Name :   Bill Tims
Date Comment Entered: :   8/19/05
Instrument(s) :   Drums
Service Dates :   1966-1969
Comment :   Any of you guys out there remember me? I was at the Navy School of Music in Little Creek in 1966.After graduating I went to ComNavAirPac with unit band #155 with Chief Rice.I made two WestPac cruises on The Oriskany then the Constellation.I Served the rem
Name :   Dave Fritz
Date Comment Entered: :   8/18/05
Instrument(s) :   Drums
Service Dates :   01/66 to 10/73
Comment :   This message is for Roland James. Hey Rollo, you didnt leave your email id. Mine is dkfritz@optonline.net
Name :   Bruce Packman
Date Comment Entered: :   16 August, 2005
Instrument(s) :   Tuba/St Bass
Service Dates :   1961-63
Comment :   Naval School of Music. Washington D.C. Plankowner USS Hunley (AS-31). I work as a professional musician playing bass bone. Friend of Walt Wortendyke .
Name :   Ken Jennings
Date Comment Entered: :   8/16/05
Instrument(s) :   Drums
Service Dates :   1956-1960
Comment :   I would enjoy attending a reunion if it were on the West coast.
Name :   Michael Paine
Date Comment Entered: :   08/09/2005
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   1957 - 1961
Comment :   Unit band 109
Name :   Doyle Church
Date Comment Entered: :   28Jul05
Instrument(s) :   Trombone
Service Dates :   1964-1993
Comment :   Excellent website! Love to hear from shipmates who served with me. Looking forward to the next NMA Reunion!
Name :   Jim Leonard
Date Comment Entered: :   7/27/05
Instrument(s) :   Clarinet/Sax
Service Dates :   Jan 1960-Jan 1964
Comment :   Serverd in the Concrulant Band, Norfolk, VA 1960-1962. Served in the Brooklyn, NY Navy Band 161 from 1962-1964 under Donald Patterson
Name :   daryl joswiak
Date Comment Entered: :   20july05
Instrument(s) :   trumpet
Service Dates :   aug.72 aug.76
Comment :   was in airlant ctf60 band in norfolk on indy cruise 73tojan.74 then,6thfleetband july74toaug.76play with ceramonial squad in butler,pa.i miss the travel.
Name :   John Angus
Date Comment Entered: :   July 9, 2005
Instrument(s) :   Sax,Clarinet
Service Dates :   66-86
Comment :   Great job on the new website. Its fun to log on and look back.
Name :   Bob Mathews
Date Comment Entered: :   July 5, 2005
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   3/55 to 3/50
Comment :   Great Lakes to D.C. School of Music to Pensacola NAS Band. Shipmate of Joe Semonich.
Name :   GARY
Date Comment Entered: :   LUCHSINGER
Instrument(s) :   TENOR SAX.
Service Dates :   1958-1962
Comment :   BETTER KNOWN AS LUCKY LUCHSINGER
Name :   Noel H. Haynes
Date Comment Entered: :   June 27, 2005
Instrument(s) :   French Horn
Service Dates :   June 1957 to May 1961
Comment :   My experience during this time I still talk about with fellow Navy Fulltime RVers. I was on staff at School of Music, in NATO Band Norfolk and USS Forrestal 1961 Med Cruise. I met many great shipmates.
Name :   Blackford, James BLACKIE
Date Comment Entered: :   27 June 2005 2nd time entered
Instrument(s) :   Tuba Major St. Bass Minor Instrument Repair
Service Dates :   July 1958 to June 1979
Comment :   School Of Music/UB#198 Northampton/Instructor Repair Shop,School of Music/CincPacFlt Hawaii/Repair Shop US Navy Band
Name :   Roland James
Date Comment Entered: :   06-27-05
Instrument(s) :   Clarinet/Sax
Service Dates :   69-85
Comment :   Just found the web site. Great. Hope to hear from anyone who remembers me from Airlant, Newport, 7th Fleet, or Great Lakes.
