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Among the perpetual members of our Chapter, from left: General of the Armies John J. Pershing; Governor and Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a founding member of the Chapter; former Chapter Commander and Acting Adjutant General of Massachusetts, Brigadier General John H. Sherburne; Major General Robert C. Davenport; President John F. Kennedy; Major General George S. Patton, Jr.; Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., MOH; Captain George L. Street, III, MOH; Lieutenant General L. Scott Rice, Former Adjutant General of Massachusetts; Major General Gary W. Keefe, Adjutant General of Massachusetts; Captain Thomas G. Kelley, MOH

Our Chapter’s 99th Year

A PICTURE PROFILE OF THE GREATER BOSTON CHAPTER

Below: Luncheon Meetings at the Union Oyster House with Guest Speakers

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Captain Paul E. Mawn, USNR, (Ret.) Addresses the Chapter

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Informality and Cordiality are the Rule of the Day

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The Meetings are a Key Factor Sustaining in our Companionship

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We Have Always Been a Chapter of Friends

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Above: An Award to a WW II Veteran of the Royal Navy, LT Geoffrey S. Mullis, RNVR

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CAPT Mary Jo Majors with our new perpetual Member 2LT Paul Kim, USMC, at his commissioning ceremony at the hall of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Faneuil Hall, Boston

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Above: MIDN 1/C Carolyn Pushaw (now 2LT, USMC) stands right with CDR Brian Masterson, USN

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Above from Left: Chapter Commander Larry Willwerth, Guest Speaker CAPT Thomas Fedyzyzn and Chapter Adjutant Bill Maloney

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Above: Former Chapter Commander Fred Maguire and Cadet Megan Whitney, now a 2LT in the US Army and a companion of the Chapter

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Above: Cadet Eric Getty (now a 2LT in the US Air Force, with LTC Karen Dillard and Former Chapter Commander LTC Fred Maguire

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Above: Cadet Patrick Mealey, left, who is now a 2LT in the US Air Force, with former Chapter Commander LTC Walt Stamper

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Above from Left: Cadet Matthew Palermo of the MIT Army ROTC Program but actually a student at Endicott College thereafter commissioned in the US Army; Chapter Commander LTC Fred Maguire, Guest Speaker CAPT Claudia Gelzer, USCG; LTC Peter Godfrin, USA, Professor of Military Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Above: 2LT Gabrielle Johnson, USAF, who was awarded a perpetual membership to the Chapter for her achievements as a cadet.

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Above: At a Chapter Meeting with Midshipmen

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Above: At Norwich University with High School Students Attending the Youth Leadership Conference Held in Concert with the University

Below: At a Veterans Day Ceremony – Our Companions Participate in Many Commemorations Aall Across the Region

PRESENT & FUTURE SPEAKERS LIST:

CAPT Thomas Fedyszyn, USN (Ret.), PhD, a Naval Academy, currently and for the last 17 years has been a senior advisor to the Russian Maritime Institute at the Naval War College, He was formerly US Naval Attache to Russia, and commanded two US Navy ships on active duty.

MG William E. Rapp USA, military affairs lecturer and Director of the National Security Fellows Program at Harvard Kennedy School; Former Commandant of the U.S. Army War College, Former Commanding General, National Support Element for the US military in Afghanistan; Former Commandant of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

A former Army officer and alumnus of Norwich University, Mr. Harold H. Shaw, is the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Boston Division of the FBI office.

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Former Assistant Director of the FBI, Barry W. Mawn, who, after thirty years of service, was in charge of the agency’s New York office on September 11, 2001 as well as the 1,100 agents in New York, Long Island and surrounding counties. Mr. Mawn’s career included many other assignments of great national importance such as the attack on the USS Cole, the 1996 Olympic Games bombing, the crash of American Airlines in November of 2001, the anthrax scare, the crash of Egypt Airlines flight 990, and the pursuit of the Unabomber.

BG (MA) Leonid E. Kondratiuk Director of Militia Affairs and historian of the Massachusetts National Guard

Former Boston Police Commissioner and key law enforcement figure in the Marathon Bombing case

CAPT Claudia C. Gelzer Coast Guard Commander, Sector Boston and Captain of the Port of Boston

Major General Gary W. Keefe,

Adjutant General of Massachusetts

Lieutenant General L. Scott Rice, ANG, Former Adjutant General of Massachusetts, Director Air National Guard Bureau

CAPT David A. Welch, USN, Commanding Officer, Surface Warfare Officers School Command

Colonel Thomas G. Eccles, III, USA, M.D.,

Commander, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine and Soldier Systems Center

Colonel Michael V. Samarov, USMC

Commanding Officer, 25th Marine Regiment

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COL Charles Maskell, US Army North,

Defense Coordinating Office, FEMA Region I, center, receiving the thanks of the Chapter for his fine speech.

COL Frank Sobchak, USA, chief of staff and writer of the Army Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group

CAPT Verne Gifford, Chief of Staff

of the First Coast Guard District

Boston Fire mmissioner, Joseph E. Finn

CAPT Thomas G. Kelley, USN (Ret.), CMH

COL Richard D. McKoen, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police

COL (MA) Laurence Bazer, USA

Rabbi Bazer is the Joint Forces Chief Chaplain of the Massachusetts National Guard.

LTC Blaise Gallahue, USA, Professor of Military Science and Leadership, ROTC Liberty Battalion (Northeastern University, Boston College, Suffolk University and other colleges)

CAPT Kevin C. Kiefer, USCG, Chief of Staff for the First Coast Guard District Headquartered in Boston

COL Raoul Henri Alcala, USA (Ret.), graduate of the USMA and Yale, an author, consultant and distinguished authority on national security issues

Crocker Snow, Jr. , Internationally-known journalist, commentator and author, on the subject of his father’s career as a pioneer in early commercial aviation and in military aviation during World War II.

COL James J. Keefe, ANG, Commander of the 104th Fighter Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard

CAPT Kevin M. McGowan, USN, Commander of the Naval Command College at the Navy War College, Newport, RI

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