Reaching for Manhood at Steamboat Bay by Jerry Kelley

Recollections of a boy's adventures in Southeastern Alaska - Summer of 1939. Jerry Kelley was born in Spokane, Washington and moved to West Seattle in 1929. He spent summers in 1939 - 1942 working for the New England Fish Co. at Steamboat Bay and Noyes Island, Alaska.

After College, he served in the USNR as an Antisubmarine Officer on APD 111, a new ship on shakedown cruise when WWII ended. He later attended the University of Chicago, earning a degree in Social Service Administration.