From owner-usna-net@usna.org Sat Jul 1 10:12:57 2006 Received: from navy1.usna.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k61FCvSY001378; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:12:57 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k61FCvn7001377; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:12:57 -0500 Received: from Orion (nolmstd-cadent1-69-166-156-115.clvdoh.adelphia.net [69.166.156.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k61FCuDM001373 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:12:57 -0500 Message-ID: <91d201c69d20$d7204b50$0202a8c0@Orion> From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Chaplain's Care Package Program Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:12:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna.org Reply-To: "Mike Zets" A special message from your USNA-Net Moderators... ================================================== Again this year, USNA-Net Parents are being asked to help the USNA Chaplain's Center by providing a few Care Packages for those Plebes who will not be getting them from home. Every class has its share of new Plebes whose parents are not able to provide Care Packages or who are older, priors or foreign nationals, etc. who don't have relatives to send them even one care package. While their numbers are few, they can feel very left out when care packages arrive for companymates and they know that one isn't coming for them. If you'd like to assist in the program, put together a regular care package (one in plastic shoebox size container would be really nice since the container will last the entire four years in their Con Locker) and address it to... USNA-Net Care Packages c/o USNA Chaplain's Center 101 Cooper Road Annapolis MD 21402 Suggested contents (Direct from the Chaplain's Center)... Rice Krispy Bars, Power Bars, Granola Bars, Fruit Bars, Dried Fruit, etc. Nuts (salted Peanuts, almonds, mixed nuts, etc.) HOME MADE COOKIES Twizzlers, Hard Candy, Something to suck on, etc. While junk food is frowned upon, a piece of hard candy to suck on in the evening can really be wonderful when you've been screaming all day.) Recommendations from our Parents' Handbook... Water-packed Tuna (Pop-tops only) Small Cans of Fruit or Applesauce (Pop-tops only) Cup-o-Soup, Beef Jerky Mole skin for blisters Masking Tape Assorted Bandages Spray sunscreen A Bar of unscented Antibacterial Soap A small AMERICAN FLAG (3" x 5" with a small display stand) Cleaning Supplies White School Chalk to cover marks on White Uniforms Shout Wipes and Bleach Pens for stains White-Out for quick touch up on shoes Febrezze (very important for Plebe Summer) Clean, lint free cotton rags/cloths for shoe shining, room cleaning, etc. (Makes for great packing/filler material) It is important that these packages ARRIVE NO LATER THAN JULY 11th. So there's not much time but it will really be appreciated. The Chaplain's Center is hoping to get around 50 Care Packages. I'll bet we can easily do that and more if we just put ourselves into motion. No package will be wasted. You may include a short NOTE OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT and sign it if you wish or just sign it as coming from a fellow Plebe's parent. Either way, you just may make the difference in some young man's or woman's Plebe Summer. One that might convince him/her to stay. It's our chance to do something really thoughtful and beneficial to so many young people. Please give it some thought. I guarantee, you'll feel better just knowing that somewhere inside Bancroft next week, there is a Plebe who knows that someone cared enough to put together a care package just for him or her. The Chaplain's Center will take care of distributing them as they do every year. Please send what you can. Go Navy... Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA.org *** USNA-Net List message from: "Mike Zets" Visit our new web site at www.USNA.org ========================================= This Message may not be shared with any non-member! Remember, your Mid is NOT a member of this list. ========================================= Unsubscribe? Send an email to unsub-all@usna.org From owner-usna-net@usna.org Sun Jul 9 09:50:24 2006 Received: from navy1.usna.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k69EoOe3024300; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 09:50:24 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k69EoOCn024299; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 09:50:24 -0500 Received: from Orion (nolmstd-cadent1-69-166-156-115.clvdoh.adelphia.net [69.166.156.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k69EoNIk024295 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 09:50:23 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Your Support Is Needed.... Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 10:50:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna.org Reply-To: "Mike Zets" A special message from your USNA-Net Moderators... ================================================== Did you notice the new "Donate" button on the main page of our web site at www.USNA.org? It's there because we need your donations to continue our operation for another year. Can it be another year already? Actually, it's been almost 13 months. (We tried to stretch it out as far as we could.) It was June 15th of last year when USNA-Net last asked for your assistance, but our expenses have finally caught up with our checkbook and we need your help again. Each year around this time, USNA-Net goes to its members with a request for support and each year, you come through in resounding fashion. We try hard not to be asking for funds all the time (we hate fund drives as much as anyone else) and we've found that if we keep our requests to about once a year and do our best to minimize our expenses, we get all the support we need to keep us running from one year to the next. Here's the good news... This last spring, as many of you will remember, we moved our entire operation to a new server. In leaving our previous server and moving to our new one we were able to cut our monthly rental for the "blade" from $525 to $160 per month. (Tech support can be expensive, so we've gone totally out on our own. We're now doing all this without any hand holding.) The new server also provides eleven thousand percent more disk storage space. (Think of all the pictures, videos and email we can archive!!! - Not just for us but for all of the Parent's Club web sites we host as well.) What this means is that we've reduced our projected annual expenses from $11,000 last year to $5,600 this year (That's half !). All the while providing more services, faster downloads and provision for even more growth in the future. Speaking of growth, we've grown a lot in the past year... - Our total membership is up 200 Families and is now over 3,600 including hundreds of new families in the Class of 2010. - Our Website had 340,000 visitors in the past 12 months, recording our 1,500,000th visitor on Dec. 25th. The website has had another 150,000 visitors since then. - Our Archives have swollen to over 18 Million words of valuable Advice and Support making it the largest repository of USNA Parental Advice anywhere. - We've added the SWORD list for Single, Widowed Or Remarried / Divorced Parents so that we can help them in their special circumstances. - We've added our Clubs list for Local Parents Club Officers and Chairpersons. - We've added thousands of photographs to our Photo Gallery - more this Plebe Summer than ever before in our history. - There are new Wallpapers, Postcards and Screensavers for our members to use. - Our www.USNA.org web site now has over 750 pages of information for parents. - We now host 41 Local Parents Club Websites on our new server with their own domain names at no costs to the clubs. - We continue our Safe Harbor Program, now with over 1,400 volunteer families registered to render assistance any hour of the day or night to Mids across the country. Thank you to the dozens of families who answered the call in the past 12 months when our Mids needed you. It's been a wonderfully fulfilling year, indeed. We were able to do all of this because of your generosity. Last year when we asked for your support, your response was overwhelming and in just a few weeks, we reached our Fund Raising goal. While every hour of time provided by all of those who volunteer to operate USNA-Net, either directly or indirectly, is donated without compensation, we still incur real operating expenses for our server and its connection to the Internet, so we will need your help again this year to help us defray our expenses and keep USNA-Net on the Internet and fulfilling its Mission of "Parents Helping Parents." For those of you who have contributed in the past, we are asking that you do it again - only once, for the next 12 months. For those of our members who are new to USNA-Net, especially those members of the Class of 2010 who learned so much during the past months, we ask that you take a moment to send in whatever you can afford. Many of you have written to express your thanks for all that our lists have meant to you as you left your Plebes on I-Day and had have had your friends on USNA-Net to help you endure the rigors of separation through the summer. This is now your opportunity to say Thank You to the entire group with a donation to help keep us going for another year. Rest assured, we totally understand the restraints on family budgets. It's tough sometimes to come up with a few extra dollars. If you can't send something now, we understand. BUT... We really do need our members' support. You can find all of the details about how to donate on our website's main page by clicking on the blue DONATE button in the Quick Links on the left side. On-line donations (via our secure server) may be made using your Visa or Mastercard with total security and absolute privacy. If you prefer, there is also an address there to which you may mail a check. So on behalf of all of the members of USNA-Net and our Board of Advisors... Thanks so much for your continued support. Mike & Sandi Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA.org Moderators for USNA-Net Listservers Webmasters - www.USNA.org *** USNA-Net List message from: "Mike Zets" Visit our new web site at www.USNA.org ========================================= This Message may not be shared with any non-member! Remember, your Mid is NOT a member of this list. ========================================= Unsubscribe? Send an email to unsub-all@usna.org From owner-usna-net@usna.org Fri Jul 14 13:45:50 2006 Received: from navy1.usna.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6EIjoR7025701; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:45:50 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k6EIjoak025700; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:45:50 -0500 Received: from sandi (nolmstd-cadent1-69-166-156-115.clvdoh.adelphia.net [69.166.156.