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2006-05 Aerograph.Pdf 1 1 2 PROGRAM 32ND Annual Naval Weather Service Association Reunion June 2006 Pittsburgh, PA COME SEE THE SMOKELESS CITY Wednesday, 14 June 1200-1800 Hospitality Center opens 1200-1800 Reunion Registration 1400-1600 First annual Executive Board Meeting 1800-2000 Welcome Aboard Party (No Host) 2000-2300 Hospitality Center opens & Reunion registration Thursday, 15 June 0700-0900 Hospitality Center opens & Reunion registration 0900-1200 NWSA Membership Meeting #1 1200-2300 Hospitality Center opens 1300-1400 Audit Committee meets in Sec-Treas Jim Stone's room 1400-1600 Ice Cream Social in Hospitality Center (Banana Split) The remainder of afternoon and evening is open for personal use. Friday, 16 June 0700-1530 Hospitality Center opens & Reunion registration 0700-1200 Golf Tourney 1700-Buses shove off for Evening Moonlight Dinner Dance Cruise – Gateway Clipper Fleet 2300- (Roughly) Buses return form Moonlight Dinner Cruise Saturday, 17 June 0700-0855 Hospitality Center opens & Reunion registration 0900-1000 Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command annual informational seminar 1015-1200 NWSA Membership Meeting #2 1200-1600 Hospitality Center opens & Reunion Registration 1300-1400 Second Annual Executive Board meeting 1800-1900 No Host Cocktail 1900-2300 Reunion Banquet Sunday, 18 June 0700-1100 Hospitality Center Open (1100 – You don’t have to Go Home but you can’t stay here) HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME ENJOYED 2 3 (228) 688-4187 [email protected] EDITOR’S DESK AGCM Pat O’Brien, USN RET CHARLES R. JORDAN USN RET, 3464 (850) 968-0552 [email protected] Chimney Rock, Abilene, TX 79606- (325) Nominating: AGCM Moon Mullen, USN RET 692-7642. [email protected]. (805) 496-1348 Parliamentary: LCDR Ray Hennessey, USN RET Publication Information: The Aerograph is (904) 269-2942 [email protected] published quarterly in February, May, August and November. Contributions must be Master-At-Arms: CDR Hans Wolfer, USN RET received by the Editor, not later than the 15th (366) 423-6171 [email protected] day of the month preceding publication. Articles and letters may be submitted in many formats, typed or handwritten and LETTERS forwarded by email, or USPS. (Unfortunately, I will not be able to translate data from MSWorks, MAC or APPLE software). Webmaster Mahlon Trenz, received this letter Articles may be forwarded to my email. E-mails are preferred and forwarded it me so that it can be included since I can copy and paste and will not have to re-type the as a part of our Aerograph. Some NWSA submission. All changes to your personal information members do not have computers. (address, phone number, email address, marital status, etc.) should be sent to the Secretary/Treasurer, who maintains From: Buckner F. Melton, Jr. the database. Monday, February 27, 2006 10:46 AM Subject: Typhoon COBRA, 18 December 1944 Association Officers: President: AGCM Tom Miovas, USN RET Hello, (412) 487-3070 [email protected] I'm an historian and the son of a WWII Pacific LST officer. 1st Vice President: CDR Fred Martin, USN RET I'm currently researching the typhoon that Third Fleet (321) 751-6385 [email protected] encountered off the Philippines on 18 December 1944 2nd Vice President: CDR Peter Weigand, USN RET (which subsequently became known as Typhoon (301)-773-8180 [email protected] COBRA.) According to my research,. I'd be interested in Secy/Treas: AGC Jim Stone, USN RET 600 E. Fifth St, corresponding with or interviewing anyone who would care Apt 179, Waverly, OH 45690-1500. to share memories of steaming through that particular (740) 947-7111 [email protected] storm or who had anything to do with finding, tracking, or Aerograph Editor: AGCM Charlie Jordan, USN RET preparing aerological reports on it. (325) 692-7642 [email protected] I’m set up to do telephone interviews. Webmaster: AGC Mahlon Trenz, USN RET While my main focus is on COBRA, I’d also be interested [email protected] in hearing similar experiences of Typhoon VIPER (June 1945), kamikaze activity, or any other details of operations Association Committees: around the Philippines in late ’44 or Reunion: early ’45 (from Leyte Gulf onward). I can be reached by CAPT Dick Ward, USN RET (West) return email or at a special address I’ve created for this (831) 625-3163. project: http://[email protected] CDR Marty Nemcosky, USN RET (East) If you could help me circulate this information I’d be (757) 497-6872 [email protected] grateful. