Reports from the Chapter President on issues of interest to Chapter members.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE JANUARY 2026

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

2026 – The Beginning of an Exciting Year for the Luke Chapter
Happy New Year to all our chapter members. Thank you for your service. I can never overstate my gratitude for the service the Luke Chapter members give to our chapter and community. 2026 is upon us and our chapter is moving forward into the New Year with many exciting changes and programs.
New Venue and Event Program Changes
The chapter will begin hosting lunch meetings in February and March. These will be hosted at the Tuscany Golf Club in Pebble Creek. These lunch meetings will offer a more casual meeting setting, with a lunch buffet, and a guest speaker. The chapter will host our traditional dinner pro-grams in April and May. More information is con-tained in our newsletter and will be posted on the Chapter Website.
Chapter Community Fund Program
We are fortunate to have as our chapter Community Fund President, Shanna Woyak, Major General, ANG Retired. Shanna along with the Community Fund Board of Directors are prepar-ing for another successful scholarship awards program, JROTC awards program and our on-going Veteran Grant Relief Program.
We need your assistance and your generous donations to ensure the future success and as-sistance our chapter provides to our community.
College Scholarship Awards Program - We need volunteers to serve on the scholarship awards selection committee. Please contact David Ciesielski, (Brigadier General, ANG Retired) at david.ciesielsk@gmail.com
MOAA JROTC Awards Program – We need vol-unteers to present the MOAA JROTC awards to the thirteen JROTC high school units in the west Valley. Please contact Buz Isban, (Captain, USN Retired) at buzisban@cox.net
Veterans Grant Relief Program – We need vol-unteers to serve on the grant relief committee. Your service on the committee can help veter-ans in need and prevent homelessness and fur-ther financial stress. Please contact Mike Kra-mer (Colonel, USAFR, Retired) at kramerhome-tree@outlook.com

Chapter Membership and Recruiting
Our chapter currently has 173 members. Our membership is slowly declining. However, that may soon change for the better, but we all need to help in this membership recruiting effort. 
MOAA national will be releasing the names and contact information of over 1000 MOAA mem-bers living within our chapter boundaries.
These members had previously opted out of contact with a local chapter. Our chapter is pre-paring an aggressive recruiting campaign to contact each of these members and invite them to join our chapter. We will need your assis-tance to contact these members, to invite them to our chapter events, and extend the hand of chapter fellowship.
Hopefully our membership will grow, but in the meantime, WE NEED YOU to keep our chapter a strong and viable organization.

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