Ralph Fink Papers
Historic Owner
Ralph Fink
Association
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11)
Date1966–1976
PeriodCold War
Mediumpaper, ink
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of CDR Ralph Fink, USN (Ret.) A2023.74
Object numberA2023.74
DescriptionExtent: 2 foldersRalph Fink served as the navigator on USS Intrepid from 1972 to 1974. Some of his papers relate to his work as a facilitator for Project UPWARD, a Navy race relations course. This includes the collection of Golden Legacy comic books focusing on Black history.
USS Intrepid Papers
- Card, Membership; Realm of the Arctic Circle, Ralph Fink III, August 3, 1972
- Booklet; OOD (Officer of the Deck) Handbook, USS Intrepid CVS-11, June 1971
- Booklet; Quonset Point, Rhode Island, no date
- Booklet; España (Spanish translation guide)
- Poem; "As A New Year Comes To This, My Land," by S.C. Gad LTJG, USN, 1973
- Booklet; Project UPWARD, Race Relations Education, no date. Compilation of readings for the UPWARD class.
Ship's Company Reunion
- Booklet; 30th Anniversary, USS Intrepid CVS-11, 1943-1973
- Card, Membership; Ship's Company Reunion, Fighting 'I', USS Intrepid CVS-11, 1943-1976
- Booklet; USS Intrepid Ship's Company Reunion 1943-1976, October 9 & 10, 1976
Magazines, comic; Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine
- Volume 1, The Saga of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Birth of Haiti, 1966
- Volume 2, The Saga of Harriet Tubman "The Moses of the People," 1967
- Volume 3, Crispus Attucks and the Minutemen, 1967
- Volume 4, The Life of Benjamin Banneker, 1968
- Volume 5, The Life of Matthew Henson, 1969
- Volume 6, Alexander Dumas and Family, 1969
- Volume 7, Frederick Douglass Part One, 1970
- Volume 9, The Life of Robert Smalls, 1970
- Volume 10, Joseph Cinque and the Amistad Mutiny, 1970
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