1 From The Editor: After I transmitted the last newsletter I received several comments about my numbering/dating for the newsletters, mainly asking why I sent them out a month late. In order to get on track and to match the date, this one will be for December 2016 and January 2017. This is simply an admin change and will not affect any information you are receiving. Although I format, edit and transmit this newsletter, it is only done for you, our Stimson Shipmates. Without your inputs/comments/suggestions there is no need for this document. Help me make it better in 2017 by submitting articles, sea stories and information. In this one, you will see an article written by Gerry Weeks, the wife of Bob Weeks who was the Gold Crew CO and plank owner. You‘ll also see the 2nd installment of Jim Kinney‘s fictional story about a deterrent patrol. Some of you have submitted names of 655 shipmates you know or have heard are on Eternal Patrol. A few of those names are not yet on the EP list due to lack of verification. When you submit a name please add any info that could possibly be used to verify the shipmates death. We owe Don Ort, MM1 G 69-74, a debt of gratitude for continuing to verify the submitted names and locate anything we can use in the individuals Memorial Page on the website. He has been a tremendous assistant with all his skills. To all of you who have ‗found‘ our 655 shipmates and had them contact me, a great big THANK YOU! Our Sailing List grows by one or two names each month. Please continue to support the Association by locating our shipmates and getting them added to our Admin Records and online Sailing List. Linda and I would like to wish each of you a very Blessed Merry Christmas and a Wonderful Happy New Year 2017!!! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!! To all STIMSON ASSOCIATION MEMBERS ———————————————————————— MERRY CHRISTMAS 2016 Submitted by Chuck Hladik…Here is a good one for this time of the season. It shows the U.S. armed forces have people with many talents.. Published on Dec 4, 2015. A special holiday musical presentation from Union Station in Washington, DC celebrating the service and sacrifices of our nation's World War II veterans and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. https://www.youtube.com/embed/khQN5ylb3H0 VOL. 2016 #12 / VOL. 2017 #1 DEC 2016/JAN 2017 USS HENRY L. STIMSON ASSOCIATION SSBN655 NEWSLETTER Association Officers & Board of Directors 2017—2018 PRESIDENT Ray [Rita] Kreul VICE PRESIDENT Tom [Marie] Krauser SECRETARY Nick [Linda] Nichols TREASURER Ken [Diane] Meigs OUTGOING PRESIDENT Chuck [Joyce] Hladik HISTORIAN / CUSTODIAN Larry [Linda] Knutson WEBMASTER / NEWSLETTER Nick [Linda] Nichols CHAPLAIN J.B. Helms STOREKEEPER / SHIPS STORE Jim [Suzie] Weaver Other Positions 2017 - 2018
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From The Editor:
After I transmitted the last newsletter I received
several comments about my numbering/dating for the
newsletters, mainly asking why I sent them out a
month late. In order to get on track and to match the
date, this one will be for December 2016 and January
2017. This is simply an admin change and will not
affect any information you are receiving.
Although I format, edit and transmit this newsletter,
it is only done for you, our Stimson Shipmates. Without
your inputs/comments/suggestions there is no need for
this document. Help me make it better in 2017 by
submitting articles, sea stories and information. In this
one, you will see an article written by Gerry Weeks,
the wife of Bob Weeks who was the Gold Crew CO
and plank owner. You‘ll also see the 2nd installment of
Jim Kinney‘s fictional story about a deterrent patrol.
Some of you have submitted names of 655
shipmates you know or have heard are on Eternal
Patrol. A few of those names are not yet on the EP list
due to lack of verification. When you submit a name
please add any info that could possibly be used to
verify the shipmates death. We owe Don Ort, MM1 G
69-74, a debt of gratitude for continuing to verify the
submitted names and locate anything we can use in
the individuals Memorial Page on the website. He has
been a tremendous assistant with all his skills.
To all of you who have ‗found‘ our 655 shipmates
and had them contact me, a great big THANK YOU!
