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POLARIS MISSILE FACILITY, ATLANTIC29 March 1960 - 05 January 1995 |
April Get-Together:Our next get-together will be held at the
Dorchester Boat Club at 3:00pm on April 9th, 2000. We ask everyone
again to bring their favorite dish and the meat, paper goods, drinks and
ice will be provided. For those who have not attended yet, the
Dorchester Boat Club is located at the Fort Dorchester State Park near
Oakbrook in Summerville. The dress is very casual.
If you plan to attend, and please do, send me $5.00 per person by April
1st. This will cover the cost of the Boat Club plus all the other
expenses. Mail to: Mary Adams, 821 N. Palmetto Street, Summerville, SC 29483. Anyone is invited to attend.
PLEASE COME.……PLEASE COME.……PLEASE COME.……PLEASE COME
The last newsletter advertised for someone to take charge of the October
outings. No one volunteered. I did receive a note from Steve Curry, who
now works at the Gaillard Auditorium. He asked if we would like to meet
for a performance at the Auditorium. Several meeting rooms are
available for getting together before the performance and during
intermission and the food service department would prepare pretty much
what we want to eat. If you are interested, please let me know and we
will talk to Steve about a show schedule and a time to come. Call me at
873-4596 or E-Mail me at madams1202@aol.com.
Barbara Stout wrote last September (too late for the newsletter): They
have 3 more grandchildren since she left POMFLANT. A little girl,
Kaylee, who was 15 months old in September and a set of identical twin
girls, Kelsey Paige Fullwood and Kendal Elizabeth Fullwood. They were
born 9 weeks early so they were pretty small, 3 lbs and 3 lbs, 4 ozs.
They were 9 months old in September and growing everyday.
Barbara said she was going through cancer treatment again, and hopefully
on the road to recovery.
This is the year Libby and I celebrate our 40th anniversary. For our
anniversary, we have booked a cruise with Norwegian, leaving Seattle
September 3rd, and touring the Alaskan coast. If anyone is interested
in going on a one week Glacier Bay trip, they can contact us at joelsing@citcom.net for information. Our past four cruises with the
line have all been great values, and we are getting repeat customer
discounts. I guess cruises have been our favorite vacations.
Libby and I continue to work for the firms we have been with for some
time. I was promoted (likely for the last time in my second career
since I am not interested in a store manager position) to a regional
buyer for the Builders FirstSource. I am now traveling some in the new
position. I work for five stores in the western NC and northeast GA
areas. I attend buyers markets and shows several times a year, looking
for new products in the building industry and taking advantage of sale
prices on building materials, tools, etc. I purchase most of the
materials for my five stores, and that keeps me busy every day. Libby
continues to work for the regional TORO distributor. She is presently
competing in sales incentive programs for a one week trip to a Caribbean
resort in December and a one week stay on the Kona coast in January
2001. Needless to say, I give her pep talks every day! Please write us
or e-mail us when you have an opportunity. We would love to see all of
you again, and we are making plans to be in Charleston on April 9th."
Jim continues to enjoy his retirement after 45 ˝ years of government
service. He keeps busy with "honey-do's", volunteers 4 hours per week
at the WPNSTA Retired Affairs Office, and is commencing his 17th year as
a SC State Constable, working one day per week with the Berkeley County
Sheriff's Department, on a volunteer basis. We are both still in
relatively good health, for which we are truly thankful, and are
enjoying our new home. Looking forward to seeing everyone on April 9th.
Son Stephen, a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI, graduated from the
British Army School of Ammunition, NATO, Improvised Explosive Device
Disposal Course in Kineton, England. He is assigned to the Domestic
Anti-terrorist Unit at FBI Headquarters.
We will attend the WWII D-Day commemoration ceremonies in New Orleans in
June. A good friend who participated in the landings at Omaha Beach on
6 June 1944 invited us to his unit's reunion and the museum's opening!"
Hugh Herrick - died in September 1999. He was a retired Navy Senior
Chief and a retired inspector with POMFLANT.
Robert Maurer - died in December 1999. He was head of the
Administration Department when he worked at POMFLANT. He was 75 years
old.
Herbert Bishop - died in December 1999. He was a general foreman before
his retirement from POMFLANT. He was 65 years old.
Eugene Brooks - died in December 1999. He was a retired supply foreman
with POMFLANT. He was 71 years old.
Frank M. Jones - died in December 1999. He was a retired inspector at
POMFLANT. He was 75 years old.
Russell Lowell - died in December 1999. He was a retired traffic
manager with Lockheed. He was 76 years old.
Robert B. Antley, Sr. - died in January 2000. While at POMFLANT, he
served as a Property Manager in the Planning Department. He was 60
years old.
Danny Knight - died in February 2000. He worked for Lockheed. He was
77 years old.
Please keep Ron Thomas and John Maney up to date on your e-mail addresses and or your current snail mail address and telephone number changes.
Please send us some information for the next newsletter. Without your
input, I have nothing to write about. Those that have not written,
please share with us what is happening in your lives: jobs, children,
grandchildren, travel, marriages, divorces, etc. If you have provided
information in the past, continue to do so. We love to hear from you.