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate AGCS Bill Ziebell, USN RET (Midwest) to let me know. My thanks to all veterans of whatever era (847) 438-4716 for their service to our country. AGCM Tom Miovas, USN RET, (Chair) Regards, (412) 487-3070 [email protected] Buckner F. Melton, Jr., J.D., Ph.D. Chaplain: CWO4 Bill Bowers, USN RET Distinguished Writer-in-Residence (352) 750-2970 [email protected] Mercer University Finance: 400 Poplar Street CAPT Chuck Steinbruck, USN RET Macon, Georgia 31201 (757) 423-1496 mailto:[email protected] CAPT Bob Titus, USN RET www.mercer.edu (775) 345-1949 [email protected] CDR Chuck White, USN RET (Chair) March 30, 2006 7:00 PM (619) 590-0704 [email protected] WHERE IS CWO JAMES ROMANO Historian: CDR Don Cruse, USN RET My name is Tim Toyne, CWO3, USCG retired. I am trying (703) 524-9067 [email protected] to get in touch with Jim and Rosalie Romano. We lost Scholarship: track in the mid 80's. Now retired and am looking up old LCDR Ken Smith, USN RET (Chair) acquaintances. We were stationed together in the 60's at (843) 705-5802 [email protected] FWC Suitland, and FWF London. My e-mail is: AGCM Doug Maxwell, USN [email protected]. Any help would be appreciated. 3 4 Tim Toyne CWO3 USCG retired. Tony Ortolano is Located! [email protected] February 15, 2006 501.625.3771 In the Katrina aftermath there were MANY locations and telephone numbers changed. Going operator to operator I HONORING ALL WHO SERVED finally reached the Keesler Commissary and talked to a May 20 June 14 November 11 Japanese lady who forwarded a message to our shipmate ARMED FORCES DAY FLAG DAY VETERANS DAY Tony Ortolano. On returning from the Bremerton Naval Shipyard Commissary I had a message from Tony on my May 30 July 4 December 7 answering machine. I called and we had a good bull MEMORIAL DAY INDEPENDENCE DAY PEARL HARBOR DAY session. I send his greetings. His new address is at : P. September 20 O. Box 7444 D'Iberville, MS 39540, telephone 1-228-369- 9495. no E-mail. FYI re Tony: He was a resident of the POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY Gulfport MS Navy Home for several years and loved it. Never Attended a Reunion LOTS of good sea stories. He was 1 of 100 other old 23 January 2006 sailors who became “Katrina evacuees” and were moved I have noticed a disturbing trend in the last few to the DC Army Home (which Tony disliked, DC area like- aerographs .. there is more and more talk of disbanding wise). He moved out, visited his daughter in VA and the organization. Maybe the time is drawing near for just traveled south (in a new car his Insurance provided). that to happen. The people who make up the organization Tony finally moved into one of those FEMA trailer homes. are primarily WW2 to the late 70s .. the heyday of the The entire first floor of the Navy Home was wiped out and weather service. We still had an identity .. then in the late it's future is bleak. He now works at the Keesler AFB 70 and 80s, we couldn't decide what we were, political Commissary. correctness took hold, and all those things we used to do LT Frank Baillie USN Retired Rota 69-73 as sailors were no longer ok .. April 12, 2006 I have never attended a reunion .. why? well .. most of REUNION the folks who go are people I never served with .. the few Okay, my going to sea was shot down again this year, so I that I did have the opportunity to serve with are gone, or will be going to THE Reunion, in beautiful downtown not members of the organization. There is really very little Pittsburgh PA. I've even cleared it with the spousal unit, incentive for me to make the trip. I am still a working stiff .. (you know this will cost me), and even made reservations. and it seems more and more, the reunion is geared to the So I do hope that half of you are there!!!!!! retired set, those that can take off in the middle of the AGC Tim Kenefick USN Retired. week, and spend the time playing golf. The majority of the good activities are during the week .. Maybe planning one “IM” Perfect Storm of these over a 4 day weekend would work .. 23 Feb 2006 The aerograph is the only material reason for joining the September 1957, just north of organization for someone like me. Unless you happen to the Arctic Circle, in the little know some of the more senior members, the information fishing village of Njarvik, contained in it, holds little for current AGs or Oceanos. Norway. LST 1161 USS Have fun in Pittsburgh .. Vernon County tied up at the LT John Berger USN Retired.. pier acting as a hotel ship for HONG KONG P2V crews conducting ASW 23 December 2005 Ops in the North Atlantic as One interesting facet of the Hong Kong visit was the part of a NATO exercise in service provided to visiting ships by “Garbage Mary”.
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