Captain Harry D. Reed, Jr., Operations Officer at the Coast and Geodetic Survey's Atlantic Marine Center for the past year, retired on January 1, 1968. A 1933 graduate of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, he entered on duty with the Coast and Geodetic Survey as a deck officer in 1940. He was transferred to the U.S. Army in January 1944, and served in Europe as survey officer of an artillery observation battalion, returning to the Coast and Geodetic Survey in January 1946.

Captain Reed served for more than 15 years on various Coast and Geodetic Survey ships, and commanded the JONES, PATTON, and HYDROGRAPHER. He was District Officer in New Orleans from 1962 until 1965.

Captain and Mrs. Reed expect to remain in the Norfolk area temporarily.

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ESSA CORPS BULLETIN, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1/3/1968