{"id":7,"date":"2023-09-21T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:03:50","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Federation has been in existence since January 15, 1955 when members from several chapters met at the Smith House on Memorial Drive in Cambridge to organize a State Federation of Chapters. On January 24, 1955, the Massachusetts State Federation of Chapters was chartered as the ninth Federation in the United States. \u00a0We currently have five chapters across the state, and we have more than 2000 members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Massachusetts Federation Officers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">President \u2013 Robert L. Pierce<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Executive Vice President \u2013 William Wayne<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Vice President for Advocacy \u2013 Ann D\u2019Arpino<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Secretary \u2013 W. Gene Holt, Jr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Treasurer \u2013 William Nickles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Alzheimer\u2019s Coordinator \u2013 Carolyn Lazaris<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">NARFE-PAC and Network Coordinator \u00a0\u2013 Stella M. Pierce<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Submit questions for the NARFE Massachusetts officers here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About NARFE MA Federation<\/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-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}