Whitewater Valley 
Marine Corps League Auxiliary 
January 2010 Newsletter 

Next monthly meeting: Sunday, January 17th at 5:30 pm

2009 was another busy year for the Auxiliary! As usual, the Whitewater 
Valley Auxiliary Unit members and their families and friends have donated 
an enormous amount of time, effort, talent, ideas, tools, materials, 
enthusiasm, vehicles, trailers, energy, miles, money, and so much more for 
our success! The following is a brief recap of some of our activities in 
2009: 

SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS

This year, the Auxiliary sent hundreds of care packages overseas. We had a 
many fundraising programs for our care packages. We sold yellow Warm Glow 
Candles. We sold message cards, enclosing the yellow cards in the care 
packages in May and enclosing the Christmas cards in the packages in 
November. The Auxiliary partnered with Ultimate Fighting of Indiana (UFI) 
in a mixed martial arts event at the National Guard Armory. We 
participated in the Elder Beerman Community Day coupon sale fundraiser, 
and included raffle tickets for American flags which we gave away each 
week. Auxiliary members traveled to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina to wish 
farewell to the Marines of the Second Maintenance Battalion being deployed 
to Iraq.  

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

The Auxiliary assisted with the Alzheimers Memory Ride and the monthly 
benefit rides with the Whitewater Valley Motorcycle Club. We volunteered 
with KICKS 96 and the WWV Motorcycle Club at the Dutch Country Flea Market 
in Greens Fork for the Thunder of Love event to benefit St. Jude's 
Children's Research Hospital. We sponsored a booth at the annual Fourth 
Street Fair. We attended the KICKS 96 annual Cash for Kids event at 
Fricker's. We participated in the annual Toys for Tots Off-Road Benefit 
Ride at Haspin Acres in Laurel and sold Warm Glow Candles as a fundraiser. 
We assembled and delivered 300 Christmas care packages for patients at 
Richmond State Hospital. We entered a float in the Richmond Christmas 
Parade and the Centerville Lighted Christmas Parade. On behalf of the 
Auxiliary, we would like to extend a special thank you to Jim Clark, Terry 
France, Rick Johnson, Dave Parker, Charlie Rose, and Troy See for their 
efforts on the Christmas parade float!  

AUXILIARY BUSINESS

We attended the Marine Corps League Auxiliary Department of Indiana 
Conference in Terre Haute in March and several Whitewater Valley Unit 
members were elected to state offices. The award for the Unit with the 
most increase in membership was earned by Whitewater Valley and two of our 
Unit members tied for Indiana Recruiter of the Year. The Whitewater Valley 
Detachment hosted the Department of Indiana Fall Conference in October and 
our Auxiliary Unit received the second place certificate for Child Welfare 
which was awarded at the National Convention. We met the president of the 
newly formed Auxiliary Unit at the Howlin Mad Detachment in Hobart and 
we're planning to attend their charter installation meeting on January 
24th.  

COMMUNICATION

The Auxiliary launched its own monthly newsletter. Our members receive the 
Unit newsletter and National newsletter by email. The newsletters are also 
available on our website: www.wwvmcla.org. The Auxiliary Calendar can be 
accessed through our website by clicking on the EVENTS tab. Our calendar 
address is http://calendar.yahoo.com/wwvmcl. We have a MySpace page which 
is still a work in progress: http://www.myspace.com/wwvmcla. The 
Department of Indiana Marine Corps League Auxiliary has a page on 
Facebook.  

Is your contact information up to date? Do we have your correct address 
for our mailings? Do we have your email address for the newsletters, notes 
and reminders? Do we have your correct phone number and alternate phone 
numbers for our phone tree? You can email your current information to 
wwvmcl@yahoo.com. We need to include everyone in Auxiliary communications.  
We have a lot to do in 2010 ! ! !  

Richmond Christmas Parade 2009 (2 pictures)
2009 Centerville Lighted Christmas Parade (2 pictures)

CELEBRATION

Following in the footsteps of her great grandfather, Charlie, her 
grandmother, Carol Ann, and her father, Brian, Auxiliary member, Kara 
Johnson, has enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and will be 
leaving for boot camp at the end of this month. There will be a party to 
send her off at the League on Saturday evening, January 16th. Join us to 
bid her farewell!  Please remember all of our men and women serving our 
country for our freedom!  

Respectfully,
Nina Rose
Auxiliary President