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6EIjnHJ025696 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:45:49 -0500 Message-ID: <11ff01c6a776$2d2c5f20$0502a8c0@sandi> From: "Sandi" To: "" Subject: usna-net more photos Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:49:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna.org Reply-To: "Sandi" A special message from your USNA-Net Moderators... ================================================== Plebe parents: Did you know that the plebes have been issued their Service Dress Blues(SDB's)?? Well, Jim Doherty (Jim 07) took some photos on Tuesday and managed to find some of them standing in line, obviously holding this new acquisition ... along with some other wonderful close-ups of your plebes! A member who wishes to remain anonymous, yet wanted to share some great photos taken at PEP and on the Yard, sent in a terrific collection with plenty of faces - you Cadre parents may see your mid, too! And, once more, Barbara Hendricks and her dog took a walk to the Yard yesterday to catch the Cadre putting the plebes through their paces, practicing for the parade scheduled for today. She managed to get a lot of "portrait" shots of the plebes - it would be impossible for any mother to mistake her son or daughter in one of them. There will be no "I'm sure that's him. only to find out later (from their plebe) that it's not them at all! :>) and finally, Lisa Hellerman (Keith 10) went over to Greenport to grab some shots of the YP's coming into Long Island ... with some more shots of them having fun on that carousel! All together, I've loaded 236 new photos! Thanks to Lisa, Jim, Barbara and our anonymous photographer, for sharing these wonderful photos! I've created a new Plebe Summer Photo page for the new plebe photos. To find them, simply go to the USNA-Net website: www.usna.org and click onto "Photo Gallery" from the menu items on the left side of the page. Then, just click onto "Plebe Summer 2006 Part III" at the top of the page. Lisa's photos will be on the "Summer Blocks 2006" photo page directly beneath. Enjoy these newest photos! Sandi Zets Westlake, OH Moderator: USNA-Net Webmaster: www.usna.org Lt Michael Stoker '00 Naples, Italy *** USNA-Net List message from: "Sandi" Visit our new web site at www.USNA.org ========================================= This Message may not be shared with any non-member! Remember, your Mid is NOT a member of this list. ========================================= Unsubscribe? Send an email to unsub-all@usna.org From owner-usna-net@usna.org Fri Jul 21 08:51:29 2006 Received: from navy1.usna.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6LDpTpZ032732; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:51:29 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k6LDpT8B032731; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:51:29 -0500 Received: from Orion (nolmstd-cadent1-69-166-156-115.clvdoh.adelphia.net [69.166.156.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by navy1.usna.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6LDpSJe032727 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:51:28 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net On-Line Voting... Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:51:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna.org Reply-To: "Mike Zets" A special message from your USNA-Net Moderators... ================================================== I know that many of our members enjoy participating in On-Line Voting Contests so.... Our Church Deacon's son is a Captain in the US Army having returned from a 13 month tour of duty in Tikrit, Iraq. When he returned home, he entered an on-line Essay Contest sponsored by a national battery company. His essay has earned him a place as one of FIVE Finalists and he has a real shot at winning the Grand Prize - A Frame Up Restoration (valued at $50,000) of his '72 Chevelle plus a spot on Dream Car Garage on SpeedTV and a trip to the SEMA Car Show in Las Vegas plus lot of other extras. Even the sponsors want this All American Combat Veteran to win. Imagine all the great press for everyone involved! But they need YOUR vote to make it happen. Eric is the only Veteran in the finals, and we thought you'd enjoy voting for him. He is an Apache Attach Helicopter Pilot and spent a lot of his free time in Tikrit dreaming of coming home to finish the restoration of his '72 Chevelle. Just getting into the finals has gotten him $2,000 in custom restoration parts and now, with YOUR help, he may win the whole shebang. Here's our chance to clinch a win for this great young man. To vote for him, just go to www.USNA.org and read the instructions in the main article in the middle of the main page. Baseball, Apple Pie and Chevrolet. Noting is more American than that. Pass the link to all your fiends. Mike Zets Westlake, OH Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers Lt. Michael Stoker '00 - Naples, Italy *** USNA-Net List message from: "Mike Zets" Visit our new web site at www.USNA.org ========================================= This Message may not be shared with any non-member! Remember, your Mid is NOT a member of this list. ========================================= Unsubscribe? Send an email to unsub-all@usna.org