SUVCW Department of Calif. & Pacific http://www.suvpac.org The California Winter 2013 Column Volume XI, Issue II Vice Commander in Chief Tad Newsletter Address: Looking Ahead to 7788 Peachtree Ave. D. Campbell. Starting at 4:00 Newark, CA 94560 the Department PM on Friday the Camp San Luis [email protected] Encampment Obispo NCO Club will be open, and the registration table will be in operation for you to pick up Inside this Issue By Dept. your registration materials. The Department Commander Campfire officially opens at that .org Encampment Glen Roosevelt time, and will include a no-host 1 bar and snacks. Dinner is at 6:00 National Encampment pm. Department SVC Tim Reese has 2 been working tirelessly all year Saturday Business Meeting – th National Encampment on the planning for our 127 Camp, Officer, and Committee (cont) Annual CA and Pacific Reports Due 3 Department Encampment. Now The registration table will again National Encampment those plans are nearly all be open at 8:00 AM, and coffee (cont), Patriotic complete, and we look forward to and donuts will be available for 4 Paragraphs meeting with all our Camps’ and your early morning refreshment. Duty by the Graveside Auxiliaries’ delegates on March A Joint Orders Opening 5 8th and 9th at San Luis Obispo. Ceremony will begin at 9:00 Department News: LA Many Brothers and Auxiliary AM, and our business meetings Sisters have helped Tim along will start at 10:00 AM. A buffet 6 the way, and we thank them all in lunch will be served at noon. Department News: Ft. advance for their efforts to make 7 Point this another successful Besides old and new business, Encampment. financial and budget reporting, Department News: Ft. and election of officers; one of Mervine 8 Details can be found at: our most important and Editor’s message, More http://suvpac.org/encampment.ht interesting sessions is the reading 150th info ml and submittal of Camp, Officer, 9 and Committee Reports. All LGAR Thank You Note, We will be honored by a visit these reports are due at the ETC Alcatraz Living History from Commander in Chief Perley Encampment. Please have your day Mellor and his wife, National reports in written form before the Aux. Vice President, Diane Encampment, and ready to read Mellor, National Aux. President and submit to the Encampment. Jane Graham, the DUVCW One written copy of your report President Carole Morton, and Jr. should be handed to the . Winter 2013 Department Secretary as your Again, we look forward to the floor when doors were closed official submittal of the report. If meeting all of our Camp and for voting. your Camp or Committee will Auxiliary representatives at the not have a delegate at the Encampment as we conduct Outgoing National C-in-C Encampment, please mail a copy ourselves and our business in an Donald Palmer had set the Allied of your report to the Department atmosphere of Fraternity, Orders tone of the joint Secretary so he will have it prior Charity, and Loyalty. Encampment by his close to the Encampment. Since we do workings with the other four have numerous Camp reports to California Allied Orders during the past present, please make your oral and Pacific year. The Auxiliary, LGAR, and readings as brief as possible. Hosts DUVCW held their Encampments or convention Saturday Afternoon Memorial National concurrently at the Marriott, and Service Encampment only the WRC was unable to Directly after the conclusion of schedule their convention at the the Saturday meeting, we will same time. repair to the GAR Plot in the San The Generals Luis Cemetery (formerly IOOF) Sedgwick-Granger The 2013 elected National for our traditional Memorial Camp No. 17 officers are: C-in-C Perley Service. Make sure to bring a Mellor of New Hampshire (Dept. coat or jacket for this outdoor of MA), Senior Vice Commander service, since the weather is Ken Freshly of Ohio, and our variable at this time of year, and own Junior Vice Commander can get rather chilly. Photo The 131st Annual National PDC Tad Campbell of Camp 4, opportunities with the C-in-C Encampment of the SUVCW was Secretary Eugene Mortorff of will be available after the hosted by the Department of PA, Treasurer Richard Orr of PA, ceremony. California and Pacific and was C of A member William Vieira held at the Los Angeles Airport of RI, C of A member Robert Saturday Evening C-in-C Dinner Marriott Hotel on Thursday Petrovic of MO, C of A member The optional C-in-C Dinner will August 9 through Saturday Donald Shaw of MI, C of A be held back at the CSLO NCO August 11, 2012. member Steve Hammond of MD, Club, preceded by a Social Hour C of A member Donald Martin of at 6:00 with a no-host bar. OH. Patriotic Instructor is John W. Bates III of MA, and Silent Auction