From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:54 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1564- 517TH PRCT- JUNE 15, 2008
 
  70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com 
 
Hello,
 Please let me know if you want to receive Mail Calls or if you have a problem receiving them. You can always read Mail Calls  by clicking on
www.517prct.org/archives
 
Ben
 
Please try to send in donations to Keep the 517 PRCT Association viable. Suggested amount $30.00 to  include Thunderbolt.  Auxiliary members $20.00 Plus $10.00 if you want to receive the  Thunderbolt.  Send donations to  Leo Dean, 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany, NY  12203.  Make checks payable to 517prct.  Donations for the Auxiliary should be sent to  Karen Frice Wallace   66295 Highway 20  Bend, OR 97701
 
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Roster                                     www.517prct.org/roster.pdf

 
 517TH ST. LOUIS REUNION BEGINS:
 
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 THRU MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008
THE BANQUET WILL BE ON SUNDAY JUNE 29 
517th PRCT Auxiliary Mission Statement
517th PRCT Auxiliary Member Application 2007-2008
517th PRCT Auxiliary Officers and Committee Members 2007-2009
Chris Lindner
 
HI ALL:
 
I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT ANYONE THAT HAS NOT SIGNED UP FOR THE ST. LOUIS REUNION CAN STILL DO SO BUT YOU
HAVE TO SIGN UP AND MAIL IT IN NOW!!!!!!!!!
 
YOU NEED TO MAIL YOUR REGISTRATION FEE INTO THE ARMED FORCES REUNIONS AND FILL OUT THE FORM (you can no longer sign up on line) AND SEND IN YOUR CHECK WITH THE FORM FOR THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND.
 
WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO A FUN REUNION SO HURRY UP AND SIGN UP IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.
 
If you need help with the forms you can contact me, Chris Lindner at 210-822-8591 or at ctennis@sbcglobal.net
 
 
Chris Lindner and Bev Strothkamp
co-chairpersons


Chris
Claire Giblin
 
Hi, Ben -
 
Happy Father's Day to all my favorite vets!
 
We are looking forward to St. Louis!  It will be a wonderful time with many old and new friends, and we can't wait.  I am so happy to hear that registrations are still coming in!  Keep 'em coming!!!!
 
Please, come prepared to talk to Pat O'Donnell and Rob McDonald.  Bring an artifact and tell the story.  Show us a picture of a buddy and tell his story if he can't anymore.  Think about what you want your children, your grandchildren, and the school kids in your town to know about the 517.
 
We have to work around the reunion activities, and want to snag as many of you as possible.  This work toward preserving the history of the unit is the most important undertaking of the Auxiliary since we were established at Savannah in 2005 - please help make this project a success!
 
See you all in St. Louis!  It's going to be a great party!
 
Claire Giblin
Dennis Sura
 
Ben,
 
Please give our very best to the troopers and family of the 517 th attending this years reunion.  Our daughter is getting married on the same weekend as the reunion or I was sure to make it this year.  A salute to Corporal Michael A. Sura 3rd Battalion, H Company, 3rd Platoon and his comrades of 2nd Squard.  Dad talked much of George Monkhouse, Manfred Seeburger, Dick Huggler and Sargent Harmon.
 
Dad was taken off the field in Bergstein, Germany on 2/6/45 along with Dick Huggler.  Remember the 517 th and all that didn't come home.
 
Dennis Sura
 
Novi, MI
Rick Sweet
 
Hi Ben,
      I just wanted to let you know that I made reservations today and will be attending the St Louis reunion , Lord willing and the river don't rise!!!  My wife, Carolyn, has a wedding to go to so I will be attending alone and arriving sometime Friday evening. I look forward to seeing everyone there...... Rick Sweet
Steve Markle
 
To all the dads that I know out here....
 
HAPPY FATHERS DAY!
 
-Steve-
Morris McDowell
 
Ben,
Please post this on mail call. This is a reminder that the 16th is the cut off for the list of Veterans to be recognized in St. Louis. Attached is the latest list, everyone please look it over and send any corrections to me at garandaddy@comcast.net I have added Jim Benton, and have him in the 1st bn, but I don't know the company, nor the State he was from, all I have is Jeffersonville. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Morris McDowell
                                            ********
Jim Benton was in D Co. 2nd Bn. and was from Indiana.-Ben
Gina Votti
 
Hello, Tom and Marianne, Ben. 

I hope you are enjoying a blessed Father's Day with your family. 

And, speaking of awesome fathers, where is Bill Boyle?  

I have also sent a note to Ben about Charlie Keen.  He and my father corresponded for several years....???

May God bless and keep you all. 

Gina

Tom & Marianne Reber wrote:
Hi Gina,
 
Yes, Melvin Biddle has been a stalwart attendee, in the past.  He lives near Indianapolis and usually attends with Fred Wampler of G Company.
 
Tom Reber
 
Let me save you some time, let's see if this works
 
Please update me again on your information, to make sure I am current.  I have been revising between multiple roster sources lately.  Helen Beddow is a dynamo and she is keeping me busy.
 
Thanks, and good luck.
 
Tom Reber
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Tom has given Gina a roster of present B Co. members.  Mel Biddle will not be able to attend St. Louis Reunion. - Ben
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 12:06 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Your 517 Roster]

I just figured it out, Tom.  Sorry to trouble you. 

I guess the only way to contact some of my father's Company B comrades is to write to them, if there is no phone number.  A written thank-you is much better, anyway. 

This is probably understandable.  I will hope and pray that some of them are at the reunion. 

Has Mr. Biddle been a regular attendee?

Gina
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Date:
From: Virginia Votti <vavotti@clinbio.com>
Reply-To: vavotti@clinbio.com
Organization: CLINBIO Corporation
To: Tom Reber <reber83@insightbb.com>


This is incredible, Tom.

I sent you information for myself, daughter of Carl Votti, Co. B.

(Daddy passed in 1999, and Mother passed in 2002.)

Is there a record of those who passed, and when? 

THANK YOU.

Gina Votti