Shirley Keyes - Membership Chairman

 

 

Mrs. Shirley Keyes was recently appointed Membership Chairman. Mrs. Keyes was born in Pennsylvania, and after graduating from High School she joined the Navy. While serving in the United States Navy she met and married Jerome Keyes, United States Marine Corps. They were married for 27 years and had three children, Marsha, Corinne and Jerry Jr. She also now has three grandchildren, Grace who will be attending college next year, Matthew who is eleven years old and Danielle who is eight years old. Mrs Keyes has been a widow since 1985.

Mrs. Keyes worked outside the home for the Central Intelligence Agency. She retired in 1999 after serving with them for twenty years. With her husband's and her own career, she and her family had the opportunity to live in many places throughout the United States as well as overseas.

Mrs. Keyes has also been very involved in her local community. She is a life member of the Marine Corps League Auxiliary and has served in many positions with her highest being the National President of the Marine Corps League Auxiliary in 1995-96. Mrs Keyes served as the President of the Dale City Civic Association for twelve years, she wrote a weekly column for the Potomac News for fourteen years and worked with many other organizations. She joined NARFE after she retired and served as President of 1270 (Woodbridge) for two years. In 2007 Mrs. Keyes assumed the chairmanship of the Caucus and is presently serving as 1st Vice President for her Chapter 1116 (Vienna), as well as Publicity Chairman.

Her goals for this year as Membership Chairman are to visit and meet with as many people and Chapters as possible. She will work not only with the VFC Board but with all of NARFE members to help recruit and more importantly retain new members. Retention will be the key theme under her tenure as Membership Chairman. She believes in the wonderful organization that NARFE is and how without it our pay and benefits could be diminished. It is key that the word gets out about how important NARFE is and our numbers count; the more members we have, the louder our voice will be heard.

Mrs. Shirley Keyes will be available to be of help to you and your Chapter in any way that she can regarding membership. Please feel free to call her at 703-698-1838 (H), 703-297-9866 (C) or email her at shirleykeyes@aol.com.