Jeremy Dehaai wrote in: “All is well out here in Central Illinois. Life is great for me - I have a wonderful wife (Krista), 3 fun children (9 - Miranda, 7 - Sydnie, and 5 - Justin), and work is going well! What more could I ask for? We have been living in Bloomington, IL for about 6.5 yrs and really love the area. I have been working for Plymouth Technology (industrial chemicals sales) for 5 yrs and am working in a Regional Sales Manager role. We are growing and business is going great, so that keeps me pretty busy. Krista and I bought an RV last August and have had a blast on many family camping trips. The kids absolutely love it and it has really given us the opportunity to have some good quality family time. We drove it down to Disney in March for the kids spring break and met up with Rayme Lacy and his family for an evening. We had a couple of cold beers and told some ’sea stories’ that evening. Timmy Green came up to Chicago a few weeks ago to make his 1st trip to Wrigley Field and he is now a huge Cubs fan! We met up with Chad Rice as well, who had just gotten married a week before! Needless to say, we had a pretty good time tossing back a few in the Wrigleyville area reminiscing about old times! I was hung over for days! FYI - I attached a picture of my family and a picture of Timmy, Chad, and I

Eric Lindberg sent in some updates of Tom Campbell and Brian Krell’s bike trip from our house in San Francisco to Los Angeles early in July. We enjoyed hanging out on the evening of the 5th of July and Brian and Tom arrived in LA on the 13th. I caught up with Tom both before and afterward. Congrats Tom & Brian and thanks for the updates and pics, Eric.

Dennis Jacko wrote in: “Been a bit and thought I’d drop you an update. I’m now the XO on USS PEARL HARBOR (LSD 52), an amphibious assault ship out of San Diego (where else?). In about another 18 months I’ll be taking over as the CO, so I’m right on track with my master plan to retire after spending an entire Navy career in San Diego without moving. I’m currently on deployment, and we’ve been hitting some of the real garden spots of the world - East Timor, Guam, Sri Lanka, all on the way to even more super cool places in Africa and the Persian Gulf…again. My wife, Michelle, was able to fly out to meet me in Darwin, Australia on short notice for some nice R&R. We had a hell of a time getting dipped into a couple of enclosures with giant salt water crocodiles in the ‘Cage of Death’ (pic attached). We highly recommend it for small children or for adults after a few beers.

Aron Rader sent in his update: “Our second child was born on March 11, Kai; he’s in the picture here with his older brother. Everyone is getting re-adjusted to the lack of sleep and unexpected wakeup calls. Hope all is well and nice work on the website! - Regards, Aron Rader”

Nicolle (McIntyre) Fowler wrote in with some quick notes: “I had lunch with Brian Murphy on my recent quick trip to NYC in May for the christening of a childhood friend’s baby girl.  So nice to see Brian, work is keeping him very busy with CV Starr & Co in NYC.  He and Jeanne and their three children are doing well and enjoy living on Long Island near Jeanne’s family.   I am also doing well in Fargo, ND, still doing boiler inspections which keeps me busy and out of trouble.  My husband and I have some exciting news, we will be having fraternal twins in November, we are still two weeks away from the ultrasound to tell boys/girls/one of each yet.  The twin part is a shocker, but we are excited and terrified all the same.  A lot of sleepless nights are in our future!  The babies will join our 2 ½ year old daughter Alyssa.

Bob Noiseux got in a last minute notice of a new email address and an announcement that he’s moving jobs to Berkshire Power as Plant Manager. Congrats Bob!

Thanks for the submissions! I have updated our “MIA List” of missing email addresses on our website, www.kps94.org/MIA. And be sure to join our Facebook group “Kings Point Class of 1994” Till next round . . . ~Blake

On July8th , the Academy welcomed the Class of 2014 and thus began the Indoctrination period. During this period the class is referred to as “candidates.” Once indoctrination is completed, they will be called “plebe candidates.” At Acceptance Day on Sept. 4th the class will be accepted into the Regiment as “plebes.” Recognition Day (determined by the first class officers) will make them “fourth classmen.”

