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Aerograph, February, 2010 This being the quiet time of year for news will start with
Carl Thormeyer’s assessment of the weather at his home weather station
in For several weeks in Sep. & Oct. as I waited in my car
while Gloria attended mass at the Naval Post Graduate chapel I failed to
see Tony Klapp. Sun.
8 Nov. Tony stopped by for a brief chat after mass which he attends. He
and his Mrs. have bought a home in 30 Nov. When walking out of the Navy Exchange at the Post Graduate
school 9 Dec. 2009 a fellow walked up to me and started talking. He
thought he recognized me but I don’t recall ever seeing him. This
fellow named Kaminski, retired
US Army 1965, rents a studio to Julius
Steuckert in 14 Dec. Elmer Erdei,
another old Sangley Point shipmate sent his greetings and informed me Bill
Myers walked the wind The Well Weathered Wives Christmas Party was sponsored this
year by Ralph Wrenn and Mary
Lou Ward. Pat Nicholson helped Mary Lou with the check in details and Bill
Schramm once again was the MC for the dinner at the The Those attending this year were Tom & Mary Callaham who brought Tom’s 99 year old mother as a
guest; Michael & Ann Cumming
were expected but was a no show. Michael is a RN CDR Retired and they were
here last year. Don Edgren and his lady Marge
Purcell; Ron & Peggy
Englebretson ; James & Joy
Etro, then Bob W. Fett; Bill
& Dottie Groscup. Earl Gustafson from Arroyo Seco (Big Ditch, CA)
had planned in Sep. to make the party but canceled in early Dec. Glenn Hamilton
from Since Pete Petit
designated me at the June 2003 picnic to write up a bit of the happenings
with our chapter, his wife Marjorie
has only heard me called Jake so last night when she seen my name Zane and
others calling me that, Marjorie was curious. All my brothers who are no
longer among the living were called Jake by respective friends as have I. Family
calls us by Mother Jacobs names and mother called me Zane. There
may be a few who read this article who have only known me by the name
Jake. Then listed are Peggy Reins, Bob & Dorothy Renard, Ralph & Dorothea Sallee; Bill
& Mary Ann Schramm; Bobby & Freida Sparks; Warren Thompson; Carl
Thormeyer who since his 3 Sep. 2006 retirement has taken on the job of
being one of our local TV stations weather forecasters as well as keeping
climate records from his back yard thermoscreen & weather station.
Winds are not recorded by Carl; Ace
Trask and Beverly Morford; Dick & Mary Lou Ward from Like all organizations keeping track of members and
encouraging their participation is needed to keep it alive. There were 78
flyers sent out this past fall by Ralph
Wrenn. 28 were received back by Ralph so with the 3 whose flyers never
reached them taking the tally down to 75 there were 47 who deigned not to
even reply to the flyer. 78
flyers of which 3 were returned as undeliverable were sent out. Those
folks who seem to have been lost by the Postal Service for one reason or
another were CDR Cliff Samples, Mel Jasper & CDR Frank Buck. If anyone knows
the whereabouts of these 3 who used to live in this area please let As we all know Frank
Ivie died the summer of 2009. A
contact with his son Robert at the time before Frank was shipped to Nampa
Idaho for burial was made and I asked Robert when he got around to
cleaning out his fathers home in Monterey CA to keep an eye out for 3 NWSA
boxes of material Frank should have somewhere in his home and to call me
if he found those boxes. 28
Aerology Series number 1 thru
7 31
Cuttlefish Five “The Aleutian Invasion” World War Two in the 34.
Soft Cover Book: 35
Soft Cover Book: 8
1945 Handbook of Meteorology, “NavAer 50-110R-42” 9.
1940 Book. Weather Analysis and Forecasting by Petterssen 10.
Book. Meteorological Instruments by Middleton 11.
1942 Book. Basic
Principles of Weather Forecasting by Victor Starr 12.
1931
Book. Aerology by Maguire 1.
1941 Book. Meteorological
Instruments by Middleton 14
1941 Book. Introduction To
Meteorology by Petersen 15.
1937 Book. Synoptic And Aeronautical Meteorology by Horace Robert
Byers. 2.
1943 Hard Back Book “Hurricanes” by Tannehill. Donated by
Robert D. Case 3.
H.O. No. 604, Techniques for Forecasting Wind Waves and Swell.
Donated by R.D. Case 24.
Microseisms and Pacific Typhoons Gilmore & Hubert. Articles of
Aug. 1946 & Feb. 1947 by Gilmore inside pamphlet 26.
Glossary of Meteorological Terms, Reprint of Part VIII of W.B.
