10 Years Ago in our KTB

In KTB #19 we reminded Members that our dues of $25 would not go up for a while. Here we ten years later and the dues have only gone up $20 while everything else has gone up by three hundred percent or more. Remember what a new Chevy cost in 1985 - and what a comparable Chevy costs today?

Members were finalizing the design which is now our official SHARKHUNTERS logo that you see on our letterhead and on the front of all our KTB Magazines.

JIM VIZIGIAN (29-1984) requested and received permission to put information about SHARKHUNTERS in his local newspapers. Any Member may mention SHARKHUNTERS in any reputable publication.

5 Years Ago in our KTB

In KTB #65 we reported on our 3RD ANNUAL CONVENTION of SHARKHUNTERS; held in Charleston. Many U-Bootfahrer joined us for that gathering and quite a few came over from Germany. We ran the story of Werner Hartenstein, titled "SACHSENSTOLTZ". We continued to report on the way Pepsi Cola was taking used Russian WHISKEY Class boats in payment for the product they sent into the (then) Soviet Union. It was first suggested that Pepsi take these old boats and turn them into a chain of floating restaurants - but executives at Pepsi took the easy way out, and merely sold the boat as scrap in either Sweden or Britain. A WHISKEY boat was worth about $200,000 at the breaker's yard at that time, so it was a trade or barter method of payment. Our Canadian History Professor PHILLIP ATTENBOROUGH (440-1988) told us that his history paper, done with the help of our SHARKHUNTERS Research Center, was judged the BEST history research paper at the university for the ENTIRE YEAR! He won an award for it as well. That paper will soon run here on the pages of our KTB Magazine - it is great reading!

KTB #65 was only 20 pages long and would require less than FIVE PAGES of today's computer-typeset 36 page-long KTB.