CAL-MOAA NEEDS ORDINARY MEMBERS NOW

Recently an organization published the high school yearbook photos of certain people who later became very wealthy celebrities.

You wouldn’t believe it.

They looked like geeks, physically unattractive, long hair and horn-rimmed glasses, perhaps on the dumb side, no apparent skills, and in the terminology of today, uncool.

But today they are attractive, smart, and highly accomplished.

MOAA is an organization of officer members, once immature, lacking in skills, abilities and efficiencies, no significant experience, no real capabilities.

Now the situation is entirely different. MOAA officer members are very smart, highly educated and trained, and with many years of valuable experience in the military, government, or the private sectors. In many cases, their accomplishments are highly significant.

It would be interesting to compare their high school or college graduation photos with their appearances of today. Might be good for a laugh. And it might be a real surprise.

There are countless stories of MOAA members who over time moved from a position of weakness to strength…and achievement.

As the Council goes into the new year, 2008, there is going to be a real need for members willing to help make a difference.

As members moved along the career path, there were plenty of obstacles:
–Parental mistreatment;
–Painful labeling/”dumb”
–Predictions of failure
–Peer opposition
–Poor ancestry/bad genes
–Possible illegitimacy

These days there’s a tendency to judge others by outward appearance. What they look like. The clothes they wear. The car they drive.

Perhaps members consider themselves very ordinary, nothing special, having never walked on water, just people hiding from the madness of the world.

CAL-MOAA has a great need for many more members to participate actively and fully, do the Council’s business, accomplish the mission and purposes, make a difference.

WHO does the Council need and want? People with:
–A willing heart
–A humble attitude
–A cooperative spirit

Already ordinary members, once they discover something they can become passionate about, have been stepping out and working for change. Some have been trying to save a Navy Exchange that is about to close. Others have been speaking out in favor or against the nation’s foreign policy. One has been trying to change the judicial system.

They are demonstrating proof that if they really want to make a difference, they can.

Anyone who would like a CAL-MOAA assignment in 2008 should contact any member of the Executive Committee (EXCOM). It could be a life-changing experience.

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