National Vice President National Legislative Representative Sereena Hogan 2006 - 2010
Before meeting my husband, Ken Kroeger, in December of 1986,
I knew precious little about the railroad other than I sometimes had to wait
for a slow-moving train to pass before crossing the intersection to get onto
the only freeway that traverses Tucson, I-10. Union Pacific lines run alongside
the frontage road on the east side of the freeway through most of
Ken and I were married in March of 1989, ending my 10-year
stint as a single mother of two children. Ken was always an active union
member, but his involvement with Division 28 deepened when he was “formally
dismissed” following a major derailment in which he was involved in 1990. He
helped his local chairman put together a case for his defense, and, although he
lost the case at the local level, he won on appeal and was reinstated later
that year. Following that incident, he served as a vice local chairman, then in
1995, was elected as the Local Chairman for Div. 28. In late 1997, when Ken
suddenly found himself as chairperson for the 1998 International Western
Convention to be hosted in
On March 21, 1998, I was sworn in as the Secretary for
Guadalupe Auxiliary No. 28, a position I still hold today. In the fall of 2000,
I was asked by then-President Ruth Wyndham to publish the International
Auxiliary’s quarterly newsletter. I attended the International Convention in
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