From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Mon Oct 6 14:53:23 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h96IrNgg083083; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:53:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from NOVA (oh-northolmstead1-5b-227.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.71.101.227]) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h96IrK6J083074 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:53:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <03a901c38c3b$232b3860$6401a8c0@NOVA> From: "Sandi Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Photos from the Air Force win... Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:53:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all, Mike and I were so very pleased to be in Fed Ex field to witness that inspiring win over Air Force on Saturday. He took pictures so that we could share this day with you. We tried to get as much as we could for you - the March On (with close-ups of Company 4, Company 10 and the Color Guard) - the Prisoner Exchange (notice the "Silly string" on the back of the Brigade Commander's jacket, hastily sprayed there by one of the Air Force Cadets as he marched around to the AF side...) - the coin toss, the D&B halftime performance - some game shots - both team's Mascots - the cheerleaders - the singing of both team's Alma Maters - and, of course, MIDS, MIDS, MIDS in the stands (you can see a few Plebes performing push ups after the touchdowns - in the stands - since they could not go onto the field). What a delightful day - one to remember. I'm sorry we did not get the fly-over - which was awesome - it just happened too quickly! Maybe someone else caught it for us? If any of you have any shots you would like to share send them to me and I will get them up as soon as I can. If you announce an on-line Albums I will be sure to place the link on the photo page, as well. To view these 45 new photos, simply go to the USNA-Net website: www.usna-net.org and click onto "Photo Gallery" from the menu items on the left side of the page. Then click onto "Navy vs. Air Force win" at the top of the list of the latest photos! I have full sized high resolution copies of all of the photos - so if you think you see your Mid and would like a copy - just let me know! Enjoy these! Sandi Zets Westlake, OH (jsandi@usna-net.org) Moderator: USNA-Net Webmaster: www.USNA-Net.org Remember, if you do not see the link for the Navy/Air Force game photos at the top of the "Photo Gallery" page, your browser is probably loading the page from cache. You will need to hold down the "Control" key while you click onto the "refresh" (or "reload") button in the browser's main menu. That should force the latest page to load onto your browser. If you have problems seeing this page - let me know. *** USNA-Net post by: "Sandi Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Tue Oct 7 14:22:58 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h97IMwd8081662; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:22:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from NOVA (oh-northolmstead1-5b-227.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.71.101.227]) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h97IMtjX081644 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:22:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <014e01c38d00$0d0873c0$6401a8c0@NOVA> From: "Sandi Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Big Change - no more Sports List... Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:23:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all, Recently, we have had to rethink our position on our Sports List. When it was created in 1999, it seemed like a logical addition to our lists. The premise was that the sports-minded among you would enjoy a list where you could discuss -in detail - all manner of USNA sports in a place exclusively for you. Great idea, but in reality, it has not worked that way. In the past year, there have been relatively few posts to the Sports list - and many posts concerning sports have been sent, in error, to the Family list. A dilemma...The only real traffic on the sports list occurs every year around and concerning the Army/Navy game. There are many who firmly believe (and rightfully so) that this event is more tradition than sport - and involves us all in a way that no other sporting contest can). In between this, is a smattering of posts concerning all manner of Navy Sports. I think we can all agree on one thing - we are here to find out about, and to participate in (however remotely) our Mid's USNA experience - ALL aspects of that experience. Navy sports, whether it is on the varsity level, the club level, or the intramural level, is a part of every Midshipman's life. We have tried to keep a black and white policy on the posts about sports - all sports related posts - regardless of whether or not it discussed the actual competition (tailgating, fan commentary, sports bets, travel to, etc) belonged on the Sports list. This created a bit of confusion. So, the USNA-Net Board of Advisors decided to eliminate the Sports List. We have removed the mention of it from the Rules, and from the USNA-Net website. You may now post your sports or sports related messages to the Family list at usna-family@usna-net.org . We hope that you will enjoy this change. Of course there is an exception - isn't there always? :>) The rule against trying to buy or sell tickets on the lists is STILL in place, as is asking for commercial endorsements. These things can only be sent to our Member's Only Classifieds page. How about that? One less list to worry about!! :>) Sandi Zets Westlake, OH (jsandi@usna-net.org) Moderator: USNA-Net Webmaster: www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Sandi Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Thu Oct 9 11:13:08 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h99FD8IB044822; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:13:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from Orion (oh-northolmstead1-5b-227.