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Public Affairs Committee Report
April 2012
Meeting was called to order at 2:35 PM. Phone transmission was established with Tom Burke, Committee Chair to keep him in the loop.
In attendance was Herb Worthington, Vice Chair, Tom Owen, Carol Engle, Ken Holybee, Wayne Reynolds, Dan Stenvold, Michael Keating, Marc Leepson, John Minor, Mokie Porter, Fred Elliott, and Susanne Bohm-Weber, AVVA Public Affairs Chair.
The meeting followed the format and Agenda Supplied by Tom Burke National Public Affairs Chair.
John Rowan covered the 30th Anniversary Film that was done by John Giannini noted film producer and stated that it would be a good thing to have for the historical end of VVA but he has misplaced the contact information for Mr. Giannini. He then went on to talk about VVA’s participation in the National DOD 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. VVA has been given 20 tickets to the Memorial Day celebration of the war at the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington DC.
Mokie has also made contact with Ellen Duckman, web designer who also works with the IT department.
It was brought up that we need to modernize our motto of In Service to America and possibly add another slogan to read faster than our founding principle of Never Again will One Generation of Veterans Abandon Another. The Committee will work on suggestions for sayings that include all veterans and are shorter than what we use now but still have the impact.
The Committee will review PSAs that the Communications department has and copies of these PSAs will be brought to meeting in New York with Ed Vick, John Rowan and Herb Worthington on Tuesday 4-24-12.
It was decided that we need to catalog all PSAs that we have in our possession and possibly put them on the web so the whole Public Affairs Committee can review and comment.
It was also noted that PSAs had to be made available to VVA State Councils for use on local Public Broadcasting Stations and local Public access Stations. It was further discussed that they also need to be put on Facebook and Twitter to bring better and more accessibility by the general public. A suggestion was made that we should also ask for donations on these PSAs. It was suggested by Mike Keating that we need to limit the messages to about six categories.
It was determined that the web page also needs updating and is being worked on and a new, fresher design is in the works.
Tom Hall, National Education sub-chair was reappointed to the Education Sub-Chair once again without objection. He is going to review his Handbook and make changes and updates. The Committee will then see about turning the Handbook into a Disc Version and is able to put it on the web and produce the discs at a lower price.
The VVA Media Kit for outside Press, and Media People was discussed and will be looked at for updating if need be by Mokie Porter and the office.
The number of web pages that VVA has was discussed as was Twitter to get our messages out faster and to a broader audience. We determined that we need to also get our memberships ideas and move quickly on this project. We must decide who, and what, we are and present our help for all veterans.
The meeting then turned to the Awards Sub Committee and it was determined that the Chair of this sub-committee is Charlie Montgomery with member to include Richard Delong and Judy Vargo.
It was determined also to award a Media Award to deserving people and publications that fit into the VVA Criteria.
End of report. Committee meeting was adjourned at 4:25 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Herb Worthington
Public Affairs vice Chair
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