14 MARCH 2008

NEWSLETTER

 

REUNION DATES

Our next reunion will be August 26-31, 2008 in Norfolk, VA with our ship.                       
 Additional information, forms, etc. will be in the April Badger

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Anyone wanting to propose a reunion site for 2010, please contact Ed Gavin or Tom Bradshaw

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Please check your April Badger address label.  If it says “THIS IS YOUR LAST BADGER”,
 please contact LaDonna Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com. Or (601) 693-6096
 If you have not paid your dues or verified your Active Duty status, you will be removed from the Badger mailing list and the membership roster.
 Please keep your email address up to date with LaDonna even if you don’t want it posted online.

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We are looking for a volunteer piper for our reunion memorial service.
You can contact Bill Lewis by email at bbb64usmc@yahoo.com or by phone (845) 528 -7987
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NEW MEMBERS

Thomas S. Winter 111

Midshipman

1952

Mathew D. White

HT1(SW)        R    Division

1987-1990

 

 

 

PENDING APPLICATION

Le Shawn Wilson

OS3                OI    Division

1989-1991

 

 

 

 

REINSTATED MEMBERS

 

Jim Backus

Friend of Louis Fourney

1953-1955

 

 

 

EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE

Oscar Lewis

BM3               6th      Division

1988-1991

Ed Sodl

BT/FN            B        Division

1988-1990

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 6 at 2:30pm, at Nauticus in Norfolk, WHRO will host a special 45-minute preview screenings of Carrier, a new PBS series about life on an aircraft carrier. The screenings are free and open to the public, and will feature question and answer periods with Executive Producer/Director Maro Chermayeff and Producer Jeff Dupre.

Carrier is a character driven, edge-of-your-seat nonfiction, and a once-in-a-lifetime total immersion into the high-stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier. Carrier follows a core group of film participants about the USS NIMITZ, from the admiral of the strike group to the fighter pilots to the youngest sailors, as they navigate personal conflicts about their jobs, families, faith, patriotism, love, rights of passage, and the war on terror.

The USS NIMITZ is 24 stories high, three football fields long, and carries more than 5,000 Navy personnel and 85 military aircraft. The carrier was built in Hampton Roads at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company (now Northrop Grumman.) Her keel was laid on June 22, 1968; she was launched on May 13, 1972, and commissioned on May 3, 1975.

Carrier will be seen on WHRO TV15 and WHRO 15.1HD each evening from April 27 through May 1, from 9 to 11pm, and again from 11 to 1am. It will repeat on Saturday, May 3, from 10am to 8pm.

Local broadcast of Carrier is made possible in part by support from Checkered Flag Motor Car Company, Inc. and Navy Federal Credit Union.

Please contact Nauticus at 664.1000 for more information