We will be having the next Seattle Base meeting this coming Wednesday, May 16, at VFW Post #2995 (4330 148th Ave N.E., Redmond WA 98052). Social hour starts at 6 PM with business meeting at 7PM. Don't forget to review the previous meeting minutes, you can find them here on the blog or on the Seattle Base website, just click the Minutes button on the left.
The COB Ralph Sterley will be giving a short speech about “How to Buy American.” We will also have a DVD on DBF as presented on the Alaska Cruise Convention. This DVD was given to us by John Clear EMC(SS) Ret. for our base.
Base Member Earl Greening, who lives up in Anacortes, would like to find someone to car pool with to attend our meetings. If you can provide a ride, let us know and we can put you in touch with Earl. Please share this around and hopefully we can find someone to join with him.
National USSVI Election and Award Nominations are now closed
Thank you to all our shipmates who have submitted candidates for the various awards. We received over seventy nominations for the various awards, showing that there are many shipmates doing good work throughout this great organization of ours.
Thanks to the good men who stepped up to place themselves in nomination for USSVI National and Region Officer positions. Here is the list of the candidates:
- National Commander: T. Michael Bircumshaw, unopposed
- Senior Vice Commander: William Andrea and Carl Schmidt
- Junior Vice Commander: Al Singleman, unopposed
- National Secretary: John Clear, Tom Conlon, and Len Heiselt
- National Treasurer: Richard McPherson and James Van Vranken
- NE Region Director: Michael Naughton, unopposed
- SE Region Director: Dick Kanning, unopposed
- Central Region Director: Ken Recoy and Wayne Standerfer
- Western Region Director: John Mansfield and Robert Miller
2012 Convention Website:
There was an accessibility problem with the Norfolk convention website earlier this week, but Base Cdr John Pearl reported that it is back in commission soon. Be sure to check out the 2012 Convention website at: http://ussvi-2012convention.com/
I hope to see you all at the meeting.
Doug Abramson
Seattle Base Commander
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