2024-2025

Sonya Sallee

673 W Sandpiper Avenue

Hermiston, OR 97838

541-701-0496

ortreasvfwa@gmail.com

MAY

I want to thank everyone for how hard they are working on membership this year.  We have two more months to go, and we need 154 new, annual or rejoining members.  When I started typing this list, I thought about maybe looking at your former list and seeing if there are people that might have been dropped as an annual member, and they really didn’t know that they had been dropped and didn’t know how to rejoin.  Maybe get a few of your members together and call some of those people and see if they really didn’t want to quit and maybe they would like to get back in the auxiliary. It might help you get to 100% and you might get a few more people that really want to get involved with the VFWA.

At our last western membership chairman’s, we were talking about trying to find more members for your auxiliary. If you haven’t talked to your Post members lately, maybe you could get permission to go to their meeting and ask them if their wife’s, daughters or mothers are members of the auxiliary.  What would it hurt to ask; you might get some members that would really like to help out the auxiliary?  Especially when you have only a few members to make your goal.

I am still watching auxiliaries to see if they are going to go over the 100% mark in the last few months of the year.  So far, I have 3 auxiliaries that I am going to send a little prize for making it to 100%. Hope a few more auxiliaries make it to that goal also. I don’t mind spending money on a good goal.

At the beginning of the year, I gave the auxiliaries a copy of the large list so that they could look at them and take the names of the ones near their area and invite them to their auxiliary and become members.  There were a few that did send out the letters and got some members to transfer into their auxiliary.  I am giving a prize to the auxiliary that got the most number of transfers from at large at department convention and I’m really glad that some of the members wanted to transfer and some of them are really getting involved with the auxiliary that they joined.

The weather is getting nice and if you have some event in your area where you can have a membership table, it would be a great idea.  And if you need some help, please contact me and I will get someone there to help you.

Can’t wait to see everyone at the department convention.  It’s been a while since we have been in Pendleton so it should be fun. If you are having trouble getting your tickets ordered for your lunches or the dance or whatever, please contact one of the line officers and we would be happy to help you.  See you all in June.