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A special thanks to Neil O’Connor for providing some of the graphics you see in this issue and will be seeing in the Presidents Column future. Time sure goes fast when you're having fun. It's been a Joe McKinzie quiet quarter, with no problems requiring much in the way Publication Information: of action. About the only incident requiring any decision The Aerograph is published quarterly in February, May, making was again a no brainer. Jim Stones printer went August and November. Contributions must be received by sour and a new one was required. I approved the purchase the Editor, not later than the 15th day of the month of a new one that cost around 300.00 dollars. Norm preceding publication. Articles and letters may be McComber sent an email to me regarding an invitation to submitted in any format, typed or handwritten and the Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography forwarded by email, FAX or UPS. (Unfortunately, I will Command to the Atlantic City Reunion. 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The problem now faced is that Association Officers: even if the Congress approves the Admiral's list before the President: CAPT Frank Schatzle, USN RET ex CNMOC leave expires, the new Admiral cannot be 136 Espy Ave, Pass Christian, MS 39571-4812 approved until after Admiral Donnelson's leave expires. I (228) 452-9836 [[email protected]] guess we could describe the situation as a mess. 1st Vice President: CDR Earl Gustafson, USN RET I have been consulting with the Public Affairs Office at 2686 North View Ave, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420-6506 CNMOC regarding the NWSA Scholarship Program. The (805) 481-0320 [[email protected]] next issue of their Newsletter is scheduled for release next 2nd Vice President: ACGCM Bob Coniglione, USN RET, month. They have agreed to put out information on the 18085 Commission Rd, Long Beach, MS 39560-3526 scholarship program in the next issue. I think this is an (228) 863-3526 [[email protected] excellent way of getting better input from our sailors and Secy/Treas: AGC Jim Stone, USN RET others working for the CNMOC, particularly those on 428 Robin Rd, Waverly, OH 45690-1523 ships at sea and those working at the various field activities. (740) 947-7111 [[email protected]] By the way, the CNMOC Newsletter is now provided only Aerograph Editor: LCDR Joe McKinzie, USN RET on their WEBSITE (pao.cnmoc.navy.mil). Well that about 6714 Brookhaven Tr, Ft. Worth, TX 76133-5879 covers it for this quarter. I hope every one of you had a (817) 263-9278 [[email protected]] great Holiday Season and have a happy, healthy and Association Committees: prosperous New Year. Reunion Co-Chairs: P.S. Ann and I had a great Christmas with all our three kids CWO4 Hugh Bucher, USN RET and all eight grandchildren here for Santa Claus. What a 402 Conifer Dr, Forked River, NJ 08731-1927 mess that was, but also a lot of fun was had by all. (609) 693-3973 [[email protected]] Frank Schatzle, President NWSA 03/04 AGCM Norm Macomber, USN RET 815 Brookside Dr, Toms River, NJ 08735-4340 (732) 349-6736 [[email protected]] 2 and other points before returning to their home in Roseville, toward the end of Jan. 2004, Madge & Forrest Williams – with Madge Williams not only a plank owner but the lady who gave the name to the social group "The Well Weathered Wives". Forrest graced the festivities by tinkling the electric keyboard and gave us good music to accompany the singing. CHAPTER NEWS Last but not least was a new face who was invited to the shindig, Howard Straus. Howard was an Ensign stationed at Fleet Numerical in1969 but RAD shortly afterwards. There was a grand prize drawing for a Crab Fest dinner which Howard lucked out on his table and won. Each table also had a drawing for one of the decorative poinsettias. I again looked for the Lewitt's, Howard and Barbara but they were not present. It seems Howard had his touch up NWSA Unit One surgery about two weeks before the party and was still on Central Coast Chapter the binnacle list. Some old timers remember Howard

Lewitt and I am in the old timer's category for Howard Back in 1971 a group of weather guesser's ladies calling acted as a sideboy when I was piped over the side into themselves the Well Weathered Wives, threw a party retirement in early Sep.1969 down at Point Mugu. There before Christmas. Mary Lou Ward and Madge Williams didn't seem to be enough Chiefs present for the ceremony were plank owners of that group. Each December since so Howard volunteered to act as a surrogate Chief though then this group of Well Weathered Wives has put on the he was a Lieutenant Commander at the time. Christmas party and the past few years it has been held at Many of our Monterey Chapter members travel extensively Rancho Canada in Carmel Valley. during the year. In talking with JJ Maloney he told of In Dec. 2003 the two ladies who sponsored the Christmas traveling to Greece and other parts of the world in 2003. party were Pat Nicholson and Marjorie Petit. About 1800 Harry & Pat Nicholson had planned a trip to China last on 4 Dec. 2003 those who enjoy these shindigs started April but the SARS scare caused them to slip their trip over gathering at Rancho Canada a mile or so up the Carmel there to 18 Sep. and after visiting major cities plus a 5 day Valley from Highway One. boat ride up the Yangtze River they returned to CONUS 5 This event is one of two during the year our local chapter Oct. Harry's observations of the changing China puts to of the NWSA gather for social purposes, the other being rest the stereotype Rickshaw China of pre WWII days and the summer picnic. early post WWII days. Those attending or scheduled to attend the Dec. party, Pat Nicholson's mother died the evening of 16 Dec. so most being members of NWSA, were Leo Clarke who they made a hurried trip to Maryland. All friends who know failed to show, Ann & Michael Cuming down from Pat & Harry extend sympathy for the loss of Pats mother. Placerville CA, Don & Marge Edgren, Ron & Peg For you who know Don & Mimi Wise, or those like Moon Englebretson, Bob & Jinx Fett, Earl & Floy Gustafson from who like to travel, Don wrote his New Years greeting and Arroyo Grande, CA (translated from Spanish to English as alerted his friends that he and Mimi were leaving 5 Jan. on a Big Ditch), Glenn & Dolores Hamilton from San Jose, Herb trip of fun, fishing, diving and island hopping in the & Barb Hansen recently transplanted to this area from the Philippines. One of his side trips is planned for Baguio, and Mid-west, Sam & Jean Houston, Frank Ivie, Zane Jacobs some in NWSA made at least one R & R trip to that minus Gloria who came down with Shingles in mid Nov. Mountain region where snow reportedly fell on the higher and waited at home for the chicken supper Zane took peaks in 1927. home for her, Jack & Valerie Jensen, Mary Kalinyak, Tony Cordially, Zane E. Jacobs Klapp and Lucy Olsen - Tony's lovely neighbor and companion in his dare devil travels – they plan going to Nepal next June to climb a hill in that country, John & Gail Maloney from Roseville CA, Don & Carolyn Mautner, (for being recently retired Don has a full plate in teaching at Cal State Monterey Bay & has persuaded the Monterey Peninsula Junior College to also offer a course in Meteorology which he is going to teach in 2004), Natalie and Ed Munson, Pat & Harry Nicholson, Pete & Marjorie

Petit – Pete acting as unofficial MC again this year and who The Hampton Roads Chapter raised the topic of origin of the WWW club and it having started in 1971 with Mary Ward being a plank owner- , Jack It was that time again, red and green paper, jingle bells, too & Helen Pingle from Palm Desert CA, Peggy Reins down much to do and no time to do it. And the Hampton Roads from Mariposa CA, Bob (Monterey's volunteer Chapter of the Naval Weather Service Association had Meteorologist-Climatologist) and Dot Renard, Ralph & agreed to host a Christmas Party for the Veterans Hospital Dorothea (AKA Dotte) Sallee, Bill & Mimi Schramm, in Hampton Virginia. I sent Marty Nemcosky an e-mail Freida & Bob Sparks, Warren Thompson, Mary Lou & Dick with a list of suggestions for getting started early on dates, Ward who were heading out for a trip into the Midwest 3 food and presents for the veterans. And that started the napkins, cups and so much more. Marty remembered the wrinkles from the worry. Seems most people had plans ice and that made the day perfect. already for that Saturday, December 13. And those that didn't either had to work, were ill or were taking care of We got to the hospital to find a huge group of people people who were ill. Marty has his hands full with taking there decorating, setting the table and waiting to help us care of Barb and I have mine full taking Floyd to the doctor unload. Chief Greg Malbouet in one scoop picked up an and making sure he does as he is supposed to do. It ice chest stacked with other boxes on that would have seemed like there would be no time and no help. taken Marty three trips. He simply lifted all of them, smiled However, Marty got in contact with Mike Joern who was a and headed inside. Marty was astounded. So were we miracle worker last year and we prayed for a miracle when we got inside. We had AC1 Keith Johnson FALSFAC repeat. VALAPE1; AG3 Verita Johnson (NLMOC); AG2 Jacqueline I had heard a rumor that the commissary might help if the Knew; Gregory Joern; Agetha Brena; Margaret Joern; cause was good so one morning I went out to the Little AG2 Nicole Felton; Rorie Felton; AGAN Amy Borrowman; Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk. There I explained my Bill Sheppard; AG1 CeCe Lee; AGC Greg Macbouet; AG3 problem and the girl finally managed to get someone on the Jamie Taylor; AG2, Harvey Collazo; Givanna Collazo; phone and she read Marty’s letter to them. A short time Giovanna Collazo; AG1 Michelle Simmons; AGCM later Troy Collins came over with a huge grin on his face (AW/SW) Michael Joern; CDR M. Nemcosky USN RET; and 4 $25.00 gift certificates. He asked only that I spend Floyd Akers, AGC RET and Joan Akers; Jessie Steiner; Ted them at their commissary. And I did. One hundred dollars Lemond GS-11/YNC RET, who came over in spite of other goes a long way if you spend carefully. It bought four kinds problems and Ive Chubb who made the trip a success in of good meat, (roast beef, pastrami, ham and turkey), four spite of getting lost and then found. She deserves a medal kinds of cheese, crackers, shrimp, vegetables, fruit, cookies, for that trip. This group is composed of the most dip, and lots of other things that make it a party for wonderful, giving, caring, compassionate and generous someone constantly eating hospital food. I stopped at our people I have ever seen. Food Lion at Fairfield Shopping Center here in Virginia While the trees were being decorated the girls were Beach. Glen Weaver was there. That wonderful man went singing and when the boom box came on they burst into around gathering fruit for a great tray and then sent me to terrific songs. The trees were beautiful. Then a group of get what vegetables I wanted also. I was speechless for a the men led by Marty and Chief Malbouet decorated doors few minutes. My last stop was at Krispy Kreme to the patients rooms. The table was set and fit for the Doughnuts, and James Brumsey at the store at 4901 gods. Everyone was more than willing to help serve these Virginia Beach Boulevard said come back, “ Saturday old, tired and wheel chair bound heroes. It is morning and I will give you 10 dozen donuts free.” And he heartbreaking, you know, to see a person so crippled he did. I spent Friday making the very large platters, rolling can't eat by himself, someone who has lost both legs or the meat, placing the cheese and adding the other things. someone whose speech is so mangled you can't understand We have a large vegetable tray also. We had a great bowl him. The faces are empty for the most part, they just sit of fresh fruit for them and I saw one man holding a banana and look. Some of them smile when their full plates are as if he had won a trophy. Jake Bengel brought pickles and brought over, some just stare. One man managed to get 4 olives, Chuck Steinbruck brought cheese and crackers and plates of food. There were two women there, one a tiny soda, Ted Lamond brought more food as did Carmen Lee. lady in a bright pink sweater and the other a woman Jessie Steiner brought deviled eggs and chocolate cake. pleased that now she was in a wheel chair instead of being The eggs disappeared like magic. She promised that next confined to bed. One man just lay on the bed and didn't year she would make a whole lot more deviled eggs for move for the longest time and then he hollered. The them. The Wrights, Ralph and Larue brought potato salad, people in the rooms were not forgotten, plates were taken soda, chips, dips and candy and they also brought gifts. to them also. And we sang. Oh did we! At one point we Everyone brought so much, good food and gifts and willing got going on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and could hands. the people loved it. They loved the eggnog also. not remember what item came in when and it made it even The place looked like a treasure house. I had found many more fun. There were two young children there, Harvey things for the gifts and with what everyone else dropped Collazo’s children, I believe and they were the best by, we had a huge box full. The day arrived and we were behaved children I have seen in a long time. All in all, it was worried. When my confidence hit way below zero, I had a wonderful day, worth all the work and worry and money called Mike Joern and talked with his wife, Maggie, who spent because for one day the Christmas spirit laughed and gave me such support and confidence I felt a lot better. ate and spread true joy. God Bless us every one. You see, we only had 6 people that were supposed to come from our group and then Ted called and said Ethel was in the hospital. That left us with four. Not enough to do two Christmas trees, decorate 40 doors as Don Reed from the hospital had asked us to do, and lay out a beautiful table. But our prayers were answered. You might say our cup runneth over. The group from NAVLANTMETOCCEN was already there and had brought pies, cakes, food, sodas, plates, cups, plastic ware,

