FLEET RESERVE ASSOCIATION, BRANCH 162

BRANCH MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

   CURRENT MEMBERSHIP

    Total Active Members                             365

    Past Due Members                                   10 

    Members in Good Standing                   354

   Members Needing to Renew                  31

   Members dropped                                    8

    Deaths                                                       0 

NEW OR REINSTATED MEMBERS:       CPL Faith HARRY, USMC

TRANSFERS IN/OUT THIS MONTH:    NONE

MEMBERS DROPPED FOR NON-PAYMENT OF DUES:  Pvt Phillip BROWN; ET2 David FELLER; ETN3 Gerald FOX; RM2 Roy P. GELE; Tracey Lynette MORTON; SSgt Kenneth PETERSON; MA1(SW) Robert ROKEACH; CPO David WILLIAMS                                                  

MEMBERS PAST DUE OR NEEDING TO RENEW  

Past Due:   MMC Elvin BURLESON; NCC(AW/FTC); Tina CHILDS; MAC Charles COLEMAN; DCCM Louis CRISLER; LCdr David DOWELL; 

MSgt Meredith HUNDLEY; MK1 Wilbert MICHELL; PNCM Michael PERSICO; STSSA James WICHT; GySgt Jeff WOLFE         

Needing to Renew:  EM1 Jack BARGER; SKCS Albert BENTZ Sr; DPC John BRANNON; ANCM John BOCKHORST; 

DPCM(SW) Ambrose BOUDREAUX; CWO4; Wilfred BROUSSARD; MA2 Gary CADE; POCS Charles COGGESHALL; 

CWO4 William COX; YNCS Nadine GOODMAN; SSgt Jesse HAMPTON;  Capt Eric HOUIN; DPC Jerry HUGHES; DP1 Brenda HUNDLEY; 

LCdr John LASTER; CMC Jerry LAWRENCE; AWCS Norman MITCHELL; PO1 Eufrocino MONTE; MSgt Camillus OLESKI; 

AT1 Jeffrey OLSEN; HMC(FMF)  Bob PEILKO; MR1 Frank REANDO; FTCM Henry ROWLAND; HMCS Harold RYAN; 

EMCM Theodore SCHNEIDER; HM Robert SMITH MS3 Teodoro SUMERA; AFCM Russell SYLVESTER; 

CMDCM(SW/AW) James TEUTSCH; CWO4 Kenneth THORN; GySgt William WEEMS                   

Shipmates - You can renew your membership by mail or on line or by telephone call using your credit   card.  Call the  FRA Headquarters at 1-   800-FRA-1924 or their Website www.fra.org.  Another way to renew is to use your military  allotment.  Call the above number or use the WebSite for more info on how to start an allotment to automatic pay your dues.  Remember dues are now $30.00 per year unless you renew for  multiple years.  You can also stop by the Branch Home to say HELLO, and leave your dues money with the club manager, and he  will forward them to the Branch Secretary.

A FURTHER NOTE CONCERNING MEMBERSHIP  Declining membership in the FRA and the LA-FRA is becoming a major problem.  We don't seems to have the answer or the solution to correct our declining membership.  We and the Ladies of the Auxiliary received orders to report to our final duty station on a daily bases.  We can't change our orders.  So we must find a way to retain our members who have either lost interest or may have decided not to renew their membership.  Every effort should be made to make personal contact with them and bring them back.  Try to contact them or anyone you know and see if you can get them to come to a branch meeting or the Branch Home and renew or meet new shipmates.  We still need to try and obtain new members.  Explain why you joined.  Tell them of the need to have an advocate in Washington.

Remember both the Branch & the FRA need you as a member.  STAY WITH THE FRA

MARCH  FRA  ANNIVERSARIES - DPCM Ambrose C. BOUDREAUX - 30 Yrs; POCS Charles M COGGESHALL - 10 Yrs; MSgt Larry T. GETTLE - 15 Yrs; AWCS Norman A. MITCHELL - 35 Yrs; CWO4 Kenneth E. THORN - 35 Yrs;  GySgt William WEEMS - 5 Yrs.                                                                             

To all those above congratulations to you all for your continuous membership in the FRA.  We thank you for your many years of service  to your country, and to our Branch and the FRA.  We hope that you will have many more years to come.

Our Branch VP Vince BOBZIN received 2  recruiting pins for recruiting 2 new members

MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP DRAWING: The winner of the membership drawing held each month, if present at the branch meeting receives one-year free FRA membership.  Remember you have to be there to win.  This months drawing winner was HTC Arnold J. DUFFOURC, USN(Ret) but was not present

 BRANCH BINNACLE LIST & CHAPLAIN'S CORNER:    

The below S/M are sick or in distress.  If you know any of them give them a call or visit.

Caryl FALGOT - Recovering at home w/cancer; Charles LANDRY - Serious health problems; Dave REID - At home w/acute bronchitis; 

George RIVIERE - Ill & hospitalized; Harold "Jim" RYAN - Health problems; Rodney WHITE - Recovering at home from back surgery.

S/M's if you are so inclined please say a prayer for our S/M's that are ill and or in distress.  If you can give them a call or visit.  Send a "Get Well" card.  If you need  the address call the Br Sec for their address.  They would appreciate it.

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