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Summer Newsletter (2018) |
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Greetings from your Oklahoma Marine Corps Coordinating Council! As we move through the summer into the fall, we look forward to cooler weather and our annual Marine Corp Birthday Luncheon. Although the annual Birthday luncheon is the highpoint of our year; the Coordinating Council has been active on many fronts this year supporting our local Marine activities. This last year we have continued to support our three Marine Corps High School JROTC programs (Bixby, Grant and Sapulpa High Schools) through sponsorship of transportation to drill and marksmanship team events, unit t-shirts and sponsored seats at the annual luncheon. We have sponsored the annual Community Service awards for both the Anti-Tank Training Unit in Broken Arrow and BTRY F, 2/14 in Oklahoma City. We have helped sponsor the Fort Sill’s Marine Detachment’s Devil Dog run which is their largest community outreach event each year. We have supported the Oklahoma Recruiting Station through various recruiter incentive and recognition awards and Marine Corps ball sponsorship. We are continuing our sponsorship of the Marine Corps League’s “Marine of the Year” award and sponsor the Marine static displays at the Medal of Honor Day Ceremony held in Tulsa during April each year. Additionally we have continued our very popular sponsorship of Oklahoma City Thunder basketball tickets as incentive and superior performance awards for Marines from the Recruiting Station, Anti-Tank Training Company, Fox Battery 2/14, the Fort Sill Marine Detachment, and OU’s NROTC in recognition of their outstanding Marines. We were honored at our annual meeting this year to have Major General James Livingston in attendance. General Livingston received the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroic actions in Vietnam and was attending the Medal of Honor Day Ceremony in Tulsa and took time out of his schedule to attend our annual meeting and share a few thoughts. At the annual meeting the officers
also introduced our new Council
Donor/Sponsorship Program. Over the years we have been
very fortunate to have some very generous and faithful sponsors who have
made many of our efforts possible and we would like to honor BancFirst as
our Founding Sponsor and Mr. Harold Copeland as our Founding Donor. We
also owe Tinker Federal Credit Union recognition as our Annual Meeting
Sponsor and appreciate their full support.
Without these very generous financial supporters we would not have
been able to expand our support efforts to the Oklahoma Marine community.
We have also been very fortunate to
have many of our Council members provide their financial support over the
years. We have now come to the
point where the Council leadership believes that we should establish a
more formal donor / sponsor program that will allow Council recognition to
members and sponsors who provide financial support that will ensure our
ability to continue support to the Marine community into the future.
Enclosed is an outline of our
Council Donor/Sponsorship Program. The
terms Sponsor and Donor generally refer to corporate or individual
contributors. For federal tax purposes corporate organizations are
referred to as “Sponsors” and private individuals are referred to as
“Donors”. Our program has
five levels recognizing annual sponsorship beginning with “Jarhead”
and progresses to “Leatherneck”, “Devil Dog”, “First to Fight”
and “Semper Fi Circle”. Our
“Legacy” level recognizes the accumulation of total sponsorship over
multiple years and honors individuals and organizations that have
partnered with us to ensure that the council continues to support our
Marine community well into the future.
We appreciate all of our supporters and will recognize participants
at our annual meeting and birthday luncheon. We are very excited about this year’s luncheon!
Our goal is to bring in the very best speakers and leaders of our
Armed Forces, and this year will be no exception.
Our Guest of Honor will be Rear Admiral Greg Slavonic, who was
recently appointed as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and
Reserve Affairs). For
our Traditions and Lore, we will be commemorating the 100th Anniversary
of the Battle for Belleau Wood which will be presented by our own History
Professor Emeritus, Mr. Lloyd Hardin Jr. (Executive
Vice-President of the Council).
Lloyd will recount the exploits of the Marine Brigade serving in
France and the significance that this battle would have on the making of
the modern Marine Corps. And
as usual, we will have a very special and unique coin to commemorate this
event (Thanks again to our coin sponsors who
make this possible). This year’s luncheon will be held
on Friday, the 9nd
of November 2018, at the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club located at 7000 NW Grand Blvd.
Nichols Hills. Note this is a different location than previous years.
