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If you want to help us out in our endeavors, contact any of us. Please feel free. The Langley DPAC is the voice of the parents and the executive behind closed doors is instructed to act in the best interests of the parents and that is one amazing decision to be a part of.

We have offered and solicited advice from members as well as transparently sharing stories that we think matter to you, our members. We started off the week with less than 30 people being reached by our posts and we are over people being reached less than a week later. On that note, we now will be doing weekly posts updating our members on what is going on right now and what all of you can expect in the upcoming weeks from us at the Langley DPAC.

We are planning a public forum where we will be hosting the candidates for the school trustee positions and we will ask them questions. An email will be going out asking you for questions you would like asked and we will do our best to get them all answered if time permits. This is your chance to see and hear what the candidates are all about. More information to follow on this. This information is vital to us being able to contact you in a timely manner. We are going to be going from langleydpac.

More details to follow on this. Langley DPAC is also setting up a new email system with processes in place that will prevent the deletion of emails by any of the executive members.

This is being done to ensure total transparency of the executive members as well as ensuring that all correspondence is delivered and dealt with in a timely manner. All emails will also be archived in a central location so we are never in a position with missing correspondence whether intentional or accidental. Langley DPAC is still looking for great photos of kids in our schools or at home for our website.

Please take a few moments and send us your pictures. Important details are with the email as an attachment. If you are interested, please contact me directly at treasurer langleydpac. If you do NOT receive an email invitation, kindly contact me directly at treasurer langleydpac. Lots of fun tonight at the season opening game of the Langley Rivermen. The team lost in the 2nd period of overtime but an amazing game none the less. Local players will be arriving at various schools in their hockey bus and in uniform and they will read to and be read by Langley students.

The hockey players will also be playing scrimmage hockey with the kids in school gyms to encourage physical education within the school district of Langley. I recognized lots of the kids and PAC members as well. I am so in love with Frasier, the team mascot. He was very engaging with the kids and was a huge hit with them as well.

More to follow soon on our teaming up with the Langley Rivermen. I attended the meeting tonight and in no particular order are highlights of what is going on at a board level within the school district. The laptops delivered are part of a lease of which were ordered initially. They should be delivered to teachers by the end of next wee k.

Interesting as well to point out that Dell laptops will be provided to teachers as an alternative to those needing a windows based platform instead. Therapeutic Services Who are we? What we believe in. What we do best. Level 3 — Therapeutic Groups Optional participation Mondays BL5 — Mindfulness Self-awareness and regulation Group Requirement: You want to work on reducing the impact of stress and anxiety and willing to attend regular meetings.

Process of Participation: Any one wanting to participate need to contact Kim or Angie directly. Fridays BL4 — Overcoming Obstacles Anger, Addiction and Adults Group Requirement: You want to work on reducing the impact of anger and addictions and willing to attend regular meetings. Process of Participation: Any one wanting to participate need to contact Mindy or Gail directly.

Can stay for up to 30 days before Treatment. Medically supervised. Finally he sent a direct order, it might have been a request but if Dewey wrote it when annoyed it certainly would have had the character of an order, to General Otis to the effect that if he ever caught one of them outside of the river again he would sink her.

They never reappeared in those forbidden waters for the General probably didn't know just how far the forceful Admiral really would go and would rather not provoke a show down. Admiral Dewey had on board Olympia as his pet a badly spoiled dog. He was very fond of it and in his eyes it could do no wrong; however he was alone in that opinion and both officers and the crew, particularly the afterguard sweepers, detested the animal. The dog was smart enough to know that his sole protector was the Admiral and ran back to him if he had been maltreated, whenever anyone touched or made a pass in his general direction.

Several men were punished, some justly and perhaps some not quite so justly, and a quartermaster was disrated. Partly in a spirit of waggishness and born of the monotony of the blockade in Manila bay before the fall of the city the men formed a very secret organization called the "Society of the Dog.

There were very few of these. The organization lasted as long as the dog did for one morning he turned up missing. That day a first class member was hurriedly promoted to the office of "Chief Superior Dog" and the society prudently disbanded. At the time of the outbreak of the Spanish war, Revenue Cutter, later Coast Guard, McCulloch , was at sea on an extended shakedown cruise from Hampton Roads to her assigned station at San Francisco and on her arrival at Singapore orders were received to proceed with all possible speed to Hong Kong and report to Commodore Dewey for further duty.

The ship arrived on 17 April and sailed with the fleet for Mirs Bay and Manila a week later. While a small vessel and not built for naval service she was a very welcome and valuable addition to the fleet and she performed excellent patrol and dispatch service throughout the period of hostilities and until November when she resumed her voyage to San Francisco.

On 29 June a signal was received from Olympia which read "Spanish gunboat sighted bearing north-west apparently attempting to reach Manila, intercept and capture.

The stranger changed her course to meet the cutter head on flying a flag at the fore, a pennant at the main and a flag at the gaff, all indistinguishable because of the light airs, but on closing in on her it was found that she was flying a white flag at the fore. After heaving to a boarding officer was sent aboard and found her to be the Spanish gunboat Leyte which had escaped during the early morning of 1 May, and had remained in hiding in one of the numerous rivers emptying into the bay, but could neither escape to sea or avoid the attacks of the Filipino insurgents and so her commanding officer decided to surrender.

