Federal Employees Association (NARFE)
Protecting the Future for Retired and Current Federal Employees
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chapter 258
Gordon Brown, President
Last updated September 5, 2010
| Next meeting: | Friday, September 17, 2010, at 12 noon |
| Topic: | "NARFE National Convention Report" |
| Speaker: | Gordon Brown Chapter President |
Gordon Brown, chapter delegate, has just returned from the NARFE National Convention in Grand Rapids, Michigan August 29 - September 2, 2010. He will present a summary of the meeting. He will announce newly elected NARFE officers and pertinent actions taken by the members in attendance. This meeting will bring the chapter up to date on NARFE activities.
Where: Alfio's Restaurant, 4515 Willard Ave., Chevy Chase, MD
(in The Willoughby; 2 blocks from the Friendship Heights Metro Station; Ride-On Rt. 23 bus at the door; free valet parking.) Click here for directions to Alfio's.
Cost: $14 including tax and tip
Schedule
Check-in begins: 11:30
Lunch served: Noon
Program begins: 12:30 p.m.
("Presentation only" attendees are welcome at 12:30)
Coming up:
| NOTE: | Executive Board Meetings Location: Dennis and Philip Ratner
Museum located at 10001 Old Georgetown Road, intersection of Old Georgetown and Lone Oak Road.
Parking available on site. The board will meet in the Carriage House behind the Museum. The Board meets on the Monday before the chapter
monthly meeting on Friday. All are welcome to attend.
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| Sept. 13 | Executive Board Meeting; 12:30 p.m. |
Why We Need NARFE
From the January 2009 issue of the NARFE Magazine's "Legislative Report":
If civil service retirement is sound, why are we at risk of being cut?
During previous periods of entitlement reform, policymakers first discussed cutting the “big three” –Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. However, when lawmakers realized the political liabilities of cutting a program like Social Security, which has 40 million beneficiaries (77 million by 2030), they turned to the “captive audience” of federal retirees–a much smaller constituency (2.3 million retirees and survivors). In fact, during the budget crises of the 1980s and early 1990s, Federal retirees and survivors lost $50 billion in deferred, reduced and canceled cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs), while 40 million Social Security beneficiaries’ COLAs were not cut. It is up to NARFE to make both a substantive case and a political one to ward off reductions in federal civil service retirement.
ELECTED OFFICERS
(June 11, 2010)
President
Gordon Brown
(240) 328-6926
1st VP, Public Relations
Manny Karbeling
(301) 279-7116
2nd VP, Legislation
Laurin Knutson
(301) 530-0907
Secretary
Ruth Francis
(301) 654-6599
Assistant Secretary
Barbara Pasiuk
(301) 654-2356
Treasurer
Charles (Howie) Davis
(301) 530-3716
Assistant Treasurer
Lionel Pasiuk
(301) 654-2356
Service Officer
Nora Taylor
(301) 229-2588
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
(June 11, 2010)
Public Relations
Manny Karbeling
(301) 279-7116 Newsletter
Maxine Lesniak
(301) 951-3405
Judy Welles
(301) 229-8110 Legislation
Laurin Knutson
(301) 530-0907 Programs
David Richman
(301) 770-3608
Awards
Bill Goldwater
(301) 770-1097
United Seniors of Maryland
Gordon Brown
(240) 328-6926
David Richman
(301) 770-3608
Jeanine Flaherty
(301) 229-2602 Chaplain
Lois Elieff
(301) 652-3560
Alzheimer's
OPEN
Audit
OPEN
Sunshine
OPEN
Hospitality
OPEN
Past Presidents
Lionel Pasiuk & Bill Goldwater
NARFE Net Coordinator
Richard Fidler
(301) 320-5863
National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) is a non-profit membership organization of current and former Federal employees, spouses and survivors. The chief of its several purposes is to protect and enhance the earned retirement benefits of its members in almost 2000 chapters in the United States.
The Maryland Federation of Chapters includes 37 of those chapters as members.
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chapter meets the second Friday in the months of February through June and September through December and publishes a newsletter 4 times a year. Our chapter includes ZIP codes 20812, -13, -14, -15, -16, -17, -18, -24, -25, -27 and -95. Everyone is welcome to attend.