Company Representatives
1 st Company
.Bud Alexander
2nd
Company
...John Kirkpatrick
3rd
Company
Bob Shumaker
4th
Company
Chip Honsinger
5th
Company
Dick Walsh
6th
Company
Mike McBride
7th
Company
Ken Costilow
8th
Company
Dave Carre
9th
Company
.Roy Gulick
10th
Company
...Carl Nelson
11th
Company
Ken Godstrey
12th
Company
Bill Simpson
13th
Company
Dick Levendoski
14th
Company
Hal Moore
15th
Company
Pickett Wright
16th
Company
Vince Roper
17th
Company
.Perry Stone
18th
Company
.Leo Koerkenmeier
19th
Company
.PJ
20th
Company
.John Buckley
21st
Company
..Jay Ransom
22nd
Company
.Jack Bossert
23rd
Company
.Worth
24th
Company
..John Bauman
CLASS OF 1956
COMPANY REPS
DUTIES
PURPOSE: Serve as
an arm of the Executive Committee and the Class in reaching out to classmates,
wives, and widows to stimulate interest and participation in class activities,
maintain contact and currency and concern with all classmates and class widows,
help in maintaining the currency of the class data base for classmates and
class widows, and stimulate flow of information to Shipmate, the 56 USNA Group
Mailing List, and Class Webpage.
SPECIFIC
FUNCTIONS:
- Currency
of Class Data Base
--Assist
the Class Secretary/Data Base Manager, Doug Hayman at
dfhayman@comcast.net, in
updating and maintaining the
class data base of personnel information, by reporting any changes to e-mail
addresses. phone numbers, addresses, deaths, illnesses, remarriage, etc. for
classmates, class widows, and wives.
--Periodically contact each classmate and class widow in
your company and
verify data and changes to the information in the Class Register, November
2006,
and the subsequent quarterly changes/updates posted on the class website.
-- For
classmates, non-grads, and class widows whose personal data or whereabouts
are unknown undertake a search via various means and report results to the
Class Secretary/Data Base Manager. The Class Secretary/Data Base manager
will provide names in your Company from time to time who fit this category
along with suggested search mechanisms and data sources.
- Follow
up on classmates whose bios are missing from the 50th Reunion Golden
Lucky Bag. We need to have a bio on every classmate toward having a complete
class history through reunion books etc, retained by the USNA library
as a branch of the National archives. The Class Secretary will provide the
names
for the missing bios for you to pursue.
-Provide Information On, and Encourage
Participation in, Class Activities
--Follow up, following formal class
announcements, via phone, e-mail, etc. as a
reminder and to encourage attendance at mini-reunions and other class
functions--
national and local-- especially on non- or late registrations for the major (
5-year)
reunions. Ascertain that news of the various class activities filter down to
all
classmates and class widows of your companyand non-grads (where possible).
--Help in organizing mini-reunions
or other class activities being held in your
geographical area or specific location.
- Maintain Lines of Communications With Class Widows Who
Indicate a Desire to
Continue Participation and Involvement in Class Activities and to Maintain
Contact
with Classmates ,Wives, and Other Widows
Help in reaching our goal of including updates on
approximately 2-3 widows for
our Shipmate column in every issue, You will be asked from time to time by either
the
Class Corresponding Secretary or Executive Committee Chairman to
call/interview a class widow from your company on such as latest news, personal
data changes, activities involved in, hobbies, children and grandchildren,
travel,
keeping up, or desire to keep up, with the class/activities. Result will be a
summary paragraph submission to the Corresponding Secretary, Dan Garges at
magdan_ 56@yahoo.com, for
publishing in our Shipmate column--with copy to
the Executive Committee Chairman, George Mushalko at gmushalko@cox.net
--Encourage widows inputs to you on
any significant changes or status in their
lives or activities. If you deem appropriate forward to our Shipmate
Corresponding Secretary.
--Encourage participation in local
activities like scheduled luncheons, other special
events like Christmas Dinners, Army/Navy socials, Navy home football game
tailgates, Homecoming. etc., especially if in same locale as the function.
--Coordinate from time to time with
the Widows Advisor to the Executive
Committee, currently Nancy Henry at hoss656@aol.com, to
assure no overlap
or duplication of actions concerning widows.
--Ask class widows if need any help
on military matters, especially when there are
major personnel or benefits changes affecting them and on arranging to attend
class activities.
-
Make Periodic Contact with Classmates,
Widows, and Wives for Timely Updates on:
--Human
interest type developments like unique travel episodes, avocations, moves,
charitable activities, family developments, life or lifestyle changes, new
unique
post-retirement activities, moves, etc. If suitable for Shipmate and of
interest to
the Class submit to Dan Garges our Shipmate correspondent at
magdan_56@yahoo.com with info to George Mushalko, Executive Committee
Chairman, at gmushalko@cox.net
-Obituaries and Memorial Chairs: Periodically you may be called upon, by the Class
Secretary
or in some cases by the. Class Chairman, to work with the immediate family in
developing an obituary for Shipmate. The Class Secretary may also solicit your
help in obtaining a stadium memorial chair for a deceased classmate of your
company. Your involvement will be most helpful toward our having a timely
Shipmate obituary and a Navy-Marine Corps Stadium memorial chair for every
deceased classmate.
-Questions, Concerns, Suggestions: gmushalko@cox.net or 703-768-4543.