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   AWAY MISSION REPORT: MAQUIS GRAS 2000
   AWAY MISSION REPORT: VULKON 2000
   TREK WATCH
   EVENTS and ADVENTURES
   LOGIC HAS IT........
 

We ended the year with a blast and now its full speed into 2001. A big word of THANKS
to everyone who helped out with the All Club's Holiday Party and the REAL Millenium Party.
Both were a huge success and very well attended. Since everyone seem to enjoy our
New Year's celebration so much, we may have to do it again for this year's New Year's Eve.
We have a starter schedule of events for the coming year, there will lots added as time goes along. Looks like our next adventure is the Camp Dover Peace Conference and its never too early to plan for that!

See ya next time,
Jonathan

News you can use from/about the crew

The winner of SPACEBALLS 2000 All Club's Putt Putt Tournament, goes to
U.S.S. CAMELOT, we won the right or lost the right to lose, this years
game. The Camelot's team:BOB, JASON, PEGGY and Ray Johnson,

The crew's scores for 2 games--
50-44,40-38,54-46 and 46-51 the teams ave. 1st game 47.5 and the 2nd
43.5 the lowest of 5 teams by 1-2 points. Other players, RUSS 51-47,
BEV 53-49 and TERRY with 50-43 a team avg. 34.75 1st game and 38.5
the 2nd.

The awards and their creators and some of the winners:

BEST SHIP TROPHY--SAM McCULLOUGH--U.S.S.CAMELOT
BEST SHIP AWARDS--BEV HATER--U.S.S. CAMELOT
BEST PLAYER-- BEV HATER--JASON
MOST AGGRESSIVE PLAYER--BEV HATER--PEGGY
MOST LOGICAL SHOT--KATHERINE WILHITE--A VERY YOUNG FEMALE HUMAN
DROVE FARTHEST--REGGIE PARKER--U.S.S.NEW JERSEY
I GOT SCREWED --JEN WOODARD--TERRY Willacker

The U.S.S. Camelot will be the host for SPACEBALLS 2001
in September 2001.
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At the All Club's Holiday Party in December not only was a huge pile of
toys collected for the U.S. Marines' Toys for Tots program, $110 was collected
during the party from the U.S.S. Yorktown's raffle. The Marines were not only impressed,
they had a lot of fun with us. We were told our group (in general) donates the most of all the holiday festivities they are invited to. Attendance for the 2000 party was 69!
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This holiday season the Camelot is sponsoring a local needy family.
Becky Jeter is the mother of six school aged children all living
in an apartment. Her oldest daughter is 8 1/2 months pregnant.

Becky works at the White Castle in Franklin. This is her only job,
for supporting the family.

Her children:

Steven    -    17 years old     (his exact clothing size unknown, about a medium build)
Diana      -    16 years old     She is 7 months pregnant and will need baby items.
Dallas      -    11 years old    Size 16 pants
Samantha     9 years old      Size 10

TWINS -  Joshua and Jeffrey are both 8 years old, both wear size 8 pants.

They like the same things any other kids their ages like. They
especially love watching movies.

Vicki collected $25 in donations at the All Club's Christmas Party and
was able to get them a Honey Baked Ham for Christmas Day Dinner.

Thank you to everyone who contributed, Vicki Meece will continue to collect
donations, especially any clothing. you contact her at either home

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Thanks to everyone who helped out with the Millenium Party on New Years Eve.
We also want to thank the Fairfield Inn of Middletown for being so great to work with.
The party was a lot of fun, we had well over 50 attendees and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. It was a safe, fun way to ring in the New Year/Millenium with friends.
Thanks also to Peggy Feldhaus and the rest of the U.S.S. Yorktown NCC-1704-A
for the Dabo Gaming session, it was really great. Most everyone in attendance
expressed an interest in doing it again next December! So, keep it in mind!
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You can now send and receive general e-mail messages via the U.S.S. Camelot list.
Contact Jonathan Steele to set up your account.

