Lucky Bag Yearbook

From the 1953 Lucky Bag:

THEODORE TALLMADGE

Ted n.m.n. (no middle name) Tallmadge spent four years amid the chem labs and classrooms of Columbus Academy prepping for his college days. A year at Kenyon was climaxed by his initiation into the ranks of the Delta Tau Deltas. One month later, in Memorial Hall, he again raised his right hand and joined the chorus of “All this I do solemnly swear”. Membership in the German Club and a big number 29 on the Battalion “Inter-Murder” football squad rounded out his pre-service education. For his post-graduation O.D. watches, he prefers the splinter fleet. A sampan on the Yangtze?

Loss

Theodore was lost on October 8, 1959 when the B-47 Stratojet bomber he was aboard crashed during takeoff at Lincoln AFB, Nebraska. Three other officers aboard were killed.

There is a more detailed account of the crash, as well as a post-crash photograph, at this site.

Other Information

From researcher Kathy Franz:

From the Columbia Academy 1948 yearbook – He reads much. He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. – Shakespeare.

Ted Tallmadge, also known as Rover, came to the Academy four years ago as a freshman. Ted’s likable personality and winning smile immediately won him many friends.

As an athlete, Ted was active mainly in swimming and in football. He won a varsity letter in football during his senior year, a year in which competition for a berth on the team was very keen.

However, Ted’s true talents do not lie in the realm of athletics. Rover’s favorite pastime is tinkering around the chemistry lab. He can be found there during almost any detention period mixing up some foul concoction of what he alone knows.

Ted has already been accepted at Purdue. He plans to take engineering in college, and then go into that occupation. We all know that Ted’s affable manner and good mind will take him far at Purdue.”

Theodore won the Glenn Soule Goodwin Memorial Trophy for the boy who ranks highest in the field of science.

Senior Sayings – “My home brew will be ready any day now.” His home brew was voted Weakest. In the Senior Prophecy, Ted, a foremost scientist, invents the Tomaic Bomb. The Tomaic Bomb was the world’s most powerful weapon and representatives of all countries bid on it …

He was survived by his wife, daughter, and parents. (Information from February 1960 issue of Shipmate.)

Ted is buried in Ohio.

Ted’s class ring is in the collection of the United States Naval Academy Museum.¹

Photographs

From his high school yearbook

From his high school yearbook

References