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NAVA 22

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NAVA 22 Flag Photo

NAVA 22: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Sheraton Portsmouth Hotel
October 7–9, 1988
Details and additional photos of NAVA 22: NAVA News v. 21 no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1988)

The NAVA 22 Flag: Ralph Holberg's design depicts white yacht sails on a light blue background.  Flying from the mast is a stylization of the NAVA flag as a pennant above the international maritime signal flags for the letters P, N, and H—for Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Meeting flag description from Flag Research Quarterly 11: The Flags of NAVA

Organizing Committee: Jim Ferrigan (Chair), Lynn A. Knights, and John R. B. Szala.

Significant Events:

  • Judge Robert (Bob) Coykendall delivered the keynote address at the Saturday banquet held in the John Paul Jones House—an appropriate location as for his address was about the historical flags of John Paul Jones.

The Presentations:

  • Evolutionary Vexillology – Don Healy.
  • The Flag as Dream/The Flag as Nightmare – Whitney Smith.
  • The color and design of the flag of Portsmouth – Pam Anderson.

Announced Awards and Honors:

  • Captain William Driver Award: Donald T. Healy.
Fiscal Sponsor:

Driver Award: National Flag Foundation.

Attendees: (55+)

List unavailable


Flag image drawn by Clay Moss – Flag photo from Flag Research Quarterly 11: The Flags of NAVA