Page maintained by Phil Forrest. 4/4/06----------- CASA GRANDE WEB SITE CHANGES NOW IN PROGRESS---------------- VIEW THIS PAGE and NEWS page FOR ALL ASSOCIATION INFORMATION---------- ************************************************************************ 2005-2006 OFFICERS: President, Ben Lines; 1st Vice president, Rodney Rhodes; 2nd Vice president, Jim Skarupa; Secretary, June Lines; Assistant Secretary, Mickey Johnson; Treasurer, Clara Lauinger; Assistant Treasurer, Rodney Rhodes; Master at Arms, Dick Pivarnik; Historian, Ralph Prince; Editor, Jerome Lauinger; Assistant Editor, Patrick McCormick. ************************************************************************ CORRECTION: Assistant Editor Pat McCormick's e-mail is PATRICK1561@COMCAST .NET or STELLA1561@AOL.COM. Send your Casa Grande and other Navy stories to him and EDITOR "Jerry"at JCL99@EARTHLINK.NET for our Family News Letters.------------ *********************************************************************** IT'S OFFICIAL: 2006 Reunion home base is Embassy Suits Hotel, Ashburn, Virginia.----- ************************************************************************ 1/17/06 "SECRETARY OF THE NAVY" letter received this date by President Ben Lines acknowledging the request for another ship to be named USS CASA GRANDE. ************************************************************************ NEW all out effort by the Association members and all who sent petitions to him and other goverment officials are again participating in this new front hoping for success. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ "CONCERN FOR ONE ANOTHER" SHORTLY AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA HIT, PRESIDENT BEN LINES PHONED ALL MEMBERS LISTED IN THE AFFECTED AREAS. NATURALLY THERE WERE SOME HE COULD NOT CONTACT. HOWEVER THOSE HE DID WERE SUPRISED THAT HE REACHED OUT TO THEM PERSONNALLY AND ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS. ****************************************************************** ETERNAL REST: It is with sadness that I inform you of the passing of John R. Woodruff, EN1; Henry Hempel; and John R. Toft. May the Heavenly reward be theirs. 11/20 Bill J. W. Gentless MM2, passed away shortly after returning from the 2005 reunion which was his first. We were notified by his very good friends Ron and Arlene Hiles. ****************************************************************** 2005 Reunion ( CASA GRANDE CITY TOUR) The event will live forever by those who were there. Our ship and crew were honored by Casa Grande City, the Mayor and VFW, with a very impressive ceremony and awards, one being that the crew were made HONORARY Citizens of the city and receved a Golden Key plus Certificates. Much more about this in the near future. ****************************************************************** REMEMBER; This is your information page. Any member in good standing may send an e-mail to me Phil Forrest at (toformnro@aol.com) with an appropriate subject and It will be posted. ****************************************************************** Listings of the Casa Grande Association can be viewed by using MSN search through Internet Explorer.Our web site WWW.USSCASAGRANDE.ORG is the ONLY site featuring information about our Ship and Association. ****************************************************************** Welcome aboard to our newest Honorary member. Willis Rohr, who, in addition to other things has lost sight in one eye and now in the VA Hospital at 1300 Veterans Rd., Rm.101C; Warrensburg, MO. 64093-8294 I'm sure he would enjoy hearing from some "Service" people. Will post more information from our President about Willis again later. Our Chaplain extends to him our thoughts and prayers for improved health. ****************************************************************** 12/7/05 WEB SITE CHANGES IN PROGRESS. New programs being developed to enhance the update of the "NEWS" page, OFFICERS AND COMITTEE MEMBERS. BACK UP TO OUR SITE NOW IN PLACE. More about this later. ****************************************************************** 12/8/05 Information and pictures of the 2005 reunion in Arizona has been sent out to all members in a letter via land mail and e-mail. There is a limited time the digital pictures will remain on the designated web site. Notify Ben Lines as soon as you have decided what your choices are and your request for the CD that will be available. ****************************************************************** 2006 Reunion planning well underway. Members of the committee are, Ben & June Lines; Rodney Rhodes; Pat McCormick; Phil Forrest; Jim Skarupa and Dick Pivarnick. ****************************************************************** ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************