{"id":17,"date":"2023-12-26T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:36:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NARFE RI Federation<\/strong><\/span> began in 1921. We provide resources and expertise to help federal employees and annuitants.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to contact our officers with questions by selecting their title below. If you need to contact a committee chair without a direct contact link, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/a> and we\u2019ll forward your request to the appropriate person.<\/p>\n<p>Our officers are:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/contact-federation-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a><\/strong>: Dave MacDonald<br>\n<strong>Vice President<\/strong>: Vacant<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/contact-federation-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Secretary<\/strong><\/a>: Dick Bianco<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/contact-federation-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Treasurer<\/strong><\/a>: Dave Ferkinhoff<\/p>\n<p>Chairpersons are:<\/p>\n<p>Master at arms: Don Hood<\/p>\n<p>Descriptions of the committee positions are provided in the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NARFE Officer and Chairperson Descriptions<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0section of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/resources\/links\/\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE RI Federation list of officers, history, and year round 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-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}