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V OLUME 3, ISSUE 1 M ARCH 2004 USS KING (DLG-10/DDG-41) ASSOCIATION NEWS LETTER PUBLISHED BY: DAVE NESBITT 1530 Ocean Bay Dr. #305 Key Largo, FL 33037 [email protected] ELECTION ISSUE AND THE CRESCENT CITY BECKONS Message from the Board of Directors Dave Nesbitt, President This issue of your Newsletter is an important one. It is time for you to vote on how the association is to be run, who is going to run it and where the 2005 reunion will be held. Please take a few moments and complete the Ballot sheet located within this newsletter and send it in. In the past we decided on the next reunion location at the Annual Membership Meeting. We have found that doing so, put us a year behind in Reunion Planning. The Board of Directors made a risk decision that most of you would favor a reunion in Seattle. Toward that end, Ray Mar- shall, Reunion Director has undertaken some preliminary steps to de- velop a reunion plan for a Seattle location. We need your vote before proceeding any further. You will be asked to vote for Seattle or some other location. There have been significant changes made to the Bylaws, which re- June 10th-13th, 2004 quire 2/3 of the Membership to approve. The draft of the Bylaws is on the King Website for you to review, comment on and vote for. If anyone does not have web access and would like a copy of the draft, please con- tact any Board Member and we will mail you a copy. One of the changes to the Bylaws is that the terms of office for Board Members have been reduced to one-year terms. This gives you, the member, the opportunity to “fire” any Board Member that you feel is not doing their job. Every year all Board positions are open. Current Board Members can run again for a limit of three terms. This year, three of our 1 Looking Forward to Seeing you Board Members will not be seeking re-election and they will be very much missed; Ray Marshall, Bruce Carlsen and one of the co-founders of the Association, Steve Cuddihy. If you have some time that you can spare to support the association, it would be gratefully accepted. All of the board members are wearing multi- ple “hats”. Ray Marshall is not only up to his “eye balls” with the 2004 Reunion in New Orleans, he is also doing preliminary work on the 2005 Reunion so that the next Board of Directors does not have to play “catch up”, add to that, he is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee and the Election process for the next Board of Directors. Jim Sievers, the Admini- stration Director, is also the Database Manager, Bruce Carlsen is currently The Doubletree Downtown Hotel the Membership Director with the additional responsibilities of treasurer and Ship’s Store. Jack Dineen, Vice President, is also the Recording Sec- retary for the Association, lastly myself, I have the additional responsibili- ties as Publisher. So you can see, there is plenty of work to go around, ex- cept Publisher (I have to have some fun!) Another change to the Bylaws, better defines “Associate Membership”; this category of Membership is for friends that do not meet the require- ments for Regular Membership. We now have one Associate Member and that is Connie Cuddihy. Connie has been an active supporter of the asso- Photo from PSNS Achieves ciation since it’s inception. Last year, Connie took the minutes at the An- nual Membership Meeting. Welcome Aboard Connie. Hull Number 10 Getting her Keel Laid April 1957 Also time is running short for signing up for the 2004 Reunion in New Or- leans. For the two past reunions the association used a professional reun- ion service to schedule and coordinate the reunions, they could take risks in the booking of hotel rooms etc. This year we are going it on our own and we do not have the financial resources to take those risks. In a few weeks we have to guarantee a certain number of rooms. If we fail to have those rooms booked, we (the association) pay for the difference. On the flip side, if we guarantee too few rooms some shipmates may not be able to get a room yet want to attend. Please send in those Registration forms Photo from as soon a possible. Ray Marshall and his Reunion Committee have pulled PSNS Achieves together what we think is an outstanding reunion package for you with outstanding pricing, you do not want to miss this one. Hull Number 10 May 1957 Recently three of our members, Bill French, Charles Samuelson and Donald DeTemple, sent in cash donations to the Association. The Board of Directors would like to thank these shipmates for their support. Besides physical support we always need, and can use financial support. Lastly, the previous board did not turn over the “Association's Crystal Ball”, so we cannot use it to know what you want or do not want, we have to rely on you telling us. If you have comments, please let us know by Photo from contacting any Board member or myself at; [email protected] PSNS Achieves Hull Number 10 We are looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans. January 1958 2 ber of the Board, should I have been elected, as I am REUNION 2004 the Chairman of our Kalamazoo Area Emmaus Com- Ray Marshall, Reunion Director munity this year and beginning in October I will also be the Lt. Governor of our Michigan District Kiwanis The thermometer reads 9 degrees as I write Division 12. It has been a privilege to have served this and you can bet my thoughts are on June and our our Association and will continue to make myself New Orleans reunion. Have you made your hotel res- available to the oncoming Board whenever possi- ervations and sent your reunion registration to Bruce ble. Let's all commit ourselves to make the USS King Carlsen? We have 36 registered so far and our goal is (DLG-10/ DDG-41) Association a place where ship- 150. Remember we only have a limited number of mates feel at home. It has been a rare and distinct rooms reserved at the special reunion rate; don’t miss pleasure to have served as your representative of our out! great USS King (DLG-10/ DDG-41) Association as a The Reunion Committee, comprised of; Bill Member of the Board of Directors, Thank You! Brewer, Bruce Carlsen, Richard Crockett, Steve Cud- Rosanne and I look forward to seeing you in New Or- dihy, Tony Murphy, Roger Geist, Jim Sievers, Doug leans! Schultz, Dave Wood, Chuck White, Dave Nesbitt, and myself, have all been very beneficial to our organiza- MEMBERSHIP tion but Jim Sievers, Richard Crockett, Dave Wood, Bruce Carlsen, Membership Director and Doug Schutz have all four made significant contri- butions to the effort. Dave Wood made the initial con- So far we have 31 renewals for 2004. (I’m writing tact with the Convention Visitor's Bureau and the pre- this on Feb. first.) We also have six new members and liminary site survey, Jim took a trip to New Orleans our first associate member. Welcome aboard. You from California for the site survey, at his own expense, don’t have the duty. Richard Crockett has been doing a fantastic job of get- Well maybe you do have the duty. To grow the As- ting the word out to a variety of venues, and Doug sociation we need you to locate your shipmates and Schutz has made contact with a DJ and also some fol- tell them about the King Association. I know it is low up visits to the hotel. tough but there is something you can use for a clue to Our Reunion Committee is doing a great job to locate your liberty partners, the guys you worked with make sure we have a great event but we need your as- or the guys involved in that incident you would all sistance. Using the words of a famous New Orleans rather forget. Chef, “Let’s kick it up a notch”, if we could have The Association has a miner working for us. Terry some door prizes. If you know of a vendor and/ or Forsyth is doing a fine job but he is only one man. have access to items you feel would make a great door There are only so many hours available for Terry to prize please get that word to me, your Reunion Direc- do what he does. We can use your help locating those tor, our President and Newsletter Editor, or send it old shipmates. This especially goes for the crews who along with your registration form to Bruce, our Treas- had no cruise books. We have nowhere to start our urer. The other thing we need you to do is to contact search. all of the shipmates you have kept in contact with over How do you find them? Do you remember where the years and invite them to join us in New Orleans. they went to college? I found one shipmate by con- Planning a really great reunion takes two years tacting his alumni association. I found the father of and toward that end our Board of Directors and your another. Hometowns are another place to look. Try Reunion Committee have been doing some prelimi- www.whitepages.com. Have you tried to google an nary evaluations of potential West Coast sites.