Bill Correll, Raymond Irving, Frank Nyikos, and Steve and Louise Cox

Submarine Bill (William E. Correll) from Osceola, Indiana

Osceola is a tiny town between Mishawaka and Elkhart. Since Bill retired from the Navy, he and his wife Pat have lived in a farm house on a fruit orchard just south of Osceola that used to belong to Pat's father. Bill kept the fruit orchard going for a while, but rents the land out to another farmer now.

Bill started out as an enlisted man in the Navy, serving on a mine sweeper that was sunk off the coast of Korea during the Korean war, but ended up as commander of a nuclear submarine (an attack sub which tracked Russian submarines underwater) during the Cold War era.

Bill Correll (right) and Glenn Chesnut (left) at a New Year's Eve dance on December 31, 2004

Raymond Irving from South Bend at the New Year's Eve dance

Frank Nyikos from Lake Papakeechie (near Syracuse, Indiana)

Frank Nyikos (and Glenn and Sue's dog Inge) sitting by the side deck of Glenn and Sue's house on Parkovash Avenue

Glenn Chesnut (left) and Frank Nyikos (right) at the Indiana State Convention in Columbus, Indiana, Spring 2005

Steve Cox singing a gospel song at his annual Backyard Bash in Fairmount, Indiana, in the summer of 2004.

Fairmount is a town of 3,100 in east central Indiana, a little north of Anderson and Muncie. This is the town that the movie star James Dean came from. He gave Steve a ride on his motorcycle when Steve was a little boy. Steve thought it was exciting, but it frightened his mother to death when she found out.

Steve and Louise at the New Year's dance