Circular M, Sixth Edition Jan. 1938. Small Pamphlet. 34.
Home on the Bering, Cuttlefish Three. Printed 1978-1979 35.
Unalaska Today. Cuttlefish Four. Printed 1980. Submitted by Source:
Aerograph, November 2009 This quarterly of the Aerograph which is always a slow one
for news from the Following up on information passed on during our Summer
Picnic last June and being notified by LCDR Francis M. Ivie a retired Naval Officer died Shipmate Ivie served in VP-13 COMAIRSCOFOR North Island, San
Diego CA and flew VW-1 typhoon reconnaissance flights out of Guam;
served on the ships: USS BALLARD (DD-10)., COAST GUARD CUTTER AKLAK,
USS FLOYDS BAY ( Carl Thormeyer’s weather station in Carl’s Sept. readings show the temperature was just a tad
below normal, with precipitation a little above normal. As
normal for Sep. is 14 one hundredths of an inch and The first few days of Oct. are still dry. Sunday 11 Oct., I ran into Charlie Workman in the commissary
who asked me about a storm in 1962. That
particular storm started out as a Typhoon in WestPac and Charlie was
flying Typhoon weather eye fixes out of Charlie told me a similar storm was headed for the CA coastal
area. The Weather Bureau had
issued a warning on Friday 9 Oct. for central CA and An old friend Frank Baillie from Port Orchard WA who has been
writing the news for the Am sure whoever sends in that chapters news will update us on
Franks condition. Cordially
The
Quiet time of the year in late spring is always a good time for a picnic
which our local chapter honors in June but prior to getting into that a
couple of topics have taken place since the last report. I
believe Carl Thormeyer’s April climatology showed temperatures a
little below normal while May was exactly normal. A
couple of years ago Bob &
Jinx Fett returned to our area and though they are not members of
the NWSA was known and welcomed by several local Naval Weather Service
friends. The 6 May 2009
Monterey County Herald obituary section caught my eye with a picture of
Minnie L. (Jinx) Fett and her obituary. Bob
lost the love of his life & mother of his children 2 May when Jinx
passed on. While
shopping in the Fort Ord Commissary 4 June a familiar face stopped me
and we chatted a bit. I
discovered it was Harry Hamilton who remembered me from the 1980’s at Fleet Numbers
in Ship Routing. Harry is
not a member of the NWSA nor does he attend the local chapter social
activities. I commented to
Harry that Glenn Hamilton of the My
last issue of the Aerograph had an article about a good friend George Russoy walking the wind and George had written a very
comprehensive history of his Navy career. When
George went through the Aviation Fundamental school that was located at
NAS Memphis TN in 1948 he headed for the AG “A” school at The barracks that I lived in was more like a hotel than a barracks. Two stories high. Inside the main front entrance was a lounge area with chairs, sofas and lamps. A large and very wide staircase went up to the second floor to another lounge. This lounge had more sofas, chairs, desks and lamps, and even a piano. This was 1948 and before television. From the lounges you could go into any of the three wings. Semi-private rooms
were located on both sides of the corridor. These
rooms were for us students and were a joy to behold with only two men to
a room. The Room inventory
consisted of a wash basin and mirrored medicine cabinet immediately to
the left of the left of the entrance door. Two
windows opposite. Two single
bunk beds against the port and starboard side bulkheads. Two
clothes closets with doors. Two
desks, chairs and gooseneck lamps and a waste paper basket were in the
center of the room. These
rooms were conducive for study and nobody there wanted to flunk out of
this school. We knew when we
had it good. The
Master at Arms (MAA) would walk down all the corridors each evening
after taps. He would enforce
the barracks rules and insure that quiet was observed. The
rules of Barracks A required that after taps all doors to the
rooms had to be left ajar with the waste paper basket turned upside down
and placed between the door jamb and door, thus keeping the door ajar. This
procedure had two things going for it. The
MAA was responsible for the appearance, cleanness and safety of the
barracks. Barracks A was a
wood frame building and fire was a major concern for him and everyone
else. An empty waste paper
basket turned upside down insured that there wasn‘t a smoldering
cigarette butt in there that could burn down the barracks. The
door left ajar also allowed the MAA to see inside the dark room. Anyone
caught smoking in bed was sure to be court marshaled. If
at anytime, anyone was caught snuffing out a cigarette inside a waste
paper basket, he would really catch hell from the MAA. The
MAA frequently inspected the inside surfaces of the waste paper baskets
for evidence that someone had used it to extinguish a cigarette. We
all learned that this valuable piece of room furniture was something you
kept sparkling clean, and we never put anything into it. We
just kept it upside down and placed it in the doorway at taps as
required. Sailors would
never reach down, pick up the waste paper basket at the desk and
reposition it at the door jamb. The
more realistic procedure was to just slide it over with your foot. Perry
and I once placed a few water filled condoms under waste paper baskets
in the rooms when the residents were in the lounge. A
lot of cussing was heard when the victims had to do some quick in a
hurry swabbing. A
favored bit of deviltry was to sabotage the medicine cabinets. One
of us using both hands placed a water filled condom inside the
victim’s medicine cabinet while the other partner gently closed the
door. Not only was swabbing
to be done but someone also got dowsed. Of
course the nastiest was to just stretch condoms over the gooseneck
lamplight bulbs on the desks. “ In
early May, I saw Tony Klapp
coming out of the Sunday Mass while I was waiting for my better half to
finish her after mass visiting. Tony
brought me up to date about his plumbing problems and mentioned he was
going to have repairs made near the end of May. The
morning of 14 June while waiting in the car I saw Tony drive by in his
wife’s car so knew he was up and about. Sat.
