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Judy Hippner After four years as leader of The East


Valley Marines, Richard Hippner is stepping down to take his place in the ranks of the group’s volunteers. Moving up the chain of command, Chuck Crist is now the new commandant. At a ceremony this week, Hippner was honored for his leadership, which saw the group host four Marine Corps Birthday Balls and raise tens of thousands of dollars in charity funding. Highlight of his command was the purchase of a custom seven-passenger golf cart, which was donated to the Wounded Warriors at Camp Pendleton to use as hospital transportation. The idea for a local Marine Corps


League started with Richard Hippner and his wife Judy over four years ago. In response


to press releases in the local


newspapers, the fi rst unoffi cial meeting took place in their living room, and from there membership has now swelled to over 100. Today the Marine Corps Birthday Ball is reputed to be one of the best in Arizona and counts as its guests scores of wounded Marines, generals and admirals, veterans, community leaders, elected offi cials, media personalities, and noted speakers. For the last four years the Ball has sold out.


What makes Hippner especially proud is that attendance is free to all active duty Marines, their guests and FMF corpsmen. “I had a great team and together we created a unit that makes all of us proud to be Marines,” he said. Most recently Hippner introduced a guest speaker schedule, bringing in young war heroes, experts on veteran services, gun legislation in Arizona, efforts to help homeless vets and a visit by General Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. The League also tributes fallen Marines of all ages and sends representatives to their funerals. Rich Hippner brought an illustrious career


to his volunteer position as commandant of this local USMC League. Serving seven years active duty in the Marines, he spent a year in Vietnam fl ying H34 helicopters and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 15 Air Medals, representing 315 combat missions. He has stayed in contact with his war buddies and 30 years ago organized their fi rst reunion. They still meet once every three years to talk about their common bonds. That devotion to the Corps and its men and women was evident in his four years as commandant here in the East Valley. Under Hippner’s leadership, the group set up projects to serve the Veterans’


GENERALS 27 United States Marine Corps leader honored


Outgoing commandant Richard Hippner (left) is presented with an award by Chuck Crist.


Home in Phoenix, distributed Toys-for-Tots at holiday time and purchased airline tickets to allow families to visit their wounded warriors in the hospital. East Valley Marines meets the fi rst


Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Chapel Center in Sun Lakes Country Club. For further information, call Chuck Crist at 480 802-6818 or go to the website at www. eastvalleymarines.org. 


Unit 19 meeting


Phyllis Stephens The annual HOA meeting for Unit 19


is scheduled for Wednesday, February 16, 2011 in the Mirror Room of Sun Lakes Country Club, located at the south end of Sun Lakes Blvd. The meeting will open at 7:00 p.m. The purpose of this annual meeting is to elect members to Unit 19’s board of directors and to discuss budget and maintenance items. Each registered homeowner will


have one vote per


townhome address in the election of board members. All homeowners are encouraged to


attend all monthly meetings but


especially the annual meeting. If you are not able to attend the annual meeting you can appoint a “proxy” voter by completing and mailing the proxy form that was mailed to you in January. 


Unit 31 Luncheon


Betty Bothwell The Unit 31 luncheon will be on


Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. For a good time, join us at RigaTony’s Italian Restaurant, 1850 E. Warner Road. RigaTony’s is located at the northeast corner of McClintock and Warner. You can order from the menu and have separate checks. RSVP to Betty Bothwell at 480-829-


1986, Shirlee Katzman at 480-895-9323 or Dorothy Untz at 480-883-89908. 


Unit 38 Luncheon


Mary Erwin The Unit 38 February luncheon will be


at Scottsdale Community College Culinary Arts School on Wednesday, February 9 at 11:30 a.m. Our luncheon will include salad, choice of three entrees, dessert, beverage and tax for $16. Please make reservations by calling Dotty Deschenes at 480-963-0068, email deshclem@aol.com or Marge Duggan at 480-951-1410, email marged7@q.net by Thursday, February 3. Directions: take Rt 101 north to the Chaparral Rd. exit. Turn right (east) and the school will be on the left. 


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