Our Sailing List grows by one or two names each
month. Please continue to support the Association by
locating our shipmates and getting them added to our
Admin Records and online Sailing List.
Linda and I would like to wish each of you a very
Blessed Merry Christmas and a Wonderful Happy New
Year 2017!!!
Merry Christmas &
Happy New Year!! To all STIMSON ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2016
Submitted by Chuck Hladik…Here is a good one for
this time of the season. It shows the U.S. armed forces
have people with many talents..
Published on Dec 4, 2015. A special holiday musical
presentation from Union Station in Washington, DC
celebrating the service and sacrifices of our nation's
World War II veterans and commemorating the 70th
anniversary of the end of the war.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/khQN5ylb3H0
VOL. 2016 #12 / VOL. 2017 #1 DEC 2016/JAN 2017
U S S H E N R Y L . S T I M S O N A S S O C I A T I O N S S B N 6 5 5 N E W S L E T T E R
A s s o c i a t i o n O f f i c e r s & B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s 2 0 1 7 — 2 0 1 8
submarine is the featured exhibit of the New Jersey
Naval Museum, which occupies a trailer on land that
was once the headquarters of the North Jersey Media
Group, which was sold to Gannett in July and
publishes The Record. The Ling has been anchored
off the riverbank behind the newspaper‘s former
headquarters for decades.
Now, however, museum officials are grappling
with the logistical and financially daunting challenge of
moving the submarine, which by all accounts is mired
in muck and is moored in a section of the river too
shallow for the sub to navigate.
―I don‘t know what it would take to get her out of
the mud or if that would even be possible,‖ said Hugh
Carola, program director at Hackensack Riverkeeper,
an environmental group.
Earlier this year, the museum‘s lease was
terminated by Stephen Borg, former publisher of The
Record. Borg, whose grandfather negotiated the 1974
deal to lease land to the museum for $1 a year. The
city Planning Board voted in May to subdivide the
nearly 20-acre site into four lots for redevelopment,
which could include a hotel and 700 residences.
On its website, the museum said it would be
relocating and that an announcement on the move is
pending. The naval museum has been closed since
2012, when Superstorm Sandy washed out the small
pier that provided access to the Ling from the
riverbank. Since the lease was terminated, the Navy
has reclaimed 68 artifacts that it had lent to the
museum.
Even though the Ling itself is not covered by the
lease, these developments have left the submarine‘s
fate in limbo. Borg said that, as the Ling was not on his
property, he had no legal rights over it and would not
have a hand in its relocation. Borg said that a meeting
to discuss the reclamation and preservation of other
museum artifacts – save for the Ling – is tentatively
scheduled for early next month.
When asked whether the Ling would be relocated,
dismantled or stay in its berth, Gilbert De Laat,
president of the naval museum, said that all of those
options had been discussed and that no decision had
been made at this point.
In previous interviews, De Laat has said the sub
needs at least 17 feet of channel to navigate the river.
A June 2015 survey prepared by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers indicates that the the channel near the
Ling is just 10 feet deep.
Ed Wrocenski, project manager for the Army Corps
survey, explained that the submarine could be mired in
sediment that has clumped together over time.
―It could be silted in there,‖ Wrocenski said. ―It‘s
tough to get that thing moving. You have to remove all
that.‖
The site of both the museum and the Ling is thick
with mud and strewn with gnarled vines. The Ling is
practically inaccessible. Half of its gangplank washed
away in the floods after Superstorm Sandy, and the
remaining half is cordoned off. A few lengths of rope
connect the submarine to the riverbank.
The Ling itself stands high above the waterline. It's
riddled with rust holes. One hole in the exterior hull at
the stem is a few feet tall.
Bill Sheehan, executive director of Hackensack
Riverkeeper, explained that when the Ling was
originally towed to its berth in 1973, the river was still
used to transport construction and industrial materials.