Name :   BUCK KIPPER
Date Comment Entered: :   6/24/05
Instrument(s) :   BARI, ALSO, CLAR.
Service Dates :   12/58 - 12/61
Comment :   ABOARD THE USS NORTHHAMPTON JAN. 1960 THRU JULY 1961. UNIT BAND #198......ANYBODY OUT THERE BESIDES BLACKIE?
Name :   Bob Hores
Date Comment Entered: :   6/17/2005
Instrument(s) :   Tenor & Clarinet
Service Dates :   Sept 1960 - Aug 1963
Comment :   Id like to find out the whereabouts of the various members of UB #194, 1963-63. Does anybody know where Ray Corcoran (jazz trumpet) might be? Saw Ted Zelio in Boston during the blizzard of 1978. Lets try to have a reunion!...
Name :   Walter Wortendyke
Date Comment Entered: :   6-15-2005
Instrument(s) :   Trombone
Service Dates :   1961-1965
Comment :   Would like to post my name on the site. Thanks Served on the USS Providence and at the NTC San Diego.
Name :   Dick Zinkan, M.D. (MU2)
Date Comment Entered: :   6-8-05
Instrument(s) :   Clarinet/Sax
Service Dates :   51-55
Comment :   NAVY SCHOOL OF MUSIC USS WISCONSIN BB64
Name :   Cecil Strange
Date Comment Entered: :   6/01/2005
Instrument(s) :   French Horn
Service Dates :   1947-1968
Comment :   Great job in getting the site up to date and running again. I would like to hear from any of my former shipmates. You can also contact me for membership.
Name :   doug klug
Date Comment Entered: :   5 27 05
Instrument(s) :   drums
Service Dates :   74 77
Comment :   IM FROM NAEL SCHOOL DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE HERB PARMERLEAU TRUMPET CHIEF GILBERT DRUMMER DON SWITZER BASS TROMBONE AND GARY LAOWRY THEORY TEACHER FROM SCHOOL IS DOUG 310 2049027 BEVRLY HILLS CALIFORNIA
Name :   William Woycitzky
Date Comment Entered: :   May 20, 2005
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   1959-1963
Comment :   Sad to not see any members on roster from Pearl Harbor Unit band #164 from the 60s. Great new web site!
Name :   Rick Lindroos
Date Comment Entered: :   15 May 2005
Instrument(s) :   Piano, Guitar, Percussion, Vocalist
Service Dates :   1979-1985
Comment :   Great New Website! Dave Weeks and I planned to attend the reunion, but due to gigs and committments, we were unable. Maybe next year!
Name :   Kyle Dameron
Date Comment Entered: :   14 May 2005
Instrument(s) :   Baritone/Trombone
Service Dates :   1960-1964
Comment :   Sorry to have missed the recent reunion; Im making plans for the one in 1986. I have been busy scanning old slides & negatives of Herb Webbers Unit Band 69 in Yokosuka, Japan.(1962-1963) Any of you guys still out there?
Name :   Shorty
Date Comment Entered: :   Parker
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   1960-1964
Comment :   Hey Ken... thats Kazoo, not Wazoo! Saw your website at www.kenpoorman.com
Name :   Ken Poorman
Date Comment Entered: :   5/8/05
Instrument(s) :   Piano/Wazoo
Service Dates :   1960-1963
Comment :   Nice site! Wonder where Unit Band #194 is now (1961-62)? Chief Joe Gallagher, Jack Ingram, Bob Bowman, Steve Bergstrom, Bob Hores, Ken Poorman, Sal Salazar, Joe Prior, Shorty Parker, Jerry Brown, Ray Corcoran, DJ Dechesser, Bob Migatz, Jack Caldron, Paul
Name :   Mike Beegle
Date Comment Entered: :   7 May 05
Instrument(s) :   Sax/Clar
Service Dates :   1960-1988
Comment :   Nice job.
