October/November 2026 Newsletter

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Message From The COMMANDER

Greetings Sullivan-Wallen family! It has been a productive last couple of months, but I want to thank everyone for what you do for the American Legion. I want to extend a special thank you to the members of our Building Committee and those assisting with the special projects we have going on to improve the state of our Post building – Randy Bialcik, Nate Oettinger, Bill Kaczmarek, and Tom Herber. By the time the next newsletter comes out, we should have greatly refreshed bathrooms! This group and others have been busy securing donated funds and materials to make these much overdue projects possible. If you are interested in helping with any of these initiatives, I am sure they’d welcome additional help!

I am certain the Auxiliary will touch on this in their article, but the American Legion Auxiliary passed significant changes to their membership eligibility. Over simplified, any grandparent, parent, sibling, spouse, child, or grandchild of a Legion-eligible veteran or any female veteran themselves can be a member. I am frequently approached by community members that want to help or be involved, but for whatever reason, they are not eligible to join any of our groups, so this should remove many barriers for official participation. Instead of Dual Members, we’ll soon have Triple Members (or Quadruple Members, if a Rider). If you are eligible for any element of the Legion Family, I encourage you to consider joining and supporting the part you are not currently a member of. Between the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, Sons of the American Legion, and Legion Riders, our Family offers a lot.

John Dyer

Message From The ADJUTANT

2027 Membership notices are here. Remember that dues will be $45 again this year. You can pay by check or use the QR code at the end of the newsletter and pay online

(mylegion.org). David Oksnee

You can pay by check or online here: https://www.clover.com/pay-widgets/53a9ee61-9a97-4171-b5c9-a246134100cb or through online (mylegion.org).

Message From The HONOR GUARD

NOVEMBER:

7th Green Bay Yacht Club 10:00am
10th Bellevue Senior Living 1:00pm
11th 10:00am Neville Public Museum for UPS ceremony
11th 11:45am Lambeau Atrium for WECA anniversary
16th 5:30pm AVB concert at Bayport High School

Message From The 40 et 8

No promenades for November and December. If you haven't paid your dues yet please contact CJ Kellner 920-366-5109. January promenade will be on the 20th at 7pm in Green Bay. CJ Kellner

Message From The AUXILIARY

Happy Fall Y'all!!

We welcomed Luann James our district Auxiliary President. She gave us some good ideas to increase membership. Thanks to Lena and Kieth for sponsoring the luncheon.

We have a new member Mary Klingingmeyer a transfer from Baraboo. We're excited to have her join unit 11.

We are going to be updating our current bi-laws Barb Stencil will be helping me with this.

There will not be a kids Christmas Party this year, due to low turnout. Remaining toys will be donated to local Shelters. We will sponsoring Veterans family for Xmas. Thanks Barb for coordinating this.

In January we will again be donating School Supplies to Nicolet Elementary and Danz schools.

Reminders: The Annual Veterans recognition event will.be at the Green Bay Yacht Club on November 7th. Registration is at 10am with the Program/ Ceremony at 11. Lunch to follow.

Mary Van Egren

Message From The Post Historian

Three archives have been added to the non-Facebook Sullivan-Wallen Post 11 webpage Archives:

Lifelong Partnership: American Legion Post 11 & The Green Bay Packers (Documents of the partnership between the American Legion Post 11 & The Green Bay Packers.)
Decade 1910 – 1919: Title: WWI Era Illustrations Ladies Home Journal (50 illustrations of the Great War (WWI) published in the Ladies Home Journal starting in 1918)
Decade: 1940 – 1949: Title: 1942 to 1943 Newspaper Clippings. Here’s the link: https://www.sullivanwallenpost11.org/the-archives

Or go to: sullivanwallenpost11.org > Post 11 > Archives

I want to thank Monica Leigh for scanning these books for our Archives.

Also, if you are at any Post 11 event, Military event, or Veteran’s event, consider taking pictures with your phone. Email them to the post who will forward them to me. We can include them in the Post 11 webpage. (Note: I do edit the photos if necessary. Almost all photos I take I later edit.). Tom Kenevan

UPCOMING EVENTS

November 2026

5 – Marine Corps League Meeting / 6:30pm

7 – GB Yacht Club Ceremony / 10am

10 – Bellevue Senior Living Vet Visit / 1pm

10 – Executive Board Mtg / 6:00pm

Auxiliary Mtg / 6:30pm

SAL Post 11 / 6:30pm

Business Mtg / 7:00pm

11 – UPS Vet’s Day Ceremony / Neville / 10am

11 – WECA 90th Anniversary / Lambeau Field / 11:45am

16 – Brown County Council Mtg / Elks Lodge / 6:30pm