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The 12th Annual Reunion, in Nashville was another outstanding success!
This year's reunion was hosted by Biff and Joanne Scarborough ( CVA 20 ) at
the
Regal Maxwell House Hotel.
Yep, that's right....... the Maxwell House, famous for it's coffee
that Theodore Roosevelt said was "Good to the last drop."
This was a classy hotel, but also a fun hotel, the whole time we were there,
the front desk clerks were dressed up in Sailor shirts and even white hats!
While we were there, a group of Navy CB's were also there, and they were
celebrating their 39th Annual reunion. These guys were WW 2 Sea Bees, and
were disbanded in 1946, so their group is getting smaller and smaller, but
their spirit keeps getting bigger. We stopped by their hospitality suite and
listened to their stories, and they came to ours. Nice group of guys.
This year, we again had over 300 people (shipmates and wives) show up and,
for the 2nd year in a row, had 21 First timers.
Biff and Joanne planned several things for us to do, from a bus tour of the
city, to shows at night.
Dotty and I, along with about 20 others went to a "Patsy Cline" Show on
Friday night.
Excellent show, and it so happened that night, Sept. 8 would have been Patsy
Cline's 60th Birthday. Her husband, Charlie Dick was there and posed for
pictures and talked to everyone. Wait until you see the picture of me and
Patsy Cline. Oh, well, yeah, me and Patsy and Lonnie Whittaker, at the last
minute, he jumped in the picture.
Also, on Friday night, was, naturally .................... The Grand Ole
Opry, about 100 people went to that show, and you WILL be hearing more about
that, along with some pictures. To give you a little preview, let's just
say, some shipmates ended up backstage with Bill Anderson, Bill Monroe, and
the Oakridge boys!! (Speaking of backstage, earlier in the day, when noone
was around, 2 shipmates did manage to get in the back door and go on had
their picture taken on stage in front of the WSM microphone. I won't tell
you it was Bobby Quinn and me, but you will see that picture in the next few
days.
On Saturday morning, at our business meeting Rich Stange told us what he
could about next year's reunion, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will be
towards the end of September, all the details are being finalized now, and
as soon as Rich gives us the word, we will put it right on the web site. Bob
and Mary Holmes got up and gave a great slide show presentation on San
Diego, and, possibly the USS Midway. That was a real tough act to follow, so
everyone present took a vote, and the 2002 Reunion will be in San Diego,
California.
During the meeting, Lonnie Whittaker, our webmaster gave a presentation
about the web site, complete with a lap top hooked up to a 27" television,
and showed many shipmates some highlights of the web sites. It was very
encouraging, afterwards when guys came up to me and asked questions about
finding the web site. These were guys who had never seen it before. Thanks,
in part to Lonnie's presentation, the Association voted us a budget for the
web site, so keep an eye open, you will be seeing some new and improved
pages!
Biff and Joanne did a great job of hosting the reunion, and you will be
seeing more pictures and stories about them, but I want to add a picture
here of the guy who started this whole thing, back in 1989. With out Rupert
Marshall, we would all be sitting around wondering, "whatever happened to my
old ship"
Thank you, Rupert.
(Rupert is on the left, I am on the right. When I first met Rupert in 1989,
in Pittsburgh, neither one of us had gray
hair...................................)
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