Board Members
Officers
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Bio: A Division, '60-'62 - Board Member/Ship's Store Representative
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Salmanowitz, Robert - OP, '55-'58
Association Secretary, Pompton Lakes, NJ
Email: mightyi1@aol.com
Board Members
Listed in alphbetical order
Frank Appice : Member, NY Chapter 'Rolling Thunder'
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Chuck Coppess: State Chapter Representatives Chairman & State Chapters Representative
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Bio: ADR2, Helo C0-Pilot, Plane Captain, Air Crewman, '54-'62, USS Intrepid (CVA-11) for 3 mths, '56; USS Lake Chaplain (CV-39);USS Thor (ARC-4);USS Neptune (ARC-2); USS Lindenwald (LSD-6).
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Pete Giambalvo : Chapter Representatives Chairman
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Jack Hurff : A Division, '57-'60 - Flag Program Chairman, Linden, NJ
Born Sept 28 '37, Camden, NJ; Woodrow Wilson High School graduate '55; enlisted Navy Oct '56; boot camp, Baimbridge, Md., Co. #144; Machinist Mate 'A' School, Great Lakes, IL '57; USS INTREPID, Norfolk, VA for refitting (Angle Deck/Hurricane Bow) '57; 'A' Div O2 N2 Gang; made MM3, '57; Compressed Gas 'C' School, Portsmouth, VA; made MM2, Dec '59; service included 2 Med Cruises/2 Caribbean Cruises/Midshipman Cruise (North Atlantic); married wife Catherine (of 50 yrs to date '08), Oct 25, '58; separated Sept 16 '60; USS Intrepid Association Board Member/Flag Program
Bob Lillie : Board Member
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Felix Novelli : WWII Board Member
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Schoener, Frank - V-4 Division, '59-'61 - Chapter Representative
Bio: In April, 1943, 17-year-old Ray Stone enlisted in the Navy, attended boot camp at Sampson, N.Y. then radar school at Virginia Beach, VA. He then joined the precommissioning crew of the U.S.S. Intrepid (CV-11), being completed at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Virginia.
A Plankowner, one of the 3,000 men in the Intrepid’s original crew, Stone served as a radarman in the ship’s Combat Information Center (CIC) - the carrier’s brain center - responsibile for airplanes, from the time they took off until they landed back safely on the flight deck. CIC’s prime radar responsibility was detecting enemy planes and directing our fighter pilots to intercept and destroy them. Stone survived one torpedo and five kamikaze hits on the Intrepid without a scratch, while 26 of his fellow radarmen were killed during the kamikaze attacks off the Philippines.
He left the Intrepid in June of '45 and was then assigned to the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was also part of the commissioning crew. Stone was honorably discharged from the Navy on November 12, 1945.
After a few years of studies at The Art Students League in New York, under the G.I. Bill, he worked as a magazine promotion art director and then as a script and promotion writer at the Newspaper Advertising Bureau NAB). Later he became an advertising-agency creative director, a partner, and finally, president of SSK&F Advertising.
While at the NAB, Ray was co-author of a bicentennial book, “The Spirit of Seventy Six, 1776 –1976”. Ray is also author of “My Ship!” The U.S.S. Intrepid", a memoir of his service on the Intrepid, coming off-the-presses in December of '03. Other works of Ray's - in progress - include: a cookbook, “Beyond a Six Pack & Boiled Potatoes”, a children’s book, “Joe the Crow” and a semimemoir, “Uncharistic Characters.”
Stone lives and works out of his home studio in South Salem, N.Y.