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July - Sept. 2013 A NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS OF THE USS BERKELEY (DDG-15) ASSOCIATION Setting Course for Jacksonville!

Reunion Update Red Cavaney’s Navy career was short- In the Spotlight lived, but built the leadership and The 2014 reunion will managerial foundation, particularly his take place September 25 service aboard the USS Berkeley, that -28 at the Crowne Plaza has served him exceptionally well in his Jacksonville-Riverfront post-Navy career and into retirement. He hotel. Room rates start grew up in the Southern California town at $95 + tax per night of Alhambra; his father having served as (single/double a US Navy LT aboard a Destroyer occupancy), and those rates are available Escort (DE) in the North Atlantic during for one day prior and post reunion. A WWII. Red was an NROTC Regular complimentary hot breakfast buffet is undergraduate at the University of available in the American Grill, and Southern California (USC), receiving his complimentary self parking is available Ensign bars in June, 1964. for our attendees. There is also a 20% discount in the American Grill restaurant. Red’s first assignment upon receiving his Commission was as DCA, and later Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse (Jacksonville’s Operations Officer, aboard the Long premier steakhouse), Starbucks and two Beach-based USS Dynamic (MSO 432). bars are also in the hotel. There is After attending the Navy DCA, complimentary internet access, and a 24- Engineering, and Minesweeper schools; hour business center and a fitness center he returned to the USS Dynamic for are also available. The hotel is about 20 underway training prior to WestPac minutes from the Jacksonville airport. deployment in 1965, as part of the first Ensign Cavaney Restaurants and shopping are within Squadron of Minesweepers to make the walking distance. trans-Pacific voyage on their own U.S. naval warships. The experience

wooden, flat bottoms. Following the did, however, provide invaluable Reunion events will include a Bull month-long transit, with fuel stops in insights--reinforcing ingenuity, Session, a Lady’s Event, our Welcome Hawaii, Johnson Island, Guam and resourcefulness, stamina, decision- Reception, and the Saturday night Subic Bay; the USS Dynamic was making on-the-fly and the critical nature Banquet. We hope to have tour assigned to Operation Market Time, the of teamwork. After a year-long WestPac information and a list of Things to Do in multi-force interdiction operation deployment, USS Dynamic returned to covering the South Vietnamese coast Jacksonville and the surrounding area its Long Beach homeport and, soon from the North Vietnamese to the available prior to the October newsletter. thereafter, Red received orders to report Cambodian borders, including the to USS Berkeley (DDG 15), as Our biannual business meeting will be Saigon River and other tributaries in the Navigator and CIC Officer. held Saturday morning in the Hospitality Delta. Room. Following Navy school attendance at Given that nothing quite like the FAAWTC and Navigation in San We plan to add other events such as the Market Time operation had been Diego, Red reported aboard Bright briefings held at the past two reunions. undertaken for decades, and with an Penny, which was on its way home to These briefings (mesothelioma at the onboard crew manning a 170-foot Long Beach from its WestPac wooden boat with absolutely no 2010 and 72 Berkeley Ops at the 2012 deployment. Red very fondly magnetic signature; the whole remembers his experiences and reunion) were very informative and well interdiction effort took on a flavor closer professional growth onboard Bright received by the audiences. to that of McHale’s Navy than the spit Penny. In fact, he considers that tour of and polish so often associated with the (Continued on page 2) The Bright Penny - July - Sept. 2013 Page 2

