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Tour of Annapolis Scheduled

For Friday Morning

The USS Shelton, DD790 2010 Reunion will be held at the Best Western, BWI Airport, 6755 Dorsey Road, Elkridge Maryland, 21075, September 16-19, 2010. The hotel phone number is 410-796-3300. Best Western offers free shuttle service to and from the airport, but is seven miles from the airport so it shouldn’t be that much of a distraction. No Annapolis hotels responding to our reunion offered free shuttle service. The room rate is $85 per night plus tax and includes a hot breakfast. It is up to each party to secure their room reservations. Please try to do this by July 16.

Some of us will be arriving by Wednesday, but the reunion officially starts on a Thursday. Let me know if you want to golf on Wednesday. We can have a two-man scramble with blind draws for partners. We can always try something else, if this does not work best.

Thursday will be for registration and having a gathering in the hospitality room to greet old friends, make new friends, and enlarge our old sea stories. We will pick out a nice restaurant in the area and for those who wish to do so, we can eat dinner together. Then back to the hospitality room for more entertainment. Remember, this time can also be used for those who want to sightsee to do just that.

2010 Dues

Annual dues are payable any time. Just send a $10.00 check made out to USS Shelton dues to Richard Petrowich, 308 S. Jackson, New Athens, IL 62264. These dues help to pay for mailing expenses.

Friday Tour

Friday morning we board a bus at the hotel and travel to the Naval Academy. We have a two hour tour scheduled. We will eat at the DRYDOCK RESTAURANT

at the Academy. After lunch, we will be met by a guide (in costume) to give us a historical walking tour of downtown Annapolis. For those who do not want to walk, they can wait in the area and visit a couple of shops. The tour is 1 ½ hours long. Then we will all board a boat for a tour of Annapolis on the Severn River. The Naval Academy, the walking tour, and the boat ride are all in close proximity of each other. The bus will then take us all back to the hotel. Those who want can eat together and the hospitality room will be open that evening for business discussion and for more get-together.

The Naval Academy has asked us for whatever awards and medals were earned by Shelton shipmates. Anyone earning other than the good conduct medal

please let us know when you send in your registration entry.

Saturday Tour

Saturday morning we board the bus again and this time travel to Washington D.C. We will spend the morning at Arlington Cemetery and the War Memorials. From there we will travel into the Capitol area. Rather than pay a lot for a guide, we are counting on people like Jim McHugh and “Ski” to be tour guides. They are familiar with D.C. You will be eating on your own. (It’s not included in the cost.) Get together in small groups and tour whatever you want most to see. We cannot book all of D.C. in a half day. See what you most want to see. I apologize for not getting the White House, but I do not want the task of having every social security number and other security procedures and still maybe not be able to book it. You know the tour date. Ask your congressman to get you in a certain area that afternoon.

Banquet Saturday Evening

The banquet will be a buffet this year. It will include both pork and chicken. We have tried to vary the menus over time. Last year we had beef and fish. These banquet meals are always more costly than ordering the same thing in a restaurant, but we are paying for the banquet room, the sound system and the service. We get reduced room rates and free hospitality rooms based on using the hotel for the banquet. Plus we do not have to leave the hotel. If we can discuss most of our business Friday evening and just have to pick a Central Time Zone location, we can plan more banquet entertainment.

Sunday—Take a Cruise

Sunday morning many of us will be leaving to head home or to see other sights in the Baltimore-D.C. area.

We will eat and say our good-byes; some will hang around another day. Last year a group went to Santa Fe on Sunday.

We have a great idea—let’s cruise out of Baltimore. The Carnival Pride leaves Sunday afternoon and travels to Port Canaveral, Nassau, and Freeport and back to Baltimore. It is a seven day cruise. When I first mentioned this cruise, indoor cabins were going for $399. Prices go up and down like a barometer. I cannot guarantee you a price, but the last time I checked it out there were balconies for $699. If you are interested call Stryker Fetzer at Vacations-to-go 1-800-338-4962 ext. 7312. Tell him you don’t want bunk beds. Carnival offers senior discounts on indoor cabins and gives you overhead bunk beds.

What are the advantages of going on this cruise? Well, 1. We get to spend time together in a relaxed environment. 2. We do not have to fly to a cruise port and pay transportation. 3. The hotel will shuttle us free to the cruise ship. 4. We can park at the hotel free if charge. Look at the money saved and a seven day cruise. I have told Stryker that if anyone books this cruise, he is to let me know and then Muriel and I will book the cruise. We will go on it if any others from the group go. We do not plan to go alone. Several couples have said they are interested. Muriel and I will have been on three different cruises between now and the reunion. The only reason we would go on this cruise is to be with you. We have put the ball in your court.

2011 Reunion in Portland, Oregon

The 2011 Shelton reunion will be in Portland, Oregon. We will start planning for this reunion in about August,

We will vote on the year 2012 at our next reunion, so be thinking of central time-zone locations. Do you want Nashville, Tennessee; Dallas, Texas; Duluth, Minnesota; Little Rock, Arkansas; or somewhere else? Be thinking about the location.

Sad News about a Grand Lady

We were sorry to hear from Candy Nelson, that her “Aunt Cissy”, Loretta Shelton Lemire passed away on Oct. 31, 2009. Loretta was a sister to James Shelton. She was the one who christened the USS Shelton, when it was commissioned. To quote Candy, “I shall miss her. She was a pioneer among women in business, incredibly creative, and a good horsewoman.”

USS SHELTON REUNION

SEPTEMBER, 16-19, 2010

RESERVATIONS FORM

Please send to:

DICK PETROWICH

308 S. JACKSON

NEW ATHENS, IL 62264

Phone: 618-475-3248

No. Total Cost

Registration fee $15.00/ person

Dues (if not already paid) $10.00/ sailor

Friday tour $68.00/ person

Includes: bus, Naval Academy tour, Dockyard Lunch

(Choose: 1. Tuna Salad Sandwich

2. Turkey Sandwich

3. Ham Sandwich

Walking tour of Annapolis – 1½ hours (can be on own),

And Severn River Boat Ride

Saturday, Washington, D.C. tour $30.00/ person

Includes: bus, Arlington National Cemetery, War

Memorials, etc. (There could be a shuttle fee to

pay if you don’t want to walk at Arlington). Eat on your own

Saturday evening Banquet $32.00/ person

(includes tax and service charge)

Pork Loin Medallions, Chicken Marsala buffet

Grand total (tours and meals) $

* Sunday, Sept. 19, some will be leaving on a cruise that afternoon, those not cruising can make plans for Sunday on Friday evening.

* You might want to make a copy of this to keep for yourself.

* * Remember to make your hotel reservations with the Best Western BWI Airport, 410-796-3300. $85.00/ night plus tax and includes a hot breakfast. Please try to make reservations by July 16.

Thanks, Muriel & Dick

USS SHELTON—DD790 NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2010