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.71.101.227]) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h99FD52H044811 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:13:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <918201c38e77$daf88b80$6501a8c0@Orion> From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net '04 Mid Portrait Photos Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:13:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... Dear '04 Parents, We have received an urgent request for your assistance from The Editor-in-Chief of the Lucky Bag (the USNA Yearbook). It seems that in the first three days during which your sons and daughters we scheduled to have their photographs taken for the Lucky Bag only 89 Firsties have done so. At this rate, the photographers will NOT be able to complete the task in the time allotted for taking the pictures which ends at the end of next week. They have 900 more Portraits to take and only 7 days in which to do it. PLEASE contact your Firstie and do everything within your power to make sure that he/she gets their portrait taken ASAP. Do whatever it takes to coerce them to cooperate with this effort but get them there. Make sure that they don't wait to the last minute. Portraits taken now will get better results than those rushed through on the last couple of days. Photographers are only human. While you're at it, encourage your Firstie to nag his classmates to do the same. We do not reach all of the parents of the Class of '04. At present we only have 514 members from that class. So it is even more important that those we can reach via our lists, not only get their Firstie to get their portrait taken, your Firstie has to get one or two other Firsties to do the same. Thanks for your cooperation and assistance. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sun Oct 12 18:53:02 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h9CMr2Ul085611; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:53:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from Orion ([24.52.189.11]) by usna-net.org (8.12.9p1) id h9CMqxhr085589 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:52:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1ef801c39113$4d1e66b0$6501a8c0@Orion> From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net HOAXES.... Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:50:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... On Friday, a message was sent by no less than three members to our lists about a V1RUS which was supposed to be undetectable by AV software and gave explicit instructions on how to rid yourself of this problem. THIS WARNING WAS A HOAX. If you got rid of the file as instructed, don't worry because the file was used in debugging Java Applications which most of you will never have to do unless you are a Java Developer/Programmer. HOWEVER, it is important that you realize that this COULD have been a very damaging thing to do, if the file you got rid of was an important file. It could have wiped out your entire computer's hard drive with all of its files, rendering it a useless pile of hardware that would have taken an expert to restore and you could have LOST every single file, picture and message contained in your entire system. All because you read and believed an email message. If the sender had maliciously substituted any one of a number of IMPORTANT or VITAL files, you would have been toast. The three members who did this have been told that this was a severe violation of our Rules of Operation which specifically forbid passing on V1RUS warnings on our lists. But I want you to be aware of what happened and why YOU should never do this either. V1RUS warning messages are ALWAYS HOAXES! Microsoft, McAffee, and Norton don't send out messages like this. They automatically update their software to recognize V1RUSES and not allow them to come on to your computer in the first place. If you receive an email telling you about something that they can't fix, it's a HOAX. We have a page on our web site where you can look up real V1RUSES and HOAXES BEFORE you get rid of files or otherwise damage your computer or its operating system software. Just look in the Site Index. It's there. Under "V" Lastly, an explanation of why you received this message in the first place. Our automated filters WERE set to search the first 40 lines of a message for any and all words and phrases on what we call the Taboo Word list. Several of the words in this particular message would normally have triggered a rejection because we have all of the particular terms involved in this hoax on our Taboo word list. If a Taboo word is found, we reject the message to the Moderators for their attention. In the case of the particular