| VVAFT Photo Album VVAFT Photos Page 1 |
| Denton, Texas - June 6, 2008 |
VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting
| VVAFT Board of Directors at Work |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting Denton, Texas - Friday, June 6, 2008 Directors in attendance: President Bill Meeks Jr., Vice President Don Kennedy Jr., Secretary Kerwin Stone, Treasurer Jim W. Boyd, Greg Beck, Manuel Carlos, Herschel Carmichael, Lucio Moreno, Buster Newberry, Hal Thompson. Excused Dennis Thomas. GUESTS Nate Washington (President Oklahoma State Council), Allen Manuel (VVA National Region 7 Director) & Marvin Lockhart TVVN Asst. Editor |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks donating a Combat Cross to the Texas State Council Live Auction Chairperson Percilla Newberry. The VVAFT donated $750 to the Capitol of Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument Committee for the Combat Cross. The VVAFT donation to the Monument Committee will go to help build a Vietnam Memorial on the State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas |
| VVAFT Operation Ed-U-Cate 1st Place Winner Victor Flores (Vice President VVA Chapter 574 El Paso) accepts a check from VVAFT President Bill Meeks for $1000 on behalf of VVA Chapter 574. |
| VVAFT Operation Ed-U-Cate 2nd Place Winner Kerwin Stone (President VVA Chapter292 Beaumont) accepts a check from VVAFT President Bill Meeks for $500 on behalf of VVA Chapter 292 Beaumont |
| VVAFT Operation Ed-U-Cate 3rd Place Winners There was a 2-way tie for 3rd place between VVA Chapter's 920 Denton & VVA Chapter 923 San Marcos when the VVAFT Board met on Friday and determined the winners of the contest. Each chapter divided the $250 and received $125 each. |
| Vietnam Veterans Assistance Foundation of Texas, Inc. Board of Directors holds their Board Meetings in conjunction with the Vietnam Veterans of America - Texas State Council Meeting. The VVAFT Board meets on Friday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. and the Texas State Council meets on Saturday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. All VVAFT Board members are members of Vietnam Veterans of America and serve in various positions within VVA and the VVA Texas State Council at either the chapter, state or national level. |
| "Combat Cross" VVAFT donated to the VVA Texas State Council Live Auction |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks presenting Texas AVVA President Marilyn Rose with a check for $800 from an RFP that was presented to the VVAFT Board of Directors by the Texas AVVA/ |
VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting
| College Station, Texas February 1. 2008 |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks presented a check for $1000 to VVA Chapter 292 in Beaumont to help with mailing of their fund raising literature for a Veterans Memorial in Beaumont |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks presented AVVA President Marilyn Rose with two checks from the VVAFT Board of Directors. A $500 annual continuing grant and a $336 RFP grant to help with registration of AVVA Officers and lodging for the Texas State Council Meeting 31 Jan - 2 Feb 2008 |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks presented a check for $750 to John Miterko a committe member of the Capitol Texas Vietnam Veterans Monument Committee for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Capitol grounds in Austin. |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting |
| El Paso, Texas June 29, 2007 |
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| VVAFT's Operation Ed-U-Cate is a program set up to help Texas VVA Chapters in funding their scholarship programs. Each year VVAFT holds a contest and any Texas VVA Chapter is encouraged to participate. The time period is from the June VVA TSC meeting until the next years June TSC Meeting. The deadline is just prior to the VVAFT Board of Directors meeting which is held on Friday afternoon preceding the VVA Texas State Council meeting on Saturday morning. |
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| VVAFT Secretary Kerwin Stone taking the Minutes of the Board Meeting |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks checking in to the hotel for the VVAFT Board meeting on Friday and Texas State Council meeting on Saturday |
| L-R: Jim Boyd (VVAFT Treasurer & TSC Secretary), Buster Newberry (VVAFT Director & TSC President) and Bill Meeks (VVAFT President & VVA 343 Delegate |
| VVAFT Board members Manuel Carlos & Lucio Moreno (President VVA Chapter 574 El Paso) |
| VVAFT Board Members Buster Newberry (TSC President), Bill Meeks (VVAFT President) & Greg Beck (President VVA Chaper 278 Texarkana) |
VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting
| Kerrville, Texas February, 2007 |
| Galveston, Texas June, 2006 |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting |
| El Paso, Texas September, 2005 |
Denton, Texas
| College Station, Texas |
| Hug-A-Hero "Daddy Dolls" In June at the VVAFT Board of Directors meeting the board members voted to support eight families at Fort Hood, Texas who had a family member deployed in Iraq. VVAFT purchased eight gift certificates from the Hug-A-Hero organization. VVAFT Vice President Don Kennedy and Treasurer Jim Boyd made the presentation of the gift certificates to two of the eight families at Fort Hood. Unfortunately due to work commitments and other families the other six families could not attend the presentation. They were delivered by Jim Boyd's daughter whose husband is also deployed to Iraq for 15 months. The Daddy Doll has a photo of the deployed parent on the doll and a tape recorder with the parents voice on it so that the children can have something to remember their deployed parent. |