The Spanish flag was hauled down, the United States ensign [the American flag] hoisted and with a prize crew aboard she proceeded to Olympia and anchored off her starboard quarter.

McCulloch accompanied her and sent a whale boat to the Leyte to take her commanding officer and the prize master to the flagship. In the meantime a heavy rain squall had kicked up quite a choppy sea; also that morning the ship had coaled from a casco alongside and some "bino" had, as usual, come on board so the boat's crew didn't pull in the style and form usual in the Navy in those days. Once alongside the two officers mounted the gangway and were escorted to the Admiral, sitting as usual in his wicker chair on the quarterdeck.

If he expected, as was perhaps excusable, a hero's welcome he certainly "missed out" for the Admiral only looked up sharply and said; "Very well sir and I want to tell you that your boat's crew pull like a lot of damn farmers! From that wicker chair on the quarterdeck there was very little that went on in Manila bay that escaped Admiral Dewey's sharp eyes, and quite likely, a sharp signal to follow. The portion of the above essay dealing with The Society of the Dog was retained because the presence of animals on US Navy Ships is an element of the social history of the Navy and not well documented.

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by selection and promotion, an Admiral of the Navy, who shall not be placed upon the retired list except upon his own application; and whenever such office shall be vacated by death or otherwise the office shall cease to exist. Navy general orders concerning death of Admiral of the Navy George Dewey.

It is with feeling of genuine grief that the Secretary of the Navy announces the death at 5. The career of George Dewey "ran in full current to the end. Dewey was under fire with Farragut in the Mississippi River, and bore himself gallantly throughout the War between the States. The battle in Manila Bay on 1 May , made him the foremost naval officer since Farragut and victor of the first American sea fight with a foreign foe since the War of In peace, in war; in sickness, in health; in victory and in conflict, and in every relation of life Admiral Dewey invariably exhibited the virtues of the patriot and the Christian.

His whole life, 62 years of which, were spent in the Navy, was full honorable achievement, and his service in peace has been hardly less distinguished than his laurels in war. As president of the General Board of the Navy since its inception he has played a leading part in making the Nation ready for war on the seas. The same statesmanlike qualities which he exhibited in handling the international situation at Manila after the battle of 1 May , he has shown as the head of this board of naval experts.

In recognition of his victory in Manila Bay the then commodore was advanced one grade to that of rear admiral, and in addition received the thanks of Congress. Later by special act of Congress he was promoted to be The Admiral of the Navy, a rank never held by an American naval officer previously, although two, Porter and Farragut, were rewarded with the rank of full Admiral. He was placed by Congress on the active list until such time as he might see fit to apply for retirement.

But his active spirit could not rest. He never folded his hands. He chose to die on the bridge, even until the Pilot came aboard his life craft who should take him across the bar. He died one of the foremost figures of modern times. The flag will be displayed at half-mast at all navy yards and stations, and on board all ships in commission until after the funeral shall have taken place, and 19 minute guns will fire at noon on the day of the funeral from each navy yard and from the senior ship present afloat.

All officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear the badge of mourning with the uniform for 30 days. The following executive order and message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives are quoted for the information of the naval service. Executive Order As a token of respect to the memory of Admiral George Dewey, who died at his residence in the city on yesterday, January 16, at 5.

Admiral Dewey entered the naval service of the country as an acting midshipman from the first congressional district of Vermont on 23 September was graduated from the Naval Academy as midshipman 11 June ; served throughout the war of ; and 30 years later had risen to the rank of commodore. It was as commodore that he rendered the service in the action of Manila Bay which has given him a place forever in the naval annals of the country. At the time of his death he held the exceptional rank of The Admiral of the Navy by special act of Congress.

During the later years of his life he was the honored president of the General Board of the Navy, to whose duties he gave the most assiduous attention and in which office he rendered a service to the Navy quite invaluable in its sincerity and quality of practical sagacity. It is pleasant to recall what qualities gave him his well-deserved fame: His practical directness, his courage without self-consciousness, his efficient capacity in matters of administration, the readiness to fight without asking questions or hesitating about any detail.

It was by such qualities that he continued and added luster to the best traditions of the Navy. He had the stuff in him which all true men admire and upon which all statesmen must depend in hours of peril.

The people and the Government of the United States will always rejoice to perpetuate his name in all honor and affection. Adams, W. New York: G. Routledge, Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. Makers of Naval Policy American National Biography. Vol 6. New York: Oxford University Press, Clemens, William Montgomery. Life of Admiral George Dewey. Cogar, William B. Dictionary of Admirals of the U. Annapolis, MD: Dewey, Adelbert Milton. Dewey, Assisted by Members of the Immediate Family.

Akron, OH. Life of Rear Admiral George Dewey. Dewey, George. Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy. Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Dewey and Other Naval Commanders. Fiske, Bradley A.