December
17: Participated
Participated in “Wreaths Across America” at
Beal Cemetery in Fort Walton Beach by
helping place holiday wreaths on Veterans’
gravesites; chapter members contributed $300
to the Choctawhatchee Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution to
purchase 20 wreaths “In Memory of Deceased
Members and Spouses of the NWFMOA”. (See
Defender articles for December 2022 and
January 2023)
November 11:
Chapter members & spouses
participated in Veterans Day services at
local cemeteries; Lt Col Frank Roberts gave
the history of and recited “On Flanders
Field” at the Beal Cemetery service (See
Defender article for December 2022
November 8 and 10:
Distributed 255 commissary gift cards valued
at $6,375 to the First Sergeants
Associations at Hurlburt Field, Eglin AFB,
and the 7th Special Forces Group
(A), and to the Military Family Readiness
Centers at Hurlburt Field and Duke Field.
(See Defender articles for December 2022)
September 1:
NWFMOA assisted the Greater Fort
Walton Beach with publicizing the 75th
Anniversary of the United States Air Force
on September 13th at Northwest
Florida State College.
NWFMOA used its Defender newsletter
and ‘e-mail blasts’ to members plus
announcement of the event at the Chapter
luncheon on September 1st. (See Defender for
September 2022)
August 5:
Led by Chapter First Vice
President Fran Hendricks, NWFMOA had a
“Spotlight Table” display and made a stage
presentation at the monthly First Friday
Breakfast of the Greater Fort Walton Beach
Chamber of Commerce, attended by over 250
local business members. (See Defender
article for September 2022)
July
7:
NWFMOA Scholarship Fund presented a
$4,000 scholarship to University of West
Florida AFROTC Cadet Colonel Blayne Johnson.
This scholarship was in memory of Deceased
Chapter member Lt. Gen. Leroy Manor, USAF,
Ret. (See Defender article for August 2022)
May 30:
Chapter members & spouses
participated in Memorial Day services at
local cemeteries.
Fourteen Chapter members and spouses
had passed away during the previous 12
months. (See Defender for May 2022)
May 5:
Held the annual Scholarship Luncheon
at the Fort Walton Yacht Club, attended by
85 Chapter members, JROTC scholarship
awardees, JROTC instructors, 2022 MOAA Medal
awardees, 11 local high school appointees to
military academies, and Business Gold
scholarship donors. (See Defender article
for June 2022)
April 19:
Received notification that MOAA Foundation
has awarded a community Outreach Grant of
$4,000 to purchase commissary gift cards to
be distributed to local airman and soldier
families in ranks of E-4 and below. This is
the 5th consecutive year our
chapter has received a grant from the MOAA
Foundation. (See Defender article for May
2022)
April 18:
Several Chapter members
attended the “Final Goblet Ceremony” of the
Doolittle Raiders at Northwest Florida State
College, when the goblet of the last
survivor of the Doolittle Raiders, Col.
Richard Cole, was inverted in the display
case by his son and daughter.
April 2:
Six Chapter members staffed our NWFMOA
information booth at the 50th
anniversary celebration of the 919th
Special Operations Group at Duke Field. (See
Defender for May 2022)
March:
NWFMOA assisted the Greater Fort Walton
Beach Chamber in publicizing the “Final
Goblet Ceremony” of the Doolittle Raiders
via ‘email blasts’ to Chapter members.