The Class of 2014 started with 346 candidates, the largest incoming class since 1985. The class has many “legacy” children who entered including sons, a daughter, and grandchildren. They are Susan ‘85 and Brad Winfree ‘85 (Alexandra), Fred Ebers ‘75 (Fred), Ed Ferenczy ‘77 (Jesse), James Mathews ‘78 (James), Andrew Garger ‘80 (Stephen), Mark Berglund ‘81 (Matthew), Guy Wilson ‘83 (Michael), Scott Britton ‘84 (Derek), and Tim Weber ‘92 (TJ). Grandchildren were Elliot See ‘49 (Andrew See), Bruce Laubenheimer ‘57 (Dustin Myers), and Richard Adams ‘60 (Shannen Dunn). There were also brothers, a sister, nieces and nephews of graduates and current midshipmen.

Members of the 50th Legacy Class of 1964 were on hand to welcome the Class of 2014 and to let them know they will be there for them over the next four years.

Enjoy this video and perhaps it brings back some memories! Click here to view the video.

Nothing new with me on a personal or professional front – still kicking it strong being my own boss while surviving the slowdown in business.  Actually, things have been picking up during the first quarter of 2010 so good things are on the horizon.

James MacRitchie, Chuck Eaton and I partook in our annual and now, quite traditional “SausageFest 2010” with a ski/board trip to Jackson Hole, WY.   We changed things up this year by adding an extra day of skiing and got a few days at Grand Targhee along with some at Jackson Hole.  A great time was had as usual, less a “mis-borrowed” iPhone of mine that forced me to drop $500 on a new one – though the original was “returned” a week later to the hotel which I got back, and returned the replacement.  We’re already thinking of SSGFest 2011.

Getting on to a long overdue set of submissions . . . Tim Tran wishes a Happy new year to you all. I can’t believe it but I’ve been in the Bay Area for over 10 years. Eric Lindberg and I are re-starting up the Kings Point USMMA Chapter in San Francisco. In fact, we are organizing monthly meetings with the first one to take place on the Jeremiah O”Brien on January 26, 2010. Give me or Eric a call if you would happen to be in town and wanna join us.  It’s winter so I’ve been pretty active trying to get in as much snowboarding as possible. I’m also signed up for the ING Bay to Breaker in May. It should be fun. After that, it will be the San Francisco Full Marathon. My first time for a full so if you have any tips, I’ll take them.  That’s it for now. Hope to run into some friendly faces at the next reunion since I missed the big one in October last year.  Wishing you all success and prosperity in 2010!”

Mike Farrell wrote in after a long hiatus.  “I’m in Democratic Republic of Congo right now conducting port security assessments. I was able to get an internet connection and saw your e-mail (on one leg holding an antenna made of aluminum foil–lol!).  Doing fine here, minus mosquitoes and the heat. Family and I are still stationed in The Netherlands. I have been promoted to Commander and will be fleeting up to Executive Officer of the Europe office this summer. Kind of sad since this will be it for operational duties and I’ll be minding a desk from now on. Have not ran across many KP’ers in my work, but heard some delightful news about Wes Corbet from my Coastie colleagues working in Africa. Apparently he is doing well and has a good rep within the USCG…way to go Wes!  Missed the reunion but thought of everyone there. Hope it was a blast. Outside of being TDY a lot, family and I traveled to some neat places over the last year. Nestled ourselves in Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and France.”

Speaking of Wes Corbett, he did drop a line and a photo.  With the success he had implementing the “Master Plan” in both West and South Africa, he decided to move it to the Middle East.  He believes they needed the help.

Dan Forter is “extending my stay as a project manager for FPL in Wisconsin.  It’s a good job and is always interesting.  The winter wasn’t too bad, but Trish and I are definitely ready for summer!”  Congrats Dan!

Hans Rittenger dropped a quick reminder that he’s making Waves in Florida on his toy jet ski. Oh, he’s still making Power too at Florida Power & Light (I think Hans is working at FPL, yea?)

Rayme Lacy wrote in a nice update and has kept in touch with a lot of our classmates . . . “I am now working for Siemens as a Field Service Engineer on nuclear plants. We moved back to my hometown of Satellite Beach, Florida. My kids are now going to my old schools. Chuck Gardner will probably be my daughters math teacher next year. Over spring break we meet up with Jeremy Dehaii and his family at Disney World. We both were staying in the campground in our RVs. We spent a few hours with them at the pool. Nick Morgan and family are coming down the first few weeks in June. We are going to spend a week with them sneaking beer into the water parks. Nick likes coming down that week because it is national gay week at Disney. If anybody is going to be down there at the same time look us up.. Next year we are going  to have a KP reunion at Disney during the same week. So far my family is in, the Morgan’s are in, and the (Aaron) Buckos are in. We are working on the (James) Desmet’s as well. All are welcome!”  Nick, we never knew!

