Sons of the American
Revolution
Meeting Notice, January 2010
Compatriot,
The next meeting
of the Tampa Chapter will be held this Saturday,
January 16th in the private meeting room of the Piccadilly Cafeteria, located at
This month we'll install our new officers and then our new President and
author, Luke Lloyd, will present a follow-up to our November program when
We hope you’ll join us. Guests are always welcome. We encourage members
to bring a guest and continue to welcome those working on their applications.
Regards,
Kevin Yarnell
Secretary,
2010 Dues
[For those that need one last reminder…]
If you have not yet paid your 2010 dues there is still time. Kevin will
be able to accept dues through the 16th. Anyone paying after that
will have to be “reinstated” and they will not appear on the annual report.
National dues: $30.00
Total $65.00
Bring the check (made out to Tampa SAR) to the meeting or mail it to
Kevin Yarnell,
Congratulations to Barry (Bear) Marler
If you weren’t at the December
meeting you’ll want to know that Bear graduated from Georgia Tech last month
and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt in the Air Force. His mother
informs us that he’ll report to Maxwell AFB in
It was somehow appropriate that we
should hear of this milestone during our annual joint
Our Newsletters: A Chronicle of the
If you have a few minutes and
want to learn more of our chapter’s history you can view a large number of our
past chapter newsletters. So far we’ve scanned and posted to our website (www.patriot-web.com) all our newsletters
back to September 1990. So you have 2 decades of material to view. Click on the
“Chapter History” link in the bar at the top of the website. You’ll find a link
then at the left that will take you to a listing of all the newsletters. Our
thanks go out to Elwin Thrasher (current member) who served as editor for many
years and to our past secretaries that kept all the file copies. They made this
possible.
Minutes
of the December 19, 2009 meeting of the Tampa Chapter SAR
President Bell called the meeting to order at
Members present: Jack Bolen, Marty Miller, John Sessums,
Allen,
Welcome guests:
From the
Wives: June Bolen, Jeanne Lloyd, Judy
Copeland, and Lissette Young,
Other guests: Edna Broyles who is Regent of
the
The President introduced the guests.
The minutes of the November meeting were approved.
The secretary reported on the collection of dues and reminded the
membership of the next Board of Management meeting in
The Treasurer reported a balance of $3,194.96 and petty cash of $28.26.
The balance is inflated with the 2010 dues that have yet to be paid to
National. The treasurer transferred $70.00 from petty cash to the checking
account.
Luke Lloyd gave a brief report on his activity as registrar. The
potential list now stands at 54. Seven applications and one supplemental are at
National. William Vassar was approved. He announced a Genealogy workshop at the
Luke also reported that Rod Stebbins spent
nearly a month in the hospital and was, at one point, near death. He returned
home a few days ago. Luke suggested phone calls and cards from the membership
would be appreciated.
Jack Bolen thanked Edna Broyles for representing the
Luke took a moment of personal privilege to announce the publication of
his book, “Out of Darkness“. As he put it, the completion of the book should be
an encouragement to us all as we contemplate attempting new things.
Cy Gamber shared with the membership that
The meeting recessed for lunch.
The President called the meeting to order and presented the SAR Law
Enforcement medal to John Vallejo. Officer Vallejo works for the Tampa Police
department having spent 19 years as a traffic and homicide investigator. He was
chosen for the award for his extraordinary work in the area of DUI arrests.
Officer Vallejo has been a DUI investigator for 14 years and has been
responsible for over 2,200 arrests. Further, he conducts education programs and
participates in community events to raise awareness to the problem of drinking
and driving. Since 1998 more than 80,000 students have participated in an
education program originated by Officer Vallejo.
A lively question and answer session followed the presentation which
undoubtedly added to the knowledge of the membership.
The President then called on Vice President Yarnell to introduce the
Following the presentation, the Vice President encouraged the
Our guest Edna Broyles won the 50/50 and donated the proceeds to the
The President led the recessional, Luke Lloyd gave the benediction, and
the meeting adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Yarnell
Chapter Secretary