The August Newsletter is here. Please download your copy and keep it handy for all information on what the chapter is doing this month :
Click August_2011_Newsletter to download.
It’s time for our Soby’s Fundraiser. This event will help us raise money to go towards ROTC scholarships that we give out annually to local school ROTC candidates who are going on to college. Click here to download the informational flyer: Soby’s Fundraiser Flyer
MOAA SC Chapter President with her family
The Greenville Chapter of Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) has elected its first female president since the local chapter was formed forty years ago. Brenda L. Jansons, a retired US Army First Lieutenant, will be installed as president on January 21 at the group’s first monthly meeting for 2011 at the downtown Hilton. Lt Jansons served as a combat nurse with the 36th Evacuation Hospital in Vung Tau and the Third Field Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam, during 1968-1969.
The Chapter Officers to be installed are Colonel Bill Koehler, 2nd Vice President; Colonel Joel Heiser, Secretary; 1st Lieutenant Pam Durham, Treasurer; and past President CWO II Michael Gonzales. The Board of Directors to be installed are Captain Larry Rinne, Colonel Maryann Steinmetz, Katie Danner and Shannon Holloway. Colonel Dale Ellenburg, president of the MOAA South Carolina Council of Chapters will perform the installation.
The special guest speaker for the January meeting will be George Blevins, Greenville County Veterans Affairs Officer who will discuss veterans’ benefits and current legislative issues.
MOAA is the nation’s largest nonprofit association of military officers. Membership is open to active duty, National Guard, Reserve, retired and former commissioned officers and warrant officers of the uniformed services as well as officers of the Public Health Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The association is active in military personnel matters and especially in proposed legislation effecting both active duty and retired military personnel and their families
Contact:
Brenda Looper Jansons
864 242-3412/864 905-7077
