Photos Courtesy of Trish Kaufmann (with the
exception of the first one)
and Kevin Baker (bottom three photos)
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Incoming CSA Trustees 2006-2007: Kevin Baker, Tom Royster, Bob Frailey, Trish Kaufmann, Jim Monroe, Van Koppersmith and Rich Murphy. Bill McCarren was unable to attend. Photo by Peter Powell. |
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Mr. Robert Edington, President of the CSS Alabama Association, has directed fund raising activities in the United States for the recovery of the Alabama. Saturday evening after the Southern Supper, however, his presentation was on the equally fascinating, innovative and historic Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley. |
The H.L. Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in world history.
A successful submarine attack would not happen again until World War I, more
than
half a century later. Though the H.L. Hunley immediately became famous after the
events of February 17, 1864. Best selling author Clive Cussler established the
National Underwater Marine Agency and spent fifteen years searching for Hunley,
which was finally discovered on May 3rd, 1995 by N.U.M.A. archeologists.
The Hunley broke the surface again after 136 years on the ocean floor on August
8, 2000.
See more info' at the website of "The Friends of the Hunley" at
http://www.hunley.org/
Trish Kaufmann was wreck diving in North Carolina during that week and heard
about
the Hunley recovery first on a dive boat VHF radio. That is the same trip on
which she and
her husband, Darryl Boyer, were the first to see colorful and
poisonous lionfish in the Atlantic (usually Pacific waters), which made
international
news in the dive and marine biology community
http://www.atlantischarters.net/lionfish.htm
They have since been featured on the Discovery Channel and in various marine
publications worldwide.
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CSA President Ron Teffs and Andrea Fletcher speaking to Gen. Conrad
(Connie Bush) at the open bar preceding the Southern Supper.
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Incoming President Jim Monroe and new incoming trustee Tom Royster admire the layout of the Alabama. |
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Deane Briggs and Jim Monroe enjoy a glass of wine prior to the Southern Supper. |
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President Ron Teffs and his fiancé, Andrea Fletcher. Ron is moving from his native California to Chicago. |
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Mobile mid-year convention organizer/host and CSA treasurer Van Koppersmith gave an informal hands-on look at reconstructing the Mobile 5-cent postmaster provisional - his pet project. |
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General Jerry Palazolo, standing, chats with CSA colonel Bob Outlaw at the Southern Supper. |
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Generals Ron Tate and Peter Powell examine Deane Briggs award winning exhibit of Florida Confederates. |
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Kevin
Baker, Connie Bush, Peter Powell |
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CSA treasurer and Mobile mid-year host Van Koppersmith with his lovely wife, Ginger. |
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President Ron Teffs presents
Deane Briggs with the winning medal for his one frame exhibit of Florida
as Van Koppersmith looks on. General Connie Bush created the really lovely
award which is a Confederate seal housed in a lovely |
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President Ron Teffs thanks dealers Stanley Piller and Jim Taff for sponsoring the cocktail hour and wine during the Southern Supper with a presentation of 10-cent rose coffee mugs. Thanks, gentlemen, for helping to underwrite a great evening! Dealer table sponsors were
Newton Crouch, John Kimbrough, Hudson McDonald, Roger Oswald, Stanley
Piller, Jim Taff, and Phil Warman. Thank you all! |
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Col. Larry Baum chats with
Eileen and John Church |
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Bobby Riggs, Hank Bidwell, Connie Bush, and John Kimbrough with Jim Taff and Stanley Piller standing at right almost out of view. John had his ever present laptop computer at the ready, over which many of us discussed the latest e-Bay offerings. |
The following photos courtesy of Kevin Baker
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Gen. Peter Powell and Col. Tom Royster converse during the social hour prior to dinner. Pictured in the background are Maxine Garrett, Cols. Larry Baum and Rich Murphy, with Ethel Powell to right. |
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Jim Monroe shares a story with John and Eileen Church from the U.K. |
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Incoming Secretary Rich Murphy poses with his wife Betty while Sandra Palazolo, Gen. Roger Oswald and Gen. Jerry Palazolo appear to be plotting something in the back corner. |
