LHCP Vice President-To update VA hospital needs and honoree questions?

LHCP Treasurer-How can I donate money to LHCP to support our wounded troops?

LHCP Newsletter Editor-All newsletter questions?

Membership Coordinator-Yahoo Group Membership & coupon sorting questions-

Youth/Scout Coordinator-All youth and scout project questions-

Webmaster-All webpage questions?

During her adult life, she has been involved with each and every branch of the military services as either an employee or volunteer worker. She began her volunteer work with the USO at Andersen AFB, Guam with the 605^th Military Airlift Command. She became the Manager of the Andersen AFB USO Facility.

While attending Central Texas College in Paralegal Studies, she worked at the United States Air Force Legal Office and the United States Army Legal Office, traveling throughout northern Germany and the Benelux Region in her capacity as a U.S. Tax preparer for Department of Defense personnel. 

She has worked for the Combat Equipment Group-Europe, headquartered in Kerkrade, Netherlands, Lockheed Martin Logistics Management in Seckenheim, Germany, During this time she was also TDY to Bosnia, Hungary and Croatia during Joint Guard and Joint Forge with the Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Raytheon Aerospace, Moody AFB, Georgia. 

Karen has served as the 1st vice president of the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 290, Stafford, VA and is now a member of the Lorton American Auxiliary, Unit 162, Lorton, Virginia.  She is also a member of the honor society for the women of the legion and the auxiliary, Rippon Salon 737, Eight and Forty.

Karen has been married for 28 years.  She is the mother of adult children.  One son is serving in the U.S. Navy and a daughter is married to an U.S. Air Force member. She is the grandmother of two. 

Karen has been a resident of 10 states and 1 US territory. Karen has also had the pleasure to live, work, and play in 22 countries. During her travels she has visited 42 of the 50 states belonging to the USA. Karen currently resides in Virginia and can be contacted at LHCP President.

James grew up in Bay City Michigan and after graduating from high school in 1978 he joined the United States Marine Corps.  During his 8 years in the Marines he worked as an aviation electrical technician and as an instructor for enlisted flight personnel.  While in the military he had a chance to travel and lived in the Far East for two years. 

He attended the University of North Carolina in the pre-engineering program before transferring to North Carolina State University.  He graduated in 1991 with honors with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.  As part of his senior year James worked on the Mar Mission project for NASA designing an aerobraking system for the return trip to Earth. Currently he is working part-time on my MBA at Idaho State University. 

James has worked as a project engineer for Ethyl/Albemarle Corporation in South Carolina, Monsanto Company in Idaho, and he is currently a Mechanical Engineer with the Agrium Corporation based in Calgary Canada. 

The majority of his responsibilities are in the area of project management that include knowledge of project execution skills across all disciplines and proactive in identifying and resolving issues.  

Jim has been married for 25 years and has one teenage daughter. 

Jim is active as a committee member for the Friends of the NRA and in the Idaho Business Week program. 

Jim can be contacted at LHCP VP.

Maria describes herself as “an army brat”—her father was career Army, with two tours in Viet Nam, and her mother worked for the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon for 20 years. Her brother was in the Army as well. In college, Maria worked for the Navy. She still feels tied to the military and wants to help as much as she can.

Maria works for an environmental consulting company in Wilmington, North Carolina as an office administrator/technical editor. The majority of the company’s work is with the military (Fort Bragg, Camp LeJeune, and many other installations).

Additional experience includes volunteering in the surgical waiting room of her local hospital.

Maria has been a contributor to LHCP for a year prior to becoming LHCP’s secretary in January 2008. As she stated when she was named secretary, “I really admire what the organization stands for and all the hard work that goes into it. I look forward to becoming more involved.”

Maria can be contacted at LHCP Secretary.

Sharon works as an Information Technology Specialist employed by the Government of the District of Columbia. Additionally, she has been teaching over 20 years at the College of Southern Maryland as an adjunct instructor.

Sharon is an associate member of the Prince George’s County Police Department Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 89. One of their biggest fundraisers that she helps with is for the Maryland Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S).

Sharon became active with LHCP when her husband retired after 23 years from the U.S. Army Infantry, and they searched the Internet for an organization that works with wounded U.S. military members and found LHCP.

Sharon lives in Alabama and can be contacted at LHCP Treasurer.

Rachel Hause
Newsletter Editor

Rachel is a self-employed writer and editor who lives in Minnesota with her husband. Prior to starting her own business, she worked as a technical writer for seven years in Nebraska and Minnesota. She has prepared her church’s weekly newsletter since 2000 and prepared a monthly newsletter for Boy Scout Troop 123 for several years.

Rachel first learned about LHCP when she helped her sons’ Boy Scout troop conduct a drive for Landstuhl Hospital Care Project. Her involvement with LHCP grew, and she served as LHCP secretary for two years in addition to preparing LHCP’s quarterly newsletter, the LHCP Update (available on our website under the News button). 

LHCP has benefited from Rachel recruiting her husband and one of his colleagues to assist with the organization’s application for its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. This was granted with an effective date of May 26th 2005. 

Rachel has two sons—one who will be commissioned as an Army 2Lt in May 2008 and one who serves in the Marines. 

Rachel can be contacted at LHCP Editor.

Gaby has served as a Girl Scout Leader for 20 years. 

She served in the US Army for 4 years. 

Gaby is a member of the Ladies Auxiliary for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 969 in Tacoma, WA. 

Gaby is  presently serving as the Senior Vice President and Community Service Chair for her auxiliary.  She is also serving as the Jr. Vice President for their district. 

Gaby lives in Federal Way, WA.

She is married to a Vietnam vet who served in the US Navy and has two daughters.   Gaby is a grandmother to one.

She loves working with youth. If you have a scout, school, church or other youth project please contact Gaby at LHCP Scouts.

Krystal Alexander
Membership & COUPON COORDINATOR

Krystal lives and works in Washington State as a Care Giver/Advocate for the elderly.  She has worked for the local school district as a Para Professional on many levels including a stint as a High School Librarian.

As a military wife for over eight years, she has lived on several installations, and including two tours as a dependent to Korea; Krystal has a working knowledge of how difficult it can be for military members and their dependents. 

Contact Krystal at LHCP.InTheLoop@yahoo.com for more information about your membership after you join or any questions you may have as to how best help.

Susan Timberlake
contributions secretary

Susan works as an academic secretary at a liberal arts college outside of Richmond, Virginia.  She graduated from St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida in office administration and since moving to Virginia has worked at the college for almost twelve years. As the mother of eight (oldest son served in the Navy and youngest son is in the National Guard and is now serving in the Middle East.  She is a grandmother of thirteen (oldest will be joining the army after high school), she doesn’t have much free time.

She became involved with the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project in the beginning when Karen first started it, writing letters, etc. and though she doesn’t have much free time she does what she can as Contributions Secretary, and hopes to start doing some sewing soon. 

David Bath
Webmaster

David has been involved with the military nearly all of his life - either as an Air Force brat, a Petty Officer in the Navy Seabees, or as a contractor.

David joined the Navy Seabees after the first Gulf War as an Engineering Aide until moving to the Army’s Missile Range at Kwajalein for a 4 year period as a contractor.

David volunteered to travel to Iraq with Radiance Technologies to install and train personnel on a Sniper detection sensor for the Army. He spent 4 months in Iraq working with the military to get the best results from the sensor.

David is married and has an 3 year old baby boy.

David volunteered with LHCP after LHCP president asked if he could take over the web site duties for LHCP.  David can be contacted at Web Master.