NOTES FROM April 2009 MEETING

By admin | Apr 17, 2009

U.S. COAST GUARD
CHIEF WARRANT &
WARRANT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
YORKTOWN CHAPTER

President MSSE4 Joe Myers
Vice President BOSN3 Andrea Currie
Secretary F&S2 Randy Litka
Treasurer F&S2 John Crisano (ret)

NOTES FROM April 2009 MEETING

1. On Thursday, 16 April 09, Yorktown Chapter CW & WOA President Joe Myers called the meeting to order at 1130 held at the Training Center Galley.

2. Members in attendance:

BOSN4 Jim Parry (ret)
PERS4 Barry Tate (ret)
F&S2 John Crisano (ret)
PERS4 Dean Clark
MSSE4 Joe Myers
MSS4 Ken Edmundson
ENG3 J.R. Markham
BOSN3 Andrea Currie
PERS2 Antonio Varner
F&S2 Randy Litka
ENG2 Jon Phillips

3. Previous minutes.

Minutes from the September meeting were not reviewed or approved.

4. Treasurers Report.

Approximate Balance: $412.00

5. President's Report. None

6. Old Business.

a. Mr. John Crisano is still looking for old and new photographs for the TRACEN CWOA Web page. .
b. Yorktown CWOA Polo shirts and aprons were handed out by CWO3 Andrea Currie.

7. New Business.

a. We discussed the upcoming TRACEN Spring Fling. Currently six names are listed as personnel that have volunteered for this event. Thank you for taking time out of your busy days for this event. CWO Randy Litka is the lead on this event. Our first meeting with be soon. The date for the Spring Fling will be May 29^th 2009.
b. CWO Joe Myers is the lead on the Training Center Yorktown 50^th anniversary project. Be sure to get with CWO Myers if you wish to volunteer for have any ideas for the "time capsule".
c. CWO Pete Mantel has set up a time and place for the annual Earth Day clean up project. Volunteers will meet with Pete in front of the Cyber Café at 0830 on the 22^nd of April for this worthy cause.
d. Training Center Yorktown has eight (8) new personnel that will be making CWO on June 1^st 2009. CWO Andrea Currie is taking the lead on this project. This is an exciting time for all new appointees and I hope that everyone will take time out of their days to attend this event at the Port of York. See Andrea Currie for details.
e. The CGEA will be having a car wash this Friday (April 17^th 2009) to benefit a Training Center CPO who lost everything he owned in an apartment fire. Please help support this TRACEN CPO and get your car washed by the CGEA. It's a great cause.
f. It was my honor to represent the Yorktown CWOA at a recent funeral. One of our brethren had crossed the bar and it seemed only appropriate that one of his own CWO Brothers be there to present the flag to his family. The CWO who passed away did retire back in the late 1970's and his last tour of duty was at the Reserve Training Center here at Yorktown.
g. CWO Carriere is working with PTC and LCDR Lee Fleming to come up with an enlarged image of our logo so that we can use it on www.cafepress.com to open up a TCY CWOQ storefront, and begin selling shirts, hooded sweatshirts, mugs and novelty items.
h. Next CWOA meeting is a date yet to be determined.

9. I want to thank each and every one of your for attending this months CWOA meeting. It was great to see a full table during lunch. Perhaps we can reserve more chairs for our next meeting. There is so much that this chapter can do if we just put our minds and ideas together. I will be working with Mr. Jeffery Wapner (an MWR employee) and I will be trying to put together a CWOA Golf Tournament in the near future. This is a great way to raise money for our chapter. Fundraising and community projects should be at the forefront of this organization. Your ideas and comments are appreciated, so please send them to me.

10. The meeting was adjourned at 1230.

Submitted: Randy Litka RDL

Approved: Joe Myers

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