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Bill and June Bowers were visiting family in Virginia Beach for Christmas this year and had a chance to drop in the Nemcosky's too. Marty served them some chocolate pumpkin bread that he made for the holidays. He also took the opportunity to present Bill a shirt with an embroidered "Seamoor" logo on it. The HRC voted to present Bill one of our new shirts in appreciation for the superb work he did as editor of the Aerograph over the past 14 years. Barb and June compared medical notes and they agreed that their get together was long overdue. Jack and Ann Salvato spent part of October, 7 days to be exact, in San Diego and surrounding area. While there they stayed at the Navy Lodge on 28th street. A fantastic place for the price, 61 dollars per night. This included two queen sized beds, a kitchenette and a small sitting area. Sounds like the place to stay. They visited the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Universal Studios, located just north of Los Angeles and Tijuana, Mexico. They also went across the bridge to North Island where everything was picture perfect. A great time was had. They've already made reservations for their next trip in February. A cruise to the Caribbean. Bob and Carol Daigle braved the roads over Thanksgiving

and with kids and grandkids made a trip to Massachusetts to spend the holiday with family. Spent most of the time On 16 November 2003 our meeting was held at the reminiscing about old times, eating and checking out some Pancho Villa's of New York in Virginia Beach, not far from old stomping grounds. One new sight visited was the the ocean front. Those attending were Bob and Carol Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield MA, its the place to Daigle, Marty and Barb Nemcosky, Chuck Steinbruck, John go if your a basketball fan. Left in time to miss the snow and Ive Chubb, Dan and Carmen Lee, Fay and Donna storm that followed shortly after. Crossley, Mike and Maggie Joarn, Bob and Jessie Steiner, Bob was recently awarded the "SEMI-ANNUAL Todd and Julie Brangers, Jack and Ann Salvato, Floyd and OUTSTANDING CIVILIAN PERFORMANCE AWARD" Joan Akers, Jake Bengel, and Frank Terrizzi. Frank Terrizzi (Apr-Oct 03) from the Commanding Officer of who resides from Kentucky surprised us all with his NAVLANTMETOCFAC Jacksonville. presents at this meeting. We hope to see him many more On 26 November 2003, we lost a great friend and times in the future. Following dinner, of various and shipmate, Bud Scott, AGCM USN RET. Bud was very delicious Mexican dishes, a short meeting was held which active in the chapter and loved and respected by all. His began with the pledge of Allegiance and a verse from the ashes will be distributed to the sea, a place he loved. Our Eternal Father. prayers and sympathy goes to Bev and family. Some news from our Chapter: We sympathized with Marty and Barb Nemcosky upon the Barb Nemcosky's health has been deteriorating, and the lost of Marty's brother in July, just prior to a family reunion cause was found by an MRI scan. It showed a large tumor in in August 03. A memorial mass for him was held then and her brain. She is currently undergoing radiation and when it his funeral was in Vermont on 18 October 03. is completed she will wait for about a month for a new Our annual Christmas party for the veterans at the scan. Marty had handrails and a ramp installed at home. His Veterans Hospital in Hampton Virginia was a great success. Christmas present was having her home this year. Barb is Joan Akers, our VA Hospital Coordinator did a superb job very lucky to have Marty as her care giver. He continues to organizing every aspect of this event. An event well do a fantastic job. received by the Vets. Many thanks goes to AGCM Mike Joern, CMC and the active duty personnel from NLMOC Norfolk who volunteered to participate. For more information, check separate article by Joan Akers. Until next time, Bob.

5 Crutcher for about four years before he knew that his first name was Harold rather than Doctor. Dr. Crutcher is having some trouble getting around these days, but he does quite well with his walker. My wife and I stopped by his home to take him to a meeting a few months ago. I walked up his sidewalk to meet him while using my cane and he remarked: “If this isn't the blind leading the blind.” I started kidding him about his having to TARHEEL CHAPTER stop entering clogging and jitterbugging contests. He didn't reply, but he did grin at me. Now, most would probably President: Roger Bissinger pay real currency to see someone doing those things using Vice Pres.: Dan Lepore a walker. Treasurer: Rudy Kittel Truly, Dr. Crutcher is a talented man. He grows the most- Reporter: Roger Tanner beautiful orchids, is a concert pianist, and has been so It's a great time of the year for so many reasons, but it is a active all of his life in so many things. He is a pleasure to dieter's nightmare. Fortunately, at least, one-half of the spend time with, has many stories of his life's experiences members in our group don't appear to count themselves to share. He is quite the charmer too – can't help but among those sad folks. So, on the evening of Pearl Harbor notice that the ladies tend to gravitate toward him at Day, off to one of Asheville's finer restaurants we went to picnics and other social gatherings. enjoy the wonderful Italian cuisine and our (almost) winter He has affected our lives in very positive ways. I am sure dinner meeting at 1830. Perhaps we have found a culinary that several have taken college courses that we might not home since the last two of our quarterly gatherings have have enrolled in except for his gentle nudging. Mike been at Trevi's restaurant, although we have traditionally Dickenson says that Dr. Crutcher is greatly responsible for gone to a different restaurant for each meeting, or... maybe their retiring in Asheville. He said that Dr. Crutcher really it's just a great bartender. “took him under his wing” when he first reported here for As usual, a great time was had by all. Those present were duty, introduced him to people he thought Mike should Roger and Louise Bissinger, Harold Crutcher, Devoyd meet, and got him involved in the Rotary, etc. “Red” Ezell, Tom Fitzpatrick, Rudy and Ellie Kittel, Dan and “Doc”, again Happy Birthday and we all wish you many Pat Lepore, Roger and Anne Tanner, and Al and Ellen more! Upton. One of the subjects casually discussed around the table A brief meeting was called to order by our president while during dinner was what we should try to include in our we were awaiting the preparation of our dinners. Business report to the Aerograph editor in the future. Someone was as follows: mentioned that some of the other chapters include a lot about activities that their individual members/families were  Al Upton volunteered to produce a full-page involved in, e.g., travel, family reunions, visits by old friends Tarheel Chapter advertisement for the upcoming (especially old shipmates), etc. So, here is our first Tarheel Atlantic City Reunion program book. Living section:  Roger Tanner volunteered to take over the duties  Roger and Louise Bissinger spent the week over of chapter reporter, replacing Mike Dickenson. Thanksgiving with their daughter and her family in  The members present wished Harold Crutcher a Charleston, SC. They spent a traditional HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY! Christmas Eve dinner with their son Scott and his Business portion of the meeting adjourned. family in Asheville and Christmas day at home with Thanks, Mike for all your excellent work! I will do my best various kids and grand kids who dropped by for a to maintain the standards you set as our chapter reporter. day or two throughout the rest of the week. Dr. Harold Crutcher must have met many of the Naval (Since Roger sent me that report, he told me that Weather Service folks over the years of his employment as he went down to another son's home, not far the Senior Scientist of the National Climatic Data Center from Charlotte, NC, for a visit.) (NCDC). For those of you who think that his name “rings  While Tom Fitzpatrick was attending our meeting a bell”, but haven't had the pleasure of meeting him on Dec. 7th, Pat (known as “Smitty” to many) was personally, I'll mention that you will find his name on the holding their brand new seventh grandchild in U.S. Navy - Marine Climatic Atlases . He led the effort on Oakland, CA. The baby girl, named Noel, had just those publications for many years as well as for many other been born on that day to their son Kevin and his climatological needs of the Navy. wife Evangeline. Congratulations to all!! This reporter met Dr. Crutcher in 1966 when I was assigned to NWSED Asheville for a permanent tour of  Noel is already building her frequent flyer miles duty. I remember thinking that I had never met a more since she, mom, and dad got to spend Christmas dignified and distinguished looking man in my life. After in Asheville with her maternal and paternal returning to my desk, I told our secretary that I was glad grandparents. Evangeline's mother came down that he had his doctorate because I was certain that I from Baltimore for the occasion. would call him “doc” or “professor” just because it seemed Roger Tanner like that should be his “first” name. Tom Fitzpatrick quipped, during our last meeting, that he had known Dr.

6 A brief meeting was held. President Macomber welcomed everyone. Happy Holiday wishes were read from Marty Bonk and from Betty Winterstien. Lil Klim was wished a speedy recovery from eye surgery. We missed the Gardner’s and The Migaleddi’s. Happy Birthday was extended to: Carol Merrill, Pat Whitworth, Rod Elliott and Bob Wiorek. Happy Anniversary was extended to Carol and Gene Merrill. The following discussions were held: PENSACOLA CHAPTER 2004 Reunion update was presented by the committee heads. All plans are in place as we await the arrival of June President: Howard Graham 2004. Norm read correspondence from Vice Admiral Paul VP/Sec/Treas: Pat O'Brien G. Gaffney II. The Secretary/Treasurer’s report was given. Chaplain Marie Garrity presented the invocation. The Our combination December chapter meeting and meeting adjourned for lunch. Christmas party was held, for the second straight year, at The reporter passed around the dreaded notebook for Greene and Marion Hawkes' home. Those in attendance updates to report in the next Aerograph . We all have included: Al & Helen Atwell, Roger & Cheryl Warren, Bill & duties to perform. Barbara Pruitt, Bob & Elspeth Lloyd, Greene & Marion Jane & Al Parisi enjoy the gatherings especially during the Hawkes, John & Karen Phillips, Dick & Elizabeth Tokryman, Holiday season. They are looking forward to March for the Tom & Ginny Deagan, Howard & Shirley Graham and Pat & two weeks they will be spending in Hawaii on vacation. Libby O'Brien had Libby's mother Mary Lou Lee for a Hank & Bobbie Losch: Happy Holidays to all. guest. As usual the food was absolutely delicious (and Elaine Reabold:” Michael Reabold has finished his plentiful). After a short business meeting our annual white assignment in Afghanistan. She is glad he is out of there. elephant gift exchange was held and some interesting gifts He is now in Venezuela. Susan Rhea Reabold, Capt. USAF is were received. still in Germany and enjoying it very much. The rest of the John Phillips is gearing up for the upcoming tax season. In a Reabold family is well.” few weeks his two H&R Block offices will be in full swing. The Macomber’s: “see ya’ll in A.C.” Karen enjoyed a trip to Cairnes, Australia and got a gas grill The Moffett’s: “looking forward to the Reunion in A.C.” for Father's Day. It was the first time for all her family to The Wiorek’s: “looking forward to seeing everyone in A.C, be together since 1982. Elizabeth Tokryman went to visit Had a great Thanksgiving, son came home from CA to be family and friends in Holland in November. with us and join us here at The Captain’s Inn.” Bob Lloyd was host for reunion of USS MENARD APA 201 The McGayhey’s: “Toddy & Mac anticipate cruising to in September. There were 80 attendees. Pat and Libby Panama in February.” are looking forward to their anniversary (9th) cruise to the The Sudam’s: “at the April 2004 meeting, members and Western Caribbean the day after Christmas. spouses pictures will be taken for inclusion in the 2004 And finally Howard announced that it looks like he will Reunion Directory.” retire from the Sherman Field (NAS Pensacola) weather Email for The Garrity’s: “ we will be married 50 yrs. Jan. office the end of September '04. 7th. that is news, also our granddaughter, Kim, Kathy's only The Pensacola Chapter members wish everyone a Merry daughter is getting married in April. I am still very active Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. with my church & now play in the hand bell choir, which is really news... love it. Mike has even gotten somewhat active too. (a real blessing) but over all we are doing ok. I really love belonging to our NWSA organization too. Great people.” The Elliott’s keep on the go as always. November was a trip to Dallas/Ft. Worth for a week to visit friends, get new cowboy’s boots, see the stockyards and purchase NASCAR

tickets for the April 2004 race. .Kathy and Hannah came NWSA AIRSHIP CHAPTER for Thanksgiving. Christmas will be in VA. as always. Each and everyone in the Airship Chapter wish you President Norman Macomber a Happy Holiday Season! Vice President Rod Elliott Secretary/Treasurer Gene Merrill Reporter Pam Elliott

The Holiday Gathering at The Captain’s Inn was enjoyed by all. The following attended: The Wiorek’s and Son, The Macomber’s, The Merrill’s, The Garrity’s, Chuck Bradley, The Sudam’s, The Parisi’s, The McGayhey’s, The Losch’s, The Wanzor’s, The Elliott’s, The Whitworth’s, The Bucher’s, The Moffett’s and Elaine Reabold.

