{"id":22,"date":"2023-12-24T17:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T22:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:32:57","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"IntroText\">\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Click below for more information\u00a0about NARFE<\/strong><\/span><a style=\"color: #006ea5;text-decoration: none;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/about-narfe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lpW80Z5axgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c<strong>How\u201d NARFE got started <\/strong><strong><u>100+ years ago<\/u>.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(4:10 mins)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KQt2BB4JEMY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Here\u2019s what NARFE can do for YOU.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(1:50 mins)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;font-weight: bold\">About the Ohio Federation<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">There are six districts in the state of Ohio Federation. Each district has four to six chapters. See map following:<br>\n<a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2024\/07\/SIX-NEW-DISTRICTS-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Six New Districts 2021<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Ohio Federation Leadership and Service Positions<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>(NARFE members can access email addresses by clicking <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/ohio-federation-officers-and-service-positions\/\"><span style=\"color: #008080\">here<\/span><\/a>.)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\">\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>President<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Tim Gartner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>1st\u00a0Vice President<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Mike Madges<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>2nd Vice President<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Sondra Gartner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Secretary<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Mary Seal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Editor<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Sondra Gartner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Treasurer\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Lynette Rarick<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>State and National Legislative Chair<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Sondra Gartner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Parliamentarian<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Joe Klucho<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/contact-alzheimers-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alzheimer\u2019s Chair<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Diana Chan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Immediate Past President<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Donald Wiese<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Area Officer (Columbus)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Sondra Gartner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Area Officer (Cleveland)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Joseph Leisz<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Area Officer (Toledo)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Lynette Rarick<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Area Officer (Dayton)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>VACANT<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Chaplain<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Joseph Cinadr<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/contact-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webmaster<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"208\"><strong>Michael (Mike) Ryan<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts about NARFE Ohio 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-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/oh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}