Wallace Bruce Mechling '57, from the Lucky Bag: "Since Bruce was a Navy Junior, he decided to keep the Navy in the family and follow his father into the Fleet. While at Navy, he was able to keep well ahead of the academics, and devoted a lot of time to the lacrosse stick. A few years after graduation he hoped to replace the lacrosse stick with the control stick of an airplane. His only worries while at the Academy were about which girl was his "true love" that week. He would go along with any kind of a gag, and had a good time his four years by the Bay."
Bruce became a pilot, and was lost on January 13, 1962 — 58 years ago today — when his A-3 Skywarrior crashed on a mountain in central Luzon, Philippines. He was survived by his parents and is buried in California.
To Honor! ⚓