Name :   Owen G. Jones
Date Comment Entered: :   23 April 2005
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   1947-1951
Comment :   Sorry I just found the site... would have been at the 2005 reunion. Any idea where George C. Bean might be? A trumpet player I served with in Guam and in NAS Jax. He and Dick Bushey were both from Detroit. My contact info... owen-gail@sbcglobal.n
Name :   Jerry Chenot
Date Comment Entered: :   4/3/05
Instrument(s) :   Bass Trombone
Service Dates :   1966-1987
Comment :   What an awesome site!!! Just found it and I see so many old friends on the roster that I will be emailing soon. Thank you for all your effort and work in putting this site together.
Name :   Dave Czohara
Date Comment Entered: :   03/31/2005
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   1970-1992
Comment :   Great job on website Dave. Thanks
Name :   Dennis A. Allard
Date Comment Entered: :   3/26/05
Instrument(s) :   Perc/Vocals
Service Dates :   8/73 to 11/99
Comment :   Awesome job on the website!! Great Job.
Name :   JIM FITZSIMON
Date Comment Entered: :   3/19/05
Instrument(s) :   DRUMS
Service Dates :   8/2/50--5/31/54
Comment :   love your new website, and thanks for all support, and efforts, for all navy musicians.
Name :   Jim Langan
Instrument(s) :   Trombone
Service Dates :   04/59 - 11/83
Comment :   What a huge improvement the website upgrade is. You guys really got it right this time.
Name :   Gale York
Instrument(s) :   Baritone, trombone
Service Dates :   6/10/56-6/09/60
Comment :   Was in the Jamestown Band and Yorosuka band. Finished in Pensacola Will attend the 2005 reunion.
Name :   Bob Carey
Instrument(s) :   piano
Service Dates :   6/63-7/73 & 12/85-6/91
Comment :   Great new site...like the photos from the reunion...Have to try to make it someday.
Name :   JIM FITZSIMON
Instrument(s) :   DRUMS
Service Dates :   8/2/50-5/31/54
Comment :   JUST WANTED TO CHECK OUT THE NEW WEB SITE, AND PRAISE THE LAST, AND MY FIRST, REUNION IN ORLANDO. LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT AND AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE!
Name :   John Vazquez
Instrument(s) :   Drums/Mallets/Tympani
Service Dates :   1960-1964
Comment :   Great Site! Looking forward to Norfolk 05 and being the first drummer to sign the guestbook once: )
Name :   Lyle W. Kirk
Instrument(s) :   Clarinet & all Saxes
Service Dates :   11/47 - 11/51
Comment :   Started basic course at SOM - Anacostia in April, 48 and finished Dec., 48. Had TENURE! Website is looking much improved. Shall watch if closely.
Name :   Jim Savage
Instrument(s) :   Drums/Baritone Horn/T-Bone
Service Dates :   1962-85
Comment :   Nice to see the site up and running again.
Name :   Charlie Roop
Instrument(s) :   reeds
Service Dates :   1948-70
Comment :   Very nicely done. Can we get some IDs on the photos?
Name :   Glen Sandidge
Instrument(s) :   French Horn
Service Dates :   1956-1976
Comment :   Sorry I missed the reunion in Orlando. Ill try to see you all for the 2005 reunion.
Name :   Hummel, Fred
Instrument(s) :   trumpet
Service Dates :   1944-1946
Comment :   USS Washington BB-56, Band 121
Name :   Marvin Barmore
Instrument(s) :   Trumpet
Service Dates :   66 - 70
Comment :   Great site. Especially enjoy viewing pictures from the reunion in Orlando. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Va. Beach
Name :   dick griest
Instrument(s) :   drums
Service Dates :   1956 to 1976
Comment :   great website
Name :   Rick Holdsworth
Instrument(s) :   euphonium/trombone
Service Dates :   1972-2002
Comment :   Great update to the site... dont think your NMA roster is up to date but Im sure this will also be updated. Keep up the good work.
Name :   Allen Jones
Comment :   A great improvement to an already good website. Espcially the addition of reunion pictures and a sectiona devoted to history.