{"id":18,"date":"2024-11-26T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:55:33","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_213\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213\" class=\"wp-image-213 size-medium img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2025\/03\/2019-08-05-Spokane-Indian-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Statue of Indian on horseback\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spokane Indian holding salmon while sitting horseback. (Photo\/Scott Robinson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chartered in March 1950, Spokane Chapter is a local group of federal civilian employees and retirees within NARFE. Our membership is composed of about half chapter members and half national-only members. Most members live within east-central Washington State, although some members live outside of this geographic area. A list of Chapter Leaders can be found below.<\/p>\n<h5>Chapter Officers<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Kathy Brooks \u2013\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\">, Newsletter Editor, Service Officer, Retired U.S. Postal Service, 40 years, joined NARFE 2010<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Bob Tribelhorn \u2013 <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/contact-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice President<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\">, Retired Natural Resource Conservation Service, 35 years, joined NARFE 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Margie Dennis \u2013 <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/contact-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\">, Retired U.S. Postal Service, 36 years, joined NARFE 2012<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Arlene Patton \u2013 <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/contact-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treasurer<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\">, Service Officer, Retired Housing Urban Development, 24 years, joined NARFE 2008<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Committee Chairs<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Roger Bosky \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\">Legislative (National), Director, Retired Social Security Administration, 35 years, joined NARFE 1994<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Sue Harvey \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\">Sunshine, Retired U.S. Postal Service, 39.5 years, joined NARFE 2011<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Directors<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Bev Benka \u2013 Retired Federal Judiciary, 24 years, joined NARFE 2015<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Poppe \u2013 Retired U.S. Air Force, 30 years, joined NARFE 2003<\/li>\n<li>Gisela Moyle \u2013 Annuitant Spouse, joined NARFE 2013<\/li>\n<li>Mary Rohner \u2013 Retired U.S. Postal Service, years, joined NARFE 2025<\/li>\n<li>Scott Robinson \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/contact-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webmaster<\/a><\/strong>, Retired Bureau of Land Management, 34.5 years, joined NARFE 2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t<div class=\"pe-button text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a \t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/about-us\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-content  btn-primary \">\n\t\t\t\t<span>Return to Top<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 0032 list of officers for members and visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}