(Newsletter #5)
To : All Ships Reps
Number 5 was a little late as I have been away most of March at NJCAA and NCAA basketball tournaments. Hope your NCAA pool did better than mine, although this was a basketball fans dream year.
Your ACVA board had it's monthly board chat and continues to carry on the business of our association. Thanks goes out to those ship reps who contributed to the ACVA newsletter, it should be going out in the next few weeks.
At this time we need your assistance in another project that ACVA is taking on. Our Vice President Rick Watson is taking on a History of Adams Class Ships Project.The board has put this project on hold, but we would still like to identify a person from each ships association who could be a contact to help with this project so as not to lose valuable time when we start it up in the near future. You can contact me or Rick at
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A special thanks to Captain Jim Alridge a member of the Sellers crew who has taken on the leadership in finding a home for the Adams. Jim and Rear Admiral Collins have been meeting with city officials in Tampa and will be meeting with the Port Authority this week.If you have any members in the Tampa area who could help with this effort, please have them contact Jim at
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . I'm sure he could use some help with a number of leg work task as he and the Admiral continue their effort to get a home for the ADAMS.
Our president Tom Crosser is working on a date for the Adams survey visit and currently has 42 adams class sailors who have agreed to attend that project in Philadelphia. The group has a good cross section across all rates needed to do this project and we thank those Adams Class Sailors who have voluntered to participate.
The articles of incorporation draft copy have been sent to all board members for review and the board voted to accept them and file them. The next step is to file with the IRS for the 501C exemption. A special thanks to Herm Chambers who has the lead in this difficult process.
As of 3/23/05 we now have 127 offfical members, but we need to keep the pressure up to increase our membership. Their will be an article in the TIN CAN SAILORS in April and this should get the word out to more people. You ships reps though are our best bet, and we need your assistance in getting more of your association members interested in joining ACVA. If you have any ideas on how we can improve our efforts to build our membership please forward your ideas to me.
In regards to the monthly board meetings I would like to encourage all Ships Reps to send me discussion items. As the board proceeds with it's business we need to be sure we are addressing any concerns or points of interest of our membership. While we may think we know your interest we don't want to miss any important matters to our members.
Once again I would encourage all of you and your members to visit the ACVA web site
www.adamsclassddgvets.org on a regular basis. There is continual new information and the ACVA forum is a good place to be involved in our association.
We seem to be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, but we still have a long way to go to save the ADAMS. We still need all of us working together in assisting the ACVA board in moving forward with this difficult task. You have heard me say before that DDG Sailors have always been known for their can do attitude. So lets all continue to work togeather and save the ADAMS.
Jack Cistriano
Director- Membership and Liason Ship Organizations