Hello
shipmates,
We hope
this newsletter finds everyone well and not suffering too badly from
winter. Some parts of the
We have
been working with the
In the last
newsletter, we didn’t remember who won the British Naval Compass that was
donated by Jack London. We have since
heard from Paul Pearson (SN, 58-62) who was the winner. We had a phone message while we were in
Gatlinburg that Jim Shannon (BT2, 64-67) had received the ship model he won in
the raffle. He was very pleased with it.
We’ve
raffled a custom built ship’s model at each reunion. Ticket sales were down this time, and we are
rethinking whether or not to continue with the ship model raffles. The models are built AFTER the reunion to be
a replica of what the ship looked like when the winner was aboard. Ticket price has been $10.00. It was not required to attend the reunion to
win. If any of you have any strong feelings
one way or the other about continuing to raffle ship models at future reunions,
please let us know. Our contact
information is on the last page of this newsletter.
We’d like
to thank all of you who have sent us your email and mailing address changes. It helps a LOT! If your email address, mailing address or
phone number changes, please let us know as soon as possible. Postal returns can get really expensive and
there is talk of yet another postage increase.
We want to be sure everyone receives their newsletters. We’ve had some postal returns with no
forwarding addresses. We search online
to try to find new addresses, but there are some people who no longer receive
newsletters because we simply can’t find them.
Fair
winds and smooth sailing!
Bill
& Pat Siler
Ship History on Website
Gary O’Neil (ETR3, 63-66), with
help from several other shipmates, has been working on fleshing out the history
on the website. He has done a terrific
job! Bob Miller (MM3, 62-65), Paul Machart
(YN3, 62-65) and Tom Byrne (RM2, 60-62) have been a big help with their
contributions. Right now, the history is
available to anyone who has internet access.
At some point, we may offer paper copies. If we do that, we will charge for postage and
paper.
Our History
Major progress has been made on
our TUCKER History. The original posting
in 2004 was a text document of 21 pages.
Shortly after the
We Are Not Done!
We need your help! Do you have recollections, pictures,
documents, or just plain corrections that should be added?
Get Involved!
We can make the TUCKER History
better than any other ship history out there.
If you can contribute in any way:
Email me: goneil@new.rr.com
Write me: Gary O’Neil
I would love to hear from you.
Gary (GTO)
O’Neil
ETR3,
63-66
Hello
Shipmates,
Over the
past few years I‘ve been able to collect several cruise books for the USS Henry
W. Tucker. I’m considering undertaking the task of having them professionally
scanned and put on CDs. Doing this would enable me to make CD copies of the
cruise book available to others.
To have
them professionally scanned would be costly, but manageable. Copying them to CDs
and mailed would be an additional cost.
Before I
start I’d be interested in finding out how many shipmates are interested in
obtaining a CD of a particular book(s).
I estimate
your final cost for each CD would be in the range of $20.00 .This is based on
requests for at least 10 CDs per book. (Final cost
will be based on total participants)
The CDs
would more than likely be in PDF or HTML formats.
Cruise
Books for the USS. Henry W. Tucker range from 1953 to 1973 a total of 12 books.
I’ll inform
you in our next Newsletter if I’ll be undertaking this project based on your
response.
Bob
Miller
MM3,
62-65
If you’re interested please send me.
Your name
and the year(s) you’re interested in.
By E-Mail: Millerbrothers875@hotmail.com
By
3009
Please understand that this is just a proposal and does not constitute
an order, it’s merely a way to find out if this project is feasible.
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