A big ‘thank
you’ to Susan Owen, our Past President, for chairing the
And also for
all her excellent work over her tenure at the National, as:
Secretary/Publicity 03/04
Register/Treasurer 04/05
President
(and Acting Secretary) 05/06
And this
year, 06/076 as
Past
President and Chair of the AGM
Susan’s
outstanding organization skills and leadership have brought the National a long
way in achieving our goals.
We will
really miss her on the Board next year, and hope that we can continue to call
on her expertise from time to time in the future.
Below is my
speech for the AGM
In
friendship, Verna (PS.
Stephanie is now 17 pounds! ;-)
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Hi everyone and welcome to the 2007 AGM in Sorry I’m not there for this fabulous
conference, but I’m in I’m staying for 6 weeks to help with the baby
and I’m really looking forward to attending some of the Nu-grads
activities. The |
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Now about the National:
I’m half way through my term of office, and I’m still loving it. (To explain how that works, the National has an automatic progression. The Registrar/Treasurer automatically becomes the President, and then the Past President.)
We hold four executive meetings a year, plus the AGM; the main emphasis being to treat everyone with kindness and in the spirit of friendship. It makes for such a pleasant and emotionally rewarding atmosphere.
This year everyone involved worked so well together. It seems like magic, but really, it happens because we appreciate all we have gained from belonging to Newcomers’ over the years, and are happy to do a little volunteer work and information sharing as a bit of a ‘pay back’.
The second best thing about being on the board this year has been chairing executive meeting on Sunday mornings in my pajamas, We conference call our executive meetings in the winter months, works great and is nice and warm and cozy.
We’ve had excellent face-to-face executive
meetings at our homes as well;
I would encourage anyone, anywhere, who has a computer, a long distance plan and little spare time to join the National Board. It has been a very rewarding friendship experience for me, and great fun to share skills across the country.
Hope to see you next year at the AGM in
Introductions:
President
Registrar/Treasurer and our New President
Kind and gracious with her time and well seasoned financial skills.
She’s going to be a great President.
SECRETARY Susan Lotherington
We appreciated her delightful and bubbly personality and her timely and accurate minutes; she will make a wonderful Registrar/Treasurer and subsequent President
NEWSLETTER
Our Newsletter this year has been the best ever. Jeanne’s efforts in Research – reading through all our newsletters to bring us interesting and new ideas to share
And Reporting – putting together all our different ideas and presenting them in the best light, Jeanne, you made us all look good
EASTERN LIAISON
Always ready, willing, and able to help with anything that comes up, and maintain our contacts in the Maritimes.
CENTRAL LIAISON
Great contribution of ideas at all our executive meetings. Thanks for your collaboration with Jeanne on our publications, in particular our new pamphlet. We wish best of luck in your business endeavors next year.
WESTERN LIAISON
Although
ALUMNAE REP
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Sheila’s interest in the National last year was appreciated; we will miss her contributions as she is moving on to serve as a volunteer at another organization.
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successes.
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