US Naval Hospital Corps School - Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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COMMANDER CHARLES L. CRAWFORD Executive Officer- U. S. Naval Hospital Corps School Charles Lester Crawford, Medical Service Corps, USN, Executive Officer of the U. S. Naval Hospital Corps School, San Diego, was born in Altoona, Iowa, 7 April 1901, where he attended public schools, and where he was employed as a pharmacisfs apprentice until his enlistment in the Navy in April, 1919. He has had continuous service since then, except for three and a half months between his first and second enlistments. In 1934 he was appointed Pharmacist, Chief Pharmacist in 1940, Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Hospital Corps, 1942, Lieutenant, HC, 19443, Lieutenant Commander, HC, 1945, and Commander, MSC, 1952. During his enlisted service, 1919 to 1934, Commander Crawford trained at Great Lakes, saw general hospital corps duty at the Receiving Ship in Bremerton, San Francisco and New York, recruiting duty in Des Moines, served in Naval Hospitals at Pearl Harbor and Great Lakes, saw sea duty in the USS Seattle, USS Sands, USS Whitney, and USS Relief. From 1931 to 1935 he was Recorder for the Naval Examining Boards at the Washington, D. C., Medical School. Prior to World War II, Commander Crawford was ac- counting Officer at the USN Hospitals in Pensacola, Florida, and Canacao, P.l., and from 1939 to 1941 he was Instruc- tion Officer and Personnel Officer at the NH Corps School, Portsmouth, Va. He was Stores Issue Officer at the Brooklyn Naval Supply Depot when the U. S. entered the War. Commissioned a Lieutenant ljgl in 1942, he was ordered to the Naval Base at Rosneath, Scotland, where he served a year as Administrative Assistant to the Base Medical Offi- cer, and in June, 1943, he was made Administrative Assistant to the Force Medical Officer on the Staff of Commander, Naval Forces, North African waters. He held this post until April, 1944, and won the Bronze Star Medal with Combat ccxf as Following were tours as Administrative Assistant to the Medical Officer of First Naval District, Boston, and Medical Officer in Command at the Medical Center, Bethesda. His next tour was with the Armed Services Medical Regulating Office, where he served as Executive Officer, Deputy Chief and Chief. ln 1953 he was Medical Administrative Officer on the Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, and from Oc- tober, 1954, to October, 1957, he was Commanding Officer, USN School of Hospital Administration, Bethesda, where he earned a letter of commendation from Surgeon General Admiral Bartholomew W. Hogan. Commander Crawford is married to the former Agnes Clarke of St. Charles, Iowa. Their official address is 7705 13th Street, NW, Washington, D. C.

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From Apprentice Seaman through the ranks of Warrant, Ensign, Lieutenant fjgl, and Lieutenant, to Lieutenant Com- mander in 27 years, is a very brief history of the career of Lieutenant Commander Kenneth V. Rice, MSC, USN, Ad- ministrative Officer of the USNH Corps School, San Diego. Lieutenant Commander Rice, who was born 23 November 1910, at Portland, Oregon, first enlisted in 1928, with his first duty at USNH Corps School, San Diego. From then, during his enlisted status, he served in this hospital and the one at Bremerton, aboard the USS Pennsylvania for 18 months, then back at USNH San Diego from'1933 to 19353 back to sea on the USS Ramapo, ten months at USNH Canocao, the Navy Yard at Cavite, and then in 1938 he finished a year's tour on the USS Black Hawk in Asiatic waters, back to the Canacao Hospital for three months, LIEUTENANT COMMANDER KENNETH V. RICE, MSC, USN Administrative Officer U. S. Naval Hospital Corps School seven months with the Marine Battalion at San Diego, and another seven months at USNH San Diego, then to the Dis- pensary, Long Beach, California, followed by two years and a half on the USS Gillis. During his commissioned service his longest tour was at the Corps School here as Personnel and Administrative Offi- cer, from May, 1948 to January, 1954. This was followed by 16 months at USNH Portsmouth, Va., and two years at the Amphibious Base, Coronado. In July last year Lieutenant Commander Rice was again ordered to USNH Corps School, San Diego, as Adminis- trative Officer, the billet he now holds. He is married and lives with his wife, Dale Elizabeth, and their three sons, Kenneth, Vergal and Erroll, at 3112 Central Avenue, San Diego.