7 **In southwest WA the Corbeilles lost their TV & internet reception when their satellite antenna froze up. They decided to catch up on their reading when a large ice laden tree branch broke off & fell, hitting a power line. Blackout. They joined several thousand other home owners in the dark. As temperatures rose the wind flow over the remaining snow & ice produced spotty ice fog over wide areas. **Dan & Marilyn Collins were in Seattle for a medical appointment & found that the developing storm had caused cancellation of their appointment. Driving was already extremely hazardous so, sans snow tires & discretion being th the better part of valor, they stayed overnight on the 8 * *Daniel Webster on voting “If the citizens neglect their floor of a nearby Inn. From that vantage point they were duty & place unprincipled men in office, the government able to look down on a bumper-car scene below. Seattle will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the reported 173 plus automobile accidents due to icy public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes.” conditions. (or to get re-elected) **When a British parliament member asked Prime Minister **Our Chapter held a meeting-brunch on the second Tony Blair why he believes so much in America & the Saturday in November at Weller’s Family restaurant President. Blair’s smiling reply was, “A simple way to take near Burlington WA. Members present were Jim Black & measure of a country is to look at how many want in & Louise Ogle, Jack Fry, Dick & Barbara Gilmore, Mrs. Jimmie how many want out.” Price, Earl Kerr & Frank Baillie. Lee & Dee Hayes dropped **We can always count on Dan & Marilyn Collins for by with their son & his family on their way the see their several interesting travelogues every year. This time it was grandson’s peewee football game. We found out later that a 6000 mile 3-RV caravan stretching from September to their grandson’s team won. November. The first leg was across the Cascades to ** “Frenchy” & wife Barbara Corbeille are a busy couple. Spokane where they met his brother & his wife & then on They attended a large “cousins family reunion” in to Deming NM where they rendezvoused with a third Wisconsin. Did you know that he is a Green Bay, Wisc., brother & his wife. Next came a stop at Roswell NM & a native. I’m sure that he took care not to disclose that he is visit to the very interesting “Alien Museum” which now a Seattle Sea Hawks fan & has likely burned his cheese contained several affidavits by military men attesting to the head hat. In November “Frenchy” was in the midst of a “little alien beings” who crashed there (Dan & Marilyn South Dakota “Arctic Adventure”. He & shipmate, AGC profess to be believers). The brothers found a “long lost ret. Dewey Price, of Jefferson City, MO were Pheasant cousin” there who was last seen by them 60 years ago. hunting in South Dakota where the min temps were They continued to Carlsbad Caverns where a trek into the MINUS 15 deg. (ouch!). On the “benny” side of the ledger caves found them 750 feet below the surface. One of the there are quite a few plucked pheasant awaiting their next stops was Yellowstone National Park & they also took pleasure in the family freezer along with, venison, elk & a ride on the Durango to Silverton narrow gauge RR. Late mouse meat from a September hunt. They made their in their trip they visited daughter Carla in Rancho annual pre Thanksgiving crabbing trip via fifth wheel to Cucamonga CA & were shocked & some what depressed Tokland on Willapa Bay & brought home their limit of to see the ravages of the huge California fires of 2003. Dungeness crab meat. No need for these folks to get There was soot everywhere, & the lingering odor was very “store bought” meats, fish or fowl. (Point of interest: strong. After the heat of the southwest they found the Tokeland was the long time home of X-AGC Paul Carrigan coastal drive north to be refreshing despite scattered snow who wrote an excellent book on his WW2 service in showers starting at Klamath Falls, OR & turning to rain WW2 Alaska as an Aerog, became an Aerm during WW2 near Mt Hood. & an AG in 1948.) **Dennis & Tara Ruth have “settled in” happily as **Meeting agenda - On Sunday March 13th we’ll be at the Oregoners? (Oregonites?). In Nov. Dennis became part of NAS Whidbey Island CPO Club. On Sunday May 2nd we’ll the Oregon State Military Dept., Installations Division as a dine at “Peper’s 49ers”, just off of I-5 in Castle Rock. After Branch Chief, overseeing a host of areas. Tara has worked the June to August meeting hiatus we may be meeting “east at the Corvallis Community Center for five years now. of the mountains”, eastern WA or even Idaho. We always Father’s Day found them attending their daughter Melissa’s welcome visiting NWSAers. Y’all come. Oregon State graduation ceremony. The couple is **You may have observed a few wintry scenes from WA presently checking into their family history. on your TV news in early January. Those of us near the **Anonymous adage “It’s useless to hold a person to waters of Puget Sound escaped extremes but others were anything he says when he’s in love, drunk or (ESPECIALLY) plagued by heavy snows ranging from six inches to a foot running for office.” deep. Many areas endured ice & sleet storms along with a **What else is happening: Jim Black & Bob Nowlan are frigid northeasterly gale which funneled through the boning up on Income Tax changes in preparation for the Cascade Mountain passes. It was a similar situation in the “Tax season” / “East of the mountains”, in Newport, WA, Portland, OR area where exceptionally icy Bernoulli winds Ken & Marion (with an O) Boden had 21 inches of snow & roared down the Columbia River valley. a 34 below min temp during our recent siege. / Jim 8 Northup took part in a statewide cribbage tournament recently (close but no cigar)./ “Frenchy” will be picking up a three year old “British Labrador” hunting dog in the near future. / Earl Kerr gave Lynne (& himself) a 4WD Land Rover “Freelander” for Christmas. Our recent snow fall gave him a chance to check it out (it works well)/ Wayne Olsen & Scott Sandgathe attended the January AMS Meeting in Seattle. **I plan to Check with long-time Roswell residents LCDR retired “Chuck” & Maxine Barron about their views on the Roswell aliens. (see Dan & Marilyn Collins item). “Chuck” was my boss during an Amphibs tour during Korea & a friend. He took part in the forecasting for every WW2 landing by Allied forces in the Mediterranean & in the

Inchon invasion for which he was awarded the bronze Star. He also had a tour as a Hurricane Hunter flying out of “Jax”. “Chuck” is 91 years young & his spouse Maxine is 86.

POTOMAC CHAPTER President…………….Peter Weigand [email protected] First Vice President……Tom Miovas [email protected] Second Vice President..John Berger USS Estes AGC-12 Weather Unit, Korean War [email protected] Front row -AG1 Baillie, Lcdr Barron, AGC Jones, Back row Secretary & Treasurer…..Skip Cline - AG3s Barret & Banta, AGAN Salas, AG3 Reid, SN striker [email protected] Sanguinetti, AG2 Scherbath & SN striker Barkley. Telephone (410) 590 - 5412 **My only personal news was a phone call several months Corresp Secretary………Don Cruse back from a retired Belgian AF veteran living in Germany. [email protected] We discussed family history & he believes that we may be Telephone (703) 524-9067 related, having seen my Internet write up on the origin of my family name & that of my Mother (Bailey). Via e-mails I found that he is Fra Robert Adelsohn Bels, chvr (knight), & POTCHAP CALENDAR the hereditary title of Baron de Lormier whose roots are in

Flanders. According to Fra Robert Bels, his name, became 22 Feb Washington’s Birthday (observed on 23rd) Baliol when the grabby French took over Flanders. Thence 26 Feb Lone Star Lunch Bunch meets in Centerville VA the Norman invasion of England in 1066 when “relatives” (and every 4th Thursday) (Kincannon) (?) took the names Bell & Bailey in England & Baillie in 13 March Chapter dinner meeting at Rosecroft (Jim Scotland. I gave him a book on the Norman Invasion, Romano) “Falaise Roll” & several MS WORD files on my ancestry. 15 April Inputs to this newsletter are due to Editor He gave me a years dues in his association & the title of McKinzie “Supplicant” (?). If I keep my nose clean I get to be a Pay Federal income taxes “Page” & if I’m an exceptionally straight arrow I get to be a 15 May Armed Forces Day knight. Sorta like the Navy but a different kind of dues to 29 May World War II Memorial dedication on Nat’l Mall pay. I don’t believe that I’ll “ship over”. I was never very 31 May Memorial Day holiday good with a sword & I wouldn’t want to take it down off 7-11 June 30th Annual NWSA Reunion, Atlantic City NJ the wall in the hallway. No dragons in WA, only hosted by Airship Regional Chapter sasquatches & Mariner fans. I shouldn’t make fun of it all. 19 June Chapter picnic & elections (date tentative) (Gould) For other Bels, Bells, Baliols, Baileys & Baillies, out there Fra Robert has a well researched internet home page at: http://www.ordoballiolensis.com/ Within the past few days we have been invaded by Arctic Frank Baillie air producing conditions so frigid that the anti-freeze in this PC had to be replaced. Not only that, but the other day there was a professional football game played in what was advertised as Boston but 9 really appeared to be the North Pole. . . . or perhaps the others. He conveyed news of SOCAL Chap doings and North Slope. planning for NWSA/30/Atlantic City. There was a When we scan back to the beginning of this quarter “Bomber 31” follow-up taping by a N A V Y video crew (October) our big concern at that time was bringing tender based at Anacostia in what used to be called the Navy plants indoors to avoid the frost—although the citizens Photographic Center. Of course the operative word residing out toward Dulles Airport had already had frost. nowadays is “Media.” Bulldog DRUMMOND and Don In general, we were preparing to batten down the hatches. CRUSE were interviewed for background A call to sunny Honolulu revealed that Dick & Frances The entire HUDOCK clan drove to WashDC to eyeball HUSTED had performed their annual seasonal migration to the new “Spy Museum,” an idea Father Paul HUDOCK HNL from San Antonio. President Bush had visited the generated during their family gathering over the USS ARIZONA Memorial and Dick managed to shake his Thanksgiving period. Paul serves as Chaplain at Univ of hand on that occasion—Dick is a part-time docent at the West Virginia among his other duties while stationed in memorial. One piece of information of potential interest Morgantown. to readers is that USAA Towers in San Antonio is now On 04 Dec PotChap “steering group” gathered to sort out unrestricted—no longer limited to military personnel. our year-end situation. Pres Pete W received a good PotChap was involved in events leading to the Nov 20th update on where the chapter stands and where (we think) interment of the “Bomber 31” crew at Arlington. The we’re headed in 2004. One continuing problem that never family of AerM2/c Jack PARLIER came to town and joined goes away is that of nominations for NWSA and chapter families of the other six crewmembers of the PV-1 aircraft offices. Another is lack of active-duty people participation. from VB-139 which crash landed on Kamchatka while on a We expect strong support of NWSA by our L.D.O. mission out of Attu. That event occurred just before the community and senior Aerographer’s