{"id":45,"date":"2023-09-29T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:47:46","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local NARFE chapters offer the opportunity to engage in grassroots advocacy and leadership roles. Learn more about NARFE in this short video about NARFE\u2019s history: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lpW80Z5axgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE \u2013 100 Years of Service<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"pe-button text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=noopener target=_blank\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/lp\/join-54z\/?utm_source=sd\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-content  btn-primary btn-sm\">\n\t\t\t\t<span>Join Today<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h5 style=\"color: darkblue\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">South Dakota Federation History<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The South Dakota Federation consists of over 452 members in 9 chapters, and over 335 \u201cNational\u201d members located throughout the State of South Dakota, with National-only members and members in local chapters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"color: darkblue\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Officers<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a>:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Daryl Zimmerman<br>\n<\/span><strong>Vice President:<\/strong><br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/contact-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary<\/a>:<\/strong> Jan Bohling<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/contact-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treasurer<\/a>:<\/strong> Bev Gollnick<br>\nImmediate Past President: Carol Reed<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/contact-area-i-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Area 1 Officer:<\/strong><\/a> John Bultsma<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/contact-area-ii-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Area 2 Officer:<\/strong><\/a> Jan Bohling<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/area-iii-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Area 3 Officer<\/strong><\/a>: David Smith<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Appointed Committees from: May 1, 2025 \u2013 May 31, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference: Yvonne Haefner<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Service Officer: Karen Jensen<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Alzheimer\u2019s Coordinator: Karen Youngman<\/strong><br>\n<strong>NARFE-PAC Coordinator: Vacant<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Newsletter: Randi Smith<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Public Relations\/Service Officer: Karen Jensen<\/strong><br>\n<strong>State Legislative Chair: Sharon Mitchell<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Network Coordinator\/Website Webmaster: Yvonne Haefner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/South-Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>South Dakota\u2019s Federal<\/strong> <strong>Family<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE SD 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-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}