Carl V. Ragsdale

Captain Carl Vandyke Ragsdale (born May 16, 1925 in Illmo , Missouri , United States , † June 22, 2003 in Montgomery (Texas) , United States) was an American professional soldier and producer of state training, advertising and information films.

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Career Officer Carl Vandyke Ragsdale spent almost his entire professional life in the US Navy. He graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and served in the US Navy from December 1943 to May 1985, when he retired at the age of 60 . In 41½ years of service, Ragdale won 17 medals and 15 belt buckles in its service in World War II , the Korean War and the Cold War . For his superiors he made over 150 documentary films in New York and Houston during these decades.

The short film A Year Toward Tomorrow, shown by him in 1966, about the US government's VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program, which had been launched the previous year to alleviate poverty in general, won an Oscar the following year . For the 29-minute film While I Run This Race (1967), which specifically dealt with precisely this problem of poverty, Captain Ragsdale received another Oscar nomination in 1968 in the category of Best Short Documentary.

Captain Ragsdale was a member of the Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge in Houston, Texas. He founded the Texas Commandery of the Naval Order of the US and was responsible for the construction of the USS Houston CA-30 Memorial in Sam Houston Park in Houston. He had been with Dr. Diane Ragsdale married and had a son and daughter and six grandchildren with her.

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SURNAME	Ragsdale, Carl V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ragsdale, Carl Vandyke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American career officer and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Illmo , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 2003
Place of death	Montgomery (Texas) , United States