Well – good times are about to happen once more.

The Newport News Workparty on the USS Salem is slated for April 27 to April 30, 2006.

We really do have much to do – particularly dealing with our ships models. Yes – I said models. You know – plural!!

We have a terrific one down in the museum today that requires a case, and we have our eyes on the brass model of the ship in San Diego. That project is moving forward under the auspices of former shipmate Mike Scott. If all goes well, we might have that model in the museum by April, which would then utilize our resources to bring it below decks and get it properly displayed.

Sure – you can bunk on the Salem, I just need to let Bill Anderson know who will be coming. Bring your families, friends, girlfriends or wives (or both). Lets make this a grand time. I will contact a couple of places to see what kind of rates we can work out – not just the Marriott

Now don’t say you haven’t had enough notice – you just got 6 months. Get a pen and mark it in your calendar.

And tell your fellow shipmates about this just in case they don’t have a computer.

More later.

Al Siegel ETR2
OE Div 1967-1970
Museum Workparty Coordinator

Are you asking yourself,
“If I order stuff from the ship’s store, will I get it before Christmas??”

The answer is YES!!, But you have to be quick and get your order in the mail now. Vicky and Art are shipping out all orders they received between now and Dec 20th within 2 days after they receive your order. So, depending on how long mail takes to get to you from Massachusetts to your city will determine the delivery date?

Sorry, we are not set up to accept credit card orders, so get your order into the US Mail this week!

To go to our web ships store web site, and to see new items added http://www.uss-newport-news.com/store/

From that page, click on Merchandise Display to see all of our merchandise.

Then click on Order Form Print-out to Print out the order form and send it to the ship's store. Follow ordering instructions on the last page of the order form.

New!! Just added to the ship's store last week. For years, our shipmates have asked for "Ship's Patches". We have talked about adding the patch to the ships store for a long time but never could find a vendor who could offer them at an affordable price without having to buy thousands of the patches. We have found a vendor that would make a small enough quantity that we didn't have to spend a fortune on the first order. You can get your USS NEWPORT NEWS PATCH from our ship's store  4 inch cloth patch. Replica of the USS Newport News's ship patch we  wore when we were station on the ship.   Price Each: $10.00  Item # 10

For more information on the
USS Newport News Association Ship's store,
please visit, www.uss-newport-news.com/store/index.html
Or send email to store@uss-newport-news.com
The USS Newport News Ship's Store is maintained by Arthur Hunt
59 Casablanca Court. Haverhill, MA 01832-3667

When checking web pages that you have recently visited, remember to click “Refresh/Reload” button in your Browser to insure you see the new version of that web page. 

USS Newport News Association Membership

Have you moved recently?? If yes, then remember to give us your new Mailing Address so that we can update the “USS Newport News Association Membership” database.

Have you changed your email address? Keep us updated to where to send you emails so we can keep you informed about USS Newport News activities.

To correct your information in our Membership Database,

• Go to our Home page of the USS Newport News web site at
  http://www.uss-newport-news.com/
• Then scroll down the page until you see the section about
   Signup for the USS Newport News Association Membership.
• Read the instructions at the top of that web page.
• Fill out the information.
• Click the [submit] Button.

Webmasters Needed.

The USS Newport News web site is the largest web site on the Internet that is dedicated to a specific ship.  To maintain this monster takes a lot of time. We accomplish maintaining our web site by having as many shipmates as possible to share the workload.

We need shipmates who have webmastering experience to join the USS Newport News Webmaster team.

 We have many new projects to add to the web site, old web pages to update and assorted general maintenance. 

If you would like to join our USS NN Webmaster team, please let me know by sending an email to Chuck Zendner . We have a lot of fun working together on our USS NN web site.

For more information or questions on this topic
go to web page at http://www.uss-newport-news.com
 or send email to Chuck Zendner at Chuck Zendner