The Stoddert News - DDG-22

USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22) Association
The Stoddert News
VOLUME 5 - NUMBER 3
2009
SUMMER EDITION
Association President: Lou Turilli 429 S. Roselle Rd., Roselle, IL 60172, tluigi@msn.com (630) 529-9875
Editor: Art Hansen, 5800 30th Avenue, Kearney, NE 68845, artandjane@charter.net (308) 237-5435
LAST NEWSLETTER BEFORE THE
2009 REUNION @ Rapid City, SD
The 2009 Reunion will be held on 14 - 18 October in
Rapid City, South Dakota. The Stoddert Association has
30 rooms blocked off at the Rapid City Quality Inn, 1902
LaCrosse Street, Rapid City, SD 55701. The room rate is
$65.99 for singles or doubles; extra guests (beyond 2
people) are $10.00 each and includes free breakfast buffet.
This room rate will apply for up to two days prior to and two
days after our scheduled reunion dates.
Reservations must be
made prior to September
14th to ensure the group
rate. The phone numbers
for reservations are (605)342-3322 or (605)-3429005 or email at
gm.SD037@choicehotels.com. The Quality Inn website is
as follows: www.rapidcityqualityinn.com.
UPDATE! The airport shuttle is FREE from the airport
to the hotel. Cost is $18.00 for one person, $28.00 for two,
and $11.00 per person for groups of three or more, from
the hotel to the airport.
Menus and a complete itinerary for the tours can be
found on our website, www.ddg22.com. Also, registration
forms can be pulled off the website, completed, and mailed
in per the instructions on the forms!
Don’t forget to pack binoculars and cameras! 
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Contents of The Stoddert News
Reunion 2009: Rapid City, South Dakota.......................................... 1
Benefits of Association Membership................................................... 1
Minutes from 2008 BSA Business Meeting ........................................ 2
Movie Quote Quiz................................................................................ 2
BSA Executive Committee .................................................................. 2
2009 50-50 Drawing ............................................................................ 3
Update on ACVA ................................................................................. 3
Past reunion candid shots ................................................................... 3
Benjamin Stoddert Association
Summer Edition 2009
Volume 5 – No 3
MINUTES FROM THE 2008 STODDERT REUNION
BUSINESS MEETING (10/05/08)
MOVIE QUOTE QUIZ
Meeting called to order by Association Chairman Louis
Turilli.
Old business:
 Minutes from the 2007 business meeting read and
approved.
 Financial report read and approved - Money is being
moved to a non-interest bearing account.
 Treasurer and Webmaster are going to consolidate
their lists of membership.
 Herm reminded members that the Adams Class
Veterans Association is still working on getting the
Adams (DDG-2) preserved.
2. “Do you remember things that made sense? Things you
could count on? Before we all got so lost? What are we
gonna do, Charlie? What am I gonna do?”
New Business:
 Election of officers - proposal to amend the by-laws
to set up a succession of chairs; motion from Mike
that we have a 3 year term for Treasurer approved (Frank dissenting)
 Motion was made and approved that terms for all
officers will be 3 years and that the terms will be
staggered commencing in 2008 with the election of
a new co-chairman and treasurer; 2009 election of
a new chairman; 2010 election of new secretary.
 Terms of office run from January 1st through
December 31st.
 John Dishaw volunteered to become Treasurer and
was elected by acclaim.
 Mike Hoffman volunteered to become Co-Chairman
and was elected by acclaim.
 The Chairman’s recommendation that we continue
with MRTR as reunion coordinator was approved.
 Buffalo, Baton Rouge, Myrtle Beach, San Antonio,
Rapid City, Chicago, Louisville, Memphis, Charleston,
Indianapolis, and San Diego were proposed as sites
for our next reunion. San Antonio, Rapid City,
Louisville, and Memphis were approved to be given
to MRTR to work up for the leadership to review.
 Discussion of naming another DDG Benjamin
Stoddert. Mike Hoffman asked to be permitted to
send out letters as a representative of the
Association. Permission was given with the proviso
that the Chairman be kept in the loop.
 Jim Hinton spoke on Agent Orange’s connection to
specific cancers and the VA’s position on veterans
care.
 Motion made to adjourn the meeting, motion
seconded and approved.
Match the quote with the character from these films with
patriotic titles:
1. “Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and
you will once again be fighting for our freedom…Not from
tyranny,
oppression,
or
persecution…but
from
annihilation.”
3. “Hallie’s your girl now. Go back in there and take that
nomination. You taught her how to read and write; now
give her something to read and write about!”
4. “My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my
sister thanks you, and I thank you.”
A. George M. Cohan in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
(1942)
B. Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) in BORN ON THE
FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
C.
President Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman) in
INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
D. Tom Doniphan (John Wayne) in THE MAN WHO
SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)
Answers on page 3
Have you visited our website lately?
