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BUCCANEER an Official Publication of the USS King (DLG-10/DDG-41) Association V OLUME 4, ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2005 BUCCANEER An Official Publication of the USS King (DLG-10/DDG-41) Association PUBLISHED BY: DAVE NESBITT 7983 Bradwick Way Melbourne, FL 32940 [email protected] HAPPY BIRTHDAY USS KING—17 NOVEMBER 1960 Message from the Board of Directors Harry Pate, President Greetings Shipmates! If you remember we didn’t do so well the year before in New Orleans. Well, the results from the Seattle Reunion are in I am happy to report. We ended up with a surplus profit from the Seattle reunion. As we are a Non-profit organization the Board had the task of what to do with this surplus profit. After a few ideas were kicked around it was decided that a portion of the money would stay in the Association coffers and the rest would be refunded to the attendees. The refund will come in the form of a letter. You should receive it sometime in December. BALTIMORE HARBOR AT NIGHT It will basically be a receipt for your 2006 Associa- tion dues or at your option; Regular Members that have a ways to go but the Reunion Director for next attended will receive $20.00 and Associate members year, Dave Nesbitt, is working on the Budget for Balti- that attended will receive $10 instead. If you desire more so we can come closer to our Goal. You will be the cash refund, please let Bruce Carlsen, Treasurer, hearing more about Baltimore from him later in this know of your desires before December. Newsletter. The Seattle Reunion was only the second since we Speaking of Reunion Directors Doug Schutz the decided to organize and run on our own. The first Director for the Seattle reunion is from New Orleans year we didn’t do so well and this last year we were and we lost track of him in the aftermath of the hurri- not happy with either. Our goal is to make it come canes. I’m happy to report that Dave heard from him out almost even, no debt and no more then a 10% about the first of October. He was away on business profit. It is almost impossible to come out exactly on and I believe he stayed away until just recently. His budget, so a small contingency is planned on (10%). home did not have much storm damage so we grateful Any monies that we receive that are in excess of the for that. There were a lot of other folks that were not actual costs along with the monies from the Raffles so lucky. are used to either make up for the loses of the previ- ous year or help to fund the activities of the next re- The last item before I close is the Board of direc- union, as long as it does not exceed 10%. Well, we tors. There are three members of the board who at the 1 end of this will have served for three years. According to our By Laws that is the maximum allowable. There are also three others that have not indicated to me if they will run again or not. We need your help! These folks have worked very hard to build this Association into what we have today. If you enjoy the Reunions, the Website, the newsletter and every- thing else that having an association makes possible, and would like to see it continue, step up and help keep it going, by considering to run for the Board of Directors or volunteer to help out in the other committee positions. Communications Chuck White, Director For those of us that have computers, communications via email is a great asset. Not only do we have speed on our side, we don’t have to worry about sleet, hail, rain, low flying ducks or goats chewing up the mail. We do have to worry about spam, virus’s, worms and intruders in to our semi-private corner of the World Wide Web. We sometimes for- get that someone on the other end is waiting for an answer to a problem or waiting to hear of a friends well being. As an association we read of upcoming events via the website and emails amongst ourselves. What about those that only have snail mail? I think sometimes, and I am in- cluded, that we forget about those non-members who consequently do not receive the “Buccaneer”. I am wondering, out loud here, if we took it upon ourselves, to mail a copy to a shipmate that we know the address of and know that he is not a member (check the online database). Also for us online types, it would be good to share with the USS King com- munity the whereabouts of that shipmate, with his permission of course. A couple of big changes have taken place on the website. Due to be- ing hit by smut peddlers and those looking for free advertising many times a day, the search of a new guestbook was successfully found and installed, one that is security rich and very customizable. This may or may not answer the problem we were having with not so nice people, let us hope it does. The link http://www.uss-king.com/gb will get you to the New Guestbook. Click on Sign guestbook to enter your data. On your next visit, please sign in and if you have a photo of yourself in uniform way back when, the New Guestbook has the capability of up- loading that photo. Other items that you can add to the guestbook are your email address, identities for AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Mes- senger, MSN and ICQ. Instead of me explaining everything, you have to experience it. Go to the Guestbook page and click on GUESTBOOK. Another new addition to the website is a Discussion Forum. This is designed as an adjunct to the Message Board. The Discussion Forum is a place to talk about old times, specific events and share experiences, start discussions based on rating or division or something in general. Mark Donovan has added Avatars to the registration process so that you can select your Rank or Rate. The Discussion board can be accessed in a variety of ways. The front/index page has a link for your convenience, 2 or access it from the Message board page. A direct way is to input http:// uss-king.com/smf into your browser. Deck Logs are being added to the website. This is a day by day ac- count of the King’s whereabouts; yellow green days in port, blue green at sea. Our Historian, Mark Donovan and I are working together to provide and online version. Click on History, then select Deck Logs or enter http://www.uss-king.com/decklogs.shtml So for now, “Fair Winds and following Seas”, especially to the areas ravaged by high winds and even higher seas. Reunion Dave Nesbitt, Director Plans are proceeding for the upcoming reunion in Baltimore. The Holiday Inn Inner Harbor is located a short walk to the heart of the inner harbor, and within walking distance to all the sights. Beginning 15 No- vember 2005 you can start making your hotel reservations at the Holiday Inn Inner Harbor by calling either 1-800-HOLIDAY or you may call di- rectly at 410-685-3500. Please make your reservations early, reserva- tions may be cancelled later on with no penalties. At six months prior to the reunion, the hotel has the right to evaluate how many rooms have been booked and adjust our block of rooms reserved accordingly. The rates for the rooms are $119 per night plus tax and surcharges. The hotel has extended the group rates for two days before the scheduled reunion and two days after. For those of us that will be driving to Baltimore, there is a $15 per day parking charge. Transportation from the BWI Air- port is available at a nominal charge. Registration Packets, including the Registration Form, will be mailed out to all shipmates that we have valid mailing addresses on in January. The Registration Form will identify those costs above the Hotel Room Rate; meals, name tags, tours, etc. Your membership dues help to pay for some of the front-end expense of pulling together a reunion, for that rea- son there is one registration fee for members and another for non- members. 3 As mentioned earlier, almost all the sights in Baltimore are located Welcome New Members within walking distance of the hotel. We have put together a tour to An- napolis, MD, the first Nation’s Capital and home of the United States Na- David McHenry val Academy. We will be picked up by bus at the hotel which will take us William Roberts to Annapolis. Upon arrival we will take a guided walking tour of the Na- Harvey Towler val Academy, and then we will be able to sit down for a luncheon at an excellent local area restaurant located on the City Docks. After lunch we Rick Tuel will board the bus with a tour guide for a driving tour of Annapolis, then back to the docks for a 40 minute harbor cruise to complete the day’s touring, followed by the return trip to Baltimore. This tour is not pack- aged requiring each segment of it to be individually scheduled, i.e. Bus Charter, tour guide, Entrance fee for the Academy, the luncheon, and har- bor cruise. We need at least 40 people to sign up for this tour to make it happen.
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