USS BERKELEY ASSOCIATION Chaplain's (Red Cavaney cont’d from page 1) 5553 Makati Circle duty to be the turning point in his life. He San Jose, CA 95123 Corner 408-656-3879 By Chaplain felt he learned from the very best in the Bill Perry Navy; and he embraced leadership E Mail: [email protected] principles and analytical decision-making Website: www.USSBerkeley.com Annual Dues: $20.00 that proved invaluable, as he moved Director: Al Meier throughout his career in the years Asst. Director: Dale Johnson following. Secretary: Pat Clark & Tammy Meier Al Meier Treasurer: Gerald Hansen Red counts among his mentors USS Membership Committee Chairman: Al Meier Berkeley Commanding Officers CDR Bill Regional Chairmen: WHEN YOU ATTEND CHURCH— Smedberg and CDR Tom Ward, Northeast: Duane LeDoux Southeast: Randy Wilkins Operations Officer Gordon Monteath, What do you expect from the preaching? Weapons Officer John Leder, Fire North Central: Larry Norris South Central: Don Carson Control Officer Carl Everett, If you expect to come away with intellectual Northwest: Ron Bravo Communications Officer Jim Barrett and Southwest: Dr. William Perry insights, you will find something to satisfy many, many other Bright Penny Ship’s Store Mgr: Gerald Hansen that desire. colleagues too numerous to set forth in Bright Penny Editor & Publisher: William Stevens this article. Red feels as though he got Webmaster: Jim Barrett If you expect the preacher to say something ACVA Representative: Rex McCoy the equivalent of a Master’s Degree in debatable, you will. Leadership and Management from as Newsletter Distribution: To dues current members via e-mail in pdf form and to non–e-mail members via U.S. Mail. talented a group of mentors and If you expect to judge the quality of the colleagues as assembled anywhere. message, you will find something he said Additionally, Bright Penny’s WestPac wrong or could have said differently. deployment off the North Vietnamese coast involved various tasks, like North Berkeley History If you expect to have a to-do-list for moral SAR and other assignments as part of improvement, you will find opportunity for Operation Rolling Thunder, and was a July 2013 behavior modification to try harder and do literal “living laboratory” of next- better. generation technology naval warfare. 50 Year Ago, 1963 Dates not specified in Command History But of course if… As Red reached the end of his four-year log. The ship did visit Portland for the NROTC obligation, he left Bright Penny Rose Festival. The ship also spent a few you expect life transformation, you will and headed for San Francisco to muster days in the Shipyard at San Francisco. discover the spirit exposing sin and fostering out of the service and join is wife, Vicki, greater desire for repentance. and son in Balboa; only to be informed 40 Years Ago, 1973 that President Johnson had extended for 01 – 31 Inport, PSNS you expect to become like Jesus, you will be an additional year all ROTC/NROTC 02 – 03 Light-off Examination, Fwd granted fresh eyes of faith to behold Jesus. Regular Officers to “meet the needs of the Engine Room service”. His new orders were to report to you expect to be used in the service of the the USS Leader (MSO 490) as Executive 30 Years Ago, 1983 Kingdom, you will find the Word Officer and Squadron Navigator, as the 01 – 04 Inport San Diego empowering and enabling you to bear fruit squadron prepared to leave for WestPac 05 – 08 Underway SOCAL disproportionate to your abilities. deployment to Market Time operations. (REFTRA Phase I) Needless to say, it proved to be a long, 09 – 10 Inport San Diego you expect to meet God, you will find God additional year; and he mustered out in 11 – 15 Underway SOCAL will not pass by without glimpses of His June 1969 to join his family and yet-to-be (REFTRA Phase I) glory and grace. -seen, new daughter. 16 – 17 Inport San Diego 18 – 22 Underway SOCAL The question is… Upon leaving the Navy, Red joined (REFTRA Phase I) Security Pacific Bank in Irvine CA and 23 – 31 Inport San Diego What are you expecting whenever you come quickly rose to AVP/Branch Manager. As under the authority and power of God’s part of a national effort by the Nixon 20 Years Ago, 1993 living and active, faith-engendering, sin- White House to identify 50 top young In service with the Hellenic Navy of exposing, Christ-exalting, Gospel-centered leaders, Red was selected as one and Greece as the H.S. Themistokles Word? joined President Nixon’s White House staff; subsequently also serving on the White House Senior Staffs of Presidents Ford and Reagan as well. In February 1983, he left government and joined the The Bright Penny - July - Sept. 2013 Page 3

