NC AMVETS NEWS by JM Publishing

S Winter, 2010-11

NEC Report

Jim Ely

MVETS held their 66th Annual National Convention in Louisville, KY on August 7-14, 2010. There was a two-day symposium on Monday and Tuesday August 9 & 10. The Pre-NEC meeting was held on Wednesday, August 11 to give our Department reports. The General Opening Session was held on Wednesday afternoon with special speaker VA Chief of Staff, John Gingrich and Minister of Republic of China, Taiwan Veterans Affairs Commission Gen Tseng Jing-Ling and his delegation. Later in the afternoon the Joint Memorial Service was held. Thursday, August 12 was taken up mostly by speakers from the Sons, Auxiliary, Sacks and Sackettes. St. Jude’s Hospital had a representative there thanking us for our generous support. Pause-for-a-Cause had their representatives and their dogs there as well. The University of Phoenix was there and announced they will continue to give 50 scholarships per year and supplied us with brochures. Choice Hotels was also there to say they will give discounts to all AMVET members using Rate ID #00207430. All National Districts held their meetings and elected their officers later Thursday evening. National District II elected John Cooper from the Department of VA as our Commander for this year. Friday, August 13 was taken up mainly by reports, Constitution & Bylaws and Resolutions and bids for the 2014 National Convention which was voted to go to Memphis, TN.

Friday night, the “Commander and President Banquet” was held. On Saturday, August 14 the election of officers was held. There were a total of 571 delegates from around the country with a total of 19 being from North Carolina. Jerry Hotop from Missouri was elected unopposed for National Commander. The NEC met shortly thereafter to elect two people to the Finance Committee and approve a short budget due to a change in the calendar year. PNC John Lorec from NC was elected to that committee again and has done a splendid job in the past. The next NEC Meeting will be December 3-5 at Hilton Washington Dulles Airport in Herdon, VA. There will also be a Leadership Conference in Pigeon Forge, TN January 21-23, 2011. Reservations can be made online at AMVET’S website or contact Velma Hart. The next National Convention will be in St. Louis, MO August 6-13, 2011. NEC Jimmy L. Ely AMVETS Dept. of NC

By Pat Pulliam

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From the President When you read this article, 2010 will be or almost over. I sincerely hope that everyone has had a blessed Christmas. Although there were some changes made as to where the hospitality room was held in October, I would like to commend everyone that helped out. Your hard work and great efforts helped to make a challenging situation a lot easier. Remember to bring at least one new item to be auctioned off at the Auxiliary Department’s major fund raiser of the year, the reverse drawing. Tickets and lists should have been sent out to all the auxiliaries for the items that they need to bring. Please do not forget to do your reporting for the different service programs. This is very important because this shows what our Department has accomplished for the year. Go to the schools

See Post 101 for more pics & look out for movies like

and present the Americanism program as you might be surprised how many of the schools will be interested. Hold yard sales for St. Judes, etc. Sometimes an informal round table discussion will help jog people’s memories about services that they have done or would like to do. Just put new projects in your minutes. Also, try to do a “Show and Tell” project for this year. I know that there are creative members out there! Please remember our active duty military and veterans in your prayers.  God bless America! Pat Pulliam, Department Auxiliary President

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Did you know that each post can put their own pictures and information of upcoming events on their post page on the website?

The NC AMVET News is published three times per year by Midwest Publishing, Inc.

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Anyone interested in putting their post pictures, information or upcoming events on the web please contact Nancy Shiverdecker cib2marine@yahoo.com and I will get you set up. It is not rocket science. Anyone with basic computer skills can do this.

From the President & Post 101...............................2 Post Reports.............................................................3 Post Directory.........................................................10

How to Fly the American Flag

Click on the image below to try out our new interactive video feature. Throughout this issue, there are movies embedded directly into the newspaper! Unfortunately, for the time being, this feature is only available to our online viewers.

Lunch @ DEC............................................................11 AMVETS Officers.................................................... 12 AMVETS Riders....................................................... 13 North Carolina’s WWII Experience....................... 15

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AMVETS North Carolina is now on Facebook. We have a Page and a Group. Facebook is free to join. If you are not already on Facebook join then join the AMVETS North Carolina Group. You can post pictures, comments, share events and much more.

