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28 July 2010 First set of pictures for the 2010 San Antonio Reunion are uploading now. Credit to Charles Carteret for this first album. Charles was the official photographer for the promotion ceremony by default as he was the only person with professional gear and a real flash.. Click here for the pictures...more to come as I should get the pics I took uploaded in a day or so.. 25 July 2010 Another Reunion come and gone. Pics to come later.. Thanks to Rich Salinas and Dee Salinas Raciti for your hard work..You guys did a great job coordinating this event and its now time to catch your breath and relax. It was a truly memorable event and your efforts were greatly appreciated. Fantastic Effort and a Job Well Done ! ..Thank you Both ! For those of you who attended, please sign the Guestbook and let Rich and Dee know you had a good time. Thanks to Dave Brown and Ray Mastin for participating in the Pinning of the Star Ceremony for General Jose Salinas..Your participation meant the world to Joe and all of us.. Thanks to Robert Salinas and Jim Copeskey for their opening words. ...A special thanks also to Pete Copeskey for reminding us that we should remember, honor, and cherish those who are no longer with us..It would not be a reunion without the Copeskeys.. Thanks to Charlie Carteret for graciously offering his services so that we might have some professional quality photos of the Pinning of the Star Ceremony..Charlie also brought some videos from Panama that were way cool and donated such so that we can post on the gallery page..we will get those up in the coming week.. I don't have their names, but a warm thanks to the Honor Guard who opened our ceremony and participated in the presenting of the flag to Jose (Generals, apparently, get their own flag..cool).. I can't remember all of the raffle winners, but I remember a few. I think Jim Salinas won one of the coveted baskets with a bottle of Ron Cortez..Jim, perhaps you can bring that bottle to the next reunion..heh heh..Congrats to Ricky Garcia and Ron Walker, also..Despite not having a bottle of Ron Cortez, I think Ron Walker got the pick of the litter..a huge gift basket chock full of many things Panama...For those of you who don't know, Ron plays in a band in Phoenix (Rock, Blues, Gospel) and they are currently recording, so stay tuned if you would like to buy their album.. Dee and Rich want to especially thank all of you who attended and participated in this event, made especially dear as General Jose Salinas had his Pinning of the Star Ceremony as part of the banquet. Jose was extremely moved by the turnout of so many dear friends to celebrate his accomplishments and was extremely grateful that he could have the ceremony with our Zonian community. Jose felt strongly that his time among all of you helped him to achieve his goals and hopes that you feel, in some small way, his achievement is also your own. Again, to all who attended, Dee and Rich express their gratitude and hope you had a great time. I know I did.. We should have some pictures up in the next few days and will continue to update the gallery over the next few weeks...For those of you who have pics and would like to donate, please send to admin@albrookreunion.com. For the most part we can accomodate fairly large file sizes, but its usually best if you can reduce the size to less than 1meg per picture so that its emailable..best way is usually just to resize to a smaller size if your using a camera with greater than 5 megapixel capability..
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In 1991, Kiki Gonzales and Bea Garza (Albrook, early to mid '70's) organized an Albrook reunion in Dallas.
My entire family attended and because of this event, many individuals began asking for future reunions. Kiki and Bea did a tremendous job and I'm not sure they realized at the time that they were starting a tradition.
They passed the
torch and Derek Nelson took over in 1994, and the next reunion was held in
Las Vegas. My older brothers and my parents attended. I am told it was an
event.
In July of 1998, my brother Robert hosted the reunion in San Antonio.
Jose, along with Charlie Garcia and Pete Copeskey, hosted the Tucson reunion in July of 2000.
The Aguirre's hosted a reunion in Albuquerque in 2002 and there was a reunion in 2004.
Robert hosted the last reunions recently in San Antonio in 2006 and in Las Vegas in 2008. Bea's sister, Sara (Garza) Verville, helped Robert organize the Vegas Reunion in 2008 which, without their help, could not have happened.
All of the reunions have been memorable events and my family and I look forward to each reunion.
My brother Rich along with my sister Dee have signed up to host the next reunion in San Antonio so stay tuned for the next chapter... |
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Main Menu Guestbook Albrook Reunion Gallery This page was put together at the behest of my two older brothers, Robert and Jose Salinas. As Air Force Brats, we were fortunate to live in many areas of the globe. However, for my parents, Jose and Pina Salinas, my siblings, Jose, Robert, Ricardo, Diana, and for myself, Edward Salinas, memories of the Canal Zone and Panama we hold most dear.
The above photo is in memory of Bill Aguirre and Pat Madrid, two very special people who are dearly missed.
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