Robert L. MacLeod USNR
USS Kawishiwi AO-146 
Communications Officer;  LTJG    1955  -  1957                                 
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After leaving Carnegie Tech in 1953, I went to OCS in Newport RI and then spent three years in the U. S. Navy on tankers in the Atlantic and Pacific. Following that, I was a research chemist for three years in Cleveland, where I also took courses in the Graduate Business School of Western Reserve. the next 30 years I was involved in the international sales and marketing of commodity and specialty chemicals. this included three years in tokyo as sales manager for chemicals and plastics at Union Carbide Japan KK. Upon retirement, I moved from Boston to Charleston SC, and then on to Wellington, FL for tennis and SCUBA diving, and the art scene.
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I left the K. Jan. 1957, same  as Bo Neumann. We were in the same OCS class, and both were assigned to old WWII converted merchant tankers, the Chipola (AO-63), and the Monongahela (AO-42), before coming to the Kawishiwi.
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We made some ports more than once, in fact our favorite, Sasebo, 5 times. When I went to Japan in later years on business, they told me i spoke Japanese like a girl; wonder how that could be.
 
2009: Two other officers from Kawishiwi; LTJG Ed Agostini and LTJG Bud Neumann; all live near each other in Florida.

2011: Ex-jg's (and Plankowners) Agostini (Gunnery), MacLeod (Communications) and Neumann (Damage Control) enjoyed a "Mini-K Reunion".
 Daughter Lisa     Joanne    and     Bob         


The "THREE Mustacheketeers" on their way across Pacific from Long Beach to Sasebo in 1956. They shaved off the
  mustaches when we got to Japan; Supply Officer Herschel Langenthal, who lives in Baltimore; Bob MacLeod and Ed Agostini.