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USNA Out members were engaged in LGBT Pride Month event in the Fleet and ?? at the workplace.
Paula Neira at the Navy Yard NAVFAC Pride event
USNA Out member Paula M. Neira ’85 was the guest speaker for LGBT Month for Naval Facilities and Engineering Command (NAVFAC) at the Washington Navy Yard. Paula is a founding member of USNA Out, and has been a . Paula’s commitment to LGBT service was recognized by the Secretary of the Navy when she was chosen as the ship’s Co-Sponsor for the USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206).
Command Flier Announcing LGBT Pride at Strategic Systems Program Office
USNA Out member Steve Hall ’75 was the honored guest speaker at the first ever LGBT Pride Month event at the Strategic Systems Program Office. Steve had served as the Executive Officer of the Sunnyvale, California, branch office Continue reading “USNA Outers in Pride Events”
Lots of news to share with our members in this June Pride newsletter, the first newsletter which is assembled from the news and events that are posted on our recently upgraded website. We know this newsletter is waaaay too long — We’ve got a full year backlog of news to share. Going forward with the communications tools built into our site, our all-volunteer newsletter team can now send more frequent, timely updates, and if you members keep your communications preferences up to date, you should also be able to receive geographically targeted communications
Events
New board member Brook Stevens ’12 has taken the lead in the 2018 Army Navy joint tailgate with the Knights Out in Philadelphia in December. We should also have a few opportunities to gather USNA Out members around the West in the coming months around these Naval Academy events:
Navy/University of Hawaii Football in Honolulu (Game is 1 September)
Navy/USAFA game in Colorado Springs (Game is 6 October)
Navy/Notre Dame Football in San Diego (Game is 27 October)
Army-Navy Joint Tailgate with Knights Out (8 December)
Events don’t need to revolve around a Navy Football game. Perhaps a significant LGBT movie at your local film festival, or a dining out activity. If you are willing to form a team to sponsor a USNA Out event, please contact the board to let us know.
Your feedback is important to us. We did extensive testing on our upgraded site to ensure our visot experience was a good one. But there is nothing better than 406 real visitors to help uncover some of the unexpected issues that you might uncover.
It should be obvious that we’ve made a major upgrade to our website.
We are now using WordPress for our content management system. Have an interest websites? Please contact us and let us know your skill sets.
WordPress is the CMS du jour for websites, it is open source and supported by a thriving community. It is non-proprietary and is here to stay in the foreseeable future. Yes, the WordPress user-interface is very intuitive and multi-platform friendly… “Easier than Facebook” to post a news story to share with other USNA Outers. Continue reading “WordPress Migration”
Top photo: USNA Out members Jeff Petrie ’89
Joe Soto ’83 & Eric Shangle ’97
with SUPT VADM Fowler USNA Alumni Assn photo by Debbie Latta
Four members of USNA Out — Steve Clark Hall ’75, Joe Soto ’83, Eric Shangle ’97 and Jeff Petrie ’89, attended the USNA Foundation’s 2008 President’s Circle Weekend in Annapolis. In addition to an awesome comeback win by Navy over Temple in football, all four attendees agreed that we had a truly successful weekend and a great time!
This was the third straight year in which USNA Out Members attended the President’s Circle Weekend events. Eric Shangle ’97 and his classmate Thomas were the only two attendees who had graduated in the past 15 years. Because of our relative youth among the participants, USNA Out members stood “OUT” in the crowd.
USNA Out member Eric Shangle ’97 with Classmate Thomas Strenge ’97 at the Halloween reception in the new Westly Brown Field House USNA Alumni Assn photo by Debbie Latta
The events of the weekend serve to recognize and thank major donors the the USNA Foundation. The ambitious schedule included business meetings, cocktail receptions, tours of facilities, the final Fall Formal Dress Parade, and a delightful “Halloween Concert” in the chapel featuring the Naval Academy choruses performing to the accompaniment of the mighty M.P. Möller pipe organ.
USNA Out members Joe Soto ’83 and Jeff Petrie ’89 with Thomas Strenge ’97 at the Navy-Temple gamC
All USNA Out members who have the financial resources to join the USNA Foundation’s President’s Circle are strongly encouraged to do so. By attending events such as the President’s Circle Weekend, we demonstrate that our commitment to excellence at the academy is as strong as (or stronger than) that of our contemporaries. And by doing so, we put a very positive face on who we really are here at USNA Out.
USNA Out members Jeff Petrie ’89, Steve Clark Hall ’75, Eric Shangle ’97 USNA Out friend Thomas Strenge ’97 and Joe Soto ’83 had front row seats for USNA Halloween Concert
It’s a winner. We’ve hijacked . . . ooops we mean hoisted the OSCAR Flag.
Many thanks to our graphic non-designer Steve Clark Hall ’75 who while working as our webmaster began using the Oscar flag as a simple graphic for the 16 by 16 pixel “favicon” …. the little icon that appears in your browser URL window. It’s official.
By an overwhelming majority, the USNA Out membership approved the Objectives and Mission Statements which were developed at the “Meeting of Friends” held in January at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Additionally, the organization name “USNA Out” was retained as our best identity with which to continue our mission.
Although there was well more than a quorum of votes cast, about 20 USNA Out members failed to vote.
Please keep your USNA Out contact data up to date!
Open to anyone that wants to submit a logo design, whether or not you are a USNA Out member, whether or not you are a “professional” graphics designer. Entries are due by midnight Sunday April 17, 2005.
Eligibility
Open to anyone that wants to submit a logo design, whether or not you are a USNA Out member, whether or not you are a “professional” graphics designer.
