ACT! for America Update

The Mission Viejo Chapter of ACT! for America will host its Third Annual Pre-Victory Potluck Picnic on Sat., Aug. 3, 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Members and friends are invited to join in a celebration of liberty, democracy and equality.

Instead of a formal chapter meeting in August, ACT! for America is having an informal potluck social in Laguna Woods, Clubhouse 2, which has a dining room and kitchen facilities. There is also a patio with a pleasant view just outside to the east, which will be in the shade at that time of day.

The event is a private party, not an ACT! for America event, although many attendees will be from the Mission Viejo chapter. It is an opportunity to get to know the other chapter members and leaders and to learn more about ACT! for America.

What to bring: food and beverages for yourselves and a bit extra to share. Bring your children, friends and colleagues, your sense of humor and a good appetite.

Those planning to attend should email Chapter Leader Bruce Mayall and indicate what they will bring as a menu item. Anyone who has not yet signed up, respond to ACT.MV@cox.net

The Mission Viejo chapter was saddened last week with the passing of one of its leaders, Allyn Rowley. Chapter Leader Bruce Mayall wrote, “Al was a passionate supporter of our chapter and ACT! for America national.  He was with us from the very first meeting in my home in 2007 where he proposed the ‘Textbook Project’ that resulted in the first report by an ACT! for America chapter and, in fact, the first national exposure by our parent organization of textbook corruption in our elementary schools, where our publication was featured on their Web site in 2009.  We received the very first Chapter of the Month award, principally, I believe, because of this work.

“Al's vision and dedication were a primary reason for the success of our chapter.  For someone who had never used PowerPoint until introduced to it by our co-leader Steve, he created and presented some of the best PowerPoint presentations on Islam, ‘The Iceberg of Jihad,’ and related subjects.  Within each presentation he included speaker notes so that anyone could make the presentation in the future.  Al contacted authorities on Islam whom he encouraged to write ‘supplementary instructional materials’ to be used in 7th grade classrooms as an interim way of exposing and correcting the corrupted textbook versions of Islam until the textbooks themselves could be corrected. 

“More recently, Al traveled with me to Fresno to make a presentation to the Bakersfield chapter where it was very well received.  Members of that chapter and the Fresno chapter requested copies of his presentation that they could use later.  Al also wrote the script for five 3-minute ‘snapshots’ of Islam that were read to the Orange County Board of Education by members of our chapter and the Yorba Linda chapter.  He was very active until the very end.”

There will be a military-style memorial for Al at Los Alamitos.  Details will be forthcoming.