{"id":19,"date":"2024-09-12T13:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:32:53","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 1596 is located in Sacramento, California, which is the California State Capitol.\u00a0 We were Chartered in 1978. On May 15, 2026, during our regular meeting, we will celebrate 48-years as an active Chapter.\u00a0 We help provide resources and expertise to federal employees and annuitants. Elections of Officers are held in November of even years and Chapter Officers take their elected position on January 1st of the following year. A list of Chapter Officers can be found here:<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">OFFICERS<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 Nels Christensen<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vice President<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Dan Mahoney<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Juanita Pardun<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Treasurer<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Dan Mahoney<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">COMMITTEES<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-alzheimers-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alzheimer\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Mary Jo Smith<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Editor<\/a><\/strong> of Ripples Newsletter \u2013 Dan Mahoney<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Membership<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> Chair \u2013 Dan Mahoney<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Photographer \u2013 Douglas Baty<\/li>\n<li>Legislation,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-national-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> National<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Ricardo Barreto<\/li>\n<li>Legislation, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/contact-state-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Ricardo Barreto<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/service-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Officer<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 Val Valenzuela<\/li>\n<li>Postal Service<strong>\u00a0 \u2013 <\/strong>Ricardo Barreto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 1596 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-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1596\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}