Bill Queen’s Summary
of our class:
You chronicled 26 of us
with 13 still alive.
We have two buried at Arlington
Nat Cemetery. [Bundy, McCallum]
Service 5 had a full 20yrs of active duty. [Breckenridge, Leardi, McCallum, Reed, Roberts] Also, 4 others had
20 yrs including reserve time.[
G King, K King, Manini, Strum]
Surface
[Breckenridge, Bundy, K King, Leardi,
Legare, Mewborn, Richter, probably G King, Laster, Manini, McKay, Tackney]
Aviation [Beardshall, Reed, Smith, Taylor]
Engineering [Cate, Heil, Hunt, Queen, Roberts]
Supply
[Bundy, Manini]
ROTC Instructors [Reed (Marquette), Sturm (Auburn), Taylor (Rice)]
Bay of Pigs [Legare, Richter, Strum, Taylor]
Vietnam
[Beardshall, McCallum, Leardi]
Space Industry [Overton (GSFC), Queen (NSA, NASA-KSC), Roberts (SGO),Taylor
(Apollo Recovery)]
Doctorate’s [Overton (Physics), Richter, DDS]
Masters [Over 10]
Lawyers [Hunt, Legare, McKay]
Travel Record Strum 60-63 83K miles, 32 ports
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A few other
observations-memory jogging
Ronald Dunn Ron was NROTC but love got him and he got married
and left us in I think Jr. year. The
marriage has lasted and he a Verona are living in Williamsburg, VA.
Ron completed his Civil engineering degree at JHU and became a successful
Railway Design Engineer and Expert Witness in many Rail accidents.
WD Stanley WD was NROTC but flunked Senior ROTC Nav
class to pursue a PHD in EE at NC State. This he did. He
became a EE professor at OD in Norfolk I
believe. In the late 80’s while teaching at UCF I used his Textbook.
See books by WD. www.amazon.com/William-D-Stanley/e/B001IXQ1LK?ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vu00_taft_p1_i1
Phil Abrams Phil was a NROTC student our freshman year but disappeared after that. In the late 60’s as an NSA civilian, I ran into him. Phil is at a high security engineering lab in VA.