13 June I went out to pick up the paper and saw it had rained enough
within just the past hour to wet the driveway and the paper. I
thought it unusual at this time of year for rain and hoped it would not
linger through tomorrow. Sunday
14 June turned out to be a mild day and quite warm for this part of CA. To
be on the safe side I carry a jacket in the car and a sweater for
Gloria. A very light cool
sea breeze kicked in about 1:15 PM and I walked to the car and got the
jacket and sweater. After
perhaps 15 or 20 minutes the breeze stopped and it became shirtsleeve
weather again. Don Mautner
and the Handlers cranked up the picnic fire and put out hot dogs and
hamburgers for the crew that met at our annual picnic at Archer Park in
New Monterey at noon on 14 June. As
Gloria had to change from her church clothes we came home so it was
about 30 minutes past noon when we arrived at the picnic. I
first talked to Mary Haltner
who told me she had seen Tony Klapp at church and reminded him of the
picnic. Tony had paid for him and his Mrs., but had forgotten it was
today so it was a surprise when he arrived about 1 PM and just said
hello for a few minutes before he left. His Mrs. was driving him home. Tony
told me his plumbing problems were fine but he has to recuperate from
the laser surgery that opened his pipes. Those
attending the picnic were Tom
Ballard, Tom & Mary Callaham, Don & Marjorie Edgren, Ron &
Peggy Englebretson, Jim & Joy Etro, Bob Fett, Earl & Floy
Gustafson from Arroyo Grande, CA and Earl tells me things are Okay
in the Big Ditch country where he lives.
Then George & Mary
Haltner, Glenn & Keiko Handlers, Herbert & Barbara Hansen, Sam
& Jean Houston, Jack & Valerie Jensen. As mentioned
previously Tony Klapp was driven to the shindig by his Mrs. and they
only stayed a few minutes and headed home. Tony is still recuperating
and not really in a party mood. Barbara Lewitt
was a show and seems to be holding her own since Howard walked the wind
last spring. Don Mautner
who organized this year’s picnic had his Carolyn
there. Dean Morford, Harry
& Pat Nicholson, Marge Petit, Charley Roberts, Ralph and Dotte
Sallee, Forest & Marge Williams and last but not least Ralph
Wrenn with friend Marilyn
Cole. Those
who RSVP’d but could not make it for one reason or another were Frank Buck, Don Chinn, Glenn & Delores Hamilton from up near I
asked Don if he had any word about Frank
Ivie. Don saw Frank
recently on one of Don’s walks as they live near each other or within
walking distance. Frank was
being assisted into his home by a couple of nurses so had some home
care. There
may have been a couple missed in this list as I believe Glenn
Handlers daughter was there with her boyfriend and I don’t know
everyone by sight. If you
were at the picnic and don’t appear in my account blame it to
aging. From
the Navy Chapel mass the last Sunday in June I drove Gloria to the old I am sure Jerry
Struck’s chapter will submit information about Jerry and Ann’s
motor home trip to the west coast this summer. I
am fortunate to be on Jerry’s travel updates and 28 June he was in the
Mt. Rainier WA area where he sent pictures of the Mt. and the Carl Thormeyer’s June
climatology for Marina CA shows June’s temperatures
a little above normal for the month while precipitation records
that started 1 July 2008 shows almost 3 inches below normal rainfall. The Fox news
reports that the Puzzled over
Frank Ivie’s situation I sent an Egram to Fred
Stewart sent I am sure
there are some of Frank’s friends living in the Submitted by AGC Zane E. Jacobs USN RET
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