Happy New Year!!!
Graphic composed by Michael Dutton
Happy New Year!!!
Graphic composed by Michael Dutton
Please have a very safe, prosperous and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We hope that you partied hearty and long into the night, but safely and responsibly. Again please have a very wonderful 2012; and may this New Year be brighter, happier, and all around better than any year prior! HAPPY NEW YEAR to each and every one of you from the USS William R. Rush Association!
Auld Lang Syne
An old Scottish folk song
RUSH at Anchor. Circa Early 1950s. Courtesy of Joseph Koye (1930-1984)
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RUSH GRAM 65 will be coming out in February. Look for that edition to announce the results of the election of association officers and the site selection for our next reunion in 2013!! In the meantime, the webmaster prays that all is well with each and everyone of you and that you will all have a very safe, prosperous and wonderfully happy NEW YEAR!!!!
RUSH GRAM 64 AWAY!!. RUSH GRAM 64 has been sent out by email. Printed copies, for those who receive them in the US mail are also out and away!!!. The webmaster has posted RUSH GRAM 64 in the Members Only area. The online edtion will be in the ever popular PDF format, however, the online edtion does not contain the ballots......
RUSH GRAM 64 (as mailed or emailed) contains ballots for selecting the site of our next reunion in 2013. The selections to be voted upon are Charleston, South Carolina; Millwaukee, Wisconsin; and Savannah, Georgia. The newsletter also contains a ballot for the election of your assiciation's officers. Ballots for both city selection and election of the association's officers were due postmarked not later than 20 DECEMBER 2011. If you have not yet submitted your ballots, please contact us.
REUNION 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee was an unqualified success. We'll be doing our best over the next several months to get our most recent reunion documented on this web site.
Members are encouraged to provide articles for publication in our newsletter, the RUSH GRAM. Any one who would like to contribute an article, small or large, please contact Jim Hocking.
Thank you to a number of RUSH MATES who alerted us to possbile hacker intrusions on our "SCUTTLEBUTT" page. Hopefully, any of that nasty business that was reported has been removed. Please continue to let us know if you see something that should not be posted on this WEB SITE.
When you notice an error with something on the website, please let me know! Yo, Mr. Editor: The proper spelling for the word meaning "a period of ten years" is DECADE not DECAD!!! OOPS!! THANKS!!
In the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison lit up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey on December 31, 1879. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ran special trains to Menlo Park on the day of the demonstration in response to public enthusiasm over the event.
NEW YEAR'S DAY! In the year 45 B.C., New Years Day was celebrated for the first time in history on January 1 as the new Julian calendar took effect.
On January 2, 1942, the United States Navy established a blimp contingent in New Jersey. On this day, the Navy Airship Patrol Group 1 and Air Ship Squadron 12 were established at Lakehurst, N.J. The U.S. Navy was the only military service in the world to use airships -- also known as blimps -- during the war. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst was established in 1921.
On January 3, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
On January 4, 1847, Colt sold his first revolvers to the U.S. government. Samuel Colt rescued the future of his faltering gun company by winning a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers.
On January 5, 1945, Japanese pilots received the first order to become Kamikaze, meaning "divine wind" in Japanese. The suicidal blitz of the kamikazes revealed Japan's desperation in the final months of World War II.
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