Ninth Company

50th REUNION PHOTOS AND RECAP

Ninth Company was exceptionally well-represented at our 50th Reunion, held from Oct 5-8, 2023. The following pictures show all of the attendees at the Company Party on October 6 at the Annapolis Yacht Club.

COMPANY PARTY

The following file contains numerous pictures that Leif took at the Company party: Leif’s Pictures – Company Party

In addition to Leif’s “Magnificent 7 then-and-now” photo, he prepared a ‘magnificent’ power point slide show that was on display (accompanied by music) at the Company party. Here is a copy of that slide show: REUNION PHOTOS

CLASS MEETING

A number of us attended the Class Meeting, which was held at the U.S. Naval Institute’s recently completed Conference Center. This very impressive facility is located at Hospital Point, in space that was formerly part of the Naval Hospital.

Here are the slides of the Class Meeting, Class Meeting Slides

MEMORIAL SERVICE

A very memorable and moving Memorial Service immediately followed the Class meeting. Here are the slides from the Memorial Service: Memorial Service Slides_Compress

The Memorial Service was video-recorded by the Naval Institute. The Alumni Association will provide a link to the recording in the near future.

FOOTBALL GAME

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

A professional photographer took many photographs at the Dinner Dance that was held in Dahlgren Hall on Sunday evening. Those photographs are available for members of the Class of 1973 at no charge: https://lattaphotography.zenfolio.com/p242867049

You click to select the shots you want, then hit download (the down arrow above the photo). You can then retrieve them from your download file and can transfer them to your photos.

BREAKFAST IN KING HALL

Here is the “9th Company Table” in King Hall. The food was indescribably better than it was 50 years ago.

DINNER DANCE

A number of us attended the Dinner Dance in Dahlgren Hall on Sunday evening, which was the final event of the Reunion

Here is a link to the 9th Company’s photographs in the 1973 Lucky Bag: 9th Company

The following link is to the “Album” portion of 1973 Lucky Bag. It provides a brief bio for each of those who graduated with the Class in June 1973: Lucky Bag – Album

Here is the link to the 9th Company website, which contains many information “treasures” :

http://www.lhhenterprises.com/9thCompanyWebSite

Here is a list of 9th Company shipmates who graduated, and where they elected to serve following graduation:

The following members of 9th Company have passed away. Additional information can be found on the Last Call/Memoriams page of this website.

John Seaberg has sent in a number of photographs from his personal collection. Links to the files containing the photos are provided below each photo because some of them do not offer high enough resolution on the website page.

We also owe John our thanks for the numerous copies of The Log magazine that he contributed to the Class Archives page of this website: http://1973.usnaclasses.net/class-archives/