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 Bob Ruyle is our reunion coordinator

           Bob is a Life member of the American Legion Post #3 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Post #3 is the 2nd largest Legion Post in the world.  Bob is on the speakers bureau there and speaks each year at Memorial Day services around the state.  He has also been a speaker at schools around Nebraska, Kansas and Michigan on Veterans Day as well as for History classes.

           He is a member of the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, DC as well as a Life Member of the National Association of Atomic Veterans.

           Bob and his wife Bernice live in Lincoln, Nebraska and we both look forward to continuing the work accomplished by Jim and Alva Cunningham in the past few years, to serve the crewmembers of the USS Uvalde.  He continues to update Jim’s files to get them ready for this years reunion in Uvalde Texas.

 

           Bob & Bernice recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their family of six children (all married) and 12 grandchildren.  

 Bob Ruyle

Crewmember 1954 -1955