17th Reunion - Sacramento (Sept. 28th—Oct. 1st) - 2005

Inside this issue:

2005 Reunion con’t. 2

Secretary’s Report 2

Ship’s Store 2

Chaplain—Taps 3

Note from Webmasters 4

New Alumni Members 4

Email coordinator 4

USS STODDARD DD566 WWII * Korea * Vietnam

Date: April 25, 2005

Web Site: www.ussstoddard.org USS STODDARD ALUMNI

NEWSLETTER

Hawthorn Suites Hotel

321 Bercut Drive Sacramento, CA 95814

*****

Wednesday: Check in, hospitality room open, pick up reunion packets.

Thursday: The San Francisco tour starts early at 0700 to board busses to catch a ferry at Vallejo that will take us through the bay to Fisherman's Wharf. We will be with tour guides so they will point out places of inter-est on the boat trip. At San Francisco we will have a memorial service on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, the only restored Liberty Ship. This is at the end of Fisherman's Wharf. Also, tied there is the USS Pam-panito, the most correctly restored WWII submarine. Price includes tickets to both of these. We will have a couple of hours to do self tours of the ships, browse Fisherman's Wharf, eat, etc. We will get back on the buses and do a bus tour of San Francisco, over the Golden Gate and to Napa Valley for a wine country tour that will include a tour of a winery with wine tasting. Then it's back to the hotel arriving around 1800 for the ice breaker and silent auction. A lunch was not included in this tour. I felt we could do bet-ter individually than the $20 we would have been charged. Con’t on page 2

from president, dave pietz...

Reunion Registration Form 5

Sacramento, CA

Update on 2005 Reunion—Sacramento, California

The hotel stay includes a shuttle service to and from the airport as well as a buffet breakfast that is open at 0600. The shuttle service can also be used for visiting the various sights in Sacramento. We will be about one mile from Old Sacramento, the Capitol and most of the historical sights and points of interest in Sacramento. Sac-ramento has a trolley line that services these points of interest for a very nominal cost. Friday evening and Saturday day will be open for the opportunity to visit the many museums, other entertain-ment, restaurants, interesting shops, and the 28-acre State Historic Park on the river in downtown Sacramento. Everyone is encouraged to visit http://www.oldsacramento.com/home.html for very detailed information on what is avail-able. The reunion packets will include bro-chures, maps and discount coupons. Also, if anyone has a favorite song they would like to hear on Saturday they can email me and I will get it to the band. This band spe-cializes in music from the Big Band era to the 70's.

www.hawthornsuites.com

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Con’t from page 1 Friday: We board the busses at 0900 for a tour o f S a c r a m e n t o , O l d S a c r a -mento and Sutter's Fort. This will in-clude a docent tour of the state capitol, Capital Park and Viet Nam War Memo-rial. Then a barbecue lunch on the American River at Marshall's Gold Dis-covery Park. There will be gold panning demonstrations with lessons and individ-ual supervised gold panning on the American River (Miners will find gold nug-gets). Each person will receive a personal gold pan and vial. There will be time for browsing and tour of the museum at Coloma {Marshall's gold discovery sight}. We will then go to Hangtown for additional browsing, shop-ping and antiquing. We will be back to the hotel around 1700. The rest of the evening will be free for visiting some of

the many sights in Sacramento. Saturday: Saturday day will be a free to tour the many sights in Sacramento. There will b e t h e b u s i n e s s m e e t i n g at 1630. Transportation to the car mu-seum will start at 1830 for a evening of dining and dancing at the Towe Auto Museum with entertainment provided by the Planet Swing Band. During the eve-ning there will be docent tours avail-able. Sunday: End of reunion, depart hotel.

Please remember in addition to the price, there is a $6 shipping fee. Send orders to: Marilyn Harpster, 751 Intek Way, Westerville, OH 43082. Make checks payable to USS Stoddard Alumni Association.

Stoddard’s Ship’s Store

Stoddard Ball Cap w/ Ship Silhouette and USS Stoddard DD-566 - $15

***** Navy blue light weight jackets— $50 Sweatshirts (navy or white)— $25

(Sizes: M, L, & XL)

Golf Shirts (White) - $ 25 (Sizes: M, L, & XL)

Golf Shirts (Navy) - $ 25 (Sizes: M, L, & XL)

History Channel Video—

Heavy Metal The Destroyer

(USS Stoddard is in Video)

VCR -$ 22

Stoddard Alumni

Patch- $ 4

from secretary, marilyn harpster...

