The official website of Raymond Vance Olszewski Navy Veteran, Author, Publisher and Har-Brack Class of 1957 Home Room Representative for Life |
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Concordia Ray ~ Cabot, PA |
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If you are looking to purchase the hardbound version of my book, please contact the St. Marys Submarine Museum located in St Marys, Georgia. A Kindle Version of the complete book is available on-line at Amazon.com for $14.99. |
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Last Update:
December 15, 2024
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Welcome and thanks for visiting my personal website. You can click the foregoing links in the menu above or those projects of mine shown below. Should you have the need to email me, please do so at: ROlszewski@aol.com. If you have something to send to me, please use the mailing address below. I made a move from Minnesota where I lived for fifteen years with my high school sweetheart, Nancy Alberta "Vicki" Burns Ingerson passed away from pancreatic cancer on 10 Aug 2023. My contact information is: (703) 244-5678 (Cell) 160 Marwood Road, Apt 3324 Cabot, PA 16023-2250 (703) 244-5678 ROlszewski@aol.com ~ Sign up to receive my announcements by clicking here. |
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Latest Project - Support to Concordia Public Relations
This project started in September, 2024. The project's primary focus and objective is to 'digitize' Concordia's Lutheran Ministries hard copy rchives. Postcard and Calling Card Collection
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This is NEWEST and LATEST Endeavor ~ Volunteer Support to the AKVHS & Museum ~ I have been a member of the Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society for many years. Since my return to Western PA where I was born and raised, I now dedicate my time as a volunteer to the mission and objectives defined by the Society at the Museum located on 224 East 7th Avenue, Tarentum, PA 15084. ~ Click here to take you to Project of Digitalization of selected Museum Records and see what is available to history and genealogical researchers. ~ |
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If you are here looking for Tunny 282 Information which I maintain, it has been moved to a dedicated page on this website. Click on the following link to get to it: USS TUNNY (SS-SSG-APSS-LPSS) 282 HAS MOVED.
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Olszewski Studios Website Design & Maintenance Here is information about a website I created for my brother, Robert William Olszewski (B:1945), who is an artist that currently produces art for The Disney Company. His business named Olszewski Studios and his website was launched in 2006 as an informational and historical reference for all of the art Robert has created since high school (Har-Brack Class of 1963). The amount of information covers from 1970 to present day. That year he became a miniature artist for the world renown Goebel Company; the very same company that produced at one time the M.I. Hummel porcelain figurines. Today, Olszewski continues to produce art for himself and for the Walt Disney Company's Parks and those related creations are sold by Disney online. Get 'em while you can, folks. Where you can purchase his art can be found at: The Olszewski Studios On-Line Retail Store which is the artist's on-line store that sells Olszewski art. |
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~ The Olszewski and Ajak Families' of Western Pennsylvania THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS This project includes Information related to the Olszewski (my Paternal) and Ajak (my Maternal) relations who settled in Western Pennsylvania in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Information about them is derived from the research work I have accomplished using the subscription services of ancestry.com. Created May 26, 2022 and Last updated: December 15, 2024 |
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Har-Brack Union High School Class of 1957 This is the website I created for my classmates as a tribute to them and to perpeuate their memories and achievements they have experienced through their lifetime careers and lives. |
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Web design and maintenance for the In March 2019, I visited the St. Marys Submarine Museum located in St. Marys, Georgia a stone's throw from the U.S. Navy's Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Georgia. Because they bought several copies of my USS Tunny: A History, Tribute, and Memoir to sell, I offered my webmaster skills limited as they are, to get a website up and running for them. Please visit the St. Marys Submarine Museum website. I hope you like what you find. Note that they have a significant amount of historical information about USS Tunny SS, SSG, APSS, & LPSS 282. Its the diesel submarine Tunny, not the nuke Tunny 682. I no longer maintain the website which is still up and running. |
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The Will: The Legacy of Benoni Evans Harrison and La Grange This is a work in progress. Please click here or the link above for updates. This book was put on hold and my priorities shifted to writing and publishing the USS TUNNY Book. |
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Website Design for the Arizona Silent Service Memorial Foundation This is a website I created for my friend and shipmate since 1959 non-other than former Tunny SSG Quartermaster Dan Moss who asked me to create it for his project to raise funds for the Arizona Silent Service Memorial (ASSM) in Phoenix, Arizona. The website was established on 3/28/2015. I no longer maintain this website. Should you need to contact anyone about it, please contact Chris Urness, Chairman of the ASSM Committee. |
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My Published Works |
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USS TUNNY: A History, Tribute and Memoir A Reunion in a book. This was a labor of love for ten years. If you or someone you know served on the USS TUNNY, a United States Navy Gato class diesel electric submarine hull number 282, their name is in this book. I identify by name a total of 1,530 known officers and enlisted men who served on the Tunny 282 between 1942 and 1969.
Using Tunny’s personnel records acquired from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), I constructed a database containing every crew member plus their related personnel actions found in the ship’s diaries. From that massive effort, three separate tables list those who made which of Tunny’s historic 33 patrols and deployments during its career. In addition, I provided where I could obtain the crewmen's , biographical information to include hometowns, and what happened to many of them after they left Tunny.
