MikeC
Registered: 05/03/04
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Mike, 
Please find attached a letter I wrote to the Secretary of the Navy. I'm not sure how to get it out to people on the Higbee website or, if it will be well received. Perhaps others would be interested and have inputs on how to get another ship named Higbee. At the last reunion, it struck me that eventually, there wouldn't be anyone left to attend.
Archie
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William A. Hubbard
3508 Edgewood Drive
Vancouver, WA 98661
April 9, 2004
The Honorable Gordon R. England
Secretary of the Navy
1000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20350-1000
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I am writing this letter to request that Lenah S. Higbee be considered as a name for a future US Navy ship. Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee was a member of the U.S. Navy’s “Sacred Twenty,” the first group of the Navy Nursing Corps, which was appointed in 1908. Mrs. Higbee was the second Superintendent of the Navy Nursing Corps and, the first woman awarded the Navy Cross which she received for “distinguished service in the line of her profession and conspicuous devotion to duty.”
If accepted, the newly commissioned ship would be the second to bear the name U.S.S. Higbee. The original Higbee was commissioned on January 27, 1945, as a Gearing Class DDR/DD, Hull Number 806 and, was the first U.S. Naval warship to bear the name of a woman. She gallantly served in World War II, the Korean War, and Viet Nam. Higbee was decommissioned in 1979.
Renaming a ship after Lenah S. Higbee would honor the service of a true American heroine, the contributions of all women involved in the defense of our nation and the dedication of the crewmembers of the original U.S.S. Higbee.
Thank you for time and consideration.
Sincerely,
William A. Hubbard
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Registered: 10/09/07
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I for one would like to see another ship named again Higbee,because she was a grand ship who had a many grate crew's that manned her deck's throught her long life, of service to our navy and country..so you have my vote...Michael D. Guardado SM1/RET/U.S.N.
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