AMAC Represents You
The Auxiliary Member Advisory Committee (AMAC) consists of six MOAA-appointed auxiliary members who serve a three-year term as advisors to MOAA’s chair of the board, president, and staff on all issues affecting surviving spouses. All geographic regions of the country are represented by experienced and talented members selected through applications, references, and interviews. Currently serving are (pictured from left to right):
Joyce Harte, chair, is a resident of Bradenton, Fla., and has been the Bradenton Chapter’s secretary for the past eight years. She also is active in the Florida Council of Chapters. Her special interest is seeing that auxiliaries fully participate in all chapter events, support the Junior ROTC scholarship program, and work with membership in recruiting and retention.
Patricia Bergquist, vice chair, is a resident of Nashville, Tenn., and serves as the auxiliary liaison for MOAA’s Middle Tennessee Chapter of MOAA and the Tennessee Council of Chapters. Her special interest for the past year has been the Cell Phones for Soldiers project, for which her chapter collected 4,907 phones. Her nickname quickly became “Ms. MOAA.”
Kathy Prout, from Coronado, Calif., is the auxiliary liaison for the San Diego area of the California Council of Chapters and the Silver Strand Chapter. Prout dedicates her time and efforts to many military charities in the San Diego area. She works on surviving-spouse legislative is- sues for both MOAA and Gold Star Wives.
Pat Shecter recently relocated to San Antonio. Though this is her final year with the AMAC, she will continue to promote the committee’s work actively in the Alamo Chapter and the Texas Council of Chapters. Previously the AMAC cochair, Shecter is well-known for her politi- cal activism in MOAA.
Janet Snyder resides in Las Vegas. A new member of the committee and a member of the Southern Nevada Chapter, she is very involved in legislative issues that per- tain to surviving spouses, and she encourages auxiliary liaisons to advocate for projects of benefit to military surviving spouses. Snyder lobbies on behalf of MOAA, Gold Star Wives, and the Society of Military Widows.
Joan Baker Washburn, a resident of Roanoke, Va., is the auxiliary liaison for the Southwest Virginia Chapter and the Virginia Council of Chapters. Her main emphasis has been lobbying for the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program and supporting deployed servicemembers’ families as the fundraiser and event planner for the Military Family Sup- port Center and its annual Military Appreciation Night.
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