The St. Alban’s Men’s Group enjoyed a great Italian dinner last evening and formally organized as a lay-led parish organization. The crowd assembled elected Messrs. Bob Witt Presidend, and John Hekman Vice-Presidentfor the coming year. During the short meeting portion of the evening, the group discussed upcoming events and projects, and set meeting dates for the remander of the year.
Following the business meeting, John Heckman presented an invormative program on the Port of Richmond of which he is the Chairman. As well, John, who has served on the board of the Virginia War Memorial for nine years, gave a brief talk about the newly expanded and refurbished Memorial and its mission to educate young people who might not otherwise learn of Virginia’s long and honorable military history. The talk concluded with a video produced by the memorial with interviews of Virginians who wer POWs in Germany. The testimony of these members of the “greatest generation” was quite moving, The proceedings concluded with a prayer for the armed forces of the United States.
Our next mMeeting is scheduled for Wednesday Nov. 17th at 6:00 pm.
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