Norman Taylor looking over a watch...

Med Cruise 50’s

Web Site: www.ussstoddard.org Page 3

TAPS: from chaplain , byron goodwin

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Pro-

tect them as they protect us. Bless them

and their families for the selfless acts they

perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the

name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen."

Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine & others deployed in harm's way,

Prayer is the very best

one

Balthazar, George R. SN 59-61 Stockton, CA Barnes, Philip G. GM3 53-55 Blackmar, Kenneth R. (Deceased 2001) SN 53-56 Mays Landing, NJ Bokovoy, Sydney Mears, MI Borchert, R. L. Browne, Aldis (Deceased 2003) SN 53-55 Caine, Charles Cheyenne, WY Camp, Paul Delmont, PA Chappell, Larry Arkansas Codner, Daniel B. SN 54-56 Edmond, OK Coker, Hoyt E. Atlanta, GA Cook, Stephenson California Copeland, James Calvin Mesquite, TX Cowdrey, Oliver (Deceased 2002) BT3 53-55 Windsor, VT. Creamer, Jackson (Deceased 1993) SN 53-56 Crockett, B. E. Tennessee Croto, Willard E. (Deceased 2002) MM1 54-56 Albany, NH Dangers, Leo C. (Deceased 1978) BTC 53-56 Howard Lake, MN Danicich, Michael (Deceased 2001) SN 66-67 Dillingham, Carlos South Carolina Fortier Jr.,Cyrille A. (Deceased 1985) SN 53-54 Gross, Phillip Florida Grossman, Frank Arkansas Heimark, Jacob PA. Holder, Richard

Hunter, Henry Washington Kerchner, Craig R.

Kern, Herman (Deceased 1999) BM3 54-55 Lyndhurst, VA Lerch, Walter A. (Deceased 1985) GM1 53-56 Holbrook, PA Lord, Frederick H. QM1 53-54 Virginia Marlowe, Bill (Deceased 1990) LTJG 65-68 Maxcy, Donald G. Atlanta, GA

Monroe, Charles

Nazzaro, Albert P. (Deceased 2005) Braintree, MA Nuszbaum, John R. Gleason, TN Opela, Paul E.(Deceased 1985) QM2 54-57 Pezzullo, Glacomo IC3 53-54 Huntington, NY Poirier, Edward R. (Deceased 1992) SK3 51-55 Richardson, Iliff D. Houston, TX Roark, Lyman BT1 65-67 Dallas, TX Schobl, Howard "Ted"

Sheppard, George E. Jr.(Deceased 1997) BT3 53-55 Wichendon, MA Spencer Jr, Jess L

Sturvist, Gerald McKees Rock, PA Utegaard, Thomas F.(Deceased 1993) LT 1953 Alexandria, VA Watford, Ira Alabama Wooden Jr., Edward F. DC3 53-54 Millsboro, DE

DECEASED SHIPMATES

President: David Pietz email: dpietz@infostations.com Secretary: Marilyn Harpster email: jharpster@intekflow.com Treasurer: Jay Romack email: romackjay@juno.com Chaplain: Byron Goodwin email: gbugsy@sbcglobal.net Webmasters: Dan and Roxane Withers email: withers@direcway.com Email coordinator: Bob Hoag email: rwh@donobi.net Newsletter Editor: Carlene Rauh email: cjrauh@ldd.net

Marilyn Harpster, Secretary Intek, Inc. 751 Intek Way Westerville, OH 43082

I'm having increasing problems with returned emails. There are 3 main causes. 1. Shipmates do not inform me of their change of email address. 2. A number of people have spam block-ers on their computer, or at their server, and my messages can’t get through. 3. A number of people have limited al-lowed email volume at their server, and when their mailbox is full, no messages get through. There are several solutions to this problem: 1. Shipmates need to check their mail more frequently and delete messages to open space in their inbox. 2. Those with Spam blockers need to add my address to their "allowed" email ad-dresses. 3. If I continue to receive large numbers of returned messages I will begin to delete the address from the database. I really don't want to do this, but the number of returned messages is getting very large and taking a great amount of time. On occasion my email system sends out repeat copies of outgoing mail and I'm aware of this. I am trying to fix the problem.

USS STODDARD DD566 WWII * Korea * Vietnam

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From: treasurer Jay romack

from email coordinator, bob hoag...

from webmasters, dan and roxane...

