VOLUME VI, NUMVER 25
19 June 1961
FRA ELECTS OFFICERS
Election of Officers was held at the
Fleet Reserve Association, Branch #169,
Adak, Alaska on Wednesday, 14 June,
and the following were elected:
President: E. T. RIVERS, RM1
Vice President: R. BARKER, SH2
Secretary: H. T. DAVIS, YM1
Treasurer: W. P. MILLER, TE(RM)CA
Board of Governors:
F# H# HART, RM2
J. T. 3UCKH0UT, BM1
0. G. ALEXANDER, E0M2
M. L. COOLIDGE, RM1
H. (h) MOCDY, Jr#, SF1P1
J. SMITH, CM1
President elect RIVERS asked the sup
port of all members of the Fleet Reserve
\ Association and pointed out that he was
their representative and he would strive
during his year in office to perform his
duties for the mutual benefit of all of
the Shipmates of the 3ranch and members
of the Adak community#
A meeting will be held in the near
future to determine plans for the Install
ation dinner.
Watch the Adak Sun for details*
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FATHER
Father’s Day was yesterday and as the
AFPS Editorial says: ' "If the'Nations
mothers are to have their day, the fath
ers certainly rate one also"#
'Young men coming into the service—
-many of them leaving home fear the first
time — soon realize that the absence of
dad’s counsel and comradeship leave a
big hole in their lives, a hole that
even letters from him can’t fill. No
fatherly CPO, no Division Officer, can
make up in understanding and paternal
advice for the real thing.’
But separation from Dad for the first
time has made many of us realize that
when he took us to task about something
or denied a request, he knew what he was
talking about. He was speaking from ex
perience that we lacked—and there’s
nothing like Navy life, meeting all types
of people, seeing far-off places, doing
unaccustomed things, to give a man a
crash-course in the experience of living.
Mark Twain put it neatly: "When I
was a boy of 14", he said, "my father
was so ignorant I could hardly stand to
have the old man around. But when I got
to be 21, I was astonished at how much
he had learned in seven years."
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