The address for posting ot the list is:
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Rick Alvey is still interested in setting up a Dungeons and Dragons gaming session.
Anyone interested can contact Rick at:
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By: T'Katherine

The away mission to the Maquis Gras event was a very successful one.  The
advance team consisted of  Katherine Wilhite, Cindy Johnson, Vicki and Mark
Meece, Denise Downing and from the U.S.S. Columbus, Doug Foulk.  We launched
from Dayton at 0730 hrs, had a smooth trip and arrived at the hotel in
Portage at 1200 hrs, ahead of the Maquis crew.  We used the extra time to
purchase supplies for the mixer.  Doug was a big help.  He had driven all
the way to Portage and then helped with the shopping.  Back at the hotel,
the Maquis crew had arrived so we assisted in set-up.  The Camelot crew and
Doug assembled about 200 goody bags for registration.  Then we set up chairs
for the night-club part of the mixer.  We had more room this year, with a
carpeted space with tables, and then the dance floor separate.  I would like
to thank everyone who helped set up.  They put up with my bossiness, and
everything was accomplished in a timely and efficient manner.  I would take
these folks on an away mission anywhere.

The Maquis Crew invited us to attend the Friday night Family dinner, where
we were well fed and heartily thanked.

The Friday night mixer was a well attended success.  Everyone had a good
time.  We were joined by Camelot crew members, Peggy and Jason Champagne,
and Jonathan and Kelly Steele.  Kelly fired up the crowd by dancing with a
William Shatner stand-up and several people soon followed suit.  You know
when the Camelot crowd is around there is never a dull moment.

The rest of the convention was a good time.  Barbara March (Lursa) is an
entertaining speaker.  The Maquis did say that next year they hope to have
Gwyneth Walsh (B'Etor) who is also Barbara's real life long-time friend.  At
Saturday night dinner out, we embarrassed Doug as usual, but apparently not
too bad, because he has joined us as an Associate Member.

Sunday morning we all packed up and after breakfast, headed home to Dayton,
our reputation as the coolest ship in the galaxy secure.

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AWAY MISSION REPORT: VULKON 2000

By: Jeff Ross

The guests at VULKON were outstanding.  Even though Moogie couldn't make
it  for health reasons, Lolita Fatjo filled in for her during "The Ferengi
Family Hour."  Also, Mark Allen Sheppard (Morn) also showed up.  In fact,
he, Max Grodenchik, and Andreas Katsulas were in the bar and lobby
mingling with fans Friday evening.  Also, Mark showed up at my room party Saturday
night and he was true to his role as Morn.  In other words, he almost
made Bob O'Reilly look like a tea totaller.  But, he was cool the next day as
I caught him doing Tai Chi in the autograph room.

On the subject of room parties, the hotel was not too accommodating,
unfortunately.  They had some Nazi rent-a-cop going up and down the halls
telling everybody to keep their doors closed (first con I ever saw this
happen) and I was told my room was tripping the smoke detectors at the
front desk (yes, I paid for a smoking room) which they said were wired to fire
department.  But, the alarm in my room didn't go off.  Go figure.
Needless to say, I cut the hotel a new one on the feedback form.  I also let the
head honcho of VULKON know my concerns about the hotel and asked him to
reiterate them for me and other fans who shared them.

In summary, unless the hotel becomes more accommodating to room parties or
a new hotel is used, I'm not sure I would recommend VULKON for next year.

Jeff

   References to Trek found in everyday life!

  From T'Katherine:

Hello folks!  Star Trek continues to make its presence known all through
the culture.  Here are my latest finds.
 

1.  Will and Grace:  After Grace has explained her superstition regarding
discussing their first dates, Will replies "Very logical!  Date long and
prosper!"  Complete with the Vulcan hand gesture.

2. Sunday Dayton Daily News Business Section: In an article about a
locally owned woodworking website, there is a photograph of one of the co-owners
standing near his computer, a picture of the Enterprise D is the
wallpaper of his desktop.

3. Jay Leno monologue: Jay is remarking on the diversity of Bush's
choices for his Cabinet when he says "...here's the latest one, take a look."
Shows a film clip of a Klingon speaking in Klingonese with English subtitles
saying how honored he is to be the first Klingon to serve in the Cabinet.
I was laughing so hard I didn't get the exact quote but it's something like
that.  Jay likes those Klingons, they are punch lines in his jokes quite
often.

Keep watching folks, they're out there!!