Pictures from the 1997 Half Moon Reunion


Captains Skippers Donby Mathieu and Emmett McCarthy listening with great interest to one of the speakers

Boilertenders Boilertenders Bob 'Budha' Eusebi and Bob Hildebrant are glad to see one another

Bosuns Bo'suns Mates Dennis Hammer and Gary Thrash are reunited as Andy Stock looks on

JayGees Former roomates and fellow Jay Gees aboard Half Moon, Dennis Brady and Roger Howard pose for the camera at the Hump Day Hop

Sonarmen Sonarmen Ed Kean and Dennis Nergart catching up on the last 30 years

Seamen Roy 'The Batman Becker and Clay 'Sonny' Houser renew an old friendship

Chiefs In the Chief's Club we find Fred Riedinger and George Linton swapping sea stories

Engineers Dan Powanda and Metro Kutianski reminiscing about life on the Half Moon in the 1960s

Quartermasters Two of the Half Moon's more colorful crew are still Quartermasters Bob Dinco and Dick Brooks

Captains and Wives Emmett McCarthy, Eileen McCarthy, Alice Mathieu and Donby Mathieu pose for a picture on the Quarterdeck

Committee The Reunion Committee at the Hump Day Hop. That's Andy Stock, Chic Attig, John Murphy, Russ Worthington and Bob Pirrone

Wives The three committee wives that worked on the Reunion - Betty Murphy, Nancy Stock and Linda Pirrone

Hansen Warren Hansen, an original crewman of the USS Half Moon, tells of the ship's adventures in World War II

Capn Crunch Ron Youngman and Ed Daniels, two former Half Moon Execs are presented with the Cap'n Crunch award

Goodreau Capt. Dale Goodreau, C.O. of Group Cape May, tells the group how life is different in the Coast Guard today

Picture Former skipper Emmett McCarthy shows a painting of the ship done by Quartermaster Don Churchill

Freshleys Ron Freshley has his wife showing off his old dress blues. Thats Doug Simms enjoying the program next to her

Jackie G Radioman Bob Loreng and his wife wondering...when is the next reunion????

E-Division E-division all present and accounted for, ready to get underway

Group1 The first of two group shots at the dance. We didn't have a wide angle lens to get everyone in one picture

Group2 The second group shot showing almost all of the rest of the men that attended the reunion

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