February
1, 2010
Marines, We have had eight reunions:
2002 - Tunica, Mississippi,
2003 - Tucson, Arizona,
2004 - Washington DC,
2005 - Chicago, Illinois,
2006 - Reno, Nevada,
2007 - Atlantic City, NJ,
2008 - Atlanta, Ga.
2009 – San Diego, Ca.
A lot of miles and a lot of memories have passed since this
association began. With each member’s continued commitment in a timely fashion, our reunions will
continue to be as good as or better than the previous reunions.
The majority of you already know Richard Soto, Sonny Hollub,
and I from our past reunions or having served with us in Viet Nam. Currently Sonny Hollub is our Secretary/Treasurer,
Richard Soto is our Public Relations Officer, and I, Harvey Lang, am the Executive Director.
We three comprise the Executive Committee (EC).
Feel
free to contact any of us anytime you have a question.
First and foremost, we continue in having a site selected before leaving the current year’s reunion as well
as selecting the three potential cities for our reunion after that.We hope during the next fiscal year to accomplish three
items to our website www.26thMarines.com
They are as follows:
1. Develop procedures for those processes we use to run the association’s
business each year.
2. Develop a website page listing those procedures developed and the rules/bylaws approved
during the previous year’s Annual Membership Meetings to date,
3. Develop a page showing basic association
financial data.
San Antonio,
Texas was selected for our 2010 Reunion… and New York City, St. Augustine, Fla.,
and a city in the area of the new Marine Corps Museum (Fredericksburg, Stafford, or DC), will be the city of choices
for our 2011 reunion.
We plan to post information on our website www.26thMarines.com for each of these sites for your review prior to our 2009 San Diego reunion. One city will be selected
during our Annual Membership meeting in San Antonio.
This year’s reunion will be October 29, 30 and 31. As information develops
for this year’s reunion, it will be posted on our website www.26thMarines.com , emailed and hard copy mailed to your latest email address or home address.
If you have access to our website and have an email
address, please let Sonny know if you would just like electronic notices, thus opting out of hard
mail notices saving the association money. It is important to make sure Sonny Hollub has your most recent
mailing address, email address and phone number.
The fees for this 2009’s reunion are as follows:
Annual Membership Dues $40.00 per year.
Registration fee will be $25.00 per
person, members and each member’s guest(s).
Banquet
fee will be $40.00 per person, members and guest(s).
Please see site for forms, etc. for submitting payments along
with due dates, late fees etc.
The issue of due
dates and penalties was discussed at this year’s Annual Membership meeting. It was unanimously
voted to continue these due dates as well as penalties. We have not had to “pass the hat” at a reunion since
the Chicago reunion.
Sonny sends out notices of Annual dues yearly… he also shows if you are
past due on your Annual Membership Dues.
I urge
you to pay your fees in a timely fashion and if Sonny’s notice shows you are in arrears,
please get up to date or work out a payment plan to achieve this.
There are those of us, who are healthy and have incomes, who donate funds which are used to temporarily
help our members who are sick or have insufficient income, at the discretion of the Executive Committee.
I want to thank all of you who donate over and above your dues, which
we refer to “friendly incoming”, which is used from time to time to help carry a
sick member’s annual dues.
Again,
please stay up to date on your Annual Membership Dues. These dues cover our general month to month cost of operation,
such as website costs, cost associated with hard copy mail outs etc.
The many phone calls completed by the EC members for conference calls and contacting our members are absorbed by
the EC members themselves. Please make payment to 26th Marines Association and submit payment to:
26th Marines Association
340 Humphrey Dr.
Buda, Texas 78610
Please refer all your acquaintances and potential guests
to our website www.26thMarines.com for further information as it develops.
Finally, again, if anyone has new contact information, please send it to Sonny Hollub at:
Phone 512-312-4168,
Email ghollub@austin.rr.com or
340 Humphrey Dr., Buda,
Texas 78610.
As additional information develops,
it will be posted on the Association's website www.26thMarines.com under Reunions.
Semper Fi,
Harvey
Lang, Executive Director
26th Marines Association
P. O. Box 364
Lordsburg, N. M. 88045
Phone - 575-542-8085
Email - harveylangusmc@yahoo.com
