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

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Coupon Coordinator-Yahoo Group Membership

All youth and special 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..  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 three. 

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.

Brad Scott joined LHCP after Sharon, the Treasurer, told him they needed a Senior Vice President.  After she told him about the project and what these ladies were doing for our wounded warriors and others, and thinking back on his own wounded troops who transited Landstuhl, he couldn’t say anything but “Yes” and “Thank you!”

Growing up in a large family in a small Nebraska town, he learned early about the dedication, perseverance, respect, and mutual concern that carry good people through long winters and hard times.  During his military career, he repeatedly found these same qualities in the outstanding men and women with whom he served.  In fact, those qualities never seemed stronger than when those men and women were confronted with the worst of situations.  LHCP fully exemplifies these traits – good people coming together to help others through the worst of situations.   

Brad’s married to the former Dawn Wilson, a British Royal Air Force “brat” and proud naturalized American citizen.  Despite spending her entire life living at the whim of one military career or another, she’s never faltered in her steadfast dedication to her husband and family.  He thanks God for her each and every day.  They have five kids; Elizabeth, Michael, Sabrina, Benjamin, and Sean.  Sean, the youngest, is a sophomore in high school.  The older four are now grown and making their own way in the world.   

He retired from the US Air Force in March 2009, after over 27 years of service, including three ground combat tours of Iraq between March 2003 and January 2008.  He’s currently an Intelligence Analyst with the Dismounted Incident Analysis Team (DIAT) at the US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, GA.  As part of the DoD Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injuries in Combat (JTAPIC) partnership, the DIAT analyzes casualty-producing dismounted combat incidents to identify potential improvements in equipment, weapons, tactics, doctrine, and training to prevent future casualties.  

Serving alongside the dedicated people of the LHCP seems like a natural extension of his “day job” and he’s very much looking forward to the challenge.

Brad can be contacted at LHCP Senior 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 and Maria worked for the Navy for two summers during college.  She still feels tied to the military and wants to help as much as she can.

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

Maria has a variety of volunteer experience.  Most recently, she volunteered in the surgical waiting room and cancer center of her local hospital.  She has stuffed envelopes for a literacy non-profit; answered phones for a radio station fundraiser; and she crochets hats, scarves, and blankets for the homeless and cancer patients.

Maria was 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.VPCom@yahoo.com

Sharon became active with LHCP in 2005 when she began looking to volunteer for an organization that works with wounded U. S. Military service members.   When LHCP began the application process to become a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable organization, Sharon accepted Karen’s request to become the Treasurer.  Over the years she has volunteered for many organizations.  However, she has found her home with the important mission of LHCP.

Sharon has over 33 years of computer software development experience and has taught as a part-time Adjunct Instructor for over 21 years focusing on information technology courses.

She is married to Thomas Buck, a retired First Sergeant in the U S Army.  Sharon has one daughter and one delightful grandson.  Sharon and Tom have semi-retired in Alabama, just across the Chattahoochee River near Fort Benning.  They have recently become happy owners of two black lab puppies who are brothers.

Both Sharon and Tom work on Fort Benning.  Sharon works in the Soldier Requirements Division in CDID as a Database Manager of the Dismounted Incident Analysis Team (DIAT) database.

Sharon can be contacted at LHCP Treasurer.

Scott has recently retired as an Army medic after 23 years of active duty; his last duty station was Ft. Drum, NY. He served two tours in Iraq. He has an eight year old daughter that he loves dearly. Now that he's back home, he is returning back to school.

Scott can be reached at LHCP.Data@yahoo.com

Rebecca was born and raised in Annapolis, MD, and she still lives near there! She is a certified public accountant (CPA) and works for a CPA firm in Baltimore, MD.  Her hobbies are traveling, hiking, gardening, cooking, and sewing.  She has a daughter who is currently attending James Madison University and a long-haired mixed breed German Shepherd/Golden Retriever.

Rebecca has volunteered with many organizations over the years, including the PTA, church, Girl Scouts, knitting blankets for hospitals, Hurricane Katrina (went to Mississippi for a week to join the rebuilding efforts), and of course, LHCP.

She has no straight ties to the military, although her father was a civilian employee at the Naval Academy.  Rebecca got started with LHCP when her daughter picked us to help earn her Girl Scout Gold Award.  Her daughter worked hard for LHCP and earned her award, and Rebecca stayed with us! 

Rebecca started sewing as a teen.  She says, “I'm from a family of quilters, but I don't quilt.  I'm more of a crafter.”  Still, she began helping out our Stitches of Love group and is now the coordinator.

