Auxiliary Liaisons Needed
Posted by Warren Enos on 16 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: MOAA
Auxiliary Members and Chapters
MOAA’s chapter system has 10,000 auxiliary members, and they are a vital part of chapter membership. Many of these surviving spouses stayed with their chapter after losing their military spouse. More joined chapters to maintain an important link to the military community.
Today, auxiliary members are doing great things in chapters, filling leadership positions and even leading chapters. Our auxiliary members have terrific skills, having run households for years and numerous organizations on base during active duty with their military spouse. Many want to contribute to their chapters – they want to be asked. Auxiliary members are a valuable resource to our chapter system, and chapter leaders who don’t recognize this are missing out. We need their help.
About six years ago, MOAA established the Auxiliary Member Advisory Committee to advise MOAA’s board of directors and staff on all matters relating to MOAA’s auxiliary membership – now more than 62,000 strong in the association. The last original members of the committee turn over this year after doing some important work for our auxiliary members. Most of the inputs to the committee came from auxiliary members in chapters. continue reading