USS Fessenden (DE-142)
She was named in honor of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, born in Brome County, Quebec, Canada, 6 October 1866. He served as head chemist with Thomas Edison's East Orange, New Jersey, laboratories. In 1890 he began concentrating on electrical engineering, and through the next years made many important inventions and improvements in existing devices. His great contributions in the field of radio (particularly the invention of radio-telephony were of marked benefit not only to the Navy but to all seamen. He died 22 July 1932, at his home on Bermuda.
George Sanders
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His upper-class English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in "Rebecca" (1940), Scott ffolliott in "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) (a rare heroic part), Addison DeWitt in "All About Eve" (1950), for which he won an Academy Award, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in "Ivanhoe" (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in "King Richard and the Crusaders" (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-parter episode of "Batman" (1966), the voice of the malevolent man-hating tiger Shere Khan in Disney's "The Jungle Book" (1967), and as Simon Templar, "The Saint", in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.