SS Independence Passenger List - 24 August 1953
Front Cover of a First Class Passenger List from the SS Independence of the American Export Lines, Departing 24 August 1953 from Naples to New York via Genoa, Cannes and Gibraltar, Commanded by Captain Hugh L. Switzer. GGA Image ID # 163f2cc204
Senior Officers and Staff
- Commander: Captain Hugh L. Switzer
- Chief Engineer: Harvey Shriner
- Staff Captain: John Korista
- Staff Engineer: Louis T. Smallwood
- Chief Purser: Gleason T. Marquise
- Senior Purser: Robert C. Lane
- Chief Surgeon: Charles H. Rogers
- Assistant Surgeon : Alfred F. De Milia
- Chief Steward: Charles Regis
- Assistant Chief Steward: Charles Wright
- Maître d'Hôtel : Mario Sorre
- Chef de Cuisine : I. Louis Molina
- Chief Radio Officer: Emile S. Fazulak
- Social Directress: Ann Dickson
First Class Passengers
Embarked at Naples
- Mrs. Giuseppa Annunziata
- Mr. Edmund C. Austin
- Mrs. Marion T. Austin
- Miss Judith Austin
- Miss Barbara Ann Austin
- Mrs. Antonina Balistrien
- Mildred L. Bernard
- Mr. Mathews N. Besho
- Dr. Henry L. Bockus
- Mrs. Henry L. Bockus
- Miss Barbara Ann Bockus
- Mrs. Samuel C. Brasch
- Mr. John A. Cajzer
- M/Sgt. Warren G. Campbell
- Mrs. Alice Campbell
- Mr. Charles L. Casper
- Mrs. Charles L. Casper
- Mrs. Rachel Chapman
- Dr. Samuel M. Dodek
- Mrs. Samuel M. Dodek
- Mrs. M. E. Flanders
- Miss Cornelia B. Ford
- Miss Alice H. Ford
- Mr. Edgar E. Foster
- Mrs. George J. Fritz
- Mr. William D. Gadwah
- Mrs. Aileen M. Gadwah
- Mr. W. Daniel Gadwah
- Miss Rita L. Gill
- Mr. Samuel Green
- Mrs. Pauline S. Grossman
- Miss Ellen B. Hammonds
- Mr. Robert L. Hershey
- Mrs. Robert L. Hershey
- Mr. Robert L. Hershey, Jr.
- Mr. Michael L. Hershey
- Mr. Stephen L. Hershey
- Miss Rita Hogan
- Mr. John D. Iams
- Mrs. John D. Iams
- Mr. Jon C. Iams
- Miss Barbara D. Iams
- Mstr. William D. Iams
- Mrs. Ray Josephs
- Mrs. Emy Kalmanoff
- Mstr. Alan S. Kalmanoff
- Miss Agnes R. Kelley
- Miss Frances Kilpatrick
- Miss Catherine J. Kilpatrick
- Miss Elena Marie Lambrosa
- Mr. Carlo G. Leoni
- Mr. Joseph F. Lilly
- Mrs. Joseph F. Lilly
- Miss Louise E. Lilly
- Mr. Joseph T. Lilly
- Mr. Walter Maassen
- Miss Kathryn F. Mahoney
- Mr. Edwin Martenet
- Mrs. Edwin Martenet
- Miss Emily H. Martenet
- Miss Barbara H. McKeon
- Mrs. Willa N. McKimmon
- Miss Mary L. Mencarelli
- Miss Gilda E. Mendico
- Mr. Leonardo Mestrandrea
- Dr. Nicholas Mestrandrea
- Mrs. Tillie Mestrandrea
- Mstr. Leonard Mestrandrea
- Mstr. Fred Mestrandrea
- Mr. Louis Nicastro
- Mrs. Janet A. Nicastro
- Mstr. Francis E. Nicastro
- Mr. Louis M. Oppenheim
- Mrs. Sylvia K. Oppenheim
- Miss Ruth M. Oppenheim
- Mr. Edward Perazone
- Mrs. Emelia Perazone
- Mr. Arnold M. Picker
- Mrs. Arnold M. Picker
- Miss Carol D. Picker
- Miss Phyllis B. Picker
- Mr. Michael Poto
- Miss Laura E. Preble
- Mr. William H. Read
- Mrs. Louise J. Read
- Rinaldi, Mr. Nicola
- Mr. Lionel C. Rosenbaum
- Mrs. Dora H. Rosenbaum
- Mr. Arthur E. Rosenbaum
- Miss Lillian Rosenbaum
- Mr. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
- Mrs. Vittoria Rossi-Lemeni
- Miss Donatella Sabetta
- Miss Rosina Salva
- Dora S. Savino.
- Miss Dora E. Schmidt
- Maestro Tullio Serafin
- Mrs. Elena Rakowska Serafin
- Dr. Foster D. Snell
- Mrs. Cornelia T. Snell
- Mr. Herman J. Stich
- Mrs. Hermine N. Stich
- Mrs. Laura Y. Stranahan
- Mr. Hall P. Street
- Mrs. Hall P. Street
- Mrs. John T. Taylor
- Mr. Niemann A. Terry, Jr.
