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Last Minute Notes to all
attending:
We have about 400 mates coming to this one, so it will be
one of the bigger celebrations. Don't forget to bring
and wear your uniforms ( white shirt and pants, NN ball cap
) as we will man the rails on the USS Wisconsin Saturday
during our memorial. Frank Hicks has done a fantastic
job arranging all the details, you will not be disappointed.
All Shipmates who were on board during
the 1972 T2 explosion please note:
Writer Taylor Kiland, daughter of Newport News
Ops officer Ing Kiland, is writing a magazine article
about the 1972 turret explosion to be published in
October 2012 -- the 40th anniversary of the accident.
She will be attending the reunion and would like to
interview as many survivors as she can. She would like
to conduct the interviews on Thursday afternoon and
evening, May 12, and Saturday afternoon, May 14. Please
contact her at (703) 505-3102 or
TaylorBKiland@aol.com to schedule an appointment or
to ask any questions.
Taylor is the author or co-author of Open Doors:
Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later, The U.S. Navy
and Military Careers (a children's book about
careers in the Navy) and A Walk in the Yard: A
Self-Guided Tour of the U.S. Naval Academy. She is
a former naval officer and is now VP, Marketing
Communications at the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Her next book, Leadership Lessons of the Hanoi
Hilton, will be published in 2012.
Taylor Baldwin Kiland
Vice
President, Marketing and Communications
United States Navy Memorial
701 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite #123
Washington, D.C. 20004-2608
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Frank Hicks, Reunion 2011 Chairman |
USS Newport
News Shipmates,
Families, and Friends:
Join us in Norfolk,
Virginia for our 2011 Reunion
It's been 10
years since we last met in Norfolk under the direction of
our beloved chairman, "Rags" Ragland. Now we return to
our old east coast home port and share our friendship and
memories again, under the direction and planning of our 2011
Chairman, Frank Hicks.
ACHTUNG!
Registration is well underway, and here's the first batch of
registrants. Click
HERE
to see if any of your buddies have signed up yet. |
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UPDATE:
January 6th, 2010
The "official"
registration form for 2011 was mailed yesterday
and is winging it's way to you as we speak.
If you signed up too
late to get on the mailing list for this one, you
can download the registration form now by
clicking
HERE.
And if you want
to see all the nice stuff printed on the reverse
side of the mailer
( not actually needed ) you can see that by
clicking
HERE.
Don't forget to
make your hotel reservations now. At press
time, over half of our reserved rooms were
already booked. Do it NOW! |
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| Note ( 3
March 2011 ) Our original block of reserved rooms are
now all taken. They are giving us additional rooms, 20
at a time, as long as they are available. Don't miss
out on our great group rate, reserve your rooms NOW.
This is going to be one of our bigger reunions, it appears. |
LOCATION:
Sheraton Norfolk Waterside - Norfolk's only waterside hotel
(Just wait and see what they've done to East Main St.!)
Please reserve your room
NOW!
Hopefully, most of you know
the drill by now. Frank has negotiated a terrific room rate
($99.00 + taxes* ) but they are only holding a certain number of rooms
for us at that rate for a certain length of time. The earlier you
reserve your rooms, the better we can estimate the crowd and plan
accordingly. As D-day approaches, we will release any unsold rooms
back to the Sheraton for sale at the full price... and you don't
want to pay that rate.
Call either
Central Reservations
Office @ 1-800-627-8042
or
the hotel directly @
757-622-6664
Tell them you are with the
NEWPORT NEWS REUNION and want the special contract rate of
$99.00 ( plus applicable taxes* ) for a Deluxe Guestroom.
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*Room rates quoted above are
non-commissionable, net rates, subject to tax, which is
currently 13% plus a $1.00 Flat bed tax per room, per day. |
Note: Reserving
your room does NOT register you for the reunion. You will
receive registration forms in the mail or they will be available
later for download from this site. Make sure you are
signed up to receive printed information from the association,
or you will be left out in the cold at registration time
Sign up
HERE to receive your snail mail from us if you haven't already.
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And.. reserve your
room right now, while it's fresh on your mind
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Other
Stuff
Here's the general plan:
Thursday, May 12 -
Check-in day, mixer in the evening with snacks and such. Hook
up with your buds or make a few new friends. Cash Bar
Friday, May 13
- Tour Day - you'll have your choice of either a bus
tour of the City of Norfolk, plus a tour of and lunch at the Norfolk Naval Base
------ or a tour to Historic
Williamsburg, Va (lunch not included ).
Saturday, May 14 -
Visit the Nauticus Museum and Memorial Service aboard the USS Wisconsin
BB-64 This is just across the way from the Lone Sailor
Memorial where we have our plaque dedicated to our lost shipmates, and
within easy walking distance of the hotel ( however, busses will be
provided ).
Saturday Evening: Formal Dinner/Dance
Bookmark this
page and return often -
This page will
be updated frequently, and we will have additional details running
shortly!
Check out NN Reunion 2011 on
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Older stuff:
The 2009 Reunion in Baton
Rouge, La. was a smashing success! A giant BRAVO ZULU to Tom Boggs
for a fantastic job.
A special REUNION 2009
DVD is now available, produced by Bob Freeman and containing footage
shot by him and Al Siegel. You can order a copy directly from Bob.
| To get your copy of the 2009 Reunion DVD, send a
check for $10.00 via snail mail to
Bob Freeman
3 Nevens Street
Hudson, NH 03051
Don't forget to include your mailing address! |
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