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CenTex CHAPTER MOAA
2024 Events Schedule
(As Of:  2 December 2023)

All Regular Chapter Meetings and Luncheon:  
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM


SCHEDULED EVENTS DATE(S) SPEAKER & LOCATION
  JANUARY 2024  
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon–Officer Installation 19 Jan 24 New officers will be inducted and business of the chapter for 2024 will be discussed.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

  FEBRUARY 2024  
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 16 Feb 24 Our guest speaker will be Dr. Harold Hamm, an extremely accomplished educator. His list of accomplishments would fill several pages, so below is just an abbreviated list of the many items that he has spearheaded.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

  MARCH 2024  
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 15 Mar 24 Our guest speaker is Bob Crouch, Vice President, National Mounted Warfare Foundation. Bob will provide an overview of the National Mounted Warfare Foundation and Museum, update on the status of the museum, and their initiatives such as the recorded and collected veterans' stories for their "Step Into the Story" program.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

  APRIL 2024  
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 19 Apr 24 Our guest speaker is one of our own, COL (Ret) Keith Sledd, Executive Director, Heart of Texas Defense Alliance.  Keith Sledd serves as the Executive Director for the Heart of Texas Defense Alliance which is a regional (7cities / 3 counties) municipally funded non-profit 501(c)(6) corporation advocating for Fort Cavazos, regional defense industries, and Soldiers and Families.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

  MAY 2024  
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 17 May 24 Our speaker will be Eddy Lange, Bell County Sheriff.  Sheriff Lange will have served as an elected official for 32 years at the end of his current term on December 31, 2024.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

  JUNE 2024  
Veteran's Community Picnic 8 Jun 24 11 AM Frank's Pavilion, Lake Belton, Texas.  Please let us know you are coming by calling or texting Jeff Davison at 254-722-2161.

Cost is $10 per person and consider bringing a dessert or side dish to share. See the newsletter
for more information.
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Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 21 Jun 24

Our speaker will be Kris Radcliffe news anchor for KCEN-TV.

Kris Radcliffe is the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. anchor at KCEN TV serving Waco, Temple and Killeen.

For 6 years in a row in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and again in 2021, Kris was named the “Waco Tribune-Herald On-Air Television Personality of The Year.”

Kris will be able to discuss any number of newsworthy events, so plan on attending and see what he will enlighten us with.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

  JULY 2024 Our guest speaker will be Colonel Lakicia Stokes, Fort Cavazos Garrison Commander. 
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 19 Jul 24

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

 
A
UGUST
2024
Our guest speaker will be Andrew T. Garcia MHA Associate Director for CTVHCS.
 
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 16 Aug 24 Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

No Chapter Meeting & Luncheon

6
th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament

SEPTEMBER
2024

13 Sept 24



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  OCTOBER 2024 Our guest speaker is Retired Colonel Donna Fore who will describe some of her experiences at the Pentagon when it was attacked on 9/11.
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon 18 Oct 24 Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas
  NOVEMBER 2024 Our guest speaker will be Gary Bates. Gary Bates is the Information Technology Director for the City of Harker Heights.
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon - Officer Elections 15 Nov 24 Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texa
No Chapter Meeting DECEMBER 2024
 
JANUARY
2025
 
Chapter Meeting & Luncheon– Officer Installation 17 Jan 25 New officers will be inducted and business of the chapter for 2025 will be discussed.

Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas

 

Monthly Meeting/Reservationsns

The next scheduled luncheon will be on Friday, 15 November 2024 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM. We will meet at the Lions Den, 5100 Trimmier Road, Killeen, Texas.  It can be seen from Trimmier Road. Map  

Our guest speaker will be Gary Bates. Gary Bates is the Information Technology Director for the City of Harker Heights.

He began his career with Harker Heights in 2006 as the first and only person in IT at that time. Currently, his team of 4 support more than 200 employees; 200 fixed and mobile computing devices; all associated servers; networking equipment; access control systems; and security surveillance equipment. In edition to working fulltime at the City,

Gary teaches IT security classes at Central Texas College. Prior to joining the Harker Heights Team, he served 10 years in the US Air Force ending his career as a Joint Tactical Air Controller (JTAC) at Ft. Hood.

We will also voting on Officers and Directors for 2025. Proposed Slate of 2025 Officers.

We will Bless the food after most everyone is seated and eating.

Please respond as soon as possible. RSVPs must be received by 8 November.

The luncheon will begin at 11:30 AM and is $18.00 per person. RSVP below.

 
Name
Phone Number
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Month
# of Attendees Meal
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By submitting this form you agree to pay the stated amount based on selection per person.

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