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Soldiers to speak on veterans' issues at Potsdam Lions Club

Posted 5/18/15

 POTSDAM – Two career soldiers will talk on veterans’ issues at the Tuesday, May 19, meeting of the Potsdam Lions Club, at Between the Buns, 6 Elm Street. William R. Murphy, a retired …

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Soldiers to speak on veterans' issues at Potsdam Lions Club

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 POTSDAM – Two career soldiers will talk on veterans’ issues at the Tuesday, May 19, meeting of the Potsdam Lions Club, at Between the Buns, 6 Elm Street.

William R. Murphy, a retired colonel in the US Army, and Patrick R. Rourk, who retired from the U.S. Air Force as a security police superintendent and security director, will speak at 7 p.m.

The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour, followed by dinner. Those interested in Lions and prospective members (veterans included) are welcome.

Murphy has 30 years of experience in the Army Corps of Engineers, including oversight of the construction of schools in Guatemala and multiple construction projects in South Korea and the US. He retired as senior court administrator for the New York State Unified Court System. He spent 22 years as manager of the St. Lawrence County Family Court. A member of the North Country Veterans Planning Committee, Murphy lives in Canton.

In the Air Force, Rourk was a member of the Inspector General’s staff for Security Police, a superintendent in a multi-national Security Forces Group and Squadron, and directed security for the first combined International Army and Air Force General/Flag Officer training and computerized war gaming facility. In 1997, he became the director of the St. Lawrence County Veteran Service Department, from which he retired in 2011. He lives in Norwood.

For more information, call 261-4001.