Northwest Cascades
Serving Whatcom, Skagit, Island and the northern half of Snohomish Counties
| Chapter 196 NARFE | Newsletter | Contacts | Membership | Washington NARFE | Everett Chapter 193 |
CAPTION FOR PICTURE: Our new slate of chapter officers (L-R: Trish Ryals - Secretary,
Dan Ryals - Treasurer,
Howard Bundy - Skagit Co. VP, Rod Mason - Whatcom Co. VP, Arlene Deurbrouck - Service Officer,
Quentin Gates - President, Dave Kimple - Island & San Juan Co. VP, Brady Green - Membership Chair)
CHAPTER 196 OFFICERS
NEW OFFICERS as elected at December 2008 meeting
(Red and Underline have picture and/or biography)
· President – Quentin Gates :
· VP Skagit Co. – Howard Bundy :
· VP Island /San Juan Co. - Dave Kimple :
· VP Whatcom Co. & Leg. Chair- Rod Mason :
· Secretary – Trish Ryals :
· Treasurer – Dan Ryals :
· Membership Chair - Brady Green
· Service Officer - Arlene Deurbrouck :
OTHER CHAPTER POSITIONS
· · Legislative Officer – Rod Mason
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· Sunshine Chair Island Co. – Lou Etta Teeter
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· Sunshine Chair Whatcom Co.
– Mary Mason
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· Public Relations Chair Whatcom Co. – Bob Deurbrouck :
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· Public
Relations Chair Island Co. –
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· Public Relations Chair Skagit Co. - ?
· Web Master –Fred Torgerson :
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· Phone tree
Whatcom Co. – Brady Green, Quentin Gates, Billy Joe Reynolds & Jim Higby
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· Phone tree Skagit Co. – Howard Bundy, others?
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· Phone tree Island Co. – Dave
Kimple, David Brown, Tom Clatterbuck
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· Chapter historian?
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We have four to six meeting a year, usually the second Tuesday of the month with a few exceptions: July- August Annual Picnic – (Date and location to be announced) October 11, 2011 – Health Fair 1:00 PM at the Mount Vernon Senior Center December – Annual Holiday Luncheon – (Date and location to be announced)
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Meeting are at several locations (1) Squalicum Yacht Club (SYC), Bellingham (2) Bellingham Senior Activity Center (3) Oak Harbor Senior Center (4) Anacortes Library or Fidalgo Senior Center and (5) Mt. Vernon Senior Activity Center Click here for directions to meeting locations :
Chapter Contacts:
Quentin Gates,
President, Whatcom Co. (360) 527-3142; qgatesXXjuno.com
Arlene
Deurbrouck, Chapter Service Officer, says she’s ready to help assist our members
with questions about current and future retirement issues. Arlene says if she
can’t come up with an answer, she will find out who can supply an answer. Arlene
can be reached at (360) 647-3416. Or you may E-mail her at rainbows8XXcomcast.net
Rod Mason, VP Whatcom
Co.& Legislative Chair (360) 734-3823; rmason3XXjuno.com
Howard Bundy, VP
Skagit Co. 360-840-3329; hfbundyXXhotmail.com
Dan Ryals, Treasuer. (360)
675-3706; danandirishryalsXXverizon.net
Trish Yyals, Secretary (360) 675-3706;
danandirishryalsXXverizon.net
Bob Deurbrouck, PR Whatcom Co.(360) 647-3416;
rainbows8XXcomcast.net
David Kimple, Public Relations Island Co. (360) 675-9311;
davdarkimpXXpeoplepc.com
Brady Green, Membership Chair (360) 738-6496;
bgreen5645XXaol.com
Rod Mason, VP Whatcom Co & Legislative Chair (360) 734-3823; rmason3XXjuno.com
Mary Mason, Whatcom Co. Sunshine Chair (360) 734-3823; rmason3XXjuno.com
Lou Etta
Teeter, Island Co. Sunshine Chair (360) 632-3149; ettalou1932XXcomcast.net
Hq NARFE Toll Free Telephone 1-800-456-8410
Webmaster: Fred Torgerson, 360-652-1932 or 360-679-6912 E-mail : fredt001XXcomcast.net
NOTE: E-mail address have XX instead of the correct @. The purpose is to hopefully reduce the automatic harvesting of E-mail by Spammers.
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Squalicum Yacht Club; Ph # 360-734-4673 (Contact Mike Heintz)
Address: 2633 South Harbor Loop, Bellingham, WA
Bellingham Senior Activity Center: Ph# 369-676-1450. Address: 315 Halleck St., Bellingham, WA 98225. Directions: From I-5 North take Exit 254 (Iowa St.).
Turn left at the stop light on Iowa St. and go under I-5 to the James St./N. State St. intersection. Turn left onto N. State St. and go to Ohio ST and
turn right at the light. Go west on Ohio St. past Bellingham H.S. and continue on across Cornwall Av. Into Halleck St. The BSAC and parking area will
be on your left. (Going on I-5 South take same exit 254 and then turn right onto Iowa St. and continue as directed). Lunch. $3
click for Bellingham Senior Activity Center
Mt. Vernon Senior Activity Center; Ph # 360-336-5757 (Contact Crystal)
Address: 1401 Cleveland St., Mt. Vernon, WA 98273
Oak Harbor Senior Center; Ph# 360-679-6620 (Contact?)
Address: 51 Jerome St., Oak Harbor, WA
Fidalgo Center (Anacortes Senior Center); Ph# 360-293-7473 (Contact Sally Hill)
Address: 1701 22nd St., Anacortes, WA
: Anacortes Public Library: Ph# 360-293-1910; Address - 1220 10th Street, Anacortes.
Directions: Follow State Route 20 Spur into Anacortes where it turns into Commercial Ave. Turn left onto 10 St. and go 3 blocks.