message, the sender passed it along with over 40 lines of email addresses from previous transmissions at the top of the text of the message. By the time our filters got done checking 40 lines, the message with the actual taboo words in it, had yet to be read. We have modified the filters to now check for over twice that length of message. We shouldn't see that message or any others like it go through to our membership again. REMEMBER.... Don't pass that sort of junk on to everyone in your address book. If this message had been malicious (instead of a minor prank) those three members who thoughtlessly sent it to our lists in violation of our Rules could have destroyed hundreds of our members computers. This is downright irresponsible. Always take this sort of thing with EXTREME CAUTION. It's better to be safe rather than sorry. It took Sandi and I this long to respond because we were traveling this weekend to Sandi's homecoming and were away from our computers for three days. Richard Albrecht rose to the occasion and made sure that things were in hand and sent a response to the list clarifying it on Friday Afternoon, just a few minutes after the first of the three warnings was sent out. Another note... Make sure you read ALL of your day's mail before you react to any one particular message. If you had, most of you would have seen Richard's response before you went looking for the fake V1RUS. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Mon Oct 20 11:42:21 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.10) id h9KFgLpC085510; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:42:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from NOVA ([24.52.189.11]) by usna-net.org (8.12.10) id h9KFgHvU085495 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:42:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <016e01c39720$bf333e20$6401a8c0@NOVA> From: "Sandi Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net A special museum exhibit at USNA Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:42:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... "Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later," a special museum exhibit, is on display at the United States Naval Academy Museum from October 14, 2003 through November 1, 2003. The exhibit is made up of sepia-tone photographs and narrative profiles honoring 30 former Vietnam POWs. The exhibit has traveled throughout the United States and will be on display at the Naval Academy Museum (Preble Hall) during normal operating hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday). Nine Naval Academy graduates are featured in this special exhibit including, VADM James B. Stockdale, USN (Ret.), Class of 1947; RADM Jeremiah Denton, USN (Ret.), Class of 1947; VADM William P. Lawrence, USN (Ret.), Class of 1951; CAPT Edwin Arthur Shuman, USN (Ret.), Class of 1954; VADM Edward H. Martin, USN (Ret.), Class of 1954; CAPT John H. Fellowes, USN (Ret.), Class of 1956; The Honorable John S. McCain, Class of 1958; CAPT John Michael McGrath, USN (Ret.) Class of 1962; CDR Paul E. Galanti, USN (Ret.), Class of 1962. Taylor Baldwin Kiland, daughter of Ingolf N. Kiland Jr. (USNA '59) and Jamie Howren Quinn, wife of John Quinn (USNA '91) sought to document in photos and narratives how 30 of these men rebuilt their lives personally and professionally upon their return. The title, "Open Doors: Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later" is based on the moving quote made by CDR Paul Galanti: "There is no such thing as a bad day when you have a door knob on the inside of the door." Open Doors, hosted by the Coronado Museum of History and Art in Coronado, Calif., has been traveling across the country throughout the calendar year that coincides with the 30th anniversary of the POWs' return from Hanoi. A small group of us had the pleasure of a private showing of the exhibit prior to its opening. Not only is Taylor and Jamie's work a fitting tribute to our Vietnam POW's, but the Naval Academy is a fitting place to honor them as many of them are Naval Academy graduates who served selflessly and returned home with honor. What makes this work unique is its focus on the challenges and opportunities they encountered over the last 30 years. We are proud to announce this unique exhibit to you and strongly encourage you, your shipmates and classmates, friends and neighbors to view it firsthand. If you are only in town for one weekend this year (and it happens to be Homecoming or President's Circle), I urge you to drop by Preble Hall. While at the Museum, please take time to view the other exhibits made possible through class gifts. Go Navy (and Army, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine)! George P. Watt, Jr. USNA '73 President and CEO USNA Alumni Association and Foundation *** USNA-Net post by: "Sandi Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Mon Oct 27 12:13:44 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.10) id h9RHDiUV041198; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:13:44 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from Orion ([24.52.189.11]) by usna-net.org (8.12.10) id h9RHDd3A041181 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:13:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <227d01c39cad$ab4e0c40$6501a8c0@Orion> From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Fw: USNA-Net Newsletter Date 27 OCT 03 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:13:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... ================================================================ USNA-Net Newsletter Date 27 OCT 03 ================================================================ In this issue... 