Text Box: I bring greetings to the readers of this newsletter from the Secretary’s Department. What and who is the Secretary’s Department? The department is made up of a group of hard working and dedicated individuals organized into six committees, and a equally hard working and dedicated staff of 26 based at our national headquarters in Raleigh NC. Our ‘raison d’etre’ is to provide advanced communications capabilities and other services to the other departments and committees of the national organization, and to the individual members of USPS®. We accomplish this mission in many ways. l The Information Technology committee provides web-based access to the membership in order that squadrons and districts may download rosters. The committee also has developed DB2000, a software package for the manipulation of roster data and the generation of Merit Mark recommendations. l The ENSIGN® committee works with The ENSIGN staff at headquarters to provide the membership with interesting and informative articles related to boating and boating safety. l The Publications committee supports squadrons and districts in the production of quality newsletters by providing advice to the newsletter editors. l The Operations Manual committee keeps the membership up to date with respect to By-Laws changes as well as changes within each department of USPS. l The Historian committee archives squadron histories at headquarters providing a data base for squadron historians in search of information on past squadron members or events. l The Ship’s Store committee provides USPS clothing and regalia that helps identify us with the public boating community. Finally, the mainstay of our organization, our headquarters’ staff provides many services to the members at large. Elsewhere in this newsletter you will find articles from each of the committees. Should you have any questions for me or any of the committee chairs, please go to the Secretary’s Department home page for our e-mail addresses. Again welcome, and thank you for reading this newsletter. V/C Frank A. Dvorak, SN l

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Text Box: The Ship’s Store committee introduced eleven new items at the recent Houston Governing Board. The committee continues to provide exciting new products to USPS members. Text Box: Visit the store at the upcoming Governing Board meeting in Des Moines; or visit the web site anytime at www.usps.org/national/shipstore/. l

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