President’s Notes May 2024
President’s Notes: We still need a nominee for 2nd Vice President. This is an excellent way to learn how the Chapter works and to ease yourself into helping run it. We also need a Newsletter Editor, a Photographer, and a ROTC/JROTC Liaison. Please get in touch with me if you are interested.
I want to thank everyone who helped make the ROTC/JROTC Awards and Recognition Banquet on 25 April such a success, especially Tom Luczynski, Tom Harnden, Dan O’Connell, Lynda Farkas, Jack Harig, and Don Bratton. We had a great turnout, and, as always, talking with the high school and college students reinforced our confidence in the youth of America. We had a chance to spend some time with some outstanding students and their teachers.
In March, I asked the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to provide us with a guest speaker for our May 16 meeting. The topic is “How NASA is continuing its deep space exploration and what NASA’s plans were to establish a permanent moon base.
We lucked out and NASA sent Lindsay Kaldon a former USAF Captain EW Officer, and a real-life nuclear engineer and scientist. She is the project manager for the NASA team building a nuclear reactor that will be the power source for a permanent US base on the Moon and Mars. Her explanation of how her team is building a safe efficient nuclear reactor was very interesting, and very educational for us. She works at Glenn Research Center and has offered to arrange a tour of the facility. We have open dates in June and September so I will be talking with her!
We had 16 members in attendance, and this highlights the reason we need a chapter photographer. We need someone to focus on photographing and preserving our events. Please consider this. You do not need special training or a dedicated camera. If you have a camera on your phone, that is more than adequate.
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ADVOCACY
Please go to https://moaa.quorum.us/. This is the MOAA Legislative Action Center and you can read through all the MOAA legislative priorities. When you see a topic you want to support, click on the title and you will be taken to preformatted letters you can have MOAA send to your Senators or Representative.
You will notice there are a lot of topics MOAA is trying to address, and you can return often as you like to send additional letters on a multitude of topics.
Andy Emanuele
President