Broward Council Members and Friends

As we begin this journey together in 2012, I am honored to serve as your President and looking forward to working with each of you to make it a banner year we won’t forget.

We all join the Navy League for different reasons, because someone asked you, you have family serving in the military, to show support for our men and women serving our country, whatever the reason it may be, thank you! Once you join, get involved, some Council members get involved in their Councils and they seem to do everything, while other members do not get involved and sit back.

We have many opportunities for you to get involved – become a mentor to our new members, volunteer during Fleet Week (April 25-30), help with fundraising for the Council, bring in donated items for our Marines, come out to our dinner socials, or mingle with our men and women when we have ship visits and this is only a sampling of ideas. Come see me and I will put you work! Bring a friend, co-worker to a dinner or ship visit and let them enjoy themselves and ask them to join as well. Don’t forget to pick up your Navy League applications at our dinner socials.

We already have some great speakers lined up for our dinner socials, so you won’t want to miss coming out and hearing their presentations. This year is the 50th Anniversary of Sea Cadets and big plans are in the works for our September dinner social. Plans are underway to visit the Seal Museum during the summer and end our year with a potluck/fundraiser…keep an eye out in our upcoming issues for all the exciting things that we are working on.

Some ground rules I want to share is to have fun this year, participate and then the Every member Get a Member Involved initiative will begin to work.

For those Council members who attended with their guest to our Annual Installation on board the Crown Princess, THANK YOU! It was a wonderful afternoon shared by all and ended with a delicious meal served by staff onboard the ship. I truly enjoyed sharing my special day with all of you, it meant a lot to me.

This installation could not have happened without many individuals to thank on my behalf: Crown Princess for their hospitality, RADM Steven Ratti as our guest speaker, Chaplain Ron Perkins for a beautiful invocation, Spruance Sea Cadets for our side boys and Color Guard and especially to the CO Alan Starr, Peter Caspiri for taking beautiful photos, George Reeves as our master of ceremonies and finally to Marianne Giambrone for all her coordination in setting up this luncheon with the ship.

See you all on February 9th at our next dinner social.

Shelley