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| | Minutes of Columbia River Detachment 826 Meeting of
8 July 2010 | |
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| Opening Ceremony:
1830 | |
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| Introduction of Dignitaries:
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DD Lou Baste – Detachment Marine of the Year.
PDD Rex Hopper Dept. WA Marine of the Year, Jr. Vice Commandant & WA Pack Mad Dog.
Honorable Chief Devil Dog PDD Phil Ruhmshottel, Pack of WA Dog Robber & Lewis and Clark Pound #225 Devil Dog of the Year.
DD Michael Wilson - Young Marine 6th Division Commander.
PDD Jim Renton – Department WA Judge Advocate, Worthy Pack Jr. Vice Pack Leader, & Sir Pound Keeper Lewis & Clark Pound #225, MODD.
PDD Bob Vollmer – Worthy Pack Leader.
RECOGNITION OF PAST COMMANDANTS PRESENT:
Philip E. Ruhmshottel (1994), John F. Stofiel (1996), Rex E. Hopper (2005), James L. Renton (2007).
RECOGNITION OF PAST MARINE OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS:
John F. Stofiel (1997), Phil Ruhmshottel (2002), Rex E. Hopper (2004), Robert J. Rector (2006), Michael B. Wilson (2007) and James L. Renton (2008) |
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| Introduction of Guests:
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| Roll Call of Elected Officers:
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| Quorum of Board of Trustees (Elected Officers) Present:
YES | |
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| Application(s) for Membership:
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| Applicants Awaiting Oath of Membership:
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| Presentation of Life Memberships:
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| Minutes of Previous Meeting:
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Motion to accept as published by Jim Renton, 2nd Bob Vollmer, carried |
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| Correspondence:
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Received invitation from the Portland VA Medical Center to attend a suicide prevention Conference on Friday Sept. 10, 2010 at the VA Hospital Auditorium. 0800-1630. Cost $20.00 contact person Victoria Neindow 503-220-8262 ext 52857 or 58382 Victoria.Neindow@va.cob. |
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| Report of Paymaster, Donald Cheney:
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Paymaster Don Cheney Absent Adj John Stofiel read report, Motion to accept report by George Zeleznik, 2nd Lou Baste, carried. |
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| Report of Adjutant,
John Stofiel:
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118 Members [X=Associates: 7+ *1= other Det. Vote] REG VOTING MEMBERS: 111; 19 REG MBRS NOT IN GOOD STANDING = 92 div 15 = 6.1 7 Delegates at the National Convention in August. [42 LIFE Members are in count for voting purposes.]. |
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| Report of Sickness/Distress:
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Louis Claudio doing battle w/lung cancer, doing chemo at OHSU, lost some of his voice functioning, but healing well, Dr’s. caught it early and prognosis looks good that it may not return. Bob Dean doing battle w/cancer, and Keith Fitch’s bride, Joan recovering from heart attack. |
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| Reports of Elected Officers:
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| Reports of Standing Committees:
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Bob Costello Memorial Fund, George LaFrazia:
Absent no report.
Clark County Veterans Resource,
Louis Baste:
Our next meeting is on Wednesday and I understand we will making changes to our policies and procedures
Marine Corps Coordinating Council,
John Stofiel: Larry Stewart – We had a pretty sparse turnout at our last meeting. We had an interesting discussion about the YM’s about whether the YM’s could be members on the council. Mike Howard thinks the YM’s need to be completely supported and every YM Unit should be represented on the council. It was a positive discussion but no changes were made at that point. Dan Horton the chair of the Semper Fi Golf Classic is scheduled for 1 October 2010. LtCol Holmquist shared with our fundraising committee which has now been dropped as no one was stepping forward to assist with this, this would have been in addition to the golf classic so this was dropped. No volunteers to support a new program of which if the member organizations were to take this on under the MCCC then we would split the proceeds with that organization. The Corps Family Day is on 7 August. At Blue Lake park in Fairview, OR. The Change of Command for the I&I is on 9 July and the COC for the reserve side is on the 10 July. The new I&I is LtCol Duncan Buchanan and the CO for the Reserve Bn is LtCol Sean Riddell.
VA Voluntary Service Committee,
George LaFrazia:
Rex Hopper – 18 Sept is a volunteer luncheon/recognition event. Our Bake/Ice cream sales are going good. The golf cart program is alive and well and thriving. The 40 et 8 is providing us a new golf cart to utilize for transportation for our Veterans arriving at the hospital. We started out with 5 Marines from the detachment with this program, we are now up to 36 volunteers providing support with this, and looking at about 40 volunteers when the new building is completed on the campus.
