Welcome to the U.S. Naval Academy Class of '67
January 31, 2012
Classmates,
As we move into the last half of the 2011-2012 academic year, I wanted
to let you know that your class officers are deep in the planning
of our 45th Reunion on 19-21 October 2012 here in Annapolis. Stay tuned
for full
details and the registration procedures. Our ’67 Class store
is at www.usnaclasstore.com/67store.html and will have the optional
reunion items
ready in the very near future.
On the real long range calendar Navy opens with Notre Dame in Dublin,
Ireland on 1 September 2012 and then travels to play Penn State
in State College
on the 15th of September. Many classmates are already planning
their trip to the Old Sod; I will try and keep an updated listing here.
Stay tuned
to www.usna.com for further details on a number of Alumni Association
tour packages. There is a chance to get ’67 together in Dublin
for a pre-game! Let me know if you are planning on to be in Dublin.
During the spring we have two goals: (1) complete reassembling
our cadre of Company representatives who will spearhead a renewed
drive
to bring
all of ’67 together, and (2) begin the process of researching
the production of a Golden Lucky Bag, to be delivered after our
45th Reunion
but before our 50th in 2017. To this end our Lucky Bag Editor-in-Chief
of old, Ed Mills, has volunteered to chair the effort. Any old,
or new, Lucky Bag volunteers are encouraged to give me or Ed a
call or
message
(410-295-4013).
We still have “missing” Classmates and need their contact details.
Your officers continually attempt to run down “lost” classmates,
both graduates and non-graduates, and try to keep all “known” classmates
from becoming “lost” again. To that end I ask all of you to
continue the effort to find all of our 1,259 classmates who came together
on our “I Day” - 26 June 1963. Turn in any and all “lost” classmates
to me, Jim McNeece and/or Dick Meade! And, keep your Alumni Association
profile up-to-date!
Also, our turn as “Another Link in the Chain” (ALITC) Class
is getting closer. “Our" 50 year junior class, the mids of 2017,
will come in as Plebes in June 2013; they are currently 15-19 years old
and preparing themselves for what will be a most life altering adventure…and ‘67
will move through the four years of USNA with them. Stay tuned!
Jack Parry has graciously volunteered to chair this very important
class
endeavor.
One last point, as we enter the new “mid-middle age”…we
are still only at about 70% members in our Alma Mater’s Alumni Association.
I want to see us approach 100%, as USNA shaped and molded us to serve and
command superbly these past 45+ years! We need to stay über-organized
as a class and an integral part of our greater alumni body to ensure
USNA continues to be, now and in the future, the national treasure
it was for
us.
Your officers can lead the Class much more effectively if we are
all members of the Alumni Association. We use the Association’s
considerable and robust database for all class communications,
reunion and IT support
services. Please ensure your profile is current and you are signed
into Online Community on www.usna.com. Also, our class Facebook
page is: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=140114778285
As 2012 opens I want to thank all who made donations/contributions
over the past year to the Class of ’67 Class projects (our stadium Battle
and Class Arch project total is still a bit short and our Ethics Fellow
fund drive remains open) and/or the Annual Fund. For 2012 please keep giving:
go to www.usna.com and click at “Giving.”
Help Wayne Savage (VP), Jim McNeece (Scribe), Jack Parry (Treasurer),
Dick Meade (Web and Database Guru), and Steve Phillips (‘67
Store Manager) serve you; be involved and in contact, often!
Let’s keep ’67 at the top!
Dave Church
(If you are the first to respond via email to me in response to
this updated message there is a small prize waiting for you (class
officers
not eligible))
'67 Sez:
Go Navy! Beat Army!!!
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