Long-time CC Mark J. Dysart, 57, Windsor, CT died Sunday, April 24. He grew up in a military family that took him all over the world, and he later served during the Vietnam War. During his years with the Marine Corps, Mark was Editor in Chief the first year the Quantico Sentry won the Thomas Jefferson Award.
Longtime CC supporter, Jack Pulwers, Ph.D. of Fairfax, VA died March 29, 2011 at Fair Oaks Hospital of extended illness after congestive heart failure. Born in New York City on July 2, 1924, Jack was raised there and in Shreveport, Louisiana. He received double degrees from Louisiana State University Read more…
Life Member Jacki Huneycutt, PA, Camp Lejeune has reported that retired MGySgt. Terence Kearns, 59, Reno, NV passed away Friday, January 7. A 27 year veteran, Kearns served as MCB Public Affairs Chief until his retirement in the late 1990s. He was also a veteran of Beirut and Somalia. He Read more…
He was one of the first African American reporters hired by a major network television station in L.A. and later helped it set a standard for community involvement.
Irving Schlossenberg was born March 19, 1918 in Baltimore and lived in Overland Park, Kan., where he passed away. He served as a Marine combat correspondent during World War II from 1942 to 1945, during which he served in five pacific campaigns, including four first-wave landings. He was the oldest living combat correspondent at the time of his death.
During WWII Andrew served with the Marines in the Pacific, where he met Pat, who was serving in the Navy. A resident of Arizona since 1974, Andrew previously served on the Chicago Ridge, Illinois Board of Trustees. A service will be held at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, 23029 North Cave Creek Road, on February 16th.
Frank S. Johnson Jr., a public relations and communications executive who worked under three U.S. presidents and for corporate, financial and not-for-profit organizations, died Jan. 12 at his home in Falls Church after a heart attack. He was 80.
CC Steve Stibbens reports: “It is with great sadness I have learned that our friend [Col. Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret)] died in Washington Thursday December 30th in Sibley Memorial Hospital. Greg Zorthian, Barry’s son, an editor at the Financial Times in New York said this morning that both he and brother Steve, also of New York, were with Barry when he passed away. Immediate cause of death was a stapf infection. Barry will be buried at Arlington Cemetery. He was a good Marine and highly respected Public Affairs spokesman in Vietnam during the roughest of times.”
By RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press
Colonel Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret)
Colonel Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret), a colorful U.S. diplomat who left his mark on American policy in Vietnam as a forthright and often combative press spokesman in the early years of the war, has died. Zorthian, 90, died Thursday in a Washington, D.C. hospital where he had been admitted a few days earlier, his son, Greg said. A staph infection was the immediate cause of death.
By his own reckoning, Zorthian was the last surviving member of the original cadre of U.S. diplomats and military leaders whose policy decisions shaped events in America’s longest war.
Dispatched to Saigon in 1964 by then President Lyndon Johnson to defuse an increasingly acrimonious relationship between American officials and news correspondents covering the war, Zorthian used a mixture of charm, sly wit and uncommonly straight talk in trying to establish credibility for the U.S. effort.
Life Member Richard F. Mescall, Jr., 67, passed away suddenly at his home in Fallbrook, Calif., July 11, 2010. He was born in Long Beach, but was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dick joined the Marine Corps one month after high school graduation in 1960. He served for 21 years, retiring as a Master Gunnery Sgt. (E-9).
Herb Merillat wrote two books about the Battle of Guadalcanal.