Happy Thanksgiving from the SS United States Conservancy!
Thank you for your support as we work to save and restore "America's Flagship" and develop our new SS United States' Center of Design and Discovery. We will share more important updates in the weeks to come, but on this special day, we simply want to say thank you. We know how many compelling causes compete for your time and attention. However, in the words of the Conservancy's former Honorary Chair Walter Cronkite, to lose the "Big U" would commit a "crime against history." Thank you for all of your help during this truly momentous year!
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As the holiday season begins next week, please join us in supporting the SS United States on #GivingTuesday. #GivingTuesday™ is a nationwide, collaborative campaign to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season. It celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations, like the SS United States Conservancy. To find out more, please visit the #GivingTuesday website here. To help save the SS United States, please visit our campaign site at SaveTheUnitedStates.org.
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 Reuters, USA Today, and Newsmax Magazine Highlight SS United States Conservancy
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photo credit Peter Knego
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Reuters joined many other media outlets in covering the next phase of the Conservancy's Save the United States Campaign. New features and functionality have been added to our SaveTheUnitedStates.org campaign site, which we first launched this summer. There you'll find an improved user interface, enhanced content and more ways to help save the SS United States. Click here to read the full coverage. Your support is needed at this very crucial time as we continue our quest to save this extraordinary piece of history. Donate today. USA Today posted a comprehensive and compelling slideshow of the SS United States to its Travel page, with many beautiful present-day photographs by Peter Knego of MaritimeMatters.com. Also included are some wonderful shots of the SS United States in her heyday, and accounts of her brilliant service career. Click here to see the coverage. In addition, the November issue of Newsmax Magazine published a spectacular new article on the SS United States and her place in history and also profiled our executive director Susan Gibbs. Said Gibbs about saving the SS United States, "It was a calling; that this ship needed not just me, and this is an important point. The United States is a champion. I felt called to serve." You can read a full PDF of the article here.
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Historian John Maxtone-Graham Visits the SS United States |
 World renowned maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham attended the Conservancy's Philadelphia Chapter meeting this month and paid a visit to the grand lady herself (left, pictured on the stern with Conservancy Executive Director Susan Gibbs.) Maxtone-Graham is the author of several books on ocean liners, including The Only Way to Cross - considered one of the best accounts of shipboard life during the golden age of transatlantic travel. He is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled, SS United States : Red White and Blue Riband. He strongly endorsed the Conservancy's efforts, saying, "I hope this ship will be restored as expeditiously and as perfectly as Susan [Gibbs] and the Conservancy are now planning."Video highlights of Maxtone-Graham's recent visit to the SS United States will be shared in our next issue. This production is being prepared by the extraordinarily talented Bill Magee of MageeMedia. |
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Conservancy Holiday Parties Announced for New York, Philadelphia |
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Christmas Tree on the SS United States' radar mast, 1960s (Photo courtesy of Charles Anderson)
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Save the dates! Two great holiday parties, one in New York City and the other in Philadelphia, are coming up next month for our members and supporters. The Conservancy's New York Chapter will be gathering on Friday, December 14, 2012: 6:00pm-10:00pm. Details for the event are forthcoming. Our Philadelphia Chapter will also be holding a party at lunchtime on Saturday, December 22. The event will take place across the street from the SS United States at Chammps Restaurant, and will include a special raffle of SS United States memorabilia and other donated items. If you are able to donate an item for the raffle, please contact Andy Herdan (908-500-3757) or Sarah Carley (215-680-3983). Stay tuned for more event details. We hope to see you at one (or both) of these great events!
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SS United States Photo Exhibition at Fairleigh Dickinson University |
 Visual Journalist Art Petrosemolo - who recently had a full-page story and photos of the SS United States published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - has mounted an incredible exhibit dedicated to the SS United States. The display can be viewed at the Giovatto Library at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan Campus (River Road, Teaneck, NJ). The exhibit of jumbo black and white and color prints includes many of Art's interior and exterior shots and illustrate a number of stories on "America's Flagship" and her current plight. The exhibit is on the library's second floor circulation desk area and is open to the public without charge. The library hours vary during the school year but the facility is open most weekdays through 10 p.m (to call ahead, contact the library at 201-692-2000). |
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SS United States Conservancy
P.O. Box 32115
Washington, DC 20007
(888)-488-7787
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