Plan now to attend the next APT monthly meeting with a talk about the Homecoming 250 Navy and Marine Corps Celebration by George S. Leone*, President and Chair of the Board of Homecoming 250. He will discuss:

• this area’s crucial role in the founding of the Continental and US Navy and Marine Corps;
• the Philadelphia area’s importance in Navy and Marine Corps history for the next 200+ years;
• the historical buildings and sites here connected to the Navy and Marines;
• plans for the Navy & Marine Corps 250th Celebration in October-November 2025; and
• opportunities for APT and its members to be involved.

Following the talk, APT President Marianne Ruane will present on her experience lobbying for the tourism industry and IHNP during Destination Capitol Hill. The meeting will also be live streamed on Zoom.

Please join us in person or on zoom!

*George S. Leone is the President and Chair of the Board of Homecoming 250 Navy Marine Corps, and its Advisory Committee Chair. George previously served as a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court in Camden and in the New Jersey Appellate Division. Earlier, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Camden, and Chief of the Appeals Division for the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. The Attorney General of the United States presented George the Director’s Award for helping to defend New Jersey’s Megan’s Law, and the John Marshall Award for helping to lower crack cocaine sentences.

George previously served as a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney, an associate at the Dechert law firm in Philadelphia, and as a law clerk for Judge James Hunter III, a Marine veteran of World War II, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Camden. George is the son of a Navy veteran from World War II, was raised in South Jersey, and graduated from Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School.