The barges that would frequently navigate the river
formed a consistent prop wash, a current created by
boat propellers that stirred up sediment.
―Now that there‘s no tugboats coming up this far,
the river is becoming less and less passable,‖
Sheehan said.
Colleen O‘Rourke, a spokeswoman for the Naval
Sea Systems Command, which is responsible for Navy
vessels, said the submarine remains the property of
the museum. As the Ling‘s owner, the museum would
have to bear the cost of surveying the river and
relocating the sub, she said.
The first steps for moving the submarine would be
to send out divers to measure the current depth of the
river and then send a smaller barge to tow the sub.
―Right there, you‘re talking a big chunk of money
just to find out if it‘s deep enough,‖ Carola said.
Carola estimated that the initial survey alone would
probably cost several thousand dollars. De Laat had
previously estimated that the total cost of the
relocation process would be in the millions.
Neither the Borg family nor the city is claiming any
responsibility for the sub.
―The submarine is not on our property,‖ said Borg‘s
attorney, Gary Redish. ―That‘s not something we‘re
concerned about. We‘re concerned about getting the
balance of the artifacts off the property.‖
City officials say they are not able to do anything to
save the Ling, either.
―We have absolutely no rights to the river,‖ said
Mayor John Labrosse. ―The city‘s responsibility ends
at the shoreline.‖
Once measurements are taken and water channel
passage is determined, the submarine would run into
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obstacles along its journey to a different resting place,
Sheehan and Carola said.
At the beginning of its trip, the sub would start off
fenced in. The submarine is corralled by the Court
Street Bridge to the south and the railroad trestle to
the north.
In August, Mayor Jose ―Joey‖ Torres of
Paterson offered to relocate the submarine to the
Passaic River, as an exhibit just upstream from the
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park. But
relocating it to Paterson may be more difficult than
getting the ship out of Hackensack.
―No, no, no,‖ Carola said when asked if that were
possible. ―Did I say ‗No‘ enough times?‖
If the Ling were to be towed to the upstream
location proposed by Torres, it would run into the
Great Falls – and that‘s if it were able to get past the
Dundee Dam spanning Clifton and Garfield.
Another option could be to dismantle the submarine
in Hackensack and reassemble it in Paterson. Carola
said dismantling the sub seemed to be the only viable
option, though the rust damage on the hull would
require bracing for any dry docking.
Sheehan had suggested dismantling the Ling after
photographing and creating a record of the sub and its
history. He did not, however, think rebuilding the sub
on land was a viable option.
―This thing has never been in dry dock,‖ Sheehan
said. ―Since it was put here in the 1970s, no one has
done any maintenance on it.‖
Ls Altschuler, vice president of the Submarine
Memorial Association, which runs the naval museum,
said there were ongoing discussions regarding the
Ling, the museum and the association. But he would
not provide any details about the museum‘s plans to
relocate.
Borg said he would be willing to offer financial
assistance to the museum for the relocation of the
artifacts with the exception of the Ling.
All of this has saddened visitors and other
supporters of the Ling, which, in its prime, was the site
of Pearl Harbor Day commemorations and other
remembrance ceremonies. Al Parisi, a writer and
historian for the Army Air Forces Historical
Association, was a regular at those events. He visited
the sub Dec. 7.
―Standing there … I noticed that, for the longest
time, there was a tattered American flag attached at
the mast,‖ Parisi said, noting that the flag was no
longer unfurled over the sub. ―I‘m just wondering if it
was the victim of the wind or indifference.‖
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Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash in
Alaska with bush pilot, Wiley Post, was one of the
greatest political/country/cowboy sages this
country has ever known. Some of his sayings
were:
*Never Squat With Your Spurs On.
*Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
*Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
*There are two theories to arguing with a woman.
Neither works.
*Never miss a good chance to shut up.
*Always drink upstream from the herd.
*If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
*The quickest way to double your money is to fold it
and put it back into your pocket.
*Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of
that comes from bad judgment.
*Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n
than puttin' it back in.
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If you want the story on this one,
contact Art Kenworthy!
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ABOUT GROWING OLDER
*Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying
about your age and start bragging about it.
*The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting
in line for.
*I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads
weren't paved.
*When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back
to your youth, think of algebra.
*I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to
the top.
*One of the many things no one tells you about ageing
is that it's such a nice change from being young.
*One must wait until evening to see how splendid the
day has been.
*Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable
and relaxed.
*Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with
sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
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And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble,
you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.—
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A beautiful set of dolphins carved by Chuck Hladik
TM2 G 67-70; USSVI– USS Oklahoma City Base
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1969 Shipmates at Scotland Bar
1 STS3 Dale Evans EP 2 ??? ??? Young
3 STS3 Steve Searight 4 MT2 Dennis McFadden
5 MT? ??? Smith
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1 4 5
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1970 Patrol Wardroom
1 CDR David Selby Cruden 2 ________________________
3 ________________________ 4 LT ‗Hoot‘ Gibson
5 ________________________ 6 LCDR ?? Walker, XO
7 LT ?? Berhliner 8 ________________________
9 ________________________ 10 LCDR Tom Conrey, NAV
11 ________________________
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3 4 6
2 5
1 8 7
10 9
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Missile Div Stimson Blue 32 (names supplied by Dennis Wolk)
1 MT2 David Merrit 2 MTC ?? Van Dyke
3 MT3 Ray Cullum 4 ?? Mark Schemmerhorne
5 MT3 Tom Holder 6 _________________________
7 MT2 Dennis Wolk 8 MT1 ?? Frederick
9 MT3 ?? Reedy 10 MT2 Christopher Gibson
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1 3 5 6 7 9
10 11 12 13 14 15
CPO Mess for Decommissioning
Transit through the Panama Canal Atlantic to Pacific for Decommissioning
Initiation for MTC(SS) Rick Beal and SKC(SS) Robert Fey
(Names provided by ETC(SS) Jim Shirley, G Decom 90-93)
1 HMCS(SS) Raymond Capaul 2 FTCS(SS) Donald Lotspeich -
COB
3 MMCS(SS) Mike Thomas 4 FTCS(SS) Michael Wyckoff
5 QMC(SS) Mike Sordelet 6 STSC(SS) Michael Harkness -
Decom COB
7 ETC(SS) James Shirley 8 MTC(SS) Rick Beal
9 MSC(SS) ????? 10 SKC(SS) Robert Fey
11 ETC(SS) Steve Sales 12 MTC(SS) Howard White
13 ICC(SS) Reggie Lewis 14 EMC(SS) Will Dale
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655B IC DIVISION DEC provided by Jerry Blevins, Blue Crew, 1976
1 LT TOM DIGAN 6 _______________________________
2 LT JERRY BLEVINS 7 HARRY ‗THE DOG‘ HARRIS
3 LT BILL MOORE, CHIEF ENGINEER 8 DAVID KELLY
4 GLENN EMERICK 9 _______________________________
5 WILLIAM SMITH 10 HENRY TARDIFF
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655B Wardroom Aug 76 provided by Jerry Blevins, Blue Crew, 1976
1 LCDR DON LACHATTA, XO 7 GERALD RAMSEY, NAV
2 LT JERRY ‘DUKE‘ BLEVINS 8 LT MARK BARNER, AWEPS
3 LT MIKE RUSSELL, AWEPS 9 LT CHARLES HARDIN, WEPS
4 CDR WILLIAM POWELL, CO 10 (FIRST NAME ?) DOUGHTERY, CHOP
5 LT TOM DIGAN 11 LT JIM TANGEN, DCA
6 LT ROBERT ‗BOB‘ BROWNLEE 12 LCDR JOHN W. MOORE III, ENG
13 LT MIKE RADER
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