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Membership for the 2004-2005 year was 100 percent renewed, with 12
life and 14 annuals, for a total of 26. The new membership for the
year 2005-2006 will begin in August, but dues will be accepted at
any time. Child welfare chairman Louise Cobb reported on projects
that members have participated in: 4-H, gift and grant to a
terminally ill child, and food for a caregiver of three small
children while their mother is in St. Louis with her 16-year-old,
who is recovering from her second liver transplant. Several cash
donations were made, and the total evaluation was $2,466 for this
chairmanship.
Community service chairman Doris Langenbahn reported that members
have given Campbell's labels to schools for educational equipment,
provided large plastic containers to a campground for kitchen
carryouts, volunteered and donated to the local food pantry, given
blood, donated two trailer loads of food to churches and shelters,
donated an electric adjustable bed, and provided other services. The
total evaluation is $29,442.
The auxiliary has sent articles to the news media, and Channel 5
has televised a taping of members and interviews at All Veterans
Park.
AMVETS Lincoln Post 71 is continuing the Veterans Honor Roll
project. At present, 1,602 bricks have been ordered, and another
laying of bricks will be made when recent orders are ready. A
directory has also been installed for convenience in looking up
where individual bricks are laid. Forms are available to order more
bricks.
Hospital chairman Dorothy Sanders reported that members sent
paperback books and clothes hangers to a local nursing home, visited
members in hospitals and nursing home, sent plastic containers to
the Hines VA Hospital for a gardening program, sent eyeglasses and
hearing aids to the North Chicago VAMC, sent prescription medicine
bottles to a low-cost clinic (collection is being discontinued),
donated coffee to Danville outpatient clinic, assisted in presenting
bathrobes to veterans in Lincoln nursing homes at Christmas, visited
veterans and others on holidays, and participated in the Easter
party for residents of the Illinois Veterans' Home at Quincy. The
total evaluation for the program is $7,979.
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Americanism chairman Dorothy Sanders reported that members
participated in local patriotic ceremonies, sent items to military
personnel, spoke to seventh- and eighth-graders on what it was like
to stay home and assist in the war effort while loved ones went off
to World War II, and attended the dedication of the Illinois World
War II Memorial. Total evaluation for the program is $20,864.
Ruth Haak, past Division Three president and department
secretary, conducted the induction of new members and installation
of the 2005-2006 officers: Cyndi Dennis, president; Ruth Haak, first
vice president, secretary-treasurer, membership chairman,
parliamentarian, liaison officer and scholarship chairman; Louise
Cobb, second vice president, child welfare chairman and chaplain;
Doris Langenbahn, third vice president and community service
chairman; Dorothy Sanders, sergeant at arms, hospital chairman and
Americanism chairman.
The next three meetings are scheduled for 4 p.m. July 11, Sept.
19 and Nov. 21 at 1417 N. Logan St.
[News release provided by Ruth Haak, secretary]
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