hours waiting for fleet seats to open up. In January 1970, I reported for F-4 training in Virginia Beach. I also became an expectant father and swapped my original orders to VF-103 aboard SARATOGA (CVA-60) for some to VF-102 on INDEPENDENCE (CVA-62) so that I could be present for my daughter's birth. Katie arrived in 1971. I had two Med. Cruises including traps on HMS Ark Royal and a young bride with a baby following the ship around. Stateside activity included endless detachments and exercises in Key West, Gitmo, Fallon, and Top Gun training in San Diego. I left the Navy in 1973.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Airline jobs were hard to find during the oil embargo, so I became a sales engineer for a small Baltimore industrial equipment company. I soon jumped to a specialty HVAC shop, and then I sold nails to contractors in D.C. and became an award winning area manager in Northern California. Next up was robots out of Philadelphia, leading to computer sales to manufacturers and then telephone systems and consulting back in D.C. Monday, June 6, 1988 was the last time I was drunk or stoned and the first time I went to a meeting to get help. Strangely enough, it was right there in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Recovery is continuing with my wife, Jennifer, our own designed and built home in Georgia and my daughter nearby.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Ross S. Bagully Service History USS Peacock (MSC 198) 67 – 70 USS Cayuga (LST 1198) 70 – 71 Engineer Officer on both ships, Plank Owner - Precommissioning crew / fitting out / acceptance and initial deployment to RVN on Cayuga Principal Occupation 10 years in investment banking, then telecom / high tech / software / communications industry Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: Married to Patsy McCullough Bagully for 48+ years now – obviously the best thing that ever happened to me. Two children – Stephanie a BioChem PhD lives in San Diego – two daughters, Riva (19) second year student at the University of Edinburgh, and Batya (15) a HS Sophomore and soccer star. Our son, Aaron an MBA lives in Denver – one daughter, Adeline (15) a HS Sophomore. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired? I’m not smart enough to retire – still work full time for an Indian IT outsourcing company, running a small sector of their communications industry business. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Plebe year filled with terror and trauma, and many hilarious memories as well. Remember getting put on report plebe summer for a dirty mirror (I was ICOR and had no idea what that even meant). To this day I clean the mirror over the sink every time I use it. I also always remember being with Dave Baker sprinting back to Bancroft the night before graduation and getting stopped by the OD (Capt LeCorneau – who was our company officer). Great memories and great friends, some of whom are no longer with us. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement Athletic Service/USNA Awards Uniform Breast Insignia: SWO Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” and Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I wanted to be a Naval Officer, and the academy experience certainly enabled that. I loved going to sea, loved driving ships, and really enjoyed my service experiences. The thought of resigning had never crossed my mind until I had an unpleasant conversation with my detailer at which time I resigned on the spot. He eventually came back and tried to get me to change my mind, but by that time I was already committed to going to Harvard Business School and never looked back since. As it turned out, the academy experience and education were a perfect platform for my future, both in the Navy and then at grad school and in the civilian world. The entire education and training, I believe, taught us to think and to solve problems – not based solely on a collection of memorized facts, but rather on the ability to reason, probe, think, challenge and come to effective decisions - - and to do it all quickly and when under pressure. Summary bio for Ross Bagully After graduation I was assigned to USS Peacock (MSC 198) and USS Cayuga (LST 1198). I was Engineering Officer on both ships, and Plank Owner - Pre-commissioning crew / fitting out / acceptance and initial deployment to RVN on Cayuga. After leaving the Navy in 1971, I spent 10 years in investment banking, then telecom / software / communications 250

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6th Company industry. I have been married to Patsy for 48+ years now – with two great children – Stephanie a BioChem PhD lives in San Diego and our son Aaron an MBA lives in Denver. I’m not smart enough to retire – still work full time for an Indian IT outsourcing company, running a small sector of their communications industry business. The academy experience and education were a perfect platform for my future, both in the Navy and in the civilian world. The entire education and training taught us to think and to solve problems – not based solely on a collection of memorized facts, but rather on the ability to reason, probe, and think. After leaving the Navy and getting an MBA at HBS I found the same premise in that education as well – again learning how to think and apply it to different situations. Oddly enough I think both Navy and HBS came together to give me the education which served me well over the years. Of course as we all know, hard work and commitment help – as does a good portion of luck and the right people alongside you in life. Looking back I’ve been very fortunate and am thankful for that.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Edward B. Blackwood

Ed cherished his time at the Naval Academy where his introduction to the challenges and satisfaction of nuclear engineering spawned a career that spanned more than 40 years. He selected submarines as his warfare specialty, and after graduation completed training at the Naval Nuclear Power School, the Nuclear Power Training Unit and the Submarine Officer Basic Course. Ed reported to his first ship, the USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656) where he qualified in submarines and earned his Gold Dolphins. He then served on the USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) as Engineer Officer. Beginning in 1976, Ed served in Naval Reserve detachments in Crystal City, VA and commanded a unit in Pittsburgh, PA until his retirement as a Commander in 1994. After leaving active duty, Ed continued to serve his country: as a nuclear engineer with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1975 to 1985; as a consultant to the commercial nuclear power industry until 1989; and in several Senior Executive Service positions with the United States Department of Energy until 2008. He earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maryland in 1980 and was a member of the American Society for Quality. In other activities, Ed was an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church where he presided over services for youth groups in his congregation. He enjoyed his years in the Drum and Bugle Corps, which sparked him to join a local jazz band as a banjo player. His greatest enjoyment was sailing his boat on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay with Beth, his wife of 27 years. Ed passed away peacefully at his home in Annapolis on July 31, 2008. In keeping with his wishes, he was inurned at the Naval Academy columbarium.

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6th Company Richard C. Brookes

On December 23rd, 2013, Pastor Richard "Dick" Brookes died while on his way to meet a friend for lunch in Fort Edward, New York. He was 69 years old. His death was likely due to a heart attack and his passing was quick and merciful. He had just said good-bye to his wife with a hug and kiss as she was baking Christmas cookies at home and preparing for upcoming celebrations. Dick was serving as pastor with Interim Pastor Ministries at Coila Church in Cambridge, New York. He dedicated his life to the ministry and had a lasting impact on family, friends and numerous church congregations during his 40 years of ministry. Dick was born in Providence, Rhode Island and was the son of the late Paul Hollingshead and Mary Evangeline (White) Brookes. He studied engineering and played football at the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with a BS degree in 1967 and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corps on June 7, 1967 where he served until July 1971. God called him to full time Christian ministry after graduating from Denver Seminary in 1974. He was ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1974 and then transferred his ordination to the Evangelical Covenant Church in 2000. He first-served in the Officers Christian Fellowship at the U.S. Air Force Academy, developing a discipleship ministry with cadets. Upon leaving OCF, he became a pastor in 1979. He and his wife, Donna, served churches in Eugene, Oregon; Denver, Colorado; Crystal, Minnesota; Kamiah, Idaho; Great Falls and Stockett, Montana; and Cambridge, New York. Dick also assisted in developing a new church plant with the Evangelical Church in Dundee, Oregon. Dick is survived by Donna Humbert Brooks, his wife of 44+ years; two sons - Daniel Mark Brookes, a Commander USN and wife Karyn, and David Paul Brookes, both of Norfolk, Virginia; and three grandchildren, Kaylee, Amanda and Joshua; brother, Paul Brookes and wife Janet of Warwick, RI.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary James C. Campbell

Prepared by Dave Crabtree and Jim Schear JC came to Mother B from Mount Lebanon, PA. a suburb of Pittsburgh. Jim established his reputation early as one of the brains in our class and he practically lived on the Supe’s and Dean’s lists, standing in the top 5% of the class (40). Being forever gracious and accommodating, he was always ready to assist his classmates with any academic difficulty they might be experiencing. Of particular note was when he helped two company-mates in writing a FORTRAN program for a Weapons course. Unfortunately, they neglected to acknowledge his help and were busted (big time) by the Profs. He was a member of the Plebe crew team but later years had him devoting his time to intramural sports, playing on the company softball and football teams. His extracurricular activities included membership in the Foreign Relations Club and Antiphonal Choir. First class year was highlighted by his selection to the US Marine Corps. He diligently prepared for that assignment by playing bridge with the company squids almost every night. With a brain like his and an ability to bench-press a Volkswagen, he was the complete Marine package. Jim also had great taste and a passion for cars that was revealed when he and two other company mates bought Porsche 356’s first class spring set. That was what Jim was driving when he was tragically killed in a single car accident while returning from his June week cottage early on graduation morning. He was commissioned posthumously as a Second Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps and left an indelible memory with both his classmates but especially his company mates. Rest in Peace Marine.

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6th Company David M. Crabtree Service History 1969-71 VF 162 (F-8), San Diego, CA, USS Shangri-La 1971-73 Naval Post Graduate School 1973-75 VF 191 Principal Occupation Sales and marketing for business software companies Last full time employment was Worldwide head of business development for a public company based in Dallas Texas. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Kristy – Oldest Daughter Ashley – Middle Daughter David – Young Son Savanna – First Granddaughter How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I plan to retire in my next life. Currently working as Director Operations with my partner. We publish two magazines: Anaba, Japanese Guide for London and London Visitors. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Life with “Poopy Shear”, Mike Delong and Doug Leonard. Never a dull moment. Humorous Memories of USNA: Awards Received Academic Achievement Master in Science Degree in Systems Management from USC Athletic Service/USNA Awards Spent eleven months in 1970 aboard the Shangri La carrier (VF-162) flying my F8 in combat missions during the Viet Nam War. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” My father was a career Air Force officer. I traveled the world with him and our family. It never occurred to me to want to do anything other than a military life. My passion for flying was the real driver. I never expected to be in the military and not fly jets. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? From the day I graduated and for the next ten years I did exactly what I had always dreamed of doing. Summary bio for Dave Crabtree From a very early age, all I wanted to do is fly jets off of carriers. I went to the Academy just to do that. My worse class was navigation. Thank god the Navy made me a fighter pilot. Ten great years in the Navy and then the challenge of what to do when I grew up as a socially acceptable adult. I spent years post navy working in the software industry culminating in being the International Head of Business Development for a company based in Dallas. Ten years with them travelling the world creating new markets everywhere I went. Help take the company public in 1999. Ended up in London and eventually became a small business consultant. I’ve now lived in London since 2000 with British Citizenship working with my partner publishing a Japanese magazine called Anaba. Based in Soho, the den of iniquity for London, and enjoying life. Thinking about retiring in my next life. Major accomplishments include 3 wonderful kids and 2 exwives. Many fond memories of the Academy years, my flying career, years in the software business and living life to the fullest. My religion is based on a wonderful phrase – carpe diem (from the wonderful movie – Dead Poets Society) "This rule, carpe diem, is about living each day to the fullest and appreciating each moment". Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary David W Davis Service History: 1963-67: USNA ( 6th Company) 1967-1969: USS Harry E Hubbard (DD-748) Long Beach, CA : Main Propulsion Assistant; Chief Engineer 1969-1970: Destroyer School, Class 29, Newport Rhode Island 1970 – 1971: USS Davidson (FF-1045) Pearl Harbor, HI : Chief Engineer 1971-1973: USS Welch ( PG-93) Apra Harbor, Guam : Commanding Officer 1973-1976: U S Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD: Leadership and Law Instructor; Admissions Officer 1976-1978: Commander Training Command, Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA: Flag Secretary 1978-1979: Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA: Student 1979-1981: USS Talbot, (FFG-4) Mayport, FL. : Executive Officer 1981-1983: OP-95 OPNAV Staff, Washington, DC : Over the Horizon Targeting Officer, Tomahawk Strike Planner 1983-1985: Chief Of Legislative Affairs, Washington DC : Executive Assistant. 1985-1987: USS Monongahela ( AO 178) Norfolk, VA : Commanding Officer 1987- 1992: U S Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD: Chair Professional Programs; Director of Admissions. 1992: Retired with rank of Captain Principal Occupation: Surface Warfare Officer for 25 years after graduation. 1992- Present: Senior Associate Director of Athletics, Naval Academy Athletic Association (Admissions and Academic Support) Interesting, Memorable Events: Traveled the world starting with 6 deployments to Vietnam from 1967 to 1973. Command in the grade of Lieutenant is something I would do again. Deployed from Norfolk and went all the way to the Philippines in Monongahela. Then was ordered back to the Med at best speed for the strikes on Libya. This essentially required a successful full power run from Subic to Suez and into the Med. When I left the Admissions Office as a Lt I said that I would like to return as Director of Admissions…it happened. I was offered my current job at a cocktail party and the contract was written on a napkin. This job has lasted 23 years. Tell us about your wife and family. Susan and I were married in January 1976. We met at the Academy and she was working in the Superintendents office. I used to say that “I bring them in and she kicks them out”. We have one son, Cdr Glenn Davis, USNR who graduated in 2000 and was an EA6B Prowler Pilot and shifted to the F-18 when he was CAG Paddles for Airwing 17. He is married, works for General Electric Aviation and has one son with another child due in August 2015. Sadly, Susan lost a 20-year battle with cancer in October 2013. She was the love of my life and a great Navy wife. How is Retired Life? I am still employed. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Throwing snow balls at tourists in Tecumseh Court from our 3rd wing 4th deck room in Bancroft Hall. Watching Guido Carloni wrestle. Having Roger Staubach in our company. Playing Fieldball on Hospital Point in the winter. Drinking beer at Mom Walter’s Drag House on Sundays. Sneaking out of town in Gordy Johnson’s Corvette 2/C year. Awards Received: Academic Achievement: I didn’t have a lot of success in this area. Athletic Achievement: Brigade Intramural Soccer Championship Service Awards: Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and various campaign and service ribbons. Uniform Device Naval Surface Warfare 256

