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LADIES MEETING MESSAGE 8/7/2010
..coming soon....
LADIES PRESIDENT MESSAGE
7/10-10/10
I’d like to thank all the Ladies for the
opportunity to be Ladies President this year. I have a high standard
to follow as Carol leaves office after 5 wonderful and successful
years. Best wishes to Carol in all her new endeavors.
Last year at this time we were busy coming down off the The Wall
That Heals visit—and thanking all the participants and volunteers.
While we didn't have such a huge undertaking this year, when you
compile all the events done over the last few months, we have just
as many to thank yous and acknowledgments to do! It has been
extremely busy— with a well deserved Welcome Home & Thank you
Ceremony for Lt Col Al Bancroft, our Annual Yard, Bake, and Hoagie
Sale, Flagging of Chapel Ave, Flagging of Locustwood, Memorial Day
Services, Welcome Home for the 1357th Civil Affairs, Statewide
Services, Honor and Remember Across America and the Wild-wood
Convention. So many of our Legion members stepped up to help out
with all these events it would be nearly impossible to list them
all! With all these events, it brought many of our friends from
other organizations out to our Post—including Lt. Col Al Ban-croft
and twin brother Art, Cam-den County Dept of Military Affairs Office
Staff, Congressman John Adler, Senator Jim Beach, Mayor Bernie
Platt, Cherry Hill Town Council Members Sara Lippsett and Tim
Banner, POW/MIA Awareness Committee Members Bob Jonas, VVA #899, Yel-low
Ribbon Club, Warriors Watch, Nam Knights of America—Delaware Valley
Chapter and South Jersey Chapter, Rolling Thunder, Judi Tapper—NJ
Gold Star President, along with some local Gold Star Mothers—Maureen
Pagano and Melinda Kane, Blue Star Mothers, Centurions, Gold Star
Father and Honor and Re-member Founder, George Lutz, Waterford War
Memorial members, various fellow American Legion Post members,
including local VFWs, AMVets and the Jewish War Veterans—and of
course a special thank you is due to Gunny for sup-plying us with so
many delicious goodies! Other guests to the Post included Ret.
Gunnery Sgt USMC Raymond A. McIntryre, Jr, , Musician David Dowell ,
Singer Maria DiSciullo , Council 10, Camden County Freeholders,
Military Sup-port Group of NJ, and the Marine Corp League 1775. The
Cherry Hill Police and Fire Department continue to provide us with
outstanding service and support with all our endeavors—without their
help things could really turn into a fiasco—a huge thank you goes
out to them.Several members of our Post have also
participated in activities held and sponsored by other
veterans organizations - Welcome Homes, the Vietnam
Traveling Wall in Florence, Funerals, Fundraisers, and Honor
Missions.
With the craziness of the last few months, the next couple
of months will pale in comparison—but it is a time to
regroup, to take a well needed breather—until September
rolls around anyway. That’s not to say some events won’t pop
up on short notice, so we urge everyone to visit our website
frequently and sign up on the Email List. It’s a great way
to keep informed of late breaking news and reminders or
upcoming events. As I enter into a new Office, I’d like to
appeal to all the Ladies to be-come more active with the
Legion. As with most organizations, there seems to be a
handful of people that do the majority of the work.
Unfortunately it often becomes the case that these people
reach a ―burn out‖ point. This can be prevented if we have
some more people step up and help lighten the load. If more
people took on just a small task it would really help.
We will be holding our next meet-ing Saturday, August 7th at
10am at the Legion—which will also include breakfast !
Please come out, learn about what positions we have open,
and what upcoming events we’ll be participating in.
For God & Country,
Sue Quinn-Morris -
squinn9807@aol.com
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