Okay, quite a few former active members were dropped or chose not to renew their membership to the USMCCCA for the 2009 year. This saddens us, but we have to march on. Here is the latest membership directory with updated names, addresses, etc. If you notice any missing or erroneous Read more…
Okay, CCs. When Gary Cameron’s “Last To Know, First To Go,” the unofficial history of our merry band, hit the streets in the late 1970s, a lot of us started bitching about names left out, happenings that didn’t, and why didn’t he include anything about the unit I was in and why didn’t he use this photo or that. Some of us liked it, some of us didn’t. Most of us have agreed since, that while a monumental effort, a sequel was needed to bring us up to present day and hopefully correct some of the problems of the original book.
Well, here’s your big chance. Thanks to Life Member Agostino “Omar” VonHassell (as general editor), Don Caetano and Life Member publisher, Dave Biesel, St. Johann Press, we’re going to try it again and this time we will get it right – with your help.
Noted writer Ed Breslin, who has worked with such luminaries as W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy, has been named chief editor. The writers and photographers will be you. If you cooperate, Omar and Ed are promising a book that should have good market appeal, both to us and to the general public. Quite frankly: We hope to knock your socks off! (more…)
Don Knight left active duty as a sergeant in the public affairs field in 1952. Since then he has worked as a reporter, editor, feature writer for many newspapers and is currently a rotating reporter/editor for the National Press Club weekly newsletter.
Come September, U.S. Marine combat correspondents, past and present, will land in strength at Hampton, VA, site of the next annual conference of the USMCCCA. The city, on the shore of Hampton Roads, lies at the tip of a peninsula boasting some of the most historic acreage in the United States: Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown and the neighboring port city of Newport News.We have a winner in the name that Marine contest. Tom Kerr correctly identified the Marine sergeant standing next to John Wayne as Florida Chapter member Hank Ehlbeck. For his efforts he will recieve a USMCCCA window decal. Good work Tom. Bob Stanley had several good guesses too. There will Read more…
Freelance writer Paul Roberts is seeking information on several World War II Marine correspondents. Anyone having information on Asa Bordages, Harold Helfer, Francis T. Farrell or Tom Lea, an artist, is requested to contact him at (301) 384-4026 or email him at Paul_Roberts100@hotmail.com.
Hey members! Would you like to promote your website or business? If you are a paid member of the USMCCCA you can do this for FREE. Just submit your URL to the webmaster here. Websites will be rotated and posted on slow news days. Marines, throw some business to these Read more…
CC Apache Joe is seeking any knowledge about the following former PAO personnel. If you know their whereabouts or anything about them, please email Apache Joe or CCHQ.
GARY L. CANTERBURY PFC
JOE COLLINS CAPT
DANIEL P. CORTEZ SSGT
DANIEL BROWN LT. COL
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Okay, some of you have been having some trouble logging in to the new site. As we are still tweaking and discovering new features to add, we had hoped to avoid having you register and log in, until we had tested EVERYTHING and made sure it was all hunky-dorey. BUT Read more…
Marine Corps recruiting poster by CC Journal genius, Chuck Beveridge
ATTENTION MARINE COMBAT ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS!
The U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association shall render Merit Awards in the categories of Combat Art and Illustration at the 68th Annual USMCCCA Awards Banquet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hampton, Va. on Thursday night Sept. 17. First and Second Place Awards and an Honorable Mention in both categories shall be recognized. Traditionally, award recipients travel to the conference on command-funded orders to personally accept their plaque (first place) or certificate (second place and honorable mention). More details on the conference available here
Eligibility: any active duty Marine or Marine reservist who was in a duty status at the time the art or illustration was created.
Criteria: work must have been publicly displayed (art show, MCX lobby, etc.) or produced in support of command operational or training requirements (posters, leaflets, etc.). Products must be unclassified and rendered during CY08. Media may include sculpture, paintings, drawings and illustrations in both color and black and white. Computer graphics will be considered, but art used must be the Marine’s original work.
The early bird saves 30 bucks! If you make your 2009 Annual Conference Registration now, you will save $30. No kidding! Conference dates are September 14-18. March 1-March 30: $100 April 1-May 31: $120 June 1 – August 31: $130 Non-member registration: $135. All registrations close September 1.The non-member fee Read more…