Raymond Sidney Sullivan

Raymond Sidney Sullivan ! 1915-1987
Captain, Supply Corps, US Navy | Cook, Sportsman and Writer

Born in Miami, Missouri June 6, 1915
Father: Dr. Frank H. Sullivan (1872-1944), Grandfather: Dr. A.H.W. Sullivan (1841-1935), Greatgrandfather: Samuel Wells Sullivan (1820-1912), Great-greatgrandfather: Samuel Wells Sullivan (1777-1860)
Mother: Ethel Irene Casebolt Sullivan (1883-1966), Grandfather: Edward Seal Casebolt (1834-1908), Greatgrandfather: William Casebolt (1787-1865)
First Wife (1937): Georgia Belle Sykes Sullivan (1917-1967), children: Sidney West, William Beaumont
Second Wife (1968): Bonnie May Sykes Edwards Sullivan (1916-2001)
Graduated Miami High School 1933 -- Valedictorian, lettered basketball 4 years
Graduated Missouri Valley College 1937 -- Magna Cum Laude, lettered basketball 4 years, baseball 3 years, member Pi Gamma Mu, Alpha Delta Kappa, Student Senate

Ahnentafel Report compiled by Patrick Sullivan

1937-43	Credit Manager, Wilson Sporting Goods, Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. Played league basketball and softball for Wilson and Gold Bond.
1943-46	Commissioned Ensign, Supply Corps, US Naval Reserve. Attended Harvard University, served at Great Lakes; Walnut Ridge, Arkansas and in Philippine Theater. Released from active duty.
1947-54	Commissioned Lieutenant, Supply Corps, regular Navy. Served in New Orleans; Panama Canal Zone; Point Mugu, California; served as Supply Officer on USS Iowa (BB-61) in Korean Waters and at Naval Air Station, Astoria, Oregon.
1955	Earned Masters in Business Administration from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -- second in class with 3.91 average. Spent 3 months with General Motors, military intern program.
1956-58	Served as Depot Planning Officer, Naval Supply Depot, Guam. Coached Depot basketball team which won All-Island Championship. Promoted to Commander, Supply Corps in 1958.
1958-61	Served as Contracting Officer for Defense Atomic Support Agency, Washington DC.
1961-63	Served as Supply Officer on USS Jason (AR-8) in Vietnamese Theater. Coached ship's basketball team which, in 1962, won 47 games and lost 1.

1963-66	Served as Director of Purchase Division, Aviation Supply Office, Philadelphia. Promoted to Captain, Supply Corps in 1964.
1966-70	Served as Commander, Defense Contract Administration Services Region, St. Louis. Administered Navy, Army, Air Force and NASA contracts, supervised 1600 civilian and military personnel in 8 state area.
Navy Medals and Awards	US Navy Legion of Merit, Korean Service, Asiatic Pacific Campaign, Liberation of the Philippines, National Defense Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, President's Council on Youth Opportunity, US Navy Award of Esteem

Retired with second wife Bonnie to Miami, Missouri October 1, 1970

Set up Georgia Sykes Sullivan memorial scholarship at Missouri Valley College
Helped establish Miami Community Center and Riverside Park
Was inducted into Missouri Valley College Hall of Fame for basketball
Continued to hunt, fish, cook and write

Died in Tucson, Arizona March 5, 1987. Buried in Miami Cemetery.

Writing Examples:

1937-1960

Ambicheckrous

My wife thinks it dandy
For me to be handy
When bills she is putting
Before me for footing.

Bass Plug

I wish I could fish it
Where more fish would wish it.
Grit

Confirmed Groveler

What matter if the worm does turn
In anger or in shame?
His size, his shape,his character
At both ends are the same.
Kansas City Star

Paradoxically Speaking

To be quite blunt
(Perhaps unkind),
One finds the front
At home behind.
Kansas City Star

Steady Job

A farmer's life is quite secure,
There's really nothing to it,
He doesn't have to look for work --
He only has to do it!
Kansas City Star

Still Here

Though troubles have multiplied
Man has outsat em
From Adam to Eve
And Eve to atom.
Kansas City Star

1961-1987

As Usual

This season, it seems,
Is run of the mill.
Though the fish will not,
The mosquitoes will.
Cosmopolitan

Blankety-Blank Verse

Most poetry, today it seems,
Just straggles on for reams and reams
And as a symbol of our time
Neither has reason nor has rhyme

No Long-Term Leases

For "meaningful relationships"
Today, it seems the fun
Lies strictly in the moving in --
Or moving out of one.
Sunday Post Crescent, Wisconsin

Those Good Old Days!

Remember the bookkeeper
Perched on his stool,
Green eyeshade tilted,
Quill for a tool?
He wasn't too fast,
But nowhere in town
Did you hear the excuse
"Our computer is down."
Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest

Where There's a Will

They hate to spend and love to save,
Those miserly old investors --
But nevertheless, some future day
They will have made great ancestors!
Wall Street Journal

RECIPES from the Captain