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Marine Member HAPPY BIRTHDAY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS BEREAVEMENT REUNION 2009 ACHIEVEMENTS TREASURER'S REPORT

Marines, This is the second newsletter I have prepared using a template offered by our new email provider, Constant Contact. This new system has given us the opportunity to track whether the emails are indeed reaching our Classmates. We learned after the August Newsletter that we had either faulty email addresses or no email addresses for approximately 90 Classmates. Fortunately, Terry Cox put together a team to contact those Classmates and get current addresses for them. Jack Sheehan and Jim Herak have been working on getting the new addresses entered into our directories. So if things go as planned, I hope that we are reaching many of those additional 90 Classmates with this newsletter. I have included several important items for your consideration below, so please read through the entire newsletter. Our objective remains to be to get more Classmates actively participating in the Alumni group and attending our Reunions. There is more information on the Reunion in an article below, but the most important immediate action is to hold October 7-11, 2009 on your 2009 Calendar for our next Reunion in San Diego, CA. I hope that the economic meltdown has not impacted you too negatively and that you are enjoying a wonderful fall season. I look forward to seeing you in San Diego in October 2009! Semper Fi, Dave Mellon President

Birthday Greetings On behalf of the Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to wish a "Happy Birthday" to all the Active Members of the 38th OCC/BC 3-66 USMC Alumni, Inc. and all of thoseother Marines and family members who have chosen to associate themselves with thisfine group of veterans. Thank you for your service to our wonderful Country, to the Corps, your Classmates and the other Marine Warriors with whom you served. Whileactive duty members of our beloved Corps are in harms way in Afghanistan and Iraq,we celebrate this joyous event with a measure of concern for their safety. We askGod's grace on them and our Corps.

Operations and Charitable Mission You will recall that we use the Marine Corps Birthday to trigger our annual "Voluntary Contribution" drive. I want to re-emphasize that membership in our organization is not predicated on payment of dues. We do, however, solicit "voluntary contributions" to support the annual operations and our charitable mission. The "suggested" annual voluntary contribution is $25, however, we do provide recognition on the website of all those Classmates who contribute and the category of their contribution. The leadership levels approved by the Board are as follows: Eagle - $150 or more Globe - $76 to $149 Anchor - $1 to $75 In 2008, your annual voluntary contributions funded our operations and allowed charitable contributions of $4000 to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and $2000 to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Additionally, several Classmates contributed directlyand individually to support the Scholarship Foundation. Please consider making a tax deductible again for the 2009 calendar and fiscal year. Please send your tax deductible Voluntary Contribution check made out to "38th OCC/BC3-66 Alumni" to our Treasurer at the following address: Chuck Sooter 11932 Yearling Street Cerritos, CA 90703-7615 Thank you for your continuing support of the Class and our Alumni Corporation.

It is with regret that I pass along the reports of the passing of two of our Classmate: Jon M. Zayachek Jon's wife, Mary, reports that Jon died of acute leukemia in May 2007. He was originally diagnosed with the disease in June of 2006. While treatment delayed the progress of the disease for a time, it was not successful in keeping him in remission. Jon was a member of D-2 at OCS and proceeded directly to Pensacola for flight training. If you wish to correspond with Mary, she can be reached via email at mkz4617@verizon.net or 4617 Old Oak Road, Doylestown, PA 18901-8812. Lt Col James H. Kean, USMC (Ret.) The following obituary appeared in a local Cape Cod paper: "James Hamilton Kean, 66, died suddenly on May 5, 2008. Mr. Kean was a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps, who participated in the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. He graduated with a degree in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and from the Defense Language Institute. He joined the Marine Corps in 1961 and served two tours of duty in Vietnam. His awards include two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. He was the Commanding Officer of Charlie Company, Marine Security Guard Battalionand Ground Support Force Commander, United States Embassy Compound in Saigon. Hewas in command of the last Marines to leave the rooftop during the evacuation ofthe embassy on April 30, 1975. He personally supervised the evacuation of approximate1000 Americans and several thousand Vietnamese in advance of approaching North Vietnamese forces. He retired in 1983 and founded Yankee Traders, an export/import company dealing with Asia, and Pacific Grinding Wheel in Marysville, Washington." Jim attended OCS as a member of the Meritorious NCO program. The record of his attendanceat OCS is a little muddled, but he was either in D-1 or C-3. He was in E-3 at TBS. Jim is survived by his wife, Roseanne. If you wish to correspond with Roseanne, she can be contacted at P.O. Box 478, Cummaquid, MA 02637 or phone (508)362-4859

San Diego Revisited Your Reunion 2009 Committee had another meeting on Saturday, October 25th to review the arrangements that have already been put in place for our gathering. The host hotel will be the same facility that we met at in 2005, but it has been refurbished under the Crowne Plaza-San Diego brand. The hotel will begin accepting reservations beginning November 6, 2008. We have a guaranteed rate of $119/night. Hotel reservation may be made by calling the hotel toll free at 1-800-882-0858 and asking for "reservations".Please be sure to mention that you are with the Reunion group "USMC-38th OCC". This will ensure that you receive the guaranteed rate. I suggest that you make your hotel reservations as soon after November 6th as possible. We will be sending out more information on the program and the cost of the Reunion registration after the new year, once the program is finalized and the budget is prepared. In the meantime,please make your hotel reservation after November 6, 2008. Please visit our website to follow the development of the Reunion schedule and get more information on registering for the Reunion and making reservations at the hotel.

The following items have been received relative to our Classmates: Hampden-Sydney College of Hampden-Sydney, VA has dedicated the basketball playing surface of Gammon Gymnasium as Snyder Hall in memory of Stephen F. Snyder, the first of our 32 Classmates to die in Vietnam. In 2007, Steve, who played basketball andwas a co-captain of the team his senior year was elected to the Hampden-Sydney College Athletic Hall of Fame. Steve was a platoon commander with Foxtrot Company, 2/4 andvolunteered to lead a night reinforcement of another heavily engaged platoon. For his heroic actions on the evening of 24 August 1966, he was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously. Charlie Keryc - Finished up a three week round of chemotherapy and radiation in mid-September for a cancer of the throat. He didn't have any adverse side effects, and he is waiting for feedback on the efficacy of the treatments. He is planning to attend the Reunion in October 2009. Charlie can be reached lkeryc@msn.com, (516)781-2723 or 3173 Cherrywood Drive, Wantagh, NY 11793. Mike Joseph - Reports that his son, Stephen's wife, Nicole just had her first baby. Ava Grace weighed in at a very health 10 pounds. Everyone is doing fine includingthe proud grandfather.

Financial Condition Our Treasurer, Chuck Sooter, reports that as of October 20, 2008, we have funds on hand of $10,936 in our treasury, split between our checking, savings and money market accounts. You will recall that the Board has endorsed maintaining approximately $5000 for annual operations and advance funding for reunions, so we are comfortably above our minimum. The major difference in our financial condition from the last Newsletter are the Board approved charitable contributions of $4000 to the InjuredMarine Semper Fi Fund and $2000 to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. We should take pride in these significant charitable contributions to Marine charities that are near and dear to all of us. Our support of the Class through the Annual Voluntary Contribution (AVC) program has facilitated these charitable contributions. In 2009, as last year, we will be posting the AVC Honor Roll on the website. A sincere thank you to all who have supported the Annual Voluntary Contribution requests in the past. In a couple of months, you will be able to visit the website to view the 2008-2009 list of contributors. The list can be accessed by clicking on "Class Association Information" and then selecting "F. Annual Voluntary Contributions".

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