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HILTON HEAD-LINER

The Hilton Head Area Chapter The Military Officers Association of America

Bluffton - Hilton Head Island - Sun City

January-February 2017

ARMY NAVY MARINES COAST GUARD AIR FORCE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

US PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

President’s Comments

MIKE DANOFF, MD

Webmaster Board posi-tion, Bob Holben the Personal Affair, Lois Heitzke to fill vacant Auxiliary Directorship and Jerry Glass became our new Education Di-rector. We thanked Ed-win Tankins and Bob Reuter for many years of their valuable service as they were completing their Board directorship. There were over fifty in attendance for this an-nual Officers Installation Luncheon.

At the Military Veterans

Coalition meeting on

January 11, 2017, Com-

mander Warren from

the American Legion

Post 185 from Bluffton

joined us to consider a

joint Coalition with the

present Hilton Head Ar-

ea MOAA, the Navy

League and the Ameri-

can Legion Post 49. At

our next meeting, Com-

mander Warren will re-

turn with his member-

ship’s interests. Effec-

tive January 2017, Mike

Danoff has been ap-

pointed to serve the Co-

alition as its President.

The three “ R’s” in our Chapter in recent time has been “Retention, Rectruit and Renew-al”. Jerry Glass, Mary Lou Fehrman, Tom Sharkey Jayne Danoff and I have been working hard with several others toward this membership goal to meet the National MOAA dead-line of updating and re-porting our annual mem-bership by January 15, 2017. With a natural ex-pected attrition, our Chap-ter still has gained ap-proximately 10% in 2016.

Col. Bill Koehler, 2nd VP

of SC Council of MOAA, was our Installation Of-ficer on January 19, 2017. Tom Sharkey was named the 2nd VP, Holly Bos-worth took the Director-ship of newly created

Next Coalition meeting is scheduled for Tues March 14, 2017 at 1:00 PM at the Hilton Head government bldg.

As we review our 2016

Chapter’s activity, the Level of Excellence Committee is hard at completing LOE Sub-mission to the National MOAA before March 1, 2017 with high anticipa-tion. Charles Gobrecht, Tom Sharkey, Jerry Glass, Mary Lou Fehr-man, Jayne Danoff and I will get that important mission accomplished.

As our Chapter was in-

vited to the Florida Council of MOAA meet-ing on January 27-28, 2017, Tom Sharkey, Jayne Danoff and I en-joyed warm camarade-rie while gaining mean-ingful knowledge on many membership is-sues as the National MOAA President LtGen Dana Atkins and other National MOAA leaders shared their important insights.

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MOAA Spouses for Service Jayne Danoff

January 11, 2017, 17 members met for lunch at Jane Bistro and Bar. We decided that it was time to reorganize the purpose and struc-ture of our luncheon meetings.

January 19, 2017, many spouses were in attendance as MSforS members Holly Bosworth was in-stalled as the chapter’s first Website Director and Lois Heitzke was in-stalled to serve as the Surviving Spouse Liaison to the Hilton Head Chapter of MOAA. Congratulations to Lois and Holly, thank you for all that you do for our chapter.

January 19, 2017, a worker bee meeting was held in the Vault at Starbucks, Pineland Station. The 3 agenda items for the month were: Contact surviving spouse on the MOAA membership roster; Plan the New Member Dinner on February 12, and; Pre-plan the events of the World’s Largest Yard Sale on March 25, 2017.

February 8, 2017, MSforS will meet at Santa Fe Cafe for a lunch only meeting.

Changes: The second Wednesday each

month, MSforS will continue its monthly meeting at a venue established by Barb Holben, a social get togeth-er.

A second meeting will be con-ducted each month com-prised of the MSforS offic-ers and the Worker Bees. This will be a business only meeting comprising three item agenda for the board and worker bees. An email will define the agenda items. No RSVPs come if you can and want to help.

January 31, the New member potluck was postponed.

On the Horizon:

Sunday, February 26, 2017, New Member Dinner Mary Lou Fehrman has graciously offered to host this potluck event.

We have 31 new members on our roster, and face space constraints. The event must be limited to new members, the chapter’s board of directors, and the MSforS worker bees.

