22 February 2008
subject: packages to the troops
greetings....
Department Commandant Tony DeGregorio has asked me to put together a list of Pennsylvania Leaguers who are sending packages to our troops. In order to make a complete list, we need your cooperation, so if your Detachment, or an individual in your Detachment is doing that, I would like you to contact me. We believe that if we can coordinate our efforts, it will benefit all of us, and ultimately the troops we are so proud of. If possible, maybe some of us who are doing this, could sit down together at the next Department meeting at Ft. Indiantown Gap. Sharing addresses, ideas on generating donations, getting publicity and other details will help us to do a better job.
Bill Arp
607 Walnut Street
Emmaus, Pa. 18049
610-966-1280
smallies4me@vzavenue.net
6 January 2008
Bill Arp, Vice Chairman, Public Relations
The Department Of Pennsylvania MCL and Auxiiary Staff Meeting was held at the Holiday Inn in Grantville January 4, 5, and 6, 2008. Thirty four Detachments were represented which included the following; All Divisions, Bethlehem, Chester County, Conemaugh Valley, Sgt William L. Dixon, Lancaster, Northampton County, P.W.Milano, Northeastern, Susquehanna Valley, Tun Tavern, Valley Forge, Wyoming Valley, Williamsport, Black Sheep, Anthracite, Coal Cracker, Boot Marine, Penn York, George Pron/Paul Seton, R.M.Butterwick, First Capital, Lewis B. Puller Jr., Schuylkill Carbon, Central Bucks, Wayne Pike, Gettysburg Battlefield, South Hills Pittsburg, General S.D.Butler, Bantam Marine, Bucktail, Ohio Valley Marines, Keystone Headquarters, Bob Swanson, and Washington County. On Saturday, the Commandant's Council started at 9am with lively discussions of many issues, and after the lunch break, Department Commandant DeGregorio presided over the business meeting. Special guests included state representatives from the American Legion and a twenty year old Marine, Cpl Derrick L. Sharpe from Berwick, Pennsylvania. He joined the Corps in 2005, and was extensively wounded while on patrol in Iraq on September 23, 2006. Derrick told us his very moving story and then he was installed as an honorary life member in the Anthracite Detachment.