A resume service for our members has been introduced on the Association Web Site (WWW.FAOA.ORG). The rules for its use are self-explanatory, but can be outlined as follows: (1) Interested members send their resumes to either the Web Master (at the above internet site) or to the Association office at P.O. Box 523226, Springfield, VA 22152 or by e-mail to FAOA@EROLS.COM; (2) the Association will handle any interface between the member and the potential employer, to protect your personal data (address/phone number/etc.) until you release it; (3) the resume would be rum for six months (less if you request) at a handle charge of $10.00 (to cover maintaining and processing requests).

The Association is not a headhunter or a job locator. This Resume Service is showcasing the type of backgrounds available from our membership to show firms around the country. Negotiations, interviews, and so on are the responsibility of the individual and the relevant firm. We will only endeavor to link the interested parties up initially. TO MAKE THIS EFFORT SUCCESSFUL, WE NEED THE ACTIVE SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION OF OUR RETIRED/FORMER SERVICE MEMBERS. You all have contacts within the business community -- mention our service and get them interested.

The Association will contact headhunters and various firms that normally hire FAOs, but we need you to get the word out also (to your own firms' human resource departments, etc.). Hopefully, nature will take its course and job possibilities will arise from this idea.

VOLUNTEERISM!!

First, Thank you to those of you out there that have been responding to our plea for volunteers. Someone will be getting in touch with you shortly. For the rest of you, who are busy riding on the gravy train -- things don't happen on their own. To build FAOA into something significant we need help. But let me be more specific -- We need someone to ultimately take over as membership chairman, to edit and layout the journal, and to put together an initial social in the Washington, D.C. area. These tasks look huge, but believe me they are manageable.

-- MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN. As our membership has risen to 800+, this job has become increasingly difficult to do, while also putting together the journal, etc. There are four aspects to the job: (1) recruiting new members, i.e., running a membership drive, at least once a year; (2) renewing memberships; (3) update addresses, and (4) maintaining the membership data base. The person who volunteers for this job needs to have e-mail access, so that he/she can ship updated data bases to the person running the journal. This job could easily be a husband/wife combination job. The only restriction on the job would be that it ought to be someone with vehicular access to the Springfield, Virginia, Post Office on Rolling Road. If you might be interested give us a holler and we can talk more -- a phone call does not commit you -- but we do need some additional help.

-- JOURNAL EDITOR. Ever want to publish your own national publication? This is you chance! The Journal format is already set up. The job of editor would involve getting in the articles for it, to include the official proponent material from the Army, Navy, and Marines, putting them into the format, and sending the formatted edition to the printer in Alexandria, VA. The editor would review and approve the "blue line" (the proof), and get the final product to the post office. This is once a quarter effort that requires a total of nine hours spread over two weeks. Interested? Call the FAOA Office and we'll talk -- no commitment -- just talk.

-- SOCIAL COMMITTEE. To kick off the social aspects of the FAO Association, we need someone to honcho a cocktail party/meeting, in Washington, D.C. The idea would be to get the membership together to develop a social program for the future -- we could have sign ups for regional dinners, for lectures or discussion groups, and other smaller scale functions. We envision a guest speaker, to attract attendance; a brief association business meeting; and food /drink in a congenial atmosphere. The function could be held at Ft. Myer or McNair, and the Association would provide the seed money. We need someone to do the groundwork and find out and set the where's, how's, and when's for the function. If you are interested please call us.

ELECTIONS FOR BOARD OF GOVERNORS -- FIRST NOTIFICATION.

Our current Board of Governors finishes its three-year term in December 1998. This is the first call for those who are interested in serving or in nominating someone to serve on the Board. Board Membership requires only minimal work and most correspondence is accomplished by fax and/or phone. A slate of nominees will be submitted to the membership for approval in the September 1998 issue of the Journal. We ask that nominees be restricted to individuals who are know within the community for their service as FAOs or for their efforts to help FAOs. There is no serving limit, so you can also nominate current Board Members, as well. The idea is to elect a slate of officers that represent all three segments of our population -- former service, active service, and reservists. The slate should also represent a broad spectrum of our regional specialties. The current Board of Governors has members from every the active, reserve, and retired communities, as well as Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, China, Africa, the Middle East, and Korea/Japan. We did not have anyone from the South or Southeast Asia region this time. SEND YOUR NOMINATIONS TO FAOA Headquarters.