We have been able to hold the cost of the luncheon steady for many
years unfortunately in spite of our best effort we need to increase the
cost of the luncheon to $35.00 for this year’s event and to $40.00 next
year to get closer to the actual cost. More details will follow as we get closer to the luncheon, but I
can assure you that we will do our best to
honor our Marine Corps and Marines during this the event.
Semper Fidelis,
OKLAHOMA USMC COORDINATING COUNCIL SPONSORSHIP & DONOR PROGRAM **Please
note that your contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by
law** The Council would like to honor our founding contributors who provided both moral encouragement and financial support to our organization from the beginning. Without their faithful support we would not have been able to meet our objectives. FOUNDING SPONSOR
BANCFIRST FOUNDING DONOR
HAROLD COPELAND Benefits provided to our valued supporters in this category: ·
2 tickets to annual Birthday lunch
with reserved seating ·
2 tickets to annual Birthday lunch non-reserved Seating ·
4 tickets to the CC Annual meeting of the Members ·
4 admissions to any VIP pre-lunch meeting & photo with GOH ·
Listing in Lunch Program and Lunch slide show
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Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag
LEGACY
SPONSOR ($15,000) Our “Legacy” level recognizes the accumulation of total sponsorship over multiple years and honors individuals and organizations that have partnered with us to ensure the council continues to support our Oklahoma Marine community well into the future. Benefits provided to our valued supporters in this category: ·
Recognition
Certificate ·
2
tickets to lunch with Reserved Seating ·
2 tickets to annual Birthday lunch non-reserved Seating ·
4 tickets to the CC Annual meeting of the Members ·
4 admissions to VIP pre-lunch meeting & photo with GOH ·
Eagle
Globe and Anchor (EGA) statue with plaque ·
4
EGA lapel pins
·
Listing in Lunch Program and Lunch slide show
·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag *Once a sponsor or donor achieves the “Legacy” level through total
annual contributions, they will maintain this status and receive annual
recognition in the form of: ·
2
tickets to lunch with Reserved Seating ·
2 tickets to annual Birthday lunch non-reserved Seating ·
4 tickets to the CC Annual meeting of the Members ·
4 admissions to VIP pre-lunch meeting & photo with GOH ·
Listing in Lunch Program and Lunch slide show
·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag The Terms Sponsor and Donor generally refer to
Corporate or individual contributors. For Federal tax purposes corporate
organizations are referred to as “Sponsors” and private individuals
are referred to as “Donors” ANNUAL SPONSOR / DONATION CATEGORIES: Annual contribution will be recognized each year.
Individuals’ and organizations that contribute before 15 OCT will
receive a recognition ribbon on their name tag at the annual Birthday
luncheon, listing in lunch program
and slide show (depending on level)
as well as sponsorship recognition gifts at our annual meeting in April.
The annual coin donation is not included. The following are our annual sponsorship and donor
contribution level (everyone counts) SEMPER
FI CIRCLE ($5000 - $14,999) Benefits provided to our valued supporters in this category: ·
Recognition
Certificate & Semper Fi Circle Donor Card ·
2
tickets to lunch with non-reserved Seating ·
4
tickets to the CC Annual meeting of the Members ·
Eagle,
Globe & Anchor (EGA) stature with plaque ·
4
EGA lapel pin ·
Listing
in Lunch Program and Listing in Lunch slide show ·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag
FIRST
TO FIGHT ($2500-$4999) Benefits provided to our valued supporters in this category: ·
First
to Fight Donor Card ·
Coin
Plaque ·
2
tickets to lunch with non-reserved Seating ·
2
tickets to the CC Annual meeting of the Members ·
2
EGA lapel pin ·
Listing
in Lunch slide show ·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag
DEVIL
DOG ($1000 - $2499) ·
Devil
Dog Donor Card ·
Coin
Box with 1 Current Lunch Coin ·
1
EGA lapel pin ·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag LEATHERNECK ($500 - $999) ·
Leatherneck
Donor Card ·
1
Standard CC Coin ·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag JARHEAD
($250 - $499) ·
Jarhead
Donor Card ·
Sponsor
level identification on annual lunch Name Tag **Please
note that your contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by
law** |
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