Ahoy Berkeley Beauties prizes. From conversations in San (Red Cavaney cont’d from page 2) By Pat Clark Diego and on Facebook I know we private sector to serve as President & have more than a few creative Berkeley CEO of three successive major trade associations—American Forest & Paper Ahoy Berkeley Beauties who quilt, sew, scrapbook etc. Association, American Plastics Council, Beauties (aka BBs), I am proposing a “block challenge”, I and American Petroleum Institute (API). will provide a cotton “fabric photo” 4” During his time at API, Red lost his first Well, 2013 is X 6” of the USS Berkeley underway wife to a series of strokes. However, moving right along and a cotton “fabric photo” 4 ”x good fortune later smiled on him, and isn’t it. I’m sure the 5” of the ship’s crest to anyone who Red married his current wife, Sheri, who Christmas sales will shares an interest similar to his own in would like to participate. start soon. LOL! public policy, earlier serving on Capitol BTW, I’m wearing Hill and later for the American Institute The challenge would be to express another hat. I’m VP Membership of the of Certified Public Accountants, retiring Crazy Quilters Guild of Laguna Woods. your creativity by using this photo or after 20 years of service with AICPA . No grass grows under these feet! photos to make a raffle prize in any Following his 2008 API retirement, Red form that best displays your talents. was invited to join the Executive Well it looks like our 2014 reunion will Then bring your creation to the reunion Leadership Team of ConocoPhillips be held at the Crowne Plaza hotel in to be added to the raffle prize display (COP) as Senior Vice President, Jacksonville Sept. 25-28. Bring your and eventually the raffle at the Government Affairs. COP is the world’s dancin’ shoes as our very own Leland largest publicly held independent oil & Banquet. I am hoping for some (Lee) Peters will be DJ at our Saturday natural gas exploration and production night banquet! We will also be having enthusiastic participants. If interested, company, from which he retired in our Ladies Tea which I’m sure by now contact me through Gerry Hansen and I January of this year. has become a USS Berkeley Assoc. will mail your fabric photos to you. reunion tradition. Anyone with any Red and Sheri live in Alexandria VA and suggestions for the tea or an activity you ______remain active in the community. Red think we ladies might enjoy, please e-mail serves on the Boards of Buckeye me at [email protected] with your As noted in the last issue of the Bright Technologies (BKI), the US Chamber of thoughts. I have already started burning Penny, Dale Nielsen, PlankOwner, was rubber on my sewing machine for raffle laid to rest in Ft Rosecrans, San Diego, Commerce, Resources for the Future, and items. Along this same thought, I know CA. His daughter, Michiko Agnew, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential there are many of you that are quite sent me this recent collage of pictures Foundation, serving the latter as creative and would like to ask that you that were taken on Memorial Day. President. I know he would welcome give some thought to making something Seeing as there is so much red, white hearing from you. His email is for the raffle at our Jacksonville reunion. and blue I thought it would be [email protected]. Remember all proceeds from the sale of appropriate to share in this July edition: tickets go to support the Association. Also, our very talented afghan maker, Francine Hansen, has come up with Rolf Johnson something you might want to consider doing: Plankowner Obituary

______Rolf Johnson, Carson City, NV, born Hi Berkeley Beauties, May 1941, died Oct. 18, 2012, after a 14 year battle with cancer. He is survived Now that we have an official reunion by his wife, Gloria, daughter Kerstine date and location, it is time for the and son Erik. Berkeley Beauties to start making their plans to attend with their Navy men. One Born and raised in Mass., he joined the of my favorite pre-reunion activities is Navy in 1960 as an RD2 on the Newman gathering and creating raffle prizes. The K. Perry, and transferred to the U.S. S. raffle, an exciting portion of the Banquet, Berkeley as a member of the helps to supplement the Association commissioning crew in 1962-1964. He treasury and defray some of the reunion was discharged to the Naval Reserves in expenses, and also provide attendees with Long Beach, CA. He was proud of his unique prizes to take home. Naval service and maintained a life-long friendship with two of his fellow This year I would like to invite the His daughter, Michiko Agnew, sent me radarmen. His love of the sea, sailing Berkeley Beauties (and any creative crew this recent collage of pictures that were and "clam chowdah" stayed with him all (Cont’d on page 4) members) to join me in creating raffle (Continued on page 4) The Bright Penny - April - June 2013 Page 4

