ROOMMATES

The above photo was taken by me probably around the spring of 1961 at the Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington VA. There four guys on the left were my roommates for most of the time I was stationed at NPIC (Naval Photographic Interpretation Center in Suitland, MD. We all shared an apartment in the area called Congress Park of Washington, D. C.. Although there was 5 of us there was never any more than 3 there at a time to share the two bedroom apartment because we had different duty days. In civilian life I you would call it overtime, but we called it "slave labor" (see our Christmas card).

Pictured left to right are Richard Crishock, Joe Tidler, Ron Pluto, Gary Tarr and D. M. Dyt.

Dyt was not a roommate buy hang with us a lot. He was from NJ and died in a car crash around spring of '62. The other bookend is Richard Crishock a wonderful guy and one of those guys you never forget. About 4 years ago I renewed my friendship with him and his wife in Arlington, VA and found that they ad been living there only miles from where I lived for 30 years in the suburbs of MD. After finding, Dick as his family refers to him, I started looking for the other guys that were left. I located Tidler, Tarr and was sure we could find Pluto because he had always lived in Pittsburgh, PA and I had talked to him once in the 70's when I was in town for a seminar.

I have more stories about "Our Gang" at another time. We had a lot of good times together and I had plans to get a reunion planned when Crishcok got ill and passed away. This was a real shocker to me and I'll write soon about Dick.