Paul Revere Chapter-#178
2nd Quarter Newsletter
April through June 2013
www.paulrevereafa.org
Dear Paul Revere Chapter Members, Friends and Supporters:
Our AFA activities have kept us busy right from the very start of April, with our chapter
supporting and attending an Astronaut and Space day on April 6th , Community Partners’
Reception on the 17th to completing another successful Chief of Staff Scholarship Dinner and Golf
outing on 29 and 30 May.
On June 17th, we received excellent, excellent news that we have won the 2013 National AFA Unit
of the Year Award! What great news for a deserving team of dedicated and passionate team
members. From my officer staff, to the vice presidents of programs, to the many chapter members
and volunteers, who work our many events….you won the Gold!!
We held our monthly meeting for June on the 20th and our active team continues to work diligently
planning out the remaining of the year, with a summer barbecue for our Veterans on 30 July
(Lowell Care Center, Lowell, MA); Vettes to Vets on 29 September and right now, you all can
register for our 4th Annual AFA Veterans Fun Run, on 9 November.
The care, advocating for airpower and our service to our AFA community never stops! We truly
have an outstanding team and we are excited at the opportunities to add to our active ranks and to
continue our service.
There are many opportunities to serve and assist in our over 927 member chapter. During our June
meeting, it is with bittersweet emotions that we prepare to say good-bye to our Veterans Affairs
Vice President, Richard Codling. Dick is moving permanently to Florida, with his lovely wife,
Helen. This great man has worked many, many Veterans events and he has lived out the AFA
passion for troops every moment we have shared. There is much to do and help with in Veterans
Affairs, as Dick prepares to move south after this year’s Vettes to Vets event.
In this newsletter edition, you will find 7 additional pages of exciting news and information. You
will find information on National Awards; the Chief of Staff Scholarship dinner; Community
Partners; Education; 4th Annual AFA Fun Run; Membership and Draft Minutes from the June 22nd
New England Region lunch with AFA President-Craig McKinley.
We hope you enjoy this newsletter and we look forward to seeing you and working with you at
several of the events coming up. It continues to be a privilege to lead this dynamic chapter and to
serve with you.
Hands in; Let’s Move Out!
Keith Taylor
Chapter President
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AFA National Awards
Where Are All the Champions?
Right Here, in the Paul Revere Chapter!!!
PRC-2013 AFA Unit of the Year
I am extremely pleased to share the results of this year's AFA National Awards.
8 individual awards and 5 team awards
For starters, here are our individual winners for New England and from our Paul
Revere Chapter. Congratulations and thank you for all your work and continued
AFA work!
New England Region Medals of Merit
TSgt Don Tilley
Ryan Lafferty
Erin Lafferty
Jenny Hopewell
Joe Moynihan
Exceptional Service Awards
Irene Biddy
Paul Zauner
Massachusetts State Teacher of the Year
Rich Duncan, Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School
It's all about team.....
The Paul Revere Chapter was selected as the AFA Unit of the Year!!!!!!!
The great work and efforts by the men and women of the Paul Revere Chapter were
also recognized with the National Outstanding Extra Large Chapter; Exceptional
Service Award in Veterans Affairs; an Exceptional Service Award in
Communications and Aerospace Education Achievement Award.
Great job by the members and volunteers of the Paul Revere Chapter and our
supporters and sponsors.
Thank you for continuing to work very hard in serving our Air Force community and
carrying the message and actions of educating, advocating and supporting.
Way to go!
Hands In!!
Keith
Keith M. Taylor, President
Paul Revere Chapter, AFA-#178
(taken from an email by the President on 17 June 2013)
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2013 Chief of Staff Scholarship Dinner
At this year’s Chief of Staff Scholarship Dinner, the chapter
presented $15,000 in scholarships to two deserving airmen and to
three deserving high school seniors. We are grateful that Chief
James A. Cody, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force accepted
our invitation to be the keynote speaker.
This year we added two $500 scholarships for airmen in the name
and in memorial of longtime AFA member and patriot, Louis
Emond.
Pictured above left to right: Chief James A. Cody; SrA John Fay$500; SSgt Justin Beckett-$500; Erika Hill-$5,000 Chief of Staff
Scholarship; Halie LeSavage-$4,500 Chuck Jones Memorial
Scholarship; Dr. Tom Kobylarz standing in for his daughter, Karlie$4,500 Brian Sweeney Memorial Scholarship and Taylor, President.
(Photos on this page courtesy of AF, Rick Berry)
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Community Partners
On the 17th of April, Irene Biddy, VP for Community Partners and of Oasis Systems,
planned and successfully executed a membership reception and appreciation event for
our chapter’s Community Partners (CP). The event was held at the Minuteman
Commons, Hanscom Air Force Base, with 42 companies signed up. Our chapter hosted
32 attending community partners and the event was catered by Sean Patrick Catering.
During the evening, new plaques were presented to BTAS and Windmill International,
Inc. Community partner renewal medallions were presented to Intertek, J.A.
