LCDR Sam Sorenson celebrated his 100th Birthday

A pioneering member of our Navy Photography community, LCDR Sam Sorenson celebrated his 100th Birthday this last weekend. John Lewin, a good friend of his, presented a few things from our community to him. Happy Birthday Sam! Here is Sam’s Bio…. Sam Sorenson was born May 20, 1916. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1938 with a BA in Speech and Drama. He went to Hollywood to become an actor, and by chance heard a Navy LT speaking on the merits of Navy service. Impressed, Sam decided to join the Navy in January 1941, assigned to Corpus Christi, TX where powers to be determined that since he was from Hollywood, he would be a good OIC of the photo […]

Your new Blog account

NANP members please sign up for a blog account “sorry cant use old data” to make posts to your new site. Posting & commenting is as easy as typing on the site.   Your post or comment to a post will not show up automatically on the site for all to see until it has been approved by the webmaster or you have been giving a upgraded account to Blog contributor. Would you would like your posts to feature your photo or Gravatar? Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so […]

Blog Site Live

Welcome to the new site.   We have turned the site into a blog style layout. You will have the opportunity to have an account and post blog entries to the site as NANP Members. You can then make comments to posts and add photos etc…   Yes not all of the content from the old site is live on this site yet but its all still there and we can build links to old content and/or bring content to this site.   Mickey

Approved 2016 Bylaw

Article 1 – Name Article II – Powers and Constraints Article III – Membership Article IV – Dues Article V – Officers Article VI – Board of Directors Article VII – Elections Article VIII – Duties of Officers Article IX – Standing Committees Article X – Meetings & Awards Article XI – Parliamentary Authority Article XII – Dissolution Article XIII – Effective Date & Amendments Article XIV – Regional Chapters NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS–PREAMBLE –The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHY was formed by and for persons associated at any time withNAVAL PHOTOGRAPHY. We associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. To support a strong […]

Congratulations to our new leadership team!

President: Jerry Billings 1st VP: Nora Filos 2nd VP: Sammy Solt Treasurer/Secretary: John White Executive Director: John Hudson Executive Director: Art Jorgensen Executive Director: Marilyn Lynch Life Time Director: Tim Timmerman Appointed Positions: Database Managers: Ralph Lewis and Todd Beveridge WebMaster: Mickey Strand Merchandise: Greg MeCreash Communications: Johnny Bivera Newsletter Chair: Jennifer Miller Historian: Art Giberson Historian: Todd Beveridge