| VOLUME'III, Number 11
25 March 1963
SEADEE BALL
The Village Gym, transformed into an elaborately decorated dance hall, rang
with the music of the Kodiak Band on Saturday night, 2 March, as the Adak Sea
bees celebrated their 21st birthday and the 96th of the Civil Engineer Corps,
The dance followed a bounteous steak dinner which was free to all Military
people in Public Works and all other Seabees on the Island of Adak, Feature
event of the evening was the cake-cutting ceremony, at which Mrs, Frances
Eubanks, wife of L. G. Eubanks, CE1, of ComSta, was crowned Seabeo Queen, Her
princesses were Mrs. Beverly Johnson, an employee at the Telephone Exchange;
Mrs, Helen May, wife of L. D. May, E01, of the Public Works iransportauicn,
NavSta; Mrs. Wanda Warhock, cost clerk in Public Works Transportation and
wife of Pt. R, Warnock, ADJ1; and Mrs. Earabra Moselye, wife of M. D. Moseley,
BUI, of Public Works Maintenance, NavSta, Mrs. Eubanks was selected from
among the finalists by a vote of all the Group VIII rated men on Adak, She
was crowned with an ornate golden crown trimmed with silver glitter#
The guestfbyf lionor, Capt. J. W. ROBERTS, USN, highly praised the work of the
Seabees in an address following the entrance of the Escort Guard and the pres
entation of the colors. Helping the Seabee Queen in her cake-cutting duties
was the Senior CEC Officer present, CPK I, M, SMITH (CEC), USN, Public Works
Officer, The ceremonies also featured presentation or the Oldest Seabee, for
which title H, S, Brousard, BUCM, leading chief of Public Works Maintenance,
edged out some close competition, having entered tno Group VIII rates in June
1943. Ironically, the Youngest Seabee, R« C. Anderson, ECHCP, was inadvert
antly left on duty that night and could not be present#
The decorations and the many other details of carrying out the call were the
results of considerable work by the Seabee Ball Committee, headed by LT W. H,
Rusk, (CEC), USN, and consisting of several of the officers and men of the Nav
Sta and ComSta Public Works Departments# The large and elaborately decorated
cake around which the ceremonies revolved was a work of art produced by Mrs#
Shizue Chastain, to plans and specifications painstakingly drawn up oy her
husband, T. C. Chastain, SW1, of Public Works Maintenance. -All CEC officers
and men in group VIII ratings on Adak and all other military and civilian per
sonnel working for the Public Works Department were invited to the ball.