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St Louis-Gateway Chapter Minutes of the Quarterly
Board Meeting – 15 AUG 2017
The St. Louis Chapter, USAFA AOG, quarterly board meeting was
held on 15 August 2017 at 1130 at Lester’s in Clayton.
Members Present: Kirk McDonald, John Bugner,
Elizabeth Granier, Brian Lindsay, Reed Shafer, Bob
Baker
Members Absent: Dawn Hildebrand, Keith Heien,
Lee Armstrong
Other: Zach Roberts
Financial Report: Brian Lindsey
reported a balance of $2375.42 in our checking account. Checks were written to
John Bugner to cover the remaining cost of the
Founders Day dinner ($1311.27 for the dinner and $100.00 for the guest
speaker), $158.96 to Reed Shafer for the Memorial Day flowers, and $10.00 to
the Illinois Secretary of State to re-register not for profit status.
This leaves a balance of $755.12. Approval was given to spend $400 to file for
Federal Tax-Exempt status and $15 to file with Illinois Attorney General as a
Charitable Organization.
Unfinished Business:
· Tax Exempt Status (Articles of Incorporation): Three steps remain on the path to complete non-profit,
tax-exempt, charitable status in Illinois. 1) Register with the
Illinois Attorney General as a charitable organization which will allow us to
receive contributions/sponsorships. 2) File with the Federal Government
for tax exempt status. 3)File with IL Department
of Revenue for sales tax exemption. Target for completion is prior to our
Founders Day dinner. After these steps, work will be begin
to repeat in MO.
· Service Projects:
The
Mission Continues is holding the Summer Slam event on 19 August, from 0800 to
1600 at Missouri Hills, 13300 Bellefountaine Road in
St. Louis. This item will be posted on
our facebook page and in our chapter web site. Details are at the following link:
https://missioncontinues.org/event/details?id=a1l40000004krSUAAY
Missouri
Veterans Home: Kirk contaced the director of volunteers to offer our
services. November 11th,
Veterans Day, was suggested as a date visit the home. We are waiting to hear back.
· Distinguished Chapter: The package was submitted
on 10 July. So far we have not received
an acknowledgement from the AOG. Kirk
will contact Bill Preston and inquire as to our status.
· AOG Chapter President’s
Conference: The dates are set for 30 Aug – 1 Sep 2017. Keith Heien and
Elizabeth Granier will attend. Elizabeth will purchase items from the gift
shop to use as attendance prizes for our watch parties.
· Watch Parties: We are all set for Saturday Oct 7th from 2;00 to
5:30 pm at the Wheel House in dontown St. Louis for the Air Force -Navy watch Party. We should have tables upstairs with a few TVs
allocated to play our game. The notice
will be posted on our facebook page and our chapter
web site.
Nothing to
report on the Air Force-Army watch party.
· Joint Fundraiser with Parents
Club: The joint fundraising event at Strathalbyn Farms Gun and Riding Club occurred on 16 June,
2017. Six AFA Grads participated in the
event. So far we have not heard any word
on the financial success of the event. Keith
will inquire.
· Member Outreach: Through our outreach efforts, Zachary Roberts
'07, attended
our board meeting. He volunteered and
was nominated and elected to fill the open position on our Board of
Directors. He will serve on the board
from 2107 to 2019.
Our Current Board and Officer roster:
Board of Directors
Bob Baker, Elizabeth Granier, 2015
thru 2017
Dawn Hildebrand, Brian Lindsey, 2016 thru 2018
Lee Armstrong, Zachary Roberts, 2017 thru 2019
Officers
President
Keith Heien
Vice
President
Kirk McDonald
Secretary
John Bugner
Treasurer
Brian Lindsey
· Founders Day: The bills have been paid and the
the books closed for the 2017 Founders Day
dinner. Planning for the 2018 event are on the shelf until next meeting.
· Memorial Day Service: Seven grads attended the
Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks.