(Continued Berkeley Beauty Article) other things. I also help interview for his life.

food assistance once a week at my son's taken Memorial Day. Seeing as there is He worked for Sears for 35 years in so much red, white and blue I thought it church. My mother moved here from Hawaii several years ago and I spend a management and repair in Santa Ana, CA would be appropriate to share in this July lot of time with her (She is 89) and and Reno/Carson City NV. Rolf enjoyed edition: music and many enjoyed listening to his taking her to the doctors. sweet trumpet style; he was also a tenor in This quarter we are hearing from Shari Our first reunion was in Branson MO in the Carson Chamber Singers. A beautiful life Peters, wife of Lee, FTCS, 65-72. 2004. Lee didn't think he would know has come to an end. He died as he lived, anyone. Boy was he wrong!. We also everyone's friend. attended the reunion in Denver and just last year in San Diego. I really enjoy the Article provided by Dave & Jean Rave reunions and the Berkeley Beauties and I

am proud to be a BB. We are looking ______forward to Jacksonville in 2014. It will be so much fun! See you there. ______ACVA Update

Here is a nice light ‘summer’ dessert recipe courtesy of Mary Hudson, wife of Adams class news: Jerry, BTC, 69-71: On April 14-17 2013 a triple ship’s reunion was held in Jacksonville Fla (would that Pig Pickin' Cake make it a “tri-union”?) Over 150 crewmembers and friends from Charles F Cake: Hello fellow Berkeley Beauties, my Adams, Waddell, and Tattnall gathered at the 1 box yellow cake mix Crown Plaza hotel. They toured the Naval name is Shari Peters and I am married to 1 small box of vanilla instant Leland, Lee or Pete Peters. We met in Station Mayport and USS Farragut (DDG- pudding 99). See the Adams Class Vets Association Hawaii where I was finishing up my 4 eggs Master’s Degree in Social Work and he website www.adamsclassvets.org for photos. 1 can of mandarin oranges, juice was stationed at Pearl Harbor. We too(11 oz.) married in 1982 and he retired from the The Jacksonville City Council is addressing ½ cup oil a new public ordinance that will support Navy in 1984, so I wasn't a Navy wife very long. providing the Old Navy Piers on the North Icing: Bank as a home for the former Charles F We met on the dance floor and dancing 1 large box of instant vanilla Adams as a museum. New council support is has been a big part of our lives ever pudding moving the ordinance forward, and public since. We had a country dance troupe 1 container Cool Whip hearings will have been held by the time you and taught dancing both in Oklahoma 1 can crushed pineapple (15 or 20 read this. and Hawaii. Lee is still teaching, but I oz.) have had to "sit this one out" because of Also, the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ships Prepare cake mix with pudding, eggs, my COPD. Association is hosting a gala October 11-12, oranges, and oil. Pour into 9" x 13" or 2 2013, to support the Adams museum project. -9" round pans. Bake at 350 degrees for For information on the gala, current status of I am a Social worker. I worked 20 years 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted the project, photos and artist’s conception of with the homeless mentally ill. I retired in center comes out clean. Allow to cool the museum site, see their website at in 2000 as Asst. Director of the Salvation before applying icing: mix pudding with www.adamsclassmuseum.org. Army because of my health. I still enjoy pineapple. Fold in Cool Whip. Frost working with people! cake and keep in refrigerator. Can be made several days ahead and kept in freezer until needed. Lee converted our garage into a studio And don’t forget to join and support for me to play with paint, clay and fabric. the ACVA!

I enjoy making greeting cards and teach a class once a month at the Broadmoor Till next time, Retirement center. I volunteer when Pat needed as an interviewer at Broken

Arrow Neighbors, assisting those in need with food, clothing and utilities among