Pull into parking lot on right. Meeting room is to left as you enter doors facing 10 St. No Lunch, but Gere-A-Deli, 502 Commerical is excellent
click for Anacortes Public Library WEB
***Whatcom Co. Carpool from front of Bellingham Senior Activity Center leaving by 11:45 AM*****
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Directions: From I-5 northbound, take Exit 256A (I-5 south bound take Exit 256) to Meridian St. At the light turn left onto Meridian St., and go south to Squalicum Parkway,
look for signs pointing to the Harbor and Coast Guard (just past the RR tracks). Tune right onto Squalicum Parkway and go west to the harbor, turning left onto Roeder Ave.
Take Roeder Ave. past the Bellingham Cold Storage plant to Coho Way and turn right onto Coho Way.
Continue on Coho way past LFS (Lummi Fishing Supply), located on your right, to the first stop sign at North Harbor Loop.
There you can see the Squalicum Yacht Club in the back of the parking lot that will be on your right. The Squalicum Yacht Club
is the smaller, 1-story, white wooden building, with the reddish roof, located immediately to the right of the larger Bellingham
Yacht Club building. No lunch...click forSqualicum Yacht Club WEB
Directions: From I-5 take the Kincaid St. Exit (226). Head west into downtown Mt. Vernon until you get to 1st St.
Turn left at the stop sign onto 1st St., that soon turns into Cleveland St. Head south on Cleveland St. past the Post Office
until you get to Hazel St. The Senior Center is on your right next to the baseball park, on the corner of Hazel St. & Cleveland St.
Meetings are in the Classroom (Sewing Room).Lunch $3, promptly at 12..click for Mt. Vernon
Senior Activity Center WEB
Directions: Coming from the north on State Rout 20 turn lefts onto Midway Blvd. Go three long blocks to the light and turn
right onto E. Whidbey Ave. Go a short block to Jerome St. and turn left and you are there. It is the first building on the right.
The parking lot for the swimming pool is on the left. Meetings are in the main room.
Lunch ..click for Oak Harbor Senior Center WEB
Directions: Follow State Route 20 Spur into Anacortes as it turns into Commercial Ave. Turn left onto 22nd St. and go past the schools.
There will be a tall building on the left where the fitness center is located. Turn left into the parking lot and the senior center is
at the rear of the parking lot.Lunch $3, promptly at 12..
click for Anacortes Senior Center WEB
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The president of NARFE’s Northwest Cascades Chapter #196 for 2008 is Quentin “Q” Gates of Bellingham.
Q became a member of the Overland Park, Kansas chapter shortly after retiring from federal service in 1998
and transferred his membership to the Whatcom County Chapter when he and his wife, Judith, moved here in 2000.
Q became the chapter’s vice president for Whatcom County when the Skagit, Island and Whatcom chapters were combined.Q is a native of Altoona, Pennsylvania and after serving four years in the U.S. Air Force in the late 50’s, accepted a position with the Federal Aviation Administration as an air traffic controller in 1962. He earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Colorado and a fellowship in Public Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while serving as a controller in California and Colorado.
Among other hobbies, Q is an avid barbershop harmony singer and uses his administrative training and experience to teach organizational skills to barbershop harmony organizations around the United States and Canada.
Q’s goal for our chapter is to improve communications with all members of the Northwest Cascades Chapter by expanding face-to-face, written, telephone and internet contacts with all members.
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Brady Green, Past President and Membership Chairman. A fish biologist over 45 years with federal natural resource agencies, mostly with the US Forest Service. Primary focus freshwater aquatic ecology and fish habitat protection and restoration in a variety of aquatic habitats (rivers, lakes, ponds, reservoirs, and streams) in a number of western states, including Washington, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and California. Protecting threatened and endangered fish and wildlife species has been an important part of my job.
Served as a volunteer in the US Peace Corps in Uruguay, South America, assisting host country wildlife and forestry agency and university counterparts with a number of wildlife, natural resource and environmental education projects.
I also worked for the California Department of Fish and Game, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Postal Service, and the US Geological Survey.
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Howard graduated with a BS in Physics from Washington State University in 1963 and became involved with Westinghouse Electric Corporation
in training nuclear power plant operators for the Navy. Later work included operating the plutonium production reactors at the Hanford works
and constructing and operating commercial power plants in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Washington. In 1983 Howard joined the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC)as a Resident Inspector with assignments in Indiana and Kansas. In 1985 he transferred to the NRC Region IV office in Arlington,
Texas and performed safety inspections on most of the commercial power plants in the western half of the country. During the last 8 years of his
career Howard was a senior examiner for nuclear power plant operator applicants. A few months after his retirement in 2003 he moved to Anacortes
with his wife Irene and joined NARFE in August 2004. Howard’s hobbies include fishing and bird hunting. Howard believes that the most challenging
problem for Chapter 196 is communications. Improved communications should result in greater member participation in chapter activities.
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Dan Ryals, Treasurer
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Trish Ryals, Secretary
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Bob Deurbrouck, Public Relations for Whatcom County
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David Kimple, Public Relations Island County
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Arlene Deurbrouck, Chapter Service Officer
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VP Whatcom Co. & Leg. Chair
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Fred thinks of himself as "just an Engineer" but enjoyed a wonderful career. Graduating from the U of W with a BSAE, BSME,'50 and MSAE,'53
courtesy the GI bill and WA State Engineering Fellowship. He enjoyed working at the Naval Weapon Center, China Lake, CA
designing and testing rockets, and Boeing for 5 years doing research and writing proposals, before taking a position of Operation Research Analyst with the Air Force in Japan,
later Hawaii and Germany and retiring from the HQ Pacific Air Forces, Honolulu.
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Fred Torgerson, Webmaster
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