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6th Company Why did you attend USNA and what did you expect to “obtain from attending” My Father was a Class of 1933 graduate and a career Naval Officer. I just wanted to follow in his footsteps. I entered wanting to be a Submarine officer until I learned that you had to be smart. Next was aviation until Pensacola when I discovered a nut in the canopy while inverted and wondered where that came from. I then chose surface warfare and wound up in Vietnam on a Destroyer 40 days after graduation. Did the Academy satisfy your expectations? It was more difficult academically than I expected but it did satisfy my military expectations. It led me to a great life. Although, I didn’t expect to live on the fourth deck for four years. I have actually spent 30 years of my life attending or working at the Naval Academy. Summary write up for Dave Davis I reported directly to my first ship in Hong Kong 40 days after graduation. We were on the gun line in Vietnam two days later and had an airburst from a shore battery go off over the ship that night. Instant Combat Action Ribbon. Over the next two tours, a Chief Engineer job in Hawaii and a Command in Guam, I spent almost three years deployed to VietNam. Returning to the states, I served at the Naval Academy as a Lt and then in Norfolk as Flag Secretary to an Admiral. Next came Med Deployments in a Frigate, a tour that never seemed to end in the Pentagon and then Command in Norfolk and more Med and Indian Ocean deployments. I returned to the Academy in 1987 as Chair of Professional Programs, moved to be Director of Admissions and retired to a job at the Naval Academy Athletic Association that has lasted for 23 years. Who would ever think that an Intramural Field Ball player would become a Senior Associate Director of Athletics at a Division 1 institution? My wife Susan and I were married in 1976 after my heavy sea duty but she lived through deployments as Executive Officer and Commanding Officer, dodged hurricanes in Mayport and moved to DC with a small child when I was in the Med. Our son Glenn was the light of her life and she was able to embark on Reagan for a Tiger Cruise with him from Hawaii to San Diego. Sadly, we lost Susan to cancer in 2013. Glenn is a 2000 graduate of the Academy, a Navy pilot and a 2014 graduate of MIT. He and his wife Caroline live in Wayland, Massachusetts where he is a Project Manager with General Electric Aviation. By publishing time, I will have two grandchildren. I have owned a home in Annapolis for 32 years, and, on our 50th, with good health, I will still be working at the Academy.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Stewart H. Fonda Service History: 1967-1968: Nuclear power school, Vallejo, California 1968-1969: USS Esteem (MSO-438) Operations Officer, Engineering Officer 1969-1971 USS Constellation (CVA-64) Electrical Officer 1969 Temporary duty river patrol boat, Qui Nhon, Vietnam 1971 Left Naval Service Principal Occupation: Following graduate school, worked as a consulting engineer with the firm of Black and Veatch from 1973 to 1977 in Denver. Designed water and sewer systems, treatment plants, and rates and management systems. In 1977 became Director of Utilities for the City of Englewood, Colorado. Was responsible for the Englewood water system and the Englewood wastewater collection system. In 1989 also became responsible for the Littleton/Englewood BiCity Wastewater Treatment Plant, a regional plant serving a population of 300,000 in the southwest Denver area. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: In 2000 the addition to the Englewood water treatment plant was named the Stewart H. Fonda Millennium Addition. I am currently the only living person in Englewood with a building or monument named after him.

Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren I married my wife Barbara in 1973 and we adopted two girls in 1982 and 1987. We have one grandson. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? My retirement date is June 30, 2015, after 38 years with the city. I will, however, be consulting for the city for the foreseeable future. I plan to do a significant amount of golf and skiing as well as some volunteering. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: The summer cruise to Europe after plebe year is one of the fondest memories that I have of USNA. The assassination of President Kennedy was one of the most vivid. Humorous Memories of USNA: Several of us had some drinks in the Annapolis cemetery one night. The residents didn’t seem to care. Awards Received: 1979 American Water Works Association national award for best journal publication of the year in the Management Division. 1988 American Water Works Association Fuller Award for outstanding service to the water industry. Academic Achievement: 1971-1973 Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to “gain/obtain from attending” My father was in the NROTC during World War II, and he encouraged me to apply to the Naval Academy. I had also applied to the NROTC program but took the appointment to the academy as soon as I was appointed by our congressman. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy experience more than satisfied my expectations. It provided me an opportunity to serve as a naval officer and provided an outstanding undergraduate education. This was the foundation for obtaining an advanced degree in engineering as well as a professional engineering license. This all lead to a career in water and sewer utility management. Summary Yearbook write-up for Stewart Fonda After serving 4 years in the Navy aboard the USS Esteem (MSO-438) and the USS Constellation (CVA-64), I spent 2 years at the University of Illinois and graduated with a MS degree in environmental engineering. I moved to Denver in 258

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6th Company 1973 and went to work for Black and Veatch Consulting Engineers for 4 years designing water and wastewater facilities and water and wastewater rates. I married my wife Barbara in 1973 and we adopted two girls in 1982 and 1987. We have one grandson. In 1977 I was appointed Director of Utilities for the City of Englewood, Colorado and managed the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water and sewer plants and systems. In 2000, after years of reconstruction, the addition to the Englewood water treatment plant was named the Stewart H. Fonda Millennium Addition. I served on the board of directors of the American Water Works Association from 1994 to 1997 and was elected Vice-President in 1996 to serve a one-year term. I retired in June of 2015 and am looking forward to golf, skiing, travel and volunteer work. The City of Englewood will have me doing some part time consulting in the area of water rights.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary John W. Goldschmidt What a trip! Over 50 years ago I entered the U. S. Naval Academy. It could not have been a better choice. I was challenged from day one to excel, achieve and grow. To this day, I have wonderful memories of demanding academics, challenging athletics and long lasting friendships. After graduation I joined the USS Edson (DD-946) in Long Beach CA as the Main Propulsion Assistant (MPA). In 1969 I volunteered for the “brown water” Navy and was assigned to PBR River Division 592 at a small town called Go Dau Ha on the Vam Co Dong. I finished my Navy career in 1973 as an Assistant Professor of Naval Science at the NROTC unit at Penn State University. In 1974, with a fresh MBA in hand, I was hired by Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, PA and worked in the Capital Markets Department for 22 years as a bond trader. My interest in technology and entrepreneurial endeavors lead me to the renewable fuels industry in the early 2000s. I am still involved in that industry today. Pittsburgh is home, come and visit! It’s a vibrant city with great sports teams, wonderful cultural activities and rock-solid people. I met and married my wife Diane here. We live in Mt. Lebanon and have a son, John, who after stints in New York City and Denver is back in “da ‘Burgh”. Life is good indeed!

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6th Company Edward J. Hepp Jr. Service History Commissioned 2nd LT USMC on 7 Jun 67 upon graduation from USNA. Near completion of TBS Quantico and having already selected MOS 03 Infantry, experienced multiple episodes of atrial fibrillation for which no cause or remedy could be determined. Placed on administrative leave pending Physical Disability Review Board which found me unfit for service. Received Honorable Medical Discharge which was formalized 3 Apr 68 with 0 disability rating due to “existing prior condition” as several A-fib episodes had been recorded during my tenure at USNA. Principal Occupation Joined Boeing-Vertol in Philadelphia in January 1968 as a systems engineer performing mission configurations for Ch-46, Ch47 and BO-105 helicopters. Met my wife of 48 years, Frances Sarafian, on first day of employment and we married in Sept 1968. In February 1972, joined Lukens Steel Company, Coatesville, PA as Sales Engineer. Lukens (now ArcelorMittal) was a major producer of high end steel plate specifications for the military (HY-80, Hy-100 and HY-130 for submarines, aircraft carrier deck plates, M1A1 tank ballistic armor), nuclear reactor vessels, chemical process vessels, bridges and other large structures. During the 1970s, Lukens produced and fabricated all U.S. Navy submarine sonar spheres. Progressed through various sales and sales management positions with assignments to Allentown (1973-75), Buffalo (1975-77) and Chicago (1977-81) before returning to Coatesville as HQ District Sales Manager and subsequently Product Manager for all alloy and carbon plate sales. In August of 1991, recruited by Oregon Steel Mills as VP Plate Sales and relocated to Portland area. Progressed through numerous executive management positions to Corporate Sr. VP Commercial and President, CF&I Steel Division in Pueblo, CO. As such, I was able to travel and interact with other steel producers companies throughout the world. In April 1997, established HEPP STEEL RESOURCES, a contract sales and consulting service for domestic steel producers and processors. Major clients represented included Bethlehem-Lukens, U.S. Steel, Corus Tuscaloosa, Nucor, Claymont and Artco Group. Since 2012, have been gradually winding down the business to only an occasional assignment today. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: In spite of health concerns over my history of A-fib, my frustration with the sedentary life style recommended upon my medical discharge had me returning to full athletic activity after one year. In 1969 and 1970, played semi-pro football in the Mid-Atlantic League. Likewise, played local league basketball and club tennis for many years before being felled by two back operations in the 1990’s. Other than four annual Portland-to-Coast race walk relays, more recent activities are reserved to fishing, crabbing, clamming, walking and gardening. Starting in 1975, my avid duck hunting interest led to field trialing of my first Golden Retriever who became the high point retriever, all breeds, for the Western New York Retriever Club while being a wonderful family dog as well. Have owned 3 additional Golden Retrievers and 2 of my 3 adult children own Goldens today. Accordingly, I am very familiar with this breed as well the proper training techniques for their ready adaption to be very friendly and obedient family dogs. Have also maintained civic and non-profit activities throughout my various home venues including homeowners’ association president and coaching of youth baseball, soccer and football. Most recently, was a very involved Board member for 16 years for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation including two years as Board president. As such, I personally championed the donation of steel from the NW industry for framing of a new children’s hospital. I am currently a Trustee Emeritus for Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) where I was a very active trustee for 6 years. Am also currently in second of 4-year term on Board of local water utility. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Married for 48 years to Frances (Fran) Hepp (nee Sarafian) with 3 adult children. Fran is an accomplished painter and her beautiful work adorns our home as well as many other’s. She currently teaches painting in her home studio and has developed many budding artists. Son Ed III (47) is an independent graphic artist living outside of Portland. He specializes in apparel print designs with regular assignments from Nike, Patagonia, Adidas, Ice Breaker, Merrell, etc. You can view his work under “Illustrations” at EdHepp.com. Note the common outdoor theme that reflects his love thereof as he is an expert fly fisherman as well. Daughter Sarah Hepp Burke (46) is Director of Global Merchandising for Nike Running Apparel and travels the world accordingly. An avid soccer player, she was a four year starter and two year captain of the Dickinson College soccer team and was voted MVP of the Middle Atlantic Conference in 1991. At Dickinson, she held the all-time scoring record for 10 years and was inducted into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame upon her first year of eligibility. Her 12 year old twins Peter and Brook (girl) are already accomplished athletes: Peter in basketball, football and lacrosse; Brook in soccer, basketball and track. Both are straight A students as well. Daughter Laura (37) is Director of Finance for five high end Kimpton Hotels in southern California. A social bon vivant, she and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel enjoy the southern California lifestyle to the fullest. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? In November 2014, we “downsized” after 23 years in a brand new, very large house on 5 acres where we raised every imaginable fruit and vegetable along with 3 Golden Retrievers. Our retirement house is 1968 vintage on ½ acre and, though recently upgraded by the last owner, has consumed a considerable amount of my time being transformed into “our place”. That, along with following the grandkids very active sports schedules, some personal travel and the occasional fishing jaunt, my days are always full. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: My “vivid” memories of USNA are too numerous to record here. However, among the “most vivid” would be: • The end of the first week of plebe summer when I literally felt like I had been going through hell forever and could not comprehend that it had only been one week. • My tryout for plebe football as a 17 year old, 180 LB lineman when all others seemed to be “All American” or “All State”, typically 2 years older and at least 40 pounds heavier. Regardless, I made second team on the depth chart only to have my plebe season end early with a severe concussion. • The return of the Brigade in Sept 1963 when the firsties looked like ruffled old men. • The visit and speech by President Kennedy in Sept 1963 just 2 months before his assassination. • The announcement during engineering drawing class the afternoon of Friday, 22 Nov 63 that President Kennedy had been shot. • My singing at President Kennedy’s funeral with the USNA Catholic Choir on 25 Nov 63, just 1 day after my 18th birthday, and being assembled by the White House portico while the world’s top dignitaries passed just 20 feet away. • Singing “Eternal Father” at the conclusion of every Sunday mass and thereby causing most attendees, and especially my visiting mother, to be touched to the point of tears. • Playing field ball under the lights on Hospital Point during “the dark ages” winter term. • Making the varsity travel football squad as a second classman and the resulting two years of excitement of traveling to and playing against major universities throughout the country, plus the privilege of representing USNA on the national stage. • Playing in two Army-Navy football games in front of over 102,000 attendees each at the old JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. • Immediately upon graduation, being the official military escort for the funeral services for Jim Campbell, 6 th Company mate and fellow marine, who was killed in an auto accident the evening before graduation. Humorous Memories of USNA: • At the final parade before graduation, my June Week date dressed as a midshipman and marched with our platoon without being detected – in spite of her long hair that had to be piled and pinned beneath her cover. She stayed in step and carried an M-1 rifle without flaw. Having lost touch, I wonder if she relates that story as a lifetime experience as well. Awards Received Academic Achievement (Fulbright, Rhodes, Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, Olmstead, Burke Scholarships or Trident Scholar, Church Scholar, etc. along with highest degree earned and major) 1963 – 1967. USNA Dean’s List 2 of 8 semesters. 1967. USNA, B.S. with Major in Aerospace Engineering. 1972 – 1991. Numerous graduate level courses in metallurgy, sales and business management from Penn State Univ. 262