Honor Guard,
Keith Fitch:
Absent, no report.
Young Marines:
8. Lewis & Clark Young Marines: John Hudson – Our YM’s participated in 22 Color guards in the last couple of months. We have held elections and our new CO is Marine Brian Hildebrant, new XO is George Merkl, Unit treasurer became vacant when Marine Nona Mallicoat tendered her resignation and is now
Saturday’s drill will be heavy on instruction on field skills prep for going to the field at the end of the month. 4 of our YM’s just returned from National HQ Jr. Leadership Academy they all passed the course.
9. Oregon Cascades Young Marines: Larry Stewart – Since our last meeting we have been in two parades, the Thirteenth Parade in N Portland, and the 4th of July Parade in Hillsboro, OR Our boot camp graduation went well. The new Oregon YM Bn is official now; we have formed a new Bn to include all the YM’s In OR composed of Eugene, Albany, and Portland units. We have 2 new interests in starting a unit in Astoria and Salem.
10. 6th Division Young Marines: Mike Wilson – Things are going well in the 6th Div. Our web site is up and running and we are getting good hits on it. I have had a number of inquiries from UT & NV about possibly starting up new YM Units. We have 60 Units in the Division and we are working hard to get that up to about 100 units in the next couple of years.
Boy Scout Program,
James Renton:
No report.
Detachment History,
Lynn Bolte:
Absent, no report. Cmndn’t we still need a volunteer for this position.
Detachment Website,
Larry Stewart:
Website is doing well, fixed on error on the site and have had no feedback on any other issues. John Stofiel mentioned the old pictures that come up when we open the site. Larry shared that they are randomly selected to come up on our opening page. I anyone has pictures of detachment activities please send to Larry for posting on our web site. |
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| Reports of Special Committees:
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Bylaws,
Wendy McKenzie:
Absent, no report.
Awards,
Louis Baste:
No activity.
Memorial Day,
George LaFrazia:
Absent, no report.
Community Military Appreciation,
William Hauser:
We 4th finished up our first of July parade our YM’s were involved, unfortunately or Det. Color Guard was not able to join with us. The event went very well. Our next event on the agenda is Veterans Day
Legislative,
Daniel Brennan:
William ‘Skip’ Barnes – Volunteered/appointed by Cmndn’t Mike Wilson to chair this committee.
Marines History of Service,
John Hudson:
No report.
Discovery Nursing Care Center,
Keith Fitch:
Absent, no report
Clark County Museum, Roger Rueckert:
Absent, no report. |
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| Old Business:
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* Detachment MOY Cmte Phil Ruhmshottel – no report. Mike Wilson we need to pursue this all year and not wait until the last minute, if you know of a Marine in this detachment. that is doing well, make a note of that and when the time comes to submit nominations submit the nominees name to Phil.
*Rex Hopper - Sgt of the Guard Elks Fire watch stand: We had 16 volunteers step forward to volunteer to stand the watches. Of those 16 10 are present here today. All of the watches went well with only a couple of incidents. |
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| New Business:
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| Announcements:
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ANNUAL DEVIL DOG "TEUFEL HUNDEN"PICINIC 10 JULY 2010 NOON TO DUSK DOG HOUSE OF PDD Lynn & Jeanette Bolte 6314 NE 159th St. Vancouver, WA 98686-1950 RSVP 360 574-0785 or Email: boltarmcl@aol.com, littlemommie48@aol.com The Lewis & Clark Pound will provide Hamburgers & Dogs w/condiments. All other arriving on the scene are asked to bring their favorite dish to share, i.e. salads, beans, macaroni, desserts, etc. BYOB spirits/sodas/water/Comfortable lawn chairs |
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| Good of the League:
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• Commandant Mike Wilson presented Marine Phil Ruhmshottel the Distinguished Citizen Medal Bronze for his services with the Marine Corps League and in the community.
• Cmndn’t Mike Wilson presented William “Skip” Barnes his 5 year Membership pin for continued service to the MCL. |
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| Closing Ceremony:
Appropriate. | |
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| Next Meeting:
1900 12 AUGUST 2010
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| Present at Meeting:
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Skip Barnes, Lou Baste, Louis Claudio, Raul Davila, Bill Hauser, Rex Hopper, John Hudson, Bernard Kendall, Henry Lasch, James Moen, Bob Rector, Jim Renton, Phil Ruhmshottel, Larry Stewart, John Stofiel, Bob Vollmer, Mike Wilson, George Zeleznik |
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| Respectfully Submitted,
John Stofiel, Adjutant
Columbia River Detachment #826
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