Evening star., 1944-05-13
BeardaII Announces
Plans for June Week
Al Naval Academy
9l5 Midshipmen Slated
To Be Graduated; Drill
Events Scheduled
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May 13.-The June
week program of the Naval Academy
was officially announced today by
Rear Admiral John r. Beardall
academy superintendent, who dis
closed that 915 midshipmen are in
the graduating class.
In the class are 80 men from the
District area, one of whom is Ernest
j. King, jr., son of Admiral King
commander in chief of the fleet.
Friday, June 2, will be the OPEN
ing day of the annual June Week
festivities-a day to be highlighted
by the presentation of athletic and
extra-curricular awards in Tecumseh
Court, facing the dormitory, Ban
croft Hall.
Graduation exercises will take
place June in Dahlgren Hall, but
a speaker has not been announced
Admiral Beardall stated.
Other events will be drill events
in sailing, gunnery, engineering,
physical training, seamanship and
navigation, June 3; chapel service,
including the sermon to the gradu-
ating class by Chaplain William N.
Thomas, June 4; the presentation of
prizes at the regimental parade,
June S; presentation of colors dur
ing the regimertal parade on Tues
day and later the same day, the
farewell ball of all classes of mid
shipmen.
The present graduating class
would, in normal times, not be
graduated until 1945. but wartime
conditions have reduced the regular
four-year course of instruction to
three years.
Twenty-eight members of the
graduating class have been selected
for appointment as second lieuten-
ants in the Marine Corps dependent
on their being found qualified, Ad-
miral Beardall said.
The District area men include "a
from the District ard seven each
from Maryland and Virginia.
District Men Listed.
Those from the District are:
Paul F. Allmendinger, 4520 Georgia
avenue NV; David C. Barry, 5134
Klingle street NV; Joe A. Barton,
8ll Quincy street wv; Charles S.
Bowcock, jr., 3726 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV; Robert M. Buck, 814 Fern
street NV; Edward L. Cochrane,
Jr., 3110 Thirty-thi place NV:
Rodney H. Dobson, 309-B Westches-
ter, 1000 Cathedral avenue NV:
Stephen w. Heller, 1858 Allendale
place, and Charles D. Jewell. jr..
4436 Klingle street NV.
Roy K. Jones, I'd, 2l53 California
street NV; Robert l., Kays. 1900
F street NV; Ernest j. King, ir
AdmiraPs House, 3400 Massachu-
setts avenue NV; Edward H.
Loftin, jr., 1888 Connecticut avenue
NV; Henry T. Mayo, I'd, $500 @
street NV; Harold c. Moynelo, jr..
5429 Nebraska avenue NV; George
j. OShea, 1851 Columbia road :.
Richard E. Rumble, 5532 Thirtieth
place NV; Louis B. Schmeltzer,
1920 Brandywine street NV, and
Baird Snyder, 4th, Blackstone
road, Westmoreland Hills.
Lucius E. Steere, Sd. 510e Thir-
teenth street NV; William w.
Stevens, 1916 r street NV; John
Linton Walters, 2343 Green street
Sc; Lawrence v. M. Wickham.
1912 Klingle road NV, and John
r. Wilhelm, 2124 Sudbury place NV
The Virginians included:
Burton l.. Lucas, jr., Clyde O'G.
Morrison and Palmer H. Rixey, all
of Alexandria; Robert G. Douglas.
Arthur Halsted, jr., and Theodore
l.. johnson, all of Arlington.
Marylanders are:
Joseph Patton Brantley, jr.: Calvin
Hayes Cobb, jr., and Lawrence E.
Williams, jr., all of Chevy Chase:
Joseph M. Snyder, jr., Hyattsville;
Paul F. Burdett and Robert N. Davis,
Silver Spring; David M. Saunders,
Takoma Park, and Frederick S,
Gore, Upper Marlboro