Vice President Jolene called the meeting to order at 6:48 pm. Our meeting started in with the
Post members to watch the pinning of the Flag Detail. We did the opening prayer and Pledge in
the men’s meeting.
Roll call of officers: Joanne absent, Jolene present, Teresa absent, Libby present, Gail
present,Historian (new officer) Joyce present, and Judy present. There were 5 officers and 8
total members present.
Minutes: Judy reported for Teresa that she will have the June and July minutes at the August
meeting.
Financial report: Libby gave out paper copies of the report. We have $3,836.51 in the General
fund, $3,611.50 in the Veterans account, and $34,086.76 in the Money Market account. A motion
was made by Judy to accept paper copies. It was seconded by Gail and carried on the floor.
Bills for presentation: Libby gave Charlotte a check for the TN State Department of
Corporation.
Reports: These are the only ones that had a report done.
Chaplain Gail sent Diane Burgess a card, but it returned. She will remail it to her home address
instead of her PO Box.
Historian Joyce got books from Charlotte.
Americanism Gail read an article out of the Elks magazine of interest. She said it was really a
good article if everyone wanted to read it.
AEF collected $11.
Awards at Convention: 3rd Place Children and Youth and Music, 2nd Place Leadership,
Americanism, VA&R, Legislative, National Security, 1st Place History, Constitution & By-laws,
and Finance. Jolene showed a picture of all the awards.
Child Welfare is now Child Well Being.
Community Service Jolene for JoAnne. She placed 36 flags on the 3rd in Mt. Pleasant, placed
96 flags at Riverwalk and helped the DAR give out Constitution books.
Charlotte reported that at the convention Jolene was installed as Department Historian. She
said that there was a good crowd and everyone dressed western.
Girls State -former Girl State delegate Cathy Garner from Hampshire passed away. Her funeral
is Saturday. Beth also shared a handout that showed all the donations that have been made to
the Girls State account.
Gold Star members are Susan Bailey, Kathleen Graves, Nicki Hickman, Lula Ince, Sarah
Robert, and Judy Vick as reported by Beth.
Membership Beth reported that we don’t have goals yet. She said we have 89 members for a
80.91% for 2026. DUES are now due for 2026-27.
Public Relations Jolene reported that we will get advertisements on WXRQ AM/FM.

VA&R Judy reported for Teresa that a quilt was presented to a young man on June 14th that is
an active military Marine stationed at Quantico. Two quilts were presented on June 15th at
Puckett’s Vet2Vat breakfast. Another quilt was presented on June 23rd to a Vietnam Army
veteran from Hohenwald. Judy read a mail-out about the VA&R Newsletter. There will be a video
that can be viewed on July 28th at 7 pm CST to learn about the TN VA&R program (See flyer).
Correspondence Judy read a card from Connie thanking us for the pocket flags.
Large Pot – did not have bag of names to draw.
Chaplain gave our closing prayer. She read a good article out of the Auxiliary magazine that
everyone enjoyed.
Jolene closed the meeting at 7:23.

Minutes by Judy for Teresa….