VOLUME VII, Numker 9
ADAK SUN
26 February 1962
SEADEE BIRTHDAY BALL
On March 3rd the SeaBees will celebrate their twentieth anniversary with a gala
dinner dance to be held in the Village Gym. Highlight of the evening will be the
crowning of the SeaBee Queen and her court of four princesses.
The five lovely finalists competing for the honor are all related to SeaBees, or
ire employees of the Public Works Department. Miss Vickie Thomas, a newcomer to
Adak, has just arrived from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Virginia Santa, who comes
from Los Angeles is the local kindergarten teacher. Ber-tia Broussard is the wife
of BUCS H.H. Broussard in Public Works and hails from Milan, Tennessee. Ardie
Schroth, a clerk in Supply, is from Atlanta, Georgia. Her husband is the RQICC in
Public Works. Joyce Jay, from Seattle, Washington, is employed as a Secretary in
Public norks. Voting for the Queen will be open to all SeaBees on the Island and
to all military employees of Public Works.
f In addition to the Queen and her court, the oldest and youngest SeaBee will be
honored. The title of the oldest Bee will be a close , decision, for there are men
on Adak who have been with the-SeaBees from their very first year, 1942.
The program for the evening will consist of a charcoal-broiled steak dinner and
an evening of dancing to the music of the Kodiak Band. Decorations are already
going into place for the festive affair.
f The SeaBee celebration will also be shared by the Civil Engineer Corps which cel
qbrate its 95th anniversary this March. Together, these two organizations have lit
erally built the Navy from Alaska to Antarctica. Okinawa, McMurdo Sound, Adak,
Ilota, Canton Island and Bangkok have been but a few of the exotic homes of the Sea
bee in the last 20 years.
In peacetime, as well as war, the "Can Do" men are ready to go where the Navy, *
and the Free World needs them.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEABEES OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY - WHEREEVER YOU ARE