The Graybeards - Korean War Veterans Association

President’s Message
Before I
vote in an
election I
always try to find
out as much as
possible about
the persons running
for office.
There are three
officers, – The
President, 1st
Harley Coon
Vice President,
President, KWVA 2nd Vice
President – and
four Directors up for election or re-election.
Be sure to vote for the most qualified
person and the ones that show strong leadership.
Take close look at how the
Associations (Your) finances have been
handled. What has been the spending
habits of the Administrations. If we are
going to continue to have a strong
Veterans Organization we must have
strong leadership
The raffle is in full swing and a lot of
tickets are being sold. The sales from the
raffle will help us keep the Graybeards at
72 pages and maybe more. It would be
great to be able to expand the Graybeards
to tell more chapters activities and stories.
The next threes years our battle cry will be
“Remember The Korean War.”
We have plenty of raffle tickets and a
lot of members have requested more.
There were some members that didn’t
receive their books of tickets because of
change of address or lost in the mail. If the
members want more they can contact their
Chapter President or Department
President or contact National
Headquarters.
Plans for our convention are shaping
up. The registration form will be in each
issue of the Graybeards. I would strongly
urge the members to make their reservations
early. We only have 250 rooms
blocked at the Sheraton National Hotel
from July 24th through the 29th. Sixty of
these rooms are sold. We do have a overflow
hotel but if you want to stay at the
host hotel you better make reservations
now. We will need time to make name
badges, make plans for the hospitality
room, making up registration packets and
There are three officers, –
The President, 1st Vice
President, 2nd Vice
President – and four
Directors up for election
or re-election. Be sure to
vote for the most qualified
person and the ones that
show strong leadership.
taking care of all the things that pop up.
The telephone number for the Sheraton
National is (800) 468-9090 or (703) 521-
1900. Tell them you are with the Korean
War veterans. This year the Gathering and
the KWVA are uniting the Korean War
Veterans as a unit working together. I
want to thank Jack Cloman for his hard
work. It has been a pleasure working with
him. We are going to ask
members to bring door
prizes. At the general membership
meeting we will
have a drawing every 1/2
hour, you must be in attendance
to receive the door
prize.
For the banquet, we
would like something from
your State, maybe you could
get a football, baseball, basketball
from a college or
professional sport team.
Maybe a State Flag flown
over your State Capitol if
possible. These are just a
few suggestions. We hope to
have enough door prizes for
every one. Each registration
packet will have door prize
tickets. Please send or bring
a door prize. You can send
them to National
Headquarters at 4120
Industrial Ln., Beavercreek,
OH 45430.
I have been receiving
many telephone calls and
letters concerning the funds
missing from the past
Administration. This issue will be discussed
at the March 25th Executive
Council meeting. I can tell the membership
that the CPA Firm of Stan Mydra has
sent invoices totaling $97,000.00 which
we have already paid over $80,000.00.
Past President has received $139,000.00
from the insurance company. This equates
to the CPA firm getting $97,000.00 and
the KWVA only recovering $41,000.00 in
round figures. Will we receive anymore?
That is anyone’s guess.
When I became president the first thing
on my agenda was to incorporate strong
financial accountability. With the help of
the finance committee, Dorothy Schilling
Chairperson, Bill Van Ort, Norb Reiner
and Treasurers, the late Dan Nicholas,
Thomas Gregory and Howard Camp and
with membership approval we have a procedure
that it takes two people to approve
Please turn to PRESIDENT on page 7
Korea — “Forgotten No More”
The airplanes represent Sunday, June 25, 1950 when “Reds”
slammed accross 38th parallel into Korea
The arm holding flag symbolizes the dying passing the flag to the
living in the fight to preserve freedom and the “American Way.”
The numerals 33629 is the number of Americans who perished
defending freedom in Korea – 1950-1953.
The stars honor the Gold Star families.
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