Items Needed Chaplain is Jerome Kowalski of Each Camp is requested to IL. CC/PDC Jerry Sayre of Camp donate one or two items (or 21 was named as a National more) that can be used in our Aide-de-Camp. PCC Dean traditional silent auction as a Enderlin of Camp 23 is the fund-raiser for the Department. National GAR Records Officer, All the donated items will be The Department had about 50 PCC Dan Earl of Camp 4 is the displayed at the Encampment, Brothers in attendance and had Chair of the National Committee and delegates can purchase an actual voting block of 22 on Legislation, NJVC Tad tickets to place in the “bid bags” which was the largest at any Campbell and PC-in-C Brad for each item. The winning National Encampment that any of Schall also serve on two other “bids” will be drawn after the our members could recall. There National Committees. Saturday evening dinner. were 99 credentialed Brothers on 2 . NEWSLETTER includes: consolidating information into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, expanding the spreadsheets to allow for additional information, converting those spreadsheets into a web-ready format, placing this data into a separate internet domain specifically for the GAR Records Project, launching a new GAR Records Project information web site and standardizing forms for public use in submitting information on the whereabouts of GAR records. • Approved the purchase of a The business side of the meeting fundraising plan submitted by commercial pop-up tent to be yielded several points of interest. Glenn Knight PDC, consider donated to the Lincoln The following highlights of the other options and recommend a Monument Association, for use SUVCW business sessions were plan at the 132nd National during ceremonies at the Lincoln compiled by James B. Pahl, Encampment. tomb during inclement weather. PCinC and reprinted here • The Patriotic Instructor’s • The delegates voted in favor to courtesy of the Camp 4 recommendation to develop a amend the preamble to the Sheridan’s Dispatch: visual/audio program for Camps National Constitution of the Sons and Departments was approved. of Union Veterans of the Civil • A new Life Member Program Memorial University is to be War to: We, the descendants of was adopted, creating five redesigned to a simpler, more soldiers, sailors, or marines who brackets. There is no payout to user-friendly format. served in the Army, Navy, Marine the Camps. However, the plan • The National Civil War Corps, or Revenue Cutter Service allows for interest and principal Memorials Committee is almost of the United States of American payments to National’s General ready to place their new database during the War of the Rebellion fund of $23.00 per year. The online. of 1861 to 1865. This change is breakdown is as follows: • The National Organization needed to recognize all the Age under 40 = $1,000.00 Age relinquished any claim they members of the United States 61 to 70 = $300.00 might have upon the published Armed Forces that served in the Age 41 to 50 = $700.00 Age 71+ works of the Grand Army of the American Civil War 1861-1865, = $200.00 Republic contained in the as the membership requirements Age 51to 60 = $500.00 HathiTrust Digital Library and of the GAR and our organization, • The Ritual was amended to requested the HathiTrust Digital per Article III of the C&R, as the allow veterans of the U.S. Armed Library open said works up for Marine Corps and Revenue Forces to render a hand salute access by the general public. Cutter Service were different rather than removing the hat or • A proposal to waive National branches of the Armed Forces. cap during the playing of the Per Capita dues for a dual This change will need ratification National Anthem, The Star member for other than his by all Departments. Spangled Banner. primary Camp was • The delegates voted in favor of • A special committee was resoundly defeated. National continuing to pursue formed for the purpose of • A new GAR Records Project 501(c)3 non-profit status. examining the proposed Plan was adopted, which . 3 Winter 2013 to the LAX Marriott Hotel management and event catering staff for providing an outstanding venue and great food service. Patriotic Paragraphs Dean Enderlin, Dept. Patriotic Instructor This edition’s Patriotic The official Encampment conducted the arrangements for Instruction was posted on the activities started on Thursday shirt sales, coordinated the National website: with two bus tours. One tour vendor displays, and prepared visited Civil War and GAR sites and set out the banquet table February 2013: The like the Drum Barracks Museum, decorations on behalf of the Month We Celebrate our and the other tour centered on Department Host Committee.