It looks like it will be our turn to organize the service next
year.
· All Service Academy Golf:
Army was scheduled to host this year.
So far there has been no action to hold the event this year. Our chapter will plan a golf event for June
of next year.
· Doolie Brunch: Six members of our chapter attended the Doolie
Brunch at the SAFB Officers Club on 19 June.
Lt Gen Sharpy, class of '87, was the guest speaker,
New Business:
· Surplus funds in our checking
account: For the first time in years, we have a
“cushion” in our account. We plan on
additional funds from the fundraiser with the parents club. What to do with money in excess of our
operating expenses will be discussed at the next meeting.
Next Meeting: The next board meeting will be held on 17 October at
1130 at Lesters in Clayton.
Adjournment: With no other business the meeting was adjourned.
John Bugner, ‘71
Chapter Secretary
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St Louis-Gateway
Chapter Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting – 17 May 2017
The St. Louis Chapter, USAFA AOG, quarterly board meeting was held on
17 May 2017 at 1130 at Lester’s in Clayton.
Members Present:
Kirk McDonald, John Bugner, Keith Heien,
Elizabeth Granier, Reed Shafer, Bob Baker
Members Absent: Dawn
Hildebrand, Brian Lindsay, Lee Armstrong
Financial Report: The
treasurer was not available to provide a report. The financial activity since the last meeting
was related to Founders Day activities.
John Bugner charged $1231.27 to his personal
credit card to cover the balance due for the Founders Day dinner, and $100 for
the Andria's Steak house gift card that was presented to the guest speaker. The
dinner chairman presented a financial report for the event which showed that
income exceeded expenses
by $248.73.
Unfinished Business:
Tax Exempt Status (Articles of Incorporation): Nothing new to report.
Service Project: Kirk reported that he is contacting the
Missouri Veteran's Home to coordinate a visit/tour of their facility.
Distinguished Chapter: Items for the distinguished chapter
accrual spreadsheet were reviewed and inputs were received from the board. The secretary will gather the details, fill our the
spreadsheet and send it out to the board for review and final inputs. Elizabeth will work on updating the
membership roster. Our proposed
activities/events will be aligned with the AOG fiscal year. The task should be finalized by 16 June.
Watch Parties:
Elizabeth
will be the coordinator for the Navy game scheduled for 7 Oct. Lee will be the coordinator for Army game
scheduled for 4 Nov. The plan is for our
chapter to host the Navy-Air Force game and
Army will host the Army-Air Force game.
Joint Fundraiser with Parents Club: The Skeet Shoot, a Parent's Club/Joint
service event will be held Friday afternoon June 16, 2107 at Strathalbyn Farms.
$400 per four person teams included full dinner buffet, beverages and prizes non-shooters
may attend the the dinner only. As of 9 May, there are nine teams plus
several groups of two and $7500 in sponsorships. The site for the club is http://strathalbynfarm.com/.
Member Outreach: Updates to face book and the web
site will be made to remind our area grads of the Memorial Day service and
Skeet Shoot. We will also post a request
for board volunteers.
Founders Day: The Founders Day dinner was held at Stonewolf Golf Club on 29 April. Our guest speaker, Tim Cantwell, class of '76, gave a presentation on the past, future and
ongoing activities at Mid America Airport.
He also discussed the value of leadership he learned as a cadet and the
importance the emphasis the academy continues to place its value in developing
cadets in future life. The attendance
for this year increased from 40 to 44.+
Social Hour Event: Lee
Armstrong invited grads working at the NGA (National Geospatial Agency) to
gather at the 4 Hands Brewery on 23 March for a networking event. Nine grads attended.
Memorial Day Service: The Memorial Service at Jefferson Barracks
is scheduled for 27 May. Reed is working
with the organizer and gathering information for our presentation and preparing
a handout/agenda for the ceremony.
A notice will be posted on Face book and on our web site.