AMVETS on the web AMVETSNC.ORG

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A Prayer For Those We Love Almighty God, we entrust all who are

July 15 to print September 25

dear to us to thy never-failing care

October 15 to print December 25

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and love, for this and the life to come; knowing that thou art doing for them better things than we can desire or pray for; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

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Alvin Taylor from Post 101 built this monument to the Vietnam veterans in his yard. (Guess whose boots he used?)

9/11 Ceremony: L-R: Jay Love, Jean Reaves, Pat and Bill Pulliam

Eastern District Commander at a memorial service for a veteran sponsored by the Dallas Jones Veterans Museum.

9/11 Ceremony L-R: Local Fire Chief Stacy Coggins and Ground Zero Hero Bruce Dimon (Guest Speaker)

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post 316 - rockingham By Richard Martin Left to right are retired Col. Larry Rogers, Sgt Jones from Hamlet National Guard, Marty Nielson Post Commander of AMVETS Post 316, and past Post Commander Lacy Shepherd.

Sgt. Jones presented AMVETS Post 316 with a statue of the Minute Men, for every thing we did to help them and their families while they were in Iraq. Post 316 sent phone cards to them, and served them and their families a meal when the Hamlet National Guard left for their tour of duty overseas and upon their return home. AMVETS Post 316 also held skating and Christmas parties for their families.

This is from the week before DEC when the kids at Pine Grove donated five gallons of pull tabs to the post. Sam and I took them to DEC and turned them in with another 3 gallons from others.

Civitan Award

The Rockingham Civitan Club awarded Dennis Holloway the Civitan Citizen of the year of 2010. Dennis is a member of AMVETS Post 316.

The children pictured are the (Ra’s) Royal Ambassador’s, (GA’s) Girls in Action and Mission friends of Pine Grove Baptist Church, along with Martin W. Nielsen of the AMVETS post 316 Rockingham. The mission groups and members of Pine Grove collected five gallons of Aluminum Tabs for the Ronald McDonald house.

Dennis Holloway (left) and Richard Martin (President of Rockingham Civitan Club) on the right. Richard Martin

Five gallons of pull tabs!

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post 845 - Rockwell Fourth of July Parade in Faith, NC Near right: Aux. President Judi Bullabough with Commander Hopkins. Far right: The Commander’s Granddaughter Sara Hopkins was chosen to be our Post Miss AMVETS. Not only a beautiful young lady; she was a winner or one of our four Post Scholarships. Hmmm pretty and smart she will go a long way in life. Bottom row left to right: Ladies Auxiliary President Judi Bullabough, Sons Commander Sonny Miller, Sons member Jimmy Ridenhour, post members Jessie Bowman, Bob Chastain and Dick Barringer present a new flag to our neighors The Meadows Nursing Home. Jessie Bowman (Jaybird) is a WWII Navy Vet and a resident of The Meadows.

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post 845 - Cont. School Supplies

Our Auxiliary collected and donated supplies for three local elementary schools, Rockwell, Shive and Morgan. Pictured are Debbie and Wendy getting supplies ready to go. Debbie at Morgan and finally Ann and Debbie at Rockwell.

post 906 - Boiling springs lake AMVETS Raffle winner 2010 and Baseball Hey y’all, We hit one local newspaper yesterday...hopefully five more area papers and magazines shortly. The article was condensed and reworded somewhat but it does the job nicely...getting the AMVETS name out there. And thanks to Jaime and Shane I distributed the ball caps tonight. The players were very appreciative...could the gift helped in their winning tonight 15 to 4? The team photo was taken on Tuesday October 19th at Smithville Park prior to their 7 p.m. game. Post officers are invited to be part of that pic. Shutter wil click probably at 6:30. This will be a second round of newspaper publicity. Send me any photos and articles of local AMVETS activities worthy of placing in the newspapers. The JROTC scholarship and individual awards that we distribute at the end of the school year will be great publicity opportunities. The ‘area festivals’ coming up in the spring will also be good chances for public viewing. Our chicken BBQ needs a photo/story prior to the actual event. Got pics of last years event? Writeup? Send me your thoughts of ideas for publicity and new member recruitment.

