Baby name story: Roy Hugh

The SS La Guardia left New York on May 30, 1950, for a month-long trip to the Mediterranean under the command of Capt. Hugh L. Switzer.

About a week before it returned to New York, Mrs. Gertrude Segelman of Spring Valley, NY, gave birth to a baby boy with the help of the ship’s surgeon, Dr. Roy Littlehale.

The baby was named Roy Hugh, after both the doctor and the captain.

Source: “Ship Ends Eventful Trip.” New York Times 29 Jun. 1950: 59.