This Day in History: 1947-07-07

When John Kudrich of Ramsey arrived at New York on the 17th he reported having met a Mahwah man, Ernie Longerich in the Seamen’s Club in Bremerhaven Germany on the 7th. Kudrich, who was better known by his stage name of Jack Sharpe, was a semantic on the U.S. Marine Marlin. His ship docked directly behind a Germany ship, the S. S. General Heintzelmann on which Ernie was serving as a radar technician. The two met that evening at the Club and again the next night to exchange news of friends back home. Longerich, 23, was an honor student in the Mahwah and Ramsey schools and held two patents on television equipment while still in school. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Longerich of Mahwah. (Bristow)