EVENTS
Upcoming Commandery Events 2023-2024
Date: Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Event: Luncheon
Speaker: Commander John D. Hooper, USCG (Ret)
Time: 11:30 Reception, 12:00 Lunch
Location: Historic Philadelphia
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Event: Luncheon
Speaker: CAPT William Hamblet, USN
Editor in Chief, US Naval Institute Proceedings
Time: 11:30 Reception, 12:00 Lunch
Location: Historic Philadelphia
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Date: Saturday, 27 April 2024
Event: Battle of Manila Bay Commemoration
Time: 11oo hrs
Location: USS Olympia
Members from the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley, National Capital and New York Commanderies attended the annual Remembrance of the Battle of Mania Bay aboard USS Olympia. USS Olympia is moored at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia.
Date: Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Event: Luncheon
Speaker: Honorable Kenneth J. Braithwaite
77th Secretary of the Navy
Time: 11:30 Reception, 12:00 Lunch
Location: Historic Philadelphia
Date: Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Event: Luncheon
Speaker: CAPT William Hamblet, USN
Editor in Chief, US Naval Institute Proceedings
Time: 11:30 Reception, 12:00 Lunch
Location: Historic Philadelphia
Date: Tuesday, 19 September 2o23
Event: Luncheon
Speaker: VADM Fritz Roegge
16th President
National Defense University
Time: 11:30 Reception, 12:00 Lunch
Location: Historic Philadelphia
General's Medal Awarded Past Commander Jonathan Jones
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Battle of Midway Remembrance
29 April 2023
Aboard USS Olympia
Members from the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley, National Capital and New York Commanderies attended the annual Remembrance of the Battle of Mania Bay aboard USS Olympia. USS Olympia is moored at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia.
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Luncheon, 4 Otober 2022
THE HONORABLE JOHN F. LEHMAN, PhD
Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987
Member of the 9/11 Commission
1989 & 2003 Winner of the RADM Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Naval Literature
Battle of Midway Remebrance
30 April 2022
Aboard USS Olympia
On 30 April 2022, Jonathan C. Jones and Richard S. Sperry, Commander and Vice Commander of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Commandery, joined members from several commanderies of the Naval Order who met at the USS Olympia to celebrate the Battle of Manila Bay (May 1st). The USS Olympia is located at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia.
Luncheon . 13 January 2020
CAPT Scott Anderson, USCG
Port Security in Philadelphia and the Delaware Bay
Luncheon, 23 September 2019
Gerald J. Gallagher
GERALD J. GALLAGHER
VIGNITTESS OF MAJOR-GENERAL SMEDLEY D. BUTLER, USMC
Luncheon, 22 July 2019
CAPT WILLIAM H.J. MANTHORPE, Jr, USN (RET)
THREE REVOLUTIONARY BATTLES ON THE DELAWARE RIVER
Luncheon, 30 April 2019
CHRIS GLEESON
Anti-Submarine Warfare in the Cold War
Battle of Manila Bay Remembrance
28 April 2019
121st Anniversary of the Battle of Manila Bay
Penn's Landing
1130 hrs aboard USS Olympia
Lunch follows at Rope & Anchor Restaurant
Luncheon, 14 November 2018
JOHN MAURER
Alfred Thayer Mahan Professor of Sea Power and Grand Strategy, Naval War College
WINSTON CHURCHILL, NAVAL POWER
AND THE GREAT WAR: LESSONS FOR TODAY
Luncheon, 10 September 2018
SETH CROPSEY
SEABLINDNESS, AMERIAN SEA POWER PREDICAMENT TODAY
Luncheon, 9 July 2018
HON. JOHN F. LEHMAN, PhD
Secretary of the Navy (1981-1987)
OCEANS VENTURED
Winning the Cold War at Sea
75th Anniversary of the Commissioning of USS New Jersey (BB-62)
23 May 2018
62 Battleship Pl, Camden, New Jersey 08103
120th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway
Saturday, 28 April 2018
Aboard USS Olympia
Luncheon: Rope and Anchor Restaurant
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