Mates—but we are Pacific war ended but it took fifty years for the Russians to not receiving much. There has never been such strong report. You may see the NOVA documentary repeated on emphasis as nowadays on “preserving Personal Time.” In PBS-TV. It is worthwhile seeing that history. dialing around the local circuit early in January, preparatory It was quite natural to segue from leaf raking into pie to writing this chatter column, we learned that CNMOC is baking and turkey roasting as we celebrated Thanksgiving now under something called Fleet Forces Command (along Nov 27th. Ray CHAPPELL had returned from Naples-Rota with lots of other commands and activities). Former trip by that time. We learned that something termed CNMOC, RDML Tom DONALDSON USN-Ret has “Seapower 21” was more than just a fire-drill as, once moved to a different desk on Stennis Space Center and is again, our METOC community fell under the DoD now the Director SSC, part of NASA. We have a new microscope. RDML-selectee named Timothy MCGEE USN who is Jim & Rosalie ROMANO attended another RAF Chicksands expected to become CNMOC whenever the U.S. Senate reunion, this one in Virginia Beach. Rusty FRANCO and gets around to approving the list. It appears that MCGEE is Jim DACEY also attended. The Chix word is spreading to pretty much an unknown within our part of NWSA. He other people who worked “behind the fence.” The does not appear in The Bellinger List so he must be ROMANOs are thoroughly enjoying their NC condo on unknown to a lot of others as well. One more “action golf course near Calabash; but it’s tough maintaining two item” for our Gulf Coast Regional Chapter. residences. Will close out this edition of chapter chatter by flipping Jim & Rosalie have also been known to occasionally gather through our holiday greetings to pass on interesting their golfing friends at beautiful Massanutten VA in the Blue “people news.” Beginning on The Left Coast—obviously Ridge Mountains the California wildfires were the big news. So far as we Bill O’NEIL celebrated his 90th at The Fairfax on Fort know there were no NWSA members burned out, Belvoir with a huge bash that was laid on by his children. although there were some like John & Kayo BEACH who He thoroughly enjoyed the large group of friends and were packed and ready to roll if the fires jumped the family. Then he spent Christmas in Orlando FL with highway. John works seven days/week in his business while daughter Helen and her family. He reports that ORL wx Kayo teaches Japanese Sumie Brush painting and is active in was cold! the Botanical Garden Club of Balboa Park. ** Irving & Bob FREEMAN attended another Naval Training Center Fran LESSIN remain in Palm Springs CA but have a new Bainbridge reunion but was disappointed at the small address at 1001 St George Circle since August 03. ** Dick turnout. One item of business was their donation of a HERMAN visits Pat each day but she remains limited by commemorative wall plaque to Navy Memorial in Alzheimers—he works as a docent in USS HORNET (CV- WashDC—something that our NWSA members earlier 12) Museum at Alameda CA. During Fleet Week in S.F. a turned down as being too expensive. Bob also attended highlight was a show by the Blue Angels flight demo team. the plaque dedication ceremony. Later the Bay Area Tailhook Chapter hosted a Blue Angels After June CRAWFORD noted his photo in her Tampa FL reception aboard HORNET on the hangar deck. Dick newspaper, we solicited NWSA membership from AGC enjoyed the annual Tailhook Assn reunion in Reno NV. ** Edmund D. CLARK USN-Ret (Class 28 Primary Aerog In Walla Walla WA Marilyn CORN writes that Luther now School). Ed & Florine were celebrating their 60th wedding resides in a nursing home where he receives necessary care anniversary—but peacefully unaware of the existence of for Alzheimers. NWSA. Jack PARLIER was also a member of Class 28. From San Antonio we hear that Ray & Ninette Deacon HOLDEN came to town and visited relatives who TENNISON are gradually acclimating to the new area and live on the other side of the river in MD—sister Mary and are happy to have Annette & family nearby. Daughter 10 Terry remains in Dubai and Raymond in Tacoma WA with PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR their families. Once a year they enjoy the long trip to 8-10 March ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop 2004, St Dubai. ** Mike & Jeannine FASTOW remain in Wimberley Petersburg FL (whoi.edu/buoy) TX where they modified their home to better 31 Mar-01 Apr USNI Annual Mtg & Seminar,USNA accommodate son Michael. ** Lois TARNOWSKI was in Annapolis (navalinstitute.org) the process of relocating to a retirement apartment in 3-6 May Offshore Tech Conference, Reliant Amherst OH. Not much fun sorting through family Center, Houston (otcnet.org) memorabilia that her condo could better accommodate. 6-7 May Gulf Coast Military Expo, New Orleans Biggest thrill of 2003 was trip to Italy with daughter Helen. (gcmexpo.org) News from Florida—RV people Dave & LaVerne 19-22 Sept Escort Carrier Sailors and Airmen Assn REUSCHER spent a lot of time in Hendersonville NC annual reunion in Braintree MA avoiding the Melbourne FL heat & humidity, also returning (http://escortcarriers.com) to Myrtle Beach SC for end-of-season festivities. Hurricane 7-12 Sept Fleet Reserve Assn 72nd Nat’l ISABEL caused them to adjust the calendar just a bit. ** Convention, Irving TX (FRA.com) Still in Florida but not affected by ISABEL are Vince & 28-30 Sept Dynamic Positioning Conf & MTS Arlene BREWER. Their biggest news was Vince’s quad Symposium, HOU ([email protected]) bypass surgery in September. He needed it very badly and 12-16 Oct Military Officers Assn of America 2004 is now a member of the “Zipper Club,” sporting a Annual Reunion & Convention, in Nashville TN pacemaker. ** Sad news from Irma KING telling us that Jim (moaa.org) lost his long battle with kidney failure. ** Back to SAIL BOSTON Hendersonville where (good friends of Kings) Rollin & Mary SAIL BOSTON, the visit by tall ships that draws millions of BLOOMFIELD are lovin’ that Carolina country. Son Rick & spectators has been scuttled for 2004. The event that was Laurie live in not-too-far Alabammer—he still flies for planned for July 10-15 would conflict with the Democratic Delta. National Convention set for July 26-29. SAIL BOSTON From Sun City Hilton Head SC we learn that Ken & Joyce will again be scheduled for a later year. SMITH still feel that their relocation from Maryland was a PHOTOCOPYING MILITARY I.D. good idea—particularly the benign winter wx. The addition Photocopying a military I.D. is prohibited by law, right? So of a screened porch enables them to observe the many why is it that when you go to your local hospital or civilian golfers in action. ** Ralph & Clair CARRIGAN were in doctor the medic asks to make a copy? In this case you can Arlington from their NJ home base to participate in the hand over your I.D. without fear since Paragraph 1.6.7 of “Bomber 31” ceremonies, followed by a group lunch on DoD Instruction 1000.13 states, “Photocopying [military ID Fort Myer with the PARLIER family from Chicago and mid- cards] to facilitate medical care processing, check cashing, west. Bad news from U.S. Naval Institute who declines the or administering other military-related benefits to eligible opportunity to publish Paul E. CARRIGAN’s book, “The beneficiaries are examples of authorized photocopying.” Flying, Fighting Weathermen of PATWING FOUR.” Now NEW UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE we need fresh ideas before moving on to the next BG John Kelly, USAF-Ret, has been appointed deputy under publisher. secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere. As Down on The Bay (Chesapeake, that is) Bob & Ann SIMS assistant administrator of the National Oceanic and were still digging out from ISABEL’s effects—extremely Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service high storm tide permitted floating logs to bash their house. over the past five years, Kelly is credited by his peers with This led to invasion of two feet of salt water and sand. ** spearheading technological and managerial changes that Fay & Donna CROSSLEY in Wakefield VA battened down have worked to make the NWS what they call one of the for ISABEL but of course Fay had to work during the most respected agencies in the federal government. He has storm. ** Dan & Ethel STORY lost some trees to the forty years of experience in all facets of the weather field. storm in Yorktown VA. ** Barbara GRIMES lives on the USS MAKIN ISLAND (LHD- ) Patuxent River waterfront so she lost a pier and part of a The N A V Y has selected the name MAKIN ISLAND for seawall ** Even Vince & Robbie ROPER felt the storm’s its next amphibious assault ship of the WASP (LHD-1) impact with a shortened family vacation on NC’s outer class. The name honors the raid carried out by Marine banks. They remain key persons in Maryland Crime Corps Companies A and B of Second Raider Battalion on Victims’ Resource Center. the Japanese-held Makin Island in the Gilbert chain, August Peggy DEHN lives just east of Fort Meade MD. Her 17 and 18, 1942, The MAKIN ISLAND will be constructed autumn was brightened by a visit from Don & Marcie at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula, MS and BRYNER—Pittsburgh residents with whom Peg & Bill were is expected to be christened in 2006 associated during ice forecasting. Once in a while the The name was previously used on a Kaiser-built CVE of the BRYNERs return to Alaska to enjoy. ** Walt COTTRELL CASABLANCA class during WW2. spent some time on the Eastern Shore (DELMARVA) CEMETERY MEMORIALS INVENTORY following Carolyn’s sudden death in May. He has now The VA is looking for help in researching and started courting Alice KELLEY and they plan to be married photographing the monuments in its 120 national in February. Perhaps you will meet Alice in Atlantic City. cemeteries and 33 soldiers’ lots. The VA provides We wish Walt and Alice all the best. instructions, questionnaires and film. Volunteers take measurements and photos, record inscriptions, make notes on the monument’s condition, and conduct historical 11 research. For information or to volunteer call (202) 565- In February, the Chapter is planning a Valentines Day 5426 or try [email protected]. Brunch. This is a yearly event, that is normally held at the THE SHORT SNORTER MCRD Club. Renovation plans have precluded using their Flight crews assigned to Trans-Pacific operations in WW2 club, so this years location will be the 94th AERO maintained a tradition called “The Short Snorter.” It SQUADRON Restaurant on Balboa Avenue, where it signified that the bearer had completed a Trans-Pac flight overlooks Mont.gomery Field airport. A date of 15 and consisted of a piece of currency, frequently with February has been set. Deacon Holden is the organizer for numerous autographs inscribed from other crew (or this event, so if any of you NWSA Members plan to be in passenger) members. Over a period of time the pieces of San Diego on that date, and are interested in coming, currency were taped together, end to end, and stuffed into please contact Deacon. the crewmember’s wallet. Apparently the most valuable Chuck White wrapped up 2003 with a trip to the hospital part of the Short Snorter became the autographs and dates for prostrate surgery. He went in the week following our inscribed. Have you heard of this tradition? PARADE OF LIGHTS Dinner, which he and Janice

