April 2008

USS SPROSTON (DD/DDE-577)

INVITATION TO THE BOSTON REUNION SEPT 17-21 2008

The 2008 Boston Reunion activities are in place. Ken Landry and Paul Morsewich have worked hard to ensure that you have a great time in Boston this year. We will stay at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1360 Worcester St., Natick MA. More Navy activities have been planned than in previous reunions, including a tour of the destroyer USS Cassin Young (DD-793), tour of the USS Constitution, lunch in the wardroom of the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59), Memorial Service aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850), and a bus tour of Boston with lunch in the Faneuil Hall Market Place downtown. Of course we will break bread at the Saturday evening banquet/raffle and Sunday morning brunch. Len Doran will have items for sale from the ship’s store. Those of you traveling by air should lock in your seat and fare as soon as possible because flights will sell out and fares will rise later in the year.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS

(DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS AUGUST 27, 2008)

CALL THE HOTEL AT 1-508-653-8800 AND REQUEST THE USS SPROSTON BLOCK

CROWNE PLAZA BOSTON-NATICK MA

1360 WORCESTER STREET

NATICK MA 01760

$119 SINGLE/DOUBLE OCCUPANCY + TAX

FOR AIRPORT SHUTTLE TRANSPORTATION TO HOTEL TAKE THE "LOGAN EXPRESS" FROM ANY LOGAN

TERMINAL TO FRAMINGHAM THEN CALL THE CROWNE PLAZA FOR COMP SHUTTLE.

(Adult Round Trip Fare: $22.00 Senior(65+) Round Trip Fare: $20.00)

For a preview of the Activity Package, Click Here

To Register, Click Here

TAPS — The Sproston Reunion Group has been notified of the passing of the following shipmates since the previous reunion:

John Halase, Jr. QMC WWII Dec 07

Thaddeus Stevens HMC

James Walker MM1 WWII Dec 07

Logan Breeden FC3 WWII Jan 08

Vincent Weis S1 WWII Jan 08

Clyde Miltenberger MM1 WWII Jan 08

Anthony Carbillano SM3 WWII Feb 08

Elvin Harris Loyd, Jr. MM2 Vietnam Feb 08

We were proud to know them and serve with them — our shipmates, our friends. May they rest in peace. They will be remembered at the Memorial Service in Boston.

Jim Marlatt, President jrmarlatt@earthlink.net

Robert Johnson, President-Elect sproston577@yahoo.com

Orville Amos, Treasurer (816) 483-2710

Michael Bereskin, Secretary Sproston@sbcglobal.net 

Please check out our website at www.Sproston.com for continuing reunion information. We hope to see all of you and especially those for whom this may be a first reunion. It’s a hell of a lot of fun. Send the included registration form and check to Orville Amos early. Everything you need is in this package.