Annual Meeting 2006 |
Old Dominion University |
| photos by Dennis Kytasaari |
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 Our members... |
 ...gather in the... |
 ...hotel lobby... |
 ...for our walk... |
 ...over to dinner. |
 Mark with his son and wife. |
 Norm and his wife. |
 Walter and Mary. |
 Peter |
 Dana and his son Ben. |
 Anna Jean and Jean-Michel. |
 Terry, Julia and Brian. |
 Dennis and Henry. |
 After dinner some of went... |
 ...over to Broad Street Books... |
 ...for a discussion... |
 ...on our favorite author. |
 The next morning Jean-Michel opens our event... |
 ...and starts with information... |
 ...about the various editions of "Fritt Flacc." |
 Our... |
 ...attendees and presenters... |
 ...listen in. |
 Julia Mastro, from UNC Chapel Hill, speaks about "The Anarchist at the End of the World" |
 Outside our meeting room... |
 ...were some displays hinting at what was going on inside. |
 Terry Harpold, from UF Gainesville, talks about "Reading the Illustrations: The Example of Le Superbe Orénoque" |
 Steve Foster, from ODU, talks about "Fathers and Sons: Letters of Alexandre Chatrian and Jules Verne" |
 Brian Taves, from the Library of Congress, "The Jules Verne Renaissance: A Recent Publishing History" |
 We take a... |
 ...break... |
 ...for lunch. |
 Fréderic Castel of the European Space Agency... |
 ...tells us about... |
 ...the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle)... |
 ...named Jules Verne... |
 ...that is scheduled for next year. |
 Keith Henry, from NASA's Langley Research Center talks about Verne, Space and NASA's plans for the future. |
 Jean-Michel tells us about... |
 ..."Verne’s Other Trilogy". |
 ODU President Roseann Runte and her colleagues... |
 ...Provost Tom Isenhour... |
 ...Prof. Lytton Musselman take a "A Pluri-Disciplinary Approach to L’Ile Mystérieuse". |
 More attendees had arrived... |
 ...throughout the day. |
 The Friends of the Old Dominion University Library... |
 ...held a reception, where President Runte said a few words... |
 ...and the library was thanked for their assistance with this event. |
 At dinner Dana, Fréderic, Peter... |
 ...Peter (again), Terry, Art Evans, Julia... |
 ...partial of Anna Jean, Rick, Walter, Mary... |
 ...Jean-Michel, Brian, Mark... |
 ...Mark (again), Anna Jean, Rick (again)... |
 ...and in the back Norm and Henry. |
 The next morning Anna Jean tells the tale "A malin, malin et demi", which you can obtain online here. |
 Walter James Miller, from NYU, and Rick Walter give us a preview of their new edition of "The Meteor Hunt" coming later this year from University of Nebraska Press. |
 Norm Wolcott tells us more about "The Victorian Translators of Verne (II)". |
 Captain (FRN) Christian Canova, French NLR to SACT tells us about "The FS Jules Verne and Why it is a Tradition in the French Navy" |
 Clark Lee Merriam of the Cousteau Society tells us about "Captain Cousteau’s Jules Verne-like Adventures" |
 Later that evening we went to the... |
 ...Norfolk Yacht and Country Club. |
 Terry with ODU Provost Tom Isenhour and his wife. |
 Taking in a view of the harbor. |
 Eating... |
 ...seemed to be... |
 ...the focus... |
 ...of this... |
 ...event. |
 Our hosts at the Yacht Club. |
 Peter, ... |
 Jean-Michel, ... |
 and ODU Provost Tom Isenhour thank everyone for their presence at our events. |
 Back at the hotel... |
 ...some of us... |
 ...say our goodbyes... |
 ...until next year. |
 The rest of us journeyed to the Naval base for a tour of the USS Eisenhower, an aircraft carrier. |
 Our member Henry, who is a US Army Colonel navigates his way through the narrow passages. |
 One of the ship's crew tells us how they manage the aircraft on board ship. |
 Our tour guides tell us about the flight deck. |
 The ship's tower. |
 Our tour group, our ODU bus driver, myself, Rick, Mark, Peter, Brian, Mark's wife and Henry. |
 A shot of ships in the nearby docks. |
 Another view of the flight deck. |
 An elevator used to bring up to two planes up to the flight deck. |
 A view from the ship's bridge. |
 Our crew on the bridge. |
 The ship's name and its awards of distinction. |
 Henry sits in auxillary control. |
 One of our tour guides tells us what happens in Flight Ops. |
 These vehicles are used to move aircraft around the ship. |
 A view of two nearby ships from the hangar deck. |
 The hangar deck. |
 Our tour... |
 ...has come to an end. |
 In downtown Norfolk, not too far from our hotel is... |
 ...the USS Wisconsin, a decommissioned battleship. |
 On my return to the airport, I stopped at Arlington National Cemetary, where I saw President Kennedy's gravesite. |
 I also saw the... |
 ...changing of the... |
 ...guard... |
 ...for the... |
 ...Tomb... |
 ...of the... |
 ...Unknown... |
 ...Soldier. |
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