Thanks for the submissions!  I have updated our “MIA List” of missing email addresses on our website, www.kps94.org/MIA

Be sure to join our Facebook group “Kings Point Class of 1994” Till next round . . . ~Blake

Brian Peters wrote in “I was promoted to lead all of GE Water’s indirect chemical distributors in North America. The family will be relocating to the Philadelphia area where GE Water’s headquarter is located.”

Tom Blenk wrote in from Dubi saying “I am still with ABS. Everything is going well.”

Brian Murphy sent in…”My family and I got together with Matt Lavin and his family up in Cooperstown, NY, over Memorial Day. Matt and his wife, Ericka, now have four kids, with the newest addition, Parker, joining the clan in 2008. Matt is also in the process of moving from the Coast Guard base in Cape Cod, where he was flying helicopters, down to Elizabeth City, NC, where he will begin training on the C-130. As for me, things are going well. I’m still with Starr Marine Agency (coming up o 15 years) in New York, heading up the hull department. I now handle the international hull portfolio as well, which is fun but very challenging. Jeanne and I have had a busy and fun summer with our kids - Grace is 5 1/2, Patrick is 4, and Kate is 2 1/2. Attached is a picture of the gang from our vacation in the Adirondack mountain’s in July.

I got together with Matt Andrews and Garrett Cousineau a couple of months back. They are both with the tanker-broker Quincannon Associates in NYC and are doing well.

Homecoming was a lot of fun, and it was great seeing everyone again. Matt Ross made the trip down from Maine and stayed with us for a couple of days. He is currently sailing as Chief Mate with Chevron and is enjoying himself. It was great catching up with him.

I was in Wilmington, Delaware, earlier this week for a meeting with a tug company. As I was leaving the office, I ran into Pete Slootmaker, who had sold the company its Z-drives for its tugs. Pete works for HRP in Chester, PA, and we hope to catch up more soon.

Jim Kim has moved back to Atlanta after some time in Korea. Jim is a General Manager with GE in their Energy Services division. He’s in NY for some training and I hope to catch up with him while he’s here.”

Brian Krell wrote from the bridge of the Monseigneur, at anchor in Galveston “Well I missed homecoming, but for a good reason. I was out sailing as a deck officer for the first time! I finally decided to get out from behind the lawyer desk and do what I should have done 15 years ago, sail! I have been sailing as an Engineer for the last couple of years. I finally managed to get out and sail as a deck officer (go dualies!), and it just happened to be on the exact same ship that I first sailed on as a 3rd engineer on, the Monseigneur (an American Heavy Lift ship).

Before I shipped out, I went and checked up on Gavin Hughes in the Philippines. Well, a little more than a check up, I ended bringing my bicycle and pedaling around the Philippines with him for a month! Here is a picture of him and I after playing volleyball with the locals.”

John Bellissimo wrote in about the last reunion: “We had a very nice collection of ‘94 make it out to the homecoming festivities this past October - not only from all over the country but Europe and Asia/South Pacific as well. For some this was the first time back to KP since graduation - and being from Kings Point is a lot better than being at Kings Point. Despite the weather a good time was had by all and the bonds formed as classmates were still quite apparent throughout the reunion weekend. Professor Jacques Szaluta delivered an update to the class of 1994 during the dinner party and for those classmates who were not in attendance; he passes on all the best regards. A special thank you to Matt Hartzell, Steve Liano, Matt Andrews, and Tim Green for their generous financial sponsorship of the event. Also a big thank you to Blake Miller for creating the website payment functionality and maintaining kps94.org. Planning for 2014 (20th reunion) will commence 4 years from now - if anyone is interested in assuming this responsibility (I think I heard Angie and Michelle were…) please don’t be shy to raise your hand. And I encourage those who couldn’t make it this time to seriously consider future attendance.”

Thanks for your input and feedback – Until next time . . . smooth sailing! ~Blake!

By the time this is published, our Fifteen (15) Year Reunion will have taken place. I’m being preemptive here, but we should have a write up and pictures on our website, www.kps94.org.