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6th Company and the University of Pennsylvania. 1995. Graduate, Stanford University Executive Management Program. Athletic (All American, Touchdown Club, Blue Gray Game, North-South Game, etc.) USNA Varsity Football “N”, 1966. Service/USNA Awards (Congressional Medal of Freedom, Distinguished Graduate, Silver/Bronze Star, etc.) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending”. I was fortunate to have had a combination of academic, athletic and leadership credentials to be offered full scholarships at several major colleges. The superlative appeal of USNA was the opportunity to become something more than just an engineer, with particular appeal of Navy Air, as well as to matriculate with people of similar student-athlete characteristics. I was especially influenced by Roger Staubach’s performance in the Army-Navy game of 1962. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely. The “experience” was bitter sweet to include wonderful activities beyond my expectations coupled with disappointment in the prevailing “chicken sh_t” approach to regimentation and discipline. Time has made me better appreciate the value of the overall experience and I credit the training and credentials earned as having served me extremely well in my professional and personal endeavors. Summary bio for Ed Hepp I reported to TBS Quantico in August of 1967 and, upon nearing graduation and having chosen 03 infantry, experienced multiple A-fib cardiac episodes resulting in my eventual medical discharge in April of 1968. Though initially sedentary due to cautions by Navy doctors, I eventually resumed my previous very physical routine and have had few residual issues since. While awaiting formal discharge, I joined Boeing-Vertol in Philadelphia in January of 1968 as a systems engineer. There I met my wife Fran of now 48 years and 3 children and 2 grandchildren. I initiated my longtime steel industry career in Feb 1972 as a sales engineer with Lukens Steel Co. in Coatesville, PA. My 20 years with Lukens included assignments to Allentown (1973-75), Buffalo (1975-77), Chicago (1977-81) and then back to HQ Coatesville for various management roles culminating in Product Manager, Alloy and Carbon Plate Sales. In September of 1991, Oregon Steel Mills (OSM) recruited me as VP Plate Sales and we relocated to suburban Portland where we still reside today. At OSM, I progressed to Corporate Sr. VP Commercial and President of the CF&I Steel Division in Pueblo, CO. In 1997, I started HEPP STEEL RESOURCES, a contract sales and consulting service for the domestic steel industry. It has been a very successful and rewarding venture but I have recently downsized the business to only an occasional assignment today. I have also been involved with numerous non-profit organizations to include Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation (16 years BOD with 2 as Board president) and Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (Trustee Emeritus). Fran and I have been fortunate to have traveled to numerous countries throughout the world while treasuring our life in beautiful Oregon. Fran continues with her artistic endeavors as I do my outdoor activities, especially fly-fishing.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Harold W. Hickman Service History 1967 – 68: Immediate Master’s Degree program at the Naval Postgraduate School, The first such USNA program for 24 graduates in Math and Aero Engineering. 1968 – 69: Naval Aviation Training Command, Pensacola, FL and Corpus Christi, Texas Designated as Naval Flight Officer April 1969 1969: P-3 Replacement Air Training, Norfolk, VA and NAS Patuxent River, MD 1969 – 72: VP-24, NAS Patuxent River, MD., Tactics Officer, P-3 Tactical Coordinator 1972 – 74: PhD studies program in Aero Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School 1975: CV Tactical Support Center (CV-TSC) training, Dam Neck, VA and NADC 1975 – 77: CV-TSC Director, USS Enterprise, established the first Pacific Fleet CV-TSC 1977 – 78: Naval War College, Newport, RI. College of Command and Staff 1978: P-3 Replacement Air Training, NAS Moffett Field, CA 1979 – 81: VP-19, NAS Moffett Field, CA., Department Head tour, P-3 Mission Commander 1981 – 84: Naval Air Systems Command, Advanced Development Air ASW programs 1984 – 87: NMPC Sea Duty Component (classified program), Washington, DC 1987 – 91: Office of Naval Technology, managed High Gain Initiative passive acoustic arrays Program 1991 – 92: NMPC Sea Duty Component (classified program). 1992: Retired from USN with rank of Commander. Principal Occupation (Life after USNA, with detours as applicable): Following retirement from the Navy, worked for XonTech, Inc., as a Radar and Software engineer and Technical Program Manager supporting various classified Navy programs. In 2005, went to work for DMTLLC in Sterling, Virginia as a Senior Software Engineer. Currently employed with DMTLLC managing the development and implementation of processing algorithms and display/control software for short range doppler radars/security camera systems. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: • Travel to foreign countries with VP Squadrons and tour on USS Enterprise, including most Northern European countries, Australia, Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea. • Having my wife visit and share experiences during deployments to Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines, which includes maxing out all credit cards during brief port call/shopping spree in Hong Kong. • Opportunities for graduate education at the Naval Postgraduate School with two separate tours. • Flying on a Navy transport airplane heading to SERE school in Brunswick, Maine on July 20, 1969 -- completely missed the live TV coverage of the first Moon landing. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren I married my favorite drag (and sweetie) from the Naval Academy (Karen McLinden), and continue marveling to this day what a great decision that turned out to be. Karen is a very bright and energetic person who continues to achieve great things in life, which includes being a writing teacher for children and adults, becoming a published writer of children’s books, and, of course, always making me think I’m the achiever in this family. We have been blessed with three wonderful children and six amazing grandchildren. My children have been equally fortunate to achieve happy marriages and great success in their working lives. We are known to our grandchildren as ODad and Nana. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? • I continue to work full time in a job that fits my skills and interests perfectly. I look forward to going to work every day and find the nature of this work – creating new software programs for radar/camera security systems – to be very stimulating and satisfying. I don’t anticipate “retiring” from this job anytime soon. • Karen is equally engaged with her pursuits, including teaching elementary school, conducting periodic writing workshops/seminars, and , of course, playing bridge at every opportunity. • Our other main interest is taking an ocean or river cruise vacation, usually twice a year. We always have one of these vacations – or a Hawaii trip -- scheduled. 264

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Not mentioned, but obviously the main focus of our lives now is to interact with and pursue relationships with our children and grandchildren!

Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Winning the 1963 army/navy game – a few seconds away from a heart attack. • Learning of President Kennedy’s assassination during calculus class. • Attending all away football games as member of the drum and bugle corps -- able to attend nearly every game during the 1963 season! • Earning an N star as a member of the Navy track team. • Being a plebe in the same company as Roger Staubach – tremendous side benefits. • Sharing my key Naval Academy memories with Karen, including sneaking around with her as a plebe, going to the ring dance, turning my new car over to her for safe keeping during first class year, and posing for pictures together at graduation. Humorous Memories of USNA: • Greyhound races • Locking good friends out in goat court. • Hiding my new car in a cemetery. • Sailing a knockabout across the Severn River and immediately going aground (with drags aboard) Awards Received Academic Achievement 1968 MS Aeronautical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School 1972 PhD Studies Aeronautical Engineering, (completed candidacy) 1978 MS College of Command and Staff, Naval War College 1993 MS Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Athletic Earning an N Star as a member of the Navy track team. Service/USNA Awards Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” Primarily to attend college on a full scholarship (which I would otherwise not be able to afford). At the age of 18, my “expectations” were simply to go to college, graduate, and start a lifetime career – the Navy seemed to offer a challenging and rewarding life. Great thoughts tend to come later in life. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Yes. The discipline, rigor, and sense of accomplishment gained during my Academy years is the real take-away I have to show for those years. This experience more than satisfied my expectations – as viewed in hindsight. Summary bio for Bill Hickman Following June graduation, I reported to the Naval Postgraduate School, married my sweetheart, Karen McLinden, and managed to balance the distractions of a honeymoon on the Monterey Peninsula with the rigors of graduate school. After completing an MS in Aero Engineering the following spring, we proceeded to Pensacola and Corpus Christi for flight training, receiving my wings as a Naval Flight Officer in April 1969. My first squadron tour in VP-24 placed me in one of the first P3C squadrons, and involved considerable flight time tracking Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic. Following a second tour at PG school for additional graduate studies, I reported to USS Enterprise as the Director of the first Pacific Fleet CV-TSC, a new operational module implemented on aircraft carriers to add a dedicated ASW team. (Karen saw this tour as an opportunity to visit Hong Kong and Cubi Point.) After the Enterprise tour, and a year at the Naval War College in Newport, I reported to VP-19 in Moffett Field where I gained first hand knowledge of the many airfields around the Pacific basin, including exciting memories of Adak, Alaska. (Again, Karen went on deployment too to visit in Misawa, Japan.) My final Navy tours involved assignments to NavAir and the Office of Naval Technology managing ASW development programs. After retiring in 1992, I became a Software/Radar Engineer working for XonTech, Inc., in Washington DC while completing an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. I am currently working as the Senior Software Engineer for DMTLLC in Northern Virginia, where I design software for integrated radar and camera security systems. Our many memorable travel experiences continue with river cruising in Europe being our favorite. Karen and I are Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Gordon J. Johnson

We are saddened to announce the passing of Gordon J. Johnson on Nov. 5, 2014 following a brave struggle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Poughkeepsie, NY, he was a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He was a pilot in the Navy and served in Vietnam. He moved to Atlantic Beach, FL in 1990 and owned a successful aerial photography business. Gordon was preceded in death by his parents and son, Christopher and is survived by his loving wife, Pamela Ann; sons, Eric Johnson (Heather) and Michael Johnson and granddaughters, Tiara and Chloe.

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6th Company Raymond Doug Leonard Service History After graduation, I was a Company Officer for the Plebe Summer Class of 1971 and then reported to Dam Neck, VA for Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (DASH) Controller training. Following that, my wife Ruth and I traveled cross country in my 1967 Pontiac Lemans to San Francisco where we had Thanksgiving dinner before dropping the car for shipment to Hawaii and catching a flight the next day. I reported about USS Jenkins, (DD-447) November 27, 1967 in Pearl Harbor as the First Division and DASH Officer. We served on the gun line in Vietnam, plane guard for Constellation (CV-64) and America (CV-66), and escort to the Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) and Goldsborough (DDG-20). Their job was to be the NTDS platform, our job was to stay between the frigate and land and play tag with the Komar boats sneaking out of Haiphong Harbor with the junk fishing fleet. Leaving the South China Sea we took the scenic route home to Hawaii. Jenkins crossed the equator on January 27, 1969 bound for Newcastle, Australia, so I am a Trusty Shellback. We refueled at an Australian Navy Station on the Island of Manus in the Admiralties about two degrees south of the Equator where we officers (in shifts) were treated to lunch and several Fosters at the Officer’s Mess. I went for lunch at 9:00 am! Departing Manus, we visited Hobart, Tasmania; Christ Church, New Zealand; American Samoa before arriving home in Pearl. After decommissioning the Jenkins in San Diego, I transferred to the Precommissioning crew of the USS El Paso (LKA-117) in Norfolk. I served as Assistant First Lieutenant and First Lieutenant in El Paso and left active duty 1 March 1972. I transferred to the Reserves and went to graduate school at Auburn University. My first drill site was USNRTC Columbus, Georgia with a “General Activity Training Unit” whatever that was. Half of us were students at Auburn and 90% had Viet Nam experience. It was during the "Z-grams" era from Admiral Zumwalt that authorized beards, sideburns, mustaches, and longer groomed hair, so we were a scruffy bunch. According to Wikipedia and something I had forgotten; one Z-gram authorized beer-dispensing machines in the barracks. I served in amphibious reserve units in Birmingham, Alabama for four years, then went to Naval Control of Shipping units and had commands in Birmingham, Jackson, MS and Chattanooga, TN. After moving to Winter Haven, FL in 1987, I was promoted to Captain, continued drilling in various units, and had one more command before retiring in January 1994. Principal Occupation After two years at Auburn, I graduated with a Master of Urban & Regional Planning in December 1974 and later earned a Master of Public Administration from Auburn in March 1977. I had to use up every last cent of GI Bill eligibility you know. I had my first planning job as Zoning Administrator in Montgomery, Alabama in 1973 and have been a planner ever since, with stops in Birmingham (6 years), Winter Haven, Florida (4 years), the Central Florida Regional Planning Council in Bartow, Florida (Executive Director 14 years). At 73, I am the full-time Town Planner (10+ years) in the “great metropolis” of Lake Hamilton, Florida, population 1,275. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: I am a professional urban and regional planner, so you might think it would spill over to my personal life. You know, with grown kids grandchildren and retired for the last ten years or more, but noooooo, not this planner. My children are an example. My first wife Ruth and have two daughters, the oldest, Jennifer is 47 and has one daughter Katie, who is a senior at Troy University in Alabama, and the younger is Lindsay who is 35 with a young son. After a decade of “bachelorhood” I remarried. Lori and I have a son Austin who is 19 and is in his second year at Polk State College here in Winter Haven, leading to an Associate’s Degree next year summer. My girls are both Master’s Degree teachers, Jenny teaches Second Grade at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, AL and Lindsay teaches sciences at Eufaula, Alabama High School. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? “Say again!” Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: My best memories of USNA are centered on intramural athletics. After Plebe Summer, there was a call for company and battalion teams and I discovered Batt Football and Al Motta ’66. We won the Brigade Championship my Plebe year and competed well the following two years if memory serves. I played field ball for Sixth Company for four years. We were pretty good until Staubach came out after his playing days were over at USNA, then we were great in 65! Humorous Memories of USNA: The night before we got on the buses to go to Philly for the Army – Navy games were bridge night in the Sixth Company. Dave Crabtree (future USAF), Mike DEEELong (future LtGen, USMC), Poopie Shear Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary (future RAdm, USNR) and yours truly stayed up most of the night smoking (not Crabtree) playing cards, using terrible language (not Crabtree) and lying about our cards and the score (not Crabtree). Awards Received: Does a 2.57 Cumulative QPR and 506 rank in class count? Academic Achievement: Master of Urban and Regional Planning, Auburn University, 1974 Master of Public Administration, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1977 Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” My father was killed in action in WWII. He was an Army Air Corps fighter pilot with the 308 th Squadron, 31st Fighter Group in Italy. Five uncles, including his three brothers, served in the war and came home to keep his memory alive for me and my younger brother. I was committed to the Army and always wanted to go to West Point, so I took the competitive exam for an appointment from Senator Paul Douglas (D-IL). I got an alternate appointment to West Point two years in a row, but the principal qualified both years. I kept going to college and taking the exam. Around Thanksgiving 1962 I got a phone call from the Senator’s Office saying West Point was not available, again. Which other academy did I want to go to? That’s how I got to Navy. And of course, I have never regretted it. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? . I was happy the day I arrived at USNA and I was happy the day I graduated, and every day in between, with the exception of two that I can remember. During Plebe Summer they were passing out demerits like they were candy and I picked up enough to get a face to face warning from our Ensign Company Officer. I don’t remember what he said, but I stopped getting demerits for the summer, but I was not cured. Youngster year on April 29, 1965 to be exact, I got a Letter of Warning from the Deputy Commandant, Captain K.B. Brown. I still have the letter. I had 175 demerits at the time and 200 would get me probation and 250 a discharge. At the end of the year I had 200. Did you know that the Academy sent your grades home to your Mom when we were there (and Letters of Warning). How do I know, I have some of my semester reports she gave me. The funny thing about them is the line above demerits is “Aptitude”. Every report, I got an A in Aptitude and a D in Conduct. I guess they thought I could lead, but you might not want to go with me. Summary bio for Doug Leonard After graduation, I was a Company Officer for Plebe Summer Class of 1971 and then reported to Dam Neck, VA for Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (DASH) School. I reported about USS Jenkins, (DD-447) November 27, 1967 in Pearl Harbor as First Division & DASH Officer. We deployed to WestPac, served on the gun line, plane guard for Constellation and America and escort to Strauss (DDG-16) and Goldsborough (DDG-20). Jenkins went home to Pearl via Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and American Samoa. We decommissioned Jenkins in San Diego, went to Precom for the USS El Paso (LKA-117) in Norfolk. I was First Lieutenant in El Paso and left active duty March 1, 1972. I spent most of my Reserve time in Naval Control of Shipping units, had commands in Birmingham, Jackson, Mississippi and Chattanooga, and moved to Winter Haven, Florida in 1987. I made Captain, had one command and retired January 1, 1994. I have a Master Degrees in Urban & Regional Planning (12/74) and Public Administration (3/77). My first planning job was in Montgomery, Alabama in 1973 and I have been a planner ever since, in Birmingham (10 years), Winter Haven and Bartow, Florida (18 years). At 73, I am the Town Planner (10+ years) in Lake Hamilton, Florida, pop. 1,275. My first wife Ruth and I have two daughters, the oldest, Jennifer is 47 who has one daughter Katie (21) a senior at Troy, and Lindsay who is 36 and has a son Jestin (8). After a decade of “bachelorhood” I remarried. Lori and I have a son Austin who is 19, a sophomore at Polk State College here in Winter Haven. My girls are both Master’s Degree teachers, Jenny teaches Second Grade at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery and Lindsay teaches sciences at Eufaula H.S.

