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Current status of the Battleship New Jersey and other Society News

IMPORTANT: Society members meetings are now held twice a year. Meetings will be the third Tuesday of April and October. They have also been moved up a half-hour to 7PM.

The next Society meeting will be 7:00 PM, 18 October 2005, at The Marina Diner Highway 36, Leonardo, NJ. Meetings are open to all Society members.
The Wild Scallion is just up the road from Earle NWS, on the north side of Hwy 36, 7 miles east of the Garden State Parkway, exit 117.

1. The Society donated $5,000.00 to the Battleship New Jersey Museum honoring the Battleship New Jersey ex-crew members at the ceremony aboard the Battleship on September 13, 2002.

2. The Society donated $20,000.00 to the Battleship New Jersey Museum toward the labor involved with the Lockheed Martin projects. The first phase being the "History Of The Battleship," The Society will donate another $20,000,00 for the second phase "Homeland Defense Interactive Demonstration Center" at a later date.

3. The Society donated $5,000.00 to the Battleship New Jersey Museum sponsoring the 'Battleship New Jersey Museum Naval And Military History Symposium" program on June 13, 14, 15, 2003.

The ship opened as a museum 15 October 2001. Click Here to see pictures.

The ship is located on the Camden waterfront behind the Tweeter Center (Formerly the E-Center) just south of the State Aquarium. Contact the Museum at 856-966-1652 for additional information.

On 10 August 2001 the Society and the Home Port Alliance signed a contract giving the Society spaces aboard the ship to display artifacts and ship's history. The area given to the Society is the ship's officers lounge.
Signing for the Society was president Vincent Falso, for the Alliance executive director Admiral Thomas Seigenthaler. Also present were Society trustees Stuart L. Chalkley, Gerald W. Gray, Paul T. Syers, Jr. and Gilbert Yoffredo.

The ship was previously temporarily opened to visitors on August 9 and 10, 2000. Click Here to see pictures.

We still have 4 pages of photos online from our final car show in 1999: Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

The Society is always looking for donations of memorabilia for display in our space aboard the ship. If you have an item or items you wish to donate, please contact Vince Falso, our president and memorabilia coordinator, at the Society: Box 1482, Union, NJ, 07083.

All donations will remain under the control of the Society.

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