2007 KWVA Election Results - Korean War Veterans Association

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BUSINESS
Non Compliance Status
Have Any Of You Received A Letter Like This?
We still receive news from Chapters that are not in compliance
with KWVA membership and reporting requirements. In
fact, the list is growing longer. In such cases, we put their submissions
in a pending file until their compliance is verified. So,
if you have sent in your Chapter’s news and complementary photos,
but you haven’t seen them in print, it might have to do with
your “noncompliant status.” This applies to all sections of The
Graybeards, e.g., “Monuments,” “Tell America,” etc.
If you are not sure about your Chapter’s status, check with
Jake Feaster. He might send you a letter like the sample below, in
which the names and Chapter numbers have been changed. Then,
once your Chapter has been restored to the “compliant” side, we
will print your delayed news.
Xerxes,
The email below from Missing News, your 2nd Vice President, inquired
as to why some of your Chapter’s activities were not published in the last
Graybeards. There have been a number of notices concerning
“Publishing Preferences” of articles in previous issues of The Graybeards.
The last of these notices appears on pg 17 of the Nov/Dec 2006 issue.
It appears that your article/pictures may be on “hold,” due to nonreceipt
of your officer election report. Have you or some of your staff
submitted the required report since your last election? If so, it has not
reached me for updating your folder that we maintain for each chapter and
record in the database. Note below that the last report I have on file for
your chapter shows your last election/installation as being 1/1/05, submitted
by Phil Photos, 5/31/2006.
The information required is: [a] the date of the election, [b] the officers
and titles and [c] any corrections to the data shown below in your current
chapter summary, to include the [d] email address for contacting the
chapter president. Please send this election report to me via email at your
earliest opportunity so that we can update your records and bring your
chapter into compliance with the reporting requirements.
I am also including a listing of your current assigned membership for
you and your staff to review for accuracy and completeness. Check this
chapter listing of members and report any errors of address, ph #, name;
etc, missing KWVA members, members on list that are not one of your
valid chapter members, deceased members not shown as deceased and
give the date of death. Send this information by email to: Membership
@kwva.org at your earliest opportunity AFTER you send the Election
Report.
Please contact me by phone, fax or email, if you have questions concerning
the above. I hope this will resolve the problem Ares described in
his email, below, and enable your chapter’s accomplishments to be visible
beyond your chapter area!
Yours for a better KWVA,
Jake Feaster, LR13771 - Supervisor
Management Information System
JFeaster@kwva.org Ph: 352-466-3493
Cell: 352-262-1845, FAX: 775-242-8113
Easy enough. So, if you think your Chapter might be in the
“Noncompliant Pending” file, and you want to get it out, check
with Jake Feaster. Some Chapters have done that and been cleared.
In fact, several have had their news and photos published here as a
result. That makes the editorial staff happy. After all, we want to
get your news and photos in The Graybeards as much as you do.
Mistakes Were Made (Nee Errata)
We are renaming this section of The Graybeards. Our editorial
staff has noted recently that when people go astray in
today’s society they don’t really apologize. They simply say,
“Mistakes were made.” That way no one—leastwise the
people who made the mistakes—is blamed. Well, we are
adopting that same philosophy.
From now on, we will simply say “Mistakes were made”
in response to an error that appears in The Graybeards. Of
course, you will still know who to blame.
We Wish Chapters Would Stop Moving Around
In the March/April 2007 issue we identified Chapter 259
as being in Charles County, MO. We were unaware that it
had moved from its real location in Indianapolis, Indiana.
We apologize for relocating Chapter 259. But, that
explains why we are editors and not movers.
We Couldn’t Miss The Hat, But We Missed The Name
The names of one of the wives in the group picture of the
8221st Army Unit Association veterans on page 29 in the
March/April issue was omitted. In the front row, the seventh
lady from the left is Jeanette Bayouth. She is the lady with
the big hat.
MOH List Is Incomplete
C. J. Greenwood sent a few comments to Hershall E. Lee
regarding the number of Medal of Honor Recipients
addressed on p. 71 of the March/April 2007 issue. (Lee
requested the number.) He wrote:
Enclosed is the complete list of MOH recipients. The
Graybeards are a bit off. They list 8 from Illinois, but state
7. There are 8 from illinois.
On the original list they have 131 but only list 6 from
Illinois. They left out Dean and Poynter. This makes 133.
Then add the latest, Tibor Rubin.
Note: Mr. Greenwood did furnish a list, which contains 130
names—including Dean’s and Poynter’s—and excluding
Rubin’s. That still brings the number to 131.
As a point of interest, Stanley Christian and Walter
Monegan were in my outfit and I was with them when they
were killed.
Greenwood is correct about the number from Illinois.
There are eight. Just for the record, Carl Greenwood is the
president of the Korean Memorial Association (IL) and
served with the U.S. Marines in the early part of the Korean
War.
May– June 2007
The Graybeards