attended. The surgery went ok and was successful, and the biopsy was negative. He is back on his feet, and is doing well except for a bit of soreness. I have no additional information on this item. For several months, I have included CDR Jim SHOEMAKER on my mailing list. He was living in La Jolla. When I mailed the December Newsletter in November, it was returned with the words “return to sender addressee is deceased. Also on the envelope was of change of address sticker with a PRESIDENT: CARL DRAKE Boulder, CO address, which was then scratched out, with 1st VICE PRESIDENT: BILL BRIDGE an arrow to the statement about being deceased. I pass this 2nd VICE PRESIDENT: Vacant along for any who may have served with CDR SECRETARY/TREASURER: MORRY SUMMEY SHOEMAKER. DATELINE SAN DIEGO FEBRUARY 2004 MEMBER ACTIVITIES

In November, 2003, Deacon Holden visited his sister, Mary Holiday festivities began for the SOCAL Chapter with our and family in Riverdale, MD. While there he enjoyed a bit traditional PARADE OF LIGHTS dinner at TOM HAM’s of sightseeing and a wonderful Thanksgiving Celebration at LIGHTHOUSE Restaurant on Shelter Island on Sunday, 7 Mary’s home. Mary’s son, Bill Dinges, grandson Eric Dinges December. Once more, we were treated to a most and their wives shared in this special event. Friday after enjoyable outing, and an excellent view of the boats with Thanksgiving made a day trip to York, PA for lunch and their spectacular lighting displays. The food was very good, exchange of Holden Family Genealogy data with some as is the norm, even though I understand they have a new cousins. Enjoyed a delightful visit with Don and Marge chef this year. Our turnout for the event far surpassed Cruse, who popped over to Mary's house Sunday eve, what we had for last year. A total of 29 attendees, November 30th, Deacon says; “It was a very smooth and comprised of both members and guests. We were fun filled visit with family and great friends”. He had very particularly glad to welcome CAPT Ray TOLL & wife good non-stop, round trip flights on Southwest Airlines Kathy. He is the Commanding Officer of between San Diego and BWI Airport in Baltimore. NAVPACMETOCCEN San Diego at North Island. Also, Morry Summey reports a BIG Christmas and New Years CAPT Bob CLARK & wife Shelia joined the group. He is Day at the Summey house. For the first time in a number of presently stationed at SPAWARS here in San Diego. You years, he was able to get his entire family together at the may remember CAPT Clark from the San Diego 1995 same time for Christmas. On the weekend before Reunion. He served as our Banquet Speaker for the event, Christmas, Daughter Marilyn and husband along with her and was very supportive of the Reunion and NWSA. two younger children came in from Virginia. Their two Additional attendees included John & Fujii Rodriguez older children flew in from Utah, where they are in college. (organizers of the event), Chuck & Janice White with guest Then on Tuesday and Wednesday, his older daughter Chizuko Saeki, Mike & Ruth Ann Fisher, Jay & Jorie Martha, and family came in from Vallejo, CA. So there were Berkowitz, Morry Summey, Carl Drake, Sadie FInney, Paul a total of 12, counting Morry. Two daughters, two son in & Carole Grisham, Al Hassen & Arlene Seek, Deacon laws, six grandchildren, and one great-grand-daughter. Holden with daughter Melinda, Mac & Mary McCartney, Jim Everyone was gone by the weekend following the New Vollmer, Dave & Betty Darling, and Bernie & Dolores Years Celebration. Cohenour. MORRY SUMMEY SECRETARY/TREASURER The Chapter held its January business meeting on Saturday Jersey Shore in 2004 the 3rd, at the Admiral Baker Navy Golf Course Holiday Inn Boardwalk Restaurant. Meeting attendees were Robbie & Mary As you know, all room reservations must be made by mail. Roberson, Deacon Holden, John Rodriguez, Morry The Holiday Inn reservation department does not Summey, Al Hassen & Arlene Seek, Carl Drake, Fred automatically send back a confirmation notice. Please call 1- Farnsworth, Mac & Mary McCartney, Sadie Finney, Chuck: 800-548-3030 to confirm your reservation. As an & Janice White, and Bernie & Dolores Cohenour. addendum to confirmations, the Airship Chapter will 12 confirm your reunion registration by returning a postcard Sites: 151 12 minutes to AC to you. 132 Bevis Mill Rd All parking at the Inn is inside. There is no outdoor parking Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234 lot. Overhead clearance in the garage is 6 feet 8 inches. All Phone 1-800-272-1969 attendees to the reunion are welcomed to park in the garage, whether or not you are a guest of the Inn. If you Yogi Bear’s Jelistone Park desire, free valet parking is available. Sites: 163 Good Sam Philly Phun 1079 12th Ave The tour to the USS New Jersey and Philadelphia on Mays Landing, NJ 08330 Monday, 7 June, 2004 will be an opportunity to visit the PH: 1-800-272-1969 United States’ largest and most decorated battleship. Launched in 1942, she was decommissioned in 1991 and Winding River Campground was berthed in Bremerton, Washington until being moved 6752 Weymouth Rd to it’s final retirement berth on the Delaware River at Dept 00A Camden, New Jersey. The New Jersey drew about 175,000 Mays Landing, NJ 08330 tourists in 2002 with about 15,000 of that number being PH: 1-609-625-3191 students on field trips. When the tour bus arrives at the Independence National Reunion Booklets Historical Park (INHP) in Philadelphia shortly after noon, The Airship Chapter will publish a reunion booklet. you will be in one of the most historic sites connected to Advertisements are welcomed and appreciated. Please our national heritage. The National Constitution Center submit camera-ready color, or black and white, copy to our was described in the November 2003 edition of The treasurer, Gene Merrill and include the appropriate fee Aerograph. The other three buildings that make up the core (made payable to: NWSA Airship Chapter) as follows: full of INHP deserve being mentioned. page - $80; half page - $40; 1/4 page - $25. Please have The Independence Visitor Center is located one block advertisements submitted by 1 May, 2004. We thank you south of the National Constitution Center. This building is for your support. Due to a snowbird schedule, no checks essentially a planning and information center useful to the will be cashed between 13 January, 2004 through 1 March, visitor that will be in the area for an extended stay. Tickets 2004. for Independence Hall are obtained here. Tickets are free. Reminder Tickets may not be available for the current day due to Scholarship donations. NWSA is committed to heavy demand. Tickets are required in order to maintain an awarding a minimum of $10,000 from the orderly flow of visitors to Independence Hall which has scholarship fund this year. Please consider making a limited space. tax deductible contribution to the fund soon. Liberty Bell Center is located on the next block south of the Independence Visitor Center. On 9 October, 2003, the (Editors note: This will be the last issue in which the Liberty Bell made a 963 foot journey to its new home forms for this years reunion will be included. See pages overlooking Independence Hall. Coincidentally, the bell was 19. 21. Get your reservations in now!) moved on the same day that the new $20 bill was HISTORIAN’S COMMENTS introduced to the nation. The $12.9 million Liberty Bell By Don Cruse Center offers a modern interpretation of what the icon Beginning with this issue of The Aerograph you will be means to Americans. treated to a serialized narrative which relates the personal Some significant past events associated with the bell include experiences of a novice aerologist, Richard E. DEUTSCH. being tolled at George Washington’s funeral, toured the His World War II experiences could be typical. You may country by train on several whistle stop tours after the judge for yourself. Civil War and served as a symbol for abolitionists, What is clear from this memoir, which we can thank Mo suffragists. Civil Rights advocates, Native Americans, GIBBS for cajoling from the writer, his neighbor on immigrants and war protestors. Nantucket, is that our nation experienced severe, multi- Visitors enter into a long hallway lined with a wavy layered trauma when the war began. Individuals such as stonewall on one side and a glass wall on the other side, DEUTSCH were caught up in the confusion. Best of all, which looks out onto The Mall and Independence Hall. you will find his reminiscences entertaining. There are indoor video presentations and park rangers Richard DEUTSCH was born 19 May, 1917 and died on offer interpretative talks. The visit culminates in a small Nantucket on 13 June, 2002. room where visitors are encouraged to view the bell in HIGHS AND LOWS silence. Reminiscenses of a Navy Weather Forecaster During For more information on the INHP, visit the web site: World War II www.nps.gov/inde. By Richard E. Deutsch RV Information FOREWORD The RV information in the November 2003 issue of The This is the story of some of my experiences in the NAVY Aerograph was incomplete for three sites. Here is the rest during World War II. I served as a meteorologist, which of the story. the NAVY called aerologist, and struggled with what was then, and still is, a very inexact science. Actually, we did Sleepy Hollow Family Campground not do such a bad job for those days, given that we did not 13 have the sophisticated equipment now available to today’s On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, I was sitting in our forecasters. Furthermore, all ships at sea had to maintain living room with a friend listening on the radio to the radio silence which meant that we had no ocean weather championship pro football game from Yankee Stadium. We reports to use in forecasting ocean weather, our primary noticed many announcements in the background ordering job. one military officer after another to report immediately to Believe it or not, weather forecasting is a very stressful job. his duty station. My brother, already on active NAVY duty, It is one of the very few professions which requires, by was one of those paged although I did not hear it. Then specific deadline, a definite statement of conditions at a the attack on Pearl Harbor was reported. The story given time in the future. There can be no stalling. You usurped much of the game broadcast, which outraged my cannot wait awhile to see what happens. Nor can there be friend and me. We cursed the Japanese attackers and were any equivocation. For example, the NAVY does not accept comfortable in the conviction that all of them would be a forecast of possible showers, or even showers likely. So dispatched by nightfall, when everything would return to the awful deadline comes when you have to make a definite normal statement and live or die by it. The course in meteorology proceeded, and in a very short THE LOTTERY period of time the class came within one credit of My experience as a meteorologist in the United States completing the work for a master’s degree. Meanwhile, my Navy during World War II has very little to do with friendly draft board gave me reasonable time to get weather forecasting. I got into this field through a peculiar commissioned. There were a few naval officers in the class, quirk of circumstances that included a very understanding and one of them approached me toward the end of the draft board. These recollections are strictly from my course with the suggestion of my going into the NAVY memory, which was notoriously bad even in those days. I rather than the Army Air Corps. He explained that the mention but one name to protect both the innocent and NAVY was really short of forecasters but had no training me. Primarily because of laziness, I have not researched program such as the one we were completing. He said he any of the following or even checked facts. had been asked to recruit civilians like me. I jumped at the I graduated from college in 1939 and went on to graduate chance to enter the NAVY as soon as I had completed the school at Harvard, where I got my master’s degree in 1941. course. The war situation was extremely tense, and there was little ENSIGN, USNR thought of moving on to a career, what with the military I nervously went to First District Headquarters and, after looking at all of us. My position was even more precarious explaining my situation, was ushered into the office of a in view of the lottery. The country had adopted the draft, Lieutenant Commander for whom I again went through my which began in 1940 with a special event at the capitol. All story. He was not aware of any shortage of weather the draft numbers were put into a large container and forecasters and, in fact, questioned why the NAVY needed drawn out by government dignitaries. President Roosevelt any meteorologists. I was not much better informed than made the first draw and was followed by members of the he was but did my best to answer his question. He seemed cabinet. I have never come close, before or since, to quite interested and said he would look into the matter. winning any kind of drawing, but Bingo! (to mix games of Meanwhile, I filed an application with him and he told me chance) the secretary of the treasury pulled my number. that I would hear from him in two weeks. Ironically, I happened to know him and had gone to school Three weeks later I returned to the recruiting officer to with both his sons. find out the status of my application. He had no THE GRIND recollection of the matter and, even worse, no record of My draft board considered that my married status and my my ever having applied. He finally looked through his desk being a student provided suitable grounds to defer my and, in a bottom drawer, found a large stack of files that he entry into the Army until completion of my studies in June had totally forgotten about. In the pile was my file. It had of 1941. True to its word, the draft board sent me been there since I left the office three weeks earlier. I was greetings the following spring. I realized that I had been promised prompt action this time. On the basis of his listening to spot radio commercials regularly in which the track record my wife and I went to Florida for a vacation. Army Air Corps, experiencing a shortage of While there I got a call from home that the mail had meteorologists, was offering a course in meteorology to brought a letter from the NAVY. It was read to me and applicants with a degree in math who minored in physics. contained instructions to report for a physical exam, which Those who successfully applied would be taken into the I passed. service as aviation cadets and would be commissioned Some time later I was notified that my commission and upon completion of the course. I qualified with respect to orders were awaiting me at district headquarters. I went both my math degree and my minor and went to the there to get sworn in and find out where I would be recruiting office. I learned that cadets were not allowed to heading. One other young man was in the waiting room be married and that I was therefore ineligible for the for the same purpose. He told me that he was the program. However, I was told that if I took the course as a indispensable right hand of the commandant of the civilian and completed it that I would be commissioned Charlestown Navy Yard, who had gotten him deferred with seniority dating back to the beginning of the studies. I from the draft as long as possible. Now he was to be was fortunate to have the resources to do as the recruiting commissioned so that he could remain at Charlestown. officer suggested. So in July 1941 I undertook the most The swearing in process was for him nothing but a intensive course of studies that I had ever experienced. formality. A very nice young lady came in and said, “Gentlemen, I have your orders. If you want, I’ll show 14 them to you now and if you don’t like them you do not were Ralph & Claire Carrigan, distributors of CAerM Paul have to take the oath.” I declined her offer to see my E. "Blackie" Carrigan's book, "The Flying, Fighting orders before the oath on the grounds that my choice Weathermen of Patrol Wing Four." That book describes between the unread orders and the draft board was the departure from Attu of Bomber 31 indicating that actually no choice at all. At my suggestion, the other fellow AerM1/c Carrigan had flight briefed AerM2/c Parlier who made the same choice because he had said he already knew was making his first flight. what was in his orders. So, we both took the oath and PotChap will display photos of the ceremonies during were handed our orders. I was to report without delay to NWSA/30 Atlantic City in June. a Naval Air Station on the East Coast to serve as Don Cruse, NWSA Historian aerological officer (a term I had never heard before). My new friend, who immediately became my former friend, discovered he was not going to Charlestown Navy Yard but was to proceed without delay to the Naval Operating Base, Reykjevik, Iceland. If looks could kill I would have had the shortest NAVY career in history. (to be continued) Travel via the Moon General Interest from the Historian A very happy New Year to all and many thanx for the This is a general interest item for all NWSA members. The notes from so many readers about the column.. .they are crew of the PV-1 a/c that crash landed on Kamchatka in all sincerely appreciated! A side note to our editor.. .great April 1944 was interred at Arlington in a mass burial work on your first edition. Back 40 yrs ago when we were November 20th. Bomber 31 has been publicized on in B school it was obvious that you’d make an outstanding NOVA (PBS TV) and in the press. Most recently DoD editor for the NWSA Aerograph -you were probably Public Affairs promulgated the story and we expect NAVY thinking that instead of listening to Miss Thomas! TIMES will publish an item on the burial ceremony. In this centennial year of the Wright Bros miracle at Kill PotChap made certain that NAVY CHINFO was aware. Devil NC, we have progressed thru two World War’s and They kicked it upstairs to DoD people. The press covered unbelievable changes in aircraft capabilities along with the interment ceremony. passenger aircraft changes from 1 person to over 500 per The large number of family members first convened at the plane. Speeds of 31 mph to Mach 2 (1500+) have made olde chapel on Fort Myer and then followed the caisson travel from the US to London of 12 hrs down to 3-1/2 carrying the coffin down the hillside to the gravesite. (Concorde’s now retired and we’re a step back at 6 hrs There were few artifacts to be buried after many years per crossing). This year’s SrSoftBall games in Ireland & lying on the side of the volcano on Kamchatka. The six- Scotland during July or winning the annual Japanese man PV-1 crew of VB-139 had been augmented by AerM2/c tournament at Mt Fuji each November were dreams not Jack J. Parlier USNR as wx observer. The NAVY band and even thought of just a decade ago.. .these flights free us to ceremonial guard, the firing squad, and the bugler made the experience more. We can cross 5 time zones in just a overall funeral and interment impressive. I'm sure the matter of hours and then look forward to exotic memories family members will always remember the beautiful, sunny of travel and exploration of parts of the world we could day and the F-14 flyover. The large headstone will reflect only read about before. the mass burial by showing all crew names. This is the year...start planning now! We’re gonna travel PotChap hosted the Parlier family at lunch in the and enjoy where we’ve never been before! community club on Fort Myer after the graveside We know that airline costs change almost hourly from ceremony and there was a good opportunity to chat. We airline to airline, certainly are different on weekends from were joined by Ralph Wetterhahn who was part of the midweek, more for most non-stops, less for many “red- crash site survey party and who is writing a book on the eyes” in the middle of the night, and can double in price Aleutians. Ralph invited a friend from the DoD P.O.W. from June to Sept, and will be a lot more costly to smaller investigations branch to join us. Driving down from NJ destinations that don’t have competitive airlines serving them.. .and finally, independent or group travel??? This final Many B&B’s will not accept credit cards however. Its choice is usually the most difficult to decide and as we’ve exciting (almost as much as the actual travel) to do the written before, both have their pluses and both have their planning of where, when, how and what you will be doing negatives! Independent travel requires “study” on your part when you finally get on the plane and depart!). Group (via desires, books i.e. Frommer’s, Bimbaums, et al from travel can be selective too. Write to one or two and ask your local book store in the “travel” section) to see what for their itineraries but be warned.. .you will receive mail you want to see. Group travel often has large discounts in from them for the rest of your life! hotel stays (although you may not necessarily be pleased Buy one travel magazine at the local new stand and look at with their choices) but may also include tourist sights that the advertisements. They all have 800 numbers and/or don’t interest you.. ..inquiring to others who have used addresses which will give you many options to choose your group will let you know their satisfaction or from. These are all decisions you and your travel-mate will annoyance. Unreserved B&B’s is always exciting and if you enjoy deciding. don’t like the hotel/room/home, you can always say How do we pay? More important to some is How much do “goodbye” before paying - yes, that’s the way they do it in we pay? Actually, you’ve came this far in life without going other countries.. .you look at the room first, accept it or into bankruptcy....is 10 days or more going to put you in ask for better (often at the same price), and then, pay. the “poor-house” - NOT! Off-peak travel for 2 to Europe 15 as independents can be done for less than $2000 total, or bank in the country you’re visiting, it usually costs about you can spend twice that. Museums, concerts, local tours, a $I+ per $100 cashed; unless you’re cashing American lot of walking can be most rewarding and film is Express checks at an American Express office where there inexpensive to retain those memories (keep a daily log of is NO charge. A brand new cash card is being introduced at where, what, etc including pictures taken). Over the years, many banks that can be used at an ATM machine overseas. this column has recommended that you carry $1000 worth You buy the card at your local bank for a fixed maximum. of traveler’s checks (that DO NOT COST YOU to buy) You select the amount....any amount....$500, 1000, 2250, but spend them last or use only as “backup”. ..sure, you can whatever. You pay the bank (or American Express) a deposit them in the bank when you return if you didn ‘t surcharge of $ 10-15 for this new “money-card”. AAA need them! But banks are slowly changing their operations Cash Passport is free to AAA members and can be bought and now you will have to check with each bank! card to see by non-members, usually requiring a minimum purchase of what the charge is when you get back home for using their $300. These cards are different from Debit cards used at credit card in the ATM. Except for Japan where ONLY ATM’s since they limit the amount that can be lost or CREDIT CARDS ISSUED IN JAPAN can be used in the stolen whereas the debit card can draw your total balance many ATM’s (there are only 4-5 banks in all of Tokyo that in your bank account. A PIN number is required with these will accept US-issued credit cards), you can get advance bank cards, so a lost card is not necessarily money lost money from nearly all credit cards you carry. There is since its assumed you didn’t write you PIN number on the often a daily limit but that is usually $300 US-value, and you card. You must now decide. Cash, and hope for a “good get money in the local currency. The charge can be from rate” at the bank/money changers. (have your partner carry $1.50 per hundred to $5 each time you get an advance. 1/2..), travel checks, VISAIMC, or the new Cash-cards. Also, there are the traveler checks. AAA usually has NO Start planning now and get ready-we’re traveling charge for American Express checks that you buy from this year! them. However, when you want to cash those checks at a

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In this issue you will find an envelope to be used for scholarship donations. Please give serious consideration to this in order that we meet our goal of $10,000.00 in scholarship awards this year without dipping to the principal. We are still not getting any new Life Members. Also, scholarship donations are very low. Note that in the list below that there is only one donation that was not in memory of Bud Scott. That one was from an individual who contributes $75.00 each month. This is your association and we need your support. THE MEMBERSHIP COUNT AS OF THIS DATE IS 683 PLUS 7 SPOUSE MEMBERS MAKING THE TOTAL NUMBER MEMBERS 679. OF THAT NUMBER, THERE ARE 368 LIFE MEMBERS PLUS 2 SPOUSE LIFE MEMBERS.

