Ahoy Shipmates,

We are about 4 months away from the 2023 annual Goldsborough reunion.  Pat & Connie Taylor have another great reunion planned.  The reunion is scheduled for September 24 to September 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee.  The host hotel is the Radisson Hotel Airport Nashville, Nashville, TN  37214.  The room rate is $115.00 a night for a standard room.  These rates will be good September 21 – September 30, 2023.  Click on the following link to make hotel reservations “USS Goldsborough Sept 2023 Military Reunion Booking Link” or call the hotel at 866-866-8086 and mention the Goldsborough Reunion to get these rates.  Reserve your room by August 23rd to receive our special rate.  Please use the Goldsborough rate to fullfill our commitment towards the hospitality room.  The hotel has free on-site parking, free airport shuttle, free wi-fi, and wheelchair accessible.  There is a restaurant, bar, indoor pool and fitness center on site.  The hotel is about a 15 minute drive to Broadway and Opry Mills.  It is under 8 miles to visit The Hermitage or Music City Center.  

Early reunion registration fee is $220 per person and is due by August 23rd.  Registration fee after August 23rd is $245 per person and due by September 12, 2023

The tentative POD is:
Sunday, September 24^th:   Welcome Shipmates Party in the hospitality suite 
Monday, September 25^th:  0800 Group photo in reunion shirts; 0830 Depart for Jack Daniels Distillery Tour 1300 Lunch at Mary Bobo’s Family Style Restaurant; Return to hotel around 1600
Tuesday, September 26^th:  Free day until 1500.  1600 Bus to Downtown Nashville (Broadway St.); 2020 First Downtown Pickup; 2200 Last Downtown Pickup.  If you want to stay later, call Uber.
Wednesday, September 27^th:  Free day to enjoy the sights and sounds of Nashville
Thursday, September 28^th:  0900 U.S.S. Goldsborough Association Annual Meeting.  Memorial Service to follow. 1700 Attendee photos; 1730 Happy Hour, 1800 Banquet Meeting.  Auction to follow dinner.  
Our auction helps raise money for our secondary education scholarships.  So, remember to bring items from your home state or other items to sell at the auction.  One item to be sold this year is an artist rendering of the Goldsborough in action on the firing line.  These are limited and numbered prints and we will be selling print #one of the collection.
Friday, September 29^th:  Farewell

There are tons of things to see and do in Nashville so we have left free time to explore on your own or with a group of others.  

The hospitality suite will be open any time we are at the hotel, normally 0730 – 2300.  Your registration fee covers trip transportation fees for Monday and Tuesday, lunch and tour on Monday, banquet, shirts for all attendees, hats for the men, bags for the ladies and all the goodies in the hospitality room.

You can print off and fill out the registration form from the following link  and return to William Biller to get your registration in.  You must make your hotel reservations directly with the hotel as mentioned above.  Please mention the Goldsborough to get our room rates and make sure the Association gets credit for your room

GOLDSBOROUGH 2023 REUNION REGISTRATION

Many of us have changed a little since serving on the “Goldy”.  If you have not previously submitted a picture of when you were on board the “Goldy”, we are asking you send a picture to help jog our memory a little.

We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones.  Please try to join us for this reunion or one in the future.  I am sure you will be glad you did.

Shipmates that have registered for the reunion follows:

The USS Goldsborough Association sponsors a $1,000 scholarship for association members or their descendents who match the criteria in the application.  The applications need to be received by Chip Chapin, committee chairman, by May 15, 2023.  His address is on the application.

USSGA Scholarship 2023

Bill Biller , HT2  77-81
USS Goldsborough Association Treasurer
pibiller@gmail.com
419-680-0025