Brooklyn (CL 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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Q, ,, ,, , , at . 5,12 Z f ' X ' ,, ,...,,f,a.,4 ' - Q. , ,W . ,V f I i 1 l i l l A l Captain CA WICKHAM USNR iretl l 1 l l l l l w l w l l I C.A. WICKHAM, Attorney Captain Conrad A. WICKHAM, Jr., born 6 August 1914, Kansas City, Missouri. He married Helen Frances CAMPBELL 21 August 1943. To this union were born a son C.A. Wickham, Jr., QTerryJ 24 June 1944 and two daughters, Katherine C. 2 September 1949 and Anne L. 27 October 1953. The Captain was a member of the first Navy V-7 Class and was on the USS Illinois a school ship in New York. He was graduated and Commissioned an Ensign 14 November 1940. Reporting almost immediately to USS BROOKLYN at Long Beach, Calif., arriving with total assets of 36 cents. Other members of the class who reported with him were Ensigns Wakefield, Waserhaley, Washburn, and Wilson. They were welcomed by F.C. DENEBRINK, then the Executive Officer of BROOKLYN. He reported for duty 4 December 1940. His duties were with the Gunnery Department as a 6th Division Officer and advanced through the grades from Ensign to Lieut. Commander seeing duty in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean before being detached 26 April 1945 to the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C. Then on to Camp Perry, Virginia, Damage Control School, Philadel- phia, as Instructor of Training and finally to NROTC, Northwest University, Evanston, Ill., as Associate Professor of Naval Science and Tactics. His active duty was completed 23 January 1946. Captain WICKHAM has now been an Attorney-at-Law for the past 25 years with Bell Telephone Co., of Pennsylvania. His retirement from Bell Telephone was effective 1 September 1979. Mrs. Helen WICKHAM, Katherine and Anne I ., s , Te' ::,: .- X K A U., . : ...-- ..,. . . . - 1- ' - 1 m f i ' f V - Q-- -a s - s f ,-f. - 91,-...sf---. , aff.-if X . .QQ . ' -W .. .. . , Vik f , . ,,. . as .MM ' . MH Nd? ' , f 1 4- at f if J 592. H 231:12 'Fd' ,T Q f I' X .N Q .1 ' Q QQ ,x ' 5 3 . QI QQ, .. Q QA ,Qi QQQQ. ,Q V . v,QQ Q Q A . QQ . Q Q .. Q VVL, if , Q , f Z3 Vx .4 y Q YQ .1 . ,,1. 5 ey K. f Q , . ' -' ' Q ' Q. .. Q Q 11 Q v . 5 Q Q ' 5 1. ' A X 5.5 . ., , Q g Q Q5 Q ,, QJQQQ, ,Q, Q , Q , ,sg 1 N. a.-sg 1, i 4 , .3 asf. ,Vx ff ,XJ Q Xa, M., ...X 57,5 '-5 - ky e , gm- 4 . , 4.35 1. Q 1 N :vs M23 it W 4. V L Q , P 1511: XL: if 1. ,Q f- gsgfgfgsi'-? v 'hrs S . fa, ' P W-sf f X Z V ..: 1 5 l -' ik X xg N ' , f fsfgiv e if ' , K M... XX . n 1, L Q, ,sv . QQE Q Q -s 9 J .QQ , ' . ' ' 4 9 Q 3:5 : .Q A y A . X s, 'fgst 2 ,. .1 - y- 'K IF W1 . . 3 9 A ' -- 'L ig .- is f--.:ef..:'-A if-4 -W cf 1 A . it 1s.-. Q 1 . .QQ X Q ,.., Q x Q QI, , , 3 5 5 j, Q QQ Q um Q: .. Q .. X ., X .Q ,1,,,f:QQQg,.,,,XQQ,,,,,,.,. Q Q Q QQQZEQQQTQQ l 'I' 1 ' .t 2 A if ' I . I f . Q . A' P ' ,v 'A' 1 illvffif ,X X s S Q 1' YQ, J i fa iff.,-Q.. ..ri.,fJ . Travis as A . , X' I ' 'F .. ' 4 1 E X f if if Ray Washburn, C.A. WICKHAM, his wife, Mrs. Barb. Greene, H.S. Greene at the German American Club. l l manhole cum than their in tended USG l E l 1 l Brooklyfl Eagle, Feb. 28, 1945. Viewing a small scale model of a KEQTY dock as is used at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are RAdm. S.S. K6I'1lIS3g' Mrs. Sebastian Stiener who sponsored the USS BROOKLYN in and then Lt. Conrad A. WICKHAM, USNR. 7

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1 V 4 L , Horace S. GREEN, 7!16!16 to 5f17f79 Horace Steere GREENE died on 17 May 1979, at his home in Warwick, Rhode Island. Born 16 July 1916 in Providence, Rhode Island. He prepared for college at Classical High School, in Providence and following his graduation in 1939 from Bowdoin College he became an accountant with W.R. Grace and Co., in New York City until 1941. He enlisted in the Navy through the V-7 USNR program and was sent frcflm g3oot Camp at Great Lakes to Northwestern for V-7 sc oo . He reported to BROOKLYN in June 1942 and was assigned to the Gunnery Department, being advanced through the grades from Ensign, to Lieutenant Commander. After the war he joined Atlantic Rayon Corporation in Providence, with which he remained until 1964, as Sales Manager and then General Manager. He then moved to General Manager of Synthetic Yarn, Inc., Lowell, Mass., from 1964 to 1974, when he became Vice President for sales with the Rhode Island Ice Company, East Providence. In 1978 he joined the Real Estate firm of Kelly and Picerne, nc. Mr. GREENE is survived by his wife, Barbara Brokow Greene, whom he married 25 May 1946, in Providence, A Son, Richard M. Greene of Warren, Vt., A Daughter, Mrs. Karen G. Timms of Havertown, Pa., and one grandchild. His fraternity, Zeta Psi. E The Greene family returning from a day at the Shore. Barbara, Karen, Richard, Horace.

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