The 2008 Membership Team
 
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The American Legion Department of California
Membership Contacts, Information, Districts Membership Challenge & Incentives
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Membership Director - Message Page
 Floyd Martin (108-11) PH: (209) 267-5764
 
Area Membership Director North
 Ronald A Galvin (117-10) PH: (510) 483-1605
Area 1 Chairman
 Steven “Mike” Hooper (807-4) PH: (530) 743-6974
Area 2 Chairman
 Ralph W Jacob, Jr (419-13) PH: (408) 226-3722
Area 3 Chairman
 Walter L Butler (491-12) PH: (209) 538-3432
 
Area Membership Director South
 Carleton E. Ledrew (862-29) PH: (949) 683-3032
Area 4 Chairman
 Robert C Brown, Jr (252-23) PH: (310) 516-0427
Area 5 Chairman
 Bernie Foley (595-21) PH: (951) 377-2718
Area 6 Chairman
 Peter L. Duncan (502-16) PH: (805) 529-021

Area Chairmen will report to their respective Area Membership Director, North or South, who in turn, will report to the State Membership Director.
 

There appears to be some confusion as to how transfers are handled.
Below are the National guidelines for assuring a member is properly transferred to another post or DMS program in the department.

   National Organization’s Transfer Procedures:

1. All transfer requests from one local post to another must be signed by the member and a Post Officer. If either one or both , is missing, forms will be returned to the Department.
2. If a Department sends a list of HQ Post members and requests to transfer into local Posts, The Department Adjutant or Commander must certify in writing that the members have been contacted and agreed to be transferred and the local Post has agreed to accept the members.
3. If a Member data form is received for a member transferring out of Dept HQ and into a local Post, the member's signature is required. The Post Officer's signature may be left blank. The member's signature is also required when transferring a member from a local Post into Headquarters Post.
4. All transfer requests must be submitted to National Headquarters through the Departments Headquarters.  Transfers received directly from a member or Post will be sent to the receiving Department.

We can initiate the process for our HQ Post 1000 members by using the form on our Post 1000 member transfer request page... click here

Membership Transmittals
Posts should be transmitting to Department once a week. Posts that fail to transmit for three consecutive weeks will be contacted by the District First Vice or District Officer and will be presented with a self addressed stamped enveloped and asked to transmit immediately.
 
There is no excuse to go any longer than three weeks without transmitting, even if it is only for one member. The reason for this new policy is that members who have paid but have not been transmitted are contacting the National and Department Organizations and this must stop!

American Legion Department of California
Districts Membership Challenge & Incentives
This is a challenge to all districts to increase membership with a cash incentive that may be spent as each district sees fit. All districts must obtain 98% or better membership in order to qualify to receive the cash incentive.
 
The districts will each be put into one of four groups based on their membership with the cash incentive going to the district with the highest membership in each group (The districts in group #1 are not competing against one another, however they must reach 98% or better membership).
 
All District Commanders that reach 100% membership will receive a gavel presented by the Department Commander.

Group # District # Incentive $ 1 22, 29 $200 2 3, 30 $200 2 17, 31 $200 2 13, 14 $200 2 5, 20 $200 3 1, 2, 27 $300 3 4, 23, 24 $300 3 6, 15, 28 $300 3 16, 21, 25 $300 4 8, 9, 10, 26 $400 4 11, 12, 18, 19 $400     $3,200 available

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David L Eby
State Commander 1998-99
Department Webmaster

last update
10-2-07

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