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The Hugh Purvis Reunion Association charter is to plan and arrange reunions, assist our members in locating other shipmates/crewmembers and provide important information from the V.A. and other sources you may need. Membership in the HPRA is granted to those men who served on the USS Hugh Purvis DD-709 in any year, for any length of time, in any rank or rate. Information on membership is available here...

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A FREE HAT For ALL New members!!

Have you ever served aboard the USS Hugh Purvis - DD709? If so,  we would like to have you become a member of the Hugh Purvis Reunion Association (aka HPRA). The HPRA provides directories of your shipmates, plans the annual reunion to interesting places with great tours, the annual business meeting and a formal dinner. The reunions are for members and their spouse or significant other, or you can just come alone and still have a great time. Membership is just $20 a year. Also, an age dependent lifetime membership is available (see the membership information link above). There is also a great HPRA hat offer..

For all new paid memberships, we will send you, postage paid, a new Hugh Purvis DD709 baseball cap (click on the hat). This is a high-quality 100% cotton hat made by Lands' End, custom designed and embroidered.  USS HUGH PURVIS D709 on the front, Haze Gray and Underway on the back. Sign up a friend now while supplies last!!! Contact one of your old ship-mates and tell him what a great time we have at the reunions and how much we would like to see him become an active member. One little phone call or letter could make all the difference in convincing one more old "Swabbies" to join our ranks. Our reunions provide for a great time and we would like to see lots of new faces, as well as all of you regular attendees. Use the Membership Information link above for more.


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2011 HPRA Crew Reunion Photo
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*** HPRA NEWSLETTERS ***

The HPRA newsletter is published quarterly and send to all ACTIVE members via email or USPS. If you get your NL via email, it not only saves postage costs (high), but will also give you color for many of the photos. Please consider this as your method. They are also available on the DD709 Y!Group and can be obtained from there by Y!Group members. NL's dating back to 2006 are also on the Y!Group. A modified version is on this web site with private information removed. For a paper copy, use the "Full version ..." link below.

The latest version is FEB. 2012.

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