President’s Letter Fourth Quarter 2019
Dear Navy League Members and Friends:
With this fourth quarter President’s Letter, my three-year tour of New Look Coming duty as President draws to a close. At midnight on December 31, for Newsletter 2019, the watch was passed to Captain Frank Russo, USN (Ret), our outstanding former Treasurer. George Simpson, our acting Secretary, became our elected Secretary. I assumed the duties of Treasurer. We seem well staffed with the tremendous talents of Executive Director Jessica At a November meeting, the Hitchen, Development Navy League’s National Director Erika Myers and Executive Committee voted to volunteer extraordinaire approve the use of the Navy Mary Brogan to go forward League seal as the official logo and do great things! of the Navy League of the United States. This seal has an October historic legacy for our USCG Sector NY and organization and will replace MSST NY held their Outgoing President Charles Blaich, seen here the previous slanted anchor Enlisted Person of the with incoming President Frank Russo, had his logo. National has encouraged Quarter ceremonies on name added to the Council’s Presidents’ Plaque. all councils to adopt the seal, October 23 and 28, along with updated brand respectively. Congratulations to CS3 Zachry Mccullagh and SK1 guidelines, during an 18- Isaac Caraballo and thank you for your exemplary service. month roll out. On October 21, I presented at the World Trade Center Museum my As you may have already recollections as a NYC Fire Chief on 9/11 to the international noticed, we adopted the seal students of the Naval War College Command College program. on our website and social media platforms in January. We Amazingly, there is still genuine interest 18 years later. We hope are in the process of the 2020 Command College Class can join us for a U.S. Navy converting our other assets, Birthday Celebration in NYC. including this newsletter, so cont’d next page keep an eye out for a fresh new look in the next issue.