Take My Wife, Please

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association has a new president: Margaret L. Baptiste of Mount Pleasant, S.C. Her claim to fame? She's neither an active nor a retired federal employee. Baptiste is the first spouse of a former fed to hold NARFE's top job--and also the first woman. But she's hardly new to the organization. Baptiste has been active in NARFE since 1978, when her husband retired from federal service, and served as its vice president from 1998 to 2002.