Activities

This is a Family Picnic, so please bring your Children and Grandchildren. You are welcome to arrive anytime after 10:00 AM. We plan to eat around 1:00 PM. Participants are asked to bring a covered dish to share, your own place settings and your own beverages. Meat, Rolls, Condiments and Coffee will be provided by the Squadron. A collection will be taken to offset the expenses. There will be electric available for crock pots and reheating hot dishes. Please bring your lawn chairs! The picnic will be held RAIN OR SHINE!

This is a beautiful park with Pavilions and restroom facilities with flush toilets. Pets are allowed in the picnic area but must be on a leash, and no alcoholic beverages are permitted. You can fish in the lake for trout or bass if you have a valid PA Fishing License, or rent a canoe, rowboat or paddleboat on the 85 acre lake.

We have a nice surprise for your consideration. All of the established Sampson Squadrons got together and made patches for the various Squadrons with their state on the bottom. These will be available for purchase at a nominal charge at the picnic.

Last year's picnic was well attended and enjoyed by everyone. This is a great time to get familiar with each other and share our favorite stories about Sampson. We look forward to seeing you there!

Yours truly, Don Lehman

** So that we can plan our food needs, we would appreciate your replies ASAP:
by phone to Denise Stokes at 717-885-0532 or e-mail us at Sampson-pa@comcast.net
** Website: www.freewebs.com/sampson-pa

Greetings, Members and Friends of PA Squadron SAFBVA

The PA Squadron of SAFBVA will again be enjoying a Summer Family Picnic at Memorial Lake State Park in Fort Indiantown Gap. The date of the picnic is Sunday, August 22, 2010 and will be held in the same pavilion as last year on Middle Road. Directions to the park are listed on the next page. Look for SAMPSON signs to guide you. (We were originally hoping to have the picnic earlier in the summer, however we were unable to reserve the Pavilion until now.) Directions to Fort Indian Gap

Summer Family Picnic Sunday August 22, 2010

PS. Our fall meeting will be held in October and we plan to have a speaker for that event which will be held at the Community Club at Fort Indiantown Gap.

Pennsylvania

On August 26, 2006 a group of Sampson Vets met in York, PA to form a Pennsylvania Squadron.
One hundred invitations were sent to vets in the 717 area code. Out of the 100 invites, 22 Vets plus 11 wives responded to enjoy a hearty breakfast and share about what they did in their Air Force career plus share what is new at Sampson.

Officers are: Don Lehman - President; Dale Erdman - Vice President; Denise Stokes Secretary/Treasurer.
Board members are: Roger Henry, Russell Sims, Robert Hood, Richard Hombach, Guy Trude, and George Freburger.

At this time the squadron is comprised of 48 paid up members . We are encouraging Sampson Vets to sign up and become members of the Squadron. We realize that not everyone has memories as strong as others of our entrance into the Air Force as well as our indoctrination to manhood at Sampson. Membership will help keep alive those memories which become more alive as we mature into our later years. Membership will bring you fellowship, interesting programs, trips to Air Force related locations and encouragement to visit Sampson for a reunion.

So why not stand up and become a member. Membership is $10.00 per year (membership runs from October to October)

If you are interested send $10.00 or checks payable to Denise Stokes for your first years dues and mail to: 616 Campbell Road, York, PA 17402.
If you are married, your wife will automatically become a member when you sign up. We appreciate your wives attending with you.

Interested Sampson Vets are invited to E-mail the PA Squadron at Sampson-pa@comcast.net
Or call Don Lehman at 717-252-2485.