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The Harrison-Norvill Cemetery: An Abandoned Part of Prince William County’s Rich History This builds upon information I found through over 8 years of research relative to the origin and history of this 19th Century cemetery. It provides a detailed history of the souls whose bodies are buried at the cemetery, their history, and their ties to the La Grange property, which today serves as a Virginia Farm winery, The Winery at La Grange, Haymarket, Virginia. The article published by the Virginia Genealogical Society, brings attention to the diminishing and deteriorating condition of the cemetery with hope that its poor state will be corrected, hopefully, someday. |
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A Taste of Prince William County, Virginia Wine History
This book is the result of my research into Prince William County's wine production during the 19th Century. It features the following:
This book was self-published in 2011 and is available for purchase from the author. ISBN: 978-0-615-42648-8 |
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A Taste of Prince William County, Virginia Wine History A 16-page coloring book that describes the story of a car found abandoned in a junk yard by a gentleman who took it home and reconditioned it. It is a simple and expressive story that deals with a negative situation. As one turns the pages, the reader experiences the ability to read positive words and through coloration can express their feelings about this story's positive message. This book was self-published in 2010 and is available for purchase from the author.
ISBN: 978-1-4490-6821-9
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A trued Story! What is described in this story actually happened to me when I was a teenager working at Kramarick's Upholstering located in Tarentum, Pennsylvania (near my home town of Natrona Heights, PA). |
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This is a story that I wrote in 2004 about courage and determination and a little about golf. It is about one man's fight to overcome a "necessary misfortune" andget his life not back to normal, just back, period. In some respects, maybe this story is a lot aboutgolf, because it was the desire to play golf again that kept Phil Halcomb going. Originally published in the March 2004 issue of Washington Golf Monthly Magazine |
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What's The Score After the Round? Results of an Analysis conducted of wine lists from Publics, Privates, and The Resorts. GolfStyles Magazine, 2003 |
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American Wine Society Journal (Summer 2004) |
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Reliquary Articles for Prince William County, Virginia Library ~ A Taste of Prince William County Wine History: Who Knew? Prince William County RELIC Reliquary Article: Volume 5, Number 3, Page 51 (2006) Haymarket - Prince William County's Viticultural Center: Who Knew? Prince William County RELIC Reliquary Article: Volume 5, Number 4, Page 75 (2006) Wine Made from Manassas Grapes Wins a Bronze Medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition: Who Knew? Prince William County RELIC Reliquary Article: Volume 8, Number 4, Page 73 (2009) |
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Virginia Wine Gazette Articles ~ Sister Winery Program Launched in Virginia Virginia Wine Gazette (Harvest 2004) The Winemaker Who Died of a Broken Heart A story about John Baptitsta Sciutto and his Manassas Battlefield Winery. Celebrating Virginia Wine: 1976-2005 A Retrospective of Virginia |
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My Tours of Duty Serving in the U.S. Navy ~ USS TUNNY (SSG-282) 1958-1962 Boat Yeoman Frankly, serving on Tunny was the best tour I ever had. It was so great I wrote a book about it. Djakarta, Indonesia Defense Attache 1963-1965 The tour of duty I had in Indonesia was another best ever tour. I lived on the economy during the time I while I was there and utilized the services of local servants, Sieman (house boy), Charles (Driver), and Babu (Washing and Clearning). I was elected and appointed to the exhalted postion of Secretary of the Djakarta Golf Club. In addition, during that time, President Sukarno's regime was overthrown in a Counter Coup. This was an exciting time and I was able through various sources purchase and retain photographs of the funeral of the ten Indonesian military personnel who were killed resulting from the Coup. Click here to take you to the photos as well as those I found in my retained files. OLSZEWSKI'S INDONESIA TOUR IMAGES Between 1963 and 1964, I served on the staff of the U.S. Defense Attache' office at the American Embassy, Djakarta, Indonesia.I was a YN2(SS) at the time and considered it to have been one of best of my Navy career assignments. During that time, I accumlated a number of images which I have posted on this website. |
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Tribute to the U.S. Navy's JMIE PROGRAM During the Late 1980s/early 1990s, there was a program that was being developed called the Joint Maritime Information Element (JMIE). I served as the program's Deputy Program Manager under the leadership of Mr. Alfred "Al" Francis Pullin. I was contacted by Mr. Fred Harrison who was working to develop the effort and asked me to join the program. I was working at the former Sperry Univac Corporation which was absorbed into what is today known as UNISYS. I worked directly with defense contractors to include SAIC and Lumintel in Northern Virginia. These were some of the best of the best people to work with in bringing this program to fruition. I have no idea what happened to it, and surmise it was absorbed into another "larger" program. If you want to fill me in, contact me at: ROlszewski@aol.com. When I left the program transferring to DISA, I was provided a going away gift from those I had worked closely with at the Lumintel Corporation. Click here to see what was written in the individual farewell messages that they had framed. |
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Other Significant Mentions and Tributes ~ The Alle-Kiski Valley Goes to War Series Hear and watch Ray Talk about his 23-year Navy Career in just 13 minutes! produced by John Bailey available for purchase at the Alle-Kiski Valley Heritage Museum Tarentum, Pennsylvania ~ ~ A Tribute to Those Who Served! Three Alle-Kiski Valley (Creighton, Natrona Heights, and Brackenridge) Veteran's Memorials include Olszewski and Ajak family members who served during World War II. Their names are imortalized on these beautiful memorials. Click here to see the photos I captured during a visit in 2018 of the monuments, their locations, and the names who are listed. |
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Email: ROlszewski@aol.com (703) 244-5678 160 Marwood Road, Cabot, PA 16023-2250 |
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