Notes from the Spring Meeting: Three Musketeers and a Cheesehead

Ye Olde Editor was at a loss at the Spring meeting- This group was too great pass up for a photo-op, but with no name-tags, I was at a loss for the name of the man with (L-R) Admiral Showers, CAPT Dick McDonald, and long-suffering NIF Treasurer CAPT Roger Granum. I called up Admiral Showers to inquire who the distinguished (and much better-looking) gentleman to the extreme left might be. He responded:

“Why, you whippersnapper! That distinguished gentleman is none other than John Gadow, USNR(Ret), 1635, long time member of NIP, served as a Board member for some time and came from his home in Madison, WI, for every BOD meeting here.  Still lives in Madison, still comes to nearly every one of our local functions, owns a tug boat on which he and his family take summer cruises down the Inland Waterway, and when they're up in this area they moor the tug at Roger Granum's pier in Edgewater, MD.  On active duty as a junior officer, John worked in "Y" Branch in the Pentagon.  He's a mighty good troop.”

The editor regrets the lack of nametags which serves to highlight his failing faculties.