{"id":11,"date":"2023-11-18T01:19:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:38:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PA Federation of NARFE (National Active and Retired Federal Employees began in 1954 and provides resources and expertise to help federal employees and annuitants. We support NARFE\u2019s mission to provide benefit information to federal employees and annuitants, support Legislation beneficial to the federal community and affiliate with other organizations with the same aims.<\/p>\n<p>NARFE PA Federation holds annual membership meetings at various places. The PA Federation Executive board generally holds quarterly meetings.<\/p>\n<h5>PA Federation Officers<\/h5>\n<p>Click on Position to bring up Contact Form<br>\nContact Form opens in new Tab<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 192px\" width=\"449\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>Position:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>Officer:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-us\/\">Generic Contact Us:<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>President, Secretary<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-president\/\">President:<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>Bill Krouse<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-1st-vp-membership\/\">1st VP Membership:<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>Joan Larkin<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-us\/2nd-vp-legislative\/\">2nd VP Legislative:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>Doug Dettling<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-secretary\/\">Secretary:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>Mary Howse<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-treasurer\/\">Treasurer:\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"222\"><strong>Rich Karakantas<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 366px\" width=\"500\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong>Appointed<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"290\"><strong>Officers<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-nomination\/\">Nomination<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"290\"><strong>Rich Zuck<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-alzheimers\/\">Alzheimers<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"290\"><strong>Wanda Galbraith<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/contact-narfe-pac\/\">NARFE-PAC<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"290\"><strong>Brian Finn<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">Webmaster<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">Joan Larkin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">Immed. Past Pres<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">Rich Zuck<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-01<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">John D\u2019Aprile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-02<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">John Golasa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-03<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">Tom Cline &amp; Ruth Cline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-04<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">Wanda Galbraith<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-05<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">John Shutack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-06<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">Rich Zuck<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"234\">DVP-07<\/td>\n<td width=\"290\">Larry Palecek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PA Federation 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-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}