PRESIDENT’S LETTER

 While our next election is over a year away we need to keep focused on voter registration and making sure there are more and more people registered Republican.  We have a chance to do this on June 7 and 8 at the Sunnyvale Art and Wine festival.  We will be 'womanning' the booth both days and I still need some volunteers.  We also have the added bonus of being paid a Bounty of $3 per registration to the Club.  Please call me if you can help.  My phone number is 263-0990.  Thanks in advance for all your help.

 May has started out well for the SVRWF.  Alice Wilson, Shirley Harvey and I attended Advocacy in Sacramento.  It was a great experience.  The first day, Monday, was Lobby Day.  We met in the morning and got together in groups to discuss issues and prepare to go to the Capital to Lobby the Democrats.  It was quite a sight to see over 200 Republican Women in red jackets going up the steps to the Capital and walking the halls to lobby for our favorite issues:  Education, agriculture, and Immigration among others.  Monday evening, we went to the Sutter Club and many of our Assembly members and State Senators joined us.  It was one of the most exciting days I have ever had and I do think we made quite an impression.  I hope next year more of us attend.  Keep your calendars open for late April and early May 2004.  Tuesday we had many more Assembly members and State Senators speak to us on a variety of issues . . . especially the state budget mess.  It was good to see and hear their enthusiasm for advancing the Republican agenda in Sacramento and to help get more Republicans elected to office.  Please consider coming along with us next year.

 Now for another piece of business . . . we need someone to work with Jim and Shirley Harvey on the Newsletter.  They have put in seven years doing a wonderful job, but would like to be able to travel a little more and we need someone else to work with them.  If you are interested you can either get a hold o the Harvey’s or me.

 I want to remind everyone that we are on break for July and August and will not have another meeting until September 4^th.  We will have packets for all members at the June 5^th meeting that will include your new rosters and some other goodies, please make sure to take your home with you so we don’t have to mail them.  I hope you all have a wonderful summer and come back refreshed in the fall!

 Don’t forget to visit our new website at www.SVRWF.org.  See it grow and change to keep up with our dynamic organization.

Sincerely,

Laura Riffle

President

Silicon Valley Republican Women Federated

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SPEAKER NEWS

 Our June 5 SVRWF Dinner Meeting will be a chance for our members, associates and husbands who cannot attend luncheons to attend a regular meeting.  Our speaker, Vice Mayor Tim Risch, will provide us with timely information on the local issues.  Vice Mayor Risch is dealing with the development taking place in Sunnyvale, crime on the local level, and funding on the local level.  Bring your questions.

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MEMBERSHIP  JUNE 2003

Several Members have joined our Club since the Roster printing.

Please welcome:

         Audrey Scott

Newest Members Are:

Joan E. Dammann

Gus (Ophelia) Benish

Jaqueline L. Gavin

Margaret Naughten

To date we have 64 Regular Members

                           29 Associate Members

Members may be counted as an Active voting Member in one Club only; she may be an Associate Member of one or more Clubs.  To be eligible for such membership, it is a prerequisite that she already be a full voting member of a Unit Club.  Spouses may be Associate Members.

To Renew:  Make Checks Payable to S.V.R.W.F.

Regular Membership             $ 25.00

Associate                                   $ 15.00

Patron                                         $ 40.00

  Patron Member pays her dues of $ 25 – extra is gratuity to the Club.  Have a great summer; try to seek out new members during that time.

  Send checks to:

            Barbara Ferguson

            505 Inverness Way

            Sunnyvale, CA 94087

            (408) 739-0795

Thank You.

Barbara Ferguson

Membership Chairman

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COMPARE THE BRAVE ENTERTAINERS OF 1943 WITH TODAY'S........

(DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS?!)

 The Entertainers of 2003 have been in all of the news media lately.  It seems that Newspapers, Television and Radio has been more than ready to put them and their message before the public.

  I would like to remind you of what the entertainers of 1943 were doing, (60 years ago). Most of these brave men have since passed on.

Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal.

James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U.S. Army on D-Day.

Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was a R.A.F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.

David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in Normandy.

James Stewart flew 20 missions as a B-24 pilot in Europe.

Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) was a waist gunner flying missions on a B-17 in Europe.

Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.

Earnest Borgnine was a U.S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.

Charles Durning was a U.S. Army Ranger at Normandy.

George C. Scott was a U.S. Marine.

Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action as a U.S. Naval officer aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of Tarawa in the Pacific Nov.1943.

Brian Keith served as a Marine rear gunner in several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.

Lee Marvin was a marine on Saipan when he was wounded.

Robert Ryan was a U.S. Marine who served with the O.S.S. in Yugoslavia.

Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined  the Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Audie Murphy, little guy from Texas, most decorated serviceman of WWII.

  I wish I had room to tell you more about Actor Sterling Hayden and an actor by the name of Peter J. Ortiz (Twelve O'clock High, Rio Grande and The Wings of Eagles), but this would turn into a book.