{"id":18,"date":"2024-09-07T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:48:27","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 1494 was chartered April 1, 1976 and provides resources and expertise to help federal employees and annuitants.<\/p>\n<p>Tri-City Chapter 1494 covers Southern Alameda County.\u00a0 It takes its name from the Fremont-Newark-Union City (Tri-City) area and includes members from the neighboring cities of Hayward, San Leandro, Castro Valley, Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore.<\/p>\n<h4>Officers<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President\u00a0<\/a><\/strong> <strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Thien Khuu<\/p>\n<p><strong>1st Vice President\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Kathy Kelley<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd Vice President\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Andrea Heckman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Al Pittier \/ Bill Daubenspeck<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>April Witherspoon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunshine Officer\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Angie Kwan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alzheimer Chair\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Eloise Williams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Service Officer\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Thien Khuu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Historian\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Lucy Yee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/contact-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Webmaster\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Paul Kelley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immediate Past President\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Bill Vincent<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On January 13, 2026 The Tri-City Chapter 1494 was featured on page 1 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tricityvoice.com\/tri-city-federal-employees-association-works-to-protect-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tri-City Voice<\/strong><\/a> newspaper in an article titled \u201c<strong>Tri-City federal employees association works to protect benefits.<\/strong>\u201d The article discussed the history of the chapter, issues, and the upcoming 50th anniversary of the chapter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2026\/01\/TriCity-Voice-NARFE-article_Jan-13-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan 13 2026 Tri-City Voice NARFE article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter list of officers, history, and year-round 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-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1494\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}