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Post 906 Cell phones

ere are some pictures where Auxiliary 906 were collecting cell phones for the “Cell Phones For Soldiers” on September 25th in Southport. This has been one of our projects over the past four years and we have shipped out 95 cell phones for the program since May. We are participating in our local Community Center Fall Festival this weekend to do another collection of cell phones. Will send you pictures later on that. When we do a collection, we combine it with handing out information on the AMVETS and Auxiliary to educate the people about our post and hopefully recruit some new members. In the pictures one, two and three, are: Jerry Wolf for the AMVETS and Rachel Okun for the Auxiliary.

one, two and three

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The last picture is of a US Cellular employee getting dunked in a tank. My first vice was also there but they did not get her picture.

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NORTH CAROLINA amVETS POST DIRECTORY

Editorial Criteria Following are guidelines to aid you in preparing your articles for publication:

1. Articles MUST be typewritten. 2. DO NOT TYPE IN ALL CAPS. 3. Photos should be high resolution full color jpegs. 4. Editorial can be submitted as a .txt or .doc file. 5. We do accept .pdfs but prefer the text and photos to be orginals. 6. The editor reserves the right to edit any submission for clarity, brevity, etc. 7. E-mail submissions to: cib2marine@ yahoo.com with your post number or the subject of your submission in the subject line. -- Page 10 --

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Lunch @ DEC What a warm and beautiful day to enjoy our Lunch outside. A time to relax and enjoy each others company….

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NORTH CAROLINA amVETS Officers COMMANDER Oceanus Lowry 235 Pinelake Park Rd. Pembroke, NC 28372 (910) 521-9317, (910) 734-0047 olowry1@nc.rr.com 1st VICE COMMANDER Lacy L. Shepherd 253 Cartledge Creek Rd. Rockingham, NC 28379 (910) 895-3056, (910) 206-0758 j.d.shepherd@hotmail.com 2nd VICE COMMANDER Gerry Pion 221 Palmer Street Albemarle, NC 28001 (704) 983-3651 gandkpion@ctc.net

3rd VICE COMMANDER JoAnn Myers 805 Newsome Rd., Apt 702 Salisbury, NC 28146 (704) 213-4805 jodi1932@hotmail.com FINANCE OFFICER Laura L. Britton P. O. Box 10179 Southport, NC 28461 (910) 457-7097, (910) 294-1976 laura.britton07@yahoo.com JUDGE ADVOCATE & SONS OF AMVETS LIAISON James Craven 4026 Beech Acres Lane Winston Salem, NC 27106 (336) 924-9848 cravenjames@triad.rr.com NEC Jim Ely P. O. Box 833 Welcome, NC 27374 (336) 731-4828 Alt. NEC & AMVETS RIDERS LIAISON Mike Rozmaryn 1540 Lower Palmer Road Salisbury, NC 28146 (704) 279-2092, (704) 213-1326 cherny@windstream.net

PROVOST MARSHAL Monroe Poplin 1765 Liberty Rd. Gold Hill, NC 28071 (704) 279-7385 WESTERN DISTRICT COMMANDER & INSPECTOR GENERAL Bruce Arton P. O. Box 453 Shelby, NC 28151 (704) 600-5860 brucearton@yahoo.com PIEDMONT DIST. COMMANDER & DEPUTY PROVOST MARSHAL Grover (Buddy) Waller 9325 Fisher Rd. Rockwell, NC 28138 (704) 279-3929 buddy12045@yahoo.com EASTERN DIST. COMMANDER David Beam P. O. Box 398 Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870 (252) 676-0691 ADJUTANT Jennifer Drum 1011 Caldwell Circle Shelby, NC 28150 (704) 487-6753 jdcic20@yahoo.com PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER Nancy Shiverdecker 13470 Old Beatty Ford Rd. Rockwell, NC 28138 (704) 267-6410 cib2marine@yahoo.com DEPUTY JUDGE ADVOCATE Tom Nichols 359 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 (252) 478-2825 tncbugman@aol.com CHAPLAIN Keith Dean 31 Zenith Drive Sylva, NC 28779 (828) 586-6170

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AUXILIARY LIAISON Anne Capucille 5809 Deven Circle Raleigh, NC 27604 (910) 872-1277 SERVICE OFFICER Russell Woodall 251 N. Main St. #414 Winston Salem, NC 27155 (336) 714-0823 russell.woodall@va.gov HISTORIAN Woodrow Bowman P. O. Box 1246 Lexington, NC 27293 (336) 243-2380 woodybowman@lexcominc.net

LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR Robert D. Williamson 705 8th Street Pembroke, NC 28372 (910) 522-1011, (910) 827-1061 retiredhtc@aol.com NATIONAL GUARD LIAISON Carl B. Morgan, Jr. 144 Hawksbridge Rd. Mt. Airy, NC 27030 (336) 786-4461, (704) 422-2528 cbmorgan17@triad.rr.com DEPUTY PROVOST MARSHAL Richard (Dick) Barringer P. O. Box 1041 Salisbury, NC 28145 (704) 213-6117 DEPUTY PROVOST MARSHAL Michael Smith 1135 Farm Creek Rd. Salisbury, NC 28146 (336) 309-5612

NC AMVETS NEWS—Winter, 2010-11 AMVETS RIDERS CHAPTER OFFICERS RECORD Part 1: Chapter Record Part 2: Officers Form

AMVETS RIDERS HEADQUARTERS

Dept. of___________________________

National AMVETS Riders

P.O. Box 495

Chapter___________________________

Dues Remittance Form

Membership Year__________

Worthington, PA 16262

Date Submitted______________________

E-mail: rdrsntlsecy@windstream.net

Date: ________________ Year:_____________ No. of Members:____________ Chapter #:_________ Date Chartered_________

Please type or print legibly all applicable sections of this form. Make 3 copies of form; Retain 1 copy, mail 1 copy to the Riders Department, and send 1 copy to Riders National. Completed form must be received at Riders National Headquarters PRIOR TO JULY 15.

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Address: _____________________________________________________________________Home (____)_____________________ City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________________________FAX

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E-mail Address: __________________________________________________________________________

Contact e-mail:_________________

Contact Phone#:___________

Mailing Address________________________________________________________________________________ Check # ______________

OFFICIAL CONTACT Send Chapter Mail To: __________________________________________________________CELL

AMVETS Riders

Contact name:______________________

Total Amount Submitted __________________ Please remit $7.00 for Each Member

Member Name:_________________________________ New:__________

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Auxiliary:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Member Name:_________________________________ New:__________

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Auxiliary:_____

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL CONTACT Renewal Contact/Title___________________________________________________________ CELL

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Address: _____________________________________________________________________Home (____)_____________________ City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________________________FAX

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E-mail Address: __________________________________________________________________________

Please see the Revised Chapter Officers Sheet (Reval) and the Revised Dues remittance sheet to the right. These are the only forms National AMVETS Riders will except please save them or print them down. Any old forms will be rejected.

EIN: _____________________________________________ Fiscal Year Ends (Date) ___________________________________

Member Name:_________________________________

New:__________

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Auxiliary:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Member Name:_________________________________

Bank Account #:____________________________________ Bank: ________________________________________________

New:__________

Renewal:_________

_____ This is to certify that the Chapter is incorporated in accordance with the state law and Article XXI, Section 8 of the AMVETS National Constitution.

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Check One:

Rider:________

Supporter:________

_____ No Chapter Headquarters

Auxiliary:_____

Member Name:_________________________________

_____The Chapter Headquarters carries all insurance required by state law and By Article VII of AMVETS National Bylaws.

New:__________

Check One: (status of Chapter Bylaws) _____Have been reviewed annually, but not amended since (year) _____, and are on file at Riders National Headquarters. _____Amended copy is attached for review and approval by the Riders National Judge Advocate.

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Auxiliary:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Auxiliary:_____

Member Name:_________________________________ New:__________

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Auxiliary:_____

Member Name:_________________________________ New:__________

Renewal:_________

AMVETS:____

SOA:_____

Rider:________

Supporter:________

Auxiliary:_____

CHAPTER REVALIDATION CERTIFICATION We certify that AMVETS RIDERS of __________________________________ has complied with all local, state, and federal laws and statues in the operation of the Chapter and its facilities, has a minimum of the required number of members in good standing, is fully paid up in all Department and National accounts and is in compliance with all provisions of AMVETS RIDERS National Constitution. Chapter President/Date

Chapter Secretary/Date

Thank You. Yours in Service, Kim “Tincups” Ntl. Secretary AMVETS Riders

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