Scott Memorial Chapter-AF168

1st Qtr – 2011

NEWSLETTER

 

This Quarter, as the Quarterly Reports show, we are making headway into trying to meet our Annual Activity Plan, which was one of my goals when I became President.  I consider this a checklist that we should try hard to meet.  The more we can do to complete the checklist, the better we can fulfill the AFA Mission locally, which is to Educate, Advocate, and Support.

 

I am pleased to announce that our bank, The Bank of O’Fallon, is once again signed up as a Community Partner (CP).  I am hoping to get pictures of them and our web maintainer “Art by Jim Denney” placed on our web page.  My goal is to meet with at least one business a month in order to ask them to be a CP.  If you are close with any business/owner and think they would be a prospective CP, please talk to me, so I can help you prepare for the meeting.  CP memberships are great, as they help us in two ways.  One, we get the benefit of half of their application fee ($90 basic) to use right away, and second, they are added to our overall membership total.

 

Again, as in any volunteer organization, we are still looking for members to get involved.  While a few can keep us going, it isn’t good enough.  With over 1,000 members on the books, we must strive to reach out to those that are not aware of our local activities, and hopefully find out what spark is needed to make them want to get involved.  To this end, I am trying to advertise our chapter and in-turn the AFA in anyway possible.  Hopefully some of you may have seen different pieces of information in the “Command Post”, on the 375^th AMW Web “Bulletin- Board”.  I have also have had information placed in several local papers.  Hopefully we’ll be mentioned in the March AFA magazine in regard to the Dupo High School AFJROTC Unit using their $250 Grant to take cadets to the St. Louis Science Center.      

 

We are always open to new ideas on how we can better support our local AFA Mission, so please feel free to mention them at the meeting or E-mail them to myself or any of our officers.

 

 

Alan Gaffney

President