1. What's New - USNA-Net Classified are Bulging. 2. Infections abound - It's FLU season again. 3. How do I? - Changes of Address. 4. A Web Site for YOUR Club. 5 Rule Reasons - Commercial Content. ================================================================ This Newsletter is sent to all members of our USNA-Net Listservers. It is published as needed and is intended to provide insight into our service, answers to Frequently Asked Questions, Technical Assistance and Useful Information to our membership. You cannot reply directly to this newsletter. ================================================================ 1. What's New - USNA-Net Classified are Bulging. In case you haven't looked lately, our USNA-Net Classified Ads on our web site are bursting at the seams with Wanted and For Sale items. We currently have ads looking for over 100 Army/Navy Tics. So if you have any that you won't be needing when they are delivered in a couple of weeks, NOW is the time to find a buyer by going to our Classified Ads. Just a sampling of things in today's Classifieds... Wanted: Notre Dame Tics A/N Tics Home and Condos for Commissioning Week 2004 AND 2005 For Sale: Tics for Central Michigan Football Game 3 Bdrm Home in Annapolis Halloween Concert Tics 2003 Acura Aroma Therapy Products Halloween Candy and Care Packages Authentic Bill the Goat Wool Custom Designed Jewelry Low cost Long Distance Service We have loads of things For Sale and even things to be given away. A bunch of Mid Parents have put together a collection of fashionable knitted TOE COVERS for those with ankle/leg casts which are free for the asking. But like all good things... You have to know where and whom to ask. It's all there inside our Classified Ads. Just go to our web site at www.USNA.org and click on the "Classified Ads" link in the main menu on the left of the main page. You'll need these to access the MEMBERS ONLY area of our web site... User Name: brigade Pass Word: navy58army12 (all lowercase - no spaces) ================================================================ 2. Infections abound - It's FLU season again. That's right. At least two of our members are currently infected with a COMPUTER V1RUS and continue to attempt to spread it to others every time they turn on their computers. I know that you are saying, "It can't be ME." Bullhockey! It's somebody and if you don't have current Anti-V1RUS software installed, it may very well be YOU! You can find AV software at any local electronics store for around thirty dollars and it really will prevent your computer from being damaged by malicious infections PLUS... It will stop you from sending out a copy of the danged bug to everyone in your address book EVERY time you turn your computer on. I should know. I get several dozen such infected emails every week. On some days, I get six to ten in one evening. YOU ARE INFECTED. It's just that with the newest bugs, we can't tell who you are - just that you're sending out copies of the bug to everyone in your address book - your family, your Mid, and other members on our lists. PLEASE behave responsibly and install or update your AV software TODAY. ================================================================ 3. How do I.... ??? - Changing your Email with USNA-Net. >From time to time, a number of you ask ... "How do I go about changing my email address in your system?" It's easy. Just send us an email from your OLD address telling us your full name, your OLD ADDRESS and your NEW ADDRESS. It takes us about 5 seconds to affect the change, if you just send us those three pieces of information. Please do not wait until you old address is out of order and your old service is rejecting your mail for weeks. Do it as soon as the new address is functioning. Oh! and PLEASE don't cancel out the old address and then later resubmit a new application for membership. That causes a lot more work for us. Just a short email with your full name, the Old address and the New address is all that's needed. AND... Please remember to NEVER send such administrative requests to the lists. Send them to Moderator@USNA-Net.org instead. ================================================================ 4. A Web Site for YOUR Club. A reminder that USNA-Net provides FREE Web Hosting and Domain Registration for your local Parents Club. No strings attached. Your own Domain Name (www.yourclubname.org) will be registered for you and you will have a place of your own on our USNA-Net server to put your club's web site. We already host 26 of the 40 web sites that exist today and we're adding four more brand new sites in the next few weeks. All for FREE. Just drop us a note at mike@usna.org and we'll get you all the details and explain how all of it works. All you have to supply is the webmaster to design and maintain the content of your web site. Does your Club spend a small fortune on printing and mailing out newsletters and reminders? Why not put those things on a web site and tell your members about new stuff on your club's web site via email? You can save a ton of money that way. Web sites are FULL COLOR and don't require a penny in postage. You can change them whenever you like and as often as you