Cunningham Consulting, The MITRE Corporation, North Suburban Chamber of
Commerce and DSD Labs.
Any company interested in learning about becoming a Community Partner, please
contact Irene, at [email protected] .
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Education
2013 Massachusetts AFA Teacher of the Year
Richard Duncan
Richard Duncan, Information Technology Teacher at Montachusett Regional Vocational
Technical School. Mr. Duncan first won the Chapter Teacher of the Year at the HS level.
A total of $750 was presented. (Picture courtesy and taken June 19th 2013 with some of Duncan’s students.)
Mr. Fred Lipton, at left, won Chapter Teacher of the Year, at the Middle
School Level. He then went on to compete at the Massachusetts State
level. Fred is an 8th grade teacher at Hanscom’s Middle School. He was
presented a $250 check and certificate on June 24th to the loud applause
of his 8th grade graduating class. Picture at left was a courtesy photo
taken during an outside, environmental lab.
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4th Annual AFA Veterans Fun Run
November 9th 2013
Registration is now open for the Paul Revere Chapter’s 4th Annual AFA Veterans Fun
Run! Come join us on Saturday November 9th 2013 to raise money for Veterans’
programs and recently deployed troops and their families. We are partnering again with
the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA to create a great
event for the whole family, with live music from the Aldous Collins band and much
more. Sign up early to receive a special discounted rate and to ensure you receive a tshirt! Visit www.afafunrun.com for registration and more information.
Photo by Ron Goodner, AFA
Jonathan Elias CBS-Boston New Anchor (L) with 2012 Run Winners and Kristin Croteau, Bedford VA
Photo by Kristin Pressly-VA Public Affairs
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Membership
JOIN OUR MONTHLY CHAPTER MEETINGS
If you’ve been involved only “from a distance” lately, we would love
to host you at our next chapter meeting!
We meet monthly at Hanscom AFB, and our chapter events are
open to the public. All meeting dates and times are posted publicly
on our chapter website, www.paulrevereafa.org
.
To learn more, please contact our VP of Membership, Ms. Jenny
Hopewell, at [email protected].
Membership Data:
Year Over Year (Membership Awards: July-thru-June)
Period ending June ’11
52.5 memberships
Period ending June ’12
76.5 memberships
Period ending June ’13
58 memberships (through
May)
2Q2013 New Memberships to date (Apr-Jun)
8 new members (June numbers not yet reported)
New Memberships still to be processed/recorded
38 from AF graduating class 1Q13, will record in July
Still working from AF graduating class 2Q13, will record in July/Aug period.
Total Membership Count for Chapter
May 2012 Field Report
May 2013 Field Report
846 members
Not available at time of this publishing.
New Member Recruitment
2013 ALS graduates (will implement new system by next graduating class)
July Veterans Picnic, 30 July 2013
November Fun Run, 9 November 2013
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AFA State and New England Region
Lunch with AFA President Craig McKinley
22 June 2013
Location: 143rd Airlift Wing, Quonset, Rhode Island
Commander’s Conference Room-P 1 Building
Draft Minutes taken by Keith M. Taylor and provided to Acting NE Region
President, Ron Adams
I. Attendees:
The Regional meeting started at 12 noon on 22 June. 12 attendees including AFA
President, Craig McKinley.
Joe Waller-RI Chapter 180; Craig McKinley-AFA President; Bob Wilkerson-AFA NE
Region President; Chief Laurie Casucci-RI Chapter 311; Fred Frostic-RI State Board;
Major Pelos-RI 143rd Public Affairs; Chief Baltazar; Colonel Floru-143 Wing
Commander; Joe Moynihan-Paul Revere Chapter; Keith Taylor-Paul Revere
Chapter; Dean Plowman and Ron Adams-MA State Treasurer and Paul Revere
Chapter member.
II. OPENING:
COLONEL ARTHUR J FLORU, Wing Commander of the 143rd Airlift Wing,
provided a short and concise brief on all the flying and support the Rhodies do for the
Air Force. They are training pilots in flying the C130-J aircraft. There is nothing that
Colonel Fluro’s Wing won’t do to help the Air Force be efficient. He also spoke of the
new tower that his unit helped to dedicate.
III. INTERESTING FACTS AND METRICS FROM PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
Current Enrollment of AFA: 106,000
30,000 are lifetime members
Average Age: 68
Air Force active duty today: 330,000
Air Force active duty 1974: 900,000
Ideas: Invite a Mainer (Invite a Maine AFA member to AFA annual conference to help
stimulate interest in re-building an AFA chapter in Maine
Peas ANG is getting the new KC135!! Efforts need to be made to motivate the
Peas leadership to get involved or re-involved in AFA. Lot of great troops at Peas.
“Remember Your Heritage!”-AFA President McKinley
IV. Ron Adams conducted a review of the New England Region Chapters:
-178 Paul Revere Chapter did very well at the 2013 national awards board
-423 is the Flying Yankee, led by Jack Swift, Colonel (Retired)
-312 has 265 members
-180 is the smallest chapter with 10 faculty and 44 students
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