THE CUTOFF DATE FOR THE LISTINGS IN THIS ISSUE WAS 15 JAN 04

SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS WERE RECEIVED FROM (** INDICATES DONATION IN MEMORY OF AGCM BUD SCOTT, USN RET) AGC GEORGE L. GLEASON, JR, USN RET **CAPT WILLIAM KING, USN RET **CWO4 ROGER ATCHISON, USN RET **MR DONALD PARKER, CIV **LCDR RICHARD BOUCHARD, USN RET **VIRGINIA BEACH SCHOOLS **AGC FAY CROSSLEY, USN RET **MR RENARD KAMPSTRA, CIV **AGCS DAVID DRIGGERS, USN RET

OUR NEWEST LIFE MEMBERS NONE GIFT MEMBERSHIPS WERE RECEIVED FROM AGC FAY CROSSLEY, USN RET CDR DON CRUSE, USN RET AGCS LARRY L. ROWELL, USN RET

OUR NEWEST MEMBERS (NEW OR DUES EXPIRED MORE THAN ONE YEAR AGO) (SEE ADDRESS UPDATE LIST FOR ADDRESSES) xIT1 JULIANA BRANGERS, USN REL AGCS(AW) JEROME McNULTY, USN RET MRS ELIZABETH ANN HANNA, CIV XAG1 ORVIL L. ROBINSON, USN REL AG1 CARLTON KESSLER, USN REL COMPUTER FUND DONATIONS CDR DON CRUSE, USN RET CDR ELMER ERDEI, USN RET give this serious consideration so that we can meet A NOTE ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND the goal of $10,000.00 in donations this year as approved by the General Membership in Biloxi last A few years ago, Mo Gibbs did a mailing to the year. membership that brought attention to the Scholarship Fund. The letter included a self addressed envelope Jim Stone, to be used for your donation. I have discussed this Sec/Treas with our President, CAPT Frank Schatzle and our Scholarship Chair, AG1 Denny Hemphill and it was decided to include that envelope in this issue. Please

17 "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." -U.S. Air Force Manual

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." -Infantry Journal "Tracers work both ways." -U.S. Army Ordnance

"Five-second fuses only last three seconds." -Infantry Journal

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." -Col. David Hackworth

"If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking into an ambush."

-Infantry Journal

"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection." -Joe Gay

Coaster from NAS Norfolk, submitted by Bill Bowers. "Any ship can be a minesweeper ... once." -Anon Thought it might bring back a few memories from at least a few NWSA Members. "Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do."- Unknown Army Recruit Man Overboard - One time during the underway watch the OOD decided to test a Chief Petty Officer's "Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around seamanship. "Chief, what would you do if the forward you." -Your Buddies watch fell off the side of the ship?" "Easy, sir, I'd call 'Man Overboard' and follow the Man Overboard procedures." (And lastly) "If you see a bomb technician running, "What would you do if an officer fell overboard?" "Hmmm," try to keep up with him."-U.S.A. Ammo Troop The Chief said, "Which one, sir?" On Staying Young ACTUAL MILITARY WARNINGS Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes (Submitted by Skip Cline) "Aim towards the Enemy." -Instruction printed on US age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry Rocket Launcher about them. That is why you pay him/her. On Growing Older "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our You know you are getting old when every thing either dries up or leaks. friend." -U.S. Army

"Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." -U.S.A.F.Ammo Troop

"If the enemy is in range, so are you." -Infantry Journal

"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."

-Army's magazine of preventive maintenance.

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22 distinguish itself from the Navy — a change primarily aimed at officer attire, but that affected enlisted members, too — when it adopted for both officers and enlisted men a gray uniform that included a blue jacket with five buttons, worn over a white frock. This attire proved unpopular and was discarded within a couple of years; since then, enlisted Coasties have continued to wear clothing very similar in style to that of sailors.

Damn the Torpedoes! Navy enlisted men in the early 20th century wore two types of covers with their casual uniform. One was the familiar Dixie cups and bell-bottoms: a history of the enlisted white Dixie cup, and the other a black “flat hat,” also known uniform after the 1940s as the “Donald Duck hat.” That hat displayed a sailor’s ship or unit on a ribbon just above the forehead, By Robert F. Dorr replaced by the words “U. S. Navy” in the World War II Special to NavyTimes period. 1 December 2003 Issue A sailor who went through boot camp in 1963 remembers The uniform worn by Navy enlisted members has changed being in the last cohort to be issued the “flat hat.” “We never often over the years, but it almost always has been wore it,” said retired Chief Radioman Richard Tucker, 59, of distinctive — giving the American sailor a different look Mandeville, La. “It was discontinued the same month we from members of other service branches. The first uniform received it.” instruction for the Navy was issued in August 1791, but covered officers only. A seaman typically wore trousers, The Dixie cup shirt, vest, jacket and a low, black-crowned hat, but until at The familiar white “sailor hat” appeared in the 1880s and least the eve of the Civil War, uniformity in the enlisted changed size and shape several times over the years. While ranks was a matter of practice rather than regulation. often called the Dixie cup, it preceded the design of the paper drinking cup by several decades. The combination of bell- According to a Web site devoted to fashion issues, the Navy bottoms and Dixie cup hat graced the world of high fashion, can claim credit for introducing flared trousers, with U.S. first with European royalty in the 19th century, and later in sailors wearing bell-bottoms by the War of 1812. “These the American civilian world in the 1940s. trousers were easier to remove if a man went overboard, and could be turned up over the thigh in order for a man to Regulations in 1901 authorized the first use of denim jumpers scrub the decks on board ship,” the “Big Flares” site states. and trousers, and in 1913, regulations permitted the dungaree outfit to be used by both officers and enlisted, along with the For almost two centuries, sailors wore flared trousers. The hat of the day. blue trousers worn in winter usually had 13 buttons, while the whites worn in summer did not. Experts say there is no Throughout the Navy’s history, sailors wore a flap on the special reason for the number and no link to the original 13 back of the uniform, together with a neckerchief. The flap and U.S. colonies. kerchief both initially were useful for protection because 18th century sailors tarred their hair and wore pigtails; the In recent years, the bell- bottom look for dungarees more kerchief also enabled a seaman to mop sweat from his face properly was called a “stovepipe,” rather than a “flare,” and brow. because the outward tapering of the trouser leg began just below the knee and was very gradual. The Navy phased out The neckerchief typically was made of silk and was black to bell-bottoms in dungarees in 1998. conceal dirt. It also could be placed over the ears to protect from the blast of cannon. Official sources differ as to whether Other items have changed over the years. A replica of 1812 the color black was drawn from Britain’s Royal Navy as a sailors’ attire worn today by sailors aboard the USS symbol of mourning the death of British Adm. Horatio Constitution, the 200-year-old wooden sailing ship in Boston Nelson — but this notion appears to be a myth. Today’s Harbor, includes a wide-brimmed hat and a short jacket with kerchiefs are made of nylon. Except as a matter of uniformity, a double row of gold buttons, reflecting the Navy’s long there appears to be no significance to their square knot. tradition of using blue and gold. When enlisted women appeared in the Navy during World The Revenue Service, predecessor of today’s Coast Guard, War I, they were issued a uniform with a single-breasted coat used attire similar to the Navy’s and issued its first enlisted that was white in summer and blue in winter, as well as a uniform regulation in 1834. That year, the service moved to straight-brimmed sailor hat, black shoes and stockings. Over 23 the years, women’s uniforms have evolved to provide combat tours in Vietnam and sent warplanes over Iraq in greater comfort and practicality. 1991 during the Persian Gulf War. Decommissioned in Coronado in 1992. In 1942, the Navy authorized the wearing of a khaki uniform FIRSTS: Jet takeoff from a carrier; missile launch; a captured by chief petty officers. The attire was similar to that worn by German V—2 rocket from its deck in 1947. aviation and submarine officers. SOURCES: San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum; Assoc- iated Press. Today’s old salts remember the early 1970s when Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, chief of naval operations, introduced a change that gave petty officers a uniform similar to that Aerologist Defined (Circa 1959) worn by chiefs — the infamous “salt and pepper” uniform. (Submitted by Ray Malinowski) Although applauded when the change was made, the move An Aerologist is a person who passes as an exacting expert quickly turned unpopular. “The chiefs were all up in arms on the basis of being able to turn out with prolific fortitude, about it,” said Tucker. “There were also other problems, an infinite series of incomprehensible reports, calculated with including the need for extra storage space aboard ship.” micrometric precision from vague assumptions, based on Many sailors complained the uniform made them look like debatable figures taken from inconclusive experiments, bus drivers. The enlisted force returned to the traditional carried out with instruments of problematical accuracy, by Crackerjack look in 1978. persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality, for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a JOURNEY’S END FOR THE MIDWAY - NEW hopelessly chimerical group of esoteric fanatics referred all to DUTY: MUSEUM frequently as practical naval aviators.

Information provided in the following paragraphs is from the A lot of money is tainted - 'taint yours and 'taint mine. January 6, 2004 San Diego Union—Tribune, Excerpts from that article are included, along with a table of information about the protect, SSN REMOVAL FROM GOVERNMENT CHECKS: If “The 968—foot—long flattop, which was mothballed in you get Social Security, Supplemental Security Income or any 1992, just completed a six—day journey from Oakland, other paper checks printed by the U.S. Department of where it was spruced up for its new role. Treasury, you will find something different about them this The Midway was commissioned in 1945 and saw action January. To protect your privacy, the Treasury Department during the Vietnam War and during the Persian Gulf War. will remove Social Security numbers from all federal Alan like, founder of the nonprofit San Diego Aircraft government checks starting January 1, 2004. Of course, you Carrier Museum, spent nearly a dozen years working to also can protect your privacy and guard against theft if you get~the~’ MI,dway for San Diego. simply sign up for direct deposit. Direct deposit is the safest The Midway will be tied up at North Island Naval Air Station and most reliable way to receive payment. [Source: DEC 03 until Saturday, 10 January 2004, while cranes lift refurbished Social Security ENEWS) carrier fighter jets aboard to be placed on exhibit. On that date, the ship is scheduled to take its final voyage across the 108TH CONGRESS SCHEDULE: bay to Navy Pier, where it will take upa its new duty station. Below is the congressional schedule for upcoming session of Riley Mixson, a retired rear admiral, will serve as executive the 108th congress. Mark the recess dates on your calendar director of the museum. He was skipper of the Midway from and take advantage of these opportunities to visit and discuss the issue important to you with your members of Congress 1985 to 1987, when it was home— ported in Japan.” while they are in their home states and districts. Two major THE MIDWAY CARRIER MUSEUM issues are complete elimination of the Veterans Disability Tax and elimination of the SBP social security offsets. COST: About $8 million for relocation, pier improve- Most of them will be campaigning for reelection and should ments and refurbishment. be willing to discuss their position on issues you present. ADMISSION: About $10.50, with discounts for military and Veterans who fail to vote have no basis for complaint if children. veteran legislation to improve their quality of life fails to EXPECTED OPENING: Spring YEARS IN PLANNING: 12 become law because the wrong person wins in the upcoming FEATURES: Carrier aircraft displayed on deck, below— election. The first step is to register and the next is to talk deck theater, interactive exhibits and tours, with or write your current or potential congressional SIZE: Largest of five carrier museums in the United representative. Your communications will have more impact States. The other museums are the Intrepid in New York if they know you are a registered voter. Both the House and City, the Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, SC, the Lexington in Senate return for the beginning of the 2nd Session of the Corpus Christi, Texas; and the Hornet in Alameda. 108th Congress on 20 January 2004. The 2004 tentative HISTORY: Launched March 20, 1945. It served three calendar follows: 24 · 21 January (Wednesday): President Bush delivers State of It is customary in the Navy to write the first ship's log entry the Union address (tentative) of a year in verse. I had a few ideas &, as section leader, · 2 February (Monday): President submits his fiscal 2005 wrote my name in for the mid watch. Bob Woodward (WA budget proposal Post writer) was a Ltjg aboard in the Comm Department at · Recess: 16-20 February (Monday, Presidents Day, to the time. Friday) - House and Senate · Recess: 15-19 March - Senate New Years Day 1969 Ship's Log entry · 5 April (Monday): Passover begins 00-04 Watch · Recess: 5-16 April - House recess The night lights of Norfolk are bright & alive · 11 April (Sunday): Easter as viewed from berth 56, pier number 5. · Recess: 12-16 April (Monday to Friday) - Senate Starboard side to, made fast to the land · Recess: 24-31 May (Monday to Monday, which is is USS Wright, "the Voice of Command". Memorial Day): House and Senate · Recess: 28 June-5 July (Monday to Monday the From VLF to UHF Independence Day holiday) - House and Senate by satellite & key · Recess: 26 July-6 September (Monday to Monday, which is Communication is our job Labor Day) - House and Senate Worldwide across the sea · 26-29 July (Monday to Thursday): Democratic National Convention, Boston Our deck watch is posted, alert & aware · 30 August-2 September (Monday to Thursday): Republican of mooring lines standard & doubled with care. National Convention, New York The winds of winter are no concern · 15 September (Wednesday): Rosh Hashanah begins with springlay wire at bow & stern. · 24 September (Friday): Yom Kippur begins · Target Adjournment Date: 1 October (Friday): House and Main control reports with glee Senate. Also Fiscal 2005 begins. that we are steaming boiler three. · Election Day: 2 November (Tuesday) With generators three & four [Source: NAUS Update 9 JAN 04] we don't need power from the shore.