- Mrs. Joan Terry
- Miss Jane L. Terry
- Mstr. David M. Terry
- Miss Gail A. Theis
- Mr. Theodore A. Tonna
- Mrs. Theodore A. Tonna
- Miss Vicki Lee Tonna
- Miss Jean Tonna
- Miss Joan Tonna
- Mr. Louis Toro
- Mrs. Sylvia Toro
- Mrs. Anna J. Underwood
- Miss Louise Van Dyke
- Mr. Alvis C. Waller
- Mr. Harrison Williams
- Mrs. Joseph H. Williams
- Miss Beverly Williams
- Mr. Robert N. Williams
- Mr. Harry D. Williams
- Mrs. Mary J. Williams
- Dr. Arthur D. Wolf
- Mrs. Arthur D. Wolf
- Mr. Eliahu Yacoby
- Mrs. Helen T. Yost
- Miss Betty Yost
- Mr. Giorlando Zangara
- Mrs. Violetta Zangara
- Mrs. Helen K. Zangara
- Mrs. Harriet S. Zucker
Embarked at Genoa
- Mrs. Elvira Andreozzi
- Mr. Bruno J. Augenti
- Mrs. Bruno J. Augenti
- Miss Marta J. Augenti
- Mstr. Jordan B. Augenti
- Dr. Mario Austoni
- Dr. Frank Eugene Barton
- Mrs. Frank Eugene Barton
- Mr. Walter Bendick
- Miss Grace H. Blondheim
- Mr. W. Z. Bradford
- Mr. Ellsworth Bunker
- Mrs. Ellsworth Bunker
- Mr. H. Richard Chew
- Mr. Thomas J. Connolly
- Mr. Joseph H. Cordelia
- Mrs. Ruth Marie Cordelia.
- Mr. Ernest Cuneo
- Mrs. Margaret Cuneo
- Miss Barby Elizabeth Cutler
- Mr. Bruno A. Davis
- Mrs. Norma C. Davis
- Mrs. Anna Faraguna
- Miss Joan Faraguna
- Miss Rosella Samuel Francis
- Mr. Arnold D. Frese
- Mrs. Ines M. Frese
- Mr. Norbert R. Gagen
- Miss Jeannette L. Galler
- Miss Mariarosa Gallieni
- Mr. Merigo Gavioli
- Mrs. Francesca Gavioli
- Mrs. Rosa Genack
- Mstr. Menachem Genack
- Miss Hephzibah Genack
- Mrs. Lillian Goldblats
- Mr. W. Paul Haws
- Mrs. Wanda M. Haws
- Miss Janice Carolyn Haws
- Miss Becky Jane Haws
- Mr. Louis M. Heminway III
- Hinckeldeyn, Miss Ines
- Mr. Maxwell Hoffman
- Mr. Robert A. Hooker
- Dr. Edgar A. J. Johnson
- Mrs. Edgar A. J. Johnson
- Mr. Edgar A. J. Johnson, Jr.
- Mrs. Thomas A. Kelly
- Miss Maureen Kelly
- Miss Linda Louise Kelly
- Miss Susan Kimball
- Mr. Charles L. Kirby
- Mr. Walter Koch
- Mr. Victor Joe Krieg
- Mrs. Gertrud Rosa Krieg
- Mr. Adrian Henrich Krieg
- Mrs. Ferdinand Kuhn
- Mr. Joseph Lasagna
- Mrs. Carmine Lasagna
- Mr. Milton S. Leidner
- Mrs. Margaret S. Leidner
- Mr. Anthony S. Leidner
- Mr. Ernest Loeb
- Mrs. Else Julie Loeb
- Mrs. Mildred M. Manheimer
- Mr. Adolph Mariani
- Mr. Nicola Mazzarelli
- Mrs. Nicola Mazzarelli
- Mr. Bernard J. McGuigan
- Mrs. Dorothy C. McGuigan
- Miss Cathleen M. McGuigan
- Mstr. Michael J. McGuigan
- Mr. Renzo Pivetti
- Mr. Luigi Pucillo
- Mrs. Nino Pucillo
- Mr. Stanley L. Richter
- Mrs. Stanley L. Richter
- Mrs. Frances Scheller
- Miss Alma Raynar Scott
- Mr. Harold J. Silver
- Mrs. Harold J. Silver
- Mstr. Andrew J. Silver
- Miss Patricia Merle Silver
- Mr. Thos. A. Sparrow
- Mr. W. E. Swanson, Jr.
- Mrs. W. E. Swanson, Jr.
