Captain Francis X. Popper
has retired effective August 1, 1968, after nearly 29 years service,
the
last 2 years as Chief of the New York Field Office of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey. His other assignments include 12 years aboard
various Coast and Geodetic Survey ships and command of the PATTON
and BOWIE.
A 1937 graduate of Armour Institute of Technology (now Illinois
Institute of Technology), Captain Popper was appointed to the
Coast and Geodetic Survey in November 1939. His first assignments
were to sea duty, and he was aboard the EXPLORER, enroute from
Hawaii to Midway, when Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was transferred
to the Army in 1942 and was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze
Star for service in the Pacific before he returned to the Coast
and Geodetic Survey in 1946. He was on various geodetic field
parties for the next several years, on the Arctic Party for
more than 2 years, then aboard Seattle-based ships. He was at
Orlando Air Force Base and Patrick Air Force Base as liaison
officer from November 1962 until June 1966. Captain Popper has
taken a position with the International Boundary Commission
in Washington, and will live in the Maryland suburbs.
ESSA CORPS BULLETIN, 8/1/1968
