2009/2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mark L. Stephensen, Chairman of the Board
846 Dogwood Place, Eagle, ID 83616, (208) 939-8288, Email: Msteph1771@aol.com
Jo Anne Shirley, Vice Chairman
104 Rainsong Road, Dalton, GA 30720
706-278-3746, 706-264-5398 Ð Cell, shirlfam@windstream.net
Sue Scott, Secretary
2401 Chelsea Court, Troy, MI 48084, (248) 288-0520, Email: sue_scott@dale-carnegie.com
Pam Cain, Treasurer
6404 Foggy Hills Way, Clifton, VA 20124, Home: (703) 830-5217, Cell: (703) 798-8550, Email: pamcain@cox.net
Ann Mills-Griffiths, Ex. Director
1005 N Glebe Rd., Ste. 170, Arlington, VA 22201
703-465-7432 Ð Office
Karoni Forrester
2212 Yellow Bird Trail, Austin, TX 78734, 512-751-7909 Ð Cell
David Gray
913 Holbrook Circle, Ft. Walton Beach, FL 32547, (850) 862-7266, Cell: (850) 240-0996
Ann Mills-Griffiths, Ex. Director
Mrs. Ann Mills Griffiths serves as executive director of the National League of POW/MIA Families, a position held since August 1978. The League, a nonprofit, charitable 501 [c] 3 organization, with voting membership comprised of POW/MIA family members, is dedicated to securing the return of all prisoners, the fullest possible accounting for the missing and the return of remains of those who died while serving our nation in Southeast Asia.
Mrs. Griffiths was an elected member of the League?s board of directors for four years, serving as legislative chairman 1975-78. From 1980 through 1992, she played an active role in the U.S. Government's POW/MIA Interagency Group (IAG), representing the families? views in development of official policy to resolve this humanitarian issue. Since 1992, she has continued this representational role through unilateral contact with all relevant executive branch personnel.
Mrs. Griffiths has traveled extensively for discussions with senior officials of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Russia, as well as met with officials of ASEAN, the Middle East and other countries. She was instrumental in facilitating high level negotiations between Vietnam and the United States in 1983 and participated in fourteen U.S. Government policy-level POW/MIA delegations to Vietnam since 1982, nearly as many to Laos and several to Cambodia, plus five League delegations in 1982, 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2003.
As an acknowledged national leader on POW/MIA issues and a recipient of numerous honors, Mrs. Griffiths meets as needed with senior U.S. officials and Members of Congress, testifies before congressional committees, addresses national and international audiences, participates in appropriate policy seminars, publishes articles and newsletters, and is often a spokesman on network and cable television and radio. She has been called upon for advice by several nations facing POW/MIA problems in Europe, Russia, the Middle East and South Asia.
Within policy established by the membership and elected board of directors, Mrs. Griffiths has been instrumental in building the League from a small POW/MIA family group into a nationally recognized, nonprofit organization that influences policy in the United States and abroad to resolve the humanitarian POW/MIA issue. In administering the League's affairs, Mrs. Griffiths supervises League operations, a successful direct-mail program and plans the League?s yearly convention that has routinely included the highest levels of the U.S. Government. With the assistance of one staff member and state and regional officials, Mrs. Griffiths also coordinates a nation-wide public awareness program on the issue. The League, audited annually, meets the stringent requirements for national eligibility in the Combined Federal Campaign, #1174.
Mrs. Griffiths' brother, Lieutenant Commander James B. Mills, USNR, was listed as Missing in Action (MIA) September 21, 1966, when the Navy F4B on which he was the Radar Intercept Officer disappeared on a night mission over North Vietnam. Born in Oklahoma, raised and educated in California, Mrs. Griffiths resides in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area.
October 8, 2006
REGION I (AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN)
Susie Stephens-Harvey, 902 Mill Court, Savannah, GA 31419, (912) 920-3504; (912) 414-9464 Ð Cell, Email: powmia@bellsouth.net
REGION I ASST. & VETS LIAISON
Allen Harvey, 902 Mills Court, Savannah, GA 32419, (912) 920-3504
REGION II (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WVA)
Peggie McDonald, 69 Remsen Avenue South, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590, Email: Ptnm3@vh.net
REGION III (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
Barbara Grzyb, 102 Martin St., Lowell, MA 01854, (978) 937-0397, Email: bobbi1967@msn.com
REGION III Ð ASSISTANT
Eleanor Bott Gregory, 82 Boylston Circle, Shrewsbury, MA 01545, (508) 842-8830
REGION IV (IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, WI)
Liz Flick, 4379 Stinson Drive, West, Columbus, OH 43214, (614) 451-2405, Email: rflick@columbus.rr.com
REGION V (AR, CO, LA, NM, OK, TX)
Phillipe Ritter, 4100 Lake Breeze Drive, Benbrook, TX 76116, (817) 732-6912, Email: Phillipe.Ritter@AlconLabs.com
REGION VI (AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY)
Tom Engkilterra, 516 Dipper Circle, San Jose, CA 95117, (408) 605-4764, Email: SACRED.TRUST@sbcglobal.net
REGION VI ASSISTANT
Nancy Engkilterra, 516 Dipper Circle, San Jose, CA 95117, (408)605-0894, Email: sacred.trust@sbcglobal.net
UNITED KINGDOM LIAISON
Brett King, 34 Skeyton New Road, North Walsham NR28 0BU, Norfolk, UK, 011-441692-403286, Email: powmialiaisonuk@aol.com