All Service Academy Golf: Army is
scheduled to host this year. The Army
contact implied that the Joint Fundraiser at the Strathalbyn
Farms Gun and Riding Club would replace the golf event. Reed will contact the Army POC, Sam Gladney, and push for the golf.
Doolie
Brunch: The USAFA Parents Club of Metro St. Louis
is hosting the annual “Doolie Brunch” scheduled for Sunday 18 June. All grads are invited to attend and use
this opportunity to meet cadets and share your stories with appointees from the
USAFA Class of 2021!
Election on Board Members: We are still looking for one more chapter
member to serve three year terms. Keith received an email from Zach Roberts,
Class of '07 indicating interest in getting involved in out chapter. Kieth will reach out to him to see if he is interested in
filling the opening on the board. Dawn Hindebrand will be moving within the year and we will need
to find a replacement for her.
Our Current Board and Officer roster:
Board of Directors
Bob Baker, Elizabeth Granier,
2015 thru 2017
Dawn Hildebrand, Brian Lindsey, 2016 thru 2018
Lee Armstrong, Open Position, 2017 thru 2019
Officers
President
Keith Heien
Vice President
Kirk McDonald
Secretary
John Bugner
Treasurer
Brian Lindsey
New Business:
AOG Chapter President’s Conference: The dates are set for
30 Aug – 1 Sep 2017. This year the
conference will be held just prior to Parent's Weekend which is also Labor Day
weekend. It will include some joint briefings with the parent club
presidents and hopefully a Wednesday night reception at the Carleton
House. More details as we get closer, but you also have the option to
stay for the football game as the Falcons host VMI on Saturday, 2
September. Kirk McDonald will represent our chapter at the
conference.
Next Meeting: Next
meeting is scheduled for 15 August, 1130 at Lester's in Clayton.
Adjournment:
With no other business the meeting was adjourned.
John Bugner, ‘71
Chapter Secretary
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St Louis-Gateway Chapter Minutes of the Annual Board Meeting
– 20 Jan 2017
The St. Louis Chapter, USAFA AOG, Annual
Board meeting was held on 20 Jan 2017 at 1130 at Schneithorst’s Clayton.
Members Present: Kirk McDonald, John Bugner,
Keith Heien, Elizabeth Fontenot
Members Absent: Brian Lindsay, Dawn Hildebrand, Reed Shafer,
Bob Baker
Others Present: Lee Armstrong, ‘90
Financial Report: Our chapter account at Busey
Bank was closed out and a new account opened with Regions Bank. $608.42 was transferred from the Busey account to the Regions account. $167.00 was added from the AF-Army squares
game. Our total balance at Regions is
now $775.42. Currently we have no
outstanding obligations or receivables.
Unfinished Business:
·
Checking account transfer:
Transfer from Busy Bank to Regions bank complete. Brian Lindsay, Kirk
McDonald and John Bugner have signature authority.
·
Tax Exempt Status (Articles of Incorporation): Our treasurer filed NFP 102.10, Non-Profit,
status with the Illinois Secretary of State.
The next step is to register with the Illinois Attorney General and file
with the IRS for Tax-exempt status. The
board agreed that we should proceed.
·
Service Project: Mission
Continues: Kirk will contact The Mission
Continues and determine a service project for 2107 that we can participate as a
chapter project.
·
Distinguished Chapter: The
secretary provided a plan for 2017 that, along with the other essential chapter
activities, should qualify us for the Distinguished Chapter award. It was
reviewed and approved by the Board
·
Watch Parties:
·
Both the Navy and Army watch parties were a success. We had 20-30 grads and families on hand to
cheer Air Force to victories and the securing of the Commander-in-Chief’s
trophy.
·
We failed to organize a watch party for the AF-Southern Alabama Arizona
Bowl game. The primary reason was the
lack of major TV network coverage. This
will be a primary focus for next year.
