R15 CADET CARRIES THE OLYMPIC TORCH 15 year old Cadet Brandon Zadel from Salem, NH, a member of the USS Tsunami in Manchester, NH, was one of the runners of the 2001 Olympic Torch in Boston, MA. Brandon took the torch over the Broadway Bridge at approximately 7:00 PM on December 27 with an escort of Boston’s finest and Tsunami crew members and family cheering him on. Way To Go Brandon!! Photos courtesy of the USS Tsunami USPS 017-671 STARFLEET SALUTES THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT AND CONGRATULATES ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE XIX WINTER OLYMPIAD! THE STARFLEET COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUE 109 – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2002 PAGE 1 STARFLEET Communiqué Volume I, No. 109 Don’t Call Me Edwin!.................................................3 Publisher: STARFLEET, The International Star Trek From the Chief Of Staff................................................4 Fan Association, Inc. Do You Have The Right Stuff?.................................4 P.O. 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Kansas City, KS 66104 PAGE 2 THE STARFLEET COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUE 109 – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2002 reporting to him as VCS. A new International Charities Coordinator has been named with the goal of revamping that Department as well. STARFLEET Membership Processing also saw a change of personnel, as Fleet Captain Don Willits stepped down after catching up on a backlog that went back almost twelve months. Brigadier General Sanford “Sandy” Berenberg has assumed the duties of Membership Processing Director and continues to provide the high standards of service STARFLEET My fellow members, Willcox, for her tireless effort in a taxing 1999 fi ling. Admiral Chuck Freas once again members have come to expect in the MP area. position. I fi rmly believe we could not have stepped forward to do battle with the IRS Today I present to you my second and fi nal done this without her. on STARFLEET’s behalf. STARFLEET paid STARFLEET has a new Awards Director who is State of the STARFLEET Address as your that fi ne quickly while Chuck Freas fi led an no stranger to working at the Fleet level. Mandi President. Yes, I said last address - I am not To help ensure this future surplus, at my behest abatement request with the IRS. We then fi led Livingston, former Membership Processing running for re-election to this offi ce. You may Admiral Chris Wallace, with the help of Fleet our 1998 Form 990 and began the wait for that Vice Chief and Academy Commandant has ask why and I want to briefl y tell you. I am Captain Don Willits, has created a STARFLEET inevitable penalty. During this time we learned been assigned to take over the STARFLEET looking forward to returning to a less time Budget. This budget is located in this issue of that the 1999 abatement had been approved Awards Program. Mandi will be working consuming schedule. A schedule which will the Communique for your perusal. Based on and we were sent our penalty amount, plus a on developing and enhancing the Awards allow me to do two things; concentrate on 2001’s 1st and 2nd quarter spending from each small amount of interest, back. That was placed Program. my family and teach in the local college’s law member of the Executive Committee. With this in STARFLEET’s new savings account and we enforcement curriculum. This coupled with projected expenditure information for 2002 continued to wait for the penalty assessment STARFLEET membership now hovers around my feeling that a second term is something was developed and used to draft a budget for for 1998, which came in short order. We also the 4000 mark, and we intend to continue no one should do consecutively about sums FY2002. In addition, he will be preparing a paid that penalty quickly and an abatement pressing that mark upwards. STARFLEET it up. report on 2001’s income and expenditures, by request was sent to the IRS. That abatement Shuttle Operations launched 15 shuttles and department, to help refi ne the Budget model. I was just approved and I am now informing welcomed 5 chapters into the EFCP program in My purpose in presenting this address is to hope that future STARFLEET administrations you that STARFLEET’s IRS issues are over. The 2001. One of these new shuttles is the Matrix, inform the membership of what has happened will follow this process to help create a second abatement, in the amount of $1,715.01, the first STARFLEET