Western Region News

Thought you would enjoy seeing a letter I've received from one of our student scholarship recipients:

Addressed to:
Paul Harvey
ITPEU, AFL-CIO
2100 Tulare Street, Suite 525
Fresno, CA 93721

Dear Mr. Harvey,

I am writing to you to express my heartfelt gratitude for the scholarship that was given to me. The ITPE scholarship made a huge difference in my life. We definitely need some financial help for college. I was pleased when I was selected as one of the recipients. I am grateful that your organization saw and appreciated the value of a good education.

Sincerely,

Darryl James R Torculas

These past 6 months have seen major changes for our members in California. In August 2006, Mr. John Brenton III, who had been representing our members in Northern California, was called back to headquarters in Savannah to be able to more fully serve all of our members in his capacity as Secretary-Treasurer. This called for a major restructuring of representation.

Ms. Ruthie Jones, from our Las Vegas office, took over 2 sites that Mr. Brenton had been handling, namely, Bridgeport, California, and Hill AFB in Utah.

Ms. Trina Campbell is now helping our members in Hawaii.

Mr. Joe Serrano took over the Arizona sites of Davis Monthan AFB, Fort Huachuca, Luke AFB and Marine Corp Air, Yuma. I had represented our members at those locations for many years and will certainly miss all of you.

Also, there was a new building added at one of our sites in California at Camp Pendleton, Area 52, that added an additional 75 members! I have been enjoying getting to know you all!

This restructuring has made a huge difference in my life as well. I moved from my office in Alta Loma and relocated to Fresno. This central location means that I can more easily visit members in northern and southern California. We already had an office in Fresno so now I have administrative assistance again! Patti has been known to the members in Northern California for the past few years as the friendly voice of the Union. She has always been there for our members, helping them get their problems solved. She is a great asset to me and this has taken enormous pressure off of me so that I can more fully concentrate on dealing with our members issues. Our members also have benefited in that they are able to easily reach someone to talk to and often times more quickly resolve their problems.

Another new responsibility I have accepted is to more fully support our members by now serving as an Executive Board Member at Large on the Union's Executive Board. I have also been privileged to have been asked to serve our members as a Trustee on the Health & Welfare, Pension and Annual Benefit Funds. Some of these duties are new to me, so I am learning new things, but I enjoy now being able to more easily bring issues to the forefront that have caused problems with a view to resolving them.

Yes, there have been many changes this past year, but I look forward to the activities and service that I will be able to accomplish for our members in California and throughout the entire Union representation in the months and years to come.

Sincerely,
Paul Harvey

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