·
Future Watch Parties: Keith will
propose to his Army and Navy counterparts that we alternate hosting watch
parties. For 2017, Air Force will host
the Army- Air Force game and Navy will host the Navy-Air Force game. (No
further action to report)
·
Joint Fundraiser with Parents Club:
Wally Sparks, president of the local USAFA Parents Club, will host a
joint service academy/parents club fundraising event at Strathalbyn
Farms Gun and Riding Club on 16 June, 2017.
Registration is limited to 25 teams.
$1500 sponsorships are being solicited.
Invitations will be sent by March 1st.
The web site for the club is http://strathalbynfarm.com/.
·
Member Outreach: Elizabeth
continues to post pertinent information about our chapter on Facebook. Items
being posted: Meeting minutes, board
member search, AOG App, Distinguished Chapter announcement. She will also set up a Twitter account to expand
our outreach. Reed will update our web page.
New Business:
·
Election on Board Members: Lee
Armstrong, ’90, Volunteered, was nominated and elected to fill one of the two
open positions on the Board. We are
still looking for one more chapter member to serve three year terms. Keith will
contact Monty Montgomery, Kirk will contact Mike Ziemann
and John will contact Brandt House for possible candidates to fill the open
position.
Our Current Board and Officer roster:
Board of Directors
Bob Baker, Elizabeth Granier,
2015 thru 2017
Dawn Hildebrand, Brian Lindsey, 2016 thru
2018
Lee Armstrong, Open Position, 2017 thru
2019
Officers
President Keith Heien
Vice President Kirk McDonald
Secretary John Bugner
Treasurer Brian Lindsey
·
Plan for Next Year: The following
plan was submitted to the board and approved for 2107:
·
Annual Board Meeting, Jan
·
Founder’s Day event, Apr
·
Quarterly Business Meeting, Mar
·
Memorial Day Ceremony, 30 May
·
Parent’s Club joint event (Skeet Shoot) 16 Jun
·
Doolie Brunch Sponsored by the Parent’s club
18 Jun
·
Happy Hour event , date TBD
·
Quarterly Business Meeting,
·
Mission Continues, 1 Events,
date TBD
·
All-Academy Golf tournament, date TBD
·
Quarterly Business Meeting, Sep
·
Watch Party, Navy, 7 Oct
·
Watch Party,
Army, 4 Nov
·
Other Watch Parties, Dates TBD
·
AOG Chapter President’s Conference, Oct
·
Quarterly Business Meeting, Dec
·
All Service Academy Ball, Dec
·
Founders Day: The plan is to
return to Stonewolf Golf Club in Fairview Heights
with a date of 1 April (depending on guest speaker availability. John will lead the project, Dawn and
Elizabeth volunteered to help. I
contacted the AOG Chapter Support Team and confirmed that we will get a $250
check toward our Founders day expenses and we still have $200 (retail) in AOG
store credit to spend in merchandise for give-aways.
·
Memorial Day Service: Bob Baker
was unable to report on the plan for this year.
We will get a report at the next meeting.
Next Meeting: Scheduled for 17 Mar 17, 1200 at Schneithorst’s Restaurant, 1600 S Lindbergh Blvd, St.
Louis. Wear green.
Adjournment: With no other business the meeting was
adjourned.
John Bugner, ‘71
Chapter Secretary
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St Louis-Gateway Chapter Minutes of the Annual Board Meeting
– 29 JUL 2016
The St. Louis Chapter, USAFA AOG,
Quarterly Board meeting was held on 29 July 2016 at 1600 at The Basso
Restaurant in St Louis.
Members Present:
Kirk McDonald, John Bugner, Keith Heien,
Brian Lindsay, Reed Shafer, Dawn Hildebrand, Brian Lindsay, Bob Baker,
Elizabeth Fontenot
Members Absent:
None.
Financial Report: A check for
$1554 was deposited representing receipts for the Founders Day dinner and
another check was deposited representing the receipts for the All Academies
golf challenge. Checks were issued for $1263.46 and $2271.76 to cover the
cost of these events. Another check was cut for $142.10 to cover other
expenses. This brings our checking account balance to $620.42
Unfinished Business:
· Founder’s Day
wrap-up: A financial report was
provided by the Founders Day chairmen to the treasurer. Our expenses
exceeded our revenues by $59.49.
