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Hotel: Crowne Plaza Hotel

Location: Warwick, RI

Date: 09/12/2014 - 09/16/2014

Chaired By: Joe Sczyrek

Attendance: 70 total/36 shipmates

Highlights

The reunion began on Wednesday with a Welcome Aboard happy hour and dinner during which each shipmate introduced himself and shared a memory of his service aboard DD-779. On Thursday, the group toured Providence and Newport with lunch at the Officers Club at the Naval War College. On Friday a private tour of the USS Constitution and a visit to the Boston Tea Party Museum were conducted. The reunion concluded on Saturday with a visit to the museum ships at Battleship Cove and cocktail reception, memorial service and farewell banquet dinner.