VA APPOINTMENT DIRECTIVE: Condition Yoke, as modified Under a new VA directive all veterans with service- is set throughout the Wright connected medical problems will receive priority access to with every fitting, hatch or valve health care from the VA. The directive provides that logged in or closed up tight. veterans requiring care for a service-connected disability regardless of the extent of their injury must be scheduled Our duty section's ready, mate for a primary care evaluation within 30 days of their request to get up steam & navigate. for care. If a VA facility is unable to schedule an appointment In just four hours by the clock within 30 days, it must arrange for care at another VA we'll cast off lines & leave the dock. facility, at a contract facility or through a sharing agreement. The directive covers hospitalization and outpatient care. It Surrounding us in proud display does not apply to care for medical problems not related to a the great Atlantic Fleet service-connected disability. However, veterans needing from the long gray hull of a CVA emergency care will be treated immediately. The new to a yard tug quite petite. provision is an extension of rules that took effect in October 2002 for severely disabled veterans. Under the The three star flag of 2nd Fleet earlier rule, priority access to health care went to veterans will greet the morning sun. with disabilities rated at 50 percent or more. For the Vice Admiral Semmes in Springfield severely disabled, the priority includes care for non-service- is SOPA, number one. connected medical problems. The number of veterans using VA’s health care system has risen dramatically in recent The food on board is number one. years, increasing from 2.9 million in 1995 to nearly 5 million It won the Ney award. in 2003. Although VA operates more than 1,300 sites of Old Duncan Hines would really crow care, including 162 hospitals and more than 800 outpatient if he could eat on board. clinics, the increase in veterans seeking care outstrips VA’s capacity to treat them. Our crew worked hard in '68 [Source: VA Press Release 2 JAN 04] it's very plain to see when we hoist the meatball pennant Ship’s Log to signify our E. 25 Finally, they are very supportive of the veterans and military Henry Thornhill Junior reservists working for them. A recent email lauded Sears for Our Captain bold & true continuing benefits for reservists, but Target does the same. is celebrating with his wife The Reserve Officers Association has recognized Target for like others in the crew. these benefits and the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve also lists Target on their But we look now to '69 Web site. Target is not French owned. Target Corporation is and all that it may hold. a publicly held U.S. company (NYSE: TGT). Businessman No looking back to old langsyne George Dayton has based the company in Minneapolis, Forge on for blue & gold. Minnesota ever since its founding in 1902 as The Dayton Company. LT Frank Baillie USN At least weekly for the last year someone has forwarded OOD USS Wright, CC-2 one of these messages to RAO Baguio. No one who forwards VETS VS. TARGET this message is doing anyone any favors and is only In 2002 an individual who was working with the Howard perpetuating misleading information about Target. Just County Vietnam Veteran's in Indiana solicited his local because a corporation does not support one's own particular Target store for a monetary donation to a traveling Vietnam event does not make that corporation anti anything. There is war memorial. The store did not make a donation because only so much of a piece of pie to go around. Corporations Target’s company policy is that individual stores can only usually set their corporate grants and give gift certificates to support area charities. One was giving levels at the beginning of each year. When it's gone, it's offered and declined since only a monetary sponsorship was gone. being sought. The local Target store neglected to inform the Many are beginning to limit what kind of giving they will do. A solicitor that a corporate grant could be applied for. In the strong-arm approach to fund raising is unwarranted and course of things this was found out and information about ungracious. If you are asked to seek support for some non- the grants was requested. Target's corporate grants policy is profit project it is best to be gracious if turned down. The only effective for arts, education, and family violence hand that turned you down today may well give tomorrow. prevention. (It is not at all unusual for companies to have [Source: Editor Truth Miners Newsletter 4 JAN 04] specific giving guidelines such as these). The individual upon learning of the policy decided that this meant that a veterans The Golf Thing project was unacceptable and chose not to apply for the It was a sunny Saturday morning on the first hole of a busy grant. This was unfortunate since it probably would have course. I was beginning my pre-shot routine, visualizing my fallen under the education area. Instead, he decided to upcoming shot when a voice came over the Clubhouse spread the word on Target’s nonsupport of veterans via the speaker: "Would the gentleman on the women's tee back up internet. He then wrote MOST of the email we now see and to the men's tee". I could feel every eye on the course sent it to a few people. You know the scenario from there. looking at me. I was still in my routine, seemingly impervious However, some of what is in the currently circulating to the interruption. Again came an announcement from the version is not the individual’s words. In fact, some of his Clubhouse. "Would the man on the woman's tee kindly back words have been deliberately changed. In March 2003, up to the men's tee". I simply ignored the guy and kept someone changed hid wording, “… and Target's genuine concentrating, when once more the speaker blared out its giving policy from ‘education, arts and family violence message. "Would the man on the woman's tee, please back prevention,’ to read, the arts, social actions, gay and lesbian up to the men's tee". I finally stopped, turned, looked causes, and education." One of the other additions to the through the clubhouse window, directly at the person with message began shortly after France decided not to back U.S. the microphone, cupped my hands over my mouth, and efforts in a war against Iraq. The message then began falsely shouted back. "Would the ass hole in the clubhouse kindly claiming that Target is French owned. shut up and let me play my second shot?" Target does indeed give to veteran's projects that fall within the aforementioned categories. Target is a corporate Golf - The Game - The following is forwarded not to offend sponsor of "The Wall That Heals," a traveling Vietnam tennis, basketball, baseball, football or soccer fans. It is, memorial wall. In response to the veteran’s allegations, the rather, an attempt to put everything in its proper perspective. Veterans of Foreign Wars posted a letter on their website Ever wonder why golf is growing in popularity and why praising Target for their support of this effort people who don't even play go to tournaments or watch it on www.vfw.org/news/target.htm . It also turns out that Target TV? These truisms may shed light: Golf is an honorable game, is supporting other veterans groups including: Yankee Air with the overwhelming majority of players being honorable Force Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan; Hays County Veterans people who don't need referees. Golfers don't have some of in San Marcos, Texas; Kenny Nickelson Memorial their players in jail every week. Golfers don't scratch their Foundation for Homeless Veterans in Manhattan Beach, privates on the golf course (unless REALLY necessary). California. Golfers don't kick dirt on, or throw bottles at, other people. 26 Professional golfers are compensated in direct proportion to ** If you saw a heat wave would you wave back? ** If hot air how well they play. Golfers don't get per diem and two rises why is it cold on mountain tops? seats on a charter flight when they travel between (ShayNote: because the source of hot air generation, tournaments. Golfers don't hold out for more money, or POLITICIANS, is still down below.) demand new contracts, because of another player's deal. ** If the temperature today is 0 degrees and the Professional golfers don't demand that the taxpayers pay for weatherperson says it will be twice as cold tomorrow what the courses on which they play. When golfers make a will the temperature be? mistake, nobody is there to cover for them or back them ** Could we combat global warming simply by getting up. everybody in the world to blow at the same time? **The PGA Tour raises more money for charity in one year (shayNOTE: no, the immediate generation of too much than the National Football League does in two. You can carbon dioxide would kill all leafy stuff , like if we got an watch the best golfers in the world up close, at any overdose of too much oxygen), then we would be in trouble.) tournament, including the majors, all day, every day for $25 ** Why is it that since our body temperature is 98 degrees, or $30.. The cost for a seat in the nosebleed section at the when we are outside in 85 degree weather, we feel hot? Super Bowl will cost around $300 or more. You can bring a Shouldn't we be feeling cold? picnic lunch to the tournament golf course, watch the best ** Why is it that the number of doors left open always in the world and not spend a small fortune on food and varies inversely with the outdoor temperature? drink. Try that at one of the taxpayer funded baseball or ** If the first thermometer wasn't invented until the 1600s, football stadiums. If you bring a soft drink into a ballpark, how can they say global warming is the worst in 10,000 years? they'll give you two options -- get rid of it or leave. In golf (Shaynote: does the old adage: "Liars Figure, and Figures Lie!" you cannot fail 70% of the time and make $9 million a mean anything?) season, like the best baseball hitters (.300 batting average) ** Why is the color blue associated with coldness? After all, do. Golf doesn't change its rules to attract fans. Golfers have the hottest part of the flame on your gas stove is the blue to adapt to an entirely new playing area each week. Golfers part, isn't it? ** How come the older you get, the better keep their clothes on while they are being interviewed. Golf global warming seems? doesn't have free agency. In their prime, Greg Norman, ** Why do some people say the weather is hotter than h*** Arnold Palmer and other stars, would shake your hand and yet others say it is colder then h***? Which is it? And how do say they were happy to meet you. In his prime Jose Canseco they really know what to compare it to? wore T-shirts that read "Leave Me Alone." You can hear ** Would the easiest way to tell what the hottest day in any birds chirping on the golf course during a tournament. given year was, be to look at your checkbook and see what Ladies are welcome players. At a golf tournament, (unlike at day the air conditioner repairman came to your house? ** Is taxpayer-funded sports stadiums and arenas) you won't hear there a certain temperature at which it stops being qualified a steady stream of four letter words and nasty name calling as cold? At what temperature does it qualify as hot? while you're hoping that no one spills beer on you. Tiger ** Nother Shaynote: does a 'Hot-Flash' mean anything?) Woods can hit a golf ball three times as far as Barry Bonds (Submitted by John Shay) can hit a baseball. Golf courses don't ruin the neighborhood. Finally, here's a slice of golf history you might enjoy. Why do full-length golf courses have 18 holes, and not 20, or 10 or an even dozen? During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in 1858, one of the members pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to polish off a fifth of Scotch. By limiting himself to only one shot of Scotch per hole, the Scot figured a round of golf was finished when the Scotch ran out. Now you know.

WEATHER ~ TEMPERATURES AG1 George L. Foersch, USN RET 09/21/03

**Do you really think it matters what temperature the AGC Ken Fairbrother, USN RET 10/03 room is? Wouldn't it always be room temperature?

** Why give the temperature of the airport? No one lives Mrs. Gladys Morris, widow of CWO4 Glenn Morris, USN there! RET ** Is it possible to be so hot in some places that the people who live there have to live in other places? CWO Sulo Suomi, USN RET 12/02/03 ** Why do we often say: "Close the window it's cold outside." Nevertheless after the window is closed it's still AGCS William G. Thomas, USN RET, Date unknown cold outside? 27 Tidewater Community College, graduating Magna Cum Laude CDR Margaret Moshier, USNR RET 12/03/02 both times. Bud then set sail into corporate America, holding several retail management positions before eventually AG1 H. Sam Williams, USN REL 11/19/03 returning to his life-long passion as a forecast meteorologist for the US Government, once again embarking on worldwide AGCM Bud Scott, USN RET 11/26/03 travel. Bud finally truly retired in 1995 here at his primary residence in the Pembroke area of Virginia Beach. Bud was an LT Mary Roberta McCann, (served 1942-1951) organizer and founding member of the local chapter of the US Naval Weather Service Association and USS Nimitz AGC George T. White, USN RET 12/02/03 Association and has held offices in both. Bud was also a member of the Navy League. He has been an attendant of Mrs. Sara Gemes, wife of xAERM3/c, USN REL 12/12/03 dozens of Catholic Churches at various duty stations all over the world. Bud was a caring and profoundly capable provider LTJG Oscar O. Spindler, USN RET 12/26/03 for his family of nine. His wife Beverly, son Michael and daughters Leslie Scott Dunn, Maureen Scott Fowler, Kathi Mrs. Nita Malinowski, wife of AG1 Ray Malinowski, USN Scott, Patricia Scott, Sue Ellen Scott Bonga, Kimberly Scott RET 12/27/03 Barbarji, siblings Walter, Charles, Bill, Wayne and Sandy, their various spouses, and thirteen grand children survive Bud. He IN REMEMBRANCE is also survived by an enormous extended family including the entire commissioning crew of the USS Nimitz and many George L. Foersch thousands of other Sailors and Marines whom he influenced with his extraordinary "deck plate" leadership, friendship and George L. Foersch of Garden City, LI passed away on mentorship over the course of his illustrious 30-year career. September 21, 2003 of Garden City, LI. Beloved husband of The Rev. Glen Bingham will conduct a memorial service at 3 the late Mary Frances. Devoted father of George, Kenneth, p.m. Saturday at Rosewood Chapel on Witchduck Road. If Warren, William, Peggy and the late Russell. Loving desired in lieu of flowers, a monetary donation may be made Grandfather of 13 grandchildren. Also survived by three to the following: USS Nimitz Association Scholarship Fund c/o sisters, Linda, Marjorie, and Florence. Served 20 years US Mike Patras, 4869 Honeygrove Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23455; Navy, CPO Aerographers Mate. Member, Fleet Reserve or US Naval Weather Service Association Scholarship Fund Assoc. and VFW. Reposing Hempstead Funeral Home, 89 c/o Jim Stone, 428 Robin Rd, Waverly, OH, 45690. Kellum Peninsula Blvd. (cor. Front St., SS Pkwy Exit 191N, 1 mile), Funeral Home, Rosewood Chapel on Witchduck Rd., Virginia Holy Family RC Church, Hicksville, 10am. Interment, Beach, is providing arrangements. Calverton National Cemetery. Family will receive visitors, (Following from Joan and Floyd Akers) Thursday 7-9pm. There Is A New Star Brightly Shining

