Yearbook photo

Yearbook name: Roy Crane Siple

Email: roy.siple@cox.net
Phone numbers: H: 703.757.2899; C: 571.236.2187
Home address: 1442 Carrington Lane, Vienna, VA 22182
Wife: Karen Foster Siple; we met in college at Iowa State University in 1967
Children: William E., born March 1974 and lives in Ft. Collins, Co; Dr. Jessica Siple Tyler, born July 1977 and lives in Arlington, MA
Grandchildren: Bill’s children Sidney and Brendan; and Jess’s children Owen and Nolan

Brief History:
After GCM graduation, I moved with my parents and sister, Lynne, to Norfolk, VA where my father was stationed in the Navy.  I attended Iowa State University in Ames, IA that fall and obtained an NROTC scholarship.  I meet my future wife, Karen, there at a fraternity/sorority mixer and we dated throughout college.

I graduated from Iowa State in November 1970 in Business Administration and was commissioned in the Navy.  My first duty assignment was to attend the Submarine School in Groton, CN and then to serve in diesel-electric submarines.  Karen graduated from Iowa State in 1971, and we married in Ames, IA in July 1971.  We then drove across country to Charleston, SC to meet my first submarine assignment, USS Pickerel (SS 524).  My next submarine assignment was the USS Harder (SS 568), home ported in San Diego, CA.  Our son, Bill, was born while we were in San Diego.  Next followed assignments in Pearl Harbor, HI, Newport, RI, and Norfolk, VA.  In Norfolk, I shifted to surface ships which included one destroyer, two fast frigates, and an LST.  I was on a destroyer in the Mediterranean when our daughter Jessica was born in 1977.  Later, I was assigned to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA and then to my last ship assignment, USS Fanning (FF 1076) home ported in San Diego, CA where I served as the ship’s Executive Officer.

We returned to the Washington, DC area in 1985, where I was assigned to the Navy staff at the Pentagon.  I retired from the Navy in 1992 and began working for companies supporting the federal government in communications and computer security.  I worked for Logicon, later Northrop Grumman, and then SRA, International.  I retired from SRA as a Program Manager in June 2013.

In retirement I have remained active in my fraternity, Theta Xi, and keep busy doing volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity and our church in McLean, Lewinsville Presbyterian Church.  At Lewinsville, I have served as the church’s Treasurer, Elder, on the church Foundation, and recently as the President of the Board for the Lewisville Retirement Resident (LRR).  LRR is a senior living facility for low income residents and the church’s major mission project.

Karen and I enjoy going on cruises and have traveled to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Alaska.  We have also visited most of the United States and Ireland. Our family‘s favorite vacation is to rent a beach-front house in Emerald Isle, NC for a week each summer.  We have gone every year, except one, since 1987.

I am a long suffering, lately, Washington Redskins fan and avid amateur genealogist.  I have dragged Karen through cemeteries all over the country and we visited our ancestral origins in Germany in 1999.

It has been great to reconnect with Chuck Rieger during his preparation for the 50th Reunion, and I look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.

Photos:

October 1985

With family at Emerald Isle, NC – July 2015