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The Klaxon Online
Fall 2011
From the Desk of the President
The Fall 2011 Klaxon!
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latest Klaxon in PDF form.
David M. Goebel
RADM, USN (Ret)
President
The busy season is over, Thanksgiving is past, and Christmas and the New Year (2012 already!) are upon us. Where has the time gone? 2011 has been an eventful year weather-wise, what with a tropical storm during our busiest time of year and a freak fall snow storm amongst other less notable events. The weather, coupled with at least a perception that the economy is not as robust as we would like, has worked to reduce the number of visitors we would expect at the museum. To date, we are off about 8 percent in the number of visitors compared to last year.
Our Educational Outreach Programs continue to be strong. This year we conducted 74 events and reached approximately 15,000 children through our educational outreach events. They continue to be popular events in the community and we are grateful to our Educational Director, Liz Murphy, and her enlisted helpers.
In honor of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11,
volunteers listed the names of those who
perished and have lost their lives in The War on Terror on enormous banners. Over 9,000 names were written and these banners serve as a fitting tribute. Following their display in the museum the banners were donated to Tribute WTC 9/11 in New York City.
Facebook remains a hugely popular form of social interaction and the Submarine Force Museum Facebook fan page continues to grow, now with over 6,300 fans. The museum posts a daily article titled “Today in Submarine Force History”, a short write up about interesting happenings in submarine force history. These articles have been extremely well received. We have included in this issue of the Klaxon the Top 5 articles for 2011 based upon reader response.
Finally, after months of effort on the part of our web designer and the museum store manager, the new museum online store is up and running. Please visit the store at www.ussnautilus.org and click on Grand Opening to see the new store. Tell us what you think; we would be interested to hear what items you would like to see in the store that we may not currently offer.
We are still looking for email addresses so we can send our electronic newsletter PING to all our members. To date, we have email addresses for less than half our members so we’re asking for your help in this area; if you would like to receive PING please make sure we have an accurate, up to date email address. Send your email address to director@submarinemuseum.org and say you would like to be placed on the PING mailing list.
Please stop by and visit your museum whenever you are in the area and bring your friends.
David M. Goebel, RADM USN (Ret)