The White Falcon - 11.08.1978, Blaðsíða 1

LA FRA president visits
The president of the Ladies Auxil-
iary of the Fleet Reserve Association
(LA FRA), Nancy Nolan, visited Nava]
Station Keflavik, Iceland this week
as part of her world-wide tour.
Mrs. Nolan was elected national
president of the Ladies Auxiliary of
the Fleet Reserve Association September
1977 in New Orleans, LA. She serves
as president for a one-year term. As
national president, Mrs. Nolan visits
the various units of LA FRA all over
the world.
"Generally, the national president
doesn't approach her tour as I am do-
ing. I feel that it is the 'little
one' that is important. By 'little
one', I mean the individual member. If
you visit large groups and merely give,
your presentation, you don't meet the
people. I like to meet the members in-
dividually, so I can find out what they
think an^ what ideas they have person-
ally. By doing this, I now have a
better understanding of what all these
different members world-wide desire
and think."
Being a fairly old association, the
Fleet Reserve Association was organized
in 1924. The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Fleet Reserve Association began in 1936.
Today there are more than 300 branches
of LA FRA with 21,000 members. For
several years LA FRA has been fighting
for special benefits to better the
living conditions of the Navy, Marines
and Coast Guard.
"The different commodities that the
military person and dependents consider
a part of their lives are what we are
fighting to keep. It was just around
World War II that commissaries, ex-
changes and medical facilities were
given to us by the government. We did
not have the little extras such as sea
pay, housing allowances and things of
that nature either. Cur people have
worked through the years for all these
things, and we are still fighting to
keep these extra benefits."
When asked how to ensure that these
benefits be maintained, Mrs. Nolan re-
plied, "By having people in the Fleet
Reserve Association. The more members
we have, the better bounce we have in
Washington. If you consider the number
of people that are in the three services
involved, and the number of people we
have in the FRA, it doesn't balance.
When the association confronts Congress
with, "I want," Congress is going to
ask how many people are interested in
NANCY NOLAN, the national president
of LA FRA (photo by PH3 Jesse Williams)
the project? If we can't come up with
a good set of numbers in comparison with
the 'can be' members, Congress won't be
too interested in approving the project.
They will say, "But what about the rest
of them? Don't they care?" That's why
we want everyone possible who is eligi-
ble for the FRA to join.
To be a member of the Ladies Auxil-
iary Fleet Reserve Association you must
have either a husband or brother in the
Navy, Marines or Coast Guard. Daughters,
stepdaughters, mothers and active duty
women are also eligible to join the or-
ganization.
Mrs. Nolan has accomplished one par-
ticular goal during her term as presi-
dent of LA FRA. "LA FRA belongs to the
Veterans Administration Volunteer Ser-
vice. In order to be recognized on the
national council, you must have 45 VA
hospitals that LA FRA volunteers work
in, and I just completed my 45 hospi-
tals."
Every national president of the La-
dies Auxiliary Reserve Association has
a special project. Mrs. Nolan's project
was getting a Navy widow's home approved
to be built.
"LA FRA is going to have to raise six
million dollars to get this widow's home
built and that amount of money is hard
to raise in a year's time. So, rather
than take it as my own personal project,
I brought the idea up to the group in
New Orleans and they voted to sponsor
it. I want a widow's home so that Navy
widow women can have security and a
place to go and reminisce with others
about those wonderful years that we had
with our husbands."
Mrs. Nolan stayed with Yeoman First
Class Richard M. Henderson of the Naval
continued on page 3
Volume 34, Number 32
Keflavik, Iceland
August 11, IV/8
KEY PERSONNEL OBSERVE the newly renovated Navy Exchange location. They
are (left to right): Commander R. F. Heine, Public Works Officer; Cap-
tain Jack T. Weir, Commanding Officer Naval Station Kefi.avik, and Lieu-
tenant R. A. Brown, Navy Exchange Officer. (photos by PH3 Jesse
Williams)
the deli stop
DELI STOP CUSTOMERS await their turn to purchase their favorite food
selection.
New base facilities
get ribbon cutting
A ribbon cutting ceremony took place
last week at the Viking Building, honor-
ing the opening of the new Mini Mart.
Before the cutting, Captain Jack T.
Weir, Commanding Officer Naval Station
Keflavik, spoke to the crowd pointing
out the people who "played a key role in
the execution of the plan. Phase one of
our plans is completed today which con-
sists of the Mini Mart, convenience
store, beauty shop, barber shop, credit
and tour office and poolroom."
Key personnel responsible for the new
facility were present to witness the
outcome of their efforts. They are Com-
mander R. F. Heine, Public Works Depart-
ment Officer, and Lieutenant R. A. Brown,
Navy Exchange Officer.
Other instrumental persons include:
Lieutenant Commander S. Primmer, Recrea-
tion Officer; Special Services Director
Valberg Larusson and Social Director Jon
Gudmundsson.
Phase two is scheduled to be finished
by October. Capt. Weir regrets he won't
be here to see it but is confident it
will be completed as planned. The post
office will be relocated in the Viking
Building in Phase II and the Viking Caf-
eteria will also be renovated.
Capt. Weir said, "We should be proud
of our new facilities; we should remem-
ber the work that was put into these fa-
cilities to make it possible and we
should all take good care of them."
With each key member of the project
holding a part of the ribbon, Capt. Weir
then did the cutting.
The crowd applauded and then moved on
to see the new centralized stores.
MINI-MART patrons place their purchases on the counter to check out at
the cash register station.
According to the Navy Relief Society
national president, receipts in the
Naval Station Keflavik campaign totaled
$7,318.41.
The campaign, which ended at the
station June 7, included a Navy Relief
Society Radio-A-Thon, sponsored by
Radio 1484 and its marathoner, Seaman
Sam Spear, who amassed more than 60
hours of continuous broadcasting.
Navy Relief
base drive total