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Beverly Skinner Smeltzer President GREAT SWEETHEART DAY! The food was good, the club was lovely, decorated in red and white and red rose petals and so were the lovely ladies all dressed in red and pink. It was good to have so many members, spouses and guests attend the Sweetheart luncheon at the Cavalier Yacht and Golf Club. Mayor Meyera Oberndorf was quite humorous in her description about herself as a young Coast Guard Ensign’s wife. We were honored to have the good Mayor as our guest. She became a member of ROWS that day. We welcome you Meyera and hope you will be with us as often as you can. David Konkul, Director of the Virginia Beach Orchestra, was also our guest speaker. He gave us the background on the uniquely painted violins displayed for us. He also invited all of us to attend their last musical for this year coming up around the last week in February. If you were not at the luncheon and would like to take a chance on winning one of the violins, you should attend the concert and purchase a ticket. After all this cold and snowy weather I am sure everybody is ready for our Spring Fashion Show on March 11, presented by Chico’s. I know I am, so get your friends and reservations together and mail them straight away to Betty Black to reserve your table. This is the time to invite a potential new member. Dues are only half price, $7.50, until June 1, 2004. Now is the time to give a membership to a friend. It makes a very nice gift. At the January 2004 Board meeting a motion was made and carried that a new Committee entitled “TLC for SHUT INS” be established. There were no objections at the February luncheon regarding the establishment of this committee so the president appointed as Co-Chairs, Margaret Delaney and Sarah Dorin. They will furnish names and places or points of contact where we can get in touch or send cards to remember our past members who have given so much of their time and service over the years. Please call Margaret, Sarah or me if you have a name you would like to forward to this committee. These will appear in our newsletter each month. The nominating committee for 2004-2005 has been elected from the Board and the membership. They are Jean Ford Murphy, Sally Saunders and Adriana Grillo. They will be electing a Chair and presenting their slate of officer nominees at the March membership meeting with publication in the newsletter in April, prior to election at the membership meeting in April. The installation of the 2004-2005 officers will be at the May luncheon. Thank you ladies for serving on the nominating and the new TLC for Shut Ins committees. New Chairs will be appointed each year by the president as is done for the Chaplains. These committees will work together. We had three new members join in February giving us a total of 388. This is still short of our goal of 400. Let us keep growing and becoming one big family. MOAA has a thousand members, so there are a lot who can still become members. I have one report I regret sharing with you. Bill Vose has had to resign as data and membership computer chair due to family health difficulties. Bill has been with us a long time and we will greatly miss him. I am looking for someone to continue on for the rest of this year until June 1st. Please call Beverly Skinner Smeltzer at 481-1002 if you can be of any help for this committee. You will have noticed that without our great nametag designer you had to write your own name on nametags at the last luncheon. Remember all our service men and women who are gone for the military build up and their families who are left behind. Keep them in your prayers and GOD BLESS. |
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Marguerite Felt Mark your calendars for this ROWS luncheon meeting: April, Atlantic Shores with so many of our members. Robert Byles will be our guest speaker on Savings Plans. |
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Lucy Woodall Sharron D’Angelo, the lucky winner of February’s Funny Valentine Fifty-Fifty Raffle, stole away with thirty-six smackeroos. |
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Ruth Geel
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Sharron D’Angelo, Gladys Jenkins, Patty Leon Roses
Get Well Cards/Notes of Cheer
Sympathy Cards
Memorials
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Personal Notes of Thanks
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Jean Ford Murphy MOAA’s Legislative Agenda: Survivors Benefit Plan, Reserve Health Care, Concurrent Receipt top goals list. Other issues are manpower requirements, pay raises, taxes, Flag Amendment, Social Security issues. MOAA will seek legislation authorizing retired service members and their families the option to elect coverage under the Federal Employee’s Health (Benefit Program FEHBP). Some Beneficiaries’ ability to use their military health coverage is impeded because they cannot find a provider who will accept TRICARE patients. They should have the opportunity to participate in FEHBP on the same basis as federal civilian employees. Check your MOAA magazine for copies of letters to send to your Congressmen and Chairmen of Committees who have the power to fix SBP. |
Pat Kiser and Audrey Kufahl Our Christmas trip to New York City with Fun Tours was such a hit we will schedule it as an annual event. We had 29 members participating this past December. This year the trip is scheduled for Dec. 6-9, 2004.Our next Fun Tour activity is scheduled for March 26 and 27, to Lancaster, PA, to see “Behold the Lamb”, one of Sight and Sound’s greatest productions. The cost of the trip is $194.00 per person, double occupancy. This includes one night’s lodging, family style dining at Hershey Farm Restaurant, continental breakfast, a visit to Bird ‘N Hand Farmers’ Market and Pennsylvania State Capitol Building. Please call Pat Kiser at 587-8881, or Audrey Kufahl at 340-9042 for more info, to make your reservation or to inform them of a trip you would like to see ROWS sponsor. |
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Pat Kiser and Audrey Kufahl ATTENTION ALL GOLFERS! It’s time to join
ROWS Couple Twilight Golf for 2004.
This is a social group. No handicap required. Golf is played every Thursday afternoon at 2:30 PM (Florida Best Ball) beginning April 1st, at Ocean View. Little Creek’s Eagle Haven was tied up for our first outing. Come join the fun! After golf we usually go to a local restaurant for dinner. A big “Thank You” goes to Trudy Milleson who will be handling our dinner reservations for this year. If you have any questions please call Betty at 460-6799. |
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JoAnn Clegg Wow, what a great luncheon we had in February. A roomful of folks decked out in crimson (loved Grace Linn’s sweetheart’s drop-dead red blazer); a table full of violins in full dress uniform; a strolling violinist playing those great romantic oldies; a fascinating talk by the Virginia Beach Symphony’s chief honcho and a rib-tickling talk by the mayor. I don’t know about you but Meyera’s confession about her ensign-wife faux pas brought back memories of more than a few of my own—not all of which, by any means, occurred when I was new to the officer wife role. Like the time I sat down to lunch between place settings, commandeered my neighbor’s right-hand fork and napkin, my left-hand neighbor’s knife and wondered what the heck had happened to my plate. It wasn’t until my captain’s wife (the mother of four small children) sighed, took me gently by the hand and placed me and my chair in our proper location that I realized my mistake. Unfortunately, the other hundred or so perfectly coifed and mannered ladies in attendance had realized it much, much sooner. Thank goodness they were too kind to point and laugh. Makes me wonder if we shouldn’t devote a meeting or a little booklet to collecting and exchanging other such episodes. Or maybe I should just fill a book with my own. I certainly could fill a book with them. |
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The Official Newsletter for the Retired Officer's Wives Society (ROWS) The Rambling ROWS is published monthly and is intended primarily for distribution to, and non-commercial use by, members and associates of the Retired Officer's Wives Society. Sue Balaconis, Editor
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