Lucky Bag Yearbook

From the 1955 Lucky Bag:

ALAN POMEROY LEWIS

With a mambo beat from Panama, Al danced into Academy life. With him he brought an indispensable love for the submarine service, an easy ability for the academics, and a strong desire for the opposite sex, all three of which he kept with him during his stay on the Severn. Al was also a tycoon of the local answer to television — radio station WRNV — and was an accomplished baritone in the Chapel Choir. Over the years we noted one other thing about Al, and that was his devotion to the naval service which he would discuss with any and all who would listen. We wish him the best of luck in his years with the Fleet.

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He was also a member of the Trident Calendar.

Loss

Alan was lost on November 4, 1960 when the plane he was piloting crashed at Enid, Oklahoma. He was “an instructor at the Air Force Jet Training Base.” (Information from January 1961 issue of Shipmate; he was included in the ‘27 column because his father, Jack, was a member of that class.)

Other Information

From researcher Kathy Franz:

Born in Panama, Alan graduated in 1950 from St. Peter’s School in Peekskill, New York. He attended George Washington University for one year.

In September 1950, Alan and his father lived in Hillsboro, Texas, and visited the Washington, D. C. office of their congressman.

During his summer cruise in 1952, Alan was aboard the destroyer Waldron.

He was survived by his parents Navy Captain and Mrs. Jack H. Lewis, a brother Reilly, and a sister Mrs. Charles F. Purvis, Jr.

Alan is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Photographs

From the Lucky Bag

From the Evening star on May 22, 1955

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