AOH Pennsylvania State Board

Division 2

Brothers,
On our conference call on Wednesday night someone brought up about the Chaplains Manual. It is attached here
Chaplains Handbook AOH so every national and state president should make sure that all chaplains have a copy of it and save it in your file for further use.

Thank you,

Please take notice of the following :

First, The Pa. State Board will meet next Saturday, December 3rd, at the VFW Hall,  440 Sterling Rd. (RT196) in Tobyhanna, Monroe Co. beginning promptly at 1:00 PM. All Officers and Chairmen giving reports must have typed copy for the State Secretary.

Second, when your division elections are complete please forward copy of the Certificate of Elections / Form 9 to the State
Secretary. A copy will be faxed to the National Secretary.

Third, So far about 20 divisions have updated their information for the Pa. Division Directory to be posted on our State Website. Go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqkKjwZrsJ9cdHNISURLOFpidGFxcGZ0a0VQN1NCT3c  to do so online.

Finally, The Pa. State Board Calendars are still available, Please contact Eugene Daly at   Eugh39@aol.com   or
call him at   215-606-7580. You can also pick them up at Div. 39 on Tulip St. The sale of the calendars enables
the Pa. State Board to keep its State Assessments at $2 per member,  the lowest in the AOH !

Brothers,

Here are all the totals for the AOH Div. 4 part of the CPRAIL Holiday Train.

This started 6 weeks ago with a meeting between the Nicholson Business Association, represented by Mr. Kurt Stevens, Ms. Lucilia Lopes from Keystone College and myself, representing Div. 4 and CPRAIL.  Keystone came on board with the food collection by having a contest between 7 groups of students. The group that collected the most food was given a pizza party.   And this ended Monday Nov. 28 when all the food was delivered to the food bank.

We had a total of 75 hours involved by our members from start to finish. A total of just around 1,000 pounds of food was collected by Keystone and at the Pump & Pantry, the night of the CP Holiday Train’s stop on the Nicholson Bridge. We also sold a few of the Holiday Train Pins that we left over from past years and we turned over $23.00 cash to the food bank.

I would like to thank all Div. 4 members involved including John Maher & wife and their grand daughter and my wife & son. Pat Gilroy & wife, Todd Frick and Dave Baker from JFK Division 1, these people gave up their Saturday night, brought food with them
and helped collect more food at Nicholson.

Also, a special thank you must go out to Schiff’s food service for their help and donation that brother Gilroy brought to the food drive and friends of ours who’s son ran around and sold the pins.  And we must thank the Pump & Pantry for letting us set up
our collection barrel in their parking lot and by telling their customers that we were out there collecting food.  Thank you all.

We are all hoping that this will keep getting bigger and bigger so that we need to have John Connor bring his truck up, as he has in the past, and we can fill the truck to the top.

This report will also be sent to CPRAIL so the totals will be added to the amount collected along the route of the Holiday Train.

Respectfully submitted,

Joe Walsh–Div. 4 V.P.
CPRAIL Engineer
& Safety Committee member