Ozark Empire Chapter Newsletter

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This months words from the Chapter President - September 2026

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Welcome back! Hoping your summer was filled with fun, travels, visiting friends and family, or simply relaxing in your air-conditioned homes.

We had a good turnout for our June meeting. Several attended as a result of the email sent out by Steve Vanderhoof, to several hundred members of National who fall within our Chapter’s catchment area. This list was provided to us from MOAA. Most of these people do not belong to a chapter.

Don Wolfinger, President, Council of Chapters, MOAA, requested chapter presidents to share this information with their membership. “Right now, Missouri Council of Chapters has just two elected officials, President and Secretary. The loss of the Treasurer the late Jeff Long, made the situation worse. So it is vitally important that we reconstitute the council”.

Along these same lines, our OEMOAA Chapter is currently working without a Secretary, or 1st or 2nd Vice President. We have no slate of officers for 2027 as those currently holding positions will have fulfilled their tenure at the end of this year. We also need to fill Awards Presentations and Newsletter positions. If no volunteers step forward, our chapter will disband as of January 1, 2027.

For all who are Premium or Life members of MOAA, a free Survivor’s Planning Guide is available for download. It can be obtained at www.moaa.org.

As always, our newsletter is freely available on the chapter website: www.oemoaa.org as well as via email to all members. If anyone wishes to receive this newsletter via US Mail, please make that known to a Board Member or the Newsletter Editor, and we will be happy to accommodate.

Becky Hutchings, President