23 October 2009

NEWSLETTER
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 Elected officers for 2009-2010 are as follows;

PRESIDENT   TOM BRADSHAW    VICE PRESIDENT   BILL RIDINGS
   TREASURER   JOHN FOX         SECRETARY   DICK HAMANN

RANZY WESTON WAS SELECTED AS 2ND VICE PRESIDENT

                                             

2010 USS Wisconsin BB-64 Reunion
September 8-12, 2010
Olympia Resort, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
_City of Oconomowoc Home Page
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REMINDER
If you have not paid your dues, the “M” (for member) next to your name on the website membership roster list has been removed.
You will have to submit another application in order to reinstate the “M” indicator.
If you believe this was done in error,
please contact LaDonna Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com 
Membership Application

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Please keep your email address up to date with LaDonna even if you don’t want it posted online.
  Please contact LaDonna Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com. Or (601) 693-4614
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FROM MY PERSONAL LOG

On This Day, October 23rd.
1952 Portsmouth, VA. Oct. to Feb. 11, 1953
1953 Kobe, Japan Oct. 20th to Oct. 23rd.
Oct. 24th., 4 hour stay in Sasebo then we left to join Task Force 77 (10/24-10/25)
1954 At Sea Oct. 20th to Nov. 3rd.
1955 Brooklyn, N.Y.  Navy Yard Oct. 18th to Dec. 9th.
On Oct. 18th, Wisconsin, while being towed from Bayonne, N.J. by 10 tugs, went aground at the mouth of the East River. She was stuck close to an hour in the mud of Diamond Reef about 500 yards north of Governors Island.  Thirteen commercial tugboats and three Navy tugs finally got her loose.

My personal log ended when I was transferred off the ship on June 20, 1956 to be discharged.





NEW MEMBERS

Carmine DiFranco

FT3                        FM                  Division

1953-1957

Tim Rott

LCDR         Religious Ministries

1989-1991

 

 

 

NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBER

Katherine DiFranco

Wife of Carmine DiFranco

1953-1957

Joe Morper

 

 

IN MEMORIAM

MEMBER

 

DATE OF DEATH

Robert E. Medberry

MEG3        R        Division      1951-1952

10/18/2009

 

 

 


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PLEASE REMEMBER TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PRAYERS,
OUR SICK AND DEPARTED SHIPMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS