THE WARDROOM CLUB
Monthly Newsletter
Into Our Second Century · Organized 1899 · Boston, Massachusetts
www.wardroomclub.org
Board of Governors
President ...................................................................................................................CAPT
Michael
E. Field, USN (Ret)
................................................................................................................CAPT Robert
D. Holland,
Vice President .......................................................................................................
...............................................................................................................
Colby
Rottler, USMC
USNR (Ret)
CAPTCDR
Jules
B. Selden,
........................................................................................................................COL
Joseph
F. Collins,
USMCR
Secretary .........................................................................................................CAPT
Mary Jo
Majors,
NC, USNR
(Ret)
......................................................................................................................CAPT
PaulD.P.Preston,
Daley, USNR
Treasurer ..............................................................................................................
CAPT Randall
USN (Ret)
Member-at-Large.............................................................................................
.................................................................................................CDR
Robert D.
J. Brown,
Zemaitis,
USNR (Ret)
MAJ Richard
USMCR
Liaison.........................................................................................................CAPT
Scott
Keene, USCG
Active Services Liaison..............................................................................................CAPT
Timothy
J. Heitsch,
............................................................... CAPT James L.Robert
McGuinness
Jr., USMCR
Immediate Past President ..................................................................................CDR
J. Zemaitis,
USNR (Ret)
Wine Steward .......................................................................................................CDR Charles W. Collins, USNR (Ret)
Chaplain ...............................................................................................................CAPT George A. Ripsom, USNR (Ret)
Robert
Holland,USNR
USN (Ret)
Assistant Secretary ..............................................................................................CAPT
..............................................................................................CDR Myles
J. D.
McCabe,
Assistant Treasurer .........................................................................................LCDR
Stephen
USN (Ret)
............................................................................................... COL
CharlesT.L.Witowski,
Hyland, USAF
Historian ......................................................................................................................... LCDR John H. Lok, USNR (Ret)
Newsletter Editor ................................................................................................LCDR David W. Graham, USNR (Ret)
DECEMBER
2012NEWSLETTER
NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER
2012
MEETING DATE: WEDNESDAY - 19 DECEMBER 2012
MEETING
DATE:
WEDNESDAY
17 October
2012
(Please
note: Back
to the THIRD–Wednesday
in December)
LOCATION: Coast
Base
Boston
LOCATION:
CoastGuard
Guard
Base
Boston
427
Commercial
Street
Boston,
MA
The–Function
Hall
427 Commercial Street Boston, MA
The Function
Hall
TIME: Social Hour from 1800
Dinner at 1900
Dinner at 1900
PRICE: Members, Guests and Prospective Members of the
Class of Members,
2013 - $50.00
Walk-insand
- $55.00
PRICE:
Guests
Prospective Members of the
TIME: Social Hour from 1800
Class of
2013Norbert
- $45.00
Walk-ins
$50.00President of the Military
SPEAKER:
VADM
R. Ryan,
Jr. USN- (Ret),
Officers Association of America (MOAA)
SPEAKER: Stephen P. Coonts
ENTRÉE: PRIME RIB by
FAMOLARE
“Flight
of the with
Intruder”
Wine on the Table During the Meal
ENTRÉE:-Roast
Beef –NIGHT
FamilyAT
Style
- - SPOUSES’
THE WARDROOM CLUB - - MESSAGESFROM
FROM THE
MESSAGES
THEPRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
Those 137 of us who were able to attend the November meeting were, I am certain, “riveted” to our chairs
during
the truly
enthralling
Eugene
“Red”
Welcome
a new
season, presentation
friends! A lotby
of CAPT
water has
been“Red”
flowingMcDaniel
under theUSN
keel(Ret).
since last
we recounted
met in May.
many
details
of
his
six
plus
years
in
captivity
at
the
“Hanoi
Hilton”
and
elsewhere
in
North
Viet
Nam.
As you can see from the masthead, I have been elected to serve as your new club president. To bring
youWith
up-to“Red”
at
the
podium,
and
his
bride
Dorothy
and
his
son,
Mike,
supporting
from
the
audience,
we
got
to
date, I’d like to call a few items to your attention. First on the list will be the “new” Board of Governors. While
learn of the physical torture the POWs experienced along with the psychological torture the families back
several familiar names remain with us, I like to bring the members of the full 2012-2013 Board of Governors to
home endured. Copies of his book, “Scars and Stripes” were snapped up and personally autographed by this
your attention. They are:
engaging author. It becomes easy to see why our monthly dinner-meetings continue to be “The Best Show
(and buy)
I want
to take
a moment
to thankWine
CAPT
Henry
USNR
(Ret)
for doing
Steward
- - - Livingston
- - - - - - - - - CDR
Charles
W. Collins,
USNRthe
(Ret)
President
- - - -in
- - Town”!!!
- - - - - - - - - CAPT
Robert
D. Holland,
USN (Ret)
coordination
to
have
“Red”
as
our
November
guest
speaker.
Chaplain - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAPT George A. Ripsom, USNR (Ret)
Vice President - - - - - - - - - - - CAPT Jules B. Selden, USMC (Ret)
Secretary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAPT Mary Jo Majors, NC, USNR (Ret) Assistant Secretary - - - - - - - - CDR Myles J. McCabe, USNR (Ret)
For December, we have put a somewhat different twist on the meeting, in that we are inviting your spouse or
Assistant Treasurer - - - - - - - - COL Charles L. Hyland, USAF (Ret)
Treasurer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAPT Randall D. Preston, USN (Ret)
SO to join us as your guest for the evening. VADM Norb Ryan, USN (Ret) and his bride Judy, will be joining
Historian
- - - - which
- - - - - - -may
- - LCDR
Johnour
H. Lok,
USNR
(Ret)and
Member-at-Large
- - - - will
- - - - -speak
MAJ Richard
USMCR
(Ret)on the
us. The admiral
to us D.
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current
events
Hill in- -DC,
affect
active
duty
Newsletter Editor - - - - - - - - LCDR David W. Graham, USNR (Ret)
Active
Service
Liaison - - - - - - CAPT Timothy J. Heitsch, USCG
retired
military.
Immediate Past President - - - CDR Robert J. Zemaitis, USNR (Ret)
While we know that up to 240 attendees can be accommodated for a sit-down dinner at the Coast Guard Base
Function Hall, I can only urge you to get your reservations sent to the Club Secretary at the earliest possible
moment!!! This is based upon the fact that we have something in the area of 130-150 members/guests attending
our regular monthly meetings. With this in mind, we may need to place a limit on attendance at the coming
December meeting, reservations of which would have to be on a first-come, first-serve basis. For that reason,
you are asked not to delay sending in your reply card, if you plan on attending. A word to the wise - - -.
CAPT Robert D. Holland, USN (Ret), President
8 Raymond Avenue
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
E-Mail: [email protected]
Home Phone: 508/842-0575
Cell Phone: 901/240-3008
Daytime Phone: 617/589-1256
NOTES FROM THE VICE-PRESIDENT
THE NOMINATION PROCESS FOR PROSPECTIVE NEW MEMBERS - This will serve as a continuing
reminder that nominations for the Regular and Associate Membership within the Class of 2013 must be
received by the Vice President prior to December 31, 2012. There can be no exceptions to this deadline. The
required information, forms and instructions can be downloaded from www.wardroomclub.org or, see me in
the event you do not have a computer available to you.
The Wardroom Club website continues to present a full description of the required process for nominating
prospective members to the club. Active Service membership remains unlimited, and is coordinated by our
club’s Active Service Liaison on the Board of Governors, CAPT Timothy J. Heitsch, USCG. For this category
of membership, please send your sponsoring e-mail to: [email protected]. Meanwhile, Associate
Membership is extremely limited by the club By-Laws and currently, that limit has been reached. This means
that for the time being, incoming applications in the Associate Member category will be placed on a temporary
wait-list, where the names will remain on a first-come, first-serve basis and in the order with which the
applications will have been received. Sponsors proposing members in the Associate Member category will be
notified by the V.P. when an opening for their candidate becomes available.
Again, please note that applications for Active Duty Members must be submitted through, CAPT Timothy J.
Heitsch USCG, at any time throughout the club season.
Jules B. Selden, Vice-President
23 Hemlock Drive
Norwell, MA 02061
E-Mail: [email protected]
Cell Phone: 617/645-4197
Daytime Phone: 781/987-1219
FROM THE ASSISTANT TREASURER
THE WARDROOM CLUB DUES PROCESS FOR 2013
By now, you should have received your 2013 club dues notice in November, but in a separate mailing. In
the past, the club has allowed the dues process to drag on for months! Not so for 2013, as your Board of
Governors has continued last year’s effort of taking the process to a higher step for 2013. This year, your club
Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer will have precious little time for wrestling with dues renewals. Therefore,
the Board has decided that those members whose 2013 club dues remain unpaid by the end of January 2013,
will no longer continue to receive the monthly newsletter. Going one step further, anyone who has not paid
his/her dues by the end of February, will have his/her name removed from the club roster! We sincerely hope
this final step will be unnecessary. However, we ask for your understanding and appreciation as to how little
free time these is for us to go chasing unpaid dues. It is for this reason that we MUST tighten-up the dues
process. If you have not paid your 2013 dues, we ask that Regular and Associate members to PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE OF YOUR RECENT 2013 DUES INVOICE!!! In the event you have lost the invoice, please contact
me at once! We do not want to unnecessarily lose anyone, due to a lack of due diligence to the dues process!!!
A word to the wise - - Please remember to use the envelope that accompanied your 2013 dues invoice, as the envelope is addressed
to me. I ask that you do not use the envelope that accompanied this issue of your December newsletter to mail
in your dues check. Regular and Associate members, please also note that the 2013 dues process has been
considerably shortened and that the dues deadline is 31 December 2012.
Lastly, permit me to offer you and yours the absolute best for the coming holidays.
Charles “Chuck” Hyland, Assistant Treasurer
63 Potter Pond
Lexington, MA 02421-8243
E-Mail: [email protected]
781-863-1676
CLUB NOTES
WARDROOM CLUB DECORUM - Unless specifically authorized by the Wardroom Club president on an
individual case-by-case basis, the folding of chairs to reserve a table prior to each club dinner should never be
undertaken, any more than it would at a ship’s wardroom. ‘Nuff said.
Except for those rare instances such as our upcoming December dinner, prospective guests should not be
invited to our dinner-meetings who are otherwise ineligible for membership, unless permission has been
granted by the club president.
TAPS – Always quiet and always pleasantly unassuming – and nearly always present at our club meetings,
CDR Charles E. Callahan, USNR (Ret) slipped his mooring on Monday, 26 November at age 86. Charlie
Callahan became a Regular Member of the club during the fall of 1972. Unfortunately at this printing, very
little is known of his passing, except that it is believed Charlie had been enjoying reasonably good health up
until at least the last several months.
“Sunset and the evening star and one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, when I
put out to sea, but such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam, when that which drew
from out the boundless deep turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, and after that, the dark! And
may there be no sadness of farewell, when I embark; for though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
the flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face-to-face, when I have crossed the bar.”
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
NEXTGEN - U.S. MILITARY OFFICERS You are asked to help mentor the next generation of military
officers! The U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps is currently searching for qualified adult volunteers to help run
our growing units. Sea Cadets, ages 11 to 18, wear the U.S. Navy uniform and train on military installations.
How can you help? How about teaching a class, coordinating a field trip, or even volunteering with one of
our units on a regular basis! Active-duty service members receive volunteer credit, and reservists can get
retirement points for their volunteer hours! For more information, visit http://www.newenglandseacadets.
org/ or contact LT Matthew Landry, USN at [email protected].
THE USS THOMAS HUDNER, JR. We are still awaiting word from Bath Iron Works officials on the keellaying date for the USS Thomas Hudner, Jr., now designated as DDG-116. While the precise date is unknown
at the time of publishing your November newsletter edition, We will continue to make every attempt to let you
know, through the club website, www.cardroomclub.org - which you are invited to check periodically.
NOTABLE DECEMBER DATES AND EVENTS - (By Past President CAPT Harry H. Weinberg, SC, USN - Ret)
The month of December saw events that changed the course of the American nation and U.S. Naval maritime
history. First, the raising of an American flag on a Continental Navy ship gave legitimacy to the United States
having a Naval presence. Secondly, President Theodore Roosevelt, having sent the “Great White Fleet” on
an Around-the-World cruise, established the United States as a world naval power with the capability of
operating anywhere on the globe.. And lastly, the destruction of the Fleet in Pearl Harbor on 7 December
1941 by Imperial Japan, tested the will of the United States to defend itself and spend anything it took in
manpower, material and treasure to recover from this infamous act and pursue its enemies until such time
they surrendered unconditionally. The actions of the United States following 7 December established the
United States as the world’s foremost power.
December is also the month that our Honorary Member and Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Tom Hudner
took the action that led to his being presented the medal by President Harry S. Truman at White House
ceremonies.
In this month we also want to recognize the 375th birthday of the National Guard that traces its roots back to
Salem, MA. Our lawyer friends also got their own Navy JAG Corps established this month.
The month of December saw a major step forward in recognition of feminine capabilities as Naval Officers
when LCDR Darlene Iskra became the first woman to command a Naval ship.
Review the significant dates in American maritime history and think about the times in which they
occurred.
Year
1636
1775
1775
1812
1814
Date
13
03
22
29
24
1830
1842
1861
1862
1867
1898
06
01
21
31
28
10
1907
1911
1917
1917
1933
16
14
06
17
08
1937 12
1941 07
1941
1941
1941
1941
1942
1942
1943
08
11
11
23
09
31
01
1944 16
1944 26
Event
Birthday of the National Guard
J.P. Jones raises first American flag on a Continental Navy ship.
Continental Congress okays first Naval construction & first Naval officers.
USS Constitution defeats HMS Java in a 2 hour engagement.
Treaty of Ghent signed ending the War of 1812. General Andrew Jackson’s victory in New
Orleans came after the war was over. Good show anyways.
Naval Observatory established.
3 Sailors are hanged aboard USS Somers for plotting a mutiny.
Congress establishes the Medal of Honor for Marines and Sailors.
The Ironclad USS Monitor sinks in a storm off Cape Hatteras. 16 sailors drown.
U.S. obtains first overseas territory, annexing Midway Island. Gooney birds enter the lexicon.
U.S. signs peace treaty with Spain formally ending Spanish - American War. Now we can get
on with establishing the Wardroom Club.
“Great White Fleet” of 16 warships begins voyage around the world.
Fleet Base at Pearl Harbor is ceremonially opened.
German submarine torpedoes USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) off England.
Submarines F-1 &F-3 collide of San Pedro; F-1 sinks, losing 19 men.
SECNAV establishes Fleet Marine Force, integrating a Ready-to-Deploy Marine Force with
own aircraft into Fleet organization.
Japanese airplanes sink gunboat USS Panay near Nanking, China.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor killing 2,403 US servicemen and destroying numerous ships and
planes. However, they fail to attack the Shipyard and fuel farm.
US declares war on Japan.
Germany & Italy declare war against the United States.
Japanese land in the Philippines.
Wake Island surrenders. Relief force recalled.
US & Australian forces fight back Japanese forces at Gona, New Guinea.
Japanese withdraw from Guadalcanal.
Tehran Conference. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin set invasion of Western Europe for June
1944.
Germans launch Battle-of-the-Bulge.
US forces hold Bastogne, thereby stalling German offensive. This gives new meaning to the
word “Nuts.”
1945 14
1950 04
1950
1965
1967
1989
1990
2003
09
18
08
20
27
13
Captain Sue Dauser receives first DSM awarded to a nurse. She set the table for our
Secretary.
ENS Jesse Brown, Navy’s first black pilot, shot down , Korea; LTJG Thomas Hudner is
presented the Medal of Honor by President Truman, as a result of the rescue effort.
1st Marine Division finishes epic withdrawal from Chosin Reservoir.
Navy River Patrol Force, Operation Game Warden begins in Vietnam.
Navy JAG Corps established.
With “Operation Just Cause”; US invades Panama.
LCDR Darlene Iskra becomes first woman to command a Navy ship, the USS Opportune.
Former Iraq Dictator Saddam Hussein captured by US troops.
FROM YOUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR This month, we once again return to holding our meeting on the third Wednesday of them month. So you’ll
know, it is within each edition that we announce the coming meeting.
We also offer you, as a club member, the opportunity to contribute to this, your newsletter. To do so, you are
not required to be a “wordsmith” - - - Just send us whatever you may have and we’ll find a way to work it
into the next issue, or the issue of your desire. Submission deadlines are normally on the last Tuesday of the
month preceding the next month’s meeting. Contacting me is fairly easy; I can either be reached at my e-mail
address or you may call me on my IPhone. Both methods are listed below. One way or the other, I am certain
we can make whatever you may have, work very well.
Happy holidays to all!!!
