Lucky Bag Yearbook

From the 1931 Lucky Bag:

Lorenz Quenzer Forbes

Lorry

Rifle 4, 3, 2, 1 Small Bore Rifle 4, 3 r31t; rNt; rNAt 1 P. O.

Home town papers please copy — “Brooklyn’s Boast Makes Good.” Lorry has certainly been an asset to the Naval Academy in more ways than one. His natural frankness and candour, coupled with his innate sense of the fitness of things have won him a host of friends. The more deadly of the species have responded to his unsophisticated charm of manner and his swirling brown eyes, but statistics show that they do all the worrying.

Academically speaking, Lorry has few troubles. He received his baptism of fire at Cornell University, and has flown Sail-Hypo-William ever since the Executive Department stepped a few fast rounds with him Youngster Year, from which he came up bloody but unbowed.

Athletics have received his attention. Lacrosse interfered with his smoking; so he focused his efforts on shooting. He was a welcome addition to the Navy gunmen, and his refreshing sense of humour and novel remarks have done much to build up the spirits of the teams.

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Lorry was a member of the Outdoor Rifle Team which celebrated an undefeated year. He was also a member of Small Bore Rifle Team.

Loss

From Find A Grave:

13 February 1937: Deceased was piloting USN plane to Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif., from Yuma, Arizona, on a duly authorized airplane flight completing a transcontinental trip from Norfolk, Va. He encountered extremely adverse weather in crossing Laguna Mts. and crashed near Laguna Lakes, Calif. Plane was a total wreck. Body in terribly mangled condition: FORBES, Lorenz Quenter, Lieutenant, U.S.N.

Other Information

From researcher Kathy Franz:

Lorenz attended Public School 77 in Brooklyn. Before the Naval Academy, he spent one year at Cornell University and was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Chapter.

He and Alta Katheryn Guy Gould were married August 1, 1936, in the U. S. Navy Chapel, Coronado, California.

His father Thomas was a bookkeeper, mother Clara (nee Quezner) and brothers Kenneth and George. George, who graduated from Cornell, died of an illness in September, 1937.

He earned his wings as naval aviator #4063 on October 24, 1934. He was survived by his wife, whom he had married six months before his loss. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Photographs

Source

Navy Directories & Officer Registers

The "Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps" was published annually from 1815 through at least the 1970s; it provided rank, command or station, and occasionally billet until the beginning of World War II when command/station was no longer included. Scanned copies were reviewed and data entered from the mid-1840s through 1922, when more-frequent Navy Directories were available.

The Navy Directory was a publication that provided information on the command, billet, and rank of every active and retired naval officer. Single editions have been found online from January 1915 and March 1918, and then from three to six editions per year from 1923 through 1940; the final edition is from April 1941.

The entries in both series of documents are sometimes cryptic and confusing. They are often inconsistent, even within an edition, with the name of commands; this is especially true for aviation squadrons in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Alumni listed at the same command may or may not have had significant interactions; they could have shared a stateroom or workspace, stood many hours of watch together, or, especially at the larger commands, they might not have known each other at all. The information provides the opportunity to draw connections that are otherwise invisible, though, and gives a fuller view of the professional experiences of these alumni in Memorial Hall.