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6th Company John C. Macidull Service History 1963 – 67: USNA Midshipman - Ensign Line Officer at graduation. 1967 – 68: Naval Air Training Command, NAS Saufley, Whiting, Ellyson, FL, & OLF Barin Field, AL, USS Lexington, CV16 (Fixed-wing aircraft carrier pilot designation 29 April, 1968). Received Naval Aviator Wings on 6 September, 1968 (“Unrestricted Pilot” - Fixed-wing & Helicopter). One month Hand-to-Hand Combat training, HC-5, Replacement Air Group (RAG) Imperial Beach, CA. Transition to H-2 helicopters. Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit, Pacific - SERE school (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape [2]), completed on 8 December, 1968. Lieutenant Junior Grade.

1969 - 71: HC - 1, (Helicopter Combat Support) Imperial Beach, CA., Embarked aboard USS Bon Homme Richard, CV31 (8 months) and USS Ranger CVA-61 (8 months) to Vietnam War Zone piloting H-2 and H-3 helicopters. Maintenance Officer. Carrier ‘Air Boss’ for helicopter deck and flight operations. Lieutenant. 1971-1974: NAF, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA. Project Test Pilot ((FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red), Runway Penetrating Bombs, Agile missiles, Laser Guided Bombs, airborne mine dispersal, instrument check pilot for Navy jet pilot annual qualifications (Green Card), Maintenance Division Officer (@ 50+ personnel, 30+/- aircraft - many shot down and replaced)). Made an “Honorary Navy Chief”. Pilot in Command of jet, helicopter, and twin-engine propeller aircraft. System check pilot for F-9 and T-33 missile target drone aircraft BEFORE they became targets. Piloted 14 mountain and desert helicopter rescues and medivacs, mostly on weekends. Also did A-4 bombings and 2.75” rocket tests from Cobra gunships when needed. 1974: Resigned from Active US Navy and received a Commission in the Naval Reserve. 1977: Affiliated with the Naval Reserve, Pt. Mugu, CA. 1978: VTU (Voluntary Training Unit) China Lake, CA 1979: VTU Alexandria, VA 1981: VTU NAF Washington, Andrews AFB, MD. Lieutenant Commander 1982 - 1989: DCNO (Air) staff, the Pentagon: During active duty periods I was the Senior Officer and supervisor of the Naval Aviation Safety Office. Performed aircraft accident investigation reviews and analyses, studies and input to the Naval Air Congressional Budget (POM 3), and coordinated some Naval Intelligence operations. Commander 1990: Retired from Reserves at 20 years. Principal Other Occupations (Concurrent with Naval Reserve) Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Company 1974-1976: San Diego, Systems Engineer, Invented and wrote the program, Forest Focusing Format Aid to Life Cycle Costing & Design to Cost. Implemented same for government RFPs (Requests for Proposals of contracts.) Alfalfa farm owner, Fallon, Nevada,1977-2006: Flood-irrigation, laser-leveling, crop rotation, Indian/US Supreme Court fights over water rights. Horses. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA, 1977-1979: Aerospace Engineer (Missile Warheads) I produced (The extraordinary metals lab actually carved two bricks of heavy metal from my sketches for composite material injection moldings.) a Sparrow missile/launch modification, and helped oversee fleet F-14 tests and evaluations of it. National Transportation Safety Board, 1979-1984: Airline Accident Investigator. Partially created with NASA help, and personally institutionalized, a computer program to make radar information into primitive flight data recorder ‘Black Boxes’ for General Aviation aircraft investigations where there was no capability of this before. FAA, 1984-1994: Aerospace Engineer, Safety Office Project Supervisor, airline accident and Space Shuttle investigator, FAA System Safety Program final developer and coordinator who obtained sign-off by all nine FAA Region headquarter supervisors. Threat Collision and Avoidance System (TCAS) test pilot (B-727 Atlantic City, NJ. That included B-727 evaluation flights, TCAS system integration, and flight ‘target’ intercepts against the Administrator’s FAA Lockheed Jetstar business jet, and civilian ‘radar returns’ into Philadelphia International Airport and Fort Lauderdale Airport) Retired after Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary 27 years Civil Service as a GS -15. Reagan Presidential Commission staff, 1986: Space Shuttle Challenger investigation, Senior Accident Analyst, Investigator, wrote the plan of investigation, contributing final report writer. U.S. Patent holder (3), 1974,1975,1994 Author of published works, 1988-2016: Articles for the International Astronautical Federation (award winning, Pergamon Press, Great Britain,1988), National Transportation Safety Board public factual reports, the Federal Aviation Administration Safety Journal, and nine books on different subjects and genres. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Since ‘retirement’, I have been a family person, farmer, and book author. Also did two TV specials on airline accidents I investigated, Air Florida and Itavia airlines, for the Canadian company, Cineflix, and TV News interviews for CBS, ABC, NBC, and MSNBC on the Space Shuttle Columbia accident of 2003. It is a fine retirement that allows productive, appreciative, and many halcyon days with family and friends. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: YPs on the Chesapeake Bay. You probably won’t find a classroom like that anywhere else in college land… After a time as a Plebe ‘Navigation Squid’ below decks, from the bridge you later got to say, “Fox Corpen!” and signal flags were run up on the yardarm under open sky. After a last look for mostly fisherman traffic and the ships and their similar flags in the ‘fleet’ at your command, you say, “Execute!”… and your signal flags are run down from the yardarm, and many ships immediately apply rudder and move in a certain direction over the water. And you’d better have been right! Then you had to know how to park your boat. When on watch in Bancroft Hall, I much appreciated the perfume on the female fan mail I delivered to Roger Staubach’s (Heisman Trophy winner-football) room down the passageway from mine… he was a quiet rock of inspiration and stability in his faith during some of the unpleasant hazing atmosphere of Plebe year. Fondest memories were when performing in the Catholic Choir and the Academy Glee Club. With respect to the former, at the request of Mrs. Kennedy, we had the historical privilege of participating at the White House north entrance when President Kennedy’s caisson, horses, and dignitaries went past us. De Galle had a pretty good tailor, except for the hat. Haile Selassie, the ‘Lion of Judah’, was short with lots of medals… I was just observing everything at the time. Any useful judgments came later. The song we sang was Londonderry Aire (Danny Boy melody). Also, with the Glee Club, doing the Bell Telephone Hour live at Radio City Music Hall in NY was a profound experience for me. I had little prior idea how really professional live-TV entertainers were (Ralph Bellamy, Howard Keel)… the preparation. I was also amazed at what good looking legs women past thirty can have (Anita Gillette). As you can see, and as we used to say, the Naval Academy was a great place to be ‘from’, but not ‘at’. And, though it was very little like the “Men of Annapolis” TV shows previous to those years, I do have more fond memories ‘at’ than can be mentioned here. In an attempt at summary, my most vivid memories together consist of the constant increases of awareness of its history, and an appreciation of the Naval Academy as an institution throughout the four years as being probably the best vocational, academic learning, and social awareness school on the planet. President Kennedy’s visit, for example, didn’t make me feel proud of myself. I had done nothing but get there. Presidents don’t normally go to Academy graduations. This one went to just talk to our plebe Class of 1967. Now that was something! He had American class. His visit made me proud of my country, where the top guy made a few hours available to pay tribute to some he knew were actually preparing to go into harm ’s way to defend their country, as he and one of his brothers had done. Of course the Naval Academy Chapel was and remains a vivid and fond memory. I sang there every week for most of four academic years. Every time we did Eternal Father, it was like a vision of the dangerous saltwater environment where we would all be some day. The JP Jones green-marble-columned crypt underneath was also all class, as in charm, and solid beauty built to represent the wartime character of the Naval Officer inside. Natural biases and loyalty included, from my week exchange at West Point through my graduate degree from the University of Southern California, it became increasingly apparent to me that the US Naval Academy was without peer as an educational-schooling institution. I don’t know whether it was because of 5.5 days of a 7 day week of required classes, nine months a year for four 270

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6th Company years with no skipped classes or failures allowed or you were out (unlike NROTC at regular Universities) that caused something to sink in; or no history of, or time for, a cheating scandal; or psychologically because it was training for a career on no firm, stable, or safe ground upon which to stand. It was the start of a career on an unforgiving environment where one’s physical base underfoot was always fluid, shifting, and vital, and where cheating against nature or almost anything can quickly cause demise. Underlying all of this was the earned esteem, like most in the military, in living a career of appreciated, necessary physical risk, not to mention family’s sacrifices, for protecting and defending what we believed to be a good country for us and our families, and what we knew to be the best compared to those of the past, or any other nation in existence today…. not even close so far. Humorous Memories of USNA: I thought Admiral John S. McCain Jr.’s jabbing front-row Midshipmen awake with a pool queue during a leadership lecture in Mahan Hall was pretty good. Also, many of us in a math class got months of laughter imitating a very good, and very old math instructor who taught ‘Vectors’ (straight lines with arrow heads on one end). He looked like Ichabod Crane, and would often passionately twist his face in a contortion of great anger while saying and drawing a, “tortuous twisting curve” on the blackboard. For many of us, problems of wide variety were verbalized as, “tortuous twisting curves [of fate]” while trying to imitate his facial expression. Actually, the first, more humorous to me now, experience was just before Plebe summer. Before swearing in, I was getting a last minute physical at the USNA dispensary in Bancroft Hall, sitting in a small waiting room (A tooth cavity had to have been filled and verified before ‘induction’. You couldn’t bring any physical problems in, and had to take care of any first yourself.) In comes a Midshipman dressed in sailor ‘White Works’ and soaking wet, still dripping water. Of course I asked, as there hadn’t been any rain. He said that he had sunk his sailboat out on the Severn River, and had to now get a physical evaluation. I knew that just running your ship aground was career-ending. His sad, dour expression looked like he had sunk his career and education, and was being processed out. I could only wonder where he would go from here. After a few moments of silence, I asked, “Sir. What does sinking your boat mean, exactly?” He shrugged and said, “Twenty demerits.” I didn’t care much for ‘Plebe Servitude’, which was illegal. So one Friday after shining the sword brass, and shoes for a ‘Firsty’ for the umpteenth time, I made a ‘command decision’. His parents were visiting that weekend and would be watching their son ‘march in’ from the Saturday noon-meal formation in front of Bancroft Hall. When the command came for ‘OFFICERS, DRAW SWORDS!’ he snappily did so smartly, and proudly marched by in front of his parents and a crowd of tourists with cameras taking pictures of him looking like he had just stuck a pig. I had painted the first foot of his sword bright red before placing it back in the scabbard. He didn’t notice it until re-sheathing it after the march. His roommate quickly ‘spooned’ me so I would never have to ‘come around’ to the pig-stabber “forever!” as the pig-stabber had ordered immediately afterward. Lots of yuks all around. Then there was “Jo Jo”, a Lieutenant Company Officer who would prowl Bancroft Hall at night during study hours, barge into Plebe’s rooms and ‘fry’ them for anything he could find or invent. Something had to be done. Some of my classmates (thanks guys), I think in the seventh or eighth wing, tapped into the PA system of Bancroft Hall, the largest dormitory in the world. They had Plebe ‘spy-runners’ who reported to the microphone person every movement, which was then announced over the loudspeakers…. “Jo Jo is now in the fifth wing, third deck, moving north.”... “Jo Jo is crossing the courtyard to the second wing.” This warned everyone to ‘lights out’, go to the head, or do something to disappear. It only lasted a week, and Lieutenant Jo Jo’s movements were reported no more as he was reassigned. The milk-carton episodes: When there was an ‘unfair’ Company Officer, word got around, and a date was set via the ’67 grapevine. After breakfast, hundreds of Plebes like me would take an empty milk carton on our way out of the mess hall and deposit it neatly in the Officer’s office in Bancroft Hall… neatly, as in floor to ceiling, front to back, wall to wall. When he came to work at around 8:00 AM and the door was opened, nothing was seen but a wall of neatly stacked milk cartons. I think the USNA Public Works cleanup crews for leaking milk residue had something to say about the tenure of these few Company Officers. The cleanup work came out of someone’s budget and schedule. We probably all fell asleep at our desks during class at least once, especially Plebe year when burning about 6,000 calories a day with six hours sleep, if that, a night. It was a ‘fryable’ offence. Usually the instructor just made us stand up at the back of the room. Once this didn’t work for me. I locked my knees without thinking, and instead of crumpling to the ground, I woke up at about a 45 degree angle, just in time to put my hands out to send my desk, chair, and books go sprawling with me on top of the heap. (It was almost better than a future Chevy Chase intro to Saturday Night Live.) Chuckles around, nothing said, and after the noisy interruption, the instructor just continued on. I thought it hilarious. During one class the instructor stepped out while we read a handout. Soon we all heard a snoring at a back desk. A classmate was leaning way back in his chair, arms spread wide, face toward the overhead, and mouth wide open, sound asleep, snoring. Normally someone would have just nudged him awake. But this was too much a target of opportunity. As if on signal, several of us immediately rolled up little balls of paper, and started practicing our basketball free throws using his mouth as a hoop. Finally someone made the shot and he woke up spitting it out. He smiled in appreciation. And I got a kick out of classmates being able to laugh at ourselves. Example, the “Lunchbox Award”. Docking a 72 ton YP, at least for me, was a difficult thing to learn, what with two screws, a rudder setting, wind, the current of the Severn Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary River, and with commands for the engines and rudder yelled down through a tube for a slow response, all coordinated together. Our dock then was next to the parking lot of Farragut Field as I recall. Space was so scarce that some cars of mostly academic instructors were parked right at the dock edge. During a high river tide, in combination with wind and current, your approach at the last minute could be suddenly bow-on or perpendicular into the dock, where the bow could actually overhang the dock by a few feet. Well, though it could have happened to me, one of our classmates got the Lunchbox Award that year for running his ship into the roof of a Volkswagen. Civilian Awards: Several from NTSB and FAA for outstanding government performance. Also received a nice plaque and letters of appreciation from the National Association of Legal Investigators, US Attorney General and Secretary of State William Rogers, NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office John Young, and Astronaut Neil Armstrong for my work on the Challenger Presidential Commission. Service Awards: Cut from active duty separation form DD-214 of LT Macidull, 1974.