David W. Graham, Newsletter Editor
E-Mail: [email protected]
IPhone: 617/335-2198 (with voice-mail)
FROM THE 2013 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Although the 2012-13 season remains a so-called “off year”, Immediate Past President Bob Zemaitis, who
will be chairing the 2013 Nominating Committee, is soliciting names of club members who may be willing to
serve on the Board of Governors during the next season. There is no better way of getting to know how the
club “ticks” than to have served as a member of this Board. Interested parties are encouraged to contact Bob
at the earliest possible convenience. Here is Bob’s contact information:
Robert J. Zemaitis, IPP
101 Pleasant Street
Leicester, MA 01524-1417
E-Mail: [email protected]
508/892-3055
USS PANAY INCIDENT As Harry Weinberg’s “NOTABLE DATES AND EVENTS” article in this month’s edition of your December
newsletter makes mention of the USS Panay, we thought you’d be interested in a bit of historical background
concerning this once proud naval vessel.
During the battle for Nanking in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937, the U.S. gunboat Panay (PR-5) was attacked
and sunk by Japanese warplanes in Chinese waters, during the late morning of 12 December 1937. The
American vessel, neutral in the Chinese-Japanese conflict, was escorting U.S. evacuees and three Standard
Oil barges away from Nanking, the war-torn Chinese capital on the Yangtze River. After the Panay was sunk,
the Japanese fighters machine-gunned lifeboats and survivors huddling on the shore of the Yangtze. Two U.S.
sailors and a civilian passenger were killed and 11 personnel seriously wounded, setting off a major crisis in
U.S.-Japanese relations.
USS Panay incident
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
USS Panay underway during the
standardization trial off Woosung, China, on
August 30, 1928.
Although the Panay’s position had been reported to the Japanese
as required, the neutral vessel was clearly marked, and the day
was sunny and clear, the Japanese maintained that the attack was
unintentional, and they agreed to pay $2 million in reparations.
Two neutral British vessels were also attacked by the Japanese in
the final days of the battle for Nanking.
Built for duty within the Asiatic Fleet on the Yangtze River, Panay
had as her primary mission, the protection of American lives and
property frequently threatened in the disturbances that the 1920s
and 1930s brought to a China struggling to modernize, create a
strong central government, and later counter Japanese aggression.
Throughout Panay’s service, navigation on the Yangtze was
constantly menaced by bandits and soldier outlaws, and Panay
and her sister ships provided protection for American shipping
USS Panay incident
and nationals, as other foreign forces did for their citizens.
Part of the Second Sino-Japanese War
The aftermath of the Panay sinking was a nervous time for the American ambassador to Japan, Joseph C.
Grew. Grew, whose experience in the foreign service had spanned more than 30 years, instantly recalled that
“Remember the Maine,” the U.S. Navy ship that blew up in Havana Harbor in 1898 had propelled the U.S.
into the Spanish-American War, and Grew struggled to prevent the sinking of Panay from becoming another
incident that would strain already taut American diplomatic ties with Japan and thrust us into war with
the Empire. However, events of just five days shy of four years, would bring the inevitable clash of the two
nations.
Meanwhile, the Japanese government took full responsibility for sinking Panay, but continued to maintain
USS Panay
sinking after
attack. Nanking, Chief of Staff of Japanese naval forces in northern China, Vice
that
the attack
hadJapanese
been airunintentional.
USS Panay underway during the
Admiral Rokuzo
Sugiyama,
was assigned to make an apology, the formal
version reaching Washington, D.C.
China. December
12, 1937.
standardization trial off Woosung, China, on
on Christmas Eve 1937.
August 30, 1928.
In the apology, Japanese officials maintained that their pilots
never saw any American flags on Panay. However, a subsequent
U.S. Navy Court-of-Inquiry determined that several American
flags were clearly visible on the vessel during the attacks. At a
meeting held at the American embassy in Tokyo on December
23 of that year, Japanese officials maintained that one their navy
airplanes had attacked a boat by machine gun for a short period of
time and that Japanese army motor boats or launches attack the
Chinese steamers escaping upstream on the opposite bank. But
the Japanese navy insisted that the attack had been unintentional.
The Japanese government paid an indemnity of $2,214,007.36 to
the U.S. on April 22, 1938, officially settling the Panay incident.
USS Panay sinking after Japanese air attack. Nanking,
China. December 12, 1937.
Still, U.S. Navy cryptographers had intercepted and decrypted traffic relating to the attacking planes which clearly
indicated that they were under orders during the attack, and that it had not been a mistake of any kind!