WELCOME ABOARD!

We would like to encourage eve-ryone who had not submitted a short “bio” for the Alumni listing section to do so. Also, please in-clude what you have been doing since your Stoddard days.

Your 2005 Stoddard Alumni dues are due. You may also pay in advance for future years.

Axford William E. RD3 52-53 Bosia Ronald A. SN 67 Carriveau Charles SN 53-55 Catino Anthony QMSN 53-55 Collinsworth Clint CS3 58-62 Cookfair Arthur SK3 50-54 Cornwalll James ET2 50-55 Cossifos Nicholas P. SN 53-55 Cotton Ronald K. EM3 52-54 D'Auge Salvatore SN 53 Devitt Richard L. SO3 51-54 Featherson Arthur GM3 53-55 Fetters James K. BMSN 53-54 Freitus Joe Frerker Jerome PN3 54-55 Gearhart Harry R Jr. CS2 54 Hatcher Dayle F. SM2 64-66 Hedgepeth T.H. Jr. HM3 53-54 Hennessy Fred SN 54 Hill Kester R. BM3 53-54 Hodges DeWite C. BT2 58-60 Karnitz Melvin CS2 54 Kingston John H. RM2 52-54 Klabuhn James G. QM2 52-54 Kufel Joseph QM1 53-57 Leeman Keith ET3 53-55 LeMieux Leo L. SN 51-54 Lenczewski Leo L. SH1 54-55 LePore Edward MM2 53-55 Maze James W. GM3 50-53 McElroy Raymond SN 53 Meltzer William ME3 54-55 Merrell Bill FT3 53-56 Morgan Marshall DK1 59-60 Murnighan Louis YN3 52-55 Newcomb Allen SO1 53-55 Noordzy Marion P. FT2 54-55 Polsgrove Harold MM2 56-62 Rhodes Ronald T. TE3 53-56 Rogerson R.G. CDR 66-67 Roosa James M. SO3 53 Ruman Radford A. FT3 53-55 Rusch Martin RD3 53-56 Senuta Mike RD2 53 Siss Frederick E. SN 53-55 Sita Samuel J. CSSN 54-55 Slattery Patrick SN 56-58 Smith Gale E. TM2 50-54 Sopko Mike Jr. GM2 54 Stout Dean SN 53-57 Sturgeon John E. BT3 53-56

Tricker Brice O. BT3 54-55 Ulmer Jerrold SN 59-61 Yates Bill J. RD2 53-56 Zevon Robert SN 53-55

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OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM

Hawthorn Suites Hotel 321 Bercut Drive

Sacramento, CA 95814 916-441-1200 or www.hawthornsuites.com

17th USS STODDARD REUNION September 28 – October 1, 2005

Send this official reunion registration form directly to David Pietz as shown in the bottom of the form, along with your registration payment.

Name: ___________________________________ Lady’s Name: __________________________

Stoddard Service Years & Rating: ____________________________________________________

Guest Attending with me:____________________________________________________________

Street Address: _______________________________ City:_____________________________ State:_____________________ Zip Code:_____________ Home Phone:_________________ Cell Phone:________________ Business Phone:______________ Fax:______________________ E-Mail Address:_________________________ Accommodations (Please make your hotel registrations directly with Hawthorn Suites. Request the

Stoddard Reunion group rate $99.00 single/double, $109.00 triple occupancy, $119 for quad and $139.00 for two-room suites single/double/triple/quad; tax additional)

Check-in Date:________________________ Check-out Date:__________________________ Driving to Reunion? Yes No E-Mail me driving directions: Yes No Please choose from the following selections: Thursday 9/29/05 San Francisco / Wine Country Tour ______ X $ 75.00 = $_____________ Thursday 9/29/05 Ice Breaker with barbecue buffet ______ X $ 30.00 = $_____________ Friday 9/30/05 Old Sacramento & gold panning Tour ______ X $ 80.00 = $_____________ Saturday 10/1/05 Dinner Banquet at Museum ______ X $ 65.00 = $_____________

USS Stoddard Alumni 2005 Dues $ 10.00 = $_____________ TOTAL $_____________

Make checks payable to: USS Stoddard Alumni Association Mail to: David Pietz, 7133 Lily Way, Brownsvalley, CA 95918

Telephone: 530 742-2661 E-Mail: dpietz@infostations.com