March 8, 2017, 12:00PM, MSforS luncheon, at the British Pub restau-rant, 1000 William Hilton Parkway, in the Wexford Shops.

Thursday, March 16, 2017, The MOAA General Membership Luncheon Dick Dubiel will share his role as the second person called as an Emergency Responder on March 28, 1979 when the Three Mile Is-land Nuclear Plant suffered a melt-down. An evite will be extended to MOAA national members in the area who are not chapter mem-bers.

Saturday, March 25, 2017, The World’s Largest Yard Sale The largest event of the year to support the JROTC Scholarship fund. MOAA members offer used golf balls and golf paraphernalia. MSforS will offer household items and sport equipment for kids of all ages to support our charitable pro-jects in 2017. Please donate your unappreciated treasures for the cause. Preparation: Prior to March 19, 2017, MSforS will be available to pick up dona-tions. Thursday, March16, 2017, accept donations at CCHH, following gen-eral meeting. Monday, March 20, 2017, drop off items at the Danoff’s all day, 17 Club Manor, Palmetto Hall, please call or email for a gate pass: jayne.danoff@gmail.com or 617.861.7010. Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 10:00AM a day of pricing and sort-ing followed by dinner at the Da-noff’s, a thank you for working to make the event a success.

Friday, April 28, 2017, Preview Day for the MCAS Beaufort Air Show and Blue Angels followed by dinner at the Dockside restau-rant in Beaufort. It is an upfront opportunity to see some amazing aircraft in action, and some very

talented pilots too.

Thursday, May 18,2017, The JROTC Scholarship Awards lunch-eon at CCHH. Please start saving your quarters to include in the MSforS college laundry gift bags.

June, plans continue for a catered dinner on the beach.

Please contact me for any additional information, or clarification at, jayne.danoff@gmail.com, or call my cell at 843.681.7010.

Jayne Danoff President, MSforS

President’s Message(Continued from Page 1) Your 1st Vice President

John Cully and I will be at-tending the next SC Coun-cil meeting at Fort Jackson on Sat February 11, 2017.

New membership initiative

pot-luck dinner will be hosted by Mary Lou Fehr-man on Sun February 26, 2017.

Next general membership

luncheon promises to be exciting as our own mem-ber Dick Dubiel will share his nuclear experience at the near tragic Three Mile Island incident. It will be on Thursday March 16, 2017 at the Country Club of Hil-ton Head.

MOAA Weekly Legislative Updates

Use the link below to sign up to receive your Weekly Leg-islative Updates http://www.moaa.org/legislative/

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Second Vice President

Jerry Glass

First Vice President

John Cully

Calendar of Events March 16 Luncheon Guest Speaker Dick Dubiel March 25 World’s Largest Yard Sale April Blue Angels at Beau-fort Marine Corps Air Station May 18 ROTC Scholarship Awards Luncheon

MAINTAIN YOUR MOAA NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP

All Chapter members who are NOT Life Members, are re-minded to JOIN/RENEW your National MOAA membership. According to Chapter Bylaws - ARTICLE IV-MEMBERSHIP, Section 6. Regular members are required to hold and main-tain membership in The Mili-tary Officers Association of America. Please make sure that you are a member in good stand-ing at the National MOAA lev-el. (If you are not getting the E-Mail News Letter from Na-tional - you are not a National member). (www.MOAA.org); Apply on line NOTE. You can only sign up as a Basic member for one year. You must then renew/join as a Premium or Life member. OR see attached MOAA Na-tional renewal application at-tached to this Newsletter.

Hilton Head Area Chapter

www.hhimoaa.org Officers and Directors

President:

Captain Mike Danoff USA

1st Vice President: Colonel John Cully, USA

Programs

2nd Vice President: Captain, USN Membership

Secretary:

Mary Lou Fehrman

Treasurer: Colonel Richard I Wiles. USA

Past President:

Colonel Blaine Lotz, USAF

Directors Lieutenant Colonel Robert

Clemons, USA Public Relations

Colonel Charles H. Gobrecht,

USAF Military Veterans Coalition

Auxillary

Lois Heitzke

Captain Jay Mullinax, USA Legislative Affairs

Lieutenant Colonel Robert

Reuter, USA Personal Affairs

Colonel Jerry Glass, USA

Education

LTC Holly G. Bosworth, USA Webmaster/Editor/Publisher

Email: holly.gifford@reagan.com

www.hhimoaa.org

NEED A COPY OF YOUR DD214?