While two members of the USS Panay were the first American sailors to die in the days that were to lead to
eventual war with the Empire of Japan, they would unfortunately not be the last.
MEMORIES FROM THE CLUB HISTORIAN
This month, another glass will be thrown into the hearth after one hundred and fourteen years of the Wardroom
Club operations, and perhaps a good thing it shall be, as our spouses and “significant others” are invited to
be join the 2012 Christmas Dinner-Meeting.
Forty six years have now past since the Wardroom Club had its first Ladies Night aboard the USS Massachusetts
in Fall River on September 21, 1966. This dinner was followed by several Ladies Nights over the years.
Therefore, the following was the information for announcement of that particular evening’s gathering:
“As the results of the enthusiastic response to our preliminary inquiry to a Ladies Night on board the USS
Massachusetts, this will confirm that the festivities will indeed be held on Wednesday Evening, September 21,
1966.
“Cocktails will be served at approximately 1830, allowing time to briefly tour the ship. Dinner, which is expected
to be roast beef served family style, will be at 1945.
“As of this date, approximately 95 officers and their ladies have indicted they would like to attend, and 35 have
requested bus transportation. Those 35 who want bus transportation will be notified in a separate mailing of the
details.
“The cost of the evening aboard the ship will be $5 per person, which includes cocktails, dinner, and admission
to the ship. The program will not include a schedule speaker in respect to the ladies in the hope that this will be
a social evening for everyone and a memorable occasion in the history of the club.
“Capt. James Gavin USNR (Ret.), who is the Ship Director, is preparing a special welcome for our Club, and
the officers and their ladies may arrive at any time prior to the schedule activities to inspect the ship.”
From the notes of that long-ago evening, about 120 were in attendance, including 45 wives and lady friends.
Despite the heavy rain of the evening, tours topside did go on, which also included Turret #1, the bridge and
one of the 5”gun mounts.
John H. Lok - Club Historian
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone Number: 508/525-7605 (Cell)
NOTES FROM THE CLUB SECRETARY
Important update: We are going to have a wonderful event this month with the special evening that includes
the invitation of members’ spouses or significant others to the December meeting. Please come ready to
celebrate the wonderful holidays of the Hanukah and Christmas season!
You have already read in the President’s section within this newsletter that we are going to be limited to the
number who can attend this meeting due to the approved capacity of the Function Room where we meet.
We expect that we can only accommodate 240 total people at the December dinner. Therefore, I want to
emphasize to you again the importance of mailing your response/check to me as soon as possible after you
receive this newsletter, IF you intend to attend the meeting.
The number of those who can attend will be based on a “first-response, first-attend” basis and I will not have
any choice but to contact you to tell you that you will NOT be able to attend the meeting if your response
arrives after we have met the 240 maximum number of attendees. A word to the wise - - Also note, that IF you send in your response and then you realize that you cannot attend the meeting, please
contact me as soon as possible so that I can allow another member/guest to attend.
I will also change the check-in process for this meeting from what I have done at our two prior meetings,
which will accommodate the anticipated increase in the number of guests with members. This will expedite
entrance into the base Function Room.
ALL members are asked to register/sign-in at the centralized registration desk with me in the foyer prior to
proceeding into the Function Room.
The security guards at the Coast Guard Base will be provided a complete list of ALL Wardroom Club
members and guests, for your arrival at the Base parking lot. Members and guests will be required to show a
valid photo ID at the gate-house prior to entrance onto the base parking lot.
Your dinner reply card is enclosed within this newsletter. Please note that the card must be sent to me in the
enclosed pre-addressed envelope, along with your dinner check as soon as possible and also tell me if you will
be parking on the base or as a passenger in a car pool. Please answer the questions located within the enclosed
reply card.
I am available to answer any questions regarding the December meeting - - - or your reservation(s) - - - by
contacting me at my contact information below.
Again, please remember to sign-in as soon as you arrive, so we can provide an accurate actual meal count to
the caterer. Note: The caterer will gladly make meal substitutions for dietary reasons. However, I must receive
all requests not later than forty-eight hours prior to the monthly meeting date of the Club.
Mary Jo Majors, Secretary
30 Dudley Street
North Cambridge, MA 02140
E-Mail: [email protected]
Cell Phone: 617-285-2571
Please note: The caterer will gladly make meal substitutions for dietary reasons. However, the Secretary
must have received all requests in this regard, not later than forty-eight hours prior to the monthly meeting
of the Club.