{"id":25,"date":"2023-12-26T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T02:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:46:35","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 0016 began in 1949 and provides resources and expertise to help federal employees and annuitants.<\/p>\n<p>On April 12, 2024 we will have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2024\/03\/1949-04-12-Charter-Chapter0016-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charter<\/a>ed for 75 years!<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Chapter 16 Officers and Committee Chairs<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Karen Anne McCann\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 President<br>\nRobin L C Leong\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1st Vice President (Program Chair)<br>\nJames L Porter\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02nd Vice President<br>\nLaura Jean Pearson\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Secretary<br>\nMelanie McCrossin\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Treasurer<\/p>\n<p>Robin L C Leong\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/contact-membership-chair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Membership<\/a><\/strong><br>\nIvars Lauersons\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Editor<br>\nJames L Porter\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Alzheimer<br>\nHelen L Zajac\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 NARFE\/PAC<br>\nHelen L Zajac\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Legislative (National)<br>\nMonte G Simmons\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hospitality<br>\nVacant\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Publicity<br>\nConnie Boucher\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sunshine<br>\nHoward Fitzpatrick\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Immediate Past President<br>\nMelanie McCrossin\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Network Coordinator\/Social Media Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>We no longer have a Service Officer.<br>\nIf you would like to be the Publicity Chair let us know.<br>\nFor Federal Benefits Questions \u2013 see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/communications\/narfe-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narfe Magazine<\/a><\/strong> Q&amp;A for contacts<\/p>\n<p>The board meets in January, February, March, May, June, August, September, November and December.\u00a0 We meet from 12:30 \u2013 1:30, on the 2nd Tuesday, at the Florence Douglas Center (333 Amador St, Vallejo).\u00a0 The meetings are on page 4 of our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/resources\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a question about the Chapter use the link for the Membership Chair (in light blue) above to send an email, or use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/contact-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Webmaster<\/a> at the bottom of the page to contact the Treasurer\/Network Coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 0016 Vallejo, CA list of officers, history, and special projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}