If you do not have a copy of your DD214 ( Your military discharge paper ) you should get a copy and let your spouse/relatives know where it is readily available to them. The address of the website where you can order yours is: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/ Just go to that website and follow the directions on the site and they will mail you a copy of you DD214 within a couple weeks. Once you get it, I recommend you make several copies of it.

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Welcome to New Members

LTC Lisa Harvey, USA LTC John Smith, USA MAJ Emil Klatt, USMC LTJG Richard Bellmer Lt Col Frank Brown, USAF Capt William Walker, USAF Kerry McMahon, USMC Lt Col Jack Hamrick, USAF

Books and Guides - MOAA Info Exchange®

MOAA PREMIUM and LIFE members have free access to MOAA’s Info Exchange® books and guides, and se-lected items are available for BASIC members. Written in plain English, you’ll find infor-mation for every stage of your military experience; cov-ering subjects ranging from career transition and college preparation to TRICARE For Life (TFL) benefits and estate planning. MOAA even has publications written specifi-cally for Guard and Reserve members, surviving spouses and spouses of current and retired service members. http://www.moaa.org/Main_Menu/Publications/Publications.html

Save the Date First Wednesday of every

month Board of Directors meets for lunch (12:00) and meeting (12:30) at the CCHH. Members welcome.

Legislative Update Jay Mullinax, Legislative Affairs Officer South Carolina’s House Bill 3147 exempting some military retirement pay from the state in-come tax was passed and signed into law by Governor Nikki Haley on June 7

th, 2016. Act No.

272 exempts military pay as follows: Those < 65 yrs old: Deduction shall be $5,900 beginning the 2016 tax year, and shall increase

by $2,900 each year until the maximum deduction is allowed in 2020. 2016: $5,900 2017: $8,800 2018: $11,700 2019: $14,600 2020: $17,500

Those > 65 yrs old: Deduction shall be $18,000 beginning the 2016 tax year, and shall increase

by $3,000 each year until the maximum deduction is allowed in 2020. 2016: $18,000 2017: $21,000 2018: $24,000 2019: $27,000 2020: $30,000

The publication of Act No. 272 can be found in its entirety on the Law Office of Jay. A. Mullinax website: www.sc-estateplanning.com at the “Legislative Update” tab

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Installation of Officers January 2017

Jerry Glass, Holly Bosworth, Lois Heitzke, Bob Holben, Tom Sharkey, Bill Koehler Colonel Bill Koehler, installing officer

MSforS Vice-President Maureen Glass pre-sented books to the Diamong elementary School at Fort Stewart, GA. Books were donated to MSforS during the MOAA Holi-day Dinner in December

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Join us on Thursday 22 September for the MOAA Luncheon at the Country Club of Hilton Head

Social Hour: 11:30, Lunch: 12:00, Speaker: 1:00 Guest Speaker:

Chief Brad Tadlock of Hilton Head Fire and Rescue will provide an overview of the capabilities of his depart-

ment.

MENU Mixed green salad Choice of Entree

Pork chop with apple cider reduction, mashed potatoes, fresh hot vegetable OR

Herb marinated chicken breast, mashed potatoes, fresh hot vegetable

Vegetarian Dish upon request

Rolls and Butter Dessert: Apple pie

NAMES: ___________________________________________________ Entrée Selection: ______ Pork______ Chicken ______Vegetarian Please indicate names and entrée selections. Cut and mail with check for $20.00 payable to MOAA-HH by Sep 15 to MOAA-HH, PO Box 22631, Hilton Head Island SC 29925. Don’t miss this luncheon because you need a ride. We are GLAD to help. Just call Bob Reuter Don’t miss this luncheon because you need a ride. We are GLAD to help. Just call Bob Reuter Don’t miss this luncheon because you don’t have a ride. We are glad to help. Just call Bob Reuter at 843-342-9727