A total of ten (10) former crew members of the mighty ”D” were present. I am glad that I had taken the time to research for the whereabouts of the old gang. The payoff came Wednesday after noon when a few of us were visiting in ”Pappy” Paulk’s room. Who should knock on the door —and would you believe—Zampini. After a brief updating another knock. Joe Yaklowich. When Joe saw Zampini there was a burst of sound and a greeting like you would never believe. Both of them clashed together like long lost lovers. With their arms around each other and crocodile tears in their eyes, they hugged and cried for the longest time. It made the trip so worth while. They had lost contact with each other so many years ago. And suddenly they were here and together.

Of the ten who were there, 7— I had not seen in fifty years. There was James Black, Ken Hall, Jack Higgins, Al Hooper, William Martell, “Pappy” Paulk, “Pinky”Rimmer, Robert Slager, Joe Yaklowich, Felice Zampini. Where has the time gone? We each had our remembrances and traded all the information we could. I have tried to gather the addresses as best as I could. But a bit about the enclosed roster.

Much of the the list has been gathered from the ”National Telephone Book” a set of CD ROM disks which are supposed to contain all of the listed telephones in the US. Just how up to date it is I do not know. But to help identify good information from potential bad information I have placed a small ”tic” mark in front of the first name of the crew member for the verified information. Additionally I researched the Social Security files of deceased persons. If I had a reasonably good tie in with known data (age, location of death, name) I included a ”D” in the column labeled Dec. Now here is where I need inputs from all of you out there. If you have noted any error or needed correction and updating of the data, please send the input to me. I will try to keep the list up to date so that at the next Convention we can have a bigger assembly. Now the names on the list include as best as I have been able to determine, are from the commissioning crew to the Bikini crew. That is from the beginning to the end. So do please check it out and keep me updated.

The smallest bits of data are so important. It is like a detective story in real life. If you have seen someone, or heard about, or read in the newspaper of some of the old gang it would be helpful.