Academic Achievement: USNA, Annapolis Maryland, 1967 - BS in Naval Science and Engineering. Major in Aeronautical Engineering. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1975 - Master’s Degree in Public Administration.

Please Answer Two Questions: “Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to gain/obtain from attending”? “Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? Maybe the academy graduation was only an interim goal for some and their expectations were met either during the service experience or after taking a different path entirely.” Is this latter one a question? wow. Will attempt to answer both questions, probably long in tooth, in the set of paragraphs below: From an early age my vocational desire was to pilot airplanes. I used to watch B-36’s fly out of Hill AFB in Ogden, Utah when a kid. At the time the availability of it, with work, was to me the freedom that was as accessible as water from the kitchen sink. Adjacent to this desire was to graduate from a College or University. It was instilled in me, as with most Americans then, to work and learn to be among the best one could in what they chose or were required to attempt, whether higher educational things of interest or not. Aviation added a higher risk to the mix. Of course to a fifteen year old, the best pilots in the world were those who flew from and landed on ships at sea, which had nothing to do with war or national defense. This meant the Naval service. And combined with college, this meant NROTC or the Naval Academy, both of which had a personal insurance policy for me of the optional career of ship-driver if my eyes (genetically both parents wore glasses) went below 20/20 uncorrected before graduation (which they did for a while). Added to the motivation was that, with three siblings, two behind me, my parents probably could not afford to help four, even with summer job savings, through college without scholarships (that were not made known or available in my rural Virginian high school of the time). And my parents never pushed me in the slightest to go to an Academy. Also, student loans were unheard of then. So there it was, the Navy. I made the effort before High School graduation to be physically (had to gain 8 pounds) and SAT qualified for all the service academies ((Also liked were my leadership quals as president of a high school class and captain of a varsity sport team (golf).), but I could only get ‘Alternate #65’ for Senator Hugh Scott’s (R-PA) one vacancy (I was born in Philadelphia, and being of a military family, I qualified as a constituent of his no matter where I lived.) Never heard of Bainbridge Prep. And so I knocked on Capitol Hill doors for three days looking for a vacant Congressional appointment. (VP Johnson’s office had an absolutely gorgeous receptionist… kind of a balance thing I supposed at the time.) I was offered no USNA, but two Congressional appointments to West Point. However, the ‘Point’ was not for me and I turned the offers down. Coordinating troop movements from Jeeps, firing Howitzers, and driving enclosed vehicles like tanks just didn’t fit. Air-cavalry wasn’t there yet. Now, if they still had horses, even for training, like USNA had knockabouts and yawls, I may have felt differently. And though the Navy also had wonderful submarines, they would have been a stretch for me (Jules Verne’s Nautilus at least had windows.) But “Aviation” was also a voluntary “Career Pipeline”… an option of my heart’s desire. On graduation, we would all be qualified ‘Line Officers’, ready to command ships at sea if required in a pinch. That was the main career Pipeline if fate cancelled out any voluntary ones like aviation, subs, or the Marine Corps. And that was fine with me. Instead of going to the University of Louisville, I spent a year at a prep school (Bullis) thanks to my parents, that I needed for an appointment methodology. As insurance there, I joined the Naval Reserves Enlisted for another source of 272

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6th Company ‘appointment’. I was also qualified for a Presidential appointment (Kennedy, with 200 appointments for sons of ‘Regulars’) by now being the son of a recently designated Regular Member of the Armed Forces (Army Lieutenant Colonel, later Colonel and University of Texas PHD professor of Economics, father, who was delighted.). The University of Louisville, where I had been accepted, would have been a fine college education. But, alas, Louisville didn’t offer an ‘airplane education’ either. I expected from USNA a college degree, and a chance at being a Naval Aviator. I gained more than expected, and some things not expected, like the later downshift in popular US perception of, and respect for, the US Military during and after Vietnam. (That was hard.) Aside from getting probably the best academic schooling, it also offered the best vocational training in the world, better rounded in my biased opinion than other ‘Ivy League’ type schools specializing in business, law, and connections. And we were not unexposed to some liberal college environment also (required formal dance lessons and public speaking classes, etiquette, English language and literature courses). I figure about 30% of our awake time was taken for obligatory things that never ended up on our college transcripts…. three different 3-month sports a year, signal flags, celestial navigation, international law, military law, sailing, YPs, Morse code, marching and formations, uniform prep and inspections, mile run and swim tests, leadership lectures…. I sometimes listened to Thelonious Monk in the library collection, and played Chopin and Beethoven on a Steinway Grand in the Bancroft Rotunda on Sunday afternoons senior year. (Got a date with a tourist, the Dutch Ambassador’s daughter, who thought I was part of some PR thing and came over to talk. She was absolutely delightful.) It was phenomena to me that it often seemed that time could actually be manufactured there, even for things dealt by a few bastions of and for their own personal insecurities, called hazing. Comparing initial high-school goals, I ended up piloting over forty different types and models of jet, prop, and helicopter aircraft in nearly all of the Earth’s atmosphere, and over most types of terrain and bodies of water. It was, to say the least, better than a magic-lantern show in Kansas. In the process I was a deterrent (service) to foreign aggression (meaning thievery), even when not in a war zone, and also saved several civilian lives by just being an American in the US military. Our capability of killing almost any enemy and blowing up their equipment was a well-honed and ready deterrent for use if needed by our country, and with personal side benefits. NASCAR racing, skiing, needs for speed, and things of finery paled in comparison to the training, accomplishment, earned esteem, and a certain neatness that went with being a US Naval Aviator (and almost any US Naval or Marine person). And there was little doubt that the education and experiences provided to me by USNA would result in something that could read like a resume for almost any bigger job, either service or entrepreneurial. For me, it was a foundation for another full co-career over time that included nearly all aspects of aviation and aerospace. And, though I didn’t really think of it at the time, part of the mission of the Naval Academy was to prepare people for the highest positions of responsibility and service in government. The oath for nearly all in the military and government included protecting and defending our Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic. The ‘domestic’ part was something unimaginable within our own government, except during this past decade. In closing this questionnaire, I consider my time at the US Naval Academy and naval duties as examples of the wonderful life opportunities and responsibilities that this great country has provided to all who have proudly met our original requirements for American citizenship. Yearbook Writeup, 50 year: John C Macidull, USNA, 1967 After graduation and flight training I received my Navy Wings in September 1968 as an ‘unrestricted pilot’ (Fixed-wing and Helicopters). My first duty station was at HC-1, Imperial Beach, CA flying H-2’s and H-3s. Deployment comprised two eight-month tours embarked aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard, CV-31, and the USS Ranger, CVA-61 in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam. I performed four night, no-moon, no horizon, IFR ocean rescues (among over 400 missions), three with failed Doppler equipment, where an approach (or hover) “should not be attempted” by NATOPS regulation. There is some pride in having done something that no one, to my knowledge, has done at any time before or since successfully. I was next assigned to NAF, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA (1971) as a project test pilot. Projects included FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red), the Agile (later AIM-95) missile prototype warhead, runway penetrating and angle-rate bomb tests, mine dispersal, and laser target designation. I was also the check pilot for instruments in jet aircraft, Maintenance Division Officer of 50 personnel, and a system check pilot for F-9 and T33 jet target drone aircraft. During mostly week-ends, I performed 14 rescues and medivacs of civilians from the High Sierra Mountains and deserts of California and Nevada, and received an Air Medal for one rescue off Mt. Whitney in an H-1K at 13,600’ density altitude, 50 knot winds, and engine compressor stalls. I resigned from active duty in 1974, and worked for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Company in San Diego, CA as a systems engineer building new technology drone aircraft. There I developed a program for responding to government RFPs (Requests for Proposals for contracts) in the areas of Design to Cost and Life Cycle Costing. It was a great job, but I resigned in 1976 and went fishing for a year in the Northwest and Canada. Also, during the period between Vietnam and the fishing trip, I was graduated from USC with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration, bought an alfalfa farm in Nevada, and was awarded two US Patents. After a six-month stint in 1977 at the Naval Air Rework Facility, Alameda, CA rebuilding A-6 Intruders, I was hired Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary back at the Naval Weapons Center lab as an Aerospace Engineer assigned to fixing/testing fleet problems with Sparrow and Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. In 1979 I was hired by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as a General Aviation Field Accident Investigator in Chicago. After six months the Senior Aircraft Performance Engineer at NTSB Headquarters in Washington, D.C. hired me as his replacement due to retirement. I investigated over 50 general aviation and airliner accidents, foreign and domestic, during this five-year tenure. During 1982-1989 Naval Reserve duty I was also assigned to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) staff in the Pentagon (seven years total). This position involved setting up a Pentagon computer data connection with the Naval Safety Center in Norfolk, VA, coordinating some inputs to the Navy Budget plan (POM-3) with the PPBS (Planning Program Budget System), and evaluating Naval aircraft accident reports. In 1984 the FAA Administrator created a position for me on his safety staff. I wrote the software requirements and operation procedures, oversaw the equipment installation, established the database access, hired the operators for, and then ran the FAA Safety Hotline for six months. I also gained the required written acceptance from the heads of the nine Field Offices to implement an FAA System Safety Program that I had inherited and modified. In 1986 I was assigned to the Reagan Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger investigation. I wrote the plan for this effort and performed some of the investigation and writing of the final report. Our classmate, Mike Smith, died in this tragedy. I later co-authored the book Challengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shadow, a history on the investigation itself. It was a popular book in Europe. I retired from the Naval reserves in 1990 with 20 years of service as a Commander and a pilot of over 40 types and models of aircraft. In 1994 I retired from the US Civil Service with 27 years of service as a GS-15 and an FAA commercial pilotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license for all categories. Since then I have been writing books and news articles (for motpoll.com), travelling while researching, fishing, farming, doing a few TV and radio shows, and spending time with family and friends by the sea. I consider my time at the US Naval Academy and subsequent naval duties exemplary of the wonderful life opportunities that this country provides to all American citizens who proudly met the original requirements of citizenship, as did my father and grandfather, whether natural or earned.