Not much new on my front – same old biz, and same old fun. I did get in a great backpacking trip with my wife to Mt. Whitney at end of July. Pics are on my facebook account, and there’s a detailed write up on my blog, www.blakemiller.net

Abel Tanael with Family

Abel Tanael wrote in . . . “A lot of things are going on both at work and at home. My daughters are growing fast. Isabel Elaine is 7 this Saturday, July 18th and Elisha Joan will be 5 this coming labor day weekend. I won’t be able to make it this time to our 15th year reunion since our family have long planned to go back to the Philippines and celebrate the Christmas season over there this year. It’s been 11 years and it’s long overdue. Loads of renovation going on at my home. I’m now learning to be a handyman. It’s getting there. At work, busy as always. Matt Andrews {is} checking our traffic here at the Hamilton Port. Fertilizer season is over for now but it’s time for the retailers to get their supplies from us so we are busy trucking everything out from our warehouse to theirs.

Hugh Healey sent in picture and announcement of the birth of their son “Liam Francis Healey” born on 5/20/09. Congrats Hugh!

Francis Liam Healey

Joe Woods played golf in the KP NY Golf Outing with Willie Pack (KP 00′) and Tom Wingenfeld (KP 69′). We played great and won 1st place. It doesn’t hurt that Willie is a 1 handicap. At the outing I ran into Tim Green, Matt Andrews and Joe Costanza. All are doing very well. Great job Joe and team for winning!!

Brett Miller & Family

Brett Miller and wife Kelly have been blessed with another baby girl. Emily Claire Miller was born on July 10, 2009. Brother Owen, 4and half, and sister Audrey, 3, are both very excited for our new addition. Kelly is doing well, and adjusting to no sleep, again. Congrats Brett and Kelly!

Chris Price just had their second boy on 7/22/09, his name is Alex Thomas. All went smoothly and everyone is happy (Brother? Evan is a little less than happy but he’s getting on fine). Congrats Chris!!

Brian Murphy's Family

Brian Murphy and his family got together with Matt Lavin and his family up in Cooperstown, NY, over Memorial Day. Matt and his wife, Ericka, now have four kids, with the newest addition, Parker, joining the clan in 2008. Matt is also in the process of moving from the Coast Guard base in Cape Cod, where he was flying helicopters, down to Elizabeth City, NC, where he will begin training on the C-130. I have some great pictures from our trip but can’t find them! - I’ll forward for the next edition.

As for me, things are going well. I’m still with Starr Marine Agency (14+ years) in New York, heading up the hull department. I now handle the international hull portfolio as well, which is fun but very challenging. Jeanne and I have had a busy and fun summer with our kids - Grace is 5 1/2, Patrick is 4, and Kate is 2 1/2. Attached is a picture of the gang from our vacation in the Adirondack mountains in July.

I’m scheduled to get together with Matt Andrews, Garrett Cousineau, Tim Green, and probably a few others from the NYC contingent later this week. Should be fun. That’s it for now - I’m looking forward to seeing everybody at Homecoming.

That’s it for this issue . . . don’t forget, we’re more “social”. Be sure to join our Facebook group “Kings Point Class of 1994” We also have a continuous list of “Missing in Action” classmates showing those who we do not have email addresses for. See www.kps94.org/mia for more info. Till next round . . . ~Blake

It’s a great pleasure to announce once again the Kings Point Class of 94’ Fifteen (15) Year Reunion which will be held the weekend of October 2nd 3rd and 4th. We have built a custom area on our website just for the homecoming to send details, announce, and have all the information there. So please visit www.kps94.org for more information. We certainly hope to see many of you there as it will be a memorable one.

Things have been fairly quiet for the last quarter; have heard from a couple of you. Personally my business Pro Motion Design (web, marketing, graphic design, custom development) has actually been growing this year. I have hired yet another Office Administrator/Marketing Assistant to help both internally and with my external clients and projects.

Many of you may have seen the recent blog post, but I have teamed up and did some work for our classmate Matt Hartzell & his company with a website overhaul and some new printing jobs. For more information please visit the Kings Point website (kps94.org), or visit Matt’s new website www.hartzellindsrvcs.com. If anyone is looking for help with their website, graphic design or marketing, or online marketing certainly let me know.

I actually had the chance to see James MacRitchie back in March where we partook in “Sausage Fest” annual ski trip…I don’t know number seven? Although it was only James this time. Chuck Eaton another usual “regular” had a bum knee. James and he flew out to San Diego and spent a couple of days visiting, then a few days skiing at Mammoth. The skiing was terrible, but the visit and trip was great as usual!