Marlin Smith Scott There is a new star brightly shining To show the mariners home. Master Chief Marlin Smith "Bud" Scott, 72, an outstanding There is a new voice in the heavens American, died Nov. 26, 2003, at Sentara Bayside Hospital in To make all good things known. Virginia Beach. He was born on Dec. 9, 1930 in Perry, Fl. and graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in The man is waiting there to help Jacksonville, Fl. At seventeen years old, Bud enlisted in the The folks who seem so lost United States Navy where he served our country He wont be counting hours extraordinarily for the next 30 years all over the world, And he sure wont count the cost. often at sea, through several armed conflicts, and enduring numerous extended separations from his devoted family. At There is a new Chief manning the railing the culmination of his Naval career this patriot served as a All ready to answer the call Plank Owner and Command Master Chief onboard the To bring to all the weary fearless warship Nimitz where he was held in the highest The answers to it all. regard by her 5,000 member crew. Bud retired from Naval service in 1978, having set new standards of excellence in He’s the new Chief on the shining ship senior enlisted naval leadership. Now, a quarter century Who guides and guards and steers after his retirement, his legend endures as the subject of And brings the sailors all home safe numerous "sea stories" at USS Nimitz and US Naval To the dockside full of cheers. Weather Service reunions held annually at various locations all over the country. Shortly after "retirement", Bud He’s the helping hand, the ready smile, returned to college, earning two Associates Degrees from The knowledge that solves the jam. 28 He’s the one who when bad duty calls, During July, 1944, Sam was ordered to Conlus for leave, and Says, “Okay now, here I am”. he returned to Ohio and married his childhood sweetheart The New Star In The Sky on August 3. He took his bride, Rebecca Joan Kirby, to Oakland and He’s the Chief, the man, the strong right arm, reported for duty with Fleet Air Wing Eight at Alameda. The answer to many a prayer Soon he was ordered to duty at WxCen San Francisco, and And when God looks for an angel’s help he finished his Navy tour in January, 1947. Bud Scott will be right there. He then returned to Ohio State University and received a master’s degree in counseling. After teaching for a while, Sam A true Navy man, a Chief’s Chief. moved his family to Sacramento. He then began a High Our Bud Scott. We love you and School Counseling career in the Sacramento school system We miss you Bud. Safe sailing. that lasted for twenty-six years. During that time Sam made himself famous among the younger set by taking them for Love From the Hampton Roads Chapter rides in his WWII Jeep, his camping trips, patio picnics and sing-a-longs. After discharge from the Navy, Sam came down with a lung infection suspected to be of coral growth. He required major and serious surgery that allowed him many more years of life. Several years ago, his health began to fail and Sam and Becky moved to Grand Junction, Colorado to be near relatives. Sam died in his sleep, after an exemplary life. Becky, his wife of fifty-nine years, survives him, along with many family members. (Submitted by W.G. Burris, xAG1, USNR)

H. Samuel Williams

Sam was born Feb. 8, 1922 and raised in Ohio at Martinsville, a son of Edith and Clarence Van Pelt Williams. His father spent forty years as a Chief Gunners Mate in our Navy, and was a member of Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet. Sam enlisted in the Navy during 1940. He was ordered aboard USS Reuben James, heading east on North Atlantic Oscar Orville Spindler Patrol when he received orders to attend AG school at Lakehurst. He was transferred at sea to USS Benson, Oscar Spindler was, also known as Buck, was born February 27, heading west. Four days later, Reuben James was sunk. In 1928 in Chillicothe, OH to Oscar Orval and Luna Estelle Spindler. He was the son of a founding father of the UAW union and the due time Sam arrived in Boston and after a short leave, he Retied UAW union. At the age of 17 he entered the military service attended AG school and he graduated with class twenty- to fight in World War II, earned his way up the ranks and retired as four. Lieutenant Junior Grade. His men under his command, as well as He was ordered to duty at wxcen Ford Island, and then those he worked with respected him for his loyalty, honesty, ordered to Johnston Island. He returned to the new Fleet integrity and knowledge. Buck began his Navy careen in WxCen at Pearl Harbor in June, 1943. cryptography, then became a meteorologist. He had a double major From late 1943 to June, 1944, Sam served as senior AG in math. During his Navy career he worked in the Pentagon, on present and as such ran WxCen in an admirable manner. In Midway Island, in Panama, Germany, Annapolis, MD where he addition to his regular duties, he conducted a little school on attended OTS (Officer Training School), Virginia, Massachusetts, Lakehurst, NJ, Hawaii and retired out of Oxnard Naval Base. He the second deck of WxCen where he trained AerM was a veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam personnel for higher ratings. So, he not only supervised War where received numerous awards and commendations. He men, but he also helped them gain promotion. also received service awards from the U.S. Government Department of Commerce during his career of over 40 years as a civil servant. He worked at the Nevada Test Site and the U.S. Government 29 Weather Bureau here in town. He and his loving wife, Wanda Her father, Edgar Melchior Newman (1863-1940), was a well celebrated 51 years of marriage in August. Buck received great joy known architect in Chicago who trained with Frank Lloyd in his wife, children and grandchildren’s achievements. He was Wright at Adler and Sullivan. The home Newman built in loving, supportive and loyal to his family and friends. He lived in Chicago (Norwood Park) for Margaret and her mother is an Las Vegas for over 30 years. Oscar Spindler departed from this life example of the Praitie School of architecture. Dec. 26, 2003 at the age of 75 leaving his devoted wife, Wanda Spindler; his sons, Lance (Diana) and Brett (Rene’) Spindler; his Margaret retired first to California and then to Sun City, AZ daughter, Terri (Dennis) Henderson; his brother, Richard Spindler; with her mother in 1972. After her mother’s death at age 95, 15 grandchildren; three great grandchildren. she married Austin Moshier in 1975. They enjoyed a happy marriage until his death in 1985. Nita Malinowski A life-long world traveler, Margaret visited Japan, China, Russia, Europe, Africa, South America and Australia. Her Nita Malinowski, (wife of Ray Malinowski, AG1, USN, RET) 75, of most recent trips included a Russian trawler to the North Pensacola, died Saturday, December 27, 2003.Mrs. Malinowski was Pole, a freighter around the world and a riverboat down the a resident of Pensacola for the past 39 years. She was a member of Mississippi River. the Brownsville Baptist Church and local and state photography Margaret is survived by her step daughter, Susan Mathews associations. She is survived by her husband, Raymond Malinowski; and her son-in-law, Geoffrey Mathews of Lindale; by a sons, Raymond Jr. and Richard Malinowski; grandchildren, Charity grandson, Quinn P. Kearney and granddaughter, Tiffin and Bishlum; and great grandchildren, Chloe, Emalee and Matthew. Kearney Bolger and by a great granddaughter, Desa Bolder all of Chicago. George T. White Gladys Morris George T. White, 72, of Birmingham died Tuesday, December 2, 2003. He is survived by his wife, Billie J. White; Gladys Morris (widow of CWO4 Glenn J. Morris, USN, RET), 4 daughters, Leisa McCloud of Pinson, Sherry Ellis of died on October 21, 2003. She was a girl from Brooklyn Birmingham, Kathy Ellis of Pinson, Rebecca Lynn Buttrum of when she met Glenn in 1944. They spent 35 years in the Ashville, AL; 3 sons by marriage, Carl McCloud of Pinson, Navy “together” and she never forgot her many Navy friends. Jeffrey Ellis of Pinson, and Michael Buttrum of Ashville, AL; 4 Gladys and Glenn spen 52 years of “happily ever after” until Grandsons, 2 Granddaughters and 1 Greatgranddaughter, 4 Glenn passed away in 1997. Daughters Patricia Kavaliunas, Sisters, Earline Parsons, Frances Swope, Pauline Bennett, and Dawna Texera and Barbara Dix, hope they’re together once Evelyn Meade, 3 Brothers, Tom, Ray and John White. He again and jitterbugging day and night. was a Baptist by faith, and a member of the Mayerheart Masonic Lodge #314. Mr. White retired as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy and from the National Weather Service. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, December 5th at 11:00 AM at Ridout’s Trussville Chapel with burial to follow at Crestwood Memorial Gardens in Gadsden at 1:00 PM. Family will receive friends on Thursday, December 4th from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Pastor Ronald G. Hicks and Arnold Traweek officiating.

Margaret Newman Moshier

Margaret Newman Moshier, 94, a former resident of Sun City, died December 3, 2002 at the Gardens in Hawkins. Mrs. Moshier was born May 27, 1908 in Chicago, the only child of Edgar and Maude Newman. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a mathematics major in 1930, Sulo W. Suomi received her Master’s degree in education from Northwestern University in 1940 and studied weather Sulo W. Wuomi, CWO4 USN RET, 82, of Alameda, CA, forecasting at MIT in 1941. passed away December 2, 2003, at Alameda Hospital. He was During WWII, Mrs. Moshier was a commander in the U.S. born September 1, 1921, in Bessemer, MI. He retired from Navy, serving as a meteorologist in Olathe, KS. She was a the U.S. Navy after 30 years of service with the rank of mathematics teacher in Chicago at Wells High School and a CWO4 on September 1, 1970, his birthday and the 100th math teacher and counselor at Taft High School from 1949 anniversary of the National Weather Service. Upon to 1961. She was assistant principal at Von Stouben High retirement he lived in Alameda for 35 years. School from 1961 to 1968. During WWII, he served in the Asiatic Fleet aboard the USS Houston, which sank March 1, 1942, with a great loss of lives. 30 Survivors captured by the Japanese became prisoners of war for three and a half years and were forced to work as slave laborers on the Burma-Thailand railway. One of the most extraordinary engineering achievements of WWII was the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway. With unbelievable primitive tools for such a project and a total disregard for human life and suffering, the Japanese built a railway 240 miles long through one of the most rugged and pestilence-ridden areas in the world in the incredibly short span of twelve months. The cost was a life for every sleeper laid over the most difficult sections. He was a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart for his valor. The Burma-Thailand Death Railway later became the subject of the well known Academy Award-Winning film, “Bridge over Temperature is the degree of the River Kwai”. hotness or coldness as measured on a specified scale. The Some of Mr. Suomi’s other decorations include the Combat most commonly used temperature scales are: Fahrenheit, (F), Action Ribbon, Navy Presidential Unit Citation, Prisoner of and Celsius (or Centigrade, C). Nine degrees on the War, Navy Good Conduct Medal with three stars, China Fahrenheit scale equals five degrees on the Celsius. The Service, American Defense Service, American Campaign Celsius scale, from the metric system, is used extensively in Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign, World War II Victory, Europe and elsewhere, particularly in scientific work. National Defense Service, Philippine Republic Presidential The observed air temperature depends upon geography, Unit Citation, Philippine Defense Liberation and elevation above mean seal level (mountainous, plains or Independence. coastal), prevailing winds, and proximity to large water areas During his Naval career, he served on the USS Houston such as oceans or significant lakes. (President Roosevelt’s Flag Ship) and the USS Bennington, as An example of topography’s influence on temperature is the well as various shore stations, including Panama, Alaska blocking action of mountain ranges on prevailing winds. Areas (when it became the 49th State) and Sicily, to name a few. He on the leeward sides of mountains are often protected from was the last meteorological officer to serve at the U.S. Naval cold winter winds resulting in more moderate temperatures. Air Station, Lakehurst, NJ, lighter-than-air airships, before its In contrast, the summertime prevailing wind that blows inland closing, which marked the end of an era of airships. across the chill California Current brings cool temperatures He was a life member of the USS Houston Survivors to Pacific coastal regions of Washington, Oregon and Association, The Lost Battalion, American Ex-Prisoners of California. War, Retired Officers Association, American Defenders of The angle of the sun and, distances from the equator are the Bataan and Corregador, and the Naval Weather Service principal factors responsible for global temperature Association. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Connie Anastasio Suomi, formerly of Trenton, NJ and now of Alameda, CA. A burial with the highest military honors with Navy LT James Hatch, Command Chaplain officiating and Official Military Bugler SGM Ret. Richard Pinter PAARNG, 38 years Army Band Service performing Taps, included the 21 gun salute, was held at St. Mary’s Mausoleum, St. Mary’s Cemetary, Trenton, NJ on December 19, 2003, with two of his former prisoners of war who worked the railway, Otto Schwarz and Harold Brooks living in New Jersey attending the service.

TEMPERATURE

distribution. There probably would be no variation in weather if the Earth was uniformly heated by the sun. The changing angles are responsible for seasonal changes of cold winters and warm to hot summers. Fortunately the Earth in it’s rotation about the sun tilts at an angle of 23.5 degrees from the vertical. This results in uneven heating of the globe causing low temperatures at high 31 latitudes and high temperatures at the equator. Most of the however, temperatures can increase with altitude in the very cities in the Continental United States are in the mid lowest layers of the atmosphere. Such phenomenon is called latitudes. That is a region where the sun’s rays intersect the an inversion. Earth’s surface at varying angles; high in the summer and low An inversion acts as a ceiling in the lower atmosphere that in the winter. Along and near the equator there is close to allows trapped pollution to become a witches brew of 12 hours of overhead sunlight each day. As a result there concentrated smog, and health hazards such as breathing are no significant seasonal temperature changes, although difficulties, and reduced visibility. there are distinct dry and rainy seasons in the tropics. (Taken from the CNMOC PAO site: http://pao:cnmoc.navy.mil/pao/educate/WeatherTalk2/indextemp.h tm)

The decrease of temperature with altitude is defined as the lapse rate. The lapse rate from the surface to 60,000 feet averages about five degrees F. per thousand feet of altitude. Under certain conditions,

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