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NO PLANNED
2009 USS SYLVANIA
REUNION
The
Sylvania
reunion will be held in 2010, not 2009 due to the national
economy.
Reunion
response has been low for the past several reunions. The
next reunion will be scheduled in September 2010. The
information regarding the 2010 location and dates will be
determined within the next couple months.
Future
reunions will be held at selected locations rotated around
the country.
VOLUNTEERS
1.
Volunteers with computers are needed to help in reunion
efforts. We need help collecting and setting up e-mail
groups, articles for our web page and gathering info from
the US Navy - ships history and log books. Also, the
reunion needs volunteers who are willing to spend a little
time searching for former shipmates. Volunteers will be
provided a listing of the ship’s crew (specify years you
want to help), cruise books and names of friends etc.
2. Other volunteers are needed to assist in writing
articles either of naval interest or on their Navy careers
or civilian life experiences or cruise histories for the
future Chatter Newsletters.
3. Electronic files- We are looking for people to
help scan pictures, transfer movies and videos into DVD
format to show at reunions and for sale.
Contact John Pierce to volunteer or for further
information.
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Thank
you to Jim Petersen
for sending the images of the patch and crest in memory of
his father,
CW04 R. J. "Pete" Petersen,
Plank Holder,
First Ship's Boatswain.
REUNION GROUP
Our
reunion group is open for "All Hands" of
the
USS Sylvania from 1964 to 1994, including all helicopter
groups - HC-6, Det. 97 and the WW II USS Sylvania
(AKA-44).
John D. Pierce
3093 Kissing Rock SE
Lowell
,
MI
49331
Home
Phone
(616) 897-5178
Cell Phone
(517) 927-3312
Work Phone
(517) 335-9857
Hours 7:30 am to 4:30 pm
John
Pierce Work Email
SYLVANIA
OPERATING
BUDGET
The
success of our reunions depends on our
participants and treasury funds.
The treasury is created by dues,
donations and sale of
Sylvania
merchandise.
The reunion dues are only $25 every two
years, which is very minimal for the period
1/2009 to 12/2010.
Participants that pay the $25 dues
receive the current mailing list and the
Chatter Newsletters. The annual costs also
support the
Sylvania
web page. As the treasury permits, we will
publish a newsletter (read below) and depend
more on the web page for reunion notices,
specific reunion information and the Chatter
Newsletter.
At the reunions, a registration fee is
charged to pay for incidentals, pop, beer and
snacks. People
donate raffle items and some are bought so
this adds a little operating money.
ACTION:
Send
orders and/or payment of
dues.
Make
check payable to John D. Pierce.
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Items
of Interest
A.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Send John
Pierce change of an address - we are losing more than
fifty people each year. We publish and mail
out the Chatter to incorrect addresses because
we are not notified of Change of Address which
is too expensive. Your
help is needed to keep our mailing lists
current.
Please
send John Pierce new addresses and E-mail
addresses.
If you should
move your residence,
please
notify us in the future.
B.
CHATTER
NEWSLETTER
We
took a lot of extra effort to locate crew
members, plus printed and mailed 700
newsletters, but to reduce printing cost and
postage we will only send the Chatter to those
expressing an interest.
From now on, we will send the Chatter
Newsletter to
those responding to the postcard inquiry to be
sent late 2009 regarding the 2010 reunion.
During the past several years,
approximately 200 people have responded to the
mail out postcard announcement requesting
information on the next reunion. We
will gather names, addresses and new telephone
area codes of former crew members before we
send out future Sylvania Chatter Newsletters
to them.
Chatter
Articles & News
It
is up to you to furnish John Pierce
information, memories and comments from our
experience aboard the
Sylvania
for our web site or a Chatter Newsletter. Your
help is needed!!
Information
about your service
Share
what you have been doing since serving on the
Sylvania
that you would like to include for publication
in the newsletter.
Send these bits to John Pierce. We need
your comments to make the Chatter Newsletter
more interesting.
C.
GETTING THE WORD OUT
For
more information, contact John Pierce about
sending our reunion notices to your local
newspapers. Only 50 percent of the names on
the mailing list have phone numbers - please
give us you phone number!!
D.
E-Mail
and Networking
Please send in your e-mail address to
add to our list.
Let us know if you want a copy of our
E-Mail list.
It will not be sold to anyone.
Let us know if you don’t want your
E-Mail given out.
E.
Web Site
Also, keep checking our web site at http://www.usssylvania.org.
If you have photos that you would like on our
web page, please contact John Pierce.
Sign in on our guest book.
Are there other people who are looking
for you?
Other
web pages of interest are:
www.navylink.com
www.military.com
www.MSL.com
www.wikipedia.com
www.askabout.com
www.bluejacket.com
www.navsource.org/archives/09/52/5202.htm
www.youtube.com
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