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                                                                                                    USNA  '46

                                                      WELCOME TO THE CLASS OF 46  WEB PAGE

                                                                                                         
                                                                                                 This update 20 NOVEMBER 2009

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                                                                                  Click here forREUNION PAGE

                                                                                  Click here for YARD TOUR
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                                                                             DEFENDI RESPUBLICAM ADOLESCENS, NON DESERAM SENEX
                                                                                                                                                                              Cicero
                                                   For the Latin challenged, it translates as "The Republic I defended in my youth, I will not desert in my old age

***         Here is the latest attendance list for the 65th as provided by Al White.LIST

***         Our Class President, VADM  Chuck  Griffiths  has been diagnosed with  lung  and liver  cancer.  Cards and  letters are welcome ,  but  no  calls,  please.
               Chuck's address is 7101 Bay Front Drive, Apt. 111, Annapolis MD 21403. 

***         Charles (Frenchy) Fontaine (9) LCDR USN (RET) passed away on15 NovemberOBIT

***         Karl Fisher (1) Ens, USN passed away on 6 November.OBIT

***         SEE SOCIAL PAGE FOR HOMECOMING DOPE

***         Check Out Reunion Page for latest mailing.

***         CORRECTION - The area code for Annapolis is 410 not 401(California).  The reservation number for the Sheraton Annapolis is:
                                              410-266-3131 or 410-571-1508

**             In the future I will change the date on the home page when other pages are updated

**          Update on sword program. We will still accept swords in fairly shiny and restorable condition, but I am still trying to decide
         what to do with several that have seen much better times and cannot be made useable without major expenditure. Any suggestions?
    
         If you have not yet submitted your e-mail address to the Alumni Assoc. please do so. They have instituted a class e-mail capability which will be very useful for reunion communication. Log on to usna.com and click on Alumni Only. If you have not yet registered, do so. You can then click on the "update your profile" button. Update the other information if required.  If for some reason you do not wish to share this information, e-mail it to the address above and it will be included in the 46 Reunion database, but not provided to any other parties. It will not result in your receiving fundraising appeals!

***  Butch Hansmann   has a collection of videos of the Forrestal Lectures for the past several years. They  can be made  available  on request  with                      the proviso they not be copied or further distributed. They are:
               
                3/7/91        Ross Perot '53
                3/23/98      Bill Bennett, Dep't of Ed.
                1/26/01      George Will
                3/8/01        Tommy Lasorda, LA Dodgers (highly recommended by Clete)
                10/9/01      Sen. John McCain '58
                10/24/01    Supreme Court Justice Scalia
                11/28/01    Capt. W. Shepard '71 Astronaut
                1/09/02      Dr. Bob Ballard,  Finder of the Titanic
                3/20/02      General Jones, CMDT USMC
                11/20/02    Gordon England, SECNAV
                1/7/03        Anthony Principi, 67 Sec. of Veterans Affairs
                4/9/03        Dennis Ross, Former Ambassador to Iraq
                9/16/03      David "The Admiral" Robinson '87 NBA star
                2/18/04      Gen Michael Hagee,  '68 CMDT USMC
                3/3/04        Bush 41 (a good one!)
                4/13/04      Dr. Condolezza Rice, Nat'l Sec. Advisor
                2/24/05      Roger Staubach
                 9/7/06       Capt.Wendy Lawrence  Astronaut
                11/06         Hon. John Scott Redd, Director  Nat'l Counter-intelligence Ctr
                9/05/07       Mr. Max Boot - Senior Fellow, Natioal Security Studies - Council on foreign Relations   
               
                Non Forrestal -- Harlan Twible '46 on the sinking of the Indianapolis