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6th Company During a recent reunion at the China Lake Weapons Center, several fellow jet test pilots asked about a rescue I did in a helicopter on Mt. Whitney on Christmas day, 1973. So I dug up this old story, added some photographs, and sent it to them. It resulted in the last active-duty single-action medal I received from my country. I thought you might get a kick out of it. MOUNT WHITNEY RESCUE John C. Macidull © 1979 Mount Whitney, California, 25 December, 1973 This was my fourteenth helicopter rescue/medevac in the High Sierra Mountains and deserts of California. This one was unique in that everything seemed to be going wrong, but nothing ended up as ‘went’ wrong. I, and my also voluntary co-pilot, Lieutenant Joe Killinger, a Navy Attack jet pilot, also just back from Vietnam, were at a Christmas Eve party with the rest of our little ‘group’ of jet-weapons test pilots at the Navy China Lake Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert of California. Joe took the call at about 9 PM from Base operations who were trying to track me down. The County Sheriff was requesting a Navy helo. Two civilian mountain climbers were left somewhere on Mount Whitney that morning, as reported by their two fellow climbers who had hiked down to Lone Pine. They were seeking help after one had fallen, suffered a head injury, and the other of the four stayed to keep him alive until help arrived. I wished all a Merry Christmas and left for home to get some sleep. Joe was to pick me up at 5 AM. At the airfield, members of the High Sierra Club, a group of six voluntary mountain climbers, were there with their usual large amounts of ropes, pitons, tents, and people. I sorted out what they could take aboard the aircraft. The rest could drive to Lone Pine. I flew to Lone Pine Airport at the base of Mount Whitney to set up a ‘command post’ in the hangar office that consisted mainly of a radio and telephone. After sorting out equipment again, I took aboard four of the Sierra Club and with Joe and my Crewman Charles, lifted off (about 9 AM) to begin the search. After a pass along the east face of Mount Whitney, it became obvious that continuing an air search would be very dangerous. The wind gusts, at least 50 knots, beat us around and uncontrollably near the vertical mountain of granite. I discontinued the search and decided to land at the hiker’s base camp at Iceberg Lake (see two photographs that day), and let the Sierra Club hike up the trail to find the survivors. Joe figured the density altitude at over thirteen thousand feet. I couldn’t hover safely out of ground effect, certainly didn’t want to get into ‘power settling’ in the tight spot, and so had to do a run-on landing like a regular airplane, skidding across the snow and rocks before losing ‘translational lift’ and stop before running off the cliff, possibly wrecking my tail rotor if it didn’t clear. That would have been the end of my story. We unloaded, and being much lighter, could hover in ‘ground effect’, and didn’t need a running takeoff to get translational lift before going over the cliff. The takeoff was uneventful. However, I decided that I wouldn’t be back. The wind would be worse later, and blowing in from the South in that spot, there was a tailwind into the only landing area that had a useable heading of North. Also, Iceberg Lake was in a ‘bowl’ of swirling winds of non-predictable direction that also made marginal a required rapid descent into the ‘bowl’ from the other direction without over-speeding the helicopter rotor, which would also have resulted in the end of my story. Back at Lone Pine, radio communication was established with the High Sierra Club who were beginning their hike up the trail to the lost climbers. Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary At about 2 PM the head of the High Sierra climbers radioed down that they had found the missing two climbers. He said that one of them (no names given) was deceased from a skull injury and exposure, and the other would be deceased if he wasn’t in a hospital that night. He had badly frostbitten hands and feet, was suffering from exposure, and they would have him at Iceberg Lake in about four hours. This ruled out the possibility of the Sierra Club bringing the survivor down the mountain to Lone Pine. I didn’t risk me and my people for broken ankles. I had to take the Sierra Club for their word about the injured survivor. So, what to do? I wasn’t going to risk going up there again with those winds at that altitude. But there was an option. There was an aircraft that could easily do the job… The Sikorsky H-53… then the Cadillac of helicopters. The US Marines in Santa Ana were the only ones I knew of who had them that could also possibly respond. They had two big engines (some had three). I had one little one. They had six big main rotor blades (some had seven). I had two little ones. The H-53 could chop through turbulence as if it was a joke! And they could go fast, over 150 knots (about 170 mph). The nearest Marine Base near Santa Ana, CA, was about 200 miles away. Somehow, incredibly, Joe got in touch with them, on Christmas Day, and they said they could launch two within two hours, and expect to get to Lone Pine before sunset. So, that was a relief. We sat around waiting for word on the High Sierra climb down to Iceberg Lake, and the Marines en-route. One of the local farmers (a retired Civil Servant engineer from the China Lake Laboratory) came in with some sandwiches. He had lost a 16 year-old daughter a year before in a freak car plunge down a High Sierra cliff with her boyfriend. The Navy had helped the recovery of everything, including his peace of mind.

Then there was an incident of air-headiness. One of the High Sierra Club people left behind in my Command center, picked up MY command phone and was making a call. I got up and asked. When he heard that one of the missing climbers was dead and the other wasn’t, he was calling both sets of parents to give them the news. I pushed the receiver button down and asked if he was really planning to say, “You got a fifty-fifty chance that your son is dead or alive. Think about it for a few hours. I’ll keep you informed.”??? When the sun was going down over Mount Whitney there was still enough twilight for me because I already knew the place. But a search by the Marines was not possible in the dark, and it did not occur to me that I could vector them into the area in the dark from where I sat at Lone Pine. I asked Joe to call China Lake Tower and see where the Marines were. They were fifteen minutes south of China Lake. They wouldn’t make it before complete darkness. I walked out to our helo telling Joe and Charles that I was going up alone to ”Nibble at the winds”, to see if they may have subsided a bit for me to get in over the northeastern razorback of the ‘bowl’. They both insisted on going along. I hadn’t gassed up, and figured their weight was worth the extra talent in survival situations. I knew the only way in and the only way out. All else depended on the wind down-drafts east of the razor-back. When I first got to China Lake, after Vietnam, I knew a lot about helo flying over and onto the ocean and jungles. At China Lake, it was plain to me that I knew next to nothing about mountain flying. Neither did the only other helo pilot at China Lake. My photographer, Sam Wyatt, had been at China Lake since its beginning in 1944. He knew most of everything there. He said that there was a civilian H-13 (MASH TV show bubble-Bell type helo) pilot who had been flying hunters and ranchers ‘across the top’ into the High Sierras for over twenty years. I’m not sure of his name, something like Gillespie I think, and I only talked to him once. He said basically that the first thing you looked for was an indication of the winds at around forty thousand feet to the Northwest. Standing lenticular high altitude cloud formations were the best indication that with the rotation of the earth, the winds across the High Sierras would be from the West and of very high velocity. These would burble over the Sierras and down through the east-west valleys creating strong downdrafts on one side and some updrafts on the other. If you flew up the downdraft side, often it could put you in the dirt no matter how much power you had to normally get out of the situation. So you have to often ‘nibble’ before deciding on a route. What usually works is flying up the south side of an east-west valley, and if you’ve got 276

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6th Company extra power just before the top, use it to quickly ‘pop over’. And ‘at altitude’, always have a ‘right wave-off’ option over a cliff. He said that basically, you have to see, or best guess, the movement of air that is invisible to the eye. These rules of thumb worked great for me during many flights. (See photos of two others.) The year before this Mount Whitney rescue, ‘Gillespie’ himself crashed his H-13 in a tight-spot flat place jutting out from a cliff. I was notified and came to the rescue. His aircraft was a pile of ashes and twisted burnt metal. But he was okay and vigorously waved me away. Later I found that he had gotten slammed by an invisible downdraft with no way out, but was back to flying a week later. Of course this was all in my mental rolodex on that Christmas day flying up to Iceberg Lake. The three of us flew up the canyon. A right turn just before the frozen lake got me into position to jump over the razor rock up-thrust wall to the left and into the Iceberg Lake (about ten acres in area) “bowl”. It was a good approach into the ‘bowl’ because there was a right wave-off option back and down to Lone Pine in case I lost power and left rudder. And so there we were, at max throttle in the expected downdraft, not climbing, not descending, just stuck like a bug in a web. Nothing was happening. Either the wind would change or we would get lighter by burning fuel. I don’t recall the eternity we were in, in that spot in space, but as near as Joe and I could recollect later, it was only about thirty seconds. Then, as if by magic, slowly, the Huey gained some altitude. The downdraft had let up a little, and I was next to a low point of the razor-back. I figured I could easily clear it by about ten feet if quick enough. I cleared it by more and was immediately high inside the ‘bowl’.

The three of us flew up the canyon. A right turn just before the frozen lake got me into position to jump over the razor rock up-thrust wall to the left and into the Iceberg Lake (about ten acres in area) “bowl”. It was a good approach into the ‘bowl’ because there was a right wave-off option back and down to Lone Pine in case I lost power and left rudder. And so there we were, at max throttle in the expected downdraft, not climbing, not descending, just stuck like a bug in a web. Nothing was happening. Either the wind would change or we would get lighter by burning fuel. I don’t recall the eternity we were in, in that spot in space, but as near as Joe and I could recollect later, it was only about thirty seconds. Then, as if by magic, slowly, the Huey gained some altitude. The downdraft had let up a little, and I was next to a low point of the razor-back. I figured I could easily clear it by about ten feet if quick enough. I cleared it by more and was immediately high inside the ‘bowl’. Now there was another problem. I had cleared it by a lot in taking no power off. Now I was too high to go directly to the only landing spot without over-speeding the main rotor. Joe was wondering what I was doing. There was barely enough light to see the sides of the ‘bowl’. I went to engine idle power and started making steep-banked S-turns inside the ‘bowl’, bleeding off altitude without over-speeding the rotors before passing the landing spot, the only chance remaining. I again did a run-on landing instead of trying a hover, plowing through snow over rocks. We came to a stop about twenty feet before the cliff edge, now our only way out. Well, this worked out okay! I thought. And I was right. I sent Charles out to coordinate getting the frost-bitten survivor into the aircraft. Two High Sierra people also got into the aircraft. I told Charles to escort them back out and to stay out and away. I needed to be able to hover in ground effect first (no room for a running takeoff to get any translational lift), then get the speed to get over the cliff without hitting my tail rotor on the cliff when losing the ground for Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary ‘ground effect’ after I went over the cliff where there was no ground for ‘ground effect’. Pretty simple, but sometimes hard to explain. It’s like the air close to the ground provides a ‘cushion for the pushin’. Then there was another surprise. Everything was set. The survivor was aboard. I could pick up and hover in ‘ground effect’ and started quickly toward the cliff edge. Then BAM! I mean the real onomatopoeic sound, BAM! as the aircraft jerked to the right because of loss of power and left rudder. I immediately set back down in the snow. It was a compressor stall. If you get a wind up the tailpipe on a jet engine, it can interrupt the smooth axial for-and-aft airflow inside the engine, and the little wing-blades in the compressor section can stall out just like an airplane wing. Only instead of an aircraft wing slow stall-buffet, it is an instantaneous bang, accompanied by the loss of engine power at the instant of the stall of the little wings. I’m sure Charles, and probably Joe, thought something broke, it was that loud. But I pretended like nothing serious had happened…. easy to do because I knew nothing serious did happen. We sat there for a minute and I said I’d give it another try. BAM! BAM! I set back down and asked Charles to go ask the High Sierra people if they had enough tent-room and cold weather gear for all of us. He came back and said, yes. I couldn’t risk going over the edge with a compressor stall at the instant I had to clear my tail rotor. Not doing that could have been the end of all our stories. It was a matter of the swirling winds inside the ‘bowl’. I felt like yelling to the sky, “Anything else you want to throw at us!” But I probably wasn’t going to stay. I had enough fuel to keep trying a hundred times, until fuel was really low, if that was what it took to get the survivor to the ambulance. The third hover had no bang. I backed up a little to make sure, and to give me a little more forward (anticompressor-stall) speed before going over the cliff. When the tail rotor cleared and we were descending, things became very quiet, almost tomblike compared to before. Dry mouths all around. Throttle at idle. Collective almost full down. The ambulance lights far down at Lone Pine Airport flickering red. A straight shot. Didn’t even need the engine anymore to make it. Could auto-rotate with enough rotor inertia to even pick a spot next to the ambulance for landing. When descending through nine thousand feet I said to Joe that this was it for me, that even cats only have nine lives, and I may have passed that (thinking of Vietnam also). “No more rescues above nine thousand feet for me.”, I said. He said that it was then it for him too. Of course we didn’t mean it. I think it was a way of giving credit to God or Providence or something that this wasn’t all our doing. The ambulance drove off with the survivor aboard when the Marine H-53’s showed up. By this time it was completely dark. I sat in my cockpit on the ground at Lone Pine and radio-vectored the Marine aircraft lights toward the general area of Iceberg Lake, describing the ‘bowl’ and winds. They saw a flashlight from the High Sierra people and one of them powered into my previous landing area while the other hovered overhead, far out of ‘ground effect’. It picked up the entire Sierra Club and all their equipment without regard for altitude, turbulence, wind direction, compressor stalls, passenger weight, or even darkness with their massive power and lights. They were beautiful! One should play or hum Christmas music for our country when looking at an H-53. Back at China Lake one of the Marine H-53 pilots asked who the pilot was and what kind of helicopter was used to get the guy. I pointed to myself, and then to our Huey on the tarmac. He said or asked, “You went up there in THAT!?!” Coming from a US Marine, I took it as a real compliment.

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6th Company Joe called his wife, Jane, who asked what we wanted for dinner. This rescue was just another type thing we all did at China Lake. But Joe and I could later tell that our friends were proud of us. During the next month all three of us were put in for medals by unknown persons.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Max C. Meltzer Service History 1963-67: USNA (6th Company) 1967-68: USMC, Marine Corps Schools, Basic Course 2-68 Company B, Quantico, VA 1968-69: USMC, Undergraduate Pilot Training, Williams AFB, Chandler, AZ‑ 1969: USMC, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC 1969: USMC, Honorable Discharge by reason of physical disability

Principal Occupation After leaving military service, I managed LEGO packaging operations for Samsonite in Loveland, Colorado on the evening shift. During the day I utilized GI Benefits to convert my civilian commercial multiengine rating with centerline thrust limitation, to a regular commercial multiengine rating. Also completed basic flight instructor and instrument flight instructor rating courses. Moved to Missoula MT and worked as flight instructor for Johnson Flying Service (JFS), teaching University of Montana ROTC students. Also flew as copilot on DC-3 flying USFS Smokejumpers to forest fires through out the Western US and Alaska. Flew Lockheed L-188 as Flight Engineer for JFS moving USFS hot shot fire crews around the west. Left JFS and became copilot on first business jet in the State of Montana. Went on to fly for Pacific Southwest Airlines, San Diego, CA as Second Officer on Lockheed Electras. Left PSA to fly for Western Airlines as Second Officer on B-737-100/200 aircraft based in Denver, CO. Furloughed after about three years. Flew for US Forest Service in Region One. Flew Cessna Citation II and III business jets for Ladd Petroleum, a General Electric subsidiary. Ladd pilot staff was rolled into the GE Corporate Flight operation after about four years and I flew there for another four years. Managed flight operations for GE at the Denver base, and then oversaw satellite base flight operations for GE at four other Northeast cities. Left GE to fly Learjet 35 owned by former Gates Learjet President, Harry Combs. Left Combs-Gates Flight Operations to manage flight and travel departments for Lands’ End, Inc. in Dodgeville, WI. Retired there at age 60 after thirteen years of service. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Flying with GE and Lands’ End took me to Western Europe, Asia, Mexico, South and Central America and Iceland. I hold Airline Transport Pilot type ratings in Cessna Citation 500, Citation 650, Learjet, and Challenger 601 aircraft. No accidents, no incidents and about 12,000 total flight hours, 11,000 in multiengine jet aircraft. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren Renee Hein and I married following graduation in 1967 and have two sons. Kelly graduated from the University of Colorado and Lewis & Clark Law School. He is a practicing attorney in Oregon and Washington State, specializing in business transactional law. Brady graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a degree in communications. He is a technical sales executive in the computer software industry. He and his wife Sarah have a son and a daughter. Renee and I are divorced. In 1988 I married Susan McLaren of Akron, Ohio. She had two children by a previous marriage. Daughter, Michelle McLaren of Austin, TX is in Human Resources with a German banking equipment company. Son, Matthew McLaren of Phoenix owns an epoxy floor coating business doing commercial and residential applications and selling coating products on the internet. Matt has two sons. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Susan and I have lived in Missoula, Montana since 2006 and until recently provided elder care assistance for my mother until she passed. We use free time to golf and enjoy the outdoors activities that Montana affords. We do enjoy traveling to see our children and grandchildren, as well as friends that gather occasionally in Annapolis. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Studying in the old Mahan Hall Library next to an open window in the fall of 1963. and hearing a radio broadcast turned up by “diggers and fillers” outside, thus learning of President Kennedy’s assassination.‑Running the seawall.‑ Cannonballs with Rum Sauce.‑Ironing civvies for a first class midshipman most Friday nights throughout plebe year.‑ Doing non-regulation haircuts in my room to make phone change.‑Making sub sandwich and coca cola runs on Saturday nights for plebes, to make more phone change.‑Watching #12 Jolly Roger throw the ball and run the ball.

