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President's Message
Happy New Year to one and all. I hope your Holidays were special and that you paused to reflect on a year that was filled with memories of wonderful things experienced and accomplished. My thanks to Electra Anest and Beverly Frey for their special efforts for highlighting some of the Societies successes during 2009 at our annual Holiday party. We truly had a lot to be proud of. During this year I will focus on national legislation to determine the impacts and implications to our members and conveying that information. And as a Society I hope we will also continue our efforts to increase our membership, to get the newer members actively involved and to maintain visibility in our community. I encourage each of you to do your part to help. Charles Barenthaler Thank You!
Thank you to the New York State Society members who donated Wizards tickets to Walter Reed Hospital for our recovering military personnel. NYSS thanks all those who serve in the military keeping America safe. Also, thank you to everyone who supported Toys for Tots this year. NYSS is proud of our affiliation with this organization that helps so many! Honouring the Connection Reception
3 March 2010 | 6:00-8:00 p.m. To become a corporate sponsor of this event, please click here for more information.
A new exhibit will open Nov. 20, 2009 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Step into the office of Tim Russert, a Buffalo, New York native and one of the country’s most respected journalists and longtime moderator of NBC’s Sunday-morning interview programs, “Meet the Press”. Russert’s office at NBC's Washington Bureau is reassembled as it was on June 13, 2008, his last day at work. Mr. Russert died of a heart attack while recording voiceovers for the show. His office is where he prepared for interviews and breaking news, and is filled with his favorite books, photos, and memorabilia of his beloved Buffalo Bills! For more information, visit newseum.org.
The USS New York will be arriving in NY harbor on Nov 1, 2009 and commissioned in the US Navy Nov. 7. If you are planning a trip to NY, you will be able to tour the ship during that week. She was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center. It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, “those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,” recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. “It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.” Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the 'hair on my neck stood up. “It had a big meaning to it for all of us,' he said 'They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back.” The ship's motto? 'Never Forget'
Honoring America’s fallen in Afghanistan and Iraq including those men and women who returned from the war zones and lost their lives to physical and emotional wounds of war.
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The Embassy of Canada
together with the
New York State Society of Washington, D.C.
and the
Québec Government Office in Washington, D.C. Cordially invite you to the “Honouring the Connection” Reception
