Volume 73, Issue 1 • April, 2015 “Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast” Newsletter of the U.S.S. Houston CA-30 Survivors’ Association and Next Generations Now Hear This! USS Houston, HMAS Perth Memorial Association Address: Installed at U.S. Embassy in Jakarta c/o John K. Schwarz, Executive Director 2500 Clarendon Blvd., Apt. 121 Arlington, VA 22201 Association Phone Number: 703-867-0142 Address for Tax Deductible Contributions: U.S.S. Houston Survivors’ Association c/o Pam Foster, Treasurer 370 Lilac Lane, Lincoln, CA 95648 (Please specify which fund – General or Scholarship) Association Email Contact:
[email protected] Association Founded 1946: by Otto and Trudy Schwarz March 1, 2015: Eagle Scout Candidate Richard Stacpoole (Right) unveils the new U.S.S. In This Issue… Houston (CA-30)/H.M.A.S. Perth (D-29) Memorial, which he designed, at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. (Photo by Dana Charles) . New Memorial Commissioned / 1, 2 . Desk of Executive Director / 3 In This Issue…cont. By Dana Charles . 2015 Reunion Report / 4, 5, 6 A newly created U.S.S. Houston (CA- . Notes From Down Under / 17 . You Shop, Amazon Gives / 6 30) and H.M.A.S. Perth memorial was . Gavin Campbell Article Link / 17 . Scholarship Recipients / 7 commissioned at the U.S. Embassy in . In Memoriam / 18, 19 Jakarta, Java, Indonesia on Sunday, . Scholarship Update / 8 . Becoming a Board Member / 20 March 1, 2015—73 years to the day . Mail Bag / 9, 10 . New Illustration of CA-30 / 21 after both cruisers were lost in battle . Remembrance in Sunda Strait / 11, 12 .