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6th Company Humorous Memories of USNA: Marching in a parade first class year with a female dressed as a midshipman just a column to my right. Don’t know who she was or where she came from, but she had lots of help carrying the Garand Rifle, staying in step, and disappearing after the parade finished. Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors Academic Achievement 1992 Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Colorado, Denver, CO Athletic (All American, Touchdown Club, Blue Gray Game, North-South Game, etc.) Service/USNA Awards National Defense Medal Uniform Breast Insignia (Aviator Wings, Surface Warfare Device, Navy Seal Badge, Submariner Dolphins, etc.) Flag Pennant (Service, Number of Stars) Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” My father enlisted in the USCG immediately after Pearl Harbor and he served in the Pacific until 1943. His father served in the US Army Air Corps as a mechanic in WWI. He saw action in France and died in a VA Hospital at Ft Harrison, Montana in 1947. My mother’s father was in the National Guard in Mississippi. Her brother was in the 87th Mountain Infantry with the US Army, testing the first snowmobiles developed by Studebaker. He fell into a crevasse in the Columbia Ice Fields testing one of these machines and died during a subsequent surgery. Patriotism always mattered in our family. My decision to seek an appointment to USNA was born of the example set by these family members. My goal as a junior in high school was to “fly jets off carriers”, well before Top Gun hit the big screen. I simply wanted to learn to fly airplanes and USNA seemed like the best start. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? I didn’t realize that a commission as a Second Lieutenant, USMC was possible upon graduation, when first considering USNA. After swearing in, it became readily apparent that the Marine Corps was part of the Navy. Marine Officers assigned as Company and Battalion Officers became noticeable once my “eyes left the boat”. To a man, they were crisp, disciplined and proud of their Corps. Nearing graduation, Captain John LeCornu, USMC became 6th Company Officer, and he had a very strong and positive influence on my service selection. Before service selection night, I actually returned my brand new, and unused USN Sword and Ensign shoulder boards to the Midshipman Store, and exchanged them in for the USMC Mameluke Sword and gold Lieutenant bars. Summary Yearbook write-up for Max Meltzer Following graduation at The Basic School in Quantico, I proceeded to USAF flight training at Williams AFB, Chandler, Arizona and underwent two knee operations. Graduation and USAF wings sent me to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point for further flight training. Late in 1969 I was Honorably Discharged for a physical disability. Employing aviation skills acquired on active duty I began a civilian aviation career that included: giving ROTC flight instruction, dropping smokejumpers, a job as a flight engineer and second officer for Pacific Southwest Airlines and Western Airlines, US Forest Service pilot, corporate pilot and flight department manager for General Electric Corporate Air Transport and Lands’ End, Inc. I retired in 2006, almost 38 years to the day after I soloed in Arizona. Vivid memories of USNA include watching Jolly Roger throw and run the ball, and of course, beating Army. Also memorable were cannonballs with rum sauce, running on the seawall, ironing civvies on Friday nights for a first class midshipman, T-28 aerobatics and carrier landings second-class summer, and amphibious training at the Silver Strand on North Island. My father and both grandfathers had served in the Coast Guard, Army and the National Guard. Joining the military was a normal thing to do as I was finishing high school. The U.S. Naval Academy provided me a challenging education, excellent military training and lifelong friends, so my expectations were definitely exceeded. I learned a skill, like many Americans who have served, that enabled me to provide for my family. My wife Susan and I were married in 1988 in Colorado. Previously married, we had two children each. We have four grandchildren collectively. We have made our home in Denver, Madison, Wisconsin and Missoula, Montana over the last 27 years.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary James P. Schear Service History: 1963–67: USNA (6th Company) 1967–68: Naval Aviation Training Command, Various locations, received wings 10/1968 1969: P3 Replacement Aviation Training, NAS Moffett Field, CA 1969-72: VP-50, NAS Moffett Field, CA, P-3 Pilot, Instructor, NATOPS Evaluator 1972-73: VP-31, NAS Moffett Field, CA, P-3 Pilot Instructor 1973-86: VP-91, NAS Moffett Field, CA, P-3 Pilot, Instructor, Commanding Officer 1986-88: VP-Master Augment Unit, NAS Moffett Field, CA, P-3 Pilot, Commanding Officer 1988-92: CINCPACLT Augment Unit 320, Makalapa, HI, Battle Watch Captain 1992-94: Patrol Wings Pacific, Moffett Field, CA, Deputy Commander 1994-96: Maritime Defense Zone Atlantic, Governor’s Island, NY, Deputy Commander 1996-97: Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA, Vice Commander in Chief 1997-98: Second Fleet, Norfolk, VA, Deputy Commander 1998-00: US Strategic Command, Offutt AFB, NE, Mobilization Assistant to the CINC 2000: Retired with rank of Rear Admiral, Upper Half (O-8) Principal Occupation: Following six years of active service and concurrent with Naval Reserve duty, joined Pacific Southwest Airlines eventually merging with USAirways in 1989. A long career followed that included service as a line pilot, Chief Pilot, Vice President of Restructuring and Vice President of Safety and Security. Executive in charge of restructuring the company during bankruptcy, an effort that resulted in emergence from bankruptcy and a subsequent merger. Took early retirement to join TSA in its infancy serving as Deputy for Operations at the Headquarters in Washington. Retired from Senior Executive Service in 2013, joining Command Consulting Group, an internationally known security-consulting firm. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren: Married California native Sharon Dabbs in 1976 and have three sons and a daughter. All four graduated from college in Maryland with three currently living in Scottsdale, AZ and the oldest, Ryan living in Colorado Springs, about 10 miles from us. Ryan and Amy have two infant daughters.

How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? “Retired” has proven elusive. There always seems to be one more mountain to climb. At this writing, currently fully engaged in security consulting for an impending long-term lease of the Moffett Field complex by a Silicon Valley Company. Moffett was a BRAC victim in 1994 and has been under the care of NASA for the past 20 years prior to offering the complex for long-term lease. It seems that, just like in my airline-working career, I spend most of my time on airplanes. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: • Tom Ballenger eating 12 cannonballs. • Getting spooned by Roger Staubach on the first day that the Brigade was back. • Counting bricks in Tecumseh Court at midnight trying to answer the trick question: “How many bricks did it take to complete T. Court?” Answer: “One” • Meeting Harry Kluckhohn on Induction Day and being fast friends until he was taken from us way too young. Mike Surdyk teaching me how to smoke. Humorous Memories of USNA: • Everyone wanting to box me in PT since my nose was a bleeder. Coach Cloud got really excited and gave us both A’s after we smeared it around a bit. • Imagine this printer’s son from Ohio trying to figure out how sailboats work. • Jim Dulin’s hotdogs and haircuts. • Sticking the empty beer cans in the snowbank on the 4th deck catwalk, never considering the spring thaw. Making me the Company Guidon bearer primarily because I caused too much disruption with the sandblowers. 282

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6th Company Academic Achievement: Happy to get just the one degree. Athletic: Nope, look at the picture and imagine 5’3” on I-Day. Service/USNA Awards: Little better here, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3), Meritorious Service Medal (4), and the Air Medal, as well as numerous campaign and service medals. Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” Canton Ohio in 1963 was a very patriotic place. When the community learned that our Congressman had nominated me to both USNA and USMA, everyone I met was thrilled for me and so I figured it must be good. No good reason for selecting one over the other. The next four years were survival mode for me and I graduated with no expectations, appreciation or prospects. I still cannot believe I made it, and most of 6th company will probably agree. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? When you turn 17 in March and start USNA in June then retire 33 years later, you can rightfully say that the Navy raised you. I was thrilled to qualify for Navy Air but only later in life did I understand that the Naval Academy and my classmates gave me what I needed to live a life of service and loyalty. The Naval Academy set that path and I am forever grateful that this great institution hung in there with me when things looked mighty bleak. Summary Yearbook write-up for Jim Schear I completed flight training immediately following graduation and was designated a Naval Aviator. Following patrol specific training, I joined VP 50 at NAS Moffett Field, Ca. and participated in three Western Pacific deployments, flying numerous combat missions while operating in Southeast Asia. I was designated Patrol Plane Commander, Pilot Instructor and Mission Commander. I then joined VP 31 as a P-3 pilot instructor and a year later joined Reserve VP Squadron 91. Over the next 13 years I held numerous billets culminating in assignment as Commanding Officer. As a Flag Officer, I was assigned Deputy Commander positions at Patrol Wings Pacific; Maritime Defense Zone, Atlantic; U.S. Second Fleet and VCINC, U.S. Atlantic Fleet prior to my final assignment as Assistant to the CINC, U.S. STRATCOM, flying nuclear deterrent missions as an Airborne Emergency Action Officer on Looking Glass. I served five years as a member of the DoD Reserve Forces Policy Board, and was Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Editorial Board for Proceedings magazine with the US Naval Institute Along the way I have been awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3), Meritorious Service Medal (4), and the Air Medal, as well as numerous campaign and service medals. I retired from USAirways in 2002 following a career that included service as an international Captain and instructor pilot, as well as numerous management positions. Joining the newly created TSA in 2002, I served in several HQ level positions including Deputy for Operations. After a two-year stint back at USAirways to assist in their successful restructuring of the company, I returned to TSA, serving as Federal Security Director at BWI and DEN before retiring in 2013. I married Sharon Dabbs in 1976 and we have four grown children and two grandchildren.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Richard A. Strickland Service History 1963 - 1967 U. S. Naval Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;(6th Company) July 1967 - Jan. 1968 Naval Nuclear Power School, Vallejo, CA Feb.1968 - July 1968 Nuclear Prototype Training Unit, Windsor Locks, CT Aug. 1968 - Feb. 1969 Naval Submarine School, Groton CT Mar. 1969 - Nov. 1969 USS Tecumseh ( SSBN-628), Pearl Harbor, HI Nov. 1969 - Feb. 1971 USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA (nuclear refueling & conversion to Poseidon missile system) TAD to USS Sea Devil (SSN-664), Norfolk, VA - Special Operation Feb. 1971 - June 1972 USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Charleston, SC June 1972 - Oct. 1978 U. S. Naval Reserves, Submarine Support Unit, St. Petersburg, FL October 1, 1978 Inter-Service Transfer from USNR to USMCR - return to Active Duty Oct 1978 - Dec. 1978 Naval Justice School, Newport, RI Dec. 1978 - 1981 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, NC Prosecutor & Chief Defense Counsel Staff Judge Advocate, 36th MAU Augmented from USMCR to USMC 1981 - 1984 Staff Judge Advocate, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, Norfolk, VA 1984 - 1985 Staff Judge Advocate, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Okinawa & Iwakuni, Japan 1985 - 1988 Operations Officer, J-3, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 1988 - 1993 Appellate & Senior Appellate Judge, Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Principal Occupation Careers in both the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps as outlined above. From 1972 to 1975, I attended Stetson University College of Law, receiving a Juris Doctor Degree. I have been a member of the Florida Bar since May of 1975. In addition to the practice of law in the Marine Corps, I have practiced as an insurance defense attorney for thirteen years and as a criminal defense lawyer for ten years, ending my legal career as an Assistant Public Defender in Tampa, FL defending individuals accused of serious felonies. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: I had the unique opportunity to serve in both branches of the Naval Service - as a nuclear submariner in the Navy and a lawyer in the Marine Corps. I served on both fleet ballistic missile submarines and fast attacks, participated in a nuclear refueling, and the underwater firing of a Poseidon missile. I served with an infantry division, an aircraft wing, a fleet Marine headquarters, and a joint forces tour at the Pentagon. As an appellate judge, I authored the first appellate opinion on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the military. To attend and graduate from the Naval Academy was one of the most memorable events in my life. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren I was married for over 27 years to Kathryn Ann Strickland who passed away in 1999. We have two adult children, a son who has a business career and a daughter who has an engineering career. I have three grandchildren, two granddaughters and a grandson. I have just recently remarried to a Korean- American, Taek Cha. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? I have just recently moved to a golfing/retirement community, Terra Vista, in Citrus County Florida. This community has three 18 hole golf courses, one 9 hole course, a state of the art fitness center, an activity center, is only a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and an hour from Tampa. I'm playing golf three times or more a week, trying to stay in shape at the fitness center, and eating a lot or seafood. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: Swearing in and graduation; JFK's address to our Plebe class in Tecumseh Court; the annual signing of the Messiah with the Chapel Choir and Hood College Women's Choir; Glee Club Trips, interview with Admiral Rickover; and most of all, the camaraderie and bonding with all members of the Class of 1967. Humorous Memories of USNA: Interview with Admiral Rickover; getting back to the academy before the expiration of liberty after we got cars; the good times we had in the evenings in Bancroft Hall during 1st Class year. 284

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6th Company Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors Academic Achievement Bachelor of Science with a Major in Aeronautical Engineering, USNA Juris Doctor, Stetson University College of Law Athletic Service/USNA Awards Legion of Meritâ&#x20AC;&#x2018; Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal Uniform Breast Insignia Submariner Dolphins Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attendingâ&#x20AC;? I wanted to attend USNA to serve my country as an officer in the U. S. Navy. I wanted to earn an education, become disciplined, and acquire leadership skills. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The academy experience more than satisfied my expectations - it changed my life forever in the most positive of ways.