- Mr. Kurt L. Taylor
- Mrs. Beate Jeanette Taylor
- Miss Diane E. Taylor
- Mr. Frank Voiello
- Miss Johanna Von Goeckinck
- Mrs. J. Harris Ward
- Mr. J. Anthony Ward
- Mr. David Harris
- Mr. John E. Weber
- Mrs. John E. Weber
- Mrs. Maria Simone Zaccaria
Embarked at Cannes
- Ambassador Fred L. Anderson
- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Anderson
- Miss Mary Winn Anderson
- Mr. Travis Scott Anderson
- Mr. Mavimilian Barlow
- Mrs. Maximilian Barlow
- Mrs. George Cameron Beach
- Mr. Thomas Milburn Belk
- Mrs. Katherine McKay Belk
- Mr. Lawrence A. Bengert
- Mrs. Louise F. Bengert
- Mrs. Flora L. Bergstein
- Mr. M. William Blake
- Mrs. M. William Blake
- Miss Grace Borgenight
- Mrs. Samuel W. Brown
- Mr. Erich Bucherer
- Mr. A. Carmel
- Mrs. A. Carmel
- Mrs. Charles L. Carr
- Mr. Marx M. Check
- Mr. Isaac Dean Check
- Mr. Morris Cherney
- Mrs. Bertha Cherney
- Mrs. Beatrice Cohn
- Dr. James P. Croce
- Mrs. James P. Croce
- Mrs. Harry Davis
- Mrs. Beatrice Ehrlich
- Dr. Charles Gerard Eichel
- Mrs. Fanny D. Eichel
- Miss Catherine E. Enis
- Mr. Emanuel "Dick" Flock
- Miss Louise Fishburn Fowlkes
- Miss Helen Frankenthaler
- Mr. George M. George
- Mrs. Carola George
- Mstr. Ronald M. George
- Miss Rita George
- Mrs. Yolande Gergely
- Mr. A. S. Gould
- Mrs. Molly Gould
- Mrs. Anne H. Greenburg
- Mr. Carl V. Greenburg
- Miss Elizabeth Boone Harrold
- Mrs. Hortense Hirsch.
- Mr. Marcel Horowitz
- Mrs. Marcel Horowitz
- Mr. Arthur John Hosier
- Mrs. Hazel E. Hosier
- Mrs. Claude L. Ives
- Mr. Samuel B. Jacobs
- Mrs. William C. Jamison
- Miss Mary Alice Jamison
- Miss Anne Poynter Jamison
- Col. Albert A. Kaufman
- Mrs. Albert A. Kaufman
- Miss Susan F. Kaufman
- Mstr. Stephen M. Kaufman
- Mr. Bill Kennedy
- Mrs. Jerry Kennedy
- Mstr. Patrick Kennedy
- Mstr. Michael Kennedy
- Mr. Gerard W. Kiely
- Mr. Samuel E. Knowles
- Mrs. Samuel E. Knowles
- Mr. Henry R. Labouisse
- Miss Anne D. Labouisse
- Mr. Leon Levy
- Mr. Morris Margolin
- Mrs. Dorothy Margolin
- Mr. I. Smith Marks
- Mrs. I. Smith Marks
- Mr. Nicholas A. Mastroianni
- Mrs. Nicholas A. Mastroianni
- Mstr. Nicholas A. Mastroianni
- Mrs. Margaret M. McCloud
- Mrs. Mirken
- Mr. Glen E. Moorhouse
- Mrs. Glen E. Moorhouse
- Miss Ann Moorhouse
- Mr. James Moorhouse
- Dr. George H. Opdyke
- Miss Edith Petrich
- Miss Catherine S. Pharr
- Mrs. Paul Poynter
- Miss Nancy Squire Rawles
- Mr. Sam Rosenberg
- Mrs. Sam Rosenberg
- Mrs. Maria E. Salle
- Mrs. Robert Scher
- Miss Barbara Scher
- Mrs. Theodora Scruggs
- Mr. Frank See
- Mrs. Anna Carter See
- Miss Frieda Shipley
- Mrs. William Stephenson
- Miss Marian Lavenia Stowe
- Mrs. Florence Swarts
- Mr. Lynn B. Timmerman
- Mrs. Lynn B. Timmerman
- Mr. Edward L. Urquhart
- Mrs. Edward L. Urquhart
- Miss Gay Williamson
- Mr. Louis N. White
- Mrs. Mary White
Embarked at Gibraltar
- Mrs. Mabel C. Bailey
- Mr. Meir J. Benatar
- Mrs. Alegria L. Benatar
- Miss Evelyn L. Benatar
- Mstr. Jaime Benatar
- Mr. Harold L. Calligan
- Mr. M. Barney Cohen
- Mrs. Sophie C. Conroy
- Miss Joan H. Dickey
- Mrs. Laura V. Downing
- Mrs. Mary S. Epstein
- Mrs. Fortunata Gimenez
- Miss Kathleen A. Horne
- Miss Natalie Hulme
- Miss Anne Langston
- Mrs. Dorothy Lyons
- Mrs. William O. McCaffrey
- Mrs. Lena W. Morse
- Mrs. Willard G. Myers
- Mrs. Clare Palmer
- Mrs. Rhea Reiburn
- Miss Freda Steinberger
- Mrs. Hazel G. Villasmil
Back Cover, Cunard SS Independence First Class Passenger List - 24 August 1953. GGA Image ID # 163f4e5573