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Text Box: Editorial Text Box: In the next newsletter I’d like to cover 1950-1955.  This is the period where the Whetstone was re-commissioned and served in Korea.  Anyone serving aboard during those years will surely remember more than the three paragraphs we now have in the recorded ships history.

Text Box: Hello John! Thanks for returning my e-mail, it was great to hear from you. I know what you mean about trying to remember everyone, those days are getting a little hazy for me also. I do remember Marty (Starke)bringing his T- Bird to Seattle now that you mention it. Seattle was quite a party. After I left the Stone I went to MM school in Great Lakes then to the Ashtabula AO 51 for a short time then to the Cimmaron AO 22 and finished out there with about three years of service on her. Discharged MM2 in 1965. Came back to St. Helena, about 75 miles north of San Francisco, and am still here. My fab shop is a custom steel fabrication shop building most anything in carbon steel, some stainless work and aluminum. We build structural steel frames for buildings, equipment support structures for the industrial market and personnel access ladders, stairs and platforms. Do a lot of the same in aluminum for the wine industry. We are right in the middle of the Napa Valley, California’s premier wine region. Most all of our work is designed by others and custom in one way or another. No production work, so it keeps things interesting. We currently have projects going in the building, petrochemical and wine industries. We are anxious for it to quit raining so we can get started. It has really been a wet spring. We are at about 160% of normal rain fall. Hoping all is well with you.                     Ron Ogletree

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