Reunion pictures from previous reunions are on the
website, www.ddg22.com. You can also check the
website to complete the reunion survey!
Benjamin Stoddert Association
Executive Committee 2008-2009
Lou Turilli
Mike Hoffman
Dave Saunders
John Dishaw
John Bassolino
Art Hansen
Carole Bryan
Chairman
Assistant Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
Member-at-large
Newsletter Editor
Webmaster
Washington,
DC, 2008
Janie Hansen,
Steve Buono,
Art Hansen
Submitted by David Saunders,
Benjamin Stoddert Association Secretary
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Benjamin Stoddert Association
Summer Edition 2009
Volume 5 – No 3
2009 FIFTY/FIFTY DRAWING
We will be selling 50/50 drawing tickets right up to a few
minutes before the drawing at the 2009
reunion banquet dinner. Tickets will no
longer be mailed out with the
newsletters: instead you need only
send your check in along with some
of those pesky return address labels
that regularly appear in your mailbox.
Our treasurer will take care of the funds
and will even stick the address labels on the tickets.
Remember, the drawing is always open to everyone,
regardless of whether or not you attend the reunion. You
do not have to be present to win. The winners who are
not at the reunion will have a check mailed to him or her
immediately after the reunion. Here is a chance to cash in
on some big bucks. Ticket sales for the 50-50 will continue
until just before the drawing, which will be at the Sunday
evening banquet.
Help support a growing Benjamin Stoddert
Association. If you want to purchase 50/50 tickets, simply
mail $10.00 for each 12 tickets to John Dishaw at the
address below and include 12 address labels so we can
place them on the tickets for you. Make your checks
payable to USS Benjamin Stoddert Association and mail to:
John Dishaw
3035 Charlotte Street
Newbury Park, CA 91320
UPDATE ON ACVA (Adams Class
Veterans Association) Fundraising
From Craig Bernat, ACVA
Treasurer and Fundraising
Director
The ACVA REGULAR
Credit Card donor page
HAS NOT CHANGED.
This is to make an ACVA
Plankowner
donation
(usually $25). Or, after you
become
an
ACVA
Plankowner, you can make
a
REGULAR
Project
JumpStart
donation.
Donations using this web
page DO NOT go towards
our other fundraisers.
NEW ACVA/JHNSA Fundraisers: "HULL PLATE" and
"YARD O' CONCRETE"
The ACVA made changes to their website to allow for
specific designation and use of a form to donate to the
"HULL PLATE" and the "YARD O' CONCRETE"
Fundraisers.
www.adamsclassddgvets.org/SEEBEE.htm
provides
updated information. You can read details of how to help
restore the USS CHARLES F. ADAMS DDG-2 using these
two new fund raising plans. The information describes the
two fundraisers in detail and allows you to select the
amount(s) and "PLEDGE PLAN" to make a donation.
Click on the SPONSORSHIP FORM for the fundraiser
you want to get to the specific form you need to complete
your pledge. Then either select "REGULAR MAIL” OR
“EMAIL AS AN ATTACHMENT," to Craig Bernat. His
mailing address and email are on the forms.
The
ACVA
home
website
is
http://www.adamsclassddgvets.org/index.htm
Stoddert sailors visiting the Vietnam War Memorial, on the
Washington DC tours, 2008 reunion.
Exploring Chinatown in San Francisco, 2007: kind of like
Liberty Call in an exotic foreign port, without the incidents
with Shore Patrol.
Saint Louis Reunion 2005: Spouses enjoy the fellowship too
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Answers to Movie Quote Quiz:
1 (c) 2 (b) 3 (d) 4 (a)
Benjamin Stoddert Association
Summer Edition 2009
Volume 5 – No 3
DEADLINE
IS
SEPTEMBER 14TH
Reservations and payments are due no
later than 14 SEP 2009! To ENSURE
your reservation, call MRTR (757-4790849,
M-W),
then
mail
your
registration and payment to Military
Reunions to Remember, USS Benjamin
Stoddert Reunion, 1633 Kilt St.,
Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
For hotel reservations, contact the
Rapid City Quality Inn at 605-3423322.
The cut-off is just days away—call now!
Visiting an
Amish
classroom on
the Lancaster
County Tour,
Philadelphia,
PA 2006. We
also
visited
historical
landmarks in
Philadelphia.
Will these two Stoddert sailors be in Rapid City? Come and
see for yourself. (Who
are these guys, by the
way?)
View this picture and
other crew photos at
DDG-22.com.
2009 Renion pictures will be in the Fall newsletter.
DDG-22 Benjamin Stoddert
Art Hansen, Newsletter Editor
5800 – 30th Ave.
Kearney, NE 68845
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Benjamin Stoddert Association
Summer Edition 2009
Volume 5 – No 3