Blake Miller & James MacRitchie in Mammoth

Bruce Skillman wrote in . . . . “This may be my first time writing in to this in a long time. Hope all is well with you and your family. I just can’t believe that it has been actually 15 years since we left Kings Point. Wow. That is amazing. I am still living in the New Orleans area and enjoying the life that the southeast has to offer. I have finally turned pro in 06′ and have been married to a great girl for three great years. Today is our third wedding anniversary. No kids but our yellow lab Charlie is alot like the “Marley and Me dog” which keeps us both on our toes.

Bruce & Angie

To the class, I am hoping to make it back to KP for our 15 year reunion, there are no promises with the work schedule. To all of you that have survived the riggers of life out of school the past 15 years, I wish you all the best. One of these days, I am going to be lucky enough to make it to a reunion.”

Rick Mangubat & Robert Upton

Mike Farrell wrote in with this: “Hello Everyone! I hope all finds you well. I am stationed with the USCG in Rotterdam, NL. Life is well and has treated my family and I great. Arrived here in summer 2008 and I am conducting port security assessments for the Coast Guard in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this year’s reunion, but I hope all of you who attend have a good time. My contact info is below (mobile is best) and hope to hear from you. Cheers and God Bless! Cell: +31(0)62-316-9593”

Hugh Healey sent a note in from Guam with: “Hi Blake, I’m emailing from the tropical island of Guam, “where America wakes up first”. I was given the opportunity within Horizon Lines as the General Manager of Guam and Micronesia a little over a year now. My wife Sarah and I are enjoying this part of the world, and we are expected our second child (son) any day now. Guam is on the brink of a major military build up, so no rest for the wicked. On a second note, I had the opportunity of traveling to Shanghai, China to visit Fred Castonguay and Matt Hoag. Fred was a gracious host and I still owe him money from our golf rounds. Hope all is well! Hugh”

Wes “Weasel” Corbett contacted me all the way from Nigeria and wrote: “What’s new buddy. About to finish a jack-up repair project in Dubai and then heading back home. Just wanted to get some news from that side of the planet. Ran into Javier Bru (’98)…one of the Panamanian Plebes…he’s the Flag Surveyor for the project. I don’t think he recognized me…good thing I think. – Weasel”

Matt's new business card to base new design.

Blake and his team started by drafting up some new static templates, from scratch.  Using Matt’s new business card design, a slick new template was created.

HISC Before

Once approved, it was then turned into the website . . . sliced, coded and optimized.

HISC After

The original website used nested HTML table’s to place the text and pictures, resulting in code that was difficult to maintain. In addition, the original website used font tags, which are now obsolete in the current HTML standard.  “Valid” code and css wasn’t even an option with the old site design and methods.

• The re-designed website uses CSS and HTML to position the content with minimal amount of coding, thus making the pages lighter weight for faster rendering and easier maintenance.
• We incorporated the look & logo used in the business cards HISC uses within the new design to give the website a fresh clean look and feel that kept the brand identity the same across products.
• A new navigation system that makes it simple for people to get to the information they want, without getting that “cluttered” feeling the old design/navigation system had.  We also combined the content of pages to reduce the number of navigation buttons.

Matt is extremely happy with the new website and is working with Blake on some other work.  “It’s great to be (finally) doing some work with fellow Kings’ Pointers . . . especially in a slightly different context

View the new website!

Blake Miller’s Pro Motion Design is a full service Graphic & Website Design, Web Hosting, Full-Color Offset Print and Marketing firm focusing on small to medium-sized businesses . . . worldwide.  Contact Blake at 619-840-3572.

Matt Hartzell’s Hartzell Industrial Services (HISC) delivers the services, expertise, project support, and custom software development and rollout for technical industries . . . also worldwide!  Contact Matt at 714-920-7072

In case you missed out . . . Check out this ABC news clip at Kings Point regarding piracy:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7302684

…and an email from Maersk Alabama: EMAIL FROM MAERSK ALABAMA CREW MEMBER TO SHIPMATE ABOARD MAERSK ARKANSAS

Hey,

Everyone on here is okay. We’re on our way to Mombasa with Navy protection on board. Captain Phillips is still hostage in the lifeboat with the 4 pirates. I hear they’re flying out reliefs for everyone, but I’m not sure what all’s going to happen once we get to Mombasa . Supposedly the FBI is coming out to investigate the crime. Maybe we’ll be on the next CSI Somalia. I wanted to let you know some of the lessons we learned so you guys can better prepare yourselves for something similar.

