Commanders Corner

15 April 2025

Greetings fellow Legionnaires and guests to our website.

We are quickly coming to the end of our American Legion Year, and will be busy with Post nominations and elections. 

We decided to push out our nominations to the 5 May meeting, in order to let our membership to reflect on what positions are available, what each of those positions ecompasses so they can volunteer to fill some of our vacancies and occupy new positions. This is a great chance to step up into one of the various leadership positions where you can have an impact on how our Post is run, what we do as a Post and what projects, outings and Veterans/Community Groups our Post will be supporting beginning on 1 July 2025.  Please consider volunteering for one of these positions:

Here are the various elected positions that nominations will be held for:

• Commander
• First Vice Commander
• Second Vice Commander
• Adjutant
• Finance Officer
• Judge Advocate
• Sergeant of Arms

We sponsored a lunch for the De Anza Student Veterans earlier this month, we had a nice turnout and were able to speak with and meet fellow Veterans. 

We have locked in the two VA BBQ's and the Annual Post 642 Picnic. The two VA BBQ's for shut in patients at the VA will be held on 14 June and 9 August. Please view the newsletter with follow up info regarding the time and location of the BBQ's. Our Post picnic will be held on 26 July at Steven Creek County Park. Our newsletter has the RSVP form and additional info for the picnic. I hope to see as many of you as possible at our BBQ's and Post Picnic.

Our Post 642 Scholarships for graduating seniors who are related to Post members nominations/applications are now open, and all required paperwork is due by 15 May 2025. If you have a son/daughter/spouse/grandchildren who are eligible please have them contact me at arturo@cadiz.com and in the subject line insert Post 642 Scholarship. This years scholarship is $1000.

Finally one last comment about memberhip and renewals. If you know someone who is a Veteran, invite them to a meeting or have them contact our First Vice Commander/Membership Office Vince Guinnane and he can reach out and speak with them and get them to join the American Legion and our Post.  If you are still procrastinating regarding your membership renewal, please renew so we can remain a vital and stong organization. You should have received several reminders from American Legion HQ and from Vince. 

"Duty First"

Arturo