Rebecca can be reached at LHCP.StitchesofLove@yahoo.com

Rachel Hause
Newsletter assistant

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. 

Krystal Alexander
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

SPECIAL PROJECTS & DRIVES COORDINATOR

Dianne is a California native who was born in Richmond, VA.  She retired after working 32 years at the Cal Poly State University Library (San Luis Obispo) and ten years for the Madera County Branch Library in North Fork.  She says she is not a librarian, just a worker bee.  Her family lived on the central coast of California (San Luis Obispo) for over 50 years.  In December of 1997, Dianne and her husband, Frank, moved to the mountains above the great San Joaquin Valley. We have two grown sons and two grandchildren.

Dianne has had ties to the military and those who support the military her entire life.  Her father worked in the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond during WWII.  Previous to that, he had been a Border Patrol agent in Nogales, Arizona.  Her Aunt Esther was a Marine during the war.  

Her husband, who retired from Pacific Gas & Electric, was in the Air Force.  His brothers were in the Air Force and Marines, his father and brother-in-law were in the Navy, and he had other family members in each branch of the service.  Dianne and Frank have one nephew who just retired from the Army after serving three tours in Iraq and one in Germany.  Their grandson Andrew is just completing his first semester in JROTC.  

Dianne has always been involved in some type of charity work, but became active with the military charities when her nephew, Michael, was first deployed.  She has been involved with another military non-profit which mainly supplies handmade items to the troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan (plus the ships that support them).  Her main focus now locally is crocheting items for the homeless shelters and babies at the hospital.  Dianne says that when she found LHCP, she knew it was something she could support that would help our "guys and gals."  She says that she hopes that she can help the group by doing "little jobs" long distance.

Dianne can be reached at LHCP.SpecialProjects@yahoo.com

DONNA BOLEN
In-kind contributions secretary

Donna was born at Fort Hood, TX, the second child of a young Army couple.  She traveled with her family to various military installations and when her Dad retired, the family moved to Norman, OK, where she grew up and married her husband Paul.  Then her adventure in life continued as an Air Force wife.  During several assignments, Donna held positions on The Wives Club Board and served as Thrift Shop Chairman.  She served on the Committee that started the first Aviano AB Italy Bazaar.  Paul served 30 years and when he retired, he entered the Financial Planning career field and is the owner of Cornerstone Financial Strategies, LLC.  Donna has worked with her husband, Paul, as an Executive Assistant for the past 15 years.  She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.  Donna is active in her church, enjoys traveling with Paul, spending time with family and quilting in her free time.

The reason Donna wanted to help Landstuhl Hospital Care Project comes from an example from long ago.  During Korea, her Dad was a Mess Sergeant.  The Chaplain came to him one day and asked if he had any extra food that he could do without.  Dad asked him why he needed it and the Chaplain responded that he and others were trying to take care of several hundred starving children.  Dad went to his storeroom and took all of the excess food items and gave it to the Chaplain.  Dad then went to the other Mess Sergeants to see if they had excess, so when the Chaplain returned Dad had more to give him and that continued until Dad returned home. 

Donna says, "The young people serving today have a special place in our hearts, and I believe that each of us can do something to help those serving have a little easier time.  I like the SoL projects, because I get to help and do something I enjoy."

Donna can be reached at LHCP.In Kind@yahoo.com

Nancy Wishmeier currently resides in Columbus, NC, and New York, NY. She earned a BS in Retail/Business from Colorado State University and an MS in Advertising/Marketing from Northwestern University. Her career includes extensive knowledge of sales and marketing; including a reputation for building relationships with Fortune 500 companies, Hedge Funds, and Investment Banks. She raised funds for The Conference Board and the Institutional Investor Hedge Fund Industry Awards. She also worked for McDonald’s Corporation in Field Marketing based in Chicago, IL, and Dallas, TX.

Nancy was living in New York on September 11, 2001, when the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. As she experienced the horrors of that day and its aftermath, little did she know she would have a personal experience that could relate to some at the World Trade Center as well as our military that are injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

She was hit by a car in 2007. Nancy’s left leg was shattered below her knee; her surgeries and rehab lasted over a year. She can empathize with our wounded soldiers, as she had tremendous difficulty walking on one leg for months, not to mention negotiating the leg brace and crutches while wearing a hospital gown.

As a volunteer, Nancy works on behalf of Landstuhl Hospital Care Project, and she will leverage her professional and personal relationships to raise funds from corporations and individuals.

She can be contacted at LHCP.donate@yahoo.com