DEPARTMENT CONVENTION

The 104th American Legion Auxiliary
Dept. of New York
Convention will be held
July 16 – July 19, 2025
in Syracuse, NY.
MORE INFO TO COME

UPDATED 2/21/2025

AUXILIARY HEADQUARTERS:

Collegian Hotel & Suites*
1060 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, NY 13210

Telephone: +1 888-250-2964

*Sessions will be held in this hotel.

To book your room at the Collegian Hotel & Suites CLICK HERE.

Directions to hotel

The Parkview Hotel will be the Auxiliary overflow hotel.
713 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
Telephone: 315-701-2600
If you call directly, identify yourself
as part of the American Legion
Convention block.

To reserve rooms and get info on hotels & attractions, go to:

Click the link below to visit the Syracuse Convention page: 

2025 Syracuse convention

Visit the American Legion, Dept. of NY website for the other hotel options.

Department Convention

Things To Do During Convention



  • 2025 Convention Call (UNIT)
  • 2025 Convention Call (County)
    • TO BE SENT OUT MAY 2025 TO UNIT AND COUNTY PRESIDENTS.
  • County Registration Form**
  • Unit Registration Form**
  • State Dinner Reservation Form**
  • Delegates and Alternate Instructions
  • Proposed amendments to the Department Constitution and Bylaws
    • Proposal #1:
  • Flower Orders/Scooter-Wheelchair Contact Information
  • 2025 ALA Department Convention AGENDA (*Subject to change)

**Fillable forms

The following are announced candidates, for
Department Office for the Administrative Year 2025 – 2026

Kimberly A. Quick      Saratoga County     Department President

Maureen Morgan       Rockland County     Department 1st Vice President

Lora Rowe                 Chenango County   Department 2nd Vice President

Judy S. Wallace         Jefferson County    Department 3rd Vice President

Yvonne M. Brunner    Nassau County      Department 3rd Vice President

Julianne C. Barton     Oneida County       Department 3rd Vice President

Please note: 

  • Candidates for Department 3rd Vice President are listed alphabetically by County affiliation.
  • Click on their names to read their County endorsement letters.

The following are announced candidates, for
Department Office for the Administrative Year 2024 – 2025

Department President

Kimberly A. Quick, Saratoga County 

Department 1st Vice President

Maureen Morgan, Rockland County

Department 2nd Vice President

Lora Rowe, Chenango County

Department 3rd Vice President

Judy S. Wallace, Jefferson County

Department 3rd Vice President

Yvonne M. Brunner, Nassau County

Department 3rd Vice President

Julianne C. Barton, Oneida County 

CONVENTION DATES:                 July 16-19, 2025

ALA DEPT. HEADQUARTERS:

Collegian Hotel & Suites
1060 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, NY 13210

SESSIONS:    

PLEASE NOTE: 

Dress code for Department Convention:  Department Officers and Past Department Presidents – White – all others are encouraged to wear Red, White, and Blue.  It is requested that dresses or pants suits be worn at all sessions.  No shorts or jeans please.

HOUSING:

CREDENTIALS AND REGISTRATION:  

CONVENTION COMMITTEE MEETINGS:

***SUBJECT TO CHANGE

EXHIBITS: 

  Be sure all items are marked with the member’s name, Unit name and # and County submitting item/article. Please give all exhibits to  Exhibits Chairman.

Exhibits will be displayed in the meeting room on Wednesday and Thursday.  All exhibits must be picked up on Thursday at the end of the session.   If not picked up, they will be destroyed.

FLOWERS: 

STATE DINNER: 

CANDIDATES’ RECEPTION: 

 

PAST PRESIDENTS PARLEY BUSINESS MEETING:  

 

DELEGATE AND ALTERNATE INSTRUCTIONS

Per the Department Constitution ARTICLE VII, DEPARTMENT CONVENTION, SECTIONS 4 and 5:  Each Unit in the Department shall be entitled to one (1) delegate and one (1) alternate for the first ten (10) members and one (1) additional delegate and one (1) additional alternate for each additional one hundred (100) members or major fraction thereof, whose current dues have been paid thirty (30) days prior to the date of the Convention. Unit delegate’s entitlements unused by Units may be elected from the respective County’s membership at the June County meeting.  The immediate Junior Past President of the Unit shall become the first delegate to be elected.

If a Delegate cannot attend for any reason, the highest elected Alternate present would become a Delegate in her/his/their place. (Immediate Past County President is the delegate)

Members PAID

Delegates

  

Members PAID

Delegates

10 – 60

1

  

461 – 560

6

61 – 160

2

  

561 – 660

7

161 – 260

3

  

661 – 760

8

261 – 360

4

  

761 – 860

9

361 – 460

5

  

861 – 960

10

Please complete the County Delegate form and enclose your payment of $20.00 and send it to the Department Office no later than July 1, 2024.  Please be advised that you will need to show a photo ID at registration.

COUNTY Instructions: Once Delegate and Alternate is chosen, please remit to the Department Office the original County delegate form. Also, include a check for the registration fee of $20.00 per member payable to: American Legion Auxiliary, Dept. of New York, 1580 Columbia Turnpike, Bldg.#1, Suite #3, Castleton-on-Hudson, NY 12033.

Flower Order

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SCOOTER – WHEELCHAIR RENTALS 

UPDATED 2/21/2025