12 April 2008 MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS SOON! Shipmates, our Seventh Annual USS Dahlgren Reunion is fast approaching! Have you made your reservations yet? This year’s reunion is at Niagara Falls, NY. Shipmate Frank Craig and family are planning a special reunion for us and we want to make this the best turnout so far! The reunion will be held 18 June 08 to 22 June 08 at the COMFORT INN “THE POINTE” in Niagara Falls, NY, USA. The hotel address is 1 Prospect Pointe, Niagara Falls, NY USA 14303, and the phone number is (716) 284-6835. The room rate is only $79.00 plus taxes for a single, $89.00 double and you aren’t charged until the reunion, so make those reservations now! To make sure you get the reunion rate, be sure you mention that you’re with the USS Dahlgren Association. We hope to see a lot of new faces at the Falls!
	19 January 2008: DAHLGREN COOKBOOK: We want to put together a cookbook of favorite recipes from all the Dahlgren shipmates and families. The book will be created from recipes submitted by our own. Our team leader did say: “I would also like any recipes that you guys may actually have liked while on the ship - I know, I may be pushing it a bit there!” (We love her anyway!) We need the following help: 1. Someone interested in preparing a sketch of Dahlgren that can be used on the cover – preferably black and white – pencil or pen; 2. Your favorite recipe(s) – limit five, please; and 3. Lots of interest from everyone so we know it is the right thing to do to go forward with this! This should really be fun for all when it's done & the books can be sold on the ships store as well as at the reunions. Sale price will be determined later when we see what it will cost to put it all together. We are trying to plan plain & simple for the cover to hold the art cost down. The goal is to keep the book at no more than $10. So… anything you like to cook, or wives, daughters and moms like, feel free to send! Also, when you send your recipe, share who & where it is from (Joe Coventree, Clifton Heights, PA or Tom James, Madison, AL.). We are going to title it simply "Favorite Recipe's of the USS DAHLGREN Crew". We hope to have to do a Volume 2… or more! Send recipes to: Coventree, 284 Gramercy Dr. Clifton Heights., PA 19018.
	12 April 08 FORUM: For all you new members, we want you to register and log into the FORUM so you can check out the rest of our website. Registration doesn’t take but a minute, so sign up and log in! Visit the forum and share your thoughts and questions. Looking for a shipmate? The forum is a place to post that request. The long and short of it is that it is there for the shipmates and it does much more good when we use it! Thanks to those who have registered and a hearty "turn to" for those who haven't!
	3Feb08 MEMORABILIA FROM DAHLGREN: Hey, do you still have any of those small (or large) items around that are a part of your Dahlgren history? Would you be willing to share them with your shipmates who attend the Dahlgren reunions? If so, please get in touch with Tom James, Dahlgren Historian, and make arrangements for the items to get to Tom and to the reunion. Tom’s hotmail address is tomalynn, so send him a note. Thanks from Tom and from your shipmates.