USS LOWNDES APA-154

Vol.2 No.3 ---------------- AUG./SEPT. 1991 ------------------- BUD KAUTZ, EDITOR

USS LOWNDES APA 154
Wm. "Bud" Kdutz
34782 Hiawatha Trail
McHcnry, 1L 60050

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Just been informed by Bill Taylor, 1992 Reunion host that the "FOURTH ANNUAL USS
LOWNDES REUNION" will be held at the Marriott in Harrisburg, PA on June 25 thru
June 28. Details will follow.

The following crew members attended the reunion in Port Wayne

Edward Bensie Joe Eriandson Frank Judnitsch Leo O'Brien Wm. Taylor
Buell Binney Dean Fearing John Jurica Elliott Pilchard Bernard Tracz
Harold Brunner Dave Frederick Bud Kautz Arthur Rauseo George Tuppan
James Bussard Joseph Freitas Donald Lorenzi Albert Resetar Walter Umbarger
John Cary James Frieden David Long Earl Robertson John Vemale
Pete Cisneros Fred Gideon Clark Martin W. H. Robinson Frank Wanits
Stanley Dunn Robert Hail C. C. Michalski Joel Rodriquez Robert Wamburg
John Dyer Robert Henkels Chuck Munson Clifford Schaffer Dan Wisdom
Eugene Engle Leonard Johnson Erie Niemi Dallas Stratton Robert Wurth

16 States were represented in Fort Wayne

Texas 6 ---------Missouri 5 --- Ohio 5 -------- Indiana 4 - Minnesota 4
Pennsylvania 4 - California 3 - Illinois 2 ---- Iowa 2 ---- Massachusetts 2
Michigan 2 ----- New York 2 --- Connecticut 1 - Florida 1 - Hawaii 1
Virginia 1

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The Davenport's were unable to attend - Midge fell and crushed her hip.
The Young's Canceled out the day before the reunion, Joe wasn't feeling up to par.
Frank DuBois had open heart surgury.
Last report John Johnson was still in the hospital.
Stan Dunn reported that Mary McKellar was still not in the best of health.
We wish them all the best, our thoughts are with them.

NEWLY LOCATED CREW MEMBERS OF THE LOWNDES SINCE OUR DULUTH REUNION
Bill Bomhorst, E.M. Cole, H.David Long, Chuck Munson, J.T. Tolle

Old age is like underwear - it creeps up on you.

Anyone not having a current roster list (June 1991)
Please notify me - Bud. All hats with USS Lowndes imprint have been sold.

Hope Mitch Chasteen & Walt Karson enjoyed their Alaska cruise with the Old Folks. By the way, Walt was the fellow who donated the color rendition of the ship for our auction.
Anuone desiring a 6^ x 9-2 color copy can contact me and for the paltry sum of $4.00 I'll mail one to them. Incidently, Agnes Bensie, Jim & Maggie Frieden did a superb job handling the auction. They raised a grand total of $674.50 to enrich our treasury.

At our business meeting a motion was entered and seconded that the ship purchase a plaque to be put in the Iwo Jima Memorial in Harlingen, Texas to honor our fallen shipmates.

"We have the nicest people to call our shipmates. I think the Lord was very choosy when He picked out the Crew for the USS Lowndes" So sayeth George Tuppan.

"Folks, words cannot express the happiness that has been shown in the eyes of such a great reunion" Quotes Harold Brunner.

Once more, Stan Dunn was responsible for the exquisite flowers from Hawaii. Stan also brought smoked marl in which he caught.

Thanks to Jackie Umbarger for the flowers adorning each table at our banquet.

No good deed goes unpunished.

What is smaller than a grain of sand,
greater than the universe, and if you eat it you will die?

IMPERIAL DOMAIN of the GOLDEN DRAGON

Elliott T. Pilchard
Jan.31,'45

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PLEASE NOTE FOLLOWING ROSTER CHANGES. ---- ADD:Pete Cisneros (Ercilia)
Mrs. Martin J. Rezza - 4519 Cardenas Dr. - Box 1261 - Hidalgo, TX 78557
Elmer L. Trevillyan - Zip 91950 ---------- (512)843-2611

Dean Fearing retired June 1991 - Good luck Mary.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AUG ----------- SEPT
John Cary ----- Buell Binney
Fred Gideon --- Jim Frieden
Ed. King ------ Walt Karson
Bill Ramsey --- Leo O'Brien
Bill Taylor --- Elliott Pilchard
--------------- Joe Young

ANNIVERSARIES
John Morrissey's - 59 Years - St. Pat's Day.
Joe Young's - 46 Years - Aug. 12, 1991
George Tuppan's - 43 Years - Aug. 28, 1991
Elmer Trevillyan's-44 Years - Aug. 31, 1991
Leo O'Brien's - 34 Years - Sept. 1991

Stan Dunn for the second year travelled the most miles to the reunion and
Fred Gideon the least.

Still looking for the biographical data sheets - fill'em out & send to me.

Need more recipes to get our cook book going, everyone must have some
favorites. Don't limit yourselves to one or two, send lots to Jean.

Any of you fellows out there who want to receive the medals you are
entitled to - send request to National Personnel Center - Military Records,
9700 Page Blvd. - St. Louis, MO 63132. Give your serial number and list
theaters served in.

Frances Karson, good luck on your surgery.

Thank you for the pre-op get well card, arthroscopic surgery involving
removal of spurs and repairing the rotator cuff is progressing as
scheduled (too slow).

Hal Brunner informs me that he owns a 1979 Heritage Thunderbird with
216,000 miles on it and neither the engine nor transmission has never
been worked on. Guess he's trying for the quarter million mark. Why
that's enough to get him to the moon - not back, do I hear a motion?

I want to thank all the crew members of the Lowndes for the very nice
plaque presented, via Dan Wisdom, to me at the Fort Wayne reunion. It
will have a special niche in our home.

CUT-OUT
CONTRIBUTION - 1992 USS LOWNDES REUNION GROUP

NAME

ADDRESS

CITY, STATE & ZIP

ENCLOSED IS MY CONTRIBUTION FOR $ ____FOR 1992. DATE

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"This was our first reunion and we had such a good time, look forward
to the next one." Frank & Alice Wanits.

"Thank you Jim & Margaret, for all the work and planning you did to
make the 3rd USS Lowndes reunion so successful" Earl & Frances Robertson.

Bon Voyage -- Bill & Amelia Taylor, off to Germany for a visit with
their daughter.

According to the U.S.G.H.A. (The United States Golf Hackers Association)
Breaking 100: Hope Springs Eternal.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!- August 25th "Dan Wisdom"

A quote from our munitions expert - Chuck Munson "The gang are so
friendly and warm"

Per Clark Martin, the following is a preliminary draft for the Iwo Jima
plaque:

In memory of shipmates Donald William BOWMAN, PhMic U.S.N.R.
killed in action at Iwo Jima

February 20, 1945 Norman Robert RICHARDS HA1c U.S.N.R.

Dedicated by the Officers and Men of the USS Lowndes (APA-154)
April xx,1995

Elliott Pilchard has offered to swap a 56 page condensed version of the
2 volume books (ship's history) auctioned at the reunion to anyone for
tapes of reunion.

100 percent of Americans are, if nothing else, Americans.

Hey fellows! Don't be timid, let me know what's going on out there in
your neck of the country.

TAPS
James E. BRISCOE
James W. HALL
William L. LAWRENCE
Howard NIELSEN
Alex T.0'NEAL
George S.ROTH
Frederick G. TIMMS

Our sympathy to Camille Tate on the loss of his wife - July 15, 1991