January 2020 CVO Meeting Photos

Connie Edwards between CVO Treasurer and Past Chair Bruce Parry and CVO Chair Willie Mack receiving long over-due recognition of her extraordinary service to CVO.

Connie Edwards between CVO Treasurer and Past Chair Bruce Parry and CVO Chair Willie Mack receiving long over-due recognition of her extraordinary service to CVO.

Connie Edwards between CVO Treasurer and Past Chair Bruce Parry and CVO Chair Willie Mack receiving long over-due recognition of her extraordinary service to CVO. The plaque reads:

“To Col. (Ret.) Dr. Constance L. Edwards, Ph.D.

In recognition of her outstanding service to the Coalition of Veterans Organizations: for serving continuously as the Recording Secretary and member of the CVO Executive Committee from 2007 to 2019, for Chairing the Veterans Affairs Committee, and for making an outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the Coalition for over a decade; for her contribution to the veterans movement as a whole by serving veterans – particularly women veterans – and other veterans organizations, and in recognition of her distinguished 30 years of military service in the U.S. Army – including a tour in Vietnam – capped by attaining the rank of Colonel while earning a Doctorate in Nursing which she used to be of service to others.

Given this 20th day of November 2019

signed: Chairman: Willie Mack, Ph.D and Past Chairman: Bruce E. Parry, Ph.D.”