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the business of our customers. We were measured by many goals related to
efficiency and the cost containment that we had to work with every day in
order to be positive contributors to our need to be self-supporting. We spent a
lot of our own time meeting and talking with our coworkers at all different
hours of the day and night to increase efficiency.
I am Kathy Siggins and I served with the United States Postal Service
(USPS). I served close to 14 years as Secretary, Traffic Branch, Office of
Procurement, at USPS Headquarters. My late husband’s career of 23 years
was cut short because of dementia. He retired as Director, Office of
Procurement, at USPS Headquarters. He was officially diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s in 1990 and died in 1999. He provided for survivor’s benefits,
which helped me and our children lead a productive life. When I learned that
I could join NARFE as his surviving spouse, and that NARFE’s main mission
is to protect our benefits, I eagerly joined. As a bonus, because NARFE’s
charity of choice is Alzheimer’s research, it was a win-win opportunity for
me. I am totally committed to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and NARFE is
helping me with my cause.
U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
I am Elizabeth Anne Hall and I served as an attorney at the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) followed by my service at the National
Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. At the SEC, I worked in Branch
12, Division of Corporation Finance during the period of oil and gas roll-ups;
securitization of assets backed securities through special purpose vehicles,
junk bonds, deregulation of financial institutions; the banking and savings and
loans crises; the failures of EF Hutton and the Continental Illinois National
Bank & Trust, the transition of private brokerage houses to public
corporations; and a multitude of radical changes to federal regulatory and state
corporate law, such as the “poison pill” to shareholders’ rights. Registrants
filed mandatory documentation for initial and subsequent public offerings,
annual meetings, proxy fights, mergers and acquisitions, a threshold change in
ownership and routine operational disclosures, such as quarterly reports,
which were reviewed for disclosure of requisite information using a
“reasonable man” standard so that investors or shareholders could make a
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