· All Academies Golf wrap up: The Air Force team of Sam Cox, Joe Zahn, Chris
Dieter and Tim Thoren turned in the best score and
the Air Force re-claimed the trophy from Navy. A financial report
was provided by the Golf chairmen to the treasurer. Our revenues exceeded
our expenses by $67.24. We also collected $101.00 from the 50/50
drawing.
· Checking account
transfer: The chapter will transfer our
checking account to Regions bank, which has numerous offices in St Louis and in
the Metro East. Brain Lindsey, Kirk McDonald and John Bugner
will have signature authority on the new account. However, the transfer
is on hold until the state approves our Articles of Incorporation.
· Tax Exempt Status
(Articles of Incorporation): The document
to request our chapter be incorporated as a 501 (3) (c) organization was
reviewed and approved at the meeting. All the board members signed the document and ourtreasurer will send it into the state of Illinois for approval. Once
this is approved, we will request that the state of Missouri recognize our
status as a tax exempt organization. The approval by the state of
Illinois will also enable our chapter to open our organizational checking
account at Regions bank.
· Service
Project: Mission
Continues: Their flagship project this year is going to be on September 10th and will be a revitalization of the Gamble Recreation
Center in north St. Louis. Here is the link: https://www.missioncontinues.org/event/details?id=a1l40000003xwb7AAA. The details of the service project will be posted
on our web site (Reed Shafer), on face book (Elizabeth Fontenant) and an email
(Kirk McDonald) will be sent to chapter address list. We will
follow this up with a reminder two weeks prior to the event. We will make
an effort to capture member participants by having them respond to our media
posts. One attempt to capture our grads is to have them put “USAFA Grad” on the registration page in the Military Status
box. Pictures will be taken to document our participation (Reed
Shafer?).
· AOG Chapter
Presidents Conference: Keith Heien has registered for the conference. Our
suggestions for inputs for agenda items are: 1). Chapter web site support and
enhancements and 2). Chapter notification by the AOG of any
cadet activities that will take place in the St. Louis area.
· Distinguished
Chapter: The documents for this year’s
Distinguished Chapter were submitted by the secretary on 13 July. The
plan for next year is to execute the remainder of our plan for this calendar
year and develop a plan for next year that will contain enough activities to
qualify for the award.
· Watch Parties: Dawn Hildebrand will contact both
the Army and Navy alumni organizations and discuss a venue for the AF-Navy game Sat 1 Oct 14:30 start, and AF-Army game Sat 5 Nov TBA Start. Among the locations mentioned are Morgan Street
Brewery, Syberg’s, Cardinal
Village. Other games may be no host gatherings at locations TBD.
New Business
· Joint Fundraiser
with Parents Club: Keith Heien spoke with Wally Sparks, president of the local USAFA Parents Club. He suggested a shooting event at Strathalbyn Farms Gun and riding club. It's a great
venue and Wally is a member. He also offered it as a location for
football watch party or Founders Dinner. Elizabeth will post something on face book and Reed will post something
on our web site to get feedback from our members on their interest in
participating in any of these types events at this location. The specific
watch party in mind for this location is the Hawaii game on 22 Oct. The web site for the club is http://strathalbynfarm.com/.
· Chapter Flag: Notice was given to
the Bees Kellenbence that our flag has been
“misplaced”. So far we have received no response from the AOG.
Depending on their response, we will weigh options to replace the flag.
· Member Outreach: Reed will post the minutes of our meeting on our chapter web
site and make other updatesas a result of this
meeting,
Next Meeting: Scheduled
for 14 Oct 2016. Time and place to be determined.
Adjournment. With no
other business the meeting was adjourned.
John Bugner
Chapter Secretary
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