29 FEBRUARY 2008

NEWSLETTER

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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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If you haven't paid your dues, please do so now as to avoid being removed from the membership lists.
We need you to keep the USS Wisconsin family alive.

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IF you do not want your email address listed on our site, tell us, “Do not post on line.”
Please let us have it for our records, this way we may contact you if we have to.

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NEW MEMBERS
William C. Lindquist	FPFN R Division	1953-1954
Arthur G. Willis	3^rd Class B Division	not listed
David Tillotson	HTC R Division	1987-1991
Terrill Moore	BM3 MAA Division	1988-1990
	NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Kyle D. Thompson	Son of J. Donald Thompson Marine	1956-1957
Gregory D. Hammer	Son of Donald H. Hammer	1944-1945
	PENDING APPLICATIONS
Donald E. Coffel	SN 3^rd Division	1953-1954
Brian Hess	DC2 R Division	1991-Decom
Michael Robinson	MMFN M Division	1991-1991
Clinton Ingram	BTC B Division	1987-1992
William Forbes	Seaman	1945-1946
IN MEMORIAM
MEMBER DATE OF DEATH
Robert A. Putzig Guest Book for Robert	FM 1 R Division 1957-1958	2/26/2008
Sigmund W. Malkowski	FCS2 FA Division 1951-1952	11/17/2007

FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS SHIPMATES

RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING EMAIL

Hello Mr. Menta.  I'm the Adult Services Manager at the Melrose Park, IL Public Library and our library has recently joined the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.  The VHP is an oral history project in which organizations interview armed services veterans about their military service experiences, particularly those who served our country during wartime, and create profiles of them along with digital recordings of their memories and photos for preservation at the Library of Congress.  More details of the project can be found at the following link:
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
Our library is also preserving veteran profiles and stories on our own website:
http://www.melroseparklibrary.org/vhp/
Does your association have a newsletter or some other method for letting your members know that this project exists?  We would like to interview Chicago area veterans of the USS Wisconsin (BB64), especially those from the near western suburbs of Chicago where we are located and were hoping you might be able to publicize this project with your membership.  Is this project something you might be able to help us with?
Thanks for your time and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Fidencio Marbella, MPPL Adult Services Manager
708-343-3391,x225