38th ANNUAL HAPPY VALLEY REUNION
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA
SEPTEMBER 9TH - 13TH 2009

PLACE:

SHERATON MINNEAPOLIS SOUTH-BLOOMINGTON

7800 Normandale Blvd.

Bloomington, MN 55439

RESERVATIONS:

Toll Free: 1-800-325-3535 or

Direct Phone: 1-952-835-7800

Fax: 1-952-893-8431

ONLINE RESERVATIONS:

www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/ussvalleyforge

ROOM COSTS:

$99.00 Plus Tax per night. please book early.
Rooms are blocked until August 10th so book early
and mention the VALLEY FORGE REUNION
use hotel online link reservations above.

REUNION SKIPPER:

Lowell and Joyce Bell

6731 Plymouth Ave. N

Golden Valley, MN. 55427

PHONE:

1-763-545-1922

(no collect calls please)

MESSAGE FROM THE SKIPPERS:

The Skippers say to come on board and embark on 38th USS Valley Forge Reunion here at the Sheraton Inn Minneapolis.
We have big plans which include a bus trip to The Chanhassan Dinner Theatre with dinner meal followed by the show
JOESPH and the AMAZING DREAM COAT. We will leave early and get back late. The Mall of America is minutes away
from the hotel and there are shopping opportunities. You can take the light rail system from the mall to downtown
Minneapolis with stops on the way at Minnehaha Falls, home of the song of Hiawatha by Longfellow. Downtown there is
a Sculpture Garden and the Home of the Guthrie Theatre on the Mississippi River.
If there are 30 or more people interested in the Mystic Lake Casino a free bus will be available. More information on
transportation options will be available upon arrival.The Recovery Room will remain open except when we are touring or
attending meetings.There will be plenty of time to greet your Shipmates and swap sea stories. Scuttlebutt is always the
order of the day. Saturday evenning banquet dinner will be buffet will be preceeded by cocktail hour. It is customaruy
to bring a gift for the rafffle table which helps to covers the extra reunion expenses.Buy raffle tickets.
The hotel amenities and friendly service will make you glad you joined this reunion so please come and join us.
Lowell and Joyce Bell

SHERATON HOTEL:

The hotel is located on highway 100

off of I-494 Transportation options

will be issued in your invitation

in the mail.

• Meet me in the lobby