Sequel: Upon CIM’s decommissioning in 1968, the PAO made special arrangements
to donate USS Cimarron (AO-22) artifacts - including the ship’s bell - to Cimarron NM
located near the Cimarron River's origin at Eagle Nest Lake in NE New Mexico.
. . . During a 1977 family vacation, this USNR-R Officer found selected CIM items built
into that "connected" community’s (then) newly constructed high school campus.