Rep. Christine Chandler/Courtesy photo
MOWW NEWS RELEASE
This month’s speaker for the Military Order of the World Wars will be Rep. Christine Chandler. Rep. Chandler is a long-time resident of Los Alamos County who is serving in the New Mexico House of Representatives, District 43 (Los Alamos, Sandoval and Santa Fe). Her legislative committee assignments include House Taxation & Revenue and Judiciary.
Prior to her election to the New Mexico House, Rep. Chandler had been a two-term Los Alamos County Councilor and has worked on numerous local civic boards and commissions. Before her retirement, she was a Los Alamos National Laboratory lawyer and group leader, having managed the Litigation Group in Office of Laboratory Counsel. Rep. Chandler has law degrees from Boston College and Georgetown University Law Schools.
Rep. Chandler will give an overview of the 2024 legislative sessions. She will highlight the major pieces of legislation that prevailed in both chambers as well as some that didn’t. Rep. Chandler will offer personal observations about working with the current administration as well as House/Senate dynamics.
The meeting will begin with a social period starting at 6:00 p.m. A brief meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. with the speaker at about 7:15 p.m. For further information, call Gregg Giesler at 505-662-5574 or email at g.giesler@computer.org.
The Military Order of the World Wars meetings are open to all interested people for dinner and program with RSVP, or the program only at no cost. The cost for dinner is $25. Please call Robert Hull (505) 328-1502 for reservations. A reservation is a commitment to pay. The dinner menu is chicken-fried steak with appropriate sides.
Because of the ongoing COVID situation, the meeting will be a hybrid session including Zoom. Zoom will start at about 6:00 pm Zoom details will be in the reminder email two days before the meeting. An Act of Congress chartered the Military Order of the World Wars in 1919 as a national patriotic organization. The principal objectives of the MOWW are continuing service to the Nation, and patriotic educational opportunity for the nation’s youth and citizens. Current youth programs are focused upon annual Youth Leadership Conferences for high school students presented in New Mexico by its related Sunbelt Patriotic Youth Leadership Conferences, Inc. Current, former and retired federally commissioned officers of all branches of the United States Uniformed Services are eligible for membership in the MOWW and are especially invited to attend our meetings.
For additional information about MOWW membership, call Commander Gregg Giesler at (505)662-5574.