The only guys actually captured by the pirates were on the bridge: Capt, 3/M, and 2 AB’s. I don’t really know why they stayed on the bridge until the pirates got up there. Then they had keys to everything and were able to unlock everyone’s rooms. The pirates got up to the bridge very quickly once they were on board. We had a locked cage door over the ladder well from main deck, but it only took a second for them to shoot it off. They then got to the bridge up the outside ladders. By that time we had taken control of the engine and steering down below. Mike stayed in the ECR and the C/M was out on deck tracking the pirates’ movement. We kept swinging the rudder side to side. The pirates’ boat capsized, though I’m not sure exactly when or what caused it. After about 20 minutes the engine was killed, I don’t know by whom. At that point I shut off the air bottles and Mike killed power. He was also able to get outside and trip the fuel shutoff for the EDG. I think this was critical. The pirates were very reluctant to go into the dark. We will be looking at a way to shut off the EDG from the ECR in the future. All the crew had been mustered and secured in the steering gear. Our pirates didn’t have any grenades, so they would have never been able to break in there.

The previous day we had welded a padeye on the inside of the hatch to the fantail so it was secured from the inside. The only problem with the steering gear was the heat and the shortage of water In the future we will store food and water in various spots for emergency usage. I think we will also run a fresh water line into the steering gear. We were able to make a run from the steering gear to the E/R water fountain and fill up some empty oil sample bottles we had back there. The C/M was also able to get some fruit and sodas from the galley and drop them down the line standpipe. The pirates sent the 3/M unescorted to go look for crew members, so he was able to get away. One of the pirates then went with an AB down to the E/R to look for people. Mike was able to jump him in the dark and we took him prisoner in the steering gear. No one else came down into the E/R. As the day went on the pirates became desperate to get out of there. There boat was sunk, and they couldn’t get our ship moving. The Captain talked them into taking the MOB boat. The three remaining pirates went down in the MOB boat with Phillips. We were then able to negotiate with them over the radio. We dropped some food, water and diesel to them. We started getting the plant back on line. Unfortunately, the MOB boat wouldn’t start. A couple of guys got in the lifeboat and dropped it. They motored over and traded the lifeboat for the MOB boat. We were supposed to exchange their guy for the Captain, but they ended up keeping him. They motored off in the lifeboat. They had no way of getting back aboard, so we followed them. The Navy showed up a few hours later. We stayed close by for some time, but then the Navy asked us to head out. I heard that several other pirate vessels were heading our way and the Navy wanted us out of the way. That’s about it. I’ll give you all the details some other time. Just to reiterate the most important points:

• Have a well fortified location with food and water supply.
• Kill all the lights. Leave the alarms going, the noise helped cover our movements through the house.
• Flashlights and radios are very handy, as well as the sound-powered phone.

Anyway, it was a pretty stressful situation. I have to say I am impressed with how the entire crew responded. We didn’t have anybody who wanted to give up. I’m pretty confident that Phillips will end up ok. They have to know that if they kill him they’ll be done. I assume the company will be forced into taking some kind of action to assure our security from now on.

Hope everything is going well there. I’ll talk to you later.

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Toner was assigned to the Combined Security Transition Command as garrison engineer training Afghans to assume a security role for their nation.  A Navy Nurse was also killed in the attack and another woman wounded.  It was reported that Toner diverted fire to allow another Navy officer to escape.  LT Matthew Hume, USN ‘02, who shared quarters with Toner, also managed to escape injury. 

While at the Academy, Toner, a Shipyard Management major,   played football (#46) for four years and lacrosse as a first classman.  He dated and married a Long Island girl he met while at the Academy, Brooke Dueling.  He was an extremely popular midshipman and naval officer and brightened the lives of everyone with whom he came in contact.  The family has requested burial in Arlington National Cemetery and a Memorial Service at the Academy. 

Facebook subscribers can join the “Never Forget Francis L. Toner IV” network for more stories, videos and photos.  The Governor of Rhode Island has ordered all U.S. and State flags to be flown at half-mast until Toner is laid to rest.