CCHQ has worked out a special discount plan with Continental Airlines for the annual conference scheduled for New Orleans September 12-16. Continental offers discounts off published fares of 2% to 10% or Zone fares. Call your travel professional or Continental Meeting Works at 800-468-7022 for reservations. In order to get Read more…
CC Steve Stibbens reports: “It is with great sadness I have learned that our friend [Col. Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret)] died in Washington Thursday December 30th in Sibley Memorial Hospital. Greg Zorthian, Barry’s son, an editor at the Financial Times in New York said this morning that both he and brother Steve, also of New York, were with Barry when he passed away. Immediate cause of death was a stapf infection. Barry will be buried at Arlington Cemetery. He was a good Marine and highly respected Public Affairs spokesman in Vietnam during the roughest of times.”
By RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press
Colonel Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret)
Colonel Barry Zorthian, USMCR (Ret), a colorful U.S. diplomat who left his mark on American policy in Vietnam as a forthright and often combative press spokesman in the early years of the war, has died. Zorthian, 90, died Thursday in a Washington, D.C. hospital where he had been admitted a few days earlier, his son, Greg said. A staph infection was the immediate cause of death.
By his own reckoning, Zorthian was the last surviving member of the original cadre of U.S. diplomats and military leaders whose policy decisions shaped events in America’s longest war.
Dispatched to Saigon in 1964 by then President Lyndon Johnson to defuse an increasingly acrimonious relationship between American officials and news correspondents covering the war, Zorthian used a mixture of charm, sly wit and uncommonly straight talk in trying to establish credibility for the U.S. effort.
Maj. Gen. Robert “Boomer” Milstead, CG, Marine Corps Recruiting command and, as a brigadier general, was Director of Information, has been tapped for a third star as head of Manpower and Reserve Affairs, located at Quantico, VA. According to the December 14 announcement he will become one of seven deputy Read more…
Defense Media Activity, Fort Meade, MD (DINFOS), is looking for a Training Instructor, GS-1712-11.The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-11-419549-RB), opens on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 and closes Wednesday, January 05, 2011. This announcement is open to All US Citizens and Status Candidates. For your convenience, the JOA is located at the Read more…
1stSgt Connie Guaraglia USMC Ret. transforms into Mrs. Claus at the Jingle Party held by the USMCCCA Joe Rosenthal Chapter Wednesday, Dec. 15th. Mrs. Claus is surrounded by Toys for Tots collected by members and a good helping from Bob Stanley’s favorite, Flanahans Pub in San Francisco. The Toys were Read more…
Marines from H & S Co. 2nd Bn. 23rd Mar. Help with The Tallent’s Family Annual Toys for Toys Xmas Drive honoring the late MgySgt Bob Tallent L-R, Sgt. Jose Diaz, Brad Tallent (son), Debbie Tallent, Karen Tallent, (daughters), Pauline Tallent and PFC Roberto Nunez. Pauline, Sgt. Diaz and PFC. Read more…
CC Bob Jordan underwent thyroid surgery recently, I’m sure he would appreciate your well wishes… Thanks, Jack, … and to all our fellow CCs for your prayers and well wishes. They are much appreciated and were well needed. Surgery wasn’t the hardest part for me — but for Evi. Last Read more…
CCHQ has received word that the Master Sergeant selection board has named five new E-8s in both Public Affairs and Combat Camera. A big Oorah! for all 10. Those selected: Public Affairs: Brenda Varnadore, Demtrio (Joe) Espinosa, Arsenio (Sonny) Cortez, Jonathan Cress, Fred Zimmerman Combat Camera: Daniel Schrubb, Bert Lowry, Read more…
By keith.thursby@latimes.com
Los Angeles Times
Dick Turpin, Photo from the Los Angeles Times Archive
Dick Turpin dies at 91; longtime real estate editor of The Times
Turpin died in his sleep Friday at the Northridge Care Center in Reseda, said his son, David.
Turpin spent 41 years at The Times, working as a reporter and education editor before becoming real estate editor in 1967. Under his leadership, the section three times was named the best in the country and was consistently ranked in the top five by the National Assn. of Real Estate Editors.
By the time he retired in 1989, Turpin had witnessed “the unprecedented building boom after World War II and the creation of a downtown skyline where there had been only one beacon, the pristine City Hall,” he wrote in his final column as real estate editor.
“Those two decades saw the constant, unending proliferation of homes and businesses throughout the Southland, supplanting farms, ranches, orchards and even a riverbed or two.”
Defense Media Activity, Riverside, is looking for a Supervisory Visual Information Specialist, GS-1084-13. The Job Opportunity Announcement (DMA-11-409001-RB), opens on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 closes on Tuesday, December 21, 2010. This announcement is open to US Citizens and Status Candidates. For your convenience, the JOA is located at the following Read more…