December 24, 2004

2004 Reno Reunion
September 30 - October 3
Atlantis Casino Resort

The Association's 4th reunion was a great success. About 90 shipmates and guests attended. Here are the event highlights:

• Thursday evening Admiral Barrett and Captain Eaton talked before the group.
• A scale model of the Canopus is under construction. The keel
  as shown at the reunion. See Ship Model for more information.
• Many Ship's Store items were available for purchase.
• A set of ship drawings showing deck and level details were available. Shipmates could re-visit their work space and berthing compartment.
• Lots and lots of notebooks, plaques, photos and other memorabilia from the Association's archives and from shipmates was on display.
• Everett Perry was showing his wonderful exhibit of the old Canopus   AS-9, that his uncle served on. Be sure to visit his website.
• and most important of all, a GREAT TIME was had by all.

Business highlights:

• Richard Retin became Chairman.
• Ed Pado is now the Vice-Chairman.
• Jim "Mushy" Morschhauser is now the Secretary.
• Joe Williams is continuing as the Treasurer.
• Ron Slank proposed that the Association adopt a lifetime membership option. After some discussion and a vote, it was decided that lifetime dues will be $100. Included will be a Canopus Lifer membership card.
• Lee Barratt, "Mr. Canopus" and Association founder, was in attendance.

See 2004 Reno Reunion for an extensive set of photos.

The 2006 reunion is planned for Groton, CT. No extact dates yet, but will be in the late September-early October time-frame. Planned activities are a visit to the Submarine museum and the New London Naval Base, where many crewmembers went to pre-commissioning school.

The site for 2008 reunion was the source of very lively discussion at the Reno business meeting. It is currently, very tentatively, planned for San Diego.

See you in Groton, which will be a must attend event.  The museum quality 44" scale model of the USS Canopus AS-34 will be on display.

September 20, 2002

                REUNION 2002 HELD IN BILOXI, MS

The Canopus association held its third reunion on Sept. 5-8, 2002. Around 130 members and guests attended the gala affair. It was held in the deep south, along the Mississippi gulf coast, at the Biloxi Beach Resort. The weather was mixed but acceptable.

The reunion was organized and run by shipmate Ron Slank. Organized tours of New Orleans were well attended. In addition a fine meal and music by disk jockey and door prizes, was enjoyed by all.

Our every two year membership meeting was held during the 4 day affair as set by our by-laws. The minutes of the meeting will be posted soon, by our secretary, Rick Retin. Rick is also our assoc. photographer and he will soon be posting his pictures from the reunion, here on site. One highlight during the dinner activities was a brief appearance at the podium by Captain John Eaton, the second CO of Canopus. The Captain stated how Canopus was one of his most enjoyable commands, and the record refits accomplished by Canopus during his time aboard. He was given a well deserved, standing round of applause after his talk. We thank Captain Eaton for attending and look forward to seeing him again in 2004 in Reno, NV.

Shipmate Retin's slide show after the meal, with photos of Rota, Spain was well received and enjoyed by all in attendance. Rick was assisted in his narration by a new member, Fernando Iglesias . Shipmate Fernando, born in Spain and now a "Counsel of Spain" added local flavor to the narration as only he could. Welcome aboard the Association Fernando.

The Association thanks all who attended and hopes to see everyone in two years in Reno.

March 25, 2002

 We have noticed that Milt Smith, who maintains a personal Canopus web site has added new material. Some great new pictures of Canopus and other tenders have been added to Milt's site. Well worth your time in viewing.    Visit his web site.

OLD NEWS

Welcome to our new web site As with any new site there are always bugs in the first posting to the web. These are expected and are usually easily fixed. The main problem is always what is called (cross browser compatibly) . This simply means that all browses such as Netscape and Internet explorer, read the site's code slightly different. Usually you will notice columns or pictures that don't align properly ext.. If the problem persists over time send us a note on our contact page.

Since the last reunion in Norfolk the association has become incorporated in Rhode Island. We are now the USS CANOPUS ASSOCIATION Inc. It was decided at the meeting that incorporation will facilitate operations in the future and add legitimacy to the assoc. We are incorporated as a nonprofit assoc. All papers are on file with the Assoc. secretary and are open to view by all members upon request.

The next reunion will be in Biloxi Mississippi in Sept. of 2002, so all members are urged to keep this in mind. The last reunion was a great success and everyone had a great time. We look forward to 2002 as hopefully more new members will sign up and attend. The reunion coordinators will soon post their tentative plans on the news page, so check occasional for the latest details.

The Assoc. web site is sadly lacking archives (especially photos) after 1970. So get those old shoe boxes open and send us some of your favorite shots. The best method to send pictures are one that have been digitized. Photo's ( under 1 mega bytes ) can be sent in by e-mail. Large file photo's can be sent in on a CD or on numerous floppy disk. Jpeg format is preferred but not necessary. Also copies of photo's by mail are fine. Every effort will be made to return originals, but cannot be guaranteed. We are also lacking Helmsman issues.