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Dedicated to our shipmates and to all those whose contributions to Navy Music have made them dear to our hearts. 2005 MUCS Earl L. Benge, USN (Ret.) 1938 - 2005 A dedicated member of the NMA who contributed much time and energy to our organization and especially to the O. L. McMillan Scholarship program. MUC Richard S. Silva, USCG (ex USN) (Ret.) 1937 - 2005 A fine musician and a true friend. MU1 Paul Burkhardt, USN (Ret.) 1928 - 2005 Mus 2 Harold Albaugh, (WWII Service) 1921 - 2005 MUC James Allen, USN (Ret.) 1937 - 2005 A member of the United States Navy Band from 1955-1977, and directed the music programs for functions given by the White House, State Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff. Among many honors and awards, Mr. Allen became the first black musician to receive the rank of Chief Musician of the Presidential Navy Band. Consuelo "Sally" Clarke My wife, Consuelo "Sally" Clarke, a Navy wife for 44 years, passed away after a lengthy illness on 12/10/05. During my period of service from 1958 thru 1984 she was an "honorary Navy Musician" and personal friend to an enormous number of MU's throughout my career. Neil "Skip" Clarke, MUC (Ret.) 2006 CWO4 H. E. (Gene) Huddleston, USN (Ret.) 1919 - 2006 A mainstay of the Navy Music program for many years, Gene served from 1938 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1970, retiring at the rank of CWO4. Gene's duty stations included Band 8 ( serving as President Roosevelt's band and as the 1939 New York World's Fair band), USS Pennsylvania (BB38) (including Pearl Harbor), staff arranger at the School of Music, and Head of Band Training at the SOM. MUCS David A. Blair, USN (Ret.) "I have to say that Chief Blair was all the things you look for in an ideal MUC. I spent my time as a chief trying to live up to his example. I never ran into a better chief in my 26 years, 9 months." - Mike Beegle Frederick S. Miller (Served 1948 - 1952) MUCM Alberto R. Asercion, USN (Ret.) 1936 - 2006 Served as the conducting instructor at the AFSM as well as the Concertmaster / Associate Conductor of the U. S. Naval Academy Band in Annapolis. After retirement from the Navy, he had a distinguished career as a performer, conductor, and educator. Warren A. Pettie
MUC James W Howard, Sr., USN (Ret.) 1936 - 2006 Served as a trumpeter in the Commodores Vaun Roylance Served 1939 - 1966 LCDR Paul D. ("Dan") Clemens, USN (Ret.) 1937 - 2006
Asst. Leader, USNA Band Leader, Commodores & Sea Chanters CO, School of Music 1980 - 1984 2007 MU1 Donald Fugate, USN (Ret.) Originated the NMA Website
MU1 Joaquin ("Jack") Miranda, USN (Ret.) A fine E-Flat clarinetist, served with Cecil Strange at both Philadelphia and Newport (Obituary) Roderick E. ("Rod") Fout
MUCS John R. ("Rocky") Palombo Jr., USN (Ret.) 1939-2007 "The BEST big band leader I ever worked with." - An NMA member Harry Conroy
Served with CINCPACFLT Band 2008 Thomas Fredrick Jackson 1937 - 2008 Served with Unit Band 161; A charter member of the NMA CWO4 Eugene H. "Dutch" Albert, USN (Ret.) 1919-2008 The first Bandmaster appointed Warrant Officer, a Pearl Harbor survivor MUCS Phillip L. Streit, USN (Ret.) 1938 - 2008 Served as a keyboard instrumentalist in the Seventh Fleet Band, at NAS Pensacola, and in the Naval Academy Band. Also an instructor at the School of Music. MUC Mike Huskey, USN (Ret.) 1946 - 2008
Served in the Navy Band, including as leader of Port Authority James O. Exley 1938 - 2008 Served from 1955 - 1964 Robert ("Bob") Buschmann Joseph Semonich James D. ("Blackie") Blackford MUC James F. Mall, USN (Ret.) 1941 - 2008 John Lerma LCDR C. C. Owens, USN (Ret.) Abraham Ignacio, USA (Ret.) 1922 - 2008 Pearl Harbor Survivor; the only Army member of
the NMA MUC Charles R. Shoults, USN (Ret.) 1924 - 2008 An instructor at the SOM from 1956 to 1963 MUCM James D. Thumpston, USN (Ret.) 1933 - 2008 Founding member and Secretary of the NMA; Former SOM Command Master Chief 2009 LCDR Anthony A. Mitchell, USN (Ret.) Leader, U.S. Navy Band, 1962 - 1968. LCDR
Mitchell served from 1936 to 1968 MUCS Thomas G. Hornbeck, USN
(Ret.) Perry Lipkin Ainello "Al" Pepe Served 1950 - 1954 Bob Holtz MU2 Dwight Cannon, USN Served on USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA31) 1951-1952 Lt. Andrew G. Szlaga, USN (Ret.) (1928 - 2009) Served 1947 - 1973; Bandmaster on USS Forrestal and NTC Great Lakes, Assoc. Conductor USNA Band
(Obituary) CWO4 Frank G. Forgione, Sr., USN (Ret.) (1918 - 2009) Pearl Harbor survivor and a legend of Navy Music MUCM Philip N. Austin, USN (Ret.) Served 1948 - 1975 Roland H. Dill MUC Anthony Giaimo USN
(Ret.) MU1 James Boyd Grafmyer, USN
(Ret.) Jack Estlinbaum (1933 - 2009) Leamond L. "Noonie" Wilson (1938 - 2009) (Obituary) Jerome S. Zadera, Sr. MU2 Perry D. Hopkins, USN
(Ret.) MUCS Michael R. Masciola, USN (Ret.) MU1 Harvey Otis Lloyd, USN
(Ret.) 2010
MUCS Michael P. Holden, USN (Ret.) Ron Gooden MUC Otto Schauble, USN (Ret.) MUCM Larry M. Brown, USN (Ret.)
A Sailor's Good-bye We've done this before, we've drank the cup dry. The one that was leaving, was a hell-of-a-guy. O'er half of the globe we've sailed at sea, We've drank to our health and immortality.
Your orders have come, your ship has set sail. We shall meet again to fight the same gale. The eighth sea has called , hoisted white sails of cloth, Will a sailor-ship remembered single-up and shove-off?
The wind and the waves are now your home. I'm all by myself to toast alone. So now my friend, I bid you good-bye; The one that has left, still a-hell-of-a-guy.
Michael P. Holden MUCS, USN (Ret.)
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