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
or 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