like. If your club wants to finally join the computer age, drop us a note and find out how simple it really can be. ================================================================ 5. Rule Reasons - Commercial Content. Each time we send out one of these newsletters we like to include a little something explaining one of our Rules of Operation so that our members better understand the Reasons behind the Rules. This time, it's our ban on Commercial Content. Our Rules prohibit anything being sent to our lists which offer anything For Sale or Wanted to Buy, Trade or Give Away items. It also prohibits ASKING FOR FAVORS or information on any sort of Personal or Commercial Goods or Services in messages to any of our lists. We have had this rule in place since our very beginning in 1998 for a number of good reasons but the most important reason is that we just don't want to become another source of junk email in your inbox. If you're like the rest of us, we already get too many messages every day offering to sell us everything from Viagra to a second mortgage. We just don't need any more. Then you have to remember that we have many members who are Parents or Sponsors who own and operate local businesses in the Annapolis area. We prohibit them from using our lists to advertise their businesses (except in the Classifieds) and we want to insure that we keep things on a level playing field. It would be totally unfair to not allow them to advertise their business and yet allow other members to mention their competitors to our entire membership or give endorsements for Goods or Services which hurts our own members. We are over 3,000 USNA Families. Recommendations and endorsements can get out of hand pretty quickly with first one members recommending this place to buy something and then another recommending a different place to buy this or that. We told you earlier that our Classified Ads had requests for over 100 Army/Navy tics. They also have 74 individual advertisements for a host of different things. Imagine if all those members had sent their messages to the Family list (may be more than once) instead of following the rules and placing those ads in our Classifieds. You would have been buried with messages soliciting you to buy their wares or looking for something to buy. If each of our members sent just one such email only once per semester, you would find 16 such messages in your inbox EVERY DAY and our server would have to send out 18 MILLION extra messages in a year's time. That's a ton of junk email that doesn't belong in your inbox. We understand that and use our server's automated filters to stop as much of it as possible before it ever reaches you. Using the USNA-Net Classified Ads keeps it all together where our members can find it quickly and saves your inbox from just that much more junk email. But to make sure that it all works, we need you to USE and READ the Classified Ads regularly. Help another member by offering your extra items for sale there and by buying things from other members when at all possible. After all, that's what USNA-Net is all about... Parents Helping Other Parents. Go Navy Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Wed Oct 29 12:01:37 2003 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.12.10) id h9TH1bQX080838; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:01:37 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from NOVA ([24.52.189.11]) by usna-net.org (8.12.10) id h9TH1ZTG080823 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:01:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <018201c39e3e$502e2bf0$6401a8c0@NOVA> From: "Sandi Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:01:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... NAVAL ACADEMY ANNOUNCES GROUNDBREAKING OF THE COMMODORE URIAH P. LEVY CENTER AND JEWISH CHAPEL ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Marking a unique moment in history, Naval Academy midshipmen, faculty staff and Friends of the Jewish Chapel donors and invited guests will celebrate groundbreaking of The Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel, Sunday, Nov. 2, at 1:30 p.m., behind Mitscher Hall on Academy grounds. As supporters of religious and cultural enrichment programs for midshipmen for many years, the FOJC (an Annapolis-based, non-profit, tax exempt foundation) has raised more than 12.8 million dollars to build, maintain and provide a program endowment for the Levy Center and Jewish Chapel. The east wing of the facility will feature a 412-seat sanctuary while the west wing will provide a focal point for the Academy's ethics curriculum, fostering principles of high moral character, leadership and religious freedom within the Brigade of Midshipmen. The west wing will include classrooms and meeting spaces, a media center, library, canteen, the Academy's Honor Court, office spaces, conference and study areas. The Levy Center and Jewish Chapel is a significant link connecting Jewish Midshipmen today to American Jewish history and the history of the United States Navy. The Center honors the contributions of all American Jews who have served and who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in order to protect our freedoms. *** USNA-Net post by: "Sandi Zets" ================================================ Pass on our USNA-Net tradition to the next Class. Tell another Parent about www.USNA-Net.org today! ================================================