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If you know the following CCs please tell them to contact CCHQ with their current mailing addresses: Richard S. Beal,  Brainerd, MN Shirley Corley, Sarasota, FL John Deering, Goodlettsville, TN Bart DeVito, Ossining, NY Michael Furgal, Monroe, WI Caryl Hanson, Oakland, CA Stewart J. Johnson, Boise, ID Jason Johnston, Los Angeles| James Bond Johnson, Long Beach, CA Allen Mainard, North Cullman, AL Kevin McCants, Tarawa Terrace, NC Robert Powell, Jr. Mechanicsville, VA David Si

The hotel room rate guarantee expires Friday.  Those going better wicki-wicki to be assured of the guaranteed $53 rate .  (Hotel has plenty of rooms but the guarantee officially has to stop Friday). --  Jack  Paxton, Executive Director

Lance Cpl. Clark and a couple other Marines were featured on both The New York  Times' "Lens" and "At War" blog   for their photography. Pretty exciting. Some photographers spend their entire lives shooting and don't get featured by the Times. --Mark Fayloga

Anyone with any knowledge of a SeaBee-developed "golf course" in the Pacific theatre during World War II or a story written on the course by  former CC Sgt. Ralph Peck is requested to contact Mrs. Marty Kaderli, Membership and Memorials, Admiral Nimitz Foundation, 328 E. Main St., Fredericksburg, TX 78624.  Tel. (830) 997-8600, Ext. 204 or email her at kaderli@nimitzfoundation.org .

During the annual business meeting at a CC conference some 25 years ago, the chair brought up the issue of why more CCs hadn't taken advantage of Life Memberships . So at the end of the session, a small group of us made a beeline to the treasurer to sign up. I walked away with membership number 0010/L.  I thought that was pretty cool, the tenth CC to become a Life Member. When our current Membership Directory was posted recently to the USMCCCA web site, I thought I'd look to

The 2010 Annual Dedicated Member campaign has ended with a bang!  Nearly $5,000 has been donated to the Foundation by 51 VERY dedicated members and we appreciate it.  These CCs will find their names in the 2010 Annual Conference Journal now being readied for print.  Foundation President Don O'Neal and the Foundation Board sincerely appreciate the response.

When not working on the website, I am a page designer for the New York Times International Weekly and the Large Print Weekly ... so imagine my interest when during a budget meeting last week, an article on Combat Artists came up. Featured prominently in the story was our own,  First Place Combat Art winner Sgt Kristopher Battles , Historical Division, Quantico. It was printed in the  Sunday Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times, July 18. You can read the article here

Don Gee was awarded the Distinguished Citizens Medal Gold by the Marine Corps League's National Commandant, James Laskey on April 23. Below is his citation: "... Marine Don H. Gee has been involved in many League activities along with many outside organizations and activities. Marine Gee has held every Detachment office and in the past has held offices at the Department and National levels. He is currently the Detachment Adjutant/Paymaster, Public Relations Officer and Ne

NASHVILLE -- U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association member Robert Wynkoop is pinned by his grandfather John H. Wynkoop in a ceremony at Vanderbilt University, May 14. Wynkoop received his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant through the Meritorious Enlisted Commissioning Education Program (MECEP). Wynkoop is a past merit award winner to include the 2002 Outstanding New Writer and the 2004 Broadcast Journalist of the Year. He attended Vanderbilt University where he re

He gave a spirited Independence Day speech during a large outdoor celebration on July 5. Seven days later he underwent an arduous, triple bypass surgery at a Montgomery County, Md., hospital. Four days later  he was discharged from the hospital to begin several weeks of  rehabilitation.  Cy O’Brien , a 91-year-old former Marine Combat Correspondent in World War II, is taking it all in stride. His big regret: missing next month’s USMCCCA annual conference at Reno and the annu