Summary Yearbook Write-up for Richard Strickland I grew up in a small farming community (population 440) in Nebraska and attended a small high school (22 in my graduating class). When I began high school, I became interested in the Naval Academy while watching "Men of Annapolis " on black and white TV and reading literature I obtained from the academy. I was also enamored with "traveling the world" as a Naval Officer. It soon became my dream to attend the Naval Academy. The problem, however, was the fact my parents had no political pull with my Senators or Congressman, and I had misgivings as to whether my small school education was sufficient to qualify me for the academy and for me to succeed if appointed. What I did have, though, was a strong desire to get an appointment and to succeed. I received the appointment, and my life changed forever. A whole new world was opened up to me. I received discipline, structure, and leadership skills which have allowed me to be successful in the Navy, Marine Corps, and the civilian society. I have traveled the world, experienced diverse cultures, and interacted with people of all classes and races. My life has been enriched beyond words. I've experienced a wonderful and successful life, due in large part, to the four years at the Academy. Finally, I had the privilege of being a member of the Class of 1967. We formed a bond and friendships that will last the rest of our lives.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary John G. Sullivan I had no close relatives with military experience and, as a teenager, had no particular desire to join myself. I applied for the “Regular” NROTC program primarily to get a “free” college education (with a 4year service obligation upon graduation – oops !). During 3 years at UCLA, the Navy must have impressed me enough to leave UCLA, one year from graduation and a regular USN commission, to start again at USNA. I have never regretted that decision (well, except perhaps during plebe year). After 6 years of active duty and a couple of Vietnam deployments, I chose to transfer to the Naval Reserve to experience the “other side”. My USNA education and active duty experience proved to be an excellent background for success as a civilian engineer and leader. After an additional 24 productive and enjoyable USNR years and several commands later, I retired in 1998 as a Captain. The friends I made both at the Academy and in the Naval Reserve have been a positive factor in my adult life. I would recommend USNA to any young man or woman looking for adventure and challenge

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6th Company William C. Vivian Service History: 1963-67 USNA 1967-68 Naval Air Training Command (Wings 10 Oct 1968) 1969-70 HC-7 det Cubi, Republic of the Philippines. Navy's primary combat search and rescue squadron during the Viet Nam era 1971-73 Navy helicopter flight instructor in Pensacola (HT-8 and HT-18). 1970s and 1980s I flew the SH-3H in helicopter anti-submarine warfare squadrons (HS-15, HS-1, HS-2) C.O. HS-2 in San Diego. 1981-82 Naval War College graduate 1985-87 Pentagon: OP-605 Plans, Policy and Operations, Joint warfare subspecialist. 1987-88 Federal executive fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 1988-90 CINCPACREPPHIL Pol Mil Officer working on military base negotiations. 1990-92 SHAPE Belgium Deputy Policy and Programmes Branch 1992-94 C.O. Naval Support Activity, Naples, Italy 1994-97 C.O. NROTC University of Florida 1997 Retired CAPT, USN Principal Occupation: My Navy career, outlined above, was my only occupation after USNA until June 1997. I had a career in education, completing an EdS degree from the University of Florida and working at Santa Fe Community College as Director of Institutional Research and Planning in Gainesville, Florida. I am a strategic planning consultant. After we left Gainesville for Ormond Beach in 2004 to be closer to the ocean and look after my elderly mother, I accepted a position as Director of Transportation for Flagler County, Florida, before finally retiring in 2008. Along the way, I have served in a number of leadership positions in church and community organizations. I am currently a genealogist writing family histories and on the Board of Directors for the VyStar Credit Union in Jacksonville, Florida. Interesting, Unusual, or Memorable Life Events: Being at the Naval Academy when John F. Kennedy spoke to us Plebe Summer was one of my first memorable life events. Watching men walk on the moon for the first time on a black and white TV in the Cubi Point BOQ in the Philippines sticks in my mind. Some of the over water rescues my helicopter crew completed were gratifying. While on the USS Kitty Hawk in 1984, being involved in the collision of that ship with a Soviet Victor submarine at night in the Sea of Japan was a kind of capstone for my ASW career. In retirement, travel with my wife Linda has been the main focus for memorable events. We took a Princess cruise into the Panama Canal 100 years after my great-grandfather had taken a nearly identical cruise in a commercial banana boat. Traveling to the top of Pike's Peak on a cog wheel railroad with classmate Stu and Barb Fonda was exhilarating. Tell us about your wife, children and grandchildren My wife Linda Suzanne Dowd and I have been married for nearly 45 years. She is a special person to put up with me for that long. She had successful career work in her own right finishing employment as the Associate Director of the Graduate School, University of Florida. We have two grown children, Wendy and Steven who are pursuing careers in the world of finance. Each has two children, daughter and son; so we have four grandchildren who are all in school. How is retired life going and how do you currently spend your time? Retired life is going well. I am working on a book about retirement designed to help military officers cope with the choices they have when they retire; premise being retirement is not just about having enough money. In the past 10 years I have become a professional genealogist and have written three family histories. My wife and I work on these together, doing our own research to make the histories well-documented and interesting. Travel is an activity we enjoy planning and doing. We have a bucket list of places to see and hope to be healthy enough to travel for years to come. I also enjoy golf, fishing, and activities with my children and grandchildren. My youngest grandson wants to be a Blue Angel. Most Vivid/Fondest Memories of USNA: My most vivid and fondest memory of USNA was graduation. Being on the field and throwing our hats in the air was something I will never forget. I enjoy the glee club and choir trips and thoroughly enjoyed being with those organizations. Singing the Messiah was an event we always looked forward to. My most serious memory was the day President Kennedy was shot and how we spent that day, beginning with finding out after lunch in Chemistry class and ending with the special Chapel service in the evening. I can see now that we were too young to really appreciate the true significance of Return to: Table of Contents

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary that sad event as we experienced it from our busy lives as Plebes. The most vivid and fond memory was the retirement ceremony at USNA for our class of '67. While six of us were the focal point there in Memorial Hall as retirees, the ceremony was for our class; and I was honored to be part of it – a culminating event in my 30 year career. Humorous Memories of USNA: Most of what we did seemed very serious. I never thought of the challenges we faced at USNA as particularly funny. Awards Received The following information will be used in a separate section of the book and will focus on awards and honors Academic Achievement Bachelor of Science with a Major in Aeronautical Engineering USNA Master of Science, Aeronautical Systems – University of West Florida Master of Arts, International Relations - Salve Regina University Federal Executive Fellowship, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Specialist in Education Degree, University of Florida Athletic I was part of the Brigade (12th man) when we beat Army under Roger Staubach's leadership in 1963. Service/USNA Awards Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit (2) Meritorious Service Medal (3), Navy Commendation Medal Presidential Unit Citation Vietnam Service Medal Battle Efficiency Ribbon (2) Navy Unit Commendation Meritorious Unit Commendation National Defense Service Medal Republic of the Philippines Presidential Unit Citation NATO service ribbon Please Answer Two Questions: Why did you elect to attend USNA and what did you expect to "gain/obtain from attending” I wanted to be a Naval Aviator. I had no real career aspirations to begin with. I was more focused on graduation and seeing where that led after I got my Wings of Gold. Did the academy experience satisfy your expectations? The Academy more than met my expectations, preparing me to be a Naval Officer and serve my country at an important time in our nation's history. I got to experience the Vietnam war, the end of the Cold War, and Desert Shield/ Storm. Professionally, I learned a lot about strategic planning both in the Navy and later in graduate school. I have been able to share that knowledge and use the education, skills and confidence from my time at USNA to continue a good life in the civilian world. Life is good. Final Yearbook write-up: After graduation I served in the U.S. Navy for a career. My interest in serving was to "fly Navy", and in the fall of 1968 I was designated a Naval Aviator, primarily flying helicopters. Linda Dowd and I married in 1970 and we have enjoyed 45 years together, both in the Navy and with separate education careers afterward. In addition to flying in the Navy, I served in political-military assignments in the Pentagon, at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University), and overseas. My international assignments included Pol-Mil officer for CINCPACREPPHIL in the Philippines working on military base negotiations, SHAPE Belgium as Deputy of the Policy and Programmes Branch at the end of the Cold War, and Commanding Officer of NSA Naples, Italy during the Bosnian crisis. My last tour was Commanding Officer of the NROTC at the University of Florida, completing 30 years commissioned service in 1997 as a Captain. After attending graduate school at the University of Florida, I had an education career, completing a Specialist in Education degree and working at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida, as Director for Institutional Research and Planning. I am a part-time strategic planning consultant working occasionally for non-profit organizations. We moved from Gainesville to Ormond Beach in 2004 to be closer to the ocean and to look after my elderly mother. I briefly accepted a position as Director of Transportation for Flagler County, Florida, before finally retiring in 2008. As a volunteer, I serve on the Board of Directors for VyStar Credit Union, Jacksonville, Florida. From our home in Ormond Beach, Florida, Linda and I enjoy travel, genealogy, golf, and of course our family of two children and four grandchildren who live nearby.

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Thank you for reading our book. We are proud of our Classmates. We are proud of our accomplishments. We are proud that we served. We are proud of our Country. Stand, if you are still able; place your hand over your heart, and repeat the following:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, And to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All.

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United States Naval Academy - Class of 1967 - 50th Anniversary Index 1st Battalion Name Aldrich, James Ambrose, Isaiah Armentrout, Charles Armitage, Richard Armstrong, Frank Aunchman, Leman Bagully, Ross Baker, David Ballantine, William Barker, Joseph Barrett, James Bartz, William Baum, Richard Beaver, Bradley Belew, David Blackwood, Edward Braswell, Willis Brookes, Richard Burton, Thomas Buttinger, James Byers, David Campbell, James Capshaw, Roy Carloni, Guido Carter, Jesse Castoro, Joseph Corry, Vincent Cotton, John Crabtree, David Dail, James Daughtry, Joseph Davis, David Deatley, Rudolph Del Balzo, Francis Delesie, Stephen DeLong, Michael Dewar, Dorel Dittmann, Harry Dooley, John Dornstetter, John Dose, Curtis Dukiet, Walter Dulin, James Ellinwood, Stanley Erdelen, Alan Etter, William Eysenbach, Karl Farlow, Michael 290

Company 3 5 4 5 6 5 6 6 1 5 5 5 1 4 5 6 5 6 1 5 1 6 3 1 3 2 4 1 6 6 3 6 5 1 5 6 5 4 2 4 4 2 4 2 2 2 4 3

Name Faulds, Dennis Fonda, Stewart Fuerst, Richard Gautschi, Frederick Goldschmidt, John Gorman, Joseph Griffin, John Gurdian, Marcio Haley, Dennis Hall, R. B. Harmon, Rockne Harris, Wilding Hart, John Hepp, Edward Hewitt, Frank Hickman, Harold Hodak, Gary Holland, William Johnson, Gordon Johnson, James Johnson, Russell Kelly, Dennis Kirchberg, Jerome Lambert, Richard Lambert, Richard Lasswell, John Leon, Peter Leonard, Raymond Lowell, Robert Macidull, John May, Walter Mazurczak, Michael McCullough, Van McFarland, Robert McNeece, James Meade, Richard Meltzer, Max Merickel, Michael Mero, Kenneth Meyer, Lawrence Mihok, Andrew Mondul, Donald Monson, Randall Morehead, Robert Morris, Larry Morton, John Mueller, Frank Mushen, Robert Return to: Table of Contents

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Company 5 6 3 1 6 4 1 1 2 5 2 1 4 6 3 6 5 2 6 4 3 6 2 2 3 4 1 6 4 6 3 2 3 1 5 5 6 1 3 2 4 4 6 1 1 4 2 1

Index Index 1st Battalion Name Neal, Basil Neuman, K. William Nielsen, David Norris, William Nydegger, David O'Hara, Justin Olson, Stephen Pace, Peter Palmer, David Peters, Williams Peterson, Michael Pettus, Gordon Phillips, Stephen Pigeon, Lawrence Polk, Philip Potter, Judson Pritchett, Thomas Ptack, Kenneth Pyetzki, Charles Richbourg, William Ryan, Robert Samaras, George Samuels, Michael Schear, James Scivicque, Richard Scott, David Sloat, Gordon Stearns, Theodore Stevenson, Thomas Strickland, Richard Sugrue, Paul Sullivan, Jerry Surdyk, Michael Szalay, Robert Tadych, Russell Taylor, James Torgerson, Larry Tuttle, Paul Vance, H. Vetter, David Vivian, William Volland, Karl Warrington, Robert Waters, Robert Wells, Linton Werner, Max Williamson, John Wood, James Yankoupe, George

Company 4 4 5 5 3 5 4 1 4 1 3 2 5 5 3 4 3 5 2 4 2 1 4 6 2 1 3 3 2 6 2 6 6 2 3 5 3 1 2 1 6 2 2 5 1 3 4 5 3

Name Zahn, George Zaiser, Gene

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